pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 25
989k
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.718525
| 0.281475
|
[10] Dermot Gallagher on the Herrera non-penalty v WBA - he says it should have been given but without saying it should have been given !
"The referee is unlucky here due to where the ball goes. He thinks that Dawson plays the ball but it's actually Herrera that plays the ball and Dawson stands on his foot. The referee thinks Dawson stands on the ground and plays the ball - I can understand why he's not giving it due to where the ball has travelled"
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line777
|
__label__wiki
| 0.841311
| 0.841311
|
DreamWorks’ Stacey Snider Feels The “Pressure” of Premium VOD
Andrew Wallenstein Nov 9, 2010 - 5:20 PM CST
First it was Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s Jeff Bewkes last week, then Fox Filmed Entertainment’s Peter Levinsohn yesterday. Today’s high-powered entertainment executive sweating the implementation of premium VOD: DreamWorks Studios CEO Stacey Snider.
She indicated DreamWorks’ film distribution partnership with Disney (NYSE: DIS), a conglomerate that doesn’t have a presence in the multichannel distribution business, isn’t exactly an incentive to rush into charging $30 to see a film at home a few months after its theatrical debut.
“The pressure is on to figure out (premium) VOD even if you wish it was something that didn’t happen,” she said Tuesday at the Future of Film Summit in Los Angeles.
Companies like Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), soon to be owner of Universal Pictures, and Time Warner, may have a stronger urge to make premium VOD happen because it adds value to cable subscriptions. But Snider indicated that DreamWorks can’t allow those companies to set the terms of trade for this new window or risk not being able to set the pricing they feel their films could attract.
What Snider does like about where she sits is DreamWorks’ ties to Disney give her access to executives who are moving aggressively to embrace new media. Which leaves the challenge of replacing the revenues lost with the irreversible decline of DVD sales. “That’s what we’re grappling with,” she said. “How can we create a transaction that’s a higher margin, where people want to buy something because there’s something valuable about ownership.”
Premium VOD is going to be a very tricky proposition for every studio, aligned with a cable company or not, but they know they’re going to have to confront this.
news corp.
stacey snider
Going for the split
5 questions for… Auddly, targeting the source of music creation
Jon Collins May 4, 2018 - 8:48 AM CDT
Expertise and provenance
Trust in media is collapsing. Is that such a bad thing?
Jon Collins Jan 26, 2018 - 4:02 AM CST
The Rise of Ad Fraud
Will 2017 be the Armageddon for Online Ads?
Frank J. Ohlhorst Jan 3, 2017 - 5:34 PM CST
Business on Display: Making a Statement with Digital Signage
Jon Collins Jan 14, 2016 - 12:00 PM CST
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line781
|
__label__wiki
| 0.606177
| 0.606177
|
Query: HARP-BROKEN--latest version at end..thanks for input!
Contact chris13
Post by chris13 » August 29th, 2010, 6:03 pm
Here's my query, revised from YAChatLit forum, but my first here. Thanks for your input! This query writing is liking pulling teeth without anesthesia... my head hurts!
I'm seeking representation for YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words. Based on Irish mythology, it should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Charles de Lint.
When Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly's dad disappeared in Ireland, her life snapped like a broken harp string. As long as Dad--a world famous instrument restorer--kept the free concert tickets flowing, the "in" group in Philly tolerated Roiseen's freakish ways. Now she's stuck helping her mother run a dilapidated Irish pub while they hope for his return and she finishes the school year.
Roiseen discovers she isn't the only "outlier" in town. After mistaking her eccentric Irish classmates for faeries, Roiseen learns the truth. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned mythical Tir Na Nog to live as ordinary teens. And when a young god who chose to stay behind threatens Roiseen and vows to destroy the kids—heretics in his eyes—he brings ancient combat to their new world.
Led by Roiseen's crush, the sun god Lugh, the kids borrowed a magical harp when they left Tir Na Nog. But the harp was damaged, entwining their fate with that of Roiseen's dad. If it isn't returned by Tir Na Nog's Lughnasadh festival, Roiseen's world will suffer. Two complications: Her dad is imprisoned in Tir Na Nog to prevent him from repairing the harp. And the kids cannot return, under penalty of death.
Roiseen rescues her father and learns why she always felt like an outlier. The god of all Tir Na Nog, the Dagda, is her great-grandfather. She then must decide if she is willing to return the harp and sacrifice her tenuous grip on normalcy, even if it means restoring harmony to her world.
HARP-BROKEN is a stand alone book, but Roiseen's quest may continue in The Outliers series. I am a long-time nonfiction writer whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and websites, and a member of ASJA.
Thanks so much for considering my query. May I send you my manuscript?
Last edited by chris13 on September 10th, 2010, 4:14 pm, edited 2 times in total.
a3writer
Joined: August 23rd, 2010, 5:12 am
Location: In the black
Contact a3writer
Re: Query: HARP-BROKEN
Post by a3writer » August 29th, 2010, 7:56 pm
I'm seeking representation for The whole point of a query is to seek representation. They know this. No need to waste words on it. YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words. Put this down at the bottom. Hook them first, then give the stats for the book.Based on Irish mythology, it should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Charles de Lint. The Irish myth will come out in the query. No need to mention it here.
When Philadelphia teen You mention Philly later, and it doesn't seem like it's important enough to the story to go over twice, especially with the fantasy realm. Also, show us that she's a teen more than just tell us. Roiseen O'Reilly's dad disappeared in Ireland, her life snapped like a broken harp string. As long as Dad--a world famous instrument restorer--kept the free concert tickets flowing, the "in" group in Philly tolerated Roiseen's freakish What freakish ways? What does she do that's so different?ways. Now she's stuck helping her mother run a dilapidated Irish pub an underage girl working in a bar? In what capacity? This just sounds a little implausible. while they hope for his return and she finishes the school year. I'm not getting any emotional feel here. Her dad is missing! So it's no big deal they just have to keep the pub going and finish out school?
Roiseen discovers she isn't the only "outlier" What's an outlier? in town. After mistaking her eccentric Irish classmates for faeries, Why would she do that? Roiseen learns the truth. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned mythical Tir Na Nog to live as ordinary teens Why? For kicks? I can think of a lot better things to live as than teenagers. And when a young god who chose to stay behind I'm guessing you mean in Tir Na Nog, but you don't specify threatens Roiseen and vows to destroy the kids the ones who were gods, right? and they're teens, not kids, right?—heretics in his eyes—he brings ancient combat This really doesn't mean anything. What is ancient combat? Fighting with swords? magic? Two really old people? to their new world I don't know what this means. If you mean our world, you could say Earth, but it hasn't been "new" in over 500 years.
Led by Roiseen's crush, the sun god Lugh, Is this really relevant to the query? the kids borrowed a magical harp when they left Tir Na Nog. But the harp was damaged, entwining their fate with that of Roiseen's dad. If it isn't returned by Tir Na Nog's Lughnasadh festival, Roiseen's world will suffer How? What will happen? And why would returning the harp mean anything if there's one god who wants to destroy them?. Two complications: Her dad is imprisoned in Tir Na Nog to prevent him from repairing it. And the kids cannot return, under penalty of death.
Roiseen rescues her father Well, that was fast. You resolved a major plot point, what I thought the book was about, so what's left? and learns why she always felt like an outlier no quotes, but I still don't know what it is.. The god of all Tir Na Nog, the Dagda, is her great-grandfather I probably shouldn't say anything, but I can't help myself. This type of thing has become really cliched. Back when it was Luke and Darth Vader, sure, but now the revelation isn't a surprise. Why is it even in the query?. She then must decide if she is willing to return the harp and sacrifice her tenuous grip on normalcy, even if it means restoring harmony to her world. I don't understand this bit. I recognize all the words, but I don't have any meaning. It's too general. Be specific.
HARP-BROKEN is a stand alone book, but Roiseen's quest may continue in The Outliers series From the way you've said this, you've already written it out because you gave the series a title.. I am a long-time nonfiction writer whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and websites, and a member of ASJA. I'm not entirely certain (those with more knowledge please chime in) but non-fiction writing credentials don't mean much when it comes to fiction.
Thanks so much for considering my query. May I send you my manuscript? No. Just no. And likely when you ask a question like that, you will elicit an answer you don't want. Like above, they know you want to send the manuscript. That's the point of the query.
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Contact Leonidas
Post by Leonidas » August 29th, 2010, 9:34 pm
chris13 wrote: I'm seeking representation for YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words. Based on Irish mythology, it should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Charles de Lint. Query Shark rants about this all the time. A query is about your story; not about who it should appeal to or why you're querying a certain agent. Start your query where your story starts instead of here.
When Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly's dad disappeared in Ireland, her life snapped like a broken harp string. As long as Dad--a world famous instrument restorer--kept the free concert tickets flowing, the "in" group in Philly tolerated Roiseen's freakish ways. This is awkwardly written and doesn't make me feel for Roiseen at all. It also doesn't seem realistic that they'd just accept that he's disappeared and move on to trying to run the pub. Now she's stuck helping her mother run a dilapidated Irish pub while they hope for his return and she finishes the school year.
Roiseen discovers she isn't the only "outlier" in town. Outlier? This term hasn't been introduced to us at all. We have no idea what it means. For all we know, it could be another name for teenage girls in Philadelphia After mistaking her eccentric Irish classmates for faeries Like...Tinkerbell fairies? Or like, derogatory gay term, fairies? Again, we don't know what you mean here., Roiseen learns the truth. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned mythical Tir Na Nog to live as ordinary teens. Though I don't know why gods would abandon their divinity to become teenagers, this is where your story starts. The rest is backstory and unneeded. This is where your query should start.And When a young god who choses to stay behind threatens Roiseen and vows to destroy the kids—heretics in his eyes—he brings ancient combat to their new world. I assume that he's the main antagonist? We need to know his name. Since every story is basically the battle between the protagonist and the antagonist, they're the two most important characters in your novel. They're also the two most important characters in your query.
Led by Roiseen's crush, the sun god Lugh, the kids borrowed You want to keep the present tense throughout your query because it gives it more immediacy when you read. a magical harp when they left Tir Na Nog. This sentence doesn't make sense to me. But the harp was is damaged, entwining their fate with that of Roiseen's dad First, a nitpicky thing: Dad should be capatalized, because that's his name to Roiseen. Second: How is this related at all to the disappearance of her father? I can suspend my disbelief until right about now, because this comes out of left-field. There's no connection (for the reader) between her father's disappearance and the harp.. If it isn't returned by Tir Na Nog's Lughnasadh festival, Roiseen's world will suffer. The way this is worded right now, it sounds like a bad pitch line for a movie. We don't know how it will suffer, so we don't care. There's no stakes in it for the reader, because we aren't emotionally invested in your characters yet. Two complications: Her dad is imprisoned in Tir Na Nog to prevent him from repairing the harp. And the kids cannot return, under penalty of death. So he's supposed to repair the harp? I missed that early on in the query. And why can the kids not return?
Roiseen rescues her father and learns why she always felt like an outlier. I still have no clue what an outlier is.The god of all Tir Na Nog, the Dagda, is her great-grandfather. She then must decide if she is willing to return the harp and sacrifice her tenuous grip on normalcy, even if it means restoring harmony to her world.
HARP-BROKEN is a stand alone book, but Roiseen's quest may continue in The Outliers series. HARP-BROKEN a work of (insert genre here) is complete at 67,000 words. A full manuscript is available at your request. I am a long-time nonfiction writer whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and websites, and a member of ASJA.
Thanks so much for considering my query. May I send you my manuscript? Thank you for your time and consideration.
This query needs to be tightened. Right now, there's a muddled sense of plot. Start exactly where your story starts. Everything with the Dad disappearing and the pub in the beginning of this is backstory. You'll want to weave in the disappearance of her father with the appearance of the other kids/gods and the fact that she's an outlier. Then mention the harp and how her father must fix it to save humanity. Save every word you can.
amyashley
Contact amyashley
Post by amyashley » August 30th, 2010, 12:10 pm
cutI'm seeking representation forcut-Insert: My YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words. Based on Irish mythology, it should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Charles de Lint.Place this paragraph at the end. It's not attention grabbing enough, but it needs to be included.
When Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly's dad disappeared in Ireland, her life snapped like a broken harp string. reviseAs long as Dad--a world famous instrument restorer--kept the free concert tickets flowing, the "in" group in Philly tolerated Roiseen's freakish ways. Now she's stuck helping her mother run a dilapidated Irish pub while they hope for his return and she finishes the school year. revise-condense this to say something like "Roiseen's popularity was based on the steady supply of concert tickets from her father's job. Since his disappearance, she's become an "outlier" and is stuck helping her mother run a dilapidated Irish pub while they hope for his return." Mostly YOUR words, but shorter.
cutRoiseen discovers she isn't the only "outlier" in town. After mistaking her eccentric Irish classmates for faeries, cut-this is too wordyRoiseen learns the truthInserted-about her eccentric Irish classmates she has mistaken for faeries. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned mythical Tir Na Nog to live as ordinary teens. And when a young god who chose to stay behind threatens Roiseen and vows to destroy themcut kids—heretics in his eyes—cuthe brings ancient combat to their new world.
cutRoiseen rescues her father and learns why she always felt like an outlier. The god of all Tir Na Nog, the Dagda, is her great-grandfather. She then must decide if she is willing to return the harp and sacrifice her tenuous grip on normalcy, even if it means restoring harmony to her world. cut-leave this out. You have the main plot line here, and this is enough
Insert first paragraph here and add the sentence below.
cutHARP-BROKEN is a stand alone book, but Roiseen's quest may continue in The Outliers series.cut-I personally wouldn't talk about more books unless they are already written until AFTER you have the agent. I am a long-time nonfiction writer whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and websites, and a member of ASJA.
Thanks so much for considering my query.cut May I send you my manuscript?cut
Try that and see if it looks a little better. I think it is a good starting point, and you definitely have your plot laid out consecutively here. You just need to tighten the details down. It is going WELL.
Post by chris13 » September 1st, 2010, 11:12 am
Thanks, everyone. Am working on a total rewrite and will post shortly. BTW, although I'm dropping it from the query, the term outliers refers to the statistical ends of a bell graph--in other words....the "outsiders." I was going to use it as my title but it was preempted by the NYT bestselling author of BLINK (both are nonfiction.)
Again, thanks for your input.
Re: Query: HARP-BROKEN--new version at end...thanks for input!
Post by chris13 » September 2nd, 2010, 12:21 pm
Here's version 1,000 (or seems like it) Thanks for your comments....
[specific agent info, if appropriate]
In YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, a teen tracking her missing dad to Ireland finds his fate entwined with that of her eccentric new schoolmates. Roiseen journeys to mythical Tir Na Nog to rescue her father, confronts a vengeful god and a mean girl, befriends a classmate who shares Roiseen's love of boots, crushes on a sun god and deals with an "emo" harp. It's no way to achieve her desire to be an average teen.
Roiseen O'Reilly always felt like an outsider in her suburban Philadelphia private school, especially after her beloved dad disappeared. A world-class restorer of musical instruments, he provided the free concert tickets that allowed her to suck up to the "in" crowd. When Roiseen and her mom agree to manage a dilapidated family pub in Ireland so they can search for Dad, Roiseen finds she isn't the only one fighting to fit in. Her classmates are gods and goddesses who abandoned boring Tir Na Nog to live as normal teens. But Aillen, a young god who reveres the old ways, wants to punish them for leaving. He captured Roiseen's dad to prevent him from repairing a magical harp the kids borrowed. The harp must be returned by the upcoming festival of Lughnasadh or the gods and goddesses will suffer. It's up to Roiseen to make a sacrifice that will protect her new friends and save Dad.
I am a long-time writer and ASJA member whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and websites.
HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Charles de Lint. Thanks so much for your time and consideration.
Beethovenfan
Joined: August 23rd, 2010, 11:45 pm
Contact Beethovenfan
Post by Beethovenfan » September 2nd, 2010, 2:25 pm
First of all, cool story idea. Kinda reminds me of Percy Jackson. :) The first thing I notice is that you have put the name and type of your novel first. You don't need to do this because you have it at the end. Save this prime real estate for your query only. Next, it seems to me that you are setting me up first in order to tell me the query. This first paragraph seems to just lay out a whole buncha information. The "real" writing begins in your second paragraph. I really like the first sentance of the second paragraph because it "shows" what Roiseen is like, rather than just tells.
"...Roiseen finds she isn't the only one fighting to fit in." This is a great place to "show" rather than "tell" what Roiseen is doing. How is she feeling? Has she made embarrassing blunders? Perhaps she's gotten into a few fights? You could really spice it up. "Her classmates are gods and goddesses who abandoned boring Tir Na Nog to live as normal teens." I bet it was a colorful scene in your novel when Roiseen learns her schoolmates are not "normal." We need to see some of that color here. I mean, they're gods for heck sake! That's exciting! It's a fine balancing act between adding the "show" without using too many words. Maybe it could say: "Roiseen wonders at the place where even gods don't want to live. But one young god, Aillen, is bent on forcing the old ways upon them." Sorry, best I could do. But hopefully you get what I mean.
HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Charles de Lint. Thanks so much for your time and consideration.chris13
You are on the right track. I can especially appreciate that you want to use very few words in your query, so you get everything out there before the agent stops reading. But remember, you have between 250 and 350 words at your disposal; if you need 'em, use' em. I think you have a good story here, but the query needs more color, more life. Less telling and more showing. Hope this was helpful. I'm really in the same place you are, so I'm pasing along a lot of advice I received! Best of luck to you!
"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Post by chris13 » September 2nd, 2010, 2:32 pm
Thanks, good comments. Will continue to slog along..... ;-)
Post by amyashley » September 2nd, 2010, 3:50 pm
I think this is a great improvement! I agree with the previous poster about removing novel info, since you have it at the end.
I am not sure if the first sentence you have could be tweaked a little to grab the attention, or if you should lose it and just stick with the (excellent) summary you now have in the middle paragraph. I would play with it and see if you can create a good opening line, but tack it onto that same paragraph. If it feels contrived, or doesn' give relevant plot detail, then drop it and leave what you have.
I think this is good!
Post by wilderness » September 7th, 2010, 3:07 pm
Personally, I think the first version made more sense. The latest one is not chronological; the first paragraph summarizes the whole book and then second one does so again. Also, things come out of nowhere with no transition, like how her classmates are gods and goddesses. You built up to that better in the original version. Yes, I like the some of the cute details you've included in the latest, but those could still be elaborated on even more.
I think you've got some good ideas, but overall I think this version just doesn't flow. Sorry to be a downer on it, just trying to help!
Post by chris13 » September 10th, 2010, 4:12 pm
Once more into the breach.....here's my latest version. Thanks for your invaluable input....you folks are so generous with your time..... ;-)
Latest version Sept. 10--HARP-BROKEN query
Agent info, as appropriate…
In YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly wants her life back. Her beloved Dad, a world-class restorer of musical instruments, is missing in Ireland. Dad provided the free concert tickets that allowed her to suck up to the "in" crowd at her suburban private school--and feel less like an outsider. But Roiseen finds she isn't the only one who struggles to fit in when she and her mom go to Ireland to search for Dad and manage a dilapidated family pub. Her eccentric Irish classmates have a secret. When an ancient Celtic board game comes alive--and Roiseen morphs into a warrior who captures a king—they reveal the truth. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned the unchanging, combative world of Tir Na Nog to experience life as normal teens.
Aillen, a young god who reveres the old ways, plans to punish his friends for leaving. He damages a magical harp they borrowed when they escaped, knowing it must be returned by Tir Na Nog's Lughnasadh festival. Next he imprisons Roiseen's dad to prevent him from repairing the harp--and attempts to drive Roiseen away.
Roiseen realizes her fate is entwined with that of her new friends, including her crush, the young sun god Lugh. It's up to her to rescue her father from Tir Na Nog; her friends can never return. Then she must choose to make a sacrifice that can save her world from the vengeance of the harp's owner--the most ancient and deadly of the Tir Na Nog gods.
I am a long-time writer and ASJA member whose work appears in national travel, healthcare and women's magazines, newspapers and websites.
HARP-BROKEN, complete at 67,000 words, should appeal to readers who enjoy Herbie Brennan or Libra Bray. Thanks so much for your time and consideration.
Joined: September 9th, 2010, 6:12 pm
Contact lisa01
Re: Query: HARP-BROKEN--latest version at end..thanks for input!
Post by lisa01 » September 10th, 2010, 7:10 pm
Hi, here are my suggestions. Take them with a grain of salt. I'm working on my own query and am not an expert.
In YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly wants her life back. Might want a stronger hook. I believe Nathan has some blogs on the hook or premise, as he also calls it. Maybe you could somehow incorporate your first two sentences into one to show how the story opens Her beloved Dad, a world-class restorer of musical instruments, is missing in Ireland Might want to reword this. Maybe use 'went missing'. Dad provided the free concert tickets that allowed her to suck up to the "in" crowd at her suburban private school--and feel less like an outsider I'm not sure if this sentence is really needed. Try taking it out to see if you need it. But Roiseen finds she isn't the only one who struggles to fit in when she and her mom go to Ireland to search for Dad and manage a dilapidated family pub. Her eccentric Irish classmatesAll or just some of them? have a secret. When an ancient Celtic board game comes alive--and Roiseen morphs into a warrior who captures a king—they reveal the truth She discovers the truth? This might sound a litter bit stronger, if the statement is true. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned the unchanging, combative world of Tir Na Nog to experience life as normal teens.
Aillen, a young god who reveres the old ways, plans to punish his friends for leaving. He damages a magical harp they borrowed Did they need it to escape? Borrowed doesn't sound right in this context, at least to me. when they escaped, knowing it must be returned by Tir Na Nog's Lughnasadh festival. Next he imprisons Roiseen's dad Gods and goddesses can't repair a harp from their homeland but a human can--if he's human,that is?to prevent him from repairing the harp--and attempts to drive Roiseen away.
Jaligard
Contact Jaligard
Post by Jaligard » September 10th, 2010, 7:33 pm
chris13 wrote: In YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly wants her life back. Her beloved Dad, a world-class restorer of musical instruments, is missing in Ireland. Dad provided the free concert tickets that allowed her to suck up to the "in" crowd at her suburban private school--and feel less like an outsider. But Roiseen finds she isn't the only one who struggles to fit in when she and her mom go to Ireland to search for Dad and manage a dilapidated family pub. Her eccentric Irish classmates have a secret. When an ancient Celtic board game comes alive--and Roiseen morphs into a warrior who captures a king—they reveal the truth. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned the unchanging, combative world of Tir Na Nog to experience life as normal teens.
There's too much backstory here. Trim it way down. Establish her character as soon as you can and get to your hook. I like the part about the concert tickets, but it needs to be shorter.
This doesn't establish her character, but it gets to the point: When _____teen-year old Roiseen O'Reilly went to Ireland to search for her missing father, she never expected to find him trapped in an ancient Celtic board game.
I get a little lost in the names. I think you've got a good idea, but it's not getting the right focus. Less backstory, more of the novel. Good luck!
Post by amyashley » September 11th, 2010, 10:18 am
I think it's improved. I liked the premise originally, but you've added some points in this query that actually make me want to READ it, and I don't read YA, so that's a good thing! I think it needs some trimming when it comes to details, and the essential information that seems very crammed together can then be laid out better.
In YA fantasy HARP-BROKEN, Philadelphia teen Roiseen O'Reilly wants her life back. Her beloved Dad, a world-class restorer of musical instruments, is missing in Ireland. I don't think you need all the adjectives here. He doesn't need to be "beloved" or world class". It doesn't really add a lot of impact, and it's taking up room. His reputation and how Roiseen feels gets shown in the rest of the query by the fact that they want him to repair the harp and that she searches for him when he's gone. Leave out the adjectives and leave room for other words since you are already SHOWING those things.Dad provided the free concert tickets that allowed her to suck up to the "in" crowd at her suburban private school--and feel less like an outsider.Don't cut this, it is good.It provides personality. The reast of this paragraph is WAY too wordy. First cut out "Her eccentric...secret." the line doesn't move things along. The first sentence needs to be tightened down, I would break it in two, making it into consecutive events. Mom and Roiseen move, then Roiseen begans to play the board game. Leave out the part about the warrior morphing because it isn't relevant. remember this isn't a synopsis! THEN Say that her eccentric classmates (don't say they are Irish, because they SHOULD be since we are in Ireland-it's redundant) reveal that they are..."But Roiseen finds she isn't the only one who struggles to fit in when she and her mom go to Ireland to search for Dad and manage a dilapidated family pub. Her eccentric Irish classmates have a secret. When an ancient Celtic board game comes alive--and Roiseen morphs into a warrior who captures a king—they reveal the truth. They are gods and goddesses who abandoned the unchanging, combative world of Tir Na Nog to experience life as normal teens.
Aillen, a young god cutwho reveres the old ways,cut plans to punish his friends for leaving. He damages a magical harp they borrowed when they escaped, knowing it must be returned by Tir Na Nog's Lughnasadh festival. this makes no sense here. If Roiseen's father is already missing, you cannot have him imprisoned AFTER she has gone to look for him You need to make it clear that this is in the past tense. Also this needs to be condensed.Next he imprisons Roiseen's dad to prevent him from repairing the harp--cut-this is a given, and we should know this.and attempts to drive Roiseen away.
Roiseen realizes her fate is entwined with that of her new friends,cut out the crush. It's great she has one, but you already have enough characters in this query. It isn't essential to the plot, and it's just this loose end kind of dangling in the wind including her crush, the young sun god Lugh. It's up to her to rescue her father from Tir Na Nog; her friends can never return. Then she must choose to make a sacrifice that can save her world from the vengeance of the harp's owner--the most ancient and deadly of the Tir Na Nog gods.
I think you are getting very close!
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed helpful comments. I just got my beta reader's comments, and will be changing a few things that will be reflected in a revised query.
Best wishes to everyone--see ya on the shelves!
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line782
|
__label__cc
| 0.604618
| 0.395382
|
Safe New Year’s Eve celebrations at Ballpark Village
by: John Pertzborn
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 / 08:52 AM CST / Updated: Dec 21, 2020 / 08:52 AM CST
ST. LOUIS – Hello 2021! New Year’s Eve celebrations are being planned out at Ballpark Village.
They’ve figured a way to safely gather to celebrate the hope of a new year. Ballpark Village’s Chief Revenue Officer Mike LaMartina talks details with FOX 2’s John Pertzborn.
More AM Show Stories
by Kim Hudson / Jan 20, 2021
ST. LOUIS - Connections to Success starts the new year with new leadership.
Ruth Lee joined the organization on January 4, 2021. She tells us how she will keep the Tribute to Success event going and safe during the COVID pandemic. She also tells us about her hopes and plans for the organization.
ST. LOUIS - Heru Urban Farming will continue feeding families in food deserts, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
Owner Tyrean "Heru" Lewis tells us about his mission to help underserved families have fresh and organic produce. He also tells us how the grant will further his mission and how we can buy his food.
by John Pertzborn / Jan 19, 2021
ST. LOUIS - Research into the causes and effects of COVID-19 has expanded into some other areas.
President of the Greater Missouri Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association Stacy Tew-Lovasz explains how COVID has affected cognitive decline.
A Twitter List by FOX2now
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line787
|
__label__cc
| 0.600498
| 0.399502
|
The tribe was in a furor, shouting and crying, confused over what had happened to the vanished body they had been carrying. Listening carefully, Myrddin learned that the reunion he’d witnessed had been nothing more than a single moment of stillness for them, just a flicker in time. Once, he would have laughed at their confusion, but tonight it only accented his own difference.
He retreated alone to the round, thatched silence of his mother’s empty hut. It was the last night of autumn, and as he’d done every year on this night for sixty years, Myrddin readied himself for his long sleep. This time, as he did so, he wondered. What was he meant to be, or do, remaining as he did, alone now, unchanged in a changing world?
Sixty years more, and no one living would remember who he was or where he had come from. Another sixty after that and his name would gain less notice than a ghost.
Even if I choose to stay with them and be with them, they’ll die too, all these mortals.
Still. Where else could he go? He had never bothered with building his own place outside the tribe. He had always returned
, to his mother’s place. The world and its silences were friendly to him, and in spring he could never keep himself from the wild, the heart of the wood, but what of every other time? What about the winters? What about his hibernation?
If he closed his eyes, he thought he should be able to taste it already, coming for him with the moonrise, but he lay alone in the dark and remembered instead. Sleep wouldn’t come—as if it were spring instead of autumn’s last night, spring instead of awakening winter.
Your mortal roots have left this world. Do you miss your winter sleep as well as your mother, my son?
As if his thoughts had summoned it, the voice came through the window, the sound mossy, shaded, overgrown, as was the aura of power in Myrddin’s soul.
His father’s presence woke more of the spring inside him than was already moving untimely, but Myrddin remained motionless despite those summoning words.
It wasn’t grief that restrained him but the instability of his being. He was the son of a mortal woman, now departed from this world, but he was also the son of this immortal and unearthly power, this wild God whose words echoed still inside him.
Mortal roots? Sleep…my winter sleep.
Once, twice, Myrddin blinked, then sat up and met his father’s eyes. He was outside the window, then by Myrddin’s bedside with no sign of motion, no transition, presenting not even the illusion of flesh.
“Father…” He heard his own voice faintly, as if it too crossed some border of reality previously untouched. “Mother’s gone. You took her away, and now something’s happening to me. Or—not happening.”
Consequences. Again, there was an echo. Myrddin closed his eyes once more and thought his whole being was
with consequences, ripe as the end of the spring, the flowers falling into fruit. He pressed the heels of his hands against his eyes, but there was no silence inside him. No winter hibernation, no slumber falling over him like the first flakes of snow.
Since he’d been born, that was the way of it, the way the balance was kept within him. Sleep through the winter, wake with the first touch of spring, run wild in the joy of the growing earth. Explore his power as the green turned summer gold, explore a thousand shapes and shades of being while autumn wore down his endless energy into winter sleep. But now…
No more. Run. Wild. Grow. Green, greengreengreeen.
Sleep?
No more. No more! Wild run, wild grow, out, outoutout.
The inner argument was over before it had even begun. Myrddin sucked in air, realized he hadn’t been breathing, opened his eyes and looked up into the graven glow of his father’s face. “I don’t.
I don’t sleep
. Am I broken?”
Not yet, not yet, but soon… Yes, soon, you must be.
Your mortal roots have left this world. Now, from the tree of your mortal life, the leaves fall. The branches crumble. What has withered will vanish, and in its place too much of what you already possess will spread outward. The wild, immortal, wants you. It
have you, my son. Unless…”
“Unless? You mean—because my mother is gone the power I got from
is going to consume me? No!”
“You need a rite. The Rite of Spring.
“Really. And was this your purpose, the reason you fathered me? You’re here. You’re talking to me. You don’t do that without a reason, you never have. Are you finally going to tell me—?”
Myrddin scowled and glared at him. “
I have come to tell you to
, my son. You must leave this little grove, this little people. You must find that which can take from you the flood that overwhelms your mortal soul. You will know it when you find it, just as you know that you will never sleep that sleep again, never know the still of winter, the way the cold creeps clinging to the bud.
” There was a strangeness in the words, in their arrangement, but his father was smiling and that had never meant anything bad. “
“But what am I
for?” His frustration panicked his voice, sharpened the tone more than he’d ever dared with his father before, but he got only more laughter in return.
What? No. Who.”
“Who? Who am I looking for, then?”
The light of the sunset and the rising moon were caught together in the glow of his father’s eyes as he turned—star-black, nut-brown, greens pale as corn-silk and dark as pine. There was a substantial pause, perhaps a hesitation, before he answered Myrddin again.
The end of it all, my son. The one who will kill you to heal you, kill you to bring you to life.
It made no sense, no sense at all, but that was nothing but expected in any encounter with his father.
“Which way should I go, then?”
Over the land bridge. South of the glacier and east into the darkest wood. Now. Go!”
It was no longer a suggestion, but an imperative command. Myrddin was startled to his feet by the strength in the words, the sting of them, and stood swaying while the impenetrable aura of his father’s power receded. In its wake, the quiet of his lodge gained resonance with that final instruction. He took a breath, stepped out through the door and into the village.
He didn’t want to encounter anyone, didn’t want to deal with or alleviate the inevitable results of his own strangeness, but there wasn’t a single figure in sight. The world was quiet, softened by the drifting silence that came over everything mortal when winter woke. His footsteps rustled the last of autumn’s leaves beneath a dusting of snow, cracked the frost between them, and his passage out of the village and into the wood was the only noise other than the crackling of ice in the tree branches.
It was the first time he had stayed awake long enough to see more than the first snow, the beginning of ice in the curves and corners of things. He moved across a land made still by cold.
Only the winter hunters were in open motion, wolves chasing the specter of their own breath as they crossed the new snow, foxes in their white winter coats leaping up to run away from him, or straight down into the powder after their prey.
He wandered without much hurry but always toward the east, as he’d been told. Myrddin made his way out of the wood and onto the narrow land bridge that connected his almost-island to the mainland, then back into an unfamiliar forest of white skinned birches that stood out leafless against the sky.
Deep in the winter’s dark promise, as far from spring and his own country as he had ever been, Myrddin finally encountered something completely beyond his experience. Slim, naked, wild-haired, beautiful, a stranger was crouched by the water of a trailing spring, black as the night, black in the chill. When he turned at Myrddin’s voice, the wide of the stranger’s black eyes was the wide of the startled deer.
“Hello—” Myrddin paused, heard something riled, whispering, but it came from the air all around him and not from the stranger he had spoken to. “Where did you come from? Where are you going? Will you let me stay a while? Will you answer my questions?” He took two steps closer, then three. “I’ve been looking for someone. Someone to help me with a rite of spring. To invent something beautiful and take away the power overflowing my soul. Someone… Do you know anyone?”
He was answered by nothing, and at the same time by a myriad of silences, one quiet that became many voiceless truths. The wildness was fading out of the dark eyes that confronted him. The voice that answered him was soft, but it only spoke his own words with the intonation of some other power heavy behind them.
“Some…one. Anyone?”
The words were halting, the sound of them almost swallowed, more a questioning echo than real speech. Myrddin took one step closer. The stranger took one step back. “Can’t you answer me? Who are you? What’s your name?”
“Myrddin—my name is Myrddin. And you?”
“Do you not have a name? Do you not know words? Who
“I’m Myrddin!” But this time he started laughing and couldn’t stop. It really was like talking with an echo. Maybe this stranger
know how to speak? But he was gorgeous, and the dark of some terrible, magnetic power leeched out of his skin like rain from clouds, soaking and unavoidable.
When Myrddin stopped laughing, he took a startled breath. The stranger was closer now, bent over him, his fingers reaching out to touch Myrddin’s parted lips. This time, testing, the rough, low voice came close enough that Myrddin felt the warmth of his breath on his cheek. “You…know words.
Myrddin
“Yes, I do. Do you want me to teach you? And maybe you can help
“Teach me?” But it was not the question that Myrddin had expected. It was rich with laughter that made him shiver, intensified that darkling power. He could feel it pulling at him—
pulling at him
—and knew suddenly that
was the one his father had sent him seeking. No mortal, no god, no
…just this stranger.
The end of things is in him.
“Words for me. Myrddin—words for me.”
Myrddin stared, blinking, reached out a hand to echo the fingers still touching his lips and traced a soft, pale mouth with tingling fingertips. “Words for you… You mean, talk to you? I can do that, I suppose. But I need your help. Do you understand what I said?”
“I understand. Talk to me. All your words for me. Rite…” He licked his lips, and at the same time Myrddin’s fingertips. “Yes. You need me for help. I can do that, I suppose.” It was an echo again, but the tone was faintly mocking, and Myrddin closed the last of the distance between them. He touched pale cheeks, slipped the fingers of one hand up into the wild, dark, hair. He wanted…to touch, to kiss. Was there any reason not to?
“If you understand me, I can ask you. Can I kiss you? I
“Kiss me?” The stranger shook his head, and Myrddin sighed, shrugged then felt himself being pushed back. Warm hands seized him by the shoulders, and he looked up into black eyes glittering with mischief and desire. “Kiss
A hot mouth claimed his lips, and Myrddin’s sigh slipped into a soft groan. That black feeling—he could taste it now, darkest action, deepest void.
. Everything in opposition to him, that was it. Autumn and silence, the slow fading of the living world as it came to its time. The tug of that power against his mortal-self was rich and fervent, but he gave up immortal power instead. As it slipped free, it eased the overwhelming pulse of green and gold inside him.
When Myrddin finally drew away he was almost gasping, short of breath. His lips were cold for no reason he could explain, and the stranger didn’t let him go, but rocked against him. Myrddin felt hardness prodding his belly, then gave in to another kiss…and another.
Each time, utterly breathless, he pulled back only to be dragged closer again. Was this all? Was this all he needed? Just to find this one, this stranger, and be taken by him, broken by him?
A kiss. A rite? Is this who my father sent me for,
he sent me for?
Because he
breaking, felt his power slipping away just as it needed to, even as his flesh was giving in to the sensual demands of the lips against his mouth, the tongue tangled with his tongue, the fingers creeping under his clothes.
“Mmm…thought…I thought…words. You wanted…words and… I thought—you—” His lips were numb with cold and nips and kisses. His tongue stumbled over speech, lost the thread of it between one swift kiss and another.
“Yes. Words, and you. You, first.
Enough words for you first
.” And then, demanding, stubborn, “Kiss me.”
Slick, sharp talons seized hold of him as he reached up again and gave in to that embrace. He
them, though he knew it was only power, deepening its hold on him.
He said it out loud against the heat of the lips pressed against his mouth, a fervent mutter. “Death…
Myrddin felt his clothes falling away, somehow—bits and pieces of decorated leather that went to dust before they could reach the ground. The air was cool against his skin but everywhere,
the stranger touched him was hot.
The moment was moving faster than he wanted, faster than he understood—not that he didn’t desire, not that more wasn’t on his mind, but this was
how he was used to seducing his lovers…not how he was used to being seduced. “Oh—stop—
The Dance of the Seagull by Andrea Camilleri
Southbound Surrender by Raen Smith
Shadow of the Moon by Lori Handeland
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
Storky by D. L. Garfinkle
T*Witches 3: Seeing Is Deceiving by H.B. Gilmour, Randi Reisfeld
Scandal at High Chimneys by John Dickson Carr
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
DragonSpell by Donita K. Paul
The Riverhouse by Lippert, G. Norman
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line788
|
__label__wiki
| 0.852036
| 0.852036
|
Fun For The Day
Hang Around and Have Some Fun
Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Pinterest Follow us on Instagram
Funny & Satire News
Meme Collections
Comics & Quizzes
Bradley Cooper calls awards season ‘meaningless,’ ‘devoid of artistic creation’ after years of Oscar snubs
Bradley Cooper seems to have a deep disdain for awards season.
The “A Star is Born” actor has received a Grammy, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA Award, and more, but not the highly coveted Academy Award.
The 45-year-old actor has been nominated for eight Oscars and received zero wins.
In a conversation with Anthony Ramos for Interview Magazine, who appeared in “A Star is Born,” Cooper discussed his cold shoulder when it comes to awards.
Bradley Cooper attends the World Premiere of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ‘Avengers: Endgame’ at Los Angeles Convention Center on April 22, 2019
(Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Ramos, 28, remarked that actors getting “singled out” during awards season can create selfishness. What we forget is that we’re a “representation of the story that those 150 to 200 told together.”
Cooper agreed and said, “That awards season stuff is a real test. It’s set up to foster that mentality.”
“It’s quite a thing to work through, and it’s completely devoid of artistic creation,” the “Limitless” star added.
Gloria Campano and Bradley Cooper during the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California
(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Cooper stressed that acting and directing is more about passion, rather than accolades.
“It’s not why you sacrifice everything to create art, and yet you spend so much time being a part of it if you’re, in quotes, ‘lucky enough to be a part of it,’” he said of awards season.
Cooper continued: “It’s ultimately a great thing because it really does make you face ego, vanity, and insecurity,”
“It’s very interesting and utterly meaningless,” the two-time Grammy winner said.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga perform onstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California
(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Last year, Cooper admitted in an interview for Oprah Winfrey’s “SuperSoul Conversations” that at first he felt “embarrassed” when he didn’t get nominated for Best Director at the 2019 Oscar awards for his directional debut with “A Star is Born.”
“But the truth is, even if I got the nomination, that should not give me any sense of whether I did my job or not,” he added. “That’s the trick. The trick is to make something you believe in and you work hard.”
In: Celebrity News
Previous Post: Everyone Leaves Black People Out of the Gun Debate | Adam Ruins Everything
Next Post: Realistic New Wildlife Campaign Just Asks Americans To Take A Good Last Look
https://youtu.be/vRXZj0DzXIA?list=TLPQMjkwODIwMjAp-oE_70wCgg
https://youtu.be/quFlP3cRCFs
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line789
|
__label__wiki
| 0.801255
| 0.801255
|
Artease
Business collections
Scroll to zoom, click for slideshow
Le Ruban 2000 - 2017
Annette Jalilova
BronzeMetal
ConditionExcellent
Galerie Bianca Landgraaf
About artwork & Artist
About the Artist - 25 more artworks
Annette Jalilova was born in 1947, shortly after the Second World War. She was raised in an artistic environment. Her parents run an art center, rue Vigée-Lebrun, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. But her real passion is dancing, she frequently visits the danc school. And after dancing and school, the little girl went from studio to studio where she especially admires the anatomy of the subjects painted.
When her parents move and settle in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), the young teenager does not give up dancing. But it was when she moved to London to improve her English that this passion became a profession. There she meets Matt Mattox, an American dancer, choreographer and teacher who has just opened a dance school. She became his partner and worked with him, following him on tour until they moved to Paris in 1975. Annette Jalilova continued to teach at the Marceau School and at the Conservatory, in particular.
Jalilova, started sculpting in the 1990’s, after her career as a dancer. Annette Jalilova chose to explore another of her artistic talents and turned her entire focus to sculpture.
Antlia, 2000
The initial period revolved around volume with the "SENSUELLES" series, and was followed by a second series of sculptures known as the "INSEPARABLES" in which she introduced voids. The pieces are positioned in relation to one another to constitute coherent personas in poses as timeless as they are natural. Around the same period, Annette evolved towards the "GRAPHIQUES" series. Always attached to the notion of balance, she refined shapes and forms to extremes, sometimes composing groups arranged like friezes of dancers. More recently, she has been creating compositions of statues - the "MOBILES" series. For the past ten years, she also has worked with Daum and created sculptures in molten glass sold all over the world.
Alresha, 2015
Owners can thus isolate or regroup the elements they possess. By virtue of the moving, living nature of statues, owners can create highly personal works based on their own conception of space. Annette Jalilova has stylized her expression to the extreme, but her work has never lost anything of its characteristic voluptuousness while continuing to endow the body with momentum and lines of extraordinary perfection. Her sculpture embodies movement and serenity. The statues are effortlessly tensed in harmonious “choreography”.
Ysé, 2000-2017
Her contemporary sculptures are characterized through a unique and innovative style. The fact that the female body is her main source of inspiration is not surprising with her background as a dancer. Women enable her to visualize emotions and to portray the deeper muscles of the soul in a personal manner. Jalilova then translates these movements into bronzes sculptures with an extremely smooth line. As a choreographer, she plays with elements of space. In her compositions, in which intermediate spaces do not interfere with the lines, she creates a graphic play between lines.
Cylcladiennes, 2014
Contemporary SculpturesSculptures
Anneke Elhorst
Fruit2000 - 2017
Monique Muylaert
Blauwe Tornado II2000 - 2018
Hans Rikken
King and Queen2014
George De Decker
Fragmente-Stille VII2014
Repartir III2012
Jan de Graaf
Lazy Sunday2000 - 2017
Takje met druiven2017
Peter Hiemstra
Oold maand no'j waeter2000 - 2018
Naos2013
Kakatoes2015
Gerrit Langedijk
Liggende tors2000 - 2018
Grenzeloze vertwijfeling2000 - 2018
1 - 4 / 12
Oriande2000 - 2017
Marfik2017
Kela2016
Arkab2013
Matar2000 - 2017
Attente2017
Scutum2000 - 2018
Alresha2015
Unis2005
Syrma2017
La Ronde2000 - 2017
Porrima2000 - 2017
Vicente Antonorsi Blanco
'rocks'2011
gallery 9 contemporary art
Shi Bao Fang
'White Dream No 9'2020
Polderlandschap (studie)2017
Pieter Van den Daele
Cyrillus2015 - 2020
Morren Galleries Utrecht
Martijn Duifhuizen
NT 502-102010
Frank Lejeune
First visite Toscana2000 - 2017
Meander - Galerie & Kunstuitleen
Evert den Hartog
Roofvogel met prooi2000 - 2017
Guido Schram
Hartig 2016
PASSÌ GALERIE
Anjeliek Blaauw
'Phenomena, 18'2011
Galerie Mia Joosten Amsterdam
Petra Wunderlich
Carrara1989
Eiko Ishizawa
What's happening in fire #22016
Kers Gallery
Netherlands (+31)Algeria (+213)Andorra (+376)Angola (+244)Anguilla (+1264)Antigua Barbuda (+1268)Argentina (+54)Armenia (+374)Aruba (+297)Australia (+61)Austria (+43)Azerbaijan (+994)Bahamas (+1242)Bahrain (+973)Bangladesh (+880)Barbados (+1246)Belarus (+375)Belgium (+32)Belize (+501)Benin (+229)Bermuda (+1441)Bhutan (+975)Bolivia (+591)Bosnia Herzegovina (+387)Botswana (+267)Brazil (+55)Brunei (+673)Bulgaria (+359)Burkina Faso (+226)Burundi (+257)Cambodia (+855)Cameroon (+237)USA (+1)Cape Verde Islands (+238)Cayman Islands (+1345)Central African Republic (+236)Chile (+56)China (+86)Colombia (+57)Mayotte (+269)Congo (+242)Cook Islands (+682)Costa Rica (+506)Croatia (+385)Cuba (+53)Cyprus North (+90392)Cyprus South (+357)Czech Republic (+42)Denmark (+45)Djibouti (+253)Dominican Republic (+1809)Ecuador (+593)Egypt (+20)El Salvador (+503)Equatorial Guinea (+240)Eritrea (+291)Estonia (+372)Ethiopia (+251)Falkland Islands (+500)Faroe Islands (+298)Fiji (+679)Finland (+358)France (+33)French Guiana (+594)French Polynesia (+689)Gabon (+241)Gambia (+220)Georgia (+7880)Germany (+49)Ghana (+233)Gibraltar (+350)Greece (+30)Greenland (+299)Grenada (+1473)Guadeloupe (+590)Guam (+671)Guatemala (+502)Guinea (+224)Guinea - Bissau (+245)Guyana (+592)Haiti (+509)Honduras (+504)Hong Kong (+852)Hungary (+36)Iceland (+354)India (+91)Indonesia (+62)Iran (+98)Iraq (+964)Ireland (+353)Israel (+972)Italy (+39)Jamaica (+1876)Japan (+81)Jordan (+962)Russia (+7)Kenya (+254)Kiribati (+686)Korea North (+850)Korea South (+82)Kuwait (+965)Kyrgyzstan (+996)Laos (+856)Latvia (+371)Lebanon (+961)Lesotho (+266)Liberia (+231)Libya (+218)Liechtenstein (+417)Lithuania (+370)Luxembourg (+352)Macao (+853)Macedonia (+389)Madagascar (+261)Malawi (+265)Malaysia (+60)Maldives (+960)Mali (+223)Malta (+356)Marshall Islands (+692)Martinique (+596)Mauritania (+222)Mexico (+52)Micronesia (+691)Moldova (+373)Monaco (+377)Mongolia (+976)Montserrat (+1664)Morocco (+212)Mozambique (+258)Myanmar (+95)Namibia (+264)Nauru (+674)Nepal (+977)New Caledonia (+687)New Zealand (+64)Nicaragua (+505)Niger (+227)Nigeria (+234)Niue (+683)Norfolk Islands (+672)Northern Marianas (+670)Norway (+47)Oman (+968)Palau (+680)Panama (+507)Papua New Guinea (+675)Paraguay (+595)Peru (+51)Philippines (+63)Poland (+48)Portugal (+351)Puerto Rico (+1787)Qatar (+974)Reunion (+262)Romania (+40)Rwanda (+250)San Marino (+378)Sao Tome Principe (+239)Saudi Arabia (+966)Senegal (+221)Serbia (+381)Seychelles (+248)Sierra Leone (+232)Singapore (+65)Slovak Republic (+421)Slovenia (+386)Solomon Islands (+677)Somalia (+252)South Africa (+27)Spain (+34)Sri Lanka (+94)St. Helena (+290)St. Kitts (+1869)St. Lucia (+1758)Sudan (+249)Suriname (+597)Swaziland (+268)Sweden (+46)Switzerland (+41)Syria (+963)Taiwan (+886)Tajikstan (+992)Thailand (+66)Togo (+228)Tonga (+676)Trinidad Tobago (+868)Tunisia (+216)Turkey (+90)Turkmenistan (+993)Tuvalu (+688)Uganda (+256)UK (+44)Ukraine (+380)United Arab Emirates (+971)Uruguay (+598)Uzbekistan (+998)Vanuatu (+678)Vatican City (+379)Venezuela (+58)Vietnam (+84)Virgin Islands - British (+1284)Virgin Islands - US (+1340)Wallis Futuna (+681)Yemen (North)(+969)Yemen (South)(+967)Zambia (+260)Zimbabwe (+263)
Gallerease
info@gallerease.com
Copyright © 2021 Gallerease
We use cookies to provide statistics that help us give you the best experience of our site. By using this site without changing your cookie settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Cookie settingsAllow cookies
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line791
|
__label__cc
| 0.621968
| 0.378032
|
Sadie Newman Uses Instagram For Good, Not Evil
Mar 28, 2019 @ 5:12 pm By Ashley Uzer
“Instagram is beautiful, but also evil,” says Sadie Newman.
25-year-old Newman, who has modeled for Victoria’s Secret, knows that social media can be a major cause of anxiety. Unfortunately, unlike the average 20-something, she has to use it for work.
So, she decided to start a page called Inner Piece, a page where her co-workers and friends can share the things that people don’t normally broadcast publicly on Instagram: their failures, their fears, and their unfiltered stories.
We sat down with Sadie to talk about how she works to stay feeling good, and looking good—on and off Instagram.
So your Instagram captions seem to poke fun at the actual work that goes into being a model (showing your agent you were at event, feeling the need to produce content, etc.)—why is it important to you to show the “reality” of being a model?
I have a hard time portraying on Instagram what I’m actually like in real life with my photos, so I always keep the captions true to my sense of humor. Like, “I know here’s another photo of me in my underwear, but it’s my job so don’t judge me.” I think the reality is models don’t like Instagram, but it’s our job to post and we feel pressured to. I want to show people that we’re as insecure about it as everyone else.
One of the “realities” of being a model is that it takes a lot of behind-the-scenes prep to look so good (especially without makeup). Can you tell us some of your favorite products or practices for always looking (and feeling) your best?
I wash my face with Cetaphil morning and night and my skin has never been better—just had to keep it simple. I use Mario Badescu facial spray throughout the day because my skin needs to constantly be refreshed. I go to yoga every day, which helps me feel good mentally—which always makes you look better on the outside. I also take valerian root every morning for my anxiety and Perfectil for my hair. Both have really been making a difference in my daily life. My anxiety feels not as frantic and Perfectil has really saved my hair from splitting and being dead after shoots, it’s much healthier. I like to keep it pretty straight forward and simple with vitamins.
You also got candid about your anxiety on the Girl Cult podcast—do you feel like your career choice has brought you more anxiety? Or maybe helped you deal with anxiety better? Maybe a bit of both?
I’ve always been anxious, but my job has definitely increased it. Everything is always so last minute and could change in an instant, but I’m trying to learn from the anxiety it causes me and spin it into a more positive lesson. Focusing on being present and not trying to predict the future.
You mentioned that you used to write Tyra Banks fan mail. Have you always wanted to be a model since you were a little girl?
Oh, how I loved Tyra growing up. I didn’t always wants to be a model, and definitely did not think I was good enough [to be one], but kids in school were so mean to me that I thought there had to be something I can do to get out of this small town—something my height is good for! I saw a possibility and took a chance.
With the rise of social media, lots of girls sort of try to be “models” in their own way. Do you feel like that’s a good thing or a bad thing?
I think it’s good and bad. Girls can express themselves however they want and have the opportunity to share it with people. But on the flip side, young girls try to live up to unrealistic expectations. Every photo on Instagram is edited and I think the pressure to post and be seen by people is toxic and it creates an unhealthy relationship with yourself.
Inner Piece is an amazing project you started late last year, can you talk to us about the motivation behind starting that page?
I love people. I love talking to people, hearing their problems and what makes them tick. I thought it would be an opportunity to share their fears and worries with the world, to show people we’re all in this together. We all fear the same things and Instagram isn’t usually the place that is all heard.
It’s sort of funny because a lot of the advice seems to talk about how social media can be challenging, but the platform itself is via social media. Can you talk about the decision to have the page live on Instagram vs. another platform?
Instagram is beautiful, but also evil. The reach you can have on Instagram vs. another platform is incomparable, so I knew it would be the quickest and easiest way to reach people. I think it’s about creating a healthy relationship with social media again. Don’t use it to compare, but use it to feel inspired.
OMG, that DM you got from the girl asking to borrow your dress for her date party is so bizarre and hilarious. Do you have any other ridiculous DM stories like this?
That girl was out of control. She got so mad at me for posting it online, but I hid her name/face! I mean, I have people asking for locks of my hair or for a sock of mine. Not two socks, one. I don’t read them all because they scare me!
Lastly, can you give some quick tips to our readers for how to combat some of the anxiety that being plugged in can give them?
I don’t mindlessly scroll on instagram (or [I at least] make a conscious effort not to). There was a time when we didn’t know/care what other people were doing, so don’t fill your brain with comparison. I go for walks a lot when I feel overwhelmed or just remove myself from the funk I have created around myself. Also being present. Realizing that most of the things you’re anxious about are out of your control. Things will happen whether you are anxious about them or not, so you have to train yourself to let go a little.
About The Author: Ashley Uzer
Ashley Uzer is an LA-based writer who covers dating, fashion, beauty, culture, + more. Follow Ashley on Instagram and Twitter.
Gimme More POP
It’s a Good Day to Fight the System with Shungudzo
Jan 12, 2021 @ 3:33 am Shirley Reynozo
Jan 12, 2021 @ 3:33 am
God of Gold
Dec 17, 2020 @ 5:00 am Shirley Reynozo
Dec 17, 2020 @ 5:00 am
A poet, a screenwriter, an actor, a model, a scholar, and a fashion designer, Sejahari Saulter-Vilegas is a Black-Mexican multidisciplinary artist from Chicago. He is the master of his narrative and a voice for our generation, always aiming to nuance social commentary through various artistic outlets. Apart from being to express himself in multiple ways,
BadGyal, La Mas Pegá de España, nos pega en su nuevo reggaetón con Juanka, “Blin Blin”
La sensación española BadGyal impacta la industria musical internacional con su nuevo sencillo “Blin Blin”, en colaboración con el exponente del momento, Juanka. El sencillo ha sido producido por El Guincho junto a Star Boy y Jasper Harris. “Estoy muy contenta de haber colaborado con Juanka en esta canción y estoy segura de que a los fans les
“What does the Black man say?” Jordan Allen and His Dynamic Explorations Through Art
Dec 12, 2020 @ 4:17 pm Shirley Reynozo
Dec 12, 2020 @ 4:17 pm
Jordan Allen is an emerging, self-taught artist that is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota. Based in New York since 2017, Allen’s practice explores existential questions as a means of searching for his own truth and identity. His upbringing as the single male in a a single mother household, and his experiences as a Black man
Breaking Language Barriers with Italian Artist sferra basta
Famoso, the new album by sferra basta, is out worldwide for Island Records: thirteen new songs with seven international collaborations (J Balvin, Steve Aoki, 7Ari, Diplo, Offset, Future, Lil Mosey). The album, with Charlie Charles’ art direction, collects all the different sides of sferra basta; there are tracks filled with anger, hunger and desire to
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line793
|
__label__cc
| 0.725146
| 0.274854
|
BIG BIDNESS INFLUENCES POLITICS? NO WAY!!!
Commentary, Sonics
By Mike Gastineau|2020-04-02T16:57:38-07:00August 19th, 2013|Tags: Chris Hansen, Clay Bennett, Sonics|
These are confusing, conflicting, and concerning times for Seattle sports fans and politicians. The news that Seattle basketball savior Chris Hansen secretly donated $100,000 to a Sacramento group which opposed building an arena to keep the Kings in California seems to fall somewhere between troubling and deal breaking for most observers. This is, without question, a [...]
Gasman’s latest book tells the remarkable story of Joe Purzycki, the first-ever white head football coach at a historically black college, and Nelson Townsend, the athletic director who had the courage to hire him.
Gasman’s Recent Tweets
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line794
|
__label__wiki
| 0.872078
| 0.872078
|
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/5/2013
A flu vaccination program in Glaswegian schools has been delayed due to objections by Muslim parents. It seems that the nasal vaccine used in the program may contain pork gelatin, and the possibility has alarmed observant Muslims. The vaccinations will be delayed until injections can be offered as an alternative.
In other news, U.S. special forces in Libya surprised and captured an Al Qaeda operative who is allegedly linked to the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.
Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JA, JD, Jerry Gordon, JP, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
» David Stockman — the Crisis Today is Far Worse Than 1981
» Obama Economic Adviser: Astronomical Debt is Constitutional
» Peter Schiff Warns of Martial Law (Video)
» Adobe Hacked, Millions of Customers’ Data Compromised
» Brain Implants to “Reboot” Depressed People
» California’s Legislature Says Hunting Rifles Are ‘Assault Weapons’ Because… Why Not?
» Civilization’s New Trajectory
» Cop Told Not to Wear Gun, Uniform When Dropping Daughter Off at School
» D.C’s Capitol Hill Police Murder Unarmed, Mentally Disturbed Woman
» FBI Cordon Off Neighborhood to Search Executed Driver’s Condo for Anti-Government Material
» Fear the Finger Gun: Political Correctness Ensures Little Boys Never Grow Into Alpha Males
» Four-Legged, DARPA-Funded, Running War Robot Unveiled (Video)
» Jail Time for Selling Raw Milk is Greater Than Jail Time for Raping Children
» Memorial Circus Outrages Visitors
» Mosque Dedication Opens New Venue for Friendships
» NSA and GCHQ Target Tor Network That Protects Anonymity of Web Users
» Obama Spent Day Three of Shut Down Posing for Portrait
» ObamaCare Enrollee in Media Spotlight Hasn’t Completed Signup Process
» OC High School Apologizes After Forcing Student to Remove NRA T-Shirt
» Park Service Tries Shutting Down Private Inn
» Police Remove Vietnam War Veterans at Memorial Wall
» Savage: Only Outrage at Execution of Woman in DC on Prison Planet (Video)
» Senate Doorkeeper Gives Out “Thank You Capitol Police” Buttons After Cops Execute Mother
» Sisters of Woman Killed in D.C. Chase Question Police Actions
» Towns, States Are Ponying Up to Keep National Parks Open
» Vaccine Damage, Hidden Truth: Not on the Evening News
» White House Asking for Sad Shutdown Stories
» Wisconsin Gov. Walker Defies Order to Close Federally-Funded Parks
» A Sad Day for Canada’s Free Expression Rights
» Archaeologists Unearth Sweden’s Own Pompeii: Hundreds Died in ‘Brutal Massacre’ At Island Fort 1,500 Years Ago
» British Education: Creeping Sharia
» Germany: Mosques Open Doors to Non-Muslims
» Greece to Offer Residence Permits to Foreign Investors
» Irish Voters Decide to Keep Country’s Senate
» Italy: Police Nab Corrupt State University Professors
» Sardinian Island Sold to ‘Green’ NZ Banker
» Scotland: Young Muslims’ ‘Peace Offering’ To Far-Right Group Ahead of Dundee Rally
» Scotland Halts Flu Jabs for Thousands of Schoolchildren Over Concerns That Nasal Spray Vaccine Contains Pork Gelatine
» Society: Wives Prefer Greek Isles for Illicit Affairs
» Switzerland: Leonardo Da Vinci Experts Identify Painting as Lost Isabella D’este Portrait
» Syria: Charity Millions ‘Going to Syrian Terror Groups’
» UK: Guilty: Crash Drivers Who Ploughed Through Pedestrians Outside Mosque in St Helens Road, Daubhill, And Left 12-Year-Old Boy in a Coma
» UK: Interpal and Due Diligence
» UK: Man Found Guilty of Attempted Murder After City Centre Hit-and-Run
» UK: Now Pay Into the Nanny’s Pension: Middle-Class Parents Face £600 Bill a Year Under New Rules
» UK: Operation Bullfinch: Man Remanded Over Intimidation Charges
» UK: Row Over Parking Congestion on Streets Near New Mosque
» UK: Revealed: The Ten Convicted Murderers Who Were Freed on Licence Only to Kill Again in the Past Decade
» UK: Unions Threaten NHS Strikes Over Plan to Scrap 1% Pay Rise in Favour of Reform of Salary Structures
» UK: Veils, Segregated Schools and Why We Risk Sowing the Seeds of Islamic Terror in Britain
» General Al-Sisi: Egypt’s Future President?
» U.S. Forces in Libya Capture Qaeda Leader Linked to ‘98 Embassy Bombings
Israel and the Palestinians
» After 40 Years the Lessons of the Yom Kippur War Are Still Relevant
» Australian Muslims Oppose Pro-Israel Candidate
» Christians Under Threat in Syria as Islamist Extremists Gain Influence
» Emirates: Constant Rains in North Due to ‘Cloud Seeding’
» Millions of Pounds Given to Syrian Refugee Charities is ‘Being Used to Fund Terrorism’
» Saudi Black Op Team Behind Damascus Chem Weapons Attack — Diplomatic Sources
» Syrian Rebel Groups Battle Each Other in North
» Russia Charges Entire Greenpeace Crew, Including Two Canadians
» Pakistan: Muslim Group Says Jihad Attack on Historic Church That Murdered 83 Was “According to the Sharia”
» China Employs Two Million Microblog Monitors
» Chinese Mother is ‘Dragged From Her Home in the Middle of the Night and Forced to Abort Her Baby Son Six Months Into Pregnancy’ Under Country’s One-Child Policy
» Don’t Pick Your Nose in Public: China Issues New Guidelines for Tourists
» ‘Foreign Military Forces’ Attack Somali Islamist Base
» Foreign Special Forces Attack Al-Shabab Base in Somalia
» Kenya: 4 Dead in Mombasa Riots Over Slain Cleric
» Kenya: CCTV of Nairobi’s Westgate Mall Attackers — Video
» Militant Base ‘Attacked From Sea’ In Somalia
» Nairobi Terrorists Named as Police Confirm ‘White Widow’ Not Among Them
» Seychelles Court Convicts 11 Somalis of Piracy
» U.S. Says Shabab Leader in Somalia May Have Been Killed
» A Window for African Refugees
» About 230 Syrian Migrants Rescued Off Coast of Sicily
» Border Patrol Rep Claims Agents Being Ordered to Stand Down
» Fiji, Sweden Discuss Immigration Cooperation
» Foreign Women Given More Work Permits in Turkey
» Italy’s Turn at EU Helm ‘Will Push Migrant Response’
» UK: Now One Council House in Ten Goes to Migrants as Tories Blame Labour for Allowing Locals ‘To be Pushed Out of Waiting List’
» Italy: Six Porn Cinemas Shut in Male-Prostitution Probe
» Russian Imam Calls on Muslims to Boycott Elton John Concerts
» UK: Religion is Not Funny: Censorship at the LSE
» Why Must Miley and Rihanna Act Like Whores? There Are Better Ways for Young Talent to Move Forward in Their Careers Than Debasing Themselves
» Sacred Mysteries: The Gnostic Idea That Matter is Bad
David Stockman — the Crisis Today is Far Worse Than 1981
Eric King: “This disaster that you’ve described, how will it be different than what we went through in the 1970s, when inflation was roaring and gold went up 25-fold?”
Stockman: “There was a different issue then (during the 1970s crisis). (Today) this central banking disaster is not only a United States problem — it has spread to the entire world. All of the central banks are doing the same thing….
Massive central bank intervention to prop-up risk assets is being done by all of the central banks of the world. In fact, the Bank of Japan is even worse. The ECB is doing it, the Bank of England. The Chinese central bank has been doing it for decades.
So this time the disease, the outbreak of destructive central bank policy, is global. That wasn’t true in the 1970s. In the 1970s it was led by the Fed, once it was unshackled from the Bretton Woods system and the discipline of the Gold Standard in August, 1971.
— Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
Obama Economic Adviser: Astronomical Debt is Constitutional
Democrats have called for Obama to raise debt limit without congressional approval
A World Bank and Brookings Institute insider sat down with the Wall Street Journal to talk about the supposed government shut down and the debt crisis in Washington.
Jason Furman said investors need to be concerned about the looming default and demand House Republicans curb their fiscal sanity sideshow and allow Obama to borrow more fiat currency cranked out by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve so the government can continue to ignore economic reality.
Despite a default that will arrive on October 17, the corporate casino on Wall Street has flirted with new surrealistic highs over the last few weeks.
Furman characterized the Republican faction in Congress fighting against raising the so-called debt ceiling as “dysfunctional” and warned that not jacking up the debt will result in more damage to an already hobbled economy.
“The Constitution is very clear,” Furman said. “It vests the authority in Congress to issue debt, which then grants that authority to the Treasury. We see nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment that would allow the president to ignore the debt limit.” He characterized fiscal restraint as a “highly contested theory.”
Furman’s comments follow calls by Democrats for Obama to raise the debt limit without congressional approval.
Democrats eager to add billions more to the national debt cite the Reconstruction era amendment that says “validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payments of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.“
[Comment: This chap works for international bankers. Note how Democrats refer to Reconstruction era amendment that supports paying those who provide services “in suppressing insurrection or rebellion”.]
— Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
Peter Schiff Warns of Martial Law (Video)
American investment broker, businessman, author and financial commentator Peter Schiff warns us that we are in worse shape now economically than we were just before the 2008 financial crisis, which we still have yet to recover from.
“I think the U.S. has been in a depression or a recession for the entirety of the Obama presidency,” Schiff said. “I think there’s going to be a depression, but I don’t think it’s going to be global.”
“When the dollar collapses and when the rest of the world stops wasting their resources, propping up our economy, buying our debt, selling us products that we can’t pay for, I think you’re going to have a global economic boom outside of the United States.”
“I just hope that one day we’re smart enough to jump in on it by adopting free market principles.”
“I hope we can reclaim our former glory,” he continued. “But to do that’s we’re going to have to reclaim the values that we have abandoned and those are the ones that our Founding Fathers wrote into our Constitution, not the ones that we’re following now.”
Adobe Hacked, Millions of Customers’ Data Compromised
A security breach targeting the source code used by software giant Adobe has compromised the information of nearly three million customers, the company confirmed this week.
Brad Arkin, Adobe’s chief security officer, announced in a blog post Thursday that a sophisticated cyber attack on the company’s network caused the source code for numerous programs to be illegally accessed by hackers, as well as the personal information of millions of Adobe users.
Founded in 1982, the Silicon Valley company is known for an array of products, including the PhotoShop editing software and the PDF, SWF and FLV file formats.
According to Arkin, Adobe believes the attackers pilfered customer names, encrypted credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information related to customer orders pertaining to roughly 2.9 million Adobe clients.
Arkin said the company does not believe the attackers accessed decrypted information, but stopped short of confirming that plain-text data wasn’t compromised.
Brain Implants to “Reboot” Depressed People
Hacker warned medical devices could be accessed remotely for “mass murder”
Scientists are set to treat depression and headaches by implanting electrodes into people’s brains which alter the function of brain tissue by using electroconvulsive therapy to “reboot” the mind.
“The more neurologists and surgeons learn about the aptly named deep brain stimulation, the more they are convinced that the currents from the technology’s implanted electrodes can literally reboot brain circuits involved with the mood disorder,” reports Scientific American.
Is this a potential scientific success story or the first step towards psychopharmacological dictatorship?
Hacker Barnaby Jack warned that medical implants like pacemakers could be remotely accessed by hackers and governments to “commit mass murder.”
Jack was found dead just a week before he was set to present his research at a conference.
California’s Legislature Says Hunting Rifles Are ‘Assault Weapons’ Because… Why Not?
California Gov. Jerry Brown will soon decide whether to sign a bill that expands his state’s “assault weapon” ban to cover any centerfire rifle with a detachable magazine.
That’s a very broad category, the National Rifle Association notes, since “millions of semi-automatic rifles have magazines that can be removed with the push of a button,” including “classic hunting rifles like the Remington Woodsmaster, Browning BAR, and the Ruger 99/44, among many others.”
The actual language of the bill, S.B. 374, refers rather confusingly to “a semiautomatic centerfire rifle that does not have a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept no more than 10 rounds.”
Civilization’s New Trajectory
Bereft of rigorous, classical education, many Americans today remain similarly clueless of an encroaching police state. As George Santayana once warned, not to learn from history dooms us to repeat it. While most “get it” that something is amiss, many haphazardly immerse themselves in a quagmire of distracting daily duties — then seek escape from the frenzy in varied forms of mindless entertainment.
Unlike Bonhoeffer, Americans too often neglect to guard their “great historical heritage and intellectual tradition” — hence, America’s rapid slide from a society governed by “we, the people” to a police state governed instead by the strong arm of law. By quietly accepting surveillance cameras, police and drug-sniffing dogs in schools, national databases that track our finances and activities, sneak-and-peek searches of our homes (without knowledge or consent), and anti-terrorism laws that focus suspicion on average citizens, Americans steadily forfeit basic freedoms and constitutional rights ensured by the founders.
Surprising to some, the Shah was a great fan of Nazism and, in 1935, even changed the name of Persia to Iran, which in Farsi means “Aryan.” In 1921, Nazi ally Hajj (Muhammed Effendi) Amin al-Husseini was appointed mufti and head administrator of Arab Palestine and, in 1938, was put on the Nazi payroll. Saddam Hussein became one of the most devout practitioners of al-Husseini-inspired Nazi pan-Arabism. When, in the 1930s, the Muslim Brotherhood likewise became a furtive arm of Nazi intelligence, some of the Brotherhood’s leading men combined doctrines of Nazism with Wahhabism. Backed by Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabi sect today controls seventy to eighty percent of some 1,200 mosques in the United States.
Dr. Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D., explains, “While much of the world celebrated the Allied defeat of Hitler in 1945, what they didn’t know was that the Nazis were winning the war for control of much of the world’s economy.”
By 1943, Hitler’s sidekick Martin Bormann already had amassed what amounts to trillions of dollars in today’s economy; and an associate of J. P. Morgan Banking was president of the Nazi-controlled Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where Nazis sent their looted gold valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.
A U.S. military intelligence report (The Red House Report, 1944) revealed that powerful, Nazi-era bankers, industrialists, and civil servants began working on a new cause — namely, European economic and political integration.
Cop Told Not to Wear Gun, Uniform When Dropping Daughter Off at School
Students completely brainwashed into thinking guns are bad
While some schools across the nation have moved to arm teachers in order to deter potential gunmen, an Arizona elementary school is taking a “vastly different” approach.
In yet another sterling example of how the establishment has successfully brainwashed Americans into fearing firearms, a Coolidge, Ariz., police officer was asked not to wear his uniform when dropping off his daughter at school due to parents’ concerns over his gun.
Officer Scott Urkov was dropping his daughter off at the Entz Elementary School in Mesa when a student apparently saw his gun. The child later told his parents he had seen “a man at school with a gun,” prompting the parents to phone the school.
“There were some parents who were concerned about the fact that there was a fully armed officer on campus and they spoke to the principal about it,” Helen Hollands, spokesperson for Mesa Unified School District, told My Fox Phoenix.
The principal reportedly approached Officer Urkov requesting he not wear his uniform the next time he visited the school…
The Mesa Unified School District’s overreaction to the officers’ firearm falls in line with anti-gun rhetoric the current Justice Department head Eric Holder spewed in 1995, when he told attendants at the Woman’s National Democratic Club they had to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”
“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes,” Holder stated.
D.C’s Capitol Hill Police Murder Unarmed, Mentally Disturbed Woman
With every news station and web site in the world focusing on yesterdays car chase in D.C. there are plenty of sources to find information about this story. Many of them in very long winded articles that most people will not read entirely through. So here is the condensed version.
A woman and her 18 month old child got caught up in a check point drill that D.C. area authorities had been participating in for a few days before the incident. The authorities had placed barricades and check points all along Pennsylvania Avenue and this woman from Connecticut got very nervous as she approached them. She attempted to turn around to leave the check point area at which point multiple officers pulled their guns on her.
Freaked out at having a gun pointed in her face the woman attempted a three point turn that ended up grazing a secret service member. That is also the point in which she accidentally hit in to a barricade in front of the White House. While trying to flea these D.C. goons pointing guns at her they opened fire on her vehicle even though there was no danger to any of the officers as she was driving away from them.
Dozens of police ended up chasing this poor woman One of these idiotic officers smashed his car in to a barricade while her car was nowhere in site, all on his own accord. After a tense lockdown of the area the woman’s car crashed in to a median on the side of the road. Instead of demanding she exit the vehicle or approaching the car with care the officers decided their best course of action was to open fire on the vehicle and kill this woman for the heinous crime of running from a gang of goons pointing guns at her. As far as I know running from the police is not an offense punishable by death. However these officers took it upon themselves to sentence and execute this woman on the spot.
So a scared, slightly mentally disturbed woman gets lost in the crazy traffic set up in D.C., officers then point guns at her which scared her in to fleeing and because of the car pursuit that followed they decided their best bet was to murder her when she had no weapons and her child in the back seat behind her. Members of congress then applaud their brave actions and the news media tries to weave a tale of some crazed woman attempting to attack the White House and getting in to a gun fight with police. In reality the only shots fired were by police and they murdered this poor woman for getting lost and scared. Welcome to America.
FBI Cordon Off Neighborhood to Search Executed Driver’s Condo for Anti-Government Material
The FBI employed a bomb squad, a hazardous material team and helicopters when they searched Miriam Carey’s condominium in Stamford, Connecticut on Thursday.
Carey was executed by police after briefly eluding them following an encounter at a police state checkpoint outside the White House. The incident resulted in a lockdown of Congress and a “shelter in place” order on Capitol Hill.
Stamford resident Eric Bredow told News 19 WLTV an FBI bomb squad arrived at his building and a helicopter swooped overhead. Other residents were ordered to evacuate and were told they would not be allowed to return home for hours or overnight.
CNN reported the condominium complex remained cordoned off on Friday.
On Friday, the FBI and local law enforcement said they did not find firearms or “evidence that [Carey] was angry with the government,” The Courant reported.
Fear the Finger Gun: Political Correctness Ensures Little Boys Never Grow Into Alpha Males
Do you remember a time where a game of “cops and robbers” during school recess was treated as innocently as it was meant to be? If you are elementary school student Jordan Bennett, you don’t. Bennett was suspended from school for a day after playing that ‘deadly’ game in the school yard, which included the 8-year old forming his hand into the shape of a gun. The boy’s mother is fighting the suspension, but the damage has already been done.
In Virginia, two teenage boys were suspended for a year after playing with airsoft guns on their own property. A “concerned” neighbor called the police and successfully got these two kids on a long-term suspension (the neighbor must be proud of his or her stand against “gun violence”) after being charged with the possession, handling and use of a firearm. The charge was later changed to reflect the obvious, that these boys were not in possession of a firearm, but an airsoft gun. Their one year suspensions remain in effect, and their records will forever reflect the crime of, well, being kids.
[Comment: Scroll down to see pic of very small kids handcuffed behind their backs and being led into Sherriffs van.]
Four-Legged, DARPA-Funded, Running War Robot Unveiled (Video)
Developers at Boston Dynamics, an engineering company specializing in robotics, have released video of an untethered robot capable of standing and mobilizing on its own.
WildCat is a four-legged outdoor runner capable of rising, turning, and reaching running speeds up to 16 mph on flat ground.
WildCat is a close cousin to Boston Dynamics’ Cheetah, another quadrupedal robot that was unveiled a year ago, running at speeds over 28 mph on a treadmill — quicker than world’s fastest man Usain Bolt’s top speed of 27.78 mph. However, unlike WildCat, Cheetah was connected to a power source.
The runner carries a large — and very loud — motor to operate its four limbs, though the weight hampers its speed and agility.
Jail Time for Selling Raw Milk is Greater Than Jail Time for Raping Children
[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]
The American system of justice is indeed in major need of overhaul when, in one place, you can get a month in jail for raping a child, but in another, you can get several months in jail for daring to sell milk that wasn’t government approved.
Ex-Montana teacher Stacey Rambold, 54, recently walked out of the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge after serving an incredibly light sentence, considering his crime, given by District Judge G. Todd Baugh of Billings. Rambold was convicted of raping 14-year-old Cherise Moralez in 2007.
Even before Rambold walked free, his case was under review by the Montana Supreme Court for its incredible leniency. Also, critics have amped up calls for removing the judge who oversaw the case from office…
The girl victim committed suicide in 2010, before Rambold even went to trial.
Memorial Circus Outrages Visitors
A somber memorial has been turned into a political sideshow this week — and tempers are rising.
The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a victim of the government shutdown, drawing attention-hungry lawmakers (and the media) throughout the week to a quiet place where respect is paid to honor those who had died serving their country — and the commotion is frustrating veterans and the volunteers who help them.
“I’m pissed off,” said Gary Kelch, a furloughed federal employee and a veteran who was visiting the memorial. “It’s all just political theatrics. I don’t mind being furloughed if it gets attention [from Congress]. I’m good with losing a couple weeks of pay. But this is disgusting.”
Mosque Dedication Opens New Venue for Friendships
FORT WORTH — The melting-pot metaphor that’s applied to America annoys Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks. “I think of America more as a stew, where a carrot remains a carrot and a potato remains a potato, but each contributes its own flavor to a dish that becomes altogether something else,” Brooks said Friday at the dedication of the Eastchase Islamic Center in east Fort Worth. “It is for this reason that we cherish the diversity of this community.” Nabil Bawa, president of Al-Hedayah Academy, a 6.5-acre campus where the $1.5 million mosque was built, found that statement appropriate on a couple of levels. True, the mosque will serve as a community gathering and enrichment venue in addition to its role as a place of worship…
[JP note: Fat chance.]
— Hat tip: JP [Return to headlines]
NSA and GCHQ Target Tor Network That Protects Anonymity of Web Users
The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against Tor rely on identifying users and then attacking vulnerable software on their computers. One technique developed by the agency targeted the Firefox web browser used with Tor, giving the agency full control over targets’ computers, including access to files, all keystrokes and all online activity.
But the documents suggest that the fundamental security of the Tor service remains intact. One top-secret presentation, titled ‘Tor Stinks’, states: “We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time.” It continues: “With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users,” and says the agency has had “no success de-anonymizing a user in response” to a specific request.
Another top-secret presentation calls Tor “the king of high-secure, low-latency internet anonymity”.
Obama Spent Day Three of Shut Down Posing for Portrait
Photographer Tony Powell is, according to the Washington Post, a “renaissance man.” He’s known for his choreography, painting, composition, and graphic design along with his photography. But it’s certainly odd that on October 2, two days in to the government shutdown, Powell announced that he would be holding a Thursday photo shoot with President Obama via Facebook:
ObamaCare Enrollee in Media Spotlight Hasn’t Completed Signup Process
The Georgia college student who basked in national media attention after claiming he and his dad were among the first to enroll in Obamacare is changing his story.
“I never said that I had actually purchased a plan,” said Chad Henderson, 21, who was thrust into the national spotlight after announcing Tuesday on Twitter that he had “enrolled in Obamacare.” He told POLITICO Friday he had been online to shop in the federal exchange, but had never completed the final steps of getting in the health plan.
Henderson, an Organizing for Action volunteer and supporter of President Barack Obama, said he was “sorry for this confusion” and never intended to mislead the numerous media outlets, including POLITICO, that contacted him to hear his story. “I’ve received so much flak for something that has been misinterpreted,” he said.
OC High School Apologizes After Forcing Student to Remove NRA T-Shirt
A high school principal has apologized for forcing a 16-year-old student to remove her National Rifle Association shirt last month.
Haley Bullwinkle, a sophomore at Canyon High School, said she was asked to change or face suspension because her T-shirt, which featured a buck, an American flag, and a hunter’s silhouette, violated the school’s dress code and promoted gun violence.
Bullwinkle’s father, Jed, emailed the school’s principal, Kimberly Fricker, about the situation.
Park Service Tries Shutting Down Private Inn
The Pisgah Inn, a private hotel that holds a concession on the Blue Ridge Parkway, has become a national sensation as it defies “intimidation” and a National Park Service order to close its doors.
After a tumultuous few days, inn owner Bruce O’Connell told The Washington Times on Friday morning that he had just reopened his doors for customers, despite the park service telling him he had to shut down. He says he’s essentially private property, on a road that’s still open, and uses no government personnel, so he sees no reason to quit operating.
“I’m questioning their authority to shut me,” Mr. O’Connell said.
Police Remove Vietnam War Veterans at Memorial Wall
Via William Jacobson, NBC’s affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that police ordered tourists and Vietnam war veterans who were visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to leave the memorial at one point on Friday.
After one group of veterans went around the barricade, “the park ranger told them the wall was closed,” NBC’s Mark Seagraves reported. “Later another group of vets showed up and moved the barricades. At that point, the memorial filled with vets and tourists. That’s when police came and moved everyone out.”
Savage: Only Outrage at Execution of Woman in DC on Prison Planet (Video)
Radio host Michael Savage trashes a caller for supporting DC cops over the Killing of Miriam Carey, adding that the only outrage over the execution was to be found on the Savage Nation and Prison Planet.com.
In the second clip, Savage lambastes Congress for applauding the execution.
Senate Doorkeeper Gives Out “Thank You Capitol Police” Buttons After Cops Execute Mother
Mother may have been taking her child out of danger posed by police
Today the Senate Sergeant At Arms and Doorkeeper is handing out “Thank You Capitol Police” buttons outside of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a day after the D.C. Capitol Police executed an unarmed mother in front of her child.
.@SenateSAA rep at the door of Dirksen passing out buttons in support of #CapitolPolice. #shutdown #essentials pic.twitter.com/FC0SSQ22Nj
— Hannah Hess (@ha_nah_nah) October 4, 2013
The Sergeant At Arms also tweeted a quote by Senate Chaplain Barry Black praising the police who shot Miriam Carey, 34, after she drove away from a random checkpoint near the White House.
“Lord we’re grateful for our law enforcement agents and first responders and pray we may emulate their patriotism and self-sacrifice,” he said of the officers involved.
The checkpoint Carey drove away from was actually a temporary “outer perimeter” fence and may have been installed for a joint training exercise involving multiple local and federal agencies in Washington, D.C., as reported by Adan Salazar.
According to an Army report, the drill tested their “interagency operability during a crisis” and maintained the Department of Defense’s ability to “provide defense support to civil authorities and employ appropriate force protection measures as requested.”
It is quite possible that Carey, a Connecticut resident, was unfamiliar with D.C. road accessibility and the unusual sight of militarized checkpoints.
She seemed to have panicked when at least five officers pointed guns at her vehicle.
Perhaps she acted as any protective mother would by taking her child out of the danger posed by police ready to riddle her car with bullets.
Sisters of Woman Killed in D.C. Chase Question Police Actions
The family of a woman who was shot to death outside the U.S. Capitol after trying to ram her car through a White House barrier said Friday they want to know why she had to die.
Speaking at a press conference late Friday in Brooklyn, Miriam Carey’s sister Amy Carey-Jones said Friday that her sister “seemed OK” the last time they spoke more than a week ago.
“We’re still very confused as a family why she’s not still alive,” Amy Carey-Jones said late Friday, speaking of her 34-year-old sister. “I really feel like it’s not justified, not justified.”
Towns, States Are Ponying Up to Keep National Parks Open
The Arizona town of Tusayan, on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon, has 558 residents and 1,000 hotel rooms. And by Friday, it had $325,000 to reopen temporarily shuttered Grand Canyon National Park.
“The reason we exist is the Grand Canyon National Park. This closure is devastating,” said Greg Bryan, Tusayan’s mayor and the owner of a Best Western hotel. The town is offering to fund a partial reopening of the park that would allow visitors to drive through on a main road and stop at overlooks.
As the federal-government shutdown entered its fifth day Saturday, state and local governments were searching for ways to keep attractions open, especially in places where local economies largely depend on the parks. Some are willing to pay to keep the parks going during these final crucial weeks of prime tourist season, before winter sets in.
Vaccine Damage, Hidden Truth: Not on the Evening News
120,000 adverse effects from vaccines every year in the US? 1.2 million?
“There have been estimates that perhaps less than 5 or 10 percent of doctors report hospitalizations, injuries, deaths, or other serious health problems following vaccination. The 1986 Vaccine Injury Act contained no legal sanctions for not reporting; doctors can refuse to report and suffer no consequences.
“Even so, each year about 12,000 reports are made to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System; parents as well as doctors can make those reports. [See RT Chen, B. Hibbs, “Vaccine safety,” Pediatric Annals, July 1998: 445-458]
“However, if that number represents only 10 percent of what is actually occurring, then the actual number may be 120,000 vaccine-adverse events. If doctors report vaccine reactions as infrequently as Dr. Kessler said they report prescription-drug reactions, and the number 12,000 is only 1 percent of the actual total, then the real number may be 1.2 million vaccine-adverse events annually.”
Knowing all this, it’s easy to figure out why researchers don’t do large controlled double-blind studies on vaccines.
White House Asking for Sad Shutdown Stories
“How has the government shutdown affected you?”
That’s the question posted Thursday at 7:50 p.m. on the White House blog by Nathaniel Lubin, acting director of digital strategy for the Obama administration.
Don’t forget that at the top of the blog, a handy little disclaimer notes that “due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, the information on this web site may not be up to date.”
Looks like it’s perfectly up to date.
Wisconsin Gov. Walker Defies Order to Close Federally-Funded Parks
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is defying a directive from the National Park Service to close down several state parks that receive federal funding in the wake of the partial government shutdown.
The Republican governor has directed the state Natural Resources Department to keep open parks that receive a majority of their funding from the state, The Hill reported.
The department recently intervened after the Fish and Wildlife Service placed barricades near a Mississippi River boat launch because it was on federal land. The barricades were removed because of a decades-old agreement between Wisconsin and the federal government, state officials said.
A Sad Day for Canada’s Free Expression Rights
Website owners beware: you can be found guilty of libel if your anonymous users post “offensive comments” and you subsequently fail to remove them “fast enough”.
Such is the latest result of a six year battle between Richard Warman, a lawyer and former Canadian Human Rights Commission employee, and Connie and Mark Fournier, the former owners of the conservative discussion forum Free Dominion.
For the past six years the couple has been taken to court in lawsuit after lawsuit.
In 2007, Warman sued Connie and Mark Fournier and eight John Does for comments made against him on the Free Dominion forum. These allegedly defamatory comments are named in Warman’s statement of claim, and include:
Calling Warman “the censorship champion” and an obnoxious asshole
Alleging Warman “is a fanatic and so obnoxious that even his fellow fanatical colleagues at the Canadian Human Rights Commission couldn’t stand him.”
Alleging Warman “wants Canada’s internet to be more like China.”
Alleging Warman is “a devious character” and a “professional complainer”
Alleging Warman is “a censor, an enemy of freedom, and an anti-free speech campaigner.”
In 2008, Warman also sued several people and newspapers for libel, including the National Post and its columnist Jonathan Kay; Ezra Levant; Kate McMillan; Kathy Shaidle; and Connie and Mark Fournier again for comments made on Free Dominion. Warman claimed the respondents had wrongly accused him of making racist and sexist remarks. The National Post and Kay retracted the story and apologized, and the case against the remaining respondents is still before the courts.
And it goes on. Of course, not once does Warman state these claims are untrue, but rather that these “serious allegations … in plain and ordinary meaning” defame Warman’s personal reputation and professional status as a lawyer.
It’s all part of Warman’s meticulous “maximum disruption” approach, whereby he engages in lawsuits and human rights claims through the Canadian Human Rights Commission “whenever I think it will be most helpful, or even if I just feel it will be the most fun.” Warman acknowledges he strongly believes in engaging “as many of these fronts as possible either at the same time or one after the other… It keeps them off-balance and forces them to respond to things that focus their energies on defending themselves”.
Many of Warman’s lawsuits and complaints are the textbook definition of a SLAPP lawsuit, or “strategic lawsuit against public participation”…
— Hat tip: JA [Return to headlines]
Archaeologists Unearth Sweden’s Own Pompeii: Hundreds Died in ‘Brutal Massacre’ At Island Fort 1,500 Years Ago
Swedish archeologists have uncovered the remains of a brutal fifth century massacre at a remote island fort, described as being ‘frozen in time’ like the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii.
Bodies of victims slaughtered in the violence on the island of Öland, just off the Swedish coast, have remained untouched for centuries, and were found to resemble a modern day crime scene.
Before they attack, the fort appears to have been a peaceful and prosperous place, where people lived comfortably in small huts and reared livestock for meat.
[Commenter EMT, London, United Kingdom, notes “1500 years ago? Roughly the same time period when the rest of Europe was under Arab invasion and slaughter feist. And that is probably where the answer is.”]
British Education: Creeping Sharia
by Soeren Kern
Many Muslim groups…have been marketing themselves as “inter-faith” schools in an effort to qualify for (free school) government funding. More then 80 free schools — at least a dozen of which are catering specifically to Muslim students — are currently operating in Britain and another 200 are in the planning stage.
Germany: Mosques Open Doors to Non-Muslims
Over a thousand mosques welcomed visitors on Thursday as part of an annual event celebrating the integration of Germany’s four million Muslims into society.
Organisers said they expected over a hundred thousand visitors — 80 percent of them non-Muslims — to attend events at mosques across Germany on Thursday. The annual open day, timed to coincide with German Unity Day, was launched in 1997 to encourage people to think about Muslims’ place in German society and encourage cultural exchange. This year’s theme focused on environmental awareness…
Greece to Offer Residence Permits to Foreign Investors
(ANSAmed) — ATHENS, SEPTEMBER 19 — Greece’s new favorable regulations on granting residence permits to third-country citizens whose investments are characterized as “strategic” or those who buy property in Greece, the value of which exceeds 250,000 euros, will be presented in Athens next week. As Greek Travel Pages (GTP) website reports, ‘Invest in Greece Agency’, in cooperation with the Greek Development and Competitiveness Ministry and the Greek Interior Ministry, will hold a briefing and working session on “Residence permits to Third-Country Citizens for strategic investments and real estate ownership.” The session will be held on Monday, 23 September, at the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Athens.
— Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
Irish Voters Decide to Keep Country’s Senate
(AGI) Dublin, Oct 5 — The referendum to ratify a government plan to eliminate Ireland’s Senate was defeated by a very slim majority in a surprising outcome. A total of 33 out of 60 members of the country’s upper house of parliament had agreed to abolish the Senate, considered useless and expensive to run with its 20 million euros in annual cost; 25 had voted to maintain it and two abstained.
— Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
Italy: Police Nab Corrupt State University Professors
Rigged researcher exam, police say
(ANSA) — Messina, September 30 — Italian Finance Police in the Sicilian city of Messina placed two public university professors under house arrest Monday on charges of “gravely tainting” an open state exam for a post as researcher in the microbiology department.
The starting position for a career in Italian academia is that of researcher, which like professor, is a permanent civil servant post. Openings are published in the Official Gazette.
Police nabbed the two corrupt professors, one of whom is a department head, after an investigation lasting several months which they named Operation Pacta Servanda Sunt (Pacts Must be Respected, in Latin). The probe revealed “a deviant system within the system of state competitive exams, which regulate access to the academic world”, investigators said. “The suspects decided who would sit on the judges’ panel and who the winner would be before the exams ever took place, with the collusion of their colleagues”.
The plan went awry when their favored candidate failed to score enough points on the exam, and a police wiretap caught them discussing ways to pressure the more qualified candidate into stepping aside on the promise of a future researcher post in another arranged competition. Three other professors are still under investigation, police said.
Sardinian Island Sold to ‘Green’ NZ Banker
Heritage groups urge Italy to buy it back
(ANSA) — Rome, October 3 — One of Italy’s most beautiful islands has been sold to a New Zealand banker who has promised to preserve its unspoilt charm amid an outcry from heritage groups.
Michael Harte, 47, bought Budelli Island in the Maddalena National Park archipelago off Sardinia for around three million euros after the previous owners, a Swiss corporation, went bust.
Harte’s lawyer responded to widespread calls for Italy to buy it back and avert threats to a famed landscape including its iconic Pink Beach by saying “my client is a true environmentalist, involved in marine and land conservation projects around the world”.
The island was the backdrop to parts of Michelangelo Antonioni’s cult 1964 film Red Desert, starring Monica Vitti.
Scotland: Young Muslims’ ‘Peace Offering’ To Far-Right Group Ahead of Dundee Rally
Young Muslims in Dundee are offering a far-right group a meal and a chat as “a peace offering” to tackle misconceptions about their faith. The Yusuf Youth Initiative (YYI) had wanted to meet the Scottish Defence League when they arrive for their controversial rally in the city centre on Saturday. The far-right group will vent their feelings about extreme militant Islam, and the protest has sparked a counter demonstration by the Unite Against Fascism alliance…
Scotland Halts Flu Jabs for Thousands of Schoolchildren Over Concerns That Nasal Spray Vaccine Contains Pork Gelatine
Scotland’s largest immunisation programme has been delayed after Muslim parents raised concerns that the vaccination contained pork gelatine.
The roll-out of the flu vaccine nasal spray pilot programme was due to begin at 54 schools in Glasgow on Wednesday.
Around 100,000 children from primary schools across Scotland are being offered the nasal spray Fluenz.
But NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the roll-out had been postponed until Monday after parents at Glendale Primary in Pollokshields on the south side of Glasgow became aware of the issue.
Now, parents will be able to request that their child receives the vaccination by injection rather than through the nasal spray.
Society: Wives Prefer Greek Isles for Illicit Affairs
Santorini tops the list, according to dating service survey
(by Furio Morroni) (ANSAmed) — ATHENS — Greek islands are the number one getaway of choice for married women from around the world seeking to have an affair, according to a female client survey by Ashley Madison online dating service.
Marketing itself as “the world’s leading married dating service for discreet encounters” under the slogan “life is short, have an affair”, Ashley Madison conducted the survey among female subscribers to its Traveling Woman service.
A majority of respondents named the eastern Aegean island of Santorini as their favorite spot for an illicit romantic getaway, followed by Mykonos, Crete, Spetses, Hydra, Ios, Paros and Naxos. “Traveling Woman offers subscribers the opportunity to choose a destination, and then to select one among 30 potential lovers in the country they are about to visit,”Ashley Madison PR Director Katilena Alpe explained to GreekReporter. “All the women who chose the Greek islands said they were looking for a remote paradise in which to realize their deepest erotic fantasies. Certainly the reputation of Greek men as lovers also played a part.” Sandy, 35, is married with no children. “I had a dream vacation and when I went back to my husband I was… recharged!” she wrote on the Ashley Madison site after her romantic rendez-vous on the island of Mykonos. Debbie, 40, went to celebrate her birthday on Santorini with some women friends. “We all experienced unforgettable moments with the boys. It was a wonderful holiday, away from husband and children,” she enthused.
Switzerland: Leonardo Da Vinci Experts Identify Painting as Lost Isabella D’este Portrait
Portrait found among private Swiss collection has a Mona Lisa smile and same paint pigment and primer as those used by artist
Researchers in Italy claim to have unearthed the portrait of a noblewoman by Leonardo da Vinci which has been lost for 500 years and features the same enigmatic smile as his Mona Lisa.
The portrait of Isabella d’Este, which carbon dating suggests was painted around the start of the 16th century, has been found in a vault in a private collection in Switzerland, and has been verified by a leading authority on the renaissance polymath.
“There are no doubts that the portrait is Leonardo’s work,” said Carlo Pedretti, an emeritus professor of art history at the University of California.
Syria: Charity Millions ‘Going to Syrian Terror Groups’
People giving money to help millions of refugees from the civil war in Syria are inadvertently supporting terrorism, the charity watchdog has warned.
Some of their cash was “undoubtedly” going to extremist groups, said William Shawcross, the chairman of the Charity Commission. Conditions on the ground in the midst of conflict made it difficult or impossible for charities to know where aid ended up, he said. The Disasters Emergency Committee, which represents 14 of Britain’s biggest charities, has raised £20 million since the launch of its Syria Crisis Appeal in March. Its members include the British Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children. But it said it was unable to guarantee that no cash was falling into the hands of terrorists. The Charity Commission is so concerned that it has issued guidance to fund-raising bodies…
UK: Guilty: Crash Drivers Who Ploughed Through Pedestrians Outside Mosque in St Helens Road, Daubhill, And Left 12-Year-Old Boy in a Coma
TWO motorists who ploughed into a group of pedestrians during the Eid festival — leaving a 12-year-old boy in a coma — have been told they face jail. Furqaan Mohmed, a 19-year-old operational support worker for Greater Manchester Police and Mohammed Patel, aged 20, appeared at Bolton Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to a number of charges including causing serious injury by dangerous driving…
[JP: High Mohammed Co-efficient.]
UK: Interpal and Due Diligence
We have covered a conference due to take place at the Edmonton Islamic Centre in London. It featured extremist preachers with long records of vicious hatred against homosexuals and support for jihad. Hope not Hate also raised concerns about this conference. There was coverage by Pink News and the Huffington Post as well. The conference was organised by Interpal, the chief Hamas supporter among British Islamist charities.
Well, Interpal have now issued this notice: It is with great regret that we inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances and external pressure Management and trustee’s have discussed the critical air surrounding our event and have decided to cancel this Sundays Dhul Hajj event…
UK: Man Found Guilty of Attempted Murder After City Centre Hit-and-Run
Aqab Hussain used his Vauxhall Corsa as a ‘lethal weapon’ after his night out celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid took a violent turn.
A motorist who ploughed into a group of revellers and left a blind man brain damaged is facing a lengthy stretch in prison after being found guilty of four charges of attempted murder. Aqab Hussain used his Vauxhall Corsa as a ‘lethal weapon’ after his night out celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid took a violent turn…
UK: Now Pay Into the Nanny’s Pension: Middle-Class Parents Face £600 Bill a Year Under New Rules
Middle-class parents are to be forced to pay hundreds of pounds a year into pensions for their nannies.
Tens of thousands of families will see the cost of their childcare rise by as much as £600 a year from 2015, it has emerged.
Under the Government scheme, they will also have to fund pension contributions for cleaners, gardeners and home helps whose pay exceeds £9,440 a year.
Parent groups say this will add to the burden on the already-squeezed middle, with mothers accusing the Government of treating parents ‘like a profitable business’.
UK: Operation Bullfinch: Man Remanded Over Intimidation Charges
A man appeared in Oxford Crown Court yesterdayday charged with intimidating girls before the Bullfinch sex grooming trial. Zeeshan Ahmed, 28, of Palmer Road, Wood Farm, was charged by child sex exploitation police with two counts of perverting the course of justice. The charges relate to incidents before the 18-week trial started at the Old Bailey in January. Ahmed will appear again for a plea and case management hearing on November 15. He was remanded in custody.
UK: Row Over Parking Congestion on Streets Near New Mosque
A newly-opened mosque has been blamed for causing traffic congestion in surrounding streets. Residents living close to the Sayyidah-Aminah Jamia Masjid mosque in the former Royal Hotel in Fagley Road, Bradford, claim worshippers are clogging up their streets making it difficult for them to park outside their own homes. When it was granted planning permission, the mosque had assured councillors that 95 per cent of its users walk to prayers and leave their cars at home and consent was given against a recommendation by officers to refuse it…
UK: Revealed: The Ten Convicted Murderers Who Were Freed on Licence Only to Kill Again in the Past Decade
Angry families of victims say: ‘We suffer longer than the person that killed’
A dozen convicted murderers who were freed early from jail have gone on to kill again in the past decade, MailOnline can reveal today.
They served as little as eight years in prison for their first murder before being let out to do it again, sometimes within weeks of leaving custody…
All the killers were considered ready for freedom by parole boards, but then murdered again, often in similar ways to their first homicide.
David Cameron is known to back ‘whole life’ terms for murderers, but Eurocrats fight them in Strasbourg because they believe they breach the offenders’ human rights and are ‘inhumane’.
UK: Unions Threaten NHS Strikes Over Plan to Scrap 1% Pay Rise in Favour of Reform of Salary Structures
The Government is today facing threats of industrial action after signalling it wants to call a halt to NHS pay rises.
Instead of using funding set aside for a 1 per cent pay rise for staff, the Department of Health (DoH) is proposing it is spent on the modernisation of pay structures.
In its submission to the NHS pay review body, the department said the NHS was facing the biggest financial challenge in its history.
The submission read: ‘Despite real terms growth in its budget in successive years, it needs to continue to secure improved value from the taxpayers’ investment, if it is to meet the growing pressures it faces in the years to come both from an ageing and growing population and the need to improve the quality of care provide.’
Unions reacted with anger, saying that even raising the prospect of a pay freeze would demoralise staff.
UK: Veils, Segregated Schools and Why We Risk Sowing the Seeds of Islamic Terror in Britain
Only this weekend, this was graphically symbolised by reports of events at the Al-Madinah school in Derby, a free school established last year to cater mainly for Muslim pupils. Sadly, the hardliners appear to have taken over its management already. It’s claimed that, in defiance of all British traditions of tolerance, girls and boys are segregated at the school; that even non-Muslim staff are required to wear the hijab, the Muslim headscarf; and that stringed instruments, singing, the telling of fairy tales and even the use of the word ‘pig’ have all been banned.
I am a proud Muslim — but I find this appalling. Such superstitious, divisive nonsense should have no place in a British school. We are not living in rural Pakistan or a Taliban-run region in Afghanistan. Apart from anything else, the pupils are being deprived of a proper, rounded education and therefore will not have the same life chances in adulthood. That is why I am glad the Ofsted inspectors have been sent in to the school. For far too long, the British authorities have turned a blind eye — out of misguided fear of being seen as racist — to the creeping prevalence of militant Islam in our midst…
General Al-Sisi: Egypt’s Future President?
One of the most frequently asked questions in Egypt today is whether the wildly popular General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted the country’s first democratically elected president, will run for president himself.
U.S. Forces in Libya Capture Qaeda Leader Linked to ‘98 Embassy Bombings
United States forces captured a leader of Al Qaeda indicted in the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, ending a 15-year manhunt by seizing him in broad daylight near the Libyan capital, American officials said.
The suspect, born Nazih Abd al Hamid al-Ruqhay and known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas el-Liby, has been high on the list of the United States government’s most-wanted fugitives since at least 2000, when a New York court indicted him for his part in planning the embassy attacks. The F.B.I. had offered a bounty of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture.
Abu Anas was captured alive near Tripoli in a joint operation by the United States military, the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., and was in American custody, a United States official said.
[Return to headlines]
After 40 Years the Lessons of the Yom Kippur War Are Still Relevant
At 14:30PM local time on October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces began a coordinated attack against the meager tripwire IDF forces on the Golan Heights and the Bar Lev Line on the east bank of Suez Canal. The first contingents of more than 100,000 Egyptian forces drove across pontoon bridging. Meanwhile Egyptian combat engineers demolished the towering sand berms of the Bar Lev Line with water cannons isolating 450 IDF soldiers of the Jerusalem Brigade in 16 reinforced forts. One of those forts, Fort Budapest, survived the Egyptian assault although surrounded. Syrian commandos in the opening stanzas of the war were lifted by helicopter to Mount Hermon on the Golan. They captured the early warning post at the summit, while armored divisions attacked the small IDF tank screening force. Thus began the Yom Kippur War, known in Egypt as Operation Badr, named after the Battle of Badr that the Prophet Muhammad won against the Beni Quraish Jewish tribe in Mecca.
The late Golda Meir’s Agranat Commission revelations have relevance for PM Netanyahu given the existential threat of a nuclear armed Iran. Yossi Klein Halevi in a Wall Street Journal op ed, A Lesson From the Yom Kippur War for a Perilous Time, noted:…
— Hat tip: Jerry Gordon [Return to headlines]
Australian Muslims Oppose Pro-Israel Candidate
Grand Mufti threatens to withdraw support from Labor Party over Senate candidate with a ‘blind bias for Israel.’
The Grand Mufti of Australia’s Islamic community has been embroiled in a political scandal after threatening to withdraw his community’s support for the Labor Party over a candidate who has a “blind bias for Israel.” In a leaked email published last week by Fairfax Media, Dr. Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, who lauded Gaza as “the land of Jihad” during a visit in December 2012, said if Paul Howes’s bid for Australia’s upper house was successful he would encourage withdrawing support for Labor in the Islamic strongholds in western Sydney…
Christians Under Threat in Syria as Islamist Extremists Gain Influence
By Loveday Morris
When radical Islamists tore down a cross and hoisted a black flag above a church in the northern Syrian city of Raqqah last week, their action underscored the increasingly hostile environment for the country’s Christians.
Although Syria is majority Sunni Muslim, it is one of the most religiously and ethnically diverse countries in the Middle East, home to Christians, Druze, and Shiite-offshoot Alawites and Ismailis. But the country’s conflict, now in its third year, is threatening that tapestry.
The effort, however, is expected to do little to bolster the fighters, who are being eclipsed by Islamist forces.
While the primary front in the war has pitted Sunni against Shiite, Christians are increasingly caught in the line of fire. The perception that they support the government — which is in many cases true — has long made them a target of rebel groups. Now, Christians say radical Islamist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an affiliate of al-Qaeda, are determined to drive them from their homes.
“The Christian community in Syria is stuck between two fires,” said Nadim Nassar, a Syrian from Latakia who is director of the Awareness Foundation, an interfaith charity based in Britain. “One fire is a corrupt regime, and everybody agrees there needs to be a change. And on the other hand, there’s a fragmented and diverse opposition on the ground who can’t control jihadist forces coming from outside the country.”
Syria is not the only place in the wider region where Christians are being targeted. Coptic churches in Egypt have been attacked, and Pakistan last week experienced the deadliest church bombing in the country’s history. The militants who attacked a mall in Nairobi last month singled out non-Muslims.
The rash of assaults has led some to question the future of Christianity in Syria, where adherents make up about 10 percent of the population, and in the wider Middle East.
Syria’s ruling Assad family, which belongs to the Alawite sect, has long painted itself as the protector of Syria’s minorities. Though leaders of Syria’s opposition have pledged to provide minorities with equality in a new Syria, they are unable to control the growing number of hard-line Islamist forces on the ground.
The Western-backed Syrian Opposition Coalition denounced the desecration of the churches in Raqqah, calling it an act that showed “complete disregard to holy sites and religious and cultural heritage.”
But the rejection of the opposition coalition by 13 rebel factions that announced an Islamic alliance last week highlighted the group’s lack of influence.
In Syria’s war, bishops have been kidnapped and priests have been killed. When the fighting last month reached the ancient town of Maaloula — where residents still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus — it struck at the heart of Syria’s Christian community.
Most residents have fled since rebels swept through the picturesque town, which clings to the mountains northwest of the capital, Damascus.
“Maaloula is like Jerusalem to Syrian Christians,” said Ibrahim Doushi, a Syrian Christian shop owner who moved to neighboring Lebanon. “When the war reached there, it was heartbreaking for all the Christians in the Middle East.”
The fighting in Maaloula was followed by the images from Raqqah, where the ISIS desecrated the Greek Catholic and Armenian Catholic churches, according to activist groups. The radical Islamist group also has attacked Shiite shrines and mosques.
For Doushi, who fled to Lebanon last year from the town of Ras al-Ayn, near the Turkish border, the footage of the ISIS’s black flag flying above the Armenian church was confirmation that he and his family have no future in his home country.
“Christians are being torn from our roots,” he said. The ISIS militants “are proud of it. They are targeting the Christians and they are publicizing it. The regime cannot protect us.”
Doushi said he was forced to leave Ras al-Ayn after Islamist fighters entered the town late last year and targeted the homes and businesses of Christians. The 61-year-old’s new, temporary residence, housing seven members of his extended family, is St. Gabriel’s monastery in the mountain village of Ajaltoun, 12 miles north of Beirut.
Many at the monastery say they are pinning their hopes on obtaining European visas, citing doubts that there will ever be a day that Syria can offer security to its minorities, at least in rebel-held areas.
“The Christians are never going back,” said Johnny Chamoun, 42, also from Ras al-Ayn, who works at the monastery coordinating assistance for Syrian Christian refugees.
Nassar, the interfaith foundation director, said it is the first time in centuries that Christians in Syria have been targeted for their faith.
“We are not imported there. Christ was not born under Big Ben or in Paris,” he said. “This is the cradle of Christianity that we are being pushed from.”
Emirates: Constant Rains in North Due to ‘Cloud Seeding’
Experiments change weather, guarantee water resources
(by Alessandra Antonelli) (ANSAmed) — DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 30 — A rainy winter, thunderstorms in April and rain even in August are unprecedented in a country like the United Arab Emirates and have led some to suspect the weather is artificial. Such reports appear to be confirmed by surveys revealing that rains are increasing in the UAE due to experiments of ‘cloud seeding’, a form of intentional weather change to induce rain, conducted by the National centre of meteorology and seismology (NCMS).
‘We are trying to define the best possible procedure to increase underground rain water reserves and water retained by dams’, the director of NCMS, Ali Al Musallam, told Gulf News.
Cloud seeding is a procedure carried out through particles of salt or dry ice fired into clouds through dispersion devices built into plane wings for this purpose.
The particles, which are particularly cold, remain stable until condense drops cover them; then, the excessive weight leads to rain, generally within an hour.
The process, experts say, ‘creates’ rain but doesn’t ‘favour’ it. Clouds are in fact necessary so the process can start.
The UAE border with the mountain of Oman in the north, which can provide high clouds, depending on winds. This is why most of the rains are recorded in the northern part of the country — Ras al Khaimah, Umm al Qwain, Sharja until Dubai.
Salts used, including potassium chloride and sodium, don’t damage the environment, according to scientists at the centre, like silver iodide, another chemical agent used, which is maintained under the threshold believed to pose a danger for the environment. The procedure is quite expensive but its benefits are many, experts said. The UAE, along with other oil monarchies in the Gulf, are arid countries with significant consequences on both food and water security. The UAE are also investing to create agricultural areas in the country and buying land and farming enterprises abroad.
Millions of Pounds Given to Syrian Refugee Charities is ‘Being Used to Fund Terrorism’
Millions of pounds donated to help Syrian refugees caught up in the bloody civil war is being used to fund terrorism, the charity watchdog believes.
The Charity Commission said cash ‘undoubtedly’ ends up in the hands of extremist groups, while the Disasters Emergency Committee said it could not guarantee that some of the £20million it has raised has not bankrolled jihadists.
William Shawcross, chairman of the commission, said: ‘A lot of money is raised that goes to Syria, some of it undoubtedly goes to extremist groups… It is very hard for all organisations to determine that.’
Saudi Black Op Team Behind Damascus Chem Weapons Attack — Diplomatic Sources
The August chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital’s suburbs was done by a Saudi Arabian black operations team, Russian diplomatic sources have told a Russian news agency.
“Based on data from a number of sources a picture can be pieced together. The criminal provocation in Eastern Ghouta was done by a black op team that the Saudi’s sent through Jordan and which acted with support of the Liwa Al-Islam group,” a source in the diplomatic circles told Interfax.
The attack and its consequences had a huge impact on the Syrian situation, another source said.
“Syrians of various political views, including some opposition fighters, are seeking to inform diplomats and members of international organizations working in Syria what they know about the crime and the forces which inspired it,” he told the agency.
Syrian Rebel Groups Battle Each Other in North
Al-Qaida militants battled fighters linked to the Western-backed opposition along with Kurdish gunmen in Syrian towns along the Turkish border on Friday, in clashes that killed at least 19 people, activists said. The violence is part of an outburst of infighting among the myriad rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad for control over prized border areas. Islamic extremist fighters and more mainstream rebels are increasingly turning their guns on each other in what has effectively become a war within a war in northern and eastern Syria, leaving hundreds dead on both sides.
Turkey has been a staunch supporter of the rebels seeking to topple Assad, and has allowed the flow of weapons, men and supplies through border crossings into Syria. In an interview with Turkey’s private Halk TV, Assad said Turkey will pay a “high price” for allowing foreign fighters to enter Syria from its territory. “You cannot hide terrorists in your pocket. They are like a scorpion, which will eventually sting you,” Assad added…
Russia Charges Entire Greenpeace Crew, Including Two Canadians
Two Canadians are among those facing prosecution after Russian investigators say they charged the entire crew of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise with piracy for a protest at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic.
The crew includes Alexandre Paul of Montreal and Paul Ruzycki of Port Colborne, Ont., and the charge they both face can result in a 15-year prison term upon conviction.
Greenpeace denies any wrongdoing and describes the charges as absurd. The mother of one of the Canadians says they make no sense.
Pakistan: Muslim Group Says Jihad Attack on Historic Church That Murdered 83 Was “According to the Sharia”
Proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has once again denied having involvement in the attack on a Peshawar church last month but said it was according to Sharia. “We didn’t carry out the church attack. However, we believe it’s according to the Sharia,” TTP spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid told BBC in a telephonic interview from an anonymous location on Friday.
China Employs Two Million Microblog Monitors
More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet.
The Beijing News says the monitors, described as internet opinion analysts, are on state and commercial payrolls.
China’s hundreds of millions of web users increasingly use microblogs to criticise the state or vent anger.
Chinese Mother is ‘Dragged From Her Home in the Middle of the Night and Forced to Abort Her Baby Son Six Months Into Pregnancy’ Under Country’s One-Child Policy
A Chinese woman has revealed she was dragged from her home in the middle of the night and forced to have an abortion, three months before her child was due to be born.
Liu Xinwen, 33, and her husband Zhou Guoqiang were left devastated after the mother-of-one was pulled from her bed and taken to hospital to be injected with an abortion-inducing drug.
The forced abortion is due to China’s strict one-baby policy, introduced in 1979 to keep the country’s population under control — the couple already have a son.
The couple claim that they were awoken at 4am last week after their door was kicked down and two dozen officials from the Shandong Province Family Planning Commission forced their way into their home.
Mr Zhou told Sky News how he was held down on the sofa while his terrified wife was taken away to the hospital.
He then spent a desperate five hours trying to find out where Liu Xinwen had been taken as officials refused to tell him.
When he eventually found his wife at the People’s Hospital of Fangzi District in Weifang City, he arrived just minutes after the injection had been administered.
Don’t Pick Your Nose in Public: China Issues New Guidelines for Tourists
A new set of guidelines by China National Tourism Administration, issued late last month ahead of the key Golden Week vacation period that kicked off on Oct. 1 National Day, aims to set tourists right.
Among the admonitions contained in the 64-page illustrated handbook: Don’t sneeze in front of others. Ditto for picking noses and teeth.
While the booklet contains suggestions for Chinese when traveling at home, the main target is to improve the lamentably poor reputation of Chinese tourists abroad.
‘Foreign Military Forces’ Attack Somali Islamist Base
Foreign military forces attacked “high-profile” targets in Somalia just before dawn on Saturday, according to Somali officials. The targets were in the southern town of Barawe, a coastal base of the Islamist group al Shabaab.
Foreign Special Forces Attack Al-Shabab Base in Somalia
(AGI) Mogadishu, Oct 5 — Foreign special forces unleashed a dual land and air strike against an al-Shabab base in Somalia, said senior militants with links to al-Qaeda, adding that the attack had failed. One fighter was killed in the attack on Barawe beach, some 180 km south of Mogadishu. The gunman, presumed by the sources to be from a Western country, stepped off a helicopter and tried to attack a house which belongs to one of the leaders of the terrorist group that claimed the deadly attack on Kenya’s Westgate shopping centre last month.
Kenya: 4 Dead in Mombasa Riots Over Slain Cleric
Mombasa — At least four people have been killed after violent protests rocked the coastal town of Mombasa on Friday afternoon. The Kenya Red Cross said on its Twitter handle the victims succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment in hospital. Seven other people remained in hospital, while 24 others had been arrested.
Tension however remained high in the town following the demonstrations by angry youths who were protesting the killing of a prominent Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail, on Thursday night. A Capital FM News correspondent in the coastal city said that the youths started demonstrating soon after the lunchtime prayers and had already torched the Salvation Army Church in Majengo…
Kenya: CCTV of Nairobi’s Westgate Mall Attackers — Video
CCTV footage from inside Nairobi’s Westgate mall shows the al-Shabaab attackers as they went on a killing spree
Militant Base ‘Attacked From Sea’ In Somalia
Unidentified foreign forces have launched a night-time raid on a militant base in the south Somali town of Barawe from the sea, reports say.
A spokesman for the al-Shabab Islamist group told Reuters news agency that a fighter had been killed in the raid. Reports speak of residents in the militant-controlled town being woken by heavy gunfire before dawn prayers. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility last month for a deadly attack on a Kenyan shopping mall…
Nairobi Terrorists Named as Police Confirm ‘White Widow’ Not Among Them
A small band of up to six attackers carried out the Nairobi terrorist siege, police have confirmed — contradicting their earlier claims that 15 attackers were involved.
Kenyan police named four of the terrorists on Saturday. None of them were Western, contrary to their initial reports, and they were all men.
Seychelles Court Convicts 11 Somalis of Piracy
The Seychelles Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 2nd) sentenced 11 Somali men to prison terms of between 18 months and 16 years after convicting them of committing acts of piracy and operating a pirate vessel, according to European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia…
U.S. Says Shabab Leader in Somalia May Have Been Killed
A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility.
American officials initially reported that the commandos had seized the Shabab leader, but later backed off of that account.
The Shabab leader was now believed to have been killed in the firefight, but the SEALs were forced to withdraw before that could be confirmed, a senior American official said. Such operations by American forces are rare because they carry a high risk, and indicate that the target was considered a high priority. Baraawe, a small port town south of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, is known as a gathering place for the Shabab’s foreign fighters.
A Window for African Refugees
Despite a rising death toll from Thursday’s Lampedusa shipwreck, many refugees from East Africa continue to risk the dangeous journey to Europe — and freedom.
About 230 Syrian Migrants Rescued Off Coast of Sicily
(AGI) Syracuse, Oct 5 — About 230 Syrian migrants were rescued off the southeast coast of Sicily on Saturday and taken by the port authorities to Portopalo di Capo Passero near Syracuse.
The immigrants, including several children, were assisted by members of the Red Cross before undergoing identification procedures.
Border Patrol Rep Claims Agents Being Ordered to Stand Down
The National Border Patrol Council has come forward to reveal to the American public once again management practices that could be risking the lives of Americans — and the lives of illegal immigrants.
Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News and claimed that Border Patrol management has begun the practice of ordering Border Patrol Agents to stand down and cease pursuing drug smugglers, human smugglers and traffickers, and illegal aliens. He also warned it could lead to illegal aliens entering the country from nations associated with terrorism.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s drugs, bodies, or how large the group is, our agents are being ordered to stand down by Border Patrol management,” said Moran. “I have received reports from our agents in every single sector from San Diego to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas that they are receiving these orders.”
Fiji, Sweden Discuss Immigration Cooperation
SUVA, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — Fijian Minister for Defense, National Security and Immigration Joketani Cokanasiga met Swedish Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy Tobias Billstrom Saturday and discussed bilateral cooperation on immigration, Fiji’s Ministry of Information said. During their meeting in New York, Billstrom expressed the Swedish government’s appreciation to Fiji in the successful conclusion of the Declaration on International Migration and Development that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week, according to Fiji’s Ministry of Information…
Foreign Women Given More Work Permits in Turkey
(ANSAmed) — ANKARA, SEPTEMBER 19 — Turkey increased the number of work permits it grants to foreign women, compared to men, in 2012, as part of an overall 86% increase in approved work permits compared to the previous year, as Anadolu Agency reports. Some 32,272 foreigners were granted work permits by the Turkish government in 2012, 19,546 of whom were female workers, thus making it the first time that the number of female workers has exceeded that of male workers. There was a 133% increase in work permits issued to foreign women workers in comparison to the 8,379 women in 2011, while the increase in permits issued to foreign males was at 42%, with 12,726 permits issued in 2012. A total of 125,697 foreigners were issued with work permits between 2003 and 2012, demonstrating a notable increase in foreign workers in Turkey, particularly when taking into account that a total of 885 work permits were issued in 2003. Analysis of the number of work permits issued according to occupation reveals that domestic jobs topped the list with 8,863 foreigners, while jobs in the hospitality sector were in second place with 4,953 work permits.
Meanwhile, inspectors of the Social Security Institution (SGK) launched a new campaign last week to track down household workers working illegally without a work permit or insurance.
Foreigners without a work permit are being sent back to their home countries, and families who hire domestic without insurance are being heavy fined.
Italy’s Turn at EU Helm ‘Will Push Migrant Response’
‘Great opportunity’ to set agenda says Alfano
(ANSA) — Rome, October 4 — Italy’s position on the very front lines of a migrant crisis in the Mediterranean will be a major theme when the country assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union in mid-2014, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Friday.
The high-profile EU position “will be a great opportunity to put on the agenda” the issue of migrants and Italy’s role as a “strategic plank” in the Mediterranean, he said.
Italy will hold the six-month term in the presidency of the Council of the European Union from July through December 2014.
Alfano spoke one day after a ship carrying as many as 500 migrants fleeing Somalia and Eritrea caught fire and capsized, claiming some 300 lives.
He also called on Europe to assume its duties in protecting all of its borders — including the Mediterranean seas.
“A state that does not protect its borders,” is hardly a state, Alfano complained in the Lower House.
“The planes and the military of Frontex (the border management system for Europe) must be vigilant on the Mediterranean”.
UK: Now One Council House in Ten Goes to Migrants as Tories Blame Labour for Allowing Locals ‘To be Pushed Out of Waiting List’
One in ten of the families given taxpayer-subsidised social housing last year was foreign, figures revealed yesterday.
They show that the rate at which newly arrived immigrants acquire council and housing association homes has gathered pace even in the face of deep public concern.
The proportion of foreign citizens taking advantage of the diminishing supply of publicly-subsidised homes has risen by more than 50 per cent in five years.
The Daily Mail revealed in July that nearly half a million immigrants who came to Britain in the decade after 2001 were housed in taxpayer-subsidised social homes.
Italy: Six Porn Cinemas Shut in Male-Prostitution Probe
Gays, transsexuals and minors ‘sold sex’
(ANSA) — Milan, September 19 — Italian police on Thursday shut down six porn cinemas across Italy in a probe into male prostitution which included minors.
Police said “homosexuals, transsexuals and minors were selling sex to men in the cinemas” — three in Milan, one in Mestre near Venice, one in Genoa and one in Catania.
Three people were arrested.
Russian Imam Calls on Muslims to Boycott Elton John Concerts
A top Russian religious leader has joined concerned parents in calling for a boycott of SIR ELTON JOHN’s upcoming concerts in the country.
Imam Seidzhagfar Lutfullin has called on Muslims to stay away from Elton’s gigs in Kazan and Moscow in December (13), insisting the Rocket Man is “promoting sodomy”. His comments, made to the media on Thursday (03Oct13), come just days after officials at the Ural Parents Committee urged President Vladimir Putin to axe the two upcoming shows over fears the openly-gay rocker will violate a nationwide ban on “homosexual propaganda”. Lutfullin called Sir Elton “a world-famous homosexual”, and added the hitmaker is “the devil’s work in the shape of a pederast (a man who has sex with boys)”. He stated, “Sodomy… is what the world-famous homosexual Elton John, who recently wed a man in public, is promoting.”…
UK: Religion is Not Funny: Censorship at the LSE
The veil is a garment many find offensive. This is, in part, because it seems to threaten many of our cherished values and hard won rights. Representations of Muhammad and mockery of Islam are also offensive to some. For this reason Student Union officials at the LSE intervened when they saw representatives of the LSE Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society wearing Jesus and Mo T-Shirts…
Why Must Miley and Rihanna Act Like Whores? There Are Better Ways for Young Talent to Move Forward in Their Careers Than Debasing Themselves
Most of the images of the 20-year-old singer in her latest video are too graphic to show in a family newspaper: Miley wears a strip of fabric barely an inch wide to get round any ban on full-frontal nudity. In one scene she’s smoking a joint, in another posing very suggestively with a beer can, in a third gripping her breasts and exposing her nipple.
Perhaps the most distressing image of all is one that plays to her teen Disney fame — Miley, in nothing but a T-shirt, has her hand between her legs while sucking her thumb.
As I know from my research into child porn on the internet for articles in this newspaper, this is a schoolgirl pose that is particularly exciting to paedophiles.
Miley’s fall from wholesome Disney teenager to porn star has been as rapid as it is distressing. And this week, she received a heartfelt warning from someone who knows the perils of the music business only too well, singer Sinead O’Connor.
Sacred Mysteries: The Gnostic Idea That Matter is Bad
This comprehensible introduction to the strange beliefs of Gnosticism is delightful
What did the Gnostics believe? Someone asked me that, after I mentioned their intellectual opponent, Irenaeus, who lived in Lyon in the second century.
The answer is that we don’t quite know, for two reasons. One is that their beliefs varied greatly from group to group. More importantly, they enforced a system of secret teaching, the esoteric gnosis or “knowledge” that gave their sect its name. Why this should matter centuries later is that, in exposing their beliefs, St Irenaeus (pictured) gave an account of early Christianity that is still freshly impressive. The key teaching of Gnosticism that Irenaeus opposes is that material things are bad. Some Christian writers even now unthinkingly say that our being material is a falling away from God, as if it were equivalent to sin.
Reading Irenaeus’s refutation of Gnosticism is no easy task. His treatise Adversus Haereses (“Against the heresies”) argues in the manner of the late classical world, which is foreign to our tastes, and he has no section “New readers start here”. So it was a pleasure to catch up with a presentation of Irenaeus’s book by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, first published in English in 1990 under the title The Scandal of the Incarnation (Ignatius Press, £9.42). Fortunately, the translator, John Saward, is a theologian in his own right and writes very clearly…
This entry was posted in News by Baron Bodissey. Bookmark the permalink.
One thought on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/5/2013”
Katie on October 6, 2013 at 4:27 pm said:
Why Miley and Rihanna act like whores? Because they have been raised to be whores. They know no better. It is we who should be shunning these whores and treat them as such. When we start to do that, their actions should start changing.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line795
|
__label__wiki
| 0.955464
| 0.955464
|
FLASHBACK: Obama’s $150,000 ‘BRIBE’: His campaign team ‘paid Rev Wright to stay quiet during 2008 campaign’
By Pamela Geller - on August 23, 2018
How the Left Destroys the Nation
What was the cost to hide this photo of Farrakhan and Obama during the 2008 and 2012 election campaigns?
Obama paid 150K to vicious antisemite and America-hater Reverend Wright to stay quiet about their close relationship.
The LA Times refused to release the explosive dinner video of Obama with the mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat, Rashid Khaldi.
And the Democrats are outraged over a payment to porny Daniels to stay quiet about a shtup? Puhleeeze.
The real news here is the left’s war on America and their coup on our freedoms.
Obama’s $150,000 ‘BRIBE’: His campaign team ‘paid Rev Wright to stay quiet during 2008 campaign’
By Daily Mail Reporter, 13 May 2012
The retired pastor, who came under fire after an old sermon where he said that the September 11 terrorist attacks were ‘America’s chickens coming home to roost’, said that he was offered $150,000 to stay silent until the election was over.
Journalist Edward Klein interviewed Mr Wright and included their conversation in his new book, The Amateur.
Close ties: A controversial sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright (right) caused political problems for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama (left)
‘After the media went ballistic on me, I received an email offering me money not to preach until the November presidential election,’ Mr Wright told the author, as relayed by The New York Post.
Mr Wright said that ‘one of Barack’s closest friends’ sent an email to a member of the church saying that he would pay $150,000 for the pastor to keep quiet for fear of saying something incendiary.
He said that following the incident, the then-candidate Mr Obama requested a private, secret meeting with the Reverend to make a personal plea.
Mr Wright said that, while he wasn’t sure whether or not Mr Obama was wearing a wire, they met and discussed their options.
Damage control: After Rev Wright’s sermon went viral, Mr Obama gave a speech condemning Mr Wright’s political remarks
‘And one of the first things Barack said was, “I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election,”‘ Mr Wright told Mr Klein.
‘He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, “I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.”‘
Portrait: The new book was written by Edward Klein, the former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine
Mr Obama, who was in the midst of navigating the ensuing political storm that occurred after Rev. Wright’s comments went public, hoped to stem the tide by getting his long-time family friend to ease off until Election Day.
‘Barack said, “I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?” And I said, “No, what’s my problem?” And he said, 2You have to tell the truth.” I said, “That’s a good problem to have. That’s a good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a politician,”‘ Mr Wright said in the interview.
Mr Obama went into damage-control mode after the video of the sermon went viral, and delivered a well-received speech on the racial state of America.
In the speech, called ‘A More Perfect Union’, Mr Obama criticized the political views of Mr Wright but tried to balance his personal history with the man and his controversial thoughts.
‘I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy,’ Mr Obama said in the March speech.
‘I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.’
felix1999 on Arizona Senate president: Maricopa County supervisors will hand over election material
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line800
|
__label__cc
| 0.668294
| 0.331706
|
HomeWashingtonSailor found dead on aircraft carrier in Washington state
Sailor found dead on aircraft carrier in Washington state
November 29, 2017 News Washington Comments Off on Sailor found dead on aircraft carrier in Washington state
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Officials say a 22-year-old sailor was found dead on an aircraft carrier Saturday afternoon while the ship was at Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington.
The Kitsap Sun reported Tuesday that the U.S. Navy identified the sailor as Akiree Pointer, an engineman fireman recruit from Arlington, Texas.
Stennis spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Frederick Martin says Pointer, who was found on the USS John C. Stennis, showed no obvious and apparent cause of death.
Martin says the command is investigating.
Pointer attended Navy basic training at the Naval Recruit Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois, before joining the aircraft carrier.
The Stennis is in port in Bremerton preparing for its next scheduled deployment.
Microsoft plans to rebuild its headquarters
Group of restaurant patrons chase, restrain thief
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line803
|
__label__wiki
| 0.905606
| 0.905606
|
J-K: Udhampur administration gears up for DDC polls
The Udhampur administration has geared up and making preparedness for the first-ever District Development Council (DDC) election amid COVID-19 pandemic.
November 24, 2020, 10:30 IST
The District Election officer Piyush Singla held a meeting with different teams and micro-observers of polls to take a review of the situation ahead of the polls.
"Our motive is to conduct free, fair and transparent DDC Elections and we have made adequate arrangements to ensure the same. Micro-observers will be deployed in all areas who will keep a close watch on every stage of the electoral process. Returning officers and Assistant Returning officers have been deployed in each zones. They are receiving nominations, scrutinizing it, and making a list of candidates." Singla told ANI.
Singla said that 14 nodal officers have been appointed for diffrent tasks.
"The plan for the collection of ballot boxes and other such plans have been finalised. The police is also helping us. Police personnel has been deployed in different areas. Polls will be conducted in a fearless manner," he said.
The election officer further said that the District Election Commission is also incorporating COVID-19 safety guidelines in their action plan to provide a safe and secure voting process to people and increase participation in DDC polls.
The DDC elections will be conducted in Jammu and Kashmir between November 28 and December 19 in eight phases. The nomination process is underway. The 14 DDC zones in Udhampur will go in a poll in different phases.
DDC elections along with by-polls to panchayats and urban local bodies are scheduled to take place in eight phases in the Union Territory between November 28 and December 19. Counting will take place on December 22.
piyush singla
District Development Council
Governance / 11 hrs ago
CREDAI urges Uttar Pradesh government to reduce stamp duty & registration fees
Governance / 1 day ago
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line804
|
__label__wiki
| 0.829778
| 0.829778
|
Father of All M***********s
Explicitness: explicit
Track Count: 11
℗ 2020 Reprise Records.
Father of All... Green Day 2:31
Fire, Ready, Aim Green Day 1:52
Oh Yeah! Green Day 2:51
Meet Me On the Roof Green Day 2:39
I Was a Teenage Teenager Green Day 3:44
Stab You In the Heart Green Day 2:10
Sugar Youth Green Day 1:54
Junkies On a High Green Day 3:06
Take the Money and Crawl Green Day 2:08
Graffitia Green Day 3:17
By Jesssseee69
Yawn. Very sad
Boop
By SquidBeans
This “stuff” is Green Day?
By jewberts
Out of all the Green Day albums I listen too this one i listen to the most .I don’t hate the other I love them but this one it’s different has a different sound it’s a good change father of all, stab you in the heart and ready aim fire are great songs if you wanna try this album out try those songs the other songs are alright but out of all that it’s a great album I recommend it
Bought this album with no regrets
By TheRealShoeMakerYT
“Father of All...”: 8/10; Great song, but it could be improved. This song is easily the song of 2020, mainly because today we worry about rioting in major cities all across the nation, the song stating “we are rivals in the riot inside us” which seems very true in major cities. The guitar is UNREAL in this song. Lyrics sound like you put Billy Joe in a blender but it’s great anyway. “Fire, Ready, Aim”: 9/10; NHL BAYBAY this song is perfect for the NHL’s Wednesday night theme. For a song that’s under 2 minutes, this song definitely takes the cake for this album. When Green Day has songs that are under 2 minutes, normally they’re “ehhh” (except for “Jaded”) but this one is PERFECT. “Oh Yeah!”: 10/10; BEST SONG ON THE ALBUM. HANDS DOWN. this song is a daily anthem for my life. It brings vibes from old day Green Day while staying in the new era of Green Day. It sounds like a little bit of everything that they’ve done in their musical career, with a twist of the new stuff. Rock on Green Day! “Meet Me On The Roof”: 6/10; love the music video, Gaten Matarazzo was perfect for the music video (and stranger things is LEGIT FIRE), but this song doesn’t really hit me as a... well... a hit. It’s decent, but not as good as some other songs from this album. “I Was A Teenage Teenager”: 9/10; Alright, Alright, alright. This is a vibe for sure! I was skeptical for the first 20 seconds of the song, but then the hook hit and I knew that I loved this song. I’m a nut for new music so I can see what a band is doing now and not judging based on what they’ve already done. This is one of those songs that is just f$@%#ng awesome! “Stab You in the Heart”: 9/10; from the first scream I knew this was a vine and a half. I love The Beach Boys vibe that it has in the hook, and this is a great song all together. “Sugar Youth”: 10/10; “Oh Yeah!” is the best song on the album, but this is my favorite song from the album. The lyrics sound like they’re pointed towards me when I listen to it because it totally relates to my life. I’m never gonna “@$%# the prom queen”. This song is an awesome banger that should’ve gotten huge. “Junkies on a High”: 6/10; questionable. It’s not a terrible song, but it’s not a fantastic song either. It’s okay at best. “Take the Money and Crawl”: 8/10; Okay! Noice! Noice as @$%#! Very vibe-ish! This is a great song and the lyrics are laughable (in a good way) and it’s awesome!!! “Graffitia”: 7/10; ...ehhh... okay I guess... this song didn’t strike me as a fantastic song, but it wasn’t a total train wreck... it was decent but I hope they can make more fantastic songs in the future like they have been for the past 30 years. Rock on and live on Green Day!
Green Day Fans Won't Like It
By Hamwhipper
It’s still Green Day
By youcallthatahaircut?
People can say all they want about how Green Day’s music has changed throughout the years. They aren’t the same people they were 8-12 years ago. This album is great.
By Giant Fluffy Bunny
Doesn’t sound quite like traditional Green Day, but still like it. Especially Oh Yeah! and Fire, Ready, Aim.
By J3TFaC3
The band photo up top says it all
By K!ch!ga!
Even the singer looks disappointed in this album.
By @tedanscomics
I don’t know why this album is getting hate, it’s good music, it may not be like Rock and Roll but it’s nice good
Videos from this artist
Wake Me Up When September Ends (Live)
American Idiot (Live)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Live)
Holiday (Live)
Jesus of Suburbia (Live)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live]
American Idiot (Uncensored Version)
St. Jimmy (Live)
King for a Day / Shout (Live)
Intro (Live)
Basket Case (Live)
Jesus of Suburbia
Minority (Live)
Brain Stew (Live)
21 Guns (feat. Green Day & the Cast of American Idiot) [Live at the Grammy's]
Longview (Live)
Hitchin' a Ride (Live)
Are We the Waiting (Live)
Last of the American Girls
Walking Contradiction
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Hitchin' a Ride
Oh Love
When I Come Around
Macy's Day Parade
Kill the DJ
Geek Stink Breath
Let Yourself Go
Stuck With Me
Working Class Hero (Raw Clip #1)
Albums from this artist
21st Century Breakdown (Deluxe Edition)
International Superhits!
American Idiot (Deluxe Edition)
American Idiot (The Original Broadway Cast Recording)
¡Uno!
¡Dos!
¡Tré!
¡Uno! (Deluxe Edition)
Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band
Kerplunk (Bonus Track Version)
Awesome As F**k (Live) [Deluxe Edition]
1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Deluxe Edition)
Last Night On Earth (Live In Tokyo) - EP
American Idiot (Holiday Edition Deluxe)
Uno...Dos...Tré!
Demolicious
Awesome As F**k (Live)
The Green Day Collection
Bullet In a Bible (Audio Version) [Live]
The Saints Are Coming (Live) - Single
U2 & Green Day
Dreaming - Single
Bullet In a Bible (Video Version) [Live]
21 Guns (feat. Green Day & the Cast of American Idiot) [Live at the Grammy's] - Single
21 Guns - Single
The Simpsons Theme (From "the Simpsons Movie") - Single
Otis Big Guitar Mix - Single
Working Class Hero (Videos) - EP
Know Your Enemy - Single
Xmas Time of the Year - Single
Fell for You (Otis Mix) - Single
Copyright © 2021 Hallaback.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line806
|
__label__cc
| 0.683474
| 0.316526
|
American Airlines claims story of passenger abandoned in wheelchair overnight is false, according to investigation
The family of a 67-year-old wheelchair-bound woman who alleges she was abandoned in the airport overnight on Friday after her American Airlines flight from Chicago to Detroit was canceled might have some explaining to do. (www.yahoo.com) עוד...
Zachary Colescott
Steven Rudnick לפני 2 שנים 9
Let's try to understand why everyone who reacted to fake news is now trying to focus on something other than the facts. This is why we have a major issue with truth in this country. Somebody tweets something, it gfoes viral and the truth which modifies the the original story is barely noticed.
Richard Orgill לפני 2 שנים 12
I laughed at the relative...upon arrival he took a photo...yeah we know where that was going
Highflyer1950 לפני 2 שנים 20
Just another scam artist trying to get something for free and I’ll bet the family was in on it?
linbb לפני 2 שנים 16
Had plenty of get up and go to smoke which required her using a walker. So she isn't that disabled if that was the case just used the wheel chair as an easier way to get around.
Scam any way they can and costs other passengers money.
jmilleratp לפני 2 שנים -15
[This comment has been downvoted. Show anyway.]
Most people with "Disabled" License Plates are not disabled. You see them walking around from their handicapped spaces perfectly fine.
Lee Withers לפני 2 שנים 4
ADMITTIBLE THERE IS BENDING THE RULES, HOWEVER DIABLED DOES NOT MEAN INCAPACITATED AND THE CONVENIENCES AFFORDED TO THEM REALLY ARE A BIG HELP.
Torsten Hoff לפני 2 שנים 7
At least here in California, abuse of handicapped placards is rampant. People with no reason to have or use such placards are causing problems for those who actually DO need them. Self-centered drivers too lazy to park in a regular spot will take the few handicapped spots near entrances and elevators.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/one-out-of-every-8-california-drivers-now-has-a-disabled-parking-placard/110357389
It's a pretty common scam, people get placards under the guise of needing to assist a handicapped relative, and then they use them even when grandma isn't around.
And then there were the nine UCLA football players who abused the system...
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/29/sports/college-football-9-enter-pleas-in-ucla-parking-case.html
Highflyer1950 לפני 2 שנים 4
If you are incapacitated I’ll bet you’re not flying? If you are disabled then yes, you can avail yourself of all the amenities available? However, if you’re just using a wheelchair to ride around in and your son apparently isn’t worried about leaving you alone it kind of says “ I can look after myself”. You can’t go to the washroom by yourself but you can stand up and go outside for a smoke...idiotic!
BYW, typing all in capitals is really annoying!
Tommy Boy לפני 2 שנים 2
So is putting question marks at the end of statements. Like, you don't even know what constitutes a question. Very annoying.
djames225 לפני 2 שנים -2
Her son didn't leave her alone thou..he left her in the care of American Airlines and their gate agents.
Taylor Beck לפני 2 שנים 11
[This poster has been suspended.]
Airlines aren't babysitters for adults at the airport.
djames225 לפני 2 שנים 1
I beg to differ..they are when they have been informed a passenger, who wants some freedoms but has a disease such as Parkinson's. Certain attributes of Parkinson's allows mobility to a point but makes it tiring to walk long distance. Care of the gate agents does not constitute a babysitter per say..just in case keep an eye out, which most gate agents do.
She was by herself, then she was alone. Were there hundreds of people around her, yes, it’s an airline terminal. The point is,if you require assistance to travel then you take a companion, you don’t try to game the system and then get to cry foul! Unacompanied minors, now that’s a different set of rules and forms to be signed.
Jesse Carroll לפני 2 שנים -4
Capital letters annoying! Why, I LIKE THEM BECAUSE WITH POOR VISION THEY ARE MUCH EASIER TO READ!
People like you that waste time worrying over NOTHING is annoying!
joel wiley לפני 2 שנים 2
If you are using a windows-based machine, try <CTRL> + to increase the font.
That will make it EASIER TO READ.
As a private pilot, do you find difficulty in reading adversely affect your flying competency?
Point of information! You don't have to be a pilot nor selfrightous to read and enjoy Flight Aware.
But it helps if you are! Ha! That's funny!
Quite true. They are among a long list of things you do not have to have in order to read and enjoy FlightAware.
Another point of information: on this and many other boards, writing in all caps is considered shouting in most cases. Shouting is considered poor netiquette.
As for my comment to J. Carroll, the poster self identifies as holding a private pilot certificate. I expressed concern that his self identified 'POOR VISION' might adversely affect flight safety.
But we are wandering away from the topic of this thread.
True, I only entered an initial post in defense of Handicap things. I know the system is terribly abused. I know people who have them and truly benefit from them, and I know people who do not have one but should.
My wife needed and had one the last 6 years of her life. I understand the need, and the frustration with the abuse. Anyone who would benefit should apply.
Pedro Thomson לפני 2 שנים 0
Please no caps
So she used a walker to go have a smoke?..if she has Parkinson's disease, yea a wheelchair does make it easier to get around larger distances!
So she used a walker to go have a smoke...if she has Parkinsons, then yea..the wheelchair does make it easier to get around.
lynx318 לפני 2 שנים 5
Family scam trying to get a refund on the canceled flight and/or overreaction. 45 minutes, stuck in my wheelchair in clinic waiting rooms for two hours, this is nothing.
craigbell1941 לפני 2 שנים 2
She didn't ask for anything.
Thomas Cain לפני 2 שנים 1
...but one or more in her family did, They made a fraudulent claim of AA leaving the disabled woman at the airport alone all night when it was only 45 minutes, and received a refund from AA in return. That makes it a crime. Now they should have just stick to the actual truth that it was only 45 minutes, which is still unacceptable as the AA spokes person said, and they probably still would have gotten the refund. Also since she was left alone, if the Family member didn't come, she may have ended up there over night anyway.
mary susan watkins לפני 2 שנים 11
this is an odd story and someone (seemingly the passenger and her family) are not telling the truth..if the woman was able to use a walker to go outside for a smoke,or even to the restroom,she was not disabled to the point of needing someone to watch her or stay with her,and the claim of being left alone overnight is truly beyond belief!
jagerardi לפני 2 שנים 9
Funny how the media reports that a woman WAS left overnight, but the proof that it's a lie is only a "claim."
Oh- and the old bag was well enough to walk outside by herself for a cigarette, but not to take care of herself otherwise?
This whole story is a crock.
..Joe
AWAAlum לפני 2 שנים 2
"the old bag" ?
Dan Grelinger לפני 2 שנים 0
Don't trust the media. Full of fake news. Not that they make it up all the time, but are too lax to check out the facts before putting up the 'click-bait' headlines and raking in the dough when people fall for it.
The Media does not MAKE UP stories, maybe editorials but not news stories.
What? Headline: "American Airlines passenger left in wheelchair overnight after flight home was cancelled", https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/american-airlines-passenger-left-wheelchair-overnight-flight-home-cancelled-133019229.html
Then the same 'news' organization publishes a story that says she was not. (Linked above).
Only one of these articles from yahoo can be true. Which means one is false. False, not being true, is "Made Up."
Wilbur Wright לפני 2 שנים -1
At the time that byline was written, AA was 'looking into it', so all there was to go on besides that was the story being told by the family.
I'm not saying Yahoo gets a pulitzer for this, but you're complaining about something that a responsible adult should understand by now - stories change as new things are learned.
At any rate, here's their nut graf. The statements are qualified as just that - statements from the family. That's it.
> A 67-year-old woman who has trouble walking *was reportedly* left in a wheelchair overnight after her flight from Chicago to Detroit was cancelled on Friday.
> *Olimpia Warsaw’s son Claude Coltea* told CBS Chicago that she had flown to Chicago to attend her ex-husband’s funeral. On the way there, her luggage was lost. On the way back, she was abandoned in the airport.
There's a lot of debate to be had about "the media", but this ain't that, kind internet stranger.
Your ignoring that the headline says it did happen. Not that it was alleged to have happened. If it did NOT happen, then fake news.
Wilbur Wright לפני 2 שנים 0
The headline is not the article. I'd go so far as to say including the words "alleged" or "reported" in the headline would've been better, but again, we're talking about Yahoo here, not exactly Pulitzer material. What you're describing above is sloppy journalism, but to call it "fake news" is a stretch.
Your average news consumer should be reading the story and viewing it as coming from the source described in the article. They often don't, and take it all as God's Honest Truth. That's a whole separate issue I don't intend to wade into, but you know what I'm saying.
"Your average news consumer should be reading the story"... That is what Yahoo wants! The headline is click-bait. DON'T CLICK ON THE BAIT! Irresponsible journalism is 'fake news' designed to incite and gain clicks, not to convey the truth.
Too true, online news from such as Yahoo, Bing/Microsoft and Google are the modern tabloid trash magazines, the type that plastered headlines such as 'MY MOTHER WAS AN ALIEN!' or 'FINAL PROOF OF THE LOCH NESS MONSTER', utter trash.
I don't find that to be an accurate assessment of legitimate on-line news sources. Maybe for some that report from the fringes of reality - and we know those that I'm speaking of.
Non-subscription based on-line news sources have but one purpose... Make money off of clicks. What gets clicks? Not the truth. There is no incentive to provide that.
Gary Bain לפני 2 שנים 2
The hell they do't. Happens all the time. Report put out before the facts are known which happens daily.
Care to point me to where "the media" reported it as "fact" as you're implying and didn't use the correct qualifying statement of "Olimpia Warsaw's family claims" or that "Warsaw herself claims"? Because right now I think you're carelessly spouting off so you can go on a rant about "the media".
Ron Dagostino לפני 2 שנים 5
Thanks for technology. This has allowed AA to see the truth, from camera footage.
They deserve a statement from the lady AND her family for making such a false claim!
Chris Jefferies לפני 2 שנים 6
She had a smoke break? She looks like the type to make it a story like this.
I'm type 1 diabetic and in a wheelchair, I'm disgusted in her smoking, even more dangerous for a diabetic than healthy person.
Gil Gerretsen לפני 2 שנים 2
What! People lie ... or don’t take the time to get the whole story before getting offended? Tell it’s not so!!
Sandra McDonald לפני 2 שנים 2
I am so glad you got to the bottom of this. I fly American every year to Florida. I am 81 and that is my biggest fear my flight will be canceled and I will be stuck in Charlotte overnight.I have seen how people with disabilities are taken care of by the airlines and just couldn't believe this. I am NOT wheelchair bound so no one would even look after me.
WhiteKnight77 לפני 2 שנים 3
This is a classic case of not remembering that there are cameras everywhere. That the family tried to pull a fast one shows that they forgot about the cameras.
Hugh Somsen לפני 2 שנים 2
Extortion Scam?
TWA55 לפני 2 שנים 2
Pack your bags and leave your brains at home.
She can speak can't she. Having been with various airlines over the years and dealing w/ the handicapped as passengers, I have never seen a person just left who may be in some state where hand holding was required, help boarding yes, help at ticket counter yes, and family or someone just dropping off grandma or mom or whatever and leaving NO. One thing you learn about people and airports, most are in la la land. Sorry, but facts are facts
Mark Weiser לפני 2 שנים 2
I work in the Buffalo Airport, kind of a small quiet airport, and some of the stunts people try is amazing, I sort of wish I had that sort of "who cares about consequences" approach to life. Hopefully someone puts her thru the stress and difficulty the AA employees went thru explaining that "...it didn't happen that way...."
The Media is GUILTLESS, they only report the facts that are known at the time. If you wait 2 days to tell the story it becomes irrelevant.
Gary Bain לפני 2 שנים -1
....and they often get the FACTS completely wrong.
Edward V Esteve לפני 2 שנים 0
Again,the poor woman is made the subject of scorn because she is DISABLED and not yet incapacitated.Have you ,criticizers,ever walked thru an entire terminal,thru TSA and then had to stand /or otherwise wait at the gate when suffering the effects of Parkinsons',severe arthritis or other debilitating infirmeties/injuries (Sometimes all three at the same time)which probably causes pain and/or confusion, especially when confronted with unexpected situation and circumstance.I don't wish it on any of you ! she had her walker at hand doesn't that mean anything..she wasn't looking for a free ride .The walk from the drop-off to the nearest departure gate at KMCO is just short of 3,500 feet !!
Apparently you didn't read the updated article to see that cameras shows family members picking her up about an hour after she was left near the door.
about "an hour after she was left near the door" was after 1:00 am,4 1/2 hours after ( she thought) she was safely on the plane !Stop focusing on every one/thing else and put yourself in the shoes of the woman.Look up Parkinsons' disease !
Where is this updated article?..If you are referring to this 1 posted, all I see is a lot of he said/they said. I am not saying this lady did not make up this story, but at the same time where is the dang proof of either side of it? You think an airline wouldn't conjure up stuff to save it's own ass.
Everywhere else in today's society, I see folks demanding physical proof of things before calling out, yet in this article it appears, from the posts I see, that the old gal is guilty as sin and American Airlines can do no wrong. BTW, since both Chicago airports are public entity, not privately owned, video evidence can be provided to lawyers after going through editing to mask out those not involved.
I am talking about the one posted to start this all. The call logs and cameras showed that she was attended to from the time she was dropped off to board the plane by her son until the wheelchair attendent left her upstairs at around 12:30 AM. Here is the relevant portion of the article:
According to American Airlines’ timelines, at 8:31 p.m. Central Time, Warsaw is seen checking into American Airlines Flight 3155 to Detroit and checking two bags. At 9:42 p.m. she boards the flight, but at 11:14 p.m the airplane returns to the gate due to a maintenance issue. At 11:21 p.m. the flight is canceled, and a minute later Warsaw is rebooked for an early flight the next morning.
A wheelchair attendant picks up Warsaw at 11:32 p.m., according to the timeline, and is seen again on video attending to the passenger at 12:06 a.m. Then at 12:10 a.m., the attendant places a call to Coltea’s cell phone, and is on the phone for six minutes, according to the airline’s call log. He is told a relative is on the way to pick up the passenger. At 12:30 p.m. the attendant wheels Warsaw to the upper level and leaves her there, as described in the previous account. Warsaw is seen using her own walker to exit the airport at 12:32 a.m. for a smoke break, returning seven minutes later.
According to call logs, Coltea contacted American Airlines’ reservations line at 1:00 a.m. to rebook his mother’s flight, changing it to a 1:40 p.m. flight — possibly so his mother could get some sleep. At 1:13 a.m., a man and a woman — relatives of Warsaw — are seen arriving in an SUV. The woman finally meets with Warsaw, according to what’s captured on camera, at 1:46 a.m. The relative is then seen taking a picture of Warsaw in her wheelchair before walking to a TSA checkpoint. After a brief interaction with an officer, she is seen wheeling Warsaw out to a waiting SUV, where the man helps both women in. The vehicle drives off at 1:53 a.m.
She was alone for a bit more than 60 minutes, including 7 where she actually went outside on her own, to smoke a cigarette. This is the corrected part of the story that people appear to be ignoring. Her own kin was at the airport to pick her up 40 minutes after she was wheeled upstairs and a half hour after she came inside from a smoke. If she was so worried about her health and needs, she would have stayed in her chair. She didn't.
I am done saying anything about this article..most everyone here takes the whole article at it's word, so I am backing out..getting negative votes for reserving judgement on something is not worth the aggrevation. I never said she was not guilty, but I myself am waiting till a full investigation is done to pass judgement.
jmilleratp לפני 2 שנים -1
The story is false...the passenger was left on the floor. ;-)
If "overnight" means she went to the airport before midnight, and left the airport after midnight, the yes, she was there overnight. By abandoned, is someone implying the woman was not competent to take care of herself? According to logs reporting in the story, the flight returned to the gate at 11:14 and her family met up with her at 1:46 - 2 1/2 hours.
Lots of aircraft remain overnight (RON) The two 'overnights' are not the same.
Is the family making the case that she needed supervision? Mobility issues do not equate to incompetence.
Mike McGraw לפני 2 שנים 0
Does anyone believe they would admit the report to be true and accurate?
Yes, if it was. Does anyone believe that common people will lie for attention or monetary gain?
I myself am reserving judgement on this 1..why won't American release the video for us to all see? Maybe she is a scammer, and looking for notoriety, the thing is I see no where she is sueing. Her son did not leave her alone according to both the airline and son. Perhaps she does have limited mobility, diabetes, and Parkinson’s disease. All I see right now is a she claimed/they claimed.
If it turns out she is pulling the wool over folks eyes, yes punish her to fullest extent possible. But if American is trying to cover up a botched operation, likewise.
wx1996 לפני 2 שנים 4
Respecting the rights of all the other people in the video. I think in IL unless they get a signed release or edit the video to mask other people they cannot release it to the press for public consumption.
Leaving a passenger alone in the airport is not illegal. An adult sitting and waiting at an airport for a family member to pick them up is normal.
So we are to believe that American did no wrong whatsoever and chastise the lady? Leaving a passenger alone in the airport may not be illegal in some places, but if those in charge were informed of her mental and physical condition (Parkinson's), it sure as hell is illegal in others.
Accordingly, it seems most other posters have the lady "guilty until proven innocent", but like I said, I myself am reserving judgement. Maybe she is a scammer, but if that were the case, why didn't we see "Ill lady's family sues American Airlines"?
They can’t sue now as the cat is out of the bag! Video proof is a formidable weapon against deception. I do feel for her if all that is wrong with her is factual, and if it is, the son must be pretty clueless! You’d be surprised at the number of families that just drop off their so called loved ones at the terminal and ask the airline to take responsibility, as if a $99 ticket should come with a personal attendant?
Too early for a lawsuit and what American reported is most likely correct.
Edward V Esteve לפני 2 שנים -2
Why are you all beating up os abandoned,regardless of any timeline! Imagine the anxiety after spending several hours,motionless on the tarmac,and then told "Flight cancelled" but ..."Don't worry someone will be coming to get you..." and then your lifeline had to leave because their shift was ended.those "45 Minutes" must have seemed interminable and frightening . She went for a smoke ???? Its amazing she didn't need a bottle of Zananx....I have personal knowledge of how Parkinsons affects mind and body.....Shame on you for blaming her....what the media choses (and how) to publish and what her relatives have said has nothing to do with her.Remember,as far as relatives were concerned she was "Safely aboard a flight before 10:00 and not notified other wise until after 12:00am.What can they assume from this ??
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line812
|
__label__wiki
| 0.873785
| 0.873785
|
Electronic skin has a strong future stretching ahead
IMAGE: KAUST researchers have developed a durable “electronic skin ” that can mimic natural functions of human skin, such as sensing temperature and touch.
Credit: © 2020 KAUST
A material that mimics human skin in ?strength, stretchability and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real time. Electronic skin, or e-skin, may play an important role in next-generation prosthetics, personalized medicine, soft robotics and artificial intelligence.
“The ideal e-skin will mimic the many natural functions of human skin, such as sensing temperature and touch, accurately and in real time,” says KAUST postdoc Yichen Cai. However, making suitably flexible electronics that can perform such delicate tasks while also enduring the bumps and scrapes of everyday life is challenging, and each material involved must be carefully engineered.
Most e-skins are made by layering an active nanomaterial (the sensor) on a stretchy surface that attaches to human skin. However, the connection between these layers is often too weak, which reduces the durability and sensitivity of the material; alternatively, if it is too strong, flexibility becomes limited, making it more likely to crack and break the circuit.
“The landscape of skin electronics keeps shifting at a spectacular pace,” says Cai. “The emergence of 2D sensors has accelerated efforts to integrate these atomically thin, mechanically strong materials into functional, durable artificial skins.”
A team led by Cai and colleague Jie Shen has now created a durable e-skin using a hydrogel reinforced with silica nanoparticles as a strong and stretchy substrate and a 2D titanium carbide MXene as the sensing layer, bound together with highly conductive nanowires.
“Hydrogels are more than 70 percent water, making them very compatible with human skin tissues,” explains Shen. By prestretching the hydrogel in all directions, applying a layer of nanowires, and then carefully controlling its release, the researchers created conductive pathways to the sensor layer that remained intact even when the material was stretched to 28 times its original size.
Their prototype e-skin could sense objects from 20 centimeters away, respond to stimuli in less than one tenth of a second, and when used as a pressure sensor, could distinguish handwriting written upon it. It continued to work well after 5,000 deformations, recovering in about a quarter of a second each time. “It is a striking achievement for an e-skin to maintain toughness after repeated use,” says Shen, “which mimics the elasticity and rapid recovery of human skin.”
Such e-skins could monitor a range of biological information, such as changes in blood pressure, which can be detected from vibrations in the arteries to movements of large limbs and joints. This data can then be shared and stored on the cloud via Wi-Fi.
“One remaining obstacle to the widespread use of e-skins lies in scaling up of high-resolution sensors,” adds group leader Vincent Tung; “however, laser-assisted additive manufacturing offers new promise.”
“We envisage a future for this technology beyond biology,” adds Cai. “Stretchable sensor tape could one day monitor the structural health of inanimate objects, such as furniture and aircraft.”
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line816
|
__label__wiki
| 0.516211
| 0.516211
|
The Modern Meat Inc.
British Columbia, Manitoba, Possibly National
Ottawa, August 14, 2020 - The food recall warning issued on August 1, 2020 has been updated to include additional product information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) food safety investigation.
The Modern Meat Inc. is recalling Modern brand Tarragon Remoulade and Modern Meat brand 'Crab' Cakes, made with onions grown by Thomson International Inc., Bakersfield, California (USA), from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below. Retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and food service establishments such as hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, hospitals, and nursing homes should not serve, use, or sell the recalled products described below.
These products may also have been purchased on-line. The CFIA will continue its investigation into other possible importers and additional recalls may follow.
The following products have been sold as indicated in the table below.
Modern Tarragon Remoulade 250 mL 8 47004 00014 4 Best before date:
SEP 23 2020 None British Columbia, Manitoba, and possibly other provinces and territories.
Modern Meat 'Crab' Cakes 300 g 8 47004 00009 0 Best before date:
JAN 18 2021 None British Columbia, Manitoba, and possibly other provinces and territories.
Modern Meat 'Crab' Cakes 6 × 50 g 8 47004 00009 0 Best before date:
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line820
|
__label__wiki
| 0.976866
| 0.976866
|
Full List of Winners of ...
Omarion Shares Cover, Tr...
Tory Lanez Charged With ...
Bryson Tiller Reveals He...
Roddy Ricch’s Album Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 for the Fourth Time
Admin | February 17, 2020 | News | No Comments
Roddy Ricch’s Album Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 for the Fourth Time: Roddy Ricch‘s debut album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, has entered the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart for the fourth time since its release in December 2019.
The album moved another 79,000 equivalent album units in the week ending on Feb. 13, reports Billboard on Sunday (Feb. 16). The LP has now peaked on the chart for the fourth non-consecutive time, an impressive feat for the Compton, Calif. rapper. Taylor Swift’s 1989 album in 2014 was the last LP to hit No. 1 on four separate occasions.
The album, which features guest appearances from Meek Mill, Ty Dolla $ign, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and Lil Durk, debuted at the top of the chart a week after its Dec. 6, 2019 release date. A month later, it returned to the top of the chart, becoming the first debut rap album since The Game’s The Documentary to accomplish such a feat. Earlier this month, it returned to the peak for a third time, a full two months following its release. The hit single “The Box” has been the driving force behind the album’s success. The banger has topped the Billboard Hot 100 five times.
In other Roddy-related news, he was recently announced as one of the performers at the upcoming 2020 Rolling Loud Miami Festival.
Other hip-hop artists in the top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 chart include Post Malone (Hollywood’s Bleeding, No. 2), Eminem (Music to Be Murdered By, No. 3), Lil Wayne (Funeral, No. 6), Pop Smoke (Meet the Woo 2, No. 7) and DaBaby (Kirk, No. 9).
50 Cent Reveals Potential Cover Art Ideas For Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album
50 Cent Says Nick Cannon Is Legendary Corny And Never Got Cool
Future Launches ‘Life Is A High’ Clothing Line
50 Cent Shares Update on Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album
TheKhee
The GODCHILD: A High-Intelligent Brain Design of Utmost Love and Crazy Ideas
Enter your email address to receive Instant Music Updates
IDK – 2 Cents
ALBUM: Rich The Kid & YoungBoy NBA – Nobody Safe (Zip File)
Rich The Kid & YoungBoy NBA – Nobody Safe
Rich The Kid & YoungBoy NBA – Can’t Let The World In
Rich The Kid & YoungBoy NBA ft Rod Wave – Sorry Mama
album-download
ALBUM: DaBaby – My Brother’s Keeper (Long Live G) [Zip File]
ALBUM: Jeezy – The Recession 2 (Zip File)
ALBUM: SAINt JHN – While The World Was Burning (Zip File)
ALBUM: Megan Thee Stallion – Good News (Zip File)
EP: Meek Mill – Quarantine Pack (Zip File)
© 2021 HipHipMonster.com.
Theme by Hip Hop Monster.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line825
|
__label__cc
| 0.705603
| 0.294397
|
Shop Now and Get Free USPS Priority Shipping to Anywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico.
HISTORIX 1890 Sacramento California
Brand : HISTORIX
Size 18x24 Inch
Established in 1848 on the western bank of the Sacramento River, this stunning depiction of California’s Capital city immediately transports the viewer back in time. It creates an indelible link between the past and present. By 1890 the iconic city was thriving and on a period of growth, prosperity, and transition. The first transcontinental telegraph line in Sacramento was completed in 1861. It marked the closure of the iconic Pony Express, which also had its last stop in Sacramento. Sacramento was also home to the first stop of the Transcontinental Railroad.
The period leading to the turn of the century marked an economic boom for the city, which enjoyed a diverse economy aided by the railroad hub in the city. Sacramento’s history is marked by transportation, and its location in the central region of California allowed for a thriving agricultural industry, as well as manufacturing and banking in the urban centers. Vast cattle ranches surrounded Sacramento, and these were critical for supplying Union forces during the Civil War. The invention of refrigerated rail cars allowed for perishable items like fruits and vegetables to become valuable commodities in Northern and Eastern markets.
Sacramento’s rich history as the banking hub of central and Northern California was established in the Gold Rush of 1848 when gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill some fifty miles northeast of the city. This led to a large population expansion of prospectors and those eager to profit off of them. This is truly an authentic piece of American cartographical history.
Our museum quality giclee print comes printed with archival ink on premium heavyweight matte paper. Shipped in a sturdy cardboard tube your print will arrive ready to be framed. This eye-catching vintage map reproduction print makes the perfect gift for anyone that loves history and imagery.
VINTAGE MAP REPRODUCTION: You’ll love this high quality historic reproduction of 1890 Sacramento Map Poster. Our museum quality maps are archival grade, which means it will look great and last without fading for over 100 years. Our print to order maps are made in the USA and each map is inspected for quality. This beautiful artwork is a perfect addition to your themed decor. Vintage maps look great in the home, study or office. They make a perfect gift as well
MUSEUM QUALITY: This high quality map print will be a great addition to your vintage-themed wall. Don't waste money on cheap-looking, thin paper posters. We use thick, fine art print quality matte paper. Our professional’s choice matte paper displays artwork in high detail without glare. The color is vibrant and text is easy to read. When framed, this map looks absolutely stunning.
A LOOK BACK AT HISTORY: This is an impressive, historic reproduction of 1890 Map of Sacramento CA. This print is from an original found in the maps and geography division of the US Library of Congress. A true piece of history. See our product description section for more fascinating information about this historic map and its significance.
READY TO FRAME: This 24 x 36 Inch print includes a 0.2 inch border for a perfect frame fit and look. Our maps are designed to fit easy-to-find standard frame sizes, saving you money from having to pay for a custom frame. Each map is inspected for quality and shipped in a rigid tube.
HISTORIX: We love history and art. Sometimes old maps have tears, folds, separations and other blemishes. We digitally restore and enhance maps while keeping its historical character. All our maps are proudly made in the USA. Customers all over the world love our vintage maps and we know you will too.
dsfsdfsdfsdf
HISTORIC PRINTS specializes in historical map and photo reproductions from throughout the world and antiquity that create a unique link between past and present. Our prints enhance any home and office and also make the perfect gift.
3519 NE 15th Ave #318
info@historicprints.com
Copyright © Historic Prints LLC.
Powered by Out Origin
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line826
|
__label__cc
| 0.598738
| 0.401262
|
Riley Surface World awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification
May 11th, 2018 8:43 am | by Admin
Riley Surface World is one of the world’s leading resellers of new and used surface finishing plant and machinery. The company has been trading since 1966 and operates from 5,000 square metre premises in Aldridge, West Midlands.
In recent years, Riley has invested heavily in technology and people in order to become a global force in the surface finishing industry. The next logical step was to achieve ISO 9001:2015 certification to move the company to a different level. The certification assessment programme was overseen by Riley site director Dave Smith, who has a strong background in the implementation and monitoring of ISO standards.
According to managing director Michael Riley: “The decision to apply for certification was taken to provide a clear structure for our team and enhanced confidence for our customers.
“As dealers in used machinery, we were conscious that there is sometimes a negative perception of what we do. ISO certification helps to dispel that perception and lends more integrity to our products and services.
“It is also vitally important that our people adhere to the quality standards that ISO demands. This extends to all aspects of our business, including controlling costs, reducing risk, managing quality and improving profitability.
“In today’s globalised industry, we constantly have to account for the regulatory requirements of different countries and markets. Due to the international nature of ISO, these requirements are now built into all stages of our processes and ensure that we always deliver what our customers expect from us.
“Finally, ISO certification enables us to trade with many larger and more diverse companies and organisations where previously our credentials were not sufficient. Our new processes also make it possible to develop long-term relationships with many companies and become recognised as a valued and quality-driven partner.”
Riley Surface World maintains large stocks of equipment both at the premises and online. The machinery for sale covers all major surface engineering disciplines, including electroplating, cleaning, heat treatments, shot blasting, process cooling and dust control. The company also sells machinery direct from site and holds regular online auctions.
For technical and product information contact:
Riley Surface World
Email: ben@rileysurfaceworld.co.uk
www.rileysurfaceworld.co.uk
"DVS focuses on automation"
"New Hone-All website goes live"
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line833
|
__label__cc
| 0.516505
| 0.483495
|
LET'S GO TO THE USHER HALL!
Movies you think are overrated
By Richard Power Colt,
July 3, 2015 in Movies & TV
TECHN9CiAN 2,203
TECHN9CiAN
American MuSScle Fan
All superhero movies (batman, spiderman, ironman, avengers, etc). That garbage is not only stale and predictable, but mind-numbingly uninspiring. Please make all the superhero movies stop. Its overdone. No more f*ckin reboots.
Edited August 8, 2015 by TECHN9CiAN
Mr. Scratch 11,272
Mr. Scratch
The Dark Knight was better than most superhero movies around. But Deadpool needs his own movie, you can't deny him that.
TAT0501710 0
TAT0501710
Transformer Age of Extinction. The plot pretty boring in my opinion.
Marlowe. 15
Marlowe.
I Still Jerk-off Manually
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Which is weird, because I generally don't dislike Charlie Kauffman or Jim Carrey, but I walked out of that feeling empty-ish.
I find a lot of David Fincher's recent work overrated as well. The Social Network, Gone Girl and his remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I can appreciate the work he does personally but the movies he's responsible for often leave me feeling flat.
iBUCKEYE 1,773
iBUCKEYE
Die Hard is a Christmas movie
No more f*ckin reboots.
Now this I can agree with.
Richard Power Colt 3,065
Richard Power Colt
Nǐ yǐ jīng sǐ le
Apparently they're putting out Fantastic 4 movies just so they can keep the rights to the franchise. That's why they've all sucked.
jatiger13 1,129
jatiger13
Factually correct
IMO, Citizen Kane.
I don't care how great people say it is. It's f*cking boring. Plot is pretty lame as well. Wasted time watching that crap.
Edited August 8, 2015 by jatiger13
acmilano 344
acmilano
Victim of The Pit™
They pumped too much of those movies in a short time. They are still good ,but all that 'Cinematic universe' thing will at the end create backclash and audience will have enough of it. Just look at the planned movies in next 5 years from DC, Marvel and Fox:
http://screenrant.com/dc-marvel-movie-schedule-2015-2020/
Star Wars movies could end up the same,too many milking:
http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/241723/full-star-wars-movie-release-calendar
It could end up making Superheroes and Star Wars from beloved to hated franchises very fast.
Kiffster 2,209
Kiffster
Zaibatsu
Transformer Age of Extinction.
It's actually massively underrated tho
I'd say that the general movie-going public still enjoys these Transformer movies, but most people with more knowledge about the movie industry and half a brain would tell you that Michael Bay is an awful director.
I don't agree. I enjoyed Bad Boys, Armageddon wasn't too bad, I liked Pearl Harbor, love Transformers.. Don't know what else he directed, but he's definitely not a bad director. In my opinion.
Basically,this is Michael Bay now:
Lock n' Stock 2,914
Lock n' Stock
2020 = Wank
2001: A Space Odyssey for me. It's visually impressive (for it's time) but the thing is just a snoozefest. I could barely make it through to be honest. You could say I just don't "get it" and need mindless action to keep me entertained, even though I am a fan of other works by Stanley Kubrick.
Edited October 7, 2015 by G.S.T
It is a very fascinating and visually remarkable film, but as far as pure entertainment value goes, it's not that great, because it gets really really slow at times.
Speaking of movies that felt slow and tiresome, Ghost in the shell I actually found to be quite boring. I didn't dislike it. I thought it was a pretty interesting film and the atmosphere was great, but I just found the philosophical dialogue to be a bit rambly sometimes and the story to be forgettable. The main character, being a cyborg that hardly shows any emotion also doesn't really help to bring life to anything that's going on. I kinda feel like I should maybe watch it again though, because I may have actually misunderstood some things in it. Regardless, on my first viewing, it felt surprisingly long for its less than 2 hour run time.
Edited October 7, 2015 by Nutsack McQueen
bloatedsack 6,854
bloatedsack
My boner.
GTAF Crew
Boondock Saints is absolutely the worst film I have ever seen. I cannot comprehend why anyone likes it, much less the circlejerk of obsession some people have for this thing.
It is boring to watch, but it's actually a very fascinating movie if you understand the actual story and what's actually happening to it, which isn't easy to pick out if you're not all that interested or haven't read the companion story; they were basically done together, in different mediums, where each reaches the same destination through albeit slightly different roads.
And, in it's way, I think most of it's special effects can still hold up in their way because it represents space as it would be, vast, silent, and overwhelming. You may want ion-thrustered fighters pewpewing through the galaxy, but the slow and ponderous, silent ships would be far more true. I love the minor little touches as Dr. Whosis (it's been awhile) flies to the moon base, the velcro slippers, the pen floating by as the stewardess grabs it, etc.
However, as I said, teh story of 2001 is actually pretty good if you can fit the pieces together, especially when you can understand how some of the visuals come together to symbolize things such as the Monolith blessing man with the knowledge of tools to allow us to out-evolve the predators, and again how the second and third Monoliths each hand out their own evolutionary guidance to allow man to reach out and continually evolve until man transcends.
You're in pretty good company, though, when it comes to hating on 2001. It's hard. It's so very, very long and dry. I'd suggest you try the Arthur C. Clarke book, then go back and give it one more go before writing it off as just a technical film, though.
Mister Pink 12,111
Mister Pink
Pacifica Dreams
Community Ledby
Yes. Thank you. It's been so long since I viewed but I remember it being sh*t yet it had some sort of cult following. I never got around to see the doc made about the writer. Been meaning to watch it for hmm about 10 years now
Input 312
f*cking YES!!
Man, I'm so god damn tired of hearing my friends talk about that pile of sh*t like it's the bible of being a badass.
f*ck that movie.
Edited October 20, 2015 by Input
[...] 5,975
The Wolf of Wall Street. This movie is my definition of trying too hard.
Edited October 24, 2015 by Phnx.
El Dildo 14,385
El Dildo
"The Dildo" ™
a little late to the party, but I recently just saw Silver Linings Playbook for the first time.
seriously one of the most overrated films of all time.
aside from the fact that it's extremely boring and not funny, the message is terrible. apparently mental illness can be cured through the power of illegal gambling and a well-timed dance montage... err wut??
this movie sucks and people got suckered into thinking it was good. probably because they're more into Jennifer or Bradley than anything substantive. because this film has no substance.
Edited October 23, 2015 by El Diablo
Not A Nice Person 4,283
Not A Nice Person
Bad boy down
Fast and furious series, don't see how they got popular except for 7.
The Hunger Games. Good concept, but the movie was boring (IMO). The fact that it has been turned into a series with another film on the way surprises me.
That's because it's based on a book.
Nevermind that the novels ripped off Battle Royale.
Oh man you just reminded me, I love that movie! I think hunger games is more based off it because it's completely different. The government in BR doesn't trust youth. The government in HG just wants the people to know they're in complete power, by sending your kids off to die...
Dr. Robotnik 244
Dr. Robotnik
"Gone Girl" was seriously overrated. It's just one more "some asshole spends some time being an asshole and gets away with it" movies. Which isn't to say those kinds of movies can't be done well ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" is one of my favorite films), but the movie got so much critical acclaim that I really went in expecting something more substantial.
Reading this thread made me realize something, too. As much as I love Tarantino, what happened to the minimalist style he used in Reservoir Dogs? All his movies are over-the-top gory spectacles now. They're still awesome, don't get me wrong, but I'm really starting to miss his more stripped-down, bare minimum early approach. He pulled it off so well you'd think he'd have stayed in that style.
Edited November 12, 2015 by Dr. Robotnik
The Hateful Eight seems like it's going to return to that style.
Really? That ought to be interesting to see.
Haven't you seen the trailer?
I heard it's somewhat low-budget as well compared to a lot of his other movies.
Blaze 14,199
Super Sleuth Deadass
Breakfast Club.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line836
|
__label__wiki
| 0.55311
| 0.55311
|
How do lymphocyte proliferation and survival contribute to immunological memory in health, ageing and HIV infection?
Lead Research Organisation: St George's University of London
Department Name: Clinical Developmental Sciences
The immune system protects us from infections by ?remembering? the infections we have encountered in the past to stop them causing harm again. How does the immune system do this? It sets aside families of cells called lymphocytes, each specific for a particular infection. Paradoxically, these cells appear to be short-lived (weeks-months), whereas we know that immune memory lasts years-decades. The immune system must preserve these families of ?memory cells? somehow, but at the same time it must accommodate new families of memory lymphocytes, as new infections are encountered, and also retain sufficient numbers of cells to combat new microbes.
Problems occur when this system of protection fails. Two common situations leading to problems in the immune system are ageing and HIV infection; both affect an increasing proportion of our population. As we age, the immune system becomes less able to combat infections. This results from an imbalance between different families of memory cells. HIV infection damages some immune cells directly, but it also affects all memory cells indirectly, making immune problems worse. We still do not understand how exactly this happens.
This project investigates how long-term immune memory is maintained by measuring the division rate and survival of different families of lymphocytes within the human body. We will assess how many are short-lived, long-lived and very long-lived by applying four different kinds of measurement, three depending on harmless tracers given to track how fast cells divide, and one measuring changing amounts of radioactive carbon naturally found in the body. The project represents a collaboration five different centres: London, Oxford Cardiff, Stockholm and the National Institutes for Health in the USA.
Understanding why the immune system is weaker in the elderly will help us devise ways to prevent this decline and design better vaccination schemes for elderly people. Understanding immune memory in HIV infection will help us think of new ways to help the immune system fight the virus and improve the use of vaccination in people with HIV/AIDS.
Our results will be made widely available to the general public, through the press, and to those specifically interested, eg. those who wish to ensure they stay healthy as they age and those affected by HIV/AIDS, through specialist interest groups and lay publications.
Human T cell memory depends upon maintaining populations of memory lymphocytes cells for many years or decades. When immune memory fails, either gradually, as in immunosensecence (ageing of the immune system), or dramatically, as in HIV/AIDS, the consequences are profound. In both pathologies, lymphocyte populations are characterised by increased proportions of highly-differentiated cells.
Memory T cell populations are highly dynamic with short average life-spans. The balance between the need for long-lived memory and the need for continual remodelling is achieved by a systematic balancing of proliferation and death/phenotype transition across the whole T cell pool. How this balance is achieved without compromising long-term memory remains poorly understood and is the focus of this project. The primary aim of this project is to understand in quantitative terms how long-term T cell memory responses are (i) maintained in health, (ii) impaired in ageing, or (iii) lost in HIV infection.
Methods and experimental design
We will use in vivo isotopic tracer methods to measure the turnover of human T-lymphocyte populations. These methods are now well-developed, but different approaches have different biases: in vivo deuterium-labelled glucose-labelling detects proliferation in short-lived cells (and can be further biased to very-short-lived cells by Annexin V+ sorting), whilst heavy water labelling is biased towards longer-lived cells, and 14C enrichment studies measure the survival of only very long-lived cells. We will exploit these differences by combining measurement modalities (together with Ki-67 labelling, which gives complementary information), making multiple measurements in the same subjects. We will then use multi-compartment mathematical modelling to develop models with the best overall fit for the kinetic properties of, and inter-relationships between, different phenotypically-defined subpopulations (CD4/CD8; naive, effector-memory, central-memory and CD45-revertant memory cells). Models will be developed in young healthy subjects (n=8), then applied to elderly subjects (n=8) and subjects with HIV-infection (treatment naive, n=8) to assess the impact of these pathologies on T-cell kinetics. Further sub-studies of CD57+ (?senescent) cells in the elderly and PD-1+ (? short-lived) cells in HIV infection will allow us to address the specific contribution of these cell-types.
The information obtained will help us better understand human immune homeostasis and develop new strategies for optimising immunity in the elderly and novel immune strategies for HIV.
Apr 11 - Jan 15
Derek Macallan
Infection (50%)
Inflammatory and Immune System (50%)
1.1 Normal biological development and functioning (50%)
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors (50%)
St George's University of London, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
National Institutes of Health, United States (Collaboration)
St Mary's Hospital, London (Collaboration)
Royal Free Hospital (Collaboration)
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
King's College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Derek Macallan (Principal Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3014-7148
David Anthony Price (Co-Investigator)
Kristin Ladell (Co-Investigator)
Becca Asquith (Co-Investigator)
Title Publication Date Published
|< < 1 2 3 > >|
Lahoz-Beneytez J (2016) Human neutrophil kinetics: modeling of stable isotope labeling data supports short blood neutrophil half-lives. in Blood
Lahoz-Beneytez J (2017) Physiologically Based Simulations of Deuterated Glucose for Quantifying Cell Turnover in Humans. in Frontiers in immunology
Laydon DJ (2015) Estimating T-cell repertoire diversity: limitations of classical estimators and a new approach. in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Laydon DJ (2020) The relative contributions of infectious and mitotic spread to HTLV-1 persistence. in PLoS computational biology
Macallan D (2019) Current estimates of T cell kinetics in humans in Current Opinion in Systems Biology
Macallan DC (2017) Human T Cell Memory: A Dynamic View. in Vaccines
Nyamweya S (2013) Comparing HIV-1 and HIV-2 infection: Lessons for viral immunopathogenesis. in Reviews in medical virology
Patel AA (2017) The fate and lifespan of human monocyte subsets in steady state and systemic inflammation. in The Journal of experimental medicine
Petrovas C (2013) High production rates sustain in vivo levels of PD-1high simian immunodeficiency virus-specific CD8 T cells in the face of rapid clearance. in Journal of virology
Seich Al Basatena NK (2013) Can non-lytic CD8+ T cells drive HIV-1 escape? in PLoS pathogens
Research Databases and Models
Description Biomedical Catalyst: DPFS/DCS Full PROPOSAL
Description LLR Project Grant
Amount £50,180 (GBP)
Funding ID 12064
Organisation Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research
Title Analysis of LC kinetics by chemokine analysis
Description As a result of this research we have developed new approaches to analysis of lymphocyte kinetics according to chemokine receptor expression. New cell sorting protocls were developed and new approaches to modelling of quantitative data were employed.
Type Of Material Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human
Impact Still to be published and disseminated
Title Model of LC kinetics in HIV
Description As a result of this research we have developed novel models for understanding how CD4+ T cells interact with HIV to cause CD4 cell depletion.
Impact To be published and disseminated
Title Models of Lymphocyte kinetics
Description With Dr Becca Asquith at Imperial College, we have developed approaches to analysis of lymphocyte labelling kinetics. A publication manuscript has been submitted and is under review.
Type Of Material Data analysis technique
Impact Better understanding of labelling kinetics
Description Collaboration on Lymphocyte kinetics in HIV
Organisation Royal Free Hospital
Sector Hospitals
PI Contribution Clinical studies of turnover of CD4 T cells in HIV
Collaborator Contribution Collaboration in data analysis and interpretationCollaboration in data analysis, interpretation and presentationcollaboration on analysis of HIV viral tropismsCollaboration on mathematical modelling of lymphocyte kinetics
Impact Abstract presentation at CROI 2011
Organisation St Mary's Hospital, London
Organisation University of Oxford
Department Jenner Institute
Description Collaboration with KCH London on CLL
Organisation King's College London
Department Research Section of Molecular Haematology
PI Contribution Development of a new project to evaluate the effect of T cell inhibition on in vivo CLL Leukaemic cell turnover
Collaborator Contribution Development of a new project to evaluate the effect of T cell inhibition on in vivo CLL Leukaemic cell turnover
Impact Award of two grants from Leukaemia Lymphoma Research
Description NIH
Organisation National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Department Vaccine Research Center (VRC)
PI Contribution New collaboration with Dr R Koup's group at the Vaccine Research Center, at NIH Bethesda was developed in 2009. this builds on work dones as part of this MRC project.
Collaborator Contribution Development of new concepts and new projects. Learning new techniques and skills.
Impact New proposal currently being drafted
Description University of Birmingham - Dr Janet Lord
Organisation University of Birmingham
PI Contribution Developing new investigations and grant application on granulocyte kinetics
Collaborator Contribution Expertise in immune effects of ageing
Impact Grant application to MRC
Description Use of Tregulatory cells for treatment of IBD
Department MRC Centre for Transplantation
PI Contribution Use of stable isotopes to track Treg in vivo in clinical studies
Collaborator Contribution They lead on the project
Impact None to date
Description Lunch Club talk for elderly
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Results and Impact about 50 mostly elderly people attended a talk on ageing and the immune system
"Lunch Plus" hosted by New Malden Baptist church, Surrey - 21/5/2012
Approached by several elderly people willing to participate in research
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line837
|
__label__wiki
| 0.727324
| 0.727324
|
thunbergia fragrans medicinal uses
Zuloaga FO, Morrone O, Belgrano MJ, Marticorena C, Marchesi E, 2008. Technical paper No. Compendium record. (Base de données botaniques Nadeaud de l'Herbier de la Polynésie Française (PAP))., http://www.herbier-tahiti.pf. Thunbergia fragrans subsp. T. fragrans was probably introduced as an ornamental in the Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Funk V, Hollowell T, Berry P, Kelloff C, Alexander S N, 2007. The fruit is an almost-rounded (i.e. http://www.hear.org/pier/pdf/niue_report_20041217.pdf. (Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela)., Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela. Smith AC, 1981. Leaves 6-8 x 4-6 cm, ovate, entire, apex acute, base truncate to subcordate, 5-ribbed, scabrid; petiole 4 cm long. Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia.. Its members are known by various names, including Thunbergias and Clockvine. A low-growing, slender-stemmed, spreading creeper or climbing vine. (Lista nacional de especies de plantas invasoras y potencialmente invasoras en la República de Cuba - 2011). Common names tumbergia-branca in Portuguese vit thunbergia in Swedish wan hua cao in language. Chong KY; Tan HTW; Corlett RT, 2009. Flora of China., St. Louis, Missouri and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Missouri Botanical Garden and Harvard University Herbaria. Catalog of Acanthaceae in El Salvador. Figure 4: Thunbergia fragrans. Mauritius and La Réunion) and on several Pacific islands (e.g. In: Global Environmental Research, 8 (2) 171-191. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 584 pp. In many places it is considered as an invasive species. Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Vine Hawaii Native Status: Introduced. Correa A, Galdames MDC, Stapf MNS, 2004. Classification of Acanthaceae. Online database. ovate) or somewhat elongated (i.e. Leaf blades (4-12 cm long and 3-5 cm wide) are egg-shaped in outline (i.e. Daniel TF, 2001. Volume 2. USDA-ARS, 2014. Database inventory of introduced plant species in the rural and urban zones of Galapagos. leaf and mature fruit (Photo: Land Protection, QDNRW) almost entire leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie) Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela (New catalogue of the vascular flora of Venezuela). Report to the Kingdom of Tonga on invasive plant species of environmental concern. Native to the Indian Sub-continent (i.e. Report to the Government of Samoa on invasive plant species of environmental concern., Hawaii, USA: USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. A Global Compendium of Weeds. 209. 818 pp. Traditional uses of these five species as medicinal, ornamental, vegetable, cultural significance and as other uses have also been highlighted in the enumeration section of the paper. In Fiji, T. fragrans grows in thickets, along roadsides, and in coconut plantations near sea level (Smith, 1981). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 85:1-246. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies. While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this information, DEEDI does not invite reliance upon it, nor accept responsibility for any loss or damage caused by actions based on it. Fragrant thunbergia (Thunbergia fragrans) is regarded as a potentially significant environmental weed in Queensland. The use of this species as an ornamental should be discouraged (Starr et al., 2003; Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, 2011). Hokche O, Berry PE, Huber O, 2008. T. fragrans grows climbing on other vegetation, and forming a dense blanket. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies. In most cases, this species has been intentionally introduced as an ornamental and it has escaped from cultivation and naturalized in both relatively unaltered and disturbed forests, riversides, roadsides and urban bushland (Starr et al., 2003; Meyer and Lavergne, 2004; Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, 2011). http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2, Florence J, Chevillotte H, Ollier C, Meyer JY, 2013. 273 pp. Flowering plants of Jamaica. , 2012. Catalogue of the Seed Plants of the West Indies. Diversity and Distributions. petioles) about 4 cm long. This article is copyrighted by Ital is Vital, 2020. Stems cylindrical, striate, slender, puberulous. The slender, green or reddish coloured stems are square in cross-section (i.e. Plants of the Eastern Caribbean. Flora Vitiensis nova: a new flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only). its oppositely arranged leaves (4-10 cm long and 3-5 cm wide) have arrow-shaped bases and slightly lobed to almost entire margins. T. fragrans is an herbaceous fast-growing vine widely cultivated as an ornamental in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, but it is also a common weed in moist disturbed areas, in particular along roadsides (Starr et al., 2003; Randall, 2012). National Tropical Botanical Garden, 2:290. Weeds of the Pacific Islands. In China, T. fragrans has been recorded flowering from August to January and fruiting from November to March (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2014). It is widely grown as a garden ornamentaland wall covering in Kenya. In: 4. Wageningen, Netherlands: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Plants of the Eastern Caribbean., Barbados: University of the West Indies. In Australia, flowering occurs throughout the year, but is most abundant during summer and autumn (Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, 2011). Flower white. It is reported to be restricted to zone 10 and south. > 10°C, Cold average temp. Species within this family are herbs or woody shrubs, lianas and trees (Stevens, 2012). Space JC; Waterhouse BM; Newfield M; Bull C, 2004. Acanthaceae. by Breedlove, D. E.]. Online Database. Wallingford, UK: CABI, CABI, Undated a. CABI Compendium: Status inferred from regional distribution. Distinguishing features. Furthermore, Thunbergioideae lack the retinaculate fruits found in most Acanthaceae species, instead possessing either dry and/or dehiscent capsules without retinacula (Borg et al., 2008). List of various diseases cured by Thunbergia Grandiflora. The white, tubular flowers (4-6 cm across) are borne singly or in pairs on stalks (i.e. In Hawaii, T. fragrans is a common weed in moist disturbed lowland areas (Wagner et al., 1999). Daniel T F, 2005. Catalog of Guatemalan Acanthaceae: taxonomy, ecology, and conservation. http://ecflora.cavehill.uwi.edu/index.html. > 0°C, dry winters), Stem fragments, roots, dumped garden waste, Cultivated as ornamental for its attractive flowers, Seeds, stem fragments, roots, dumped garden waste, GISD/IASPMR: Invasive Alien Species Pathway Management Resource and DAISIE European Invasive Alien Species Gateway. Catalog of Acanthaceae in El Salvador. quadrangular) and somewhat hairy (i.e. 209, Noumea, New Caledonia, South Pacific Commission. Beautés fatales: Acanthaceae species as invasive alien plants on tropical Indo-Pacific islands. Want to re-post this article? San Francisco, USA: California Academy of Sciences. http://ecflora.cavehill.uwi.edu/index.html, CABI, Undated. its distinctive fruit capsule is topped with a long, thick, beak. Flowers trumpet-shaped, corolla white to about 7 cm long. Please consider upgrading your browser to the latest version or installing a new browser. In: Flora Vitiensis nova: a new flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only). ect. Whistler WA, 2000. Weeds of the Pacific Islands. Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka), south-eastern Asia (i.e. Diversity and Distributions. 51-108. Leaves opposite; blades 6.5-11 × 1.8-6 cm, ovate to lanceolate, chartaceous, the apex acute, the base truncate or subcordiform; margins undulate and ciliate; upper surface dark green, glabrous or somewhat scabrous; lower surface pale green, dull, puberulous, with prominent venation; petiole 2-3.5 cm long, slender, pubescent, sulcate, with the base somewhat dilated. The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Thunbergia fragrans C.Presl Thunbergia fragrans Wall. quadrangular) and somewhat hairy (i.e. (Catalogo de Plantas Vasculares de Panama)., Panama: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Catalog of Honduran Acanthaceae with taxonomic and phytogeographic notes. unpaginated. Robust vine. Identic Pty Ltd. Special edition of Environmental Weeds of Australia for Biosecurity Queensland. Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission. It grows and flowers well in part shade in any reasonably moist soil. Key words: Thunbergia, Distribution, Traditional uses, Assam INTRODUCTION Thunbergia named in 1780 by Retzius, in the honours of Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), a Online Database. It is most often grown on trellises and fences, hanging baskets, and as a ground cover in gardens (Wagner et al., 1999; Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, 2011; PIER, 2014; USDA-ARS, 2014). Daniel TF, 2010. Mito T; Uesugi T, 2004. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Thunbergia erecta1 Edward F. Gilman2 Introduction Thunbergia erecta is a vigorous, woody shrub from Tropical Africa that grows to about 6-feet-tall and wide (Fig. Fragrant thunbergia (Thunbergia fragrans) is widely cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical regions for its attractive white flowers. One or more of the features that are needed to show you the maps functionality are not available in the web browser that you are using. pentstemonoides (Nees) T. Anderson, Thunbergia coccinea Wall., Thunbergia fragrans Roxb. Within its native distribution range (i.e., India and China), T. fragrans grows in thickets, forest borders, roadsides and scrub jungles from 400-2300 m (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2014; India Biodiversity, 2014). Daniel TF, 1995. Calyx green, of 15-20 sepals, lanceolate, 3-5 mm long; corolla white, infundibuliform, with 5 lobes, the tube 2.5-4 cm long, narrow at the base, yellow inside, the limb 4-5 cm in diameter. Molecular phylogenetics and morphological evolution of Thunbergioideae (Acanthaceae). 76 pp. a vine or creeper with slender four-angled stems that are somewhat hairy when young. This naturalized ornamental garden plant is native to India and other parts of Asia. Database inventory of introduced plant species in the rural and urban zones of Galapagos. Wu TL, 2001. San Francisco, USA: California Academy of Sciences, 1-158. Wagner WI; Herbst DR; Sohmer SH, 1999. Lo) H.P. Plant Name. Mito T, Uesugi T, 2004. Special qualities: Tolerates drought no Tolerates high humidity no Tolerates seaside conditions no Insect resistant no Disease resistant no Deer resistant no Best uses Symbiosis Attracts butterflies no Attracts hummingbirds no Autumn foliage no Colorful berries no Desirable qualities Other interest Other interest color Other interest period Space JC, Flynn T, 2001. Adams C D, 1972. angel wings, angelwings, fragrant thunbergia, sweet clock vine, sweet clock-vine, sweet clockvine, thunbergia, white clockvine, white lady, white thunbergia, whitelady http://www.hear.org/pier/pdf/pohreports/thunbergia_fragrans.pdf, Stevens PF, 2012. Space JC, Waterhouse BM, Newfield M, Bull C, 2004. Small infestations should be removed manually. T. fragrans is easily propagated by seeds, which it produces abundantly in its native range and in the tropical countries of introduction (Meyer and Lavergne, 2004). Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, 61:289-377. A checklist of the total vascular plant flora of Singapore: native, naturalised and cultivated species., Singapore: Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, 273 pp. It is a slender vine that resembles T. alata in size and growth habit. Thunbergia grandiflora can be used as a medicinal plant, a green manure, for poles, hedges and for fuelwood.
Cisco Connect Password, Always Faithful Song, Cry Just A Little Die Just A Little Song, Parking Permit Westminster, Cirrus Credit Card Login, Waterway Pool Pump And Sand Filter, Hdfc Bank Credit Card Amazon Prime Offer, Best Used Performance Cars, Dubai Islamic Bank Customer Care Email, 2018 Kia Sorento Cargo Space Dimensions In Inches,
2020 thunbergia fragrans medicinal uses
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line852
|
__label__cc
| 0.630206
| 0.369794
|
Home Education Jersey City BOE trustees engage in verbal warfare during ethics discussion
Jersey City BOE trustees engage in verbal warfare during ethics discussion
Several members of the Jersey City Board of Education participated in a heated discussion about ethics during a special meeting held at district headquarters on Tuesday night.
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV04XDRHGP4&feature=youtu.be[/fve]
“The weakest link in this district is us. The strict terms this document lays out, in regards to this board, are a review to this board, the terms of rebuke we have earned are based solely on behavior,” said Trustee Ellen Simon.
“One stipulation is that the board, and individual members thereof, recommit to meet the obligations under the school ethics code and the board member school of ethics. Note it says ‘remit.’ Our commitment to the school ethics code has again been so weak, it needs renewal.”
Simon went on to say that the board has “consistently failed” to “uphold and enforce” laws, pointing out that the board rejected a school nepotism policy introduced last month.
For the public school district to ever regain full local control, which was what Tuesday’s meeting centered around, the Jersey City BOE must agree on a new code of conduct for nepotism.
Simon also claimed that in December, a board member violated the ethics code by screaming at Lyles “at length,” as well as accusing fellow Trustee Gerald Lyons – without mentioning his name – of violating the ethics code by “administrating the schools” regarding a proposal.
Lyons was evidently angered after hearing such a proclamation, stating he simply directed a constituent how to have a proposal considered.
“One thing I can tell you is I always follow the law, all the time. When a person emails me, with an idea, I forward it – like any complaints that come. I didn’t act out, I didn’t interact with that woman: I asked her to forward it to all the board members and asked her to present it at the board meeting – which she did,” Lyons explained.
” … However, if you find flaw with that, I don’t know, are you suggesting I should just ignore her email? I did what I thought was appropriate. I act ethically all the time. That might not be the way you see ethically, done, but I act ethically all the time … I’m getting really tired of you constantly telling us how bad we are!”
Lorenzo Richardson, a friend and former running mate of Lyons, implied that Simon was working at the behest of Lyles and didn’t know what she was talking about when it comes to ethics.
“This is the same individual, who was noted in the newspaper, as someone who … allegedly conspired … to bring this superintendent here. With the former commissioner of education,” Richardson said.
“And I don’t know if you call that nepotism or cronyism, or what you’d call that, but you can’t say people are doing things … when you point your finger at someone like that, you have three fingers pointing at yourself. I am so disgusted by those comments that I just heard.”
“The fact of the matter is we are putting pressing issues on the table and they are being smacked away into the wind. And we want nothing but the best for these children,” he added.
Richardson also called for the board to censor Simon for her comments, but counsel Ramon Rivera said the board did not have the authority to take such an action.
Marilyn Roman, the vice president of the board, said she actually would prefer if Simon was allowed to say whatever she wants,
“In terms of ethics, I’ve been elected to a lot of boards, and I’ve spent a lot of time on them, and I’ve always been an ethical person. I didn’t say I wouldn’t vote for an ethics code,” Roman explained.
“I said when the rest of this board, when the district decides to raise their hand to be able to say they would promise to be ethical, I would do the very same thing. Not that I wouldn’t be ethical without that raising of the hand. But that I would do the same thing.”
“Because we know, most of sitting around this table, in the last few months, we have not only had things that are totally unethical happen here, but also downright illegal,” she stated.
Roman also took a shot at Simon for allegedly “storming out of the room” during an instance where a measure she supported did not receive five votes to pass.
Simon opted not to respond to any of her critics on the board and no formal action was taken regarding the ethics code.
Behind the scenes jockeying already underway as Jersey City BOE looks for next president
Jersey City BOE candidates talk funding, bullying, forensic audit at 1st debate
DeGise, Lyons, Richardson team seeks re-election in field of 9 Jersey City BOE hopefuls
McKnight, residents, Jersey City BOE clash over naming school after Obama
JCEA ticket wins Jersey City BOE election in convincing fashion
Jersey City BOE names Ali youngest school board president, Shaw takes over as VP
ellen simon
Gerald Lyons
jersey city board of education
lorenzo richardson
Previous articlePolice: 2 men caught using fake credit cards at Hoboken 7-11 store
Next articleJohn Hallanan officially replaces ‘Chico’ Ramchal on Jersey City Council
County COVID-19 vaccination site in Kearny begins giving health care workers 2nd doses
Jersey City Planning Board unanimously approves Bayfront Redevelopment Plan
Hudson County Electoral College member on Biden inauguration: ‘The path forward begins now’
Riaz W June 2, 2016 7:11 pm at 7:11 pm
Totally unproductive and all grow up!
West New York Board of Education Trustee Joan Palermo resigns
After 18 months without a contract, Kearny teachers urge BOE to...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line862
|
__label__cc
| 0.657156
| 0.342844
|
ET Deals: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X $274, WD Black SN750 250GB NVMe SSD $54, Dell XPS 8930SE Intel Core i7 Nvidia RTX 2070 Super Gaming Desktop $1,449
If you’re planning to build a new PC in the near future, you may want to pick up AMD’s high-performance Ryzen 7 3700X CPU, which is currently on sale with a $55 cut off its original MSRP.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X w/Wraith Prism LED Cooler ($274.99)
AMD’s Ryzen 7 3700X comes with eight SMT enabled CPU cores with a max clock speed of 4.4GHz. This gives you exceptional performance for multitasking and running power-hungry applications. Currently, you can get it from Amazon marked down from $329.99 to $274.99.
Western Digital Black SN750 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD ($54.99)
This little M.2 SSD has a capacity of 250GB and it can transfer data at a rate of up to 3,100Mbps. This makes it significantly faster than a 2.5-inch SSD, and it’s also fairly inexpensive, marked down at Amazon from $79.99 to $54.99.
Dell XPS 8930 Special Edition Intel Core i7-9700K Desktop w/ Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM and 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD ($1,449.99)
Equipped with an overclockable Intel Core i7 processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super graphics card, this desktop has enormous gaming potential. It should be able to run games at 2K resolutions with relative ease. Get one today from Dell marked down from $2,149.99 to $1,449.99 with promo code 50OFF699.
Asus ROG Strix B450-I Gaming Mini-ITX Motherboard ($137.59)
Asus designed this motherboard to fit inside of a mini-ITX case, making it a suitable solution for building a compact SFF PC. It also features a high-end Realtek ALC 1220 audio codec and a built-in 802.11ac Wi-Fi NIC. Currently, this board can be picked up from Amazon marked down from $159.99 to $137.59.
SanDisk Extreme Portable 500GB External SSD ($81.77)
Sandisk built this external SSD with a large 500GB capacity and a rugged water-resistant exterior. The drive can transfer data at speeds of up to 550MB/s over USB 3.1, which will far outstrip your typical USB flash drive and external HDD. You can currently buy this SSD marked down from its original retail price of $169.99 to $81.77.
Dell Vostro 5000 Intel Core i5-9400 Desktop w/ 8GB DDR4 RAM and 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD ($499.00)
Dell’s Vostro computers were designed as office and business solutions, and this Vostro 5000 is no different. It’s equipped with an Intel Core i5-9400 processor that offers mid-level processing performance that’s perfect for a wide range of office and work tasks. Dell is offering these systems for a limited time marked down from $998.57 to $499.00 with promo code SUMMER499.
Asrock Z390M-ITX/AC Mini-ITX Motherboard ($138.23)
In addition to being relatively small, this motherboard was designed to support overclocking. This means you can push up the clock speed on Intel’s unlocked CPUs to unleash additional performance. The board also features a pair of Gigabit NICs and integrated 802.11ac Wi-Fi. For a limited time, you can get one from Amazon marked down from $189.99 to $138.23.
Note: Terms and conditions apply. See the relevant retail sites for more information. For more great deals, go to our partners at TechBargains.com.
Posted in Deals, et deals
In Leaked Memo, LG Proposes Withdrawing From Smartphone Market
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line868
|
__label__wiki
| 0.713742
| 0.713742
|
Subscribe to get notified about product launches and special offers.
3 Ways to Order: Online, Offline PO, and Phone
Shop by Research Focus
Toll Free: 800 573-1700
immunodx@immunodx.com
Conjugated Biologicals
Human pAbs
Immobilized Products
Immunoassay Kits
Murine mAbs
Rabbit pAbs
Recombinant Antigens
Rapid Diagnostics Tests
T. pallidum
Bacula Scale Up
Gene Cloning & Protein Expression
HEK Scale Up & Protein Production
Murine Hybridoma Development
Product Licensing Opportunity
Shop by Product▼
Shop by Research Focus▼
Who We Serve▼
Resources▼
CCR5 Is Involved in Interruption of Pregnancy in Mice Infected with Toxoplasma gondii during Early Pregnancy
Toxoplasma AntigensJawahar Raina Nov 11, 2020
Products Related to Zika, WestNile, Dengue, Malaria, T.B, Chikungunya, HIV, SARS
Product# 60120: Recombinant Toxoplasma Sag1, Mic2,3 Antigen(Baculo)
Product# 60020: Toxoplasma Composite2 Antigen SAG1MIC2,3 (E.Coli)
Product# 60011: Recombinant Toxoplasma GRA1,3,6,7, M2AP Antigen (Baculo)
Toxoplasmosis can cause abortion in pregnant humans and other animals; however, the mechanism of abortion remains unknown. C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5) is essential for host defense against Toxoplasma gondii infection. To investigate the relationship between CCR5 and abortion in toxoplasmosis, we inoculated wild-type and CCR5-deficient (CCR5−/−) mice with T. gondii tachyzoites intraperitoneally on day 3 of pregnancy (embryonic day 3 [E3]). The pregnancy rate decreased as pregnancy progressed in infected wild-type mice. Histopathologically, no inflammatory lesions were observed in the fetoplacental tissues. Although wild-type mice showed a higher parasite burden at the implantation sites than did CCR5−/− mice at E6 (3 days postinfection [dpi]), T. gondii antigen was detected only in the uterine tissue and not in the fetoplacental tissues. At E8 (5 dpi), the embryos in infected wild-type mice showed poor development compared with those of infected CCR5−/− mice, and apoptosis was observed in poorly developed embryos. Compared to uninfected mice, infected wild-type mice showed increased CCR5 expression at the implantation site at E6 and E8. Furthermore, analyses of mRNA expression in the uterus of nonpregnant and pregnant mice suggested that a lack of the CCR5 gene and the downregulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and CCL3 expression at E6 (3 dpi) are important factors for the maintenance of pregnancy following T. gondii infection. These results suggested that CCR5 signaling is involved in embryo loss in T. gondii infection during early pregnancy and that apoptosis is associated with embryo loss rather than direct damage to the fetoplacental tissues.
KEYWORDS: CCR5, pregnancy, Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasmosis is a worldwide zoonosis caused by the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. T. gondii can infect humans and other warm-blooded animals and can cause embryonic death and resorption, fetal death, abortion, and stillbirth during pregnancy (1,–3). The outcome of T. gondii infection during pregnancy is thought to depend on the stage of pregnancy when the infection is contracted; however, the mechanism of abortion and fetal death remains unknown.
Changes in hormones and immune dynamics are closely associated with the maintenance of pregnancy, and hormones such as progesterone and estrogen, which are necessary during pregnancy, can modulate immune cell functions (4, 5). During T. gondii infection, the T helper 1 (Th1) immune response that results in the production of interferon gamma (IFN-γ) or interleukin-12 (IL-12) plays an important role in host defenses, but the level of production of IFN-γ in pregnant mice has been reported to be lower than that in nonpregnant mice during infection with T. gondii (6). IL-12 production is reduced by a high progesterone concentration, indicating that the downregulation of IL-12 and the Th1 immune response seems to be related to T. gondii susceptibility during pregnancy (7). Additionally, some studies suggested that T. gondii infection, particularly with type II strains that show moderate virulence in a murine host, induced apoptosis of human trophoblasts, which was associated with an increase in IFN-γ levels (8, 9). T. gondii infection during early pregnancy induced IFN-γ production or inflammation, and this was associated with apoptosis in mouse decidual cells, thereby resulting in fetal resorption (10, 11).
C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5) is a Th1-associated chemokine receptor, and the main CCR5 ligands are chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 3 (CCL3), CCL4, and CCL5 (also call RANTES). In addition to host ligands, secreted T. gondii cyclophilin 18 (TgCyp18) can bind to CCR5 (12, 13). Recombinant TgCyp18 has been reported to enhance RANTES expression in macrophages and to control their migration (14, 15). CCR5 is essential for controlling infection by T. gondii; CCR5-deficient (CCR5−/−) mice showed high susceptibility to infection, severe tissue damage, low expression levels of IFN-γ and IL-12, and high parasite loads compared with wild-type mice (16).
Additionally, RANTES has been implicated as a physiological tolerogenic factor for successful implantation (17). RANTES production is induced by progesterone and can induce the apoptosis of maternal CD3+ lymphocytes (17, 18). The frequency of T cell apoptosis was significantly lower in recurrent spontaneous abortion patients than in fertile women (17). Furthermore, the epigenetically inadequate expression of chemokine genes, including the gene encoding RANTES, limits T cell access to the decidua (19).
gondiiinfection in pregnant animals can cause embryonic death, resorption, fetal death, abortion, and congenital transmission. Infection with T. gondiiduring early pregnancy has more severe consequences (e.g., decreased offspring survival rates and increased parasite transmission rates) than when it is contracted later in pregnancy (3, 20). Although the mechanism of abortion caused by T. gondii infection is poorly understood, the disturbance of many different factors, such as alterations in the immune response and hormone balance, may be associated with embryonic resorption and abortion. CCR5 and RANTES have been reported to be associated with the immune responses required for host defense against T. gondii and successful pregnancy. In this study, we investigated the role played by CCR5 in abortion caused by T. gondii infection using CCR5−/− mice.
Pregnancy rates decrease over time in wild-type mice, but not in CCR5−/− mice, following infection with T. gondii.
In our preliminary experiments, inoculation of T. gondii PLK tachyzoites (5 × 103) induced clinical signs, including weight decrease and rough coat, in nonpregnant wild-type mice and CCR5−/− mice and induced the loss of embryos in wild-type mice inoculated at embryonic day 3 (E3) but not in CCR5−/− mice inoculated at E3. Moreover, inoculation of both groups of mice with T. gondii tachyzoites (5 × 103) at E7 did not induce a loss of embryos, when mice were euthanized at E18. Thus, to reveal when embryo loss occurred in wild-type mice, both groups of mice inoculated at E3 were euthanized at E6, E8, and E10 (Fig. 1). The pregnancy rate was 100% in both the wild-type (6/6 mice) and CCR5−/− (6/6) groups at E6 (Fig. 1B). However, the rate decreased as pregnancy progressed in wild-type mice infected with T. gondii and decreased significantly at E10 (1/5 mice; 25%) compared with that at E6 (6/6; 100%) (Fig. 1B). In contrast, the pregnancy rate did not decrease at E8 (5/6 mice; 83.3%) and E10 (6/7; 85.7%) in CCR5−/− mice (Fig. 1B). However, the average numbers of implantation sites were 8.7 ± 1.0 and 7.5 ± 1.3 at E6 and E8, respectively, in wild-type mice, and no normal implantation sites were observed at E10 (Fig. 1A and andC).C). Only one of five wild-type mice exhibited four implantation sites, and they were all degenerated. In contrast, there were no significant differences in the numbers of implantation sites in CCR5−/− mice at each gestational stage (the average numbers of implantation sites were 8.8 ± 1.0, 9.4 ± 1.7, and 7.8 ± 1.3 at E6, E8, and E10, respectively) (Fig. 1C). These results showed that the loss of an embryo was not due to an inhibition of implantation in wild-type mice infected with T. gondii at E3. Furthermore, it was suggested that infection by T. gondii at E3 could affect embryos in wild-type mice after E8, and almost all embryos were lost at E10, whereas pregnancy was largely maintained in infected CCR5−/− mice.
Open in a separate window
Uteri (A), pregnancy rates (B), and numbers of implantation sites per litter (C) in T. gondii-infected mice. (A) Uteri of mice infected with T. gondii (5 × 103 tachyzoites) at E3 and euthanized at E10. No normal implantation sites were observed in wild-type (WT) mice compared with CCR5−/− mice. (B) Pregnancy rates measured for 6, 6, and 5 wild-type pregnant mice and 6, 6, and 7 CCR5−/− pregnant animals at E6, E8, and E10, respectively. (C) Numbers of implantation sites per litter measured for 6, 4, and 1 wild-type dams and 6, 5, and 6 CCR5−/− dams at E6, E8, and E10, respectively. Statistical comparisons were performed among different stages of pregnancy within each group of mice. * indicates significant differences as determined by the χ2 test (P < 0.05).
Wild-type mice have a lower percentage of developed embryos and a higher percentage of embryo loss than do CCR5−/− mice.
To evaluate the morphological changes and distribution of parasites, implantation sites were analyzed histopathologically and immunohistochemically (Fig. 2). Histopathological changes were most prominent in T. gondii-infected mice at E10. Although only one wild-type mouse had an implantation site at E10 (Fig. 1C), all of the fetoplacental tissues showed necrosis (Fig. 2A). In contrast, many normal-appearance embryos similar to those of the uninfected mice were observed in CCR5−/− mice (Fig. 2A). In the uterine wall and adipose tissue attached to the uterus, there was mild to moderate inflammatory cell infiltration from mononuclear inflammatory cells and neutrophils, and there was evidence of parasitic infection in both groups of mice by immunohistochemistry (Fig. 2B). However, no inflammatory changes and no parasite antigens were detected in the fetoplacental tissues from either group (Fig. 2B). These results suggested that the loss of embryos was not induced directly by parasite proliferation or inflammation.
Histopathology (A) and immunohistochemistry for T. gondii (B) in fetoplacental tissues, including uteri, at E10. (A) Fetoplacental tissues consisted of embryos with a cavity structure and decidua in uninfected wild-type mice. Fetoplacental tissues of uninfected and infected CCR5−/− mice were similar to those of uninfected wild-type mice. All embryos of wild-type mice infected with T. gondii showed necrosis (arrowheads). Inflammatory cell infiltration, including mononuclear inflammatory cells (open arrowheads) and neutrophils (arrow), was observed in the uterus and adipose tissue attached to the uterus. (B) T. gondii antigen was detected in the uterus (2) but not in the embryo or decidual tissues from wild-type and CCR5−/− mice (1). The numbers of evaluated dams (numbers of embryos) were 3 (24) and 1 (4) for uninfected and infected WT mice and 2 (14) and 6 (47) for uninfected and infected CCR5−/− mice at E10, respectively.
Although inflammatory changes in the uterine wall and adipose tissue were slight to mild in both groups at E6 and E8, there were variations in the growth stages and sizes of embryonic tissues in T. gondii-infected mice from both groups at E8 (Fig. 3). The embryonic tissues were classified into the three following categories: embryos with some structures, such as a head fold and amnion, as was observed for many of the embryos from the uninfected control mice at E8 (group A); small embryos with an irregularly folded appearance (group B); and no embryonic tissue in the decidual tissue (group C). Both groups of control mice showed a relatively high percentage of developed embryos (groups A and B), and there was no significant difference in embryo development between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice. The infected wild-type mice had a lower percentage of developed embryos (group A) and a statistically significantly higher percentage of embryo loss (group C) than did the infected CCR5−/− mice. These results suggested that infected wild-type mice had poorly developed embryos compared with those of infected CCR5−/− mice.
Embryos of T. gondii-infected mice at E8. Some structures, including the head fold (arrow), amnion, or round cavity, which seemed to be the amniotic cavity, were observed in well-developed embryos of the uninfected control mice at E8. (A) Embryo that developed similarly to the well-developed embryos of the uninfected control mice. Embryos with some structures, such as the head fold or amnion, were considered group A. (B) Embryos were small and folded irregularly (arrowheads). (C) No embryo was observed in the decidual tissue. The table shows the numbers and percentages of embryos classified into each category. A signal in the TUNEL assay was observed around the embryos of both types of mice with or without inoculation. The numbers of embryos with predominant signals compared with those of the noninfected control were counted. * indicates significant differences between infected wild-type and CCR5−/− groups as determined by the χ2 test (P < 0.05). All images are of wild-type mice. The numbers of dams (numbers of embryos) were 2 (8) and 4 (15) for uninfected and infected wild-type mice and 3 (12) and 5 (26) for uninfected and infected CCR5−/− mice at E8, respectively. HE, hematoxylin and eosin.
To evaluate whether apoptosis at the implantation site could be associated with the poor development of embryos, a terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay was performed for the implantation sites at E8. In the TUNEL assay, a positive signal was observed around the embryos in infected and uninfected mice from both groups. Compared with control mice, the prominent signal was observed mainly in small embryos (group B) of infected mice. These results suggested the possibility that apoptosis of fetoplacental tissues may be associated with the poor development or loss of embryos in mice infected with T. gondii.
Wild-type mice show higher parasite burdens at implantation sites than do CCR5−/− mice.
To elucidate whether the number of parasites was associated with the poor development or loss of embryos, the parasite loads at implantation sites were determined by quantitative PCR (Fig. 4). The number of parasites found in the implantation sites increased as pregnancy progressed in both wild-type and CCR5−/− mice. Moreover, the parasite load in wild-type mice was significantly higher than that in CCR5−/− mice at E6 (3 days postinfection [dpi]). Although a higher parasite load was detected in wild-type mice at E10 (7 dpi), this result was obtained from only one pregnant mouse (Table 1). In nonpregnant mice, there were no significant differences in parasite burdens in the uteri between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice at 3 dpi and 7 dpi (see Fig. S1 in the supplemental material). These results suggested that there are more parasites in the implantation sites of pregnant wild-type mice than in those of CCR5−/− mice. Although parasite numbers increased at the implantation sites of both types of mice as pregnancy progressed, we were unable to differentiate whether this was due to the migration or proliferation of the parasite. Thus, the number of parasites at implantation sites at E6 (3 dpi) is a key factor for the poor development or loss of embryos.
Parasite load at implantation sites of T. gondii-infected mice at E6, E8, and E10. Each point represents data for one mouse, and the bars represent the average values from all data points. The numbers of investigated embryos were 28, 14, and 4 for wild-type (WT) mice and 27, 21, and 47 for CCR5−/− (CCR5KO) mice, evaluated at E6, E8, and E10, respectively. * indicates significant differences between T. gondii-infected wild-type and CCR5−/− mice as determined by the t test (P < 0.05).
Mice and experimental design
Day of pregnancy (dpi)
Infection status
No. of mice
No. of pregnant mice
Pregnancy rate (%)
No. of implantation sites (mouse)a
No. of tissue samples used for histopathology (mouse)a,b
No. of tissue samples used for detection of no. of parasites (mouse)a,c
No. of tissue samples used for real-time RT-PCR analysis of mRNA (mouse)a,d
No. of serum samples used for detection of RANTES and IFN-γe
Wild type
Uninfected
3 (1), 2 (2), 6 (3), 9 (4)
2 (1), 1 (2), 0 (3), 0 (4)f
9 (1), 9 (2), 7 (3), 10 (4), 9 (5), 8 (6)
4 (1), 4 (2), 3 (3), 5 (4), 4 (5), 4 (6)
CCR5−/−
10 (1), 6 (2), 9 (3), 10 (4)
8 (1), 10 (2), 10 (3), 8 (4), 9 (5), 8 (6)
8 (1), 8 (2)
8 (1), 9 (2), 8 (3)
11 (1), 0 (2), 9 (3), 11 (4), 9 (5), 7 (6)
4 (1), 0 (2), 0 (3), 0 (4), 0 (5)
10 (1), 8 (2), 7 (3), 0 (4), 6 (5), 8 (6), 8 (7)
aNumbers in parentheses denote the mouse identification number per experimental group. ND, no data.
bSee Fig. 3.
cSee Fig. 4.
dSee Fig. 5.
eSee Fig. 6.
fBecause two of four uninfected mice in each group were added after experimental infection, only samples collected in the first experiment were analyzed.
gBecause no implantation sites were detected in one of the three uninfected mice, this animal was removed from consideration.
CCR5 expression levels at implantation sites are increased significantly in wild-type mice infected with T. gondii.
To evaluate the possible involvement of CCR5 and its ligands in embryo loss due to T. gondii infection, the mRNA expression levels of CCR5, CCL3, CCL4, and RANTES (CCL5) in the implantation sites were quantitated by real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) (Fig. 5). CCR5 expression levels in the implantation sites increased significantly in wild-type mice infected with T. gondii at E6 (3 dpi) and E8 (5 dpi) compared with those in uninfected wild-type mice. In contrast, compared with uninfected wild-type mice, the expression level of CCL3 decreased in T. gondii-infected CCR5−/− mice at E6, whereas CCL4 expression levels decreased in both types of infected animals. Moreover, the expression levels of IFN-γ and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), which are cytokines associated with apoptosis, were evaluated. Although the IFN-γ expression level increased in both groups of mice infected with T. gondii at E8, there were no significant differences among the experimental groups. Compared with uninfected wild-type mice, the expression of TNF-α was downregulated in T. gondii-infected CCR5−/− mice at E6, whereas decreased expression levels of TNF-α were seen in both types of infected animals at E8. Additionally, we evaluated the mRNA expression levels of IFN-γ, TNF-α, CCL3, CCL4, RANTES (CCL5), and CCR5 in the uteri of nonpregnant mice at 3 dpi (see Fig. S2 in the supplemental material). However, there was no significant difference in the mRNA expression levels of these target genes in the uteri of nonpregnant mice at 3 dpi. Since we observed increased expression levels of CCR5 in infected wild-type mice, decreased expression levels of TNF-α and CCL3 in infected CCR5−/− mice, and decreased expression levels of CCL4 in both types of infected mice at E6, compared with uninfected pregnant wild-type mice, we suggest that these reactions may be specific for infected pregnant mice. Together, these results suggest that the lack of the CCR5 gene and the downregulation of TNF-α and CCL3 expression at E6 (3 dpi) are important factors for the maintenance of pregnancy following T. gondii infection.
Relative mRNA expression levels of IFN-γ, TNF-α, CCL3, CCL4, RANTES (CCL5), and CCR5 at implantation sites of T. gondii-infected wild-type (WT) and CCR5−/− (KO) mice at E6 and E8. Data are mean values ± SD. * and # indicate significant differences as determined by one-way ANOVA plus Tukey-Kramer post hoc analysis for four experimental groups and by the t test for two experimental groups (P < 0.05). * and # indicate comparisons between animals of different and the same lineages, respectively. The numbers of investigated implantation sites were 3, 8, 28, and 27 at E6 and 8, 13, 14, and 21 at E8 for wild-type controls, CCR5−/− controls, wild-type T. gondii-infected mice, and CCR5−/− T. gondii-infected mice, respectively. cont, control (uninfected); Tg, T. gondii infected.
CCR5−/− mice have higher RANTES levels than do wild-type mice.
To evaluate the serum component that could affect pregnancy, the serum levels of RANTES and IFN-γ were quantified (Fig. 6). Serum RANTES levels increased in T. gondii-infected CCR5−/− mice at E6 (3 dpi), E8 (5 dpi), and E10 (7 dpi) (Fig. 6A). Particularly at E8 and E10, the levels were significantly higher than those of the wild-type group (Fig. 6A). High levels of serum RANTES were observed in nonpregnant CCR5−/− mice infected with T. gondii as well as in infected pregnant CCR5−/− mice (see Fig. S3 in the supplemental material). Furthermore, the serum IFN-γ level rose in both groups of infected mice to similar levels and then increased significantly at E10 compared with the levels in uninfected pregnant mice (Fig. 6B). Similar patterns of IFN-γ levels were also observed for nonpregnant mice at 3 and 7 dpi (Fig. S3). In the case of progesterone and estradiol, there was no difference between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice or between infected and uninfected mice of the same strain (data not shown). These results suggested that IFN-γ and hormones involved in the maintenance of pregnancy were not associated with embryo loss in wild-type mice inoculated with T. gondii at E3.
Serum levels of RANTES (A) and IFN-γ (B) at E6, E8, and E10. Data are mean values ± SD. * and # indicate significant differences as determined by one-way ANOVA plus Tukey-Kramer post hoc analysis (P < 0.05). * and # indicate comparisons between animals of different and the same lineages, respectively. The numbers of dams used were 2, 2, 6, and 6 at E6; 2, 3, 6, and 6 at E8; and 3, 2, 5, and 7 at E10 in wild-type uninfected mice, uninfected CCR5−/− mice, wild-type T. gondii-infected mice, and CCR5−/− T. gondii-infected mice, respectively. WT, wild type; CCR5KO, CCR5−/−; No inf., uninfected; Tg, T. gondii infected.
Infection with T. gondii during early pregnancy can cause fetal resorption in mice (10, 11). In this study, implantation sites were observed in all wild-type and CCR5−/− mice at E6; however, the number of mice without embryos increased as pregnancy progressed, and no normal embryos were observed at E10 in wild-type mice (Fig. 1). Bonfá et al. showed previously that CCR5−/− mice were susceptible to oral T. gondii infection (ME-49 strain) compared with wild-type C57BL/6 mice (16), but Khan et al. then reported that CCR5−/− mice in the C57BL/6 background survived longer than did wild-type mice during T. gondii (76K strain) infection (21). In the present study, pregnant mice were used, and the infection route and strain of parasite were different from those of the previous reports (oral infection of cysts): it is not easy to compare our data with those results. However, the present results suggest that CCR5 is associated with the loss of embryos following T. gondii infection during early pregnancy. Additionally, RANTES was induced, and the levels correlated with IFN-γ levels in pregnant mice infected with the Gram-negative bacterium Brucella abortus; neutralization of RANTES decreased the number of aborted fetuses in B. abortus-infected mice (22). Therefore, while CCR5 is essential for the control of T. gondii infection, it is possible that interactions between CCR5 and RANTES during infection are associated with negative outcomes during pregnancy.
Some studies on nonpregnant mice have shown that CCR5−/− mice had high T. gondii loads in various tissues, including the liver and spleen (16, 21), and that they experienced severe tissue damage compared with wild-type mice (16). In contrast to those findings, the parasite loads in the implantation sites were significantly higher in wild-type mice than in CCR5−/− mice in our study of pregnant mice (Fig. 4). Additionally, there were no significant differences in parasite loads in nonpregnant uteri between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice (see Fig. S1 in the supplemental material). As a potential cause of the high parasite load, an increase in parasite proliferation at the implantation site or the migration of infected cells should be considered. If enhanced parasite proliferation occurs locally, prominent tissue damage is likely to be observed in wild-type mice. However, no histopathological differences were found between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice in the present study (Fig. 2). CCR5 expression levels in the implantation sites of the wild-type mice increased at E6 and E8 (Fig. 5). Although it is not known whether the high parasite loads in the wild-type mice were uterus specific, CCR5 may be associated with the migration of T. gondii-infected cells to the uterus in pregnant mice. Previous studies have shown that the regulation of dendritic cells and macrophage migration depends on CCR5 and that inoculation of dendritic cells or peripheral leukocytes infected with T. gondii enabled such cells to disseminate more rapidly than what occurred following inoculation with free parasites (14, 23, 24). However, we did not observe a prominent infiltration of phagocytes into the uterus. In the presence of some pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) stimuli, such as lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan, trophoblast cells restrained early monocyte migration and reduced CCR5 and RANTES expression levels in monocytes (25). Although these PAMPs were derived from bacteria and viruses, PAMPs from parasites may also be associated with the restrained migration of monocytes in trophoblasts. Thus, factors other than parasite proliferation and migration of infected cells may be involved in embryo loss during early pregnancy following infection with T. gondii.
Our data showed that there were no significant differences in the numbers of implantation sites at E6 (Fig. 1C), but the number of parasites in wild-type mice was higher than that in CCR5−/− animals at E6 (Fig. 4). The number of implantation sites in wild-type mice is likely to be lower than that in CCR5−/− animals if parasite infection affected embryo survival. Therefore, these findings suggest that embryo loss is related to functional changes in the uterus or fetoplacental tissues, such as disorder of decidual cells and trophoblasts via the disturbance of immune cells (e.g., natural killer cells, regulatory T cells [Treg cells], and macrophages) that are possibly involved in the immune tolerance of embryos. Furthermore, it is worth considering the role of T. gondii secretory molecules other than those that cause tissue damage related to parasite proliferation in fetoplacental tissues. Senegas et al. detected T. gondii cysts in decidual tissue at 10 days postcoitum in Swiss Webster mice inoculated orally during early pregnancy; however, no necrosis in the implantation sites was observed (10). Swiss Webster mice are relatively resistant to T. gondii infection and show a lower Th1 response, including IFN-γ production, and less tissue damage than do C57BL/6 mice during T. gondii infection (26, 27). Additionally, embryonic resorption caused by the inoculation of T. gondii antigen during early pregnancy suggests that embryonic resorption could be related to a mechanism other than the direct proliferation of T. gondii in the uterus (28). Treg cells involved in maternal-fetal tolerance, and CCR5 expression in Treg cells, play an important role in the accumulation of Treg cells in the pregnant uterus (29). Furthermore, mRNA levels of CCL4, but not RANTES, were elevated in pregnant uteri, and CCL4 attracted CCR5+ Treg cells in vitro. In mice inoculated with T. gondii or T. gondii-excreted-secreted antigens, Treg cell apoptosis was induced at the fetal-maternal interface or the spleen, and fetal loss could be prevented partly by the adoptive transfer of Treg cells from normal pregnant mice (28, 30, 31). These findings suggest that a decrease in Treg cell function could be involved in fetal loss following T. gondii infection. CCR5 may be associated with both proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory reactions, and a decrease in the frequency of CCR5+ Treg cells with a suppressive function may obstruct maternal-fetal tolerance or enhance proinflammatory reactions in T. gondii-infected mice. However, in the present study, no significant difference was observed in mRNA expression levels of CCL4 in fetoplacental tissues between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice infected with T. gondii (Fig. 5). Additionally, no significantly difference was observed in mRNA expression levels of Foxp3, a marker of Treg cells, at implantation sites between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice at E6 (data not shown). Thus, the role of Treg cells in embryo loss remains unclear.
Although there were no differences in parasite infection and inflammatory changes in the fetoplacental tissues between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice, wild-type animals displayed poorly developed fetoplacental tissues compared with those of CCR5−/− animals at E8 (Fig. 3). In the TUNEL assay, the positive signal detected around the embryos probably included trophoblasts, and this signal was observed predominantly in small embryos, indicating the involvement of apoptosis in embryo loss (Fig. 3). Apoptosis at the maternal-fetal interface occurs during normal implantation and gestation and is associated with appropriate tissue remodeling of the decidua and invasion of the developing embryo. Effective clearance of apoptotic cells and cellular debris by macrophages is thought to be important for preventing the release of intracellular contents, which may cause tissue damage and inflammatory reactions and promote the production of proliferative factors for trophoblasts (32, 33). Therefore, the imbalance between apoptosis and the clearance of apoptotic cells by macrophages may affect the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. As described previously, TgCyp18 enhances RANTES expression in macrophages and controls macrophage migration (14, 15). Dense granule protein 15 (GRA15), a secretary protein of T. gondii, from type II parasites can activate the NF-κB pathway, and this pathway is involved in inflammation, immune responses, and antiapoptosis in various cell types, including macrophages and embryonic fibroblasts in vitro (34). Therefore, T. gondii infection can affect macrophage function via secretary proteins and may induce functional aberrations in various types of cells at the implantation site. Furthermore, human extravillous trophoblasts displayed high apoptosis indexes after treatment with the supernatant from macrophages with or without T. gondii infection (35). However, an increase in IL-6 production in monocytes treated with the supernatant from trophoblast cells suppressed T. gondii proliferation in monocytes in vitro (36). Further investigations are required to elucidate the mechanism of embryo loss following parasite infection, including the role of macrophages and T. gondii-derived molecules.
Senegas et al. reported that IFN-γ-dependent apoptosis of placental cells was involved in embryo resorption in T. gondii-infected mice during early pregnancy and that serum and uterine IFN-γ levels were increased compared with those in uninfected controls (10). In the present study, the serum IFN-γ level was increased in both wild-type and CCR5−/− mice; however, there was no significant difference between these groups as the pregnancies progressed (Fig. 6). Additionally, no significant differences were found in serum progesterone and estradiol levels between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice (data not shown). These results suggest that IFN-γ and pregnancy-associated hormones have little association with apoptosis or embryo resorption associated with CCR5.
The expression levels of TNF-α and CCL3 at implantation sites were significantly lower in infected and uninfected CCR5−/− mice than in uninfected wild-type mice at E6, and both groups of mice showed a significant downregulation of TNF-α at E8 in the present study. Coutinho et al. showed increased serum TNF-α levels and necrotic implantation sites in C56BL/6 mice infected with the T. gondii ME-49 strain; these results suggested that an impaired outcome of pregnancy due to T. gondii infection may be associated with high TNF-α levels (11). In contrast, Bonfá et al. reported lower tissue expression levels of Th1 cytokines, including TNF-α, and extensive tissue damage in livers of CCR5−/− mice infected with the T. gondii ME-49 strain compared with wild-type mice (16); tissue expression of TNF-α does not correlate well with tissue damage in T. gondii infection. Although the serum TNF-α level was not evaluated, there was no prominent difference in inflammatory changes in uteri between wild-type and CCR5−/− mice in the present study. The uptake of apoptotic cells suppresses the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α, from macrophages and promotes the release of anti-inflammatory cytokines during normal pregnancy (32). TNF-α can inhibit interactions between trophoblast-like cells and maternal endothelial cellular networks in vitro (37). Although it is unclear whether CCL3 has adverse effects except for an inflammatory response at the implantation site, the downregulation of TNF-α and CCL3 at implantation sites may have or reflect a positive effect on the maintenance of pregnancy in CCR5−/− mice infected with T. gondii.
Interestingly, CCR5−/− mice showed higher levels of serum RANTES than did wild-type mice (Fig. 6). Although the mRNA expression level of RANTES in the implantation sites increased in both infected wild-type and infected CCR5−/− mice at E8, no significant difference was found between these mouse groups (Fig. 5). However, the CCR5 expression levels in the implantation sites were significantly higher in infected wild-type mice than in uninfected controls (Fig. 5). Although not in serum, CCR5 expression in apoptotic neutrophils and T cells was reported to clear CCL3 and RANTES in peritoneal exudates (38). In a mouse model of proteoglycan-induced arthritis, the serum RANTES level increased significantly in CCR5−/− mice compared with that in wild-type mice (39). This indicates that CCR5 expression in cells can control the level of circulating RANTES (39). In our study, RANTES may have been consumed by the increased level of CCR5 in wild-type mice infected with T. gondii, because the RANTES expression level was increased in infected wild-type mice, but the serum RANTES level did not increase after infection. Regarding the relationships between CCR5, RANTES, and apoptosis, RANTES has been shown to induce the apoptosis of CCR5-expressing T cell lines (40). In trophoblast cells, anti-RANTES antibodies decreased the apoptosis of a trophoblast cell line (Swain 71 cells, with no expression of CCR5) in coculture with peripheral blood mononuclear cells from recurrent spontaneous abortions (17), suggesting that CCR5-independent RANTES signaling is needed for apoptosis induction. Thus, RANTES may play a role in apoptosis induction in embryos following T. gondii infection. However, the CCR5-RANTES interaction can inhibit virus-induced apoptosis of macrophages (41). Therefore, further investigations will be needed to determine whether these findings are consistent across several cell types.
In conclusion, this study has shown that CCR5 is involved in the loss of embryos in mice infected with T. gondii during early pregnancy. Additionally, apoptosis around an embryo, rather than direct damage to the fetoplacental tissue from infection, can be associated with poor embryo development and embryo loss in the presence of CCR5. Although IFN-γ seemed not to be involved in the embryo loss associated with CCR5, wild-type mice had increased levels of CCR5 and RANTES expression at implantation sites and low serum RANTES levels, indicating the possibility of an interaction between CCR5 and RANTES. In addition, our results suggested that the lack of the CCR5 gene and the downregulation of TNF-α and CCL3 expression at E6 (3 dpi) may be key factors involved in the maintenance of pregnancy following T. gondii infection. However, the existence of a direct relationship between CCR5 and apoptosis requires further investigation. Future studies will address the molecular mechanisms of embryo loss, including the role of CCR5, RANTES, and T. gondii-derived molecules in the apoptosis of fetoplacental tissue.
Ethics statement.
This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments of the Science Council of Japan (43). The protocol was approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal Experiments of the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (permit numbers 28-57, 25-59, 24-15, and 23-61). All surgery for sampling was performed under isoflurane anesthesia, and all efforts were made to minimize animal suffering.
Mice and experimental design.
C57BL/6 mice were obtained from Clea Japan (Tokyo, Japan). CCR5−/− mice (B6 129P2-Ccr5 tmlKuz/J) were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME, USA). The mice were maintained under specific-pathogen-free conditions in the animal facility of the National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases at the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan. The mice were used according to the Guidelines for Proper Conduct of Animal Experiments of the Science Council of Japan (43).
Virgin female mice were housed with males at 10 to 11 weeks of age, and when a visible vaginal plug was noted, we designated this day 0 of pregnancy (E0). Female mice of both groups were inoculated intraperitoneally with T. gondii strain PLK tachyzoites (5 × 103 tachyzoites/mouse) at day E3 and then euthanized at E6 (3 dpi), E8 (5 dpi), and E10 (7 dpi) (Table 1). Blood and uteri were collected from the mice for quantitative analysis of serum IFN-γ and RANTES levels and histopathological analysis. The number of implantation sites was counted. The pregnancy rate was calculated as the ratio of the number of mice with implantation sites to the total number of mice with a vaginal plug in each group. About half (E10) and half the number (E6 and E8) of implantation sites (fetoplacental tissues) were fixed with a 4% paraformaldehyde solution for histopathological analysis, and of the others, half were frozen at −80°C prior to DNA and RNA extraction for quantitation of the parasite burden and RT-PCR analysis, respectively (Table 1).
Preparation of T. gondii tachyzoites.
gondii(strain PLK; type II) tachyzoites were propagated in monkey kidney adherent fibroblasts (Vero cells) cultured in Eagle's minimum essential medium (EMEM; Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) supplemented with 8% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum. To purify the tachyzoites, parasites and host cell debris were washed in ice-cold phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), and the final pellet was resuspended in cold PBS and passed through a 27-gauge needle and a 5.0-μm-pore-size filter (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA).
Histopathological and immunohistochemical analyses.
After fixation with a 4% paraformaldehyde solution, the tissues from the implantation site were routinely embedded in paraffin wax and prepared as 4-μm-thick sections. The sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin.
Immunohistochemistry of T. gondii in tissues from the implantation site was performed by using an anti-T. gondii polyclonal antibody (catalog number ab15170; Abcam, Cambridge, UK). Briefly, after deparaffinization, the tissues were treated with 0.01 M citrate buffer (pH 6.0) and heated in a microwave (200 W for 5 min, twice) for antigen retrieval. After blocking of endogenous peroxidase with 3% hydrogen peroxide and of nonspecific protein with 10% normal goat serum (Histofine SAB-PO kit; Nichirei Corp., Tokyo, Japan) for 30 min at room temperature, the sections were incubated with the primary antibody (dilution of 1:50) overnight at 4°C. After washing, the sections were incubated with the secondary antibody (EnVision+ K4003; Dako, Burlingame, CA, USA) for 40 min at 37°C. The sections were treated with 3,3′-diaminobenzidine (DAB) (Impact DAB; Vector Laboratories Inc., Burlingame, CA, USA), and the chromogenic reaction was stopped with H2O. The sections were then counterstained with Mayer's hematoxylin.
TUNEL analysis of the implantation sites.
Cell death in the implantation sites was identified by TUNEL using an In Situ Cell Death Detection kit (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany) as recommended by the manufacturer.
DNA isolation and quantitative PCR analysis of parasite numbers.
DNA from the fetoplacental tissues was extracted by using Tri reagent (Sigma). Amplification of parasite DNA was performed by using primers specific for the T. gondii B1 gene (5′-AAC GGG CGA GTA GCA CCT GAG GAG A-3′ and 5′-TGG GTC TAC GTC GAT GGC ATG ACA AC-3′), which is present in all known strains of this parasite species (42). The PCR mixture (25 μl) contained 1× SYBR green PCR buffer, 2 mM MgCl2, 200 μM each deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP), 400 μM dUTP, 0.625 U of AmpliTaq Gold DNA polymerase, 0.25 U of AmpErase uracil-N-glycosylase (UNG) (AB Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, CA, USA), 0.5 μM each primer, and 50 ng of genomic DNA. Amplification was performed according to a standard protocol recommended by the manufacturer (2 min at 50°C, 10 min at 95°C, 40 cycles at 95°C for 15 s, and 1 min at 60°C). Amplification, data acquisition, and data analysis were carried out with an ABI 7900HT Prism sequence detector (AB Applied Biosystems), and the cycle threshold (CT) values were exported to Microsoft Excel for analysis. Parasite loads were estimated by comparison with internal controls, with the level of the internal control calculated per parasite. Briefly, parasite numbers were calculated by interpolation on a standard curve, with the CT values plotted against a known concentration of parasites. After amplification, the PCR product melting curves were acquired via a stepwise temperature increase from 60°C to 95°C. Data analyses were conducted with Dissociation Curves version 1.0 f (AB Applied Biosystems).
Real-time RT-PCR analysis.
Total RNA was extracted from fetoplacental tissues with Tri reagent (Sigma) according to the manufacturer's instructions. First-strand cDNA synthesis was performed by using an oligo(dT) primer and Superscript II reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). PCR was performed as described above, using the SYBR green PCR system and an ABI 7700 Prism sequence detector instrument. The relative mRNA amounts were calculated by using the ΔΔCT method according to the manufacturer's instructions (guide to performing relative quantitation of gene expression using real-time quantitative PCR; AB Applied Biosystems) (44). The primer sequences (sense and antisense sequences) designed by using Primer Express software (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) were as follows: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) sense primer 5′-TGT GTC CGT CGT GGA TCT GA-3′, GAPDH antisense primer 5′-CCT GCT TCA CCA CCT TGT TGA T-3′, mouse IFN-γ sense primer 5′-GCC ATC AGC AAC AAC ATA AGC GTC-3′, mouse IFN-γ antisense primer 5′-CCA CTC GGA TGA GCT CAT TGA ATG-3′, mouse TNF-α sense primer 5′-GGC AGG TCT ACT TTG GAG TCA TTG C-3′, mouse TNF-α antisense primer 5′-ACA TTC GAG GCT CCA GTG AA-3′, mouse CCL3 sense primer 5′-CCA GCC AGG TGT CAT TTT CCT-3′, mouse CCL3 antisense primer 5′-TCC AAG ACT CTC AGG CAT TCA GT-3′, mouse CCL4 sense primer 5′-CAA CAC CAT GAA GCT CTG CG-3′, mouse CCL4 antisense primer 5′-GCC ACG AGC AAG AGG AGA GA-3′, mouse RANTES (CCL5) sense primer 5′-CCA ATC TTG CAG TCG TGT TTG T-3′, mouse RANTES (CCL5) antisense primer 5′-CAT CTC CAA ATA GTT GAT GTA TTC TTG AAC-3′, mouse CCR5 sense primer 5′-GAC ATC CGT TCC CCC TAC AAG-3′, and mouse CCR5 antisense primer 5′-TCA CGC TCT TCA GCT TTT TGC AG-3′. Gene-specific expression values were normalized against the level of expression of the GAPDH housekeeping gene. The optimal reference gene was selected based on the Cotton EST database (http://150.216.56.64/index.php).
Measurement of serum RANTES and IFN-γ levels.
Serum samples were collected for measurement of RANTES and IFN-γ levels. Serum RANTES levels were measured with a Quantikine mouse RANTES immunoassay kit (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA). The serum IFN-γ level was measured with an OptEIA mouse IFN-γ enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (BD Bioscience, San Jose, CA, USA). Each assay was performed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Statistical analyses.
GraphPad Prism 5 software (GraphPad Software Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA) was used for statistical analyses. Data are presented as means ± standard deviations (SD). Statistical analyses were performed by using the Student t test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by the Tukey-Kramer test for group comparisons. The significance of the differences in the pregnancy rates and embryo structures was analyzed by a χ2 test. The levels of statistical significance are presented with asterisks and are defined in each figure legend, together with the name of the statistical test that was used. A P value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Supplemental material:
We thank Youko Matsushita, Megumi Noda, and Yoshie Imura for their excellent technical assistance with the experiments. English language editing for the manuscript was provided by Edanz Group, Japan.
This research was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science through the Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (Next Program), initiated by the Council for Science and Technology Policy (2011/LS003).
Supplemental material for this article may be found at https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.00257-17.
Hill D, Dubey JP. 2002. Toxoplasma gondii: transmission, diagnosis and prevention. Clin Microbiol Infect 8:634–640. doi:10.1046/j.1469-0691.2002.00485.x. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Givens MD, Marley MSD. 2008. Infectious causes of embryonic and fetal mortality. Theriogenology 70:270–285. doi:10.1016/j.theriogenology.2008.04.018. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Dubey JP. 2009. Toxoplasmosis in sheep—the last 20 years. Vet Parasitol 163:1–14. doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.02.026. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Menzies FM, Henriquez FL. 2009. Immunomodulation by the female sex hormones. Open Infect Dis J 3:61–72. doi:10.2174/1874279300903010061. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Robinson DP, Klein SL. 2012. Pregnancy and pregnancy-associated hormones alter immune responses and disease pathogenesis. Horm Behav 62:263–271. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.02.023. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Shirahata T, Muroya N, Ohta C, Goto H, Nakane A. 1992. Correlation between increased susceptibility to primary Toxoplasma gondiiinfection and depressed production of gamma interferon in pregnant mice. Microbiol Immunol 36:81–91. doi:10.1111/j.1348-0421.1992.tb01644.x. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Jones LA, Anthony JP, Henriquez FL, Lyons RE, Nickdel MB, Carter KC, Alexander J, Roberts CW. 2008. Toll-like receptor 4 mediated macrophage activation is differentially regulated by progesterone via the glucocorticoid and progesterone receptors. Immunology 125:59–69. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.02820.x. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Angeloni MB, Guirelli PM, Franco PS, Barbosa BF, Gomes AO, Castro AS, Silva NM, Martins-Filho OA, Mineo TW, Silva DA, Mineo JR, Ferro EA. 2013. Differential apoptosis in BeWo cells after infection with highly (RH) or moderately (ME49) virulent strains of Toxoplasma gondiiis related to the cytokine profile secreted, the death receptor Fas expression and phosphorylated ERK1/2 expression. Placenta 34:973–982. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2013.09.005. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Zhang L, Zhao M, Jiao F, Xu X, Liu X, Jiang Y, Zhang H, Ou X, Hu X. 2015. Interferon gamma is involved in apoptosis of trophoblast cells at the maternal-fetal interface following Toxoplasma gondiiinfection. Int J Infect Dis 30:10–16. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2014.10.027. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Senegas A, Villard O, Neuville A, Marcellin L, Pfaff AW, Steinmetz T, Mousli M, Klein JP, Candolfi E. 2009. Toxoplasma gondii-induced foetal resorption in mice involves interferon-gamma-induced apoptosis and spiral artery dilation at the maternofoetal interface. Int J Parasitol 39:481–487. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.08.009. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Coutinho LB, Gomes AO, Araújo EC, Barenco PV, Santos JL, Caixeta DR, Silva DA, Cunha JP Jr, Ferro EA, Silva NM. 2012. The impaired pregnancy outcome in murine congenital toxoplasmosis is associated with a pro-inflammatory immune response, but not correlated with decidual inducible nitric oxide synthase expression. Int J Parasitol 42:341–352. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.01.006. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Aliberti J, Valenzuela JG, Carruthers VB, Hieny S, Andersen J, Charest H, Reis e Sousa C, Fairlamb A, Ribeiro JM, Sher A. 2003. Molecular mimicry of a CCR5 binding-domain in the microbial activation of dendritic cells. Nat Immunol 4:485–490. doi:10.1038/ni915. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Aliberti J, Reis e Sousa C, Schito M, Hieny S, Wells T, Huffnagle GB, Sher A. 2000. CCR5 provides a signal for microbial induced production of IL-12 by CD8 alpha+ dendritic cells. Nat Immunol 1:83–87. doi:10.1038/76957. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Ibrahim HM, Xuan X, Nishikawa Y. 2010. Toxoplasma gondiicyclophilin 18 regulates the proliferation and migration of murine macrophages and spleen cells. Clin Vaccine Immunol 17:1322–1329. doi:10.1128/CVI.00128-10. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Ibrahim HM, Nishimura M, Tanaka S, Awadin W, Furuoka H, Xuan X, Nishikawa Y. 2014. Overproduction of Toxoplasma gondiicyclophilin-18 regulates host cell migration and enhances parasite dissemination in a CCR5-independent manner. BMC Microbiol 14:76. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-14-76. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Bonfá G, Benevides L, Souza MDC, Fonseca DM, Mineo TW, Rossi MA, Silva NM, Silva JS, de Barros Cardoso CR. 2014. CCR5 controls immune and metabolic functions during Toxoplasma gondiiinfection. PLoS One 9:e104736. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104736. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Fraccaroli L, Alfieri J, Larocca L, Calafat M, Mor G, Leirós CP, Ramhorst R. 2009. A potential tolerogenic immune mechanism in a trophoblast cell line through the activation of chemokine-induced T cell death and regulatory T cell modulation. Hum Reprod 24:166–175. doi:10.1093/humrep/den344. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Ramhorst R, Patel R, Corigliano A, Etchepareborda JJ, Fainboim L, Schust D. 2006. Induction of maternal tolerance to fetal alloantigens by RANTES production. Am J Reprod Immunol 56:302–311. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.2006.00430.x. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Nancy P, Tagliani E, Tay CS, Asp P, Levy DE, Erlebacher A. 2012. Chemokine gene silencing in decidual stromal cells limits T cell access to the maternal-fetal interface. Science 336:1317–1321. doi:10.1126/science.1220030. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Wang T, Liu M, Gao XJ, Zhao ZJ, Chen XG, Lun ZR. 2011. Toxoplasma gondii: the effects of infection at different stages of pregnancy on the offspring of mice. Exp Parasitol 127:107–112. doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2010.07.003. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Khan IA, Thomas SY, Moretto MM, Lee FS, Islam SA, Combe C, Schwartzman JD, Luster AD. 2006. CCR5 is essential for NK cell trafficking and host survival following Toxoplasma gondiiinfection. PLoS Pathog 2:e49. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0020049. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Watanabe K, Iwai N, Tachibana M, Furuoka H, Suzuki H, Watarai M. 2008. Regulated upon activation normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) contributes to abortion caused by Brucella abortusinfection in pregnant mice. J Vet Med Sci 70:681–686. doi:10.1292/jvms.70.681. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Lambert H, Hitziger N, Dellacasa I, Svensson M, Barragan A. 2006. Induction of dendritic cell migration upon Toxoplasma gondiiinfection potentiates parasite dissemination. Cell Microbiol 8:1611–1623. doi:10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00735.x. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Unno A, Suzuki K, Xuan X, Nishikawa Y, Kitoh K, Takashima Y. 2008. Dissemination of extracellular and intracellular Toxoplasma gondiitachyzoites in the blood flow. Parasitol Int 57:515–518. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2008.06.004. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Grasso E, Paparini D, Hauk V, Salamone G, Leiros CP, Ramhorst R. 2014. Differential migration and activation profile of monocytes after trophoblast interaction. PLoS One 9:e97147. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097147. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Haque S, Hanna S, Gharbi S, Franck J, Dumon H, Haque A. 1999. Infection of mice by a Toxoplasma gondiiisolate from an AIDS patient: virulence and activation of hosts' immune responses are independent of parasite genotype. Parasite Immunol 21:649–657. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3024.1999.00273.x. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Rochet É, Brunet J, Sabou M, Marcellin L, Bourcier T, Candolfi E, Pfaff AW. 2015. Interleukin-6-driven inflammatory response induces retinal pathology in a model of ocular toxoplasmosis reactivation. Infect Immun 83:2109–2117. doi:10.1128/IAI.02985-14. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Chen JL, Ge YY, Zhang J, Qiu XY, Qiu JF, Wu JP, Wang Y. 2013. The dysfunction of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells contributes to the abortion of mice caused by Toxoplasma gondiiexcreted-secreted antigens in early pregnancy. PLoS One 8:e69012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069012. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Kallikourdis M, Andersen KG, Welch KA, Betz AG. 2007. Alloantigen-enhanced accumulation of CCR5+‘effector’ regulatory T cells in the gravid uterus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:594–599. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604268104. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Liu Y, Zhao M, Xu X, Liu X, Zhang H, Jiang Y, Zhang L, Hu X. 2014. Adoptive transfer of Treg cells counters adverse effects of Toxoplasma gondiiinfection on pregnancy. J Infect Dis 210:1435–1443. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiu265. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Ge YY, Zhang L, Zhang G, Wu JP, Tan MJ, Hu E, Liang YJ, Wang Y. 2008. In pregnant mice, the infection of Toxoplasma gondiicauses the decrease of CD4+ CD25+-regulatory T cells. Parasite Immunol 30:471–481. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3024.2008.01044.x. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Straszewski-Chavez SL, Abrahams VM, Mor G. 2005. The role of apoptosis in the regulation of trophoblast survival and differentiation during pregnancy. Endocr Rev 26:877–897. doi:10.1210/er.2005-0003. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Mor G, Abrahams VM. 2003. Potential role of macrophages as immunoregulators of pregnancy. Reprod Biol Endocrinol 1:119. doi:10.1186/1477-7827-1-119. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Rosowski EE, Lu D, Julien L, Rodda L, Gaiser RA, Jensen KD, Saeij JP. 2011. Strain-specific activation of the NF-kappaB pathway by GRA15, a novel Toxoplasma gondiidense granule protein. J Exp Med 208:195–212. doi:10.1084/jem.20100717. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Guirelli PM, Angeloni MB, Barbosa BF, Gomes AO, Castro AS, Franco PS, Silva RJ, Oliveira JG, Martins-Filho OA, Mineo JR, Ietta F, Ferro EA. 2015. Trophoblast-macrophage crosstalk on human extravillous under Toxoplasma gondiiinfection. Placenta 36:1106–1114. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2015.08.009. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Castro AS, Alves CM, Angeloni MB, Gomes AO, Barbosa BF, Franco PS, Silva DA, Martins-Filho OA, Mineo JR, Mineo TW, Ferro EA. 2013. Trophoblast cells are able to regulate monocyte activity to control Toxoplasma gondiiinfection. Placenta 34:240–247. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2012.12.006. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Xu B, Nakhla S, Makris A, Hennessy A. 2011. TNF-α inhibits trophoblast integration into endothelial cellular networks. Placenta 32:241–246. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2010.12.005. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Ariel A, Fredman G, Sun YP, Kantarci A, Van Dyke TE, Luster AD, Serhan CN. 2006. Apoptotic neutrophils and T cells sequester chemokines during immune response resolution through modulation of CCR5 expression. Nat Immunol 7:1209–1216. doi:10.1038/ni1392. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Doodes PD, Cao Y, Hamel KM, Wang Y, Rodeghero RL, Kobezda T, Finnegan A. 2009. CCR5 is involved in resolution of inflammation in proteoglycan-induced arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 60:2945–2953. doi:10.1002/art.24842. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Murooka TT, Wong MM, Rahbar R, Majchrzak-Kita B, Proudfoot AE, Fish EN. 2006. CCL5-CCR5-mediated apoptosis in T cells: requirement for glycosaminoglycan binding and CCL5 aggregation. J Biol Chem 281:25184–25194. doi:10.1074/jbc.M603912200. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Tyner JW, Uchida O, Kajiwara N, Kim EY, Patel AC, O'Sullivan MP, Walter MJ, Schwendener RA, Cook DN, Danoff TM, Holtzman MJ. 2005. CCL5-CCR5 interaction provides antiapoptotic signals for macrophage survival during viral infection. Nat Med 11:1180–1187. doi:10.1038/nm1303. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Contini C, Seraceni S, Cultrera R, Incorvaia C, Sebastiani A, Picot S. 2005. Evaluation of a real-time PCR-based assay using the lightcycler system for detection of Toxoplasma gondiibradyzoite genes in blood specimens from patients with toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis. Int J Parasitol 35:275–283. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.11.016. [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Science Council of Japan. 2006. Guidelines for proper conduct of animal experiments. http://www.scj.go.jp/ja/info/kohyo/pdf/kohyo-20-k16-2e.pdf.
Mahmoud ME, Fereig R, Nishikawa Y. 2017. Involvement of host defense mechanisms against Toxoplasma gondiiinfection in anhedonic and despair-like behaviors in mice. Infect Immun 85:e00007-17. doi:10.1128/IAI.00007-17. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]
Articles from Infection and Immunity are provided here courtesy of American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Tags: Toxoplasma antigens
All orders within the continental United States are shipped via Mercury or Federal Express Express next day service (FOB Woburn, MA).
Quality Assurance Guarantee
We assure products will meet high standards of quality: purity, specificity, biological activity.
Discounts are available for volume purchases for universities, distributors, and consumers.
Please call us at + 1 (781)-938-6300 or email immunodx@immunodx.com
About ImmunoDX
ImmunoDX (formerly known as ImmunoDiagnostics inc) develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of specialty biologicals. All products are manufactured at our own own facility and we assure products will meet high standards of quality: purity, specificity, biological activity,
© ImmunoDX 2021
1 Presidential Way, Suite 104, Woburn, MA, USA 01801.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line870
|
__label__wiki
| 0.972459
| 0.972459
|
Champions League: United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer calls on side to bounce back from Istanbul Basaksehir defeat
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer conceded his side cannot afford another off night against Istanbul Basaksehir if they are to reach the Champions League last 16.
United got off to a brilliant start in Group H with wins over two of last season's Champions League semi-finalists, Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig.
However, a 2-1 defeat in Turkey three weeks ago has put the pressure back on when Basaksehir travel to Old Trafford on Tuesday.
United still lead the group on six points, alongside Leipzig, with PSG and Basaksehir three points back.
"We need at least 10 points to go through, maybe even likely that you have to have 12 points," Solskjaer said at his pre-match press conference.
"We're going to go into this game trying to win it, of course, and try to win it well with a good performance because we've got games coming thick and fast.
"Getting to 10 points as quickly as you can was the main point but that defeat was a big blow."
Solskjaer is hoping to have Paul Pogba back available after the French midfielder missed Saturday's unconvincing 1-0 win over West Bromwich Albion.
Luke Shaw, Phil Jones and Jesse Lingard will miss out, while Solskjaer did not rule out handing Dean Henderson another Champions League start in goal ahead of David de Gea.
Also See: Premier League: Manchester United defender Luke Shaw facing several weeks out after picking up hamstring injury
Champions League: Four years on, Manchester United-Paul Pogba partnership is yet to takeoff
Premier League: Manchester United 'absolutely committed' to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, says executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward
Confident Buccaneers Defense Reverts To Form At Right Time
Tom Bradys quest for a seventh Super Bowl ring continues, thanks to a young defense thats regained its swagger when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed it most.
Maldives to become first foreign country to receive Covishield doses
Maldives is set to become the first foreign country to receive COVID-19 vaccines from India. The Asian country will reportedly receive a consignment of Covishield doses on Wednesday. Covishield has been developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII). On Tuesday, India also announced plans to supply vaccines to six key partner nations starting Wednesday.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line872
|
__label__cc
| 0.6576
| 0.3424
|
About christina.vines
So far christina.vines has created 9 blog entries.
christina.vines2020-12-23T18:06:13+00:00December 23rd, 2020|Uncategorized|
By Anjali Fluker – Associate Managing Editor, Orlando Business Journal Feb 3, 2016, 12:38pm EST https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2016/02/subcontractors-wanted-for-new-apartments-in.html Work is now underway on two new Central Florida apartment complexes being developed by Lake Mary-based Integra Land Co. — and those wanting a piece of the construction work still have some opportunities. Jacksonville-based general contractor LandSouth Construction is [...]
christina.vines2016-02-03T23:47:56+00:00February 3rd, 2016|News|
Florida-based developer Integra Land Co. will start construction on 280 high-end apartments in the Hillocks Farm planned community in north Hixson this spring, company officials said Tuesday.
christina.vines2016-01-19T23:22:07+00:00January 19th, 2016|News|
Russ Appel knew the Central Florida tourist market was a solid one his company could get great returns on.
christina.vines2016-01-05T23:33:07+00:00January 5th, 2016|News|
Lake Mary - based Integra Land Co. is preparing to break ground before the end of the year on Integra Sands, a 264-unit luxury apartment complex along...
christina.vines2015-12-03T22:42:51+00:00December 3rd, 2015|News|
Carolina firm pays $33.5M for new Seminole County apartment complex
A North Carolina apartment investor this week spent $33.5 million to buy a new Class A apartment complex just miles from some of Seminole County’s major job centers — including the Verizon Communications Inc. accounting hub and Deloitte’s IT operations center.
christina.vines2015-10-22T22:31:27+00:00October 22nd, 2015|News|
Developer Hines set to launch Asturia
ODESSA — Home buyers shopping along Pasco’s State Road 54 corridor will soon have another option as Hines Inc. announced it is nearing the launch of Asturia.
Developer proposes 300 unit Pasco apartment
ODESSA — Pasco County’s southern tier is continuing its rapid growth with plans to build a new 320-unit apartment complex near the Suncoast Parkway.
Orlando Sentinel – Casselberry hopes to create ‘city center’ on 17-92 near Lake Concord
Casselberry doesn't have a distinct downtown like Winter Park's or Winter Garden's, so it's planning another way to lure shoppers and diners: creating a "city center" from the ground up.
christina.vines2013-02-05T19:52:57+00:00February 5th, 2013|News|
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line878
|
__label__cc
| 0.680565
| 0.319435
|
HSBC High Yield Fund*
I Shares
Choose a Share Class
A Shares
Overview of share class details including ticker, CUSIP, and inception date
Fund Description
This actively managed fund aims to deliver consistent monthly income with longer-term capital appreciation. The fund primarily invests in a diversified portfolio of USD-denominated high yield bonds but can invest tactically in non-US companies or governments as well as in securitized debt and loans.
ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Constrained Index**
HBYIX
44330V670
Mary Bowers, CFA
Daily Nav (as of 1/19/2021)
12 Month Distribution Yield (as of 12/31/2020)
SEC 30-Day Yield (as of 12/31/2020)1
3.97% / 2.37%
Dividend Frequency
Share Class Assets (as of 1/19/2021)
Total Fund Assets (as of 1/19/2021)
Minimum Initial Investment
The monthly distribution yield is calculated by annualizing actual dividend payments distributed for the monthly period ended on the date shown and dividing by the net asset value on the ex-dividend date.
The 12 month distribution yield is the sum of the Fund’s total trailing 12 month dividend payments for the period ended on the date shown and dividing by the net asset value on the most recent ex-dividend date.
*On April 1, 2019, the HSBC Global High Yield Bond Fund became the HSBC High Yield Fund. Although the fund will no longer invest in a globally diversified portfolio of high yield securities, the fund will invest opportunistically in investments outside of the United States.
**Prior to April 1, 2019, the fund's benchmark was the ICE BofA Global High Yield Index
I Shares Factsheet
Monthly Commentary
Monthly Holdings
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line881
|
__label__cc
| 0.655353
| 0.344647
|
doing democracy
involver
Brexit Blog
involver blog
Keeping abreast of Brexit – podcast library
. Published on 07/06/2017 . 0
Obviously the biggest topic as we’re talking to young people about the EU in our sessions at Europe House and in schools and colleges around the UK is Brexit. And it’s a topic that is changing every day; we try to have the most up to date information so that we can give useful, comprehensive and impartial information. Reading a range of newspapers and news websites is a big part of this, but we also find these daily briefings and podcasts really useful, informative and easy to digest.
Click the link name to go to the website.
Brexit - general
Simple Brexit explanation A really useful explanation aimed at young people of what Brexit is by French newspaper, Liberation (in English).
Brexit podcasts
Analysis Radio 4 documentaries on political/social issues - not specifically about them, Europe and Brexit feature a lot at the moment
Brexit Central Podcast Podcast from what was the main Leave campaign group
Brexit: a guide for the perplexed 3 minute episodes from the BBC explaining key issues
Chopper's Brexit Podcast Pro-Leave political editor of the Telegraph's interviews with politicians and commentators
FT Brexit Unspun Analysis from the Financial Times (pro-Remain)
Ian Dale's Brexit Briefing Show from LBC by Conservative, broadly pro-Leave perspective, features and interviews
Talking Politics Discussion led by Cambridge University - Department of Politics and International Studies professors - lots of talk about Brexit
The Guardian's Brexit Means ... Pro-Remain analysis from the Guardian
Understanding Brexit BBC World Service focus on how Brexit is seen in different regions of the UK
EU/Brexit News
Politico Brexit Briefing Brussels-based, independent look at Brexit, daily newsletter
Politico Brussels Playbook Very good daily newsletter from independent perspective
Categories Brexit Bloginvolver blog
Brexit means Brexit… right?
The Brexit Blog is an attempt to explore and answer the questions surrounding what Brexit means to young people as they consider what their future will hold.
During our European educational sessions, young people have an opportunity to express what Brexit really means for them. What excites them about it? What concerns do they have? What would their priorities be?
This space is a platform to examine these questions further - issue by issue - and make sure young people's voices are heard in the national Brexit debate.
involver is a social enterprise that helps young people to have a say in the places they go and the services they use.
We support organisations across the world, large and small to engage with young people in a meaningful, open and democratic way.
If you'd like to discuss how we could work with you please contact Greg or Sam on
info@involver.org.uk
Organisations we’ve worked with
involver, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Enterprise Building (Unit 12), Town Hall Approach Road, London, N15 4RX 'involver', 'involver.org.uk' and 'involver : doing democracy' are trading names of Involver Education Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. Company number: 07063238 | VAT number: 986 3245 82
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read our Privacy & Cookie Policy
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line882
|
__label__cc
| 0.610445
| 0.389555
|
How BuzzFeed killed natural justice
By Jennifer Wilson | 4 August 2018, 8:00am | comments |
BuzzFeed: Your #1 source for trash journalism (Image created by Dan Jensen)
Media outlet BuzzFeed breached ethics by releasing sensitive information about Emma Husar's complaints, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.
IT BEGAN on 2 August, with this tweet from BuzzFeed reporter Alice Workman:
Morning twitter.
Yarn incoming
— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) August 1, 2018
The “incoming yarn” turned out to be this letter from John Joseph Whelan, the lawyer appointed by the NSW Labor Party to investigate staff complaints against backbench MP Emma Husar. Whelan’s letter, which is addressed to Husar and lists accusations against her to which she is invited to respond, was leaked to BuzzFeed by an anonymous source.
All complainants’ names, some 20 in total, were redacted by BuzzFeed, however it would not be difficult to identify some of them from their descriptions of Ms Husar’s alleged offences.
One does not normally expect to read in the national media workplace complaints one has lodged in confidence, particularly while the process is ongoing. When questioned on Twitter about the complainants' knowledge of or agreement with their allegations being published, Workman did not respond.
Despite the fact that the investigation into the complaints is ongoing, BuzzFeed decided it was in the public interest to publish the list of Husar’s alleged offences. This decision was later justified by the outlet’s Josh Gnosis on ABC television’s The Drum as follows:
“They just wanted to deal with it internally. And hoped it didn't get out. And that was part of the concern of why it eventually came to light. Because there was concern the report might get buried.” @joshgnosis on Emma Husar #auspol #TheDrum pic.twitter.com/bU3jccVdFf
— ABC The Drum (@ABCthedrum) August 2, 2018
Internal complaints are initially generally dealt with internally, this is not some bizarre digression from normality by the ALP — although my colleague Noely Neate questions why these complaints were not referred to the Department of Finance who employ the staffers rather than have them directed to NSW Labor. This may have been at the request of the complainants, we do not know. Neate’s piece raises many questions that need to be answered and highlights the quite bizarre circumstances surrounding this action against Husar.
Labor hoped it wouldn’t get out? Also, a normal desire for any political party when there’s internal strife.
The report might get buried? Well, if BuzzFeed suspected this to be a possibility at the conclusion of the process, that would be a good time to publish the leak. Media do not generally sabotage workplace complaints processes because they harbour concerns about the outcome. And yet, here we are.
Publishing at this point, before the process is concluded, denies natural justice to Ms Husar and to the complainants. Many of the allegations are seriously damaging and one, involving MP Jason Clare, has already been denied by that party. The sexual nature of some allegations has been singled out by BuzzFeed and subsequently other media, regardless of the fact that they have been in one instance denied and others are as yet unproven. There is little more damaging to a woman’s reputation than implies she is overly interested in sex. A woman may recover from much, but sexual slurs are in a class of their own. Despite having no proof and despite the complaints being as yet unresolved, BuzzFeed has used these scurrilous, leaked accusations to deliberately slur Ms Husar.
“Labor in turmoil over leaked Husar letter” These leaks extremely disturbing examples of unproven hounding that would destroy the most resilient among us. The ALP should raise concerns with Press Council about Buzzfeed & their self-serving obsession. https://t.co/4WqsFpNt18
— Rev Dr Stephanie Dowrick (@stephaniedowric) August 2, 2018
In setting this precedent, BuzzFeed has endangered the complaints processes in just about any workplace, but particularly in the parliamentary. All a disgruntled participant or external party has to do is attract sufficient media interest and it’s all over for the accused. A list of alleged offences can be published, as has happened with Husar, removing any hope of natural justice.
It’s already established that the Australian parliamentary workplace has woefully inadequate processes for addressing sexual harassment complaints. Now we know that something this woeful can be even further reduced — you lodge a complaint, a friend or enemy leaks the substance of your complaint to a rabid media who decide it’s in the public interest to report it, even though the investigative process is ongoing and, suddenly, even if your name is redacted, people can work out who you are and what you allege has happened to you. The accused is outed. The process both for the complainant and the accused is irrevocably tainted, and it becomes a trial by media.
If you are very unlucky, the sewer rats will make memes – as they have with Husar – and your confidential complaint and your sexuality will be all over social media as well.
None of this is encouraging to people who want to lodge complaints.
If the media can and does from now on publish leaked details of internal complaints processes before they are concluded, there is no longer any hope of natural justice for anyone involved. Emma Husar, like any accused, is entitled to natural justice. By publishing the leaked accusations, BuzzFeed has denied her that and made it possible for any other accused person to suffer the same fate. The precedent is set.
“BuzzFeed has to be very careful about defamation. If it went to a defamation trial, for instance, public interest would be one of the tests there.” @stephenodoherty on Emma Husar #auspol #TheDrum pic.twitter.com/IPMVWivzii
Exactly what public interest is served by denying the possibility of natural justice to both the accused and the complainants?
What Workman and BuzzFeed have done is bad for everyone. There can no longer be any guarantee of confidentiality in any internal complaints. Somebody with a motive leaks to the media, they publish and goodbye due process.
Denial of natural justice is never in the public interest.
In this interview with Fran Kelly on RN Breakfast this morning, Workman oozes righteous indignation as she describes how Husar has refused to speak to her, even when offered a “right of reply”. Workman has no standing in this matter. She has no authority to offer Husar the “right of reply”. She has subverted a process about which she is apparently entirely ignorant. No one ought to speak to the media while this process is in play, yet Workman attempts to frame Husar’s refusal as an indicator of guilt and non-cooperation.
Workplace complaints processes are frequently flawed. Nevertheless, I’ll take them any day over trial by media. This is an alarming new landscape we’ve entered since yesterday — one in which you can no longer feel certain that your complaint will remain confidential or certain that you won’t wake up one morning and find it all over the national media. If you’re accused, you can no longer expect your workplace to guarantee you the natural justice you deserve, not because investigators don’t want to, but because the media can disrupt the progression of the process.
The media have intruded into a space where they do not belong, to the detriment of everyone except reporters and their employers.
Natural justice is a human right. BuzzFeed just took it away from you.
You can follow Dr Jennifer Wilson on her blog No Place for Sheep or on Twitter @NoPlaceForSheep.
The more this Husar business goes on, the less credible it starts to sound. There seems to be a frantic determination in some sections of the media to nail her to the cross. Oh, and of course there's Buzzfeed. pic.twitter.com/o7EMHKbiCN
— Phillip Lodge (@phlogga) August 2, 2018
POLITICS MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS WOMEN
BuzzFeed Emma Husar Alice Workman John Joseph Whelan Twitter Josh Gnosis The Drum Noely Neate ALP Department of Finance
Recent articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
Scott Morrison's 'distress', not condemnation of U.S. Congress attack
12 January 2021, 7:00am If the PM does not make his allegiances clear, we must assume he supports the ...
Berejiklian commands virus not to spread by not mandating masks or travel bans
22 December 2020, 7:00am The NSW Government will have to answer for not mandating masks and travel to ...
The Coalition Government's deficit of trust
13 December 2020, 8:00am Scott Morrison's Government has weakened our faith in democracy and democratic ...
view all 112 articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line893
|
__label__wiki
| 0.85
| 0.85
|
IndiGo parent posts Rs 870.8 crore loss as costs rise, pandemic hits biz
The company posted a net loss of Rs 870.8 crore for the March-quarter, compared with a Rs 595.8-crore profit after tax same period last year.
Written by Pranav Mukul | New Delhi | June 3, 2020 3:05:15 am
The free cash flow of the company, which is the only cash-positive airline in India, depleted to Rs 8,928.1 crore as of March 31, compared with Rs 9,412.8 crore as of December 31, 2019. (File Photo)
TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS and a subsequent lockdown on domestic and international air travel in the January-March period pulled the bottomline of InterGlobe Aviation, which runs India’s largest airline IndiGo, in to the red. The company posted a net loss of Rs 870.8 crore for the March-quarter, compared with a Rs 595.8-crore profit after tax same period last year.
The free cash flow of the company, which is the only cash-positive airline in India, depleted to Rs 8,928.1 crore as of March 31, compared with Rs 9,412.8 crore as of December 31, 2019. Notably, the last seven days of the January-March quarter, no passenger flights were operated by IndiGo on either domestic or international routes.
“Closure of flight operations during national lockdown on account of COVID-19 significantly impacted revenue for the quarter,” the company said in a regulatory filing. Domestic flight services remained suspended for two months from March 25 when the lockdown was imposed to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. While domestic flights were allowed to resume on May 25, international flights are yet to recommence.
Speaking to analysts after declaring the results, IndiGo’s CEO Ronojoy Dutta said that while the company’s revenue position has been stronger after resumption of domestic flights, it could be mainly on account of pent-up demand. Going ahead, he said that the airline industry was witnessing various factors that would dampen demand for air travel.
“Let me state clearly that there is a dampening effect on the revenue. There is a customer fear, we all know how strong that is. On top of that the economy is weak. Even if the customers would want to travel, the economy would have depressed demand. Then there is an uncertainty of restrictions – what will Karnataka allow, what will Kerala allow. All those three things are hugely dampening for traffic,” Dutta said, adding that in the longer term air travel would grow as the economy recovers.
In the three months ended March, total income increased to Rs 8,634.6 crore, compared with Rs 8,259.7 crore in the year-ago period. Revenue from operations increased to to Rs 8,299.1 crore. Even so, a significant rise in total expenses proved to be a drag on the company’s financials. Total expenses shot up 30 per cent to Rs 9,924.4 crore in the quarter-ended March 31.
For all the latest Business News, download Indian Express App.
Pranav Mukul... read more
How Aadhaar grew from an idea into one of the world’s largest identity platform
No policy changes till May, WhatsApp says will clear the doubts
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line896
|
__label__wiki
| 0.970661
| 0.970661
|
𝗫
ibuys
The i newsletter latest news and analysis
Email address is invalidEmail address is invalid
Sorry, there was a problem with your subscription.
Post-Brexit trade: UK and Japan reach ‘substantial agreement’ with hopes deal could be sealed by end of August
The draft is thought to offer the UK tariff-free exports on products like bacon and luxury leather goods in return for cheaper car parts and electronics imports
By Jane Merrick
Negotiations have been positive and productive, and we have reached consensus on the major elements of a deal (Photo: REUTERS/Hannah McKay)
The UK and Japan have reached “substantial agreement” on a proposed post-Brexit free trade deal following talks between ministers.
Japan’s foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi said both governments were “working hard” to reach a deal, while Liz Truss, the International Trade Secretary, said it was hoped it could be sealed by the end of August.
The i politics newsletter cut through the noise
While the specific details have not yet been revealed, the draft is thought to offer the UK tariff-free exports on products like bacon and luxury leather goods in return for cheaper car parts and electronics imports, as well as agreements on data and financial services.
If agreed, it will be the largest free trade deal yet for the British government as it prepares for the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December.
‘Productive’ talks
Japan’s foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi said both governments were ‘working hard’ to reach a deal (Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
Mr Motegi has spent three days in London in talks with Ms Truss and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
Ms Truss said: “Negotiations have been positive and productive, and we have reached consensus on the major elements of a deal – including ambitious provisions in areas like digital, data and financial services that go significantly beyond the EU-Japan deal.
“Our shared aim is to reach a formal agreement in principle by the end of August. The UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will forge stronger ties between two democratic island nations with a shared commitment to free and fair trade, and strengthen the global consensus for open markets at a time of heightened protectionism.
“It will deliver more trade and investment that will benefit businesses and consumers across the whole of country and help level up our United Kingdom.”
Mr Motegi tweeted: “In the fields of investment and services, e-commerce, competition policy etc, we will include high-standard contents that exceed Japan-EU EPA. We are working hard.”
Brexit deal latest: Fresh seafood and baby chicks will be the only goods allowed to skip hours-long customs queues at UK border
Build-up to the talks
Tokyo’s chief negotiator Hiroshi Matsuura warned in June that “to avoid a gap in January… we must complete negotiations by the end of July”.
Last month Ms Truss said there would be a “comprehensive” accord with Japan “that goes further than the deal previously agreed with the EU, setting ambitious standards in areas such as digital trade and services”.
A Department for International Trade spokesperson said in July: “Both sides are committed to an ambitious timeline to secure a deal that will enter into force by the end of 2020 if at all possible. Our priority is to maintain and enhance the trading relationship between our two countries.”
Brexit Deal
Dominic Raab
Iweekend
Liz Truss
What's happened in the ITV drama The Bay so far as it returns for season 2 tonight
What time the Joe Biden inauguration concert starts and how to watch live in UK
From his wife and children to his Irish roots, all you need to know about Joe Biden's family
All you need to know about Joe Biden's children as he takes office as US President
Who is Joe Biden's wife Jill, the teacher and campaigner who will be the next US First Lady
Subscribe to i
i competitions
i newsletters
i app
All rights reserved. © 2020 Associated Newspapers Limited.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line900
|
__label__wiki
| 0.769095
| 0.769095
|
by Stacey Zering
There are a number of artists who attempt at resurrecting the Golden Age of ’70s funk and understandably so. That music is both rooted in its period but timeless as well. However, it takes a tremendous amount of talent, imagination, and a killer instinct for a hot groove to pull off. Producer/writer George Mitchell has the right ingredients when serving Fishbelly Black to the populace. Fishbelly Black’s latest album, Turn It Up, weaves together soul, R&B, and a sleek undertow of jazz – often lost in today’s makeovers – to travel back to funk’s early ’70s heyday but also inject it with contemporary hip-hop inspirations.
Q: What are the personal challenges you have gone through as a musician, and how did you overcome them?
A: I think the greatest challenge has been to accept the talents I do have. I have known some of the most amazing musicians that you will never know. Yet, I have been able to tour, get record deals, put out albums, produce a bunch of albums, etc. So there must be more to this business than just being the best guitar player out there?
Q: How did Fishbelly Black originate and how has it evolved?
A: Fishbelly Black was a studio project of mine – a made-up group. To be a record company you need product so while my artists were working on material, I was also releasing product under different names. When the first single “Spontaneous Combustion” started to take off in the U.K., I was getting offers for the band to perform – except there was no band – just me in the studio. I was even getting offers to DJ at clubs in London – and I am not a DJ. After I finished up the first CD, I decided to accept the tour offer and I put together a group of players and we toured the U.K. and then Europe. After one night at the Jazz Cafe turned into a week at Ronnie Scott’s, we caught the attention of BMG, who signed the group. But as occurs too often, there was a shakeup at the label and the CD was shelved for about eight months and I sued to get the rights back. Since then, I have released Fishbelly Black material under my label, Backbeat Records.
Q: In terms of musical style, where do you see fitting? It can be more than one.
A: I originally described the sound as “Maceo Parker and Jimmy Smith meet hip-hop breaks and beats.” At the time, it was categorized as “acid jazz” . Then that became “street jazz” and then “soul jazz.” It was tough in the U.S. because “smooth jazz” was the only format pushing anything that wasn’t straight ahead jazz, but I never really connected with a Fishbelly Black record following a Kenny G. record on the radio so even that was a tough slot to fit into. Luckily, the internet has allowed for much more varied playlists but I still find it hard to put the Fishbelly Black sound in a specific category.
Q: What was the first slice of music that ignited your imagination?
A: I could put on a Beatles record today and still know every lyric and guitar part. I was always drawn to a good melody and loved harmonies. For some reason I was never really into whatever was contemporary at the time. Whether the Beatles or James Brown, I always seemed to look back for my inspiration.
Q: Tell me your artistic influences and how they affected you. What did you learn from them?
A: I was always drawn to music that had a rebellious side. Whether it was punk music or hip-hop, I was into artists that could capture their defiance on vinyl. I was also drawn to artists that had their own sound, especially guitar players. It takes two notes for me to identify that Jeff Beck or David Gilmore is playing. It is that kind of identity that I wanted to bring to a Fishbelly Black record.
Q: Can you describe how you have evolved creatively throughout the years?
A: I try not to be dismissive of anything I hear. I just say to myself, “it’s not my time to hear it.” I hated disco, but now I can listen to a KC and the Sunshine Band record and totally appreciate the funky groove and arrangements. How did I miss that the first time around? Having a studio in a laptop has ignited the biggest creative advance for me. I used to run to a portable cassette deck when I wanted to capture an idea. Now I feel like I have the equivalent of Abbey Road Studios at my disposal. As a producer, I am more in tune to the sounds, the arrangement, the feel of a recording. I grew up drawn to incredible songs, so the recording quality was never the priority. Now there are more crappy songs that sound amazing.
Q: Do you feel being a musician is a job or a hobby? Or both. Please explain.
A: I would say neither. It’s something your just born to do. It’s a passion. Whether I was getting paid or not, music is something I would always have done. The challenge is to be able to get paid with few compromises. I know some incredible musicians working in wedding bands. I think I would prefer to sell my soul doing a regular 9-5. With that said, I have always treated it like a job. I’m not one to sit on the beach waiting for inspiration. I sit at the piano at 8 a.m. and say I can take a break when I write something.
backbeatrecords.com
and hip-hop
David Gilmore
Fishbelly Black
Interview: George Mitchell of Fishbelly Black on weaving funk
Maceo Parker
Stacey Zering
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (TVT). Review by Rob Ward.
Al Hoff
Phil Bailey talks thrifting and personal ads with Al Hoff, the author of Thrift Score and If You Like Pi–a Coladas: The Humor and Weirdness of Personal Ads
Dog Fashion Disco (Spitfire). Review by Kiran Aditham.
Broadway's Most Wanted
Ben Varkentine‘s got a little list (“He’s gota little list…”).
Shadow Hearts (Prosthetic Records). Review by Vinnie Apicella.
The Myrtles
Nowhere To Be Found (C Student). Fair and Balanced Review by Sean Slone.
Sumo Princess
When An Electric Storm. (Educational Recordings) Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the
Print Review by James MacLaren
Remora / Pale Horse and Rider / Rivulets
The Alcohol EPs (Silber). Review by Stein Haukland.
Spirit Of Africa
Various Artists (Real World/Narada). Review by Vanessa Bormann.
:wumpscut:
Embryodead (Metropolis). Review by drew West
'Sweet as Broken Dates' - Lost Somali Tapes
‘Sweet as Broken Dates’ – Lost Somali Tapes (Ostinato Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line901
|
__label__wiki
| 0.864618
| 0.864618
|
Ja Ja Ding Dong | “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” 2020 Netflix Movie Review
By Mitchell Chapman July 12, 2020 July 12, 2020
1 Comment on Ja Ja Ding Dong | “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” 2020 Netflix Movie Review
Not many successful musical comedies exist on film, and that’s because both genres must strike a precarious balance. “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”, a Netflix film that was partially funded by the Icelandic government merges a very average Will Ferrell comedy with legitimately good music numbers through the vehicle of the Eurovision Song Contest.
As such, the film is part advertisement for Iceland, Eurovision and European pop music, and part musi-comedy.
The film stars Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdóttir, two Icelandic amateur musicians part of the band “Fire Saga”, who have aspirations of winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which Lars’ widowed father, Erick (Pierce Brosnan) disapproves of.
The Icelandic Eurovision committee gets the best contest submission they’ve ever gotten by a young artist named Katiana Lindsdóttir (Demi Lovato), so much so that they select the 12th competition slot of Söngvakeppnin (a country-wide competition that formally selects who represents Iceland at Eurovision) at random because they think they have a winner in Katiana. Lars and Sigrit are picked for the competition slot, and through a comedy of errors, they find themselves at Eurovision, where they compete against talented competitors including flamboyant Russian singer Alexander Lemtov (Dan Stevens), who takes a liking to Sigrit, and Greek contestant Mita Xenakis (Melissanthi Mahut), who befriends Lars.
The comedy in this film is painfully average. Its comedic elements get between a 5/10 and 6/10 from me. It’s mostly harmless — just Will Ferrell being weird — but the few genuine laughs in this film are few and far between. What works well and what elevates this film are its musical numbers, which are excellent. The soundtrack of this film is vibrant and varied, with many diverse samplings of European pop music, and I’d say it’s worth buying on its own. The film blends the vocals of the two leads, who are not pop singers, with the vocals of professional singers, and the result is surprisingly believable, high quality music that fits in the film perfectly.
The production value for the musical numbers is also surprisingly high-quality. In fact, if “Eurovision” entirely ditched its comedic plot with Ferrell and McAdams and instead produced a serious musical film, I would have been perfectly happy with it. Once a number starts, with eye-catching visuals, powerful vocals and exciting choreography, you forget you’re watching a below-average Will Ferrell comedy, because you’re witnessing highly-entertaining, beautifully-crafted art.
Buy the soundtrack to this movie, and enjoy the musical elements of the film. It’s worth sitting through the awkward humour.
This movie succeeds at being everything but a comedy. But I still will have to say that it was money well spent on the part of Iceland, Netflix, and Eurovision. This movie makes me want to watch the real Eurovision competition, and Iceland looks absolutely gorgeous in this film.
“Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” gets a 7/10
Tags: Aexander Lemtov Dan Stevens Demi Lovato Erick Erickssong Eurovision Song Contest Iceland Ja Ja Ding Dong Katiana Lindsdóttir Melissanthi Mahut Mita Xenakis Netflix newpost Opinion Pierce Brosnan Rachel McAdams Review Söngvakeppnin Sigrit Ericksdóttir Will Ferrell
Published by Mitchell Chapman
Mitchell Chapman is the owner and editor of InReview. He has worked at New England Newspapers Inc. as a page designer/copy editor and columnist since June 2016. An alumnus of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, he is the former editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Beacon, and has also served as the paper’s arts & entertainment editor, features editor, managing editor and business manager. He was also the editor-in-chief of the school's chapter of Her Campus, and the design editor for the 2017 and 2018 editions of the Spires Literary Journal. He's been published in The Berkshire Eagle, Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer, Manchester Journal, The Huffington Post and Goomba Stomp Magazine.View all posts by Mitchell Chapman
tensecondsfromnow says:
As does Scotland; a real shame there’s no hard CD’s of the soundtrack (that I can find)!
Previous Entry Dollar Store Percy Jackson | “Artemis Fowl” 2020 Disney Plus Movie Review
Next Entry Disney Orders More Helpings Of Filoni with “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” (2021) | Column rom the Editor
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line903
|
__label__wiki
| 0.746627
| 0.746627
|
The View from Cockforest
Select PageHomeAbout CV PressThe View from CockforestWorkContactLoves
Langham Research Centre – Muffled Cyphers (2014)
Thanks to CM’s continuing Support and Development Programme Dedicated to My Ears & to a Lesser Extent My Eyes (CM’s SDPDMYLEME, in its second year and still without CS core funding like so many of our essential institutions making an impact on the ground), I’m watching, then listening to, then watching Langham Research Centre‘s Muffled Cyphers over and over.
Aaahhh, cannibalism. Who doesn’t rate it as a reasonable alternative to veganism? As long as it’s amongst friends. An old chum once observed that, if in an ‘Alive’ situation, I’d be tucking into the frozen, juicy dead before the airplane ready meals had run out. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed Julia Ducournau‘s Raw then. More a coming of age film (and its all about eating disorders of course) than a video nasty, this beautifully shot film also reminded me of those Bright College Days,
when lab coats were a daily staple.
Watch the trailer here.
Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981)
My preferred translation of this Russian title is To the Stars, the Hard Ways*. Watch it with english subs here.
‘The action of this film, *whose Latin title translates as Through the Thorns to the Stars, is based on a screenplay by cult Soviet sci-fi writer Kir Bulychev and is set in deep space and on fictional planets. A reconnaissance craft — named Pushkin in homage to Russia’s greatest poet — encounters a derelict starship. Inside is a humanoid woman with inhuman abilities — teleportation, telekinesis, and so forth.
Richard Viktorov directed the original 1981 version of this film. He died soon afterwards in 1983 while shooting The Comet, another sci-fi movie. Richard’s son, Nikolai Viktorov, released a new version of the film in 2015, having remastered the sound and special effects and shortened the running time by cutting several set pieces laced with Soviet ideology.’
www.russianartandculture.com/
Annihilation – Alex Garland – 2018
Annihilation is a far less anaemic film than Ex Machina and the casting’s perfect. The Thing, Stalker, The Crystal World each get a nod and there’s a very, very frightening bear. Lucky I caught it before I rainbow-ed my own current work in progress though…
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell to Earth (2017)
A smashing Davidfest by Nacho’s Productions. Sigh. David Bowie is the Man Who Fell to Earth.
Margaret Salmon, Mm & Sacred Paws @ The Tramway
Live score for Margaret’s Salmon’s Mm by Sacred Paws was exciting! Mm showing Berwick Speedway lads transforming from ordinary to adonis-y over a day, reduced to 30 minutes here. Sacred Paws caused dancing and warm feelings of admiration, made even cosier by the presence of favs. L and L.
I See You Man @ Celine
I need to get back sharpish to see the rest of I See You Man at Celine, featuring favs. such as Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson…
From Celine’s site is this great introductory text by Nadia Hebson – Plus reading group/events on March 31st…
I See You Man 25.02.2018 – 31.03.2018
Celine is happy to present an exhibition organised by Nadia Hebson and Sophie Macpherson:
In summer of 2016 Sophie Macpherson and I (Nadia Hebson) worked on a text which explored our shared interests in apparel, physicality, female subjectivity and friendship. Drawing on skype and email conversations the text took an epistolary form and ranged through personal perspectives on women artists’ practices and international events such as the ‘migrant crisis’ and the EU Referendum, alongside descriptions of sports clothing and club wear, and reflections on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the paintings of Christina Ramberg. An unguarded but none the less edited script, the text became a short hand for the creative space of female friendship.
Writing about Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels which detail the lifetime relationship of two women from an impoverished Neapolitan neighbourhood the writer Natasha Soobramanien likens the women’s friendship to an act of translation. Soobramanien writes ‘Lila and Lenù are translated beings, translating one another, shifting continually between the Neapolitan dialect of their childhood and the standard form of Italian both have a talent for expressing themselves in. And it is in this more rarefied linguistic sphere that Lenù finds success, and her professional voice as a writer (a voice modelled on Lila’s writerly voice)’. Lila and Lenu steel themselves through the confines of 60’s, 70s’ and 80’s femininity through the persistence of their complex friendship, which Ferrante so carefully atomises. They see one another and at times offer each a template for being, Ferrante’s writing of their friendship is closely analogous to the experience of creative friendship. And to understand female friendship as a form of translation is to recalibrate its constituents, becoming a space of attention, mirroring, testing, exchange, admiration and productive envy, a space of agency.
In taking the complexities of female friendship and the communicative possibilities of dress as a starting point we have invited artists and writers who are friends and potential friends to contribute work to I See You Man. These artists and writers work explore ideas of mentorship, resonance as described by Italian Feminist Carla Lonzi, feminist activism, translation, biography, fictional autobiography and the agency of dress.
Exhibiting artists: Phoebe Blatton and Annika Hüttmann, August Fröhls, Nadia Hebson, Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge, Ellen Lesperance, Sophie Macpherson, Julia Schmidt, Clemence Seilles, Clare Stephenson
The title of the show ‘I See You Man’ is taken from work by Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge.
Exhibition will then be open by appointment only: contact@galleryceline.com or 07500 343764 or 017827252941
On Saturday 31st March Celine will host an afternoon of performance, readings, talks and a reading group where the following texts and related material will be discussed. The below books and texts will be available throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Ingeborg Bachman, Three Paths to the Lake
Lucia Berlin, Manual for Cleaning Women
Kate Briggs, This Little Art
Daniela Cascella, Singed
Elfriede Jellinek, Jackie http://siti.org/sites/default/files/JACKIE_WP_2.27.13.pdf
Carla Lonzi, Autoritratto
Dorothy Richardson, Painted Roofs
Natasha Soobramanien Five Notes on Smarginature https://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/five-notes-on-smarginature-by-natasha-soobramanien/
Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T
Alchemists and alchemical-like types…
…seem to spring up everywhere when you start looking – all part of its symbolic mutability and what not. This week I have mostly been watching & reading, with Eggs and Aliens for The Curios Society as the excuse…
The Holy Mountain, The Colour of Pomegranates, El Topo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A Dream Within A Dream, Get Out, Possession, Arrival, The Story of Your Life, Memoirs of a Spacewoman, Blade Runner 2049 (again) & The Exterminating Angel. A mixed bag, I think you can agree. What can I say? I’m a nibbler and a picker at the black, white and red buffet…
Spoorloos (1989)
From under a snow-topped blanket, I loved Spoorloos (The Vanishing), George Sluizer’s film is reminiscent of much of Eric Rohmer’s 80s output. Or maybe it’s a fashion thing?
‘Based on Time Krabbe’s The Golden Egg, The Vanishing is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller about a young man’s search for his girlfriend after she disappears at a rest stop during a short trip.’ IMDB
Eggs and Aliens
You’d never know it, but…there has been action. Trapped in Glasgow by snow, I hastily re-wrote my contribution to this sold out event The Curios Society at the Whitechapel
(Saturday 3rd March, 3pm, Whitechapel), so that Eggs and Aliens was delivered by ‘Fiona’, the ‘Scottish’ digital Word voice, who, when slowed to somewhere between slow and normal, sounds almost exactly like me anyway. A totally subjective trip from the first Alchemist to alien abduction, via a female mad scientist, two linguist spacewomen and a picnic, Eggs and Aliens‘ images were gamely moved along by the non-digital flesh finger of Robert Williams.
So I missed in person, Robert’s excellent discussions of his work with Dion and the brilliant Kate Briggs’ talk about the alchemy of translation… But I’ve got an audio file – a treat for later today…
Huge thanks to Jane Scarth and the tech team of The Whitechapel for the massive effort and for agreeing to let Fiona speak in the first place.
Fiona’s better than I am at pronouncing ouroboros anyway.
“Assembling on the first three Saturdays of Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World, The Curios Society meets to investigate the weird and wonderful, the unlikely and impossible.
Alchemy can describe a philosophical tradition, an esoteric practice, a way of thinking and at times, an artistic methodology.
We meet artists Robert Williams, Kate Briggs and Jane Topping to explore ideas of the alchemical in art. From transmutation in translation to the figure of the alchemist in popular film cultures, this talk charts a course through the mysteries and cultural intersections of alchemy.”
From the Whitechapel website.
© 2004-2020 Jane Topping - All rights reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line910
|
__label__wiki
| 0.77939
| 0.77939
|
Scientists Push For New Wave Of Eugenics With Genome Testing For All Newborns
dericiousknitty January 12, 2016 January 12, 2016 Depopulation, Evil Good and Good Evil, Eyes to See, Future Technology, Genetic Modification, New World Order, Prophecy, Total Control, Transhumanism
(NaturalNews) Soon, doctors and scientists expect to begin controversial genome sequencing of healthy newborn babies, part of a research program funded by the federal government on behalf of genetic science.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the research will be conducted at major hospitals and health institutions around the country. The project “stems from a growing recognition that genome sequencing could someday be part of routine testing done on every baby,” the paper said in its online edition.
That kind of testing, backers say, will give doctors and parents lots of information which could reveal a wider range of possible risks to their children’s health later in life — much more so than the current traditional heel-prick test in which blood is taken from a small number of newborns to check for dozens of potential health issues.
“All of medicine is genomic medicine”
As further reported by the WSJ:
Genome sequencing of infants also someday could provide people with a genetic blueprint to carry through life. The data could be used years later to help develop personalized medical treatment, such as choosing the most effective asthma medication.
“We are entering an era where all of medicine is genomic medicine,” Robert C. Green, a geneticist and researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston — a participant in the government program — told the paper. “In the next five to 10 years, as costs come down and interpretation is more established, it will increasingly be to everyone’s advantage to have sequencing information integrated into their care.”
Supporters of the project note that identifying diseases early on can save a child’s life or at least lead to treatments and interventions that could change the progression of the disorder. Scientists say that whole genome or whole exome sequencing, the latter of which concentrates on the 1-2 percent of the genome believed responsible for the bulk of genetic disorders, can help find mutations that are linked to some diseases.
Already there are some medical facilities that perform sequencing on a fraction of newborns who demonstrate signs of sickness or developmental problems. That limited sequencing has nonetheless provided doctors with information that they can use to treat underlying conditions.
There are a number of issues and questions surrounding genome sequencing in newborns, however. Most of the human genome is shrouded in mystery, and there is no guarantee that, once it is fully sequenced, doctors will have the capacity to utilize and interpret data provided by the sequencing.
Also, there is an added expense factor to consider. Traditional heel-prick testing costs about $25; while the price of genome sequencing has dropped dramatically, it still costs $1,000 or more.
Some families don’t want to know
And finally, there are ethical considerations: Should physicians inform parents of test results which reveal that their newborn baby has some mutations that doctors are not even certain will cause problems later in life?
Indeed, some families have expressed concerns and discomfort with genetic information and as such have opted out of having their newborns tested (the program is voluntary, WSJ notes). However, if the sequencing process were to become universal for newborns, “there will need to be population-wide education and acceptance, which I foresee will take longer than solving the technical problems,” Joshua E. Petrikin, director of neonatal genomics at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. — which obtained federal funding to study sequencing in sick newborns — told the paper.
Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded $25 million in total to four projects aimed at examining separate aspects of sequencing genes in newborns. Additional institutions participating in the project include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of California, San Francisco, the latter of which will “sequence previous heel-prick samples with the aim of improving the accuracy of newborn screening,” the WSJ reported.
http://www.wsj.com
http://www.genome.gov
Original Article: http://www.naturalnews.com/052610_genome_testing_eugenics_newborns.html#ixzz3x2cNg5Pt
better stronger population, brigham and women's hospital in boston, Depopulation, Designer Babies, eugenics, euthanize undesirable fetus', funded by federal government, genome sequencing, genome testing, genomic medicine, robert c green, undesirables removed
Previous End Of Gender: The Next Normal
Next Artificial Pancreas Trials Begin In The US
Pingback: In Our Future: Genetic Discrimination And The Inevitability Of Being A Second-Class Citizen Based On DNA | Jasper and Sardine
Pingback: Such A Slippery Slope: First Child Dies By Euthanasia In Belgium | Jasper and Sardine
Pingback: Baby Charlie Gard ‘Death Panels’: Exactly Why America Doesn’t Want Socialized Medicine | Jasper and Sardine
Pingback: Eugenics In Full Swing: Tennessee Inmates Offered Reduced Jail Time If They Get Vasectomy Or Birth Control Microchip | Jasper and Sardine
Pingback: Just As Expected: Iceland Goes Full Eugenics To Wipe Out Down Syndrome With Abortion | Jasper and Sardine
Pingback: Newborn DNA Scans Test For 1800 Diseases And Raise Privacy Concerns With Many | Jasper and Sardine
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line912
|
__label__cc
| 0.633611
| 0.366389
|
Erratum to: Call for an urgent rethink of the 'health at every size’ concept
Amanda Sainsbury1 &
Phillipa Hay2,3
The original article was published in Journal of Eating Disorders 2014 2:8
Sainsbury and Hay [1] did not cite a source for 'Health at Every Size’ in the original article. The following was sourced from the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDH) website, accessed on 23rd March 2014:
https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/content.asp?id=152.
“The Health At Every Size® Principles are
Weight Inclusivity: Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights.
Health Enhancement: Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs.
Respectful Care: Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities.
Eating for Well-being: Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control.
Life-Enhancing Movement: Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.”
While we subscribe to and support most of the above-mentioned principles, in particular the high importance of ending weight stigma and weight bias, the article was written to address issues related to Principles 1 and 4.
With regards to Principle 1, and for the reasons outlined in our commentary, we respectfully disagree that it is possible to be - or to stay - truly healthy with body weights outside of certain thresholds.
With respect to Principle 4, we believe that externally regulated eating plans and/or an explicit focus on weight control are necessary in some situations for people to attain or maintain a healthy body weight. While we ourselves frequently draw on principles such as eating according to appetite and pleasure in our clinical practice and research, there are situations where intuitive eating plans per se do not result in loss of excess weight. For instance, such intuitive eating plans - while promoting psychological health - have shown disappointing results with respect to weight loss in clinical trials [2]. We believe it is most likely that intuitive eating plans need to be combined with some elements of structured, externally regulated dietary programs in order to produce reliable weight loss. Such elements may include a specific focus on choosing certain types of foods in preference to others [3, 4], keeping a written record of hunger and satiety levels and eating only within externally-prescribed hunger levels [5], or heeding biofeedback on markers of physical hunger, such as blood glucose levels [6]. Given the challenges of adhering to such requirements, particularly in today’s obesogenic environment, many adults (but not children) may benefit from an explicit focus on weight loss in order to promote adherence.
In addition to a lack of robust or reliable weight loss unless combined with aspects of externally regulated eating, ad libitum eating plans are not suitable for people who prefer to follow more structured weight loss plans, or for whom internal hunger regulation may be disrupted, perhaps due to the hypothesised hypothalamic changes outlined in our commentary. Many people with a body mass index in the obese range may indeed benefit from severe and highly externally regulated weight loss strategies such as very low energy diets [7, 8] and bariatric surgery [9, 10].
Sainsbury A, Hay PJ: Call for an urgent rethink of the 'health at every size’ concept. Commentary. J Eat Disord. 2014, 2: 8-10.1186/2050-2974-2-8.
Van Dyke N, Drinkwater EJ: Relationships between intuitive eating and health indicators: literature review. Public Health Nutr. 2013, 1-10.
Poulsen SK, Due A, Jordy AB, Kiens B, Stark KD, Stender S, Holst C, Astrup A, Larsen M: Health effect of the New Nordic Diet in adults with increased waist circumference: a 6-mo randomized controlled trial. Am J Clinical Nutr. 2014, 99: 35-45. 10.3945/ajcn.113.069393.
McMillan-Price J, Petocz P, Atkinson F, O’Neill K, Samman S, Steinbeck K, Caterson I, Brand-Miller J: Comparison of 4 diets of varying glycemic load on weight loss and cardiovascular risk reduction in overweight and obese young adults: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med. 2006, 166: 1466-1475. 10.1001/archinte.166.14.1466.
Sainsbury-Salis A: Don’t Go Hungry For Life. 2011, Sydney, Australia: Random House Australia
Ciampolini M, Lovell-Smith HD, Kenealy T, Bianchi R: Hunger can be taught: hunger recognition regulates eating and improves energy balance. Int J Gen Med. 2013, 6: 465-478.
Asher RCZ, Burrows TL, Collins CE: Very low-energy diets for weight loss in adults: a review. Nutr Dietetics. 2012
Baker S, Jerums G, Proietto J: Effects and clinical potential of very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2009, 85: 235-242. 10.1016/j.diabres.2009.06.002.
Kashyap SR, Bhatt DL, Wolski K, Watanabe RM, Abdul-Ghani M, Abood B, Pothier C, Brethauer S, Nissen S, Gupta M, Kirwan JP, Schauer PR: Metabolic effects of bariatric surgery in patients with moderate obesity and type 2 diabetes: analysis of a randomized control trial comparing surgery with intensive medical treatment. Diabetes Care. 2013, 36: 2175-2182. 10.2337/dc12-1596.
National Health and Medical Research Council: Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, Adolescents and Children in Australia. 2013, Melbourne: National Health and Medical Research Council
The Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Amanda Sainsbury
School of Medicine and Centre for Health Research, University of Western Sydney, Locked bag 1797, 2751, Penrith, NSW, Australia
School of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/2050-2974-2-8
Sainsbury, A., Hay, P. Erratum to: Call for an urgent rethink of the 'health at every size’ concept. J Eat Disord 2, 13 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-2974-2-13
Accepted: 20 May 2014
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line914
|
__label__wiki
| 0.571001
| 0.571001
|
National Institutes of Health • Office of the Director | Volume 22 Issue 2 • March–April 2014
NHGRI, NHLBI, NIAID, NIAMS, NCI, NIDDK, CC: DISCOVERY OF A GENETIC DISORDER THAT CAUSES STROKES AND VASCULAR INFLAMMATION IN CHILDREN
NIH researchers have identified gene variants that cause a rare syndrome of sporadic fevers, skin rashes, and recurring strokes, beginning early in childhood. The team’s discovery coincides with findings by an Israeli research group that identified an overlapping set of variants of the same gene in patients with a similar type of blood-vessel inflammation.
Jonathan Bailey, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
A variation in the gene that codes for a key blood-vessel enzyme causes a rare disease in children that makes them prone to fevers, rash, and strokes.
The discovery of what underlies this blood-vessel disease may also benefit efforts to treat and prevent stroke in general.
The NIH group first encountered a patient with the syndrome approximately 10 years ago. The patient, then 3 years old, experienced fevers, skin rash, and strokes that left her severely disabled. Because there was no history of a similar illness in the family, the NIH group did not at first suspect a genetic cause, and it treated the patient with immunosuppressive medications.
Several years passed, but then two unrelated children with very similar symptoms came to NIH. The researchers began to suspect a common genetic cause and embarked on a medical odyssey that has led not only to a diagnosis, but also to fundamental new insights into blood-vessel disease. Intramural scientists from seven NIH Institutes and Centers teamed up to sequence and analyze the exomes—the protein-coding part of the genomes—of all three affected children and their unaffected parents. That was no small feat, because although the exome makes up less than 2 percent of the human genome, it still contains about 30 million DNA letters. Sequencing efforts of this scale have only become feasible in the last few years, thanks to the development of faster, cheaper sequencing technologies.
When the researchers examined the genetic data, they discovered all three children had two mutated copies of the CECR1 gene—one copy from each of their parents. In contrast, their parents each carried one normal copy and one mutated copy of the CECR1 gene.
The CECR1 gene codes for an enzyme called adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2), which is crucial for blood-vessel development and maintaining the balance of key immune cells called monocytes and macrophages. The mutated copies of CECR1 found in the young patients impair their ability to produce the ADA2 enzyme. This ADA2 deficiency, the researchers found, leads to vascular and immune system abnormalities that promote a vicious cycle of inflammation that, in turn, raises the risk of stroke.
The discovery of what underlies this rare blood-vessel disease, which researchers have dubbed “Deficiency of ADA2,” or DADA2, may also benefit efforts to treat and prevent a much more common vascular disorder: stroke. Intriguingly, at least one previous study has found that adults who carry one CERC1 mutation may face an increased risk of late-onset stroke. Building on the new findings, it is now possible to delve further into the role of the ADA2 pathway in stroke and other blood-vessel disorders. (NIH authors: Q. Zhou, D. Yang, D.L. Kastner, M. Boehm, I. Aksentijevich, et al.; N Eng J Med DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1307361)
NIDDK, NICHD, NCI: SHIVERING MAY BOOST HEAT-PRODUCING BROWN FAT IN HUMANS
When NIH researchers explored how hormones regulate physiologic responses to cold exposure in humans, they uncovered an intriguing relationship between shivering, brown fat, and exercise. Mammals maintain body temperature through biological processes that reduce heat loss and increase heat production during cold exposure. Brown fat and muscle are central to thermal homeostasis. In contrast to ordinary white fat, whose primary function is to store excess energy as lipids, brown fat is a unique heat-producing tissue, specializing in burning its stored lipids and releasing energy as heat. On the other hand, muscle generates heat during exercise or shivering. How brown fat and muscle communicate to maintain body temperature has been poorly understood.
In this study, healthy volunteers were exposed to cold temperatures until shivering occurred. Blood samples were collected during cooling to measure concentrations of different hormones. These values were then compared with those obtained during an exercise test.
The researchers found the hormones irisin and fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) to be cold-stimulated, the former from shivering muscle and the latter from activated brown fat. Exercise and shivering increased irisin concentrations to similar extent. The team then treated human fat cells with these hormones in the laboratory and found that irisin and FGF21 both transformed human white fat cells into heat-producing brown fat cells.
Since the discovery of irisin in 2012 (in an NIH-funded study), scientists have puzzled over why exercise, an energy-expending process, would stimulate a hormone that produces heat. The current study suggests exercise could be mimicking shivering through muscle contraction, but the evolutionary origin of irisin could be a cold-activated endocrine system that turns white fat into heat-producing brown fat to protect humans from cold temperatures. From a clinical point of view, the cold-activated hormones irisin and FGF21 hold promise as potential treatment targets for obesity and related metabolic disorders. (NIH authors: P. Lee, J. Linderman, S. Smith, R. J. Brychta, J. Wang, C. Idelson, R.M. Perron, C.D. Werner, G.Q. Phan, U.S. Kammula, E. Kebebew, K. Pacak, K.Y. Chen, F.S. Celi; Cell Metab 19:302–309, 2014)
NIDCR: P38 IS HIGHLY ACTIVE IN HEAD AND NECK CANCERS
Better treatment options are needed for people diagnosed with head and neck cancers because the current therapies of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy control cancer at the cost of normal tissues, sometimes damaging them permanently. An NIDCR-led team of scientists reported that p38 kinase is active in head and neck cancer cells and blocking p38 may help prevent cancers from growing. Although p38 is known to play a role in breast and bladder cancers, these results may be the first to show that p38 also plays a highly active role in head and neck cancers.
The team tested SB203580, a drug known to block p38 activity. As expected, SB203580 reduced the growth of head and neck cancer cells in the lab. When the NIDCR team used the drug SB203580 to treat human head and neck cancers that had been transplanted into lab mice, SB203580 shrank the cancers.
The next step will be to test a new generation of drugs that inhibit p38. The team has developed new mouse models of metastatic oral cancer and hopes to demonstrate that preventing the activation of p38 will not only diminish the growth of the oral cancer and the new blood vessels that feed the cancer, but will also reduce the cancer’s ability to spread to nearby lymph nodes and spread throughout the body. (NIH authors: K. Leelahavanichkul, P. Amornphimoltham, A.A. Molinolo, J. S. Gutkind; Mol Oncol 8:105–118, 2014)
NIDCR: CELLS THAT BREAK DOWN COLLAGEN
NIDCR researchers collaborated with an international team of scientists to visualize collagen protein within living tissues and determine which cells degrade it. They were surprised to find that the most important cell type in animals (mice) was different from the most common cell type identified in previous in vitro laboratory studies.
Although many types of cells can make the collagen-degrading enzymes known as collagenases, the scientists reported that they identified the most important cell type as a type of blood cell known as an M2-like macrophage because it shares characteristics with M2 macrophages. Although one of the usual functions of an M2 macrophage is to clean up cell debris by engulfing and degrading it, in the earlier in vitro studies, fibroblasts—not macrophages—were the cell type that had been most important for collagen internalization and degradation. Their research thus supports the hypothesis that M2-like macrophages are involved in tissue repair.
The researchers next want to determine whether the extensive tissue-remodeling process that occurs around tumors and the accompanying collagen degradation is principally caused by cancer cells, tumor-associated fibroblasts, or macrophages. Previous studies have suggested that tumor-associated M2-like macrophages may promote the growth of cancer and its invasion of nearby tissues. Elucidating the mechanism of collagen degradation in cancer is the first step in devising therapies that could prevent invasion of cancer. (NIDCR authors: D.H. Madsen, D. Leonard, A. Masedunskas, A. Moyer, H.J. Jürgensen, D.E. Peters, P. Amornphimoltham, A. Selvaraj, R. Weigert, T.H. Bugge; J Cell Biol 202:951–966, 2013)
OTT: NIH’S SUCCESS IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT
Compared with other U.S. public-sector research institutions, the NIH Intramural Program (IRP) has contributed inventions that have had a disproportionately greater impact on the overall number of products produced (particularly vaccines, cancer therapeutics and in vivo diagnostics), drugs granted orphan status, and drugs granted priority review because they offer major advances in treatment.
The drugs referred to are powerhouse medications and vaccines such as paclitaxel (Taxol), live oral tetravalent Rotavirus vaccine (RotaShield, now being tested in Africa), bortezomib (Velcade), quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil), and darunavir (Prezista). The total global net sales of drugs using inventions developed by the NIH-IRP was nearly $7 billion in 2010. In the past two decades, the NIH-IRP has contributed more than 14 percent of the total number of drugs brought to the market under commercial licenses from public-sector research institutions while receiving about 11 percent of all NIH research funds to these institutions (not including the non-NIH funding universities receive). (OTT authors: S.K. Chatterjee, M.L. Rohrbaugh; Nat Biotechnol 32:52–58, 2014)
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE KRYSTEN CARRERA
A Life Collected
Meet the Stadtmans
Sickle-Cell Disease in Africa
The Myriad Decision: A Move toward Trade Secrets?
NIH in History
Photographic Moment
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line923
|
__label__wiki
| 0.97811
| 0.97811
|
New Hampshire woman arrested after she allegedly pushed her dog into a lake and watched it drown
Posted: Jun 17, 2019 / 08:21 AM CDT / Updated: Jun 17, 2019 / 08:22 AM CDT
A New Hampshire woman faces an animal cruelty charge after pushing her 11-year-old dog into a lake and watching it drown.
Nancy Bucciarelli was arrested Friday. She is accused of taking her golden Labrador Retriever to Wasserman Park in Merrimack, about 29 miles south of Concord, on June 8 and then pushing it from a dock where it struggled to swim and eventually drowned, police said in a news release.
An investigation by the department’s animal control officer found the 66-year-old Bucciarelli made no attempt to rescue the dog, police said.
Witnesses told investigators the dog appeared “old and easily winded,” the release said. “Witnesses further advised that when they could see the dog struggling, they tried to render aid; however, it was too late.”
The dog drowned in 3 1/2 feet of water, police said.
Bucciarelli surrendered to Merrimack police. She was released on personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to appear in Merrimack Circuit Court on June 27 to answer to the charge of misdemeanor cruelty to animals.
CNN has reached out to Bucciarelli for comment.
by Taylor Adams / Jan 20, 2021
YUKON, Okla. (KFOR) - A metro mother says her 15-year-old son was nearly killed after a dog attack in Yukon.
“No child should have to fight for his life,” said Tamara Doonkeen.
by WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 20, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) -- A Florida lawmaker says he will be supporting an amendment to rename a major Florida highway after former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Anthony Sabatini said he plans to sponsor a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would rename U.S. Highway 27 to "President Donald J. Trump Highway."
You’ve registered on Oklahoma’s COVID-19 vaccine portal- now what?
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line926
|
__label__cc
| 0.504266
| 0.495734
|
by Peter Lynn
(Found in Kiting Magazine 2011 Vol 33 Issue 2)
Thoughts on Single Line Kite Stability For a kite to fly on a single line, it must, as the most basic condition, have some way to detect which way is up. All single line kites that aren’t under some sort of remote control do this by having their centre of lift position (CL, where lift forces act) above their centre of gravity (CG, where weight forces act). The pendulum effect that this creates causes such kites to point upwards, and upwards they will fly, until they get to a line angle at which wind-generated lift exactly matches the kite’s weight (when the kite is said to be at its apex) disregarding dynamic effects of course.
But unfortunately, we can’t disregard dynamic effects because they very often prevent kites from flying stably at their apex. And, at some upper wind speed, they will always prevent kites from doing so. This is because, while the lift (and drag) forces that drive dynamic instabilities increase with the square of wind speed, the weight force (from which the kite derives its upward seeking tendency) is constant. At some wind speed therefore, the pendulum effect will be overwhelmed by aerodynamic forces and the kite will crash — if it doesn’t break first.
Dynamic instabilities derive from apparent wind effects; changes to the air speed experienced by a kite that are caused by its own movements. Of particular significance for dynamic instability is the relationship by which, when a kite is turning, the lift on the faster wing will increase by more than the lift on the slower wing decreases.
It’s useful to consider two main failure modes for single line kites. One, over correction, is when a kite reacts too aggressively while re-aligning itself with the wind and triggers dynamic effects. The other, under correction, is when it reacts too slowly. An example of over-correction is when recovery from some directional displacement (a change in wind direction for example) initiates a series of increasing amplitude lateral oscillations that build until the kite starts to loop uncontrollably. An example of under correction is when a kite takes so long to recover from a directional displacement that while doing so it traverses completely to one side or other of its wind window and collapses.
In addition to the relative magnitude of a kite’s pendulum Why Kites Don’t Fly by Peter Lynn effect, the four main elements that influence over correction/under correction are tail drag (tails, trailing drogues etc), laterally disposed drag (drag sources to each side), lateral area (keels, flares, dihedral, anhedral), and longitudinal dihedral (often called reflex).
Tails are clever because they don’t begin to apply any corrective force to a kite until there is substantial angular displacement (tail drag increases with the sine of the angle of displacement, so by 10°, say, are providing 17% of the maximum corrective effect they are capable of). The beneficial effect of this is that tail drag allows a kite to adapt quickly to minor wind direction changes (quickly enough so that the kite will not shift too much laterally while doing so) but comes in with rapidly increasing corrective force if for some reason the kite gets seriously tipped. Tails will therefore rarely if ever make a kite’s response so slow as to cause under correction, unless their end catches in a tree or they are REALLY long. The bad bit about tails is that they cost lift to drag ratio (L/D). (L/ D is a general measure of aerodynamic efficiency. For gliders it defines how many metres they fly forward for every metre of sink. For traction kiting it measures how well you can go upwind. For single line kites, it determines line angle; in fact the tangent of the angle, relative to the horizontal, of the flying line at the kite, is exactly the kite’s L/D).
Laterally disposed drag — that is, having sources of drag out to each side of the kite — also has a clever effect; because drag rises with the square of wind speed, when a single line kite with substantial outboard drag gets into a destructive turn, the drag on the faster side will increase by more than the drag on the slower side decreases, providing active damping. Such drag elements will also decrease L/D of course, except if they are an intrinsic and essential part of the kite anyway. The insight being offered here, and it’s a major one, is that aspect ratio (AR, effectively width to length ratio) is the most powerful ‘costless’ (by L/D) dynamic instability cure available to kite designers. A way to make this understandable is to consider a square kite, 1m on each side, lifting area 1m2 (aspect ratio 1.0). If such a kite is built and is found to be inclined to over correct and go into destructive looping, then if it’s rebuilt to 1.25m span x 0.8m long (still 1m2 but now AR 1.56), it will have much less tendency to over correct, and may even be inclined to undercorrect. This is because the drag associated with the wingtips, while still having similar cost with respect to L/D, is further out from the kite’s centre of lift, so will be more effective in resisting any rotations (in the plane of its lifting surfaces) that the kite becomes subject to (that is, it slows turns). Adjusting a kite’s aspect ratio is therefore a way to get correction that’s neither too fast (loops out of control) nor too slow (flies off to one side or the other and crashes or stalls). Wingtip drag isn’t referenced in any way to up/down, all it can do is slow down turns — and of course this can be a bad thing when it slows a desirable recovery — but on balance it is hugely beneficial because it slows down all the movements which energize dynamic instability, unplugs their power source so as to speak.
The third main useful stabilizing element, lateral area (flares, keels, dihedral, anhedral, etc), is also relatively costless by L/D, and can be very effective at damping out any incipient over correction but has to be of appropriate magnitude and carefully positioned. If a kite with substantial lateral area (as a proportion of its lifting area) is subject to an angular disturbance (that is, the longitudinal axis of the kite gets out of alignment with the wind direction), the aero forces acting on this lateral area can cause the kite to move a long way sideways across the wind window before the pendulum effect gets it back in line — that is, excessive lateral area can promote under correction. Clearly, the longitudinal placement of lateral area will have an effect also. If disposed mainly behind the kite’s CG, it can promote rapid re-alignment but may also exacerbate dynamic effects (over correction). If in front of the kite’s CG, it will tend to cause under correction and make it very difficult for the kite to fly centrally (that is, directly downwind of the line tether point). Although dihedral (upward angled wings) and anhedral (downward angled wings) have some different effects on how single line kites react, they are primarily both just ways to get lateral area. There is a mistaken belief that dihedral is ‘stable’ while anhedral is ‘unstable’ but this comes from aeroplane experience and doesn’t generally apply to kites. When an aeroplane rotates around its longitudinal axis, if the downside wing loses projected area at a faster rate than the upside wing gains projected area then the rotation will become self-promoting. Aeroplanes are made with dihedral so that they are auto-stable in rotation about their longitudinal axis. For kites, bridles generally prevent this sort of rotation anyway. Kites with centre line bridling (most diamond kites for example), require dihedral for the same reason that aeroplanes do, but kites with laterally disposed bridles (like sleds for example) don’t.
Longitudinal dihedral, or reflex, the fourth and last major single line kite stabilizing element has the obviously beneficial effect of reducing or eliminating luffing tendencies, but its underlying influence is more profound. Because aerodynamic lift forces drive instability (of both the over correction and under correction types), anything that decreases lift without changing other things too much will generally improve a kite’s stability. “More longitudinal dihedral” is just another way of saying “less camber,” and having less camber will cause less lift to be generated, (a generally applicable aerodynamic effect). Introducing longitudinal dihedral therefore deals directly to over correction, but it’s a rather ugly solution, a last resort (usually taken when graphics considerations don’t permit other more efficient form changes), because it also directly reduces L/D, and by a lot if it’s to be effective. It’s influence on under correction is equivocal: reducing lift does reduce the driving force that makes a kite traverse off to the side before it’s pendulum effect can straighten it up (less lift means that it won’t get as far before correction occurs). But, longitudinal dihedral also shifts the kite’s CL rearward (nearer to its CG), which reduces the effective pendulum length and therefore its corrective effect (while adding to its usefulness against over correction).
More Reasons Why Kites (Often) Don’t Fly
There are a large number of effects that influence kite stability (or more usually the lack of). I’ve described some fundamental ones. Here are some more. The approach in the first section was to consider effects from the perspective of how a kite responds when its axis becomes misaligned with the wind direction. Optimally, kites should neither undercorrect nor overcorrect. This perspective is not only fundamental to kite stability but usefully leads to explanations as to why particular kites behave (and misbehave) the ways they do. Even more usefully, it leads to predictions as to the effect on stability that possible changes will have. Someday, these may even be quantifiable to some extent.
It is the angle of the line relative to wind direction that matters, not line length in the absolute sense, but this angle is a function of the line’s length (and the kite’s size) so it’s usually called the “line length effect” to avoid using “line angle”, which has multiple associations with stability influences. When a kite is laterally displaced from its proper position directly downwind from the tether point, its line will then have some angle to the wind when viewed from above, and the shorter the line’s length, the greater this angle will be. There will then be a component of line tension acting to pull the kite back towards its central position equal to the sine of this angle times the line’s projected length. The magnitude of this centralizing force is therefore directly proportional to line length for any given lateral displacement of the kite. This will tend to exacerbate any over correction tendency and mitigate under correction. A more rigorous description requires consideration of the line’s angle in the vertical plane also, but the effect is more easily understood in the first instance by considering horizontal angles only. An often experienced practical demonstration of this is when large Cody type box kites (which tend to over correct because they have so much lateral area to rearward, though this is masked in normal flying by their high lateral area to lifting area ratio), are being pulled in. By the last few meters of line they are often over correcting so violently as to be completely uncontrollable. An opposite example is that kites which are virtually un-flyable because of severe under correction can be usable when tethered directly off their bridles; that is, flown on a VERY short line.
Scale Effects
Kites don’t scale That is, as they are made bigger, their behavior changes. Aerodynamic forces increase with the square of the wind speed, but to retain the same margin of strength in proportion to its size as a kite is made bigger, its weight will need to increase with the cube of dimension. So, larger kites will generally be heavier in proportion to their area, and this affects their flying — most obviously in light winds but also in their under correction/over correction balance. Kites that tend to over correct will do this even more so as their weight/area ratio increases. Kites that tend to under correct will do this less as their weight/area ratio increases. However, in practice, this can be masked by other effects. A practical demonstration of this is the way that kite behavior changes in rain; extra weight pushes them toward over correction, although this can be masked by fabric stretch effects.
For framed kites, builders very often don’t increase the strength and rigidity of the structure proportionally when they make bigger versions. A result of this is that such kites tend to distort more in stronger winds, and the extra drag that this generates may damp out the additional over correction that comes from the increasing weight/area ratio. Of course, such kites will also deform so severely as to become un-flyable in wind speeds that their smaller scale version was happy in (or they’ll break). For ram air kites (often called soft kites) up to sizes of even a few hundred square meters (that is, VERY large kites by most standards) weight/area doesn’t tend to change at all. This is because available fabrics are much stronger than necessary for smaller soft kites. However, the mass of air inside such kites increases with the cube of dimension while their area increases with the square. Mass is not the same as weight in this context. The internal air mass is neutrally buoyant, doesn’t make any contribution to the kite’s pendulum effect at all, but by Newton’s approximation of Einstein’s theories, it has inertia, so requires the application of a force to get it to move or to stop moving. For ram air inflated single line kites, the inertia of this air mass proportionally slows the rate of recovery from any misalignment as the kite is scaled up, causing very large ram air inflated kites to tend, often terminally, towards under correction. A partial solution to this is to use thru-cords rather than ribs by the principle that the internal air mass is then able to rotate (or not rotate) independently to some extent. The kite’s weight pendulum when acting to correct a misalignment isn’t then resisted by the inertia of all the internal air mass, but just of those bits trapped in corners. Octopus and Ray kites that were originally rib and skin construction did seem to have less inclination to under correction in larger sizes when re-designed using thru cords instead.
Why do stable framed kites seem to be much easier to build than stable soft kites? Perhaps it’s that there are thousands of years of experience behind framed kites and only 50 or so for soft kites, but there are two other reasons (at least). The first is that closed soft kites tend to have smooth curved upper surfaces in their leading edge areas, which promotes attached flow over the kite’s upper surface, significantly increasing the aerodynamic lift that such kites will have. Because the force driving instability for kites is aerodynamic lift, more lift equals less stability (of both the under correction and over correction type), other things being equal. In contrast, most framed kites have sharp edged leading edges which cause flow to immediately separate and ensures that they will rarely if ever have attached flow over their upper surfaces. This reduces lift and therefore improves stability. By this theory, open leading edge soft kites should tend to be more stable than closed styles (many Parafoils have open leading edges that encourage flow to separate over the top surfaces rather than remain attached) and they do generally seem to behave better. Why don’t we always design soft kites with open leading edges then? There are reasons, like appearance, for more lift (if there’s stability to spare), to retain internal inflation in turbulence, and to pressurize against water ingress when flying off boats. The other soft kite effect is that their rigidity keeps pace exactly with aerodynamic forces as wind speed increases (to the limit of fabric impermeability anyway). However, their weight pendulum effect does not increase at all, so will eventually be overwhelmed by these aerodynamic forces. In contrast, framed kite structures deflect progressively more as wind increases, offsetting at least some of the increase in lift forces as the wind speed increases. Framed kites are therefore more likely to remain stable through to higher wind speeds than soft kites.
Von Karman Effects
These are airflow-driven rhythmic oscillations that, in our case, causes cylindrical form kites to oscillate in some wind speeds. The most easily recognizable every day von Karman effect is the “vortex street” visible downstream of a post sticking out of a stream. When encountering the post, flow splits evenly, half going around each side. However, because of inevitable asymmetries in the post, the flow, and the universe, the split streams don’t arrive back at the downstream side at quite the same moment. The flow stream that arrives first then continues to be sucked around the post until it is, from an observer’s perspective, moving upstream against the main current. At some point it then finds this situation unsustainable, separates from the pole surface and is carried off downstream, turbulently. The opposite side stream then has its turn and repeats the process. The observer will see this as a succession of alternating turbulent eddies drifting off downstream and gradually re-merging with the stream’s flow. An effect of this is that the pole (in this case) will be subject to oscillating sideways forces as each vortex separates. Industrial chimneys have spiral flow interrupters on their upper reaches to prevent this rhythmic effect becoming destructive. I think that many large ram air inflated kites are subject to von Karman effects, Dolphin and Gecko styles in particular. Any kite for which airflow passes around some even approximately cylindrical form is likely to be. I should test this by using smoke trails, but haven’t as yet. I expect it is right though, because another characteristic of von Karman oscillations is clearly observable on these kites. This is that as wind speed increases, the lateral oscillations decrease and eventually cease completely, probably because at higher wind speeds, flow separates chaotically rather than periodically and also because the flow period gets out of synch with the kite’s mass. When oscillations are being caused by some dynamic effect of over correction, they tend to continue to increase with wind speed until the kite loops out. A way to eliminate von Karman effects is to have some feature that causes separation, like long fins for a fish kite. For themed kites, unfortunately, anatomical requirements often make such features unacceptable.
Speed Sensitive Aerodynamic Damping.
There is a diverse group of aerodynamic features that can act to damp out dynamic effects. Because they don’t kick in until one of the kite’s wings is travelling significantly faster than the other, they don’t change the kite’s fundamental over correction/under correction balance. Rather, they do allow kites with significant over correction responses to resist the build up of destructive dynamic figure-eighting that would otherwise occur. Because having a fast response to misalignment is desirable in a kite providing that dynamic effects don’t then get away, these are very useful tools for kite designers to have available. Delta kites have a version. When a Delta style kite starts to figure eight with increasing amplitude, the faster moving wing tip will have more load on it than the opposite slower one. This asymmetry of load distorts the kite’s form, causing the faster wing tip to twist off more, generate less lift and proportionally more drag. The slower wing tip will respond oppositely, generating more lift and less drag. This reduces the speed difference between the tips, damping out a dynamic build up that could otherwise become destructive. Rokkaku kites have a similar mechanism. When one side of a Rokkaku experiences higher apparent wind speed than the other side, asymmetry of aerodynamic forces causes the faster side to increase its camber and the slower side to flatten off. This increases the drag and decreases the lift on the faster side and decreases the drag and increases the lift on the slower side, which, as with the Delta mechanism, acts to prevent destructive dynamic effect building up. Many framed kite styles have this type of automatic built in dynamic damping, but soft kites don’t, except that most closed soft kites get some dynamic damping from internal pressure not holding inflation as well against external pressure on their faster wing’s leading edge as on the slower side. Differential speed sensitive air brakes could be fitted to the wings of soft kites to damp dynamic effects in the same way that the relationship between structures and skin do for Deltas and Rokakus. I’ve tried a few ideas for these and will do more work in this area when I get time (like by not going to so many kite festivals, yeah right!). Potentially differential air brakes should be able to offset a lot of the stability deficit that closed soft kites often seem to exhibit by comparison to open leading edge soft kites, and even to framed kites.
The Main Reason Single Line Kites (Often) Don’t Fly
It’s because kite stability is sensitive to angle of attack, the angle at which wind strikes a kite’s surface(s), and angle of attack (called A of A from now on) varies widely with line angle and wind strength. Specifically: A of A is high — close to 90 even — when line angle is low (while launching for example) and also when there’s barely enough wind to keep a kite up. A of A is low when a kite is flying at high line angle and in stronger winds.
The reason that kite stability is sensitive to A of A is because the point at which aerodynamic forces act on a kite (the centre of pressure, C of P) is a function of A of A and the distance between the kites C of P and it’s centre of gravity, (C of G, where the weight forces act) is THE most critical determinant of stability.
“A of A”, “C of P”, “C of G”. . . getting confused by all this jargon yet? These three are unavoidable, but figure 1 explains them visually, which always helps, and I promise there’ll be no more.
It’s a required characteristic for single line kites that the point at which a kite’s weight forces act (it’s C of G) must be below where it’s lift forces act (it’s C of P). This creates a sort of pendulum which points the kite upwards, without which, it will more likely try to fly under the ground than above it. And, as explained earlier, the length of this pendulum (relative to the size of the kite and other features it may have such as lateral area of course) determines whether it will under correct or over correct. A very short pendulum makes a kite tend towards under correction, a longer one to over correction (and there will be a range in between where it might be stable). (But just in case you were thinking how simple this all is, there’s an exception; VERY long pendulums can also be stable.)
It’s obvious from symmetry, that for a rectangular plate at an A of A of 90°, the C of P will be at half chord (figure 2). That this point moves towards the leading edge as the A of A decreases (figure 3) is not so obvious, and the reasons for it weren’t really understood until mathematical fluid dynamics developed sufficiently in the 19th century, but it is so. Most kites aren’t flat plates, but it’s still generally true that their C of P moves towards the leading edge as A of A decreases. (Or at least it does so until the A of A approaches zero, when it becomes very dependent on the particular airfoil shape and can go a little weird, but this needn’t concern us here).
Changes in A of A as wind speed and line angle vary cause the C of P to move along the kite’s axis, which changes the effective length of the pendulum, and can move it out of the range where stable flying occurs. In particular, they can cause the corrective effect exerted by a kite’s weight to be inadequate when the kite is flying at a high A of A. And, this is exacerbated by the reflexive or “nose-up” shape of almost all soft kites and many framed kites (including rokkaku’s, Indian fighters, and delta’s). “Nose -up” shape is used to prevent luffing (when the angle of attack becoming negative) and also to reduce the extent to which the C of P will move so far forward of the kite’s centre of gravity as to cause over correction when the kite is flying at low A of A. Unfortunately, as can be seen from figure 4, it also makes under correction more likely at high A of A.
There are many observed kite behaviors that are explained by A of A effects, and the one that is particularly annoying me just now is the repetitive swaying behavior of tubular soft kites (that is, fish shapes and similar). With aspect ratios generally much less than 0.5, tubular form kites are not very effective at generating lift (L/D’s generally less than 1.0). To develop enough lift to offset even their own weight, especially in light winds, they fly at high A of A (30° to 45° or even more) at which the C of P is likely to be not much above the C of G, and might sometimes even be below it for short periods (but not for any sustained period or else they won’t be flying. See figure 5). That the characteristic misbehavior of this style of kite is caused by their C of G being too close to their C of P is supported by various observations:
Movement amplitude decreases when weight is added to the rear of the kite (providing the effect isn’t masked by the increase in A of A that this can cause)
Movement decreases at higher wind speed, because A of A decreases (but over correction may then begin to occur).
Flattening the kite’s front and narrowing the rear (shifting the C of P forward), without changing weight disposition generally reduces swaying.
Adding drag (by way of drogues, etc.) to the rear helps a bit but doesn’t have as much effect as expected.
Flying on a very short line helps, which is characteristic of kites that tend to under correction. The swaying that Ray (especially the smooth tail style) and Octopus type soft kites can get into when launching — sometimes even spinning — is also an A of A effect. It ceases when the kite gets to 30° flying angle or so and the supporting observations that apply to tubular form kites are also seen with these styles.
However, A of A effects are not confined to soft kites: The way that Indian and other bow-framed fighter kites spin rapidly when line is released (which allows bow pre-tension to pull the kite flat) is also an A of A effect. Of course it’s also partly due to their not having any lateral area (which has a directional effect) when there is no line tension, but mainly it’s because when flying at an A of A approaching 90°, the C of P moves so close to the C of G that the kite loses its sense of direction and spins around.
A of A effects also help explain why tails are more effective than drogues or other trailing drag devices for stabilizing errant kites. The difference comes from tails having weight as well as providing drag. The above shows why, at high A of A, kites tend to under correction, and at low A of A, to under correction. Drogues provide extra drag but have negligible weight. They slow the kite’s responses, so reduce over correction but don’t help with under correction. In light winds, a tail’s weight pulls the kite’s centre of gravity rearward to reduce under correction. In stronger winds when the kite will be flying at higher line angle (low A of A), tails generate enough lift to be largely self supporting. In this state, their weight doesn’t shift the kite’s original C of G down much so won’t exacerbate over correction. However, their longitudinal drag still acts to combat over correction and perhaps their resistance to sideways displacement helps damp movements as well.
This is a brief description of a complex and indeterminate field. Like all things that are subject to turbulent flow (the weather, for example), single line kites will never be fully predictable. But there are some things that are both true and useful that can be established, which is what I’ve tried to do. I’ve tested the above against the kites I see flying, and don’t think I’ve seen anything that falsifies any of it. However, there are so many overlapping effects and other influences that it’s sometimes difficult to see through all this fog to the fundamental relationships. No doubt I’ve made errors in at least some respects. I’ll modify and correct when these come to light. Back in 1973 I reckoned I’d have this done by my 30th birthday (1976), but it’s taken a bit longer.
You can find more of Peter Lynn’s insights at www.peterlynnhimself.com and www.peterlynnkites.com.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line929
|
__label__wiki
| 0.517678
| 0.517678
|
Capturing life in practice
Why did vets enter the profession in the past? Which drugs and techniques did they use? How did they deal with clients? What was the work like for women? Who were the early veterinary nurses? How did they develop their skills? What were the pressures of everyday practice? And the rewards?
This oral history project is documenting veterinary practice within living memory, through the life stories of those who were there at the time. The material will be used in education and research, and the original recordings will be permanently accessible at the British Library in a dedicated audio collection of veterinary lives.
"A timely initiative that will fill a significant gap in the historical record and promises long-term benefits to education and research."
Dr Rob Perks, Director
National Life Stories at the British Library
An award of £5,000 from RCVS Knowledge has supported initial work on the project, including a recording with Alistair Clarke (Glasgow, 1947). This follows recordings with Mary Brancker (London, 1937) and Pamela and Tony Owen (Liverpool, 1953), see Early interviews.
See also the new Education page created to link with 'Taking a History on Veterinary Education' by Andrew Gardiner and Susan Rhind (Veterinary Record, 173 (16), pp. 388-393)
The project is seeking additional funds to establish a foundation collection of veterinary oral histories covering a wide range of experiences. A contribution of £15,000, made available by Newcastle University, has been an encouraging start.
Capturing Life in Practice is a collaboration between RCVS Knowledge and Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy, where it is led by oral historian Sue Bradley. It aims to:
Create a major collection of in-depth recordings to be permanently accessible at the British Library through its world-leading centre for oral history, National Life Stories, which already holds recordings with practitioners of human medicine and other scientists
Develop the material as an evidence-based resource for veterinary education
Use the recordings in exhibitions and the media to promote wider understanding of the profession’s historical contribution
Host a series of seminars on themes (e.g. ethics in practice) arising from the interviews
Work with veterinary research networks to ensure that topics of particular concern or interest (e.g. TB testing and the feminisation of the profession) are included in the interviews in order to secure first-hand testimony to inform debates
How could you get involved?
There are many ways to be part of this important project. You could:
Nominate topics that the interviews might cover, e.g. ethics, anaesthesia, client relationships, women in practice, etc.
Nominate a veterinary group or individual for interview
Make an individual donation to support the project
Sponsor one or a series of interviews
Participate in discussion forums and other project events
Donate personal photos of veterinary practice (these can be photocopied and returned to you)
A flyer "Capturing Life in Practice" is available to download in the 'Related documents' box.
What this project is able to achieve will depend on support from individuals and the wider profession. To talk to us or if you would like to be added to our mailing list for this project simply email us at info@rcvsknowledge.org
News of the latest 'Life in practice'
More from 'Collaborations' grid
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line930
|
__label__wiki
| 0.558104
| 0.558104
|
Projects on map
Log in to your account to see all the new buildings and plans saved in your «Favorites»
Flat sale
Developers in Dubai
Invest Group Overseas
from 1 091 AED/sq ft
(≈ 300 $/sq ft)
Official site – igo.ae
1 ON SALE
1 UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Invest Group Overseas's building projects — 1 object on sale
IGO 101
Completion: 2023, 2 quarter
Dubai, Jumeirah Lakes Towers
Get in touch with Invest Group Overseas
Log in so that some of the fields are filled in automatically
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy an Terms of Service apply.
All Invest Group Overseas's buildings on the map
Develops projects only in Dubai
there are apartments for sale
the sales haven't started
all apartments from the developer are sold
Finished developer's buildings — 2 objects
The Polo Townhouses
Completed in 2016, 1 quarter
Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid City
The Polo Residence
Completed in 2016
Dubai, E3, Al Meydan Street
On going building projects — 1 object
Dubai, Business Bay
The company Invest Group Overseas was founded by a group of individuals of the business elite and therefore the company has an abundance of leadership, know-how, ambition, and entrepreneurial spirit. The company has made a tremendous contribution to the development of real estate in the region and has gained a reputation for developing a portfolio with world-class properties, which in turn provide a magnificent ROI.
The quote “Leadership is the ability to translate vision into reality” is one of the pillars of the corporate philosophy of Investment Group Overseas and the focus points of the company include growth, positioning, practicality, financial success, ambition, and information.
The company is led by Anas A. Kozbari (Managing Partner & CEO) and Moafaq Ahmad Al Gaddah (Chairman). Each project has 3 stages which are development, project management, and sales & marketing.
What does Invest Group Overseas offer to buyers in Dubai?
Investment Group Overseas offers a diverse portfolio of real estate, all provided with the top quality that the company is known for. At the moment IGO has apartments for sale in 2 residential complexes, namely IGO 101 (located in the Jumeirah Lakes Towers) and the Polo Residence (located in the Meydan area)
Advantages of working with Invest Group Overseas
Besides outstanding quality, innovative design and an impressive portfolio, there are more advantages linked to Invest Group Overseas.
IGO is not only active in real estate development, but also in the food industry, banking, hospitality, fitness, and others.
IGO is focused on innovation and that is why sustainability is one of the things that play a big role when planning new projects.
Invest Group Overseas Company at Korter
Are you interested in the prime real estate developed by Invest Group Overseas and want to know more about the residential complexes developed by this critically acclaimed company? Then look no further. On the Korter website, you can easily find all the information you need to come to a decision. Relevant information about things such as the layouts of the apartments, villas or townhouses, the prices per square foot, the facilities and amenities on and around the territory, the location of the property on the map, and many other useful details can be easily found on the corresponding pages.
Registration is done in a few simple steps and after that, you can easily save properties to your favorites, while also having the opportunity to ask questions about the property you want to know more about.
READ ALL INFORMATION
More developers in the UAE
AZIZI DEVELOPMENTS
ARADA PROPERTY DEVELOPER
About Korter
Korter in the World
The usage of cookies
Application terms
Partnership with Korter
Contact with Korter
© korter.ae 2018 — 2021
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line931
|
__label__cc
| 0.625981
| 0.374019
|
Joseph's Reviews
About Joseph’s Reviews…
Tag Archives: The Ghost at the Table
Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew by Suzanne Berne (Algonquin; $23.95; 296 pages)
“He had lost his mother when he was a little boy. He’d hardly known her… I wished I could give his mother back to him.”
Missing Lucile is a loving, lovely and lively account of the life of Lucile Kroger Berne, the grandmother that author Suzanne Berne was never to meet. Lucile graduated from the prestigious and challenging Wellesley College in 1911, was married in 1923, gave birth to two children and died in 1932. Hers was a short life and the author’s father was just 6 when his mother died.
Lucile was a member of THE Kroger family of Cincinnati, her own father being the founder of a grocery empire that today is worth billions of dollars. Despite being part of such a prominent family, little was known of her life. As Suzanne Berne writes early in her account, “Lucile has slipped out of memory…” That is, until the author stumbled across a history of the Kroger family which provided her with the outlines of the story that is told here. She also found developed and never-before-developed photographs that helped her to fill in some gaps in Lucile’s story.
Suzanne Berne’s father was in his eighties when she began trying to put the pieces together to create a living, breathing, woman named Lucile. She has largely succeeded in this effort, even putting to rest some family myths. For example, it was said of Lucile that she never smiled, but the reader sees photographs of Lucile smiling – even while her college graduation photo is being taken – and reads accounts of her being almost hysterically happy. This is what happens in real life.
Suzanne Berne spent a great deal of time conducting research at the Wellesley College library, and a large part of this biography involves the time that Lucile spent there – a period she often referred to as the very best period in her life. And, yet, despite the author’s best efforts some riddles remain as such… “Every life has its blank squares.” (Lucile was captain of the Wellesley Running Team until she dropped out for a reason that is still unknown.)
Senator Robert Taft’s wife once said of Lucile that she was, “The only one in the Kroger family with brains.” She was also an adventurous person, a young woman who went to France just two weeks after the end of World War I; her intent being to fulfill the mission of Wellesley’s graduates – to minister to others rather than being ministered to. There it seems she may have engaged in a romance with a military man. Perhaps.
Perhaps is a word often used by Suzanne Berne in this work, because filling in the blanks on a life requires some guesswork: “In my opinion, writing about other people requires a certain stupid bravado – a willingness to chat up the unknowable. Especially since what you don’t know about someone is always going to be more interesting than what you do…” But this account is plenty interesting enough in telling the reader what’s known about the life of Lucile Berne.
The manner in which Suzanne Berne fills in “the unknowable” is charming (this is a novelist applying her creative skills to tying the events of a life together). The author writes about a woman she never knew in a tone that is filled with love and respect. The reader will suspect that Suzanne Berne sees a large part of herself in her late grandmother, a feeling that haunts many grandchildren.
“…everyone’s life is a promising novel when reduced to a few lines in a reunion record… every yearbook is full of promising-looking people who have no idea what will happen to them.”
Suzanne Berne’s father died in 2009, but not before he was able to read the majority of the manuscript that makes up this unique portrait. His daughter Suzanne provided him with an invaluable, lyrical, account of his mother’s life – one that turned a ghost back into a living person, a woman with strengths and weaknesses; a woman who won and lost in life; a woman who lived a life in full before her early passing. What a tremendous gift!
Lucile Berne’s life is now well accounted for, and it is well, well worth reading. Highly recommended.
This review was written by Joseph Arellano. A review copy was provided by the publisher.
Tagged as A Crime in the Neighborhood, A Day in the Life, A Life, A Perfect Arrangement, A Shannon Ravenel Book, adventurous, Algonquin Books, American upbringing, B. H. Kroger, best authors, biography, book review, books, Cincinnati, college life, college motto, college reunions, early death, family history, family myths, feminist, France, ghosts, grandaughter, grandmother, history, John Lennon, Joseph Arellano, Joseph's Reviews, Kroger Grocery, life's riddles, Love, Lucile Kroger Berne, memoir, memorial, Memories of the Grandmother..., Missing Lucile, mother and son, nonfiction, novelist, novelist's imagination, Ohio, Orange Prize winner, perhaps, recommended books, relief groups, relief worker, respect, Senator Robert Taft, Suzanne Berne, The Ghost at the Table, the Midwest, the unknowable, Wellesley College, Wellesley Running Team, Workman Publishing, World War I
Searching in Vain
Cruel Summer
The Miraculous Cat
Scoop the Ice Cream Truck
A Bookworm Called Jennie
A Bookworm's World
Adam Henig
Around the World in Books
Author Jennifer Dwight
Barnes & Noble Review (The)
Blown Rubber Sole
Book clubbish
Book Patrol
Bree's Book Blog
Chicago Tribune Printers Row
Chocolate and Vodka
Claire's Own Words
Constantly Moving the Bookmark
Contemporary Books
DFW Running Blog
Huff Post Book Reviews
Hum(e)an Moments
Indie Hero
Kansas City Star – Books
Knite Writes
Laura's Reviews
Lifestyle Reviews
Margot McGovern
Maurice On Books
More Magazine Books Section
mylittlebookblog
New York Bound Books
New York Times Sunday Book Review
New Yorker Books
New Yorker Fiction
NYDN Books Blog Page Views
NYDN Sports
Only A Game Books Section
Pacific Rim Review of Books
paper in my shoe
Paris Review (The)
Patricia Abbot's blog
Pub(lishing) Crawl
Readers' Cafe
Runner's Breakfast
RunRepeat
Sacramento Running News
San Diego Book Review
San Diego Union-Tribune Books
San Francisco Chronicle Books
Seattle P-I Book Reviews and News
SL Book Blog
Special Needs Book Review
Speculative Assessments
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Books
Suzy Approved!
Sydney Review of Books
The Bookshelf Blog
The Debutante Ball
The Little Crooked Cottage
The Midwest Book Review
The Seattle Review of Books
The Washington Independent Review of Books
The Washington Post Books
The Winnipeg Review
The Writing Asylum
theNewerYork!
Three Guys One Book
Time Out New York, Books
Tulsa Book Review
Unhealed Wound
Victoria Loustalot – Plays well with words.
Washington Independent Review of Books
What Frank Is Listening To
Writers on Writing Radio
Yale Books Unbound
Joseph's Reviews · A book review site.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line932
|
__label__cc
| 0.672838
| 0.327162
|
Editorials of Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA
AM Last Page
COVID-19 and Medical Education
Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education
About the AAMC
Journal Masthead
Reprints and Back Issues
October 2019 - Volume 94 - Issue 10
Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Academic Medicine.
Equipping Junior Authors Against Predatory Open-Access Journals
Alamri, Yassar MBChB, PhD; Abu-Zaid, Ahmed MBBS
Third-year internal medicine resident, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand; [email protected]; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2519-3593.
Second-year biomedical sciences PhD student, College of Graduate Health Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and research fellow, Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2286-2181.
Disclosures: None reported.
Academic Medicine: October 2019 - Volume 94 - Issue 10 - p 1405
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002873
We read the article by Baker and colleagues1 with immense interest. The subject of “predatory” open-access journals has received intense attention recently for, we believe, a good reason: increasing awareness about their detrimental effects to the scientific integrity of published medical literature. The next logical step is to provide guidance on how to avoid such an academic vortex of entropy, especially for junior researchers and student authors—arguably a most vulnerable group given their relative inexperience and the pressure they face to publish.2
Prior to embarking on research endeavors, students ought to receive education on the various publication models employed by legitimate journals, the existence of “pseudo-journals,” and the differences between the two. An aim would be to reinforce the message about the dangers (both academic and financial) of publishing in predatory journals, and that the ends (i.e., becoming a published author) certainly do not justify the means (i.e., publishing in these journals). We recommend incorporating these teachings into curricula on evidence-based medicine. Additionally, should a student pursue extracurricular research activities, medical and hospital libraries can be invaluable in providing guidance.
Once a research project is underway, ethics committees and institutional review boards could require the project’s results to only be distributed in legitimate and scientifically sound avenues. Increasingly, universities are employing memoranda of understanding for prospective research students and their supervisors to reinforce this concept in writing.
Supervisory staff and faculty should lend their support and scrutinizing eyes during the research process. This step is vital because hardly a week goes by without students and staff receiving an invitation email to present at an obscure conference or submit to a dubious journal.
Upon completion of the research project, senior staff could advise on suitable avenues for result publication. Although a novel but not foolproof method, the student could be tasked to search potentially relevant legitimate journals indexed by trusted databases (e.g., PubMed). The checklist provided by Baker and colleagues1 would be especially handy in helping students with this step.
Publishing in predatory journals not only adversely affects the student’s work but also has ramifications on the standing and reputation of coauthors and affiliated institutions and universities. What motivates students and junior researchers to publish in predatory journals ought to be explored. For now, however, we must equip them with the tools to recognize—and, hopefully, avoid—such untrustworthy avenues.
1. Baker EF, Iserson KV, Aswegan AL, Larkin GL, Derse AR, Kraus CK; American College of Emergency Physicians Ethics Committee. Open access medical journals: Promise, perils, and pitfalls. Acad Med. 2019;94:634–639.
2. Al-Busaidi IS, Alamri Y, Abu-Zaid A. The hidden agenda of predatory journals: A warning call for junior researchers and student authors. Med Teach. 2018;40:1306–1307.
Copyright © 2019 by the Association of American Medical Colleges
Academic Medicine94(10):1405, October 2019.
Articles in PubMed by Yassar Alamri, MBChB, PhD
Articles in Google Scholar by Yassar Alamri, MBChB, PhD
Other articles in this journal by Yassar Alamri, MBChB, PhD
by the Association of American Medical Colleges
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line934
|
__label__wiki
| 0.699099
| 0.699099
|
Registered Review Titles
Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at JBI Evidence Synthesis.
Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews
Peters, Micah D.J.1,2,3; Marnie, Casey1; Tricco, Andrea C.4,5,6; Pollock, Danielle7; Munn, Zachary7; Alexander, Lyndsay8,9; McInerney, Patricia10,11; Godfrey, Christina M.6,12; Khalil, Hanan13,14
1Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
3The Centre for Evidence-based Practice South Australia (CEPSA): A JBI Centre of Excellence Adelaide, SA, Australia
4Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
5Epidemiology Division and Institute of Health Management, Policy, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
6Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence Kingston, ON, Canada
7JBI, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
8School of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
9The Scottish Centre for Evidence-based Multi-professional Practice: A JBI Centre of Excellence Aberdeen, Scotland
10Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, GT, South Africa
11The Wits-JBI Centre for Evidence-Based Practice: A JBI Affiliated Group Johannesburg, GT, South Africa
12School of Nursing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
13School of Psychology and Public Health, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
14The Queensland Centre of Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Correspondence: Micah D.J. Peters, [email protected]
ACT is a member of the JBI Evidence Synthesis Editorial Advisory Board. CMG is an associate editor of JBI Evidence Synthesis. Neither author was involved in the editorial processing of this manuscript. The other authors declare no conflict of interest.
JBI Evidence Synthesis: October 2020 - Volume 18 - Issue 10 - p 2119-2126
doi: 10.11124/JBIES-20-00167
The objective of this paper is to describe the updated methodological guidance for conducting a JBI scoping review, with a focus on new updates to the approach and development of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (the PRISMA-ScR).
Scoping reviews are an increasingly common approach to informing decision-making and research based on the identification and examination of the literature on a given topic or issue. Scoping reviews draw on evidence from any research methodology and may also include evidence from non-research sources, such as policy. In this manner, scoping reviews provide a comprehensive overview to address broader review questions than traditionally more specific systematic reviews of effectiveness or qualitative evidence. The increasing popularity of scoping reviews has been accompanied by the development of a reporting guideline: the PRISMA-ScR. In 2014, the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group developed guidance for scoping reviews that received minor updates in 2017 and was most recently updated in 2020. The updates reflect ongoing and substantial developments in approaches to scoping review conduct and reporting. As such, the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group recognized the need to revise the guidance to align with the current state of knowledge and reporting standards in evidence synthesis.
Between 2015 and 2020, the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group expanded its membership; extensively reviewed the literature; engaged via annual face-to-face meetings, regular teleconferences, and email correspondence; sought advice from methodological experts; facilitated workshops; and presented at scientific conferences. This process led to updated guidance for scoping reviews published in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. The updated chapter was endorsed by JBI's International Scientific Committee in 2020.
The updated JBI guidance for scoping reviews includes additional guidance on several methodological issues, such as when a scoping review is (or is not) appropriate, and how to extract, analyze, and present results, and provides clarification for implications for practice and research. Furthermore, it is aligned with the PRISMA-ScR to ensure consistent reporting.
The latest JBI guidance for scoping reviews provides up-to-date guidance that can be used by authors when conducting a scoping review. Furthermore, it aligns with the PRISMA-ScR, which can be used to report the conduct of a scoping review. A series of ongoing and future methodological projects identified by the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group to further refine the methodology are planned.
Along with the increased production of primary research, the conduct and publication of evidence syntheses (reviews) has also increased and evolved over time.1 The need to synthesize diverse types of evidence underpins the design and evolution of new approaches intended to rigorously identify and synthesize data to answer a range of pressing questions for end users in policy, research, and practice. In 2009, Grant and Booth identified 14 different types of reviews.2 By 2016, this variety had increased to 25 evidence synthesis methods,3 and by 2019, this reached 48 review types.4
The scoping review, also sometimes referred to as “mapping review” or “scoping study,” is one approach to evidence synthesis that is increasingly being utilized internationally.5-8 Although it is unclear when the first scoping review was conducted, the first methodological guide for these reviews was published by Arksey and O’Malley in 2005.9 Arksey and O’Malley observed and reflected on the early appearance of scoping studies in the literature, noted similarities and a lack of uniformity, and proposed a seminal framework for their conduct.9 They also noted the necessity for others to continue their work to further improve guidance for authors to conduct and report scoping reviews. This has occurred over the years and included extensions proposed by Levac and colleagues.10
In 2014, the JBI International Scientific Committee convened a Scoping Review Methodology Group from members of JBI and the JBI Collaboration (JBIC).11 This group extensively reviewed the literature; engaged via annual face-to-face meetings, regular teleconferences, and email correspondence; sought advice from methodological experts; facilitated workshops; and presented at scientific conferences. This process led to the publication of JBI's first chapter and peer-reviewed paper describing guidance for authors of scoping reviews.12,13 As with guidance for the more traditional systematic reviews for which JBI is known, the guidance for scoping reviews explicitly addressed the need for scoping reviews to be rigorously conducted, transparent, and trustworthy. The chapter underwent minor updates in 2017,14 and overall, the JBI guidance has since been used and cited by many review groups around the world from a range of disciplines, academic fields, and professional backgrounds.15 In 2018, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) was developed by an international team of experts in scoping reviews and evidence synthesis,16 including members of the JBI/JBIC working group, to be consistent with JBI's scoping review methodology and to provide reviewers with a reporting checklist for their reviews.14
This methodological paper provides an overview of scoping review methods and highlights the most recent updates to JBI's guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews, which was recently published in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis.17 This updated guidance primarily takes into account the launch of the PRISMA-ScR,16 which is recommended for use in tandem with the latest JBI guidance. The major areas of update include:
inclusion of the PRISMA-ScR reporting guideline and checklist throughout the chapter;
advice on when a scoping review is (or is not) appropriate, and how to extract, analyze, and present results;
updates to many of the examples used throughout the chapter and the use of clearer language to remove ambiguity;
discussion on the term “systematic” in relation to scoping reviews, and clarifying that the preferred terminology for this evidence synthesis approach is “scoping reviews” (while they still remain systematic);
updated section on indications for conducting a scoping review;
further discussion on the role of methodological appraisal in scoping reviews;
clarification on implications for practice (now called “implications of the findings”);
expanded background to the chapter.
Additionally, as interest in the methodology has grown, it has come to the authors’ attention that in addition to adding new sections, there were also areas throughout the guidance that required clarification, updates, and modification. Some of these changes were informed by feedback from scoping review authors using the guidance,15 while others have been identified by group members themselves or by advances in the methodological literature. In light of this evidence, the authors hope an update to the guidance will support improved consistency and rigor in the undertaking and reporting of scoping reviews.
What are scoping reviews and why conduct a scoping review?
According to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, scoping reviews are “exploratory projects that systematically map the literature available on a topic, identifying key concepts, theories, sources of evidence and gaps in the research.”18(p.34) Scoping reviews are conducted for several reasons, with the most common being to explore the breadth or depth of the literature, map and summarize the evidence, inform future research, and identify or address knowledge gaps.19 Scoping reviews are particularly helpful when the literature is complex and heterogeneous. Scoping reviews can provide useful insight for decision-makers into the nature of a concept and how that concept has been studied in the literature over time. They can be used to develop a research agenda, advance the field, and identify areas for future systematic reviews or other types of evidence synthesis. Decision-makers in particular find that this method of evidence synthesis provides a useful overview of research previously undertaken and reported in the literature, often in regard to the types of programs or interventions that have been examined, informing options for consideration in future research. Indeed, the number of scoping reviews doubled from 2014 to 2017,19 demonstrating the popularity of this method in the literature.
Need for scoping reviews to remain systematic
Initially, JBI's guidance used the terminology “systematic scoping review.”12,14,17 This was to signpost the similarities between the JBI's guidance for scoping reviews and the JBI's guidance for other evidence syntheses, including systematic reviews, that focus on rigor, reproducibility, and transparency. In this latest update, the nomenclature has been refined to simply “scoping reviews” to recognize that all types of evidence synthesis should be conducted systematically, as well as to reduce the risk of confusion between different types of review.19,20 In addition, “scoping review” is the most commonly used term to describe a scoping review, so removing the term “systematic” also improves consistency.19 The authors argue that all types of evidence synthesis should be systematic and follow methodological guidance.
Choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach
Given the array of evidence synthesis methodologies and review types, it is critical that authors assess their objectives and intentions prior to undertaking any review. This is a particularly pertinent consideration when deciding between a systematic or scoping review, as both maintain particular, but separate, value for given aims or outcomes. Broadly speaking, if the intention of the review is to inform clinical decision-making (eg, determining the feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness, or effectiveness of a particular intervention), then a systematic review is more appropriate.21 Scoping reviews, however, are more appropriate to assess and understand the extent of the knowledge in an emerging field or to identify, map, report, or discuss the characteristics or concepts in that field. For example, Harfield and colleagues’ scoping review identified the characteristics of Indigenous primary health care service delivery models.22 Subsequently, they were able to develop and describe a new Indigenous Primary Health Care Service Delivery Model that focused on the local cultural values, customs, and beliefs of Indigenous people.22
The value of scoping reviews to evidence-based health care and practice lies in their ability to incorporate various types of literature that are not limited specifically to research studies. For example, scoping reviews can be useful in developing policy maps. Mapping policy documents and research studies has been previously undertaken by Anderson and colleagues6 in 2008 and Watson and colleagues23 in 2011. Both authors used scoping reviews to examine research papers and policy documents to map complex topics.
In general, systematic reviews have more focused research questions than scoping reviews, which are much broader. Furthermore, scoping reviews are exploratory and descriptive in nature, whereas systematic reviews, those with meta-analysis or network meta-analysis, can be explanatory or analytical in nature.24 An online tool exists to assist authors with selecting between a systematic review and a scoping review.25 By providing general indication of the objective and topic to be reviewed, a user can generate a recommendation towards the most appropriate method of review. Results of scoping reviews can identify further areas for subsequent research and clarify whether a systematic review can be conducted to address a specific question as a consequence of mapping the literature. In general, the indications for scoping reviews can be summarized as follows17,21:
as a precursor to a systematic review;
to identify the types of evidence available in a given field;
to identify and analyze knowledge gaps;
to clarify key concepts and definitions in the literature;
to examine how research is conducted on a certain topic or field;
to identify key characteristics or factors related to a concept.
Although scoping review methodology has evolved, there is still some confusion of terms with other evidence synthesis approaches such as “evidence gap maps.”4 Evidence gap maps share similarities to scoping reviews in terms of identifying a research question, conducting a systematic search, and providing descriptive analysis26; however, evidence gap maps tend to limit the inclusion of evidence to systematic reviews and primary research studies, but may also include critical appraisal.
Methodological updates
As is characteristic of rigorous evidence synthesis approaches, scoping reviews should be well planned and driven by a protocol. Protocols are important for predefinition of the objective, question(s), and method, and they support transparent and unbiased reporting. The protocol should detail the review's inclusion and exclusion criteria and identify which and how data will be extracted and presented. Deviations from the protocol should be clearly highlighted and explained in the ensuing scoping review. Currently, scoping reviews are not able to be registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO). However, authors conducting a scoping review should consider publishing, registering, or making their protocol available via platforms such as Figshare, Open Science Framework, ResearchGate, Research Square, or similar so that it is freely available. The JBI journal JBI Evidence Synthesis is one avenue for publishing scoping review protocols (and their subsequent reviews) that follow the JBI methodology.
Title and review questions
The title of the protocol and corresponding review should give a clear indication of the topic and identify the manuscript as a scoping review protocol or review. It is also useful to ensure that key elements of the inclusion criteria are reflected in the title to enable easy identification by readers. The “PCC” mnemonic (population, concept, and context) is recommended as a guide to construct a clear and meaningful title and inclusion criteria for a scoping review. Use of the PCC mnemonic clearly identifies the focus and context of a review, further enabling utility for the reader. Specific outcomes, interventions, or phenomena of interest do not need to be stated for a scoping review, although these details might be helpful for some scoping review topics. There should be congruence between the title, review question(s), and inclusion criteria.
A clear scoping review question that incorporates the elements of the PCC guides the development of specific inclusion criteria, facilitates the literature search, and provides a robust structure for the development of the scoping review. A scoping review will generally have one primary question, for example:
What quality-of-life questionnaires are available for pediatric patients following tonsillectomies with or without adenoidectomies for chronic infections or sleep disordered breathing?
Some scoping reviews may also have one or more subquestions that delve into particular attributes of population, context, or concept. Subquestions can be useful in outlining how the evidence is likely to be mapped, for example:
What are the ages of the pediatric patients where quality-of-life questionnaires have been or could be used within the sources of evidence identified for the primary review question?
A scoping review's inclusion criteria should be detailed in the protocol and should also provide information regarding the types of sources of evidence that will be considered for inclusion. Because scoping reviews are amenable to the inclusion of all methodologies as well as non-research sources, such as policy documents or websites, the protocol should state which sources will be examined. It is important to note that sources of evidence do not refer to the locations of where evidence will be sought (eg, online databases). These should be stated in the search strategy. The inclusion criteria aid the reader's understanding of the scope of the review and provide a guide for the reviewers themselves to make decisions regarding which sources to include or exclude.
The inclusion criteria should specify important characteristics of the review's participants (population). This may include age, sex, and other relevant factors appropriate to the review's objective and review question(s). Defining participants per se is not always necessary. For example, a scoping review with the objective of describing the details of research designs used in a specific area of study may not need to detail the types of participants involved in that research.
The scoping review's main concept(s) should be explained. Depending on the objective and question(s), the concept may include details similar to the elements detailed in a traditional systematic review, such as interventions, phenomena of interest, or outcomes. For example, the principal concept of interest in the example questions above is quality-of-life questionnaires used following tonsillectomies. Additional elements of this concept may also be of interest, such as the format (eg, paper or web-based), contents (ie, assessment domains) of the included instruments, and validity and reliability (ie, if and how they have been psychometrically tested). Outcomes may also be a component of a scoping review's concept and should be linked to the objective review question(s). For example, this scoping review could also identify and map any reported outcomes addressed within quality-of-life assessments. In other examples, the concept may relate to definitions (ie, which definitions have been used to define low-value care) or elements of research design (ie, methodological details and conduct).
A scoping review's context will vary depending on the objective and question(s), and may include details regarding geographic location (eg, a particular country or region) and/or specific social, cultural, or sex-based factors. Context may also include setting specifics (eg, acute care, primary health care, the community). The context in the example above has not been stated explicitly (ie, it is “open”) because sources of evidence from any contextual setting would be eligible for inclusion. Specifying the context will aid in refining the scope of the review, such as by focusing only on specific countries or particular health care settings.
Types of evidence sources
A scoping review can include any and all types of literature (eg, primary research studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, letters, guidelines, websites, blogs). However, reviewers may wish to impose limits based on the knowledge that particular types of sources would be most useful and appropriate. The example scoping review above sought certain quantitative studies only; qualitative studies, reviews, and conference abstracts were excluded because these were deemed by the reviewers not to be likely to contain relevant information to answer the review questions.
The search strategy for a scoping review should ideally aim to be as comprehensive as possible within the constraints of time and resources in order to identify published and unpublished (ie, gray literature) primary sources of evidence, as well as reviews. Any limitations in terms of the breadth and comprehensiveness of the search strategy should be detailed and justified. A complete search strategy for at least one major database should be included as an appendix to the protocol and in the subsequent review. The input of a research librarian or information scientist can be invaluable in designing and refining the search. McGowan and colleagues27 developed an evidence-based guideline for Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS) for systematic reviews, health technology assessments, and other evidence syntheses, and recommended the main search be conducted by a librarian and subsequently peer-reviewed by another librarian. It is essential to keep clear and detailed documentation of the search strategy undertaken, including search dates and key terms used, sufficient to enable repetition of repeating searches (if required by other researchers). Other additional sources such as hand searching of specific journals should be detailed, including journal names and years searched. If authors were contacted for additional data, it must be stated in the review. The search for a scoping review may be quite iterative as reviewers become more familiar with the evidence base, additional keywords, and sources, and potentially useful search terms may be discovered and incorporated into the search strategy. If this is the case, it is crucial that the entire search strategy and results are transparent and auditable.
The language of sources of evidence that will be considered in the review must be pre-specified in the protocol. It is recommended that authors do not apply language restrictions to their protocols unless there is reasonable justification, such as feasibility or limitation of resources.
Evidence screening and selection
Study selection must be pre-specified in the protocol and based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Study selection starts with a review of both titles and abstracts using the inclusion criteria followed by full-text retrieval of potentially relevant evidence for further review against the inclusion criteria. This process is usually conducted by a minimum of two reviewers, and any disagreements should be resolved by either consensus or with a third reviewer. Description of the study selection process must be presented in both a narrative and flow diagram format as indicated in the PRISMA-ScR statement.16 Details of excluded sources at full-text review must be appended to the review with reasons for their exclusion. It is recommended that pilot testing of this process be undertaken by the review team to ensure consistency of the approach taken in the study selection process.
Critical appraisal or risk of bias assessment is generally not recommended in scoping reviews because the aim is to map the available evidence rather than provide a synthesized and clinically meaningful answer to a question. For this reason, an assessment of methodological limitations or risk of bias of the evidence included within a scoping review is generally not performed (unless there is a specific requirement due to the nature of the scoping review aim).11,12,16
Data that are extracted from the evidence sources should align with the objectives and research question of the scoping review. In scoping reviews, the data extraction process may be referred to as “data charting,” although to be consistent with other evidence synthesis approaches, the authors have used the term “data extraction” in the updated guidance. A draft charting table or form should be developed and piloted at the protocol stage to record the key information of the source, such as author, reference, and results or findings relevant to the review question(s). This may be further refined at the review stage and the charting table updated accordingly.
The scoping review protocol should include information about the potential data that could be extracted from the included evidence sources to allow for transparency and clarity. The process of data extraction should involve at least two reviewers to reduce the chance of errors and bias. Careful record keeping should be kept either through a standardized form or table. JBI offers an example of a standardized data extraction form that can be utilized by all authors to minimize potential bias.17 However, these forms should be individualized to meet the needs of each scoping review. It is recommended that the standardized data extraction form be piloted with two or more members of the team on at least two to three studies prior to use to ensure that all necessary data will be captured appropriately. Data extraction in scoping reviews can be an iterative process, often requiring multiple refinements to be able to best meet the objectives and research question(s) of the scoping review. For example, an initial list of research characteristics may have been noted as important (eg, year of research, location, outcomes). However, once reading several articles, authors may want to list how those outcomes were measured to gain an in-depth understanding of how researchers applied them and arrived at the subsequent results.
An additional section in the updated guidance is a discussion on analyzing data in scoping reviews; this was highlighted as an area where additional information was required.15 Analysis of the data in scoping reviews should be pre-specified within the protocol to ensure transparency and justification of the chosen approach. In most cases, the intention of a scoping review is not to synthesize the results or outcomes of the included sources. As such, for many scoping reviews, the analysis of the extracted data should not involve anything more than basic descriptive analysis (ie, frequency counts of concepts, populations, or location of studies). These descriptive results can then be mapped in various visual presentations, such as tables or graphs. The purpose of a scoping review and the type of data that emerge in answer to the review question are not the type of evidence that lends itself to a meta-analysis, and little value would be gained in performing such an analysis. It is difficult to envisage a case where further, in-depth quantitative analysis is required in scoping reviews, such as performing a meta-analysis. Qualitative data should also be mostly descriptive, and a synthesis utilizing a thematic or meta-aggregative approach is not within the remit of a scoping review. Descriptive qualitative techniques, such as basic coding of data to particular categories, may be a useful approach in some scoping reviews, particularly when the purpose is to identify or clarify concepts or definitions within a field or to identify key characteristics related to a concept.22,28,29 In summary, the way data are extracted and analyzed in scoping reviews is largely dependent on the purpose of the review and subject to the authors’ judgment and creativity. The most important consideration regarding extraction and analysis is that the authors are transparent and explicit in the approach they have taken, including providing a rationale for their approach and clearly reporting extracted data and analyses.
Presentation of results
Data presentation approaches should be pre-specified in the protocol stage. This could be further refined in the review stage upon consideration of the contents of the included evidence. The results section of a scoping review could be considered to contain two broad sections, the first of which describes the results of the search strategy and selection process, including a PRISMA flow diagram. The second section provides the key information or results relevant to the objectives or questions for the scoping review.
There are many options for presenting data in scoping reviews. The results of a scoping review may be presented as a map of the data extracted from the included papers in a diagrammatic or tabular form, and/or in a descriptive format that aligns with the objective(s) and scope of the review. The elements of the PCC inclusion criteria may be useful to guide the best format(s) for presenting the results of the review to the audience. Presenting the results in a suitable and detailed format will allow the reviewers to identify gaps in the literature and map the available evidence.
The update of the JBI scoping review methodology was driven by the need to provide further clarification on when a scoping review is appropriate (and when it is not), and how to extract, analyze, and present results, as well as to align with the development of the PRISMA-ScR. This article has provided an overview of methods and up-to-date guidance for authors that align with the PRISMA-ScR to support reporting of scoping reviews. Further initiatives to develop scoping review methodology are planned by the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group, with current work focused on producing guidance to appraise risk of bias (if required as an optional element of some reviews), an article identifying key challenges and potential solutions to scoping reviews, and a website to support dissemination and access to core scoping review methods. As with all evidence synthesis methodologies, approaches to conducting and reporting scoping reviews will be gradually enhanced and evolve in response to the needs of knowledge users as well as through the experiences and familiarity of authors using current approaches. The JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group will continue to provide authors with guidance and suggestions for improving scoping review conduct and reporting, and hopes that the latest iterations to the JBI methodology are clear, helpful, and informative.
The authors acknowledge the support, feedback, and advice they have received on the development of the updated scoping reviews methodology from the JBI Scientific Committee. They also acknowledge and thank previous members of the group for their past contributions.
1. Bastian H, Glasziou P, Chalmers I. Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: How will we ever keep up? PLoS Med 2010; 7 (9):e1000326.
2. Grant MJ, Booth A. A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Info Libr J 2009; 26 (2):91–108.
3. Tricco AC, Soobiah C, Antony J, Cogo E, MacDonald H, Lillie E, et al. A scoping review identifies multiple emerging knowledge synthesis methods, but few studies operationalize the method. J Clin Epidemiol 2016; 73:19–28.
4. Sutton A, Clowes M, Preston L, Booth A. Meeting the review family: exploring review types and associated information retrieval requirements. Health Info Libr J 2019; 36 (3):202–222.
5. Ehrich K, Freeman GK, Richards SC, Robinson IC, Shepperd S. How to do a scoping exercise: continuity of care. Res Policy Plann 2002; 20 (1):25–29.
Cited Here
6. Anderson S, Allen P, Peckham S, Goodwin N. Asking the right questions: scoping studies in the commissioning of research on the organisation and delivery of health services. Health Res Policy Syst 2008; 6 (1):7.
7. Tricco A, Lillie E, Zarin W, O’Brien K, Colquhoun H, Kastner M, et al. A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol 2016; 16:15.
8. Pham M, Raji A, Greig J, Sargeant J, Papadopoulos A, McEwen S. A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency. Res Synth Methods 2014; 5 (4):371–385.
9. Arksey H, O’Malley L. Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework. Int J Soc Res Methodol 2005; 8 (1):19–32.
10. Levac D, Colquhoun H, O’Brien KK. Scoping studies: advancing the methodology. Implement Sci 2010; 5 (1):69.
11. Khalil H, Peters M, Godfrey CM, McInerney P, Soares CB, Parker D. An evidence-based approach to scoping reviews. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs 2016; 13 (2):118–123.
12. Peters MDJ, Godfrey C, McInerney P, Soares CB, Khalil H, Parker D. Aromataris E, Munn Z. Chapter 11: Scoping reviews. JBI, JBI Reviewer's Manual. Adelaide:2015.
13. Peters MDJ, Godfrey C, Khalil H, McInerney P, Parker D, Soares C. Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews. Int J Evid Based Healthc 2015; 13 (3):141–146.
15. Khalil H, Bennett M, Godfrey C, McInerney P, Munn Z, Peters M. Evaluation of the JBI scoping reviews methodology by current users. Int J Evid Based Healthc 2020; 18 (1):95–100.
16. Tricco AC, Lillie E, Zarin W, O’Brien KK, Colquhoun H, Levac D, et al. PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): checklist and explanation. Ann Intern Med 2018; 169 (7):467–473.
17. Peters MDJ, Godfrey C, McInerney P, Munn Z, Tricco A, Khalil H. Aromataris E, Munn Z. Chapter 11: Scoping reviews. JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis [Internet]. Adelaide: JBI, 2020 [cited 5 May 2020]. Available from: https://synthesismanual.jbi.global.
18. Grimshaw J. A guide to knowledge synthesis: a knowledge synthesis chapter [Internet]. 2020 [cited 5 May 2020]. Available from: https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/41382.html.
19. Tricco AC, Lillie E, Zarin W, O’Brien K, Colquhoun H, Kastner M, et al. A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol 2016; 16:15.
20. Munn Z, Stern C, Aromataris E, Lockwood C, Jordan Z. What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences. BMC Med Res Methodol 2018; 18 (1):5.
21. Munn Z, Peters MDJ, Stern C, Tufanaru C, McArthur A, Aromataris E. Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach. BMC Med Res Methodol 2018; 18 (1):143.
22. Harfield SG, Davy C, McArthur A, Munn Z, Brown A, Brown N. Characteristics of Indigenous primary health care service delivery models: a systematic scoping review. Global Health 2018; 14 (1):12.
23. Watson R, Parr J, Joyce C, May C, Le Couteur A. Models of transitional care for young people with complex health needs: a scoping review. Child Care Health Dev 2011; 37 (6):780–791.
24. Tricco A, Zarin W, Ghassemi M, Nincic V, Lillie E, Page M, et al. Same family, different species: methodological conduct and quality varies according to purpose for five types of knowledge synthesis. J Clin Epidemiol 2018; 96:133–142.
25. Tricco A. What review is right for you? Knowledge Translation Program [Internet]. 2020 [cited 5 May 2020]. Available from: https://whatreviewisrightforyou.knowledgetranslation.net/.
26. Snilstveit B, Vojtkova M, Bhavsar A, Stevenson J, Gaarder M. Evidence and gap maps: a tool for promoting evidence informed policy and strategic research agendas. J Clin Epidemiol 2016; 79:120–129.
27. McGowan J, Sampson M, Salzwedel D, Cogo E, Foerster V, Lefebvre C. PRESS peer review of electronic search strategies: 2015 guideline statement. J Clin Epidemiol 2016; 75:40–46.
28. Davy C, Harfield S, McArthur A, Munn Z, Brown A. Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples: a framework synthesis. Int J Equity Health 2016; 15 (1):163.
29. Glegg SMN, Levac DE. Barriers, facilitators and interventions to support virtual reality implementation in rehabilitation: a scoping review. PM R 2018; 10 (11):1237–1251.
evidence synthesis; evidence-based health care; knowledge synthesis; mapping reviews; research methodology
© 2020 JBI
JBI Evidence Synthesis18(10):2119-2126, October 2020.
Keyword Highlighting
Highlight selected keywords in the article text.
evidence-based health care
knowledge synthesis
mapping reviews
Search for Similar Articles
You may search for similar articles that contain these same keywords or you may modify the keyword list to augment your search.
evidence synthesis\r, evidence-based health care\r, knowledge synthesis\r, mapping reviews\r, research methodology
Articles in PubMed by Micah D.J. Peters
Articles in Google Scholar by Micah D.J. Peters
Other articles in this journal by Micah D.J. Peters
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line935
|
__label__wiki
| 0.960521
| 0.960521
|
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks during his final address at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte fights for his political life with an address aimed at shoring up support for his government, which has come under fire from former Premier Matteo Renzi's tiny but key Italia Viva (Italy Alive) party over plans to relaunch the pandemic-ravaged economy. (Roberto Monaldo/ Lapresse via AP)
Italian Pm Conte Works To Cement Majority After Narrow Vote
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte worked to solidify his majority in parliament Wednesday after narrowly winning a Senate confidence vote after a junior coalition ally yanked his support over Conte’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Conte was expected to brief President Sergio...
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington. An AP review of records finds that members of President Donald Trump’s failed campaign were key players in the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol last week. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims the event was the brainchild of the...
FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2020 file photo, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, is shown on an electronic screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Airbnb says it will be blocking and cancelling reservations in the Washington, D.C. area during the week of the presidential inauguration. The decision, announced Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 came two days after it said it was reviewing reservations in the area ahead of next week’s presidential inauguration and said it will bar any guests associated with hate groups or violent activity. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Airbnb To Block, Cancel Dc Bookings Ahead Of Inauguration
NEW YORK (AP) — Airbnb says it will be blocking and cancelling all reservations in the Washington, D.C. area during the week of the presidential inauguration. The decision, announced Wednesday, was in response to various local, state and federal officials asking people not to travel to Washington,...
Squareplum/Getty Images
Nevada lawmaker resigns amid campaign finance investigation
A Nevada lawmaker resigned amid an investigation involving the use of campaign contributions that prompted law enforcement to raid his home in May.
FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, the logo for Citigroup appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Businesses are rethinking political contributions in the wake of the deadly Capitol siege by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Citigroup confirmed Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, that it is pausing all federal political donations for the first three months of the year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Business Grows Skittish About Trump And Gop After Riots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Corporate America is quickly distancing itself from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, with many of the biggest names in business — Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Ford and Comcast — suspending political donations after a Trump-inspired mob ransacked the U.S. Capitol in a...
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference on the day after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Pelosi says House will Impeach Trump, pushes Pence to oust him
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to democracy after the deadly assault...
Businesses Rethink Political Donations After Capitol Siege
Businesses are rethinking political contributions in the wake of the deadly Capitol siege by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Wednesday. Citigroup confirmed Sunday that it is pausing all federal political donations for the first three months of the year. Others, like Marriott, are only...
Democrats In Georgia Senate Contests Take In More Than $200M
ATLANTA (AP) — The Democrats running for Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats each raised more than $100 million over two months, a massive haul that eclipsed campaign contributions to their Republican opponents and reflects the high stakes of the twin contests. Jon Ossoff, who is taking on Sen. David...
FILE - In this Thursday, June 27, 2019 file photo, Paul Manafort arrives in court in New York. President Trump's former campaign manager is to be arraigned on state mortgage fraud charges. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 issued pardons and sentence commutations for 29 people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest burst of clemency in his final weeks at the White House. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
New Round Of Trump Clemency Benefits Manafort, Other Allies
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest wave of clemency to benefit longtime associates and supporters. The actions, in Trump's waning time at the...
FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 file photo, Tunisian media mogul Nabil Karoui casts his ballot at a polling station during the second round of the presidential election, in Tunis, Tunisia. Former Tunisian presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui was arrested Thursday, Dec. 24 on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)
Ex-Tunisian Presidential Candidate Jailed In Financial Case
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Former Tunisian presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui has been arrested on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, a Tunis court spokesman said on Thursday. Karoui spent most of last year’s presidential campaign in jail for the same charges, which he called...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line941
|
__label__wiki
| 0.956496
| 0.956496
|
European mass migration crisis
Migrants from Eritrea, Egypt, Syria and Sudan, rest on board the Spanish NGO Open Arms vessel after having been rescued in the Mediterranean sea, about 110 miles north of Libya, on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
Charity Rescue Ship With 265 Migrants Anchors Off Italy
ROME (AP) — Italy allowed a Spanish-flagged charity ship with 265 rescued migrants aboard to anchor off Sicily on Monday. The Open Arms vessel had brought the migrants safely aboard in separate rescues last week in the central Mediterranean. Port officials in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, said rough...
Migrants warm themselves around a fire at the Lipa camp outside Bihac, Bosnia, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 202, after hundreds failed to be relocated from the burnt-out tent camp in the northwest of the country. The migrants were supposed on Tuesday to be transferred from the much-criticized Lipa camp to a new location in the central part of the country, but have instead spent some 24 hours in buses before being told on Wednesday afternoon to disembark and return to the now empty camp site. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
After Criticism, Bosnia Sets Up Tents For Freezing Migrants
BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Trying to resolve a humanitarian disaster, the Bosnian military set up tents Friday for hundreds of migrants who have been stuck in a burned-out refugee camp that has no facilities to fend off freezing winter weather. Bosnia has faced international criticism for...
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 file photo, European Council President Charles Michel speaks with EU leaders during an EU Summit video conference at the European Council building in Brussels, to address the need to strengthen the collective effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. A last-minute trade deal with the United Kingdom coupled with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the final days of the year produced a sense of success for the 27-nation bloc and brought glimmers of hope to the EU's 450 million residents. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool via AP, File)
Eu Avoided Chaos, Explored New Paths In Turbulent 2020 Year
BRUSSELS (AP) — Between the specter of Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic and a new leadership team facing a budget battle, the European Union looked set to remember 2020 as an “annus horribilis.” Instead, a last-minute trade deal with the United Kingdom coupled with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines...
A migrant walks through the snow wrapped in a blanket at the Lipa camp northwestern Bosnia, near the border with Croatia, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. Hundreds of migrants are stranded in a burnt-out squalid camp in Bosnia as heavy snow fell in the country and temperatures dropped during a winter spell of bad weather after fire earlier this week destroyed much of the camp near the town of Bihac that already was harshly criticized by international officials and aid groups as inadequate for housing refugees and migrants.(AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Hundreds Of Migrants Freezing In Heavy Snow In Bosnia Camp
BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hundreds of migrants were stranded Saturday in a squalid, burnt-out tent camp in Bosnia as heavy snow fell in the country and winter temperatures suddenly dropped. Migrants at the Lipa camp in northwest Bosnia wrapped themselves in blankets and sleeping bags to...
FILE - In this Sep. 9, 2020 file photo, migrants from different nationalities, mainly from Somalia, Egypt and Morocco, but also from Libya, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coat, Bangladesh, Senegal, Syria, Palestine, Benin and Tunisia, including 14 minors and 4 women, rest on board the Spanish NGO Open Arms vessel after being rescued in international waters, in the Central Mediterranean sea. Tunisian authorities say 20 African migrants have been found dead after their boat, which was trying to reach Europe, sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Five survivors were rescued Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 and authorities are searching for up to 20 others believed missing. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)
20 Migrants Dead Off Tunisia After Boat Sinks, More Missing
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — About 20 African migrants were found dead Thursday after their smuggling boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe, Tunisian authorities said. Five survivors were rescued and the Tunisian navy is searching for up to 20 others still believed missing...
Smoke rises from a fire at migrant camp Lipa, Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020, near Bihac in western Bosnia. A huge fire has broken out at a migrant camp in northwestern Bosnia which has been in the focus of rights groups because of poor conditions in the tent facility. Thick black smoke could be seen rising Wednesday from parts of the Lipa camp near the Croatian border which currently houses some 1,200 migrants. The cause of the fire was not immediately known as migrants were seen running away in panic. There were no reports of injuries. (AP Photo/Hasan Arnautovic)
Fire Breaks Out At Squalid Migrant Camp In Bosnia
BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A huge fire broke out Wednesday at a temporary migrant camp in northwestern Bosnia that has been strongly criticized by rights groups as unsuitable due to its lack of resources. Officials said former residents started the blaze. Thick black smoke rose from the Lipa...
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2020 file photo, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. A senior legal adviser said Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 that the European Union's top court should reject Hungary's attempts to overturn a European Parliament action aimed at holding the country to account for what lawmakers consider to be a breach of the bloc's values. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP, File)
Top Court Rules Hungary Flouted Eu Law By Detaining Migrants
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that Hungary has failed to respect EU law by denying people entering the country without authorization the right to apply for asylum and unlawfully detaining them in “transit zones” on its border with Serbia. The European Court of...
32 Migrants Rescued, 2 Missing Off Greek Island Of Lesbos
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A search and rescue operation has been launched in the eastern Aegean Sea after a dinghy carrying migrants either sank or overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos, the Greek coast guard said Wednesday. It said 32 people — 15 men, 14 women and three children — had been rescued...
FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey. The head of the European Union's border and coast guard agency faces a grilling on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 by EU lawmakers as pressure mounts over allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks aimed at preventing migrants or refugees entering Europe through the Greek islands. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)
Eu Border Chief Faces Grilling Over Migrant Pushback Claims
BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Union’s border and coast guard agency faces a grilling Tuesday by EU lawmakers as pressure mounts over allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks aimed at preventing migrants or refugees entering Europe through the Greek islands. A joint...
FILE - In this Nov.21, 2020 file photo a demonstrator takes a picture of policemen during a protest against bill on police images, in Paris. As videos helped reveal many cases of police brutality, French civil rights activists voiced fears that a new security law would threaten efforts by people from minorities and poor neighborhoods to document incidents involving law enforcement officers. French President Emmanuel Macron's government is pushing a new security bill that would notably make it illegal to publish images of officers with intent to cause them harm. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
Uproar In France Over Proposed Limits On Filming Police
PARIS (AP) — French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse — cellphone videos of police activity — threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods. French...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line942
|
__label__cc
| 0.725672
| 0.274328
|
DBAs
LLCs
S-Corp
Limited Partnership
Compare Businesses
OSHA Regulations
Labor Hours
Civil and Misdemeanors
Marriage: Prenup, Name Change
Motor Law
TAX, LICENSES & PERMITS
If I Put Up Surveillance Cameras, Do I Need to Post a Sign?
Reviewed by: Michelle Seidel, B.Sc., LL.B., MBA
By: Teo Spengler, J.D.
Can You Secretly Videotape Employees?
••• photoncatcher/iStock/GettyImages
How to Legally Use Security Cameras to Avoid Breaking Privacy Laws
Where Can You Legally Install Security Cameras on Private Property?
Florida Video Surveillance Laws
You want to put up a security camera in your home or business and you're wondering: Do I have to post a sign for video surveillance? The answer depends in part on where you live and in part on the area the cameras will film.
Read More: How to Legally Use Security Cameras to Avoid Breaking Privacy Laws
TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read)
State laws differ but, in general, you do not need to post a sign to use a video camera in a public area, like in front of your house, or a private area that belongs to you and is not used by the public, like your back yard. But you may need to be careful if you are thinking of putting surveillance cameras in public bath rooms, changing rooms, or anywhere someone has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Benefits of Surveillance
Most people agree that surveillance cameras make the country safer. They make criminals less bold in city streets and private businesses open to the public, and also make it much more likely that the criminals will be caught. A picture truly is worth a thousand words, especially when those words are the testimony of store employees trying to recall what the bank robber looked like when they were terrified during the robbery. And in court, video evidence is very hard to dispute or deny.
Federal Law Does Not Regulate Surveillance
It seems surprising, but the fact is, the federal government does not regulate surveillance cameras. Federal laws have very little to say on how to balance the interests of privacy with the right to video your home or business. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution provides protection to individuals against unreasonable or unwarranted searches and seizures, and it comes closest to providing some kind of federal protection.
Public Areas vs. Areas with an Expectation of Privacy
The vast majority of regulation in this area is at the state level, and, as usual, state laws differ. In general, the laws do not forbid surveillance of public areas, like streets, parks, public parking lots and beaches, nor do they require that notice be posted of the presence of surveillance cameras. Likewise, a homeowner using video within her own home is generally unregulated.
Some states, including New York and California, forbid the use of video cameras in areas where individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy. These locations include bathrooms, changing rooms, bedrooms and and any other place people might undress. In some states, if there are cameras in these areas, a notice must be posted letting the public know.
In about a quarter of the states, laws also prohibit electronic surveillance in places where most people expect privacy. Most of these states also forbid trespassing on private property to conduct surveillance of people there. There are also state laws preventing audio recordings of people who have not given their consent.
In practice, most businesses who employ video surveillance cameras also post a video surveillance notice sign. But, as of right now, you are not legally required to post these signs for public area surveillance.
Read More: States That Allow Cameras in the Dressing Rooms
UpCounsel: Video Surveillance Laws by State
Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum, P.C.: Video Surveillance Law
Brick House Security: Hidden Camera Laws
My Security Sign: When to Post Video Surveillance Signs
Legal Beagle: States That Allow Cameras in the Dressing Rooms
Legal Beagle: How to Legally Use Security Cameras to Avoid Breaking Privacy Laws
Legal Beagle: Where Can You Legally Install Security Cameras on Private Property?
Legal Beagle: California Law on Workplace Surveillance Cameras
Teo Spengler earned a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall. As an Assistant Attorney General in Juneau, she practiced before the Alaska Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court before opening a plaintiff's personal injury practice in San Francisco. She holds both an M.A. and an M.F.A in creative writing and enjoys writing legal blogs and articles. Her work has appeared in numerous online publications including USA Today, Legal Zoom, eHow Business, Livestrong, SF Gate, Go Banking Rates, Arizona Central, Houston Chronicle, Navy Federal Credit Union, Pearson, Quicken.com, TurboTax.com, and numerous attorney websites. Spengler splits her time between the French Basque Country and Northern California.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line955
|
__label__wiki
| 0.620997
| 0.620997
|
U.S. Christmas: The Valley Path
U.S. Christmas break through with a one-track piece of metal fusion mastery.
by Source Weekly
The deadliest attack happens when you least expect it. And here, from the middle of nowhere, comes one of the best albums of 2011. U.S. Christmas, a band from the foothills of Appalachia, bestows upon the world its latest: The Valley Path, a 40-minute-long, one-track album. The album (and song) starts in the country, too: Crickets trill, birds chirp. Singer Nate Hall sings for just three minutes at the start of the album, before letting The Valley Path spiral into the unknown. There is no climax here; it is an album of steady, rising peaks — one after another, each taller than the last. Chirps mutate into static blips. Blips become water droplets. Guitars and violins echo. At times, the band almost goes away completely, letting The Valley Path slip into static for minutes at a time. It is both psychedelic and classic, equally as Ennio Morricone as it is Hawkwind. With one perfect song, U.S. Christmas gives us the soundtrack to a beautiful movie with no words and no pictures. — Leah Sottile
Recommended Download: “The Valley Path”
Source Weekly
More by Source Weekly
Little Bites: Thanksgiving Dinner is Served! Restaurants that will cook for you on Thursday
While many of us are going to be slaving over stoves, stuffing, brining or the always fun deep-frying our butterball turkeys this Thursday, there are options for those who don't feel like sticking their hands in the cavity of a 20-pound bird or cutting up the neck to stew some gravy. For all of you who would rather have a skilled chef prepare your fixins, here's a list of restaurants serving Thanksgiving Dinner, courtesy of Visit Bend.
Critical City Services
Picks 1/25-2/1
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line966
|
__label__cc
| 0.662526
| 0.337474
|
Coronavirus Information and Update: Spring 2021 Plans
Home/Board of Visitors/Leodis “Lee” Matthews
Leodis “Lee” Matthews
Mr. Matthews is an attorney with Matthews Wilson and Hunter, with offices located in Los Angeles, California and Frankfurt, Germany. His practice focuses on federal litigation, commercial transactions, and corporate, labor and administrative law. The German office represents both German and American companies, and US employees located in Europe. He has represented clientele in various jurisdictions worldwide, and has engaged in investigations in Africa, Europe and Asia. His litigation practice includes the investigation, prosecution and defense of complex civil and criminal litigation, with an emphasis on Federal District and Appellate Court litigation, Federal Administrative Agencies, government contracts, International Court of Trade Practice, and supervision of State Court litigation.
Prior to his current practice, Mr. Matthews served as a Senior Trial Attorney, Assistant United States Attorney, and a Special Trial Attorney with the United States Department of Justice. He has also served as a Senior Counsel on the US House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Assassinations, and as a Deputy District Attorney with the State of Oregon.
Mr. Matthews is licensed with the California State Bar, Oregon State Bar and District of Columbia Bar. He is also licensed with the Federal District Court Southern District of California, Oregon District, Western District of Washington, Northern District of Texas and Northern District of Ohio. Additionally, Mr. Matthews is licensed to appear before the Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, the US Claims Court, the Court of International Trade, the United States Supreme Court, and is authorized to engage in the practice of law in Germany.
Mr. Matthews earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Lewis & Clark College, and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern School of Law. He is fluent in German, and has a familiarity with spoken French.
Board of Visitors is located in Legal Research Center on the Law Campus.
email lawgive@lclark.edu
DeanJennifer J. Johnson
Lewis & Clark Law School
10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard MSC 51
MSC: 51
<div class="site-footer_image" style="background-image: url(/live/image/gid/227/width/767/height/767/crop/1/84379_L-PEO-C1-0818-0009-sq.jpg)"><div class="site-footer_image_caption"> With strong bar pass rates and outstanding employment outcomes, our grads leave ready to practice law in a variety of settings. </div></div>
<div class="site-footer_image" style="background-image: url(/live/image/gid/227/width/767/height/767/crop/1/84382_L-PEO-C2-0913-0030-sq.jpg)"><div class="site-footer_image_caption"> As a professional school preparing the next generation of our nation’s lawyers, we believe that our promise to support diversity in all its forms is both an academic and professional duty. </div></div>
<div class="site-footer_image" style="background-image: url(/live/image/gid/227/width/767/height/767/crop/1/84377_L_Library_9248-sq.jpg)"><div class="site-footer_image_caption"> Boley Law Library embraces the forest. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow you to look out on nature when studying in Oregon’s largest law library. </div></div>
<div class="site-footer_image" style="background-image: url(/live/image/gid/227/width/767/height/767/crop/1/84378_L-CAM-I-0818-0002-sq.jpg)"><div class="site-footer_image_caption"> We are the only law school located in Portland. Our supportive and rigorous intellectual environment pushes you to develop the legal knowledge, critical thinking, practical skills, and values that will empower you to excel as ethical and engaged professionals in a diverse and dynamic world. </div></div>
<div class="site-footer_image" style="background-image: url(/live/image/gid/227/width/767/height/767/crop/1/84380_L-PEO-C2-0818-0042-sq.jpg)"><div class="site-footer_image_caption"> The Law School Amphitheater is our campus’s natural living room. Our serene, forested setting makes it hard to believe you’re only ten minutes from the heart of downtown Portland. </div></div>
<div class="site-footer_image" style="background-image: url(/live/image/gid/227/width/767/height/767/crop/1/84381_L-PEO-C2-0818-0161-sq.jpg)"><div class="site-footer_image_caption"> Our professors are outstanding teachers who will know you by name. Excellent teaching is a priority. </div></div>
Lewis & Clark Law School 10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard Portland, Oregon 97219 USA 503-768-6600
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line973
|
__label__cc
| 0.699928
| 0.300072
|
‘Outrageous’: Police Searching for Woman Accused of Urinating on Potatoes in a Walmart
Matt ClibanoffJul 30th, 2019, 1:26 pm
In a summer that’s had more food contamination cases than most people care to see, someone has, once again, upped the ante. A woman, captured on surveillance camera, allegedly entered a Walmart in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania on July 24 and urinated on a pile of potatoes.
A Walmart representative said an employee saw what the woman was doing and “immediately disposed of the affected products and sanitized the area.” The representative did not say whether or not the employee stepped in and tried to stop the woman.
As part of their investigation, the West Mifflin Police Department obtained a photo of the suspect from Walmart’s surveillance footage and posted the image on social media.
Community Assistance: Identification assistance – Walmart Incident. https://t.co/gvzuniS5cT pic.twitter.com/CaHoMlgb5F
— West Mifflin Police (@WestMifflinPD) July 25, 2019
In a statement regarding the incident, Walmart said the following:
The safety of our customers is a top priority for us. This type of obscene conduct is outrageous, and we immediately disposed of the affected products and sanitized the area to ensure its cleanliness and safety for our customers. We’re working with the West Mifflin Police Department to find the responsible party and have them prosecuted.
On July 27, a few days after this apparently occurred, Sheriff’s deputies in Porter, Texas, began investigating a similar case, in which a teen allegedly urinated on a shelf in a Walmart store and posted a video to social media. Regarding this case, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s office said tampering with consumer products is not only “morally reprehensible, but can be a felony offense.”
These cases, though apparently not connected, continue the food/product tampering trend that’s swept across the internet. Both investigations are currently ongoing, with neither suspect identified by name.
[Photo via West Mifflin Police Department]
DisgustingFood ContaminationFood TamperingPublic UrinationUrinating on PotatoesWalmartWalmart Urinator
Matt Clibanoff - Editor
Matt is an Editor at Law & Crime and former Editor-in-Chief of Popdust
More Stories by Matt Clibanoff
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line974
|
__label__cc
| 0.57158
| 0.42842
|
Public Law & Regulation
LoupedIn
Published on September 2, 2020 by Ian Chapman-Curry
Pensions and climate change – a new government consultation
The Week In Pensions provides you with a digest of the most important developments in pensions law and regulation along with highlighting some of the most interesting stories from the pensions industry and national press.
In The Week In Pensions this week:
Government issues a consultation on ESG disclosures for larger pension schemes;
PPF “well placed” to achieve self-sufficiency target despite current market volatility due to pandemic; and
PLSA research finds that schemes are confident that they will be ready for pension dashboards
And, in the pensions industry and national press:
Percentage of European pension funds taking climate risks into account quadruples year-on-year; and
Size of final salary pension transfer values soar during lockdown.
Watch the video update
Pensions legal and regulatory developments
Government issues a consultation on ESG disclosures for larger pension schemes
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions gave a speech at the end of August in which she announced plans for a consultation on ESG disclosures for larger pension schemes. The consultation, titled ‘Taking action on climate risk: improving governance and reporting by occupational pension schemes’, proposes that pension schemes be required to assess and report on the financial risks relating to climate change. Under the proposals, the obligations will be phased in:
occupational pension schemes with £5 billion or more in assets will be subject to the duties at the end of 2022; and
occupational pension schemes with £1 billion or more in assets will be subject to the duties at the end of 2023.
Further extension of the requirements will be subject to further consultation. The consultation closes at 11:45pm on 7 October 2020.
Click here for the DWP’s consultation ‘Taking action on climate risk: improving governance and reporting by occupational pension schemes’
PPF “well placed” to achieve self-sufficiency target despite current market volatility due to pandemic
The Pension Protection Fund has announced that it is set to achieve its self-sufficiency target despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In a short news update, the PPF stated that it ‘remains confident that our sustainable funding strategy and diverse investment approach equips us well to weather the current market volatility and future challenges’.
In particular, the PPF ‘continues to regard any decision to cut member benefits as a matter for the most extreme scenarios only, and not something we foresee.’
Click here for the PPF’s press release ‘Weathering the current economic storm’.
According to a survey carried out by the PLSA, three-quarters of DB and DC pension schemes believe they will be ready to join the Pensions Dashboards initiative provided:
they have at least two years to prepare; and
various challenges can be overcome.
This is based on fulfilling the government policy that schemes are to supply data that is available on annual benefits statements or on request to the initial dashboards.
Click here for the PLSA’s consultation response.
Highlights from the pensions industry and national press
Percentage of European pension funds taking climate risks into account quadruples year-on-year
The proportion of pension funds taking climate change into account, 54 per cent, has more than tripled since last year, when only 14 per cent said they did, according to Mercer’s European Asset Allocation insights report.
Mercer surveyed 927 institutional investors who, between them, control assets of around €1.1 trillion. In their report, they found that 89 per cent of schemes surveyed consider wider environmental, social and governance risks as part of their investment decisions.
This has risen from 55 per cent in 2019. The main driver of investors’ concern with ESG risk was the regulatory environment, while 51 per cent also said they were driven by the potential impact on investment returns, which has risen from 29 per cent in 2019.
Size of final salary pension transfer values soar during lockdown
The average value of a final salary pension transfer rocketed to more than half a million pounds during lockdown as falling markets spooked those with smaller pots from transferring out. Analysis by LCP showed the average value of defined benefit pension transfers reached £556,000 in the second quarter of 2020. This represents an increase of 30% compared with the previous quarter. It is also the first time in three years that the average transfer has exceeded half a million pounds.
Click here for the full story from the Financial Times
Ian Chapman-Curry
Gowling WLG Profile | See all posts
Ian is a London-based professional support lawyer (PSL) legal director. Ian is a member of our pensions and combined human resource solutions (CHRS) teams. He works with clients to solve their employment and pensions law issues. Ian maintains a particular focus on 'crossover' issues that benefit from his understanding of both areas of law.
https://loupedin.blog/author/ianchapmancurry/
The Victorian workhouse revisited - The Week in HR
Keeping the purse strings tight - The Week in HR
Get on your bike - The Week in HR
Return of the boomerang employee - The Week in HR
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Climate change, ESG and pensions, Pension dashboards, Pension transfers, Pensions technology, PPF, The Week In Pensions
Views expressed in this blog do not necessarily reflect those of Gowling WLG.
NOT LEGAL ADVICE. Information made available on this website in any form is for information purposes only. It is not, and should not be taken as, legal advice. You should not rely on, or take or fail to take any action based upon this information. Never disregard professional legal advice or delay in seeking legal advice because of something you have read on this website. Gowling WLG professionals will be pleased to discuss resolutions to specific legal concerns you may have.
UK House of Lords warns against complacency towards AI
UK competition authority publishes research on harm by algorithm
UKIPO patent guidance updated for DABUS judgment
LoupedIn is the Official Gowling WLG Blog. Gowling WLG is an international law firm comprising the members of Gowling WLG International Limited, an English Company Limited by Guarantee, and their respective affiliates. Each member and affiliate is an autonomous and independent entity. Gowling WLG International Limited promotes, facilitates and co-ordinates the activities of its members but does not itself provide services to clients. Our structure is explained in more detail on our Legal Information page.
Gowling WLG 2020
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line980
|
__label__wiki
| 0.891717
| 0.891717
|
Best Of Richmond
Style Weekly App
News & Features » News and Features
Funding the Future
Teachers and other school supporters rally for increased state funding.
by Sarah King
Scott Elmquist Teachers from across Virginia gather for the Fund Our Future Rally at the state Capitol. Virginia ranks 40th in state spending per pupil.
A sea of red marked the Bell Tower in Capitol Square as teachers, advocates, parents and students from across the state rallied for adequate state funding for education at the General Assembly.
More than 1,000 supporters attended the Fund Our Future rally held by the Virginia Education Association, an organization of more than 40,000 teachers and school support professionals across the state. Currently, Virginia ranks 40th in state spending per pupil, 32nd in teacher pay and 47th among all states in teacher pay measured against similar professions, according to the 2020 report of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras cancelled school for the Monday rally after more than 700 teachers — roughly a third of the workforce — requested off work for the lobby day.
“We are proud that so many of our educators will be turning out to advocate for RPS and all of Virginia’s public schools,” Kamras wrote in a statement ahead of the event. “Unfortunately, however, it is simply not possible to secure enough substitutes for this many classrooms. As a result, non-participating teachers would face unreasonable class sizes that would make meaningful instruction nearly impossible and potentially create significant safety concerns.”
Also at the rally showing support was Mayor Levar Stoney, who sported a red tie in solidarity with the cause.
“Localities have been leading the way for over a decade now and all we’re asking for is the commonwealth to pay the true cost of public education,” Stoney says.
The true cost of education is more than adequate pay for teachers, which according to the Economic Policy Institute is 31% less in Virginia for college graduates than their peers, ranking the state third-worst in the nation.
The total cost of education exceeds what the state Board of Education outlined in the Standards of Quality index, which Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed budget does not fully fund. Additional costs layer atop that, too, for necessities such as broadband, facilities and maintenance that fall on localities to fund.
“The true cost, the total cost — that’s what we’re here for and I stand in solidarity with all the teachers and parents and children,” Stoney says. “All we’re asking for is for the state to pay their fair share.” In a Monday news release, the city administration noted it will continue to allocate 57.76 percent of both current and delinquent real estate taxes, the amount allocated in fiscal year 2020, to education.
“It is my top priority to ensure that Richmond Public Schools are the biggest beneficiary of the transformational project we’ve proposed in Navy Hill,” Stoney said. “That’s why I committed 50 percent of the approximately $1 billion in incremental revenues this project will create for RPS. ... That is why I propose we hold RPS’ funding harmless by budgeting for RPS based on the same formula City Council adopted in 2019, inclusive of properties in the increment financing area.”
© 2021 Style Weekly
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line986
|
__label__cc
| 0.699801
| 0.300199
|
Harris Sultan
Atheism & Islam
Pakistan & India
Why am I running for the Senate?
As you know, the 2019 Federal elections on the 18th of May are fast approaching. We are divided between far-right bigots and far-left appeasers. Decency and common sense are the biggest casualties. On one hand we are seeing the rise of far-right politics promoting ultra-conservative nationalism. This alienates minorities and threatens our multicultural society, a proven safe haven for people from around the world who call Australia home. On the other hand, we are seeing far-left politics trying to silence free speech and stop people from having legitimate conversation on ideologies, politics and religion.
We are at a crossroads, and our decisions on the 18th of May will shape our future for a very long time. Can we afford to let right-wing ideologues spread anti-multicultural, anti-immigrant and anti-non-white rhetoric, and in the process risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of non-white people who live in Australia? Can we also afford to let far-left politicians silence legitimate discussions and debates that intend to further a free, Western and secular way of life of Australia? The choice is night and day, and the true progressives and classical liberals have to make a choice. We can’t let right-wing nut-jobs take over, but we also can’t let left-wing appeasers run amok.
I, as an immigrant, a non-white Australian, a secularist and above all a humanist liberal, recognise this and cannot sit on the sidelines. I am an ex-Muslim and an atheist who supports freedom of religion. I do not view Australia as a Christian country, nor do I believe Christianity is another word for good in this country. I also support freedom FROM religion, which is where I differ from far-left politicians, who discuss problems with Christianity but zip their lips when it comes to recognising the problems of other religions, particularly Islam. As a secularist, I believe people should be free to believe in whatever religion they want, or to not believe in any at all. Either way, religions should have no say in the government. They should not enjoy a privileged status when it comes to taxes or private religious schools. In principle, Australia is meant to be a secular country, but it is not behaving like one. Our Parliament sessions start with a prayer to God. Why is that? What about the Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists of Australia? Why should they listen to a prayer to the Christian god? This is why prayers should be confined to private spaces, like places of worship or houses, not public spaces.
I despise politicians like Senator Fraser Anning who divide people on the basis of their ethnicity, cultural background or religious affiliation. I also despise far-left politicians who want to give a free pass to certain groups in the name of diversity. We are a diverse country, but our core values are those of liberalism, tolerance, humanism and equality. Equality means everyone is equal in the eyes of the law, no one group should get special treatment, big or small, local or foreign. No one should subjugate women, discriminate against homosexuals or mistreat animals in the name of their cultural or religious freedom. We believe the climate is changing due to human activity, and that we must take steps today to ensure a sustainable environment tomorrow.
I see our politicians becoming more and more divisive, shifting their politics to the extreme ends of the political spectrum. This is why I am running for the Senate under the Secular Party of Australia. I need your votes so we can end anti-Muslim bigotry and bigotry of all sorts, racism, misogyny, homophobia and animal cruelty, while at the same time protecting our core values of tolerance, multiculturalism, humanism and secularism. I will advocate for these values in the Senate and no group, big or small, will be allowed to threaten our Australian values.
The latest Liberal Party candidate debacle shows how far extremists have penetrated mainstream right politics. Jessica Wheelan was a Liberal Party candidate who made horrible comments about Muslims. Liberal Party candidate Jeremy Hearn unveiled a conspiracy theory that Muslims are preparing to take over Australia. These kind of right-wing nut-jobs are getting more and more popularity because of the accommodating, non-confrontational attitude of regressive leftist parties who are too afraid to talk about real issues. People who are in the centre and fed up with being silenced by the meek left and are being pushed further towards the right. I believe the only solution is secularism and the protection of free speech and people’s right to speak about issues that affect them, without being silenced by allegedly progressive liberals that try to silence discussions about cultural issues.
I need your vote to beat people like Senator Fraser Anning and other closeted right wing nut jobs! If you are not eligible to vote, please ask your family and friends to vote for the Secular Party of Australia.
For more information on our policies, please visit .
Secular Party of Australia – Challenging Religious Privilege
As 21st century citizens, we want to challenge the power and privilege of religious institutions in Australia. As secular humanists, we want an end to religious interference in education, health, civil liberties and taxation. As champions of human rights, we want women, minorities and the LGBTI community to be free of discrimination and the dictates of archaic superstition.
www.secular.org.au
You can stay up to date with my comments, videos and writings by following me on Facebook
Harris Sultan is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Harris Sultan and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the...
Vote 1 Secular Party of Australia
Let’s make Australia truly secular!
Preferences Federal Election 2019
The Secular Party has Senate candidates in Victoria. We need more support in other states!
We recommend preference votes as follows:
1 Secular Party
2 Justice Party, Derryn Hinch
3 Australian Democrats
4 Republican Party
5 Independent Climate Action Now
6 Animal Justice Party
7 Pirate Party
8 Greens
9 Australian Labor Party
typhoon_tv
Download Viva TV APK 1.2.4 (Official) for Android/Firestick/PC - VivaTV
Viva TV APK is an Android application to stream media content, Viva TV is one of the most amazing apps, you will get a direct download link, features,
vivatv.me
I know this website presents quality dependent articles or reviews and other material, is there any other site which gives such stuff in quality?https://xenderforpcis.com https://shareitpc.one http://www.softwarelearnings.com/ https://techfranks.com https://shareitpcis.com
Download Xender for PC Windows 7 32 Bit 64 Bit 8/8.1/10 - Xender for PC
Download Xender for PC Windows 7 32 bit Xender Web transfer your files,musics,videos,movies easily and available Xender Web PC Windows 8/8.1/10 ios mac apk
xenderforpcis.com
SHAREit - PC Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Android Apk iOS Mac Windows
Shareit For PC Windows 7/8/8.1/10 Android Apk iOS Mac Windows after downloading you will find superfast data transfer in your phone and PC with a speed
shareitpc.one
maniraj
Thanks for the information about this Really nice Post.to know more good and intresting topics. <a href="https://coffeeemachinee.blogspot.com/2019/09/coffee-different-types-of-coffee.html">coffee machine</a>
Stop Saying "Happy Ramadan"
Unfortunately, like the hijab, the month of Ramadan is becoming a source of minority oppression and suffering.
amayasydney
The Plight of Ex-Muslims
I am asking all those people who believe we should live in a world, free of any bigotry and intimidation and choice.
Embryology in the Quran, debunked!
A lot of Muslims actually view this as a real process of child development inside the mother’s womb.
Wiselad
Pakistan's Curse - The Blasphemy Law
As long as the blasphemy law exists, there will always be people who will demand people’s death.
RAJIV219
WHY DID I LEAVE ISLAM?
This is a question I get asked by a lot of people: Why did I leave Islam?
zarishmeher
Is Islamophobia Real?
So next time, if anyone calls you an Islamophobe, you can shut them down very simply;
azlanmeher
THE TRICK OF AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH
Religious apologists and Scientists look at absolute truths completely differently.
Why religions are dying? Is it wealth, education or just the internet?
According to a 2015 study, 34% of the world’s wealth belongs to non-religious people, while they only make up 16%.
finded
Rescue an atheist on the run in Pakistan
An atheist living in Pakistan has been on the run for the last 7 years.
gramejoe
WHY TALK ABOUT ISLAM?
“It is like saying if you have quit drugs, why do you talk about it?"
chenxiansheng
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line993
|
__label__cc
| 0.694788
| 0.305212
|
Anurag Maheshwari, M.D.
Dr. Anurag Maheshwari provides expertise in liver and hepatobiliary diseases at Mercy's Institute for Digestive Health and Liver Disease.
Hepatitis C ›
Mercy doctors offer a breakthrough treatment for hepatitis C that cures most patients and saves lives. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus and can lead to permanent liver damage if untreated.
Institute for Gynecologic Care ›
The Institute for Gynecologic Care is the flagship Center of Excellence in the highly respected and widely acclaimed Weinberg Center for Women’s Health & Medicine at Mercy.
Main Campus - Parking Garages, Services & Amenities
Main Campus / Parking Garages
McAuley
About Mercy’s
Locations Main Campus / Parking Garages Community Physician Sites Mercy Affiliates
View Main Hospital in a larger map
Buildings and facilities at this location:
About Main Hospital - The Mary Catherine Bunting Center
Mercy's Main Hospital, The Mary Catherine Bunting Center, is where our private patient rooms are located. General visiting hours at Mercy are 11:00 am to 8:30 pm. Hours vary by floor, please check with the nursing staff or call 410-332-9555.
Address: 345 St. Paul Place, Baltimore MD 21202
Quick Links for Main Hospital - The Mary Catherine Bunting Center
Detailed Driving Directions
Google Directions
Valet Parking: Available at the Main Entrance at 345 St. Paul Place, Monday - Friday, from 7 am - 7 pm. Tickets must validated - if not stamped the fee is $30.
Self Parking: Available in The Bunting Garage, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Fees apply.
Other Transportation: Mercy is accessible using mass transit options, mobility vans, taxi cabs and ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft. Bike racks are available in The Bunting Garage on the north end of the first level.
General visiting hours are between 11:00 am and 8:30 pm, however, hours vary by floor so please check with the nursing staff or our information desk staff at 410-332-9555.
Mercy Destinations
Chapel of Light: The Chapel of Light is located on the main lobby level of The Bunting Center, and is open from 6:00 am to 8:30 pm daily. Available to people of all religions and faiths, the Chapel of Light is distinguished by 20-foot high clear glass walls containing hundreds of translucent nuggets of a variety of colors.
Corcoran Cafe: The Corcoran Cafe is located in The Bunting Center’s main lobby. The café serves drinks, sandwiches, pizza and snacks, as well as made-to-order meals and weekly specials. The café is open to patients, visitors and staff. Open 7 days a week, 6:30 am – 8:00 pm; 12:00 am – 2:00 am.
Additional Eateries: Mercy also has eateries in our other buildings.
The Baggot Street Café, located in The Weinberg Center, offers Starbucks Coffee, sandwiches, salads, paninis, cold beverages, yogurts, desserts, soups and snacks.
The Bistro, located in McAuley Tower, offers a full menu from snacks to complete meals.
The Coffee Kiosk, located in McAuley Plaza, is a very popular spot for a quick bite to eat or a gourmet beverage.
Lobby: The entrance includes a convenient covered passenger drop-off and pick-up area on St. Paul Place along with valet parking. For patient and visitor convenience, also included within the Lobby area are the Corcoran Café, Chapel of Light, Gift Shop, ATM, Cashier and Admissions area.
Lori's Gifts: There are two gift shops on campus located in the lobbies of The Bunting Center and McAuley Plaza. Mercy’s gift shops offer a variety of food, candy, reading materials and gifts to help make patients, guests, employees and volunteers feel welcome during their stay. Online ordering is available - offering free, same-day delivery to patients.
Walgreens Pharmacy: Outpatient pharmacy prescriptions can be filled at Walgreens Pharmacy, inside the lobby of McAuley Plaza. The pharmacy is open Monday through Saturday. You can reach Walgreens Pharmacy at Mercy by calling 410-625-2618 or you can have your prescription faxed to 410-528-1631.
Private Patient Rooms: Private patient rooms in The Mary Catherine Bunting Center feature a variety of amenities for patient and visitor comfort. Many rooms offer expansive, breath-taking views of the Downtown Baltimore skyline. Each patient floor features private inpatient rooms complete with a sofa with pull-out ottoman, private bathroom, phone and TV services, private safe, Wi-Fi and more.
ATM: ATM's are located in The Bunting Center lobby and in The McAuley Plaza lobby.
Guest Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi internet access is readily available on much of the Mercy campus, making it easy for patients and guests to check e-mail, read the news or browse the web.
Rooftop Gardens: The glass corridors of the patient floors at The Bunting Center overlook three sweeping, eco-friendly rooftop gardens. Beautifully landscaped with trees, shrubbery and flowers, the gardens also include a decorative water feature, stone walkways and benches.
Skywalk Atrium: The Skywalk Atrium, a beautifully designed walkway joining The Bunting Garage with the main hospital, traces the important moments in our storied history.
Smoke Free Campus: In an effort to create a healthier environment for our patients, staff and visitors, Mercy’s downtown campus is a smoke free campus effective May 1, 2014.
Mercy Downtown - McAuley Plaza
About Mercy Downtown - McAuley Plaza
McAuley Plaza includes the McAuley Professional Office Building (POB). General visiting hours at Mercy are 11:00 am to 8:30 pm. Hours vary by floor, please check with the nursing staff or call 410-332-9555.
Quick Links for Mercy Downtown - McAuley Plaza
Self Parking: Available in The McAuley Garage, from 5:00 am - 9:00 pm, Monday - Friday. Public entry into the garage ends at 6:30 pm.
McAuley Chapel:The McAuley Chapel is located in the McAuley Plaza and is Mercy’s Main Chapel for Religious Ceremonies. With beautiful architecture and stain glass lighting, the Chapel hosts both daily and weekend masses. The Chapel is open daily from 6:00 am – 8:30 pm and services can be viewed on the “Get Well” network within the patient rooms. Additionally, Holy Communion is available to patients upon request.
The Bistro: The Bistro, located in McAuley Tower, also offers a full menu from snacks to complete meals. The Bistro is popular for its grilled items. The café is open to patients, visitors and staff. Open Monday – Friday, 6:30 am – 3:00 pm.
The Coffee Kiosk: The Coffee Kiosk, located in McAuley Plaza, is a very popular spot for a quick bite to eat or a gourmet beverage.
The Corcoran Cafe, located in The Bunting Center’s main lobby, serves drinks, sandwiches, and snacks, as well as made-to-order meals and weekly specials.
Private Patient Rooms: Private patient rooms, located in The Mary Catherine Bunting Center, feature a variety of amenities for patient and visitor comfort. Many rooms offer expansive, breath-taking views of the Downtown Baltimore skyline. Each patient floor features private inpatient rooms complete with a sofa with pull-out ottoman, private bathroom, phone and TV services, private safe, Wi-Fi and more.
About The Weinberg Center
The Weinberg Center is home to Mercy's Cancer and Women's Centers. General visiting hours at Mercy are 11:00 am to 8:30 pm. Hours vary by floor, please check with the nursing staff or call 410-332-9555.
Quick Links for The Weinberg Center
Self Parking: Available in The Weinberg Garage, from 5:00 am - 9:00 pm, Monday - Friday. Public entry into the garage ends at 6:30 pm.
Chapels:Patients and visitors seeking a place of prayer, meditation and quiet solitude may visit one of two locations offered, including McAuley Chapel and The Chapel of Light. The McAuley Chapel is located in the McAuley Plaza. The Chapel of Light is located on the main lobby level of The Bunting Center.
Baggot Street Café: Located in The Weinberg Center, Main Lobby, The Baggot Street Café offers Starbucks Coffee, sandwiches, salads, paninis, cold beverages, yogurts, desserts, soups and snacks. The café is open to patients, visitors and staff. Open Monday – Friday, 6:30 am - 2:00 pm.
Lori's Gifts: There are two gift shops on campus located in the lobbies of The Bunting Center and McAuley Plaza. Mercy’s gift shops offer a variety of food, candy, reading materials and gifts to help make patients, guests, employees and volunteers feel welcome during their stay.
About Additional Mercy Locations
Additional buildings on Mercy's downtown campus include the Emergency Department, the Public Safety Infirmary and Business Health Services and Mercy's Physician Offices.
Additional Buildings
Emergency Department - The Emergency Department at Mercy Medical Center is located on Calvert Street in Downtown Baltimore. The hospital’s Emergency Room phone number is 410-332-9477.
Public Safety Infirmary and Business Health Services - Located at 323 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Mercy Physician Offices - Located at 341 Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line997
|
__label__cc
| 0.540021
| 0.459979
|
Upcoming EventsStoreLog InDonate to FASNYDonate to Firemen's Home
Donate to FASNY
Donate to Firemen's Home
Every Dollar Counts. Donations Checkout.
Please select a donation amount, complete the required fields, and enter your payment information
You are not currently logged in. We want to make sure you receive credit for your generosity, and can access this donation as part of your donations history. Please log in now or create an account to start building your legacy. To checkout as a guest, simply complete the information below.
Chapel Fund Donation
$50.00 $100.00 $250.00 Other Amount
Total Amount $25.00
About Your Donation
Enter your email address in the Confirmation Email to receive a confirmation. To send the confirmation to additional email(s) enter the email address(es) separated by commas in the Additional Emails field.
Additional Emails
Visa, Mastercard, and Discover
Sorry, it looks like that credit card has expired. Check the expiration date to make sure it's correct.
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 2039 2040 2041
Go to fasny.com
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1002
|
__label__cc
| 0.557021
| 0.442979
|
Amazing Board Games To Get Along With Today
Articles / Games
This year has been weird, and this statement would be quite an understatement witnessing all the shocks this year keeps shedding on us like it’s mere confetti. And let’s not forget that with the...
8 Ways to Get Better at Board Games
They say board games are good for your brain. Indeed, research shows that they can improve several cognitive functions such as coordination, language, maths, and decision making. Getting better at playing them is the...
Unliking Insta: Try These 7 Things to Pass the Time at Home Instead
It’s a move that has sent a whole generation into meltdown. Instagram has been road testing a new feature that hides likes on a user’s post, with Canada, Australia, Japan and Brazil among the...
Top Tech Gadgets To Add To Your Family Gift List
If you have ever scratched your head wondering what to get everyone on your gift list, you are not alone. It can be a challenge to figure out what the best thing for each...
Why is gambling so addictive?
Have you ever wondered why people gamble? The most common reply would be for fun, but there’s more to this than meets the eye. What happens if it turns out to be something lot...
How to Play The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The famous game will not leave any player indifferent. If you belong to the number of those who want to play it, then download the rom on RomsMania and go on. The fundamental of...
Counterfeit Goods from China (29 images).
What is Wind?
List Of The Highest and Lowest Paid Jobs in America
How ice cream sandwiches are made
Are Imperial Measurements outdated?
How To Walk On Ice
Can humans really feel temperature?
Ukrainian City Destroyed By Pro-Russian Rebeliants
Ash and lightning above an Icelandic volcano
Earth View: Amazing Collection of More Than 1000 Google Earth Wallpapers
Meet Abdullah Sholeh And His Tiger Mulan (16 pictures)
13 Intriguing New Species Discovered In 2013
The Ghost Town of Kolmanskop
Creepy art of Zdzislaw Beksinski
Five Ways To Become Immortal
Supplements vs. Whole Foods: What Does the Difference Look Like?
3 Interesting Facts about Energy Efficient and Sustainable Living
E=mc² is wrong?
10 Common Science Myths
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1004
|
__label__cc
| 0.69157
| 0.30843
|
Messy Conversations About Race in Black and White
Our Conversations
By Kerra Bolton, 14th August 2017
Filed under: allies, insight, lessons learned
I often get asked after a tragedy, "What can I do now? What do I do next?"
Diversity is an Asset is a comprehensive resource I recommend to anyone who's interested in taking part in a messy conversation about race.
Resources for White People
The First White President of the United States of America
This is How You Ally
Why Are We Having This Conversation Again?
Why “Fighting Hate” is Not the Answer
Activism is a Practice – Radical Self Care for Activists
Explaining Charlottesville to a 7-year-old
Activism is a Practice – How to Be Woke
Resources for Black People
We are not experts
Neither Kerra nor A.J. have advanced degrees in race studies. Their qualifications are simply a willingness to share their views and, perhaps more importantly, to listen to each other. They hope to both teach and learn from the conversation, drawing not on complex theory or specialist insight but on everyday experience and the conviction that we NEED to talk about this stuff.
CONVERSATION #1
A conversation about music.
A.J. said in an email exchange dated February 28 that he wanted to discuss the use of the word 'thug.'
Early 'color-blind' conversation.
AJ responds to Kerra's criticism of race in Sekret Machines in an Amazon.com review…
© 2021 In Good Faith | Credits Site designed & maintained by Tresa Horney
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1006
|
__label__wiki
| 0.973765
| 0.973765
|
Zille maintains her calls were being monitored
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille insisted on Wednesday that her telephone calls were once being monitored by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
Zille said that she and her husband had spoken to then intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils about the bugging of her phones at a meeting on February 14 2008.
“On January 8 2008 at 6.20 am, my husband Johann answered the phone on the desk in my study,” Zille said in a statement.
“He heard the sound of tapes re-winding and clicking. He then heard a tape recording of conversations that I had had in the room. He made notes of the conversation that was played back on this recording.
“My husband and I made an appointment to see the then minister of national intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils on February 14 2008.”
Zille said Kasrils undertook to establish whether there had been any official directive to intercept her telephone conversations.
“He reverted to us. He said there had been no official directive but he ‘could not guarantee’ that ‘rogue elements’ had not done so unilaterally and this would be almost impossible to establish.”
‘Order’ to release information
Zille said at roughly the same time, news had emerged and was emerging about the abuse of state institutions in the political battle between former president Thabo Mbeki and his political rival, Jacob Zuma.
“Then premier [Ebrahim] Rasool established a commission of inquiry to investigate certain alleged unlawful activities in the City of Cape Town.
“These allegations were primarily directed towards discrediting me and the Democratic Alliance,” Zille said.
“During the course of this investigation, it emerged that the police had obtained a full record of every phone call I had made or received during the preceding months.
“I contacted my service provider and asked how it was possible that the police had this information. My service provider informed me that they had received an ‘order’ to release the information.
“I could not establish whether that order had emanated from the commission of inquiry, or from a judge, but I made it absolutely clear to my service provider that they had acted unconstitutionally.
‘Politically motivated’
The commission of inquiry was declared ‘unlawful’ by the high court as it was “politically motivated”.
“I believed that the monitoring of my calls, both on cell and landline, was part of a politically motivated strategy against me,” Zille said.
Zille said her cabinet had a meeting with representatives of the State Security Agency in the Western Cape after she became premier in 2009.
“I asked the State Security Agency (SSA) representatives for an assurance that neither myself nor other members of the Cabinet ‘were or are’ under any form of surveillance.”
The director general of the province then wrote a letter to the director general of the national SSA, asking whether any person in the “Western Cape Provincial Cabinet is under surveillance” by the NIA.
Claims are ‘not true’
The DG, said Zille, received no reply to this letter.
“I have on several occasions followed up with the Western Cape representatives of the SSA. They have verbally assured me that they have not issued instructions for any such surveillance but they have declined to give us this assurance in writing. “
Earlier on Wednesday the NIA denied that it was monitoring Zille’s telephone calls.
“Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s claims that the NIA was monitoring her calls are not true,” state security ministry spokesperson Brian Dube said in a statement.
“We are very saddened by such claims coming from her given that our Western Cape office works very closely with her office, providing intelligence products to support the work of government,” Dube said.
Zille first made the claim during a debate in the provincial legislature on Tuesday. — Sapa
Brian Dube
Ebrahim Rasool
Helen Zille
National Intelligence Agency
Molefe blames Ramaphosa for Eskom’s woes in statement to Zondo commission
Life and death at the Beitbridge border post
The hallucinatory bunker of the white right
Editorial: 2021 — No choice but be strong
Schools are geared up for 2021
By-elections delayed as Covid restrictions bite
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1007
|
__label__wiki
| 0.792877
| 0.792877
|
Midnight in the Desert
Advertise on MITD
Guests By Date
Guests A-Z
Subscribe to MITD Archives
Show Archives (members)
The Wormhole (members)
Forbes: Art Bell, Longtime Voice In The Night Of ‘Coast To Coast AM,’ Dies At 72
Posted on April 19, 2018 in Media Coverage | 1525 Views | Leave a response
Radio host Art Bell has died at the age of 72, according to multiple sources. If the name itself doesn’t ring a bell, then his voice and legacy as the longtime host of “Coast to Coast AM” will. Anyone who’s flipped around the dials in the dead of night has landed on Bell’s program at one time or another. The show was gripping for the measured, and potentially earnest, crackpot messaging it beamed across the fruited plain with its bizarre conspiratorial and paranormal-themed theories.
True to most radio lifers, Bell’s rich (and a bit professorial) voice was not only custom-made for the medium, but especially the inky, barren time of day it rode the airwaves. Whether driving under the stars on an empty rustbelt highway, or in need of faraway company on an uneventful night, Bell’s “Coast to Coast AM” made for a compelling and oftentimes hair-raising companion.
At the height of its syndication in the ’90s, the show could be found on roughly 500 North American radio stations, with its broadcast originating from KNYE 95.1 FM in Bell’s remote hometown of Pahrump, Nevada.
Bell retired several times in his career and left “Coast to Coast” for good in 2010; since then, the show’s hosting duties have been split between radio personalities George Noory and George Knapp. Bell resurfaced in 2013 on SiriusXM satellite radio as host of a new, yet short-lived program; but of his many accomplishments in a long and distinguished career in radio, his most impressive feat might’ve occurred when he once set a Guinness World Record for “broadcasting solo” for 116 straight hours at a station in Okinawa, Japan.
Though his format was what could be called niche at best for its service as an idea mill for ostensibly harmless weirdos, Bell had the respect of his peers as a true radio pro by virtue of being inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2006 and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2008.
Theories espoused and discussed at length on “Coast to Coast” covered it all under Bell’s direction: From wild reports of strange, crypto-zoological marvels lurking in the wilderness, to accounts of bizarre flashes in the night sky suggesting unidentified flying objects; to unnerving segments discussing the supposed existence of shadowy global organizations and their latent menace. Bell presided over all of it and more, running the technical board for his show and establishing and nurturing a close bond with his legion of nocturnal listeners.
“It’s my life, and that’s all I have ever done,” Bell once said of his career in radio. “I went through a lot of family problems, so that interrupted things, and I was overseas four years”–serving as medic during the Vietnam War. “[But] I went back into radio because I love it.”
Bell played himself, or alternately fictional versions of himself, in several appearances on film and television; featuring in the 2007 series Dark Skies, as well as numerous documentaries commenting on a range of topics, including the illuminati, UFOS and aliens–to name just a few throughout his decades of unique broadcasting excellence.
Read More: Forbes
Posted in Media Coverage | Tagged art bell
MITD Tonight! Saturday! 6/27 The Best of Midnight in the Desert w/ Nathan Stolpman→
The Coast to Coast Art Bell Tribute Show→
Remembering Art Bell: Videos, Audio, Photos & Artwork→
Chicago Tribune: ‘Coast to Coast AM’ radio show host Art Bell dead at 72→
FIRST TIME CALLER LINE
WILD CARD LINE
850-446-9453(WILD)
The Wormhole
Send Message to Host
DarkMatterDigitalNetwork
Follow and Like Us Everywhere
Dark Matter Network
Finding MITD on CC-Wifi Radios
Take Down Requests
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1013
|
__label__wiki
| 0.846588
| 0.846588
|
ALLFREY, George Alexander
Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France (Courtesy of L Hall )
Waimate, NZ
James Charles Allfrey (father), Mary Street, Waimate
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
36th Reinforcements C Company Canterbury Infantry Regt.
Willochra
Canterbury Infantry Regiment
British War Medal & Victory Medal
Le Cateau, France
Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France
VI. C. 6
On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial
George's last employer was as a labourer for Meredith & Co Waimate.
He was medically boarded in Timaru and described as weight 147 lbs, height 5 foot 8 1/2 inches, chest 34 inches, complexion fair, eyes blue and hair brown. He was wearing dentures and his feet were inclined to be flat but seemed to give no trouble. He had had previous service with the 2nd SC Regiment as a Territorial. He served in New Zealand from 12 November 1917 to 22 April 1918 and overseas 23 April 1918 until his death 23 October 1918. He arrived in Suez 31 May 1918 and embarked on the "Ormonde" 4 July 1918 for Southampton and left the United Kingdom for France on 30 September 1918.
Despite his previous military service Lillian Hall, Allfrey's first cousin twice removed, recounted that: "... he did not want to go to war, he was prised from his mother at Waimate train station and put on board the train, he said he would not be returning home."
George died of gunshot wounds on 23 Oct 1918 after less than one month in France (Cas List no 995/8). He was originally buried at Bon A Pierres in an isolated grave 2 3/4 miles SW of Le Quesnoy by Rev G.T. Robson and later reburied in Romeries Cemetery.
George's war medals, scroll and plaque were sent to his mother, Mrs J.C. Allfrey, Mary Street, Waimate.
Cenotaph (August 2013 & October 2014); Archives NZ; New Zealand Society of Genealogists Index Version 5: SCRoll web submission by L Hall, 9 May 2015
Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald, Ted Hansen
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1018
|
__label__cc
| 0.705358
| 0.294642
|
Andray week complete blatche an for example cheap nfl jerseys
Cavaliers: Nance, who had 11 rebounds, was disappointed teammates commented about Beilein behind his back. CAREER: Veteran linebacker enters his eighth season in the NFL after spending seven years with the Cincinnati Bengals…Career totals include 75 games played with 73 starts, totaling 604 tackles , 8 sacks, five INTs, Cheap Jerseys Usa 32 passes defensed, four forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries…Has appeared in three postseason contests, posting 19 stops , 1 sacks, one INT, one pass defensed and NHL Jerseys China one forced fumble…In 2018, started in all seven appearances and compiled 33 stops and three passes defensed…Finished Top-5 on the squad in tackles from 2015, including a career-high, franchise-record and NFL-best 171 stops in 2013 en route to Cheap Jerseys Usa his first Pro Bowl selection and second-team All-Pro honor…His Basketball Jerseys For Sale Wholesale NBA Jerseys 171 tackles in 2013 stand as the highest single-season total by a defender NHL Jerseys China since 2010…Also led the team with 127 tackles as a rookie in 2012, good for the fourth-most stops by a Wholesale NBA Jerseys rookie defender in the NFL that season. So, I’m going to keep doing the same thing.” TIP-INS Timberwolves: Minnesota was also without G Shabazz Napier . Lee didn’t practice Wednesday, so Thursday’s limited session represents a tangible step in the right direction. caught eight of nine targets for 58 yards in Monday night’s 37 win over the Giants. Janmark will Cheap NFL Jerseys return to a bottom-six role following a four-game absence, skating with jason Dickinson and Corey Perry on the ‘ fourth line against the Jets. Gipson is battling an assortment of injuries, but coach Bill O’Brien believes he’ll be Cheap NFL Jerseys a game-time call for Sunday’s game against the Jaguars. Whoa, we always do baseball, he says. The Bengals hope that development, plus a good supporting skill cast, can push Dalton closer to his ceiling.
Team Canada #5 Freddie Freeman White 2017 World Baseball Classic Authentic Stitched Baseball Jersey
Denver Wholesale NBA Jerseys Broncos 16. And he is a good post-up player:
Adidas Wild #10 Chris Stewart Green Home Authentic USA Flag Stitched Youth NHL Jersey
The Atlanta Hawks are, effectively, 3 this season when Trae Young has played, with their only loss coming by two points to the one-loss Philadelphia 76ers;
Rigorous, peer-reviewed studies suggest that companies do not perform better when they have women on the board;
The guests received a makeover and haircut, selected a new outfit from Dockers, snapped a new headshot and then shared a Thanksgiving dinner with the 49ers players;
Haywood’s contract is non-guaranteed for the 15 season at Basketball Jerseys For Sale $10 million;
Here’s the breakdown: In their first head-to-head matchup, LaMelo Ball and RJ Hampton showed why they are two of the most exciting prospects in the 2020 draft class;
Center put New York ahead to stay 1 later when he finished a 2-on-1 rush with by beating Murray with a wrist shot from the right circle. Jimmy White put a career of Crucible misery Cheap Jerseys Usa behind him to claim the World Seniors Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
New York Giants 5. They just did some great promotions tied Basketball Jerseys For Sale to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, part of which I believe was called, ‘Moon Tunes.’ It asked people, ‘What music would you listen to if you were flying to the Moon? To see players from the early years mingling with players who hadn’t played that long ago was truly special. Will Redskins fans see more of this next year? The are optimistic that will be able to resume his career in 2019, though doctors are maintaining a wait-and-see attitude with regards to the quarterback’s future outlook, sources tell Adam Schefter of ESPN. It was a heck of a day for the fifth-year linebacker who now has three NHL Jerseys China picks in his last five games. As long as the deal goes through, Drake seems like a decent bet to start this week, though Zach Zenner and Alfred Morris also are in the mix for RB reps. has just a slight chance to return to the this season, Andre Fernandez of The Athletic reports. The Top Five also includes Anthony Davis and James Harden . His best route was Wholesale Calgary Flames Jerseys a cheap nfl jerseys seam caught in front of strong safety Montae Nicholsonthat he took to the corner of the end zone for a touchdown. New York City and Buffalo, New York, as well as parts of Ohio, have set records. – Head Coach Adam Gase was asked to explain what went wrong for the Dolphins Cheap Jerseys Usa in 2017, and his answer basically came down to a lack of consistency in all phases. His flexibility should allow defensive coordinator Patrick Graham to move the 310 pounder inside or outside, which should create some headaches throughout training camp for the offense. This Cheap Ottawa Senators Jerseys particular interaction took place during the Redskins’ dominance over the Raiders.
He’s going to thump you. This year that number has dipped Basketball Jerseys For Sale to 37 percent. Tom Brady 8. If you’re a registered nurse, then you could work for health insurers or health management companies like Humana, Aetna and UnitedHealth Group. Everyone found another gear, our D moved the puck up quick, we were playing fast, and when we do that everyone looks good. With Marcus Peters also at risk of missing time, Sam Shields and Nickell Robey-Coleman are expected to step into larger roles in the Los Angeles secondary beginning with Thursday’s game against the Vikings. With the season halfway over, RealGM ranked best players who made their debut in Euroleague during the 13 season. The MLS pact builds on AdvoCare’s partnership with FC Dallas, where it has been the club’s jersey-front sponsor since 2012.
If you would like to search for all players born on a certain day, for example all players born on December 25th in cheap nfl jerseys any year, choose the month and day with the drop down boxes and then choose the ‘Month and Day Search’ option. I learned there are two methods to donate bone Cheap NFL Jerseys marrow: one would be a peripheral blood stem cell donation where you’re hooked up to an IV and your blood is taken and spun through a machine that separates and collects stem cells.
http://yourticketsolution.ca/?p=1367
http://www.shimacam.com/report/6403.html
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1022
|
__label__wiki
| 0.636286
| 0.636286
|
Transformative face eclectic offerings in company
Allan Houston caught fire and looked like the player I think they believe he can be.
Becky Lynch 7.
All games telecast on MLB Network, TBS and Fox will be available to subscribers who are authenticated subscribers to the applicable network through a participating pay TV provider.
Miami Dolphins 6.
Los Angeles Chargers 7.
You can’t evaluate them with other replicated watches simply because they’ve no any match.
Jacksonville Jaguars 10.
I always knew I wanted to be a First Lady; it was just a matter of lining up the stars to make the dream come true.
1 Swift, the Top Five Selling Acts Overall include The Eagles, Harry Styles, Beyoncé and Foo Fighters.
Detroit Lions 4.
New York Giants and Denver Broncos vs.
31, it will be an opportunity for both teams to not just set expectations for their seasons, but even more importantly to raise awareness about sexual violence and relationship violence awareness.
14, many will still mark the event in some way.
But a problem arrises when brothers win a tennis match and need to photograph the oversize check they have been handed.
Under a new very big umbrella campaign, Everybody Up!, the league intends to show that it is ready to hit the court running.
Tom Brady 8.
15, with the host city to be determined in 2017.
Based on average sales per show for U.S.
They’re a championship team.
The initial push is anchored by four TV spots, one with each of the lead spokespersons, who have all stepped out of their sports comfort zone to enhance themselves.
Jason Witten, TE, Dallas Cowboys 6.
Each afternoon , Strat-O-Matic plans to reveal the results, standings, statistics and key game highlights from that day’s scheduled games.
Stand-alone spots will air the week of many of the respective games, starting with a commercial https://www.atlantaapparels.com/18-Jersey week for the Vikings-Rams game, followed by a spot for the Indianapolis Colts vs.
Begins with Indianapolis Colts vs.
They are 2 in playoff games at the Coliseum .
Johnson cited Gase’s positive work with quarterback Sam Darnold and collaborative efforts with general manager Joe Douglas to try to improve the struggling franchise.
Strat-O-Matic said it would allow fans, media and former players to help select the day’s pitchers and lineups, as well as follow the action via and on its various active social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1023
|
__label__wiki
| 0.650235
| 0.650235
|
About Marley, Someone
Marley is a listless Eurasian-Australian actor who feels she is destined for something greater. Struggling to find joy and fulfilment in an industry dominated by white Australia and eager to typecast her, Marley never relays her ennui outwardly but continues to float through life as she has always done. But when a big Hollywood blockbuster about Japanese Ronin starts filming in Sydney, Marley’s hopes are raised for a better future and a new chapter for people of colour. That is until she discovers two white men have been cast as leads. Through her incredible friends and a one-sided narcissistic romance with one of the lead actors in the film, Marley is forced to say a big “screw you” to society by putting a camera up to nature – in order to find herself and take ownership of her place in the world.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1026
|
__label__cc
| 0.699474
| 0.300526
|
Home News Social Media Tim Cook Says OLED Displays Are “Awful”
Tim Cook Says OLED Displays Are “Awful”
Andrew Grush
Today at an investor conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, Tim Cook had a few things to say about OLED, none of the them good. According to Cook, the color saturation on OLED displays are “awful” and that if you ever buy online and want to know the true color that you should “really think twice before you depend on the color from an OLED display”.
Cook then went to praise his company’s retina display as superior, and how it is twice as bright as OLED. Of course OLED is a new technology and will continue to evolve. For example, think back to the LCD technology of the early 90s and compare that to today.
It’s also worth noting that Apple recently hired an OLED expert from LG, so they clearly are interested in the technology despite his comments. Of course Steve Jobs tended to do a similar thing back in the day, where he would criticize a device and then Apple would release their own “superior” implementation. Marketing at its finest I suppose.
Cook also mentioned the idea of a larger-screened iPhone like rumors are claiming is in the works, stating that he wouldn’t comment on the company’s plans but then criticizing the competition for focusing only on size and specifications instead of creating “an amazing experience”.
What do you think of Tim Cook’s statements about phablets and OLED? Agree or not?
[ source ]
Previous articleBlackberry 10 “Creative Director” Alicia Keys Caught Using iPhone
Next articleIs Windows Blue an Update for All of Windows Platforms?
Scanadu Scout Is a Star Trek Medical Tricorder for the Real World
Clash of Clans Dev Supercell Injected with $1.5 Billion from Softbank, GungHo Online
Prototype Steam Machine Specs
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1030
|
__label__wiki
| 0.548747
| 0.548747
|
Carsten Holler - Decision at the Hayward Gallery
Ode to My Trainers: How Artists Glorified their Shoes and Other Sole Sentiments
Literature • Jun 15, 2011
My trainers have finally succumbed to its finality-a slow, painful but sure death and I am the only one mourning. The plastic straps that held the shoe laces fell out and as much as I want to revive them with superglue, I know it is high time to give them a rest. There were tears shed indeed, for these once-beautiful worn-out shoes have been with me since the start of my European saga and have witnessed my personal retreats, ups and downs, journeys and art discoveries.
For a year, these trainers have been in Barcelona and discovered the trails of the fathers of modern art: the Fundación Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso Museum, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia/Casa Mila and also discovered the avant-garde Antoni Tapiés. They have basked in the Figueres sunshine to catch a glimpse of what inspired Salvador Dali.
Casa Mila by Antonio Gaudi. Photo by David Sim
They've gone to Madrid for 2 1/2 years to see Velazquez and Goya and have been mesmerised by the works of El Greco. They've made fantastic and meaningful trips: two months in Paris with a daily dose of the Centre Pompidou Library and the cobblestoned streets of Montmartre where most of the artists who shaped modern/contemporary art have once lived. And now here in London, they've finally come to pass. They've surely done their part to traverse real-life and creative experiences with me. With the passing of these trainers, a new chapter unfolds. And I am willing to go as far as I can until my new trainers bow down.
In modern and contemporary art, I am not alone with my foot sentiments. I've also seen how artists have glorified shoes. Joan Miró made a sculpture of a figure with red shoes displayed at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. And one other painting called a “Still life with an Old Shoe,” which he made in Paris in 1937 as a protest against the Spanish civil war. (See the Moma video below).
Sculpture by Joan Miró in Barcelona. Photo by Vincent Desjardins
Still Life with Old Shoe by Joan Miró
Moving on to contemporary times, in Berlin, soccer shoes were commemorate in Berlin as part of the Land of Ideas, in honour of their developer, the Dassler family (Adidas).
Shoe Sculpture in Berlin. Photo by Peter Fuchs
Land of Ideas in Berlin
Artist Victoria Fuller also made an ode to the Shoe of Shoes. It is a large shoe sculpture made up of shoes. Victoria says, “While the collection of many shoes can represent commercial mass production, it can also represent a cultural icon of femininity, perhaps collective feminine strength. The common object is elevated to a higher form, by transforming the mundane into a surreal fantasy.”
Shoe of Shoes by Victoria Fuller. Photo by William C. Hutton Jr.
American artist Tyree Guyton made a shoe installation in Detroit to explore the theme of homelessness. The outdoor installation literally populated an entire block with all kinds of shoes. He says, “‘I live around the corner here, and so I see every day this church behind me, feeding people every Wednesday, and I knew I wanted to say something,” he said. “And it came to me to talk about the plight of the people right here.’
Street Folk by Tyree Guyton. Photo by BB and HH
The outdoor installation of Tyree Guyton in Detroit
On the otherhand, Antoni Tapiés made an Ode to a dirty sock displayed at the Fundació Tapiés in Barcelona. In fact, Tapiés is known to incorporate the image of the foot, footprint, sock and shoe in his works notably in works such as Brown Bed (1960), Matter in the Form of a Foot (1965) and Sole of Foot (1984.) He takes this unappealing and simple image to convey a complex meaning. He says, “Sometimes people have the idea that art should be highly refined. But I always believed that one could make art out of simple, humble things,” he says. “Small things can be transcendental. They can change our way of looking at the world. I think it’s important to make art out of almost anything.” ( Telegraph Article)
Dirty Sock by Antoni Tapiés. Photo by Nuria Ordoñez
I can't help but remember how the poet Pablo Neruda has once penned an ode to his socks. An excerpt goes:
“my feet were honoured in this way
by these heavenly socks.
They were so handsome for the first time
my feet seemed to me unacceptable
like two decrepit firemen,
firemen unworthy of that woven fire,
of those glowing socks.”
The writer Erica Jong, on the other hand, also took a jab at writing an Ode to her shoes. An excerpt:
“Darling shoes,
beloved feet
ten toes to walk me
toward my true love,
fuck-me pumps to fuel his passion
stiletto heels to stab him
if he strays.
Shoes tell you everything.
Shoes speak my language.
Their tap tap tap on the airport runway
tells me the story
of a lovely, lonely woman flying after love–
That old, old story
in a new pair
of shoes.”
- Erica Jong
Video of the Dirty Sock by Antoni Tapiés
Tuesday Gutierrez
Copywriter, Content Manager, Strategy, Branding and Marketing
The Menacing Storm: The Future of Art Books in the Digital Age
Momardi - Tuesday Gutierrez © 2021 • Published with Ghost
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1033
|
__label__cc
| 0.521751
| 0.478249
|
Price Controls Mean Shortages, Even during Pandemics
Blog04/02/2020Baruti "Libre" Kafele
Despite many attempts at doing so, governments have never been able to conjure up more goods and services through price controls and other regulations.
Politicians Have Used This Crisis to Remind Us They're Mostly Wannabe Dictators
Big GovernmentPolitical Theory
Blog03/26/2020Jim Fedako
From small villages to Capitol Hill, politicians are using every opportunity to void the Bill of Rights and abolish all limits on their power.
Politicians Are Calling for Lots of "Bold" Plans. Watch Out.
ProgressivismTaxes and Spending
With both major political parties seemingly uninterested in the long-term fiscal stability of the United States, the only near-term solution for the spendthrift class in Washington, DC, is to either raise taxes or spend recklessly.
Popper and the Course of History
Can a scientific law allow us to predict the course of history? Marxists lean in this direction, but Karl Popper says it's impossible. Is he right?
Pete Buttigieg's Sovietesque Plan for Rural Revitalization
ImmigrationPovertySocialismTaxes and Spending
Buttigieg's plan to repopulate depressed rural areas with immigrants reminds one of old Soviet schemes to ship people to Siberia to stimulate the economy there.
Private Sector Truck Drivers Are Nepal's Lifeline to Clean Water
Government officials have repeatedly failed to deliver clean water to the people of Kathmandu. So the private sector stepped in to get the job done.
Protectionism Is Not the Answer to the Canadian Fur Trade’s Problems
Free MarketsProtectionism and Free Trade
Blog01/29/2020Daniella Bassi
The North American fur trade is in decline. Unfortunately, many think that the solution is for the government to step in to “protect” trappers from market competition.
Pseudo-Psychiatrist "Diagnoses" Trump Supporters with Mental Disorders
HealthMedia and Culture
Blog01/25/2020Christopher DeGroot
The great libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz warned that health officials could use their "expertise" to push a political agenda. We're now living in that world.
Carmen Elena Dorobăț
Dr. Carmen Elena Dorobăț is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Manchester...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1038
|
__label__cc
| 0.516847
| 0.483153
|
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Early Reviews Praise A Solid Superhero Sequel
While Wonder Woman 1984 doesn’t premiere until the end of the month — both on HBO Max and in theaters on the same day — a few select critics got to screen the film early. Full reviews are expected next week, but in the meantime, here are some of the tweets from that first batch of critics.
Over all, the reviews are extremely positive. Although some noted that they preferred Patty Jenkins’ original Wonder Woman to this follow-up, most said it was a very worthwhile sequel, with two good villains in Pedro Pascal’s Max Lord and Kristen Wiig’s Cheetah. Describing the film’s tone and impact they used words like “hopeful,” “ambitious,” “beautiful,” and several “wonderful” puns. (Critics do love their puns.)
Here’s a sampling of the early reviews of the new DC Comics movie:
There’s also a new teaser for the film’s HBO Max premiere. (Remember that as part of Warner Bros.’ plan to release its 2021 slate on HBO Max on the same day the titles premiere in theaters, the movies will only stream for 30 days. That means you’ve got just one month to watch Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max before you’ll need to find a theater or wait until it officially hits home video.)
Wonder Woman 1984 premieres on HBO Max and in theaters on Christmas Day.
Gallery — Every DC Comics Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best:
Source: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Early Reviews Praise A Solid Superhero Sequel
Filed Under: DC Comics, HBO Max, Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman 1984
Categories: Misc. Content
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1040
|
__label__wiki
| 0.597767
| 0.597767
|
Police break up anti-mask dance gathering at Quebec shopping mall, issue fines
Luca Caruso-Moro CTV News Montreal Digital Reporter
@LucaCarusoMoro Contact
Published Sunday, November 22, 2020 9:01PM EST Last Updated Monday, November 23, 2020 6:07PM EST
Police are investigating an anti-mask dance gathering in a Quebec shopping mall over the weekend and, after the event, have begun to issue violations.
Police responded to a call Saturday afternoon that about 30 people were occupying an area in Place Rosemere, a shopping mall 30 minutes north of Montreal.
“We were informed that people were playing music and not respecting social distancing. [They] weren’t wearing masks,” said Martin Charron, an inspector for the Therese-de Blainville police force.
Police and mall security broke up the event, which lasted about five minutes.
No fines were handed out when police dispersed the dancers, but Charron said fines will be delivered later. Sometimes officers choose this course of action -- issuing fines later -- especially in cases where they are outnumbered by protesters.
In addition, the mall is a family-friendly spot, he said, so police didn't want to draw more attention than needed to the event.
On Monday afternoon, police gave an update, saying they've identified 18 violations and are beginning to issue fines.
Many of the violations have been attributed to one one person -- the organizer -- said Charron.
She is a woman whom police had identified earlier, he said. She was not previously known to police, and the event is not yet associated with a group.
A video posted online on Saturday shows the incident:
Video source: C'est normal au Québec's YouTube channel
An investigation will be carried out this week into all people present. Charron says it was the first time local police had intervened in a gathering of this kind.
No arrests were made.
People dancing without masks and not socially distancing at Place Rosemere shopping mall on Nov. 21, 2020. (Source: C'est Normal au Quebec's YouTube channel)
145 people facing thousands in fines for attending Montreal Halloween party
Police break up Diwali gathering at Montreal Sikh temple
Gym owners -- and clients -- who defy COVID-19 rules will be fined: Legault
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1041
|
__label__cc
| 0.539291
| 0.460709
|
Landing a Plane and Leading a Startup
Tomer Levy
Dec 1st, 2014
When I was studying towards my pilot license 15 years ago, I was struggling to control the plane while rolling on the runway during landing. The runway felt so narrow and I didn’t have a control wheel like in a car, just 2 paddles. Pressing one paddle, felt like turning the wheel of a car abruptly in one direction. My basic instinct was to stay on the center of the runway at all cost. This is what the best pilot would do I thought. Like all new students, I was dangerously zig-zagging the narrow runway until the plane stopped.
It took me a while to understand what my instructor was saying. He said something fairly simple, though it didn’t make sense at the beginning:
“Don’t focus on the runway, just look on the zebra located at the end of the runway. As long as you’re headed to the center of the zebra, you’ll be fine”
It worked like a charm.
I stopped looking at the touch point, just looked about a mile ahead to the white marking on the end of the runway and steered the plane gently in that direction. Once I committed to it, all the immediate zig-zags were gone. I stopped making quick fixes even though I was a bit off the center of the runway. On the flip side, I did find myself not exactly where I wanted to be on the runway and that was quite frustrating.
I think startups are not that different than planes.
Like every early-stage company, we’re spending time debating features priorities and roadmap. Where should we focus more and what can wait for the next release. We all know that startups are like roller coasters, requirements change, opportunities arise and the startup’s “pilot” wants to optimize every second to be on the center of his runway. For me, it was counter-intuitive at first to let the teamwork on a task which is not priority #1. I know startups should be agile and fast-changing but it has a downside. I saw very often how these ‘small changes’ in priorities can get engineering teams to lose focus and pay a significant context switch penalty. Sometimes it’s worth it. Most time it’s not. as long as you’re still aiming the plane to the end-of-the-runway zebra.
photo credit: Frans Zwart via photopin cc
The Road to OpenTelemetry: How We Got Here
How to Defend Your Business Against SQL Injections
Shipping AWS Lambda Metrics to Logz.io
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1049
|
__label__cc
| 0.584944
| 0.415056
|
Ralph Nader > In the Public Interest > Adbusters
Adbusters is a satiric, irreverent, profound, almost indescribable magazine out of Vancouver, Canada whose mission is to chew up the crass materialism and commercialism that is devouring conscience, soul and economic sustainability on Earth.
If that is a mouthful of praise, this colorful, quarterly journal deserves it. If you are experiencing unease at the flood of commercialism in areas and places that once were verboten to the heirs of Mammon, you’ll relish how Adbusters’ articles, snippets, reverse ad-mocking and civic events brings out your mental focus which Madison Avenue has been blurring for decades because it has had no competition.
In its fall issue, the back page is devoted to an ad titled Absolute End with a vodka bottle image surrealistically placed over a roadway with bloodstains from a car accident being inspected by a police man and photographer. Two brief small lines at the bottom point to the devastation of alcohol on the highway, on teenagers and on alcoholics.
The inside front page has a spoof of TV Guide — called TV Guile. Showing a male couch potato, the TV Guile cover features “New Fall Lineup” of “Tired Old Programs, Lame Spinoffs and I11-Conceived, Over-Produced Fiascos!”
It is inside the covers that this tightly sprung journal goes into action — taking apart advertising campaigns, describing the media trances of the unwary, within a 24 page media section called Culture-Jamming for media activists.
October 16-22 is TV Turnoff Week (call its hotline at 1-800- 663-1243) and Sunday, September 24, 1995 was the fourth annual “Buy Nothing Day” to remind us that the real power of the buying public is not to buy — a protest boycott.
Adbusters is published by the non-profit Media Foundation (1243 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1B7 Canada, $18 per year) which in turn runs PowerShift, a non-profit advertising agency specializing in Anti-ads, Subvertising and TV Uncommercials. Its motto states: “At some point every group must go beyond its circle of supporters, gain the strength that comes in numbers and expand into the mainstream consciousness.”
Satire is often sophomoric and people in democracies are usually not as good at it as people in dictatorial regimes probably because it is the latter’s only permissible form of expression. But Adbusters’ editors and writers are not just throwing verbal and pictorial darts; they are grounded in a serious philosophy of what happens to a society where almost everything is determined or dominated by the commercial imperative.
Spiritual and other values suffer and erode — such as health, safety, justice, legacies to future generations, non-mercantile culture, diversity, variety and letting children grow up as children instead of as Calvin Kleined, telepavlovian-conditioned automatons.
Corporate commercialism is invading our schools (witness Channel One), renaming our academic buildings on campus, our athletic arenas (Boston Garden will become Fleet (bank) Garden), plastering its logos onto anything that moves, and eyeing control of cyberspace away from the wonderfully accessible Internet.
Our famous past presidents (Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington) are turned into advertising hucksters on television and in print.
These are only aggressive symptoms of a commercialism that grips our politicians, directs our country’s research choices, and shapes the illiterate, pliant minds of youngsters who fall into the media trance in front of their tv and video games for over 30 hours a week.
Adbusters is trying to bust through the advertising monopoly which it defines as blocking counter-advertising messages and programs. Come to think of it, when was the last time you saw a tv counter-ad advising you about the reasons not to eat hotdogs or drink Coke? Only a few states such as California are placing antismoking ads and to good results.
On October 23rd, the Adbusters Media Foundation will take the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to the Supreme Court of British Columbia to secure the right to buy airtime on commercial television.
It expects a similar court challenge in the U.S. because the NBC, ABC and CBS networks have repeatedly refused to sell airtime to Adbusters. Well, at least, that’s one limitation that runaway commercialism places on itself.
← Gingrich Gag
Taxwatch →
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1050
|
__label__cc
| 0.579166
| 0.420834
|
Fancy a Topless, Two-Doo...
Home » Car Reviews » 2021 Genesis G80: 5 Things We Like (and 4 Not So Much)
2021 Genesis G80: 5 Things We Like (and 4 Not So Much)
For 2021, the Genesis G80 luxury sedan gets an all-around redesign: new turbocharged engines, a new suite of safety and driver-assist tech, and a cabin geared toward comfort. It’s related to the GV80, a new SUV from Genesis.
Related: 2021 Genesis G80 Review: Nipping at the Germans’ Heels
The G80 sedan has been around in some form since the 2009 model year, when it was known as the Hyundai Genesis. Genesis spun off as a luxury division of Hyundai in 2015, and this five-seat luxury car has been known as the G80 ever since. In the Genesis sedan lineup, it slots between the sporty G70 and luxury-focused G90. And while the G80 manages to combine some of the best aspects of each, it brings a few quirks of its own to the table.
Curious about the ins and outs of the G80? Executive Editor Joe Wiesenfelder’s review in the related link above contains everything you’ll need to know. But if you just want a quick list of pros and cons about the 2021 Genesis G80, look no further:
1. Can’t Go Wrong With Either Engine
Genesis named the G80’s trims, 2.5T and 3.5T, after its two available engines, both turbocharged. The smaller one is a 2.5-liter four-cylinder that puts out 300 horsepower, a combination that offers great acceleration from a stop and if you need more power while already in motion. The larger engine is a 375-hp, twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6, which provides a lot more power, even with the added weight.
2. Luxe, Roomy Cabin
This G80 has 3 extra inches of legroom in the backseat compared with the outgoing model — and more inches than European competitors like the Audi A6 or Mercedes-Benz E-Class. In terms of appointments, the 2.5T trim has a fair amount of premium materials and finishes, including some convincing leatherette (imitation leather) upholstery. But the 3.5T takes it to another level with Nappa leather seats, faux suede headliner and genuine wood trim.
3. Comfortable Ride
As compared with its sporty stablemate, the G70, the G80 has a clear focus on comfort. The suspension absorbs most bumps, but the G80’s optional adaptive suspension offers even more comfort, especially when you activate the driver-selectable Comfort driving mode. Sport mode, by contrast, makes for a firmer ride.
4. Safety and Driver-Assistance Tech
Highway Driving Assist II adds lane-changing assistance to the features the G80 already had, like adaptive cruise control with lane-centering steering.
5. Warranty and Maintenance
A lot of the G80’s value is wrapped up in its warranty, with five years or 60,000 miles of bumper-to-bumper coverage and a 10-year, 100,000-mile powertrain warranty. Genesis also offers three years or 36,000 miles of free maintenance.
More From Cars.com:
2021 Genesis G80 Price: More Expensive, Yet Still a Bargain
2021 Genesis G80: Big on New Tech, Big on Its Face
Genesis G80 Redesign Reveal: What We Know and What We Don’t
Genesis G80, GV80 Delayed by Coronavirus
Research the 2021 Genesis G80
Things We Don’t
1. Tech Blunders
The G80 doesn’t offer wireless Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, and it’s a feature that cannot be added later, according to Genesis. IPhone users should keep in mind that Genesis’ phone-as-key feature only works with Android smartphones. Another weird quirk? An optional 3D effect for the instrument panel requires a driver-facing sensor — but the steering wheel can block that sensor, defeating the 3D effect. Beyond that, the standard widescreen multimedia display can be controlled by a recessed wheel on the console, but it’s not as easy to operate as a raised knob.
2. Transmission Response With Paddle Shifters
When shifting manually with the paddles mounted to the steering wheel, the transmission response isn’t as quick as you’d hope. This lag is present both in the 2.5T and the 3.5T trims, even when you change drive modes.
3. Backseat Doesn’t Fold
Many sedans in this class, like the BMW 5 Series, have 40/20/40-split, folding backseats, but the G80 lacks that feature. It only has a center pass-through, limiting capacity for longer cargo.
4. Missing Features on 2.5T Trim
Unlike most of its European competitors, which opt for an à la carte approach, many optional features on the G80 are wrapped up in packages, and some aren’t offered on the 2.5T. The result is that you might not be able to get the few features you really want without stepping up to the 3.5T. So while it’s true you can’t go wrong with either engine, you might find one of them limiting in ways unrelated to the engine itself.
Cars.com’s Editorial department is your source for automotive news and reviews. In line with Cars.com’s long-standing ethics policy, editors and reviewers don’t accept gifts or free trips from automakers. The Editorial department is independent of Cars.com’s advertising, sales and sponsored content departments.
Tips for Safely Selling Your Car During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Porsche Taycan Turbo S On The Nurburgring Takes The Fight To ICE Sports Cars
Ford Announces A Comprehensive Charging Solutions For Europe
Mitsubishi Starts Outlander PHEV Production In Thailand
casino free play promotions near me
island view casino gulfport
restaurants near parx casino
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1051
|
__label__wiki
| 0.94627
| 0.94627
|
Franz Tost: COVID a fina...
Home » Racing » Holdsworth responds to ‘shock’ exit
Holdsworth responds to ‘shock’ exit
Lee Holdsworth has responded to what he says is a “shock” end to his full-time Supercars career.
Tickford Racing confirmed earlier today that it won’t field a car for Holdsworth next season, amid its scaling back from four entries to three.
Holdsworth missed out on a seat primarily due to the loss of sponsor Supercheap Auto.
While Supercheap had been backing Jack Le Brocq’s car, its exit means the Truck Assist backing – brought to the team by Le Brocq – will move to the #55 entry for 2021.
The team was also unsuccessful in securing a fourth Racing Entitlements Contract to replace the one sold by Phil Munday to Brad Jones Racing.
That means there will be just three full-time Tickford cars this season, driven by Le Brocq, Cam Waters and James Courtney.
Three-time race winner Holdsworth took to social media in the wake of the news, labelling the sudden end of his full-time career as a “shock”.
He also signalled his intent to land a top Bathurst 1000 co-driver role.
“After 15 years of Supercars, it’s all come to an end,” he wrote.
“It’s come as a shock and it feels premature, but that’s the way it’s played out.
“I’ve been fortunate to have such a long stint in the sport and I am extremely grateful to those who have been a part of it.
“I’ve met some awesome people along the way… lifelong friends, great sponsors, and amazing fans.
“I haven’t ticked off winning the Bathurst 1000 yet, but you can bet your arse I’ll be back this year with the best chance yet!
“Big thank you to all the hard working people at Tickford Racing. I’ve really enjoyed the last few years working together.
“Signing out.”
Holdsworth made his full-time Supercars debut with Garry Rogers Motorsport back in 2006, taking a maiden race win at Oran Park the following season.
He added another win for GRM at Homebush in 2010, before making a high-profile move to Stone Brothers Racing for the 2012 season.
That, however, was just a year before the team was sold and became Erebus Motorsport, which initially struggled with its Mercedes hardware.
There was a win at Winton in 2014 amid a tough run of form, before he teamed up with Charlie Schwerkolt at Team 18.
That too failed to provide regular front-running results, Tickford eventually throwing a lifeline to Holdsworth when Mark Winterbottom left at the end of 2018.
Super GT news: Sacha Fenestraz set for Cassidy’s TOM’S seat
Podcast: How Ducati is fighting the impact of Covid-19
Drivers' prayers answered with return of gravel at Spa | F1 News by PlanetF1
George Russell admits Williams return 'strange feeling' | F1 News by PlanetF1
trump casino las vegas
arundel mills casino
suncruz casino
casino in norfolk va
hollywood casino maryland
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1052
|
__label__cc
| 0.711522
| 0.288478
|
How to act in MOB (Man Overboard) situation
Saturday, 18 August 2018 / Published in Sailing
In sailing, like in any other activity, accidents can happen. One of those is MOB, short for Man Overboard. When/if it happens, the most important thing is to stay calm, focused and organized.
In the event of a Man Overboard follow this procedure:
Shout ‘man overboard’ to alert the crew.
Press the MOB button on the GPS.
Throw a life buoy to the MOB. Mark the MOB with a smoke flare.
Allocate a crewmember to point at the MOB in the water.
Keep pointing; don’t lose sight of the MOB.
If the motor has been started:
Prepare a throwing line.
The skipper will bring the boat alongside the MOB, with the boat pointing into the wind and the propeller stopped.
Get a line around the MOB and get them aboard.
Here is a most common maneuver you can do to return for a MOB
The quick turn is the traditional response to a man overboard emergency on a sailboat. Despite many new approaches, it is still a robust strategy and often the best method. Certainly, when the crew is shorthanded, or when the vessel is in heavy weather, the quick turn method has a lot of merits because it avoids a jibe. The quick turn is essentially a figure eight. On a sailboat it consists of the following steps:
Change course to a beam reach and hold for 15 seconds
Head into the wind and tack, leave the jib fluttering
Veer off until the boat is at a broad reach
Turn upwind until the vessel is pointing at the victim; at this point the vessel should be on a close reach.
Slacken the mainsail until the vessel comes to a stop with the victim in the lee side of the boat
Williamson turn
The Williamson turn is most appropriate to be used at night or in conditions of reduced visibility, or if the point risks getting (or already has gone) out of sight, but is still relatively near.
Put the rudder over full.
If in response to a man overboard, put the rudder toward the person (e.g., if the person fell over the starboard side, put the rudder over starboard full).
After deviating from the original course by about 60 degrees, shift the rudder full to the opposite side.
When heading about 20 degrees short of the reciprocal, put the rudder amid ships so that the vessel will turn onto the reciprocal course.
Bring the vessel upwind of the person, stop the vessel in the water with the person alongside, well forward of the propellers
If dealing with a man overboard, always bring the vessel upwind of the person. Stop the vessel in the water with the person well forward of the propellers.
The maneuver was named after John Williamson, USNR, who used it in 1943. However, according to Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee, the maneuver was originally called the Butakov pipe and was used in the Russo-Japanese War as a way of keeping guns at the same distance from an enemy. (wiki)
Navigare Sailing Events
Packing tips for a sailing vacation
5 Best Yachting Trips Around The World
Learn to sail with Navigare Yachting
How to cook on a sailboat?
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1054
|
__label__wiki
| 0.847381
| 0.847381
|
Home / Actors Net Worth / Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth
Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth
October 20, 2018 Actors Net Worth Leave a comment 830 Views
Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth (Actor) Latest and Fresh Updates
Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth, Richard Dean Anderson is a notable performer from America who began his profession in 1976, and depicted the part of Dr. Jeff Webber in the TV arrangement ‘General Hospital.’ He has showed up in numerous other TV programs like ‘MacGyver,’ ‘Emerald Point N.A.S.,’ and ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.’ He has likewise showed up in numerous movies and has filled in as the official maker of numerous TV appears. Presently how about we have a nearby look on Richard Dean Anderson’s total assets in 2018. Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth is 33 Millions USD.
Richard Dean Anderson Early Life
Richard Dean Anderson was conceived on January 23, 1950, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to his folks Jocelyn Rhae Carter and Stuart Jay Anderson. He was brought up in Roseville, Minnesota.
He went to Roseville’s Alexander Ramsey High School and furthermore went to Ohio University, yet did not get his degree. Amid his school, he used to take an interest in crosscountry bike ride. From that point forward, he completed a few occupations like a performer, whale handler, road emulate, and artist in a theater.
Richard Dean Anderson has never been hitched however has been involved with numerous ladies like Katarina Witt, Sela Ward, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Teri Hatcher. He has a girl named Wylie Quinn Annarose Anderson with his accomplice Apryl A. Exposition.
You are reading about Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth.
Iggy Azalea Net Worth
Zoe Sugg Net Worth
Omarion Net worth
He has been included with a few non-benefit associations like Waterkeeper Alliance, Challengers Boys and Girls Club, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Earth Rivers Expeditions, and has upheld the Special Olympics.
Richard Dean Anderson Career
From 1976 to 1982, Richard Dean Anderson showed up in the TV program ‘General Hospital.’ In 1982, he was found in ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.’ This was trailed by showing up in ‘Emerald Point N.A.S..’ From 1985 to 1992, he was seen in ‘MacGyver.’ He at that point showed up in ‘Legend.’
In 1997, Anderson turned into a cast of the TV arrangement ‘Stargate SG-1’. He has likewise showed up in ‘Stargate Universe.’ His other TV credits incorporate ‘Genuinely lawful,’ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘Stargate Atlantis,’ ‘Pandora’s Clock,’ and ‘Raising Hope.’ In mid of 2018, 33 Millions USD.
He influenced his film to make a big appearance by showing up in the 1982 film called ‘Youthful Doctors in Love,’ in any case, it was uncredited. This was trailed by showing up in ‘Odd Jobs’ in 1986. His other film parts are ‘Standard Heroes’ and ‘Stargate: Continuum.’
He has loaned his voice in two computer games including ‘Stargate SG – 1: Unleashed’. Richard Dean Anderson was the author of the melody “Eau d’Leo” which showed up in a scene of MacGyver in 1988.
Honors And Achievements
In 2009, he was assigned for the Constellation Awards and was additionally designated for the 2000 Gemini Awards. He has won the Saturn Awards twice from nine assignments. Anderson has likewise been selected twice for the TV Land Awards.
Total assets of Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson has an expected total assets of more than 33 Millions USD. This fortune originates from his vocation as an expert on-screen character for more than four decades. He has showed up in some of his TV programs and has additionally done movies. He has showed up in an aggregate of 214 scenes of ‘Stargate SG-1’ and 139 scenes of ‘MacGyver.’ Part of his riches additionally originates from filling in as the official maker of ‘Stargate SG-1’. He has additionally official created numerous TV films.
Richard Dean Anderson is viewed as a standout amongst the most famous performing artists on the planet. He has been committed to his vocation for more than 40 years and has showed up and created numerous TV movies and TV appears. His character in ‘Stargate SG-1’ influenced him to show up in a significant number of its turn offs. He is a worldwide big name and has got fans over the world.
Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth Net Worth By Years
As we have discussed about Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth. Now lets take a look at Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth years by years.
Years Net Worth
2012…. 21.3 Millions USD
2013…. 24 Millions USD
Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth Video
We tried our best to put each and everything regarding Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth in front of you. However if you want to get more information about Richard Dean Anderson Net Worth. You can watch this video.
21 Savage Net Worth
Master P Net Worth
Lisa Rinna Net Worth
Snoop Dogg Net worth
Steve Harvey Net Worth (Actor,Comedian) Latest Updates Steve Harvey Net Worth He is a Personality …
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1057
|
__label__cc
| 0.717343
| 0.282657
|
What does a weekly Operating System update contain? Why do server owners need this kind of service?
A virtual or a dedicated server is a standalone machine, that has its own Os and maintaining the latter up-to-date is a vital, albeit underrated task. Not simply can an update improve the functionality of your internet sites, but it can also save you a lot of problems down the road. An update could be released for a number of reasons, the most frequent being to fix newly found security holes, which may permit third-party people to access and change the content which you have on the server. You might also see an improved efficiency of your web applications since updates could also be released for better compatibility between the Os and the configuration it works on as a way to get the most out of the hardware. Additionally, if you keep your applications up-to-date, they might need a later OS version which will have the necessary software dependencies and will permit them to operate properly.
© Copyright 2003-2021 NixaWeb.com. All Rights Reserved!
This site uses cookies. By proceeding to browse this website you are giving your permission to our usage of cookies. Learn more about our cookies here.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1059
|
__label__cc
| 0.749267
| 0.250733
|
Nederlands (BE/NE)
Weitere Goodyear-Seiten
Car & Van
Goodyear increases transparency, progresses towards goals in annual Corporate Responsibility Report
20200910_crr_header
20200910_crr_BetterFuture_logo
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company released its annual report on corporate responsibility performance. The report summarizes the company’s actions in 2019 that demonstrate Goodyear’s continued commitment to ethical and sustainable processes, materials and programs that can help people, communities and the environment.
As the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty that brings, it’s important to find steadiness where we can. For Goodyear, that means relying on our foundation of ethical values, our commitment to responsible operations, our focus on the health and wellbeing of our associates, customers and communities, as well as our work to reduce our impact on the environment.
Richard J. Kramer, chairman, chief executive officer and president
Goodyear’s 2019 report features the following highlights following the four pillars established around its Better Future corporate responsibility framework:
Sustainable Sourcing: Sustainable sourcing is Goodyear’s approach to responsibly sourcing materials used for operations and products. In 2019, Goodyear increased its use of soybean oil as a replacement for petroleum-derived oils by 90%. Soybean oil is now in four of the most popular tire lines, offering enhanced vehicle grip while increasing use of a more sustainable material.
Responsible Operations: In 2019, Goodyear improved leading and lagging safety indicators as work continues to reduce the risk of serious injuries in all facilities.
Advanced Mobility: In 2019, Goodyear’s predictive servicing solution was piloted by several fleets, allowing them to forecast and schedule tire maintenance and replacement, improve overall tire management and maximize uptime across the fleet.
Inspiring Culture: As part of Goodyear’s diversity and inclusion efforts, membership in Employee Resources Groups (ERG) grew 84% globally in the last two years. A seventh group, the Goodyear Asia, India, Middle East ERG, also was added.
Goodyear’s 2019 report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core option, which resulted in increased transparency over previous reports. To access this year’s report, visit https://corporate.goodyear.com/documents/responsibility/2019-corporate-responsibility-report.pdf
About The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 62,000 people and manufactures its products in 46 facilities in 21 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.
Anna Gancarz-Lubon
Head of External Communications EMEA
anna_gancarz@goodyear.com
Goodyear Unveils the EfficientGrip Cargo 2 – A durable solution for light commercial vehicles
Goodyear EfficientGrip 2 SUV offers exceptional mileage and strong performance on wet and dry
Goodyear-equipped KAMAZ-master team superior in Dakar 2021 with full TOP 3 podium and 18th Dakar Gold
KAMAZ-master dominates first half of DAKAR 2021 on standard Goodyear OFFROAD ORD tyres
Goodyear receives Sustainability Supplier of the Year Award from FCA
Moving forward towards a sustainable future in Aviation
Goodyear corporate
Goodyear Commercial
Test claims – Legal Diclaimer
Goodyear Tax Strategy
Tyre test reports
Gender Pay Gap Narrative
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1064
|
__label__wiki
| 0.778396
| 0.778396
|
St. Clair County Ordered A Total Of 7 Bars And Restaurants To Close. More Could Come.
St. Louis Public Radio | By Kelsey Landis | Belleville News-Democrat
Published December 7, 2020 at 5:24 PM CST
Kelsey Landis
A sign on the door at Reifschneider’s Grill & Grape in Freeburg on Saturday, Dec. 5, says the St. Clair County Health Department “pulled” the restaurant’s food license for violating a ban on indoor dining.
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the Belleville News-Democrat, a news partner of St. Louis Public Radio.
The St. Clair County Health Department suspended food or liquor licenses for seven bars and restaurants late last week, and could order more businesses to close if they don’t comply with a statewide ban on indoor service.
The health department suspended licenses for The Nail in New Athens, Reifschneider’s Grill & Grape in Freeburg, Shooters Bar & BBQ and Syberg’s in O’Fallon, George’s Pub in East Carondelet, H’s Bar in Belleville and Lotawata Creek in Fairview Heights.
The establishments have three days to request a hearing challenging the orders, or they can submit a plan explaining how they’ll comply with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s ban on indoor dining and drinking. Outdoor service, carry-out and delivery are still allowed under the restrictions because the virus is known to spread rapidly in enclosed spaces when people aren’t wearing masks.
If the businesses do nothing, they are supposed to remain fully closed through the end of December and pay a $1,000 fine. If they continue operating and ignore the orders, the health department will consult with the state’s attorney’s office for next steps, said St. Clair County Health Department Executive Director Barb Hohlt.
Before suspending licenses, the St. Clair County Health Department called businesses to explain the governor’s orders. Hohlt’s office then issued three written warnings.
“We don’t want to be punitive. If they comply, there is no problem,” she said.
The health department decided to take action as hospitals in the St. Louis region fill up. Public health officials worry the strain on health care systems could become even worse as the full effects from Thanksgiving gatherings become known.
“Bars, restaurants, workplaces and places that are not complying with the orders, all of that is adding to the overcrowding that we’re having in hospitals,” Hohlt said. “In St. Clair County, our COVID-positive cases have been incredible. We have over 200 or 250 each day for the last several weeks.”
On Sunday, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 84% of staffed hospital beds in the metro-east were in use as of Saturday, and only 18.6% of the metro-east’s ICU beds were available.
Dwindling hospital capacity is also a problem on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. After a steady uptick in cases, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page ordered a ban on indoor dining and the health department there cracked down on violating businesses.
While nursing homes, churches, factories and other settings contribute to the spread of COVID-19, 9.6% of outbreak locations in the metro-east were traced back to bars or restaurants, according to Illinois Department of Public Health contact tracing data. Because other spreader locations answer to other agencies — and churches are practically untouchable thanks to court protections — bars and restaurants are some of the only establishments local governments can control.
But some proprietors remain defiant, in both St. Louis and the metro-east. Juan Gillam, owner of George’s Pub in East Carondelet, said he’ll stay open despite the county’s order.
“They have no right to take away my way of living. When they quit their job, I’ll quit mine,” Gillam told the Belleville News-Democrat on Friday.
Gillam said he considers the county’s approach unfair. Other bars open for indoor service have yet to be closed down, he said.
But last week’s actions aren’t the end of St. Clair County’s enforcement efforts, Hohlt said.
After receiving a complaint about a business, they’ll continue to educate and warn multiple times before suspending licenses. If they have to, they’ll do it until the virus is controlled — possibly not until a vaccine is widely distributed, Hohlt said.
“We know what we can do now,” Hohlt said. “The vaccine is a little tiny light at the end of the tunnel.”
Kelsey is a reporter with the Belleville News-Democrat, a news partner of St. Louis Public Radio.
Government, Politics & IssuesMetro EastSt. Clair County Health DepartmentBars and RestaurantsBarb HohltTop Stories
Kelsey Landis | Belleville News-Democrat
Kelsey Landis is an Illinois state affairs and politics reporter for the Belleville News-Democrat, a news partner of St. Louis Public Radio.
See stories by Kelsey Landis | Belleville News-Democrat
Rural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients to Cities, Straining Hospitals
SLU Study Shows St. Louis, St. Louis County Mask Mandates Slowed Coronavirus Infections
Missouri Health Director Says Chance Of Catching Coronavirus Reaches All-Time High
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1067
|
__label__wiki
| 0.936772
| 0.936772
|
Climate crisis on back-burner as pandemic threat looms
Any climate change benefits from the coronavirus outbreak are bound to be undone by what one analyst called "revenge emissions"
Any climate change benefits from the coronavirus outbreak are bound to be undone by what one analyst called "revenge emissions" (AFP Photo/GREG BAKER)
Paris (AFP) - Economic shock waves from the coronavirus outbreak have curbed carbon pollution from China and beyond, but hopes for climate benefits from the slowdown are likely to be dashed quickly, experts say.
As governments prepare to spend their way out of the crisis, including with large infrastructure projects, global warming concerns will be little more than an afterthought, dwarfed by a drive to prop up a stuttering world economy, they say.
Preparations for a make-or-break climate summit in November are already off track, with host Britain focused on its Brexit transition, and the challenge to its health system of the gathering epidemic.
Like an unintended lab experiment, the global health emergency demonstrates the cause-and-effect relationship that drives global warming.
In the four weeks up to March 1, China's discharge of CO2 fell 200 million tonnes, or 25 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) -- equivalent to annual CO2 emissions from Argentina, Egypt or Vietnam.
As the country's economy slowed to a crawl, coal consumption at power plants in China declined by 36 percent, and the use of oil at refineries by nearly as much.
Other major economies are bound to sputter too.
The outbreak has already drained stock markets of $9 trillion in value, and could end up costing the global economy up to $2.7 trillion, according to Bloomberg Economics.
"When you turn off the global fossil fuel economy, greenhouse gas emissions go down, air quality improves," said Jon Erickson, a professor of sustainability science and policy at the University of Vermont.
But any climate silver lining will be short-lived, experts warn.
"The emissions reductions we see now because of the epidemic are temporary, not structural," said Imperial College London's Joeri Rogelj, a lead scientist on the UN's climate science advisory panel, the IPCC.
- Lock-step -
"If anything, it makes mitigation efforts harder, because it reduces our resources to invest in the transformations needed for climate change protection."
There are already signs that Beijing -- impatient to reboot China's economy -- will rain down cash on carbon-intensive infrastructure projects, as happened after the global recession in 2008, and again in 2015.
"Initial announcements of stimulus have had no environmental emphasis whatsoever," noted Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at CREA.
Proposals to further loosen controls on new coal power plants show that concerns about debt and emissions are being brushed aside, he told AFP.
"A round of cheap credits and a blind eye to inefficient polluting industries will lead to 'retaliatory emissions', setting China back on the goal of enhancing its climate targets," said Li Shuo, a climate policy analyst with Greenpeace East Asia.
A surge in state-directed capital spending a decade ago slowed China's clean-energy transition and amplified the horrendous pollution episodes in the winter of 2012/13.
Globally, CO2 emissions in 2010 from fossil-fuel combustion grew nearly six percent, more than offsetting the modest decrease the year before, notes Glen Peters, a scientist at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research.
The coronavirus fallout highlights how hard it will be to reach the Paris Agreement temperature targets of capping global warming at under two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels, and 1.5C if feasible.
Earth's surface has already warmed more than one degree.
To turn a corner, the world needs a combination of growing GDP and falling CO2 emissions -- but historically growth and emissions have moved in lock-step.
IMF head Kristalina Georgieva predicts the coronavirus will knock at least half a percentage point off projected global GDP growth in 2020, originally forecast at 3.3 percent.
The UN, meanwhile, has said that CO2 emissions must drop eight percent annually over the next decade to meet the 1.5C Paris goal, and by about three percent per year to hold the line at 2C.
Experts say only a sustained global economic meltdown -- or an internationally coordinated, war-footing transition to a carbon neutral economy -- could come close to slashing carbon pollution that quickly. One is as unpalatable as the other is unlikely.
- 'Fossil-fuel train' -
But so far only the electricity sector has seen a -- very modest -- decoupling of emissions and economic growth.
"I'm sure the global economy will get back on the fossil-fuel train as soon as it possibly can," said Erickson of the University of Vermont.
As for the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the kind of non-stop shuttle diplomacy carried out by France for nearly two years ahead of the successful 2015 Paris talks is not happening, analysts say.
China -- the world's largest carbon polluter with 29 percent of global emissions -- also has a crucial role to play, but is likely to be distracted.
"There is a risk that the main objective for Beijing will be the resolution of its health crisis," predicted Sebastien Treyer, director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris.
Last week Preliminary UN climate meetings in Bonn and Kampala were cancelled or postponed.
The Trump presidency by the numbers
From 26,237 tweets to 281 days spent on the golf course, here are some notable figures from the last four years.
Already facing allegations of stealing more than $600,000 in federal funds from a health care school she directed, a Tennessee state senator has been charged in a new fraud case, the U.S. attorney’s office in Memphis said Tuesday. Democrat Katrina Robinson and two other people have been charged in a complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, about six months after Robinson was indicted on federal charges that she used grant money earmarked for health care worker training to pay for her wedding and honeymoon, a Jeep Renegade for her daughter, her children’s snow cone business, and other things. In the case disclosed Tuesday, prosecutors said Brooke Boudreaux, an associate of Robinson, convinced someone to pay $14,470 in tuition to the school Robinson runs in Memphis on Boudreaux's behalf.
President Trump's last big batch of pardons will get most of the attention, but he also issued an executive order in his last few hours in office that seeks to free all current and former hires from the ethics agreements they signed to work in his administration. Trump revoked his January 2017 "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees" order, the White House announced early Wednesday, so "employees and former employees subject to the commitments in Executive Order 13770 will not be subject to those commitments after noon January 20, 2021."Those commitments included not lobbying the federal agencies they served under for five years after leaving government. The executive order, Yashar Ali notes, was the backbone of Trump's "drain the swamp" pledge.> Forget about draining the swamp...President Trump just filled it up.> > He has revoked his own executive order (13770) which had the following provisions (among others). > > The drain the swamp stuff was all smoke and mirrors anyway but here's Trump walking back his own EO... pic.twitter.com/ZvuW0CwszQ> > — Yashar Ali (@yashar) January 20, 2021President-elect Joe Biden takes office at noon on Wednesday, and presumably he could just issue a new executive order reversing Trump's.Norm Eisen, "ethics czar" to former President Barack Obama, said in a Politico column Tuesday that Obama's clear ethics rules led to "arguably the most scandal-free presidency in memory," but "Trump greatly watered down the standards with scandalous results" and "Biden has done the opposite, restoring the Obama rules and expanding them."Biden's planned executive order, Eisen wrote, "restores the fundamentals of the Obama plan, closing loopholes Trump opened—but going further, including new crackdowns on special interest influence. If implemented rigorously (always a big if) Biden's plan promises to go further to 'drain the swamp' than either of his predecessors."More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders steals the inauguration with his grumpy chic outfit Amazon offers Biden help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution Only a sprinkling of Trump supporters showed up at state capitols to protest Biden's inauguration
Trump's final mention of the pandemic as president includes racist conspiracy theory, downplayed deaths, and no regrets
President Trump used the past tense to talk about the pandemic in his farewell address to the country, one day after the 400,000th American died of COVID-19. "As bad as the pandemic was," he told his assembled crowd of about 200 supporters, "we were hit so hard like the entire world was hit so hard."> "We've left it all on the field," Trump says, 14 days after encouraging a violent insurrection pic.twitter.com/2Vl3CfGmWa> > — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 20, 2021Trump went on to repeat a racist and debunked conspiracy theory about the origins of the virus, calling the "China virus" a "horrible thing that was put onto the world … so be careful, be very, very careful." He additionally claimed that he believed COVID-19 numbers would "skyrocket downward," and that he was leaving the country in "a position like it's never been in before, despite the worst plague to hit since, I guess you'd say since 1917, over 100 years ago" — an apparent reference to the 1918 influenza pandemic.Trump further acknowledged "the people and families who suffered so greatly" in the pandemic, but stressed he had no regrets about his handling of the outbreak. "We have left it all, as the athletes would say, we have left it all on the field," he said. "We'll never say, in a month, when we're in Florida, we're not going to be looking at each other and saying, 'You know, if we'd only worked a little bit harder…'"More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders steals the inauguration with his grumpy chic outfit Amazon offers Biden help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution Only a sprinkling of Trump supporters showed up at state capitols to protest Biden's inauguration
Biden's pick for assistant health secretary is transgender woman who could make history
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says products were dropped from major retailers after voter fraud claims
Election experts have uniformly declared that the 2020 election was conducted fairly.
A pair of endangered Mexican gray wolves and their seven pups have been sent from a zoo in New Mexico's largest city to Mexico as part of conservation efforts in that country. Officials at the ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque confirmed Tuesday that the wolves were loaded up in separate crates and trucked south last week. The zoo is among others in the United States that have partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for decades on Mexican gray wolf breeding and recovery efforts.
Musicians 'failed by government' over EU touring, stars say
How will Trump hand over the nuclear 'football' to Biden when he skips the inauguration?
Biden Will Be the Oldest President to Take the Oath
Britain to give COVID-19 shots to key vaccine supply workers
Stages of defeat: Die-hard Trump supporters range from being deflated over Biden's inauguration to believing their twice-impeached leader will be running the government as a shadow president for the next 4 years
‘I’m About to Puke’: QAnon in Chaos as Biden Takes Office
Vice President Kamala Harris was sworn in with 2 Bibles held by husband Doug Emhoff. Here's a timeline of their relationship.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1069
|
__label__wiki
| 0.938056
| 0.938056
|
Trump Smashes Record for Most Presidential Impeachments
Ryan Bort
The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to impeach President Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” making him the first president in American history to have been impeached twice.
The vote comes exactly one week after Trump incited a mob of his followers to storm the U.S Capitol in a violent insurrection that left five people dead. The resolution passed by a vote of 232-197. House Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the measure, though 10 did join with Democrats to vote that a president who encourages his followers and his party to overthrow a U.S. election is no longer eligible for office.
More from Rolling Stone
'I Don't Think She Deserved to Die': Black Activist Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt Shooting Speaks Out
Trump's Impeachment Reaction: Giving Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs Medals
Late Night Reacts to Donald Trump's Second Impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly believes Trump committed impeachable offenses, but has said that he will not bring the issue to the Senate before Joe Biden’s inauguration next week, meaning that, barring his unlikely resignation, Trump will serve out the remainder of his term. The Senate could still hold a trial to convict Trump after he has left office.
This is the second time Trump has been impeached in just over a year. The House voted 230 to 197 to impeach him in December of 2019 following his campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government into launching a public investigation into Joe Biden, then one of the frontrunners to challenge Trump’s bid for reelection.
But the Senate did not subsequently vote to convict Trump, and only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), voted in favor of removing him from office. The inability or unwillingness of the other Republicans to recognize the danger Trump posed to the nation proved costly, to say the least. It won’t be long before half of a million Americans will have died from complications stemming from Covid-19, which the president steadfastly refused to take seriously even as it ravaged the nation. Trump has also waged an all-out war on representative democracy since losing the election to Biden in November, culminating in the deadly storming of the Capitol last Wednesday.
In 2019, no House Republicans voted to impeach Trump. This time, a few crossed the party line. The 10 Republicans who voted in favor of the resolution include Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), the chamber’s third-ranking minority member. In a statement released Tuesday announcing her intention to vote to impeach, Cheney wrote that “never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
The other Republicans to vote in favor of the resolution are: Reps. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), Tom Rice (R-S.C.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and David Valadao (R-Calif.).
According to Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) additional Republicans who wanted to vote to impeach may have declined to do so out of fear for their safety.
WATCH: Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) says majority of GOP "paralyzed with fear" @RepJasonCrow: "I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues. … A couple of them broke down in tears … saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment." pic.twitter.com/ESEu40WW1P
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 13, 2021
“I get it, but some of us just spent the last 2 years taking stances that have led to repeated attempts on our lives – for demanding guaranteed healthcare, immigrant justice, etc.,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted in response. “Sorry if this lacks empathy, but it’s a privilege if this is their first time. They can do one vote.”
“Many of them rode the wave of this violent rhetoric, or at the very least sat idly by it,” she added. “Now is our chance to stop it. This is what we are sent to Congress to do – the tough stuff. All the easy choices are taken.”
Shortly before the insurrection last Wednesday, Trump told his supporters to storm the Capitol and “fight like hell.” They obliged him in terrifying fashion. The choice before his supporters in Congress today was whether they, too, would oblige him and continue to stand behind a president who has betrayed the Constitution. The vast majority of them chose to do so.
See where your favorite artists and songs rank on the Rolling Stone Charts.
Sign up for Rolling Stone’s Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
President Biden has taken office, former President Donald Trump is in Florida, and the U.S. still hasn't seen a mass arrests of Democrats or a nationwide blackout.All of these facts were shocking for some followers of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon, as they thought and hoped that Trump would somehow seize permanent power on Wednesday, NBC News reports. But as Biden was sworn in without a hitch, QAnon message boards lit up with followers who realized a violent overthrow of the government wasn't about to happen, that Trump had no secret plans to somehow stay in office, and that they'd been wrong for months, if not years.> "Q was a LARP the entire f---ing time." > "There is no plan.' > "It's over and nothing makes sense... absolutely nothing..." pic.twitter.com/I2k8C7708m> > — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 20, 2021> Current mood in Q circles> > "I just want to throw up" > "I'm so sick of the disinformation and false hope" > "What a waste of my life" > "I feel sick" > "Burning my flag" > "Game over" > "Where is the military" > "I'm just so confused" > "I'm just sick" pic.twitter.com/hUR2N6y1sg> > — Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) January 20, 2021Even Ron Watkins, the administrator of the extremist message board 8kun who may have even originated QAnon, posted a last-ditch call for unity that didn't acknowledge the harmful conspiracy theories he'd allowed to spread for years.> Ron Watkins, the former 8kun admin who helped keep QAnon afloat for years (and who some suspected of being Q himself), is throwing in the towel. pic.twitter.com/HJdBrOexO2> > — Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) January 20, 2021Still, just as the many flaws in QAnon's past predictions failed to dissuade supporters, some believers are continuing to make excuses for Wednesday's events and suggesting some sort of overthrow is still possible.More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders steals the inauguration with his grumpy chic outfit Amazon offers Biden help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution Only a sprinkling of Trump supporters showed up at state capitols to protest Biden's inauguration
U.S. Senate Republican leader McConnell says Trump 'provoked' Jan. 6 riot
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, of provoking the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The U.S. House of Representatives last Wednesday impeached Trump for a second time. The Senate has yet to schedule a trial to determine Trump's guilt or innocence.
Democrats to take working control of U.S. Senate Wednesday when three sworn in
Three new Democratic U.S. senators, including the winners of a pair of Georgia races and the successor to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, are set to be sworn in on Wednesday, a source familiar with the planning said, giving the party a working majority in the chamber. Georgia's Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, as well as California's Alex Padilla, should be sworn in once the Senate reconvenes after the midday inauguration of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and Harris, the source said, asking not to be identified.
What does impeachment mean for Trump?
Republican leader Mitch McConnell: Attack at the Capitol was ‘provoked by the president’
Mitch McConnell Says Capitol Rioters Were 'Provoked' By Trump
McConnell: Capitol mob was 'fed lies,' 'provoked by the president'
McConnell slams Trump for 'lies' to angry mob as Guard roots out threats among inauguration troops
McConnell Says Trump Provoked Mob That Attacked Capitol
The House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump and the Senators who might join them OLD
Gold Price Prediction – Prices Consolidated Ahead of Biden Inauguration
FX Empire
McConnell says Trump "provoked" deadly Capitol attack
Hannity Calls for McConnell to Be Replaced as GOP Senate Leader
Republican Senator Roy Blunt: Capitol rioters are "unpardonable"
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1070
|
__label__wiki
| 0.693199
| 0.693199
|
Energy News Today
Energy News Today -
Electricity Has Been in a Slump for 14 Years, But All Heck Has Broken Loose in How it’s Generated
Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppPinterestEmailLinkedinTumblrTelegramStumbleUponVKViber
Electricity generating capacity additions & retirements in 2021, and the long-term change in the power mix.
In 2021, developers and power plant owners plan to bring 39.7 gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity on line, and retire 9.1 GW in generating capacity, for a net increase in capacity of 30.6 GW, according to the EIA today. 70% of the capacity additions will be from wind and solar, 16% will be from natural gas, and 3% will be from a nuclear reactor. These are utility-scale power generators and exclude rooftop solar. Of the retirements, 86% will be coal and nuclear.
Electricity generation in the US has been a no-growth business since 2006, as efficiencies in electrical equipment (LED lights, appliances, air conditioning, etc.) and further offshoring of manufacturing have kept consumption roughly stable despite growth in the economy and population. But where all heck has broken loose is in how this power is being generated (data via the EIA).
Coal-fired power generation has collapsed by over 60% in 12 years, from around 169 GW hours per month on average in 2008 to 65 GW hours per month on average over the past 12 months, according to data from the EIA. It went from “King Coal” by a wide margin in 2008 (black line in the chart below) to #3, after surging natural gas-fired power generation (green line) blew by it in 2015 as the US has become the largest NG producer in world. And toward the end of 2020, coal fell even below nuclear power (brown line).
In a few years, wind and solar combined (red line) will blow by coal as well. With wind and solar, the big enticement for power generators is that the “fuel” is free and that there won’t be any “fuel” price increases in the future, no matter what inflation will do:
The decline of coal has long been lamented by railroads. In 2020, according to the Association of American Railroads, coal carloads plunged by 24.6% from 2019, to just 3.01 million carloads, the lowest annual total on record.
Power plant retirements in 2021.
Over the past five years since 2016, a total of 48 GW of coal-fired capacity was retired. In 2021, retirements will slow to 2.7 GW of coal-fired capacity, bringing the six-year total to over 50 GW. In 2020, the weighted average age of the retirements is over 51 years.
Four states – Maryland, Florida, Connecticut, and Wisconsin – account for nearly two-thirds of the coal-fired capacity retirements. Coal-fired capacity has already reached zero in some states, including California. Coal retirements in 2021 will account for 30% of total retirements.
Power generators are planning to retire 5.1 GW of nuclear capacity, or 56% of total retirements, and 5% of US nuclear generating capacity. Exelon is planning to retire two nuclear plants with two reactors each in Dresden and Byron, Illinois, for a total of 4.1 GW; and Entergy is planning to retire one reactor (1.0 GW) at the Indian Point plant in New York.
“The decrease of U.S. nuclear power generating capacity is a result of historically low natural gas prices, limited growth in electricity demand, and increasing competition from renewable energy,” the EIA said in its report today.
Nuclear and coal combined account for 86% of the retirements in 2021. The remaining 14% of retirements include 0.8 GW of petroleum-fired capacity (Possum Point in Virginia), 0.25 GW of natural gas-fired capacity, and the 0.14 GW of a 34-year-old biomass waste-to-energy plant in Southport, North Carolina (map via EIA):
New power plants in 2021.
Power plant owners are planning to start commercial operations at new power plants with a total of 39.7 GW of electricity generating capacity this year, the EIA reported. Wind and solar combined account for 70% of the capacity additions.
The EIA also includes utility-scale battery storage in the mix as they can supply power to the grid, but obviously do not “generate” electricity. Battery additions in 2021 are expected to reach 4.3 GW, quadruple the 2020 additions. These battery systems are often paired with renewable power plants, such as the world’s largest solar-powered battery (409 MW) at Manatee Solar Energy Center in Florida, expected to begin operations this year.
Capacity Additions:
Solar photovoltaic, utility scale: 15.4 GW
Wind: 12.2 GW
Natural gas: 6.6 GW
Batteries: 4.3 GW
Nuclear: 1.1 GW (Southern Company’s new reactor at its Vogtle plant in Georgia)
Other: 0.2 GW
The 15.4 GW of utility-scale solar capacity additions are an all-time record, beating the prior record of 12 GW set in 2020. Of that new capacity, 28% will be in Texas, 9% in Nevada, 9% in California, and 7% in North Carolina. This year will also be the first year that PV capacity additions will exceed wind power capacity additions.
Not included here, the EIA estimates that 4.1 GW of small-scale solar PV capacity, such as rooftop solar, will come online in 2021. This would bring the total solar capacity additions this year to nearly 20 GW.
The 12.2 GW of wind power capacity additions this year are well below the 21 GW of additions in 2020. Over half of this year’s addition will be in Texas and Oklahoma, including the nearly 1.0 GW Traverse windfarm in Oklahoma. Lots of free wind in West Texas, western Oklahoma, and the Panhandle in particular, and smart folks have figured out how to turn this wind into cash.
Of the 6.6 GW natural gas-fired capacity additions, 3.9 GW will be combined-cycle natural gas plants. These combined-cycle plants and cheap natural gas are what has been killing investment in coal power plants. The efficiency of new combined cycle plants can exceed 60%, far higher than coal plants. The combined-cycle technology entered utility scale operations in the 1990s.
In a combined cycle plant, a gas turbine, similar to a jet engine, burns the gas and drives a generator. The hot exhaust gas is then used to create high-pressure steam, which drives a steam turbine which drives another generator. By contrast, a coal plant only creates high-pressure steam to drive a steam turbine. Add cheap natural gas to the mix, and coal – even coal so cheap that all major coal miners were pushed into bankruptcy in recent years – has not been able to compete in the US for over a decade. Which is why investments in coal-fired capacity additions have fallen by the wayside.
Long-term structural issues have long dogged the consumption of gasoline, jet fuel, and distillate. Then came the Pandemic. Read… Update on the WTF Collapse of Gasoline & Jet Fuel Consumption: The Holiday Period
Read More: Electricity Has Been in a Slump for 14 Years, But All Heck Has Broken Loose in How it’s Generated
brokenelectricitygeneratedHeckLooseslumpyears
NTSB Offers Safety Recommendations After Dallas Girl Killed in 2018 Home Explosion –
Will Plaid be back in fashion for 2021 or will rivals rise?
OPEC chief pledges to deepen ties with Biden administration
Wildfires having devastating effect on air quality in western US, study finds |…
China’s shift from coal helped natural gas prices hit records: Eurasia
Biden energy secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm has millions in energy investments,…
Sony begins testing its electric car concept on public roads
Record Liquefied Natural Gas Prices in Asia Won’t Last
Kakrapar: Why nuclear power for electricity generation?
Growth Analysis by Manufacturers like Saudi Aramco(SA),…
Democrats target Asian American, Latino voters
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund PLC energises 50Mw Drumkee…
Sign up for our Energy News Daily newsletter to get the top tech and business news stories delivered to your inbox.
Hydrogen stocks are continuing their hot streak in 2021
Cleveland wants to hire vendor to own and operate rooftop…
Evaluating Zero-Carbon “Green” Hydrogen Against Renewable…
Energy Transfer loads first VLEC under joint venture with…
Oregon natural gas terminal plans hit snag over permit
US Gas-Fired Power Generation Set For First Drop Since 2017
U.S. to Impose Sanctions on Ship Involved in Russian Gas…
Local counties, school districts benefit from 2020 oil and…
Energy Transfer LP and Energy Transfer Operating, L.P. File…
Energy Transfer accuses rival CEO of undermining massive…
DOJ is building a criminal case around Energy…
Vertu Motors PLC acquires loss-making BMW, MINI dealerships…
Wildfires having devastating effect on air quality in…
© 2021 - Energy News Today. All Rights Reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1071
|
__label__wiki
| 0.99544
| 0.99544
|
Southern stars set Sundance record
South Australia is further cementing its place as Australia’s film capital as four locally funded films head to the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
Australian actor Miranda Tapsell stars in Top End Wedding, one of the four SAFC-funded feature films selected for the 2019 Sundance Festival.
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) funded four of the six Australian films selected for Sundance, the most Australian films ever to showcase at the prestigious festival.
The four films, Top End Wedding, I Am Mother, Animals and The Nightingale, will screen in Utah in late January.
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) Chief Executive Courtney Gibson said the nominations are an outstanding achievement for Australian film.
“It’s thrilling that these four standout SAFC-funded films will be showcased at Sundance in 2019. Sundance is the first film festival out of the starting gate each year and the one that always breaks new ground and sets the pace in featuring visionary and radical screen storytelling,” said Gibson.
The nominations for the annual festival in Utah are the latest achievement for the growing South Australian Film Industry.
Global movie company Technicolor will soon move into its $26 million, 3000sqm visual effects studio in Adelaide — known as “Mill Film” — and has begun recruiting staff.
A $6 million grant from the Government was pivotal in securing the deal with Technicolor, who work in VFX, post-production and animation.
Technicolor CEO Frederic Rose said he believed the South Australian capital would “become a global VFX destination once the secret gets out”.
The South Australian film industry has grown significantly over the past few years, with films such as ‘Cargo’ and ‘Wolf Creek’ showcasing areas of the state including the regional town of Blanchetown and the Outback outpost of Beltana.
Gibson said the proximity of amazing natural landscapes to the capital of Adelaide were key drawcards for big overseas screen productions.
“The thing that makes South Australia such an attractive place to shoot are our quite spectacular locations and we know this is what the international TV networks want, great big sweeping shots that they can’t get anywhere else in the world,” Gibson said.
The Australian Federal Government announced the launch of a “Location Incentive Fund” earlier this year, providing a tax rebate on the expenses of production companies working in the state. It is expected to bring in more than $260 million in new foreign investment to the local economy, establishing South Australia as an economic location for global production companies.
Tony Clark, managing director of Adelaide visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures said the rebate significantly shifts the landscape in favour of filming in Australia.
“It represents a powerful draw card to bring production and post production to the state, creating significant employment and growth opportunities for screen businesses. We’re already seeing the local incentive bringing new and expanded projects to South Australia and setting the stage for future growth,” he said.
White sharks shake loner tag
Australian bushfires could reshape biodiversity — they have before
Solstice Media in Age of Awareness
Huge Aboriginal art festival begins in South Australia
Homegrown Hollywood: Meet Silicon Valley’s spirited filmmakers
Johanna Hickle in THE SIX FIFTY
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1072
|
__label__cc
| 0.748101
| 0.251899
|
Background information on our club competitions is now available in this PDF version of the “Competition Requirements” session presented on Thursday, 14th September 2017.
MCCCompetitionInformation2017
A member may submit up to 3 images in each competition. All images must be entirely the member’s original work. No image may be used that is too similar to one used in an earlier competition by the same author. Any subject is allowed – except the competitions for the Set Subject and Human Portrait. Entries to the Black and White competition must be
Prints may be commercially or home printed. Prints must be mounted on mounting board. To avoid damaging other members’ work, neither masking tape nor Sellotape is allowed. Minimum size of the mount 16 x 12 ins (40 x 30 cm). Maximum size 20 x 16 ins (50 x 40 cm). The title and member’s number ONLY should appear on the back.
Each print should also be accompanied by a digital version see below.
Projected images
Projected images must be submitted with titles and in a folder with the member’s name and number. Images can be either on a disc/flash drive or sent to George Todd by email georgetodd1957@me.com The images must have the longest side no larger than 1600 pixels and shortest side no larger than 1200 pixels.
CLOSING DATES FOR ENTRIES FOR COMPETITIONS
Some useful tutorials:
How to Size Your Images for Competitions
How to Set sRGB As Your Colour Space
Commitee members will be only too willing to advise if you are unsure of anything, so please ask.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1074
|
__label__cc
| 0.704866
| 0.295134
|
Neurology.org
Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
Practice Current
Practice Buzz
Innovations in Care Delivery
Patient Pages
About the Journals
Meeting abstracts only
The most widely read and highly cited peer-reviewed neurology journal
August 01, 1996; 47 (2) ARTICLES
Late-onset G sub M2 gangliosidosis
Ashkenazi Jewish family with an exon 5 mutation (Tyr sup 180 right arrow His) in the Hex A alpha-chain gene
R. De Gasperi, M. A. Gama Sosa, S. Battistini, J. Yeretsian, S. Raghavan, N. Zelnik, E. Leshinsky, E. H. Kolodny
First published August 1, 1996, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.47.2.547
R. De Gasperi
M. A. Gama Sosa
S. Battistini
J. Yeretsian
S. Raghavan
N. Zelnik
E. Leshinsky
E. H. Kolodny
Neurology Aug 1996, 47 (2) 547-552; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.2.547
Make Comment
Info & Disclosures
This article requires a subscription to view the full text. If you have a subscription you may use the login form below to view the article. Access to this article can also be purchased.
Late-onset GM2 gangliosidosis is a variant form of Tay-Sachs disease characterized by onset of symptoms and signs in adolescence or in early adult life. The deficiency of beta-hexosaminidase A (Hex A) in this form of GM2 gangliosidosis has been invariably associated with the presence of the Gly269 right arrow Ser substitution in the alpha-chain. We found two siblings of Ashkenazi Jewish descent diagnosed with late-onset GM2 gangliosidosis who were negative for the Gly269 right arrow Ser mutation. Analysis of the HEXA gene showed that they were compound heterozygotes for the functionally silent 4-bp insertion in exon 11, typical of the infantile form of the disease and for a novel mutation, T538 right arrow C, resulting in the missense Tyr180 right arrow His. Expression studies in COS-7 cells suggested that the effect of this mutation was to decrease the stability of the alpha-chain at physiologic temperatures and therefore to indirectly affect the formation of mature Hex A.
NEUROLOGY 1996;47: 547-552
Copyright 1996 by Advanstar Communications Inc.
AAN Members
We have changed the login procedure to improve access between AAN.com and the Neurology journals. If you are experiencing issues, please log out of AAN.com and clear history and cookies. (For instructions by browser, please click the instruction pages below). After clearing, choose preferred Journal and select login for AAN Members. You will be redirected to a login page where you can log in with your AAN ID number and password. When you are returned to the Journal, your name should appear at the top right of the page.
Google Safari Microsoft Edge Firefox
AAN Non-Member Subscribers
For assistance, please contact:
AAN Members (800) 879-1960 or (612) 928-6000 (International)
Non-AAN Member subscribers (800) 638-3030 or (301) 223-2300 option 3, select 1 (international)
Information on how to subscribe to Neurology and Neurology: Clinical Practice can be found here
Individual access to articles is available through the Add to Cart option on the article page. Access for 1 day (from the computer you are currently using) is US$ 39.00. Pay-per-view content is for the use of the payee only, and content may not be further distributed by print or electronic means. The payee may view, download, and/or print the article for his/her personal, scholarly, research, and educational use. Distributing copies (electronic or otherwise) of the article is not allowed.
Disputes & Debates: Rapid online correspondence
No comments have been published for this article.
NOTE: All authors' disclosures must be entered and current in our database before comments can be posted. Enter and update disclosures at http://submit.neurology.org. Exception: replies to comments concerning an article you originally authored do not require updated disclosures.
Stay timely. Submit only on articles published within the last 8 weeks.
Do not be redundant. Read any comments already posted on the article prior to submission.
200 words maximum.
5 references maximum. Reference 1 must be the article on which you are commenting.
5 authors maximum. Exception: replies can include all original authors of the article.
Submitted comments are subject to editing and editor review prior to posting.
More guidelines and information on Disputes & Debates
Compose Comment
NOTE: The first author must also be the corresponding author of the comment.
Publishing Agreement
I, the first and corresponding author, verify that I have read the contents of the PUBLISHING AGREEMENT form. *
I, the first and corresponding author, verify my disclosures and those of my co-authors are up to date at http://submit.neurology.org. *
Select only one of the three options below: *
I am an Author of this Work, and the Work was prepared on my own time - not as part of my duties as an employee.
I prepared (or cooperated in the preparation of) the Work as part of my duties as an employee, and the Work is, therefore, a "work made for hire", as defined by the United States Copyright Act of 1976, as amended.
I prepared (or participated in the preparation of) the Work as part of my official duties as an officer or employee of the United States Government.
NOTE: All authors, besides the first/corresponding author, must complete a separate Disputes & Debates Submission Form and provide via email to the editorial office before comments can be posted.
Discussion.
Alert me when eletters are published
Editors & Editorial Board
AAN Guidelines
Activate a Subscription
Visit neurology Template on Facebook
Follow neurology Template on Twitter
Visit Neurology on YouTube
Neurology: Clinical Practice
Neurology: Genetics
Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
AAN.com
AANnews
Brain & Life
Neurology Today
Neurology | Print ISSN:0028-3878
Online ISSN:1526-632X
© 2021 American Academy of Neurology
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1078
|
__label__cc
| 0.714383
| 0.285617
|
Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors
H. Sato, Y. Aoki, Y. Kobayashi, H. R. Sato, T. Nishigaki, H. Sugawara, M. Hedo, Y. Inada, Y. Onuki
We have measured the electrical resistivity, Hall effect and transverse even voltage in the flux-flow state of CeRu2, CeCo2 and Yb3Rh4Sn13. In all the transport properties, we found a clear anomaly related with the peak effect, which was argued in relation to the inhomogeneous superconducting phase proposed by Fulde-Ferrell and Larkin-Ovchinnikov. The pinning force and the transverse even voltage depend largely on sample quality. A deviation from the ordinary BCS prediction, suggesting an anisotropy in the superconducting gap, has been found in the specific heat of CeCo2.
Physica B: Condensed Matter
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
Anisotropic gap
Flux-flow transport properties
Transport properties
YbRhSn Peak effect
10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Electron transport properties Engineering & Materials Science
Superconducting materials Engineering & Materials Science
Transport properties Chemical Compounds
Electrons Engineering & Materials Science
transport properties Physics & Astronomy
Hall effect Engineering & Materials Science
electric potential Physics & Astronomy
Specific heat Engineering & Materials Science
Sato, H., Aoki, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Sato, H. R., Nishigaki, T., Sugawara, H., Hedo, M., Inada, Y., & Onuki, Y. (1997). Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 230-232, 402-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors. / Sato, H.; Aoki, Y.; Kobayashi, Y.; Sato, H. R.; Nishigaki, T.; Sugawara, H.; Hedo, M.; Inada, Y.; Onuki, Y.
In: Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 230-232, 02.1997, p. 402-405.
Sato, H, Aoki, Y, Kobayashi, Y, Sato, HR, Nishigaki, T, Sugawara, H, Hedo, M, Inada, Y & Onuki, Y 1997, 'Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors', Physica B: Condensed Matter, vol. 230-232, pp. 402-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
Sato H, Aoki Y, Kobayashi Y, Sato HR, Nishigaki T, Sugawara H et al. Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors. Physica B: Condensed Matter. 1997 Feb;230-232:402-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
Sato, H. ; Aoki, Y. ; Kobayashi, Y. ; Sato, H. R. ; Nishigaki, T. ; Sugawara, H. ; Hedo, M. ; Inada, Y. ; Onuki, Y. / Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors. In: Physica B: Condensed Matter. 1997 ; Vol. 230-232. pp. 402-405.
@article{46a542e800934d3f9104b474e34aafe8,
title = "Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors",
abstract = "We have measured the electrical resistivity, Hall effect and transverse even voltage in the flux-flow state of CeRu2, CeCo2 and Yb3Rh4Sn13. In all the transport properties, we found a clear anomaly related with the peak effect, which was argued in relation to the inhomogeneous superconducting phase proposed by Fulde-Ferrell and Larkin-Ovchinnikov. The pinning force and the transverse even voltage depend largely on sample quality. A deviation from the ordinary BCS prediction, suggesting an anisotropy in the superconducting gap, has been found in the specific heat of CeCo2.",
keywords = "Anisotropic gap, CeCo, CeRu, Flux-flow transport properties, Superconductivity, Transport properties, YbRhSn Peak effect",
author = "H. Sato and Y. Aoki and Y. Kobayashi and Sato, {H. R.} and T. Nishigaki and H. Sugawara and M. Hedo and Y. Inada and Y. Onuki",
doi = "10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X",
volume = "230-232",
journal = "Physica B: Condensed Matter",
T1 - Mixed state transport properties and peak effect in f-electron superconductors
AU - Sato, H.
AU - Aoki, Y.
AU - Kobayashi, Y.
AU - Sato, H. R.
AU - Nishigaki, T.
AU - Sugawara, H.
AU - Hedo, M.
AU - Inada, Y.
AU - Onuki, Y.
N2 - We have measured the electrical resistivity, Hall effect and transverse even voltage in the flux-flow state of CeRu2, CeCo2 and Yb3Rh4Sn13. In all the transport properties, we found a clear anomaly related with the peak effect, which was argued in relation to the inhomogeneous superconducting phase proposed by Fulde-Ferrell and Larkin-Ovchinnikov. The pinning force and the transverse even voltage depend largely on sample quality. A deviation from the ordinary BCS prediction, suggesting an anisotropy in the superconducting gap, has been found in the specific heat of CeCo2.
AB - We have measured the electrical resistivity, Hall effect and transverse even voltage in the flux-flow state of CeRu2, CeCo2 and Yb3Rh4Sn13. In all the transport properties, we found a clear anomaly related with the peak effect, which was argued in relation to the inhomogeneous superconducting phase proposed by Fulde-Ferrell and Larkin-Ovchinnikov. The pinning force and the transverse even voltage depend largely on sample quality. A deviation from the ordinary BCS prediction, suggesting an anisotropy in the superconducting gap, has been found in the specific heat of CeCo2.
KW - Anisotropic gap
KW - CeCo
KW - CeRu
KW - Flux-flow transport properties
KW - Superconductivity
KW - Transport properties
KW - YbRhSn Peak effect
U2 - 10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
DO - 10.1016/S0921-4526(96)00734-X
VL - 230-232
JO - Physica B: Condensed Matter
JF - Physica B: Condensed Matter
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1081
|
__label__wiki
| 0.789328
| 0.789328
|
Rhys Dawkins Contact Details (Phone number, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter)
April 5, 2019 by Numberily Team
Who is Rhys Dawkins?
RHYS DAWKINS is a Candian Actor, Tik Tok Star as well as Social Media pHenomenon who is widely known for his eponymous Tik Tok account. He has posted lip syncing videos to his account. In his school, he was a young dancer and he has also become an improviser through his high school and won second place at nationals in Canada two years in a row (2016, 2017). In 2017, he has also featured in YouTube series called The Girl Without a Phone. He has also starred as Steve in the episodes A Snow White Story and A Rapunzel Story. Moreover, he was born on 16 June 2000 in Vancouver, Canada. His zodiac sign is Gemini and he is 18 Years old. Furthermore, he is also very popular on Instagram where he has posted his all photos and videos.
Rhys Dawkins Contact Information?
He has been luring the audience’ hearts and making them go crazy with his engaging videos. Here, we have provided all the ways to contact him. So, his fans can interact with him and also share their views with him.
Various Ways To Contact Rhys Dawkins
INSTAGRAM: @rhysdawkins
TWITTER: @rhysdawkins
He is also active on Twitter where he has updated his latest information stuff. This hip-hop star created his Twitter account in May 2015. His fans can contact him by using the above link and they can tweet him @rhysdawkins.
FACEBOOK: @ItsRhysDawkins
752-1641 Lonsdale Ave.
North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5
Jasmine Brown
Categories Actress, Internet star Post navigation
Huncho5lickz Contact Details (Phone number, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter)
Maxo Kream Profile| Contact Details (Phone number, Email, Instagram, Twitter)
1 thought on “Rhys Dawkins Contact Details (Phone number, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter)”
Daniella Martinson
Rhys Dawkins im a real die hard fan and i want to be ur real friend please
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1082
|
__label__cc
| 0.717834
| 0.282166
|
Vintage Metal
Who could resist the fun, the gloss, the trips down memory lane in these beauties!
A recent collection of heavy metal in my continuing exploration of New Jersey
car parks.
With special thanks to Jim Bob for entertainment!
Category : Car Parks, Cars, New Jersey, Photography
Tags : Car Rally, New Jersey, Photography, Vintage cars
← Happy Friday!
Camden, It’s Coming Back Baby! →
59 thoughts on “Vintage Metal”
1cruzdelsur on May 23, 2013 at 1:49 am said:
An epoch never to be forgotten, when the time was walking slow. beautiful post…
Patti Kuche on May 23, 2013 at 8:22 pm said:
When driving really was like cruising! Thank you Carlos!
PatMinNYC on May 23, 2013 at 1:50 am said:
Brilliant set & the last frame is priceless!!!
Thank you Pat, the sparkle of car park paradise!
gcevans on May 26, 2013 at 12:03 pm said:
Yep, the cars are great, but I Want That Chair.
tomwisk on May 23, 2013 at 2:16 am said:
Holy f***in s***. My past in pictures. New Jersey actually serves a purpose, to give you a place to glorify with your camera.
Tom, is that you in the red baseball cap? Cute!
gerard oosterman on May 23, 2013 at 2:34 am said:
The photos brought back memories of my first car, a 1950 Ford V8 single spinner. The brakes were dodgy and I earned little money. I smashed it when my pumping the brake- pedal was too slow to get traction by the brakes on the wheels. I cried for my single spinner. 🙂
Brilliant bit of photographic history.
Thanks Patti.
Ouch Gerard, that sounds awful, and they were such heavier cars back then. Glad you lived to tell the tale!
Embattled Farmers on May 23, 2013 at 2:48 am said:
Love the fins!
Aren’t they great! Imagine the fun they had sitting down at their drawing boards and coming up with all these fantastic details!
Embattled Farmers on May 23, 2013 at 11:20 pm said:
They had kind of a space-ship quality to them.
rutheh on May 23, 2013 at 3:14 am said:
What lovely light on your excellent car photographs. Nice. You make NJ beautiful.
Thank you so much Ruth – it was that lovely rich sunset time of day!
bluebrightly on May 23, 2013 at 3:54 am said:
Excellent – and the Jersey plates make it! I love the four guys smiling at you, too.
They had some great stories to tell and they all love their New Jersey!
Oh, NO doubt!!
mostlymonochrome on May 23, 2013 at 6:46 am said:
Wow. Just don’t see that over here.
They are definitely of a time and a place aren’t they?
mybrightlife on May 23, 2013 at 8:38 am said:
Just stunning!!!
They were definitely a sight, thank you MBL!
Madhu on May 23, 2013 at 9:17 am said:
Wow! Such gleaming beauties! What a fabulous set Patti 🙂
Like diamonds! Thank you Madhu – which one would you want to drive away in?
Madhu on May 24, 2013 at 6:36 pm said:
No 13, the ‘Redgal’ 🙂
Patti Kuche on June 2, 2013 at 7:57 pm said:
Oh my Redgal, what a cruise delight that would be!
I’m not a car dude, but these are cool, Patti!
I’m not a car dude either John but then I see cars like this and I realise how slippery the slope into car dudism would be . . .
olive on May 23, 2013 at 9:50 am said:
beauties, and you really caught the atmosphere
All that was missing was the keg and the bbq – they had the music!
TinCanTraveler on May 23, 2013 at 9:53 am said:
I love all the classics, especially the ones with the big fins! Thanks for the wonderful photos!
What’s the point of a classic if you can’t have decent fins to go with it! 🙂
frizztext on May 23, 2013 at 1:11 pm said:
the symmetry of your first shot is great –
and maybe (is that allowed to say?)
the arrogant “kiss my ass” attitude …
You are allowed to say anything you please dear Frizz although I am sure the El Dorado Biarritz is sobbing at the thought of bearing such an attitude of arrogance in light of its pretty, well turned and decorative rear!
spilledinkguy on May 23, 2013 at 3:03 pm said:
So much beautifully captured style, Ms. K! Awesome! 🙂
The style is all in the metal, thank you SiG! Imagine all the garages across the US hiding such treasures!
latebloomerbuds on May 23, 2013 at 4:02 pm said:
Fun post Patti, and great snaps! We have the Woodward Dream Cruise in our area every year. People come from all over the country to attend. Have a great long weekend! Margie
Now that would be something to look forward to and worth another wonderful trip to Detroit! You enjoy your week-end Margie – I just know you will, whatever your plans!
gallegoara on May 23, 2013 at 4:59 pm said:
Great pictures!! Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure, thank you so much gallegoara!
Han on May 23, 2013 at 5:30 pm said:
Whenever in Holland, let my know and i will take you for a ride in our vintage Citroën DS..
Thank you so much Han for your kind and generous invitation! One day soon I hope!
Cardinal Guzman on May 23, 2013 at 5:45 pm said:
Beautiful cars!
Aren’t they just! Glad you think so Cardinal!
Richard Guest on May 23, 2013 at 8:51 pm said:
It’s probably my age, but cars were just better looking then, I think. Great, sun-soaked shots, Patti!
Richard, I don’t care how old anyone is but I can’t think of a car on the road now that would stop me in tracks for its good looks . . .
Patti, such a fun event. Great snaps! We have the Woodward Dream Cruise here every year where people come from all over the country to partake in the fun. Margie
elenacaravela on May 23, 2013 at 9:01 pm said:
Fine photography!
Very sweet of you to say, thank you so much Elena!
Derrick Birdsall on May 24, 2013 at 3:08 pm said:
Great work, love those curves.
A man of taste!
Derrick Birdsall on June 4, 2013 at 2:13 am said:
that’s entirely debatable. Wife #1 would disagree!! LOL
Oops . . . 😦
suitablefish on May 27, 2013 at 2:17 pm said:
A great subject captured by your fine photography!
You are too kind Susan and I just know what fun you would have had with your fine eye!
Carl D'Agostino on May 29, 2013 at 2:24 am said:
Heavy metal ? Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk Railroad.
Jackpot! The first record I bought was Led Zeppelin Houses of The Holy which didn’t go down too well at home where we said the Rosary every night and Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Kennedy’s were family.
themofman on June 2, 2013 at 4:04 pm said:
Top compositions:
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11 and THE best 13.
RedGal was definitely the star of a good sunset show and so good to have your company here, thank you Allan!
Inside the Mind of Isadora on June 26, 2013 at 5:45 am said:
My neighbor restores vintage ( well – 1950’s – 1970) cars as a hobby. He and his wife goto car shows and display his handiwork. It takes years to do one car. He sews the leather seats and everything else. The collectors drive around and – literally – cruise downtown with them. A quick spot loacted and they are ready to chat about the old days.
There’s a hobby for everyone. I’ll have to remember to take some shots of his cars one day.
p.s. I guess you’ve gathered that I’m trying to catch up on your many posts I’ve missed. Too manygreat bloggers and not enough time. ~~~~ : – )
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1087
|
__label__wiki
| 0.507469
| 0.507469
|
what's in a name? Feb. 5, 2010
KeySpan Park Isn’t Called KeySpan Park Anymore
Considering a company called KeySpan no longer exists — it was purchased by National Grid in 2007 — it was only a matter of time before the Brooklyn Cyclones’ home ballpark got a new name. So, going forward, get used to saying things like, “Let’s buy tickets to ’Jersey? Sure! Night’ at MCU Park.” Cyclones general manager Steve Cohen says they could have changed the name of the stadium to reflect KeySpan’s new corporate parent, but since National Grid isn’t a local company, they decided to dissolve the original deal instead. Municipal Credit Union will be picking up the final eleven years of KeySpan’s original twenty-year agreement. [NYT]
brooklyn cyclones
keyspan park
municipal credit union
politics 2 mins ago
infrastructure 5 mins ago
recommended by experts 20 mins ago
under a million 25 mins ago
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1088
|
__label__cc
| 0.70448
| 0.29552
|
Somebody Remembers the Floods of 2015 and 2016 When 2 Lamborghinis Were Caught in Condo’s Underground Garage
by Frank Gormlie on December 3, 2018 · 4 comments
Photo by Elliott Blackwood, posted with permission.
Somebody in OB has a sense of humor and of history. They put up this sign next to the condo complex at Abbott and Saratoga.
The million-dollar condos flooded twice – once in September 2015 and then again in January 2016 – and both times a Lamborghini was caught.
See this : Rains Flood Garage of New Condo Complex at Abbott and Saratoga
and then see this: Saratoga Million-Dollar Condos Flood for Second Time in 4 Months
Thing is, the community warned the developer about floods in OB and yet they went ahead anyway and built them. See the following:
From OB Rag, Jan. 7, 2016 by Doug Porter
‘We Told You So’ in Ocean Beach
One condominium complex in Ocean Beach was featured on newscasts throughout the region. Resident Johnny Caito made a YouTube video featuring the area around Saratoga and Abbott Streets.
The OB Rag ended up calling the units The Million Dollar Condos. Years of community opposition to building what some considered to be a fortress-type structure on the beach front ended with the OB Planning Board approving the plans in November 2011.
In September 2015 the OBRag reported that a brand new Lamborghini and seven other cars parked in the development were damaged by flooding.
The condos and the underground garage were built after years of community opposition to the project – and after umpteen warnings from OBceans about the natural flooding that comes – literally with the territory – the OB beachfront.
It has always flooded in that area. Either from high tides, big rains – or both – this area has always been subject to overflow water.
$600K to get it fixed. Credit: OB Rag
The pre-construction promises made by the developer of the complex depicted in the video included a 27 car subterranean parking garage to be “water-proof and be designed with a de-watering system.”
Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, the California Coastal Commission granted a construction permit, based on a staff report declaring:
…over the last several decades there has been no shoreline retreat in front of the site; it has not been subject to significant flooding, erosion damage or wave run-up attack in the past, including the 1982-83 El Niño winter; and the proposed habitable improvements are above any potential coastal hazard.
Here’s Stephen Scatolini, via the San Diego Reader back in 2009:
It should be noted that during the heavy rains of the 1982-83 El Niño event, runoff from the hillside above the beach was so extreme that I was able to sail a windsurfer — with center board in place — down Abbott Street from Santa Monica Avenue to Saratoga Avenue. So, the water in Abbott Street was at least 40 inches deep — that’s a block uphill from the proposed entrance to the subterranean garage.
When the surf is up and the tides are high and the rain is dumping, storm drains are ineffective and the water backs up into the streets. (Ask Steve Goebel of Cleanline Carpet how many times he’s vacuumed out flooded businesses along the bottom of Newport and Abbott Streets.) Even if the new sub-grade garage has a de-watering system, there is nowhere for the water to go once it’s pumped out of the garage.
Remember this story the next time you hear a politico-apologist for developers complaining about the building process in San Diego.
This is an excerpt from Doug Porter’s column at San Diego Free Press.
Paul Webb December 4, 2018 at 10:43 am
The architect for this project is also the architect for the La Playa condo development right along the bay, which will also have underground or semi-underground parking. Just sayin’.
Geoff Page December 4, 2018 at 2:12 pm
Who was the architect? Was it Morton?
Lori Saldana December 5, 2018 at 11:50 am
These developers are just following the city of San Diego’s Planning Commission lead: 20 years ago, they authorized an expanded parking structure in the southeast area of Fashion Valley, adjacent to the river, by claiming it would serve as an emergency flood control channel in case of rains.
Signs are posted to remind people who are shopping that in case of rain, their cars may become submerged. Apparently, these condo owners need to post a few signs as well.
The Fashion Valley parking structure/flood control channel hybrid design has worked. It has reliably flooded many times ever since. Not sure how many cars have been caught in the run-off.
Paul Webb December 6, 2018 at 9:59 am
Yes, if I am not mistaken.
Older Article: Bob Dorn: Rest in Power!
Newer Article: OB Planning Board to Meet Wed., December 5
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1093
|
__label__wiki
| 0.852355
| 0.852355
|
Morning Digest: April 18, 2013
By Politicker Staff • 04/18/13 6:37am
Jersey City mayoral candidates spar over issues
JERSEY CITY – Sparks flew off the exchanges between an animated Mayor Jerry Healy and his most aggressive challenger, downtown City Councilman Steve Fulop, at tonight’s mayoral debate sponsored by St. Peter’s University and PolitickerNJ.com. PolitickerNJ
http://www.politickernj.com/64765/jc-mayoral-candidates-spar-education-development-and-affordable-housing
Seven party chairs say let Buono pick chairperson
Following cries by party leaders in support of state Sen. Barbara Buono (D-18) having her own choice of a state party chairperson, seven county party charis responded with their own chorus of support for the presumptive Democratic nominee. PolitickerNJ
http://www.politickernj.com/64761/seven-party-chairs-call-support-buono-pick-her-own-party-chairperson
Van Drew: If wanting tax break makes me ‘an a-hole,’ so be it
TRENTON – Well, if the shoe fits.
That’s the response by a Democratic state lawmaker who says if wanting a tax break for middle-class families makes him “an a-hole,” according to a top union official, then so be it. PolitickerNJ
http://www.politickernj.com/64759/vandrew-if-wanting-tax-break-residents-makes-me-hole-so-be-it
Latest from State Street Wire
Report says Newark hard hit by foreclosures
TRENTON – Newark has been extremely hard hit by the foreclosure crisis. State Street Wire
http://www.politickernj.com/64767/report-says-newark-hard-hit-foreclosures
Sign up for a free trial of State Street Wire at http://www.politickernj.com/freetrial
Obama calls Senate rejection of background checks shameful
An angry Preident Obama scolded the U.S. Senate for rejecting a bill expanding federal background checks to more firearms buyers. 101.5FM
http://nj1015.com/live-video-obama-comments-on-senate-background-check-vote/
Senate kills background checks
WASHINGTON — It ended in a flash. Months of work aimed at revamping the nation’s gun laws prompted by one of the worst shooting tragedies in U.S. history met an inglorious conclusion on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/obama-gun-policy_n_3105547.html
Ricin suspect describes bizarre conspiracy
WASHINGTON — A man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and sometimes performed as an Elvis Presley impersonator. Associated Press
http://www.app.com/viewart/20130417/NJNEWS18/304170138/Miss-ricin-mail-suspect-described-body-parts-conspiracy
Casino Pier closer to pulling rollercoaster from water
SEASIDE HEIGHTS — The rollercoaster that has become a symbol of superstorm Sandy’s devastation is closer to coming out of the water. Asbury Park Press
http://www.app.com/article/20130417/NJNEWS/304170077/With-contract-Casino-Pier-closer-pulling-Jet-Star-from-ocean?nclick_check=1
Companies shielded as Court cuts human rights suits
The U.S. Supreme Court insulated multinational corporations from at least some lawsuits over atrocities overseas, scaling back a favorite legal tool of human-rights activists. Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/companies-get-shield-as-top-u-s-court-curbs-human-rights-suits.html
Andrews says bombing suspect in custody
U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews says that a suspect is now in custody from the Boston Marathon bombings, and that the public was key to helping authorities identify him. Burlington County Times
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/update-congressman-rob-andrews-says-bombing-suspect-in-custody/article_5b860643-a881-5f8d-b456-c94275586c26.html
Delay in getting electronic records to first responders
While emergency medical services would seem to be an area where instant access to health records would be critically important, implementing such a scheme has proven difficult. An attempt to institute a statewide system five years ago has met with numerous obstacles and now seems to be back to square one. NJ Spotlights
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/04/17/another-delay-in-getting-electronic-health-records-to-first-responders/
Bergen freeholders introduce plan to relax pay-to-play restrictions
The Bergen County Freeholders introduced revisions to the county’s “pay-to-play” law Wednesday that critics contend will “open the floodgates” to a tide of campaign contributions from firms doing business with the county. Record
http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/Bergen_County_freeholders_introduce_plan_to_relax_pay-to-play_restrictions.html
Two Secaucus incumbents say ‘machine’ beat them
After getting handily defeated by the candidates supported by the town’s mayor, the losing incumbents in this week’s school board race characterized the results as “typical Hudson County politics.” Record
http://www.northjersey.com/news/203536441_2_Secaucus_incumbents_say__machine__beat_them.html
Memo requires changes for Trenton to receive transitional aid
A new agreement tied to a $25.4 million state aid award for Trenton will require the city to work on increasing parking collections and enforcement, and to give the state documents on hiring, mayoral appointments, legal settlement and any penalties imposed by state and federal agencies. Trenton Times
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/04/memorandum_requires_trenton_to.html
Revel eliminates 83 jobs in cost-cutting push
Revel AC Inc., the bankrupt owner of Atlantic City’s newest casino, said it eliminated 83 jobs to bring costs in line as the New Jersey resort town’s gambling business shrinks. Bloomberg
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/04/revel_cuts_83_jobs_amid_bankru.html
Huge blast at Texas fertilizer plant
WEST, Tex. — A huge explosion tore through a fertilizer plant near West, a town in central Texas on Wednesday night, killing at least 5 people, injuring more than 100 others, laying waste to swathes of buildings and potentially sending toxic fumes into the air, authorities said. N.Y. Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/us/huge-blast-at-texas-fertilizer-plant.html?ref=us
Burlco zoo closed, up for sale
A small Burlington County zoo that was the scene of fatal fires, animal escapes, and violations over unsanitary and unsafe conditions closed last month. Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20130418_Small_Burlington_County_zoo_up_for_sale.html
Giffords: I’m furious
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) responded with anger to the Senate’s rejection Wednesday of the Manchin-Toomey gun measure. Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/giffords-gun-control-column-im-furious-90255.html?hp=f2
Gang of Eight aims to stop conservative attacks
The Senate’s Gang of Eight is mounting an aggressive lobbying campaign with one major goal: weaken the conservative opposition to a sweeping immigration overhaul. Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/gang-of-eight-conservative-immigration-attacks-90247.html?hp=t1_3
Christie’s bargaining with tax credit plan
Governor Christie, who has repeatedly protected millionaires from paying higher taxes, took to the airwaves this week as a champion of “working-class folks.” Stile, Record
http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/203536411_Christie_s_bargaining_with_tax_credit_plan.html
Shameful vote on gun control
The heart of the Senate’s gun control bill, a compromise to expand background checks, wasdead on arrival today. Most Republicans opposed it. But above all, we can thank the kowtowing Democrats who jilted it. Star Ledger
http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2013/04/the_shameful_senate_vote_on_gu.html
SEE ALSO: Report says Newark hard hit by foreclosures
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1094
|
__label__cc
| 0.691759
| 0.308241
|
CaregiversStories
Cervical Cancer And The Inside Story Of India’s Deplorable State Of Female Hygiene
by Team Onco January 27, 2018
written by Team Onco January 27, 2018 528 views
As I absorb the news of Akshay Kumar’s latest PSA-themed movie ‘PadMan’ being postponed from a Republic Day release to February 5th, I cannot help but brood over the powerful impact that it would have had on the current status of India’s awareness about female hygiene, and the risks associated with a deadly disease that we’re talking about this month – Cervical Cancer.
In a stark departure from thoroughfare entertainers, this movie touches upon a topic that is generally considered taboo in India. Based on a short story called The Sanitary Man Of The Sacred, PadMan is poised to create awareness and break social taboos concerning menstrual hygiene in India. Interestingly, the movie’s planned release date was synced with January’s ‘Cervical Cancer Awareness Month’theme before being postponed.
As I saw the trailer, I recalled a four year old conversation, that I had with my college gang. Mind you, these were my salad days – days of wandering aimlessly and discussing themes with minimal intent to solve anything of real importance. That, and chai.
The Chai-time Cancer Scare
During one of these long and seemingly endless teatime rants, a girl told us that she was travelling home on account of her mother getting her uterus removed. That isn’t something you hear in a regular conversation, so I became curious. She told that the decision to opt for surgery was triggered by the fear of developing ‘Gyenac Cancer’, owing to a family history of cancer down the maternal bloodline.
That got me thinking.
You see, even though I do not consider myself an expert on the subject of cancer, from what I understand of the disease, I have always thought of it as being similar to the kind of code we use in computers. Cancer, by definition, arises as a result of multiple genetic mutations. And operating on the ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ principle, I wondered why someone would remove an organ from their body just out of fear! My friend somehow convinced me that I was being paranoid about the subject, so I shut my trap and returned to the aimless chai trolling.
Cut to 2018
Later, much later, I had the good fortune of working with an online cancer consultations firm, and in doing my part to build the virtual cancer hospital of the future. After being part of a lot of cancer related discussions, eventually I reflected on that long lost chai-time conversation. And then I found the stuff that adds sense to every confusing memory. Facts.
Digest this – apparently, one in every six women in India undergo procedures to get their uterus removed. So if you happen to work in a decently sized office that employs about 60 women, statistics dictate that about 10 of them will get an organ removed! Makes you think, right? So I went ahead with my investigation, and began observing a pattern.
When it comes to women and cancer, us ‘first-world-aspirant’ folks always think of Breast Cancer. Agreed, it is the most common cancer for women in metropolitan cities. But at the same time, thousands of women in rural India get affected with a much deadlier disease – Cervical Cancer.
And while India seems to have a good publicity game going on for itself on all matters related to women empowerment, I think we all agree that we really are not progressive or ’empowered’ enough to fight Cervical Cancer.
According to the NCBI, every year, 122,844 Indian women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 67,477women die from the disease. I’d say that’s pretty bad, wouldn’t you?
This brings us back to #PadMan and to the reason why I felt compelled to thank Mr Akshay Kumar today.
You see, India has had a love-hate relationship with all things sexual since what is probably the beginning of time, and in the process of establishing taboos and social behavioral constructs, we have successfully lost sight of what is critical for sustaining life.
And till the time we do not get a public figure reminding us quite literally to our faces, we continue to ignore what is right in front of us. Without further ado, let me introduce the chain of thought that goes into indiscriminate organ removal from the fear of cancer.
Most Rural Indian Women Don’t Know About The Types & Subtypes Of Cervical, Uterine & Ovarian Cancers.
As much as we hate to admit it, it’s true. Since Indian households shy away from talking about sex, there is no scope for conversations surrounding sexual health or menstrual hygiene, for that matter. Most of such families just know the word ‘Cancer’ and the idea that all ‘Cancers’ will kill you.
These families believe that the Womb, or the Uterus, is at the core of their ‘Cancer Curse’.
Driven partly by superstition, partly by lack of knowledge and partly by the history of cancer deaths in some families, most mother-in-laws encourage their daughter-in-laws to get their uterus removed after they have born a decent number of children (Also a deplorable fact: A lot of these families treat women as baby-machines, and the case in point is simple enough for them to take action on; Once the family heirs are in place, get rid of the uterus.)
Now, here’s the really bizarre part.
Fact. India doesn’t have a lot of trained, expert surgical oncologists on the field, in rural areas.
Hypothetically, even if a woman were to have a tumor removed surgically, in an ideal medical scenario she would need a surgical oncologist. Sadly, we don’t have enough trained surgical oncologists on the field. So these families often approach underqualified doctors/practitioners of a completely unrelated specialization to get the surgery done.
This might seem funny or outrageous now, but it is a lot more scary to imagine that some families actually go to orthopaedic surgeons to get Uterus Removal Surgeries done!.
The Risks
We cannot even begin to fathom the kind of risks associated with such an unsupervised procedure. First, and let’s really establish this – The fear of cancer does not in any way, necessiate surgery, unless an oncologist explicitly prescribes it.
Next, if there is no tumor and if the candidate is unlikely to develop any cancer of the reproductive system, then the surgery is both unnecessary and potentially harmful.
Third (and this is the worst possible scenario) – If an undetected tumor is ruptured during such a surgery, it might lead to actual metastasis of cancer, and for all we know, could turn into the reason why a woman dies.
So, Should We Just Sit Still?
Absolutely not! We have moved way past the era of suffrage, and while being a hypochondriac is definitely not the go-to solution against any terminal disease, neither is blind ignorance.
In order to overcome the menace of Cervical Cancer, Indian women must strive to become aware of the real reasons why it manifests, and the kind of preventive measures available today.
Research shows that nearly 90% of all Cervical Cancer cases are a direct result of an infection caused by the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). This virus is transmitted both sexually, and due to non-maintenance of female hygiene, especially menstrual hygiene. The topic that #PadMan continuously touches upon, is that rural India still resorts to DIY (Do It Yourself) discourses (fondly called Jugaad-s), to avoid spending on basic hygiene. While metropolitan women find themselves coaxed with glamorous advertisements for sanitary napkins, Indian villagers still advocate the use of sub-standard, reusable cloth, or worse – soil.
Soil. Mud. That opens up the (unvaccinated) woman in concern, to a million possible infections. Using a WHO-validated menstual hygiene product can help bypass this risk multifold.
So thank you, Akshay Kumar and thank you, #PadMan!
Beyond #PadMan (Other Discourses)
This could be an epic movie, and might create a lot of buzz (as did Rang De Basanti, Toilet – Ek Prem Katha and other socially striking movies) and stay in the public memory for a long time. But will it do everything that is needed to get Indian women to stand up and take notice of the very real threat ahead of them?
Probably not. This is because an effective strategy against Cervical Cancer requires lot more than just a periodic reminder (no pun intended).
HPV Vaccinations are available in the market today, and availing this vaccination at the age of 11 to 15 (at the onset of puberty) can reduce the risks of developing Cervical Cancer at a later age for most women.
Many state-sponsored and private cancer screening camps are organized all year round, where PAP Smear Tests are used to detect any cancerous tissue/lesions in a swab drawn from the cervix. It is recommended that PAP Smears & HPV tests should be taken by women who are sexually active, every five years, beginning at the age of 21.
Women, and their love for hair has created a lot of negative buzz surrounding Chemotherapy and Hair Loss, while fact remains that Chemotherapy is not the only treatment modality against cervical cancer.
Thanks to the kind of research that is happening all around the world, treatment options for Cervical Cancer have now diversified to include radiation therapies, minimally invasive surgical procedures, and Immunotherapy. It is important to understand what procedure is going to work for someone with a confirmed diagnosis of Cervical Cancer before getting started on the treatment journey. I’m proud to remark that the organization I work for, can help in this regard!
In conclusion, I’d like to assert that it is okay to be not completely prepared against cancer. Nobody ever is.But the world of cancer care is evolving by the minute, and with the right vigilance, willpower and treatment, we can overcome the disease.
Always remember – We can have cancer, but we won’t let cancer have us.
If you choose to be so kind as to share this article, I’d like to end it with a beautiful pin I found recently, highlighting everything you need to know about Cervical Cancer.
This is an Employee Blog. The views expressed here belong solely to the author, and are not representative of the opinions of Onco.com as an organization.
Cancer AwarenessCervical cancer
5 Things To Know About Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
#TreatCancerProperly – A World Cancer Day Initiative By Onco.com
A Letter from a Lung Cancer Patient (Part...
Impact Stories: How Cancer Patients Found The Help...
How I Fought Colon Cancer – Kuldeep Singh...
A Letter from a Lung Cancer Patient
Gems from Our Cancer Support Circle: Building Your...
The Journey of a Breast Cancer Patient (Part...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1096
|
__label__cc
| 0.595761
| 0.404239
|
Why Instagram Carousels are a Game Changer for Influencer Marketing
This entry was posted in Open Influence on February 27, 2017 by Open Influence team.
Instagram has been one of the most popular platforms for influencer marketing over the past few years due to its visual nature, ease of content discovery, and constant deployment of content-creator friendly features.
For example, Instagram has taken on longer form video via the addition of 1-minute video, gifs via Boomerang, bookmarking (similar to a Pinterest ‘Pin’), Story content a-la Snapchat, and now album-like storytelling via its latest feature- Carousels.
With Instagram Carousels, users can better convey their experiences via Instagram’s classic feed. It works by allowing users to share multiple (up to 10) images or video in a single carousel for their friends and followers to swipe through.
“You no longer have to choose the single best photo or video from an experience you want to remember,” Instagram writes. By allowing users to post more, it allows users to be more engaged with the platform by removing the fear of over posting and flooding their followers feeds.
In regards to influencer marketing, this means that influencers are now able to tell a more in-depth and descriptive story and therefore have more flexibility over where and how they integrate branded content, as opposed to being constricted to one image or video at a time.
“An area where we see huge potential for Carousels is in experiential marketing via influencers” writes our CEO, Eric Dahan. He continued, “A current drawback of experiential marketing via influencers on Instagram is that there has always been a trade-off between immersive content that is short lived (via Stories) or long-living content that is not nearly as immersive. With Carousels, we don’t have to make that trade-off anymore.”
If Instagram can get users not only engaging in carousel content but also creating it, Instagram will change how advertisers and brands measure success on the platform when it comes to influencer marketing.
To learn more about how your brand can integrate carousels with influencer marketing, contact us!
← 30 Under 30 2017: The Young Innovators Redefining Marketing And Advertising Influencer Marketing: Beyond the Dashboard →
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1100
|
__label__cc
| 0.51345
| 0.48655
|
Kelsey Boze
Next Up by trunkprc on November 15, 2017 add comment
Name: Kelsey Boze
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Current Location: Los Angeles, California
TrunkSpace: When did you know that you wanted to act for a living?
Boze: When I was 15. I chose to drop all other extra curricular activities once I began high school and focused solely on my school’s theater program. Then my senior year I did half days of school and half days at a pre-college program at Pittsburgh Musical Theater.
TrunkSpace: Was there a particular performance or actor/actress from your childhood that you remember being drawn to and inspired by?
Boze: I basically was a Disney princess as a child – always dancing around, singing, loving animals, and trying to get them to dress me. So they were a huge influence on my singing voice and acting style. As I got older I became a major fan of Audrey Hepburn and Julia Roberts. The most notable performance though was Angelina Jolie in “Girl, Interrupted.” I stayed up late one night with my mom and grandmother to watch that movie and was terrified of her character, Lisa. My mom explained to me that she was an actress just pretending and that stuck with me.
TrunkSpace: How did you decide to approach your career as an actor? Did you formulate a plan of how you wanted to attack what is known for being a hard industry to crack?
Boze: Truthfully my only plan was a choice of LA over NYC. I made the decision to come out here and I had always easily found success in Pittsburgh – getting agents and work – so I figured the same would be true out here. After three years of being out here… I think differently. But my plan is always changing as I step higher and higher in my career. With new successes come new plans of how to continue that rise up.
TrunkSpace: When did you decide to move away from your home and pursue acting as a career? How old were you at the time?
Boze: Technically my professional acting career began in college. I moved only 45 minutes away from home that time to attend Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh. I was originally from Peters Township, PA. I was 18. The real move that continued my professional acting career came when I was 22 when I moved to Los Angeles.
TrunkSpace: Was that move an easy transition for you initially? How long did it take you to feel at home and find a good support group of friends and peers?
Boze: The initial transition from east coast to west was extremely difficult. I moved to LA not knowing anyone or anything about the city. I rented an apartment and drove my car cross country with my dad. He set me up for about a week (my uncle from Seattle helped) and then I was on my own. I’ve learned that I would never do that again. I strongly believe you should set up a life for yourself before you move to a new place. But within my first year here I was cast in my first feature film, “A Closer Walk With Thee,” which brought me a good support group and a new boyfriend. That is when LA began to feel like home.
TrunkSpace: What has been been your biggest break in terms of a particular role or project thus far?
Boze: “Stasis,” a feature film I am in, which is available on Netflix in most countries, iTunes and Amazon in the U.S. and comes to Netflix in the U.S. in December. It is the only project I’ve worked on so far that has brought me fan mail and international attention.
TrunkSpace: Is there a specific type of role you’d like to take on or a specific genre that you feel more at home in?
Boze: What I would like to work on for the majority of my career is dramatic features. I have an ear for comedy but I really enjoy taking on a drama. Whether in major motion pictures or plays/musicals on Broadway, I tend to favor drama. Anything with real emotional depth and complexity of character peaks my interest. Two bucket list characters I want to play are Poison Ivy and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid.”
TrunkSpace: What would you say is the greatest strength an actor/actress can have outside of acting ability itself?
Boze: Networking. Knowing what they have to offer as an actor and convincing people of that.
TrunkSpace: What is your ultimate dream when it comes to your acting career? Where would you like your path to lead?
Boze: My ultimate dream is to regularly take on lead or supporting roles in major motion pictures.
TrunkSpace: What advice would you give another young aspiring actor/actress who is considering moving away from home to pursue their dream?
Boze: Have a place to live, at least one person you know who you can explore the city with, and at LEAST job prospects for an income set before you make the move. An income, an agent, and a manager would be ideal things to have beforehand but aren’t essential. If moving to LA, have a car.
TrunkSpace: Where can people (and casting directors) learn more about you?
Boze: The easiest place would be my website: www.kelseyboze.com. And I have profiles on LA Casting, Actors Access, and IMDb. I also have a fan group that I send emails to with career updates; to join that, email updatemeonkb@gmail.com.
Tags : A Closer Walk With TheeactingactressfeaturedKelsey BozenetflixNext UpStasis
Alison Araya
Liz Longley
Molly Evensen
CALL AN EXTERMINATOR!
CASE OF MUSICAL MONDAZE
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1103
|
__label__cc
| 0.524268
| 0.475732
|
Samsung’s One UI 3 brings Android 11 and other features to your Galaxy devices
Take a look at some of the new features that are coming to your Samsung Galaxy devices with the arrival of One UI 3 and Android 11
Published 14 January 2021, 11:55 EST
Android 11,
One UI,
One UI 3,
Samsung Galaxy Note 10,
Samsung Galaxy S10,
Samsung has finally released its new version of One UI. The latest upgrade features an exciting new design, enhanced everyday features, and deep customization. The best part is that One UI 3 will also arrive with Android 11, as Samsung has been doing a decent job to give its customers fast software upgrades, even though Android 11 was released back in September 2020.
One UI 3 will start making its way to Samsung Galaxy devices starting today. The first phones to make the transition will be the Galaxy S20 series, as the upgrade will begin to roll out today in Korea, the United States, and most markets in Europe. The software update will gradually be available in more regions and on more devices, including the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, the Z Flip, the Galaxy Note 20 series, and 2019’s Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 series in the coming weeks. And if you have a Samsung Galaxy A device, expect the software upgrade to arrive in the first half of 2021.
“The launch of One UI 3 is just the beginning of our commitment to offering Galaxy consumers the best mobile experiences possible by giving them access to the latest OS innovation, as soon as it’s available,” said Dr. TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics. “One UI 3 represents an integral part of our mission to continually create new innovative and intuitive experiences for our consumers throughout their device lifecycle. So when you have a Galaxy device, you have a gateway to new, unimagined experiences for years to come.”
Samsung Galaxy devices with One UI 3 will give its users a new refreshed design for an improved aesthetic experience. Features like the home screen, lock screen, notifications, and Quick Panel have new visual events such as the Dim/Blur effect for notifications and redesign widgets to keep your Home screen looking organized. Users will also experience smoother motion effects and animations combined with natural haptic feedback.
The camera on your Samsung Galaxy smartphone will also be improved with One UI 3. It will be able to deliver improved AI-based zoom on photos, as well as better autofocus and auto-exposure to help you get the best shots. But remember that you will most likely get the best pictures from your Samsung Galaxy S21, and if you act fast, you can already get yours starting at $100 over at Samsung.com if you trade-in an eligible device.
Pocketnow Daily: NEW Galaxy S21 Teaser & Exynos Updates: YES and NO! (video)
On today’s Pocketnow Daily, we talk about new rumors of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S21 series, everything at CES 2021, and more.
TCL teases rollable AMOLED display for phones and a scroll-like printed OLED panel
The 17-inch Printed OLED Scrolling Display concept shown by TCL actually opens like a scroll, but details about a finish product are thin.
The latest iPad Pro, the iPad Air and more tablets are on sale today
Today’s deals come from Amazon.com, where you can find the latest iPad Pro, the iPad Air, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S7, and more on sale
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1112
|
__label__cc
| 0.63221
| 0.36779
|
Parts of Amazon on the verge of forest-to-grassland shift
by American Geophysical Union
The stability of the Amazon rainforest, and the ecosystem's resilience to widespread deforestation, may be much lower than previously thought. The replacement of stands of trees with grassland changes evapotranspiration rates and atmospheric moisture convergence, which in turn reduce regional rainfall, a feedback effect that could drive further deforestation. Previous research indicated that a dramatic shift from forest to grassland could overtake the Amazon when the total deforested area hits 40 to 50 percent of the forest's current size. New research by Pires and Costa, however, find that the deforestation needed to trigger this equilibrium shift is much lower, closer to just 10 percent.
Using a climate-biosphere model the authors calculated how different parts of the Amazon, such as the forest interior or the border regions, would stand up to deforestation-induced precipitation changes. They find that in different zones of the Amazon the precipitation responds to deforestation in different ways. In some places deforestation causes a linear decrease in precipitation. In some areas, it takes dramatic deforestation to induce a change in rainfall, while in others, slight deforestation results in sharp precipitation declines. The fact that the region's sensitivity to deforestation was found to be significantly higher than previously reported stems from the fact that in addition to the rainforest itself the authors also considered deforestation of nearby cerrado, a region of savanna-like vegetation in central Brazil.
The authors argue that to avoid an equilibrium shift, 90 percent of existing forest and 40 percent of cerrado land should be preserved. Presently, around 40 percent of the Amazon is protected area. They suggest that the forests of Bolivia and of Brazil's Pará state are most susceptible to such an equilibrium shift.
Brazil sends more inspectors to Amazon rainforest
More information: Pires, G. and Costa, M. Deforestation causes different subregional effects on the Amazon bioclimatic equilibrium, Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/grl.50570 , 2013 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10 … 2/grl.50570/abstract
Journal information: Geophysical Research Letters
Provided by American Geophysical Union
Citation: Parts of Amazon on the verge of forest-to-grassland shift (2013, September 3) retrieved 20 January 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2013-09-amazon-verge-forest-to-grassland-shift.html
Lightning Striking the Sea
If the Sahara is caused by the Hadley cell, it should ring the Earth like the Hadley cell, surely?
Coal and the Fermi Paradox
Does the world really need 'more power'?
Why is the CO2 level lower in my house than outside?
Mw 6.4 Quake Croatia
More from Earth Sciences
Amazon deforestation reduced by nearly 84%, Brazil says
Deforestation spikes in Brazil over last year: group
Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
Brazil to do a biodiversity study of the Amazon
No-win situation for agricultural expansion in the Amazon, research says
World's largest lakes reveal climate change trends
Natural hazard events and national risk reduction measures unconnected
Using 100-million-year-old fossils and gravitational-wave science to predict Earth's future climate
Abandoned cropland should produce biofuels
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1115
|
__label__cc
| 0.737705
| 0.262295
|
7920 W Avra Valley Rd, Marana, AZ 85653 (520) 616-0922
We are currently in the process of moving yards, please reach out to us at (520) 616-0922. Thank you for your continued business.
Wholesale Flagstone
Decorative rocks are versatile landscape materials that evoke the beauty of the natural desert. You can use decorative rocks as a groundcover that replaces mulch. Additionally, you can use these landscape materials to build a beautiful rock garden that adds depth and character to your property. Choose from various sizes and colors of decorative rocks. Pima Stone offers decorative rocks in shades of brown, red, gold, and more.
Desert Brown- available sizes: 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, & 1/4 minus
Apache Brown- available sizes: 1/2 & 3/4
Coronado Brown- available sizes: 3/8, 1/2, & 3/4
Apache Red- available sizes: 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, & 1/4 minus
Apache Gold- available sizes: 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, & 1/4 minus
Superior Gold- available sizes: 3/8 & 1/2
Tucson Rose- available sizes: 3/8, 1/2, & 7/8
Wildcat Red- available sizes: 3/8, 1/2, & 7/8
Native Sunrise- only available in: 1/2
Palo Verde- only available in: 1/2
Desert Gold- available in: 3/8, 1/2, & 7/8
Yavapai Coral- only available in: 1/2
Some landscape materials are as functional as they are decorative. You can use rip rap rocks to build a natural barrier that stabilizes sloped areas. Here, rip rap offers structural support and prevents soil erosion—a critical consideration in desert areas prone to flash floods. You can use rip rap landscape materials to stabilize locations such as streambanks, slopes, bridges, storm drains, and culvert inlets and outlets. For best results, we recommend ordering rip rap in different sizes. Varying the sizes of the rocks allows them to interlock more effectively.
Coronado Brown- available in: 2″-5″, 4″-8″, & 6″-13″
River Rock- available in: 2″-4″ & 4″-8″
Gray Rip Rap- only available in: 4″-8″
Natural Landscape Materials
Our natural landscape materials are ideal for projects both small and large. We can fill your truck for you, or you can request our site delivery services. Choose our screened fill dirt to level out depressions and dips in your landscape. Or, order a load of top soil to feed your garden or lawn. In addition, we offer concrete sand, mortar sand, and aggregate base course (ABC) for your masonry projects. For example, you can use ABC for compaction underneath concrete slabs.
ABC- 1/4 & 1/2
Arena Mix- 67 rock- 2″-3″4
Mortar Sand
Gray Rock- 3/8, 1/2, 1, & 1″-3″
Ideal Mix & 3/8 Grout Mix
3/8 Pea Gravel
Screened Fill Dirt
Copyright © 2020 Pima Stone, LLC | All Rights Reserved | Web Design Tucson by GSM Marketing Agency
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1118
|
__label__cc
| 0.747862
| 0.252138
|
Commitment Index: Eve of Free Agency
Posted on March 9, 2016 March 9, 2016 by Bryce Johnston
As a reminder, Commitment Index measures net future salary cap commitments (prorated signing bonus amounts and guaranteed base salaries net of current salary cap space) relative to the average net future cap commitments of all teams. The three primary concepts are (1) only actual commitments are relevant to evaluating future spending capacity, not scheduled salary cap numbers of existing contracts, (2) committing future salary cap space is only potentially detrimental to the extent the team does not possess at least an equal amount of current salary cap space available to be carried forward to future years to negate the future cap commitments and (3) net future salary cap commitments should be measured on a relative basis because a team only disadvantages itself in terms of future spending capacity to the extent it makes more net future cap commitments than the other teams in the league (if every team “mortgages its future” to the same degree, then no team has really “mortgaged its future” at all).
Scoring highly in Commitment Index is not necessary a “bad” situation to be in; it depends in part on the strength of the roster to which the team has committed. The rankings of the teams will change as some teams spend heavily in free agency and others do not. A team with a high Commitment Index Score can rapidly improve its situation relative to the league by deciding not to sign any sizeable free agent contacts. The downside is the opportunity cost of not adding free agent talent. It will be interesting to observe which teams move up or down the rankings based on free agent signings.
These numbers are based on what is included on Over The Cap as of about 11:30 PM on Tuesday March 8. At this point the numbers reflect most of the moves that can be officially executed (cuts, extensions, re-signings, retirements, franchise tags, restricted free agent tenders) but not the moves that cannot yet be officially executed (trades, unrestricted free agent signings of players who have not been cut).
Cap space is shown as a negative number. This is done to emphasize that cap space nets out against future commitments, as it can be carried forward to nullify future cap amounts. Teams with a negative Net Commitment have more current salary cap space than total future salary cap commitments.
The Commitment Index scores are much more extreme at this point in the league year than at any other time. This is because the average Net Commitment ($19,212,598) for 2017+ is at its lowest possible point (cap space has been created through releases, but future cap commitments have not yet been incurred on free agents), so any deviation above or below the average is much more pronounced from a relative perspective. For the sake of comparison, the average Net Commitment for 2016+ as of October 2015 was $78,079,278. As teams spend in free agency, the average Net Commitment will increase and the Commitment Index scores will compress on both extremes. As a result, at this point the Net Commitment may be more relevant to refer to than the Commitment Index score.
I have included a comparison to the Commitment Index scores from January. Teams that have made large movements up or down have done so because either (i) they created salary cap space by releasing players, (ii) they signed players to extensions involving future salary cap commitments or (iii) players already under contract had future salary guarantees vest. Every team saw its score change at least a little bit because every transaction executed by any team in the league effects the relative position of every team in the league.
Team Proration Guarantees Cap Space Net Commitment Index Jan.
BAL 95,687,692 2,844,759 (3,912,844) 94,619,607 492% 358%
PHI 61,217,683 35,173,488 (15,906,440) 80,484,731 419% 65%
DAL 70,400,575 16,476,625 (8,381,213) 78,495,987 409% 388%
BUF 63,568,911 16,138,491 (9,028,849) 70,678,553 368% 385%
MIA 56,322,227 18,396,267 (17,224,938) 57,493,556 299% 321%
PIT 58,889,844 4,092,128 (10,125,226) 52,856,746 275% 306%
KC 54,512,572 9,798,220 (18,174,124) 46,136,668 240% 122%
CAR 65,974,691 1,235,794 (21,928,631) 45,281,854 236% 265%
NO 43,225,313 5,378,913 (8,514,419) 40,089,807 209% 310%
ATL 37,580,148 18,324,756 (24,031,814) 31,873,090 166% 186%
WAS 45,888,326 6,191,735 (21,139,187) 30,940,874 161% 250%
ARI 44,669,675 1,245,192 (15,685,151) 30,229,716 157% 149%
GB 47,518,889 1,933,146 (19,292,706) 30,159,329 157% 110%
SEA 45,741,148 – (17,246,519) 28,494,629 148% 110%
NYJ 21,721,052 12,692,007 (6,663,256) 27,749,803 144% 133%
NE 37,938,518 1,127,112 (11,677,299) 27,388,331 143% 207%
DEN 28,423,998 10,763,990 (18,471,446) 20,716,542 108% 33%
SD 39,800,166 6,294,945 (32,076,366) 14,018,745 73% 155%
HOU 33,545,219 17,111,182 (41,088,102) 9,568,299 50% 69%
IND 25,863,143 1,174,582 (18,797,793) 8,239,932 43% 21%
MIN 21,271,013 5,969,662 (30,153,826) (2,913,151) -15% 29%
DET 28,125,635 3,302,633 (34,500,489) (3,072,221) -16% 104%
CLE 28,522,815 10,007,725 (43,923,387) (5,392,847) -28% 34%
CIN 29,296,070 2,392,790 (38,051,207) (6,362,347) -33% -28%
TEN 29,780,571 8,359,313 (47,789,705) (9,649,821) -50% -3%
NYG 38,896,396 6,579,872 (55,996,325) (10,520,057) -55% 37%
LA 16,745,398 9,136,257 (44,065,924) (18,184,269) -95% -29%
TB 14,613,157 22,776,265 (55,607,221) (18,217,799) -95% -137%
CHI 15,647,215 6,375,284 (46,017,856) (23,995,357) -125% -160%
SF 33,315,621 3,106,960 (61,688,487) (25,265,906) -132% -83%
OAK 16,776,122 9,378,528 (59,444,722) (33,290,072) -173% -259%
JAX 18,382,835 9,445,255 (81,677,893) (53,849,803) -280% -248%
Bryce Johnston is the creator of Commitment Index and the co-creator of Expected Contract Value. Bryce earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2014, and currently works as a corporate associate in the New York City office of an AmLaw 50 law firm. Before becoming a contributor to overthecap.com, Bryce operated eaglescap.com for 10 NFL offseasons, appearing multiple times on 610 WIP Sports Radio in Philadelphia as an NFL salary cap expert. Bryce can be contacted via e-mail at bryce.l.johnston@gmail.com or via Twitter @NFLCapAnalytics.
← Contract Thoughts: March 8
Contract Thoughts: March 9 →
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1123
|
__label__wiki
| 0.745791
| 0.745791
|
Norwegian Film Institute Backs Trier’s Latest Feature
Joachim Trier, whose most recent feature Louder than Bombs was Norway’s first contender for the Palme D’Or in 36 years, has received backing from the Norwegian Film Institute for his latest project, Thelma.
Thelma has been awarded €1.2 in production funding from the Norwegian Film Institute to add to support already in place from Eurimages, The Danish Film Institute, and the Copenhagen Film Fund.
Little is known about the project so far, except that it is a supernatural thriller about a young woman who is unaware that she possesses frightening powers. However, producer Thomas Robsahm says:
“This is an exciting new departure for Trier. The remarkably constructed and suspenseful script manages to find an original new take on genre material without losing any of Trier’s unique and personal touch. The film will be Trier’s most visually ambitious project to date, with striking VFX.”
Casting for Thelma is currently underway in Oslo, ready for an autumn shoot, and is slated for a spring 2017 premiere, with SF Norge planning a Halloween 2017 release.
Joachim Trier’s Thelma Wins Norwegian Critics Prize
Norway Selects Joachim Trier’s Thelma For Oscars
Joachim Trier’s Thelma Opens Norwegian Film Festival
Danish Film Institute To Restore 400 Silent Movies
Previous EU Commission Proposes Netflix Production Quotas
Next Kormákur’s Media Village Subject To Toxic Survey
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1132
|
__label__wiki
| 0.668578
| 0.668578
|
You must be signed in to comment on a document. log in / sign up Close
Add comment at:
Format: HH:MM:SS
Invalid Timestamp
Document: Invite
Properties/Access Dates Add to Document Analytics Report Fullscreen (hide top links) Download & Export Options Tag Document Embed in another web page
2-Pane Combined
Full Summaries Sorted
Is history taught in schools being tampered with, reflecting Orwell's 1984? (Article 3)
0 changes, most recent less than a minute ago
Retrieved from: https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Scholars-Sustained-White/243053
Textbook Racism
How scholars sustained white supremacy
By Donald Yacovone
Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle Review
There it sat on a library cart with 50 other elementary, grammar, and high-school history textbooks, its bright red spine reaching out through time and space. As I opened the book’s crisp white pages, it all came back. My loud gasp startled those near me at the special collections department of Harvard University’s Monroe C. Gutman Library. Exploring the New World — published repeatedly between 1953 and 1965 — had been assigned in my fifth-grade social-studies class in Saratoga, Calif.
As part of a broader study of the legacy of the antislavery movement and the rise of the modern civil-rights era, I wanted to assess how abolitionism had been presented in textbooks. I imagined a quick look. Instead, I found myself immersed in Harvard’s collection of nearly 3,000 U.S. history textbooks, dating from about 1800 to the 1980s. Without intending, I had become engaged in a study of how abolitionism, race, slavery, and the Civil War and Reconstruction have been taught for generations.
For Moral Clarity, Don't Look to Universities
How Universities Embolden White Nationalists
After reviewing my first 50 or so textbooks, one morning I realized precisely what I was seeing, what instruction, and what priorities were leaping from the pages into the brains of the students compelled to read them: white supremacy. One text even began with the capitalized title: "The White Man’s History." Across time and with precious few exceptions, African-Americans appeared only as "ignorant negroes," as slaves, and as anonymous abstractions that only posed "problems" for the supposed real subjects of history: white people of European descent.
The assumptions of white priority, white domination, and white importance underlie every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that blanketed the country. This is the vast tectonic plate that underlies American culture. And while the worst features of our textbook legacy may have ended, the themes, facts, and attitudes of supremacist ideologies are deeply embedded in what we teach and how we teach it.
Scholars often bemoan their lack of influence: embarrassing book sales figures and the like. Yet my review of American textbooks revealed that historians of the 20th century exerted an enormous impact on the way Americans have come to understand their history. The results are painfully evident. Their work either filtered down into schools, as interpreted by educators, administrators, and popular authors, or appeared directly: Ph.D.-trained scholars wrote many of the textbooks I read. To appreciate why white supremacy remains such an integral part of American society, we need to appreciate how much it suffused our teaching from the outset.
Noah Webster’s History of the United States (1832) is distressingly typical of most U.S. history textbooks published before the Civil War. Webster, of dictionary fame, once told the black minister and abolitionist leader Amos G. Beman that "wooly haired Africans" have "no history, & there can be none." Webster dismissed Africans as nonentities and elevated Puritans, especially Connecticut Puritans, to the level of founding fathers. His book made only passing mention of colonies (later states) below Mason-Dixon and completely ignored slavery. History, for Webster, was the record of his Puritan forbearers, and no others. The standard of whiteness-in-history had been set.
Courtesy of Donald Yacovone
A drawing by Hanson Booth in "The Development of America," by Fremont P. Wirth (American Book Company, 1937). The captions reads in part: “Slaves at home, after the day’s work was over. Negroes always have been fond of singing and dancing.” Supremacist ideologies were deeply embedded in the textbooks of American history.
Until 1860, no American history textbook ever mentioned the name of an abolitionist or even the existence of an antislavery movement. If slavery was mentioned at all, the discussion focused on Congress and on political leaders like Henry Clay. History took place in European exploration, colonization, revolution, Constitution-forming, party politics, and presidential administrations — and nowhere else.
The Connecticut-born Samuel Griswold Goodrich, who sometimes wrote as "Peter Parley," may have been the most successful textbook author and writer of the mid-19th century. He claimed to have published 170 volumes, selling seven-million copies. He also boasted that his Pictorial History of the United States, originally published in 1843 and still in print after the Civil War, sold 500,000 copies. His 1866 edition simply tacked on a new chapter about the war, but his textbook neglected to discuss the fall of slavery. The message to students: Black lives do not matter.
There are exceptions, of course. From the 1870s and to the early 1900s some textbooks, such as ones by the abolitionist and colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, Thomas Wentworth Higginson; by the Canadian-born author, newspaper editor, and librarian, Josephus Nelson Larned; by the great Civil War reporter Charles Carleton Coffin; or especially by the Harvard University historian Albert Bushnell Hart, treat the abolitionist movement sympathetically. They see it as an agent of democracy and its membership as unpopular Cassandra’s, men and women who stood up to slavery and created the constituencies that Lincoln and his fellow Republican politicians used to resist the South. Given the era and available resources, these authors presented history fully and inclusively, even giving space to Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth.
As a nation we have failed miserably in our responsibility to accurately and honestly teach about slavery.
The hundreds upon hundreds of other textbooks, however, some providing sympathetic views of the abolitionists and even treating John Brown dispassionately, categorically reveal the authors’ real themes and prejudices when dealing with the history of Reconstruction. The worst chapter in almost every textbook published before the 1960s, these books repeated relentlessly and emphatically the phrase "ignorant negro." Indeed, descriptions of the Reconstruction era in history textbooks published from about 1900 to the mid-1960s provide a stunning immersion in white arrogance, black incapacity, and nostalgia for the sweet days of slavery and Southern white racial domination.
Arthur C. Perry and Gertrude A. Price’s two-volume American History (1914), a grammar-school text, helped explain the life of slaves by employing an image of gleeful "negroes" at their cabin’s door after a day’s work, enjoying getting "together for a rollicking time." But for generations of students, the textbooks of the Columbia University historian David Saville Muzzey shaped their understanding of the central crisis of American history. With over 50 publications, his influence became pervasive, especially through his History of the American People, a heavily illustrated tome of 700 pages for high-school students, used relentlessly between 1927 and 1938, and for many decades after under various other titles.
For Muzzey, "the mutual provocation of the abolitionists and the ardent defenders of the slavery system" caused the Civil War, and the North bore prime responsibility for causing the South to secede through its relentless hostility to slavery. More to the point, Muzzey explained that Reconstruction proved an unmitigated disaster, setting the untutored former slaves against "the only people who could really help them … their old masters." Instead, Northern radicals manufactured an "orgy of extravagance, fraud, and disgusting incompetence," placing upon the South the "unbearable burden of negro rule." This "crime of Reconstruction," he wrote, would be the root cause of sectional bitterness that would endure "to the present day."
Building on decades of scholarship scorning the Reconstruction era, a text by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth and John Van Duyn Southworth, The Story of Our America, and adopted by the state of Indiana for the seventh and eighth grades, used an image of white-robed, galloping Klansmen (with similarly robed horses) borrowed from the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, to illustrate how the Klan and similar groups defeated corrupt carpetbag and scalawag governments and their Negro tools to restore respectable whites to their justly dominant position. And this text was published in 1951. While ending slavery was usually rendered in these textbooks as a glorious accomplishment, it all came to naught when intolerant and aggressive Radical Republicans seized control in a coup and forced black enfranchisement upon a prostrate South. Almost without exception the vast army of textbooks published before the 1960s instilled in generations of young American students a version of history no different than that found in Thomas Dixon Jr.’s pro-Klan The Leopard’s Spots (1902) and The Clansman (1905), and usually not as well written.
Authors more familiar to current scholars and historians, such as Marcus Jernegan, Merle Curti, Ralph Henry Gabriel, Ralph Volney Harlow, and John D. Hicks, leading historians of their time, also crafted textbooks for junior high and high schools. Between 1931 and 1943, the Yale intellectual historian Ralph Henry Gabriel, along with Mabel B. Casner, a Connecticut high-school teacher, explained to students that the central problem of Reconstruction was that the former slaves "found that freedom could be a greater curse than slavery." In Southern states under Republican rule, the "Negroes were ignorant, and most of the carpetbaggers were rascals." Fortunately, however, white men organized secret societies to "fight the evils that surrounded them," especially theft, which was "very common among those who had recently been slaves" and restored white power.
An illustration from "American History: Second Book (1763 to the Present Time)," by Arthur Cecil Perry Jr. and Gertrude A. Price (American Book Company, 1914), appears with the caption “They enjoyed getting together for a rollicking good time.”
The University of Chicago’s Marcus Jernegan’s The Growth of the American People (1934) relied on the toxic scholarship of Claude Bowers, George Fort Milton, and even Thomas Dixon Jr. Jernegan described the Freedmen’s Bureau as an organ for "race hatred," but the Ku Klux Klan appeared as the bulwark against carpetbag corruption. According to Jernegan, the Klan did little more than play on the "superstitious fears of the negroes" and scared them at night by dressing in white sheets and shouting "Beware! The Great Cyclops is angry!" and thus discouraged blacks from voting. Accusations of real Klan violence, he asserted, were largely fabricated.
The University of California at Berkeley’s John D. Hicks, best known for his study of the Populist Movement, described slavery in his advanced textbook, A Short History of American Democracy (1943), as "By and large … a distinct advance over the lot that would have befallen him [the slave] had he remained in Africa." Besides, Hicks suggests, where else could a people so untutored enjoy picnics, barbecues, singing, and dancing? The slaves’ "devotions [religion] were extremely picturesque, and their moral standards sufficiently latitudinarian to meet the needs of a really primitive people. Heaven to the Negro was a place of rest from all labor, the fitting reward of a servant who obeyed his master and loved the Lord. … [C]ohabitation without marriage was regarded as perfectly normal, and a certain amount of promiscuity was taken for granted. Slave women rarely resisted the advances of white men, as their numerous mulatto progeny abundantly attested." Berkeley’s history department recalls Hicks’s enormous influence, classes with over 500 students, and the impossibility of estimating "the number of students whose knowledge of American history has been built on the Hicks histories, but it is certainly an immense number."
That such rabid fiction could pass for history in 1943, or at any other time, still leaves me reeling. But such textbook "history" continued, largely ignoring the work of prodigious African American scholars like John Wesley Cromwell, George Washington Williams, Carter G. Woodson, and W.E.B. Du Bois, until the 1960s when new generations of black and white scholars transformed our understanding of the American past, and the place of race in it.
The way we teach history remains as lifeless as John Brown's body.
And what of Exploring the New World,my fifth-grade textbook? Its painfully simplistic story never mentioned any abolitionists or even an antislavery movement. Slaves, on the other hand, proved necessary to pick cotton — "Who else would do the work?" the authors asked. Yet, people of the North did not believe that men and women "should be bought and sold." In the end, the book took a reconciliationist approach to slavery and the Civil War, asserting that everyone was brave, everyone fought for principle, and Robert E. Lee represented all that is noble and heroic in American society. "His name is now loved and respected in both North and South. We know that he was not only a gallant Southern hero but a great American."
While I never forgot the book, its lessons, fortunately, made few lasting impressions upon me. Given the national outburst of race hate that has erupted, however, I have to wonder exactly what we are now teaching our children.
According to a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, "Teaching Hard History," as a nation we have failed miserably in our responsibility to accurately and honestly teach about slavery. Only 8 percent of high-school students surveyed by the SPLC could identify slavery as the central cause of the Civil War. Few teachers and even fewer textbooks connect the nation’s slave past to the history of race relations, and nearly every single teacher and textbook surveyed avoided the subject of white supremacy as avidly as the school textbooks of the 19th and 20th centuries.
It would appear that despite the monumental outburst of scholarship produced since the mid-1960s, the way we teach history remains as lifeless as John Brown’s body. But as Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University, observed in the introduction to "Teaching Hard History": "Slavery isn’t in the past. It’s in the headlines."
History is far from a dead thing. "We carry it within us," James Baldwin memorably remarked. We "are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frame of reference, our identities, and our aspirations."
Donald Yacovone is an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
A version of this article appeared in the April 29, 2018 issue.
DMU Timestamp: November 09, 2018 23:10
0 General Document comments
0 Sentence and Paragraph comments
0 Image and Video comments
Paragraph 1 0
No paragraph-level conversations. Start one.
Paragraph 1, Sentence 1 0
No sentence-level conversations. Start one.
Whole Image 0
No whole image conversations. Start one.
Paul Allison
I’m the Tech Liaison for the New York City Writing Project. I… (more)
(Oct 20 2019 6:58PM) : This... more
Comment Options ▼
Edit Comment Delete Comment Show Comment URL
Paragraph 10 0
Paragraph 10, Sentence 1 0
Paragraph 0
Audrey Hendarto
(Dec 17 2018 2:23PM) : This quote reflects how a biased perspective of history can reflect Orwell's 1984.
Paragraph 13, Sentence 11 0
(Dec 17 2018 4:03PM) : This provides an example of a way that history can be biased.
Hide Thread Detail
Yulisa Padilla
(Dec 18 2018 12:53PM) : defines the problem more
this shows the effects of these history books. it teaches these ideal to the people who are learning from these books.
(Dec 17 2018 2:23PM) : This biased view was not intentional and was a result perhaps of continous misinformation.
(Dec 17 2018 2:24PM) : This quote can explain a previous initiative for skewing history.
(Dec 18 2018 12:50PM) : objections more
maybe a solution could be to try and emphasize the important of these textbooks to schools so that more people buy/use these to teach their students.
Paragraph 23 (Video 1) 0
No video-level conversations. Start one.
Whole Video 0
(Dec 18 2018 12:58PM) : defining the problem more
as a nation, we have failed at accurately teaching about slavery and how cruel it was
General Document Comments 0
0 comments, 0 areas
add area
Join an existing conversation — click the “Reply” button of the appropriate right pane comment
Start a new conversation on an existing area — Double click on the existing highlighted area or its comment balloon
Define and comment on a new area — Draw a box around the desired area by clicking and then holding + dragging your mouse
Start a new conversation about the image as a whole (no specific area) — click here
change display
hide comment areas
hide comment balloons
at current time
at a different time
on whole video
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0042.json.gz/line1135
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.