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ROADMAPS TO STRATEGIC FORESIGHT
Foresight Signals Newsletter ›
Signals: Smart Cities... Emotion Detection... and more
Volume 1,
Inside Foresight Signals
Data Sharing for Smarter Cities
Emotion Detection and Ad Design
On the AAI Foresight Blog: Bengston, Mack
News for the Foresight Community
An organic waste recycling depot on one side of town is close to overflowing. A biogas plant on the other side of town is running on empty and needs biomass right away. Today, this is a scenario of two problems. Tomorrow, a Smart Urban Services project would turn both problems into solutions.
A pilot project in Reutlingen, Germany, demonstrates how sensors and an integrated platform can connect these and other urban infrastructure facilities, such as traffic management. The data would not just be available to a central authority, but would be shared by local communities, companies, and residents, according to Inka Woyke, head of the Service Management team at Fraunhofer IAO.
This connectivity doesn’t just benefit individual services, Woyke says. Smart Urban Services will offer municipalities a competitive advantage for attracting businesses and employees by creating more efficient—and livable—cities.
Partnering with Fraunhofer IAO in the Smart Urban Services consortium are the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management IAT at the University of Stuttgart, Input Consulting GmbH, and the cities of Chemnitz and Reutlingen.
Source: Fraunhofer IAO. More information: Smart Urban Services. Image: Tim RT Photography, via Flickr (Creative Commons).
Signals: data, infrastructure, smart cities
Enrique León Villeda is an emotion detector. He is also a Mexican computer specialist living in Spain, who’s developed software that reads your emotions in real time as you encounter specific products or images.
The algorithm he designed collects sensory data such as heart rate, which is transmitted to a mobile phone or computer via Bluetooth. Analysts can compare a shopper’s emotional reactions to different images in order to produce more positive reactions (i.e., more receptive) to messages and images designed for stores. The project was developed by Tecnalia, a European center for applied research and innovation.
Villeda’s previous work with affective computing included a vest that determined emotional responses to changes in light and temperature. Working in Ireland, he also analyzed political speeches to discover emotional reactions to phrases uttered by a candidate.
Source, story and images: Investigación y Desarrollo [in Spanish].
Signals: advertising, emotions, marketing
Call for papers! If you are working on a foresight analysis project, AAI Foresight would welcome the opportunity to publish your work in the Foresight Reports series. Please contact Cindy Wagner, consulting editor, at CynthiaGWagner@gmail.com.
On the AAI Foresight Blog
> Notes from an environmental futurist: The journey from science fiction to futurism is a natural one for many of today’s foresight professionals, observes Dave Bengston. But additional reading in nonfiction—particularly the environmental warnings found in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, E.F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, and other works—took him on a unique new path. Read “How to Become an Environmental Futurist in 50 Years.” Download Bengston’s AAI Foresight Report “A World on Fire” (co-written with Bob Olson).
> Why savings aren’t saving China: Many developing nations protect their citizens’ futures via safety nets such as social security systems. Traditionally lacking such protections, the Chinese have become such big savers that they are stifling economic growth. Tim Mack describes what the Chinese government is doing to alter consumers’ paths to the future. Read “China’s Savings Culture in Turmoil.”
> In the news, Huffington Post: Media futurist and filmmaker Jason Silva, host of the National Geographic channel’s Brain Games series, spoke with HuffPo correspondent Marianne Schnall on what technologies such as the smartphone have done to our brains—and our humanity. “The brain ... witnesses the world through limited information it gets through the senses and it fills in the blanks,” Silva says. “Our smartphone is literally a mind-expanding substance. It allows us to transcend our limitations and our perceptions and expand our world.” Read “Interview With Futurist Jason Silva, Host of Brain Games” (April 20, 2015). Watch the interview at AOL. Image: ThisIsJasonSilva.com
> In the news, CBS: Science correspondent Michael Casey asked technology futurist Gray Scott why he considers himself a techno-optimist. They discussed the prospects of such developments as artificially intelligent assistants in our homes and why we fear the things we make—which are actually reflections of ourselves. Scott is founder of Serious Wonder, a multifaceted technology-arts-philosophy media site. Read “Maybe artificial intelligence won't destroy us after all” by Michael Casey, CBS News (posted May 14, 2015).
> Free webinars: TechCast Global has launched a webinar series offering insights by expert foresight panels, led by Bill Halal and Owen Davies. The first session, on April 30, provided an introduction to forecasting methodologies. The May 7 webinar focused on cybersecurity, AI, and the predictions market. The next webinar is scheduled for June 18, featuring Millennium Project co-founder and director Jerome C. Glenn on The Age of Consciousness: Technology Is Driving the World Beyond Knowledge. Details: TechCast Global.
> Teach the Future: A fundraising campaign to bring free futures-education resources to classrooms is halfway to its goal, according to Peter Bishop, executive director of Teach the Future. The project is also recruiting teachers for the summer program. Learn more at Teach the Future’s new website. Donate at Start Some Good before 6:00 p.m. Pacific time May 24.
> The editor has landed: AAI Foresight consulting editor Cindy Wagner is sharpening her red pencil. On May 11, she joined the editorial staff of Scrap, the award-winning publication of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). She will continue to produce Foresight Signals twice a month. Check out Scrap.
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Infection (Peru) announce new EP, “Beheaded Children Contest”
4 August, 2020 Against PRNews
“Beheaded Children Contest” is Peru’s Infection new EP that contains five original tracks and one cover song of grindcore fathers Napalm Death (“The Kill”.) The music on the new EP continues the same direction as its predecessor: Vicious death metal spiced up with touches of thrash and grind. It shows, in addition to that, an improvement in the sound department, thanks to the work of Fredrik Nordström, who re-amped guitars at the legendary Fredman Studios facilities in Gothenburg (Sweden.) Mixing was done by Antonio Palacios at // Kill the Pixel Now Studio. Once again, the band trusted John Scrip from Massive Mastering to infuse a warm and full-bodied finish to the tracks.
The ice of the cake is the sick artwork by Dechristianize Art, inspired by the cruel and perverted acts of Fifteenth-Century serial killer Gilles de Rais. The song that gives title to this album was, as well, based in his gruesome killing spree. “Beheaded Children Contest” will be released on Gate of Horror Productions on August 15th 2020.
For fans of Cannibal Corpse, Death, Suffocation, Monstrosity…
Shrapnel Storm announce new album details; Watch new video for “Visions of Violent Past”
Bisönte – “Ancestral Punishmen”
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NAPLES, Fla. -- Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was arrested on a reckless driving charge for the second time this year after officers clocked him going 110 mph in a 70 mph zone. A news release from the Florida Highway Patrol said a white Mercedes driven by the 23-year-old Cuban defector was pulled over around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Authorities said Puig was arrested and charged with reckless driving and taken to the Collier County Jail for processing. Puig lives in the Miami area during the off-season. Dodgers spokesman Joe Jareck declined to comment on Puigs latest arrest. In April, when he was still in the minors, Puig was charged with reckless driving and speeding after Chattanooga, Tenn., police clocked him going 97 mph in a 50 mph zone. The charges were dismissed in November after Puig completed community service in Los Angeles. Puig was an instant sensation with the Dodgers last season, batting .319 with 19 home runs and 42 RBIs. He helped them reach the NL championship series, where they lost to St. Louis, and was runner-up for the Rookie of the Year award. Puig signed a $42 million, seven-year contract in June 2012, a record for a Cuban defector. He received a $12 million signing bonus and made $2 million last season. Nike Air Max 270 Triple White Womens . The Maple Leafs may not have had a pick until the third round, but they have made the biggest move of the second day of the Draft, dealing defenceman Carl Gunnarsson and a fourth-round pick in the draft to the St. Air Max 270 Mens Discount . Locke overcame a shaky start to pitch seven innings and Josh Harrison had three hits to extend his hot streak as the Pirates beat the Miami Marlins 7-3 on Wednesday night. http://www.max270cheap.com/ . Torres calmly stroked a 51st-minute spot kick down the middle with goalkeeper Romel Quinonez diving right to convert a penalty earned by Javi Martinez. 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A Habs source told TSNs John Lu that Price suffered the injury in Sochi and not before the Olympics.AGADIR, Morocco -- Bayern Munich closed in on its fifth trophy of 2013 by brushing aside Guangzhou Evergrande 3-0 Tuesday to reach the Club World Cup final. Franck Ribery and Mario Mandzukic scored first-half goals to break open the Asian champions disciplined defence, and the Germans never relented as Mario Goetze added the third in the second half. "We dominated the game," said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, who won two Club World Cup titles with Barcelona. "And when that happens the opponent cant (play) his game." The Champions League winners will face either Atletico Mineiro of Brazil or Moroccan champion Raja Casablanca in Saturdays final. Atletico, led by Ronaldinho, play the local favourite in Marrakech on Wednesday. Bayern is bidding to win its first Club World Cup after having twice won the tournament when it was the Intercontinental Cup. Bayern, which is looking to add to its haul of Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League and European Super Cup titles, also ensured that the European champion reached the final for the 10th time in as many editions. Bayerns starting lineup saw few changes to the squad that has started the Bundesliga season unbeaten, except for Arjen Robbens absence because of a knee injury. Bayern completely controlled play from the outset although its opponent showed a few flashes of danger on counterattacks through Dario Conca and Muriqui, whose poor touch wasted a chance to go clean on goalkeeper Manuel Neuer early on.dddddddddddd. "The coach really got us tuned in, we wanted ball possession to limit them and the counter attack," Bayern captain Philipp Lahm said. "I think we did that." Guangzhou coach Marcello Lippi said his team would defend its goal and it succeeded admirably early on. With a small contingent of Bayern fans among the 27,311 fans at the Agadir Stadium, cheers went up as Thiago Alcantara chested down a cross but swiped his 11th-minute effort off the post. Toni Kroos rattled a hard shot off the underside of the crossbar in the 25th before Ribery forced Zeng into a low save as momentum built toward the opening goal. Thiago had an effort cleared but the ball fell to Ribery, who smashed a low volley inside the far post in the 40th. Four minutes later, Mandzukic dove low to head Thiagos cross into goal for 2-0. Bayern maintained that momentum after the break as Goetze saw his shot from outside the area deflect off defender Sun Xiang over Zeng in the 47th. Ribery found the crossbar again from a tight angle in the 67th before Zeng pushed Philipp Lahms close-range effort off the crossbar in the waning moments. "There was nothing left to do, (or) to change (in the team) so I couldnt do much, so I just sat down and watched the game," Lippi said through a translator. "We didnt attack as much as we would have wanted. "Honestly speaking, there wasnt much of a match." ' ' '
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Said Reynolds: “A little over two years ago, I became an owner of Aviation Gin because I love the taste of Aviation more than any other spirit.
© 2020 Condé Nast. As part of the deal, Diageo will pay $335 million upfront with an additional $275 million possible payday depending on Aviation's performance over the next 10 years.
We’re so excited for the next chapter of Aviation Gin, which, I promise, will require just as little reading.”.
Sweetening that pot, the trio was promised an extra $300million based on subsequent sales numbers. Ryan will retain his stake in Aviation's old parent company Davos Brands, LLC, Taking a shot: Diageo picked up George Clooney, restaurateur Rande Gerber and business partner Mike Meldman's Casamigos tequila for $700million in 2017.
Diageo, the world's largest spirits maker, said on Monday it was buying Aviation American Gin, co-owned by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds, in a deal worth up to $610million.
According to the Distilled Spirits Council, distillers sold nearly 10 million nine-liter cases of gin in the US in 2019, generating $918million in revenue, a 3 per cent rise over 2018.
What I didn’t expect was the sheer creative joy learning a new industry would bring. The actor will retain his stake in Davos Brands, LLC but his role as a spokesperson remains unclear. He's a fan: Talking about Aviation's new chapter in a statement, Reynolds said: 'A little over two years ago, I became an owner of Aviation Gin because I love the taste of Aviation more than any other spirit.' In 2019, Aviation grew volumes at over 100%, adding the highest number of cases and accounting for 40% of super premium gin segment growth according to figures released by Diageo. It is produced by House Spirits Distillery. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Ryan Reynolds is at the center of a deal today where Diageo acquired Aviation American Gin.
Aviation was founded in 2006 and later purchased by Davos Brands, LLC, of New York in 2016. Aviation American Gin is pot distilled Ivan Menezes, chief executive of Diageo, said: 'We are delighted to announce this transaction, which supports our participation in the super premium gin segment in the United States. Do you compliment Hitler?' In a statement to industry outlets, Reynolds said: 'A little over two years ago, I became an owner of Aviation Gin because I love the taste of Aviation more than any other spirit.
While Reynolds deal is definitely substantial, it's still far less than that of his fellow actor turned spirits purveyor, George Clooney.
The Deadpool actor became the face of Aviation Gin after purchasing an unspecified, but 'significant' stake in the company in February 2018. But Reynolds isn't just interested in being the king of gin, he's working on building a small business empire outside of alcohol and acting. 'The acquisition of Aviation American Gin and the Davos Brands portfolio is in line with our strategy to acquire high-growth brands with attractive margins that support premiumization. Why a career in adult social care could be the... HS2 unearthed!
Reynolds and Aviation appear to be following a similar playbook as other celebrity spirit brands.
It seems that more and more celebrities are diversifying their portfolios by getting into the liquor and wine industry, and given that Ryan Reynolds just sold his Aviation American Gin brand as part of a $610 million deal it's easy to see the appeal. Every bottle of Aviation Gin is handcrafted in small batches by a dedicated team of master distillers in Portland, Oregon. Deal falls short of one that Diageo made several years ago that brought $700 million with another potential $300 million based on performance to George Clooney, Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman for their Casamigos tequila company. In 2019, the actor purchased an ownership stake in Mint Mobile, an affordable direct-to-consumer cell phone carrier, and in July 2020 he joined the board of Match Group, the company that owns Match.com and Tinder.
Ad Choices. Aviation American Gin, also known as Aviation Gin, is a brand of gin first produced in Portland, Oregon, by founders Christian Krogstad and Ryan Magarian in 2006. Growing the brand with my company, Maximum Effort Marketing, has been among the most fulfilling projects I’ve ever been involved with.
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Highlights of the BMC-series: August 2013
Simon Harold 10 Sep 2013
Teaching biology is as easy as Pi • Fukushima fallout over butterflies • Probiotics are not to be sniffed at • Bacterial social networks • Image of the month • Farmed salmon make a bid for freedom • ART and death
Bioinformatics: Teaching biology is as easy as Pi
An open access, open learning method for teaching bioinformatics uses the Raspberry Pi computer and a custom operating system to teach early-career researchers key skills in systems administration and computational biology at low cost. The course, developed for teaching undergraduates computational biology at the University of St Andrews (UK) is freely available for anyone wishing to develop their coding skills with this innovative new piece of hardware. Want to know more? Read an interview with lead author Daniel Barker and leading bioinformatician Ian Korf, for Biome magazine.
Evolution: Fukushima fallout over butterflies
Research conducted in the area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the months following the devastating tsunami and nuclear meltdown suggested that the radioactive fallout had substantial effects on a local butterfly species. However, this research—published originally in the journal Scientific Reports—attracted both considerable attention and considerable criticism. Now, in a Correspondence article published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, the authors have responded to their critics and the controversy surrounding their work. You can read more on the background to the controversy over on our blog.
Immunology: Probiotics are not to be sniffed at
Acute respiratory infections by bacteria, for example those that cause pneumonia, are a persistent public health problem, particularly in children. However, there is evidence for immunological benefits from oral probiotics in tackling this problem. Now, comparative studies using two Lactobacillus rhamnosus strains demonstrate that nasal administration of immunobiotics can beneficially modulate immune responses in the respiratory tract and increase resistance to Respiratory Syncytial Virus challenge in mice, offering an alternative route to combat these infections.
Systems biology: Bacterial social networks
Bacteria communicate via chemical signalling mechanisms called quorum sensing, which may be used in some pathogenic species to regulate virulence factors involved in infection. To investigate how these factors may be potentially manipulated, researchers have used computational network modelling to investigate how inhibition of the quorum sensing pathways in the opportunistic pathogen Psedomonas aeruginosa may influence virulence. Pinpointing a weak spot in these virulence factors may therefore help in the ongoing battle against antibiotic resistance. You can read more on the background to this research in Biome magazine.
Image of the Month:
From “Conditional and constitutive expression of a Tbx1-GFP fusion protein in mice” Freyer et al. BMC Developmental Biology 2013, 13:33
Population genetics: Farmed salmon make a bid for freedom
Each year, thousands of farmed salmon escape into the wild from aquaculture. If introgression with wild populations occurs this can cause major problems by affecting the genetic diversity of wild conspecifics, as well as creating issues with aquaculture management techniques that typically use genetics to monitor population health and identify cases of poaching. Now, a large scale comparison of wild Atlantic Salmon populations with those from farms in Norway is the first to quantify the extent of introgression of farmed fish in a native population, and indicates that while levels of admixture between the two can often be high, these appear to be population-specific.
Infectious diseases: ART and death
Adherence to full courses of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is crucially important to prevent increases in drug-resistance and ensure viral suppression. However, research conducted on patients in Zimbabwe and Uganda finds that recurrent poor adherence to ART, determined even through simple measures, is associated with high mortality both at individual level as well as at the ART programme level. Simple measure to promote adherence to ART could therefore save many lives if properly implemented.
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FLASHBACK: The light side of the 2011 elections
November 11, 2015 November 12, 2015 - by Margaret Vuchiri
The election atmosphere is sweeping the country once again. The presidential candidates are in their first week of campaigns, traversing the country. As we bring you regular blogs from the newsroom and the campaign trail, I start with some tidbits from my 2011 election journal.
That election was the first I got actively involved in. It wasn’t by choice, actually. My boss then thought I would do well in supporting the online team, which was a small section comprising of one journalist and two IT staff. I was quite reluctant at first, but later wished it would last longer.
The newsroom was also quite thin compared to what we have today, so we had to spend about three nights in the office updating stories. I compiled some of the highlights – mostly the light side. There were more interesting moments in the newsroom; those will stay in my journal…
The streets of Kampala are quiet. Usually, the gridlock is agonizingly slow. I take about an hour to get to my work place. Today, however, I left home just after 7am and it was a 20-minute drive to Namuwongo, the Monitor Publications offices. And today is not a public holiday. It is what I would call ‘Election Fear’!
As we go to the polls tomorrow, there is mixed air of anticipation, uncertainty; fear, even. This is also the time some Arab nations had been tweeting, Facebooking and texting out their rulers. But there is hope! We still have an opportunity to exercise our democratic right by electing our next leadership.
…but I, too, have this quiet Election Fear!
Friday, February 18, 2011 (Election Day)
I get to office rather early – 8:30 am. Yes, that’s quite early in the newsroom! I did not vote so I settled down to getting updates from correspondents around the country for our online platforms. Our mailboxes soon fill up with all sorts of stories: funny, bizarre, sad, comical…
It immediately dawned on me that this is the best time to be in the newsroom (Thank you, boss for cajoling me to do this).
Iganga: Civilians ‘arrest’ police constables
By mid-morning, our correspondents reported that Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party supporters had detained eight special police constables after they were allegedly caught ferrying sachets of salt, sugar and bars of soap (in a police pick-up truck) “to bribe voters”. They dragged the officers to the home of the FDC parliamentary candidate for Iganga Municipality and locked them up in a room. I find the determination of these citizens admirable and hilarious.
Moroto: Presiding officer ‘succumbs to hunger’
When this story dropped in our mail box, a colleague burst out in laughter. It is tragic but hilarious, isn’t it? That a presiding officer would collapse at the polling station as he counted the votes and it is discovered that he was not sick, but hungry. And tired.
Kamuli: Minister grabs ballot box
A junior minister, probably in panic mode, grabbed a ballot box containing electoral materials from a presiding officer, alleging voting had already kicked off by 5am instead of 7am as the law requires. The state minister dashed to Kamuli police station but his antics were found to be just that, antics.
No voter turns up, ballot papers blown away
In Nwoya, no voter turned up to vote at one polling station. The EC officials did not even open the ballot boxes as potential voters decided to engage in other activities. Also in Nwoya, strong winds swept away several ballot papers.
Male name; female picture: In Bundibugyo, some male voters were stunned to find photographs of females against their names.
False scare: In Moroto, voters abandoned a polling station for safety after mistaking UPDF soldiers for warriors. It is understandable…
Besigye not on register! Missing names in the national voter register seemed to be the story of this election. It happened at every polling station. It also happened to Inter-Party Cooperation presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye. Besigye was advised to go to another polling station – where he eventually found his name.
Illegal vote! Independent presidential candidate Sam Lubega whose name was, like many other voters, missing at his polling centre, was allowed to vote. So why were others advised to look for their names at other centres?
Kayunga: Take this bribe… Supporters of one candidate, a minister, were arrested for staging a roadblock to distribute money to a rival’s supporters.
Another ballot paper, please! Someone demanded another ballot paper, saying he had ticked a wrong candidate… and he happened to be the presiding officer of the polling station!
Get our names right! In the newsroom, we insist on getting names right. The people of Katakwi would do well in newsrooms. The voters here were angry with EC officials, accusing them of mispronouncing their names. They claim this disenfranchised many.
Wind ‘rigs’ poll: At a polling station in eastern Uganda, strong winds blew voting materials with at least 300 voters having cast their ballots. Residents ‘accused the wind’ of aiding rigging.
Sticks defeat the gun: Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi and his supporters disarmed soldier who shot at them. The armed men took off from the stick-wielding and stone-throwing civilians. A journalist who was in Mafabi’s car sustained serious injuries in the shooting.
Procedure, Mr ‘President’: Mr Abed Bwanika, the People’s Democratic Party presidential candidate, amused voters and EC officials when he forgot to stamp his finger with ink after voting.
Blind voters fail to vote: Six blind people in Amuru District failed to vote because there was no one to help them. They turned up at the polling centre early but they were turned away by polling assistants to go and bring helpers. They waited for over an hour and left without exercising their constitutional right! After posting this story on our Facebook page, a cheeky reader wrote: “Sorry, in other words Besigye has lost six votes” (probably because northern Uganda was an Opposition stronghold).
Otunnu’s no show at the voting booth
With a few minutes left to the close of voting, the political editor called the reporter deployed at the polling station where Uganda People’s Congress candidate (UPC), Olara Otunnu, was expected to vote. Apparently, the UPC candidate had not surfaced at the centre. Otunnu indeed boycotted, claiming he could not take part in a sham.
Memorable quote
“We didn’t have any elections in northern Uganda,” declared former Chua County MP Livingstone Okello-Okello after losing to minister Henry Okello Oryem. So, if there were no elections, didn’t good old Livingstone vote for himself?
I look forward to another eventful campaign. I will, for the first time, also attend some rallies whenever I can, starting this weekend in West Nile where NRM candidate, Yoweri Museveni, will be wooing my people.
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Welcome All,
The next virtual club night on Zoom will be 7.30pm on Tuesday. Again, Robin has organized this and if you want to join please let us no.
This is actually a good opportunity to catch up with some of the 406 exiles as well as current divers, something I’d like to continue, even when the current problems are over. “Once a 406, always a 406” might sound a bit trite, but it does seem that a lot of people retain an interest and sense of connection to the club even long after they’ve moved on elsewhere.
To nobody’s great surprise, the curfew rules have been extended until further notice. The government continues to maintain that this is to do with sterilizing the country and there are still photographs in the papers of cybermen walking the roads at night spraying chemicals around. I suspect it’s more to do with keeping the crowds from congregating at Al Rolla Square, Al Fahidi and other places but whatever the reason, nobody with any sense could possibly argue with it.
Since the preceding paragraph was written, the curfew in Dubai has been further extended to 24 hours for a two-week period. The rules as to who is exempt from this and how you prove it are changing on an hourly basis to all round general confusion.
The Dara bell saga seems to have gone quiet for a while and I don’t know the final outcome, if indeed there was one. In the meantime, past Chairman Peter Blanchflower has sent the following:
With the recent ringing (in absentia) of the Dara bell and with Dara Day approaching (08apr), I happened to browse the inter-web.
A few familiar reports popped up but I had not come across this detailed initial report by the Foreign Office.
The report is logged in the UAE National Archives and provides a great deal of detail including some correspondence between senior officials around the time of the report.
This could occupy a few hours during lockdown. Read on....
https://www.agda.ae/en/catalogue/tna/fo/371/157049/n/102
Peter’s reference to “Dara Day” is a reminder that 8th April 1961 was the date on which a bomb exploded on the vessel while it was riding out a storm causing the deaths of 238 people. On the same day in 2011, members of BSAC 406, DSDC and ADSAC did a 50th anniversary dive on the wreck which was widely reported in the local press. Next year marks the 60th anniversary. Perhaps something similar should be organized, circumstances permitting.
I’m guessing most of you are familiar with the Dara story but if not, there is a short account on Wikipedia under “MV Dara”. This page also has some links to other sites concerning the ship and its sinking.
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New members to BSAC can join Sharjah Wanderers Diving Club via the website, https://www.bsac.com/membership/select-branch/ . If you enter Sharjah, the club appears. Existing BSAC members can renew by logging into MyBSAC or using this link, https://www.bsac.com/membership/rejoin-today/
Join BSAC and claim your free dive! (406 members only).
BSAC general website: https://www.bsac.com/home/
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DAN insurance website: https://www.daneurope.org/home
The Dive Club meets (almost) every Tuesday night in the Dive Bar.
See you there.
UPDATES WILL BE POSTED SOON
Regrettably we have concluded that to continue diving in the present circumstances is no longer tenable and that therefore, diving will be suspended until further notice. The UAE is not yet enforcing a lock-down comparable to the one in the UK but are nevertheless encouraging people to stay at home unless necessary:
“In order to preserve the health and safety of the community, Sharjah Police urges the public not to socialize, avoid public places, to follow instructions, and to stay at home.”
This follows a similar statement from the federal government which sounds reasonable rather than confrontational but is backed up with a threat of fines or jail terms on “violators”. If this wasn’t enough, all UAE hyperbaric chambers have been closed for emergencies unless you can prove you don’t have the virus. This would presumably require two weeks quarantine before you could be recompressed which isn’t very useful.
Current advice from BSAC HQ is to suspend club activity.
With the situation and official advice changing daily (and not always consistent), we will keep a close eye on what’s happening but it’s presently impossible to say when we can get back in the water.
I'll keep the log active with more videos' from the archives. Committee members will have new profiles on the contacts link and updates of the marine environment in general to keep us all in touch with bubbles and o2. For now, stay safe where ever you are in the world and look forward to reconciling with my dive kit.
This then, might be the last dive report for a while:
The original plan for the weekend was a camp-out on Moon Island but this was called off in the face an unfriendly weather forecast and general uncertainty as to whether we’d be allowed out to sea at all. The second fear proved unfounded, but Saturday morning did indeed dawn wet and miserable, so the right call was made.
Instead we made a more routine trip to the Jumbo and the Mariam Express. We couldn’t complain about the sea state. It was flat calm nearly all day and we made good time out to the site. The anchor scored a hole-in-one straight into a rectangular opening that would once have held a porthole. The viz was also pretty good on the wreck, say 8-10m. There was a plume going down the line, but it cleared by the time we hit the bottom. Allen and Connie coming later saw three marble rays. Graham and I were not so lucky, but we did see some large barracuda at the stern end by the prop.
The second dive was on the Mariam Express. This time the anchor landed off the wreck but only 5m away and it took only a few seconds to haul the anchor over and secure it. Compared to the Jumbo, the viz was disappointing, but we did manage a circuit of the wreck. A turtle seems to have taken up residence in an opening on the hull side of the ship, towards the stern. Again, Allen and Connie were the lucky ones. The hole was empty when Graham and I looked in earlier.
After that it was back to the club for a few refreshments.
There was an interesting message from Rob Gill last week:
I think we all need a bit of normalness at the moment and a weekly email from BSAC 406 really does add a bit of normalness to a world that currently seems to be falling apart.
I was struck by this because Graham made a very similar comment on the boat, about normality in the face of extraordinary events. How long we can sustain this normality remains to be seen and it might not be in our hands indefinitely but if we can keep it going without threat to anyone’s health, we will.
The above paragraph was written before the turn of events described at the top of the page. The answer to the question posed was therefore: “not very long”. Just the same, I’ll try and get an email out once a week with updates. If anyone out there has something interesting they’d like to pass on, I’d be grateful for the material.
I’ve heard nothing on the Dara bell saga this week, but thanks are due to John Lewis, Gavin Halling, Alan Locker and Clive Frost for responding to the request for information.
I will be fascinated to find out what the final verdict will be.
The Dive Club meets every Tuesday night in the Dive Bar.
Neptunus 2020
In writing this email, I am conscious of the fact that for most people there are currently more pressing concerns than the ups and downs of Sharjah Wanderers Diving Club. Those of you who are current members will be aware of the precautionary measures that the main club has put in place to avoid the spread of the coronavirus and I would ask you to respect these absolutely. The alternative would be a complete shutdown, something that cannot be completely ruled out if the authorities so decide.
For the time being we continue to dive but whether this is sustainable in the short to medium term remains to be seen. We are fortunate in that Diving Officer from the medical sector, we are better placed to make informed judgements. Nevertheless, we are always subject to government decrees, which could take the issue out of our hands, particularly with the situation changing on a daily basis.
Allen has written the following account of last week’s dive:
Again, our beloved Land Rover needed some coaxing with sweet words and patience to start. When that didn’t work there were other choice utterances and gnashing of teeth which seemed to work. Come back Mike, all is forgiven. We had a new diver along this weekend from Ireland. After buddy pairing, we headed for Taha.
Seas were kind and we made it in good time. A nice little wreck lying on its side. Due to it punching its way into the sand it makes it a little difficult to find on the sonar. But after quite a few passes with not much to see we dropped anchor, threw over the buoy and hoped the little GPS flag was spot on. Thankfully it was. A little crescent shaped ridge has developed around the wreck as a result of it setting into the seabed which combined with the slight current made for a nice little drift dive. The viz was good and there was lots of life to see including shoals of juvenile Barracuda, Groupers, Snappers and Arabian Spine Cheeks. A large Leopard
Stingray also put in an appearance for both dive groups.
We then headed to Neptune where the viz had improved even more to the point you could see most of the wreck on the descent. There was however a moderate current running by the time we entered the water. Again, there were shoals of Seabream, Trevallies and Barracuda. I did wonder at the wisdom of my dive buddy heading directly for the very large Sea Snake I had just pointed out. After a tap on his shoulder we took evasive action and left it alone. The wreck has opened up a little and there are a few nice penetration points and swim throughs which the other group ‘squeezed through’.
All in all a terribly enjoyable day. In his own words, our new member from Ireland ‘was glad to get his ears wet’ again. I’m sure we’ll see him on the boat again. We were met by Nick and his mother who was over from the UK to visit. They had just come back from Fujairah where they had been snorkeling. With the boat washed down and the gear drying on their hangers there was only one thing left to do really . . . .
A warm welcome to our new diver who was making his first dive with us. The first of many we hope.
Elsewhere, the saga of the “Dara” bell continues. It started with an enquiry from John Prescott of the British India Staff Group, concerning a bell for sale, purporting to be from the Dara. Last week I heard from John Lewis in Alaska:
“I can’t say that I ever heard of the bell being recovered in my time with the club from 1974. It wasn’t in the old Ajman club when we relocated so a bit of a mystery.”
This week I got a further message from Gavin Halling in Canberra:
“I agree with John. During 1975 to 1979 the few items that we recovered were portholes. Certainly, if there was a bell, we would have dinged that.
One of the portholes and storm cover adorns our entry porch… (See below). The glass is not intact, but it does allow an appreciation of how thick it was.
See you there.
Where Sharks Lurk - ?
With the sea state looking reasonable and the viz having been awful on the last two visits to the Dara, we decided to head a bit further offshore to the Neptune and Jumbo. Progress was not as fast as it can be, but we got to the Neptune in an hour or so and anchored the wreck at the first time of asking.
Diver one and two were first down the line and as the wreck came into view, the first thing we saw was a shoal of Barracuda and some kind of shark swimming slowly along. I think it was the same type as seen on the Taha or Mariam a few weeks ago but we need a couple of photos to confirm what it is.
My impression of the viz was that it was better than it was reported to be last weekend but not by much. Maybe 2m or so. We did a couple of circuits, but I didn’t fancy too much exploration in the murk. It turned out we’d been unlucky.
Further divers next down the line found viz poor to start with but improving markedly during the dive. Other divers reported seeing almost the whole wreck from the anchor line and presumably must have wondered if some of us needed our eyes testing.
It was at this point that we had a visitor. A young sea bird swam up to the boat, looking very bedraggled so we lifted it out to give it a chance to dry out and recover.
We were hoping that the good viz would also have appeared on the Jumbo, only a short distance away. Sadly, this wasn’t the case and although marginally better than our dive on the Neptune, the viz was no better than extremely average. My impression swimming around was that there have been some changes to the wreck over the winter. Further dives in better viz may confirm.
By the time we were ready to go back, our guest’s condition seemed to have improved. We took the bird back to shore and released it at the port. Whether it will ultimately survive no-one can say but it will have a much better chance near land, food and company than it would, had we left it floating around in the water.
It seemed to me that the water temperature has improved since a month ago. Although hardly overall / skin-suit conditions it wasn’t quite the biting cold of February. I made do with a 3mm suit but 5mm is still recommended for the time being. I guess anyone familiar with UK diving conditions will be having a wry smile at this.
As previously mentioned about the possible Shark sighting, it was certainly interesting despite the inevitable skepticism when we got back on the boat. Perhaps I should buy that camera after all. I’ve since found the link below which may be of interest for literature about Sharks. This is an informative read and worthwhile keeping in your files for future reference.
And so to the club for a glass or two of decompression fluid. A few returning divers amidst the chaos so welcome back all.
The 406 Exiles rendezvous in Wapping went ahead so stay tuned for pictures and updates.
See you there.
References
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Respect For The Dara
This week I'm researching some of the archives related to the demise of the Dara. As featured before, this is a wreck that lies off the coast of Sharjah and a frequent dive site. Previously I featured the ongoing health hazards of the nets that get snagged and our efforts to keep the site safe for divers. This week's feature is on a old newspaper article.
I'll post further articles in the next few weeks. This wreck is remembered with respect for those that lost their lives. We as a club promote respect for those in the maritime community and sea farers alike.
Dive The Dara - Dara The Dive
Thanks to Allen for this account of the last weekend’s diving:
So with the sea state nearing the 1 metre mark we decided to aim for the proximity of the Dara. We gathered at the dive yard, loaded up the gear and with a turn of the key only a non-sustained rumbling was heard from under the bonnet. However, with a little coaxing she sprung to life and we were off.
Once in the water, a certain returning diver (who will currently remain nameless) declared an out of date Emirates ID. Again, with a little coaxing and an examination of the epirb we were off again.
While the waves were a little bigger than usual their frequency was long and gentle. Coupled with some gentle driving it was more pleasant than expected.
We made it out to Dara only a few mins later Paul's head appeared beside the buoy soon followed by the other two. Another unnamed diver hit the sea floor before she saw it, a thoroughly sensible decision to call it was made.
After declining to 'hop in and check out the viz' for ourselves, I stowed our kit and surfed our way back to Hamriya. Once back to the club some decided on the relative safety of a brunch in Ajman while others stayed around for the largest Irish sports day on the Wandies calendar. We all know how that ends up.
So, we see what next weekend brings.
The 406 Exiles have gone into active mode and are planning a lunch in Wapping this coming Saturday 7th March. No doubt some photos will be forthcoming and I look forward to reading about Derek’s trip to Brighton, Halifax, Land’s End or wherever it is that he ends up this time.
Anyone out there who wants to join the 406 Exiles WhatsApp group, contact Derek.
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Ian Hussey and Dive Member Contributions.
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HOGARTH, William (1697--1764)
[Hogarth's works.]
[London]:, [1732--64].
[74] engr. pl. ; 58.2 cm. (2º).
A collection of Hogarth's engravings that was, according to a note in ink attached to the front free-endpaper ... Presented / by Mr Hogarth / to Doctr Shomberg, and acquired by Soane at the Revett sale (see below). Isaac Schomberg attended Garrick in his last illness. In the sale catalogue the volume is described in the title as 'Hogarth's Works, first impression of the Plates, a Presentation Copy; ...' but in the lot description merely as 'fine impressions of the plates'. Hogarth was issuing bound sets of his engravings as early as 1736, whether ad hoc or ready made up, and these continued to be issued by his widow after his death. The Soane volume (despite repairs to the binding shortly after purchase, see below) appears consistent with sets issued by Hogarth, with the larger engravings simply sewn together with protective sheets between to prevent offsetting, and the smaller ones mounted on binding leaves. See Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3rd rev. ed. (London 1989), pp. 18--20. Work remains to be done to identify the states of the impressions in the Soane volume, but the contents are listed in the binding order by their assigned pencil numbers and with their catalogue numbers in Ronald Paulson's catalogue raisonné in square brackets, as follows:
1 [204]: William Hogarth. 1764.
2-7 [121-126]: A Harlot's Progress
8-15 [132-139]: A Rake's Progress
16-21 [158-163]: Marriage-A-la-Mode
22-25 [146-149]: The Four Times of the Day
26 [127]: A Midnight Modern Conversation
27 [145]: The Distressed Poet
28 [152]: The Enraged Musician
29 [131]: Southwark Fair
30 [165]: David Garrick in the Character of Richard III
31 [180]: The Gate of Calais or The Roast Beef of Old England
32 [192/1]: Paul Before Felix (copy, engraved by Sullivan)
33 [192]: Paul Before Felix (dated February 1752)
34 [193]: Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter
35 [184]: The March to Finchley
36 [150]: Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn
37-40 [198-201]: An Election
41 [226]: Dr Benjamin Hoadly
42-53 [168-179]: Industry and Idleness
54 [214]: John Wilkes Esqr.
55 [166]: Simon Lord Lovat
56 [167]: The Stage-Coach
57 [191]: Paul Before Felix Burlesqued (fourth state)
58 [209]: The Five Orders of Periwigs
59 [205]: The Bench
60 [144]: The Company of Undertakers
61 [208]: Time Smoking a Picture
62 [211]: The Times Plate 1
63 [215]: The Bruiser
[blank leaf with traces of a detached plate, ca. 41.5 x 31.5 cm]
64 [185]: Gin Lane
65 [186]: Beer Street
66-69 [187-190]: The Four Stages of Cruelty
70-71 [202-203]: The Invasion
72 [206]: The Cockpit
73 [210]: Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism
74 [216]: Tail Piece/The Bathos
For further details see Ronald Paulson, op. cit. under the catalogue numbers. Soane's celebrated Picture Room at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields contains two of the three surviving series of paintings from which the engravings were made, those for 'A Rake's Progress' and 'An Election'; see Christina Scull, The Soane Hogarths (London 1991; 2nd rev. ed., 2007). Additionally, framed engravings of 'The Laughing Audience' and 'The Chorus' hang on the north wall of the Dressing Room.
Copy Notes Bought at Christie's Revett sale, 26 June 1804 (q.v.), lot 133 for £29 8s. Loosely inserted an 'Index' to the engravings prepared by W.L. Spiers, sixth curator of the Museum.
Binding Early C19th russia calf and maroon diced calf, gilt-ruled inner and outer borders, marbled-paper panels on the boards, gilt-ruled, gilt-lettered spine 'Hogarth's Works / 1764', marbled edges. Payment of £2 2s. to J. Wingrave for '1/2 Bd Russia Extra Joints &c', 28 August 1804. (Archives 7/3/23). Rebacked in 1903 by a bookbinder from Messrs. Fisher.
Reference Number 5595
Additional Names J.$Wingrave, bookbinder; Revett, Nicholas (1720--1804); Schomberg, Isaac (1714--1780)
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A Suitable Match, Serial Story Section 4 and a Chance to Win
To kick off our second year of celebrating Inspirational Regency fiction, we are presenting the serial story, A Suitable Match. At the end of the month we’ll be giving away a fabulous prize package filled with items tied to the story. For a chance to win, find the item mentioned in this section and leave a note in the comments. Details and a list of prizes can be found here.
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The George and Pelican Inn, somewhere between Somerset and London
Cressida was momentarily stunned. Lord Twiford was the only one who knew she was here. Had he decided to finally give her a piece of his mind? She rose and went to the door, opening it slowly with one hand, holding her night rail close to her neck with the other. She felt the pearl necklace she always wore there.
Her shock was palpable. “Chard!”
At the same time she heard him say, “Cressy!”
Why hadn’t Lord Twiford warned her that Lord Chard was included in his party? “I beg your pardon, Lord Chard. I am afraid in the surprise of seeing you my manners fled.” She bowed her head, feeling ridiculous, following drawing room protocol while in her night clothes in an inn. “I did not expect . . . know you were here.”
“What are you doing here, Miss Blackstone?” he asked, more reserved now.
“There was an accident with my carriage and Lord Twiford was kind enough to take us up and bring us here.” Funny, after missing Chard for so long, she could think of no other words to say.
What the devil was Cressida Blackstone doing at the George? He had rehearsed and rehearsed what he would say to her if he ever saw her again, yet here he stood dumbfounded. She was even more beautiful than he remembered. No! He would not think on that. She had ended their engagement without one thought for his feelings: he would not fall prey to her just because her beautiful hair hung loosely around her shoulders and she stood in a thin night rail ready for bed.
“Lord Chard, is there something that you wished to say to me?”
Indeed there was, but now was not the time. “I beg your pardon, Miss Blackstone, I thought this was Lord Twiford’s room.” Blast! but he was as nervous as a schoolboy.
“My lord, we left many things . . . unsaid when I . . . left London three years ago.” Her voice was small and questioning, the opposite of her normal confident air. “If you would give me a few moments to dress, perhaps we should talk.”
“I assure you, Miss Blackstone, we have said all we need ever say to each other.” He bowed and turned back toward the stairs. He skipped most of the steps in his hurry to get to their private drawing room downstairs. He fought hard against his instinct to turn back and see if she remained in the doorway. He needed to think.
He had needed to marry money, but he had not expected to fall in love with her. He knew she would have been given the cut direct by the highest sticklers of Society. But he believed when they saw her gentle kindness and ladylike manners, they would come around. He would not have thrown her to the wolves, even had he not fallen in love for the first time in his life.
But she left him; disappeared, leaving only a note saying she knew he would not want her without the dowry she was supposed to be bringing to the marriage. She had not cared enough to face him, to hear his views on the matter. And he thought he was over her; he told himself so often that he was.
But the shock at seeing her also affected his heart and he realized he was not over her at all.
He turned around at the sound of footsteps. “Twiford, what is the meaning of this? What is she doing here?”
“My, my, word travels fast. What was I to do, leave her on the side of the road with an overturned carriage and a wounded driver? She wishes to make her own plans from here. I asked her to join our party, as London is her direction, but she seems quite adamant about not going with me. I don’t think I made a good impression on the chit.”
“Stow it! You did nothing but malign her at every turn.” He thought he noted a bit of hesitation before Twiford had switched to irony. What was afoot? “Well, she should not hire a carriage and ride all of the way to London on her own. You will need to convince her.”
Twiford went to the table and poured himself a brandy and downed it in one swallow. “I must convince her?
“You know I cannot. She made her feelings for me quite clear when she left me in. . . London.” How fortunate he now remembered all of the things he wanted to say to her for breaking his heart. “What is she doing traveling to London alone in any event?”
“I have not come to any conclusions about that myself. She seems inordinately interested in the coachman who was driving her carriage. He was injured; mostly cuts and bruises and a wonderful lump on the side of his head. She needed to hear that he is now sleeping peacefully in the quarters over the stable. It did not seem to ease her mind.”
“Leave him or bring him, I care not, but we leave for London after breakfast and you make sure she is with us.” He stomped out of the room, hoping he hadn’t let the feelings he now knew were not gone show in his manner. What would he do?
After a fitful night’s sleep, Lord Chard prepared himself to be cool and distant to Cressy . . . Miss Blackstone during the drive. Indeed, he intended to ride next to the carriages so he would not be put in a situation where he must be in close confinement with her.
“Twiford, we must push on if we are to reach London today. Can you not hurry the party along?”
“Yes, I will tell Godfrey he must not worry about how his cravat looks, when we all know it takes him two to eight neckcloths each and every time he gets dressed.”
Chard was immune to his sarcasm.“What about the ladies?” He looked off in the distance, trying to be nonchalant. “Is Miss Blackstone convinced to go with us?”
“I have only now sent a servant up to her asking her to join us in the breakfast parlor. Perhaps between the two of us we can overpower her scruples.”
Lord Chard noticed the servant approaching, but placed no importance on it until he heard him mutter “Blackstone.”
The man bowed and stepped back from Miles in subservience.
“I am sorry, Chard, but the landlord informed my servant that the lady is gone.”
*Section 4 was written by Mary Moore, www.marymooreauthor.com *
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Eight For Omaha In 2019
By Teddy Cahill
Oregon State last week won its third national championship in program history, coming back in dramatic fashion to beat Arkansas in the College World Series finals. The Beavers didn’t make things easy in Omaha but in the end fulfilled their potential by pushing through the losers’ bracket to claim the title.
The 2018 NCAA Tournament had some real Cinderella stories as Stetson and Tennessee Tech reached super regionals for the first time in program history. But by the time it got to Omaha, the tournament had stripped away all the upstarts, leaving a field composed mostly of blue bloods.
At the conclusion of the finals every year, Baseball America looks ahead to the next year’s CWS. From our predictions at the end of 2017, we correctly picked five of the eight teams in the field, including the final two teams – Arkansas and Oregon State. Florida, the No. 1 national seed, was also correctly picked to reach Omaha, as well as North Carolina and Texas Tech, while Texas was listed among the projected super regional participants. But Mississippi State and Washington came from off the board to reach the CWS.
Still, making predictions a year in advance for any sport isn’t easy and college baseball presents its own unique challenges. The draft changes the complexion of teams every year and while many players have already signed, until the deadline passes on July 6, surprises can still dramatically alter the landscape. Even then, player development and injuries will continue to shape teams throughout the summer and fall.
All that means our preseason rankings in January will look a bit different from this far-too-early list. But it makes for a fun thought exercise as we ponder seven months without college baseball games that count.
At this point, Florida must be considered a national title contender until it proves otherwise. The Gators have a lot to replace, beginning with starters Brady Singer, the College Player of the Year, and Jackson Kowar, also a first-round pick. All-American third baseman Jonathan India, the fifth overall pick in the draft, and catcher J.J. Schwarz, a mainstay in the lineup for the last four years, will also move on to pro ball. But Florida still has loads of talent returning. Talented underclassmen pitchers Jordan Butler, Tyler Dyson, Jack Leftwich, Tommy Mace and Hunter Ruth will give coach Kevin O’Sullivan plenty of firepower on the mound, whether or not two-time All-American closer Michael Byrne returns for his senior year. The Gators will have a new-look offense but rising junior outfielders Wil Dalton and Austin Langworthy make for a good start and catcher/infielder Brady Smith broke out in the postseason. If DH Nelson Maldonado returns for his senior year and shortstop Brady McConnell can take a step forward in his sophomore year, the Gators can again be formidable offensively. All of that gives Florida a chance to be the first team to make it to Omaha five consecutive years since Stanford did so from 1999-2003.
The Seminoles this year had the talent to make a deep postseason run but instead crashed out of the NCAA Tournament after going 0-2 in a home regional. Following that loss, legendary coach Mike Martin announced that next year will be his final season before retiring. That gives the Seminoles one final chance to make a run at the national championship that has so long eluded the program. Florida State has some big pieces to replace, including All-American catcher Cal Raleigh and starters Andrew Karp and Cole Sands. But it returns toolsy third baseman Drew Mendoza, who has the potential to be one of the best players in the country, and a talented group of rising sophomores, which includes outfielder Reese Albert and righthander C.J. Van Eyk. Joining that group is shortstop Nander De Sedas, who figures to be one of the highest ranked position players to make it to campus. That core will again make the Seminoles one of the favorites in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Tigers this year took a step back after finishing as runners up in the 2017 CWS, but figure to bounce back strong in 2019. LSU had perhaps the best draft of any college program as it will return a trio of its top draft-eligible players – righthander Zack Hess and outfielders Antoine Duplantis and Zach Watson – and it shepherded another strong recruiting class to Baton Rouge. In addition, shortstop Josh Smith and righthander Eric Walker who both missed all or most of this year due to injuries are expected to return to action. With Hess, Walker and Ma’Khail Hilliard back in the rotation and Todd Peterson at the back of the bullpen, LSU will have an experienced pitching staff to go with a potent lineup. It still needs some arms to step up – Hess was inconsistent on Friday nights, Walker is coming back from Tommy John surgery and Hilliard is an unconventional SEC starter – but the pieces are there for coach Paul Mainieri to shape into a title contender.
The Tar Heels won the ACC regular season title and advanced to the CWS for the first time since 2013. And they did it with a team full of underclassmen. North Carolina gets back five regulars from its lineup and key pitchers such as Gianluca Dalatri, Austin Bergner, Tyler Baum, Josh Hiatt and Caden O’Brien. UNC does lose Cooper Criswell, who stepped up at the front of UNC’s rotation when Dalatri was out for much of the year due to injury, and leading hitter Kyle Datres. The Tar Heels need Baum and Bergner to take a step forward and for Dalatri to stay healthy. If they’re able to do that, UNC will have one of the best rotations in the country. The Tar Heels’ offense this spring wasn’t flashy and doesn’t figure to be next year either, but it averaged more than seven runs per game. That potent combination has the potential to next year carry UNC a long way.
In Dave Esquer’s first season back on The Farm, the Cardinal won the Pac-12 Conference and earned the No. 2 national seed. But the season came to a disappointing end when Stanford couldn’t get past Cal State Fullerton in the Stanford Regional. That ending will next season fuel the Cardinal, who must replace a few key pieces, but otherwise return the bulk of this season’s team. The losses are not insignificant – starting pitchers Tristan Beck and Kris Bubic and shortstop Nico Hoerner leave a big hole – but they are few in number. Stanford has a strong core back on the mound in All-American closer Jack Little, setup man Jacob Palisch and starters Brendan Beck and Erik Miller. The Cardinal’s emphasis on pitching and defense means its offense never has to carry the load, but it will need a couple more hitters to step up and join leading returners Andrew Dashbach and Tim Tawa. If that happens, Stanford can make a run at repeating as conference champion for the first time in 15 years.
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The Big 12 Conference next year looks to be the most wide open of the six biggest conferences but no matter what team rises to the top, it figures to be Omaha caliber. Texas Tech gets the nod here thanks to its experience (three CWS trips in five years) and its returning offense, anchored by All-American third baseman Josh Jung and leadoff hitter Gabe Holt. Texas Tech’s pitching is a little more unsettled, however. Seven Red Raiders pitchers were drafted last month and four are definitely headed for pro ball. Hanging on to the unsigned trio of Ty Harpenau, Caleb Killian and Davis Martin would be significant for Texas Tech, which also returns power-armed John McMillon. Texas Tech will also welcome another strong recruiting class to Lubbock. If Tim Tadlock can put the pieces together, the Red Raiders will again be formidable.
The Bruins this year fielded a team largely composed of exciting underclassmen who should make for an imposing group in 2019. Rising juniors Chase Strumpf, Michael Toglia and Jeremy Ydens form a strong offensive core and a healthy season from Garrett Mitchell would add another dynamic player to the lineup. John Savage never seems to run out of pitching, but the staff enters next year with more questions marks than the lineup. Zach Pettway is coming off an excellent freshman season and Ryan Garcia stepped up to join the rotation, but they will need help. Justin Hooper and Kyle Molnar are both coming off Tommy John surgery and would be key additions if they can recapture their previous forms. Oregon State, typically a pitching heavy team, this year showed a path through the Pac-12 to the national title led by its bats instead of its arms. Maybe UCLA can replicate that success in 2019.
The Commodores this year had the look of a team one year away and nearly made it to Omaha anyway. Their biggest piece to replace is shortstop Connor Kaiser and they’re on track for another elite recruiting class, headlined by righthander Kumar Rocker, who will be the highest ranked player in this year’s draft class not to sign. Vanderbilt figures to return every starter except Kaiser and seven of the 10 pitchers who threw at least 20 innings. Key among the returners are outfielders J.J. Bleday and Austin Martin and starting pitchers Drake Fellows and Patrick Raby. Sorting out the bullpen will be a priority as the Commodores this spring never settled on a closer and lost two of their top relievers to the draft. But with so much talent returning and arriving in Nashville, Tim Corbin will have plenty of options to work through during the season. Whatever lineup and pitching plan he settles on figures to be one of the most talented in the nation.
Eight more for super regionals: Baylor, East Carolina, Georgia, Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi State, Oregon State, UC Irvine.
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Spokane residents hold anti-fluoride rally as city council voting date approaches
Source: FOX28 Spokane | September 3rd, 2020
Location: United States, Washington State
City council members will vote on adding fluoride to Spokane’s water in less than two weeks. That ticking clock is encouraging people to make their voices heard.
On Thursday, a group of people gathered in Riverfront Park for an anti-fluoride rally. Organizer Stefanie Howerton told KHQ they understand wanting to help the city’s collective health, but “we just feel that any prescription can’t be a one size fits all.”
Spokane City Council member Michael Cathcart met with the group and said he wants to get as much feedback as possible before the council vote. He’s still trying to determine if putting fluoride in the water is a safe option for Spokane.
“I’ve been looking at all kinds of studies. I’ll tell you, what’s frustrating to me is for every study that says it’s good, I find another one, from a reputable source, that says there are questions or perhaps it even is bad for some demographics and some populations,” Cathcart said.
He’s in good company when it comes to researching the issue.
Council member Kate Burke sent KHQ a statement saying, “I want kids and our community members to have healthy teeth. I am just still looking into the facts and data about putting it into our water stream and if this should be a vote of the people or council.”
Council member Lori Kinnear told KHQ in an email that she’s “still gathering information to make an informed decision.”
Some members already know exactly how they’ll vote. Council president Breean Beggs and council member Betsy Wilkerson said they’ll say yes because they see fluoridating the water as an investment in the future.
“Yes, I support it, because we’re not there yet for our entire community,” Wilkerson said. “For the folks who have dental care, they have good universal health care, they’ve been privileged. Yes, it’s working for them, but it’s not working for the rest of our community.
Council members said the water fluoridation vote is part of an emergency ordinance that will require five votes to pass and can’t be vetoed by the mayor. Council will vote on the issue on September 14.
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The coronavirus pandemic is having profound effects on Australian families, communities, businesses, the financial markets and the global economy.
APRA update - 4th May 2020
APRA has revealed key data on the early super release scheme and vowed to take action on funds that don’t toe the line.
Super trustees have received 665,310 applications for early release, with 162, 879 of those processed and paid out for a total of $1.3 billion. The average benefit paid was $8002.
Over 100 funds have paid out early super, with payments taking an average of 1.6 days to complete. The data is taken from the first week of the program.
“Although this publication only covers the first week of a scheme that will run for several months, the initial data indicates trustees are moving quickly to make payments after receiving determinations from the ATO,” said APRA Deputy Chair Helen Rowell.
“APRA is closely monitoring trustee performance in this area and will consider taking appropriate action if evidence emerges of funds not releasing benefits to eligible members as soon as practicable.”
As of last week, there had been 527,000 claims totalling $4.4 billion.
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Many people have lost their jobs and there is much uncertainty around the depth and duration of the current crisis. Governments and policymakers across the globe have announced unprecedented fiscal and monetary packages to provide some offset to the downturn.
The Australian Federal Parliament has approved the JobKeeper payments ($1500 per fortnight), boosted JobSeeker payments up to $1100 per fortnight, and allowed the unemployed and people whose hours have been cut by 20 per cent to dip into their retirement savings to help them weather the coronavirus crisis.
People will be able to apply online through the myGov web site to access up to $10,000 of their super, tax free, before 1 July 2020, and then another $10,000 after the new financial year begins, also tax free.
While some will have to access these funds to make ends meet, others may have a choice. Should they or should they not use the early access to superannuation?
How early withdrawals add up
Withdrawing superannuation funds now means an investor selling part of their portfolio in a depressed market, crystallising current losses and giving up the benefits of eventual recovery in investment markets. It will also erode the investor's retirement wealth by forgoing future compound interest.
Consider the impact that an early withdrawal could have on an investor's superannuation balance. The calculations below are for a balanced multi-asset managed fund containing a mix of equities and fixed income, with an average net return of 6 per cent per annum.
For an investor who has 20 years until retirement, the value of a $10,000 withdrawal is estimated to be worth $32,100 at retirement. Over the course of 40 years, the impact of the $10,000 withdrawal on the retirement savings climbs to $102,900, while a $20,000 withdrawal means an investor would have $205,700 less at their disposal. For this investor who chose to withdraw funds right now, it could mean delaying retirement for a number of years.
Comparing potential withdrawal impacts at different ages
Investor's current age Years to retirement Value of $10,000 at retirement Value of $20,000 at retirement
67 0 $10,000 $20,000
57 10 $17,908 $35,817
37 30 $57,435 $114,870
27 40 $102,857 $205,714
Source: Vanguard calculations
Notes: This is a hypothetical scenario for illustrative purposes only. All values are nominal.
Global evidence supports the importance of disciplined saving for retirement outcomes.
In 2018, the World Economic Forum named low levels of savings by individuals amongst the six key challenges facing the retirement system worldwide. Many people delay retirement savings until they are in their 40s or 50s. This is not unusual as at each life stage, more immediate financial priorities come first – for instance, saving a deposit to buy a home, paying down a mortgage or investing in kids' education. In addition, more often than not, savings intended for retirement do not last until retirement; sometimes they are drawn for medical emergencies or critical housing repairs, or during periods of unemployment.
As Australians live longer and spend more time in retirement, we require higher levels of savings to sustain our longer lifetimes and adequate lifestyles. The World Economic Forum estimates that combining auto-enrolment to superannuation, increasing savings over time and avoiding dipping into the superannuation savings prior to retirement is expected to increase wealth at retirement by 70 per cent.
Many people are currently doing it tough and will need to rely on the early access to superannuation as they do not have other means to support their families. For investors who have a choice, taking a long term perspective may prove to be beneficial. We recommend investors seek financial advice and explore other ways of obtaining financial assistance first.
Vanguard founder Jack Bogle famously said: "The courage to press on – regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us – is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor."
Historically bull markets last substantially longer than bear markets, and this downturn will eventually be over.
The best thing investors can do is to stick to their investment principles and philosophy, and "stay the course" to have the best chance for investment success.
Inna Zorina
Senior Investment Strategist
Investment Strategy Group
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Biotransformation of 3-hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone into 3,8 dihydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone and aminoacyl conjugates by Aspergillus niger isolated from native shilajit | Islam | Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
Full Text - Biotransformation of 3-hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone into 3,8 dihydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone and aminoacyl conjugates by Aspergillus niger isolated from native“shilajit”
Microbial Biotechnology
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology ISSN: 0717-3458 Vol. 11 No. 3, Issue of July 15, 2008
© 2008 by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso -- Chile Received June 7, 2007 / Accepted May 22, 2008
DOI: 10.2225/vol11-issue3-fulltext-10
Biotransformation of 3-hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone into 3,8 dihydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone and aminoacyl conjugates by Aspergillus niger isolated from native“shilajit”
Aminul Islam
Research and Development Centre
Natreon Inc.
Cl-18A, Sector -ІІ, Salt Lake City
Kolkata 700091, India
E-mail: natr1910@dataone.in
Runa Ghosh*
Dipankar Banerjee
Cl-18A, Sector –ІІ, Salt Lake City
Piali Nath
Upal Kanti Mazumder
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
Jadvapur University
Kolkata-700032, India
E-mail: mazumderu@yahoo.co.in
Shibnath Ghosal#
E-mail: natr1910@dataone.in; vishnu20024@rediffmail.com
Financial support: Natreon Inc, USA.
Keywords: Coenzyme Q10 reduction, electron transport chain humification, paleohumus.
#Present address: Research Adviser, R&D Centre, Indian Herbs Ltd. Saharanpur-247001 (U.P), India.
3,8(OH)2-DBP: 3,8 Dihydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone
3-OH-DBP: 3-Hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone
AUC: area under the curve
BSFTA: N, O-bis (Trimehylysislyl)-triflouro-acetamide
CD: Czapek Dox
DBPs: dibenzo-α-pyrones
FM: fermentation medium
GC-MS: gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
HPFC: high performance flash chromatography
HPLC: high performance liquid chromatography
TMS: trimethylsilyl
“Shilajit” is a panacea in Ayurveda, the Indian traditional system of medicine. The major bioactives of “shilajit” have been identified as dibenzo-α-pyrones (DBPs), its oligomers and aminoacyl conjugated derivatives. These bioactive compounds play a crucial role in energy metabolism in all animal cells including those of man. 3-hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone (3-OH-DBP), a key DBP component of “shilajit” is converted, among other products, to another active DBP derivative, viz. 3,8-hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone, 3,8(OH)2-DBP, in vivo, when its precursor is ingested. 3,8(OH)2-DBP is then involved in energy synthesis in the mitochondria in the reduction and stabilization of coenzyme Q10 in the electron transport chain. As the chemical synthesis of 3,8(OH)2-DBP is a complex, multi-step process and economically not readily viable, we envisioned the development of a process using microorganisms for bioconversion of 3-OH-DBP to 3,8(OH)2-DBP. In this study, the biotransformation of 3-OH-DBP is achieved using Aspergillus niger, which was involved in the humification process on sedimentary rocks leading to “shilajit” formation. A 60% bioconversion of 3-OH-DBP to 3,8(OH)2-DBP and to its aminoacyl derivatives was achieved. The products were characterized and estimated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), high performance flash chromatography (HPFC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses. Among the Aspergillus species isolated and identified from native “shilajit”, A. niger was found to be the most efficient for this bioconversion.
“Shilajit”, a panacea of oriental medicine, is an organic exudation, comprising humic substances, from steep rocks (1200-5000 m) of different formations found throughout the world (Phillips, 1997; Ghosal, 2002). “Shilajit” is used as a rasayana (rejuvenator) in Ayurveda (Tiwari et al. 2001) to arrest aging and for augmenting energy synthesis. “Shilajit” constitutes fresh and modified remnants of rock humus admixed with rock minerals (Ghosal et al. 1997) and other organic substances occurring in the “shilajit” bearing rock rhizospheres. On interaction with microorganisms, isolated from the “shilajit” surface and by geochemical and geothermal reactions the organic ingredients of sedimentary rocks are transformed into humic substances (Ghosal, 2006). The major fungi isolated from the “shilajit” (paleohumus) rhizosphere are Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus ochraceus, Aspergillus ydowii, Aspergillus usfres, Fusarium moniliformae and Trichotehecium roseum. Among these fungi, the percent incidence and intensity of the fungus Aspergillus niger is the maximum in “shilajit” (Ghosal, 2006).
Biochemical transformation of phenolic organic compounds to generate new compounds by specific type of fungus and bacteria (e.g. Aspergillus niger, Fusarium moniliforme, Thiobacillus sp.) is known in literature (Roberts et al. 1995). The chemical process involves oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis and/or conjugation (Holland, 1998; Lima et al. 2006). Microbial transformation for synthesis of new therapeutic agents is now an emerging subject also in pharmaceutical industry (Wackett and Hershberger, 2001).
The central bioactive compounds of “shilajit” are 3-hydroxy-dibenzo-α-pyrone, 3,8-dihydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone and their aminoacyl conjugates which constitute the core nucleus of “shilajit” (rock)-humus-paleohumus. The biological effects (immunomodulatory and adaptogenic) of “shilajit” are believed to be due to these two distinct bioactive compounds (Ghosal et al. 1989; Ghosal, 2002). One of the chemical sequences for eliciting such biological effects involves transformation of 3-OH-DBP into 3,8(OH)2-DBP and their aminoacyl conjugates. 3,8(OH)2-DBP is involved in energy synthesis in the mitochondria of animals by stabilizing and facilitating the function of Coenzyme Q10 (Ghosal, 2006). However, synthesis of 3,8(OH)2-DBP is quite an involving process (Ghosal et al. 1989). Conceivably, the use of microorganisms constitutes an interesting alternative to study this type of transformation. Additionally, microbial oxidations have advantages over classical organic synthetic procedures (Schmid et al. 2001; Boaventura et al. 2004), since they are carried out in environment friendly and mild conditions and use biodegradable reagents and they are generally stereo-and regio- selective (Venisetty and Ciddi, 2003; de Carvalho and da Fonseca, 2006).
In this study, 3-OH-DBP has been converted into 3,8(OH)2-DBP and its aminoacyl conjugates by use of A. niger occurring in “shilajit” bearing rhizosphere by fermentation process. The details of the chemistry and mechanism of transformation constitute the subject of this paper.
3-OH-DBP was prepared synthetically in the laboratory and was >95% pure (Ghosal et al. 1989) (λmax 209.7, 275.7, 300.6, 336.3 nm). Reagents for preparation of the fermentation medium were of analytical reagent grade procured from SRL, India. The water used throughout the study was purified with a Millipore system (Millipore, Bedford, USA). Acetonitrile and o-phosphoric acid were of HPLC grade obtained from E-Merck, India. All solvents used for HPFC were of GR grade and purchased from Merck, India.
The silylating reagent for GC-MS analysis, BSFTA was procured from Pierce, USA; Cat. No.38830.
Fungal strain
A native Aspergillus niger strain was isolated from crude “shilajit” collected from the Kumaon regions of the Himalayas. It was identified by Microbiology Department, Calcutta University. It was subcultured in Czapek Dox (CD) agar medium and maintained at 29 ± 5ºC. This parent strain was preserved in our microbial collection at -4ºC.
Biotransformations
Biotransformation of a synthetic 3-OH-DBP (>95% pure, Ghosal et al. 1989) was carried out by fermentation by adopting the following optimized conditions.
Conditions adopted for biotransformation. The following conditions of biotransformation were found to be suitable, by trial and error, for optimum production of the products.
Aspergillus niger strain was cultured in CD agar medium and incubated for 5 days at 29-30ºC. The cells were washed with 5.0 ml sterilized distilled water and 2.0 ml of the spore suspension containing 1 x 109 spores/ml was used to inoculate the fermentation medium for biotransformation. The fermentation medium with the following composition: KH2PO4, 0.01%, MgSO4.7H2O, 0.01%, KCl 0.01%; NaNO3 0.05% and trace quantity of FeSO4.7H2O in 100 ml of double distilled de-ionized water, pH 5.0 was sterilized in Erlenmeyer flasks in an autoclave. 0.1 mg/ml of synthetic 3-OH-DBP (total 10 mg/100 ml of the fermentation medium (FM)) was added to these flasks. These were incubated at 30ºC in a Biological oxygen demand incubator for 7 days and the products of biotransformation were analyzed.
In another set of fermentation experiments, a low concentration of 3-OH-DBP (0.001 mg/ml~0.1 mg / 100 ml of FM) was added to the FM. Cell growth and products formed were analyzed.
Cell growth in the fermentation media was determined by estimating the dry cell weight after the fermentation period of 7 days. The culture broth was filtered (Whatman 1) and the mycelial mat was added to pre-weighed aluminium foils and dried overnight at 100ºC. The difference in initial and final weights gave the dry weights of the mycelium. Experiments were performed in triplicates.
Isolation of transformed metabolites. The mycelia were separated from the FM after 7 days of fermentation. The cells were washed with distilled water and then dried in hot air oven and powdered by a homogenizer. Thereafter, the mycelia were extracted with ethyl acetate. The marc was again suspended in bligh and dyer solvent (CHCl3- MeOH- H2O, 1:2:0.8, v/v/v) and disintegrated by an ultrasonicator. The suspensions were centrifuged for 10 min at 5000 rpm. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate, filtered and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The residue was dissolved in methanol. The chemical metabolites present in the methanolic extracts were characterized and detected initially by HPLC (Hawari et al. 1998). For further separation and for obtaining pure end-products and the residual substrate (if any), the extracts were subjected to HPFC. Each of the fractions thus obtained, were analyzed by HPLC for identification of the desired products and the residual substrate, by comparing with authentic standards. To determine the amounts of generated products and the residual substrate the peak areas obtained from the HPLC chromatogram were plotted in standard curves of these products. For reconfirmation of the end-products and the residual substrate, the pure HPFC fractions were further analyzed by GC-MS as trimethylsilyl (TMS) derivatives.
The FM after 7 days of fermentation was separately extracted with ethyl acetate and the extract was dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate. The solvent was removed and the residue was reconstituted in methanol for HPLC, HPFC and GC-MS analyses as before.
To detect the presence of amino acids, the end-products were subjected to acid hydrolysis with 0.2 (N) HCl, and the hydrolysate was subjected to TLC followed by spraying with ninhydrin reagent for detection and identification of amino-acids.
All operations were performed in triplicates.
Isolation, characterization and quantitation of obtained products. HPLC was carried out in a WATERS HPLC system with PDA detector and isocratic mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile- ortho-phosphoric acid- water (32:1:67) with a flow rate of 0.6 ml/min using a C18 Novapak reverse-phase column attached with a guard column for separation. The injection volume was 20 µl in water. The photodiode array detector wavelength was set 240 nm.
The end products were further purified using HPFC Model SP1 (Biotage, Sweden), equipped with normal phase cartridge silica column (Flash 12+M). Mobile phase used was A) chloroform and B) methanol with a gradient run 0-100% B in 66 min. Flow rate was 5 ml/min. Collection and monitor wavelength was 240 and 305 nm respectively. All 55 fractions were collected and analyzed by HPLC for search of pure compounds.
Quantitative determination of the end-products and unreacted 3-OH-DBP was done by comparing the area under the curve (AUC) values of the end-products with the AUC values obtained from standard curve of the components determined in the HPLC chromatogram. The regression equation of 3-OH- DBP is Y = 6470.60X + 11379 (R2 = 0.9972) and of 3,8-(OH)2-DBP is Y = 5281X + 2958.6 (R2 = 0.9998).
GC-MS was carried out on a Varian GC-MS, Model: Saturn 2200, GC 3800; equipped with a VF-5 ms column (5% phenyl)- methyl polysiloxane (30 m x 0.25 mm i.d.). Carrier gas used was ultra pure helium with constant flow rate: 1.2 ml / min. The GC oven temperature was programmed as follows: first step: initial temperature was 75ºC and hold time for 3 min; second step: final temperature was 130ºC with an increment of 10ºC/min and hold time for 1 min; third step: final temperature was 200ºC with an increment of 12ºC/min and hold time for 3 min; fourth step: final temperature was 260ºC with an increment of 15ºC/min and hold time for 5 min; fifth step: final temperature was 280ºC with an increment of 20ºC/min and hold time for 5 min. The injection port (No. 1079) temperature was kept at 260ºC. The samples were injected using split ratio 1:20. The transfer line temperature was 260ºC and the injection volume was 0.5 µL. The conditions for Mass Spectrometer were as follows: Mass range was 50-650. Ionization potential: 70 eV. Emission current: 10 micro amps. Ion trap temperature: 180ºC. Manifold temperature: 40ºC. Background mass: 45 m/z. RF dump value: 650 m/z.
The samples were derivatized by reaction with N, O-bis (Trimehylysislyl)-triflouro-acetamide at 70ºC for 30 min to form TMS derivatives (Yu et al. 1998; Nam et al. 2006).
All the analytical data of GC-MS analysis were based on Varian MS workstation software.
The HPLC chromatogram of the extractives of the mycelia and FM (when pooled together, since their analytical profiles were similar) showed the presence of polar metabolites which were identified as 3,8(OH)2-DBP (tR 4.684 min; λmax 219.1, 237.9, 280.4, 305.4, 355.4 nm) and its 3-O-aminoacylconjugates (tR 3.53 min; λmax 205, 245.5, 290.5, 335 nm, tR at 3.81 min λmax at 221.5, 255.8, 293.0 nm) and also some unreacted 3-OH-DBP (tR 11.41 min; λmax 209.7, 275.7, 300.6, 336.3 nm). The PDA spectrum of the product 3,8(OH)2-DBP was also identical with that of standard 3,8(OH)2-DBP. The products in the tR regions 3.5 and 3.8 min, were the 3-O-aminoacylconjugates of 3,8-(OH)2-DBP. On subsequent acid hydrolysis of these products, two amino acids viz. glycine and arginine were detected. The unreacted 3-OH-DBP which was detected in the extractives after biotransformation had a spectrum indistinguishable from that of standard 3-OH-DBP.
When the organic solvent extractives of mycelia, after biotransformation, were separated by HPFC (Figure 1) and further analyzed by HPLC (Figure 2 and Figure 3), fractions 6-7 of HPFC were identified to be pure 3-OH-DBP (Figure 2) and fractions 18-19 and 23-24 of HPFC when pooled together were identified to be pure 3,8(OH)2-DBP (tR: 4.37 min) and its aminoacyl conjugates (tR: 3.53 min) (Figure 3). For determination of the amounts of the products, the total areas obtained from the HPLCs were plotted in the standard curves of these compounds.
The amount of unreacted 3-OH-DBP present in the mycelial extract and FM was determined to be 3.6 mg. The amounts of 3,8(OH)2-DBP and its aminoacyl conjugates were determined to be 4.9 mg and 0.85 mg respectively. Thus, the percentage of conversion of 3-OH-DBP to its derivatives, viz. 3,8(OH)2-DBP and its 3-O-aminoacylconjugates, was observed to be about 60% after following the abovementioned optimized biotransformation conditions and using 0.1 mg/ml of 3-OH-DBP as the substrate in each unit operation.
No metabolite of DBP was detected in the blank culture control after 7 days of incubation, which proves that Aspergillus niger by itself does not have the ability to synthesize DBP.
To confirm the structures of the above mentioned compounds, the end- products were analyzed by GC-MS using corresponding compounds as synthetic markers (Figure 4, Figure 5 and Figure 6). The gas chromatogram of the reaction products showed residual 3-OH-DBP (1), as its silyl derivative, at tR 15.860 min with m/z values of 284(M+) and fragment ion peaks at 269(M-CH3)+, 241[M- (CH3+CO)]+ and the desired 3,8(OH)2-DBP, as its silyl derivative (2), at tR 19.615 with m/z values of 372(M+) and fragment ion peaks at 357(M-CH3)+, 329[M- (CH3+CO)]+.
3-O-Glycyl-8-hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone (HPLC:tR 3.8 min) (6), as TMS derivative, was subjected to EI-MS analysis. The mass spectrum showed molecular-ion (M+) peak at m/z 429 and fragment ion peaks at m/z 299 (due to 3-O·-8-O-trimethylsilyl dibenzo-α-pyrone moiety) and at m/z 130 (trimethylsilyl glycyl moiety). On mild acid hydrolysis (dil. HCl), the aminoacyl dibenzo-α-pyrone produced 3,8-(OH)2-DBP and glycine (co-TLC, HPTLC using authentic markers).
3-O-Arginyl-8- hydroxydibenzo-α-pyrone (HPLC: tR 3.35 min) as TMS derivative, was subjected to EI-MS analysis. The compound fragmented before exhibiting any molecular ion peak (M+). The fragment-ions showed the presence of 3-O·-8-O trimethylsilyl dibenzo-α-pyrone, m/z 299. On mild acidic hydrolysis the aminoacyl compound produced arginine and 3,8-(OH)2-DBP. The identities of these products were established by (co-TLC, HPTLC) using markers (Ghosal, 2006).
On analyses of the dry weight of the mycelium after 7 days of fermentation with 3-OH-DBP (0.1 mg/ml) as the substrate, it was observed that the dry cell weight was less than that of the blank culture control. 3-OH-DBP in this concentration seems to thwart the growth of the microorganism. This postulate finds support from the fact that the microorganisms found in the “shilajit” rhizosphere are present only at the periphery and not in the core of the “shilajit” exudates (Ghosal, 2006). However, in fermentation experiments with low DBP concentration (0.001 mg/ml), the cell growth was even higher than that of the blank operation. At low concentration, “shilajit” conceivably acts as a nutrient to microorganisms and, as expected, in fermentation experiments with this low concentration of DBP, the yield of the desired end-product was poor.
Most of the filamentous fungi possess machinery for biotransformation (metabolism) of substances toxic to their physiology (Makovec and Breskvar, 2002). It was shown in earlier reports, that the enzymatic mechanisms involved in biotransformation by fungi include oxidation (Lacki and Duvnjak, 1998; Santos et al. 2003), reduction or hydrolysis; formation of conjugates with products of intermediary metabolism such as acetic acid, cysteine, glucuronic acid, glycine and ornithine (Carey et al. 2006). These mechanisms are two-phased, Phase I - metabolism (e.g. cytochrome-P-450 reductase and epoxide hydrolase), which primarily act by hydroxylation (Uzura et al. 2001), and Phase II - conjugation (e.g. Glutathione-S transferase, UDP-glucuronosyl transferase and UDP glycosyl transferase), which form conjugates with compounds like glucuronic acid, glutathione and amino acids (Bezalel et al. 1997).
Based on these observations, a probable mechanism of biotransformation of 3-OH-DBP by Aspergillus niger into 3,8(OH)2DBP and 3-O-glycyl-8-hydroxy- DBP is envisaged (Figure 7). In the first phase of the reaction, Aspergillus niger generates hydroxyl radicals which attack the hydroxyl group at C-3 position of 3-OH-DBP (1) and causes abstraction of H· leading to the formation of a semiquinone radical (2) which is resonance stabilized with 3(2↔3). Attack by ·OH radical, generated by Aspergillus niger, at the C-8 site of DBP forms (4). Rearrangement of (4) leads to formation of 3,8 (OH)2-DBP (5) which is then transformed by aminoacylation, e.g. with glycine, to produce3-O-glycyl-8- hydroxy- DBP (6) which is more water soluble. The nutrient when provided in homogenous phase would be readily bioavailable than when present in a heterogeneous form of mixture (solid-liquid).
The optimized conversion of 3-OH-DBP into another highly bioactive form 3,8(OH)2-DBP is a novel reaction catalyzed by the filamentous fungi Aspergillus niger. The DBP-converting factor is perhaps a metabolism related enzyme which by oxidation forms 3,8(OH)2-DBP; which acts as a substrate for further enzymatic reactions like conjugation with amino acids to form aminoacyl conjugates and render these compounds more water-soluble and hence more bioavailable. In certain cases, these mechanisms are operative in the fungi not only to detoxify the toxic substance, but also to make them beneficial for the organism (Venisetty and Ciddi, 2003).
These DBPs are essential for the therapeutic activity of “shilajit”. In summary, it can be stated that the mechanism by which dibenzo-α-pyrones are produced in “shilajit”, can be simulated in situ using Aspergillus niger. In view of this, scaling up of the operation was also carried out when up to 1 g of substrate material produced desired results. Further scaling-up of this process is in progress.
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Caltrans is considering a plan to close part of Highway 50 to repair a bridge over Echo Summit, which leads to South Lake Tahoe. “The original bridge was built in 1939,” said Steve Nelson with Caltrans. “In order to finish the project we’re going to shut down Highway 50 for up to 14 days and we’re looking to do that in mid-October.”.
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Romania vs. Albania some facts about
Romanians did not against Albania in 13 last matches and complete head-to-head record (1946-2014) is 11 wins,3 draw,2 lost. Two lost games were more 68 and 70 years ago (Balkan cup).
In 16 head-to-head matches between them,Albania never scored more than one goal.
In their three last games there were no more than two goals 0:1,1:1,1:1.
Romania has appeared at five EURO championships,their best performance was on EURO 2000 where they have played quarter-finals vs. Italy.
Romanian national team won only once in 15 games they have played on final European championship tournaments (3:2 win against england in EURO 2000)
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Theory of instinct – day 1875
By somaayabhawana15 September, 2020Uncategorized
The director was so impressed that he confirmed Raakhee for the role on the spot. Shashi Kapoor was roped in for a guest appearance as Raakhee and his resemblance with his nephew was a requirement of the story.
Doosra Aadmi addressed multiple social and psychological issues like marriage, adultery, working woman, single woman, single man, professional etiquette, mental health issues like neglect, depression and loneliness.
The film received rave reviews but did not fare well at the box-office, partly because the subject was volatile and partly, because Raakhe (matriarch of Tapasya) was unacceptable as a home breaker by her fans. And which brings me back to Raj Kapoor’s theory of instinct and I wonder if the fate of Doosra Aadmi would have been different had Ramesh Talwar signed Sharmila Tagore in the role of an eccentric copywriter?
The answer is probably yes and probably no but the response would have been certainly different had Ramesh Talwar had heeded to his producer’s advice and changed the climax, he didn’t.
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Tips From Best-selling Indie Authors Bob Mayer and Jen Talty – Indiechat 8/13 at 9pm EDT!
August 8th, 2013 by BiblioCrunch
Every week we host #indiechat. We invite industry experts and authors to discuss and share tips on the indie and publishing landscape. #Indiechat is held every Tuesday at 9pm EST. You can check out our previous chat logs on BiblioCrunch Storify.
This week on #indiechat Kate Tilton (@K8Tilton) will be hosting from the BiblioCrunch twitter account (@BiblioCrunch) and Miral Sattar (@miralsattar) will be signed on with guests Bob Mayer (@Bob_Mayer) and Jen Talty (@JenTalty). Bob and Jen will be giving tips on building a successful indie empire.
About Bob Mayer
West Point Graduate, former Green Beret and NY Times bestselling author of factual fiction Bob Mayer has had over 50 books published. He has sold over five million books, and is in demand as a team-building, life-changing, and leadership speaker and consultant for his Who Dares Wins concept. Bob has presented for over a thousand organizations both in the United States and internationally, including keynote presentations, all day workshops, and multi-day seminars. He has taught organizations ranging from Maui Writers, to Whidbey Island Writers, to San Diego State University, to the University of Georgia, to the Romance Writers of America National Convention, to Boston SWAT, the CIA, Fortune-500, the Royal Danish Navy Frogman Corps, Microsoft, Rotary, IT Teams in Silicon Valley and many others. He has also served as a Visiting Writer for NILA MFA program in Creative Writing. He has done interviews for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, PBS, NPR, the Discovery Channel, the SyFy channel and local cable shows. For more information see http://bobmayer.org.
About Jen Talty
Jen Talty co-created Cool Gus Publishing with NY Times Best-Selling Author Bob Mayer, and runs the technical side of the company.
Jen received a BS degree in Business Education with a concentration in Marketing and Sales from Nazareth College of Rochester. She taught Business Applications at both the high school level and in Continuing Education. After leaving the teaching profession, she worked as a product and sales trainer for various hardware and software companies such as 3Comm, HP and McAfee, and was the regional merchandising representative for Buena Vista Entertainment. She freelanced as a tech writer and also as a marketing and branding specialist for various authors.
About Cool Gus Publishing
Cool Gus Publishing is one of the most successful author-generated publishing partnerships with sales ranking in the top 1%, and numerous titles selling into the top 100 in their genres on Kindle, PubIt and other e-book platforms, including a #2 National Bestseller on BarnesandNoble.com and two separate #1 science fiction bestsellers on both US and UK Kindle. Cool Gus Publishing was originally created by Bob Mayer and Jen Talty as a platform to reissue his extensive backlist. With the great success they had with the re-publication of books like the Atlantis Series and The Green Beret Series, Cool Gus opened its doors to other authors and their backlist and frontlist. We have also launched a Write It Forward series dedicated to helping authors achieve their dreams. Our latest partnership is with NY Times Bestselling Romance Author Jennifer Probst. The Posse Series will be launched in early 2014.
We are looking to partner with a few published authors who wish to experience the highest royalty rates, along with the extensive freedom and control of “self-publishing” as a hybrid author, a term Bob coined in June 2011. Authors gain the advantage of our years of experience and our focus on making the author’s career the priority and using the tools and tactics available to also support their traditional publishing careers. If you are interested, please contact Bob and Jen at bobandjen@coolgus.com. It is a great time to be an author!
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What You Need to Effectively Cross-Examine Vocational Experts
We talked about Biestek v. Berryhill, 139 S. Ct. 1148 (2019) last week. The question is how to create conflict. It starts with basic curiosity. "How do you know that?" "How does that work?" Once the curiosity takes root, we begin to use the data sources available to disassemble the vocational expert's testimony; we begin to understand. Here's is what a representative handling Social Security disability cases needs to be minimally ready to follow along with the vocational expert's testimony on cross-examination:
Access to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles;
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Access to the County Business Patterns; and
Access to the Occupational Requirements Survey.
Those 11 sources form the foundation of the statistics that most vocational experts do not grasp. They cite to the Bureau of Labor Statistics without understanding or knowing that a difference exists between the OES and the EP. But we have to know the differences exist and the significance of those differences. Vocational experts cite to the DOT/SCO, act as if it is controlling, and then deviate unknowingly. We have to know when they deviate and when that deviation matters.
For items 1-3, the U.S. Publishing provides the data in the Specific Occupation Selector. USP uses current population surveys for job numbers. USP uses equal distribution to estimate job numbers for occupational groups, SOC codes.
For items 1-4, WestLaw provides the data in a single page report by DOT code. WestLaw does not provide job numbers or access to job numbers, correlation with the O*NET, OOH, OES, EP, CBP, or the ORS.
For items 1-4 and 9, Job Browser Pro provides access to the data. JBP integrates the OES with industry designations found in the EP and the CBP. JBP hyperlinks to the O*NET. JBP lists data from out-of-date versions of the OOH. JBP uses an intersection of occupational group and industry to estimate job numbers at the intersection and then equal distribution within that intersection of SOC and NAICS codes.
For items 1-8 and 11, OccuCollect provides the data. OccuCollect does not provide data for the OES (coming later this year) or integrate CBP. The focus is on the incidence of work across the occupational group using a DOT code as an example. OccuCollect estimates job numbers based on a cascaded approach to characteristics within an occupational group across (or ignoring) industry designations.
We need to have access to all the data. We need the data to ask whether occupations exist and if occupations exist, how many jobs exist. Those are the two Biestek questions. If we don't create a conflict, the vocational expert testimony will stand. Create the conflict.
Labels: Biestek, CBP, cross examination, DOT, EP, O*NET, OES, OOH, ORS, RHAJ, SCO, vocational expert
How Does the Department of Labor Define the Sit-Stand Option?
The sit-stand option is a common thread in the adjudication of Social Security disability cases. The ability to sit or stand at will of the worker to address the presence of pain or other physical discomfort arises with regularity.
Some ALJs describe the sit-stand option as changing positions with the loss of productivity or efficiency. That assumption -- that a person can change positions at will without the loss of productivity or efficiency -- lacks the support of substantial evidence. Getting up requires diverting the hands and arms while using the feet or legs for balance with the added concept of core strength that necessarily distracts from the productivity or efficiency of the job functions, unless the person has a job that is not physical. These jobs have "not significant" codes for data and things at the fourth and sixth digits of the DOT codes. See DICOT Appendix B and the free DOC/SCO/SCO summary report for all 13,000 DOT codes on OccuCollect. (You must register to get free reports, that is all).
The observation starts the inquiry with the premise that SSA adjudicators do not know what a sit-stand option means. It starts with the training and extends with adjudicatory bias. The analysis starts with the Department of Labor nomenclature: "sitting vs. standing/walking at will."
Sitting or standing at will - workers can alternate between sitting and standing. Sitting or standing at will is present when the following conditions exist:
Workers typically have the flexibility to choose between sitting and standing throughout the workday. Riding a bicycle includes pushing or pulling with feet and legs; while mowing may include gross manipulation or pulling and pulling with the hands and arms.
There is no assigned time during the day to sit or stand.
No external factors determine whether an employee must sit or stand.
While there may be tasks that require workers to be sitting or standing, if workers can determine when to perform that specific critical tasks, then they may still have the ability to sit or stand at will. For example, 95.4 percent of computer systems analysts can choose between sitting, standing, or walking at will while 97.7 percent of workers in food preparation and serving related occupations cannot choose between these physical demands.
The three elements that make up the sitting vs standing/walking at will are flexibility, the absence of an assigned time to sit or stand, and the absence of external factors that require the worker to sit or stand. The first sentence of the explanation synthesizes the three elements: when a job requires sitting or standing to perform job duties, the sitting vs standing/walking at will exists when the worker can choose "when" to perform those critical tasks.
The 2016 and 2017 data sets had very limited estimates for sitting vs standing/walking at will. The 2018 data set, released April 25, 2019, has a more expansive list of occupations that permit the sitting vs standing/walking at will. These include the ubiquitous production workers, all other, (SOC 51-9199).
Don't let the inclusion of a sitting vs standing/walking at will get too overwhelming -- the number of jobs that permit sitting vs standing/walking at will is 23.6%. That does not change 53% of jobs that do not require skills (SVP 2), the 63.9% that require medium exertion, or that production workers stand/walk 87.5% of the day at the 25th percentile. Sitting vs standing/walking at will does not represent an elimination of whether the worker must sit or stand, it changes the when the worker will sit or stand.
Labor will continue to describe work as it is actually performed in the national economy and SSA will likely continue to listen to its own institutional bias and uninformed vocational experts. Labor does not have a dog in the fight and is therefore inherently more trustworthy. SSA must abide by its promise to take administrative notice.
Labels: 51-9199, department of labor, Occupational Requirements Survey, sit-stand option, sitting standing walking, sitting vs. standing/walking, social security administration, vocational expert
Biestek v. Berryhill -- Some Plums to Pick
Biestek v. Berryhill, 139 S. Ct. 1148 (2019) is in the books and it is the law of land. The proposition that the agency will lever is the restatement of substantial evidence:
Under the substantial-evidence standard, a court looks to an existing administrative record and asks whether it contains "sufficien[t] evidence" to support the agency's factual determinations. Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB, 305 U. S. 197, 229 (1938)(emphasis deleted). And whatever the meaning of "substantial" in other contexts, the threshold for such evidentiary sufficiency is not high. Substantial evidence, this Court has said, is "more than a mere scintilla." Ibid.; see, e.g., Perales, 402 U. S., at 401 (internal quotation marks omitted). It means—and means only—"such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion." Consolidated Edison, 305 U. S., at 229. See Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U. S. 150, 153 (1999) (comparing the substantial-evidence standard to the deferential clearly-erroneous standard).
The question for the practitioner, that the majority did not answer, is whether 240,000 bench assembler jobs or 120,000 sorter jobs nationwide is adequate to persuade the reasonable mind. The Court found on the uncontradicted record that the naked testimony of vocational evidence was substantial evidence. The majority opinion observes, "And nothing in the rest of the record conflicts with anything she says." When that happens, the claimant always loses absent frank conflict with the DOT/SCO.
There is no "gotcha" in cross-examining vocational experts. No one question that guts the evidence spewed out.
Biestek v. Commissioner of Social Security, 880 F. 3d 778 (2018) [...] recognized that the Seventh Circuit had adopted the categorical rule Biestek proposed, precluding a vocational expert's testimony from qualifying as substantial if the expert had declined an applicant's request to provide supporting data. See id., at 790 (citing McKinnie v. Barnhart, 368 F. 3d 907, 910-911 (2004)). But that rule, the Sixth Circuit observed in joining the ranks of unconvinced courts, "ha[d] not been a popular export." 880 F. 3d, at 790 (internal quotation marks omitted).
And no more is it so today.
No key that unravels the vocational expert testimony.
Biestek gives the out. Because the claimant loses in the absence of contradictory evidence. The obverse is therefore the path to changing the vocational evidence into less than a preponderance of evidence. That preserves the argument for review by the Appeals Council, District Court, Court of Appeals, or the Supreme Court that the contradicted vocational expert testimony is not substantial evidence. Just old fashioned bare knuckle lawyering.
And of course, a different (maybe less qualified) expert failing to produce such data might offer testimony that is so feeble, or contradicted, that it would fail to clear the substantial-evidence bar.
The task of the representative at the hearing or on review to the Appeals Council is to make the vocational expert look feeble. The representative must gut the vocational expert, from top to bottom.
She explains that she arrived at her figures by surveying a range of representative employers; amassing specific information about their labor needs and employment of people with disabilities; and extrapolating those findings to the national economy by means of a well-accepted methodology.
The attack examines the survey, looks at the specific information, explores the process of extrapolation, and assesses whether the witness used a well-accepted methodology. The agency won the battle in Biestek but cannot win the war. The vocational experts either use a well-accepted methodology or the representative goes to the mattresses. Of course the representative that does not eviscerate the vocational expert during the hearing or in a post-hearing submission to the agency falls below the standard of care. Some people call that malpractice.
Labels: Biestek, categorical rule, contradicted, dictionary of occupational titles, McKinnie, Supreme Court
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What we learned at Irvine Welsh’s book launch
“Is it paedophiles, junkies or lesbians today?” This is the question in the waking mind of literary rock star Irvine Welsh, who is on a world tour to promote his latest novel, provocatively titled The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins.
His first book written from a female perspective, ‘Sex Lives’ is set in Miami and follows the lives of two very different women whose paths collide in the dramatic opening (crime) scene. Lucy Brennan is an aggressive, calorie-counting personal trainer; her more gentle counterpoint is the needy, overweight artist Lena Sorensen. They’re a world away from Trainspotting’s Renton and Begbie, but Filth fans needn’t worry, even in health-crazy Miami, the servings of depravity have not been put on a diet.
We met Irvine backstage at his public book launch and joined him and his eclectic group of friends for an after party at cosy private members club Blacks in Soho. Here’s what we learned:
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FEATURE: A giant step for hockey mankind has just happen
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The following is the January 8 press release from FIH. This is a monumental and highly commendable step forward to growing hockey internationally. As such it should be made aware to all hockey administrators, players and followers globally and not just reaching the few. Hence the reason for Go Hockey News reproducing and making comments after.
FIH press release
On 10 January, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) launched “FIH.live”, a global broadcast platform for hockey which will enable everyone to generate and share hockey video content from anywhere in the world. It will also give access to the FIH competitions live.
This platform will help FIH to engage more with the global hockey community, hockey fans and anyone who hasn’t had the chance to discover the sport yet. Furthermore, “FIH.live” will connect fans, players, players’ families, friends, coaches and officials. It will be provided to all National Associations for all their own competitions and matches.
Users will have the opportunity to access content, share content on social media and follow their favourite entities – including associations, domestic competitions, clubs, individual teams and players. They will enjoy a fully interactive experience, including scrolling the interactive match timeline, watching specific match actions, reviewing statistics and chatting during the live match.
Applying an “athlete first” concept, the platform will give players the chance to create their own digital hockey profile and control their own content.
In 2019, all FIH competitions will be available live on “FIH.live” in every market where a broadcaster will not be showing the match. This includes the inaugural FIH Pro League, which will kick-off on 19 January, the FIH Series Finals and the Olympic qualifiers. The future of “FIH.live” will integrate the most updated technology as it evolves. It will be driven by Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and data. Automatic filming and automatic video tagging have already been introduced. The content generated will enable to gather key data, currently missing, which shall help the development of the game.
To create and launch “FIH.live”, FIH has engaged on a cooperation with mycujoo, an innovative company empowering federations, leagues and clubs to easily livestream their competitions and matches. FIH CEO Thierry Weil said: “FIH.live is a great opportunity for the global hockey community to engage with current fans as well as with people who are yet to become fans. It will also boost the production of user generated content and bring hockey games live to many more fans in a simple way. I’m really happy that we will benefit from mycujoo’s expertise and creativity to help us achieving these goals.” Pedro Presa, CEO and founder of mycujoo, stated: “Hockey is a global sport and represents a massive community. With FIH.live, FIH and mycujoo will harness the power of the sport, the power of these communities to bring more content and value to hockey players and fans worldwide. And we will do it in a ground breaking joint venture. We are delighted to have found a trusting partner with a genuine vision and appetite for innovation.”
Go Hockey News Comments
As it states above this is power awaiting to be unleashed. Video content is now the crux of digital marketing. It has allowed digital video content producers to share, inform, promote, sell, and communicate to global audiences generally or to specifically targeted audience for defined purposes. When you can target the entire hockey fraternity and others through a common global broadcast platform you, as it says above, build connections and reduce walls. Viewers benefit of course by watching an array of games in different parts of the world. Hockey educators can relish at having a resource and tool to learn and share. However, wait for it, hockey now has the ability to monetise digital video content in a more focused manner. Meaning…. More opportunites to generate an income stream. Providing this is done with a ‘top to bottom’ approach by FIH where educating video content publishers and hockey administrators is done using a carefully contructed ‘common’ user manual. We can come together as one now but need to go into it as one together with purpose and action.Lets all hope it will be this.
Source: FIH news
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Martin Conlon on January 13, 2019 at 11:29 am said:
I hope this is a move towards the removal of blocking action when video is produced for coaching purposes, for both players and umpires, on YouTube and other social media.
It has not been made clear what the position is when live hockey matches are broadcast by a sponsor or other entity in a particular area.
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Posted on February 3, 2015 Posted by Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward on His First Recording Experience
The first truly professional recording studio that I remember working in was Regent Sound in Denmark Street in London. I was with Marty and Joyce Wilde and we recorded a couple of songs of Marty's and one other song which Joyce sang. Me and Marty played all the parts, and we doubled up on instruments to fill out the sounds. I think we were only there for part of one day so we must have worked fast. Although it was small and a bit rough round the edges the studio was already becoming legendary - The Stones had recorded their first album there - and I saw The Pretty Things there one day (they were a huge live band at the time - as powerful and (almost) as popular as the Stones). I remember the walls being covered with egg boxes to dampen the sound, and the engineer was quick and efficient. I hung around Denmark Street a lot in those days. Within a year of those Marty recordings I was back in the same studio with The Moodies - I only remember recording "Leave This Man Alone" (not the greatest song - or recording that we ever made) and the first version of 'Really haven't Got The Time' that day, but we must have done a couple more tracks while we were there. I loved the little studio though and I'm so glad to have recorded at Regent Sound in it's most productive and famous days. My first experience of big record company studios was at Pye studios near Marble Arch, where I recorded my first solo records with producer Alan Freeman. But - as soon as I entered the Decca studios at Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead I was hooked. It was such a wonderful magical complex of workshops, cutting rooms, full sized studios, control rooms and offices, with an efficient canteen, a caretaker (imagine how he must have felt with us working through the long nights) and a personnel officer with a sense of humour (evidenced by some of the 'larger than life' characters employed there). For musicians it was a fun palace - full of great music, laughs and strange happenings. All generations thrived at Decca and we all knew it was a privilege to be part of it - and of course, it was never to be taken too seriously! Our first sessions were in Decca No 2, they called it the rock and roll studio, downstairs at Broadhurst Gardens, which had a brilliant well hammered Steinway piano. That piano featured on 'Fly Me High'. I think 'Cities' was one of the first recordings we made there. After that we were regular visitors to the studios and when the idea for DOFP was put forward we were assigned the Decca No1 studio - it became our second home for many years after that and in the early 1970's Decca;s owner Sir Edward Lewis gave us the studio to create our own space and build the first Westlake studio outside of the USA. I worked and recorded in lots studios in London and all over the world in those years - but nothing else came close to Decca No 1. Decca had the greatest engineers and technicians in Britain, and their training and experience was invaluable. Derek Varnals and Alberto Parodi are the best engineers I have know in this long journey, but Derek created the historic recordings that the Moodies will (hopefully) be known for. As for Broadhust Gradens studios themselves, as you entered the building (which was once the West Hampstead town hall), and came up the impressive steps, Decca No 1 studio was directly in front of you, past the reception desk which was on your right (the broom cupboard where Ray and myself wrote some early things was on the left). Two large double doors opened out to the big high ceiling studio. It was the full height of the building which, apart from the basement below No 1, was three or four stories high elsewhere. As you entered the vast studio room the floor was oak parquet which gave way to carpet half way across the space. Then on to the raised 'stage' area, set beneath the small control room window that was set high up near the roof. At the back of the stage, underneath the control room, were set a row of deep cupboards that housed microphones, music stands, chairs and lots of other assorted equipment, including my own acoustic double bass, the one that I played on a quite a few Moodies recordings. Two flights of stairs led up to the control room, where the engineers wore white lab coats and the assistant engineers (or 'tape ops') wore brown lab coats. I wasn't until each final 'take' of a session was pronounced done that the group, was invited in to the control room, and any time in there was precious as musicians and artists opinions were not always welcome. The engineers and producers communicated with the musicians through speakers placed down in the studio. But after DOFP we were all in it together and each one of us had 'all access'. The success we had, and shared, in those studios mean that I can remember every detail of that wonderful place, and our dreams were fulfilled there.
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:SOME PRESS ON SCHWENK (1994):<br>
'''RADIO INTERVIEWS'''
:*National Public Radio (All Things Considered) (see ''The NPR Interviews'', 1995. R. Siegel, ed.)
:*BBC World News Service
:*AAAS Science Update (Mutual Radio Network)
:*WFIU Radio (Indiana Univ., ‘'A Moment of Science'’)
'''TELEVISION'''
:*ABC news, New Haven, with Geoff Fox (television)
:*TV Ontario (segment for children's show)
'''PRINT'''
:*Associated Press (newspapers throughout North America and Europe) Example: {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/APArticleForkedTongues94.pdf}}
:*''New Scientist'' {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/NewScientistForkedTongues94.pdf}}
:*''Willimantic Chronicle''
:*''College and University Dialogue'' (Adventist journal) {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/DialogueAdventistSnakeTongue96.pdf}})
'''BOOKS'''
:*''Encyclopaedia Britanica Yearbook of Science and the Future'' (1995)
:*''Blue Genes and Polyester Plants'', by S. McGrayne (1997)
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
1.1 CONTACT INFORMATION
1.2 EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
1.3 RELATED LINKS AND DOWNLOADS
1.4 COURSE LINKS
1.5 PUBLIC INFORMATION PAGE SERIES (LINKS)
1.6 MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
1.7 INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS
1.8 NSF/SICB INITIATIVE: GRAND CHALLENGES IN ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY
1.9 PUBLICATIONS
1.10 BOOKS:
1.11 EDITED COMPILATION:
1.12 PAPERS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS:
Office: Pharmacy-Biology Building Rm. 600
Lab: Pharm-Bio 410, 412
Lab phone: 860-486-4158
Email: kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu
75 N. Eagleville Road
Kurt with two black racers, Coluber constrictor (photo by S. von Eicken)
Kurt with 3 black racers (photo by K. Hurme)
Kurt with 6 black racers... and multiple bites (photo by L. Jones)
Kurt with copperhead (photo by Chuck Smith)
Kurt with western ringneck snake (Diadophis) in Calif.
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Grad student Diego Sustaita (Rubega lab) and lab iguana, Buster, during weekly 'beermorph' discussion
Kurt in 1977 as Bronx Zoo mammal keeper, with juvenile guanaco (and hair!)
1976: Zookeeper (intern): Bronx Zoo (Herpetology)
1977: B.A. (high honors) Oberlin College, studied with Warren F. Walker, Jr., and Jim Stewart
1977-78: Zookeeper: Bronx Zoo (Mammalogy)
1984: Ph.D. Dept. of Zoology (now within Integrative Biology), University of California, Berkeley, with Marvalee H. Wake
1984-87: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Instructor in Anatomy: Dept. of Oral Anatomy (now within Oral Biology), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry with Karen Hiiemae (deceased, 2007)
1987-89: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer on Biology: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dept. of Organismic Biology, Harvard University with Fuzz Crompton
1989-present: Assistant, Associate and Full Professor: Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
2007-09: Chair, Division of Vertebrate Morphology (DVM), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
2004-06: Associate Editor, Evolution
2006-10: Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology
2006-present: Editorial Board, Journal of Anatomy
2010-present: Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology.
RELATED LINKS AND DOWNLOADS
Transverse section of the tongue in an iguanid lizard
Sagittal section of a cat tongue close to the median septum
Schwenk Lab Page (under construction)
My Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology pages: Introduction and Annotated List
My Guide to Scientific Paper Citation Formatfor undergraduates
PhD student Bill Ryerson's page
Former PhD student Dr. Tobias Landberg's page (postdoc with Howard Whiteman, Murray State Univ, KY)
Former PhD student Dr. Nirvana Filoramo's page (Asst. Prof, Worcester State Univ., MA)
Former PhD student Dr. Chuck Smith's page (Asst. Prof., Wofford College, SC)
Collaborator, Gunter Wagner's page (Yale Univ., CT)
My brother John Schwenk's page (follow link to view some of my father's [George Schwenk] paintings)
Schwenk the World (too weird to explain—you have to see for yourself...)
Kurt demonstrates proper strangulation technique to comparative anatomy students
Kent Wells' Herpetology field trip. UConn herpetologists Wells, Schwenk and Elizabeth Jockusch 3rd, 4th and 6th from left
Mammalogy class at the Bronx Zoo, 10 Nov. 2011
Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platyrhinos) tongue-flicking. Photo by K. Schwenk.
BIO 1102 Foundations of Biology
(spring 2010)
EEB 3273 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
(spring 2010; next offered fall, 2012)
EEB 3254/5254 Mammalogy
Mammalogy Class Pictures Page
(spring 2011; next offered fall 2013)
EEB 2245W EEB 2245W Schwenk Section Page
EEB 2245W MAIN PAGE
PUBLIC INFORMATION PAGE SERIES (LINKS)
The list below represents a series of public information pages I will be creating to address commonly asked questions about biological issues—particularly issues and questions about vertebrate animals that I have direct or personal knowledge of. I have been motivated to create these pages because of running across web pages that purport to provide 'answers' to people's questions about animals, evolution and biology generally. While some of the information available on the web is reasonably accurate, I have found that most of it is misleading or downright erroneous. The 'answers' are usually written by people who, although good-intentioned, are mostly ignorant about the topics they address. In any case, the information is nearly always cobbled together from secondary and tertiary sources of information—or worse—rather than direct knowledge of the science or the primary literature on the topic. The aim of these pages, therefore, is to provide accurate, scientifically validated information on some topics in my areas of expertise that come to my attention as being of general interest. I was motivated to do this mostly because of the widespread misinformation being propagated on the web about the first question, below. Since the information used to 'answer' this question is almost always based on a distorted or misunderstood representation of my own research, it seems appropriate for me to set the record straight.
1. Why do snakes have forked tongues?
2. Why do snakes flick their tongues? [in preparation]
3. How do snakes eat? [in preparation]
4. How do lizards eat? [in preparation]
5. Can snakes hear? [in preparation]
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Former student, Dr. Nirvana Filoramo, celebrates getting the hell out of the lab. She is an Assistant Professor at Worcester State University.
Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) tongue-flicking. Photo by K. Schwenk and C. Smith
Undergrad Leah Herity is studying skin structure related to chemoreception in iguanas
Phenotypic evolution
Evolutionary constraint
Evolutionary and functional morphology of vertebrates
Evolutionary and functional morphology of feeding in tetrapod vertebrates, especially lizards
Evolutionary and functional morphology of chemoreception in lizards and snakes
Evolutionary and functional morphology of the vertebrate tongue
My research program is three-pronged: I pursue empirical studies related to the functional and evolutionary morphology of squamate feeding and chemoreception, and theoretical work related to phenotypic evolution and evolutionary constraint. Feeding and chemoreception are functionally and evolutionarily related in squamates owing to their shared use of a single, complex organ, the tongue. From a biomechanical point of view, optimization of the tongue for feeding function makes it less effective in (vomeronasal) chemoreception and vice versa. Thus, there is a classic functional (and evolutionary) trade-off between the two principal functions of the tongue. Phylogenetic character analysis reveals how each major clade of squamates has found a unique 'solution' to the problem of this trade-off. The dynamic nature of the evolutionary tension created by competing sources of selection pressure has led to my theoretical work on internal selection, functional integration, phenotypic stability and evolutionary constraint. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with Günter Wagner at Yale University. Although theoretical, the work is firmly grounded in my empirical work on squamate feeding and chemosensory systems, which have proven to be compelling model systems for approaching these broader issues.
INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS
Happy undergraduate student, Leah Brown-Wilusz, with bloodworms in the salamander room
Happy graduate student, Tobias Landberg, in the lab. Tobias starts as an Assistant Professor at Arcadia Univ. in the fall!
Former student, Dr. Chuck Smith, is an Assistant Professor at Wofford College, SC
Happy graduate student, Tobias Landberg, in the field (with copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix)
Students in my laboratory develop their own, independent research programs under my supervision. Although I expect there to be some overlap or mutual interest in student projects, I do not require students to work in my specific research areas. Ideally students will incorporate elements of morphology, evolution and/or function into their projects. Purely ecological or conservation-related projects are discouraged (because they lie outside my areas of expertise), although these can be elements of a research program centered on the former topics. Although I am best able to supervise work on squamate reptiles, I am open to projects dealing with any vertebrate group. I principally do laboratory-based work, but recent graduate students have included significant field components in their research. Applications from potential doctoral students are preferred, but doing a Masters is also possible.
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn is very integrative and interactive, and there is a great deal of cross-fertilization among labs. The department comprises 30 full-time faculty, all of whom work in the general area of organismal biology. There are an additional 60+ biologists in our sister departments of Physiology and Neurobiology, and Molecular and Cell Biology - and this is not to mention a variety of wildlife biologists in the School of Agriculture, biomedical researchers in the School of Medicine, etc. Thus, there is virtually no area of expertise unavailable to students when they assemble their research advisory committees.
There are eight vertebrate biology faculty in the department (4 herpetology, 2 ornithology, 1 ichthyology, 1 mammalogy), and along with postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students, they constitute a very active and interactive research group. We have informal weekly meetings called Vertlunch in which we read and critique recent papers (and laugh a lot) and every Friday at 4:00 the Schwenk and Rubega labs (and others) meet for Beermorph in which - well, it's pretty self-explanatory. For those morphologists with a developmental bent, we also have sporadic meetings of an Evo-Devo Journal Club in which we read and discuss current literature. And this is not to mention, of course, the frequent graduate seminars on various topics offered by faculty in the department, as well as weekly departmental seminars and occasional 'Tuesday Evening Seminars' run by the EEB graduate students. All-in-all, a very active place where you can be intellectually challenged and exposed to a variety of viewpoints - often while drinking at the same time.
Before applying directly to the department for admission into the graduate program, you should contact me by email and describe your research interests and goals so that we can determine if there is an appropriate match. You should also explore the departmental web page to get as much information about EEB as you can. If you have any questions at all about the department or the University, don't hesitate to email me. I can also put you in touch with current graduate students if you would like to hear about the program from their perspectives.
Students accepted into the doctoral program are guaranteed 5 years of support (mostly by means of Teaching Assistantships). Support beyond 5 years is usually possible for students making good progress, but is not guaranteed. Masters students are guaranteed 2 years of support. The support package includes a tuition waiver and full health benefits.
NSF/SICB INITIATIVE: GRAND CHALLENGES IN ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY
Lab grad students Sara Horwitz, Lauren Jones and Bill Ryerson after recent snake hunt.
Bill completed his Masters with Steve Deban at the Univ. of South Florida—he left Tampa in a hurry...
Kurt ponders the fate of a grad student who refused to bend to his will...
At the January, 2009, annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Boston, William Zamer of the National Science Foundation challenged the Society to determine what the 'grand challenge questions' are for future work in organismal biology. As the largest comparative, organismal professional society in the country (and probably the world), SICB was called upon to organize organismal biologists to help shape future funding in the field by identifying integrative and forward-looking research arenas that would not only contribute to basic knowledge in organismal biology, but would also tie-in with interest-areas targeted by the Obama administration. SICB President Rich Satterlie called a series of meetings and discussions among the SICB Executive Committee, and on the basis of these discussions, a four-person subcommittee was appointed, with me as Chair, to produce a brief, initial document to be distributed among NSF staff immediately (as required by NSF's budget meeting schedule). This draft document has been expanded into a full-length manuscript that appeared in the first 2009 issue of the Sociey's journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology. Subsequent issues of the journal feature additional 'perspective' pieces written by other organismal biologists targeting more specific topics. The aim of the documents posted here, as well as the other essays published in ICB, is to stimulate broader discussion in the field about future research initiatives and novel, collaborative and synthetic research directions. SICB (and NSF) hopes that additional discussion will further develop and refine the 'grand challenges' in organismal biology. In the near future, face-to-face meetings are planned to broaden and extend the initiative, and these meetings, it is hoped, will lead to concrete advances and funding opportunities for organismal biology, an area that has been chronically underfunded for many years.
The 'grand challenges' initiative is presently in full swing. Additional essays on organismal biology are appearing regularly in ICB and workshops wer held at the 2010 and 2011 annual SICB meetings directed at broadening participation and developing methods for implementation. I have contributed my own ideas with regard to the latter in an invited BioScience essay (below).
You can download the preliminary 'grand challenges' NSF document HERE
You can download a reprint of the published 'grand challenges' paper by Schwenk et al. (from Integrative and Comparative Biology) HERE.
You can download a reprint of the BioScience 'Viewpoint' essay by Schwenk on strategies for implementing the 'grand challenges' program HERE.
You can link to the SICB website for further information.
For other questions/comments, please contact me directly: kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu
Email for reprints not available here as pdfs: kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu
Buy it now! Now out of print—available for $240!... (or better yet, email me and other authors for free reprints of their chapters!)
Schwenk, K. (editor) (2000) Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. Academic Press, San Diego. xv + 537 pp.
Quarterly Review of Biology by T. H. Frazzetta
Copeia by Al Savitzky
Ibis by Paul M. Barrett
Palaeontology Newsletter by Ian Jenkins
Schwenk, K. and G. P. Wagner. Evolutionary Constraint (in preparation)
Whole-issue copies available - email a request
EDITED COMPILATION:
Schwenk, K., and J. M. Starck (eds.) (2005) Integrative organismal biology: papers in honor of Professor Marvalee H. Wake. Zoology 108(4):261-356. LINK [email me for a copy of the entire issue]
PAPERS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS:
(names in bold are current or former students)
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk. Kinematics of chemosensory tongue-flicking in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) (in prep).
Schwenk, K., and W. Ryerson. Biomechanics of chemosensory tongue-flicking in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) (in prep).
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk. Kinematics of terrestrial versus aquatic chemosensory tongue-flicking in water snakes (Nerodia sipedon) (in prep).
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk. Why snakes flick their tongues. (in prep)
SOME PRE-PUBLICATION PUBLICITY ON THIS TOPIC:
UConn Today—Snakes, Lizards, and Tongues
UConn Magazine—Studying Snakes
'Super Slo-Mo Tuesdays', Daily Planet, Discovery Channel, Canada
New Scientist, on Bill's SICB presentation on aquatic tongue-flicking in Nerodia (forthcoming)
Filoramo, N., and K. Schwenk. Tongue tips, tropotaxis and the mechanism of chemical delivery to the vomeronasal organs in fork-tongued squamates (Reptilia) (in prep)
Ryerson and Schwenk (2012)
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk (2012) A simple, inexpensive system for digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) in biomechanics. J. Exp. Zool. 317A:127-140. (JEZA featured paper)
Schwenk, K. (2011) Letter to the Editor, Oberlin Alumni Magazine (in response to an article suggesting that social media, e.g., 'tweeting', provide good training for writing).
Schwenk, K. (2010) Implementing the organismal agenda . BioScience 60:673-674.
Ryerson, W. and S. Deban (2010) Buccal pumping mechanics of Xenopus laevis tadpoles: effects of biotic and abiotic factors. J. Exp. Biol. 213:2444-2452.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2010) Visualizing vertebrates: new methods in functional morphology (editorial). J. Exp. Zool. 313A:241-243.
Flores-Villela, O., C. A. Ríos-Muñoz, K. Schwenk, G. Zamudio-Varela and G. Magaña-Cota (2010) An unpublished manuscript of Alfredo Dugès related to the classification of lizards according to tongue morphology, c. 1898-1899. Archives of Natural History 37:246-254.
Smith C. F., G. W. Schuett and K. Schwenk (2010) Plasma sex sterioids and mating season in wild-living copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) at the northeastern extreme of their range. Journal of Zoology 280:362-370.
Smith C. F., G. W. Schuett, R. L. Earley, and K. Schwenk. (2009) The spatial and reproductive ecology of copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix (Serpentes: Viperidae), at the northeastern extreme of their range. Herpetological Monographs 23:43-73.
Schwenk et al. (2009)
Schwenk, K.*, D. Padilla*, G. Bakken* and R. Full* (2009) Grand challenges in organismal biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49:7-14. (*authorship equally shared)
Editorial introduction to Grand Challenges by ICB editor, Harold Heatwole, with GC schematic figure
Filoramo, N., and K. Schwenk (2009) The mechanism of chemical delivery to the vomeronasal organs in squamate reptiles: a comparative morphological approach. J. Exp. Zool. 311A:20-34.
Schwenk, K. (2008) Aristotle’s ghost. Wild River Review. October 2008. [Online reprint of Schwenk (2002)], Wild River Review home page
Sherbrooke, W. C.,* and K. Schwenk.* (2008) Horned lizards (Phrynosoma) incapacitate dangerous ant prey with mucus. J. Exp. Zool. 309A:447-459. (*authorship equally shared) (JEZA featured paper)
SOME PRESS ON SHERBROOKE & SCHWENK (2008):
Journal of Experimental Biology, 'Lizards incapacitate ants with mucus', by Stefan Pulver (see last page of pdf)
ScienceNOW, 'How to eat a nasty ant', by Greg Miller LINK or pdf
Natural History (12/08-1/09), 'How to Harvest a Harvester', by Graciela Flores
The Daily Planet television segment, Discovery Channel (Canada). First broadcast 25 March 2009, approx. 6 min. (working on getting a clip posted)
Smith, C. F., K. Schwenk, R. L. Earley and G. W. Schuett (2008) Sexual size dimorphism of the tongue in a North American pitviper. Journal of Zoology 274:367-374.
Schwenk, K. (2008) Comparative anatomy and physiology of chemical senses in non-avian aquatic reptiles. In: Sensory Evolution on the Threshold. Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Nummela (eds.). Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 65-81.
Schwenk, K., and J. G. M. Thewissen (2008) Aquatic and semi-aquatic reptiles. In: Sensory Evolution on the Threshold. Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Nummela (eds.). Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 7-23.
Eisthen, H., and Schwenk, K. (2008) The chemical stimulus and its detection. In: Sensory Evolution on the Threshold. Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Nummela (eds.). Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 35-41.
Schwenk, K. (2006) Evolution illustrated (Letter to the Editor). The Hartford Courant, 4 March:A9.
Schwenk, K.,and M. Rubega (2005) Diversity of vertebrate feeding systems. Pp. 1-41. In: Physiological and Ecological Adaptations to Feeding in Vertebrates. J. M. Starck and T. Wang (eds.). Science Publishers, Enfield, NH.
Schulp, A. S., E. W. A. Mulder and K. Schwenk (2005) Did mosasaurs have forked tongues? Neth. J. Geosci. 84:359-371.
Schwenk, K. , W. Korff and J. M. Starck (2005) Preface. Integrative organismal biology: papers in honor of Professor Marvalee H. Wake. Zoology 108:261-267.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2004) The relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution. Pp. 390-408. In: Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes. M. Pigliucci & K. Preston (eds.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
Schwenk, K. (2004) REVIEWS OF: Introduction to Horned Lizards of North America, by Wade C. Sherbrooke, and Horned Lizards: The Book of Horny Toads, by Jane Manaster. Copeia 2004:190-192.
Schwenk, K. (2004) Leapin’ non-ophidian squamates! REVIEW OF: Lizards. Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, by E. R. Pianka and L. J. Vitt. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:357-358.
Vitt, L. J., E. R. Pianka, W. E. Cooper and K. Schwenk (2003) History and the global ecology of squamate reptiles. American Naturalist 162:44-60.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner. (2003) Constraint. Pp. 52-61. In: Key Words and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. B. K. Hall & W. M. Olson (eds.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Schwenk, K. (2002) Constraint. Pp. 196-199. In: Encyclopedia of Evolution, M. Pagel (ed.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
Schwenk, K. (2002) Aristotle’s ghost. Creative Nonfiction No.19:32-40 (Special Issue: “Diversity Dialogues”).
SOME PRESS ON SCHWENK (2002):
Chronical of Higher Education, 'Thoughts on Prejudice, Diversity, and Evolution'
Schwenk, K. (2001) Extrinsic vs. intrinsic lingual muscles: a false dichotomy? Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard) 156:219-235.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2001) Function and the evolution of phenotypic stability: connecting pattern to process. American Zoologist 41:552-563.
Schwenk, K. (2001) Functional units and their evolution. Pp. 165-198. In: The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology. G. P. Wagner (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Nishikawa, K. C., and K. Schwenk (2001) Ingestion in amphibians and reptiles. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0001835] (pdf = 7 pp) LINK TO ELS SITE
Schwenk, K. (2000) The apian way: from beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology. REVIEW OF: The Extended Organism. The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, by J. Scott Turner. The New York Times Book Review, 10 Dec., p. 37. OR SEE IT ONLINE HERE
Schwenk, K. (2000) Preface. Pp. xiii-xv. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) Tetrapod feeding in the context of vertebrate morphology. Pp. 3-20. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) An introduction to tetrapod feeding. Pp. 21-61. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) Feeding in lepidosaurs. Pp. 175-291. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
EMAIL (kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu) FOR HIGH QUALITY HARD COPY
Schwenk, K. (2000) A bibliography of turtle feeding. Pp. 169-171. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Wagner, G. P.,* and K. Schwenk* (2000) Evolutionarily Stable Configurations: functional integration and the evolution of phenotypic stability. Pp. 155-217. In: Evolutionary Biology, vol. 31. M. K. Hecht, R. J. MacIntyre & M. T. Clegg (eds.). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York. (*authorship equally shared). YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THIS PAPER HERE
Schwenk, K. (1998) REVIEW OF: Lizards, Vols. 1 & 2. By M. Rogner. Copeia 1998:1114-1116.
Schwenk, K. (1998) REVIEW OF: Comparative Osteological Examinations of Geckonids, Eublepharids and Uroplatids, by V. Wellborn (translated by A. P. Russell, A. M. Bauer & A. Deufel). Herpetological Translations No. 1. Breck Bartholomew, Bibliomania, Logan, Utah. Copeia 1998:259-260.
Schwenk, K. (1997) Snakes and the evolution of Harry Greene. REVIEW OF: Snakes. The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, by H. W. Greene. Natural History 106:8-9 (July/August).
Dial, B. E., and K. Schwenk (1996) Olfaction and predator detection in Coleonyx brevis (Squamata: Eublepharidae) with comments on the functional significance of buccal pulsing in geckos. J. Exp. Zool. 276:415-424.
Pigliucci, M., C. D. Schlichting, C. S. Jones and K. Schwenk (1996) Developmental reaction norms: the interactions among allometry, ontogeny and plasticity. Plant Species Biology 11:69-85.
Schwenk (1995)
Schwenk, K. (1996) REVIEW OF: Vertebrate Life, 4th ed., by F. H. Pough et al., Quart. Rev. Biol. 71:581-582.
Schwenk, K. (1995) REVIEW OF: The Lizard Man Speaks, by E. R. Pianka. Quart. Rev. Biol. 70:328-329.
Schwenk, K. (1995) Of tongues and noses: chemoreception in lizards and snakes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 10:7-12.
Schwenk, K. (1995) A utilitarian approach to evolutionary constraint. Zoology 98:251-262.
Schwenk, K., and H. W. Greene (1995) No electrostatic sense in snakes. Nature 373:26.
Schwenk, K. (1995) The serpent's tongue. Natural History 104:48-55 (April).
Letter to the Editor re: The serpent's tongue and Schwenk response
Schwenk, K. (1994) Why snakes have forked tongues. Science 263:1573-1577.
National Public Radio (All Things Considered) (see The NPR Interviews, 1995. R. Siegel, ed.)
BBC World News Service
BBC-4
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)
AAAS Science Update (Mutual Radio Network)
WFIU Radio (Indiana Univ., ‘'A Moment of Science'’)
ABC news, New Haven, with Geoff Fox (television)
TV Ontario (segment for children's show)
Associated Press (newspapers throughout North America and Europe) Example:
Chronical of Higher Education
National Geographic Magazine
Australia Nature
Readers' Digest
Omni Magazine
Weekly Reader Magazine
Scholastic Super Science"
International Wildlife
Wilson Quarterly
USA Today (front page: )
Daily Telegraph (London)
La Guardia (Spain)
New Haven Register''
Manchester Journal Inquirer
San Jose Mercury News
Willimantic Chronicle
College and University Dialogue (Adventist journal) )
Encyclopaedia Britanica Yearbook of Science and the Future (1995)
Blue Genes and Polyester Plants, by S. McGrayne (1997)
The NPR Interviews, 1995, edited by Robert Siegel (1995)
Schwenk, K. (1994) Craniology: getting a head. REVIEW OF: The Skull, 3 vols. J. Hanken & B. K. Hall (eds.). Science 263:1779-1780.
Schwenk, K. (1994) Comparative biology and the importance of cladistic classification: a case study from the sensory biology of squamate reptiles. Biological J. Linnean Soc. 52:69-82.
Schwenk, K. (1994) Systematics and subjectivity: the phylogeny and classification of iguanian lizards reconsidered. Herpetological Review 25:53-57.
Schwenk, K., and D. B. Wake (1993) Prey processing in Leurognathus marmoratus and the evolution of form and function in desmognathine salamanders (Plethodontidae). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 49:141-162.
Schwenk, K. (1993) Are geckos olfactory specialists? J. Zool., Lond. 229:289-302.
Schwenk, K. (1993) The evolution of chemoreception in squamate reptiles: a phylogenetic approach. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 41:124-137.
Schwenk, K. and G. C. Mayer (1991) Tongue display in anoles and its evolutionary basis. 4th Anolis Newsletter. J. Losos & G. Mayer (eds.). National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Washington, DC.
Schwenk, K. (1989) REVIEW OF: The Evolution of Vertebrate Design, by L. B. Radinsky. American Scientist 77:84.
Schwenk, K. and G. S Throckmorton (1989) Functional and evolutionary morphology of lingual feeding in squamate reptiles: phylogenetics and kinematics. J. Zool., Lond. 219:153-175.
Schwenk, K. and D. A. Bell (1988) A cryptic intermediate in the evolution of chameleon tongue projection. Experientia 44:697-700.
Schwenk, K. (1988) Comparative morphology of the lepidosaur tongue and its relevance to squamate phylogeny. In: R. Estes & G. Pregill (eds.). Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, 569-598.
Schwenk, K. and H. W. Greene (1987) Water collection and drinking in Phrynocephalus helioscopus: a possible condensation mechanism. J. Herpetology 21:134-139.
Schwenk, K. (1986) Morphology of the tongue in the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus (Reptilia: Lepidosauria), with comments on function and phylogeny. J. Morphology 188:129-156.
Wake, M. H. and K. Schwenk (1986) A preliminary report on the morphology and distribution of taste buds in gymnophiones, with comparison to other amphibians. J. Herpetology 20:254-256.
Schwenk, K. (1985) Occurrence, distribution and functional significance of taste buds in lizards. Copeia 1985:91-101.
Good, D. A., and K. Schwenk (1985) A new species of Abronia (Lacertilia: Anguidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico. Copeia 1985:135-141.
Schwenk, K. (1984) Evolutionary Morphology of the Lepidosaur Tongue. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
Houck, L., and K. Schwenk (1984) The potential for long-term sperm competition in a plethodontid salamander. Herpetologica 40:410-415.
Jaksic, F. M., and K. Schwenk (1983) Natural history observations on Liolaemus magellanicus, the southernmost lizard in the world. Herpetologica 39:457-461.
Bemis, W., K. Schwenk and M. H. Wake (1983) Morphology and function of the feeding apparatus in Dermophis mexicanus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 77:75-96.
Jaksic, F. M., H. W. Greene, K. Schwenk and R. L. Seib (1982) Predation upon reptiles in Mediterranean habitats of Chile, California, and Spain: a comparative analysis. Oecologia 53:152-159.
Schwenk, K., S. K. Sessions and D. M. Peccinini-Seale (1982) Karyotypes of the basiliscine lizards Corytophanes cristatus and Corytophanes hernandesii, with comments on the relationship between chromosomal and morphological evolution in lizards. Herpetologica 38:493-501.
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Indianapolis Sports – Never More Interesting with Only Pacers a “Sure Thing”
Paul George is one of the big reasons the Pacers are the only sure thing in central Indiana among sports franchises.
Back and forth I go about the predicted fortunes of the Indianapolis Colts. They are projected to win anywhere from six to 12 games, and that’s an unusually huge swath between potential success and failure. Hard to imagine most NFL teams winning more than 12 or less than six (except for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are strong nowhere).
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The Indiana Hoosiers football team returns 19 starters, is a year stronger, and had the fourth best recruiting class in the Big Ten. BTN analyst Tom Dienhart wrote last week that the Hoosiers could win as many as eight or as few as three. Hell of a big difference.
The Purdue Boilermakers weren’t terrible last year, but administrators felt stronger enough to fire Danny Hope and hire Darrell Hazell. What that’s going to mean for the Boiler is anyone’s guess. Hazell needed only two years to turn Kent State into a winner, but this first year in West Lafayette might be a long one.
Indiana University Basketball lost over 80% of nearly every relevant statistic through graduation and early entry to the NBA. Tom Crean has restocked with talented freshmen, but guessing whether Yogi Ferrell, Will Sheehey, and the new blood can continue the ascent the program has enjoyed since hitting rock bottom in Crean’s first season is in question.
The Pacers are undoubtedly stronger than they were during last season’s run to a Game Seven in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat. David West signed a new three year deal, and the second unit was completely reconstructed with the additions of Solomon Hill, Chris Copeland, C.J. Watson, and Luis Scola. Danny Granger’s return will likely mean the addition of Lance Stephenson to that group. Ian Mahinmi will be the lone holdover.
The question with the Pacers is whether the vacancies left by assistant coaches Jim Boylen and Brian Shaw will lead to a disruption of what made the team so proficient last season. Nate McMillan will fill one of the positions, and his resume’ would prompt confidence.
The question with the Pacers is whether they will be ready to win the 60+ games in the regular season needed to secure the top seed in the East. The Heat won 66 last year while the Pacers won “only” 49, so the difference between the two-time defending NBA Champions and the Pacers isn’t really the 48 minutes that sent the Heat to the Finals, but the 17 wins that sent Game Seven to South Beach.
The rest of the Indiana franchises of interest have such a wide margin of expectations that it’s almost impossible to focus on what we believe might happen.
For the Colts, I expect 10 wins. Andrew Luck will become a top five quarterback in the NFL, which may appear ambitious, but after watching him in camp for better than two weeks, I see no physical or psychological flaw. He’s the best young gun I’ve ever seen, and if there are more than three teams you would refuse to trade their current QB for Luck, I would question their sanity.
The rest of the Colts are good enough that they can win more than they lose as long as Luck is healthy. The free agent signings, minus Gosder Cherilous make me a bit nervous. They are okay to good players, and those guys in bulk tend not to be the foundation for champions.
There are enough tools offensively, if Ahmad Bradshaw can run as he did last season, for the Colts to score, and the defense should be a little bit better.
IU Football? I have no earthly idea. They start the season with five consecutive home games, so whatever is going to happen, fans should know early. Anything less than 3-2 in those five, and October/November will see some lonely afternoons in Bloomington. Coach Kevin Wilson called out fans last week for not showing up in Bloomington for the Wisconsin game. Let’s see if he has taken the steps needed to give the fans a reason for enthusiasm.
IU Hoops should be expected to make the NCAA Tournament. A top five recruiting class should be enough to keep the Hoosiers relevant. Noah Vonleh is a unique kid, and the return of Sheehey and Ferrell will give Indiana a quality team. If not, the current void of players in the 2014 class will need to be filled with dynamic newcomers.
Purdue Basketball will go as far as Ronnie Johnson and A.J. Hammons take them. Johnson should be expected to step up and play well, but it’s the play of the occasionally laconic Hammons who will drive the team to a first division finish in the Big Ten or right off a cliff.
As for Boilermakers football, minus the arrival of Hazell, there isn’t much reason for optimism. Like the Hoosiers, there is a wide open quarterback competition, and until we see the QB for either team effectively lead, it isn’t possible to assess anything.
This is a Fall unlike any I can remember, when the ceiling is so high and the floor so low for virtually every team. Strap in.
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5 thoughts on “Indianapolis Sports – Never More Interesting with Only Pacers a “Sure Thing””
mike August 14, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Irish football???? “Anyone, anyone, anyone at all?”
“Franchise of interest” Hmmm
kentsterling Post author August 14, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Notre Dame Football is an American institution, not an Indiana program. You sell your Irish short.
Dirk Pitt August 14, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Butler Bulldogs basketball? Are they a national team like the Irish football? Clearly the most successful Indiana college basketball team in the last decade plus and the title of the post says Indianapolis sports?
Good point. The post started as a look at the three local football teams, but I am unsure about Indiana Basketball too, so I added that. Then I thought about Purdue Basketball, and wondered many of the same things. Butler would have been an excellent addition with a new coach and the tail end of the group that went to the NCAA Championship in 2011. I have no idea whether the Bulldogs will assimilate easily into the Big East or struggle. Would have been a totally appropriate addition.
As much as I would like to see the Bulldogs assimilate easily, I am afraid it’s a bad year for the Bulldogs to be losing Brad Stevens. Long term I hope it is a good move for Butler but it could be painful in a number of sports this year,
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HomeEthiopian army ‘ready to protect Renaissance Dam’
Ethiopian army ‘ready to protect Renaissance Dam’
Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [Ethio Embassy Rwanda/Twitter]
(middleeastmonitor)–Ethiopia’s Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Adam Mohamed, has said that the army is ready to resist any attack on the Renaissance Dam on the River Nile, and carry out counterattacks against the aggressors.
The general’s statement came during a visit with a number of other senior officers to the site of the dam in the west of the country. Brigadier General Yilma Mordesa, the commander of the Ethiopian Air Force, added that it is ready to defend the dam and the surrounding area.
The government in Addis Ababa withdrew from negotiations about the Renaissance Dam with Egypt and Sudan — the two countries downstream of the dam — under US sponsorship, stressing its right to the Nile water and the development of such a natural resource.
Cairo has rejected Ethiopia’s position and views it as an unjustified escalation. Ethiopian newspapers attacked Cairo’s position on the dam last week, hinting at the Egyptian intention for an “open and blatant” war to destroy of the work already completed on the dam.
The weekly Capital pointed out that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and that Egypt might have a stronger army and external military support, but it also has the giant Aswan Dam, which is vulnerable to attack.
Egypt does not object to the filling of the reservoirs behind the Renaissance Dam, but is opposed to them being filled in one operation, as that would necessarily reduce its share of water downstream for several years.
That in turn will have a direct effect on the millions of Egyptians who depend on the Nile for drinking water and irrigation.
According to the official Ethiopian News Agency, the government has sent high-level delegations across Europe and Africa to explain its position on the Renaissance Dam negotiations.
Within Africa, the delegation is being led by President Sahle-Work Zewde, with her predecessor Mulatu Teshome heading the team in Europe.
Mulatu is expected to meet the leaders of France and other EU member states. Sahle-Work opened her tour with a visit to Kenya, where she met President Uhuru Kenyatta and briefed him on the latest developments in the negotiations with Sudan and Egypt.
Kenyatta stressed Africa’s need to use its natural resources in a sustainable way to meet the increasing needs of its population, with African solutions to African problems. The Kenyan President pointed out the importance of a fair and reasonable use of natural resources. In Khartoum, meanwhile, an Ethiopian delegation led by Deputy Chief of Staff General Berhanu Gula met with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and handed him a message from his Ethiopian counterpart. No further details were provided.
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew insisted that Ethiopia has a right to Nile water, which is a resource for his country, Egypt and Sudan, not just Egypt only.
He added that the government believes that the problem can be solved through negotiations, and the dam filling will proceed as planned. Egypt, he said, has avoided any understanding of the situation and involved external parties.
Andargachew clarified the fact that the Renaissance Dam would not withhold water from Egypt, but would be a reservoir guaranteeing everyone’s interest, which is why, in his view, Egypt should have contributed to the building costs.
The government in Addis Ababa, he concluded, does not see how anyone can benefit from a war, as it wants all three countries to have access to the River Nile in a fair and just way.
Abbaabiyyuummaa Kee dhuunfattee, Saba Kee ulfinnaaf bilissummaa goonfachiisuuf kaayyoo tokko Isa galmaan gahuuf
A Plea for an urgent Action!Immediate action is needed to end the communication blockade in western and southern Oromia!
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No more cookie-cutter TV: themes of reality shows diversify
From left, EXO Sehun, comedian Yoo Jae-suk, actor Lee Kwang-soo and singer Kim Jong-min are seen in the third season of Netflix's "Busted" / Courtesy of Netflix
By Kwak Yeon-soo
In 2020, Korea's most beloved reality show format was trot music auditions. The male version of TV Chosun's "Ms. Trot" called "Mr. Trot" surged in popularity, which later led to creation of similarly themed competition shows on other TV networks, including MBC's "I Am a Trot Singer," MBN's "Voice Trot" and SBS' "K-Trot in Town."
Outdoor travel shows, which have long dominated the late-night timeslot, have been scrapped or moved indoors due to travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amid the glut of cookie-cutter reality and audition shows that could cause viewer fatigue, networks are trying to make breakthroughs with fresh formats in 2021.
A poster for tvN's "Youn's Stay" / Courtesy of tvN
"Youn's Stay," a spin-off of tvN's popular reality show "Youn's Restaurant," got off to a good start on Jan. 8 with a viewership rating of 8.2 percent. Plans for a third season of the restaurant show last year were scrapped due to the pandemic and the team came up with the spin-off show "Youn's Stay" to film in Gurye, South Jeolla Province, as an alternative.
The original cast of "Youn's Restaurant," which consists of Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Seo-jin, Park Seo-joon and Jung Yu-mi, reappear on the new show to serve up Korean culture to foreign guests staying at a hanok guesthouse in Korea's southern area.
"If people who came to Korea during the pandemic had come at a better time, they would have better experienced Korean culture," the show's producer Na Young-seok said, explaining why he invited foreigners who have been in Korea for less than a year. "Through their one-night stay in a hanok, I wanted to make them truly experience Korean culture."
A poster for MBC's "Late Night Ghost Talk" / Courtesy of MBC
In January, MBC aired two pilot episodes of "Late Night Ghost Talk," in which celebrity panelists share terrifying ghost stories.
"We tried to balance the scary and comical elements of the show. We hope our show can be return as a regular program, and if it does, we will deliver untold, unheard ghost stories that could surprise viewers," the show's producer Lim Chae-won said.
The third season of Netflix's first Korean variety show "Busted" will premiere on Jan. 22.
The show that combines crime drama with escape room-style challenges has enjoyed global popularity since its first season in 2018 with suspenseful plots and a star-studded cast.
The series stars TV personalities ― comedian Yoo Jae-suk, actors Lee Seung-gi, Lee Kwang-soo and Park Min-young, and singers Kim Jong-min, EXO Sehun and Kim Se-jeong ― as amateur detectives solving mysteries in a contained set.
"Although the detectives are a bit clumsy, I hope the viewers look forward to how these good-minded detectives solve fictional crimes," the show's producer Cho Hyo-jin said.
Kwak Yeon-soo yeons.kwak@koreatimes.co.kr
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Tapsee’s life in tatters
Actress Tapsee is returning with another spooky film. The teaser of the upcoming multilingual thriller ‘Game Over’, which was released on Wednesday, Taapsee Pannu plays a wheelchair-bound gamer combating a mysterious identity.
The minute-long teaser, which mostly unfolds inside a house, looks chilling and intriguing. The teaser features the text “We all have two lives; the second one starts when we realise we only have one”.
It indicates that the film is shrouded in mystery and a lot of questions will be answered when the film releases on June 14 in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. Directed by Ashwin Saravanan, ‘Game Over’ has been produced by Y Not Studios in association with Reliance Entertainment.
Last week, Anurag Kashyap revealed that he will present the Hindi version of ‘Game Over’, which has music by Ron Yohann.
Earlier, Ashwin said, “It will feature very few characters. Ever since I saw ‘Pink’, I’ve wanted to work with Taapsee.
I’m glad everything fell in place for this project and I’m excited to be working with her. She is someone who is not really screen-conscious and can really get under the skin of a character,” he had said.
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IRONAID™, a program of the IRONMAN Foundation®, engages athletes in the healthcare industry who race IRONMAN® and IRONMAN 70.3® events. The purpose of the program is to raise funds and awareness for health-related causes.
In 2021, the IRONAID program will expand to specifically focus on serving our communities in the wake of COVID-19.
This year, all athletes will have the opportunity to support IRONAID, including Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series® participants through Rock This Town®, a program of the IRONMAN Foundation and the charitable program for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series.
IRONAID funds will be available for grant applications by health-related nonprofit organizations around the world. Organizations that fit the criteria are invited to apply for funding.
*PLEASE NOTE*
The 2020 IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grant application has closed. The fifth round of grant awards will be announced in early 2021 along with 2021 IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grant opportunity details.
General donations to the IRONAID fund will support IRONAID global grants. These donations may be made using the link above or during the IRONMAN VR Pro Challenge on the IRONMAN NOW Facebook Watch channel.
Athletes in the healthcare industry can race to support IRONAID through the IRONMAN Foundation. To learn more about how to race as an IRONAID athlete view details below.
In 2021, TEAM IMF Athletes will also support the IRONAID fund through their fundraising efforts. To learn more about TEAM IMF, click HERE.
We recognize that the immediate needs of communities will be different than those that will emerge in the months ahead, the IRONMAN Foundation has also established Operation IRONAID Face Masks in partnership with Framebridge, a program that repurposes new race shirts into non-sterile face masks. The masks will be provided to keep at risk individuals safe. Click HERE.
IRONAID Athletes
IRONAID is a fundraising program designed for athletes in the healthcare industry.
Any athlete who works in the healthcare industry can apply to join IRONAID! Spots are limited for each event and often sell out. To secure your spot on the team, fill out the application below and our team will contact you.
Not in the healthcare industry? Click HERE to join TEAM IMF.
What do I receive as an IRONAID athlete?
The IRONMAN Foundation’s Commitment to You:
Guarantee your race entry NOW! No need to wait for general registration.
Free race entry into a select IRONMAN or IRONMAN 70.3 event * (pending availability).
Low bib number and priority check-in.
Eligibility for annual IRONAID Top Fundraiser Contest where the winner receives an entry to the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona. Fundraising and team support every step of the way .
Exclusive perks during race week .
Personal fundraising website with on-going support .
What if I already have a race entry?
Athletes who have already purchased their entries are more than welcome to join IRONAID at a lower fundraising commitment of $1,250 for an IRONMAN 70.3 event and $2,500 for an IRONMAN event.
These athletes enjoy the same benefits as IRONAID members, creating a lasting tangible impact in their race communities.
What races are available to IRONAID?
All IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 events around the globe.
What do I have to do as an IRONAID athlete?
Fundraise for the IRONMAN Foundation’s IRONAID Grant Fund.
Submit a $100 registration fee that also counts towards your fundraising minimum. *Use code 50FOR20 to save $50
Raise your fundraising commitment no later than two (2) weeks prior to your race day.
Create real change in our race communities all over the world.
Leave your IRONMAN legacy in your race community, long after race day.
How much do I have to raise?
IRONAID Athletes who need a race entry are required to raise $1,750 for an IRONMAN 70.3 event or $3,500 for a full distance IRONMAN.
IRONAID Athletes who already have an entry are required to raise $1,250 for an IRONMAN 70.3 event and $2,500 for a full distance IRONMAN event.
Note that the donation platform uses USD as its currency and that donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. The IRONMAN Foundation is a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with Federal Tax ID 65-1172979. You should consult your financial planner or tax advisor to determine the exact tax advantages of your gift.
Review the 2020 IRONAID FAQs carefully.
Once you fill out the IRONAID request form, an IRONMAN Foundation team member will contact you within 48 business hours with your official commitment form to reserve your entry. Please note the online request form does not guarantee your race entry.
Print, sign, and return the emailed commitment form via email. You will then receive your official confirmation that your race entry is guaranteed with a link to set up your fundraising page.
*IRONAID entries are first-come, first-served and we recommend returning your commitment form as soon as possible to ensure your spot on the team. If the IRONAID roster is full for your chosen race, we will initiate a waiting list. You will receive communication either way.
Start fundraising!
Click on the 2020 IRONAID FAQs page for additional information or contact the IRONMAN Foundation at info@ironmanfoundation.org.
ATHLETE APPLICATION
IRONAID Grantees
Where can my organization apply for IRONAID grant funding?
The 2020 IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grant application has closed.
2021 IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grant opportunity details will be announced in early 2021.
What type of projects will be supported?
Potential projects that will be considered for grant funds include:
Providing personal, protective equipment (PPE) and for supplies such as ventilators, CT/x-ray machines, etc.
Supporting programs in the areas of housing/homelessness, healthcare, nutrition/food support, mental health, domestic violence, care for seniors, etc.
Finding ways to support quarantined individuals.
Funding organizations that are working in areas with poor access to regular medical services.
Supporting groups that are focused on WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
Supporting the research into SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
How are IRONAID grants awarded?
The fifth round of grant awards will be announced in early 2021 along with 2021 IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grant opportunity details.
Once an application is on file, it remains under consideration until the end of the calendar year.
Applications are reviewed by the IRONMAN Foundation Board of Directors and the IRONAID Committee.
What does my organization have to do as an IRONAID grantee?
The grant funds must be used within one year.
Who are previous grant cycle recipients?
The IRONMAN Foundation has announced four rounds of IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grants, totaling 160 grants to charitable organizations to assist with COVID-19 response programs. Recognizing that the immediate needs of communities will be different than those that will emerge in the months ahead, these rounds of IRONAID COVID-19 Support Fund grants aim to address some of the most pressing issues facing communities in the midst of the pandemic.
Round five grantees will be announced in early 2021
Round four grantees include:
Alzheimer’s Association, Honolulu, HI, USA
Back to Eden Fellow Program, Houston, TX, USA
Charity Wound Care Foundation Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
Chattanooga Community Kitchen, Chattanooga, TN, USA
Clean the World Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
Conquer Paralysis Now, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Des Moines Area Religious Council, Des Moines, IA, USA
Friendship House Roanoke, Inc., Roanoke, VA, USA
Fundación Bolivar Education, Quito, Ecuador
Fundación Créalo, Cali, Columbia
Girls on the Run Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Good Shepherd Food Bank, Auburn, ME, USA
HelpLine/Connections Volunteer Center, Delaware, OH, USA
Houston Area Community Services, Houston, TX, USA
Interfaith of The Woodlands, The Woodlands, TX, USA
Luke’s House: A Clinic for Healing and Hope, New Orleans, LA, USA
Msunduzi Hospice Association, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Oasis Community Partners, Washington, DC, USA
Pacific Elementary School, Davenport, CA, USA
Palmer Home for Children, Hernando, MS, USA
Paying It Forward – West Hawai’i, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA
PRC, San Francisco, CA, USA
PVCE Multisport Academy NPC, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Richmond Friends of Recreation, Richmond, CA, USA
Safe Passages, Oakland, CA, USA
Shelter from the Storm Ministries, Inc., Sun Prairie, WI, USA
Small Choices Foundation, Denver, CO, USA
Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services, Snoqualmie, WA, USA
Soaringwords, New York, NY, USA
Stitched Together, Morgan Hill, CA, USA
Street2Feet, San Antonio, TX, USA
Stronger to Serve, Magnolia, TX, USA
The Clinic, Phoenixville, PA, USA
The Garces Family Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Kyle Pease Foundation, Atlanta, GA, USA
The Northern Lighthouse, Inc., Presque Isle, ME, USA
The Woodlands Running Club, The Woodlands, TX, USA
Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Treaty Rock Elementary, Post Falls ID, USA
YMCA Greater Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Round three grantees include:
Children’s Trust Foundation Roanoke Valley, Inc., Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Colette’s Children’s Home, Huntington Beach, California, USA
DC SAFE, Washington, D.C., USA
Educational Foundation of Lake County, Leesburg, Florida, USA
Elizabeth-Lewis Emergency Squad, Inc., Elizabethtown, New York, USA
First Assembly of God, Inc. of Mulberry Florida, Mulberry, Florida, USA
FIRST-TIME MOM, Aurora, Illinois, USA
Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Florence Fang Community Farm, San Francisco, California, USA
Girl Stance, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Girls on the Run Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, California, USA
HandsOn Bay Area, San Francisco, California, USA
Houston Responds, Houston, Texas, USA
I Grow Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Kiwanis Clubs of Southern Nevada Foundation, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
NAMI Dane County, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Norte, Traverse City, Michigan, USA
Northwest Assistance Ministries, Houston, Texas, USA
Port of Support & Pathwayz to Success, Federal Way, Washington, USA
Princen Sammy & Herty Foundation, Edmonton, Canada
Pryor’ity Inc., Muncie, Indiana, USA
Recovery International, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA
Shepherd’s Hope, Winter Garden, Florida, USA
Southeastern Virginia Health System, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Spectrum for Living, River Vale, New Jersey, USA
Spectrum Health Foundation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
The Fenwick Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA
The Gateway Family YMCA, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
The Lydia Project, Augusta, Georgia, USA
The Post Falls Food Bank, Post Falls, Idaho, USA
The Shop Docs, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
The Volo Kids Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The WATERED, Mesa, Arizona, USA
Ubuntu Pathways, New York, New York, USA
UnidosUS, Washington, D.C., USA
Volunteers in Medicine America, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
wear blue: run to remember, DuPont, Washington, USA
Westside Fire District, Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
YMCA of Chesapeake, Easton, Maryland, USA
Round two grantees include:
ACOMERPR, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
American Red Cross of Northeastern New York, Albany, New York, USA
Anna Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
Beacon Health Foundation, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Bicycle Empowerment Network, Cape Town, South Africa
Black Girls RUN! Foundation, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge, Martinsville, Virginia, USA
Cameron’s Cause, Chickamauga, Georgia, USA
Cancer Support Community Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Carrera Internacional de la Mujer Iniciativa, Los Gatos, California, USA
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, California, USA
Challenged Athletes Foundation, San Diego, California, USA
Committee on the Shelterless, Petaluma, California, USA
Construction for Change, Seattle, Washington, USA
Creighton Community Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Des Moines Council of St. Vincent de Paul Society, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Dorset County Hospital Charity, Dorchester, England
Epilepsy Florida, Miami, Florida, USA
Hospice of Kona, Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i, USA
IRONMAN 4 the Kidz Charity Trust, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Langton Green, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Old Persons Community Centre Trust, Rotura, New Zealand
Precinct2gether, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA
Qhubeka Charity NPC, Johannesburg, South Africa
Radiant Health Centers, Irvine, California, USA
Roots for Kids, St. George, Utah, USA
Sewa International, Houston, Texas, USA
Southwest Center for Chronic Disease, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Team Live Grit, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Team Red White and Blue Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Gathering Place, North Bay, Canada
Trenton Makes Athletic Center, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
U.S. VETS, Houston, Texas, USA
United Sikhs, New York, New York, USA
Wamba e Athena Onlus, Milan, Italy
Willow House, Bannockburn, Illinois, USA
Winchester Rescue Mission, Inc., Winchester, Virginia, USA
World Central Kitchen, Washington, D.C., USA
YWCA of San Diego County, San Diego, California, USA
Youghal Community Health Project, Co Cork, Ireland
Round one grantees include:
Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, New York, USA
Affordable Recovery Housing, Blue Island, Illinois, USA
Air Force Enlisted Village, Shalimar, Florida, USA
Autism Speaks, New York, New York, USA
Boys & Girls Club of Kootenai County, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA
Chattanooga Area Food Bank, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Childhelp, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Comanche County Memorial Hospital Foundation, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Crossing the Jordan Foundation, Santa Rosa, California, USA
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Feeding San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Fueling the Frontlines in Partnership with Frontline Foods and World Central Kitchen, Tampa, Florida, USA
Harris County Protective Services Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA
Jevremovic Institute of Behavior and Brain Sciences, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Kids Soar, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Lutheran Social Services of Southern California, San Bernardino, California, USA
Meals on Wheels Montgomery County, Conroe, Texas, USA
Mercy House Living Centers, Sana Ana, California, USA
Mercytree International Foundation, Sacramento, California, USA
National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease Inc., Washington, D.C., USA
New England Center and Home for Veterans, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
North Country Life Flight, Inc., Saranac Lake, New York, USA
North Kohala Community Resource Center, Hawi, Hawai`i, USA
NorthEast Treatment Centers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Porchlight, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Rahab’s Daughters, Tampa, Florida, USA
Rape Crisis Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ridgeway District Rescue Squad Inc., Ridgeway, Virginia, USA
Rock House Kids, Rockford, Illinois, USA
Sagle Fire District, Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Switchpoint Community Resource Center, St. George, Utah, USA
Valcare, Paarl, South Africa
West Hawaii Community Health Center, Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i, USA
Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, New York, USA
Women’s Refugee Care WRC, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Workers’ Dignity Project, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Youth For Tomorrow New Life Center, Inc., Bristow, Virginia, USA
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With 16 wildlife sanctuaries and five national parks nestled in the Western Ghats, Kerala offers countless options for wildlife safaris. The rich flora and fauna as well as the unique topography of the sanctuaries make every safari truly special. Enjoy majestic views of the forest perched comfortably on the back of an elephant. Follow a tiger trail. Come face to face with wild boars, otters, exotic birds and more. A boat safari through the Periyar Lake will enable you to spot herds of elephants, sambar deer etc. by the water’s edge.
Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, Idukki
Sprawled across 777 sq.km, Periyar Sanctuary’s unique geomorphology, diverse wildlife and beautiful landscape make it a hotspot for wildlife safaris. Declared as Tiger Reserve, the Sanctuary’s 26 sq.km artificial lake, which serves as a watering hole for the animals during summer, adds to the experience.
Gavi Wildlife Sanctuary, Pathanamthitta
Developed as an exclusive ecotourism project Gavi’s evergreen forests shelter exotic wildlife including the Lion Tailed Macaque and Nilgiri Marten as well as rare flora including Podocarpus Wallichinia. The forests are also home to over 320 species of birds- the Great Indian Hornbill sunbird, wood pecker and more.
Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary
Declared as a project elephant site and rich in bio diversity Wayanad sanctuary is where you can see elephants roaming freely. Tigers, deer and wild boars can also be sighted occasionally at this Sanctuary that shelters flora typical of the South Indian moist deciduous forests and west coast semi evergreen forests.
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THE JEWISH MERCHANT PROJECT
jhssc.org
Merchant Map
Merchant Stories
Baker’s Repair Shop
1304 ½ Assembly Street
FAMILIES: Baker, Becker, Grossman
Main Image: Louis and Dora Grossman Baker, circa 1920. Image courtesy Laurie Walden
Louis Baker (1882-1946) immigrated from Russia in 1884 with his father, Hyman Becker. The family settled in Mount Pleasant. Louis and his second wife, Dora Grossman (1893-1967), moved to Columbia by 1919 where Louis co-managed Berry & Baker, which sold second-hand clothing and shoes. He opened Baker’s Repair Shop, which sold and repaired shoes, at 1304 ½ Assembly in 1928. After briefly moving to 1105 ½ Washington Street from 1936 until 1937, the store closed. Louis repaired shoes at Berry’s Shoe Store from 1939 until 1940, and then briefly reopened his own store in 1945 at 1239 Assembly Street under the name Louis D. Baker, shoe repair. The store closed following his death in 1946.
The Jewish Merchant Project is supported by the generosity of the Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Foundation and the Stanley B. Farbstein Endowment at the Coastal Community Foundation. Longtime members of the JHSSC, Mr. Arnold obm, a merchant himself, and Mr. Farbstein obm were both children of South Carolina Jewish merchants.
JHSSC Office
Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center
Email: jhssc2020@gmail.com
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Israeli Tourism Ministry Warns Against Discussing Sensitive Topics With UAE Citizens
By Daniel Estrin
Israeli tourists deplane from a FlyDubai flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai, on Nov. 28.
Malak Harb/AP
Don’t promote democracy, talk about the royal families or comment on treatment of foreign workers.
Israel is advising tourism professionals and businesspeople to avoid discussing those and other sensitive political topics with residents of the United Arab Emirates, as it protects its new peace deal with the Gulf Arab country and promotes new daily flights between Dubai and Tel Aviv, launched last week.
“United Arab Emirates: Do and Do Not,” the tourism ministry’s 29-page Hebrew-language advisory published Nov. 8, is the first public Israeli government comment on the issue of Emirati political freedoms, but it stops short of criticizing alleged abuses.
“The United Arab Emirates is not a democratic country and it is not acceptable to speak about democracies as a preferred model of government,” the advisory says. It also recommends “not to speak to Emiratis about the royal families,” “avoid speaking about local politics” and “avoid speaking about government or state policy towards foreign workers.”
The ministry says the guidelines are not government policy but cultural sensitivity tips aimed primarily at Israeli tourism operators preparing to receive Emirati visitors, whenever Israel lifts its COVID-19 ban on incoming tourism. It aims for 100,000 Gulf visitors in the coming years, with many expected to visit Islam’s third-holiest site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Although the two countries shared quiet ties for years, it’s largely a new cultural encounter. Israeli passport-holders traveled in special delegations by invitation only, and Emiratis were not previously known to visit Israel.
The deputy mayor of Jerusalem has asked Israeli officials to update security protocols at the airport, where Arab and Muslim visitors regularly face stringent questioning, so anticipated Emirati visitors will receive a warmer welcome.
The tourism ministry is also offering some recommended “do’s”: Praise the UAE’s accomplishments in the Middle East. Use the term “female empowerment” instead of “feminism.” Set up business meetings with Emiratis at least three weeks in advance. Hotels seeking Emirati guests should consider setting up separate swimming areas for men and women.
The advisory also includes a code of conduct on dress and customs for Israelis traveling to the UAE for business. Airlines are introducing multiple daily nonstop flights.
The new route to Dubai is fueling a buzz for travel-hungry Israelis marooned at home during the pandemic and eager to visit a part of the region previously off-limits. The UAE is one of just a few destinations Israel allows residents to visit without quarantining upon return.
The author of the advisory, Yossi Mann, says Emiratis — governed by dynastic rulers with limited elections for an advisory council — are wary about dysfunctional political systems and failed democracy movements and prefer a system of tribal family affiliations. He worries that raising sensitive political topics could cast a shadow on the Israel-Emirates peace deal, signed in September, which he calls a breakthrough in Jewish-Muslim relations after years of hostility.
“They’re still a traditional society. They’re doing huge progress for them and they should do it step by step,” says Mann, a senior lecturer in Mideast studies at Bar Ilan University, researcher at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center and a consultant to oil and gas companies in the region. “Because I believe there is a new era between Jews and Muslims, I think we should be sensitive to them. They are making a courageous step.”
Israel is also worried its citizens could misbehave while vacationing in the UAE.
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation did not respond to NPR’s request for comment on the Israeli advisory.
The State Department’s travel advisory for U.S. citizens in the UAE offers similar advice on behavior and dress, and warns travelers they could be arrested or deported for “making derogatory statements about the UAE, the royal families, the local governments or other people.” But unlike Israel, the U.S. has also reported human rights concerns there.
The UAE has promoted religious tolerance and female politicians, and, this month, allowed unmarried couples to live together and relaxed alcohol bans. But it bans political parties and labor unions, arrests democracy advocates and government critics, criminalizes gay sex and has not effectively prevented abuse of foreign workers, who make up the majority of the population, according to the State Department.
Analysts and activists in both Israel and the Gulf criticized the Israeli approach.
“Gulf citizens are worldly and engage in the topics that the Israeli government is steering its tourists from,” says Bader Al-Saif, a Kuwait-based fellow with the Carnegie Middle East Center. “It’s how one engages in these topics that would matter.”
“The message is: be silent. If you want to go to the UAE, and have a collaboration with them, don’t talk about anything that would light a fuse,” says Eitay Mack, a left-wing Israeli human rights lawyer.
If the oil-rich Gulf country begins to invest in Israeli universities and institutions, he warns it could quash Israeli criticism of Gulf policy, much as Chinese investments in Australian universities are alleged to have led to pro-China censorship.
“After the UAE … bring all their money, it will be much harder to do this discussion. Now is the time to set the rules,” Mack says.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a research fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking, a progressive Israeli think tank, says Israel is expected to lobby for Emirati interests in Washington as it has done with Egypt and Jordan, and already reportedly mediated the sale of Israeli spyware to Emirati officials to track dissidents.
“Israeli citizens should question this alliance with an authoritarian regime,” Tsurkov says. “Most countries around world have normal relations with these regimes. But not all countries go and do lobbying work on behalf of those regimes. Not all countries sell spyware to hack into phones of activists.”
In August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the UAE was an “advanced democracy” in an interview with an Emirati TV news channel. He posted it to Twitter, then deleted it shortly after.
Sami Sockol contributed to this story from Jerusalem.
Source:: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940122963/israeli-tourism-ministry-warns-against-discussing-sensitive-topics-with-uae-citi
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Miami University Oxford, Ohio est. 1809 College of Arts and Science
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Welcome to the website of the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University. We offer a variety of academic programs at the undergraduate and graduate level in sociology, gerontology, and social justice studies, and offer students opportunities for research and career development.
Our faculty teach and do research in a number of important areas that address many of the most pressing issues facing society, including crime, justice, aging, the family, the environment, and many others.
Our students are active in the life of the university, and go on to work in a variety of fields. I hope you'll look around to learn about our department's rich history, our academic programs, faculty research, our students and how you can make a difference!
John Steele '14 Named Public Diplomacy Officer
“I told myself, ‘John, although you didn’t come into Miami with many things, you’re going to leave Miami with everything.’ ” As he prepares to deploy to Angola for the U.S. Department of State, Social Justice Studies alum John Steele reflects on his journey in Heart of Steele.
See also: SJS alum ('14) John Steele receives Charles B. Rengel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship.
Kristen Budd receives Knox Distinguished Teaching Award
Kristen Budd, assistant professor of sociology and gerontology, is the recipient of the 2019 E. Phillip Knox Distinguished Teaching Award. The award recognizes one faculty member who uses creative, innovative and engaging teaching methods at the undergraduate level.
Prof. Glenn Muschert's Research Featured in the New York Times
Sociology Professor Glenn Muschert's research on school shootings was featured in a New York Times Video on the topic.
Prof. Bob Applebaum on Long-term Care Insurance
Gerontology Professor Bob Applebaum was cited in Reuters article on long-term care insurance.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Vikings, going into the 2019 season, are looking to put last year’s disappointing campaign behind them. The team finished 2018 at 8-7-1, missing the playoffs on the final weekend of the regular season. This was far from an ideal outcome after just missing the Super Bowl the year before and then signing quarterback Kirk Cousins to get them there.
The Vikings will try to return to that 2017 success and may have done just enough to do it. The team signed guard Josh Kline and drafted center Garrett Bradbury. An improved offensive line should improve Dalvin Cook’s production in the run game thereby helping Cousins excel in the passing game. Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs remain among the best receiving duos in the League, and Kyle Rudolph is productive from the tight end spot.
WCCO sports anchor Mike Max, who has been following Vikings training camp, sees another change the should pay dividends. “They’ve made some changes with their offensive coaches in the off-season,” according to Max. “Probably the biggest thing they’ve done [is] bringing in Gary Kubiak to oversee the offense. Kevin Stefanski assumes the role of offensive coordinator.”
Kirk Cousins (Photo Credit: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)
“Can that offense, offensive line, etc. take a step in the right direction? Because that would be the biggest concern of the fans and probably the organization as well.” That improvement will likely depend on Cousins’ comfort level in the system. And a comfortable Cousins can then pick and choose the right moments to ad lib. “He’d like to be a little bit more of a gunslinger,” says Max, “kind of like Brett Favre, when he was here with the Minnesota Vikings.”
The defense remains among the NFL’s top units, even with the defection of Sheldon Richardson along the defensive line. Shamar Stephen is a capable replacement at the tackle spot. Likewise safety Andrew Sendejo is gone, but Anthony Harris, who played there some last year, will step in. “They should be really good on defense,” in Max’s estimation.
So will the 2019 Vikings look more like the 2018 version or the 2017 version? The answer to that question could determine head coach Mike Zimmer’s future. “In general, people want to see him succeed,” as Max sees it. “Most people accept the fact that if they don’t make the playoffs this year, his job could be in jeopardy.”
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jazz piano scales
Just because you practice scales, chords, patterns, and exercises doesn’t mean you will sound stiff and mechanical, OR that you will become a jazz great! Jazz Piano Scales and Exercises presents a novel and more interesting way to practice patterns and etudes while learning jazz. Jazz Piano Scales and Exercises: An Engaging Way to Practice Scale Patterns and Etudes While Learning Jazz Lee Evans. Try different combinations, like playing a chord in the right hand, while playing a … Virtual piano chords and scales, alternate chord positions, voicings and modes. Jazz holds its rightful place as a thinking person’s music, as it involves an intimate knowledge of theory. Following the notation and fingerings for scales major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor in each of the 12 keys, three jazz exercises are given. That’s because jazz scales for piano are mostly the same scales used by the greatest classical composers. But for our purposes, we’re going to talk about the most common rhythm found in jazz music: swing. To facilitate my teaching, I have further subdivided the above two facets of Jazz into Theory and Practice components. The truth is that scales aren't about strict rules, but more like a background in your practice. In these lessons we will discuss: And once we learn some Jazz Scales, we will go on to see how we can apply them in Jazz Improvisation. Playing scales is a great way for improving your technique and can serve as building blocks for creating melodies. Scales can have fewer or more notes (all the way up to the Chromatic Scale with 12 notes). Scales used in Jazz improvisation. The Lydian Dominant Scale is used to improvise over a 7th chord, or more specifically, a 7#11 chord. 100 Modern Jazz Licks For Piano: Learn 100 Jazz Piano Licks in the Style of 10 of the World’s Greatest Players Mr Nathan Hayward. Scales, arpeggios and broken chords Common patterns found in jazz. (As a footnote, atonal music can be mentioned here, that is a reaction against the tonal music). Copyright © 2012-2020 pianoscales.org. Publisher: ABRSM. The pictures that illustrate the scales on this site are protected by copyright and are not allowed to be used or published without permission. New scale with pictures and theory: Iwato Scale Piano scales are valuable knowledge for every person playing the piano. One of several Japanese scales. So, when I get to teach other people how to play it just feels awesome! Here is a PDF of the 36 Important Scales (Major, Dorian, and […] The ‘blues’ scale is a specific scale which is used in blues music. On this site you can find exercises with scales written in notes. There is not a single group of scales that can be called jazz scales – a jazz pianist uses lots of different scales. $12.99. To summarize, the most important scales to learn first are the Major, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales because they help you navigate major 7th, minor 7th, and dominant (b7) chords, respectively. Following the notation and fingerings for scales – major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor – in each of the 12 keys, three jazz exercises are given. 4.5 out of 5 stars 15. If You're a Jazz Piano Player serious about Getting Better & Making the Most of Your … See more ideas about music theory, piano music, learn guitar. More Practice Steps to Learning Jazz Improv. Jazz Piano Scales and Exercises presents a novel and more interesting way to practice patterns and etudes while learning jazz. Playing scales is a great way for improving your technique and can serve as building blocks for creating melodies. Getting the proper piano class right here will not be hard given that this location has a prosperous tradition in tradition. Fingerings and intervals for C dim. More challenging stuff, but still doable with patience. We will first learn the Theory (Jazz Chords and Jazz Scales) and then learn how to apply the theory in Practice (with Jazz Chord Voicings and Jazz Improvisation). Because of the relationship of notes in specific scales, they will always sound well played together. Scales provide the foundation for understanding harmony and learning the 12 major scales is a fundamental step in learning jazz piano. Jazz Scales Piano Concepts For Any Instrument. New content: Music intervals and their names - quiz Therefore, you shouldn't consider scales as some boring and dull stuff â it can be your step up to a new level of playing. Enlarge cover. On this site you can learn lots of piano scales and receive tips explaining how to use them. All include improvisation. It is boring just to memorize if you don't understand the use of it ⦠Therefore, the idea is to always provide the musical context for the scale and not just hand over the notes. Catalogue No: 9781860960086. This tune uses the Lydian Dominant Scale for … The (diatonic) Major Scale has 7 notes, but there’s no reason to restrict ourselves to only 7 notes. Don't worry, they are almost similar but the distinctions will give you new possibilities. They can also belong to a certain key. If you keep all the notes of a scale the same but change the tonal centre, you create a new scale or mode. This relationship is also true about chords â but the difference between chords and scales is that a scale normally consists of more notes, which are not played simultaneously as often is the case with chords. F, Bb, Eb and Ab are all common keys in jazz since they work well for brass instrument. Jazz exams include: Three tunes from the list for the grade A blues, a standard and a contemporary tune. Aural tests Testing all-round aural awareness and musicianship skills. Now, you could just play each scale up and down the piano, but there is a better way to switch between the modes seamlessly. Most times you will see the tempo … When you read “played over _____ chords,” it simply means to play the scales indicated in either hand while playing a chord in the other. Access to new exclusive material that is produced. Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for jazz scale by Lessons - Scales arranged by Marc Sabatella for Piano (Solo) There are many different rhythms used in jazz music, and if you’re an aspiring jazz drummer, you’ll likely need to become familiar with all of them! Become a member As I mentioned in the last module on Jazz Chords; Jazz is almost always 'homophonic'. Every interval between two notes of the same tone, like a C to a higher C, is an octave. But there are typical scales used in jazz as this overview shows. By knowing and recognizing scales, you will be able to place a song in a musical context and as a result be able to play it with less effort. Jazz piano has brought me incredible joy in my life. Knowing scales on the piano can, of course, also assist you in composing your own music. Honestly, I just want you to think I'm cool. The Pentatonic scales are also common, and in some styles the modal scales are frequently used. Listen-ing to jazz records/tapes should be part of every musicians daily routine. It is the theory behind that will help you understand chords and other concepts in music. Jazz Piano Scale Practice: Mode Connecting Exercise. Below you can see an illustration of notes on a staff â here as the scale of D major. Mar 11, 2019 - Explore Jose Crespo's board "jazz scales" on Pinterest. Jazz pianists frequently use The Dominant Diminished Scale when soloing over Dominant 7th chords. That’s when it comes in handy to add some jazz scales into your blues piano improv. Tài liệu jazz piano scales and modes( gồm điệu thức Major, Dorian, and Mixolydian in All 12 Keys) mà mình sưu tầm, và chia sẻ dành cho các bạn có sự quan tâm, tham khảo về jazz. These keys are also ordered in octaves that makes eight notes. Scales are collections of notes that belong together. We are going to be mixing the three scales together: practice the Dorian, Mixolydian in Major jazz scales together in the context of the II-V-I progression. A scale consists of notes that have a musical connection and are building blocks for chords and schemes for improvisation. Here’s a list of essential scales for jazz and blues piano players. Free Jazz Piano Sheet Music, Lessons, Chord Charts, Resources sheet music pieces to download from 8notes.com Piano scales – overviews and instructions. Why you can use multiple scales over the same chord; And once we learn some Jazz Scales, we will go on to see how we can apply them in. Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz.The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. To effectively practice your scales so that you can improvise jazz piano, you need to be able to comfortably play all of your modes on that piano that you just learned. There are more areas to explore, including exercises and an introduction to the theory of piano scales. Pianoscales.org offers exclusive material requested by visitors such as sheet music and other kind of material. Jazz Chords (Harmony); and; Improvisation (Melody). Jazz Piano Scales How to Recruit the Correct Cambridge Piano Teachers Cambridge in the United Kingdom is house to one particular of the world’s leading universities, University of Cambridge. It is the theory behind that will help you understand chords and other concepts in music. 3. 3 Jazz Scales. As shown in the picture below the keyboard on a piano is symmetrical arranged in twelve â seven white and five black â keys that are repeated (some exceptions are shown in the left and right ends). Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instrument's combined melodic and harmonic capabilities. Jazz scales are used to create changes of mood, restate harmony and to enable improvised solos. This make scales a primary foundation for everyone who wants to improvise on the instrument. Sheet music in different versions plus sound. Many guitarists make the mistake of thinking that there is a dedicated ‘jazz scale’ which they can used over any kind of jazz progression. It is boring just to memorize if you don't understand the use of it ⦠Therefore, the idea is to always provide the musical context for the scale and not just hand over the notes. It doesn’t matter whether you play guitar, piano, saxophone, trumpet, bass, or the kazoo. A scale consists of notes that have a musical connection and are building blocks for chords and schemes for improvisation. All this means is that Jazz consists of two parts: To facilitate my teaching, I have further subdivided the above two facets of Jazz into Theory and Practice components. Jazz scales often get compared to the ‘blues’ scale. On this site you can learn lots of piano scales and receive tips explaining how to use them. Jazz Piano Scales and Exercises presents a novel and more interesting way to practice patterns and etudes while learning jazz. In this section we’ll cover 3 different Dominant Diminished scales, how to construct this scale, and other names for this scale. As mentioned above, this part of your piano education is sometimes given negative connotations: scales are intruding on your freedom of creativity and things like that. Jazz scales and improvisation. Find complex Jazz chords or simple triads easily A scaleis simply some subset of the 12 notes of an octave, and have two components: 1. the notes they are comprised of; and 2. a tonal centre (or root note). I'm kind of a show off I love the look of delight when people start playing these scales because they sound awesome! Department: Jazz graded music exams - Jazz piano. Playing piano is often done by reading notes. You need to know the scales independently of one another to tackle these below. Important to study is also the Minor Scale which exist in three different versions â the natural, the harmonic and the melodic. In this module we look at Jazz Scales – which are used in improvisation. In addition, training at scales will make your fingers stronger. These scales are important for all instruments to know. It can be done just by playing the white keys as in the C Major Scale, or it can be more advanced by, for example, using modus for jazz improvisation. How to Play Jazz Piano,Jazz Piano Scales,Jazz Piano School,Jazz Piano Voicings,Jazz Piano Improvisation,Jazz Piano Theory,Jazz Piano Standards,Jazz Piano Harmony,Practice Jazz Piano,Jazz Piano Training,Jazz Piano Licks,Jazz Piano Solo,Jazz Piano Comping are all covered in depth in our Videos. In the menu, you will find different categories of piano scales as well as resources like printable scales and useful tools like explanations of correct fingering. More by this composer. Paperback. Recently I did a post about the 3 Most Important Jazz Scales for Beginning Improvisers. We will first learn the Theory (Jazz Chords and Jazz Scales) and then learn how to apply the theory in Practice (with Jazz Chord Voicings and Jazz Improvisation). When we play a piece of music using the notes of a particular scale, we say that we are playing in that key. To check out this scale in action, read through Sonny Rollins’ classic blues “Blues Seven”. This in combination with your increasing knowledge about how the tones relates will make you capable to play faster. Test your knowledge of the intervals in music. Contrary to what many method books or jazz educators will tell you, learning all your scales will not guarantee that you’ll be able to improvise in all 12 keys or that you’ll be able to solo successfully over any standard. Exactly which scales you should focus upon will depend on the musical styles that interest you. contact | about | sitemap | policy Knowing scales on the piano can, of course, also assist you in composing your own music. By knowing and recognizing scales, you will be able to place a song in a musical context and as a result be able to play it with less effort. Quick Study Piano scales are valuable knowledge for every person playing the piano. Swing is referred to as both a feel and a rhythmic style, so as a musician it’s important to be able to convey that feeling and rhythm when it’s indicated in music. As a member you get: The material is accessible from your member page ⦠More details. But generally, a good advice is to learn the Major Scale considering how common it is in piano music. Being a very appreciated supporter of this site. Jazz Piano Scales, Grades 1-5 ABRSM. Following the notation and fingerings for scales major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor in each of the 12 keys, three jazz exercises are given. More than any other ingredient, the JAZZ TRADITION is based on LISTENING. Following the notation and fingerings for scales major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor in each of the 12 keys, three jazz exercises are given. But it’s a means to an end. Here is a list of the 16 most important scales for jazz improvisation and the harmonic contexts in which they can be used for improvisation. So, a mode is a scale created by establishing a new root note within … Jazz Piano Scales and Exercises presents a novel and more interesting way to practice patterns and etudes while learning jazz. Jazz Piano Scales, Grades 1-5 ABRSM. Hopefully some of you piano learners will support the site and do it possible to create more quality-focused educational material. scale--.---From new book "Wisdom of the Hand-The Genius Guide to the Jazz Scales and Chords" The piano has 88 keys that are put together on a keyboard. Scales are not the hidden key to improvisation – if only it were that easy! For example:
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Bafana Bafana draw against Black Stars
Bafana Bafana made a few changes to their starting line-up as compared to the team that started when the shared the spoils with Burkina Faso in the 2018 World Cup Qualifier in Ouagadougou, over the weekend.
On a windy Tuesday night Brighton Mhlongo, Abbubaker Mobara, Isaac Nhlapo, Ayanda Patosi, Oupa Manyisa, May Mahlangu found themselves singing the national anthem in the starting line up of the international friendly against the Black Stars of Ghana in Durban.
Ghana enjoyed much of the possession for most of the opening stages, but with their attacks being just a bit loose, they were not able to trouble the South African defense. The Black Stars quite clearly taking this match seriously, they fielded what looked like a decent team, with the likes of Jonathan Mensah at the back alongside the Leicester City duo of Jeff Schlupp and Daniel Amartey; on-loan Chelsea prodigy Christian Atsu alongside Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey in midfield, this team was not to be taken lightly by any stretch of the imagination
But it was in the 37th min when Bafana Bafana found themselves paying the price for some loose passing in front of their own box. Oupa Manyisa had his pass picked off by Harrison Afful, who was in turn fouled by Siyabonga Nhlapo for the penalty, from which Mubarak Wakaso smashes home from the penalty spot to give Ghana the lead as they went into the break.
Second half resumed with Bafana Bafana playing against the wind, but the South African came out guns blazing, with some enterprising play at the start of the stanza. Receiving a return pass from Sbusiso Vilakazi, Ayanda Patosi curler got the equalizer for Bafana Bafana in the 51st min from the edge of the box. What a beauty!
Feeling confident that he could get the Black Starts against the ropes Coach Mashaba made some changes with a double switch to bring on Mazola and Serero on for Mahlangu and Patosi the goal scorer (59th min). Gabuza replaced Vilakazi in the 67th. But not much was to come from it
In the last few minutes Ghana did well at knocking it around among themselves, but seldom threatened the SA goal. Both sides still wanting the win, and fighting till the death even though it looked like a stalemate as the 90th minute ticked by. If only Gabuza had hit the target, his miss in the dying minutes of the game, saw him blasts the chance well over the crossbar, in optional time. 1-1 it was when the final whistle went off.
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Arsenic mobility and potential co-leaching of fluoride from the sediments of three tributaries of the upper Brahmaputra floodplain, Lakhimpur, Assam, India
Patel, Arbind Kumar; Das, Nilotpal; Goswami, Ritusmita; Kumar, Manish
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A sequential extraction procedure (SEP), batch desorption experiments and the concept of partition coefficient were applied on seven sediment samples from the Subansiri-Dikrong-Ranganadi River System (SDRS), a subset of the upper Brahmaputra floodplain (BFP), to understand leaching of arsenic (As) and fluoride (F−). Sediment samples were collected during monsoon and post-monsoon seasons from each of three river banks to distinguish the effect of annual cyclic flooding events on As content and mobilization. SEP revealed that the readily leachable chemisorbed As phase and amorphous Fe (hydr)oxides were the principal contributors to mobilized As during the monsoon season. Constant flushing of the rivers removed most of the physisorbed and chemisorbed As during the monsoon. A submerged anoxic condition toward late monsoon resulted in Fe (hydr)oxides becoming the dominant source of removable As during the post-monsoon season. Iron in the sediments was positively correlated with F− during both monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. This suggests that Fe (hydr)oxides are a host for F− and a correlation between reductive hydrolysis and F−. Removal of Fe (hydr)oxides from the sediments significantly reduced As retention/leaching capacity. Arsenic desorption was especially high from raw sediments of the Ranganadi River owing to the fact that it had the highest amount of As associated with Fe (hydr)oxides, which falls sharply in the post-monsoon season due to a prolonged submerged state leading to reductive dissolution. However, as leached F− is being constantly flushed out by the SDRS, F− contamination may not pose a problem in the current or futuristic scenarios.
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Bands / Discography
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Rodney Johnson Band
1996, Rodney Johnson Band, I always had a great time working with this band… Rodney always had great players on his gig. The bass player and drummer position was always a revolving door, some of the guys I remember working with are: Cody Carlson/Drums, Jessie Andratti/Drums, Randy Panda/Drums, Rockin’ Ron Thompson/Drums, Tyrone Starks/Drums & Vocals, Ronnie Ellis/Bass, Wayne Six/Bass, Chuck Rainey/Bass(who played with everybody in the world, but is probably best known for recording on most of the Steely Dan records), Michael Lee/Lead,Rhythm Guitar/Vocals, me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Paul Harrington/Harmonica, and Rodney Johnson/Vocals.
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Danny Melton/Keyboards & Vocals, Richard Bannister/Bass & Vocals, Mike Lang/Drums and me/Guitar & Vocals
Jerry LaCroix
Jerry LaCroix, formerly of Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Edgar Winter’s White Trash, Rare Earth, and the Boogie Kings out of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The members of that band were: me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Martin McCall/Drums, Mark Austin/Bass & Vocals, Rex Mauney/Keyboards & Vocals, Ken Stock/Keyboards.
John Keaton Band
John Keaton Band, Chip Abernathy/Drums, John Smith/Sax (used to work with Edgar Winter’s White Trash, Toto, The Boogie Kings and who knows who else) Ken Stock/Keyboards, John Keaton/Vocals & Bass, and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar. John has to be one of the best vocalists I’ve ever worked with and it was always a good time working with this band.
Karen Bella Band
Karen Bella Band, high energy rock and roll/blues band with Karen Bella/Vocals, Mark Austin/Bass & Vocals, Martin McCall/Drums, Paul Harrington/Harmonica, Keith Stone/Sax and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar.
Alibi, with Mike Hamilton/Keyboards & Vocals (formerly with Point Blank), Katrina Hamilton/Vocals, Wayne Six/Bass & Vocals, and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, the drummer position was a revolving door at times, so we had guys like: Ken Murray alias Nardo/Drums, Nick Oshoa/Drums, Rockin’ Ron Thompson/Drums, Gene Glover/Drums. This band with Gene Glover playing drums played a show in Deep Ellum as Bo Diddley’s rhythm section.
Charles Stewart & True Colors
Charles Stewart & True Colors, another blues/rock band that I had a lot of fun working with consisted of: Charles Stewart/Vocals & Guitar, Chip Abernathy/Drums, Tolbert Pitman/Bass & Vocals, after Tolbert quit, we got Freddie Pol/Bass & Vocals, Darby Orr/Keyboards & Vocals, and me/Lead & Rhythm Guitar.
Info, was a rock band that played more hotel gigs than anything else…I had a lot of fun working with them. The band consisted of: Patty Sterling/Vocals, Billy King/Bass & Vocals who was later replaced by Ronnie Jordan/Bass & Vocals, Mike Lang/Drums, Richard Theisen/Keyboards & Vocals, and me/Guitar.
The Bobby Whitlock Band
1984, Started playing guitar for song writer, keyboardist, guitarist, vocalist, Bobby Whitlock who worked with Eric Clapton on the Derek & the Dominos album, Bonnie and Delaney Bramlett, Eric Clapton & Friends album, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison and others…the band was based out of Ft. Worth, TX and the members were: me/Lead, Rhythm and Slide Guitar, Bill Randolph/Bass & Vocals (formerly of Nevada Bros. Band and Point Blank), later on Eddie Marshall (formerly with The Larry Franklin Band played Bass, Jonny (Rosebud) Doughty/Drums, David Milsap/Lead & Rhythm Guitar/Vocals. Bobby kept telling me I was going to have my chance to meet Eric Clapton, but unfortunately it never happened. It was a pleasure and an honor to be able to work with Bobby and the rest of the guys in this band.
The Larry Franklin Band
1979, I started working with The Larry Franklin Band, which was a high energy country rock band. We started off at a club in Denison, TX called Lucille’s, and after a few months of rehearsal we went on the road playing coast to coast.
The members of that band were: Larry Franklin/Fiddle/Guitar/Vocals, Ray McCarthy/Keyboards/Vocals, Jeff Williams/Drums, me/Lead, Rhythm & Slide Guitar, Stacy Starnes/Bass, Gary Jackson/Lead & Rhythm Guitar/Vocals and Wayne Perrin/FOH Sound Engineer. Eventually Stacy quit and was replaced by Eddie Marshall.
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Rusty Gordon
1976, I started working on an album project with long time friend (who I’ve known since I was 12 yrs. Old) Gordon Eatherly at Pollaro’s Recording Studio in Denison, TX. Gordon and I wrote a lot of songs together and with Joe Pollaro’s permission started laying tracks down at his studio using Sid Whatley/Drums, me on Guitar, Jimmy Lowrance/Guitar, Jim Choate/Bass, Danny Melton and Ray McCarthy/Keyboards & Vocals and Gordon Eatherly/Vocals & Acoustic Guitar. Sid and I both engineered the project. When we finished it we started playing gigs around Sherman, Denison, Dallas and Oklahoma as the Rusty Gordon Band which consisted of everyone who played on the album except Sid and Ray. We enlisted long time session drummer Mike Webster to start playing gigs with us.
Later on the album was mailed to WBAP Radio in Dallas where they were holding a contest called the Best Bands in Texas. We won a place on that album with a song we wrote called “Going Back to Texas”. Later on we submitted the tape to Q102 Radio in Dallas and won a place on the More Texas Crude album with a song we wrote called, “Can’t See the Ends”. Even though we had some radio station recognition, we weren’t making any money. So, I started working for Pollaro Multi Advertising Productions as an engineer and a guitarist for a short time.
WBAP's The Best Bands In Texas Album Cover
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Q102's More Texas Crude Album Cover
Nevada Brothers
Shortly after that Dale introduced me to a guitar player named Jimmy Lowrance who he said played with a style similar to mine. We had a great time jamming and ended up playing together in a blues/rock band called Nevada Brothers. Through the approximately 4 almost 5 years that the band was together the personnel changed a few times. The band started out with Dale Bolin/Drums, Ronnie Roth/Vocals, Jimmy Lowrance/Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Steve Dupuis/Lead, Rhythm & Slide Guitar, can’t remember the bass players name, and Danny Melton/Keyboards & Vocals.
Steve Dupuis
After the Spellbinders, at age 15, I started playing guitar for another band in Sherman called, “Love Is”. I thought it was a stupid name for a band, but we must have been pretty good because we won a battle of the bands contest, and beat out some of Sherman’s best bands that had been playing together for a long time. The members of that band were: Dale Bolin/Drums, Bob Maret/Vocals and Guitar, Danny Melton/Keyboards and Vocals, Skip Tumbleson/Bass and Vocals. We frequently played at the Sherman and Perrin Youth Centers, the Municipal Building in Sherman, Tanglewood at Lake Texoma, and a place called the Sputnik Club in Cartwright, Okla., without our parents knowledge. Glad we’re still alive after working there!
The Spellbinders
My first band to play guitar in was called The Spellbinders. We were all in the 7 th grade except for the drummer who was a year older than the rest of us. The members of that band were: John Blystone/Guitar, Roger Marshall/Bass, Marc Jaco/Vocals (who later took Rogers place on the bass), and David Dennis/Drums. We played sock hops, cottilion dances, the Youth Center in Sherman and at Perrin AFB and the Perrin Recreational Area at Lake Texoma. John, David and I still go out and eat lunch together occasionally and David and I work together on Texas Dept. of Transportation informational/training videos.
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Bands I've worked with or recorded: (most recent - past)
Primeaux Blues Band
Tyrone Starks Band
Rusty Gordon Band
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State of the Industry: Seafood Restaurants in the U.S.
Written Analysis (5 pages):
Historical, Current, and Future Sales
Per Capita Consumption of Seafood
Per Capita Consumption of Beef, Pork, and Poultry
Food Expenditures Away From Home
Demographic Profile of Target Market
Number of Seafood Restaurants Growing
Leading Seafood Restaurants
Average Sales Per Unit
Statistical Tables (9 tables):
Seafood Restaurant Sales in the U.S., 2000-2010
U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Seafood, 2000-2010
U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Beef, 2000-2010
U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Pork, 2000-2010
U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Poultry, 2000-2010
Food Expenditures: Away From Home vs. At Home, 1990-2005, 2010
Demographic Profile of Seafood Restaurant Customers
Demographic Profile of Consumers Eating Dinner Away From Home
Demographic Profile of Consumers Eating Lunch Away From Home
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Montrose resident shares Smokey Bear memories By Lu Anne Tyrrell, Colorado Life Magazine
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Lu Anne Tyrrell
Imagine having a childhood that includes a cherished memory of the time you got up close and personal with a national icon: the real live Smokey Bear. That’s the case for Pat Ewen.
Ewen, a retired teacher who has resided with her family in Montrose for 32 years, recently shared her memorabilia and memories of the legendary bear and his celebrity friends.
The Colorado native’s father, J. Morgan Smith, was employed by the U.S. Forest Service as district ranger stationed out of the Hot Sulphur Springs office. It was her father’s promotion to assistant director of the Forest Service’s fire prevention campaign that took his family to Washington, D.C., in 1948. It was a move that would introduce Ewen to Smokey.
The Smokey Bear fire prevention campaign has been in existence since the early ’40s. It was created to educate the public about the dangers of fire and importance of fire prevention. At that time, the message was primarily conveyed through posters and cartoons of a “spokesbear” depicted in a forest ranger-style campaign hat and blue jeans.
A new chapter in the campaign began after a devastating 1950 fire that burned more than 10,000 acres in New Mexico’s Lincoln National Forest. Out of the smoke and rubble came a little bear cub that firefighters spotted clinging to a tree, his paws and legs badly burned. The folks who rescued the cub knew just what they were going to call him.
“We now have a live Smokey Bear, let’s use him,” Ewen recalled her father saying.
With an actual bear affected by a real forest fire, Ewen’s dad went to work incorporating the cub and celebrities of the day into the fire prevention campaign. Upon recovering from the burns, Smokey was flown to Washington, D.C., and presented to the National Zoo as a living symbol of fire prevention.
As a cub, Smokey was known to make many escorted appearances with forest service officials and celebrities of the day such as actor William Boyd, who portrayed fictional Western hero Hopalong Cassidy. It was at one of those events that Ewen met the captivating cub.
“It was 1950, and we picked him up from the National Zoo with a cage that the zoo had loaned us to transport him to a circus appearance with Hopalong Cassidy,” Ewen said. “I sat in the back seat with him. He cried the all the way.”
With a desire to perpetuate Smokey’s legacy, Ewen presented photos and clippings of Smokey’s early days to the children attending last year’s Smokey the Bear Birthday Party event hosted by the Montrose Public Lands Center. “Having Pat present at the Smokey the Bear Birthday Party was the highlight of the event,” said Tammy Randall-Parker, the U.S. Forest Service’s Ouray District ranger.
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Play-to-Win is similar to the usual game library that we’ve had at SnowCon every year, but with a twist – you can actually bring home a new game! It’s easy: be sure to check out the Play-to-Win section of the game library, sign out a game, grab some players and play the game. After you’re finished, return the game to the library and add the names of all the players to the list for the game you’ve just played. On Sunday afternoon, we’ll draw one of those names for each Play-to-Win game, and the lucky winner will receive that game!
We’re reaching out to many game publishers this year and we’re hoping to expand the Play-to-Win library! We have a gaggle of enthusiastic volunteers willing to run demos and teach attendees how to play games.
Play-to-Win has been a huge hit with our attendees and exposed many people to great games they’d otherwise not have tried.
If you are a game publisher and would like to be part of our Play-to-Win library, please contact us at info@snowconmaine.com.
Last year’s Play to Win support provided by:
Stronghold Games https://strongholdgames.com/
Grandpa Beck’s Games https://www.grandpabecksgames.com/
Bezier Games, Inc. https://beziergames.com/
Grail Games https://grail-games.com/
Thames & Kosmos www.thamesandkosmos.com/index.php/kosmosgames
Pandasaurus Games https://www.pandasaurusgames.com/
Shades of Vengeance www.shadesofvengeance.com/games/
Mayday Games https://www.maydaygames.com/
Indie Boards & Cards www.indieboardsandcards.com/
Smirk & Dagger Games www.smirkanddagger.com/
Cheeky Parrot Games https://www.cheekyparrotgames.com/
The above companies are part of the Envoy program –http://www.dexposure.com/envoy/
The following publishers are providing support independently:
Czech Games Edition(CGE) https://czechgames.com/
Renegade Games Studios www.renegadegamestudios.com/
Blue Orange Games www.blueorangegames.com/
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Organiser training
Joining SolFed
Introduction to SolFed
Community Strategy
SolFed Constitution
Aberdeen local-in-formation
Edinburgh local-in-formation
Plymouth Local-in-formation
A short history of British Anarcho-syndicalism
Fighting for ourselves (book)
Section of the International Workers Association
Calculations by the High Pay Centre thinktank and the professional HR body the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) show top executives are earning 133 times more than the average worker, at a rate of around £1,020 per hour or £3.9m annually. That’s up 11% compared to a year earlier.
It means CEOs working average 12-hour days would only have to clock in for 29 hours in 2019 to earn the median £29,574 of British staff.
Predictably union leaders have rushed to condemn the news. The GMB’s general secretary, Tim Roache, said: “It’s sickening. Three days into the year and fat cat bosses have already made what average workers will earn all year.” Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, also slammed “greedy executives” she said were “taking more than they’ve earned…..Too much wealth is being hoarded at the top,” she said, adding that reforms were needed to bring executive pay “back down to earth”.
More to the point is what union leaders, who head a 6 million trade union movement are doing about growing obscene inequality….not a lot!!
This article was published on 5 January 2019 by the SolFed group in Manchester. Other recent articles:
HOW TO FIGHT REDUNDANCIES AT YOUR WORKPLACE (posted 8. October)
Manchster SolFed at demo called in support of migrants yesterday (posted 5. October)
Fifty-one years after the Stonewall riots LBGTQ+ people still face discrimination and violence in all aspects of their lives (posted 28. June)
New Social Distancing Measures and How to Stay Safe at Work (posted 25. June)
Your Rights And Working Part-time Under The Goverment's Furlough Job Scheme (posted 19. June)
It's Official; poor means skint from Catalyst
Why Anarcho-Syndicalism Remains Relevant Today from DA
Time To Occupy Our Own Lives from South London
Holland and Barrett feels the pressure in Brighton from Brighton
Coordinated strike action should be built from below from Liverpool
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[PDF] H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education | by ☆ Mark Walden
Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM By Mark Walden
HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATIONOtto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country He is the perfect candidate to become the world s next supervillain.That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E handpicked to become a memberHIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATIONOtto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country He is the perfect candidate to become the world s next supervillain.That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E handpicked to become a member of the incoming class The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades All the kids are elite they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the country Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101 But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six year program, and leaving is not an option.With the help of his new friends an athletic martial arts expert a world famous, beautiful diamond thief and a spunky computer genius the only other people who seem to want to leave can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E.
Title: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
Author: Mark Walden
Jennifer Wardrip Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Reviewed by Jeremey for TeensReadTooWelcome to Hogwarts for bad guys, minus the magic H.I.V.E is a school set on a deserted island where brilliant young adults who have come from criminal families or have taken part in criminal projects are taught to become the worst that they can be Otto Malpense remembers nothing about how he came to be on the H.I.V.E island, and neither does him Asian friend, Wing The H.I.V.E staff explains to the young criminals that their parents agreed to let them join the [...]
Tori Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Well rant time, I guess.First of all, I was going to finish this book because, after all, it is better to rant when you ve read the whole thing and I don t like not finishing a book But it s missing 30 pages O.o It jumps from 154 to 187 or something like that And it s not like someone ripped them out, you would be able to notice that They were never there Did anyone else have this problem cause it s weeeeiiiird The editor publisher author someone should have caught that Majorly should have caugh [...]
Shanshad Whelan Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
I admit it I m picky I m particularly picky when it comes to depictions of villains and superheroes And the books on villainy tend to leave me sorely disappointed when they don t work.The Hogwarts only Evil or Hall of Doom for the school set is a nice idea, and in fact it s perfectly fine I ve no problem with the school, or the idea of one But I read for character, and I just found myself dealing with a bunch of stereotypes and people that all think in the same tone and same vocabulary Maybe it [...]
Katie Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
CLICHESSO MANY CLICHESIt s not even funny.We ve gotThe Hogwarts of evil people.The fat kid who eats ALL THE TIME The smart Asian The bratty fashion obsessed blonde American however, this does change I do have to give the author credit for that Our not NEARLY as cool as Neville Longbottom who has to live up to his parents lives The nice girl who we ALL know is going to end up with our protagonistThe mysterious guy whose motives are not known but the majority of us know he s going to be related to [...]
Skip Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
I read this because it was a Reader s Also Like for Anthony Horowitz s excellent Alex Rider series While perhaps written for the same audience, I found it lacking The premise of kids being snatched to be taught how to become master criminals was decent and the previous accomplishments of the students was probably the highlight of the book however, now at the school, they seem to become incompetent bumblers despite their prodigious skills constantly out maneuvered by their foes Otto, Wing, Laura [...]
Nicanor Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
While I don t think it was bad by any means I think this is of an introductory book to the series, feeling short and lacking in details, even with the potential huge H.I.V.E world and characters I can only Imagine that the next books on the series will have background and development, so I think it will be safe to give the next one a try before having an opinion on the series.
cameron Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
H.I.V.EI have read the book called H.I.V.E and wow, if you can put a little bit of everything into a book this is it It has action suspense, comedy, drama This book is now my favorite series other then Eragon The main character is Otto, but some other ones are Wing Fanchu, Laura, Shelby, and Nigel Darkdoom They have all been brought to the H.I.V.E They don t know why, except for the fact that they are some of the most talented criminals the world hasn t seen.It all started when the Prime Ministe [...]
PurplyCookie Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Welcome to Hogwarts for bad guys, minus the magic H.I.V.E is a school set on a deserted island where brilliant young adults who have come from criminal families or have taken part in criminal projects are taught to become the worst that they can be Otto Malpense remembers nothing about how he came to be on the H.I.V.E island, and neither does him Asian friend, Wing The H.I.V.E staff explains to the young criminals that their parents agreed to let them join the school and that they are under the [...]
chucklesthescot Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Otto is less than happy to be removed from his life, and taken to enrol in a school for evil genius children With his friends Wing, Laura and Shelby, they decide that escape is the only option but the staff are determined that nobody leaves the island Can Otto and his friends outwit the school and get away I really enjoyed this book Otto was selected for the school after he was able to force the Prime Mininster to insult the people of Britain in a speech and moon at startled journalists He is sm [...]
This book was everything I wanted and Do you ever find yourself rooting for the villain I know I sure do I didn t even have to read a synopsis, by title alone I knew H.I.V.E was my sort of book I love reading about the Mafia and gangsters I love bad boys.But of course, being me I tore through the book in several hours, hungry for I was surprised to read that this is a debut novel The plot, characters, setting and world building we re all done remarkably well I can t think of a single bad bad t [...]
Newton Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
On an island in the middle of nowhere, there is a school But not just any school, it s a school for villains Named H.I.V.E for Higher Institute for Villainous Education, H.I.V.E recruits only the best and the brightest of students to become criminal masterminds Each person has a special talent that could potentially be used for criminal deeds and H.I.V.E aims to foster that potential The story follows an orphaned, white haired young boy with the name of Otto Malpnese He is a genius and caught th [...]
Ronda Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Have you ever felt like your schoolwork is killing you Well, Otto Malpense has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a school that might literally be the death of him The story begins as Otto wakes to find himself strapped into a helicopter flying over an ocean Upon landing he is introduced to the strange island world of H.I.V.E the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, an exclusive school for turning out world class villains There is no communication with the outside world There seems to be only [...]
Vanessa Montês Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
A melhor decis o do autor neste livro foi escrev lo do ponto de vista de Otto O ponto de vista de um futuro supervil o acaba por tornar a leitura muito mais ir nica e divertida, e este foi um dos grandes pontos positivos Admito que n o esperava pelo final deste livro, embora o restante seja um tanto ou quanto previs vel Mas o que prende neste livro n o propriamente a hist ria, mas a forma como as personagem vivem a hist ria Elas s o a vida de toda a narrativa e gra as a elas que n o conseguimos [...]
Peter Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
It was AMAZING This book is one of the best books i have read in a while I am very hooked and am committed to reading the whole series This book is if Harry Potter met James Bond It is action backed with cool technology Already started to devour book 2.
BetweenThePages Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
The Higher Institute of Villainous Education hereafter referred to as H.I.V.E is the first book in a series about four students adventures at this unique school.H.I.V.E is basically a weird combination of Disney s The Descendants and James Bond For those of you who haven t seen the movie, The Descendants is about four children of Disney villains It plays around with the idea of morally grey characters, the choice between being good or evil and was a nice twist on the expectant parent cliche Alth [...]
Nicole Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Welcome to H.I.V.E a top secret boarding school for evil child geniuses.The concept was interesting enough, even though similar things have been done before Reading a book from the perspective of the villian s is different, because you end up liking them despite the bad things they may have done But the Special kid goes to a school for other special kids and becomes the best of them all trope is a little overused I think I would have appreciated it if I was younger.The characters, while enterta [...]
Rad Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
This book was two stars until the ending, which is actually quite decent, even for a cliffhanger Otherwise, the book was kind of forgettable I think that a lot of people will actually like this concept quite a bit, and probably like the characters as well, but I was not one of those people I think what got me was that the world building seemed incomplete Or vague, maybe about as vague as the location of a certain island volcano I never got a very good sense of H.I.V.E or any of the people involv [...]
Nina Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Hogwarts untuk penjahat tapi tanpa sihir Plot dan karakter di HIVE seri pertama oke Meski tagline nya seperti di Hogwarts, dengan segala fasilitas dan kemampuan para muridnya, mengingatkan saya pada film Spy Kids Bagian mendekati terakhir saat warga HIVE melawan tanaman bermutasi Nigel terbilang seru dan mendebarkan.
Sasha Khalid Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
I had such high hopes for this one especially after reading king of bad But this one turned out so dull and boring, i had to force myself into finishing it.
Amelia Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
This could ve been a great MG YA series, like 39 Clues, but the whole concept and potential was drowned in cliches and lack of character development Basically, every character had a specific set of skills XD which the MC could use, and nothing Otto, of corse, being the perfect orphan hero to be had all of those skills and Now here is some eye rolling material found in the book Russian spy named Raven, mysterious dangerous dude called Number One, professor who s literally in a cat s body, a vil [...]
Clayton Schulenburg Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
I really enjoyed this book It was fast paced and full of amazing ideas that the author had I recommend this for anyone who wants a fast exciting read.
Heather Eames Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
I got through this book fairly quickly, and although I did enjoy it, I don t think I m invested enough to read the other books in the series Good as a one off read, and fairly easy to follow.
Vishal Mehta Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Well, its not Artemis Fowl but fun anyways.
Andrea Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
GRRRRR CLIFFHANGER ENDINGS SHOULD BE FORBIDDEN PHGKSDHGAHKGHKAHGAKAGHHHHHHHHH.Anyways The book Right.So, H.I.V.E is the debut novel from the author, Mr Mark Walden The premise a school for villains in the making is a nice one, and is the whole reason I wanted to read the book Now, this book sure isn t flawless Not like any book is flawless, anyway But it was a fun read, and I did enjoy it.Alright Here s the actual scoop For one, I didn t get the idea of why Otto, Wing, Laura, and Shelby wanted t [...]
Torrin Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
It s always unpleasant to think, Am I too old for this book To be honest, even if a book isn t meant for a certain age group, gender, whatever, its enjoyability should overpower that But no, H.I.V.E is not one of those books not at all I suppose it s geared towards kids around middle school Funny that this genre was made for me just a few years ago now, YA is supposedly suitable , but I never really read books like this Why It was so trope y, boring, simplistic, as though children can only unde [...]
Lauren Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Higher Institute of Villainous Education H.I.V.E is a great book The main character is Otto, an intelligent boy from a run down orphanage Otto never really had any friends because he was different than most of the other kids in the orphanage, but when he is transported to H.I.V.E, a secret school for kids used to train them into the greatest super villains, he meets Wing The two soon become great friends and they both immediately hate H.I.V.E The two soon put together a team to make a plan to fl [...]
Pranta Ghosh Dastider Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
Ok, lets talk about this I have started to read the book last month when I bought two books from the series And I thought I would check out the first book since it s rated so high And for the first 40% of the book I roam around to find absolutely no reason to say it a 4 out of 5 rated book Ok lets say for first 30 35% it was alright a decent 3.5 rating to be exact The characters were interesting the story was developing, many things were common in an alternate version but I didn t hate it I like [...]
Ani Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
HAMBAR Harapanku tinggi ketika baca sinopsisnya, idenya unik dan aku suka Tapi ceritanya Tidak se elegan idenya Aku tahu kalau ini buat Young Adult, tapi tetap saja elemen penting novel terlewatkan Karakternya kurang dalam dan terlalu menggampangkan Bagaimana mungkin anak genius seperti itu nggak ada kelainan psikologis seperti superior, atau minimal, perfeksionis Teknologinya umum banget tapi dibuat seakan rumit Yeah, I know that what its like Seperti membayangkan cara kerja teknologi modern ya [...]
Matt Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
The first book in a YA series that smells a lot like Harry Potter, but isn t quite as good as the Percy Jackson books It s also a somewhat predictable book, albeit predictable in enjoyable ways Neither the characters nor the plot are in the same category as Rowlings or even Riordan or Colfer Still, I found myself getting into it by the end, and starting to appreciate the unique elements of the first book.Orphan boy genius Otto Malpense who is in the unique position of having peers who respect an [...]
Jack Heath Jan 22, 2021 - 02:13 AM
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Ten Questions To Consider: Resume Building, Season Saving, Slump Busting Weekend
Posted by Matt Eisenberg on February 14th, 2020
With Selection Sunday now just five weekends away, the importance of each and every game increases. This weekend some teams will look to solidify their spot on the right side of bubble, while others will look to keep their position at the top of their conference standings. Here are 10 questions I have for just some of the meaningful action to take place.
Did the win at Illinois turn a corner for Michigan State or will it prove to be a bit of a mirage? (Maryland @ Michigan State, Saturday, 6 PM EST, ESPN) Michigan State played a tremendous opening half at Illinois on Tuesday night, as the Spartans led by 20 points early in the second half before falling apart and needing a Xavier Tillman putback to win in the final seconds. This is Michigan State’s first of five games remaining on the schedule against teams currently in the KenPom top 20.
Can West Virginia dominate the glass and find a way to steal a win at Baylor? (West Virginia @ Baylor, Saturday, 4 PM EST, ESPN+) Baylor and West Virginia each rank among the nation’s top 10 teams in offensive rebound rate. Rebounding has been a key factor for the Mountaineers all season, especially on the defensive glass. West Virginia has gone 13-1 when holding its opponent to an offensive rebounding rate below 28 percent. When that rate exceeds that mark, Bob Huggins’ team has gone just 5-5.
How will the Louisville’s starting five respond to its lackluster performance against Georgia Tech? (Louisville @ Clemson, Saturday, 4 PM EST, ACC Network) In Louisville’s surprising loss Wednesday at Georgia Tech, the Cardinals’ starting five combined for just 18 points. Jordan Nwora logged a season-low two points while committing four turnovers. In Louisville’s win against Clemson on January 25, the same five starters combined to score 48 of Louisville’s 80 points.
Can Stanford find a way to save its season? (Arizona @ Stanford, Saturday, 10:30 PM EST, Pac-12 Network) After starting the season 15-2 and 4-0 in Pac-12 play, Stanford has dropped five of its next six games since. While the Cardinal maintain a top 30 NET Ranking as of Thursday night, a pair of home losses to the Arizona schools would likely serve as a knockout punch to its lingering Tournament hopes.
Will the Illini have Ayo Dosunmu to help end a three-game skid? (Illinois @ Rutgers, Saturday, 4:30 PN EST, Big Ten Network) The final seconds of the Illinois/Michigan State game were not kind to Brad Underwood’s squad — from the game-deciding basket of Xavier Tillman to an injury seconds later to Illinois’ leading scorer Ayo Dosunmu. Dosunmu’s status is unclear heading into the weekend, but without him, Illinois is in great danger of picking up its fourth consecutive loss.
If Boise State protects the ball, can they become the first team to knock off the Aztecs? (San Diego State @ Boise State, Sunday, 4 PM EST, CBS Sports Network) In the first match-up of the season between these two teams, Boise State made 60.7 percent of its two-point field-goal attempts, the highest percentage of any Aztecs opponent. Unfortunately for the Broncos, 18 turnovers (a season-high turnover rate of 26.3%) was far too much to overcome.
Can the Hoosiers find a way to improve its offense away from Assembly Hall? (Indiana @ Michigan, Sunday, 1 PM EST, CBS) The Indiana offense has looked vastly different on the road than at home this season. While the Hoosiers have scored north of 78 points per game at home, their road average sits at just 60.3 points per game. Archie Miller will need more from his four leading scorers this weekend, who average 50 points per game at home and just 36.1 points per game away from Bloomington.
Will Colorado make it out of the state of Oregon with at least one win? (Colorado @ Oregon State, Saturday, 10 PM EST, Fox Sports 1) Saturday’s game at Gill Coliseum will be an opportunity for Colorado salvage one win to remain on top of the Pac-12. The Buffaloes led Oregon State 63-52 with just under eight minutes to go in the first match-up before Colorado closed on a 24-5 run end the game.
Can the Razorbacks end recent struggles and add a Quadrant 2 win to their resume? (Mississippi State @ Arkansas, Saturday, 1 PM EST, SEC Network) Arkansas sat at #28 in the NET Rankings on January 28, but since then, the Razorbacks have gone 1-4 with a pair of those losses coming in overtime and another by a mere two points. Their current NET Ranking is now just barely inside the top 50. With a 4-8 record against Quadrant 1 and 2 teams, Saturday could amount to a must-win game for the Razorbacks.
Can Porter Moser’s Ramblers slow Northern Iowa from beyond the arc or will it grab a stranglehold on the MVC’s top spot? (Northern Iowa @ Loyola Chicago, Saturday, 8 PM EST, ESPN2) On the season, Loyola ranks outside of the top 300 in opponents’ three-point percentage, making this a difficult match-up against a Northern Iowa squad that is among the five best three-point shooting teams. Northern Iowa has three player who have made 40 or more threes at a clip of 40 percent or better.
| 10 questions, feature, Regular Features | Tagged: arizona, ayo dosunmu, baylor, indiana, michigan state, northern iowa, stanford
Ten Questions to Consider: Christmas Weekend
Posted by Matt Eisenberg on December 22nd, 2017
Other than the eight teams participating in the Diamond Head Classic, there will be a three-day break from action beginning on Sunday. Here are 10 things to watch while binging to basketball and Christmas carols on Friday and Saturday.
Texas Is a Tough Team to Figure Out (USA Today Images)
How concerned should Texas be with its offense? Texas currently ranks among the bottom 20 nationally in both three-point and free-throw percentage, is 141st in adjusted offensive efficiency, and only one Big 12 team since the 2006-07 season has finished conference play with both a winning record and offense outside the top 100 (2014 Kansas State).
Will the third time be the charm for Northern Iowa? Northern Iowa and Xavier met twice in a span of six days last season with the Musketeers handily winning both games. Xavier held Northern Iowa to 32.7 percent shooting on two-point attempts while forcing the Panthers’ third- and fourth-worst turnover rates last season. The one thing going for Northern Iowa? Xavier has only played one true road game so far this season (a win at Wisconsin).
What will Trae Young do next? Oklahoma’s Trae Young is coming off of a 26-point, 22-assist game against Northwestern State earlier this week. The sensational freshman guard currently leads the country in both points and assists per game, and no player has finished among the top 10 nationally in both categories dating back to the 2001-02 season. Only five players have finished among the top ten in scoring and top 20 in assists over that same time period. What’s next?
Has Marshall’s Dan D’Antoni found his Steve Nash? Under Dan D’Antoni, Marshall has consistently been one of the fastest-paced teams in college basketball. The high-octane offense is led by Jon Elmore. Elmore, like Oklahoma’s Young, currently ranks among the top 10 nationally in both points and assists per game. Elmore’s 23.5 PPG could see an uptick as well, as he is currently shooting a lousy 25.7 percent from three-point range — nearly 10 percent lower than his first two years at Marshall. Read the rest of this entry »
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Crucial Week Ahead for Several O26 At-Large Contenders
Posted by Tommy Lemoine on December 5th, 2017
For mid-major NCAA Tournament hopefuls, non-conference play offers the only realistic chance to notch marquee, resume-building wins. Teams able to capitalize on those opportunities may put themselves in position for a bid next March even if they stumble during Championship Week. With only a few weeks of non-conference action remaining, let’s examine the important week that lies ahead for a few O26 at-large hopefuls:
Big opportunities lie ahead for Nevada and Rhode Island. (John Byrne, Nevada Wolf Pack Athletics)
Gonzaga (7-1) – This week: vs. #4 Villanova, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN, Tuesday. With another talented roster and early wins over Texas, Ohio State and #25 Creighton, Gonzaga should be in fine shape to reach its 20th-straight Big Dance, even if it slips up in the the WCC Tournament. Still, tonight’s Jimmy V Classic match-up against #4 Villanova — the best team in college basketball, according to KenPom — offers the Zags an important chance to significantly strengthen its profile. A win over the Wildcats would give Mark Few’s group a neutral court victory against a potential power conference champion. A loss, and Gonzaga — without any match-ups remaining against likely NCAA Tournament teams — will be left hoping those wins over the Longhorns, Buckeyes and Bluejays age well. It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that this specific outcome could bump the Bulldogs up or down multiple seed lines come Selection Sunday.
| feature, microsites, other 26 | Tagged: alabama, america east, atlantic 10, caleb martin, conference usa, e.c. matthews, Eric Mussleman, gonzaga, jimmy v classic, Jordan Caroline, Kevin Hervey, mark few, middle tennessee state, missouri valley, ncaa tournament, nevada, Nick King, northern iowa, rhode island, ut-arlington, vermont, villanova
O26 Early Impressions: Takeaways From First 10 Days
Posted by Tommy Lemoine on November 21st, 2016
With Feast Week now upon us and two weekends of college hoops in the books, let’s take a step back and reflect on what we’ve learned, which teams have impressed, and why Florida Gulf Coast’s loss at Michigan State was unforgettable… for all the wrong reasons.
To this point, Saint Mary’s center Jock Landale has been nothing short of excellent. (USATSI)
The West Coast Conference looks even better than expected. We ranked Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s #1 and #2 in our preseason Power 13, respectively, with Brigham Young also cracking the list. Each has lived up to—perhaps even exceeded—expectations in the early going. In their first major test, the Zags crushed San Diego State by 21 points, holding the Aztecs to 0.69 points per possession and receiving major contributions from freshman big man Zach Collins (16 points on 6-for-7 FG). The Gaels, to their credit, blitzed a talented Nevada team in their opener before earning a huge, resume-bolstering road win at Dayton two games later. The Cougars began their season with a double-digit victory over Ivy League favorite Princeton. As for potential WCC Player of the Year candidates? There may wind up being too many to count. Along with Gonzaga’s cast of contenders, BYU forward Eric Mika (21.0 PPG, 11.0 RPG), back from his two year LDS mission, has looked downright dominant on both ends of the floor through three games. Likewise, Saint Mary’s center Jock Landale (20.0 PPG, 10.0 RPG)—who averaged fewer than 15 minutes per game in 2015-16—has been an offensive revelation for Randy Bennett, in addition to hyper-efficient point guard Emmett Naar (9.0 PPG, 9.7 APG). Strap in for a heavyweight battle atop the WCC.
Rhode Island is the real deal. Sure, the Rams (4-1) lost handily to #1 Duke in Sunday’s Hall of Fame Tip-Off championship game, but they looked like they belonged, and they only got there by grinding out a 76-71 victory over #24 Cincinnati one day earlier. E.C. Matthews (19.5 PPG) appears to be his old self after missing last season with a knee injury, while forward Hassan Martin (4.3 BPG)—who blocked seven shots against Duke—looks well on his way to repeating as Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year. Rhode Island has the grit, the talent, and (finally) the offensive punch to reach its first NCAA Tournament since 1999. The season’s first 10 days have only reaffirmed that.
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Where 2016-17 Happens: Reason #3 We Love College Basketball
Posted by rtmsf on November 9th, 2016
As RTC heads into its 10th season — Season X, if you will — covering college basketball, it’s time to begin releasing our annual compendium of YouTube clips that we like to call Thirty Reasons We Love College Basketball. These 30 snippets from last season’s action are completely guaranteed to make you wish games were starting tonight rather than 30 days from now. Over the next month you’ll get one reason per day until we reach the new season on Friday, November 11. You can find all of this year’s released posts here.
#3 – Where For the Win! Happens.
We also encourage you to re-visit the entire archive of this feature from the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 preseasons.
| 2016-17 Season Preview, 30 things | Tagged: buzzer beaters, ncaa tournament, northern iowa, paul jesperson, texas
Where 2016-17 Happens: Reason #10 We Love College Basketball
Posted by rtmsf on November 2nd, 2016
#10 – Where Aggies Comeback Happens.
| 2016-17 Season Preview, 30 things | Tagged: comebacks, march madness, ncaa tournament, northern iowa, texas a&m
O26 Stars in the Making: A Non-Comprehensive Guide to Breakout Candidates
Posted by Tommy Lemoine on October 24th, 2016
If you’re reading this post, chances are you already know about Alec Peters, Justin Robinson, E.C. Matthews, and a number of Other 26 players who have cemented themselves among the nation’s best. Look past those names, though, and you will find another tier of players on the fast-track to (relative) stardom. Whether because of increased minutes, increased visibility or both, here is a list of guys outside the power conferences poised to break out in 2016-17.
Jeremy Morgan, G – Sr., Northern Iowa – 2015-16: 11.3 PPG, 1.9 SPG: There’s no two ways about it: Northern Iowa’s collapse against Texas A&M last March was a brutal, all-time debacle that will not soon be forgotten in Cedar Falls. If there was a silver lining, though, it’s the fact that Morgan (36 points) accounted for a whopping 41 percent of his team’s scoring that night. In an MVC that saw many of its best players graduate (including the Panthers’ top two scorers), the 6’5″ senior—whose Valley-leading steal rate already earned him All-Defensive Team honors—should see his offensive numbers increase and his national profile rise.
Northern Iowa’s Jeremy Morgan should become a household name in 2016-17. (Getty Images/ Ronald Martinez)
Markis McDuffie, F – So., Wichita State – 2015-16: 7.4 PPG. 3.3 RPG: McDuffie is a true breakout candidate in the sense that his minutes and usage are almost surely going to skyrocket this season. The 6’8″ wing showed flashes of brilliance in limited action last year, using his versatility and athleticism to impact nearly every facet of the game. Among Missouri Valley Conference players, McDuffie finished among the top 15 in offensive rating, offensive rebounding percentage, and two-point percentage. As a defender, his length enables him to defend several positions. Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet may be gone, but McDuffie—who will be relied on heavily to help fill that void—has the talent to become another Shockers legend.
Cameron Oliver, F – So., Nevada – 2015-16: 13.4 PPG, 9.1 RPG, 2.6 BLK: As a freshman, Oliver logged 12 double-doubles and earned Mountain West All-Defensive Team honors before nearly turning pro. His game-changing ability on both ends of the floor helped Nevada turn in its first winning season since 2012, including a CBI championship run on which Oliver averaged 19.0 points, 10.0 rebounds, and 4.0 blocks per contest. Now in his second year, the powerful, athletic forward will be the unquestioned anchor for a Nevada club with its highest expectations since the Mark Fox era ended in 2009. Expect Oliver to shine, the Wolfpack to contend, and the basketball world to take notice. Just don’t count on him returning to Reno next season if he lives up to expectations.
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NCAA Regional Reset: West Region
Posted by Andrew Murawa (@Amurawa) on March 21st, 2016
Rush the Court will be providing wall-to-wall coverage of each of the NCAA Tournament from each of the 13 sites this year. Follow our NCAA Tourney specific Twitter accounts at @RTCEastregion, @RTCMWregion,@RTCSouthregion and @RTCWestregion.
New Favorite: #2 Oklahoma. We previously had Oregon as the favorite here, but we’re going to switch it up and go with the Sooners instead because it is starting to look like Buddy Hield is going to drag his team to Houston and a possible national title one way or the other. There’s reason to be fearful of the Sooners’ chances, though, as they’ve been pressured by a pair of double-digit seeds. In this region, with the top four seeds still alive, would anybody be surprised if anybody made its way to Houston?
Buddy Was Just Doing Buddy Things to Get to the Sweet Sixteen (USA Today Images)
Horse of Darkness: #3 Texas A&M. This team was dead. Ceased to be. Expired and gone to meet it’s maker. Shuffled off the mortal coil, and all that. And yet somehow, the Aggies pulled off their best Lazarus impression and miraculously moved on to the Sweet Sixteen. Sometimes, miracles like these in early rounds are springboards to national titles: Witness Tyus Edney 21 years ago. Sometimes, it just extends the inevitable a little longer. For about 39 minutes and 22 seconds on Sunday night, A&M was getting run out of the Tourney by Northern Iowa. But somehow, some way, they survived. Will it be a springboard to bigger and better things or is it a sign of an inherent weakness? Poised veterans Alex Caruso and Anthony Collins have been solid, but leading scorers Danuel House and Jalen Jones will need to be more consistent to keep advancing.
Biggest Surprise (1st Weekend): Everything Having to Do With Northern Iowa. At this point, we should just offer up a standing invitation to any halfway decent Northern Iowa team to join the NCAA Tournament, because you just know we are going to be treated to a classic one way or another. The Panthers’ opening round game against Texas was absolutely insane. It wasn’t just the final 10 seconds worth of an Isaiah Taylor game-tying floater and the Paul Jesperson game-winning half-court heave; the whole game was amazing. Those final 10 seconds immediately vaulted up into the top tier of NCAA moments ever. And then Sunday night? Northern Iowa, much to its chagrin, may have topped that one by its involvement in an even more memorable game (for completely different reasons). In any March Madness epic, there is always the transposition of the elation of the winner and the heartbreak of the loser. In a 48-hour span, Northern Iowa felt both ends about as shockingly as possible.
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Rushed Reactions: #3 Texas A&M 92, #11 Northern Iowa 88 (2OT)
Posted by Czech Smith on March 20th, 2016
Three Key Takeaways.
Epic meltdown. Northern Iowa held a 12 point lead with 44 seconds left in regulation and ended up losing in double-overtime. In one of the most incredible meltdowns ever seen in modern college basketball, the Panthers simply could not inbound the ball in their own backcourt — time and time again turning it over and giving Texas A&M a chance. The Aggies took that opportunity, going on a 14-2 run over the final FORTY-FOUR SECONDS to tie the game and send it to overtime. After a back-and-forth first overtime session, Texas A&M took control in the second and eventually worked itself to the Sweet Sixteen.
Northern Iowa has a flair for the dramatic. The Panthers took the emotional high from their win over Texas on Friday and rode it for most of the game against A&M. They came out of the locker room ready to play and established an early lead that they nurtured until the final minute of regulation. Despite several attempts by the Aggies to close the gap in the second half, Northern Iowa seemed to always had an answer. Jeremy Morgan’s fantastic overall performance was all for naught — he finished with 36 points and 12 rebounds.
Texas A&M leading scorer Danuel House was held scoreless until late in the second half… and then he turned it on. House scored 19 points in the last 5:14 of regulation and first overtime, finishing with 22 points. Northern Iowa guard Wes Washpun did a great job defending House until he fouled out in overtime. However, Texas A&M missed a big opportunity in regulation: House at 6’7” failed to post up on the 6’1” Washpun all night, especially after Washpun drew his fourth foul of the contest. House had a rough night but came alive when it mattered, allowing his Aggies to see another day.
| 2016 ncaa tournament, feature, rushed reactions | Tagged: miracle comebacks, ncaa tournament, northern iowa, texas a&m
Rushed Reactions: #11 Northern Iowa 75, #6 Texas 72
One of the Most Dramatic Moments in NCAA Tournament History
Northern Iowa spread the floor against Texas in the first half – and Texas mirrored the strategy to start the second. The Panthers kept five men on the perimeter for most of the first half. That forced the Longhorns to vacate the paint and respect the three-point line, which opened up the lane for the Panthers’ quick cutting guards. Wes Washpun, the Panthers leading scorer, only had four in the first half while Jeremy Morgan had 12 including a pair of threes. Texas came out of the locker room with a clear strategy to play the Panthers’ own game, and it worked as they quickly narrowed the gap. The Longhorns erased an eight-point halftime deficit in the first six minutes of the second half, which led to a back-and-forth battle of attrition from there on out.
Texas had to stray from its inside game to combat Northern Iowa’s quickness. The Big 12 defensive player of the year, Prince Ibeh, played a total of four minutes in the first half. This was a direct result of Northern Iowa’s strategy of spreading the floor and forcing Texas to play a smaller lineup. When Texas turned it around on Northern Iowa, they were able to keep Ibeh in the game which allowed him to make a difference on defense.
Miracle from half-court. Both teams shot horrifically down the stretch, with Northern Iowa ending the game 2-of-10 from the field and Texas 2-of-12 during the same stretch. Isaiah Taylor redeemed himself with a fabulous drive and finish to tie the game with 2.7 seconds left, but one of those pair of makes for Northern Iowa was a desperation half-court bank shot by Paul Jesperson to win the game at the buzzer. It will go down as one of the iconic moments in NCAA Tournament history.
Star of the Game. Paul Jesperson, Northern Iowa. Jesperson ended with 14 points and was a solid 4-of-7 from behind the arc, but all that really mattered was his spectacular half-court buzzer-beater.
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Tawau, the third largest town of Sabah was originally one of the earliest ports of East Sabah being active since the late 1890’s. Located on the South Eastern coastal lands of Sabah, Tawau or Tawao as it was known in the early 1890’s began as a tiny nucleus of only 200 inhabitants that crossed borders from Kalimantan. These immigrants fled from Bulungan and Tawi-Tawi, away from the oppressive rule of the Dutch ‘masters’. The villagers soon began a small trade with passing ships including Dutch trading boats. Not long after, the community began trading sea and jungle produce such as rattan, birds’ nest and rubber with imports such as dammar, Indian rubber, tortoise shells etc.
The British had a strong influence with the British North Borneo Chartered Company (BNBC) where trading was one of the main industries here.
Tawau is also connected via roads from most cities around Sabah, and the Tawau Airport with direct flights here forms Kuala Lumpur and other major cities of Malaysia. While most people would transit in Tawau as the main gateway to Sipadan and Mabul Islands, the airport sits in between Semporna and Tawau, therefore this list of things to do in Tawau was created for general interest, especially for travelers wanting to explore further into one of Sabah’s old cities.
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Sunak recycles money for green transport
Chris Ames
The chancellor has used the Spending Review to confirm billions of pounds for public transport, low emission vehicles and active travel, including adding more detail to Boris Johnson’s recent ‘Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution’.
Rishi Sunak said he was providing £120m for zero emission buses in 2021-22 – a specific commitment in the 10 point plan.
The Spending Review document states that ‘in combination with the Department for Transport’s existing commitment to complete the first All Electric Bus Town this financial year, [this] will support delivery of over 800 cleaner, greener, quieter zero emission buses, helping to deliver the Prime Minister’s commitment to 4,000 of these buses’.
The chancellor hard but casual at work
The announcement of Britain’s first fully electric bus town in February outlined around £50m for around 200 electric buses, suggesting that the new cash will provide another 600.
Mr Sunak also repeated an announcement by Mr Johnson of a £1.3bn fund to accelerate the rollout of public electric vehicle chargepoints. As Transport Network has noted, at least £500m of this was announced in the March Budget.
The official document states that the Government will ‘invest’ a total of £1.9bn in charging infrastructure and consumer incentives to support the transition to zero-emission vehicles, including £582m for the Plug-in Car, Van, Taxi, and Motorcycle Grant until 2022-23, ‘reducing the sticker price of zero and ultra-low emission vehicles for the consumer’.
The document states: ‘To drive progress beyond the limits of what is currently possible, SR20 also provides £81m of R&D funding in 2021-22 to launch a programme of investment in low and zero emission transport technologies.
'This includes new initiatives on sustainable aviation fuels, clean maritime demonstrations, zero emission freight trials, innovative electric vehicle charging solutions, and funding for a Hydrogen Transport Hub in the Tees Valley.’
?? £120 million for 500 new zero-emissions buses
?? £257m for cycling and walking
?? Over £1.3bn for electric charging infrastructure points.#SpendingReview pic.twitter.com/B10gRCHDM9
— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) November 25, 2020
A third headline spending commitment from Mr Sunak was for £257m for cycling and walking in 2021-22, which the spending document describes as ‘part of the Prime Minister’s £2bn commitment to cycling and walking across the parliament’.
The pledge of £2bn also included £250m for what were originally emergency active travel measures, of which the remaining £175m was awarded earlier this month. With another £50m for various cycling measures announced during the year, this means that the first two years of the parliament will see around a quarter of the cash spent.
Spending ‘to keep the country’s transport networks moving’ in 2021/22 totals £12.8bn, including an estimated £8bn for rail passenger services in and £4.8bn of further support, including for buses, light rail, cycling, and Transport for London.
Overall, the Department for Transport’s settlement for 2021-22 includes a £700m cash increase in core resource funding, ‘delivering a 13.8 per cent average real terms increase per year since 2019-20’.
The department’s capital budget increases by £600m in cash terms next year, taking core total DEL Departmental Expenditure Limit) to £23.5bn.
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Is Duplicate Content Killing Your SEO
(Stoney deGeyter @ WebDevNews) Building SEO By Killing Your Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is like a virus. When a virus enters your system, it begins to replicate itself until it is ready to be released and cause all kinds of nasty havoc within your body. On the web, a little duplicate content isn’t a huge problem, but the more it replicates itself, the bigger the problem you’re going to have. Too much duplicate content and your website will come down with some serious health issues.
I’m going to break this into three parts. In this post, I’ll discuss the problems that are caused with duplicate content. In Part II, I’ll address the causes of duplicate content, and in Part III, I’ll discuss some duplicate content elimination solutions.
This series is pulled from a presentation given at SMX East. Just for fun, it’s entirely Matrix-themed because, like, it’s so obscure and all.
Duplicate Content Causes Problems. Duh!
Google and other search engines like to tell us that they have the duplicate content issue all figured out. And, in the cases where they don’t, they provide a couple of band-aid solutions for you to use (we’ll get to these later). While there may be no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty”, there are certainly filters in place in the search engine algorithms that devalue content that is considered duplicate, and make your site as a whole less valuable in the eyes of the search engines.
If you trust the search engines to handle your site properly, and don’t mind having important pages filtered out of the search results, then go ahead and move on to another story… you got nothing to worry about.
Too many pages to index
Theoretically, there is no limit to the number of pages on your site that the search engines can add to their index. In practice, though, if they find too much “junk”, they’ll stop spidering pages and move on to the next site. They may come back and keep grabbing content they missed, but likely at a much slower pace than they otherwise would.
Duplicate content, in practice, creates “junk” pages. Not that they may not have value, but compared to the one or two or dozen other pages on your site or throughout the web that also contain the same content, there really isn’t anything unique there for the search engines to care about. It’s up to the engines to decide which pages are the unnecessary pages and which is the original source or most valuable page to include in the search results.
The rest is just clutter that the search engines would rather not have.
Slows search engine spidering
With so many duplicate pages to sort through, the search engines tire easily. Instead of indexing hundreds of pages of unique content, they are left sifting through thousands of pages of some original content and a whole lot of duplicate crap. Yeah, you’d tire too!
Once the engines get a whiff that a site is overrun with dupes, the spidering process will often be reduced to a slow crawl. Why rush? There are plenty of original sites out there they can be gathering information on. Maybe they’ll find a few good nuggets or two on your site, but it can wait, as long as they are finding gold mines elsewhere.
Splits valuable link juice
When there is more than one page (URL) on your site that carries the same content as another there becomes an issue of which page gets the links. In practice, whichever URL the visitor lands on and bookmarks, or passes on via social media, is the page that gets the link value. But, each visitor may land on a different URL with that same content.
If 10 people visit your site, 5 land on and choose to link to one URL, while the other 5 land on and choose to link to the other (both being the same content), instead of having one page that has 10 great links, you have 2 pages each with half the linking value. Now imagine you have 5 duplicate pages and the same scenario happens. Instead of 10 links going to a single page, you may end up with 2 links going to each of the 5 duplicate versions.
So, for each duplicate page on your site, you are cutting the link value that any one of the pages could achieve. When it comes to rankings, this matters. In our second scenario, all it takes, essentially, is a similarly optimized page with 3 links to outrank your page with only 2. Not really fair, because the same content really has 10 links, but it’s your own damn fault for splitting up your link juice like that.
Inaccessible pages
We talked above about how duplicate content slows spidering leaving, some content out of the search engine’s index. Leaving duplicate content aside for a moment, let’s consider the page URLs themselves. We’ve all seen those URLs that are so long and complicated that you couldn’t type one out if it was dictated to you. While not all of these URLs are problematic, some of them certainly can be. Not to mention URLs that are simply undecipherable as being unique pages.
We’ll talk more about these URLs in part 3, but for now, let’s just consider what it means when a URL cannot be spidered by the search engines. Well, simply put, if the search engines can’t spider it, then it won’t get indexed. The browser may pull open a page the visitors can see, but the search engines get nothin’. And when you multiply that nothin’ the search engines get with the nothin’ they’ll show in the results (don’t forget to carry the nothin’), you get a whole lot of nothin’ going on.
Pages inaccessible to the search engines means those pages can’t act as landing pages in the search results. That’s OK, if it’s a useless page, but not if it’s something of value that you want to be driving traffic to.
There are a lot of problems caused by duplicate content and bad URL development. These problems may be minor or cataclysmic, depending on the site. Either way, small problem or large, it’s probably a good idea to figure out the cause of your duplicate content problems so you can begin to implement solutions that will pave the way for better search engine rankings.
Stoney deGeyter is president of Pole Position Marketing (www.PolePositionMarketing.com), a search engine optimization / marketing firm providing SEO and website marketing services since 1998. Stoney is also a part-time instructor at Truckee Meadows Community College, as well as a moderator in the Small Business Ideas Forum. He is the author of his E-Marketing Performance eBook and contributes daily to the E-Marketing Performance (www.eMarketingPerformance.com) marketing blog
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Theses or Dissertations on Artemis
ARTEMIS EPHESIA IN APULUM BIOGRAPHY OF A ROMAN BRONZE STATUETTE: CSABA SZABÓ*–RADU OTA**–MARIUS MIHAI CIUTĂ***
ARTEMIS_EPHESIA_IN_APULUM_BIOGRAPHY_OF_A_ROMAN_BRONZE_STATUETTE.pdf
“But in the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis, as you enter the building containing the pictures, there is a stone wall above the altar of Artemis called Goddess of the First Seat. Among the images that stand upon the wall is a statue of a woman at the end, a work of Rhoecus, called by the Ephesians Night” (Pausanias, Description of Greece. Translated by W. H. S. Jones and H. A. Omerod Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918).1
Ephesus became one of the most important religious centres of the Anatolian peninsula in the end of the 10th century B.C.2 From a small, local shrine built in the Geometric age the sacralised space was maintained till 263 A.D,3 surviving at least six major phases of construction,4 numerous floods and destructions5 and became one of the most successful and monumental example of maintaining a sacralised space, considered even as the “fifth wonder of ancient times”.6 The success of the Artemision had multiple reasons. The advantageous geographic position be- tween the Hellenic world and the Near East and Egypt created an economic hub in Ephesus and a local elite, who consciously used the sanctuary and the cult of Artemis from Ephesus after 356 B.C. as an important element on the growing religious market of the Mediterranean, creating various festivals, initiations in mysteries and exclusive games for the divinity.7 It was one of the eight sanctuaries in the whole Roman Empire, which legally was permitted to inherit property.8
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A New Kind of Festival
Short of the Week is the top destination for short films, a trusted source by fans and industry since 2007, showcasing work from the next generation of storytellers.
Find Your Audience
You’ve worked tirelessly on your film—it deserves an audience. On Short of the Week, your film takes front page on the internet’s number one destination for short films where you’ll find thousands (and sometimes millions!) of new fans.
Whether you’re looking to break into the film industry, television, find an agent, sell your feature script, or fund your next project, Short of the Week is the scouting ground where the entertainment industry executives, agents, distributors, and producers look for the next generation of daring storytellers. Short of the Week filmmakers have gone on to do great work with partners like Netflix, Sundance, Fox, Warner, Disney, Hulu, WME, CAA, New York Times, and many more. We will help you coordinate your launch and seed your film with industry influencers to maximize impact.
Don’t wait months for an answer. You’ve got plans to make and films to shoot. Get a final response from us within 7 days.
Not ready to launch yet? Whether you’re still finalizing your film or finishing up a festival run, you can still submit your film to take advantage of our industry network and help us make the most of your film launch.
Real Feedback
We know how frustrating it is to be declined and never know why. Now you can receive constructive feedback from the best curation team on what works and what doesn’t. (Additional fee)
Under 40 Minutes: Films need to be 40 minutes or less. We prefer most films sit on the shorter end of that spectrum—the average film we feature is 10 minutes. The longer your film (over 15 minutes), the tougher judges we tend to be.
Premiere Status: No premiere status is required, however, we give preference to films that haven’t yet premiered online. So, don’t wait to submit your film.
All Rights Secured: We require films to have all necessary rights and releases secured for us to feature them. Yes, this includes music.
Free to View: We only select films that are free for audiences.
Learn more about why we do submissions the way we do, what we look for in a film, and see examples of real feedback we offer. Learn more
We look for great stories that brave new territory. We value great characters, interesting new worlds, and stories that surprise us over fancy visual effects, famous actors, or silly one-liners that often feed much of online videos. So when screening films, we tend to score them based on three attributes:
Head—Does it break new ground and have us thinking about something in a new way?
Heart—Does it stir us emotionally?
Hand—Does it exhibit great skill and craftsmanship?
The best way to understand what we look for is to watch the short films in our collection. You can get a good sense of our taste by looking at what we have curated in the past.
What We Avoid
We have no hard and fast rules. Every film is different and there are always exceptions. In general, though, the following tend to not be a good fit for us:
Music videos or abstract films with no or little story
Films driven solely by special effects
Commercials or purely promotional pieces (Branded films are okay)
Timelapse/travel photography videos
Comedies that rely heavily upon on a single punchline
Profile documentaries that may be interesting but lack a strong narrative arc
Unfortunately we cannot refund a submission fee once you’ve submitted your film. Please make absolutely sure you want to submit your film before doing so.
As with other festivals, your fee is paid for your film to be considered. By no means does submitting your film guarantee that your film will be accepted for Short of the Week. If your film is not accepted, your submission fee is not refunded. We receive thousands of submissions every year and are only able to select 2–3% (Learn more about our selection process).
If Your Film is Selected,
For every selected film, we employ a unique strategy we’ve developed that we call Be Everywhere At Once. This means we will be your launch partner and provide our expertise gained from launching thousands of films to tailor a strategy for your film’s online launch that maximizes for impact. We will get your film in front of audiences on all the major platforms—YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter—and seed it with key media and industry players.
Once selected, the fun begins! The first thing we want to know is more about you—your preferences for things like launch date, your hopes for your film, and perhaps most importantly, where you want to go as a filmmaker.
You will have the opportunity to specify a preferred launch date for your film, and we will do our best to accommodate—more advanced notice is better.
When should I submit my film?
As soon as it’s completed. Seriously. We give filmmakers full flexibility to determine the online release date for their film. You can submit now and release it months from now. You don’t have to wait to hear back from other festivals or finish screenings to start planning your release. Give yourself the time and submit early. Some filmmakers even prefer to submit their film before it’s fully-completed to get a jump start on their release planning.
Will releasing my film online hurt my chances at film festivals?
This is one of the biggest scares for filmmakers (it was ours, too). So we did the research and found that 66% of the top film festivals (in 2013) will accept online films. And with big name festivals like Sundance and SXSW leading the charge, this is a growing trend. If you want to know about a specific festival, take a look at our Essential List of Festival Eligibility to see if the festivals you’re considering are online-friendly.
Can I submit an incomplete film (for example, a film with scratch music)?
Yes. Sending an incomplete film is a great way to get a film on our radar early so that we can best help coordinate a successful launch. If we like your film, we will tentatively accept it. You’ll then be asked to resubmit the final cut (at no extra charge) where we’ll deliver our final verdict.
Can I submit a web series?
Thank you for reaching out. We do feature web series! For us to feature one, the episode should feel like it stands on its own, as we only would be able to feature a single entry. You can view some past web series selections.
Can I submit a Non-English spoken films?
Absolutely! However, your film must include English subtitles either baked into the video or as closed captions.
If I’m accepted, can I set a release date in the future?
Absolutely! We encourage filmmakers to submit as soon as possible so that you know your full range of options as you plan out your film’s release. Then, if selected, we will work with you to schedule a release date that fits your plans.
If I’m accepted, how will you set a release date?
We want to release your film when it’s most optimal for you. If accepted, you will submit a form with your preferred release date for your film and we will do all that we can to accommodate. If you have a specific release date that you need, please give us 3 or more weeks prior notice to accommodate your request.
If I’m accepted, can Short of the Week guarantee that my film will go viral?
No, and no one can guarantee that your film will go viral. If anyone tells you differently, they’re simply lying. Number of views is no longer the goal for short films and it shouldn’t be yours. We look to connect your story with producers, agents, and others in the industry who can get you to the next step in your film career.
If I’m accepted to Short of the Week, will I be a Staff Pick on Vimeo?
No. We have no affiliation with Vimeo. While there may be overlap between the films we feature and those selected by Vimeo and other film curation sites, we operate under completely independent curatorial guidelines.
If I’m accepted, do you require exclusivity?
No. We know how harmful exclusivity deals can be to filmmakers. They can tie your film up in a losing distribution channel for months or years and there’s nothing you can do. At Short of the Week, your film becomes part of our very popular archive that is completely searchable by style, genre, and keywords for as long as you wish it to be. If you land a big deal that requires you to pull your film down, we’ll congratulate you and give you a virtual high-five not throw a contract in your face. Further details are in our licensing agreement.
Where should I host my film for the submission?
We prefer films be uploaded to either Vimeo or YouTube. If your film is not yet released, be sure you keep your film private by setting a password on Vimeo or setting it to unlisted on YouTube.
Do you watch every submission?
It is our policy that every submission is viewed in its entirety and given full consideration. We take this very seriously. If, for any reason, you feel your film wasn’t viewed in its entirety, you’re welcome to reach out and test us.
My view stats show that my film wasn’t watched to completion. What gives?
Unfortunately, view stats as reported on platforms like YouTube and Vimeo have become an unreliable metric to measure whether a film was viewed and how much of a film was viewed. As tracking restrictions have increased through browser security measures, this method has become even more tenuous. We encounter this often where a video embedded on a private platform like ours via the API will not register a view back to the hosting platform or in some cases only register a partial view. Vimeo and YouTube have acknowledged the issues and we continue to work with them to improve tracking.
Can I resubmit my film if I was previously declined?
We do allow for resubmissions but only if the film has undergone significant changes from the original submission. Films are rarely declined for one or two fixable reasons, so this is a higher bar to clear than it might seem. Only consider this if you’ve significantly reworked your film.
My film played at 50 international film festivals and won 8 awards, surely it must be right for Short of the Week?
While we congratulate you on your film’s success, we don’t believe prior accolades should factor into the decision to accept a film. For this reason, we have declined very well-decorated films that we didn’t connect with. But we’ve also accepted unknown films that others have passed on. We pick films we like based on what we look for (see above). Others may pick different films. And we think that is how it should be.
I was declined—did I make a bad film?
Having your film declined doesn’t mean it’s a bad film. Curation is subjective—we pick films we like while others may pick different films. If your film was declined for Short of the Week, try somewhere else. We often even offer tips on who you can reach out to.
Sometimes, yes, you did make a bad film. But that’s not a terrible thing. We’ve made bad films too (believe me!). Every filmmaker, even the legends, have made a bad film especially early in their careers. Filmmaking is a learning process, and failure is the best teacher. Try one more time. Then again.
If you want to know why your film didn’t work, try opting for our Feedback option when submitting to receive one full page of constructive insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your film (additional charge).
Do you only feature one film a week?
Not anymore. Way back when we first started in 2007, we only posted one film a week (hence the name!). But, now, we feature a film almost every day. The “of the week” moniker has stuck, however.
Do you offer submission fee waivers?
Not at this time.
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Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
Men's high jump
at the Games of the X Olympiad
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
14 from 10 nations
Winning height
Simeon Toribio
Athletics at the
3000 m steeple
4×100 m relay
Road events
50 km walk
Field events
Javelin throw
The men's high jump event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place July 31. It was a final only format, no heats or qualifying jumps.[1] Fourteen athletes from 10 nations competed.[2] The 1930 Olympic Congress in Berlin had reduced the limit from 4 athletes per NOC to 3 athletes.[3] The event was won by Duncan McNaughton of Canada, breaking the United States' dominance over the event; McNaughton was the first non-American to win. Bob Van Osdel of the United States took silver, while Simeon Toribio earned the Philippines' first medal in any track & field athletics event.
2 Competition format
Background[edit]
This was the ninth appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1928 Games were bronze medalist Claude Ménard of France, fourth-place finisher Simeon Toribio of the Philippines, and sixth-place finisher Kazuo Kimura of Japan. American George Spitz had been the best jumper in 1932 but was suffering from an ankle injury.[2]
Poland and Switzerland each made their debut in the event. The United States appeared for the ninth time, having competed at each edition of the Olympic men's high jump to that point.
Competition format[edit]
Due to the small number of competitors (there were fewer entrants in 1932 than there had been finalists in 1928), the competition was a direct final. Athletes had three attempts at each height.[2][4]
Records[edit]
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.
World record Harold Osborn (USA) 2.03 Urbana, United States 27 May 1924
Olympic record Harold Osborn (USA) 1.98 Paris, France 7 July 1924
No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.
Schedule[edit]
Sunday, 31 July 1932 14:30 Final
o = Height cleared
x = Height failed
– = Height passed
r = Retired
SB = Season's best
PB = Personal best
NR = National record
AR = Area record
OR = Olympic record
WR = World record
WL = World lead
NM = No mark
DNS = Did not start
DQ = Disqualified
Jump sequences are not known for the 1.80, 1.85, and 1.90 metres heights. Kimura's jump sequence for 1.94 metres is unknown, but he cleared that height.
There were two jump-offs. For first through fourth place, the jumpers had a jump-off that started at 6'7" (2.007 metres); none cleared that height or 1.99 metres. At 1.97 metres (where they had tied during the final itself), McNaughton cleared on the first attempt to win gold. Details of the jump-off after that are not known. A second jump-off for fifth and sixth place was held; details are not known.
Duncan McNaughton Canada o o xo o xxo xxx 1.97
Bob Van Osdel United States o o xo xo o xxx 1.97
Simeon Toribio Philippines o o o xxo xxo xxx 1.97
4 Cornelius Johnson United States o o o xo xo xxx 1.97
5 Ilmari Reinikka Finland o o xo xo xxx N/A 1.94
6 Kazuo Kimura Japan o o o o[5] xxx N/A 1.94
7 Misao Ono Japan o o o x N/A 1.90
Jerzy Pławczyk Poland o o o x N/A 1.90
9 Jack Portland Canada o o x N/A 1.85
Claude Ménard France o o x N/A 1.85
George Spitz United States o o x N/A 1.85
Birger Haug Norway o o x N/A 1.85
Angelo Tommasi Italy o o x N/A 1.85
14 Paul Riesen Switzerland o x N/A 1.80
^ "Athletics at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's High Jump". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
^ a b c "High Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
^ Official Report, p. 377.
^ Jump sequence unknown.
High jump at the Olympic Games
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Compelling simplicity brings in new supporters for a complex cause
We’ve worked with Oxfam over a number of years to develop simple and effective DRTV that’s brought in thousands of new supporters
“Bucket” is one of Oxfam’s best performing DRTV campaigns in recent years.
The 60 second DRTV advert focuses on the tangible solution of the Oxfam bucket; an incredibly simple, practical and iconic symbol of Oxfam’s expertise in emergency water provision.
The ad comprises of emotional film footage from the field, which connects the audience in a very human way – watching people drink water that’s clearly filthy. The ad goes on to show a fascinating product demonstration by Oxfam spokesman, Ian Bray, at the Oxfam warehouse which stores many of these buckets and other emergency supplies.
The ad ran for two years and brought in thousands of new supporters.
Lifesaver cube
A worthy successor that smashed its targets
Working with Oxfam’s experts we found an even more impressive piece of equipment that encapsulates Oxfam’s expertise in dealing with unimaginable difficulties for the world’s poorest people. In a very simple way it also demonstrates that a small amount of money from a supporter really can make a tangible difference to people in need.
Together with the authentic voice and credibility of Ian Bray, we made a new ad to replace ‘Bucket’, which in its first month broke all targets for response rates, conversions, and ROI.
Having fun with overseas development
Oxfam’s lottery was ready for growth outside its existing supporter base, and they asked us to show how we could use DRTV to recruit new players at scale. Our working relationship with Oxfam meant that we understood the need to find a new way to advertise charity lotteries, and our DRTV experience gave us the confidence that we wouldn’t have to rely on the tropes of big cheques and bouncing balls. At a particularly sensitive time for Oxfam, we developed a creative treatment that brought to life the positivity of the change that Oxfam brings, together with the essential fun of taking part in a lottery for a good cause.
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BackYou are here: Resistance Statements PUDR Denounces State Suppression Of Democratic Organizations In The Name Of Maoism
PUDR Denounces State Suppression Of Democratic Organizations In The Name Of Maoism
By Harish Dhawan & Paramjeet Singh, PUDR Press Release
8 December 2011: PUDR denounces the statement given by state home minister Jitendra Singh in Rajya Sabha on 7 December 2011 in which he asserted that the CPI (Maoist) is active in Delhi and named several groups as being the Party's front organizations.
Answering question no. 1637 raised by BJP MP Kusum Rai, Jitendra Singh stated that in Delhi, the CPI (Maoist) is operating through the Delhi City Committee. Apart from the Party itself, Singh went on to say, left-wing extremist organizations like CPML-New Democracy and CPML-Liberation have an active presence in Delhi. Besides, Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), People's Democratic Front of India (PDF), Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) and Democratic Students Union (DSU) were also named as front organizations by Singh, who also admitted that no inputs have yet been received to indicate that 'sleeper cells, of Naxalites are functional in the capital.
The organizations named have not played a part in armed resistance or violent struggle but have consistently raised their voice against state suppression. It is clear that by labelling such groups as Maoist, the state is trying to curb their dissent.
The minister of state also named some separatist groups active in the county's north-east as having close ties with the CPI (Maoist). By taking such a stand, the state wants to obliterate all difference between terrorism and Maoism. The minister added that a Maoist sympathizer was arrested in Delhi with regard to the issue of monetary transactions between the Essar group and Maoists. This case is a sub judice matter in the court and no charges levelled against the accused have been proved. At this stage, it is erroneous to brand the accused as a Maoist sympathizer.
When the entire country is openly criticizing the state's policies today, the state is still engaged in suppressing such voices, rather than cleaning up its own act. The branding of civil liberties and democratic rights groups as Maoists is an extension of the state's policy of throttling opposition through draconian laws like the UAPA, which it has been pursuing with dogged determination. In the light of this situation, PUDR strongly condemns the minister's statement and sees the targeting of such groups as a frontal attack on democracy.
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Christ Embassy Motivational/Gospel minister Suprhymn has released a new track titled “Amen“. The track was produced by Boy Sean (DaHitMaker) and co-production from Suprhymn himself, mixed and mastered by "Surgikal'', the song expresses the rain of blessings sent by God during trying times, and one should hold steadfast faith unto the grace of God in their daily activities of work, and be patient in their pursuit of glory and success and giving thanks and singing "AMEN''.
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In the olive groves of Izmir and the horata hills of the Bozburun Peninsula, farmers are using innovative cultivation techniques that fully respect the rhythms of local ecosystems.
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The olive pastures that adorn the hills of Izmir are unique, man-made habitats where livestock grazing and olive oil production harmoniously coexist. On the sun-bathed southern slopes, goats, sheep and cattle graze alongside grafted wild olive trees – an ancient technique where young cultivated shoots are attached to an older tree root. Then, during the harvest season (October-February), the animals move to the scrubland pastures of the shady northern slopes, thereby protecting the high quality, yet fragile, grazing grasses of the southern face and the many endemic and threatened Mediterranean species that make this landscape their home.
Meanwhile, over on the Horata hills of Mugla, ancient walled terraces (‘Horata’ dating back to 2000 BC and renovated by locals annually) divide the landscape, helping to save precious water and promote exceptionally high biodiversity (cereals, legumes, almonds, olives, figs, apricots) in a very dry terrain. The walls also provide a useful barrier for the cattle that graze the hills’ 15,000 ha water basin. The narrowest part of the basin is divided in two by a huge gate and, each year, one section is reserved for the cattle and the other for crop cultivation. And then, for the following season, this is reversed – the gate is opened and the herd moves across, thus ensuring that the land’s resources are never over-exploited.
These inspiring examples highlight just how important it is to incorporate local knowledge – and a local love – of the land into our food and farming system. You only have to look around these landscapes to see that they are truly alive – places where wildlife and livestock, people and nature, ‘wolf, bird and bread’ flourish together because of each other.
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Melaleuca moves to new headquarters; open house still pending
The empty parking lot at Melaleuca's old office building on South Yellowstone Highway.
Melaleuca, Inc., moved its operations last week from South Yellowstone Highway to its new $50 million complex near Interstate 15 Exit 113, but there are a lot of finishing touches to be made.
Company spokesman Anthony Lima said employees are settling in, but many of the common areas still need to be finished. He estimated the work could take another few weeks and that an open house may come after the first of the year.
Melaleuca broke ground nearly two years ago on its 371,000-square-foot corporate headquarters nearly triple in size of the office space it was occupying. The new location puts it closer to the company's research and development building and warehouse.
The stage for expansion was set in July 2012 with the announcement of a $399,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to Bonneville County for sewer line extensions, a lift station and roadway widening. Melaleuca contributed $1 million of its own money to the project, bringing its total infrastructure investment in the area to $2.3 million.
At the time of the groundbreaking, Melaleuca CEO Frank VanderSloot said he expected the project to result in new jobs, but declined to estimate how many. Melaleuca passed $1 billion in annual sales in 2011. The company makes and distributes close to 350 health and wellness products through a network of "marketing executives" who earn commissions based on product purchases by customers they refer.
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By Johan Keyter 14 July 2011
GIGABYTE Q2556 i7 Notebook
The new Asus U36S is a thin-and-light notebook competitor perfectly adapted for the business environment. The machine sports adequate performance, a comfortable user experience and a great minimalist design.
The 13.3” Asus U36S is a breeze to carry around, weighing only 1.9 kg and sporting a super slim waistline at only 19 mm thick. The notebook is bathed in an all black guise with a magnesium finish stretching across the outer lid and palm rest. The finish looks attractive enough and does a great job of shrugging off sticky fingerprints, ensuring your notebook won't be covered in greasy finger-marks when you're gathered around the conference table. The edges of the display sports a glossy plastic with the Asus logo as always emblazoned in the bottom centre.
While not the most stylish or out-of-this-world notebook available, the U36S nevertheless exudes modern design staples, with its compact form factor made all the more prominent thanks to deceptively thin clasps supporting the display.
The notebook sports a chiclet-style keyboard with separated keys aiding the typing experience. Unfortunately the keyboard will take some getting used to, because thanks to its smaller dimensions some keys had to be resized to be accommodated. The 'enter' key for example is much smaller than is the norm and as such were at times an annoyance to find and press. Furthermore the 'shift' keys have also been decreased in size, making typing in conjunction with its capitalisation function a frustrating prospect. We found it strange that Asus had decided to keep the 'Capslock' key in its current dimensions, even though it's not used nearly as much as 'shift'.
The keyboard has no room for a numpad, but extra numpad controls are found tied to other buttons, and activated via the 'function' key. Media keys are also supported in this fashion. The touchpad on the notebook was quite smooth and responsive and includes multi-touch gestures while also incorporating a finger print reader between its two mouse buttons.
The U36S is equipped with a second generation Intel Core i5-2410M CPU clocked at 2.3 GHz in addition to switchable graphics in the form of Intel HD graphics and an Nvidia GT 520M GPU. Our test model was also equipped with an impressive 6 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 640 GB HDD spinning at 5400 rpm - extremley impressive for a thin-and-light.
It must be noted though that the U36S's specs can be modified to suit user needs, so the one you see in the shops may not have exactly the same specs as our test model, although it can be adjusted to resemble a mirror image.
The U36S is quite a powerful contender in the slim-and-light field, scoring 4857 during benchmarking tests in 3DMark06. This is considerably higher than for instance the ultra portable Toshiba Portege R700's score of 1954, and speaks volumes of what the inclusion of a quality GPU does for performance. The device also scored an average of 8.3 frames per second in Heaven Benchmark 2.0, compared to the recently reviewed Sony VAIO CB15's average of 7.9.
This doesn't mean the notebook is wiping the floor in the hardware department though, with a quick glance at its big brother, the Asus N53SV, showing a 3DMark06 score of 9433.
During use we experienced no lag or other performance issues from the device, with videos playing smoothly and even light gaming being possible thanks to the Nvidia GT 520M. The device does become a little hot when performance intensive tasks are being performed, meaning it might not be the most comfortable thing to have on your lap at all times. This causes an increases in fan noise, but it wasn't anything overly distracting and the U36S's fans managed the heat increase capably.
As far as the display is concerned the notebook features a 13.3” LCD screen with a native resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. We were suitably impressed with the display's clarity, colours and brightness, with a glossy finish helping to enhance image quality.
Viewing angles on the device wasn't the best though, and when used outside in the sunlight it becomes nearly impossible to make out anything on the display. In regular conditions however you'll be hard pressed to find much fault with the U36S’s display experience.
The notebook contains a wide array of ports, with two USB 2.0 ports, VGA port, microSD card reader, ethernet port and headphone jacks supplied. In addition, the device sports a USB 3.0 port as well as an HDMI connector to enable the playback of high definition content on a compatible display.
On the connectivity side the notebook sports Wireless N, Bluetooth 2.1 and Gigabit Lan support, with the only missing aspect being onboard 3G. A built-in webcam also makes an appearance, while Altec Lansing speakers with SRS surround sound delivers crisp and perfectly audible sound, although it can hardly be called loud.
Battery life on the device was quite impressive, with the 6-cell battery (an 8-cell option is also available) supplying us with 5 hours and 30 minutes of life during regular use (browsing, text editing) with Power Saver options turned on.
Enabling High Performance mode pushes the screen brightness to its maximum, and consequently sees battery life drop to around 4 hours, which is still a good figure, especially given the notebook’s compact nature.
The Asus U36S is a great new contender in the slim-and-light notebook segment, giving users the performance and display sizes they crave, whilst not being overly bulky or power intensive. A great design along with plenty of user friendliness makes it a great buy in almost any situation. It goes for a recommended retail price of R10 499.
Dual graphics options enables battery saving operations in addition to graphically intensive gaming and video playback.
Keyboard takes some getting used to, no numpad.
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Europa League: Vitória 0 – 4 Atlético
Rojiblancos impress and advance with a 6-0 score on aggregate
Posted by Derek Maaijen on August 25th, 2011 in Match Reports -
Goalscorers Gabi and Adrián (AS.com)
It only took Atleti two minutes to score tonight, and after that the return leg of our Europa League clash became a walk in the park.
The Rojiblancos put four goals past Vitória Guimarães and advance to the group phase of the UEFA tournament.
The two teams had only just kicked off when Tiago played an excellent through ball to Salvio, who was brought down by goalkeeper Nilson.
Gabi coolly converted the penalty kick and set the home side up for a virtually impossible challenge.
At that point they would have had to score four goals after last week’s 2-0 defeat in Madrid.
Vitória never really played a part in tonight’s game, despite a chance early on for João Alves. His shot harmlessly went off target.
In the 18th minute Atlético put an end to any hopes the Portuguese club had left, when Adrián went around Nilson and placed the ball into the empty net.
The assist came from ‘Toto’ Salvio, one of tonight’s most active players and a constant menace to Guimarães’ defence.
Some minutes later Atleti almost made it three from a quick counterattack, but Gabi hit the post.
And shortly after, Salvio missed the chance to increase our lead, when he failed to beat Nilson in a one-on-one situation.
Manzano surprisingly started Thibaut Courtois over Joel tonight, but the Belgian international had little to do. The only time he was called upon came shortly before the break, when he elegantly dove and held on to a curled shot from distance.
During the added time there were two chances for Mario Suárez, but both his attempts went just wide of the post.
After the break the first chance was for Adrián, but he headed Filipe’s cross straight into the hands of the goalkeeper.
Some minutes later the striker was part of a beautifully worked attack which only lacked an end product. Adrián and Elias set up Salvio, but instead of shooting himself the Argentine tried to pull it back to the Brazilian, who received the pass just behind him.
After exactly an hour of play, Adrián completed his brace and lifted the score to 3-0.
Sílvio delivered a precise cross to Reyes who headed it in and Adrián was there first to volley the ball into the back of the net.
After the third goal Vitória really gave up and more chances were created for Adrián, Elias and Koke, who all came close to making it four.
There was one big chance for the Portuguese outfit in the second half, but Courtois reacted quickly and held onto his clean sheet.
The final moment of glory was for the man who started it all tonight. Sílvio swung in another cross from the right and Salvio was at the end of it to beat Nilson for the fourth time.
Tonight’s comfortable victory is a good warm-up for our boys ahead of this weekend’s first La Liga clash against Osasuna.
The draw for the next round of the Europa League, with Radamel Falcao present, will be held tomorrow in Nyon.
Line-up: Courtois; Sílvio, Perea, Miranda, Filipe; Tiago (“46 Elias), Mario (“67 Koke), Gabi; Reyes, Adrián (“72 Juanfran) and Salvio.
Goals: 0-1 Gabi (“2); 0-2 Adrián (“18); 0-3 Adrián (“60); 0-4 Salvio (“81)
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AUPA ATLÉTI!
john greece
Does anyone know the starting line up we will play most at the season?
Will Courtois Be the first keeper for the season?
Edletico
@John I think the line up should be and hopefully will be:
Silvio Godin A.Dominguez Filipe
Tiago Diego (hopefully)
Reyes Arda Turan
Koke looks like he could take Suarez’s role though with a few more impressive performances
Are you impressed by Courtois? He’s a great talent…
palc
@ Edletico You can’t field 12 men :p
Silvio Perea Dominguez Filipe
Tiago Diego Gabi
Reyes Falcao Salvio
@Palc
I didn’t, I said koke could come into the line up if he starts playing well.
Don’t you think Arda Turan will start?
What do you think about our new keeper?
Courtois looked good today, claimed everything that he could (De Gea flaw). That save looked amazing where he dived and caught it, would like to see how he fares against a better team though
@ Edletico
My bad. I counted Arda Turan as two. Arda and Turan. Well it depends on the formation and also the selection. Arda, Reyes and Diego can’t all play at once as theyre alle similar IMO. I prefer Salvio if Reyes and Diego plays in ohter words..
He was amazing last year. He gave the title to his team in the last match with 2amazing saves.
Great game. Gabi was superb as always, and the whole team played great. I cant even imagine where to put the new signings! And its really a shame we need to let one of Miranda/Elias/Salvio go…
Anyways seems like we are having a great team this season, but dont forget our curse, after two or 3 good games we will start to struggle with everyone in the league… 🙁
Forget Diego. This is a good formation:
………………..Curtois……………….
Silvio……Perea…..Alvaro……Filipe
…………..Gabi…….Tiago…………..
Salvio………..Reyes…………..Arda
………………..Falcao………………..
7 man bench: Joel, Godín, Mario, Koke, Elias, Juanfran and Adrian
This was very encouraging, we looked like we have improved a lot even since last week. And this is not including our two (possibly three with Diego) biggest signings of the summer. This team could do some serious damage this year. Knowing Atleti I am sure they will live up to the potential…
One thing i noticed is that we don’t seem to boot away those ridiculous annoying long balls with no adress anymore from the backline. Central midfield semes to come very deep and give the defenders short passing option to build up play along the ground. At times it even looked like Barcelona style of football. Very impressive small tactical change by Manzano, giving the team a more confident style of play from where you can dictate tempo and passing.
amed9ja
Hopefully we will keep up this form and thrash teams in laliga with ease. Can wait to see FALCAO and ARDA playing
FORZA ATLETICO
DJ_ZA
Didn’t see the game, but well done Atleti. Just have a feeling this season is going to be a good one. Great result tonight – can’t say the same for Sevilla (wonder what Manzano thinks about them being dumped out so early).
Can’t wait to see the group stage draw.
guys, did you see adrian?? what a talent.silvio amazing.gabi the boss directing the orchestra 🙂 . just think that we played so good without our 3 new stars, falcao arda and diego(will sign tomorrwo). we could be the surprise of the season.forza atleti siempre.
I kept stressing out during the match because everyone was playing well and I was thinking “WHERE ARE WE GOING TO PUT EVERYONE!?” Then I remembered, hey, if this is a good season, I’m sure many of these guys would love to be the depth part of things. It’s been a while since I’ve been this excited about all of our non starters.
I really just don’t want any of these folks to go anywhere now! Except Miranda…good if he stays, good if he goes.
The first goal was not a penalty, Salvio may not dived but the keeper did not even touch him, anyways it was a fair perfance not good not great and when your players miss a LOT of clear chances, you need to work on that, If I was Manzano ,I’ll be very worried., because you can’t miss those chances againts opponents in Spain or in the group stages of the Europa League,
————- Court —————-
–Silvio—Miranda —Alvaro—Filipe–
——Tiago(Mario)—Gabi———–
—–Adrian—Falcao—Arda——–
Reyes and Salvio are too individualist for my taste :/
And Curtois keep proving hes a class above Joel.
And Adrian seems to be great both at passing and breaking offside runs, seems he can get a spot on the wings.
I actually Salvio is not individualistic, after some time, when he’s fully adapted, I think he will provide lots of assists!
Courtois could be very good for Atleti, but it just bugs me that he’s not a permanent signing, after a year another goalie is to be sought, if Joel (or Asenjo) does not step it up.
But oh well, if we’re looking at this season, it’s not a big problem.
I wonder who Manzano will choose to load off now, all of Elias, Salvio and Miranda could be useful, but Miranda is probably the best riddance, looking at the issue right now.
[email protected] I have noticed that you are bit of a whiner. Always complaining and finding new ways to be pessimistic about everything Atleti does. Constantly arguing with people who give credit to the team. Why do you even support Atleti? We thrashed a portugese team in Portugal by 4-0, what the hell more do you want? Go support Barcelona. It’s getting pretty tiresome to read about your whining anad nagging on the team for no reason. Thank You.
Arda, Adrian, Reyes, Juanfran, Elias,and Salvio, seems alot of people for just 2 spots.
I would rather keep Miranda, we need to 2 center back subs at least, I also believe he will steal Godin spot.
So personally, I would rather send away Salvio or maybe elias.
You know Elias is a central midfielder?
Perea, Miranda, Godin, Dominguez, Pulido, that’s five central defenders for two spots.
So Miranda might be talented, but it might be best to let go of him, preferably on loan, but that might be moving the problem.
Elias could be a good pick to let go, too, but in the first game versus Vitoria he showed some great movement, one of the reasons he scored twice that day.
But, if someone like Diego arrives, get rid of the other Brazilian midfielder.
Friends of mine, who follow the German Bundesliga, are reporting that Wolfsburg coach Magath denied having any contact with Atléti and that it is more likely that D. Ribas will be sold to Galatasaray.
Ringo Schut
Well denying means nothing in this world.
And still, Diego could stop the move to Turkey, maybe he’s one if those players that always get their way..
@Fernando, I’m thinking about switch my allegiance to Barca, and why I support Atleti is not of your F****** business, all I’m saying trashing Vitoria does’nt make Atleti the best f****** team, rembember last year win againts Inter, and the trashing of Gijon, that f****** made me excited, I was pretty f****** postive that we were gonna make it to Champions League, I was so positve that I thought we were gonna beat Madrid, but no we f****** lost, I also remember I was excited we were gonna beat Valencia, or Bilbao at the Calderon, but no ,we f****** lost again, but I seems you have a tiny brain that makes you settle for a f******* 6th place in La Liga, we’re better than that s***, we should aim for Champions League not Europa League, but it seems you are conformist person, If you have the b**** answer me.
xisco…….. that,s why we signed falcao.so dont worry about missing chances like the one,s we missed today 🙂
diego,s dad is in madrid right now ,reached an agreement with atletico yesterday and said that his son wants to play for atletico and doesnt wanna go to turkey so dont worry.diego will be ours the moment that forlan sign with inter.that,s what everybody is saying in madrid, according to journalists freinds of gil marin.
overall we have a very very good squat and i love the way manzano wants us to play.
last year quique sanchez flores almost destroyed the team cause he had problemas with almost everyone,forlan,dominguez,assunsao,juanfran,elias etc.. but manzano has a very different personality.lets hope everything comes out right.forza atleti siempre.
xisco you have anger issues, calm down. Ateltico played well today, yeah they missed a couple chances but at the same time after the second goal they didn’t have much to play to for, just play around keep possesion etc.
Xisco//
Who cares about last years result? And you still do not know how the team is going to perform this year, but if cannot even be a tiny bit happy about a impressive result in Portugal and after playing very confident football game then don’t spoil the mood of others. It’s still pre-season and the players cannot chip the goalkeeper everytime with a backheel. The play looks better, they are making much deeper and smarter runs to break offside lines, i like it. You need to chill. Support your own team and give them credit sometimes instead of always complaining.
Silvio Perea Dominguez Felipe
Reyes Elias Turan
Salvio Falcao Adrian
@Ringo, Perea is our back up RB aswell now, so I wouldnt count him as full CB, and actually counting pulido isnt a risk worth making for me, Its nice to see the young club players play, but only when they are 100% ready, not when they are just old enough.
As for Elias, not talking about what he used to play, so far I seen Manzano only play him on the wings.(Maybe I’m wrong).
@Javi, 4 wingers on at the same time are kinda an overkill for the team, we will concede 5 goals+ every game with that midfeild.
That’s a pretty attacking formation, Javi, but unless you’re playing FIFA or PES, that won’t work.
Plus, Manzano looks for control in midfield, so Elias as only midfielder is something he will not do, neither would I.
The CB-partnership is the hardest issue at the moment, Dominguez seems a starter, but Perea or Godin to assist him seems hard right now. Perea is doing terrific right now and he is very fast, but we all know what Godin COULD be.
The midfield is another interesting discussion, stick with these three, or let Koke and/or Elias start, will Diego join the bunch?
Xisco, I know Atleti screwed up the last two years in getting CL-football, but a little dreaming is okay, especially if Quique is away!
k14, the last two games Manzano used Elias on his real position, central midfield.
Well, Perea started the last two games as CB, so I count him as CB.
I get your point that Pulido might be risky, but he really is very talented an he seems professional. If it were just about age, Regalon was in the squad right now!
I see why you think it’s slim in the back, but unless Diego or something arrives, I think it’s best to let go of Elias.
I think Miranda should leave on loan and then either promote Pulido or sign an expierienced CB for cheap. Elias looked good in Cm and Salvio looked quality last season and has been exciting to watch in our europa league games so far
hey guys, how are we doin’?, can’t wait to face Osasuna, on Sunday at the Calderon, it seems to be an easy match for Atleti, unless obviously, Osasuna says something else, also I notice your guys line-ups and it seems you all have no confidence in Godin, a guy who was very important for Uruguay’s 4th place in South Africa, not soo much in Argetina, but Oscar Tabarez has all is trust in Godin, and it seems Godin, is deemed surplus at the Calderon.
[email protected] Good lord! A five year old with anger issues and too much red bull. Someone should wash your mouth with soap.
@Javi92 Godin been injured for a while, and no idea when he will be available and fit again, has nothing to do about faith in the player or performance.
@Davide no i’m not angry at all, is just that bastard Fernando, thinks he has the right to exihibit me to all of you guys, what a turd?, All was trying to say, is that we won againt Vitoria so what?, they we’re a really poor team, with no idea of what their game was?, besides we still haven’t won anything, the season is gonna be long, we celebrate when we win something ,seems you don’t remember Ari’s game at the Calderon, they made us looke like fools, Quique was a egotiscal coach yeah, but Forlan is a grown man like most players, who need to give everything for the tem, seems they don’t, also, I was only expressing my opinions, I wasn’t messing with guys integrity, but it seems you are all conformists, and like to settle for little.
Calling people bastard and swearing on forum instead of debating does not really win alot of sympathy votes for you cause. I am not conformist, i am an realist. I take one game at a time and look to the future. Thers is no use bringing up old results and complain when we just played good football and probably recorded our best away performance and result since the romans ruled Europe. Is Quique still in the the club? No.. I am proud of what the team showed yesterday and you should be too. It was not even our strongest team, which shows that we great depth in our squad this year. I have been around Atlétivo since 1993 and i have learned how to handle expectations. We have new players and a new coach who seem to like very nice style of football. I am happy with this for now, what happens later, nobody knows. No use in complaining every game. We hade a good start to the campaign. And it’s still pre season so don’t expect them to be assasins in fron of goal. And some of the players have never played with each other before. I do have to agree with previous comments that you can be a bit of a buzz kill with your sort of pissimistic view on the club.
@ Davide
Well said, I am happy with way the team is playing at the moment the passsing looks better and they all seem to chase the ball when we lose it, we regained it much quicker last night. I also noticed that Reyes was passing a lot more.
@ Xisco
Yes we will have harder games but take them as they come, so far we are unbeaten and are in the group stage of the Europa league. Without our ‘star players’ as well
I personally like Xisco’s brand of vitriol, but Davide is right, past results don’t effect future possibilities so no reason to not be optimistic considering our two (hopefully three with Diego) biggest signings still haven’t played yet.
There is going to be a legit backup this year at ever spot aside from the wingbacks, very exciting depth.
Hopefully the stars won’t ruin the play, it’s pretty logical that when things just aren’t going well, you start giving long balls to your ‘magicians’, which does not improve the play.
Luckily Falcao seems to know how to link with other players and play tiki-taka-football.
I know Arda has great dribbles and passes, but how is his linking game? Does he try to go for the individual moves immediately or is he someone who knows what’s best before he receives the ball?
Or do I have to find out for myself? 😛
I think Arda was the assist leader in Turkey for many years so I guess he can produce killer passes. I also think he may pass more now though as he is in a better team which (hopefully) won’t rely on him like Gala did
@ k14 & Ringo, yes its a bit overkill offensively, but after we score three gols manzano can put in a bit more of a defensive squad, like Tiago for Elias, or Gabi for Salvio.
I also think it’s underkill defensively…
Plus it’s hard to control the match, with Elias as the only midfielder and he’s best offensively.
@Davide, you been with Atletico since 1993?… , whatever man, only you know it. Well then, Mr. Postive, so if if I say we’re gonna defeat Madrid and Barca this year ,am I being positive or just stupid?, or if if say we’re gonna lose against them, am I being negative or realistic?, well then, you think you’re so smart, and know about Atlet’s expectations?, tell me, are we gonna champions of La Liga, Europa League, Copa del rey, or are we gonna qualify for Champions League?, huh?, you say you been with Atleti since 1993 and know the expectations, according to you what are gonna win this season? huh?, Enlight me…..
Just so you know, being positive or negative about the team doesn’t make a difference, the only people that actually make things happen isthe players, not you not mean?, It doesn’t matter what you think?, it’s the players who talk and perform on the pitch not your “positive” thinking, and just because you comment on this forum that doesn’t make an expert or a good human being, and you aren’t exaclty mother Teresa either, one more thing, since you’re the most expert person in this forum, why haven’t you answered why Merida hasn’t make it at the club?, you should know, you been with Atleti since 1993, you think you know the answers for everything, you’re “Mr. Positive”, huh?, why Merida hasn’t make it at the club? huh?, but what would you know, since you are a 40 year old virgin loser, who has no life?.
PS, My Kun Aguero jersey, says Atleti, una pasion,un sentimiento inagotable, not Atleti un sentimiento, una pasion, un orgullo.
@Xisco ,
You either don’t actually bother to understand what people say, or maybe u are this simple minded 🙂
Do you even understand what people write or do you just read what you want to read? Your answer has nothing to do with anything i wrote does not make any sense. I don’t know how old you are but someone should teach you some social skills and respect. I’m pretty tired of this nonense. Please do not comment anything i write on the forum in the future and i will not comment yours.
I’m sorry Xisco, but k14 is actually right on this one.
He means that he knows what expecting things from Atletico means, but since in Quique’s period it was more like a rollercoasterride, with ups and downs, but sadly mostly downs, Atleti was the team that made you this pessimistic (losing unnecessarily and stuff like that).
Now Quique is gone and hopefully a new era has arrived. Of course we can’t expect what’s going to happen: will we surprise in a positive manner or negative? Somehow not surprising at all doesn’t seem to be able in the Calderon.
Of course we can’t say the squad’s going to beat Real and Barcelona this year, but it’s really pessimistic to say we’re going to lose. Of course the chances are high that’s going to happen, but it’s not a certainty. Even Hercules beat Barcelona last year, Sporting defeated Real Madrid.
We could have good days, they could have bad ones.
Momentarily we have back up to replace out of form players, so the chances are higher than they’ve been the last two years and we beat Barca once in that period already.
So, let’s stop this discussion and WAIT for what’s going to happen. After five games, we can discuss the possibilities of this season again, if that’s not too soon, although in five games, usually Atleti has shown all its faces already.
How old is your Kun shirt? I believe they changed it from that to what’s on the top of this website two years ago.
No I’m not simple minded, I want Atleti to win against Madrid, or Barca, qualify to Champions League and someday lift that precious trophy, the people that want Diego to join Atleti are simple minded.
why would you want a player that had an awful season, is a troublemaker, and wants to earn a high salary, huh?, there are so many players Atleti could sign, who really would make a difference, but the people that want Diego at Atleti are the ones simple minded.
I have 2 Kun shirts, I guess they’re from 08-09.
Yeah, I’m not so happy about Diego either, bit if he finds back his joy and professionalism he COULD be great for the team.
Still, if they have to buy instead of loan and try, I really wish they won’t take the risk.
If he comes I hope he won’t be as arrogant, like when not between the starting eleven…
And two years ago is 2009, so that makes sense.
It’s also in your collar, right? Nowadays it’s on the crest, but then on the inside part of the shirt, so it’s “on your heart” or something like that.
I’m not sure if it’s a matter of Diego finding his joy back, it seems all he cares is about getting a high amount of money, but now him joining Atleti seems that is not gonna happen.
I also don’t think the club needs a playmaker, now that we got Falcao, all he needs is a cross to head the ball into the back of the net, and Reyes, Turan, Salvio or Luis Filipe can assist Falcao with the right crosses, after all, when he played for Porto,he didn’t needeed an attacking midfielder to assist him to score goals.
About the collar, I thought that was the original motto, it makes no sense to change it every 2 years, you don’t have to exagerate with the “on your heart”, stuff.
You do realize that Diego is actually taking a wage cut to come play for Atleti. He has approx 5 m € a year at Wolfsburg and Atletico offered him a contract worth 3.5 M € a year and he accepted it.
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Retro Baltimore: The 2016 Marble Bar Photo Shoot
Posted on November 16, 2016 by almosthipguy
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“Dark. Dank. Sweaty. Fetid. Subterranean. A physical eyesore in the basement of a once posh hotel long gone to seed. In other words, the perfect rock venue.” – Michael Yockel (“What Is and What Should Never Be: A History of the Baltimore Club Scene,” City Paper, June 19, 1987)
“It was a dump, no two ways about it…In the summer it was blistering hot, in the winter it was freezing cold. It was dark, dingy, and stunk like piss.” – Adolf Kowalski (“Glory Hole” by Brennen Jensen, City Paper, December 6, 2000)
“The only reason any scene ever happened in Baltimore was because of the Marble Bar.” – David Wilcox (singer, Pooba, Alcoholics, Problem Pets, Chelsea Graveyard)
(Sunday, October 9, 2016) – Roughly 40 old time punks and rockers showed up at the Congress Hotel on Baltimore’s W. Franklin Street, curious to see what their former favorite music venue, The Marble Bar, looked like more roughly 30 years after the doors closed for good in 1987.
The Congress Hotel on W. Franklin Street
The occasion was a photo shoot organized by Chris Kaltenbach and photographed by ace photographer Amy Davis for a Baltimore Sun “Retro Baltimore” feature (Sunday, October 30, 2016). This “special session of Congress” was called to see how the Marble and its (ir)regulars looked today compared with back then. (Attendees were asked to hold off posting pics on social media until the Sun article appeared but we live in the age of WikiLeaks and, well, there was a lot of leakage from that historic basement!)
The Sun hasn’t set on this crowd yet
The result was a historic pic filled with so many people that it looked like a high school yearbook photo (for a school I certainly wouldn’t send my – entirely theoretical – children to!). [I had originally reproduced the picture here, but The Sun told me it violated copyright and asked me to take it down. I certainly get that, but given that so many people have already posted the pic on social media, it seems rather pointless – but no worries, this dude will abide. I’m flattered that my dumb blog is even on their radar.] Go here to see the pic: Marble Bar Alums.
In his accompanying text to “The Marble Bar alums,” Chris Kaltenbach wrote:
Some 30 alumni of Baltimore’s punk scene recently gathered at the Marble, and if the old place wasn’t quite as loud as it once was, its spirit has hardly been dimmed. An elevator brought everyone downstairs, a modern convenience hitherto unimagined, and everything looked a lot cleaner and brighter than people remembered. But time has not dimmed the glory of what went down here.
Continue reading “The Marble Bar alums” (you’ll need to scroll down a bit, past the Bay Bridge driver story – there is no direct link) at Baltimoresun.com.
And who exactly showed up? The roll call of musicians appearing in the pic included: Tom Diventi, 60 (Da Moronics), Craig Stinchcomb, 63 (Judie’s Fixation), Anderson, Tom Warner, 59 (Thee Katatonix), Ed Neenan, 55 (The Click) and Mr. Urbanity, 60 (Thee Katatonix), Joe Goldsborough, 52 (Reptile House), Mark Shimonkevitz, 55 (Ungrateful Bitches), Billy McConnell , 65 (Strangelove), Tom Chalkley, 61 (The Reason), Mark O’Connor, 64 (Food for Worms), Woody Lissauer, 57 (Strangelove), Hoppy Hopkins, 58 (Da Moronics), Mike Milstein, 56 (Thee Katatonix), Greg Breazeale, 55 (Beavers Cleavers), Adolf Kowalski, 56 (Thee Katatonix), Steven Reech, 50 (The Dinosaurs), Skizz Cyzyk, 50 (Burried Droog), Craig Hankin, 61 (The Reason), Scott Pendleton, 63 (Fuji’s Navy), David Wilcox/Steptoe, 66 (The Alcoholics), Big Andy Small, 56 (Thee Katatonix), Steve Cavaselis, 54, (Party Dolls), Jamie Wilson, 64 (Da Moronics), John Gontrum/Johnnie Angel, 53 (Avalanche), William Sutherland/Brian Jones aka Lump(y), 60 (Judie’s Fixation), Robyn Webb/Dick Hertz, 60 (Infant Lunch), Ron Weldon, 50 (Grey March) and Anthony Piazza, 58 (Eubie Hayve).
As the Sun quoted yours truly (me) in the article:
“It was just really good to see those faces,” says Tom Warner, an original member of Thee Katatonix, “and to know so many people were still around.”
“You can read it in the Sunday papers”: Baltimore Sun, October 30, 2016
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3 Responses to Retro Baltimore: The 2016 Marble Bar Photo Shoot
Gerald Wright says:
The marble bar is one of those places you can never forget
Caroline Utters says:
It’s a powerful place. and you’ll never know what it’s like to see it in 100 years.
Michael Dolan says:
Was sorry to learn too late about this great conclave, or I would have wrangle as many of The Catholics, the outfit my brother Kevin fronted and which I managed, to participate. My favorite Marble Bar memory was the night The Catholics headlined with support from The Nurses and a third band I can’t name. After the show, I and guys from the other groups repaired to the “dressing room” to split the take into three stacks. The dough, sweaty and sticky as only door money can be, kept coming up odd either way, but always $14 off. Then the power went out. In utter darkness, I lay my paws over all the hands reaching for money. “Wait,” I said. When the lights came back, we realized some sharpie had slipped us a $1 bill with the corners from four $20s glued to it. I still have that greenback as a souvenir of man’s venality. Long live the Marble Bar!
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Did Dana Bash indeed have the knife work?
Plastic surgery, this surgical procedure has been very well known as the most wanted leeway to get the look desired. This surgical procedure has been extensively attributed to lots of public figures, particularly artists. There are some reasons why the knife work is more preferred than any other procedures. First, it has the potential to get the look wanted in just no time at all. Also, as a most senior artists want, it also can get the youthful effect on their appearance. One of many artists in American that was once speculated to have undergone the knife work is Dana Bash. Dana Bash was born on June 15, 1971. She has been well recognized throughout the United states as one of the most distinguished female actresses.The rumors about Dana Bash plastic surgery really came as a total shock to lots of people, including her fans. She indeed had turned up into an object of plastic surgery after lots of her pictures, which portrayed the assumed difference before and after the surgery, got spread on the internet. But, did she really undergo the gossiped plastic surgery? Well, let’s find the truth, if any, behind the rumors of Dana Bash surgery scandals.
What is the cosmetic enhancement rumored?
There have been lots of buzz about Dana Bash. In fact, she is known as one of many people who is obsessed with plastic surgery. The rumors around Dana Bash has been burst by the existence of some photos on the internet which are meant to show the difference she has after the rumored plastic surgery. As you can see in the before and after photo, you would notice that she has a different nose in the newer and older photo. In the older photo, you can see that she had rather a rounder and bulbous nose. However, this look is no longer visible in the newer photo. Dana Bash today has a slimmer and smaller nose ridge. This look has caused t controversy around Dana Bashrhinoplasty. This particular surgery is devoted specifically to reshaping the sole nose structure. And, apparently, Dana Bash has been quite successful in having the surgery done. The other facet of the rumors around Dana Bash also alludes to the issue related Dana Bashbotox injections. Lots of artists are so interested in having this injection in as much as the injection may give youthful impact on their face. By using Botox injections, the facial muscle tissue will be tense and later on lead to demolishing the signs of aging such as wrinkles, lines, and sagging, which are not visible on her face. Botox injections are also familiar with some other senior artist such as Oprah Winfrey, Courtney Love, and Delta Burke. Also, you may notice that her cheek has been different. As posed in the former photo, Dana Bash has a smaller cheek. However, her cheek turns into a nicer one which is more filled, making her look younger and fresh.
Did she have any other knife work on her face?
After knowing some of the rumors as truth, lots of people then are tempted to find out whether there are any other surgeries that she had in the past. Apparently, this has caused lots of controversies around the issue related to Dana Bash cosmetic surgery. Some people assume that she also has a breast reduction. Dana Bash is known to hate her breast size, and that is why she was rumored to have undergone the surgical procedure. No matter what have been said about the very issues, there have been no other rumors about it.
Denise Richards really got obsessed with the knife work
Everyone surely wants to stay youthful and sparkling. Perhaps, this is the most common perception held by most artists and those working in the realm of movie and music industry in the United States. In order to gain success and fame, lots of artists, musicians, and authors do anything and spend thousands of dollars. One of many leeways that they resort to is plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has been known to exert significant change in a very short time, which what most people want. The other tempting impact it may accrue is the youthful look. Of course, people would be really tempted to stay young and beautiful. Due to all the impacts it can bring about, plastic surgery has been chosen as the best panacea to any physical deficiency. One of many artists in the United States that was once speculated to have undergone the knife work is Denise Richards. No one would deny the talent and sparkle that she has. In fact, Denise Richard has been known as one of the sexiest artists in America. Regardless of all the fame, she obtained, her life came as an enigma. It was not without controversy. One of many controversies ever related to her was Denise Richards plastic surgery scandals. The rumors about Denise Richards scandals came as a total shock on the media, which later left room for lots controversies. So, what do you reckon the actress had done during her plastic surgery? Let’s find them out.
Was that good gene or good doc?
Lots of people, including her fans are so amazed by the rumors around Denise Richards. We can easily address the curiosity by referring to some of the photos spread on the internet which were labeled Denise Richards before and after plastic surgery. Denise Richards certainly has a natural look. However, she apparently does not feel satisfied with the look that she decided to go on the knife work. First off, you can see that Denise Richards has a nicer nose in that her nose has been more pointed and slimmer than before. Also, you can see that her nostril appears rather smaller than that in the former photos. As what most artists do, staying youthful and fresh is imperious. This is presumably the reason why Denise decided to have botox injection and derma injection. Most people know that these two surgical procedures may get facial muscle tense and straight. As a result, there will be obviously no signs of aging. No wrinkles, sagging, and lines at all. These surgeries can be true since Denise still looks so young and fresh regardless she is no longer young. With the natural beauty she poses through her body, there assumedly appears some assumptions that the knife work does not have much to do in enhancing the beauty.
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Certainly, we can clearly see that Denise has great plastic surgery. The outcome of the knife work appears so subtle and nice. This surely leads to the rumors about the flawless knife work attributed to Denise Richards cosmetic surgery. With all the outcomes of the rumored plastic surgery, Denise Richard is best known as an artist with flawless knife work, rather than an artist with flawless beauty. In fact, some people once speculated that she also had breast augmentation to get the boobs done. This rumor has left too much controversy whether or not she indeed had the breast augmentation. Little has been said to confirm the rumor since the actress has never said anything about the rumors around her, the typical reaction to plastic surgery rumors.
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The benefits of Community Growing projects are well recognised now. The list below was prepared by Scottish Government in 2019 to encourage Scottish Councils to support community growing.
Community growing can provide a good source of environmentally sound, healthy, locally sourced food and make this more readily available to local people.
The option for people to grow their own food to supplement the buying of produce from retail outlets should offer them monetary savings. For example, an experienced allotment holder succeeded in producing 298kg of fruit and vegetables from his 200 square metre plot in one year, which is calculated to be sufficient to provide the recommended amount of fruit and vegetables for a family of 4 for over 6 months;
Fruit and vegetable consumption increases when people are involved in community growing, as evidenced by a 2008 survey where participants reported that household members involved in community gardening consumed 40% more fruit and vegetables per day than those who did not, and they were 3.5 times more likely to consume the recommended 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day;
Diets are seen to improve and people acknowledge that they eat more healthily when they are involved in growing their own food;
Gardening activities can provide low-impact exercise and improve physical health and can be a more sustainable form of exercise than when the exercise itself is the primary driver;
Community growing can lower stress levels, offer mental health benefits and a supportive social environment, where growers view the growing space as a “safe” space where they can relax and unwind from the stresses of other parts of their lives;
Creating green space in built up areas improves air quality and provides recreational opportunities that encourage socialising, decrease isolation and lead to improved confidence and self-esteem;
GPs and healthcare professionals can consider social prescribing to connect people to non-medical sources of support and resources in the community, for example a GP or healthcare professional might consider it appropriate to prescribe gardening-related activity to improve the health and wellbeing of the individual;
Horticultural therapy through community growing can provide wide-ranging health-related benefits to ease suffering and promote recovery from illness. Such therapy can, for example, help to reduce physical pain, assist with rehabilitation and recovery, and alleviate the symptoms of dementia.
Community food-growing spaces and food-growing can contribute to, and benefit, the environment and improve the quality of life for local residents, for example by addressing areas prone to anti-social behaviour, cleaning up blight sites and fly-tipping sites, revitalising unused spaces or bringing vacant or derelict land back into use.
A sense of community is encouraged when people participate in food growing activities;
Access to community growing spaces can help to encourage more vulnerable people to get involved in local food-growing, and many growing spaces can evidence a reduction in isolation and loneliness for those taking part, for example through organised social activities such as dances and barbeques that occur periodically;
Community growing can offer “social horticulture”, where the outcome is to be socially inclusive and involve client groups (such as those with dependency problems, or immigrants or migrants) who may otherwise feel socially excluded;
Community growing spaces can offer volunteering opportunities, events and festivals throughout the year;
Community growing spaces can improve biodiversity and, when linked with other greenspaces, create important green corridors for wildlife, particularly if green hedging (and indigenous hedging such as hawthorn) is used in place of fencing;
Although the food-growing strategy is intended for food growing for human consumption, there can be many benefits to biodiversity gained during that process. The authority’s food-growing strategy will also help to meet the requirement for them to further the conservation of biodiversity by helping to meet the objectives of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy and Local Biodiversity Action Plans, as well as the Pollinator Strategy for Scotland;
The Pollinator Strategy for Scotland 2017-2027 sets out how Scotland can continue to be a place where pollinators thrive, along with actions that are needed to help achieve that objective;
Community growing sites also provide educational and Citizen Science opportunities to work in partnership with Local Biodiversity Action Plan partners such as Local Record Centres undertaking the recording of bees, butterflies etc.;
Community growing can mean enhanced space and habitat for wildlife, such as through planting to attract pollinators or companion planting on the grow- your-own site; there are many examples of positive steps taken on community growing sites to encourage biodiversity;
Community growing sites can help to alleviate climate change through good soil management and appropriate ground cover management via healthy and appropriate plant cover. Growing methodologies such as forest gardening can also offer such opportunities;
Community food growing spaces contribute to mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change through carbon reduction and sustainable design. Other sustainability benefits can be considerable, such as reduction in air miles, reduction in carbon emissions and improvements to air quality through locally grownfood;
Carbon emissions (including reducing energy use, more sustainable transport and less waste) can be reduced by between 2kg and 5kg of carbon equivalent for every kilogram of vegetable produced;
People can be encouraged to contribute towards making Scotland a Low Carbon country and aid climate change mitigation in many other ways, including buying or growing local seasonal foods rather than purchasing exotic foods from supermarkets and so reducing food miles;
Recycling & Food Waste
Community growing can lead to a reduction in food waste through composting and reduced food packaging, contributing to the national and local zero waste agenda, and help to meet the food waste reduction target;
People are also less likely to waste the food that they grow, and are more likely to put grow-your-own waste into the compost, thereby returning nutrients to the soil;
Many community growing projects have an ethos of upcycling and can be exemplars of inventive uses of what otherwise may be waste products, e.g. pallets, scaffolding planks, food waste, etc.;
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
Community food growing spaces can also make positive contributions to sustainable drainage through the permeable surfaces of food growing spaces and the harvesting of rainwater;
An organic approach to community growing can help to reverse soil degradation. Reversing this trend will help to address the loss of organic matter from the soil, reduce soil compaction and erosion, and help to reverse the trend in mineral decline in vegetables;
Some soil management methods, such as regenerative agriculture – including “no tillage” and avoiding the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers which contribute to the release of greenhouse gas – help to enhance and sustain the health of the soil by restoring and increasing carbon content. Such methods may also help to produce greater quantities and more nutritious produce. By avoiding tilling the soil, this will help to stop exposure of so much soil to the air which avoids the decay of organisms in the soil which would reduce soil quality, in addition to releasing carbon into the air. Research has also indicated higher quality soil on a GYO site compared to its surrounding agricultural land;
One of the eight Curriculum for Excellence areas allows children to learn about health and wellbeing matters to ensure that they acquire skills to live healthy, happy lives;
Community growing can contribute to learning. People working in a community growing environment learn techniques, such as organic techniques, which they can then apply
People involved in community growing can benefit from a therapeutic learning environment through which they gain insights into themselves as well as transferable life skills;
Food growing programmes in schools can have positive impacts on pupil nutrition and attitudes towards healthy eating, specifically related to the willingness to try new foods; and allows pupils to learn about their natural environment, how to grow and harvest food, and to be less wasteful of natural resources.
Food growing programmes in schools might offer useful opportunities for school holiday clubs, and would allow children to become involved in more gardening activities, such as harvesting their fruit and vegetables during their summer holidays;
Food growing spaces provide a learning environment, where young and old can learn about a wide range of topics, including: Biodiversity; Food origins; Skills to grow-your-own; Botany; Climatology; Cookery; Geography; Recycling/upcycling; Local history, for example when a former industrial area of land is brought back into use.
Taking part in community growing activities can develop ‘soft’ skills such as communication skills, problem solving, team working etc. that increase employability. This will support the local economy indirectly by preparing more people for employment;
Community growing spaces can provide a wealth of educational opportunities, both informal and formal, whether it be through hosting horticultural training courses, to more informal learning about biodiversity or communication skills;
Community farms and gardens tend to spend grant money locally, such as through buying local goods or services, or by employing local people, and on occasions secure funding to employ staff or to pay volunteers’ expenses; and therefore may help to bring in jobs to a local area;
If the lease terms allow, selling excess produce and generating local business from produce grown on grow-your-own sites (excluding produce grown on an allotment site which is grown not-for-profit) will have a positive impact on the local community through the purchase of local goods and services, such as hiring local contractors and buying local goods and services, and may aid job creation;
From selling fruit and vegetables to value added products like jams and chutneys, on a not-for-profit basis (if the lease terms allow), and providing training and continuing personal development opportunities, community growing can help to contribute to the local economy and encourage enterprising activity;
A 2011 social return on investment (SROI) study of community gardens has shown that for every £1 invested by funders, £3.56 of social value was returned. This study sought to measure benefits such as significant positive changes to stakeholders, including volunteers and local people, involved in or visiting community gardens;
A similar SROI study from 2012 of the social return from investing in a horticultural training and community growing facility shows that for every £1 invested around £9 of community benefits was returned through benefits such as new skills;
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Ella M. Kaye
Dancers & Lighthouses
Artists & Cottages
Songwriters & Cities
1st Chapters
Pier Lights Chapter 1
Shadowed Lights Chapter 1
Pieces of Light Chapter 1
Shadows of Greens & Memories Ch 1
Shadows of Blues & Echoes, Ch 1
Shadows of Rust & Reels, Ch 1
The Texture of Glass
"The writing is almost lyrical, sensual and passionate." Author Mona Risk
"a slow, sensual build-up where every scene is heightened through rich, flowing prose" Author Lindsay Townsend
"It's a visual kind of story." Author Celia Yeary
"I loved this book. The characters were realistic and intricately drawn." Author Maggie Toussaint
The water caressed her skin as she stroked through its depths, dipping underneath for solitude and rising above for air. It both pushed against her and held her up. It rushed over her face to stroke her cheeks and made her close her eyes in defense and in pleasure. It made her heart beat fast, from exertion and excitement. It pumped blood through her system. And it was there for her to decide when she wanted it and to avoid when she didn’t. Its soft splashing and rushing and receding and lapping was far, far better than a man snoring in her ear.
Instead, she stared out over the beach, over the water rolling in waves against the wet shore, sliding back out to slam against water coming in, the force pushing some of it up into foamy waves that settled again just to repeat the process. A natural process. In and out. Like oxygen. Breathing. In and out. A simple thing. Like talking to someone in conversation. They speak. You speak. Sometimes it came together and one would back down and wait and then the first would crest and wane and make way. Simple. Natural. In and out. Back and forth. Give and take. Such an easy process. Speech. Laughter. A look. A smile. Second nature. Something you do without thinking. Just talk. Answer. Listen. Repeat. Simple. If everyone else could do it, so could she.
Shadowed Lights
The water washed up over their feet as they took the moves slowly, from as much distance as possible while staying in hold, and then he sped the count and closed in. “Ball-flat, ball, ball-flat, and bounce. Samba is much about the bounce of the knees. Right. Good. And now the whisk, the same steps, only move the right foot behind the left and only touch the ball with it.”
Emma nearly stopped dancing when he started humming a song, a soft slow song, music only, and he sang the beat counts with it as though she’d forgotten. She gave him a soft grin and focused on her steps, and on his voice, his touch, the warmish breeze off the ocean, and the water brushing at their feet.
“You are a beautiful dancer.” He returned the grin and went back to humming.
Pieces of Light
With settings from Folly Beach, South Carolina to Barnegat, New Jersey, and Provincetown, Massachusetts,
the Dancers & Lighthouses books focus on dancers of different levels and different genres,
so far including classical ballet, Latin, and ballroom.
Queen Anne’s Lace and other less pretentious weeds had taken over the parts of the gardens not densely carpeted with dead leaves. The lemon balm had jumped its retainer in the herb garden and filled the whole thing, spilling out into the grass. Even the hydrangeas were messier than normal. Her father never trimmed them back for winter. He waited until summer after the growth returned and only cut those not providing new growth. That hadn’t been done, either, for years, or so it seemed. Pale yellow-brown thin bare stalks stuck out everywhere in different lengths, discouraging the darker brown stalks attempting to regenerate the shrubs with new life. Her father would thrash his hands through what little hair he’d had left if he saw his beautiful gardens in such a state.
Shadows of Greens & Memories
"...you’re not much of an outdoor type, I’m guessing.”
“Why would you say that?” Stupid pride. Of course she wasn’t, but only because she didn’t want to be.
He scanned her outfit. Her chic new pants in their oh-so-soft fabric in a luxurious dark green that flowed around her legs as she walked, usually, were dirt-stained and wrinkled and stuck to her moist legs. Her cream blouse showed sweat stains and was all kinds of catty-wompus from switching her handbag to one side then the other. Luckily she had a dark green cami underneath so nothing else showed through.
And her shoes. Not close to $500 Guccis but expensive enough and usually comfortable enough to tread the city sidewalk all day long if needed. Now scuffed and dusted in dirt.
Shadows of Blues & Echoes
Instead of creating a pot on the wheel and then carving bricks into it, Holli decided to hand cut the slab into individual bricks and build it the way a wall is actually built, placing one by one, using slip instead of mortar to hold it together. It would take more time, but she didn't at all care how much time it took.
Planning in her head while cutting out bricks, she could see ivy crawling up through the outer crevices and from the smooth inside to meet along the top. It maybe didn't make sense, since water came from wells, not ivy, but that's what she saw, so that's what it would be, whether or not it made sense. Art didn't always, and it didn't have to. That was one thing she loved about art. She could do as she pleased and it would only be called creative, not crazy.
Shadows of Rust & Reels
With settings from Storm Lake, Iowa to Durango, Colorado, and Williamstown, West Virginia,
the Artists & Cottages books focus on fine artists of different genres,
so far including oil painting, wood carving, and pottery.
LK Hunsaker
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The rebel priest
Irish Times, 17 December 2011
One man and a little lady
Irish Times, 24 April 2012
Stradbally, September 5 2010: 4.12pm.
They didn’t show the All-Ireland hurling final at Electric Picnic for some reason this year. So on Sunday afternoon, my friend Conor and I made the long trek back to his car, which was parked in a stubbly field somewhere about three miles away, to listen to Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh’s commentary on the car radio. The man is a poet and the contest sounded like a classic. At half time, of course, we had to create our own entertainment.
September 7th, 2010.
9 Responses to “Stradbally, September 5 2010: 4.12pm.”
Are ye divining for water there?
A few years ago a group os us went to a hippie music festival (can’t remember the name) one weekend somewhere in Leitrim. It was like the Craggy Island carnival or something (Tunnel of Goats, Ladder of Death) and rained solidly for the whole weekend (this was 2007, the summer that wasn’t). One of my friends had come over from England that weekend and we sat, grim-faced and in full raingear, in the tent as the rain beat down determined to Enjoy our Holiday, a la Withnail and I. “I look like I’m about to go fix a man-hole cover or some electric cables” my friend muttered as she fixed on her headtorch and adjusted her rain trousers over her hiking boots.
Music was, how shall I put it, eclectic. I remember there was one group who looked and sounded like Dexy’s Midnight Runners, violins and dungarees and all, and a guy dancing around buck naked except for his wellies.
By the Sunday we conceded defeat to the mud and rain and headed into Carrick-on-Shannon to get the bus back to Dublin. There was some sort of Gaelic game and the busdriver cranked the commentary up as loud as it would go so we could all hear MoM in full flow as the bus made its way across the Midlands. My English friend, who hadn’t slept in about three days at this point and was on a massive comedown, was less than appreciative of his lyrical flow: “This. Is. Torture”. She hasn’t come back to visit since.
massey Says:
Did yee find water?
Are those car aerials?
@ Lisa – yes he was divining.
@ Massey – But he divining for Bulmers. He figured this proved those rods worked.
I then debunked his theory by successfully divining for a packet of crisps I’d left on the ground.
@ Paddy – not sure what they were.
raptureponies Says:
Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh has the most phenomenal memory of anyone i’ve ever met. He can remember all the lads who played in 1981 for example.
@ Raptureponies – To be fair, Jimmy McGee can remember entire line-ups from obscure national league clashes in late 1940s. Well, unless that Jogging Jimmy’s Memory was rigged. Which I sincerely hope it wasn’t.
darragh Says:
I remember I was at this ATP concert at a former Butlins camp in Kent when Munster were in the Heineken Cup. My friend br a oughtfew of us to the most weird, almost-derelict, English sea side pub I’ve ever been in outside of my nightmares.
We were all completely banjaxed on all sorts and one of the lads was shivering hiding under the table. The barman looked over and said “Concert good then, fellas?” Classic English understatement. On the way back from the same festival our train stopped at a platform and the man in the seat opposite me looked out the window and said reflectively to his friend “there’s a yellow line at the side of this plaform” paused, then said “there wasn’t one at the side of the previous platform. Interesting that”. The English. They’re an exotic species to me.
that should read ‘brought a few of us’. Fuck this keyboard and the laptop it rode in on.
Gone totally off topic here but one St. Patrick’s Day about five years ago, a whole rake of us were in Conways pub on Parnell Street. The whole night my friend Duncan kept trying to engage my friend Adrian in some sort of drunken mess fighting. He kept hitting him sly jabs and slaps the way they’d always used to. But Adrian wasn’t into that shite anymore.
Long story short, Duncan kept at it anyway and eventually around closing time he just took it too far, pushed Adrians wrong button. Adrian grabbed him by the neck, swung him around and threw his (Duncan’s) entire body over his own (Adrian’s) head, down onto a table that had about forty half full pints on it and knocked the table over.
At least two dozen people were covered in beer. There were about forty broken pint glasses on the ground. The table was probably broken (I don’t remember). BOth lads were on the ground, chairs everywhere. The barman came around the bar, down to us and said:
“Lads, if ye do that again, I’m going to have to ask you to leave.”
What a country!
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Background picture taken of havesting in a corn field on Honeyholes Lane August 2014
Dunholme Friendship Club
Hello everyone. Well it looks as though more and more activities are getting back to normal, or near normal, but of course with certain restrictions still in place. At the Dunholme Friendship Club we have looked at the situation and have come to the decision that it would be unwise to re-start our meeting at this moment in time. We feel that it would be impossible to meet the conditions required for social distancing and to continue with our games and other activities.
Reluctantly therefore we have postponed any reopening until such times when it would be safe to do so. We will continually keep this decision under review each month and let you all know when we will start our meetings again, thank you.
Janice Ritchie
Lifestyle Fitness Classes with Heather Hunter
BODY CONDITIONING CLASS
Starting Wednesday 9th September 6.10-7.10pm
Welton Village Hall
All spaces must be booked
PRACTICAL PILATES CLASS *NEW*
Starting Monday 14th September 7.15-8.15pm
THE SMOOTH AND GENTLE WORKOUT - *NEW*
Starting 5th October 2pm-3pm
SHAPE AND TONE CLASS
Starting September on Mondays 9.30-10.30am
Nettleham Village
Starting September on Thursdays 9.30- 10.30am
FOR INFORMATION ON THE BOOKING SYSTEM AND CLASS PRICES
PLEASE RING 01673 862404 / 07592577008 OR EMAIL oldheather@gmail.com
Dunholme Community Lottery
Congratulations to our July 2020 winners
1st £50 056 Edward Clayton
2nd £25 042 Ashley Ottewell
3rd £10 087 Peggy Green
As I write this, lockdown is continuing to be eased and we are being encouraged to eat out and support local businesses. I do hope and pray that things have continued to improve and that village children are looking forward to going back to school and we’re all adjusting to the “new normal” way of life.
If any club or organisation needs a financial helping-hand following these very difficult times, please do contact us and we will do our best to assist if we can.
If you are not a member and would like to join, we would love to hear from you (contact details below).
The cost is just £27 per quarter/12weeks. Look forward to hearing from you!
Margaret Clifton: 01673 866245
Helen Loving: 01673 861714
Glyn Jones: 01673 861907
Or email: community.dunholme@gmail.com
Dunholme Luncheon Club.
“If anyone has spare time, we could really do with some extra helpers at Dunholme Luncheon Club. We make an serve lunch for 40 senior citizens from Dunholme and the surrounding villages.
We meet on a Tuesday on a fortnightly basis, totalling 20 sessions a year. Anytime that you can spare between 9am and 2pm would be greatly appreciated. Just an hour makes a huge difference. If you are interested please call Penny on 01673 861447.
Many thanks Dunholme Luncheon Club
35 Years of Local Village Pantomime!
This year we are celebrating our 35th performance at Welton Pantomime Group since the group was formed in 1984. The group was an off shoot of the Welton Amateur Dramatics Society (WADS) which was formed in the 1940’s and ran until taking a five year break from 1977-1982. Once the group was restarted by Judy Hall, Pam Gozzard and Kath Keyte along with a group of new members, it was decided that WADS would like to put on a pantomime. The first pantomime took place in 1984 and from this point on a separate group, which became ‘Welton Pantomime Group’ was then formed. The very first pantomime in the village was a performance of Cinderella which raised £170 for the NSPCC. As the years went on, the pantomime became the main focus raising money for local charities and causes each year.
Over the years we have covered all the major pantomimes such as: Peter Pan, Aladdin, Babes in the Wood, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Dick Whittington and Puss in boots. Undoubtedly, everyone has their favourites but it’s clear that the Christmas pantomime has become a firm favourite within the village with many returning each year for some festive, family fun.
Many panto members have come and gone but the panto lives on and each year lots of hard work goes into planning, rehearsals, costuming and events to fundraise. Without the many people and members who volunteer their time, the pantomime wouldn’t be able to continue.
During the 35-year period we have raised over £27,000 however we are hoping to reach the milestone of £30,000 after this year’s performance. All the money raised has been donated to local groups and charities such as Umbrellas Lincoln, Special Care Baby Unit, Lives, St Andrew’s Hospice, Kid’s STRUT and Welton Patients and Doctors Association to name but a few!
All of this has been possible due to the fantastic support we receive from locals by attending the pantomime each year and the generosity of local businesses in donating prizes for raffles, costumes etc. Our 2018 charity was Umbrellas Lincoln which received a donation of £2000. This year our chosen group is Welton Scouts and Guides and FISH (Food In School Holidays- Dunholme) which will benefit children from the local area.
Please join us on 29th and 30th November for this year’s performances. Its great family fun and raising money for good causes. For more information contact weltonpanto@gmail.com or follow us on Facebook! Tickets on sale from 1st October.
The Dunholme Trust - Charity No 1160106
Dunholme Old School has seen quite a few changes over the last couple of years and hopefully more in the future, The kitchen is completed now and users have plenty of room to prepare their food etc., the ladies toilets are much more modern with the inclusion of cubicles. A lick of paint in some areas has brightened the building up which I must say is ongoing, the main hall will be the next one to have a facelift and then we can get the old images of the village up again, strange actually because I took the canvas prints down whilst we were having the kitchen built and the doorway put in to accommodate access to the toilets without walking through the kitchen area (local users will know what I mean by the last sentence) and now we have a number of people asking when the canvasses will be going back up? The reason as mentioned earlier is that we will be decorating in the main hall over the next month or so.
At the Old School we also have a very large building at the rear which accommodates space for businesses and at the moment we have a room which has become free. The area could be used for a number of purposes so if you have a need for more space then please get in touch and I can show you round and see if it will be suitable for you, ideal usage would be office type use, the area is approximately 7mtrs x 5 mtrs. Anyone interested then please get in touch
You can book the Old School by contacting Janice our booking secretary 01673 861172.
Bookings being taken NOW for Kids parties, birthday parties, Christmas parties (we have a family who regularly books the Old School for Christmas day) so whatever your requirements get in touch with Janice.
Graham Dunkin 01673 860469
I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and it was a time spent with loved ones, friends and families. I would like to wish you a very Happy and Healthy New Year to you all.
Our Torch Light Procession which took place on Tuesday 26th November, 2019 was a truly memorable and poignant evening. The RAF Waddington pipe band played along the route, pausing outside our Inpatient Unit on Nettleham Road, where staff and some of our patients who were able came out to watch the procession pass by, moving onto our Tree of Life which was at the Lincoln Hotel and had 2000 dedicated lights on it. People tied their messages of love around the tree and the Cathedral was lit in the St Barnabas colours of blue and yellow and over 1,000 people joined together remembering the people that we love, who are no longer with us. A truly incredible evening one of which I am sure many people will remember for a long time.
Let St Barnabas take the hassle of disposing your real Christmas tree for a donation to the Hospice. Our friendly team of elves will collect and dispose of your tree in the most environmentally responsible way.
The process is simple; just book your tree collection online on www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk/treecycle. Booking closes on 6th January. In taking part; you can feel great knowing you have donated vital funds to St Barnabas and recycled too!
A big thank you to Edward Inchley and our wonderful volunteers for holding a coffee morning at his home and for all the people who attended, it raised over £500 for our China Trek. It was a great morning and very well attended. Many thanks
Did you auntie give you yet another jumper, or did you receive too many socks this Christmas? If you are wondering what to do with your unwanted presents then look no further... We’d love them! You can donate your items to one of our 26 St Barnabas shops and help to care for people near you every day of the year. Remember to Gift Aid your donations to help us raise an extra 25% at no cost to you! Find your nearest shop at www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk or call 01522 559 500
Last year we cared for 1,822 patients over the winter (December, January and February). This is across our Clinical services we could not do this without the support of those in our communities our sincere and heartfelt thanks to you all.
Becca Hooton; Community Fundraiser
Rebecca.hooton@stbarnabas.co.uk or 07825 713666
The front page of the Welton News describes the changes in the new bus routes around our villages, Welton's gain Scothern's loss, looking at it from another angle, Scothern has gained a brand new Bus Shelter outside the Scothern Nurseries, but now no buses, well planned that one!
Dunholme is to get something like 340 houses along Honeyholes Lane in the very near future, yet we have to walk down to the Primary School or the old Spar Shop area, which, if you have anything of a disability takes around and hour, and the same when you come back, we used to drive to Welton Village Hall, the only available public parking area, and catch the bus direct and return without any walking incurred, that's being stopped. The Park and Ride from Waitrose worked very well, until the drivers waited in the Waitrose Carpark lay by until all potential Park and Ride customers had risked their lives crossing the Nettleham Road at the KFC food outlet, to catch any bus going to town, thereby the records would show that there were zero returns on the Park and Ride bus, thus not viable. Why couldn't the drivers allow passengers to get on the bus and leave on time? Not so long ago the City Council decided that the Park and Ride was not viable because it only catered for the geriatrics that live in the Northern West Lindsey villages, I feel that the same discriminatory rules will apply, specially after all the new signs for the "Park and Ride Mon to Sat" have just been put up along the Bye -Pass. It rings the death knell.
So we have more and more people living in the villages with more and more children, so they will require more and more SUV's and fill up all areas of the Bye-Pass in Lincoln, but no buses routed sensibly to relieve the load, and no where to publicly park if you have a disability or disabled person on board, well done to all those concerned, at totally disjointed, thoughtless exercise to all of our residents, except, of course' Scothern, who have a lovely Bus Shelter, I wonder how long that will last?
John Smallwood.
Umbrellas Lincoln
Umbrellas Lincoln. Never heard of us?
That's probably because we're a relatively new organisation and we've only had charity status since March 2018.
Umbrellas Lincoln was initially set up in 2014 by Charlotte, our chair. We have 7 trustees, the majority of whom have children with addition needs. These vary greatly from autism and ADHD, to severe brain damage and physical disabilities, which means that between us we have a wealth of experience, both as parents of children with additional needs, but also in dealing with services and organisations to achieve the best for our children.
The main aim of Umbrellas is to raise funds to build a play and meeting place for children, young adults and families with additional needs. This aim is two fold, not only does it provide a place to meet and play, it provides a support network for parents carers and families, allows children and young adults to be around others and build social skills and allows siblings to form support networks as many are often young carers. We believe that a place where families can spend time together and have fun, as a family without judgement, is essential.
At varying locations, until we have somewhere to call our own, we are currently running events such as inclusive play so that parents and children are able to meet and have fun. These locations vary from 'Windmill Farm' to Birchwood climbing centre as we aim to meet the requirements of a wide variety of needs. We are also looking at other venues to ensure that they are stimulating and meeting the needs of all.
There are many ways we fundraise and we have lots of events planned throughout the year. These include wine tasting, an evening with Dan Hadfield, a pamper night, race night, many coffee mornings at Thorpe on the Hill Community Centre and The Old School in Dunholme and many, many, other exciting opportunities.
If you'd like to see more about what we do, follow us on Facebook - Umbrellas Lincoln or if you can help is in any way, by volunteering or donating items for events, cakes for coffee mornings etc, please get in touch. We are always grateful of help in any form and we'd like to thank everyone who has supported Umbrellas in any way so far in our journey.
Emmie Gamble emmie_1201@hotmail.com
Planning application for A46 Dunholme / Welton Roundabout approved
Plans for a new roundabout at the junction of Lincoln Road and the A46 in Dunholme have been approved by the Planning and Regulation Committee, bringing the project one step closer to fruition.
The new roundabout, along with the improvement of visibility on the A46 to the east, will improve safety and reduce congestion at the current simple T-junction. The improvement will also accommodate future development in the area.
The A46 Dunholme, Welton Roundabout project will be part-funded using the £2m allocated to the authority by the Department of Transport (DfT) from tranche 2 of its National Productivity Investment Fund. The remaining funding for the construction of the scheme, including third party contributions, is currently being reviewed by the county council.
For up-to-date information about this and other major highways projects, visit www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/majorprojects.
Welton Monce Family Twinning Group
As I write this we are preparing for our bi-annual visit to our twin village of Monce' en Belin. Weather looks good with a forecast, in Le Mans, of sunshine and 27c over the weekend. Presents are packed, coach and trains are booked and anticipation of what will be in store is high.
We are holding our 'Call My Bluff' wine event once again on October 26th, see the advertisement in this issue for more information. This event should probably be known as 'Would I lie to You' listening to the descriptions put forward by the panel, which will once again include a BBC personality.
Our primary schools in Dunholme and Welton are now actively involved with the school in Monce helping our youngsters broaden their experiences. Family Twinning is a great way to experience French culture and we'd welcome younger families into the association, so if you think you and your children might want to experience the fun we have please contact us for an informal chat.
Email: weltonmonce@hotmail.co.uk
or tel: 862181 or 861284
Jambusters WI
September 2020 Jambuster WI members along with a bunch of wonderful walkers from various Lincolnshire WI Groups enjoyed a hot and sunny weekend in August for our fundraising challenge.
Beaming smiles were captured in the lovely photos showing walks taking place in various beauty spots across the lovely Lincolnshire countryside Everyone's miles have now been received and totted up...drum roll please....a fantastic total of 400.12 miles - well done everyone!
We smashed our target of 142 miles, Dunholme to Denman WI College in Oxford), with our combined final efforts clocking up a distance to reach Paris in France!
A huge thank you to all who took part and to those who kindly donated to raise money for St Barnabas Hospice and LIVES.
To view our fundraising total please visit https://www.justgiving.com/team/TheJambustersWI
The Jambusters WI Committee Girls
Official Re-Opening of the Dunholme Old School
On 25 October 2018, the Old School Trustees were delighted to welcome and entertain a mixture of dignitaries and Old School users to the premises, to mark the official re-opening of certain areas of the building following extensive renovation work It was an ideal opportunity to express gratitude to the various bodies which have provided funding towards the renovation and extension work – West Lindsey District Council, the National Lottery and iGas Energy - and to showcase what has been achieved to date with the money raised. West Lindsey’s Chairman Cllr Pat Mewis and Vice-Chairman, Steve England, along with other WL councilors, were in attendance, as was Julian Tedder, CFO of iGas Energy and Gail Jackson (CEO of Community Lincs). After a presentation from the Dunholme Trust Chairman, John Ritchie and the Treasurer ,Grahame Dunkin the representatives were invited to cut ribbons marking the official re-opening of the kitchen, committee room and toilet block areas. Grahame had previously been nominated for, and awarded, the 2018 Community Lincs John Barker Trophy Award (Community Buildings) and this was presented to him during the course of the Open Day event by Jenny Stone from Community Lincs.
Cllr Pat Mewis, Chairman of WLDC, cuts the ribbon on the extended and refurbished kitchen.
With the WLDC Vice Chairman, Steve England and John Ritchie
The Trust Chairman
The Dunholme Trust (Charity No 1160106)
Dunholme Old School Community Centre
8 Market Rasen Road, Dunholme, LN2 3QR
PLANNING APPLICATION REF NO 140156
The Dunholme Old School has been a community centre since 1984 when it was taken over by volunteers after the village school moved to new premises on Ryland Road. Since then it has served as a venue for various organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents. So much so that the Dunholme Parish Council registered it as a Community Asset in 2014.
Over the years the committee has tried to maintain and improve the building as much as possible with little funds but managed with a few grants to make it more comfortable for the users.
In 2000 the committee were able to buy the property from the Lincoln Diocesan Board with the help of the National Lottery. Then in 2015 the committee decided to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation as The Dunholme Trust. The property was then conveyed to the Trust.
The committee now became the Trustees with a covenant that the building can only be used as a Community Centre. Since 2015 the trustees have overseen a programme of renovation work in rebuilding the kitchen, refurbishing the Committee room and a complete strip out and rebuilding of the toilets at a cost of over £60,000, half of which was from grant funding. Further work is planned in 2020 to extend the central heating to the main hall and to restore the external brickwork back to near its original condition. We have just installed WIFI which is free to all users.
It has been recognised for over 25 years that the old rear playground was somewhat of a wasted space and that it could be used more productively. The old wooden building at the rear although every effort has been made to repair and renovate it is really beyond its useful life.
So, in 2016 the Trustees engaged a local firm of architects to draw up plans to create new facilities at the rear of the old school. This would fill most of the space available and incorporate all the rooms lost from the removal of the wooden building. It would also include a larger hall than we have at present.
It is not our intention to compete with our village hall but compliment it by not only having its main use for our current users but also to concentrate on the performing arts of drama, music and indoor sports. This then will leave the original hall free for further development. Although no final decision can be made until planning for the project has been approved suggestions of a permanent tea room and/or a Social Club have been muted. We intend to maintain the front façade as it is an important part of the vista of the historical heart of the village. Once approval has been given a full business plan will be produced for consultation.
Whatever it is must by law be only for Charitable purposes.
With the increase in population over the next few years we feel that there will be a need for further facilities of social welfare, recreation and leisure. Should you have any queries or ideas please contact either myself or Grahame Dunkin on 01673 860469, 07501259001, grahame@lincsphoto.co.uk
J A Ritchie
John A Ritchie BEM
Chairman of ‘The Dunholme Trust’
01673 861172, 07981255423
jritchie406@jahoo.co.uk
Welton Village Library & Community Hub
How many of you knew we have a very successful crime and thriller writer living in Welton? Someone who has just had her sixth book published following a top ten appearance in the Amazon Kindle Store chart as well as many weeks in the top 100 list. And in addition her books can also be obtained in paperback. So we have invited Janice Frost, master of crime, to talk at the first community hub event of 2020 on Tuesday 28th January at 2:00pm. Come and meet Janice, find out how she goes about her work, how she develops her murderous ideas and hear her confirm the location of the place that is the inspiration for the fictional Cathedral City of Stromford in her novels. Our first author at the hub, it would be criminal to miss this chance to meet her!
The CoderDojo returns on Tuesday 14th January at 6pm, if you are 7-17 years old or know of anyone in that age group interested in computer coding please contact us at welton.uk@coderdojo.com for further details.
The library will re-open after the festive break on Monday 6th January at 1:00pm, please note that we are continuing with Saturday opening from 11th January between 10am and 12 noon.
Finally a reminder that we have a facebook page, just search under Welton Village Library and Community Hub to find and follow us. We post all up to date information on that page.
Mike Hubbert
Library Volunteer Co-ordinator
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Mother & Todler Goup
Gennie McBride & Amy Woodley
1st session - free- there after £1 for 1st child the 0.50p for second and third
88 Lincoln Road
Dunholme LN2 3QY
Jeff Leather
£35 for 5 weeks
Dunholme Brownies
Pam Street
£15 per term. 6 terms per year
Rebecca Stones
£10 to join £4.95 weekly
Sue Rawson
£1.50 a session
Impish Quilters
Mrs Tarling
£20pa
Anjum Sawhney
Clerk -
Laura Richardson
01673 862738 dunholmepc@btinternet.com
Friendship Club
£1.25 per session
Bridge Club
Glynn Elwick
£10 per pair per match
gloria@prescott78.orangehome.co.uk
Jumble Sales
20p entrance
Agricultural Training
James Christian-Ilett B. SC.
£480 + VAT per course
jambusterswi@gmail.com
Mandy Murray
£7.50 per lesson
Individuals Free £20/Hour for classes of 6
Luncheon Club
Theresa Morran
£4.50 for a 2 course meal
Grahame Dunkin
dunholmecc@btinternet.com 01673 860469
Lisa Dancing
Lisa Hurst
Bible Studies CBSI
Jane Hutchinson
£10 per year + weekly voluntary contributions
Welton & Dunholme Drama Group Rehearsals
Ashley Ottewell
Welton & Dunholme Pantomime Group
Lincolshire German Shepherd dog & all breeds Training Society
£40 Annual Subscription
Training Ground, Bishops Bridge,
Saxilby Road,
Lincoln.
LN1 2BG
The Vintage tearooms
Jennie Fox
Dunholme PCC
Church Warden
Dave Rosier rosier@davidmalcolm20.freeserve.co.uk
Church Fete
Helen Loving
£1 a go
community.dunholme@gmail.com
Dunholme Lodge Open Garden
Lesley & Hugh Wykes
Children Free
Chad's Coffee Shop
Church Warden Dave Rosier rosier@davidmalcolm20.freeserve.co.uk
Dave Rosier
Dunholme & District Indoor Bowls Club
Janet Wright
£33 pa + £2.20 per 2 hour session
Dunholme Outdoor Bowls Club
Mike Prestwood
£20 pa then £1.00 per match
Dunholme Village Hall Committee
Dunholme Old School Committee
Dunholme News Committee
Janice Ritchie Chair;
John Ritchie Editor;
Sue Rawson Manager
Dunholme Web Site www.dunholme.org.uk
A46 / Lincoln Road Welton Improvement Scheme
An Information Event was held in the Welton Manor Golf Centre (The Falconer), Hackthorn Road, 0n Thursday 15th June 2017 from 1:00pm to 7:00pm.
Those that attended were able to meet with the design team behind plans to enhance safety and reduce congestion at the A46 / Lincoln Road (Welton Lane) junction.
The improvement scheme aims to improve safety and reduce congestion at the current A46 / Lincoln Road T-junction by constructing a new three-armed roundabout and realigning the existing roads on the approaches.
It was unfortunate that the notification for this consultation was not received until 22nd May which was too late to get into the June edition of the Dunholme News and consequently few people knew about it.
However if you wish to have more information, visit www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/roadworks.
Or contact Charlotte Hughes. Assistant Project Leader
Technical Services Partnership, Lincolnshire County Council
Crown House, Grantham Street, Lincoln, LN2 1BD
Customer Service Centre 01522 782070 . Direct Line 01522 555586.
The existing road from Welton will be realigned further to the west but leaving the existing road just as an access to the Centurion Garage. The last bend on Welton Lane will be removed by the realignment which will also involve removal of the trees in the little copse on the west side. The whole area will be landscaped with new trees planted and it appears there may now be a path/cycle track along this new stretch of road. I was informed that the proposed roundabout at the junction of Lincoln Road (Dunholme) and the A46 will not happen. But the crest of the hill just past the Centurion Garage will be reduced by 2 Metres. The highways department has carried out computer modelling and the new layout and it is considered to be sufficient for all traffic needs up to at least 2035.
John Ritchie. Editor 01673 861172
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Trump: US withdrawing from arms trade treaty
Donald Trump , Barack Obama
US President Donald Trump said he's decided to withdraw support for a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade.
It's the latest example of the Trump administration's dislike of international pacts.
Trump said on Friday that he has decided to revoke the United States' status as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty regulating international trade in conventional weapons, including small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships.
He said America was "rejecting this treaty" and "taking our signature back".
Trump made the announcement during a speech in Indianapolis to the National Rifle Association, which claims the treaty poses a threat to the Second Amendment.
The US signed the treaty in 2013 but never ratified it.
Indianapolis - 26 April 2019
1. Close-up US President Donald Trump saluting then walking to podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID++
"Today I'm proud to announce another historic step to protect your Second Amendment rights, and I didn't tell Chris (Cox) and Wayne (LaPierre) and Oliver (North), I didn't even tell them about it. So, they are listening in this big room someplace and they are saying, 'I wonder what he's going to do.' The good thing with me you never know. So in the last administration President Obama signed the UN Arms Trade Treaty and in its waning days in office he sent the treaty to the Senate to begin the ratification process. This treaty threatened your subjugate ... again and you know exactly what's going on here, your rights. And your constitutional and international rules and restrictions and regulations. Under my administration we will never surrender American sovereignty to anyone. We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom. And that is why my administration will never ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty. I hope you are happy."
4. Cutaway audience applauding
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:
"I'm impressed. I didn't think too many of you would really know what it is. You know what it is? A big, big factor. But I see a couple of very happy faces from the NRA over there. And I am officially announcing today that the United States will be revoking the effect of America's signature from this badly misguided treatment. We're taking our signature back."
6. Pan from Trump to audience
"I will sign right now, in front of a lot of witnesses. Like, a lot of witnesses, a message asking the Senate to discontinue the treaty ratification process and to return the now rejected treaty right back to me in the Oval Office, where I will dispose of it. By taking these acts we are reaffirming that American liberty is sacred and that American citizens live by American laws, not the laws of foreign countries."
8. Mid Trump showing signature to audience
International trade , Economy , Business , Government arms deals , Weapons administration , Military and defense , Government and politics , Treaties , International agreements , International relations , Trade agreements , Trade policy , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Economic policy , Government policy , Trade agreements , Trade regulation , Industry regulation , Industry regulation , Government regulations , Weapons treaties , Weapons treaties
Indianapolis , Indiana , United States
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US IN Trump Arms Treaty (Lon NR)
Trump says US withdrawing from arms trade treaty
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has decided to withdraw its support for a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade.
Trump said Friday that he has decided to revoke the United States' status as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty regulating international trade in conventional weapons, including small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships.
He says America is "rejecting this treaty" and "taking our signature back."
He made the announcement during a speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, to the National Rifle Association, which claims the treaty poses a threat to the Second Amendment.
The U.S. signed the treaty in 2013, but never ratified it.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID++
"Today I'm proud to announce another historic step to protect your Second Amendment rights. And I didn't tell Chris (Cox) and Wayne (LaPierre) and Oliver (North) I didn't even tell them about it. So, they are listening in this big room someplace and they are saying, 'I wonder what he's going to do.' The good thing with me you never know. So in the last administration President Obama signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty and in its waning days in office he sent the treaty to the Senate to begin the ratification process. This treaty threatened your subjugate ... again and you know exactly what's going on here, your rights. And your constitutional and international rules and restrictions and regulations. Under my administration we will never surrender American sovereignty to anyone. We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom. And that is why my administration will never ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty. I hope you are happy."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"I will sign right now, in front of a lot of witnesses. Like, a lot of witnesses, a message asking the Senate to discontinue the treaty ratification process and to return the now rejected treaty right back to me in the Oval Office, where I will dispose of it. By taking these acts we are reaffirming that American liberty is sacred and that American citizens live by American laws, not the laws of foreign countries. "
8. Mid, Trump showing signature to audience
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US IN Trump Arms Treaty (CR)
Barack Obama , Donald Trump
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President: ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY OVERLAID++
"Today I'm proud to announce another historic step to protect your Second Amendment rights. And I didn't tell Chris (Cox) and Wayne (LaPierre) and Oliver (North) I didn't even tell them about it. So, they are listening in this big room someplace and they are saying, 'I wonder what he's going to do.' The good thing with me you never know, never know. So in the last administration President Obama signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty and in its waning days in office he sent the treaty to the Senate to begin the ratification process. This treaty threatened your subjugate ... again and you know exactly what's going on here, your rights. And your constitutional and international rules and restrictions and regulations. Under my administration we will never surrender American sovereignty. To anyone. We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom. And that is why my administration will never ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty. I hope you are happy."
"We're taking our signature back."
"By taking these acts we are reaffirming that American liberty is sacred and that American citizens live by American laws, not the laws of foreign countries. "
7. Mid, Trump signing and then showing signature to audience
International trade , Economy , Business , Trade regulation , Industry regulation , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Industry regulation , Government regulations , Trade agreements , Trade policy , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government policy , Trade agreements , International agreements , International relations , Government arms deals , Weapons administration , Military and defense , Treaties , Weapons treaties , Weapons treaties
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US MO Trump Veterans (CR)
Trump Tempers Iran Rhetoric, Ready For New Deal
President Donald Trump tempered his threatening rhetoric toward Iran Tuesday, two days after he sent an all-caps warning of future conflict.
Addressing the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Trump took credit for pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear accord, but said his administration stands ready for Iran to come back to the negotiating table.
"We're ready to make a real deal, not the deal that was done by the previous administration, which was a disaster," he said. While U.S. intelligence agencies maintained that Iran complied with the Obama-era agreement to halt its nuclear program, Trump had complained that the deal didn't do enough to curb Iran's malign influence in the region.
The president also talked about trade fight with the European Union, ahead of representatives from the EU coming to the White House this week.
Kansas City, Missouri - 24 July 2018
"I withdrew the United States from the horrible one-sided Iran nuclear deal. (CHEERING) And Iran is not the same country anymore, that I can say and we'll see what happens. But we're ready to make a real deal, not the deal that was done by the previous administration which was a disaster."
2. Cutaway audience cheering
"What the European Union is doing to us is is incredible how bad. They made 151 billion dollars last year. Our trade deficit with the European Union, they sound nice, but they're rough. They're all coming in to see me tomorrow."
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
"I said we're going to have to tariff your cars. They said 'When can we show up, when can we be there, would tomorrow be okay?' Oh, folks stick with us, stick with us."
"We have to make our country truly great again remember. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. And then in two and a half years it's called 'Keep America Great'. So the way we keep America great is to make at least reasonable, I'm not saying at least reasonable, at least fair trade deals not stupid trade deals like we've put up with for 25 years, so we're changing it and we're changing rapidly."
Trade agreements , Trade policy , International trade , Economy , Business , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy , Trade agreements , International agreements , International relations , Iran nuclear deal , Iran nuclear deal , Nuclear disarmament , Disarmament , Weapons administration , Military and defense
Kansas City , Missouri , United States
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US Trump Veterans
Trump tempers Iran rhetoric, says US ready for new deal
Kim Jong-un , Donald Trump
Trump also highlighted part of his agreement with North Korea's Kim Jong Un last month to transfer some remains of Americans killed during the Korean war back to the U.S. as an example of his support for the nation's veterans as his new VA secretary begins his work.
The president also spoke about the battle with the European Union over tariffs and the 17 people who died when their sightseeing boat capsized on a Missouri lake.
1. US President Donald Trump walks to podium
"Before going any further, I want to take this moment to send our prayers to the victims of the tragic boat accident that took place in your great state last week. And I have to tell you the whole world was watching that. We lost 17 beautiful souls, including nine members of one family and babies for whom life was just beginning. Their lives were cut short, but they and their loved ones will never ever be forgotten."
"At the very end of our meeting, I said to Chairman Kim, good relationship, good feeling. I said I would really appreciate if you could do that. He said it will be done. So I was very happy and I think that process is starting fairly soon, we hope. Because we believe in no American left behind, we believe that right? No American left behind."
"What the European Union is doing to us is is incredible how bad. They made 151 billion dollars last year. Our trade deficit with the European Union, they sound nice, but they're rough. They're all coming in to see me tomorrow. They're all coming to the White House. I said you have to change. They didn't want to change. I said OK good we'll get a tariff your cars they sell millions of cars."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:
13. Cutaway of supporters holding up Trump banner
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Donald Trump , Kim Jong-un
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US China Tariffs Analysis
Economist:dangers of Trump tariffs overstated
Mark Rutte , Xi Jinping , Donald Trump
Robert Scott, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington says he thinks the Trump administration's impending "trade war" with China and U.S. allies is less of a threat to the U.S. economy than Trump's budget and tax policies.
"The cost is not going to be as large as some people think," Scott said. "We're talking about essentially tariffs of 10 to 25 percent on perhaps 50 to 100 billion dollars worth of imports. That's a tiny fraction of the overall U.S. economy."
A Chinese government spokesman said Beijing will defend itself if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead Friday with plans to raise duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods in the escalating conflict over technology policy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's government has issued a list of U.S. goods for possible retaliation, but the Commerce Ministry said it will wait to see what Washington does.
Scott thinks the growing U.S. economy will limit the damage of any trade dispute the U.S. has with China, or with it's allies, such as Canada and the E.U.
"There'll be a lot of individual disruptions, a lot of workers laid off. But an economy that's gaining 200-250,000 jobs a month, that will be noise, it will be lost in the overall growth of the economy. And that's that's one way in which Trump has gotten lucky in this case."
A bigger threat to the U.S. economy, he says, is the Trump administration's budget and tax policies.
"The fundamental problem we face today in international trade is that the value of a dollar is too high and needs to fall by 25 or 30 percent," he says.
"And unfortunately the Trump administration has yet to address that problem. I think that would be the key to eliminating the trade deficit and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing."
Scott thinks the tax cut passed by Congress and signed by the president, plus the likelihood that the federal deficit will climb in the years ahead poses the bigger long term threat to the economy.
"We could begin to absorb more and more borrowed money coming from the rest of the world to pay for our growing budget deficits," he says.
"And that looks a lot like what happened in 2005 and 6 and 7, when massive increases in borrowings ultimately led to the housing crisis and the stock market collapse that caused the Great Recession. So I think that's the bigger risk in the economy right now."
Joint Base Andrews, Maryland - 5 July 2018
1. President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One
Washington, DC - 2 July 2018
2. Trump and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Oval Office
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Scott, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
"The cost is not going to be as large as some people think. We're talking about essentially tariffs of 10 to 25 percent on perhaps 50 to 100 billion dollars worth of imports. That's a tiny fraction of the overall U.S. economy. Less than one tenth of one percent."
Beijing - 21 June 2018
4. Various of Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting foreign business executives
FILE: Tianjin - 22 February 2012
6. Various of ships and containers at Tianjin port
"The fundamental problem we face today in international trade is that the value of a dollar is too high and needs to fall by 25 or 30 percent. And unfortunately the Trump administration has yet to address that problem. I think that would be the key to eliminating the trade deficit and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing. Unfortunately we have not gone in that direction yet."
FILE: Beijing - 20 May 2018
8. Various of shoppers and imported US fruit and soybeans in supermarket
I think actually the bigger threat to farmers is that the U.S. dollar is rising in value and that makes U.S. exports, especially of commodity products like soybeans, under increasing downward price pressure and that's what farmers really are worried about. What they talk about everyday."
FILE: Shanghai - 13 June 2018
10. Various of Cadillac exhibition at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show Asia
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Scott, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
"We could begin to absorb more and more borrowed money coming from the rest of the world to pay for our growing budget deficits. And that looks a lot like what happened in 2005 and 6 and 7, when massive increases in borrowings ultimately led to the housing crisis and the stock market collapse that caused the Great Recession. So I think that's the bigger risk in the economy right now."
12. Various of ships and containers at Tianjin port
"And in part I think it reflects a negative response to Trump's bullying of other countries. He announces he's going to single-handedly impose these tariffs. He has not been particularly good at negotiating solutions to these problems. I think if he had approached the problem and said we need to have a cooperative solution to deal with unfairly traded steel and aluminum he might have gotten a different response."
14. Trump and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Oval Office
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US MI Trump (NR lon)
Trump Courts Voters in Michigan, Promises Jobs
AP TELEVISION , US POOL
Donald Trump courted voters in Michigan on Sunday night, promising to bring back jobs to the state during a rally in the suburban area of Sterling.
"We are going to stop the jobs from going to Mexico and China and all over the world. We will make Michigan into the manufacturing hub of the world once again and no politician will do that. They don't have a clue," Trump told the crowd.
Trump had a marathon day on the campaign trail, with stops in five states, including Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania — states that have long proven unfriendly territory for Republican presidential candidates.
But buoyed by a late surge of momentum, Trump's campaign believes its loyal, white working-class voters will deliver an upset on Tuesday.
US POOL
Sterling Heights - 6 November 2016
1. Donald Trump walking on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, (R) presidential nominee:
"In two days we are going to win the great state of Michigan and we are going to win back the White House. We will stop the jobs from leaving your state. We are going to stop the jobs from going to Mexico and China and all over the world. We will make Michigan into the manufacturing hub of the world once again and no politician will do that. They don't have a clue."
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3. Various of audience
"The unions love me and the non-unions love me too I will tell you. As well as the Democratic voters here and across our country. The economic policies of Bill and Hillary clinton have bled Michigan dry almost more than any other place. They rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from special interests who specialize in shipping your jobs to other countries. The Clintons gave us NAFTA, the worst trade deal ever signed by any country ever. China's entry into the World Trade Organization, the job killing deal with South Korea, another beauty that was a disaster, and Hillary now wants the Trans PAcific Partnership, she calls it the gold standard."
5. Cut of audience
"You need a lot of energy to beat these folks, and you need a lot of you know what. It used to be that cars were made in Flint and you couldn't drink the water in Mexico. Now the cars are made in Mexico and you can't drink the water in Flint. We will turn it all around. A Trump administration will stop the jobs from leaving America and we will stop the jobs from leaving Michigan. We are going to be opening up new jobs, lots of jobs, and jobs are going to be coming back."
7. Trump walking off stage
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump courted voters in Michigan on Sunday night, promising to bring back jobs to the state during a rally in the suburban area of Sterling.
"We are going to stop the jobs from going to Mexico and China and all over the world. We will make Michigan into the manufacturing hub of the world once again and no politician will do that," Trump told the crowd.
Trump had a marathon day on the campaign trail, with stops in five states, including Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania - states that have long proven unfriendly territory for Republican presidential candidates.
1. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arriving on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee:
"And the unions love me and the non-unions love me too I will tell you. As well as the Democratic voters here and across our country. The economic policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton have bled Michigan dry, almost more than any other place. They rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from special interests who specialise in shipping your jobs to other countries. The Clintons gave us NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement), think of it, the worst trade deal ever signed by any country ever. China's entry into the World Trade Organisation, the job killing deal with South Korea, another beauty that was a disaster, and Hillary now wants the Trans Pacific Partnership, she calls it the gold standard."
"You need a lot of energy to beat these folks, and you need a lot of you know what. It used to be that cars were made in Flint and you couldn't drink the water in Mexico. Now the cars are made in Mexico and you can't drink the water in Flint. We will turn it all around. A Trump administration will stop the jobs from leaving America and we will stop the jobs from leaving Michigan. We are going to be opening up new jobs, lots of new jobs, and jobs are going to be coming back."
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AP Fact Check: Trump Lacks Immigration Details
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Phoenix, Arizona - 31 August, 2016
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump (R) Presidential Nominee
"We're going to build a great wall along the southern border."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Beaumont, Associated Press
"This is a speech that was billed as a major policy speech for Trump on immigration. Some people were expecting him to offer a softer version of the policy that he's espousing since the beginning of his campaign which has been to send all immigrants in the United States illegally back to their home state. He basically restated a lot of the things he's been saying for the past year. Build a wall, make Mexico pay for it along the southern border.
"We will issue detainers for illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever."
"One of the things that he said that was slightly different is he said he was going to enact an immediate detention process for those people that are suspected of crimes, that are in jails across the United States. Some of those things are going to encounter a lot of scrutiny, there's going to be a lot of fact checking that needs to be done on the constitutionality of these things."
"I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on indentifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America."
"He discussed a lot of things that he would do. He didn't put a single dollar figure on any of it. Of course requiring millions of people to their home countries would require an enormous outlay of cash from the Federal government."
"Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement."
"It is true that she supports a pathway to citizenship for people who are here illegally, but that is far different than open borders. Open borders means that you can walk in freely from another country without any rules or restrictions. Secretary Clinton has promoted a system of fines, paying back taxes, learning English, and a lot of things that moderate Republicans like John McCain also support."
Donald Trump's attempt to clarify his immigration policy instead muddied some of the actual circumstances for people in the country illegally and their impact on the U.S. economy.
A look at some of his statements after a meeting with Mexico's president Wednesday and his immigration-focused night rally:
TRUMP, on people illegally in the U.S.: "They're treated better than our vets."
THE FACTS: People in the country illegally do not have the right to work, vote or receive most government benefits. A modest number have been exempted from deportation because of an Obama administration action but most live under the risk of being removed from the country.
Veterans are guaranteed government health care and because almost all are citizens, the right to vote and other government benefits.
The quality of their care has been criticized by Trump and others but people in the country illegally do not have equivalent rights to health care, except for emergency treatment. Public hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care regardless of immigration status.
TRUMP: "When politicians talk about immigration reform they usually mean the following: amnesty, open borders, lower wages ... It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens."
THE FACTS: No politician of either party who supports overhauling immigration laws supports "amnesty," but the meaning of "amnesty" varies depending on who is talking.
The sweeping and bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 was derided by opponents as amnesty, but supporters including GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida disputed that, noting numerous requirements imposed on immigrants in the country illegally along a 13-year path to citizenship, including paying penalties.
The bill proposed spending tens of billions of dollars to double the number of border patrol agents and greatly increase border security. And the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office studied the bill and projected that it would lower wages for the entire workforce slightly over the first 10 years after becoming law, but would then increase wages for the entire workforce by even more, at the same time boosting economic output and increasing the GDP.
TRUMP, on the number of people in the U.S. illegally: "Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million, it could be 30 million. They have no idea."
THE FACTS: The government actually has an idea. The Homeland Security Department estimates there are 11.4 million people in the United States illegally. Few in the immigration debate challenge that estimate.
The figure comes from an analysis of the most recent Census Data. The government compares the number of people whom the Census reports as foreign-born with the number of people who have been admitted legally and gained citizenship. The most recent estimate dates to January 2012. It roughly matches the estimates of demographers from the Pew Foundation, which issues its estimates more rapidly than the government.
Experts believe the number of people in the U.S. illegally has been steadily declining as Mexicans and others return to their home country and illegal border crossings dwindle.
TRUMP, on ending the practice of releasing people who are caught crossing the border illegally, pending a court appearance: "We are going to end catch-and-release ... Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came."
THE FACTS: Many of the releases in question were ordered by courts. They were not a policy of the Obama administration.
A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled last year the federal government's detention of children and their mothers who were caught crossing the border illegally violated a 1997 court settlement. In July, an appeals court narrowed the scope, saying children must be quickly released but not their parents. From October through July, 48,311 unaccompanied children were arrested crossing the border from Mexico; many more children were caught with their families.
Many crossing the border illegally claim asylum, which must be adjudicated by an immigration judge. People can claim asylum because they are being persecuted or fear persecution on grounds of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion.
TRUMP, after meeting Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto: "I shared my strong view that NAFTA has been a far greater benefit to Mexico than it has been to the United States and that it must be improved upon. ... I expressed that ... we must take action to stem this tremendous outflow of jobs from our country. It's happening every day, it's getting worse and worse and worse, and we have to stop it."
THE FACTS: The loss of manufacturing jobs is generally attributed to China, not Mexico.
Some U.S. companies have moved jobs to Mexico - the Carrier Corp. recently decided to relocate an air conditioning factory there from Indiana. But there is little data to show that the trend is getting "worse and worse."
No reliable annual measures exist of job flows between the U.S. and Mexico. The United States hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs from 2000 to 2010, when more than 5.5 million were lost, but most economists blame the emergence of China as a manufacturing powerhouse and the increasing automation of many factories.
Recently, manufacturing has done a bit better: Since 2010, U.S. manufacturing jobs have increased by about 900,000. And many economists credit NAFTA with helping the U.S. auto industry by providing a cheap source of parts that otherwise might have been sourced in China. A report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research argued that imports of subsidized U.S. agricultural products put as many as 2 million Mexican farmers out of work. And since NAFTA's implementation in 1994, Mexico has grown more slowly than many of its Latin American counterparts.
TRUMP: "We didn't discuss that. We didn't discuss who pays for the wall, we didn't discuss." ... "We did discuss the wall. We didn't discuss payment of the wall. That'll be for a later date."
PENA NIETO on Twitter, in Spanish: "At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall."
THE FACTS: The facts may depend on what your definition of a discussion is. If the Mexican president opened with a comment that his country won't pay for the wall and Trump did not respond to it, that may not have been a discussion in his mind. But the subject, it seems, came up. The Trump campaign's brief statement on the meeting did not quibble with Pena Nieto's account. It said the meeting "was not a negotiation."
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AP Fact Check: Trump On The Economy
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In his centerpiece speech on the economy, Donald Trump wrongly accused Hillary Clinton of wanting to increase middle-class taxes and blamed America's crumbling roads and bridges in part on the money spent on refugees, a minuscule expense in comparison with infrastructure.
A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the facts:
TRUMP: "She said she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class."
THE FACTS: If Clinton said that — and it's highly debatable — it's clear she didn't mean to. Her economic agenda calls for middle-class tax cuts (which are not specified) and she has repeatedly said she would not raise taxes on middle incomes. In a speech in Omaha, Nebraska, last week, she talked about "fairer rules for the middle class" and delivered a line that was difficult to understand, either "we are going to raise taxes on the middle class" or "we aren't."
If she said the former, it was obviously a flub. Her policy on middle-class taxes has been consistent — no increases.
TRUMP: The country's infrastructure has suffered "yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at taxpayer expense."
THE FACT: You have to go a long way back to get to "millions" of refugees.
Over the last eight years, the period Trump addresses when pointing to failures of President Barack Obama, the U.S. resettled 530,830 refugees. That includes many from the final year of the Bush administration. So far in the budget year that ends Sept. 30, the U.S. has resettled 59,099 refugees. Last year, 69,933. Over the last 15 years: about 850,000.
The State Department puts the cost of the resettlement program to taxpayers at less than $1.2 billion a year. That's roughly 0.03 percent of the federal budget, a rounding error according to most experts. That sum would hardly make up for the infrastructure shortfall. The American Society of Civil Engineers said in a report that the government needs to spend $1.4 trillion through 2025 to close the infrastructure funding gap.
TRUMP: "According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000."
THE FACTS: Trump is playing fast and loose with the stats. The numbers cited in his speech don't even line up with the footnotes provided by his campaign.
Michigan actually added jobs after the North American Free Trade Agreement began in 1994, when auto plants employed roughly 200,000 workers. Over the next six years, their ranks increased to 231,000. The decline only occurred after the tech bubble burst and U.S. automakers lost market share among U.S. consumers, a decline that prompted a government bailout that caused Michigan auto jobs to start rising again in late 2009.
Many U.S. auto jobs also relocated to other states. Foreign automakers such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan built plants in other states, including Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.
An analysis by the liberal Economic Policy Institute shows that auto job growth in Mexico began to sharply accelerate in 2004. One reason why auto production has increased so much in Mexico is its extensive network of international trade agreements in addition to NAFTA, with German luxury carmaker BMW calling the agreements in 2014 a decisive factor for building its first auto plants in Mexico.
TRUMP on the unemployment rate: "This 5 percent figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in modern American politics."
THE FACTS: The unemployment rate has its shortcomings but it is not a "hoax."
The unemployment rate has become controversial since the recession ended because many people have stopped looking for work, and the government doesn't count those out of work unless they are actively searching for jobs. If an unemployed person gives up on a job hunt, that reduces the unemployment rate without anyone being hired, so it has overstated the improvement in the job market.
Still, a broader measure of unemployment that includes people who have recently stopped looking for jobs has also fallen — from a peak of 17.4 percent in 2010 to 9.7 percent now.
The proportion of Americans working or looking for work is now 62.8 percent, near the lowest level since the 1970s. That's down from 66 percent before the recession. At least half that decline in the workforce stems from greater retirements, as baby boomers age.
Many of the figures Trump cited in his speech are compiled by the same monthly survey that produces the unemployment figure he considers a hoax.
Detroit - 8 August 2016
"Hillary Clinton short-circuited again, to use a now famous term, when she accidentally told the truth and said that she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class."
Washington - 8 August 2016
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Christ Rugaber, AP Economics Writer:
"Hillary Clinton may have said she would raise taxes on the middle class in a recent speech but it was seen by most people as a flub, a simple misstatement. She's repeatedly said in other parts of the campaign that she would not raise taxes on the middle class. She's talked about cutting taxes for the middle class, although she hasn't really detailed that. But it seems unlikely that she meant to say that she would raise taxes on the middle class. So it seems like Trump is sort of taking advantage of a flub or a little gaffe."
Omaha, Nebraska - 1 August 2016
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, (D) Presidential Nominee:
"We're not going there my friends. I'm telling you right now, we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we aren't going to raise taxes on the middle class."
"Trump said that the United States has resettled millions of refugees. At the same time, he complained about our infrastructure and said we haven't spent as much on that as we could, and the two things don't necessarily match. In the past 15 years, we resettled maybe about 850,000 refugees. So, the idea that we've resettled millions isn't accurate."
"Our roads and bridges fell into disrepair, yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at tax payer expense."
"And the cost of resettling those people is about 1.2 billion, which most people would consider a rounding error in the federal budget of over three trillion a year. So, it's really unlikely that our infrastructure spending has suffered because of resettling refugees."
7. Trump on stage as crowd applauds
"Donald Trump said the unemployment rate is a hoax, which is definitely an overstatement. It has its shortcomings, but it's a number presidents have cited for decades. It's been collected pretty much the same way by the Census Bureau and Labor Department since World War II. It has become controversial in recent years because many people have stopped looking for work even if they were unemployed. So when an unemployed person stops job-hunting, they're no longer accounted as unemployed and that does help sort of artificially lower the unemployment rate. But at the same time, over 14 million Americans have gotten jobs since 2010, so the rate has also gone down for that reason."
"The five percent figure is one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christ Rugaber, AP Economics Writer:
"Well, Donald Trump is blaming the North American Free Trade Agreement for hitting auto jobs in Michigan. In fact, the number of auto jobs increased in Michigan after NAFTA went into effect. Some of those jobs have certainly since then been lost, but many of the jobs, auto jobs, in Michigan have gone to other US states, such as Ohio, Indiana, and even some southern states such as Tennessee."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, (R) Presidential Nominee:
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before NAFTA went into effect, there were 285,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000."
12. Trump walking off stage after speaking
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Trump: I'll re-set NAFTA, scrap TPP, Obamacare
Donald Trump has said that his Democratic rival for the US presidency, Hilary Clinton, lied to congress about her "illegal email scheme" which brought dishonour onto the American Government.
Speaking at a campaign rally in West Bend, Wisconsin, the Republican presidential candidate also said he will renegotiate NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) and withdraw from TTP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership) to protect "every last American job."
Trump also said he would scrap so-called Obamacare - 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - as it was a "disaster."
West Bend, Wisconsin - 16 August 2016
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Republican US presidential candidate:
"I'm going to renegotiate NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), one of the worst trade deals ever signed in the history of our country, perhaps the worst ever signed in the history, frankly, of the world. We're going to stand up to China, withdraw from TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership), which is another disaster, and protect every last American job. We are going to protect every last American job, which we're not doing now."
++BLACK FRAMES++
"On healthcare, we are going to get rid of Obamacare, repeal it and replace it. It's caused soaring double-digit (insurance) premium increases and we're going to give choice to patients and consumers across our land. Aetna (healthcare insurance provider) just today announced that they're dropping out as are many of the major insurance companies. Obamacare is a disaster - it's a disaster."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Republican US presidential candidate::
"We've seen a former Secretary of State (Clinton) lie to congress about her illegal emails scheme, risk innocent American lives and bring dishonour onto our government - great, great dishonour. In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. Those laws are already protected we thought, but perhaps everybody is wrong, perhaps all of those that have served jail time were wrong. She got special favours and nobody has ever seen anything like it in the history of our country."
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Instant Library - Apr-Jun 2020
USA / South Korea - Obama endorses Biden / Asian American actors on calling COVID-19 the 'Chinese Virus' / Justice Dept. drops Michael Flynn's criminal case / Manafort released from prison / Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen to be released from prison / Biden: Trump more set on 'power than principle' / Biden clinches Democratic nomination / US Justice Dept. sues Bolton to block book release / White House aide calls Bolton book 'revenge porn' / Pro & anti-Trump protests near Tulsa rally
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Former US President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden on April 14th, giving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a boost from the party's biggest fundraiser and one of its most popular figures.
"This is a big deal for Biden because it helps him create some momentum, " says Julie Pace, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief.
The endorsement marked Obama's return to presidential politics more than three years after leaving the White House.
He didn't mention his successor, President Donald Trump, by name and instead sought to bridge the ideological divide among Democrats.
"He's eager to get out there. He is eager to start drawing the contrast with Donald Trump, Pace said. "This is basically what he's been waiting for."
Biden now has the support of all of his former Democratic primary rivals except for Elizabeth Warren.
The Massachusetts senator is expected to formally endorse Biden soon, according to a person familiar with her plans who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss her thinking.
Two other prominent Democrats who have yet to publicly back Biden are former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the party's 2016 nominee.
Hillary Clinton has been in regular touch with Biden, including several times since Sanders dropped out of the race, according to an aide.
Obama avoided intervening in the Democratic primary, but followed the race closely from the sidelines and is eager to take a more active public role.
He's expected to headline fundraisers for Biden and public events in key swing states, if such gatherings can still be held given social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.
After his endorsement was released, Obama sent a fundraising appeal to Biden supporters, asking for donations ranging from $5 to $100.
The endorsement will test whether Obama can transfer his personal popularity to Biden.
While the former president is seen favorably by a wide swath of Democratic voters, he was also a deeply polarizing figure during his two terms in office.
During his presidency, Democrats lost about 1,000 legislative seats around the country, starting with disastrous 2010 midterms that also cost the party control of the House and many statehouses.
ASIAN AMERICANS ACTORS ON CALLING COVID-19 'THE 'CHINESE VIRUS': MAKING THIS BLANKET STATEMENT IS BAD
President Trump has stopped calling COVID-19 the "Chinese Virus" but some believe the damage is already done.
"I felt like it was a very uneducated statement," said TV personality Jeannie Mai, who was born in the United States to a Vietnamese mother and a Chinese father. "I think you have to be very responsible when you choose terminology to give people an idea of what to picture, what to visualize."
"The Good Doctor" actor Will Yun Lee, who was born in the U.S. to Korean parents, said blaming a group of people is dangerous because it only encourages xenophobia and racism.
"Making this blanket statement is bad. People take it the way they're going to take it. And unfortunately a lot of people have taken it to associate it to anybody who looks like me or is Asian-American or whatever Asian ethnicity you are. It becomes like the word 'chink,' right? It's a very harsh word."
Trump isn't the only person who has referred to COVID-19 in this way.
Earlier in April, TV host Bill Maher defended the notion of calling coronavirus the "Chinese Virus" on his HBO show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," saying it's logical because that's where it originated.
"Tigertail" and "The Farewell" actor Tzi Ma, who was born in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. as a child, responded to Maher's statement saying, "For the moment it could be funny. For the moment it could give you some gratification or satisfaction by saying it. However you have to remember that there are ramifications."
Nico Santos of the NBC comedy "Superstore" was born in the Philippines and moved to the U.S. as a teen. He said this blame mentality rears its head whenever there is fear a community.
"We saw the same sort of thing happen when when the AIDS crisis was happening. People directed that sort of like fear and hate towards the LGBTQ community. When 9/11 happened, there was a lot of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment. Even people who actually weren't Muslim or who weren't of Middle Eastern descent, who said, if you just look like you work, if you're basically you looked like you were brown or maybe came from that part of the world, you all of sudden, you know, bore the brunt of that of that hate."
The Justice Department on May 7th said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters in attacking the FBI's Russia investigation.
The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the last three years had maintained that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in a January 2017 interview. Flynn himself admitted as much, and became a key cooperator for Mueller as he investigated ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
In court documents being filed May 7th, the Justice Department said it is dropping the case "after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information." The documents were obtained by The Associated Press.
The Justice Department said it had concluded that Flynn's interview by the FBI was "untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn" and that the interview on January 24, 2017 was "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis."
The U.S. attorney reviewing the Flynn case, Jeff Jensen, recommended the move to Attorney General William Barr last week and formalized the recommendation in a document this week.
The decision was quickly embraced by Trump, who has relentlessly tweeted about the case and last week pronounced Flynn "exonerated," and energized supporters who have taken up the retired Army lieutenant general as something of a cause celebre. But it may also add to Democratic concerns that Attorney General William Barr is excessively loyal to the president, and could be a distraction for a Justice Department that for months has sought to focus on crimes arising from the coronavirus.
The Justice Department's action comes amid an internal review into the handling of the case and an aggressive effort by Flynn's lawyers to challenge the basis for the prosecution. The lawyers cited newly disclosed FBI emails and notes last week to allege that Flynn was entrapped into lying when agents interviewed him at the White House days after Trump's inauguration.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's onetime presidential campaign chairman who was convicted as part of the special counsel's Russia investigation, has been released from federal prison to serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Manafort, 71, was released May 13th from FCI Loretto, a low-security prison in Pennsylvania, according to his attorney Todd Blanche. Manafort had been serving more than seven years in prison following his conviction.
His lawyers had asked the Bureau of Prisons to release him to home confinement, arguing that he was at high risk for coronavirus because of his age and preexisting medical conditions.
Manafort was hospitalized in December after suffering from a heart-related condition, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press at the time. They were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Manafort was among the first people to be charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, which examined possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election campaign.
He was prosecuted in two federal courts, convicted by a jury in federal court in Virginia in 2018 and later pleaded guilty in Washington.
He was sentenced last March and was immediately hit with state charges in New York that could put him outside the president's power to pardon. New York prosecutors have accused him of giving false information on a mortgage loan application.
US President Donald Trump's long-time personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was released from federal prison on May 21st to serve the remainder of his sentence at home, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Cohen had been serving a federal prison sentence at FCI Otisville in New York after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress.
The person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Cohen was released on furlough as part of an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus in federal prisons. Cohen, 53, began serving his sentence last May and originally was scheduled to be released from prison in November 2021.
Prison advocates and congressional leaders have been pressing the Justice Department for weeks to release at-risk inmates, arguing that the public health guidance to stay 6 feet (1.8 meters) away from other people is nearly impossible behind bars.
Attorney General William Barr ordered the Bureau of Prisons in March and April to increase the use of home confinement and expedite the release of eligible high-risk inmates, beginning at three prisons identified as coronavirus hot spots. Otisville is not one of those facilities.
The Bureau of Prisons placed Cohen on furlough as it continues to process a move to home confinement, another person familiar with the matter said.
The agency has the authority to release inmates on furlough for up to 30 days and has been doing so to make sure suitable inmates, who are expected to transition to home confinement, can be moved out of correctional facilities sooner, that person said.
Joe Biden blistered President Donald Trump on June 2nd for directing authorities to drive back peaceful protesters outside the White House "in order to stage a photo op."
The former vice president said the commander in chief was "more interested in power than in principle."
Biden was delivering a speech in Philadelphia, addressing the civil unrest across America in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
Biden is also working to elevate his voice in the national debate after more than two months of the campaign for the White House being frozen amid the outbreak of the coronarvius.
He's also looking to provide a stark contrast to Trump who has struck a forceful tone against protests.
It's official. After an almost year-long, often tumultuous battle, former Vice President Joe Biden has crossed the finish line, formally clinching the Democratic nomination.
The milestone sets him up for a bruising battle against President Donald Trump that will play out amid the backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest, a daunting trifecta of challenges Biden hopes to use to his advantage.
"They're some of the sternest challenges our nation has ever faced," Biden said June 5th at an event in Delaware. "They need a president who cares about them, who cares about helping them heal now."
Biden became the presumptive nominee almost two months ago when his last opponent in the primary, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, dropped out of the race.
But he only pulled together the nearly 2-thousand delegates needed to seal the nomination after the latest round of contests this week.
The former vice president's path to the prize wasn't always so clear. While he consistently led the largest primary field in history in the national polls, his campaign looked to be in trouble after a string of losses in the early contests.
He rebounded with a resounding win in South Carolina. From there, he dominated Super Tuesday, launching what turned out to be an insurmountable comeback.
While Biden no longer has to battle Democratic rivals, he has a host of other issues to tackle, from winning over skeptics in his party's left wing to running a campaign essentially out of his Delaware home.
Though Biden has started to venture out more this week, the coronavirus pandemic has largely confined him to his Wilmington, Delaware, home for much of the past three months.
University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says while that approach may irk his rival, Donald Trump, and challenge political norms, it could be just the right move during this unprecedented campaign year.
"The best strategy for Joe Biden may be a low-key strategy, which fits in pretty well. Do the events that you want to do, organize them from the basement and let Donald Trump deal with the problems. It's actually tougher this year to be the incumbent than it is to be the challenger," Sabato says.
"Most people know that Joe Biden was a two term vice president under Barack Obama and that he opposes, as Obama does, almost everything that Donald Trump has been doing or trying to do. That is enough of a contrast for most voters," Sabato adds.
With his place in the 2020 presidential race now set, all eyes are turning to what could be the most important decision of Biden's five-decade political career: choosing a running mate, something he says he hopes to do by August 1st.
The Trump administration is suing former national security adviser John Bolton to block the publication of a book that the White House says contains classified information.
The suit follows warnings from President Donald Trump that Bolton could face a "criminal problem" if he doesn't halt plans to publish the book.
The administration has also said the former adviser did not complete a pre-publication review to ensure that the manuscript did not contain classified material.
Bolton's attorney, Chuck Cooper, has said Bolton worked for months with classification specialists to avoid releasing classified material. He has accused the White House of using national security information as a pretext to censor Bolton.
He has accused the White House of using national security information as a pretext to censor Bolton.
Trump said June 16th Bolton could face a “criminal problem” if he doesn’t halt plans to publish the book.
He said Attorney General William Barr will decide if Bolton will be charged.
President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing book by former adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security decisions.
The White House was working furiously to block release of the book, whose China revelations carry echoes of Trump’s efforts to solicit political help from Ukraine that led to his impeachment.
Bolton, Trump's national security adviser for a 17-month period, called Trump's attempt to shift the June 2019 conversation to the US election a stunning move, and wrote that it was among innumerable conversations that “formed a pattern of fundamentally unacceptable behavior that eroded the very legitimacy of the presidency”.
Deeply critical of the president and much of his senior team, Bolton wrote that because staff had served him so poorly, Trump “saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government.” He added that while he was at the White House, Trump typically had only two intelligence briefings a week “and in most of those, he spoke at greater length than the briefers, often on matters completely unrelated to the subjects at hand.”
The 577-page book paints an unvarnished portrait of Trump and his administration, lending the most vivid, first-person account yet of how Trump conducts himself in office. Several other former officials have written books, but they have been almost entirely flattering of the president. Other former officials have indicated they were saving their accounts of their time working for Trump until after he left office in order to speak more candidly. The Associated Press obtained a copy of Bolton's book in advance of its release next week.
As for the meeting with the Chinese president in Osaka, Japan, Bolton wrote that Trump told Xi that Democrats were hostile to China.
“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton said. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.”
The book, titled “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” which is set to be released Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, has been the subject of a lengthy battle between Bolton and the White House.
Trump signed legislation June 17th that seeks to punish China for a crackdown on ethnic minorities, even as the Bolton book said the American leader expressed support for the brutal campaign in a private conversation with his Chinese counterpart.
The Uighur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 passed with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Trump signed it with no ceremony, issuing a statement in which he said a sanctions provision intruded on executive authority and he would regard it as non-binding.
A top White House aide who handles President Donald Trump's trade policy toward China described John Bolton's controversial new book as "revenge porn," and said Bolton took no interest in China policy, despite his position as Trump's national security adviser.
"It's 'Big Lie' Bolton. It's 'Book Deal' Bolton." He's doing it for the money," said Peter Navarro, Trump's director of trade and manufacturing policy.
In his book, Bolton claims that President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects,
He also accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security decisions.
The White House has been working furiously to block the book, asking a federal court for an emergency temporary restraining order June 17th against its release.
Navarro said Trump has used tariffs to stand up to China in retaliatation to such Chinese actions as intellectual property theft, militarizing the South China Sea and cracking down on Hong Kong.
"I think there's a consensus now in this government that China is the single greatest strategic and existential threat to this country."
"It's not Russia. It's certainly not Venezuela. It's not Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan issues," Navarro said. "It's China."
"He took no interest in that whatsoever," he said.
Supporters of President Donald Trump faced off with anti-racism protesters on June 20th in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the President held a campaign rally.
Black Lives Matter activists flooded the city's downtown streets, and some got into arguments with Trump supporters who were shouting “all lives matter”.
Later in the evening, a group of armed men began following the protesters.
There were no reports of trouble.
Barak Obama gives Biden a boost with endorsement
ASSOCIATED PRESS, POOL
ARCHIVE - Washington - 23 March 2010
1. Biden introducing Obama at healthcare law signing
++CONTAINS AUDIO OF EXPLETIVE++ Biden heard saying to Obama: "This is a big f------ deal"
ARCHIVE: Washington - 7 January 2015
2. President Obama speaks in the Oval Office with Vice President Joe Biden
4:3 FROM SOURCE
ARCHIVE: Chicago - 4 November 2008
3. Various, then President-elect Obama on stage after victory speech with then-Vice President elect Joe Biden
Asian American actors on calling COVID-19 the 'Chinese Virus': 'Having this blanket statement is bad'
Archive: Washington, DC, 18 March 2020
4. UPSOUND (English) Reporter question:
"Why do you keep calling it the Chinese virus? There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country - why do you keep using this?"
"Because it comes from China. It's not racist at all, no.
Los Angeles, 6 April 2020
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeannie Mai, TV Personality - on Trump calling COVID-19 the "Chinese virus":
"It was a very uneducated statement. I think you have to be responsible when you choose terminology to give people an idea of what to picture, what to visualize."
Justice Dept. drops Michael Flynn's criminal case
Washington, DC - 18 December 2018
7. Michael Flynn leaves courthouse as competing demonstrators chant "lock him up" and "U.S.A."
Manafort released from prison due to virus concerns
ARCHIVE: Washington, DC - 23 May 2017
8. Former campaign chairman for US President Donald Trump, Paul Manafort leaves courthouse
ARCHIVE: New York - June 27, 2019
9. Paul Manafort in handcuffs walks in hallway of a Manhattan courthouse escorted by court officers
Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen to be released from prison
ARCHIVE: Washington - 28 February 2019
10. Various of Cohen testifying in Congress
Trump attorney Michael Cohen out of prison
New York - 21 May 2020
11. Michael Cohen exits vehicle and walks into residence
Biden: Trump more set on 'power than principle'
Philadelphia - 2 June 2020
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden (D) Presidential candidate::
"We can be forgiven for believing the president is more interested in power than in principle, or just in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care. For that's what the presidency is, the duty to care, to care for all of us, not just those who vote for us, but all of us."
Biden clinches Democratic presidential nomination
Los Angeles, 3 March 2020
13. Joe Biden walks into rally after winning a number of Super Tuesday contests
14. Biden on stage at California rally after winning a number of Super Tuesday contests
US Justice Dept. sues Bolton to block book release
ARCHIVE: Washington, DC - 30 September 2019
15. Mid shot of John Bolton walking up to podium
ARCHIVE: Seoul, South Korea - 24 July 2019
16. John Bolton arriving to meet South Korean officials
Washington, DC - 4 June 2020
17. Mid shot of William Barr at Justice Department news conference
Bolton book: Trump asked China for reelection help
Washington - 17 June 2020
18. Bolton's book, "The Room Where it Happened"
White House aide calls Bolton book 'revenge porn'
Washington, DC - 18 June 2020
19. Peter Navarro walking to microphone
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy :
"Look, I knew John Bolton pretty well after he got in here and my take on him. It's big lie Bolton. It's book deal Bolton. He's doing it for the money. That's pretty clear. And my view is it's the Washington swamp's equivalent of revenge porn.
Pro and anti-Trump protests near Tulsa rally
Tulsa, Oklahoma - 20 June 2020
21. Trump supporters holding banners reading (English) ''Make America Great Again!''
22. Armed men following the protest
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US Senate Tariffs
US lawmakers question 'end game' for Trump tariffs
Donald Trump , Robert Menendez , Bob Corker , Christopher Coons , Johnny Isakson
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle grilled Manisha Singh, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs during a hearing where most senators voiced concerns the Trump administration has not outlined a strategy for the tariffs placed on China and some U.S. allies.
Singhs testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, began with the ranking member Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, saying, "I don't understand what is the pathway here at the end of the day." He said, "Where is the endgame here."
Menendez and the committee chairman, Senator Bob Corker, republican from Tennessee, said Singh was "canon fodder," and not prepared to answer questions in an appropriate manner.
Menendez said "I regret that you were sent here because I don't think that you are really in the mix here on this issue and you're sent here as cannon fodder at the end of the day which is really a challenge."
Lawmakers went on record Wednesday to express their frustration with the Trump administration's growing use of tariffs as the Senate passed a nonbinding resolution designed to give Congress more say about trade penalties imposed in the name of national security.
The measure, which passed by an 88-11 vote, directs Capitol Hill negotiators trying to reconcile separate spending bills to include language giving Congress a role when such tariffs are put in place.
Those negotiators are free to ignore the Senate's guidance, and the role that Congress would play would have to be worked out down the road.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who pushed the tariff language, acknowledged the effort is "a baby step."
President Donald Trump says along the sidelines of the NATO summit that the U.S. will "negotiate a fair deal, if that's possible" with China.
He's predicting in a news conference that the U.S. will "end up doing something very good with China."
The Trump administration has threatened to impose 10 percent tariffs on another $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, and Beijing has vowed to retaliate.
It follows the U.S. imposing 25 percent duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods, which China responded to by increasing its own taxes on the same amount of American imports.
Washington DC - 12 July 2018
1. Wide side angle of committee hearing
2. Sen. Robert Menendez, (D) New Jersey:
"So what's the administration's strategy to respond to China's escalating retaliation and bring them to the negotiating table to deal with underlying issues more escalation. I mean I don't understand what is the pathway here at the end of the day so we slap a series of tariffs on them. They reciprocate and retaliate. And add tariffs to us. Where is the endgame here."
3. Wide of committee panel
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Manisha Singh, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs:
"President Trump has determined that tariffs are the way tariffs are the right tool to be used in this situation to get the Chinese to change their behavior. We need to see real action on the part of the Chinese not just the ongoing conversations that they keep having with them.
Sen. Menendez: "Well listen Madam Secretary I regret that you were sent here because I don't think that you are really in the mix here on this issue and you're sent here as cannon fodder at the end of the day which is really a challenge."
5. Medium wide angle of committee hearing
7. Wide of of committee hearing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bob Corker, (R) Tennessee:
"I believe the president is abusing his authorities. I think it is a massive abuse of his authorities. And the reason he's using 232 and abusing his authorities in this way is that 232 can be used with no basis. In other words you don't have to go to the ITC or the World Trade Commission or anything else and prove something out. You can just say that it's in our national security interest. Again, we may move to autos as I understand it. And again I have no idea how the making of automobiles by others is a national security threat to our nation. So the president doesn't have to lay anything out using 232. We're trying to change that with the rest of the questions to extend you can disabuse us and inform people across our country that."
9. Manisha Singh listening
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bob Corker, (R) Tennessee:
"I happen to believe there absolutely is no plan and in the mornings people wake up and make this up as they go along. And if in some uncanny way they figure out a way out of this that will be great for our nation. But I know today there is no end goal."
in my opening statement I've laid out for you the State Department's role and the strategy in President Trump's agenda."
11. Wide of hearing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Coons (D) Delaware:
"I hope you will take back the message that while the president may be acting within his statutory authority he is acting recklessly, he's acting dangerously in a way that is dividing us from our allies and that is imposing consumer taxes on the folks in our country who we most wanted to help. If we don't see a strategy that lines up I think Congress will act to restrain his reckless use of this authority."
13. Various of hearing
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Johnny Isakson,, (R) Georgia:
"I'm reminded of the Wendy's commercial about 20 years ago. Where's the beef when the little lady in the Rambler pulls up to the window at McDonald's open pulls a wrapper off her hamburger and looks and says where's the beef. I mean that was a great commercial and they got a good bit of the market share from McDonald's because it made a big point and it got Donal's actually changed their product line and increase the number of ounces in their hamburger because of that commercial. That's the power of a good point a good plant. It is pretty apparent that we don't have a stated plan from a marketing or business standpoint."
15. Wide of committee hearing
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US Senate Tariffs (Lon NR)
Lawmakers Question 'End Game' for Trump Tariffs
Johnny Isakson , Christopher Coons , Bob Corker , Robert Menendez , Donald Trump
Washington - 12 July 2018
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US Trump China
Trump: China trade talks still ongoing
The United States and China on Sunday put in place their latest tariff increases on each other's goods, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, shoes, sporting goods and other consumer items before the holiday shopping season.
US President Donald Trump said US-China trade talks were still on for September.
"We'll see what happens," he told reporters as he returned to the White House from the Camp David presidential retreat.
"But we can't allow China to rip us off anymore as a country," Trump added.
The 15% US taxes apply to about $112 billion of Chinese imports.
All told, more than two-thirds of the consumer goods the United States imports from China now face higher taxes.
The administration had largely avoided hitting consumer items in its earlier rounds of tariff increases.
But with prices of many retail goods now likely to rise, the Trump administration's move threatens the US economy's main driver: consumer spending.
As businesses pull back on investment spending and exports slow in the face of weak global growth, American shoppers have been a key bright spot for the economy.
As a result of Trump's higher tariffs, many US companies have warned that they will be forced to pass on to their customers the higher prices they will pay on Chinese imports.
Some businesses, though, may decide in the end to absorb the higher costs rather than raise prices for their customers.
In China, authorities began charging higher duties on American imports at midday Sunday, according to employees who answered the phone at customs offices in Beijing and the southern port of Guangzhou.
They declined to give their names.
Tariffs of 10% and 5% apply to items ranging from frozen sweet corn and pork liver to marble and bicycle tires, the government announced earlier.
After Sunday's move, 87% of textiles and clothing the United States buys from China and 52% of shoes will be subject to import taxes.
Washington - 1 September 2019
1. US President Donald Trump and Rear Admiral Peter Brown of the US Coast Guard exiting Marine One helicopter
2. Trump and Brown walking towards media
"So China is moving along. We're doing very well. It was brought out very strongly today by a number of great economists that because China has devalued their currency so much that in fact they are actually paying for all of the tariffs, we have in addition to that as you know they're pouring money into their economy. So those two things they are paying for their tariffs."
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"We are talking to China. The meeting is still on as you know in September. That hasn't changed. They haven't changed and we haven't. We'll see what happens. But we can't allow China to rip us off anymore as a country. We can't allow China to take five hundred billion dollars a year out of our country. We can't do that."
5. Trump and Brown walking away
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US Trump Tariffs (CR)
Trump announces tariff deal with Canada, Mexico
Mike Pompeo , John Bolton , Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has announced a deal with Canada and Mexico that would scrap "major tariffs," ending a simmering trade dispute that began when the president imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum in the name of national security.
Trump addressed the agreement while speaking before The National Association of Realtors. He urged Congress to approve a new trade pact between the three nations to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trump did not mention the tariffs he imposed last year on steel and aluminum imports. But he said "we'll be selling our product into those countries without the imposition of tariffs, or major tariffs."
While the tariffs helped many U.S. steel and aluminum makers, the retaliatory tariffs hurt other sectors of the U.S. economy, such as agriculture.
Trump also took on China amid the escalating trade war between the U.S. and Beijing.
Trump said the two countries "had a deal and they broke it," adding, "I'm used to that. I've done it many times myself."
The most recent round of trade talks between the Trump administration and China broke up earlier this month without an agreement, after Trump accused China of backing out of parts of a deal and hiked tariffs on $200 billion of imports from China.
China imposed retaliatory tariff hikes on $60 billion of American goods, and U.S. officials then listed $300 billion more of Chinese goods for possible tariff hikes.
Trump also went after the news media for reports that he is upset with national security adviser John Bolton for taking a hard line with Iran in recent weeks.
"They put out messages that I'm angry with my people," he told the crowd, insisting, "I'm not angry with them...Mike Pompeo is doing a great job. Bolton is doing a great job."
Trump said the media "makes it sound like there's a conflict." And he said, "It's bullshit."
Washington, DC - 17 May 2019
1. President Donald Trump walks onto stage to address the National Association of Realtors
"But before I begin, I'm pleased to announce that we've just reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico, and we'll be selling our product into those countries without the imposition of tariffs, or major tariffs, big difference. As you know, Canada has been for years, and we have a great relationship with Canada and the prime minister, we have a great relationship, but they've been charging us extremely high tariffs, as much as 285 percent or more for our agricultural products, which is an absolute barrier. It's essentially a barrier. In other words, when you pay 285, guess what, you know what they're saying, we don't want your business. So it was a barrier to our farmers being able to do business with them, to our farmers being able to sell product in there. So that deal is going to be a fantastic deal for our country and hopefully Congress will approve the USMCA quickly, and then the great farmers and manufacturers and steel plants will make our economy even more successful than it already is, if that's possible, which it is possible."
++BLACK BETWEEN SOUNDBITES++
"And you see what's happening, I don't have to talk about it, but it's expensive for them and it's going to have to be. It's going to have to be. We actually had a deal and they broke it. Okay? I mean I'm used to that,I've done it many times myself. But we had a deal and they broke it. But I try and do it a little bit nicer. Ben, I try and take the lumps out, you know? Try nice and easy. Just let's have dinner. Let's talk about it. I want to re-trade you. Let's talk about it. But they took out a lot of the things that we negotiated that were done and I said ,'Can't do that. Sorry. Can't do that.' You've been doing that too long to our poor presidents that had no clue what was happening. And you can't do that. So we're putting tariffs, we have 25 percent tariffs on 250 billion dollars and they're paying it. And believe me, you know, so many people say our people pay. They pay a little bit. But it's worth it. It's really worth it. But you know, China subsidizes these big plants so it's not really coming and they keep the price the same and they subsidize it."
"So it's hundreds of billions of dollars and out of that, we're going to give a portion of it to our farmers because these are great patriots. These are people that don't want anything. They just want a fair playing surface. And our farmers are doing, going to do really well. I mean they're doing well but they're going to be doing really well. Between that and the USMCA, our farmers are going to be very happy very shortly. But you're talking about maybe 15 billion dollars to our farmers out of 125-billion dollars. And there really you have to understand they've taken the brunt."
"And you know what. We're right now dealing with Iran and they put out so many false messages that Iran is totally confused. I don't know. That might be a good thing. No, they put out, the fake news, they put out messages. These people right back here. They put out messages that I'm angry with my people. I'm not angry with them. I make my own decisions. But I'm angry with my people, I'm not angry with my people. I'm worse than they are. They're worse than me are, they're more militant. Mike Pompeo is doing a great job. Bolton is doing a great job. They make it sound like it's a conflict. And the good news, I was thinking today, I said gee what must our adversaries think? And then I look and I say, you know, it's probably a good thing because they're saying, 'Man, I don't know where these people are coming from, right? But they put out false, you know they say 'confidential sources.' Do you ever notice, they never write the names of people anymore. Everything is, 'a source says.' There is no source. The person doesn't exist. The person is not alive. It's bullshit. OK? It's bullshit."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
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US Trump Trade Tariffs
Mike Pompeo , Donald Trump , John Bolton
US President Donald Trump has announced a deal with Canada and Mexico that would scrap "major tariffs," ending a simmering trade dispute that began when the president imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum in the name of national security.
Trump did not mention the tariffs he imposed last year on steel and aluminum imports. But he said "we'll be selling our product into those countries without the imposition of tariffs, or major tariffs".
While the tariffs helped many US steel and aluminum makers, the retaliatory tariffs hurt other sectors of the US economy, such as agriculture.
Trump also took on China amid the escalating trade war between the US and Beijing.
Trump said the two countries "had a deal and they broke it," adding, "I'm used to that. I've done it many times myself".
The most recent round of trade talks between the Trump administration and China broke up earlier this month without an agreement, after Trump accused China of backing out of parts of a deal and hiked tariffs on US$200 billion of imports from China.
China imposed retaliatory tariff hikes on US$60 billion of American goods, and US officials then listed US$300 billion more of Chinese goods for possible tariff hikes.
++NOTE GRAPHIC LANGUAGE IN SOUNDBITE #5++
"And you see what's happening, I don't have to talk about it, but it's expensive for them and it's going to have to be. It's going to have to be. We actually had a deal and they broke it. Okay? I mean I'm used to that, I've done it many times myself. But we had a deal and they broke it. But I try and do it a little bit nicer. Ben, I try and take the lumps out, you know? Try nice and easy. Just let's have dinner. Let's talk about it. I want to re-trade you. Let's talk about it. But they took out a lot of the things that we negotiated that were done and I said ,'Can't do that. Sorry. Can't do that.' You've been doing that too long to our poor presidents that had no clue what was happening. And you can't do that. So we're putting tariffs, we have 25% on 250 billion dollars and they're paying it. And believe me, you know, so many people say our people pay. They pay a little bit. But it's worth it. It's really worth it. But you know, China subsidizes these big plants so it's not really coming and they keep the price the same and they subsidize it."
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Movie Yearbook
Cinema Obscura
DVD Spotlight: "For My Wife" & "Water Wars"
Matthew Lucas August 23, 2010 0 Comments
The sad reality for many documentary filmmakers is that having their films released theatrically is not always feasible, given their generally low box office potential . But thanks to the good folks at Cinema Libre and other independent studios, documentaries can find new audiences through DVD releases and grassroots educational campaigns.
Two such films, For My Wife and Water Wars will have their DVD premieres on August 31, 2010 from Cinema Libre, the studio that brought The End of Poverty and Oliver Stone's South of the Border to the big screen.
FOR MY WIFE (David Rothmiller & LD Thompson, Not Rated)
For My Wife is an especially timely doc about Charlene Strong, a woman who lost her partner, Kate, in a tragic flood, and faced many challenges, heartache, and discrimination by hospital employees and funeral directors because they were not legally married or related by blood. But instead of sitting idly by, Charlene took matters into her own hands and joined the crusade to bring benefits to same sex partners that would make sure that no one would have to suffer as she did again.
Charlene Strong with WA Governor Chris Gregoire as she signs the Domestic Partnership Registry Bill into law in “for my wife…”
In light of the recent Proposition 8 ruling in California, For My Wife feels like it comes along at the perfect moment, as LGBT issues are taking the forefront in the national spotlight, especially concerning same sex marriage. Charlene makes a passionate case and puts a human face on the debate that is undeniably moving. The climactic debate on the floor of the Washington state Senate is especially powerful, but the film sort of loses its way after that. It sets out to make the key point that the battle is far from over and the story continues, but it feels as if it has no definitive ending, following Charlene's crusade after her victory in her home state of Washington, but there just isn't that much to cover. It's clear that it would have made a better documentary short than a feature, but it's hard to deny its subject's timely power. This is a story that needs to be told as much as it needs to be heard. And as long as people like Charlene Strong keeps speaking up and putting forward an identifiable and human face on the challenges faced by LGBT Americans, then hearts and minds will continue to be changed, and as such For My Wife demands to be seen.
WATER WARS (Jim Burroughs, Not Rated)
Documentaries often fall into the trap of being all information and no flair, and Water Wars is one of those films. It's a rather straightforward educational doc about the water crisis in Bangladesh, whose rivers are being dammed up in India, causing widespread drought in the dry season and flooding in the rainy season. What water they have is often poisoned with arsenic. The film examines the political standoffs caused by access to water in Asia, which is a conflict many believe will be the cause of World War III.
For such a potentially impactful topic, one might expect a film with a little more tension or a dramatic call to action, but instead it feels rather mundane, even with narration by Martin Sheen. It's the kind of informational doc that would be right at home in a high school world politics or science class, and as such will serve its purpose well. It's an important topic, and while it deserves a documentary that isn't this dry, it will do in the absence of more widespread coverage.
Both For My Wife and Water Wars will be available on DVD August 31 from Cinema Libre and are now available for pre-order.
By Matthew Lucas posted at August 23, 2010
76 Days - ★★★½
Ammonite - ★★★★
Another Round - ★★★
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm - ★★★
City Hall - ★★★½
Free Time - ★★★★
Happiest Season - ★★½
Hillbilly Elegy - ★½
Identifying Features - ★★★½
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey - ★★½
Let Them All Talk - ★★★
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - ★★★
Mank - ★★
Minari - ★★★½
Monsoon - ★★★½
Nomadland - ★★★½
Pinocchio - ★★
Promising Young Woman - ★★★
Soul - ★★★½
Sound of Metal - ★★
The Midnight Sky - ★★
The Prom - ★★★
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - ★★½
The War with Grandpa - ★
To the Ends of the Earth - ★★★★
Wolfwalkers - ★★★½
Wonder Woman 1984 - ★★
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Jefferson Awards Foundation Announces 2018 Class of ChangeMakers
Jan 17, 2018 01:49PM ● By Emily Stevenson
Since 1972 the Jefferson Awards Foundation has recognized a host of national public figures for their outstanding contributions to our country and its communities. Nationally, the Jefferson Award is the country's highest honor for service and volunteerism, and honorees—individuals including such notable figures as Barbara Bush, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill and Melinda Gates—make up a storied group of American heroes whose dedication to service has inspired others to lead.
The Jefferson Awards Foundation’s goal in South Carolina is to cultivate the next generation of our state’s servant leaders. With that goal in mind, the organization has selected their first class of ChangeMakers—10 individuals in the Upstate age 40 and under—who have demonstrated a commitment to service and the potential to truly move the Upstate forward.
The inaugural ChangeMakers class will kick off later this month with a reception and networking event for the 10 honorees and their guests. Throughout the spring these ChangeMakers will work both individually and as a cohort to raise financial support for Students In Action, the Jefferson Awards Foundation’s leadership development program that uses service-learning as the vehicle for arming high schoolers with the life skills they need to be successful in college and the workforce. These 10 ChangeMakers will also participate in volunteer, community, and other networking activities each month with the goal of raising awareness and inspiring even more young leaders to do their part. The program will culminate in May 2018 with a celebration event, recognizing each of the 10 honorees with a Jefferson Award and celebrating all they have accomplished to make a difference in the Upstate.
The Jefferson Awards Foundation is proud to announce the 2018 class of ChangeMakers:
Ansel Sanders: President and CEO, Public Education Partners
Blair Dobson Miller: Realtor, Wilson Associates
Blair Knobel: Editor in Chief, Town Magazine
Brad Cline: Global Leadership Program, Michelin NA
Ebony Austin: Events & Special Programs Director, Greenville Chamber of Commerce
Jason Richards: COO & Shareholder, NAI Earle Furman
Laura Bauld Turner: Upstate Director, United States Senate
Lindsey McMillion Stemann: Owner & Principal, McMillion Consulting
Reid Sherard: Partner, Nelson Mullins
Yasha Patel: Owner, The Rutherford Event Venue
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Sarah Hyland on How Her Kidney Transplants Left Her Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
October 29, 2020 Michelle Vincent 0
While nerves are frayed across the globe thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, this is especially true for those who are immunocompromised.
Sarah Hyland is experiencing this anxiety firsthand.
The 29-year-old Modern Family actress recently opened up about her coronavirus anxiety on the podcast Brad Behavior, speaking with celebrity stylist Brad Goreski about her vulnerable state and heightened fear. She said,
“I am obviously immunocompromised with my transplant history and am on immunosuppressants, so everything in this house is sanitized.”
She continued,
”Say someone gets a 24-hour bug, I get it for a week or more. For me, it’s really dangerous. My panic level is pretty high. But I also have a lot of health issues that are very susceptible to stress, so I’m trying to remain calm.”
Sarah showing off her surgery scars on Instagram
Hyland has always been candid about her ongoing health issues. The actress was born with kidney dysplasia, a genetic disorder that resulted in her undergoing 16 surgeries, including two kidney transplants in six years. Additionally, Hyland has been battling endometriosis. As a result, she has a weakened immune system and a reduced ability to fight infections.
So it’s no wonder that she gets annoyed with the “young, healthy people who are raiding grocery stores, who are raiding pharmacies.”
She explained,
“They’re leaving people over the age of 60, who may not have a child to do their shopping for them, left to their own devices.”
Ultimately, Hyland wants the focus to be on practicing “compassion, love, generosity” — especially from the safety of your couch. Her game plan for the next several weeks? To stay home. And, to protect immunocompromised people like Hyland as well as the elderly, that should be your game plan too.
“We’re literally dealing with people who could die and I just think it’s really a time to come together.”
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Daddy’s Hangout 2020 NBA Finals Predictions
September 29, 2020 By Travis Leave a Comment
After what has been one long season, we are now finally down to two. The Miami Heat will battle the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2020 NBA Finals. As we all know, this has been one season for the ages with what has all went on. The Covid pandemic halted sports and it seemed like the season would be cancelled. The NBA came back on July 31st in a bubble and we have seen some exciting basketball. In the East, many thought the Bucks or Celtics would represent the East. Miami was one of five teams that I thought could make a run to the 2020 NBA Finals. They took down 2-time reigning MVP and the Milwaukee Bucks in the semifinals easily. In the East Finals, they upended the Boston Celtics whom I had winning. Headed into their matchup with the Lakers, Miami will be the underdog.
The Lakers came into the playoffs as the top seed in the Western Conference. Lebron James and Anthony Davis is the best duo the NBA has seen in a very long time. After dropping the first game, they took down Portland in four consecutive games. Coming into the playoffs, Portland was deemed as the scariest team in the bubble by me. In the second round, they also dropped the first game and won four in a row against Houston. They were a little challenged by Denver, who could’ve been up 2-1 headed into Game 4. Lebron put the team on his back in the series clincher and Davis the game before. Both teams are 12-3 in the playoffs as they meet in Game 1 of the 2020 NBA Finals on Wednesday. Can Lebron win his 4th title and Davis his first or will Butler finally get his?
When Los Angeles acquired Anthony Davis in a trade, we knew it was a matter of time they’d reach this point. They both are hungry for this championship. Anthony Davis wants that first one, which is why he forced a trade from New Orleans. Lebron is seeking his 4th championship, which would make his 3rd team winning one. Los Angeles management has done a good job at surrounding them with great talent. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Rajon Rando, Danny Green, Markieff Morris and Alex Caruso have played amazing. Dwight Howard has given them a spark off the bench also. Will the Lakers play big ball against the Heat? If so, how will they counter the speed of Tyler Herro or a Jae Crowder? If the role players continue to play like they have, Los Angeles should take the series.
Erik Spoelstra is arguably the best coach in the league. The Miami Coach is a mastermind when it comes to finding strategies to stop the other team. Jimmy Butler is the leader of this Miami Heat team, but they have so many weapons. Bam Adebayo has shown that he’s one of the best big men in the league. Adebayo can score, rebound, pass and he’s one helluva defender. Tyler Herro, Goran Dragic, Duncan Robinson and Jae Crowder can get bucket anytime. We know that Jimmy Butler and Andre Iguodala are more than capable of guarding Lebron. Who will check Anthony Davis? Can Adebayo step up and handle Davis? If the Lakers were to play with their bigs, who else can help contain them? We could see Kendrick Nunn, Derrick Jones Jr. and Solomon Hill log in some serious minutes in the 2020 NBA Finals.
Los Angeles is opening up as a huge favorite heading into the 2020 NBA Finals. Jimmy Butler says he doesn’t believe they’re the underdog heading into this matchup. The way he thinks is the reason why the Miami Heat keeps surprising people. I’m really feeling this Heat team and I’ve slept on them twice already. In the end, I’m going with the Lakers to leave as the 2020 NBA Champions. Los Angeles Wins Series 4-2
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Revolutionary Garden Hose Design Too 'Obvious' for Patent Protection
Patents reward originality, and inventions that are obvious developments on pre-existing designs do not qualify for protection, however successful they may be. In a ground-breaking case on point, patent protection was denied in respect of a one-man invention which revolutionised the garden hose market.
An inventor working alone in his garden and garage designed an entirely new type of garden hose which solved long-standing problems with previous models. Compact and easily stored when empty, it expands in length when filled with water and has achieved huge commercial success around the world.
After a leading hose manufacturer launched proceedings, however, a judge revoked UK and European patents in respect of the invention. He did so on the basis that the invention was obvious when compared with a previously registered US patent in respect of a self-elongating oxygen hose for use by air crews.
In dismissing a challenge to that ruling brought by the patents' exclusive licensee, the Court of Appeal, by a majority, rejected arguments that the judge relied too heavily on a hindsight-based analysis in concluding that the invention lacked the novelty required for patent protection. An argument that the judge took insufficient account of the hose's commercial success also fell on fallow ground.
In a dissenting judgment, one member of the Court noted that there was no evidence that a single example of the air crew mask described in the US patent had ever been manufactured. He expressed the view that the patent did not describe a real, practical machine but amounted to no more than a paper proposal.
The Court expressed sympathy for the hose's inventor and acknowledged that the outcome of the case might appear harsh or even unfair to him. He was entirely unaware of the US patent when developing his hose design. However, there were good reasons, in the wider public interest, why patent protection is unavailable where there is prior art which either discloses an invention or renders it obvious.
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Alexx Mack Makes Being Bad Look So Amazing In Her Bad Music Video
Alexx Mack shows us why it feels so damn good to be bad as all hell in her new Bad Music Video, and she looked absolutely BABIN’ while doing so…
Rising synth-pop princess Alexx Mack had a huge hit on her hands when she released her anthemic “Bad” earlier this summer. The female empowerment banger came complete with a dance friendly production and a killer chorus that entrances listeners from the first moments. I kid you not when I say that the song gets stuck in my head for weeks every time I hear it, because it is just that good!
In a previous interview between the two of us for PPcorn Alexx Mack explained to me that it feels so good to be bad because “well, no f***s are given! And that’s the best.” This girl basically became my hero in one quote! Things were off to a great start with “Bad,” and then Mack took it to the next level with the release of the Bad Music Video! Get ready, because things get a little rowdy in the bold visual.
The Bad music video sees Alexx Mack seducing a bespectacled student while dressed as a pin-up inspired naughty school girl in reverse action. The video starts with Mack marking her very nude and very attractive lover with a territorial kiss, before rewinding and showing viewers exactly how Alexx Mack got the boy. Obviously a slow motion pillow fight ensues as well as a strip tease in the kitchen. Glasses of wine break, chests are put out for display, and a good time is had by all…
Talk about having a good time walking on the wild side
Being bad has truly never looked like so much fun! Alexx Mack’s Bad Music Video is all sorts of playful, and it is the perfect accompaniment for such a promising track. The visual balances campy fun with a playful, yet seductive edge with relative ease, and Mack’s character throughout the video is played perfectly. The Bad music video proves that Alexx Mack is truly a fantastic performer, and that she is capable of portraying a truly dynamic character. She plays the good girl gone bad with ease, and it’s entirely compelling to watch!
Alongside the release of the video, Alexx Mack revealed that her DEBUT EP Like We’re Famous is gearing up for an October 9 release. Now is the perfect time to get a little more familiar with the “Bad” princess!
What do you think of Alexx Mack and her daring Bad visual? Let me know!
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Pentatonix Stand Out In Their ‘Can’t Sleep Love’ Visual
“Give me that can’t sleep love / i want that can’t sleep love / the kind I dream about all day / the kind that keeps me up all night / yeah.” Pentatonix lay it all out on their bright new single…
A Cappella mavens Pentatnoix are gearing up to release a new self-titled album in October, and they are starting to feed the fever by sharing some of the album with fans. Earlier this week the group released the album’s lead single “Can’t Sleep Love,” and today they are hitting us with the single’s accompanying music video.
“Can’t Sleep Love” serves a sweetly addictive pop romp complete with a psychedelic edge. The laid-back midtempo sees the group searching for a relationship that keeps them up at night and in the dreamworld all day long. True to form, Pentatnoix is delivering an innovative a cappella production. With only five musicians in the group, it is unbelievable the depth that the group is able to achieve with their staccato beatbox, deep bass, spoken asides, and wailing guitar lines. They’re surely not asking for much, but they’re giving it all up for us on the track. How could you not love them?!
In the accompanying music video the talented group perform the single in front of a collection of bold and graphic walls. Dancers have been painted to match the various patterns on the walls, and they add a sense of motion to the product. Instead of focusing on a storyline, the group continues to provide a bright and bold visual that perfectly matches the vibe of “Can’t Sleep Love” while remaining true to brand.
So much yes! “Can’t Sleep Love” is easily one of the most radio friendly releases from Pentatonix to date. With its funky vibe, incredibly tight production, and bright vibe this is the kind of song that will make a killing in the final days of summer, while still managing to achieve a roll over success as fall kicks in.
While the track’s music video doesn’t offer much of a storyline, it still stays incredibly true to the group’s brand and is a creative concept. More importantly, it has simply raised excitement for future releases from the group.
What do you think of “Can’t Sleep Love,” and are you ready for Pentatnoix to drop? Let me know!
Tags Can't Sleep Love, Music Video, New Music, Pentatnoix
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Players Best Keep Up, Because Tinashe Brings the FIRE in Her New Music Video
Tinashe pops, locks, drops, leaps, turns, and works in a series of dance battles leading up to one epic standoff in her new “Player” music video…
Rising R&B hitmaker and pop princess Tinashe served up something fierce with the release of “Player,” the first single off her upcoming Joyride album. With it’s dance friendly pop sensibilities and Chris Brown feature the song is huge for the “2On” singer, and it just got better with the release of its official music video!
In the video game inspired visual Tinashe faces off against a slew of dancers in a series of progressively more complex dance battles. No dancer is able to best the acrobatic siren, who displays her technical skills on the dance floor across a variety of different styles. Through it all Tinashe whips her body into a series of incredible shapes, turning, leaping, kicking, and throwing herself into the battles with gusto. Obviously, no one can keep up; and those players are kicked to the side.
The progression leads to a final show down of sorts against the “boss,” a role played by Tinashe’s collaborator on the song, Chris Brown. For the final round Tinashe and Chris Brown utilize the art of seduction and their sick moves on the floor to fight to the end…
WERK QUEEN! Tinashe is one of the few pop acts who is consistently capable of serving amazing choreography, and the talented songstress doesn’t disappoint this time around. There is less of a focus on tightly choreography moves (like those displayed in her equally impressive “All Hands on Deck” visual) in the video; Tinashe instead loses herself in the beat, which adds an organic edge to the impressive feats. In an age when most pop stars rely upon tricks and editing to stir up emotion, Tinashe is relying upon her raw talent. This girl knows how to go hard in the paint, and she’s not holding back here! Kill ’em child!
What do you think of Tinashe’s newest visual? Slay or Nay?
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Sia and Her Karate Pro Battle Shadow Demons and Survive in her “Alive” Visual, But Does it Live Up to Expectations?
Sia hires a new mini-me for her “Alive” music video, but does it hold a candle to the work of Maddie Ziegler?
Pop superstar (who is incredibly famous despite never showing her face) Sia is gearing up for a new era of music! The “Chandelier” songstress is releasing a new album titled This Is Acting early next year, and she has shared the music to prove it. Earlier this week Sia unveiled the project’s second track “Bird Set Free,” but today the focus is on lead single “Alive” and it’s new music video.
After watching Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler don her platinum bob and nude bodysuit for a trio of hugely emotional music videos last era expectations are understandably high for Sia’s visuals. They tend to exude a sense of intimate, raw emotion that resonates with humanity’s fragile nature. This time around Sia has replaced Maddie’s frantic antics for the karate stylings of a young brave heart, and the result is decent, but it doesn’t evoke quite the same sense of connection.
Our favorite platinum bob has evolved and is taking inspiration from Cruella de Vil for a new era of music. New year, new me; and this time our young karate pro is rocking a perfectly divided black and white bob. Is it a reference to the duality of Sia’s presence on tracks intended for other artists, some type of proof that this really wasn’t intended for her to perform? Is it a reference to a new “Sia state,” or did Sia just get bored and want to change up the look? Who knows, but regardless this is pretty much the extent of evolution between eras (beyond a new performer) so it is worth noting.
Set in an abandoned parking garage, “Alive” becomes the theme song for a young girl to battle her shadow demons. The child is dressed in a traditional karategi with a black belt to showcase her superior training status, and she fluidly moves between various poses. There is a controlled grace and beauty to the movements as the young girl passionately fights to rise above the burnt out destruction around her.
While Sia’s “Alive” music video lacks some of the raw emotion that made “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart” instant classics, the visual still packs a resounding amount of power. There is less of a broken down struggle for survival (perfectly encapsulated by Maddie Ziegler’s frantic choreography); however, a deep rooted sense of conviction remains. A sense of triumph also exists within the visual that is unfamiliar after the 1000 Forms of Fear era, but herein lies part of the issue. Sia still depicts our young protagonist battling invisible demons, but the visual feels more cute than impressive.
It feels almost kitschy in a way that previous attempts haven’t. You felt for Maddie’s character in the previous videos, so much so that you wanted to reach into the screen to help her. Now you have simply been relegated to the role of observer. Sia’s live performances may breathe an additional sense of life into the music, but this video falls a little flat.
What do you think about Sia’s newest effort? Let us know!
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Squire and Partners / The Department Store, Brixton
A former Edwardian retail emporium has been taken from dereliction to dream to give the architecture practice new offices in south London
Words by Emily Martin
Images by James Jones
Client: Squire and Partners
Architect: Squire and Partners
Size: 6,147 sq m
After 16 years at its King’s Cross location, London-based architecture practice Squire and Partners has moved its 220 staff south of the river to a new home in Brixton, called The Department Store. The practice bought a dilapidated Edwardian department store three years ago, formally known as Toplin House, which had formed part of the former Bon Marché department store. It had been a sort of a retail dream realised by local businessman James Smith who, in 1876 – inspired by the opulence of the original Parisian Bon Marché – brought a bit of it to Brixton.
Squire and Partners set about to bring some of it back into the building, which has become its new offices. It turned out to be striking a balance of glamour and edginess, reflecting the story of this particular building.
Above the reception desk are five custom-made glass pendant lights from Czech glass studio Lasvit
Toplin House was built in 1906 to provide two additional floors of retail, with staff accommodation on the upper levels. It was this building that Squire and Partners purchased for its new London office in 2015. At the time the building was in a derelict condition, as well as forming part of a family of buildings along Ferndale Road, including a former horse-and-cart fire station.
Workspace in The Department Store features the building’s orginal teak floor and casat-iron radiators, now painted black
Bringing the building from dereliction to dream, the practice has entirely reimagined the Toplin House space, allowing the existing fabric and layers of history to inform the new design.
The design takes cues from its past, with the practice collaborating with craftspeople and furniture makers, but capturing the building’s evolving history, which at one time included being a squat. The interior scheme is not too precious and retains enough edge to make it truly Brixton; a building, the practice says, it was keen to give back to the area.
Workspaces, including the model shop, are open to view from the street
‘We viewed the building and the project more as being a gift being given back to the neighbourhood,’ says Tim Gledstone, partner, Squire and Partners. ‘When speaking to local people, many don’t remember it; someone even said that they’ve walked past it for 35 years and had never noticed it before.’ Delivered is a hard-to-miss and hard-to-forget building, with a 21st-century appeal.
The exterior design sees years of neglect reversed, with added shop fronts and layers of paint removed to reveal original brickwork, stone, marble and terracotta. A cafe and record store occupy some of the newly created retail spaces at ground level with Crittall windows restored wherever possible, or replaced to match the original.
Graffiti on the wall is a legacy from when the building was used by squatters
Entering the practice’s fully glazed ground level reception space, and into the striking reception area, a theme of display and craft features. A 6.5m-long bespoke reception desk conceived as a haberdashery display was created in collaboration with specialist cabinet maker Interior iD and material artist Based Upon, and features a revolving display of works.
A rooftop floor was added, along with an outdoor terrace, as social space
The reception area is designed to stage changing installations throughout the year, the first being Marble Mannequins from Squire and Partners’ RIBA Shanghai Windows installation in Xintiandi for Maria Luisa in 2015. There are also visual links to the practice’s in-house model shop, from both the reception area and street level, so passers-by can view staff at work in this space from outside.
‘People of all ages stop and look at what’s going on in the model shop,’ says Gledstone. ‘At the King’s Cross location it was in the basement, closed off and with no windows.
Now, it’s at the forefront with light and engagement from the local community. This is a semi-open building, and we wanted people to feel like they can walk in and be involved. We have no buzzer on the door for that reason.’
A new triple-height void creates connections between the first-floor workspace, reception area and a downstairs event space. Original Burmese teak flooring dating from 1906 was revealed and restored, complemented by two handmade rugs by Laguna up to 5m in length, which feature patterns designed by Brixton-based design outfit Eley Kishimoto following explorations into motifs found in the original building.
A lower-floor event space helps connect the practice to community groups, businesses, residents and schools
The existing fabric of the interior was assessed in the early stages of the project, ensuring that elements such as original 111-year-old mahogany and teak parquet flooring, a grand, tiled, central staircase, a series of cast-iron radiators and a remarkable patina of colours, all documenting the building’s past, could be preserved. A series of voids were cut through the building to create dramatic volumes and provide vistas between levels. But while care was exercised in areas of renovation and restoration, some areas, particularly near the cut-out additions, have been left purposefully rough in appearance.
‘We had to make that decision, due to the building having been badly divided up for retail units, whether to reinstate architectural features that had been damaged or lost during transformation,’ says Gledstone. ‘Some beautiful elements have been revealed in near perfect condition, while others haven’t, or have been completely lost, and I love that we haven’t been too precious about the building in that respect. What we have is a design scheme, which captures a local story.’
The office floors, on the first, second and third floors, use a bespoke furniture system, developed in collaboration with south London joinery company Opus Magnum. Desking is purpose-made in birch-faced ply with an individual drawer and matt-black linoleum top. Above the desks on black steel frames, a series of high-level display boxes allow for personalisation and decoration. Storage includes systems designed to shield printers, plotters and binding equipment, with shelving units for display, books and magazines.
Lighting combines a unique version of the Flos Running Magnet system with a bespoke BTC range of fluted glass spheres used as floor, pendant and wall lights. Additional lighting in meeting and breakout spaces include an exclusive, limited-edition range of Louis Poulson floor and table lights.
Exposed services ensure that original ceilings and floors could be revealed. Black and copper power/data cables travel through the building in suspended nickel mesh trays. Each office floor has a tea point, expressed as a copper-lined box encased within a black ply storage wall.
Informal tables and seating at tea points and In a series of external terraces encourage interaction between staff. Each tea point also provides an entry point to a ‘secret stair’, designed to create a connection between the three office floors.
A new rooftop social space level was then added to create a fourth floor, as well as a crafted glass dome to replace a dilapidated cupola. The bar and restaurant area features a solid green-oak frame, crafted by specialist timber company Carpenter Oak to create a light, bright and airy space with views across Brixton. The bar was created in collaboration with Benchmark as a continuous run of untreated pewter with copper skirting, with staff and guests able to enjoy lunch, evening meals, drinks and parties in this space.
A gentrified building this is not: it’s a community hub for locals as well as artists, designers, craftspeople and the wider architecture and design community. ‘In terms of the local context it has been wonderful to revive a lost landmark and invigorate the street to create an interactive part of Brixton’s creative scene, which encompasses art and design, architecture, music, fashion and food,’ says Gledstone.
A new crafted glass dome replaces the dilapidated cupola from times gone by
‘Having a curated series of uses and functions at The Department Store – including Post Office, shops, cafes and event spaces – has fostered meaningful connections across the community.
‘For the practice, The Department Store represents a confident expression of our true selves and a showcase for our commitment to craft, collaboration and creativity. While celebrating the narrative of the original building throughout its potted history, we have introduced a new chapter that acts as an evolving contemporary showcase of creation in motion.’
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About Hyphen
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"We went back in the spring of 2018 to set about capturing the dream image. Visibility was excellent. It was only when I got home that I spotted the two mountaineers/skiers high up on the broad ridge, utterly dwarfed by their surroundings.". ... "We went back in the spring of 2018 to … I think this image is influenced by Nordic noir cinema, and a winter trip to Russia a few years ago," says Midgley. The winning image was taken by Pete Rowbottom, and depicts sharp shards of ice on a cold February morning in Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands. Josef won two of the four categories for young photographers in addition to the main prize. The 6 best ways to have the US national parks all to yourself, The Ioway Tribe is creating the largest tribal national park in the US, Take a trip to an under-the-radar island on a new sightseeing train in Japan, Quarantine-free flights between Italy and the US are set to launch. Landscape photographer of the year 2018 – in pictures Field of Red, Houghton, West Sussex. No part of this site may be reproduced without our written permission. An icy image of a bitterly cold February morning in the Glencoe Highlands has taken out the top prize in this year's Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year award.. Pete Rowbottom captured the spectacular shot which the judges described as mesmerising and "emotionally strong". And there I had it, our dream shot.". ‘The numerous strong diagonal lines of the ice fractures in Pete’s image echo the shape of Buachaille Etive Mòr in the background and have peaks of their own,’ said Charlie Waite, founder of the awards. Just in case you ever needed a reminder that our planet is a stunningly beautiful place, the fifth annual Landscape Photographer of the Year competition winners have been announced, and they don't disappoint. The striking shot scooped the top prize in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. 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The runner-up spot in the same category went to Mario D'Onofrio for this stunning shot of the Milky Way over St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. .css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link{color:inherit;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link:hover,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited:hover,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link:focus,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited:focus{color:#B80000;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link::after,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited::after{content:'';position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;z-index:2;}In Pictures: British Wildlife Photography Awards, Crummock Water photographer takes landscape award. This dramatic image of a fisherman braving the windy conditions at Porth Nanven was made by Mick Blakey. For the fifth year, the International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest brings amateur and professional photographers together to celebrate the majesty of nature. The winning images from the Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition 2018 have been unveiled, with the final selection showing the breathtaking beauty on display in diverse destinations across Britain.Now in its twelfth year, the competition saw thousands of entries from all over the country. .css-8h1dth-Link{font-family:ReithSans,Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:700;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;color:#FFFFFF;}.css-8h1dth-Link:hover,.css-8h1dth-Link:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}Read about our approach to external linking. The Photograph of the Year is awarded to the best single landscape photograph, while to be named International Landscape PhotographER of the Year requires a set of four amazing images. The Landscape Photographer of the Year is announced. Cornwall was also the location for the winning image in the adult Living the View category. Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020 Chris Frost, 'Woolland Woods', Dorset I couldn't quite resist taking my camera with me though and decided to go off-piste and grab some shots between runs," says Ireland. Selected from a field of nearly 3000 beautiful pictures taken … All the shortlisted and winning entries are published in the Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 12 book'. The latter is our main prize, acknowledging the additional skill and artistry required to produce a portfolio of landscape photographs. "The lighting was sublime, and I loved the textures and contrasts on the slopes facing me across the valley. Get inspired to travel everyday by signing up to our daily. The cold of the mountain and ice together contrast well with the amber of their surroundings. Photograph: Marie Davey "Last year I met up with friend and fellow mountain biker Russ Pierre for a brilliant photo shoot but there was one image that, although stunning, had so much room for improvement," says FitzGerald-Patrick. The competition, now in its 12th year, aims to highlight the splendour of Britain's rural and urban landscapes. Top spot in the adult Classic View category went to John Finney for this image taken during a blizzard in the High Peak, Derbyshire. "I'd decided to make the most of the stunning winter conditions and have a couple of days skiing at Glenshee in the Cairngorms. All the winning and commended photographs from the competition can be found in the Awards book ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 12’ by AA Publishing, which is available now. I found a good composition featuring a nice rocky drop for Russ to jump, with the Armed Knight and setting Sun behind it. I want emails from Lonely Planet with travel and product information, promotions, advertisements, third-party offers, and surveys. "The 'teapot' of Sagittarius can also be clearly seen to the left of the Mount, along with Saturn, the brightest point in the sky here, just above the clouds creeping in from the right," says D'Onofrio. This is an image where you can hear and feel the landscape, as well as see it, so it is emotionally strong and involves the viewer on multiple levels,” said Charlie Waite, landscape photographer and founder of the awards. "I made a variety of photographs on the flight. The Young Landscape Photographer of the Year title went to Josef FitzGerald-Patrick for his image of a mountain biker in action at Land's End, Cornwall. The Young Landscape Photographer of the Year title was awarded to Josef FitzGerald-Patrick for his image of a mountain biker in action at Land’s End in Cornwall. © 2020 BBC. Over 800 landscape photographers from around the world submitted their best shots for a … Alex Wolfe-Warman won the adult Urban View category with this picture of houses in Bristol, taken during a hot-air balloon ride over the city. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}Shards of ice on a bitterly cold February morning feature in the foreground of Pete Rowbottom's image of Glencoe, in the Highlands of Scotland. "I must have taken hundreds of shots - but it was this single exposure that I ended up being most satisfied with to tell the story of that night.". © 2020 Lonely Planet. Opening on Monday, 19 November, the exhibition is hosted by Network Rail and will run for twelve weeks, closing on 3 February 2019, before heading off on a tour of selected stations countrywide. Rod Ireland took the runner-up spot with this picture of the Cairngorms in the Highlands. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 | Posted by Longboat Key News
How to eradicate Covid-19
MATTHEW EDLUND, MD, MOH
Edlund@lbknews.com
Presently, trying to eradicate Sars-Cov-2 and the illness it causes, Covid-19, looks unthinkable. Mankind has only “abolished” one virus, smallpox. The human viral reservoir for Covid-19 now numbers millions. Second waves of the virus are launching globally, while in much of the U.S., standard techniques at control are not applied or are actively blocked.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/fl-sheriff-billy-woods-bans-masks.html)
Yet this virus will bedevil us indefinitely until we make the attempt to completely knock it out. Some reasons to do so include:
A. It’s global. Over two hundred countries and other political entities like Hong Kong report active cases.
B. People move. They travel. They dine. They have sex. You require a global approach to stop the virus.
C. At present, there are 781 known coronaviruses in bats. SARS, MERS, and Sars-Cov-2 have lethally jumped from bats to humans. According to the Economist, about 50 viruses similar to those three now live in bats.
That means 50 potential pandemics transitioning to humans from a single viral group in one species. There are hundreds of thousands more viruses in other species that can move from other species to humans, as AIDS did from apes to man.
D. The World economy has gone into a depression due to one virus. Do you want to live through more pandemics? How many?
D. Setting up programs may stop future pandemics and provide the means that might halt bioterrorism and provide the data necessary to prevent other infectious and environmentally induced illnesses.
1. First, you start with international infection surveillance.
It’s been done before. These viral programs looked at emerging pathogens in past hot spots – China, Southeast Asia, Africa- that have experienced cross species spread. The programs were shut down though costs – in the tens of millions – were relatively small. Who needed to prevent a “far off future threat?”
That future is now our past and frightening present.
Who can run international surveillance? The WHO, if the U.S. is still in it; the Gates Foundation; many others. If it works for emerging viruses it can be set to test for other infectious agents including possible bioweapons, plus known and novel environmental pathogens. As pathogens can spread quickly from any human population to any other, every person on the planet has a dog in the fight.
2. Set up public health infrastructure to trace and track. Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Kerala, Vietnam have done this well. Every society is culturally different, but effective techniques can be adapted elsewhere. In the U.S., former CDC director Tom Frieden has proposed a national corps of perhaps 250,000 tracers and trackers.
Most should be placed with local health departments, using uniform reporting that can be coordinated nationally and internationally. We know how to do this job. We just don’t – yet.
3. Create global funding for new antiviral and antibacterial platforms. Humans are resourceful. After effective vaccines are found for Covid-19, new platforms, like mRNA and DNA vaccines, can be assessed for future relevance. Then we can take care of enough elephant in the room, antibiotic resistance, which could kill many millions in the future.
Big Pharma has done a notably poor job in creating new vaccines and antibiotics, not seeing enough money in it. Hopefully they have recognized governments will be less interested in paying a million dollars for one chemotherapy treatment when there’s no vaccine for Covid-19.
One of the great opportunities presented by this hideous illness is to develop new platforms for drugs and vaccines that can rapidly reconfigure or new pathogens. I was among many other physicians who sadly laughed at the movie “Contagion,” where Gwyneth Paltrow’s infidelity sparks a murderous global pandemic stopped in short weeks by miracle-working virologists and vaccine makers.
That science fiction stuff could now turn mainstream.
3. Get rid of Wet Markets. Do pangolins, eagles, and bats need be sold in public markets? No.
Yet people need to eat, and some culinary habits may be as old as humanity. Chimpanzees may be close cousins to humans, but they are a delicacy in some regions. Closing wet markets and changing cultures will be expensive, but rich countries should pay the price. It will prove a cheap way to prevent future pandemics.
4. Increase the size and provide long term support to wildlife refuges globally. Our new species crossing diseases happen more easily as we take over almost every inch of Earth.
The Anthropocene – our human epoch – aids the extinction of thousands of species. Many of them, like honeybees, are required for our survival. Already crop yields are decreased through the loss of bee populations. There are also the thousands of interspecies connections needed for our survival that we don’t yet know about.
Preserving the planet may not just be good for business. It may prove necessary to preserving any business.
Eradicating Covid-19 now looks a pipedream. It isn’t (https://regenerationhealthnews.com/sleep/interview-with-the-virus/). The tools already exist to let us come close, which may be good enough. Developing new anti-infective tools and procedures may also keep many millions alive far longer, and prevent indescribable suffering. What you prevent you don’t have to treat.
But that takes leadership. Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Consider that this November, if not most days.
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Report from the Oak ICRA checklist
Full Name: - Quercus falcata
Quercus falcata Michx. (1801)
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Quercus, Section Lobatae
Common Names in this Database
Southern Red Oak
Spanish Oak
Swamp Red Oak
Three-lobed Red Oak
Turkey-foot Oak
Water Oak
See: R. J. Jensen, Volume 3 of Flora of North America (1997) Page 460
Natural Distribution
USA: (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia (US), Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC)
USDA Zone 7 to 9
Rated as Least Concern (LC) in the The Red List of Oaks
Illustration of Leaves
Image from a plant at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens (UK) ©Jan De Langhe, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 2010
Synonyms in this Database
Quercus cuneata Wangenh. (1787)
Quercus digitata Sudw. (1892)
Quercus triloba Michx. (1801)
Quercus nobilis K. Koch (1873)
Quercus hypophlaeos Kirchn. (1864)
Hybrids in this Database
Quercus ×caesariensis Moldenke (1953)
Quercus ×incomita E.J. Palmer (1926)
Quercus ×subintegra (Engelm.) Trel. (1917)
Quercus ×blufftonensis Trel. (1917)
Quercus ×beaumontiana Sarg. (1918)
Quercus ×palmeriana A. Camus (1953)
Quercus ×garlandensis E.J. Palmer (1926)
Quercus ×subfalcata Trel. (1917) nom. cons. prop. in prep.
Quercus ×joorii Trel. (1924)
Quercus ×willdenowiana (Dippel) Zabel (1903)
Main Horticultural References
The European Garden Flora vol. 3 (1989) page 77
The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs, 7th ed. (2002) page 250
Hortus Third (1976) page 934
(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 87
(Bailey) Manual of Cultivated Plants 2nd. ed. (1949) page 331
(Rehder) Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs, 2nd ed. (1940) page 157
(Jacobson) North American Landscape Trees, (1996) page 551
(Dirr) Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, 5th ed. (1998) page 816
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 781
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed. vol. 4 (1956) page 1727
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. vol. 3 (1976) page 474
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. Supplement (1988) page 409
World Economic Plants: a Standard Reference (1999) page 417
Recent Monograph References
(Miller & Lamb) Oaks of North America (1985) page 85
(Hardÿ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chênes (2006) Volume 2, page 46
(Heathcoat Amory) The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (2009) page 86 illustrated (tree, leaf)
Are you interested in oaks? Why not become a member of the International Oak Society? For further details click on the icon below
These pages © International Oak Society, 2007–2020
International Cultivar Registrar for the International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) for the genus Quercus.
Images of leaf scans © Jan De Langhe, dendrologist at the Ghent University Botanical Garden, in collaboration with Arboretum Wespelaar.
The data from these webpages are free for anyone to use as long as such use is not for commercial purposes. Should you wish to cite this database, please use the following citation: "The Oak Name Checklist (Insert current year). Maintained by The International Oak Society. Published on the internet: http://www.oaknames.org. Retrieved (insert date of retrieval).
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Asphalt paves the intersection of ecotourism and development at a famed Himalayan trekking hub. | By Michael Shapiro
Mountains Nepal | POSTED ON: January 5, 2021
Buddhist prayer flags line a suspension bridge in Nepal’s remote Mustang District, a renowned Himalayan trekking destination. Photo by: Aliaksandr Mazurkevich, Alamy Stock Photo
In North-Central Nepal, the remote district of Mustang has become a renowned Himalayan trekking destination for those seeking to hike through a place that in some ways has remained unchanged for centuries. Soaring, snowy peaks loom over landscapes riven by rocky clefts. Vibrant Buddhist prayer flags top summits, and burgundy-hued monasteries hug steep hillsides in this region bordering Tibet.
But change is coming quickly to Mustang, as it is throughout Nepal. The country has embarked on a fast-paced road-building programme that’s transforming the landscape as well as the lives of residents and the experiences of travellers. While some visitors bemoan the expansion of roads into what they view as pristine regions, many Nepalis living in remote settlements welcome easier access to cities and opportunities to enhance their economic prospects.
Tsewang Bista, founder of Mustang Adventure Trek, noted that tourism began in Mustang in 1992, when Nepal opened the historic kingdom to visitors. “Mustang was a totally different place, completely isolated, out of touch with the outside world,” he said, “a place unknown even to people from Kathmandu.” Tourism gave people a source of income, not just trek leaders and Sherpas, but cooks, teahouse operators, and shopkeepers. Foreigners unconsciously encouraged locals to revive age-old traditions, said Bista, a descendant of the royal family. “People who came to Mustang were interested in our religion. So we felt, these are the things that need to be kept intact.”
But what is being kept intact—and what is changing—is at the centre of a conversation over how this region will be developed to benefit both locals and travellers.
A pair of women walk through town with heavy baskets. Walking was the dominant means of travel for people in the Mustang District for centuries before new road development. Photo by: Gilles Sabrie, The New York Times/Redux
Livestock surround a stupa, a place of meditation, in Ghami, Nepal. Photo by: Andreas Hub, Laif/Redux
Views from a trek
What I noticed the most while trekking through Mustang were the sounds: horses’ bells, the wind scouring the rocky terrain, the rush of water in the creeks. But six days into the trek, we heard a sound that overwhelmed all others: the insistent growl of a bulldozer scooping land from a hillside for a road linking Mustang to China. “Let’s get out of here,” said our trekking leader, Jamling Tenzing Norgay.
“Local people have the right to improve, the right to do better in life,” Norgay said later. “Who are we to stop people from having their own vehicle at their doorstep? We have it; they want that.” Yet he is keenly aware of what’s disappearing, for locals and visitors: “The moment you have cars going by, the whole charm of a trek is lost,” said Norgay. That’s significant for the thousands of Nepalis who depend on tourism for their livelihood.
My wife and I joined Tenzing Norgay Adventures for an autumn trek, before the COVID-19 pandemic, because we wanted to hear Jamling Norgay’s tales of his father’s mountaineering career and about Jamling following his father’s footsteps to the summit of Everest. In 1953, Tenzing Norgay was the first person, along with Edmund Hillary, to reach the summit of Earth’s highest mountain. They never said who first touched the top of the world.
Our trek through Mustang was everything we hoped it would be: exhilarating walks up peaks above 14,000 feet, camaraderie with Sherpa guides, visits to centuries-old monasteries, a chance to commune with local people at teahouses. It was also a window into how rapidly Nepal’s rural areas are changing, as bulldozers carve roads into areas that for many centuries have been traversed on foot.
Trekkers descend from the Annapurna Base Camp in central Nepal. Photo by: Kriangkrai Thitimakorn, Getty Images
Known as the Forbidden Kingdom, Mustang is becoming a bit less forbidden and can feel more like Tibet than Tibet itself. The local people, in contrast to Chinese-controlled Tibet, are allowed to openly practice Buddhism, honor the Dalai Lama, and freely fly their colorful prayer flags. As we hiked, villagers called out “tashi delek,” a Tibetan phrase which means, “May you be happy here and now.”
Midway through the trek, our group of eight reached Lo Manthang, arriving in the medieval settlement the way people had for centuries: on foot and carrying a load. Yaks traverse narrow alleyways of the walled city that was once a hub for the salt trade; less than a kiloemtre away, a new hotel outside the ancient kingdom’s walls has Wi-Fi and satellite TV.
At a monastery in the walled city, I asked a maroon-robed, English-speaking monk what he thought of the road that will connect Lo Manthang to the outside world. “Some things bad, but some good,” he said. Then he told me about a woman who had a difficult childbirth, which resulted in her infant’s death. If the road had been finished, he said, perhaps she could have reached a hospital in time to save the baby.
The politics of development
Some Westerners have projected visions of Shangri-La onto Nepal’s mountainous regions, but living so far from basic services has long been arduous for local people. K.P. Kafle, founder of Heart of the Himalaya Treks, grew up in a remote Mustang village and recalled that people there had to walk 15 days each way to get salt. “That time you had to carry, carry, carry,” he said. “As an adventurer who loves Mother Nature, I don’t like the road, let me tell you, but for my relatives in Mustang, this is a golden opportunity. They like that they can get in a vehicle and be in Kathmandu in 12 hours.”
Funded by Nepal’s government, international aid groups, and neighbouring countries, primarily China, road building has rapidly accelerated during the past five years. In 1990 the country had fewer than 3,200 kilometres of federally funded highways; by 2015 it topped 11,270 kilometres, and in 2017-18 more than 10,800 additional kilometres of highways and feeder roads were built, according to Nepal’s Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport.
Lo Manthang, a centuries-old town in Upper Mustang, could be radically altered with the introduction of paved roads. Photo by: Frank Bienewald, Lightrocket/Getty Images
Nepal’s new constitution, adopted in 2015, directed that remote villages be served by roads, but the vertiginous terrain makes building them difficult. Many roads are hastily dug along riverbanks by poorly trained crews; some are in protected areas such as national parks, said Swarnim Waglé, an economist and former vice chair of Nepal’s National Planning Commission.
“The environmental cost of bulldozer development, in terms of landslides and lives lost, is immense,” he said. “Roads are washed away in the monsoons, pristine forests are lost, and public money is wasted.”
Yankila Sherpa, a former minister of parliament, grew up in the remote village of Olangchung Gola, in eastern Nepal. “With roads in place, people are no longer dependent on farming to make ends meet. Mobility has allowed people to access jobs in commercial areas.” One example she cited: “Apples grown in Jumla often decayed before the roads came in. Now with the roads, Jumla apples have a high market value in Kathmandu.”
Rural women’s entrepreneurship in local crafts, she noted, has been enhanced with easier access to national and international markets. Yet Sherpa worries about the “depletion of ethnic cultures…with outsiders coming in and taking over local business.” For Sherpa and many others, the question is not whether to build roads—it’s how and where to build them. Due to Nepal’s “fragile economy and challenging geography,” Sherpa would like to see “better, safer roads constructed in a more organised, transparent, and timely manner.”
Monks trek through the Mustang region of Nepal, with Himalayan peaks towering in the distance. Photo by: Andreas Hub, Laif/Redux
Ecology and tourism
Nepal’s economy is highly dependent on tourism. Roads in popular trekking regions, such as the Annapurna circuit, can diminish trekkers’ interest in visiting. “Before the roads came in, tourists trekked for 12 days—from Beni to Muktinath and back—in the Annapurna region,” Sherpa said. “Now with the roads, more people are driving straight to Muktinath from Pokhara and driving out the next day. This hardly benefits local hoteliers, restaurant owners, or tourism workers.”
Making roadless trekking a brand in Nepal could attract travellers from countries where road-free areas are hard to access, said Rajeev Goyal, co-director of the environmental group KTK-BELT.
Tshering Lama, who has worked with Himalayan preservation groups for years, says villagers can have both a road and tourism: “It’s not just one or the other.” But he despairs at the way roads are destroying rice terraces, compromising livelihoods, and obliterating people’s homes. One idea to maintain tourism is to separate roads, where feasible, from traditional trekking routes, keeping them miles apart. Norgay and others are looking at alternate trekking routes in Mustang and elsewhere for next year, when they expect visitors to return post-pandemic.
Some areas, local conservationists believe, should be left road-free to attract travellers and the revenue that comes with them. Among them are Lumbasamba, the Upper Arun Valley, and the Everest region where treks to the mountain’s base camp are highly popular, says Karma Bhutia, who served for more than 20 years as the Mountain Institute’s regional livelihood coordinator and helped create Makalu Barun National Park.
A bus heads up the dusty road along the Kali Gandaki River, between Mustang and Kathmandu. Photo by: Frazer Waller, Loop Waler, Loop Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
“We, the local people, are trying to save the lives of pristine forests and the traditional yak caravan system, medicinal plants, snow leopards, and Himalayan black bears. And these places are home to vulnerable indigenous communities,” Bhutia said, noting that road building is often the gateway for logging and hydropower projects.
“There should be a middle path where development can go side-by-side with cultural and environmental considerations. For that,” Lama said with a rueful laugh, “you need a lot of consciousness.”
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I read an article recently discussing the merits of 50 mph speed restrictions within road works, as opposed to 60 mph, arguing that drivers on average would be less stressed in the higher speeds, so may be safer, and that got me thinking.
The Highways Agency are responsible for motorways and major highways in the UK, to be run economically, safely and to promote the well-being of those that use and maintain those roads.
I’m a Civil Engineer by training, a Highways Manager by initial experience, and a Transformation Specialist, anchored on W E Deming’s ‘Continual Improvement’ (CI) philosophy.
CI has two core components, a SoPK and Deming’s Chain Reaction, where SoPK embraces four core requirements: an Appreciation of a System, Knowledge about Variation, a Theory of Knowledge and a Knowledge of Psychology. Deming stated that: “The various segments of a system of profound knowledge proposed here cannot be separated. Thus, knowledge of psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.”
A highway network is incredibly complex, consisting of every combination possible from brand new / well maintained to extremely old / falling apart. From very well designed and built to very poorly designed and built.
In general; we use single status rules to run these assets, 70 mph on all dual carriageways, 60 mph on most other major highways and 50 mph where there are road works or hazards.
Are these generic concepts correct for all purposes? Why only think in tens? What’s wrong with 55 mph? If 70 mph is good for fine sunny days, is it good for icy cold nights? If the speed limit is 50 mph how many motorists comply with that with and without average speed cameras.
From a ‘Knowledge of Variation’ point of view, there will be differing statistical realities, for the same highway sections, at different times of the day, week and the year.
During commuter periods on Motorways, there tends to be far more vehicles per hour, travelling pretty fast, technically too close together, with most people being predictable about ‘road sense’. Overnight tends to have a greater ratio of HGV’s with cars travelling a little faster than average, with a few outlier very fast cars. The greatest risks coming from inattention due to tiredness.
During holidays and weekends, there will be the greatest variation of driver styles, with some occasional drivers being less predictable in their road-craft.
A Knowledge of Psychology is also interesting in these scenarios, for instance the relatively new highway laws regarding ‘lane hogging’ has produced two equally dangerous thinking patterns, the first is for people who believe their speedo is accurate, and once they are showing 70 mph they simply will not change lanes.
I’ve calibrated my speedo’s using sat nav equipment, my previous car would have a road speed of 64 mph when the speedo showed 70, where-as my current car is doing 68 when it shows 70. Too few people understand that a speedo is a guide, it’s not statistically reliable.
Then there’s the ‘lane-swervers’, driving at speeds in excess of 85 mph quite often, then moving from the outside lane, to middle to left hand lane, then back again, as they consciously comply with the ‘non-blocking’ requirements, despite being 20% above the speed limit.
Slow blockers cause a string of drivers to change lanes to get past, while reducing the capacity of the highway, while the high speed swervers are difficult to see and predict if changing lanes your-self.
To be able to drive safely, reliably, economically and environmentally soundly, requires slightly different driving styles in those different driving situations, prior to considering weather conditions.
Road designs.
The capacity of a system depends upon the sum of all the parts in a system, and how they interact at different times.
Understanding a complex system requires an appreciation of theories, modelling of options, and an appreciation of the impact of changes upon the psychology of the road users.
Take the M25 for instance: When the designs for the M25 were being completed, the transport modelling team I was working with were asked to test out the capacity to carry traffic. We modelled the proposed highways, against the existing transport network, and discovered that with no increase in overall traffic, many sections of the M25 would NOT be able to cope with demands that existed at that time.
The government refused to accept our calculations, and built the M25 as designed. The reason they wouldn’t accept our designs was because they had a flawed theory (or concept), which was the purpose of Motorways is for ‘long distance travel’ while other highways are for shorter distances.
Our predictions, showed that many vehicles would use the Motorways for relatively short runs, covering one to three junction lengths then return to more local roads. The net impact of increasing capacity would be to attract vehicles into those areas, up to taking the same net time to travel, enabling other vehicles to then utilise the slightly better options, leading to the same amount of vehicles being used a little more.
Had we been believed, many parts of the M25 would have been built as 4 lanes or more, which would have been massively cheaper than retrospectively increasing capacity, while that traffic is in flow.
The capacity of the majority of a system is greater than a few pinch points.
If you look at some local networks, such as the A43 south from Brackley, via the M40 to Bicester, onwards to the A34 towards Oxford.
The A43 and A34 are both two lane dual carriageways, the A43 has relatively few roundabouts, while the A34 has no roundabouts on the main through-way, as junctions are grade separated. These roads travel roughly North East to South West and have two lanes in each direction. They merge with the M40 which is nearer North West to South East, and is three lanes wide.
For about five miles the five lanes of traffic are merged onto three lanes of Motorway. The A roads are nearer full capacity than the motorway either side of this joint flow. However, five into three doesn’t go and that stretch of Motorway is always congested during peak hours, with a very high rate of accidents.
The A43 roundabout link to the M40 (junction 10) has been redesigned twice in recent years, to a system that had a high proportion of over-lapping right turners causing congestion two ways, to a complex design causing lost capacity south-bound. A simple approach that was grade separated would have enabled a far greater M40 access capacity, thereby attracting more traffic onto the A43 and M40.
In addition to carrying ‘five-lanes-worth’ of traffic on the M40 south from J10 (Brackley) to J9 (Bicester) on only three lanes, there’s the additional problem of the A43 roundabout over the M40. It simply hasn’t the capacity to take a very high proportion of right turn traffic.
Thus the inside lane of the M40 often tails back over two miles along the M40 towards J10, leaving at best two lanes for transport aiming onwards towards London. The queue capacity could be increased by lane widening, or the queue averted by a flyover link straight onto the A34, which has already the indignity of being near capacity.
On bad days the tail-back is much greater, leading to middle lane queuing, with only one lane available for straight through traffic towards London. On those days, the whole Motorway backs up.
The psychology of some drivers is to always seek to ‘beat the system’, so when the near side lane is backing up to get off at J9, some will stay in the middle lane until only a 100m from the junction, then slow down and merge into the slow lane. Thus running the risks of being either rear-ended in lanes one or two, or indeed running into the back of a vehicle in lane one.
Clearly a system which is not designed to optimise flow or capacity. Each part of the system is poorly designed, not considering the whole network.
There are a few junctions on the M40 where a 3 lane motorway reduces to 2 lanes between the exit slip and the entry slip roads. If 1/3rd of the traffic exits reliably at those junctions during peak-flows, then all is well. However, all too often only 10% goes off, leaving 90% of three lanes with only two lanes capacity. This is a real penny pinching stupidity, saving a little during construction, then costing millions in delays over the next 50 years!
Roadworks designs.
The M1 between J15a (Northampton) and J19 (A14 – M6) has been in a near state of permanent roadworks for the last four years. The first phase was to replace the previous Armco barriers with the now in-vogue triangular section reinforced concrete, followed by the introduction of ‘smart-motorways’ which will add another lane for most peak travel times, with overhead gantries for lane and speed management.
Hence about sixteen miles of both North and South-bound carriageways have had 50 mph restrictions, with lane widths reduced, and far more accidents and congestion than normal. So from ‘Economic, Health and Safety and Wellbeing’ (EHSW) points of view, is this optimal design, or one that feels right?
For instance, why was central reservation changed, Motorways re-opened and then Smart Motorways introduced? Would both together had been less costly from all four perspectives? E-H-S-W.
Economically doing both at the same time would have had shared use of the highway management systems, probably taking only 66% of the time that doing them in series takes, with perhaps only 75% of the total cost to construct. Then add in the cost of delays on the economy and two separate is probably twice as dear as one combined.
Then: is three narrow lanes over 16 miles all in one go REALLY VfM, or an illusion of cheaper? Evidentially most of the system is waiting for work over that ’32 mile length’. At times there have been less than 3 people actually seen working over a 16 mile single run. Thus most of the signage and 95% of the slow narrow constraint, is of no value to the motorist at that time.
Would more radical temporary traffic management regimes work better? For instance, closing one side for 1/3rd of the length, say J16 to J18 . Have two lanes width of free-access high intensity works, with two narrow same direction flow, plus one lane of traffic contra-flowing the opposite direction.
End to end times are better, less congestion, less narrow lane driving, lower traffic management costs….
One aspect to cover is ‘a Theory of Knowledge’. Borrowing from Professor Russell Ackoff, there’s a hierarchy of Knowledge: Data, Information, Knowledge, Insight – Wisdom. I’ve utilised that to create D>I>K> Tactics.
If you have excellent ‘Knowledge’ of a system, then you can model and make predictions to underpin future state designs, not only of the final design method, but also how to achieve that.
To design the ‘future state’ of a Motorway, many, many aspects are weighed up in an Options Appraisal, starting from the current designs, land ownership, constraints etc., then the issues to overcome or the outcomes to be achieved.
Swapping the focus around to ‘Safety’, what if the purpose of the works were to transition from a peak traffic capacity of 10,500 vehicles per hour, to 13,500, with fewer accidents, and less congestion, with the works minimising risks to the workforce and travellers during work.
There’s a lot of ICT in all this: Computer Aided Design (CAD) for the construction designs and temporary works, Average Speed Cameras to control excessive drivers, Automatic Number Plate Recognition, (ANPR) to identify individual vehicles, including their legal speeds (i.e. Large Good Vehicles maximum = 56 mph normally not 70 mph), Urban Traffic Control (UTC) where traffic congestion is monitored and managed from.
All these data sources start to weave together a ‘rich picture’ of knowledge, including the abilities to automatically model current traffic demands, origin and destination demands, speeds per lane, percentages of traffic between speed X and Y, creating awareness of reality against legality.
However, what if we added some aspects together, perhaps utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the picture, to morph information together?
Consider the possibilities for both designing how features of the network will be used, and then the implications during different states of the construction.
Let’s say this was to create a ‘smart motorway’ using a split two lane – one lane contraflow.
Starting with lane awareness utilisation information, the number of ‘standard axles’ per day, year or 25 years could be calculated for each lane, demonstrating that the nearside lane needs to be far stronger than the off-side one.
Lane widths could be greater for the nearside, and narrower for the offside, reflecting vehicle types.
Transitions from lane to lane could be mapped, to give frequency activities which vary between ‘featureless lengths’ compared to those with junctions and services.
From real time traffic observations, mixed with accident and near miss information, the root causes of accidents could be modelled in differing traffic scenarios, such as peak flow, off-peak, over-night and ‘Sunday drivers’.
Risks change with use and demands.
In this way, not only could the designs have optimal costs / safety options designed in, but also fine tuned in many ways.
Then the build cycle could have differing factors of risk assessed, for that type / element of construction, at that time of week. Some temporary works will be far more effective overnight or at weekends, than at peak times, while some others are potentially cost / safety neutral.
Thus, instead of a one size fits all safety design, variable designs would be utilised at varying times of the week.
Put quite simply, a vehicle usage model, overlaying the CAD permanent and temporary works design, could be interfaced via AI to predict the least worst options for any scenario that can be thought of.
Then modelling of road-work traffic speeds could be applied, utilising known traffic characteristics, perhaps having stretches of highway with virtually no current works at 60 mph, while high intensity works could be reduced to 45 mph. Thus increasing average speeds, while reducing accidents.
During transitions, that is a change in temporary traffic management, there’s no reason why a 40 mph speed shouldn’t be applied, with say 55 mph reinstated once the risk has reduced.
Safety by design?
Considering all that ICT that is gathering data, creating information all the time, what if another function of AI were applied to vehicle movement monitoring?
We’ve all seen vehicles weaving due to either a distraction in the vehicle, or the driver nearly falling asleep, and yet there’s little we can do on Motorways other than give them a wide berth.
What if you used similar systems to Face Recognition or ‘Suspected terrorists’, that is you used the vehicle monitoring data to detect suspicious driving characteristics, the AI could probably differentiate between novice driver, sleepy driver and distracted.
If the ‘body language’ of the vehicle gives cause for concern for either their own safety or that of others, then overhead signs and road side signs, plus the transport police could be used to direct the driver off the highway at the first convenient opportunity.
The recent two lorry and one minibus catastrophe near Luton on the M1 would have probably have been avoided if this technology was in place.
Have you noticed new junction designs sometimes being set up, with more lanes and far higher capacities, with far lower congestion, being in place for a few weeks, then being altered to have less lanes, some hatched out areas, and then a return to greater congestion?
This is due to a two-stage design! 1) Design, build, normalise traffic; 2) Carry out safety audit, alter design.
I’ve seen some of these create over 800M2 of new carriageway, which then simply becomes hatched white line areas. That’s 800M2 of brand new carriageway built and paid for that will never get used.
If you integrated the CAD designs with some simple traffic flow models, then you could build what will get safely used, saving 800M2 of needless costs.
Better designs are not only safer to use and safer to build, but also sensible for the economy!
Thinking a little wider.
Traffic is often slowed around schools to 20 mph, thus a special cause required for 192 days a year, for 1½ hours a day, is put in place 24 / 7. That’s a requirement for 3.3% of the year, applied for the whole year. In Scotland, they have 20 mph ‘when the yellow lights are flashing’, the rest of the day is 30 mph or more!
Lastly, the Deming Chain Reaction: Improve quality, costs reduce…. More can be done!
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Posted by : smandy on Oct 15, 2010, 2:28am
Who: Rosette, Amber, Isra
Where: Quarantine Labs
When: While Justin is space-walking
"Well, I think it's best for everyone if you stay outside for a bit."
she said, and turned off the radio so she didn't have to listen to him
complain.
"Leave him out there for an hour, then bring him in..." she said to
the security guards that she'd taken with her.
The security guards radio's chirped as Keto got through to them.
"You are to escort Rosette and Amber to the medibay. They should have
gone into quarantine!" he yelled at them, not following procedure for
something like this could cause Keto a big headache later on.
"I don't want to have to clean up the mess if they go on another
rampage." he added before turning the radio off. The security guards
turned to her, so all she could do was go with them.
"Can't be helped...." she said as she met up with Amber on the way.
"I'm surprised they didn't force us in there the moment we got back."
she added.
"This is the Dwarf... No one cares about protocol or rules." Amber
said. This much was true, and leaving Justin dangling on a tether in
space was a prime example of that. Rosette could only hope that
they'd go for a wormhole jump while he was still out there.
Soon, they arrived at the Medibay, where Keto had constructed a
makeshift barrier for him and his 'colleagues' in a corner.
OVerturned tables, chairs, boxes and knives had been stuck together to
stop anything getting through.
"In the quarantine lab!" he called over the top of it. "And lock the
doors!" he added.
"I don't get paid enough to do this kind of thing." he said under his breath.
"Are you survivors from Jupiter Station?" asked a woman with messy
brown hair in another quarantine lab. Both Rosette and Amber looked
at her. She wasn't looking at them though, just staring out through
the viewport into space.
"What happened to Jupiter station?" they asked, almost simultaneously.
"Blown up by Hymenoptera." she replied. The nametag on her JMC
engineering overalls said 'Isra'.
She turned to see who had come to join her in Quarantine, and smiled
as she saw them.
"Oh, hello." she said with a sly grin. She seemed to be looking at
Amber when she said it...
<tag or tbc>
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peachgeek
happy fall, y'all
how I became peachgeek
August is Peach Month, my fuzzy lil' friends, so I'm gonna pull this blog out of the pit of tweetprez despair for you and hopefully have some fun. Or at least talk about something else.
I remember vividly choosing the name peachgeek. I'd just finished grad school and could finally think and read about whatever I wanted. I had the perfect part-time job. A technical school needed someone to watch the building during events -- when they'd rent space to outside parties. I was there to open up and shut down. I didn't have to clean or serve or anything. Just wait. And make sure nothing was broken or incinerated. I was allowed to be on their computer (pre-laptop days), or read.
One group was notorious for hosting long events. My boss advised me, in her thick southern accent, that reading might not be enough to entertain me that night. "Brang a craft," she said. I did.
My favorite way to pass the time became talking with the guy who actually did heavy lifting for events. A young, kind soul who loved Jesus. I was fresh out of theology school, where everyone spoke in nuanced arguments about all things Scripture. So when this sweet young man started to share a prosperity gospel with me, my instinct was to tell him he might be taking those verses out of context. But I punched that instinct and made myself just listen. If we'd stayed on the verse where we disagreed and argued all night, I would never have heard him open up other verses like they were ripe fruit. Here was a man who heard from God. Who loved his family and did his crappy job as unto the Lord. I was going to enjoy this being out in the real world.
But before I made a friend, the job was lonely, and one night I sat in a classroom browsing a pre-social-media internet. There was a new travel site called IgoUgo, where you could write about places you'd been. It was social, but I didn't know to call it that. I just knew I'd been places I wanted to share. And I needed a username.
Usernames had been difficult in these early internet years. I'd been in school since '92, when the internet first started being used by mortals. Back when email was miraculous and you said "double u double u double u dot" before every site name. Already, my name was taken wherever I would go, so I tried creating usernames like donnawga, or atldonna, but those were often taken, too. And in school, who had brainspace to solve such problems?
So that night at work, I got to think about who I wanted to be on this travel site. Someone from Georgia, who was frightfully uncool, but who might have some fun insights into places I'd been. It just came to me. Peachgeek. I began entering it everywhere and it was always available.
That's not true anymore, as the internet has become crowded. Not everything peachgeek out there is me. But this is.
Oddly, I never wrote for IgoUgo (now defunct). I felt my travels didn't measure up to what was already on the site. Like I had to be a travel writer or something, telling people the best hotels, when I didn't travel like that at all. So IgoUgo missed out on my series on How to Stay with Friends and See Places as They Really Are. But you are stuck with all of it. I thank you for being here.
Happy Peach Month, y'all.
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From the director that brought us such clever classics (Sarcasm, can you dig it?) as Wild America and Angels in the Outfield, Director William Dear directs this straight to video slasher film. What makes a film horrible? It might be the lack of personal ambition put into a film but that seems hard to do anyways with a slasher film. This is a prime example of a film that undermines its own product thus creating a prompt and ultimately fun horror film.
The plot might sound very familiar so I give you a warning of repetition. A group of muscle bound, stoner, super attractive friends go into the country to camp and have premarital sex. Wow, how cleverly original. What starts off as a superimposed horror film turns brainsy and ballsy with the introduction to Crispin Glover. Crispin Glover plays Simon/Stanley, a double role with the normal ferocity and madness that accompanies every Glover role or film.
This stupid quintuplet of masculinity and naivety find themselves at a store in the middle of nowhere managed by the two brothers (Crispin Glover and Crispin Glover). Prior to this engagement, they meet up with two deus ex machina's who warn them of twins and murders. Of course, they don't listen. That decision should immediately be regretted. The body count rises due to flying pick axes.
So there is the typical plot twist and surprise ending, but I didn't find it annoying at all. It only made the film that more enjoyable. So, to answer your question. Was it bad? Yes it was bad, but that does not stop me from telling you to watch this film at all cost. You might hate it and spread words about how stupid it is but frankly, that is what it is about; Unbridled fun. William Dear has created a horror film that promotes alcoholism, subliminally telling you to crack open a cold one while watching this.
Now why should you see this one whereas ignore all the copycats? This film has a load of surprises. Grand scenery is one. The luscious outdoors were captured perfectly. As for the acting? Crispin Glover is a marvel on screen. He is truly an enigma on and off the set. His screams and signature anger spit are intact and creates the entire mood of the film.
Without Glover, this one would have fallen flat on its face. If you enjoy buckets of gore, Crispin Glover, stupid people being slaughtered, flying pick axes, or wicked CGI booby traps with more fake limbs to shake a stick at, I definitely recommend this film. Just don't take it too seriously. Er.. Simon says don't take it too seriously.
-mAQ
jervaise brooke hamster said...
william dear`s surname makes him sound like a pansy, i think he should change his name to "bill hydrogen-bomb" then he would sound completely heterosexual.
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"On Its Stomach"
Topic: Army Rations
The Fighting Force of an Army
Australian's Ration Allowance
Food in Depot Camps
The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 24 March 1918
Whatever the Australian troops may be called upon to undergo in the nature of hard rations in the field, when they are in the depot and standing camps in Australia they have abundant and excellent food. Their ration is more liberal than that of almost any army in the fighting fields today, or amongst the forces of the mobilised central powers. Bully beef and biscuits, jam, biscuits and bully beef, jam, alternated, disguised with a dash of vegetables, was the ration at Anzac. It was a good ration, too, for any army fighting and moving every day, and with an abundant water supply available. But it was monotonous diet for such a campaign as Gallipoli, and unhealthy as well when the water supply was so strictly limited. Casting aside the condiments, and the little extras that came to hand, this was the staple food of the Australian army in the field. Compare it with the 1 ¼ lb. bread (or 1 lb. biscuit), and 1 1/2 lb. meat (or 1 lb. fresh or salt fish), 1 lb. potatoes and 8 oz. mixed vegetables that the troops at the camps throughout the Commonwealth have as the basis of their daily meals. Flour, rice and curry powder are a weekly ration, which helps the cooks to give variety to a breakfast, lunch or dinner. An army fights on its stomach; it builds up reserve in physique, muscle and toughened sinew by long hours of drilling, marching, exposure to the elements; it lives and prospers on the rations that are provided after a day of vigorous training and campaigning.
They trained us in the desert, fed us like fighting cocks, taunted us and flung us against the Turks; no wonder we thrashed them, was the summing up of a soldier from the battle field of Lone Pine. The scene at the feeding centre at a typical standing camp is interesting.
Behind the rows of tents a Royal Park were five blackened chimneys sticking like stems out of white painted brick works. The first four letters of the alphabet were blackened on the white walls, one for each company of a battalion, and an H.Q. for headquarters and the cooks. A red-roofed shed covered five rows of fire trenches, and a cook house and a picturesque garden of flowers surrounded the whole. That was the cooks' lines of a battalion. There are three at Royal Park.
Sergeant Cook here. very straight, very tall. And very burned, the head cook, the chef, as he is familiarly called, stepped out from a group of six men who were bending over a row of steaming dixies. What's for dinner?
Now it had been obvious to the senses that the ration was roast meat and onions. As a matter of fact it was a more elaborate meal than one would suspect, consisting of either baked potatoes and roast leg of lamb, or boiled mashed potatoes and boiled mutton and tea. The cook explained:
But different from the old camping days, sir, when the militiamen went to Semour and those places. Better'n we had in South Africa in any of the camps I was in. No man need complain, there is enough for all, though to speak plainly we could do with a bit more meat when the camp is a bit empty; but when there is a full battalion, a thousand odd men, then it is alright and a bit to spare. No, no waste, except it might be very occasional when a squad of a hundred or so are sent off up country , and they don't bother to carry their ration, trusting to luck to get it on the journey. It doesn't happen often. Got to watch some of the lads that they don't go and take a double ration on me. Like to try the soup? We use up a bit of the rice that is part of the ration and onion and the stock we get from last night's boiled meat. Good as meat as you would wish to get anywhere; they have sent us along a number of ewes, more's the pity, for after the drought they fattened them up and they brought good prices. Yes, I was in a line regiment is South Africa, and then cook, and when I can back went on to a station. Yes, ought to be used to cooking for numbers. Best way to see that the men appreciate what they get is to have a cook at the bins. The chaps who contracted for the waste for his pigs don't get much out of it; seldom quarter filled. Only time as when the time is too short to peel the potatoes—no use leaving them in their jackets—men too hungry to peel them I suppose. And the sergeant cook, smiling, commences to lift the lids of the huge cauldrons of stews and sizzling potatoes.
Time was, not five years ago, when it was only after the greatest effort that the cooks could be induced to dig their fire trenches narrow enough just to rest a dixie—that very handy cooking utensil of the army—on, or go to the trouble of constructing an Aldershot oven. To-day the fire trenches are bricked to the required width, the draught being created by the chimney stack at the end. The cooks, anxious at all times to economize labor, have found that the large-sized rubbish bins (there was something very familiar about these cauldrons) make the finest cookers, boiling or roasting enough meat for over 100 men. It saves in this way the labor of polishing the dixies bright again after every meal. They are ready piled, handy to be used for distributing the ration and tea into the tents.
A shower of sparks is flung in the air from a fire that is burning under an ordinary square iron tank. Here it is possible at all times day and night for hot water to be obtained; no restriction is placed on the troops for getting what they require for washing or bathing purposes.
It is all a little too luxurious for a camp! Between the comfort of a home and the hardships of the firing line lies a huge gulf. Such small luxuries as these help to bridge it; the spirit and the fighting power of the army depends on its stomach. Exactly to-day every Australian officer and soldier while in camp has for his scale of ration:—
1 ¼ lb. bread or 1 lb. biscuit.
1 ½ lb. fresh meat or 1 lb. fresh or salt fish.
1/3rd oz. coffee.
1/32nd oz. pepper.
8 ox. mixed vegetable or 2 oz. cheese.
1 lb. potatoes.
3 oz. sugar.
¼ oz. salt.
½ oz. tea.
¼ lb. jam.
Weekly he has ½ lb. flour and the same of rice, and 1 oz. curry powder. In the hands of trained cooks it is a ration calculated to strengthen the stomach to fight, to 'stick it' to the bitter end, in every true Australian.
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The Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra
“The most simple and mysterious miracle sent to us by God is music”.
On December 28th,1895, a new muse came into the world of people. It was cinematography. It instantly won the hearts of humans. However it became clear soon that this young lady with all her beauty and charm would not be alone for long. And in several months her eldest sister, music, appeared by her side. At first cinematography was accompanied by a tap-pianist. No, it was not a tipsy stubbly fellow from a variety show. He was a superb musician and composer who had to possess a unique skillfulness in composing and improvisation. Many people went to the concerts of unforgettable Isabella Yureva not only to listen to their favorite singer but also to listen to her brilliant pianist Simon Kagan who was one of the most famous tap-pianists in the 20 and 30s. Later small bands — trios and quartets — started performing in the movie theaters and then…
November 1924. In the Moscow movie theater “Arc” on Tverskaya Street a 36-year-old conductor, David Block, waved his baton and a symphonic orchestra sounded for the first time in a movie theater. And that’s the way Big Cinema-music was born. That’s the way Cinematographic Orchestra was born which has carried its name, unique work, honor of serving to music, industriousness, and professionalism in its high mission for 85 years.
The 20s. The orchestral musicians are already playing in several Moscow movie theaters. Crowds flock to movie theaters to “see and to listen”. The orchestra players had to know a great deal of music from Haydn to Strauss and Kalman. They had to perform big pieces from plays of very different genres. It was not enough just to play well, superbly read the notes, instantly react to the conductor’s signs, instantly switch from one work to another, and accurately flip through 17 pages of music with a swiftness of a cat. It was a cinematographic orchestra then… and now.
The 30s were remarkable for the birth of cinematographic sound. The orchestral work changed considerably. It no longer evoked the stuffy dimness of the movie theater but a “sound studio”. Instead these new words sounded very foreign. Remember the subtitles to the epoch picture called “A Ticket to Life”. “The sound to this picture was recorded according to the professor Shorin’s system”. It was the musicians’ first work in a totally different environment. They could not make mistakes. The music had to be recorded on the first try. All musicians were tense and focused. They had to perform their best. The orchestra was headed by many famous conductors including D. Block, A. Gauk, D. Nebolsin, N. Anosov, A. Pazovsky. That was the young cinematographic orchestra. A new time arrives. New composers like Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Pushkov, Listov, Krukov write new music specifically for the movies. Many fine melodies of that time were heard thanks to cinematographic music. And almost every time they found their audience through the movie orchestra. That was the time when musical comedy was born. The sparkling music of Isaac Dunaevsky had elements of jazz, swing, step, offbeat, and other components unusual for the times. By 1938 a constant body of musicians who recorded music for the movies was formed. That very year Sergey Prokofiev records music for the S. Ezenshtain’s epic picture “Alexander Nevsky”. It was a great example of how cinematographic music could become a big event in the music culture as a whole.
During the war times most musicians were evacuated to Middle Asia. Right there in Tashkent’s and Alma-Ata’s studios the first unforgettable melodies and songs by N. Bogoslovsky, K. Listov, and M. Blanter to the war movies of that time were born. The musicians’ body was formed not only out of movie musicians then. There were also performers from the State Symphonic Orchestra of the USSR, the Bolshoi theater, and musicians from Leningrad. In 1944 the first episode of S. Ezenshtain’s movie “Ivan the Terrible” with the music by S. Prokofiev comes out. It became a masterpiece of Russian symphony.
In the fall of the same year the Orchestra solemnly celebrated its 20th anniversary on the governmental level. It was a token of high appraisal of the musicians’ work during the harsh war times and of their two decades of work as a whole.
During the postwar years, in the 50s and in the beginning of the 60s Soviet cinematography did not release many movies. However, the work of the Orchestra of the Chief Department of Movie Making, as it was called then, did not go unnoticed. The release of every picture became a big occasion. The orchestra “gave a ticket to life” to many songs, which were sung by the whole nation: songs by T.Hrennikov, B.Mokrousov, M.Blanter, N.Bogoslovsky. During the same period the orchestra began to perform together with the Philarmonic Orchestra playing classical music, with the stars of Russian culture: D.Oystrah, M.Rostropovich, E.Gilels, I.Kozlovsky, G.Vishnevskaya. That became a sign of collaboration of high professionalism, maturity
and popularity.
The 60s and the 70s. Its full name became the State Symphonic Cinematographic Orchestra of the USSR. It was one of the most respectable and authoritative music orchestras in the country. It’s soloists, G.Kemlin, A.Ferkelman, U.Lukyanov, U.Gushanskaya, I.Mozgovenko, M.Zenuk, were well known and appreciated in the musical world. Hundreds of movies, documentaries, cartoons, TV shows and plays were released every year in the USSR. The orchestra worked a 12 hour day. They were the only orchestra that could handle such a work load so professionally and superbly.
The country’s biggest composers like D.Kabalevsky, G.Sviridov, R.Shchedrin, A.Eshpay, A.Schnittke, M.Vainberg worked only with them. They also worked with very experienced conductors of music cinematography like A.Roytman, G.Gamburg, V.Vasilev, D.Shtilman. They also work with E.Khachaturyan, G.Dugashev, V.Smirnov, M.Nersesyan, Y.Nikolayevsky, K.Krimets, A.Petuhov, N.Sokolov, U.Serebryakov, V.Ponkin, E.Svetlanov, N.Gollovanov, G.Rozhdestvensky, V&Dudarova, M.Ermler, U.Silantyev.
Cinematographic music became an independent branch of musical culture in the country. The cinematographic orchestra successfully and often performed with a classical and modern repertoire. They invariably included in its program the most famous and loved songs from Soviet and foreign movies.
The 1970s. Igor Talankin creates a large scale musical picture “Tchaikovsky”. The chief musical “ideologist” and the director of the project was a famous American conductor and composer Dmitriy Tyemkin, a creative genius. Many musical episodes were recorded with the Bolshoy Theater Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Society, and other venerable groups. Nevertheless, the major part of specially written Tchaikovsky’s score was performed and recorded by the cinematographic orchestra.
D. Tyemkin said then: ”Other orchestras play on their own, but yours works together with us. And that’s exactly what we need!”
The 80’s… The Orchestra enjoys wonderful encounters with a constellation of splendid talented composers, including Mikhail Meyerovich, Veniamin Basner, Edouard Kolmanovskiy, Yuri Levitin, Nikolai Sidelnikov, Mark Fradkin, Vladimir Shainsky, Mikhail Ziv, Nikolai Karetnikov, Vadim Bibergan, Mark Minkov, Bogdan Trotsiuk, Alexander Flyarkovsky, Leonid Afanasiev, Georgy Garanian, Vitaly Geviksman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov, Vladimir Dashkevitch, Eugeny Doga, Giya Kancheli, Maxim Dunaevsky, Alexander Zhurbin, Alexander Zatsepin, Vladimir Kazenin, Shandor Kallosh, Vladimir Komarov, Yuri Kazparov, Eugeny Krylatov, Victor Lebedev, Roman Ledenyov, Vladimir Martynov, Kirill Molchanov, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Eugeny Ptichkin, Alexey Rybnikov, Yuri Saulsky, Mikael Tariverdiev, Yan Frenchel, Oscar Feltsman, Boris Tchaikovsky, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Enri Lolashvili, Alexander Pantykin, and Alexei Shelygin.
The orchestra’s conductors and soloists are acknowledged professional musicians not only in the USSR. They write music to French, German, Swedish, and many other foreign films. Foreign directors, composers, and producers invariably highly appreciated the work of the cinematographic orchestra. Its veterans, G.Grjaznov, A.Isplatovsky, E.Baskakov, I.Nazaruk, T.Stepanova, G.Smirnova, N.Vassilevskaja, L.Solenkova, gave dozens of years to their work and will give it many more years if their health and skills would allow them. We reverently bow to them for that!
Year 1987. They are recording music for one of the first Soviet shows “A Visit to a Minotaur” about an intricately woven story about the life of a Stradivarius violin. The director and the conductor insisted that the movie should perform the music using an original violin of the Great Master. And here it was carried into the studio in a black case accompanied by guards. The soloist of the orchestra is breathlessly taking the priceless creation of the great Cremonian, the 300 year old wood is softly lying on the musician’s shoulder; he raises his bow… and a sound is born. Many musicians feel that in that moment they encounter God. Yes, God has come. In a common movie studio. A Great Miracle has come, Great Music!
During the difficult 90s, Russian cinematography began to fade, many studios closed, when movie directors had to make commercials for modern fashions and alcoholic beverages, some composers passed away not being able to stand a half-starved existence. Oh, those were the hard times of the cinematographic orchestra! The more the members of the orchestra should be proud and confident in its dignity because it lived through those hard times, preserving its work, its professionalism, respect for its long history, enthusiasm and longing for real, valuable, and invariably professional work which we all need. Just as in the past its main conductor and its director, the National Artist of Russia, Sergey Skripka, is standing behind the orchestra’s stand, highly focused and demanding. And as many years ago all musicians are highly focused and their instruments are tuned. In the second half of the 20th century Russian screen music ceased to be only but an application to its junior brother, cinematography, by making a rightful and confident transformation into an independent and prominent element of the music culture which enjoyed the widest popularity and became accessible to and loved by all. In 2006, the Orchestra’s Artistic Director Sergey Skripka approached the Moscow Philharmonic with a concept of a new subscription concert series, ‘Screen Music Live’, which could offer the audience a chance to hear authentic performance of the tunes that had been in the hearts of many generations to have long become part of people’s lives.
Hundreds of listeners filled up the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. They rejoiced at the opportunity to experience live contact with the legendary tunes that weaved years and generations together while maintaining their color and splendor as the fruit of a live human soul. Even now, in the times of the shamelessly sunken level of mass music culture, the Orchestra of Cinematography stays true to the performing traditions and remains the only genuine vehicle of this beloved genre. For years, each spring people have lined up in front of the ticket office of the Philharmonic to buy seasonal tickets to this unique subscription series. Each concert enjoys full audience. The concerts engage Moscow’s best cinema actors and musicians, like Georgy Garanian, Anna Buturlina, Leonid Serebrennikov, Pavel Smeyan, Dmitry Pevtsov, Alexander Mikhailov, Sergey Stepanchenko, Gennady Trofimov, Ilya Trofimov, Yulia Rutberg, Vladimir Kachan, Mikhail Boyarsky, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Vyacheslav Voinarovsky, Alexey Nabiulin, Gennady Kamenny, Dmitry Kharatian, A.Bolshova, C.Aglinz. Stage director — T.Yakzhina. The Orchestra enjoys performing music by Russia’s greatest cinema composers, like Isaac Dunaevsky, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Isaac Schwartz, Andrey Eshpai, Andrey Petrov, Gennady Gladkov, Edouard Artemiev. The tunes sound the same fresh, colorful, young and captivating way they did years ago.
The Orchestra of the Russian Cinematography performs its new programs in the biggest concert halls, plays with the best pianists, singers, violinists, release numerous CDs. And as before many European and American cinematographers finish their work with the orchestra saying: “Yes, that’s superb!” Different, colorful and difficult years fly by like the wind. New films are born. Some of them are good, some are not. Shows flow one after another. Usually they are not that good. New technologies are born. The carousel of composers, synthesizers, samplers, digital editing powerfully whirls. However, more and more often we can see the violinist’s thin fingers holding the neck of the great Stradivarius violin though the colorful musical net of the XXI century. A sound is born, then another… then more and more join it. The orchestra is performing! The Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra!
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Summer League – Dulwich (Dulwich Park Runners)
dan June 3, 2013 Blog, Race Report Leave a comment 407 Views
Eaglet Racing
You know that summer has officially started when summer league starts and a buoyant coach load of Eagles and Eaglets made their way to Dulwich Park for the first fixture of 2013. Our hosts for the day were Dulwich Park Runners and they were very welcoming as we strolled into park nice and early to set up our camp.
Summer league consists of 10k or 5m fun and friendly races, which are contested by 7 running clubs, with tenderfoot races for the kids and mixed 400m(ish) relays that also contribute to the clubs score. Each host club provides food and drink for everyone and it’s a great way to compete and make new running friends at the same time. The scoring rules are probably very complicated, so I have made no attempt to try and fully understand them, but every adult runner scores so the races are truly open to all abilities. There are bonus points of offer for different age grades so there is plenty of scope to score well no matter how young or old you are.
The Son was itching to make his Eagles début in the tenderfoot race but first it was the 10k club members race so The Son kept himself taking pictures of the Eagles team as we made our way to the start line. He retained his photographer role as the race started and the runners snaked their way through the park and out onto the surrounding pavement. The route consisted of 3 laps, mostly on the public roads around the park, but with a section back into the part where we finally finished.
I am not in the best running shape at the moment as I have hardly been training as I nurse my leg back from injury but with the knowledge that all results count, I powered around as fast as my reduced fitness would allow. I was saving a bit of energy for a sprint finish with the aim to try to take down any runners ahead of me but as I turned into the park for the last time, I realised that the only runner ahead was an Eagle and the runner behind was also an Eagle. No glory for me at the end and I finished in a somewhat slow (by my standards) 51 minutes and 41 seconds.
I cheered in a few more finishers as I gathered my breath before making my way to the host area where I grazed on the fine spread of bagels and cakes laid out for everyone. I made sure not to eat too much as the relays would follow later in the day and I also wanted to cheer The Son through the tenderfoot race.
The tenderfoot race is open to 7 through to 15 year olds but again the point scoring is made fair through individual year categories and bonus point schemes. I believe that the top 3 boys & girls from each club score for the team but there is no limit on total number of runners per club. I took over photographer duties and cheered The Son as all the kids sprinted off into the distance. I made my way to the finish area where a bunch of Eagles cheered in all the Eaglet racers plus some of the other finishers. The Son had also been saving energy for the glory finish and sprinted off to overtake a girl in the final stretch.
There was a non-scoring 400m run / race for the younger kids and they loved racing around 400m being chased by someone in an emu costume and also a pantomime horse. There were chocolate medals and certificates for all the young kids and it looked like they had a great time.
The relays were the last event of the day and first up were the men’s A teams consisting of 6 runners and then the women’s A teams consisting of 4 runners. These were great to watch as everyone cheered on their respective teams. The B races consisted of mixed teams and I helped make up the numbers in the final relay as we entered a second non-scoring team so the kids could take part. I have to admit that The Son could probably beat me in a 400m race and he went sprinting off when it was his lap. Thankfully we were on the same team and I had the honour of bringing our team home in last place. The result did not matter and it was a really enjoyable end to the day.
A ceremony was held at the end to hand out trophies and medals for the 2012 league and The Son was especially happy to find out that there are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes for each tenderfoot class. He has his eye firmly on the 11 year old classification trophy for this year and intends to race at all the summer league races.
Our thanks go out to Dulwich Park Racers who hosted a brilliant fixture.
Race time: 0:51:41
Category: V35
Overall position: 137
Position men: 92
Position category: 7
Age grading: 54.6%
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The Town of Light Review
By Unknown June 06, 2017 No comments
One of the saddest and at the same time most painful pages of Italian history of the last century was the lawful regulation of psychiatric hospitals that began in 1904. Thanks to it, this series of centers proliferated throughout the country at an alarming rate . They became prisons and places of torture where they concealed those supposed 'crazy' (who were usually political rivals, homosexual or simply rebels) from the eyes of respectable society. Thus, these psychiatric hospitals, also known as asylums, witnessed cases of unspeakable violence, events in which mankind seemed to have forgotten and in which only primacy abject cruelty and cruelty.
Like all games of this style, the duration of the game is very short, but enough to not leave any loose ends and end up being a very good game, trying to tell a very good story, the main story can be finished in about 3 Hours, and if we add the achievements, it can be finished in 4 hours.
The Town of Light is the first work of the independent Italian studio LKA.it and the boys of the study have taken very seriously the mission to follow, through the fictional story of a sixteen-year-old girl named Reneé (a fictional patient of the Asylum of Volterra, a very real place that did exist), the atrocities that took place between those dark walls. Electroshock Treatments, Cold Showers and Extreme Violence: The Town of Light shows the player a dark, tough and terrible world in which terror is not generated by scares or other recurring elements of the current genre. This experience focuses rather on the fear and anguish produced by the tragic reality of these events that really happened. The real merit of this adventure that LKA.it has created is found in the historical research they have carried out with the medical files and records of the patients of Volterra, who offer a cruel perspective of the brutal reality of the Italian asylum during the decades of 1930 and 1940.
Thus, The Town of Light turns out to be a first-person psychological adventure (as the developers themselves define it) that guides the player through the ruins of the Volterra asylum, which, like all other Italian psychiatric hospitals, is closed after Basaglia law of 1978. In exploring the ruins of this old hospital (opened and rebuilt in the game with great fidelity), the player follows the memories of Reneé in an attempt to reconstruct the chronological line of the events and causes that took to the poor teenager to enter the asylum.
From the point of view of the game system, the title focuses on two mechanics: exploring environments to find medical records and solving simple puzzles. Subsequently, in the second part of the game, users will discover a third mechanic of choices that will allow them to follow the story of a specific aspect of Renee's life. That is, after an hour and a half of play, the story is divided into several paths and the player will be able to delve into the plot that seems most interesting (which, in addition, will allow the user to replay the experience to vary their elections).
In particular, we loved that the title did not require the user to position himself in the events, but rather focuses on showing the reality of a period of Italian history most characterized by poverty, ignorance and the repressive presence of fascism. As we have already said, historical reconstruction is truly faithful and everything flows thanks to articles from newspapers, posters and other elements that, very simply, offer the user much information about Italian history during the first half of the twentieth century.
Another aspect that we liked a lot, aside from the meticulous reconstruction of the interiors and exteriors of the asylum of Volterra, has been the graphic style used during the cut scenes, that reminds us to many of the Italian graphic novels of the present time . Thanks also to the contribution of the actors, the scenes elegantly direct the player towards the memories of Reneé (who sometimes fights between confusion and his own imagination) to reconstruct the most logical line of thought and to understand the harsh reality that survives in this kind of places.
However, The Town of Light isn't perfect. The shocking nature of the plot, accompanied by the extraordinary historical reconstruction that the study has carried out, is marred by some technical failures. If we exclude a couple of rather annoying bugs (at one point we had to restart a chapter because a scene decided not to appear and we could not progress in history), some of the main flaws of the experience are fps rate drops, Pop-ins and general lack of definition, which is derived from the graphics engine used (an older version of Unity, we understand). Thus, the game fails to offer a satisfactory experience from a more technical point of view.
That said, we recognize the magnificent work that LKA.it has done together and, since this is their first game, we will be indulgent. Although the experience is marked by these technical problems, The Town of Light is a unique title in the video game market, which exploits the interaction and mechanics to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Italian history. With the well-told that is and attractive, The Town of Light is an excellent starting point for this Italian study, although in the technical section still have much to improve.
Game: The Town of Light
Developer: LKA.it
Publisher: Wired Productions
Release Date: June 5th 2017
For More Info - http://www.thetownoflight.com/
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a theatre and circus artist puts on an incredible show
Otto Learns to Fly
Otto has a dream. He wants to fly. But bears can't fly...can they? Ultimately he discovers that it's all in the mind.Otto Learns to Fly is performed by a collection of vintage puppets and objects in The Magic Lantern Travelling Puppet Theatre. Then the action explodes into the wider world on a much larger scale with Sanctum Theatre’s life-sized body puppets
Roslyn Quin
November 1, 2015 @ 12:30 am - 1:30 am
Join storyteller Roslyn Quin as she brings traditional stories and new tales from around the world to life through her quirky performances and charming puppets
Sounds From Planet Sol
Charlotte guides you through a lyrical landscape as she introduces you to the musical medicine of Dr Lala Lulu
Itchy Scabs
Bad music for good children Oi kids! The Itchy Scabs do family friendly garage punk. Their songs are about cool stuff like robots & dinosaurs and the show has stunts, monsters and other stupid stuff. Rock it.
Dandyman- Prince Idiot
a must see show of outrageously funny proportions
The Famous Village Dog Show
Fitzroy North, Victoria 3068 Australia + Google Map
Bring along your dog and participate in this Village Festival institution. Every year, we get twenty + dogs and their owners together and make a show. Never seen it? Don't miss out this year. Dog Grooming services from My Pet Warehouse available from 12noon. Dog Costuming workshop. Show registrations from 3pm.
So You Think You Can Interpretive Dance
Register yourself for this event and show the judges how you can bust a move - interpretive dance style. Always a hilarious highlight.
Ape Man
November 1, 2015 @ 11:00 am - November 2, 2015 @ 5:00 am
Did Man descend from the ape? See a man who descended into an ape (costume). Great fun from one of the best all-round entertainers. Various times
November 1, 2015 - November 2, 2015
November 1, 2015 @ 11:00 pm - November 2, 2015 @ 8:00 am
Complete the 7 Tasks of the Great Khan. If you dare... enter into the wooden venue. Once you have negotiated with the gnarly guard, take a chance and guide your pinball through the maze. Hand-eye co-ordination needed. The iPad of the future (and past). Various times.
included in session $5
November 1, 2015 @ 11:30 pm - November 2, 2015 @ 12:10 am
The hit of the Melbourne Puppetry Festival. Funny, clever, cheeky, incredibly highly skilled. For kids, adults will love it!
All Day Fritz
Super kids pop. ALL DAY FRITZ are a bunch of well known Melbourne performers who enthusiastically cross the great divide to play musical shows that are genuinely for adults and kids alike. The music is rootsy, swingy, jazzy, rocky, rowdy, mellow, groovy, harmonious and never dumbed down. At our gigs the dance floor is usually packed with kids and adults, grandparents swing dancing and babies jiggling. Kids of all ages have a ball and parents can relax, and enjoy the…
Excerpts from SUPER AMAZING GIANT GIRL
June 18, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - June 19, 2016 @ 1:00 am
A hilarious parable of strength, fragility and triumph, exploring the challenges of trying to fit in when you’re a Super Amazing Giant! Action packed and interactive, this theatre show for kids combines thrilling circus, absurd comedy and ingenious physical theatre. Featuring hula hoops, roller skates, bananas and really awesome dancing. This is the show for all your little strongwomen and men, including a surprise special guest and a spectacular soundtrack even big kids will enjoy. Anna Lumb has…
Village Winter Festival
Victory Park: Castlemaine, Pyrenees Hwy, Barker Street
Castlemaine, Victoria 3450 Australia + Google Map
Castlemaine's Beating Art Music, physical theatre, circus, storytelling, visual art and the uncategorisable all found their place within one of the highly decorated tents, out in the open park or around the communal fire. Explore the Events Calendar for the full gamut of events - more than 50 things to see and do.
Gherkin Khan’s Amusement Alcazar for Young Warriors
If you dare... enter into the wooden venue. Once you have negotiated with the gnarly guard, take a chance and guide your pinball through the maze. Hand-eye co-ordination needed. The iPad of the future (and past)
Penny Candy Lolly Shop
from $0.5
June 18, 2016 @ 11:00 pm - June 19, 2016 @ 12:15 am
Castlemaine Circus Inc. ringmaster Mara Macs will lead a group of kids in a fun workshop of circus skills including juggling, tumbling and clowning.
SimonSaysStuff
A combination of spoken word, music and audience participation all used to tell original and borrowed stories of how cows get their colour schemes, and how Abiyoyo the Giant ate one.
Gutsy!
Experience the human digestive system from the inside (eew!) in this unique caravan experience especially for kids obsessed with bums and what comes out of them.
DJ Dave will be rocking the caravan with the coolest winter sounds - but only for 10 minutes!and
Kids Cooking Workshops
Demonstrations from local cooks - get involved!
Dress Up Your Dog
June 19, 2016 @ 12:00 am - 1:00 am
If you didn't manage to dress up yourself and your dog, you've still got an opportunity to get your pooch pampered and preened (in a Village kind of way) ahead of The Famous Village Dog Show. With Kikki and Luke
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Possible Surprise Entrants for Both Royal Rumble Matches
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Well today is the Royal Rumble. So many are speculating on who will the surprise entrants be this year. Here is what we know so far.
Kelly Kelly was spotted in Philadelphia. As well as The Undertaker and Michelle McCool. All three of those superstars were on the RAW 25 special. The Bella Twins are also backstage for tonight's event. Both sisters have been teasing an in-ring return.
Ronda Rousey is still rumored to be a surprised entrant tonight. Stephanie McMahon also hinted at an in-ring return.
The other far fetch option that has been picking up more steam is CM Punk. David Shoemaker of The Ringer picked CM Punk as his Royal Rumble winner. That only added fuel to the fire. It's still a long shot but it would definitely be cool to hear "Cult of Personality" again.
Tonight should be very interesting.
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Breaking News: Kurt Angle to Headline This Year's WWE Hall of Fame
Brian Campbell of ESPN.com broke the news that Kurt Angle will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Angle found out the news today also. This is exciting news for wrestling fans as the former Olympic gold medalist and six-time WWE Champion will be returning home.
The news is surprising since Angle has spent years with TNA. Also that Kurt Angle is still an active competitor and wanted a return to the WWE. This may be his return. Now let the speculation begin about one final match at WrestleMania. Although Angle said his new WWE deal doesn't include a WrestleMania match. Angle also mentioned that they haven't talked about any "wrestling"
It's great to see WWE bring back and put together some broken relationships. Congrats to Kurt Angle for being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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Which Wrestlers Were Cut From WWE Latest Video Game?
According to GamesRadar.com, WWE left off ten characters from WWE 2K17. Leaving off Bad News Barrett, Damien Sandow, and Adam Rose is a no brainer for WWE. Here are the ten wrestlers who were left off of the WWE 2K17's roster.
Stevie Ray
William Regal
This list is shocking from not having beasts like Batista and Ken Shamrock to disclosing legends like Roddy Piper and Sgt. Slaughter.
Maybe some of these character will come out as DLC for WWE 2K17. It is interesting to see WWE leave some of these names off their roster. WWE 2K17 hits stores October 11.
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ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame: Vote for the Second Class of Hall of Famers!
After last years ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame voting concluded it was overwhelming the amount of support for now ZWrestleTalk Hall of Famer Owen Hart. Now this year the power is back with the fans, you decide who gets into our HALL OF FAME!
Are you always depressed with the WWE Hall of Fame? Are you sick of seeing The Godfather or the Bushwackers get into the Hall of Fame before the Nasty Boys and Owen Hart? Here is your time to decide who should be in the Hall of Fame. The ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame will put in anybody who has competed in a wrestling ring.
Just remember when your about to put down a name. Determine if this wrestler is a HOF by these categories.
Now vote for who should be in the 2nd class of the ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame. I'll pick the top three.
ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame Voting
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NEWS:WWE looking to hold an event on the Beach
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the WWE is currently exploring its options on doing more Live Event specials for the flourishing WWE Network. They are looking for a Beach event similar to the ones WCW did back in the day with "Bash at the Beach 1995". The other option being explored and could already be confirmed is a London special event. WWE is just currently waiting to see what beaches they can get. This event would be a big step for WWE signaling that they are becoming more focused on "Network Exclusive Events" like Beast in the East.
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BREAKING NEWS: First Member of the ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame announced.
Tonight as VOTED BY THE FANS. Are first inductee into the ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame is……
Are first inductee is somebody who is not currently in the WWE Hall of Fame even though he should be.
These are some of his accomplishments. WWF=WWE
WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 times)
WWF European Championship (1 time)
WWF World Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Yokozuna (2), The British Bulldog (1) and Jeff Jarrett (1)
King of the Ring (1994)
Won the WWF Championship at a house show. Lost it during the same house show.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Owen Hart was a phenomenal athlete. Even more of a phenomenal Wrestler. Now its time he is the inaugural inductee in the ZWrestleTalk Hall of Fame.
KEEP VOTING FOR MORE INDUCTEES.
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ZWrestleTalk's Hall of Fame Voting.
Are you always depressed with WWE's Hall of Fame? Do you wish some of the most gifted Wrestlers should get in? Now its your time to decide who will be in the Hall of Fame. This year over WrestleMania weekend we will reveal the Hall of Fame class. You can list your top 5 names down. Only requirement is 4 male wrestlers and one female wrestler. It's your time to decide. Who do you want to see be in this years ZWrestleTalk's Hall of Fame the power is to you!
ZWrestleTalk's Hall of Fame . Vote in the box.
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I hope all of you enjoy this new concept. It's now your time to decide who makes it and who doesn't.
For some extra tips. Look at the Wrestlers, Popularity,Skill,Championship reigns, and many other things come into play to get a Hall of Fame induction.
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Sting signs a Legend's deal with WWE
Yes it has happened according to Rob Feinstein of RFVideo.com posted the following on his Facebook page
I was just informed Sting has signed a deal with WWE in the last 24 hours. I still think personally he will show up after Mania since it seems like Undertaker vs Brock is what they are aiming for. Reminds me when everyone thought Brock would debut in Miami but they waited for Raw.
There has been many reports in the last 24 hours that Sting has signed with WWE. So this time it might be true.
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Producer of Survivor to bring Lucha Libre show to a new Network
According to Wrestlezone.com and Phil D a commenter that made me research farther into this.
The producer of the hit shows "Survivor" and "The Bible", Mark Burnett has another project up his sleeves and this time it involves wrestling. Burnett is bringing a Lucha Libre show to the new El Rey Network, The show will be created by Robert Rodriguez. The show will be a hour long and will be debuting by the second half of 2014 and now are Burnett's thoughts on the project.
"Starting this business with a new television series on a cutting edge network like the el rey network and it doesn't end there. Wrestling is a billion dollar business in the U.S, and with partners like Robert Rodriguez, Lucha Libre AAA and the rest of our great team, Our new lucha libre league will make the market better. "
So now here's the thing to think about 2 companies are ready to come out with the possible Jarrett and Keith promotion and now Mark Burnett's Lucha Libre promotion, TNA will now be doomed.
Im now quoting phil d here but " Mark Burnett can tell a story" and now that they have a creative person in there wing they will see success. Also Im a huge fan of Survivor and I won't be surprised if Mark uses Survivor to find wrestlers and athletes.
Im excited for this and I think a lot of people are!
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Daily Domestic Gross Sun, Jan. 21 2018
Sun, Jan. 21 2018
1 Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle $5,166,968 -46% 3,704 -145 $1,395 $316,450,318 5 Sony / Columbia
2 Den of Thieves $3,522,028 -42% 2,432 -- $1,448 $15,206,108 1 STX Entertainment
3 12 Strong $3,303,775 -52% 3,002 -- $1,101 $15,815,025 1 Warner Bros.
4 The Greatest Showman $2,680,515 -46% 2,823 -115 $950 $113,125,431 5 Fox
5 The Post $2,615,496 -53% 2,851 32 $917 $44,758,362 5 20th Century Fox
6 Paddington 2 $2,320,250 -41% 3,702 0 $627 $24,810,362 2 Warner Bros.
7 Star Wars: The Last Jedi $1,761,329 -44% 2,456 -634 $717 $604,273,911 6 Disney
8 The Commuter $1,494,525 -52% 2,892 0 $517 $25,627,371 2 Lionsgate
9 Insidious: The Last Key $1,315,905 -52% 2,546 -604 $517 $58,658,320 3 Universal
10 Forever My Girl $961,205 -47% 1,114 -- $863 $4,245,630 1 Roadside Attractions/LD Entertainment
11 Proud Mary $787,338 -56% 2,125 0 $371 $16,850,600 2 Sony / Screen Gems
12 Pitch Perfect 3 $701,180 -52% 1,772 -733 $396 $100,535,230 5 Universal
13 Darkest Hour $597,980 -55% 1,341 -352 $446 $40,792,987 9 Focus Features
14 Ferdinand $561,434 -31% 1,212 -942 $463 $79,172,376 6 Fox
15 Molly's Game $361,063 -53% 1,091 -617 $331 $24,280,686 4 STX Entertainment
1 Phantom Thread $828,425 -40% 896 834 $925 $6,059,449 4 Focus Features
2 I, Tonya $720,523 -44% 799 282 $902 $14,509,885 7 Neon
3 Coco $654,006 -26% 878 -484 $745 $200,726,972 9 Disney
4 The Shape of Water $599,122 -38% 853 130 $702 $30,195,358 8 Fox Searchlight
5 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $470,099 -49% 954 -68 $493 $31,994,519 15 Fox Searchlight
6 Lady Bird $307,076 -45% 675 23 $455 $39,053,636 12 A24
7 The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Giselle $256,025 -- 361 -- $709 $256,025 1 Fathom Events
8 Wonder (2017) $130,747 -47% 496 -474 $264 $129,891,525 10 Lionsgate
9 Mary and The Witch's Flower $108,536 -27% 161 -- $674 $1,515,939 1 GKIDS
10 All the Money in the World $90,483 -48% 374 -1034 $242 $24,106,979 4 Sony / TriStar
11 Daddy's Home 2 $58,170 -43% 183 -18 $318 $103,543,455 11 Paramount
12 Thor: Ragnarok $55,832 -52% 184 -58 $303 $313,433,047 12 Disney
13 Murder on the Orient Express (2017) $42,312 -51% 202 -70 $209 $102,303,321 11 Fox
14 The Disaster Artist $42,264 -46% 147 -224 $288 $20,726,034 8 New Line / A24
15 Justice League $32,067 -48% 151 -115 $212 $227,702,179 10 Warner Bros.
16 Condorito: La Pelicula $31,525 2% 134 -19 $235 $400,460 2 Lionsgate / Pantelion
17 The Star $21,131 -39% 132 -28 $160 $40,715,377 10 Sony / Columbia
18 Downsizing $17,701 -45% 134 -278 $132 $24,314,346 5 Paramount
19 Blade Runner 2049 $10,861 -47% 124 -1 $88 $92,001,208 16 Warner Bros.
1 Hostiles $139,122 -45% 49 7 $2,839 $1,560,563 5 Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
2 The Florida Project $12,416 -27% 37 -3 $336 $5,571,691 16 A24
3 Father Figures $8,407 -55% 96 -105 $88 $17,388,350 5 Warner Bros.
4 Parchi $4,760 36% 10 -29 $476 $59,587 2 Atlas Distribution
5 Only The Brave $4,023 -46% 43 -11 $94 $18,324,258 14 Sony Pictures
6 Wonder Wheel $2,430 3% 6 -4 $405 $1,392,830 8 Amazon
7 Big Sonia $1,371 22% 2 0 $686 $146,696 10 Argot Pictures
8 Roman J. Israel, Esq. $1,152 -58% 25 -17 $46 $11,926,994 10 Sony Pictures
9 Birdboy: The Forgotten Children $1,020 -37% 5 -4 $204 $29,692 6 GKIDS
10 The Crime of Monsieur Lange $877 -- 1 -1 $877 $33,542 10 Rialto Pictures
11 Thelma $838 -16% 3 -1 $279 $143,575 11 The Orchard
12 The Breadwinner $533 -38% 4 -2 $133 $250,729 10 GKIDS
13 Same Kind of Different as Me $523 -52% 9 -11 $58 $6,421,634 14 Pure Flix Entertainment
14 The Man Who Invented Christmas $288 -69% 8 -13 $36 $5,675,535 9 Bleecker Street
15 Let There Be Light $196 161% 1 -1 $196 $7,214,987 13 Atlas
16 BPM (Beats Per Minute) $126 15% 1 -2 $126 $97,151 14 The Orchard
17 On the Beach at Night Alone $52 643% 1 -2 $52 $32,799 10 Cinema Guild
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BBC Chartering > Company > History
Weathering a challenging market, BBC Chartering could consolidate a total fleet of over 180 MPP / HL vessels, exceeding a gross fleet capacity of 2.1mln DWT. New presences were opened in London, UK and Esbjerg, Denmark, further strengthening the global chartering network. Uniquely combining assets, network and service capabilities, BBC Chartering firmed and increased its business share with global engineering and procurement contractors, procuring complex, distributed and other large scale project cargo volumes. With a new monthly service between the Fareast and New Zealand, BBC Chartering also expanded and sustained its global high performance service network for project cargo, “apac service”.
BBC Chartering launched new offices in Bejing, China and Hochiminh City, Vietnam and further strengthened its global chartering and sales network in Far East / Asia.
As first global project carrier, BBC Chartering launched the “apac service” campaign, promoting “any port, any cargo service”. This further strengthens BBC Chartering’s unique value proposition operating the world’s first high performance inducement service network for project cargo on more than 30 global high frequency trades.
In an ongoing challenging global market, BBC Chartering further sharpened its service proposition, fleet procurement and commercial network. The European chartering network was strengthened with own presences opened in France and Spain; innovation of the core fleet was supported by co-launching an eco-friendly new-building program with partners during the year and, lastly a strategic cooperation with Manchester Terminal in the Port of Houston was tightened to provide a dedicated project terminal for BBC Chartering in the US Gulf.
The year started with the completion of the 17,000 dwt BBC Congo new-building series by taking delivery of the BBC Danube. By mid-year, the 700mt heavy-lift program of the BBC Everest type was completed by taking delivery of the BBC Xingang. By the end of the year BBC Chartering operates one third of its fleet capable of lifting 500mt and above.
Accompanied by market wide challenges, BBC Chartering continued to focus on improving its commercial position in important markets in South America and Korea, also opening another branch office in Brisbane, Australia, and, adding more capacity to the Caytrans operated joint-venture trade in the Caribbean.
Surrounded by a difficult market environment BBC Chartering continued to strengthen its global commercial position. New representations were opened in Belgium and Australia, and more capacity was added to respond to customer demand in the coastal Caribbean trade, the West Coast South America trade and, on regular international services between Europe and Asia.
The fleet renewal program commenced during the year and hit halftime by taking delivery of the 14,800 dwt vessel BBC Citrine, a member of the BBC Amber series featuring 800mt lifting capacity.
The year was highlighted by fleet expansion activities as BBC Chartering took over the operation of numerous vessels previously sailing under the Beluga brand. Also, with the BBC Everest, BBC Fuji, BBC Amber, BBC Chartering took delivery of three new building vessels from its fleet renewal and modernization program. This step now enables the company to offer lifting capacities exceeding 500mt. This was accompanied by the introduction of a ‘project division’, a service unit that delivers dedicated tender management and transport engineering.
Next to the opening of a Shanghai and Liverpool office BBC Chartering introduced a BBC Trans-Pacific liner service, and the BBC Americana Line – Med Service.
In response to strong customer demand the BBC Bulk Division was added to create and coordinate customized solutions.
Another BBC office opened up their doors for business - BBC Chartering Japan Ltd. was formed!
Moreover BBC united with Teras Cargo Transport, establishing Teras BBC Chartering LLC for the ownership of m/v BBC Houston carrying the US flag.
BBC Colombia S.A. and BBC Ecuador Andino Ltd. were formed to enable BBC to better serve the increasing demand for shipments and service in oil & gas, mining, wind generation, and other projects in South America.
Asia Project Chartering Pte Ltd. (APC) was dissolved and is now operating under the BBC Chartering name to reinvigorate and enhance its presence in Asian Pacific Markets. The offices are located in Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Melbourne and Dubai. Mediterranean Project Chartering (MPC) launched in 2007, became BBC Chartering Genoa Srl.
U.S. operations officially became part of BBC Leer and are now known as BBC Chartering USA. The office is located in Houston, Texas, convenient to BBC’s energy, oil and gas, and EPC client base.
The new European and Gulf Lines offer solutions from the USG to Europe and the Persian Gulf on a regular basis.
BBC gets even bigger in Europe anchoring in well known shipping cities, Genoa and Aarhus, the wind power capital.
Our professional contact is established in Japan providing our Japanese clients a first hand professional contact person from APC.
In order to establish a larger presence in the US Gulf and Caribbean, BBC partnered with Dan-Gulf, founding Caytrans BBC which is based out of New Orleans. The first APC office on the continent of Australia is placed in Melbourne. BBC starts working in Sao Paulo as an operation and chartering base for all services to and from South America: coordination of port agents and commercial representatives.
The year BBC Chartering launched its Liner Services, the three main liner services were the Andino, Americana and APC South America Far East (SAFE) Lines. Dubai opens and is a success amongst a base for many large multi nationals and the center of an expanding economy.
Asia Project Chartering, BBC’s largest alliance is formed with Clipper Projects with headquarters in Singapore. The APC Dalian office was founded later that year. Canada and Argentina join team BBC.
BBC Andino and BBC Korea were formed. BBC Andino is well known for the reliable service and commitment with the Latin American Customers developing the project cargo needs in the area.
BBC Bremen and BBC St. Petersburg were founded to concentrate on the Russian Services. BBC do Brasil joined forces in the South American market.
BBC (USA), LP became the link between the Americas and Europe, directing the chartering, operations, sales & marketing and technical duties for all vessels calling the United States.
We simultaneously made our new home in Leer, Germany and expanded our brand in our first South American location with the Argentinean team.
Argosy Shipping becomes BBC’s sole representative for North America in Houston, TX
The birth of BBC Chartering & Logistic in Bremen, Germany
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Women Against Shariah
www.womenagainstshariah.com
ISIS Extremists Stone To Death Two Teenage Girls On Charges ‘Committing Adultery’
Posted by Women Against Shariah on Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Labels: ISIS, Islamic State, Killings, Stoning
From Ara-News:
Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) radical group on Tuesday stoned to death two teenage girls in Deir ez-Zor city, eastern Syria.
Hasna, 17, and Madiha, 16, were stoned to death at the hands of ISIS extremists after being accused of committing adultery.
“The execution took place in the Hamidiya district of Deir ez-Zor on Tuesday afternoon, where hundreds of people gathered to witness the stoning of the two young girls,” local media activist Ahmed Ramadan told ARA News.
The ISIS-led Sharia Court said in a statement that the two teenage girls were caught in a house “with two strangers”, adding that an investigation was conducted by Sharia officials before issuing the decision of carrying out the punishment.
“The victims were accused of committing adultery with two older men, identified by the Sharia Court as Abu Zubair al-Idlbi and Maher Hameed,” the source reported.
Al-Idlbi and Hamdeed were publicly flogged with 50 lashes each at the hands of ISIS jihadis in central Deir ez-Zor.
“The decision of the Sharia Court raised the anger of Deir ez-Zor’s residents, who considered it unfair to kill the two girls by stoning and merely flog the men and set them free,” Ramadan said.
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It is our position that shariah law imposes second class status on women and is incompatible with the standards of liberal Western societies and the basic principles of human rights that include equality under the law and the protection of individual freedoms. The shariah code mandates the complete authority of men over women, including the control of their movement, education, marital options, clothing, bodies, place of residence and all other aspects of their existence. Further, it calls for the beating, punishment, and murder of women who don’t comply with shariah requirements. In our efforts to stem the encroachment of shariah in the West, we are focusing on the following objectives:
Education of the American public about the inherent human rights violations and the attempt to undermine or replace U.S. law and American statutes with Islamic shariah
Publicizing of important issues related to sharia requirements such as honor killings, forced marriages, child marriage, polygamy, female genital mutilation, violence against women, etc.
Alerting policy makers and legislators to potential human rights and equal rights violations and working toward the development of possible remedies and legal actions
Building coalitions with like-minded organizations to develop policy initiatives and interventions for victims of shariah.
Shariah: an all-encompassing and in-transmutable system of Islamic jurisprudence, found in the Koran and the Sunnah, that covers all aspect of life, including daily routines, hygiene, familial roles and responsibilities, social order and conduct, directives on relationships with Muslims and non-Muslims, religious obligations, financial dealings and many other facets of living.
Ird: the sexual purity of a woman that confers honor to her husband, family and community. Ird is based on the traditional standards of behavior set forth in the shariah code and includes subservience to male relatives, modest dress which could include veiling and the covering of the body, and restricted movement outside of the home. The loss of a woman’s ird confers shame upon her family and can result in ostracism by the community, economic damage, political consequences and the loss of self esteem.
Zina: the Koranic word for sexual relations outside of marriage. Under shariah law, Zina is punished by lashings, imprisonment or stoning to death.
FGM: female genital mutilation refers to the partial or complete removal of the female genitalia for religious and cultural reasons. It is practiced to preserve a female’s chastity and dampen her sexual desire. FGM is permitted in the Koran but required by the Shafi’i, one of the four schools of shariah law within Sunni Islam.
Honor Killing: a murder, usually of a female, committed to restore the social and political standing of a family or community when it is believed that the victim has violated traditional behavioral expectations. Such violations can include improper covering of the body, appearing in public without a male relative chaperone, talking to an unrelated male, or exhibiting independence in thought and action. An honor killing can also be based on hearsay or gossip that is perceived as damaging to a woman’s relatives.
Forced Marriage: a marriage that is conducted without the consent of one or both parties in which duress is a factor. Such duress can include violence or physical intimidation, psychological abuse, blackmailing, kidnapping, or threats of imprisonment or institutional confinement.
SLAVERY IN ISLAM
Islam permits the taking of slaves as “booty” or as a reward for waging jihad. Slavery became a Muslim tradition at the time that Mohammed moved to Medina and amassed sufficient power for the enslavement of non-Muslims. Slavery is an accepted part of Islamic society and is never viewed in a negative way in the Koran, Sira or Hadith. In fact, it is a God-given right for Muslims to have slaves. [6:7] Allah has given more of His gifts of material things to some rather than others. In the same manner, those who have more do not give an equal share to their slaves so that they would share equally. Would they then deny the favors of Allah. Although Islam has sustained slavery for 1400 years, a Muslim may never be enslaved. Only non-believers or kafirs may be enslaved and may be eligible for freedom upon conversion to Islam at the discretion of the slave owner. Slavery is viewed as a moral good in Islam as it transforms a kafir into a believer.
Slaves have no means for legal action in Islam and their rights are based solely on the good will of their master. If a slave flees his master, this is view as a sin against Allah.
Slaves have few civil or legal rights.
The following are rules pertaining to slavery from the Shariah:
1) Muslim men may have sex with female slaves at any time and it is not possible to “rape” a slave.
2) Slaves have the same status as animals and it is permissible to whip them.
3) No Muslim can be put to death for murdering a slave.
4) A slave’s testimony is inadmissible in court.
5) Slaves can be forced to marry whomever their master chooses and may not choose their marriage mate.
6) Christians and Jews who do not pay the jizya or protection tax can be enslaved.
In his book, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters, historian Robert Davis estimates that North African Muslims abducted and enslaved more than 1 million white Christian Europeans from the coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall between 1530 and 1780. Muslim slavers also seized people from Britain, Ireland, Iceland and even American seaman on ships in the Atlantic.
In a recent case of Muslim slavery in the United States, Sarah Khonaizan and her husband Homaidan Al-Turki were arrested for forced labor, sexual abuse and harboring an alien for enslaving an Indonesian housekeeper in their home in Colorado. The couple reportedly brought the housekeeper to Colorado from Saudi Arabia to care for their five children and to cook and clean for the family. The Indonesian woman slept on the basement floor, was paid less than $2 per day and was the victim of rape. Al-Turki and his defense attorney complained that they were being persecuted for their beliefs and stated, "The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution." Al-Turki received letters of support from the local Muslim community and from his academic colleagues at the University of Colorado. This case continues to arouse strong feelings in Saudi Arabia where there is great sympathy and support for Al-Turki. On March 26, 2008, a high level Saudi official brought up the case in a meeting with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. He urged Americans to review the case and mentioned the strong support for Al-Turki in Saudi Arabia.
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Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS
by TheButcher on Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:54 pm
Digital Spy Exclusive:
Neil Gaiman confirms 'American Gods' film
Neil Gaiman has revealed that a film adaptation of his book American Gods is in the works.
The novel, first published in 2001, takes place in a world in which gods and mythological creatures exist.
In a recent interview, Gaiman exclusively revealed to DS that a director "who has many, many Oscars" is already on board the project.
"I'm going to be having a meeting in LA with the people that the film rights have been sold to," he confirmed. "I'm going to be... talking to them, find out where they're going and if there's any way that I can help."
He also described the unnamed director attached to the film as "a genius".
"He fell in love with this [novel] about six or seven years ago and has not given up," explained the writer.
From CS:
American Gods Film Moving Forward
From BC:
Film Of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods Gets “Genius” Director With “Many, Many Oscars”
Re: Neil Gaiman's American Gods
by Nice Marmot on Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:20 pm
Oh my sweet LORD. Fantastic news but what a tease! Who has a ton of Oscars?
by Bloo on Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:33 pm
damn let the dream casting begin
Brian Cox (I don't care for what, but Brian Cox)
by Ribbons on Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:20 am
I know that Guillermo del Toro is a big fan of Neil Gaiman's -- he had Gaiman re-write sections of Hellboy 2 for him -- but I am pretty sure he has not been nominated for a ton of Oscars. Also Guillermo del Toro announcing your project as his next is a statistically proven method of making sure it never gets made. So it's probably not him (although that would be awesome).
by Bloo on Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:31 am
a curious glance at Wiki at who has won Oscars from the 70s to today reveals very few directors who have won more then once, among them though is a very interesting list:
Of those, I'd actually love to see Eastwood tackle this
by Nice Marmot on Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:22 am
I'm wondering if the Oscars weren't for directing . . . .
by Bloo on Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:22 pm
I wondered about that too, and if so it limits it quite a bit to directors who produce and/or write
by Nachokoolaid on Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:05 pm
Jeff Bridges for Wednesday!
Dwayne Johnson or Vin Diesel for Shadow!!!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is my favorite work of fiction in the last decade or so. I always had dreams of getting into filmmaking. While they were always just dreams, this was the film that "put me on the map" in those dreams. Can't wait to see how this develops.
The talkbackers are fucking idiots.
Some of their choices for Shadow: Josh Holloway? Depp? John Cusak? GTFO!!!!
Read the novel again and get a fucking clue. Shadow is not white. Maybe half white, at the most. At two different parts of the novel, he's asked if he's part black (by the prison guard) and part Native American (by Sam).
That's why I think The Rock or Vin Diesel would be the two best choices.
Gaiman said he based Wednesday off actor Rip Torn (who I think is a bit too old now). I think Bridges would be great.
by Fievel on Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:43 am
I've had the audiobook via Audible since '05. I got about 1/4 through it and then something pulled me away from it (can't remember what).
Every time I'd consider getting back into it I'd convince myself not to. Maybe this news will be the catalyst I've been in need of.
by Nice Marmot on Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:25 am
Wow, I always saw Wednesday as Rip Torn in my head. Nice to know NG did too.
Jeff Bridges is the man, but feels too EVERYWHERE for this. Trying to think some more....
I thinkThe Rock should be shadow. Please no Vin D . . .
by TonyWilson on Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:18 am
Brian Cox would be a pretty awesome Wednesday. Agree about Dwayne Johnson for Shadow too. However I didn't connect with the book in the way a lot of people did - not sure why but just didn't grab me in the way I thought it would.
by Bloo on Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:30 am
I like the idea of Dwayne Johnson as Shadow. He's got that big, "don't fuck with me" attitude that Shadow needs, yet can be...soft? maybe vulnerable is the word I'm looking for
by Nice Marmot on Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:41 am
Who did you all picture as other characters?
My Mr.Nancy was Lou Gossett Jr.
My Czernobog (sp?) was Wall Street 1 era Eli Wallach. Trying to think of someone that could play him now.
by TonyWilson on Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:00 pm
Carla Gugino as Laura, maybe - or perhaps Amy Adams even. Then Czernobog would be Raymond Barry I think.
by Bloo on Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:37 pm
I'd like to see Patton Oswalt or even Jonah Hill as the Internet god
Keith David as Mr. Nancy
TonyWilson wrote: Then Czernobog would be Raymond Barry I think.
I full endorse this idea
I know it's impossible, but I saw Mr. Nancy as Scatman Crothers. My Czernobog was always Rade Serbedzija (maybe because I think Boris the Blade is fucking awesome). Bilquis was Aishwarya Rai. I saw Laura as Rachel Weisz.
by TonyWilson on Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:51 am
Oooh, Weisz as Laura is a very good idea indeed.
by Nice Marmot on Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:48 pm
Pictured Jacquel as Tony Todd.
Officer Mulligan, John Heard, for some weird reason.
by BuckyO'harre on Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:39 pm
Playtone Setting Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' For HBO Series
EXCLUSIVE: As HBO prepares to unveil its epic-sized series adaptation of George RR Martin's Game of Thrones this Sunday, the payweb has begun talks to acquire the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods to be developed into another fantasy series. The project was brought to HBO by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and it was brought to them by Robert Richardson. The plan is for Richardson and Gaiman to write the pilot together.
by Nice Marmot on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:16 pm
Wow wow double wow. SO the way to do it.
Funny, I finally read Game of Thrones and American Gods and as soon as I finish them (give or take a day), the HBO series gets announced. So what should I read next?
by Ribbons on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:19 pm
100 Bullets!
by so sorry on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:22 pm
Nice Marmot wrote: Wow wow double wow. SO the way to do it.
The Hobbit!
Oh wait... nevermind.
by TonyWilson on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:36 pm
Ribbons wrote: 100 Bullets!
Oh good god yes, that is one hell of a comic.
by Bloo on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:50 pm
A 2 or 3 season series isnk't a bad idea at all
by Nice Marmot on Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:47 pm
TonyWilson wrote:
Hey, it's one that I've wanted to check out for a while. Maybe I'll be the catalyst for it finally being adapted. I believe there was talk of it as an HBO series as well, a few years back. I remember Idris E. being talked about . . .
Re: American Gods & 100 Bullets
by TheButcher on Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:24 pm
Nice Marmot wrote:
From /film 07/07/2009:
Is Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets Being Developed as an HBO Series?
From MTV 07/07/2009:
Brian Azzarello Says Goodbye To ‘100 Bullets’ Comic Book… And Hello To Potential Adaptation?
From Bleeding Cool:
100 Bullets To Be Collected In Omnibus Volumes
Rich Johnston wrote: It looks like Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s 100 Bullets is to be collected by DC Vertigo in omnibus-style volumes from October, the first weighing in at 608 pages.
Not sure which issues will make up those numbers, there’s about 27 issues worth there including the Winter’s Edge piece, but it wouldn’t take you through to the issue 30 natural cut off point.
It does indicate we may be looking at four volumes though, to take in the whole 100 issue run.
And it would be rather well timed to come out alongside the team’s new comic from DC Vertigo, Spaceman.
by TheButcher on Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:25 pm
Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions Announces Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods,' Mattel's 'Major Matt Mason,' Green Day's 'American Idiot' (THR Exclusive)
Karen Chu wrote: SINGAPORE – Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions is set to produce a six-season, open-ended series, American Gods, for HBO, based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel, while the company’s next project, Major Matt Mason, is in talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct in 3D, Playtone partner Gary Goetzman told The Hollywood Reporter.
The series-in-development, revolving around the question “are you a god if no one believes in you?” is executive produced by Goetzman and Hanks, with Bob Richardson, and Gaiman on board as executive producer and writer.
Each of the six seasons will be of 10-12, hour-long episodes with a budget of around $35-40 million per season, targeted to debut on the cable powerhouse in 2013 at the earliest.
Rich in religious folklore that spanned millennia and featuring deities from Greek and Nordic mythology, and even the Judeo-Christian monotheistic God making an appearance, in the contemporary U.S., American Gods will be effects-heavy to do justice to the awe-inspiring power of the divine beings. “There are some crazy things in there. We’ll probably be doing more effects in there than it’s been done on a television series,” said Goetzman.
But materializing much sooner than the deities on earth series will be Playtone’s next Hanks-starring project, the toy-to-screen Major Matt Mason, in 3D.
The producers are in talks with frequent Hanks collaborator in Forrest Gump and The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis, to direct a screenplay written by Hanks and Graham Yost for Universal.
The live-action family film about space adventure, with a tentative budget of over $100 million, is based on a Mattel action figure. It would be the second 3D production for Playtone, which produced with Imax in 2005 the documentary Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, co-written, co-produced and narrated by Hanks.
After the gods and the space adventurer comes the idiot. Besides American Gods, Playtone is also developing American Idiot, a screen version of the Broadway musical adapted from Green Day’s eponymous concept album, for 2013 premiere.
Director Michael Mayer of the stage version will direct the movie, while Billie Joe Armstrong will reprise his Broadway role as St. Jimmy in the movie version. The adaptation is Playtone’s second musical after the blockbuster hit, Mamma Mia!, which grossed over $600 million worldwide.
“Mamma Mia! proved that if the musical is right, obviously it can go into the stratosphere, as far as box office gross. We’re always looking for musicals,” said Goetzman, whose company also owns the films rights of Spring Awakening, which the partners are planning to produce in an independent way.
“If we can do that, it’d be a genre that’s as respected as any produced by the studios. Maybe there will be three musicals a year, maybe five. I think that’s important otherwise we’d just have this tentpole mentality where if it’s not based on a comic book or cost $200 million, you're stacked in like pillars. We need all these genres to be respected and we need the studios not to be afraid of them,” he said.
“Studios are afraid of adult movies for a couple of years now, but I felt at the end of last year with The King’s Speech and so many films that did well, they might wake up the studios up with the fact that the adult drama can still be a viable picture to make. You can’t just cut down the film business to horror films, tentpole action, and really stupid comedies. You’ve got to do other stuff. As we know, the film business is always in a state of flux anyway, so it’s in their best interest to understand that whatever you think that’s the greatest kind of movie to make, it will change,” adds Goetzman.
Goetzman and Hanks are in Singapore for the closing night premiere of Larry Crowne at ScreenSingapore.
The comedy, which Hanks wrote, directed and starred in with his Charlie Wilson’s War co-star Julia Roberts, is the first feature film Hanks directed since 1996’s That Thing You Do! The film is scheduled for release on July 1, which serves as counter-programming to the superhero blockbuster summer season from Independence Day weekend.
“I really feel like more people are going to the movies that don’t necessarily want to see a superhero picture, and this gives them a great alternative to go to see two big movies star in a fun romantic comedy, rooted in real issues but still entertaining,’ said Goetzman.
The issues are indeed real and they certainly seem bleak – Hanks’ store staff character goes to college after he was made redundant; Roberts’ character, who became Hanks’ teacher in college, resorted to drinking, having to face crowds of ignorant and apathetic students – a premise that might seem too close to home in recession bound America.
“It’s a line that Tom had to ride in writing it that it was a subject that is in America and in many parts of the world right now, but the best way to tell a story sometimes is with humor. There’s so much humor and hope in it, and good feelings about it, he accomplished that in that it’s a story that’s rooted in reality, but still a very fun movie. Sometimes we just have to say, ‘hey, you know what? You’re gonna work it out. It’s not going to go away tomorrow, but stay out there, and be hopeful, buy a scooter!”
by Bloo on Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:30 pm
bangs head* we get a fucking American Idiot musical but not a fucking In The Heights one...fucking bastards
I like what they're doing with American Gods though
by Fievel on Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:48 pm
TheButcher wrote: SINGAPORE – Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions is set to produce a six-season, open-ended series, American Gods, for HBO, based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel
Six seasons......?
I gotta get back into that book.
by Nachokoolaid on Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:24 pm
I thought American Gods would make a good stand alone film. Six seasons seems like a lot of self-fellatio to me. Perhaps they'll take a lot of side tracks and devote entire episodes to individual gods. I don't know if I like it getting too far from Shadow and Wednesday, though.
by TheButcher on Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:58 pm
American Gods TV Series To Draw On The Book We Already Have, And The One Neil Gaiman Has Yet To Write
by Nice Marmot on Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:33 am
Well that explains how they can fill 6 seasons. I was going to ask Gaiman fans if they could take anything from Anansi Boys, which, obviously, I haven't read. I've only read American Gods. So far . . .
And didn't Shadow appear in one or more short stories as well?
by Nachokoolaid on Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:21 pm
Gaiman writing another American Gods!? HUZZAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by TheButcher on Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:28 pm
Neil Gaiman Offers More Details On 'American Gods' And 'Anansi Boys' TV Series
by Nice Marmot on Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:36 pm
Nice little read there . . .
So did everone else already know that Good Omens was being adapted as well? News to me. SUH-weeeeet . . .
And not to nitpick, but isn't this Coaxial type stuff now?
by Ribbons on Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:27 pm
Why what do you mean? Clearly anyone can see that this thread is in the Coaxial forum, and has been forever.
<.<
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by TheButcher on Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:49 am
io9 Exclusive:
Neil Gaiman Reveals the Future of American Gods
by TheButcher on Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:45 pm
From Collider:
Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More
by TheButcher on Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:29 am
Neil Gaiman Offers ‘American Gods’ TV Show Update; Teases New Story Material
EMPIRE:
Six Seasons Planned For HBO's American Gods Adaptation
Neil Gaiman's multi-pantheon epic gets the green light
Just now on his Twitter, Neil Gaiman himself just said,
"Seeing news stories about AMERICAN GODS being "officially greenlit" at HBO. These are just people talking on the internet & not true at all."
by TheButcher on Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:55 pm
HBO’s Michael Lombardo on More Game of Thrones, the Future of MaddAddam, and Why American Gods Is a No-Go
Starz to Develop ‘American Gods’; Fuller & Green Announced as Showrunners
by Fievel on Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:51 pm
TheButcher wrote: Starz to Develop ‘American Gods’; Fuller & Green Announced as Showrunners
Bryan Fuller + Starz + American Gods =
Bryan Fuller Talks ‘American Gods’; Expects Series to Air in 2016
‘American Gods’ co-showrunner Bryan Fuller discusses the series’ production timeline and Neil Gaiman’s involvement, among other topics.
by TheButcher on Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:33 pm
ComicsAlliance:
Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ Finally Gets Greenlight at Starz
Starz has confirmed that American Gods will officially move forward, as Gaiman and writer Bryan Fuller move onto casting Shadow Moon.
‘American Gods’ Neil Gaiman Drama Adaptation Gets Starz Series Order
The series was developed and written by Hannibal and Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller and Kings creator Michael Green who will executive produce and showrun.
Bryan Fuller Shows Off Gorgeous ‘American Gods’ Concept Art; Neil Gaiman Totally Approves
‘Hannibal’ Director and Exec Producer David Slade Migrates to ‘American Gods’
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Dublin Bay 21 Class Restoration in Kilrush Honoured in Annual Wood Awards Ireland
WM Nixon
The Dublin Bay 21 Naneen on her first sail after restoration, slipping effortlessly along on the Shannon Estuary off Kilrush
The continuing restoration of the Dublin Bay 21 class of 1902, in the longterm project guided by Hal Sisk and Fionan de Barra of Dun Laoghaire, has seen the work of Master Shipwright Stephen Morris of Kilrush and his team (which includes several trainees) being celebrated in the latest annual round of Wood Awards Ireland.
Designed to encourage the increased and more imaginative use of wood in construction projects of all kinds, this special awards assessment process may seem to function in a low-key and specialist style. But in reality, it's a decidedly high-powered adjudication, as the panel is chaired by the State Architect Ciaran O'Connor, who is also the current President of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.
A daunting prospect – Naneen (built Dun Laoghaire/Kingstown in 1905) arrives pre-restoration in Kilrush
Steve Morris: the results he has achieved with his team in restoring the Dublin Bay 21s has now received national recognition with the latest Wood Ireland Awards. Photo: W M Nixon
The other panel members include internationally-recognised Irish experts in several fields, a necessary lineup as the variety of structures of many types and sizes has involved a profound insight into the problems being faced, with the solutions expected to reflect the true nature and enormous potential of wood in all its forms.
In all, the Wood Awards Ireland adjudication is divided into seven categories, and while each provides a Winner, in most cases there are so many quality entrants that there are two additional prize levels – one Highly Commended, and sometimes several Commended.
The re-birth of Naneen is under way…….
…….with the hull built up with diagonal skins so thin that a temporary fabric layer was used to ease the removal of the staples.
The DB21's classic hull shape is now much in evidence, with the first strip of the second diagonal layer in place
The Dublin Bay 21 Project has received the High Commended Award in the Restoration-Conservation Category, where the winner was the extremely detailed and historically very correct restoration of the roof of the Great Keep in the 12th Century Norman Castle at Carrickfergus on the shores of Belfast Lough. By contrast, the Dublin Bay 21s' project has used modern wood engineering techniques, and the judges remark:
"Central to the project has been the combination of the traditional skill of the shipwright and the application of the latest technical knowledge in timber conservation and innovative wooden boat construction.
The result clearly illustrates the effectiveness of wood as a structure and as a lightweight skin, capable of withstanding the toughest of marine environments.
The innovative uses of laminated beams and frames and epoxy resin have combined to create a stiff, watertight, low maintenance monocoque hull, without nails or screws, which allows the use of durable two-pack polyurethane finishes. The species used include iroko, yellow cedar, Douglas fir, African mahogany and Sitka spruce, as well as salvaged pitch pine and greenheart".
A masterpiece – the finished interior of Naneen. Photo: W M Nixon The work continues – the restored Garavogue's final topside finish is in very unforgiving black, yet it shows no blemishes.
Garavogue on her first launching day in Portrush, 1903. Original owner W.Richardson is believed to be second-left, while it's thought that builder James Kelly is at the rudder. Photo courtesy Robin Ruddock
The initial phase of the DB21 project will see four of the original boats restored, and while the first one, Naneen (built James Clancy of Kingstown 1905) was sailing by December 2019, the second – Garavogue (built James Kelly of Portrush 1903) - was unable to be sailed until August 2020, owing to the pandemic-truncated season, but as with Naneen, she sailed like a dream.
For people usually focused on wood as a boat-building material, this linking of the Dublin Bay 21 project to the Wood Awards Ireland programme has given a refreshing insight into other often remarkable applications of timber. Thus the overall winner is something quite mind-blowing, as it's the enormous new €233 million Center Parcs Ireland complex hidden away in the forest near Ballymahon beside Lough Ree in County Longford.
Wood has been used throughout in the construction, with some extraordinary and stylish feats of timber engineering being achieved. And for those of us who like a bit of connectivity and coincidence in all our stories, it's entertaining to note that the main contractors in this major project are John Sisk & Son (Holdings) Ltd,
It's also worth noting that Hal Sisk's first truly international standard classic yacht restoration was the re-birth in 2005 of the 36ft cutter Peggy Bawn, superbly restored by Michael Kennedy and a talented group in Dunmore East to the original designs by G L Watson, which had first seen the light of day in 1894 on Belfast Lough in John Hilditch's boatyard, which was just across the harbour facing the mighty walls of – you've guessed it – Carrickfergus Castle.
Hal Sisk aboard the newly-restored Peggy Bawn in Dublin Bay in 2005, when you might still see the Jeannie Johnston out sailing. Photo: W M Nixon
Carrickfergus Harbour in the 1920s, with the sheds of John Hilditch's boatyard (centre) still in the northwest corner, though he had died in 1913. The recent restoration project on the roof of the Great Keep in the 12th Century Norman Castle (right) took the main award in the Restoration/Renovation Category in the latest Wood Awards Ireland.
All the latest news on the Dublin Bay 21 project in this handy link here
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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland for many years in print and online, and his work has appeared internationally in magazines and books. His own experience ranges from club sailing to international offshore events, and he has cruised extensively under sail, often in his own boats which have ranged in size from an 11ft dinghy to a 35ft cruiser-racer. He has also been involved in the administration of several sailing organisations.
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Hello there, as you may have noticed – it’s been very silent here lately. And I do realize that´s not going to change for a while. I’ve prioritized my own creative projects over this blog for a while, therefore the silence.
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DATASTORM 2010 PRODUCTIONS
By the absence of LCP, probably the most popular 8bit related demoscene event in Sweden, a few members of Up Rough Soundsystem, Genesis Project, Divine Stylers & SceneSat Radio took the responsibility of arranging an alternative party. And by tradition of LCP, some quality productions were being released.
AMIGA ASCII REVIVAL
With the recent launch of ASCII arena the Amiga ASCII scene seems to have had a little boost, resulting in some nice new work being released. Initiated by Uprough and Divine Stylers, both old Amiga collectives. Designed with the look and feel of the classic Amiga (using DMG’s great Amiga fonts) it really is a nice experience browsing their growing database and online community.
TEN 8BIT PRODUCTIONS FROM OCTOBER
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THE LOW TECH ART OF OTRO
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THE WORK OF ED AND JOE
Eddie (aka Ed) and James (aka Joe) Svärd are creative 8bit veterans and twins. Responsible for a strong presence in the Commodore 64 demoscene in the name of Wrath Designs by organising and being the core engine of this Swedish team.
NO CARRIER: VISUALS THROUGH CODE
Don Miller aka NO CARRIER is a highly appreciated VJ in the chiptune scene. A small difference to most other VJ’s, his live shows purely consists of self programmed visuals on oldschool computers.
8BIT FRUITS OF EARLY AUGUST
August is only half way, but has already brought us some fine 8bit releases. A game, some demos for obscure platforms, glitch art and some pixel graphics are covered in this small list of 7 productions.
LCP 2009 - THE HARVEST
During last July, Little Computer People aka LCP took place in Malmö, Sweden. This year has topped all previous editions in number of both visitors and productions. A place where you could shake hands with names that usually fill the line-ups of ‘chiptune’ concerts. This time participating as ‘demosceners’ in creative competitions.
TEN 8BIT MUSIC VIDEOS
Since the end of the last century, every now and then a new 8bit music video appears. With a great variety of quality, as always there’re some gems included. With the mainstream 8bit retro hype, peaking during the late nineties, this genre was quite hot for a while. Even though the mainstream has abandoned this domain, quite a few people are still working with it.
8BIT MUSIC PRESERVATION
The musical efforts of many, from enthusiastic amateurs to professionals, throughout the history of computers have been gathered and archived by dedicated teams. Some of these are ongoing projects, as even today there’s new music being made for even the rarest platforms. Here’s a list of resources.
THE PIXEL ART OF HELM
Telemachus Stavropoulos aka Helm is a strong character in the world of pixel art. Where in his daily life he spends his time working as a comic artist with great passion and talent, he deals with pixel graphics in his spare time accordingly. With the same academic and pioneering approach.
'DEATH TO MOST' BY TOMMI MUSTURI
A retrospect of Tommi Musturi aka Electric in the form of a small book. The title puts his past in perspective, where the slogan might have been ‘Death to all’ in the early 90ties, today it’s ‘Death to most’, a softer parodist reflection of his teenager years.
'A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHIPTUNES'
“Chiptune refers to a collection of related music production and performance practices sharing a history with video game soundtracks. The evolution of early chiptune music tells an alternate narrative about the hardware, software, and social practices of personal computing in the 1980s and 1990s.”
8BIT EVENT: LCP 2009
Demoscene parties, a tradition since the early 80ties are still being held today. Little Computer People 2009 aka LCP is one of those parties, although the party itself originates from the demoscene, you’re bound to find creative people of different underground scenes there.
SCENE.ORG AWARDS 2008
Since 2002 there’ve been annual ‘scene.org awards’. Organised by people from the demoscene and with a changing jury every year, these are the most acknowledged annual awards for insiders – the Grammy’s for the demoscene. Here are the 8bit nominations from their list.
SUPERBROTHERS
SUPERBROTHERS is a one man army, when it comes to pixelwork. Mr. Craig D. Adams, standing behind this entity, already released two pixel films, and a great number of illustrations on various topics. Once you’ll see his minimal and in the same time rich style of work, you’ll never confuse it with anything else.
ZX SPECTRUM: 256 BYTES COMPETITION
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OBSCURE SOFTWARE: TAPE COMPOSER
Highly unusual, very little potential but tremendously charming. The noise of data, perhaps known to some as playing ‘software tapes’ in regular cassette players, in this case with the classic tape drive of the Commodore 64. Unorthodox put to ‘use’ by a music editor with a graphical interface.
MOVE YOUR FEET BY SHYNOLA
The motion designers boutique called Shynola from England made an awesome video for Junior Senior back in 2002. The music is not really 8bit related, but the visuals are for unknown reasons. Beyond that, the music video is totally outstanding.
ARTEFACTS BY PLUSH
The practice of introducing artificial limits on already naturally limited hardware is something that has grown to become an artform of its own in the demoscene. In 2006, at the annual Breakpoint party in Bingen, Germany, this artform had one of its finest hours.
5 RECENT WORKS FROM PIXELJOINT
The community of Pixeljoint is one with a lot of talent. Their memberlist contains quite a number of praised artists. From professionals to hobbyists, you can find them all there, but one thing they have in common, they’re serious about their art.
THE ART OF VIDEOGRAMO
Surreal worlds collide and explode in urge to become visible. People, whose skin absorbed hallucinations of a last psychedelic trip, stare at you with empty eyes. They make love, play games and participate in some strange, indescribable, yet attractive events…
BI+MAP BY DELAWARE
Delaware is an art collective from Japan. Their work covers the wide range of fields from cross stitch to installations to live performances. They refer to themselves as ‘Artoonists’, a combination of Art and Cartoon.
THE ARTWORK OF MINUSBABY
Richard Alexander Caraballo aka Minusbaby is a musician, designer and photographer from New York City. Maybe best known for his work and membership of 8bitpeoples, he’s one of the driving forces in the US chipmusic scene.
RUSSIAN SPECCY DEMOSCENE HISTORY
“Relations between Soviet Russia and computers were always a bit obscure, especially, when it comes to foreign models, not officially exported in Russia. But, if one wants trace the roots of Russian demoscene, especially on spectrum, one should dig into 80’s, when the first generation of radio amateurs built their first machines.”
THE BEST 8BIT PODCASTS OF 2008
The 8bit communities have adapted to trends like podcasts. Since 2008 has nearly ended, it’s time to mention a small selection of those wonderful compilations which are a must-have on your mp3 player.
MUTATIONS BY HEIN HOLT
In the age of a fast visual culture it’s easy to walk by things which deserve a bit more dedication to be appreciated. One year ago Hein Holt released Mutations, a typical example of that.
NOTEMAKER DEMO II BY POISON
‘A time-based PETSCII animation’? I have problems finding a good brief description to this wonderful piece of art. Nonetheless, Radek ‘Poison’ Stypczynski, an experienced demoscener who’s found his path in a creative living for many years, still utilizes the c64 for projects like this one.
VALE TUTTO LEADER BY FULLSCREAM
Sometimes you find 8bit references in places you don’t expect them. Yet not often they are as pleasantly surprising as this one.
DEMOSCENE FRUITS: X2008 COMPETITIONS
Somewhere last October over 200 members of the Commodore 64 demoscene community visited the X2008, an event in The Netherlands. It was a gathering of generations of demosceners, growing in number with each party edition.
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