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NFL Draft Rumors 2021
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Mock Draft tracker: Edge Gregory Rousseau currently top choice for Giants
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Inside the Iggles
Philadelphia Eagles: Regrading 2018’s draft class after three seasons
After three years, it’s time to assess the Philadelphia Eagles 2018 draft class. Back in 2018 the Philadelphia Eagles only made five draft picks, and as it stands right now, it might be Howie Roseman’s best performance in the NFL Draft. Heading into that 2018 draft, the Eagles were lacking assets, owning only six picks. […] Philadelphia Eagles: Regrading 2018’s draft class after three seasons - Inside the Iggles - Inside the Iggles - Philadelphia Eagles News, Opinion, and Fan Community
The 2021 NFL Draft looms large, but there’s no reason to worry
Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via The Steelers have found a number of quality players beyond the first round of the NFL draft in recent years. The NFL Draft is basically Christmas in April for NFL fans and pundits. And while some fans fear for the selections from their respective front offices, Steelers’ fans should rest easy knowing Kevin Colbert and company are still around. Take 2020 for example, the most disorganized draft processes in modern NFL history... for one more cycle, the Steelers entered the long weekend without a pick until midway through the...
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Arizona Cardinals 2021 mock draft analysis
With the 2021 NFL Draft a few months away, the Arizona Cardinals have a lot of areas to address. The Arizona Cardinals are the 16th pick in this year’s draft after finishing the season 8-8. While the team improved on offense and defense compared to the 2019 season, they are still missing key pieces to […] Arizona Cardinals 2021 mock draft analysis - Raising Zona - Raising Zona - An Arizona Cardinals Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more.
Revenge of the Birds
Will 2021 Cardinals Avoid The Insane Draft Trap?
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports One of the sure ways to thwart the development of an NFL football team is to fall into what I would call “The Insane Draft Trap.” As we know Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The Insane Draft Trap is more apt to occur for teams that repeatedly change head coaches. With such changes, the offensive and defensive systems change, which often means that one coach’s set of player personnel prototypes are different than his predecessor’s. This is why we...
2021 NFL Mock Draft Tracker: Arizona Cardinals have a plethora of options for the 16th pick
Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports Happy Friday one and all, we have made it. The Arizona Cardinals pick 16th in the 2021 NFL Draft, and let’s take a look at how the mock draft circuit is picking for the Cardinals heading into the 2021 NFL Divisional round in the playoffs. CBS Sports (Chris Trapasso) - Jaycee Horn, CB - South Carolina CBS Sports (Ryan Harris) - Tyson Campbell, CB - Georgia NBC Sports - Kyle Pitts, TE - Florida Pro Football Network - Jayson Oweh, EDGE - Penn State 247 Sports - Patrick Surtain II, CB - Alabama The Draft Network (Brentley Weissman) - Caleb...
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Falcons post-2020 roster review: Tackle edition
Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports Jake Matthews remained an anchor while Kaleb McGary improved in 2020. The Falcons came into the 2020 season with questions that had to be answered along the offensive line. There isn’t a single position group on this team that has had more draft capital invested into its starters than the tackles — Jake Matthews was the 6th overall selection in the 2014 NFL Draft and Kaleb McGary was a first rounder himself, in the 2019 NFL Draft, for whom the Falcons also sacrificed a third rounder in a trade up. As a result, expectations are high on...
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Steelers Draft Study: Reasons why taking a RB early is a waste of a pick
Here are the reasons that the Steelers using an early pick on a running back would be a waste in the 2021 draft While the Steelers certainly have a hole at running back, the clamoring for Najee Harris in the first round has to stop. It’s not that Harris isn’t a good prospect, but the […] Steelers Draft Study: Reasons why taking a RB early is a waste of a pick - Still Curtain - Still Curtain - A Pittsburgh Steelers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more.
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Building a 2021 WFT the Rivera Way
Photo by Elsa/ Coming off an inspiring 2020 season, led by Ron Rivera and a team built on youthful enthusiasm, things are looking up for the Washington Football Team in 2021, but, there’s work to be done this offseason. First up will be free agency, then the draft, and eventually the off-season competition for various roles. The strength of this team - one which pre-dates Rivera’s arrival - has been the ability to identify and acquire talent, through the draft for the past couple of years. It’s important to give those personnel evaluators - in conjunction with the...
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How will George Paton influence the Broncos’ draft process?
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Justin Jefferson on Draft Day, Moss Comparisons, etc.
Minnesota Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson had about as good of a individual season as is (in)humanly possible. Breaking the record for modern receiving yards, and Randy Moss’ team record for receptions, it was an amazing year for Jet. NFL.com chatted with Jefferson this week, and he had a lot to say about his first season. … The post Justin Jefferson on Draft Day, Moss Comparisons, etc. appeared first on Vikings Territory.
Should the Broncos draft a QB in round 1?
Photo by Matthew Stockman/ Ryan and Ben argue their cases on BCT. In one of the more entertaining segments on Broncos Country Tonight, Ryan and Ben Take the Case to Court. With the hiring of George Paton, questions about what Denver should do with their first pick in the 2021 NFL draft. In this court case, Ryan and Ben make arguments for and against the Broncos picking a QB in round one. Ryan argued for taking a QB in the first round, while Ben argued against. Ben made his arguments to the court first. In reviewing the scenario, Ben made the first argument that taking...
New England Patriots links 1/15/21 - Divisional round previews; Revisiting the Patriots 2018 draft
Isaiah Wynn and Sony Michel after 2018 draft | Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Daily news and links for Friday TEAM TALK Erik Scalavino tells us how 2020’s artificial crowd noise became reality. /Please, may this be a one-and-done. Highlight: 15 years ago Thursday, Ben Watson tackles Champ Bailey at 1 yd line after 100 yard interception. (1.36 min. video) /No mention of how it should have been called a touchback. Patriots Unfiltered 1/14: The QB quandary, Divisional playoffs picks; More. (2 hours) LOCAL LINKS Doug Kyed writes a great piece on the...
New Detroit Lions GM Brad Holmes has one very important qualification: Evaluating QBs
Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes has one very important qualification: The potential to draft the team's next quarterback possibly this year.
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Why Seahawks shouldn’t expect a flood of inexpensive free agents this offseason
Photo by Chris Graythen/ The NFL playoffs enter the divisional round this weekend without the participation of the Seattle Seahawks for the third time in four years following the home loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the Wild Card round. That means it’s the offseason for the Hawks, and fans have started turning their attention to free agency and the draft in hopes of improving the team for next season. One of the big storylines has, of course, been the revenue drop seen by the league as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the complete lack of fans in the stands....
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Doug Pederson convinced Eagles to pass on drafting Justin Jefferson
The Philadelphia Eagles have been in desperate need of a star wide receiver for a few years now. It turns out, their former head coach might have caused the organization to pass on a golden opportunity to draft one. According to Pro Football’s Benjamin Albright (via PFT’s Dalton Miller), Doug Pederson “convinced” the Eagles’ brass […] The post Doug Pederson convinced Eagles to pass on drafting Justin Jefferson appeared first on ClutchPoints.
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Notes: Best Twitter reactions to Brad Holmes hiring
Photo by Frederick Breedon/ Has the Honolulu Blue Kool-Aid been restocked? On Thursday, the Detroit Lions community learned Brad Holmes would help dictate the future of the franchise as the next General Manager. It’s always fun to see reactions across the social media-sphere. From Lions fans to Detroit media to reporters who have spoken with Holmes in the past, I combed Twitter to see how folks are digesting the news. Pluses on Brad Holmes- #Rams and NFL people raving about his draft savvy. Seems like a great guy too and well liked and respected. Biggest risk is...
Dolphins’ Brian Flores defends Tua Tagovailoa after anonymous teammates rip him apart
There is some turmoil in the Miami Dolphins locker room when it comes to rookie quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. The head coach Brian Flores, however, has his first-round draft pick’s back. After reports surfaced that some players were questioning Tagovailoa’s ability to be a starter in the NFL, the front office of the Dolphins, including Flores, […] The post Dolphins’ Brian Flores defends Tua Tagovailoa after anonymous teammates rip him apart appeared first on ClutchPoints.
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Denver Broncos: Ranking each of team’s pending unrestricted free agents
The Denver Broncos have quite a bit of work to do this offseason. Brand new general manager George Paton will have his work cut out for him in rebuilding this Broncos team. Though his primary focus is said to be the draft, he will have to navigate the waters of free agency as well. The […] Denver Broncos: Ranking each of team’s pending unrestricted free agents - Predominantly Orange - Predominantly Orange - A Denver Broncos Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more.
Giants land 4 assistant coaches on staff for 2021 East-West Shrine Bowl
Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via There won’t be a game this year, but there will still be a program for draft-eligible players Four New York Giants assistant coaches will participate in this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl Professional Development Opportunity. Assistant defensive backs coach Anthony Blevins, offensive quality control coach Bobby Blick, defensive assistant Jody Wright and defensive quality control coach Mike Treier will be on staff at this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl. # ...
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Cowboys 2021 draft: Dallas should still be in the trade back market at pick #10
Time to get your trade on, Jerry. | Photo by / There are still opportunities to trade back a little and gain a lot for the Cowboys. During the 2020 season, the Dallas Cowboys were at one time in line to get the fourth overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. Then they went on a three-game winning streak, and slid to tenth. Many bemoan the loss of draft capital. It was believed that the fourth pick would be a prime target for some team seeking to trade up, especially one that was in need of a quarterback. Now that has been lost. Hold on a minute. That may not be the case at...
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Future Patriots? Four Alabama Prospects Declare For 2021 NFL Draft
If you’re looking for names to fill the New England Patriots’ 15th overall pick in your mock daft, start here. Alabama quarterback Mac Jones, wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, defensive lineman Christian Barmore and cornerback Patrick Surtain II all declared for the 2021 NFL Draft Thursday. The Patriots have obvious needs at quarterback, wide receiver and […] The post Future Patriots? Four Alabama Prospects Declare For 2021 NFL Draft appeared first on NESN.com.
Pro Football Focus keeps Joe Burrow number one in 2020 NFL Draft re-rankings
Nine months after they were drafted, Pro Football Focus kept Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow as the top-ranked signal-caller from the 2020 NFL Draft. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was on his way to challenge to be named the 2020 NFL Rookie of the Year before tearing his ACL in week 11 against the Washington Football Team. […] Pro Football Focus keeps Joe Burrow number one in 2020 NFL Draft re-rankings - Stripe Hype - Stripe Hype - Cincinnati Bengals News and Fan Community
Reviewing the Seahawks’ 2020 draft class after rookie season
Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports Despite his fancy new deal, John Schneider has not been free of criticism in Seattle. He followed the three greatest drafts in franchise history (2010-12) with what Bob Condotta of the Seattle times ranked the third worst draft in the history of the Seattle Seahawks. In fact Schneider has often been slammed for having few good drafts since 2012. A common take that’s not accurate but resonates around the PNW throughout many an April: I like the last pick but John Schneider seems to become a different exec when he drafts. Our last 6...
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A brief look at the Minnesota Vikings and pick #14
Photo by Mitchell Layton/ It isn’t a long history. Nor is it a great one. Hey, everyone. My apologies for things being a little slow as of late. Every once in a while you just need to take a bit of a break, you know? But, I’ll try to get back into the swing of things here now that the season has officially come to an end for the Minnesota Vikings. As we’ve already determined, the Vikings will pick at #14 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft when it rolls around on the last weekend in April. The Vikings haven’t picked at #14 overall very many times in their history. In...
5 moves Steelers must make to ensure future success
The Pittsburgh Steelers were at a loss in the first round of the 2020 playoffs. It was a terrible ending to an otherwise great season for the Steelers. Unfortunately now is the time to reload. There are already rumors on players’ retirements, coaches not being resigned, and ideas of who the Steelers should draft. Yet […] 5 moves Steelers must make to ensure future success - Still Curtain - Still Curtain - A Pittsburgh Steelers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more.
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Derrick Johnson will bang drum ahead of Chiefs-Browns at Arrowhead Sunday
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The franchise’s all-time leading tackler will start the show for the 16,000 fans in attendance. Kansas City Chiefs legend Derrick Johnson will bang the drum prior to the team’s Divisional round matchup with the Cleveland Browns on Sunday afternoon. Johnson, 38, is the Chiefs’ all-time leading tackler. Kansas City originally selected Johnson in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and he went on to play 13 seasons (2005-17) in Kansas City. Johnson is a two-time All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowler. If weather permits, a B-2 Stealth...
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Informant America
A blog about the shadowy world of law enforcement informants with particular focus on the story of Michigan prison inmate "White Boy Rick" Richard Wershe, Jr. His amazing story compels us to look at many aspects of this underworld of the criminal underworld.
Parole Board Negligence - an example from the Rick Wershe case
At Rick Wershe’s one and only parole hearing in 2003 the only seemingly substantive evidence against him was presented by two agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration—the DEA. Three DEA investigative documents were presented to the parole board as proving Wershe was a drug lord, a kingpin. Last August Informant America documented flaws and outright falsity in two successive blog posts. It’s time to take a look at the third one.
Last August Informant America documented in a pair of blog posts why the menace-to-society claim against Richard J. Wershe, Jr. was and is totally false. But there were distractions. For a time there appeared to be a chance that Rick Wershe was at long last going to be released from prison. But Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy fought like hell in the courts to keep him in prison. She did this even though her office admitted officially in response to my Freedom of Information Act request for the documents to support the smear against Wershe that they have no records—none—to support earlier allegations from her office that Wershe was the leader of a murderous drug organization that reigned supreme in Detroit’s drug underworld in the late 1980s.
Informant America has argued there appears to be an official vendetta against Rick Wershe, crazy as it may sound. In the 1980s he was a white kid in a mostly black neighborhood who dared to become a paid FBI secret informant against a black drug gang tied to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young through marriage. Wershe wound up sleeping with the mayor’s niece and he helped the FBI prosecute the mayor’s brother-in-law in a major drug case. For good measure, he told on corrupt cops, too. Since then the “system” has gone to great lengths to keep him in prison, no matter how much the laws have changed, no matter how many years he has served.
In the blog posts RickWershe and the DEA’s informant problem and a follow-up, Did a DEA agent mislead the Parole Board about White Boy Rick, we saw how a key DEA snitch who made accusations about Rick Wershe was so outrageously unreliable the Detroit U.S. Attorney’s office prosecuted the informant for perjury—lying under oath—and won a conviction. Yet DEA special agent Richard Crock presented this convicted liar’s “debriefing” statement to the Michigan Parole Board as if it came from a reliable informant.
In another blog post, Key‘Witness’ against Wershe denies DEA ‘Lies’, Roy Grisson, Rick Wershe’s one time pal, said the DEA and Detroit Police narcs tried to “sweat” admissions out of him after kidnapping him from a hospital where he was recovering from gunshot wounds from an attempted robbery. The DEA and DPD narcs would later say it was an attempted hit ordered by Rick Wershe. Grisson wouldn’t tell them what they wanted to hear so they dumped him on a downtown Detroit street. Grisson says he’s prepared to testify under oath that the DEA report of his “debriefing” is a fabrication and that any document with his signature is a forgery.
The “debriefing” of discredited informant Terry Colbert and the “debriefing” of Roy Grisson were two of three DEA investigative reports presented to the parole board as “evidence” against Rick Wershe. In this post we will explore the third and final piece of documentation that purports to prove Rick Wershe’s status as a major domo in Detroit’s drug underworld.
A DEA “6” is the form number for their investigative reports. This one deals with a purported surveillance that took place on the night of July 21, 1987. As we will see, there are reasons to wonder if these events really happened.
The report says Detroit Police narcs Gregory Woods and Gerard “Mick” Biernacki were conducting a vehicle surveillance with DEA Special Agent Richard Crock. They liked to call themselves the No Crack Crew.
This DEA-6 report was given to the Michigan Parole Board as part of the evidence that Rick Wershe is a menace to society.
They were watching Kevin Duplessis and Perry Coleman, two of the key suppliers of cocaine to the infamous Chambers Brothers who truly were drug barons in that era. The cops followed Duplessis and Coleman from a pool hall to Rick Wershe’s Video shop on Hayes Street on Detroit’s east side. Rick Wershe tells me his video shop was popular with everybody in the ‘hood because it was the only one in that part of the ghetto.He emphasizes he never did any drug business with Perry Coleman. Knowing the guy is not the same as conspiring with him in a criminal enterprise.
“Even Demetrius Holloway would come in to rent movies,” Wershe recalls. In that era the late Holloway was regarded by many as the godfather of all dope dealers in Detroit. Holloway was murdered execution-style while buying a pair of socks in a clothing store about a block from Detroit Police Headquarters.
The surveillance report goes on to say Perry Coleman met with Rick Wershe, his dad, his friend Roy Grisson and the owner of a car cash named James Bates, Jr. and Steve ROUSHELL. This is blunder # 1 in the DEA report. Wershe’s close friend and business partner in the drug game was the late Steve ROUSELL, not ROUSHELL. Yet the report refers to Rousell as ROUSHELL several times, indicating it wasn’t just a typo.
The DEA-6 repeatedly lists Rick Wershe's close friend Steve Rousell as Steve ROUSHELL. It wasn't a one-time typo. DEA agent Crock repeatedly mis-typed the name of one of Rick Wershe's close associates. This kind of mistake can and would be challenged in court by a defense attorney as an indication of the unreliability of the report and its writer.
Now, let see: if Rick Wershe, Jr. was a drug kingpin, if he had a “gang” one would think the DEA agent trying to make a case against him would know that his crime partner’s name was Rousell—not Roushell. This is fundamental to building a criminal conspiracy case; knowing the names of the suspected conspirators. Crock got it wrong but passed this report along to the Parole Board as part of the opposition to releasing Wershe from prison.
The surveillance report says Steve “Roushell”, Richard Wershe, Sr. and Dawn Wershe all left the video store location. It states Wershe, Grisson and another man named Anthony McGee drove off in two vehicles toward Interstate 94. What follows is a major mistake.
At approximately 9:33 p.m. the two cars “…drove to Interstate 94 EAST to Interstate 75 North to the Seven Mile Rd. exit. Both vehicles traveled at average speeds of 90 MPH. After exiting on Seven Mile Road, both vehicles proceeded westbound to San Juan Street, Detroit, Michigan.”
Which way is up? This line in the DEA report of the surveillance of Rick Wershe and some associates indicates the narcs may not know the answer to that question.
Whoa! What’s wrong with this picture? Any Detroiter would have the answer in an instant. The DEA report has them going in the wrong direction for their destination.
If you go south on Hayes Street to I-94 and you head East you will wind up in St. Clair Shores or Mt. Clemens or eventually Port Huron.
Rick Wershe and his associates traveled from Hayes St. on Detroit's East side to San Juan St. on Detroit's Northwest side. The DEA report states they traveled East. If they did they would have wound up in another city, not Detroit.
San Juan Street is on Detroit’s NORTHWEST side. They would have to go west if they were driving to San Juan Street in Detroit. This is a pretty big, sloppy error in Crock’s report. It doesn’t stop there.
The DEA report claims Wershe and his associates "averaged" 90 MPH traveling to Detroit's Northwest side. That is a suspicious assertion for several reasons.
“Both vehicles traveled at “average” speeds of 90 MPH.” Oh yeah? How would narcs in unmarked police surveillance cars know this unless they put the public at risk by traveling the same speed to clock the cars they were pursuing?
Agent Crock’s surveillance report states Wershe and his cohorts arrived at 19300 San Juan at about 9:50 p.m. This makes no sense. I personally drove the route described in Crock’s DEA-6 and I can tell you at that time of night you could comfortably make it from 11134 Hayes Street to 19300 San Juan Street in 20 minutes with excessive speeding. If you drove at “average” speeds of 90 MPH you would arrive sooner than the report states--if you didn't get in a collision on congested 7 Mile Rd.
Before proceeding, it should be noted 19300 San Juan is the home of Juanita Volsan, the sister of the late Mayor Young. Rick Wershe, Jr. was having a fling at the time with her daughter, Cathy Curry.
The DEA 6 given to the Michigan Parole Board states the three men entered Juanita Volsan’s home and “…Richard Wershe, Jr. was carrying two full (emphasis added) white shopping bags as witnessed by Officer Woods. Recent intelligence indicates money is often transported by the Wershe Organization in this manner.”
A narc claiming to see Rick Wershe, Jr. enter the home of Juanita Volsan, the sister of Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, implies she was stashing drug profits for Wershe. There was no raid on Volsan's home after this observation so this smears Ms. Volsan without a shred of evidence, and would have the reader believe Rick Wershe raced across town at 90 MPH with two shopping bags full of cash in his car, just inviting a police search if they were stopped for reckless driving.
So Juanita Volsan gets smeared by innuendo without a shred of evidence. This implies her home is a stash house for Rick Wershe’s alleged drug profits. Wershe had two FULL shopping bags. Full of what? We don’t know and neither do the cops running the surveillance.
Rick Wershe insists Juanita Volsan had nothing to do with the illegal drug business even though her daughter favored dating drug dealers and her husband, Willie Clyde Volsan was himself a major drug dealer who was eventually convicted with Rick Wershe's help.
“She was strict,” Wershe told me in a phone call this past Friday. “She was the total opposite of her daughter. She had no tolerance for the drug business.” To emphasize his point, Wershe said: “I wouldn’t even take a gun in her house.”
Wershe makes another point about why the DEA surveillance report given to the Michigan Parole Board flunks the common sense test.
“If we had two shopping bags full of money in the car with us would we be driving 90 miles an hour and risk getting stopped by the cops who might do a car search?”, he asks.
Um, no. Probably not.
Permit me to speculate about this document. I want to emphasize this is speculation.
It may be that this “surveillance” report was cooked up a few days before Rick Wershe’s 2003 hearing and was not written in the summer of 1987 as the report date suggests.
We know the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office had selected ranking officers of the Detroit Police Department scrambling to find dirt on Wershe quickly in the days before the public hearing. Retired Detroit FBI agent John Anthony recalls now-retired Detroit Police Commander Dennis Richardson called him and seemed “frantic” to get his hands on files about Wershe. Anthony gave him a stack of newspaper clippings; no FBI files. The newspaper clippings were given to the Parole Board at the hearing as more “evidence” against Rick Wershe.
Thus, it is entirely possible that the DEA-6 report 1) linking Wershe to Perry Coleman, a major cocaine supplier for the Chambers Brothers drug gang and 2) darkly noting he carried two “full” white shopping bags in to the home of the sister of the mayor of Detroit and implying it may have been illegal drug proceeds may have been cobbled together in a big hurry in order to present it to the Parole Board as “evidence” that Rick Wershe is a menace to society.
As reported in the blog posts mentioned earlier, every single piece of “evidence” given to the Parole Board by DEA agent Crock and another agent named Greg Anderson, is suspect and should be challenged in a legal forum.
The Parole Board itself, if it is operating and on the up and up in Wershe’s case, should insist on a full airing of the facts and challenges to past assertions. But as Wershe’s attorney Ralph Musilli notes, no one in the system wants to put a stick of dynamite under THAT manure pile. So Rick Wershe continues to spend his life in prison while others similarly charged have been set free. He crossed the wrong people.
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Tadic, who joined the Dutch side last year after struggling for consistency in four years at English club Southampton, utterly bossed the centre of the pitch and dominated Real's midfield trio of Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Casemiro.
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Ajax had been the better side in last month's first leg in the Netherlands but were beaten 2-1.
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Aram Nerguizian, a Syria expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Mr. Assad also has been able to keep other Sunnis in senior government posts.
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Reached by phone in Beirut, Nerguizian said the Syrian president's actions show that he has developed an ability to survive internal crises. "As far back as March of last year, the Assad regime has learned and implemented all of the 'best lessons' of authoritarianism, in terms of how to repress, how to divide, and how to weaken opponents," he said.
Nerguizian said the Sunni defections also have hardened the position of Assad's Alawite generals, making them more concerned about survival than anything else. "I would not be surprised if the Assad regime looked at [Hijab's defection] and dismissed it outright, given the fact that individuals like him will not be viewed necessarily as life threatening.""
Scarily prescient Hersh from 2007: "The Redirection". Barry's just following pure neocon policies from the Bush Administration (in fact, he's free to do things that would have been considered too crazy if they had been suggested by the neocons). We're right back to Charlie Wilson's War, Americans formally allying themselves with Sunni jihadists for wider geopolitical purposes.
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Home BMW Elegance and dynamic performance at the first BMW Design Night in Beijing.
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Elegance and dynamic performance at the first BMW Design Night in Beijing.
BMW presents the concept of a new 4-door coupe. The BMW Concept Gran Coupé underscores the outstanding design expertise of the German premium automobile manufacturer.
Munich. With an exclusive Design Night on the evening of the first press day at Auto China in Beijing (April 23rd to May 2nd 2010), BMW provided an in-depth insight into its design philosophy and development strategy. The program of the BMW Design Night is modular in structure and presents extensive background information on the premium automobile manufacturer’s innovative design culture. In addition to highlighting the long versions of the BMW 5 Series developed specially for the Chinese market, the main focus was on an elegant 4-door vehicle with striking dynamic proportions: the BMW Concept Gran Coupé.
The concept study on display symbolised the outstanding design expertise of BMW. The BMW Concept Gran Coupé concentrates the fundamental values of the brand. Its body design authentically captures a sense of superior dynamic performance and high-quality elegance. The shaping style, which follows a coherent pattern down to the last detail, convincingly visualises BMW’s philosophy as an automobile manufacturer. As with the Concept CS 2007, BMW once again sets new benchmarks in the design of 4-door coupes with a distinctive sporty character.
Based on a powerful tradition in this segment, the BMW Concept Gran Coupé carries the essence of brand values and the genes of BMW design into the future. The concept shows the classic features of all BMW coupes: the long wheelbase, the vaulted bonnet with forward-pointing lines, the set-back greenhouse, the flat silhouette, the coupe-style roof line and the short front overhang reflect the dynamic potential of the vehicle. The surface structures and the fact that the design quality is geared towards perfection illustrate the aspiration of the brand BMW to build 4-door high-performance coupes with the sportiest proportions and the most elegant design.
In the BMW Concept Gran Coupé, BMW presents the vision of a 4-door vehicle which combines the exclusivity of a Gran Turismo with the fascination of a high-performance sports car. The design of the concept study underscores the expertise of the brand BMW in the development of vehicles with a distinctive sporty character which offer space for more than two occupants. This reflects the particular quality of the BMW Group design philosophy, which consists in precisely and authentically translating the specific values of product substance into an aesthetically convincing shaping style. The design process is set through with a passion for aesthetic appeal and dynamic performance, precision and perfection. This is how the uncompromising premium aspiration of a BMW Group product, the unmistakable style of the brand BMW and the precisely defined character of each model are given concrete form.
The body design of the BMW Concept Gran Coupé expresses sporty flair in its ultimate form. The 4-door vehicle clearly signals the very highest level of dynamic performance with its extremely elegant, flat and coupe-like proportions. Stretching the entire length of the vehicle and therefore measuring almost 5 metres, flowing lines dominate the design, giving rise to outstanding aerodynamic levels, just as the low centre of gravity reflects an agile driving response.
The front section is defined by the BMW kidney grille characteristic of the brand – an icon of body design which is not just central but also a dominating element of front design. The kidney grille of the BMW Concept Gran Coupé has a flat appearance, with an asymmetrical side view which emphasises the close attention to detail. The central section with the kidney grille is formally separated from other BMW icons such as the headlights and air inlets. The clarity of the LED front lights highlights the vehicle’s precision and premium aspirations. The air inlet runs back an extremely long way into the side section, making the front section appear particularly wide. All elements of the front section appear to merge to form a single, elegantly curved movement.
The sporty, flat silhouette provides an impressive body height of just under 1.40 metres. This makes the BMW Concept Gran Coupé up to 100 millimetres flatter than the BMW 5 Series or the BMW 7 Series Sedan. The roof line tapers off gently into the rear, thereby elongating the vehicle’s proportions. The forward-tilted shark nose visually extends the bonnet and creates characteristic BMW proportions with its forward-pointing dynamism. This stretched character is also highlighted by the side lines, where there is a deliberate avoidance of the typical sill line. The flat proportions make the window graphics appear extremely narrow and dynamic at the same time. Another BMW design icon, the Hofmeister kink, is especially strikingly formed – additionally emphasising the exclusive character of the vehicle. The frameless doors give the BMW Concept Gran Coupé a modern character since the glass surfaces appear to merge seamlessly without being interrupted by columns.
At the rear, only design elements such as the lights and tailpipe trim appear to be visible at first sight. The entire rear section appears slimmer and lighter at the centre, though still exuding power and dynamic performance since the volume is reinforced towards the sides. The L-shaped light banks feature a slight, almost subtle curve and the entire design of the lines and surfaces highlights the vehicle’s elegant overall appearance. The third brake light, positioned in the rear window, is also fitted with LED technology. It takes up the kink in the roof and illuminates the entire width of the rear window. The powerfully flared wheel arches above the rear axle highlight the particularly sporty character of the BMW Concept Gran Coupé.
Another highly sporty and also elegant feature is the rim concept in which the individual spokes extend deep into the centre of the rim towards the hub, giving the rim a striking three-dimensional quality. The spokes themselves are not solid but relief-milled, giving them a visual lightness.
The sculptural shaping style characteristic of the entire body design of the BMW Concept Gran Coupé permits a unique interaction between concave and convex surfaces. It also enables the light to be selectively reflected and channelled. Thus the exterior mirrors integrated in the window shaft appear very light, blending harmoniously into the side view since their shape assimilates the entire line styling. The BMW Concept Gran Coupé is a further development of the classic design of a notchback sedan in which the individual body sections merge harmoniously into a flat, elongated and at the same time dynamic overall image. The effect of this 4-door vehicle derives not just from specific highlights but from its overall appearance, which authentically reflects its character. The car’s dynamic potential is embodied in its proportions and lines, signalling power but also elegance and forward thrust.
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Ben makes a secret visit to 'Bachelorette' Tayshia, Noah starts a feud
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By Jennifer Matarese
NEW YORK -- Fresh off the group date rose, Noah was basking in the glow of his success on the date he wasn't even supposed to be on. The other men weren't as happy for him as he obviously was for himself. Chris Harrison told the men that it was a good lesson that Tayshia likes "bold." He also told all of the men who weren't on a group date yet that they had to write a love song for Tayshia. The one who spoke to her heart the most would win a one-on-one date with her. Kenny is a boyband manager, so maybe he could have an advantage?
Competing for a One-on-One
Zac pretty much banged on a box, but sang a cute little song. Kenny's wasn't very good. Brett played the accordion and it was awful. Riley did some spoken word. Bennett did a rap and it was very awkward. Ivan called her up to the little stage area to be up there with him and he did a rap as well. It wasn't great, but his words were very sweet. Demar sang "Mocha Latte" although I don't think he plays the guitar, but he tried. In the end, Tayshia asked Ivan to go on a one-on-one date with her.
One-on-One with Ivan
Ivan started off his time with Tayshia by playing the floor is lava in her suite. Big shocker, they ended up in her bedroom where they ordered room service. Then Tayshia hit Ivan with a pillow on the bed and they had a little pillow fight. Feathers went everywhere! They enjoyed dinner together and had some quality time to talk. He told her that she brings out the best in him. Did anyone else notice the giant ice cream sundae? It must have had 100 scoops!
One-on-one date goals 🙌 #TheBachelorette pic.twitter.com/TPqnpzAcvb
— The Bachelorette (@BacheloretteABC) November 25, 2020
Meantime a date card arrived that read, Zac, Kenny, Demar, Bennett, Riley, and Blake, how far are you willing to go for love. So despite not winning the one-on-one date, they would still get some more time with Tayshia this week.
Ivan told Tayshia that his family would love her. He told her that his parents would love her 100%. He said that his dad is old because he was mid-40s when he had him. He added that his mother is the sweetest and caring person. Tayshia told Ivan that her mother has made sure that she relies on her faith through everything. Her dad isn't even 50 yet and Ivan laughed because his dad could be her dad's father. He revealed that his younger brother drank and did drugs and got into so much trouble he spent four years in prison. He also left a child behind when he went to prison. Ivan cried as he spoke about the difficulties for his young niece. He said that whatever either of them need, he's always there for them. Then they spoke about current events and shed tears on police brutality in America. Tayshia cried and they shared a lot of emotions. They really seemed to create a deep connection. So, it won't come as a surprise that she gave him the date rose! Then she showed him a slideshow of photos of her with her family when she was a little girl. It was super cute.
Truth or Dare Group Date
The group date guys met up with Tayshia to show them how far they'd go for love. It was a game of "Truth or Dare" with Sydney and Becca the former "Bachelorette." The guys had to drink disgusting drinks, let Chris Harrison autograph their butt, have a pretend orgasm to a front desk receptionist on the phone. Becca said based on that challenge she wouldn't take any of them to the fantasy suites. Then they had to eat a hot pepper, get down on one knee and propose to Tayshia, while trying not to throw up. So romantic.
Reply and tag a friend who will always point out the… important things 😉 #TheBachelorette @thebkoof @SydneyLotuaco @tayshia pic.twitter.com/vBkNNOdqRu
That evening, Tayshia thanked them for being so daring, and being such great sports during that afternoon's challenges. Bennett said that he had some real feelings for Tayshia during the pretend proposal and he told her that he never thought that it would happen. They kissed! He was engaged before, called it off, and got emotional talking about it. He didn't get into the nitty-gritty details, and I wish we knew more about it! She seemed intrigued by Zac in the hot tub and they spent some time talking about what they want out of life. Tayshia told the guys she appreciated learning more about all of them that evening, but she decided to give the date rose to Zac.
Ben and Ed try to visit Tayshia
Ben was back at the hotel trying to figure out how to step things up after disappointing Tayshia the week before for not asking for time to speak to her. It was this week's group date, but we saw it towards the end of last week, remember?
Ed decided to go on a secret mission to talk to Tayshia and accidentally went to Chris Harrison's room. He invited him in for a drink anyway. Ben, meantime, did make it to Tayshia's room to talk to her. He apologized for disappointing her. She said that her guard goes up around him sometimes and him acting that way confirmed that to her. But then, he said he felt the same, but he wanted to go out on a limb for her and told her that he promises to be the first one to always jump up for her. She said she would forgive him. As they sealed the makeup with a kiss, room service showed up with champagne and strawberries ordered by Ben! Tayshia said it was a great surprise and she felt like their relationship progressed. Ed never did find Tayshia's room!
It was finally time for Tayshia to eliminate some men! Ben pulled Tayshia aside first before the rose ceremony. The other guys never found out about his secret one-on-one time at her hotel room, so they weren't totally annoyed that he grabbed her to chat first. Noah used his time to complain about how the other guys are jealous of him and that her intention of giving him the date rose was to stir stuff up. Tayshia marched back into the room of men and they were all caught off guard by her confrontation. She told them that she's being honest and intentional with them and not just causing drama in the house. She decided that the cocktail party was over and it was time for the rose ceremony. Noah admitted that he was the last person to speak to Tayshia, and that he told her that some of the guys think that she's not being genuine for giving him the rose. The men exploded and said that wasn't true. Eazy and Ed called him a liar and said he should have talked to them in private. Bennett said that Noah owed all the guys an apology and Tayshia. Chasen actually called the situation very "high school" and sounded more mature this week, so that's saying something.
Rose Ceremony
1) Noah (last week group date)
2) Ivan
3) Zac
4) Ben
5) Eazy
6) Riley
7) Brendan
8) Bennett
9) Blake
10) Demar
11) Spencer
12) Ed
That meant that Kenny, Chasen, Joe, and Jordan were eliminated. Next week, Tayshia grows her connection with Ben and Zac, and she puts Bennett and Noah on a two-on-one date. That's sure to bring on the drama!
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Sen. Kamala Harris releases details for plans to raise average teacher pay by $13,500
Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris just released details of her plan to raise the average teacher pay by $13,500, the equivalent of a 23 percent increase in base pay.
Harris announced her plans on Saturday in Houston.
"So, I decided in Harris County today to unveil, to announce for the first time publicly an initiative in what I am proposing, which will be the largest federal investment in teacher salaries in the history of the United States," Harris said during her appearance at Texas Southern University.
Harris said she would use federal resources to close the pay gap between the average teacher salary and other college graduates.
According to the detailed plan she released on Tuesday, the Department of Education will work with education agencies to set a base salary goal for beginning teachers in each state. School districts and states will increase salaries until they meet the goal.
Harris proposes that the federal government will provide a base level of funding to each state, then incentivize those states that take advantage of the plan.
For every $1 a state contributes to increasing teacher pay, the government will invest $3 until the pay gap for teachers is entirely closed by the end of Harris' first term as president.
"America's highest-need schools, which disproportionately serve students of color, will receive funding to increase teacher pay even further," the plan states.
Harris also wants the federal government to support programs that will help with recruiting and training teachers and professional development, particularly at HBCUs.
"The federal government will make a multi-billion dollar investment in programs that help elevate the teaching profession and support principals and other school leaders. This includes high-quality teacher and principal residencies, early-career induction programs that pair new teachers with mentors and master teachers, career ladder models that allow for advancement opportunities for teacher leaders, and 'Grow Your Own' programs that help increase teacher diversity," the plan states.
Half of that funding will go toward programs at HBCUs and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
The plan will cost approximately $315 billion over 10 years.
READ: Detailed teacher play plan announcement
Meanwhile, similar efforts are being made for the state of Texas.
A bill, sponsored by State Sen. Jane Nelson, proposes that every classroom teacher in the state get a $5,000 pay raise.
The bill cleared a Texas Senate committee in February in a unanimous 15-0 vote.
If passed, the legislation would cost $1.8 billion a year, according to the Texas State Teachers Association.
RELATED: $5,000 raise for Texas teachers one step closer to reality
Senate panel passes bill for $5,000 raises for Texas teachers.
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> Resources > Newsroom > Four Judson Press books receive Illumination awards
Four Judson Press books receive Illumination awards
VALLEY FORGE, PA (1/23/17)—Judson Press garnered four medals in the 2017 Illumination Book Awards. The books are judged with an emphasis on innovation and creative ways of expressing a Christian worldview. The Judson Press titles won one Gold Award, two Silver Awards, and one Bronze award.
Illumination Book Award Gold Award Winner
“Still a Mother: Journeys Through Perinatal Bereavement” edited by Joy M. Freeman and Tabatha D. Johnson — Family/Parenting category
Illumination Book Award Silver Award Winners
“Through Her Eyes: Bible Studies on Women in Scripture” edited by Deborah Spink Winters — Bible Studies category
“From Classism to Community: a Challenge for the Church” by Jini Kilgore Cockroft — Ministry/Mission category
Illumination Book Award Bronze Award Winner
“Holy Heroes: The Gospel According to DC & Marvel” by Scott Bayles — Ministry/Mission category
“It is always a thrill for us to see Judson Press’ authors recognized in this way,” said Laura Alden, publisher, “because it gives us another opportunity for us to lift up the amazing quality and contribution that each one of them makes to the Christian marketplace and ministry.”
The Illumination Book Awards are designed to honor and bring increased recognition to the year’s best new titles written and published with a Christian worldview. Award winners are chosen by experts from the fields of education, clergy, book production and bookselling. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are awarded in each category.
Founded in 1824, Judson Press is the publishing ministry of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, American Baptist Churches USA. It is committed to producing Christ-centered leadership resources for the transformation of individuals, congregations, communities, and cultures.
American Baptist Home Mission Societies partners with American Baptists in answering God’s call to promote Christian faith across the United States and Puerto Rico to cultivate Christ-centered leaders and disciples, and heal and transform communities, by developing aligned action networks and programs.
American Baptist Churches USA is one of the most diverse Christian denominations today, with approximately 5,000 congregations comprised of 1.3 million members, across the United States and Puerto Rico, all engaged in God’s mission around the world.
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LY (JOVONN)
BACK TO ZANZIBAR
Nite Grooves
KNG18
22/05/2020 [Last copies]
A1 Back 2 Zanzibar (King Street Mix)
A2 Back 2 Zanzibar (Next Moov Mix)
B1 Deep Inside My Mind (King Street Deep Mix)
B2 Deep Inside My Mind (Baseroom Mind Mix)
New Jersey's mythical Zanzibar club has long been a source of wonderment for dance music fans around the world. The Newark institution has been connected to some of the biggest producers and DJ's in the world of dance music; Blaze, Tony Humphries, Kerri Chandler, Tee Scott and many more! Step up Jovonn aka LY with this most classic piece of late night NJ House / Garage from 1994 - "Back To Zanzibar", a love letter to the club and dance-floor that no doubt had a massive influence on him and countless others during it's existence. 2 mixes of "Back To Zanzibar" feature and both are slow burning House of the highest order with LY calling us to join him to "hang out in Newark" and go back to the club over a backdrop of melodic deepness. It's a flawless track and deservedly wears the tag of "classic" comfortably. Essential. On side-B we are treated to 2 mixes of "Deep Inside My Mind" which has a slightly tougher, more frenetic, vibe to the side-A cut. "Deep Inside My Mind" is all skippy drums, slightly odd synth chords and LY on vocals asking us "Can you feel it?" Definitely one for the dancers in the dark corners of the club!
Now is your chance to own this killer piece of mid 90's House, a true aficionado's choice! This essential 12" has now been re-mastered, re-pressed and made available again with the permission of and in conjunction with King Street Records/Nite Grooves New York City.
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William Reed Henderson Jr., MD
Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
Diplomate, American Board of Allergy and Immunology
UWMC Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Clinics
Center for Allergy and Inflammation, UW Medicine at South Lake Union
University of Washington Allergy & Immunology Fellowship
UW Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Research
Seattle Food Allergy Consortium (SeaFAC)
William R. Henderson, Jr., MD is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington where he heads the Allergy Section, Center for Allergy and Inflammation, UW Medicine at South Lake Union. He is Director of the University of Washington Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training Program and Chief of the UWMC Allergy Clinics. He has been recognized as one of Seattle's Top Doctors by Seattle and Seattle Met magazines and one of U.S. News Top Doctors. He has authored over 125 peer-reviewed research publications in high-impact journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of Clinical Investigation. His research has focused on the production of biochemical molecules that cause asthma and other allergic disorders with the goal to develop new therapies for these diseases. He has served as Chair of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the scientific advisory boards of ICOS Corporation and Gilead Sciences. He is an executive committee member of the Seattle Food Allergy Consortium (SeaFAC). Dr. Henderson is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.
Chair, American Board of Allergy & Immunology
Seattle Magazine Top Doctors, Allergy & Immunology
Seattle Met Magazine Top Doctors, Allergy & Immunology
Seattle Met Magazine Top Doctors, Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
wrhchem@uw.edu
750 Republican St.
Immunopathogenesis of Allergic and Immunologic Disorders
Translational Research of Allergic and Immunologic Disorders
Asthma Research (Severe Asthma, Aspirin-induced Asthma
Chronic Urticaria Research
Food Allergy Research
Chronic Urticaria
Lai Y, Altemeier WA, Vandree J, Piliponsky AM, Johnson B, Appel CL, Frevert CW, Hyde DM, Ziegler SF, Smith DE, Henderson WR Jr, Gelb MH, Hallstrand TS. Increased density of intraepithelial mast cells in exercise-induced bronchoconstriction regulated via epithelial-derived TSLP and IL-33. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Nov 9; pii: S0091-6749(13)01473-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.08.052. [Epub ahead of print]
Henderson WR Jr, Ye X, Lai Y,et al. Key role of group V secreted phospholipase A2 in Th2 cytokine and dendritic cell-driven airway hyperresponsiveness and remodeling. PLoS One. 2013; 8:e56172.
Banerjee ER, Laflamme MA, Papayannopoulou T, Kahn M, Murry CE, Henderson WR Jr. Human embryonic stem cells differentiated to lung lineage-specific cells ameliorate pulmonary fibrosis in a xenograft transplant mouse model. PLoS One. 2012; 7:e33165.
Henderson WR Jr, Chi EY, Ye X, et al. Inhibition of Wnt/β-catenin/CREB binding protein (CBP) signaling reverses pulmonary fibrosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010; 107:14309-14.
Hallstrand TS, Wurfel MM, Lai Y, Ni Z, Gelb MH, Altemeier WA, Beyer RP, Aitken ML, Henderson WR. Transglutaminase 2, a novel regulator of eicosanoid production in asthma revealed by genome-wide expression profiling of distinct asthma phenotypes. PLoS One. 2010; 5: e8583.
Henderson WR Jr, Chi EY, Bollinger JG, et al. Importance of group X secreted phospholipase A2 in allergen-induced airway inflammation and remodeling in a mouse asthma model. J Exp Med. 2007; 204:865-77.
Peters-Golden M, Henderson WR Jr. Leukotrienes. N Engl J Med. 2007; 357:1841-54.
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Updated Dec-9-2020, 14:00:40 GMT
Best-yet quantum simulator with 53 qubits could really be useful
New Scientist Nov-30-2017, 00:45:34 GMT
That might not sound like much, but in the quantum computing arms race, several groups are edging past one another as they aim to eventually make a universal quantum computer. A group of researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute has created a quantum simulator using 53 quantum bits, or qubits. Earlier this month, IBM announced a 50-qubit prototype, though its capabilities are unclear. With this 53-qubit device, the researchers have done scientific simulations that don't seem to be possible
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Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit
#artificialintelligence Oct-22-2019, 08:07:41 GMT
And so quantum computing, one of the jazziest and most mysterious concepts in modern science, struggles to come of age. It's been a century since scientists discovered that, on the most intimate scales, nature operates according to principles that boggle our poor ape brains. Randomness and uncertainty rule, causes are not guaranteed to be linked to effects, and an electron or other subatomic entity can be everywhere or nowhere, a wave or a particle, until someone measures it. Most of modern technology, from transistors and lasers to the gadgets in our pockets, runs on this quantum weirdness. Lately technophiles, politicians and journalists have been worrying out loud that China is pulling ahead in the effort to harness said weirdness for industry and power, better spying and better computing.
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IonQ introduces Algorithmic Qubits to counter Quantum Volume in quantum computing
ZDNet Dec-9-2020, 14:00:40 GMT
IonQ, a quantum computing startup, outlined a roadmap where it will be able to network smaller quantum systems together as it introduced a new metric, Algorithmic Qubits. For IonQ, the typical Quantum Volume metrics, introduced by IBM, isn't going to cut it in the long run. IonQ's take is that quantum volume as a metric will be unusable soon as quantum computers will have numbers too large to fit on a screen. In a blog post, IonQ CEO Peter Chapman said using Quantum Volume as a metric is like buying processors based on the number of transistors. Samsung's Catalyst Fund is an investor in IonQ.
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Modem for a Quantum Leap
#artificialintelligence Nov-27-2020, 23:40:47 GMT
Quantum computers take advantage of the weird mechanics of the subatomic world to quickly complete calculations that would stump even the most powerful supercomputers. Today's quantum machines are still largely experimental, but many experts predict that the quantum computers of tomorrow will have nearly limitless applications, helping us cure diseases, explore the cosmos, and harness the full potential of AI. The only thing more powerful than a single quantum computer would be a network of them, which is why the development of a quantum internet is also near the top of physicists' to-do lists. In the future, a quantum internet could be used to connect quantum computers located in different places, which would astronomically increase their computing power. It will convert digital data from one computer into signals that can be transmitted via optical fiber cables to other computers.
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The Business of Quantum Computing
Communications of the ACM Sep-27-2018, 17:54:04 GMT
In 1981, nobel Laureate Richard Feynman challenged the computing community to build a quantum computer. We have come a long way. In 2015, McKinsey estimated there were 7,000 researchers working on quantum computing, with a combined budget of $1.5 billion.20 In 2018, dozens of universities, approximately 30 major companies, and more than a dozen startups had notable R&D efforts.a Now seems like a good time to review the business.
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Updated Apr-23-2016, 01:31:24 GMT
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'
#artificialintelligence Mar-28-2016, 11:10:31 GMT
On Wednesday afternoon in the South Korean capital, Seoul, Lee Se-dol, the 33-year-old master of the ancient Asian board game Go, will sit down to defend humanity. On the other side of the table will be his opponent: Alphago, a programme built by Google subsidiary DeepMind which became, in October, the first machine to beat a professional human Go player, the European champion Fan Hui. That match proved that Alphago could hold its own against the best; this one will demonstrate whether "the best" have to relinquish that title entirely. Related: Google throws down the gauntlet. But can anyone beat its computer at Go? Lee, who is regularly ranked among the top three players alive, has been a Go professional for 21 years; Alphago won its first such match less than 21 weeks ago.
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AlphaGo beats human Go champ in milestone for artificial intelligence
First went checkers, then fell chess. Now, a computer program has defeated the world's top player in the ancient east Asian board game of Go -- a major milestone for artificial intelligence that brings to a close the era of board games as benchmarks in computing. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo capped a 3-0 week on Saturday against Lee Sedol, a giant of the game. Lee and AlphaGo were to play again Sunday and Tuesday, but with AlphaGo having already clinched victory in the five-game match, the results are in and history has been made. It was a feat that experts had thought was still years away.
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Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion--But This Is No Game
#artificialintelligence Apr-23-2016, 01:31:24 GMT
Today, inside the towering glass and steel Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Google will put the future of artificial intelligence to the test. At one o'clock in the afternoon local time, a digital Google creation will challenge one of the world's top players at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern pastime that's often compared to chess--though it's exponentially more complex. This Google machine is called AlphaGo, and to win, it must mimic not just the analytical skills of a human, but at least a bit of human intuition. Over the years, machines have topped the best humans at checkers, chess, Othello, Scrabble, Jeopardy!, and so many other contests of human intellect. But they haven't beat the very best at Go.
Go Match Raises Concern Over Artificial Intelligence
#artificialintelligence Apr-2-2016, 11:20:19 GMT
After a drawn-out battle, South Korea's Go grandmaster with 9-dan rank, Lee Sedol, lost his fifth game against Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo in Seoul on March 15, 2016. AlphaGo's win over one of the world's best players shocked the world's Go circle. Due to the complexity of the nature of Go, which requires intuition, creativity, and strategic thinking, it was believed that Go was the only board game that no computers could conquer. Hong Kong's Go champion, Lee Cheuk-leung, was surprised at the result of the fifth match, in which Lee Sedol had the upper hand in the first half of the game, but somehow lost to the computer eventually. Experts from the Go circle initially expected Lee Sedol to win all five games, but he ultimately lost four of them to the computer.
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Google is trying to make artificial intelligence history -- and it could happen this week
At 1 p.m. in South Korea on March 9th, Google will attempt to make history. A program called AlphaGo, designed by Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence team, will match wits with Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players in the world. Sodol and AlphaGo will play a series of matches over the course of five days. If AlphaGo wins, it will be the latest in artificial intelligence's mastery of human games. Checkers fell in 1994, chess in 1997, and Jeopardy in 2011.
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76ers unveil 2020-21 City Edition uniforms inspired by Boathouse Row
The 76ers' 2020-21 City Edition uniform will be available for purchase on Thursday, Dec. 3.
By 6abc Digital Staff
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia 76ers have unveiled their 2020-21 City Edition uniform which was inspired by Boathouse Row.
"In continuing to spotlight the team's connection to the rich history of Philadelphia, the uniform showcases Boathouse Row, an iconic U.S. Historic National Landmark that runs along the Schuylkill River, just west of the Philadelphia Museum of Art," the team said in a press release Tuesday.
The team says the black uniform is inspired by the "one-of-a-kind Philadelphia view Boathouse Row provides at night."
In fact, according to the team, it was star Ben Simmons' idea to for 76ers President Chris Heck to develop a black uniform.
In his rookie season, Simmons requested them. However, Heck offered Simmons a deal.
Ben Simmons wears the 2020-21 Philadelphia 76ers City Edition Uniform.
According to the team:
If Simmons were to earn 2017-18 Rookie of the Year honors, he'd be included in the uniform design process the following year. After joining Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson as the only two rookies in NBA history to post at least 15.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 8.0 assists per game, Simmons captured the award and became an integral part of the design's development.
"Growing up in Australia, I always associated the 76ers with the black uniform that Allen Iverson wore in the early 2000s. I'm a lover of both fashion and basketball, so to combine the two and be part of the design process for the first black 76ers uniform in over a decade was amazing," Simmons said. "I'm grateful the team included me from the jump and can't wait to wear this jersey next season."
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This is the team's first primarily black uniform since 2008-09.
But it still has ties to the classic red, white, and blue - on the edge of the uniform's top and on the waistband of the shorts.
"We love telling stories through the 76ers brand, specifically of our great city and always honoring our history," Heck said. "This year, we celebrate our city edition uniform by blending the old and the new specifically for the greatest fans in the world to enjoy."
The Philadelphia 76ers unveiled its 2020-21 City Edition uniform, presented in partnership with Official Jersey Patch Partner, StubHub.
Here's an in-depth description of the design from the 76ers:
The text "Philadelphia" is printed in white, with a blue drop shadow, across the front of the uniform, beneath the imagery of Boathouse Row, with the player's number above it. The back of the uniform features the continuation of the Boathouse Row theme with the player's number above it and their name below. The Boathouse Row design is two-tone, featuring a white color representative of the light fixtures on each boathouse and a glossy black, mirroring the reflection that the Schuylkill projects back onto the boathouses. Also seen on the waistband is the historic Liberty Bell, while "hidden" underneath the flap of the shorts is the severed snake, derived from Benjamin Franklin's political cartoon of 1754.
The 76ers released a video, narrated by Iverson, celebrating the unveiling of the City Edition uniform.
2020-21 City Edition
𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.
Presented by @StubHub pic.twitter.com/nyE3gIuyZc
— Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) November 10, 2020
In the video, Iverson says:
If you want to make something that truly reflects the city of Philadelphia, it better be great.
It better stand the test of time.
You better expect the work if you want the results.
That's just how the city was built. And that's just how we're made.
You see, here, greatness requires a push and a pull.
A challenge. A goal.
A chase. A pursuit.
But when you get there, by day or night, you'll turn the curve into as great a city as you'll find anywhere.
Where the stars light up at night reflecting icons, reflecting greatness, reflecting the spirit of competition that's fueled us from the start.
Built for the city. Built for the night battle.
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Review: Thomas Rhett Blows Lid Off Very Hot Summer Tour Finale in Nashville
Mike Thiel
Thomas Rhett received a wild hometown welcome in Nashville Saturday night (Oct. 12).
Rhett’s Very Hot Summer Tour, which virtually began in January at Mexico’s Crash My Playa with Luke Bryan, exploded with energy as Rhett filled the Bridgestone Arena stage with friends and surprises all night long. It was extra special since it was A) he and his wife Lauren’s seventh wedding anniversary, B) his dad, Rhett Akins', birthday the following day (Oct. 13) and it was the first time Rhett had headlined Bridgestone Arena.
“It’s the only arena I feel like in the country that I haven’t played with somebody,” Rhett told Taste of Country at a recent Nashville media roundtable. “So to finish it in Nashville on my anniversary is gonna be really, really cool.”
Cool is an understatement. Rhett blew the lid off Bridgestone Arena, and it was evident he and his pals were celebrating not just the end of the tour, but important family milestones.
The crowd was buzzing immediately at 6:58, when Rhett Akins took the stage (Thomas Rhett added two-and-a-half minutes to his set, so he could play one more song), and carried through the hits of Russell Dickerson and Dustin Lynch. It was a great package for fans as they group-sang to all the artists' hit songs when prompted, most notably to Rhett's 10-plus No. 1s.
Rhett opened his show by launching out of a chute (getting some serious air) to his latest No. 1 single “Look What God Gave Her.” From there, he consecutively rattled off hits “Crash and Burn,” “Get Me Some of That” and “Craving You,” and just seven songs in, invited his first guest, Little Big Town, to the stage. The quartet joined Rhett for “Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time” – just the tip of the iceberg – as Rhett later invited Hardy (“Nothin’ Out Here”) and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard for a stripped-down version of FGL hit (and Thomas Rhett co-write), “Round Here.”
Thomas Rhett's "Look What God Gave Her" Is the Ultimate Tribute to His Wife
Since the stars were out, the crowd could’ve expected Jon Pardi to make an appearance for the Rhett-Pardi duet “Beer Can’t Fix,” but instead of the California-born country star, Rhett was joined by Lynch, Dickerson and Rhett Akins. The three were wearing custom Nashville Predators jerseys ,and dear ’ol dad rolled out a cooler of beer for some late show refreshments. Bridgestone turned into a frat party for about two-and-a-half minutes as the country boys sent a cheers to the crowd, pounded a few beers, and eventually, just started pouring it all over each other (even in Lynch’s hat!).
The show segment ended with Rhett bringing his dad a birthday cake as the sold-out arena sang “Happy Birthday” to the Songwriter of the Decade Award winner. Rhett gave an “I love you, Dad!” and a shoutout to mom, as well, as he hugged Akins onstage.
Rhett kept an uptempo show throughout the night, only settling for a three-song stripped down acoustic break (which included one of several shoutouts to his wife and the unreleased ballad "To the Guys That Date My Girls" for his daughters) before plugging the energy back in. He also scaled back for his mega hit "Die a Happy Man," during which he said to the crowd:
“If Nashville is the last show I ever get to play, I would die a happy man.”
Rhett went out hot in the finale with "Unforgettable" and "T-Shirt," leaving everything onstage, no option for an encore – and on that night, he certainly didn't need one.
Thomas Rhett's Very Hot Summer Tour Setlist (Nashville):
Look What God Gave Her
Give Me Some of That
Craving You
Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time
Remember You Young
Nothin’ Out here
That Old Truck
To The Guys That Date My Girls
Beer Can’t Fix
These Pictures Prove Thomas Rhett and Lauren Are Meant to Be
Source: Review: Thomas Rhett Blows Lid Off Very Hot Summer Tour Finale in Nashville
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Google takes on Spotify with standalone YouTube Music app
Mike Beasley
- Nov. 12th 2015 9:26 am PT
YouTube has finally debuted the music streaming app it announced last month. The app helps users find new music to enjoy by allowing them to select from pre-made stations or create their own based on their musical tastes.
The app will launch straight into a customized home page based on your previous YouTube viewing habits, allowing you to mostly skip the process of telling Google what music you like in order to get things started. Videos you’ve liked will be saved and used to further tune the playlists, and a setting on these stations will allow you to determine how much variety should be added to the artist lineup.
Much like YouTube Gaming, the live-streaming app the company published earlier this year, YouTube Music isn’t so much a new service as a new skin over the existing YouTube content. It basically provides a new, music-centric way to browse music videos already available on the YouTube website.
Those videos may not always be official music videos released by big labels, however. The app can also pull up fan videos related to or based on a song of your choice, creating what YouTube calls “a nearly endless catalog” of music.
The app is free to use, but comes with a few expected caveats. You’ll hear ads when you listen to music and you won’t be able to continue listening if you put the app in the background.
Last month the company launched YouTube Red, which allows for offline and background playback as well as ad-free video streaming. That service can be combined with the YouTube Music app to get all the same benefits for your music library.
You can grab YouTube Music for free from the Google Play Store right now. Users who download the app will get a free 14-day trial of YouTube Red.
Earlier this month Apple debuted its own music streaming app on Android.
YouTube is Google's massive video streaming platform, accepting videos from creators large and small
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Born in Bedford, Texas
Drafted first overall by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2019 NFL Draft
Also drafted ninth overall by the Oakland Athletics in the 2018 Major League Baseball Draft
Quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals
Heisman Trophy winner (2018)
Davey O'Brien Award winner (2018)
Why he might be annoying
He publicly stated he was going to pursue a football career full time after being drafted by the Oakland A's.
He was primarily used as a wildcat quarterback during his freshman season.
He transferred from Texas A&M to Oklahoma in search of guaranteed playing time.
His first year at Oklahoma saw him essentially serve as a caretaker quarterback, as he often relieved Baker Mayfield in blowout games.
Some football pundits felt he wouldn't succeed in the NFL ranks as he is too small of a quarterback.
Why he might not be annoying
He comes from strong athletic lineage, as his father Kevin was a quarterback at Texas A&M in the 1980's and his uncle Calvin was an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990's
He and Baker Mayfield are the first quarterbacks from the same university to be drafted with the first overall selection in consecutive years.
He was the first quarterback under six feet tall to be drafted first overall.
He threw over 4,000 yards and recorded 40 touchdown passes in his lone season as the Sooners starting quarterback.
He was so highly sought after by the Cardinals, that they traded Josh Rosen, whom they drafted a year earlier to select him.
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General Electric gets booted from the Dow
GE changed our lives. Why is it struggling?
For the first time in 110 years, General Electric will not be a member of the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average.
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Tuesday that the iconic maker of light bulbs and jet engines will be replaced in the 30-stock index by Walgreens Boots Alliance.
GE (GE) was an original member of the Dow in 1896 and has been in it continuously since November 7, 1907.
Being ousted from the Dow is the latest indignity for GE, which is dealing with a serious cash crisis caused by years of bad deals. GE has replaced its CEO, slashed thousands of jobs and cut its coveted stock dividend in half.
Last year, GE was the worst-performing stock in the Dow, losing almost half of its value. GE is down by another 25% this year.
"We are focused on executing against the plan we've laid out to improve GE's performance," a GE spokeswoman said in a statement. "Today's announcement does nothing to change those commitments or our focus in creating in a stronger, simpler GE."
To pay down a mountain of debt, GE is selling off long-held businesses. Last month, GE agreed to sell its century-old railroad division. GE is also searching for a buyer for its struggling light bulb division.
Related: Inside the dismantling of GE
GE's stock plunge helped lead to its exit from the Dow. That's because the Dow is price-weighted, meaning that GE's $13 price tag had little impact on the index. S&P noted that GE had a weight of less than half a percentage point.
David Blitzer, chairman of S&P's index committee, noted that industrial companies like GE are no longer as prominent in the American economy. Banks, healthcare, tech and consumer companies play a larger role today.
"Today's change to the DJIA will make the index a better measure of the economy and the stock market," Blitzer said.
S&P said GE will be replaced by Walgreens (WBA) on June 26.
It's the first shake-up to the prestigious Dow since 2015, when Apple (AAPL) replaced AT&T. (T) (CNN is now owned by AT&T).
The committee that runs the Dow prefers no more than a 10-to-1 ratio between the high and low stocks in the index. Yet the gap between GE and Boeing (BA) has soared to more than twice that today.
GE shares dipped another 2% in after-hours trading on Tuesday.
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Regeneration for all
With growing public awareness and broader academic engagement, the prospect of pioneering a change in disease management has propelled the field of regenerative medicine. The ability to build, scale and apply biotherapeutic technologies and solutions that are not cost prohibitive will become increasingly important elements that drive progress in regenerative medicine.
In a recently published paper, Mayo Clinic consultants discuss the evolution of regenerative medicine and the potential for biotherapeutics to revolutionize the reach of regenerative medicine applications.
“As validated regenerative therapies are increasingly adopted into the practice, there is an opportunity to evolve the healthcare paradigm and alter the economics of chronic disease management,” says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., the Michael S. and Mary Sue Shannon Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine. “At Mayo Clinic, we are paving the way with new know-how, technology and infrastructure that will make regenerative medicine more broadly available.”
“Stem cell-based therapy was fueled by the discovery and practicality of mining adult stem cells out of bone marrow and adipose (fat) tissue,” says Atta Behfar, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Van Cleve Cardiac Regenerative Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic. “Until recently, regeneration was largely associated with the use of stem cells to restore function to damaged tissue.”
With ongoing progress, the current cell-centered focus will be broadened to encompass next generation advances in the science of biotherapeutics, including antibodies, cytoengineering, gene encoded therapy and exosome technologies comprising the regenerative medicine platform of the future.
“The milestones achieved over the two decade journey of cardiac regeneration have brought us ever closer to the prospect of biotherapies as a way to achieve the full potential of disruptive therapies for disease management,” says Dr. Behfar.
Mayo is developing broader regenerative medicine portfolios to make this a reality. Advanced product manufacturing is enabling a patient-ready toolkit to help accelerate broad availability of regenerative medicine to patients.
Today, experts across Mayo Clinic have access to resources that empower any medical, surgical, laboratory medicine or radiology specialty to advance new discoveries toward regenerative treatments. By integrating process development and manufacturing with quality control, regulatory and clinical trial competence, these translational capabilities collectively position the Center for Regenerative Medicine as an enabler in revolutionizing patient care.
The infrastructure required to achieve rapid translation of discoveries into broadly available transformative therapies for patients is essential to developing the future of medicine. The buildout of the Regenerative Medicine Therapeutic Suites in Florida, the first Discovery Square building in Minnesota and the Arizona Forward project are bringing regenerative medicine to patients in new ways and allowing for powerful collaboration to exist between Mayo and the world.
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Adina Farinango, a Kichwa artist from Lenapehoking Territory. instagram @adinasdoodles , website: linktr.ee/adinasdoodles
Dear Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island,
As graduate students within the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University, we acknowledge and express our support for the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island. We recognize and acknowledge that McMaster is located on the traditional territories of the Mississauga and Haudenosaunee nations, and within the lands protected by the “Dish With One Spoon” wampum agreement. We stand in solidarity with the Land Defenders, Hereditary Chiefs, children, women, men, Two-spirit, non-Binary, trans, and all 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous Peoples resisting colonial and corporate agendas to protect the lands, waters, and ways of life, and to assert their sovereignty and Treaty rights on behalf of their communities and future generations.
This is a call to all who read this document to show solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and to actively prevent acts of violence and discrimination against the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, and indeed across the world. We have created this document to do our part to spread awareness on the injustices occurring against the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island who are fighting to protect their lands, waters and ways of life for current and future generations.
We acknowledge and stand in support with:
Justice for Joyce Echaquan and all others who have experienced systemic discrimination within Canada’s colonial healthcare system.
Justice for Barbara Kentner and all others who have been killed by the effects of systemic racism and acts of violence.
The Mi’kmaq people, fishermen and fisherwomen, their treaty rights, and their rights to provide for their families without violence, racism, and discrimination.
The Algonquins of Barriere Lake and their call for a moratorium on moose hunting.
The land defenders of Six Nations of the Grand River, who are defending their traditional territory from development and have been met with violence by the police and the governments of Canada.
The people of Grassy Narrows, who continue to suffer from severe health impacts, and a loss of their way of life and economy as a result of a dump of 9 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River in the 1960s.
The Secwepmc fighting to preserve their unceded lands and waterways.
The Wet’suwet’en land defenders, allies and Hereditary Chiefs fighting to keep the Coast GasLink Pipeline from being built on their traditional territory.
The Gitxsan fighting against a CN corporate lawsuit lodged for occupying unceded lands.
The people of Kanehsatà:ke.
Indigenous People and communities calling for Canadians and Canada’s Provincial and Federal Governments to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions 94 Calls to Action and the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice from the MMIWG National Inquiry’s Final Report.
All Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island. We agree with the Indigenous People’s assertion of their rights under UNDRIP, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Treaty rights. We agree that Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island have the right to assert their sovereignty.
We denounce:
All violence and discrimination against the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
The lack of support by the Government of Canada to prevent systemic racism, discrimination, and violence against the Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island. As well as the inability of the government of Canada to respect Treaty rights.
The inability and failure of the Government of Canada to respect and/or implement Treaty rights.
The inability and failure of the RCMP and OPP to prevent hate crimes and violence against the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island.
The failure of the RCMP and OPP to deconstruct racist systems within their institutions that have actively criminalized Indigenous Peoples and have contributed to the overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples incarcerated across Canada.
The inability and failure of Canada’s Health Care System to deconstruct and prevent systemic racism and lateral violence towards Indigenous Peoples within their institutions.
This document was inspired by Shkawbewisag Student Law Society at the University of Windsor, and their statement of support for Haudenosaunee Land Defenders from Six Nations Protecting their Lands.
Please see below for resources on how you can do your part to support Indigenous Sovereignty:
Learn about the land you live on and the treaties:
https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028574/1529354437231#chp2
Support the Indigenous Student-led Youtube Series “Ohneganos: Let’s Talk Water”
Email your MPs
Join an Indigenous Solidarity Working Group
Explore the Wet’suwet’en supporter toolkit:
https://www.ienearth.org/wetsuweten-supporter-toolkit-2020/
Sign and share:
The org Algonquins of Barriere Lake Petition to Protect the Moose in La Verendrye Wildlife Reserve:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-moose-in-la-verendrye-wildlife-reserve?signed=true
The Take Action petition to protect Mi’kmaq rights to fish:
https://www.collectiveaction.ca/takeaction/mikmaq-rights-to-fish
The solidarity letter for 1492 Land back Lane:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdCv_bB-eOAkOk9SgfGlqimzJz_C0L4oaCQvXcZbgeVA6NhQ/viewform
Donate to:
1492 Landback Lane Legal Fund:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane
Grassy Narrows:
https://freegrassy.net/please-donate/
Wet’suwet’en Defenders of the Land/ Unist’ot’en Legal Fund:
https://unistoten.camp/support-us/donate/
RAVEN website, connects to Indigenous current social justice campaigns across Canada:
https://raventrust.com/campaigns-overview/
Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/nunavut-kamatsiaqtut-help-line/
Educate yourself further on Indigenous current issues:
Explore the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions report:
http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html
Review the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action:
http://www.trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdg
Explore the National Inquiries Final Report and review the reports “Calls for Justice”:
https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
Educate yourself further through a free course on Indigenous lands, rights and Treaties:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada
https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html
Explore Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada a free-open education textbook:
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/indigstudies/
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Emmeline and the Plucky Pup
Author(s): Megan Rix
Meet the leader of the Suffragettes, Emmeline Pankhurst, and a particularly plucky pup, during a momentous time in history!Alfie can't believe his luck when he is allowed to keep a tiny puppy he finds abandoned on the street. Rascal is cute as a button and has lots of attitude, and Emmeline Pankhurst is thrilled that her ward Alfie has a new friend. Alfie and Rascal deliver messages between the Suffragettes as they organise their 'Votes for Women' campaign. But it's sometimes dangerous work, and it's not long before Alfie and Rascal find out the true cost of the fight. Full of adventure, fascinating history and lovely animals, this is the perfect read for young fans of Dick King-Smith and Michael Morpurgo.
Megan Rix is the hugely popular author of animal adventure books set in the modern day and key periods of history, including the First and Second World Wars, the Great Fire of London and the Suffragettes fight for women's right to vote. An animal lover and dog-trainer, Megan draws inspiration from her own adorable dogs Traffy, Bella and Freya, and many fascinating and extraordinary animal stories to engage her readers.
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Author : Megan Rix
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Question: Is Sailing Around The World Safe?
How much money do you need to live on a sailboat?
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Real cost of living on a sailboat: $500 to $3k per month.
Our Cost of Living: Sailing Around the World (Dana Greyson): $1,500 to $2,500 a month.
Top 10 Aspects of Living on a Boat: $460 a month.
Cruising Budget for the Third Year on a New Catamaran: $32k per year..
Sailing is an invigorating sport that offers many rewards, not the least of which is that it’s simply so much fun. Imagine white sails billowing against a clear sky, the brisk feel of the breeze on your face, and the gentle motions of the boat as it cleanly slices through the water.
The Skills and Qualifications You Needa RYA Day Skipper Practical, or.an International Certificate of Competence (ICC), or.an equivalent national certificate from a recognised body.
Sailors experience fatalities at a higher rate than that of sports known for high speeds, falls and collisions. In fact, falling overboard, high winds and operator inattention are known factors lifting American sailing death rates, with alcohol implicated in 15 percent of all sailing deaths.
Yes you can make a boat and travel around the world, but as with any other form of transport, when you are in a country’s territory (including their waters) you have to obey their laws.
Expect to spend anywhere between $500 – $2,500 per year for small to mid-sized boats. Fuel: depends on how much you use the boat and the engine, but on average something between $100 – $150.
The truth is, you won’t get much sound sleep when you’re solo sailing. You’ll need to learn how to function with minimal sleep. … You’ll want to set a course, catch some sleep for around 2 to 4 hours before waking up to scout the horizon and heading back to bed for another 2 hours or so.
between 35 and 45 feetThe ideal sailboat size to sail around the world is between 35 and 45 feet long. This length will ensure a high enough maximum hull speed, good handling in high waves, and enough cargo capacity to carry multiple weeks of food and water. Longer boats will perform as well, but are more expensive too.
Sailing is not an expensive sport, unless you choose to race at the highest level! Secondhand boats can be bought very cheaply, but you do not have to have your own boat at all. Many boats need 2 or more people to sail them, so finding opportunities to sail on someone else’s boat is not difficult.
Yes, you can sail anywhere you need. You needn’t bother with a license to cruise the world over. Yet, a few nations require licenses for local vessel owners and charterers, they don’t generally apply these guidelines to visiting mariners on their own yachts.
10 Best Sailing Around the World BoatsBeneteau Oceanis 46.1.Island Packet 349.Neel 51.Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 42.Arcona 435.X-Yachts X4. … Figaro Beneteau 3.Hylas 48.More items…
Read the how-to books and the boating magazines and you might think sailing is hard, but that’s not the case. Sailing is really very simple; a skilled instructor can teach you the basics in an afternoon. Most beginners shove off on their own after just a few days of lessons.
In other words, the USCG gives you the license to operate a boat while the USSA and ASA teach you how to sail a boat. In essence, it’s important to go for the USSA and ASA if you want to learn how to operate a vessel but choose the USCG if you want a license to operate a vessel.
Talking to people who have sailed around the world for years and being realistic, most agree on an expenditure between 600 and 1,000 euros per person per month. Tips to keep spending down: Anchor as much as possible by limiting port docking.
Though not a sailing and boating license, ship’s radios must be licensed in the home country of the vessel. … However, if you plan to take your boat out of the country, you will need a ship station license. If you will speak to vessels in foreign waters, they require a license.
On an Atlantic voyage there are some serious threats. Most can be prepared for; although some will be up to Gods will only. There are many stories of poor sailors, alive at one second and dead in the next, killed by an unexpected swing of the boom.
30-40 feetFor crossing the Atlantic Ocean you should aim for a boat that is at least 30-40 feet long. An experienced sailor can do with less. The smallest sailboat to cross the Atlantic Ocean was just over 5 feet long.
30-32′ is great size for a live aboard bachelor pad, and should be fine for singlehanding as well. accommodation and still sail fairly well. in whether you go camping style or plush.
Reasons some used sailboats are so cheap: There are a lot of smaller used sailboats available, driving down the price. Boats that are not in use cost money and fall behind in maintenance. People buy boats impulsively and find out it’s not for them. People buy boats in a strong economy and find out they can’t afford it.
Actually, you don’t need anything. You can sail outside territorial limits in international waters and never be harassed. In theory. If you want to actually land anywhere, you’ll need a passport, visa, etc.
Our first year we didn’t spend much on fuel, but spent a lot fixing things on our boat. Our average budget goal is $1500/month for everything when we’re cruising.
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'If it wasn't for overtime, we'd have no healthcare system': N.B. nurses union president
Laura Brown CTV News Atlantic Reporter
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Published Friday, December 4, 2020 10:12PM AST Last Updated Friday, December 4, 2020 10:23PM AST
HALIFAX -- Before the pandemic, New Brunswick was short over 520 nurses in its hospital system.
Today, it's even worse.
"If it wasn't for overtime, we'd have no healthcare system," said New Brunswick Nurses Union president Paula Doucet.
Doucet says long-term disability claims are up this year and some of that is a direct result of the stress from the pandemic.
It leaves nurses who are left, working more overtime than ever.
At Horizon Health so far this year, registered nurses have worked 187,219 hours of overtime.
That's a 29 per cent increase since 2017.
At Vitalite Health, the 2019/2020 fiscal year saw nurses work 153,077 hours of overtime – an increase of 40 per cent.
Doucet says while hospitals emptied in preparation for the first wave in the spring, most are back to operating at 100 per cent or above capacity now.
And just this week, Horizon announced 80 of its staff are self-isolating after being exposed to the virus.
"Just as most recently in Zone 1, with Saint John Regional and the outbreak that they're facing there and the number of health care workers that were put on self-isolation, that leaves only so many left in the system to care for those that are there," said New Brunswick Nurses Union president Paul Doucet
Health Minister Dorothy Shephard says she's not surprised.
"I want to thank them for showing up and working the overtime that they do," Shephard said.
Contract negotiations between the province and the nurses union are ongoing.
The pandemic puts pressure on both sides.
"I've actually heard that some RNs are being denied their annual leave because of the shortage," Green Party Mla Megan Mitton."So we can really see the shortage is getting worse and there needs to be action taken."
Doucet says nurses are exhausted.
"They're exhausted mentally and they're exhausted physically from all of the extra things that they have been required to do during this pandemic," she said.
Shephard says she is planning a healthcare review in the New Year.
"I envision a healthcare system where medical professionals are as equally satisifed as the patients and clients they serve," she said.
Shephard admits that if nothing is done, the province could lose 40 per cent of its nursing capacity in five years.
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Because many of our friends and neighbors struggle financially every day, there are many charities that work hard to help people in need. Here’s a list of local nonprofits that have additional needs for the holidays. While you’re at it, consider bringing a basket of homemade goodies, fresh fruit or colorful flowers to show your appreciation for the staff and volunteers at these nonprofits.
Cobb Senior Services
www.cobbcounty.org
There are several opportunities to contribute to the Senior Santa program. Make a donation of new, unwrapped items. Donate gift cards to stores such as Publix, Kroger, Target, etc. Adopt a senior and complete their wish list. Volunteers welcome for the 11th annual Senior Santa party, a special event for current clients who are homebound. 770-528-5368.
www.mustministries.org
The Cobb County nonprofit provides food, housing, employment and clothing assistance to individuals in distress. Clients are invited to visit the toy shop; donations are needed to stock those shelves. Donations needed of new, unwrapped toys, stuffed animals, puzzles, board games, electronics, books, dolls, sports equipment, T-shirts, underwear, hats, coats and gloves. Email ToyShop@mustministries.org for more information. Gifts also welcome for teens and adults.
Acworth Police Department Christmas Shoppe
www.acworthpolice.org
Every year, the Acworth Police Department invites parents in need to come and select holiday gifts for their children at the station’s Christmas Shoppe. The community can assist with the Christmas Shoppe by donating new, unwrapped toys and clothes for school-aged children. Donations can be dropped off at the police department anytime before Dec. 20. Other collection sites include Henry’s, Center Street and The Flag Shop. 770-974-1232, Ext. 1115.
www.toysfortots.org
Toys for Tots is a national program started by the Marine Corps. Toys for Tots collects new, unwrapped toys to distribute to children in need during the holiday season as a way of spreading joy to the less fortunate. Below is a list of Toys for Tots collection sites in Acworth.
• Acworth Animal Hospital, 4310 Toccoa Drive, Acworth.
Contact is Amber Tanchin. Donations accepted through Dec. 18. 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays; 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
• Day’s Chevrolet, 3693 North Cobb Parkway, Acworth.
Contact is Jennifer Still. Donations accepted through Dec. 15. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.
• Edwards Heating & Air, 4200 Industrial Center Lane, Acworth. Contact is Anna Marie. Donations accepted through Dec. 14. 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Omega Learning Center — Acworth, 5330 Brookstone Drive, Acworth. Contact is Jenn Lynch. Donations accepted through Dec. 18. 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
• Priority Realty Group, 11 Waterbend Place, Acworth.
Contact is Stephen Corrao. Donations accepted through Dec. 20. 9 a.m.-8 p.m.
Lekotek
www.lekotekga.org
The Kennesaw organization adapts toys, educational materials, computers and iPads for kids with special needs. Toys are loaned to families each month to help their children learn through play. Lekotek welcomes donations of durable toys (especially sensory toys, no plush items) for the lending library, as well as iPads and computers (there are some specifications for computers).
Simple Needs GA
www.simpleneedsga.org
Simple Needs GA’s fast-growing Spirit of Christmas program helps agency-referred families have the merry Christmas they deserve. Last year, the Marietta-based nonprofit brought brand-new presents and other useful items to 158 children. Volunteer opportunities include buying requested presents; wrapping gifts; making deliveries; sorting and organizing; and more. For information, email brenda@simpleneedsga.org.
Santa’s Caravan
www.heritagepres.com
Acworth’s Heritage Presbyterian Church has a Christmas ministry that provides toys and clothes for children. Families also receive boxes of food to help them through the holidays. Donations of stocking stuffers, books, diapers, pull-ups and wipes, and nonperishable food items are welcome. Contact Susan Korbett at kkorbett@aol.com for details.
www.choicesforkids.org
The mission of the Center Helping Obesity In Children End Successfully Inc. (CHOICES) is to be a parent and child resource center for the clinically diagnosed and at risk children of obesity. Since 2002, CHOICES has delivered its message of health to more than 80,000 children and adults through cooking classes, workshops, summer camps and health expos. Donations needed to serve more families with the free Cooking with CHOICES healthy cooking series for families with children at risk for obesity, as well assist with finishing the new Community Teaching Kitchen, scheduled to open in 2019. info@choicesforkids.org.
KSU CARE Center
http://care.kennesaw.edu/
The Campus Awareness, Resource & Empowerment (CARE) Services offers support to students who have experienced homelessness, food insecurity and/or the foster care system. Donations of food for the pantry and monetary donations to the scholarship can make a huge difference in the life of a student. There is a wish list to help students at Christmas. For details, contact Marcy Stidum at 470-KSU-7565, mstidum@kennesaw.edu, or
care.kennesaw.edu.
Family Promise Cobb County
www.familypromisecobbcounty.org
Family Promise serves housing-insecure families with children, by providing shelter through community faith partnerships. While the family has shelter, the day center staff stays busy working to help the adults find jobs, learn budgeting, and connect with benefits and services that will help them. The nonprofit has asked for donations of gas cards and Walmart or Target gift cards to help the families being served.
New Horizons for Children
www.nhfc.org
The nonprofit serves international orphaned children by finding local host homes where each child can spend four to six weeks with a family and can experience family and the love of Jesus. Financial gifts are always welcome, and organizers are asking for prayers. Prayer cards available on the website can be printed and shared with friends, family members and faith communities. 678-671-2279.
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Live long and prosper: Leonard Nimoy as Spock, over the decades
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The half-human half-Vulcan dazzled us all on screen for nearly 50 years.
'Amok Time' gets my vote as the source of the best (alleged) TV Guide episode description ever:
"Spock gets a Vulcan mating urge, and almost kills Kirk."
Drakkenmensch
I used to watch those episodes with my mother when I was a kid. We also watched Mission Impossible where he replaced Martin Landau as their new man of a thousand faces.
fitten
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I watched part of "Amok Time" about a month ago... flipping through channels, I caught it right as the battle started... I really like that episode.
It may be sacrilege to some, but Star Trek IV was my favorite of the movies. Star Trek VI and II are tied for 2nd. I like IV because of the humor and the feels. I've seen II, IV, and VI many (many) times. I think I could recite the script for IV I *love* the scene at the start with the Klingon ambassador and "Tell her... 'I feel fine.'" is also one of those moments when the dust seems to fly in every venue I watch it. Just like when Sulu, in VI, says "Fly her apart then!".
Monti0
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Does anyone else remember his sublime voice work for Civilization (IV, I think)?
And I finally figured out why he appeared in that atrocious Transformers movie... Upon reading the online obituaries I saw that his wife name is Susan Bay Nimoy. So, I Googled and yes, it is that Bay... His wife is Michael "BOOM!" Bay's cousin. So it was probably something he had to do because he forgot Bay's birthday or something.
The City on the edge of Forever is my favorite.
I'm a TNG guy. It was my first exposure to Star Trek - I grew up in Eastern Germany.
Never liked TOS back in the day. About 7-8 years ago, I watched every TOS episode to appease my Trekkie pride. Still didn't like it very much. Not my cup of tea.
But I prefer the TOS movies to the TNG movies, The Undiscovered Country is my favorite.
And Spock was *the* Star Trek character for me. Even though I saw thousands of hours more Trek without him than with him.
I don't know how that makes sense. He somehow transcended his actual appearances or whatever.
I was genuinely shocked yesterday.
Wrath Of Khan.
There is no better movie in the series and it has Spocks Funeral.
etronz
Poor guy. Was he unhappy being recognized mostly for his work as Spock? He did other things too you know (and probably would prefer to be remembered for those works).
James A. Burt
The next time you restrain your frustration and solve some technical problem consider that you may also be part Vulcan.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:15 pm
Great 2012 interview of Leonard Nimoy by LA Times Reporter Geoff Boucher.
Nimoy speaks about the "Amok Time" epsiode, the origin of the Vulcan salute, photography, his stage work, typecasting, the "new" Spock and much more.
Part 1 (Youtube)
Wickwick
Thanks for skipping Star Trek V in the photos. Even though Spock played a prominent role in the story it would have been a disservice to even mention that movie in this article.
Here is the fight scene with the "ear worm" music.
http://youtu.be/KCamCYip2t4
Da da daaa daaa daaa daaa da da da daaa da
Yep, it will be in my head all day.
The Quick & The Read
The Quick & The Read wrote:
No! No! Not that movie. That movie doesn't exist!
Wickwick wrote:
OnThePlusSide
I don't think I can ever say enough how much I loved Spock, even from the first time I saw him on the original series. I know by the time it was on prime time in our area the series was done but we watched it every week. Mr. Spock and Scotty made Star Trek for me.
Because vulcans do not sing Row Row Row Your Boat.
Stevie_B
Monti0 wrote:
It was indeed Civilization IV! Here's a link to all the clips - http://youtu.be/75oun5gvDAU
The quotes when a technology is unlocked are one of the most enjoyable aspects of the game.
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Stevie_B wrote:
It was indeed Cuvilization IV! Here's a link to all the clips - http://youtu.be/75oun5gvDAU
Thank you. It brought back a lot of gaming memories from 2004 (OMG! Half-Life 2 is coming out soon!) Although methinks that the creator of the linked video messed up a bit, I can not recall of the quotes but some of them are definitely not from Leonard Nimoy... The first two "Advanced Flight" and "Aesthetics" isn't but the next one "Agriculture" is from Nimoy.
bigstrat2003
Maybe it also had to do with his previous involvement with the Transformers franchise?
drasche
Registered: Jul 2, 2013
Drakkenmensch wrote:
Clearly you are in denial
But that's OK. I was once too.
Or maybe one gets used to it, as it's as vile as root beer (hoping someone will catch that reference).
drasche wrote:
It's so... cheerful, and bubbly, just like the federation!
valkyriebiker
Marcos2247 wrote:
That's fair. Enough people didn't like it that it lasted only three seasons. It would have been only two if not for an outpouring of support from ardent fans.
OTOH, I *loved* the original series. Back in the late 60's, I recorded nearly every episode on audio cassette and listened to them so often that I had entire scripts memorized for certain favorite episodes: City on the Edge of Forever, Amok Time, Enterprise Incident, to name a few.
The show is truly timeless. ST:TOS boldly broached taboos of the day and even today, the lessons of TOS are relevant. Spock was a critical part of the Trek universe, showed that smarts and logical thinking was cool, and Nimoy was perfectly cast.
edit: misspellings
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Malth
etronz wrote:
He's written 2 books where we apparently addresses just that...
charleski
Tribus: London
Ostracus wrote:
Best TOS, yes. But not really best Spock.
It's notable that the two best Spock episodes (Amok Time and Mirror, Mirror) achieve that status because Spock is behaving in a distinctly un-Spocklike fashion. Which leads us to:
So, logically, the movie-that-shall-not-be-named must also be considered among the best Spock moments. And since we're talking about Spock here, logic must be paramount, even though it may cause extreme discomfort in this case. I think we should be allowed to raise an eyebrow, though.
charleski wrote:
abend s0c0
Like "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?"
He accepted "being" Spock to a large part of the public. He said in an interview that the typecasting even, on occasion, helped him to get roles as a more "cerebral" character due to the perceived nature of Mr. Spock.
His first autobiography was titled "I Am Not Spock" (1975) but the other one 20 years later is titled "I Am Spock" (1995).
And in spite of (maybe because of) all of that he did have a wildly varied career.
When Shatner passes, hopefully no time soon, I have this funny feeling we will all be making a pilgrimage to Vasquez Rocks and tossing Styrofoam boulders.
http://youtu.be/XJ-ATwRq5KY
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks
Tribus: Don't follow leaders, select all squares with parking meters.
A bit of trivia from the photos, the lovely lady who captured Spock's heart in the episode about the spores was Jill Ireland, wife of action film star Charles Bronson.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409866/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Pbryanw
Tribus: Grimsby
The space satellite one always brought a smile to my face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75oun5gvDAU#t=623
Last edited by Pbryanw on Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:23 pm
gurnec
The Wikipedia article (yeah, I know, Wikipedia....) claims that the title of the book I Am Not Spock had nothing to do with his like or dislike of being typecast, though it was often mischaracterized as such. Before my time, but it seems accurate.
Also, why the downvotes of GP? It was just a question....
NicoleC
My brother and I madly raced to be the first to be able to lift a single eyebrow.
I was so immensely saddened when I heard this yesterday. Although I grew up more on TNG than anything else, I loved all of the original movies (V doesn't exist), and loved the few episodes of TNG where he guest starred. I suspect my favorite character in TNG (Data) was largely influenced by Spock as well.
More so than that, he actually appeared to be a decent human being, with an ego that didn't take up all of the empty space in a room (unlike, ahem, certain other co-actors).
On the off chance you haven't seen this already, or even if you have, go google and watch it right now:
Despite the bad news, it will surely put a smile on your face, even if only for a short while.
Fatesrider
Tribus: SoCal
He was never unhappy about his work as Spock. The title of his book "I am not Spock" was more of a marketing ploy than his sentiment about the character, with which he had already reconciled any feelings about being type-cast. He rose above that type-casting, and embraced the character (as he explained in the second book, "I AM Spock").
He was more than happy, at the end, to be remembered for playing, almost unarguably, the most iconic, beloved and influential fictional character in the history of television and movies.
That's one HELL of a legacy to leave behind.
You'd have done yourself a favor by doing some research (or just reading more in the stories coming out now) about the man instead of posting what you did.
BadSuperblock
First in childhood and still today, I have always thought that the goateed Evil Parallel Universe Spock looks one hundred percent badass.
May you obtain kolinahr...
MisterPurple
He was great in Fringe. Would have liked to see more about William Bell. And, of course, In Search Of.
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This post is courtesy of Phyllis A. “Maggie” Duncan, novel and short story author.
If you believe the Facebook memes about the writing life, writers are solitary creatures, shuttered in our writing caves, subsisting on caffeine, and keeping distractions to an utter minimum. To an extent, that’s true, but biological and psychological needs conspire to push us into the non-writing sunshine, where we get inspired to write again.
A key aspect of inspiration for me is my participation in two writing groups.
But, you say, going to writing group meetings takes time away from writing, and what possible good are they, anyway?
My answer: A writing group consists of people who respect each other’s work and who are interested in each member’s success. How do I know this?
I retired six years ago to write for myself rather than Uncle Sam, but, frankly, I would have been content to sit in my office and write only for myself if not for my writers groups.
When I first joined the Staunton/Waynesboro/Augusta Group of Writers (SWAG Writers), our meetings were social gatherings only. We met in a bar—of course; we’re writers—and chatted about what kind of writing we did and what we hoped to achieve. Then, a member had a story accepted for a literary journal, and that prompted me and others to try the whole submission thing.
SWAG was the place where I shared the news of my first acceptance of a story for publication, where I could do readings in a comfortable environment and could argue the efficacy of the Oxford Comma.
Along came National Novel Writers Month and the Shenandoah Valley Wrimos, a Facebook group where we encouraged each other and lamented our lagging word counts.
From that group developed the year-round writers group, Shenandoah Valley Writers. We have online short story discussions, writing sprints, and other craft-related fun. Mostly, however, we celebrate each other’s writing. We share each other’s publishing successes and commiserate over rejections. Though our primary interactions are online, we have occasional in-person get-togethers to talk writing and/or eat muffins, along with consuming large amounts of that writer’s fuel, coffee.
From both of these groups I get validation as a writer, I get encouragement, and, well, I have fun with writing. In short, without my writers groups, I wouldn’t have had anything published (including two recent releases, a novella, My Noble Enemy, and a novel in stories, The Better Spy), wouldn’t have won or placed in any contests, wouldn’t have evolved as a writer. I’d still be sitting in my writing cave, writing, revising, rewriting, and being the only person in the world to read my work.
A writing group challenges you, not merely to write, but to write better, to question your own writing toward the end of making it the best it can be. If you don’t have one, find one or make one and watch your writing blossom.
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A commercial pilot and former FAA safety official, she lives and writes historical thrillers in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A graduate of Madison College (now James Madison University), she has degrees in history and political science. Her love of politics continues to this day.
Her first print collection of short stories was the 2000 paperback, Rarely Well Behaved, which, in 2012, became two separate, reissued books, Blood Vengeance and Fences. In December 2012, she published Spy Flash, a collection of espionage flash fiction stories. In 2015, a novella, My Noble Enemy, and a novel in stories, The Better Spy, were published.
Other short stories have appeared in eFiction Magazine in 2011 and 2012; in the 2013 Blue Ridge Anthology; and in the 2013 1 x 50 x 100 Anthology, a collection of 100-word flash fiction; in the 2014 Skyline Anthology. A short story, “Marakata,” submitted for WriterHouse’s 5th Anniversary Short Story Contest, won third place. Her short story “Man on Fire” was a finalist in the Press53 AWP Flash Fiction contest and later published in Prime Number Magazine. A short play, “Yo’ Momma,” won the Ampersand Arts Bar Hopping Contest and was staged in April 2014 in Staunton, VA. Her story, “Reset,” will appear in the premiere issue of Ink Ribbon Press in 2015. Two contest winning stories, “Dreamtime” and “Blood and Guts,” will appear in the 2016 edition of Skyline.
Ms. Duncan has studied writing at the Gotham Writers Workshop, Writers.com, and Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop. Her freelance, feature articles on life in the Shenandoah Valley appear occasionally in the Staunton News-Leader. She is a member of WriterHouse, James River Writers, Virginia Writers Club (1st Vice President), Blue Ridge Writers, Shenandoah Valley Writers, SWAG (Staunton/Waynesboro/Augusta Group) Writers, and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
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Maine’s mask mandate doesn’t go far enough, health professionals say
by Patty Wight, Maine Public July 10, 2020 July 10, 2020
Commuters from Peaks Island arrive on the mainland in Portland in this May 21, 2020, file photo. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
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This week Gov. Janet Mills issued an executive order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The goal is to boost enforcement of a previous statewide order to wear face coverings in public when physical distancing is difficult.
The order requires businesses to enforce the face covering mandate, but it applies only to certain businesses in certain counties and cities. Some Mainers who work in health care say the patchwork approach does not go far enough.
Wearing a mask is a given where Dr. Joseph Babbitt works. He is an emergency department physician at Northern Light CA Dean Hospital in Greenville. But when Babbitt steps out into the community, it is a different story.
“In the areas where I live and work in the Greenville area, mask use is low,” he said.
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That is why Babbitt is disappointed that Mills’ order does not apply to the county where he lives, Piscataquis. Instead, it applies to seven Maine coastal counties from York to Hancock, as well as the cities of Bangor, Brewer, Lewiston, Auburn and Augusta. The order focuses on areas that attract tourists and have larger congregations of people, according to the Mills administration.
But Greenville is also a tourist destination. Babbitt said the population has already more than doubled this summer. And since a previous order in April requires face coverings statewide, he does not understand why the latest enforcement effort is not also statewide.
“It’s more confusing, it’s less consistent and it also, to me, sort of promotes the psychology of, well, there are appropriate times when it’s not necessary for some people, or some populations, or some settings to be safe,” Babbitt said.
Further west at Franklin Community Health Network in Farmington, President Trampas Hutches said he was surprised that Mills’ enforcement order applies only to certain areas.
“I do wish it was across the state,” Hutches said. “You know, enforcement across the board may be easier and help the community understand the seriousness of the disease.”
The order also applies only to certain businesses in the designated counties and cities — specifically lodging establishments, restaurants, outdoor bars and tasting rooms, as well as retailers with more than 50,000 square feet of shopping space.
The Mills administration said it is optimistic that stores across the state will increase enforcement in the wake of the executive order.
Though the enforcement order is not universal, some health care professionals said it is a positive step.
“I think that the order was good. I think it would be nice if it were statewide,” said Patty Hamilton, the public health director for Bangor.
Bangor is included in Mills’ enforcement order, but the county it sits in, Penobscot, is not. Hamilton suspects that Mills needed to be strategic when considering how to enforce face coverings.
“The mandated part, I think, is the tricky part, and that’s the part people are getting a lot of pushback on,” Hamilton said.
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At Bangor-based Northern Light Health, Dr. James Jarvis said he hopes that the order will help exert positive peer pressure to wear face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
“There’s literature from the health community and research department that really support that and show that in areas where people have embraced using social distancing and face coverings, that the number of cases of disease have gone down,” Jarvis said.
Babbitt, from Northern Light CA Dean Hospital in Greenville, said he is dismayed that more people in his community are not wearing masks. It may be because, on paper, Piscataquis County looks relatively untouched by COVID-19. Only five cases have been reported. But Babbitt said the disease is there.
“Most of the patient encounters I’ve had in the last two weeks have not been with people from Piscataquis County,” he said. “They’re people in Piscataquis County from either higher prevalence southern Maine counties like Cumberland and York, or higher prevalence states like New York, New Jersey and Florida.”
And some of those patients, Babbitt said, had COVID-19. He wishes people would remember that wearing masks is not about protecting yourself — it’s about protecting others. He says a universal policy might better help drive that message home.
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The 2020s: Time to Transition!
6 December, 2020 7 December, 2020 Sean McLoughlin 0 Comments Editor, Transgender
In early 1600s theatre was a highly popular form of entertainment. Without access to modern distractions such as Netflix, computer games or even books (unless you could read Latin), theatre was top of the list in terms of amusing yourself for a few hours. However, not a single woman – half the population! – could be seen on stage, with all female parts being played by adolescent boys. Intentionally or not, Shakespeare addressed this injustice from within by creating strong female roles – and not by inviting audiences to throw rotten fruit at the young male actors. More than four hundred years of evolution later, it is inconceivable that some sectors of society are still fighting for adequate representation in the performing arts. And yet here we are.
One such group battling inequity in the arts is the transgender community. It seems that there are three distinct but inextricably linked strands to the current furore: firstly, the unquestionable fact that transgender artists are woefully under-represented in the arts; secondly, the somewhat contrasting perspective that argues for artistic integrity, based on the belief that casting should not be based on gender politics; and finally we have social media, which has the potential to be a force for good and help bridge these polarised views, yet all too often adopts the role of the troll underneath this bridge.
Represent!
In 2017, transgender teenager Georgie Stone led a petition challenging a seemingly outdated and discriminatory law which decreed that young transgender people in Australia must go through Family Court in order to access hormone treatment – a vital step in transitioning. Australia was the only country in which this barrier existed for transgender minors. Through successful campaigning, Georgie achieved a landmark ruling which has affected countless lives for the better.
This was a step forward, but it is generally acknowledged that the transgender community still experiences discrimination and face barriers in accessing the same privileges their cisgender counterparts take for granted; the Australian Human Rights Commission has reported that transgender and gender diverse people consistently report poorer outcomes across a range of indicators, including mental and physical health. Data indicates that transgender people suffer disproportionate rates of violence and other forms of abuse. For every trans-inclusive policy it seems there is a transphobic action or attitude; with phrases such as ‘social fad’ being bandied about in the media, harmful stereotypes and stigma can only be perpetuated. Those seen to be supporting the transgender community leave themselves open to derogatory charges of ‘hipness’ or ‘wokeness’. The media and the arts have a role in ensuring that transgender artists have access to both decision-making and performance roles.
Under-representation is an issue – the facts speak for themselves. But is the creation of gender-specific roles the answer? Or is this simply reductive?
Art or Activism?
Last year, theatre heavyweights Miriam Margolyes and Maureen Lipman put their names to an open letter regarding the casting of Falsettos, a play about a dysfunctional Jewish family, in which not one Jewish actor was cast. The charge was one of cultural appropriation. But some would argue that the theatre is about acting, not political activism or identity politics.
So would it be inappropriate for a cisgender artist to perform the role of a transgender character? Well, British actors’ union Equity has actually called for more casting directors to consider casting transgender artist in cisgender roles. Transgender artist Harrison Knights describes such roles as ‘the holy grail’, saying:
‘It is not until transgender artists are being cast in major cisgender roles because we are the best actors for the role, rather than because we tick a box that we have truly arrived’.
This is surely the essence of acting: the ability to convincingly pretend to inhabit someone else’s world? This is perfectly illustrated by Laurence Olivier’s disparagement of Dustin Hoffman’s method acting in Marathon Man. ‘My dear boy’, declared Olivier, ‘why don’t you just try acting?’ One has only to think of Hilary Swank’s performance in Boys Don’t Cry or Felicity Huffman in TransAmerica to be reminded that acting is a craft, not a political agendum. The drama itself addresses the political issues of the day.
Using this logic, of course, only spells good news for transgender performers – wouldn’t it be rather limiting if they were restricted to only transgender roles? Casting based on anything other than talent is open to accusations of intolerance. Cultural commentator James McPherson makes this point in The Spectator, implying that narrowly defining roles and excluding all performers except those who fit a very limited criteria (criterion, in fact) is tantamount to political correctness gone mad, ‘all in the name of inclusion’. The line between acting and cultural appropriation is seemingly a fine one. In argument theory, there is a line of thought which dictates that if the opposite of an argument is ridiculous, then so too is the original argument. In other words, if we say that ‘only transgender performers can play transgender roles’, then by implication we are saying that ‘only cisgender performers can play cisgender roles’. Ridiculous, right? Isn’t it an ‘over-correction’ to address an injustice with an injustice?
It is naïve, of course, to expect that politics and the theatre be separate entities. But let the performance do the talking.
The Troll Under the Bridge?
Social media is itself a theatre of sorts. Whatever the public drama of the day, this is where it is played out. And while much meaningful debate takes place, there is an equal amount undignified slanging matches. We are heading in a doom-laden direction. Social media has the power to shift public opinion and drive positive change. Georgie Stone got it right – campaigning and positive representation is the way forward, not online hectoring and bullying. Shakespeare got it right, too – the stage was his social platform for initiating change.
On social media everyone has a voice – but does everyone have the wisdom to discern when silence is golden?
2021 Beckons
Whatever our personal views, the world is changing and we must change with it; as we usher in a new decade, perhaps it is time for all of us, as we embrace a new era, to transition to a new way of thinking and behaving.
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Jeep launches its website in India
The website offers the first glimpse of the Grand Cherokee and the Wrangler Unlimited. Both the SUVs will be showcased during the Delhi Auto Expo 2016 from February 5.
NEW DELHI: Italian - American automobile manufacturer Fiat Chrysler's Jeep brand has launched its website in India, the company informed in a statement. The website offers the first glimpse of the Grand Cherokee and the Wrangler Unlimited.
Both the SUVs will be showcased during the Delhi Auto Expo 2016 from February 5.
Speaking on the occasion Kevin Flynn, President and Managing Director, FCA India, said, “It gives us immense pride to launch this iconic Jeep brand in India. Today, FCA embarks on a new expedition in the Indian market and we hope this significant milestone will help us to firmly establish Jeep in India right from the start.”
“The new Jeep brand positioning on the website reflects an ambition to expand the marque’s global footprint while staying true to its legacy. Stay tuned to experience more about this exciting brand’s arrival in India in the coming months.”
Apart from the curtain raiser website, potential customers can engage on other digital platforms – such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – to explore the brand and learn more about the new models.
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Love Songs on the Fly
No gift? No problem! A hastily written romantic ballad will win over your significant other
Chandler Roberts, Production Manager
It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air! It’s when couples surprise each other with gifts to show their love for one another. But what if you don’t have money to buy a gift? Think about the time you saw that movie or TV show or book where the main character wrote a love song for their significant other. You should do that. But where to start? How is a love song written? Why do you keep asking questions? You’re in luck: We’ll answer all of those questions in our step-by-step guide on how to write that perfect love song for your romantic partner. You’ll be pitching woo in no time.
In order to show that I practice what I preach, I wrote a song using this method. The lyrics took about 30 minutes to write and the song is called Recognize.
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George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship
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The story of a significant British church leader who fought for justice and freedom
It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear from Andrew Chandler's new biography of George Kennedy Allen Bell (1883-1958).
As he traces the arc of Bell's life, Chandler reshapes our perspective on Bonhoeffer's life and times. In addition to serving as bishop of Chichester, Bell was an internationalist and ecumenical leader, one of the great Christian humanists of the twentieth century, a tenacious critic of the obliteration bombing of enemy cities during World War II, and a key ally of those who struggled for years to resist Hitler in Germany itself.
This inspiring biography raises important questions that still haunt the moral imagination today: When should the word of protest be spoken? When should nations go to war, and how should they fight? What are our obligations to the victims of dictators and international conflict?
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Nettie Pollard
White devotes an entire chapter of his 1995 report to History, Context, and Culture of Islington.
Nowhere is it mentioned that a decade previously the small inner London borough had served as the headquarters of the national pro-paedophile rights activism between 1975-1984.
If White had been aware of the press coverage of the Paedophile Information Exchange’s activities in Islington he doesn’t mention it.
Leisha Fullick, the Chief Executive of Islington Council appointed in 1996, stated in her report ‘Modernising Islington’ that one of the risks identified as the Council being ‘vulnerable to lobbying groups.’
Which lobbying groups? If these ‘lobbying groups’ were lobbying for pro-paedophile rights, what does the Chief Executive’s admission of the Council’s vulnerability mean?
Vulnerable in what sense? Capable of being influenced by? Ideologically? Financially?
For five years, between 1975 – 1980, Islington Council helped fund a voluntary organisation — London Friend — enabling its move from Paddington to Islington. This voluntary organisation proceeded to vigorously promote, support and defend PIE from its HQ located only a few doors down (305 ft to be exact) from Islington Town Hall
During 1975-1980 London Friend’s two General Secretaries were quoted in the press as vocal defenders of PIE, both of whom also served on the NCCL Executive Committee and on the NCCL Gay Rights Committee alongside Paedophile Information Exchange stalwarts Micky Burbidge, Nettie Pollard, Keith Hose and later Tom O’Carroll
In May 1977, London Friend’s support for PIE extended to hosting PIE’s Annual General Meeting at their Islington premises with 31 paedophiles and pro-paedophile rights activists gathering for four hours to elect Charles Napier as Treasurer, Tom O’Carroll as Chair and accept Peter Righton’s resignation as Community Liaison Officer.
In October 1978 Peter Righton co-founded a new gay youth group in Islington with PIE Manifesto co-author Micky Burbidge along with Roland Jeffery attending. The Joint Council of Gay Teenagers (JCGT) was hosted by London Friend and Grapevine – both voluntary organisations also in receipt of funding from Islington Council. JCGT was conceived of and convened as an umbrella organisation under which pro-paedophile activists could gather existing grass roots gay teenage organisations to prey on and use as a front for lobbying purposes.
From 1983 Islington Council was also funding the sending of groups of children from Walter Sickert Court, Rosemary School (Prebend Street) on vacations to the Islington-Suffolk Project based in Thornham Magna, where Peter Righton fled to following his conviction in 1992.
In looking past the fact PIE operated in Islington, a central question is avoided:
To what extent did the Paedophile Information Exchange recruit Islington Council’s social workers and residential child care staff as members?
Peter Righton, as an Executive Member of PIE, was identified and published under his own name (possibly because Righton felt safe to say he was counselling paedophiles in either his role of Community Liaison Officer or Prison Visitor) despite most of PIE’s Executive Committee using pseudonyms. Any social worker or residential care staff joining PIE who recognised Righton’s name (from Social Work Today, Community Care articles or training he’d delivered) would have felt reassured. Any conflict between personal interests in lobbying for paedophile rights and their professional duties such as acting in the best interests of children’s welfare were surely negligible if Peter Righton, the person responsible for training residential childcare staff, didn’t see a problem.
1970: Father Trevor Huddleston launches Islington’s Council of Social Services
Four years before the DPP declined to prosecute Father Trevor Huddleston of molesting school boys in his role as Bishop of Stepney, he launched Islington’s Council of Social Service – a voluntary body established to serve as the focal point in coordinating voluntary services to supplement and extend statutory social services.
Trevor Huddleston & Others: Mr X and the Rule of Law
1974-1975: Home Office Urban Aid scheme applications for Islington
While PIE was busy putting a call out, recruiting social workers to the cause of promoting paedophilia as acceptable …
….On 11 February 1975 Islington Council voted in plenary on whether to contribute to voluntary organisations for which 75% of funding had already been raised through the government Urban Aid Scheme.
Just prior to being appointed Islington’s Social Services Director, John Rea Price had been working for the Home Office on the Community Development Project & Urban Programme in Southwark, out of which the Urban Aid scheme had evolved.
Letter to the Editor, The Guardian, [date 1973]
Islington Council Minutes, 11 February 1975
The ‘Homosexual Centre’ Councillor Denton was at pains to make clear he disapproved of was the Greater London & Home Counties branch of ‘Friend’, a national counselling and befriending organisation which had so flourished establishing various local Friend groups that it had spun off from the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) as a separate concern.
Originally based in a shopfront facing onto the busy market of Church Street, W2, almost equidistant between two national railway stations at Marylebone and Paddington, London Friend had been conveniently based to deal with some of the fall-out from Playland Trial 1 but by late 1974 the voluntary organisation was due to become homeless and was casting around for funding and somewhere to put down roots.
Mike Launder, an Islington resident and social worker activist had co-founded Friend and it was to Islington that Friend’s London HQ would move.
Islington Social Services Committee had come to the rescue with an Urban Aid application for funding and shop premises at 274 Upper Street, a few doors down from Islington Town Hall.
Islington Gazette, ‘Government money for Islington Gay Centre’, 21 February 1975, p.15
Despite Islington Gazette’s robust editorial reiterating Social Services Committee Chair Mrs Patricia Brown’s points about discrimination, a homophobic tirade from a Baptist Pastor from Highbury Place made it into the local press,
Note the use of “child molestor”, a term that PIE would erase from news reporting’s lexicon once paedophile became the accepted descriptor.
Islington Gazette, 1975
London Friend was given £7,900 per year over 5 years, which would be a total of £39,500 except for some reason the Gazette put the total at approximately £35,000 (possibly due to the Urban Aid grant being received part-way through financial year of 1974-75?)
25% of the total was provided by LBI council, 75% from Home Office urban aid
Using the Bank of England Inflation Calculator, in today’s money London Friend was due to receive £315,003.71 over five years (c. £63,000 p.a.)
LBI was scheduled to contribute somewhere between £7,900 – £9875 (in today’s money £63k – £79k)
“The organisation operates awareness groups and hopes to link up with other homosexual advice and information services to share resources.”
PIE wasn’t exclusively homosexual but it did consider itself an ‘information exchange’ and service to its members.
Islington Gazette, March 1975
“The Committee has pursued a policy of submitting urban aid applications on behalf of voluntary organisations. This has resulted in a great deal of central Government money coming into the borough to help solve pressing social problems. It is not our policy to exclude any groups seeking urban aid grants.” (Mrs Pat Brown, Islington Council Social Services Committee Chair)
May 1975: London Friend recruits first General Secretary
Having secured premises in Islington but not moved in yet, London Friend was ready to advertise for their co-ordinator, offering a salary of up to £2,500 (c.£20k p.a.). Without a permanent office address London Friend had to advise job applicants to write care of Peter Righton (PIE luminary and social work trainer and residential childcare policy): 48 Barbican Road Greenford Middlesex
“We are about to move into new premises in Islington, and are looking for a man or woman to run the office, coordinate the work of brefrienders, and build up effective communication and relationships between London Friend and the community at large.”
How far Peter Righton’s influence seeped into London Friend’s recruitment process beyond offering a postal address for prospective candidates to apply to is unknown.
London Friend’s 1st General Secretary
(September 1975 – September 1977)
Roland Jeffery was the lucky applicant who wrote into Righton’s address, was interviewed (by whom?) and bagged the job, starting in September 1975.
At Oxford University (1971-1974?) Jeffery had been a student CHE convenor and so was able to demonstrate previous experience in a voluntary organisation related to London Friend.
During 1975 he began volunteering with the NCCL Gay Rights Committee, campaigning alongside some of PIE’s most vocal and influential pro-paedophile rights activists: Micky Burbidge (PIE Manifesto author with Keith Hose), Keith Hose (PIE Chair 1975 – 28 May 1977), and Nettie Pollard.
At PIE’s AGM Charles Napier became Treasurer (sentenced in 2014 to 13 years for sexually abusing 23 boys between 1967-1983). By the time London Friend hosted PIE’s AGM in May 1977, Roland Jeffery had been working with Charles Napier for 6 months, drawn together by the former National Association of Youth Clubs chief Harold Haywood and his Earl’s Court Nucleus project.
NCCL Executive Committee Elections Ballot April 1978: Candidate biographies – Roland Jeffery
Throughout Jeffery’s tenure as London Friend’s General Secretary (September 1975 – September 1977), London Friend continued to receive PIE Newsletters.
PIE publications in archives bear ‘London F
It is partially courtesy of London Friend’s subscription to PIE and their newsletters and their subsequent submission to the LSE archives, that there is an archive of PIE’s publications.
October 1975: ‘Befrienders tackle sex with clients’
Gay News reported a debate at the National Friend conference on 25 October 1975.
At the conference, as well as a workshop and discussion on paedophilia, a discussion took place on whether Befrienders should or could have sexual relationships with clients who had approached the voluntary organisation for help.
Despite elsewhere reporting a percentage of under 16s as contacting Friend, any concerns that a sexual relationship between a Befriender and a lonely isolated adult contacting the organisation was a potential abuse of power or at all exploitative were disregarded. There were apparently no concerns that paedophiles could abuse this leniency to access vulnerable minors offering ‘counselling’ or ‘befriending’.
Roland Jeffery suggested Befrienders could offer ‘sex therapy’ and have sex with clients or “use education and porno films” in cases of sexual dysfunction.
Would paedophilia be considered a sexual dysfunction Befrienders should try to alleviate the loneliness and frustration of? Would ‘befriending’ a paedophile in such a case have included the provision of child abuse images or films in the case of lonely isolated and sexually frustrated paedophiles? The Protection of Children Act 1978 was not yet in force.
May 1977: Islington Council funded voluntary organisation hosts PIE’s Annual General Meeting
31 members of PIE travelled to no 274 Upper Street Islington N1, representing over 13% of the reported PIE total membership of 227. Postage costs were up to £25 per month.
Nettie Pollard of the NCCL Gay Rights Committee was keen to advertise NCCL as an emergency port of call for paedophiles seeking legal advice or to choose a defence solicitor or barrister.
“Nettie Pollard from the NCCL gave the meeting a short, but very helpful speech about homosexuality and the law, and about arrest. She outlined several aspects of some of the cases involving paedophiles which had come to her notice in her work as Gay Rights Organiser of the NCCL.”
“Care should be taken in the choice of a lawyer — NCCL maintained a list of suitable lawyers, and that organisation should be asked for their advice.”
Gay News No 126, September 1977
London Friend’s 2nd General Secretary (1977- 6 March 1980)
Richard McCance
When Richard McCance took on the position of London Friend’s General Secretary following Roland Jeffery’s departure, the enthusiastic and vocal support for the Paedophile Information Exchange — 25% of which was being funded by Islington Council over five years — continued.
CHE 1977/78 Executive Committee Biographies
Social Worker Richard McCance’s support for PIE extended beyond his tenure as London Friend’s General Secretary, before and after.
A keen trade unionist and member of the British Association of Social Workers, McCance was eager to harness support for Tom O’Carroll, chairman of PIE, by using the Anti-Discrimination Clause he had successfully campaigned for adoption by a number of Trade Unions during 1976-77.
Just prior to joining London Friend, while on the CHE Executive Committee Richard McCance gave the view (‘Gays join PIE fight’) that since the National Union of Journalists’ anti-discrimination clause included sexual orientation, the NUJ would take up Tom O’Carroll’s suspension by his employer the Open University.
The implied assertion being that a paraphilia like paedophilia was a sexual orientation like heterosexuality or homosexuality and therefore capable and deserving of being protected against discrimination in employment.
Guardian, September 1977
In January 1981, while giving evidence for the defence at the PIE Trial of 4 of the Executive Committee, McCance said that as General Secretary of London Friend he received the magazine Magpie but without the contact page. He read it because elsewhere there was so much misinformation about paedophiles and Friend often had to help gay paedophiles who are “having to cope with all the hostilities of society.”
Gay News 22 Jan – 6 Feb 1981, Judge Orders PIE Re-Trial
Gay News, Judge Orders PIE Re-Trial, 22 Jan – 6 Feb 1981 p.
When Richard McCance penned an Editorial for CHE’s in-house publication Broadsheet (August 1978) denouncing “the virulent hostility towards paedophilia and paedophiles” and criticising Gay News for their betrayal of paedophiles who had supported their legal defence against Mary Whitehouse’s private prosecution for blasphemy, other CHE members felt strongly there should be more editorial consensus reached before allowing individual’s free reign for opinion pieces, and so an insert disclaiming McCance’s opinion as representative of CHE was included.
CHE Broadsheet, August 1978
McCance’s conflation of gay rights with paedophile rights was an essential and well-used approach to blackmailing gays and lesbians into feeling intolerant if they weren’t willing to campaign for the rights of adult to have sex with children:
“The virulent hostility towards paedophilia and paedophiles is not dissimilar to that encountered by the gay movement not so many years ago when CHE and GLF tried to hold their first meetings in public halls.”
Gay News 149 August 1980 p10
Roland Jefferies (sic) of the NCCL said:
“When PIE is under attack we should support them. Dropping the listing of PIE from the Gay News Guide may seem to them to be bad faith on our part.”
CHE Vice-Chairman slams Gay News, Gay News, September 1978
1978: PIE organising Islington’s gay youth
Following Dr Brongersma’s attendance at CHE’s annual conference in Nottingham, PIE’s Executive Committee past and present were repositioning their campaigning to more closely resemble the Dutch paedophiles approach. Instead of paedophiles campaigning for the right to have sex with children, paedophiles must create or infiltrate youth organisations so it appeared to be teenagers campaigning to abolish the age of consent and their rights to have sex with adults.
During October 1978 Peter Righton co-founded a new gay youth group with PIE Manifesto co-author and Islington resident Micky Burbidge: the Joint Council for Gay Teenagers.
1979-1980: London Friend suffers Council funding cutback
Over Christmas 1979 London Friend was “fighting a last-ditch battle to save its council grant.”
In 1978-79 Islington Social Services Committee had granted London Friend £14,350 but during 1979, despite Friend’s application for an increased grant of £17k, the Social Services Committee had voted to grant only £5,500.
However it soon became clear that there may be no money to be found for the borough’s funded help services and now all grants will be examined again before the final decision on January 29 1980.
Gay News 181, 13 December 1979 – 9 January 1980
Gay News March 1980
Within 3 years of leaving London Friend, Richard McCance had moved to Nottingham to be elected as a Labour Councillor.
Peter Righton’s Haven: Council funding for the Islington-Suffolk Project
Islington Council Minutes, March 1983 – Agenda Item 5.
Over the course of five years, funding from Islington Council to the Islington Suffolk Project had jumped from an annual ‘Capital Grant’ contribution of £3,233 to approximately £27.5k per year.
Despite being billed as a philanthropic venture by Lord Henniker, Islington Council was picking up the tab to send selected Islington children from schools, day centres and play schemes to spend 4 day weekends camping at the Project’s Thornham Magna campsite.
However, by March 1988 the Project faced losing £5,000 in Council funding cuts, a reduced contribution of £22.5k meaning that £50 per group (£25 of which was a deposit for camping gear) would be charged.
David Pare, Director of the Project based on St John Street in Clerkenwell spoke to the Islington Gazette about the council’s funding cuts.
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12 Sept 1978: Hewitt tries to refocus NCCL Gay Rights Committee away from fighting paedophile cases as civil liberties issues per se
In January 1978 Tom O’Carroll had been dismissed by the Open University, in June the News of the World had infiltrated PIE’s AGM and in August the Protection of Children Act had entered into force.
On 12 September 1978 the NCCL Gay Rights Committee got together at the NCCL offices for their regular monthly meeting.
Letters to NUPE re free speech. Alan [Deighton] had discussed this with Patricia Hewitt. This was further discussed under item below.
Article for Rights! on chemical castration. This was temporarily suspended, due to discussions about rumoured new home Office policy. Nettie meeting with MIND on this on Bill Pate case. It was doubted that exact Home Office policy would be stated (prison secrets etc…)
Protection of Children Bill. Bill [Forrester] was in touch with Hattie [Harman] about how this was to be monitored. David Offenbach agreed to monitor prosecutions under the Act, and relay information to Hattie. Attempts to have PIE proscribed, and to prosecute its publications were discussed.
3. Paedophilia
A memo on ‘Paedophilia’ from Patricia Hewitt was read out and noted (memo appended) [scroll down for the document and Nettie Pollard’s note to Antony Grey]
5. NUPE and Free Speech
In the light of the Memo on ‘Paedophilia’ it was agreed that Roland [Jeffrey] contact Patricia Hewitt and ask her to again approach NUPE for a more satisfactory response over their members apparent attempt to prevent a discussion of, inter alia, paedophilia. Roland to ask Patricia for progress report so far and to invite her to next GRC meeting.
11. Visit to Brynmor John
Roland report on joint NCCL/JCWI visit on non-national gay lovers. Pending the outcome of the appeals of the cases in question, John would consider using his ministerial discretion; no guidelines were given, though he indicated that ‘persecution’ in the country of origin of the non-national partner would impress him strongly as grounds for the exercise of discretion.
Patricia Hewitt’s Memo on Paedophilia to staff and members of the NCCL Gay Rights Sub-Committee during September 1978 attempted to re-focus the GCR’s almost exclusive scope on paeodophile civil liberties which left Nettie Pollard aghast. When forwarding the note to Antony Grey she prefers to construe Hewitt’s memo as a threat by NCCL to drop all issues relating to sexuality:
“Seriously Antony, this paper is really saying is that the powers in NCCL want NCCL to have nothing to do with the subject. For example, the thing to do with Tom O’C being thrown out of Swansea (you may remember seeing Patricia with Roland and me at the start of the year) – this has still got nowhere at all inspite of about six separate reminders from people on the Committee.
If were (sic) are not viligant NCCL will quietly drop all issues to do with sexuality.
Love Nettie”
Hewitt had not asked for all matters relating to paedophilia to be dropped. Cases where the ‘relationship’ involved a child of 14 or over (as submitted by NCCL to the Criminal Law Revision Committee), the NCCL Legal team or Gay Rights Committee may still appropriately become involved in.
“The EC [Executive Committee] agreed that paedophilia was not itself a civil liberties issue. In particular, it is not a gay rights issue and does not therefore fall within the scope of the gay rights committee.”
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1978: Tom O’Carroll writes to Antony Grey at Defence of Literature & Arts Society re ‘freedom of speech’
In 1978, during the passage of the Protection of Children bill through Parliament, and just as PIE were preparing to publish their Paedophilia: Some Questions & Answers and distribute the booklet to MPs pigeonholes in the House of Commons, Tom O’Carroll, Chairman of Paedophile Information Exchange and member of the NCCL Gay Rights Committee wrote to Antony Grey in his role on the Executive Committee of the Defence of Literature and Arts Society (‘DLAS’).
O’Carroll wanted to thank Grey for his support at the 1978 NCCL Annual General Meeting and “in relation to” the National Union for Public Employees. The NCCL AGM had taken place on 1-2 April at City University, a fortnight prior to O’Carroll’s letter.
“Dear Antony, I was pleased to see you the other day, and only regret that I had to dash off without having a chance to talk to you after the meeting. Allow me, however, to thank you very much for your support at the NCCL AGM, and in relation to NUPE etc.”
Motion. 39: Freedom of Discussion proposed by Nettie Pollard and Bill Forrester
At the 1978 AGM which O’Carroll and Grey had attended, PIE member Nettie Pollard had seconded a motion proposed by Bill Forrester to ask NCCL to condemn the protests against PIE’s meeting in September 1977:
“This AGM re-affirms the right of free discussion and freedom to hold meetings for all organisations and individuals doing so within the law.
In particular this AGM condemns the physical and other attacks on those who have discussed or attempted to discuss paedophilia and re-affirms NCCL’s condemnation of harassment and unlawful attacks on such persons.” [Bill Forrester and Nettie Pollard]
Tom O’Carroll was responding to an approach made by DLAS to David Grove, PIE’s Children Rights’ Campaign leader and keeper of the PIE mailing list.
In June/July 1976 edition of Understanding Paedophilia (PIE’s forerunner to Magpie) the ‘Magnificent Six’ had been announced, with the following people undertaking the following roles for PIE
‘It’s the Magnificent Six’, p. 7
New EC:
Keith Hose – re-elected to serve as National Chairperson for the coming year
Warren Middleton – re-elected as National Vice Chairperson/PIE Magazine Editor
Tom O’Carroll – elected as PIE General Secretary/responsible for the formation of local groups/PIE members’ contact service/Publicity [See further: Did NCCL’s trawl of List 99 radicalise PIE’s Tom O’Carroll? Palaver #6 October 1976]
David C Grove – elected as Director of PIE’s forthcoming children’s rights campaign/responsible for distribution of mail
Charles Napier – elected as Treasurer/responsible for recruitment of new members.
Peter Righton – elected as Organiser of prison-hospital visits/general correspondence and PIE befriending.
Want applicants for Legal adviser and Director of Research. [Ian Pace blog]
DLAS wanted an article from PIE on the ways in which their freedom of speech have been muzzled for the DLAS publication “Uncensored” Tom O’Carroll nominates Keith Hose to write this for Grey.
Three years later, in a letter to Tony Smythe, Grey wrote
“ The drubbing which free speech, civil rights and common sense have taken over the PIE case is appalling. I always feared that Tom O’Carroll was hellbent on opening this particular Pandora’s Box, and so it has proved.” [See further: With compliments from Ian Dunn, and while you were out Tony Smythe called March 1981 ]
Seemingly, a fear precipitated by Grey’s own invitation, adopting the role of a self-fulfilling prophet of doom while bearing in mind Grey’s ego couldn’t bear not to archive these writings publicly.
The Defence of Literature and the Arts Society (1968 – 1983)
The Defence of Literature and Arts Society attracted sponsors from “the great and good”:
Lords, charity directors, MPs, former MPs, lawyers and even doctors such as Dr David Stafford-Clark and Lords who were also Doctors such as Lord Winstanley (apparently a staunch supporter of everyone else’s freedom of speech bar Mary Whitehouse’s when he commanded Antony Grey to pursue her to the end of the road if not further! [Dec 1976: See further blog post here]
Francis Bennion, Parliamentary Counsel and Civil Liberties Barrister
One member of the Executive Committee who served alongside Antony Grey and Eric Thompson was Francis Bennion, Barrister and Parliamentary counsel, who had drafted the constitutions of Pakistan and Ghana, the Consumer Credit Act, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and the hugely successful reference book for lawyers on ‘Statutory Interpretation’. In 1968 he founded the Professional Association of Teachers.
On Francis Bennion‘s website : http://www.francisbennion.com/pdfs/non-fb/1983/1983-007-nfb-dlas-pamphlet.pdf
In 1979 Bennion wrote a review of G Parker Rossman’s book Sexual Experience between Men and Boys [Freethinker Vol.99 1979] [See further for Antony Grey’s meeting with Parker Rossman on his July 1979 trip to UK from the states and Rossman’s letter to Grey and more on George Parker Rossman’s 1971 arrest in the Long Island New York ring with Dr Morris Fraser ]
In 1983 Antony Grey and his partner Eric Thompson were still serving on the Executive Committee of the DLAS along with Michael Rubinstein (the solicitor who Sir Harold Haywood was dismayed at charging for his advice on suing Mary Whitehouse due to his “special interest in the Trust”).
Lord Beaumont of Whitley (former Albany Trust Chairman 1969-1972?) is also a sponsor.
Ben Whitaker (former Lab: Hampstead MP 1966-1970)
Ben Whitaker was the Chairman of the DLAS and had been Labour MP for Hampstead 1966-1970 during Wilson’s first term, at the same time Dr David Kerr, a fellow DLAS sponsor, had been Labour MP for Wandsworth Central.
NCCL AGM Ballot Papers 1978: Biographies for candidates standing for NCCL Executive Committee
Brian Sedgemore MP (Lab: Hackney South)
Sponsors included Brian Sedgemore MP (Lab: Hackney South)
See further for Mark Trotter, the Hackney Labour agent whose abuse of children left some victims with AIDS with a history of abuse in Liverpool:
Poisonous regime that betrayed the children (07.01.98)
Hackney’s tainted chiefs ‘will be axed’ (08.01.98)
The council officer told her friend: Don’t use Trotter as your babysitter. But the public was never warned (21.01.98) [Evening Standard, Stewart Payne & Eileen Fairweather]
MP’s attack on the man who helped expose Hackney abuser (04.02.98) [Evening Standard, Stewart Payne & Eileen Fairweather]
Ian Mikardo MP (Lab: East end, Bow, Poplar, Bethnal Green 1964-1987)
Ian Mikardo MP (Lab: Reading 1945–50, Reading South 1950–55, Reading 1955–59, Poplar 1964–74, Bethnal Green and Bow 1974–83 and Bow and Poplar 1983–87)
“… the progress of the Child Protection bill was threatened by MP Ian Mikardo, who blocked it to protest against tactics being used by the Conservative party to block Edward Fletcher‘s bill on employment protection, the Prime Minister, James Callaghan, stepped in to ensure that the Bill received the time required to become law.[1]” [Wikipedia: Child Protection Act 1978]
On 12 May 1978 Auberon Waugh wrote ‘Save the Children’ for The Spectator when Mikardo was MP for Bethnal Green and Bow:
“After all the recent hysteria about the Child Protection Bill, when Mr Ian Mikardo was practically accused of supporting the vile trade in child pornography, we have at last been given a chance to examine the Bill as it ambles its way through its second reading in the House of Lords. To judge from press reaction, and from statements by various opportunist MPs, one might have supposed that child pornography was a new and hideous development which somehow escaped existing legislation on obscene publication and protection of minors, while threatening to corrupt a whole generation of British schoolchildren for the unscrupulous gain of these merchants in human misery . . .”
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1974-75: Keith Hose’s concurrent NCCL-PIE roles
PIE was ‘officially’ formed in October 1974 by three co-founders from the Scottish Minorities Group not just Ian Dunn and Michael Hanson who have previously been identified in the press [see further: A 3rd co-founder of PIE?]
Keith Hose took over as Chairman in June at a meeting of the Executive Committee at Ivor Street, Camden, NW1 in June 1975 following PIE’s first AGM in March held in Edinburgh.
According to the NCCL Annual Report 74/75 on the work and membership of the Gay Rights Committee Keith had been serving on the NCCL Gay Rights Committee for the year of 1974 (see below) when he attended the event “First International Gay Rights Congress” organised by Ian Dunn and Derek Ogg for 18 -22 December. Keith attended (on behalf of NCCL GCR or on his own behalf?) and heard Frank Kameny of the US Mattachine Society speak calling for more militancy in the movement.
Six months later, while still a member of the NCCL Gay Rights Committee with fellow PIE member Nettie Pollard, Keith Hose concurrently held the office of PIE’s chairman. Michael Schofield who was on the NCCL GCR’s committee with Keith at the time had also been involved with the Albany Trust since 1968 [see further for Schofield’s telephone conversation with Dr Charlotte Wolff over Peter Righton’s attempt to take control of the Trust’s counselling case files in 1971]
See further for more information on the NCCL’s association with PIE’s second chairman after Keith Hose: Did NCCL’s 1976 trawl of List 99 radicalise PIE’s Tom O’Carroll?
PIE Newsletter No.6 [Published late July/early August 1975]
The Executive Committee of PIE met on 22 June 1975 when 23 year old Keith Hose stepped in as Chairman and Treasurer, with Warren Middleton as the new Vice-Chairman (newsletter production).
In July 2011 Warren Middleton (a.k.a John Parratt) John Parratt, 63, a former vice chairman of Pie, also known as Warren Middleton, was jailed for 12 months for having indecent images.
Interestingly, Parratt’s address in this 1990 Daily Star article is given as Harwood Court, Upper Richmond Road, Putney is just over a mile from Elm Guest House.
All the other original members of the Executive Committee had resigned leaving Keith as the the only real choice. Michael Hanson, a student at Edinburgh University, who had been a member of Scottish Minorities Group and founded PIE all while taking his final exams was leaving the country.
“Keith’s appointment was very much to be expected as he has vast experience of the ‘gay rights movement’ and is very well-known to prominent campaigners. A long serving member of the EC, Keith will be remembered by all those who came to the PIE London gathering in March. Like Michael, he is a dedicated campaigner and is completely open about his proclivities. Having substantial influence in the gay scene, he is also a prominent member of Icebreakers, and is a member of the NCCL Gay Rights Sub-Committee. Additionally, Keith will be remembered by many readers as the author of a highly intelligent article on paedophilia in ‘Quorum’ magazine. He has been the author of numerous other articles and has recently been featured in both ‘Time Out’ magazine and ‘Gay News’. He will shortly be writing a feature article on the aims of PIE and how our organisation is attempting to tackle the sexual problems of pedophiles – at the invitation of ‘Time Out‘.”
Warren Middleton (John Parratt) was a member of the British Library then engaged in research on the works of the Victorian Calamites.
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April 1977: Penthouse funding to NCCL for PIE’s Nettie Pollard falters
*again with thanks to A.N.Other
Penthouse owner Bob Guccione
A 1977 new model telephone
In April 1977, PIE member and NCCL Gay Rights worker Nettie Pollard almost lost her job. While she was busy writing to the Lord Chancellor’s office to request that Judge Alan King-Hamilton be disciplined for his comments on the Paedophile Information Exchange (looking like one big blackmail set-up)* during the case of R v Andre Thorne, the Penthouse grant from Bob Guccione which funded her role at NCCL was due for renewal in June or October that year. As ever, Lord Beaumont was Nettie’s first port of call in the House of Lords (despite no longer being Albany Trust chairman) when her plea for admonishment fell on deaf ears at the LC’s office.
Geoffrey Robertson, then a barrister of 4 years call, considered it a ‘moot point’ as to whether it would be renewed and was having discussions with Guccione as to conditions being attached to renewal. Robertson stated that the current grant had been given to support gay rights work but that Patricia [Hewitt’s] subsequent conversations with Penthouse meant that may have been altered.
The fact that Penthouse was acceptable funding for NCCL Gay Rights Committee staff and came with conditions shouldn’t perhaps be surprising in the context of Peter Righton’s fellow ACCESS trustee Dr Robert Chartham/Ronald Seth also being Penthouse Forum’s agony uncle, providing free 1 hour sessions on Wednesdays at a ‘clinic’, or Dr Charlotte Wolff or Michael De La Noy publishing articles there.
[*N.B. Judge Alan King-Hamilton presided at Playland Trial No. 2, Charles Hornby in July – September 1975 – David Archer’s dossier of ‘millionaires, influential and titled people’ escaping prosecution for abuse of boys at the Piccadilly amusement arcade]
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Lord Beaumont, National Council for Civil Liberties, Nettie Pollard, Paedophile Information Exchange, Patricia Hewitt, Penthouse on March 3, 2015 by cassandracogno. 4 Comments
Jan 1976: A 3rd co-founder of PIE? Keith Hose writes to Mary McIntosh
*with thanks to researcher wishing to remain anon for now for finding these documents
Mary McIntosh (1936 – 2013), turning forty, was working at the Home Office Policy Advisory Committee on Sexual Offences in 1976. She would later become Head of Sociology at University of Essex working with Ken Plummer [“Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,”The Telegraph 5 July 2014], a visitor to the Albany Trust’s offices on Shaftesbury Avenue from 1967/1968 working with Michael Schofield, sociologist and Albany Trustee.
“She joined Essex after working at the Home Office Research Unit, the University of Leicester; Borough Polytechnic (now South Bank University) and Nuffield College, Oxford University.” [University of Essex obituary]
Keith was keen to emphasise that he was contacting McIntosh on the basis of them sharing two mutual friends – Nettie Pollard, fellow PIE member and NCCL Gay Rights worker, and Jeffrey Weeks – and their suggestion that he contact her to enquire whether she would like to receive an early copy of the PIE ‘evidence on the law relating for certain sexual offences involving children for the Criminal Law Revision Committee’.
For more on Jeffrey Weeks’ writings please see https://ianpace.wordpress.com/tag/jeffrey-weeks/
But what is even more interesting than discovering Mary McIntosh as yet another friendly face for PIE residing in the Home Office (from Advisory Policy to Research Unit) is the suggestion that in January 1976 it was stated there was a third co-founder of PIE from the Scottish Minorities Group. So far, it appears only Ian Campbell Dunn and Michael Hanson have ever been named as co-founders in the press.
In the literature Keith Hose encloses for McIntosh the first line states:
“PIE was founded in October 1974 by 3 members of the Scottish Minorities Group, who felt that there was a need in britain for a group of those men and women who are sexually and otherwise attracted to young people below the age of 17. The inaugural meeting of its members took place in March 1975.”
Were the results of the questionnaire/survey collated by PIE taken from their membership form as set out below? This may be the same survey Mary Manning later reports on for Community Care.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Jeffrey Weeks, Keith Hose, Ken Plummer, Mary McIntosh, Nettie Pollard, Paedophile Information Exchange, Scottish Minorities Group on March 2, 2015 by cassandracogno. 5 Comments
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'Mehmano ko kareeb lao' is Coke's mission this festive season
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A screenshot from the commercial featuring Alia Bhatt
With the festive season upon us, off-the-cuff visits to friends' and families' homes will be at an all-time high, and Coca-Cola's newest campaign leverages this insight. Coke's newest communication 'Coca-Cola pilao mehmano ko kareeb lao' is trying to make sure that these visits are enjoyable and not riddled with formality. McCann Worldgroup is the agency behind the ad.
Talking about the new campaign, Debabrata Mukherjee, VP – marketing & commercial, Coca-Cola India, said, “Festivals in India are all about moments of celebration anchored on the excitement of bonding and togetherness with loved ones. However, meeting friends and family are no longer lighthearted and spontaneous acts as the burden of formality takes away the unbridled joy of relaxed conversations. Keeping this in mind, our new campaign, ‘Coca-Cola pilao, mehmano ko kareeb lao’, amplifies the need for such spontaneous acts of togetherness. We are conveying this message via a story around a newlywed bahu (bride) who is akin to the girl next door and how Coca-Cola becomes the catalyst in bringing her closer to the guests as they meet up over conversations and a refreshing Coca-Cola”.
The ad has been on air since October 22 and sees Alia reprise her role as the newly wed bride from the previous 'Bidaai' campaign. She finds herself in uncharted territory when her husband’s extended family drop in unannounced. She wonders how to cater to all their complicated needs without being anything less than the ideal daughter-in-law, when a happy coincidence introduces Coca-Cola into the mix. Instantly the situation eases itself out.
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Speaking about the campaign, Prasoon Joshi, executive chairperson and creative director, president, McCann Asia Pacific said, "Festivals carry a special vibe, more so in our country where different aspects come into play. As times are changing we see that social interactions are becoming less hierarchical and more informal. But even then hosting guests comes along with a sense of pressure, especially when the relationships in question are the newly made ones. The team at McCann along with the Coca-Cola Brand champions has looked through this lens to craft a campaign, which accentuates this need to socialize more-sans the burden of formality and brings to life the role that Coca-Cola plays in this."
Speaking about the campaign, Alia Bhatt, said, “It has always been fun shooting for the Coca-Cola campaigns, as they are always peppy and something people can relate to. Coca-Cola has a universal appeal and as a brand it strikes a chord with everyone across age groups and cultures. The new TVC is something that every newlywed will relate to. We have all been in situations where guests come in unannounced, fortunately, Coca-Cola always comes to the rescue. Everybody loves the magical taste of Coca-Cola.”
In-addition to mass media advertising, the integrated communication program will be leveraged through social media, radio and POSM.
Executive chairperson and creative director, president: Prasoon Joshi
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Online discounts on smartphones may fade off for business sustainability
Any discounts will need to be offered by brands directly, most of whom don’t want price disparity between their online and brick-and-mortar channels
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Consumers will continue to get discounts on smartphones bought online, but mostly from new players that want to grab a share of the fastest growing market globally. Industry and experts, however, say that even those may taper off for reasons of business sustainability, and as brands bring pricing parity between online and offline channels — a cause for heartache for some time now.
Till now, to gain business volumes ecommerce players were offering discounts and freebies of their own, to add to what brands could be offering. But under the new guidelines, ecommerce marketplaces can’t directly or indirectly offer discounts. So any discounts will need to be offered by brands directly, most of whom don’t want price disparity between their online and brick-and-mortar channels.
"Discounting by ecommerce platforms will reduce but smartphone brands, especially new ones that want to gain market share, may begin deep discounting," said Micromax’s chief marketing officer Shubhajit Sen, a view echoed by Atul Jain, COO at LeEco.
However, such a move would not be a sustainable strategy in the long term, given that smartphone brands already operate on wafer thin margins and would not want to add to existing costs incurred for selling phones, said industry experts. "New brands coming into India will offer discounts on their own… but there won’t be indefinite discounting," said Jaideep Mehta, MD, IDC South Asia.
Besides the discounting pattern, brands are likely to now better control the positioning of their devices as well as promotions on the ecommerce websites, said Tarun Pathak, senior analyst at Counterpoint Research.
Both analysts added that the new rules will create a level playing field between multiple ecommerce partners, and between ecommerce and offline retail or brick and mortar stores.
"All the friction between brands and ecommerce sites has been due to differential pricing, so if the new policy is taking it away, it creates a chance for ecommerce sites and brands to collaborate through joint marketing programmes," said Mehta.
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What do SMEs really think about their accountants?
Accountants should be reassured that most SMEs view them as trustworthy. Yet, at the same time, they may wish to reconsider how they can better help their business clients. NAB’s inaugural Australian Accounting Industry Survey offers telling insights into what accountants are doing well – and where they could better respond to what their customers need and value.
“Find an accountant who wants to design the future, not write up history,” responds one SME owner when questioned by NAB for its inaugural Australian Accounting Industry Survey.
It fits in with other findings from the survey – with the fact that one in five SMEs would like advice on financial future and growth opportunities on top of the services they already receive, and that a similar proportion would like to receive help with their business strategy. At least one in ten, meanwhile, would appreciate assistance with business planning (12 per cent), business analytics (17 per cent) or budgeting/forecasting (10 per cent).
More opportunities than initially meet the eye
These additional services could represent untapped opportunities for many accountants. The fact that they are within their existing skill sets means they could easily be capitalised upon.
This is further supported by the finding that accountants play a key role in the business performance of SMEs and that, according to NAB’s survey, they are SMEs’ most trusted business adviser – most notably with regards to financial planning (47 per cent) and business planning (39 per cent).
What SMEs want and what accountants think they want
Accountants can’t be everything to everyone, however. Almost one in two SMEs (46 per cent) view technology/IT services as the fastest-growing services, while about one quarter (26 per cent) see legal services on the rise. Yet while a good portion of accountants view these as something of an opportunity for their profession, SMEs paint a rather different picture.
For instance, as many as 31 per cent of accountants believe their clients would most value receiving technology/IT services in addition to the services they already provide, yet only 13 per cent of SMEs are in fact keen to receive IT services from them. Meanwhile, just six per cent look to their accountant for legal services – a disconnect from the almost one in four accountants who believe SMEs would like them to provide this service outside of the services they already provide.
Nevertheless, accountants are well placed with their service offerings to meet most of the services that SMEs do turn to professional service firms for and while some core professional services used by SMEs aren’t traditionally the main focus of accounting firms, it’s clear from the survey that accountants could offer a broader range of services to capture a greater share of the professional services market.
Time-based billing has had its day
“Long-term relationships and trust can often be more important than price,” says another SME in response to NAB’s survey. This may be true but it’s clear that many SMEs aren’t particularly keen on the way accountants charge their fees.
In reality, the vast majority would be happy to see the end of time-based billing with just 16 per cent of SMEs preferring this traditional approach. Fixed fees are much more popular with more than one in two (52 per cent) businesses indicating their preference for these. Another one in five (19 per cent) reveal they would like a hybrid of time- and value-based billing.
This is in stark contrast to current practice, which sees about 52 per cent of all fees charged by accountants to their business clients being based on an hourly billing method.
A strong talking point
When it comes to communication, there may be room for change as well. Almost one in three SMEs communicate with accountants every couple of weeks, one in four once a month and around one in five every few days – and they think current communication frequency is about right.
Compare this to the fact that around one in three accountants only communicate with business clients once a quarter and one in four once a month. Only one in five communicate with them “every couple of weeks”.
To their credit, accountants admit they should have more frequent contact, which suggests they’re on the right track – they just need to be more proactive about it.
Perhaps more concerning is the finding that many accountants appear loath to seek critical feedback. Only one in five SMEs say their accounting firm frequently seeks feedback from them on the work they did, while half indicate they do so occasionally.
Of particular concern here is the fact that more than one in four businesses (28 per cent) say their accountants have never sought any feedback – with this figure jumping to 36 per cent for firms turning over $5 million to $10 million.
A win-win
Understanding clients’ needs and values is essential to helping them prosper. It is also important that accountants don’t stand still. According to NAB’s accounting survey, the overriding reason SMEs change their professional services firm is that their business needs have altered (about 31 per cent). This means accountants need to move with the times and modify their service offerings to their business clients as they grow and evolve. In that way, accountants can grow their businesses too.
To speak to a Professional Services specialist banker about the report, please click here.
For full analysis, download the report:
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Dec 21 2020 1:00 PM
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln conferred 1,404 degrees to students during “Go Big Grad: A Graduation Celebration” at 9 a.m. Dec. 19. During the celebration, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln conferred 1,404 degrees to students and the Chancellor talked to Buffett in a pre-recorded phone conversation. » Full Article
Business students graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln demonstrated their resourcefulness this semester amid transforming learning environments during COVID-19. More than 270 students receiving business degrees now look to lead the future of business as they commence their new careers. » Full Article
Dingman Prepares for CPA Exam After Graduation
Mayte Dingman juggled family, work and military duties while earning an accounting degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. By using her top CliftonStrength® of Responsibility, she also found her way around a few obstacles on her route to becoming a certified public accountant (CPA). » Full Article
Atayi to Graduate Prepped for Success
As a nontraditional student, Basher Ahmad Atayi went through an adjustment period when he transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from Southeast Community College. Now as he finishes the final semester of his undergraduate career, he feels prepared to take the next step in his professional career after graduation. » Full Article
Learn more about recent honors, appointments and publications at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business in this month's achievements column. The achievements of faculty, staff and students are grouped within the college’s three mission-focused goals of research + discovery, learning + transformation and connection + engagement. » Full Article
Despite setbacks the COVID-19 pandemic placed upon the world of higher education, University of Nebraska–Lincoln students at the College of Business pushed ahead to achieve academic excellence. The college recognized 196 students for their academic performance during the 2019-20 school year who earned top honors and received the Clifford M. Hicks Scholar Award, LeRossignol Scholar Award and William Gold Scholar Award. » Full Article
Research Weights First Impression Influences on Baseball Promotions
First impressions may be important, but do they have the power to overshadow poor performance in the workplace? Dr. Dirk Black, assistant professor of accountancy at the School of Accountancy, looked at how positive first impressions of professional baseball players might allow them to progress in the minor leagues despite performing poorly on the field. » Full Article
Ahmed Finds Inclusivity Through Accounting
When Ahmed Ahmed searched for a major to play to his strengths when he transferred to the College of Business. When he decided on accounting, he not only found the right career path but also a sense of community rooted in inclusivity and support. » Full Article
Achievements for November 2020
Achievements for September 2020
Neal Shows Commitment to Advancing Accounting Profession
Donald Neal Jr., ’03, arrived at the College of Business from Rochester, New York, ready to focus on accounting and shine on the Husker track team. Twenty years later, he combines his competitive spirit with what he learned at Nebraska to advance his accounting career and lead the charge for other diverse students to follow in his footsteps at KPMG in Omaha. » Full Article
128 Summer Business Graduates Prepared for Success
Business students graduating this summer can participate in Go Big Grad: A Husker Graduation Celebration, happening online Aug. 15. The virtual program begins streaming at 9 a.m. at https://commencement.unl.edu and can also be seen on a live broadcast by NET. » Full Article
Achievements for August 2020
Achievements for July 2020
Spring Dean’s List Recognizes Record Number
In recognition for their exceptional academic success in the spring 2020 semester, 1,512 University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business students achieved Dean’s List accolades. This collection of future leaders in business comprises the largest single-semester group of students commended by the college for this honor. They overcame an abrupt shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve their academic success. » Full Article
Celebrating Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service
In an academic year full of distinct opportunities and challenges, College of Business faculty and staff continued to prepare students to lead the future of business. When the world went remote due to COVID-19, the Nebraska Business community pulled together to successfully work toward its mission. Eleven faculty, staff and Ph.D. students received recognition for their efforts to drive discovery, create opportunity and empower individuals. » Full Article
Capell Advocates for Inclusion on Campus and in Accounting
As a first-generation college student, Andee Capell sought ways to better herself and help others believe in the power of every person at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. After graduating this May, she plans to continue to build inclusivity while pursuing a Master of Professional Accountancy at the College of Business this summer. » Full Article
“Go Big Grad” Offers Unique Celebration for Graduates
Students graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in May 2020 receive a unique celebration due to COVID-19 restrictions. Though traditionally a time for family and friends from around the world to join together in Lincoln, this semester a virtual celebration held May 9 from 9-9:30 a.m. concludes the academic career of many students. » Full Article
Achievements for May 2020
College of Business students, faculty and staff recognized for recent achievements include: Ahmed Ahmed, Ahmed Al-Zadjali, Elaina Bailey, Shama Banu Shaik, Kylie Becker, Luke Bogus, Devan Buescher, Connor Bourdreau, Jason Chan, Audrey Erker, Dr. Scott M. Fuess Jr., Cooper Grabenstein, Eric Hallman, Sierra Hassel, Nicole Hawthorne, Simon Hovis, Caleb Krohn, Dr. Rachel Larson, Hana Lee, Alyson Lenz, Trevor Lockard, Skylar Lowe, Yashaswini Manoj, Derek Minus, Mary Morton, Abby Nelson, Kennedy Nguyen, Ryan Nyffeler, Ryota Okutsu, Dr. J Kalu Osiri, Jacob Peddicord, Carli Pfeil, Meghan Schuette, Shilpa Somraj, Rohan Thakker, Cindy Valladares, Peyton Walker, Givon Washington, Ryan Wolff, Dr. Biyu Wu, Yan Yang and Dongrong Zhuang. The achievements are grouped within the college’s three mission-focused goals of research + discovery, learning + transformation and connection + engagement. » Full Article
Trucke Elevates Teaching Through Strengths Training
Bringing her extensive accounting experience into the classroom, Jill Trucke began her faculty career at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business in 2016. With a limited teaching background, Trucke gained confidence through Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach training, which she applied in the classroom to benefit students. » Full Article
Two Free Summer Programs Offered to High School Juniors
High school juniors seeking transformative pre-college experiences can now apply for two free summer programs hosted by the College of Business. Discover Accounting and the DREAMBIG Academy provide insight into potential careers in the world of business and a preview of college life at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Both programs prepare students who graduate from high school in May 2021 for the opportunities awaiting them in college and beyond. » Full Article
Clawback Policy May Change Corporate Tax Strategies
A new study from researchers in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business examines whether enforcement of a provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will make an impact on erroneous executive compensation. Dr. Thomas Omer, professor and Delmar Lienemann Sr. Chair of Accounting, and Dr. Thomas Kubick, associate professor of accountancy, published their findings in the The Accounting Review on clawbacks, provisions which intend to retrieve money from executives who profit from inaccurate financial reporting. » Full Article
Fall Dean’s List Recognizes Record Number
In recognition for their exceptional academic success in the fall 2019 semester, 1,199 University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business students achieved Dean’s List accolades. This collection of future leaders in business comprises the largest single-semester group of students commended by the college for this honor. » Full Article
Clifton Strengths Institute Introduces New Coaches
The Clifton Strengths Institute at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln continued its groundbreaking approach to impact student success with the addition of 42 new undergraduate student strengths coaches for the 2020-21 academic year. The students join a team of returning coaches to serve as mentors to more than 750 first-year College of Business students enrolled in Professional Enhancement I: Investing in Strengths (BSAD 111). » Full Article
College of Business students, faculty, staff and departments/units recognized for recent achievements include: Mahaa Albusharif, Dr. Ozgur Araz, Ryan Blum, Ethan Carlson, Jennifer Davidson, Dillon Dugan, Harley Edic, Carolyn Fraher, Luke Gomez, Erik Goodwin, Katelyn Hill, Dr. Tom Kubick, Katie Lamb, Brendon Lofgren, Coy Ludwig, MBA@Nebraska, Miranda McWatters, John Nguyen, Selena Nguyen, Connor O'Meara, Dr. Thomas Omer, Wyatt Packard, Guilber Sorto, Peyton Walker, Chenlu Wang, Abyn Yacob and the Communications, Marketing and External Relations office. » Full Article
Graduation Class Recognized for Getting Involved
December College of Business graduates followed a shared path through involvement in clubs and organizations creating new friendships and lifelong relationships to carry with them in their future pursuits. The graduates start their next chapters with those strong connections following the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Commencement activities being held this weekend.
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Study Finds Audit Committees Not Compromised by Big Four Alumni
A former partner of a Big Four accountancy firm sits on the audit committee of a company that the member’s previous firm is hired to audit. Should investors suspect the quality of the company’s financial reporting?
College of Business students, faculty, staff and departments/units recognized for recent achievements include: Andrew Adelson, Kate Alston, Jessica Aragon, Dr. Demet Batur, Luke Bogus, Cameron Claborn, Ashley Clegg, Debra Cosgrove, Hailey Coufal, Jennifer Davidson, Brooks Douglass, Charles Erker, Levi Gipson, Alex Hoffman, Joey Jeanetta, Connor Jolley, Ryan Kalkwarf, Hannah Krajicek, Katie Lamb, Megan McCann, Adrianna McKing, Edwin Mendez-Rodriguez, Arihant Mittal, Kayleen Mourey, Frances Munro, Justin Myers, Wyatt Packard, Grace Partridge, Dr. Jennifer Ryan, Timothy Schartz, Jordan Seitz, Dr. Eric Thompson, Dr. Chris Timm, Max Van Arsdall, Allison Weber, Jenna Zeleny, Beta Alpha Psi, Big Red Startups, the Management major program and MBA@Nebraska. » Full Article
Steinle Transfers Big Dreams to Lincoln
Bailee Steinle grew up in small towns dreaming of making a big impact in business. After struggling to find direction in her first year of college, Steinle transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business, where she now packs new activities into each day with the intent on getting her dream job thanks to the help of Rachel Wesley, academic advisor. » Full Article
Insingo Steps Out of Comfort Zone for Career Expedition
An introvert, Frank Insingo enjoys staying in and relaxing, but knows stepping out of his comfort zone helps for a future in business. Instead of heading home this fall break, he challenged himself to travel with peers on the College of Business Career Expedition to Minneapolis. » Full Article
Burt and Castner Inducted into School of Accountancy Hall of Fame
Linda Burt, ’73, and Ralph Castner, ’85, became the latest inductees into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Accountancy Hall of Fame at the Celebration of Excellence. Both received praise from members of the school, alumni and friends for their significant service and personal integrity during their professional accounting careers. » Full Article
Hard Work Translates to Success for Atiya
When learning English in high school to prepare for his future education goals, Basher Atiya came across an opportunity to work for the U.S. military as an interpreter in his native country of Afghanistan. However, after some U.S. forces withdrew, his living situation became unsafe, which presented Atiya with an opportunity to advance his education in a new country. » Full Article
Saunders Leads Charge for Ethical Auditing Practices
Dr. Kelli Saunders wanted to use her teaching career to champion ethical auditing practices to offset high profile financial scandals she witnessed in her formative years. She found her path at the School of Accountancy, inspired by an opportunity from Dr. Aaron Crabtree, to create a unique course offering that could impact the next generation of auditing professionals. » Full Article
Achievements for October 2019
College of Business students, faculty, staff and departments/units recognized for recent achievements include: Dr. Arthur Allen, Dr. Sam Allgood, Taggart Bailey, Becky Barnard, Dr. Tammy E. Beck, Heather Clemens, Dr. Aaron Crabtree, Natasha Crawford J.D., Dr. Jimmy Downes, Dr. Kyle Gibson, Dr. Amanda Gonzales, Dr. Marijane Hancock, Katie Hauge, Kerri Hiatt, Michelle Jacobs, Dr. Imran Khan, Chad Mardesen, Dr. Tawnya Means, Jen Mostek, John Ruhl, Dr. Jennifer Ryan, Dr. Timothy Strother, Dr. Eric Thompson, Sue Vagts, Dr. Jing Wang, Charles Waterson, Sara Weixelman, Nicholas Wiebelhaus and Margo Young. » Full Article
Executive Insights Examines Ethical Workplace Behavior
The fall Executive Insights panel gave more than 400 students the opportunity to think about how ethical behavior shapes success in the business world. The event, hosted by State Farm Insurance and held at Howard L. Hawks Hall, underscored how contemplating ethical issues before they happen helps individuals make the right decisions when confronted with them in business or their personal lives. » Full Article
Students Recognized for Academic Excellence
In a celebration of exceptional academic success, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business recognized 97 students at the annual College of Business Student Awards Reception on September 25 at Howard L. Hawks Hall. Awards received by students at the top of their respective classes included the Clifford M. Hicks Scholar, Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key, LeRossignol Scholar Award and William Gold Scholar Award. » Full Article
Gonzales Named 2019 Seacrest Teaching Fellow
Dr. Amanda Gonzales, assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, pursues teaching excellence in the classroom through the inspiration she receives from students. Her passion to help students grow and flourish in the classroom resulted in her applying for and being named a Seacrest Teaching Fellow this fall in the College of Business. » Full Article
Four Steps to Career Fair Success
Business students looking to bolster their future careers can take practical action steps to achieve their dreams leading up to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Career Fair, Tuesday, September 24, 1-5 p.m. at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Whether a freshman, senior or anywhere in between, it is never too early to prepare according to Dr. Rachel Larson, director of the Business Career Center. » Full Article
Fourteen New Faculty Join Nebraska Business
With expertise ranging from strategic leadership to healthcare operations and innovations, 14 new faculty members joined the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln this fall. » Full Article
Alumnus Warren Buffett Celebrates 89 Years
Warren Buffett, who graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1951, celebrates his 89th birthday today. In honor of his big day, Nebraska Business faculty and staff provide insight and their own interpretation of some of his most noteworthy quotes. » Full Article
From Grit to Glory: Nebraska Business Grads Celebrated
More than 125 business students receive their glory at commencement ceremonies this weekend after years of showing their academic grit at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business. The August 17 ceremony features a commencement address by Susan Fritz, who became interim president of the University of Nebraska on August 15. » Full Article
Experience Community at Back to School Bash
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business kicks off the 2019-20 school year at the seventh annual Back to School Bash Friday, August 23, 2-4 p.m. Hosted at Howard L. Hawks Hall, new and returning students, parents, alumni, business partners, faculty and staff are welcome to attend the event sponsored by Sandhills Global. Attendees at the event also will celebrate the 150-year legacy of the university. You can RSVP at https://business.unl.edu/bash. » Full Article
Cody Makes Enduring Relationships at DREAMBIG
Kayla Cody, ’18, grew up in Beatrice, Nebraska, wondering how she would connect the dots to get to college. She discovered her destination through a program for high school students called DREAMBIG Academy offered at the Nebraska College of Business. » Full Article
Achieving Glory: Spring Dean’s List
Demonstrating their drive for realizing academic success, 960 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students earned a place on the College of Business Dean’s List for the 2019 spring semester. » Full Article
One-on-One Support Leads Sherwood to Select Major
A rising high school senior, Seth Sherwood faces numerous important decisions from college choice to career path. The Morrill, Nebraska, native defined his path when he attended the Accounting Summit at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business, May 29-31. » Full Article
From Slim Pickins to Slim Chickens
Seth Jensen, ’95, arrived at Nebraska with a plan to major in accounting, but few connections to help guide the way. Coming from the small town of Exeter, Nebraska, Jensen knew he needed to expand his network. » Full Article
Achievements for June 2019
College of Business students, faculty, staff and departments/units recognized for recent achievements include: Beth Alexander, Mark Barrera, Dr. Tammy Beck, Erin Burnette, Regan Burnham, Paula Caldwell, Isabel Cheesman, Jennifer Davidson, Clyde Davis, Dr. Samantha Fairclough, Maddie Gaber, Dr. Amanda Gonzales, Sheri Irwin-Gish, Dr. Uchechukwu Jarrett, Dr. Rachel Larson, Ashley Light, Dr. Kasey Linde, Dr. Ann Mari May, Dr. Mike McDonald, Dr. Tawnya Means, Jennifer Mostek, Dr. Rebekah Neary-DeLaPorte, Dr. J. Kalu Osiri, Jaylen Peters, Brianna Ridenour, Dr. Blake Runnalls, Katie Sewell, Kimberly Smith, Gerardo Soto, Celeste Spier, Lauren Stehlik, Dr. Chris Timm, Jill Trucke, Elizabeth Uebele, Shivang Vaidya, Rachel Wesley, Qixuan Yang, Peter Zhu, the Business Career Center and the School of Accountancy. » Full Article
Achievements for May 10, 2019
College of Business students, faculty, and staff recognized for recent achievements include: Oluwafisayo Adeniyan, Rik Barrera, Jennifer Bernard, Allison Black, Sullivan Bortner, Paula Caldwell, Jennifer Davidson, Dr. Nikos Dimotakis, Aditya Gupta, Dr. Shivam Gupta, Krista Hoover, Sheri Irwin-Gish, Kalana Jayanetti, Samantha Kaus, Dr. Alok Kumar, Taylor Lofdahl, Kathryn Maresh J.D., Trevor Maus, Laura Niles, Dr. J. Kalu Osiri, Timothy Paschal, Dr. Donde Plowman, Dr. Blake Runnalls, Dr. S. Sajeesh, Aaron Scholl, Katie Sewell, Andrew Sorsen, Beth Strogoff, Jill Trucke, Tamayo Zhou, the Business Career Center and students in MNGT 490 Strive to Thrive Lincoln class. The achievements are grouped within the college’s three mission-focused goals of research + discovery, learning + transformation and connection + engagement. » Full Article
Honorees Recognized for Research, Teaching and Service
The College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln recognized several faculty and staff members for their dedication to furthering research and developing future business leaders. They received honors at the 2019 Awards and Retirement Reception Friday, April 19, in Howard L. Hawks Hall. » Full Article
Focus on People Leads Shiu to a Career
Conrad Shiu sees the best in everyone and strives to bring that out in those he meets. His experiences at Nebraska Business and his inclination to help others landed him a career at Gallup after graduation this May. » Full Article
Audit Experience Inspires Wu’s Research
After completing her MBA, Dr. Biyu Wu took a job as an intellectual properties (IP) auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Her experience in audit fueled a desire to connect the dots between financial data and translate those numbers into insightful research people could understand. » Full Article
Achievements for March 1, 2019
College of Business students, faculty and staff recognized for recent achievements include: twenty faculty and staff honored by the UNL Parents Association, the university’s chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma, Jennifer Davidson, Dr. Uchechukwu Jarrett, Dr. Rachel Larson, Joseph Lang, Dr. Tawnya Means, Kaitlyn Nohrenberg, Dr. John Kalu Osiri, Adelaide Reimbold, Libby Schwemmer, Rob Simon, Dr. Eric Thompson and Zachary Withers. » Full Article
Two Summer Pre-College Programs Offered to High School Juniors
High school juniors seeking transformative pre-college experiences need to apply now for two summer programs hosted by the College of Business. The Accounting Summit and the DREAMBIG Academy provide insight into potential careers in the world of business and a preview of college life at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Both programs prepare students who graduate from high school in May 2020 for the opportunities awaiting them in college and beyond. » Full Article
Hawra Mohammed Carves Her Own Path
Hawra Mohammed journeyed more than 7,000 miles from her home in Muscat, Oman, to Lincoln, Nebraska, to learn the family business of accounting. However, moving far away from home went beyond academics, she sought self-reliance. » Full Article
Glow Big Red Illuminates Hawks Hall
Clad in scarlet and cream, the College of Business community will celebrate their Husker pride at the Nebraska Business Glow Big Red Kickoff on Thursday, February 14. The kickoff, hosted in Howard L. Hawks Hall from 10:45 a.m.-12 p.m., leads up to the 24 Hours of Husker Giving and includes snacks, activities and giveaways. » Full Article
Record Number Achieve Fall Dean’s List
Achieving academic excellence, a record of 1,088 students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business were named to the Nebraska Business Dean’s List for the 2018 fall semester. With less than a fourth of the college enrollment earning this honor, these students finished the first semester of the academic year on a strong note. » Full Article
Achievements for February 1, 2019
College of Business students, faculty and staff recognized for recent achievements are highlighted for the work they do to help further the mission and guiding principles of our college. » Full Article
Barron’s Provided to Business Students, Faculty
Financial advisors share in their client’s biggest life events and often help address their biggest fears. For junior finance major Justin Wiebelhaus, helping people in moments like these makes pursuing the career rewarding. » Full Article
Business Graduates Challenge Themselves to Future Glories
Nebraska Business students look to the future after receiving their diplomas at graduation ceremonies this past weekend. More than 300 students earned degrees during both graduate and undergraduate commencements, Friday, December 14, and Saturday, December 15, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Students from the graduating class emphasized the need to challenge themselves during their time at the College of Business. » Full Article
Achievements for December 14, 2018
College of Business students and faculty recognized for recent achievements include Danielle Breen, Mun Chun Cheong, Deb Cosgrove, Kathi Ellis, Allison Olmer, Jenna Rempe, Dr. Eric Thompson and Fang Yue. » Full Article
Huskers Win Regional Deloitte FanTAXtic Competition
A team of four business students from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln won the regional Deloitte FanTAXtic case competition held in Chicago. The students will go head-to-head with eight other regional winners at a national competition held January 18-20 in Dallas to compete for more than $50,000 in individual scholarships and institutional awards. » Full Article
Netz and Shiu Named NRC Health Rising Stars
NRC Health named two University of Nebraska–Lincoln students, Nathan Netz and Conrad Shiu, as the recipients of the Rising Stars scholarship. Each received $2,000 to use toward tuition and fees during the spring semester. NRC Health started the scholarship program in 2011 to recognize students with an interest in business development, marketing and entrepreneurship. » Full Article
Achievements for November 30, 2018
College of Business students and faculty recognized for recent achievements include Joel Beckwith, Jessie Benefee, Christopher Burgess, George Chen, Ashley Clegg, Stan Drvol, Dr. Elina Ibrayeva, Dr. Sang M. Lee, Dr. Tawnya Means, Diego Mejia, Christopher Munoz, Molly Olander, Ryan Olsen, Emma Rose, Bella Tran, Thomas Wolfe. » Full Article
College of Business students and faculty recognized for recent achievements include Tommie Brechbill, Kristen Fellhoelter, Carolyn Fraher, Raghav Kidambi, Kay Maresh, Dr. Ann Mari May, Dr. Mary McGarvey, Miranda McWatters, Dr. Amber Messersmith, Dr. Sam Nelson, Joey Osbron, Connor O’Meara, Sue Vagts, Yufan Wang, Allison Weber and Abyn Yacob. » Full Article
Achievements for November 2, 2018
College of Business students and faculty recognized for recent achievements include Aditya Gupta, Dr. Eric Thompson,Weiya Wang and the Delta Omicron chapter of Beta Alpha Psi. » Full Article
O’Rourke Hammers Importance of Integrity
Returning to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Bill O’Rourke presented “Leading with Integrity” at the annual State Farm Ethics Lecture held at the College of Business October 26. Drawing from his real-life experiences, O’Rourke brought students, faculty and staff an authentic take on how ethics operate in the real world. » Full Article
Two Alumni Inducted in the Accountancy Hall of Fame
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Accountancy inducted two new members into their Hall of Fame at the annual Celebration of Excellence on October 18. Inductees included Mark Chronister, ’73, who retired as partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and Don Ham, ’74, who retired as partner from BKD, LLP. The inductees received praise for their years of service to the profession and School of Accountancy. » Full Article
Trying Something New Creates Success According to Panelists
Four prominent Nebraska Business alumni comprised the Executive Insights panel at Howard L. Hawks Hall, October 18. Their message to the primarily student audience emphasized finding meaning in the workplace by taking on new responsibilities. The event, sponsored by The School of Accountancy and Department of Finance, gave attendees the opportunity to question the panelists, who between them possess more than 110 years of experience in banking, insurance and accounting firms. » Full Article
Four Business Alumni to Share Executive Insights, Oct. 18
Four Nebraska Business alumni return to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to share their expertise as part of the Executive Insights panel discussion. Hosted by the College of Business, the event takes place Thursday, October 18 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Howard L. Hawks Hall. The free event is open to all university students and the public. To register for the event, visit: https://business.unl.edu/executive-insights. » Full Article
Alumni Tailgate Rallies College Community
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Nebraska Business alumni returned to campus Saturday, September 29, to attend the Alumni Tailgate in the Henrickson Family Atrium at Howard L. Hawks Hall prior to the Nebraska vs. Purdue football game. The visit captured a slice of the vibrant community happening at the college. It also gave alumni a chance to both reminisce about college days and express why they prioritize giving back to the institution that helped launch so many prestigious careers. » Full Article
Business Students Honored for Academic Achievement
University of Nebraska–Lincoln students celebrated their academic accomplishments with faculty and staff during the College of Business Student Awards Reception held Thursday, September 20, in Howard L. Hawks Hall. The informal event recognized more than 400 Nebraska Business students receiving a total of more than $550,000 in scholarships, as well as 88 students earning one of four awards: the William Gold Scholar Award, Clifford M. Hicks Scholar Award, James E. LeRossignol Scholar Award or Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key. » Full Article
Eight New Faculty Join Nebraska Business
With expertise ranging from audit regulations to asset pricing, eight new faculty members joined the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln this fall. Their combined years of teaching, research and industry experience help meet the needs of students due to years of enrollment growth, and also fulfill the college’s pursuit to create high impact research that informs important business questions of the day. » Full Article
U.S. News & World Report Rankings Affirm Nebraska Business as Top School
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business continued its ascent among business schools nationwide with a No. 44 placement in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings for undergraduate business programs. The ranking lifted Nebraska Business one place during the past year, solidifying a strong reputation of the college which has now placed in the top 50 three years running. Among public institutions the college ranked No. 26. » Full Article
Achievements for September 7, 2018
College of Business faculty and students recognized for recent achievements include Deb Cosgrove, Zach Holm and John Lang. » Full Article
School of Accountancy Hosts Professional Development Days
Students from the College of Business gained valuable insight into the world of accounting at Professional Development Days. Hosted at Howard L. Hawks Hall, the two-day event gave students the opportunity to listen to professionals from various sectors within the accounting field. The topics of discussion included long-term advantages of certain professional designations, obtaining a master’s degree, accounting internship experiences and more. » Full Article
Prince Builds Lending Career Via Language of Business
As a first generation college student, Jerome Prince ’00, chose to attend the University of Nebraska–Lincoln without fully knowing what it would take to earn a degree. An even bigger issue loomed for Prince in discovering which degree track to follow. He began student life as a computer science major but his story soon changed. » Full Article
Auditing Internships Offer Something New Each Day
Internships provide students with the practical experience needed to take the leap from college to career. Jackson Setter, a senior accounting major from Paola, Kansas, demonstrated the full extent of what internships offer when he journeyed to Minneapolis this semester during the height of audit season at EY (Ernst & Young). » Full Article
Back To School Bash Welcomes New Year With Taste of Nebraska
The first anniversary of Howard L. Hawks Hall and the start of the 2018-19 academic year kick off with the sixth annual Back to School Bash, Friday, August 17, 2-4 p.m. New and returning students, parents, alumni, business partners, faculty and staff are invited to the Henrickson Family Atrium for live music, games, food and giveaways at the event sponsored by Sandhills Publishing. RSVP at https://business.unl.edu/bash. » Full Article
Senior Gymnast Megan Schweihofer Succeeds On and Off the Mat
A three-year standout for the Nebraska Women’s Gymnastics team, Megan Schweihofer enters her senior year with the accolades that student-athletes only dream of achieving when they step on campus. As a freshman, she helped get the Huskers to the NCAA Tournament as a two-event specialist in the vault and balance beam. Schweihofer, an accounting major from China, Michigan, spent her sophomore and junior seasons as an all-around performer, earning Second Team All-Big Ten honors as a sophomore and becoming the Big Ten All-Around champion as a junior. » Full Article
Nebraska Business Hosts Accounting Summit
From industry visits to mini golf and Dairy Store ice cream, high school students kicked their summer off receiving a taste of the College of Business and a future in accounting. The School of Accountancy hosted the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Accounting Summit where high school students came to Howard L. Hawks Hall to learn about careers in accounting. Selected through an application process, which required a GPA above 3.0, completion of algebra II and status as a rising senior, the college accepted ten students to attend the summit, held from May 30-June 1. » Full Article
Nebraska Business Spring Dean’s List Announced
Achieving academic excellence, a staggering 1,001 students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business were named to the Nebraska Business Dean’s List for the 2018 spring semester. With less than a fourth of the college enrollment earning this honor, these students finished the first academic year in Howard L. Hawks Hall on a strong note. » Full Article
College Celebrates Accomplishments of More Than 600 Graduates
More than 600 College of Business students received degrees May 4-5 as the college completed its first academic year in the new Howard L. Hawks Hall. Part of a record-breaking class of over 3,200 undergraduates, the students received degrees from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Pinnacle Bank Arena. » Full Article
Faculty and Staff Awards Promote Accomplishments
Faculty and staff from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business received recognition at the 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards Reception at Howard L. Hawks Hall on April 20. Dr. Kathy Farrell, James Jr. and Susan Stuart Endowed Dean of the College of Business, presented recipients with the annual awards which demonstrate the accomplishments and impact made by members of the college. » Full Article
Executive Insights Panelists Look to Leadership for Success
Business students listened and asked questions of four prominent business leaders, all with strong ties to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business at the spring Executive Insights held at Howard L. Hawks Hall on April 12. The event, hosted by the School of Accountancy and Department of Finance, provided leadership perspectives from Shawntell Kroese ’96, vice president of Loup, a Union Pacific logistics company; Allan Noddle ’62, former CEO of Ahold USA Support Services; Nancy Paasch ’06, chief administration officer at Sandhills Publishing; and Bryan Slone, president of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and former assistant professor of practice of accounting at Nebraska Business. » Full Article
Target Finds Unique Partnership with Students at Case Competition
Each spring, the Target Case Competition gives Nebraska Business students the chance to put themselves in the executive management chair and present a strategic business plan to Target managers with the goal of improving customer experience at their stores. This year five student teams worked to improve online strategies and blend them with the brick-and-mortar store experience. » Full Article
Business Students Connect with Minneapolis Employers
Eleven students from the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln traveled to Minneapolis on a career expedition hosted by the Business Career Center during spring break. Throughout four days, students networked with multiple professionals and alumni, and visited eight different employers. » Full Article
Business Alumni Featured at Executive Insights
Four Nebraska Business alumni return to the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to lead the Executive Insights panel on Thursday, April 12. Hosted by the School of Accountancy and the Department of Finance, business leaders highlight the panel discussion with a question and answer session at 4 p.m., followed by a networking reception at 5 p.m. The free event invites all university students and the public to attend. The deadline to register for the event is Friday, April 6. » Full Article
Omer Research Looks at Fee-Pressured Audit Offices
Firms hire auditors to provide independent assessments of their financial statements and assure investors and outside parties that they are free from material misstatements. » Full Article
Nebraska Business Faculty and Staff Honored by Parents Association
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Parents Association and Teaching Council recognized 25 Nebraska Business faculty and staff during their annual award ceremony on Friday, February 2. The Parents' Recognition Award is presented to those who made a significant difference in students' lives. » Full Article
Students Learn ‘Obstacles Are Opportunities’ at Naval Academy
Feb 9 2018 1:45 PM
Four University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business students strengthened their skills at the U.S. Naval Academy Leadership Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. The students joined more than 300 people from 45 military and civilian colleges spending four days learning about leading and persevering through obstacles during sessions led by prominent military, government and industry leaders. » Full Article
Nebraska Business Dean’s List Announced for Fall Semester
Students found success during their first semester in Howard L. Hawks Hall. More than 1,000 business students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln were named to the Nebraska Business Dean’s List for the 2017 fall semester. The 929 undergraduate students who earned this recognition upheld a cumulative grade-point average of 3.6 or higher for the semester. The College of Business also honored 237 undergraduate students for attaining a 4.0 GPA. » Full Article
Thornock Enthusiastic About Nebraska
Dr. Todd Thornock brought his enthusiasm for both accounting and behavioral research to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln this fall. As an assistant professor at the College of Business, he found the positive Nebraska environment blended with his zest for managerial accounting. » Full Article
McDowell Finds Calling to Help Others Through Accounting
Competing for Henderson’s Heartland High School Future Business Leaders of America chapter, Ashley (Quiring) McDowell ’17 won two national competitions focused on accounting. Though the first-place trophies represented her success, she found a greater sense of accomplishment by finding her calling. » Full Article
Honors Academy Helps Rahman Find Right Major in Accounting
Though honors students often fall into the category of high achievers, Shoilee Rahman’s ability to tenaciously work through challenges clenched her spot in the Nebraska Business Honors Academy. A sophomore accounting major from Chadron, Nebraska, she honed those skills to succeed at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. » Full Article
Butterfield Accomplishes Many Firsts as a Husker
Jan 22 2018 1:00 PM
Tyler Butterfield, a sophomore accounting major from Norfolk, Nebraska, experienced a few firsts so far in his short time at the School of Accountancy. He became the first member of his immediate family on track to earn a college degree; he fulfilled one of his childhood dreams by earning a spot in the Cornhusker Marching Band; and, this summer, he became the first recipient of the Ronald James Rotherham Scholarship. » Full Article
Accounting Pioneer Ellsworth Fulk Recognized in $2 Million Endowment Funds
The School of Accountancy received two major gifts totaling $2 million this year intended to help increase the ability of Nebraska to better compete with peers in the Big Ten conference. The anonymous endowments of $1 million each go to the creation of the Ellsworth L. Fulk Chair of Accountancy, and the Ellsworth L. Fulk Faculty and Ph.D. Student Development Fund.
10 Questions for the 10th Dean of the College of Business
After serving as the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business interim dean for nearly a year, Dr. Kathy Farrell became the 10th dean of the College of Business in December. In her relatively short time leading the college, Farrell has immersed herself in the job. The college’s Communications, Marketing and External Relations (CMER) team recently checked in with her to learn more about her and her thoughts on her new role and the future of the college. » Full Article
Graduation Celebrations Highlighted by Senior Sendoff and Graduate Goodbye
More than 300 business students received degrees from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln as the College of Business completed the first semester in the new Howard L. Hawks Hall building. To recognize students several College of Business events took place Friday, December 15, including the Senior Sendoff and Graduate Goodbye in the Henrickson Family Atrium at Howard L. Hawks Hall. » Full Article
Nebraska Elevates Farrell to Lead College of Business
Kathy Farrell, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Business interim dean for nearly a year, has been named permanent dean of the College of Business pending approval by the Board of Regents, on Dec. 1. Executive Vice Chancellor Donde Plowman announced the appointment. » Full Article
Accounting Students Win Deloitte’s Regional Audit Competition
A team of University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business accounting students won the Deloitte Audit Innovation Campus Challenge regional competition held on November 14 in Minneapolis. Advancing to the national competition in April, the five-member team competed against ten other universities to take the top honor. » Full Article
Nebraska Business Scholarship Forever Honors Alumnus Ron Rotherham
The family of University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumnus Ronald “Ron” J. Rotherham has honored the Ewing native as a loving husband, father and grandfather by establishing a scholarship in his memory. Their gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation creates a permanent endowment to forever support the education of business students. » Full Article
Beta Alpha Psi Recognized as Superior Chapter Once Again
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln chapter of Beta Alpha Psi received recognition as a superior chapter for the 2016–17 academic year. As part of the honor, the chapter received $500 courtesy of KPMG and the KPMG Foundation. » Full Article
Executive Insights Panelists Put People First
Four prominent business leaders advised more than 70 University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business students on what it takes to manage from the top at the Executive Insights panel held at the Nebraska Union October 26. The event, sponsored by the School of Accountancy and Department of Finance, allowed students to network with the professionals following the discussion. Panelists included Karen Ganzlin, executive vice president and chief human resources officer of TD Ameritrade; Eric Johnson ’85, vice president-tax of Conagra Brands; Jim Kruger ’86, chief financial officer of Nelnet; and Matt Marsh ’91, partner and global retail industry leader of Deloitte & Touche. » Full Article
Four Business Leaders to Speak at Executive Insights Panel, October 26
Four business leaders will share their experiences at the College of Business Executive Insights panel Thursday, October 26, in the Nebraska Union Auditorium at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Hosted by the School of Accountancy and Department of Finance, the free event features the panel discussion and a question and answer session at 4 p.m. and is followed by a networking reception at 5 p.m. All university students and the public are invited to attend. » Full Article
Celebration of Excellence Includes Hall of Fame Inductions
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Accountancy inducted three new members into their Hall of Fame at the annual Celebration of Excellence held in the Henrickson Family Atrium at Howard L. Hawks Hallon October 5. Inductees included Dr. James F. Brown, Jr., professor emeritus of the School of Accountancy, Tonn M. Ostergard, CEO and chairman of Crete Carrier Corporation and Sue Wilkinson, senior vice president and CFO at Ameritas. All three inductees received praise for their years of service to the School. » Full Article
Partnership Summit Shines Light on College Growth
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business hosted the fifth annual Partnership Summit on October 6, as over 150 advisory board members from around the nation met to provide insight and learn more about Howard L. Hawks Hall. Interim Dean Kathy Farrell highlighted the day with the State of the College Address, where she noted the significant role Nebraska Business continues to play at the University. » Full Article
Nearly 400 Business Students Receive Accolades
Nearly 400 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students received special recognition and academic achievement awards at the College of Business Honors Ceremony on Sunday, September 17. Distributed by Dr. Donna Dudney, associate dean for undergraduate curriculum and programs and associate professor of finance, and Dr. D’vee Buss, assistant dean for undergraduate programs, 80 students received one of three awards including the William Gold Scholar Award, Clifford M. Hicks Scholar Award and James E. LeRossignol Scholar Award. Held for the first time in the fall semester and in Howard L. Hawks Hall, business students who received a total of more than $550,000 in scholarships, and seniors in the Clifton Strengths Institute Clifton Builders Program and student strength coaches were also honored. » Full Article
Whistleblower Panel Featured at State Farm Ethics Lecture
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business renewed its tradition of championing business ethics with the annual State Farm Ethics Lecture held September 20 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The event featured a whistleblower panel moderated by Dana Gold of the Government Accountability Project (GAP). She credited Nebraska with being a leading player in the arena of business ethics in higher education. » Full Article
B-Week Highlighted By State Farm Ethics Lecture Series
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business celebrates Business Week (B-Week), September 18-22, highlighted by the annual State Farm Ethics Lecture Series on Wednesday, September 20. B-Week provides an opportunity for students, faculty, staff and alumni to join in a variety of business and social activities intended to both enhance student learning and strengthen community at the college. » Full Article
Students Connect with Potential Employers at Meet the Firms
Student leaders in Beta Alpha Psi joined forces with the School of Accountancy and the Business Career Center to organize and plan Meet the Firms, an annual career fair that prepares students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business for their prospective careers. Professionals from more than 25 firms in public accounting, information systems, private industry and government agencies attended. Representatives networked with more than 300 students seeking internship and potential job placements. » Full Article
College of Business Continues Climb in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business climbed to No. 45 in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings for undergraduate business programs. Up three spots from last year’s rankings, the increase continues an upward trend for the college over the past several years. » Full Article
Enrollment of First-Time Business Freshmen Climbs Again
Enrollment at the new College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln climbed to 4,462 students this fall. A 14.8 percent increase in first-time freshmen students – with 839 joining the college as of September – spurred the growth. In five years, first-time freshmen have increased by 29.5 percent. » Full Article
College of Business Huskers Shop Opens Opportunities for Students
The new College of Business Huskers Shop opened its doors in Howard L. Hawks Hall and in doing so, started one of the most innovative business learning programs in the country. A joint effort with Nebraska Athletics, the College of Business and Fanatics, the Huskers Shop also includes a faculty advisor, a six-member student management board, students who work in the store and merchandise ranging from shirts and hats to the new plastic bags required in all Huskers athletic facilities to pom poms and fidget spinners. Though there are other stores on college campuses run by students, what makes the Huskers Shop stand out – besides the high-level partners involved – is that Fanatics also provides the business retail and financial data for professors and students to use and analyze in various business courses. » Full Article
Former U.S. Attorney Lahners Wraps Up 50 Years of Teaching
For more than 50 years, Ron Lahners taught College of Business students the importance of understanding how law impacts the success or failure of business. This summer, he taught his last business law class for the college. » Full Article
Howard L. Hawks Hall Opens for Business at Nebraska
With the snip of a ribbon, dignitaries from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln welcomed in a new era at the College of Business with the grand opening of the new Howard L. Hawks Hall building. More than 800 people attended the historic ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, August 18, 2017, which speakers proclaimed as a game-changing moment for future students of both the University and College. » Full Article
Start Something Spirit Moves to New Building After Graduation
The last class of University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business students to graduate and attend classes exclusively in the old College of Business Administration building received degrees at commencement ceremonies on Saturday, August 12, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The new Nebraska Business building officially opens its doors when classes begins for the fall 2017 semester, August 21. Graduating seniors displayed the Start Something spirit during their time at Nebraska which provides a common thread linking the old building to the new. » Full Article
College to Host "Open for Business" Event
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will celebrate the opening of the new College of Business from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, August 18. Students, alumni, friends and more can attend the Open for Business: Ribbon Cutting and Back to School Bash by RSVPing at http://business.unl.edu/bash. » Full Article
Spring Dean’s List Announced
More than 850 business students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln were named to the College of Business Dean’s List for the spring semester of the 2016-17 academic year. The 773 undergraduates who received this honor maintained a cumulative grade-point average of 3.6 or higher for the semester. The college also recognized 176 undergraduate students for achieving a 4.0 GPA. » Full Article
Students Explore Exports, Innovation in Chile
Twelve students from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business ventured to the South American nation of Chile for the global immersion program, Chile: Business Hub of Latin America, May 14-June 4. They gained exposure to Chilean culture and its business environment through language lessons at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, guest speakers and visits to startups, multinational businesses and more. » Full Article
School of Accountancy Recognizes Graduates at Celebration
More than 125 graduates from the School of Accountancy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business received recognition at the spring 2017 Graduation Celebration on Friday, May 5. The event, held in the Memorial Stadium Club Suites, gave friends and family members a chance to congratulate graduates and meet faculty and staff from the school. » Full Article
Honors Academy Celebration Highlights Graduation Activities
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln granted more than 525 undergraduate and graduate business degrees during commencement exercises May 5-6. The college celebrated the graduation of the inaugural cohort of the College of Business Honors Academy with a special graduation event on May 5. The event concluded several prominent graduation activities for the College of Business including the MBA Graduation Luncheon, the School of Accountancy Graduation Celebration and the Senior Sendoff and Graduate Goodbye, which took place at the Railyard in Lincoln’s Haymarket District. » Full Article
SEF Recognizes Nebraska for Preparing Sales Students
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Undergraduate Certificate Program in Sales Excellence received a third consecutive recognition as one of the “Top Universities for Professional Sales Education” by the Sales Education Foundation (SEF). The announcement came in SEF’s 2017 ANNUAL magazine. SEF recognizes universities for preparing students in professional selling and helping to elevate the sales profession. » Full Article
Target Case Competition Inspires Ingenuity
University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business students competing in the Target Case Competition in April experienced first-hand the art of digital marketing related to the customer shopping experience in Target stores. Eight student teams pitched their business solutions to Target managers while competing for $2,000 in cash prizes. » Full Article
Farrell Presents Business Faculty, Staff Awards
Ten faculty and staff members from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business received honors at the 2017 Faculty and Staff Awards Reception on April 27. Dr. Kathy Farrell, interim dean, presented the awards at the Van Brunt Visitors Center. » Full Article
More Than 80 Students Receive Academic Achievement Awards
More than 80 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students received academic achievement awards at the College of Business Honors Ceremony on Sunday, April 23. Distributed by Dr. Donna Dudney, associate dean for undergraduate programs and associate professor of finance, and Dr. D’vee Buss, assistant dean for undergraduate programs, the awards included the William Gold Scholarship Award, Clifford Hicks Honor Award, LeRossignol Award and Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key. » Full Article
Executive Insights Encourages Students to Find Their Passion
Four alumni from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business shared their executive experiences with students as part of Executive Insights held April 13 at the Nebraska Union. The event is an ongoing series initiated by the School of Accountancy and Department of Finance, intended to engage all University students with executives through panel discussions and networking sessions. » Full Article
Sales Certificates Awarded to 28 Students
Business students earning sales certificates through the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration Certificate Program in Sales Excellence gathered at Misty’s Restaurant in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, to be recognized for their accomplishment and enjoy lunch. In all, 28 students received certificates, including 11 who became the first group to earn advanced certificates in professional selling. » Full Article
Union Pacific Executives Lead Case Competition
Student teams at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration competed in the 2017 Union Pacific (UP) case competition, delivering presentations to UP executives to make recommendations on investing in the emerging sage grass market. Teams received the case summary at 8:30 a.m. and had until noon to consult with UP managers, build a business plan and create a power point presentation. During the afternoon the four teams presented their plans for a half-hour each to the executives. » Full Article
Top Business Leaders Honored at Dean's Advisory Board Luncheon
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business hosted the 33rd annual Advisory Board Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 14, at the Nebraska Champions Club. The awards honor the outstanding accomplishments of business leaders and corporations in the state of Nebraska and beyond. » Full Article
College of Business Says Goodbye to ‘Administration’
After 98 years, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration is dropping the administration.
Not its internal administration, of course – the word at the end of the college’s name. The Board of Regents approved changing the name to the College of Business on March 31.
Honors Academy Students Compete at Leadership Challenge Event
Ten students from the College of Business Administration Honors Academy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln improved their group communication and problem solving skills at the Leadership Challenge Event at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, March 2-3. The competition featured a live simulation where teams assumed roles within a fictional city, made decisions together and handled adverse situations throughout the day. » Full Article
Four Executives to Speak at Executive Insights Panel, April 13
Four distinguished University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni executives will share their perspectives on leadership and business success at the College of Business Administration spring Executive Insights panel Thursday, April 13, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. Hosted by the School of Accountancy and Department of Finance, the free event features the panel discussion and a question and answer session starting at 4 p.m. and is followed by a networking reception at 5 p.m. All university students and the general public are invited. Dr. Kathy Farrell, interim dean and State Farm Professor of Finance, will facilitate the discussion. » Full Article
College of Business Updates Undergraduate Curriculum
The faculty at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration recently approved changes to the undergraduate curriculum. Beginning in the fall of 2017, BSAD 150, Business Computer Applications will change to BSAD 50, and the Business Analytics/Information Analysis (SCMA 350) course will include an additional one-credit hour lab, SCMA 350L. BSAD 50 will provide more flexibility for students to complete the requirement in an online format, and SCMA 350/350L was updated to ensure students are best prepared for the demands of the business environment. » Full Article
Parents Association Recognizes 19 CBA Faculty, Staff
The UNL Parents Association and UNL Teaching Council honored 19 College of Business Administration faculty and staff members during their annual recognition ceremony on February 3. Providing positive feedback to faculty and staff about the work they do with students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the award provides recognition in areas often overlooked in the formal rewards system. » Full Article
McCain Helps High School Students Start Something
Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) hosted the American Business Competition at the Nebraska Union, February 1, welcoming 400 high school Future Business Leaders of American (FBLA) to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Cody McCain, a sophomore accounting and agribusiness major with a minor in finance, served as co-director for the event which allows students from around the state to measure themselves against peers in a wide-range of business-oriented activities. » Full Article
Fall Dean’s List and Honor Roll Announced
More than 900 business students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln were named to the College of Business Administration Dean’s List and Honor Roll for the fall semester of the 2016-17 academic year. The 901 undergraduates who received this honor maintained a cumulative grade-point average of 3.6 or higher for the semester. The college also recognized 222 undergraduate students for achieving a 4.0 GPA. Twenty-one master of business administration students qualified for the Dean’s List with a 4.0 GPA and nine or more credit hours for the semester, and 58 students with a 4.0 GPA and six or more credit hours made the Honor Roll. » Full Article
Vopalensky Finds Return on Investment at CBA
Vicki Vopalensky ’95, ’01, grew up in North Bend, Nebraska, where hard work and helping others were part of the fabric of her life. Her father worked as the town blacksmith and farmed on evenings and weekends. Her mother supported the family business, and ran yet another business. Even her older sister modeled a strong work ethic by attending the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration and creating a successful career in accounting. » Full Article
Opportunities Abound for Demers
When Amy Demers walked into the School of Accountancy, she immediately began experiencing what she came to value most – opportunities to flourish. Now a senior, the accounting major from Blair, Nebraska, believes those opportunities provide her with the best chance to succeed. » Full Article
Williams Prepares to Lead in Forensic Accounting
Students often decide to pursue an accounting major because they want to learn the language of business or develop in-demand skills. For junior accounting major Gabby Williams, accounting provided an opportunity to combine her passion for leadership with her problem-solving skills.
The Ledger Records 30 Years of Accounting News
Thirty years ago in 1986, the School of Accountancy formed a committee among its faculty, staff and advisory board members to create the inaugural issue of The Ledger. While its design changed with time and technology, its goal remained constant. It informs alumni and friends about the school’s events and initiatives, celebrates student and alumni successes and shares how the faculty advances the field of accountancy. » Full Article
School of Accountancy Honors Latest Graduates
More than 80 graduates from the School of Accountancy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration received recognition at the school’s sixth semi-annual graduation celebration on December 16. Despite icy conditions outside, the event at Lied Commons allowed students and their families to celebrate graduating seniors majoring in accounting as well as graduate students earning their master in professional accountancy (MPA) degrees. » Full Article
Senior Sendoff Highlights Weekend of Graduation Activities
Graduating students from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business celebrated weekend commencement festivities with family and friends at the Senior Sendoff on December 16, at the Nebraska Champions Club. Despite icy conditions, more than 50 people attended the event aimed at giving graduates a chance to say goodbye to college. » Full Article
Plowman Named Executive Vice Chancellor, Chief Academic Officer
Ronnie Green, chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, announced Donde Plowman as executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer. Plowman, the James Jr. and Susan Stuart Dean of Nebraska’s College of Business Administration, will begin her new role at the university on Jan. 1. The appointment is pending Board of Regents approval. » Full Article
Omer Research Finds Firms Respond to SEC Regulators by Paying More Taxes
A recent study by Dr. Tom Omer, professor and Delmar Lienemann Sr. Chair of Accounting, at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration finds an unintended consequence of getting better information to investors by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may result in U.S. firms paying more taxes – up to $3 billion of additional federal, state and foreign government taxes in a single year. The study, entitled “The Effects of Regulatory Scrutiny on Tax Avoidance: An Examination of SEC Content Letters,” appears in the November/December issue of The Accounting Review, the top journal for accounting research. » Full Article
Nebraska Hosts 270 Future Business Leaders of America Students
Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) welcomed 270 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) high school students to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to participate in the Path to Success Conference. The conference allowed students to hear success stories from motivational speakers and attend workshops aimed at helping them learn specific skills needed for professional development. » Full Article
Executive Insights Panel Defines Traits Needed for Success
The 2016 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Executive Insights featured four distinguished executives from Lincoln-area businesses participating in a panel discussion facilitated by Dr. Donde Plowman, James Jr. and Susan Stuart Endowed Dean of the College of Business Administration. More than 120 people attended the event held at the Sheldon Art Museum, before an audience of students from the BSAD 444 class, as well as faculty, staff and other visitors. Executives included Marc LeBaron, chairman and CEO of Lincoln Industries, Joann Martin, president and CEO of Ameritas, Angie Muhleisen, president and chairman of Union Bank and Trust and Tonn Ostergard, president and CEO of Crete Carrier Corporation. » Full Article
First Cohort of Clifton Builders Program Students Set to Fulfill Promise
The first cohort of Clifton Builders Program students began fulfilling the promise of a major component of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration Clifton Strengths Institute this semester. The one-of-a-kind program focuses on putting entrepreneurial-minded students in a setting where they can learn and grow by using their strengths to make a positive impact in business. » Full Article
Mark Chronister Visits CBA for Masters Week
Every fall the Nebraska Alumni Association selects a group of elite alumni masters to represent each college, and share their experiences and knowledge with students. Mark Chronister ’73 returned to his alma mater to represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Business Administration as its 2016 master. Chronister, a partner with Templeton Laird in Minneapolis, devoted his career to building bridges between business, education and non-profit service, including working as a partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers for 34 years. He met with CBA students, faculty and staff, bringing a message of optimism and resilience as keys to finding one’s way in both business and life. » Full Article
Students Attend Society of American Business Editors and Writers Conference
Students in the financial communications course, a joint effort of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the College of Business Administration, took in the sites in New York City and deepened their knowledge about business and financial journalism and investor relations in a trip to the fall 2016 conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers on Oct. 6 and 7. » Full Article
3-2-1 Quick Pitch Highlights Entrepreneurial Ingenuity at UNL
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Winning participants in the 2016 3-2-1 Quick Pitch competition shared $7,000 in prize money for their entrepreneurial ingenuity by delivering three-minute elevator pitches to panels of expert judges similar to the television show Shark Tank. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Entrepreneurship sponsored the event which took place in the Memorial Stadium skyboxes on Thursday, November 3. More than 100 competitors from Nebraska colleges and high schools participated. » Full Article
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Wisconsin governor asks Trump to call off trip to Kenosha
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers “respectfully” asked that President Donald Trump reconsider visiting Kenosha this week amid civil unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, saying he was concerned his presence would “only hinder our healing.”
White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that Trump planned to travel to the city on Tuesday to meet with law enforcement and survey damage from destructive protests, according to pool reports.
In response, the Democratic governor penned a letter Sunday urging the president to call off the trip.
“I, along with other community leaders who have reached out, are concerned about what your presence will mean for Kenosha and our state,” Evers wrote. “I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together.”
Protests have occurred nightly in Kenosha, some 40 miles south of Milwaukee, over the police shooting of Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. The Aug. 23 incident, which was captured on cellphone video, has left Blake paralyzed.
On Tuesday, protests turned deadly, when an alleged 17-year-old gunman shot three protesters, killing two of them.
Hundreds of members of the National Guard have been deployed to Kenosha amid the civil unrest, and a state-of-emergency curfew has been extended through Tuesday.
In his letter, Evers expressed concern that a visit from the president would redirect resources from the city’s recovery “at a time when it is critical that we continue to remain focused on keeping the people of Kenosha safe and supporting the community’s response.”
The letter comes as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called for Trump to “support us, or stay the hell out of the way,” following a deadly shooting during protests in the Oregon city.
Jacob Blake’s uncle, Justin Blake, told ABC News he thinks Trump is partially responsible for what happened to his nephew and for the violence across the country.
“How could they not be feeding on violence when the man in the White House is steadily drumming it up?” he said.
When asked about Trump’s planned visit to Kenosha on Tuesday, Justin Blake said that his family has not heard from the president, but they don’t want “anything to do with him.”
“We believe he incited this violence,” he said.
In his acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention last week, Trump painted the election as an existential choice between lawlessness and law and order, and listed Kenosha as one of the “Democrat-run cities” suffering from “rioting, looting, arson and violence.”
His challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, charged Sunday that the president is “recklessly encouraging violence” and “fanning the flames of hate and division in our society.”
In his letter, Evers noted that on Monday, the Wisconsin legislature will take up a policing accountability and transparency reform package. “I would welcome your support of these initiatives,” he wrote to Trump.
ABC News’ Joshua Hoyos, Janice McDonald, Zohreen Shah, Benjamin Stein and Elizabeth Thomas contributed to this report.
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An equilateral triangle is the one where all sides are equal and have an equal angle. The internal angles of the equilateral triangle are also the same, that is, 60 degrees.
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Cognitive Systems Research
Arbib M. A. (2018) From cybernetics to brain theory, and more: A memoir. Cognitive Systems Research 50: 83–145.
While structured as an autobiography, this memoir exemplifies ways in which classic contributions to cybernetics (e.g., by Wiener, McCulloch & Pitts, and von Neumann) have fed into a diversity of current research areas, including the mathematical theory of systems and computation, artificial intelligence and robotics, computational neuroscience, linguistics, and cognitive science. The challenges of brain theory receive special emphasis. Action-oriented perception and schema theory complement neural network modeling in analyzing cerebral cortex, cerebellum, hippocampus, and basal ganglia. Comparative studies of frog, rat, monkey, ape and human not only deepen insights into the human brain but also ground an EvoDevoSocio view of “how the brain got language.” The rapprochement between neuroscience and architecture provides a recent challenge. The essay also assesses some of the social and theological implications of this broad perspective.
Key words: action-oriented perception, ape, architecture, artificial intelligence, automata theory, basal ganglia, brain theory, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, cybernetics, frog, hippocampus, human, language evolution, li
Gallagher S. (2013) The socially extended mind. Cognitive Systems Research 25: 4–12. https://cepa.info/2483
Gallagher S. (2013) The socially extended mind. Cognitive Systems Research 25: 4–12. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/2483
This paper contrasts conservative and liberal interpretations of the extended mind hypothesis. The liberal view, defended here, considers cognition to be socially extensive, in a way that goes beyond the typical examples (involving notebooks and various technologies) rehearsed in the extended mind literature, and in a way that takes cognition to involve enactive processes (e.g., social affordances), rather than functional supervenience relations. The socially extended mind is in some cases constituted not only in social interactions with others, but also in ways that involve institutional structures, norms, and practices. Some of the common objections to the extended mind are considered in relation to this liberal interpretation. Implications for critical social theory are explored.
Key words: Extended mind, parity principle, institutions, enactivism, social affordances, critical theory
Georgeon O. L. & Ritter F. E. (2012) An intrinsically-motivated schema mechanism to model and simulate emergent cognition. Cognitive Systems Research 15–16: 73–92.
We introduce an approach to simulate the early mechanisms of emergent cognition based on theories of enactive cognition and on constructivist epistemology. The agent has intrinsic motivations implemented as inborn proclivities that drive the agent in a proactive way. Following these drives, the agent autonomously learns regularities afforded by the environment, and hierarchical sequences of behaviors adapted to these regularities. The agent represents its current situation in terms of perceived affordances that develop through the agent’s experience. This situational representation works as an emerging situation awareness that is grounded in the agent’s interaction with its environment and that in turn generates expectations and activates adapted behaviors. Through its activity and these aspects of behavior (behavioral proclivity, situation awareness, and hierarchical sequential learning), the agent starts to exhibit emergent sensibility, intrinsic motivation, and autonomous learning. Following theories of cognitive development, we argue that this initial autonomous mechanism provides a basis for implementing autonomously developing cognitive systems.
Key words: motivation, autonomous learning, cognitive development, enactive cognition, affordances, constructivism, cognitive architecture.
Riegler A. (2002) When is a cognitive system embodied? Cognitive Systems Research 3(3): 339–348. https://cepa.info/1862
Riegler A. (2002) When is a cognitive system embodied? Cognitive Systems Research 3(3): 339–348. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/1862
For cognitive systems, embodiment appears to be of crucial importance. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be able to define embodiment in a way that would prevent it from also covering its trivial interpretations such as mere situatedness in complex environments. The paper focuses on the definition of embodiment, especially whether physical embodiment is necessary and/or sufficient for cognitive systems. Cognition is characterized as a continuous complex process rather than ahistorical logical capability. Furthermore, the paper investigates the relationship between cognitive embodiment and the issues of understanding, representation and task specification.
Key words: Complexity, constructivism, design, embeddedness, representation, teleonomy, understanding
Sharkey N. E. & Ziemke T. (2001) Mechanistic vs. phenomenal embodiment: Can robot embodiment lead to strong AI? Cognitive Systems Research 2(4): 251–262. https://cepa.info/4519
Sharkey N. E. & Ziemke T. (2001) Mechanistic vs. phenomenal embodiment: Can robot embodiment lead to strong AI? Cognitive Systems Research 2(4): 251–262. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4519
Embodiment has become the raison d’etre for much of the new ‘cognitive robotics’. It fills a gap in the non-interactivist approach of traditional artificial intelligence (AI) in which ‘intelligence’ is viewed as the manipulation of symbols in a vacuum. However, a foundational question for the new AI is, can embodiment lead to a strong AI, i.e. a robot mind? To address this question, two extreme poles of embodiment are distinguished here, mechanistic and phenomenal. A detailed exploration of each type of embodiment is provided together with an appraisal of whether strong embodiment is possible for robotics, or whether robotics merely provides a tool for scientific exploration and modelling, i.e. weak embodiment? It is argued that strong embodiment, either mechanistic or phenomenal, is not possible for present day robots. However, weak embodiment may provide an enlightened approach to using robots for modelling cognition.
Key words: artificial intelligence, autopoiesis, cognitive robotics, mechanistic embodiment, phenomenal embodiment
Stapleton M. (2013) Steps to a “properly embodied” cognitive science. Cognitive Systems Research 22–23: 1–11. https://cepa.info/4543
Stapleton M. (2013) Steps to a “properly embodied” cognitive science. Cognitive Systems Research 22–23: 1–11. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4543
Cognitive systems research has predominantly been guided by the historical distinction between emotion and cognition, and has focused its efforts on modelling the “cognitive” aspects of behaviour. While this initially meant modelling only the control system of cognitive creatures, with the advent of “embodied” cognitive science this expanded to also modelling the interactions between the control system and the external environment. What did not seem to change with this embodiment revolution, however, was the attitude towards affect and emotion in cognitive science. This paper argues that cognitive systems research is now beginning to integrate these aspects of natural cognitive systems into cognitive science proper, not in virtue of traditional “embodied cognitive science,” which focuses predominantly on the body’s gross morphology, but rather in virtue of research into the interoceptive, organismic basis of natural cognitive systems.
Key words: proper embodiment, embodied cognition, affective neuroscience, interoception, internal robotics, enactive cognitive science.
Stepp N. & Turvey M. T. (2010) On strong anticipation. Cognitive Systems Research 11: 148–164. https://cepa.info/5809
Stepp N. & Turvey M. T. (2010) On strong anticipation. Cognitive Systems Research 11: 148–164. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/5809
We examine Dubois’s (2003) distinction between weak anticipation and strong anticipation. Anticipation is weak if it arises from a model of the system via internal simulations. Anticipation is strong if it arises from the system itself via lawful regularities embedded in the system’s ordinary mode of functioning. The assumption of weak anticipation dominates cognitive science and neuroscience and in particular the study of perception and action. The assumption of strong anticipation, however, seems to be required by anticipation’s ubiquity. It is, for example, characteristic of homeostatic processes at the level of the organism, organs, and cells. We develop the formal distinction between strong and weak anticipation by elaboration of anticipating synchronization, a phenomenon arising from time delays in appropriately coupled dynamical systems. The elaboration is conducted in respect to (a) strictly physical systems, (b) the defining features of circadian rhythms, often viewed as paradigmatic of biological behavior based in internal models, (c) Pavlovian learning, and (d) forward models in motor control. We identify the common thread of strongly anticipatory systems and argue for its significance in furthering understanding of notions such as “internal”, “model” and “prediction”.
Key words: anticipation, synchronization, delayed feedback, homeostasis.
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India slips into its first technical recession since 1996; growth seen returning
Indian economy shrunk 7.5 per cent in the three months through September, showed official data released on Friday. Recession is defined as two successive quarters of contraction. Even as Asia's second largest economy slipped into recession, the contraction was lower-than-expected, signalling faster recovery and spurring hopes of growth coming back in Q3FY21 or Oct-Dec period.
Updated: November 28, 2020, 09:08 IST
India recorded its second consecutive contraction in the quarter ended September.
India entered into its first technical recession in records since 1996, however recovering sharply from a 24 per cent slump of the Apr-June period, and boosting hopes that growth may be returning next quarter.
India's economy shrunk 7.5 per cent in the three months through September, showed official data released on Friday. Recession is defined as two successive quarters of contraction.
Even as Asia's second largest economy slipped into recession, the contraction was lower-than-expected, signalling faster recovery and spurring hopes of growth coming back in Q3FY21 or Oct-Dec period.
GROWTH, SECTOR BY SECTOR
Q2 FY21 % Growth
1.Agriculture, forestry and fishing
2.Mining and quarrying
3.Manufacturing
4.Electricity, gas, water supply, other utility services
5. Construction
6.Trade, hotel, transport, communication and services related to broadcasting
7.Financial, real estate and professional services
8.Public administration, defence and other services
GVA at basic prices
*Source: National Statistical Office
The recovery was led by manufacturing and construction sectors. Manufacturing grew 0.6 per cent year-on-year in Jul-Sep period as compared to 39.3 per cent contraction in the Apr-Jun quarter. Contraction in construction narrowed to a single digit number of 8.6 per cent as against a fall of 50.3 per cent in the previous quarter.
“…after four continuous quarters of contraction, manufacturing activity eventually recorded a positive growth mainly on account of pent-up and festival led demand and inventory rebuilding after depending on inventory drawdown in the previous quarter when demand collapsed,” said Kunal Kundu, Economist, Societe Generale.
Agriculture, which was the only sector that had shown growth during the Apr-Jun period, grew by 3.4 per cent. Contraction in trade, hotel, transport services etc came down to 15.6 per cent in three months ended September from 47 per cent in the preceding quarter.
Expenditure Trends
Q2 FY21 (% Growth)
% share to economy (Rough numbers)
Private Consumption
Govt final consumption
India’s expenditure trends showed a similar trend. Private consumption, which constitutes about 52 per cent of the total growth, showed a lesser contraction at 11.3 per cent during the three months through September as compared to a fall of 26.7 per cent in the previous quarter.
Investments, another major growth engine, constituting about 36 per cent to the Indian economy, too, posted a lesser contraction at 7.3 per cent as compared to a fall of whopping 47.1 per cent in the previous quarter.
Government spending, that constitutes about 10-12 per cent to the economy, and which was the only expenditure trend that had grown last quarter, however, declined in the three months through September. It contracted by more than 22 per cent as compared to a growth of 16.4 per cent in the preceding quarter.
“On the spending front, weak revenue generation and fast-tracking of government expense during 2Q20 resulted in a sharp 22.8 per cent contraction in public expenditure pulling down overall economic activity. This is another indication that the economy is in dire need for a fiscal response if it is to get out of the challenge that it currently is in, especially in the short term,” said Societe Generale’s Kundu.
The expert added a positive aspect of weak economic activity is that India recorded a rare trade surplus for the second consecutive quarter, thereby adding positively to the overall GDP.
India is seeing a faster-than-expected economy after lockdown. The country’s Central Bank has projected growth to return in the December quarter. Asia’s second largest economy is seen contracting 9.5 per cent for the full-year.
“With signs of emerging fatigue in recent demand uptick and the second wave of infection already impacting economic activity, we would retain our view of FY21 real GDP contracting by 8.6 per cent, given the likelihood of a weaker third and fourth quarter activity,” economist Kunal Kundu said.
Experts also cautioned against a spurt in covid infections, saying if that happens then the economic recovery could be dented.
“If it (demand) sustains then a faster recovery is possible. But with rising COVID-19 cases and some states hinting that they may have to impose some kind of lockdown could be a spoiler in the growth recovery process,” cautioned Sunil Kumar Sinha, Principal Economist, India Ratings.
India has peaked its Covid infections curve in mid-September, as per the government’s panel. Its Central Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das has warned of a surge in cases.
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23 Photos of Animals in Love That Will Make You Literally Melt
True love also exists in the animal kingdom.
By Ashley Moor
If you've ever fallen in love, you know just how exciting, mesmerizing, and, let's be honest, scary it can be. And while you've no doubt spoken to your pet about your most recent crush (haven't we all?!), you might have wondered if our animal companions have the same capacity for love as we do. And, before we show you these photos that prove they definitely do, we'll give you the facts.
According to Paul Zak of Claremont Graduate University, animals—at least on a chemical level—show signs of loving one another. For example, in one study, Zak and his team found that after 15 minutes of play between a dog and a goat, the dog saw a 48 percent increase in levels of the love hormone oxytocin. The goat, on the other hand, saw a 210 percent increase.
"At that level of increase, within the framework of oxytocin as the 'love hormone,' we essentially found that the goat might have been in love with the dog," wrote Zak for The Atlantic. "The only time I have seen such a surge in oxytocin in humans is when someone sees their loved one, is romantically attracted to someone, or is shown an enormous kindness." Here are more photos of animals that will prove this exact fact—while simultaneously tugging on your heartstrings.
Cats cuddling and posing for the camera.
There's no way to look at this photo and not come to the conclusion that these two kitties are totally in love. And while we're not positive cats can hold down romantic relationships with each other, we do know they appreciate cuddles.
In one study published in the journal Preventative Veterinary Medicine, researchers found that cats who were pet and spoken to in high-pitched voices had elevated moods and produced higher levels of protective antibodies than cats who weren't. In other words: If your cat doesn't already have a cuddle buddy, you should go pet her right meow.
Rhodesian Ridgebacks are playful partners.
These dogs have moved far beyond the puppy-love stage and into I've-got-your-back-through-thick-and-thin territory. In fact, they might even be walking down the aisle soon—because it turns out, dogs can fall in love with one another. In 2014, a study by the University of Tokyo found that dogs' brains release oxytocin, also called "the love hormone," during positive interactions with other dogs, as well as with their owners.
Swiss cows take a break to snuggle.
In case it's not clear from this photo, here's the thing: Cows have best friends. In fact, one study conducted at the University of Northampton even found that when cows were separated from their besties, their heart rates increased as a result of stress. Fortunately, it looks like these pals are enjoying a relaxing lifestyle in the countryside—and getting some snuggles in, too.
A cat and a Golden Retriever sneak in some cuddles.
While cats and dogs certainly express affection differently, that doesn't mean they can't still fall in love. Take this cuddly couple, for example. The cat brings the snuggles, while the dog offers a comforting paw of support.
Just a pair of Lovebirds.
This lucky photographer caught two Lovebirds doing what they do best—loving on each other. This colorful species of Parrot received its name because of the birds' strong, monogamous pair bonding and the long periods of time they spend sitting and cuddling each other.
Two giraffes intertwined.
You're probably already familiar with the human concept of necking, but thanks to this photo, you know giraffes do it too. While it's not totally clear what these giraffes are up to, it's pretty clear that they're totally in love.
Monkeys find love atop a tree.
One University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia study found that owl monkeys who were forced to leave their partners produced fewer children with another mate and were seemingly less happy. Luckily, it looks like these two are spending their days in loving bliss.
The forbidden romance between a cat and a monkey.
Through a series of photos, a photographer captured the friendship between a domestic cat named Alan and a monkey named Jojo in Thailand. As the story goes, the two animals became fast friends after Alan happened to wander into the macaque field one day and Jojo "adopted" him.
A kangaroo kisses its mate.
Us humans are always kissing our loved ones on the cheek—and kangaroos are no different! You can't deny these marsupials are feeling the love Down Under.
A lion and lioness rest side by side.
This King and Queen of the jungle are so secure in their love that they don't have to show it off. According to Lion Alert, male lions typically cuddle close to the lioness they choose to partner up with and give her licks of affection. Aw!
Prairie dogs hugging and kissing.
When you're totally in love, you just want to embrace your partner! And we can only imagine that's what's happening between these two prairie dogs, who are holding each other close.
Baby rabbits share a kiss.
While these baby bunnies are teeny and fluffy, they're still able to show each other they care by planting tiny bunny kisses on each other's cheeks!
King penguins take a romantic stroll down the beach.
Despite the fact that King penguins don't mate for life, the males do remain by the female's side through the birth and after to help her raise their offspring—so romantic walks like the one are probably a common occurrence.
A cat and dog snuggle.
The only thing cuter than dogs and cats snugglingn is dogs and cats snuggling under a blanket. Seriously, we wish we could get in on this, too.
White tigers share a sweet moment.
There's probably no animal in the animal kingdom we want to hug more than a tiger. And since we can't (for obvious reasons), we're glad these guys have the opportunity to cuddle one another.
Orangutans cuddling close.
Since humans and apes are so similar, it's hard to look at this photo and not see the resemblance between these cuddly orangutans and a human family. And from the way they're holding each other close, we've got to say, it looks like love.
Goats share a tender moment.
From the looks of things, these goats have clearly found the four-legged partner that makes their hearts beat a little faster.
Sea lions sharing a kiss.
Seo lions are commonly referred to as the "dogs of the sea," which means it's unsurprising that they're just as prone to giving kisses as their grounded counterparts. These two sea lions look like they're giving each other the world's sweetest kiss!
Horses who are head over hooves for each other.
If you've ever been hopelessly in love, you've probably nuzzled noses at some point in your life. And from the looks of things, horses do this too! These ponies are clearly deep in love—or, at the very least, are best friends telling each other secrets.
A dog falls asleep on its feline love.
As you already know, dogs have big hearts—and it seems like this one fell completely head over paws for his feline friend. Love looks good on these two!
Rainbow Lorikeets find a moment to nestle in close to one another.
Similar to other birds, rainbow lorikeets mate for life, and often travel as a pair wherever they go—and perhaps stop occasionally for a good cuddle session, as seen here.
Kittens enjoying a cuddle session.
Though cats tend to be more restrained in their PDA than pups, they show their love in other ways. For example, as seen in this photo, cats will show they love others (including other cats!) by cuddling up close to them and vocalizing their affections with loud purrs and other sounds.
A Jack Russell Terrier and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever find love.
Dogs love public displays of affection, which means when you bring them together they're bound to show the love. Take this terrier-retriever duo, for example—this cinematic kiss is more romantic than The Notebook. And for more of the most adorable dogs on the planet, check out these 50 Dogs So Ugly They're Actually Cute.
Ashley Moor
Ashley hails from Dayton, Ohio, and has more than six years of experience in print and digital media. Read more
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Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate now available
By Tim Conneally
It's been just about five months since Microsoft put out the first beta of Internet Explorer 9, and on Thursday, it officially reached Release Candidate (RC) status, and is now just about feature-complete.
The hallmarks of Internet Explorer 9 RC are: its support for new Web technologies based on HTML5, its treatment of sites like apps with pinnable shortcuts that can send dock notifications, improved privacy and tracking protection, and the ability for users to set filters for ActiveX elements on the Web.
It has received some cosmetic and functional UI upgrades since the beta release, as well. Most importantly, browser tabs can now be set to pop up in their own row.
Because browser tabs are jammed between the address bar and the navigation icons by default, you could only have twelve browser tabs open in IE9 before they run out of space, and must be scrolled through.
Now, the option to right click and "show tabs on a separate row" has been added, and browser tabs are moved under the address bar. The appearance of tabs has also changed very slightly, and so has the download manager.
And, of course, performance has been improved. Microsoft says it made over 2,000 changes between the last beta and this release candidate, tightening up Chakra's JavaScript performance, and promising faster starts, pageloads, and lower power consumption.
Download Internet Explorer 9 RC (9.00.8080.16413) in FileForum now:
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For developers, Microsoft has also released a package of header files and libraries to help facilitate development of Windows applications that use Windows Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. That package is available here.
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All-Swiss Semi at 2015 US Open – to bet on Federer or Wawrinka?
Betting Planet > Sports Betting Tips > All-Swiss Semi at 2015 US Open – to bet on Federer or Wawrinka?
Friday September 11, from 7pm local time, Flushing Meadows, Arthur Ash Stadium.
IT’S THE all-Swiss game every tennis fan had hoped would pan out at this year’s U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows.
Roger “Fed Express” Federer will play Stan “The Man” Wawrinka in the second semi-final this Saturday at 1:00am to claim a final spot in the last grand slam of the year.
Federer has won the last four from five against Wawrinka, but Stan won their most recent game at the French Open in a surprising straight sets victory and Federer will be out for revenge.
Bookmakers are favouring the 17-time Grand Slam champion at $1.29 and rightly so as Federer has turned back the clock these past two weeks with superb results. Federer hasn’t dropped a set on his way to the semi finals and most of the money has gone onto the 3-0 option.
Wawrinka will provide a challenge, however, as the younger Swiss native has dropped only one set to date and he was able to break the big serve of South African Kevin Anderson with ease in his quarter final.
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Federer vs. Wawrinka odds and tips
Federer – $1.37 at www.Crownbet.com
Wawrinka – $3.12
You might look at the price surrounding Roger Federer and be turned off, but adding the $1.37 to your multi-bets can increase payouts significantly and the added 20 percent from Sportsbet makes it all the more worthwhile.
Federer has looked outstanding this U.S Open and is the only top player to not look frail under the high temperatures in New York.
His tournament kicked off with a straight sets victory over Leonardo Mayer, where Federer dropped only five total games in the match. He was even more impressive in beating his second round opponent when winning 6-1, 6-2, 6-1.
His toughest game came unsurprisingly against the big-serving John Isner. The first two sets went to tie-breaks, but Federer stamped his class and came away with the straight sets win.
Richard Gasquet possessed a backhand that could have worried the former world number one, but Federer dispatched him and made Gasquet look second rate with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 demolition.
Federer sets betting market:
Federer 3-0 – $2.88
Federer 3-2 – $6
Federer has drifted from his opening quote of $2.50 to win in straight sets and is already out to $2.88 with CrownBet.com.au.
Many punters are expecting this game to go at least four sets as Stan Wawrinka is currently paying $1.36 to win at least one set.
The set betting option is tricky, but we like backing both 3-0 and 3-1 in Federer’s favour to ensure a profit.
Wawrinka exotic betting markets:
It’s fair to say we’re in the Federer camp, so we may as well look at some of the exotic betting options for his counterpart.
Wawrinka is currently $2.50 to win the first set and we see this as his best, and possibly only chance to take a set off Federer. If Federer wins the first set it could be curtains for Wawrinka, who will be looking to dent the confidence early on.
There are also some alternative handicap markets which could appeal to multi-bet bettors.
Wawrinka (+6.5) – $1.25
Wawinka (+4.5) – $1.66
Warinka (+1 first set) – $2.46 at Sportsbet.com.au
The +1 for the first set is great value compared to the $2.50 Wawrinka is paying to win the first set. This allows a 7-6 scoreline and instead of losing, you get a push and your money back.
Federer vs. Wawrinka predictions and news
We think Roger Federer will win in either three or four sets with a projected scoreline of 7-6, 6-3, 6-4, with the possibility of Wawrinka taking the first set narrowly.
Federer isn’t a player that needs much time to warm into the game and he should come out firing from the word go. If the head-to-head price of $1.37 at Sportsbet looks a touch short, it will probably only get shorter as the game draws nearer, so add it to your multi-bets.
Federer is relishing the chance to play his Davis Cup teammate in the semi final.
“Stan played a wonderful match against me in Paris,” Federer said in reference to Wawrinka’s straight sets victory in the 2015 French Open.
“I couldn’t be happier to play him here. It is cool for us to have two Swiss in the semi-finals.”
Stan Wawrinka joked about his past history with Federer, telling the interviewer to not quote the statistics, but coming off a strong win against Kevin Anderson will give the 30-year-old some confidence.
Stan didn’t make it easy,” Anderson said. “He was taking time away from me. He was swinging out and I was just a step slow.”
Wawrinka will need to be even more quicker to take time away from Federer, who looks to have all the time in the world at the U.S Open.
This could be the last chance for Federer to have a serious chance of winning another grand slam, so take the $2.75 at Bet365.com and enjoy seeing one of the best players of all time in action.
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How Might Nigeria’s Investment Cycle Pan Out in 2021?
Nestlé launches R&D Accelerator to drive innovation for dairy products and plant-based dairy alternatives
Nestlé, today, inaugurated a new R&D Accelerator to drive innovation and speed-to-market of sustainable dairy products, as well as plant-based dairy alternatives.
Located at Nestlé’s R&D center in Konolfingen, Switzerland, the R&D Accelerator provides a world-class platform for start-ups, students and scientists to leverage Nestlé’s unique dairy and plant protein expertise to quickly bring products from ideation to commercialization.
Nestlé launches R&D Accelerator to drive innovation for dairy products and plant-based dairy alternatives – www.brandspurng.coom
Nestlé R&D Konolfingen is an integral part of the Swiss innovation ecosystem. It is the company’s largest research and development center for dairy products and plant-based dairy alternatives. The R&D center develops new product concepts for Nestlé’s dairy and infant nutrition businesses before they are introduced to consumers around the world.
Speaking at the inauguration, Mark Schneider, Nestlé CEO, said, “Innovation in milk products and plant-based dairy alternatives is core to Nestlé’s portfolio strategy, as well as our sustainability agenda. As a company, we have set ambitious climate goals. This is part of our promise to develop products that are good for you and good for the planet.”
The R&D Accelerator in Konolfingen features a fully equipped test kitchen, as well as a co-working office space. Internal, external and mixed teams will leverage Nestlé’s capabilities to bring novel ideas from concept to test shop in only six months. They will have access to Nestlé expertise and key equipment such as small to medium scale production equipment to facilitate the rapid upscaling of products for a test launch in a retail environment.
Thomas Hauser, Head of Global Product and Technology Development at Nestlé said, “Our goal is to provide start-ups, students and Nestlé scientists with key resources to quickly explore new ideas through a 6-month test and learn approach. By tapping into our expertise in food science, food safety, regulatory, manufacturing processes, and packaging, they can rapidly upscale and test new products in real market conditions.”
The R&D Accelerator in Konolfingen is part of Nestlé’s global R&D Accelerator initiative which was first launched at Nestlé Research in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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By his own admission, the return of vocalist David Readman (missing since '15 Whisky Fingers CD), prompted Primal Fear/Sinner guitarist Beyrodt to opt for a more Zeppelin approach on the Circle's sixth outing. Rest assured, it's not an overriding influence as previous touchstones, like pre-MTV Whitesnake and the German string-bender's obsession with Hendrix are just as readily apparent. To those a little slow on the up-take, Voodoo Circle ply a bluesy ‘70s hard rock, with the emphasis on guitar.
Out of the gates, a buzzing hornet's nest on "Flesh & Bone" displays Alex's fleet finger flourishes (adroitly ascending/descending the fretboard with equal aplomb), in an up-tempo context. The audible Hammond organ is buried in the mix. The ear-candy introduction to "Wasting Time" (plus tinkling bells throughout) may be a Led moment, but the lyrics are more classic Coverdale ("Bless me Father, for I have sinned"). A jangly begun "Magic Woman Chile" becomes a echoing, spacey trip, with recurrent utterance of the titular phrase. Never the biggest fan of Plant/Page, to these ears it recalls Strange & Beautiful era Crimson Glory (which was more of the former and none of the latter), which I understand was heavily influenced by the Brits' music.
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“VW is building its plant at the North Industrial Area in Accra, and is due to start production by the end of April. Sinotruk has begun assembling its trucks. Toyota is scheduled to start the assembly of vehicles in Tema in the last quarter of this year. We have high hopes for this new industry, which has come to join our own Kantanka.”
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was speaking on Thursday, 20th February, 2020, at Parliament, when he delivered his Message on the State of the Nation, when he made this known.
Having launched the Ghana Automotive Development Policy in August last year, the President told Parliament that it has so far attracted investments and commercial interests from some very big players, including Toyota, Volkswagen, Nissan, Renault, Hyundai, Sinotruk and Suzuki.
In addition to the country’s industrialisation drive, the President noted that Business Resource Centres being built, are helping the country to unearth some exciting, young entrepreneurs.
“Thirty-seven (37) of them have been completed. These centres are one-stop enterprise support centres that provide full range of business development services, investment facilitation and information services to entrepreneurs, and business enterprises at the district level,” he added.
Having won the bid to host the Headquarters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Accra, Government has provided a permanent office building to host the Secretariat, and with the appointment of the Secretary-General in Addis Ababa two weeks ago, at the recent AU Summit, the office will become operational by the end of next month.
“We extend our warm congratulations to the first Secretary-General, Wamkele Mene, the young South African, and assure him that we will give him our fullest co-operation to ensure he succeeds,” he added
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Mr. Speaker, added that Ghana now finds herself in a position to exploit her large bauxite, manganese and iron ore deposits, which will enable the country to establish an integrated bauxite and aluminium industry, and an iron and steel industry.
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stated that “struggling, existing businesses are also being revived and expanded under the 1D1F scheme. There is nothing contrary to the philosophy that underpins 1D1F if an already existing enterprise is helped to expand and employ more people.”
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Friday the Flirteenth: A Guide To Creepy Movies for Valentine’s Weekend
BYT at large February 13, 2015
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You may have noticed that today is Friday the Thirteenth, and tomorrow is VALENTINE’S DAY. It is a rare occasion that these two days of note intersect, but when they do, a magical holiday is born: FRIDAY THE FLIRTEENTH. (You know, a day when serial killers show you how much they scare care!) So we’ve come together as a staff (meaning Jenn Tisdale, Alan Zilberman, Megan Burns and Svetlana Legetic) to select a handful of ultra-suitable movies for you to watch in celebration, from supernatural love stories to straight up stalker madness // without FURTHER ADIEU, here are our picks:
GRIMM LOVE (Amazon)
In 2010 (also known as “The Year Before AMERICANS Happened” Kerri Russell starred in this super dark cannibalism love story. She plays a graduate student in clinical psychology (smudged eyeliner and deep secrets included) investigating a thesis paper about two gay men: one of them wanted to eat someone, and the other one wanted to be eaten. Based on a true story it is gory, depressing, and set in Germany, it is also oddly (and disturbingly) touching at times. And yes, the penis gets consumed first.
AUDITION (Shudder / Amazon / Apple)
All I remember when it comes to Audition is that I spent a better part of it hiding in my hallways so I am MAYBE not the right person to write about it but then, maybe that is EXACTLY what makes me the right person to write about it. You decide. The story is seemingly simple on the surface: A widower, in desperate search of a new wife, “auditions” a slew of gorgeous, shy seeming girls for the “role” of his new wife, screen tests and all. And yet, somehow, he is NOT the creepiest character in the movie. The one that is chosen is …. well, you have to see it. Or, you know, don’t. Just hide all the piano wires out of sight first.
LOVE OBJECT (not streaming anywhere, but it was on Shudder at one point?)
Sort of a super-creepy version of the Ryan Gosling/blow-up doll classic, the movie features a socially inept, porn obsessed Kenneth (played by the almost too good looking Desmond Harrington, which adds to the overall unsettlement) who is under a lot of pressure at work, and spends ALL HIS MONEY on Nikki, an anatomically correct sex doll. Rip Torn and Melissa Sagemiller co-star and well, mannequins will never be quite the same to you after this is over.
WARM BODIES (Amazon / YouTube / Apple / Google Play)
When it comes to zombie movies, I am kind of the least capable of enjoyment…the old black and white zombie movies just kind of make me a combination of sad-scared, whereas the newer ones (where the zombies can run much faster, for some reason…) just make me want to throw up. Warm Bodies is just about the only zombie movie I have ever been able (OR WILLING, for that matter) to watch from start to finish, by myself, IN THE DARK! A lot of this has to do with the fact that Tony from Skins (Nicolas Hoult) plays the lead, who’s a zombie who falls in love with a regular human, and in doing so eventually is brought back to regular human status himself. It’s depressing and suspenseful and cute (I never say “cute”, you guys // THIS IS A BIG DEAL), plus the soundtrack is really good as an added bonus (WHAT UP FEIST), so basically I would super recommend watching it this Friday the Flirteenth.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN / LET ME IN (Kanopy / Amazon / YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
I feel like this one may be polarizing for some people, because there are (as far as I know) two cinematic versions in existence, the first being the original (from Sweden, called Let the Right One In) and the second being the English adaptation (called Let Me In), which came a bit later; mega-fans are likely to prefer the original, but to be perfectly honest, I think they were both FANTASTIC, so whichever version you’re able to get your hands on, you should be in for a GRAND OLD TIME. The gist of the story is that a twelve-year-old boy (who’s bullied by his classmates) befriends a vampire who looks about his age (but who’s obviously much older because #IMMORTALITY) and the two of them develop a slightly terrifying yet mostly weirdly charming romance. And before you jump to conclusions, NO it is not like Twilight, and YES you should most definitely watch it for all of the Friday the Flirteenth feels. (This has also been adapted for the theater, so if you’re in New York City now through March 8th and want to swing by St. Ann’s Warehouse for a performance, DO IT.)
MANIAC (YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
Whereas my last two suggestions were mostly on the heartwarming side of the Friday the Flirteenth scale, Maniac is a whole different beast. It is essentially an hour and a half of Elijah Wood going on dates with women he’s met on the internet (although there are a few who stumble upon him IRL by pure unluck) and then proceeding to murder and scalp the shit out of them, all because he’s got mommy issues. While the film is entirely terrifying and will absolutely make you nauseous (both physically and mentally), it’s pretty great if you are a single lady; while not all Tinder matches will end with you being chopped up into bits, sometimes it’s just better to play it safe than sorry, y’know what I mean? In other words, Maniac is (in a way) a morale booster for all us FOREVER ALONES, and for that reason I highly recommend it to round out your creepy Valentine’s Day weekend.
CONTRACTED (Amazon / YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
Like the last one, Contracted is going to end up being a cautionary tale, although it’s less of a slasher situation than it is just straight up DISGUSTING. (Also I kind of feel like I need to say “trigger warning” because there is some graphically unpleasant sexual stuff, so this is me letting you know now.) The movie begins with some dude fucking a corpse in a morgue. Yes, you read that correctly: FUCKING A CORPSE. IN A MORGUE. So already we know shit’s not going to end well for anyone involved. Cut to a house party, where the dude who was fucking the corpse in the morgue is ready to fuck the living again, and he decides to roofie one of the partygoers and rape her. So not only is this terrible enough in the first place, but because the guy’s penis was in a rotting corpse, he somehow gives this poor girl an STD, which is essentially that her body begins to rot (maggots fall out of her vagina at one point, you guys…it’s not good) and she eventually turns into a murderous zombie. 1. Please don’t ask me why I watched this in the first place, but also 2. this will make you think super twice before hooking up with strangers, having unprotected sex, leaving your drink unattended…basically all the things you should already be worried about // y’know, GIRL STUFF LOL. (See also: THIS HAS BEEN A FRIDAY THE FLIRTEENTH PSA.)
MAY (YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
May is also one of the most sensitive, heartbreaking movies I’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the most disturbing. Angela Bettis plays the titular character, a shy outcast who gets the attention of bored people because she’s pretty. Anna Faris and Jeremy Sisto play the people who befriend her, to varying degrees of success, and in the fallout May decides to “make her own friend” in the literal sense of the word. Director Lucky McKee takes his time with his scares, punctuating moments of shock with silence and quiet character observation. There are things in May that are fucking insane: we see blind kids crawling on broken glass, for one thing, and there’s a self-blinding scene that’d make Oedipus wince. But every action has a purpose, and by the end, we finally understand May better than she understands herself. Poor girl.
SPLICE (HBO / Amazon / YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
The Frankenstein origin story is not for the timid – its implications are more important than its monster – and Splice takes that sort of body horror and flips it on its head. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play hip scientists who decide to push their territory into unethical territory: they create a deadly human hybrid, one that’s otherworldly and kind of sexy, too. Most horror films have a line they will not cross. Director Vincenzo Natali not only crosses that line, he dances on it with a mix of eroticism and horror that’s weirdly admirable. His characters march to an inexorable, queasy conclusion, and the final moments are so strange that they make other horror films seem tame by comparison.
WAXWORK – 1988 (Amazon Prime / YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
If you’re a smug single person this Valentine’s Day you’re going to want to watch some horror movies celebrating said triumphant aloneness! Remind yourself of the things you truly like to do alone, such as VISIT A MUSEUM. What better museum to visit than a wax museum? Waxwork is your typical 80’s style horror film in that you get to teach a bunch of unruly teens a lesson about, I don’t know not following the rules. This movie actually wraps several small movies into on. As each character steps INTO a different wax exhibit you get a new film every time (The wolfman! Vampires! More!). So grab a friend or just a GIANT bowl of popcorn and prepare to inject some freaky culture into your world.
NIGHTBREED – Director’s Cut (Amazon Prime)
How can you possibly get to know someone else if you don’t know anything about yourself. Is there some deep part of you that still needs exploring? Enter, Nightbreed, a film about the monster in all of us. Don’t shrug it off as just a monster flick, it’s more about finding the space in this world where you belong and embracing it! Written and Directed by Clive Barker (of Hellraiser fame) it’s the story of a man who discovers he is quite literally a monster, and within that discovery he finds the family he’s meant to have (so many weird and lovely monsters). So if you’re feeling a bit out of step with the world then you’re going to want to stream this little beauty. Bonus: It also stars David Cronenberg, as in acting.
SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER – (Amazon / YouTube / Google Play / Apple)
This is easily the best film Mike Myers (HA MICHAEL MYERS GET IT?) has ever made. It follows Charlie (Myers) a man with commitment issues so deep he can barely wear the same pair of socks twice, until he meets the perfect woman. However, doubts begin to creep in as she reveals things about her past that sound suspiciously like a serial killer, Black Widow type he read about in “the paper” (a National Enquirer style rag). Hilarity and danger ensues but PLEASE watch this movie for the Phil Hartman cameo and Mike Myers playing his own Scottish father. I cannot stress this enough.
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Bum’s rush
I don’t get the backpatting here.
On Wednesday, Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant announced that he would be redshirting for the rest of the year and transferring, essentially removing himself from the Clemson team. This comes after Clemson coach Dabo Swinney announced that freshman quarterback Trevor Lawerence would be starting against Syracuse on Monday.
Bryant called the decision by Swinney a slap in the face, as Bryant posted a 16-2 mark as a starter and led Clemson to a College Football Playoff a year ago. But Lawerence is a generational type talent, as he was the No. 1 overall recruit in the 2018 class. And Swinney’s faced a decision like this before. In 2014, Swinney went with a veteran, Cole Stoudt, over a hyped freshman, Deshaun Watson, to start the season. That Clemson team lost to Georgia, but had Watson, who led Clemson to the 2016 national title, started maybe the game ends differently.
We’ve laid all of that out to say that juggling a quarterback room is no easy task. And yet, Georgia coach Kirby Smart has done a pretty great job of it so far. In his first year, he turned to the generational talent in Jacob Eason. While the team went 8-5, no one would say that was the wrong move. Last season he again turned to a freshman in Jake Fromm, even through Eason had more raw talent. But again, the results can’t be questioned as Georgia was a handful of plays from a national title.
As for this year, Smart is sticking with experience—and also it’s not like Fromm is a bum.
He’s not a bum. Cool, man.
Does anybody really think things would be different in Athens than they are at Clemson had Fromm been benched in favor of Fields? I sure don’t.
Kirby’s doing a great job — dare I say he’s not a bum? — but let’s not act like he’s got some unique skill here.
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Bingo. And in the long run, Kirby’s job is tougher than Dabo’s. There are three separation between the two at Clemson. There is but one in Athens, which means this has the potential to be dragged out for some time. Nice problem to have, but hardly to the point of back slapping.
Showing no mercy on Tennessee will go a long way toward getting Fields the passing game experience he needs.
dawgtired
I would like to see Fields play a full qtr or more in the next two games. Neither QB will lose you the game so we don’t have to be afraid of playing them both. Defense will have to game plan for both and it would be building real (even equal) depth at the position. If all goes well, there won’t be a game we would not feel comfortable in playing either one.
Uglydawg.
Good idea. But the defenses are already having to prepare for them both. If Fields doesn’t get much time, it may lull future teams into the belief that they don’t have to worry about preparing for him…then, wham! There he is and better than they’d ever imagined.
Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of CKS?
Dabo has acted like he wanted to name Lawrence the starter since the beginning, but he had to know Bryant would leave as soon as it happened. I’m surprised he chose the 5th game to do it. The cynic in me thinks he probably wanted to wait until game 6, so Bryant would have no alternative.
Dabo better hope this whole episode doesn’t split his team. Maybe he did it now, so Bryant can leave with his eligibility still intact for the sake of the team going forward.
If he named Lawrence as the starter at the beginning of the season, he loses in College Station.
Dawg Vegas
I believe he said that was the case
Dabo is down to a true freshman starter, a raw rs freshman back up, and Renfrow running 3rd string. Who is running their scout team? I am guessing Dabo hoped Bryant would stick it out. But starting a guy 5 games and then benching him is going to make the sort of waves that wash away recruits.
Well Bryant will prob run the scout team to keep up football skills, as he is still on the team.
He sounds pissed off though, and he should be. Taking a kid like that and telling him to run the scout team is a bridge too far. I bet we see him in the SEC before it’s over.
When you announce your decision to move on, you move on. Clemson would be foolish to keep him around.
Isn’t Stidham a senior? Auburn, baby, Auburn.
According to the article, it sounds like Bryant has left the team and doesn’t plan to return. I don’t know what to think about that, but it’s seems he has made the decision not to be part of Clemson’s team going forward. Dabo offered not to play him the rest of the year if he would stay. I wonder if that would have held up if something happened to Lawrence or he was ineffective in a game. I don’t think Bryant wanted to be put in a position to be requested to enter a game and to tell Dabo no.
Agree, if you’re going to leave, do it. No need to put Coach/Player in an awkward position going forward.
The Ncaa and this 4 game rule created this.
Every decision has unintended consequences. I think the 4-game rule is a good step toward what the process should be … 5 years of eligibility to play. With 5 years of eligibility, I bet Bryant stays to help Lawrence and play in a pinch. He walks out of Death Valley after his last home game with his held high.
Agree totally about the unintended consequences…..5 years sounds fair to me too…
Then you’re going to have a hell of a lot of players playing 5 years. Do you want that? Do the players want that? Won’t the coaches expect that, at least of some position players? All the guys who are possible NFL players but who aren’t going to be high draft picks will be expected to play 5 years in order to improve their draft position. What does that do to the recruiting cap of 85 players? Will the NCAA have to raise the cap to 100 or maybe more?
According to a friend that is tight with his parents he isn’t with the team and wants to withdraw from school.
I would, too. I have to imagine it’s awkward as anything to walk into class and have people whisper or not to be able to go to the athletic building. His whole support system at Clemson has likely disappeared overnight.
Agreed. He’s only been lucky.
First he was lucky that Fromm was able to handle the job last year. Had he or the team had issues in the middle of the season without Eason healthy, there would have been issues. I still say a guy should t lose his job just because he got hurt. Once healthy they both should have played. (This does not discount the possibility that things were going on befmhjnd the scenes that I’m ignorant of. Like partying, not caring, not doing the the job, quietly announcing he was out. Who knows?)
Second, Kirby is lucky because Fromm continues to play really, really well. If he were struggling a little things would get harder. I still say 1 needs more snaps when it matters. Don’t play scared, play them both.
I still can’t figure out how Hurts hasn’t done the same as Bryant. He should. If he plays in game 5 he’s a fool.
JCDawg83
Fromm is a better qb than Eason and was from day one. Eason didn’t lose the starting job because he got hurt, he lost it because Fromm is a better qb than he is. I don’t think anyone really believes Eason would have gotten us to the playoff or the SEC championship last season.
Kirby is going to play whoever gives him the best chance of winning and that’s exactly what he should do.
california_dawg
Humbly disagree. Eason’s ceiling is way higher than Fromm’s. Eason had an oline held together by duct tape and a first year head coach. You can’t say definitively the result wouldn’t have been the same with Eason behind center last season, after the team started to gel. I feel we did the kid wrong.
I love Fromm and I’m ecstatic with what he did, but I think we’re seeing this season with our inconsistency on offense and inability to grind Mizzou with our running game that he benefitted greatly from two team leaders and once-in-a-generation RBs in Chubb and Sony. I feel he’s a more talented Hutson Mason and not in the elite passer camp like Eason, Stafford, and Murray.
William (the other one)
Allow me to disagree with you. Eason had the talent, yes. However, his decision making was lacking and he was slow to pull the trigger on his throws (even though he could make all of them). Fromm may not have the same arm talent, but he is smart, savvy, and not afraid to fire off. I think he feels very much like a Murray, but that’s just my opinion. he checks into plays and knows where to go with the ball. Yeah he makes mistakes (and does seem to take a bit to get settled), but he is easily on par with some of our best passers. I don’t feel Eason was wronged. He just gave way to someone equally prepared to take over. It was unfortunate, but it happens.
I feel like I had seen enough in Eason’s last spring game and those few series against App State to figure he had not progressed much, if at all. I believe that had he not gotten hurt, we lose at Notre Dame last year and maybe lose more. Just my opinion. Also, the jury is still out on whether he will be an elite passer. There is more to it than being tall with a strong arm.
Everybody is certainly going to find out next year at U Dub. I’m one who thinks Eason takes U Dub to a PAC 12 Championship and the 4 team playoff and is a high NFL draft pick in either ’20 or ’21. I wish I could be his lawyer.
Mayor, here is one subject that we agree upon! I think Eason has a huge upside and will do great things as a Huskie. I would have loved to see what that kid could have done behind our o-line last year.
Always fun to wonder what? My strong guess is it would have cost us an SEC title we would not have won, maybe not even played for, with Eason at QB. Hope he does get it together at UW, Peterson deserves good things, as does Eason.
If the goal was to have a player who could throw the ball harder and/or farther, Eason would have definitely been the better choice. If the goal is to have a qb who can read the defense, manage the game, make catchable throws to all parts of the field, make the team around him better and win games, Fromm is the better choice. The “elite passer camp” qbs you cite combined for exactly 0 championships of any kind in 8 seasons at Georgia. I want to see a great college qb playing for Georgia and winning championships for the Georgia Bulldogs. If he also turns out to be a great NFL qb, that’s great but I don’t really care as much about that. Having a great future NFL qb playing at Georgia and not winning any college championships holds no interest to me at all.
Eason may have the bigger upside as far as an NFL career but I think Fromm will go down as a much better college qb. If Eason had truly been the better college qb he would have regained the starting job after he recovered from his injury. As to Fromm being a more talented Hutson Mason, I take that as a compliment of the highest order. Mason was an excellent college qb and I can’t think of a single game he caused Georgia to lose. If Fromm is a more talented Hutson Mason, great things are ahead for Georgia in the next few years.
Excellent rant JC and I agree totally. I like Eason but I also think Fromm is the better QB for the system Kirby is running at Georgia. I also think we may run up against Eason in the future though.
Lone Stranger
But still, the Dawgs expanded and then maintained upon a 2-score lead in the 2nd Half on the strength of Fromm’s arm. 3 TDs.
and Eason started because????
and Eason didn’t start after his knee healed because???
I dunno? Because of the way Fromm was playing? Just a guess.
I humbly disagree also. Part of my disagreement is that it is really an apples/oranges comparison. Fromm has done great, is a student of the game and a leader. But raw talent (basically, his arm)? That edge goes to Eason, imo. Both Fromm and Eason can run a little, but neither is going to be a Fields type.
Conventional wisdom says that if you have 2 quarterbacks you don’t have a quarterback. I’ve bought into that in the past, but more and more I would like to see Fields get more live action especially in games that we have well in hand.
I was worried my comment would trigger a needless message board war. Glad we can all debate civilly!
And I definitely agree in wanting Fields to see meaningful playing time. No more of this bring him in for 1 play crap.
No Axe to Grind
Eason had the physical gifts but Fromm has the brain for the game. The brain always proves to be the decisive factor.
He had two advantages physically: he was taller, and he could win the long drive contest. Period. Neither of those make you a really good QB in and of themselves. I really liked Eason, but he was never the QB at Georgia that Fromm has been. I hope he studied Fromm last year, gets coached up, and becomes a great QB, but when he left UGA as the 2nd team QB, he was there for a reason. I also appreciated the way he handled the change, he was a team player and feel he paid attention every week in case he was needed. That is special, with all the adoration and winning every matchup since he was 7 or 8, he could have pouted and been disruptive. So #10 will always be a DGD in my book, and I hope he realizes his dreams in football and life.
If Jake Fromm ever loses his job to Fields, I think he will act the same way, but he is still the best we have at the overall position of QB. He may not always be, but he is in 2018. And it will take a damned good QB to beat him down. UGA is blessed to have this as a possibility, although the fans calling for a change should have those conversations at home, or to a buddy in a bar, imo. We don’t have a controversy, and I see no advantage from those who want to create one. And yes, Fields should get more reps to make sure he is ready, and they shouldn’t just be handoffs. I think Fields is underrated as a passer from all I have seen, or heard; his being a good runner is gravy.
Right on, PeatMan! I know it cannot be gauged but I’ve always been conscious of a vibe of grit that Fromm plays with. That has an effect on teammates.
Justa clarification, Macallan is as far from a “peat taste” as you can get. I cannot swallow any single malt with a peaty taste, much less enjoy. Lagavullen is the highly rated peat choice, I could not finish one finger of it and have run from others in that category. Macallan is aged in virgin sherry wood barrels, and that is the secret to their differentiation. Everyone has their own preference, mine is for smoother, milder, and (much) less smokey taste.
Hurts would be a fool to leave Alabama right now. The team is doing historic things. Hurt’s shown improvement from last year. He’s got a proven QB coach and no better model to learn from in Tua. Hurts is getting the sort of media attention and media love he would never see based on his arm at Houston or a similar landing spot, which will serve him well after his playing days are over. And he’s a hit away from once again running an offense with an insane collection of talent around him.
This year at Alabama will do more for Hurts’ future than any alternative in CFB right now.
I’ve come around to this line of thinking as well. If he transfers he ends up on a tram with significantly less talent around him and probably continues to be a running qb. Not helpful to any NFL aspirations he might have
So you think he’s the bench rider that gets drafted? Got it.
I think if he starts two years at another place he has a SLIGHTLY better chance at it, maybe??
Maybe yeah.
But maybe he’d also be a disaster without 10 five stars around him and would more than likely end up with a team that structures its offense around his running ability and won’t develop his passing skills. And he is sitting in 2019
At Alabama at least he has good coaching to improve his passing skills and a chance that because of injury he is the guy again
In either event he is an Undrafted free agent most likely
I usually agree with your comments on this blog but your inability to look at Alabama in an unbiased fashion clouds your judgment sometimes. And comments about being drafted as a bench rider in response to my post make you look like an axxhole
I’m wrong – he won’t sit in 2019
He gets his pick of both systems and depth charts.
Playing at elite football programs isn’t exactly the recipe for NFL success at QB of for being a high draft pick. Its pretty random.
If the kid thinks he can throw it, he should be throwing it, not throwing a year of eligibility away.
I do hate Saban. Not bama. Saban.
I just don’t think many qb back ups either get drafted or get a look in the league. I can think of 1. The guy that played behind Leinert.
I am an asshole, so feel free.
Funny thing Derek, I hate Bama–have for 40+ years–but don’t hate Saban. He’s the best coach in America and taught OUR coach how to be a top notch HC. Maybe all of us ought to love Saban. But I do agree with you about one thing–you are an asshole.
Saban is a lying soulless asshole. I’m sure if your kid was run off and handed an unwarranted medical redshirt to bring in a 5-star you’d still suckle his cock. I won’t. That’s just one example.
Then you’ve got Darius Philon. Jonathan Taylor. You’ve got the kid who led three teammates on a robbery spree 2 days after he was arrested for a illegal gun possession that no one knew about because the press and police conspire to keep shit out of public view.
I could go on. He’s a bag of shit.
Good program builder but a totally evil little bastard that I pull for to lose almost every week, save ND and when Auburn has a chance to do something. He’s 0-3 in those games so fuck him for that too.
Hurts probably will never be a QB in the NFL anyway, but he DEFINITELY will not be if he stays at Alabama. That is 100% certain. If he stays it’s because Nick swindled him into the idea that his prospects are better staying, which is a lie.
He’s an expert at that.
Agree, think he has decided to stay in his current role already. He has a chance to start again if Tua is hurt at any point, get additional coaching, and is on pace to graduate in December and still play another year for someone else. If that doesn’t give him a chance to get a call from the NFL, it doesn’t matter anyway.
Hurts will go to the NFL as soon as possible even if as a free agent.
2 years of eligibility is better than 1.
Pretty easy math for the sentient among us.
He still has five years to play four. Not sure where you’re getting the idea that he’s losing a year of eligibility. He could, for example, transfer as a grad to a new program, red shirt, and then play as a fifth year. It’s effectively what Jake Coker did coming over from FSU.
Maybe Jalen decided playing this year at Alabama was in his best long-term interests. You can make some obvious and compelling arguments that it is, from a QB perspective, from a potential coaching career perspective, and from a potential media career perspective.
I know you hate Saban, and I get it – but your loathing for the man has you locked into the idea that Saban is hoodwinking poor Jalen. It’s patronizing and, given the totality of evidence, pretty myopic.
When he graduates he can transfer and play immediately, so its 2 years left, not 1
Exactly. He still has two years of eligibility left after he plays this year and then graduates in December. He can choose to one or both of those years.
If this is his third year playing, he has only 1 left: 4-3=1
If he doesn’t play past game 4: 4-2=2
Jesus dude!
He can spend 2 years at FSU or wherever. Period.
and play 1 IF he doesn’t shut it down NOW.
If you don’t think there’s a difference between playing 1 year or playing 2 years fine, whatever.
No I think he’s made the decision that playing THIS year is worth more to him in the aggregate than shutting it down now and playing an extra year somewhere else.
You’re making an assumption that playing this year at Alabama has less value to Jalen than playing somewhere else the next 2 years. It’s not even clear that’s necessarily true on the NFL QB front, and it’s pretty obvious that on other front – coaching, media – this year at Alabama would have FAR more value to him than a second year on the field at NC State or FSU or Auburn or wherever.
You called him a fool for playing. We disagree on that. You said he would only have 1 year of eligibility left and could only play 1 year. No, he could play 4 games next year somewhere as a redshirt and then a full year the following.
So, yeah, we disagree. Whatever.
How much is he going to play this year after his RS is burned? I think he’s being played.
ASEF….I hate to say it but Derek’s right. If Hurts stays at Bama through the rest of this season that will be the third year he has played CFB and he will only have one season of college eligibility left. That’s one of the reasons I think he has made the decision to go pro after this season–because he didn’t leave Bama already.
No, Derek’s wrong. Jalen could play 4 games next season – out of the gate, or into the post-season – as a redshirt, and then play a full season after that. Thats two season on the field – one a redshirt, one as a starter.
He has 5 years to play 4 full and 1 redshirt. Jalen has decided that playing full season this year at Alabama and redshirting somewhere else next season is worth more to him than redshirting this season at Alabama and having a full 2 years at some stop TBD. And given the unique situation he and his team occupies, it’s actually pretty clever on his part. He remains a vital part of a potentially historic football season and he can sit down when it’s done – when he has a lot more information than he has now – and make a fully informed decision on how he uses those two years to meet his goals.
Jalen has decided that playing full season this year at Alabama and redshirting somewhere else next season is worth more to him than redshirting this season at Alabama and having a full 2 years at some stop TBD.
This literally makes zero sense.
Jalen has played 2 full seasons. Coming into this year, he had, by NCAA rule, 2 full seasons and 1 redshirt season left.
If he plays a full season this year, he will have two years remaining – one redshirt and one full. Jalen has clearly decided that using a full year this year is worth more to him and his goals than using his redshirt. He’d rather have a full season this year and save his redshirt season for something else.
You and Derek are locked in on the idea that only wise path Jalen can take is using his redshirt THIS season and then using his remaining 2 full seasons somewhere else. That’s the conventional wisdom everyone has been talking about since summer. And somehow, if Jalen does something different, it’s because Evil Saban deluded the poor boy. Jalen is surrounded by engaged, active adults who know football and who have talked in the press about making decisions in Jalen’s best interests.
Jalen was talked up a lot during last night’s UNC Miami game, in glowing terms. He’s rapidly becoming the poster child for Everything Right About College Football. Alabama has literally a global spotlight right now. He graduates in December. He wants to play. He’s making smart decisions for himself. I don’t give a crap about Saban, but it’s insulting as hell for Derek to act like Jalen is too stupid to make good decisions for himself.
Not that simplistic, this isn’t a 1 or 2 year situation. There is enough tape on him. As single year of opportunity, for most every one, will be enough. Only advantage of two for him is if he changes positions, accepting he isn’t going to be an NFL QB. Many, many better passers have failed to make that step, and he wasn’t even an above average passer in college, surrounded by great talent. If you need two years to reach that conclusion, sorry.
I agree about Hurts…see my post a few down.
Hurts is a junior and likely not in position for a graduate transfer. He will also get plenty of live reps against Lafayette, Arkansas, Tennessee, The Citadel, and possibly a couple other teams.
His game will improve and he will have options at the end of the season.
He graduates in December. If he doesn’t play in another game he has two years of eligibility. If he plays one more snap he goes from 2 years of eligibility to 1.
I believe this to be correct.
No, he has five years to play 4 no matter what decision he makes this year. Most grad transfer QBs don’t work out because they don’t have time to pick up the offense in a round of spring ball. Jalen could red shirt at his new home and spend a year learning the new system. Or hell, he could red shirt at Alabama next year and then compete for the starting gig once Tua turns pro.
He has way more options this way, not fewer.
The rumor is that he graduates in December at Bama and could be on campus as early as January. The question on Hurts is whether he will be on his next campus for 1 or 2 years. If he plays in one more game and graduates in December or May, he would only 1 season. If he pulled out now, he would potentially have 2 seasons of eligibility remaining assuming he graduates.
If he plans to change positions to play at the next level, having 2 seasons to hone his craft would probably be best. If he wants to play QB, he probably needs to stay and play as much as he can at Bama to prove to his next coach he can be a viable starter.
Thanks. I forgot Hurts was an early enrollee. And it’s a Bama degree.
ApalachDawg
Because Hurts will take a pay cut if he leaves Bama
I think we will see a lot more of this sort of thing, just as we will see a lot more players skipping meaningless bowl games. I have mixed emotions about it. On the one hand, I can’t blame the players for protecting themselves or attempting to maximize their earning potential down the road. On the other hand, you committed to a school and a team. As an old fart, that still means something to me and I think it ought to mean something to them as well. So I guess it’s just another indication that the game we’ve grown to know and love is becoming something that’s harder and harder to know and love. Just like the NFL. I quit watching the pros years ago. I guess the day is coming when I will no longer watch college football either. Too bad.
The Ncaa brought this on themselves. I’m guessing at some point you may have changed jobs for what you saw as greener pastures. I know I have. I’m guessing many on this board have. Things change…
I saw it put succinctly on twitter today:
Everyone in college football is out for themselves, but only the players get criticized for it
Everyone gets criticized for it. The NCAA revised redshirt rule was a bad rule and the law of unintended consequences is fully in play now. I think they will change the rule very soon, possibly after this season.
I think allowing players to play in 2 regular season games and any championship, bowl or playoff games without losing a year of eligibility would be a good compromise. Of course they didn’t ask me and probably won’t.
It would be a better plan, I agree. If you are going to let them play 1/3 of a season, why not go all the way and give them 5 years? Between injuries and being beaten out by better competition, not that many guys will play 60 games in college. But it does play havoc with those who want to compare career records. Just like Herschel gets slighted because they didn’t count bowl game yardage and scores when he played. How hard is to add those three games in and talk apples to apples? Perhaps per game numbers is the better measurement anyway.
kfoge
Anyone else think Bryant is a snowflake? A HC, who’s job is to put his team in the best position to win games, chooses the best QB for the TEAM (in the coaches minds) and this INDIVIDUAL (Bryant) calls it a slap in the face? So is a slap in the face better if its to one player (Bryant) or 85 (Team)?
I think Dabo handled it poorly. And I think Bryant wants to play meaningful football, since he’s kind of dedicated his life to that up to this point. And I think a coach like Dabo, who constantly wants media pats on the back for putting the personal needs of players first, even above results, and who probably sells that during recruiting, is going to risk locker room perceptions of hypocrisy when he’s benching a senior QB who is winning games now for a true freshman QB who might give Clemson a better shot to beat an Alabama team that Clemson might run into in the playoffs.
This was a huge gamble by Dabo on two fronts. He’s already lost the first bet. We’ll see how the second one goes.
And what if Lawerence gets hurt or just has a really off day..This will look like a really bad move.
^This.
QB’s haven’t just started transferring….just that the Ncaa changed the rules…makes it easier mid year to make the call. Saves a year of eligibility.
I don’t get why people keep comparing these situations as if they’re the same. Clemson’s is different from Georgia’s is different from Alabama’s. Next year, Georgia may well find itself in Alabama’s current situation.
I think Swinney has handled his situation okay. He had a senior who was given the opportunity to lock up the job and couldn’t, and he’s made the decision early enough for the senior to transfer if he wants to. A slap in the face would have been stringing Bryant along until he had no option other than to play out the season.
Don’t you think that Bryant had figured the number of games out when Lawrence was recruited? He wasn’t going to be caught in some Freshman Hope Chest while reality stared him, his family and friends in the face. It was figured out that he would do this long before Monday.
It’s exactly the situation that we have with Justin and Jake. If, at this time, we have a great Freshman QB substituted as starter for another QB with almost an exact similar record to Bryant’s, wouldn’t you consider it a slap in the face for Jake? It continues to be a touchy situation with these QBs and the path to fairness for both is narrow and strewn with tire flatteners. The path thus far keeps Jake as the starter and Justin to play at the O Coach’s whim. We all know that both players should play, but who is to say how that is accomplished?
Well, first off, QB record is a terrible metric. Maybe the team went 13-2 because of you or maybe in spite of you, or maybe it falls somewhere in between. In the vast majority of cases, it’s going to be that last option. And no, it’s not a slap in the face. If the other player outperforms you, the team’s record while you were the starter is irrelevant. Why should teams saddle themselves with a worse player at the most important position on the team just because he’s the incumbent?
So, If info coming from the players and coaches that Justin is a better athlete than Fromme, you think that Fromme should be replaced? I don’t, nor do I think that Fields should not get quality time.
There’s more to playing QB than athleticism. I would expect that for now, Fromm has a better understanding of the offense, and he’s clearly able to make the throws they want him to make. I also trust the coaches to make determinations based on what they see in practice. It’s entirely possible that Fromm will continue to outperform Fields even next year, but if he doesn’t, I don’t think he is entitled to the starting job based on what he did as a freshman and sophomore.
Thorn Dawg
I’ll say it… Kelly Bryant sucks. He’ll suck on his next team too.
Trevor Lawrence is the better QB. The other three Clemson QBs that transferred saw that in the spring and bolted.
He doesn’t suck, but he’s not a good enough QB for Clemson to do more than win a shitty ACC.
He’s not even a good game manager.
Based on…?
Border Dawg
The only real team Clemson has played this year, who put pressure on the QBs, was Texas A&M. I saw an experienced college QB outplay a true freshman. Lawrence was throwing everything at his receivers feet. If Bryant hadn’t played in that game, I’m not so sure Clemson would have won. Yes, Trevor Lawrence is a generational talent throwing the ball. Can he handle an aggressive defense? We shall see
I agree, but go look at Clemson’s schedule. They have the opportunity to bring Lawrence along, and have him prepared for the playoffs. They can even lose a regular season game, win the conference, and still make the playoffs.
Bryant won’t beat Bama, but Lawrence might.
“Does anybody really think things would be different in Athens than they are at Clemson had Fromm been benched in favor of Fields?”
I do because I believe Jake Fromm would not leave. I think he’d fight to get his job back. Can’t base it on much besides my gut feeling about Fromm’s makeup and character.
And I say that not as a knock on Bryant’s makeup or character. The circumstances at Clemson are different enough from UGA that I don’t really begrudge Bryant his decision.
This is what I hope would happen if Fields beats Fromm out next year. Hopefully, Jake, being a longtime UGA fan, would want to stay and compete for his spot, rather than bail out. Wouldn’t blame him if he did, but it sure would be nice to be able to have both guys.
I am not so sure on that. Not because of Jake but because of his dad. His younger brothers transferred from Houston County to Warner Robins HS because of a coaching change at HOCO. Jake transferring from UGA wouldn’t even require the Fromm’s to move to a new school district. If Fields beats out Fromm I have a feeling Jake would be advised by his father to transfer.
Bat City Dawg
I mentioned this in the playpen, I just don’t know what Bryant gains here other than playing time. He was setup to succeed last year with a playoff caliber team, yet was merely an above average game manager. What does he expect to show NFL scouts if he wins the starting job at a lesser program? If he stayed we would be a bad hit away from being the man again, what if he came in and won the ACC CG or a playoff game?
And we wonder why schools pay Saban, Kirby, Dabo etc. the big bucks instead of just letting the fans and media decide these QB issues and who has a pulled groin or a broken leg. It was decided before he was a high school junior that Lawrence would be the best QB for whichever school he played for and no coach’s evaluation would be needed. This is all just a sign of the times; excess blather, recruiting news profit and every QB is an NFL prospect (not).
I think Dabo made some promises to Lawrence during recruiting. Dabo could have continued his QB platoon for the rest of the regular season. Bryant seemed ok with it. Lawrence was clearly developing in his back up role.
Maybe Lawrence develops even faster now, but he and his team will now have to do it without a safety net. The fact Dabo felt the need to take that risk is the odd thing here. The cited reason is that Dabo felt morally obligated to give Kelly the option to transfer, but again, Kelly was fine sharing the position, and sharing the position wasn’t holding Lawrence back. He was getting better weekly.
Just a really weird situation all around.
Or maybe Lawrence has demonstrated himself to be a better downfield passer, making their offense more dynamic. There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy when you can merely look at their production and obviously see why the change was made.
Isn’t Justin considered a better downfield passer than Jake?
Based on what?
Reports from players, coaches and observers? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have answers nor do I promote one over the other. I confess to liking Fromme because he has unforgettable history with us that will give us great memories and hope during any play on the field, no matter the situation spelled out by pundits or outsiders trying to divide us.
My point is that it is not a “settled” situation that is unlike Clemson or, as some like to project, ‘Bama.
I haven’t seen quotes from people stating that Fields is a better downfield passer.
Before Dabo made the change, he had:
Bryant providing leadership and stability. Lawrence developing as a passer. A crap schedule that they could handle with a WR like Renfrow playing QB.
After the change, Dabo has:
No Bryant. Lawrence developing as a passer. And now Dabo reportedly actually is devoting at least a portion of practice time to running Renfrow at QB, just in case.
Lawrence was never going to leave or stop getting better week by week. Dabo already had that. He didn’t gain that with this move.
Dabo lost Bryant. He gained nothing in return. Why?
As I said, weird.
Maybe he thinks Lawrence is fully ready and not “developing”. I just don’t think naming your best QB the official starter is weird. Will he regret it if Lawrence gets hurt? Maybe.
If Kirby made a decision today that sent Fields or Fromm packing immediately, would you say that was a smart thing on his part?
Georgia needs both. Clemson needs both. It’s Dabo’s job to manage that. He didn’t.
Somebody give Dabo Stetson’s phone number.
The new 4 games without losing red-shirt rule will contribute to a coming trend of kids deciding they aren’t going to ride the pine. They will get a taste of the field and may have a great game or two. “Why should I sit” will become a question “He’s better than our starter”, will become a point of discussion on coaching staff meetings.
For Kelly Bryant, the choice was so obvious that he didn’t even need to hesitate. While he shouldn’t have criticized his coach, his fate was sealed barring an injury to Lawerence. (who will be great). And judging from Bryant’s words, he may have now have a bad attitude. Not good for Clemson.
It may become, (and probably should be) more and more difficult for schools to hoard talent.
Should, or will kids look at what they’re facing and decide it’s not in their interest to ride the pine for a couple of years?
I think so. But they should realize it before they sign, not after being in the program for a couple of years.
We might need to realize how fortunate we are at UGA, as the “Death Star” building industry may be in it’s hay-day and soon declining. We may be on the trailing edge, but at least we’re on it right now.
College football will be changed if this becomes a trend.
There will still be programs that get great recruiting classes, but the depth and satisfaction of having more talent than you can even field could be a thing of the past.
“Parity” may become a trendy term again.
Then again, things may just rock on as they are. I can live that as long as Georgia is one of the builders.
Good post and one that appeals to reasoning. I don’t think we are anywhere near being out of the woods for a repeat of this at UGA. I don’t think it’s fair to put Fromme in the position of being a hero to help solve it either. He has a right to an expectant future the same as Fields and traversing this territory is going to create human behavior of resentment among many factions.
GruvenDawg
So only graduate transfers don’t have to sit out a year AFTER they transfer…So if a sophomore decides to leave who has not graduated he will still have to sit out a year per NCAA rules. Only graduate transfers (typically JR/SR players)would benefit using a redshirt for the 4 games they played and then transfer. They will not have to sit out a year at their next school and saved a year of eligibility. A junior graduate transfer could have two years of eligibility at his next school (5 years to play 4, taking redshirt JR year)
Leaving after the 4th game takes you away from practice or live reps for at least six months, while your future competition at QB continues to improve their game.
The risk is larger than it appears on the surface.
They know they have to keep working out for their future. If they want it, they will do it – whatever it takes. Think of it as an injury that a player has to come back for and the things he has to do to overcome it.
Not sure UGA has dodged this bullet at all, Kirby has handled ti well but this seems the lull before the storm to me. Unlike both Clemson and Alabama, we two excellent QBs, one year apart, who can command the entire offense, and be the offensive leader. Hurts was clearly lacking the passing ability required so that wasn’t a hard choice at all. Bryant was an average passer, and seemed to lack the inspirational skills to be the leader Clemson needed. Not as easy a call as Saban’s but one that could cause disharmony.
Kirby’s decision seems much tougher. Both of his guys have top flight skills, able to run the offense and seem to have the leadership skills required. One has vastly more experience and a proven track record in big games than the other, but Fields has shown up well prepared and not lacking in his limited opportunities. I don’t see a big issue this season, but the off season could get dicey if neither takes a step back. Get your popcorn, but expect high drama by May of 2019.
we may have two qbs that can command the entire offense. Not trying to discredit Fields, and it isn’t his fault he hasn’t been given more opportunities to really run the offense yet, but one read and then scramble is what i have seen, and that isn’t full command of the offense. He is on pace, but more game proof is required, IMO.
I agree, taken in it’s totality, I think UGA’s two QB’s are better, an not by just a little.
Hell, it may get interesting in Red Stick…
We may have two QBs with full command of the office. It is meant as no disrespect to Justin, but I can only judge what I have seen in real games, and one read and then scramble is not full command of the offense. I hope he gets legit time to show he can operate the full playbook, but at this point we have not seen it, though clearly we all believe he has the potential
I think you are exactly right Mac. I think we will have high drama next year, but it might not be fun to watch. A split locker room is the only thing that can stop this team next year.
On the one hand, it’s the sort of problem you want as a coach. But it can blow up in your face.
I agree. My only additional question would be what happens if Fields’ reps dwindle with the schedule ticking up in difficulty and we get to the end of the year without Fields seeing meaningful moments on the field.
Will Kirby play Fields enough to keep him engaged and happy? He’s thrown one pass so far in SEC play. UT and Vandy are probably his last chance this year to get SEC reps, and then he’ll probably be shelved until UMass and GaTech.
So, I think the intrigue starts about two seconds after the SEC Championship Game. If Georgia is playoff bound, it’s going to be in large part because of Fromm. And if Georgia isn’t playoff bound, then the bowl game is basically Spring Practice I.
As you said, high drama.
It is my understanding that CKS has already had to have meetings with both the Fromm & Fields parents. I think this is already a smoking gun. I hope we can hold on to both of these kids for the duration. But I agree with some of the earlier comments that Justin needs to play more meaningful snaps, not just handing the ball off to run out the clock. Glad this isn’t my call, but then I don’t make $7 mil a year either to make the call..
With the new redshirt rule Fields can still be the backup and also redshirt as long as he doesn’t play in too many games. That effectively puts a year between Fromm and Fields. Like what CMR did with Murray and Mason only Fields gets into some games too. It doesn’t look like that is going to happen this season but sure it might next season.
*another year
sorry for the duplicate-ish response
We understand. Sometimes when I post, the post isn’t printed. I have to leave and bring up the conversation again before seeing it posted. Don’t know whether my computer is slowing or if it’s the site.
It’s not your computer Cojo, I have the same experience. It just started happening recently.
This is all speculation but I guess that Bryant believes it a slap in the face because he probably did everything that the coaching staff asked to mentor Lawrence. I would have guessed that during Spring and Fall camp, the coaching staff was in Bryant’s ear telling him that Lawrence was too good to keep off the field but don’t worry about it – you are the starter. We just want to get him reps to make sure he is ready – just in case. So don’t worry and don’t complain, Lawrence is going to play.
However, I anticipate the conversation Swinney had with Bryant after naming Lawrence the starter didn’t commit to giving Bryant playing time unless the situation warranted it – because Lawrence is inexperienced and needs as many reps as possible.
It’s not like Bryant has played poorly or Clemson is stuggling – they are not so Bryant probably wonders why they made the change.
I don’t think Swinney deserves any kudos for the timing of it … he was planning on Bryant staying and disagrees with Bryant’s decision. I think they wanted Lawrence to be the starter and if they waited to after Saturday you always run the risk of Bryant playing lights out against Syracuse and having even more of a controversy.
Nobody here thinks Dabo was hoping Bryant would leave?
And be left with only one QB, somewhat unproven, in the midst of what looks like a cakewalk to the playoffs? He isn’t dumb, and that would be really stupid of him. I think he did it this week to not look like a total dick and leave Bryant hanging. Heard him on an interview today, said he didn’t think Bryant would leave but felt he couldn’t take away that decision from him. Also said Lawrence had been there since January and had made continual progress and had finally passed Bryant, and it was obvious to the staff. He said it happens all the time at other positions and the media doesn’t send satellite trucks and demand interviews and explanations.
MDDawg
I like how the quoted piece says Kirby turned to Fromm over Eason with no mention of Eason’s injury. Yeah, Kirby had to make a tough decision about who to start once Eason got healthy, but for the first several games the decision was made for him. It’s not exactly apples to apples with Dabo’s situation.
Yeah, the article was weak. Kirby has done nothing wrong, but I think he’s also been a little lucky with the changes. Eason to Fromm decision was made for him, and then Fromm showed he was up for the task so Kirby decided to go with the flow. It might get real interesting next season, or the first time the offense really stalls with Fromm at the helm.
Dabo could’ve been a real dick and started Bryant the next game, essentially sealing his fate. But instead, he announced Lawrence was taking over before the 5th game. He had to know Bryant leaving was a possibility, yet he took the risk. Not sure what else he could have done.
Do you think Swinney is concerned if Bryant leaves? Perhaps. Was it wise or whatever for him to announce Lawrence is the starter in a game to an opponent to whom they lost last year on the road? I’ll give Dabo some credit, because he recruits very well, he has a national championship won against Bama [something we did not do], and his record [plus staff and players] if very very good.
So Dabo changes QB, another sports writer makes a comparison to a situation at UGA. Dumb. Hello, please Maria Taylor write a story adding to this one.
Let’s say Lawrence is at UGA rather than Fields, and Fields is at Clemson.
Now how would that story go.
Better get this down. Trevor Lawrence is a player. Look at his skill sets, his high school performance is a very good scheme and coaches, and his field presence and leadership.
Would I start him over Bryant at this time in the season. Why yes. So why did Bryant come to the conclusion to leave, actually, he left the door open. But Dabo is closing it based on 2018 and forward performance. All QBs behind Lawrence are going to be parked there for awhile.
Is he better than Fromm at this point in his first season. They are both very good. Much has been said about his passes to the sideline. They are stellar. But this year his deep ball is there, too.
Fields is a talent, but so are Lawrence and Fromm.
You are not going to see RBs carrying a ball 25+ a game over the course of a season anymore in the SEC. It is a grind against current defenses, the schemes, and the number of plays teams run over 4 quarters
Likewise, the day of a single starting QB could be over, too. Spinning the ball 40, 50 + game over a season is a grind to. Taking hits while dropping back and/or running will take a toll over a season.
So where will he go? Arkansas? Tech? Miami? Vandy?
Can’t blame him. Now he can switch to someplace like Virginia or UCLA and his degree won’t say clemson at the top. That in itself is a really smart move.
He should transfer to Auburn..he will instantly become a Heisman candidate.
Yes, thinks Fromm would at least give it a year and fight for it (job). That is who he is imo, a fighter.
RangerRuss
Clemson sucks.
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Evidence for a Robertsonian fusion in Solea senegalensis (Kaup, 1858) revealed by zoo-FISH and comparative genome analysis
Aglaya García-Angulo1,
Manuel A. Merlo1,
Silvia Portela-Bens1,
María E. Rodríguez1,
Emilio García1,
Ahmed Al-Rikabi2,
Thomas Liehr2 &
Laureana Rebordinos1
BMC Genomics volume 19, Article number: 818 (2018) Cite this article
Solea senegalensis (Kaup, 1858) is a commercially important flatfish species, belonging to the Pleuronectiformes order. The taxonomy of this group has long been controversial, and the karyotype of the order presents a high degree of variability in diploid number, derived from chromosomal rearrangements such as Robertsonian fusions. Previously it has been proposed that the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis arises from this kind of chromosome rearrangement and that this is a proto-sex chromosome.
In this work, the Robertsonian origin of the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis has been tested by the Zoo-FISH technique applied to two species of the Soleidae family (Dicologlossa cuneata and Dagetichthys lusitanica), and by comparative genome analysis with Cynoglossus semilaevis. From the karyotypic analysis we were able to determine a chromosome complement comprising 2n = 50 (FN = 54) in D. cuneata and 2n = 42 (FN = 50) in D. lusitanica. The large metacentric painting probe gave consistent signals in four acrocentric chromosomes of the two Soleidae species; and the genome analysis proved a common origin with four chromosome pairs of C. semilaevis. As a result of the genomic analysis, up to 61 genes were annotated within the thirteen Bacterial Artificial Chromosome clones analysed.
These results confirm that the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis originated from a Robertsonian fusion and provide new data about the chromosome evolution of S. senegalensis in particular, and of Pleuronectiformes in general.
The Pleuronectiformes order comprises more than 700 species belonging to 123 genera and 11 families, distributed worldwide [1].The taxonomic status of the Pleuronectiformes order has been discussed at length by several authors, some supporting a monophyletic [2,3,4], others a poly/paraphyletic origin of the group [5,6,7]. This controversy centres on two suborders, i.e. Pleuronectoidei and Psettoidei, and is based on the rapid adaptive radiation and major genomic reorganizations that suggest different strategies in the adaptation to benthic life [8].
The group comprises commercially-important species, highly appreciated by consumers and hence a profitable group for exploitation. The main flatfish species produced by aquaculture are turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus), tongue sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis), Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis) and common sole (S. solea). A characteristic attribute of this order is the flat morphology of these fishes and the exceptional variability observed in the karyotype, with chromosomal numbers ranging from 2n = 26, observed in the Paralichthyidae Citarichthys spilopterus, to 2n = 48, found in most of Pleuronectidae species [9]. This variability has been explained by the occurrence of Robertsonian fusions throughout the evolution of Pleuronectiformes [8].
S. senegalensis possess 2n = 42 chromosomes, where three pairs are metacentric, two are sub-metacentric, four pairs are sub-telocentric and twelve are acrocentric [10] and it has been thought that the major metacentric pair originated from a Robertsonian fusion [11].
Both the commercial interest in Pleuronectiformes, and the taxonomic controversy over the species have contributed to a considerable increase in the studies about these species from physiological, molecular, cytogenetic and genomic perspectives. Genomic approaches characterise most of the research published in recent years (reviewed by [8]). However, cytogenetic information has also been widely used to resolve the Pleuronectiformes taxonomy [9, 12, 13] and as support for genomic results [14, 15].
On S. senegalensis, a wide variety of work reporting both cytogenetic and genome information has been published in the last decade. The genome mapping of this species started with the localization of the minor and major ribosomal genes, both co-localized in a submetacentric pair and another additional 5S rDNA signal in an acrocentric pair [16, 17]. Moreover, repetitive sequences, as (GATA)n and telomeric (TTAGGG)n were hybridized, resulting in dispersed and telomeric localization, respectively [17]. The elaboration of a Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) library on S. senegalensis has allowed single copy genes to be localized [18] and enabled the cytogenetic map to be integrated with the physical map obtained by BAC-sequencing [11, 19, 20]. Other achievements reported in S. senegalensis include the complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome [21], construction of a BAC library [19], a genetic linkage map [22] and the transcriptome [23].
The Pleuronectiformes order encompasses a wide range of karyotype sizes, ranging from 2n = 26 to 2n = 48 chromosomes (reviewed by [9]). Considering this high karyotype variability, the complex taxonomy of the Pleuronectiformes order and the latest available data, it can be stated that chromosome fusion has probably directed the evolution of this group. To confirm definitively this assumption, for the first time, a cross-species chromosome painting (Zoo-FISH) technique has been applied to several different species of the Soleidae family (S. senegalensis, Dicologlossa cuneata and Dagetichthys lusitanica), using as probe the largest metacentric pair from female individuals of S. senegalensis, because this species has been proposed to have a XX/XY sex determination system and this chromosome has also been proposed as a proto-sex chromosome. Furthermore, an exhaustive comparison has been made of the genes presented in each arm of the metacentric pair, between S. senegalensis and a flatfish species that belongs to a different family, specifically the Cynoglossidae (C. semilaevis).
Obtention of chromosome preparations and karyotypes
The S. senegalensis biological samples were obtained from the Central Research Services in Marine Culture (SCI-CM) of the University of Cádiz, while individuals of D. cuneata and D. lusitanica were captured wild. The chromosome preparations of S. senegalensis were obtained from colchicine-treated larvae according to [20]. Chromosome preparations of D. cuneata and D. lusitanica were obtained from spleen and anterior kidney culture, in which fishes were first anesthetized with clove oil (40 mg/L), after that the individuals were injected intraperitoneally with colchicine 0.05% and kept in an oxygenated tank for 3–4 h. Afterwards, the fishes were sacrificed with a clove oil overdose and spleen and anterior kidney were extracted and broken up in a 0.056% KCl solution. This cellular solution was filtered in a cell strainer from 100 to 40 μm. Finally, cells were subjected to hypotonic shock with a KCl solution and fixed in Carnoy solution. The experimental procedures are according to the recommendation of the University of Cádiz (Spain) for the use of laboratory animals and the Guidelines of the European Union Council (86/609/EU).
Karyotyping was performed using conventional staining techniques with Giemsa (10% in phosphate buffer pH 6,8). The chromosomes were measured using the GIMP 2.8.22 program and, after that, were paired and grouped according to the classification described by [24] based on the relative length (RL), centromeric index (CI) and arm ratio (AR).
Isolation, sequencing and annotation of BAC clones
BAC clones were isolated using the Large Construct Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany), then were sent to be sequenced by the Illumina sequencing platform (Illumina, San Diego, California, USA) (Accession Numbers AC278047-AC278120). The functional and structural annotations of the gene sequences identified in each BAC were carried out in a semi-automated process. Proteins and Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) from S. senegalensis and related species were compared. The homologous sequences obtained were used to get the best predictions for gene annotation. Finally, all available information was used to create plausible models and, when possible, functional information was added. Using the Apollo genome editor [25], Signal map software (Roche Applied Science, Penzberg, Germany), and Geneious R11 [26], the results were individually completed and adjusted in the final edition process of the annotation. In addition, a search for repetitive elements was carried out with the RepeatMasker program [27].
Comparative genomic analysis
All the genes annotated in the putative chromosome derived from a Robertsonian fusion were used for comparative genomic analysis. For this purpose, genomic information was extracted from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database to compare with C. semilaevis, as the flatfish reference genome. In addition, the data was used to identify reorganizations within the chromosomes.
Chromosome microdissection
The chromosome suspensions were dropped onto pre-cleaned coverslips and incubated in Giemsa solution. The microdissection was performed using an inverted microscope (Zeiss Axiovert 135) with a mechanical micromanipulator. Sixteen copies of the largest metacentric were microdissected from the female karyotype of S. senegalensis using sterile microneedles and micropipettes with 20 μl of collection drop solution (30% glycerol, 10 mM Tris/HCl, pH 7.5, 10 mM NaCl, 0.1% SDS, 1 mM EDTA, 0.1% Triton X-100, 1.44 mg/ml proteinase K). Micropipettes were put into a humidified tray at 60 °C and, afterwards, the solutions were transferred to 0.5 ml tubes.
Multiple FISH and chromosome painting
To prepare Fluorescence in situ Hybridation (FISH) probes, BAC clones were grown on Luria Bertani (LB) broth containing chloramphenicol at 37 °C, overnight. BAC-DNA was extracted using the BACMAX™ DNA purification kit (Epicentre Biotechnologies, Madison, USA), following the manufacturer’s instructions. The presence of the insert was evaluated by digestion with Eco RI and agarose gel electrophoresis (0.8%).
The BAC clones and large metacentric chromosome were amplified by Degenerate Oligonucleotide Primed - Polymerase Chain Reaction (DOP-PCR) and then labelled by a conventional PCR using four different fluorochromes, i.e. Texas Red (TR) (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, USA), Spectrum Orange (SO), Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) (Abbott Molecular/ENZO, Illinois, USA), and diethylaminocoumarin (DEAC) (Vysis, Downers Grove, USA), using the protocol described by [28].
Chromosome preparations were pre-treated with pepsin solution at 37 °C and fixed with paraformaldehyde solution. Finally, the preparations were dehydrated with ethanol series of 70, 90, and 100%, and air-dried. Hybridization and post-hybridization treatment were according to [20]. FISH with painting probes was performed on female and male chromosome preparations of S. senegalensis, female of D. lusitanica and male of D. cuneata.
The slides were visualized with a fluorescence microscope (Olympus BX51 and/or Zeiss Axioplan using software of MetaSystems, Altlussheim, Germany) equipped with a digital CCD camera (Olympus DP70) to take the pictures.
As described by [10], the karyotype of S. senegalensis is 2n = 42 (Fundamental Number FN = 60), with 6 M + 4SM + 8ST + 24 T. Meanwhile, C. semilaevis has a karyotype 2n = 42 acrocentric chromosomes (FN = 42) [29]. The result of the karyotype analysis allows the determination of a chromosome complement comprising 2n = 50 (FN = 54) in D. cuneata and 2n = 42 (FN = 50) in D. lusitanica (Fig. 1). The karyotype formula is 4 m + 46 t and 4 m + 4sm + 34 t, for D. cuneata and D. lusitanica respectively.
a Karyotype of Dicologlossa cuneata (2n = 50). b Karyotype of Dagetichthys lusitanica (2n = 42). Scale bar = 1 μm
The chromosome painting probe highlighted in full the large metacentric pair of S. senegalensis, both female (Fig. 2a, b) and male (Fig. 2c, d). This same probe painted two acrocentric chromosomes in both D. cuneata (Fig. 2e, f) and D. lusitanica (Fig. 2g, h). However, in these two species, centromeric regions did not appear painted (Fig. 2f, h).
Chromosome painting using as probe the large metacentric chromosome pair of Solea senegalensis: a, b female of S. senegalensis; c, d male of S. senegalensis. Zoo- FISH of the S. senegalensis large metacentric chromosome in: e, f Dicologlossa cuneate; g, h Dagetichthys lusitanica. Scale bar = 1 μm
A total of 13 BAC clones were localized in the largest metacentric pair of S. senegalensis and 61 different genes were annotated within them (Table 1). The multiple BAC-FISH allowed the localization of all these BAC clones in one arm or the other, although the similarity in size of the two chromosome arms made it difficult to differentiate between the q and p arms. Hence, the BAC clones were distributed between arm 1 and arm 2 (Fig. 3a, Additional files 1 and 2). Thus, BAC5K5, BAC10L10, BAC11O20, BAC16E16, BAC36D3, BAC48K7 and BAC52C17 were localized in arm 1; whereas, BAC1C2, BAC12D22, BAC13G1 and BAC48P7 were localized in arm 2. However, BAC56H24 could not be localized in a specific arm, because the hybridization signal was at the centromere, not only of the large metacentric pair, but also in two other chromosome pairs, subtelocentric and acrocentric respectively (Fig. 4).
Table 1 BAC clones found in the large metacentric chromosome and gene annotation
a BAC clones localization within each arm of the Solea senegalensis large metacentric chromosome. b Localization of the genes contained within BAC clones among the Cynoglossus semilaevis chromosomes. Blue bars denote the number of genes located in arm 1 of S. senegalensis that were found in the C. semilaevis chromosome shown in the X-axis. Red bars denote the number of genes located in arm 2 of S. senegalensis that were found in the C. semilaevis chromosome shown in the X-axis. Yellow bars denote the number of genes located in the centromeric position of S. senegalensis that were found in the C. semilaevis chromosome shown in the X-axis
a BAC56H24 chromosome localization. b Same plate without signals to show better the chromosome morphology. Green arrows indicate the large metacentric chromosome. Cyan arrows indicate subtelocentric and acrocentric chromosomes that also presented hybridization signals. Scale bar = 1 μm
The comparison of each BAC gene array localization between S. senegalensis and C. semilaevis demonstrated that 60% of the arm 1 genes were distributed mainly between chromosome 2 (20%) and chromosome 3 (40%) of C. semilaevis (Fig. 3b and Additional file 2). The remaining genes were distributed among chromosomes 6 (2.7%), 14 (5.7%), 20 (11.4%) and Z (14.3%); however, 5.7% of genes could not be found in any chromosome. Concerning arm 2, the genes were mainly distributed between chromosomes 19 (35.3%) and chromosome 20 (52.9%). The remaining two genes were either localized in chromosome 3 or not localized. The genes of BAC56H24 localized in the centromere of S. senegalensis were mainly localized in chromosome 18 of C. semilaevis, except for one localized in chromosome 5 and another that could not be found. After analyzing the repetitive elements within each BAC, this centromeric BAC clone showed the highest content in satellite DNA (Fig. 5), specifically different repetitions of the ONSATB satellite family. Other repetitive elements showed normal values (Additional file 3).
Relative content of satellite DNA in seven out of the 13 BAC clones used for this work. The remaining six BAC clones did not contain satellite sequences
Taking into account the chromosomes of C. semilaevis that share more genes with respect to the large metacentric pair of S. senegalensis, i.e., chromosomes 2 and 3 for arm 1 and chromosomes 19 and 20 for arm 2, several rearrangements between the two species can be observed (Fig. 6). A translocation and/or inversion event has been detected with the tpm4-rab8a-slc1a3-ap1m1 and klf2-eps15l1-calr genes from the same BAC clone. The mc4r gene from BAC36D3 has also been localized at a position similar to that of BAC73B7, thus indicating a translocation event. In addition, some genes from BAC clones localized in arm1 (cib3, rx2, rp1 and oprk1) have been detected in the same position of the chromosome 20 of C. semilaevis, which is an expected location for genes of arm 2 in the chromosome of S. senegalensis. The opposite has been observed with BAC13G1 localized in arm 2, in which case the unique gene (wac) was localized in chromosome 3 of C. semilaevis, which is an expected location for genes of arm 1 in the chromosome of S. senegalensis (Fig. 6).
Localization of the genes contained within BAC clones in the chromosomes 2, 3, 19 and 20 of Cynoglossus semilaevis. Blue lines show the localization of the Solea senegalensis arm 1 genes in the chromosomes of C. semilaevis. Red lines show the localization of the S. senegalensis arm 2 genes in the chromosomes of C. semilaevis
As already stated, the Pleuronectiformes order is a taxonomically-complex group in which Robertsonian events could have played an important role as evolutionary mechanisms during the speciation of this group of fishes [9, 30, 31]. Recently, this kind of event has been proposed as having caused the appearance of the large metacentric chromosome in S. senegalensis [11]. However, there is no conclusive evidence for such a particular Robertsonian fusion and it is not clear if the event occurred during the evolution of the Soleidae family or if it arose earlier during the radiation of the Pleuronectiformes.
It could not be ascertained whether BAC56H24 belongs to arm 1 or arm 2, because it hybridized in the centromeric region, and this BAC clone showed a large content in satellite DNA. It has been reported that repetitive elements of this kind represent the major DNA component of many centromeric regions [32]. The satellite DNA found in BAC56H24 matches the ONSATB satellite family described in the fish Oreochromis niloticus [33] and it was localized on the centromeres of this fish species and also scattered throughout the chromosome arms [34]. Moreover, BAC56H24 also showed centromeric hybridization signals on subtelocentric and acrocentric pairs, so this satellite family is specific for three chromosome pairs of S. senegalensis. The organizational pattern of the repeat-based centromeres differs among the species [32] and the pattern of S. senegalensis probably comprises satellite DNA families specific to different chromosomes. Indeed, new satellite DNA was isolated recently in three species of the Solea genus and hybridized in the majority of S. senegalensis chromosomes, except in two pairs [35].
It is known that teleost fishes have undergone three rounds of whole genome duplications (WGD) [36] and, as a result, the duplicated genes could have suffered a sub- or a neo-functionalization event [37]. As observed in this study (Additional file 1) and in previous BAC-FISH analyses carried out in S. senegalensis [11, 19, 20], when a BAC clone shows more than one signal, normally one of them is stronger than the other. This does not occur with BAC56H24, since the three signals are of similar intensity; therefore, they are probably due to a specific duplication of the centromeric satellite DNA involving these three chromosome pairs rather than the WGD. In addition, the comparative analysis of the BAC56H24 genes with those of C. semilaevis indicated that such genes are localized within chromosome 18, which is not one of the main chromosomes that share genes with the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis. Hence, both Zoo-FISH (the probe did not paint the centromeres) and comparative genome analysis (satellite DNA located in chromosome 18 in C. semilaevis but arm 1 and 2 of S. senegalensis are related to chromosomes 2, 3 and 19, 20, respectively) point to the same result with respect to the different origin of the centromeres compared with the origin of the chromosome arms.
In this study, the karyotype of two Soleidae species, D. cuneata and D. lusitanica, has been described for first time. This shows a chromosome complement comprising 2n = 50 and 2n = 42, respectively. To date, the karyotype is known in 11 species of the Soleidae family, and variability in diploid number can be observed (Table 2). Although the karyotype of 42 chromosomes seems to be the most shared diploid number (5 out of the 11 species), more species might to be studied to definitively conclude that 2n = 42 chromosomes is the plesiomorphic condition for the Soleidae family, above all when this number has been observed almost exclusively within the Solea genus. The 2n = 50 chromosome complement observed in D. cuneate has been described for first time in the Soleidae family [38,39,40].
Table 2 Diploid and fundamental chromosome numbers in species of the Soleidae family studied so far
A complement of 2n = 48 acrocentric chromosomes has been proposed as the ancestral karyotype for Pleuronectiformes, based on that being the karyotype observed in the most species of the sister group, the Carangidae family; it is also observed in the majority of flatfish species studied so far [9]. However, from this ancestral karyotype, a considerable reduction of chromosome number and increase of arm number have been observed across the different families of the Pleuronectiformes order (reviewed by [9]), which could be explained by Robertsonian fusions and pericentromeric inversions, for chromosomes and arms respectively. It has been postulated that the reduction in the diploid number within a group of species is related to life lived in specialized or constant habitats [41]; therefore the adaptation to a specialized and constant benthic lifestyle in Pleuronectiformes is consistent with this assumption. D. cuneata represents an exception, given the increase in karyotype by two chromosomes with respect to the predicted ancestral karyotype of Pleuronectiformes. Chromosome fission is a plausible way for this diploid number to have been reached in D. cuneata, as has already been proposed for fish species of the genus Rhabdolichops of the Gymnotiformes order [42].
It has been proposed that the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis is derived from a Robertsonian fusion [20]. The large metacentric painting probe hybridized in four acrocentric chromosomes from two different species of the Soleidae family, namely D. cuneata and D. lusitanica, thus confirming the Robertsonian fusion theory. In addition, the centromeric regions of these acrocentric chromosomes were not painted, probably due to the existence of different repetitive families within the centromeres of these chromosomes. The existence of a Robertsonian fusion has also been demonstrated in another flatfish species, Trinectes inscriptus, by the existence of Internal Telomeric Sequences (ITS) in a metacentric pair [30]. No ITS regions were localized in S. senegalensis [17], so probably a progressive loss of the ITS could have occurred after a Robertsonian fusion. However, the absence of ITS could be due to the number of copies of the telomeric sequence being insufficient for the FISH technique to be capable of detecting [43] or to a telomere loss that occurred prior to the robertsonian fusion [44]. The differences in diploid number between S. senegalensis and D. cuneata could be explained by fusion and fission events respectively. However, D. lusitanica and S. senegalensis both have 2n = 42 chromosomes, so the diploid number of these two species must come from different fusion pathways. Furthermore, the two species differ in the number of arms (FN = 60 and FN = 50, for S. senegalensis and D. lusitanica, respectively), thus indicating the occurrence of more complex chromosomal rearrangements in S. senegalensis, such as inversions or translocations. This difference in the fusion pathways followed by the Pleuronectiformes species could be a useful tool to help to resolve the complex taxonomy of the group, as has already been proven for resolving phylogenetic relationships in rodents [45] and bovid species [46]. Diversification and sex chromosome origins by independent chromosome fusions have been studied in fish species of the Eigenmannia genus [47]. The dmrt1 gene was localized in the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis [20], in addition to the canonical histone cluster [11]. The location of multi-gene families in sex chromosomes has also been reported in some other species [48]. Dmrt1 and its duplicates have proposed as sex-determining genes in many species [49], including the closely-related species C. semilaevis [50]. These findings in S. senegalensis have led to the large metacentric chromosome being proposed as a proto-sex chromosome [20]; therefore sex chromosome painting probes could also be applied to corroborate this proposal definitively and to ascertain the chromosome evolution within the Pleuronectiformes.
A reduction in diploid number is explained by chromosome fusions, but the reduction in arm number is not. This situation was clearly demonstrated in two closely-related species of the Mugilidae family, in which Mugil rubrioculus has 2n = 48 acrocentric chromosomes (FN = 48) whereas Mugil curema has 2n = 24 bi-armed chromosomes (FN = 48) [51]. The karyotype of C. semilaevis comprises 2n = 42 acrocentric chromosomes (FN = 42); therefore Robertsonian fusions followed by pericentric inversions could account for this karyotype.
The comparative genomic analysis between S. senegalensis and C. semilaevis has provided evidence that arm 1 of the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis shares genes mainly with chromosomes 2 and 3 of C. semilaevis, whereas arm 2 shares genes mainly with chromosomes 19 and 20 (see Fig. 4 for more details). Therefore, the evolutionary transition among these four chromosomes of C. semilaevis, the two pairs observed in D. cuneata and D. lusitanica, and the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis, could be due to tandem and Robertsonian fusion events, or to Robertsonian fusions followed by peri- and paracentric inversions. Indeed, chromosome rearrangement events of all these kinds are found to have determined the trends of evolution in both deer and cattle species [52].
Comparing the positions of the BAC clones within the large metacentric chromosome, with respect to the four chromosomes in C. semilaevis, it can be observed that genes that were localized together in the same locus of C. semilaevis, were separated in S. senegalensis; this observation is evidence of both translocations and pericentric and paracentric inversions within the large metacentric chromosome. In a previous study, this kind of rearrangement was also proposed to explain the localization of two clusters of canonical histones in different arms of the large metacentric chromosome, demonstrated at both molecular and cytogenetic level [11]. Therefore, substantial rearrangement activity must have occurred during the evolution of this particular metacentric chromosome.
It has been stated that sex chromosomes differ from autosomes by having undergone more complex chromosomal rearrangements [52]. As an example, the sex chromosomes of neotropical fishes were proven to have arisen by Robertsonian and tandem fusions [53]. Inversion events have also been stated to be an essential step for suppressing recombination between proto-sex chromosome homologues [54]. Therefore, both rearrangements (Robertsonian fusion and inversions) have been associated with the emergence of proto-sex chromosomes. These two rearrangements have also been observed in the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis, thus reinforcing the proto-sex chromosome theory of this chromosome pair. However, further analyses are necessary to evaluate the accumulation of repetitive elements and the absence of recombination between chromosome homologues.
In this study, a Zoo-FISH technique has been carried out in a flatfish species for first time. The results obtained from this, and from a comparative genomic analysis, have demonstrated that the large metacentric chromosome of S. senegalensis has originated from a Robertsonian fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes homologues of this metacentric chromosome. Events producing intensive reorganizations have been detected in this chromosome. As a consequence, new clues about the evolutionary pathway of the Pleuronectiformes order have been traced, and this work establishes this group of fishes as a model species for research into chromosomal rearrangement. Further analysis of cross-species hybridization, including more Pleuronectiformes species, needs to be undertaken in order to elucidate more exactly the karyotype and sex chromosome evolution in this taxonomically-complex group.
AR:
Arm Ratio
BAC:
Bacterial Artificial Chromosome
Centromeric Index
DEAC:
Diethylaminocoumarin fluorochrome
DOP-PCR:
Degenerate Oligonucleotide Primed – Polymerase Chain Reaction
Expressed Sequence Tag
Fluorescence in situ Hybridation
FITC:
Fluorescein isothiocyanate fluorochrome
FN:
Fundamental Number
ITS:
Internal Telomeric Sequences
Luria Bertani broth
NCBI:
ONSATB:
satellite family
RL:
Relative Length
SCI – CM:
Central Research Services in Marine Culture, University of Cádiz
Spectrum Orange fluorochrome
Texas Red fluorochrome
WGD:
Whole Genome Duplications
Zoo-FISH:
cross-species chromosome painting: Zoo Fluorescence in situ Hybridation
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The authors acknowledge their gratitude to the Ensemble team and Genomicus Browser curators for providing a browser and database that greatly facilitated the use and analyses of the BACs used in this work. We also thank all the institutions, consortium leaders, coordinators, and supervisors of genome projects that have made genome information available.
This study has been supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MICINN-FEDER (AGL2014–51860 -C2–1-P). AGA received a fellowship from the UCA.
The datasets that support the findings of this study are available in the supplementary materials and in the Accession Numbers AC278047-AC278120.
Área de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510, Cádiz, Spain
Aglaya García-Angulo, Manuel A. Merlo, Silvia Portela-Bens, María E. Rodríguez, Emilio García & Laureana Rebordinos
Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
Ahmed Al-Rikabi & Thomas Liehr
Aglaya García-Angulo
Manuel A. Merlo
Silvia Portela-Bens
María E. Rodríguez
Emilio García
Ahmed Al-Rikabi
Thomas Liehr
Laureana Rebordinos
AG carried out the multiple FISH and chromosome painting. AAR and TL carried out the chromosome microdissection and helped with the mFISH. SP and AM carried out the bioinformatic analysis of BAC clones, and AM drafted the manuscript. EM and MER carried out the sampling, tissue extraction, chromosome preparations and contributed to the FISH analysis. LR conceived and coordinated the study, participated in its design, discussed the results and corrected the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Laureana Rebordinos.
The experimental procedures are according to the recommendation of the University of Cádiz (Spain) for the use of laboratory animals and the Guidelines of the European Union Council (86/609/EU).
Chromosome localization of the 13 BAC clones within the large metacentric chromosome of Solea senegalensis. (PPTX 703 kb)
BAC clone localization within each arm of the Solea senegalensis large metacentric chromosome, localization and function of each annotated gene among chromosomes of Cynoglossus semilaevis. (DOCX 19 kb)
Relative content in different repetitive elements within each BAC clone. (PPTX 193 kb)
García-Angulo, A., Merlo, M.A., Portela-Bens, S. et al. Evidence for a Robertsonian fusion in Solea senegalensis (Kaup, 1858) revealed by zoo-FISH and comparative genome analysis. BMC Genomics 19, 818 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5216-6
Comparative chromosome painting
Chromosome fusion
Chromosome evolution
Pleuronectiformes
Senegalese sole
Comparative and evolutionary genomics
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OfCON? Regulator ignores UK SME ‘Wild West’ mobile provider market
News 1 December 2018 Business Matters
An investigation reveals SMEs are paying £1bn more than they should to the ‘big three’ mobile providers, while Ofcom turns a blind eye
Billmonitor, the UK bill analysis and mobile price comparison service, has revealed UK SMEs overpay by £1bn on their mobile bills after releasing the findings of its investigation into B2B mobile providers.
Titled An investigation into the B2B mobile provider ‘Wild West’, the report reveals only one in ten SMEs get a fair deal from their providers.
As an intermediary between SMEs and the mobile providers they procure, Billmonitor has a unique viewpoint on what they should be spending.
Among the plethora of Billmonitor data suggesting an uncompetitive market, one key aspect from the investigation also pointed to systematic unfairness: the company’s model indicated that one provider was surprisingly more expensive than the competition, and suggested the cost difference between the cheapest and most expensive provider was 16.3 per cent for an average SME.
Implored to independently verify this cost finding, Billmonitor sent a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to Ofcom, asking whether Ofcom’s data confirmed differences in average bills between mobile providers.
The regulator resisted sharing evidence over consecutive FOI requests until, on the third request (February 2018), it revealed a “15-20” per cent cost difference between the cheapest and most expensive mobile provider for business services, confirming Billmonitor’s original findings (upon the eve of the report launch, Ofcom attempted to retract, calling its own data “no longer reliable”).
However, Ofcom still refused to confirm the identity of the most expensive mobile provider, and suggested the significant cost differences between mobile providers might be attributable to varying average usage across the different providers. Billmonitor was unconvinced – why would high usage SMEs flock to one particular provider when no such provider offers better deals for higher users?
Billmonitor built its own statistical model, analysing bills from 356 businesses, comprising thousands of mobile connections. Importantly, this model accounted for differences in usage by SME customers of the different mobile providers, and strongly suggests Ofcom’s assertion was unfounded.
With 89.9 per cent confidence – based on the statistical analysis accounting for differences in usage – Billmonitor can reveal that EE is the most expensive major mobile provider in the UK for business contracts. Billmonitor can also – with 75 per cent confidence – reveal that O2 is likely to be more expensive than Vodafone.
“It is staggering that in a market so critical for businesses, there isn’t oversight to prevent SMEs falling victim to what is becoming its own ‘Wild West’,” said Dr Stelios Koundouros, Billmonitor’s founder and director.
“We call on the CMA to investigate the business telecoms market, to take over the job Ofcom seems to show little interest in despite Billmonitor’s three year-long pleas, and ensure SMEs of all sizes get a fair deal when procuring a mobile provider ”
“The fact that one provider can charge firms with similar average usage significantly more than another is a symptom of a broken market. As we move into the post-Brexit era, empowering the UK’s SMEs with fairness and transparency – as the CMA successfully did for the energy market, whose uncompetitiveness was only half as costly for SMEs – should be a key point on the government’s agenda,” Koundouros added.
“These findings, if verified by independent investigations, raise serious questions,” said Tommaso Valletti, Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School and currently Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission in Brussels. “Price differences of 15-20 per cent, not attributable to differential consumption patterns, indicate that a market is not close to being competitive. While generally we tend to think that competition among mobile operators is very intense for business customers, these results – again, if confirmed – depict a rather different picture, especially for SMEs,” he added.
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Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje, Henry Cejudo vs. Dominick Cruz and more targeted for UFC’s return on May 9
01 Jan Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje, Henry Cejudo vs. Dominick Cruz and more targeted for UFC’s return on May 9
The UFC is currently putting together an ambitious plan for an upcoming card on May 9, with several high-profile fights targeted for the event.
MMA Fighting initially reported plans for the UFC to book the May 9 show, which would be the promotion’s first event since March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. While a location is still to be determined, the UFC is working frantically to put together several fights that had previously been booked for other cards.
The new fights were revealed by UFC president Dana White when speaking to ESPN.com.
Atop the new card is an interim lightweight title fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje, which was originally expected for UFC 249 on April 18. The fight was signed after reigning lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was unable to travel to the event due to travel restrictions as the result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The fight was then scrapped after the UFC postponed all upcoming shows after receiving a message from their broadcast partners at ESPN asking them to “stand down.”
Nurmagomedov will not be available for the May 9 card, as it falls during the Ramadan holiday; he and his camp have targeted August or September for a return. Now, it appears the UFC will move forward with Ferguson vs. Gaethje.
Bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo is also expected to defend his title against Dominick Cruz on May 9. Cejudo was previously matched up with Jose Aldo in the main event at UFC 250, but that fight was scrapped after the Brazilian was not able to get a visa to travel to the U.S.
In his place steps Cruz, who is widely considered the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He last fought in 2016 when he lost the 135-pound title to Cody Garbrandt. Since then, he’s dealt with a number of injuries. But now that he’s healthy, it looks like he’ll be fighting for the title in his first fight back in nearly four years.
UFC women’s featherweight champion Amanda Nunes also expected to defend her title against Felicia Spencer after they were already scheduled to meet on May 9.
Heavyweight Francis Ngannou and Jairzinho Rozenstruik will move to their third fight card together after previously serving as the main event for UFC on ESPN 8, which was later cancelled, before then being moved to UFC 249. With that card being postponed as well, Ngannou and Rozenstruik are now expected to meet on May 9 instead.
A rematch between Anthony Pettis and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is also being targeted for the card, which is one of the new matchups added to the event.
Here’s a full list of fights targeted for the UFC show on May 9. All matchups are subject to change:
INTERIM LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT: Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje
BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT: Henry Cejudo vs. Dominick Cruz
FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT: Amanda Nunes vs. Felicia Spencer
Francis Ngannou vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Jeremy Stephens vs. Calvin Kattar
Donald Cerrone vs. Anthony Pettis
Greg Hardy vs. Yorgan de Castro
Alexei Oleinik vs. Fabricio Werdum
Carla Esparza vs. Michelle Waterson
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Uriah Hall
Vicente Luque vs. Niko Price
Charles Rosa vs. Bryce Mitchell
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Ric Flair WWE deal could mean bad deal for wrestling fans
According to wrestlezone.com, a deal may be in the works for Ric Flair to return to the WWE in “public relations” capacity. The story, which was nothing more than a couple of paragraphs, was reported on the website by Nick Paglino Sunday.
Flair made the news recently when it was reported that he had failed to pay alimony to his fourth wife, a Foxnews.com story reported.
The online story originally written by the Associated Press stated, “The Charlotte Observer reports that Flair, whose real name is Richard Morgan Fliehr, was ordered to pay $4,000 a month to Jacqueline Beems, who filed for a legal separation last summer. Court documents say Flair didn’t pay $32,352.51 following two court orders.
Documents say the arrest order was issued on July 3, but Flair can avoid jail if he pays what he owes.”
Flair has had issues with debts for decades, as written in his book, “To Be The Man.”
Could the new position Flair is reportedly being offered have to do with money needed not only to pay what he owes, but for survival?
To be honest, I am not sure I really care one way or the other. What I do care about, which I have expressed before on this site and others, is how I do not wish to see Flair on screen anymore, mainly because it tarnishes the man whom I have met and the man who had been one of my idols growing up.
And the fact Flair has been in altercations with ex wives, had huge drinking tabs that were unpaid and lived life with the “hair of the dog that bit him” during his days in TNA that were documented, makes me sad to think that the company he left WCW for and the one he left TNA for is still willing to have him as part of their corporation.
It also shows how the WWE is still willing to help those who have helped them over the years.
But for once, I am fed up with Ric Flair. The demons continue to haunt him, leaving him an old and bitter man.
Ironically, Flair showed he was human in “To Be The Man,” talking about demons that haunted him throughout his career and even after it. He recently lost his youngest son, Reid, an independent wrestler, to a drug overdose.
One of Flair’s famous quotes about living on the edge and then discovering that he was not the man he thought he was happens to center around those demons and self doubts.
“When somebody has convinced you that you`re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.”
Maybe that is one of the reasons to still be in the business like others who cannot totally walk away from it. Wrestlers like Jake Roberts, Terry Funk, Roddy Piper and Larry Zbyszko as well as Flair, who were known to get in the ring well past their prime because of need, want or the fact they cannot live without being part of the persona that made them famous.
This is the not the Flair I want to see, remember or think of. I want to remember Flair and Ricky Steamboat, Flair and Harley Race, Flair and Jack Brisco. I want to remember long, white hair and women in stunning dresses. And I want to remember the voice of Gordon Solie talking about the man with the “silver spoon” in his mouth and the 16-time World Champion.
Promotional work for a former wrestler is great. It shows the business still thinks enough of them that they can add something to the company. In Flair’s case, it may be nothing more than pity. And if that is the case, then the business should cut all ties to him.
All it is doing is soiling his good name and soiling my fond memories of one of my idols. I want to remember the performer from 25 years ago, not the man I see on screen, the man I don’t recognize.
David is a Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report and can be read here. Follow David on Twitter @davidlevin71
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Amazon Web Services Introduce Arm-Based Cloud-Computing Resources
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Energy-efficient processors based on the Arm architecture may be more widely used after Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Arm-based cloud-computing resources for developers the week of Dec. 2, 2018.
The prospects of the Arm, owned by Softbank, growing beyond consumer devices such as smartphones and becoming a force in enterprise computing represents a challenge to Intel, whose processors are wide used inside servers operating in a cloud and corporate data centers.
Intel has the second-largest group by revenue, making up 32 percent of Intel’s revenue in Q3, and is growing faster than the company’s still-larger business of making chips for computers and other devices.
These chips reduce the total cost of ownership of the servers, which can in turn benefit customers. Matt Garman, AWS’ vice president for computer services, told CNBC in an interview at the AWS regarding Invent Conference in Las Vegas this week.
Early feedback has been positive. It has only been a few days since Amazon announced the chips.
“I’ve seen Fortune 1000 big enterprises coming to us, saying, ‘Holy cow, this is interesting for some Internet of Things uses cases.” Don MacAskill, CEO of one of AWS’ early customers, SmugMug, had been asking him for Arm-based chips on the Amazon cloud for six years, according to Garman.
There are many tools for AWS developers and some of them, like the Lamda “serverless” computing service, could run on the Arm servers in the future, even if most of Amazon’s applications continue to use the popular x86 architecture that the Intel chips have used for a long time, says Garman.
Additionally, AWS said it will begin to offer servers that customers can install in their own data centers, for applications that cannot be run in the public cloud. From the AWS website, customers will be able to choose from a variety of EC2 computing instances that can be run, and from there, AWS will be able to deliver the right servers to meet the needs of the company.
Garman said, the plan is to allow customers to request instances that use the Arm chips. AWS could widen the distribution of Arm through the server product well beyond its own corporate boundaries.
Any instance that we have it the goal, whether it’s Nvidia GPUs, whether it’s Arm, whether it’s Intel, as part of that service.
At this time, the AWS instances using the Arm processors are not performing as well as comparable instances that rely on Intel chips, according to tests one person ran.
Still, the availability of Arm from the biggest cloud provider represents a win for Arm.
“Aws’ embrace gives Arm the shot of credibility to expand its footprint into more cloud players and workloads,” wrote industry analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy in a message to CNBC on Friday.
In the future, AWS could release new instances based on more powerful Arm-based chips. The existing instances use Arm’s Cortex-A72 system. It was introduced in 2015.
Arm is working on new processor technology that would enable greater performance, according to CEO Simon Segars.
Additionally, other cloud providers may start to release instances using technology from Arm, which was obtained by Softbank for $32 billion in 2016.
“Microsoft had shown in the past the use of Arm processors in their infrastructure. They haven’t had that commercially available, but they’ve shown what it can do,” according to Segars.
There are several large companies competing in the market for cloud infrastructure.
“If there’s a way to offer the processing capability at lower cost, then I would think everybody that play in that space would want to take advantage of it,” Segars says.
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The department's mission is to enrich the quality of life in DeSoto, provide World Class customer service, premier parks and dynamic recreational experiences.
DeSoto Parks and Recreation is a vital component in the community that provides diverse services and opportunities. Our staff will be known for their commitment to professionalism and their ability to grow and change with the community.
Professionalism: We will exemplify the highest standards of the profession.
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The DeSoto Parks and Recreation Department believes in aligning with the National Park and Recreation Association and impacting communities through health and wellness, equity, and conservation.
On any given day, someone is positively affected through parks and recreation – whether they are taking a walk on a trail or fitness class at the community center, getting a nutritious meal or just reaping the benefits of clean air and water because of preserved open space.
Local park and recreation agencies provide crucial health and wellness opportunities for all populations in communities across the country. As America continues to face serious health issues, including rising rates of chronic disease, an increased prevalence of sedentary lifestyles and poor nutrition habits, parks and recreation offer an affordable and accessible solution.
We must put equity at the center of all we do. True to the very philosophy of public parks and recreation is the idea that all people — no matter the color of their skin, age, income level or ability — have access to and are welcomed into programs, facilities, places and spaces that make their lives and communities great. Parks and recreation truly build communities for all.
Local park and recreation agencies play a vital role in the protection of our environment through green infrastructure, conservation of public lands, providing wildlife habitat and more. In addition to helping connect people to nature, local parks are essential in creating environmental stewards who will advocate for and protect our most precious public resources – our land, water, trees, open spaces and wildlife.
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Cricket 1.12.2020 06:31 pm
Lions in position to register back-to-back wins, Markram among the runs again
Ken Borland
Titans batsman Aiden Markram was again among the runs on Tuesday, this time scoring 80 not out, after registering a century in each innings the week before. Picture: Getty Images
There were again a number of quality performances on day two of the latest round of 4-Day Domestic Series cricket competition.
Barring the sporting equivalent of a miracle or the intervention of the weather, the Imperial Lions are well on their way to a second successive victory in their 4-Day Domestic Series match against the Warriors in Port Elizabeth.
The Lions took their first innings score to 389 all out on the second morning on Tuesday and then a fine all-round bowling display saw the Warriors skittled for just 118.
Tladi Bokako set the tone up front with brilliant figures of 13-5-14-2, but he had excellent support from Delano Potgieter (2-22) and Malusi Siboto (2-40) and Sisanda Magala wrapped up the innings with three for 37.
Leading by 271 runs, the Lions then reached 125 for three by stumps, with Wesley Marshall following up his superb 145 in the first innings with a fluent 48 off 60 balls, with 10 fours. Ryan Rickelton (32*) and Wiaan Mulder (23*) then added 40 before close of play.
Already 396 runs ahead, the Lions will be contemplating a declaration sometime on Wednesday that will give them almost a day-and-a-half in which to bowl out the Warriors a second time.
Aiden Markram has already shown that his game has all the equipment needed to succeed at Test level and the 26-year-old definitely also has the confidence and form to ensure he will soon be opening the batting again for the Proteas as he led a decent Titans batting effort on the second day of their match against the Cape Cobras at Centurion.
Markram followed up his century in each innings last week against the Warriors with a classy 80 not out that led the Titans to 136 for one when lighting and rain ended play just before 4pm. He collected 13 fours and was particularly authoritative on the drive.
He received strong support from Neil Brand (38*) as the pair added 104 for the second wicket after Corbin Bosch had produced a brute of a delivery that brushed the glove of Dean Elgar to have him caught in the slips for 9.
The Cobras began the day on 351 for five and took their score to 411 all out, with all-rounder Calvin Savage scoring a useful 40 and Bosch adding 28.
Thando Ntini finished with three for 66 and there were two wickets apiece for Lizaad Williams and Okuhle Cele.
In Durban, the Knights have erased the Dolphins’ considerable first-innings lead of 137 with just two wickets down as they reached stumps at the halfway stage of their game on 150 for two.
Opener Matthew Kleinveldt is doing a great job for the Knights on 67 not out, but the Dolphins have picked up a key wicket with Raynard van Tonder being caught at silly mid-off off left-arm spinner Senuran Muthusamy for 46 shortly before bad light stopped play.
The Dolphins had earlier reached 253 all out in their first innings thanks to Grant Roelofsen’s tenacious 73 and Prenelan Subrayen’s hard-fought 44, a crucial contribution considering the Dolphins were 169 for seven when he came to the crease. Fast bowler Daryn Dupavillon backed up his seven wickets with a useful innings of 19 as he and Subrayen added 40 for the ninth wicket.
Paceman Gerald Coetzee and off-spinner Patrick Botha took three wickets apiece.
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PPACA employer mandate delay: What now?
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The Obama administration is giving large employers an additional year before it will try to enforce a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provision requiring them to offer medical coverage to their workers or pay a fine.
What does the delay mean for workers? And struggling businesses?
Is the delay a significant setback for a law already beset by court challenges, repeal votes and a rush of deadlines for making health insurance available to nearly all Americans next year?
A few questions and answers:
Why the delay?
Businesses said they needed more time.
Obama administration officials say they listened to businesses that complained they needed to figure out how to comply with complicated new rules written since the plan became law. And the delay buys time for the government, as well, to improve and simplify the rules.
PPACA required employers with more than 50 employees working 30 or more hours a week to offer them suitable health coverage or pay a fine. What’s changed is the deadline for that requirement, which was to begin in January. The new deadline is Jan. 1, 2015.
Who else benefits from the delay?
Democratic candidates. The employer mandate was set to take effect at the start of a congressional election year, intensifying the focus on one of the Republicans’ favorite campaign issues. Postponing the requirement should mean fewer ads featuring business owners saying they’re drowning under health care mandates.
Maybe Republicans, too. They get new ammunition for their argument that the law is an unworkable “train wreck.” Voters’ complaints and worries about the health law helped the GOP win control of the House in 2010.
Some low-income workers. When the employer mandate does take effect, some smallish companies have threatened to lay off workers or cut back their hours to stay under the 50-employee threshold. There’s debate about how many workers might be harmed by this.
Some job hunters. Once the mandate kicks in, job-seekers may find fewer openings for unskilled workers. That’s because some restaurants and other small companies say the mandate will force them to cut back on staff or freeze hiring. The economy is likely to continue improving, which will help offset the impact by increasing demand for workers.
Who loses?
Uninsured people who already are confused about the law. The law doesn’t change the January 2014 deadline for individuals to get insurance or the tax credits in the law to help them pay for it. But many people don’t understand how the law works or when it takes effect, and the delay for the employer mandate may further muddle the issue for many.
Some workers. Those whose employers might add insurance coverage to avoid the law’s penalties will have to wait a year. But this group is expected to be small. The penalties are designed more to discourage businesses from dropping their existing health plans than to encourage them to start new ones. And these employees can buy their own insurance through the new health care exchanges being set up under the law.
Most consumers won’t be affected.
The vast majority of Americans already have insurance — even those working at companies that hover around the 50-employee level.
A Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 87 percent of companies that employed from 25 to 49 workers last year offered health coverage, and the percentage goes up for bigger businesses.
Consumers should not be affected by the delay if they already are insured through:
A job at a large company that already offers insurance.
A job at a small company employing fewer than 50 workers, because such companies are exempt from the rules.
Medicaid or Medicare, not affected by the delay.
A private insurance policy, also not affected.
Is this delay part of a downward spiral for PPACA implementers?
The delay adds to an appearance of disarray surrounding PPACA.
It comes after other glitches and angry opposition: Lawsuits reaching all the way to the Supreme Court. Protests by religious employers who say covering contraception is against their beliefs. Repeated votes by House Republicans to repeal “Obamacare.”
But the postponement doesn’t affect the heart of the law — the requirement that individuals get insurance, and the subsidies to help them pay for it. The Obama administration insists the rest of the law will keep rolling along.
Is the rest of the law on track?
Not for everyone.
A majority of the neediest people may remain uninsured. Medicaid changes in the health care law designed to help some 15 million low-income people are being rejected by many states with Republican leaders. That amounts to about half the people who were supposed to be helped by the law.
Last summer, the Supreme Court said states have the right to opt out of the law’s Medicaid expansion.
Eighteen states aren’t expanding their programs, including populous Texas and Florida. In nine other states, the outcome remains unclear.
Under the law, Medicaid is the only coverage option for people below the poverty line — $11,490 for an individual or $23,550 for a family of four. People this poor cannot get subsidized private coverage in the new health insurance markets.
The poor will be exempt from penalties for being uninsured, but they also won’t get help with their health care.
Medicaid already covers more than 60 million people, including many elderly nursing home residents, severely disabled people of any age and many low-income children and their mothers.
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Former CPS CEO pleads guilty to fraud
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett exits the Dirksen Federal Building following her Oct. 13 arraignment.
By McKayla Braid
Former CEO of Chicago Public Schools Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in federal court Oct. 13.
Originally indicted on 20 counts of fraud, Byrd-Bennett took a plea deal that dismissed the other 19 counts. Byrd-Bennett was arraigned at Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, 219 S. Dearborn St. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 27.
Byrd-Bennett is accused of using her position within CPS to assign no-bid contracts totaling $23 million in exchange for $2.3 million in kickbacks, as reported Oct. 9 by the Chicago Tribune.
Byrd-Bennett worked for SUPES Entities, owned and operated by Chief Executive Officer Gary Solomon and President Thomas Vranas, from the summer of 2011 through April 2012, according to the indictment.
Solomon and Vranas were arraigned Oct. 14, and pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of fraud, as reported Oct. 14 by the
Chicago Tribune.
SUPES Academy and Synesi Associates, collectively referred to in the indictment as SUPES Entities, offer professional development opportunities for school administrators and education consulting services.
When Byrd-Bennett began working as a consultant for CPS in early May 2012, she began advocating to approve contracts with SUPES Entities in exchange for kickbacks, according to the indictment records.
“I have tuition to pay and casinos to visit,” Byrd-Bennett said in an email, according to court documents.
The indictment alleges that Byrd-Bennett, Solomon and Vranas hid their ongoing partnership from CPS and the Chicago Board of Education by creating a letter addressed to Byrd-Bennett falsely terminating her as of April 30, 2012.
Byrd-Bennett said in an email to CPS employees she formally resigned from her position at SUPES Academy before accepting her job at CPS and she received no financial benefit from the work between SUPES Academy and CPS. But SUPES Entities planned to disguise her payments as a signing bonus when she would ultimately return to work for them down the line, according to court documents.
“It is our assumption the distribution will serve as a signing bonus if you return to SUPES/Synesi,” Soloman told Byrd-Bennett in an email. “If you join us for the day, you will be the highest paid person on the planet for that day.”
Following her Oct. 14 arraignment, Byrd-Bennett apologized to the children, their families and educators involved with CPS.
“I am terribly sorry, and I apologize to them. They deserved much more, much more than I gave to them,” she said after her arraignment.
Kelley Quinn, a spokeswoman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said in an Oct. 13 statement:
“Today, Barbara Byrd-Bennett took responsibility for putting her own financial gain ahead of what was in the best interest of the children she pledged to serve. This continues to be a matter for the courts. The Mayor and [CPS] leadership will continue to focus on our students, teachers and principals so we can continue the progress that is being made in classrooms across the City and enact further safeguards to help prevent this type of abuse from happening again.”
Sarah Chambers, a special education teacher for CPS, said the indictment did not surprise her and she is expecting it to be the first of many.
“I’m also interested in seeing Rahm Emanuel indicted,” Chambers said. “He is supposed to oversee the Board of Education, so if something doesn’t seem right on how [the board is] voting or who they are doing business with, he should stop them.”
Chambers said the Byrd-Bennett case is one example of why many advocate for an elected school board. She said residents could help further the advancement of this goal by contacting their representatives
in Springfield.
“[Without an elected school board], I think we will continue to see more corruption [and] more votes in the interest of corporations or the private sectors that [are] not in the interest of our students,” Chambers said.
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Action Philosophers! #1
Writer: Fred Van Lente Artist: Ryan Dunlavey Publisher: Evil Twin Comics Critic Reviews: 1
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Comics Bulletin - Kelvin Green Apr 25, 2005
I'm perhaps being too harsh on this book, as it's really only implied that it's a comedic approach to philosophy, and it's a bit unfair to judge it on what it's not. But on the other hand, to judge it on what it is leaves me in an odd position, because it appears to be a visual study guide. It works as such, but in that case, shouldn't it be in a bookshop rather than a comic shop? Read Full Review
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Ary and the Secret of Seasons | Gameplay (PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox One)
Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.
Journey across the magnificent world of Valdi!
Ary and the Secret of Seasons is an award-winning adventure game following a young girl named Aryelle, or Ary, as she journeys across the great world of Valdi. By becoming the Guardian of Winter, Ary gains the ability to manipulate the seasons around her. Ary will learn to control the seasons and use them to defeat enemies, overcome obstacles, and solve complex puzzles on her adventure across Valdi.
Long ago, the world of Valdi was threatened by an evil mage. After a great struggle, he was defeated by the Legendary Warrior and sealed inside the Vault, imprisoned for all eternity. To ensure the mage’s imprisonment, four great sages swore to keep watch and protect the Vault. They formed the original Guardians of Seasons, a secretive organization now steeped in history and legend.
After a mysterious force throws the seasons of Valdi into disarray, Ary decides to assist the Guardians of Seasons and sets out to find the source of the mayhem. Using her wits and courage, Ary will have to overcome monstrous enemies, secret plots, and stuffy traditions to save Valdi and bring balance to the world once more.
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"Flue.--Kill the poys and the luggage! 'Tis expressly against the law of arms; 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offered in the 'orld."--King Henry V
So long as their enemy and his victim continued in sight, the multitude remained motionless as beings charmed to the place by some power that was friendly to the Huron; but, the instant he disappeared, it became tossed and agitated by fierce and powerful passion. Uncas maintained his elevated stand, keeping his eyes on the form of Cora, until the colors of her dress were blended with the foliage of the forest; when he descended, and, moving silently through the throng, he disappeared in that lodge from which he had so recently issued. A few of the graver and more attentive warriors, who caught the gleams of anger that shot from the eyes of the young chief in passing, followed him to the place he had selected for his meditations. After which, Tamenund and Alice were removed, and the women and children were ordered to disperse. During the momentous hour that succeeded, the encampment resembled a hive of troubled bees, who only awaited the appearance and example of their leader to take some distant and momentous flight.
A young warrior at length issued from the lodge of Uncas; and, moving deliberately, with a sort of grave march, toward a dwarf pine that grew in the crevices of the rocky terrace, he tore the bark from its body, and then turned whence he came without speaking. He was soon followed by another, who stripped the sapling of its branches, leaving it a naked and blazed* trunk. A third colored the post with stripes of a dark red paint; all which indications of a hostile design in the leaders of the nation were received by the men without in a gloomy and ominous silence. Finally, the Mohican himself reappeared, divested of all his attire, except his girdle and leggings, and with one-half of his fine features hid under a cloud of threatening black.
* A tree which has been partially or entirely stripped of its bark is said, in the language of the country, to be "blazed." The term is strictly English, for a horse is said to be blazed when it has a white mark.
Uncas moved with a slow and dignified tread toward the post, which he immediately commenced encircling with a measured step, not unlike an ancient dance, raising his voice, at the same time, in the wild and irregular chant of his war song. The notes were in the extremes of human sounds; being sometimes melancholy and exquisitely plaintive, even rivaling the melody of birds--and then, by sudden and startling transitions, causing the auditors to tremble by their depth and energy. The words were few and often repeated, proceeding gradually from a sort of invocation, or hymn, to the Deity, to an intimation of the warrior's object, and terminating as they commenced with an acknowledgment of his own dependence on the Great Spirit. If it were possible to translate the comprehensive and melodious language in which he spoke, the ode might read something like the following: "Manitou! Manitou! Manitou! Thou art great, thou art good, thou art wise: Manitou! Manitou! Thou art just. "In the heavens, in the clouds, oh, I see Many spots--many dark, many red: In the heavens, oh, I see Many clouds. "In the woods, in the air, oh, I hear The whoop, the long yell, and the cry: In the woods, oh, I hear The loud whoop! "Manitou! Manitou! Manitou! I am weak--thou art strong; I am slow; Manitou! Manitou! Give me aid."
At the end of what might be called each verse he made a pause, by raising a note louder and longer than common, that was peculiarly suited to the sentiment just expressed. The first close was solemn, and intended to convey the idea of veneration; the second descriptive, bordering on the alarming; and the third was the well-known and terrific war- whoop, which burst from the lips of the young warrior, like a combination of all the frightful sounds of battle. The last was like the first, humble and imploring. Three times did he repeat this song, and as often did he encircle the post in his dance.
At the close of the first turn, a grave and highly esteemed chief of the Lenape followed his example, singing words of his own, however, to music of a similar character. Warrior after warrior enlisted in the dance, until all of any renown and authority were numbered in its mazes. The spectacle now became wildly terrific; the fierce-looking and menacing visages of the chiefs receiving additional power from the appalling strains in which they mingled their guttural tones. Just then Uncas struck his tomahawk deep into the post, and raised his voice in a shout, which might be termed his own battle cry. The act announced that he had assumed the chief authority in the intended expedition.
It was a signal that awakened all the slumbering passions of the nation. A hundred youths, who had hitherto been restrained by the diffidence of their years, rushed in a frantic body on the fancied emblem of their enemy, and severed it asunder, splinter by splinter, until nothing remained of the trunk but its roots in the earth. During this moment of tumult, the most ruthless deeds of war were performed on the fragments of the tree, with as much apparent ferocity as if they were the living victims of their cruelty. Some were scalped; some received the keen and trembling axe; and others suffered by thrusts from the fatal knife. In short, the manifestations of zeal and fierce delight were so great and unequivocal, that the expedition was declared to be a war of the nation.
The instant Uncas had struck the blow, he moved out of the circle, and cast his eyes up to the sun, which was just gaining the point, when the truce with Magua was to end. The fact was soon announced by a significant gesture, accompanied by a corresponding cry; and the whole of the excited multitude abandoned their mimic warfare, with shrill yells of pleasure, to prepare for the more hazardous experiment of the reality.
The whole face of the encampment was instantly changed. The warriors, who were already armed and painted, became as still as if they were incapable of any uncommon burst of emotion. On the other hand, the women broke out of the lodges, with the songs of joy and those of lamentation so strangely mixed that it might have been difficult to have said which passion preponderated. None, however, was idle. Some bore their choicest articles, others their young, and some their aged and infirm, into the forest, which spread itself like a verdant carpet of bright green against the side of the mountain. Thither Tamenund also retired, with calm composure, after a short and touching interview with Uncas; from whom the sage separated with the reluctance that a parent would quit a long lost and just recovered child. In the meantime, Duncan saw Alice to a place of safety, and then sought the scout, with a countenance that denoted how eagerly he also panted for the approaching contest.
But Hawkeye was too much accustomed to the war song and the enlistments of the natives, to betray any interest in the passing scene. He merely cast an occasional look at the number and quality of the warriors, who, from time to time, signified their readiness to accompany Uncas to the field. In this particular he was soon satisfied; for, as has been already seen, the power of the young chief quickly embraced every fighting man in the nation. After this material point was so satisfactorily decided, he despatched an Indian boy in quest of "killdeer" and the rifle of Uncas, to the place where they had deposited their weapons on approaching the camp of the Delawares; a measure of double policy, inasmuch as it protected the arms from their own fate, if detained as prisoners, and gave them the advantage of appearing among the strangers rather as sufferers than as men provided with means of defense and subsistence. In selecting another to perform the office of reclaiming his highly prized rifle, the scout had lost sight of none of his habitual caution. He knew that Magua had not come unattended, and he also knew that Huron spies watched the movements of their new enemies, along the whole boundary of the woods. It would, therefore, have been fatal to himself to have attempted the experiment; a warrior would have fared no better; but the danger of a boy would not be likely to commence until after his object was discovered. When Heyward joined him, the scout was coolly awaiting the result of this experiment.
The boy , who had been well instructed, and was sufficiently crafty, proceeded, with a bosom that was swelling with the pride of such a confidence, and all the hopes of young ambition, carelessly across the clearing to the wood, which he entered at a point at some little distance from the place where the guns were secreted. The instant, however, he was concealed by the foliage of the bushes, his dusky form was to be seen gliding, like that of a serpent, toward the desired treasure. He was successful; and in another moment he appeared flying across the narrow opening that skirted the base of the terrace on which the village stood, with the velocity of an arrow, and bearing a prize in each hand. He had actually gained the crags, and was leaping up their sides with incredible activity, when a shot from the woods showed how accurate had been the judgment of the scout. The boy answered it with a feeble but contemptuous shout; and immediately a second bullet was sent after him from another part of the cover. At the next instant he appeared on the level above, elevating his guns in triumph, while he moved with the air of a conqueror toward the renowned hunter who had honored him by so glorious a commission.
Notwithstanding the lively interest Hawkeye had taken in the fate of his messenger, he received "killdeer" with a satisfaction that, momentarily, drove all other recollections from his mind. After examining the piece with an intelligent eye, and opening and shutting the pan some ten or fifteen times, and trying sundry other equally important experiments on the lock, he turned to the boy and demanded with great manifestations of kindness, if he was hurt. The urchin looked proudly up in his face, but made no reply.
"Ah! I see, lad, the knaves have barked your arm!" added the scout, taking up the limb of the patient sufferer, across which a deep flesh wound had been made by one of the bullets; "but a little bruised alder will act like a charm. In the meantime I will wrap it in a badge of wampum! You have commenced the business of a warrior early, my brave boy, and are likely to bear a plenty of honorable scars to your grave. I know many young men that have taken scalps who cannot show such a mark as this. Go! " having bound up the arm; "you will be a chief!"
The lad departed, prouder of his flowing blood than the vainest courtier could be of his blushing ribbon; and stalked among the fellows of his age, an object of general admiration and envy.
But, in a moment of so many serious and important duties, this single act of juvenile fortitude did not attract the general notice and commendation it would have received under milder auspices. It had, however, served to apprise the Delawares of the position and the intentions of their enemies. Accordingly a party of adventurers, better suited to the task than the weak though spirited boy, was ordered to dislodge the skulkers. The duty was soon performed; for most of the Hurons retired of themselves when they found they had been discovered. The Delawares followed to a sufficient distance from their own encampment, and then halted for orders, apprehensive of being led into an ambush. As both parties secreted themselves, the woods were again as still and quiet as a mild summer morning and deep solitude could render them.
The calm but still impatient Uncas now collected his chiefs, and divided his power. He presented Hawkeye as a warrior, often tried, and always found deserving of confidence. When he found his friend met with a favorable reception, he bestowed on him the command of twenty men, like himself, active, skillful and resolute. He gave the Delawares to understand the rank of Heyward among the troops of the Yengeese, and then tendered to him a trust of equal authority. But Duncan declined the charge, professing his readiness to serve as a volunteer by the side of the scout. After this disposition, the young Mohican appointed various native chiefs to fill the different situations of responsibility, and, the time pressing, he gave forth the word to march. He was cheerfully, but silently obeyed by more than two hundred men.
Their entrance into the forest was perfectly unmolested; nor did they encounter any living objects that could either give the alarm, or furnish the intelligence they needed, until they came upon the lairs of their own scouts. Here a halt was ordered, and the chiefs were assembled to hold a "whispering council."
At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ardent leader. Had Uncas followed the promptings of his own inclinations, he would have led his followers to the charge without a moment's delay, and put the conflict to the hazard of an instant issue; but such a course would have been in opposition to all the received practises and opinions of his countrymen. He was, therefore, fain to adopt a caution that in the present temper of his mind he execrated, and to listen to advice at which his fiery spirit chafed, under the vivid recollection of Cora's danger and Magua's insolence.
After an unsatisfactory conference of many minutes, a solitary individual was seen advancing from the side of the enemy, with such apparent haste, as to induce the belief he might be a messenger charged with pacific overtures. When within a hundred yards, however, of the cover behind which the Delaware council had assembled, the stranger hesitated, appeared uncertain what course to take, and finally halted. All eyes were turned now on Uncas, as if seeking directions how to proceed.
"Hawkeye," said the young chief, in a low voice, "he must never speak to the Hurons again."
"His time has come," said the laconic scout, thrusting the long barrel of his rifle through the leaves, and taking his deliberate and fatal aim. But, instead of pulling the trigger, he lowered the muzzle again, and indulged himself in a fit of his peculiar mirth. "I took the imp for a Mingo, as I'm a miserable sinner!" he said; "but when my eye ranged along his ribs for a place to get the bullet in-- would you think it, Uncas--I saw the musicianer's blower; and so, after all, it is the man they call Gamut, whose death can profit no one, and whose life, if this tongue can do anything but sing, may be made serviceable to our own ends. If sounds have not lost their virtue, I'll soon have a discourse with the honest fellow, and that in a voice he'll find more agreeable than the speech of 'killdeer'."
So saying, Hawkeye laid aside his rifle; and, crawling through the bushes until within hearing of David, he attempted to repeat the musical effort, which had conducted himself, with so much safety and eclat, through the Huron encampment. The exquisite organs of Gamut could not readily be deceived (and, to say the truth, it would have been difficult for any other than Hawkeye to produce a similar noise), and, consequently, having once before heard the sounds, he now knew whence they proceeded. The poor fellow appeared relieved from a state of great embarrassment; for, pursuing the direction of the voice--a task that to him was not much less arduous that it would have been to have gone up in the face of a battery--he soon discovered the hidden songster.
"I wonder what the Hurons will think of that!" said the scout, laughing, as he took his companion by the arm, and urged him toward the rear. "If the knaves lie within earshot, they will say there are two non-compossers instead of one! But here we are safe," he added, pointing to Uncas and his associates. "Now give us the history of the Mingo inventions in natural English, and without any ups and downs of voice."
David gazed about him, at the fierce and wild-looking chiefs, in mute wonder; but assured by the presence of faces that he knew, he soon rallied his faculties so far as to make an intelligent reply.
"The heathen are abroad in goodly numbers," said David; "and, I fear, with evil intent. There has been much howling and ungodly revelry, together with such sounds as it is profanity to utter, in their habitations within the past hour, so much so, in truth, that I have fled to the Delawares in search of peace."
"Your ears might not have profited much by the exchange, had you been quicker of foot," returned the scout a little dryly. "But let that be as it may; where are the Hurons?"
"They lie hid in the forest, between this spot and their village in such force, that prudence would teach you instantly to return."
Uncas cast a glance along the range of trees which concealed his own band and mentioned the name of:
"Magua?"
"Is among them. He brought in the maiden that had sojourned with the Delawares; and, leaving her in the cave, has put himself, like a raging wolf, at the head of his savages. I know not what has troubled his spirit so greatly!"
"He has left her, you say, in the cave!" interrupted Heyward; "'tis well that we know its situation! May not something be done for her instant relief?"
Uncas looked earnestly at the scout, before he asked:
"What says Hawkeye?"
"Give me twenty rifles, and I will turn to the right, along the stream; and, passing by the huts of the beaver, will join the Sagamore and the colonel. You shall then hear the whoop from that quarter; with this wind one may easily send it a mile. Then, Uncas, do you drive in the front; when they come within range of our pieces, we will give them a blow that, I pledge the good name of an old frontiersman, shall make their line bend like an ashen bow. After which, we will carry the village, and take the woman from the cave; when the affair may be finished with the tribe, according to a white man's battle, by a blow and a victory; or, in the Indian fashion, with dodge and cover. There may be no great learning, major, in this plan, but with courage and patience it can all be done."
"I like it very much," cried Duncan, who saw that the release of Cora was the primary object in the mind of the scout; "I like it much. Let it be instantly attempted."
After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station.
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== History and Mythology == {{quote|Smiling was wasted energy. And love...love was for the people back in Homeland. The people who'd died to the Evil.|Silence's grandmother's perspective on life as remembered by her [[Silence|grandaughter]]{{book ref|sfs}}}} Sometime after the people of Threnody discovered the continent that contains the [[Forests of Hell]], an unknown cataclysm occurred in their Homeland.{{book ref|sfs}} A being or force referred to only as the Evil appeared and somehow managed to kill the majority of people living on their continent. The survivors were desperate enough to flee across the ocean to the Forests that they had once believed to be hell, where the [[Forescout]]s had already begun to settle. The Forescouts helped care for the refugees and acclimatize them to their new home, coexisting with the [[shade]]s and following the [[Simple Rules]]. Much of the government, cultures, and technology of the old continent, what was now called the [[Fallen World]] was lost. Ideals such as justice, kindness, or moral living became things of the past, worship of the [[God Beyond]] became less common, and much knowledge, such as the use of gunpowder, was nearly forgotten in the Forests. The people who survived in the Forests were a harsh, hardy people that focused more on practicalities and less on things such as love and family. Despite the fact that less than a century had passed since the Evil made its appearance on Threnody, the true nature of the Evil had already become surrounded by myths and legends by the time that [[Silence Montane]] ran her [[Silence's waystop|waystop]].{{book ref|sfs}} Some of the [[Forescout]]s, such as [[Silence's grandmother]] believed that one day they would be the ones to destroy the Evil. Others, who told stories about the [[White Fox]], said that he had been to the Fallen World and shaken hands with the Evil there.
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A Look at the Top 2019 Onboard Entertainment
CF on Jan 3, 2020 Jan 2, 2020 - 18 Comments on A Look at the Top 2019 Onboard Entertainment
Inflight Entertainment, United
I love that airlines are starting to release more information about the most watched onboard entertainment each year. Mostly, I’m happy because it’s proof they actually pay attention. That gives me hope that they will do a better and better job of tailoring the options to be ones that people want to watch. We’re a long way from the random single episode of Will & Grace that we had to endure on those overhead screens… or are we?
I turned to United first since they give the most detail on this. United only gives information on the most-watched content on seatback screens which is a bummer since streaming is an increasingly big deal. The airline breaks it down into three categories. Here they are from most-watched on down:
LiveTV Channels
Bohemian Rhapsody Big Bang Theory ESPN
A Star is Born Friends CNN Headline News
Crazy Rich Asians Game of Thrones CNBC
Green Book Modern Family CNN
12 Strong The Office ESPNEWS
Aladdin (2019) Big Little Lies HGTV
Vice Chernobyl
Instant Family Bob’s Burgers
John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum How I Met Your Mother
The Aftermath The Simpsons
Rankings via United
Much of this makes sense, especially on the TV side. People are looking to either catch up on episodes of shows they watch, re-watch episodes they love, or get into new shows they’ve heard a lot about. Considering that, these shows all fall into line, and it provides a blueprint for what’s important to have on offer. (More full seasons, please.)
For LiveTV, that’s also about what I’d expect. Sports is king, then news, and of course, gotta have some HGTV. None of that is surprising, but take a look at those movies.
A Star is Born? Good movie, but it’s really, really heavy and emotional. To me, that’s not the kind of movie you want to watch on an airplane. Apparently a whole lot of other people disagree, and it’s not just on United. According to TPG, this was number 1 on JetBlue and Southwest, number 2 on Alaska, and number 3 on American.
I’m not surprised to see movies like Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians, and Green Book up there. Those are movies that got a lot of buzz (even if not all positive), and it made them well-known even by those who hadn’t cared to see them initially. That to me is the kind of movie that’s good to catch up on while at altitude. Aladdin was good for kids (and frightening for parents who had to watch a blue Will Smith), and then movies like 12 Strong and John Wick fit the bill for action. Instant Family works for that comedy(ish) fix, but I remain surprised that there isn’t more appetite for comedy. That’s always my go-to on the airplane.
There is one really strange outlier: The Aftermath. I have never even heard of it, and I’m not alone. I see that it made less than $10 million in the global box office. It was largely panned by critics, and only about half the people who rated it on Flixster liked it. It’s a post-World War II romance/drama piece. I really can’t figure out how this did so well, but maybe United promoted it heavily on the home screen or something like that. I asked but wasn’t able to get any more detail.
The other airlines that TPG interviewed gave largely similar types of movies and television shows… except for American.
Look at those TV shows. The number one is the NBC special? This is the same stuff that used to be shown on those overhead screens. Apparently we haven’t gotten beyond that. And Austin City Limits? I’m sure it’s good but live music seems fairly niche. I find this really surprising that people couldn’t find more appealing options.
Then again, maybe American just hasn’t been offering anything good. I asked the airline for more detail on this, but I didn’t get a response during the holidays. So, we’ll just have to wonder what exactly is wrong with the people watching TV on American.
Update: I received more detail from American. This explains a lot about the NBC thing:
The NBC relationship is heavily promoted onboard and on the home screen (including by NBC stars in vignettes ads). But we also had content available first on American before viewers could even see it on NBC, including the pilot episode of NBC’s Perfect Harmony (featuring Anna Camp from Pitch Perfect and Bradley Whitford – better known as Josh Lyman from West Wing).
But American also gave me its full list, and guess what… The Aftermath is #5! What the heck is it about this movie?!
Aquaman AA NBC Special
Bohemian Rhapsody Friends (Season 1)
A Star is Born Austin City Limits
The Mule Modern Family (Season 9)
The Aftermath Big Bang Theory (Season 1)
Captain Marvel Calm Soothing Nature Scenes
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald The Good Place (Season 3)
Avengers: Endgame Disney Mickey Mouse (Season 4)
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18 comments on “A Look at the Top 2019 Onboard Entertainment”
Outer Space Guy says:
I think the airlines should have a channel that is simply 24/7 Bob Ross painting.
Jim M says:
LOL. I would watch this on any long haul to get some sleepy time going.
I watched the first two episodes of Chernobyl on a 6am flight – put me in a very strange state of mind for the rest of the day…
A_B says:
I’m surprised Fox is not on there, I mean you’ve got your mainstream liberal anti Trump political channels with CNN (twice) and CNBC which is splitting the liberal view in 3 channels already.
I guess Fox, Fox Business and OAN could be doing the same to the pro Trump Viewers; then again on my last UAL flight after getting bored of the impeachment business of Fox I tuned to and left it on the Outdoor Channel.
I wish they had an archive of that on longhaul, or some other educational matters.
CNBC is more of a business channel. MSNBC is the news channel with a liberal slant.
David V. says:
I recently flew trans-Pacific both ways with United. I thought the IFE selection was pretty good. However, I can’t understand why more shows don’t have English captions as an opiltion. I’m not hard of hearing, but I like captions, and planes are noisy anyway. How is it so hard to provide captions that presumably already exist for most content? Do you have any insight on that?
txjim says:
Re your Austin City Limits comment: Have you ever bothered to watch one? From the city that hosts SXSW, it’s no mor of a niche show than any other offering. Were you expecting all boots and fiddles?
txjim – Boots and fiddles? Uh, no. But it’s still just a live music show and that has limited appeal.
Thinking about it for a moment, it’s the kind of show that might be good for people who want some music in the background while they work on their laptop or something, but for whatever reason don’t bother with the music offerings on the IFE. Maybe they want something to actually look at?
HD90 says:
As an American frequent flyer, let me tell you that nothing about their data is surprising. They have fewer planes with seat-back IFE and the ones on the device streaming have less variety than what seems to be available on competing airlines. It has more to do with what they offer rather than what customers would prefer to watch.
Meghan Skornia says:
haha thank you for saying that about “A Star is Born”. My tired, jet lagged ass cried for the entire 8 hour KLM flight to Amsterdam after watching this. My husband was mortified. In coach, no privacy!
Is there something about being slightly drunk in a low pressure tin tube that makes the human animal more weepy? I tear up more on planes than at home or in the theatre.
I don’t know how United’s system lists the offerings, but if The Aftermath is alphabetized under “A”, this could explain its disproportionate popularity. Some people may simply not bother to look past the first screen.
Evil Bob Crandall says:
Maybe this isn’t considered IFE but why don’t airlines in North America mimic what Finnair does and show the takeoff and landing with a video feed in the front wheel well?
I heartily second that motion, Bob….given that so many passengers don’t open the windows, it would be really nice to be able to see outside of the tube. I will never understand how people can just sit down in an airplane, ignore the movement which you can clearly feel, and be so engrossed in looking at a screen that you have no interest whatsoever in what is going on outside.
MANY airlines have cameras on the front, side or tail of the aircraft. Emirates puts “virtual windows” on the interior suites on some of its aircraft.
You always were a mover and shaker, Bob. Make it happen.
Evil Bob – Beats me, but I imagine they just don’t want to pay for the camera. I agree with you; it’s great.
While we’re on that topic, my IFE content pet peeve is the in-flight map that doesn’t show the actual route the plane has taken. If the plane is halfway to its destination, don’t just be lazy and show a great circle path from the originating airport to the plane’s current position, show the path the plane actually took, like one could see on the flight tracking / radar web sites, even if that means a slight delay.
(I’ll forgive a great circle path for the path from the plane’s current position to the destination airport.)
I’m a little surprised about the AA thing, too. It’s not like they offer nothing; even the streaming-only have Live TV. I’ve watched football a couple of times when flying home on a Sunday.
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On August 20th, INA nurses concluded a three-day vote on whether they would authorize a strike vote and announced their results—995 to 12 to strike—via a Zoom press event. The vote allows the INA negotiating team to call a strike at any time, with a 10-day notice, per regulations.
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One Canada Square, London
A new modern European restaurant and cocktail bar opened in the iconic 50 storey One Canada Square building in the heart of Canary Wharf. The venue, which is also called One Canada Square, is operated by ETM Group. It features interiors by renowned designers David Collins Studio and lighting produced by Dernier & Hamlyn.
David Collins’ design concept was to take the existing fabric of the building and combine its bold use of austere marble for the post-industrial designs of the early 1990’s, with a softer dining aesthetic complemented by classic brassiere details.
For the lighting this resulted in us manufacturing magnificent polished chrome chandeliers with weighty circular glass panels underneath. Each fitting is over 2m in circumference and has 15 LED lamps.
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Dernier & Hamlyn joint managing director Jeremy Quantrill says: “The light fittings for One Canada Square are stunning. We love working on interesting projects like this that bring new challenges and produce fantastic results.”
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Where I Work: Signe + Peter of Space Copenhagen
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In 2005, Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou launched Space Copenhagen, a design studio specializing in a variety of disciplines, from furnishings including furniture, lighting and refined objects, to interior design for private residences, hotels and restaurants, to art installations and art direction. The duo brings their “Poetic Modernism” approach to each project while balancing contrasting design elements, like classic and modern, industrial and organic, sculptural and minimal, light and shade. In this month’s Where I Work, we virtually head to Denmark to see inside the offices of Signe and Peter, and the Space Copenhagen team, to see where they make it all happen.
What’s your studio/work environment like?
Our studio environment is quite casual and lively – including two studio dogs which are very much part of the family! We try to keep a certain structure to the mess – which is not always easy when you have a huge collection of materials including different types of wood, stone, metal, glass and textiles. The materials are constantly moved around for project lay–ups and client meetings. We also have a lot of prototypes, unfinished pieces of furniture and designs coming in and out of the studio for revisions and corrections – and it all just adds up!
How is your space organized/arranged?
Our studio is one big space divided by a few glass walls in a burnt iron structure. We all have very big individual desks in an open plan environment.
We (Signe and Peter) also have a glass walled office with doors, which we can close when we have calls or small meetings. In the middle of the studio space, we have a huge counter height table, which also serves as storage for material samples. We use this table for everything – for internal meetings, meetings with clients, for sketching and processing and also for Friday bars and dinners.
How long have you been in this space? Where did you work before that?
We have been here for more than three years. Prior to that time, we were working in a similar – just smaller – space for 10 years.
If you could change something about your workspace, what would it be?
We really love the space – it has beautiful light coming in from three sides of the studio and the location in the city is absolutely perfect. However, we could always use more space! We would love to have all our furniture and designs on show here, and also to have a bigger workshop space for 3D models, printing, model making and clay.
Have you had to make any adjustments to how you work because of the pandemic?
We have been lucky in that sense, so not really… Keeping everything clean has obviously been important and we recommend to our dear team members to take lunch in small groups, so that we can keep more distance than usual.
Nana + Nova
Is there an office pet?
As mentioned, we have a couple of very cute, furry dogs in the team – Nova and Nana.
Do you require music in the background? If so, who are some favorites?
Yes – we always listen to music, a lot of different music – a constant challenge. We love artists like Kerala Dust, Feathered Sun, Kalabrese, Massive Attack, Nicolas Jaar – but also listen to a lot of classic music, sometimes just soft piano or very soft jazz. We are constantly searching for new tunes as we think that music is very defining for the general atmosphere and mood of the office.
How do you record ideas?
We get through a lot of Leuchtturm sketch books – and notebooks with soft covers. They are the best.
Do you have an inspiration board? What’s on it right now?
We have just started an amazing new hotel project in Norway and we are in the process of collecting a lot of inspirational material from the area, such as imagery from nature, fauna and flora, food, historical motifs and traditions, tools, crafts, rituals, techniques and local furniture pieces. It’s incredibly inspiring and enriching.
What is your typical work style?
We are super regimented and have a certain set of routines, which we have complied to for over 15 years. We need that structure to align expectations and not to hang around just daydreaming, which is always tempting! When we are not traveling, we start work around 8am and three days a week we begin the day with exercise in a small gym just next door, which we designed a few years back. During the day, we are good at being efficient and focused with our team. We are in constant dialogue but are also getting better at dividing the work between us. Whilst we mostly finish work in the late afternoon to nurture family, friends and hobbies, as with all creative studios, we also have crazy days and weeks, even months where we have to work at night and out of usual studio hours to get the work done. Good creative ideas do not always come at the speed you would like them to.
What is your creative process and/or creative workflow like? Does it change every project or do you keep it the same?
It very much depends on the scale of the project. A hotel in Tokyo or a chair demand two very different approaches. Designing a hotel is like starting a huge puzzle. It begins with an intense process of collecting information about the site, the dreams and ambitions of the client, the aspirations and the functions, to slowly be able to reach a narrative that points towards an approach to spaces and atmospheres, a palette of relevant materials, typologies of surfaces, furniture and so on. On the other side, the creative process behind a chair is often much more intuitive and sometimes very introvert. It involves just you, with pencil and paper, sketching away following more or less distinctive ideas. Once it begins to take shape, we go from the pencil sketching to a lot of investigations in 3D to make sure that the proportions and details are right.
What kind of art/design/objects might you have scattered about the space?
Prototypes of design and furniture, 3D prints and lots of materials.
Are there tools and/or machinery in your space?
Printers, plotter and a 3D printer.
What tool(s) do you most enjoy using in the design process?
For sure – pencil and paper – that’s where it all begins.
Let’s talk about how you’re wired. Tell us about your tech arsenal/devices.
We are all on big Macs, primarily working in A Cad, Rhino, and Key Shot Adobe, with some additional facilities for renderings in V-Ray for the bigger projects. We also have a set-up with a big screen in our meeting room for online calls, which we have been using quite a lot over the past year.
What’s on your desk right now?
Some sketches of bespoke items for a hotel project.
Is there a favorite project/piece you’ve worked on?
It’s difficult to pick one – they are all our babies!
Tell us about a current project you’re working on. What was the inspiration behind it?
We are working on an amazing hotel project in Portugal, which is a small suite hotel in a heritage Unesco-protected location in the centre of Porto. This project has allowed us to dive deep into Portuguese culture, tradition and craft. We visited local stone quarries, workshops of wood and metal, glass blowers, weavers – it has been incredibly inspiring and feels like a very relevant way to work.
Do you have anything in your home that you’ve designed/created?
Oh yes, we have a lot of our own designs. In fact, everything that is in our studio, but an old rocking chair from Thonet and the office chairs, are our own designs. Same goes for both our homes. Selecting product for your own home is the perfect test for a new piece you have designed.
Elena Sirpolaidis on 01.10.2021 at 10:30 AM
It was so great to read about the design and layout of your work space. The desire for more space is understandable, but you seem to be making the most of the space you do have.
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TBILISI, DFWatch–On Wednesday, after a two-year-long legal dispute, Tbilisi City Court revoked the construction permit for Budapest Hotel, which is planned to be built in Vake Park in Tbilisi, journal Liberali reported.
Wednesday’s ruling concerned a lawsuit filed jointly by the activist group Guerrilla Gardening Tbilisi, Zurab Bakradze, Temur Kalandadze and the organization Green Alternative.
Several other lawsuits were also been filed in early 2014. For the last two years, activists have been trying to halt the construction of the hotel. The decision to allow construction of a hotel in a public space by a private company sparked rallies in front of Tbilisi City Hall and protests in Vake Park itself, with activists occupying the park day and night.
DF Watch contacted Guerrilla Gardening for a comment.
“Today, the court revoked the construction permit and directed the case back to the Tbilisi City Hall for reconsideration. We demand from the City Hall not to issue a new construction permit and to return the territory which was allocated for construction to Vake Park,” activist and volunteer Mariam Bakradze said.
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…The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 20, 1981--Page 5 State en gineer - schools ailing, * group warns LANSING (UPI) - Michigan "Government Day" meeting engineering colleges have "atrophied" capital to unveil its proposa in some respects and must be bolstered helping Gov. William Milliken re if they are to play their expected role of goal of attracting high technol helping lure high technology industry, a dustry to Michigan. ,professional group sa...…
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…Folk father The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 20, 1981-Page 7 .Seeger music, By JENNIFER GAMSON It is extremely difficult to present an artist the stature of Pete Seeger, giving him all the respect that is his due, without gushing like an over-excited master of ceremonies doing the honors at a "Musician of the Year" banquet. The fact is, though, that Pete Seeger is. a veritable American "folk father," and his eminence is not to be glossed ove...…
…Page 8-Friday, March 20, 1981-The Michigan Daily If you find your name and ad- dress in today's Michigan Daily classified page YOU WIN TWO FREE TICKETS to any one of STATE 1-2-3-4 Midnight Movies Cid e Ca baret __________________________________ Listing of movies for a contest sponsored by STATE THEATER MIDNIGHT SHOWS Fri. & Sal. March 20-21 5 WINNERS EVERY DAY No Contest To Enter Just look through today's Classified Ads. Five U. of M....…
…The Michigan Daily--Friday, March 20, 1981-Page 9 ..., *....f Undeiad forestry program second in nation By LARRY LaVERCOMBE Not very many people know about the University's un- dergraduate forestry program, but a recent survey ranking it second in the nation may just give it the recognition it's looking for. "I seriously doubt whether people on campus know we're here," laments Program Director Douglass Mackinnon. Now, thanks to the survey co...…
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…SPORTS Friday, March 20, 1981 The Michigan Daily Red-hot Orangemen burn Blue ..../ (Continued from Page 1 The second half, however, was all Orange. Bruin opened the stanza with a fast-break slam, and the home team was off and running again. Five minutes and six Schayes points later, Syracuse had opened up a 61'50 lead on their visitors, prompting a Michigan time out. tHE DAMAGE had been done, however. As Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim n...…
…The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 20, 1981-Page 11 'M' SHARP IN 9-0 WIN Netter By DAN NEWMAN After a disappointing swing through the Southwest, coach Brian Eisner's netters got back on the winning track yesterday as Michigan smashed Kalamazoo College, 9-0, at the Track and Tennis Building. "They (Michigan) went after our players like they hadn't eaten for three days," said Kalamazoo coach George Acker. "I think our players built up some confid...…
…0 Page 12-Friday, March 20, 1981-The Michigan Daily Virginia bumps Tennessee, 62-48 ATLANTA (AP) -Jeff Lamp scored six of fifth- ranked Virginia's first eight points during a 13-0 second-half run that carried the Cavaliers to a 62-48 victory over No. 15 Tennessee in the NCAA East Regional semifinals last night. Seventh-ranked Notre Dame met No. 16 Brigham Young in the nightcap of the double-header, with the winner facing Virginia tomorrow a...…
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January 20, 1985 (vol. 95, iss. 91)
January 20, 1985 (vol. 95, iss. 91) • Page Image 1
…Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom cl be Lit ian tttiij Igloo Cloudy, windy, and cold with blowing snow and a high between 2 and 5 degrees. Vol. XCV, No. 91 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, January 20, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages SNR: Have budget cuts made it better? -jr Editors note: This is the last in a series of articles examing the effects of the University'sfive- year plan to redirect $20 mi...…
…4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, January 20, 1985 SNR will be smaller and better after cu (Continued from Page 1) build the reputation of their school." OLSON, WHO was the school's dean from 1974-75 said he also has been con- tacted and interviewed by other univer- sities but he hasn't left the University because he doesn't want to leave teaching and his specialty - remote sensing - behind. "It's my belief that were I to leave, the pr...…
…Rainbow Coalition ,marches on D.C.* WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, saying the inaugural is "not all private airplanes and limousines," held his own parade yesterday and said his Rainbow Coalition would press its demands "un- t^ jobs, peace and justice rule this land." -"It's time to march. It's time to act. It's time to move. It's time for a change," Jackson told a racially-mixed noontime crowd of some 750 at Farragut Square, severa...…
…4 OPINION Page 4 Sunday, January 20, 1985 The Michigan Daily Edie ndimanedstgan at Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan North Campus may get Diag Vol. XCV, No. 91 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Boardl His hang-ups were hilarious NO MORE adolescent suicide stun- ts. No jaguars converted into hearses. No more positive philosophies of life fro...…
…ARTS I The Michigan Daily Sunday, January 20, 1985 Page 5 ......... - - - - ---------- ............ The River runs By Richard Ca, THE RIVER (Fa T those still count melodrama: prettyI ordinary, and pretty c Not that any of thes Many of cinema'sr silly films at heart. Bu best movies is an inco on the part of the p camera. Director M tempt to paint a st( noble American farn the kind of staged act only the most sent 0d straight d plan is ...…
…4 -Page 6 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, January 20, 1985 4 GOV't SURPLUS Cars and Trucks under $100. Now available in your area. Call 1-(619)-569-0241. 24 hrs. 30B0120 DAVID SIMON - SIMON says come to the Daily to pick up two free tickets to the State Theatre. d80120 CAMPUS FALL WE ARE CURRENTLY LEASING EFFICIENCIES, 1 AND 2 BEDROOM MODERN, FURNISHED APARTMENTS FOR NEXT FALL. ALSO NEW HOME OVERLOOKING DENSE WOODS WITH FIREPLACE, 3 BEDROOM...…
…Women's Gymnastics vs. Ohio State and LSU Saturday, 7 p.m. Crisler ArenaI SPORTS Innertube Water Polo Sign up deadline Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. IM Sports Building The Michigan Daily Sunday, January 20, 1985 Page 7 Blue icers dumped again by RPI, 5-1 By ADAM MARTIN Special to the Daily TROY, N.Y. - They may be rankedl number five in the country, but ac- cording to Michigan head coach Red' Berenson, RPI's Engineers in no way outplayed the Wo...…
…Page 8 - The Michigan Daily -Sunday, January 20, 1985 Wolverines pluck the Hawkeyes clea Tarpley 's jumper at buzzer sinks Iowa in triple overtime (Continued from Page 1) Coach George Raveling. "I give Michigan a wealth of credit for hanging in under the adverse conditions of the first half." After Joubert missed a lunging jump shot, Iowa's Payne drove upcourt and deposited a 25-footer to knot the score 57-57 with 25 seconds left in reg...…
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musee du louvre (paris, france) (10)
national archaeological museum (athens, greece) (7)
american numismatic society (new york, new york) (6)
metropolitan museum of art (new york, new york) (5)
egyptian museum (cairo, egypt) (4)
guggenheim museum bilbao (bilbao, spain) (3)
museo archeologico nazionale (naples, italy) (3)
museo nazionale del bargello (florence, italy) (3)
british museum (london, england, united kingdom) (2)
rosskam, edwin, 1903-1985 (photographer) (11)
rosskam, louise, 1910-2003 (photographer) (11)
oldenburg, claes (american sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, born 1929 in sweden) (7)
smith, david (american sculptor, 1906-1965) (5)
gehry, frank owen (canadian-american architect, born 1929) (4)
serra, richard (american sculptor, born 1939) (3)
witlin, diane, 1924-2005 (photographer) (3)
bruggen, coosje van (dutch sculptor and writer, 1942-2009, active in the united states) (2)
corsini, harold, 1919-2008 (photographer) (2)
ghiberti, lorenzo (italian sculptor, theorist, ca.1381-1455) (2)
carbon county (mont.) (11)
bergman street (louisville, ky.) (7)
shelby park (louisville, ky.) (7)
bilbao (spain) (4)
metalwork (36)
modern (styles and periods) (28)
roman (ancient italian style) (22)
welding (20)
abstract sculpture (19)
bronzes (objects) (43)
abstract works (21)
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Louisville & Nashville Employes' Magazine
Railroads; Railroad employees; Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
June 1966 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employes' [sic] Magazine, also known as the L&N Magazine, which featured news about the company and its employees, stories about towns along its routes and industries utilizing its lines, and other...
Accession II.
Eccentric Abstraction; Abstract (fine arts style); Minimal; Modern (styles and periods)
Adams Memorial [Mrs. Henry Adams], Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, front view.
Artemis, front view.
Greek (ancient); Classical
One of the Piraeus bronze statues; "The statue of the large Artemis reflects a different conception of the goddess, that of a serious young woman, in which her role as huntress is indicated only by the position of the fingers holding the bow and...
Artemision Zeus [or Poseidon?], three-quarter front view.
Greek (ancient); Classical; Early Classical
"With a serene expression in the eyes and the body of an athlete, the father of the gods hurls a thunderbolt. The statue, an original bronze by a great sculptor, dates from about 460 BC." (Caption, p. 350); "Bronze statue of Zeus or Poseidon. Inv....
Artemision Zeus, or Poseidon, front view.
From the sea near Cape Artemision. Probably by Kalamis.
Augustus seated among gods and personifications, scyphus from Boscorale [Boscoreale cup].
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Early Imperial; Julio-Claudian
Augustus, equestrian statue fragment, front view of upper part.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Augustan; Imperial (Roman); Early Imperial
Bronze equestrian statue of the emperor. "The great Roman emperor is depicted on horseback, but the horse and the entire lower part of the body are missing. The statue is a bronze of a very high quality that was probably made in one of the great...
Bacchante and Infant Faun.
Bartolommeo Colleoni, Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy, left side.
Renaissance; Early Renaissance
Bec-Dida Day, July 12, 1963.
Modern (styles and periods); Abstract (fine arts style)
Painted steel.
Bec-Dida Day.
Polychromed steel.
Blacksmith forging metal, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 1951.
Men; Employees; Blacksmithing; Blacksmiths; Forging; Metalworking
Blacksmith forging barbecue forks, Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts.
Bronze greave, detail.
Roman (ancient Italian style)
From the Gladiator Barracks with a Dionysian head, thyrsi, and other symbols associated with Dionysus.
Candelabrum lamp-holder and pyriform lamp.
Discovered in Pompeii. "With its fluted shaft and slightly flared bottom, the candelabrum rests on a tripod shaped like lion's paws, partially covered by a double plant-motif sheath. Three palmettes, one broken, ornament the space between the...
Capitoline Wolf, detail of head.
Etruscan; Late Etruscan
Capitoline Wolf.
Etruscan; Late Etruscan; Renaissance
From Rome, Italy. "The suckling infants are additions by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Antonio Pollaiulo." (Kleiner, p.241)
Charlemagne(?) [or Charles the Bald?], left profile.
Medieval; Early Medieval; Carolingian (style and period)
From Metz, Germany. Originally gilt.
Cleopatra VII, reverse of silver tetradrachm of Mark Antony.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Republican; Egyptian (ancient); Ptolemaic
Clothespin -- 10 Ft., photograph with [Oldenburg] at Lippincott, Inc., April 1974.
Pop (fine arts styles); Modern (styles and periods)
Cor-ten, stainless steel.
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black-and-white photographs195
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Tournament of Roses18
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)10
Children's Home Society of California4
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-19724
Dr. Edward Bodman Residence (San Marino, Calif.)3
Los Angeles (Calif.)102
California--Los Angeles27
Pasadena (Calif.)20
California--Santa Monica16
California--Lake Arrowhead13
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Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-195093
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-197257
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Sachtleben (William) Images of Armenian Massacre
On Wednesday, October 30, 1895, Armenians were massacred in Erzurum and the surrounding Armenian villages. American journalist William Sachtleben happened to be in Erzurum at that time, investigating the disappearance of American cyclist Frank Lenz. During the massacre Sachtleben was in the American mission building, where over 200 Armenians fled for protection. Sachtleben witnessed the aftermath of the massacre; he took photographs of the victims in the Armenian Cemetery and wrote three lengthy and detailed letters about the massacre that were published, unsigned and attributed to an Occasional Correspondent, in the London Times on November 16, 27 and December 9. In the Nov. 16 letter he wrote: "Saturday, Nov. 2...I went with one of the cavasses of the English Legation, a soldier, my interpreter, and a photographer (Armenian) to the Armenian Gregorian Cemetery. The municipality had sent down a number of bodies, friends had brought more, and a horrible sight met my eyes. Along the wall on the north in a row 20ft. wide and 150ft. long, lay 321 dead bodies of the massacred Armenians..." In the Times Nov. 27 letter, Sachtleben wrote: "The number of houses of Armenians in Erzerum is about 2,000...Of these 2,000 houses, about 1,500 to 1,800 are completely emptied of their contents. Many families, formerly well-to-do, are now completely in poverty, having lost all their goods in the shops and all their household articles as well..."
October 31, 1895-November 2, 1895
Sachtleben, William Lewis
"Sutter's Fort" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
View of the "Sutter's Fort" float entered by Los Angeles County, seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. .
Snyder, Bill
Sanford Clark assists in the investigation with officers Joseph Ybarra, J. S. Sepulveda, and Mendoza, Mint Canyon, circa 1928
Police investigation the shack formerly occupied by supposed murderer Gordon Stewart Northcott, where they find several pairs of boys' shoes.
Janet and Robert Ford Freeman attend the races at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1938
Photograph of Janet and Robert Ford Freeman speaking with a man in a lobby at Santa Anita Park.
Custer Avenue School students in costume with float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925
Float decorated with hut and palm trees, and with students in grass costumes carrying canoes, marching on coliseum track, with audience in background
Scenic desert cliffs in Red Rock Canyon State Park, California, circa 1920-1930
View towards sightseers at the base of scenic desert cliffs in Red Rock Canyon which look like thick columns of rock standing in rows, one on top of the other. Four sightseers are visible next to 4 automobiles and a white tent.
Portrait of Kathleen Gerber at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1935
California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park
Goodyear-Zeppelin airship approaching the USS Patoka in the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, 1932
Related to the articles, “Blimp Volunteer Finds Mooring to Floating Mast at Harbor Easy,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 1932: A3, and “Ship Could Moor Zeppelin: Patoka, Equipped to Anchor Air Liner in Emergency, Has Received No Orders to be Prepared,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 1928: 2.
"Mandalay" float representing the love boat in the play "East is West" in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927
"Mandalay" float representing the love boat in the play "East is West." One participant is wearing a traditional Chada hat and costume while others don tunics and round hats. The float was entered by the city of Whittier.
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Marin Home / BACKSTORY
up here to see this,’ ” she says, “I knew it was
the house for me.”
It was. “The house had character, which
was really important to Nicole, and it was
charming,” says Svenson. “And her cousins
lived two blocks away.”
After saying adios to L. A., Balin quickly
made the 1,100-square-foot home her own,
mixing the original windows and wide plank
oak floors with touches reflecting her per-
sonal creative design sense — one influenced
by her antique collector mother, L. A. fashion
designer friend Johnson Hartig, and her own
work in the music business.
In the living room, for example, she painted one wall in a rich Benjamin Moore Van Deusen Blue and installed an Eames chair she found on the street in L. A. and reupholstered in a red-and-white ikat fabric, along with an antique marble-top coffee table (a family heirloom)
and a West Elm sectional. Above the couch, she grouped a mishmash of art, including t wo cat portraits, jackalope antlers, and a dramatic three-by-five-foot black and white painting (painted in 15 minutes by Hartig) vaguely reminiscent of Robert Mother well.
Her music-industry roots reverberate throughout. On the dining room wall Balin hung a painting by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, and in the home’s sole bathroom she used a red-and-white “Brooklyn Toile” wallpaper inspired by the Beastie Boys’ Mike Diamond.
In fact, Balin enjoyed redoing her home so much that she recently became public relations director for Coupar Communications, an interior design business — confirming something she already knew about herself. “When someone walks into my house, I want them to know who I am, what I love,” she adds. “That’s what a home should express.” m
DURING HER 15 years as a music publicist in L. A., Nicole Balin was always clear about her intention to return to San Francisco. She grew up there,
attended high school at Branson, and longed
to make it back to the city.
But when she started looking for a place a few years ago, Balin found the city crowded and expensive. So she switched her focus to Marin, where her cousins had relocated. For months, Balin commuted back and forth from SoCal to NorCal, looking for a house for herself and her two dogs.
By the time she spotted this San Anselmo
home online, she was so done with travel that
she told her realtor, Nick Svenson, to make
a bid even though she hadn’t set foot in it.
Svenson said no. Balin drove up again. “I was
like, ‘ugghhh, I didn’t need to come all the way
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DISCOVER Organisation
Sports and community
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Mental Practice - Clinical and Experimental Research in Imagery and Action Observation
Authors: Magdalena Ietswaart --- Andrew J. Butler --- Philip L. Jackson --- Martin Gareth Edwards
Book Series: Frontiers Research Topics ISSN: 16648714 ISBN: 9782889198399 Year: 2016 Pages: 208 DOI: 10.3389/978-2-88919-839-9 Language: English
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Subject: Neurology --- Science (General)
There is now strong evidence demonstrating that the brain simulates action and other functions. Such action simulation can be evoked through conscious mental rehearsal of movement or imagery, but also through passive action observation watching movements in others. Furthermore, there is evidence to suggest that mental rehearsal of movement, or mental practice, can produce improvements normally attributed to practising actual movements. It is currently assumed that such improvements are due to neural activation associated with action simulation. However the neuroscience of mental practice efficacy is still poorly understood. The aim of this research topic is to clarify the underlying mechanisms of mental practice, bringing evidence from cognitive neuroscience, experimental neuropsychology, sport and movement science, and clinical neurology. It also attempts to address confusion regarding the concepts of imagery and observation, which has hampered the progression of mental practice research both scientifically and applied. As well as reviews, theoretical, and position articles, this research topic includes original neuroimaging, experimental, and patient research addressing, among others, the following issues. Neuroimaging studies provide strong evidence for action simulation, but the link to behavioural change and functional outcome is weak. What is the evidence that mental practice efficacy is driven by neuroplasticity processes evoked by action simulation? This research topic includes contributions on neural correlates and behaviour with regards to imagery and action observation. Much of the mental practice efficacy evidence comes from longstanding research within sport science. However, what does mental practice entail in these contexts, and to what extent is it compatible with the cognitive neuroscience perspective of action simulation? This research topic will include contributions that consider both evidence and concepts with regards to imagery and action observation, in an attempt to build an interdisciplinary consensus on the nature and application of mental practice. Mental practice is perceived as a promising motor rehabilitation technique, but critically there is lack of clarity or consensus on what mental practice treatment should entail. It is also not clear what are the most appropriate outcomes to measure imagery ability and cognitive or behavioural change following mental practice. A further important issue that needs consideration as part of this research topic is dosage, as it is currently unclear how much mental practice is appropriate and whether this depends on patient variables such as age, cognitive functioning, motor function, or pathophysiology.
Mental Practice --- action simulation --- action observation --- imagery --- Cognitive neuroscience
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Recent Advances in Infant Speech Perception and Language Acquisition Research
Author: Judit Gervain
Subject: Psychology --- Science (General)
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a novel and increasingly popular optical imaging technique that has revolutionarized brain research in the youngest developmental populations. After nearly a decade of technological development, NIRS has become a reliable, easy-to-use and efficient tool to explore the linguistic and cognitive abilities of neonates and young infants, opening new vistas for the investigation of language acquisition and cognitive development. This Research Topic covers the latest advances in these areas brought about by NIRS imaging. The main focus is to highlight innovative and foundational studies that go beyond methodological issues and advance our theoretical understanding of infant and child development. Contributions from the pioneers of this method are selected, illustrating how NIRS has allowed developmental researchers to ask theoretically relevant questions that more traditional methods couldn't address. These works further our understanding of language and cognitive development and bring us closer to bridging the gap between brain, mind and behavior at the very beginning of life.
language learning --- language developmental --- Speech Perception --- brain specialization for language --- near-infrered spectroscopy --- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Perspective Taking: Building a neurocognitive framework for integrating the "social" and the "spatial"
Authors: Klaus Kessler --- Sarah H. Creem-Regehr --- Antonia Hamilton
Background: Interacting with other people involves spatial awareness of one’s own body and the other’s body and viewpoint. In the past, social cognition has focused largely on belief reasoning, which is abstracted away from spatial and bodily representations, while there is a strong tradition of work on spatial and object representation which does not consider social interactions. These two domains have flourished independently. A small but growing body of research examines how awareness of space and body relates to the ability to interpret and interact with others. This also builds on the growing awareness that many cognitive processes are embodied, which could be of relevance for the integration of the social and spatial domains: Online mental transformations of spatial representations have been shown to rely on simulated body movements and various aspects of social interaction have been related to the simulation of a conspecific’s behaviour within the observer’s bodily repertoire. Both dimensions of embodied transformations or mappings seem to serve the purpose of establishing alignment between the observer and a target. In spatial cognition research the target is spatially defined as a particular viewpoint or frame of reference (FOR), yet, in social interaction research another viewpoint is occupied by another’s mind, which crucially requires perspective taking in the sense of considering what another person experiences from a different viewpoint. Perspective taking has been studied in different ways within developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience over the last few decades, yet, integrative approaches for channelling all information into a unified account of perspective taking and viewpoint transformations have not been presented so far. Aims: This Research Topic aims to bring together the social and the spatial, and to highlight findings and methods which can unify research across areas. In particular, the topic aims to advance our current theories and set the stage for future developments of the field by clarifying and linking theoretical concepts across disciplines. Scope: The focus of this Research Topic is on the SPATIAL and the SOCIAL, and we anticipate that all submissions will touch on both aspects and will explicitly attempt to bridge conceptual gaps. Social questions could include questions of how people judge another person’s viewpoint or spatial capacities, or how they imagine themselves from different points of view. Spatial questions could include consideration of different physical configurations of the body and the arrangement of different viewpoints, including mental rotation of objects or viewpoints that have social relevance. Questions could also relate to how individual differences (in personality, sex, development, culture, species etc.) influence or determine social and spatial perspective judgements. Many different methods can be used to explore perspective taking, including mental chronometry, behavioural tasks, EEG/MEG and fMRI, child development, neuropsychological patients, virtual reality and more. Bringing together results and approaches from these different domains is a key aim of this Research Topic. We welcome submissions of experimental papers, reviews and theory papers which cover these topics.
spatial cognition --- social cognition --- perspective taking --- Cognitive neuroscience --- social neuroscience --- visual perspective --- spatial perspective
Application of Nonlinear Analysis to the Study of Complex Systems in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research
Author: Tobias A. Mattei
Although nonlinear dynamics have been mastered by physicists and mathematicians for a long time (as most physical systems are inherently nonlinear in nature), the recent successful application of nonlinear methods to modeling and predicting several evolutionary, ecological, physiological, and biochemical processes has generated great interest and enthusiasm among researchers in computational neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Additionally, in the last years it has been demonstrated that nonlinear analysis can be successfully used to model not only basic cellular and molecular data but also complex cognitive processes and behavioral interactions. The theoretical features of nonlinear systems (such unstable periodic orbits, period-doubling bifurcations and phase space dynamics) have already been successfully applied by several research groups to analyze the behavior of a variety of neuronal and cognitive processes. Additionally the concept of strange attractors has lead to a new understanding of information processing which considers higher cognitive functions (such as language, attention, memory and decision making) as complex systems emerging from the dynamic interaction between parallel streams of information flowing between highly interconnected neuronal clusters organized in a widely distributed circuit and modulated by key central nodes. Furthermore, the paradigm of self-organization derived from the nonlinear dynamics theory has offered an interesting account of the phenomenon of emergence of new complex cognitive structures from random and non-deterministic patterns, similarly to what has been previously observed in nonlinear studies of fluid dynamics. Finally, the challenges of coupling massive amount of data related to brain function generated from new research fields in experimental neuroscience (such as magnetoencephalography, optogenetics and single-cell intra-operative recordings of neuronal activity) have generated the necessity of new research strategies which incorporate complex pattern analysis as an important feature of their algorithms. Up to now nonlinear dynamics has already been successfully employed to model both basic single and multiple neurons activity (such as single-cell firing patterns, neural networks synchronization, autonomic activity, electroencephalographic measurements, and noise modulation in the cerebellum), as well as higher cognitive functions and complex psychiatric disorders. Similarly, previous experimental studies have suggested that several cognitive functions can be successfully modeled with basis on the transient activity of large-scale brain networks in the presence of noise. Such studies have demonstrated that it is possible to represent typical decision-making paradigms of neuroeconomics by dynamic models governed by ordinary differential equations with a finite number of possibilities at the decision points and basic heuristic rules which incorporate variable degrees of uncertainty. This e-book has include frontline research in computational neuroscience and cognitive psychology involving applications of nonlinear analysis, especially regarding the representation and modeling of complex neural and cognitive systems. Several experts teams around the world have provided frontline theoretical and experimental contributions (as well as reviews, perspectives and commentaries) in the fields of nonlinear modeling of cognitive systems, chaotic dynamics in computational neuroscience, fractal analysis of biological brain data, nonlinear dynamics in neural networks research, nonlinear and fuzzy logics in complex neural systems, nonlinear analysis of psychiatric disorders and dynamic modeling of sensorimotor coordination.
non-linear dynamics --- fractal analysis --- Neuropsychology --- Experimental neuroscience --- applied neuroscience --- Cognitive neuroscience --- EEG --- fMRI
Society, Organizations and the Brain: building towards a unified cognitive neuroscience perspective
Authors: Carl Senior --- Nick Lee --- Sven Braeutigam
This e-book brings together scholars in both the neurosciences and organizational sciences who have adopted various approaches to study the cognitive mechanisms mediating the social behavior that we see within organizations. Such an approach has been termed by ourselves, and others, as ‘organisational cognitive neuroscience’. In recent years there has been a veritable increase in studies that have explored the cognitive mechanisms driving such behaviors, and much progress has been made in understanding the neural underpinnings of processes such as financial exchange, risk awareness and even leadership. However, while these studies are informative and add to our understanding of human cognition they fall short of providing evidence-based recommendations for practice. Specifically, we address the broader issue of how the neuroscientific study of such core social behaviors can be used to improve the very way that we work. To address these gaps in our understanding the chapters in this book serve as a platform that allows scholars in both the neurosciences and the organizational sciences to highlight the work that spans across these two fields. The consolidation of these two fields also serves to highlight the utility of a singular organizational cognitive neuroscience. This is a fundamentally important outcome of the book as the application of neuroscience to address economically relevant behaviors has seen a variety of fields evolve in their own right, such as neuromarketing, neuroeconomics and so forth. The use of neuro-scientific technologies,in particular fMRI, has indeed led to a bewildering (and somewhat suffocating) proliferation of new approaches, however, the speed of such developments demands that we must proceed carefully with such ventures or risk some fundamental mistakes. The book that you now hold will consolidates these new neuroscience based approaches and in doing so highlight the importance of this approach in helping us to understand human social behavior in general. Taken together the chapters provide a framework for scholars within the neurosciences who wish to explore the further the opportunities that the study of organisational behavior may provide.
Organisational Cognitive Neuroscience society --- Neuroscience --- Brain --- organisations --- Functional Brain imaging --- MEG --- Genetics --- Marketing --- neuromarketing --- neuroeconomics
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DZone > Performance Zone > Unit Tests Vs. Integration Tests: Battle Continues
Unit Tests Vs. Integration Tests: Battle Continues
The battle rages on between integration and unit tests.
Vikas Hazrati
Feb. 21, 19 · Performance Zone · Tutorial
One would expect that after being in the industry for almost 20 years, a trivial comparison like this would be years behind me, but I am probably less than correct. It seems that the right amount of unit tests is still a burning issue that needs some attention. At Knoldus, we have the policy of maintaining a very high code coverage so that we can objectively validate the quality of the code through our now publicly available tool CodeSquad.
We place a very high premium on writing very very effective unit tests. However, a recent discussion with one of our esteemed clients made us rethink this strategy. Let us be clear though that we do not believe that we should not be writing unit tests but the distribution between the unit and integration tests, the scenarios in which we can skip unit tests do need a review. The following is an attempt to do that:
Let us start with the advantages of the unit tests:
TDD and Unit Tests
Allow us to do a better design. (This is the one in which I believe the most) If the software is easily testable, it is modulated correctly, has the right structure, and follows SRP to allow for separation of concerns
Allow us to make big changes in the code easily since we know that we have a test harness to fall back on
Provide lightning visual feedback and are the fastest feedback cycles
Help with providing documentation and allow for easier code re-use
Help with coding constipation. When faced with a large and daunting piece of work ahead writing the tests will get you moving quickly.
Boost developer productivity and confidence
Now, let us look at scenarios in which unit tests might not be "as" useful
Unit Test Smells
Scenarios wherein the code is obvious in the first glance. There isn't a cyclomatic complexity to talk about. If the code is picking up the current RAM usage and passing it to the logging service, then there is less benefit of testing it
Scenarios wherein all the work that a piece of code is doing is to add coordinating logic. In these scenarios, there are a lot of units involved and the testing involves quite a few mocked objects, which might not add a lot of value. All that the piece of code is doing is delegating the flow or coordinating with various units without any algorithmic logic.
Tests are written just to improve the code coverage, but your gut would tell that they do not matter. These would be tests check whether a particular log statement is published or not. These are very low-level tests and would be very very brittle.
Now, let us look at scenarios in which unit tests are absolutely mandatory:
Scenarios that involve algorithmic logic: Typically, this means self-contained algorithms for business rules or for things like sorting or parsing data. This cost-benefit argument goes strongly in favor of unit testing this code because it's cheap to do and highly beneficial.
Complex code with many dependencies: This code is very expensive to write with unit tests but too risky to write without. The best option is to refactor this code so that it falls in the first category.
Let us look at the quadrants of unit testing with this post
Unit test quadrant
As you would notice, it is less useful to write unit tests for code, which is either trivial or just does coordination.
So, how does this compare to integration tests and end-to-end tests?
In his blog, Martin Fowler described the following pyramid
As you would notice, it is easy, cost-wise, to write unit tests that run faster as well as compared to end-to-end tests, which are costly and run much slower. One of the parameters that is not brought about in the post explicitly is:
The Level of Confidence
With unit tests, we can ensure that the units are working fine; however, the level of confidence is lower as compared to an E2E test where we are assured that the system is working fine.
The sweet spot, however, is somewhere in between.
Integration tests strike a great balance on the trade-offs between confidence and speed/expense. This is why it's advisable to some of your effort here as well.
Integration tests would run across the units, provide more level of confidence, reduce the need for mocking at all places, and would run easily with your build cycles without causing undue stress on cost or confidence.
There are major advantages of unit tests, and the most important, in my perception, is the clarity of design. Well-designed software can be tested easily. If you are finding it hard to test a piece of software, then it needs a design re-look in most cases.
That said, going overboard with unit tests to improve code coverage is a unit test smell. When you find yourself making endless mock objects and the logic falls under the category of unit test smells, as described above, then we are getting diminishing returns.
A common myth is also that unit tests slow down the development. Done right, unit tests speed up the development cycles.
Hence, write unit tests for all the mandatory cases described above; for other scenarios, make sure that the pieces for which you might want to skip the unit tests are covered by integration tests.
Happy testing!
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Published at DZone with permission of Vikas Hazrati, DZone MVB. See the original article here.
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Tennis-Australian Boys champion Anderson charged with match fixing - local media
Last Updated: Jan 06, 2017, 03:47 AM IST
TENNIS-CORRUPTION/AUSTRALIA:Tennis-Australian Boys champion Anderson charged with match fixing - local media
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Australian teenager Oliver Anderson, one of the brightest young talents in tennis, has been charged by police with involvement in match fixing following an investigation, local media reported on Thursday.
Police in Victoria said in a statement that an unnamed 18-year-old Queensland man had been charged.
Australian media identified Anderson and quoted a family statement saying the teenager from Brisbane was cooperating fully with authorities.
Anderson, winner of last year's Australian Open Boys title, has been charged with fixing a match at the Traralgon Challenger tournament in Victoria last October.
The news comes in the build-up to the season's first grand slam, the Australian Open, where Anderson made his major breakthrough 12 months ago by lifting the junior crown.
A Victoria Police statement said: "Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit detectives and bookmakers assisted with the investigation.
"The Queensland man was charged with engaging in conduct that corrupts a betting outcome."
Local media reported that the charge relates to a first-round match in a Challenger tournament, a lower-level event on the ATP Tour, when Anderson was allegedly approached to 'throw' the first set against another Australian, Harrison Lombe.
Anderson lost the first set 4-6 before winning the next two 6-0 6-2. He then lost his second round match.
Anderson, coached by former professional Wayne Arthurs, is regarded as a promising prospect within the sport.
A spokesman for Anderson's family was reported by the Melbourne Age newspaper as saying: "Oliver is cooperating fully with authorities. He now awaits the legal process."
The opening days of last year's Australian Open were overshadowed by revelations in a report by the BBC and online BuzzFeed News that 16 players who had been ranked in the top 50 had been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade.
Then world number one Novak Djokovic also denied as "absurd" allegations that he had thrown a match as a teenager.
After winning his quarter-final match in the Qatar Open on Thursday, Djokovic said he was very disappointed to hear about the allegations involving Anderson.
"Very disappointing to hear, that, especially considering the fact that he's young and won the junior grand slam," Djokovic said.
"Obviously the quality is there and the potential is there."
World number one Andy Murray, who also won in Doha, did not want to comment about the case but said the issue of match-fixing in tennis needed to be tackled.
"It's disappointing for the game any time something like that comes out," said Murray. "However, if people are caught and charged, I see that as being a positive thing.
"If it's happening, there should be the most severe punishments for whoever is involved in it."
($1 = 1.3628 Australian dollars) (Reporting by Ian Chadband; Editing by Toby Davis)
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Browser compatibility All Major browsers https://help.heinonline.org/kb/what-browsers-are-supported-in-heinonline/
Authentication options IP or username/password, Shibboleth (Select federations)
Archiving solution – master files
Archiving solution – derivative files
Availability in web discovery tools Y https://help.heinonline.org/kb/approved-discovery-services-how-they-work...
Open URL target Y https://help.heinonline.org/kb/does-heinonline-support-open-url-resolver...
Federated searching, z39.50 See comments https://help.heinonline.org/kb/does-heinonline-support-federated-searches/
Local host option N
Usage statistics based on Counter Code Not Counter compliant, but uses counter metrics in their analytics
Interface Tools:
Full text displayed Y
Page images Y
Color images Y (100% color if originally published in color)
Search full text Y
Advanced search Y (within each collection)
Search within results Y
Limit results by dates and/or document types Y
Display highlighted search terms Y
Display snippet -- search term in context Y
Relevance sorting Y
Save searches Y
Download PDF Y (up to 200 pp.)
Download HTML Y (Download HTML or OCR'd Full Text)
Print page Y
Print full document Y
Export citations Y
Annotation tools Y (Notate documents using MyHein feature)
Cross-product searching Y (limited features)
ILL Y
Text/data mining permitted Y/N (Special permission required)
Restrictions on use Y User Rules: http://help.heinonline.org/kb/heinonline-user-rules/
Terms and Provider Details
Subscription option Y
Purchase option Y/N (Some databases have purchase options, depends on licensing agreements)
Multiple year payments option Y
Hosting charges N
Maintenance Fees Y (Only if purchase option is selected)
Archiving Per copyright, customer can archive one copy of each document. Hein digitally archives all documents through various methods including Iron Mountain
Provider Notes A small percentage of the content in HeinOnline is published by the William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Larger percentages are originally published by federal of state agencies and are in the publice domain, or publishe commercially by other publishers and licensed for HeinOnline
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CRL Review
Collection Content:
HeinOnline, the online platform of legal publisher William S. Hein & Co. Inc., is based on a series of collections that provide access to digital facsimiles of a wide range of printed primary sources on the history of Anglo-American law. HeinOnline’s core subscription package provides access to over 5,000 titles (in more than 92,000 volumes) related to the history and practice of law. The Hein core collection includes several constituent libraries: Canada Supreme Court Reports, English Reports Full Reprint (1220–1867), Federal Register/Code of Federal Regulations, Law Journal Library, Legal Classics, Pentagon Papers, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and the United States Code (U.S.C.). The documents represented in the collection span a wide swath of time and many countries but primarily concern 19th- and 20th-century North America and the United Kingdom. These documents cluster around the following core areas:
United States Federal and Administrative Law
HeinOnline contains several collections that provide excellent coverage of U.S. federal law, including the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and the United States Code (U.S.C.). These combined collections total more than 12 million page images and cover the history of the governmental apparatus of the United States from its founding to the present. Among a wealth of material, scholars can find the following in these collections:
All published treaties and international agreements entered into by the United States from its founding
All published reports of the United States Supreme Court
The published papers and speeches of the Presidents of the United States (1789–2009)
All published opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States (1791–1982)
The laws of the United States from 1789 to the present including the full text of the U.S. Code from 1925
The entire run of both the Federal Register (1936–present) and Code of Federal Regulations (1938–present). Both of these important compilations of federal administrative process are not commonly available elsewhere online for dates before 1980.
For most of these document collections, Hein provides specialized interfaces that allow scholars to search by known citation and full-text keyword, as well as locating pertinent parts of documents by year, title, section, or document number. Many of the government publications included here are available through other online sources, notably LexisNexis and Westlaw. However, researchers may prefer Hein’s interface, which allows a granular search by printed volume that other databases lack.
Canada Supreme Court Reports
This collection includes page images of all 211 volumes of Canada’s published Supreme Court Decisions from 1876 to 2010. The collection is searchable by known case citation (e.g., 15 S.C.R. 120) or full-text keyword, and can be browsed by year and volume. Users can also conduct advanced searches by date or search only the tables of cases for a particular named action (e.g., Smith v. Jones). Though these reports are available through other online databases, Hein’s interface makes this collection one of the easiest to search.
English Reports Full Reprint (1220–1867)
A staple for all scholars working in English legal history, this early 20th-century reprinting of the most important English case reports covers 600 years of judicial proceeding in 176 volumes. Hein provides several different modes of access to this often-confusing collection. Researchers can search by a named party in a case, the case citation from either the original or in the reprint, a free-text keyword, or restrict their search to cases from a particular court (e.g., King’s Bench, Chancery, etc.). This platform should be the first stop for those doing research in the English Reports.
Law Journal Library
One of the most important scholarly resources available in the Hein core package, this collection includes full runs of over 1,600 law journals. These journals, largely published in the U.S. and U.K., range in date from 1838 to the present though the majority are from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Hein provides a search interface that allows users to enter citations or perform advanced full text searching. For those without institutional access to LexisNexis or Westlaw law journals, Hein offers one of the only options for finding full-text law articles, with the broadest coverage. In addition, HeinOnline provides page-images of journal articles and includes older issues not included in LexisNexis or Westlaw.
Legal Classics
HeinOnline’s legal classics library, conceived originally around Morris Cohen’s Bibliography of Early American Law, contains around 2,500 titles written about the law and its practice, including treatises, manuals, and scholarly monographs from the 17th to the 20th centuries. The majority of these texts date from the 19th and 20th centuries and were published in the United States and United Kingdom. A good amount of overlap exists between Gale’s Making of Modern Law: Treatises database and LLMC-Digital’s collection. Hein’s legal classics library includes more than 500 titles also found in Gale’s similar database. In addition, nearly all of these texts are out of copyright and are freely available online.
See Appendix A for a full list of the HeinOnline collections ("libraries"), with descriptions taken from the Hein website.
Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., the official cataloger for William S. Hein & Co., creates OCLC catalog records and metadata for collections in HeinOnline. Libraries can purchase records directly from Cassidy. Customers subscribe to receive MARC21 records and updates as part of Cassidy’s Monthly Update Services.21
Hein employs several methods to promote discovery and access:
ScholarCheck is an annual citation analysis study noting the top 50 most cited authors from the approximately 1,450-plus legal periodicals and one million articles available in Hein’s Law Journal Library. This citation analysis is useful for lawyers, scholars, and librarians because it identifies important legal references as well as providing impact assessment for individual articles.
Hein allows Google Scholar to crawl and index the Law Journal Library content, exposing the metadata to researchers through that portal.
Beginning in 2007, Hein authorized Serials Solutions to provide a federated search connection to HeinOnline via its 360 Search service. Researchers can use a single query to search HeinOnline together with local holdings in a library’s OPAC.
In 2011, Hein released an app for HeinOnline for iPhones and iPads. For users with HeinOnline account/authentication, the app enables mobile access to content in image-based PDF files through a full range of searching options or navigating electronic tables of contents.
Platform and tools
In 2011, Hein introduced a “One Box Search,” allowing researchers at subscribing libraries to search across all collections at once, accessing by author, series, subject, publisher, or ID number. An advanced search utilizes Boolean operators, ranges, fuzzy searching, and “boosting.” Boosting allows a user to designate the importance of a search term, influencing results of relevance rankings. Results can be narrowed by facets, such as collection/library, date, or document section type. In addition, the database attempts to extract citations from the text of legal documents and articles and create on-screen links to cited content when available in the Hein collections.
Within specific collections, researchers can also engage in full-text or more complex searches. Each collection offers its own specialized search interface designed to best fit a specific type of document. For example, scholars who only want results relating to Canadian Supreme Court cases can choose a search interface that allows careful searching of that collection.
Not all HeinOnline libraries are structured the same way. Each title may have more than one volume, and the volume contents may be broken into sections determined by the content organization. For example, law journal volumes are typically divided into sections such as articles, columns, and legislation. In HeinOnline, each of these sections is tagged as a different content type, allowing searching on specific content types within a library.
Search results offer to display highlighted text in context; clicking on a result leads to a page image with results highlighted. Users can read one page on the screen at a time, clicking through to other pages using a dropdown page number menu or arrows. Hein also offers interactive tables of contents for most of its texts, displaying each case or section of a court reports volume, for instance, in a browsing menu on the screen. Researchers to quickly browse cases without having to click through every page. Researchers can also download documents either as page images or as plain text from OCR. Hein allows downloading of up to 200 pages at a time as a PDF, but prohibits downloading of entire journal issues.
The Digital Ownership Program allows customers to buy an annual “snapshot” of new HeinOnline content from 24 of its library collections. Subscribers receive PDFs of the scanned images of selected HeinOnline library collections on computer hard drives. Subscribing libraries may choose to update or “refresh” the hard drive every year by paying an additional fee to renew. The fee to update the libraries is based on the amount of new content that has been added to the library during the previous year. The price of the Digital Ownership Program varies from $2,500 to $25,195 for these collections.
This program provides an instance of the HeinOnline database that purchasers can control and manipulate locally.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
As seen above, one of HeinOnline’s greatest strengths is its nimble search interface, which is researcher-friendly and allows quick movement within documents and text. Many of its collections are also of particular comprehensive value. For instance, no other online service provides a complete set of both the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), making it indispensable for those who study the U.S. administrative state.
With the important exception of the Federal Register and CFR, it is not clear how much of the HeinOnline core content is unique and not covered in other databases. For instance, all of the case reports and statute laws are duplicated in LexisNexis, Westlaw, Proquest Congressional, or LLMC-Digital.
Some features could be improved. The many separate collections within HeinOnline can be searched in aggregate, but any really advanced searching, including by date, is only easily possible within a given collection (advanced search operators for date range will work in a general search but require special syntax).
The multiple add-on libraries available from HeinOnline can also confuse users as to what is accessible in the core package versus the extra services to which their institution may not subscribe. The boundaries and overlap between particular subject collections, especially within the U.S. federal government collections, are not always intuitive and could cause researchers to repeat advanced searches across collections. In addition, it is impossible to download more than 200 pages of a text. Likewise, there is no easy way to scroll quickly through a document instead of relying on page-by-page retrieval. Finally, as with most similar databases, the plain text provided through OCR can be occasionally quite poor, requiring a great deal of cleanup on the user’s part.
Reviewers:
Mitch Fraas, Judith and William Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation
Marie Waltz, Special Projects Manager
Sources for this review include information publicly posted or obtained directly from the publisher; data collected by CRL staff and specialists at CRL libraries; and examination of the digital collection when possible. Other sources are noted where cited. CRL continues to gather additional information on this resource and to solicit critical assessment.
Additional Reviews in Other Sources:
Ashby, Ann-Marie. "HeinOnline." The Charleston Advisor. October 2003. p. 34. http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/... Accessed November 26, 2013.
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Active Offer no Currently offered for purchase or new subscription
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Coyote goes shopping at northern Alberta drug store
CTV News Edmonton Staff
Published Thursday, November 19, 2020 2:39PM MST Last Updated Friday, November 20, 2020 8:14PM MST
A coyote went looking for deals at a Grande Prairie Shoppers Drug Mart on Nov. 18. (Courtesy: Shoppers Drug Mart)
EDMONTON -- A coyote attempted to take care of some Christmas shopping in a Shoppers Drug Mart in Grande Prairie, Alta., on Wednesday.
It happened around 1:30 p.m. in the Shoppers in the Prairie Mall.
The coyote managed to get in through the automatic doors and spent about an hour shopping before Alberta Fish and Wildlife arrived to give it a ride home.
Staff didn’t have to close the store, but did manage to block the coyote in the boutique area until wildlife officers arrived.
Alberta Fish and Wildlife said a snare pole was used to capture the animal and move it outside the building.
Officers planned to relocate the coyote outside the city, but it managed to escape and run away as it was being moved into a crate.
Officials said the animal wasn’t exhibiting any aggressive behaviour, so they have no public safety concerns.
No one was injured, and no damage was done to the store.
Alberta Fish and Wildlife said if you encounter a coyote, make the experience unpleasant for the coyote by making yourself appear larger. Wave your arms overhead or thrust long sticks at the coyote.
You could also throw rocks or speak in a deep voice and maintain eye contact.
Do not turn your back on the animal, as this will encourage it to chase you.
If you see a coyote that is sick or too injured to move, or behaving aggressively towards people, call a wildlife officer through the Report-A-Poacher line at 1-800-642-3800.
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Australia Illustrated (2nd edition)
Australia Illustrated (2nd edition) quantity
Australia. Big. Beautiful. Diverse. From the First People to washing lines and crocodiles, football and sunshine, koalas and akubras, skyscrapers and beaches, this is a glorious tribute to this wide brown land and its rich and varied multicultural communities. Vibrantly illustrated with watercolour, ink and mono-printing, it not only celebrates the more ‘typical’ Australian flora, fauna and landmarks, but also showcases the everyday quirks and idiosyncrasies that make Australia unique.
Download the Teacher’s Notes Here
SPECIFICATIONS: Hardback | 280 x 245 mm / 11 x 9.5 Inches | Colour | 96 Pages
SKU: 9781925335880 Categories: art, children’s book, EK Books, EK Books Best Sellers, Tania McCartney Tags: australia, australians, autraliana, brisbane, canberra, customs, diversity, fauna, flora, icons, landmarks, melbourne, multiculturalism, people, places, sydney, tasmania, traditions
Educate Empower
“amazingly illustrated picture book … learn about famous Australians, the type of weather, iconic buildings … explore endangered and endemic animals, local food and hidden bush tracks”
Tell Tales to Me
“This book is like a coffee table book for everyone – not just for kids…Old and young will both love it and it will also make a great information book for overseas relatives and friends.”
Peninsula Kids
“showcases (Australia’s) everyday quirks and idiosyncrasies”
SCAN Magazine
“In a myriad of symbolic pictures, a range of iconic symbols represents all things Australian… the text provides opportunities for students to explore multiple layers of meaning”
Reading Time Online
“This book is a festive visual celebration, containing marvellous snippets of our beautiful land. Although her first illustrated book, McCartney has a knack for encapsulating a glorious amount of detail and design to take us on this wonderful journey around the country. My kids and I loved exploring each State in Australia; from spotting familiar sites to discovering new mysteries of the unknown, and giggling along at the cute and quirky nuances.”
“Tania McCartney has showcased an impressive array of attributes that make us unique, which also makes this book an ideal gift for tourists and to send overseas as well. Highly recommended for ages 3 and up.”
The Local Look
“with over 1200 individually hand drawn illustrations, plus mono printing, digital art, filters patterns and more … such great talent.”
Childs Magazine
“Explore Australia with your little one through this beautifully illustrated book covering everything from native Australian animals, Aussie icons and slang words, to multiculturalism, signature foods and all the things that make each state unique.”
“dares the reader not to start at the beginning. Every page turn is a surprise and opening at random is an exciting way to experience this smorgasbord of words and pictures.”
The Book Chook
“… visual tribute to Australia. Inside you’ll find snippets and tidbits of Australian features, from ferries to fanciful place names, from ferns to flavours of gelato. All readers are sure to appreciate McCartney’s enthusiasm for our rich and varied cultural heritage, and youngsters will giggle over the visual metaphors and quirky details.”
In The Good Books
“Tania has captured the idiosyncrasies and diversity of our country perfectly. Each page tells its own story – there’s food, festivals, beaches and more to explore! I would highly recommend this book as it truly is a visual feast that readers of any age will appreciate.”
“We love the illustrations in this book with it’s quirky way of showcasing an abridged version of iconic landmarks, beaches, skyscrapers, flora and fauna, products unique to each state and territory.. A fun book to have in your home or school library”
Unity Words
“Tania McCartney has created a book that inspires discussions in the readers – big and little. As you open to the first page you are met with words describing Australia – big, beautiful and diverse. I can tell you that this is a good description also of this book; it’s content and the beautiful illustrations.”
“the love for Australia beams out from every page.”
“A small slice of Australia but a very detailed and fascinating look at this unique country. Simple but so informative and such fun to dip into often, with quirky, delightful illustrations. Highly recommended.”
ABC Brisbane
“timeless..very collectable…real humour and heart in the illustrations”
“a beautifully-drawn, 96-page exploration of our nation and the differences between cultures in each state and territory.”
5 Things I Know About
“Tania’s ‘Australia: Illustrated‘ is a visual tribute to Australia that will have children and adults mesmerised.”
“Rarely have I been so blown away by a book’s design that I have actually stroked the pages – but I love Australia: Illustrated … This should be under every Christmas Tree!”
“with enough iconic charm to make both Banjo Paterson and Con the Fruiterer feel at home, her first self-illustrated picture book, Australia: Illustrated delivers a (very satisfying) slice of all things Aussie to an audience who might still remember what a frog cake is as well as those young enough to regard the Wheel of Brisbane as their first Ferris wheel ride.”
“Australia Illustrated is the kind of book I loved as a child. So many details to notice and enjoy. Each double page spread has so much to see and think about. The illustrations capture the imagination and present Australia as the diverse, interesting, quirky, and beautiful land we know it to be.” – Read the full review here.
“Big, beautiful, and diverse” are the words McCartney uses to describe Australia, and they are the very words that could describe this book. It is big and it is fat (criteria important to some of our junior readers); it is beautiful with colour, iconic illustrations and few words; and it’s diverse with its focus on a range of topics that don’t usually feature in these sorts of texts. Each page is a vibrant explosion of colour and movement that celebrate our places and people in quirky ways.”
Huntingdon School, Years 4-6
They were enthralled with what would be in each state and loved sharing if they had been to a particular location. They thought the illustrations captured Australia’s humour and things important to us.Aaron, age 11 gave it 5 stars he said
“this is a really good book it was fun looking at it with my mum and dad we had fun reading it” he liked everything about it, his favourite part was “all of it”
Culture Chest, September 2016
Culture Chest have done a terrific Author spotlight on Tania McCartney in the lead up to her latest title Australia: Illustrated. The spotlight sheds much insight on Tania’s creative process and background, and is great read for not only authors and illustrators, but all creatives. Find the Author Spotlight here.
“Wow, there’s so much in this book, in text and illustrations. It’s a tribute to Australia, its people, its animals, plants and lifestyle. An impressive achievement that will fascinate readers, young and not so young.”
School Days Magazine
“Shortlisted as Book of the Year by Speech Pathology Australia this brilliantly illustrated book with it’s tactile hard cover is a fun way to teach young children aged 4-8 about Australia’s history, culture, iconic food … would make an ideal gift. ” Click here to read in full.
Buzz Words Magazine
“Shortlisted as Book of the Year by Speech Pathology Australia this brilliantly illustrated book with it’s tactile hard cover is a fun way to teach young children aged 4-8 about Australia’s history, culture, iconic food… would make an ideal gift.” Click here to read.
Story Mamas
“Culturally perfect. A complete celebration of Aussie diversity, food, animals, icons and geography. We love it. Kids will pour over the illustrations and enjoy spotting familiar things. There is truckloads of detail to discover more on every read. Recommended for ages 7-10. This books would be an awesome classroom resource.” Click here to read.
Blue Wolf Reviews
“What a fantastic way to show someone the many facets of Australia. Tania McCarthy has presented this book by firstly looking at overall aspects of Australia, and then taking each State and Territory at a time, for closer examination. She has done this in such an interesting way that you can’t help but be drawn in. The illustrations are very detailed and yet convey the exact idea she wishes to share.” Click here to read in full.
Kids’ Book Reviews
“What a magnificent book for tourists and even locals who want to learn about this wonderful country of ours! Tania McCartney has surpassed everything she has previously produced. It’s clever, full of energy, information, entertainment and spectacular colour.” Click here to read in full.
Hip Little One
“With almost 100 pages chockfull of Aussie greatness you’ll be making new discoveries on every single page.” Click here to read.
What’s Up DownUnder review article
“This book is full of Oz facts which have been dressed up to be fun to find, and easy to remember. It is a great resource for early learners to learn without realising it. And isn’t that a wonderful way to learn.”
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Britain could scrap the 18 billion-pound ($23 billion) nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point and get the same amount of electricity from offshore wind turbines for roughly the same investment. That’s the assessment of Bloomberg New Energy Finance following Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to review whether to proceed with the first new atomic plant in more than three decades. For the same capital costs, the U.K. could install about 830 new turbines at sea, which would generate 25 terawatt hours a year — the same amount of power the Hinkley reactors would produce, according to the London-based researcher.
Bloomberg 16th Aug 2016 read more »
Energy Voice 16th Aug 2016 read more »
Perhaps we should man up and swap Hinkley Point for a Severn barrage.
Times 15th Aug 2016 read more »
Letter John Twidell: Ever advancing telecommunications and electronic control systems allow the demand to be adjusted to fit the supply on a scale from household to national. Witness the sophisticated systems widely available for matching electrical loads and energy stores to solar power. Householders already use these; electrical grid operators are trialling methods for widespread integration of solar and wind power with load demand control, energy storage and price adjustment. The last thing such advances need is an untried gigawatt source of constant electricity generation that cannot be matched to demand, that is expensive, and whose waste is harmful and untreatable. There are many in China and France who share these views; ceasing Hinkley will be welcomed by them too.
Guardian 16th Aug 2016 read more »
Letter Steve Emsley: The cost of the Swansea lagoon is estimated to be £1bn. So to achieve the full 8% of baseload electricity (more than Hinkley), perhaps about £5bn would be needed to complete four or five similar projects in the UK – less than a third of the Hinkley costs. There is also no nuclear waste to manage for thousands of years. Tidal power flows into the lagoon for six hours, out for six hours and does this twice a day, giving reliable electricity for 24 hours a day. Swansea Bay tidal lagoon is the best alternative to Hinkley, so why is it not getting immediate government support and approval? Why is it not even being discussed?
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This is real, honest-to-gosh, groundbreaking news:
Everybody‘s covering this story but it still seems an underplayed scoop. The AIDS epidemic struck while I was in my late twenties. I’d already experienced the tail end of the free love ’60s and the nonstop orgy ’70s. Then, coincidentally slithering in with the Reagan Era, the Age of AIDS dumped a bucket of ice water on all the bacchanals we’d come to think would be the new norm forever and ever amen.
My pals and I hung out in the punk clubs and the warehouse-sized gay bars back in 1977 and ’78. The joints throbbed with heavy bass beats and thrusting pelvises. They reeked of sweat, leather, and poppers. Swear to god, some of the more hard core boy bars redid their interior decor in non-porous painted cinder block so as to allow the clean up guys to simply hose the walls and floors down after a night of dancing and thrusting and if I have to explain why…, well, you just had to be there.
Then AIDS came along and, of course, the party was over. The crowd I hung with walked around for the next couple of decades in stunned silence, mourning their dead friends, scared to death that some quick clutch and grab with a little pony in chaps that time in an unlit corner of the Manhole a few years back might have left them with a ticking time bomb inside in their bloodstream.
All sorts of rock stars, artists, actors, hell, even bank presidents were dropping dead. All because they’d ridden bareback one or thirty too many times. Sex, it was said, equalled death.
Had there been even a hint of a headline that some kind of cure for AIDS was on the horizon, it’d have been the biggest news since…, since forever. For pity’s sake, it seemed every single goddamned episode of Oprah featured some concerned looking suburban mom standing up and asking the guest — whoever s/he may have been and whatever they hell they were talking about — “What about AIDS?” As if merely stepping outside the house put one at risk for catching the virus.
It can be argued that today’s reality that kids simply do not go outside to play the way every single generation since the hominids came down out of the trees in central Africa had come about in large part because parents were petrified their trophy children would somehow, in some bizarre way, get infected.
“A Cure for AIDS” would have rivaled “Japs Bomb Pearl Harbor” and “President Shot In Dallas.”
Now, after Freddie Mercury, Keith Haring, Rock Hudson, Anthony Perkins, Arthur Ashe, Liberace, Gia Carangi, Roy Cohn, Perry Ellis, Ryan White, Terry Dolan, Halston, Gil Scott-Heron, the dad on “The Brady Bunch,” John Holmes, Glenn Burke, Rudolf Nureyev, Steve Rubell, Easy-E, Max Robinson, and perhaps 40 million other, less celebrated, souls have died of the disease researchers offer a glimmer of hope that the thing can be eliminated the way smallpox, measles, and a few other scourges almost have been.
Really. This shit is big.
Ironically, it takes humankind’s most powerful tool that magnifies excruciatingly tiny things, the scanning electron microscope, to show us exactly what has caused all this death and panic the last 40 or 50 years.
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Dying for a holiday? Love wildlife? We’ve found five virtual animal safaris you can enjoy from home!
By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
The crazy times we are living in have warped our normal lives. Our freedoms have been greatly restricted, and there’s no greater restriction than on our freedom to travel.
That’s such a shame. Travel truly opens the mind; it introduces new cultures, foods and ideas to us, and even helps to save the environment. Yes, that’s right: many species of animals, such as gorillas, elephants and rhinos have been saved thanks to locals making more money from safaris than from poaching. The same goes for rainforests and other areas of natural beauty. Many of these places have been saved from development and exploitation, with thanks to eco tourism.
But now, with no one visiting those areas and animals, they’re under threat. Luckily, many companies within the eco-tourism sector have come up with innovative experiences that aim to retain animal conservation in particular. And the best part? You can participate online, for free!
Ready to go on a little virtual trip? Take a look at these incredible ‘holidays’ you can experience without leaving your house. Just click on the title links to participate! These virtual animal safaris are not only a great way to escape your current surroundings for a short time, but they can also be used by parents who are homeschooling their kids to teach them a bit about animal conservation.
5 Virtual Animal Safaris You Can Enjoy From Home
1. Virgin Limited Edition
Sir Richard Branson has always been at the forefront of exceptional travel experiences, through his airline, trains and even spacecrafts! And of course, it would take much more than Coronavirus to stop him and his team from bringing incredible wildlife experiences to the public. They have designed some safari episodes from the Sabi Sand in South Africa that you can easily stream.
Virtual travellers will have the opportunity to have a taste of Virgin’s live game drives from the stunning Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa and Maasai Mara in Kenya.
Thanks to some of Virgin’s best rangers, online voyagers will be able to explore the African bush with some extraordinary sightings that include a female leopard and her two new cubs, the wild dogs known as painted wolves, elephant families, giraffes, buffaloes, lions and even a golden orb web spider.
Want to delve into your virtual African holiday a bit deeper? Why not attend a live wine tasting lesson from the stunning vineyards of Franschhoek, home to the Mont Rochelle Hotel and Vineyard?
2. Tintswalo Safari Lodge
The luxurious Tintswalo Safari Lodge is set deep inside the world renowned Kruger National Park and the pristine private Manyeleti Game Reserve. Even though virtual adventurers will not be able enjoy a stay in their lush lodges, this doesn’t mean they cannot get a feeling of what this enticing destination has to offer.
Their Facebook page offers a daily segment called ‘On the beat in the Manyeleti,’ where you can admire the safari highlights of this exceptional destination.
Here, you’ll meet the most majestic members of the animal kingdom of the South African region, from lions and elephants to rhinos and even porcupines! My personal favourite? Those baby elephants make me want to jump on a plane and give one a hug right now!
3. &Beyond
Conscious luxury travel company &Beyond has established itself throughout the years for its pioneering approach within the field of experiential travel. This company has always been an innovator in offering luxurious nature-based adventures throughout some of the most exotic corners of the Earth: namely Africa, Asia and South America.
They pride themselves on their groundbreaking conservation achievements, including the restocking of native species to the Phinda Private Game Reserve, and the researching and monitoring of endangered species such as rhinos and pangolins.
Now, global travellers can enjoy a small taste of a coveted &Beyond experience, thanks to their teaming up with wildlife broadcasting experts WildEarth. They will be livestreaming personalised game drives twice a day, allowing you to admire the world’s most majestic wildlife from the comfort of your home.
And the best part? You won’t be on your own. As you virtually gaze at lions, rhinos and buffaloes, you will be able to interact with your guide to ask some questions throughout the Youtube drive. Cool, right? Why not take the whole family or a few friends along for the ride?
4. Savanna Private Game Reserve
If you have a 5-star safari in your future holiday plans, consider the Savanna Lodge. It’s nestled in the renowned Sabi Sand Reserve within the greater Kruger National Park Conservancy. It’s lush with nature, and equally lush with its luxurious take on African decor.
But until you’re able to travel, you can visit the lodge virtually. The Savanna Private Game Resort offers a daily ‘Stay at Home Safari’ segment via their Facebook page. This 10 to 20 minute video portrays each day’s safari highlights, where viewers can take in the enchanting flora and fauna of the African bushveld.
But not only that: you can get to know their amazing staff via video, from their safari guides to their maintenance workers. Everyone has a fascinating story to tell, and you’ll meet some truly amazing people!
5. Explore
This multimedia organisation has always dedicated itself to bringing inspiring stories that can inform and educate its viewers about wildlife. Explore provides some of the best virtual animal safaris around, via its vast library of films and photographs of nature. Their footage from across the world serves as an important record of animal behaviour.
Several partner organisations are also featured in the footage shared by Explore. When discussing the content of their videos, they bring issues such as animal rights, human rights, health and poverty to the fore, and often share live videos of wild animals via hidden cameras, in real time (depending on the season).
Their most popular video so far? It’s the one of gorillas migrating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
Senior Features Writer at Eluxe Magazine
Based in Italy, our Features Writer Chiara is also a film critic and an award-winning artist, with a special interest in eco-art. You can see her work and learn more about her here.
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I agree with you, travel truly opens the mind being in a different culture, it’s such an amazing thing! Can’t wait till international flights resume!
Dan Parsons
This lockdown has given us a new online world to enjoy!
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Vietnamese publishers give free e-books to readers
Vietnamese publishing houses are offering free e-books to entertain their readers over the long break.
The Kim Dong Publishing House is presenting a collection of colour picture books for preschoolers and elementary school students.
The books consist of stories, poems and science knowledge relating to 10 different topics, including school, sea, health, sports, family, fruits, plants, seasons, animals and transport.
The Kim Dong Publishing House is giving free colour picture books for preschoolers and primary school students. (File photo from www.nxbkimdong.com.vn)
Colouring pages and games are also featured.
According to the Kim Dong Publishing House, there have been more than 21,000 downloads of these books since the release day on March 23rd.
Nguyen Thu Ha, a mother of a five-year-old girl in Dong Nai province, said: “Thanks to Kim Dong, I have given presents to my daughter and she loved them a lot.”
The books are available at website www.nxbkimdong.com.vn.
The Chibooks Media Company is presenting a Vietnamese version of Covid-19 Prevention Handbook.
The book is compiled by Yunnan Provincial Health Committee, Kunming University School of Medicine, Yunnan Provincial Academy of Medical Sciences, and Yunnan Education Press in China.
Readers can leave their emails at Chibooks’ fanpage www.facebook.com/chibooks/ to receive a free e-book.
Saigon Books is offering 100,000 free copies of book COVID-19: From Basics to Clinical Practice (Vietnamese version) by Chinese professor Zhang Wenhong, head of the centre of infectious diseases at Huashan Hospital of Fudan University.
The Vietnamese book is compiled by Dr Pham Hung Van, former chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Branch of Vietnam Association of Clinical Microbiology.
Readers can access the company’s website www.saigonbooks.vn to get free books./.
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(Van Lang, October 4th, 2019) - On October 3rd 2019, at campus 3, Van Lang University concluded an MOU with Northern Arizona University – USA in 3 fields including Environmental Engineering, Engineering, and Tourism. Northern Arizona University is ranked 78th among public universities in the United States.
To reach conclusion of the MOU, Van Lang University and Northern Arizona University (MOU) had a meeting to exchange strengths and similarities in the training programs, and contemporaneously examine programs needing to be developed in order to build the most appropriate cooperation roadmap for the two universities.
The signing ceremony was attended by Mr. Bruce Wang – NAU’s Director in Asia and Mr. Hien Nguyen – NAU’s representative in Vietnam, and representatives of Van Lang University including Assoc. Prof. PhD.Tran Thi My Dieu – Rector of Van Lang University, PhD. Ngo Minh Hung - Head of International Cooperation & Scientific Research Department, Assoc. Prof. PhD. Le Thi Kim Oanh - Head of Environment & Biotechnology Department, PhD. Le Hung Tien - Head of Engineering Department, PhD. Le Minh Thanh - Head of Tourism Department.
Mr. Bruce Wang - Director of Northern Arizona University in Asia and Assoc. Prof. PhD. Tran Thi My Dieu – The President of Van Lang University exchanged the MOU.
NAU is one of the three public universities in Arizona which the main campus is located in Flagstaff.
Based on the MOU signed on October 3, 2019 between the two universities, in the next time, Van Lang University, in cooperation with Northern Arizona University will implement the 2 + 2 Exchange Program, 3 + 2 Exchange Program and Short term Training Programs in 3 fields: Environmental Engineering, Engineering, and Tourism. As a result, Van Lang University expand its international cooperation map when having one prestigious partner like Northern Arizona University, contributing to the aim of Van Lang's internationalizing training programs.
Source: Tue Khanh
Translated by Ngoc Phuong Ho
Editor: Vo Thi Xuan Anh
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Rop Says LDS Needs a Revamp after Poor Election Showing
Bled, 11 December - Anton Rop, the president of the Liberal Democrats (LDS), said at his party's congress on Saturday that the LDS needed to revamp in terms of personnel, organisation and programme in the wake of its poor showing at the October election. Giving a somewhat critical analysis of the party's worst ever election result, Rop announced that the LDS would form a shadow cabinet.
Dec 11, 2004, 13:48 vh/gl/pse/vh
Publish time: Dec 11, 2004, 13:48
Keywords: PARTIES
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DANCE MONKS
FESTIVAL OOK'OT
Fire in the Mountain (2020)
Como inmigrantes (as immigrants), we carry the stories of our ancestors on our backs and the places they lived as memories in our bones. This short film is focused on our sacred relationship to Nature and dance as a medium for inter-dimensional communication, invoking states of wonder.
The film is Artistically directed, conceptualized and performed by Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty. The director of photography and editor is Eric Koziol with music by Laura Inserra. Additional photography by Cliff Traiman & Chris O'Dowd.
Made possible thanks to a Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and FLACC.
Photo Credits: Eric Koziol
The Tree and Me (2019) was a duet we created with a large, old Acacia tree on-site at the currently endangered public space, the Albany Bulb. We began by listening to the stories that were held in the land while asking the question- what wishes to be spoken and what wants to remain in silence?
Commissioned by Bulb Fest 2019
Photo Credit: Edward Grylich & Sarah Lin
The Wall Between Us (2017) was based on a collection of real stories of families currently separated by the US-Mexico border. The duet was part of an ongoing interdisciplinary exchange between US and Mexican artists to deepen relationships and hold necessary conversations, especially during the current political climate.
Premiered at the D.I.R.T Festival, San Francisco.
Photo Credit: Esteva Family
TLAOLI: People of the Corn (2016) was an interdisciplinary vision of corn as essential to Mexican cultural identity; the mythical relationship between people and plants, traditional sacred farming, food and agricultural rituals. The artists asked essential questions about cultural displacement and amnesia while observing the potential of the arts as seeds to restore soul memory. In times of forced or voluntary migration, what happens to the old stories and traditions that unite people with the earth? How can we, as immigrant artists and cultural centers, create a refuge or a fertile ground for this wisdom to continue to grow for future generations? DANCE MONKS initiated a series of Tiangis (markets) for Mexican immigrants as an essential piece of this project that continues to date.
Made possible thanks to Doris Duke Foundation with the additional support of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Photo Credits: Robbie Sweeny
NOMAD: The Blue Road (2014) was a site-specific ritual performance that followed the (now mostly) underground Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, California. In response to the California drought and current water crisis around the world, NOMAD invited the audience to remember our vital, often forgotten relationship with water. The event was also held in continuous support of the current international movement to "daylight" rivers in urban places.
Directed by Rodrigo Esteva and Mirah Moriarty in collaboration with José Navarrete, Debby Kajiyama, Dohee Lee, Adria Otte, Pauchi Sasaki and Jennifer Curtis.
Made possible by the Open Circle Foundation.
Photo Credits: Ambre Murard
Muru (2012) signifies Seed in Quechua and Endless Dream in Japanese. This interdisciplinary performance included live dance, an orchestra and video mapping. The work was directed by OIE Collective with Pauchi Sasaki (Peru), Jennifer Curtis from ICE (NY / SF), Dohee Lee from Puri Project (Korea / SF) and Zulu Tsuruyama (Japan).
Festival de Artes Escenicas (FAEL) at Municipal Theater of Lima, Peru.
Photo Credits: Edi Hirose
Star Rider (2012) was a site-specific presentation on the site at Woodstock Public Library, NY created by DANCE MONKS in direct collaboration with young artists Aki Densmore (at age 7) and their son, Sebastian Esteva (at age 9). This whimsical production was inspired by an original song of the same title by Sebastian.
Commissioned by the Woodstock Public Library, NY.
PERFORMANCE ARCHIVES 2000-2012
Origins (2009) was an in-process sharing of a multimedia creation directed by DANCE MONKS in collaboration with Tawera (Rodney) Bell (formerly of AXIS Dance) and Olivia Eng with live music by Laura Inserra, Pauchi Sasaki and Claudia Cuentas. The artists investigated and chose the mythology of the old world connected to their ancestral origins (Maori, Mexican, Chinese, Slavic) as a starting point.
Made possible by the East Bay Arts Center / Center for Cultural Innovation, The Open Circle Foundation and the Artists Residence Program of NOHSpace, SF.
Road (to Remembrance) (2009) was a solo created by Mirah and inspired by the process of "descansos" or "to put to rest" by Dr. Clarissa Estes, a ritual process that marks the passages of life. She performed inside a tent she made of more than 1,000 pieces of paper with projections of her ancestors and a sound landscape by the renowned musician, Pauchi Sasaki.
Photo Credit: Rodrigo Esteva
Body & Sound Festival (2012) was curated by DANCE MONKS with movement/practice workshops and live music performances by internationally renowned artists Pauchi Sasaki (Peru / Japan), Laura Inserra (Italy), T-Bird Luv (Brooklyn) and Dohee Lee (Korea).
KUNST STOFF ARTS, San Francisco.
Photo Credit: Pauchi Sasaki
Cave (2009) was a site-specific in a man-made "cave" on the side of the mountain in Hawk Hill, choreographed by DANCE MONKS with dancers Melecio Estrella (by Joe Goode Performance Group), Christine Bonansea, Olivia Eng and guests.
Directed by Laura Inserra de Samavesha and the piece included 20 hang players who were commissioned by Green Music Network.
Montaña Que Habla/ Talking Mountain (2008) was a music and dance collaboration performed by Laura Inserra, Pauchi Sasaki, Claudia Cuentas, Mirah Moriarty and Rodrigo Esteva.
Samavesha Space Richmond, CA.
Postcards of Mexico (2007) was a multimedia contemporary performance with traditional Mexican folk music and photographs of Sebastian Belaustegui (Author of Guardianes del Tiempo / The Guardians of Time). The piece focused on endangered ways of daily life in Mexico due to the influx of large US corporations.
Premiered at CounterPULSE, SF. Made possible by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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GREEN: A Force of Nature (2005) was an interdisciplinary environmental performance focused on returning Nature to cities through body memory. The piece included site-specific video projections filmed along the California coast.
Premiered at CounterPULSE, SF. Performed by Olivia Eng, Mary Starr Hope, Brit Karhoff, Mirah Moriarty and Rodrigo Esteva. Made possible by the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Círculo Abierto Foundation.
El Otro Lado (The Other Side/of the border) (2005) was created from a series of interviews conducted by artists (in Spanish and English) to a wide variety of folks living on the Mexican side of the border and their vision of "the other side." This piece asked the questions: How do you envision the "other side?" How do we see ourselves at the US border, along the US and Mexico? What are our experiences? What are our prejudices? What would you like to be different? The recorded interviews were the soundscape of a love duet between the artists Rodrigo (Mexican) and Mirah (born in the United States) and included firsthand experiences of racial prejudice, childhood imaginings, memories and folk wisdom.
Commissioned by the Summer Language Institute of Middlebury College, VT.
Tierra Imaginaria/Imagined Land (2003-04) was a specific group piece for the site directed by DANCE MONKS at the Universidad IberoAmericana (Universidad IberoAmericana) in Mexico City. The work was carried out in and around the trees on campus and included visual installations of found objects, including mountains of jacaranda flower petals (bluish).
Commissioned by the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Lulabai (2002) was choreographed for dancers of the Ollin Yoliztli School of Arts. The work was inspired by drawings of elementary students in the Madrid School of their "ideal worlds", which were projected as part of the installation for the live presentation.
Premiered in Escuela Madrid and the UNAM (National University, Mexico City as Colores. Commissioned by Escuela Madrid, Mexico City.
La Casa de las Mariposas/ The Butterfly House (2000) was a series of dreamlike landscapes, inspired by living in the mountains of Xalapa, dancing along streams, rocks and in the forest for 5 to 6 hours a day. The performance included a large papier-mâché, white horse.
The Green Project (2000-present) was created from a deep and modern need for children to reconnect physically and imaginatively with nature through embodied experience. Green is a carefully constructed residency program by which young people or a multigenerational audience move in partnership with the land and each other. The project culminated in an original multimedia presentation with dance, stories and live music created in collaboration with the community, along with professional artists.
Previous youth projects include: The Great Dreamer (Malcolm X), Rain Dances (Highland Elementary), Wild Child and other tall tree tales (Berkeley Arts Magnet), Green Project Bike Tour (East Bay), Madrid School (City of Mexico)) and Conversaciones con árboles, Nayarit (Mexico).
Made possible by The Open Circle Foundation and The Zellerbach Family Foundation.
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