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In the Battle Over Health-Care Costs, Food Could be a Weapon
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un chief calls for efforts to ensure sustainable, healthy diets for all
Mr. Glenn kept fit partly through what a friend called high-speed golf. He pulled his own cart. He took vitamins, managed without coffee and drank very little alcohol.
"We need to ensure sustainable and healthy diets for all, and to minimize food waste," the UN chief said in a message for the World Food Day, which falls on Oct. 16.
impact of major lifestyle events on wellbeing
good quality me time vital for home and work wellbeing
scientist identify genes connected to wellbeing
Major life events such as marriage, death of a loved one or bankruptcy all affect our wellbeing. Now, for the first time, researchers have compared the differing impact of these events on the happiness and life satisfaction and how long that impact lasts.
An international group of more than 190 scientists who analyzed the genomes of 298,420 individuals have found genetic variants that may influence our sense of wellbeing, depression and neuroticism.
The study, to be published April 18 by the journal Nature Genetics, is one of the largest genomic studies to date on behavioral genetics.
"We have known for a long time that these traits have a genetic component, but until now, we had identified only a few specific genetic variants related to these traits," said Daniel Benjamin, corresponding author and an associate professor of the Center for Economic and Social Research in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
it's time to address the health of men around the world
High quality me-time not only improves your psychological wellbeing it can also make you a more engaged employee.
This is one of the findings of a study by Dr Almuth McDowall, University of Birkbeck, who will present the study today, Thursday 8 January, at the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology annual conference in Glasgow.
global health policy fails to address burden of disease on men
All over the world, men die younger than women and do worse on a host of health indicators, yet policy makers rarely focus on this "men's health gap" or adopt programs aimed at addressing it, according to an international group of researchers and health charity workers.
male menopause affects more than 5 million men
While most frequently associated with women's health, age-related hormone changes, often dubbed menopause, can occur in men as well, causing symptoms of fatigue, mood swings, decreased desire for sex, hair loss, lack of concentration and weight gain. Experts estimate that more than 5 million men are affected, yet worry the number may be considerably higher since symptoms are frequently ignored.
Male hypogonadism, as it's referred to in the medical community, occurs when the testicles do not produce enough testosterone, the hormone that plays a key role in masculine growth and development. When hormone levels drop, men can experience significant mental and physical changes.
"This is a highly prevalent disorder," said Robert Brannigan, MD, urologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "Unfortunately, we estimate that 95 percent of cases are undiagnosed and therefore untreated. When ignored, symptoms can seriously disrupt one's quality of life."
Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint article in this week's Lancet.
The article reinterprets data from the 'Global Burden of Disease: 2010' study which shows that all of the top ten causes of premature death and disability, and top ten behavioural risk factors driving rates of ill-health around the world, affect men more than they affect women.
the effect of gender and age on health related behaviours
The present study found that health behavior, and beliefs relating to responsibility for health and future health requirements, are associated with both gender and age. This is important data, informing on health related behavior which will contribute to educating and supporting the preventative fight against lifestyle related and chronic disease as we age.
population wellbeing linked to life expectancy
"When it comes to life expectancy, we think a lot about disease," lead author Anita Arora, MD, MBA, from Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, told Medscape Medical News. However, "well-being, which captures how our physical, mental and social health come together, may also be important to how long people live," she said.
Detoxes" and "cleanses what you need to know
What are “detoxes” and “cleanses”?
A variety of “detoxification” diets, regimens, and therapies—sometimes called “detoxes” or “cleanses”—have been suggested as ways to remove toxins from your body, lose weight, or promote health. We are well aware that most people tend to detox as they begin a New Year. So, for your safety, we have provided a link for you to bring your knowledge up to speed before you embark on your detox journey
why men needs to start taking control of their wellness
Discussions on gender equality and women's empowerment within the context of health and wellbeing in development have for many reasons focused traditionally on women and girls. Since health is public as well as private, however, and since gender is relational as well as socially constructed, it is essential to also understand how men's and boys' broader health and well-being – alongside that of women and girls – helps or hinders in terms of creating enabling environments for improving gender equality and supporting the empowerment of women and girls.
Men are three times more likely to take their own lives than women.
Men in mid-life remain overwhelmingly dependent on a female partner for emotional support.
Marriage breakdown is more likely for men to lead to suicide.
Men have a much more negative view on counselling and therapy than women.
When men do use therapy, it is at the point of crisis.
Men between the ages of 18 and 44 are less likely to go see a doctor than women.
67 per cent of men feel their mental health is secondary to that of a partner.
50 habits that help you live longer
We asked medical experts for the most impactful things you can do right now to live longer—and stay healthy enough to really enjoy your golden years.
happy older people live longer
6 things that herlp people live longer, happier lives
happiness improves health and lengthen lives
In a new study, researchers have found that increase in happiness is directly proportional with a reduction in mortality. The study, which focused on Singaporeans aged 60 years and older, found that even small increments in happiness may be beneficial, suggesting individual activities as well as government policies and programs that maintain or improve psychological well-being may contribute to longer life.
The study, in the journal Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, is the most comprehensive review so far of the evidence linking happiness to health outcomes. Its lead author, University of Illinois professor emeritus of psychology Ed Diener, who also is a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization, of Princeton, N.J., analyzed long-term studies of human subjects, experimental human and animal trials, and studies that evaluate the health status of people stressed by natural events.
Harvard followed 800 people for their entire lives to see what actually makes people live happier, healthier, and longer.
One of the three samples of people — 268 Harvard graduates born around 1920 — was the longest prospective study of physical and mental health in the world.
A second sample was the longest prospective study of “blue collar” adult development in the world.
The third sample was the longest prospective study of women’s development in the world.
The overall study found six key factors that impact happiness and longevity, including relationships, education, and generosity.
13 habits linked to a long life
austerity blamed for shocking life expectancy decline
Many people think that life expectancy is largely determined by genetics.
However, genes play a much smaller role than originally believed. It turns out that environmental factors like diet and lifestyle are key.
Here are 13 habits linked to a long life.
population well-being linked to life expectancy
Well-being is an important measure of a population's health and longevity and represents a promising focus for intervention, according to a recent study published online November 9 in Health Affairs.
Health and life expectancy in the UK has endured serious setbacks over the past decade, an influential team of analysts said.
A review by Sir Michael Marmot, 10 years after he warned that health inequalities and social deprivation would lead to worse health and growing costs for the NHS, found life expectancy falling in many English regions, and increasing amounts of time spent in poor health by people in their later years.
The Essentials to keep a man's heart healthy
Here is a checklist to lower your cardiac risk. A healthy weight and a physically active life will get you most of the way there.
As men age, cardiovascular health becomes a higher priority. But for all the recent media frenzy about who should be on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and the continuing obsession with popping fish oil capsules, checking the box on two fundamental lifestyle issues will get you most of the way there.
special heart risks for men
Men develop heart disease 10 years earlier, on average, than women do. They also have an early warning sign that few can miss: erectile dysfunction (ED). “It’s the canary in the coal mine,” says a Johns Hopkins expert. “Sexual problems often foretell heart problems.”
early signs of heart disease
middle age muscle mass tied to future cvd risk in men
The first sign of heart disease is often a heart attack or other serious event. But, there are a few important signs that can help you recognize problems before they come to a head.
In the early stages, symptoms that seem like mere annoyances may come and go. For example, you may have heart arrhythmias, which can cause:
difficulty catching your breath after moderate physical exertion, like walking up a flight of stairs
a sense of discomfort or squeezing in your chest that lasts for 30 minutes to a few hours
unexplained pain in your upper torso, neck, and jaw
a heartbeat that is faster, slower, or more irregular than usual
Higher levels of lean muscle mass in middle age may be linked to lower 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, regardless of traditional risk factors such as diet, income, smoking, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and abnormal cholesterol levels, a study found.
preserve your muscle mass
vitamins may lower cancer risk in men
Declining muscle mass is part of aging, but that does not mean you are helpless to stop it.
The daily use of multivitamins may reduce the risk for cancer in men, according to the results of a very large randomized trial.
After about 11 years, multivitamin use resulted in a modest but statistically significant reduction — specifically, an 8% reduction in total cancer incidence.
However, the investigators observed no effect of vitamin usage on prostate cancer, so they removed that cancer from all the other cancer types in another analysis. In that analysis, "there was a 12% reduction in total cancers which was significant," said lead author John Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH. He was speaking at a press briefing ahead of a presentation at the Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting.
The study has also been published early online in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the meeting.
Multivitamin use also lessened the risk of dying from cancer.
creating wealth and health
health as the new wealth - the nhs's role in economic and social recovery
We have known for a long time that the economic prosperity of a place is linked to the health of its population. Recently, attention has turned to the role that economic strategies (the ways in which the economy is developed) and businesses (as key organisations within the economy) can play to improve health. However, these strategies have yet to be deployed at scale. For example, a recent report found that 85% of economic development departments were not as engaged as they could be in tackling the determinants of health.
This will involve transforming public service planning and delivery throughout a time of unprecedented economic and social disruption – pushing the service to understand its impact and value as local anchor organisations well beyond traditional sectoral boundaries. It will also mean using the system approach now emerging to drive up population health and wellbeing.
for developing countries health is wealth
investing in health for economic development
Lord Chesterfield observed that good health is the first and greatest of all blessings and the first of all liberties. Millions of people in developing countries around the globe lack this blessing and basic freedom. What's more, their poor health both reflects their poverty and contributes to it.
investing in development is everyone's business
Health is an asset with an intrinsic value as well as an instrumental value. Being healthy is a source of wellbeing and one of the goals most valued by human beings throughout the world. Health is not only the absence of illness, but also the capacity of developing a person’s potential throughout life. As the pioneer work by Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel shows, health is also an important determinant of economic growth. This author finds that between one-third and one-half of Britain’s economic growth in the past 200 years is due to improvements in the population’s calorific intake, which resulted in better health and higher productivity.
How do we bring the private and public actors together to cooperate meaningfully? How to ensure that private sector involvement goes beyond grants and corporate social responsibility?
humanity means business
There is an unprecedented opportunity for the private sector - with funds, freedom and technical / scientific knowledge - to create solutions that make human lives healthier, happier, more efficient, more equal, and more fulfilling.
the immune system changes with age differ between men and women
We know that people have less robust immune responses as they age, and the elderly are more prone to infection and have lower protection rates from vaccines. There are also immune differences between the sexes—for example, adult women have higher susceptibility to autoimmune disease. A team led by Duygu Ucar and Jacques Banchereau analyzed immune cells from a large cohort of healthy people spanning the adult life span (22-93), carefully matched between women and men, to investigate age- and sex-related immune differences. They found significant differences in immune gene regulation and function between the sexes that increased with age. After age 65, men displayed higher innate and pro-inflammatory immune activity and lower adaptive immune function, indicating less robust infection response.
6 top health threats to men
From infancy to old age, women are simply healthier than men. Out of the 15 leading causes of death, men lead women in all of them except Alzheimer's disease, which many men don't live long enough to develop. Although the gender gap is closing, men still die five years earlier than their wives, on average.
what men don't know about their health and aging can hurt them
Sometimes referred to as male menopause or hypogonadism, testosterone deficiency in men leads to symptoms that can often be treated when tested and diagnosed by their doctors. Typical symptoms of Low T include:
Increased irritability or depression
Inability to concentrate
Reduced muscle mass and strength
Low sex drive and erectile dysfunction
Decreased bone density and osteoporosis
synbiotics and your gut health
vitamin d crucial to activating immune defenses
Global gut health experts guide growth of synbiotics
The consensus report, published in Nature Reviews: Gastroenterology & Hepatology, is expected to serve as the definitive reference in the development of new synbiotic products.
"Synbiotics are starting to gain traction in the marketplace, but there's a lot of confusion around the term, even among scientists," says Kelly Swanson, consensus panel chair and professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Illinois. "The panel's main goal was to clarify what synbiotics are and provide guidance for future research and innovation."
An awareness of the importance of the gut–brain axis in psychiatric disorders such as depression is increasing. The gut microbiome is a key component of this axis. Gut bacteria can communicate with the brain through a variety of pathways including the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, immune modulation, tryptophan metabolism and the production of various neuroactive compounds.
Scientists have found that vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin - the killer cells of the immune system -- T cells -- will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body. The research team found that T cells first search for vitamin D in order to activate and if they cannot find enough of it will not complete the activation process.
probiotics are good for your liver
the global food system must be reimagined
probiotics got boost from breast milk
The liver is a hub for removing toxins from the blood and plays an important role in the body's processes for converting food into energy. Since it is "downstream" of the gastrointestinal tract in the digestive process, it makes sense that the composition of bacteria in the gut could affect the functioning of the liver.
American Society for MicrobiologySummary:Supplementation with probiotics can improve a person's gut health, but the benefits are often fleeting, and colonization by the probiotic's good microbes usually doesn't last. Breast milk may help sustain those colonies in the long run, say researchers.
Another strategy: ease up on fertilizer.
"Many countries have high yields because from 1960 until now they have been using more and more fertilizer," he said. "But recent research has shown that almost all of these countries are actually using much more than they need to attain the yield they have." A drop of roughly 30% in fertilizer use would not only save the farmer money for the same yield, it prevents the release of nitrous oxide that occurs when excess fertilizer goes unused.
b vitamins and the aging brain
vitamins and minerals may prevent age related diseases
B vitamins-B-6, B-12 and folate-all nourish the brain. But much remains to be discovered about the relation between these essential nutrients and our brainpower.
Severe deficiency of the vitamins and minerals required for life is relatively uncommon in developed nations, but modest deficiency is very common and often not taken seriously. New research, however, may change this thinking as it examines moderate selenium and vitamin K deficiency to show how damage accumulates over time as a result of vitamin and mineral loss, leading to age-related diseases.
vitamin c and aging
A new research discovery published in the January 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal suggests that treatments for disorders that cause accelerated aging, particularly Werner's syndrome, might come straight from the family medicine chest. In the research report, a team of Canadian scientists shows that vitamin C stops and even reverses accelerated aging in a mouse model of Werner's syndrome, but the discovery may also be applicable to other progeroid syndromes.
fighting autoimmunity and cancers
calorie restrictions and immune markers
"Our immune system is needed for a healthy body function and protects us from all kinds of infections. Particularly important in this respect are T cells, and specifically regulatory T cells. Although these represent only a small fraction of all T cells, they are crucial to keep our immune system in check" explains Prof Brenner. "If regulatory T cells are not functional, the immune system gets out of control and turns against its own body.
Scientists have found that volunteers who followed a low-calorie diet or a very low-calorie diet not only lost weight, but also significantly enhanced their immune response. The study may be the first to demonstrate the interaction between calorie restriction and immune markers among humans.
being active reduces the risk of prostate cancer
The analysis, published in the international journal Exercise Immunology Review, involving leading physiologists Dr James Turner and Dr John Campbell from the University of Bath's Department for Health, considers the effect of exercise on our immune function.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK , yet we still don't know all of its causes. The largest ever study to use genetics as a measurement for physical activity to look at its effect on prostate cancer, reveals that being more active reduces the risk of prostate cancer. Over 140,000 men were included in the study, of which, 80,000 had prostate cancer.
alzheimers disease and gut microbiota
the linked between diabetes and cancer
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia. Still incurable, it directly affects nearly one million people in Europe, and indirectly millions of family members as well as society as a whole. In recent years, the scientific community has suspected that the gut microbiota plays a role in the development of the disease.
Obesity and type 2 diabetes can increase the risk of contracting cancer, but making dietary changes could have a big impact
the hospital food review
diabetes and men's health
Hospitals need to understand that good food is medicine.
But I was persuaded by Matt Hancock. This time, he said, things would be different. The Review would be backed by the Department of Health, and its members would be NHS dietitians, medics, caterers and administrators, who were committed to change. OK, I said, but what about Downing Street and the Treasury? That led to my meeting the PM for breakfast in the Downing Street garden – a slightly surreal experience – and a promise that he really meant business and that our report would not gather dust on a shelf.
diabetes and aging
Diabetes in older adults is a growing public health burden. The unprecedented aging of the world's population is a major contributor to the diabetes epidemic, and older adults represent one of the fastest growing segments of the diabetes population. Of impending concern is that these numbers are projected to grow dramatically over the next few decades
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF DIABETES IN MEN
Across a broad range of indicators, men report poorer health than women. In 2000, diabetes mellitus was ranked as the sixth leading cause of death among men in the United States.
Researchers postulate that a complex set of causal and interrelated sex-specific factors contribute to this high rate of mortality. These sex-specific factors include socioeconomic status (e.g., poverty), poor personal health practices, deconstructive norms of masculinity (e.g., invincibility), 3maladaptive stress management skills, and inadequate health care–seeking behaviors.
what is a really healthy diet for diabetes
The condition can lead to erectile dysfunction, genital thrush, and loss of muscle mass. This article explores the differences between diabetes symptoms in men and women.
vitamins and diabetes
Depending on the type of treatment regimen you use to control your diabetes, there are some vitamins and minerals that may be beneficial for your condition.
Before adding any vitamins or adding dietary supplements to your daily diet, discuss these changes with your healthcare team and doctor to ensure they are safe alongside any prescribed medication you’re on.
exercise and nutrition regimen benefits physical and cognitive health
Researchers studied the effects of a 12-week exercise regimen on 148 active-duty Air Force airmen, half of whom also received a twice-daily nutrient beverage that included protein; the omega-3 fatty acid, DHA; lutein; phospholipids; vitamin D; B vitamins and other micronutrients; along with a muscle-promoting compound known as HMB. Both groups improved in physical and cognitive function, with added gains among those who regularly consumed the nutritional beverage, the team reports.
The findings appear in the journal Scientific Reports.
dietary soy may lower risk for dementia
Their study, published today in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, reports that elderly Japanese men and women who produce equol -- a metabolite of dietary soy created by certain types of gut bacteria -- display lower levels of white matter lesions within the brain.
avoiding inflammatory foods can lower heart disease and strokes
Diets high in red and processed meat, refined grains and sugary beverages, which have been associated with increased inflammation in the body, can increase subsequent risk of heart disease and stroke compared to diets filled with anti-inflammatory foods according to a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A separate JACC study assessed the positive effects eating walnuts, an anti-inflammatory food, had on decreasing inflammation and heart disease risk.
prostate cancer - immunotherapy offers hope
for men across the world a particular type of coronary heart disease is the main cause of death
An antibody for treating advanced prostate cancer improves progression-free survival in patients with metastasised, castration-resistant prostate cancer. This is the finding of the long-term analyses of an international phase 3 clinical trial, recently published in the leading journal European Urology. The study showed that overall survival was 2 -- 3 times higher than in the placebo arm
the men's health gap - men must be included in the global health equity agenda
In most parts of the world, health outcomes among boys and men continue to be substantially worse than among girls and women, yet this gender-based disparity in health has received little national, regional or global acknowledgement or attention from health policy-makers or health-care providers. Including both women and men in efforts to reduce gender inequalities in health as part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda would improve everyone’s health and well-being.
Diseases of the heart and circulation (cardiovascular disease, CVD) pose a significant threat to our health. For men, a particular type of CVD called coronary heart disease is the main cause of death in the UK. It’s caused by a build-up of fatty deposits in the vessels (arteries) that supply blood to your heart.
BRAIN HEALTH AND VITAMINS
brain foods - the effects of nutrients on brain function
nutrition tips and brain health
Medical experts maintain that several dietary supplements and vitamins are considered an important part of a brain-healthy diet. One such expert, Dr. Richard Isaacson, Harvard-trained neurologist and author of the book, “Alzheimer’s Treatment, Alzheimer’s Prevention,” recommends several supplements for your brain
The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) examined the state of science on the impact diet has on brain health in adults age 50 and older. GCBH experts carefully considered what can be confidently concluded about whether and how dietary patterns and food choices influence brain health. The new report provides specific recommendations on which foods to encourage, include or limit in adults’ diets. The GCBH gives people 12 practical tips to incorporate healthy eating habits to help maintain brain health.
It has long been suspected that the relative abundance of specific nutrients can affect cognitive processes and emotions. Newly described influences of dietary factors on neuronal function and synaptic plasticity have revealed some of the vital mechanisms that are responsible for the action of diet on brain health and mental function. Several gut hormones that can enter the brain, or that are produced in the brain itself, influence cognitive ability.
your body clock and your health
exercise induced protein may reverse age-related cognitive decline
But sleep is only part of the equation when it comes to the body clock. Food plays a role too.
"In very crude terms, there are two sets of processes that need to go on in a cell," says Gary Wittert, an endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide.
"Cells need to take up nutrients and process them for energy to fuel the work that the cell needs to do. And then the other half of the day, which is night for us, is for growth and repair."
leafy greens linked with slower age- related cognitive decline
A recent report in the journal Neurology found that a diet containing approximately one serving of green leafy vegetables per day is associated with slower age-related cognitive decline.
“Through this protein, the liver is responding to physical activity and telling the old brain to get young,” Villeda says. “This is a remarkable example of liver-to-brain communication that, to the best of our knowledge, no one knew existed.”
COGNITIVE FITNESS
folate level in older adults and cognition
Every brain changes with age, and mental function changes along with it. Mental decline is common, and it's one of the most feared consequences of aging. But cognitive impairment is not inevitable. Here are 12 ways you can help maintain brain function
The study published today (Monday, 15th June 2020) in the British Journal of Nutrition, forms part of the largest representative study of its kind conducted among older persons.
A new study challenges claims from some international scientific circles, that having high blood levels of folate (folic acid) increases the risk of poor cognition in older adults, especially in those with low levels of vitamin B12. On the contrary the study found that having higher folate seemed to be associated with better cognitive function in these older adults.
covid-19 damages the endocrine system
scientist supercharge shellfish to tackle deficiency in humans
People with endocrine disorders may see their condition worsen as a result of COVID-19, according to a new review published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
Cambridge scientists have developed a new way to fortify shellfish to tackle human nutrient deficiencies which cause severe health problems across the world. The team is now working with major seafood manufacturers to further test their microencapsulation technology, or ''Vitamin Bullets''.
vitamin b1 aNd dementia
are antivitamins the new antibiotic?
A research group has now developed a hypothesis whereby iron deposits in the brain -- resulting from alcohol-induced vitamin B1 deficiency -- can be regarded as key factors in cognitive decline.
Researchers develops drug approach against bacterial infections
Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of modern medicine and have saved millions of lives since the discovery of penicillin almost 100 years ago. However, bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics which then leaves doctors struggling to find effective treatments. Researchers have now described a promising new approach involving 'antivitamins' to develop new classes of antibiotics.
vitamin a boost fat burning in cold conditions
A recent study shows that cold ambient temperatures increase vitamin A levels in humans and mice. This helps convert 'bad' white adipose tissue into 'good' brown adipose tissue which stimulates fat burning and heat generation.
commodity trader bet on longer human lifespans
TEA, APPLES AND COCOA CAN LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE
COVID-19 SHOWS US THAT IT IS TIME TO TACKLE OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT
Consuming plenty of tea, apples and cocoa could be as effective as the Mediterranean diet in reducing blood pressure and protecting against heart disease, a study suggests.
goodbye slimming pills? why scientists think that everyday food like broccoli can fight obesity
Before COVID-19 hit, obesity and overweight were linked to an estimated 5 million deaths per year worldwide. Now, obesity and overweight seem to have worsened the threat of COVID-19, which has killed approximately 1,119,268 people around the world as of October 13, 2020.
the link between poor nutrition and choronic disease
POOR NUTRITION AND PREVENTABLE CHORNIC DISEASE
Good nutrition is essential for keeping populations healthy across the lifespan. A healthy diet helps children grow and develop properly and reduces their risk of chronic diseases, including obesity. Adults who eat a healthy diet live longer and have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. Healthy eating can help people with chronic diseases manage these conditions and prevent complications.
And, because the capsules used in the trial contain only natural food products, they should reach shop shelves much quicker than a synthetic drug would once approved. “Instead of spending 20 years doing efficacy and safety and toxicology with a synthetic drug, we're able to get something onto the market, hopefully much faster than that.”
“I don't really see that many downsides. Obviously, it's not a miracle, there's no such thing. But if people can lose about 13 per cent of their weight, that's going from a Body Mass Index (BMI) of obese to a BMI of overweight, which reduces your chances of colon cancer by 20 times. That's a very significant saving for the NHS, and it saves lives.”
addressing nutritional gaps with vitamins and mineral supplements
Evidence suggests that eating patterns that include relatively high intakes of fruit, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains are linked to a significantly lower risk of heart disease, cancer, and stroke [1,2], conditions that rank among the top 4 leading causes of death in adults
FOOD CRISIS GROWS AMID PANDEMIC
The Health Crisis is now an Economic Crisis
FOR FATHERS PANDEMIC BRING A NEW PERSPECTIVE AND QUIET JOYS
Parenting in the Covid era is hard. But it has created some happy shifts in fatherhood, too.
HOME COOKING IS HERE TO STAY
forget the stock market - the rare plant market has gone bonkers
Food company executives say they are expecting new consumer habits formed during the pandemic to stick, with a renewed focus on health and cooking at home.
OMEGA- 3 FATTY ACIDS
FACT SHEET FOR CONSUMERS
Forget the Stock Market. The Rare-Plant Market Has Gone Bonkers.
Demand jumps for unusual greenery, attracting plant flippers and thieves; ‘it’s gotten out of control’
the people with hidden immunity against covid 19
meals as medicine: feed the hungry to treat the tubercolosis pandemic
sperms take up to three years to recover after anabolic steroids
While the latest research suggests that antibodies against Covid-19 could be lost in just three months, a new hope has appeared on the horizon: the enigmatic T cell. BBC
Contrary to prior understanding, many hormones related to spermatogenesis take longer to recover than previously thought, and up to 3 years in some cases after anabolic steroid misuse, according to a fertility expert speaking at the Royal Society of Medicine webinar series.
Meals As Medicine: Feed The Hungry To Treat The Tuberculosis Pandemic
how covid sowed the seeds of food security in johannesburg
During South Africa’s strict lockdown, groups of activists decided to distribute parcels of vegetables as wells as seedlings and gardening materials as well as to hundreds of vulnerable households
learning from success
food and our metabolic process
Learning from success: What’s working in the fight against malnutrition?
The food we eat gives our bodies the "information" and materials they need to function properly. If we don't get the right information, our metabolic processes suffer and our health declines.
personal health and well-being and equity
Good nutrition is an essential part of an individual’s defence against Covid-19. Nutritional resilience is a key element of a society’s readiness to combat the threat. Focusing on nutritional well-being provides opportunities for establishing synergies between public health and equity, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
the chronic care act
On a national level, a study of nearly 4,500 low-income adults found that participation in SNAP, the much-debated food stamp program, was associated with $1,400 less in annual health expenditures.
Chronic Care Act that gives these Medicare programs the flexibility to invest in nontraditional services like food
nutrition food and health
small intervention big impact
Evidence suggests that neglecting the importance of adequate nutrition in chronically ill patients has far-reaching implications on the health status of the individual and the health care costs.
the missing piece of the corporate wellness puzzle
Health Care Cost Reductions Related to Medically Tailored Nutrition
how to get the most nutrients from your food
A GUIDE TO CLEAN EATING
A Guide To A Clean Eating Diet And Why A Year-Round Regimen Makes A Difference
GOOD FOOD AND NUTRITION
Here’s Why Good Food & Nutrition Is Essential For Health.
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This guidance is aimed at individuals and families
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Now more than ever, wider access to healthy foods should be a top priority and individuals should be mindful of healthy eating habits to reduce susceptibility to and long-term complications from COVID-19.
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Exposure to toxic chemicals before, during and after pregnancy jeopardizes women’s health. The infographics launched today (in English, French, German and Spanish) illustrates 10 tips that women can use for individual lifestyle and routine changes in efforts to avoid health-harming substances, as well as advice for policymakers.
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The program that included diet restriction with exercise, guidance, and regular counseling showed the best results.
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STRESS AND PROTEIN
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Social stress induces increased production of the damaging protein beta-amyloid
A recent study found that men, after the age of 65, lost important antibody-producing B cells in the blood, while women didn’t.
Sedentary lifestyles
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AGING AND MEMORY
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Men and women did equally well in remembering previously seen items until age 70, after which “significant female advantage emerged.”
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Therapies: Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a system of medicine in it’s own right, that lends to an explanation of behaviour of the human body when not in balance. In Western Medicine this can be described as ‘disease’, ‘illness’, ‘sickness’. In acupuncture, we say that it is ‘a pattern’, based upon how the energy of the body is working or indeed under duress.
The beauty of this system is it’s based upon harmony or balance, so it accounts for the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spirit of the person receiving treatment.
Treatment is provided by the use of finely honed needles, as fine as 0.013mm needles. Points in the body are selected by your registered acupuncturist once a pattern of behaviour or diagnosis is established. Each treatment is immediately effective, as once a needle is in, your energy system otherwise known as ‘Qi’ is accessed.
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Terri qualified as a Five Element Acupuncturist from the College of Traditional Acupuncture in Leamington Spa, UK, in 1995 and then continued her studies at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, UK, where she learned to integrate the clinical skills of Five Element and Yin Yang Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in 2001.
Terri runs a weekly women’s health clinic at the Healthy Way, and takes a particular interest in supporting women as they transition into the menopause. Acupuncture’s strength lies in its ability to balance the huge hormonal changes which occur at this time.
Acupuncture can cool the hot flushes, reduce the night sweats, and ease the anxiety which can accompany this transition. It can also strengthen the bladder which some women find needs support during these years.
Terri also gives advice on how diet and lifestyle can help to prevent and treat osteoporosis which an increasing number of women are experiencing surrounding this time of hormonal change.
Times of emotional or mental stress, for both men and women, such as loss and bereavement, depression and vulnerability or prolonged periods of heavy workloads deplete and reduce energy levels causing dis-ease, Acupuncture can be very effective in treating these conditions.
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How to Add, Delete, and Move Recorded Audio in Microsoft OneNote App
Max holds a B.S. in mass communications from SIU, an M.A. in communications from U of I, and is pursuing an MBA from Webster University.
The Microsoft OneNote app for iOS and Android devices makes it easy for users to quickly capture audio recordings and save those in a OneNote notebook. The feature makes it easy to capture valuable conversations that you may not otherwise be able to record, and then store those in an organized environment that's simple to share with other people. You can access the recording feature with a quick tap on any page within the OneNote application. You can also move, rename, delete, and even assign alternative text for your captured audio files quickly.
One makes it painless to capture impromptu conversations in a location that's easy to share with others.
How to Record Audio in OneNote App
Navigate to the page in OneNote where you want to include recorded audio.
Tap any location in the body of the page. A keyboard and menu fly up from the bottom of the screen.
Tap the microphone icon in the list of icons. The Recording Audio window appears in the center of the screen. The window displays the level of the audio being captured, the total duration of the audio recording, and a Stop Recording button.
Press "Stop Recording when you're finished capturing the audio you want to store on that OneNote page. The Recording Audio window disappears and you're returned to the body of the page you were viewing. An audio file icon and a timestamp associated with the date and time of the recording now appear in the body of the page.
Tap within the page where you want to capture a recording.
How to Play Recorded Audio Files in OneNote App
Navigate to any page containing an audio recording you captured.
Tap the audio file icon. A symbol with four arrows appears on top of the icon, a context menu opens above the icon, and a Play button appears to the left of the icon.
Tap the "Play" button to the left of the audio icon, or navigate to and tap "Play" in the context menu. An audio player appears on your screen, and automatically starts playing the audio file.
Tap "Close" to stop playing and close your audio file, and return to the body of the page you were on.
Tap the audio file icon, and then tap the play icon to begin playing the audio file.
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Maybe the recording didn't pan out the way you wanted and you want to do it again. Maybe it contains sensitive information you don't want discovered. Maybe you're just looking to free up space on your device. Regardless of the reason, deleting an audio recording in the Microsoft OneNote app can be done quickly.
Navigate to the page containing the captured OneNote audio you want to delete.
Tap the audio file icon.
Tap "Delete" in the context menu. The audio file is instantly deleted. It's worth noting that the timestamp will still remain, and will need to be deleted separately.
Tap the audio file, and then tap "Delete."
How to Move Audio Files in OneNote App
When you capture an audio recording, the audio file icon and timestamp get placed at the located where your cursor was when you started recording the audio. As a result, the resulting file doesn't always get placed where you want it to go. If that happens, you can easily move the file to a different location within the page.
Navigate to the page containing the captured audio recording you want to move.
Hold your finger against the symbol appearing over the audio file icon containing four arrows, and then move the file icon to the location where you want it to appear on the page. You'll notice that as you move the file icon, other text on the page will move to accommodate it.
Remove your finger from the audio file icon to complete the move. Separately, the timestamp doesn't move with the audio file icon, and you'll need to move that separately.
Tap the audio file icon, and then hold your finder against the symbol featuring four arrows.
How to Rename Audio Files in OneNote App
By default, the name of any captured audio file will be a generic "Audio" and then a number. To make it easy to identify later, you may want to change the name of the audio file, which can be done in a few seconds.
Navigate to the page containing the captured audio recording you want to rename.
Select "Rename" in the context menu. The Rename window appears.
Enter the name you want to assign that specific audio file, and then tap "Save." You'll be returned to the page where the audio file is located, and the audio file will now display the new name.
Tap the audio file icon, and then tap "Rename."
How to Assign Alternative Text to Audio Files in OneNote App
Alternative text shows up in the tooltip window that appears when users hold their curors over a particular item, which in this case would be the audio file icon. However, alternative text comes into play for a number of accessibility features. For example, a user who is blind could lisen to the alternative text to hear a descritpion of the audio file to determine whether or not they wanted to listen to it. Assigning alternative text to your audio file is quick process.
Navigate to the page containing the captured audio recording you want to assign alternative text to.
Choose "Alt Text" in the context menu. The Alt Text window appears.
Enter a title and a description associated with your alternative text, and then tap "Done." You'll be returned to the page where your audio file is located, and while you want see any changes on the screen, this will be very useful for any individuals with accessibility needs who you may share your notebooks with.
Tap the audio file icon, and then tap "Alt Text."
This article is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters.
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99 Yorkville Ave,
Toronto, ON M5R 1C1
Just off Yorkville Avenue, the gorgeous new Sofia restaurant occupies the the former home of chocolate purveyor Morroco and the legendary Coffee Mill restaurant. When we visited, owner (and T.O. club king Charles Khabouth was just outside talking with two staff members. He entered the restaurant with us, and discussed the new space as if we were old friends – even though we have never met.
He led us inside to the podium at the front where two well-trained greeters take our names and let us know the rest of our party is waiting in the bar. Behind the podium is a version of the Mona Lisa by Jeff Koons. Khabouth tells us that this piece, and many others in the restaurant, are from his personal collection.
We meet friends at the bar—a round room with a bright, beautiful mural. The vibe is 1970’s glam meets 2018 opulence. The crowd is impeccably dressed: the men are in blazers and ladies mostly wear sleek black or white attire.
Concocted by former Blowfish barchef Nishan Nepulangoda, the cocktails veer on fruity and refreshing, relying on house-made cordials and syrups in unexpected combinations.
Nights of Cabiria ($22), for example, named after the 1957 Federico Fellini film, combines zesty Japanese yuzu and sweet and refreshing grapefruit syrup with the kick of jalapeño black pepper over vodka, aperol and Cointreau, creating a patio-ready, intensely sippable treat.
Once we are served our drinks we are whisked into the main dining room which has all-white walls and oval tabletops, chrome accents and plush red velvet chairs. The lighting is impeccable, with LED Philippe Starck table lamps and stunning white chandeliers. I am hard pressed to think of a Toronto dining room that has lavished this kind of money on impressing its patrons.
A white baby grand piano on a white circular podium graces the front of the room. It is played by a white vested pianist. While the walls, as Khabouth promised, feature a stunning Mr. Brainwash, as well as a series of Warhols and other modern stars.
Sofia's menu focuses on the purity of ingredients, leaning on traditional flavours and modernized by plating.
“Italian cooking is all about local, seasonal ingredients, and you can take that concept anywhere and apply it to what you’re doing,” explained executive chef Christine Mast, who previously cut her teeth at Canoe and Oliver & Bonacini Restaurant Group. “It’s about using the freshest ingredients at the peak of their ripeness and highlighting that.”
The insalata di arance($15) is an elevated citrus and fennel salad made with blood oranges, clementines and grilled fennel, topped with chunks of Calabrian olives. Rustically presented and dressed with nothing more than maldon sea salt and olive oil, this palate-prepper highlights the flavours of the season without any competing ingredients.
“It’s just flavours at its purest,” said Mast.
The mozzarella di bufala ($22) also combines simple, pure ingredients. After searching far and wide, Mast found a Quebec producer that makes buffalo mozzarella from their own herds. It’s sprinkled with a handful of salty fava beans and served with some super-crispy Sardinian flatbread.
We loved the orecchiette ($26), with its simple handmade pasta ears scooping up flavourful chunks of lamb ragu and saffron-infused raisins in a pool of olive oil. The branzino, a seasonal Mediterranean sea bass ($39) was served whole, seared at the edges and lightly garnished with little more than simple olive oil, oregano and lemon.
However, for a restaurant for which the executive chef also serves as the pastry chef, the desserts took the literal cake. Sofia served up a densely formed, lightly flavoured clementine semolina cake, soaking in clementine syrup. It brought to mind a Québecois-style pouding chômeur, but with the cloying sweetness replaced with a fresh citrus tang, sitting pretty on a swipe of basil cream.
“We just tried to take really authentic Italian cooking and bring it into the modern day, just by elevating the plating but keeping true to the flavours and the kind of charm that Italian cooking really brings,” said Mast.
With Sofia, Charles Khabouth, who paced the opulent room all evening assisting and encouraging his team, is truly wearing his heart on his sleeve—and the restaurant shines because of it.
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Counting But Losing Count: the Legacy of Otto Neurath's Isotype Charts
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Frontispiece. Giorgio Scarpa, original sea urchin lantern model. Height of lantern, excluding base: approx. 30 cm. Built c. 1970. (© Pino Trogu. Photo: Giorgio Cireddu.)
Fig. 1. (A) Aristotle's lantern, shown inside the urchin's test, or shell, a; five auricles, b, form the support structure to which the lantern is attached. The white lines represent some of the muscles connecting the lantern to the shell: protractor muscles c and retractor muscles d contribute to the lantern's opening and closing. (B) Scarpa's hand holding specimens of a shell and lantern, as seen in a 1994 video [35]. (C) Detail of lantern still attached to shell. (D) Front view of Scarpa's original model, circa 1970. (© Pino Trogu. Photos C and D: Giorgio Cireddu.)
Fig. 2. (A) Upside-down sea urchin, the five teeth visible in the middle. (B) Close-up view of the underside membrane and teeth. (C) Sea urchin's teeth, in closed position, with diagram showing their partial overlap. (© Pino Trogu. Photos B and C: Giorgio Cireddu.)
Fig. 3. (A) In Scarpa's model, pushing down the central prism causes the jaws a to open and the teeth b to slide forward. (B-D) Underside view of the model in various stages of opening. (E) Diagram of system at rest. (F) Downward pressure of prism c causes hinged spoke e to push jaw a laterally, while smaller spoke d pulls string f through a hole in spoke e. The string is attached to tooth b, which moves forward as a result. (G) Replica of prism and jaw system. The compass g and rotula h are visible above the jaw. (H) Lantern's replica in fully opened position. (© Pino Trogu. Photos A-D: Giorgio Cireddu.)
Fig. 4. (A) Jelínek's crown cutter a at rest. The cutter surrounds a 2-mm-diameter fiber-optic bundle (not shown) for in situ optical analysis of tissue b. (B-C) Intermediate and final stage of crown closing [36]. (D) "Final manufactured steerable opto-mechanical biopsy harvester prototype."(© Filip Jelínek. Illustrations A-C redrawn by Pino Trogu, after Jelínek [37]. Photo D: Filip Jelínek, courtesy of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and the Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology, Wiener Neustadt, Austria [38]. Illustrations and photo used by permission.)
Fig. 5. Giorgio Scarpa's collection of seeds on his workshop desk in Castel Bolognese, Italy, 2002. (© Pino Trogu)
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Color plate B. A-C and E-G: Still frames from a video showing the opening and closing of the sea urchin's mouth and of the ground sampler prototype built by Frank et al. [reference 39 in article]. D and H: Side views of the prototype in open and closed position [reference 40]. (© Michael Frank. Illustrations: Michael Frank and Taylor Wirth, courtesy of the University of California, San Diego. Sea urchin photos: Yoshihiro Sawada. Used by permission.)
Leonardo Journal, MIT Press 52.2, 2019.
Trogu, Pino. "Giorgio Scarpa's Model of a Sea Urchin Inspires New Instrumentation", Leonardo 52.2 MIT Press, 2019, pp. 146-151. doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01384
Abstract: Giorgio Scarpa (1938-2012) was an Italian designer, artist and teacher who worked in bionics, topology and rotational geometry. This article describes Scarpa's bionic model of "Aristotle's Lantern" the mouth of the sea urchin. The technical literature on Echinoidea lacks a detailed study of its remarkable mouth mechanism. Scarpa's model is the only known analysis and physical analogue of the mechanism. It is a striking example of geometrical analysis and craftsmanship, bridging science and art. Built in the early 1970s and described in 1985 in Modelli di Bionica, his model has inspired designs for a biopsy harvester and for a mini-rover to collect soil samples on Mars.
"Leonardo is the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and, increasingly, the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology."
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Indiana man free on bond in child molestation case accused of molesting disabled man
09/15/2020 9:49 am PDT
Scott Delaney was booked on charges of rape and sexual battery on Sept. 9.
via WXIN:
MADISON COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) -- A Yorktown man awaiting trial for a January Grant County child molestation case was arrested on rape and sexual battery charges last week.
A probable cause affidavit states that Delaney was working for a Muncie company providing services for the family of a 32-year-old man with Down Syndrome.
Delaney had only been working with the victim for a couple of weeks when the victim reportedly told his mother that Delaney touched him in a sexual manner several times.
Delaney denied the allegations during an interview with Madison County sheriff's deputies on Sept. 9. Delaney was arrested, handcuffed and walked over to the jail on charges of rape and sexual battery. Delaney’s trial for child molestation was originally set for August 24, but was rescheduled until January 25.
The Anderson Herald Bulletin reports the victim's family said he indicated Delaney was touching him inside his shirt, pants and on his legs, and said Delaney would fondle him with his pants down while the two were seated in the front of Delaney’s truck.
Delaney was arrested in January in Grant County on a felony charge of child molesting for fondling or touching someone under the age of 14, the Herald Bulletin reports. He was released after posting a surety bond of $20,000 in Grant County.
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Vince Gill, Kenny Rogers and a handful of country music's top stars have all signed on to perform on the inaugural Country Music Cruise, a country-themed ocean liner that will set sail through the Caribbean in early 2014.
“Country music fans are in for something really special,” Vince Gill promises of his future voyage (quote via Webster & Associates). “Not only will they get to experience a luxurious ocean cruise, but they can enjoy exclusive concerts by country music’s iconic superstars."
Rogers is equally as enthusiastic about his participation. "The cruise is destined to become a vacation destination in the years to come," says the country music living legend. "I couldn’t be more excited about performing on the Country Music Cruise and being a part of a vacation that my fans will never forget."
Jo Dee Messina, Ronnie Milsap, Patty Loveless, Jamie O'Neal, Andy Griggs, Wade Hayes, Bryan White, the Warren Brothers, Restless Heart, Ty Herndon and Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers will all join Gill and Rogers as exclusive performers on the Country Music Cruise. Television personality Lorraine Crook will also make an appearance to give the event even more star power.
Cabins are available now at the cruise website. Early rates begin at $1,925 per person and include all meals, concerts, entertainment and on-board activities.
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Fitbit’s new Versa is a $199 fitness tracker for the Apple Watch crowd
by Napier Lopez — in Insider
It’s no secret Fitbit was gunning for some of the Apple Watch’s growing market when it released the Ionic last year – its first attempt at a proper smartwatch. By all indications it was a only a mild success, so now the company is at it again with the new Fitbit Versa.
So how do you better compete against the Apple Watch? You can bring down the price, for one – the Fitbit Versa starts at $199, compared to the Ionic’s $300. You can also try making it a lot more like the Apple Watch.
At least aesthetically, anyway. The Versa’s software is the same as on the Ionic, but the design is major departure – and a welcome one. Compared to the old blockiness of the Ionic and the Blaze (Fitbit’s proto-smartwatch), wearing the Versa is a welcome relief.
The casing has a soft, ‘squircular’ shape that lies gently on the wrist; the underside is also smoothly tapered to make it feel surprisingly thin. Fitbit says it’s the lightest metal smartwatch on the market, and I have no reason to doubt it. It’s also no secret that Fitbit was aiming to capture more women with the Versa – men apparently account for 60 percent of smartwatch sales.
Color-wise, the casing comes in silver, graphite, and rose gold options. The latter two colors are also available in a ‘Special Edition’ variant that costs $30 more. This model includes an NFC chip for the Americas (the rest of the world has NFC by default), and throws in a sleek woven band in addition to the standard silicone.
Of course, there are a multitude of official accessories, including a new set of steel links and mesh bands. Fitbit is also partnering with design house PH5 for a new woven accessory line.
New to the Versa is also a female health tracking feature that helps women log their periods, record symptoms, track ovulations and notice patterns within their cycles. It’s a major improvement women have been asking from Fitbit for ages, but it won’t be available until the summer. Presumably, it will also come to the Ionic via a firmware update.
Otherwise, it’s mostly the same features as the Ionic. The watch is water-resistant to 50 meters, features 24/7 heart-rate tracking, and is still powered by FitBit OS and its growing litany of apps. It only falls behind the Ionic slightly in battery life (“four-plus days” compared to five), and in lacking built in GPS (it must be connected to your phone to track your runs). And again, you need to pay a little extra for NFC in the US.
For $70-$100 less, I suspect those are compromises most people can live with, and I suspect the Versa will promptly outsell the Ionic.. Everyday consumers will often simply shop with their eyes, and I think it’s hard to argue the Versa isn’t better looking than the Ionic – or any Fitbit with a large display. On that front, at least, I’d call the Versa a clear success, but we’ll have to spend more time with it before we can say more.
Finally, Fitbit is also introducing a tracker for kids called the Ace. It goes for $99 and is basically a revamped Fitbit Alta made for the smaller wrists and health needs of children eight years old and above.
That means sleep tracking is tuned to suggest 60 minutes of exercise per day (instead of 30), or 9-12 hours of sleep (instead of 7 or so). There’s also an added emphasis on challenges for kids to have fun with, while parents can keep track of what their kids are doing via their own apps. You can read more about the Ace here.
Both devices are available to pre-order today; the Versa will ship in April, while the Ace will be available sometime in Q2. We’ll be spending more time with the devices before our final verdict. Stay tuned.
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Zara Made A Bold Commitment To Sustainability. Is It Greenwashing?
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From Burberry to Gucci, luxury brands are seemingly making a commitment to sustainability. The difference is Zara has worked on sustainability initiatives for almost a decade.
Zara’s Track Record and New Commitments
In 2012, Zara pledged to remove all hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 2020. Later, in 2016, Zara launched an eco-friendly line, titled ‘Join Life.’ The line featured organic cotton, recycled wool, forest-friendly wood fiber, and more.
Just Tuesday, the company stepped it up.
It told Vogue that it would make all of its collections from sustainable fabrics by the year 2025. Additionally, The Guardian reported that Zara would power 80% of the power required by its headquarters with renewable energy sources.
But Is Zara Greenwashing?
Though these seem like noble goals, there is reason to believe that Zara is greenwashing, or portraying itself to be greener than it actually is. A quick glance at the company’s annual reports page yields the conclusion that the company hasn’t released a sustainability report since 2004.
Though the company did include sustainability in its 2017 annual report, the topic only grazed 2 pages out of 388. That begs the question: does Zara actually prioritize sustainability these days or it is just a show?
Further, unlike companies like Starbucks that publish data on their sustainability progress, Zara seems to have no indication of it. As mentioned, its 2012 promises are to be delivered in 2020. So far, consumers and analysts have been left in the dark to wonder just how far the company is from reaching its targets.
And to recall H&M’s greenwashing snafu, Zara’s newest announcements have an uncanny resemblance. With vague and drawn-out promises, the company really doesn’t give the public a chance to verify its claims.
Conclusions: And Next Steps for Zara
The obvious next step for the company is to actually deliver on its promises — to actually make all of its clothes from sustainable fabrics and to rid its supply chain of harmful chemicals. But perhaps more importantly, the company should publish data that contextualizes how it’s doing on its sustainability goals.
Part of making an audience believe that you’re committed to something is allowing that audience to verify your claims. That would be impossible without a sustainability report (or a greater emphasis on sustainability in the company’s annual reports).
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Zara already has an edge when it comes to sustainability. It adopted sustainability initiatives much earlier than most high fashion brands. That is, it has a track record of caring about the environment far before consumers genuinely cared about sustainability in their buying decisions. For instance, Burberry incinerated over $38 million in clothing for supply control. After consumers and pundits called the company out, it announced new sustainability initiatives.
Zara doesn’t have a PR nightmare like this to deal with.
Empirically, it’s even been praised for its sustainability initiatives. But to keep up the pace, Zara must publish data and be transparent about what’s really going on under the hood.
Update: Burberry’s PR team has since reached out to us questioning our claim that the company announced sustainability initiatives after consumers and pundits called the company out. We have since made a change to say the company announced new initiatives.
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A South American concept in East London
By samambaia
When Renata Tolentino left Brazil and moved to London, she felt the need to carry a piece of her country with her.
With no particular plan in mind, she spoke with designer friends and asked for samples of their work to take along. She collected unique pieces that reflected the culture and people of the city where she grew up and traveled with a suitcase filled with crafts, knowing she would come up with a space for them in her new life.
A year later, ‘The Samambaia’ was born. A marketplace for South American designs in the UK, featuring its most iconic and authentic materials. Its first retail spot was the Broadway Market in East London, with all its eclectic mixture of styles and cultures. Then, the project went online following the initial motivation of taking the concept further.
All of the products are carefully made out of local materials such as gemstones from Rio Grande du Sul, wood from the Atlantic Forest, essential oil and soya wax from Sao Paulo, leather from Argentinean Pampas and wool from the Patagonia, that in the hands of innovative designers become unique pieces.
“Our mission is to promote talented South American artisans and celebrate their art and techniques, encouraging fair trade and responsibly sourced products,” says Renata.
‘Samambaia’ is the Portuguese word for the plant Fern, which grows naturally in every balcony and terrace in Brazil. The project supports the spirit of that plant: to let local crafts and autochthonous materials expand and take over new territories.
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Clint Worthington January 13, 2021 Movies, Reviews
“Outside the Wire” is a droning, ideologically confused sci-fi thriller
Outside the Wire (Netflix)
The Netflix Action Movie Industrial Complex continues unabated with a deeply mediocre military thriller that can’t get a handle on its lukewarm critique of drones.
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Netflix has really made a play in recent years to corner the high-concept action movie market: Extraction, The Old Guard, 6 Underground, Project Power et al. feel like they fill the algorithm’s innate need to fill the John Wick-sized hole in the moviegoing public’s diet. It’s that sweet spot that Outside the Wire is unabashedly trying to fill: sci-fi concepts right out of Black Mirror blended with brutal, highly-choreographed fight sequences. The trouble is, despite (or, more precisely, because of) its military sci-fi premise, Mikael Håfström‘s (1408) latest crumbles under its own sociopolitical weight.
The setting: 2036, where a civil war in Eastern Europe has broken out and an increasingly roboticized US military has (natch) come in to play “peacekeeper” in a demilitarized zone that comprises former Ukraine. As a confusingly-stylized map shows us, the military is there to defend Ukraine from the Krasnys, a fictionalized military group led by a mysterious leader named Viktor Koval (Pilou Asbæk, aka “That Asshole From the Final Season of Game of Thrones“). Sure, that means troops on the ground (and Chappie-like security bots called Gumps), but they’re also defended by drones, one of which is piloted by rookie Lieutenant Harp (Damson Idris) from halfway across the world. After a bad call ends up getting wounded soldiers killed, he’s sent to the front lines himself as part of an initiative to familiarize him with the people he’s meant to defend, up close and personal. “It’s a bullshit pass for pilots who fuck up,” Colonel Eckhart (Michael Kelly) clarifies.
His assignment? To play second fiddle to Captain Leo (Anthony Mackie), who turns out to be a fourth-generation android with lightning-fast reflexes, a killer instinct, and a transparent carapace under that tight-fitting shirt. He’s on a special operations mission to track down Koval and stop him from stealing some old Russian nukes, and Harp is coming along for the ride.
OUTSIDE THE WIRE, Damson Idris as Harp, Emily Beecham as Sofiya in OUTSIDE THE WIRE. Cr. Jonathan Prime/NETFLIX © 2020
In concept, Outside the Wire borrows a great deal from its influences: it’s a modern military thriller of the Black Hawk Down mold, which screenwriters Rowan Athale and Rob Yescombe augment with iconography from Children of Men, District 9, and Ex Machina. But it struggles to do much outside of those influences: its tale of Russian warlords and stolen nukes is as pat as can be, and its pinballing philosophies regarding military conflict don’t much extend beyond “drones bad” – a correct assessment, to be sure, but one that lacks a lot of nuance.
It doesn’t help, honestly, that the script constantly toys with our (and Harp’s) understanding of Leo’s motivations. He’s a sentient android, but one beholden to a certain set of rules: he’s a ruthless killing machine, but can never fully go off the leash. He’s seemingly loyal to the mission of stopping the bad guys, but will also go off-script to torture some folks, or collaborate with a resistance leader (Emily Beecham) to accomplish his objectives. Leo’s programmed to feel emotion, and explicitly says he was given a Black face as a psyop — “it conveys neutrality.” (The film doesn’t explain why this is so.)
It’s a shame, too, because the film’s best moments are when Mackie and Idris simply get to interact, and they build an intriguing buddy-soldier dynamic. Mackie’s really made bank as an action star of late, but I’m really fascinated by his recent turn towards roles that cast him as more than human: his season as a body-swapped vigilante in Altered Carbon, a time-traveling paramedic in Synchronic, and this. Hell, even the Falcon treads similar ground. He throws himself into the role here, as well, a swaggering lead with no small amount of intensity with glimmers of humor, which makes his status as an android just as uncanny to us as it is to Harp.
The film wants to have its Black Mirror cake and eat it too.
Idris, to his credit, is a winsome presence once the exposition-heavier first act ends and he can loosen up a bit. He’s consistently out of his element, a rookie thrown into one dangerous situation after another, finally seeing the consequences of the combat he usually sees from the other side of a screen. That particular lesson is laid on a little thick (especially in one late-film montage), but Idris reads as realistically cautious and vulnerable compared to the loose-cannon Mackie.
If Outside the Wire had stuck to its initial premise — using Mackie’s android as a clean metaphor for the destructive, impersonal nature of combat drones — and wrestled with it, that could have made a decent enough romp, squicky War on Terror iconography aside. The idea of a weapon of war that can feel is an intriguing one, especially when paired with someone who needs an in-person reminder of the immediacy of war after waging so much of it from a safe distance.
OUTSIDE THE WIRE, Anthony Mackie as Leo, Damson Idris as Harp, in OUTSIDE THE WIRE. Cr. Jonathan Prime/NETFLIX © 2020
But the film wants to have its Black Mirror cake and eat it too, as Leo begins to display increasingly erratic behavior that causes Harp to question his trust in his superior. Is Leo a sentient soldier whose programmed emotions lead him to become a Dirty Harry-like loose cannon to get the job done? Or is his emotional intelligence a mask to hide more sinister intentions? Mackie plays both sides of the fence well enough, but the film itself toys with one too many fakeouts about Leo’s true nature that the moral gets muddled.
The half-baked nature of its sci-fi allegory would be better tolerated if the film were a tight, well-staged action film. But Hafstrom’s action isn’t well-staged or inventive enough to really sell the promise of its premise. Quick cuts and jittery camerawork fumble the fancy footwork Mackie performs as a hyper-competent robot, and some of Leo’s more interesting moves get obscured by these fleshy edits. And the bombed-out, amber-and-grey-and-gunmetal color palette doesn’t help, especially when it’s obscured by plumes of fog and barely-lit corridors. Similarly obfuscated is its supporting cast, as Asbæk, Kelly, and Beecham get little to do but spout exposition and act as avatars for their respective factions.
In the end, Outside the Wire just can’t justify its weighty two-hour runtime, and distracts itself with all the ho-hum action theatrics such that it can’t focus on its strengths: the thematic weight of its premise, and its two game leads. With a few more passes, there could be an intriguing critique of the destructive consequences of the US military apparatus in the War on Terror, as well as the use of drone warfare to gamify armed conflict. But as is, Netflix’s latest can’t land on a position, and ends up missing its target by a fair distance.
Outside the Wire straps into the drone pilot seat on Netflix January 15th.
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The PEIWG Weekly 8-14 July edition
Posted by Cindy on July 8, 2012
THE PEIWG WEEKLY
8-14 July 2012
Enjoy your summer!
Welcome to the PEIWG Weekly Bulletin! This is published and circulated through the PEIWG mailing list. It contains announcements of events in PEI, around Canada and the rest of the world, that may be of interest to the members of the PEI Writers’ Guild and to PEIWG mailing list subscribers. In all cases, please check out the links as information is subject to change. Please exercise caution and your best judgment when sending money or information to unknown sources.
If you want to share any announcements, articles, interesting or useful links that you think other subscribers will be interested in, send them to mimrlith@yahoo.com; this weekly is sent out on Sunday or Monday every week, so please do not send announcements that need to be sent out immediately.
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PEI LOCAL
On Saturday July 14 at 2:00 pm best-selling author, Lesley Crewe, will be signing and reading from her book, “Her Mother’s Daughter” at the Confederation Centre Public Library. Crewe is also the author of “Hit and Mrs”, “Ava Comes Home”, “Shoot Me”, and “Relative Happiness”, which was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. Crewe has been a freelance writer and columnist for Cape Bretoner magazine. Her new novel, Kin, will be coming in the Fall.
For additional info, visit http://lesleycrewe.wordpress.com/bio/
Fierce Shorts
Fierce Ink Press is a new publishing label that publishes young adult books by Atlantic Canadian authors. Along with full-length books we will also be publishing Fierce Shorts, creative non-fiction pieces (5,000 to 10,00 words) about all things teen. Part of the proceeds from the sale of our Fierce Shorts will go to a local teen related charity of the author’s choice.
We are currently open to submissions for our Fierce Shorts. To get all the information you need check out our website, http://fierceinkpress.com/, where you will find our submission guide.
If you think you have a great idea for a Fierce Short, we’d love to hear from you!
About Fierce Ink Press:
Fierce Ink Press Co-op Ltd. is dedicated to producing high quality books of fiction and short non-fiction pieces by Atlantic Canadian authors who write for young adults.
Website: http://fierceinkpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FierceInkPress
Twitter: @FierceInkPress
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Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/FierceInkPress
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] FOR CHILDREN ]
at the Macphail Homestead
Saturday mornings, 9 a.m. to 12 noon
August 18 and August 25, 2012
Nature-Inspired Writing Workshop for Children ages 10-12
facilitated by children’s author Deirdre Kessler
Description: Explore nature-based writing in the beautiful setting of the Macphail Homestead. Participants will write a number of short pieces as they explore nature and their response to it during this three-hour workshop.
Weather permitting, we will spend some of the workshop outdoors and some of it in the Macphail Woods Ecological Project Nature Centre. Participants will complete writing exercises that call on them to create fiction, nonfiction, life writing, and poetry on the spot.
Supplies needed: notebook and pencil, non-disposable water bottle, and bug repellent if bugs are a bother.
Where: Meet in the Great Room of the Macphail Homestead in Orwell, Prince Edward Island (google a map).
Cost: $20 ($30 for two members of same family)
To reserve a space, contact Deirdre Kessler:
kessler@upei.ca; tel. 902-892-6334
Please note that the Macphail Tea Room serves light lunches
for under $10. Have lunch after the workshop.
http://www.macphailhomestead.ca/
] FOR ADULTS ]
Saturday afternoons, 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Nature-Inspired Writing Workshop for Adults
facilitated by Deirdre Kessler, poet and author of fiction and nonfiction
Description: Explore nature-based writing in the beautiful setting of the Macphail Homestead. See how fiction, poetry, and life writing can begin with a sense of place and with close observation of the natural world.
Even imaginative places most often begin with geography, with landscape, with real flora and real fauna. Through timed exercises developed by an accomplished teacher, participants will write short pieces in a number of genres as they explore nature and their response to it during the workshop. Writers at all levels of experience are welcome.
for under $10. Have lunch before the workshop.
ARTS EAST
Interested writers from the Atlantic Maritimes are invited to write for Stephen Patrick Clare’s new ARTS EAST e-magazine and website.
Assignments may include CD/book reviews, interviews or coverage of music, drama, visual art, mixed media, etc. events.
Ideal for writers and aspiring journalists who are trying to gain experience and have a published on-line byline, media tickets and similar perks as compensation.
Interested writers can e-mail Michelle Brunet or Stephen Clare at novamedia@gmail.com
PEI Women Writers’ Bootcamp
September 14-16. This will be an amazing opportunity for women to come together and share the creative process of writing.
For more information, contact Susan Buchanan at eveningprimrose@xplornet.com
Piper’s Frith: Writing at Kilmory Resort
October 22-27, 2012 – Newfoundland
Emerging and mid-level career adult writers are invited to apply to join faculty Michael Crummey, Don McKay and Lisa Moore for small-group workshops and one-on-one explorations of your writing. Social evenings, readings and a spectacular setting enhance the intensive Piper’s Frith five-day experience.
Kilmory Resort is nestled in the Piper’s Hole River Valley amidst the wildness of Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula, about a two hours drive from St. John’s.
The cost is $685 (Cdn) including all program fees, meals, accommodations and social events. Deadline to apply is August 14, 2012.
To learn more and to apply: www.literaryartsnl.com
New contest! The Literary Arts Foundation is sponsoring the 2012 Riddle Fence fiction contest. First prize: all-expense paid participation in Piper’s Frith! Learn more at www.riddlefence.com
Plenitude Magazine
Although submissions are ongoing, we recommend submitting before July 10, 2012 to be considered for publication in Issue 1.
About Plenitude Magazine
Plenitude Magazine aims to promote the growth and development of LGBTQ literature through a biannual publication of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative and short film by both emerging and established LGBTQ writers.
We define queer literature and arts as works created by LGBTQ people, rather than works which feature queer content alone. That said, we recognise that Plenitudereaders are hungry for exceptional work that reflects queer histories, cultures, experiences, and sensibilities. We consider every submission with critical analyses, sometimes turning to an advisory editorial board of writers, academics, and community advocates.
Plenitude aims to complicate expressions of queerness through the publication of diverse, sophisticated literary writing, graphic narrative and short film, from the very subtle to the brash and unrelenting.
We are not interested in genre writing, political essays, or rants. We are only interested in literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative and short film at this time. If you are interested in writing political essays, or other critical analyses, please contact us about contributing to our blog – we would love to hear from you.
Fiction: Please send up to 2 stories per submission, double spaced, paginated, 12 point font, maximum 8,000 words per story.
Nonfiction: Please send up to 2 pieces per submission, double spaced, paginated, 12 point font, maximum 8,000 words per piece.
Poetry: Please send up to 10 pages of poetry, single spaced, paginated, 12 point font.
Graphic Narrative: Please send up to 10 pages of graphic narrative.
Film: Please send us short film of no more than 10 minutes.
Email submissions to editor@plenitudemagazine.ca. Please place cover letter with your name, contact information, name of piece(s), and brief bio in the body of the email. Please title the files with your name, followed by name of piece. For example “ROUTLEY, ANDREA – HABITAT”
Attach text submissions as BOTH docx AND PDF file; this is to ensure we are seeing what you are seeing (especially for poetry submissions).
Attach graphic submissions as JPG or PNG files, bounding volume of 1600 x 1600, 96 ppi.
Attach short film as Quicktime movie file with H264 compression, or send us a link.
All unsolicited submissions should be unpublished, original works.
We accept simultaneous submissions; in the event that your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let us know right away.
We are still working out our budget and confirming sponsors, so pay is still to be determined right now. We will let you know our rates as soon as we can!
Plenitude Magazine buys first serial rights; copyright remains with the author/creator.
Tupelo Press July Open Reading Period
Postmark between July 1 and July 31
Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (30-47 pages). Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad). Include a cover page with the title of your manuscript, your name, address, phone number and email address. There is a reading fee of $28 for each manuscript submitted. Multiple submissions are accepted, so long as each submission is accompanied by a separate $28 reading fee. Manuscripts that have been submitted during this open reading period (July 2012) may not be revised and submitted again unless they are accompanied by an additional $28 reading fee. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Our online submission manager will be accepting poetry manuscripts between July 1 and July 31, 2012. We also accept manuscripts via postal mail. Your manuscript must be postmarked between July 1 and July 31, 2012 and sent to: Open Submissions, Tupelo Press, P.O. Box 1767, North Adams, MA 01247.
You may also include any or all of the following: a self-addressed stamped postcard for acknowledgment of receipt of your manuscript, a self-addressed stamped envelope for results notification, an acknowledgments page listing previously published poems.
Read the complete guidelines before submitting your manuscript:http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php
And read about the July 2011 open reading results as well as other past winners of Tupelo contests at:
http://www.tupelopress.org/prizewinners2011.php#july_open
Here is a poem by Geri Doran, author of Sanderlings (Tupelo Press, 2011), who first came to Tupelo Press through the July Open Reading Period. The book has since been named a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. For more information about Sanderlings and Tupelo’s other 100+ titles, please visit our website: http://www.tupelopress.org/
Leaf Press Anthology: Newborns
Leaf Press is gathering poems for an anthology about the newly born, the almost born, the journey in-between. We are interested in thresholds and liminal states; in moments that transcend global cultures. We welcome poems from all the continents, asking only that they be accompanied by a translation to English. We may be able to help, in some instances, with translations.
Please send your poem to:
poems@leafpress.ca
Subject Line: Newborns
or to:
Leaf Press
Lantzville, B.C.
Canada V0R 2H0
We will accept poems that have been previously published. Poets must provide this information (publication, publishing house and date) as well as permission for us to reprint.
Leaf plans to publish the anthology in Spring 2014.
Anthology Editors: Ann Graham Walker and Ursula Vaira
Selected poets will be paid a fee of $50.00 CAD plus a copy of the book.
Welcome to Carpe Articulum Literary Review!
Carpe Articulum is an international, cross-genre literary review that challenges the traditional format of black and white. CALR seeks to dissolve the interdisciplinary, divisive boundaries and to embrace a wider audience in love with the written word, beautiful photography and a desire to connect with a global community of like-minded people. Scientists, Writers, Journalists, Actors, Homemakers, Artists, Human Rights Activists, Photographers and others from all cultures and walks of life have a place to meet here at CALR. We make a special effort to promote the work of emergent artists in every issue. People who might never have met, find kinship and camaraderie in the unity of the pen. They can experience and touch one another’s lives so that oceans of divide are united by the single turn of a page. The egalitarian nature of the written word, photography, and an accessible literary program make all of this possible.
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WORLD PROPOSAL CHAMPIONSHIPS SUBMISSIONS CALL
The World Proposal Championships aim to recognize and promote proposal writing excellence and to help fundraisers learn, by example, what it takes to create a winning proposal. In November 2002, Metasoft Systems hosted the first ever World Proposal Championships. The competition was a great success, with hundreds of proposals received from around the world. The second World Proposal Championship launched on September 2007 again with great success and submissions from organizations in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The top proposal by Boat People SOS was awarded the grand prize of $5,000 and the top 100 proposals were included in the online showcase of winning proposals. This year, $20,000 in prizes will be awarded to the top winning proposals. In addition, we will recognize the top proposals in their respective categories and the top 100 proposals will be showcased online for the world to see.
Who Can Enter? Any proposal that has successfully secured a grant for a non-for-profit or charitable organization within the last two years from a foundation, corporation or government body is eligible for submission. An organization may submit an unlimited number of proposals, however only one prize will be awarded per organization.
The deadline for submission is 12:00 (noon) PST, November 1, 2012.
http://bigdatabase.com/big-html/nonsecure/wpc/wpwc_eligibility.asp
BYWORDS.CA SUBMISSION CALL
DEADLINE: July 15 for the August issue
Bywords.ca considers previously unpublished poetry from emerging and established poets for our online monthly magazine. We consider work by current and former residents, students and workers of Ottawa. We also publish poems by contributors to our predecessor, the Bywords Monthly Magazine. FOR SUBMISSION INFORMATION VISIT www.bywords.ca and click on Guidelines. Amanda Earl, Managing Editor
Adams Media Romance Guidelines
Our new direct-to-ebook romance imprint is launching soon! We’re open to romance submissions in five popular subgenres: romantic suspense, contemporary, paranormal, historical, and erotic romance.
Within those subgenres, we are flexible about what happens. It’s romance, so there must be a happily-ever-after, but we’re open to how your characters get there. You won’t come up against preconceived ideas about what can or can’t happen in romance or what kind of characters you can or can’t have. Our only rule is everyone has to be a consenting adult. Other than that, we’re looking for smart, savvy heroines, fresh voices, and new takes on old favorite themes.
We’re looking for full-length novels, and while we prefer to work on the shorter end of the spectrum (50,000 words, give or take), we’re not going to rule you out because you go shorter or longer.
If you have a finished novel you’d like for us to consider, please just drop editor Jennifer Lawler a line at editorcrimson@gmail.com with a brief description of your work-please, no attachments until I know you’re not a spambot. That’s it! I’ll get back to you as quickly as I can-within a few days for queries and within a few weeks if I request a full.
Prime Research on Education
http://www.primejournal.org/PRE
Prime Research on Education (PRE) is a peer-reviewed and open access journal that publishes manuscripts monthly. Manuscripts are being published monthly by PRIME JOURNALS via our website, http://www.primejournal.org/PRE).
PRE is committed to upgrade the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. Follow the above link to view our current issue.
PRE encompasses all areas of Prime Research on Education. Manuscripts that meet the general criteria of could be submitted for publication. The criteria includes: Original articles in basic and applied research, Case studies and Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays.
Kindly support this initiative by sending your manuscripts to PRE.primejournals@gmail.com or PRE@primejournal.org
PRE is an Open Access Journal
One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader “without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to reproduce and distribute content. PRE is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon as they are published.
Trisha Omizu
E-mail: PRE.primejournals@gmail.com, PRE@primejournals.org
http://www.primejournals.org/PRE
DEADLINE JULY 31 FOR THE FIRST ISSUE
Founded in May 2012, Brusque is a new online poetry magazine that will be published bi-monthly. Each issue will be relatively brief, featuring poems from 3-5 poets. Brusque aims to shake up the literary magazine submissions process by promising honest and at times belligerent responses to poetry submissions. Poetry acceptances need more flattery and rejections need more snark. Expect responses ranging from “This poem is so beautiful it makes me weep” to”Meh” to “Reading this poem makes me want a cartoon anvil to pulverize my skull.”
Submit by July 31st to have your work considered for Brusque’s inaugural issue, scheduled to come out in September 2012. Publication will be highly selective. Submission instructions are at:
http://www.brusquemagazine.com/submissions.html
The Travel Itch
The travel itch is an irresistible on-line read and the next best thing
to experiencing Canada and the world firsthand. It offers fresh Canadian perspectives on travel that entertain and inform while agitating the itch to go. We are hunting for original travel articles from blossoming and bloomed Canadian writers about their travel experiences at home or abroad. We’re also seeking gripping travel images and film, book and restaurant reviews.
Submission guidelines are at
http://www.thetravelitch.com/pages/submissions.html.
GEIST EMERGING WRITER OF THE MONTH
An enlightened online space for new writers to test-drive their work.
How it works: Emerging writers are invited to submit short written works online. Geist chooses and publishes one piece each month on a dedicated web page. Geist readers and like-minded people are then invited to comment on the featured work.
Canadian students enrolled in secondary or post-secondary courses and/or writing workshops are eligible.
The writer should have no more than 2 short works published in established print or online magazines, books or websites. (Blogs, zines and in-house school publications are exempt.)
For full details: http://www.geist.com/gewm
Summarize This! Twitter Contest
Do you think you can write concisely and precisely?
Develop your writing skills by
participating in our Summarize This!
Twitter contest.
We are giving you a chance to prove it!
Summarize This! is a monthly contest that requires you to tweet a summary of our featured topic.
The first day of every month at 11 AM, we will announce the topic of the week. Entrants must write a 140-character-or-less tweet, mention @Scribendi_Inc, and summarize the topic of the week. The contest closes the last day of the month at 11 AM.
You may choose one of the following prize options:
3000 words of free editing*
A Scribendi swag bag (including goft shirt, giant red pencil, and a baseball cap)
$75 Amazon (or acceptable alternative) gift card
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Writers’ Trust of Canada (The)
Lucrative award for books of fiction published in Canada during the calendar year by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. Deadline varies depending on when your book was published during the year. Must be submitted by publisher.
Prose Contest
Published Prose Book: Novel or short story collection
Prize is awarded once a year, but there are three deadlines depending on when the book was published. Books published between October 1 and April 3 must be received by April 4; those published between April 4 and June 5 must be received by June 6; and those published between June 6 and September 30 must be received by August 1. (New schedule for 2012; former deadlines were April 13, June 15, and August 10).
Publishers are strongly encouraged to submit books prior to the deadlines. Submissions upon release of titles are appreciated.
Top Award:
C$25,000
Other Awards:
Three to five shortlisted books receive C$2,500 each
Writers’ Trust of Canada (The)
200 – 90 Richmond Street East
Toronto, Ontario M5C 1P1
Amanda Hopkins
info@writerstrust.com
Eligible:
Eligible: Translations into English published during the prize year will be accepted; prize will be split with 2/3 going to the author and 1/3 to the translator
Postal Mail Only
Authors must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. Books must have been published in Canada during the year in which the deadline falls. All books must have an ISBN number and be available in Canadian bookstores.
Must be submitted by publisher. No more than two authors per book; no self-published or ghostwritten books; books whose author was deceased at the time of publication are not eligible; no more than 20% of the book may have been previously published in book form in any language.
Titles must be published in Canada between October 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012. Books that are not yet in final published form by the final deadline of August 1, 2012 may be submitted in page-proof form.
All Canadian-based publishers of original manuscripts may enter two books. Companies publishing more than two eligible fiction titles during the calendar year may add one book for every additional two eligible (or fraction thereof) on their fiction list, up to a maximum of five. For example, a publisher with a list of eight qualifying fiction books would be entitled to submit four — two for the first five, one for the next two, and one for the final book. Please note that the rules regarding the number of submissions differ for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize from all other prizes administered by the Writers’ Trust.
Finalists must agree to provide the Trust with 15 additional book copies, affix stickers to books, participate in promotion and publicity efforts, and commit resources, in accordance to their ability, so that finalists can attend the International Festival of Authors in Toronto in October.
Guidelines URL:
http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Rogers-Writers–Trust-Fiction-Prize/PrizeHistoryandGuidelines/Prize-Guidelines.aspx
Publishers should submit 5 copies of the book. Books that are not yet in final published form by the final deadline of August 1, 2012 may be submitted in page-proof form. Include a press kit with author bio and publicity materials, and a completed entry form (email info@writerstrust.com for a copy). On or before August 1, 2012, the publisher must submit a list of all titles published during the 2012 calendar year on which that publisher’s eligibility is based. This list should include authors, titles, and dates of publication. Publishers should also provide electronic images of the author and book cover suitable for reproduction in print materials. Please forward images toahopkins@writerstrust.com
Per Entrant:
One Submission per Entrant
Winners Notified:
Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Non-Fiction Prize
Lucrative award for nonfiction books published in Canada between January and September of the current year by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. Deadline varies depending on whether your book was published in the first or second half of the year. Translations eligible. Must be submitted by publisher. Formerly known as the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, changed name in 2011.
Published Prose Book: Nonfiction
Books published after September 30, 2012 will be eligible for the 2013 awards.
In 2011, the prize was renamed to recognize sponsorship from the Hon. Hilary Weston that created the largest annual prize for a book of nonfiction published in Canada.
Eligible: Translations into English published during the prize year will be accepted; prize will be split 75% to the author and 25% to the translator
All Canadian-based publishers of original manuscripts may enter two books; companies publishing more than ten eligible non-fiction titles may add one book for every additional ten eligible books (or fraction thereof) on their non-fiction list, up to a maximum of five.
For example, a publisher with a list of 22 qualifying non-fiction books would be entitled to submit four — two for the first ten, one for the next ten, and one for the final two books.
If a book is chosen as a finalist, the publisher will agree to: supply the Writers’ Trust with 15 additional copies of the short-listed book for publicity, affix stickers provided by the Writers’ Trust to finalist books and the winning book, participate in promotion and publicity efforts and stress the importance of these with their authors.
‘Literary nonfiction includes, among other forms, works of personal or journalistic essays, memoirs, commentary, criticism both social and political, history, and biography. Finalist works will demonstrate a distinctive voice, as well as a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style, and technique. The overall effect of such writing should provide the general reader with an informed, unique perspective on the issue at hand.’
What to Submit:
5 copies of published book (or 3 bound galleys, to be followed by at least 2 copies of the book), press kit, entry form, list of titles published by publisher, electronic images of author and book cover suitable for reproduction. As of 2012, publishers are invited to submit books electronically IN ADDITION TO hard copies. Contact Program Manager for instructions on uploading e-Pub files.
http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards.aspx
Publishers should submit 5 copies of the book. If the book is not published by August 1, send 3 bound galleys. Include a press kit with author bio and publicity materials, and a completed entry form (email info@writerstrust.com for a copy). On or before August 1, 2012, the publisher must submit a list of all titles published during the calendar year on which that publisher’s eligibility is based. This list should include authors, titles, and dates of publication. They should also email electronic images of author and book cover suitable for reproduction toahopkins@writerstrust.com.
PCI Editor’s
As of May 2011, top prize increased from C$25,000 to C$60,000 after a generous sponsorship by Hon. Hilary Weston. Finalist prizes doubled from C$2,500 to C$5,000.
Early submission is strongly encouraged. See website for other poetry and prose contests.
Contest Judge:
Three-person jury independent of The Writers’ Trust charged with interpreting the mandate and eligibility criteria of the prize, as well as determining which of the submissions best reflect the prize mandate. In evaluating the writing, literary merit is the sole criteria.
WRITERS WEEKLY SHORT STORY CONTEST
http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.php
$5 ENTRY FEE
You must be entered in the contest before the topic is posted in order to submit your story. You cannot write your story first, then enter the contest. Start time is
July 14, 2012. Limited to 500 entries. We can’t tell you until contest start time how long the entries must be. Past contests have ranged from 500 max. to 2,000 max.
1st Place – $300 Cash Prize
Publication of winning story on the WritersWeekly.com website.
1 – Freelance Income Kit
2nd Place – $250 Cash Prize
3rd Place – $200 Cash Prize
Room Magazine’s Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest
Calling all women writers: Room magazine is accepting submissions for its 2012 annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Deadline: July 15, 2012. First prize in each category is $500, 2nd prize $250, plus publication in the summer 2013 issue of Room. Judges: Cathleen With (fiction), Miranda Pearson (poetry), and Kathy Page (creative non-fiction). $30 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Canada’s oldest literary journal by and about women. Please visit http://www.roommagazine.com/contest for complete details.
WRITER’S DIGEST COMPETITIONS
Everyone’s got a summer story—get it published!
Ah, summer … can you smell it, taste it, hear it? Summer’s definitely here and we can’t wait to read your fun summer short stories. Enter Write It Your Way, a short story competition brought to you by Writer’s Digest magazine, and you could find your short summer story published on WritersDigest.com!
The Winner Will Enjoy:
Free entry into next month’s contest
Your story promoted on WritersDigest.com
$25 to spend at our Writer’s Digest Shop
Don’t miss your last chance to enter. Submit your work today!
Upcoming Competitions:
Popular Fiction Competition Deadline: Sept. 14, 2012 Learn More!
Short Short Story Competition Deadline: Nov. 15, 2012 Learn More!
Clem Battye Legacy Award
Fiction: Send a cover page listing author’s name, address, phone and email, along with a short story 5 pages (industry standards). Poetry: Poets enter 5 poems (one per page). You may enter as often as you like with appropriate fee. Penticton Writers And Publishers, 4011 Finnerty Road, Penticton BC V2A 8W2. Prize: $100 X 2 Entry Fee: $10 Details: http://www.penwriters.com/clem.html; 250-492-0629
EDEN MILLS WRITERS FESTIVAL LITERARY CONTEST
DEADLINE July 31, 2012
Contest is open to new, aspiring, and modestly published writers age 16 or over. Writers may submit either a short story (max. 2500 words), poetry (max. 5 poems/5 pages) or one-act play. There is also a submission protocol to be asked to read at the Eden Mills Festival-see website for details. As the coordinators and addresses sometimes change between our press time, and their deadline please recheck the website closer to the due date. Eden Mills Writers Festival Literary Contest, c/o Susan Ratcliffe, 57-295 Water Street, Guelph ON NIG2X5. Deadline: June 30, 2012 Prizes: $100 + HM Entry Fee: $15 Details: http://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/EMWF/contests 519-822-8236
SHELDON CURRIE FICTION PRIZE
DEADLINE JULY 31, 2012 Guidelines: Previously published works, works accepted for publication or simultaneous submissions are ineligible. No electronic submissions, please. Stories on any subject. Total entry not to exceed 20 pages. Entry Fee: Canada $25.00; the United States $30.00 (US funds); All others $40.00 (US funds) You may enter as often as you like; only your first entry in each category will be eligible for a subscription which will begin with the winter issue, 2013. Make cheques or money orders payable to The Antigonish Review. Mail submissions to: The Antigonish Review Contest, Box 5000, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, B2G 2W5. Entries will not be returned. Only winners will be notified by November 1, 2012. Full details here: http://www.antigonishreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=62
The Arborealls Prize for Poetry
Theme – The People’s Poetry Tradition. Milton Acorn’s poetry defines the People’s Poetry Tradition. There is no limit to the number of submissions per poet. Poems must be unpublished and not sent elsewhere. Poems not to exceed 36 lines and the stanza breaks count as lines. The Ontario Poetry Society, Attention: I.B. Iskov, #710 – 654 Spring Garden Avenue, Toronto ON M2N 6H9 Prize: $200; $150; $100; 3 x $50 HM + publication Entry Fee: $15/3 Details: http://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/
The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And welcome to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original.http://www.dreamquestone.com
Postmark deadline: July 31, 2012
All contest winners will be announced on August 31, 2012
$10 per short story.
$5 per poem.
To send entries: Include title(s) with your story(ies) or poem(s), along with your name, address, phone#, email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself), on the coversheet. Add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry confirmation. Fees payable to: “DREAMQUESTONE.COM”
Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details and enter!
Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition (Ire)
Sponsor: Munster Literature Centre
Deadline: Annual (31 July).
Contest Type: Prize for a single short story
Details: http://www.munsterlit.ie/SOF%20Page.html
The Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition is run by the Munster Literature Centre in Cork. It is a not-for-profit institution, (Irish Registered Charity No.12374), and all proceeds go to benefit writers and writing.
The Munster Literature Centre
Frank O’Connor House
84 Douglas Street
Inktears Flash Fiction Competition
Entry Fee: 1 entry £3.00, 2 entries £5.00, 3 entries £6.50, 4 entries £7.50
Prizes: £300, £50, 4 x £25
Guidelines: 500 words or less, any theme. Stories may have been previously published, providing the author still owns the copyright and there is no exclusivity with the prior publication, or unpublished.
Details: http://www.inktears.com/Inktears/WritersNewWriters2012.html
ALICE MUNRO WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL
Theme: Renewal. Length: 5000 words max. First prize: $500 (Adult) and $300 (Teen). Entry fee: $20 (Adult only). Deadline: August 1, 2012. Finalists will be notified by September 1, 2012. Winners names will be published on the website after the announcement at the Gala on September 29, 2012. http://alicemunrofestival.ca/?page_id=14
Now Accepting entries for 2012
DEADLINE DATE is
August 1st 2012
Enter your Short Story
~ “Friends of Dutton-Dunwich” are accepting short stories, Canadian Fiction, in English, neatly typed, in an easy to read font 12pt, double spaced, on white regular 8 x 11 paper, with title and number on upper of each page ( any handwritten entries will immediately be discarded.)
~ DO NOT STAPLE
~ Stories must be 3,000 to 3,500 words, accurate word count
~ Cover page with title, accurate word count, author’s home address and phone # Submissions will not be returned so Please! Keep a copy!
~ All stories must be the original work of the entering author and previously unpublished or not currently entered in other simultaneous writing contests. After October 1, 2012 anyone who has not been contacted is free to submit their story elsewhere as honorable mentions and the winner will be notified by Oct 1, 2012
~ Judges’ decision is final. Please note, there will be no correspondence, e-mail or regular mail, or phone calls or personal contact between judges and the entrants regarding any submissions.
~ No e-mail submissions.
~ $10 entry fee must accompany each entry ( money order or cheque made payable to “Friends of Dutton-Dunwich”) NSF Cheques are grounds for immediate disqualification. Mail cheque or money order along with entry form and story to Friends of Dutton-Dunwich PO Box 58, Dutton, Ontario N0L 1J0
~ Deadline for all submissions is August 1, 2012. (No late postmarks accepted)
~ Entry forms are available on-line at http://www.johnkennethgalbraithliteraryaward.ca
THE SECOND ANNUAL GEIST ERASURE POETRY CONTEST
DEADLINE AUG. 1, 2012. Get your erasers ready! Geist is pleased to announce the opening of the Second Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest. Writers are asked to create their own poetic masterpiece from an excerpt of How Should a Person Be?, a creative non-fiction novel by celebrated author Sheila Heti. There’s $1000 in prizes, plus publication! $20 entry fee includes an entire year of Geist.
Visit http://www.geist.com/erasure for more information. Good luck and happy writing!
The Malahat Review 2012 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
Deadline: August 1, 2012.
The entry must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words. No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply. For example, the entry may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism. The winner and finalists will be announced on the Malahat web site, with the publication of the winning entry in The Malahat Review’s Winter issue, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s quarterly e-newsletter, in December. The Malahat Review Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize University of Victoria, Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 2Y2. Prize: $1,000 Entry Fee: $35 Details: http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/creative_non-fiction_prize/info.html 250-721-8524.
The 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize
Postmark Deadline: August 1
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $5,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $100 each and publication, and be eligible for the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote.
Additional poems from the entries are frequently offered publication as well. In 2011 we published 19 poems that had been submitted to the contest, from over 1,700 entries.
With the winners judged in a blind review by the editors to ensure a fair and consistent selection, an entry fee that is simply a one-year subscription to the magazine—and now a large Readers’ Choice Award to be chosen by the writers themselves—we’ve designed the Rattle Poetry Prize to be one of the most writer-friendly contests around.
Entries are accepted by email or hard copy. For full guidelines, or to read the winning poems from previous years, visit www.rattle.com.
Noise from the Peanut Gallery Contest
Presenting Michael Schultz’s Noise from the Peanut Gallery contest.
In this contest we’re looking for the best, original Canadian heckles to add to the supplement Noise from the Peanut Gallery at the end of his upcoming book Heckle. Your heckle can not be more than 100 words or 800 characters. By submitting your entry to the contest, you automatically acknowledge that the heckle submitted was created by the entrant, is original, and does not infringe on any other persons rights. You must be a Canadian citizen to enter the contest.
Deadline: August 15, 2012
Prize: Published in author Michael Schultz’s upcoming book Heckle & receive a free copy of the e-book
Entry Fee: None
Details: http://michaelschultz.iguanabooks.com/books/noise-from-the-peanut-gallery-contest/
MEMOIRS, INK
Personal essay contest with $1000 prize
Deadline: August 15, 2012.
http://memoirsink.com/writingcontestguidelines/
Memoirs Ink is looking for original, well-written personal essays, memoirs, or stories that are based on autobiographical experiences. First prize: US$1000; additional prizes available. Entry fee: US$15.
Tickled by Thunder Writing Contest-Poetry
Theme, length and style of poetry entries is completely open. First and second place winners published. Subscribers of Tickled by Thunder enter three poems for free, but must pay $2 for each additional poem entered. Entries may be deemed by judges to merit publication within the Year’s Best Poetry, an annual collection published as a chapbook. Submit your manuscript using our Online Form. Tickled by Thunder, 14076 86A Avenue, Surrey BC V3W 0V9. Prize: $75 +publication Entry Fee: $5 Details: http://tickledbythunder.com/ 604-591-6095
The Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, att: Elana Rabinovitch, 576 Davenport Road, Toronto ON M5R lK9. Prize: $50,000; $5,000 x 4 Entry Fee: None Details: http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca ; 416-934-0755
Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest
Entry Fee: $20
Prizes: $1000, a VIP All Access Pass ($500 value) for the 2013 New Orleans Literary Festival, and publication in Louisiana Cultural Vistasmagazine.
Guidelines: Submit 2-4 original poems of any style or theme up to 400 lines. Open to writers who have not yet published a book of poetry.
Details: http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/contests/poetry-contest
THE MALAHAT REVIEW’S UVIC 50TH ANNIVERSARY WRITING CONTEST
Prizes (in each category): 1st: $300 2nd: $150 3rd: $100 Entry fee: $15 per entry (entry does not include a subscription to the magazine) Categories: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and dramatic monologue Eligible entrants: UVic students, UVic alumni, and residents of the Victoria CRD. Full contest guidelines HERE: http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/uvic_anniversary/anniversary_contest.html
TIGER’S EYE PRESS Chapbook Competition
Deadline: August 31, 2012. Guidelines: Winner receives $100 and 25 copies. Send 20-25 pages of poetry, a title page, table of contents, and an acknowledgements page, all with no identifying information. Send a second title page with your name and contact information. Please include a short bio, SASE or email address, and a $15 reading fee per contest manuscript. Tiger’s Eye Press, P.O. Box 9723, Denver, CO, 80209
2012 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Red Hen Press (US) is accepting submissions of unpublished poetry manuscripts for the 2012 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Prize: US$3000 plus publication of the selected collection. Length: 48-96 pages. Entry fee: US$25. Deadline: August 31, 2012. http://redhen.org/awards-2/bsa/
35th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest
Registration is now open for the Canadian-born 35th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. First prize: publication; additional prizes available. Fee: $50/$55. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION AUG. 15, FINAL Registration deadline: August 31, 2012. Can you produce a masterwork of fiction in a mere 72 hours? The annual International 3-Day Novel Contest is your chance to find out. The contest runs every Labour Day long weekend, as it has since 1977, and it now attracts writers from all over the world. It’s a thrill, a grind, and an awesome creative experience. How many crazed plotlines, coffee-stained pages, pangs of doubt and moments of genius will the next contest bring forth? And what might you think up under pressure? The 35th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest will take place September 1-3, 2012. Registration is now open. http://www.3daynovel.com/
GREAT BLUE HERON POETRY CONTEST
DEADLINE AUGUST 31, 2012
Poems on any subject. Total entry not to exceed 4 pages. Maximum 150 lines. Entries might be one longer poem, or several shorter poems. This includes a one-year subscription to TAR which will begin with the fall issue. Make cheques or money orders payable to The Antigonish Review Contest, St. Francis Xavier University, Box 5000, Antigonish NS B2G 2W5. Deadline: June 30, 2012 Prizes: $600, $400, $200 & Publication Entry Fee: $25 Details: http://www.antigonishreview.com/index.php 902-867-3962
Gemini Magazine Fourth Annual Flash Fiction Contest
Entry Fee: $4
Prizes: $1000, $100, $50
Guidelines: Must be previously unpublished. No restrictions on content, style, or genre. Simply send your best, most powerful work under 1000 words.
Details: http://www.gemini-magazine.com/contest.html
AESTHETICA CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition is now open for entries! The competition celebrates and champions creative writing, nurturing talent and bringing work to international attention. Aesthetica is inviting all writers and poets to submit to the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2012.
There are two categories for entry, Poetry and Short Fiction, and a selection of fantastic prizes including: £500 prize money – Poetry winner £500 prize money – Short Fiction winner Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual Complimentary copy of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
A selection of books from our competition partners.
For more information and to enter please visit: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted. Entry is £10 and allows for the entry of two works into any one category. Deadline: 31 August 2012
Snake Nation Press:
Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry
Postmark Deadline: August 31
Now in its twenty-second year, Snake Nation Press announces the 2012 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry:
• $1,000 prize and publication
• $25 entry fee must accompany the manuscript
• 50-75 page manuscript; previously published poems eligible
Please mail your entry and fee to:
Snake Nation Press
Attn: Poetry Contest
2920 North Oak Street
Also at Snake Nation Press:
Serena McDonald Kennedy Award
Submit a novella of up to 50,000 words or a manuscript of short stories up to 200 pages long. Fiction and nonfiction accepted. Any well-written manuscript on any topic will be considered. Previously published works may be entered. An entry fee of $25 must accompany the submission. Winner receives $1,000 award and publication.
Attn: Serena McDonald Kennedy Award
Entry Fee: $4 Prizes: $1000, $100, $50 Guidelines: Must be previously unpublished. No restrictions on content, style, or genre. Simply send your best, most powerful work under 1000 words. Details: http://www.gemini-magazine.com/contest.html
The Paris Literary Prize
The Paris Literary Prize is an international novella competition for an unpublished writer.
1st Prize: €10000 2 x Runner-up prizes: €2000
Deadline: 1st September 2012
Website address: https://www.parisliteraryprize.org/
C4WE Genre-Writing Contest: “Crime Fiction”
Prizes: $50, $25, $15, publication in annual anthology
Guidelines: Send in your best story in the crime fiction genre, between 1500 and 2000 words.
Details: http://janiewrites.com/writing-contests/c4we-writing-contest/
Royal Canadian Legion Literary Contests – Essay, Poetry
The Royal Canadian Legion has sponsored annual Literary Contests that are open to all Canadian school children. The youths that participate in the contests assist the Legion in one of our primary goals – fostering the tradition of Remembrance amongst Canadians. The contests are divided into three categories: Junior – Grades 4, 5 and 6; Intermediate – grades 7, 8 and 9; and Senior – grades 10, 11, 12. For further information on the contests please contact the Royal Canadian Legion Branch nearest your residence or visit the website. The Royal Canadian Legion, Dominion Command, 359 Kent Street, Ottawa ON K2P 0R7, or email info@legion.ca.
Prize: Varies
Details: http://www.legion.ca/Poppy/contests_e.cfm; 613-235-4391
Malahat Monostiches
Tweet your pithiest 1-line, 140 character (or less) poems to @malahatreview
The battle of the monostiches begins on June 18 and closes on September 10. Four new books donated by Canadian publishers will be awarded to a semi-finalist every two weeks. On October 1, a special grand prize will be given to the best of the six bi-weekly winners.
Semi-finalists and the grand-prize winner will be tweeted, posted on our website, and announced on Facebook.
Enter as many times as you like!
Read full contest guidelines on our website.
BLOODROOT POETRY CONTEST
http://www.bloodrootlm.com/contest.html
$15 FOR THREE POEMS.
Three prizes of $200, $100, $50, three honorable mentions and publication in 2012 Bloodroot Literary Magazine edition.
Reading period runs April 1 through September 15. All entries are considered for publication. Submit original, unpublished, free verse, ten lines to two pages. The competition is open to any poet who writes in English.
THE SUMMER DREAMS POETRY CONTEST
Deadline: September 15, 2012. Pandora’s Collective poetry contests are open to writers world wide and of all age categories. Please read our guidelines before submitting. Poems can be of any theme or form as long as they do not exceed the forty line max. We do not accept previously published poems. All rights return to the poet after publication. Pandora’s Collective (Poetry Contest Submission), 5505 Main Street, Vancouver BC V5W 2S3. For more info please email info@pandorascollective.com. Prize: $100, $50, + publication (three levels) Entry Fee:$5 Details: http://www.pandorascollective.com/what-we-do/contests
THE 2012 HAZEL HILLES MEMORIAL SHORT FICTION PRIZE
http://www.be-a-better-writer.com/creative-writing-contest.html
1st $500
2nd $100
3rd $100
Deadline: September 18, 2012. Length: No minimum. Maximum 5,000
words. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older, but there are no geographical restrictions. The contest is open to anyone writing in English. Stories can be in any genre and address any theme. All entries must be previously unpublished. Authors retain all copyright to their work. However, Be-a-Better-Writer.com will
have first publication rights to the winning stories, which will be published in Page 47 online anthology.
CANADIAN SHORT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
Deadline: September 30, 2012. Extensive guidelines on the website. The entered screenplay must not have been previously optioned, sold or produced. The submitted Material must be original works, and the sole property of the Applicant(s). Screenplays of any genre will he considered and must be the original work of the author submitting it. Each Competition Entrant will receive an email notifying them of the competition results. Canadian Short Screenplay Competition c/o Year of the Skunk Productions, 1108-33 Mill Street, Toronto ON M5A 3R3. For more info please email cssc@yearoftheskunk.com. Prize: $1,500; $350; and $250 + option Entry Fee: $75 Details: http://yearoftheskunk.com/
Dark Tales Short Story Contest
Entry Fee: £3 for non-subscribers, free to subscribers
Prizes: £500, £250, £100, publication in Dark Tales
Guidelines: Horror and speculative fiction stories of under 5000 words.
Details: http://darktales.co.uk/contest.php
PHILIP LEVINE POETRY BOOK PRIZE 2012
Postmark Deadline: 9/30/2012.
$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press Final Judge: CORNELIUS EADY . Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48-100 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. The entry fee is $25. FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.fresnostate.edu/english/mfa/levine/guidelines.shtml
The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence
PURITAN MAGAZINE The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence invites submissions of fiction and poetry. Winners receive $650 (fiction) or $350 (poetry), books from a variety of well-known Canadian presses, and publication in best-of anthology. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: September 30, 2012. http://www.puritan-magazine.com/
2012 Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award
Red Hen Press (US) is currently accepting submissions of original, unpublished poetry for the 2012 Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award.
Entry fee: US$20 for up to three poems, 120 lines max.
Award: US$1000 and publication of the selected poem in The Los Angeles Review.
Deadline: September 30, 2012. http://redhen.org/awards-2/rpa/
Neil Postman Award for Metaphor (no fee)
Rolling Deadline
Although primarily known as an educationist and a media critic, Neil Postman was, at his core, a “noticer”—and he particularly noticed what we do with metaphor and how metaphor shapes and creates our cognitive world. Postman maintained that words (and words, in truth, are metaphors) are as much the driver of reality as they are the vehicle. Consequently, metaphor was not a subject to be relegated and limited to high school poetry units wherein a teacher drones on about the difference between “like” and “as” and considers the job finished. For Postman, the study of metaphor was unending and metaphors were as crucial as they were omnipresent; they served to give form to and dictate experience.
In honor and remembrance of Neil Postman, who died on October 5, 2003, we have established the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. The motivation for the award is simple and two-fold: To reward a given writer for his or her use of metaphor, and to celebrate (and hopefully propagate) Postman’s work and the typographical mind.
Each spring the editors will choose one poem from all of the submissions received by Rattle during the previous year. The author of the chosen poem will receive $500. There are no entry fees or special submission guidelines. Send up to 5 unpublished poems plus a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) to: Rattle, 12411 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, CA 91604. To browse previous winners, and for information on how to submit electronically, visit our website: www.rattle.com
81st ANNUAL WRITER’S DIGEST WRITING COMPETITIONS
To help you prepare for the coming year, here’s a comprehensive list of the Writer’s Digest competitions. Whatever your genre, whatever your skill level…we’ve got a competition for you. So mark your calendars – enter and expose your work to agents, to publishers, to peers and to your future fans!
Poetry Awards
Poems are 32 lines or fewer
Winners and winning poetry titles will be printed in the July/August 2012 Writer’s Digest
All winners will appear on www.writersdigest.com
Cash prizes, including $500 for the Grand Prize winner
Deadline: December 3, 2012
Short Short Story Competition
Open to manuscripts of 1,500 words or fewer
The names and story titles of the 1st through 10th place winners will be printed in the July/August 2012 Writer’s Digest,
Winners and winning titles are published on writersdigest.com
Cash prizes including $3,000 for the Grand Prize Winner
Popular Fiction Competition
Seeking new fiction in 6 genres: SciFi/Fantasy, Thriller/Suspense, Young Adult, Romance, Crime, Horror
First Prize: The First Place-Winner receives $1,000 cash, promotion in Writer’s Digest, $100 worth of Writer’s Digest Books and the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.
Second Prize: The Second Place-Winner receives $500 cash, promotion in Writer’s Digest, $100 worth of Writer’s Digest Books and the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.
Honorable Mention: Honorable Mentions will receive promotion in Writer’s Digest and the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2012
Now in its tenth year, this contest seeks poems in any style, theme or genre. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. New this year, there will also be a special $250 bonus prize for humorous verse. The entry fee is $8 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
Bottle Tree Productions One Act Play Competition for Writers 2012
Go online at http://www.bottletreeinc.com/script_contest.html
First Prize $1,000
Second Prize $250
Third Prize $100
Top ten entries are posted on our site.
The entry fee for each submission is $25.
One Act Plays of from 10 minutes to 70 minutes may be submitted by mail or email.
By mail to Bottle Tree Productions
at 445 Southwood Drive,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7M-5P8
Please make cheque payable to Bottle Tree Productions.
For environmental and storage reasons email submissions are preferred..
By email to contest (at) bottletreeinc (dot) com
Go online at http://www.bottletreeinc.com/script_contest.html for Paypal options and further details and to see past winners and their contact info. Before entering you can check out our free advice for writers at http://www.bottletreeinc.com/navigation_page_playwrights.html
Format is not important. Good writing is.
Please do not attach your name or contact name to the script but have that information on a separate sheet of paper, or a separate attachment if emailing.
or email us. contest (at) bottletreeinc (dot) com
Plays can have previously been produced but not professionally.
Plays may also have been entered in other competitions.
The competition runs until November 30th 2012.
Winners will be announced in January of 2013
If you want a critical analysis of your work please enclose a cheque for $50 made payable to Bottle Tree Productions. or use our pay pal option on our website.
Apostrophe, Odes, Ekphrasis, Oh My! Workshop
Registration: July 8 – August 4, 2012
For as long as we can remember, poets have addressed the sun and moon, distant lovers and heroes, while also separately singing odes to the gods. In the course of this workshop, we will look at a the work and lives of a variety of artists and poets, and consider how ekphrasis can extend beyond mere description of the visual arts, but may also be combined with address (apostrophe), and/or incorporate the ode as a means to reflect appreciation, and content from, each artist’s work.
For more information, go to http://www.poetrycoop.com/poetry-workshops/apostrophe-odes-ekphrasis-oh-my
WINTERGREEN STUDIOS, WESTPORT, ON
http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/
Helen Humphreys (July 9–13)
Patrick Lane (August 23–26)
Lawrence Hill (Sept. 14–17)
Enjoy writing, eating and swimming at our off-grid educational retreat facility.
For the third year running, Helen Humphreys, acclaimed author and teacher, will spend a week exploring both prose and poetry with workshop participants. For more information and to register: http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/writers-workshop-with-helen-humphreys/
Patrick Lane, Governor General’s Award winner, will conduct a four-day poetry retreat for attendees to create new work. Fresh approaches to the poem will be explored. Patrick considers holding writing retreats an important aspect of his life’s work. For more information and to register: http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/poetry-with-patrick-lane//
You are invited to spend a long weekend with Lawrence Hill (author of The Book of Negroes) taking part in a creative writing workshop for the novel, short story or non-fiction writing. For more information and to register: http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/put-personality-in-your-writing/
WRITING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
Do you have a passion for creative writing? Perhaps you work in a field that requires strong writing skills? Whatever your reasons for wanting to be a better writer, University of Calgary Continuing Education can help.
Three writing certificate programs are offered, all of which are delivered completely online. When you enroll in a course, you will be required to work within scheduled start- and end-dates and will be expected to meet assignment timelines. During the duration of the course, you will work whenever-and from wherever-you choose, as long as you have a computer and a reliable internet connection. Each program requires 200 hours of instruction time, and in some cases, courses can be applied to more than one certificate. One or more of the following certificate programs may be exactly what you need:
Professional Writing specializing in Business and Technical Writing
Professional Writing specializing in Marketing and Public Relations
For more information, go to http://conted.ucalgary.ca/writing/
CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION 2012 LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED BY CANADIAN AUTHORS
The shortlist for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2012 Literary Awards was announced at the association’s CanWrite! conference in Orillia, Ontario. The shortlist is as follows:
CAA AWARD FOR FICTION
Patrick deWitt, Portland, Oregon, for The Sisters Brothers, House of Anansi Press
Helen Humphreys, Kingston, Ontario, for The Reinvention of Love, HarperCollins Canada
Miriam Toews, Toronto, Ontario for Irma Voth, Alfred A. Knopf
LELA COMMON AWARD FOR CANADIAN HISTORY
Douglas Gibson, Toronto, Ontario, for Stories About Storytellers, ECW Press
Richard Gwyn, Toronto, Ontario, for Nation Maker – Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Random House Canada
Jonathan F. Vance, London, Ontario, for Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars, Oxford University Press
AWARD FOR POETRY
E.D. Blodgett, Surrey, British Columbia, for Apostrophes VII: Sleep’ You’ a Tree, University of Alberta Press
Brian Henderson, Kitchener, Ontario, for Sharawadji, Brick Books
Goran Simić, Edmonton, Alberta, for Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, Biblioasis
The winners of all three genres will be announced at the CAA Literary Awards dinner on Saturday, July 28, 2012, during the Leacock Summer Festival at the Leacock Museum National Historic Site in Orillia, Ontario. The shortlisted authors will be invited to read from their works during the Festival as well.
Introduced in 1975, the CAA Literary Awards continue the association’s long tradition of honouring Canadian writers who achieve excellence without sacrificing popular appeal. The above nine finalists were selected from nearly 300 nominations. Founded by Stephen Leacock and several other prominent Canadian writers in 1921, the Canadian Authors Association has continued to carry out its goal of “writers helping writers” since its inception. Some 25,000 writers have been members of the CAA in its 91-year history, including Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, and Robert W. Service. Information about the CAA Literary Awards and this year’s shortlisted authors is available at http://www.canauthors.org/awards
Anita Purcell, Executive Director, Canadian Authors Association
T 705 719 3926, TF 866 216 6222, Cell 705 955 0716, E apurcell@canauthors.org
For information about the 2012 Leacock Summer Festival or the Leacock Museum National Historic Site: Fred Addis, Curator, Leacock Museum National Historic Site
T 705 329 1908 ext. 803, E lmcurator@rogers.com, W http://www.leacockmuseum.com
SCREENWRITING CAMP 2012 – TAKE YOUR STORY IDEAS TO THE BIG SCREEN
DATES: August 13 to August 17, 2012
LOCATION: Algonquin College, Woodroffe Campus Cost: $595
This five-day hands-on workshop from August 13th to 17th 2012 at Algonquin College will help writers bring their ideas into the reality of a feature film screen story. Participants will also learn the career potential of screenwriters in television and new media – one of the fastest growing business sectors in Canada. The Director is Tom Shoebridge, founder of the Canadian Screen Training Centre and the Summer Institute of Film and Television, which for 30 years brought world-class filmmakers such as Atom Egoyan, Sarah Polley, Norman Jewison, Paul Haggis, Denys Arcand, Anthony Minghella and others here to share their expertise with aspiring film and television creators.
In workshops led by seasoned industry professionals, participants will learn the fundamentals of story structure, scenes, sequences, acts, dialogue, and character and story arcs – the necessary elements of professional screen storytelling. Films will be analyzed, scripts dissected, and the writing of treatments and scripts encouraged. This will not be theory; this will offer practical professional insights into writing for the screen and pitching your story effectively.
For more information, please contact Lynn Tarzwell at tarzwel@algonquincollege.com.
Lynn Tarzwell, Coordinator, Scriptwriting Program, Office: N208b, (613)727-4723 ext. 7888
WRITE IN WALES at Myth, Mountain & Imagination
Get away from the grind to write and be inspired.
Join us for a week of writing, relaxing and exploring this spectacular, lesser known Celtic gem. Memoir, novel, creative nonfiction, poetry — all genres and levels.
Learn more: www.writeinwales.com
Call for Applicants Fiction Writing for Children and Young Adults
June 24–July 1, 2012
A program from the Highlights Foundation Fiction stories form fantastic and imaginative worlds. Prepare yourself for the world of writing fiction for children by attending this intensive, week-long workshop. Join workshop leaders Patricia Lee Gauch, Jillian Sullivan, David Richardson, and Robert J. Blake; and special guests Joy Cowley, Peter P. Jacobi, Abby McAden, Nancy Mercado, Holly McGhee.
Upcoming writing programs at Tatamagouche Centre
Independent Writer’s Retreat
Aug 5 – 10, Sun 7pm to Fri 1pm
Unique to this retreat, you can also choose to workshop your writing in the evenings with authors Shauntay Grant and Gwen Davies.
Writing for Children: Exploring the Process with Sheree Fitch
Aug 24 – 26, Fri 7pm to Sun 1pm
Come ready to play and discover the rich inner world of your imagination.
Meghan MacCulloch
259 Loop Route 6
Tatamagouche, NS B0K 1V0
http://www.tatacentre.ca
Office hours: Mon-Wed
THE SOUTHAMPTON CHILDREN’S LITERATURE CONFERENCE
WHEN: July 11-15, 2012
WHERE: Stony Brook University, Southampton, NY
PRICE: Varies, depending on whether participants attend the conference for college credit and whether they’re commuters or residents. The highest price is $1,495, room and board inclusive.
Runs concurrently with a general writers’ conference, a screenwriters’ conference and a playwriters’ conference all at Stony Brook University. Participants are welcome to attend electives from other conference. Attendance: 5 tracks with 12 participants in each. At least one workshop in each of the main children’s writing disciplines: picture books, chapter books, middle-grade novels, and YA.
Past faculty (2011) included Newberry, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Andrea Davis Pinkney; New York Times bestselling author Chris Barton; middle-grade author Tor Seidler; young-adult author Patricia McCormick; and NY Times bestselling author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds.
For more information: http://www.stonybrook.edu/writers/children
Weaving Words: Sharon Temple Storytelling Festival
Registration: September 30, 2012
An exciting full day festival at the Sharon National Historic Site as storytellers, musicians and performers from across the Province celebrate everything that is special about who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. With stories about new beginnings, resourcefulness, the War of 812 & the Rebellion of 1837, world cultures and so much more, there will be stories and activities for every age. Produced in collaboration with Friends of the East Gwillimbury Library, the East Gwillimbury Library and with the support of the Town of East Gwillimbury. Watch for more details on this terrific new York Region festival!
For more information, go to http://www.sharontemple.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39&Itemid=97
Take the Reins
It’s time to take the reins of your writing career at the Writer’s Digest Conference in Hollywood, October 19 – 21. Stop all the trial and error—and get a firm grasp on exactly what you need to do to succeed as a writer. And as for your “big break?” This could be it!
Take control and get exactly what you want out of your writing career. Register for the Writer’s Digest Conference today. And don’t forget, early birds get a special discount—all you have to do is register by July 19 and you’ll save $70.
This section is not intended as an endorsement of the resources listed here. It is simply being passed along for your information. Please exercise due diligence on these potential resources.
Writers’ Coalition – Benefits You Can Afford
Join the Writers’ Coalition program today – as long as you’re a resident of Canada and under the age of 71, you are eligible to join.
There is no medical required to join so you will not be refused coverage for pre-existing conditions – it is guaranteed acceptance.
The program offers a pay direct drug/dental card that is accepted nationally at pharmacies and dental offices across the country which means direct settlement of prescription drug claims (you pay only your portion at the pharmacy) and no waiting for re-imbursement on dental claims (no submission of a paper claim and your re-imbursement cheque is usually in the mail within 4 or 5 working days).
The Writers’ Coalition
Not-for-profit insurer
Unbeatable service – we only service artists
Affordable, comprehensive coverage
Convenience of a drug/dental card
Medical is not required to purchase coverage
Access to other insurance offerings, including home/auto
www.writerscoalition.com
writerscoalition@actrafrat.com
1 800-387-8897 x238
ONLINE SITES TO HELP PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS!!
EVENTS AT COLLECTED WORKS
1242 WELLINGTON STREET WEST AT HOLLAND
Check Facebook for full details or visit
http://www.collected-works.com/pages/events.htm
Of special interest: “The Industrious Indies” is an events project Collected Works Bookstore has begun to give independent self published authors a chance to display their books and a place the host author events and network. For more information on the project contact Chris Carroll through Facebook or via email
Bibliospace.ca
From: Crystal Smith
Subject: New website to promote local authors
I am writing today to tell you about a new website I have created to help local, independent, and self-published authors promote their books.
It is called bibliospace (http://www.bibliospace.ca/). The site includes a detailed listing for each author’s book, consisting of a book summary of up to 250 words, an author bio of up to 150 words, a link to each author’s website, and any additional author contact information (blog, Twitter, Facebook). In addition to the book listing, there is an alphabetical list of authors and a speakers’ bureau that lists authors by community. The latter page is intended to help book clubs, community groups, libraries, and schools get in touch with authors in their own community for readings and speaking engagements.
I have also added an amazon bookstore with direct links to each author’s books, if they are available on amazon. (There is no charge to submit a book, but I will retain any referral fees from the amazon bookstore. Royalties from all sales go to the author, of course.)
I am a marketing writer and self-published author, so I know something of the effort required to market a book. I am hoping that bibliospace will make it easy for people to find and recommend authors from their own community. The site now has seven authors, including myself, with books in categories ranging from poetry and non-fiction to action and children’s.
I would love it if you could spread the word to the members of your association. If you are interested in submitting any of your works, you just need to send an email, as per the steps outlined on the Submit Your Book page. I appreciate any help you can provide in promoting bibliospace. Crystal Smith http://www.bibliospace.ca Facebook:bibliospace Twitter: @bibliospace
NEW BOOK: The Old Love and the New Love
I have just had a new novel published and wanted to let you know about it. The Old Love and the New Love (Ottawa, Baico, 2012, $18.95, ISBN 978-1-926945-70-5) is a blend of humour, romance, history and adventure.
When Cleo, an artist in her early thirties, answers the doorbell one October evening in 1998, she is flustered, not flattered, to find on her doorstep her old lover, Leo Phelan, whom she has not seen in a decade. She wants no serpent invading the Eden that she and her husband, Andy, have created. Little does she know that Leo will bring a unique sort of danger into their lives. To read an excerpt from the novel, please visit my blog at http://ruthlatta.blogspot.com
If you would like a copy or copies of The Old Love and the New Love, please contact me at ralatta@cyberus.ca or the publisher, Ray Coderre of Baico Publishing, 294 Albert St., Suite 103, Ottawa, ON K1P 6E6, baico@bellnet.ca (613) 829-5141.
Ruth Latta
Malahat lite
Guidelines for our 2014 Novella Prize:
http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/novella_contest/info.html
Online Writing Classes
FanStory.com is a writing site founded in 2000.
On this writing community all posts receive feedback from writers and readers. Feedback includes a detailed comment on the posted work and a rating. The site uses a six star ratings scale with “1” being the worst and “6” being the best.
Writers are ranked based on the feedback they receive. Separate rankings are available for Poets, Novelists, Short Works (short stories and essays) and Script Writers (television and other forms of screenplays). Trophies are rewarded to the top five writers in each of the individual rankings at the end of the year.
The site recognizes writing with “Recognized”, “All Time Best” and “Seal of Quality” levels. Each level is more difficult to receive with the final level determined by the Seal of Quality committee. The committee is made up of published authors and stand-out reviewers. They offer feedback to help writers get published.
The site features free writing contests with cash prizes. Site members also have the ability to create their own contests to challenge other writers to write about a specific topic or a specific form of writing (such as writing using specific poetry format).
The welcome page includes featured writing. It also includes writing that has been well received in the past 24 hours.
Each day over 200 stories and poems are posted. Over 7,000 comments are written on the writing posted daily. Writers keep full copyright to their posted work.
THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO EBOOKS
All you need to know about ebooks: how to read them,
the different ebook formats, choosing an ebook reader,
and where to find the best specials and free ebooks.
http://www.EbookIntroduction.com
50 CITY & STATE MAGAZINE MARKETS
$6.99. Download in PDF Format.
Would you like to work as a freelance writer for regional magazines? Most city and state magazines work with freelancers and typically cover a wide range of topics – including arts, business, dining, entertainment, fashion, finance, health, home and garden,
lifestyle, recreation, sports, and travel.
We searched through our Markets Plus database of publications and compiled this list of more than 50 city magazines and state magazines in USA and Canada that purchase material from freelance writers.
It is not an exhaustive list of all of the regional publications but lists fifty magazines (actually 57!) that publish their writer’s guidelines online.
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August Afternoon at Spreckels Lake by Joanne Jagoda: Harold, a widower, is drawn to a lonely young woman and her children whom he sees every day at Spreckles Lake in Golden Gate Park where he launches his model boat. He unexpectedly helps her after an accident and finally begins to understand her.
The Fireflies by Elaine Rosenberg Miller: A family scene. A young girl watching her aunt dress her hair. A intimate thing. And then she sees the brand, the carbon brand making her relative’s status as “thing”, born into a race marked by its tormentors as less than human, as subject to extermination. Yet, the girl realizes, her aunt, by her life and her courage, has turned the disfigurement into badge of survival and triumph.
A Fly in the Brandy by Roger Sakowski: One way to deal with writer’s block is to summon a muse, befriend a fly, and celebrate an eminent divorce. Either that or have the police over and sit through a tiresome interrogation.
Footprints by Kristin Kobayashi: Miranda and her friend Blair are two young girls who have always had a competitive relationship. However, Miranda soon realizes that she has more in common with Blair than she thinks after she encounters the super-natural, It.
JeniLee by Madison Ann Lee: Love is…not what she had in mind when she met JeniLee. Best friend turned fierce lover, Jeni became more than she ever bargained for. A husband, kids, and a 12 year marriage behind her belt, she was forced to ask the questions that she never thought would come. ‘Am I gay? Do I go against everything I’ve ever been taught and follow my heart?” This is a short story about falling in love and being happy for the first time, when all the odds are against it.
Milk and Honey by T.C. Stevenson: When an urban family of three finds themselves in a desperate financial situation, they are forced to consider slaughtering one of their last means of income: their only surviving cow and family pet, Demeter. In spite of his son’s increasingly severe malnourished state, The Father refuses to accept this as an option and seeks solace in his beekeeping. When the time comes for a decision to be made, Mother and Son are forced to choose between their survival and their family.
On Silence by Philip V. Coombs: A couple share a life trying to find a voice. Their silence is as important as their noise. It isn’t always the grand design that takes you down, sometimes it is the details.
Supersonic Galactic Troopers: A Novel by Terri Dailey: A group of college freshmen get more than a good education as they embark on their first year of college in New York City. They are in for a major surprise when they are recruited by a talking cat from outer space to become the superheroes destined to save the world from the greatest evil threat in the Universe. Action and hilarity ensue as the team attempts to take down the alien threat while still getting all their term papers handed in on time in this science-fiction, comic book superhero, action-adventure comedy/parody!
The Flames of Freedom by Iftekhar Sayeed: This is a story of how western foreign policy affects the lives of distant people: it begins by the Poshur River at Mongla and ends at Teknaf in Bangladesh. The themes are an insatiable longing for peace and the inevitability of violence.
The Man in the White Pontiac by Liam Maloney: 10-year-old Brendan, the eldest son of a “down and out” Irish-American writer, struggles to make sense of the maelstrom of religious, moral and familial conflicts that surround him.
The Visit by Brian Kayser: Growing up, our narrator played catch with his father until they could barely make out the ball. After not seeing his father for two years after a disagreement, our narrator finds himself immersed in memories and tension after inviting his father to dinner. Our narrator attempts to repair his relationship with his father without going back to old habits and painful memories.
Tommy Braden by Jered W Johnston: New Kensington, Pennsylvania is a gritty little river town comprised mostly of blue-collar wage slaves and criminals. Whenever their shifts end, the laborers flock to the many mob owned bars which pepper “New Ken’s” streets. Tommy Braden takes a look inside one of these bars for a single night and follows the reckless, and perhaps fatal, actions of a young mob enforcer.
Brown Gold by Magdalena Ball
Cottage in Three Oaks by Dave Frazier
Crows by Joseph Welsh
Death by Juliette Beswick Pokletar
For… by Matthew Ryan Morris
I’m Am by Tonn Pastore
Mea Culpa by Chris Birrane
Pressure by Sarah Koscielniak
The Blessing: An ode to love’s succession by Christopher Nagle
The Persistence of Stones by Eileen Bell
The Silent Ones by Jason Anderson
Titanic – A Date with Destiny by Paul H Ward
World at War by Dean Meredith
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But That’s Okay by Shea Hennum: Everyone wonders about what happens after death, but sometimes we forget that it’s what happens before that is more important. We forget that if you do good, you’ll do well.
I’m Struggling by Mattie Lennon: Have you ever tried to write about nothing. I have. The following is the result and you, dear reader can tell me if I succeeded.
Poke Delete by Janice Kenyon: The aging process is inexorable, unstoppable, incorrigible. It shows no mercy, takes all prisoners. We each experience it, some sooner rather than later. Poke Delete takes you inside.
What I Know of War by Steve Myers: Time runs backwards from the killings at Kent State through the military hospitals of the Vietnam War to World War II. We are left with the effects of war and the effects found in a dead soldier’s pockets.
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Robert McCammon: Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels. Current release: The Providence Rider
Maureen McQuerry: Maureen Doyle McQuerry writes books for teens and adults. Current release: The Peculiars
Chris Pavone: Chris Pavone a New York Times bestselling author. Current release: The Expats
Taylor M. Polites: Taylor M. Polites is a debut novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Current release: The Rebel Wife
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Vol. 9, No.7, July 2012 | SUMMER ISSUE EDITION
Malahat Summer issue launch and UVic Student Info Day
UVic Student Info Day
On Monday, September 10th The Malahat Review will take over the Fine Arts Building lobby all day to provide UVic writing students with information on submitting to us, our contests, and volunteering for us. We’ll have books and magazines for sale as well.
Malahat Summer Issue Launch
(details still to be confirmed)
Monday, September 17th
The Fernwood Inn
1302 Gladstone Ave
Doors: 7 p.m.
Student Open Mic and Readings: 7:30 p.m.
We’ll begin our Summer launch with a Student Open Mic. hosted by Benjamin Willems (sign up at Info Day)
Readings by the issue’s authors will follow:
George Sipos
Dorothy Field
Laura Trunkey
Stay tuned to our website, facebook, and twitter for news of our Summer issue launch in September, 2012.
Malahat Twitter Monostich Contest!
From now until September 10th, tweet your one-line, 140-character-or-less poems to us @malahatreview.
Every two weeks one monosticher will win four new Canadian books. We’ll choose a grand-prize winner in October.
We have many great books (donated by Canadian publishers) to give away as prizes!
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Issue 179, Summer 2012
On newsstands in August!
Oh the places you’ll go…when you read our Summer issue. From fiction set in Mauritius and the Canadian Arctic, to poems located in Italy, Yellowknife, and Kandahar, and to creative nonfiction that will take you to Odessa, this is armchair travel at its literary best.
Naben Ruthnum leads the tour with his 2012 Novella Prize-winning “Cinema Rex.” It’s a masterful tale of three friends who could not have anticipated how the opening of a new movie theatre in their 1950s Mauritian village would ultimately influence their lives. The colourful and sensory details transport us, and the imaginative use of footnotes creates a “future story” for each of the characters while adding layers of depth and delicious humour.
Greg Hollingshead’s “Melnyk” will also make you smile, as you follow the life and bizarre times of the eccentric title character. Being struck by lightning while pouring a sidewalk alongside a funeral home wasn’t the beginning of Melnyk’s quirkiness, but it did make him become an artist and “quit fooling around.” This, you’ll see, is debatable.
Laura Trunkey’s “Winchester 30-30,” set in the Canadian north during the early years of the twentieth century, is a gripping story of desperation and murder as seen from the weapon’s perspective. Those who once possessed the gun, including an Inuit hunter, a shaman, and two Oblate priests, are fatefully (and fatally) linked by the “red shame” of her desire.
In “The Rain,” Lee Kofman’s creative nonfiction set in Odessa, a Jewish family (the only one in the neighbourhood) with intellectual leanings and ties to Israel are under scrutiny by the locals, and then by the KGB. The young daughter, perhaps the unwitting source of an early-morning raid by the secret police, is given a chance to save the day. It was the happiness of hope springing from the knowledge that the future could be beautiful because I could be its heroine.
The poems in this issue are no less astonishing—and far-ranging in time and space—as the prose. Buckle up and ride along with George Sipos, Dan O’Brien, David Martin, Shane Rhodes, Michelle Brown, Dorothy Field, Peter Richardson, Catherine Graham, Chantelle Rideout, Robin Richardson, and Ben Ladouceur. They’ll take you places you never dreamed.
Talented book reviewers Danielle Janess, Eric Miller, Jay Ruzesky, Allison LaSorda, Matthew Rutchik, Alisa Gordaneer, and Robert May contribute insightful studies of new Canadian titles by (among others) Warren Heiti, Joe Denham, and Alice Major.
The striking cover photo is by Canadian photo-journalist Paul Watson, himself the subject of poems by contributor Dan O’Brien. Look to our website for an upcoming interview by John Barton with these two men, wherein they discuss their friendship and project collaboration.
Can’t get away this summer? Think again.
See the entire table of contents for #179 on our website.
Board meeting: A Q&A with CNF board intern, Vanessa Annand
Vanessa Annand has been on the CNF board since autumn 2011, so she’s coming up on her one-year anniversary with The Malahat Review. She’ll probably take a few volumes of the journal out for a romantic dinner laced with sweet nothings and savoury somethings when the date rolls around. When she’s not reading submissions for The Malahat Review, she’s soliciting and editing submissions for another venerable UVic-based publication, The Martlet, where she is editor-in-chief. The first publication to ever print hew work was Monday Magazine. Since then, she’s embarked on an alliterative and Sesame Street-inspired career track, working almost exclusively for publications that begin with the letter “M.”
Describe your ideal creative nonfiction piece
Because the ideal work of creative nonfiction reveals something ineffable and hitherto unknown to me, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what that might include. Still, one possible strength might be the fresh and even reverential use of language to describe something that others might consider insignificant or unworthy of documenting. I also find sympathetic narrators much more engaging than those who keep their subject matter at arm’s (and pen’s) length. And speaking of length, I admire CNF pieces that are able to convey their message with economy. While I enjoy complex and lengthy sentences peppered throughout a piece, my ideal piece of CNF would never fall into the “I-don’t-see-why-I-should-restrict-my-word-count” camp.
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64,65 One approach to inhibition of GSK-3 that has been used in these studies is lithium. Lithium results in developmental abnormalities in experimental models that, mimic a signal transduction cascade known as Wingless (wnt in mammals). Wingless or wnt signaling results in GSK-3 inhibition, and this led Klein and Melton to hypothesize and then demonstrate that lithium mimics Wingless signal by inhibiting GSK-3.66 In nonneuronal cells, in neurons, and in animals, lithium has
now been shown to reduce tau phosphorylation as would be expected if GSK-3 is a predominant taukinase.67-72 This inhibition of GSK-3 alters the properties of tau in neurons and in living nonneuronal cells, Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical and does so within the therapeutic range of lithium. This
body of work Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical does raise the interesting question as to whether GSK-3 is the target of lithium in the therapy of affective disorders, especially as another agent used in bipolar disorder, sodium valproate, also inhibits GSK-3.73 Attention has recently turned to a pathway that interacts with Wingless signaling – the Notch pathway. Notch is a transmembrane protein essential for neurogenesis, but also present, and presumably therefore active, in adult brain.74-76 Activation of Notch involves cleavage within the membrane domain, very reminiscent of the y-secretase cleavage of APP.77 A role for presenilins in Notch activity was first suggested by homology as the equivalent Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical of presenilins in Caenorhabditis elegatis, SEL12, is associated with LIN12, the C elegans equivalent of Notch. Human presenilins are able to compensate for loss of SEL12, but mutated human presenilins lose Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical this ability.78,79 In a number of
different mammalian model experiments, the presenilin protein has now been shown to activate Notch.79-84 The evidence that presenilins are involved in Notch signaling is now compelling, and this is Metabolism inhibitor intriguing, as Notch signaling and Wingless signaling interact.85-87 In the Wingless signal cascade, inhibition of GSK-3 results in accumulation of a protein called β-catenin, and, to add to the complexity Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical of this area, presenilins bind to catenins and affect β-catenin signaling.88-92 Much needs to be done to untangle this complicated set of observations, not all of which are consistent. However, it Idoxuridine does appear to be the case that Wingless and Notch signaling interact, and that, in doing so, GSK-3 activity is regulated, and that the presenilins are involved – certainly with Notch signaling, and possibly with Wingless signaling. In addition to Wingless/wnt signaling, GSK-3 is inhibited by insulin signaling through protein kinase B (PKB) and PT3-kinase. As predicted, insulin not only reduces tau phosphorylation in neurons, but, also increases taumicrotubulc interactions.93 Just, as GSK-3 might be the missing link between amyloid and tau, so too might GSK-3 be the missing link between an important, finding from epidemiology and etiopathogenesis.
Also, mutations in circadian rhythms can alter ultradian rhythms
Also, mutations in circadian rhythms can alter ultradian rhythms.30 Several hormones are secreted in peaks coincident with sleep stages. For example, growth hormone (GH) is secreted shortly after falling asleep, often as a large pulse, followed later at night or not by other secretory pulses. Shifting the time of sleep by 8 hours will shift the secretion of
GH in the same direction, as of the first night. A sleep-dependent shift of hormone secretion is also observed Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical with prolactin. In contrast, there is little modification in Cortisol’s nocturnal secretion pattern when sleep is shifted by 8 hours, indicating that this hormone is more dependent on the circadian biological clock than on sleep initiation.31 When pulses of Cortisol and thyroidstimulating hormone (TSH) secretion occur, the Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical power of EEG delta waves, that parallels the depth of sleep, is at the lowest. This is in contrast to what is observed with GH
and prolactin.32 In a study in normal subjects who were able to live on a self-selected schedule (but not in time isolation), 4 out of 10 subjects developed activity/rest cycles that differed from 24 hours, with a mean of 36.8 hours, but the core body temperature maintained a circadian rhythm with a mean of 24.6 hours. In this condition of internal desynchronization, the REM propensity increased during the time when body temperature was rising, Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical suggesting that the circadian rhythm of REM propensity Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical could cycle independently of the activity-rest cycle, but that it was closely associated with the body temperature cycle.33 A challenging question about the relation between biological clocks was raised decades ago, through the work of Ernst Knobil.34,35 His work concerned the relationship between the ultradian rhythm of GnRH and LH and the monthly rhythm of menstruation. For this, he studied female monkeys who had a surgically destroyed hypothalamic GnRH ultradian pulse generator. GnRH was
then given intravenously for several weeks, with different schedules of administration, to find a rhythm of administration that would reinstate Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical a menstrual cycle. GnRH administered in pulses with a period of 60 mm reinstated a menstrual cycle, while constant administration of GnRH did very not suppress the amenorrhea. Thus, an ultradian rhythm of about 1 hour can govern a monthly rhythm. This discovery led to the first efficacious treatment of human infertility of hypothalamic origin. Obviously, the GnRH ultradian periodicity is not the sole origin of menstrual rhythms, since sex steroids have a feedback influence on the GnRH ultradian generator that varies during the cycle.36 Further, amenorrhea in anorexia nervosa, in stress conditions, and in opiate consumers might be linked to an Selleckchem U0126 inhibitory effect of these conditions on the GnRH pulse generator. An in vitro study of the episodic secretion of GnRH showed that cells with altered circadian clocks genes lost the ultradian rhythm of GnRH release.
A literature review of local published research from Pakistan sh
A literature review of local published research from MM-102 clinical trial Pakistan showed no study documenting the characteristics of patients
who leave ED without being seen by a physician in this region. Emergency Medicine as a specialty is still in its infancy in Pakistan [30-32]. Our department was the first one to be established back in 2008. Over the years, we have observed an increase in patient volume as well as acuity. The ED had expanded to 46 beds but the hospital beds remained the same which brought in the issues of overcrowding, left without being seen patients and ED through put issues. Therefore, this study is aimed at defining the LWBS population Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical in a tertiary care hospital while determining percentages and factors associated with LWBS as we do not know the characteristics of our patients who are leaving. This baseline information will be critical Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical in developing evidence based interventions aimed at improving the health care management of such patients and consequently reducing the morbidity and mortality resulting from leaving. Methods Setting This study was conducted at the Emergency Department of the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Karachi, Pakistan.
AKUH is a 600-bedded, private tertiary care hospital in Karachi with an annual ED census of approximately 50,000 patients Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical and an admission rate of 37%. The emergency department of AKUH is the first one established in the country, and the largest ED in Pakistan providing emergency care of international standards. The emergency department of AKUH is the first established department at Pakistan.
It has 46 patient-care beds with well designated Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical pediatric, critical care areas and non-critical areas. An eight-bedded observation unit is also functioning where patients are kept for 24 hours. Two Fast track clinics for walk in patients provide service 24/7. AKUH-ED is the only department in Pakistan where standard triage is being followed (Additional file 1). It has a separate well defined triage area. It follows 4 levels of triage and categorizes patients from level I-level Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical IV. We also have a written triage policy approved by the hospital. Triage staff has been given training for Triaging. A nurse initially triages patients by following the triage categories. The nurse assigns beds to the patients or sends them to the waiting area in case the ED capacity is exhausted (Additional file 2). At the triage desk, a triage team most is present 24/ 7 comprising of a trained nurse, nursing assistant and a triage care coordinator. Triage care coordinator is a senior experienced nurse who supervises the whole functioning of triage. In case of any quarry, the triage nurse could seek help from an on-call physician. The triage information is recorded in an electronic computerized based system called ERMS (Emergency Room Management system) (Additional file 3).
The lack of end-points and current understanding of which patient
The lack of end-points and current understanding of which patients benefit most by what strategy could be improved upon by a combined endocardial–epicardial procedure. In the patient population where “atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation” it seems that “catheter ablation begets catheter ablation.” A single-session hybrid procedure, although initially more complex and more costly, may lead to a higher cost-efficiency and Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical lower complication rate because of a higher cure rate. Understanding that Selleck CYC202 treatment of atrial fibrillation is mandatory
because of the high costs related to the prevalence and persistence of atrial fibrillation and its associated risk of stroke despite medication, invasive therapies could become a serious economic burden. Reducing the surgical invasiveness Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical and improving the quality of the endocardial ablation lines will increase success rates,
the number of patients available for interventional procedures, and the willingness of social security and national healthcare providers to accept the costs related to these invasive treatments. Hybrid atrial fibrillation treatment will change the working relationship between electrophysiologist, cardiac surgeon, and patient and should become a treatment option for symptomatic patients with persistent Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical or long-lasting persistent atrial fibrillation. With increased experience it could also become the treatment of choice for patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, after failed catheter ablation, or patients with increased left atrial size and important substrate modification. CONCLUSION The ideal approach for atrial fibrillation Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical should be patient-tailored, employing a procedure that is adapted to the origin of the patient’s atrial fibrillation. This procedure should take into consideration triggers and substrate modification. Therefore, the current classification of atrial fibrillation in the four categories going from paroxysmal atrial fibrillation to permanent atrial fibrillation is limited when considering an ablation strategy.
Defining atrial fibrillation only utilizing Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical a time-scale is insufficient to understand the complexity of the atrial pathology responsible for the disease. Our group has demonstrated in the lab that atrial fibrillation is not a disease coming from the endocardium or epicardium, but a disease involving the three-dimensional structure of the atria. The study and treatment of the ANNUAL REVIEWS atria can only be complete if we have simultaneous access to both the endocardium and epicardium of the beating heart. This can only be achieved through a close collaboration between the surgeon and the electrophysiologist. The potential benefits of a hybrid procedure as a single-step or sequential ablation are important. The endocardial and epicardial approach gives us a perfect platform to study the mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and thereby may improve our understanding of the peculiarities and difficulties to treat this dynamic disease.
10 The estrogens and PTH have a protective anti-apoptotic role on
10 The estrogens and PTH have a protective anti-apoptotic role on the osteoblasts and their precursors.11 From these complex interactions it is clear that, although the components of the BMU originate from the two
distinct groups of the progenitor cells, the cells from the mesenchymal origin (MSCs) govern the whole BMU function by their positive and negative feedback signals. In order to control these cellular processes, a thorough understanding of the metabolism of the cells of mesenchymal origin, i.e. osteoblasts, is crucial. The appropriate number of the osteoblasts in the BMU is determined by: The differentiation of the precursor stem cells into mature osteoblasts Their proliferation with subsequent Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical maturation into metabolically active osteocytes Osteoblast degradation by apoptosis Thus, the two crucial points to target when planning to control the osteoblast population are the processes of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical REGULATION OF OSTEOBLAST DEGRADATION BY APOPTOSIS In general, apoptosis in mammalian cells is controlled by two Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical signaling pathways. One is initiated by plasma membrane tumor necrosis factor (TNF)
receptors and the other through mitochondrial membrane depolarization with subsequent release of cytochrome C. Both pathways activate the cascade of proteolytic enzymes of the caspase type with subsequent cellular autolysis.12 Most of the growth factors and anabolic hormones, such as fibroblast growth factor (FGF), insulin-like growth factor (IGF), interleukin (IL)-6, PTH, sex steroids, and calcitonin, have protective anti-apoptotic effects in the osteoblasts.13–15 There are three main factors that are known to be apoptosis-inductive in osteoblasts: TNF, through activation of plasma membrane Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical receptors Glucocorticosteroids Bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2), by cytochrome C release from the mitochondria16 In the Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical mitochondrial apoptotic pathway, the basic process involves depolarization of the inner mitochondrial membrane with subsequent increase of permeability and leakage of the outer membrane. This process involves an increase of permeability
of the voltage-dependent anion click here channel (VDAC) on the mitochondrial outer membrane with parallel adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT) disruption on the inner membrane.17 This process involves interactions of proteins of mitochondrial permeability transition pores (MPTP),18 which recently were found to be very abundant in osteoblasts.19 A pro-apoptotic agent causes the collapse of Suplatast tosilate the mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨ m) (Figure 6). Since the osteoblasts are highly metabolically active cells, they are rich in mitochondrial content (Figure 7) and, therefore, potentially susceptible to mitochondrial apoptotic threats, but it is not clear what apoptotic pathway is predominant in pathological conditions such as osteoporosis of its different types.20 Figure 6 Examples of microscopic images of cells stained by JC-1.
This study is the largest one to date with only 37 patients (mat
This study is the largest one to date with only 37 patients (matched to 61 PM patients). The Ion Channel Ligand Library research buy presence of concomitant HM was shown to be an independent prognostic factor. The three-year disease-free survival was poor at only 6%. Their conclusion was that synchronous PM and HM disease was feasible to operate but that the PCI score should be lower Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical than 12 and that the number of HM should be max 2. This differs from the earlier Milano consensus, which puts the limit at three (16). Table 4 Comparison of studies reporting outcome in combined treatment of PM and HM The aim of our study was to
provide matched groups according to the most important prognostic indicators: PCI, surgical result, and type of IPC (7,8,17). The matching was successful and comparison of clinical
Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical and surgical variables was highly congruous. Besides the difference of HM, only one out of the other 26 variables was statistically different (number of gastrointestinal resections) and only one other variable was close at P=0.06 (more low tumour grade in the PM group). Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical In order to ascertain the effect of these differences a univariate and a multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression was performed. Both the number of gastrointestinal resections and tumour grade had no statistically significant effect on the overall survival (Table 3). After these analyses results, the effect of HM on the overall survival was evaluated. Two methods were used, the two-tailed log rank test of a Kaplan-Meier curve (Figures 1,,2)2) and the Cox proportional hazard regression (Table 3). The overall survival did not appear to be statistically effected by the presence and concomitant treatment of HM; but, the study does not have enough Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical power to ascertain this adequately. On the other hand, there was a clear tendency toward lower DFS in the PM/HM group as seen in Figure 2. When comparing recurrences between the groups, it becomes increasingly clear that there is a significantly higher risk of recurrence in the PM/HM group. Currently, only 1/10 (10%) R1 resections in the PM/HM Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical group remains disease free, while
9/20 (45%) is disease free in the PM group (P=0.05). Furthermore, it is interesting that the PM/HM group recurs almost twice as much regardless of location compared Farnesyltransferase to the PM group. This is an interesting finding as it supports the notion that some patients with isolated PM disease may have a different metastatic profile and potential. One may speculate that the genetic mutations needed for hematogenic growth has not yet been acquired in many patients with isolated PM. This may also be the reason that some patients become eligible for repeat cytoreductive procedures (18). Figure 2 Disease-free survival of colorectal peritoneal and hepatic metastases (PM/HM) vs. peritoneal metastases (PM) alone, P=0.1 Most studies report on the overall survival as seen in Table 4. Now, this is, of course, a relevant aspect.
83 Given ethical concerns about placebo-controlled trials in
83 Given ethical concerns about placebo-controlled trials in TW-37 solubility dmso relapse prevention, it has become customary to utilize relapse criteria which do not require a full-blown psychotic exacerbation, but rather rely on minimally clinically significant early signs of relapse. Subsequently, relapse rates might be higher than in studies conducted previously, and there are a number of potential false positives. The use of placebo controls in relapse prevention Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical studies is another source of controversy, and opinions of regulatory authorities also differ on this topic. Some would argue that the
demonstration of non-inferiority in comparison to a proven efficacious compound should be sufficient. However, both dropout and response rates vary whether an active or placebo control is used,85 and relapse rates vary enormously- across trials. For example, a recent trial comparing Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical depot and oral medications reported rehospitalization rates of 39% and 45%, respectively, in a 2-year study.86 By contrast, other trials reported rehospitalization rates as low as 1.3% and 5.8%
with depot and oral medications, respectively, at 1 year,87 and 9.3% and 15.2% , respectively, at 2 years.88 Therefore, it is difficult to be certain if one is dealing with an ineffective medication or with a patient population that is highly vulnerable to relapse Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical regardless of medication status. Another Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical important issue that needs to be considered in the design of maintenance and relapse prevention studies is the timing of the randomization. In most trials, patients are randomized in the acute treatment phase and then continued into an extension maintenance study. However, if patients are not rerandomized after stabilization, the concern is that by including randomly assigned, acutely exacerbated patients, only those patients at risk for relapse who had responded to and tolerated the specific acute treatment participate
in the maintenance portion of the trial. This could lead to a selection bias for patients who experienced less side effects or experienced more improvement Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical on the allocated medication. This concern is particularly relevant when there are unequal proportions of patients in each originally randomized ADP ribosylation factor group that enter the maintenance and relapse prevention phase of the study. The degree to which patients entering the trial are stable and whether this is established retrospectively or prospectively are other important considerations. As for relapse, stability criteria and the required duration of stability or remission are insufficiently standardized. Another important issue is the duration of the trial. Since some long studies suggest different patterns of relapse during the first and second years,89,86,90 a duration of 2 years or longer is ideal. But, of course, the longer the duration, the higher the dropout rate might be. The dropout rate varies from study to study, but some surpass 50%.
The basic constituent, G 22,355, is the iminodibenzyl nucleus, sy
The basic constituent, G 22,355, is the iminodibenzyl nucleus, synthesized in 1899 by Thiele and Holzinger. Kuhn’s expectations were not fulfilled. The substance was ineffective in schizophrenia. Nonetheless, before returning his drug supply, Kuhn
decided to try the substance in one of his female patients with severe endogenous depression. This led to the recognition on January Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical 18,1956, that G 22,355 may have antidepressant, effects. Encouraged by his findings, Kuhn administered G 22,355 to two more female patients with severe endogenous depression. In both patients the drug had favorable effects. Furthermore, in all three patients discontinuation of treatment resulted Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical in relapse, which was reversed by resumption of the medication. This prompted Kuhn to treat 40 more depressed patients with G 22,355 at the clinic. It, was on the basis of his observations
of these patients that he concluded that the drug is effective in endogenous depression, in which vital disturbance is in the foreground.64 Kuhn attributed his discovery to his ability to recognize the depressive population responsive to the drug. As far as he was concerned, “chance” and “good fortune” were only contributing factors.65 Kuhn’s first, paper on the treatment, of depressive states with an iminobenzylderivative, G 22,355 was Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical published in the August 31st issue of the Swiss Medical Journal in 1957.66 On September 2nd, he also presented his findings at, the 2nd World Congress of Psychiatry in Zurich. By the end of the year, G 22,355, the first tricyclic Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical antidepressant, was released for clinical use in Switzerland with the generic name of imipramine, and the brand name of Tofranil. There was strong opposition by academic psychiatry to the drug treatment of depression in the late 1950s, but Kuhn prevailed, and the introduction of MG-132 datasheet imipramine opened up the path for the development, of other antidepressants. Iproniazid In the same year that Kuhn presented
and published Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical his findings on the antidepressant effect of imipramine, two independent groups of investigators, Loomers, Saunders, and Kline, and Crane, presented their findings Carnitine dehydrogenase on the therapeutic effect, of iproniazid, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, in depression, at a, regional meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Syracuse, New York.67,68 Iproniazid, an isonicotinic acid hydrazidc, was synthesized in 1951 by Herbert Fox at Roche laboratories in Nutley, New Jersey (USA) for the chemotherapy of tuberculosis. In 1952, using iproniazid in tubercular patients, Sclikoff, Robitzek, and Orcnstein noted that, the drug produced euphoria and overactive behavior in some patients.69 In the same year, Zeller and his associates revealed the potent monoamine oxidase-inhibiting properties of the drug.70 Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is the enzyme responsible for the oxidative deamination of neurotransmitter monoamines, such as serotonin (5-H.
3 4 Drug Delivery Dosage
Forms and FUS Future Perspecti
3.4. Drug Delivery Dosage
Forms and FUS Future Perspective During the last few years there has been an expansion in research in MRgFUS drug delivery. The main dosage forms tested in MRgFUS drug delivery strategy are the thermosensitive liposomes and the lipid based selleck compound microbubbles that can be conjugated with drugs or other liposomes on their surface [78, 81]. There is limited research in the area of using other responsive materials or nanocarriers. Rapoport discussed recently the potential of using micelles and FUS [82] for enhanced tissue permeation. Micelles are nanosized Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical carriers able to carry hydrophobic drugs; their combination with FUS could substantially enhance their delivery in tissues. Kostarelos and colleagues suggested Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical the incorporation of thermosensitive peptides onto liposome bilayers to enhance thermoresponsiveness [83], and the group of Lammers designed polymer-based microbubbles for ultrasound drug release [84]. It is clear that already established delivery systems such as different structurally nanocarriers have not been investigated in combination with image guided FUS. It would be interesting to see the effect of FUS on the enhanced permeability of micelles,
polymers (dendrimers cyclodextrins), or metal nanoparticles (gold-iron) to tissues. Thermosensitive materials have been hardly explored in this field. Polymers or proteins Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical that respond to small change of temperature could form suitable image guided FUS triggered platforms. The effects of FUS in biological tissues with or without carriers will require a more thorough investigation to understand the Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical short- and long-term effects of ultrasound in the body and the complex environments such as tumours, blood vessels, and bone. The mechanism of FUS induced hyperthermia and/or the FUS tissue permeability increase is not well understood at cellular and molecular levels. There is
limited knowledge Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical on the effects of FUS on genomic DNA and if certain proteins are overexpressed after FUS treatment. In addition to the above, the frequency of FUS drug delivery treatments (or dosing) and the long-term effects in the body will have to be investigated in preclinical studies in order to design a FUS drug treatment regime. An imaging modality will have to be used for accurate image guided FUS therapy. In the case of MRI clinically approved contrast Immunity – Cell enhancing agents will have to be added to the delivery system to monitor carriers’ distribution in the treatment area as well as efficient and rapid release. Considering the approval in clinical applications, such treatments will require the control of several factors such as drug and drug carrier, MRI contrast enhancing agents, and MRgFUS parameters, and this could mean several regulatory hurdles. However, the fact that most of the components (FUS, liposomes) have been tested in clinical trials is encouraging for such approach to move forward.
As other authors, Zisook and Shear15 have shown, normal or uncomp
As other authors, Zisook and Shear15 have shown, normal or uncomplicated grief shows a broad variability since it is different for every person and for every bereavement, in particular its main affects or cognitions (eg, sadness, despair, loneliness, disbelief, bewilderment), its intensity and duration is highly variable. Here, symptoms range from mild alterations to Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical profound outbursts and dysfunction. However, painful experiences are intermingled with positive feelings, such as joy, peace, and gratitude. For normal grief, it is assumed that grieving individuals are able to move from acute grief states in the early aftermath of a death, to states
of integrated or abiding remeniscences where the deceased is more easily called to mind, the reality of the death is acknowledged, and the bereaved person is able to return to enjoyable relationships and activities. Finally, the bereaved person is able to form a new symbolic relationship with the deceased, whereby they are able to accept them back into their lives, as deceased. Conversely, some bereaved individuals can Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical experience a prolonged or intense form of grief that is associated with substantial impairment to work, health, and social functioning. This state is what Horowitz,
Prigerson, Shear, and other researchers Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical call CG, but it is also referred to as unresolved or traumatic grief. In these cases, the bereaved person typically has difficulty in accepting the death, and intense separation and traumatic distress usually last well beyond
6 months. The bereaved find themselves in a repetitive loop of intense yearning and longing, Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical which become the major focus of their lives. They may also believe that their life is over, and that the intense pain that they perceive will never end. Overall, a significant preoccupation with the deceased can develop. On one hand, overinvolvement with activities related to the deceased can often occur, while on the other, excessive avoidance — as demonstrated by patients suffering from PTSD. Communalities and differences between prolonged grief disorder and EMD 1214063 post-traumatic stress disorder As already outlined, PGD shares some commonalities with Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical the PTSD diagnosis. This is to be expected, if it is assumed that these two clinical conditions belong to stress-response syndromes. Table I gives an overview of similarities and differences between the two. The B-criteria of both disorders address overlapping phenomenological domains: intrusive thoughts and yearning. Table I Communalities and differences Entinostat of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Whereas intrusive thoughts are defined as painful memories of the trauma, the yearning symptoms are defined as intrusive, unfulfilled wishes that the deceased person be present. Both kinds of symptoms may be defined as permanent memory states. With respect to PTSD, this manifests itself as negative sensory or cognitive-emotional content of the traumatic experience.
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Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
John Hudson Posts: 1,987
The fact that there is a debate, that there is always a debate, around the topic of revival, inspiration and derivation, should make plain to everyone that it isn't a clean subject. Dave and co seem to tend to the view that all type design is derivative and hence anything goes, but clearly that's not the case. If people are made uncomfortable by something, that's often an indication that there's something about which to feel uncomfortable.
There is a range of factors affecting the probity of creative work within conventional systems, and all writing systems are conventional. Generally speaking, the older a work is the more comfortable people are to see new versions of it, even multiple new versions (think of the small flood of Fleischmann-inspired types we saw a few years ago). If a design has a strong individual flavour, similar designs will be more likely to be frowned on than if a design exists in an established genre, cf. the discussion about News Gothic earlier in the thread: that's a design that synthesised a whole genre of 19th Century gothics, and established design conventions for a recognisable style, within which there's room for exploration even while observing the conventions (as, for example, Source Sans does). Conversely, if one of your contemporaries has recently released a design with some strong individuality, you're going to be criticised for making something similar to it. That's the nature of the type business: we work within conventional systems, but try to respect the space that each other's work creates in the moment. Over the year's I've often looked at something a colleague has done and thought 'I wish I'd had that idea', and sometimes even the thought 'Damn, that's what I was planning to do next month'. It doesn't matter if the idea in question involves reinterpretation of some source material, or a revival of some historical type: it's at least temporarily off-limits if someone else got there first this time around.
Dave, you seem to be using the term 'derivative' to refer to anything that even remotely references some other work. That's not a technical usage, such as employed in IP law, and nor is it common usage. Derivative implies something that directly exploits an existing work, often even to the point of utilising elements of that work. Yes, there is a messy continuum between a derivative work, an inspired work and an original work, but that doesn't mean that they're all the same, or that people can't make prudential judgements about the nature of a particular example, even as there will be some disagreement about those judgements. [Segoe UI is a good example: I know people who think it's a straight knock-off of Frutiger Next, and other people who think it's an original design within a particular genre; personally, I think it's one design too many within a too narrowly defined genre.]
PabloImpallari Posts: 530
Ok... here we go again.... puff... I was trying to make good use of Matthew's advice and stop commenting, but you guys keep pulling me in
I'm interested in Ramiro's second part:
...and trying to make poor design standards acceptable...
Who defines what is "good design" and what is "bad design"?
A jury of notorious, experienced designers, gatekeepers of good taste?
Or, simply, the people that choose to use or buy any particular fonts?
Many of the fonts that you will consider to be great design, will end up selling or being used very little. And many of the fonts that you will consider to be crap, will end up being loved by the masses.
One of the fonts that I love the most at Google Fonts, it's Almendra. It's beautiful, original, and it comes with all the added goodies: Swashes, Small Caps, Inline display version, 2 set of figures (OldStyle and Lining), etc.
To me, it's a truly work of art, unique and full of soul. I'm deeply in love with it.
It was awarded at the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2012. I hope you will agree, and qualify it as "good design".
However, for some reason that I don't understand, it's has not resonated among the masses and the stats are pretty low.
For many of the Sudtipos fonts ("Good Design") included at Google Fonts, I expected them to reach the very top of the stats, since they are top sellers at MyFonts and Ale is incredibly popular and and his fonts are multi-awarded. But for some reason that I don't understand, that has not happened. His font have not resonated among Google Fonts users and they are low on GF stats. Maybe it just was because they are best fitted for print works, and not so much for the web... who knows? I don't know.
On the other hand, fonts like Crafty Girls or Shadows into Light that you will catalog as "Bad Design" (Hey! Some are just handwritten auto-tracing!), for some reason, they have resonated among the public, and are at the very top of the stars.
So, I ask again: Who or What defines what is "good design" and "bad design"?
It's a perfect font that no one will use, any better than a crappy one that everybody will use?
It's the opinion of an expert jury any better than the opinion from the crowd?
We can also extend this discussion, not only to Google Fonts, but also to other resellers like Myfonts (the very same website that Ramiro is using to distribute his fonts), since both share the same approach. Nick Sherman, Adam and Jan Middendrop once explained at Typophile that they will not reject "bad design", that they specifically avoided creating a "jury of notorious", and instead they will let "bad design" sink to the bottom of the rankings. That it's, basically, the same approach of Google Fonts.
You only have to do a quick look at Myfonts "What's New", and you will see a lot of "bad design" every week, comparable to some of the ones at GF. I think it will be easy for us to agree that myfonts also carries a lot of crappy ones.
Also, there are a lot of derivative and look-alike fonts at myfonts. I have heard Ramiro complaining specifically about Latinotype's Comalle as being a Tomate look-a-like.
For me that's enough to have a very negative opinion about [Dave].
So, I ask Ramiro:
What's your opinion about myfonts?
It's Myfonts also justifying derivative fonts by not removing Comalle?
It's Myfonts also promoting bad design by not having a "jury of notorious" rejecting bad designs/crappy fonts? or higher standards about the fonts they let get inside?
Is that enough for you to have a negative opinion of them?
If you have a negative opinion about Myfonts:
Why your fonts are still there?
If you have a positive opinion about MyFonts.
Why do you have a negative opinion about Dave?
Ramiro Espinoza Posts: 766
@Dave None of my fonts are based on existing digital data (or even typography!). Some are inspired by lettering or calligraphic models but even in these cases they are not direct copies of the model. Winco and Kade aren't based in any existing alphabet in particular and its connections with other models are very very loose. Lavigne and Tomate (actually, rather successful fonts) are not inspired in anything but my own sketches.
Of course many of my works have been influenced by previous designs (mostly non typographic) but this is not considered to be 'derivative work' in the type community. You are trying to add confusion to the debate in order to justify people who just tweak existing fonts and present them as original type design. The fact that you don't see or seem to understand the difference only shows you ignorance on type matters.
@Pablo: I've never made a complain about a piracy case involving one of my fonts. Myfonts do remove derivative fonts when there is enough base to the claims. I've never accused another person of copying my fonts so there was not such case. I do think some foundries have a policy of releasing look-alikes design and I consider it objectionable. It is a grey area and some folks know how to exploit it. However, the fact that some can release look-alike design and get away with it, does not mean they are going to be respected in the type community for it.
Dave Crossland Posts: 1,068
Sure have read John downer, who offers 3 primary classes: Revivals, remixes, clones. Ramiro and David Lemon talk of derivatives in such a broad way that I understand covers the whole spectrum.
When John Hudson says i and the folks at Google who actually decide these things, some of whose nuanced thinking i re posted here, think anything goes, he is surely mistaken.
when Ramiro says I am justifying the tweaking of existing font outlines, I challenge him to name then.
I am not adding confusion, I'm saying as John says that it isn't a clean subject, there are a range of factors, and let's enumerate them as John Downer attempted to, to aid clear thinking about this.
>> Ramiro and David Lemon talk of derivatives in such a broad way that I understand covers the whole spectrum.
Where I did so? I don't use 'derivative design' in a broad sense because I know what it means. You and Pablo are the people trying to blur the limits of what has already been defined and agreed years ago.
You said, "you [Dave] are justifying derivative fonts" which I understand in a broad sense.
Please clarify.
I already did
When you say I am justifying the tweaking of existing font outlines, I challenge you to name them. That is the clarification that I am seeking, and so far you've made a lot of accusations but not really substantiated them.
@Dave: Every time someone point out a GF that resemble too much commercial fonts fonts, like in the case of 'Fjord One' or 'Crimson Text', you argue that this appropriation is inside the boundaries of what is considered OK in the type business and point out examples of similar design "borrowing" (BTW, this is the kind of arguments guys like Fred Nader used to use).
My opinion is that the fact that foundries have duplicated and released fonts from other foundries in the past (or in the present) does not make it acceptable. It is plenty of such examples of knock-offs and lookalikes but when you point at them to justify some fonts in the Google Fonts library, you are only putting yourself at the level of the people who indulge in these dubious practices (and blink an eye to young designers who may be tempted to follow this easy path.)
One thing is to research an historical source, interpreting and adapting it to typographic systems and another very different is to take existing digital data, tweaking the serifs and/or stems and rename the font claiming is a new 'design'. The case of lookalikes is more complicated from a legal perspective but ethically is not that so. You can release fonts that looks very similar to other successful typefaces without sharing a single point in their digital data. Is it possible and legal? Much probably, yes. Is it considered acceptable or ethical among our colleagues? No, it's not.
Ramiro, since the designers of Fjord and Crimson do research historical sources, interpret and adapt them to new typographic systems - the web - your argument falls flat.
No one is taking existing proprietary outlines and modifying them, and I find it puzzling you make this accusation. There are no clones/lookalikes in the gf collection, either. Now who is mudding the waters?
There are similar fonts, but that they draw on the same historical sources as others is well and good to me, and Source Sans is a fine example of that sort of similarity. the cartel behaviour that John Hudson described is curious but not something I wish to participate in - I feel it is legal risky in fact.
@Dave:
>> since the designers of Fjord and Crimson do research historical sources,
>> interpret and adapt them to new typographic systems - the web - your argument falls flat.
Yeah, "historical surces"... From what period? The 80s or the 90s?
"New typographic systems" ? Like going from Postscript to WOFF? Or CFF OpenType to EOT? What is this? Another blink to your type design team? This conversation is pointless.
...You and Pablo are the people trying to blur the limits of what has already been defined and agreed years ago.... You can release fonts that looks very similar to other successful typefaces without sharing a single point in their digital data. Is it possible and legal? Much probably, yes. Is it considered acceptable or ethical among our colleagues? No, it's not...
Is Caslon to be considered unacceptable/unethical?
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Yeah, "historical surces"... From what periods? The 80s or the 90s?
And Macula? the so called "impossible typeface". It looks very similar to Bronislaw Zelek typeface to me. And certainly, not impossible at all since that concept has already been done. That's just marketing.
Please, explain me, I'm trying to understand:
Why do you think Comalle is a Tomate look alike, and Macula is not a Zelek look alike?
"New typographic systems" ? Like going from Postscript to WOFF? Or CFF OpenType to EOT? What is this?
It's the same for what you charge 2X for your automatically converted fonts
If, as you say, there is no difference: Why do you charge double?
Graphic Designers out there, take note:
When your clients ask for .jpg or .png instead of .bmp or .tiff, CHARGE DOUBLE!
Because it's the web! It's different from print!
It's another medium! Another usage!
You clients needs a different license for using compressed .png files!
It is legal to charge double for an automatically converted font? Yes!
Ethical?... probably not
This conversation is pointless.
Agree with that... it's pointless.
Scott-Martin Kosofsky Posts: 293
"The old fellows stole all of our best ideas," is a popular quotation from Frederic Goudy. Keep in mind that Goudy never copied anything literally, save for one type he made based on his own rubbings from the Trajan Column. And also keep in mind that, by the time he did it, the Trajan letters had lost much of their weight to deterioration, so it, too, was an interpretation.
There's a big difference between stylistic influence and outright copying, but even an act of copying can have its own merits. Some of it is a matter of tools; in early metal, before electrotyping was invented, any attempt at copying was, by its nature, an act of interpretation. Bodoni spent the early part of his career imitating the types of Fournier, but coming from Bodoni's own hand they have their own nuances. This is quite different from basing a digital type on outlines made by someone else, in which a copy-and-paste can bring along the sidebearings and even the kerning data. When Caslon made types under the influence of earlier Dutch typecutters, the line weights and justification of the matrices were entirely his own. A beautiful set of letters can be destroyed as type by bad spacing, so you might say that the white space between the letters are as much a part of type design as the letters themselves. Moreover, in the case of Caslon, the x-heights are different from his Dutch models. He made something that was new (with the exception of one of his larger types, for which he bought strikes from Holland--it's the size that Stephenson Blake sold as 42 pt).
My work is first and foremost as a designer and producer of books. In many instances I work with my own types, but I have also remade a number of fonts made by others to suit my purposes. I have respaced other people's fonts from scratch, I have altered and added glyphs, I have added OT features, and I have even changed their weights. But I do not claim credit for them as my own work (though I have, in colophons, mentioned that the types were modified), neither do I sell them nor give them away. I purchased the fonts or was given them by their makers. I see this work as interpretative and personal, much the same as a musical performer does when playing music that they, themselves, did not compose--a time-honored tradition that is accepted and rewarded in our culture.
The underlying letterforms we have all inherited are common property, and so are the stylistic trends that develop from time to time, no matter if they're old or recent. There are always "references." It is for these reasons that U.S. copyright law has never recognized letter design as falling within its purview. Though I believe there could be exceptions, I think it is a reasonable standard for the vast majority. (A determination would require the establishment of a "Type Court"--not very likely!) Be that as it may, I find it to be a more acceptable path than the confusing rules of the EU or other entities.
So, given my liberal interpretations, what's my problem with Google Fonts? It violates my own sense of fairness and integrity because it opens the possibility that the work of others that was created for an exchange of payment is being misrepresented or given away. That can happen on MyFonts or other sales outlets, too, but at least there one can seek redress if property rights have been violated. And, amongst type people, there is the standard of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." With Google Fonts, the property rights have become vaporized and they have no skin in the game.
I agree with all that.
But you are choosing to see only the similarities, and not the differences between Fjord and Fedra, and accusing it of being a copy-past job. While you prefer to see differences and not the similarities in Caslon's types.
AKAIK, Fjord was developed by Viktoriya Grabowska, during an entire year, as a graduation project for his MA in Graphic and Type Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 2010. It was previously named Young at that stage. It has also received some awards, as you can see of the author's blog.
So, if it went thought all the usual stages of a typical graduation project in a university. I have many doubts about it being a quick copy-paste job, as you and others are assuming.
Does it deserves the benefit of the doubt? I think it does.
Those of you that seems to think that GF expressly hired someone to create a Fedra clone, are simply misinformed, and plain wrong about it.
I have no problem if you think that. It's ok with me.
But, again, not everyone want's to keep control of their fonts.
Many people want their fonts to become Libre.
Many doesn't have any problem in giving their work away, if they have been previously compensated.
The mayor part of the world population does work-for-hire.
kupfers Posts: 246
Moderators — can you please ask people to not attack each other on such a personal level here, or close the discussion.
Agree with Indra. I have asked the same previously.
So why are you not acting according to it then? (And don’t say “but because he said … first …”. This goes for everyone who struck a rude tone here). Kindergarten.
Dave, a couple of points:
1. When I referred to 'Dave and co' I was talking about the impression left by comments made in this thread by you, Vernon and, to a lesser extent, Pablo. I wasn't talking about ' the folks at Google who actually decide these things'; indeed, I'm not talking about the GF font collection, 99% of which I've not even looked at (I don't actually pay much attention to contemporary Latin type design). I wasn't aware of Fjord One or Crimson Text before this thread, and I'm not very interested in debating whether X font looks too much like Y font. That said, I do think Fedra Serif is a good example of what I spoke about in my last post: a recent design with a strong individual flavour, such that a good number of people are bound to be uncomfortable with something as similar as Fjord. [As a general principle, I think any company should be wary of student projects, because almost everything a beginner designer does is likely to be too derivative for comfort (mine certainly were). Students tend to be very focused on contemporary design, especially today thanks to social media, and to spend too much time looking at what fashionable foundries are producing. The results can be very useful as learning exercises, but most should be buried after graduation. The best student projects that do go on to be released tend to be ones that have been worked on for a number of years after graduation.]
2. I don't think there's anything of 'cartel behaviour' in what I described as professional courtesy. A cartel is a deliberate agreement between competitors to limit and control competition (à la the old ATypI code morale, which I was instrumental in having removed from the association statutes in 2004). If I were to say to colleague X, 'I won't sell anything similar to your typeface Y for fifteen years if you don't sell anything similar to my typeface Z', then that would be something like a cartel agreement. I'm talking about having respect for another individual's creative work as a matter of personal ethics. You asked me earlier if I thought pricing should be based on 'normal market mechanisms' or if there were 'something moral involved'. There's always something moral involved, and normal market mechanisms don't make that go away, they just relegate it; indeed, historically, there's nothing normal about market mechanisms (cf. studies by anthropologists studying non-market economies; to my mind, some of the most interesting and important academic work being done today). You also asked me whether I was still sympathetic to the utopian goals of free software. Yes, insofar as these goals resemble more a human economy than a market one. But as I've said to you numerous times over the years, I think trying to enact those goals within the context of corporate capitalism is just inviting exploitation of individual creative producers by the owners of capital, who are able to leverage massively more value from creative works than the individual creator. I might point to the regretably small 'bounties' that GF has reportedly paid for some font 'freedom' as an example of such exploitation (and I'm unimpressed, in this regard, by statements from some of those designers that they're satisfied with the amounts; where's their analysis of the value Google derives from the fonts that would determine whether the bounty is proportionate, fair or exploitative?).
So why are you not acting according to it then?
Agree again Indra. I should not have come down to the same level. Apologies for the rude tone of my last posts.
I do apologies if I was rude; I certainly don't mean to attack or harangue any one personally, and aim to focus on the substance of the discussion and not the individuals participating in it.
John, sorry I misinterpreted you there - took 'and co' a bit literally I guess
You responded to some of my points by citing a reference to some fonts by a Ms. Grabowska, which I don't know and had not discussed.
But let me get closer to what I believe is the heart of the matter: I have reason to believe that the outlines of some glyphs and ranges of glyphs that appear on Google Fonts might not have originated with their credited authors, but rather in commercial fonts. Let me point specifically to the italic lowercase of your own Libre Baskerville. For one thing, the lowercase design is not Baskerville, but Monotype Bell (based on a Richard Austin type). You've modified the design nicely, adding a Baskerville "g" and “k,” but kept Monotype's modernized "h" (Austin’s original had a foot that curled under). But, most tellingly, you've used the Bell “p,” which is decidedly non-Baskervillian. Though the weight and terminals of Libre Baskerville and Monotype Bell are different, the control points of the two seem to coincide quite a bit, though that may be coincidental.
Is it possible that work that parts of commercial fonts are being copied, albeit with modifications, and being given away on Google Fonts? And, if so, how does that coincide with your Libre philosophy?
Scott, I'm always happy to clarify any doubts.
For our version of Libre Baskerville, we have used a public domain ATF Baskerville specimen as the source (as stated in the font description). A Fry's cut of Baskerville.
I'm attaching a image, comparing the specimen to our font.
As you can see in the image, we didn't changed the /k, nor the /h, nor the /p.
Those changes that have puzzled you into believing that we reused other fonts where already there. It is Fry to be attributed
The only change we did, is to add the characteristic aperture on the /g tail. Because we like it, and we tough that other people may also like it.
Other changes we discussed, was to make and updated version of the /A /V and /W with less angle. But finally we decided to keep the original more slanted ones as default, and to provide the modernized less slanted ones as alternates (available via ss01).
Some may say that a Fry Baskerville is not a real Baskerville, but that's a topic for another discussion.
Back to our topic:
We created all the outlines for it.
And we don't like point piracy, be it Libre or Propietary.
Sorry, forgot to attach the image in the previous comment. Here it is
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Moderators — can you please ask people to not attack each other on such a personal level here, or close the discussion
Sorry if I missed stuff, but I’m honestly not reading most of this thread because the posts have become very long and there’s not much in them that I haven’t already read elsewhere. Anyway, everybody please keep it civil.
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@James Thank you for not closing the thread; there's a lot of good opinions and information being written here. There has been a very small amount of give and take creep in but nothing objectionable. Just saying.
Pablo, thank you for the explanation. When Stephenson, Blake revived the Fry's Baskerville, they abandoned the italic, which wasn't so nice. For ATF, however, Morris Fuller Benton made a new italic--using the lowercase from the Austin's "Bell" types, which were already in use in the United States. So indeed, they are largely the same.
Scott said, emphasis mine,
But let me get closer to what I believe is the heart of the matter: I have reason to believe that the outlines of some glyphs and ranges of glyphs that appear on Google Fonts might not have originated with their credited authors, but rather in commercial fonts.
the control points of the two seem to coincide quite a bit, though that may be coincidental.
Is it possible that work that parts of commercial fonts are being copied, albeit with modifications, and being given away on Google Fonts?
Pablo, I must commend you on being so polite in your response to this
Scott, given canonical point placement techniques, the control points of any two glyphs from type in the same genre will of course be found in similar places, and yes, it is entirely coincidental. I guess that if we look at some ps outline glyphs in Myriad and Frutiger and Segoe, we'll see this. I have none of these available to me, so I'll be happy for someone else who has legally licensed copies to post the image. So Scott, what is your reason to believe that any font in GF involves point piracy? You seem to be making baseless statements and I really don't get where this is coming from.
When I point at the duplicates made by - say - Matthew Carter ("the traditional way to build a library," ho ho) I am pointing out these clones because there are no clones in the GF collection - except for ATF or otherwise indisputably public domain designs. My point is not that all type design is derivative and hence anything goes, as clearly that's not the case; my point is that folks like Matthew Carter have profited handsomely from making 100s of clones, while being held up as an esteemed colleague in our community, and those who design and publish original designs that dare to be contemporary - or even faithful historical revivals - are made out as villains, even to the extent that they are accused of point piracy by Scott and Erik Speikermann.
Presumably the fonts supposedly involving point piracy are not those which are - clearly - the wholly original yet woefully pitiful and substandard works of rank amateurs I guess you are referring to the works you think do carry some quality. As Pablo has said, many of the designs unfairly derided as rip offs are postgraduate student projects, which are done over months of interpreting, adapting and working, supervised by veteran type designers. If it passes academic standards of plagiarism, which are necessarily higher than the standard that Erik Speikermann explains in his video and which so far there has been an eerie silence about, it is reasonably original?
John, you say that students often makes type that is "too derivative," continuing to use the term 'derivative' in a way that refers to anything that even remotely references some other work With this definition, almost all type design is derivative, which is why I am opposing its usage by David Lemon As Raph explained, those involved in deciding what GF has published have made prudential judgements about the nature of each design published, and I'm okay with disagreements about them.
Where I am confused is when folks like Scott and Ramiro say that similar designs are clones, or when David Lemon says that similar designs that Adobe releases are not similar at all.
I never said that "similar design" are clones.
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Queers and mods: social and sartorial interaction in London’s Carnaby Street
Cole, Shaun (2012) Queers and mods: social and sartorial interaction in London’s Carnaby Street. In: The Meanings of Dress. Fairchild Publishers Ltd, New York, pp. 214-221. ISBN 9781609012786
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This chapter looks at the development of Vince Man's Shop and its catalogue as a prime site of gay consumption in the 1950s and early 1960s. This chapter uses an oral history methodology to gather and analyse new reminiscences and memories of Vince's from a group of men who worked at and bought from the shop and its notorious mail order catalogue. This will be complimented by textual and image analysis of the catalogue and publicity images, specifically noting the 'secret' messages that were relayed to the Vince's gay consumers.The second part of this chapter will investigate the previously relatively under explored interaction and further explore how dress operated as a sometimes ambiguous and manipulable indicator of fluid male identities.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/meanings-of-dress-the-9781609012786/
Homosexuality, subcultures
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Dairy Australia supports farmers in building and developing knowledge, skills and capabilities of their people on-farm and the future workforce of the industry.
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A Career in Dairy
An overview of the resources and programs Dairy Australia offers and supports for those seeking a career in the dairy industry.
Dairy Australia runs workshops and events through its regional teams to assist farmers in up-skilling both themselves and farm workers on both technical and non-technical aspects of farming.
Workshops and events are delivered across the country by more than 35 extension officers working in the regional teams and by technically skilled consultants.
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Dairy Australia provides a number of expert led workshops to explore these options:
Stepping Up - Know your options: for those considering share farming, leasing, or weighing up their next career move. Includes goal setting, understanding basic financials and raising equity.
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The dairy industry offers scholarships to attract people to the industry and to provide those working in the industry with opportunities for ongoing development.
Dairy Science Travel Grants
Dairy Australia's Dairy Science Travel Grant grows capability across the Australian dairy industry by helping early-career dairy researchers and service providers and PhD students to build networks and knowledge in their chosen field.
Participants have the opportunity to attend the American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting.
Read more about how Dairy Science Travel Grants have helped people in the case studies below.
Tasmanian researcher applies global insights to local research
A Dairy Science Travel Grant gave 28-year-old Tasmanian researcher Adam Langworthy the chance to boost his dairy research through new global insights.
The junior research fellow has started his career at the Dairy, Grains and Grazing Centre of the University of Tasmania’s Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture.
He works across a range of dairy research projects, including virtual fencing, nitrogen use and irrigation.
After working on a dairy farm during his agricultural science degree, Adam previously took part in Dairy Australia’s Dairy Manufacturing Scholarship program to learn more about post-farm gate, meeting with processors, retailers and consumers across Australia.
Through his Dairy Science Travel Grant this year, Adam attended the American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting to learn more about research and innovation in the fields related to his research, bringing his knowledge back home to Australia.
“It was a real eye opener – I’d never gone outside of Australia before,” Adam said.
“I was able to build networks for future research collaboration and was exposed to dairy systems in the US.”
The highlight for Adam was seeing the latest breakthroughs in silage production and forage systems and learning about alternative dairy production systems.
He also sought to build his skills by attending workshops on modelling nutrition in dairy cattle and statistical analysis for mixed models.
“These workshops meant I could apply new knowledge directly to my research,” Adam said.
Adam was struck by the emphasis the conference had on developing young people and believes it was a lesson in how to attract and retain talented young people to dairy here in Australia.
“They had mentoring sessions for young people and allowed them to meet up with potential employers – it’s a great way to support a network of young people and keep them in the industry,” he said.
Adam would not hesitate to recommend the program to others, citing the global networks he created and the training opportunities he had.
“There are a lot of opportunities for learning through the Dairy Science Travel Grants and you get the chance to make contacts in a range of countries.”
Northern Victorian nutritionist builds skills
Northern Victorian ruminant nutritionist Ellen Fitzgibbon’s Dairy Science Travel Grant allowed her to develop new knowledge and skills by meeting world leading researchers.
The 28-year-old lives on-farm in Nagambie and grew up with a passion for agriculture, eventually leading to her current role managing research and development for CopRice Nutrition.
“The future of agriculture is something that runs through my veins,” Ellen said.
“I’m passionate about the success of young Australian farmers with a particular focus on sustainability, both economic and environmental.”
On a day-to-day basis, Ellen oversees new product and additive trials, develops best practice models that are practical and achievable on-farm and coordinates education programs for the CopRice field nutrition team and farming communities.
One of Ellen’s current projects sees her working with farmers to assess and manipulate the quality of colostrum being produced by spring calving herds and assessing successful rates of transfer to calves.
“Reproduction is a specific focus of mine. With so many pieces to the puzzle, we’re following a generation from conception through to the milking platform,” Ellen said.
Ellen applied for a Dairy Science Travel Grant to continue to build her skills after previously undertaking Dairy Australia’s training programs such as ReproRight, InCalf, Feeding Pastures for Profit and Advanced Nutrition in Action.
“I have been fortunate enough to complete a number of Dairy Australia programs in the past and I was thrilled to receive one of the Dairy Science Travel Grants,” she said.
A busy few days at the American Dairy Science Association Annual Meeting saw Ellen meet with global leaders in her field, taking in new insights which she plans to apply directly to her work in Australia.
Some of the topics she gained new insights on included pregnancy failure, metabolic health and nutrition, fetal programming, fodder conservation and taking data to make decisions.
“To attend a conference with over 3,000 like-minded people, passionate about the same industry, presented an incredible opportunity to broaden my networks," Ellen said.
"I will rely on the relationships built for the entirety of my career."
Young ruminant nutritionist brings global insights back to Australia
For 34-year-old ruminant nutritionist Jess Bloomfield, the 2019 Dairy Science Travel Grants program was a chance to build her skills and further her career in Australian agriculture.
The young mum, now based in Moriac, Victoria, first developed her passion for animals living and working on a beef farm throughout her teenage years – a passion that saw her study a Bachelor of Science in Animal Production at Charles Sturt University.
After working directly with dairy farmers as a ruminant nutrition consultant, Jess took on her current role as executive officer of the Australian Association of Ruminant Nutrition.
“The Dairy Science Travel Grants program is a fantastic opportunity for young people who want to forge a career in dairy,” Jess said.
“You can see what’s at the forefront of agricultural science and bring that back to your work in Australia – and it gives you a network of international experts to call on for advice.”
The program gave Jess the opportunity to meet global experts at the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she boosted her already formidable knowledge of ruminant nutrition.
“I loved being in a room full of people who are passionate about the same things as me,” she said.
“Everyone is there to learn about dairy nutrition and it was really great to be among people who are leaders in their field.”
The highlight for Jess was learning about environmental and nutritional conditions of cows in late gestation, and the latest research on how this and the first few weeks of life impact the lifelong immunity, milk production and fertility of those calves.
“This research is very relevant for Australia – we need to ensure diets and heat stress management are sufficient to support the cows’ next lactation and future calves,” Jess said.
After the ADSA annual meeting, Jess travelled to Michigan State University to catch up with the Associate Professor Dr Adam Loch on his latest research projects.
“Adam is well versed in milk fat depression, which is very relevant to us in winter and spring – it was great to chat to him one-on-one about what we can do,” Jess said.
She also successfully convinced Wisconsin State University Associate Professor Dr Heather White to travel to Australia and share her cutting-edge insights on nutrient partitioning, metabolism and fresh cow management.
“This was one of my goals – to meet with credible experts to bring to Australia, so our local nutritionists can take new insights on-farm to their own clients and customers.”
Nuffield Scholarships
Nuffield awards primary producers annual scholarships to support overseas travel and study.
For more information, visit Nuffield Australia.
Churchill Fellowships
Churchill Fellowships are open to anyone who would like to explore successful practices in other countries after examining available options in Australia.
For more information, visit Churchill Fellowships.
Collaboration with education providers
Dairy Australia works with TAFEs and other registered training providers to develop courses for those interested in furthering a career in dairy or to build skills for people working on farms.
Courses include education regarding on-farm skills like milking processes and mastitis prevention, to pasture management and farm business management.
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Advanced Selected as Installer’s Preference for Luxury Apartments
An Advanced fire alarm control panel has been selected to protect Marsham House, a high-end apartment building in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
Installed to ensure the safety of the 50 luxury apartments at Marsham House is a four-loop MxPro 4 panel covering all public areas and the underground car park of the six-storey building.
Installed at Marsham House is Advanced's MxPro 4 - integrated with the building’s AOV system, BMS, basement air intake and extract control systems
Hertfordshire-based Amida Fire – responsible for the installation, integration, programming, commissioning and handover of the fire system – specifically sought approval from the main contractor to use an Advanced solution.
In designing the system, Amida Fire has focused on ensuring false alarms are minimised. The MxPro 4’s confirmation filter has been used in the basement areas of the building so that both heat and smoke need to be detected before an alarm is confirmed as genuine, thus avoiding unnecessary evacuation.
Michael Draper, Director, at Amida Fire, said: “The specification we received for the fire system at Marsham House contained some very particular requirements. Advanced has been our go-to choice of addressable fire panel for over a decade because of its versatility in a wide range of applications. We were confident that once again Advanced would meet all the criteria and so specifically requested that it be installed.”
Helping to ensure residents’ safety, the MxPro 4, with built-in printer and zone indication, was integrated with the building’s AOV system, BMS, basement air intake and extract control system. It also works seamlessly with the building’s access control and lift systems and is linked to a central monitoring station.
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Waco Today
EDITORIAL: Civil rights leader's legacy of courage, optimism can rally Americans now
If the arrival of death can be judged by its timing, Friday’s passing of civil rights icon John Lewis would seem to have come at the worst time. Too many of us have stood by for too long and allowed political forces to aggravate racial tensions to levels not seen since the civil rights era more than a half-century ago. The unrest we witness in cities across our land in the wake of former Texan George Floyd’s death have brought the problem of race back before us, front and center, which is where it ought to be after so much neglect and lip service.
In this discouraging context, Congressman Lewis’ thoughts in Waco in 2007, when this devoted follower of Martin Luther King Jr. sat down for a Trib Q&A, is jarring. When asked how he viewed progress made since the civil rights era, Lewis glowed: “I am gratified. I am deeply renewed and reassured about the possibilities. To me, it’s amazing the progress we’ve made and the distance we’ve come. We still have progress to be made, but to people who say, ‘We can’t change,’ I say, ‘Come and walk in my shoes and I’ll show you we have changed.’”
Lewis even insisted the nation was ready for a black president, though he conjured up Dr. King’s foundational beliefs in qualities such as character and ability and integrity making the difference: “I think America is ready to elect a black person as president of the United States. We’re in the process of laying down the burden of race. I think that day will come very soon when people will vote and they will realize they’re not voting for a black man or a black woman or a black person. They will vote for the best candidate.”
During our present era of racial strife, when demagoguery readily spills from some political leadership, when elections are calculated on the basis of racial demographics, when incidents of police brutality confound and embarrass and anger, it’s easy to get discouraged. But as Baylor Law School professor Pat Wilson wisely reminded us while recalling Congressman Lewis’ 2007 visit to the school, maybe the civil rights leader’s famous optimism and confidence should still rule the day. Yes, the Voting Rights Act is weaker, but racial safeguards remain. Yes, the din of demagoguery has grown, but minorities in positions of governance and policy-making have increased. Yes, isolated instances of racial insensitivity surface in commerce but they’re frowned upon by Wall Street and we the patrons. Somewhere in all this, we’re closer to that principle in the Declaration of Independence about all of us being equal. We have a ways to go, but if we can show some of Lewis’ principled courage in the really bad times, maybe we can get there from here.
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Worcs Ccc Players Lend Support To County Under-19S T20 Competition
Worcestershire CCC players have lent their support to the second staging of the Worcestershire and Herefordshire NatWest Under-19 Club T20 competition which gets underway this weekend.
Thirteen teams will be taking part – including inaugral winners Bromyard – and the four groups will be named after different Worcestershire CCC players.
They will comprise of the Moeen Ali Division, Daryl Mitchell Division, Ross Whiteley Division and Jack Shantry Division and come under the umbrella of the Worcestershire Cricket Board Limited (WCBL).
The winners of the four groups will go through to a finals day on a date and venue to be confirmed in the near future.
The first two groups will be in action on June 12 at Worcester Nomads and Brockhampton respectively with the remaining two being staged on June 19 at Halesowen and Bromsgrove.
All the games will be played with pink balls and several of the teams will be wearing coloured clothing as in the style of first class counties in the NatWest T20 Blast.
WCBL Cricket Development Director Tom Hill said: "It is a national competition which piggybanks the T20 Blast. This is the second year and we've got 13 teams who have entered – three groups of three and one group of four.
"It is the first time, thanks to the Worcestershire players, that we are naming divisions after them which provides some added value to the players taking part.
"A really exciting part about this competition is it is the first time these young players have run their own cricket.
"They will source any sponsors they've got, they will be sorting out the guard of honours, food for the opposition, dug-outs, music, introducing the captains, literally whatever they want, to make the match day experience as positive as possible for everyone.
"It will get them used to volunteer work which is so crucial to the running of club cricket at all levels.
"For example, Pershore are organising a marquee and organising a Daryl Mitchell benefit event on the same day.
"Bromsgrove are planning inviting all the fathers down on Fathers Day and having a bit of a 'lads and dads' theme to the day."
The groups consist of:
June 12 – Daryl Mitchell Division (at Worcester Nomads) – Bransford Bears, Ombersley, Pershore.
June 12 – Jack Shantry Division (at Brockhampton) – Brockhampton, Colwall, Bromyard, Burghill and Tillington.
June 19 – Moeen Ali Division (at Halesowen) – Halesowen, Oldswinsford, Stourbridge.
June 19 – Ross Whiteley Division (at Bromsgrove) – Bromsgrove, Redditch, Kidderminster.
The final will be played at Kidderminster CC on September 11.
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Previous: Proprietary estoppel
An easement is a right granted over one piece of land for the benefit of another piece of land. The prime example is that of the right of way: I may allow you to use a path passing over my land to access your land. This is an example of a positive easement: you are being granted a positive right to use my land to access yours. Negative easements also exist, but it may be considered that restrictive covenants are better suited to prohibiting certain uses of land.
Dominant and servient land
Firstly, an easement must be granted over land which ‘serves’ another piece of land. The ‘benefiting’ land is known as the dominant land, and the ‘serving’ land is known as the servient land.
Accommodation of dominant land
The easement must accommodate the dominant land. If an easement serves to benefit a business placed on land, and not the land itself, as in Hill v Tupper (1863), it will not be classed as an easement. But if an easement will benefit future owners of that land, or a business as a result of it being for the benefit of land, it will be classed as an easement, according to Moody v Steggles (1879) and Platt v Crouch [2003] respectively. According to Re Ellenborough Park [1956], just because the value of dominant land is increased by a right does not make that right an easement.
Diversity of occupation
As distinct from ownership, easements will only operate where land is occupied by different people. Although easements may operate between and landlord and tenant, according to Wright v Macadam [1949]. The Law Commission has recommended abolishing this requirement.
Capable rights
Both the grantor (owner of servient land) and grantee (owner of dominant land) must have capacity when creating a covenant. The right itself must be definable in a deed for the covenant to be effective. As such, the right to a view will not be classed as an easement, for example.
No expenditure
An easement may not require that the servient land owner expends money. As such, in Regis Property Co v Redman [1956], there could be no easement to provide hot water. There are two exceptions to this requirement: there can be an easement to keep a fence or wall in good repair, according to Crow v Wood [1971], and landlords can be obliged to keep in good repair ‘common parts’ of rented accommodation, according to Liverpool CC v Irwin [1977].
Not a claim to exclusive possession
Unlike a lease, an easement is not consistent with a claim to exclusive possession of the servient land. Whilst according to Wright v Macadam [1949], a right to store coal in a shed did not amount to such a claim, Copeland v Greenhalf [1952] rejected that an easement could allow the parking of as many cars as wanted by the dominant land owner for an indefinite period. An easement may also not amount to exclusive possession of a small part of the servient land, as according to Batchelor v Marlow [2001], only the area of land benefiting the dominant land is to be regarded when considering the question of exclusive possession.
Exclusive possession has been found in past cases where: cars could be parked anywhere on land, in London & Blenheim Estates v Ladbroke Retail Parks [1992], and 6 cars could be parked during working hours in Batchelor v Marlow [2001]. However, more recently, courts have been less inclined to find that easements amount to exclusive possession. In Moncrieff v Jamieson [2007], it was recognised that even if fully occupied with cars, owners of servient land can still exercise other rights, such as access, erecting signs and digging. Following this relaxation, no easements were found in the similar cases of Virdi v Chana [2008] and Kettel v Bloomfold [2012].
In the general nature of rights recognised as easements
Finally, easements must be able to be ‘generally recognised’ as easements. As a result of this requirement, Phipps v Pears [1965] denied an easement to protect the dominant land from weathering, and Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] rejected an easement to facilitate television reception.
Creation of easements
Easements can be either legal or equitable rights. If created: with the same duration as their servient legal estate (under s 1(2) LPA 1925); by deed (under s 52 LPA 1925) and registered if required (under Schedule 2 LPA 1925), an easement will be classed as a legal easement. If any of these requirements are not fulfilled, the easement will be equitable.
Easements can also be either granted or reserved. An easement will be reserved if land is split physically before sale, and granted where there is no division. There is a general attitude against implied reservation, as it is preferred that landowners expressly reserve rights, as said in Wheeldon v Burrows (1879). Finally, easements either be expressly or implied created (granted or reserved).
Express grant
Where an easement is granted explicitly, it is less common for problems of enforceability to arise. The terms of the easement must be respected, and a grant may only take place if the grantor has the power to grant such an easement.
Implied grant
Disputes commonly arise where has been no express grant of an easement. Instead, the owner of the dominant land will claim that he had the benefit of an easement granted impliedly to him. There are 4 methods by which an easement may be impliedly granted: by necessity, by common intention, under the rule in Wheeldon v Burrows (1879) and under s 62 LPA 1925.
Easements of necessity
An easement may be implied if it was essential for the use of the dominant land at the time of its transfer to the new dominant owner. Necessity is usually only effective where denying an easement would leave a dominant owner’s land landlocked. According to Nickerson v Barraclough [1981], a court may even frustrate parties’ intentions to find that an easement of necessity was impliedly granted.
Necessity is a tough threshold to pass, however. In Manjang v Drammeh [1990], no easement of necessity was found where access by river was possible, and in Titchmarsh v Royston Water (1899), no easement of necessity was found where access up a steep bank was possible. More recently, Adealon International Corporation Proprietary v Merton LBC [2007] raised the possibility of it being necessary to have vehicular access to land.
Easements of common intention
Easements of common intention may be impliedly granted if they are necessary for a definite and particular purpose, according to Pwllbach Colliery Co v Woodman [1915]. A good example of implication through common intention is Wong v Beaumont Property Trust [1965]: both parties intended the claimant to use land as a restaurant, therefore, as it was a legal requirement for the restaurant to be ventilated, there was deemed to be an easement of common intention for a ventilation duct to pass through the defendant’s land. There need not be explicit intent by both parties, according to Stafford v Lee (1993), but merely knowledge of the proposed use by both parties. This may include an expectation of utility connection for a modern house in Donovan v Rana [2014], or an expectation of vehicular access in Sweet v Sommer [2005].
The rule in Wheeldon v Burrows (1879)
Easements may also be impliedly granted if, where there is no diversity of occupation prior to the sale of land, a purchaser could expect to have the benefit of an easement over land retained by his vendor. This right must be continuous and apparent, as illustrated by Wheeler v JJ Saunders [1996], and it must be necessary for the reasonable enjoyment of the land sold off. This will not include secondary access, according to Wheeler v JJ Saunders [1996], unless such access will provide a significant benefit, as in Borman v Griffith [1930]. Finally, the right must have been in actual use both before and at the time of the sale. This requirement is not a strict requirement, as illustrated by Costagliola v English (1969), where an easement was impliedly granted despite having not been used for 11 months. Borman v Griffith [1930] confirms that the rule can be contracted out of.
Easements implied under s 62 LPA 1925
Section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 is a word saving provision. It ensures that rights enjoyed by a previous owner of (dominant) land are transferred to its new owner. However, it has the side effect, according to case law, of being able to turn informal rights into enforceable easements. The prime example is Wright v Macadam [1949], where a coal storage right was converted into an easement upon the renewal of a tenancy agreement. The burden is on the vendor to show that there was no intent to create an easement, according to Platt v Crouch [2003], and Wood v Waddington [2014] found it difficult to justify how an act of kindness can become a legally enforceable right.
For an easement to be granted under s 62, there must have been a legal conveyance as defined by s 205(1)(ii) LPA 1925; and the right must have been in actual use of the time of the conveyance for the benefit of the dominant land. In Goldberg v Edwards [1960], a personal right of access through a house by way of a bare licence was enough to created an easement as it had been used at the practical time of the conveyance (any backdating was ignored). If permission for each use of the right is required, as it was in Green v Ashco [1966], an easement will not be implied; nor will implication occur where a right is clearly temporary, according to Wright v Macadam [1949]. It is not required that the vendor used the right: in Graham v Philcox [1984], the right was used by a tenant and the freehold sold. The right was still deemed to have been in actual use.
There is some debate over whether diversity of occupation is required for s 62 to operate. Sovmots Investments v SS Environment [1979] suggests that diversity of occupation is required, as not to abolish the rule in Wheeldon v Burrows (1879), which also requires a right to be necessary for the reasonable enjoyment of land sold. However, a number of cases have made suggestions in the alternative:
Broomfield v Williams [1897] suggests a right to light exception
Platt v Crouch [2003] suggests an exception where the right is enjoyed “with land”
Wood v Waddington [2014] suggests an exception where a right is enjoyed with land, as opposed to by virtue of ownership
If these exceptions to apply, the Wheeldon v Burrows rule will still be required where there is no formal conveyance deed or s 62 is contracted out of.
The Law Commission have suggested that the same rules should apply to both grant and reservation, with only 1 method of creation. Under statute, the Law Commission would prefer easements to be created only where they are objectively necessary for the reasonable use of land. They also proposed the abolition of s 62.
Effect of easements
Once an easement has been created, the dominant land owner will have recourse against the servient land owner for interference with that easement. According to B&Q v Liverpool and Lancashire Properties [2001], damages will be available for minor interference, and injunctions for substantial interferences. In Celsteel v Alton House Holdings [1995], the narrowing of an easement constituted a substantial interference based on the way in which is was used, and in Saint v Jenner [1973], although the addition of speed bumps to a right of way did not constitute a substantial interference, the interference became substantial as the road underneath deteriorated.
The extent of an easement must be determined by its words put into context. As such, in St Edmundsbury and Ipswitch Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark (No 2) [1975], a right of way did not include use by vehicles; but in Moncrieff v Jamieson [2007], a right of way did include an ancillary right to park.
Changes in use
Where a dominant owner wishes to change the use of his land, a court must mediate between hindering that landowner’s development and protecting the servient land owner’s enjoyment. Intensification will usually give rise to a nuisance claim, but radical intensification may suspend the easement. In McAdams Homes v Robinson [2004], when a servient owner blocked a drain following the dominant land owner’s change in use from a bakery to multiple residential dwellings, the servient land owner could not be sued for doing so: the easement had been suspended. In Jelbert v Davis [1968], converting a farm into a 200 plot caravan site substantially intensified the use of a right of way to access the farm. The court did not rule on how many caravan plots could be supported without the easement being suspended.
Use by non-dominant land
As a general rule, easements may not be used by owners of land other than of the dominant land. This was confirmed Peacock v Custins [2002]. Peacock v Custins [2002] and Das v Linden Mews [2002] are opposed over the possibility of a dominant land owner using easements to access non-beneficial ancillary land. The only clear exception to this rule, given that Wall v Collins [2007] should be ignored, is National Trust v White [1987], where the owners of dominant land permitted an easement to be used to access an ancillary car park.
Successors of servient landowners
In unregistered land, legal easements will bind everybody, and equitable easements will require registration as class D(iii) land charges under the Land Charges Act 1972 if created after 1925.
In registered land, legal easements will override first registration, according to Schedule 1, paragraph 3 of the Land Registration Act 2002 and will bind successors if protected by registration. Equitable easements must be recorded on the land charges register of servient land to bind successors of servient land, unless overriding when the Land Registration Act 2002 came into force.
Successors of dominant landowners
Easements are automatically passed to successive dominant landowners provided a deed is used in the relevant conveyance. In the alternative, the benefit of easements may be expressly assigned.
Extinguishment of easements
Easements can be extinguished where: the dominant and servient land are merged together (merger); an express release deed is executed, or the easement is impliedly extinguished with mutual intentions. The latter method is very difficult to ensure, given that in Benn v Hardinge [1992], an easement was not impliedly extinguished despite a lack of use for over 175 years.
The Law Commission has proposed that extinguishment should be possible either by registration, after 20 years without use, or on application to the Land Chamber of the Upper Tribunal.
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Woah[edit]
When did they add FoW and UW scrolls? -elviondale (tahlk) 22:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
"Demand"?[edit]
Is it just me, or is that ridiculous? Assuming that bits of data are infinite in number, and servers can handle it (which they seem to do just fine, even on event weekends), rare scrolls being available all the time shouldn't be a problem. Black dye is available all the time, and that stuff is friggin' useless. - Vik 03:14, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
It's just you. This is part of the in-game economy in Guild Wars. For the most part, rare scrolls are always available because more players sell them to the merchant than buy them. As for black dye, it's the same situation. If ArenaNet introduced a new colour of dye, you can bet your bottom that it'd sell out fast and would be no longer available at the merchant. Yes, they're bits of data, but limiting things such as scrolls, materials, and dye not only contributes to a good economy, but it gives players incentive to play. Kokuou 03:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
The statement on the page is not about whether or not the scrolls are available, but focused on the cost of the scrolls. eg. If many players buy a certain scroll type in a limited time frame the demand rises, perhaps above the rate of supply, and then the cost of those scrolls will also rise. -- WarBlade 03:24, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
But if I bet my bottom, someone could win it away from me! :P No, I understand what you mean, and my frustration really only arises from the fact that, although it may serve the in-game economy, it's still silly for certain things to be more expensive (as in the case of black dye, which looks odd at best, imo, on most armor sets) than others. But that's why they are opinions, no? - Vik 01:43, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
A month late, but the amount of effort put into getting something is what makes it valuable. Black dye has a low drop rate, which makes for more effort to get one (unless you get lucky while questing). It's kinda like how people pay more for crystallines than most other weapons. -- Armond Warblade 15:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Previous sale price weirdness[edit]
Two days ago I went to see Ixx in the Umbral Grotto, and he was advertising really silly "last transaction" prices in the "buy" tab: Scroll of Hero's Insight for 180 gold ("value" 400 gold). I thought, "can't be right, but if it is, let the arbitrage begin...". I was, of course, right, that it can't be right. The quoted next transaction price was 800 gold. Bah! Cynique 13:56, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
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Revision as of 10:45, 8 March 2018 by D39yang (talk | contribs) (→De-noising Auto-encoder Loss)
3 Overview of unsupervised translation system
4 Notation
5 Word vector alignment
6 Encoder
7 Decoder
8 Overview of objective
9 De-noising Auto-encoder Loss
10 Translation Loss
11 Adversarial Loss
12 Objective Function
13 Validation
14 Experimental Procedure and Results
15 Result Figures
16 Commentary
17 Future Work
Neural machine translation systems must be trained on large corpora consisting of pairs of pre-translated sentences. The paper Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only by Guillaume Lample, Ludovic Denoyer, and Marc'Aurelio Ranzato proposes an unsupervised neural machine translation system, which can be trained without such parallel data.
The authors offer two motivations for their work:
To translate between languages for which large parallel corpora do not exist.
To provide a strong baseline against which translation systems using parallel corpora can be compared.
Overview of unsupervised translation system
The unsupervised translation scheme has the following outline:
The word-vector embeddings of the source and target languages are aligned in an unsupervised manner.
Sentences from the source and target language are mapped to a common latent vector space by an encoder, and then mapped to probability distributions over sentences in the target or source language by a decoder.
A de-noising auto-encoder loss encourages the latent-space representations to be insensitive to noise.
An adversarial loss encourages the latent-space representations of source and target sentences to be indistinguishable from each other. It is intended that the latent-space representation of a sentence should reflect its meaning, and not the particular language in which it is expressed.
A reconstruction loss encourages the model to improve on the translation model of the previous epoch.
Let [math]S[/math] denote the set of words in the source language, and let [math]T[/math] denote the set of words in the target language. Let [math]H \subset \mathbb{R}^{n_H}[/math] denote the latent vector space. Moreover, let [math]S'[/math] and [math]T'[/math] denote the sets of finite sequences of words in the source and target language, and let [math]H'[/math] denote the set of finite sequences of vectors in the latent space. For any set X, elide measure-theoretic details and let [math]\mathcal{P}(X)[/math] denote the set of probability distributions over X.
Word vector alignment
Conneau et al. (2017) describe an unsupervised method for aligning word vectors across languages. By "alignment", I mean that their method maps words with related meanings to nearby vectors, regardless of the language of the words. Moreover, if two words are one another's literal translations, their word vectors tend to be mutual nearest neighbors.
The underlying idea of the alignment scheme can be summarized as follows: methods like word2vec or GLoVe generate vectors for which there is a correspondence between semantics and geometry. If [math]f[/math] maps English words to their corresponding vectors, we have the approximate equation \begin{align} f(\text{king}) -f(\text{man}) +f(\text{woman})\approx f(\text{queen}). \end{align} Furthermore, if [math]g[/math] maps French words to their corresponding vectors, then \begin{align} g(\text{roi}) -g(\text{homme}) +g(\text{femme})\approx g(\text{reine}). \end{align}
Thus if [math]W[/math] maps the word vectors of English words to the word vectors of their French translations, we should expect [math]W[/math] to be linear. As was observed by Mikolov et al. (2013), the problem of word-vector alignment then becomes a problem of learning the linear transformation that best aligns two point clouds, one from the source language and one from the target language. For more on the history of the word-vector alignment problem, see my CS698 project (link).
Conneau et al. (2017)'s word vector alignment scheme is unique in that it requires no parallel data, and uses only the shapes of the two word-vector point clouds to be aligned. I will not go into detail, but the heart of the method is a special GAN, in which only the discriminator is a neural network, and the generator is the map corresponding to an orthogonal matrix.
This unsupervised alignment method is crucial to the translation scheme of the current paper. From now on we denote by [math]A: S' \cup T' \to \mathcal{Z}'[/math] the function that maps a source- or target- language word sequence to the corresponding aligned word vector sequence.
The encoder [math]E [/math] reads a sequence of word vectors [math](z_1,\ldots, z_m) \in \mathcal{Z}'[/math] and outputs a sequence of hidden states [math](h_1,\ldots, h_m) \in H'[/math] in the latent space. Crucially, because the word vectors of the two languages have been aligned, the same encoder can be applied to both. That is, to map a source sentence [math]x=(x_1,\ldots, x_M)\in S'[/math] to the latent space, we compute [math]E(A(x))[/math], and to map a target sentence [math]y=(y_1,\ldots, y_K)\in T'[/math] to the latent space, we compute [math]E(A(y))[/math].
The encoder consists of two LSTMs, one of which reads the word-vector sequence in the forward direction, and one of which reads it in the backward direction. The hidden state sequence is generated by concatenating the hidden states produced by the forward and backward LSTMs at each word vector.
The decoder is a mono-directional LSTM that accepts a sequence of hidden states [math]h=(h_1,\ldots, h_m) \in H'[/math] from the latent space and a language [math]L \in \{S,T \}[/math] and outputs a probability distribution over sentences in that language. We have
\begin{align} D: H' \times \{S,T \} \to \mathcal{P}(S') \cup \mathcal{P}(T'). \end{align}
The decoder makes use of the attention mechanism of Bahdanau et al. (2014). To compute the probability of a given sentence [math]y=(y_1,\ldots,y_K)[/math] , the LSTM processes the sentence one word at a time, accepting at step [math]k[/math] the aligned word vector of the previous word in the sentence [math]A(y_{k-1})[/math] and a context vector [math]c_k\in H[/math] computed from the hidden sequence [math]h\in H'[/math], and outputting a probability distribution over possible next words. The LSTM is initiated with a special, language-specific start-of-sequence token. Otherwise, the decoder is does not depend on the language of the sentence it is producing. The context vector is computed as described by Bahdanau et al. (2014), where we let [math]l_{k}[/math] denote the hidden state of the LSTM at step [math]k[/math], and where [math]U,W[/math] are learnable weight matrices, and [math]v[/math] is a learnable weight vector: \begin{align} c_k&= \sum_{m=1}^M \alpha_{k,m} h_m\\ \alpha_{k,m}&= \frac{\exp(e_{k,m})}{\sum_{m'=1}^M\exp(e_{k,m'}) },\\ e_{k,m} &= v^T \tanh (Wl_{k-1} + U h_m ). \end{align}
By learning [math]U,W[/math] and [math]v[/math], the decoder can learn to decide which vectors in the sequence [math]h[/math] are relevant to computing which words in the output sentence.
At step [math]k[/math], after receiving the context vector [math]c_k\in H[/math] and the aligned word vector of the previous word in the sequence,[math]A(y_{k-1})[/math], the LSTM outputs a probability distribution over words, which should be interpreted as the distribution of the next word according to the decoder. The probability the decoder assigns to a sentence is then the product of the probabilities computed for each word in this manner.
Overview of objective
The objective function is the sum of:
The de-noising auto-encoder loss,
The translation loss,
The adversarial loss.
I shall describe these in the following sections.
De-noising Auto-encoder Loss
A de-noising auto-encoder is a function optimized to map a corrupted sample from some dataset to the original un-corrupted sample. De-noising auto-encoders were introduced by Vincent et al. (2008), who provided numerous justifications, one of which is particularly illuminating. If we think of the dataset of interest as a thin manifold in a high-dimensional space, the corruption process is likely perturbed a datapoint off the manifold. To learn to restore the corrupted datapoint, the de-noising auto-encoder must learn the shape of the manifold.
Hill et al. (2016), used a de-noising auto-encoder to learn vectors representing sentences. They corrupted input sentences by randomly dropping and swapping words, and then trained a neural network to map the corrupted sentence to a vector, and then map the vector to the un-corrupted sentence. Interestingly, they found that sentence vectors learned this way were particularly effective when applied to tasks that involved generating paraphrases. This makes some sense: for a vector to be useful in restoring a corrupted sentence, it must capture something of the sentence's underlying meaning.
The present paper uses the principal of de-noising auto-encoders to compute one of the terms in its loss function. In each iteration, a sentence is sampled from the source or target language, and a corruption process [math] C[/math] is applied to it. [math] C[/math] works by deleting each word in the sentence with probability [math]p_C[/math] and applying to the sentence a permutation randomly selected from those that do not move words more than [math]k_C[/math] spots from their original positions. The authors select [math]p_C=0.1[/math] and [math]k_C=3[/math]. The corrupted sentence is then mapped to the latent space using [math]E\circ A[/math]. The loss is then the negative log probability of the original un-corrupted sentence according to the decoder [math]D[/math] applied to the latent-space sequence.
The explanation of Vincent et al. (2008) can help us understand this loss-function term: the de-noising auto-encoder loss forces the translation system to learn the shapes of the manifolds of the source and target languages.
Translation Loss
To compute the translation loss, we sample a sentence from one of the languages, translate it with the encoder and decoder of the previous epoch, and then corrupt its output with [math]C[/math]. We then use the current encoder [math]E[/math] to map the corrupted translation to a sequence [math]h \in H'[/math] and the decoder [math]D[/math] to map [math]h[/math] to a probability distribution over sentences. The translation loss is the negative log probability the decoder assigns to the original uncorrupted sentence.
It is interesting and useful to consider why this translation loss, which depends on the translation model of the previous iteration, should promote an improved translation model in the current iteration. One loose way to understand this is to think of the translator as a de-noising translator. We are given a sentence perturbed from the manifold of possible sentences from a given language both by the corruption process and by the poor quality of the translation. The model must learn to both project and translate. The technique employed here resembles that used by Sennrich et al. (2014), who trained a neural machine translation system using both parallel and monolingual data. To make use of the monolingual target-language data, they used an auxiliary model to translate it to the source language, then trained their model to reconstruct the original target-language data from the source-language translation. Sennrich et al. argued that training the model to reconstruct true data from synthetic data was more robust than the opposite approach. The authors of the present paper use similar reasoning.
Adversarial Loss
The intuition underlying the latent space is that it should encode the meaning of a sentence in a language-independent way. Accordingly, the authors introduce an adversarial loss, to encourage latent-space vectors mapped from the source and target languages to be indistinguishable. Central to this adversarial loss is the discriminator [math]R:H' \to [0,1][/math], which makes use of [math]r: H\to [0,1][/math] a three-layer fully-connected neural network with 1024 hidden units per layer. Given a sequence of latent-space vectors [math]h=(h_1,\ldots,h_m)\in H'[/math] the discriminator assigns probability [math]R(h)=\prod_{i=1}^m r(h_i)[/math] that they originated in the target space. Each iteration, the discriminator is trained to maximize the objective function
\begin{align} I_T(q) \log (R(E(q))) +(1-I_T(q) )\log(1-R(E(q))) \end{align}
where [math]q[/math] is a randomly selected sentence, and [math]I_T(q)[/math] is 1 when [math]q\in I_T[/math] is from the source language and 0 if [math]q\in I_S[/math]
The same term is added to the primary objective function, which the encoder and decoder are trained to minimize. The result is that the encoder and decoder learn to fool the discriminator by mapping sentences from the source and target language to similar sequences of latent-space vectors.
The authors note that they make use of label smoothing, a technique recommended by Goodfellow (2016) for regularizing GANs, in which the objective described above is replaced by
\begin{align} I_T(q)( (1-\alpha)\log (R(E(q))) +\alpha\log(1-R(E(q))) )+(1-I_T(q) ) ( (1-\beta) \log(1-R(E(q))) +\beta\log (R(E(q)) )) \end{align} for some small nonnegative values of [math]\alpha, \beta[/math], the idea being to prevent the discriminator from making extreme predictions. While one-sided label smoothing ([math]\beta = 0[/math]) is generally recommended, the present model differs from a standard GAN in that it is symmetric, and hence two-sided label smoothing would appear more reasonable.
It is interesting to observe that while the intuition justifying the use of the latent space suggests that the latent space representation of a sentence should be language-independent, this is not actually true: if two sentences are translations of one another, but have different lengths, their latent-space representations will necessarily be different, since a a sentence's latent space representation has the same length as the sentence itself.
Objective Function
Combining the above-described terms, we can write the overall objective function. Let [math]Q_S[/math] denote the monolingual dataset for the source language, and let [math]Q_T[/math] denote the monolingual dataset for the target language. Let [math]D_S:= D(\cdot, S)[/math] and[math]D_T= D(\cdot, T)[/math] (i.e. [math]D_S, D_T[/math]) be the decoder restricted to the source or target language, respectively. Let [math] M_S [/math] and [math] M_T [/math] denote the target-to-source and source-to-target translation models of the previous epoch. Then our objective function is
\begin{align} \mathcal{L}(D,E,R)=\text{T Translation Loss}+\text{T De-noising Loss} +\text{T Adversarial Loss} +\text{S Translation Loss} +\text{S De-noising Loss} +\text{S Adversarial Loss}\\ \end{align} \begin{align} =\sum_{q\in Q_T}\left( -\log D_T \circ E \circ C \circ M _S(q) (q) -\log D_T \circ E \circ C (q) (q)+(1-\alpha)\log (R\circ E(q)) +\alpha\log(1-R\circ E(q)) \right)+\sum_{q\in Q_S}\left( -\log D_S \circ E \circ C \circ M_T (q) (q) -\log D_S \circ E \circ C (q) (q)+(1-\beta) \log(1-R \circ E(q)) +\beta\log (R\circ E(q) \right). \end{align}
They alternate between iterations minimizing [math]\mathcal{L} [/math] with respect to [math]E, D[/math] and iterations maximizing with respect to [math]R[/math]. ADAM is used for minimization, while RMSprop is used for maximization. After each epoch, M is updated so that [math]M_S=D_S \circ E[/math] and [math]M_T=D_T \circ E[/math], after which [math] M [/math] is frozen until the next epoch.
The authors' aim is for their method to be completely unsupervised, so they do not use parallel corpora even for the selection of hyper-parameters. Instead, they validate by translating sentences to the other language and back, and comparing the resulting sentence with the original according to BLEU, a similarity metric frequently used in translation (Papineni et al. 2002).
Experimental Procedure and Results
The authors test their method on four data sets. The first is from the English-French translation task of the Workshop on Machine Translation 2014 (WMT14). This data set consists of parallel data. The authors generate a monolingual English corpus by randomly sampling 15 million sentence pairs, and choosing only the English sentences. They then generate a French corpus by selecting the French sentences from those pairs that were not previous chosen. Importantly, this means that the monolingual data sets have no parallel sentences. The second data set is generated from the English-German translation task from WMT14 using he same procedure.
The third and fourth data sets are generated from Multi30k data set, which consists of multilingual captions of various images. The images are discarded and the English, French, and German captions are used to generate monolingual data sets in the manner described above. These monolingual corpora are much smaller, consisting of 14500 sentence each.
The unsupervised translation scheme performs well, though not as well as a supervised translation scheme. It converges after a small number of epochs. Besides supervised translation, the authors compare their method with three other baselines: "Word-by-Word" uses only the previously-discussed word-alignment scheme; "Word-Reordering" uses a simple LSTM based language model and a greedy algorithm to select a reordering of the words produced by "Word-by-Word". "Oracle Word Reordering" means the optimal reordering of the words produced by "Word-by-Word".
Result Figures
This paper's results are impressive: that it is even possible to translate between languages without parallel data suggests that languages are more similar than we might initially suspect, and that the method the authors present has, at least in part, discovered some common deep structure. As the authors point out, using no parallel data at all, their method is able to produce results comparable to those produced by neural machine translation methods trained on hundreds of thousands of a parallel sentences on the WMT dataset. On the other hand, the results they offer come with a few significant caveats.
The first caveat is that the workhorse of the method is the unsupervised word-vector alignment scheme presented in Conneau et al. (2017) (that paper shares 3 authors with this one). As the ablation study reveals, without word-vector alignment, this method preforms extremely poorly. Moreover, word-by-word translation using word-vector alignment alone performs well, albeit not as well as this method. This suggests that the method of this paper mainly learns to perform (sometimes significant) corrections to word-by-word translations by reordering and occasional word substitution. Presumably, it does this by learning something of the natural structure of sentences in each of the two languages, so that it can correct the errors made by word-by-word translation.
The second caveat is that the best results are attained translating between English and French, two very closely related languages, and the quality of translation between English and German, a slightly-less related pair, is significantly worse ( according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 28.3 percent of the English vocabulary is French-derived, 28.2 percent is Latin-derived, and 25 percent is derived from Germanic languages. This probably understates the degree of correspondence between the French and English vocabularies, since French likely derives from Latin many of the same words English does. ). The authors do not report results with more distantly-related pairs, but it is reasonable to expect that performance would degrade significantly, for two reasons. Firstly, Conneau et al. (2017) shows that the word-alignment scheme performs much worse on more distant language pairs. This may be because there are more one-to-one correspondences between the words of closely related languages than there are between more distant languages. Secondly, because the same encoder is used to read sentences of both languages, the encoder cannot adapt to the unique word-order properties of either language. This would become a problem for language pairs with very different grammar. The authors suggest that their scheme could be a useful tool for translating between language pairs for which their are few parallel corpora. However, language pairs lacking parallel corpora are often (though not always) distantly related, and it is for such pairs that the performance of the present method likely suffers.
The proposed method always beats Oracle Word Reordering on the Multi30k data set, but sometimes does not on the WMT data set. This may be because the WMT sentences are much more syntactically complex than the simple image captions of the Multi30k data set.
The ablation study also reveals the importance of the corruption process [math]C[/math]: the absence of [math]C[/math] significantly degrades translation quality, though not as much as the absence of word-vector alignment. We can understand this in two related ways. First of all, if we view the model as learning to correct structural errors in word-by-word translations, then the corruption process introduces more errors of this kind, and so provides additional data upon which the model can train. Second, as Vincent et al. (2008) point out, de-noising auto-encoder training encourages a model to learn the structure of the manifold from which the data is drawn. By learning the structure of the source and target languages, the model can better correct the errors of word-by-word translation.
From Conneau et al. (2017). The final row shows the performance of alignment method used in the present paper. Note the degradation in performance for more distant languages.
From the present paper. Results of an ablation study. Of note are the first, third, and forth rows, which demonstrate that while the translation component of the loss is relatively unimportant, the word vector alignment scheme and de-noising auto-encoder matter a great deal.
The principal of performing unsupervised translation by starting with a rough but reasonable guess, and then improving it using knowledge of the structure of target language seems promising. Word by word translation using word-vector alignment works well for closely related languages like English and French, but is unlikely to work as well for more distant languages. For those languages, a better method for getting an initial guess is required.
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Women’s crew tests waters with 10-captain system
Allie Campbell • October 31, 2018
Notoriously record-breaking, the women’s crew continues to push boundaries in pursuit of athletic greatness. Most sports teams have one, two or sometimes as many as three captains. This year, the women’s...
Women’s crew requalifies to race at Head of the Charles
Grace Chamberlin • October 24, 2018
Women’s crew had a strong showing this past weekend at the Head of the Charles regatta, racing a club four, a collegiate four and a collegiate eight, all of which requalified for the regatta next year,...
Men’s crew opens fall season, captures silver at Head of the Snake regatta
Charles Ide • October 17, 2018
On Saturday, men’s crew placed second in its first meet of the fall at the Head of the Snake regatta in Shrewsbury, Mass. The men traveled to Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester County to open...
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THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 04/09/2014 Search continues for Shannon Rippy, another Sparks flick, Lifetime, How and Why, HGTV, Dinner with the Stars
Happy Hump Day my Wilmywood peeps! Oh boy, as if last week wasn’t enough info to keep us 5 crews deep for the year, we got more intel coming in about new projects and some fun tidbits of those that are here.
First off, Under the Dome is shooting in Burgaw today. Have a great shoot my film peeps!
Now, let’s get right to it, my favorite thing to write about. It’s time for Rumors from the Lot!!
Now, having one Nicholas Sparks flick in Wilmywood is pretty awesome, but what if there were two? Well, there might just be. According to my sources, Nicholas Sparks is looking for a triple play, but not in book order. The Best of Me (2010 Novel, shooting in New Orleans now), The Longest Ride (2013 Novel, pre-production in Wilmington now) and now the latest rumors from the lot say he is jumping back a good 7 years to bring The Choice (2007 Novel, currently in development) to the big screen. And word has it, Wilmywood is high on their list when it comes to a production home.
Sparks however isn’t the only one sniffing around. My sources are telling me that Lifetime has been giving Wilmywood a wink and a nod as a possible hub for one of their projects. Which one? Well, I can speculate, however, I’d rather not jump the gun on that quite yet.
VIEW POTENTIAL 2014 WILMYWOOD FILM SLATE
As we gear for the highly anticipated pilot, How and Why from FX, get ready for quite a cast. So far we know John Hawkes, Michael Cera, Julia Sarah Stone, Sally Hawkins, and Catherine Keener have signed on. But we can expect to hear more casting news. From what I hear, it’s going to be quite a large cast. Oh and FYI, we will be welcoming into town the one and only Charlie Kauffman next week!
Bolden! is set to open offices in Rocky Point on April 21st. I am hearing Atlanta as well as Wilmywood again. Though I don’t yet know which city they will be filming first. As far as who will replace Anthony Mackie is yet to be made public.
DINNER WITH THE STARS! Saturday May 3rd @ CFCC Union Station. Have dinner with the stars and send a cop to college! Let’s help out our awesome Wilmington Police Department during this AWESOME charity event including dinner, a raffle, and some rockin good time with the stars including Sleepy Hollow‘s Orlando Jones and Lyndie Greenwood, Sydney Penny, Peter Jurasik, Justin Barnhill, Nina Repeta and more!! GET DETAILS NOW
HGTV’s House Hunters is coming to Wilmywood this weekend! They will be filming around town during the Azalea Festival Garden tour. They will be on Clairidge Rd. and Magnolia Dr., and all over town for one of their episodes.
REMINDER: The Biggest Loser Season 16 is holding auditions this Saturday in Charlotte and we are giving away FRONT OF THE LINE passes. Just email me:sheila@1045sunnyfm.com and give me your story. Short, sweet and to the point and we will pick the front of the line winners THIS Thursday. Put “The Biggest Loser” in the subject line. Casting Director Erica Landon joined me yesterday. She gives you the inside scoop on the audition process, what you can expect and some tips for a great audition. LISTEN TO INTERVIEW WITH Casting Director Erica Landon Click on The Biggest Loser pic for all the audition details!
The search for film industry friend Shannon Rippy continues. They searched all day yesterday, knocking on doors and posting flyers. If you can help, their last facebook post stated, “There are flyers and a sign-in sheet at Delphino Dos (5 Water St. Harper’s Rest.) Please get flyers at your convenience and continue to spread the word. If anyone has any pertinent information, please call the Wilmington Police Dept. @ 910-343-3600. Talk with employers and employees of the downtown establishments and also the people walking in the downtown area.”
WE GOT MORE! Last time, they flew out of here in 24 hours! Thanks to Jed and the gang over at Image Monster, you can now pick up these fab stickers at the Sunrise Broadcasting Studios too!
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 04/04/2014 HUGE NEWS! Big Sexy Comin’ to NC, the 2014 NC Film Slate, Red Zone Wraps and More.
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 04/07/2014 – Another flick for North Carolina, Under the Dome, Hollywood loses a legend.
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 04/03/2014 – Age of Miracles, The Heart, Sleepy Hollow, Loomis Fargo, Bolden and Way More!
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THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 02/12/2014 Untitled Pilot is Named, Production Dates Set, Tammy Trailer and more.
Howdy Howdy! Happy Wilmywood Wednesday to ya! Man, things are really heating up here in Wilmywood. I love seeing all my film friends working again.
We got a little more news that came in yesterday. The Untitled Nikki Tuscano Project is called The Red Zone. They have opened up offices this week at Screen Gems and production will begin either March 10th or 17th, depending on who you ask. Ha! And congratulations to Chris Bromley. He is the UPM on this NBC made for CBS project. Confused? Well Bill Vassar explained it in an interview from yesterday’s blog. LISTEN NOW
Now moving on to Charlie Kaufman‘s FX pilot. How & Why will be opening offices at Screen Gems Studios around March 24th. Their tentative shoot schedule will be nine days and they begin at the end of April. I am sure we are all looking forward to having Michael Cera and John Hawkes in town for a while!
SEE THE COMPLETE LIST OF WILMYWOOD PRODUCTIONS
I am proud to tell you that The Wilmywood Daily is hosting its first event. We are joining forces with Giant Culture/Post 1200 to bring you a special sneak peek of the Wilmywood shot, Tammy. The Melissa McCarthy comedy was shot here last summer and the cast and crew were bigguns. Over 100 crew members and they used over 2200 background actors. We will be screening the OFFICIALTRAILER for the movie and having a good time with some of the crew members. Wanna go? GET DETAILS NOW
I am tracking down those running for office to check on their stance for the NC Film incentives. This morning I got up with our good friend Ricky Meeks who is running for New Hanover County Commissioner! What’s his take on NC Film?
TV FOR 600, ALEX!!! Do you know the question to this Jeopardy answer? Thanks to Deb and all the Sleepy Hollow Fans for this. THANKS TO: @emollysmom @SleepyHollowFan @TomMisonFans @cerulean_ronin @SHollowSource
LISTEN TO THE SOUNDBYTE NOW (SONY TV)
THANKS TO GEORGE for finding this Variety article:
“John Wesley Shipp, who played Barry Allen/The Flash in the 1990s TV series, has joined the cast of The CW and Warner Bros. Television’s pilot THE FLASH. Shipp will guest star in the pilot in a mystery role, with the part intended to be a recurring guest star in series.”
With all that being said we know him from a different show, don’t we?
REMINDER: WORKSHOP THIS SATURDAY
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Wilmywood’s First Look at Tammy
THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 02/11/2014 – An Interview With Bill Vassar (EUE/Screen Gems), Anthony Reynolds, CFIFF Deadlines and more.
Feature and Pilot coming to NC, Max Steel hires LP, Sleepy Hollow 2, Full Belly Project.
Hank and Jed Sets Premiere Date for Doraleous & Associates
Headshots 101: Casting Directors’ Pet Peeves
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning (unless something breaks) and every weekday morning we do “What’s Up in Wilmywood” at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. Got Scoop? Email me: sheila_brothers@yahoo.com. Or message me on Wilmywood’s FB or on Twitter. You can also just post your comments below! Until then, that’s a wrap!!
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THE WILMYWOOD DAILY 10/17/2013 Danny McBride, Sleepy Hollow, The Squeeze, Cucalorus
Danny McBride was on Jimmy Kimmel last night. Here they are talking about filming Eastbound and Down in Wilmywood with Marilyn Manson. LISTEN NOW!
Congrats to Sleepy Hollow’s Roberto Orci, Len Wiseman, Alex Kurtzman and Mark Goffman. They made the list in an article from The Hollywood Reporter “Power Showrunners: 10 to Watch for 2014” READ IT NOW!
Attention, Sleepy Heads! If you want to relive the first 5 episodes of the show, there will be a Sleepy Hollow Marathon on FX on October 26th beginning at 1pm EST. (Yes it’s not a typo, FX not FOX)
If the GORGEOUS Jillian Murray and I can get our schedules aligned, we will have a chat on the Sunny Morning Show next week. She is currently working on The Squeeze. Gather your questions over the weekend. You know I love to ask your questions! Email them to me! Put “Jillian Interview” in the subject line! The Squeeze begins principal photography tomorrow!
Get ready for the Cucalorus MEAT n GREET Volunteer BBQ this Sunday at Jengos Playhouse. It’s a fun way for current and prospective volunteers to get more information about Cucalorus and meet others in the organization. Anyone is welcome to come. SEE DETAILS NOW
Also join in on the fun! #Movealorus Instagram Video competition. Anyone can upload a video onto Instagram with their most fun, creative dance moves and tag it #Dancealorus and #Movealorus. The best video will win two free tickets to Dancealorus, Wed., Nov. 13 at Thalian Hall. Here’s the skinny on that Deadline: Sunday, October 20th 11:59pm. Are you looking for some of the best movies to come out of Wilmywood? How about a Wilmywood Thriller/Horror Marathon just in time for Halloween? Check out what’s available in the Wilmywood Shop powered by Amazon.com
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning (unless something breaks) and every weekday morning at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. Got Scoop? Email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Or message me on Wilmywood’s FB . Or just post your comments below! Until then, that’s a wrap!!
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THE WILMYWOOD DAILY – 10/08/2013 – Sleepy Hollow, The Conjuring, Where the Devil Hides, Walking Dead
Another amazing episode of Sleepy Hollow last night. One word: Yolanda! Kudos to writer Damian Kindler for his brilliance! The ratings will be out around 11:15am today. If you follow me on Twitter, I report the numbers there as well.
Bolden! is still accepting resumes, mainly in the PA department. Email them your resume now!
Wilmywood shot Stuck In Love with Greg Kinnear & Lily Collins is out on DVD today!
And if The Conjuring scared the ____ out of you! It’s available on Digital HD today. Get your copy NOW!
The horror film Where the Devil Hides that was originally scheduled for release this Friday has been pushed. They have not released the new date as of yet.
Tim Guinee is back in North Carolina for another stint on Homeland. Welcome back again Tim. If you remember Tim plays Charlie’s father on NBC’s Revolution.
Fanboy Comic’s big Walking Dead 10th annual release celebration is happening tonight from 11pm-1am as they gear up for the midnight release for The Walking Dead #115 comic book. Special guests at the event include AMC’s The Walking Dead’s, Jane McNeill (Patricia); official AMC Walking Dead poster artist, Danny Miller; and local zombie comic artist, Brandon Blanks. Check out all the details NOW
And don’t forget this Sunday, it’s the Walking Dead viewing party at Theatre Now. The festivities begin at 7pm. See the poster for all the details.
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Under the Dome Interview: Mackenzie Lintz on Homelife, Colin Ford, and the Finale of UTD
Photo by: David Pascua
If you live in Wilmington and are anything like me, you are totally geeking out about Monday night. We get our first taste (if you didn’t go to the early screening or couldn’t get in) of Sleepy Hollow and our life Under the Dome comes to an end. Well, until next year anyway. Over the past 8 months we’ve had some wonderful talent in our own backyard. They became our neighbors and our friends. They are kind, approachable and grateful for the opportunity to work on the #1 show, Under the Dome. And as we eagerly gear up for Monday, I decided to get in touch with some of our favorite cast members.
Mackenzie Lintz who plays Norrie on Under the Dome took a few minutes to chat about homelife, Colin Ford and of course life under the dome.
SHEILA: Lady! We miss you! I hope you had a great summer. Now that Under the Dome has wrapped season one, looks like you have some normalcy back in your life again. How has your transition been from set tutor back to normal high school life? Do some teens as school treat you differently because you are on TV?
MACKENZIE: I absolutely LOVE being back in school. I’m in a really small private school so my class is like my family. They don’t treat me any different because they just see me as Kenzie just like they did before Under the Dome. Even though a lot of them watch the show! 🙂
SHEILA: Shane Bates has a great question for you. This week, we discovered that you are not the only actress in the Lintz clan. What’s it like living in a family full of actors?
MACKENZIE: Shane, I absolutely love having a family of actors. It’s so awesome because all of us are in different age groups so we don’t really have to compete so it’s easy to cheer each other on and be happy and excited for each other. My brother is actually working in Wilmington (Where UTD is shot) for a future episode of Sleepy Hollow.
SHEILA: Now you know I gotta ask this question ’cause the ladies wanna know! What’s it like to work with Colin Ford? Are you two close in real life? Still stay in touch during the hiatus?
MACKENZIE: Hahaha!! Colin and I have so much fun. It’s actually his 17th birthday today!! {yesterday} We are constantly laughing on set and doin’ crazy stuff. He’s such a talented actor and it’s so easy to play Norrie when he’s playing Joe.
SHEILA: My friends from Under the Dome Radio Podcast ask, “What can you tell us about Norrie’s dad and will we ever get to see more of that relationship?
MACKENZIE: Papa Norrie won’t be back in Season One, but Season Two will definitely bring a lot of excitement, who knows who will show up!! 🙂
SHEILA: What was the most exciting part about shooting the finale for you?
MACKENZIE: Well, for one thing, we found out while shooting the finale that we were officially picked up for a season 2!! That made goodbyes a lot less sad because we knew it wasn’t goodbye forever.
SHEILA: Okay, final question. The biggun’! Any hints about what we can expect this Monday?
MACKENZIE: All I can tell you about the finale is that it’s one of our MOST exciting episodes, you will find out more about the dome, who the monarch is, and maybe see a familiar face or two. It’s gonna be EPIC!
Just like this interview! Thanks Mackenzie! We can’t wait until UTD returns to Wilmington in February!
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WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD 09/11/2013 – Sleepy Hollow, Wilmington Film Commission, One Tree Hill item for sale and more
With the US Open eating up half of Under The Dome‘s regular time slot, CBS will preempt Crimetime for an encore airing of episode 12, “Exigent Circumstances” on Saturday night at 9pm. Also, the final broadcast primetime ratings gave Under The Dome 1st place regardless of their numbers dipping to 9.72 million viewers. But, if you factor in cable channels however, football was the winner.
Now, I’ve been waiting for this scene to happen for a week now! Why? Because of its killer location for Sleepy Hollow! They will be wetting down the streets this evening where they will be filming at the Kenan Memorial Fountain at 5th and Market. Lots to see.
In the scene, a young boy wanders into town, EMT tries to help him and one of our heroes try to speak to him. And guess who plays the little boy in Sleepy Hollow today! Mackenzie Lintz (Under the Dome, Norrie)’s little bro Matt Lintz!! Wilmywood just loves the Lintz family! Yay!!!! Way to go Matt! There will be 100 crew members and 30 extras hanging out with four of the cast members today. Sleepy Hollow premieres this Monday!
And speaking of great locations, do you own one? The Wilmington Regional Film Commission wants your house…or barn…or store! Well, they want to add it to their locations database. As stated in their press release that came out yesterday:
In order to add to their existing database of 3,300 locations, the Wilmington Regional Film Commission will be adding a Location Scout to their team this fall. The Scout will be available to photograph local properties, in order to provide a broad idea of potential shooting locations to productions considering filming in the area.
“We are encouraging anyone with an interesting property – anything from a warehouse or a barn to a restaurant, shop, house or farm – to contact us. If it’s appropriate we will send our Scout to take some photographs,” said Griffin. “We’ll add it to our database, and if a production likes what they see, they will contact the owner directly.”
The Film Commission can be contacted at 910.343.3456 or commish@wilmingtonfilm.com.
The auction benefiting the Sunny 104.5 Caring for Kids at NHRMC should begin this afternoon. As soon as everything is up, I will post it on a separate blog today! Awesome items!
Attention One Tree Hill fans, my friend Laura is selling the Ravens basketball gym doors. Each door is 37″x84″. $400 OBO. Call: 910-805-4546. So awesome!!!
And on a final note, because it is 9/11 – After fund raising and putting in a ton of work, the team from the Empie Park Fire Station has its memorial to honor fallen Wilmington firefighters as well as the memories of New York firefighters who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11th 12 years ago. A dedication ceremony will happen tonight at 6pm, but everyone is encouraged to stop by anytime. The at the fire station is located at Independence Boulevard and Park Avenue.
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning (unless something breaks) and every weekday morning at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. Got Scoop? Email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Or message me on Wilmywood’s FB .
CBS, Film Commission, ILM, Monday, NC Film, One Tree Hill, Ravens, Scout, Sleepy Hollow, Sunny, Under the Dome, WILMINGTON
WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD 08/30/2013
Another Dome Day is coming. Here’s the preview as we gear up for Monday night:
Christmas in Conway is filming at NHRMC today as one of the characters is treated for injury. Afterwards they head to Greenfield Lake Park at the main playground area.
Sleepy Hollow is back at the Brooklyn Arts Center on N. 4th St. The location was transformed into an abandoned church which is not hard to do. Our heroes will find a clue, but of course some bad guys show up to start the party making some noise. So, if you are close by, you will probably hear some fake gunfire coming from inside the building.
Swirl’s The Dempsey Sisters is shooting off Gordon Rd today.
Sarah Crandall reports that Wilmington recently made a BuzzFeed article’s list of 41 Things You Might Not Know About “One Tree Hill,” highlighting certain parts of Wilmington.
The Cucalorus Film Festival has announced its early selections for 2013. Here’s the list!
Some more auction items came in for the Sunny 104.5 Caring for Kids at NHRMC Radiothon. Thanks to Chris Bromley for getting us the swag for Tammy and The Conjuring. Don’t forget we also have an Under The Dome autographed script, an Arthur Newman poster signed by Colin Firth and Emily Blunt as well as a “Screen Gems Experience” up for grabs. The auction will begin around September 10th. As soon as I get concrete details, I will share!
Finally congrats to our Safe Haven man Josh Duhamel as Fergie’s little pea is out of the pod — The Black Eyed Peas singer has given birth to a baby boy named Axl Jack Duhamel.
Buckle up, ’cause I have been told things are gonna get real busy after Labor Day. Woo Hoo! Bring it! Have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend!
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you Tuesday morning (unless something breaks) and every weekday morning at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. Got Scoop? Email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Or message me on Wilmywood’s FB . Or just post your comments below! Until then, that’s a wrap!!
Arthur Newman, Black Eyed Peas, Buzzfeed, Emily Blunt, Fergie, ILM, Josh Duhamel, NC Film, One Tree Hill, Sleepy Hollow, WILMINGTON
WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD – 08/29/2013 Two Wilmington flicks make the list.
After all the excitement this week in Wilmywood, it had finally settled down into a slow day, but I have a few tidbits to report.
The list of top 10 Summer movies is out from ComingSoon.net and 2 Wilmington flicks made the list. Coming in at #1 is, of course, Iron Man 3 (Domestic: $408.2 million; Worldwide: $1.2 billion) and #10 was The Conjuring (Domestic: $129.6 million; Worldwide: $194.9 million). The Conjuring is listed at #7 on the top grossing horror movie at the US box office.
Sleepy Hollow is filming at the Brooklyn Arts Center on N. 4th St. and also doing some driving scenes around downtown. And in cased you missed, here’s the video from the early screening of Sleepy Hollow at Regal Cinemas at Mayfaire.
BACKGROUND EXTRAS: Don’t forget! If you work in North Carolina, South Carolina and/or Georgia, make sure to register on Marty Siu’s new extras casting web site. She is the extras casting director for Spongebob 2 which is shooting in Savannah, GA. She will be back in North Carolina after this gig, so sign up today!
That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning and every weekday morning at 7:30am & 8:30am LIVE on Sunny 104.5. Got Scoop? Email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Or message me on Wilmywood’s FB . Or just post your comments below! Until then, that’s a wrap!!
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WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD – 08/28/2013 Sleepy Hollow Premiere, Christmas in Conway and more.
First let me try to articulate because all I keep saying is “Oh my god! Oh my god!” Surely I have more words in my vocabulary. I can tell you that Sleepy Hollow truly was one of the best pilots I have ever seen. The acting was brilliant and the chemistry between Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and Ichabod (Tom Mison) was beautiful as was the cinematography and special effects.
In a nutshell, here is my review:
“Sleepy Hollow blends comedy, drama and suspense better than a strawberry milkshake from Baskin-Robbins.” ~Sheila Brothers, What’s Up in Wilmywood
And you can quote me on that! Last night was filled with crazy excitement and Regal Cinemas had a line out the door that was as longer than the Great Wall of China! People drove from Salisbury, NC where the pilot was shot, and there were many who have worked on the show in later episodes. Other folks were simply Tom fans, Orlando fans and Wilmington film fans.
Matt Born took some great shots from last night. Visit his photo gallery now!
Not only did they have some Sleepy Hollow swag, but an inside look of the show and a special guest. Orlando Jones just happened to show up with Ichabod Crane’s wife, Katrina aka Katia Winter. I will post video for you later today!
The only disappointment of the night was there were a ton of people that waited in line for a very long time and didn’t get in because it was oversold, even after Regal opened a second auditorium to accommodate the masses. But they did give out Sleepy Hollow t-shirts to those who couldn’t get in. The people who did get the chance to see the pilot, didn’t get that sweet stuff. All in all, it just proves the show has a major buzz. The television premiere is Monday, September 16th 9pm EST on FOX.
SpongeBob SquarePants (character) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As reported a couple of weeks ago, Wilmington based Marty Siu is the extras casting director for Spongebob 2 which is shooting in Savannah, GA. If you can work as a local in Savannah, or if you just want to register and be added to her database for future projects here in Wilmington, check out her brand spankin’ new web site!
Hallmark’s Christmas in Conway is shooting on E. Renovah Circle still in the Forest Hills area.
Local Boys from Crane House are shooting a music video for rap artist “Ttip” (no, that’s not a typo) on the top of the City parking deck on N. 2nd St.
Principal casting begins on The Dempsey Sisters tomorrow. Production begins in September for Swirl Films.
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WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD – 08/27/2013 New Movie Rolls into Town, Sleepy Hollow Screening and more.
Well, as you can see,the What’s Up in Wilmywood blog got a facelift, so lemme know how you like the new look.
Another movie rolls into town this week thanks to Swirl Films! This is their 3rd movie this year! Kim Stewart begins principal casting this week for The Dempsey Sisters. I can tell you the main cast is African-American and there some great roles to fill with various age ranges. More details to come!
Nothing new for Christmas in Conway. They continue to film in the Forest Hills area.
We finally get a peek at the pilot episode of Sleepy Hollow tonight. If you RSVPd, the advance screening will be at Regal Cinemas at 7:30pm…BUT get there early! Per usual, it is oversold! The Sleepy folks are shooting on the lot again today.
Congrats to Deborah Johnson! She got the chance to play a 1700 witch on the show! You scored the pass to tonight’s screening of Sleepy Hollow!
The television premiere on September 16th comes on the same day as the Under The Dome ends – Gonna be one hell of a night!
And of course all you Domies were on the edge of your seat waiting to find out who indeed was the 4th hand. Did you watch it? Under the Dome took first place once again in viewers (10.64m), adults 25-54 (3.4/09) and adults 18-49 (2.4/07). Our show was up +3% in adults 25-54 (from 3.3/08), even in adults 18-49 and added +280,000 viewers (from 10.36m, +3%) compared to last week.
Apparently Under The Dome is panning out for Amblin Entertainment. Although Madonna tops Forbes Magazine‘s new list of the top earning celebs. Steven Spielberg came in second with a $100 million pay check from June 2012-June 2013.
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October 12, 2016 January 19, 2017 Joziah Thayer Uncategorized
The Cyber Industrial Complex Files
What is the Cyber Industrial Complex? Everything you do online is the CI-C, the videos you watch or post, your twitter likes and Facebook likes, your phone calls both domestically and abroad, your emails, your text messages, what you search online, what Operating System you use and what your cellphone sees and hears are all monitored and stored meaning this doesn’t go anywhere and it is in fact a detailed story of your life that can be pieced together decade by decade all by monitoring your online activities. They not only monitor and store your data but they filter your web searches meaning when you search in Google you don’t have the world-wide web at your fingertips as was previously presumed it’s actually a small portion of the actual word wide web.
Right now the United States Government taps into deep underwater cables that connect us to Europe and Asia basically any data, text emails and phone calls are collected and stored. Why is your government doing this you might ask , well because of terrorism, now don’t you feel safe? Below we will name the companies that profit from this mass surveillance right here in America.
“Everyone has a few screws loose and once in a while one might wiggle loose and fall out, let’s just hope I don’t have a keyboard when one drops. To whom it may concern the WEDA Coalition hereby releases into the depths of a so called free society this information and if you don’t like it then fuck you and whole you breached” -Ibfehtkcuf (founder of The WEDA Coalition)
Blue Coat : Located in California creates corporate network filters which have been use in Syria by the Syrian Regime to censor the internet and spy on dissidents. It was illegal for Blue Coat to sell directly to Syria due to the sanctions the United States has placed on Syria. They got around this by selling their product to a company in India which then sold it to the Syrian Regime but its disgusting that a company right here in the United States is profiting and contributing to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the suffering of innocence.
DigiTask : Based in Germany designed software that is unknowingly installed on a users computer by taking advantage of newly found defects known as “Zero Day Exploits” this software can steal encryption keys allowing law enforcement eavesdrop on your activities in real-time unbeknownst to the user. These are the same “Zero Day Exploits” that Harold Thomas Martin the new NSA leaker who worked at the same consulting firm as Edward Snowden Booze Allen Hamilton released to the public and he is now under arrest after FBI raided his home. These were also used in the attack the Security Software company RSA a U.S. defence contractor and further begs the question as to why it is perfectly okay for the FBI and other government agencies to hack our devices without warrant violating our constitution rights without fear of consequences all under veil of national securty? Releasing to the public exactly how the Federal goverment is committing constitutional infractions on a daily basis is frowned upon in this establishment.
Paladion : Based in India designed software that can crack encrypted banking transactions and Gmail messages. Paladion provides professional and managed security services in India and internationally. Its professional security services include security assurance, consulting, compliance, governance, testing, monitoring, and management. It also provides managed network, application, and process level security assessments and testing services; and managed GRC services, such as ISMS maintenance, risk analysis policy design, managing installed security products, reviewing policy adherence, regulatory and compliance reporting, incident response and management, project management, product implementation support, and user training and awareness. In addition, the company offers security. Nowhere in Paladion’s description does it say that their software can crack encrypted banking transactions or Gmail messages. Although we cannot confirm it but it is my personal opinion that Paladion is the unnamed company in which BlueCoat sold their surveillance equipment to bypass U.S. sanctions and the prohibition of trade with Syria.
GlimmerGlass : Based in Hayward, California has disigned equipment that can help government agencies secretly tap into undersea cables that convey all phone calls and data between continents according to Eric King a human rights advisor to Privacy International. The following is what GlimmerGlass describes as their mission, Glimmerglass is the leading supplier of SDN enabled Intelligent Optical Switching and Management solutions. Our purely optical, photonic switching systems enable telecom service providers, government agencies, enterprises and data network equipment labs worldwide to rapidly and remotely create, monitor, reconfigure and protect optical paths in their networks. Using Glimmerglass systems, customers reduce OPEX, provide faster provisioning, increase automation, and increase network availability. Once again there is no mention of how this company taps into undersea cables and mines all data and phone calls that goes across them.
SS8 : Is located in Milpitas, California they designed a product called Intellego that allows security forces, federal, state and local agencies to see what you see in real-time including target’s draft-only emails, attached files pictures and videos on any device you own including state”Smart TV and your child’s V-Tech
I2 : Of McLean Virginia makes two products used by police and other government agencies called CopLink and Analysis Notebook that allows the authorities to make sense of reams of data.
The NSA has said “We ID those who connect to the internet to get rid of anonymity.” Jerry Brito Attorney and senior research fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University responds to what the NSA said “sure that would probably make networks more secure but its also what we’d call a police state” We use social media sites on a daily basis and they are the states greatest surveillance tool the NSA pays these corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others hundreds of millions of dollars for unprecedented access to their communications networks. Both the NSA and the FBI admitted on 60 minutes to getting rid of virtually every other program they used to track and monitor people, now they just use Facebook or Twitter.
“It turns surveillance into a revenue stream” Marc Rotenburg the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told the Washington Post “and thats not the way its suppose to work” he added. At a conference in August of 2013 former NSA Direct Michael Hayden said the following “The internet wasnt built to be protected…and that remains in the architecture in todays World Wide Web, and thats why we’re in the position we’re in” He went on to say ” so those of you in private industry, I guess the point I really want to make to you is the next sound you hear will not be pounding hoofs of th Federal Calvary coming over the nearest ridgeline to your cyber-rescue, your responsible for your own safety” To no surprise these companies took Mr Haydens warning and in the next few years we’ve seen huge corporations bend the rules of the law hiring hackers to do penetration test on their private networks then they turn around and sell the vulnerabilities back to corporate costumers for millions of dollars. The well known Mandiant which uncovered a series of attacks by a branch of China’s Peoples Liberation Army was later hired by the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times after they were attacked. Mandiant’s hackers consult with a number of Fortune 500 companies at a reported rate of $450 an hour.
Former FBI Cyber Lawyer Steven Chabinsky argued at a Cyber Symposium that a company attacked should be able to counter-attack in order to retrieve data. He stated ” It’s virtually accepted that in the physical world you have a right to protect your property without first going to law enforcement” We have corporations like Google and Facebook that use your likes or search engine searches to make millions of dollars and you agree to them making this profit off of you when you agree to the terms and conditions in order to use their services. How many people use Google or Facebook on a daily basis world-wide? The number is almost certainly in the billions and Google makes a reported 250 million dollars of profit from a single user. Releasing our data freely can be good for many things such as medicine, traffic and crime, but there comes a time when we as a public our the victims of constitutional stampeding by our local, state and federal government agencies. Barret Brown, Aaron Swartz, Lauri Love, Jeremy Hammond, Matt DeHart, Chelsea Manning and Marty Gottesfeld are political prisoners prosecuted, tracked, monitored and hunted into silence not because of their actions but rather the message they were spreading. Barret Brown was trying to warn the public in so many ways that the United States goverment has dirty hands with large amounts of real blood on them. He warned the public of the growing Cyber Industrial Complex which is now 150 billion dollar a year industry quietly.
The companies listed above secretly make a fortune off violating our constitutional rights every time we use a device or that the FBI can hack you without your knowledge and the NSA can hand Twitter or Reddit a letter violating their own terms and conditions and your right to privacy all because our government pays them millions of dollars a year to be allowed access to their secure communications networks thus being able to look at your Facebook messages, Twitter Direct Messages, Gmail even a un-sent draft and text messages without warrant or your knowledge. Do you think we wear Guy Fawkes mask and swear ourselves to complete anonymity for the fuck of it? No it’s because goverment surveillance is real and it’s not because anyone has anything to hide its because the constitution states that a mans home is his castle and if my laptop is inside my home then you may not violate my constitutional rights by purusing our devices. We have a right to anonymity so when goverment agencies stop saying things like “we ID those who connect to the internet to get rid of anonymity” we will take our mask off until then each every one of you can collectively go fuck yourselves, the Cyber Industrial Complex is a 150 billion dollar a year company, but your not satisfied you want our privacy as well.
By – @Ibfehtkcuf and zinxnix@securegroup.international
Edited by – @Dapeaple #BBisFeee 11/29/16
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Through the COVID-19 Lens: Photographers Find Creative Ways to Keep Clicking
Do Something: Community Fitness Challenge
Alyson Hurley
Pete Jefferson
West Virginia Northern Community College Names New President
WATCH: Nelson Jordan Center
Rally, Virtual Service to Mark 2020 WV Days of Hope
WHEELING, W.Va. — With the theme “You Can Touch a Life,” the 2020 West Virginia Days of Hope will take place Friday through Sunday with a virtual service on Sunday and in-person rallies at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Centre Market and YWCA Wheeling, 1100 Chapline St.
Organized by Youth Services System Inc.’s Community Impact Coalition and the West Virginia Council of Churches, the Days of Hope encourage faith communities around the state to share hopeful stories, provide resources and reduce stigma of substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery.
The “You Can Touch a Life” theme focuses on the impact of substance abuse on children.
“Children in our state have been particularly affected by the opioid crisis with the numbers of children in foster and kinship care rising exponentially over the past several years. These children have often experienced profound trauma and need our support,” said the Rev. Jeff Allen of the WV Council of Churches.
Community members are invited to gather at 10:30 a.m. Saturday to show their support of foster children and others impacted by substance use disorders. On Sunday at 2 p.m., organizers will premiere the Days of Hope video program.
“This year, our Wheeling celebration is going to be a little different. We have contacted a few religious leaders to record a church service, as well as a few experts in the foster, kinship, and adoptive care field and individuals in recovery to share their stories. The service and stories will be recorded and a video will be posted to both the WV Day of Hope and the Community Impact Coalition Facebook pages,” said Marisa Scott, YSS Prevention Services project coordinator.
The Rev. Paul Schafer and the Rev. Lisa Fox will be among the ministers participating on the video. CASA for Children and National Youth Advocate Program representatives also will speak.
“Anyone is welcome to join us to celebrate recovery and substance use prevention. Those who may feel more inclined to social distance from home are encouraged to celebrate by posting a supportive comment or photo using the hashtag #WVDayOfHope2020,” Scott said.
The original Day of Hope took place in 2015, a grassroots effort hatched by the Faith Team of the Community Impact Coalition. The event since has spread throughout the state. A special litany is read in some congregations, while others provide resource materials in their bulletins or feature speakers from their own congregations or communities who are in recovery.
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“People are still finding their way to recovery and finding ways to maintain that recovery; treatment and recovery centers continue to offer help; and our congregations and communities remain committed to sharing hope and support. In these times, for the people and families who have been affected by substance use disorder, the faith community has an especially important role to play in celebrating these victories,” Allen said.
About Youth Services System, Inc.
Youth Services System, Inc. is committed to responding to the complex needs of youth at serious risk. For 46 years, Youth Services System, Inc. has reached thousands of youth and their families with our shelter, residential, community-based and professional services. Together with youth and their families, we work to improve their physical and emotional well-being, to address the debilitating effects of abuse, addiction, and trauma, and to build the skills and connections they need to be successful. Supported by our volunteer Board of Directors, dedicated staff, and faithful community support, Youth Services System, Inc. makes an impact in the lives of youth. For more information, visit www.youthservicessystem.org.
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10th Annual Wheeling SleepOut to Build Community Support for Youth Facing Homelessness
Men of Change Help 400 Students with Back-to-School Giveaway.
The Caring City: Wheeling’s Longstanding and Successful Social Services Organizations
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YSS Celebrates Community, Growth and 45 Years of Service
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Kind Country
Minneapolis: January 24 to January 31, 2018
Los Angeles’ Børns, often stylized as BØRNS, is headlining First Avenue next Wednesday, July 27th. Børns recently opened up for Charlie XCX in August 2015, so expect …
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from January 24 to January 31, 2018.
+ Mikky Ekko, Charlotte Cardin
Wed 01/24/2018 (6pm/$30/Sold Out)
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Garrett Borns, known by his stage name Børns, is currently on a very successful tour in support of his second album Blue Madonna. The album got a lot of buzz already, thanks to a little help from Lana Del Rey, who lent her voice and promotion behind the album’s opening song “God Save Our Young Blood.”
Mikky Ekko and Charlotte Cardin to open.
BØRNS’ 2018 North American headline dates:
Jan 19 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
Jan 20 Vancouver, BC Vogue
Jan 21 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
Jan 24 St. Paul, MN Palace Theater
Jan 26 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
Jan 27 Chicago, IL Riviera
Jan 28 Grand Rapids, MI 20 Monroe Live
Jan 30 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Feb 1 Dallas, TX House of Blues
Feb 2 Austin, TX Stubb's
Feb 3 Houston, TX White Oak Downstairs
Feb 5 New Orleans, LA Joy
Feb 6 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Feb 8 Cleveland, OH Agora
Feb 9 Toronto, ON Rebel
Feb 10 Montreal, QC Club Soda
Feb 11 Boston, MA House of Blues
Feb 13 Washington, DC The Anthem
Feb 16 New York, NY Terminal 5
Feb 17 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Tom Keifer
Tom Keifer is best known as the lead singer and chief songwriter for 80’s blues hard rock band Cinderella, but recently released a solo album, The Way Life Goes ...
This year’s guitar auction will feature a Gretsch 6118 two-tone Green Anniversary electric guitar, signed by the members of Athens’ own Drive-By Truckers: Mike Cooley...
Lilly Hiatt
Old 97’s is back with Lilly Hiatt. Hiatt just released Trinity Lane, a record produced by Shovels & Rope’s Michael Trent and engineered by Andy Dixon. …
Swedish duo First Aid Kit (sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg) are selling out most, if not all, of their tour dates for their album Stay Gold. It is pretty amazing …
Kind music for kind people. Kind Country is a Minneapolis based band that plays American standards as well as their own brand of Cosmic American music. …
Josh Ritter (who we previously described as "happiest man alive") and his band The Royal City Band will be stopping by the historic Pantages Theatre next Wednesday, January 27th, …
Target Center
Thu 01/25/2018 (7pm/$29.50)
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Croatian cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser, known as 2Cellos is bringing The London Symphony Orchestra with them on this tour in support of their new album Score (Portrait/Sony Music Masterworks).
Originally the show was scheduled for October 25, 2017, but there was an unavoidable conflict so they had to move the show to next Thursday, January 25, 2018.
+ Autograph, Dare Force
Fri 01/26/2018 (6:30pm/$37.48)
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Cinderella’s singer Tom Keifer is headlining the Medina Entertainment Center on Friday.
We saw Keifer in 2014 and wrote, “Tom Keifer is best known as the lead singer and chief songwriter for 80’s blues hard rock band Cinderella, but recently released a solo album, The Way Life Goes (Merovee Records/Warner Music) which had been in-the-making for over ten years. Keifer looked like he’d aged fairly well and almost evenly split his 73 min. set between solo and Cinderella songs, along with a Beatles cover thrown in for good measure.”
+ Lilly Hiatt
Sat 01/27/2018 (8pm/$25)
Athen’s Drive-By Truckers recently released their This Election Day 7” on ATO Records in December. The song picks up where they left off in their politically charged 2016 album, American Band.
Show up early to check out Lilly Hiatt, touring in support of Trinity Lane, available now on New West Records.
Drive-By Truckers/Lilly Hiatt On Tour:
01/26 – Kansas City, MO @ Truman+
01/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue+
01/28 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Orpheum Theatre+
01/31 – Missoula, MT @ Wilma Theatre+
02/01 – Portland, OR @ Roseland+
02/02 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial Theatre+
02/03 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre+
02/05 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory+
02/07 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall+
02/09 – Hollywood, CA @ El Rey+
02/10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Burren+
02/17 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club+
+ Night Lights, DJ Rowsheen
7th Street Entry
Sun 01/28/2018 (7:30pm/$15)
Duo Mako (producer/vocalist Alex Seaver and producer Logan Light) is in town on Sunday. Originally the show was scheduled at the Fine Line Music Café, but it was moved to the 7th Street Entry.
+ Van William
Swedish duo First Aid Kit (sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg) is back in town, headlining the Palace Theatre in St Paul. The show is sold out.
Van William to open.
01/24 Oakland, CA Fox Theater*
01/26 Portland, OR Roseland Theater*
01/27 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre*
01/28 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre*
01/30 Minneapolis, MN Palace Theatre*
02/01 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium*
02/02 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre*
02/03 Detroit, MI Saint Andrew’s Hall*
02/05 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall*
02/06 Montreal, QC MTelus*
02/07 Boston, MA House of Blues*
02/09 Washington, DC Lincoln Theatre*
02/10 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer*
02/13 New York, NY Beacon Theatre*
al 04/21 Indio, CA Coachella
06/09 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
*Van William is supporting all headline dates
THE LIL' SMOKIES
+ Kind Country
Tue 01/30/2018 (7pm/$12)
Montana progressive bluegrass band, The Lil Smokies, will be headlining the Turf Club in St Paul on January 30th.
They were last in Minneapolis at the Cedar in November. Since then, they finished up all 30 shows that made up their Campfire Caravan tour with The Brothers Comatose & Mipso.
Kind Country to open.
+ Her Crooked Heart
Wed 01/31/2018 (8pm/$35)
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Singer / songwriter Josh Ritter and his band The Royal City Band will be trekking through North America in support of Ritter’s new album Gathering (Pytheas Recordings/ Thirty Tigers).
We previously caught Ritter in Feb 2016 and said, “More than just a lyric from the latest single from Josh Ritter and The Royal City Band, it seemed to also be a mission statement for the evening and Ritter and band’s buoyant 105 min performance at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis.”
01/21—Sacramento, CA—Crest Theatre*
01/23—Sisters, OR—Sisters High School*
01/24—Portland, OR—Crystal Ballroom*
01/25—Seattle, WA—Neptune*
01/26—Spokane, WA—Knitting Factory*
01/27—Boise, ID—Knitting Factory*
01/29—Denver, CO—Ogden*
01/30—Lawrence, KS—Liberty Hall
01/31—Minneapolis, MN—Fitzgerald Theater
02/16—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium‡
02/17—Louisville, KY—KCD Theatre
02/20—Vancouver, BC—Commodore Ballroom§
02/21—Nelson, BC—Spiritbar§
02/22—Banff, AB—Eric Harvie Theatre§
02/23—St. Albert, AB—Arden Theatre§
02/26—Saskatoon, SK—Broadway Theatre§
02/27—Swift Current, SK—Lyric Theatre§
02/28—Winnipeg, MB—Park Theatre§
03/01—Fargo, ND—Fargo Theatre
03/02—Omaha, NE—Slowdown
*Nicki Bluhm
†Dustbowl Revival
‡Mandolin Orange
§Leeroy Stagger
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Minneapolis: June 4 - June 6, 2015
Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area for June 4 to June 6, 2015.
The latest UK buzz band, Glass Animals, recently just sold out their show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, last night, September 9th. …
Thursday 06/04/15 , 8pm ($20/Sold Out)
Details: first-avenue.com
After a successful sold out show at the Cedar last year, UK's Glass Animals returns to Minneapolis... selling out a much bigger venue - the main room at First Avenue.
Opening up the show will be Gilligan Moss.
05/24/15 Seattle, WA The Neptune
05/25/15 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
05/26/15 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal
05/28/15 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
05/29/15 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
05/30/15 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
05/31/15 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
06/02/15 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe
06/03/15 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
06/07/15 Free Press Summer Fest
06/08/15 New Orleans, LA The Civic Theatre
06/10/15 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
06/11/15 Bonnaroo
06/12/15 Norfolk, VA NorVa
06/13/15 Richmond, VA The National
06/15/15 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
06/16/15 Buffalo, NY Asbury Hall At Babeville
06/17/15 NXNE Festival
06/18/15 Saratoga Springs, NY Vapor
06/20/15 Pawtucket, RI The Met
06/26/15 Down The Rabbit Hole
07/04/15 Blissfields
07/05/15 Metropolis Festival
07/17/15 Dour Festival
07/18/15 Dublin Longitude
07/24/15 St. Louis, MO Old Rock House
07/25/15 96.5 The Buzz Beach Ball
07/27/15 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
07/28/15 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
07/29/15 Detroit, MI The Majestic Theatre
07/31/15 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
08/02/15 Osheaga Festival
08/03/15 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
08/07/15 Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
The Irish rock band The Script had a three column stadium light, which I felt was underused. Instead the attention is always focused on singer Danny O'Donoghue who spent much of their songs in high energy mode …
at The State Theatre
Friday 06/05/15, 7pm ($33.50)
Details: hennepintheatretrust.org
We have a couple of shows taking place on Friday, June 5th.
The first is for multi-platinum Dublin rockers The Script, who we last saw in 2012 at the Orpheum. We had a very good time, especially hard to ignore how energetic and fun singer Danny O'Donoghue was having on stage.
The Irish band is back in town on June 5th to promote their fourth studio album No Sound Without Silence.
US Tour dates:
05/26/15 Boston, MA House Of Blues
05/27/15 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
05/28/15 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
05/30/15 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Beach
05/31/15 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
06/02/15 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern
06/03/15 Tempe, AZ Marquee
06/05/15 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre
06/06/15 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
06/07/15 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Josh Rouse
Josh Rouse is a folky singer/songwriter, his latest album is called El Turista, but the dude's been writing and releasing music since his debut Dressed Up Like Nebraska in 1998. In the decade of writing music …
Friday 06/05/15, 8pm ($21.50/18+)
Details: finelinemusic.com
Singer/songwriter Josh Rouse is in town on June 5th in support of his latest The Embers of Time album, available now via Yep Roc Records. When we first mentioned him in 2011, I believe he was still based in Nashville. Currently Rouse lives in Spain.
Walkmen's Walter Martin to open the show. I believe this is the third Walkmen to go solo, previously I've heard Peter Matthew Bauer's debut record Liberation and singer Hamilton Leithauser with his solo Black Hours. Walter Martin's latest We're All Young Together is out now on Family Jukebox.
05/27/15 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom
05/28/15 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour
05/29/15 San Francisco, CA The Chapel
05/30/15 Petaluma, CA McNears Mystic Theatre
06/01/15 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
06/02/15 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
06/05/15 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe
06/06/15 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
06/07/15 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
06/09/15 Ferndale, MI The Magic Bag
06/10/15 Toronto, ON Legendary Horseshoe
06/12/15 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
06/13/15 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge
06/14/15 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live
06/15/15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
06/17/15 Saxapahaw, NC Haw River Ballroom
06/18/15 Atlanta, GA Terminal West
06/19/15 Asheville, NC New Mountain Theatre
06/20/15 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley
Matthew Santos
This is album is a work of art. True musicianship meets great songwriting and vocals. Its a shame that not more people know of Matthew Santos' work. …
Friday 06/05/15, 8pm ($10/18+)
Two time Grammy nominee soul/folk/indie rock artist Matthew Santos will be stopping by the 7th Street Entry. Santos is on tour in support of his latest record Into the Further, which is coming out June 2nd, 2015.
No opening act listed.
06/04/15 Marshfield, WI Wildwood Station
06/05/15 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
06/11/15 Los Angeles, CA Lyric Theatre
06/12/15 Long Beach, CA The Federal Bar
06/13/15 Napa, CA Oxbow
06/16/15 Sacramento, CA Low Brau
The Lowest Pair
Portland/Minneapolis' The Lowest Pair will be releasing their album The Sacred Heart Sessions at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on April 4th. ...
PICKIN' FOR AUTISM
Saturday 06/06/15, 6:30pm ($12)
Details: amsterdambarandhall.com
Duo The Lowest Pair (featuring Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee) is headlining the Pickin’ For Autism: A Fundraiser for Lionsgate Academy on Saturday, June 6th.
Lineup and details:
The Lowest Pair features the duel banjo picking of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee. Draped in Kendl’s high lonesome harmonies and Palmer’s Midwest croon, their debut release, 36¢, (Team Love Records) was hailed by many outlets and American Songwriter praised their ”earnest, earthy songcraft.”
Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings
Your favorite Alt Folk Trio is mutating... growing extra limbs, gestalt phenomena and more...Steve Kaul, Brad Ptacek, Mikkel Beckmen, & Jillian Rae. Steve Kaul & The Brass Kings play their old-time instruments in very unexpected ways.
Kind music for kind people. Kind Country is a Minneapolis based band that plays American standards as well as their own brand of Cosmic American music.
Lenz and Frenz
J Lenz, guitar picker from local old time bluegrass band, Pert Near Sandstone, brings his "frenz" along for one big campfire jam! Lenz and Frenz can be any combination of local musicians, covering lots of old favorites from traditional folk/bluegrass, to classic rock, or 90's tunes.
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Transition 4
Ink, acrylic, and paper with printed and handwritten Farsi text Eshgh (“Love/Passion”)
60 x 3.5 inches
Stacked, Twisted, and Swirled: Hadieh Shafie’s “Surfaced”
By Katy Donoghue
Hadieh Shafie‘s “Surfaced,” currently on view at Leila Heller Gallery in New York, is a colorful, vibrant, and at times trippy show of 20 new works. The exhibition is a continuation of the artist’s practice in working with paper–painted, rolled, layered, shaped, formed, framed, and written on.
To look at it is an exercise in seeing. Shafie experiments in how colors play side-by-side on the eyes, making straight lights appear wavy, or circles pulsate. Each work is made up of thousands of pieces of paper, and seemingly as many colors. Except Shafie only used nine colors to create this series of vibrating color fields: ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow medium, quinacridone magenta, c.p. cadmium orange, c.p. cadmium yellow primerose, light magenta, phthalo green, dioxazine purple, florescent chartreuse.
Transition 4 (2014) is particularly fun to look at. It is a tondo piece measure 60 inches across. Mutli-colored swirls of rolled paper are accented by larger, rectangular blocks of color strips. It called to mind a few things for us – underwater coral, candies like Jawbreakers or Sour Belts, and even the Campana brothers’ Sushi series of furniture. Ghalb 7 (2014), uses a similar spiral layering, transitioning from yellow to blue in color, in the frame of a tear drop set askew. 9 Colors (2015) has something celestial about it, transitioning from bright oranges and pinks to dark blues, greens, and purples in the center.
Shafie doesn’t just create pattern and colorplay with the layering of paper. The artist also creates sculptural pieces, with eye-catching texture, often incorporating handwritten Farsi text in ink. Block 2 (2015) is a cube made up of sheets of paper, painted, then stacked, and then written on its edge, like the spine of a book. This work has the words “love” and “passion” written in Farsi. Her use of text, though, isn’t always visible. In Spike 8 (Telesm Series) (2015), words are written on acrylic-painted paper that is then rolled into elongated cones, creating a spiky surface (as the title suggests) and rendering the words illegible. This repetitive use of text–and paper and color, for that matter–calls to mind meditative practices in Sufism. “I grew up in an environment where it was heavily decorated,” said the aritst, who grew up in Iran and currently lives in Silver Spring, MD. “I was accustomed to seeing repetition, and it felt very natural.”
“Surfaced” is on view at Leila Heller Gallery in New York through April 11.
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Smiley Face Killers (2020)
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As a strange wave of mysterious drownings of male college students plagues the California coast, Jake struggles to keep his life together at school. Finding himself stalked by a hooded figure driving an unmarked van, Jake fears he may become the next victim in the killer’s horrific spree.
Director: Tim Hunter
Actors: Amadeus Serafini, Ashley Rickards, Cody Simpson, Crispin Glover, Garrett Coffey, Mia Serafino, Ronen Rubinstein
Edge of Darkness (2010)
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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
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Death Wish 3 (1985)
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Blue City (1986)
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Borderland (2007)
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Rough Night (2017)
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Ellesse Roma Track Top Blue/White
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The Ellesse Roma tracksuit top has always been a very popular style and this refreshed version promises to continue that trend. This version comes in a Royal Blue, which contrasts against the White Stripes on the Sleeve. Ellesse pro dual badges on the chest sit proudly on there whilst the twin slip pockets on the lower hem, designed for keeping the hands warm or storage complete the look. Ribbed collar, cuffs and waistband provide a comfortable and secure fit.
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Governor Holcomb provides update on state's response to COVID-19
Posted: Jun 17, 2020 3:24 PM EST
NOW: Governor Holcomb provides update on state’s response to COVID-19
Governor Holcomb provides update on state’s response to COVID-19
During his press conference Wednesday, Governor Eric Holcomb and several other state leaders provided an update to the state's response to COVID-19.
The press conference included the results of the second phase of the COVID-19 study.
Results from the second phase of a scientific study of statewide random testing aimed at measuring the spread of the novel coronavirus in Indiana show fewer active infections and a greater number of people testing positive for antibodies.
"Taken together, this is evidence that the virus has slowed its spread within Indiana," said Nir Menachemi, lead scientist on the study and a professor and Fairbanks Endowed Chair in the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. "We currently have more people previously infected than are currently infected."
In its second phase, the study -- a collaboration between the Indiana State Department of Health and the Fairbanks School of Public Health -- tested more than 3,600 Hoosiers between June 3 and June 8 for viral infections and antibodies of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease. This number includes more than 2,700 people who were randomly selected and almost 1,000 volunteers recruited through outreach to vulnerable populations in Marion, Allen and LaGrange counties.
"By using a random sample, we can get more valid and generalizable estimates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Indiana," said Paul Halverson, founding dean of the Fairbanks School. "By taking multiple random samples across different time periods, we are able to observe how the virus is affecting Hoosiers over time."
After analyzing the results of Phase 2 testing in comparison to the results of the first phase that took place in late April, IUPUI researchers determined that the statewide estimate for active infection rate was 0.6 percent -- a sharp decrease from the 1.7 percent observed in Phase 1. The estimate for antibody positivity in Phase 2 was 1.5 percent -- an increase from 1.1 percent from the Phase 1 results.
"While the reasons for this decline could vary, it is likely that the virus has slowed due to our collective efforts to be safer, engage in social distancing, and reduce transmission by wearing masks and adhering to higher hand- and surface-hygiene standards," Menachemi said. "This was an example of Hoosiers successfully hunkering down during the initial outbreak."
While the ratio between active infections and antibody positivity improved in Phase 2, researchers continued to see disparities among minority communities. These groups still show evidence of being harder hit with coronavirus infections, Menachemi said.
For non-whites, the active infection rate in Phase 2 was 1.4 percent -- lower than the 3.4 percent observed in Phase 1 -- and antibody positivity rates were 5.6 percent, which was greater than the 1.6 percent found in the first phase.
The estimated statewide rate among Hispanics showed a decrease in active infections from 6.9 percent in Phase 1 to 2.6 percent in Phase 2. Antibody positivity rates among Hispanics increased from 1.5 percent in Phase 1 to 8.5 percent in Phase 2.
Across Indiana's 10 Public Health Preparedness Districts, results followed a similar pattern, with decreases in active infection rates and increases in antibody positivity rates.
"The reason we were able to move to Stage 4 of our reopening plan was because Hoosiers took steps to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, and these data show that those steps have worked," State Health Commissioner Kris Box said. "But we still have active transmission, and we must continue to take steps to protect our most vulnerable Hoosiers."
Based on Phase 2 data, the researchers estimated that 43 percent of all Indiana residents who are currently infected with SARS-CoV-2 show no symptoms. This rate is similar to the almost 45 percent who tested positive for active viral infection and reported no symptoms at all in the first phase of testing.
"We should be aware of the experiences of other states. The virus can still be actively transmitted if we are not careful," Menachemi said. "Based on the preliminary Phase 2 results, it appears we have been successful in limiting the spread of the coronavirus but have not eliminated the risk. Hoosiers need to be diligent to adhere to any and all measures designed to keep transmission low."
The next phases of testing are planned for fall 2020 and April 2021.
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Indiana has 33,068 cases of COVID-19, 1,907 deaths
Posted: May 28, 2020 12:00 PM EST
The Indiana State Department of Health announced there are 646 new cases of COVID-19 and 37 deaths.
There are a total of 33,068 cases and 1,907 Hoosiers have died.
To date, 242,287 tests have been reported to the department.
Intensive care unit and ventilator capacity remain steady. As of today, more than 39 percent of ICU beds and more than 82 percent of ventilators are available.
Elkhart Co.: 1,101 cases, 28 deaths
Fulton Co.: 47 cases, 1 death
Kosciusko Co.: 101 cases, 1 death, 20 recovered
La Grange Co.: 68 cases, 2 deaths
La Porte Co.: 420 cases, 22 deaths
Marshall Co.: 80 cases, 1 death
Pulaski Co.: 41 cases
St. Joseph Co.: 1,221 cases, 37 deaths, 292 recovered
Starke Co.: 32 cases, 3 deaths
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Local companies install solar bench on Indiana-Michigan River Valley Trail
By: Shannon Nolan Facebook | Twitter
Posted: Oct 15, 2019 12:45 PM EST | Updated: Oct 15, 2019 1:22 PM EST
NOW: Local companies install solar bench on Indiana-Michigan River Valley Trail
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind.—Three South Bend companies are using their partnership to install solar-powered benches in the community.
Inovateus Solar, Logistick and SPI Industries have installed a solar-powered bench outside of their offices off of State Line Road in St. Joseph County, right on the Indiana Michigan River Valley Trail.
“People can come charge their digital devices, whether it is a cell phone or a tablet or even a laptop. You can sit down and charge up and you can get up to ten hours of charging in one day,” said Vice President of Marketing and Sustainability for Inovateus, Tyler Kanczuzewski.
The 30-watt solar panel on the Soofa solar bench charges a 12-volt, 8-amp battery inside of the bench. The battery in turn charges the device that is plugged into the bench with a standard USB cable.
“Sometimes solar, it’s harder to touch. It’s usually on buildings or it's usually on a ground installation somewhere that’s maybe fenced off. So this is a great way for solar to be hands on for trail users, whether it be bikers or runners,” Kanczuzewski said.
Trail goers can also view Inovateus Solar’s larger, 52 kilowatt solar array from the bench. The rooftop solar array powers 40% of the building’s energy consumption, and saves the company over $5,000 per year.
Kanczuzewski says the bench, which was installed last week, is a bit of a “thank you” to the trail outside of his office window.
“This trail has brought value to our whole community, northern Indiana and southern Michigan, connecting two states that are forward thinking and trying to improve in health and wellness and sustainability,” Kanczuzewski said.
Behind the bench is a sign with a few tips for being sustainable, including purchasing Earth-friendly products and finding ways to re-purpose items.
Kanczuzewski says the company is working to place more solar-powered benches in and around South Bend. Two solar benches will be re-installed following a construction project on the St. Joseph River downtown in spring of 2020.
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One team two team red team blue team
No, wait. This isn’t yet another tedious post bashing Pruitt’s dumb ideas. It’s a post bashing mt2, which is far more interesting. I have two3 wildly exciting points to make about mt’s post at ATTP.
You people do need a red team
If you stick to science, you generally get it right1. Oddly enough; you are, after all, pretty well self-defined as “the side that gets the GW science right”. But you need to get out more. So when mt says Economic, social and environmental losses climb rapidly and nonlinearly with temperature change, and may already overwhelm the short-term benefits of fossil fuels, and will very likely do so in the near future, no-one blinks an eye. At best this is ambiguous and at worst it is wrong, so why is it only me that notices? Because, of course, you’re not actually looking for flaws in mt’s arguments. You’re just blipping along, la la la, damage from GW, yeah, we know that bit, eyes glaze over, words go straight out the other ear.
What is mt trying to say?
I don’t know. When I pointed out the problem, I got a reply-to-comment saying
My point is that the marginal cost of each additional unit of carbon emitted, which takes a very long time to accrue, may already exceed the marginal benefit of that unit, which is immediate. An economist might therefore conclude that I advocate an immediate abrupt cessation of all emissions. I readily stipulate that this is infeasible. I note that the aggregate cost of any action isn’t just determined by the marginal cost; and that cost of a given emission target is actually very trajectory dependent. But in terms of the long term aggregate well-being of the world, it’s quite plausible that we are already going backwards when we consume fossil fuels, and it’s almost certain that we eventually will be, and not in the too distant future.
I failed to parse that correctly in my reply there, since when correctly parsed it seems so wrong, but mt makes himself clear in a clarification on the psot:
UPDATE for clarification: Costs of a unit of emission aggregated over time may already overwhelm the benefits, which appear immediately. This balance shifts further against the value of emissions as geologically rapid climate change proceeds.
So he isn’t talking about “marginal” in terms of increases-in-emissions-over-present-emission-levels. He really does mean that each unit of CO2 emitted now may be doing more harm than good4. Pause to think about that. Suppose it is true. In which case, we should stop emitting it. Now; immeadiately. This would cause our civilisation to collapse, and billions would die. mt knows that isn’t possible; see, he even writes “I readily stipulate that this is infeasible”. But that means the other half of his assertion must be wrong: the marginal benefits, now, are greater than the future costs.
Is it possible that future damage from present-day emissions is so large that it dwarfs billions of deaths and the collapse of civilisation? That seems rather unlikely to me. Certainly, mt makes no attempt to provide evidence for his assertion. In evidence against, I’d put forward “typical” damage estimates of ~6% (of something; I forget what) by ~2100. That is a large number of billion dollars, of course.
Can we just stick to the science then please?
Sure. Providing you promise to say nothing about cost-benefit. But that does severely reduce your real-world relevance. You could try to argue “GW is obviously so bad that we should prevent it, rather than trying to assess the costs of preventing it against the benefits of preventing it”. And amongst nice people who agree that GW is bad, that’s a fine argument; everyone will take your word for it. But what about Bad People like Pruitt who don’t accept your argument?
1. Not if you’re Hawking, of course.
2. Not really, of course. Call it a vigorous test of his ideas. If ATTP’s moderation were faster, we could have the discussion over there, but it isn’t, so we can’t.
3. Sigh. Three.
4. Current thinking (see comment by MMM and my reply) is that mt does mean marginal changes to current emissions levels. And so the question to answer is the cost of one more or one less unit of CO2 emitted now, versus it’s future damage costs.
Author wmconnolleyPosted on July 8, 2017 Categories climate science
49 thoughts on “One team two team red team blue team”
I actually thought Tobis was clearer than usual in his first post at ATTP. His second reverted to the mean.
https://cliscep.com/2017/07/07/is-it-read-teamblue-team-or-red-stateblue-state/
Any such exercise will come down to the initial SOW.
[Hmm. Still somewhat off. square the circle of the interactions of the carbon sinks, the effects of clouds and aerosols and other messy details of the Earth systems in play isn’t I think your strong point; those if pushed are merely uncertainty, and uncertainty doesn’t help you. And nominate Judith Curry, Nic Lewis…: disappointing. You’re sticking to the science; it is clear that a red team can’t say anything interesting there.
Freeman Dyson… have one of the smartest humans on the planet be at our side. Or Hawking, perhaps? He’s pretty smart, too. Do you see the problem? -W]
Doesnt Tom recall what happend the last time, when after listened with great respect, but some puzzlement to their old Professor Richard Lindzen’s cogent expression of his views on global warming, two public-spirited and authentically skeptical Kansans opted a few years ago to fund a Red Team exercise of their own.
They called in a Berkeley professor, skeptical as themselves as to the climate record, and as astute and scientifically accomplished as Lindzen himself, and asked him to dissect the issue anew. So he delved into the temperature record , including Watts contention that badly sited thermometer stations were behind the apparent rise, and did a goodly amount of research, and gigabytes of analysis, statistical and dimensional.
Whereupon Professor Richard Muller announced that the BEST Red Team exercise had changed his mind, and ccmpelled him to conclude that the meteorological common wisdom was indeed true- There was no decline for erstwhile ‘Climate Skeptics’ to hide behind.
As that was good enough for the sponsors of the exercise, the fossil fuel rich and worldly-wise MIT educated brothers Koch, why should us taxpayers pay for an instant replay ?
https://goo.gl/1SRb8i
Your proposal is that if you take as given that the marginal cost of a unit of emission exceeds the marginal benefit, then we should stop all emissions immediately?
I think that’s trivially false. That may have something to do with the reason that nobody but you notices.
[I think the problem is that you said that your words implied that an economist would deduce from your premises that all emissions should cease. I (now) think that you are wrong: you simply misunderstood what an economist would deduce. But at the time, not knowing quite what you were trying to say, I took as read that your deduction was correct, as an aide to parsing your words -W]
Suppose I accept your proposition, that we should continue to emit CO2 until the instant that its net benefit goes below zero. On this logic the abandonment of CO2 should not begin before that instant nor proceed after that instant.
This can’t be right. I think the main reason it would work out to be wrong is that there are costs associated with the switch, and those costs increase with the abruptness of the switch.
That being the case, if the moment where the net cost/benefit switches over to the cost side is behind us, it is still terribly non-optimal to make the switch instantly.
Economists, in my experience, aren’t strong with response functions that are spread over time. But surely they must have some way for accounting for this…?
[I find this a somewhat baffling statement; I don’t really know what you mean by it -W]
Otherwise it’s jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today. The argument you present seems to me to make it impossible to argue for reduced emissions at all. Please enlighten me as to what I’m missing.
[See answer to MMM, below -W]
Hi Russell,
There are several elements missing from your account of the BEST story. I’ll glide over the alarmists hurling names at him in advance of his published results for having the temerity to question the established temperature series.
Perhaps more of interest, Professor Muller, despite his pointed criticism of Michael Mann (which was well-deserved), was not really a skeptic at heart. His daughter is a committed environmentalist and strong supporter of the consensus view of global warming and it was after long conversations with her that Professor Muller undertook the project. I’ve met them both and they’re both very intelligent and very… culturally aware.
The other thing your narrative neglects is that many skeptics (and lukewarmers such as myself and Mosher, who worked on BEST), were telling the world before work even started that the results would confirm findings of other efforts to chart temperature trends. The surprise exhibited when Muller came forth with his version was in large part just relief that he didn’t go off on a tangent, coupled with disappointment from many on the skeptic side.
Dr. Tobis, your interest in economics should be matched by more study.
I for one fail to understand why you do not employ energy consumptiion as a proxy for CO2. There are a variety of reasons to do so, many of them economic.
Energy consumption tracks CO2 now, something you wish to change. Monitoring it would be a better measure of success with your proposed polices, as CO2 concentrations will continue to increase even with decreased emissions, something you point out in your post at ATTP.
A focus on energy consumption would also allow you to experiment with different mixes in the portfolio of fuels used by different regions and countries, something that would again allow you to shape events to meet your goals.
Of course you want to reduce CO2 emissions as quickly as possible. But given the uncertainties associated with measurement (the Keeling curve being the only agreed upon metric in all of climate science, or near enough as to make no difference), switching your attention to what causes those emissions, something that is an order of magnitude easier to measure and monitor, would benefit your cause greatly.
I think that the key sentence in the post is:
“But that means the other half of his assertion must be wrong: the marginal benefits, now, are greater than the future costs.”
In my opinion, MT is right if he limits himself to talking about marginal changes in emissions, and Stoat is right if he limits himself to talking about emissions in aggregate, and the key issue is that the costs to society of reductions in GHG production are very non-linear: we could easily absorb a 10% reduction in emissions tomorrow
[Ah, I’ll interrupt you here, because I think you are right. This is probably what mt meant. At least, I can agree that the marginal cost of reducing emissions from present isn’t large -W]
without much lifestyle impact besides a few high flyers curbing their conspicuous consumption, if done right
[That, too sounds like what mt is thinking of. But isn’t it rather heavily idealised? We have no benign dictator capable of picking and choosing which emissions to suppress. You don’t get to say that Gore flying off to the Arctic wasn’t really necessary, so we can save a few tons there with no loss. Instead, you get rather blunter policies (I’d favour a carbon tax, as I’ve said before) and it is the cost of those you have to consider.
That may also explain why mt is so ready to believe that future costs may already overwhelm the benefits, because he regards the benefits of marginal emissions as frippery. Again, I don’t think that will survive out in the real world -W]
(in fact, I’d argue there are probably some reductions that you can get at negative cost, ala the canonical McKinsey CO2 reduction MAC curve which may over-egg the pudding a bit, but I do believe there is something there), but eventually, if you reduce fast enough and hard enough, you start destabilizing food transport and air conditioning necessary for health during heat waves and other necessities. And in between, there are more complex costs that may not be life/basic infrastructure threatening, but are still costs that are relevant (e.g., visiting family when they live in different countries).
So the question is not “is the net present value of the damage of a marginal ton of CO2 greater than the net present benefit of a marginal ton of CO2 emissions” (or rather, that is the initial question, but in my opinion, the answer is clearly yes), but “after how much CO2 reduction, will the net cost of an additional ton of reductions be more than the damage of that ton of emissions” (along with follow-on questions regarding next year’s emissions, and next decade’s emissions, and what investments we should make today to make the marginal cost of reduction tomorrow lower).
One way to think about this is, if we set a global carbon tax equal to the social cost of carbon (let’s call it $100/ton), how much reductions would we get next year? More than zero, less than 100%, clearly. I’d guesstimate around 10%, maybe more (especially if we get rid of fossil fuel subsidies at the same time)? But if we maintained the tax (increasing with inflation) it would also spur more investment in low and non-CO2 options, and the percent reduction would increase. If the tax increased at the Hotelling rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_rule) the tax would increase more quickly and emissions would fall faster.
(hmm. now I’m wondering if anyone has though rigorously about the implication of “declining discount rates”, which is the Weitzman realization about Ramsey discount rates in an uncertain future, and the Hotelling Rule… my guess is that while the SCC should be calculated with a declining discount rate, the increase in the SCC year-over-year would be the short-term discount rate every year)
I was with you, MMM, until you introduced the Social Cost of Carbon. It’s a nebulous concept at best and even if done well explicitly ignores the social cost of reducing carbon.
Tom: The “social cost of carbon” is just another term for the “net present damages resulting from emissions of a marginal ton of carbon”, so I don’t see it as a “nebulous concept”. Now, I’ll agree that determining a good dollar value to use for the SCC is a difficult task. The National Academies recently released recommendations for one approach (http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=24651), but there are others who argue for a “top down” estimate rather than the “bottom up” type approach advocated by the National Academies (and generally used in the most widely cited numbers to date).
“The social cost of reducing carbon” is a term that I’ve seen thrown around occasionally, but I have never seen a rigorous attempt to define it. I would imagine most of the “cost” of reducing a marginal ton of carbon is not an externality, and therefore shouldn’t be called a “social cost”. (again, there’s a difference between talking the impacts of marginal tons of abatement, versus, say, 30+ percent reductions from BAU: the latter type of policy could start having non-linear effects on the economy beyond just higher prices & additional taxes).
Well, this is rather sorta true:
“My point is that the marginal cost of each additional unit of carbon emitted, which takes a very long time to accrue, may already exceed the marginal benefit of that unit, which is immediate.”
That’s why discount rates. Because we humans – whether we should or not but we do – value things now more than we do in the far future.
In fact, isn’t that what the Stern Review found? That the future problems of emissions are larger than the current benefits? Isn’t that in fact the entire problem there in its entirety?
If emissions didn’t cost more in the future than the current benefits then we wouldn’t actually have any problem with climate change nor emissions in the first place.
But we must then bring discount rates into it to find out by how much this is true.
I think there is a layer missing in both mt’s analysis and your observations.
Why do we think that GW is a bad thing? Because it hurts people. Now, in the near future and further out – it’s a progressive malaise. Eventually, everyone is going to be affected some.
We tend to assume that other people broadly share our moral compass and would also acknowledge that avoidable suffering is bad, and that causing it, and not preventing it, is not nice.
Unfortunately, the people who advocate for CO2 inaction do not share this view. (Use whichever label you see as best) The Post-Randian modern era fascists who seem intent on pursuing their ongoing manifest destiny don’t give a shit for anyone else, and don’t care about suffering, if it isn’t them doing it.
[That’s an extreme version, but isn’t untrue -W]
Bluntly, millions of poor black people dying somewhere else is, to them, not a bad thing, but a good thing – it means there’s more exploitable stuff left for whoever survives. The assumption that human mortality is to be be avoided does not exist for many of the Red Team.
My feeling? I’m with John Brunner (The Sheep Look Up) – the best solution to the vast waste, pollution, exploitation and injustice is not to dispose of the poorest, but to cull the richest. He pointed out in the early seventies that much of the injustice of the world could be levelled out by nuking California.
That’s a bit extreme as a solution, but the point is there – the problem is not the 99%, it’s the 1%, and those who aspire to be amongst them.
[The problem you have is turning your thought into a universal morality. You might, like all the nice people you know, agree that caring about other people is good and a duty, and that forming policy that doesn’t care about other people is bad. But what if people disagree with you? One solution is to label them bad and burn them at the stake, but it’s hard to call that moral, either -W]
I don’t think you’ve answered my objection to your objection.
If negative net benefit implies that an immediate cessation of emissions is optimum. doesn’t positive net benefit equally imply no restraint on emission? Consequently doesn’t that imply either no restraint or an abrupt termination as the only optimal possibilities?
Your reductio ad absurdum bounces back to you – if it applies, it applies to your claim as well as to mine. You haven’t responded to that.
[I “ducked” your objection because I think it became irrelevant. Did you read my reply to MMM? I think he has explicated the difficulty and clarified your meaning -W]
[For convenience, and in case you missed it, I’ll repeat part of my reply to you: I think the problem is that you said that your words implied that an economist would deduce from your premises that all emissions should cease. I (now) think that you are wrong: you simply misunderstood what an economist would deduce. But at the time, not knowing quite what you were trying to say, I took as read that your deduction was correct, as an aide to parsing your words -W]
As Tim has already essentially said, we do estimate the social cost of carbon, which is essentially the future damage/costs discounted to today. The ideal economic pathway would – as I understand it – be to then impose this as carbon tax which should (theoretically) lead to the optimal future pathway.
There are, however, a couple of things that I think are worth bearing in mind. If we pay a carbon tax, we’re not paying to avoid some future damage, we are paying for damage that will actually occur (assuming that we can actually determine this, but let’s take that as given). Also, climate change is global – the damage is not guaranteed to occur in the same region where the emissions occur. In other words, those who pay the costs may not be those who have benefitted from the emissions (or be the descendent of those who benefitted).
So, unless I’m missing something (which is always possible) an economically optimal pathway could be one in which the developed/wealthy world continues to emit CO2 into the atmosphere (while paying a carbon tax for doing so) while the developing world (or poorer regions) suffer the damages and pay the costs.
It may well be that there is no other viable pathway that would produce an objectively better outcome. However, this doesn’t seem to be a good argument for ignoring that the wealthy could essentially be choosing to benefit at the expense of the poor.
[Yes, I think this is a genuine problem, as I’ve acknowledged before. Most discussions of carbon tax avoid it, because it’s all a bit messy. When I say I’ve acked it, I don’t mean I’ve proposed any solution; just that I think it is comparatively less important so should be ignored for the moment -W]
Okay, I’ve stepped into an economic argument and may well have blundered. If I have, feel free to point out where.
[I think there’s another thing to say about the carbon tax, which is that it is economically meaningful even if the future costs are less than present benefits. The (as I understand it) economic point of the tax is to internalise externalities (echoing Timmy, though last time I said this Tol disagreed with me). So, for example, if process X produces widgets that cost $A and B tonnes of CO2, you want to be able to “compare” (that is to say, you want the market to compare, by examining the relative prices) that against process Y that produces the widgets for cost $C and D tonnes of CO2 -W]
I agree with you about internalising externalities and about being able to properly compare the total costs of various alternative processes, but I’m not sure that this is correct.
I think there’s another thing to say about the carbon tax, which is that it is economically meaningful even if the future costs are less than present benefits.
As I understand it, the current price is largely set by the immediate/current benefits.
[Yeeees…, well the price is set by what people are prepared to pay for it, of course. And what they are prepared to pay bears a relation to the benefits they get -W]
Therefore, any future cost
[No, that’s where you’ve lost me. How can you imply *anything* about the cost, from the benefit? They’re just disconnected -W]
has to be an extra cost and hence – by definition, I think – means that the total costs exceed the benefits (I think this is what Timmy was suggesting). I think that the only way that the future costs could be less than the present benefits is if the currents costs already exceed the present benefits by an amount greater than the future, discounted costs. That would, however, then (I think) suggest that the market has already failed (given that we haven’t yet properly tried to internalise the externalities).
[I’m not sure that I understand your point at all. Maybe we could try another version of it: imagine a product that can be produced in different ways, some of which involve an externality, but the cost of that externality is immeadiate, not future (acid rain from sulphates is close to this; not quite immeadiate, but near-term). All the complicated stuff about “future costs” then goes away. The price of the thing is then either the raw price, or it is the price plus externalities. Why would either of these have to be greater, or less, than the costs? Why isn’t it possble, in theory, for the externality costs to be really very small? -W]
willard (@nevaudit) says:
> But we must then bring discount rates into it to find out by how much this is true.
Economists still open their cans by positing can openers.
There’s no discount rate to “find out.” In part because like climate sensitivity we only can establish a very rough ballpark, and in part because, like interest rates, it’s a human decision.
Moreover, MT’s point has very little to do with “finding out” any discount rate. Take whatever you want and it’s still correct. Being infinitely richer on the brink of collapse won’t help much.
This should be enough to hammer in that risks matter more than costs, but let’s add this other point.
MT’s argument doesn’t imply we absolutely should get to a zero-carbon economy RIGHT NOW. The solutions should carry less risks than BAU, since that’s what they try to reduce. ASAP ought to be enough for anyone with a mosicum of good faith.
Getting a specific day and time won’t prevent Freedom Fighters to join contrarians in raising endless concerns.
WMC,
Ahh, actually, maybe I’m wrong about this
Therefore, any future cost has to be an extra cost and hence – by definition, I think – means that the total costs exceed the benefits (I think this is what Timmy was suggesting).
It is possible, I guess, that the current plus future costs could be less than the current benefits. However, you would still want to include the future costs in order to properly compare alternative processes – this may be what you were originally saying.
[Ah, yes, to both points. In that case, we’ve overlapped and you can ignore my convoluted attempt to understand your previous -W]
Since we’ve clarified my confusion, maybe you can clarify what you mean by this
When I say I’ve acked it, I don’t mean I’ve proposed any solution; just that I think it is comparatively less important so should be ignored for the moment -W
This would seem to be brushing a potentially very important moral issue under the carpet. How acceptable is it that we could have a scenario in which the wealthy regions of the world simply pay now for damages that will not only occur in the poorer parts of the world and that these poorer regions will pay for. Unless I’m mistaken, the revenue from a carbon tax will not actually be used to cover the cost of the damages, it will simply be used to properly compare the costs of different alternative processes.
[I think this is a whole other can of worms. My feeling – and no more than this – is that ultimately it isn’t a big problem, though I could easily see it being a big issue. The reason is that the poor world also gains a lot from rich world emissions. See-also http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2017/05/05/4698/ -W]
Dr. Tobis writes, “If negative net benefit implies that an immediate cessation of emissions is optimum. doesn’t positive net benefit equally imply no restraint on emission? ‘
Big if. A negative net benefit doesn’t necessarily imply immediate cessation because the cessation part is not free, not equally implied and imposes social costs as well as physical.
[See other comments. I think this is all a confusion between *total* (present) emissions and *marginal* (present) emissions -W]
sorry. ‘cessation part is not free, not equally implied ‘ s/b applied
Sorry wc, your comment in parens, do you mean total and marginal emissions or benefits? Or costs? ….
[Not sure exactly which one you mean, but I think this is all a confusion between total and marginal. As explained by MMM. See above: mt (I think) really meant that present marginal benefits of emitting extra CO2 were greater than the future marginal costs of same. He erred in thinking that this meant economists would think *all* emissions should suddenly cease, what he meant was that those marginal emissions should cease. This, of course, is easily seen if we have a carbon tax set at the level of the future costs; then those marginal emissions that exceeded their present benefits, plus the added tax costs, would cease; whereas those more valuable “baseload (maintaining our civilisation)” emissions would continue -W]
what does a carbon tax do?
[It makes things that cause CO2 emissions to reflect their “true” price – with inevitable imperfections – thus allowing the market to sort out the solution, without anyone having to interfere -W]
It reduces spending on heating, cooling, transport, food production, food transport, and communication.
All things that make life slightly bearable as it is.
Not only do I get less internet, less avocado smash with my coffee bu the poor people who grow the coffee beans and the truck drivers who transport them will be out of work.
While this is perfectly fine for the 65 year old superannuants among us, a lot of them I note, it is of no consolation to the majority of the everyday workers [millions and millions] in a thousand big cities around the globe who toil all day in cafes, who have horrible 2 hour transports to and from work and for whom a drop in wages and living conditions would be catastrophic.
Which is what any tax encourages.
Why not speak up for population growth control and use our one off fossil fueled science spike to develop both sustainable populations in a humanistic way and develop energy sources better?
The discount rate concept has the fundamental problem of implying a point in the not-far-off future when the value of humanity and all its works goes to zero.
I’m happy to use carbon pricing as a form of regulation to efficiently raise funds for getting off carbon while somewhat discouraging its use, but that’s the extent of it.
Attempts to calculate a social cost of carbon based are at root immoral.
[I think that’s a badly misguided way of thinking. Not just wrong, but also politically inept -W]
We need to get off the black stuff as fast as our collective little legs will carry us.
See here for the correct approach.
Economics can still very useful in terms of charting out the fastest feasible path to getting off fossil fuels.
insert “on discounting*
Yes, it may be more accurate to refer to the damage function, but whatever.
I don’t even like Stern’s more recent SCC, but regardless note the lack of a rush to utilize it.
> See here for the correct approach.
Please, if you’re in contact with those folks, convince them that their description of their work fails: “laser-focused” is not a thing. Because physics.
That sort of description of their work makes me wonder how much of the rest of the project thinking is incoherent*.
*Yes, that was a physics joke.
angech:
Sorry to hear your life is almost unbearable, but you’re making a strawman argument. You’re assuming that ‘a’ carbon tax removes the revenue from the economy, and that the price of carbon-neutral energy remains constant.
Any carbon tax would reduce fossil fuel producer profit margins and make carbon-neutral sources more competitive at their current prices. A revenue-neutral carbon tax like CF&D, however, leaves the revenue in private hands, available for re-investment in carbon-neutral energy sources and infrastructure, bringing energy prices down over time.
Meanwhile, the periodic dividend checks coming out of CF&D allow the reduction in spending on fossil energy to be matched by an increase in spending on carbon-neutral energy. If you aren’t using more fossil fuel than the national average, your sad life should be no less bearable.
If OTOH you are using more fuel than the national average, maybe your life is a little too bearable.
“See above: mt (I think) really meant that present marginal benefits of emitting extra CO2 were greater than the future marginal costs of same.”
That’s backwards at best. I certainly think present marginal benefits of extra CO2 emissions are *less* than future marginal costs of the same.
“He erred in thinking that this meant economists would think *all* emissions should suddenly cease, ”
I never dreamed of such a thing until you brought it up as a refutation not only of what I’m saying but also as cause to mock it.
I’m finding we are drifting further and further from clarity.
Let me reiterate that my claim is not on the margin but at the aggregate. You suggest:
“So he isn’t talking about “marginal” in terms of increases-in-emissions-over-present-emission-levels. He really does mean that each unit of CO2 emitted now may be doing more harm than good.”
That’s a bit too strong. I do think the aggregate of all CO2 emissions may already have a net negative benefit, and will surely soon do so.
But even if I had claimed that EVERY BIT of CO2 had a net negative benefit (which I didn;t and don’t claim) I don’t see how this follows:
“Suppose it is true. In which case, we should stop emitting it. Now; immeadiately [sic].”
I do not see why this follows. We agree that this absurd counterfactual would be catastrophic if it were somehow implemented. So we should not stop emitting immediately, because the act of cessation itself has costs, costs which rise rapidly with the abruptness of the cessation. Duh.
[For the obvious reason: we should only do things that have net positive benefits. Why would you do a thing that has net negative? (Note: for these purposes, you need to either assume complete rationality or an economic system that does internalise future costs; but this is a thought experiment, so we can) -W]
If I’m driving down a limited access highway and suddenly realize I have passed my exit, I must turn around. But the costs of my turning around instantly outweigh the costs of my continuing in the wrong direction to the next suitable exit. I don’t see what is difficult about this.
If we have passed the exit, we should turn around and go the other way, in a way that is not so reckless as to be worse than going the wrong way in the first place. How you express this in economic terms perhaps escapes me. But it’s obvious, isn’t it?
[Yes, that is true; but is it a good analogy? -W]
Dr. Tobis, you don’t need economic jargon to express your thoughts. Your last paragraph did so quite well. It is clear.
Got your Koch-funded input right here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/business/the-scholar-who-will-help-lead-trumps-assault-on-rules.html/
Ooh, la. Pretty much everything but an explicit hyperthermal. Read it and weep, kids.
I see wmc’s inept and raise him a wealthy and cloistered. It probably hasn’t even occurred to him that there’s an alternative non-monetary means of costing emissions, i.e. via its impact on human health. IOW, priority goes to eliminating the emissions having the greatest deleterious effects on the most vulnerable populations. Think of it as cutting out the economic poppycock middleman.
Indeed, the cap/trade system instituted in CA some time ago is even now in the process of being reformed to to reflect this alternative principle (which note has the further advantage of being integratable with air quality concerns). But we’re all inept here.
(BTW, I see in the linked article a mention that Hansen has abandoned carbon tax advocacy in favor of CCS. Interesting if so.)
I’m with you that extreme partisanship in any direction is not much use. Crusades generally do not end well.
The Universal Morality more or less already exists, in the form of matter such as the treaty of Rome and the UNDHR. Then there’s religion (not for me, but for many around the world). We tend (as have you and mt) to assume some kind of rational utilitarian model around the ideas that harm should be avoided and/or benefit encouraged.
If some people exhibit sociopathic, xenophobic or narcissistic tendencies (kind of hard to avoid completely) the reminder needs to be flagged up that in the slowpocalyptic scenarios everyone loses, including them and their offspring.
Of course burning at the stake is one solution, but so what? There are other kinds of naughty step. The purpose of the exercise is neither vindictiveness nor malice, but sidelining – making sure that these people aren’t setting the rules.
Sail power for ships was the standard in 1827 when the first steamship crossed the Atlantic. By 1900 the majority of cargo was carried by steam ships. The last commercial cargo sailing ship might have been by the Passat, last profitable commercial cargo in 1946 or so. There are lots of other examples of major changes, they all seem to have taken on the order of 50 years or more to complete.
Change isn’t instant. If the total cost (including indirect and delayed damages) of burning fossil fuels was twice that of alternatives such as solar, wind and nuclear power, it would still take on the order of 50 years to transition with a reasonable cost. And note that not all burning of fossil fuels has the same cost/benefit ratio.
Consider one example. Currently much private transport is oil powered. A potential replacement is solar powered electric cars. Currently electric cars are less than 1% of all cars on the road, and about 1% of cars sold, and are doubling sales about every 4 years. Cars last about 12 years. Assuming that the current subsidies stay in place, or a replaced by a meaningful carbon tax, this growth rate might continue until most cars are electric. Majority of sales in 5 doublings, or about 20 years. Majority of cars on the road about 12 years later. Reality is more complex, but optimistic assumptions gives 32 years to the half way point. The last oil burning car (excluding collector’s and such) might well be a century from now.
Once we decide that carbon fuels are a net loss, expect the change to non-carbon energy to take many decades.
WMC “(Note: for these purposes, you need to either assume complete rationality or an economic system that does internalise future costs; but this is a thought experiment, so we can)”
Note back: I assume no such thing. I was discussing the actual situation. I’m sure there’s an idealization under which no such mistake is possible, but that is not a useful model of our circumstances, is it? I mean, that’s exactly my claim.
Your argument that we could not make such a mistake because it would be a mistake isn’t one I find compelling. I certainly don’t think it justifies mocking my position!
[You still don’t understand what I’m saying. And I’m not mocking your position. I’m trying to understand it. Which, as I’ve said several times already, I now think I do, and agree -W]
Bob Loblaw says:
Late to the show:
WC asks [For the obvious reason: we should only do things that have net positive benefits. Why would you do a thing that has net negative?
Why do a net negative? Well, if all the realistic, feasible alternatives are worse, it might still be a good idea.
Economics 101: why would a large company with several factories, some turning a profit, continue to run an old factory that is losing money? Answer: because shutting it down loses even more money.
[In that case, shutting it down [keeping it running] isn’t a net negative, considered as a delta from your current position -W]
Fixed costs don’t go away when you shut it down, but all the revenue it generates will. If revenue exceeds non-fixed costs of running the place, you’re better off with it running, until you can find a way to decommission it or sell it and make the fixed costs go away, too.
And again, if the science is to be challenged by a Red team trying to show that the threat is overstated, why no challenge by a White team trying to show that aspects of the threat are understated? Seems unbiased, and all-American.
[:-) -W]
Julian Frost says:
I’m going to have to comment here.
Currently electric cars are less than 1% of all cars on the road, and about 1% of cars sold, and are doubling sales about every 4 years. Cars last about 12 years.
Electric cars last far longer.
Have no fear. The energy revolution is under way. It can’t be stopped. https://qz.com/1024520/renewable-energy-is-becoming-so-cheap-the-us-will-meet-paris-commitments-even-if-trump-withdraws/
[This is a good thing. But it is not, of course, a call for govt subsidies -W]
Julian – Electric cars have the same (or similar) bodywork, suspension, running gear, interior electronics, chassis, brakes, etc as ICE cars. Although the actual powertrain may last longer, that’s not the only factor in the life of a car.
> This is a good thing. But it is not, of course, a call for govt subsidies -W
No, it is the result of government subsidies.
[It is a result of many things, some of which were govt subsidies. In particular, asserting that govt subsidies for renewables have been overall a successful policy is, I think, dubious -W]
#34 Electric cars might last longer, but when looking at a rapidly growing fraction of cars being electric that is a small factor in the phaseout. If sales double every four years, then half of the electric cars are less than 4 years old, a quarter are less than 8 years old, a eighth are less than 12 years old. Only a tiny fraction might be impacted by longer (or shorter) lives.
#37 Powertrain is indeed a small part of a car’s useful life.
BTW: Brakes last far longer in an electric as much braking is done with regeneration.
The gas company where my mother lived is now offering free installation (trench and pipe from the street to the house) if you’ll just change the house over to gas from electric or fuel oil home heating. Or coal, I suppose.
Phil, it is not just cars, it is trucks planes and ships, All needing power input day and night. You would need to cover so much of the planet with solar panels we would not be able to grow crops.
OK, only hyperbole.
Electricity is not free, plugging in does not mean you will only get it from renewables and their is a cost in transport. The bigger the load the bigger and heavier the battery.
The same problem as with carbon capture.
You have to waste more of your precious energy and resources on the methods trying to reduce your energy and resources.
Health impacts.
7 billion people alive even because of the benefits of coal. Who would have thought that more lives and living longer means less life and living shorter?
Not to knock the damage to brains ( lead in the past) and lungs or the simple road death statistics, 20000 RUssians killed last year and 40000 permanently injured and suffering extend to world situation.
Seems you wish to convert a good win lose ratio into a bad one.
WC:[In that case, shutting it down isn’t a net negative, considered as a delta from your current position -W]
I don’t follow your logic. Let me put some numbers on (made up) to clarify my position:
Acme Ltd. has 10 factories. When they built number 7, it was making a $200K profit, based on $1M/year in fixed costs (capital investment, etc), $400K/year in non-fixed costs (labour, materials, etc.), and $1.6M/year in revenue from selling the product. Building the factory was a rational decision.
Today, prices have dropped, and factory 7 only generates $1.2M revenue, but costs have not changed. Each year, Acme loses $200K to run the factory. Compared to the original position, the factory is a poorer deal. For the accountants, factory 7 is “net negative” to Acme’s bottom line. Is it rational to keep it running?
A bean-counter wants to shut the factory down. Someone points out that if money is the purpose, then shutting it down avoids $400K in non-fixed costs (fire everyone), but leaves $0 revenue because there is no product to sell. The $1M fixed cost remains, so now factory 7 bleeds $1M/year from Acme’s accounts. This is an even worse “net negative” than running the factory.
Keeping the “net negative” factory running at a loss of $200K/year is a rational decision compared to shutting it down and losing 5x as much money.
[Sorry, my comment was the wrong way round; I’ve corrected it. Keeping it running isn’t a net negative, as a delta on current. Shutting it down, in your hypothetical example, would be -W]
schnablo says:
“He really does mean that each unit of CO2 emitted now may be doing more harm than good4. Pause to think about that. Suppose it is true. In which case, we should stop emitting it. Now; immeadiately.”
Sure, but with each non-emitted unit the benefit per unit of the remaining ones will increase. Just like to a thirsty man ten bottles of water are not ten times as valuable as one bottle. Hypothetically, one could cancel units until a balance of cost and benefit is reached.
schnablo @ #42 — However, cost equals benefit when substantial net negative carbon dioxide emissions is reached.
Umm, no.
Our aim is to maximise the aggregate utility of people over time. so, we wish people to stop doing things today which cause more costs in the future than they bring benefits today. Discount rates yadda yadda. But we also want people to *continue* doing things which bring more benefits than they will produce problems in the future.
As an example, using Stern’s numbers (you can change the numbers as you like, the logic remains) the future damage from one litre of petrol is 11 pence. Is it worth 11 pence for me to drive for fresh bread? Quite possibly not, I’ll cycle if I am charged the 11 pence. Is it worth the ambulance driving around to save the pregnant woman with pre-eclampsia, thus saving two lives at the cost of 11 p worth of future damage? Hey, pollute away my man.
How do we select between the two? We charge everyone the future damage they will cause. And, given that humans are often at least reasonably logical and respond to incentives, the behaviours with more damage than benefit will stop, those with more benefit will continue.
We’re not trying to make people “pay” for anything. We’re trying to get the costs into prices so that people will consider those costs in their decision making.
[Our aim is to maximise the aggregate utility of people over time: but, in the real world, it is not unreasonable to object to that. Because of the obvious inhomogeneities under discussion. If maximising aggregate utility enriches the West at the expense of Africa, say, why should they agree? If it enriches the present at the expense of the future, ditto -W]
If, as Tom Fuller asserts, Steve Mosher remains a luckwarmer, then, as others point out luckwarmer has lost its meaning. The evolution of Steve’s take on climate change has been an interesting one.
Mosh hasn’t changed–he’ll still take the under on the ECS 3C bet.
Two things have changed: First, the administration. Now that skeptics have more power, it makes sense to go after them. They’ve always been just as wrong as you,Eli–but they didn’t matter at the time.
I’ll let you figure out what the second thing was.
“Keeping it running isn’t a net negative, as a delta on current. Shutting it down, in your hypothetical example, would be -W]”
Well, if you define negative and positive on just what is happening now and how it changes in the short term future, then I suppose.
I think a good deal of the problem is deciding over what time scale to calculate the +/- effects, and how to estimate/weight the future ones.
In the (full) example I gave, a decision that was clearly net positive in the early days became a relative net negative in the second stage. At some point, the future usually becomes the present.
The most interesting thing about this “red team, blue team” nonsense will be to see who the team members are. The only way to win a game like this is not to play, but unfortunately people keep taking the bait. A recent example is the Bill Nye – Ken Ham “debate.”
Does anyone know how the teams will be decided? Will they ask for volunteers, or will they assign govt employees to each “team”? It would be great if no one agreed to serve on the blue team. (Following the red/blue state template I’m assuming the good guys will be the blue team.)
[I agree that’s the most exciting aspect. I wasn’t expecting an explicit “blue team” – I think that’s just the IPCC and all the “normal” scientists. I was expecting the “red team” to be the likes of Curry, Michaels, Lindzen if they can drag him out of retirement, Christy, and so on. And maybe a few folk like Dyson?
TBH, I was expecting the fun to be watching various not-really-respectable folk trying to get onto the “red team” -W
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Truths and Errors of Spiritual Research
[ Lecture: S-2728: 3rd March, 1913 | Frankfurt | GA0069a | Anonymous ]
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Spiritual Science and Natural Sciences — their Relationship to the Riddles of Life
Frankfurt, 3 March 1913
Somebody who speaks about spiritual science today cannot count on general approval. Since all habitual ways of thinking of our time have grown out of a ground which is different from that of spiritual science.
Since the aurora of modern natural sciences, the essential progress of human mind is based on the observation of the outer world and on the application of the reason to this outer world. Spiritual science has completely to acknowledge natural sciences and their results. However, today we live again in a time in which mind and soul of the human being long more and more for an answer of those questions that exceed the sensory view and rise to the creative powers of existence, and look for them in the spiritual.
Spiritual science is based not only on quite different requirements but also on another way of research than natural sciences apply. However, one must not believe that spiritual science contradicts natural sciences in any sense. On the contrary. Even if it takes its starting point from quite different requirements and research methods, spiritual science — understood properly — completely complies with the scientific results.
Natural sciences are based on the outer view. They have achieved great things also with the development of those tools that enable us to look into the physically smallest things. However, if natural sciences want to do their task, they have to limit themselves to that which approaches the human being from without which one can grasp with the senses and understand with the reason. Knowledge of spirit can establish only on an inner deepening of the human soul by which the soul discovers cognitive abilities and forces in itself that exist neither in the usual day life nor in the outer science. Yes, if this usual science were intermingled in ambiguous way with spiritual-scientific methods, it would get only to unjustified results in its area. Still one will find if one deeper invades into the matter that the same kind of thinking, the same logic that our natural sciences apply one also applies in spiritual science. However, we have to realise that the human soul itself is the only instrument to invade into the supersensible world. It is not allowed to stop at the everyday life, but requires that it can deeper invade into the things from the point of view of the everyday life. So that this can happen, so that the human being can become a spiritual researcher, it is necessary that the soul behaves in its whole inner life different than it was accustomed before it entered the way to spiritual research.
Our soul life proceeds in such a way that we think and feel certain things, that we have mental pictures in our soul. Which sense and purpose do we connect with this soul life? We mostly connect the purpose with it to get to know the outer world and to orient ourselves in this sensory world. The spiritual researcher is concerned with something else. He has to select single mental pictures, sensations, ideas, or impressions that can be useful for him. I would like to take a comparison.
Let us assume that we compare the whole soul life that proceeds in manifold mental pictures, which change at every moment, with many corns that exist in ears on a field. The owner of the field selects some of the corns. While he lets the other corns achieve their goal to serve as food, he selects single ones that should serve as seeds and have to produce new fruits.
In a quite similar way, the spiritual researcher has to behave with his soul life. While, otherwise, the mental pictures proceed without surveying them, he has to select single mental pictures that he does not use for the outer cognition of the world. One calls that concentration, meditation, and contemplation. Which sense does one connect with these words? We want to figure out the process that the spiritual researcher carries out.
At certain times, the spiritual researcher must try to turn away his attention completely from the outside world. Then he also suppresses all worries of life, all desires, affects, and passions. He has to empty the soul, to cause a kind of empty consciousness. He selects single mental pictures of his soul life or of spiritual science whose contents do not matter and is engrossed in these mental pictures — not in their contents, they do not matter. However, the spiritual researcher behaves in such a way that he moves a mental picture arbitrarily in the centre of his consciousness, and calls all soul forces and retains this one mental picture in his consciousness, namely for longer time and with all inner strain. It only matters that the soul makes an effort that everything is concentrated upon one point. If you have to do any work where you have always to strain your arm and if this work has a purpose, you must exert yourself constantly to fulfil the purpose of this work. However, if you want to strengthen your muscles, it may just mattes not to reach this or that purpose, but to evoke the forces that exert the muscles, so that they develop. That also applies to the soul forces with meditation and concentration, namely with forces which are different from those which one applies in the usual everyday life. We never exert our souls, so to speak, concerning the forces that we consider here if we live in the everyday life. We have to evoke deeper soul forces to concentrate on a mental picture. That is the point that we strain the soul in such a way that we also have the inner will for it.
If we get a mental picture because we can be stimulated from without, then the mental picture is caused in our soul without our assistance. It is there — we have not produced it. The mental pictures that are attached to worries, to desires, and passions originate without any effort. They are to no avail to us if we want to make our soul the instrument of the higher world. Not that is the point that we have a mental picture, but that we exert ourselves to move the mental picture in the centre [of our consciousness]. If the human being calls his deepest soul forces in patience and perseverance this way, something new happens for the soul. You can find the details about that in my book How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?. This is something that today many people do not want to believe that for the soul something new can happen. We can compare this new to a moment which takes place in the human soul life [at a certain time]. The little child lives up to the second, third years consciously, but not self-consciously. One may say in a way that the consciousness of the child sleeps, before in the child the moment comes where it knows: I am an ego. This is a kind of awakening. It is a kind of awakening also if in the described way the soul is raised to another level of existence if it is made an instrument to behold into the spiritual world.
What you experience in your soul if you carry out such exercises can be compared with something with which it is similar on the one hand and from which it is, on the other hand, quite different: with falling asleep. How does this usual sleeping state approach the human being? I do not go into the details of the scientific hypotheses of sleep. Without special scientificity, I talk only about that which the human being experiences in the everyday life falling asleep.
We know that at the moment of falling asleep the senses no longer deliver impressions. The mind starts darkening. The human being transitions into a state in which his body is not active. At first spiritual science has to say — what logic already confirms — that the whole human being does not exist in the sleeping human being, but that the real human being leaves the body in sleep and is free from the body, that the human being is beyond his body. Now this is a hypothesis at first, but spiritual science verifies this hypothesis as a reasonable truth. Natural sciences more and more approach that which spiritual science has to say at this point. Du Bois-Reymond states that natural sciences can understand the sleeping but never the conscious-wake human being.
If one does not want to be so illogical to state that every evening all desires and passions disappear and originate anew in the morning from nothing, one has to suppose that they are still there. However, within the physical body they do not exist. This means that the human being is with his inner being beyond his body. However, this inner being is of supersensible nature, hence, one cannot see it.
There may be people who say that just certain things take place in the human being and cause other processes so that the soul life takes place. — Someone who speaks that way is in the same position as someone who believes that one can understand the nature of the air investigating the lung and its activity. One can understand the air if one investigates it beyond the body. Then it penetrates into the human body; the lung is there to use the air. Natural sciences will just discover more and more that one can compare the inner activities of the human body during sleep with the inner activities of lung and heart. It is an inner bodily work. However, just as little as the lung produces the air, just as little is that which penetrates as soul life the organism more and more a product of the body; rather it penetrates into the body, and it is beyond the body from falling asleep up to awakening.
One can still argue many things against that. One can understand these things only really, if one can prove by facts that that is something essential which leaves the body in sleep as one supposes it.
This just happens with the spiritual researcher if he does those soul exercises that I have discussed just now. Thereby he causes that soul condition which is free of the body. While the spiritual researcher refrains from that which his body provides for him, he causes that — completely awake — he leaves the body unexploited. During the soul activity, the body must not be active like in sleep. The senses must be quiet; the worries and passions that the outer life stimulate must be quiet as they are quiet, otherwise, only in sleep. The spiritual researcher causes a completely empty consciousness. Then, however, he puts one single mental picture in the centre of his soul life. For it, he needs forces that slumber, otherwise, in the depths of the soul and that he strengthens now by exercises so that he can perceive them.
What the spiritual researcher experiences he has just to experience if it should be conceded as fact. It resembles the sleep under the mentioned circumstances: it is connected neither with the movements of the body nor with the outer senses and the reason. While such state is caused, otherwise, only in sleep, the spiritual researcher gets around to getting to know his soul from a new side with his exercises. He knows, there is an inner life of the soul, even if the soul renounces everything that comes from the body. One may prove ever so much with some outer reasons that the human soul cannot live free of the body — the insight that, nevertheless, it is able to do it originates only if the body-free state is caused. Then one knows that one has a soul life that is completely different from the former soul life that the body has caused. One would like to say, this is a basic experience which the spiritual researcher attains if he has done such exercises long enough if he has already conjured up strong forces from his soul. In my book How Does One Attains Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, you can read up further details about that. I would like to describe the typical of this experience.
If one has carried out the exercises long enough, a particular inner experience appears. Either one awakes from the depth of sleep, or, one feels tempted to pause in the middle of the day life. What happens then is a kind of pictorial experience. Then you have the feeling that something goes forward, as if a lightning has struck you. What goes forward?
The human being thinks possibly that way: now you feel what you have always felt as your body, filled with physical elements, and is taken away from you. — Indeed, you realise now that strong forces are necessary to keep upright compared with such an experience. One feels that which one has always called approaching the gate of death. One is vividly acquainted with that which appears at death. Indeed, now changed feelings and mental pictures appear in the soul. Now you know what it means to stand no longer by yourself as it was the case before. Now you feel the soul transformed so that you know, it is not dark and quiet, but is internally active if you renounce any co-operation of the physical body.
This experience is very significant. It is a dramatic experience for the soul. It is something about which the soul says, whatever I have experienced up to now in life, I cannot compare the significance of this experience that sometimes shakes the soul. A lot of that which I have felt up to now only as slumbering in the backgrounds of existence of which I believe that I can only anticipate it, takes place before my eyes. Hence, I know now: yes, the human being is connected in his innermost core with that world which is behind the sensory world and which, actually, the sensory world veils only.
However, you know something else. You know that it was necessary to do such exercises, to strengthen the soul. You know this, because you realise that to the experience of the described a certain faculty of judgement is necessary and a kind of moral courage to maintain yourself. The soul forces that you have taken out of its depths give this courage and faculty of judgement. You find the further details of this way again described in my book How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?. If you have arrived at this point, you just know: unless you have prepared yourself, you would approach this event with two qualities which are doubtful to the highest degree if they appear in the context with these experiences and which you get to know only at this point of soul development: self-love, or more precisely, self-sense, and a certain fear and insecurity of those regions which are behind the sensory world. Self-sense or self-love plays a big role in the usual life, but the soul can always master them. Bad habits appear in our souls, and we can change them. Unless we want to change them, we can at least feel that we could change them. Compared with a force of nature, flash and thunder, we do not have the feeling that we can change it. If we entered without preparation into the state that I have just described, you would realise that you have strengthened, indeed, your soul forces, but that you have also brought out something else, namely reinforced self-love. Only if you have also strengthened the other soul force, you are able to decrease this self-sense. Just as little as you are able to resist flash and thunder, just as little you are able to resist self-sense, to snatch it away from the soul life.
However, if you have made the soul an instrument for the spiritual world in the right way, then the survey of the picture enables you to recognise this self-sense in its true form. Since this picture shows something else than one could describe it with few words. It shows everything that we have called our ego, our soul up to now as put beyond ourselves. It shows what we have wanted up to now from which you suffer, with which you are pleased. Now you know: I have to place down all that from myself if I want to develop that out of myself, which can lead me into the supersensible world.
You get to know yourself as soul at this point of existence only. You know now what it means to face yourself with true self-knowledge; you know that you retain nothing of that for a higher knowledge which you have called your ego up to now — you have to cast off it and retain it as something external. Facing yourself objectively, considering yourself as another person or as an object is a preparation for penetrating into the spiritual world. However, this requires that you have also developed the strong forces to defeat the reinforced self-sense. Someone who has not done this would experience infinite pain if he realised that he has to cast off and renounce everything that he has suffered in order to behold into the spiritual world. — Nothing of that which serves to you in the world seems suitable to lead you into a higher world.
Hence,[sieglinde2] it is necessary that you defeat self-sense. Something else yet appears. If the human being does this experience, he notices that his whole security of life was contained in that which you have to set aside from yourself, which you ignore now. There fear seizes you, because you must leave behind for a while what gave you security up to now. Now it is as if you lose ground. Only if you have attained other forces, you do not have fear but courage to penetrate into the unknown land of spirit. What lives there in the soul as fear appears quite different to you. The soul life is something very complex. Only a part of it is aware; another part rests always down in the depths of the soul that the spiritual researcher brings out with his power. The human being only knows a part of his soul life; other parts work into the usual soul life. However, the human being knows nothing about them. Yes, the usual soul life often is there to blanket what rests in the concealed depths of the soul. The human being helps himself to get over them, while he deceives himself. For that who knows the soul a phenomenon is very interesting which appears to the human being of the present paradoxical, but it is true.
In the present, we see people, materialists, who do not want to search the spirit in its true figure on the way of spiritual life. Why does one become a materialist? If you understand, why this is the case, you become tolerant on one side towards the materialist because you realise that under certain conditions the soul cannot be different if it does not receive the suggestion to come out of materialism. Since that who investigates the soul of the materialist notices that in its depths nothing but the fear of the spiritual world prevails.
It is that way. Even if the materialists resent that, it is in such a way. They are afraid in the depths of their souls without knowing it; they are afraid of the spiritual world because they have a dark feeling of the fact that they lose ground if they leave the sure ground of reason. They are afraid of it, and, therefore, they blanket this fear with materialist theories, as one dazes himself against fear. The materialist monism is nothing but dazing fear in the depths of the soul. The true psychologist will be able to recognise this always. In the materialist-monistic theories is not only that which the materialists say, but always fear is visible between the lines. The reinforced soul power must overcome this fear, and then the human being dares to jump over the abyss and to penetrate into the spiritual area.
Then the human being becomes aware that, indeed, his soul life splits for the experience of the spiritual world in a way. What does this splitting mean? Expressly I would like to emphasise that the true spiritual researcher should not be a dreamer or romanticist who wants now to leave the sensory world completely and to live in the spiritual world. He has to attract that again about which he knows that he must cast off it for the spiritual world. The spiritual researcher must manage to move about freely between beholding the spiritual world and living in the sensory world, otherwise he is no spiritual researcher but a daydreamer for the outer world. He reaches this if he takes a healthy soul life as starting point.
Hence, you can convince yourselves that the real spiritual researchers are sober in the everyday life because they have realised objectively, not only subjectively that it is necessary to consider everything soberly to be no romanticists. They position themselves in the usual life as practical people. They know how to keep the balance between the usual life praxis and the life in the spiritual world. It is very important just to stress this point because the soul life must split, as well as a big number of corns are separated from a few which are not consumed, but are used as seeds.
Thus, the human being realises that his soul life is not completely separated from himself. He sees as it were a part of this usual soul life beside himself; he feels it as something that cannot place him in the spiritual world: the corns that serve as food. However, the other part bridges the abyss. This is that part which develops from concentration; it is that part which is used as seeds for the soul life that goes to the spiritual world. So that it develops healthily, it is necessary that the spiritual researcher is able at this point to behave different from that who — with a pathological soul life — has reached this special point which he learns to feel as very painful.
That which approaches the spiritual researcher if he has fulfilled all preconditions is that he does no longer need from a certain time on to concentrate upon certain mental pictures, but they appear spontaneously from his empty consciousness which show a new world. A new world fills his consciousness. For the outer viewer this world becomes very similar to the pathological hallucinations. However, they are only externally similar. A pathological soul life leads to hallucinations. The healthiest soul life of the spiritual researcher leads to the world of pictures or Imaginations. We realise with that who sees an imagery emerging with an unhealthy soul life that he believes with an inner force in their reality that he believes that his delusions are true. Many of us know that one can dissuade a person who is ill this way often from that which he sees with the eyes but not from the “reality” of his hallucinations. Why is this the case? Because just in such pathological soul life which appears with such strong force also the self-sense increases. The person concerned is one with his mental pictures; he produces them from his soul; they are the silhouettes of the soul life, they are compressed imagination. Because he himself is that, he believes so firmly in them. Since the human being must believe absolutely in himself if he wants to stand firmly in the world — and then he believes in his visions like in an objective world.
The spiritual researcher has to attain defeating the self-sense that he has now to remove that imagery arbitrarily again which can work so blissfully on him. If anybody does the exercises in the right way about which I have spoken, he attains the ability to extinguish this imagery — which appears really as a spiritual world as in the morning the sun appears on the horizon. The exercise has to consist of the special will training that one not only gets around to evoking this imagery but also to extinguishing it again — any knowledge is based on it in the higher world. This is the difference compared to the pictures of the pathological soul life. If the exercises are done, the human being attains the peculiar force to make his will gradually stronger and then to diminish it again. One does not have this ability in the usual life. One can make efforts and refrain from them. One has to learn this only by training that one makes the will as strong as I have described it. If the whole imagery has emerged, one must consciously weaken the will more and more which has conjured up this world and must be able to let sink this whole world. However, one is able to do this only after defeating the self-sense.
Think only what you demand from your soul. You demand that you assert yourself at first to evoke such a world; then, however, you must extinguish it again. You cannot enjoy it. You must see the whole world, which we have developed by external strains, sinking in the depths of your consciousness as mental pictures that you have forgotten. If you have attained this, you enter only into the true spiritual world, the world of spiritual beings and facts. The spiritual researcher knows by the preceding exercises that he lives now in the spiritual world. If he did not have acquired this ability to let disappear all that again, he could not be a free observer of the spiritual world. You can compare that with a situation where you look at a thing and cannot turn away from it. Turning your attention to and away from something corresponds in the area of spiritual observation to attaining the impressions and removing them. If the human being has come to this point, not only the splitting takes place which I have already described but he faces two separate areas as it were. From one area he experiences that he has to set aside it from himself; he feels, it is that which he has estimated up to now as his only possession about which he also recognises that he casts off it at death. A certain courage is necessary to grasp this in real knowledge. Since the human being recognises that he must learn to deprive himself of something willingly to which he is attached and which is snatched away from him usually only at death.
Then he gets to know that as it were the fruit that is chosen as seed is the human essence which is not taken up in the physical body, but which is only the basis of it. The essence is due not to the ancestors, but originates from the spiritual world; it uses what the parents give to the external-bodily existence.
Spiritual science points out that in the human being probably the qualities of the ancestors live that, however, it is an inexact consideration if one says that the human being is only composed of that which he inherited from the parents. Physically the human being bears the characteristics of his physical heredity, but something spiritual-mental can come only from something spiritual-mental. You can get to know the spiritual-mental core this way. Because the human being is an internally closed individuality, you are not concerned with something generic. That is, the spiritual-mental core is rooted in the individual of the human being. However, with it we realise that teaching of repeated lives on earth.
This spiritual-mental that we bear in ourselves and through the gate of death is rooted in a former life on earth and further ones, until there comes a time when it lived for the first time. What rests in this part of our being walks through the gate of death and lives then in a supersensible existence. From this, the human being enters into a new earthly life while he proceeds towards the line of heredity.
You realise, the logic is completely the same as in natural sciences. He who wants to fight against it does only not know about which he talks, actually. Since if that who stands on scientific ground wanted to say: nevertheless, one can prove that the qualities are inherited from the parents —, one must answer to him: as far as natural sciences can prove it, one can only say: it is true! — If, however, the materialist monist says, because one has inherited these qualities from the ancestors, they could not be due to that which the human being has acquired in a former life as forces which appear in his current life again, then one has to answer, one can say just as well, the human being is wet because he has fallen into water. — The one is true because the other is true. It is true that the human being has inherited certain qualities from his ancestors — it is true, however, also that he was attracted by these parents because he has to appropriate the forces which he can get just from these parents. Something spiritual causes something spiritual only.
Someone who wants to look properly at this matter admits that today spiritual science has to go forward as Francesco Redi did who had to establish the sentence as a scientific truth: life can only originate from life. — Spiritual science will experience the same destiny with reference to the acceptance of this truth. People did not accept this sentence with pleasure. Only by the skin of the teeth, Francesco Redi escaped from the destiny of Giordano Bruno. Today one does no longer talk of heresy, but today one calls the persons daydreamers who have to announce something new. Today one has milder methods than burning at the stake to prevent what must come into our civilisation. However, it will happen in such a way as it always happened in such cases. What one called pipe dream at first becomes self-evident afterwards.
I have already said, one is not surprised about opposition. The thing is in such a way that not only those who deal a little with these things, but also those who want to enter into the spiritual world with good will do not yet want to understand the teaching of the repeated lives on earth.
With the teaching of reincarnation, we face the question of immortality quite unlike if one judges it concerning an infinite time. Then you face immortality in such a way that you see it establishing link about link. One speaks of the fact that the soul lives on because one realises that in one life on earth the seed of another life is enclosed
We see a human being growing up from his earliest childhood in affectionate surroundings, and we see another human being growing up in surroundings that can work only badly on him. Why is it that way? There we must consider the one and the other life caused by a former life on earth. Even if it sounds hopeless, on the one hand, that every misfortune is self-inflicted, one has to say, and nevertheless that good luck and misfortune concern something else if one considers good luck and misfortune from the only entitled viewpoint.
What I mean with it, I would like to show by an example. An eighteen-year-old young man whose father was very rich led a loose life. He wanted to learn nothing, enjoyed life only, and was on the way to become a scapegrace. Then his father died, and at the same time, his property got lost. The young man was thereby forced to learn something, to work, and he became a capable person. There he had to say to himself, what seemed to be misfortune was good luck for me.
Thus, we have to say to ourselves in a misfortune, we have determined ourselves for this misfortune from a former life; we have led ourselves to this destiny. Then it is unjustified to judge a misfortune, while we experience it. One has to consider it as the result of a former imperfection. We have to say to ourselves, the soul would not be able to develop completely if it did not experience this misfortune. The misfortune can be a school of perfection.
If anybody has already here attained a knowledge that he has gained in life, and we ask him, you have experienced grief and pain, joy, and bliss — which experience would you rather give away? — If the human being contemplated about the true issue, he would answer: I accept joy and bliss gratefully; but from the sufferings, I have just received my knowledge: I would never have become that who I am. — One judges suffering different from the viewpoint of the usual sensations. Thus, one must not call the teaching of repeated lives on earth hopeless. What is given to us with this teaching? The question of immortality and the question of destiny. The question of immortality is solved because we know that this life carries the seed of the following life in itself. Thus, the whole life combines to an immortal one quite scientifically. The question of destiny is solved because destiny is necessary for development. Trying to understand death and pain means strictly speaking that you develop interest for the big riddles of life.
In 1909, a great scholar, Charles W. Eliot, held a lecture about the future of religion. He admitted that the human being has to get from the natural processes to assuming spirit and soul; however, he also demanded that the future worldview must not take death and pain as starting point. He said, the worldviews of the past talked about pain and grief. The sufferings are reduced with joy. A worldview should talk only about joys and overcome pains. — One would like to agree with him, because, indeed, it would be desirable that the human being could speak also about a joyful material life. However, if the human being wants to refrain from death and pain and says, I do not want to build up a worldview on grief and pain, I want to accept a joyful life only, then one must answer to him, even if you accept a joyful life, death and grief come automatically, they approach you, they enter into your life. Only such a worldview can really cope with the riddles, which, like spiritual science, encompasses suffering and joy because both are means of perfection. A worldview can only cope with death if it understands that the spiritual-mental core has to cast off the cover that it has around itself as the plant seed has to cast off the withering leaves and blossoms. To enter into the next life we have to develop the spiritual-mental core that has to cast off the body, has to go through death.
There one copes with death because one recognises that one can get to a new life with it. One recognises death as the root of the immortal life. Not because one copes with the world riddles grief and death that one closes the eyes before them as Charles Eliot means, but that one recognises them as necessary like luck and life. I have just said that in the present many preconditions are not yet there to penetrate into these things. I would like to quote a man who tried to settle deeply in spiritual problems who delivered some wonderful, however, also often mystically-blurred things, Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949, Belgian author). He approached the question of immortality in the last time. He got to know the teaching of reincarnation and karma. You can literally read in the translation of his newest work (La mort, On Death, 1913) about that which he regards as “faith.” He regards spiritual science as faith. He says: “Since there never was a faith, which is nicer, fairer, purer, more moral, more fertile, more comforting and more probable in a certain sense than this.” — He means the “faith” of theosophy. —
“With its teaching of gradual atonement and purification it only gives a meaning to all physical and spiritual dissimilarities, to any social injustice, to any outrageous injustice of destiny. However, the goodness of a faith is no proof of its truth, although 600 million people follow this religion. Although it is closest to the origins wrapped in darkness, although it is the only religion that is not spiteful and not vulgar, it would have had to do what the others did not do: to give us unquestionable proofs. Since what it gave us up to now is only the first shade of the beginning of a proof.”
There you see such a person who has approached spiritual science who finds, however, no possibility to provide a proof — what he calls a proof.
One has to say to that first: if he does not regard anything as proof, it does not mean that this view cannot be proved, but it means that this view has not penetrated him. It is typical for the present that it is so hard for people to find their way to something that once will be a matter of course.
Secondly, one has to say, if you just find such a statement like that of the brilliant Maeterlinck and you figure it out deeper, the thought suggests itself automatically: should this view of repeated lives on earth be proven? As well as I have today discussed that — even if sketchily — I have given what you can call a rationale. However, it may be that anybody demands something of a proof that one cannot demand at all from a proof.
I would like to remind of something else. There were always people who dealt with squaring the circle. Those persons who invented proofs over and over again have gradually become a real scourge of mathematical societies. Since they received a number of such proofs every year, which all were nonsense. However, one always believed that the proof would be found once. Finally, the Paris academy did not know how to escape and cast them into the wastebasket. Nevertheless, it was not allowed to suppose that the proof could not be found. Once one could reflect on squaring the circle, now no longer, because meanwhile one proved that this proof could not at all exist. The squaring the circle is not possible. Nevertheless, there are very simple means to transform the circle into a square. One takes a paper, cuts a circle out, carves it into small pieces; and puts them into a square. Then one has not done it with calculation but with an action. One cannot calculate it, but one can go forward this way. Nevertheless, the thing is true and reasonable, but one has searched the proofs in the wrong way. Maeterlinck does it that way. He demands something that requires a wrong way of thinking.
We realise from it which difficulties even today exist to acknowledge spiritual science. We realise just in this newest work of Maeterlinck that also such a man manages hard [with these thoughts]; we realise that it is difficult to introduce spiritual science into humanity.
One cannot say, well, if the thing is in such a way as you have told, then only the spiritual researchers can enter into the spiritual world. That is not the case. To be a spiritual researcher is only necessary to search the things in the spiritual world. If one has found them, however, one has to transform them into a thought-image as I tried it in my book Occult Science. An Outline. If then this thought-image is properly created, the common sense can understand it, and then one does not need to prove it in such a way, as Maeterlinck believes it. Everybody can understand spiritual science who considers that unbiasedly which the spiritual researcher has transformed into thought-images. As you do not need to be a painter to understand a picture, you do not need to be a spiritual researcher to understand the spiritual facts that the spiritual researcher has received from the spiritual world. The common sense is able to do this if it is not bound to prejudices. The soul needs that which the spiritual researcher has transformed into a picture for its security and strength. The spiritual researcher has still nothing of the spiritual world if he only walks around there; he has something only if he transforms that which he beholds into thought-images and ideas.
Although in our time everybody can become a spiritual researcher to a certain degree as I described it in my book How Does One Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds?, so that he can convince himself directly of that which I have said today, it is not necessary that everybody is a spiritual researcher. It is as with a riddle that you have to solve; you have not to prove the solution if you find it out for yourself. If you face spiritual science properly, you combine with it from understanding, as well as one can find the solution of a riddle.
He who delves into spiritual science settles in it. Because the soul is destined for truth and not for error, we know if we have penetrated into the spiritual world by the messages of the spiritual researcher: we have understood it. — If the solution of a riddle is told to us, we believe not only that it is in such a way, but we also know it. This is the case with the understanding of spiritual science. It cannot be accepted only on authority, but as soon as it has been informed to us, our soul adjusts itself so that we also understand it. The spiritual researcher has a little bit more of this understanding if he has transformed the spiritual facts and truths into thought-images. Every human being who approaches spiritual science has the same for his soul; he has a new relationship to the riddles of life, to the question of death. This understanding is not only theoretic, but can serve as an elixir of life. If a human being is so educated that the spiritual-scientific concepts live in him, he will also feel towards age in such a way that he can probably understand the Goethean word “one becomes a mystic in old age.” Then he says to himself, if my limbs start withering if my body pines away, I am like the plant seed whose leaves wither. The spiritual-mental core arises in me. One will not only know about this essence, one will feel it as a force that goes through the gate of death and through a spiritual world to prepare a new life again. This solution of the question of immortality is practical for life. The human being will experience the immortal in himself.
Spiritual science will become an elixir of life this way; it will be able to give the human being strength and security. We know that today life is more complex because of the triumphs of natural sciences than it was once. We also realise that the soul sometimes needs a support that it cannot have from that which you can get spiritually from the past. Natural sciences continue to lead humanity from triumph to triumph. However, with it the human being will be torn more and more. Strong inner forces have to be there. Only spiritual science is able to strengthen the human beings enough not to get nervous by the effects of modern life. If, however, anybody really penetrates into spiritual science, he rises more and more to those viewpoints to which the true spiritual researcher rises already today.
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How Much Do Crane Operators Get Paid?
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Moving heavy objects and materials is an essential task in many industries like construction, manufacturing and mining. Cranes are machines that lift and move large objects using suspended wires or chains and are commonly used in building and bridge construction. Formal education is not always required to become a crane operator since necessary skills can be acquired through on-the-job experience. However, many construction jobs require a high school diploma or GED equivalent. Crane operator training and certification does exist through national organizations such as Nationwide Crane Training.
Income Range of Crane Operators
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average annual income of crane and tower crane operators was $60,530 in May 2019. This annual income figure is based on an average wage of $29.10 an hour and 2,080 hours of work per year. The top 10 percent of crane operators made more than $91,840 a year, while the bottom 10 percent earned less than $32,250 . The median annual crane operator salary of workers in the occupation had annual income of $56,690.
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Data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that New Jersey was the highest paying state for crane operators in May 2019. Crane operator salary in New Jersey earned $80,780 a year on average. Average incomes in other top states included $75,380 in Washington, $73,570 in Massachusetts and $70,740 in California. Texas employed the most crane operators of any state, 6,420 crane operators, making Texas the largest state in looking for crane operators for hire. Workers in Texas made $56,470 a year on average.
Specialization Opportunities and Sub-Industries
Many sub-industries within the manufacturing and construction industries hire crane operators to assist with the moving of materials. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that crane operators working for specialty trade contractors made $71,230 a year on average in May 2019 and workers involved in support activities for water transportation earned $62,260. Operators working in the iron and steel milling industries made $49,650 on average. Crane operators performing support activities for nonresidential construction earned $73,680 on average and operators working for merchant wholesalers earned $46,080 on average.
Job Outlook Next Ten Years
The Bureau of Labor Statistics data report expects jobs for crane operators to grow 2 percent from 2019 to 2029, which is lower than the national average for all jobs. Declines in the coal mining industry as well as increases in automation are the cause of the lower than average job growth rate. However, there is expected to be growth in construction and manufacturing jobs. Job prospects should be favorable for new workers due to stable job growth and a need to replace workers who leave the occupation to pursue other opportunities.
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PLANT FUELED MUSCLE – Lean, Mean And Green!
By Kristina Dow
It seems to be that there is a collective fear among the Western world, that if we’re not eating animal products, then we won’t get enough protein….But in actual fact, quite the opposite is true.
With so many amazing, high-quality, vegan plant-based protein powders available, it’s no wonder why there are so many vegans winning bodybuilding competitions – including Mr. Universe.
Soy, hemp, brown rice protein, yellow pea protein powder, mixed protein powders (e.g. vega – quinoa, buckwheat, lentils, beans). These are just a few of the plant-based proteins that are now available worldwide. It seems as though the argument about animal protein is one that is debatable.
It’s not just our environment, the animals, and our health that plant-based nutrition is known to improve…now there is more and more evidence of how plant-based proteins can build muscle just as effectively as animal protein.
But Why Vegan Protein?
It’s no accident that some of the strongest land mammals with high muscle mass are all vegan – including gorillas, horses, elephants and rhinoceros to name a few.
Many bodybuilders around the world have made the transition from animal to vegan protein with outstanding success.
Some of the best vegan proteins include:
Grains like wheat, rice, and oats.
Vegetables and legumes such as: peas, lentils, chickpeas and potato.
Beans – excellent source of protein and fiber.
Nuts – Almonds, peanuts, walnuts, and pistachios, cashews and brazil nuts.
Seeds – Quinoa, buckwheat, chia seeds, hemp, sunflower, pumpkin seeds, flaxseeds and oatmeal.
Tempeh/Organic tofu, edamame – foods containing soy, such as: tempeh, tofu, and edamame, all offer complete protein containing all amino acids.
Greens – spinach, kale, spirulina and broccoli.
Creating a mass gaining, plant-based meal plan is easier than you might think.
All whole plant-based foods contain protein, and there are many different recipes you can make for high-plant based protein meals.
There is no need to worry about mixing and matching proteins either. As long as you get plenty of variety throughout the day, you will get all of the essential amino acids you need.
Beans, nuts, seeds and whole grains are protein dense and high fiber foods, also higher in calories for an intense workout.
Spinach, kale and other leafy greens, are amongst the healthiest plant proteins to consume in smoothies, salads, or cooked meals, which are also known as “superfoods” due to their nutrient dense content.
Vegan Muscle
Most Vegan Bodybuilders have made the transition to Plant-based protein due to the negative effects of animal protein on their body.
Dr. Campbell’s “China Study”
Dr. Fuhrman’s book “Eat to Live“ and Dr. Caldwell Esselstein’s “Forks over Knives” all explain the dangers and major health consequences of eating a high animal protein diet – the promotion of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and many other significant problems, that afflict millions of people around the world.
Vegan Bodybuilders
Derek Tresize
Derek Tresize is a Vegan bodybuilder who has won numerous Bodybuilding competitions and made the transition over 10 years ago.
He said after just 30 days, his body felt cleaner and he lost 5% body fat over 2 months.
He also believes eating animal proteins promote growth the same way they promote cancer growth. They increase sex hormones, insulin, human growth hormone and body fat.
He says that he can have many more calories on a plant-based diet, and have lower body fat and a lower body mass index.
Torre Washington
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Ever since, Torre has won numerous competitions and placed in the top 3 in all but one of the sixteen competitions he has entered.
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Samantha says: “I definitely have more energy as a vegan, and I just can’t help but feel good knowing that everything going into my body is clean, unprocessed and grown from the earth”.
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Try it for 30 days on a high plant protein/ high carb diet and see the difference!
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Turkey, Kyrgyzstan to lift visa in late 2011
Erdogan has said that they decided to set up High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council between Turkey and Kyrgyzstan.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that they decided to set up High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council between Turkey and Kyrgyzstan.
Holding a joint press conference with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambaev in Bishkek on Wednesday, Erdogan said that the first meeting of the council would take place in Turkey in March.
Noting that it would be beneficial to establish an Investment Agency in Kyrgyzstan, Erdogan said that the two countries could take mutual steps as well as steps in third countries through Investment Agency. He added that Turkey could share its experiences with Kyrgyz officials.
Erdogan said that investments and support made by Turkey in Kyrgyzstan had reached 450 million USD so far, adding that the support which Turkey extended only regarding Manas University had reached 150 million USD so far.
Turkey donated 10 million USD to Kyrgyzstan in 2010, said Erdogan, adding that International Cooperation & Development Agency of Turkey (TIKA) would make an investment of 15 million USD for hospitals and schools especially in southern regions of Kyrgyzstan in 2011.
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Visa will be lifted between Turkey and Kyrgyzstan by the end of 2011, said Erdogan.
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Malaysian Doctor and Family Tested Positive for Covid-19, Quarantined in Teluk Intan
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A Malaysian doctor, his wife, and their five children have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Despite the dire situation they find themselves in, they remain cheerful as ever, even went on to TikTok when their 17-year-old shared their experience quarantined together.
Sharing her family’s experience on twitter, @errikaaaaaaaa writes, “Even though we are COVID-19 positive, as a family we will get through this together. We are ok. Here is a TikTok video of us entertaining ourselves.”
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Reported via Channel News Asia, the family mentioned in the report belonged to Dr Samsu Ambia Ismail a specialist and the head of the emergency and trauma department at Teluk Intan Hospital.
Becoming the first in his family to be infected with COVID-19, they have since been isolated at the hospital for the past six days.
@errikaaaaaaaa or Erika Syamim, her four and her mother were isolated a day later.
Transforming her Twitter account into a vehicle to share their journey, @errikaaaaaaaa shared that her father had fever, cough and breathing difficulties while the rest just had a fever.
Source: Channel News Asia
Maintaining much positivity, here is what she has to say to others going through the same ordeal, “If you are in the ward, don’t be lemau (sluggish). Be cheerful, insyaallah (God willing) we can fight the disease too.”
Let’s pray and hope that Erika and her family will be blessed with a speedy recovery.
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You are here: Home / Misc / RuPaul Spilled the Tea and Dropped Some Knowledge on ‘The Real’!
RuPaul Spilled the Tea and Dropped Some Knowledge on ‘The Real’!
By Nigel Zeff on March 2, 2016 5:43 pm
The Supreme Queen RuPaul appeared on The Real to discuss things from his new album Butch Queen to the 100th episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well as the difference between drag and transgender. One of the hosts Jeannie Mai asked RuPaul to explain the differences between the two communities to the show’s mainstream viewing audience. Thus, RuPaul shared this gem from his infinite wisdom:
Well, drag is really making fun of identity. We are shape-shifters. We’re like, ’OK, today, I’m this. Now, I’m a cowboy. Now, I’m this.’ That’s what drag is about.
Transgender [people] take identity very, very seriously, in that their identity is who they are. But you know, I come from the school of you know, I’ll do whatever I want to do at any time and change and whatever.
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Lithium Makeup in conversation with Frostie Delite
Aashna Agarwal
Isze and I have been friends since we both started college at NYU three years ago, and she’s been Frostie Delite (her alter ego-slash-imaginary-friend-slash-makeup-service) for the last two. As Frostie, Isze has done looks for fashion shoots, music videos, and events like Halloween and prom.
Meanwhile, I’ve only worn makeup a handful of times in my life. Until recently, my perception of the art was limited to false associations with unrealistic beauty standards and superficiality.
This was Isze’s first time experimenting with my face, and it fostered a level of intimacy between us that neither of us expected. It’s just as much an ode to our own experiences as it is to our friendship.
Each of the following four looks took over two hours for Isze to perfect and even more time for her to shoot. To make it special, we also made collaborative playlists for each shoot day that are linked below.
By the end of the project we’d spent over twenty hours with my face in her hands. And we recorded all of our conversations, which ranged in topic from our experiences with insecurity to the intersection of feminism and professionalism.
It was uncomfortable having somebody—even Isze—within breathing distance of the facial features that have defined my experiences, and for such an extended period of time. This piece is the product of that discomfort and our best attempt at honestly capturing our take on the conflict that is being a woman.
This look was meant to emphasize and reclaim my most feminine qualities—the side of myself that doesn’t come across as particularly badass at first glance. Its accompanying playlist consists of songs Isze and I listen to while getting ready in the morning: Disc 1 Side A. It reminds us of spring, a beautiful leather journal, sticky lip gloss, and a bouquet of dried flowers.
“I apologize a lot. When I’m in a data science workshop with all boys, I adopt a more masculine persona. Sometimes I pretend like things don’t bother me so that I don’t come across as sensitive. I want to be honest with myself and empowered, but vulnerabilities don’t really have a place in corporate ‘girlboss’ feminism.” - A
Isze: Empowerment in mainstream feminism right now is so defined by its actionability. Even my career in makeup is regarded as frivolous. I think it’s because there’s nothing completely tangible about what a blue eyeliner can do.
Aashna: Which is absurd. The act of applying or wearing makeup is so deeply personal. You are currently defining what I’m going to see and how I’m going to see myself when you’re done with this look.
Isze: Right, which is something so misunderstood about makeup… that its purpose is for photos and to be appealing to the Western gaze.
Aashna: Or to be externally viewed, as opposed to felt.
Isze: Right, internally felt. Exactly. Look up at the ceiling for me. Okay, perfect.
Aashna: The definition of a strong woman, right now is a woman in a position of power…but that makes strength contingent on a career or an idea that isn’t necessarily what every woman wants for herself. I find myself existing almost apologetically and with hesitation, and then feeling guilty for apologizing and hesitating. The older I get, the more I realize how much that feeling of guilt is inherent in the female experience.
Isze: I even think about it in terms of makeup. Like, why am I questioning something that I love to do, and I knowmakes other people feel happy? I think my own way of dissenting is enjoying these things unapologetically.
Aashna: Have you faced backlash for makeup being “anti-feminist”?
Isze: Yeah, actually, when I was interviewing for Yale with an older alum. He asked me this question which I thought was so interesting. He basically asked me about the contradiction of being a gender studies major and wanting to be a makeup artist. I wanted to turn the question back on him and be like is it?
Isze and I took a lot of inspiration from elements of ‘60s mod and pictures of our mothers growing up. Disc 1 Side B is a love letter to our moms. Think tuberose, Dolly Parton, sweater vests, and the iconic Bollywood winged eye.
“I think the cultural struggle and restraint our mothers endured so that we could even have these conversations about vulnerability…were their gift to us.” - I
Aashna: One of my favorite things about growing up is my mom no longer seeing me as somebody she has to advise or control or protect. It wasn’t until college that I started being articulate and open about my anxieties with my family. My mom won’t really say anything at the time, but then months later she’ll be like “I’ve never talked about this with anyone before. It’s shocking to me that the person I’m doing this with is my daughter.” I think it’s forced her to process things that she never realized she had to revisit.
Isze: I think about that a lot. When I was younger, I would say offensive things about my parents’ divorce or about my dad that I didn’t realize were offensive in the moment. I never understood why those things bothered my mother until I had the very same person asserting his power over me as a man. I think we’ve almost been blessed to have a firsthand understanding of what not talking about things can do, and I think it’s what will define us as people and as parents.
This is an updated version of our high-school experience—songs Isze and I wish we’d listened to (Disc 2 Side A), makeup we would have worn (and rocked), and dresses that would have been so much cooler at prom than the velvet strapless numbers we went with instead.
“I wish I could go back to my high-school self and just tell her how proud I am of her for writing that way-too-personal essay in English class or, like, getting the terrible perm and bangs. I didn’t realize it at the time, but those were some of the first things I did for myself and not for other people.” - A
Isze: I look back at when I started to feel attractive in high school, and I don’t think I’ll ever feel as ugly and pretty at the same time as I did then.
Aashna: I almost find it uncomfortable to look back on, in part because it’s when we first started to actually think about, and for, ourselves.
Isze: Right! I didn’t start to feel like I had a place…anywhere until I started to do things for myself. Matching my eyebrows to my bright blue hair wasn’t me changing who I was but just asserting that I’m not a perception… I’m a person. Even if I wasn’t entirely sure of who I was, that was me getting to know myself.
Womanhood isn’t binary, concrete, or even tangible. But this playlist, Disc 2 Side B, reminds us of strength, and when paired with groovy pants and a bedazzled face, it feels as chaotic as the kind of women we are and want to be.
“Makeup makes me look how I feel. I trust it to reclaim parts of myself I would’ve otherwise let go.” - I
Aashna: One of my favorite things about getting older is getting to know myself. It’s really exciting when your reactions or opinions don’t surprise you as much and actually start to feel familiar.
Isze: Part of getting older is also making sure to forgive myself when I mess up. I let myself be imperfect and I don’t hold onto my mistakes. Women, especially BIWOC, have a tendency to almost “doublethink.” We’re taught to be “nice” or “chill” but also not let anyone stand in our way. How are we supposed to exist as five different people at once?
Aashna: It’s part of the whole “women can have it all” idea. It’s exhausting having to combat this one-dimensional perception that’s been imposed on us by being, like you said, five-dimensional.
Isze: Exactly. We almost gaslight ourselves and other women…and we do it constantly. Women won’t ever be able to come together if we can’t let each other breathe or fuck up sometimes.
Aashna: God, yes. Breathing sounds so nice. I used to think, or hope rather, that one day all of this conflict and confusion would magically poof away, but I think womanhood for me now is less about having all the answers. Existing in the world as a woman teaches you a kind of empathy, and I think womanhood is existing in that conflict, embracing the contradictions you’ll inevitably be, and extending that empathy to yourself.
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A member of Mission Search and Rescue tends to injured hiker Ewa Kreczman, who fell during a day outing at Cascade Falls. Her husband Artur Siewierski saw her fall and thought he had lost her forever. / Artur Siewierski Photo
‘I’ve never been so scared in my life’: Hiker recounts wife’s rescue from Mission falls
Artur Siewierski wants to fundraise for Mission Search and Rescue Society after desperate rescue
Artur Siewierski had his back turned when he heard his wife scream as she plummeted off the ledge. She had slipped on the rocks, and a simple hike had just turned into a nightmare.
“I started screaming, ‘Are you OK?! Are you OK?!’ She wouldn’t move. She wouldn’t say a word,” Siewierski said. “At that moment, I thought she had died, and I’ve never been so scared in my life.”
Siewierski and wife Ewa Kreczman, both experienced hikers from Maple Ridge, had planned an hour-long hike at Mission’s Cascade Falls on Nov. 22 with their four-month-old border collie, Mavi. At one point, they decided to hike off-trail and had no difficulties in the ascent, but the terrain became “nasty” on their last 100 metres down.
Rainy weather had turned the forest floor wet and muddy, with Kreczman slipping a few times on the moss, Siewierski said. When they arrived at a vertical ledge with a 10-metre drop on to a steep declining slope, he said they tried to get back to the regular trails.
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But Siewierski said they weren’t sure exactly how. He found a little path “basically the width of your foot” that would traverse them along around five metres of vertical rock face.
Crossing first, he removed any loose rocks and asked his wife to pass him Mavi by using a harness. As he was setting the puppy down, he heard his wife scream.
He described briefly catching a glimpse of her falling “like a rock” and rolling another 30 metres down.
“I was shaking, standing there on the ledge holding on to the rocks, with another hand on the dog,” Siewierski said. “If anything happened to me, I couldn’t help her. If both of us die, then our daughter would be left alone.”
He carefully made his way down, tied up the puppy and started searching, screaming out for her and receiving no answer.
When Siewierski eventually found her wedged underneath a large downed tree – which, he said, had prevented her from rolling to the creek below and hitting the rocks – she was whispering, “Just take care of our daughter.”
“I said, ‘There’s no way you’re dying on me. There is no way. I’m not letting you die.’”
Kreczman was bleeding from her head, had a large green bruise on the entire left side of her face, had a broken tooth, couldn’t move and told him she thought the left side of her body was completely broken, Siewierski said.
He said she started shivering “frantically” and seemed to be in shock. When he retrieved Mavi, the puppy immediately recognized Kreczman’s situation and began to “use his little body to cuddle her and give her some warmth.”
Siewierski said he squeezed her legs and arms to make sure there was still feeling in them, and started stripping off his clothes to give her more warmth and put pressure on her head where it was bleeding. He checked his phone, saw he had a faint signal, and called 911.
Mission Search and Rescue Society (MSAR) crews arrived at the Cascade Falls parking lot within 30 minutes, but it took another hour before they were found, Siewierski said, and Kreczman’s condition seemed to be getting worse.
He said he considered leaving to go and search for them, but his wife was afraid to be left alone.
“She was deteriorating … She could barely speak. She was telling me that she was dying,” he said. “I was desperate … I started screaming ‘Help!’ ”
MSAR crews eventually heard his cries, and the first two rescuers arrived shortly afterwards, Siewierski said. He said one immediately tended to Kreczman, while the other started communicating with the rest of the team.
Siewierski said Mavi had become extremely protective of Kreczman and did not want to let any of the crews near her, forcing him to pull back and watch from a distance.
“I’ve never seen a border collie so aggressive. He was trying to protect my wife,” he said. “The little guy knew he didn’t have a chance with these guys … But he was like a wolf.”
Within 15 minutes, a crew of at least 12 rescuers was present, and Siewierski said it was amazing to watch them work as a team. Each crew member had a designated job and did not waste time putting together a plan to evacuate Kreczman.
She was eventually loaded on a stretcher, airlifted out by helicopter to the parking lot and driven by paramedics to Abbotsford Regional Hospital.
She suffered a bad concussion, a cracked vertebrae with a compressed disc and a broken thumb, and required stitches on her head, but had no internal injuries.
Siewierski said the doctor was shocked that Kreczman sustained only the injuries she did, and said he had seen much worse results from shorter falls.
Siewierski said he was so impressed and so thankful for the work that the MSAR volunteers displayed that he plans to make a donation to the society, and even wants to help them fundraise in some way.
“They rely basically on public funding. They get money from the government, but it’s not that much,” he said.
“It’s very important for people to recognize our heroes for what they do from the goodness of their hearts.”
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When two old friends (they’ve been playing music together for over 60 years!) join forces with two younger jazz performers, the results are amazing!
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Emil and Joe have been making music together for 60 years. They grew up together back on the East Coast but migrated to Los Angeles to make it in the music industry…and each has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Joined by David Garfield and Michael Valerio, this jazz quartet works through original tunes that feature odd meters and smooth grooves as well as up tempo show pieces. The melodic focus is on the custom-made Yamaha vibraphone that Emil plays but there’s plenty of time for solos all the way around.
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Why are prominent doctors, quantum physicists, and researchers all over the world interested in the seemingly chance encounter that Dr. Pearl had with one of his patients? Readers will have to reconsider everything they know about healing, consciousness, and the four-dimensional experience on Earth. Biographical Note: Dr. Eric Pearl walked...
Why are prominent doctors, quantum physicists, and researchers all over the world interested in the seemingly chance encounter that Dr. Pearl had with one of his patients? Readers will have to reconsider everything they know about healing, consciousness, and the four-dimensional experience on Earth.
Dr. Eric Pearl walked away from one of the most successful chiropractic practices in Los Angeles when he and others started witnessing miraculous healings. Today he has become the preeminent authority and acknowledged visionary on a new level of healing and life evolution on this planet, and has committed himself to sharing the light and information of the Reconnective Healing process through extensive lectures and seminars about "The Reconnection." Dr. Pearl has appeared on countless television programs in the U.S. and around the world. He has also spoken by invitation at the United Nations and presented to a full house at Madison Square Garden, and his seminars have been featured in various publications, including "The New York Times." Website: www.TheReconnection.com Frederick Ponzlov, a native of Long Beach, California, is a produced screenwriter, acting teacher, and award-winning actor. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and then journeyed west to Los Angeles. There he pursued a screenwriting career, and his first outing, "Undertaking Betty, " starring Naomi Watts, Christopher Walken, Brenda Blethyn, and Alfred Molina, won a BAFTA. Frederick has taught acting for the last 30 years and continues to do so in Long Beach. The entity of Solomon has been with him most of his life, and after years of silence, this book""marks his public debut.
"Why are prominent doctors, quantum physicists, and researchers all over the world interested in the seemingly chance encounter that Dr. Eric Pearl had with one of his patients? What was it about that encounter that would not only radically accelerate the trajectory of his life, but ultimately affect the lives of millions. and will most likely profoundly affect your life as well? What is this phenomenon? In his international bestseller, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, Dr. Pearl taught readers how to access and tap into a comprehensive spectrum of energy, light, and information previously inaccessible to anyone, anywhere. In doing so, he allowed us to entirely transcend complex healing "techniques" and bring about dramatic, often instantaneous, lifelong healings and life transformations! Since then, the world has clamored for Eric's second book. His response? When I have something else to say. Today Dr. Pearl, in collaboration with Frederick Ponzlov, indeed has something else to say. You might have to reconsider everything you've read up until now about healing, consciousness, and our four-dimensional existence here on Earth. As guided by the spirit of Solomon, a multidimensional intelligence that speaks through Frederick Ponzlov, experience firsthand the insights imparted during the evolution of this unique transmodality known today as Reconnective Healing. Now you can discover these insights and apply them to your life-insights that have revolutionized the healing world and given us the key to access the immense power that we each have within our lives. Solomon speaks. "--
Why are prominent doctors, quantum physicists, and researchers all over the world interested in the seemingly chance encounter that Dr. Eric Pearl had with one of his patients? What was it about that encounter that would not only radically accelerate the trajectory of his life, but ultimately affect the lives of millions . . . and will most likely profoundly affect your life as well? What is this phenomenon? In his international bestseller, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, Dr. Pearl taught readers how to access and tap into a comprehensive spectrum of energy, light, and information previously inaccessible to anyone, anywhere. In doing so, he allowed us to entirely transcend complex healing "techniques" and bring about dramatic, often instantaneous, lifelong healings and life transformations! Since then, the world has clamored for Eric's second book. His response? When I have something else to say. Today Dr. Pearl, in collaboration with Frederick Ponzlov, indeed has something else to say. You might have to reconsider everything you've read up until now about healing, consciousness, and our four-dimensional existence here on Earth. As guided by the spirit of Solomon, a multidimensional intelligence that speaks through Frederick Ponzlov, experience firsthand the insights imparted during the evolution of this unique transmodality known today as Reconnective Healing. Now you can discover these insights and apply them to your life--insights that have revolutionized the healing world and given us the key to access the immense power that we each have within our lives. Solomon speaks. . . .
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Dr. Eric Pearl walked away from one of the most successful chiropractic practices in Los Angeles when he and others started witnessing miraculous healings. Since that time, he has committed himself to imparting the light and information of the reconnective healing process through extensive lectures and seminars about AThe Reconnection
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BCA praises 'pragmatic approach' to car trading during coronavirus outbreak
BCA has revealed that the average value of a used vehicle rose 1.6% to a record £10,002 at its auctions in February as it praised the sector's resilience in the current COVID-19 coronavirus health crisis.
The remarketing specialist published detail of the ongoing increase in use car values ahead of the outbreak of the virus in the UK in its monthly Pulse Report and said that high levels of demand had continued into March.
Stuart Pearson the chief operating officer of BCA UK Remarketing, said: “Whilst there is without doubt a significant strain on the industry at present, it’s been incredible to see the resilience of our staff and customers who continue to adopt a very pragmatic approach to carrying on with business as usual wherever possible.”
Average used car values rose at BCA in February 2020 as strong demand continued from professional buyers.
BCA’s latest Pulse Report showed that the headline used car value rose to £10,002 in February, an increase of £162 (1.6%) month-on-month and the fourth highest monthly average on record at BCA.
Year-on-year, the headline value figure improved by £204 (2.1%).
Average year-on-year values increased across all sectors at BCA in February, according to BCA, with dealer part-exchange values rising to the highest point on record, fleet and lease vehicles reaching the third highest average value ever recorded and nearly-new vehicles the second highest figure on record.
Year-on-year table: All cars
Pearson said: “February was a strong month in the remarketing sector and BCA saw competitive bidding across the board from high value prestige stock to older, higher mileage budget vehicles.
“As in previous years, BCA saw sustained demand in the run-up to the March plate change.”
He added “This continued into early March with competitive bidding from professional buyers driving demand, with excellent conversion rates and typically strong price performance.”
As coronavirus puts many car retailers and suppliers focus firmly on the ability to offer online solutions to address concerns about the UK Government’s ‘social distancing’ policy, BCA reported that online trading at BCA had accounted for over 38% of vehicle sales during February.
That figure is likely to rise significantly in March and the months to come.
Fleet and lease values averaged £12,290 at BCA in February 2020, the third highest value ever recorded at BCA and maintaining a consistent run of improved price performance that stretches back to September of last year, with the last six months representing the six highest monthly values recorded.
Year-on-year values were up by £768 (6.7%) with both average age and mileage continuing to rise. The retained value against original MRP (Manufacturers Retail Price) averaged 43.7%, down by 0.3ppts, year-on-year.
Year-on-year table: Fleet & lease
Dealer part-exchange values at BCA rose to record levels for the third month running during February 2020, increasing by £97 (1.8%) over the month to reach £5,494.
Average values for part-exchange vehicles were up by £327 (6.3%) compared to the same month last year, with stock showing a lower age and mileage profile.
Year-on-year table: Dealer Part-Exchange
Values for nearly-new vehicles at BCA averaged £26,735 in February 2020, the second highest value on record with year-on-year values up by £3,651 (15.8%). Model mix has a significant effect in this sector, with brand specific winners and losers.
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Dissecting the HALT Act: Last Safety Valves in Immigration System Under Attack
Washington D.C. - Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 26, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing on the “Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation Act” (HALT Act), a bill that would suspend discretionary forms of immigration relief until January 21, 2013—the day after the next Presidential inauguration.
Today, the Immigration Policy Center held a briefing to describe how the HALT Act systematically attacks many of the discretionary forms of relief available to immigrants. Immigration policy experts described the implications of limiting the Administration’s discretion in prosecuting immigration cases, as well as the impetus behind the bill.
Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigration Policy Center, said:
“The HALT Act seeks to disable or suspend a number of immigration provisions that provide any discretionary relief to immigrants in order to chastise the Administration for a series of policy memos that contemplate using executive branch authority to improve current laws. Its authors seek to discourage the Administration from interpreting the law in ways that are more streamlined or benefit more individuals.”
Beth Werlin, Deputy Director of the Legal Action Center, further explained:
“By taking away the power to grant deferred action, the HALT Act is basically interfering with the Administration’s ability to prioritize its removal cases and focus its resources on serious criminals and those who pose a true security risk.”
Marshall Fitz, Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, commented on the impetus behind the bill:
“The suggestion that the Administration is 'tempted' to legalize the undocumented population is disconnected from reality. The president can’t legalize undocumented immigrants. The most he can do is delay their removal from the country if there are compelling reasons. President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security has deported more immigrants than any administration in a generation. However, the authors of this bill continue to claim that DHS refuses to enforce the law and is pursuing a stealth amnesty agenda.”
Administrative authority must be preserved in order to ensure that important laws are available when they are needed. For example, the HALT Act would suspend Temporary Protected Status (TPS)—the protection granted to Haitians after the recent devastating earthquake—making it impossible for the Obama Administration to respond to humanitarian crises. Similarly, the HALT Act suspends waivers for the three and ten year bars to admission to the U.S.—exemptions that exist specifically to ensure that U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents would not suffer extreme hardship if their relatives were deported.
The HALT Act is particularly disturbing because it is so blatantly political, suspending important forms of relief only until the next presidential inauguration. This means that its chief sponsors, Congressman Lamar Smith and Senator David Vitter, are interested in using the American public and the immigration system as vehicles for promoting their political dispute with President Obama over immigration policy. The HALT Act would take a broken immigration system and make it even more inflexible and unworkable in order to make a political point. This is not the way to solve our immigration crisis, but only further highlights the necessity for passing legislation that comprehensively overhauls our immigration system, and gives us the flexible and forward looking policies we need to succeed in the 21st century.
For more information on the HALT Act, see:
Dissecting the HALT Act: The Impact of Eliminating Discretion from our Immigration System (IPC Fact Check, July, 2011)
For more detailed information on the three and ten year bars, see:
So Close and Yet So Far: How the Three and Ten-Year Bars Keep Families Apart (IPC Fact Check, July, 2011)
For general information on prosecutorial discretion, see:
Prosecutorial Discretion: A Resource Page
For more information contact Wendy Sefsaf at [email protected] or 202-507-7524
Maria Frausto, Senior Communications Manager
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Samsung and Apple dominate U.S. phone sales with over 90% of postpaid market
For postpaid phone sales in the month of December 2019.
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Apple and Samsung account for over 90% of phone sales at carriers in the U.S.
This was revealed after analysis firm Wave7 Research conducted a survey among the top four wireless carriers in the U.S. during the month of December.
The Google Pixel lineup accounted for 2-4% of sales while OnePlus was even lower with 2.3%.
When it comes to buying a new phone these days, consumers arguably have more choices than ever when it comes to choosing which brand to buy. Yet, the stats show that if you're buying a smartphone in the U.S., you're most likely going to buy one from Apple or Samsung.
Recently, analysis firm Wave7 Research published its findings after completing a survey with the top four carriers in the U.S. In the month of December 2019, the results revealed that over 90% of the time phones sold through the carrier were from either Apple or Samsung.
At AT&T stores, sales from the two juggernaut brands totaled 95%, while at Verizon and Sprint it was slightly less with 94% of sales. That leaves T-Mobile to bring up the rear with sales of Apple and Samsung phones only accounting for 91% of its phone sales.
Source: Andrew Martonik / Android Central
The survey also revealed that Google's Pixel lineup of phones amounted to 2-4% of sales overall among the four major carriers, and OnePlus came in slightly lower with 2.3% in sales.
The reason these metrics are so important is that analysts say that 85-90% of phones sold on postpaid plans in the U.S. are sold through carriers — making it a good indicator of what is happening at the premium end of the market.
However, when it comes to prepaid phone sales, the story is a little different. That has to do with the fact that many prepaid customers don't often buy phones at the high-end of the market costing close to $1000 or more.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — nOps, a provider of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud management platform for Amazon Web Services…
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — nOps, a provider of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud management platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced it has partnered with Valcann, a provider of cloud professional services and a Select Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN).
Valcann specializes in cloud operations including AWS managed services, monitoring, operating systems, database administration, SysOps and DevOps architectures, and on-call support. They are an AWS Authorized Commercial Reseller and AWS Public Sector Partner. Valcann is headquartered in Recife, Pernambuco, with offices in Fortaleza, Salvador, and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Valcann is already using the nOps SaaS product to accelerate assessments of its customers’ AWS infrastructure to identify and remediate high-risk issues (HRIs). The partnership includes collaboration on training, support, and marketing.
«Using nOps, we have helped clients achieve impressive cost savings while building scalable infrastructure,» said Carlos Diego Cavalcanti, Chief Technology Officer at Valcann and an AWS Ambassador. «Simply put, nOps enables us to build better architecture faster for our customers. It fits our DevOps culture.»
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Maroon Creek Caucus splits from Castle Creek
Residents from the upper Maroon Creek community have taken the first steps to become a separate caucus area from the established Maroon-Castle Creek Caucus. At a Pitkin County commissioners meeting Wednesday, the commissioners approved a resolution that will establish the Maroon Creek Caucus.
Barbara Conviser has lived in the Maroon Creek area for 44 years and said her community is very different from Castle Creek.
“It was great when we had items of similar nature,” Conviser said. “But at this point, it just doesn’t seem like we do. I think it makes more sense for our relatively small group to act independently.”
The Maroon-Castle Creek Caucus was officially recognized by the county in 1990 but has been relatively inactive as a group for the past several years. The primary function of Pitkin County caucuses is to make recommendations to the county on matters affecting the caucus areas, including development of county laws, budgetary appropriations, land-use approvals, rules and regulations and work-program matters.
The new caucus will run southwest from the Aspen Highlands area and follow Maroon Creek Road toward Maroon Lake.
Maroon Creek residents Marcella Larsen and Mike Waters worked together to comply with the intent of the county charter provision. When it came time to identify the new planning boundaries, Larsen and Waters tried to come up with what they considered a logical break.
“Once you go past the Highlands and hit that curve in the road, the character completely changes,” Larsen said. “You move from an area legally within an urban-growth boundary into the county’s rural area, and there is that dramatic line. Our area is the rural area from Highlands on. We have a different character than the lower areas, and our interests aren’t the same.”
The new caucus area will consist of 18 to 20 homeowners that will now have a coordinated voice in land-use and planning matters affecting the Maroon Creek drainage.
The Castle Creek Caucus will remain a separate entity from Maroon Creek and will continue to use the current master plan, although they will have the option to update the plan.
Tom Ward has lived in the Maroon Creek area for 32 years and said once someone drives beyond the Maroon Creek Bridge, they can notice the immediate change from the residential areas they just drove through.
“We like the rural feeling of that area,” Ward said. “It’s so different than everything else you’ve come by coming up the valley. It’s like you can take a breath. Our desire is to be able to work with the potential development that can happen and keep that feeling in that area.”
The formation of a caucus is permitted subject to compliance with Article IV of the Pitkin County Home Rule Charter. The Maroon Creek residents did supply a written notice to all known property owners within the proposed caucus area and called for a meeting on July 28. At that meeting, a majority vote of the qualified electors and nonresident property owners in attendance determined that a new caucus area will be formed for the rural area of Maroon Creek.
Since the commissioners recognized the proposed caucus area, the new caucus can now adopt bylaws and operating procedures within the parameters of the Home Rule Charter.
After the meeting, several Maroon Creek residents gathered outside the plaza building and agreed that a separate caucus for their rural neighborhood made sense.
“It’s a really good way to organize people and consider issues that affect our community,” Larsen said. “It also gives us a collective voice and an opportunity to create a new master plan.”
There will be a second and final reading of the resolution Oct. 22, along with a public hearing.
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ATKINSON, Joseph.
The History of Newark, New Jersey, Being a Narrative of Its Rise and Progress, From the Settlement in May 1666,
Newark: William B. Guild, 1878. by Emigrants from Connecticut, to the Present Time, including a Sketch of the Press of Newark, from 1791 to 1878. engravings. xv, 334pp. 4to, handsomely rebound in new 1/2 maroon morocco with original portion of front cloth cover, with title in gilt, mounted on front cover. Newark: William B. Guild, 1878. First Edition. Fine. More
AUSTIN, Gabriel, ed.
Four Oaks Farm & Four Oaks Library.
Somerville: Mary Hyde, 1967. 2 volumes. Numerous b/w photo illustrations. Black cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered spines, in a marbled board slipcase. Somerville, N.J.: Donald & Mary Hyde, 1967. Fine in fine slipcase. Limited Edition of 1000/1250 copies. More
AXTELL, James
The Making of Princeton University; From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Illus. 8vo, gray cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2006). More
BAGLIVO, Angelo V.
A Celebration of People: The Bicentennial in New Jersey
Trenton: New Jersey American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration Commission, 1978. Illus. 4to, blue cloth. Trenton: New Jersey American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration Commission, 1978. More
BAKER, Ray Stannard.
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: Princeton, 1890-1910
1927. Princeton, 1890-1910. illus. 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper. Garden City, 1927. vg. More
(BAYARD, Samuel J.).
A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. With an Appendix, Comprising His Correspondence with the Navy Department respecting His Conquest of California...Together with His Speeches in the Senate of the United States, and His Political Letters. Frontis. 131pp. + 2pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, rebound in modern 3/4 brown morocco, back cover lightly soiled on cloth, scattered light foxing including Frontis. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First Edition. Howes B-259. Sabin 91904. More
BECK, Henry Charlton.
Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey.
illus. 8vo, cloth. N.Y.: Dutton, 1936. More
Jersey Genesis; The Story of the Mullica River.
illus. 8vo, cloth, chipped d.w. Rutgers UP, 1945. More
BERGEN, Frank.
Essays and Speeches of Frank Bergen
Ports. 2 vols. Newark: Privately printed, 1931. More
BERNER, Nancy and LOWRY, Susan
Gardens of the Garden State
New York: Monacelli Press, 2014. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs. 237 pages, 4to, green cloth, d.w.; small scratch to front cover of dust wrapper. New York: Monacelli Press, (2014). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
BIGELOW, Arthur Lynds
Carillon; An Account of the Class of 1892 Bells at Princeton, with Notes on Bells and Carillons in General
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948. Illus. Thin 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. chipped and foxed, front flyleaf and last blank page lightly foxed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948. More
BONOMI, Patricia U.
The Lord Cornbury Scandal; The Politics of Reputation in British America
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Illus. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. lightly soiled. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1998). More
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Elias Boudinot's Journey to Boston in 1809.
Ed. by Milton Halsey Thomas. illus. 97pp. 8vo, cloth, Princeton Univ. Library, 1955. vg. More
Journal of Events in the Revolution
New York: New York Times, 1968. 3 folding Illus. 97pp. 8vo, two-toned cloth. (New York): New York Times, (1968). Fine. More
BRADLEY, Bill.
Time Present, Time Past.
New York: Knopf, 1996. 442pp. 8vo, 1/2 red cloth, lightly soiled d.w. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. More
BRAGDON, Henry Wilkinson.
Woodrow Wilson; The Academic Years.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Illus. 519pp. 8vo, brown cloth, cloth lightly rubbed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Very good Presentation copy. More
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The War at the Shore; Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, and the Epic Battle to Save Atlantic City
New York: Overlook, 2012. Illus. 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. New York: Overlook Press, (2012). Very good Signed by Richard Bronson. More
BROWN,Isaac V.
A Sermon, preached at Freehold, Nov. 25, 1824, on the Death of Rev. John Woodhull, Late Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Freehold, New Jersey.
32pp. 8vo, orig. pr. wrs.; (uncut, dampstained on wrs. and center margins). Princeton Press: Printed By D.A. Borrentstein, 1825. Author was a pupil of John Woodhull. More
BUSH, Robert
A Small House in New Jersey; The Harrison House in Roseland and the Family Who Lived There-Williamses, Harrisons, and Teeds
Roseland: Roseland Historical Society, 1993. 1824-1976. Illus. 8vo, pr. wrs. Roseland: Roseland Historical Society, (1993). Very good. More
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Close to Shore; A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence
New York: Broadway Books, 2001. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. New York: Broadway Books, (2001). History of the attacks on swimmers on the New Jersey shore by a great white shark in July 1916. More
CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel.
Princeton In Spring; Camera Impressions...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. Many photo. Illus. by the author. Tall 8vo, two-toned cloth, cloth lightly soiled. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1950). More
CHAMBERS, Theodore F.
Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary of the Presbyterian Church at Sparta, N.J., November 23, 1886, together with a History of the Village.
map. 106pp. 8vo, cloth. N.Y.: Williams, 1887. First Edition. vg. More
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History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men
Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882. Color double-page map of Bergen and Passaic Counties. Many engraved b/w portraits. B/w plates. 577pp. 4to, rebound in modern full black leather with gilt lettering and all page edges gilt. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882. First Edition. Very good. More
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Geological Survey of New Jersey. Report on a Survey of the Boundary Line between New Jersey and New York,
New Brunswick: Terhune & Van Anglen's Press, 1874. Made in July and August, 1874. Very large folding map. 48pp. 8vo, modern brown cloth. New Brunswick: Terhune & Van Anglen's Press, 1874. First Edition. Author was the state geologist of New Jersey. Map is of the boundary area of New Jersey and New York State. Map is dampstained on the bottom margin and repaired on the blank side of some folds with no loss of text. Pages 42 through 45 are..... More
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West Jersey Rails; A Series of Stories about Southern New Jersey Railroad History
Oaklyn: West Jersey Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1983. Many Illus. 52pp. 4to, pr. wrs. Oaklyn: West Jersey Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1983. Very good. More
I don't think I have ever before felt the urge to write to a business, but I wanted to let you know that I have been extremely pleased with everything I have received. I started acquiring older titles when I decided to read some of the early writings in my field. While I noticed that some books were available digitally, I quickly discovered that nothing compares to having the actual books in my hands. For me, they inspire a feeling of deep respect for the work of these past authors that just cannot arise similarly from an eReader or a PDF. All of the books I ordered have been beautiful, packed with obvious care, and shipped in lightning speed. I'm hooked! The next time I head downstate I will look forward to visiting your store in person! Best Regards
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by Shilpa Raina July 13, 2017 January 17, 2019
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Delhi-based artist, Veer Munshi, for the past three years, has been making frequent trips to Kashmir, a home he left over two decades ago. But, as an artist, he wants to connect and engage with local craftsmen and what better than papiermache. And, using this craft for his new installation comes at the right time when trouble in the Kashmir valley has escalated but his work responds to the conflict in a humane way. In a series of caskets, fake bones are placed, with the delicate craft of papiermache hiding all traces of identity, if any at all. The idea, Veer says, is to represent how humanity is universal and no form of conflict can replace this human attribute.
Veer’s work is part of an ongoing exhibition titled ‘Dissensus’ in which six artists responded to conflict in their medium of choice. Presented by Latitude 28, the show has brought together works of young and contemporary Indian and international artists. Apart from Veer, the show, which is displayed at Bikaner House, features works from Priyanka D’Souza, a young MSU Baroda trained artist, Australia-based artist Khadim Ali, Nepali artist Hit Man Gurung, Iranian artist NedaTavallaee and artist Waseem Ahmed.
On a giant mixed-media work, several photographs of devastation that enveloped Nepal after April 2015 earthquake, comes alive. While the haunting, monochromatic pictures are scattered across the canvas, in the forefront isa man with layers of bandage covered every inch of his face. He is shown till waist up and holds a coloured photograph of what one could image Nepal looked before destruction. This interesting juxtaposition makes this work the centerpiece of this exhibition which is on till July 16.
This work, titled, “We are in war without enemies…I”from the series ‘This is My Home, My Land and My Country…’, Hit Man says is dedicated to the earthquake survivors who lost their home and beloved ones in 2015.
“Our government raised $4.1 billion in relief and rebuilding funds. It has been more than a year since the earthquake and still thousands of families are living in poor conditions and temporary shelters. The process of reconstruction and resettlement by the government has been slow and leisurely,” he says.
“Additionally, the climatic condition has worsened the situation. Hundreds of people have died in the cold, floods and landslides as they lack a safe place to stay,” he adds.
NedaTavallaee’s work is inspired from a recent event when Iranian models were arrested for posting pictures without headscarves on the social media. “As a female Persian artist based in Iran, my work focuses on the situation we face as women and as a people. There has always been a sense of mystery about Women in the Middle East perhaps because of the culture that has always required us to hide our bodies, emotions and thoughts or the taboos forced upon us through time.”
“Behind this body of work is the lack of heroes in our society. Coming from an ancient culture abundant with stories of such men, it is ironic that in this day and age we have none of the kind. The work was inspired by some arrests that took place a while back in Iran that were to my knowledge unjust. I decided to use pages of the Shahnameh, a book abundant with tales of heroism and patriots as the background in contrast with the image of the damsel in distress, symbolic of Hawa (Eve in Islam) who has to solve all her problems by herself and seek for justice alone,” she said.
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Volvo to scale down ambitions of autonomous vehicles
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Waymo wants Uber to pay $1 billion in settlement
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Waymo may soon launch autonomous ride-hailing service
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Volvo is learning that their self-driving technology can’t detect kangaroos
Mark Leo July 6, 2017
As car makers are jumping on the self-driving bandwagon, Volvo is no stranger. Whilst testing in Australia, the team found an interesting issue, their software is confused with kangaroos as reported b…
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Hertz to manage Apple’s self driving car fleet
Similarly to how AVIS is managing and servicing Waymo’s fleet of self-driving cars, Apple is engaging Hertz in the same manner as reported by Bloomberg. The tech giant is leasing Lexus RX450h fr…
Avis to service and store Waymo vehicles in Arizona
Mark Leo June 27, 2017
We previously reported that Waymo was testing their self-driving minivans in Phoenix where a select group of the public were selected to be part of those trials. Those vehicles used were the Chrysler …
Mark Leo June 27, 2017 0 0
Michigan University to have driverless shuttles for its students
NAVYA, a pioneer in developing and manufacturing autonomous vehicles, today announced it will establish its first assembly plant outside of Europe in Southeast Michigan. Beginning last year, the Frenc…
Texas allows for driverless testing for self-driving cars
The Governor, Greg Abbot, of Texas has signed a bill that allows the likes of Waymo, Uber, and other carmakers to legally test self-driving cars without a driver present. This marks a significant stak…
France wants autonomous trains
Malaysia has something to be proud of, our Putra Heights LRT line runs on a totally autonomous concept where there aren’t any drivers. Of course, it might be easy you say but all the way over in…
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Does Team Penske have an edge with NASCAR's lower-downforce package?
Teams will switch to different downforce package in Kentucky
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC
Even with the significant unknowns facing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers at Kentucky Speedway, Team Penske figures to have an edge. Yes, there’s new pavement on the 1.5-mile track. Yes, the racing surface has been reconfigured to create two vastly different sets of corners, in the image of Darlington Raceway. Yes, Goodyear is providing a different tire from the one used during a recent organization test at the speedway. The change derived from concerns about wear on the outer portion of the dual-zone tire Goodyear originally had planned to use. Accordingly, Goodyear tabled the dual-zone tire in favor of a more durable single-compound version that is new to the Sprint Cup series. While teams had to adjust to all those variables during practice on Thursday, the competition package on the cars themselves was familiar, having been used in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte, the June race at Michigan and during the organization test. And in the two races that featured the lower-downforce configuration that also will also be used in Saturday’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN), Team Penske drivers have excelled. Joey Logano won both races. Brad Keselowski finished second in the All-Star Race and fourth at Michigan.
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So is it a reasonable conclusion that the Penske shop has found an edge with the shorter spoiler and smaller splitter? If that’s the case, Keselowski isn’t saying so. “I don’t know,” Keselowski demurred before Thursday’s opening practice. “I feel like we’ve been running well, whether it’s low-downforce or not. “We don’t have as many wins with the other regular low-downforce – we need a better name than low-downforce and lower-downforce – but I feel like the results have been more positive for us. But I don’t feel a real difference in the cars, so I don’t know.” Of greater concern to the driver of the No. 2 Ford was the way his car might behave in treacherous Turns 3 and 4 after the repave. “In general, the cars at Michigan were really, really loose behind someone,” Keselowski said. “I would expect that to be the same, and I would expect Turns 3 and 4 to really, really be a challenge, because it’s such a finesse corner already. “Then you add the lower-downforce package to it, and it’s really going to be a hold-onto-your-butt corner…” Keselowski’s words proved prophetic. Early in Thursday’s opening practice, his car slipped in Turns 3 and 4 and nicked the outside wall. Fortunately, the damage to the No. 2 car was merely cosmetic.
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What are Book Bands?
Book bands originated from The Institute of Education’s publication, Book Bands for Guided Reading (Bickler et al, 1998) and built on the proven success of the Reading Recovery initiative. Book Band levels were introduced as a means for schools to instil a breadth of reading across a variety of published reading schemes so that children are able to access a variety of texts to keep them engaged during their journey to literacy. There was also a need to ensure these schemes met the criteria for the given colour band/level and that this was applied consistently across the various publishers’ schemes which help to deliver the National Literacy Strategy and National Curriculum levels.
Books bands are now the most common system used by schools and by educational publishers of reading books, thus giving teachers a means of assessing children’s progress in reading in the absence of National Curriculum (NC) levels since 2014. Although Book Bands were originally created for Key Stage 1 pupils only, schools’ need to extend assessment and monitor progression right through the primary years has led to the creation of further levels up to and including super-confident readers in Year 6.
Publishers and educational book suppliers work with educational and literacy consultants to level in a best-fit way, both books in reading schemes (a series of precisely levelled and skilfully written books that support reading development) and ‘real’ books (the kind of children’s books found in bookshops). As ‘real’ books will have more naturalistic language, this levelling process is a craft rather than an exact science, but consultants and reading experts with years of levelling experience work to align their bands with commonly established attributes for each level and based on the Institute of Education’s publication Book Bands for Guided Reading (Bickler et al, IOE 1998).
The colour bands commonly begin at lilac (reception aged child starting to share wordless books) and are available up to Black+ (super-confident Year 6) from many educational publishers and school suppliers of collections of ‘real’ books. Most publishers and educational suppliers use a standardised colour palette, although there are some exceptions and alternatives offered. Of the schools that offer book bands, not all continue using bands after white level (where the original book bands stopped) but Lime level is now deemed, in many schools, as vital for readers up to the end of Year 2.
Many school suppliers, including Badger Learning, are offering banded ‘real’ books to widen children’s reading experiences and to promote reading for pleasure. The levelling is done in a best-fit way, meeting the criteria as much as ‘real’ books can, allowing for the naturalistic language and uncontrived way real books are written.
Why use Book Bands?
Banded books ultimately provide children with a colourful stairway of progression in reading. Teachers can make book-buying decisions to meet the needs of individual pupils, catering to their interests and bringing variety and breadth to children’s reading whilst monitoring and evidencing their progress using a highly graduated progression throughout each key stage that moves on termly at expected levels of progress.
The book bands philosophy has not changed and at its heart is the opportunity it gives children to read a mix of reading scheme and ‘real’ books from a range of publishers whilst being consistently and appropriately challenged. Using banded real books, pupils are able to choose freely from within a structured range, making reading more independent and enjoyable.
KS2 book bands are now firmly established in many schools as a progressive reading framework and a means of evidencing children’s reading progression. At each stage, pupils have a sense of freely choosing books that appeal to their developing reading tastes within a selection that matches their ability, so they are able to get the most enjoyment and a sense of achievement.
In some instances, secondary schools use book bands to support and monitor progress for children who require additional support in their reading or to structure reading choices for children within a range of titles that still provide variety and challenge.
What are the Book Band colours?
Book Band Emerging Expected
Super Confident
Lilac (Level 0) Reception
Pink (Level 1) Reception
Red (Level 2) Year 1 Reception
Yellow (Level 3) Year 1 Reception
Blue (Level 4) Year 1 Reception
Green (Level 5) Year 2 Year 1 Reception
Orange (Level 6) Year 2 Year 1
Turquoise (Level 7) Year 2 Year 1
Purple (Level 8) Year 2 Year 1
Gold (Level 9) Year 2 Year 1
White (Level 10) Year 3 Year 2 Year 2
Lime (Level 11) Year 3, Year 4 Year 2
Brown (Level 12) Year 4, Year 5 Year 3 Year 2
Grey (Level 13) Year 5, Year 6 Year 4 Year 3 Year 2
Dark Blue (Level 14) Year 6 Year 5 Year 4 Year 3
Dark Red (Level 15) Year 6 Year 5 Year 4
Black (Level 16) Year 6 Year 5
Black Plus (Level 17) Year 6
How do you use Book Bands?
Ongoing reading assessments are used to establish which level children are reading at and whether they need to move up to the next level to maintain the right level of challenge. Children progress through the banded colours as they gain confidence and show understanding. Because of the breadth of choice available in each colour band, they should be able to find books that appeal to them at each stage. This allows teachers to provide the opportunity for children to ‘read for pleasure’ even at an early stage in their reading journey.
Can Book Bands help schools stretch their budget?
Yes, book bands can certainly help schools to stretch budgets further. Most schools have reading scheme books for independent reading and home/school reading key stage 1. By working with a book bands system, a variety of books from different publishers can be accessed and ‘real’ books can be used to supplement and add breadth to existing resources. If any new resources are added, this will not deem older stock redundant as new books can be purchased and used alongside existing resources and integrated seamlessly using the book band system. Classroom books can easily be updated and damages replaced without starting from scratch as everything will continue to slot into the programme. ‘Real’ books can also be banded in the library, using both existing books and new ones. Many school suppliers are continuously banding newly published books from a wide range of authors and publishers that can fit into an established classroom or school libraries. Badger Learning offers a range of stickers and coloured boxes that can be helpful in organising both new and existing book stock, making the best possible use of schools’ limited budgets.
How do Badger Learning band books for Key Stage 2?
Less Able
Able/Confident
Year 4, 5, 6
Year 5, 6
The Badger Learning collections team read all the books we select, have a strong understanding of how children develop as readers and have an unparalleled knowledge of children’s publishing to draw upon. When we work on levelling books we are constantly reading, comparing and contrasting ‘real’ books with scheme books and discussing this with each other to ensure that they represent a true progression in reading. We consider which features we feel push a book up or down in a band: perhaps the vocabulary is representative of Dark Blue but the narrative is complex enough to make a book really only accessible to the most confident readers in Year 5 reading at Dark Red? We take into account many factors depending upon the text; perhaps the reader would be required to have unexpected knowledge or insight to fully access the language or the narrative; and themes, like time travel, or devices, like parallel narratives, can render a book inaccessible to all but the most fluent reader; perhaps the text level is just right but the story unlikely to engage readers reading at this level. With each book we are asking, would a child reading at that level be able to access this text and what would challenge them? The answers to these questions are unique to each book.
For confident and super-confident readers it is important that books are matched appropriately to their emotional maturity. For this reason, Badger Learning collate specific book collections for confident readers where extra emphasis is put on the content being absolutely spot on and not inappropriate for their chronological age even though the reading age is higher.
Choosing Book Bands for confident and gifted readers
Black and Black Plus levels are for truly confident and gifted readers in Year 6, (super-confident in Year 5), and although they may only be suitable for a very select group of readers, these children require stimulating books that stretch and challenge them and keep them wanting to read at this critical time. An important part of our role, which is only possible because we read every book within our collections, is to screen out books with inappropriate themes or language for primary school-aged children.
Book Band storage
Badger Learning offers a range of coloured storage boxes and stickers ideal for organising your school library, or classroom book selections.
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Magic Fountain Barcelona - Font Màgica de Montjuïc Featured Popular
www.barcelona.cat/en/what-to-do-in-bcn/magic-fountain
Plaça de Carles Buïgas, 08038, Barcelona
Espanya L2
Sants-Montjuic: Montjuïc
placa espanya, montjuic hill, kids, families, sants-montjuic area
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Font Mágica de Montjuïc Barcelona. Magic fountain Barcelona on Montjuic hill. The fountain and the music, light and water show is a top Barcelona attraction. Booking is not necessary. The fountain is free to visit. There is no seating and there are no entrance points. Visitors can go to the fountain any time during the Magic Fountain show times and when you are there you can walk all around the fountain area and enjoy the fountain music, light and water show.
Hashtags: #Montjuïc #FontMagic #MagicfountainBCN
Magic fountaing show times with music & light
SPRING Magic Fountain opening times
From 1 April to 31 May
Closed Sunday to Wednesday
Open Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays from 9pm - 10pm
SUMMER Magic Fountain opening times
From 1 June to 30 September
Open Wednesdays to Sundays from 9.30 to 10.30pm
AUTUMN/FALL Magic Fountain opening times
From 1 October to 31 October
Open Thursdays, Friday and Saturdays from 9pm - 10pm
WINTER Magic Fountain opening times
From 1 November to 6 January
Closed Sunday to Thursday
Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8pm to 9pm
From 7 January to 28 February
The Magic fountain closes for annual maintenance
From 1 March to 31 March
Open Fridays and Saturdays from 8pm to 9pm
Barcelona's Magic Fountain is the most famous fountain in Barcelona. The Magic Fountain is near Plaza Espanya. The nearest metro station to the Magic Fountain is metro station Espanya on L1 red line.
The fountain itself is on at the end of Av. Reina Maria Cristina on Plaça de Carles Buïgas which was named after the creator of the fountain.
The Magic Fountain is one of the Barcelona's most visited and and best loved landmarks and a top tourist attraction. The fountain was designed by Carles Buigas for the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929.
Buigas created a specatular fountain with light, colour and sound to accompany the water movement and he designed the fountains to cascade down the hill from the Palau Nacional building (now the MNAC Museum ) like a raging river to end in the Magic Fountain before 'dying' in the sea along the avenue of Avinguda Maria Cristina. It is truly a magical sight.
Around 2.5 million people see the Magic Fountain every year making this a Top Ten Barcelona Attraction.
The magic fountain in Barcelona has many different choreographies ranging from film music shows, classical music shows, a zarzuela, a twentieth and twenty-first century remix and a pop mix with the 1992 Olympic song 'Barcelona' by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé.
The Magic Fountain uses a water re-circulation system following the introduction of a drought decree in 2008 by the Catalan government, the Generalitat.
The Magic Fountain is the venue for the Barcelona New Year Celebration on 31st December.
Pictures Magic Fountain
Youtube video Magic Fountain
The biggest night of the year for the Magic Fountain are New Year's Eve and the last night of the annual Merce Festival The final event of the Merce festival is the beloved Piromusical show at Magic Fountain.
This is a lovely music, water, laser light and fireworks display which changes theme from year to year.
Spectators fill the entire length of the Avenue of Maria Cristina all the way from the fountain to the two Venetian towers at the entrance, so we recommend that you get there a little early to get the best spot to stand or sit.
There is no seating - spectators stand on the avenue during the show. It's a very magical event suitable for all ages and with a unique atmosphere. The Merce piromusical is usually also transmitted live on Catalan TV3.
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Suburb report: rent, house prices and yield
Rental analysis: One bedroom properties
Suburb spotlight: Otahuhu
September 2015 rental report
Auckland rental prices experienced a moderate increase of 6.4% over the last 12 months.
Compared to September 2014, the average weekly rent for one bedroom properties has risen by 4.5% (from $311 to $325), two bedroom by 6.4% (from $388 to $413), three bedroom by 5.5% (from $473 to $499), four bedroom by 5.7% (from $599 to $633) and five or more bedroom by 5.3% (from $746 to $786).
Franklin / Manukau Rural has increased by 9.2% in the past 12 months, and South Auckland and West Auckland by 7.2% This would indicate pressure on areas that are further away from the central city, as renters are prepared to travel further to get more affordable rentals.
Even with this upward pressure, Franklin Manukau Rural remains the cheapest area to rent across all bedroom sizes.
Central Auckland remains the most expensive area to rent smaller homes (one, two and three bedroom properties), while the Eastern Suburbs continue to have the highest priced large properties, with four bedroom properties receiving an average of $786, and five+ bedroom properties receiving $1069.
Average weekly rent received across Auckland
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Central Auckland $362 $513 $835 - -
Central Suburbs $320 $436 $567 $735 $950
Eastern Suburbs $331 $449 $596 $786 $1,069
Franklin/Manukau Rural $276 $312 $397 $502 $646
North Shore $345 $428 $538 $690 $812
Pakuranga/Howick $297 $401 $504 $627 $738
Rodney $300 $383 $469 $594 $714
South Auckland $286 $351 $432 $526 $644
West Auckland $289 $368 $454 $560 $718
Auckland average $325 $413 $499 $633 $786
Number of rental properties by number of rooms
Central Auckland 315 204 21 - -
Central Suburbs 345 927 951 375 98
Eastern Suburbs 171 469 546 234 66
Franklin/Manukau Rural 31 127 357 218 32
North Shore 81 530 848 399 146
Pakuranga/Howick 23 162 411 270 95
Rodney 47 175 370 192 35
South Auckland 166 537 1032 373 160
West Auckland 94 309 901 243 65
Grand total 1273 3440 5437 2305 698
Source: Barfoot & Thompson new and current tenancies as at 1 October 2015 compared to new and current tenancies as at 1 October 2014. Excludes Northland and Commercial. Suburbs with less than four tenancies not included.
For more information contact a property manager or to find out how much rent you can achieve, ask for a rental appraisal.
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GERMANY vs NETHERLANDS (Jul 16, 2016)
Composite box score
U18 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP JUNIORS
NETHERLANDS 6 (5-0), GERMANY 2 (3-2) - Composite Box Score
Jul 16, 2016 at Gijon (Universidad Laboral)
GERMANY ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e
SCHMIDT 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 2 0
STEIGERT 3b 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GRIMES 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 9 1 0
CIFTCI dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
ARNDT cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
BENDRIEN c 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0
DUNN rf 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
GIPSON lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
KULINNA ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ENDREJAT lf 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
CARDOSO ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 2
MEYER p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
HARRISON p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
SEIDEL p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 10 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 8 0 3 1 24 14 3
NETHERLANDS ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e
DE JONGH rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0
HALDERMAN 1b 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 9 0 0
RIP cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1
VAN D.WIJST 3b 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0
TAKKE dh 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
PIETER lf 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
KOSTER c 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0
LENTING 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2
VAN D.SANDEN ss 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 4 0
BREEK p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
WIESEMANN p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
LEITO p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DE GROOT p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 6 7 4 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 4 1 27 10 4
GERMANY ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
MEYER Philipp L,1-1 0.2 0 3 1 5 1 1 1 0 0 3 8 0 1 39
HARRISON Mark 6.1 7 3 3 2 5 0 0 0 0 23 26 2 10 94
SEIDEL Florian 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 5 1 1 20
NETHERLANDS ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
BREEK Donny W,1-0 7.2 8 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 0 28 30 9 3 113
WIESEMANN Morris 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 4
LEITO Frensly 0.0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 22
DE GROOT Aaron 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 2 13
Umpires - HP: KAIGL Miroslav (CZE) 1B: FILIPPI S (ITA) 3B: MORENO J (ESP)
Start: 14:00 Time: 2:50 Attendance: 110
Weather: Sunny Game notes: SCORERS: TUYA Cristina (ESP) TUYA Montse (ESP) SANTOS Susana (ESP) TC: MEURANT Jean Marie (FRA)
LEITO faced 3 batters in the 9th.
NETHERLANDS 6 (5-0), GERMANY 2 (3-2)
GERMANY starters: 6/2b SCHMIDT; 2/3b STEIGERT; 7/1b GRIMES; 19/dh CIFTCI; 3/cf ARNDT; 9/c BENDRIEN; 8/rf DUNN; 27/lf GIPSON; 4/ss CARDOSO; 31/p MEYER;
NETHERLANDS starters: 25/rf DE JONGH; 16/1b HALDERMAN; 20/cf RIP; 42/3b VAN D.WIJST; 28/dh TAKKE; 12/lf PIETER; 31/c KOSTER; 33/2b LENTING; 32/ss VAN D.SANDEN; 21/p BREEK;
GERMANY 1st - SCHMIDT walked (3-1 FBBBB). SCHMIDT failed pickoff attempt. STEIGERT grounded out to 3b, SAC (0-1 F); SCHMIDT advanced to second. SCHMIDT failed pickoff attempt. GRIMES struck out looking (2-2 KSBFBFFK). CIFTCI flied out to 2b (1-1 FB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 1st - DE JONGH out at first 1b to p (2-1 BKB). HALDERMAN walked (3-2 BBBKKB). HALDERMAN failed pickoff attempt. HALDERMAN advanced to second on a balk. RIP walked (3-0 BBBB). RIP advanced to second on a wild pitch; HALDERMAN advanced to third on a wild pitch. VAN D.WIJST walked (3-0 BBBB). Coaching visit to mound. TAKKE walked, RBI (3-2 KBBBFB); VAN D.WIJST advanced to second; RIP advanced to third; HALDERMAN scored. PIETER struck out swinging (2-2 BKSBS). KOSTER reached on a fielding error by ss (2-1 BKB); TAKKE advanced to second on the error; VAN D.WIJST scored on the error, unearned; RIP scored on the error, unearned. LENTING walked (3-2 BKKBBB); KOSTER advanced to second; TAKKE advanced to third. HARRISON to p for MEYER. VAN D.SANDEN struck out looking (1-2 KBFK). 3 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 3 LOB.
GERMANY 2nd - ARNDT struck out swinging (2-2 KBSFBS). BENDRIEN fouled out to rf (1-2 SSB). DUNN singled to left field (3-2 FBBSB). DUNN failed pickoff attempt. GIPSON struck out swinging (1-2 SBSS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 2nd - DE JONGH walked (3-2 BKBBFFFB). DE JONGH failed pickoff attempt. HALDERMAN reached on a fielder's choice (1-0 B); DE JONGH out at second ss to 2b. RIP singled through the left side (0-0); HALDERMAN advanced to second. VAN D.WIJST singled to shortstop (1-2 KSB); RIP advanced to second; HALDERMAN advanced to third. TAKKE struck out swinging (0-2 SFS). PIETER grounded out to 2b (2-1 BBK). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
GERMANY 3rd - CARDOSO singled down the rf line (0-1 F). CARDOSO failed pickoff attempt. CARDOSO out at first p to ss to 1b, caught stealing. SCHMIDT struck out looking (0-2 KFK). STEIGERT singled to center field, advanced to second on an error by cf (0-0). GRIMES flied out to rf (3-1 BKBB). 0 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 3rd - KOSTER grounded out to ss (3-2 BKBFB). LENTING grounded out to ss (0-2 KF). VAN D.SANDEN grounded out to p (0-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
GERMANY 4th - CIFTCI struck out swinging (3-2 BBKFBS). ARNDT singled to right center (0-0). ARNDT failed pickoff attempt. ARNDT failed pickoff attempt. BENDRIEN fouled out to 1b (1-1 KB). ARNDT failed pickoff attempt. ARNDT failed pickoff attempt. DUNN struck out swinging (1-2 BFKS). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 4th - DE JONGH grounded out to ss (2-1 BFB). HALDERMAN struck out looking (0-2 SKFFK). RIP grounded out to ss (1-0 B). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
GERMANY 5th - GIPSON struck out swinging (1-2 BSFS). CARDOSO grounded out to ss (0-1 K). SCHMIDT flied out to cf (3-2 BBBKF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 5th - VAN D.WIJST struck out looking (1-2 KBSK). TAKKE flied out to cf (0-2 KS). PIETER struck out swinging (3-2 FBBBFS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
GERMANY 6th - STEIGERT singled to right field (3-2 BFBKB). STEIGERT failed pickoff attempt. STEIGERT failed pickoff attempt. GRIMES flied out to rf (2-1 BFB). Coaching visit to mound. STEIGERT failed pickoff attempt. STEIGERT failed pickoff attempt. STEIGERT failed pickoff attempt. CIFTCI grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b (0-2 KK); STEIGERT out on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 6th - KOSTER singled to right field (0-1 F). KOSTER failed pickoff attempt. LENTING grounded out to p, SAC (1-1 BF); KOSTER advanced to second. VAN D.SANDEN singled down the rf line, RBI (0-1 K); KOSTER scored. VAN D.SANDEN failed pickoff attempt. DE JONGH grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b (3-1 KBBB); VAN D.SANDEN out on the play. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
GERMANY 7th - ARNDT reached on a fielding error by 2b (0-2 FK). BENDRIEN fouled out to 3b (0-0). ARNDT advanced to second on a throwing error by p, picked off. ARNDT stole third, out at third c to 3b. DUNN singled to center field (2-1 KBB). KULINNA pinch hit for GIPSON. KULINNA fouled out to 1b (1-1 BF). 0 runs, 1 hit, 2 errors, 1 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 7th - ENDREJAT to lf for KULINNA. HALDERMAN flied out to ss (1-1 BK). RIP grounded out to ss (0-2 FK). VAN D.WIJST singled to left field (3-2 FFBBFFB). TAKKE walked (3-1 BBBKB); VAN D.WIJST advanced to second. Coaching visit to mound. PIETER singled down the lf line, advanced to second on a fielding error by lf, RBI (0-0); TAKKE advanced to third; VAN D.WIJST scored. KOSTER singled to left field, RBI (0-0); PIETER advanced to third, out at home lf to c; TAKKE scored. 2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
GERMANY 8th - CARDOSO flied out to cf (1-0 B). SCHMIDT struck out looking (2-2 FSBBFK). STEIGERT singled up the middle (2-2 BBKK). GRIMES singled through the left side (0-0); STEIGERT advanced to second. Coaching visit to mound. WIESEMANN to p for BREEK. CIFTCI grounded out to p (1-2 SBF). 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 8th - SEIDEL to p for HARRISON. LENTING struck out looking (0-2 KKK). VAN D.SANDEN reached on a fielding error by ss (3-1 KBBB). VAN D.SANDEN failed pickoff attempt. DE JONGH walked (3-2 KBBBKFFFB); VAN D.SANDEN advanced to second. HALDERMAN reached on a fielder's choice (1-0 B); DE JONGH out at second ss to 2b; VAN D.SANDEN advanced to third. RIP flied out to cf (0-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
GERMANY 9th - LEITO to p for WIESEMANN. ARNDT reached on a fielding error by 2b (1-2 KSFBFFF). BENDRIEN singled through the left side (3-2 BBKSFFB); ARNDT advanced to second. Coaching visit to mound. DUNN singled through the left side, RBI (3-2 BKBFB); BENDRIEN advanced to third; ARNDT scored, unearned. DE GROOT to p for LEITO. DUNN advanced to second on the throw. ENDREJAT grounded out to ss, RBI (3-2 BKSBB); BENDRIEN scored. CARDOSO flied out to cf (1-1 KB); DUNN advanced to third. SCHMIDT grounded out to 3b (1-2 BKK). 2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
NETHERLANDS 6, GERMANY 2 (Jul 16, 2016 at Gijon)
GERMANY............. 000 000 002 - 2 10 3 (3-2)
NETHERLANDS......... 300 001 20X - 6 7 4 (5-0)
Pitchers: GERMANY - MEYER Philipp; HARRISON Mark(1); SEIDEL Florian(8) and BENDRIEN Maurice.
NETHERLANDS - BREEK Donny; WIESEMANN Morris(8); LEITO Frensly(9); DE GROOT Aaron(9) and
KOSTER Dylan.
Win-BREEK Donny(1-0) Loss-MEYER Philipp(1-1) T-2:50 A-110
Weather: Sunny
Game notes:
SCORERS: TUYA Cristina (ESP) TUYA Montse (ESP) SANTOS Susana (ESP)
TC: MEURANT Jean Marie (FRA)
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The boom in next-generation tracking services
by Ian Putzger
ULD management specialist Unilode is increasing visibility of cargo shipments through robust next-generation tracking services and outsourcing programmes. Chief executive officer Benoît Dumont speaks.
The world’s largest provider of air freight container and pallet management solutions is blazing a trail in the implementation of next-generation tracking.
Unilode Aviation Solutions has successfully worked with Cathay Pacific and OnAsset Intelligence trialing Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) technology for end-to-end tracking in real-time.
BLE tags are fully embedded in the structure of Unit Load Devices (ULDs) and their data can be captured automatically through a global interoperable reader infrastructure.
Reporting the successful conclusion of the tests, Unilode CEO Benoît Dumont commented in late July:
“Our recent field trial with Cathay Pacific proves that our approach to digitalisation, including benefit realisation and technology choices, is on the right track to provide the industry with sustainable and compliant unit load device tracking data and services.”
For the Asian carrier next-generation tracking is part of its digital strategy to bring greater transparency and improved efficiency into its cargo business.
“It’s important to explore technologies that work towards the air freight industry’s aim of offering both customers and operators transparency and data accuracy throughout the entire supply chain,” declared Frosti Lau, Cathay’s general manager of cargo service delivery.
The BLE programme, which constitutes a huge step forward in Unilode’s drive for a digital transformation of ULD management solutions, extends beyond the trial with Cathay.
The ULD provider has been working with Air Canada on this, as well as with two all-cargo operators – Cargolux and AirBridgeCargo Airlines. Rather than develop a dedicated solution, Dumont stresses the ability for broader adoption.
This approach extends to his stance on technology, which eschews proprietary developments. This way, technology is not going to become a dead-end, limiting further developments down the road.
Benoît Dumont, chief executive officer of Unilode
“You want to be in control of your own destiny, not dependent on anybody else for the ability to scale your solution,” he comments. Moreover, the insistence on universally accessible technology is designed to foster interoperability and flexibility, he points out.
To this end, the company has decided to make public all Application Programming Interface (APIs) required to capture information from its digital platforms.
Dumont says that the technology will be rolled out in the company’s entire fleet. With a pool of over 120,000 ULDs and a large and diverse client base, this opens the door to a broad adoption of BLE technology.
Unilode’s network coverage
Unilode serves over 40 airline clients – from the likes of LATAM and Saudia to Hawaiian Airlines, SAS, TAP Air Portugal and the TUI Group – and manages a network covering 480 airports.
ULD outsourcing offers carriers a number of potential benefits. To begin with, it converts capital costs into flexible costs. Usually, this is accompanied by an infusion of funds, as the ULD provider buys the carrier’s stock.
There are additional savings in operating costs, which according to Unilode, average to 20-25 per cent. The model also offers users greater flexibility, with scalable stocks to respond to traffic surges and growth.
The operational benefits
From the operating side, the biggest benefit is the availability of ULDs when needed. Participating airlines do not incur costs moving units through the network, although they do commit to taking empties on flights for repositioning.
The reduced repositioning activity for airline customers generates savings in fuel as well as in CO2 emissions, as does the use of lightweight ULDs. Contracts are usually between three and five years in length, although smaller airlines tend to opt for shorter spells, reports Dumont.
In response to market demand Unilode is in the process of building up a short-term lease option. “A lot of customers want to supplement their own fleet during a peak,” remarks Dumont.
The company’s newly developed short-term capability is currently offered only to its customers. “We will launch phase two next year, when we will also make it available for other customers,” he says.
According to him, about 65 per cent of the global ULD contingent today is controlled in-house by airlines. A number of major carriers prefer to keep tight control of a proprietary pool of pallets and containers.
This may be due to a preference for closer control or for other reasons such as branding. The outsourcing concept has been particularly appealing to small- and mid-sized carriers.
“When new entrants buy 10, 15 planes of a type, they usually don’t want to bother with ULDs,” Dumont says.
For all-cargo carriers pooling is an attractive option, since they face a lot of imbalances in their traffic flows, especially when it comes to seasonal spikes in demand, he remarks. Moreover, spikes can be more pronounced for them.
Some large passenger carriers also concluded that the benefits of external ULD management outweigh the advantages of owning and managing their own pool of units. In some cases, the decision was prompted by a shift in the global container fleet. Unilode has converted all its LD-3s for bellyholds into lightweight units.
“We won a lot of outsourcing contracts when we were making the transition from older ULDs into a lighter fleet,” recalls Dumont.
The lightweight units produce annual fuel cost savings of $2,200-2,600 per position, Unilode claims, adding that they also bring down the carbon footprint.
Interest in lightweight unit tends to rise and fall in step with fuel prices, remarks Dumont.
Not all carriers go the whole nine yards of outsourcing ULD ownership, maintenance and management. Some, such as Singapore Airlines and IAG, keep the management in-house but are happy to let Unilode take care of their ULD repairs.
This is often complemented by comprehensive galley cart repair and maintenance programmes. For some, a mixed model works best. Cathay Pacific, LATAM and Saudia Cargo are using a dedicated fleet of containers but have embraced pooling for their pallets.
In light of the prevalence of the latter on main decks, this suggests that the pooling element is aimed chiefly at their freighter operations. Some large carriers have expressed interest in a split that would employ a ULD provider for thin lanes while keeping control of major sectors in-house.
Naturally, Unilode management is not keen on such deals. “We don’t support cherry-picking,” comments Dumont, adding that it has accommodated such requests in isolated cases to test traffic lanes.
Keeping ULDs in good working condition is another major element in the ULD management equation. For an airline moving damaged units to a repair station – typically at its base – translates into the cost of the repairs, the fuel burn getting the ULDs there, plus the cost of running a repair facility.
Dumont says that the average repair ratio for containers is between one and two times per year. Some airlines have a lower ratio, while with others it can be above 2.5 times a year.
“We try to identify if there is a correlation between a handling company and the repair ratio,” Dumont says. “We try to connect with other actors and provide information to airlines and handlers about potential practices in a station. For example, there may be four handlers at one airport, where two have a repair ratio of X and the others have a higher or a lower ratio.”
Unilode leverages its large network of stations. It utilises 50 certified repair centres, of which 30 are owned by the company. “At 80 per cent of the big stations where we are pooling we also have a repair station,” says Dumont.
He can think of five to seven airports where it would make sense for Unilode to have a presence, “but it’s a chicken-and-egg situation. You need the local airline to have the volume for pooling,” he says.
To reduce the complexities of managing a large pool of diverse units and the associated costs, the company has been working on streamlining the variety of boxes in use.
Utilising 10 years of repair data on the durability of its units, it has teamed up with an OEM to design a standard set of containers. The objective is to have different types based on a similar platform.
For instance, some models may have aluminium tops for use in regions with large amounts of precipitation.
“Standardisation helps,” comments Dumont. He aims to have a working prototype ready by the first quarter of 2019.
He has no intention of developing units with active temperature control features. The BLE tags may open up a small niche to monitor ambient conditions, but active temperature control is not on the cards.
“We could track temperature in a container during flight if we attach a sensor to a unit,” he says.
The BLE technology project has moved forward with tests on Air Canada for a mobile app. If successful, this can be a big step forward, as it would eliminate the need for readers to be installed. Warehouse staff could simply use their mobile phones hunting for containers, a bit like Pokemon Go, says Dumont.
Down the road, he sees scope for blockchain technology, but this is not a priority at this point.
“You could get a history of repairs of used ULDs that you acquire,” he reflects. “Our back end system provider is already doing some work with blockchain, but first they have to deploy a solution and see how that works,” Dumont concludes.
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Check out all the ways to watch, listen and live stream Arizona Cardinals vs. the New England Patriots on November 29, 2020
The Arizona Cardinals take on the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, November 29 at 11:00 a.m. MST.
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Game day programming begins at 6:30 a.m. with "Cardinals Early Bird," a half-hour look at the week of preparation. Two more shows—"The Arizona Cardinals NFL Kickoff Show" and "The Arizona Cardinals Pregame Huddle" both of which spotlight the upcoming matchup and the latest game day news from around the NFL—lead into kickoff.
"Cardinal Talk," a postgame fan-interactive program, can be heard immediately following every game.
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For the latest news and updates, follow the Arizona Cardinals on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat (/SnapAZCardinals) and Instagram.
On game days, Lisa Matthews and Kyle Odegard host a pregame show on Facebook Live that airs roughly 45 minutes prior to kickoff; a postgame show will immediately follow the game.
The team's official website (AZCardinals.com) provides feature stories, audio/video content and the latest news on Darren Urban's "Word from the Birds" blog and Odegard's "Deep Dive" blog.
Visit the Game Center for play-by-play updates, scoring summary and box score.
CARDINALS SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS
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Education Leeds provides support to schools and families in Leeds. Education Leeds assists schools in helping to improve educational attendance and attainment.
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EDUCATION LEEDS IS responsible for supporting schools in the city and helping them to improve attendance and attainment. Employees care about providing a great service, returning a 95% positive score, a result bettered by only six mid-sized organisations. They also think it makes a difference to the world (70%) and say work is an important part of their life (77%, the sixth highest score on this question, see table below).
Staff feel they can make a valuable contribution to the success of the organisation (77%) as well as a difference within it (73%). Work is stimulating (73%), say employees, who think chief executive Chris Edwards runs the organisation on sound moral principles (72%).
Employees can take up to three paid days a year to help the local community. Workers say profit and budget concerns aren't the only things driving the organisation (65%) and they believe its support of worthy causes isn't driven by a desire for good publicity (57%). Both are top 10 scores.
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What is it like to work for Education Leeds
The leader of this organisation runs this organisation based on sound moral principles
The Chief Executive believes everybody has the potential to be brilliant and release magic to deliver the Education Leeds agenda. He is inspirational and charismatic and is very positive in his outlook and messages. He continually reminds people that they are brilliant and are making a difference to the young people and families across Leeds. The Chief Executive also gets involved with local community work directly by visiting schools to officially open gardens or endorse environmental projects initiated by schools.
My organisation makes a positive difference to the world we live in
People are encouraged to share lifts with each other through the company car share scheme whilst a bike buddy scheme helps new cyclists cycle to work safely and build their confidence when commuting. Employees can take up to 3 days, fully paid, per year to help and support the community through various initiatives including clearing waste ground for projects, building gardens in schools for children to learn about plants, gardening and healthy eating.
My work is an important part of my life
Educational Leeds is an inspirational organisation to work for and it genuinely does change and shape the future of young people across Leeds. This in itself adds a whole valued contribution by employees no matter where or what they do. The company feel it really is rewarding to know that the context of your job is working to ultimately improve the educational opportunities available to the whole city.
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Is Seema Khan Still Married To Sohail Khan? Age, Wedding, Net Worth, Instagram
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If you’re a Bollywood fan, you’ll definitely know who Seema Khan really is. Most probably, she is widely known being a celebrity spouse of filmmaker and producer Sohail Khan.
Prior to being known as the wife of Sohail Khan, Seema is also a well-known fashion designer with radiant beauty and attractive looks. She rose into eminence after her designs were featured on the Sony TV show Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin.
Name Seema Khan
Birthday March 8, 1977
Height 5 feet 4 inches
Profession designer
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Seema Khan is 43 years of age as of 2020. In fact, she was born on March 8, 1977. Also, her birth sign is Pisces.
Hailing from Delhi, Seema Khan belongs to an Indian nationality. Her ethnicity is Punjabi.
A celebrity spouse, Seema Khan is yet to be featured on Wikipedia’s page. However, these listed 10 facts will certainly help you to know better about her.
Speaking of body measurements, she stands with an average height of 5 feet 4 inches but her height is not revealed yet. She has brown hair with a brown pair of eyes.
Seema Khan is mostly known for tieing marital knots with Bollywood Superstar Sohail Khan in the year 1998. The couple is blessed with 2 sons named: Nirvaan Khan and Yohan Khan.
Coming towards her Family, her father’s name is Arjun Sajdeh who works as a non-executive director at Cornerstone Sport and Entertainment Pvt. Ltd and her mother’s name is Kiran Sajdeh. Moreover, she has 2 siblings named Bunty Sajdeh and Richa Sajdeh.
Seemingly, Seema Khan is active on Instagram with a verified account. She has 399k followers and 2276 posts under the username @seemakhan76.
Is Seema Khan Still Married To Sohail Khan? Well, she is still married to him as a proud wife of Sohail Khan.
Recently, Seema Khan has appeared on Netflix’s reality series “Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives 2020″ which provides an insider view of how celebrity life looks like.
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Shooting brings awareness to crisis management
April Scott-Clarke | August 24, 2012
Violence happens in the workplace. The incident at the Empire State Building on Friday morning, in which a fired employee shot a former colleague in the street, is a grim reminder that employers not only need to have a plan in place should something happen, but also need strategies for preventing issues escalating to such extreme levels.
“The workplace environment is a major influence about how people feel, whether they’ve been laid off or passed over, or whether they feel they have been ignored,” says Bill Wilkerson, co-founder of the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health. “An employer can’t prevent [violent acts] completely, but it can work toward a psychologically healthier workplace where those kind of sentiments do not fester.”
What employers can do
Ensuring employees are safe during a violent event is the first priority, but once the incident has passed, an employer’s work is just beginning.
In the Empire State Building incident, in which a current employee died, there needs to be a resource people can turn to, to grieve and deal with the thoughts they’re having about the event.
Wilkerson says employers need to ensure that employees have facts available to them of what happened and are able to discuss the incident openly—be it via an open forum or personal counselling. “It’s important that there is a strong sense of direction tomorrow, the next day and the day after,” he says.
“After trauma, having a debriefing time is important,” adds Dr. Katy Kamar, a psychologist with the Work, Stress and Health Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. “Everyone responds differently. Some people may be able to come to work the next day; others might require more time. Employees need to perceive a high quality of support from employers.”
She adds, “I think following any tragedy, we want to go back and reassess the situation. What can we learn from it? Is there anything we could have done differently? We can’t turn back the clock, but is there anything that I can use to put toward tomorrow?”
Wilkerson agrees, saying that employers need to examine how the events escalated to that extent. “Examine how we reached the point [at which] an employee felt this strongly and, in this state of mind, to take it out on a former boss or co-worker,” says Wilkerson. “There has to be some history there.”
See more on creating a psychologically healthier workplace on Monday.
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By Jim Hall
Summary: After launching a sportsbook in Mississippi this week, DraftKings is now preparing to open a sportsbook in New Jersey via Resorts Casino Hotel of Atlantic City.
The DraftKings brand is well-known in the United States for daily fantasy sports contests. Once sports betting became a reality in the states, the brand worked quickly to enter the new marketplace. The company is set to open a sportsbook this week in Mississippi and they have now announced that their book at the Resorts Casino Hotel of Atlantic City will launch by the month’s end.
Draft Kings Ready to Open
The sportsbook has been under construction for some time now and is almost ready to go. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement will need to provide their final approval before the facility can start offering services. It is expected that the venue and approval will be given by the end of November. The launch will come just a short time after DraftKings gets started in Mississippi with their sportsbook at the Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort.
Mark Giannantonio, the CEO and President of the Resorts Casino Hotel, commented on the new sportsbook, stating that the casino is proud to have partnered with who they consider an industry leader in the sports betting industry. Once completed, Giannantonio says that on-property retail space will provide an immersive and entertaining experience for guests as well as sports fans.
The venue at the casino will have five betting windows and offer 12 kiosks. For sports fans, the sportsbook will include ultra-HD video walls where games will be highlighted. A VIP area will also be included, ensuring that players feel taken care of. Stadium-style seating will be included, with chargers, so bettors can spend a long time relaxing and wagering in the book.
Along with the sports betting options, the sportsbook will include a full bar that includes drink menus and food. When players want to play additional games, the sportsbook will have electronic slots included on the bar top.
Matt Kalish, the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of DraftKings, commented that the company has been working with the Resorts team to ensure the retail sportsbook will meet the highest quality of standards and customer experience.
Online Offering In The Works
DraftKings has been offering online gambling options in New Jersey for some time and reports of the online gaming earnings should be released this week. It is expected that DraftKings will be the leader when it comes to sports betting earnings online.
Back in September, it was Resorts Digital Gaming that came out on top when it comes to revenues, earning just over $8.5 million. Almost 100% of those earnings were generated by DraftKings. The brand has easily been able to surpass their competitor FanDuel, who earned $2.85 million for the month. However, when it comes to land-based sports betting, FanDuel reigned supreme. For September, the brand was able to earn just over $4.3 million.
It will be interesting to see how the DraftKings land-based book compares to FanDuel once the first full month of operations is in the books. If the sportsbook opens by the end of the month, it will be January before we will know the full details of operations. It takes a few weeks after the month has ended before the results are made public by the NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement.
For now, all eyes will be on New Jersey as DraftKings awaits approval from the DGE and gets ready to launch land-based services.
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I am so lazy today. I refused to go outside, or even get off the couch. So far the only thing I have done today is shop on the Facebook Marketplace, got tired and took a nap. I then woke up and repeated the process…..twice.
Murder at the High School Reunion (Book 5 Dekker Cozy Mystery Series)
by Steve Demaree
Genre: Humor & Satire | Mystery
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In the fifth book in this series, Lt. Dekker gets an advance warning that he might be investigating a couple of murders when two people turn up missing after a high school reunion. When those bodies do indeed turn up, the lieutenant and his sergeant sidekick go to work. They start by interviewing everyone who attended that high school reunion. In their favor is the fact that not a lot of people attended the reunion, but it doesn’t help them any when they find out that everyone hated one of the victims, but none of them appear guilty of murder.
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Married in the Nick of Nine (Cass & Nick Book 1)
by Alretha Thomas
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Women’s Fiction
Cassandra Whitmore is facing yet another Valentine’s Day alone. Her love life is as dry as the Sharpie pen she uses to mark an even more dreadful day on her calendar — her upcoming 30th birthday. Driven by the maddening ticking of her biological clock, Cassandra is determined to meet, fall in love with, and marry “The One” within nine months. When Cassandra accompanies her cousin to a night club, her Type-A quest to meet a man is quickly rewarded by a stranger’s velvety, baritone voice asking if he might occupy the seat next to her. He’s Nicolas Harte, whose good looks leave Cassandra speechless, but not for long. After mustering enough courage to strike up a conversation, she learns Nicolas is everything she wants in a man — smart, successful, and available. There’s only one catch: He’s “GU” (geographically undesirable). Nonetheless, Cassandra falls in love with Nicolas and makes the uncharacteristic decision to move from Los Angeles to New York to be with him. But Cassandra gets a rude awakening when she discovers there’s something rotten in the Big Apple.
IN Defiance (An Ivy Nash Thriller, Book 1) (Redemption Thriller Series 7)
by John W. Mefford
Genre: Crime Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Horror
Ivy won’t look back.
The past is gaining on her.
Can she survive the coming fight?
Ivy grew up in the system. She knows the pain the kids endure. She’s their advocate. But not everyone appreciates her meddling.
One troubled soul has her attention. He’s accused of murder. She knows he’s hiding something. Everyone has secrets, even Ivy.
She needs the truth.
She needs answers.
Why are the authorities trying to bury the case?
In a world of corruption, abuse, drugs, and blurred lines, can Ivy get to the truth before past and present collide and destroy her life?
You’ll love this action-packed thrill ride, because everyone enjoys a wicked plot twist.
Silently Beats the Drum (The Drum Series Book 1)
by W.R. Benton
Genre: Literature & Fiction | United States | Westerns
The Civil War has beaten down Jeb Patton beyond the point of mere exhaustion. Only the precious memories of the girl he left behind sustains him as he fights on. He should have died countless times as he fought for Southern Cause and Jeb knows his luck is running mighty low. Fate catches up to him one night near a no-name town somewhere in war-torn Arkansas. Instead of waking up in the arms of an angel, he wakes up in a medical tent — his right leg gone. With this blow Jeb loses the desire to live, until he meets a man even more severely injured than himself. Taking strength from this unfortunate fellow soldier’s misery, the newly discharged Jeb makes plans to head home.
It’s not an easy road, and Jeb is hampered by his injuries, the dangers of bushwackers and Union soldiers who are raiding the countryside. Ironically Jeb befriends an old slave — now a runaway heading north to freedom. Together they stand a better chance of surviving the chaos and they team up in their travels. Challenges and heartache await them on the dusty trail, but the pair set out for Montana with little more then their courage and dreams of a better tomorrow.
Another exciting historical adventure, and story of friendship and bravery from best selling western author W.R. Benton.
The Primary Protocol: A Michael Bishop Supernatural Adventure (The Dossiers of Asset 108 Book 2)
by J.M. Guillen, Cherie Guillen
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Suspense | Action & Adventure | Science Fiction
Castaway in a hostile reality. Hunted by telepathic zealots. Trapped within an endless, labyrinthine city… Michael Bishop has been captured by forces unknown.
Stricken with amnesia and wandering within dank, unused tunnels, Asset 108 might be in a situation he can’t snark or seduce his way out of. Accompanied by his terminally gorgeous girlfriend, he finds himself floundering through firefights at the center of an interdimensional web of schemes.
He doesn’t even remember how to use a gun.
A firestorm of bullets and an elegant ruse later, Michael stumbles into an alternate dimension, a terrifying plane of existence far from his own. Now, with a few old friends and none of his fancy technology, Bishop has to navigate a city of intrigue and alien horror.
Inhuman machinations loom in the shadows of this place- schemes that threaten the Facility itself…
The Primary Protocol: A Michael Bishop Supernatural Thriller is the second standalone book in the Dossiers of Asset 108 series. If you like wildly sarcastic characters, other-dimensional weirdness, and zany cybertech, then you’ll love JM Guillen’s action-packed otherworldly adventure!
Anything for my Bubela: Just Speculating: Book Two
by Geoff Sturtevant
Genre: Humor & Entertainment
Sol Edelbaum, gambling addict, is in deep trouble with the Gambino family. Find out to what extent his doting mother, Edna, will go to protect her degenerate bubela from the Mafia. Learn what really happened that fateful day Paul Castellano was shot down at Sparks Steakhouse in Manhattan. And perhaps most importantly of all, learn how to get a jar of Gefilte fish off the top shelf.
Anything for my Bubela is the author’s funniest work to-date, but not for the faint of heart.
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Home » If You Want a Friend in Washington: Wacky, Wild & Wonderful Presidential Pets (Hardcover)
If You Want a Friend in Washington: Wacky, Wild & Wonderful Presidential Pets (Hardcover)
By Erin McGill
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Kobo eBook (July 6th, 2020): $10.99
Library Binding (July 7th, 2020): $25.19
A clever, funny, and informative look at the pets--from Calvin Coolidge's wallaby to Teddy Roosevelt's flying squirrels--that have passed through the White House gates. Perfect for fans of I Am George Washington and So You Want to Be President?
President Truman famously said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." And a dog is what many presidents got. From James Garfield to Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon, presidents often found a friend in Fido (in fact, Abe Lincoln's pup was actually named Fido). Others preferred cats, horses, small critters, or even big, ferocious animals like bears and alligators. With a catchy refrain ("If you want a friend in Washington . . . , "), this is a funny, educational book about the animals that have passed through the White House. Whether it's favorite dogs like Barbara Bush's Millie or the Obamas' Bo; Abraham Lincoln's cat, Dixie; Calvin Coolidge's hippo, Billy; or Andrew Jackson's foul-mouthed parrot, Poll, Erin McGill brings to life a menagerie of presidential pets in this entertaining, whimsical, and carefully researched picture book that's perfect for animal lovers and history buffs alike.
Erin McGill received a BFA in illustration at Pratt Institute, where she discovered her love of patterns, textiles, and collage. She is the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Memorial Fellowship, a Highlights Foundation grant, the SCBWI Portfolio Award, and the SCBWI Award for Humor. She is the author-illustrator of I DO NOT LIKE AL'S HAT, with two picture books forthcoming. This is her first nonfiction project.
“Great, fascinating, lighthearted fun.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“The White House was often as much a menagerie as a residence. A fetching sidelight on U.S. history.” —Booklist, starred review
“Contains fascinating facts with charming illustrations—perfect for conveying historical tidbits to young children.” —School Library Journal, starred review
“This book is a treat.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Minimum Grade Level: K
Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & First Families (U.S.)
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States
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Ricky Gervais Rips Trump: ‘Hollywood Liberal Elites Are Not the Enemy’
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Actor-producer Ricky Gervais says President Donald Trump convinced his supporters to see “Hollywood liberal elite” as their enemy.
In an extensive interview with Vulture, The Officer creator says the liberal celebrities who want politicians to raise tax rates “are the ones willing to pay more.”
“What really annoys me is that Trump has convinced his gang that the real enemy is the Hollywood liberal elite,” Gervais said. “What’s so strange — apart from the fact he has houses literally made of gold [laughs] — is that most of these Hollywood liberal elite are the ones willing to pay more tax! They’re literally voting themselves to pay more tax.”
Gervais predicted that Trump would win the White House six months before Americans headed to the polls, writing in The Hollywood Reporter that the Republican candidate’s anti-politically message “hit a vein” with everyday Americans.
The proudly politically incorrect comedian also defended Kathy Griffin’s infamous photograph of her holding up a fake, bloodied decapitated head meant to resemble President Donald Trump.
“That was ridiculous. Yes, what she did was bad art, but it was still just art. There were people treating it like it was a real head. I’m screaming, ‘It wasn’t a fucking president’s head!‘” Gervais told Vulture.
“It was a visual statement. Her crime was that it was a little bit crass and thoughtless, but who cares? That’s up to her,” the he added.
Backlash over Griffin’s photo included a boycott of Griffin’s cross-country comedy tour, the loss of her gig co-hosting CNN’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast when the cable network fired her, and according to TMZ, a Secret Service investigation.
President Trump tweeted that Griffin’s photo had been difficult for his children, including his 11-year-old son, Barron.
But Gervias said the people outraged by what Griffin did are hypocrites.
“These are the same people that are screaming about freedom of speech, but then they shift the goalpost,” Gervais said. “They actually think that was a terror act.”
Read the rest of Gervais’ interview with Vulture here.
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North Somerset Council
Could parking meters and further restrictions soon be heading to these three towns?
Council to conduct review of its parking arrangements across the whole of North Somerset. Could more pay and display meters be on the cards?
Heather PickstockNorth Somerset reporter
Free parking in towns across North Somerset is to be scrutinised as part of a major review being conducted by councillors.
North Somerset Council is to conduct a review of all parking in the district later this year.
The review will be conducted by councillors from across all parties and the results fed back to the executive.
The driver suggested sticking a parking ticket from another car would trick parking attendants into not issuing a ticket for his vehicle (Image: Instagram)
The move follows the introduction of on street parking charges – and parking meters – on 31 streets in Weston super Mare in 2012.
Parking wardens to be drafted in after people parked so badly in Portishead buses had to be diverted
The meters – and other parking restrictions which apply in the seaside resort – are enforced by a team of parking wardens which were brought in by the authority last April after it took over the responsibility of controlled parking enforcement (CPE) from the police.
The introduction of the wardens has proved controversial with some, with people saying they are over zealous.
Metrobus ticket payment machines won't take cash, excluding some of Bristol's poorest people
However others have complained that while parking fees apply in Weston, they do not in other towns such as Nailsea, Portishead and Clevedon.
There have also been concerns raised that the cost of the wardens, who cover the whole district, is being covered mainly by revenue generated by fees applied in Weston-super-Mare.
Currently parking in the main car parks in Nailsea is managed by Nailsea Town Council which employs a contractor to enforce the three hour free parking limit.
Council parking warden hands out tickets to motorists parked on double yellow lines - while parking on them himself (Image: Carol Jones)
On street parking in Nailsea is free. In Portishead all car parks are currently free as is the on street parking.
In Clevedon, charges apply at the Hawthorns, Salthouse and Great Western Road car parks.
Parking along Hill Road is limited to two hours and parking along The Beach is currently free.
The cheapest car parks in Bristol city centre
Fees apply to the station car parks at Yatton and Nailsea and Backwell. Parking in the majority of villages across North Somerset remains largely unrestricted and free.
North Somerset Council deputy leader and executive member for highways Councillor Elfan Ap Rees would not be drawn on whether on street parking charges or additional restrictions would be introduced in other parts of the district.
He said: “We have to continue some form of parking enforcement across the district.
This parking warden loves his job, despite the abuse he gets from motorists
“In order to enforce parking we need some sort of form of control, either by the way of fees or restrictions.
“People abuse the current parking restrictions and we need a way of managing it.
Parking enforcement officers have been ticketing motorists in North Somerset (Image: North Somerset Council)
“At the moment visitors and residents of Weston-super-Mare are largely paying for the enforcement officers.
Sunday parking charges to be reintroduced as Bristol City Council passes its budget
“And these officers are out patrolling the whole of the district. Quite understandably some people think this is not fair.
“We understand a review will be opening a can of worms. This is why we are putting together a cross party group to put together practical solutions.
“There will not be any form of blanket solution.
"There are different circumstances in each town which need to be considered.”
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Waziristan Campaign
Justice for Our Boys
British ISIS jihadis returning from Syria ‘to be offered tax-payer funded council homes and counsell
The pathetic plans - code-named Operation Constrain - could see returning ISIS fanatics jump to the top of council house waiting lists and offered counselling
BRITISH terror suspects returning from Syria will be offered taxpayer-funded council homes to "bribe" them not to attack the UK, according to reports.
The plans, codenamed Operation Constrain, could even see jihadis jumping to the top of council house waiting lists.
And the suspected ISIS fanatics could also be given counselling and help finding a job, Mail on Sunday reports.
Official documents seen by the newspaper reveal that up to 20,000 extremists investigated by MI5 will be given the "bribes" to stop them attacking Britain.
The programme will reportedly start next year and police and councils are hoping the Home Office will pay for it out of their £900 million counter-terrorism budget.
It has been slammed by experts and MPs.
Terrorism expert Professor Anthony Glees, of Buckingham University, said: "You can’t bribe people not to be terrorists."
While Tory MP Andrew Bridgen added: "This sounds like a reward for being on a list of potential terrorists. You can’t buy people’s loyalty to this country."
It comes amid fears fanatics living in Britain are slipping through the net after those behind the two devastating terror attacks in London and the Manchester bomb blast were revealed as having been previously under surveillance by MI5.
Agencies are now worried up to 20,000 former "subjects of interest" that have been monitored in the past could be plotting new atrocities and the nationwide scheme will target these suspected radicals.
Plans are reportedly being drawn up between the Home Office, police and local authorities on how to turn the estimated 360 ISIS fighters returning to the UK from Syria away from terrorism.
Terror breeding grounds in Britain - such as Birmingham, Manchester and London - are a focus of the scheme and police in those areas will be handed details of potential suspects by counter-terror officers and MI5.
If there is no suitable accommodation, the ex-ISIS fighters could be put in social housing and may even get their rent paid for them.
A Whitehall source told the Mail on Sunday: "We are planning a number of pilots to explore the best way to diverting such people from terrorism and extremist activity."
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The Government is committed to doing everything possible to protect our communities from the threat of terrorism. To respond to this threat, it is vital that we use all the means at our collective disposal to divert people away from terrorist-related activity and we are exploring the best ways of doing this with our partners.
“We are also reviewing our counter terrorism strategy to make sure we respond to the evolving threat in the most effective way we can, both now and in the future.”
'Veterans Against Terrorism' are petitioning to the Government calling on them to ' Detain, Defeat and Destroy Jihadist terror gangs in the UK.'
The petition reads "Considering the current serious terror threat from Islamist terrorists, we the undersigned request the government take the following action, detain the 3000 terror suspects the security services tell us pose a risk to the people of this country, charge any returning or returned jihadists who have been fighting for ISIS with high treason.
Investigate and arrest Islamist preachers who incite violence against ex Muslims and other minorities, close Islamist mosques that promote supremacist ideologies, give the security forces as much funding and manpower as they need to deal with the terror threat."
The petition almost has 10k signatures, It will need 100,000 to be debated in parliament. Sign it below:
https://www.change.org/p/the-rt-hon-amber-rudd-mp-detain-defeat-and-destroy-jihadist-terror-gangs-in-the-uk
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Tech Insider
5 things you need to know in Australian tech today
Harry Tucker
We also beat New Zealand in the cricket. What a great day. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
Hello, this is what you need to know in tech today.
1. The Turnbull government is starting a fintech advisory board. The government says that while Australia is a leading financial service market for the region, the sector is increasingly becoming being exposed to disruption by emerging technologies, so it has created a board to help the industry.
The FinTech advisory group will be chaired by Craig Dunn, Chairman of Stone & Chalk and Director of Westpac Bank, while also including members from PayPal, Westpac, Veda and the Commonwealth Bank.
Also announced today is the formation of FinTech Australia, a new industry body to represent Australia’s growing scene.
2. The government agrees that funding old copper networks is dumb and the money should go to mobile. Currently the government pays $253 million a year to Telstra under the Universal Services Obligation to maintain fixed services. But now it has been proposed that establishing a Consumer Communication Fund in place of the USO might be a better idea – taking the money usually spent on Telstra’s fixed line services and splitting it between all carriers to improve regional mobile phone coverage.
It makes sense, as the current arrangement is increasingly becoming obsolete due to the use of mobile phones and the NBN as a fixed internet provider.
3. Telstra has a new chair. Former chair Catherine Livingstone has quit the board of Australia’s largest telco and is being replaced by Asciano chief executive John Mullen.
Telstra’s share price remained stable in early morning trading after the announcement.
“Ms Livingstone will hand over to Mr Mullen in coming months, allowing for a smooth transition once Mr Mullen is free from his obligations as managing director and chief executive officer of Asciano,” the company said.
4. The government wants to make it easier to send things to space. To help address the mismatch between advances of space technology and old regulations, the government is reviewing the “appropriateness and effectiveness” of the Space Activities Act 1998.
A group of space entrepreneurs and government figures are meeting today in Canberra at an invitation-only event to discuss the issue. Christopher Pyne will be delivering a speech, with the event and focus part of the Turnbull government’s innovation push.
The costs to do any type of work are extremely prohibitive for researchers right now and the focus will be on bringing those costs down.
5. Acconex posted some seriously impressive results. The ASX listed online management software provider posted revenue of $55.7 million to December, a 46% jump over the previous period and $11.6 million over its prospectus forecast.
The company has been around since 2000 and provides its software to the Australian construction industry. They’re also expanding globally, with the Aussie tech company having signed enterprise deals with 170 of the top 500 contractors globally and revenue growing 52% in international markets.
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Magic mushrooms made man strip naked on beach, abuse police
A man has been sentenced for an incident during which he wilfully exposed himself in Byron Bay before resisting police.
Liana Turner
Liana Boss
AT the peak of New South Wales' initial COVID-19 lockdown, a drug-affected naked man was arrested in one of the North Coasts's busiest coastal spots.
John Theodorakopoulos, 46, from Possum Creek, had battled drug abuse, particularly since the 2018 death of his brother and a relationship breakdown, Byron Bay Local Court heard on Monday.
But in the early hours of March 23, he decided to try "magic mushrooms" for the first time.
Believing he was in his motel room, he began acting erratically and removed his clothes in the vicinity of Main Beach, Byron Bay.
According to court documents, police were patrolling the area at the time and when they gave out parking infringements to others nearby, Theodorakopoulos became "abusive" towards officers.
Theodorakopoulos' lawyer said those closest to him described him as a "gentle, loving and caring" man.
According to court documents, paramedics attended Byron Bay Police Station after Theodorakopoulos was taken into custody.
He was found to be suffering from drug-induced psychosis and he was sedated before being taken to hospital.
Magistrate Karen Stafford accepted there was a "strong link" between his drug use and behaviour.
"You had already been given (intensive corrections orders) in the past for assaulting police and resisting police," Ms Stafford said.
"There does need to be a sentence that's going to reflect the harm to the community of your continued offending, particularly when it's induced by illicit drug use."
The court heard Theodorakopoulos had previous drug-related offences.
"(This) just shows how often drugs are getting you into trouble," Ms Stafford said.
"I do think this is a matter where … you really do need to ensure you keep in the path to rehabilitation to ensure the offending will stop."
Theodorakopoulos was convicted and received a three month ICO for wilful and obscene exposure in a public place and a 12 month ICO for resisting police.
He will have to complete 100 hours of community service and must not drink or take drugs for a year.
Ms Stafford said the harsher penalty for resisting police reflected past offending and the "hardship done to police" during the pandemic.
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State’s strangest enforceable laws
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by Emily Cosenza
14th Dec 2020 11:38 AM
Imagine getting in trouble for having a refrigerator that was too big, or objecting at a wedding? That is, in fact, possible in South Australia.
While we all know stealing or assaulting someone can land us in trouble with the police, there are also some peculiar and rather funny laws many South Aussies did not know were enforceable.
But why do some of these laws exist? Deputy Director of the South Australian Law Reform Institute David Plater says these rather specific laws exist because a related event actually happened.
"These laws appear obscure or outdated now but some of these laws go back to the 1800s." he said.
"For example, it might seem a very strange crime (to sell a refrigerator too large) but there were a couple of early refrigerators that were like death traps and there were examples where fridges were abandoned or dumped and young children were playing and sadly got caught in them and some of them died.
"For what seems like an obscure law (now), that made perfect sense when it was first introduced."
It is against the law to kill, injure or take a homing pigeon. FILE PIC
Law Reform Institute Director John Williams said some of those outdated laws had not been changed because they were not doing any harm or damage.
He also said statutes are rarely given a look over as it took a lot of effort and time to sift out laws.
"We did a big review of discrimination law in SA and we found there were sections (stating) you could not take the sewing equipment of women off them if they were bankrupt and the reason for that was to try and not impoverish women," Mr Williams said.
"There is another example about ringing the doorbell … which was probably put on there because the means of which you were harassed or stalked (in the past) was by ringing the doorbell but today you'd do it over the phone or on Facebook.
"We should always be pruning the statute book to take out the mad, the silly and the obsolete but we should also pause to ask why were they put in?"
We break down some of the most obscure and rather comical laws South Australia has:
Turns out, you can't object
While most people attend weddings to celebrate the marriage of two people, those who intent on objecting should think otherwise. A maximum fine of $10,000 or two years imprisonment is possible if someone obstructs or disturbs a wedding, funeral or religious service. (Section 7A, Summary Offences Act 1953 (SA))
Selling fridges that are too large
A maximum $750 fine applies if a person sells a refrigerator that has a capacity of 42.5 litres or more, unless all the doors can easily be opened from the inside or it was purchased before January 1, 1962. (Section 58B, Summary Offences Act 1953 (SA))
Don't knock-and-run
A maximum $250 fine applies to someone who disturbs another by wilfully ringing the doorbell or knocking on the door of a house without a reasonable excuse. (Section 50, Summary Offences Act 1953 (SA))
You can be fined for disturbing someone at home without a reasonable excuse. FILE PIC
Leave the pigeons alone
In both South Australian and Victoria, it's illegal to kill, injure or take a homing pigeon. A maximum $250 fine can apply as well compensating the owner for the value of the pigeon under court order. (Sections 47, Summary Offences Act 1953 (SA))
Originally published as State's strangest enforceable laws
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Diet Coke gets new look
Limited edition cans of Diet Coke have hit the shelves in America. The latest evolution in Diet Coke’s iconic ‘Stay Extraordinary’ campaign features a modern new look for fall on the Diet Coke aluminium can and a series of new adverts on television and out-of-home.
Can & end making, Filling, Metal decorating, Sustainability
Interactive cans from Coca-Cola
Ball Packaging Europe and Coca-Cola have joined forces in an effort to carve out a place for the beverage can as a versatile accessory for young people in Germany. The 25cl sleek cans create a mobile link between music and refreshment.
Can & end making, Filling
New advertising campaign for canned drinks
Can maker Ball Packaging Europe (BPE) has launched an advertising campaign using new media. Partnering with retailers, Ball has launched an eye-catching print campaign with a smart phone-activated video clip in Germany.
Diet Coke cans help raise awareness of American Heart Month
Diet Coke has released limited-edition cans and bottles in recognition of American Heart Month, which is taking place throughout February. The company has released the packages, which feature a stylized stick figure waving a heart flag in support of The Heart Truth.
Can & end making, Filling, Metal decorating
Crown’s laser-etched tabs used for World Cup promotion
Can maker Crown has revealed that laser-etched tabs used on Coca-Cola drinks cans as part of its FIFA World Cup promotion in the Middle East, could be used on other beverage brands around the world. Coca-Cola launched its 2010 FIFA World Cup promotion on beverage cans using the tabs from Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East.
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Hanna's world was turned upside down in the mid-season finale of Tyler Perry's "The Haves and the Have Nots."
“HAHN” Recap: ‘In Pursuit Of Prey’
LaDale
HOLLYWOOD—Man oh man, this season of Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots” has been full of surprises, but none bigger than the climax during the mid-season finale. This week’s episode, ‘In Pursuit of Prey,’ saw Warlock looking for Candace, and it was apparent blood was about to be spilled. Things picked up where last week ended with Erica reacting to seeing Warlock watch her have sex with David. She was very rattled to say the least, while David hoped things were moving in the right direction.
As I expected, Erica has been secretly working with Warlock all along. Wow, these two are a couple, and I never expected it. She spilled the beans that Mitch was the person who set-up Warlock, not Candace. Just when I was beginning to like Erica, she pulls this mess; so much for BFF. Speaking of Candace, it looks like Charles has found himself in a peculiar situation as blackmail came front-and-center. She was amused by Charles’ reaction to her masterplan, and she wants to play with her new ‘toy.’
Melissa and Jeffrey continued to wallow in their sorrow, which prompted Melissa to do a bit of digging into her baby daddy’s relationship woes. Wyatt finally got the help he needed to kick his addiction. Wyatt was taken aback to learn that Jeffrey has been calling the clinic non-stop to check on his current predicament. Benny was taken aback to discover that Candace has vanished from the motel, as well Hanna when they discovered the one they have been protecting has gone MIA. Benny was furious to learn that his mother went to the police to report Candace.
Hanna divulged details about Quincy’s death, and Benny continued to plead his innocence even though his mother refused to listen. Yes, Mitch is out of prison, and it looks like Benny and Mitch are about to intersect Warlock before he harms anyone they care about. Jim gave Candace a call begging her to stop by his home, but our vixen was too smart to fall for his antics, and was well aware he set her up.
It was apparent Hanna was starting to lose her marbles, forcing Benny to manhandle his mother to protect her from lashing out any further. I’m worried because as a fan, the audience already knows Warlock is headed to where Hanna has been staying looking for vengeance. Mitch started to suspect that Benny did indeed play a role in Quincy’s murder, which he did. Well, well, Mitch delivered a bit of advice to Benny to lawyer up to protect himself, and of course Veronica was the first person he phoned.
Back at the Cryer mansion, Jim was stunned to see that Katherine had literally taken EVERYTHING out of the house. Yeah, it looks like she was dead serious when she said she planned to sell the house. How the hell did she get rid of all those items in such a quick time frame without him knowing? This woman can be cold, but at the same time, it’s apparent she has made her decision to end her marriage once and for all. There goes an epic mic drop people!
Looks like Jim and David are about to celebrate divorce at the Artesian Hotel, I’m dying to see the look on Candace’s face when she spots Jim. Jeffrey was taken aback to see Benny arrive at his mother’s home, just as Melissa received a call from her mother.
Per usual, the Ice Queen made demands and they were made without hesitation. Benny divulged details about Quincy’s death and it didn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots to Quincy Maxwell’s demise. Veronica flirted with Benny and expected him to seduce her; Benny thought about it for a second, but he was able to resist temptation. Jeffrey eavesdropped on his mother’s conversation with Benny, which seemed to irk her skin. This woman is vicious; she’s planning to pin things on both Candace and Benny, but Jeffrey was not interested in hearing about Melissa’s father dying.
The first shock of the night; Melissa looks to have attempted suicide, as Jeffrey was baffled to see the bed drenched in blood. The second shocker of the night was the final moments back at the hotel, where Mitch divulged to Hanna that Benny buried Quincy’s body, but did not murder him. He revealed that Jeffrey helped Candace kill Quincy. Hanna did not believe what she was hearing and before the conversation could continue Warlock and his goons burst into the hotel, and a battle ensued. Benny and Mitch did their best to defend themselves before gunfire erupted. I’m on edge, I thought it was evident Benny was about to take a bullet, oh, no, Mr. Perry had an epic surprise in store for audiences.
Man oh man, that was a heartbreaking moment, as Hanna emerged from the bathroom with Quincy Jr., the child covered in blood and looking very much dead. Tyler Perry, NOOOOOOOO! How in the world could you do this? I’m feeling a ton of emotions: anger, sorrow, rage! This is a game-changing moment people. Cause Hanna, Benny, Mitch, Candace, Katheryn, Jim, Erica and so many others will be impacted by this explosive outcome. I can’t believe I have to wait till June to see how all this turmoil will play out. I expect the body count to intensify before season 5 culminates. Until June 2017 “HAHN” die-hards!
In Pursuit of Prey
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Victoria by the Park
Provectus Care Pty Ltd
Elsternwick VIC 3185 1300721855
Victoria By The Park is a 70 place Extra Service Status aged care facility (also known as a nursing home). Victoria By The Park overlooks the beautiful Hopetoun Gardens on Victoria Street, Elsternwick. We provide permament and respite (short-term) care in fully furnished private and couple suites. With registered nurses on duty 24 hours a day, care recipients are able to age in place without the need to move between facilities or rooms when care needs change. Set over three levels, Victoria By The Park has made its name as a prestigious residential setting with luxurious furnishings and fittings. We offer modern, spacious single and couples suites with ensuite and kitchenettes. Set in a peaceful and friendly environment with outdoor areas designed to allow full wheelchair access, we are renowned for our extensive lifestyle and group activities. Conveniently located close to Glenhuntly Road shopping strip, tram, bus and train, we are in close proximity to all the community services. We also provide a dedicated Mercedes Benz bus for outings. We aim to provide the highest standard of residential care, upholding the dignity of the individual and delivering care with encouragement, compassion, privacy and comfort. Our mission is to support care recipients to live as independently and healthily as possible in a comfortable and stimulating environment.
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The month of June is a great time to find a bargain online. The End of Financial Year and Mid-Season Sales are upon us, offering plenty of opportunities to save. This year, the discounts are even bigger than usual as retailers look to keep their sales figures strong despite the economic upheaval created by the coronavirus pandemic.
So, why not take advantage of the sale prices, make a saving for yourself and help raise money for your favourite charity at the same time? It really is as simple as visiting www.charitybuy.com.au (before you shop online) to select a charity to support with your purchase.
Some of our online retail partners have been in touch to let us know about the savings that can be made and below is a small selection of the offers available right now. Many of the sales end on 28 June, so don’t leave it too late to get shopping. Every purchase made with our online retail partners will help raise money for the charity you nominate, so make your shopping count for a good cause today!
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Man who attacked a woman's car and verbally abused her sentenced
'He subjected her to verbal abuse before kicking, rocking and punching her vehicle'
Church Road, Teversham and stock picture of domestic abuse (Image: Google)
A man who verbally abused a woman on her own driveway and punched and kicked her car has been sentenced.
Jonathan Reed, 34, of Church Road, Teversham, Cambridge pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
On August 1 last year, Reed waited for his victim to finish work then blocked her onto her driveway in Cambridge. He subjected her to verbal abuse before kicking, rocking and punching her vehicle.
Church Road, Teversham (Image: Google)
Public intervened
He eventually stopped when a member of the public intervened and police were called.
On Thursday (April 12) at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court, Reed was sentenced to a 12-month community order and made subject of a restraining order for a year.
Praise for domestic abuse victim
PC Gary Nightingale said: “I hope this sentence will allow the victim to move on with her life without the fear of continuing offences from Reed.
Controlling man repeatedly beat his girlfriend avoiding her face to prevent obvious bruising
“This result is a fine example of what happens when the support of domestic abuse victims is combined with the police’s commitment to relentlessly tackling this issue.”
For information and advice about domestic abuse, visit www.cambs.police.uk/domesticabuse.
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Nicola Kemp
Vogue blogger backlash underlines disconnect between media owners and influencers
Criticism of bloggers may feel like an argument which belongs in the nineties; but the backlash to US Vogue's recent full-frontal attacks underline the media industry's struggle to come to terms with the rising power of digital influencers, writes Nicola Kemp.
If the fashion world was once the most impenetrable of ivory towers; digital influencers have successfully staged a revolution. Yet certain editors at Vogue appear to remain in a state of perpetual denial. "You are heralding the death of style," wrote Sally Singer, creative digital director at Vogue, in a somewhat apocalyptic criticism on the rising influence of "bloggers" which has sparked an inevitable backlash on social media channels.
In a post Milan fashion week frenzy, US Vogue editors lined up to criticise "bloggers"for the "distressing" "street-style mess". Even brands were in the firing line; Nicole Phelps, director of Vogue Runway, wrote: "It’s not just sad for the women who preen for the cameras in borrowed clothes it’s distressing as well to watch so many brands participate."
Sasha Wilkins, the founder of lifestyle blog LibertyLondonGirl.com, says that the comments are both "horribly snobbish and very misogynistic". Pointing to brands such as as Dolce & Gabbana and IWC watches, she says a growing number of brands are investing in digital storytelling both to connect with their current and future audiences.
The criticism from Vogue editors belies the fact that in the social media age Instagram is the ultimate fashion runway and media channel for many brands. Indeed, the growing focus on social media influencers and celebrities within the pages of magazines themselves only serves to underline how out of touch their criticism is.
According to Wilkins their hypocrisy is hard to swallow from a magazine which has put Kendall Jenner on its September cover and has a continuous gallery of street style on its website. She explains: "Magazines like Vogue were once the gatekeepers of fashion but now the style bloggers have flown up the ivory tower and they are throwing stuff down at them."
Wilkins believes the comments underline the tensions facing traditional media brands. "Traditionally print magazines have used digital editions to add value to their print editions. When in reality digital can have so much more impact than print. The fact is people in their twenties don’t read magazines anymore."
The authenticity gap
While traditional media owners have used distance as a key pillar of what constitutes luxury, industry experts say that the rise of social platforms has heralded a shift towards faux intimacy. Ben Tan, executive planning director at Perfect Storm, says that the comments from Vogue represent the tension that comes when "an old elite is being replaced by a new breed".
He explains: "In the past exclusivity was measured on how far you were away from the masses and that sense of longing was the mark of what luxury and aspiration was about." However, he believes that consumer expectation has fundamentally shifted and they increasingly crave the intimacy that social influencers offer.
The growing role of faux intimacy in digital influence is underlined by the growing focus traditional publications are placing on encouraging their own staff to build their social footprints. In fact, a growing tranche of fashion editors have become Instagram influencers in their own right. "Newspapers and magazines are selling their staff as if they are a commodity," explains Wilkins. In fact many journalists concur that having a personal profile is increasingly vital to get ahead. While many of the most successful digital influencers were traditional journalists earlier in their careers. A fluidity which serves to further underline the flaws of Vogue’s fashion editors somewhat contrived ‘us and them’ headline-grabbing positioning.
Harvey Cossell, head of strategy at We Are Social, says that the Vogue editors’ criticism underlines the changing face of influence in marketing. He explains: "It’s traditionally been a very dictatorial style of influence for brands and media owners, but today’s influencers are broader social and cultural forces."
However, according to Cossell, this shift does not mean that you can trade one off against the other. "Brands may want that traditional press for validation but the changing face of influence means there is also a role for accessibility. The question is who defines style; is it the influencers or the magazines?" Ultimately, however, these boundaries are often imagined as consumers do not differentiate between the two.
Democratic aspirations
While the rise of digital channels have ushered in a new era of democratised fashion some critics have argued that this new wave of digital influencers are simply creating a new elite as opposed to fundamentally disrupting the model.
"Blogging used to be the home of the outsider voice, but now it is often the preserve of the beautiful and the wealthy. A combination of money, a photographer boyfriend and beauty dominate and it’s depressing," says Wilkins.
However, she counters that the simple fact of being commercially successful does not automatically negate the authenticity and accessibility which have been so key to the rise of digital influencers. "It is crazy to criticise; everyone gets paid and we have always made a virtue of the fact that one day I’m putting the bins out and the next day I’m doing something extraordinary. I’m a normal person that does extraordinary things."
Behind the rise of the digital influencers is the fact that entrepreneurs like Wilkins are at at the heart of this centre of gravity of aspiration for a growing tranche of consumers. According to Tan, entrepreneurial spirit and courage are the biggest drivers of aspiration today.
He explains: "The courage to rise and fall by your own judgements is the ultimate modern aspiration we aspire to today, which you don’t see in Vogue."
For once you skim the surface it isn’t easy to break into the top echelons of digital influence. Without the veil of structure and prestige afforded by traditional media brands, these entrepreneurs are exposed to the judgements of others in a way previous generations couldn’t possibly fathom.
Vogue may have ensured its brand was front and centre in the social media conversation over the past week; but it was for all the wrong reasons.
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Bollywood Hungama » News » Bollywood Features News
Diwali 2019: Kareena Kapoor Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Taimur Ali Khan, Sara Ali Khan, Amrita Singh, Ibrahim Ali Khan’s family portraits are stunning
Updated: Oct 28, 2019 - 13:01 IST
The people all around the world were celebrating Diwali in full swing on October 27. And of course, our B-town celebs were all about festivities and celebrations on Sunday. While Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, and others had their respective parties, many attended all of them in the most beautiful avatars.
The Pataudis know how to make a style statement. This Diwali, Sara Ali Khan celebrated the festival with both her parents Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh. After the first day of celebration on Saturday night at Saif's residence, the Laxmi puja was done at her residence in presence of her mother Amrita Singh and Ibrahim Ali Khan on Sunday. All three of them looked amazing in Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla creations.
Diwali Hai ????????❤️???????????????? Lots and lots of love, luck and laughter from my two safer, eco-friendlier but equally loud pattakas ???????????????? ????: @shivangi.kulkarni
A post shared by Sara Ali Khan (@saraalikhan95) on Oct 27, 2019 at 10:40am PDT
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan attended the annual Diwali bash at Anil Kapoor's residence. The actors and the royal couple looked elegant in color-coordinated outfits. Kareena wore a black and blue Good Earth lehenga whereas Saif looked sharp in Raghavendra Rathore kurta, pyjama, and navy blue jacket. Little Taimur Ali Khan adorable in beige custom made Raghavendra Rathore couture.
#family #today #familytime????
A post shared by Kareena Kapoor Khan (@therealkareenakapoor) on Oct 27, 2019 at 6:17pm PDT
All in all, the B-town brought their A-game when it came to their traditional avatars and Pataudis looked amazing.
ALSO READ: Diwali 2019: Kareena Kapoor Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor bring glamour to Anil Kapoor's bash
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RAF plane conducts surveillance in the English Channel as Priti Patel calls for military help to stop migrants
Charity Refugee Action says government ‘is trying to shirk its responsibility to help people fleeing from some of the world’s most violent countries’
Gov UK
By John Johnston
A Royal Air Force plane has undertaken surveillance flights over the English Channel as part of the effort to tackle migrants attempting the crossing from France.
The flight by the Atlas aircraft was authorised by defence secretary Ben Wallace to support Border Force operations in the Channel, it has been reported.
The Ministry of Defence said the aircraft, which flew from RAF Brize Norton, is an "initial offer of assistance" to the Home Office.
The flight comes after home secretary Priti Patel called on the military to help reduce the number of migrant boats crossing the English Channel.
Royal Navy chiefs are considering a formal request from the Home Office to provide assistance in stopping migrant vessels from crossing the Channel following a surge in arrivals in recent weeks.
On Thursday, a record 235 people arrived in dinghies and other small vessels, with a further 146 people landing in 17 boats on Friday, including pregnant women and children.
Patel said she wanted to make the crossing “unviable” and suggested the plans would stop boats from entering UK waters where authorities were then “duty bound” to provide assistance.
At the weekend, the Ministry of Defence said it was "working hard" to fulfil the request which was requested under the military aid to the civilain authorities (MACA) protocol.
Yesterday Patel named former Royal Marine and director of the Joint Maritime Security Centre Dan O'Mahoney as the government’s “Clandestine Channel Threat Commander”, a new role to lead the UK’s response to tackling illegal attempts to reach the UK.
"The number of illegal small boat crossings is appalling. We are working to make this route inviable and arresting criminals facilitating crossings," Patel said.
"Dan's appointment is vital to cutting this route by bringing together all operational partners in the UK and in France."
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the joint plan could see Royal Navy ships and drones deployed under a so-called "push back" strategy to prevent vessels leaving French shores.
A French source told the paper the operations were "very difficult".
"The simple fact is that a huge amount of work is successfully being put into stopping these crossings," they said.
"Patrolling an exceptionally busy stretch of sea is very difficult - those involved in operations in both France and Britain will attest to that, but there has been a lot of progress."
Stephen Hale, chief executive of charity Refugee Action said ministers should restart the refugee resettlement programme to provide legal routes for people to come to the UK.
"It's deeply troubling the government is trying to shirk its responsibility to help people fleeing from some of the world’s most violent and oppressive countries," he said.
"Britain is better than this. Refugees deserve better than this. We must step up alongside other countries and make our contribution to the global refugee crisis.
"The government must urgently restart its hugely successful refugee resettlement programme, on hold since March, and make a long-term commitment to this. It must also finally reform the restrictive rules on family reunion so that families are not kept apart."
John Johnston is a reporter for CSW’s sister title PoliticsHome, where a version of this story first appeared.
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INCAA & CKF of Indiana Ask State to Support Navigators
Last week the Executive Directors of the Indiana Community Action Association (INCAA) and Covering Kids and Families of Indiana (CKF-IN) wrote a letter to Governor Holcomb and FSSA Secretary Sullivan to asking the state to make a proactive investment in helping to financial support health care navigation services in Indiana during this crisis.
Hoosiers need healthcare coverage to get healthy and stay healthy throughout this crisis and beyond. Although Congress made testing and treatment for coronavirus (COVID-19) free for all who need it, regular access to healthcare mitigates many of the risk factors associated with the current pandemic and also insulates against future health concerns and other outbreaks. At the same time, while we are experiencing limited non-emergency access to care due to COVID-19, those with coverage can still access primary health, mental health, and preventative care through telemedicine services and other options. Those without coverage find their options to be much more limited and, in some cases, effectively non-existent. In short, coverage matters.
Prior to the current crisis, approximately 545,000 Hoosiers lacked healthcare coverage – about one in twelve. Unfortunately, the fallout from this pandemic is adding significantly to the rolls of uninsured Hoosiers. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that over 200,000 of the jobs lost so far in Indiana were jobs that provided employer-sponsored health coverage.[1] We need health care coverage navigators – individuals who are trained to provide free, unbiased assistance to Hoosiers as they explore their options and apply for coverage. It is critical to get these newly uninsured Hoosiers linked with coverage as soon as possible.
Agencies that provide navigation services through the Covering Kids & Families program are grappling to raise local dollars to support this work. With so much need, there is simply not enough local funding available to meet every need and while federal relief dollars are coming in, it is not allowable to use those funds for match. The good news is that the state can play a role in providing the funds.
An investment of just $1 million in state resources would keep CKF navigators working throughout Indiana for the rest of the year. Indiana could fund this by potentially tapping into the rainy-day fund or other available State funding reserves. Organizations that provide navigator services – including Community Action Agencies – want to increase their reach and availability to meet the needs of our struggling Hoosiers, most importantly those who are newly uninsured and have no experience or knowledge of accessing public health coverage. Most Hoosiers would agree that the middle of a public health crisis is the worst possible moment to reduce or lose trained health care coverage navigators who live and work in the hardest hit communities. It is well documented that the cost of Hoosiers living without healthcare coverage will lead to more financially and physically costly outcomes.
Indiana should invest now in the established infrastructure to aid Hoosiers through this crisis and to emerge a stronger, healthier and even more resilient Indiana.
Other recommended policies:
Allow virtual signatures allowing for navigators to become authorized representative for the purpose of aiding Hoosiers in attaining healthcare coverage.
Implement continuous eligibility for all Indiana Health Coverage Programs, inclusive of Medicaid, HIP, CHIP and Hoosier Healthwise, for one year either beginning April 1, 2020 or their initial date of coverage, whichever is later.
Provide blanket approval, with provider credentials, for all eligible sites to operate as Presumptive Eligibility Qualified Providers.
Provide support and training so uninsured Hoosiers can access the presumptive eligibility process in nontraditional sites, providing more paths to an immediate level of coverage. Consider authorizing community agencies, such as Community Action Programs, to act as Presumptive Eligibility Qualified Providers in order to further expand access to immediate coverage.
Call on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to open a Marketplace Special Enrollment Period from April 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020. A Special Enrollment Period would afford Hoosiers access to comprehensive health coverage that they may not have already. Additionally, request enhanced Marketplace subsidies to mitigate premium payments and lessen the up-front financial burden of coverage.
For more than 50 years, Community Action Agencies have served families in Indiana who need help from their communities. Year after year, and particularly in times of crisis these agencies provide a myriad of services to low-income families including head start, weatherization, energy assistance, and health care coverage support services.
For over 20 years Covering Kids and Families of Indiana has helped Hoosiers apply for and understand healthcare coverage such as the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), Hoosier Healthwise, Medicaid and Marketplace plans. This is accomplished through a network of Certified Indiana Navigators employed through partner organizations across the state. Represented among these partner organizations are Federally Qualified Health Centers, Area Agencies on Aging and 10 Community Action Programs.
[1] https://www.epi.org/blog/9-2-million-workers-likely-lost-their-employer-provided-health-insurance-in-the-past-four-weeks/
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/city-cps-start-reviewing-early-childhood-applications/)
City, CPS start reviewing early childhood applications
By Rebecca Harris | October 22, 2012
More than 200 agencies have applied for early childhood funding under a new process requiring schools and community organizations alike to compete for preschool and infant education dollars.
CPS principals have until Nov. 2 to apply, but other agencies’ applications were due on Oct. 1 and are already being rated.
When that is done – around the end of the year – CPS and city staff will decide which programs get funding and how much, according to neighborhood need. Final decisions are expected by February or March.
Principals who could lose their programs, or who hope to start new ones, will have to wait in uncertainty. Belding Elementary Principal Heather Yutzy says that she has no idea whether she’ll be able to keep her preschool program.
When she asked for more information, she says, CPS told her neighborhoods with more high-need students could be prioritized. “It is hard on our end to know – do we stand the chance?” she said.
More than 500 principals and teachers have so far attended information sessions, according to material that Beth Mascitti-Miller, chief early childhood education officer in the district, distributed at an Oct. 22 Illinois Early Learning Council meeting.
At the meeting, Maria Whelan of Illinois Action for Children asked if Chicago has a minimum quality standard for the programs they would fund. It appears the city and CPS do not.
Mascitti-Miller explained that the district doesn’t yet know what the quality of the applications will be. “We are going to be looking at whether we need to provide additional supports, if there isn’t a high-quality provider in (a high-need) area,” Mascitti-Miller said.
Brynn Seibert of SEIU Healthcare Illinois Indiana – a union that represents some Chicago preschool teachers – asked at the meeting if there would be a chance for community input. Mascitti-Miller replied by saying that decisions will be based on data from the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall, which has already engaged community members in assessing the need for preschool and early childhood slots in each area of the city.
A total of 161 agencies have submitted applications to CPS to offer Preschool for All or Prevention Initiative (state birth-to-3) programs. Of those, 39 would be new to CPS early childhood funding. Both CPS and external reviewers will rate the applications.
In addition, 56 agencies have applied to the city’s Department of Family and Support Services to offer Head Start or Early Head Start slots. All but nine have worked with the city before.
The Head Start applications turned in to the city are being reviewed and scored by contractors at Western Kentucky University, a process that is expected to wrap up before Thanksgiving. Then the federal government will review and approve them. Finally, applications turned into and the city will be prioritized according to neighborhood need.
So far, the city and the district are on track to get more than enough applications. The agencies that applied to CPS asked for 13,291 preschool spots – nearly double the number of children currently served by community agencies through district funding.
Another 14,900 children were in Preschool for All programs at CPS schools as of June, according to the district. It remains to be seen how many principals will turn in applications.
Harlee Till, the principal at Swift Elementary, says she thinks the application process for schools is “pretty straightforward.”
“I guess they are looking for a little more equity across the district in the program,” Till said. She thinks that is going to be a good thing.
She’s not worried about losing her school’s preschool program because of the number of high-need students – many of whom are learning English.
“It’s a new process and it’s work that has to be done, but everybody who has preschool already knows the impact of it, and we can all absolutely explain the need for it,” Till says. “Those that don’t already have it should be able to apply.”
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Locking up more people is not the solution to gun violence
Rahm Emanuel supports a bill that would ramp up penalties for gun possession, but a recent report explains why tougher sentencing hasn’t improved public safety in Illinois.
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/city-workers-handed-bigger-share-sacrifice-corporations/)
City workers handed a bigger share of sacrifice than corporations
By Curtis Black | April 17, 2014
While cuts are being made to city workers' pensions, the number of corporations benefiting from tax increment financing continues to grow. [Photo by Marchello74/Shutterstock]
Mayor Emanuel’s new pension plan was rolled out with lots of talk about bravely facing challenges and sharing sacrifices. It does neither.
What it does do is cut retiree pensions — dramatically. Over 20 years, a retiree in the laborers’ or municipal employees’ systems will see a 20 to 30 percent reduction in the value of their benefit. That will put many moderate-income retirees at risk of impoverishment, especially since the subsidy for their health care is being phased out.
The systems’ unfunded liability will come down at first — mostly due to benefit cuts — then it will start rising again, under a payment plan that is “backloaded by design,” said Amanda Kass of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. Meanwhile, the plan for police and fire funds seems to be changing the law to postpone tackling their huge unfunded liabilities for several years.
Then there are five annual $50-million property tax increases planned for Chicago homeowners. “Everyone has to give something so nobody is asked to give everything,” Emanuel said.
One group not giving anything, though, are politically-connected corporations and developers who benefit from tax increment financing. A report from Good Jobs First reveals that for years, TIF diversions have”far exceeded” the city’s annual pensions costs. In 2012, total annual costs of benefits for the city’s four funds, plus those for teachers and parks workers, totaled $386 million. That year, TIF captured $457 million.
Responding to the study, a city spokesperson told the Sun-Times that “the city’s pension crisis has been building for decades — much longer than the existence of TIFs.”
Not true. GJF points out that in 2000, the year TIF diversions started taking off, the city’s four pension funds were nearly fully funded. Since then TIFs have “grown exponentially,” doubling by 2003 and quadrupling by 2007. Then the economy tanked. “TIF costs grew, general fund revenues declined, and the city addressed its budget gap in part by making inadequate contributions to public pensions,” according to the report.
“TIF has played a role in the underfunding of pensions in Chicago,” GJF concludes.
At Pando Daily, David Sirota has listed TIF projects benefitting some of Emanuel’s largest campaign contributors, including Mariano’s, Madison Dearborn, DLA Piper, and Ariel Investments; and with Ben Joravsky, Sirota has reported that hedge fund operator Ken Griffin, a major mayoral donor, is heavily invested in Marriott hotels, recipient of a $55 million subsidy for a new McCormick Place hotel.
A pattern emerges if when you consider an earlier GJF report on the state’s pension crisis: the state of Illinois spends far more on corporate tax subsidies — at least $2.4 billion a year — than its annual pension costs of about $1.85 billion.
In this context, the alarms sounded by business leaders over the state’s credit rating and about Chicago as the “next Detroit” ring a little hollow. And the emphasis of the political establishment on cutting retirees’ benefits seems misplaced.
What could be done, if we had a different set of priorites? GJF points to California, where Governor Jerry Brown dissolved the authority of local governments to use TIF and began to unwind existing TIF districts. Ultimately, that will increase local property tax revenues by 10 to 15 percent.
County Clerk David Orr recently suggested that the city could increase property tax revenues by paring down existing TIFs, and that the state legislature could help by adjusting the tax levies “frozen” by TIF to account for inflation in order to increase revenues available for local taxing bodies.
There’s also the question of TIF surpluses. Emanuel has claimed the vast majority of TIF funds are committed and unavailable, but when Civic Lab and the Chicago Teachers Union submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the city for documentation of the claim, they were told the request was too burdensome, said Tom Tresser of Civic Lab.
Orr called on Emanuel to carry out one of the several recommendations of his TIF Reform Task Force that remain unimplemented — auditing TIF districts. “Chicago officials say $1.5 billion of its $1.7 billion TIF fund is committed to projects, but the public has no way to judge whether each project is worthwhile without a comprehensive audit and open debate,” he said.
In Springfield, legislation that would close three major corporate loopholes and raise nearly $500 million a year seems to have stalled in the House and is struggling in the Senate, said Kristi Sanford of the People’s Lobby.
“The extent of corporate power in Springfield is incredible,” Sanford said. “It’s crazy that they would leave that much money on the table.”
For our political leaders, it seems, cutting retirement security and raising taxes is “tough,” but reducing public largesse for the top dogs of the private sector is impossible.
[Photo by Marchello74/Shutterstock]
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Emanuel shores up downtown development on his way out
By moving to finance the Lincoln Yards project and expand TIF, the lame-duck mayor cements his legacy of diverting tax dollars away from the pressing needs facing the city.
‘Neovouchers’ introduced to school funding standoff in Illinois
Republicans hijack negotiations over SB1 with a right-wing agenda straight out of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s playbook.
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Home » Sports » Harper Unveils Commemorative Winnipeg Jets Coins
Harper Unveils Commemorative Winnipeg Jets Coins
October 9, 2011 12:53 PM | Sports
Winnipeg Jets chairman Mark Chipman, Royal Canadian Mint chair of the board James B. Love, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveil one of two commemorative Jets coins at MTS Centre on Sunday, October 9, 2011. (VINCENT LEE / CHRISD.CA)
Two commemorative Winnipeg Jets coins will be available for fans to purchase. (ROYAL CANADIAN MINT / HANDOUT)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Sunday unveiled two commemorative Winnipeg Jets coins at MTS Centre.
The coins, put out by the Royal Canadian Mint, include a 50-cent coin and a $20 pure silver coin.
The coins will definitely be collector’s items for any hockey fan, and celebrate the team’s triumphant return to Winnipeg.
“The Winnipeg Jets have always held a special place in the hearts of hockey fans across Canada and thanks to the Royal Canadian Mint, these fans can now own a piece of Jets history by celebrating the inaugural season with these commemorative coins,” Jets chairman Mark Chipman said.
Hockey fans can order both commemorative coins at Mint.ca. The 50-cent coin, produced at the Mint’s Winnipeg facility with nickel-plated steel, retails for $14.95 and is available online, as well as at the Mint’s boutiques in Ottawa and Winnipeg. The 99.99% pure silver $20 coin has a limited mintage of 15,000 and retails for $94.95. Customers can pre-order the $20 coin online, which will deliver in early November. Canada Post outlets will also soon be carrying the coins.
Harper will attend the Jets’ home opener against the Montreal Canadiens later this afternoon.
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Pilot Cutters Under Sail
Pilots and Pilotage in Britain and Northern Europe
Tom Cunliffe
160 color and b/w illustrations
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The pilot cutters that operated around the coasts of northern Europe until the First World War were amongst the most seaworthy and beautiful craft of their size ever built, while the small number that have survived have inspired yacht designers, sailors and traditional craft enthusiasts over the last hundred years.
Even in their day they possessed a charisma unlike any other working craft; their speed and close-windedness, their strength and seaworthiness, fused together into a hull and rig of particular elegance, all to guide the mariner through the rough and tortuous waters of the European seaboard, bought them an enviable reputation.
This new book is both a tribute to and a minutely researched history of these remarkable vessels. The author, perhaps the most experienced sailor of the type, describes the ships themselves, their masters and crews, and the skills they needed for the competitive and dangerous work of pilotage. He explains the differences between the craft of disparate coasts – of the Scilly Isles and the Bristol Channel, of northern France, and the wild coastline of Norway – and weaves into the history of their development the stories of the men who sailed them.
Written to complement the recent histories of pilot schooners and open boat pilotage, edited and written by the author, this book will be an essential addition to the libraries of historians and enthusiasts of traditional boats.
Tom Cunliffe is Britain’s leading sailing writer. He is a worldwide authority on sailing instruction and an expert on traditional sailing craft. His hints and tips could help all yachtsmen! He has crossed oceans in simple boats without engines or electronics and voyaged to both sides of the Atlantic from Brazil to Iceland and from the Caribbean to Russia. He has cruised the coast of America and Canada and logged thousands of miles exploring both sides of the English Channel. Tom’s nautical career has seen him serve as mate on a merchant ship, captain on gentleman’s yachts and skipper of racing craft. His private passion is classic sailing boats and he has owned a series of traditional gaff-rigged vessels that have taken him and his family on countless adventures from tropical rainforests to frozen fjords. Tom has been a Yachtmaster Examiner since 1978 and has a gift for sharing his knowledge with good humour and an endless supply of tales of the sea. He also writes for Yachting Monthly, Yachting World and SAIL magazines, and wrote and presented the BBC TV series, The Boats That Built Britain.
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Wise Practices to Facilitate Health Care Access amongst Racialized and Newcomer PHAs
Summit Knowledge Development Presentations
Panel: Nothing About Us Without Us: Community Led Research to Address Community Health Priorities
Presented by Alan Li and Dale Maitland at Summit 2019: Queering Healthcare Access and Accessibility, in Vancouver October 31 - November 1. For more information visit cbrc.net/summit
Alan Li is a primary care physician at Regent Park Community Health Centre that services many marginalized populations including newcomers, non-insured individuals, people with mental health and addiction issues, LGBTQ and people with HIV/AIDS (PHA). With over 30 years’ experience in community organizing and advocacy, Alan has taken leadership role in many social justice and equity promoting organizations, including the Chinese Canadian National Council, Asian Community AIDS Services, Casey House Hospice, the Hong Kong 10% club, and the “Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment” (CAAT), a coalition of many health and community service providers working to improve treatment access for marginalized PHAs. As Policy and Practice Leader at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network, Alan has led many community based research studies and is widely recognized as a leader in mobilizing research evidence to build innovative health promotion programs and services amongst HIV, sexual minorities, newcomer and racialized communities, including the multi-racial anti-stigma intervention CHAMPS in Action, the Ethno-racial Treatment Support Network (ETSN) peer counselor training program, HIV and immigration training program and the compassionate medication access program at the People with AIDS Foundation. In addition, Alan also has extensive experience co-leading transnational studies on sexual health, mental health and anti-stigma interventions between Canada and China.
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Bernie Sanders sees support drop after debates
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he raised $18 million in the second quarter of 2019, equaling his take in the first quarter. Polls, however, show Sanders' support decreasing after the first Democratic debates. Caitlin Huey-Burns and Antjuan Seawright joined CBSN to break down why Sanders is seeing a decline in the polls.
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The Port of l’Estaque, The Pier (Le Port de l’Estaque, l’Embarcadere) (detail), 1906. Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963). Oil on canvas; 60 x 73.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.104
Exploring the Transformative Keithley Gift
On March 11, 2020, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced the gift and promised gift of more than 100 works of art from the collection of Clevelanders Joesph P. and Nancy F. Keithley. We can’t wait for you to see these spectacular works in person, but until then, explore this transformative gift through the following links:
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In a new video series, CMA curators share their insights on selected works from the Keithley Gift. Listen below.
An Exceptional Collection: Visit the Keithley Gift
In the culminating episode of this special series, join Heather Lemonedes Brown, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, as she discusses two contemporary works given to the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of the transformative Keithley gift.
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John Marin’s Watercolors
In the fourth episode of this series, Emily Peters, curator of prints and drawings at the CMA, discusses several watercolors by the artist John Marin, given to the museum as part of the transformative gift of works of art from the collection of Joseph and Nancy Keithley.
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Georges Braque’s The Port of l’Estaque, the Pier
In the third episode of this special series, William Robinson, senior curator of modern European painting and sculpture, discusses Georges Braque’s The Port of l’Estaque, the Pier.
Exploring the Keithley Gift: Georges Braque's The Port of l'Estaque, the Pier
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Joan Mitchell’s Gouise
In the second episode of this special series, Mark Cole, chair of modern, contemporary, and decorative art and curator of American painting and sculpture at the CMA, discusses Joan Mitchell’s Gouise.
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An Exceptional Collection
In this first episode, William Griswold, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, introduces the Keithley Gift, a transformative gift to the CMA in March 2020 of more than 100 works from the collection of Joseph and Nancy Keithley.
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Christian Science Monitor Magazine: Tired of All That Clutter?
Tired of all that clutter? This may be the year to get organized.
By Yvonne Zipp | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the January 5, 2009 edition
If you’re one of the many Americans who can’t park your car in your garage because of the mounds of stuff lurking inside, fear not. Cherie Turner of Tallahassee, Fla., can relate.
After she started dating a man whose house was “always immaculate,” Ms. Turner vowed to rid herself of years of accumulated clutter – starting in her garage. “I opened the door and lugged everything … into the front yard. People were driving by and going through my stuff.” Turner says. She had to keep telling disappointed bargain hunters, “No, really, I’m not having a yard sale.” Three weekends later, her garage was clutter-free, and she started on her closets.
Turner credits support from the online community at The Clutter Diet with getting her all fired up about the process. (The website, which charges a $14.99 monthly fee, treats getting organized like a diet, monitoring progress with “clutter pounds lost” and assigning weekly tasks that are divided into a “meal.”) She believes that if she can get organized, anyone can.
“When I first moved away from home, my daddy came to stay [overnight] in my little apartment. The first thing he said to Mom was, ‘You know that room she used to have? Well, she has a whole apartment like that now,’ ” she says, laughing. “So, this has been a lifelong thing for me.”
It’s a lifelong thing for many Americans, say experts. Getting organized is a perennial on the country’s Top 10 New Year’s resolutions, right along with quitting smoking and exercising more, says Donna Smallin, a professional organizer in Phoenix, and author of several books, including the just-published “A to Z Storage Solutions.”
Part of the reason is that, thanks to mass production, we have far more stuff than in generations past, says Ms. Smallin. So finding a place for everything is a more monumental task than 40 years ago.
People often throw themselves into organizing with a frenzy of energy and then give up, exhausted, when they realize their house will never make the cover of House Beautiful. The quest for perfection just sets people up for failure, says Lorie Marrero, a professional organizer and the founder of The Clutter Diet, who is a big believer in the concept of “good enough.”
“I’m not perfect,” says Ms. Marrero. “My house is not a museum.”
Being organized doesn’t mean living in a showplace, both experts say. They define the term as being able to find what you want when you need it in a reasonable amount of time.
While you can spend hundreds of dollars on fancy units to hold your stuff, Smallin suggests slowing the flow before it gets into your home. Cut back on catalogs and magazines that end up in a pile, for example. “How would you like to catch up on your reading in one minute or less?” she asks. Dump everything in the recycling bin and start fresh. When shopping, “before you actually hand the cashier money, really think about what you’re buying. Do you maybe have something at home that would do the job just as well? Also think about, ‘Where am I going to put this?’… If it doesn’t have a home when it gets home with you, it’s going to end up being clutter.”
To create permanent change, she says, look at who you are now and allow yourself to let go of items – even if they were expensive or a gift from a relative – that no longer fit your lifestyle. “Instead of thinking about all the stuff you need to get rid of, think of all the things you absolutely love and that you use. They’re part of who you are today.”
Smallin suggests following the advice of William Morris, British craftsman and designer: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“Then,” she says, “I think it becomes easier to let go of everything else.”
Looking for an excuse to get started? “There are lots of good reasons in this economy,” says Ms. Marrero. “We once found $5,000 in undeposited checks and cash in one client’s house.” You probably don’t have $10s and $20s lying around, but “you may find unused gift cards, rebate opportunities, or a few dollars in an old purse.”
And Smallin says a big payday isn’t out of the question. She cites an eBay survey that found that the average American family had $3,000 worth of items around the house that they could sell.
If you don’t feel like dealing with classified ads, Craigslist, or a consignment store, you can donate the items and take a tax deduction. (Check values at the website ItsDeductible Online.)
Start your organizing in the kitchen and utility room, Marrero advises. “Those are the hub of the home…. Everything else can branch out from there.”
If organizing doesn’t go smoothly at first, forgive yourself, she says. Look at changes over time, and you’ll be less likely to quit. Try getting a motivation partner: “If you have a goal and you don’t tell anyone about it, you can’t disappoint anyone – except yourself.”
Other tricks include rewarding yourself for doing a particularly dreaded task and setting artificial deadlines. Throw a party, suggests Marrero, and see if the thought of all those people in your house doesn’t inspire you to tackle the clutter.
To deal with nagging worries that you might need something again “someday,” says Smallin, “put the things in a box. Put today’s date on the box, and put it in a basement or garage or attic. In six months, if you haven’t used anything in the box, you know you don’t need it anymore.”
Smallin also suggests training yourself to ask, “Is this where this belongs?” before setting things down. “If you start throwing stuff down, it gives everyone else permission [to do the same], and it quickly becomes a problem.”
She recommends quick cleanups every night: “Clear the kitchen counter. Clear your desk. Go through the mail. It’s a lot easier to clean up than catch up.”
Use small chunks of time to organize, she advises. “The average American watches 20 to 30 hours of TV every week. Just think of all those hours of commercials.” Grab a drawer and sort through it in front of the TV. Then “put it back during the next commercial and get another one.”
But what if the mess isn’t yours? If you have family members who are pack rats, there are strategies beyond nagging – or throwing out other people’s stuff. Smallin suggests having clutter-free zones, such as the living room. “Tell the family, ‘This is the way this room looks. If you leave anything out, I put it in a donations box. If you want it back, you can do a chore.’ ”
But if you aren’t organized, she cautions, it’s not fair to expect your kids to be. “Work on yourself first.”
With a spouse, both experts recommend setting aside a room to be his or her space and shutting the door when company comes. If the clutter is creeping into shared areas, such as a bedroom, “I find negotiation works pretty well,” says Smallin. In exchange for them taking care of the mess, ask, ” ‘What is something I can do that’s maybe driving you crazy?’ Then set deadlines for yourselves.”
And if all else fails? Throw that party.
URL: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0105/p17s01-lign.html
Posted January 5th, 2009
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