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Concept: Sediment transport
How Big of an Effect Do Small Dams Have? Using Geomorphological Footprints to Quantify Spatial Impact of Low-Head Dams and Identify Patterns of Across-Dam Variation
Longitudinal connectivity is a fundamental characteristic of rivers that can be disrupted by natural and anthropogenic processes. Dams are significant disruptions to streams. Over 2,000,000 low-head dams (<7.6 m high) fragment United States rivers. Despite potential adverse impacts of these ubiquitous disturbances, the spatial impacts of low-head dams on geomorphology and ecology are largely untested. Progress for research and conservation is impaired by not knowing the magnitude of low-head dam impacts. Based on the geomorphic literature, we refined a methodology that allowed us to quantify the spatial extent of low-head dam impacts (herein dam footprint), assessed variation in dam footprints across low-head dams within a river network, and identified select aspects of the context of this variation. Wetted width, depth, and substrate size distributions upstream and downstream of six low-head dams within the Upper Neosho River, Kansas, United States of America were measured. Total dam footprints averaged 7.9 km (3.0-15.3 km) or 287 wetted widths (136-437 wetted widths). Estimates included both upstream (mean: 6.7 km or 243 wetted widths) and downstream footprints (mean: 1.2 km or 44 wetted widths). Altogether the six low-head dams impacted 47.3 km (about 17%) of the mainstem in the river network. Despite differences in age, size, location, and primary function, the sizes of geomorphic footprints of individual low-head dams in the Upper Neosho river network were relatively similar. The number of upstream dams and distance to upstream dams, but not dam height, affected the spatial extent of dam footprints. In summary, ubiquitous low-head dams individually and cumulatively altered lotic ecosystems. Both characteristics of individual dams and the context of neighboring dams affected low-head dam impacts within the river network. For these reasons, low-head dams require a different, more integrative, approach for research and management than the individualistic approach that has been applied to larger dams.
Concepts: United States, River, Individualism, Dam, Flood, Geomorphology, Sediment transport, Levee
Microbial life on a sand grain: from bulk sediment to single grains
The ISME journal
Globally, marine surface sediments constitute a habitat for estimated 1.7 × 1028 prokaryotes. For benthic microbial community analysis, usually, several grams of sediment are processed. In this study, we made the step from bulk sediments to single sand grains to address the microbial community directly in its micro-habitat: the individual bacterial diversity on 17 sand grains was analyzed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing and visualized on sand grains using catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization. In all, 104-105 cells were present on grains from 202 to 635 μm diameter. Colonization was patchy, with exposed areas largely devoid of any epi-growth (mean cell-cell distance 4.5±5.9 μm) and protected areas more densely populated (0.5±0.7 μm). Mean cell-cell distances were 100-fold shorter compared with the water column. In general, growth occurred in monolayers. Each sand grain harbors a highly diverse bacterial community as shown by several thousand species-level operational taxonomic units (OTU)0.97. Only 4-8 single grains are needed to cover 50% of OTU0.97 richness found in bulk sediment. Although bacterial communities differed between sand grains, a core community accounting for >50% of all cells was present on each sand grain. The communities between sediment grains are more similar than between soil macroaggregates.The ISME Journal advance online publication, 1 December 2017; doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.197.
Concepts: DNA, Archaea, Bacteria, RNA, Ribosomal RNA, Ribosome, Gravel, Sediment transport
Water induced sediment levitation enhances downslope transport on Mars
On Mars, locally warm surface temperatures (~293 K) occur, leading to the possibility of (transient) liquid water on the surface. However, water exposed to the martian atmosphere will boil, and the sediment transport capacity of such unstable water is not well understood. Here, we present laboratory studies of a newly recognized transport mechanism: “levitation” of saturated sediment bodies on a cushion of vapor released by boiling. Sediment transport where this mechanism is active is about nine times greater than without this effect, reducing the amount of water required to transport comparable sediment volumes by nearly an order of magnitude. Our calculations show that the effect of levitation could persist up to ~48 times longer under reduced martian gravity. Sediment levitation must therefore be considered when evaluating the formation of recent and present-day martian mass wasting features, as much less water may be required to form such features than previously thought.
Concepts: Water, Mars, Liquid, Gas, Evaporation, Sediment transport, Boiling, Atmosphere of Mars
Linking rapid erosion of the Mekong River delta to human activities
As international concern for the survival of deltas grows, the Mekong River delta, the world’s third largest delta, densely populated, considered as Southeast Asia’s most important food basket, and rich in biodiversity at the world scale, is also increasingly affected by human activities and exposed to subsidence and coastal erosion. Several dams have been constructed upstream of the delta and many more are now planned. We quantify from high-resolution SPOT 5 satellite images large-scale shoreline erosion and land loss between 2003 and 2012 that now affect over 50% of the once strongly advancing >600 km-long delta shoreline. Erosion, with no identified change in the river’s discharge and in wave and wind conditions over this recent period, is consistent with: (1) a reported significant decrease in coastal surface suspended sediment from the Mekong that may be linked to dam retention of its sediment, (2) large-scale commercial sand mining in the river and delta channels, and (3) subsidence due to groundwater extraction. Shoreline erosion is already responsible for displacement of coastal populations. It is an additional hazard to the integrity of this Asian mega delta now considered particularly vulnerable to accelerated subsidence and sea-level rise, and will be exacerbated by future hydropower dams.
Concepts: Sediment, River, Population density, River delta, Dam, Coastal geography, Geomorphology, Sediment transport
The exceptional sediment load of fine-grained dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China
Sedimentary dispersal systems with fine-grained beds are common, yet the physics of sediment movement within them remains poorly constrained. We analyze sediment transport data for the best-documented, fine-grained river worldwide, the Huanghe (Yellow River) of China, where sediment flux is underpredicted by an order of magnitude according to well-accepted sediment transport relations. Our theoretical framework, bolstered by field observations, demonstrates that the Huanghe tends toward upper-stage plane bed, yielding minimal form drag, thus markedly enhancing sediment transport efficiency. We present a sediment transport formulation applicable to all river systems with silt to coarse-sand beds. This formulation demonstrates a remarkably sensitive dependence on grain size within a certain narrow range and therefore has special relevance to silt-sand fluvial systems, particularly those affected by dams.
Concepts: Sediment, River, Erosion, Silt, Yellow River, Sand, Sediment transport, Sedimentology
A theoretical assessment of microplastic transport in river catchments and their retention by soils and river sediments
Environmental science. Processes & impacts
The presence of microplastics (MPs) in the environment is a problem of growing concern. While research has focused on MP occurrence and impacts in the marine environment, very little is known about their release on land, storage in soils and sediments and transport by run-off and rivers. This study describes a first theoretical assessment of these processes. A mathematical model of catchment hydrology, soil erosion and sediment budgets was upgraded to enable description of MP fate. The Thames River in the UK was used as a case study. A general lack of data on MP emissions to soils and rivers and the mass of MPs in agricultural soils, limits the present work to serve as a purely theoretical, nevertheless rigorous, assessment that can be used to guide future monitoring and impact evaluations. The fundamental assumption on which modelling is based is that the same physical controls on soil erosion and natural sediment transport (for which model calibration and validation are possible), also control MP transport and storage. Depending on sub-catchment soil characteristics and precipitation patterns, approximately 16-38% of the heavier-than-water MPs hypothetically added to soils (e.g. through routine applications of sewage sludge) are predicted to be stored locally. In the stream, MPs < 0.2 mm are generally not retained, regardless of their density. Larger MPs with densities marginally higher than water can instead be retained in the sediment. It is, however, anticipated that high flow periods can remobilize this pool. Sediments of river sections experiencing low stream power are likely hotspots for deposition of MPs. Exposure and impact assessments should prioritize these environments.
Concepts: Sediment, River, Erosion, Surface runoff, River Thames, Geomorphology, Sediment transport, Meander
Sediment-water interactions of pharmaceutical residues in the river environment
To assess the environmental fate and risks of pharmaceuticals, the determination of their distributions between sediment and water is crucial as a controlling process. In this paper, the concentrations of 9 selected pharmaceuticals were determined in water and sediment samples from the River Medway, Kent, UK between December 2009 and December 2010. In the water phase, there was a spatial variation of concentration with the highest concentrations being detected in the sewage outfall, indicating it being an important point source in the river. In terms of seasonal variations, the highest concentrations (13-878 ng L(-1)) were detected in June 2010. In the surface sediment phase, the highest concentrations (5.3-33.6 ng g(-1) dry weight) were observed at the sewage outfall, although in February 2010 the highest concentrations were detected downstream of the sewage outfall indicating a delayed response in sediment accumulation of pharmaceuticals in relation to the water phase. The partition coefficient of pharmaceuticals between surface sediment and water was variable, reflecting a dynamic process of sediment-water interaction and the varying nature of sediments. Overall the partition coefficient was shown to decrease with an increase in suspended sediment concentration. The organic carbon normalized partition coefficient of the pharmaceuticals was shown to be positively related to their molecular weight (MW), suggesting that sediment-water interactions were partly a partition process favoring large molecules.
Concepts: Pharmacology, Sediment, Molecule, Chemistry, Water pollution, Phase diagram, Sediment transport, Kent
Influence of wave action on the partitioning and transport of unattached and floc-associated bacteria in fresh water
Canadian journal of microbiology
The dynamic interaction of bacteria within bed sediment and suspended sediment (i.e., floc) in a wave-dominated beach environment was assessed using a laboratory wave flume. The influence of shear stress (wave energy) on bacterial concentrations and on the partitioning and transport of unattached and floc-associated bacteria was investigated. The study showed that increasing wave energy (0.60 and 5.35 N/s) resulted in a 0.5 to 1.5 log increase in unattached cells of the test bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain CTO7::gfp-2 in the water column. There was a positive correlation between the bacterial concentrations in water and the total suspended solids, with the latter increasing from values of near 0 to up to 200 mg/L over the same wave energy increase. The median equivalent spherical diameter of flocs in suspension also increased by an order of magnitude in all experimental trials. Under both low (0.60 N/s) and high (5.35 N/s) energy regime, bacteria were shown to preferentially associate with flocs upon cessation of wave activity. The results suggest that collecting water samples during periods of low wave action for the purpose of monitoring the microbiological quality of water may underestimate bacterial concentrations partly because of an inability to account for the effect of shear stress on the erosion and mobilization of bacteria from bed sediment to the water column. This highlights the need to develop a more comprehensive beach analysis strategy that not only addresses presently uncharacterized shores and sediments but also recognizes the importance of eroded flocs as a vector for the transport of bacteria in aquatic environments.
Concepts: Bacteria, Water, Sediment, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Force, Erosion, Wind, Sediment transport
A new macrofaunal limit in the deep biosphere revealed by extreme burrow depths in ancient sediments
Macrofauna is known to inhabit the top few 10s cm of marine sediments, with rare burrows up to two metres below the seabed. Here, we provide evidence from deep-water Permian strata for a previously unrecognised habitat up to at least 8 metres below the sediment-water interface. Infaunal organisms exploited networks of forcibly injected sand below the seabed, forming living traces and reworking sediment. This is the first record that shows sediment injections are responsible for hosting macrofaunal life metres below the contemporaneous seabed. In addition, given the widespread occurrence of thick sandy successions that accumulate in deep-water settings, macrofauna living in the deep biosphere are likely much more prevalent than considered previously. These findings should influence future sampling strategies to better constrain the depth range of infaunal animals living in modern deep-sea sands. One Sentence Summary: The living depth of infaunal macrofauna is shown to reach at least 8 metres in new habitats associated with sand injections.
Concepts: Sediment, Oceanography, Animal, Erosion, 2000s music groups, Gravel, Sediment transport, Sedimentary depositional environment
Physical-chemical modeling of elements' behavior in mixing sea and fresh waters of minor rivers in the White Sea catchment area
Journal of environmental science and health. Part A, Toxic/hazardous substances & environmental engineering
The physical-chemical stage of marginal filters in minor rivers of the White Sea catchment area by the example of the Umba River, flowing to Kandalaksha Gulf, has been explored. Application of the method of physical-chemical modeling on the basis of field data allowed establishing migration forms of a number of elements in the “river-sea” system and deposition of solid phases when mixing waters. The mixing of river and sea water is accompanied by the sedimentation of predominantly goethite, hydromuscovite, and hydroxylapatite. Sediments in mixing river and sea waters were found to be mainly composed by goethite, hydromuscovite, and hydroxylapatite. The research has added to the knowledge of the role of the abiotic part in the marginal filters of small rivers in the Arctic.
Concepts: Water, Sediment, Sedimentary rock, River, Red Sea, Sediment transport, White Sea, Kandalaksha Gulf
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What Did Gavin Newsom Give You When Your Shit Got Stole?
by Eve Batey | October 14, 2009 4:02 pm | in News | 6
According to a press release sent out by Mayor Newsom’s office, after Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s unattended bag was swiped, found, and returned, Newsom also sent a gift basket of items donated by members of SF’s business community. And the basket sounds pretty great! Cutting and pasting straight from the release, the basket’s said to contain:
Six pack of Anchor Steam beer
Dinner at the Balboa Cafe
Tickets to Beach Blanket Babylon
Sourdough bread from Boudin
Bottle of Cade wine
Coffee from Caffe Trieste
Golden Gate Bridge: History and Design of an Icon (book)
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
Two-night stay at the Fairmont Hotel
Baseball autographed by Tim Lincecum
Precita Eyes Muralists: Street Art San Francisco (book)
Organic agave nectar and all-natural margarita mix from Tres Agaves
A necktie from Wilkes Bashford
Tickets to the Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf
Dinner Cruise aboard Hornblower Yacht from the Convention and Visitors Bureau
Now, I’ve never left a bag unattended on a San Francisco street, not even for a second, but my car’s been broken into about three times in the past year. Where’s my gift basket? Where’s yours?
Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.
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ralfy.com Port Charlotte 12 Year Old
YouTube superstar Ralfy popped into the shop to say hello, and very kindly shared a delicious peaty dram with us.
It's a private cask of Port Charlotte, bottled to mark the achievement of a new world record at Bonneville this September past, vintage motorcycles being Ralfy's other obsession.
Ralfy has picked a fantastic cask to bottle, the kind of clean, fresh ex-sherry cask which adds so much to a whisky without dominating the spirit character.
The nose is salty and rich and slightly waxy. There's the characteristic sherry cask chocolate note which to me is always reminiscent of cheap instant chocolate pudding - you know, Angel Delight or Miracle Whip or similar. There's also just enough old cask smell or fustiness. Not too much, just enough.
The palate is sweet and rounded and chocolatey, before evolving into a snuffed out candle smoke taste. Delicious.
It's a very, very fine Port Charlotte, by far the best I've yet tasted. Good work on securing that cask, Ralfy, and can I have some more please?
Postscript: A couple of days later I was talking to Ralfy again and he told me that, according to staff from Bruichladdich who were at Glasgow's Whisky Festival, some of these private casks of Port Charlotte were actually filled with Octomore (due to a shortage of PC spirit). Which might explain the intense peat character of this dram, coming as it does from a pretty active cask.
Labels: 12 Year Old, Islay, Port Charlotte, ralfy.com
Tasting Note: Kilchoman Cask Strength Quarter Cask
Despite being up and running for some eleven years, Kilchoman don't seem to have any plans for a standard ten year old release yet. I don't consider this necessarily a bad thing. Apart from the first few youthful bottlings, which I found as rough as an agricultural salt lick, I reckon that Kilchoman tastes very good at four or five or six years old.
The nose is sweet – banana cream with some salty earthy peat underneath., then the peat seems to get more floral. Iodically floral. Adding water makes it spirity, but also fresh and airy.
The palate is very, very sweet, soft, and drinkable. There's loads of earthy peat. It leaves a saltiness behind (or more precisely a salt-sweet note), plus a chili burn. With water it is still very sweet, light bodied, a little hotter than without water. The peat seems saltier – more sea air than earthy. Finish is now oddly drying. With time I'm starting to see some fruity notes, but the finish is definitely a bit rougher once water is added.
To conclude. A quarter cask expression seems like a good way to bring on maturing spirit more rapidly. I've always been a fan of the Laphroaig Quarter Cask, which is said to be about six years old, and I've tasted some delicious young octaves from Glenglassaugh. I like this expression a lot.
Labels: Islay, Kilchoman, NAS, No Age Statement, quarter cask
Tasting Note: Miltonduff 21 Year Old
Miltonduff doesn't really figure in any list of distillery greats. There's hardly an official bottling to be had, seeing as Chivas Bros. main use for it is to blend into Ballantine's (alongside the blessed Glenburgie).
So it was a real pleasure to taste and enjoy this bottling by Morrison & Mackay, the Perthshire firm to whom the Scotch whisky industry turns when in need of a whisky liqueur (they also bottle some cracking malts).
It's a dram which is both light in colour and light of body, although far from lacking in flavour. In fact, it manages that special trick of keeping several different flavours going at once in the back of the mouth. There's a waxy yellow fruit note, and a tangy Edinburgh rock thing, plus the corresponding chalkiness (which doesn't always happen, by the way). There is also a fizzy, sherbet-y lightness.
The cask flavours are very much in the background and integrated with everything else which is going on, allowing the distillate character to shine through.
Of course, this is a bottling from just two hogsheads, so it's probably all been drunk by now. So what? There's always another whisky to find. There's probably another Miltonduff out there, just waiting for you. Go get it!
About Miltonduff
Built in 1824 near Elgin, Miltonduff has seen several changes of ownership; since 2005 it has been run by Chivas Bros. It was one of a handful of distilleries to be fitted with Lomond stills, making a whisky called Mosstowie. Nowadays it is most important as a component of the Ballantine's blend.
Labels: 21 Year Old, Miltonduff, Morrison Mackay, Speyside
An Unfair Comparison
In the middle of a Twitter tasting organised by Steve Rush for the Lakes Distillery I found myself, slightly to my surprise, thinking of Campbeltown.
The whisky on tasting was a tawny port cask finished version of The One, which is a British whisky blended with spirit from across the UK, and there was about it a faint but distinct air of tarry rope, or coal tar soap, or some such. In other words, Eau de Kintyre.
Having enjoyed it, I thought I would finish off my sample in comparing it with the genuine article, in the shape of Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength.
I know, I know, it's a completely unfair comparison. One of these is a blended whisky, and very likely with a component average age of not much more than three, while the other is a full strength malt from the most old school distillery of them all (and regarded by many folk as the best of distilleries). Nevertheless, dear reader, compare them I did.
The very act of making the comparison seemed to change the blend. The smoke went from being tarry to a sort of damp earthy burnt wood - still pleasant, but less impressive than previously. On the other hand the red fruit notes were still there, a tasty distilled version of the sort of jam used to fill doughnuts. Yep, still a decent blend.
But, alas, no match for the Springbank. Next to the blend it seemed a complex, slightly argumentative dram, with very faint smoke, a sour-sweaty-farmyard note right next to the most refined feminine perfume, dry maltiness, and the faint shadows of other flavours beyond those (is that marzipan? Next to the frangipane? I can't be sure).
So, well done to the Lakes distillery for a really interesting blend, and well done again for managing to invite comparison with Springbank. And now I'm away for another glass of Springbank.
Labels: Craft, Cumbria, Springbank, The Lakes
Distillery Visit: Glenkinchie
I'm probably the wrong person to report on a visit to Glenkinchie. I'm no fan of the whisky, and I don't much care for Diageo either. These caveats aside, there were aspects of the visit that I enjoyed.
(I should say, by the way, that I completely failed to get any good pictures. Diageo, of course, have a blanket ban on photography in production areas or warehousing, but that aside, I failed. I took the distillery bus from Edinburgh, which gives you very little time to wander about. And Glenkinchie is tucked into a wee valley which doesn't offer many telephoto opportunities.)
The first pleasant surprise of the tour was meeting the guide, an ex-colleague from Oddbins days. She knew of old my penchant for pedantry in the nth degree, and was very tolerant of my questions. And, as is nearly always the case with Diageo, the tour script was factually accurate, concise, and very clear. It was great to see the huge wash still (30,963 litres—biggest in Scotland), which hinted at the historical role of Lowland distilleries as volume producers of low quality spirit.
I also enjoyed the tasting at the end of the tour. The bar at Glenkinchie has a very good selection of Distillers Editions and Flora & Fauna bottlings, which isn't always the case. After trying the Glenkinchie 12 (workmanlike) and Glenkinchie Distillers Edition (decent sherry casks, no spirit character) I had a Benrinnes 15 (always a pleasure, at least until 2020 or thereabouts, when the last of the spirit produced by partial triple distillation is finished) and a Lagavulin Distillers Edition.
I always think of Lagavulin as the malt whisky equivalent of Guinness in a crap pub, so to extend the metaphor, Lagavulin Distillers Edition is like going into a pub and finding unpasteurised Guinness, or Guinness Foreign Extra, on tap. In other words, a surprise and a delight.
On the down side, the warehouse we were shown seemed awfully Potemkin village. There was a remarkable absence of dust, dirt, or Baudoinia compniacensis. And when I looked up I could see plenty of daylight through the gaps between the floorboards, which rather implies that the upper warehouse floors are empty.
I also happened across a couple of interesting snippets. The first of these was a Heath Robinson print, about an imagined redesign of the Johnny Walker bottle.
I'm a huge fan of Heath Robinson, so this made me grin. (can you see me grinning in the reflected image?)
The second was this manufacturer's plate on a filter (for worts, I suppose).
Royal Letters Patent
Magnien's
Filtre Rapide
P.A.Magnien
22-23 Great Tower Street London
Manufactured Aboad
I don't know why, but to me words like these from the past have a very strong appeal.
In summary, this is a great tour for visitors to Scotland. You can be picked up from Edinburgh and be back in the city centre in an afternoon, having enjoyed an imformative trip at a pretty distillery, plus a few acceptable-to-decent drams. For the seasoned malt drinker (as for me), Glenkinchie's main appeal is to add a stamp to your Classic Malts passport.
Labels: Diageo, Distillery visit, Glenkinchie, Lowlands
The Wines & Spirits Education Trust recently launched a series of videos, Three Minute Spirit School, which they describe as, "an entertaining and informative introduction to the world of spirits". To talk about whisky, they brought in Richard Patterson of Whyte and Mackay.
Sadly - and surprisingly, given that Mr Patterson has been working in whisky since the 1970s - the video makes a couple of questionable assertions. There's also one statement which is presented as fact, but which, in my opinion, is actually a reflection of a crucial failing in the modern whisky industry.
Here is the video in question:
Questionable assertion #1: Mr P says there are four whisky regions; Lowlands, Highlands, Campbeltown, & Islay.
Now look, I know that there are a fair few Speyside distillers who label their bottles as Highland, and Speyside is entirely inside Highland, but nevertheless it's right there in the Scotch Whisky Regulations; there are two "localities" (Campbeltown and Islay) and three "regions" (Highland, Lowland, and Speyside).
Questionable assertion #2: Mr P says, "take that barley, and we must let it germinate, which produces the natural starch, and then we obviously boil it up in the mash tun".
No it doesn't, and no we don't.
Germination during malting is what produces the enzymes which convert starch which is already present in the barley to sugar. And worts are made by adding very hot water ( 63-90°C) to the grist. Distillers worts aren't boiled. Perhaps Mr P was thinking of brewers.
And then there's the statement of current practice presented as eternal truth: wood contributes 70% of the flavour. Well yes, I'm sure there are plenty of modern distilleries for whom that's true. But if you are such a distiller, then I humbly submit that you're doing it wrong. I believe that the drive for efficiency in Scotch manufacture over the last sixty years has been at the expense of flavour, and as a consequence distillers have had to turn to ever more elaborate wood management schemes to produce interesting whiskies. With, in my opinion, variable results.
Two flat out errors and a policy position presented as natural law, all in the space of a three minute four minutes forty-four seconds video. Frankly, WSET, that's just not good enough.
Labels: Richard Paterson, The Nose, Three Minute Spirits School, Wines and Spirits Education Trust, WSET
Tasting Note: Kininvie 23 Year Old Batch 3
I'm sure we all have a personal list of whiskies we're desperate to try. Indeed, such lists almost have their own publishing category. For me, it's a rather fuzzy list, entitled "A malt from every distillery which didn't close before 1980". Very arbitrary, I know, but somewhat practical, from a financial point of view.
Today, I was rather excited to tick Kinivie off my list. It's a distillery I've visited (or at least, pressed my nose against the windows), without ever experiencing the malt itself. Quite frankly, it was a big disappointment.
The nose is sharply spiritous, youthful, unevolved. There was a very good clean oak spice, and a nougat nuttiness, but also that raw oak character which always makes me think of gluey porridge. As Puddleglum put it, far more eloquently than I could, "it smells of modern cask management".
The palate is rather sharp. It's a light bodied whisky, sweet and nutty (like flapjacks, the sweetness is syrup rather than honey). The second sip is better, with a pleasant maltiness. Rather short, however.
In all, it's merely a decent whisky. The price is just silly. I would speculate that it has been set so high to increase the desirability of the whisky in the face of its ordinary flavour. As Smiley says in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, "The more you pay for it the less you are inclined to doubt it".
About Kininvie
Kininvie was built in 1990 to provide malt for William Grant's blends. It is also one of the three malts in Monkey Shoulder. Tucked away in the grounds of Balvenie, it's actually just a still house - mashing and fermenting is done using Balvenie's mash tun and washbacks.
Tucked Away Amongst the Trees - Kininvie
Labels: Kininvie, Speyside, Tasting Note, Veblen good, William Grant & Sons
Tasting Note: White Horse (1922 Bottling)
Thanks to the auction skills of a whisky friend, I was offered a share in a bottle of White Horse 1922 at a bargain price.
I've previously tasted a 1940s bottling of this whisky, which I loved, and one from the 1980s, which was underwhelming. For this sample, I tasted it over two days, once on its own and once alongside three other whiskies.
The first impression of the whisky was not encouraging; it was very light on the nose, timid, in fact. The palate was rather better, but still nothing like the 1940s version.
The next day, in company, it seemed much more interesting. It definitely had the smell of byegone days, when direct fired stills were heating wash fermented with brewers yeast. There was a light maltiness, and perhaps a wisp of old scorched wood - nothing as definite as peatiness. The palate was much lighter than the nose had implied (perhaps a loss of alcohol?) and very creamy in texture. After some toasty, scorched brown sugar notes the finish was somewhat drying, astringent even.
Whilst it was a fairly complex dram, it was also a bit too light for real pleasure. A dram on the way out. Nevertheless, it was a pleasure and a privilege to experience the oldest whisky I've yet tasted.
Labels: 1922, blended whisky, White Horse
Whisky and Nitpicking
At the last meeting of Glasgow's Whisky Club a small dispute arose over how many Scottish whisky distilleries have ever used Lomond stills. Drink having been taken (ahem) and a challenge thrown down, I faced the prospect of public humiliation if I couldn't prove that there had been more than five.
The five that we weren't arguing about are Loch Lomond, Glenburgie, Miltonduff, Scapa, and Inverleven. And the Wikipedia article which lists these five also seems to offer a convenient definition of a Lomond still, as being the invention of one person (Alistair Cunningham), for one company (Hiram Walker), at a well established date (1955).
I knew, however, that somewhere or other I had seen another name associated with Lomond stills, so I sat up very late reading a big pile of whisky books (not much change there then) and roaming the maltier corners of the internet.
Bingo! Littlemill, according to both Misako Udo(1) and Ingvar Ronde(2), had pot stills with rectifying columns from 1930 onwards. Great! I was mentally crafting my magnanimous victory speech when that date caught up with my brain. 1930. That's a full twenty-five years before Mr Cunningham invented the damn thing.
It gets worse. In re-reading The Scottish Whisky Distilleries I had come across a reference to Nevis distillery (not Ben Nevis, but another Fort William distillery of a similar name), to which Barnard(3) was said to have attributed a kind of Lomond still(4). That's sixty-nine years too early. What the heck?
And as I mulled that one over, it struck me that Alastair Cunningham, in 1955, probably didn't name his invention after a distillery which would not exist for another decade. Surely Lomond stills must have been named for the malt distillate of that name which came from inside the Dumbarton complex? Holy moly, Wikipedia is wrong! The world's turned upside down!
By now, if you are still reading, then you are either the person with whom I originally had the argument (Hi Greg!), or one of the Malt Maniacs. In which case I feel perfectly relaxed about introducing a table to summarise where we're at:
Dates of 'lomond' stills
Ownership at this date
Actual 'Lomond' stills
Nevis ~1886 Donald P MacDonald No
Littlemill 1930 Duncan G Thomas No
Lomond (Dumbarton) 1955 Hiram Walker Yes
Glenburgie 1958 Hiram Walker Yes
Miltonduff 1964 Hiram Walker Yes
Scapa 1959 Hiram Walker Yes
Loch Lomond 1965 Duncan G Thomas ???
Clear as a glass of Loch Dhu, yes?
So, here are my conclusions:
Six or more Scotch malt whisky distilleries have had pot stills with rectifying columns instead of plain swan necks
Five or more Scotch malt whisky distilleries have had pot stills with rectifying columns which are adjustable. The jury is out on Littlemill.
There were four Lomond stills, at Dumbarton(5), Glenburgie, Miltonduff, and Scapa
In a weird way Wikipedia is sort of right, since Loch Lomond does have lomond stills(6). Just not Lomond stills. If you see what I mean.
OTOH, Wikipedia is definitely wrong about Inverleven.
I don't think I've won my bet, but neither have I lost it.
Once you start digging into it, there are all kinds of tweaks to the basic pot still process which are used to cause rectification. Glen Grant's purifiers, the boil ball, Fettercairn's waterfall effect, those extra bits of piping you see running down from the lyne arm at Ardbeg or Talisker, et cetera, et cetera. It's enough to drive you to drink.
(1) Udo, Misako, The Scottish Whisky Distilleries, Black & White Publishing, 2006
(2) Ronde, Ingvar, The Malt Whisky Yearbook, Magdig Media, 2011
(3) Barnard, Alfred, The Whisky Distilleries, of the United Kingdom, 1887
(4) Although I can't find him using the word 'Lomond' in my copy of the book, just a picture of something which does look uncannily Lomond-like, on page 145, and at the top of this post.
(5) Dumbarton was a large distillery which mainly made grain whisky. It also produced two malts, Inverleven and Lomond. It seems that the two malts shared a wash still, and that while Inverleven had a normal spirit still, Lomond had a pot with a rectifying column on top. You can see some pictures of Dumbarton on the Canmore website, which is a great resource for anyone interested in Scottish industrial architecture, amongst other things.
(6) Although not according to the SWA, if Neil Wilson is to be believed.
E-pistle 2007/024 – Lomond Stills & The Oil Enigma
Whisky Science - Scottish Pot Still Variations
Labels: Alfred Barnard, distillation, Dumbarton, Glenburgie, Littlemill, Loch Lomond, Lomond stills, Miltonduff, Nevis, rectification, Scapa, Wikipedia
Closed For A Reason
My tasting note for this dram - admittedly written after a long afternoon of tasting big Australian red wines - reads in full:
A good ordinary dram. Decent malt, light fruitiness. The initial nose was like a whisky smell from childhood.
I've tasted only a handful of whiskies from Convalmore, and none of my notes really get any more enthusiastic than the one above. Hence the title of this post.
In 1985, Convalmore was one of five distilleries to close. In 1983, eleven had shut down. The Scotch slump of the eighties meant that producers had to face some hard choices. I'd hazard a guess that it was probably easier to choose to close a distillery which didn't produce a particularly outstanding whisky.
About Convalmore
You can still see the distillery buildings, although these days they are just used for storage by William Grant & Sons (Glenfiddich and Balvenie are neighbours to Convalmore). There's plenty of detail over on Malt Madness.
Labels: 1984, Connoisseurs Choice, Convalmore, distillery closures, Dufftown, Speyside
Location: Guildford Arms, Edinburgh, UK
Tasting Note: Arran 18 Year Old
Over the past few years Isle of Arran have been releasing an annual batch of a few thousand bottles of teenaged whisky, as steps along the way to adding an 18 Year Old to their core range.
After a good 16 and a very good 17, last year's limited release 18 Year Old was a bit mince. There was a bitterness to it which wasn't enjoyable. I understand that Arran had to sell almost everything they produced back in 1995 and 1996, so they were working with very limited choices, but still. They could have waited.
So I didn't really have particularly high hopes for this new permanent release. And thus, find myself somewhat pleasantly surprised, but not delighted.
With its sweet cooked apple notes, this dram is most definitely Arran. The nose is toffee - tarte tatin, in fact, with a subtle sweet spice note. Over time a lifted aroma emerges; some sort of pungent note which isn't menthol or lavender, but which reminds me of both of those things.
The palate is slightly hot, sweet, and has a toffee apple sweetness (but green apples). There isn't much obvious oak, and any malty notes take a while to build.
In conclusion, while this a more than decent dram, I think I'd rather have the 14 Year Old, or one of the finishes - probably the Amarone finish.
Labels: 18 Year Old, Arran
The Wood Makes The Whisky
If that's the best you can offer then I really do think you're doing it all wrong.
If you're claiming that 60% of the flavour in a malt comes from the wood, then stop what you're doing and go and learn how to make a flavoursome distillate!
A case in point is this tasty dram. If you were to offer it to a hundred people, whisky fans and non whisky drinkers alike, I doubt you'd even get one person calling it woody, or oaky, or spicy, or bourbon-like. In this case, "The Peat Makes the Whisky".
It's a classic Caol Ila, salty-sweet, coastal, iodic, peaty. Is there any discernable oak influence? Pfft.
Labels: Caol Ila, Gordon Macphail, Islay, Marketing Nonsense
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Intel Highlights Latest Security Investments at RSA 2020
Announces Compute Lifecycle Assurance Momentum, Previews New Security Capabilities
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At the Intel Security Day event during RSA Conference 2020, Intel underscored its commitment to security with several announcements, including details on security capabilities coming in future products. At Intel, security is a fundamental and foundational element of all aspects of architecture, design and implementation. Together with customers and partners, Intel is building a more trusted foundation in this data-centric world.
“Hardware is the bedrock of any security solution. Just as a physical structure requires a foundation established on bedrock to withstand the forces of nature, security solutions rooted in hardware will provide the greatest opportunity to provide security assurance against current and future threats,” said Tom Garrison, Intel vice president and general manager of Client Security Strategy and Initiatives. “Intel hardware, and the assurance and security technologies it brings, help harden the layers above from attack.”
More: Intel Security News
Intel customers build solutions and services that depend on the breadth and depth of technologies in the silicon, vertical integration and substantive reach from edge to cloud. It is Intel’s mission to provide common security capabilities across all architectures, to help address the ever-increasing sophistication of user experiences.
Data must be protected at rest and in motion. The protection of data is critical to extracting value from it, while delivering uncompromised performance. The next 10 years will see more architecture advancements than the past 50 years.
“Intel is uniquely positioned in the industry to create and deliver truly innovative security technologies that span architectures, memory and interconnect,” said John Sell, Intel Fellow and director of Intel Security Architecture and Technology.
Data Platform Protection
As the demand for data-intensive computing grows, there is a need to balance the ease of scaling deployment with the level of data protections. To address customer challenges, new confidential computing capabilities on future data center platforms are expected to offer scale and choice:
Application isolation helps protect data in use with a very narrow attack surface. Already deployed for production data centers and solutions, Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) will expand to a broader range of mainstream data-centric platforms, and is expected to provide larger protected enclaves, extended protections to offload accelerators and improved performance. This will further expand the number of usages able to leverage these advanced application isolation capabilities.
VM and container isolation helps provide protections in virtualized environments, isolating them from each other and from the hypervisor and cloud provider without requiring application code modifications.
Full memory encryption helps better protect against physical memory attacks by providing hardware-based encryption transparent to the operating system and software layers.
Intel® Platform Firmware Resilience is an Intel FPGA-based solution that helps protect the various platform firmware components by monitoring and filtering malicious traffic on the system buses. It also verifies the integrity of platform firmware images before any firmware code is executed and can recover corrupted firmware back to a known good state. When combined with other trusted boot technologies on new platform generations, Intel continues to contribute additional tools to increase resistance against attack and help provide a more trusted foundation for modern cloud and enterprise deployments.
More information can be found on Intel’s IT Peer Network.
Compute Lifecycle Assurance Industry Traction
Since its launch in December, Intel’s Compute Lifecycle Assurance Initiative has gained traction with customers and ecosystem partners, starting with the foundational offering Intel® Transparent Supply Chain (Intel TSC).
Transparency of a device’s origin helps establish the foundation for a trusted supply chain. Intel TSC tools allow platform manufacturers to bind platform information and measurement using the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM) standard, also referred to as ISO 11889. This allows customers to gain traceability and accountability for platforms with component-level reporting. More information can be found in a blog by Intel’s Tom Dodson.
Intel TSC is currently available for customers across Intel vPro® platform-based PCs, Intel® NUC, Intel® Xeon® SP systems, Intel® solid-state drives and certain Intel® Core™ commercial PCs.
To demonstrate Intel’s commitment to transparency, measurement and assurance of the supply chain, Intel also enables ecosystem partners with Intel TSC tools. Today, Hyve Solutions, Inspur, Lenovo (client and server), Mitac, Quanta, Supermicro and ZT Systems have enabled Intel TSC tools. In addition, Intel has active deployments of Intel TSC with enterprise IT and cloud service providers.
“This chain of trust process provides essential traceability based on the TPM,” said Thorsten Stremlau, chair of TCG’s Marketing Work Group. “Bringing component-level traceability to platforms and systems increases confidence and reduces the risk of counterfeit electronic parts while also facilitating procurement standards. This is the right direction for the industry.”
It often takes the industry working together to make technological advancements. Intel has a strong legacy of assisting its customers and industry partners in developing new and innovative ways to improve hardware security. Intel shares knowledge of this experience through its participation and contributions to leading industry initiatives and standards bodies, including the Confidential Computing Consortium under the Linux Foundation, the FIDO Alliance’s IoT Technical Workgroup and the newly expanded Common Weakness Enumeration led by MITRE. Such efforts underscore Intel’s unique capacity to build a more trusted foundation for the industry.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), a leader in the semiconductor industry, is shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications technology that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
Notices and Disclosures:
Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation.
No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Your costs and results may vary.
© Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Megan Phelan
Highwire Public Relations for Intel Corporation
megan@highwirepr.com
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Julia Humphreys1
Julia Humphreys is the daughter of William Humphreys.2 She married Lucius O'Brien, son of Rt. Hon. Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Bt. and Anne ffrench.1
Her married name became O'Brien.
Louisa Beatrice Streatfeild1
Louisa Beatrice Streatfeild was born in 1850 at Westerham, Kent, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of William Champion Streatfeild and Hannah Fry.1
Reverend Robert Fitzwilliam Hallifax1
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He was the Rector at Richards Castle, Shropshire, England.1
Children of Reverend Robert Fitzwilliam Hallifax and Elizabeth Bourke Ricketts
Brig.-Gen. Robert Dampier Hallifax+1 b. 28 Jul 1804, d. 1 Jun 1857
Catherine Frances Hallifax+1 b. 19 Jul 1805, d. 18 Feb 1877
Buckley F. T. Jones1
M, #483414, b. circa 1856
Buckley F. T. Jones was born circa 1856 at Denbighshire, Wales.1 He was the son of Reverend Bulkeley Owen Jones and Fanny Coker.1
Lucy O'Brien1
Lucy O'Brien is the daughter of Admiral Robert O'Brien and Anne O'Brien.2 She married Very Rev. George Henry Johnson in 1854.1
From 1854, her married name became Johnson.
Very Rev. George Henry Johnson1
Very Rev. George Henry Johnson married Lucy O'Brien, daughter of Admiral Robert O'Brien and Anne O'Brien, in 1854.1 He died in 1881.1
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Frank Newton Streatfeild was born in 1843 at East Ham, Essex, EnglandG.1 He was the son of William Champion Streatfeild and Hannah Fry.1
He was a clerk at Trinity House.1
Harriet Champion1
Harriet Champion married Reverend Thomas Streatfeild on 8 October 1800 at Long Ditton, Surrey, England.1
From 8 October 1800, her married name became Streatfeild.1
Children of Harriet Champion and Reverend Thomas Streatfeild
Clemence Elizabeth Streatfeild1
Frances Maria Streatfeild1
Harriett Jane Streatfeild1 b. 25 Mar 1805
Thomas Champion Streatfeild1 b. 8 Oct 1806
William Champion Streatfeild+1 b. 28 Jun 1810, d. 7 Apr 1852
Edward Champion Streatfeild1 b. 12 Oct 1811
Barbara Ellen Streatfeild+1 b. 7 Apr 1814, d. 21 Dec 1898
Amelia Streatfeild1 b. c Aug 1824, d. 7 Feb 1830
Henry Rivers Streatfeild1 b. c Jul 1826, d. 9 Apr 1831
Jared Douglas Eric Tropp1
Jared Douglas Eric Tropp married Dita Helena Harris-Temple, daughter of Arthur Reginald Harris-Temple and Clare Cameron, in 1945.1
He gained the rank of Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force.1 Jared Douglas Eric Tropp usually went by his middle name of Eric.1
Pauline Elisabeth (?)1
F, #483420, d. November 1997
Last Edited=18 Dec 2011
Pauline Elisabeth (?) married, secondly, Derek Marshall Harris Harris, 7th Baron Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore, son of Major Thomas Guy Marriott Harris and Beryl Wilson, in 1987.1 She died in November 1997.1
Her married name became Skinner.1 From 1987, her married name became Harris.1 After her marriage, Pauline Elisabeth (?) was styled as Baroness Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore on 17 September 1995.
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As America became laced with railroads in the latter half of the 19th century, it soon became apparent that safety warning signs and signals should be set up to protect people who wanted to cross the tracks.
Initially, a variety of signs were posted at crossings, and in time, watchmen were stationed at the busier crossings to warn of approaching trains.
The first U.S. patent given for a railroad crossing gate dates back to August 27, 1867, and was awarded to J. Nason and J. Wilson of Boston Massachusetts.
At that time, crossing gates were hand-operated by means of a crank mechanism. The gates were lowered and raised by means of cables or chains running through underground piping from the gatekeeper's crank base to each individual gate at the crossing. Generally, each crossing had four separate gates. Due to the extreme length and great weight of the wooden gates, they had to be counterbalanced by very heavy cast-iron weights at their bases. Snow or rain could cause the wooden gates to become even heavier than they normally would be. Additional weight could be added to the massive counterweights as needed by the gatekeeper, who would place cast-iron disks, each weighing approximately 20 – 30 pounds apiece. As a train approached, the gatekeeper would crank the gates, and these would remain down until the train passed safely.
The classic wooden crossing gates displayed at the Whippany Railway Museum were manufactured by the Railway Safety Gate Company of Pawtucket, RI in the early 1900's. They were originally in use at the West Side Avenue crossing on the former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) line to Exchange Place in Jersey City, NJ. The tracks were also used by PRR subsidiary, Hudson & Manhattan RR (later to become Port Authority Trans - Hudson or PATH). When the crossing was permanently closed on April 30, 1967, the venerable gates, bases, counterweights and watchman's crank base were acquired by the Morris County Central RR (a steam-powered excursion line operating out of Whippany, NJ in the 1960's). The gates were first set up for display at Whippany in 1968. Since that time they have been restored several times over the years by Museum volunteers.
Gatekeepers usually had some kind of shelter for the times between trains, and some of these were elevated as either the second story of a structure, or were sometimes perched on a wood or steel structure reached by a ladder. At the Whippany Railway Museum, a replica Pennsylvania Railroad crossing shanty has been erected to give visitors an example of these unique, little buildings.
By the early 20th century, the use of "crossbuck" signs (the boards forming an "X"), were very common. The design formed the basic warning sign still in use today, but vastly improved with automatic warning advances. In the mid-1920s, sign makers began using road reflectors called Cataphote reflectors or “cats eyes” on crossbuck signs to make them more visible to drivers at night. These were used through the mid-1940s, when reflective buttons became common. Eventually, reflective sheeting gained popularity. Today, the material is still used to make street and railroad crossing signs.
Since it wasn't practical to have employees stationed at all railroad crossings, a way was sought to automatically alert the public that a train was approaching.
The first automatic crossing signals were bells mounted atop poles. They were activated when a train entered a circuit where the rails were insulated to confine the electric current to a designated piece of track. The current flowed through the steel wheels and axles of the train, short-circuiting electricity to a relay which needed the power to hold the electrical connection apart that kept the bell off. When the electricity was diverted through the train...(which was a path of lower resistance)...instead of the relay connection, the contacts connected and the bell rang.
The electric bell idea was quickly expanded to include a swinging round sign with a red light hanging from an arm on the signal pole to simulate a flagman waving a red lantern. The "Automatic Flagman" signals were soon dubbed "Wig-Wags". Only a very few Wig-Wags remain in use today in the United States, much beloved by rail enthusiasts for their nostalgic warning. One historic Wig-Wag signal from the early-1930's (formerly in use on the Susquehanna Railroad just West of Butler, NJ) is currently being restored for operation at the Whippany Railway Museum.
Eventually the Wig-Wags gave way to the alternating flashing red lights mounted as part of a cross-buck sign, and often with the crossing gates as well. The first flashing red light signal was installed in New Jersey in 1913.
At the Museum site, a fully-functional 1940's-era Crossing Flasher from the Central Railroad of New Jersey warns visitors of approaching excursion trains. With it's twin flashing red lights, cast-iron crossbucks and warning bell, the signal is a classic example of mid-20th Century grade crossing protection.
The image bellow shows a prototype railroad crossing signal that was built in Grenada, Mississippi in the mid 1930’s at a railroad crossing that was considered especially dangerous. The design attempted to get motorists to stop with a combination of visually dramatic graphics, lights and sound. The words “STOP – DEATH – STOP” were illuminated with neon lights that would flash when a train approached. An arrow indicated the direction of the approaching train. The skull and cross bones was also neon-lit and flashed from red to blue. A more traditional pair of flashing lights was also included. If that was not enough, the signal also featured an ear-splitting air raid siren.
Today the basic designs come in a wide variety of configurations, depending on the complexity of the street crossing and the railroad company. Each one is custom designed to fit a specific need.
Originally, wooden crossing gates protected the entire width of the roadway. But in the later-half of the 20th Century, most crossing gates were re-designed to protect against motor traffic only in the oncoming lanes...covering only half the street, allowing an "escape" from the tracks for motorists who happened to be on the crossing when the signal was activated.
With a terrifying number of motorists increasingly ignoring the crossing gates and winding up being involved in a deadly accident, the use of "four quadrant gates" currently is being implemented around the country to prevent motorists from driving around lowered gates.
In addition to the signals and signs, operating rules require train crews to sound the locomotive horn or whistle a quarter of a mile in advance of each public crossing until they cross the roadway. Modern locomotives are equipped with a triangle of bright headlights, one mounted high and centered, and two on each lower side of the front of the engine. As soon as the horn begins to sound, the lower twin lights are illuminated and flash alternately.
Since physics makes it impossible to stop a moving train in time to avoid striking a motorist or pedestrian on the track by the time the train crew realizes the danger, the public must always take extreme care when approaching railroad tracks. It takes more than half a mile to stop a heavy freight train, even when emergency braking is used.
Signals, signs, lights, whistles and horns are important safety aids, but ultimately it is the motorist's responsibility to determine whether or not it is safe to cross the tracks.
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Homeowner holds escaped Georgia inmates at gunpoint until arrests
A Tennessee homeowner held two escaped inmates wanted in the killing of two prison guards at gunpoint Thursday until authorities arrived and made the arrests.
Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Bill Miller said late Thursday that the homeowner caught Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose trying to steal his vehicle.
Miller says the escaped Georgia inmates had crashed a car while being chased by law enforcement and fled on foot into woods along Interstate 24 near the rural community of Christiana.
Miller says something alerted the homeowner that people were outside his home and he saw the men trying to steal his vehicle. The trooper says the homeowner held the two at gunpoint with a neighbor he called until the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department could get there to arrest them.
Rowe and Dubose are accused of killing two guards on a prison transfer bus early Tuesday. Authorities had offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to their arrests.
Authorities say Rowe and Dubose overpowered and killed Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue early Tuesday on a bus that should have been secured as it carried 33 inmates between prisons southeast of Atlanta.
Authorities had offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the fugitives, whom Sills had called “dangerous beyond description.”
The search had involved law enforcement officers all over Georgia, as well as the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Gov. Nathan Deal released a statement, “Rest assured, justice will be served. My sincere thanks to our local, state and federal law enforcement officers who assisted in the manhunt. Because of their tireless efforts, the public is safe.”
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America is in big trouble on multiple fronts, yet the majority of our "leaders" are asleep at the wheel with no real solutions to our major problems even being worked on, evaluated, or proposed!
In response, USHSR has compiled a list of the top 10 reasons to bring high speed rail to America to solve most of our current, and coming-soon problems (epic congestion, foreign oil dependence/escalating resource wars, climate change, crumbling infrastructure, endless highway deaths, economic problems, etc).
1) CONGESTION RELIEF
America faces epic congestion in every major metropolitan region of the country, costing $124 Billion per year in wasted time and fuel. Our transportation departments have no plans in the works that will solve this, and in fact continue to call for the endless widening of our highways - which have proven to make congestion far worse.
High speed rail is transformative - delivering 200 mph transportation every train, every day - without delays or congestion, ever. High speed rail offers fast, reliable service when it counts most - during rush hour and holiday travel. High speed rail delivers huge passenger capacity - carrying more people than a 10-lane freeway plus 2 airports!
2) ALTERNATIVE TO FLYING
Flying in America has become an unreliable nightmare! Airlines continue to cut corners (including staff and maintenance) and legroom, while security hassles, delays and lines keep getting worse. Flights are constantly canceled or delayed for no good reason, while the traveling public is regularly mistreated and abused by the airlines - making the entire experience miserable and unreliable. Rising global oil prices guarantee aviation will continue getting worse, year after year.
Flight delays cost America more than $31 Billion per year in wasted time!
High speed rail delivers 220 mph transportation every train, every day conveniently and reliably - on time, and directly into city centers. No hassles, no security lines, no delays, and plenty of room to work or play. A single high speed train carries as many people as 9 airplanes, and only takes 5 minutes to load and go!
3) SAFETY
Driving in America has become a deadly proposition - with 43,000 people killed every year in car accidents! That's more people killed than all the world wars combined, and far more than all terrorist acts combined.
In addition to the deaths, more than 1 million Americans are seriously injured in car accidents every year!
American transportation officials have nothing on tap to solve this epic problem either! Nothing at all. And they continue building roads as if there is no problem, or the endless deaths and injuries don't matter!
High speed rail is the world's safest form of transportation proven by decades of safe operations. Japan was the first nation to build high speed rail in 1964, and has since transported 10 billion passengers without a single fatality! France has a similar record with their 30 years of high speed rail operations, as do most other countries.
4) ENERGY SECURITY / NATIONAL SECURITY
America is in deep trouble due to our extreme oil dependency for 98% of our transportation! America is by far the most oil-dependent nation in the world, hooked on oil for our every move. No other nation comes close to our epic oil dependency. President George W. Bush correctly stated "America is addicted to oil!"
America uses 20 million barrels of oil EVERY DAY, 70% of which is for transportation! Maintaining this enormous flow of oil requires America to dig up the oceans and our pristine national forests, drill the arctic tundra, risk our clean drinking water and health and safety, and fight expensive wars all over the planet! None of this is sustainable, or desirable. President Bush famously concluded "we gotta get off oil".
America has only 5% of the total world population, but uses 25% of the world's oil! And we only have 2% of the known world oil reserves. This means we are extremely vulnerable and dependent on the rest of the world for most of the oil we need to run the nation. This includes running all our transportation networks (cars, trucks, buses, airplanes, ships, diesel trains, etc.), the majority of our agricultural production and food delivery, and running the U.S. Military (the world's largest oil consumer). The military is rapidly burning up precious oil, while guarding the flow of oil to America to fill our gas-guzzling SUVs! This is clearly not sustainable or smart.
America's annual foreign oil purchase adds up to a whopping $700 Billion per year foreign trade deficit, literally draining our economy, and transferring our wealth to oil-supplying nations.
"The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil, the better we're going to be." -Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State (May, 2006)
Many of the nations that still have oil left are located in troubled, terrorist-ridden regions of the world. Our serious oil dependency shapes U.S. foreign policy, defense/military policy, and forces us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars (and countless lives) chasing, securing, and shipping oil supplies. U.S. oil dependence guarantees America will be engaged in resource wars for decades (until we get off oil). People are actually dying every day around the world so we can continue driving single-occupant SUVs here in America!
2/3 of the oil we use in America comes from foreign nations mostly from the other side of the world. To secure this oil, and to make sure it continues flowing to America, as much as half of our $800 Billion annual U.S. Defense budget goes directly to the protection of oil shipments back to the USA - to fill our SUV gas tanks! This represents a massive $400 Billion per year subsidy to oil-based transportation! (This is in addition to the $700 Billion per year foreign oil purchase!)
Driving gas-guzzling cars requires expensive wars for cheap oil
High speed rail is electric and super efficient, making it the world's greenest form of transportation that can be 100% powered by renewable energy - bypassing the entire global-oil-military-supply-chain! The California HSR system under construction in the Central Valley will be powered 100% by renewables!
5) LIGHT FREIGHT SOLUTION
America faces epic problems with its light freight shipping network, made up mostly of long-distance trucks, and airplanes. This shipping system clogs our highways and airways, and has an enormous carbon footprint, and causes major damage to road infrastructure. The entire system is highly vulnerable to oil price fluctuations and supply disruptions.
High speed rail offers a super efficient, electrically-powered, light freight shipping system infrastructure in combination with its high level passenger transport. Light freight includes everything transported by FedEx, UPS, Amazon, USPS, etc. - mostly in long distance trucks and/or airplanes. (This is not to be confused with "heavy freight" like lumber, oil, coal, etc. transported by the big rail freight operators like BNSF, CSX, etc).
A new high speed light freight system will revolutionize America, and greatly lower the cost (and increase reliability) of shipping light freight goods and perishables throughout the country.
6) #1 CLIMATE SOLUTION
Transportation is the single largest cause of climate change because it emits the most carbon into the atmosphere. The American transportation system is the most inefficient on earth, with the majority of the country driving gas-guzzling, single-occupant SUVs hundreds of miles a day around sprawling communities (most of the time stuck in traffic).
Transforming our transportation to carbon free is an urgent task, and the single most important thing we can do to lessen the dangerous effects yet to come from climate change. Our country is in danger with many of our major cities located in low lying land along our coasts. Most of our transportation and energy systems (powered by fossil fuels) continue to add to the climate problem by cranking out tons of carbon every day, locking in worse climate effects in the coming decades.
High speed rail is the world's greenest form of transportation, and can be 100% powered by renewable energy, making it Zero Carbon Transportation. Since transportation is the single largest source of carbon, changing our transport networks to low/no carbon alternatives is an urgent task.
High speed rail offers such high capacity and convenience that it regularly replaces both flying and driving - removing carbon-intensive airplanes from the skies, and carbon-intensive cars from the roads. The green transformation can happen as fast as new rail lines can be built. No other solution even comes close to the speed of converting our national transportation system to zero carbon that high speed rail offers!
The California HSR system under construction in the Central Valley will be powered 100% by renewables.
7) HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
America faces a serious housing crisis in providing enough affordable housing for the population. In most major metropolitan areas, housing prices have risen to the point only the wealthy can afford nearby housing, forcing everyone else to commute many miles to cheaper housing. As more and more wealthy people move back to cities, the housing problems will accelerate.
High speed rail helps solve this serious problem by providing easy access to a vast housing market, making it feasible to live in second tier cities and commute by train. By opening up so many new housing options in a region, the pressure is taken off the high price "hot spots" by leveling out pricing at the regional scale.
High speed rail also spurs the development of additional rail systems such as local light rail and streetcars, which open up additional possibilities for affordable living near those stations to a wider segment of the population. Getting rid of one or all cars makes living far more affordable. Having access to high quality rail systems makes it easy to live without a car, or less cars per household, saving the huge expense of car ownership.
8) CITY REVITALIZATION & SPRAWL REDIRECTION
America faces the twin problems of urban disinvestment and suburban sprawl - opposite sides of the same misdirected growth problem. Luckily the urban revitalization movement is well underway in city after city!
Sprawl is still a huge problem in America with about 70% of the population living there, requiring endless driving by everyone to fulfill their basic daily needs, creating epic daily congestion and a huge carbon footprint.
High speed rail redirects regional land development patterns into a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) format - compact, walkable, mixed-use places focused around rail stations. Because high speed rail spurs additional rail systems to be built as feeder and distribution networks, additional corridors of development are redirected into compact, walkable forms.
High speed rail, metros, and light rail systems can act to re-densify sprawling regions by focusing more dense development around rail stations, having the overall effect of converting sprawl into walkable urbanism in nodes at the regional scale.
9) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOL
America faces serious, long-term financial stagnation mainly from a lack of a manufacturing base, and having such an inefficient, oil-intensive transportation system that's draining our economy in multiple ways.
The only way to reverse this downward trend is to reinvest in our cities, to redevelop our own manufacturing base, and get America off oil and into an efficient transportation system, nationwide.
High speed rail has the power to attract major real estate development around its stations, while also creating whole new industries with a lot of manufacturing needs. The construction of a national high speed rail network will stimulate construction, the steel industry, concrete, metals, electronics, and all sorts of new areas. High speed rail will launch a nationwide construction boom, followed by a new travel boom that will live on for decades.
High speed rail stimulates new business relationships and access, while offering a super efficient way to do business regionally and nationally. High speed rail also builds local and U.S. wealth by keeping our transportation dollars here in America (instead of sending the money to oil-producing nations).
10) JOB CREATOR IN MANUFACTURING & CONSTRUCTION
America has lost it's manufacturing base and lead in the world after years of exporting jobs to China and other nations. The results have been devastating for American jobs, communities, and the nation's standing in the world.
Most of the important products we need to transition the nation to a clean energy future are produced by other nations! Trains, wind turbines, electric motors, solar panels, bicycles, etc. are mostly produced in other countries, when they should be produced here in America, creating American jobs, sustaining American families and communities. Producing products in America has a much lower carbon footprint, and stimulates our economy in multiple ways at many levels.
A national high speed rail system will create millions of good paying jobs building the infrastructure and system components, managing the rail systems, and operating the stations and related real estate development.
The system will also create a new national real estate boom, creating millions more jobs in development, construction, and property management, while revitalizing our cities and communities.
CONGESTION RELIEF | ALTERNATIVE TO FLYING | SAFETY | ENERGY / NATIONAL SECURITY | LIGHT FREIGHT
CLIMATE SOLUTION | AFFORDABLE HOUSING | SPRAWL REDIRECTION | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | JOBS
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Concern grows for civilians in Mekelle as Ethiopia battles Tigray rebels
Nariman El-Mofty/Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
The Ethiopian army has blocked one of the main roads leading to its border with Sudan, preventing Ethiopians fleeing the war in Tigray from reaching the neighboring country, according to refugees who arrived Thursday at the Lugdi border crossing in eastern Sudan.
"The Ethiopian army has cut the road leading to the Sudanese border at the locality of Humera (20 km from the border) and those seeking to reach Sudan must avoid the main road and pass through the fields without being seen by soldiers," Tesfai Burhano, who had just arrived in Lugdi, told AFP.
On Thursday, the border post was empty and no Ethiopian soldiers were visible. An AFP reporter saw about ten refugees crossing the border while he was there.
The number of Ethiopian refugees fleeing to Sudan has dropped significantly over the past week, according to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). On Wednesday, the UN agency counted 718 arrivals, compared to 3,813 on November 21.
Communications are cut in Tigray, making it difficult to verify some claims.
A Sudanese security official confirmed the drop in refugee arrivals to AFP, without giving any explanation.
Aid given to 'liberated areas'
The United Nations on Thursday said Tigray region was experiencing 'critical shortages' of food, fuel, and cash.
But Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office said on Thursday that the federal government had begun distributing food and other relief items in areas controlled by the national army.
“This humanitarian assistance will now be further reinforced with the opening of a humanitarian access route to be managed under the auspices of the Ministry of Peace”, said a statement from Abiy's office.
According to the UNHCR, 42,651 refugees have arrived in Sudan since the start of the deadly conflict in Tigray, 70% of them via Hamdayit, in the Sudanese province of Kassala, the rest via Gadarif.
Battle for Mekelle
Reports said heavy battles raged Thursday for control of Mekelle, capital of Tigray state. Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the region's governing had reportedly mobilized and armed thousands of men.
The Tigray region of northern Ethiopia has been the scene of fierce fighting since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military operation there on November 4, accusing leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front of seeking to destabilize the federal government and of attacking two Ethiopian military bases in the region, which the Tigrayan authorities deny.
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UN camp in Sudan registers new Tigrayan refugees
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Orlando HamCation a Hit, Posts New Attendance Record
HAARP Goes Classical During New Experimental Campaign
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MARS Refocuses Its Mission, Encrypts Data Nets
Winter Cycle Section Manager Election Results Announced
Homer V. Thompson, W4CWV, and Annette P. Thompson, W4LKM, Memorial Scholarship Endowed
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Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions
When Orlando HamCation® hosted the ARRL Southeastern Division Convention on February 10-12, it posted a new attendance record. As a result of its growing popularity, the Orlando show may now be the third largest ham radio gathering in the world -- behind the JARL Tokyo Ham Fair, with an estimated 37,000 attendees in 2016, and Hamvention®, which attracts some 25,000 visitors each May. This year, HamCation logged a record 19,000 attendees, up by 2,000 from last year and moving it ahead of Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
This year, HamCation's sponsor, the ARRL-affiliated Orlando Amateur Radio Club (OARC), announced the retirement of HamCation Chairman Peter Meijers, AI4KM, who has headed up the show for 10 years. Michael Cauley, W4MCA, will succeed him. Cauley has served for 7 years as HamCation's Tailgate Chairman, for 6 years as the IT Chairman, and for 1 year as Finance Chairman. OARC President John Knott, N4JTK, said Meijers had wanted to retire after last year's show, but he convinced Meijers to stay on for another year.
"I'm extremely sad to see Peter retire, but totally understand that after 9 shows he felt it was time for a little rest!" Knott said, adding that planning for HamCation 2018 "starts now!"
The ARRL Forum was overflowing. [Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, photo]
Representing ARRL Headquarters at HamCation 2017 were CEO Tom Gallagher, NY2RF; ARRL Marketing Manager Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, and ARRL Contest Branch Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ. They were joined by ARRL Southeastern Director Greg Sarratt, W4OZK; Vice Director Joey Tiritilli, N4ZUW; Northern Florida Section Manager Steve Szabo, WB4OMM; ARRL Honorary Vice President Frank Butler, W4RH, and a handful of other ARRL Field Organization volunteers.
Outgoing HamCation Chairman Peter Meijers, AI4KM (L); HamCation Committee Member for Advance Registration Lidy Meijers, KJ4LMM, and Orlando Amateur Radio Club President John Knott, N4JTK, hold the "Spirit of Amateur Radio" award, given to HamCation and the Orlando Amateur Radio Club by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association and Hamvention. [Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, photo]
Szabo and Sarratt moderated the standing-room-only ARRL Forum, which Gallagher and Inderbitzen attended, while Jahnke supported an ARRL Contesting Forum. Also attending was ARES E-Letter Editor Rick Palm, K1CE, who described the forum as "all positive" and focused on how to gain the attention and interest of younger people.
"[O]ne comment that struck me came from a member of the Lakeland Amateur Radio Club, who said that the club had faced declining attendance at club meetings and membership until they eliminated the business portions of the meetings in favor of more hands-on, show-and-tell demonstrations of equipment, modes and antennas, which turned into big hits," Palm recounted.
Dennis Mills, NT4U (L), greets Jeff Chandler, 9Z4CG, at HamCation 2017. [Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, photo]
The ARRL College Amateur Radio Initiative (CARI) enjoyed attention throughout HamCation. Gallagher, wearing a "Penn" sweatshirt for his University of Pennsylvania alma mater, welcomed attendees to a CARI Forum, moderated by Andy Milluzzi, KK4LWR.
Volunteer Don Search, W3AZD, headed up DXCC card checking. Membership sign-ups were brisk, Inderbitzen reported, "and we couldn't have kept up without the additional help of volunteers Lindy Gallagher and Dr. Sherry Mahafza, KM4VSW."
Jahnke and Inderbitzen also attended the Florida Contest Group dinner, which included a keynote presentation by elite contester Tim Duffy, K3LR.
"I'm extremely grateful for Peter Meijers' long and dedicated service to Orlando HamCation," Inderbitzen said. "He's done an incredible job -- a true and good leader in our Amateur Radio Service." Inderbitzen has posted a photo album on ARRL's Facebook page. Read more.
The just-concluded run of ionospheric investigations conducted from Alaska's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) observatory -- quite likely the most powerful HF transmission facility in the world -- revived the latent shortwave listener (SWL) lurking within most radio amateurs. Operating under Part 5 Experimental license WI2XFX, HAARP this month even aired some classical music as it conducted its first scientific research campaign since being taken over 18 months ago from the military by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute.
A section of the extensive HAARP antenna array and one of the transmitter shelters. [Photo courtesy of Jeff Dumps, KL4IU]
UAF Space Physics Group Assistant Research Professor Chris Fallen, KL3WX, focused on two experiments -- one called "airglow" that literally aimed to light up the ionosphere, and another to demonstrate the so-called "Luxembourg effect," first noticed on a 1930s Radio Luxembourg broadcast. Public engagement was part of his plan, and Fallen this week said the Twitter and e-mail feedback from his transmissions had been "fantastic," and that his science campaign had become "quite an event."
University of Alaska Fairbanks Space Physics Group Assistant Research Professor Chris Fallen, KL3WX.
"Thank you for making a difference and advancing Amateur Radio as well," Doug Howard, VE6CID, tweeted. Another Twitter follower enthused, "You're running the coolest DX station in the world." Fallen said he also received "a lot of great waterfalls," as well as video and audio recordings from hams and SWLs.
Fallen started and stopped each experiment block with DTMF tones, transmitted in AM on or about 2.8 and 3.3 MHz, each channel fed with audio tones of different frequencies or, in the case of music, as a separate stereo channel. If the Luxembourg effect is present, skywave-signal listeners would hear both channels combined on a single frequency; Fallen said the effect is easier to detect with tones. In addition to tones, he transmitted "a 'dance track,' a Pachelbel Canon arrangement, and a variation of 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat.'" Jeff Dumps, KL4IU, composed some of the music, and he arranged and performed all of it.
A view from the HAARP helm during the Luxembourg Effect experiment. [Photo courtesy of Chris Fallen, KL3WX]
The CW "airglow" artificial aurora experiment followed the Luxembourg effect transmissions. All week, Fallen despaired that the "ratty" ionosphere and cloud cover were diminishing his hopes for success with the artificial aurora experiments. But on the last night, he tweeted, "Seeing artificial airglow with the spectrometer. Film at 11."
Fallen is now evaluating the results of his HAARP efforts. He said one listener posted "a most excellent" YouTube clip. He was not specific; several have been posted that document this week's experiments, including this one from Stephen Oleson, VE6SLP. Laurence Howell, KL7L, in Wasilla, Alaska, posted an audio file.
"The miracle of crowd sourcing!" Fallen said. "If only the Luxembourg effect was more pronounced, but it is in the 3,300 kHz recording."
Fallen has been working under a $60,000 National Science Foundation grant. "During campaigns, significant expenditures for fuel and personnel are required," the grant abstract said. "Large start-up costs make HAARP experiments largely inaccessible to individual researchers unless multiple experiments and funding sources can be bundled together during a campaign of up to 2-week duration." According to the abstract, public participation would maximize "the broader impacts of the investigations."
Fallen posted additional information on his "Gakona HAARPoon 2017" blog.
"HF Loop Antennas" is the topic of the just-released episode of the "ARRL The Doctor is In" podcast. Listen...and learn!
Sponsored by DX Engineering, "ARRL The Doctor is In" is an informative discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet, or smartphone -- whenever and wherever you like!
Every 2 weeks, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and the Doctor himself, Joel Hallas, W1ZR, will discuss a broad range of technical topics. You can also e-mail your questions to doctor@arrl.org, and the Doctor may answer them in a future podcast.
Enjoy "ARRL The Doctor is In" on Apple iTunes, or by using your iPhone or iPad podcast app (just search for "ARRL The Doctor is In"). You can also listen online at Blubrry, or at Stitcher (free registration required, or browse the site as a guest) and through the free Stitcher app for iOS, Kindle, or Android devices.
If you've never listened to a podcast before, download our beginner's guide. Just ahead on March 2: "CTCSS and DTMF."
Today's Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) program has changed markedly from what it was just a few years ago. So says US Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, who contends that MARS must adapt in order to remain relevant and useful to its sponsor, the US Department of Defense (DOD).
"Probably the most significant changes were the Navy's decision to 'sunset' the Navy Marine Corps MARS program and our move to refocus Army and Air Force MARS on providing contingency HF Radio communications support to the DOD and the services," English said. "In order to focus our support on the Department of Defense, MARS leadership had to rethink, essentially from the ground up, what it means to be a MARS member." MARS relies on volunteers from within the Amateur Radio ranks. Among other things, recruits receive specialized training in military messaging formats and digital messaging protocols.
While the priority MARS mission is to provide contingency HF communication to support the DOD and the military, MARS also supports communication for combat commands providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, provides contingency communication for Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA), and provides "morale and welfare communications" in support of the DOD.
MARS still provides support for civil authorities, but it must follow DOD procedures for how that support is provided, English explained. "MARS leadership used to actively encourage our members to support civil authorities," he said, "and that put us in direct competition with the Amateur Radio community as well as with other federal agencies."
English said that in today's MARS program, the primary digital protocol is software that emulates Military Standard (MilStd) 188-110A (M110A) serial phase-shift keying, which is compatible with what is used by the military. MARS members may still use Amateur Radio digital modes on working channels, but M110A is the principal mode. There are no plans to transition to digital voice modes.
This year, MARS introduced an online encryption program that allows all digital radio traffic to be encrypted as it is being transmitted. MARS has also expanded its use of automatic link establishment (ALE), although members are not required to use it.
Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY (left), demonstrates an ALE radio to Nick Wattendorf, N1NRW, during the ARRL National Centennial Convention in 2014.
"Our bread and butter remains single-channel HF communication," English said. "The majority of our members who do use ALE are using the MARS ALE software program. Some of our members who support our national nets are moving to hardware ALE radios."
The MARS program supports quarterly contingency communication exercises supporting the DOD. These are based on "very bad day" scenarios, where traditional forms of communication are no longer available. "Through these exercises, the DOD -- via the MARS community -- reaches out to the Amateur Radio community to provide situational awareness information at the county/local level," English said.
That makes sense to MARS member Bill Sexton, N1IN, who was Army MARS public affairs officer from 2001 until 2014. "At least in theory, the blanketing omnipresence of hams across all 50 states offers a backup for blacked-out regions in the event of a catastrophic attack or natural disaster," Sexton allowed. "The challenge is mobilizing back-up operations in the total absence of internet, telephone, cell phone, or texting resources."
Four candidates for Section Manager (SM), including one incumbent, outpolled challengers to win 2-year terms beginning on April 1, while a second incumbent was defeated in a run for a new term, and one candidate ran unopposed to succeed an incumbent who did not run again. Ballots in contested races in the winter election cycle were counted and verified on February 21 at ARRL Headquarters.
In Arizona, Rick Paquette, W7RAP, of Tucson, topped the field in a three-way race, receiving 638 votes to 375 for Steven Wood, W1SR, of Tucson, and 353 for Virgil Silhanek, K7VZ, of Phoenix. Paquette has served as an Assistant Section Manager and has been a volunteer instructor, mentor, and volunteer examiner for many years. Robert Spencer, KE8DM, of Yuma, who has served as SM since 2013, decided not to run for another term.
In North Texas, Jay Urish, W5GM, of McKinney will become the new Section Manager after defeating Brent Boydston, KF5THB, of Henrietta 829 to 490. Urish will be returning as SM, having served previously from 2009 to 2011. He will succeed Nancy McCain, K5NLM, of Fort Worth, who has been North Texas SM for the last 2 years and did not run for another term.
In Kentucky, Steve Morgan, W4NHO, of Owensboro, unseated incumbent SM Alan Morgan, KY1O, of Paris, 323 to 146. Steve Morgan served previously as the Kentucky SM from 1991 until 1997. Alan Morgan has served in the office since 2015. The two Morgans are unrelated.
In Iowa, incumbent Section Manager Bob McCaffrey, K0CY, of Boone overcame a challenge to win a new term, polling 306 votes to 218 for Paul Cowley, KB7VML, of Ames. This will mark McCaffrey's third term in office.
In Arkansas, James Ferguson, N5LKE, of Searcy, will become the new Section Manager when he succeeds incumbent SM Dale Temple, W5RXU, of North Little Rock, on April 1. Temple, who is completing his third term, decided not to run for re-election.
These incumbent Section Managers did not face opposition during the nomination period and have been declared elected to new terms beginning on April 1: Malcolm Keown, W5XX (Mississippi); George Forsyth, AA7GS (Montana); Carl Gardenias, WU6D (Orange), and Jack Mitchell, N7MJ (Wyoming).
These incumbent Section Managers began new 2-year terms on January 1: Tom Walsh, K1TW (Eastern Massachusetts); Cecil Higgins, AC0HA (Missouri); Matt Anderson, KA0BOJ (Nebraska); Jim Mezey, W2KFV (New York City/Long Island); Tom Dick, KF2GC (Northern New York); Marc Tarplee, N4UFP (South Carolina); Skip Arey, N2EI (Southern New Jersey), and Darrell Davis, KT4WX (West Central Florida).
In Western Pennsylvania, Joe Shupienis, W3BC, of Falls Creek, on January 1 succeeded Tim Duffy, K3LR, who decided not to run for a second term. Shupienis had been the Affiliated Club Coordinator and a Public Information Officer.
A new scholarship has been endowed, honoring the memory of Homer V. Thompson, W4CWV, and Annette P. Thompson, W4LKM, the ARRL Foundation has announced. The scholarship will be funded through an initial $50,000 gift from an anonymous donor.
The Thompsons, who married in 1939, were both from eastern Polk County, Florida. Homer Thompson's family was among the pioneers of the citrus industry in the Haines City area, while Annette Thompson's grandfather, Ephriam Baynard, was a notable early real estate developer in Auburndale. A graduate of the University of Florida, Homer Thompson saw service during World War II and the Korean Conflict. Upon retiring from military service as a lieutenant colonel, Thompson was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service with the Army Security Agency. He was employed by the FCC for 30 years. The Thompsons also oversaw citrus grove properties they owned jointly.
Both Thompsons were avid radio amateurs. They spent their retirement years in Winter Haven, Florida. At the time Annette Thompson died in 2010, the couple had been married for 70 years; Homer Thompson died in 2013.
Applicants for this scholarship must be US citizens and Amateur Radio licensees, enrolled at an accredited 2- or 4-year college or university, and performing at a high academic level, pursuing a degree in an agriculture, business, science, math, engineering, or technology-related field.
Preference will be given to Florida residents. If no qualified Florida applicant is identified, the scholarship may be awarded to an applicant from the ARRL Southeastern Division (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands).
The scholarship award will be $1,500 annually, with the first scholarship expected to be awarded in 2018. One scholarship will be awarded each year. The ARRL Foundation shall determine award recipients.
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is seeking proposals from schools and formal or informal educational institutions and organizations -- individually or working in concert -- to host Amateur Radio contacts next year with ISS crew members. The window to submit a proposal is open through April 15. ARISS anticipates that contacts will take place between January 1 and June 30, 2018. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. Proposal information and documents are on the ARRL website.
To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS seeks proposals from schools and organizations that can draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. Each FM-voice contact lasts about 10 minutes -- the length of a typical overhead ISS pass from horizon to horizon.
Scheduled ham radio contacts with ISS crew members allow students to interact with an astronaut or cosmonaut through a question-and-answer format. Participants and audiences alike can learn firsthand from the astronaut or cosmonaut what it's like to live and work in space and to learn about space research on the ISS. Students will be able to observe and learn about satellite communication, wireless technology, and radio science.
Because of the nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate changes in contact dates and times.
To help organizations prepare proposals, ARISS offers 1-hour online information sessions, designed to provide more information regarding US ARISS contacts and the proposal process, as well as provide an avenue for interested organizations to ask questions. Attending an online Information Session is not required but is strongly encouraged.
Information sessions for the current application window will take place on Monday, March 6, at 7 PM EST (0000 UTC on March 7) and Tuesday, March 16, at 4 PM EDT (2000 UTC). Contact ARISS to sign up and take part or for more information. Read more.
Summits on the Air Activation the Hard Way: A radio amateur in the UK, Colin Evans, M1BUU, attained Summits on the Air (SOTA) Mountain Goat status on January 28 on the summit of Whernside, the highest peak in Yorkshire, but he took an unusual approach by waiting until after he reached the summit to construct his station equipment. He had taken along a 20-meter QRPme RockMite kit, a homebrewed key kit, a vertical antenna kit, and a gas-powered soldering iron. Conditions were not exactly ideal. Sheltering from wind, rain, and snow in a small tent, Evans was able to constructed the RockMite, key, and antenna in less than 4 hours. Better yet, his first contact with the 250 mW RockMite was with N1EU near Albany, New York, more than 3,000 miles away. "There's a good chance that if you work me, I'll be using a rig that I've built myself," Evans said on his QRZ.com profile. He typically operates QRP and has been involved in the SOTA program since 2004.
The Yucaipa High School Amateur Radio Club is featured in the winter 2017 edition of Radio Waves.
Winter 2017 Edition of Radio Waves is Now Available. The winter 2017 issue of Radio Waves -- news you can use for license instruction and radio science education -- is now available. In this issue: How to Start a High School Amateur Radio Club in Six Easy Steps; Rhode Island School ARISS Contact Takes Off with the Public; Citizen Scientist Opportunities for Radio Amateurs, and Science Lessons for Solar Week. Plus the Instructor Corner, Update on the Instructor Reporting and Recognition Program, Licensing Updates, Education & Technology Program News, and more. The current issue and all past issues are available on the ARRL website.
Glenn Hughes, KF5CTG (right) with Canton, Texas, librarian Kristin Rose.
Texas Club Distributes Copies of Ham Radio for Dummies to Schools, Libraries: The Cedar Creek Amateur Radio Club in Athens, Texas, has purchased and distributed copies of Ham Radio for Dummies by ARRL Contributing Editor Ward Silver, N0AX, to area schools and libraries. The book now is in its second edition. Financed in part with a grant from LDG Electronics, the club determined to place a copy of the book in nearly every school and public library in the tri-county area around Athens. Club member and former teacher Glenn Hughes, KF5CTG, took on the task of distributing the copies, visiting with librarians and school administrators as he made the rounds. The activity caught the attention of The Athens Review, which published an article about it on February 15.
Nebraska Sesquicentennial Celebration QSO Party Set: Radio amateurs in Nebraska will celebrate the state's 150th anniversary during the Sesquicentennial Anniversary Celebration Week QSO Party, February 25 through March 6, which includes the actual anniversary date, March 1. Nebraska amateurs may operate from their own stations or as part of Nebraska historical site activations, appending "/NE150" to their call signs. Nebraska stations transmit name, signal report, and Nebraska county (plus historical site, if appropriate). Non-Nebraska stations transmit name, signal report, and state, Canadian province, or DXCC entity. A special QSL card will be available with a self-addressed, stamped envelope and QSL to the Nebraska station contacted. Contact ARRL Midwest Division Vice Director Art Zygielbaum, K0AIZ, or ARRL Nebraska Section Manager Matt Anderson, KA0BOJ, for additional information. The Nebraska Sesquicentennial Amateur Radio Commemorative QSO Party is an official Nebraska Sesquicentennial event sanctioned by the Nebraska Sesquicentennial Commission.
The article, "Oldest, Longest-Licensed US Ham, Educator Charles Hellman, W2RP, SK," in the February 9 edition of The ARRL Letter contained an incorrect call sign for Mr. Hellman's late brother. Robert Hellman was W2IIU. The February 16 "In Brief" item, "Field Day 2017 Packet is Now Available," inadvertently omitted the link to the Field Day packet.
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: On February 22 at 0124 UTC, Australian Space Weather Services issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning: "The effect of a high-speed solar wind stream from a recurrent coronal hole is expected to raise geomagnetic activity to active levels from 22 to 24 February with the possibility of minor storm periods on 23 and 24 February.
Spaceweather.com on February 22 reported that NOAA forecasters were estimating a 60% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on February 23. It could be a good time to watch for aurora.
Over the February 16-22 reporting week, the average daily sunspot number increased from 17.6 to 19.1, compared to the previous 7 days, while average solar flux increased from 75.1 to 78.5.
Geomagnetic indicators were slightly higher, with average planetary A index increasing from 4.7 to 11.3, and average mid-latitude A index changing from 2.9 to 9.
Predicted solar flux is 84 on February 23-24; 83 on February 25; 82 on February 26-March 1; 78 on March 2; 73 on March 3-4; 72 on March 5-7; 73 and 74 on March 8-9; 75 on March 10-14; then 74, 75, 77 and 79 on March 15-18, 82 on March 19-24, then 80, 78 and 76 on March 25-27, 75 on March 28-29; 73 on March 30-31, and 72 on April 1-3.
Predicted planetary A index is 18 and 12 on February 23-24; 8 on February 25-26; 16, 24, and 20 on February 27-March 1; 15 on March 2-5; 8 on March 6; 5 on March 7-14; 10, 20, 15, 10, and 12 on March 15-19; 10 on March 20-21; 12, 15, 20, and 18 on March 22-25; 8, 30, 25, and 20 on March 26-29.
Sunspot numbers for February 16-22 were 23, 14, 13, 23, 25, 19, and 17, with a mean of 19.1. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 74, 74.6, 76.6, 78.1, 80.7, 82.5, and 83.2, with a mean of 78.5. Estimated planetary A indices were 9, 20, 16, 10, 10, 4, and 10, with a mean of 11.3. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 7, 16, 11, 9, 8, 4, and 8, with a mean of 9.
Send me your reports or observations.
February 24-26 -- CQ 160-Meter Contest (SSB)
February 25-26 -- REF Contest (SSB)
February 25-26 -- UBA DX Contest (CW)
February 25-26 -- South Carolina QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
February 25-26 -- North American QSO Party (RTTY)
February 26 -- High-Speed Club CW Contest
February 26 -- SARL Digital Contest
February 26-27 -- North Carolina QSO Party (CW, phone, digital)
March 1 -- UKEICC 80-Meter Contest (Phone)
March 2 -- NRAU 10-Meter Activity Contest (CW, phone, digital)
See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information. For in-depth reporting on Amateur Radio contesting, subscribe to The ARRL Contest Update via your ARRL member profile e-mail preferences.
February 25 -- West Central Florida Section Technical Conference, Sarasota, Florida
February 25 -- New Mexico Tech Fest, Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 25 -- Vermont State Convention, South Burlington, Vermont
March 3-4 -- Alabama Section Convention, Birmingham, Alabama
March 4 -- Arkansas State Convention, Russellville, Arkansas
March 10-11 -- Louisiana State Convention, Rayne, Louisiana
March 11 -- Nebraska State Convention, Lincoln, Nebraska
March 18 -- West Texas Section Convention, Midland, Texas
March 18 -- MicroHAMS Digital Conference, Redmond, Washington
March 24-25 -- Texas State Convention, Rosenberg, Texas
March 31-April 1 -- Maine State Convention, Lewiston, Maine
March 31-April 2 -- Nevada State Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada
April 7-8 -- OzarkCon QRP Conference, Branson, Missouri
April 15 -- Roanoke Division Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina
Apr 21-23 -- International DX Convention, Visalia, California
April 21-23 -- Idaho State Convention, Boise, Idaho
April 22 -- Delaware State Convention, Georgetown, Delaware
April 22 -- Aurora '17 Convention, White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Apr 22-23 -- Communications Academy XIX, Seattle, Washington
April 28-29 -- Southeastern VHF Society Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina
Find conventions and hamfests in your area.
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HomePage ► Ed Iskenderian and The History of Hot Rodding Cartech Manual ISKY
Ed Iskenderian and The History of Hot Rodding Cartech Manual ISKY
SKU CARTECH-CT570
Delve into the life of Ed Iskenderian, a gifted machinist with a natural knack for promotion, who started a cam business from the ground up and became a leading cam authority and hot rodding icon.
Isky: Ed Iskenderian and the History of Hot Rodding, tells the whole story, including his pre-war Lake Muroc and car club activities, his military service, how he started a small business fabricating parts and making cams in the back of a rented shop, and how he then sold those cams to other rodders. It covers how he grew a business from a single cam grinder and became an authority in the field in barely 10 years.
To tell the life story of Ed Isky Iskenderian is to tell the history of hot rodding in America. Ed was there from the very beginning. Born in 1921 to first-generation Armenian immigrants, Ed's first hobby was ham radio, but like many young men in the years before World War II, his interest turned to automobiles, especially hot rods. Ed had natural skills in metal working and machining that were developed in high school. He wanted to further develop those skills, so he joined the Air Corps to continue his education and flew with Air Transport Command. By the time Ed was out of the service, the California hot rod scene was in full bloom with tens of thousands of vets who had the desire to make cars go fast.
Ed was an early pioneer in the industry for print adverting and catalogs. He purchased an ad in the second issue of Hot Rod magazine. Sensing something big, his instincts, as always, were right. He was also the first to use T-shirts and uniforms as promotion. Ed was also among the first to understand the value of having successful race cars using his cams in their engines and wearing his decals on their fenders. The biggest names in the racing industry were running Isky cams, and Ed made sure the world knew it.
Ed's company name went on to become one of the household names in the performance community. His continued success is an entertaining tale of mingling with industry icons, insight into the business of hot rodding, great stories of yesterday and today, and a life very well lived. You will enjoy the stories recorded here as much as Ed Isky Iskenderian seems to enjoy telling them.
Acknowledgments and Thanks
Foreword by Vic Edelbrock Jr.
Chapter 1: In the Beginning
Chapter 2: The Isky Roadster
Chapter 3: $100 a Day
Chapter 4: Growing the Business and the Industry
Chapter 5: Isky Cars and Drivers
Chapter 6: Beyond 1960 and Isky Today
Chapter 7: Promote, Promote, Promote!
Size: 7 X 10 (inches)
Illustrations: 153 color, 100 b/w
Publisher: CarTech
Product Code: CT570
Tabel Of Contents:
Chapter One: The Early Days
Chapter Two: The LaSalle
Chapter Three: The Art and Colour Section
Chapter Four: The Modern Concept Car
Chapter Five: An American Sports Car
Chapter Six: Tri-Five Chevrolets
Chapter Seven: Tail Fins, Chrome, Gadgets and More!
Chapter Eight: The GM Motorama
Chapter Nine: Parade of Progress
Chapter Ten: Harley Earl’s Damsels of Design
Chapter Eleven: Harley Earl’s Personal F-88s
Chapter Twelve: Styling the 1959s
Size: 8.5 X 11 (inches)
Illustrations: 315 photos
Publisher: Cartech Books Inc.
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About District 44
Public Schools Serving 44
44B Community Calendar
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Constituent Concerns
2021 Charles E. Sydnor III Senatorial Scholarship
More than 35 years ago, residents in neighborhood watch programs nationwide decided to build awareness of their public safety efforts by establishing the National Night Out initiative. It started as an opportunity for citizens to interact with public safety officers and leaders in an effort to build more trust and participation in the concept of community policing.
Today, the National Night Out program engages over 38 million citizens in 16,000 communities nationwide. Tonight it will be my great privilege to join National Night Out activities in a number of District 44B’s great communities. While social events surrounding National Night Out typically receive the most attention, this event is also an extraordinary opportunity for citizens to ask questions and to provide feedback on critical issues of community policing and relations with public safety officers.
I am looking forward to working with leaders and stakeholders from each of these areas, as we convene neighbors and officers to determine ways to fortify great existing programs and partnerships aimed at positive community relations, and how to create new ones.
This program will be the kick-off for a month dedicated to advancing serious work in criminal justice reform and public safety advocacy. I look forward to seeing you at these events and beyond over the next several weeks.
The following is a list of some of the scheduled precinct events in the District.
Precinct 1 Wilkens
Name of Group: Oella Community Association
Activity: Community gathering
Location: Westchester Community Center (2414 Westchester Avenue)
Name of Group: Paradise Community Association
Location: United Methodist Church (6715 Frederick Road 21228)
Name of Group: Medwick Garth Community Association
Location: South Medwick Garth/Overbrook Road
Name of Group: Westgate Community Association
Location: 500 block of North Bend Road
Precinct 2 Woodlawn
Name of Group: Edmondson Heights Civic Association
Activity: "Dessert in the Park", beverages provided
Location: Edmondson Heights Park (Granville and Harwall Roads)
Name of Group: Fairbrook Community Association
Activity: Cookout
Location: Christ the King Church (1930 Brookdale Road, 21244)
Name of Group: Graystone
Activity: Meet and Greet picnic
Location: 1905 Gwynn Oak Avenue, 21207
Name of Group: Gwynn Oak
Activity: Community Picnic
Location: Virginia Street & Pembroke Avenue, 21207
Name of Group: Deerfield
Location: Dead end of Windsor Blvd. & Spring Mill Circle
Time: 6:00pm-dark
Name of Group: Hilltop
Location: Corner of Brookmont and Lukewood Roads.
Name of Group: Catonsville Manor
Activity: Block party, vendors, food
Location: Johnnycake & Ingleside Avenue Shopping Center / Ingleside Bazaar
Precinct 4 Pikesville
Name of Group: Villa Nova Homeowners Association
Activity: Parade, hand out crime prevention flyers
Location: Prince George Road and Buckingham Road
Name of Group: Forest Garden COP
Activity: Community walk, meet and greet
Location: Forest Hill Road and Forest Garden Avenue
Name of Group: Willow Glen South Community Association
Location: Prince George Road and Kathydale Drive
Name of Group: Williamsburg HOA
Activity: Parade
Location: Bedford Elementary School (7404 Dorman Drive)
Name of Group: Pahls Crossing HOA
Location: Pahls Farm Way and Red Jonathan Court
Working to Bring Healthy Meals to Baltimore County Youth
Summertime can be a tough season for youth from low-income households which struggle with food insecurity. No Kid Hungry Maryland is a nonprofit organization working to support these families with a number of sites throughout the county where healthy meals are available at no cost. I joined my colleague Del. Shelly Hettleman in supporting the program’s summer kickoff last month.
A New Trampoline Park in Catonsville
I had a great time with neighbors in Catonsville celebrating the grand opening of the Get Air Trampoline Park. The facility is located at 6510 Baltimore National Pike and is a great place for families to share time getting fit together.
Working at Woodlawn High School
During the 2016 flooding, Woodlawn’s baseball fields were damaged and needed restoration. As a result, the baseball teams did not have a home field to play on and played their home games away. To help address this we obtained $250,000 in bond money last session for Woodlawn to restore two of its baseball fields.
Last month, I met with Baltimore County Government and Public School officials to discuss possible solutions to minimize flooding of its fields and stadium, both of which are situated in a flood zone. A study to was thought to be the most prudent option available.
Fortunately, during the 2019 Session of the Maryland General Assembly passed HB 428/SB 269 requiring at least $3 million in both fiscal year 2021 and fiscal year 2022, and for fiscal year 2023 at least $2 million be appropriated. In order to help with planning, BCPS is submitting an application to the Maryland Department of Environment for the 2021 fiscal year.
New Maryland District Court in Catonsville nears completion
The new facility is scheduled to open this fall and will expedite case proceedings for many of the county’s small claims and violations ranging from civil disputes to felony charges.
This month’s community Q&A features Sheila Lewis, President of the Villa Nova Community Association.
-Which community do you live in?
I have lived in the Pikesville community of Villa Nova, which was established in 1910, for 30 years. Villa Nova is located in the Gwynns Falls watershed. Several residential properties are nestled on or near banks of the small streams that flow through the watershed. Flooding from major natural events significantly impacted and shaped character of the community by creating nature park that have inviting walking trails. The charm and unique characteristics of Villa Nova is enhanced by forest animals and water fowls that live in the forests near the stream. Over the past few years more diverse forest life and water fowl are returning to the area.
-What do you love about your community?
In addition to the natural beauty of the area, Villa Nova has culturally, racially, religiously, and politically diverse residents who value, appreciate, and tolerate each other because they realize we have more in common than we have differences. There are no “cookie cutter” properties here; each property is wonderfully unique in appearance and character. The location is ideal because it is close to outstanding public transportation, major interstates and state roads
-What drives your passion to serve as the President of the Villa Nova Community Association?
I serve as elected president of the Villa Nova Community Association (VNCA) at the request of the community residents. It is inspiring to work with the talents, experience and efforts of the association members and residents to protect, improve, and enhance our community. It is wonderful to be a part of the efforts to empower residents to effectuate change by becoming more responsible for actions not just relying on officials to take care of our communities. This means residents are participating in community clean ups, attending governmental hearing and meetings, and sharing concerns with elected officials.
-As President, what is your biggest accomplishment thus far and what would you like to accomplish going forward?
VNCA works vigilantly to preserve and protect the unique character and monetary values of the properties. Over the years many Villa Nova trees have been removed because of age, disease, and storm damage. We need to develop a plan to plant many trees and other forestation in order to restore the tree canopy and ecological balance in this portion of the Gwynns Falls Watershed, as well as, improve the environmental attributes of the community. We are also seeking to preserve open space for community enjoyment rather than allowing new housing and business developments that changes suburban areas to urban areas.
School System Updates
District 44B welcomes two new principals to the district.
Ms. Michelle Webster, previously an Assistant Principal at Hillcrest Elementary School, was promoted via an administrative appointment to be Featherbed Lane Elementary’s new Principal. Additionally, James M. Marthe, formerly Teacher/Resource Lansdowne Middle School, will be joining Ms. Webster as an Assistant Principal at Featherbed Lane Elementary School
Additionally, Phillip Robinson, previously an Assistant Principal Pikesville High School was promoted via an administrative appointment to be Meadowood Education Center’s new Principal.
We would also like to thank Ms. Georgina Aye, who recently resigned as principal at Woodlawn High School, for her service to the community. Ms. Aye was appointed principal during the 2016-2017 school year. Ms. Aye is credited with reducing Woodlawn’s chronic absenteeism rate from 55 percent in the 2016-17 school year to 41 percent during the 2017-2018. Additionally, she has been a good partner with me, as we added heating, air-conditioning and plumbing classes to Woodlawn which will provide students with a marketable skill that could lead to work soon after graduation.
With her departure, BCPS is seeking a new principal for Woodlawn. The job description can be reviewed here.
Additional job openings with schools within District 44B or that serve students from District 44B include Catonsville Middle, Dogwood, Edmondson Heights, Featherbed, Milford Mill, Powhatan, Woodlawn Middle.
I appeared on an edition of ‘State Circle’ earlier this month to debate the issue of MVA-collected personal data being accessible to federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I am a strong proponent of supporting citizens’ rights to privacy and due process and look forward to advancing legislation that will bolster our constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms.
Progress on PANDAS
A workgroup commissioned by the Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) to gather public feedback on mandated insurance coverage for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) continued its public meeting schedule last month. I look forward to advancing the dialog on this critical topic in Annapolis during the next session and working with parents throughout Maryland striving to gain equitable healthcare for this rare and debilitating disorder.
Oversight for Maryland’s Correctional Programs
I will be joining members of the Judiciary Committee this week on a tour of the state’s correctional institutions in Jessup. While the tour is not open to the public, details about the tour agenda an upcoming activities of the committee are available here.
Meet Charles Constituent Concerns Government Volunteer District Dispatch
Delegate Charles E. Sydnor III
By Authority of Citizens for Charles Sydnor, C. Edward Sydnor, Jr, Treasurer
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P. salinus & balsamroot (Balmorhiza sp)
Additional images of Pogonomyrmex salinus attempting to remove a balsamroot plant (flowerless in this case) from the nest vicinity. Two nest entrances can be seen to the left and behind the plant in the top image. Note that the plant is within the ring of chaff (discarded seed pods, etc.), which usually marks the boundary of the nest-mound for these ants. As previously mentioned, this plant was observed to still be standing two months after these images were captured. Also note the tansy-mustard (Descurainia sp) plant, in upper left of top image.
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Commonly called "mums" or "tansies", this popular perennial's name comes from the Greek chrysos (gold) and anthos (flower). The Chusan daisy became the "pompom chrysanthemum" — so called because in France, where it was first grown, it looked like the pompons on sailors' hats.
Chrysanthemums had been cultivated in Chinese gardens for more than 2,500 years before first being exhibited in England in 1795. Brought by visiting Buddhist monks, the chrysanthemum arrived in Japan in AD 400.
The chrysanthemum has been the focus of Oriental adulation for centuries.
In China, the chrysanthemum's association with autumn stems from its tendency to bloom in the fall. Consequently, the ancient Chinese chose the Chrysanthemum ("chu hua") as their Flower for October, a symbol of the rest and ease that followed the season's final harvest. Mums were considered one of the four Chinese "noble plants" (the others being bamboo, the plum, and the orchid), and were the official badge of the Old Chinese Army. Since chrysanthemums were considered the flower of the Chinese noble class, they were prohibited in a lower-class person's garden. The Chinese believe that a chrysanthemum given to one's beloved, after its being used to wipe one's mouth after drinking wine, will ensure undying love and fidelity.
Called "kikus" in Japanese, chrysanthemums were featured on the Imperial Crest of Japan, and were so beloved by Japanese emperors that they sat upon chrysanthemum thrones. The Japanese still hold the chrysanthemum as a symbol of the sun, and they consider the orderly unfolding of the mum's petals to be a symbol of perfection.They also presume that a single chrysanthemum petal placed in the bottom of a wine glass encourages a long and healthy life.
While chrysanthemums generally denote cheerfulness and rest, individual colors do carry specific messages: red for love, good luck and best wishes; white for truth; and yellow for slighted love. Chrysanthemums will be welcomed throughout the British Isles and North America for any occasion. In Italy, however, their exclusive association with the dead makes chrysanthemums acceptable only for funerals.
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Scalise attends white power rally, is still elected
January 14, 2015 The Duquesne Duke Opinions Comments Off on Scalise attends white power rally, is still elected
Sean Ray | Student Columnist
It has recently come to light that Louisiana representative Steve Scalise (R) had spoken at a meeting of a white supremacy group in 2002. The meeting was held by a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.
This revelation has strewn up controversy, with many calling for Scalise to step down from office, while his fellow Republicans have vowed to stand by him. This issue is especially a hot button because Scalise is the House majority whip, basically making him third in command of the House Republicans.
Controversies are not a new thing to politics. Former President Glover Cleveland was accused of having a child that he abandoned. Indeed, reactions are not much different; with people either calling for the accused’s immediate stepping down from office, or rushing to their defense.
Now, in times of controversy, I believe it is important to remember something: politicians are just as human as anyone else. They make mistakes, have lapses in judgment, or have bad days. A simple mistake should be forgiven. However, if the controversy looks to be something that can affect how a politician acts or votes, then it becomes important.
Take, for example, Bill Clinton. His affair with Monica Lewinski is fairly well known by now. Were his actions morally wrong? Absolutely. Having sexual affairs outside of marriage when one is married is generally agreed to be wrong. Did this make Bill Clinton any worse of a president? Absolutely not. Presidents manage the nation’s budget, lead the army, and enforce rules. None of these have anything to do with marriage and cheating.
Compare this to another Clinton, Hillary. The Benghazi scandal was one of the major controversies of last year. Unlike Bill’s controversy however, Benghazi had to do with Hillary’s job. Whether you supported or were against Hillary, protecting embassies is something the Secretary of State is supposed to look out for. When an embassy is attacked, the Secretary of State is someone that should share some of the blame. It is the secretary’s job to be knowledgeable about conditions in foreign countries, and if an area is too dangerous for an embassy, the secretary should inform the president to pull the diplomats out of the nation before something happens.
So, where does this leave Scalise? Well, speaking at a white supremacy group is something that could affect his job. Delegates generally do what their voters want them to, and with support from white supremacists, Scalise could start voting or crafting laws that negatively affect certain races. However, even in times like this, emotions should not run wild. Asking for Scalise to step down before even a formal investigation is undertaken is wrong. Scalise might have made a simple mistake and was unaware of the group’s views.
If, however, it is discovered Scalise did know the group’s views, or that he has a history of possible racism, then action should be taken against him. Racism is one of the ugliest things in the word, and should be combated wherever it stands. At the very least, Scalise should step down from being the House majority whip, if he is found to be guilty of the accusations. Having a racist as a major party leader would not look good for Republicans, or for Congress in general, whose approval ratings continue to stay low.
Controversies can be times of high emotions and arguments, but it is most important to let cool heads rule through and think things through logically. A witch hunt need not be called until the accusers are sure of the evidence.
By no means do I approve of Scalise’s actions if they are true. Honestly, I would not be surprised if they were, the South does not have the best track record with racial equality. But it is too early to say definitively or not that Scalise is guilty until the matter is formally looked into. An outrage without significant evidence is, to quote Shakespeare, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
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The story of 20 year old MEETCH is mind blowing and one of true perseverance. With hearing only left in one ear (more on that later), he’s now performing all over the East coast. Meetch first came to the web’s attention when popular blogs such as EDM SAUCE featured his song ‘MINDLESS’. The melody-laden and power bassline-infused electro house sees a follow up in the form of a FREE ALBUM! ‘complexcity’ hit the web April 27 on www.djmeetch.com.
Meetch, a space enthusiast gave each of the songs on COMPLEXCITY a space theme. Two versions of the album will be available: One to bump in the car, and another free download with the extended versions.
MEETCH: “The album is fast, upbeat with a true party vibe to it. I like using complex melodic riffs and uplifting chord progressions. I want to give away the album to as many people as possible. When I’m giving out my tracks to everyone in the world, I believe something awesome might come in return.”
When he was only 9 years old, DJ Meetch picked up a pair of drumsticks and immediately convinced his mom to buy him a drum set. A life in various bands followed: from rock to metal, and from screamo to alternative. Yet, one unfortunate night, he was walking to his friend’s house to sleep over on a snowy night, when he got struck by a car.
Meetch was put into a medically induced coma because of brain swelling. Due to this, and after a month of silence and a month of rehabilitation, he recovered as best he could.
MEETCH: “I have no feeling on the top of my head and I lost full hearing in my right ear due to the accident. I got kicked out of an awesome band and then decided to move on.
I happened to go to my first concert as an attendee for Lotus in NYC. Didn’t know what to expect and a DJ by the name of Nit Grit opened up. That moment changed my life forever. I felt the power of one man behind electronic hardware control a crowd of hundreds of people. I fell in love and got some gear to try it myself.
At one point I met someone who threw underground parties and my DJ career skyrocketed from there. I have played some of the biggest parties to this day. Cruise boat dance parties around NYC, and main staged some ridiculous shows. Even played a few festivals.
Not much later I decided to dig deep into production. Went to the Institute of Audio Research in NYC to get certified and learn the business, production, and technical side of music. And here I am now with my full length album!”
For more information about Meetch, please contact Wilf Libgott of www.hammarica.com | wilf@hammarica.com
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Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2010: Germany U18
April 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The German U18 team came into the tournament with the goal to reach the semi-finals. After the tournament, you must say that this German team could have won it all but run out of gas in the Final. Knowing that the team of Kay Blümel missed Ole Wendt, a potential starter, Jarelle Reischel, Maximilian Kleber and that Kevin Bright played only the first three games, the potential of this team is exceptional for German standards and a Gold Medal would have been a legitimate goal. However, it was the best result for any German team ever.
Philipp Neumann – 2m10 – Forward/Center – 1992
The German top scorer could not dominate this tournament as he probably liked it. Starting in the first phase with a lot of forced plays, Neumann calmed down a bit throughout the tournament to play more as a team player like he did with Brose Baskets in Belgrade. The 2m10 tall German is clearly moving into the PF position as he is now playing all around the court. He can post his defenders down low on the block but he can also play from outside the three point line and go for the strong drive or the jump shot out of the dribble.
Out of his drives, he showed several nice passes for the open man which underlines the fact that he can be a good passer. But first of all, Neumann remains a terrific scorer. His outside shot is improving and he has now a really good looking jump shot with a high release and good balance. Neumann however still slows down the offensive rhythm of his team though as once he has the ball, he holds it too long in his hands to create something. This has however reduced since the U18 European Championship last summer.
Neumann wants to have the ball and to take the big shots. In the semi-finals against the USA, it was him that coming of the bench in the final minutes that took the very big three-point shot out of the dribble to give the Germans a decisive lead. In the low block, he uses his huge physical presence to outmuscle his opponents, something that did not work against the equally physical Australian team. On the defensive end, Neumann has a great presence in the defensive rebound where he goes for nearly every ball. Additionally, he was by far the best and most effective shot blocker of the tournament.
A player like Neumann is of course always under particular observation. Being gifted physically and basketball wise like he is, it will be the details that decide if he can step up and become a real big time player. It looks like Neumann is currently in a maturing process, on the way from the selfish player we saw back in 2009 into a team player. He still has some ups and downs but it looks like he wants to progress. Another point to mention is that with his current body shape, he has the potential to gain a lot of muscle over the next years. Having turned 18 this February, the PF/C will certainly start to bring his body in perfect shape and form over the next years.
Stats: 16.6ppg (50.7% FG – 6/19 3FG) 10.0rpg 3.6bpg 3.0topg
Bill Borekambi – 1m99 – Forward – 1992
It looks like the German U18 coach loves to have an athletic but undersized scoring PF on his team at the Albert Schweitzer Tournament. Two years ago, it was Femi Oladipo who had that role, this year it was Bremerhaven’s Bill Borekambi who stepped up nicely. The 1m99 former IBBA Berlin player had an exceptional NBBL season so far and the selection for the Albert Schweitzer Tournament showed that Borekambi is on the right track. First of all, the 1m99 tall player is a major presence in the defensive rebound where he formed one of the most dynamic rebounding-duos with Neumann of the whole tournament.
Offensively, Borekambi scores mainly on offensive rebounds and on attacking the basket facing his defender. He has not really a back to the basket game but prefers to beat his defender of the dribble where he can finish also on difficult moves. He can drive from the side over the baseline or with a spin move but also from the top without being the fastest guy on the court. However, he is not a threat from outside as he did not take one three point shot in the tournament nor does he go for a lot of long distance attempts with his U19 Club team.
Stats: 10.4ppg (61.4% 2FG) 6.4rpg
Mathis Mönninghoff – 1m98 – Forward – 1992
The team captain and mental leader of the team is Mathis Mönninghoff. The forward from Leverkusen played the most minutes behind Neumann and was a regular threat from behind the arc. He looks very elegant in all his moves, his shot looks perfect and he displays a good athletic base. However, we still think that Mönninghoff should be able to break out and advance to the next level. He looks a bit stacked in his current role and you always think that he should play a bigger part. But right in that moment, he comes up with a big three point shot that helps the team or a defensive play that starts a fast break.
He is the player that you want to have on your team, that you don’t see but without having him in the lineup, the team starts to struggle. Mönninghoff is really a fundamentals player who does not commit a lot of errors on the court. He can hit the jump shot out of the dribble, his three point shot looks perfect in catch and shoot situations and he can nail it also in fade away style. His athleticism is good for European standards and allows him to drive hard to the basket. He will certainly be the starting SF for the different German youth national teams in the next tournaments.
Stats: 8.7ppg (41.2% FG – 11/31 3FG) 2.4rpg
Patrick Heckmann – 1m96 – Guard – 1992
Patrick Heckmann surprised a lot of people this season when he lead his U19 team in the first year of its existence to the NBBL Playoffs and being the top scorer of the whole U19 League. He was also the MVP of the All-Star game in January where he showcased his talent. The tournament in Mannheim was now the first opportunity for him to see how he plays on the international level. While on the offensive end, the guard from Mainz showed his nice talent, he struggled on the defensive end where he had some problems to stay in front of faster guards or to fight through screens.
Offensively, his arsenal is however very large as Heckmann can play every position from 1 to 3. His shot release is maybe a bit slow and he is not the most accurate from behind the arc, he excels when he drives to the basket where he can go until the rim but also create for his team mates. His athletic abilities allow him to finish in traffic high of the glass or with good hang-time and his large body helps him to be protected against losing his balance. His nice wingspan gives him possibilities to overcome his lack of lateral speed on defense but he showed his limits in this area during the tournament.
Stats: 8.1ppg (37.5% FG – 4/22 3FG) 2.9rpg 2.6apg 1.4spg 0.4bpg
Lars Wendt – 1m90 – Guard – 1992
Lars Wendt was the first rotation on the Guard spots for the Germans and despite coming from the bench and without being in great shooting shape, the Paderborn player averaged as many minutes as the before mentioned Heckmann. The advantage of Wendt over the starters was his presence on the defensive end as he was the only German guard capable of matching with his counterparts and stay in front of his man. A player that was mainly known for his offensive skills showed in Mannheim that he can do more than just shot the ball.
Wendt was also not afraid to help in the defensive rebound where he did a good job and was focused on the job he had to do in the team. Offensively, his production comes mainly from the three point shot where he has long range and is able to knock the shots down in series. He can hit the three ball coming out of the screen at full speed or out of the dribble with a defender on him. He does not go a lot for drives in the set play though but he can score from mid-range when it is needed. With his twin brother Ole Wendt back from injury, he may even get more confidence and shoot the ball with better percentages during the U18 European Championship this summer.
Stats: 7.6ppg (29.1% FG – 11/39 3FG) 4.3rpg 1.1apg 1.4spg
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Houston Health Department, partners announce free COVID-19 testing schedule for week of December 7
HOUSTON - The Houston Health Department and its agency partners are announcing the schedule for sites offering free COVID-19 tests the week of December 7, 2020. The week will offer 20 free testing sites across Houston.
The Houston Health Department will offer drive-thru testing at two surge sites affiliated with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Southwest Multi-Service Center, 6400 High Star Drive, and Houston Community College - North Forest, 6010 Little York Rd., will offer nasal self swab tests Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Appointments are available at doineedacovid19test.com and on-site registration is also available. Each site has a daily capacity of 1,250 tests.
The department also offers free drive-thru testing via self-nasal swab at the Aramco Services Company, 9009 W. Loop South. The mega testing site will open Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The site has a daily capacity of 1,000 tests.
People wanting to get tested at the Aramco site can call the department’s COVID-19 Call Center at 832-393-4220.
The department will offer testing at five community sites that don't require appointments and remain open until each reaches its daily capacity of 250 tests. The sites and their hours of operation are:
Fifth Ward Multi-Service Center, 4014 Market St., Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., drive thru or walk up, self-nasal swab,
Third Ward Multi-Service Center, 3611 Ennis St., Tuesday-Thursday. 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., drive thru or walk up, self-nasal swab,
Hiram Clark Multi-Service Center, 3810 Fuqua St., Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. drive thru or walk up, self-nasal swab,
Kingwood Community Center, 4102 Rustic Woods Dr., Friday-Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., drive thru or walk up, self-nasal swab, and
Hartman Community Center, 9311 E. Ave. P, Friday-Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., walk up, self-nasal swab.
The department will provide self-nasal swab testing at the METRO Addicks Park & Ride, 14230 Katy Freeway, and the Multicultural Center, 951 Tristar Drive, city of Webster. Appointments are available by calling the department’s call center at 832-393-4220.
Texas Division of Emergency Management
Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) and the Houston Astros offer self-oral swab tests daily at Minute Maid Park (Lot C), 2208 Preston. The testing site’s capacity is 1,200 tests per day.
The site features evening hours twice a week, eight drive-thru testing lanes and four walk-up testing lanes. It opens 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday through Wednesday and from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Spanish-speaking staff is available on-site.
Visit curative.com to set an appointment or obtain more information. On-site registration is also available.
TDEM and the department will also operate drive-thru sites offering nasal swab tests administered by healthcare professionals Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at:
HCC - Northeast Campus, 555 Community College Drive, and
HCC - South Campus, 1990 Airport Blvd.
TDEM and the department offer drive thru, nasal-swab tests administered by healthcare professionals at LeRoy Crump Stadium, 12321 Alief Clodine Rd. The site is open Monday through Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Appointments for TDEM sites are available at covidtest.tdem.texas.gov.On-site registration is also available.
United Memorial Medical Center
United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC) will offer nasal-swab testing by healthcare professionals at drive-thru test sites at:
Plaza Americas Mall, 7500 Bellaire Blvd.,
Houston Community College - Southeast, 6815 Rustic, and
UMMC Tidwell, 510 W. Tidwell Rd.
The sites don’t require appointments and offer testing weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. or until reaching daily capacity of 300 tests.
People needing information about UMMC test sites can call 1-866-333-COVID or visit ummcscreening.com.
Curative will provide walk up, self-mouth swab tests daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at three locations, each with a 900 daily test capacity:
Memorial Park Running Trails Center, 7575 N. Picnic Lane,
Kroger, 1801 S. Voss Rd, and
Kroger, 9303 S. Highway 6.
Appointments are not required but available at curative.com.
The health department is providing test kits, lab access and equipment to local Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) so they can expand their COVID-19 testing capacity. The centers and phone numbers people can call to set up testing appointments are:
HOPE Clinic, 713-773-0803
Spring Branch Community Health Center, 713-462-6565
El Centro de Corazon, 713-660-1880
Avenue 360 Health and Wellness, 713-426-0027
Lone Star Circle of Care at the University of Houston, 346-348-1200, and
Scarsdale Family Health Center, 281-824-1480.
FQHC patients pay what they can afford, based on income and family size, and are not denied services due to inability to pay or lack of insurance.
The department and its agency partners may shift locations and schedules of test sites to better meet community needs. Houstonians can visit HoustonEmergency.org/covid19 for current Houston testing sites and information about stopping the spread of the virus.
Information obtained through testing, treatment or services will not be used against immigrants in their public charge evaluation.
Flyer: Free Houston Testing Sites: Week of December 7, 2020.
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Dendritic spines form the postsynaptic fifty percent of the synapse but how they form during CNS development remains uncertain as are the factors that promote their morphological and physiological maturation. were mostly or entirely mediated by NMDARs whereas responses in those processes with a more mature morphology regardless of actual developmental age were mediated by both AMPARs and NMDARs. Consistent with this observation glutamate-induced morphological changes were largely but not entirely prevented by blocking NMDARs. Our observations thus favor a model in which filopodia in the developing nervous system sense and respond to release of glutamate from developing axons resulting in physiological and morphological maturation. (DIV). CA1 cells in cultures from these mice constitutively express GFP and have well labeled dendritic processes. Biolistic transfection Cells in rat slice cultures were transfected with GFP (McAllister 2000 Gold pellets (1.0 μm diameter) were coated with spermidine and then placed in a solution of 25 μg/μl DNA which was precipitated onto the pellets by the addition of CaCl2. Pellets were propelled into the slices using a Bio-Rad gene gun at a distance of 2 cm from the slice culture with a pressure of 200 psi. After transfection slices were returned to roller tubes and placed in the incubator for 2-8 days. Microphotolysis of caged glutamate Stimulation of individual S 32212 HCl dendritic processes was performed using a solid-state diode pulsed laser (DPSS Lasers NOS3 output 1 W) fitted with UV optics to photolyze 1 mM or to encompass each of these types of dendritic structure. To measure the dimensions of dendritic processes protrusions were divided into three regions: head neck and base (Fig. 4a). In cases where a clear head or neck region could not be defined these parameters were not measured or included in the analysis. The head was measured as the widest region in the distal third of the protrusion. S 32212 HCl The neck width is measured as the widest region between the top and bottom thirds of the structure between the neck and the base. The base width was measured at the widest region of the lower third of the structure near the shaft. The width of the head was determined by measuring the length of a line at the widest region of the spine head. This length was considered the diameter of the spine head and the radius was entered into the formula for calculating the volume of a sphere: (4/3)πr3. Using this calculation to assess the volume of the spine head assumes that spine head is a perfect sphere and S 32212 HCl therefore results in an overestimate of the actual spine head volume but serves a useful approximation for comparing processes. Total process length was calculated as the length of a straight line from the tip of the head of the protrusion to the point at which the S 32212 HCl protrusion merges with the shaft. The length of the neck was measured from the base of the head of the protrusion to the base of the protrusion. These dimensions were measured at the time points indicated in both stimulated and unstimulated protrusions. Unstimulated neighboring protrusions within 20 μm of the stimulated protrusion were measured to compare changes that occur without stimulation over the imaging period to the changes that occur due to photolysis of caged glutamate. Figure 4 Quantification of glutamate-induced morphological responses. The length and width of the stimulated protrusion was measured 5 min before stimulation (?5) Immediately prior to stimulation (0) and at time points up to 30 min following stimulation … RESULTS Development of postsynaptic protrusions in rats and mice and whole-cell recordings were performed with Alexa dye in the pipette solution in order to visualize the processes of the patched pyramidal cell. Because the photolysis-induced currents recorded (phEPSCs) are generally less than 20 pA (Bagal et al. 2005 protrusions <50 μm from the soma were stimulated in order to minimize signal decay due to dendritic filtering. Inward currents with fast and slow components were elicited when a brief (1 ms) photostimulus was used to focally uncage glutamate at mushroom-shaped dendritic spines in immature tissue in Mg2+-free ACSF. The fast component was observed in isolation after adding D-AP5 (40 μM) to block the slow component (Fig. 2A right).
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United’s Bid To Help Arsenal Get Fabregas?
Cesc Fabregas’ future at Barcelona has come under scrutiny with reports linking him back to the Premier League with Manchester United and Arsenal.
The Premier League champions had a £25 million offer rejected last week with the player insisting he wanted to stay at Barcelona, but the club have ignored the comments with an improved £30 million plus add-ons deal lodged earlier today.
Arsene Wenger is also monitoring Fabregas’ situation at Barcelona with a bid ready and waiting if the club do part ways with the player. The Gunners have first refusal on the midfielder, as stipulated in his transfer to the Catalans two years ago. Believe among Arsenal fans is that United’s bid for Cesc will only make it easier for Arsenal to sign their former captain as Barca accepting any bid will mean Arsenal can activate their first refusal right which is fixed at £25 million.
For the time being, the midfielder is happy to remain at the Nou Camp but should Arsenal confirm their interest with a bid, he could be persuaded to move on. The Mirror claim that Fabregas has told close friends that he would only go back to Arsenal should he leave Barcelona, ruling out a move to Manchester United.
David Moyes is still confident that he can bring Fabregas to Old Trafford but the midfielder’s loyalties could get in the way of a transfer. The midfielder views Wenger as a father and would prefer to be reunited with him rather than a move to Manchester.
His first preference would be to remain at Barcelona and help them to be successful. Xavi’s career could be coming to an end in the next few years and Fabregas wants to be ready to take on his role.
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temigunga says:
I wonder; what will have changed to attract Fabregas back! I do not see any attractive ambition from Arsenal. Similar stories, similar situation and similar mode of miss from potential signings!! Let us wait and see but I can not see anything to be proud in terms of football.
In one way I agree 100% – personally I cannot believe that the Arsenal board are contemplating a new contract for Wenger before seeing how the season develops – but would the signing of Fabregas on top of the players already at the club (i.e.not a a replacement) not insinuate that something was finally developing?
However I believe Cesc will stay at Barca – if he did come back to Arsenal I think we can wave Cazorla goodbye, thus the club will continue to simply stay static and Wenger will once again be chasing his coverted 4th place trophy.
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Implementation of the Portability Regulation
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Consumers will soon find it easier to access their online film, TV and other subscription services while visiting countries in the EU. For example, you will be able to stream your favourite films and TV programmes and watch sporting events while on holiday or on a short business trip. The EU Portability Regulation, which allows this to happen, applies in the UK from 1 April 2018.
The IPOs consultation on the enforcement of the EU Portability Regulation closed on 31 January 2018. It asked for comments on proposed enforcement mechanisms and bodies, and topics for guidance. It also asked for views on portability in the context of the UKs exit from the EU.
There were 12 responses to the consultation. These were from individual online content service providers, their representative bodies and trade associations, and organisations representing copyright owners. No significant issues with the IPOs proposed approach were identified. The government would like to thank all respondents for their contributions.
The government has now published its response to the consultation.
The government laid the implementing legislation on 28 February 2018. The UK is now fully compliant with the requirements of the EU Portability Regulation. The IPO will produce guidance to assist
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Apostle Paul Tour in Greece
Private tour Apostle Paul Route in Greece with 6 overnights / Meteora/ Neapolis -Philippi/ Thessaloniki/ Veria-Aegae - Pella / Mount Olympus/ Athens/ Corinth
Apostle Paul tour. Places he stopped during his journey in Greece: Neapoli/ Philippi/ Amfipolis/Veria - Aegae/ Thessaloniki/ Pella /Athens -Acropolis/ Corinth/ Greece Private Tours
Apostle Paul tour. Places he stopped during his journey in Greece: Neapoli/ Philippi/ Veria - Aegae/ Thessaloniki/ Pella /Athens -Acropolis/ Corinth... Greece Private tour follows Apostle Paul path/ route in Greece
One of the most remarkable religious routes in Greece is "The Route that Apostle Paul Followed in Greece". Paul constitutes a remarkable personality for the Christian religion, although he never belonged to Jesus’ 12 Disciples cycle.
He spread the word of Christianity more than anybody else and for this reason he was named "Equal-to-the-Apostles" and “Apostle of the Nations”. Among the countries he visited to spread Christianity, Apostle Paul came also to Greece, preaching the Holy Gospel and teaching people about Jesus’ mission. His journey in Greece is a route that can touch not only the believers but also everybody who loves history. “The Route that Apostle Paul Followed in Greece" passes through all places where the Apostle preached and constitutes an ideal combination of pilgrimage and sightseeing in some of the most beautiful places in Greece.
Day 1: Meteora. Apostle Paul Tour, departs from Athens (request another terminal) the road descends into Lamia, passing through typical towns and numerous picturesque mountain villages of Central Greece. We'll arrive in Meteora which lies North of Kalambaka in the northwest corner of the Thessaly plain, a group of fantastic grey rocks rising up out of the trees in the Pinions Valley. Perched on the top of these huge and precipitous columns of rock, (there are some 60 of these columns of rock, a favorite haunt for climbers) are the famous cenobitic monasteries known as the Meteora which means "in the air" where you can see exquisite specimens of Byzantine Art. Of the 24 monasteries that were built between the 13th and 16th centuries only six are still inhabited: The Great Meteoron, Agia Triada, Agios Nikolaos and Varlaam by monks: Agios Stephanos and Roussanou by nuns. Stay overnight in the closest village to Meteora with the best view of the giant rocks and monasteries (photos below). Apostle Paul tour will take you for a photo tour at the sunset
METEORA SNOW
MONASTERY VARLAAM
CHILDREN PILGRIMS
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METEORA ROCKS
Day 2: Kavala (Neapoli) When Apostle Paul was in Taros, he dreams of a tall impressive Macedonian man who stood in front of him and begged him to “come to Macedonia and help them”. This dream was deciding for his journey and inaugurated his great, wonderful and saving relationship with Greeks. He had already begun his tour aiming to increase and boost the construction of Churches. In the winter of the year 49, Apostle Paul lands on European land for the first time. The place he first came after traveling for two days was Neapoli . Seven years later when he came to Neapoli for the second time it took him five days to cover the same distance. Apostle Paul arrived in Agios Nikolaos area and after following Via Egnatia he reached Philippi, 12 km from Neapoli. He was accompanied by Silas, Timothy, and Luke the doctor, Evangelist and writer of "Acts of the Apostles”
NEAPOLIS PORT
KAVALA CITY
KAVALA PORT
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Philippi. It was Saturday when he reached the place for the first time and many women were gathered in the area.
They were the first in Europe to hear him preaching. Among them was Lydia, a noble woman from Thyateira of Asia Minor. She was the first to be baptized and helped remarkably to spreading the word of God. In Philippi, Paul and Silas were accused of provoking abnormalities in the city and for having habits unusual for the Romans.
The two men were caned and imprisoned but a massive earthquake spread panic in the city. The prison’s doors opened and the guard tried to commit suicide. The two Apostles prevent him from harming himself. He then believes in God, he and his family got baptized and the two Apostles were accommodated in his house. The two Apostles pass by Lydia’s house, who accommodated them, and leave for Thessaloniki. Apostle Paul will keep close relationships with the people from Philippi and will boost them financially several times even when he was imprisoned in Rome. Seven years after his first visit, he will return to Philippi and then visit the place three more times (on April of 57, in spring of 63 and winter of 64).
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Amphipolis-Apollonia. Although they were cities of great importance in the area, Apostle Paul passed them by without stopping. He was on a hurry to reach Thessalonici where he knew there was a synagogue. In our tour we visit Amfipolis /Amphipolis, town and museum.
Day 3: Apostle Paul Tour visits
Thessaloniki. When Apostle Paul and his followers reached Thessaloniki it was autumn of 49. Apostles Paul and Silas found the city completely different from what they had seen so far. It was a free from Roman occupation city since 168 B.C. There was also a synagogue close to the port, as the Acts inform us. Apostles Paul went there for three Saturdays. As we are informed, he discussed with the attendants and interprets them abstracts from Holy Bible which mention that Jesus should have been crucified and resurrect from the dead. Some people believed and became Paul’s and Silas’ students. Many of the neophyte Greeks believed, as well as several women who stood out in the city's society. We do not know exactly how many were the first Christians but we know for sure that a church was established in Thessaloniki.
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AMFIPOLIS LION
AMFIPOLIS GOLD CROWN
AMFIPOLIS MUSEUM
AMFIPOLIS-MUSEUM
Day 4:Apostle Paul Tour. Soon, because of Paul’s activity, problems begin to rise in Thessaloniki and riots are provoked exactly as it had happened in Philipp, during the night Paul and Silas left the city. These are the only facts known about his stay in Thessaloniki. According to the existing tradition, as he left in a hurry, chased by his fellow countrymen, he came out of a high spot on the walls (probably from a small door) where later Vlatades monastery was established. East of the position where now Vlatades monastery stands used to be a spring. It is said that he stopped there to drink some water. Every year at this spring, which is known as “Apostle Paul’s Holy Water", people used to honor the Apostle. After the liberation of Thessaloniki, a church in his honor was constructed in this place and the Holy Water became well known. In present days, a modern impressive church is the proof that Apostle Paul visited Thessaloniki, preached there and brought Greeks closer to Christianity.
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ROTONDA INTERIOR
THESSALONIKI BYZANTINE MUSEUM
BYZANTINE MUSEUM
ALEXANDROS O MEGAS
THESSALONIKI-WHITE TOWER
THESSALONIKI ROTONDA
AGIOS DIMITRIOS HIDDEN BATHS
THESSALONIKI CASTLE
Day 5: Veria. Apostole Paul and Silas left Thessaloniki for Veria. They walked for a while on Egnatia Road and changed their route close to Pella, crossing a lush green fruitful and beautiful area. Veria was a very busy city with great population and had a flourishing synagogue. As soon as they got there, Paul and Silas visited the synagogue. It is also said that the Jews of Veria were more polite than those in Thessaloniki and heard with great interest Paul preaching the Holy Gospel.
VERIA APOSTLE PAUL VEMA
PELLA MACEDONIA
PELLA MUSEUM MOSAIC
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ANCIENT PELLA MACEDONIA
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Among the attendants were people from the upper classes of Veria, Hebrews and converts and a great number of women. But soon, the news about Paul’s activities were spread in Thessaloniki. Their enemies from Thessaloniki sent people to Veria to provoke turmoil. Immediately his companions took the Apostle away from Veria. Timothy and Silas remained in Veria. As a gift in return Veria gave to the Apostle of the Nations a new companion. He was Sopatros, son of Pyrrhus, who accompanied him for a long time after his return to Asia. The spot in Veria where it is said that Paul stood and preached, the so called "Apostle Paul's Podium" is now an imposing monument. Since 1995, a series of religious, cultural and sports events have been established under the name "Pavlia" which end every year with a scientific conference. We visit Aegae near Veria 10km and the Royal tombs of Phillip
MACEDONIAN TOMB 2
MACEDONIAN TOMB
MACEDONIAN TOMB-INTERIOR
VERGINA THEATER
AEGAE PALACE
Day 6: Athens In the year 51 Paul went to Athens by boat. Athens was far from the typical bright city of classical times. The works of art were frequently pillaged, the Romans deserted the city of Pallas Athena and the descent of ideals started to become obvious. The boat that brought Paul to Athens anchored in Faliro. At that time (and before then) that was the area were the main port of Athens was located. The location of the port was between Kifissos river bed and the small church of Agios Georgios. It is believed that it is constructed on the ruins of the dock of ancient Faliro and the area around it is going to be developed. From there started the road leading to Athens. While he was waiting for Silas and Timothy to come from Macedonia, he was walking around the city, discussing with the locals in the synagogue or the market and was upset by the numerous statuettes. His preaching on the death of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection impressed some epicurean and stoic philosophers who characterized him as “news monger”.
ATHENA CITY
ATHENA AGORA MUSEUM
KAPNIKAREA CHURCH
ARIOS PAGOS
VIEW FROM ARIOS PAGOS
PANATHENAIC STADIUM
Areopagus was the name of the hill west of the Athenian Acropolis. Apostle Paul’s church was established in 1887 very close to the heart of Athens. Two years later, Queen Olga set the foundations for the construction of a new and larger church. This happened under the Metropolitan bishop Prokopios, Mayor Labros Kallifronas and the architects Trobus and Soultze. In 1923 the Archbishop of Athens Chrysostomos Papadopoulos prescribed that the Vespers of Apostle Paul’s celebration must be performed on Areopagus.
He was never chased for his preaching while he was in Athens. On the contrary he was taken to High Court (Areopagus) in order to preach formally and in more details. Regarding the spot from where Apostle Paul spoke to the Athenians, it is also said that he preached in front of the High Court's Body as one of its members (Dionysius the Aeropagite) adopted the ideas of his preaching.
Day 7: Corinth. It is not known how he went to Corinth. It is for sure that he left Athens puzzled with how Athenians dealt with his preaching and with the situation in the Churches of Macedonia. While Paul was leaving Athens, Timothy was on his way to Thessaloniki. In Corinth Paul developed friendship with Akylas and Priscilla who were also tend-makers (as he also was) and already knew some things about Jesus. He stayed and worked with them and every Saturday he preached Jews and Greeks. Most of Jews were not convinced that Jesus was the Messiah and at some point Paul stayed with Titus Justus who was proselyte and lived close to the synagogue. Among the believers was Crispus, chief priest of the synagogue who was baptized together with all his family. The Acts of the Apostles inform us that at some point Corinthian Jews united against Paul. They dragged him to court accusing him that he was illegally trying to convert people follow his preaching. Hebrews’ statement had no result as Paul's problem had nothing to do with the hostility of the pagans but of his fellow citizens.
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Dr Hester
3 Kirkwick Avenue in 1980 - former surgeries
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A patient's tribute
By Barbara Fraser-Newsom
Extracts from 'Suppositories, Stools & Such-like' by Brenda Fraser-Newstead - an article on pre-national health service medical care, copied from the Internet.
The National Health Service was established in 1948, when I was seven years old and my brother three. Prior to that date I assume my parents paid into a private healthcare insurance, to cover basic healthcare costs.
Once the National Health Service came into being, my parents registered with a GP in Harpenden, about four miles from our home, and for years, until his retirement, our National Health GP was Doctor Hester.
Dr Hester was a charming and most charismatic character who gave us excellent service, was most professional and remains forever with admiration and affection in my memory. During my early life and schooldays he made countless visits to our home. I suspect my biggest problem was bronchitis, possibly owing to my earlier experience of whooping cough. In the event that we children were ‘off-colour’ my mother would leave us in bed, lock the door and go off to work, knowing my brother and I would be safe until her return at lunch-time or early afternoon. There were no mobile phones and we did not have a telephone, but it was a well-calculated risk and I can understand that for her to have taken time off work, would have meant loss of income, on which we all depended. My parents always struggled financially.
Following the inception of the NHS, my mother would have had no hesitation in ringing the doctor’s surgery for advice. She would take the necessary coinage and cycle to the public telephone box on the estate, to do so. If the symptoms were more severe and she suspected we were running a temperature, she would request a visit. Doctor Hester always did his rounds after surgery, which finished at about 11 am. During the morning my mother would bustle around in preparation for his arrival. Our beds would have to look tidy, the floor swept and the rug in front of the fire shaken outside. The coal-fire would be banked up, to heat the bungalow and produce a welcome glow. There was no hand basin in the bathroom, and so the kitchen sink would be cleaned, and the draining board, and everything tidied away. She would put a clean glass of water on the window-sill, in which the doctor would place his thermometer, a clean hand-towel nearby and soap with which the doctor would wash his hands. This ritualistic behaviour continued throughout our long association with Doctor Hester.
Everything was on hold, we children holding our breath in anticipation. No food or drink would be allowed, even though it might be lunchtime. At about the expected time there would be a knock on the front door: everyone but the doctor came to the ‘back door‘, which was actually to the side of the bungalow.
Doctor Hester was erudite, polite, groomed, immaculately presented, always in a pinstripe suit with carefully pressed shirt and cuffs. He always wore a tie, navy-blue Crombie coat and highly polished black shoes, and he carried a black briefcase. His hair was almost white, no sign of thinning, and beautifully cut in the traditional manner of ‘short back and sides’, his complexion pale, his spectacles silver-rimmed. He was articulate and enunciated his speech in a most middle-class, gentile manner which was not in the least offensive.
He would enter the room looking directly at me, sit on the side of my bed and without averting his attention, ask of my mother ‘and how is Brenda today Mrs Woodcock?’ My mother would explain the cause of concern and he would proceed to feel the glands in my neck, look into my throat (my brother and I both had our tonsils and adenoids removed when I was about nine). He would place his thermometer under my tongue and hold my wrist to check my pulse. His hands were always soft and quite warm, as I recall, perhaps because he wore leather gloves, which he removed on arrival. He would examine my chest with his stethoscope, front and back, and tap my back using the fingers of his left hand to tap across, whilst asking me to breath deeply and to cough. ‘Brenda has a slight temperature’ he would say. ‘I am prescribing something which will help her. Keep her warm and in bed for a few days, with plenty of fluids, and let me know if there is no Improvement.’ He would write a prescription and hand this to my mother before bidding me goodbye. My mother would lead him into the kitchen to perform his ablutions before his departure. At this point we all relaxed, and my mother would turn her attention to lunch. Either she or one of her neighbours would get the bus into Harpenden to obtain the medication. Neighbours in our community were always ready to help one-another.
Doctor Hester obviously dealt with a variety of problems which we all encountered, and one problem we all seemed to have - from time to time - was constipation. Liquid paraffin, cabbage and other ‘greens‘, syrup of figs, plums and prunes were some natural remedies, but failing everything, suppositories were a reliable remedy. One of my parents also used these for the relief of ‘piles‘. Until my dying day I shall ever recall Doctor Hester saying, with great decorum, ‘do not strain whilst at stool‘. For years I imagined my mother sitting on the kitchen stool straining the vegetables and wondered why this could be detrimental to her health!
A friend of mine once remarked that his mother was in such awe of her doctor, that had he suggested to her that she take a clean axe and chop off her leg to relieve the pain of arthritis, she would willingly have done so. I cannot imagine Doctor Hester proposing anything as extreme, but I am certain that my mother would follow his instructions to the letter and without question. He in turn served us most faithfully and conscientiously until his retirement from the profession. There was an aura about Doctor Hester: he inspired admiration and confidence. We felt ourselves blessed to have such a refined gentleman and someone so well-educated, attend us in our humble abode. We were privileged to have the benefit of his sound advice and care.
Dr Kenneth Hester and his wife Muriel (known as Mewie) moved into Roundwood at about the same time as us (1938), so we were both new to Harpenden and became quite friendly. I remember outings to Dunstable Downs where my father would remove the back seat of our car and have us sliding down the slopes on it.
My mother, having trained as a dental nurse, had a special rapport with the Doctor. They would exchange mock medical language with each other such as ‘how is the patient today’ and ‘does the doctor recommend a little chicken soup?’
When a doctor was new to a practice in those days he would have very few private patients until he became known. I rather think we were one of Dr Hester's first private patients. He was our family doctor until he retired when my mother helped throw a party for him at the Public Hall. There was a photo of him surrounded by all the children whose birth he had attended.
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Sweet Moment: Henry Meets Young Fan In Naples
@xica25 met Henry in Naples as he wrapped up filming in the area for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Thanks for sharing these great photos. More filming updates to come!
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Naples Thanks Warner Bros. + Two New U.N.C.L.E. Locations
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As The Man from U.N.C.L.E. continues filming in Naples, a local newspaper is thanking the studio and the local administration for bringing production to the area. In an open letter, Cronaca Flegrea says it hopes the film showcases the region at an international level.
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This weekend the cast and crew have been hard at work at two locations including Mostra d'Oltremare pictured above. Learn more about the Overseas Exhibition at their site. It looks like an amazing place filled with gardens and historical buildings.
The second location is a breathtaking beauty. Welcome to Procida.
La Repubblica reports that filming took place there as well on Saturday. The paper says a crew of 14 people worked a full day in the Bay of Corricella, with local fishermen participating in the film with their boats. "Il Postino" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" with Matt Damon both filmed there, attracting tourists to the area. The paper says the hope is The Man from U.N.C.L.E. does the same. The local government also secured an official presentation of the film on the island. Some of the shots we'll hopefully see in the movie include the marina, and gorgeous views overlooking the sea from the Church of Saint Margaret.
Click here to see Procida's location in relation to the other places where filming has taken place over the last week.
The paper goes on to say that the director and the actors had lunch at "Graziella" restaurant pictured below.
The shoot was coordinated by the organizers of the Procida Film Festival.
As we continue to bring you U.N.C.L.E. filming updates, we have to say this is by far our favorite location. Procida looks like a painting. Can't wait to see it in the film.
Giulia, our thanks as always.
Labels: All About Henry, Italy, Production, The Man from U.N.C.L.E
No Napoleon Solo Sightings, But HELLO Tunnel Chase Scene!
Look what ilmondodisuk came across on the set of U.N.C.L.E. in Pozzuoli yesterday.. Henry's chair! - marliimarl_ had told us about it, when she checked out the south London set of the film and met Henry. You can see him walking away from it, in this pic from that day. So cool to see Solo's chair up close.
Thanks to SunBurnJules, we've also gotten a close-up look at Henry's commando outfit at the Pozzuoli set, plus some of the scenes that were shot there. HMSSWeblog says that particular costume may be part of some Easter eggs being put in the film. We were the first ones to tell you about one of those items (Solo's pinky ring), but they have a lot more details about the connection to the original TV series. Check it out.
And this is a first look at Elizabeth Debicki doing some water scenes in Naples. Who she plays is still a mystery.. good girl or bad girl? either way, loving the retro outfit!
Photo: Daily Mail
As filming winds down in the Naples area, we were hoping to catch a glimpse of the vintage chopper used in the Bond series. It was supposed to take part in today's filming, but no luck getting a pic. However thanks to FreeBacoli, we did get a bit of a peek at the chase scene we told you about a few weeks ago. It reportedly involved a criminal that while trying to flee Baia castle (below) escapes in a car, giving way to a chase that leads up a tunnel to the lighthouse in Miseno. The following pictures pretty much tell the story.
The crew hard at work
Photo: Thebutterflyeffectfly
As the film starts taking shape, we are so excited to bring you the latest details as they come in. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. looking pretty darn cool. Go Solo!
Fan Captures Henry In Action On 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' Set
The very awesome SunBurnJules was able to see some of the action at the Pozzuoli pier set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and she has plenty to share with you guys. Read what to look for when you click on the HQ version of her photos:
These are the pics I took in Pozzuoli. In the photos you can see the part of the sequence of the scene they were shooting yesterday afternoon, Henry was in the green vintage car. In the other ones Henry and Guy are going to dinner before filming the boat scene near the "molo caligoliano." After dinner they were in a hurry so Henry took just a few photos with the fans.
Thanks so much for sharing Giulia. Check out her pictures below, & don't miss the rest of the HQ pics & details from that set. More to come!
Photo: Nicholee83
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Nicholee83: 26/09/2013 fantastic day! I met a polite, sweet and an Awesome Henry Cavill on the U.N.C.L.E. set. Beautiful!
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Labels: All About Henry, Fan Support, Italy, Napoleon Solo, The Man from U.N.C.L.E
First Pics: Henry Heads Off To Sea At The Naples U.N.C.L.E. Set
We've been keeping you posted on filming on the Italian U.N.C.L.E. sets, and now we have a first look at Henry, who today was out in the waters off the coast of Naples.
A Jersey Island native, he certainly knows how to handle a boat ;)
judygayle55 flagged us about the outfit Henry is wearing. At least the top is by UnderArmour.
retenews24 shared this great fan pic and story about what it took for Henry to get back on land for lunch while filming The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in the middle of the Gulf of Bacoli. A chopper took him to a ship, from which Henry then took a small boat to land at the port of Baia. The paper says "all this for some great coffee" that Henry enjoyed at a local restaurant. Henry reportedly told staff he'd be back with the rest of the cast. (Thanks Angela).
Henry suits up on set!
SEE MORE EXTRAS IN COSTUME ON THE SET
Henry was later spotted in his special forces outfit (?). Looking good Napoleon Solo!
@SunburnJules: @HenryCavillNews I have to thank my boyfriend for that shot! :) Henry looked at him as he was taking pics and he greeted him :)
See the rest of her awesome set pics of Henry with fans & filming some cool scenes.
via ludoscarpati
A few more shots of Henry with Guy Ritchie on set & with his stuntman in the water (via).
Click for larger size
Stay tuned for more from Italy!
Labels: Henry is THE man, Italy, Napoleon Solo
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What is Best in Life?
People, I don’t have much of anything I want to blog about today, so I’m just gonna sit here and deliberately stir up trouble.
What I am about to reveal here is the complete, objective truth.
Who was the best Green Lantern?
Answer: Kyle Rayner.
No, definitely not Hal Jordan. He’s always been a shallow, generally uninteresting character. “Fearless test pilot” isn’t a personality all by itself, and the people out there who seem to freakin’ worship Hal strike me as some of the weirdest people on earth. Yes, that includes the “Hal’s Emerald Attack Team” fanatics and Geoff Johns. As for the rest of them, Guy Gardner’s generally fun, but he’s mostly a gag character. I like John Stewart, especially in the Justice League cartoons. Simon Baz is too new. But Kyle, the last Green Lantern, uncertain, awkward, crab-masked, completely aware of his own fears, freelance artist with the no-yellow-impurity power ring? Kyle was the best.
Who was the best Flash?
Answer: Wally West.
Definitely, definitely not Barry Allen. Having a crew cut and a bow tie makes him the *worst* Flash. Wally was funnier, cooler, more interesting in every possible way — and of course, he was far, far, far faster.
Who was the best Robin?
Answer: Dick Grayson.
Really, I guess the best answer would be “Anyone but Jason Todd.” Because I really like all of the Robins. But Dick was the first Robin, he was Robin for the longest time, and he eventually ended up being the best possible Nightwing, so I’m giving the circus kid the crown.
Who was the best Batgirl?
Answer: Stephanie Brown.
Not to take anything away from Barbara Gordon or Cassandra Cain, because they were pretty cool, but as grim and gritty as the Bat-verse generally is, it was just plain awesome to get to read a Bat-title every month where the lead character wasn’t an emotionally-crippled basket case. Steph was fun and funny and had the best dialogue.
Who was the best Aquaman?
Answer: Bearded, hook-handed Aquaman.
Because I don’t care who writes him, the clean-shaven, orange-shirted nonentity from “Super Friends” just sucks on every possible level.
Who was the best Hawkgirl?
Answer: Kendra Saunders.
Mostly because I liked the idea of a Hawkgirl who, at least initially, didn’t want to be the back half of “Hawkman and” — she didn’t love Hawkman, and she wanted to be her own person. She was even in relationships with people other than Hawkman. Eventually, she fell in love with Hawkman in a way that felt more organic, realistic, and worthwhile, and that was fine with me. She certainly didn’t deserve to get exit-stage-lefted the way she did…
Who was the best Green Arrow?
Answer: The one with the beard.
I liked Connor Hawke, but he’d never be the equal of his dad. And Ollie without a beard just looks like a dork, so he’s gotta have the ridiculous beard.
Who was the best Hulk?
Answer: Angry green stupid Hulk.
I liked the Professor Hulk, actually. And the Green Scar was cool. Joe Fixit is always fun. But angry green stupid Hulk is the strongest one there is.
Who was the best Spider-Man?
Answer: The Peter Parker married to Mary Jane Watson.
Because Spider-Man isn’t Otto Octavius, and he doesn’t make deals with the Devil.
What are the best zombies? Fast or slow?
Answer: Slow zombies.
To quote Max Brooks: “Ha ha, there are no such things as fast zombies!”
So there we go, friends and neighbors, all the mysteries of life cleared up. Go on about your business, please.
February 18, 2013 · Filed under Aquaman, Batgirl, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Hulk, Robin, Spider-Man, Spider-Man made a deal with the Devil?!, Zombies!
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Their mouths covered to ensure silence, these boys are performing a ritual dance in this country--DRC for short
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Show #6669 - Thursday, September 19, 2013
Jared Hall game 6.
Hillary Kwiatek, an employee communication specialist from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Parth Sheth, a medical student from Atlanta, Georgia
Jared Hall, a graduate student in global policy studies from Austin, Texas (5-day champion whose cash winnings total $161,001)
Jeopardy! Round
I'LL HAVE AN OLD SPANISH
WHAT ARE YOU SELLING?
THAT'S THE STORY
FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
JAMES BOND THEMES
(Alex: You identify the motion picture.)
In 1988 Elizabeth II visited Madrid & tried not to gloat about this Spanish force defeated 400 years earlier
Alec Baldwin asks, "What's in your wallet?" in ads for this company
Not just fun on the playground, "unique New York" & other of these phrases are used by actors to warm up
This type of story's name says it all--which character committed the murder?
Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian woman & the first woman of this faith to win the Nobel Peace Prize
"He's the man with the Midas touch"
This 91-year-old Spanish painter died in France in 1973
The negotiator (William Shatner) has a secret daughter (Kaley Cuoco) in ads for this discount travel site
"That sausage was the wurst!" is an example of this, also called paronomasia
A parable is a short story with a moral, like the one Jesus told about this unlikely savior in Luke 10
Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement works to prevent desertification & this, the loss of trees
"One life for yourself, & one for your dreams"
Most of what is now Spain came together under the rule of these 2, the king of Aragon & the queen of Castile
Flo, of the dark hair & red lipstick, wants drivers to try Snapshot from this insurance company
"You don't know? Come on, take a dot in the shark" is an example of this
In Italian it's any tale, & can also mean news; in English it's a longish story, like "The Turn of the Screw"
DD: $1,000 4
Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-winners for 1976, were both born in this troubled city
As 1975 dawned Spain was ruled by this 82-year-old dictator
"Stay thirsty, my friends", says the most interesting man in the world, who prefers this beer
This name of Oprah Winfrey's production company is an example of an ananym
Though its name harks back to medieval times, this genre of mystery & terror thrived from 1790 to 1820
Jody Williams helped found the ICBL, the International Campaign to Ban these, winning her the prize in 1997
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This nickname for a national hero of Spain from the 11th century comes from the Arabic for "the Lord"
Jon Hamm narrates commercials for this luxury car brand
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a word on the monitor.) A word that contains the letters for a synonym within it, like OBSERVE, which includes the word SEE, is this beastly type of word
This adjective follows "penny" in a term for a cheap lurid novel of 19th century England
Rigoberta Menchu kept her Nobel Prize in Mexico while in exile from her homeland, this Central American neighbor
Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):
$3,200 $800 $400
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
$6,000 $2,800 $1,400
Double Jeopardy! Round
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS
(Alex: That was taken from a database of 11 million, and they have a traveling exhibit, so people throughout America can get a chance to see these 50 greatest. We'll only have five of them.)
ON THEIR TOMBSTONES
NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
TRY A SEPARATION
As one of these snapped fences & power lines in its path, Carsten Peter was there to get the photo for an article
1900 to 1971:
"Satchmo"
Completed in 1883, this bridge over the East River was built at a cost of $15 million (but I'll sell it to you for a cool 10)
In 1976 scientists discovered Legionella pneumophila, a new bacterium that causes this form of pneumonia
Legally disconnected from a spouse, or separated "from reality"
These river dolphins seem to glow orange as they swim in the tea-colored waters of this South American river basin
"And the Beat Goes On"
The programs of this mayor of NYC from 1934 to 1945 included slum clearance & airport construction
In the mid-19th c. this Frenchman found that some bacteria are anaerobiotic, meaning they live without oxygen
TORN NET
If your workday is from 9 to 1 & from 5 to 9, you've got this kind of shift
"Explorer ", "Motorcyclist & Daredevil"
James & Franklin, sons of this First Lady & native New Yorker, both served in the House of Representatives
Bacteria are often named according to their shape--bacilli are rod-shaped, cocci are this shape
OILY MAP
Drop 1 letter from a word meaning "harsh" to get this word meaning to cut off a part from the whole
Sadly, after ingesting the marine debris on the right, this once-wandering baby bird died of starvation
"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime"
He was born Henry McCarty in New York City; some 22 years later, Pat Garrett put an end to him
In 1884 Robert Koch discovered that this waterborne disease was caused by a comma-shaped bacillus
LEG HAIR
DD: $3,000 28
This word for "separated" appears in the first sentence of Julius Caesar's "Gallic Wars"
Accompanying an article on bog bodies was a photo of this Danish man likely sacrificed over 2,000 years ago
"World's Greatest Woman Athlete"
38 miles long & 3 miles wide at its broadest point, Seneca is the largest of this "body part" group of lakes
Meaning "acid loving", this "good" species of bacteria is used to make yogurt
SCARY TONIC
Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
$10,000 $13,600 $4,800
Final Jeopardy! Round
This 1960s album ends with the line "I'd love to turn you on"
Final scores:
$20,000 $7,199 $7,200
6-day champion: $181,001 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000
Game dynamics:
Coryat scores:
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1 W 11 R,
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Friday April 1st Cieza to Venta Roman
Venta Roman is a good place to go to on April Fools day because it's the place that doesn't exist. The Murcia Mountaineering and Walking Association reference it as an end of stage point but apart from that reference it doesn't exist at all on the web. It took me days to work out that it was a petrol station so no chance of any accommodation there.
So I'm staying two nights at the wonderful La Linda Tapada and Miguel picked me up at the petrol station at the end of the walk and will take me back there again tomorrow as I head out of Murcia.
The beginning of the walk, for the first hour or so, was along the road. I joined up with walk from La Linda Tapada but it would have been the same if I had set of from Cieza. My leg was really sore when I started, had been painful all night, and I was getting a bit fed up. Walked slowly and after a while it eased up and in the end, although it is a bit swollen, it was not really a problem.
The most distinctive feature of today's walk was the heat. By the time I finished the 26 kilometres at about 3.30 it was 29 degrees. It was fairly low down, and I'm just a few hundred metres of altitude would have made a big difference, but the sun was incredibly strong and it's only April the 1st.
Having walked past the out of town industrial estate and got onto path proper the countryside matched the heat. Incredibly dry, almost desert like. There were some ancient terraces, and a derelict farmstead, but it really looked like agriculture had been abandoned on this stretch. The best thing about this bit of the walk were the views back to the Almarchon, the mountain I walked around yesterday.
To the east of Cieza - almost a desert
Distant view of the Sierra del Almarchon
Eventually the pine trees reappeared and fruit trees and vines started to become the order of the day. Crossing the final pass and heading down to the petrol station I was suddenly in fruit tree alley, a huge expanse of trees, some of them of under different coloured plastic, obviously a really important centre for growing fruit.
Had a beer in the bar near the petrol station while I waited for Miguel. A brand new dual carriageway was under construction behind it, you can see it in the picture, but work on it has postponed. Unfinished blocks of flats and houses are everywhere but it's the first piece of public infrastructure I seen stopped in it's tracks by the Spanish economic crisis.
Venta Roman - Abandoned motorway in the background
Posted by John Hayes at 6:31 PM
Labels: E4 European Walk, GR7, Walking in Murcia
Glad your ankle has been better today. Don't you worry about Gareth Bale. According to today's Times he's well up for it, is learning new tricks and has set his sights in becoming better than Messi or rat face once he has a bit more experience under his belt.
Come on you Spurs
Juan Holgado April 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM
John I expect you have recovered for tomorrow trail when you will not have to ascent or descent any meter, so a pleasant walk. Relax.
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From Samuel Adams, 15 January 1776 Adams, Samuel JA From Samuel Adams, 15 January 1776 Adams, Samuel Adams, John
Philada Jany 15 1776 My dear sir
Altho I have at present but little Leisure, I cannot omit writing you a few Lines by this Express.
I have seen certain Instructions which were given by the Capital of the Colony of New Hampshire to its Delegates in their provincial Convention, the Spirit of which I am not altogether pleased with.1 There is one part of them at least, which I think discovers a Timidity which is unbecoming a People oppressed and insulted as they are, and who at their own Request have been advisd and authorizd by Congress, to set up and exercise Government in such form as they should judge most conducive to their own Happiness. It is easy to understand what they mean when they speak of “perfecting a form of Govt. stable and permanent.” They indeed explain themselves by saying that they “should prefer the Govt. of Congress (their provincial Convention) till quieter times.” The Reason they assign for it, I fear, will be considered as showing a Readiness to condescend to the Humours of their Enemies, and their publickly expressly and totally disavowing Independency either on the Nation or the Man who insolently and perseveringly demands the Surrender of their Liberties with the Bayonet pointed at their Breasts may be construed to argue a Servility 402and Baseness of soul for which Language doth not afford an Epethet. It is by indiscrete Resolutions and Publications that the Friends of America have too often given occasion to their Enemies to injure her Cause. I hope however that the Town of Portsmouth doth not in this Instance speak the Sense of that Colony. I wish, if it be not too late, that you would write your Sentiments of the Subject to our worthy Friend Mr. L——2 who I suppose is now in Portsmouth. If that Colony should take a wrong Step, I fear it would wholly defeat a Design which I confess I have much at heart.3
A Motion was made in Congress the other Day to the following purpose, that whereas we had been charged with aiming at Independency, a Committee should be appointed to explain to the People at large the Principles and Grounds of our Opposition &c.4 The Motion alarmd me. I thought Congress had already been explicit enough, and was apprehensive that we might get ourselves upon dangerous Ground. Some of us prevailed so far as to have the Matter postponed but could not prevent the assigning a Day to consider it. I may perhaps have been wrong in opposing this Motion, and I ought the rather to suspect it, because the Majority of your Colony as well as of the Congress were of a different opinion.
I had lately some free Conversation with an eminent Gentleman5 whom you well know, and whom your Portia, in one of her Letters, admired if I recollect right, for his expressive Silence, about a Confederation, A Matter which our much valued Friend Coll. W.6 is very sollicitous to have compleated. We agreed that it must soon be brought on, and that if all the Colonies could not come into it, it had better be done by those of them that inclind to it. I told him that I would endeavor to unite the New England Colonies in confederating, if none of the rest would joyn in it. He approved of it, and said, if I succeeded he would cast in his Lot among us.
Adieu Jany 16th
As this Express did not sett off yesterday according to my Expectation, I have the opportunity of acquainting you that Congress has just receivd a Letter from General Washington inclosing the Copy of an Application of our General Assembly to him to order Payment to four Companies stationed at Braintree Weymouth and Hingham.7 The General says they were never regimented, and he cannot comply with the Request of the Assembly without the Direction of Congress. A Committee is appointed to consider the Letter of which I am one. I fear there will be a Difficulty and therefore I shall endeavor to pre-403vent a Report on this part of the Letter, unless I shall see a prospect of Justice being done to the Colony, till I can receive from you authentick Evidence of those Companies having been actually employed by the continental officers, as I conceive they have been, in the Service of the Continent. I wish you would inform me whether the two Companies stationed at Chelsea and Maldin were paid out of the Continents Chest. I suppose they were, and if so, I cannot see Reason for any Hesitation about the payment of these. I wish also to know how many others our Colony is at the Expence of maintaining for the Defence of its Sea Coasts. Pray let me have some Intelligence from you, of the Colony which we represent. You are sensible of the Danger it has frequently been in of suffering greatly for Want of regular Information.
RC (Adams Papers); with enclosure. This letter was forwarded by James Warren (Warren to JA, 31 Jan., below).
These instructions, which appeared in an enclosed clipping from a Philadelphia newspaper, and from which Samuel Adams quotes below, intended a firm stand against independence and cited the bad effect that the precipitate assumption of government by the New Hampshire Convention would have because it would allow Britain to persuade its people that independence was the American aim (Documents & Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire, ed. Nathaniel Bouton, 7 vols., Nashua, N.H., 1867–1873, 7:701–702).
John Langdon, delegate to the congress from New Hampshire, had obtained a leave of absence on 2 Jan. ( JCC , 4:23).
Presumably independent governments for other colonies, which would lead in turn to independence from Great Britain.
This motion was offered by James Wilson of Pennsylvania on 9 Jan. On the 24th a committee composed of John Dickinson, Wilson, William Hooper, James Duane, and Robert Alexander was appointed to prepare an address to the American people. On 13 Feb. the address, which was in the hand of Wilson, and which, according to one observer, was “very long, badly written and full against Independency,” was tabled by the congress, never to be considered again (Richard Smith's Diary, 9, 24 Jan. and 13 Feb. in Burnett, ed., Letters of Members , 1:304, 326, 348; JCC , 4:87, 134–146, which contains the draft of the address).
Benjamin Franklin; see AA to JA, 5 Nov. 1775 ( Adams Family Correspondence , 1:320–321).
James Warren, who had called for a confederation in a letter to JA on 14 Nov. 1775 (above) and in another to Samuel Adams, which, though not found, is referred to in Samuel Adams to Warren of 7 Jan. 1776 ( Warren-Adams Letters , 1:197–200). “W” is identified as George Wythe in JA, Works , 9:373 and thus by Burnett in Letters of Members , 1:311. This identification is mistakenly based on William Gordon's History (3 vols., N.Y., 1794, 2:13), in which Gordon, quoting from this letter, identifies the person with whom Adams spoke as probably a Virginia delegate. Gordon makes no reference to Franklin, the central figure in the paragraph and in the controversy over the Articles of Confederation.
Washington's letter of 31 Dec. 1775 was referred to a committee consisting of Samuel Adams, George Wythe, and James Wilson (PCC, No. 152, I; JCC , 4:54; see also Josiah Quincy to JA, 2 Jan., note 1, above).
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Schneider Electric’s VP HR reveals how AI sparked talent culture shift in 2020
Innovative AI technology has sparked a culture shift around talent opportunities for one of ANZ’s major employers.
Schneider Electric’s award-winning Open Talent Market platform uses advanced algorithms to match an employee’s skillsets with internal project opportunities across both Australia and New Zealand.
HRD spoke to Dean Summlar, Schneider Electric’s vice president of HR, who said the company’s disruptive technology is changing the ethos around career development.
“We have an aspiration that by 2025, we’ll see three times more employee driven development interactions,” he said.
“We’re really shifting the balance, taking the control and putting it into the employee’s hands.
“While career opportunities might be a management responsibility or a mentor’s responsibility, ultimately, we believe the person who should be in the driver’s seat should be the employee.”
The economic benefits of an agile workforce were already well-established among human capital trends worldwide.
Many HR leaders understood the value of being able to react to changing workforce demands rather than rely on traditional recruitment methods.
Deloitte’s 2019 Global Human Capital Trends research noted that for a business to thrive, it must mobilise staff from within in order to meet operational needs.
It said this mobility must be perceived as natural and normal, creating opportunities for workers at all levels of the business.
Before the pandemic hit, Schneider Electric had piloted the platform in a few hero countries, with a three-year global rollout plan in place.
But then, the COVID-19 crisis changed everything.
Having an agile, adaptable workforce became key and as the company slowed down its recruitment, it needed to shift the focus to utilising internal talent.
Summlar said the intent of the platform was to “democratise opportunities” away from the traditional route of a manager looking at their direct team for a new project.
Instead, the platform created three routes for career development, including internal job postings, one-off project opportunities and openings for mentor relationships.
After an employee uploads a profile and tags their areas of interest and expertise, the algorithms match those with opportunities across the business.
The platform suggests suitable options for employees to explore and also creates a simple, straightforward process of showing their interest with the click of a button.
Summlar said while the technology was robust and in-place before the pandemic, the big change came from encouraging leaders to rethink how they viewed career development, particularly in widening the scope for involvement in projects or missions.
“Instead of the manager asking someone on their team or someone in their immediate network to undertake a piece of work, you can create a much wider ecosystem of talent that has the opportunity to work with you,” he said.
When it came to encouraging buy-in from the C-suite, storytelling proved to be a powerful tool for the HR team, Summlar said.
With the emergence of virtual working, an employee in Australia taking on a project or a mentoring opportunity in New Zealand was now a realistic possibility.
By taking on opportunities they may not have had a chance to previously, employees would be able to expand their skillset and gain new experience, boosting both career progression and engagement with the company.
These anecdotes, Summlar said, demonstrated the value of the platform not only to the C-suite, but to other employees too.
With 2020 highlighting the value of a highly adaptable and agile workforce, Schneider Electric’s disruptive platform has set the company in a strong position for future challenges ahead.
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Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan – Water Treatment Plant
Project: DOC Removal / DBP Reduction
Project Summary: Similar to many communities in Saskatchewan, the Town of Hudson Bay is faced with treating a challenging raw water source. The town’s raw water source is
high in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) compounds, which are precursors to the formation of disinfection by-products (DBP), such as trihalomethanes (THM) and haloacetic acids (HAA). After evaluating several treatment options to improve DOC removal and DBP reduction, the town chose to pilot a fluidized bed ion exchange process utilizing a magnetized resin, referred to as the MIEX® Process, applied as pretreatment to the existing plant. Pilot testing was completed in 2008. The pilot system treated the raw water source directly, and its use resulted in significant reductions in DOC concentrations and DBP formation.
Challenge: The Town of Hudson Bay is a community of approximately 2,000 in population in east central Saskatchewan. The town’s surface water treatment plant treats water from a
variety of surface water sources, at a maximum flow of 2.7 MLD. The current treatment process includes oxidant addition and coagulation, followed by clarification using a packaged treatment system. The water is then chlorinated and discharged to the town’s distribution system. The town’s raw water source can contain more than 8 mg/L of DOC and can also exhibit high UV254 absorbance. The significant concentrations of DOC present in the raw water source were not consistently removed by the town’s existing conventional treatment process, which resulted in distribution system TTHM concentrations that were, at times, in excess of the Health Canada MAC of 100 μg/L. The Hudson Bay Water Treatment Plant was challenged to reduce distribution system TTHM concentrations, while minimizing system operating cost and operational complexity.
Solution: The town chose to address their challenges with TTHM formation through DOC removal and opted to pilot test a MIEX® Pretreatment system, to assess its effect on DBP
formation. Pilot testing was completed in September of 2008, and the decision was made to install a 2.7 MLD MIEX® System as pretreatment to the plant’s conventional treatment process. The MIEX® Process was selected due to its pilot scale performance and the anticipated downstream reduction in coagulant demand. During the pilot testing, the MIEX® Process alone reduced TTHM formation to less than 60% of the MAC, with similar reductions in HAA5 observed. Downstream coagulation is expected to remove additional DOC and further reduce DBP formation. Bench scale testing indicated the potential for a significant reduction in coagulant dose; from a plant dose of 65 mg/L of PACl to a dose of 5 mg/ L of PACl required after MIEX® Pretreatment. After construction bidding in August 2010,the 2.7 MLD MIEX® System is currently under construction at the Town of Hudson Bay, with commissioning in 2011.
Project Outcome: Based on bench and pilot scale results, the MIEX® System at the Town of Hudson Bay is expected to achieve the following results:
• Average DOC removal of 64%
• Average reduction in UV254 absorbance of 89%
• DBP formation that meets Health Canada Requirements, with TTHM formation of 55-60 μg/L and HAA5 formation of 40-45 μg/L, using MIEX® Treatment only
• Reduced consumption of coagulant and disinfection chemicals With the construction project underway, Lawrence Lukey, President of Bullée Consulting states, “We are excited to have identified an effective solution for the treatment of the high DOC water sources
that are prevalent throughout so much of this region.”
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John Marcano, UCF alumnus and former Cool Stuff staff, reviews his Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Without a home base for gameplay, players like him will have to find new places to duel.
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With game store closure, Yu-Gi-Oh! fans search for a new home
John Michonski
Many UCF students and alumni have been impacted by the COVID-19 virus. For fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game, however, the virus has put a hamper on the future of them playing the game.
Cool Stuff Games at Waterford Lakes shut its doors for good on Oct. 15. John Marcano, UCF film graduate and former staff member in charge of Yu-Gi-Oh! events, said he places blame squarely on COVID-19.
“There were three Cool Stuffs in Orlando. I can assume of the three locations, Waterford was one of the largest tournament-run stores,” Marcano said. “Most of the store was run on tournaments. When it came time for stores to come back to retail only, I can assume that Waterford was hit the hardest. When the tournaments went, I think the closure was something a lot of people saw coming.”
Losing a specific spot to play won’t kill the UCF Yu-Gi-Oh! community, restaurant management major Jay McNeal said. He thinks it will just make finding a game a bit more difficult.
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, I haven't played much Yu-Gi-Oh! at all," McNeal said. "It's kind of hard when there isn't a central area to play and a lot of people are still cautious about meeting up, rightfully so."
All of the people that previously played at Waterford — because they were so close to UCF — will now have to go to those other locations, Marcano said.
“While some of them do have the ability to travel and go to those other locations to play tournaments, some may not. It might force people who can only play locally to find each other through social media or however they made contacts while at Waterford," Marcano said.
McNeal believes there is a future for the card game, as the creator, Konami, has taken steps to keep the game alive during the crisis.
"I'm sure they have come up with a plan, and if they haven't, they will," McNeal said. "Konami has been very good with adjusting with the current climate, from doing remote dueling, to postponing product release dates. So I'm sure they'll adjust once we get to that point."
As for now, Marcano sees the game as active, but in a different way than before.
“At first I was a little nervous about how this will go, but recently I’ve started to be a lot more optimistic about the future of Yu-Gi-Oh!" Marcano said. "Product has been flying off the shelves, people are still buying cards. People are holding onto hard to get items. If anything, Yu-Gi-Oh! has become dormant, become a collector’s hobby, until further notice.”
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DVD Review: May I Kill U?
The Horror Channel launches Horror Club
DVD Review: Playback
Settling down to watch a straight-to-DVD horror flick can be a risky business, as for every decent movie there are a string of dodgy ones.
And then you get those that not only are not particularly good, but are also pretty annoying to boot – and that is where Playback comes in.
Chock full of annoying characters, annoying dialogue and annoying plot developments, the whole thing is – well, annoying really.
The film starts off well enough, with a gruesome opening as nutjob Harlan Diehl sets about slaughtering his family in their home – all on camera of course.
He is then gunned down by the cops, but only after ‘transferring’ his evil into the video camera he was using.
Fast forward a number of years, and we join an extremely irritating group of media students who are producing a documentary of sorts regarding the murders.
The lead, Julian (Johnny Pacar), also has a mate who works down at the local TV station, allowing him access to the raw footage from the time of the crimes.
And this is when things go haywire, as watching the footage unleashes the spirit of Diehl, leading to carnage all round.
I know what you are thinking – evil emerging after watching an old video tape, that’s ‘The Ring’ right?
Well, the makers of this think they are cleverer than they are, and indeed have a character mention The Ring early in the movie, as though that lets them off.
As if all this wasn’t bad enough, for some reason Christian Slater pops up as a sweaty, paedophile police officer who uses cameras to spy on some of the students.
His role serves no real purpose, other than to give the filmmakers the opportunity to put a name on the DVD sleeve.
There are some neat effects, and at times it looks as though the film may go down an interesting route, but a barrage of bad performances, poor scripting and a series of leads that you simply cannot wait to see die ensure that Playback is a movie you would certainly not want to see more than once.
Simon is a journalism tutor in London, who also just happens to be a movie fanatic, with a craving for the darker side of cinema. He has written three books - on the horror films of director Bob Clark (2014), the history of the character Norman Bates (2015) and the work of British exploitation director Pete Walker (2017). He is currently working with director Richard Loncraine to explore all avenues in a bid to orchestrate the re-release of 1978 Mia Farrow chiller Full Circle
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#NEWMUSIC: BEYONCÉ – “GROWN WOMAN” LIVE IN PARIS | MRS. CARTER H&M SUMMER COLLECTION TV SPOT
This is probably the closest we’ll get to hearing Beyoncé‘s Grown Woman until the Track gets a proper release. After first surfacing on Queen B‘s Pepsi TV Spot recently, Fans in Paris attending her Mrs. Carter Show Tour last night got to hear it in full first. Fortunately, many brought Cameras.
And for those of you who for a Sneak Peak at her upcoming Collaboration with H&M, that Dress she’s donning isn’t from the Collection. It’s actually a Kenzo. Gorgeous nonetheless.
Enjoy a Clip below:
H&M has just released a Preview of the Beyoncé as Mrs. Carter in H&M TV Spot for their Summer Collection, featuring a brand new Track, Standing on the Sun; Jonas Åkerlund directs. Am actually feeling this a bit more than Grown Woman, to be honest!
(Photo credit: Beyoncé | Audio content: Sony Music | Video content: H&M)
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BEYONCÉ IN NEW TV SPOT FOR PEPSI FEATURING “GROWN WOMAN”
“Embrace your past, but live for now”.
After a bit of a tease online, Beyoncé today released her brand new TV Spot for Pepsi, featuring a Clip of her new Track Grown Woman. No word on whether this is actually her new Single or not. The Commercial seems Queen B rehearsing before some of her most famous past versions of herself in mirrors (did she a Justin Timberlake coordinate this, perhaps?), presumably for her upcoming The Mrs. Carter Show Tour this Summer? Okay, we get it Beyoncé, we all know you’re going on tour. We know you’re just checking, but honestly, we get it!
As always, she looks amazing and it takes an amazing sense of timing to be able as getting this right is no easy feat.
See the TV Spot below:
(Photo/video credit: Pepsi)
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#COLAWARS: POP GIANTS COCA COLA & PEPSI WAGE BATTLE WITH BEYONCÉ AND MARC JACOBS AD CAMPAIGNS
Soft Drink Giants Coca Cola and Pepsi will be butting heads and their weapons? Fashion and Celebrity. Style Icons Beyoncé and Marc Jacobs are set to make a carbonated splash soon with Ad Campaigns, the former for Pepsi, the latter for Diet Coke/Coke Light. But who does it better and who will gain the most from these Celebrity affiliations?
Jacobs, named Creative Director at Coca Cola recently, is helping celebrate their 30th Anniversary with his limited edition Pop Cans, paying tribute to empowered Women of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. The accompanying Ad Campaigns, true to form whether it be his Handbags or Fragrances, feature his Yoga-toned Body in all its partially-nude glory, savouring and then splashing the Diet Coke/Coke Light into the Camera, before crushing his self-designed Can presumably for Recycling? The Cans are set to debut on February 28, 2013 in the U.S., Coca Cola Canada confirms they have no plans to carry the cans in Canada.
Beyoncé‘s reported $50-million Campaign with Pepsi comparably humbles the Jacobs’ collaboration with Coca Cola, getting major exposure at the recent Super Bowl with the company sponsoring her much talked-about Halftime Show and just yesterday the look of her edition Warhol-inspired Pop Art Ads were unveiled. Some Fans are criticizing that the Ads don’t show her African-American heritage enough, while others are criticizing that Michelle Obama‘s v. public stance in the fight against Obesity is being disrespected with Beyoncé – who is supported v. publicly by Obamas – endorsing such a sugary Soft Drink. Critics though, fail to acknowledge that the Pop Star’s relationship with Pepsi began back in 2001, long before Obama being elected into the White House. Really, who in their right mind would $50-million? Blue Ivy needs a College Fund. Europeans will be first to get the limited edition Beyoncé Cans in March 2013.
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Molecular detection and comparison of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici isolates originating from wheat and rye
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The August Cieszkowski Agricultural University, Department of Phytopathology Dąbrowskiego 159, 60-594 Poznań, Poland
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Journal of Plant Protection Research 2007;47(3):299–308
Gaeumannomyces graminis
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Virology and Bacteriology
Gaeumannomyces graminis is an etiologic agent of take-all, economically important disease of cereals worldwide. A polymerase chain reaction with variety-specific primers was successfully used for detection of G. graminis var. tritici in plant tissue. Obtained results showed that this diagnostic method is a very sensitive and useful tool for detection of the pathogen even before disease symptoms arise. DNA polymorphism revealed by RAPD-PCR with three arbitrary primers was suitable for assessing genetic variation among Ggt isolates originating from wheat and rye.
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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Mexico:Ensure hotel, jewelry and cash Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The PGR said Tuesday that detention order was issued against nine operators Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), including the son, a brother, a son and two brothers of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the Mencho , principal leader of this criminal organization.
The agency also said those involved around 160 million pesos, including real estate, cars, jewelry, bank accounts, cash and even animals.
In a statement he said that after the capture of nine major members of the criminal organization, through the Specialized Deputy Attorney Research Organized Crime (SEIDO) seized 34 properties with a value of 91 million 591 thousand 466.57 pesos, including a hotel in the town of La Cruz de Loreto, in Tomatlan, with an estimated value of 20 million pesos.
The PGR noted that Rubén Oseguera, The Menchito , was seized 17 million 757 thousand 743 pesos and US $ 609mil 990.
In addition, Cesar Molina Casarín, The Tornado , who was placed as the armed wing of the group, were secured him a million pesos and 389 000 500 496 000 50 US dollars.
In the case of bank accounts, they have secured ten with a total of 2 million 753 000 96 pesos, two of them on behalf of the Menchito and four Nazario Gonzalez Valencia, member of The Cuinis, CJNG ally.
Among the seized include 139 vehicles, several luxury, with a total value of more than 36 million pesos; a boat at a cost of 45 thousand pesos, and 89 jewels with a value of almost eight million pesos, including several brand watches.
In operations to weaken the financial structure of CJNG, the PGR has seized more than 19 million 451 thousand 863 pesos in cash and 621 thousand US dollars, plus 10 bank accounts with 2 million 753 thousand 096.99 pesos, and 348 livestock or animals valued at one million 767 thousand 426 pesos.
According to research by the SEIDO, preliminary inquiries initiated against members of CJNG are concentrated in Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan and Veracruz.
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Aladdin: Jan 13-19, Queenscliff Uniting Church Hall
QLTG returns to 360Q for LowLight 2019 - Introducing our director!
Following the success of last year's sellout season of After Dinner, QLTG are pleased to announce that we will be returning to 360Q for this year's LowLight festival in June.
We will be announcing this show very soon, as well as all the audition information, but first we are thrilled to welcome Robyn Birrell as director!
Robyn Birrell
Robyn Birrell began her professional arts industry career as a founding member of the Mill Theatre Company in Geelong and later, within that community, undertook the joint roles of Program Manager for Geelong Performing Arts Centre and Executive Officer of the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres for over a decade. In 2006 she moved to NSW and assisted in the establishment of The Glasshouse, a new multi-art form cultural centre in Port Macquarie. In 2010 she returned to Melbourne, taking on the role of Artistic Producer, Performing Arts at Gasworks Arts Park and in 2012 she joined Arts Centre Melbourne’s (ACM) programming team working as the Producer on the Hamer Hall re-opening as well as programs such as Carnegie 18; New Music Theatre Program, Kenneth Myer Asian Theatre Season, Full Tilt and the long running Morning Melodies Season. By 2014 Robyn had crossed to the commercial side of the ACM business and took on the newly developed position of Venue Sales Manager. In this role she maintained the relationships with the key resident companies and drives the hiring revenue for the main theatres and the Hamer Hall.
Robyn has held Governance roles with Geelong’s Courthouse Inc., The Arts Industry Council of Victoria and Queenscliff Music Festival as well being on panels for Arts Victoria’s Regional Arts Development Fund, Community Liaison Officers and Professionals in Residence Development Fund and the Organisation’s Investment Program over a number of years. While working in regional NSW Robyn was a panel member for the Arts NSW Touring Fund Panel and NSW Dance Fund Panel and an Executive Board Member for INAPAC.
Queenscliffe Lighthouse Theatre Group are thrilled to have Robyn on board, and are looking forward to another successful joint venture with the LowLight Festival and the 360Q restaurant.
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Essay: Growing Up a Game Changer
The Pudgy Dictator
By Christopher Sloce
Illustration cred: Liz Cleaves
I've entered the game of pricks
with knives in the back of me
Our community shared the backyard, no doubt driving my conservative dad nuts, and proving him a hypocrite if it didn’t. Lucky for him, the community’s rambunctiousness ended with my stepbrother and me. He was towheaded and average sized, nothing shouting athletic about him, despite my dad’s best efforts; either way they were secondhand efforts, worn down after my resistance. My stepbrother would have loved nothing more than to have my resilience. Even though that’s an exaggeration of the real case: a love they and everyone else found odd.
I loved games. Not games of sport. Games of strategy. Games with stakes beyond a point in a column. Games where one action figure disposed of another action figure, but the powers based on his appearance. Fighting tournaments where I fudged results against my own rules, giving precedence to whoever I simply thought looked cooler. Games at school where we made paper robots with fantastical statistic and no balance; those games often ended in stalemates or people beginning to care less. I drew components of games on file cards, tried to print them, failed miserably. My friends and I tried to start companies to develop games. Sometimes they had real-life stakes. I got put on the detention bench for three days because one game (it involved fighting food items, and I will give you a solid gold pair of cowboy boots if you can guess the name) resulted into a crossover with a deadlier game called dogfighting, the rules of which were, “Don’t be the fourth grader who gets thrown to the ground first." This game was something my dad could understand: a notion of masculine honor, sprouting from a debate concerning whose French fries had stronger psychic powers.
They were games about making rules, then me breaking them as I saw fit, no different from any dictator. And nobody wants to be ruled over by a pudgy fourth grader, so the best games were winnable mainly because we had no idea what we were going for.
The best game my stepbrother and I probably ever took apart in we called “Wild Onion Farmers." There were no monsters. Stakes, certainly. We were attempting something akin to actual pioneers: making the land comprehend our vision for it. And, boy, did it never comply. Sticks we were trying to make fenced sections sank in dirt or snapped, or were uneven. We picked it and used them as sort of economy that was barely memorable. And this game we played together. We put aside petty differences to make our frontier habitable. Soon the wild onion ran out and so did our interest in the game.
Or rather, our chewing the onion became cause for concern. I suppose my dad probably said something nice, like, “Get those damn things out of your mouth." My dad also felt the need to control games, and once he joined our game, we found some other way to entertain ourselves. He didn’t seem to understand that our insistence on playing game were a point of disappearance. He, too, had games.
Our family became invested in games as a unit when we began watching "Jeopardy." I’m not sure when it began, but it caught on. They sat on leather couches while my stepbrother and I sat on the floor, experiencing four drubbings a month, the days when my dad had custody of me. I fared better than he did because I had five years on my stepbrother and spent a lot of time as a second grader sucking up encyclopedias.
My dad defeated us, including my stepmother, in "Jeopardy." Drubbings isn’t the word. They were ass-kickings unparalleled. His rules were stone set: no answering while Alex talked. No talking during "Jeopardy," a rule he stole from his own father, who made shut his family up during "Crossfire" with William F. Buckley. My stepmother often came in second: she was an arbiter of particularly useless knowledge, which was fitting, because she dated a member of Urge Overkill, a fact she trumpeted to me as my teenage stole songs in the hundreds using LimeWire. I was the third least clueless, the one with the highest useless knowledge score.
The meetings to play "Jeopardy" were a time to rule some of the chaos that our house trucked in. Everything else was a mess, but "Jeopardy" was not. My dad’s status as an entrepreneur fluctuated. My stepmother steadily quit cooking, stayed in bed all day, nursing hangovers, only coming out periodically. A case of beer came in every night and left in the morning.
We continued to play "Jeopardy" but I know the point the game became manipulative. A few weeks earlier a friend of my stepmother’s stepfather, a guy who came and went out of our life but seemed nice enough, a pudgy guy, not looking that much different from me in my middle college years, showed up. No idea what his business was. I remember he wore a red polo he tucked into his pants. Comparing him to my dad, he had to look good. I remember while he and my stepmother talked, my stepbrother and me sitting in our hot tub, my stepmother stated that "tucking a shirt in gave a man an extra gut." This is the advice that made me look like a ragamuffin in wedding pictures and advice my dad was damned if he followed or ignored.
One of those few weekends I ended up at my dad’s place, Friday night, while watching "Jeopardy," there was a guy on television who looked similar my stepmother’s friend. It was "Final Jeopardy." During the musical break, I pointed out the resemblance to my dad and stepmother. My stepmother stifled a laugh or two and my dad went upstairs. I asked what I did wrong.
“Oh, your dad doesn’t like him,” she said.
I didn’t ask why. I had a good idea.
I only have one more good memory of games and the yard. There was some sketchy figure named Rusty who started hanging out around our house, someone else my dad also didn’t like. He had hair colored like a scarecrow’s weathered straw and didn’t dress much fresher. My stepbrother and I were upstairs when my dad sent us outside. We had no game. We walked around in the slope of grass, talking about what was going on inside. I had heard a few strange rumblings of what was going to happen, mainly from my stepmother, who was also keen on sharing details about her periods and where the conception of my stepbrother happened.
In the yard I told my stepbrother, “I think we’re gonna be okay.” No pudgy dictator could have changed the ending. She ran off to Tazewell, maybe with Rusty, stepbrother in tow. I stayed with my dad. Freshman year of college, in Carytown, we walked around and he mentioned the strategic games I used to play.
“I’m glad you snapped out of that period,” he said.
What he didn’t know was my creative advertising degree was a Trojan horse to get an English degree and he was shut out of the decision making process. I never snapped out of the period. I just left the yard.
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EU commissioner concerned by new NGO's law and websites blacklist
State Duma adopts draft law on NGOs in second reading
"Foreign agent" term should be removed from NGO draft law
State Duma may adopt draft law on website blacklist in first reading
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BRUSSELS, July 13 - RAPSI. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Anna Cecilia Malmstroem expressed her concern on Twitter on Friday over Russia's adoption of a law branding non-profit organizations "foreign agents" and a "website blacklist" containing information banned from distribution in the country.
The State Duma passed in the third reading a bill on granting a foreign agent status to nonprofit organizations financed from abroad and involved in politics at its meeting on Friday.
The "foreign agents" will be entered into a special registry and different legal regulations will be applied to them, which will not affect ordinary non-profit organizations.
The regulations will stipulate specific accountability and checks.
On Wednesday, the State Duma approved in the second and third readings a law on setting up a single registry of domains and websites with illegal content. The registry will be established as of November.
A draft law envisaging the blacklist was submitted to the State Duma in early June and adopted in the first reading on July 6. The list will include websites with information harmful for children, especially child pornography or promoting suicide or drugs.
The Internet community reacted negatively to the bill, fearing government censorship. Wikipedia staged a protest as a result, temporarily shutting down its Russian segment on Tuesday.
16:57 13/07/2012 European Commissioner for Home Affairs Anna Cecilia Malmstroem expressed her concern on Twitter on Friday over Russia's adoption of a law branding non-profit organizations "foreign agents" and a "website blacklist" containing information banned from distribution in the country.
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This cedar covered cottage sits on the site of Arthur Ingram's store at the corner of Alabama Highway 50 and Andrews Mill Road. The cottage was built from the lumber that came from the store and erected on the nearby hill by Monroe Bush. Jesse Abrams later bought the cottage from Monroe Bush and lived in it for several years. Jesse sold the property, including this site, to Raymond Eugene Hall in 1971. The cottage was then moved down the hill and located on the identical site where the old Ingram store was located. The indentations for the old store basement are still visible today.
Into the old store, on the Saturday afternoon of June 2nd, 1932, came Dennis Smith and Norman Taunton. They were reported to be in a bad mood with Mr. Arthur because he had been implying to the people of the community that they had been the arsonists responsible for the burning of his grist mill a few months back. The argumentive conversation began to be intimidating to Mr. Arthur and he began to back up into an adjoining bedroom. There under a pillow on the bed Mr. Arthur retrieved a pistol and shot both Dennis and Norman who both apparently succumbed to their wounds.
Mr. Arthur reported the incident to Sheriff J. Hasty Golden. On Monday Coroner P. G. Enslen declared the deaths to be justifiable homicides. But the deaths of the two men left a residue of lingering animosity between the families of the two men and Mr. Ingram's family for many years.
This is a scene from the Refuge Cemetery, at Alabama Highway 229 and Alabama Highway 50. The Smith tombstone in the foreground and the Taunton tombstone directly behind with the identical dates of death of June 2nd, 1932 are sad reminders of old animosities turning into tragedies.
This tranquil scene of the still waters of a slough on Lake Martin, just down the Weldon Road and behind the current home of Leroy and Betty Coker does not divulge the tragic drownings that occurred almost right on this spot on June 23rd, 1932. On this pleasant Saturday in late June, Bernard Walls and his new bride of 3 weeks, Floree Betts Walls were wading in this slough along with Alma Walls, the sister of Bernard, and Loree Betts, the sister of Floree Betts Walls. Loree was the only one that did not know how to swim. She stepped into an unseen underwater ditch and went in over her head. The other three began to try to rescue her until one after the other they all drowned. There were others standing on the bank of the slough watching but could not swim and consequently watched in horror as 4 people lost their lives drowning in Lake Martin. The Walls family and the Betts family, as a result, each lost 2 of their children.
These are the 4 tombstones of the drowning victims of Saturday, June 23rd, 1934. In the center are the graves of Bernard Walls and his wife of 3 weeks, Floree Betts Walls. On the right is the grave of Bernard's sister Alma and on the left is the grave of Floree's sister Loree. All contain the date of death of June 23, 1934.
This is the home where Ben Frank Atkins grew up, located on Atkins Road. Ben's father, Floy Atkins, had worked an extra 5 years, until he was 70, before he decided to retire so that he would have a greater retirement income. He retired on Friday. The next day he was attempting to pull a stuck tractor from a muddy field behind this house. When he began to tighten the pulling cable the tractor he was on flipped over backwards with him underneath, taking his life,
less than 24 hours from his last day at work.
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A selection of recent publications relating to parliamentary studies prepared with the assistance of the Library of Parliament (May 2017-July 2017)
Bowden, James W.J. “Reforming prorogation.” The Dorchester Review, 7 (1): 64-8, Spring/Summer 2017.
The House of Commons has no authority to regulate prorogation. Proposed amendments to the Standing Orders would either be ineffectual or unconstitutional as a means of regulating the Prime Minister’s prerogative over prorogation.
Hazell, Robert. “Pre-appointment scrutiny hearings: parliament’s bark delivers a stronger bite than MPs realise.” The Constitution Unit Blog, 3p, July 20, 2017.
For the past decade House of Commons select committees have held pre-appointment scrutiny hearings with preferred candidates for some of the most senior public appointments. Many select committee chairs and members consider these to be a waste of time because there is no power of veto. However, new research suggests that they have much more influence than committees realise.
Ihimaera-Smiler, Jessica. “Members’s bills.” New Zealand Parliamentary Library, 2017/01, 15p, February 2017.
This paper contains a description of members’ bills, their purpose, and the process by which they are created and pass through Parliament. It examines the number of members’ bills passed since 1984 and also looks at other ways in which members’ bills can have an impact on legislation, such as through adoption by the Government.
Klinck, Jennifer. “Modernizing judicial review of prerogative powers.” Alberta Law Review 54 (4): 997-1037, 2017.
Despite judicial pronouncements that the source of government power, whether statutory or prerogative, should not affect judicial review, Canadian courts respond much more tentatively when asked to review exercises of prerogative powers than exercises of statutory powers. This article proposes that courts reform judicial review of the exercise of prerogative powers.
Ling, Justin. “Is there a duty to consult in the legislative process?” National Magazine Blog, 3p, May 25, 2017.
…what if Parliament were required to consult Indigenous peoples on legislation it plans on adopting?
McCormick, John (Chair). “Report on Scottish Parliament – Your Parliament, your voice.” Commission on Parliamentary Reform, 106p, 20 June 2017.
The report’s recommendations are aimed at increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Scottish Parliament as a single chamber, elected body keeping faith with its founding principles. Taken together they reinforce the crucial role of the committees and the chamber in scrutinising legislation and holding government to account and seek to improve the participation of people across the country.
Moore, Christopher. “A very, very modest proposal [book review]: Can a microscopically small-ball approach accomplish political reform?” Literary Review of Canada 25 (5): 11-12, June 2017.
Review of Turning Parliament Inside Out: Practical Ideas for Reforming Canada’s Democracy and The Unbroken Machine: Canada’s Democracy in Action. The MPs writing in Turning Parliament Inside Out mostly accept it would be impossible, even illegal, for them to do what is needed: wield control over their parliamentary leaders.
Purser, Pleasance. “Overseas Parliamentary News – May 2017.” New Zealand Parliamentary Library, 6p.
New South Wales – Former office space has been converted into a parents’ room for members and staff. The room, which cost $15,000 to fit out, is equipped with cots, change tables, armchairs for breastfeeding, a TV and toys. Currently three women MPs have children under one year old. The Speaker said the room might be a small step for more women coming into Parliament.
Strickland, Pat, Joanna Dawson and Samantha Godec. “The Wilson Doctrine.” UK House of Commons Library, 4258, 18p, June 12, 2017.
The Wilson Doctrine is a convention that UK MPs’ communications should not be intercepted by the intelligence services. There have been a number of controversies concerning the doctrine in recent years. The most recent one centres on the Snowden leaks concerning the way in which GCHQ has been collecting metadata – the ‘who, when, where and how’ of a communication.
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Canon Introduces the Canon EOS RP
02/20/2019 02/20/2019 8 min read Ryan
Not long after the release of the ground-breaking Canon EOS R, the global imaging leader has launched the second addition to its new range of full-frame interchangeable-lens mirrorless cameras, the Canon EOS RP.
Canon’s newest full-frame is its most compact and lightest model yet in the EOS full-frame series but delivers a performance that punches above its weight. The EOS RP features the new RF lens mount, Canon’s proprietary DIGIC 8 image processor with Dual Pixel CMOS AF technology, and an enhanced ergonomics for unparalleled optical excellence with easy operability.
“The addition of the EOS RP to Canon’s growing range of EOS full-frame system is not only a testament to the brand’s commitment of continuously pushing forward the frontiers of photography but is also in line with our goal of further extending access to photography for aspiring photographers. Smaller, lighter, and more affordable, the EOS RP will surely delight photography professionals and enthusiasts alike,” said Benny Yu, Canon Marketing (Philippines), Inc. (CMPI) Head of Consumer Imaging and Information division.
Cementing the EOS Legacy
Powered by the EOS R system technology, the EOS RP is equipped with the RF lens mount that sports a short flange focal distance of 20mm which is meant to open possibilities in lens design and innovation. Using a mount adapter, existing EOS users would be able to utilize their collection of EF and EF-S lenses with the new EOS RP. It embodies the familiar, reliable features of Canon’s EOS performance and excellent ergonomics, delivering an unparalleled image quality that caters to both advanced photographers and those venturing into full-frame cameras. Its Feature Assistant also allows easy navigation helping users maximize each feature to produce better images.
Exceptional Image Quality and Details
Driven by Canon’s advanced DIGIC 8 image processor and with Auto Lighting Optimizer feature that balances the brightest and darkest points for a well exposed image, the EOS RP is able to deliver superb image quality in any situation. It is equipped with a 26.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor and a native ISO range of 100-40,000 that can be expanded to an ISO range of 50-102,400 for vivid, low-noise images with crisp details even in low light situations.
The Dual Sensing IS of the EOS RP detects camera shaking for effective image stabilization that allows users to capture images at a shutter speed of up to five stops slower, especially useful in low-light situations. It also has an in-camera Digital Lens Optimizer that corrects aberrations, diffraction, and optical distortions as you shoot, producing excellent image quality right out of the camera.
Clever Engineering for a Sharp Focus
With Dual Pixel CMOS AF that provides a smooth and incredibly fast autofocus speed of up to 0.05 seconds, users can capture images of fleeting moments and create unique compositions without worrying about the focus using the 4,779 selectable AF positions within the expanded AF area. Its minimum AF luminance of EV-5 further provides accurate focus even in poorly lit conditions while the Eye Detection AF which even works in Servo AF mode detects and ensures that the subject’s eye is always in focus even when moving and at wide open aperture.
The Focus Bracketing feature of the EOS RP comes in handy for users looking to create images with a large depth of field where everything in the image is in focus. It automatically shoots a series of photos based on predetermined settings such as number of shots, focusing range, and first focus point which can then be stitched together to form the final image using the Digital Photo Professional software.
When in situations which require minimum disturbance, the camera’s Silent Mode enables users to shoot in stealth, without the sound of a shutter release.
Majestic Movie Capabilities
The EOS RP shoots in Ultra High Definition 4K at 24p/25p video footage. Coupled with the Dual Pixel CMOS AF, this allows users to focus accurately and shoot smoothly. With Touch & Drag AF, users can even create pull-focus effects and easily transition focus by simply moving a finger from one to another part of the LCD screen. Combination IS also provides stable footages even without a tripod.
When recording a video with the RF lens, users can adjust the AV setting to make ⅛-stop aperture adjustments for a more precise control over exposure to match the lighting conditions of the shoot. When shooting manually, the MF Peaking function ensures accurate focusing by highlighting areas in focus.
Enhanced Ergonomics for Ease of Handling
Weighing only 485grams and built significantly smaller, the EOS RP is easier to handle especially for new users of full-frame cameras, while users with larger hands may avail an optional Extension Grip (EG-E1) to ensure firmer handling.
Armed with a customizable electronic viewfinder (EVF) that provides 100% coverage, the EOS RP displays accurate details through its 2.36million dots OLED display which is especially useful when working under bright glaring. Its Vari-angle LCD screen offers opportunities to shoot from unusual angles and with unique framing.
Seamless Connection
Transferring images from the EOS RP to either a smart device or computer is a breeze via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology. Users can perform any network-related functions by utilizing the Canon Camera Connect app designed for mobile devices. When paired, the automatic data transfer function can simultaneously send photos to a smartphone while the user is still taking photos. This helps with photos management without having to manually transfer images after shooting.
Apart from charging the batteries with the included external charger, the EOS RP can be charged directly using the optional USB Power Adapter PD-E1 and in a speedy manner through its Hi-Speed (USB 2.0/ Type C) Interface.
A Snapshot of the Future
The production of 140 million lenses marks a significant milestone for Canon and serves to underscore Canon’s dedication to its customers. The RF lenses which feature an additional control ring are engineered to provide the best possible quality in images and videos.
Canon understands the importance of a good ecosystem for camera users and is pleased to share the roadmap of six new RF lenses in 2019. New optical designs for these lenses are made possible by the large diameter mount and short back focus of the RF mount system.
RF15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM
The ultra-wide zoom lens features a large f/2.8 widest aperture. The RF15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM provides an extreme wide-angle view in close, tight situations and is suitable for landscape shooting. The focal length of 15mm to 35mm is versatile for capturing everyday moments to special occasions. Paired with the Image Stabilizer, the RF15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM performs exceptionally well in low-light conditions.
The RF24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM is an L-series standard zoom lens compact enough while maintaining a large f/2.8 widest aperture. The RF24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM is expected to be an all-rounder for various shooting situations and genres such as landscape, portraits, and weddings. Its performance truly shines during low-light conditions when the shot is wide open.
RF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
The popular telephoto zoom lens now comes with a significantly smaller body. Equipped with the maximum aperture of f/2.8 and Image Stabilization, the RF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM provides an unprecedented shooting experience for sports, wedding, wildlife, and even landscape.
RF85mm f/1.2L USM
The RF85mm f/1.2L USM is an L-series medium telephoto prime lens featuring stunning edge-to-edge resolution even at the maximum aperture of f/1.2 which expands shooting possibilities.
RF85mm f/1.2L USM DS
While inheriting the high overall performance and attractive specs of the RF85mm f/1.2L USM, the RF85mm f/1.2L USM DS is Canon’s first lens to feature the Defocus Smoothing (DS) effect made possible by new coating technology that produces softer and smoother bokeh that was once considered impossible with conventional optics.
RF24-240mm f/4-6.3 IS USM
The RF24-240mm f/4-6.3 IS USM is a compact, lightweight, and highly versatile zoom lens with a wide 24mm to a high 240mm (10x zoom) perfect for both stills and video shooting.
To know more about the Canon EOS RP and the upcoming RF lenses, visit https://ph.canon.
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
versão impressa ISSN 0041-476X
Tydskr. letterkd. vol.56 no.1 Pretoria 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.56i1.6275
Setting readers at sea: Fatou Diome's Ventre de I'Atlantique
Cullen Goldblatt
Visiting scholar at Columbia University and a National Endowment for the Humanities (US) fellow. Previously, he held Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships at Rhodes University and Brown University. Email: cullengoldblatt@gmail.com; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-9244
Fatou Diome's first novel, Le Ventre de I'Atlantique (2003), can be read as a work of migrant literature in which the Atlantic figures as a separating expanse beholden to a single past, that of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The ocean divides contemporary African migrants to Europe from the continent, as it did enslaved Africans taken forcibly to the Americas; it consumes a returned impoverished migrant, as it swallowed those who did not survive the Middle Passage. Yet for the authorial protagonist, Salie, and her island home, the Senegalese fishing village of Niodior, the Atlantic evokes multiple histories and experiences. This ocean is a place of freedom, as well as its absence; of daily sustenance, as well as migration; of life, as well as death; of postcolonial violence, as well as the violence of the Trade. The novel's Atlantic, like the text as a whole, alludes to many pasts and, at times, abandons the dualities of place, race, and gender that organize most contemporary discourse about migration and oppression. Passages of opaque desire and oblique critique diverge from a dichotomous geography of continents and subject positions. Where Salie and Niodior emerge uncontained by categories inherited from colonial discourses, there are intimations of what genuinely postcolonial freedom might be.
Keywords: diaspora, Senegalese literature, Fatou Diome, Atlantic, postcoloniality, freedom.
In Fatou Diome's first novel, Le Ventre de I'Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic), the authorial protagonist recounts her childhood in the Senegalese island village of Niodior. Salie, herself a writer, narrates from the vantage point of her early twenty-first century Strasbourg present, the same historical location in which the novel, published in 2003, was written. Both narrative and novel are thus produced within an Afro-European diaspora, and migration to Europe, experienced and desired, is one of its central subjects.
Salie's emigration is motivated by a desire for freedom, she tells us, and the story she writes is one that is saturated with freedom's opposite: the racist oppression of African people, past and present, and the prejudices of her insular patriarchal home community. Niodior's inhabitants are trapped within an oppressive patriarchal social structure, as well as within neocolonial economic dynamics that impoverish the island and compel villagers to leave-or dream of leaving-for a life of success and plenty in Europe. The young sons of Niodior, notable among them, Salie's football fanatic younger brother, long to leave (at least one, we learn, did leave) for a life of professional football in France. Salie's own departure is primarily propelled by the pain of having been a relatively powerless outsider because of her sex and the circumstances of her birth: her father was not from Niodior and she was born out of wedlock.
Through an episodic narrative of her early life, we learn how Salie came to choose "exile"-that is, her adult life as a domestic worker and struggling writer in France. Yet stories of Salie's early life-she is raised by her devoted grandmother and taught to love the written word by the village's sole school teacher, a Monsieur Ndétare still beloved to Salie-compose a relatively small portion of the novel. They are far outweighed by scenes of her diasporic present, an account of her recent visit home and, most voluminously, by a collection of intersecting biographical stories, both mythical and historical, each centred on a different Niodior resident.
From these, readers learn how village life, which the narrator characterizes as "traditional" and "African," discards, into the Atlantic, those who do not obey its social strictures, and often imprisons even those who do. Long ago in Niodior, two young lovers, lacking social sanction to marry, drowned themselves in the sea. Villagers say that the two transformed into dolphins and, today still, they care for the village's unwanted infants who, cast into the sea to die, themselves transform into young dolphins. Well within living memory, Moussa, a young man recruited to play football in France, returns home penniless and ashamed. Ostracized as a failure and then baselessly suspected of a homosexual relationship with Ndétare, the village's resident "stranger," he commits suicide by drowning. Ndétare's single love affair, with a young woman ordered by her father to marry a powerful older man, produces an (illegitimate) child whom her father kills and throws in the sea. Ndétare helps the woman make an escape by sea; she is never seen again.
The Atlantic receives the human evidence of unacceptable desire. It also, sometimes, makes possible the liberation of those whose desires, like those of Salie herself, the village either condemns or cannot contain. Salie portrays her exilic condition, that of a writer who is fully at home nowhere but in her writing, as a variety of maritime suicide-"j'ai pris ma barque et fait de mes valises des écrins d'ombre. L'exile, c'est mon suicide geographique" (I took my boat and turned by suitcases into shadow boxes. Exile is my geographical suicide) (262) - albeit one motivated by her desire to write and to be free.1 Salie's Atlantic, the location of several kinds of death, is also a place of life. On the novel's final page, she compares herself to algae drifting in the Atlantic. A writer at home and free nowhere but on the page, she is always at sea:
Aucun filet ne saura empecher les algues de l'Atlantique de voguer et de tirer leur saveur des eauxqu'elles traversent [...] Partir, vivre libre et mourir, comme une algue de l'Atlantique.
No fishing net can prevent the seaweed of the Atlantic from drifting, nor from absorbing the flavors of the waters it passes through [...] To leave, to live in freedom, and to die, like seaweed in the Atlantic. (296)
The Atlantic of Diome's novel is not only a figurative location within Salie's account of her exilic itinerary and it is not solely the chasm into which Niodior discards the lovers (and infants) it condemns. This Atlantic also sometimes figures as a separating expanse beholden to a single past: the ocean divides contemporary African migrants to Europe from the continent, as it did enslaved Africans taken forcibly to the Americas. Diome's novel has been chiefly read as a work of migrant literature (Adesanmi; Dobie and Saunders; Diouf; Nganang) and this reading is supported by the novel's engagement with the Middle Passage past. Postcolonial African migration is equated with the Atlantic Slave Trade and passages explicitly identify contemporary European sex tourism in Africa and the present-day European "trade" in African football players with the historical Trade.2 In this identification, categories of continent, race, and gender are self-evident and transcend historical change.
Other parts of the novel, often didactic passages that explain African or female experience, produce similarly essentialist understandings of place and selfhood. One such passage, lodged within Salie's account of a recent visit home, illustrates the limitations produced by this sometime-employment of binary conceptions of continent, gender, and race. Fleeing the suffocating suspicions and judgements of Niodior in search of a few days of holiday, Salie goes to the nearby seaside town of Mbour. Out on an evening walk, she comes upon the drumming and singing that announce a traditional wrestling match and, within the novel, occasion Salie's explanation of what it means to be an African woman:
Aucune fille d'Afrique, même après de longues années d'absence, ne peut rester froide au son du tam-tam. Ils'infiltre en vous, tel du beurre de karitédans un bol de rizchaud, et vous fait vibrer de l'intérieur. La danse devient alors un réflexe: elle ne s'apprend pas, car elle est sensation [...] La tête vrillée par ce son ancestrale, les pieds enfoncés dans le sable froid des soirs côtiers, on ne saurait mieux s'imbiber de la sève de l'Afrique. C'est comme une communion venue du plus profond des âges [...] aucun savoir-faire technique ou chimique ne saura jamais extirper de notre âme la veine rythmique qui bondit dès la premre resonance du djembe. Raison et sensibilité ne s'excluent point. Malgrè les coups assenés par l'Histoire, ce rythme demeure, et avec lui notre africanité, n'en déplaise aux prêcheurs de tout bord. Ah! comme il était bon d'etre là! Je suis heureuse, heureuse, heureuse! répétai-je.
No daughter of Africa, even after long years of absence, can remain unmoved by the sound of the tam-tam. It seeps into you like shea butter in a bowl of hot rice and makes you vibrate from the inside. Dance thus becomes a reflex; it cannot be learned, because it is sensation [...] Head twisting from this ancestral sound, feet sunk into the cool sand of coastal evenings, there is no better way to imbibe Africa's sap. It is like a communion originating in the most distant of ages [...] no technological or chemical know-how could ever excise the vein of rhythm from our soul, a vein which pulses at the djembe's first note. Reason and emotion (sensibilité) are not mutually exclusive. Despite the assaults of History, rhythm remains, and with it our africanité, whatever preachers from all corners might think. Oh! How good it is to be here! I am happy, happy, happy, I repeated. (Diome 225)
Readers-"you"-are invited to identify with this "daughter of Africa." We learn that to be a female child of the continent is inextricably, even essentially, connected to drumming, dancing, and a specific-necessarily raced and gendered-experience of embodiment. Dancing is akin to a bodily reflex; not only can it not be learned, it is sensation itself. A daughter of Africa is she who, permeated by its sound, dances to the beating of tam-tams; the continent's life force is found in the drum beat that vibrates within her dancing body. African rhythm and movement compose an ancient communion that transcends historical change and refutes whatever objections might be brought to the notion of africanité, an African essence.
Our narrator poses an oblique challenge to Leopold Sédar Senghor's infamous statement regarding the continental distribution of rationality and soul-"L'émotion est nègre, comme la raison est hellène" (Emotion is nègre, as reason is Hellenic) (Senghor 295)-only to abandon that challenge. Found in Senghor's first theoretical articulation of Negritude, the 1939 essay "Ce que l'homme noir apporte", the sentence has become a shorthand that, in the eyes of Negritude's critics, encapsulates the essentialism, even racism, of the movement and its most famous 'father.'3 Readers might expect our narrator to pursue the implications of her pointed allusion. Yet she does not, as if the 'African' content of dancing and drumming cannot be handled except through a lexicon of authenticity. The sentences which follow, like many articulations of Senghorian Negritude itself, seem concerned only with a particularly African spiritual and cultural essence.
Despite the exuberant lexicon and the implied invitation to readers to share in an experience of passionate embodiment, the account lacks the specificity and immediacy found in passages of the novel that are not 'about' either Africa or gender. Compressed into two rhetorical poles-of womanhood and Africa-Salie's bodily experience is conveyed in a well-worn vocabulary of gendered African authenticity. While the description seems intended to transport the reader, just as Salie herself has ostensibly been transported, it does not transmit the intensity and complexity of a particular interior experience.
Where, however, the novel diverges from a dichotomous geography of continents, ideas, and subject positions, experiences of desire and freedom emerge, uncontained by binary categories of race, place, and gender inherited from colonial discourses.
In the opacity of these passages, in which little is explained, the Trade is nowhere referenced and "Africa" is not defined. There is an oblique critique of the long afterlife of colonialism and intimations of how desire, uncorralled by the ostensible poles of gender, race, and continent, might feel.
Readers enter Le Ventre de I'Atlantique through a televised soccer game. The novel begins in excited staccato tones that alternately suggest an enraptured television sports commentator and an engrossed spectator:
Plus vite! Mais le vent a tourné: maintenant, le ballon vise l'entrejambe de Toledo, le goal italien.
Oh! mon Dieu, faites quelque chose!
Faster! But the wind has changed direction: now the ball is heading between the legs of the Italian keeper, Toledo. Oh, my God, do something! (11)
It is only in reading the subsequent paragraph that readers can surmise that these two seemingly distinct narrative voices, one energetically descriptive, one energetically supplicant, belong to a single narrator, an 'I' not yet named, raced, gendered, or otherwise socially located, watching a television screen:
Devant ma television, je saute du canapé et allonge un violent coup de pied. Aie, la table! Je voulais courir avec la balle, aider Maldini à la récuperer, l'escorter, lui permettre de traverser la moitié du terrain afin d'aller la loger au fond des buts adverses. Mais mon coup de pied n'a servi qu' à renverser mon thé refroidi sur la moquette. A cet instantprécis, j'imagine les Italiens tendus, aussi raides que les fossiles humains de Pompéi. Je ne sais pas pourquoi on serre les fesses quand le ballon s'approche des buts.
In front of my television, I leap from the sofa and perform a violent kick. Ow, the table! I wanted to run with the ball, to help Maldini get it, to allow him to cross half the field with it, in order to sink it into the opponent's goal. But my kick served only spill my cold tea on the carpet. At the precise instant, I imagine the tensed Italians, rigid as the human fossils of Pompei. I don't know why one tightens one's buttocks when the ball approaches the goal. (11-2)
The television provokes not only our narrator's emotional engagement, but her corporeal engagement as well. She is a spectator, but one whose body nonetheless joins with the action of the soccer match, entering into the televised mediation of a geographically remote event-only to encounter her own table in her misplaced effort to assist this mysterious Maldini. We know nothing of this over-enthused spectator (we do not yet know that 'she' is 'she'); we cannot guess at the source of her passion for the game and for, it seems, Maldini. It does seem clear, however, that we are witnessing a scene of fanatical football spectatorship. Yet the paragraph's final sentence upends even this tenuous understanding. It has the straightforward and unpolished quality of a child's uncertainty, at odds with the voice of an apparently adult narrator. Who is this adult who wonders, in the midst of the game, about the basics of physical response? Why, suddenly, an inquiry about "tightening buttocks?"
The desire to prevent or facilitate the scoring of goals and an identification with the player prompts a bodily response in our spectator. The desire to assist that player leads to the unanticipated connection of her foot with her table. Yet the reference to buttocks tightening in anticipation evokes sexual desire and thus foregrounds still unanswerable questions about the narrator's gender and the character of the narrator's bodily involvement and passion. Readerly curiosity heightens: what is 'really' going on here?
While readers know this narrator's immediate preoccupation (the football game), we know little else and must, for a little while, content ourselves with this information. The passage thus grants the as-yet-unknown narrator an opacity that readings often deny to African literary characters. Édouard Glissant (in Poetics of Relation) famously theorized a "right to opacity." Tobias Warner has written about the opacity that dominant feminist readings of Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre (1979) (So Long a Letter) refuse Ramatoulaye, the novel's narrator and fictive author, arguing that this opacity-denying interpretation is part of the condition under which Bâ's (African) novel has been included in the canon of World Literature (Warner). Reading of this contemporary novel, authored by Bâ's compatriot, centres contemporary migration and, sometimes with it, the history of the Middle Passage, which Diome's novel, particularly its Atlantic, also evokes. These readings attend to some of the many apparently transparent passages, in which the narrator announces, names, and explains; the novel's particularly opaque, albeit brief, inception has received little, if any, critical attention.
Just as readerly speculation begins to surface, the narrator addresses us directly:
Pourquoi je vous raconte tout ça? J'adore le foot? Pas tant que ça. Alors je suis amoureuse de Maldini? Mais non! Je ne suis pas folle à ce point quand-même.
Why am I telling you all this? I adore soccer? Not all that much. Then, am I in love with Maldini? No! I'm not crazy to that extent. (Diome 12)
We learn of an ostensibly transparent gender identity (woman) and learn of one reason (sexual desire) that does not account for her passionate engagement with televised soccer. With the feminine gendering of "in love" (amoureuse), we learn that the spectator is a woman. She summons the predictable spectre of heterosexual desire, only to discount the absurdity of such desire to explain her avid relationship with Maldini-or, equally accurately, to explain the passion of her relationship with the television that transmits his game into her living room.
A sentence finally moors the scene and the reader to a date and a particular moment in football history: "Le 29 juin 2000, je regarde la Coupe d'Europe de football. L'Italie affronte les Pays-Bas en demi-finale. Mes yeux fixent la television, mon coeur contemple d'autres horizons" (June 29th 2000, I am watching the European Cup. Italy faces the Netherlands in the semi-finals. My eyes fix upon the television, my heart contemplates other horizons) (13). We are offered some pieces of anchoring context; yet, once again, we are set at sea. The final sentence reminds us that more fundamental information remains elusive: we still do not understand the character of the desire which has infused this scene. If the desire is not erotic, nor propelled by a passion for the game itself, what sort of desire is it? If its object is not Maldini, or the beautiful game itself, then what could it be? Where, on which horizons, has this heart set its gaze?
The subsequent sentences offer an elliptical response. As the eyes watch a televised European match, the heart travels to the island of Niodior:
Là-bas, depuis des siècles, des hommes sont pendus à un bout de terre, l'ïle de Niodior. Accrochés à la gencive de l'Atlantique, tels des residus de repas, ils attendent, resignes, que la prochaine vague les emporte ou leur laisse la vie sauve.
Over there, for centuries, men hang suspended from a bit of land, the island of Niodior. Stuck like the remains of a meal to the Atlantic's gums, they wait, resigned, for the next wave to take them or to leave them with their lives. (13)
Thus, the reader is introduced to Salie's home village, the place where, it soon becomes clear, a young man has also been watching the game. By this account, it is a place barely located in the world, belonging perhaps more to the sea than to the land, its inhabitants likened to the detritus of a meal, awaiting their fate; sooner or later, they will be swallowed by a ravenous Atlantic. The narrator quickly returns us to the present of her living room and television screen before departing once again for an imagined Niodior:
La bruit de la television me sort de ma reverie. Chaque fois que les reporters crient le nom de Maldini, un visage se dessine sur l'écran. A quelques milles kilometres de mon salon, à l'autre bout de la Terre, au Sénégal, là-bas, sur cette He à peine assez grande pour héberger un stade, j'imagine un jeune homme rivé devant une télévision de fortune pour suivre le même match que moi ... Battements de coeur, souffles, gestes de joie ou de désarroi, tous nos signes émotionnels sont synchronisés la durée d'un match, car nous courons derrière le même homme: Paulo Maldini.
The television noise pulls me out of my daydream. Each time that reporters shout Maldini's name, a face appears on the screen. Several thousand kilometres from my living room, on the other side of the Earth, over there, in Senegal, on that island barely large enough to hold a stadium, I imagine a young man riveted before a makeshift television, following the same match as I am [...] Thudding heart, breaths, gestures of joy or distress, for the duration of a match, all our emotional expressions are synchronized because we are chasing after the same man: Paulo Maldini. (15)
The television collapses not only the distance between narrator and soccer game; it also mediates the vaster distance between Salie, in her Strasbourg living room, and the young man on the island not large enough to host a stadium. It is no longer a matter of an ambiguous collapsing or merging of two bodies, that of our narrator and Maldini. There is a third, albeit imagined, person in what is now, it seems, a triangulation. Is this the lover? Perhaps the true object of the intense physical engagement so evident in the novel's second passage?
Ambiguity of desire and relationship, if not of the gender of the two bodies in question, is again before the reader. The novel's opening sequence, in which our protagonist-not yet named, raced, gendered, or located in place and time-watches Maldini play televised soccer, forces readers to experience an opacity that is often denied to African characters and literature. One effect is that we are confronted with the possibility that binary categories of woman/man, black/white, Africa/Europe inherited from colonial discourses, which inform much of the novel, as they do the world outside of it, do not fully explain the complexity of our world, neither our experiences of embodiment, gender, and desire nor colonial and ongoing violence.
L,un d'eux reste muet, concentrésur les images. Le buste projeté vers l'écran, son regardse faufile entre les têtes. Les mâchoires serrées, seuls les quelques mouvements désordonnés qui luiéchap-pent disent la passion qui l'habite. Au premier tacle de Maldini, spontanément, son pied soulève Varrière-train du garçon accroupi devant lui. La victime se retourne, furieuse, mais, voyant le visage absorbé de l'auteur du coup, n'escompte aucune excuse et se reinstalle un peu plus loin.
One of them remains silent, intent upon the television images. Torso jutting towards the screen, gaze weaves between the heads. Jaw clenched, only a few random movements escape his control and express the passion that inhabits him. At Maldini's first tackle, his foot spontaneously lifts the backside of the boy crouched in front of him. The victim turns around, furious, but seeing the absorbed expression on the face of the responsible party, expected no apology, and reestablished himself a little further away. (16-7)
Like our first spectator, watching alone in her living room, the young man's engagement is total. Television connects the two, as does the particular intensity of their spectatorship. Until a power outage prematurely concludes the televised game in Niodior, they watch the same game, at the same time, with identical, intensely embodied, attention. Like the woman before a French TV screen, the young man unconsciously attempts to physically participate in the game he is viewing. Unlike the foot of the first spectator, however, his foot encounters the body of his understanding neighbor, not an inanimate table.
These paired scenes of television spectatorship provide information; they allow readers to understand how the protagonist is linked to her place of origin, and they permit the novel to introduce and develop the sibling relationship that will remain central to the narrative. They also serve to define and distinguish two locations and experiences. Niodior is densely social and materially impoverished, while Strasbourg is relatively socially isolated and materially comfortable. For our spectator in Niodior, the televised game links him to his favourite player, whose name he has borne for years, and to his own dream of moving to Europe to play professionally. The television in the Strasbourg flat occupies a different function for its resident. Her love for Niodior and for the young soccer fanatic, her brother, passes by way of a game played in Spain and its star Italian defender.
However, these descriptions perform an additional function. They open a space of opacity and ambiguity that exists alongside the narrator's explanatory accounts of her circumstances and history. Transmitting an event taking place in a third location, the television occasions an intense embodied identificatory desire (never further explained or defined) that traverses the distance between two locations. Viewer-ship thus triangulates and complicates what would otherwise be a linear trajectory between social and geographical poles.
A recalled Senegalese television broadcast and Salie's commentary upon its reception in Niodior similarly provide an occasion for readerly questioning and critique:
L'avion présidentiel a décollé de l'aeroport international de Dakar, ce matin à 8 heures. En effet, le Père-de-la-nation, accompagné de notre aimable ministre de l'Equipement, inaugure aujourd'hui à Tambacounda, une pompe d'eau offerte par nos amis les Japonais. En fin de journée, Son Excellence, monsieur le Premier ministre, s'est rendu au port autonome de Dakar pour réceptionner un cargo de riz offerte par la France, afin de secourir les populations de l'interieur du pays touchées par la sécheresse. La France, un grand pays ami de longue date, fait savoir, par la voix de son ministre des Affaires étrangères quelle s'apprête à reconsidérer prochainement la dette du Sénégal [...]
The president's airplane landed at Dakar's international airport this morning at eight o'clock. Today in Tambacounda, the Father-of-the-Nation, accompanied by our beloved Minister of Infrastructure, inaugurated a water pump, a gift from our friends, the Japanese. At the day's conclusion, His Excellence, the Prime Minister, was found at Dakar's autonomous port in order to receive a shipment of rice from France intended to rescue inland communities affected by the drought. France, an old friend, made it known, through her Minister of Foreign Affairs, that she is preparing to reexamine Senegal's debt [...] (56-7)
The ironies do not require elaboration to be palpable to the reader. In this news broadcast from the 1970s, from Salie's childhood, the former colonial power and current lender is cast as an "old friend," steadfast in its generosity. Rice, indigenous to West Africa and cultivated in Senegal, nonetheless arrives from abroad. The national news is more preoccupied with the apparent altruism of other nations, "the Japanese," in addition to La France, than with the resources and perspectives of Senegalese people.
The chasm between the news and its Niodior listeners is clear from what we learn of the broadcast's local reception. A Sereer audience, which does not include French speakers, watches the evening news on the state-run station, on Niodior's sole television, the recent acquisition of the villager who becomes relatively rich after years working in Paris. The wealth and mobility of the president and the Premier ministre, the language of the broadcast and the broadcaster's location in Dakar all contribute to the vast distance between the world of the viewers and that of the broadcast's content. Indeed, Niodior's television broadcast interpreter, one of the village's few French speakers at the time, does not manage to provoke much response from the local audience, so distant is it from their experience. Salie makes this clear, with wry concision: "Ici, on na pas besoin d'une pompe à eau, même japonaise" (Here we have no need for a water pump, even a Japanese one) (58).
What follows is a vision of independence and freedom unlike any other in the novel. Niodior, initially introduced as a bit of land, "un bout de terre," on which its passive inhabitants are glued, just as bits of food adhere to one's gums after eating, is almost immediately presented for a second time. It is a place of lack, an island barely large enough to host a soccer stadium. Yet here, in an entirely unexpected turn of tone and narrative trajectory, Niodior is presented again. On this occasion, the island appears independent and self-sufficient, a de facto republic of its own and a place of abundance:
Nichée au coeur de l'océan Atlantique, L'ile de Niodior dispose d'une nappe phreatique qui semble inépuisable; un petit nombre de puits alimente tout le village. Il suffit de creuser quatre à cinq metres pour voir jaillir une eau de source, fraiche et limpide, filtrée par le grain fin du sable. Nul n'attend non plus quelques kilos de riz français; cultivateurs, éleveurs et pêcheurs, ces insulaires sont autosuffisants et ne demandent rien à personne. Ils auraient pu, s'ils avaient voulu, ériger leur mini-république au sein de la République sénégalaise, et le gouvernement ne se serait rendu compte de rien [...] Le president Père-de-la-nation n'a qu'a offrir sa paternité à qui la lui demande, ici personne n'attend rien de sa tutelle.
Nestled into the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, the Island of Niodior possesses a seemingly limitless supply of underground water: a small number of wells nourish the whole village. One need only dig down four to five meters in order for water to flow, crystalline and fresh, filtered by the fine-grained sand. Nor is anyone waiting for a few kilos of French rice; farmers, pastoralists, and fishermen, these islanders are self-sufficient and ask nothing from no one. They could have, had they wanted, founded their mini-republic in the heart of the Republic of Senegal, and the government would have noticed nothing [...] The president, Father-of-the-Nation, need offer his paternity only to those who request it; here no one expects anything from his care. (58-9)
Here the Atlantic does not appear as a cavernous being, possessed only of mouth and stomach. "Belly" or "abdomen," a "ventre" can contain not only a stomach, but also a womb, and it is the latter which this passage suggests. Niché(e), "nestled," is also the adjective that describes the pre-natal Salie curled in her mother's "belly"- "un mystère niché dans son ventre" (a mystery nestled in her belly) (82). Nested into a heart-nook of the Atlantic, Niodior is akin to a foetus within a mother's body, an apt metaphor for a village of fishermen who depend upon the ocean for their sustenance. Here Niodior, rather than a location of lack and imprisonment, is cast as a place of abundance. The Atlantic, rather than a ravenous pit into which the dead are discarded, appears as the source of life.
Moreover, Niodior, unlike the nation that Senghor has 'fathered,' could possess genuine independence. The most famous 'father' of Negritude was also the first president of Senegal. He remains unnamed, but his identity is clear, and his State is the object of a forceful, if slightly oblique, critique. Senghor's Senegal is neo-colonial. It is neither truly independent nor free, and his paternal "care" is neither wanted nor needed in Niodior. On the island, the essential pre-conditions for postcolonial freedom are present, and Senghor's Senegal may as well be another country. The village possesses not only adequate but plentiful food and fresh water, and villagers are confidently self-sufficient. French rice is unnecessary and water abundant. It is not the imagined drought-stricken Sahelian country where, according to the 'First World,' desperate populations rely on the generous aid of their Northern brethren. Niodior is not only a place of abundance and self-sufficiency, nourished by the sea, it also exists as a state of political independence and democracy, albeit in the conditional past tense.
Here are the few, perhaps only, instances of the word "republic" in the novel, and the only occasion that the narrator raises, as if in passing, the idea that economic independence is an essential pre-condition for substantive sovereignty and freedom. The passage thus powerfully evokes the material conditions that genuinely postco-lonial political freedom would require and, in the energetic ease of its prose and in the abundance that it summons, creates a visceral, if brief, experience of liberation. In its precise and attentive description of past and possible plentitude, it opens, for this reader at least, a small space of freedom.
For Patrice Nganang, Diome's novel is joined to a history of forced migration and freedom's opposite. He views Ventre de l'Atlantique as part of an African literature of emigration that continues a literary tradition inaugurated by the earliest Anglophone slave narrative.4 However, in Nganang's Manifeste d'une nouvelle littérature africaine (2007) (Manifesto for a New African Literature), the novel also figures as literary heir to a very different text, Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939) (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land). Césaire's surrealist Cahier ends with an unrealized return to origins that is seemingly impossible. The poem concludes inconclusively, at sea, and with a word for movement so non-linear and indeterminate that it prompts Césaire's own neologism-"reversion."
Le Ventre de l'Atlantique offers us a marine territory of longing and imagination that is integral to the experience of migration and that is also (if only briefly and at intervals) uncorralled by oppositions that do not do justice to the complexity of the narrator's own diasporic experience.
A critical engagement with freedom, as well as intense evocations of it, is found where we might least expect it-in passages which neither thematize oppression nor articulate historical experience through the binary terms often employed to challenge it. At times, Diome's novel does what Césaire's surrealist poem does: it invites us to think of ourselves outside of the words and possibilities inherited from colonial discourses. Where the novel leaves its readers at sea, in the Atlantic, it asks us to imagine what genuinely postcolonial freedom might be.
If, alongside the Atlantic of the Trade and postcolonial Afro-European migration, we foreground the Atlantic of Salie's island village and her particular "exile," we encounter an ocean that swallows those whose desires and social experiences that neither colonial nor postcolonial orders have publicly tolerated. We also find an Atlantic that has nourished living desire, feeding a could-have-been island republic and giving our writer-narrator an exilic freedom. In this Atlantic, we glimpse, almost touch, subjectivities and political possibilities ungoverned by the categories that European colonialism created.
Postgraduate work with Dr. Karl Britto (University of California, Berkeley) was the invaluable prehistory to this essay. I would like to acknowledge the financial support of Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries at Rhodes University.
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Césaire, Aimé. Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. Présence africaine, 1983. [ Links ]
Diagne, Souleymane B. & Nadia Y. Kisukidi. "Senghor et la question qui se pose toujours: Entretien avec Souleymane Bachir Diagne." ThéoRèmes vol. 4, 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/theoremes.430. [ Links ]
Diome, Fatou. Le ventre de l'Atlantique. Anne Carrière, 2003. [ Links ]
Diouf, Mbaye. "Ecriture de l'immigration et traversée des discours dans Le ventre de l 'Atlantique de Fatou Diome." Francofonia vol. 58, 2010, pp. 56-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43016528. Accessed 19 Feb. 2019. [ Links ]
Dobie, Madeleine & Rebecca Saunders. "Introduction: France in Africa/Africa(ins) in France." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East vol. 26, no. 2, 2006, pp. 178-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2006-002. [ Links ]
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Nganang, Patrice. Manifeste d'une nouvelle littérature: pour une écriture préemptive. Homnisphères, 2007. [ Links ]
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Warner, Tobias. "How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique." PMLA vol. 131, no. 5, 2016, pp. 1239-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1239. [ Links ]
1 All translations into English are my own.
2 Salie says, for example: Pour mesdames les touristes venues réveiller leurs corps en carence d'hormones, pas d'inquiétude : en échange de quelques billets, d'une chaine ou d'une montre même pas en or, un étalon posera ses plaques de chocolat sur leurs seins flasques. As for Mesdames Touristes come to reawaken their bodies in a cascade of hormones, not to worry; in exchange for a few bills, a necklace or a watch, not even of gold, a stallion will place his chocolate slabs on their slack breasts. (Diome 231) White women tourists come to Senegal for cheap exotic encounters with young African men who they approach as virile stallions, possessed not of discreet human parts but of chocolate slabs. In Salie's configuring of the encounter, both parties are objectified but only one, the white woman with her flaccid breasts, is endowed with human traits. Racist dehumanization evokes the Trade, as does the exchange of mere trinkets for access to African bodies. In the present, so the passage implies, the historical Trade finds an equivalent in a different kind of buying of black people. The trade in football players is a theme through much of the novel, one which perhaps culminates in the sarcastic announcement found in its final pages. Salie declares 2002 to be "l'année internationale de la lutte contre la colonisation sportive et la traite des footeux!" (the international year of struggle against the colonisation of athletics and the trade in footballers!) (281-2).
3 Souleymane Bachir Diagne describes this much-cited sentence as Senghor's immature formulation of Negritude and argues that it does not represent Senghor's Negritude thought, particularly in its more developed forms.
4 Readings of the novel sometimes echo this identification. For example, Nganang places Diome's novel within a long African literary tradition of emigration that begins with Olaudah Equiano's memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), a text of forced Middle Passage migration: "Le ventre de l'Atlantique de Fatou Diome ne continue donc que le tangage du bateau que cette narration fondatrice signifie" (Fatou Diome's Belly of the Atlantic thus simply continues the pitching and heaving of the boat [the slave ship] which this foundational narrative constitutes) (Nganang 234-5).
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SUEZ staff support Bodmin Hospital League of Friends
The League of Friends were surprised and delighted to receive a cheque for £400 from Ian Broad, Site Manager at Bodmin’s materials recycling facility.
The profits made from a vending machine at the facility, which supplies refreshments for the 17 workers, were donated to the Bodmin Hospital League of Friends, who work to raise funds for the patients and staff in the hospital.
Funds are used for purchasing equipment and services not supplied by the NHS. “We endeavor to make the patients’ stay in hospital a little more comfortable” said Dave Jenkins, Vice Chairman of the League of Friends, as he very gratefully accepted the cheque from Ian Broad.
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Posts Tagged ‘ACES’
Losers on Election Day in Texas had one thing in common: Opposition to climate legislation
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged 2010 elections, ACES, Campaign Finance, chet edwards, ciro rodriguez, independent expenditures, outside money, Solomon Ortiz, stealth PACs, Texas on November 4, 2010 |
Two (possibly three) members of Congress in Texas lost their seats in the Republican (and outside money) tsunami that swept the country-Rep. Chet Edwards, Ciro Rodriguez, and Solomon Ortiz – whose race is at this point still too close to call, but he trails his opponent by several hundred votes. Many in the punditocracy have tried to come up with one common denominator to explain the Republican tidal wave, and some have settled on the vote on climate change legislation, HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) or Waxman-Markey. Politico jumped (the shark?) to this conclusion: “House Democrats who voted for the 2009 bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions – dubbed cap-and-tax by GOP opponents – had a terrible night.”
But this is widely debunked, first in this piece from Think Progress’s Wonk Room blog: (more…)
Texas can meet all our energy needs for next decade through efficiency alone, save $330 per household and create 130,000 new jobs says new report from Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University
Posted in Efficiency, tagged ACES, climate change, Efficiency, green jobs, Kerry Graham Lieberman, senate climate bill, Texas, Waxman-Markey bill on April 16, 2010 |
Texas is growing. In fact, we’re one of the fastest growing areas of the country. Growing communities and growing business usually means building more power plants, which would add to our already significant air quality problems not to mention all of the greenhouse gases we would spew.
But, rather than building Megawatts, we should be looking at Negawatts, or “creating” energy by simply using less of it, or at least so says a new study from Duke University’s Nichols Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology.
This would save us from not only pollution and global warming, but also from the cost of building new power plants. Efficiency gives a double payback, because not only are you not paying for more oil, gas, and coal, you save money on your electric bills because you use less electricity. And no, efficiency doesn’t mean turning off your air conditioner more in the summer so you sweat more– it means properly insulating your home to keep the cool in and the hot out, or vice versa in the winter, and it means using a better a/c unit that gives you more chills for less bills.
How much money? Well, investments in efficiency would save $13.7 billion in 2020 and $21.5 billion in 2030. These savings are equivalent to the amount of energy used by almost a million Texas households, or an average savings of $330 per household a year. Oh, and if that wasn’t enough, we also get Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: 96,300 jobs by 2020, and 132,100 new jobs from efficiency in 2030.
And how do we get these magical green jobs and billions in savings? Why, through efficiency mandates, similar to the ones proposed in federal green energy bills like Waxman-Markey. Unfortunately, those goals were too weak to really produce the type of change we need, so it’s up to the Senate to do better. Early word of a draft bill by Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman doesn’t look promising, and could even be WORSE than the anemic efficiency investments and mandates in Waxman-Markey.
Texas Ag Commissioner Todd Staples says Agriculture Hurt by Federal Climate Legislation – We beg to differ
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, Agriculture, Agriculture Commissioner, climate change, climate change legislation, Texas, Texas Department of Agriculture, Todd Staples, Twitter, USDA, Waxman-Markey bill on February 9, 2010 |
Back in the movie/musical “Oklahoma”, we got a musical lesson that the farmer and the cowman should be friends. They seem to have bridged that divide rather well in the intervening decades, but today the question remains whether the farmers and ranchers and the climate should be friends.
Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples certainly doesn’t think so. On his Twitter account last week, he asked “How could anybody involved in agriculture think the proposed Cap &Trade legislation is good for Texas?”
Well, we’ll tell you. It’s a combination of solving the climate crisis which will disproportionately hurt agriculture in Texas, not using faulty studies cooked up for partisan purposes (which Staples does) and about the jobs and savings to everyday Texas families, which helps everyone whether you’re a farmer or not.
First, no other industry is so exposed as agriculture to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture is almost completely dependent on relatively stable patterns of rainfall and temperature to get a good yield. Climate change threatens not only how much rainfall we get, but also how we get it. Predictions are that some areas may actually see more rain, but in fits and starts with large storms that flood and then wash away topsoil rather than absorb moisture.
Texas is still in the midst of one of the worst droughts in its history. Australian scientists have linked 37% of this drought to anthropogenic climate change. Recent drought has brought record breaking agricultural losses to Texas both this last year in 2009 and in 2006, when billions of dollars in crops were lost and cattle had to be culled in mass numbers because feed and water was too expensive and they were dying in the field from the heat. Some are even asking if this prolonged drought is actually just the beginning of “the new normal,” a frightening prospect for anyone with a farm or ranch in West, Central, or South Texas where drought has been the most extreme.
The USDA’s study of impacts of climate change on agriculture, as part of the consensus opinion of 13 federal agencies, is that Texas stands to lose up to 35% of its agricultural yield from just 2 degrees of warming. And that’s not all — check out this press release from the USDA:
The report finds that climate change is already affecting U.S. water resources, agriculture, land resources, and biodiversity, and will continue to do so. Specific findings include: (more…)
Boxer and Kerry take two steps forward and two steps back on climate, but EPA looks ready to go!
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged ACES, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, CEJAPA, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Congress, EPA, Global Warming, green jobs, Kerry-Boxer, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, senate, solar, Texas, waxman-markey on September 30, 2009 |
This just in from EPA:
LOS ANGELES – U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will announce today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate Summit that the Agency has taken a significant step to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Administrator will announce a proposal requiring large industrial facilities that emit at least 25,000 tons of GHGs a year to obtain construction and operating permits covering these emissions. These permits must demonstrate the use of best available control technologies and energy efficiency measures to minimize GHG emissions when facilities are constructed or significantly modified.
The full text of the Administrators remarks will be posted at www.epa.gov later this afternoon.
UPDATED: that text is now available here.
“Wow” would be an understatement. This on the heels of the release of Senator Kerry and Boxer and their climate bill. Here’s my statement on that subject:
Reaction to Boxer-Kerry Climate Change Discussion Draft
Statement of Andy Wilson, Global Warming Program Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office
The Boxer-Kerry draft includes some important measures to address climate change and create new green jobs, but it is simply not sufficient to solve climate change or create the green jobs revolution we need. While an improvement in some ways over Waxman-Markey and its billions in giveaways to polluting special interests, the discussion draft put forth by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) still punts on many of the most contentious issues, such as how and to whom emissions allowances will be allocated or auctioned. Waxman-Markey started off similarly strong and vague but was weakened as it went through the committee hearing process. Sen. Boxer must work to strengthen the bill as she guides it through her Environment and Public Works Committee hearings.
The discussion draft calls for a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas pollution from 2005 levels by 2020. This is a slight improvement over the 17 percent called for by Waxman-Markey, but is far short of the goals our best science tells us we need to make. Specifically, the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us in order to avoid the worst of global climate catastrophe, we need to cut our pollution levels 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels.
Japan will cut its emissions 25 percent by 2020; the EU has signaled it may meet or beat that goal. Why would we set ourselves to lag behind the rest of the world? We must win the technology races in manufacturing advanced energy technology so we do not replace importing oil with importing solar cells.
The draft should be applauded for including strong language to protect consumers and protect the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate emissions in the future.
Among the changes we recommend to the draft are alterations to address these problems:
Allowances should be auctioned 100 percent. President Obama’s budget continues to show revenues from a 100 percent auction and EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey found this to be the least regressive method of implementation.
Subsidies for nuclear should be removed. Despite recent findings by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff that the United States will never need to build another traditional power plant, the bill spends considerable space on (Subtitle C, Sec 131) and would allocate significant resources to nuclear power. Nuclear is neither as carbon-free nor as safe as the draft language claims. Neither is it cost-effective. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated half of all federal loan guarantees for nuclear loan guarantees will fail, meaning any extension of these guarantees is a pre-emptive bailout of the nuclear industry leaving the taxpayers on the hook for up to half a trillion dollars.
The draft still relies on more than two billion tons in offsets – actually expanding permitted offsets from the Waxman-Markey language. This has huge potential consequences. It means that despite the intent of the draft, we could conceivably end up having failed to reduce emissions at all – and with major questions about whether alleged offsets were even achieved. While the offset oversight language is considerably better than in Waxman-Markey, it still is troubling that we are relying on offsets rather than actually decreasing our pollution.
The draft does nothing to improve vague language in Waxman-Markey, which could effectively grandfather more than 40 proposed coal-fired power plants, including up to a dozen in Texas alone. These proposed plants would be exempted from new performance standards in the bill, while a plant built just three years from now will have to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by half.
With Kerry-Boxer maintaining EPA’s right to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, this sets the table nicely to try to get a bill passed which will both solve climate change and create the new energy economy we need. We just need to improve the ground of the special-interest-riddled Congress. Tip of my hat to Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman for their articles on this earlier this week about the severity of the problem that faces us and the relatively lame responses by our government. As a palate cleanser, please to enjoy this 15 second video from [adult swim] about what the REAL problem may be:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUAUnjhB7l4]
Tell Texas Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson Not to Grandfather Coal Plants in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, American Clean Energy and Securities, Coal, coal plant, cornyn, Global Warming, grandfather, hutchinson, john, kay bailey hutchinson, Public Citizen, senator, Texas, tour on September 20, 2009 |
In 1977 Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act that provided exemptions to existing coal plants, allowing them to ignore the new emissions standards any new plants would have to adhere to. It was thought these plants would simply age and be retired quickly, but because these plants suddenly became much cheaper to operate (due to not having to meet stricter standards) the companies who owned them kept them operating for as long as possible. It wasn’t until almost 30 years later, in 2003, that this “grandfathering” loophole was finally closed and all plants had to come into compliance with the Clean Air Act.
Now that global warming legislation is on the horizon, there is a new rush to build an entire new fleet of coal plants throughout the country. The hope is to get similar “grandfathering” provisions into any climate change legislation so that these brand new coal plants (some already being constructed) will not have to adhere to the new CO2 emission standards. Already, language in the American Clean Energy and Securities Act has been added to try and exempt any plants from the new standards if they receive their permit before January 1, 2009. The new standard, as it is now in the pending legislation, would require all qualifying plants to reduce their CO2 emissions by half by 2025. If the current fleet of new plants being built across the country are grandfathered this will result in massive amounts of CO2 added to our atmosphere that would otherwise have been mitigated. The new plants in Texas alone (which has more coal and pet coke plants proposed than any other state), if grandfathered, would end up emitting about 38.5 million tons more CO2 every year that they would if forced to adhere to the new emission standards.
There is no reason why any of these modern plants being permitted and built today should be exempt from modern CO2 emission controls, especially when there are plenty of alternatives such as energy efficiency and renewables that can meet this need. These coal companies are simply trying to slip in under the wire and evade responsibility for their emissions. The people of Texas call upon Senators Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn to not vote for or allow any provisions in any CO2 or climate change legislation that would allow such grandfathering of this new fleet of coal plants.
Please go to the following sites to email the senators. You can simply copy and past the following brief statement, put it in your own words, or both:
Dear Senator,
The American Clean Energy and Securities Act is intended to address the grave threat of global warming. To do this it is setting new emissions standards for CO2 releases from industrial power plants. There are currently exemptions, however, that would allow new plants being permitted and built today to escape these new standards, effectively “grandfathering” them similar to the way that existing plants were grandfathered under the Clean Air Act in 1977. There is no reason why plants being permitted and built today should not be held to the new emission standards. Please do not vote for, or allow to be added, any provisions or exemptions that would allow grandfathering of these plants.
To email Senator Cornyn go here.
To email Senator Hutchinson go here.
WATCH: Inherit the Hot Air! The US Chamber of Commerce v. Science
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, american clean energy and security act, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Congress, endangerment finding, EPA, funny, Global Warming, Massachusetts v EPA, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, scopes monkey trial, SEED Coalition, SNL, Texas, unfrozen caveman lawyer, US Chamber of Commerce, video, waxman-markey on August 26, 2009 |
The US Chamber of Commerce wants to put the science of global warming on trial. Not only that, they themselves claim they want this trial to be similar to the Scopes Monkey Trial where a Tennessee teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution, made even more famous by the play and film “Inherit the Wind.”
Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Because the only way to respond to this is through mockery and derision (surely they can’t actually be serious?), we present to you:
INHERIT THE HOT AIR!!! (a comedy in 3 acts)
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We apologize for the numerous Saturday Night Live circa 1989 references (especially the somewhat obscure “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer“) and the blatant callbacks to Inherit the Wind, and also ask people to please NOT place plastic bags on their heads and inhale deeply. No Andys were harmed in the filming of this video and I was able to breathe freely at all times. I promise.
On a serious note, what the Chamber is trying to do is to overturn and stall a process which is well underway. In 2007, the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v EPA stated that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it is linked to climate change, and the EPA should regulate it under the Clean Air Act. In compliance with this ruling, (and only after delays by the Bush Administration which kept this action from occurring), the EPA earlier this year presented an initial endangerment finding, the first step in allowing them to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gases. They then opened the finding for public comment, which could be sent in by writing, and also held public meetings in Arlington, VA and Seattle, WA to gather public input.
According to documents posted at the Wonk Room, the US Chamber’s main argument is that previous public comment periods have somehow “Tainted” the process and that only an elaborate show trial, orchestrated by them and by putting their junk scientists on the stand, can eliminate the “taint.” (And you know, “Tainted Endangerment Finding” was one of my favorite 80’s songs.)
So, according to the Chamber, public comment is bad, but the opinion of big business and their sham scientists can remove the stain from input by the witless masses.
All of this seems far too much like the plot of a Coen Brothers (or Marx Brothers) movie. These are serious times which require serious thought and reflection, not comical misdirection. But like the Fool in King Lear, only through comedy can we confront the tragedy that surrounds us and point out the serious misdeeds taking place. And this sham by the Chamber of Commerce is even more destructive, because as long as we keep endlessly debating “Is It Happening?” we will never get around to “How Do We Solve It?”
In the words of Stan Lee, “Nuff Said.”
Andy Wilson talks about Energy Citizen Corporate Picnic in Houston
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, energy rally, Global Warming, houston, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 20, 2009 |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IUdPPbeYns]
Why Does Big Oil Hate Our Freedom?
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged #FrontGroupFAIL, ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 |
As you may have read elsewhere on our blog, we tried to attend the “Energy Citizens” rally in Houston yesterday but were turned away.
Even far-right teabaggers, brought out to the event by FreedomWorks and a promise of a free meal, weren’t allowed in, despite actually being sympatico with Big Oil’s agenda.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkGSuYzg8z4]
The offending item that got one kicked out? An American flag. Why does Big Oil hate our freedom?
This is just the 30 second trailer– a longer, more in-depth interview with people who were not allowed in the rally will be posted in the next 24 hours.
Houston’s Energy Citizens Company Picnic
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 |
Yesterday the Public Citizen Texas team drove down to Houston to crash the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizen event. Billed as a “grassroots” rally against the cap and trade bill currently before Congress, this event was nothing more than a company picnic.
About 2500 energy employees were brought by charter bus to the Verizon Wireless Theater, a private location that could be easily secured to keep undesirables out. David, Ryan, and Andy were all denied access, but stealthily dressed in Banana Republic and spectator pumps, I was able to blend in with the crowd and slip into the hot dog line.
Inside the theater it became evident quickly what a polished, professional event this was. Right at the door you could pick up a bright yellow t-shirt with a clever slogan on it like “I’ll pass on $4 gas”, “I’m an Energy Citizen!”, and “Congress, Don’t Take Away My Job!” The same lines could also be found on bumper stickers and the same kinds of cardboard signs you would wave at a football game.
In the middle of the arena was a giant action center where employees could voice their disapproval of climate change legislation through a variety of mechanisms. Six or seven computers were cued up with petitions to Sens. Hutchison and Cornyn, and attendees were invited to text JOBS to 363749(ENERGY) to get involved. Drop boxes for postcards were also positioned in the corners of the room, and “activists” could sharpie their signatures to 8 foot tall “shame on you” or “thank you” letters to Congressmen that voted for or against the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
My favorite aspect of the rally by far, however, was the high school marching band and star spangled dance team. When I asked one of the teenage dancers what she thought the rally was about, she told me she thought that it was about conserving energy.
I was able to interview several rally attendees, but the majority of folks regarded me with suspicion or didn’t want to talk to me. Others clearly didn’t have much of an opinion on the bill other than what they’d been told, but one gentleman I spoke to was actually concerned about the special interest carve-outs in the bill for dirty coal. Stay posted for the video of these interviews later today, with the working title “Energy Workers Say the Darndest Things.” Teaser:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXFt8fwh_0]
After about an hour I started to run out out of room on my camera, so I moved toward the front doors to see if I could trade off cameras with Andy, who was still stationed outside. Big mistake. Once the chief security guard saw me make eye contact with a marked man, I was out of there. He grabbed my shoulder and asked “what energy company do you work for?” When I said I wasn’t with an energy company but was a member of the media, he said I was misrepresenting myself and summarily kicked me out.
I was a little disappointed to miss out on the great list of speakers, especially rodeo man Bill Bailey, who was master of ceremonies (irony, irony, irony, seeing as this rally was all hat and no cattle). But speaking to other individuals who had been denied access was even more enlightening than listening to Big Oil preach their sermon.
This was such a fake, Astroturf event that they didn’t know how to handle legitimate grassroots support. A couple of women who had been to some of the teabagger events and townhalls came down, armed with American flags and excited to protest “crap and tax” — but even THEY weren’t allowed in. Several others who had heard about the rally through Freedom Works, on right wing radio, or in the paper were also locked out.
Yesterday’s rally was the first of about twenty rallies that will be staged nationwide over the next few weeks. Thanks to Greenpeace, we already knew Big Oil’s game plan: rally up a bunch of Astroturf support to kill cap and trade. But now we know the full story — they don’t even want to hear the voices of their real grassroots. These events are by invitation only, and all other members of the public — for or against climate legislation — will be shut out. If you don’t work for the company, you’re not invited to the picnic.
Big Oil Astroturf rally in Houston more company picnic than grassroots campaign
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, green jobs, houston, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 |
Your intrepid friends at Public Citizen tried to attend the astroturf “Energy Citizens” rally yesterday in Houston. We’re busy pulling together our bloggings and all the footage we shot, but keep checking back here for updates throughout the day.
We were not allowed in the meeting, as we did not work for an energy company, but we managed to sneak some great footage before being escorted out and being told to leave the premises.
Footage of the 34 busses used to bring people into the rally from different energy companies.
Normal Citizens who weren”t good enough to be “Energy Citizens”– people who weren’t allowed in the meeting, as this was for energy company employees only! Interviews include lots of crazy conservative teabaggers who hate cap and trade (I understand why Public Citizen and Sierra Club might not be allowed in– why weren’t even they allowed?), nice ladies who were escorted out of the building because they dared to bring American flags to the rally (why does Big Oil hate America?), and lots of people angry at oil companies because they’re hiding this from the public.
“Energy Company Employees Say the Darndest Things” — watch as your friends in the oil and gas industry display ignorance as to the salient details of the ACES bill and spout misinformation about it, or, the people who do know a lot about the bill talk about how it’s a bad piece of legislation because of corporate giveaways to the coal industry! Here’s one quick tidbit:
Want more? Read my full press statement after the jump:
UPDATED: Grassroots vs Astroturf- the difference in citizen activism
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACCCE, ACES, API, astroturf, Balanced Energy choices, Big Oil, Campaign Finance, Citizen Power, climate change, Congressman Doggett, Global Warming, Grass roots, grassroots politics, greenpeace, Lloyd Doggett, Public Citizen, Texas, Waxman-Markey bill on August 13, 2009 |
UPDATE: Greenpeace has just obtained an internal API memo detailing their astroturf plans. You can read the memo and Greenpeace’s reply here. Job “whale” done, Greenpeace!
Most people have a good general conception of what a real grassroots movement looks like: citizens get outraged over some injustice or inequity and get organized and get active. These campaigns are built from the bottom up.
Astroturfing a Texas Highway
And what happens when you don’t have a grassroots movement but want to make it look like you do? Well, then you Astro-turf a movement in, paying hired guns to pretend to be “activists” who then show up to townhall meetings and other public forums. Fake grass- sent from top down, rather than something grown naturally from the ground up. A lot of these protesters have been either astroturfed in or given specific instructions on how to disrupt these townhalls in an attempt to shout down opinions other than their own.
We in Texas know a thing about Astroturf, the name having originated as the name of the artificial turf used in the Houston Astrodome. (Coincidentally, the first ever Super Bowl played on astroturf was also in Houston at SuperBowl VIII in 1974.)
Many have criticized recent astroturf campaigns on healthcare, climate change, and the infamous tea-baggers because of their coordination by Washington lobbyists and special interests. In fact, Senator Dick Durbin (IL), the #2 Democrat in the Senate, Sunday told CNN’s John King,
“We have these screaming groups on either side. That isn’t helpful. Let’s be honest about this. . . this is clearly being orchestrated, and these folks have instructions. They come down from a Texas lobbyist in Washington.”
So what’s the difference between what Public Citizen does (educate, activate and organize citizens) and what the astroturfers do (hired guns, fomenting support based on misinformation for the purpose of financial gain)? Many groups engage in grassroots organizing, from Public Citizen to the League of Conservation Voters to the NRA, and use their membership to engage in activism, and some of this leadership comes from our paid staff in DC or Austin, etc. However, Public Citizen has a long history of never accepting donations from corporations or government grants, meaning we can always clearly represent only the interests of our membership without any conflicts of interest.
On the complete opposite side of the spectrum, these atroturf campaigns are actually schilling for major corporate interests who have a financial stake in climate change, health insurance, etc. The most glaring example is ACCCE, the coal industry group that represents 48 of the largest coal electricty utilities in the US with a combined net revenues last year of nearly $200 billion. ACCCE’s mission is to sell their false claims of clean coal technology. Haven’t heard of ACCCE? Well, maybe it’s because they used to be called “Americans for Balanced Energy Choices” but decided to “rebrand” since it became obvious that “balanced” energy choices meant all coal all the time.
Their ads became so ridiculous they became parodied like this, in this commercial from Oscar Winners Joel and Ethan Coen:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-_U1Z0vezw]
Anyway, they’re up to their old Orwellian tricks again.
In the weeks before the House voted on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), ACCCE’s lobbyists forged letters to Congress, claiming to be representatives of minority and environmental justice groups such as NAACP. (A huge tip of the hat to to Kate Sheppard at Grist who has been following this very closely– also follow Kate on Twitter for the best enviro updates this side of @ClimateHaiku)
Even more amazing was that these letters claimed that enacting climate legislation would hurt low-income communities, even though the national NAACP (and many, many other social justice groups) had come down in support of ACES. No word yet how many fake letters they sent to members of Congress pretending to be average constituents, rather than important community members who could be easily verified, and we will probably never know the extent of the fraud they have perpetrated.
That is Astroturfing, my friends.
Another egregious example, coming soon to the theater near you, is that the American Petroleum Institute and National Association of Manufacturers along with other flat-earth anti-climate change legislation groups are teaming up to host townhall-style meetings in 20 key states to attempt to influence the passage of the climate bill in the Senate (see articles here and here). So, the deep, deep pockets of big oil and big business are trying to buy themselves a grassroots movement. Will they have any luck?
And then, as a corollary to astroturfing, we have the local example of Austin’s Congressman Lloyd Doggett, who has gained a lot of media attention because of the angry throngs showing up to mob him and yell “Just Say No!” to health care reform.
Depending on your view of Doggett, you may have shown up to his previous townhalls to lambaste, lampoon, or lavish praise on him. I have been to these neighborhood office hours before to speak with Congressman Doggett (he is, after all, my Representative in Washington) and I have never seen anything like what happened two weeks ago. Most people show up to politely engage the Congressman about a (more…)
Sometimes your leaders listen: Lloyd Doggett and the Safe Markets Development Act
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, Austin, Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, climate change, congressman, congressman lloyd doggett, Global Warming, Lloyd Doggett, Texas, Waxman-Markey bill on May 28, 2009 |
We’ve been disappointed by the process that the American Clean Energy and Security Act has gone through recently, so a few weeks ago I went to go see my Congressman during his “neighborhood office hours” (at the Randall’s at the corner of William Cannon and MoPac) and talk to him about climate change. Then this morning I opened up my email inbox to find a communique from Congressman Lloyd Doggett.
Needless to say, it made me happy, so I’m sharing it with all of you. This should serve as an example– contact your leaders and tell them how you feel about issues like climate change. They do listen! (Or if they don’t– make them!)
I also think his ideas about the “Safe Markets Development” would be a major improvement to any climate bill. Read on to find out that experts also think it’s a good idea!
Full text after the jump….
Mr. Andrew Wilson
5xxx Little Creek Trl
Dear Andy:
Knowing of our shared interest in fighting global warming and creating a robust green jobs economy, I would like to update you about my work in Washington.
This is an exciting time for those of us who have long wanted to make renewable energy affordable. Never before has there been such a push from both politicians and concerned citizens like you to get something done.
We cannot allow the fossil fuel special interests to blacken our chances at achieving a strong, clean energy economy in the same way that they blacken our skies. It is critical that the climate legislation this Congress produces ensure both price stability and environmental integrity. To this end, I have introduced the Safe Markets Development Act. I designed this act to
-Cap carbon pollution;
-Head off market manipulation;
-And incentivize renewable energy technology.
I have also introduced the Green Transit Act, which would require metropolitan planning organizations to consider greenhouse gas emissions in long-range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs. Transportation is an integral factor in the transition to a clean energy (more…)
Everyone Weighing in on Climate Bill
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, america, american clean energy and security act, charlie gonzalez, climate change, Democracy Now!, economist, Energy, environmental groups, Global Warming, Greg Harman, house energy and commerce committee, hr 2454, industry lobbying, Markey, president obama, Public Citizen, san antonio current, Texas, tyson slocum, Washington Post, Waxman on May 22, 2009 |
Let the news storm begin. For those thirsting for more information on the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a few recommendations:
Watch Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, weigh in on Democracy Now! — Environmental Groups See Divide over Landmark Climate, Energy Bill Weakened by Industry Lobbying
Greg Harman at the San Antonio Current takes Charlie Gonzalez to task for his efforts to weaken ACES (look for a cameo quote from our very own Andy Wilson, Global Warming Program Director here at the Texas office — Gonzalez bombs climate change bill
The Washington Post’s business column op-ed: Climate-Change Bill Hits Some of the Right Notes but Botches the Refrain
The Economist breaks down the Handouts and loopholes
And to close out, words from the President:
I commend Chairman Waxman and the Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee for a successful effort to pass a comprehensive energy and climate bill out of their committee today. We are now one step closer to delivering on the promise of a new clean energy economy that will make America less dependent on foreign oil, crack down on polluters, and create millions of new jobs all across America. The bill is historic for what it achieves, providing clean energy incentives that encourage innovation while recognizing the concerns of sensitive industries and regions in this country. And this achievement is all the more historic for bringing together many who have in the past opposed a common effort, from labor unions to corporate CEOs, and environmentalists to energy companies. I applaud the committee for its action and look forward to signing comprehensive legislation.
House Committee Passes Landmark Clean Energy Legislation
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, allowances, american clean energy and security act, andy wilson, cap and trade, carbon credits, Carbon Dioxide, charlie gonzalez, charlie melancon, climate change, ed markey, energy and commerce committee, EPA, Gene Green, giveaways, Global Warming, government accountability office, green jobs, henry waxman, hr 2454, ipcc, jim matheson, Joe Barton, john barrow, mike ross, president obama, rick boucher, Texas, union of concerned scientists on May 22, 2009 |
Public Citizen disappointed by process as Big Money works to weaken, kill bill
Statement by Andy Wilson, Global Warming Program Director, Texas Office
This evening, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES or ACESA), sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), by a margin of 33 – 25.
We would like to thank Gene Green (D-Houston) and Charlie Gonzalez (D-San Antonio) for their support of this step towards clean energy and saving the climate from runaway global warming. It is unfortunate, however, that they chose to weaken the energy efficiency and renewable energy sections of the bill, as stronger mandates would mean more local jobs and more savings for Texans.
They also supported giving away billions of dollars worth of carbon credits to polluters for free, despite knowing that these giveaways hurt low income households the most.
Big money was the deciding factor in this process, with the energy industry donating a total of $3.1 million on all members of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the 2008 campaign cycle, with nearly $2.3 million of that going to committee Republicans, who presented nearly monolithic opposition to the bill and attempted to weaken it at every turn. Ranking member Joe Barton (R-TX) received $406,887 in campaign contributions from the energy industry, the largest amount of any member on the panel, and orchestrated the GOP opposition. Notable opposition to the bill came from Jim Matheson (D-UT), who received $103,097, Charlie Melancon (D-LA), who received $125,100, John Barrow (D-GA) who received $88,743, and Mike Ross (D-AR) who received $59,800. The first three of these received more money from the energy industry than any other Democrats on the panel, while Ross was the fifth largest recipient among Democrats.
The architects of the compromises which weakened the bill also received large contributions from the energy industry, including Rick Boucher (D-VA) who received $67,300 and was the architect of the plan to give coal-fired electric utilities nearly all of their pollution credits for free. A similar deal was struck with oil refineries, whose donations to Gene Green (D-TX) and Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX) along with other energy industries was equal to $84,500 and $51,250, respectively.
Unfortunately, the bill leaves the committee weaker than it came in. It has moved to a short term reduction of CO2 emissions of only 17%, even though the research by the Nobel Prize winning IPCC shows that target needs to be closer to 30%. This bill is also potentially a budget buster, as it has moved away from President Obama’s original position of auctioning all of the pollution credits to giving away credits worth billions in revenue to industry for free. By giving away 85% of all carbon credits to industry, the Congress has also limited their ability to help low-income consumers and invest in efficiency, renewable energy, and international programs to aid lesser developed countries. Furthermore, they have added unlimited loan guarantees to the nuclear industry, even though the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated that it is likely that more than 50 percent of all nuclear loans will fail. The loan guarantees would be used to
Even worse, by giving away too many credits to special interests, we will repeat the mistakes of the European carbon market, where too many credits were given away at the outset and actual carbon reductions did not occur. Utilities still passed on “compliance costs” to their customers and prices increased, which led to the EPA’s analysis of the Waxman-Markey draft that any giveaways to industries are “highly regressive.”
A well designed cap and invest program with strong efficiency and renewable energy standards would save the average Texas household $900 per year according to a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists. We fear that by weakening the bill, as the Energy and Commerce Committee has, this savings could evaporate.
Now that the committee process has ended, it is now the responsibility of every Texas Representative to strengthen HR 2454. The bill needs to move back to scientifically and economically based goals in order to protect consumers and create a green jobs future for every family in the country.
Great Opportunity for Latino Leaders to Influence Climate Change Legislation
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, american clean energy and security act, climate change, congressman gonzalez, Gene Green, houston, patricia gonzalez, San Antonio, Texas, wcvi, william c velasquez institute, willie velasguez institute on May 11, 2009 |
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[[Image:New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - USA.jpg|thumb|256x256px|North American box art.]]
'''''New Super Mario Bros.''''', known in Japan as '''''スーパーマリオブラザーズ [Nyu Supa Mario Burazazu]''''' is a 2D scrolling platform action game in the [[Mario (Universe)|Mario universe]] developed by [[Nintendo EAD]] and published by [[Nintendo]] for the [[Nintendo DS]] on 2006-05-05. Like most Mario games, Peach has been kidnapped, this time by Bowser Jr., and you must rescue her by traveling across eight worlds and beating various levels. Levels are divided into standard levels, mini castles, toad houses, and, at the end of each world, a castle of Bowser Jr which houses a boss.
* Nothing.
===Box Art===
New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - USA.jpg|This is the North American and Australian box art. It has Mario benefiting from a mega mushroom and murdering some goombas. I like how the koopas are smiling gaily at the viewer, showing what a fun game this will be.
New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - UK.jpg|The European art is similar, but has a regular-sized Mario. This art focuses more on the 2-player element of the game. The Japanese box is similar to this one. I think I like this art slightly more.
===Manuals===
New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - USA - Manual.pdf|US manual.
New Super Mario Bros. - NDS - UK - Manual.pdf|UK manual.
North American box art.
New Super Mario Bros., known in Japan as スーパーマリオブラザーズ [Nyu Supa Mario Burazazu] is a 2D scrolling platform action game in the Mario universe developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS on 2006-05-05. Like most Mario games, Peach has been kidnapped, this time by Bowser Jr., and you must rescue her by traveling across eight worlds and beating various levels. Levels are divided into standard levels, mini castles, toad houses, and, at the end of each world, a castle of Bowser Jr which houses a boss.
3.1 Box Art
3.2 Manuals
I don't own this game, but I have beaten it.
Best Version: Nintendo DS
I like the addition of the Super Mario 64 enemies into a pseudo-2D Mario game.
The mega mushroom was a nice new powerup. The mini mushroom, not so much.
The inclusion of the wall jump was nice and the designers did a good job of designing maps to benefit it.
There was some pretty nice level design, and the new objects that alter the maps (P-switches which shift the floor, water level shifters, etc.) are well used.
The graphics do a pretty good job of marrying raster backgrounds and 3D sprites.
The environment graphics are pretty wonderful.
Using star coins to unlock beneficial areas of the map was a nice way to encourage players to try to reach more difficult areas of the maps.
I love how the characters in the game react to the "wah wah" of the above ground theme music.
I like how the screen shifts from top to bottom when you go down pipes.
The game is still a bit too similar to standard Super Mario Bros. For the most part, I felt like I was playing a level expansion rather than a new game.
I don't like how the player skips every other world as part of normal play.
I'm so tired of the damsel in distress trope. Sing us a new one.
The 1up guessing "game" isn't a game because its entirely random.
While I appreciate the addition of mini games, they're all pretty dull.
This is the North American and Australian box art. It has Mario benefiting from a mega mushroom and murdering some goombas. I like how the koopas are smiling gaily at the viewer, showing what a fun game this will be.
The European art is similar, but has a regular-sized Mario. This art focuses more on the 2-player element of the game. The Japanese box is similar to this one. I think I like this art slightly more.
US manual.
UK manual.
mobygames.com/game/new-super-mario-bros - MobyGames.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Super_Mario_Bros. - Wikipedia.
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John Wick Review
Dir: Chad Stahelski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Willem Dafoe, Alfie Allen, Dean Winters, Adrianne Palicki, Lance Reddick, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane, and Bridget Moynahan
Be careful whom you cross. That’s the introducing theme to the most recent entry into the revenge genre with director Chad Stahelski’s film “John Wick”. Seemingly influenced by the films of John Woo, Stahelski pulls no punches with the breakneck, bullet ridden action sequences. Writer Derek Kolstad offers some of the best material in years for star Keanu Reeves, who seems tailored for walking into a room full of armed tough guys with a calm, “no problem” personality. “John Wick” is a worthy entry into the revenge genre, it’s not heavy on pointless plot or twisting narrative transitions but instead relishes in the mayhem that moves it from scene to scene.
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a former hitman for hire. Retired, John lives a normal life with his wife (Bridget Moynahan) until she suddenly dies. John is alone but an unexpected gift from his wife before she died arrives at his doorstep, a puppy. John is given an opportunity to continue his normal existence, but a group of young gangsters come and take the last piece of hope in his life. John returns for vengeance to the life he barely escaped, guns in hand.
There is nothing complicated about “John Wick”. The simplistic, narrative design gives you all the major plot points in the first 15 minutes. From then on the film trudges into familiar revenge film territory. John in a nice suit armed with weapons and bad guys with heavy accents lining up for John to unceremoniously knock down. However, writer Derek Kolstad adds some unique features to accommodate the distinctive formula. John isn’t the only hitman in New York City, there is an assassin society that keeps their secret and offers safe housing, also added are a cleanup crew that takes care of the messy aftermath, and special currency that pays for services. The narrative nicely composes the settings and atmosphere of the film, making the world seem like something out of a comic book.
Keanu Reeves is a perfect fit for this role. A mix of calm and collected while also displaying the personality of an ordinary and regular guy, Reeves has been playing this character for some time and he does it well when the material is suited for it. There are some great cameos from the always-reliable Willem Dafoe as a fellow hitman and Ian McShane as the manager of the assassin safe house.
“John Wick” functions best when it embraces its B-movie ambitions. Keanu Reeves surprisingly holds the film together with his performance. Though in moments the films no nonsense approach has a tendency to slow the pacing significantly and scenes have an inclination to feel more like rehashes in new settings. After being asked a recurring question throughout the film John Wick exclaims, “yeah, I’m thinking I’m back”. That line of dialogue is a telling statement for a film that is bound to find a sequel, which I would more than likely to sit through again.
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Túrin's story and Tolkien's conception of God
Rowanberry
Post subject: Túrin's story and Tolkien's conception of God
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:22 pm
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Location: Rooted in the northern woods
On another site that I occasionally visit, one poster presented this thought:
In The Children of Húrin, Saeros insults Túrin by asking if the women of his people run around clad in nothing but their hair. Túrin, after beating off Saeros's attack the next day, forces him to run through the woods naked. Later, after Nienor gets under Glaurung's curse, she casts all her clothes away while running away from Mablung's company, and is naked when the men of Brethil find her.
The exchange between Saeros and Túrin happened in Doriath, and therefore, Morgoth (or Glaurung) could not know about it. Yet, Nienor very ironically acts just like in Saeros's scornful words. So, if her behaviour couldn't have been directly caused by Morgoth, was it caused by some action by Eru?
Eru is supposed to be the Christian God, the one that Tolkien believed in. So, in essence, this question boils down to Tolkien's conception of God. Could his God have decided: You humiliated this elf by forcing him run around naked so, I'll humiliate your sister by making her run around naked, and so making the mockery by the elf come true?
The original poster seemed to think that Eru could do something like that. But, does that conception of Eru represent Tolkien's God, or just the poster's?
I'm curious to hear what people here think.
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Have faith in the way things are.
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then you can care for all things.
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:23 pm
The poster's. Of course, on a fundatmental level, everything that happens in Eä finds its uttermost source in Eru, but I do not believe that He would take such a direct role in something like this. It is a rare occasion where He inserts the Hand of God into the World (such as when interjected the third theme into the Music to bring His Children into the Tale) or perhaps tipping Gollum over the edge of the cracks of Doom.
Tolkien's work is full of such parallels. Another one in CoH is that as a child Túrin kindly befriends Sador and calls him Labadal - hop-a-foot in a loving manner. But then he mocks Brandir's lameness by calling him "clubfoot" just before he unjustly slays him.
On the other hand, why exactly does Nienor throw off all her clothes as she flees from the darkness? That has always been something of a mystery to me.
axordil
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Location: Black Creek Bottoms
Clothes are a carrier of constructed identity. We dress in a way that indicates who we are and who we THINK we are. Losing the clothing in this case is symbolic of her loss of memory and of the sense of self she had had.
Do you think there is any connection to Saeros' taunt? I've never really considered that before, but when you think about, it seems like there must be.
I think there is an ironic connection, yes, but only an ironic connection. It is a particularly sardonic working out of the curse of Morgoth, though, not the hand of Eru. And it's a wicked-good use of foreshadowing.
Yes, Tolkien was very big on that foreshadowing thang.
Thanks for your input, V and Ax. You seem to be very much of the same opinion as I am; I also see the original poster's interpretation as his own, not as something Tolkien was thinking.
I'd still be interested in hearing from the practising Catholics here; although Tolkien was probably much more conservative than any of you, he was of the same faith, and therefore, your view of God/Eru might be rather close to his.
solicitr
Location: Engineering a monarchist coup d'etat
The ironic parallel is pushed further by their ends: Saeros is killed falling into a stream-gorge, 'wide for a deer-leap;' and Nienor kills herslf by plunging into the Teiglin ravine at Cabed-en-Aras, the Deer's Leap.
Very good point, solicitr! There is no way that is merely coincidental.
In Christian imagery, nakedness was originally the natural state of man, and not shameful.
It was only in bringing sin into the world that such an association began to be made.
Saeros implies that latter meaning, of shame, in his scornful words, and Túrin takes them as such, accepting the existence of a fallen world, of Arda marred.
But Nienor, in becoming naked, is not shameful. She returns to a state of innocence, forgetting all, as if unaffected by the Fall. Túrin meeting her in this state of innocence, finds real happiness.
It is only in learning again the Truth, the bitter fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, that the idea of shame returns. The Truth is revealed by the great worm Glauring (the Serpent). The "constructed identity" (to use Axordil's term) that Túrin and Nienor had clothed themselves in as husband and wife is ripped away, revealing a nakedness of the spirit in which true shame is achieved as the price of that knowledge.
The shame in nakedness and the need to be clothed is, on a symbolic level, less about uncovering or covering the body than it is a metaphor for living in a fallen world.
Whoa, Brian! Superb post! I had never thought of the Eden parallels here.
There's another way of seeing it as well- Nienor shedding her clothes in her flight is in a way akin to Túrin shedding his successive names in his flight from Fate.
Excellent, Brian! That's just the type of subtle Judeo-Christian symbolism that Tolkien would include, without including making it at all explicit.
Primula Baggins
Location: Sailing the luminiferous aether
That is a brilliant post, Brian. Thanks.
I am still trying to find my way into all of this, and your post helps.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
* to Brian*
Athrabeth
On the purely practical side, if Nienor had been clad in the clothes of Menegroth (which I assume she would be, given that she had been living there) then surely Túrin would have recognized that, wouldn't he? And in doing so, wouldn't it have been possible for him to draw some conclusions (or at least, form some doubts) about this mortal woman and her connection to Doriath that most likely would not have resulted in his marriage to her? Tolkien, as a writer, must have seen that potential problem, and so needed to remove (8) ) any and all clues to her identity from Túrin. That he could so masterfully weave such a basic practicality of the tale into a "particularly sardonic working out of the curse of Morgoth", as Ax phrased it, is a testament to his skills as a story-teller.
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Ath, that has never once occurred to me before, and yet now that you have stated it, it is obvious.
Andreth
Location: Edoras
This came up during our smial discussion of the book. Nienor looks like a female version of Húrin! Did he forget what his father looked like? Or what the women of Dor-lómin looked like? Wouldn't Nienor at least look familiar? And while that might not have ultimately stopped the marriage, maybe Túrin would have thought a little harder before proposing.
Wes ðū hāl
It may well be that, Túrin's memory of his father was a bit faded after the twentysomething years that had passed since Húrin went to war and never returned. On the other hand, there must have been some kind of a feeling of familiarity, which advanced Túrin's falling in love with Nienor.
Rowanberry has the gist of it, I believe. Remember, it's not like Túrin had wallet photos of his dad to look at, and he had been quite young when Húrin departed. Any familiarity would have been interpreted as something else--attractiveness, perhaps. Some people are physically attracted to those with a resemblance to their own or their family's features.
I do recall that in CoH itself or in related notes, Túrin's falling for Finduilas was said to be in part due to her physical resemblance to his kin.
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Review: Building participatory action research (PAR) in collaborative management: a case study of ‘overlapping access rights’ in forest management in Pasir- East Kalimantan
This article analyzes practical experiences in East Kalimantan using PAR with multiple stakeholders involved in forest management. It specifically analyzes how PAR can be used to help resolve issues of ‘overlapping access’ rights.
In general, the article provides a useful review of PAR, as well as highlights the specific experiences of PAR in East Kalimantan. The conclusions contribute to understanding of the PAR process in practice.
As it stands, the article provides an interesting picture of a local scenario. The article would be much stronger if the final analysis and conclusions related back to theories outlined in the literature review of PAR, and were more analytical of the author’s own practical experiences, (i.e. WHO and HOW were decisions made throughout the PAR process).
There are strange phrasings and grammatical errors throughout the paper, which make for unclear reading and a choppy flow that allow key points to be lost. The paper should be edited thoroughly by a native English speaker.
The opening statement is not necessarily relevant. It should be replaced by a less abstract concept related to the specific type of natural resource conflict at hand.
The introduction should better link general statements about PAR with its use in natural resource issues, the specific conflict in Pasir that is described, and the aspects of PAR the author hopes to analyze.
Participatory Action Research (PAR): What is it?
The section “Participatory Action Research (PAR): What is it?” is useful, and divides the history of action research with participatory action research as a sub-category. It highlights the weaknesses as well as strengths of PAR, from both an action and a research perspective.
Continued phrasing problems make for a less smooth read than is desirable, and make connections among and between paragraphs somewhat disjointed.
Unclear phrase p. 2, lines 4 and 5, describing “symmetrical, horizontal, or non-exploitative patterns” of relationships between “subject and subject” (of research). These terms are not further defined.
The author raises an interesting issue regarding difficulties of uniting theory and practice, p. 2, 3rd paragraph, but does not go into sufficient depth with this short paragraph, instead relying upon the vague statement of how this relationship is “the central problem of the dominant positivist social science.” Such generalities should be avoided, as it is unclear what the relationship of this dominant social science is to PAR, why it is dominant, positivist, etc. This issue of theory’s relationship to practice should be developed further, as it has potential for strengthening the author’s later analysis of PAR experiences in East Kalimantan. This paragraph also appears disjointedly in the middle of the analysis of action research, and should be better linked to the rest of the section.
In this section reviewing PAR, it is not problematized WHO is doing both the research, and who are the participants. In this literature review, the author merely describes ‘the group’ and ‘the researcher/s’, without specifying how, in PAR, the group is selected, via what process, and how the researchers themselves are part of the process, changing and changed by the PAR. Such a focus within the literature review will again serve to strengthen later on the analysis of PAR in East Kalimantan.
PAR: Social Learning and Collaboration
This section describes social learning that can occur during PAR, and its potential contributions to promoting collaboration in natural resource management.
The final paragraph of this section describes how PAR can be used to create opportunities for social learning and collaboration to address natural resource management issues. This is a key point, but as it is presented in the middle of a paragraph of the third section, its impact, and the article’s potential impact as a whole, is lost. Although the previous sections lead up to this point, this lead-in is only obvious in reverse. This key point of the article should be better packaged in the introduction, which would help link the different literature review sections together.
Case Study: overlapping access in forest management, East Kalimantan
This section describes the actual PAR process in East Kalimantan, by describing the area, listing the stakeholders, describing the concerns over overlapping access rights, the different activities and perspectives of the different stakeholders. It ends with the Research Question developed by CIFOR for the PAR process.
The last sentence of the first paragraph in this section describes the livelihood activities of the two villages. It is not defined what ladang is. The sentence as a whole does not relate well to the rest of the paragraph, which is a general description of the areas involved. A separate paragraph should be devoted to livelihoods.
A map might help better orient readers as to where this takes place, and where the villages, community lands, protection forest, production forest, etc., are.
The second paragraph describes some of the biodiversity, although using some strange reference markers, i.e, cubic meters per hectare for plants (trees?) greater than 10 cm diameter (at breast height? Or base?), and tons per hectare for rattan (production of harvestable product or total productivity?). These parameters are more reflective of floristic diversity rather than biodiversity as a whole.
The final sentence of this paragraph, “since the area has high biodiversity potential, it is no doubt that the area of concern to many stakeholders,” is unclear for several reasons. First, grammatical errors. Second, biodiversity ‘potential’ is a vague phrase. Third, it is unclear whether the stakeholders are interested for the biodiversity per se, or rather for the products from different species.
The authors then describe the stakeholders. It would be interesting to outline the process of HOW and WHO decided who the relevant stakeholders are.
The central issue of ‘overlapping access rights’ is then described. But it is left out again HOW and WHO decided why this was the central issue. Describing in more detail HOW and WHO issues are central to analyzing the entire PAR process, and should not be neglected.
A table outlining the different issues of concern to each stakeholder might help in getting the issues straight.
The Research Question is in itself quite interesting. Again, it should be better developed in the introduction to help strengthen the author’s key points.
PAR processes
This section outlines the actual PAR processes done by CIFOR and the other stakeholders. The breakdown of these processes into their different steps of Plan, Action, etc., is very useful and aids analysis. Some more details on the actions taken in the different steps would be useful.
The author briefly mentions that there were “challenges to delivering and simplifying the CIFOR’s research question,” but does not go into detail over what these challenges are, nor how the research question was transformed. Addressing this issue would relate to the theoretical issue raised by the author in the literature review section, namely the relation between theory and practice, and would make the article much stronger.
Discussion: Leading to collaboration?
This section describes the outcomes of the PAR activities, and analyzes the PAR process. It concentrates on the relationship between community and other (government, private sector) stakeholders.
The short section on limitations of the PAR process (p. 12, last paragraph) should be better developed, instead of having key issues noted only within parentheses.
Again, the point made in the last paragraph of this section, that to “modify the approach (by addressing the local issues that were not conflicting with the agenda of stakeholders) in order to develop collaboration and mutual trust between and within them” is very important to deepening understanding of the PAR process. This point should not be lost, and indeed its analysis should be developed further.
The preliminary conclusion is that PAR can support collaboration among stakeholders, but that collaboration is a long term and delicate process.
The author’s conclusions are important to understanding PAR, but could be strengthened further by a deeper analysis of practical experiences in East Kalimantan with PAR, linking these experiences to the theory behind PAR. They also would be strengthened by ‘cleaning up’ the article in general, improving grammatical problems and phrasing, which would help the article flow and prevent key points from being lost.
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One of the big winners at CES 2010 was mobile chip maker Qualcomm. Their speedy Snapdragon processors seem to have wormed their way into most of the hot gadgets on display. Lenovo in particular seem infatuated with the processors, utilising Snapdragons on their new Android based LePhone smartphone, Skylight netbook and on the slate half of their ultra-hot IdeaPad U1 hybrid tablet. Snapdragons can also be found in Acer’s first Android phone the A1 Liquid, one of HP’s new netbooks, and, although not present at CES, in Google’s newly announced Nexus One smartphone.
While Qualcomm also showed off a new type of display technology, dubbed mirasol, for use in ereaders, it’s the revelation of Qualcomm’s upcoming speedier Snapdragons that grabbed attention. According to Luis Pineda, SVP of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, the 8X50A Snapdragon running at 1.3 GHz will feature on devices before the end of the year. The one we’re looking forward to the most though is their dual-core 8X72, with each core running at 1.5 GHz. It will be able to process HD content, something that current smartphones or netbooks are far from capable of. The 8X72 will only be available to manufacturers at the end of the year, so were not likely to see its debut on a device untill 2011.
On the cellular side Qualcomm seems to run the roost, with the only phone announced sporting rival Intel’s Moorestown processor being the LG GW990. Moorestown is chipmaker Intel’s next-generation platform for handhelds and smartphones. With Apple rumoured to adopt Qualcomm processors in upcoming iPhones, the future couldn't look brighter for the San Diego based company.
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Ctrip announced Group English name changed to Trip.com Group released the 20th anniversary of the 'G2' strategy
On October 29, ctrip group (hereinafter referred to as the "ctrip") 20 anniversary celebration and global partner summit.Ctrip chairman James liang at the conference for the Group unveiled a new English name "Trip.com Group Limited.".At the same time, he officially announced on behalf of the group under the ctrip a ride "G2" strategy.
"' Trip 'representatives' process', the 'com' representatives' Companion partners' is' and 'hands."James liang explained the new group in the field of English name how to interpret "ctrip" concept, "" com" can also on behalf of the Company, on behalf of a group of people together into a special meaningful career."He noted that in the history of the earliest "company" is actually a travel company, from the Netherlands.He wants to see a new English name, ctrip show ctrip and partners around the world, global customer service.
Ctrip, ctrip founder Group, Group executive team has unveiled a new English name "Trip.com Group"Officials note that ctrip new English name also highlights the concept of "Group".Ctrip since it was founded in 1999, after 20 years development, has gradually by a ctrip brand, developing multiple matrix group brand.
Its "ctrip" and "where" occupy the dominant position in the Chinese market."Trip.com" as a service to the global users own OTA brands is growing rapidly."Day tour" by direct booking to synergistic effect in multiple markets.At the same time, ctrip in August 30, 2019, become a leading Indian OTA company "the company's largest shareholder.
As ctrip products and brands to accelerate the global coverage, "Globalization" has become James liang ctrip announced on the day of the future a key part of the "G2" strategy, James liang, G2 is 2 G: Great Quality (high Quality) and Globalization (Globalization).
James liang, in Great Quality (high Quality), take the customer as the center, providing customers with the best service is always need to adhere to.He introduces, ctrip's goal is to accomplish friendly and convenient products and services, to provide multilingual services;To achieve high reliability and high reliable technology, so as to achieve the whole global coverage and the best quality target.
In the Globalization (Globalization), James liang announced that ctrip group will be both local and global action vision;With global wisdom to global customers;To build global products, supply chain, service and brand;At the same time, to cultivate and attract the talents of globalisation.
"G2 both China and abroad, global ctrip employee will unite as one, to deliver service quality."James liang, ctrip has accumulated the economies of scale over the past two decades, mobile, multiple products, platform four sorts of advantage.
Now, together with the implementation of the strategy of future G2, we have the confidence in the three years to become Asia's largest international tourism enterprises, the five years to become the world's largest international tourism enterprises, 10 years to become the undisputed most valuable and most respected online travel companies."James liang said.
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Geometry: Transformation of the Plane
By Xah Lee. Date: 1996-08 . Last updated: 2008-02 .
What follows are images of Transformation of the Plane. The original image is a square grid. The transformed image is shown, under a function f. For most images, the coloring is done by a function that measures the change of distance from {a,b} to f[{a,b}].
These graphics are generated with the Mathematica package “Transform2DPlot.m”. You can get it at Mathematica Package: Geometric Transformation on the Plane .
One-to-one Maps
Varying concentric rotation
Varying concentric rotation in a unit circle
(Sin[x] Sin[y]) Normalize[{x,y}] + {x,y},{x, -π, π},{y, -π, π}
(Sin[Norm[{x,y}]]) Normalize[{x,y}] +{x,y},{x, -3 π, 3 π},{y, -3 π, 3 π}
(1/(Norm[{x,y}]+.8)/1.25 ) Normalize[{x,y}] + {x,y},{x, -1.2,1.2},{y, -1.2,1.2}
(1/(Norm[{x,y}]+.5)) {x,y},{x, -2, 2},{y, -2, 2}
1/Conjugate[x+y I],{x,-2,2},{y,-2, 2}
Cos[x + I y],{x, 0, π},{y, -π, π}
{Log[x+.001], Log[y+.001]},{x, 0, 3},{y, 0, 3}
Non-one-to-one Mapping
Sin[x y] {x, y},{x, -2 π, 2 π},{y, -2 π, 2 π}
Sin[ Norm[{x,y}] ] {x,y},{x, -2 π, 2 π},{y, -2 π, 2 π}
( Sin@Norm[{x,y}]) Normalize[{x,y}],{x, -π, π},{y, -π, π}
( Cos@Norm[{x,y}]) Normalize[{x,y}],{x, -π, π},{y, -π, π}
{y, Cos[y x]}, {x, 0, π}, {y, 0, 2 π}
Note About Notation
The notation used here is Mathematica notation.
I is the complex number.
Normalize[{x,y}] returns the unit vector of {x,y}.
Norm[{x,y}] returns the distance from {0,0} to {x,y}.
f@x is the prefix notation for f[x]. For example, Cos@x means Cos[x], Cos@Norm[{x,y}] means Cos[Norm[{x,y}]].
c * {x,y} means {c * x, c * y}.
{a,b} + {x,y} means {a + x, b + y}.
What is Transformation
A transformation in the plane is a function that maps points in the plane to other points in the plane. Put it another way, a function f that takes a point {a,b} and out put a point {c,d}. A transformation is also called a mapping or function. It is usually called transformation in geometry context.
When doing a transformation in the plane, we start with a image in the plane. For example, lines, circles, curves, or any figure. The starting image is usually called pre-image, and the figure after transformation is called image. For example, suppose we start with a circle of radius 1 centered on the origin. Suppose our function is f[{x,y}]:={x+1,y+1}. Then, after the transformation, the image would be a circle of radius 1 centered on {1,1}.
In the above illustrations, the pre-image is a grid.
One-to-one Mapping
There are many classification of transformations. First of all, we can classify a transformation by asking whether if 2 or more points are mapped into the same point. If not, then it is called a one-to-one mapping.
A easy way to think of one-to-one, is that there are no over-laps or folding. A non-one-to-one transformation will have overlapping points. Some of the images above are not one-to-one transformations. Most transformations studied in geometry are the one-to-one type. A reflection (mirroring), a rotation, a scaling (dilation/contraction), or a translation (shifting, pan) are all one-to-one transformations.
We can also classify transformations into continuous and discontinuous. It asks whether neighbors points remain neighbors. Suppose you cut out two circles in a paper, swap their locations and tape them back. Obviously, the points on the boundary of the circles now has new neighbors, after the transformation. Such is a discontinuous transformation because it cuts continuity.
Rotation, translation, reflection, are all continuous transformations. Most transformations studied in geometry are continuous transformations. All the image examples above are continuous transformations.
Distance-preserving
Transformations are classified by many other ways. We may ask whether distance is preserved. Reflection, rotation, translation are this type. Scaling (dilation/contraction) or shearing do no preserve distance. Distance-preserving transformations are called isometry. It is also called rigid motions.
Sense-preserving
Another distinction is whether the orientation (also called “sense”) is preserved. Suppose you have the letter P in your plane. After a reflection, P will be reversed. Thus reflection is a sense-reversing transformation. On the other hand, you can never reverse P by a rotation, scaling, or a translation.
A important class of transformation, is transformations such that preserve a line thru the origin. That is, if you have a line passing the origin. Then, after transformation, is image of this line still a line passing the origin? If so, it is called linear transformations .
Rotation around the origin, dilation around the origin, reflection around the origin, and shearing, are all linear transformations.
Affine Transformation
A more broader class of transformation is called affine transformation (aka “affinity”). Affine transformation includes all linear transformation plus any combination of them with translation.
Viewed in another way, it asks if parallel lines are preserved. If two parallel lines are still parallel lines after the mapping, then this mapping is a affine transformation.
Conformal Transformations
Another important class of transformation is called conformal maps or conformal transformations. It asks whether angles are preserved. Suppose you have two lines in your plane that forms a angle α. Now after your transform, do they still form angle α?
Such transforms are studied in a branch of math called complex analysis. A particular interesting conformal map is called inversion. Imagine the plane as huge piece of paper. Now punch a hole in the center of the paper, poke in both of your thumbs inside, with the rest of your fingers grabbing the edges of the paper. Now flip the paper inside out, so that the edge in the hole are on the outside, while the paper's edge becomes the boundary of the hole. (this is not possible to do in real life, but just imagine) Now seal up the hole, and done, that's inversion. Points in the center are mapped to far away (infinity) and points far away are mapped to the center. You essentially turned a plane inside out. Amazingly, this process preserve angles. (For detail, see: Inversion and Nested Inversion of Circles.)
Projective Transformation
Suppose you take a crayon and draw figures on a glass pane. Then draw axis on the pane. Then take this glass pane outside so the sun cast shadows on the ground. Now, draw x and y axis on the ground. Now, each point in your figure has a corresponding point on the ground. This transformation is called projective transformations (aka “projectivity”.).
The property projectivity preserves is incidence and cross ratio. Incidence means whene 2 curves cross. In a projectivity, if 2 curves cross at n points, then after the transformation they will still meet at n points. Cross ratio means the ratio of 2 segments defined by 4 points on a line. In projectivity, this ratio is preserved.
For more about projective transform, see:
What is Technical Drawing, Descriptive Geometry, Projective Geometry, Linear Algebra
Projective Illusion
Introduction to Real Projective Plane
Topological Transformations
Another class of transformations, is called Homeomorphism. This class are basically transformations that are continuous, and is studied in a branch of math called topology. Basically, you can now think of the plane as a piece of rubber of infinite extent. You can pinch, stretch, and distort it any way you like, as long as you don't cut or tear. You can draw a smiley on the rubber and make it grin from east to west. In topological transforms, shapes are not distinguished. Circles and triangles are considered the same, but nevertheless certain properties of figures remain. For example, a loop will never become a line. Here's one theorem from topology, Jordan curve theorem: You can never connect a point inside a loop to a point outside without crossing the loop.
Transformation of the Plane II
Algorithmic Mathematical Art
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The Naughty Nineties
The Naughty Nineties on VHS. Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. With Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers. Directed by Jean Yarbrough. 1945.
From the box:
Featuring Their Famous “Who’s On First” Routine
In this zany musical comedy, Bud plays a ham actor and Lou his dim-witted assistant on the Mississippi showboat, the River Queen.
When the boat docks in St. Louis, Bud and Lou try to rescue Captain Sam from a poker game with three card sharks, but they are too late. The gamblers win a controlling interest in the River Queen and — to Captain Sam’s dismay — set up a crooked casino operation on board.
Before ridding the showboat of the villains, Abbott and Costello perform several of their most famous bits including the hysterical “Who’s on First” dialogues that has become one of the most popular comedy routines ever captured on film.
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Oct 26, 2009 - The Smith Mountain Arts Council (SMAC) and its Lake Writers group announced the winners of the 2009 SMAC Novel Contest. Thirteen area writers entered the contest by submitting the first 50 pages of their novels. From these thirteen submissions, the judge selected three finalists. The finalists were then asked to submit their complete novels for final judging.
SMAC Novel Contest Winners (left to right): Betsy Ashton, first place; Judy Reap, SMAC President; Becky Mushko, second place; Jennifer Merritt, third place.
The first place winner is Betsy Ashton for her novel Unintended Consequences. Ashton lives in Moneta, writes for the Laker Weekly, is a budding novelist, and is a member of Lake Writers and Valley Writers in Roanoke.
Unintended Consequences features Mad Max Davies, a reluctant boomer grandmother, who finds herself taking care of her grown daughter and two grandchildren after her daughter is badly injured in an accident. She and her grandchildren become involved with solving a murder and exposing why the killer kills.
The second place winner is Becky Mushko for her novel Stuck. Mushko lives in Penhook, is a retired teacher, blogger, and former columnist. She writes children’s literature.Ferradiddledumday, her new spin on the Rumpelstiltskin tale, will be published in January. Her work also appears in A Cup of Comfort for Writers and It Was A Dark and Stormy Night. She has self-published five books.
In Stuck, eleven-year-old Jacie—stuck in grief over her mother's death, stuck at camp with her worst enemy, and finally stuck on a Franklin County farm with her father's new fiancée—helps a ghost who is stuck on earth until she learns what happened to her young daughter.
The third place winner is Jennifer Merritt for her novel Archer’s Storm. Merritt, originally from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, lives at Spring Lake Farm in Moneta with her husband, children, and father-in-law. She is a free-lance writer who makes time to write while chasing after her three young sons.
Archer’s Storm, Merritt’s first novel, features Archer Brookwood. Nothing extraordinary ever happens to Archer. He dreams of traveling to distant worlds, but one summer he realizes this world is larger than he ever imagined. Magic is as close as his own back yard.
Presentation of Awards
SMAC President Judy Reap presented Ashton with a check for $1,000 at the SMAC Annual Meeting on October 27. Mushko and Merritt have received checks of $400 and $200, respectively. The winners may use their cash awards to help them in seeking to have their work published or for any other purpose they choose.
The contest was coordinated by Fran Nielsen, a member of the Lake Writers, who found the judge and handled the coordination of the contest.
The judge was Sandra Clayton-Emmerson. Currently the archivist of Manhattan College (New York), she teaches college-level composition and information literacy. A graduate of Walla Walla College and the University of Maryland, Clayton-Emmerson has more than twenty-five years experience as a researcher, writer, college and high school teacher, editor, and archivist. She is the editor and publisher of three collegiate magazines and the author of several annotated bibliographies.
Clayton-Emmerson, who critiqued each of the thirteen initial 50-page entries, gave each author feedback, chose the three finalists, and then selected the first, second, and third place winners from the three complete novels, commented at the conclusion of the contest, "This was a lot of fun! I just wish I could read all the novels now!"
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pleasure fair
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The annual Michaelmas Fair has just finished in our nearest town and although it is now all dodgems, haunted houses, terrifying rides to take you up into the air and drop you, flashing lights and loud music, such fairs follow a long tradition and were an important part of, and release from, the working calendar for labourers.
A report about a fair in May 1857 in Boston, Lincolnshire, was printed in the Stamford Mercury. Held over several days, there were prizes for farm animals, cattle, sheep and pigs, which were also bought and sold. Alongside the serious business was the pleasure fair, Wombwells, well-known for their travelling menagerie, presenting an exhibition of exotic animals and Chipperfields offering a circus. A pig weighing 105 stone was displayed, which was nine feet long and insured for 150 pounds. Other attractions were listed: ‘performing monkeys and dogs, knowing ponies, ‘industrious fleas’, twin calves, giants in smock frocks to make them look bigger, microscopic and stereoscopic exhibitors…a host of photographers’, which, of course, was still relatively novel. Music and theatre were also an important part as was the slight edge – pick pocketing was rife and ‘suspicious characters’ ever present.
Many of the patrons of the fair would have worn smock frocks, as seen also at York Fair above, Lincolnshire a county which contained several smock frock manufacturers and known as a place where they were frequently worn. At the fair, they were used as a disguise to help the ‘giants’, their capaciousness no doubt helping to disguise some trickery. They were probably used by the criminal fraternity too, both to help mingle inconspicuously in the crowd in order to pick pockets, as well as being useful for hiding any stolen property in their large pockets or just underneath. Poachers, for example, in the same period used them to hide hares, birds and other animals from detection. Deception and disguise fully in action.
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Dear colleagues, participants of the 22nd International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time
Welcome to our symposium in Denmark!
I am glad being here to meet the colleagues who are participating in this symposium. This is the third time I have the honor of being invited as the President of the Working Time Society to participate in the symposium opening session.
The shiftwork symposia have been part of my life since 1982, when it was held in Kyoto, Japan, organized by Prof. Kogi and colleagues. Along these many years the papers presented at the symposia were at the upfront of science of this discipline. Since then, the knowledge about the effects of working time, shiftwork and night work, as well as proposals of interventions to ameliorate, maintain and improve workers´ health had a tremendous advancement. Unfortunately, knowledge was not always followed by practical actions that should be promoted by the society, institutions and organizations.
I would like to take this opportunity to share some thoughts with you.
The world of work is very dynamic. It keeps changing in terms of products, goals, and rules. Our post-industrial society still faces old and new challenges and often, both are superimposed in the workplaces. As examples of the “old” practices, work was performed in well-defined places, in specific plants and work environments, regular working hours and shifts, and off-working times. Industry and trade provided the majority of jobs. Nowadays, services are an important source for jobs in most of industrial and more recent industrialized countries. There is a growing number of workers suffering from work-related diseases, including mental illnesses associated with psychosocial risks at work.
The new ways work is planned and carried out is no longer that one seen in traditional industries and described in our textbooks and scientific articles published up to 25-30 years ago. The work processes and the work management changed significantly. It came up with the wave of the intense globalization. The new workplaces may not have physical and temporal boundaries- they can be at anyplace, anytime, at a determined plant or shop, or at the workers´ home, a virtual work environment. It can last an undefined period of time, or have a short/ temporary duration (Mendes, 2015).
The newer work organization can be planned in central developed countries and implemented, outsourced, be part of a production chain or network in different countries, thousands of kilometers far from the headquarters, in places with reduced workers´ protection and benefits. Working times may no longer be limited, but set by pre-determined goals to be reached. All of these can happen either due to economic constraints and/or just to new economic trends of managing work.
Environmental issues and public health are among the main concerns of the modern society. Healthy workplaces are also dependent of the organizational models adopted including the working time organization. As important demographic changes are being recorded in most countries- such as a more educated and skilled workforce, more women at work, a large number of aging workers- a new approach to maintain and improve workers´ health requires a multi professional and multidisciplinary teams to implement good practices at work, either if this work is performed under a company´s roof, rural areas, or at the workers´ homes.
Regarding the working time issues, the combined environmental and organizational factors should not be forgotten when studying the effects of the working time. This is particularly important as usual there are numerous stressors, either physical, cognitive and/or emotional stressors affecting the workers. Also, as some countries still do not provide safe and adequate living conditions, these can exacerbate illnesses and fatalities. The growing number of non-communicable chronic diseases associated with irregular working times, night and shiftwork, can be aggravated by unhealthy practices.
Employers agree that a good management of the human capital is a very significant factor of production and competitiveness whether is a private or governmental institution or company. As much as the quality of working conditions is enhanced, health and wellbeing of the workers will be the likely outcomes. It is our role to continue to provide information and extend our knowledge and expertise to the society. I hope we succeed in this mission helping to improve the working conditions and ultimately the workers´ health and wellbeing.
It is time to remember a good friend that left us few months ago- I am speaking of Prof. Donald Tepas. He was one of the pioneers of our discipline. He mentored several of us, and left a legacy of important publications that advanced the knowledge on night and shiftwork. He will be missed by his many friends and colleagues!
During these years as the President of our society, I have the strong collaboration of the colleagues who belong to the Board. We hold regular virtual meetings discussing several issues that matters to our society. The names of the colleagues that are presently helping the advancement of our society are: Steve Popkin (as Secretary), Anna Arlinghaus (as Treasurer), Claudia Moreno, Arne Lowden, Sampsa Puttonen, Masaya Takahashi, Imelda Wong, Thomas Kantermann, Greg Roach and Hans Van Dongen, and Friedhelm Nachreiner (SINET moderator list).
I would like to thank Prof. Kazutaka Kogi, the two-term President of the ICOH- International Commission on Occupational Health. My admiration to Prof. Kogi dates back since 1982 when I first met him in Kyoto. Thank you for encouraging and supporting us during all these years.
I would like to thank the publisher of Chronobiology International and the Scientific Editor, Prof. Francesco Portaluppi for their continuous support to our society, providing every two years a special issue free of charge to publish selected manuscripts submitted after the symposium. I also would like to thank the publisher and the Scientific Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Environment Occupational Health, Prof. Mikko Harma for providing room free of charge to publish articles presented during the symposium. This tradition of publication in both journals will continue.
On behalf of all Working Time Society members, I would like to extend my gratitude to the organizing committee of the 22nd International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, namely, Anne Helene Garde, Chair of this meeting, Ase Marie Hansen, Johnni Hansen, Henrik Kolstad and respective research, educational institutions and companies that support them and this current meeting.
To all colleagues, thank you for doing what you are doing, and being here!
Frida Marina Fischer
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Really rough day for the Canadian Human Rights (sic) Commission
Really rough day for the Canadian Human Rights (sic) Commission (my emphasis in red):
"Investigators at the Canadian Human Rights Commission share control of an online identity called Jadewarr, which they have used to anonymously monitor and contribute to controversial far-right and white supremacist Web sites, in a strategy that a prominent defendant calls entrapment.
The admission came in testimony Tuesday at the final day of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's hearing in the case of Marc Lemire, who is charged with violating the Human Rights Act's controversial hate speech section because of comments posted on his FreedomSite.
Legally, the admission by CHRC investigator Dean Steacy, and the subsequent cross-examination by Mr. Lemire's lawyers, was the most significant part of the day, in that it bolstered Mr. Lemire's case that he should not be held accountable for what others post on his site, especially if those others are government employees."
"There were moments of drama, such as when Mr. Steacy bluntly and repeatedly refused to answer a question (he was asked for the identity of an anonymous complainant, who never filed a formal complaint), to the evident shock of Athanasios Hadjis, the one-man tribunal hearing the case.
'You refuse to answer?' he said twice."
and (time to investigate themselves!):
"Mr. Steacy himself raised the strange hypothetical scenario of an investigator being charged for online writing that, in the words of section 13.1, is 'likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt.'
'My understanding of the legislation is there's not an exemption for anybody, so that would have to apply to investigators. If an investigator posted hate, then a complaint could be brought against them,' he said."
and (wow!; note how the worst newspaper in the world tries to use this outrage by the Commission to slur the victims of the Commission):
But, for skeptics of human rights commissions, the coup de grace came when the Tribunal wrongly outed an innocent person as a Commission operative, thus exposing her to the unwanted attention of the vast army of bloggers who support Mr. Lemire, or at least do not support the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
For a government agency that has fought for months to protect the personal security of their own staff, even going so far as to (unsuccessfully) invoke national security to keep them off the witness stand, their handling of the 'Nellie Hechme' question was shocking.
Once Mr. Hadjis explicitly ordered him to do so, Mr. Monfette reported that Bell's technical staff learned that whoever logged on as Jadewarr that day in 2006 had accessed the Internet through a Bell account controlled by Nellie Hechme. He gave the phone number and the street address of the apartment where the account was registered.
By the morning coffee break, associates of Mr. Lemire had already tracked down the value of Ms. Hechme's apartment, but not her identity. By the end of the day, the Commission's lawyer Margot Blight said that Ms. Hechme is a mystery to everyone involved, including Mr. Lemire's team.
Reached by phone last night, Ms. Hechme, 26, told the National Post she has no connection to the tribunal, has never known any of the investigators, and has never accessed a Web site as Jadewarr. She said that in the relevant period in 2006 she did have a Bell Sympatico account with a wireless connection that was not password controlled, meaning anyone within range of her apartment could have accessed the internet with it."
It appears that the Commission may have effectively stolen somebody's identity in order to hide what they were up to!
Mr. Lemire's live blogging of the hearing is here and here and here and here and here.
It's a given that Mr Lemire must be acquitted, as he can hardly be held responsible for the wrongful acts of the investigators. We can also go further, and note that every single prosecution by the Commission that involves alleged hate on the internet also has to be voided, as it is impossible to know whether the 'hate' was the work of the accused or some government employee (we can hardly now rely on the employees themselves to tell us they had nothing to do with it). Finally, all the staff of the Commission have to be subject to their own hate crime investigations, which cannot be held by the Commission itself (for obvious reasons). Perhaps the government could appoint a special judge to investigate and prosecute.
You can see know why the Commission wanted this hearing to be private, and why the lawyers for free speech had to force the testimony out of the witness.
We can't forget that the only reason this has turned into a big media circus is because Canadian Muslim groups had the audacity to turn hate crime legislation, traditionally used to promote the idea of Jews as victims, against the Jewish-led international campaign of hatred against Muslims. Canadian human rights law has to be dismantled so Bibi Natanyahu's 'war on terror' can continue to provide the propaganda basis for Israeli colonialism.
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Taylor Swift Announces Surprise Album ‘Folklore’
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Surprise! Taylor Swift will release her eighth studio album in mere hours.
The "Lover" singer made the announcement on Thursday (July 23) via social media. folklore will debut at midnight ET on Friday (July 24).
"Surprise! Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my 8th studio album, folklore; an entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into," Swift tweeted.
"folklore will have 16 songs on the standard edition, but the physical deluxe editions will include a bonus track 'the lakes,'" Swift added.
Swift revealed that fans will also get the music video for a single called "cardigan" at midnight ET.
"The music video for 'cardigan' will premiere tonight, which I wrote/directed," she shared. "The entire shoot was overseen by a medical inspector, everyone wore masks, stayed away from each other, and I even did my own hair, makeup, and styling."
Unlike her previous albums, this one has seven different standard album covers you can choose from. To celebrate her eighth album, she will also offer eight deluxe editions and eight deluxe vinyls that are available at her online store.
See the full folklore track list below.
1. "The 1"
2. "Cardigan"
3. "The Last Great American Dynasty"
4. "Exile" (featuring Bon Iver)
5. "My Tears Ricochet"
6. "Mirrorball"
7. "Seven"
8. "August"
9. "This Is Me Trying"
10. "Illicit Affairs"
11. "Invisible String"
12. "Mad Woman"
13. "Epiphany"
14. "Betty"
15. "Peace"
16. "Hoax"
17. "The Lakes"
Her social media accounts and website also feature an entirely new aesthetic, a far cry from her Lover era, with black and white imagery and all lowercase lettering.
See the announcement, below.
Taylor Swift Through the Years
Source: Taylor Swift Announces Surprise Album ‘Folklore’
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IU Made Only One Demand When Resigning Her Contract And It Will Bring You To Tears
That one demand showed her true colors.
IU recently resigned with Kakao M (formerly LOEN), continuing their legacy for over 10 years. IU has been under LOEN Entertainment since her debut in 2008.
When IU was resigning with her company, she made one demand for her terms. It wasn’t for a new studio space or a raise in her profits… It was for the employment stability for the staff members who’ve been working with her through thick and in.
“I want to continue working with my staff who are like family. Give raises to my staff’s salaries.”
— IU
Artists are given a large sum of money as a down payment for their contract, but IU stated that she would forfeit her down payment for the benefit of her personal staff.
“I don’t need a down payment for my contract. Instead, I want employment security and salary raises for my 40 staff members who suffer and work in this harsh industry.”
Netizens were beyond touched by how much IU cares for her staff, who are basically family to her. They praised her loyalty and bravery, many becoming envious of her staff members.
“She’s a person who knows how to give back. People like her need to succeed.”
“I’m not her fan but IU is definitely an amazing person who should be respected.”
“Other idols would take the praise themselves when they find success, but IU gives back to and thanks her staff members. It really seems like she wants her staff to be praised too. I remember she even brought up her staff members at an award ceremony once.”
“Staff members get paid really poorly. I’m sure her staff were touched by how much she thinks about them.”
“Not all rich people are like this… People who know how to use that money for good and for a deep meaning are truly wealthy.”
“She’s my rolemodel.”
This isn’t the first time IU has shown her immense love for her staff members. She’s made sure to sing the congratulatory songs for her dancers’ weddings… numerous times!
so iu’s back up dancers married each other today and iu sang them good day as a congratulatory song but the bride and groom instinctively went straight into back up dancers mode and danced to the song with her maybe this is the cutest clip ever pic.twitter.com/MfLGTBDuEm
— t🌸 (@jieunlui) August 25, 2018
Her staff continually praises her work ethic and personality, claiming she’s a “goddess” and “dancing queen”!
“IU rehearses with the full band at least four times a week, which itself is insane. She sings non-stop for six hours, which will result in her flawless performance during the show.
As for her performance, IU treats the choreography sessions like three hours of non-stop aerobic exercise. She does not show any physical limitations when it comes to her endurance. That must be a reason why she is called the dancing Goddess, and a dancing queen.”
— IU’s Staff
It’s no wonder her staff addresses her as “I-Boss (IU +Boss)”!
Source: Segye and Nate Pann
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If BLACKPINK Starred In A 90s Anime, This Is What They Would Look Like
Fan artists have turned “Kill This Love
into an anime.
Fans of BLACKPINK and classic anime now have the best of both worlds, thanks to two talented fan artists!
hanavbara is an art duo who create anime-style K-Pop illustrations and merchandise. They have mastered the 90s’ animation aesthetic seen in shows like Sailor Moon and applied it to BLACKPINK’s new music video for “Kill This Love”.
Each illustration is created to look like a subtitled screenshot from an anime television show…
…and is taken from a particular moment in the MV, like when Rosé was chasing down her other self in this car.
The artists captured all the gorgeous details of Jisoo‘s fantasy shot…
…and added in some classic anime sparkles.
Every detail of the members’ outfits, makeup, hair, and accessories is included…
…and so were their individual personalities.
Want more BLACKPINK anime? Check out these pictures hanavbara made when “DDU-DU DDU-DU” first came out.
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Home Ford Kansas City start building the Ford F-150
Kansas City start building the Ford F-150
2015 Ford F-150 starts production at Kansas City Assembly Plant; along with three shifts in operation at Dearborn Truck Plant, Ford is now producing even more units of the toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 ever
All-new F-150 is turning more than four times faster than the overall full-size pickup truck segment; In addition to producing all F-150 models and cab configurations, Kansas City exclusively builds specialty F-150s with 8-foot cargo boxes and heavy payload packages to meet the needs of commercial fleet customers
Kansas City Assembly Plant facilities transformed with the latest in manufacturing technology to build the first mass-produced truck in its class featuring a high-strength, military-grade, aluminum-alloy body and bed
CLAYCOMO, Mo., March 13, 2015 – Ford today marks the official start of production of the all-new 2015 F-150 at Kansas City Assembly Plant, which joins Dearborn Truck Plant in building the toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 ever.
This means Ford has expanded production of the first mass-produced light-duty pickup truck with a high-strength, military-grade, aluminum-alloy body. In addition to producing all F-150 models and cab configurations, production at Kansas City Assembly Plant now includes F-150s with an 8-foot cargo box and heavy payload package to meet the needs of commercial fleet customers.
“The all-new F-150 has surpassed our expectations – setting new standards for full-size truck capability, technology and efficiency,” said Joe Hinrichs, Ford president, The Americas. “With production starting at Kansas City Assembly, we are better poised to start meeting growing customer demand for our pickup.”
The all-new F-150 is off to a strong start. In January, F-Series had its strongest sales month since 2004 – Ford’s best sales year ever for F-150. Retail sales increased 7 percent in February. These numbers make F-Series one of Ford’s fastest-selling vehicles, at just 18 days to turn on dealer lots – well below the light-duty full-size pickup truck average of 105 days.
F-150 is part of the Ford F-Series lineup. Now in its 67th year, F-Series has been the best-selling vehicle in America for 33 consecutive years and America’s favorite truck for 38 years.
“The rollout of the all-new Missouri-made F-150 cements our position as America’s truck manufacturing headquarters and marks a historic moment that has been years in the making,” said Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. “Six years ago, we made a commitment that the vehicles of the future would be built right here in the Show-Me State, and with today’s launch of the 2015 Ford F-150, we are delivering on that promise.”
Kansas City Assembly Plant renovation
In 2011, Ford announced a $1.1 billion investment to retool and expand Kansas City Assembly Plant to support production of both F-150 and the Transit full-size van family.
Similar to the work Dearborn Truck Plant received, 13 weeks were spent upgrading Kansas City Assembly Plant with the latest in advanced materials and forming and joining technologies to support F-150’s innovative manufacturing process.
Upgrades to the facility include:
More than 900 new workers added to ensure the new 2015 F-150 is built with the highest level of quality and craftsmanship
All-new body shop with more than 500 new robots:
Robots to conduct state-of-the-art joining technology using riveting and structural adhesives – resulting in a tougher, more durable truck and a quieter, nearly spark-free manufacturing environment
More compact robots to install roof and door panels and to transfer the light-weighted truck to final assembly – resulting in a smaller manufacturing footprint
Robots with cameras to scan truck body to ensure the highest quality standards are met
Updated paint shop with dirt detection technology and increased robotic paint automation for a durable, best-in-class exterior appearance
Innovative production processes to support installation of new truck features such as class-exclusive 360-degree camera with split-view display
Rough-road test course to replicate extreme, real-life road conditions to ensure delivery of quiet, more durable truck
“The hardworking men and women of UAW Local 249 and Kansas City Assembly Plant are proud to be part of the F-Series tradition – one that continues to set the standard by which all American trucks are measured,” said Jimmy Settles, UAW vice president and director, National Ford Department. “But the real contribution goes far beyond these walls; the addition of 900 new jobs and more than $1 billion in financial investment provides tremendous stability to the Kansas City, Missouri community, for which the entire UAW-Ford family can be proud.”
Combined, Kansas City Assembly and Dearborn Truck facilities will have capacity to produce more than 700,000 Ford F-150 pickups per year for availability in 90 markets globally.
Toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 ever
The all-new F-150 is the toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 ever – boasting a military-grade, aluminum-alloy body and high-strength steel frame, and shedding up to 700 pounds for a lighter, more efficient truck than any previous F-150.
The weight savings lead to customer benefits regardless of model configuration or engine choice. The innovative new truck can tow up to 1,100 more pounds and haul up to 530 more pounds than the 2014 model, and it has the highest EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings of any full-size gasoline pickup on the market. When equipped with an available 2.7-liter EcoBoost® engine, the new F-150 4×2 returns EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings of 19 mpg city, 26 mpg highway and 22 mpg combined. Actual mileage will vary.
Numerous groundbreaking features debuted in the all-new F-150, including these class-exclusives:
360-degree camera view uses exterior cameras to create a bird’s-eye view of the truck to help drivers park, maneuver in tight spots, and navigate narrow roads and trails when driving slowly
Integrated loading ramps enable easy loading of ATVs, motorcycles and mowers
BoxLink™ cargo management system combines metal brackets and custom cleats to secure a variety of accessories in the cargo box – from ramps to storage bins to bed dividers
Trailer hitch assist adds a new rearview camera feature that incorporates a dynamic line based on steering wheel angle in the display to help customers line up their truck and trailer with no spotter or need to exit the vehicle
Remote tailgate allows for tailgate to be locked, unlocked and released with the key fob
The 2015 Ford F-150 has won the following awards and accolades:
2015 North American Truck/Utility of the Year
Detroit Free Press 2015 Truck of the Year
Detroit News 2015 Vehicle of the Year
AAA Top Pick 2015 Pickup Truck
Motor Trend’s Truck Trend Magazine 2015 Pickup Truck of the Year
Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Truck and Best Buy Overall
Popular Science Automotive Grand Award Winner Best of What’s New
Texas Auto Writers Association Truck of Texas
Texas Auto Writers Association Luxury Pickup Truck
Texas Auto Writers Association Full-Size Pickup Truck
Texas Auto Writers Association Best Technology Feature for high-strength, military-grade, aluminum alloy
New England Motor Press Association Yankee Cup
Automotive Fleet Magazine 2014 Fleet Truck of the Year
Motor Press Guild 2014 Innovation Vehicle of the Year Over $30K
AutoGuide 2015 Reader’s Choice Truck of the Year
Automobile Journalists Association of Canada 2015 Best New Pickup Truck
New Car Test Drive 2015 Truck of the Year
Ruedas ESPN Best Full-Size Pickup Truck
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5 Cool Books to Order Right Now
By 49th Shelf Staff
tagged : better than netflix, new releases, fiction
Turn off that weird-ass tiger show, guys. Books are still happening. Order these titles from your local indie, as e-books or audio-books, from the library, or from online retailers. You will be happy you did.
Stay Where I Can See You, by Katrina Onstad
About the book: Does good fortune always change things for the better?
The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the surprise windfall suddenly upends the family, allowing them all to dream a little bigger and catapulting them back to the city that Gwen fled years ago.
As the Kaplans navigate the notoriety that the lottery brings and try to adjust to their new lives in the upper class—Seth launches a dubious start-up, Maddie falls headfirst in love at her elite prep school—a tightly held secret is unlocked. Along with the truth come long-buried memories from Gwen’s troubled youth, forcing her to confront her painful past and threatening to unravel the incredibly tight bond between her and Maddie. Her meticulously constructed identity as the good wife and mother begins to crack. And when their changed circumstances place her family under threat, Gwen must wake up from her domestic slumber.
Why we're taking notice: Onstad brings the same keen eye and gorgeous prose we know from her journalism, and this gripping novel is a wondrous distraction from what's going on around us.
The Union of Smokers, by Paddy Scott
About the book: Kaspar Pine begins his day with a simple task: replace a pet canary. By day’s end, as Kaspar is being loaded into an ambulance, he delivers one hell of a "theme essay," covering such subjects as his ability to source and catalogue the cigarette butts he harvests; information on maintaining the social order of chickens, along with general and historic farming details that run from Saskatchewan to Ontario; insinuating himself between other kids and people who wish to do them harm; fire marshalling; and his inability to maintain an essayist’s cool detachment in the face of unrequited first love. The Union of Smokers details the heartfelt and heroic last day in the life of a reluctant, irreverent, and oddly wise hero.
Why we're taking notice: Because you've never read a narrator like Kaspar Pine before. This novel is something completely different, heartbreaking and uplifting at once.
Misconduct of the Heart, by Cordelia Strube
About the book: Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic, subversive, and darkly humorous book
Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged five-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter.
In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen, while trying to learn to forgive herself and maybe allow some love back into her life. Stevie’s biting, hilarious take on her own and others’ foibles will make you cheer and will have you loving Misconduct of the Heart (in the immortal words of Stevie’s best line cook) “like never tomorrow.”
Why we're taking notice: Be careful—Cordelia Stube could break your heart. But if you're feeling a bit vulnerable these days, let us assure that she doesn't, that she holds it instead with her remarkable narrative that will rekindle your faith in the world.
How to Pronounce Knife, by Souvankham Thammavongsa
About the book: A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning debut book of fiction, O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to belong. In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she paints an indelible portrait of watchful children, wounded men, and restless women caught between cultures, languages, and values. As one of Thammavongsa's characters says, "All we wanted was to live." And in these stories, they do--brightly, ferociously, unforgettably.
A daughter becomes an unwilling accomplice in her mother's growing infatuation with country singer Randy Travis. A boxer finds an unexpected chance at redemption while working at his sister's nail salon. An older woman finds her assumptions about the limits of love unravelling when she begins a relationship with her much younger neighbour. A school bus driver must grapple with how much he's willing to give up in order to belong. And in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize-shortlisted title story, a young girl's unconditional love for her father transcends language.
Unsentimental yet tender, and fiercely alive, How to Pronounce Knife announces Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most striking voices of her generation.
Why we're taking notice: If recommendations from Vogue and The New York Times have not convinced you to read one of the most buzzed about books of the season, take it from us: this fiction debut is fantastic.
A Match Made for Murder, by Iona Whishaw
About the book: It’s November, and Lane and Darling have escaped the chilly autumn in the Kootenays for a honeymoon at the posh and romantic Santa Cruz Inn in sunny Tucson, Arizona. But despite her very best intentions to relax, soon after their arrival Lane’s plans to spend the holiday poolside with a good mystery are interrupted by gunfire. One of the hotel’s wealthy guests has been shot point blank and Lane is second on the scene.
Though Lane and Darling attempt to distance themselves from the investigation, the longer they stay at the Santa Cruz Inn, the deeper they are drawn into a web of suspects and bystanders, and a collection of seemingly perfect marriages fraught with jealousy and violence. The situation threatens first their honeymoon and then their lives when Lane puts herself directly in the sights of local criminals who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Back in Nelson, Sergeant Ames has been left in charge of the department during Darling’s absence. As he investigates a case of vandalism at the Van Eyck garage, it seems to lead directly to the death of the suspected vandal himself. Working with Constable Terrell, the new recruit, to piece together what happened in this strange and unsettling murder, Ames finds his romantic interest in mechanic Tina Van Eyck creates complications that are more than awkward; they could be deadly.
Fans of Maisie Dobbs and the Kopp sisters will delight in the latest Lane Winslow, a study of matrimony and mirage in the American Southwest.
Why we're taking notice: FULL DISCLOSURE: we have not read this book yet. This is because the only thing BETTER than the latest Lane Winslow novel is ANTICIPATING the new Lane Winslow novel, and these are difficult times, so we're take our pleasure where we can find it. But we also know that when we do pick up the book (soon!), that it's going to be terrific, because this is a series that just gets better and better.
Books mentioned in this post
Stay Where I Can See You
by Katrina Onstad
edition:eBook
tagged : psychological
The Union of Smokers
by Paddy Scott
also available: eBook
tagged : coming of age
Misconduct of the Heart
by Cordelia Strube
tagged : literary, family life
How to Pronounce Knife
tagged : short stories (single author), cultural heritage, literary
A Match Made for Murder
A Lane Winslow Mystery
by Iona Whishaw
tagged : historical, women sleuths
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Military Airfield Security
Posted byAnil Chopra May 20, 2020 Posted inSecurityTags:Airfield, anil chopra, IAF, Security, Technology
In March 2020, an Islamic State militant fired mortars at U.S. and international troops at Bagram airfield, north of Kabul, which is controlled by the U.S. forces, despite the U.S. signing a peace deal with the Taliban. Earlier on December 11, 2019, the Taliban had attacked Bagram airbase, using two car bombs which killed two civilians and injured 80 others. In January 2020, a U.S. service member and two Defense Department contractors were killed when the terrorist organization al-Shabab attacked a Kenyan airfield used by both Kenyan and U.S. forces.
On 2 January 2016, six heavily armed terrorists suspected to belong to Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed made a pre-dawn attack on the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Pathankot airbase. The terrorists were wearing Indian Army fatigues and rode a stolen car of a Superintendent of Punjab Police. All six terrorists were finally killed in the gun battle on 4th January and seven security forces personnel were martyred and 20 injured. The operation was carried out jointly by the Indian Army, National Security Guards (NSG) and IAF’s Garud commandos. The terrorists were apparently in India for at least 48 hours prior, and had studied the base layout and selected soft entry points. They perhaps had local assistance. The choice of early morning when security could be weak was a military like decision. The airbase is located close to the border and this strategically crucial area has a very dense Indian Army deployment. The terrorists managed to breach the outer wall of the Pathankot base through an entry point that adjoins a village. Due to advance intelligence inputs, day and night airborne surveillance had been mounted and security greatly enhanced. Yet it took four days to neutralize the six Pakistani intruders.
In peace time the IAF airfields are guarded by personnel of Defence Security Corp (DSC) who are mostly retired servicemen. Important strategic IAF forward bases like Pathankot are vulnerable to such attacks? Does the IAF have the adequate ground infrastructure and troops to safeguard its bases? Many of these questions are still searching for answers. In the past, most forward IAF bases were expected to be manned by Territorial Army (TA) units. The arrangement had its interface and training limitations. Would the TA units reach in time from their peace to op locations was always the question. Should IAF have dedicated specially trained airfield security personnel? Can the security be outsourced to private agencies?
Razor barbed wire. Picture Credit Trade Korea
Peculiarities of Airfield Security
The IAF airbases in Western sector are in close proximity to the border. Typically an airbase could be around 2,000 acres in size with boundary wall between 15-20 km. Each airbase has a geographical peculiarity depending on the lay of the land and topography. Airfields have been shaved clean of vegetation for better security watch and to deny habitat for birds which are hazardous for flying operations. Areas immediately across the boundary walls have been cleared of obstructions for a clear view of the intruders. Most airfields have a near 12-15 feet high boundary wall with a barbed-wire fence and is laced with concrete watch towers manned by DSC personnel who mostly comprise of Ex-servicemen in age bracket of late 40s or 50s. The watch towers have outward facing swivel-mounted search-lights for night-surveillance. The aircraft are dispersed in blast protected aircraft-pens or sometimes parked on open tarmac. The domestic (residential) and operational areas are clearly separated, and the operational area security is enhanced with extra fences and air-warrior guards. Higher risk airbases also have a unit of IAF Garud commandos to support high-value asset protection. High-value assets had fully armed extra air-warrior guards. Hand-held Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) are there at some airbases for aerial surveillance. A few also have with night-vision sensors. The Garud commandos have night-vision binoculars. Aircraft operating area, Bomb dumps and bulk petroleum storage have greater physical and manned security. During war enemy will make attempts to penetrate airfields to destroy operational assets on the ground. In 1965 Indo-Pak war, Pakistani commandos made a failed attempt to raid IAF airbases, including a para drop.
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Lessons from Pathankot Attack
After the Pathankot attack, it emerged that there is a need for inter-agency coordination, and better information flow from local Army units, police, and intelligence agencies. IAF requires physical support from battle-hardened local Army units during serious contingencies. Airfield security needs a fresh look especially in border districts. There is a need for directional jammers to prevent use of cell phones by terrorists/enemy. There is a need for domestic area evacuation plan. India needs an enhanced security grid in all border districts. There is a need to control media access and coverage of security operations, and conduct repeat formal media briefings. High value assets in border districts need security strengthening. A fully fenced and brightly lit border in plains cannot be allowed to be so porous to allow intrusion with huge posse of arms. Border security needed to tighten up.
Lessons from Civil Aviation
Civil aviation went through some major disasters before they woke up to serious airport security. The single deadliest airline catastrophe, resulting from the failure of airport security, was to detect an on-board bomb on Air India Flight 182 ‘Emperor Kanishka’ from Montreal to London in 1985 that crashed over Atlantic killing all 329 on-board. Another on-board bomb that slipped through airport security was on Pan Am flight in 1988, which killed 270 people, in the disaster known as the Lockerbie bombing. The 11 September 2001 multiple attacks across USA are the most widely recognized terrorist attacks in recent times involving air travel. Airport access has since been tightened. Passengers and baggage are screened using ever improving metal and explosive detector machines. More recently backscatter X-rays machines are being used. India stepped up its airport security after the 1999 Kandahar hijacking. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), a paramilitary organization was given the charge and put under the regulatory frame work of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (Ministry of Civil Aviation). They created especially trained group for airport security. Things did improve thereafter. Another problem that some airports face is the proliferation of slums around the boundary walls and in the approach zone and with a potential of a terrorist using a man-portable, shoulder fired, surface-to-air missile.
Typical Military Airfield Security
Entry into any airbase is through the few double-secure entry gates which are well manned and have drive-in barriers. There is no entry without identity check. However a large number of other than uniformed personnel like airfield maintenance and construction contractor labor also pass through these gates to work inside, albeit with special passes and security check. There are CCTV cameras on the gates, but time has perhaps come to introduce airport like checking devices for humans and materials. The boundary walls sometimes have drains passing under them and are secured by iron-rod gates. These have sometimes been breached. Thick forest/vegetation near boundary wall/fence often hampers security. In most places these have been shaved clean but in the north eastern states the growth is rather dense and rapid. More night-vision devices are being introduced. Outfacing, swiveling search-lights atop watch-towers help floodlight area outside the fence. Many airbases continue to have unauthorized structures nearly touching the boundary walls in spite clear laws against this. A typical IAF base is secured during peace time by DSC soldiers manning the peripheral watch-towers and the important operational assets augmented with air-warrior guards comprising non-technical staff who are not engaged in active operational activities. DSC numbers need serious augmenting and forward bases should have relatively younger lot. The limited Garud Commandos act as Quick-reaction force and take-on larger real-time threats. While the Garud are better armed and better trained, they have other tasks and roles such as Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) through radar-bursting, and Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR). Garud units are being increased and there should be at least two at each forward bases. But Garuds would now be joining the tri-service Special Forces Division. This would leave a void unless they are left at the parent bases for most of the time. The Vital Assets (VA) at an airfield include the runway, Air Traffic Control building, base operations centre, the communication hub, bulk petroleum storage, bomb and weapon storage, and high-technology laboratories among others. Attack on any of these could seriously hamper air operations. All these require additional protection. The Air warriors and their families also have to be kept safe.
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Airbase Commander’s Options
A good local commander would have to be pro-active and make the best of his assets and environment. Airfield-wise Counter-Terrorism Contingency Plan (CTCP) has to be evolved and rehearsed. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), observers in helicopters or micro-light aircraft, or aerial recce aircraft could be used in case of an imminent attack. Helicopter gunship could be used to engage the threat. Nearby Army units, intelligence agencies, local district administration and police, home-guards, and the adjoining village Sarpanch and youth would have to be roped in.
Options and Challenges IAF
After Pathankot attack, the IAF has planned to strengthen security at 54 airbases of the country by installing ‘smart fences’, electronic surveillance systems, thermal imagers, close circuit television (CCTV) cameras and drones. Money has been sanctioned and project is underway. Integrated Parameter Security Solution (IPSS) is a detailed airbase security plan which is being implemented first in the Pakistan facing Western Air Command (WAC) stations, and later elsewhere. IAF has revived a four decades old proposal to form airfield security regiments of its own. This may also allow IAF to shed DSC altogether. This would become even more important as Garuds would now join the tri-service Special Forces Division. IAF has also asked the government agencies to remove encroachments around the airbases. The rule stipulates that no construction can take place 100 meters from the airbase and no structure can come up within 900 meters around the ordnance depots. However, these rules are breached in many places. More heavy-duty equipment is needed to clear foliage in some densely vegetated stations. A wall can be scaled, so a surveillance system with CCTV cameras is required across the wall. Social media is being used to honey-trap and black-mail unsuspecting youngsters and using them as possible moles. This needs restrictions and monitoring. The earlier practice for allowing cattle grazing inside the camps has been stopped. The domestic areas with shops, including CSD canteen, where ex-servicemen sometimes accompanied by civilians have been segregated and checking made stringent.
Garud Commandos. Picture Credit: medium.com
Garud Commando Force was formed in September 2004 after attempted terror attacks on the two major airbases in J & K. Their current strength is approximately 1500 personnel. IAF has sought government sanction to recruit more Garud commandos. Orders exist at all critical air stations to adhere to shoot-at-sight if anyone tries to enter the premises in an unauthorized manner. The IAF has prominently displayed this warning at vantage positions. Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) have been evolved with local Army units to coordinate assistance in case of emergency or attack. There is better coordination with civil administration, including the police, in regards to suspicious movements near airbases and about the shoot at sight orders in case of trespassers. Finally the local Commanders have to use innovative base-specific ways and local liaison to strengthen security.
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Celso Piña, The Rebel of the Accordion
April 1, 2020 May 2, 2020 by Accordion Americana, posted in Game Changers
Celso Piña
Famous in Mexico as “El Rebelde del acordeón” (the rebel of the accordion), Celso Piña earned an international reputation on the diatonic accordion as an exponent of the genre, cumbia rebajada (Coom-bee-a Ray-buh-HA-da). Early in the 1980’s, Celso was performing as a norteño accordionist with his three brothers, Eduardo, Rubén and Enrique. But, even at that time, Piña was already looking to a genre from South America which had infiltrated the airwaves in his hometown of Monterrey, Mexico. When he heard cumbia artists, Anibal Velasquez and Alfredo Gutierrez in concert, Celso Piña and his brothers decided to change their sound and reinvent their group, “Celso Piña y su Ronda Bogata” (“Celso Piña and his Bogata Patrol”).
Cumbia is a rhythmic style of music that originated in Columbia, S.A. Cumbia rebajada is a Mexican derivation, and is one of the styles that has evolved in Mexico along with cumbia sonidera and others. Cumbia rebajada differs by being slower, or ‘reduced’ in speed. Remarkably, it all came about by accident due to equipment that was failing and slowing down. Yet the final result immediately became popular with “Columbianitos” in Monterrey according to Humberto Loopz (link to his article below). Celso Piña fused cumbia with norteño, and vice versa, and added elements of pop and hip-hop, energizing amd diversifying the music of northern Mexico. His influence has been felt far north of the border into Mexican-American communities as well as world-wide. Celso Piña is credited as inventing his own approach to playing cumbia on the accordion, as an outcome of being self-taught on the instrument.
Featured with Control Machete, the album “Barrio Bravo” with Celso Piña earned a nomination for a Latin Grammy in 2002 for “Best Contemporary Tropical Album” category.
Along with cumbia master Celso Piña, appears Colombian singer Totó la Momposina (in red) in “Zapata Se Queda” from the album “Pecados y Milagros” (“Sins and Miracles”) by the brilliant Mexican singer/songwriter Lila Downs, (in black).
Celso Piña was a very busy working musician and toured internationally through Europe and the Americas, but sadly, he suddenly died as a result of a heart attack on August 21, 2019 in Monterrey, Mexico. He was 66 years old. Celso Piña’s impact on regional Mexican music and his innovation in cumbia rebajada will be studied, emulated and imitated by musicians for a long time. Also, the special presence and bravado that he brought to the stage and to his recordings will be missed by all.
Celso.Mx
Additional articles of interest:
Sounds and Colors, December 6, 2019 “What is Cumbia Rebajada?”
Rolling Stone Magazine, Memorial by Andrew Casillas August 22, 2019
Tagged accordion, accordion americana, American Accordion, Button Box, Celso Pina, Control Machete, Cumbia, Cumbia Rebajada, cumbia sonidero, diatonic, el rebelde del acordeon, Lila Downs, Mexican Americano, Monterrey, norteno, Pegados y milagros, ronda Bogata, the rebel of the accordion, Toto la Momposina, Zapata se queda
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In 1968, the Summer of Love was exerting it's influence on pop and fashion trends and, in the UK, many of the previous year's Mod movement were heeding the call to 'get your head together, man' and go 'progressive'. The Action had been one of the most respected of London's mod bands but in late '68, founder members guitarist Alan King, bassist Mike Evans and drummer Roger Powell were joined by pianist lan Whiteman and ex-Savoy Brown guitarist Martin Stone in a brand new band Mighty Baby. The group's 1969 debut album Mighty Baby was strong on melody and instrumental technique and Egyptian Tomb is a perfect summation of what the band's recorded music was all about. "Live", they extended their performances, as did most groups of the era. Stone's guitar soloing being lauded for its imaginative approach. They cut a second album A Jug Of Love before disbanding. Stone later formed Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers while King became a member of pub-rock band Ace. This CD reissue combines their first album with 5 tracks made when King, Evans and Powell were still The Action and the sleeve notes by Record Collector magazines John Reed chart the history of one of the best of the late 60s/early 70s "head" bands.
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On Legacy, Mourning, and Chadwick Boseman
I knew Chadwick Boseman was a bona fide star after his brief but savory introduction in Captain America: Civil War. Consider the challenge he’s posed as an actor just joining the fray of the MCU. He dons the Black Panther suit in the space of 3 scenes, but before he does, he has to prove he can wear the superhero get-up and do so convincingly.
This is more than a case of an actor walking into a phone booth and then WHOOSH they’re a Superhero! It takes months of auditions and testing to find the right Superman or the next Batman; less about form-fitting and more about presence, or what casting directors call “gravitas.” Not a lot of actors have it while wearing the tights.
This is easier to understand in cases where the superhero role didn’t exactly work out. Like Ioan Gruffudd as Mr. Fantastic, or Jessica Alba as Sue Storm. (Look, I was obsessed with Alba in high school, too, but she is NOT a convincing superhero.) This was also true for Ryan Reynolds’ first superhero outing as the miscast Green Lantern. (Reynolds works better as a satirical superhero in Deadpool over a sincere one.) Even a veteran actor like Edward Norton couldn’t quite sell a brief stint as Bruce Banner, where the transitions from Banner to Hulk were never seamless.
Playing a superhero is a tall order that not every actor can meet regardless of their extensive résumés or how broad their shoulders are.
Chadwick Boseman, however, made this shit look easy.
We meet T’Challa in Civil War as the young and regal prince poised to stand where his father is at the head of a nation, the dutiful son who wants to do right by his father. And then all too quickly, T’Challa has his superhero origin moment. He loses a parent.
It’s the same trauma that defines Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker, trials that steel characters in comic books to put on the costume and dole out justice on the streets. But whereas Bruce Wayne and Peter Parker get an entire first act to sell this pivotal moment, Boseman has less minutes and fewer lines to pull this off in a film that’s far bigger than any one character.
Boseman, nonetheless, owns this scene opposite Scarlett Johansson, a veteran in the Marvel films. He’s distraught, despondent, and rage-driven all in a single compelling stare, and he barely raises his voice. His transformation is complete minutes later following the breakneck chase with Bucky and Captain America – T’Challa removing the cowl in a momentous reveal like a pseudo-birth for the Black Panther. Civil War may be a “Captain America” movie that’s really a crucial Avengers chapter, but it’s also a slick Black Panther origin story. (Not bad for a movie simultaneously introducing Spider-Man.)
T’Challa’s blinding quest to avenge his father underscores the film’s true villain in Helmut Zemo and HIS revenge odyssey, and this teaches T’Challa the lesson of Uncle Ben’s iconic superhero proverb: “With great power, comes great responsibility.” It’s a maxim taken to the utmost extreme in Civil War’s larger conflict of oversight and collateral damage, but it’s also an inner revelation that teaches T’Challa the strength of humility against the backdrop of superheroes punching their way out of an ideological divide.
Imagine that, Civil War is not Black Panther’s movie, but he walks away with the film’s beating heart. In fact, he’s the one who captures Zemo in the end.
It’s been a month since Chadwick Boseman’s passing and the news still rings cruel and untrue. How could he be gone when he brought so much to the screen and meant so much more to communities all over and opened all kinds of imaginative doors? Here was this comic book craze taken to the biggest and grandest form imaginable via the MCU, a super-franchise that was beginning to embrace the storytelling potential of a diverse world— the same world that its heroes save in practically every other movie. It felt like Boseman was just getting started both in the MCU and as an actor further carving out a versatile body of work. It’s not just the promise of what could’ve been that devastates, but the lasting sheen of an artist who made such a tremendous impact.
Mourning a celebrity may be laughable to some, but I think grief is the truest response we can give as fans. Movies are larger than life, and we often idolize the faces projected as enormous Greek gods before us. Artists get together to rehearse, dress up, and play make believe in front of a camera, and that painstaking process has one simple function in the din of the theater – to impart feeling. If art is an expression of the soul, then it’s no wonder we feel so deeply when we engage with it. I don’t think it’s naïve to form an attachment to a writer, a director, or an actor; it’s a natural progression of the relationship we have with stories and the people who make them.
The first celebrity I mourned was Bruce Lee. It felt so cruel to watch Enter the Dragon, to become obsessed with an Asian superstar whom my cousins and I likened to a superhero— who whooped so much ass and whose flying kick to the big baddie at the end was so freakin’ EPIC. We often reenacted those same moves and sequences as kids, mimicking his stance, his bravado, his chi.
And to then learn that Enter the Dragon was in fact Bruce Lee’s last movie; it was heartbreaking to grow up idolizing someone who was gone long before you ever had the chance to see or meet them in real life. (I felt that same crushing feeling when I later became obsessed with his son Brandon Lee in The Crow, and then finding out what happened to him in the middle of filming.)
I can’t fault or make fun of kids for dedicating their own memorials and tributes to Chadwick Boseman because I was those kids, and in many ways I still am. You become invested in a fiction, in a character— someone who makes you believe in a story and a world so far beyond the limits of your own. And to see yourself on screen before you know how to articulate that sensation, it validates your wondrous place in the world; that no matter how shitty or small or overlooked you might feel, by some miracle, you belong.
That feeling like anything is possible was everything to me as a kid. That’s why I can’t help but tear up seeing parents posting pictures of their kids dressed as Black Panther and posing in Wakandan salute, or families re-sharing stories of getting to meet Chadwick in person. Black Panther is just a character, a comic book. But he made kids believe that Black Panther was real.
Arriving at 2018’s Black Panther felt more like a celebration than another Marvel movie added to the roster. And it was a relief that it was treated as such, as a conscious nod to the cultures and influence of the larger African diaspora and upending all notions of a third-world “shithole” country by literally presenting Wakanda as a thriving Afrofuturistic society.
You can tell Chadwick relished this opportunity to play toward themes of cultural responsibility because the role bore its own responsibility. Black Panther had to be a moment; it had to matter beyond a brand or an interconnected universe.
That’s the exact message put forth in the film’s rousing mid-credits scene, which takes Tony Stark’s famous “I am Iron Man” ending coda and does one better. Rather than profess himself as the hero, T’Challa announces an end to Wakanda’s exclusionism and promises to open its doors to the world— like a hand extended to every kid who dressed up as their favorite superhero regardless of the color of their skin. This wasn’t just a “version” of a superhero that pandered to them, but instead reassured them that this whole superhero thing was theirs too. “Can you believe it?” Killmonger says, “a kid from Oakland running around believing in fairy tales?” We can, thankfully, as more of us can own and lay claim to it, finally.
Regardless of whether this matters to you personally, it’s hard to argue that it doesn’t for so many others. I still remember going to see Infinity War – a film chock full of crowd-pleasing moments. The volume of cheers that came when the film brought us back to Wakanda (mere months after Black Panther came out) was nothing short of astounding. Maybe I’m too subjective or too emotional a viewer to comment on this, but I think this mattered a great deal to people.
Chadwick’s latest film, Da 5 Bloods, serves as an unintended tribute to a man who became larger than life, whose career carved out its own legend on the big screen. Boseman plays Stormin’ Norman – the fallen leader of the “Bloods” with ferocity and prophetic swagger to spare. Norman’s ghost looms large over the returning veterans as they retread the Vietnam jungle in search of lost gold. Norman was the one who spearheaded the mission, who was committed to smuggling the cache out of Vietnam and give back to their fallen brothers and sisters as long overdue reparations for being black in America.
It had to be Chadwick Boseman in the role, and in many ways it could only be Chadwick Boseman in the role. That’s his impact, his power, his legacy. From Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, to Black Panther and alas, Stormin’ Norman; it was never just a role or a performance. It was an on-screen revolution.
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Action Gay, The American Way
August 16, 2008 0 kain424 Recent Articles
So maybe everyone’s familiar with Top Gun as a parable about homosexuality. If not, watch this video, and then continue:
The action films of the 1980s were damned near built upon undertones of homosexual longing between men. Perhaps this was the right-wing reaction to the last two decades of feminist progression. Whatever the reason, it is apparent that there was a need for that good old male bonding and the showcasing of the male body as strong, sexy and capable of saving the world. These films attepmted so hard to be straight, testosterone-filled epics that they went all the way around the board and landed back on gay.
Now don’t get me wrong, these are all watchable and even great action flicks. It’s just that they carry with them a level of gay undertones almost unheard of in film today.
Hairy mainstays like Chuck Norris (pictured here)
were forced to shave, wax, and mow their manly forests in order to appeal more to their unsuspecting audiences.
Now I would have included Top Gun in my list, but I just don’t think that it qualifies as an action film, no matter how gay it is. There is one scene of action in a film that is mostly preoccupied with the sexuality of its protagonists and the training of said protagonists against a scowling Michael Ironside. A couple of exploding MIGs in two hours does not an action movie make. So Top Gun notwithstanding, here are my picks for the top five gayest of the action films, preceded by my three runner-ups:
Honorable mentions:
No Retreat, No Surrender
This is an early film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, though as the flick’s villain. The story concerns a young fan of Bruce Lee played by Kurt McKinney who moves to Washington with his family and attempts to fit in and learn karate. If this sounds similar to The Karate Kid, it should. Director Corey Yuen (The Transporter, Hero) decided to make it after he saw The Karate Kid and thought that the fight scenes could have been done better. For the record, the fight scenes are indeed better, but the plot is obfuscated completely by the overall gayness of one character: R.J.
R.J. begins an entire (albeit thinly metaphorical) subplot in the film where it seems that McKinney’s character of Jason deems himself a homosexual. Jason seems to “choose” this route after being humiliated in front of a girl he desires by a few bullies. R.J., who is gay, takes it upon himself to show his new friend that Jason is truly heterosexual by tempting him, testing him, and finally tricking Jason to dance into the arms of a female. Because of the subplot nature of the gayness and Jason’s overall ignorance of R.J.’s advances, I do not think that this film can qualify for my top five, and thus it is left out.
If the first three seconds of this clip don’t tell you all you need to know about R.J. then I’m afraid you are beyond help:
Like No Retreat, No Surrender, this film did not make the final top five simply because there just wasn’t enough actual homosexuality in the plot. Also like NRNS, this is an early film featuring JCVD. But any film where one man sits on a bed drinking beer while checking out his male friend’s physique and commenting on his probable future need for children has gotta be some kinda gay, right? The only Americans in the Kumite tournament, Frank and Jackson get real close, real fast. Oh, and they tell one another that they love each other at the end.
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Yes, I agree, the poster is almost gay enough. I’m not sure if that is supposed to be Patrick Swayze’s tough-guy look or what, but it looks like Swayze is beckoning you. If you know nothing about this film, then viewing it for the first time can be a real treat. It’s about a bouncer who is apparently better than average at beating up on drunken stripclub patrons because he gets hired by a stripclub that pays well to be a uh, “manager”/bouncer and this somehow causes a lot of problems in the town.
While not getting into tussles with the local manfolk, Swayze enjoys getting oiled up and doing nude Tai Chi. And then there’s the odd relationship between Swayze and the antagonistic, also-oiled-up Marshall Teague:
“I used to fuck guys like you in prison!”
Yeah. Of course, the film suddenly turns into an action flick after that line, but it was going balls-deep gay before that. Anyway, onto the real list.
TOP 5 GAYEST ACTION FLICKS
5. Commando
With as much overblown machismo as there is going on in this film (a woman even complains about the men eating “too much red meat”…actually, that sounds pretty gay), you might not think of this film as gay. But look again. Yeah, Arnold is all muscley, but what the hell is up with Bennett?
What’s with the mustache? The necklace? Why is your chainmail a couple sizes too small? Wait… chainmail?
Whatever his past relationship to Matrix was, it is clear that Bennett has some unresolved sexual issues with his former C.O. Despite the plot seemingly being about a highly trained military operative trying to rescue his kidnapped daughter, the real focus seems to about a mercenary trying to meet up with Arnold Schwarzenegger for a lot of one-on-one, sweaty man-action. And look how excited Bennett gets when Matrix allows the thought of Bennett penetrating him to enter into his deranged mind. Must’ve been a Village People reject.
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4. The Lethal Weapon series
What? I’m cheating by naming a film series rather than a single film? Fuck you. This is MY list.
The two male protagonists (played by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover) share a pretty close relationship with one another over the series. Hell, Riggs is over at Murtaugh’s house serving him coffee when he wakes up one morning and the two cuddle at the end of the sequel. Here are some of the highlights:
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3. Showdown In Little Tokyo
If the last entry doesn’t already have you convinced buddy-cop films are inherently gay (see also: Tango & Cash), then surely this one will. The central premise is simple: two ethnically diverse cops team up to take on the Yakuza while simultaneously learning to like each other. They’d probably get a lot more done if they stopped checking each others’ “form” out all the time.
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2. Rocky III
Yeah. Just watch the video:
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1. Lone Wolf McQuade
What tops that last entry? Chuck Norris, of course. In a film that tries so hard to be manly it was just inevitable that Lone Wolf McQuade would end up topping the list. This has got to be the single most unintentionally gay film ever made. Opened button-up shirts, cardigans, man-sweat galore, and it’s a buddy-cop film to boot! At the end of Top Gun, Maverick gets the best of both worlds: the girl and the guys. At the end of Lone Wolf McQuade, McQuade chooses his male partner.
Now, I’ll be showing some clips, but you really have to see this film to understand just how gay it is. It’s cartoonishly ridiculous in the first place, part Western, part buddy-cop film, and part versus movie. Norris is drinking beer or getting dirty every other scene, drives a truck, has hundreds of guns lying about his house, and flips out when a woman comes in and starts cleaning things (and replacing his HUGE stash of beer with actual food in the fridge). But really… just watch it.
Without any further ado, I present to you… Lone Wolf McQuade:
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I hope you’ve enjoyed the list. Now I’m off to do more killcounts.
Toodles,
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MELATONIN: A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW- SLEEP, STRESS, IMMUNITY & HEALTH
By Robert A. Schinetsky
Melatonin is a hormone most well-known for its role in regulating circadian rhythm and sleep.
Our bodies synthesize melatonin from the essential amino acid L-Tryptophan, and it is secreted by the pineal gland -- a small gland in the brain that’s often referred to as “the third eye.”
While melatonin is vital to sleep, that just begins to scratch the surface of this ever-important naturally occurring chemical.
Melatonin also affects[1,2]:
Ovarian physiology
Antioxidant defense systems
Given melatonin’s bevy of activity in the body, it’s no wonder that the compound is a source of intensive research among the scientific community, even though it’s been studied hundreds of times.
Today, we recap some of the latest, most intriguing findings surrounding melatonin and the human body.
Latest Melatonin Research
It’s no secret that the health and proper functioning of the immune system is at the forefront these days.
As we mentioned above, melatonin not only plays a pivotal role in sleep, but also affects immune function.
Melatonin assists in immune system regulation, and it directly enhances the immune response by improving proliferation and maturation of natural killer (NK) cells, T and B lymphocytes, granulocytes and monocytes.[13]
Like most other hormones in the body, melatonin production is high during the earlier phases of life, but declines with age. This may, in part, explain while older populations are more susceptible to more deleterious outcomes when they become infected.[5]
As such, a number of studies have been published in recent months investigating the utility of melatonin as an adjuvant treatment for respiratory ailments, including COVID.[4,5,11]
Researchers note that while melatonin is not virucidal, it possesses indirect antiviral actions[6] due to its anti-inflammation, anti-oxidation and immune supporting features.
These findings bolster previous research which found that melatonin had positive effects in alleviating respiratory distress induced by bacteria and virus.[7,8,9]
Specifically regarding infections, melatonin acts as a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that helps mitigate oxidative stress and the excessive production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in lung tissue.[9]
In fact, melatonin intake of 10 mg/d (the same dose included in AML Calming Cocktail) was noted to help reduced levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines.[4]
The reason this is noteworthy is that the cytokine storm intensifies the danger signal of the virus invasion and also leads to inflammation and host cell damage.
Additionally, a 2019 meta-analysis indicated that melatonin supplementation was associated with a significant reduction of inflammatory markers TNF-α and IL-6.[12]
Melatonin has also been noted to decrease viral infections in obese and diabetic patients (two of the most at-risk populations of COVID).[5]
Interestingly, research indicates that COVID-19 infection may attack the melatonin synthetic pathway leading to decreased melatonin levels at a time when melatonin is critical.[15]
Perhaps most importantly, melatonin has a high safety profile. In fact, even when melatonin was given to humans at dose of 1 gram (1,000mg) per day for a month, there were no adverse effects observed with the treatment.[10]
The utility of melatonin in supporting immune function and health may best be surmised by the following, which was published in a study entitled Melatonin Inhibits COVID-19-induced Cytokine Storm by Reversing Aerobic Glycolysis in Immune Cells: A Mechanistic Analysis[14]:
“The collective data, in addition to its very high safety profile, indicate that melatonin would be effective as a treatment for COVID-19 and support the recommendation of the published reports that encourage its use for this purpose [[3], [4], [5], [6], [7]]. Melatonin is inexpensive, non-toxic over a very wide dose range, has a long shelf-life and can be self-administered which is a major advantage when large numbers of individuals are involved. Thus, the use of melatonin to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic would be feasible and a socially-responsible measure to attempt.”
Improve Sleep & Stress
Sleep is vital to the body’s ability to recover and repair damage done through intense exercise. It also directly impacts hunger and satiety signaling, cognitive performance, and physical activity levels.
Perhaps most poignant to current times, sleep also impacts immune function and stress levels.
Poor sleep is known to increase cortisol (stress) levels in the body, and chronic stress is a very real concern these days, perhaps now more than ever.
This chronic state of stress can impair sleep and create a state of inflammation, further increasing the susceptibility to illness and infection. Sleep deprivation can also contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes.[17]
Melatonin is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory molecule that can help reduce sleep onset latency, delayed sleep phase syndrome, and regulate the sleep-wake patterns.[16]
Moreover, melatonin is recognized as a safe and effective natural sleep aid that possesses no known withdrawal or safety issues related to the use or discontinuation of the compound. It’s extensively studied and known to be helpful at a wide range of doses from 0.3mg to 10mg.
Supports Health
Antioxidants reduce harmful inflammation and limit cellular and DNA damage from oxidative stress, which occurs as a result of free radical proliferation.
Chemicals that function as antioxidants can neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals, supporting the proper functioning of genes and cells as well as defending against illness and infection.
Seeing as melatonin is one of the most powerful antioxidants in the body, it stands to reason that it plays a key role in promoting health and wellness.
This is all the more noteworthy when you understand that oxidative stress can damage brain cells, which contributes to age-related cognitive decline and the development of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease.[18]
Emerging research indicates that melatonin may be a powerful ally in the war against cognitive decline, primarily due to its potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory qualities.[18,19]
The Best Melatonin Supplement
No doubt, melatonin is a powerful and vitally important hormone for health and wellness. Not only is it necessary for quality sleep, it also plays key roles in controlling stress, inflammation, and immune function.
Melatonin even helps the body burn fat by boosting energy expenditure via increasing brown adipose tissue (BAT) concentrations and activity.[20]
AML Calming Cocktail supplies a robust, research-backed dose of 10mg melatonin per full serving.
AML Calming Cocktail is a comprehensive, nighttime relaxation aid engineered to help manage stress and anxiety while simultaneously encouraging relaxation and more restorative sleep. AML Calming Cocktail is a natural alternative to other agents typically used to “take the edge off” at night that doesn’t come with the habituation, tolerance, or unwanted side effects.
Melatonin can also be found in AML ThermoHeat Nighttime™.
ThermoHeat Nighttime is a non-stimulant nighttime sleep and recovery aid formulated to help boost metabolism, manage stress and regulate appetite. It also promotes relaxation and sleep. In addition to melatonin, every serving of ThermoHeat Nighttime also includes stress-relieving, relaxation-promoting agents including: L-Theanine, 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
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Kräuchi, K., Cajochen, C., Pache, M., Flammer, J., & Wirz‐Justice, A. (2006). Thermoregulatory effects of melatonin in relation to sleepiness. Chronobiology International, 23(1-2), 475-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/07420520500545854
Lok R, van Koningsveld MJ, Gordijn MCM, Beersma DGM, Hut RA. Daytime melatonin and light independently affect human alertness and body temperature. J Pineal Res. 2019;67(1):e12583. doi:10.1111/jpi.12583
Zhang R, Wang X, Ni L, et al. COVID-19: Melatonin as a potential adjuvant treatment. Life Sci. 2020;250:117583. doi:10.1016/j.lfs.2020.117583
El-Missiry MA, El-Missiry ZMA, Othman AI. Melatonin is a potential adjuvant to improve clinical outcomes in individuals with obesity and diabetes with coexistence of Covid-19. Eur J Pharmacol. 2020;882:173329. doi:10.1016/j.ejphar.2020.173329
Reiter R.J., Ma Q., Sharma R. Treatment of Ebola and other infectious diseases: melatonin “goes viral” Melatonin Res. 2020;3:43–57. doi: 10.32794/mr11250047.
Yip, H.‐K., Chang, Y.‐C., Wallace, C.G., Chang, L.‐T., Tsai, T.‐H., Chen, Y.‐L., Chang, H.‐W., Leu, S., Zhen, Y.‐Y., Tsai, C.‐Y., Yeh, K.‐H., Sun, C.‐K. and Yen, C.‐H. (2013), Melatonin treatment improves adipose‐derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy for acute lung ischemia–reperfusion injury. J Pineal Res, 54: 207-221. doi:10.1111/jpi.12020
Huang, S.‐H., Cao, X.‐J., Liu, W., Shi, X.‐Y. and Wei, W. (2010), Inhibitory effect of melatonin on lung oxidative stress induced by respiratory syncytial virus infection in mice. Journal of Pineal Research, 48: 109-116. doi:10.1111/j.1600-079X.2009.00733.x
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Alex Shneider, Aleksandr Kudriavtsev & Anna Vakhrusheva (2020) Can melatonin reduce the severity of COVID-19 pandemic?, International Reviews of Immunology, 39:4, 153-162, DOI: 10.1080/08830185.2020.1756284
Zarezadeh M., Khorshidi M., Emami M., Janmohammadi P., Kord-Varkaneh H., Mousavi S.M., Mohammed S.H., Saedisomeolia A., Alizadeh S. Melatonin supplementation and pro-inflammatory mediators: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials. Eur. J. Nutr. 2019 doi: 10.1007/s00394-019-02123-0.
Miller S.C., Pandi-Perumal S.R., Esquifino A.I., Cardinali D.P., Maestroni G.J.M. The role of melatonin in immuno-enhancement: potential application in cancer. Int. J. Exp. Pathol. 2006;87:81–87. doi: 10.1111/j.0959-9673.2006.00474.x.
Reiter RJ, Sharma R, Ma Q, Dominquez-Rodriguez A, Marik PE, Abreu-Gonzalez P. Melatonin Inhibits COVID-19-induced Cytokine Storm by Reversing Aerobic Glycolysis in Immune Cells: A Mechanistic Analysis. Med Drug Discov. 2020;6:100044. doi:10.1016/j.medidd.2020.100044
Reiter, R. J., Abreu-Gonzalez, P., Marik, P. E., & Dominguez-Rodriguez, A. (2020). Therapeutic algorithm for use of melatonin in patients with COVID-19. Frontiers in Medicine, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00226
Auld F, Maschauer EL, Morrison I, Skene DJ, Riha RL. Evidence for the efficacy of melatonin in the treatment of primary adult sleep disorders. Sleep Med Rev. 2017;34:10-22. doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2016.06.005
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Chitimus, D.M.; Popescu, M.R.; Voiculescu, S.E.; Panaitescu, A.M.; Pavel, B.; Zagrean, L.; Zagrean, A.-M. Melatonin’s Impact on Antioxidative and Anti-Inflammatory Reprogramming in Homeostasis and Disease. Biomolecules 2020, 10, 1211.
Shukla M, Govitrapong P, Boontem P, Reiter RJ, Satayavivad J. Mechanisms of Melatonin in Alleviating Alzheimer's Disease. Curr Neuropharmacol. 2017;15(7):1010-1031. doi:10.2174/1570159X15666170313123454
Halpern, B., Mancini, M. C., Bueno, C., Barcelos, I. P., De Melo, M. E., Lima, M. S., Carneiro, C. G., Sapienza, M. T., Buchpiguel, C. A., Do Amaral, F. G., & Cipolla-Neto, J. (2019). Melatonin increases Brown adipose tissue volume and activity in patients with melatonin deficiency: A proof-of-Concept study. Diabetes, 68(5), 947-952. https://doi.org/10.2337/db18-0956
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Alt-F4 #7 - Megabase Mentality 2020-10-02
Written by ChurchOrganist, LoneWolf, T-A-R, edited by Therenas, nicgarner
Mod Spotlight: Yuoki Industries ChurchOrganist
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We’re back, providing you with your weekly dose of Factorio content! In today’s issue 7, ChurchOrganist brings us up to speed on what has been happening with Yuoki’s mods lately, LoneWolf gives us the rundown of why decentralised smelting is clearly the way to go, and T-A-R informs us about an MMO community event happening this weekend.
The Yuoki Industries mod suite is similar to the other big overhaul mods (such as Krastorio 2, Bob’s, Angel’s, or Pyanodon’s) in that it creates new game content, but is unique in that it doesn’t replace vanilla content, rather adding to it, often with alternative recipes.
It is also unique in that progress is not dictated by the tech tree, but rather by having access to the materials required to make an item. To do this, it adds new materials and technologies to the game, including new ways of generating power, agriculture, and a multitude of additional rail vehicle options.
Yuoki Industries recently went through a rough patch due to the author YuokiTani (notable for supplying graphics to a wide range of Factorio mods) no longer having time to play Factorio, and thus being unable to test any new additions to the mod.
To remedy this, YuokiTani established a GitHub repository for his mods which has enabled coders in the community to step up and offer their help. Consequently, the main Yuoki mod has recently undergone a facelift to bring it more in line with the current state of the base game.
The mod has been improved in the following ways:
There are now settings:
Disable vanilla productivity module behaviour.
Adjust player reach and inventory size.
Start the game with tier 1 Yuoki power armour, a shield, battery, generator, roboport, and 50 construction robots.
Mining times have been shortened to coincide with vanilla.
Logistic buffer chests have been added.
Storage chests now have logistic filters.
All Yuoki radars have map visualisations.
Yuoki mining drills have circuit connections.
There have also been a number of improvements to Yuoki Industries Engines, but there is still work to do on bringing it up to the same standard as the main mod. In due course, the other mods in the Yuoki Industries suite will be overhauled and improved where necessary.
For those of you interested in seeing Yuoki Industries in action: I will be streaming on Twitch at 10:00 UTC+1 on Mondays and Saturdays beginning October 3rd, starting a new Yuoki base from scratch. I will be pleased to answer any questions about the mods that I’m able to answer.
Happy building!
In Alt-F4 issue 4, gamebuster800 briefly touched upon the idea of smelting ore at deposits, rather than in a centralised location. The reason for this is very straightforward and easy to grasp: ore stacks to 50, while plates stack to 100. Therefore, when you ship a load of ore, you’re only sending half as many items as when you ship a load of plates. At smaller scales, such as when your factory is starting out, this isn’t that big of an issue, but when you start dealing with ore and plate counts in the tens of thousands per minute, it can make a big difference. Even with belts it’s more efficient to transport plates than ore, but with trains the difference can be overpowering.
As every experienced Factorio player will tell you, trains are the way to move large amounts of resources across long distances in the late game. Many players design rail systems that take two or even four trains in either direction, and much time and effort is spent in developing good junctions. But at the end of the day, the thing that matters most with a rail system is throughput. If you have fewer, shorter trains running, your rail system will always be more efficient than if you have more, longer trains running. Longer trains block intersections for more time, and the more trains you have running through the same area the more likely they are to spend time waiting in a jam. If you’re anything like me, you design your rail network as your base grows: you might ogle over the nice intersections and city-block patterns on /r/factorio, but at the end of the day your rails, like mine, are a mess. If that sounds at all like you, the number of trains running through your system is crucially important, and shipping plates quite literally halves it.
Even if you’re a designer, and your rail network never leaves trains waiting, you’re still capped out at a maximum throughput of about thirty trains per minute per rail, and shipping plates instead of ore allows you to ship twice as many items with the same number of trains. That halves your rail-building requirements, and it has another advantage as well: your smelting can be smaller and more compartmentalised, and less likely to take up large swathes of your main base and present a major logistical challenge. When I designed my first megabase, I centralised all smelting, and the number of trains I had to handle in a single location was excessive. Even running seven-car trains, I would repeatedly have five or six stacking and waiting to unload, and I had continuous throughput problems as a result. I literally could not unload or manoeuvre trains fast enough to keep up with my base’s demand for iron and copper, and so eventually I had to find an alternative solution. That solution was smelting plates in place: not only does shipping plates halve the number of trains in your network, it also doubles the amount of time a shipment lasts for and reduces the amount of time your trains spend shunting.
Even if you already ship plates, there’s more to megabase thinking. Suppose you see iron and copper sitting together, close enough that you can reach them with a single rail. Rather than transport copper plates and iron plates in separate shipments, you can save even more space and effort by shipping something else instead: green circuits. Your factory uses them by the tens of thousands, and they go into almost everything you need to make. Nine times out of ten, your base is using more iron and copper for green circuits than just about anything, so why not take the load off your main facilities and outsource it to somewhere there’s more space and less pollution? If you think about it, a single green circuit takes one and a half copper plates and one iron plate to produce, and they stack to 200 rather than 100 like the plates do. That means a single load of green circuits contains three loads of copper plates and two loads of iron plates — or six and four of ore. Why send ten trains when one will do? You shouldn’t convert every outpost in this way — you’ll always need copper and iron plates for other things (and even iron ore for concrete) — but in the case where you have iron and copper sitting together, why not save yourself some effort? Green circuits are hard enough to make with large throughputs anyway, but producing them in moderate amounts is trivial. You can even use this to double or triple your green circuit production without needing to find or reclaim space.
The concept, of course, stretches to infinity. Automation (red) and Logistic (green) science can be made anywhere you have iron and copper, and engine units anywhere you just have iron. Plastic can be made in place anywhere you have oil and coal. Since you’re shipping plastic and green circuits by train now, setting up an outpost near some copper which makes red circuits is mere child’s play, and then you have red circuits zipping around too. The key is to think of decentralised production as taking pressure off your main base: you don’t have to fit things in anymore or cram them in to tightly-optimised patterns when you can just spread out, and there’s no need to ship things further than you have to. Dealing with biters isn’t that big of a challenge: assuming you defend your mining drills already, adding a little area off to the side that’s also defended is no big deal. At the same time, you’ll notice your pollution decreasing: when it’s not all centralised, it gets absorbed by more tiles and trees, and has time to dissipate. You’ll want to set up radars to monitor these outposts, and I like to give them robots with repair packs also, but by the point in the game when you’re setting up this kind of late-game production that should be no big deal. Smelting in place can be done earlier, of course, but I like to at least wait until I have laser turrets or robots to ensure my satellite locations don’t run out of ammo.
At megabase scales, a lot of traditional thinking goes out the window. You don’t always need a main bus so much as you do cleverly orchestrated production, and shipping things farther than necessary or less densely than necessary can really hurt your throughput. Over time, you’ll learn to see patterns in the ores you look at on the map: iron and copper is Automation science, or electronic circuits, or ammunition; coal and oil can be plastic, or with copper a fantastic place to do red circuits. Shipping materials only short distances is a game changer, and it lets you design your base in a far more spread-out and organized manner. Rather than centralising everything, decentralise: it’ll save you time, effort, and the insanity of trying to find more space to cram things in.
Last week I was contacted by Ki Tan from Big Community Games about some exciting news: Monthly MMO events starting the first Saturday of every month. Yes, you read that correctly: it’ll start right away; this very Saturday!
If you are familiar with Factorio multiplayer, you may be familiar with these hosts already. Besides the release party “Welcome to Factorio” mentioned in Alt-F4 issue 3, they are responsible for various other large events including the unforgettable Spiffing Brit run.
Multiplayer has come a long way since our favourite local newspaper first presented it in the era of Factorio 0.11. Since then, both players and developers have wondered about the maximum number of players a single server could support. Wube wanted bug reports and the players wanted a fun session. As the performance of the game increased, bug reports became rarer. It simply required more and more people to yield “interesting” test results. The habit of announcing multiplayer sessions was born.
With the release of Factorio 1.0, the goal of large multiplayer servers shifted from testing the game to enjoying it, which introduced room for mods to spice up the gameplay. And that is exactly what is going to happen tomorrow.
Countdown has passed
Krastorio 2 has been selected as the main mod for this (returning) event. As mentioned in FFF-338, Krastorio 2 is a complete overhaul mod focussed on maintaining the vanilla feel of Factorio. This way, the event will be interesting to anyone who knows the basics of Factorio even if you don’t have any experience playing modded or multiplayer Factorio.
If you are a Factorio streamer and want to participate in the event, you can of course; it’s open to all. Streamers will be listed on the website closer to the time of the event, in a live menu on the front page and also on the BCG Discord. The server will be left running after the event for up to 2 weeks.
For more info like the full mods list, check out the website or join the Discord. We hope to see as many of you as possible tomorrow!
As always, we’re looking for people that want to contribute to Alt-F4, be it by submitting an article or by helping with translation. If you have something interesting in mind that you want to share with the community in a polished way, this is the place to do it. If you’re not too sure about it we’ll gladly help by discussing content ideas and structure questions. We’ll have a bit of a special issue next week, so if you want to get involved with that, join the Discord so you don’t miss it!
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Over The Rhine, Cecil Sharp House, London, Sunday 2nd April 2017
April 4, 2017 Tim Martin Live Reviews 0
On Sunday night, Over The Rhine brought their uniquely American sound to the home of English Folk Music. The Kennedy Hall in Cecil Sharp House is an imposing room and appeared to be full. While their albums and live shows in the U.S often feature a full band the essence of Over The Rhine is Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler as a duo, mixing voices, piano & acoustic guitars. What struck me after hearing their live recordings was the emotional power of Karin’s singing on Born and Latter Days. On recent songs Linford shares the vocals more and this lends a warmth and intimacy to the songs, they often seem sing to each other as much as to the audience.
Starting with the title song from their most recent album, ‘Meet Me At The Edge of The World’, Karin & Linford pulled out songs from most of their albums of the last twenty years. The music is steeped in country, they mention Johnny Cash often, and they played Earthbound, their tribute to Cash & June Carter. There are elements of other American music – folk, jazz and gospel running through many of their songs, the cocktail lounge piano on Trouble, and the revival meeting feel of Jesus In New Orleans. There is a hymn like quality to many of their best songs, accentuated by Linford, who was clearly enjoying the hall’s real, if slightly battered, piano, taking several extended introductions and codas while Karin smiled indulgently at her husband.
Over The Rhine are a group who people tend to hug to themselves as their own personal treasure. Talking to others before and after everyone has their favourite song, and often a story to go with it. Some of the Americans present seemed surprised that their secret was out. Stories are the heart of the songs, and Karin and Linford spent time relating a few as well as the now obligatory comment on current happenings in the USA. A favourite, Time of Light, a song about their Ohio farm brought a plug for the Festival they hold there each May. Surprisingly they didn’t mention the crowd funding campaign for their next recordings.
Highlights of the show? Born, When I Go and Let it Fall stood out, but I’m a fan and the set list was near perfect, for me and others. For the encore they brought up long time collaborator Jack Henderson to play his song Holy Rain, and finished with the upbeat All I Need is Everything from “Good Dog, Bad Dog” the album that started the current phase of Over The Rhine’s journey. The only downsides to the night were Karin’s wayward mic stand and a rather bass heavy mix on Linford’s guitar, surprising in a place where acoustic music rules.
While Over The Rhine can sustain a full tour in The Netherlands a single show in London (and Belfast & Dublin) is all they can risk here at present. So if you were there share the news, if you weren’t visit their website, listen to the songs and become as entranced by this uplifting music as the rest of us. I joined the signing queue afterwards and inevitably ended up tongue tied when it came to my turn. In Latter Days Karin sings, “There’s more to life than words.” Not when they are sung by Over The Rhine there isn’t.
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HOW CUTE! Social Justice Warrior Website Donates To Progressive Causes Every Time Trump Tweets
What will they think of next?
A group of liberals have created a website that allows people to donate money to a cause every time the president sends out a new tweet.
Hate when @realDonaldTrump tweets? We do too. That’s why we made a way to #TweetTrumpOut.
Join the movement: https://t.co/CoLIbncwy8
— Donald Donates (@DonaldDonates) April 21, 2017
The Daily Beast reports:
The site’s opening statement reads: “Let’s show Donald Trump that his divisive rhetoric and destructive policies come at a cost. Join Donald Donates today to automatically answer tweets from @realdonaldtrump with contributions to progressive candidates and causes. Donald Donates recipients range from the 2020 Democratic president nominee to organizations defending our civil liberties and core American values.”
Donald Donates co-founders––Adam Gibbs, David Hyatt and Justin Munn––told Newsweek they hope the site pressures Trump’s impeachment or resignation before the next election, while donating to causes Trump is vehemently against. If President Trump survives his first term, however, and STILL wants to run (it is kind of a tough gig after all) Gibbs, Hyatt, and Munn hope they raise a large amount money to support his 2020 opponent.
“The way we look at this is: best case scenario, we raise a lot of money for organizations doing amazing work and for a candidate who is going to run against Donald Trump in 2020, or he stops tweeting, which is also a huge win!”
Basically, this website allows social justice warriors to sign up to pay money to some cause or to whoever is going to run against Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
It’s always interesting to see all the new things Trump haters will come up with.
So far, none of it has worked! Trump is still president. He is still working to repeal and replace Obamacare. He is still trying to build the wall. He is still proposing ways to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country.
They can keep on trying, but so far it doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
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13 January 2021 By Robert Rimm
Why is transparency within the realm of all types of communication—friend-friend, parent-child, husband-wife, manager-employee—so consistently elusive? Why must the ego so quickly approach the greasy fast-fed drive-thru that values expediency and quick profit over healthy dialogue? Why do so many start with perfection as the baseline, from which there is no room to breathe?
Imagine almost any type of scenario. You’ve borrowed a friend’s or parent’s car and have had an accident that was your fault; does the car’s owner not far more appreciate an immediate admission and pledge to do whatever it takes to right the situation, rather than an elusive answer and possible insurance or courtroom fight? You’ve missed a Friday deadline at work to the detriment of a client relationship; does the client not far more appreciate an immediate call and pledge to work through the entire weekend to right the situation, rather than an elusive excuse and possible contractual fight?
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30 December 2020 By Robert Rimm
The alarm clock rings or buzzes. It could scream for all that matter, as the last thing you want to do is heed its call. Is it because of a lack of sleep or the insurmountable day that promises to stare right back as soon as you confront it?You’re in a meeting or have gone to give a presentation or are taking a test or have an upcoming interview… or an entire rowboat of possible ors. It’s just not happening. Your energy level is low. You feel ambivalent. You’re just plain flat. Is it because you’re tired, or does it betray a lack of excitement for the task at hand?continue reading…
storing and accessing mistakes: I cloud
Making mistakes can be a source of true peace.
What a ridiculous statement, no? How could it be so, and why does it never feel that way at the moment?
For those determined to move ahead tangibly—both personally and professionally—and not just to aspire, the follow-up question, “What can be gleaned from this?” is key. None of us can know at all times where to step and where to avoid, what to do and what to avoid, how to embrace and how to avoid; such a valuable avoidance instinct can only be built up over time, over problems solved, over situations lived through.
As long as we recognize that being perfect is not only unrealistic but impossible, and that freely admitting inevitable mistakes is a sign of strength and self-awareness rather than weakness, we open ourselves to lasting progress and development. The instinct to cover up mistakes or to spin them in a more favorable light is surely natural; who, after all, wants to walk around with errors hanging from the emotional rafters, with slips stuck to public message boards?
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2 December 2020 By Robert Rimm
How easy to take for granted…
…the hundreds of thousands of people—men and women with lives, loves and labors—who are responsible for that cardboard carton carrying everything from beer and books to papers and paraphernalia.
The factory workers, the salespeople, the layers of middle and upper management, the stockholders who provide capital for payroll and expansion, the drivers who long-haul these yet-to-be-filled and already-filled boxes, the cities and states that depend upon the accompanying toll revenues, the highway workers who in turn pave and upkeep those very well-traveled roads, the bricks-and-mortar and online workers who stock, pack and send the boxes, the lawyers and doctors who stack them rafter-high, the paper recyclers alert to these soon-to-be discarded cartons…. All of them spend their earned income on themselves, and their families and friends, which in turn creates sustenance for so many more.
making the most of meaningful opportunity: flew shot
18 November 2020 By Robert Rimm
How many times are you confronted with meaningful opportunity — in a day, a week, a month? Are you receptive to the signs, willing to pursue them, eager to take your best shot? Doing so may take you out of your comfort zone, may involve some risk, may expose you to criticism and/or failure, may initially sting.
But weigh the consequences of inaction, and you may well be confronted by mediocre work, by unsatisfying relationships, by an unforgiving calendar, by less money, by… by… by.
the calendar’s relentless progression: autumn leaves
4 November 2020 By Robert Rimm
The latter part of September perpetually hosts the first day of fall—a time of moderating weather, heavier work schedules and looking ahead.
During one’s teens, 20s and even 30s, this annual period typically seems full of hours and days, its farewell comfortably in the distance. Yet into the 40s and 50s, those selfsame hours appear ever briefer, ever more precious. As much as the numbers themselves do not change, our perception of them moves ever faster. While not able to slow the calendar’s relentless progression, making the most of each 24-filled gift basket goes a long way in mitigating it. This applies to finding fulfillment in work and career projects, to spending dedicated time with family and friends, to enjoying vacations and travel, to lifelong learning.
the result of indecision: bad whether
21 October 2020 By Robert Rimm
In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare makes clear that “our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” Over four hundred years later, these measured words are as relevant as ever. Must indecision continue to rule the centuries like some perverse King Henry loop?
After President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in a way that was initially presented as decisive action, its gestation and subsequent reporting had more back-and-forth lobs than a championship tennis match.
The business world rarely has so much at stake (though, to be sure, untold lives have perished due to mercenary decisions and cut corners), yet reckless overspending, massive layoffs and criminal conduct routinely hit the headlines. At the same time, nimble organizations that can decisively weather crises, adapt to changing circumstances and wear the non-stretchable fabric of integrity not only survive but thrive.
complacency as the rival of fulfillment: dashbored
7 October 2020 By Robert Rimm
No job is filled with creativity and fulfillment 100% of the time. And yet we’re all born with passions that should be fully explored in the search for fulfilling careers. They’re out there; are you rushing to find them? Do you squeeze the most juice from each day? Maybe you love the outdoors; choose one of countless jobs that has you experiencing sunlight over fluorescent lights, breathing natural air rather than that from filtered air conditioning. Maybe you love food; choose one of equally countless jobs that has you preparing, cooking, creating, serving, owning. Do you get the idea? Choose!
taking small steps: light switch
23 September 2020 By Robert Rimm
Your job isn’t going quite the way you’d like. Perhaps it’s a recalcitrant employee, or if you’re on the other side of the door, an obstinate boss. Making even slight changes will go a long way toward showing your flexibility and understanding. Most people naturally and rightly respond to sincere effort. Stay an extra 10 or 15 minutes at the office a few days a week, or come in a bit earlier. Take all of five seconds to offer a good word or acknowledgement of a task well done.
dealing with daily pressures: fresh-squeezed juice
9 September 2020 By Robert Rimm
Your job promotion depends entirely on addressing daily pressures while completing extraordinary work by Friday for a project impacting the entire company.
Your spouse’s crucial work commitments cause all the week’s family responsibilities to fall on your shoulders alone.
You’ve lost your job and have accepted two or three jobs either within or outside your field rather than lose your house to foreclosure.
Your child’s or parent’s illness means that you’re burning candles on both ends of the day, as inattention or cutting corners is not within your repertoire.
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Manchester Writing – Meeting Magnus Mills
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By Jamie Stewart
The launch of the Manchester Writing series highlighted the importance of humour in Literature. From guest author Magnus Mills, to current MA Creative Writing students at the Manchester Writing School – they each brought a variety of wit and wisdom to the inaugural event.
The beauty of the Manchester Writing series lies in its conception. It is first and foremost a space to listen to great Literature, and as Joe Stretch, Senior Lecturer in English told me, “With Manchester Writing, I hope that people will come along and feel a part of something; feel a part of a society based on the love of great Literature.”
But to me, a relatively novice writer, the Manchester Writing series offers so much more. The series explores and offers insight into how established authors deploy certain techniques in their writing. Mills agreed on the importance of events like Manchester Writing, saying, “I enjoy the chance to share my work, as well as the adulation, if I get it.”
“Lambert flows through Dublin,” Stephen Hargadon begins as he kicked off the night with the equally hilarious and gruesome story of a “faded, rather hairy pop-star from the 1960s, who hides himself away in the West of Ireland.” It’s hard to listen to Hargadon’s prose without feeling Dublin around you, hearing the river and the voices curl nearby. “Lambert is observing, listening, walking.” Hargadon’s ear for city sounds is both disarming and utterly charming. Hargadon has previously had his work published in Black Static and Popshot.
Amy Magnone performed a short story from a series of “colourscapes”. Her performance was haunting and confident. “There is a fire over there,” she says, and you feel it. You feel the colours; you see them. Amy’s performance takes you away from your seat and shows you a kaleidoscope of bright colours on the stage.
After the performance, I asked if Magnone could expand on the difference between colourscapes and synaesthesia. “Colours for me coalesce with emotions, it’s abstract. Nostalgia for example is a grey cloud, with yellow sunshine breaking through,” she told me.
Following on from Hargadon and Magnone, Magnus Mills took to the stage and read his favourite parts of his previous novels. From A Cruel Bird Came to Nest and Looked In, he read, “Outside the sun was gradually sinking, as it did, the light appeared to refract through the colourful jars so the whole shop was immersed in a soft reddish gleam.”
Mills’ prose is artfully simple, and he admits to cros s-referencing his own work in his latest novel, The Field of Cloth and Gold.
Asked about the influences and inspirations behind his work, Mills noted Tony Hancock, Harold Pinter, T. E. Lawrence and fittingly, Anthony Burgess himself among his influences. Mills also references observations from his day-to-day life and the general public as a source of inspiration. “The opening scene in The Field of Cloth and Gold is based on a memory that’s been stuck in my head for years.”
Mills offered his advice to up and coming writers. He said, “You just have to keep going, you have to think about the book [that] you want to write no matter what you’re doing.” On how to know when a novel is finished, Mills said with confidence, “I just know when it’s done. I usually have a vague ending in mind and I stop when I reach that point. I also test it on my wife.”
The Manchester Writing series offers a variety of literature to cater for all tastes, but one thing that seemed to connect the three writers was observation. Whether the Irish Sea, emotional connections with colour, or a lazy shopkeeper – these writers have good ears and good eyes for detail.
The next event in the Manchester Writing series features Kerry Hadley-Price at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Her debut novel The Black Country was published in 2015, and she is currently working on her second novel, Broken Dolls.
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Necrotizing soft tissue infection of the breast: bilateral presentation in a male patient
Elizabeth Stoeckl, Priya H. Dedhia, Lee G. Wilke, Kristin L. Long
Division of Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, USA
Correspondence to: Kristin L. Long, MD, MPH, FACS. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, K4/744, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-7375, USA. Email: longk@surgery.wisc.edu.
Abstract: Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) can affect any part of the body but are rarely seen in the breast. To date, most cases have presented unilaterally, and all published reports have occurred in female patients. We describe the first case of bilateral NSTI of the breasts in a male patient with history of mastitis and breast biopsies. He was successfully treated with antibiotics and bilateral mastectomy. A history of mastitis or instrumentation of the breast should raise suspicion for a necrotizing soft infection of the breast even in a male, in the setting of systemic and radiologic signs consistent with a necrotizing infection.
Keywords: Necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI); breast infection; bilateral
Received: 09 July 2019; Accepted: 08 August 2019; Published: 26 August 2019.
Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) are rare but highly lethal infections that involve necrotizing changes in any of the layers of the soft tissue compartments, including dermis, subcutaneous tissue, fascia, or muscle (1). The condition is associated with significant mortality, and delayed diagnosis is inversely related to patient survival (2). NSTIs can present in any part of the body but are exceptionally rare in the breasts, with only 36 case reports of NSTIs of the breast in the literature (3-16). These infections represent challenging diagnoses, since they often present like common breast pathologies, such as mastitis or abscess, but then continue to progress even after broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy (17). Of the reported cases, all occurred in female patients, and only five affected the breasts bilaterally (7,10,11,13,15). Here, we present the first case of bilateral breast NSTI in a male patient.
A 65-year-old male presented to the emergency department with 24 hours of altered mental status. He had one episode of diarrhea 24 hours prior to presentation, but no other relevant clinical history. The patient’s past medical history was significant for hypertension and stroke. Of note, he did have a history of staphylococcal mastitis of the left breast 30 years prior. Furthermore, he reported history of draining wounds of the bilateral breasts 1.5 years prior after scratching both breasts on a fence. After the wounds healed, he developed bilateral, subareolar calcifications and induration, which prompted additional evaluation. He underwent a mammogram, which was normal, as well as bilateral punch biopsies of the breast, which showed ulceration and dermal sclerosis, but no evidence of malignancy.
Subjectively, the patient denied breast pain. On examination, his breasts were non-erythematous (Figure 1) and nontender to palpation. His vital signs were within normal limits. His laboratory values were notable for a white blood cell count of 13.8 K/µL, hemoglobin of 15.4 g/dL, sodium of 137 mmol/L, creatinine of 0.9 mg/dL, glucose of 140 mg/dL, and C-reactive protein of 1.28 mg/dL. The Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis (LRINEC) score, which suggests a diagnosis of NSTI when greater than or equal to 6 (18), was 0. Because the cause of altered mental status was unclear, the patient underwent a diagnostic chest X-ray, which demonstrated subcutaneous gas. A subsequent CT scan of the chest demonstrated a significant amount of gas underneath the breasts bilaterally with some dermal thickening at the level of the nipple-areola complex (Figure 2). Gas extended to the pectoralis major muscle bilaterally. There was no pneumothorax, mediastinal lymphedema, or evidence of rib fractures to suggest the gas had originated in the chest cavity.
Figure 1 Initial consultation photographs of our patient’s left and right breast prior to bilateral mastectomy for suspected necrotizing soft tissue infection.
Figure 2 Computed tomography scan illustrating bilateral subcutaneous emphysema and dermal thickening at the nipple-areola complexes.
This clinical picture of altered mental status and imaging findings created high suspicion for NSTI of the breast. He was emergently taken to the operating room for debridement via bilateral mastectomy. Antibiotics, which were started shortly after presentation, were broadened to include clindamycin. Intraoperatively, subcutaneous liquefactive necrosis was noted but the fascia and pectoralis muscle showed no signs of infection bilaterally. Culture of the breast tissue grew Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus epidermis, and coagulase negative Staphylococcus. The final pathology report confirmed subcutaneous necrosis with surrounding dermal sclerosis.
The patient’s mental status improved significantly postoperatively, suggesting that his behavioral changes were secondary to toxic metabolite encephalopathy in the setting of sepsis related to the NSTI. Four weeks postoperatively, his incisions were well-healed without signs of persistent infection. A colonoscopy, which was recommended due to concern for possible colonic translocation in the setting of E. faecalis on cultures, was normal.
NSTIs are rare, with an incidence of 0.04 cases per 1,000 person-years in the United States (1). NSTIs of the breast are even more uncommon with less than 40 cases reported. Typical clinical characteristics of NSTI include swelling, erythema, pain, and tachycardia. Upon progression, tense edema, pain disproportionate to appearance, ecchymosis, blisters/bullae, crepitus and/or subcutaneous gas, and shock may also be observed. Unfortunately, these findings carry fairly low sensitivity and are only evident in 10–40% of NSTI cases (1). In the breasts, the early findings of NSTI can appear similar to a developing mastitis, abscess, or carcinoma. Reported cases of breast NSTI were ultimately diagnosed based on the development of gross necrotic changes, imaging findings, or an elevated LRINEC score.
In the breasts, NSTIs have been noted after mastectomy (5,11), other surgery, core needle biopsy (3,5,9-11,13,15,16), abscess drainage (15), or spontaneously (5,8,11,14). Our patient followed this pattern, with his history of bilateral punch biopsies. Only one other case of breast NSTI documented a history of past mastitis like our patient, but in this case, the patient presented with pain, swelling, black discoloration, and visibly necrotic areas (6).
Breast anatomy further complicates expedient diagnosis of NSTI in this area. Due to the greater amount of tissue between the fascia and the skin, cutaneous signs of a necrotizing infection may not be observable until later in the disease process (4). Our patient’s mild gynecomastia may explain the lack of skin changes that might have visibly signaled necrotizing change and underscores the importance of imaging in establishing his diagnosis. Treatment focuses on fluid resuscitation, antibiotic therapy, and surgical debridement of the necrotic tissue until healthy bleeding is visualized in all directions (8). Frequently, mastectomy is the appropriate treatment by the time the diagnosis has been made.
NSTIs of the breast are typically characterized by polymicrobial infections. This pattern holds true for our patient and the other bilateral breast cases, all of which were polymicrobial except for one (14,19). Three reports note enterococcal NSTI of the breast specifically, including two unilateral cases (3,5) and one bilateral case (13). Table 1 summarizes the other pertinent details of the bilateral cases. Explanations for the bilateral nature of the infection included histories of bilateral breast procedures (10,13,15), patient risk factors that promoted systemic infection (7), and a surgical site infection on the inner quadrant of the breast whose location enabled contralateral spread (11). Our patient reported a history of bilateral scratches to the breasts followed by bilateral breast biopsies. Both of these events occurred over a year prior to when he displayed signs of infection. The episode of diarrhea 24 hours before his presentation could have created a transient bacteremia leading to infection. The hematogenous dissemination of bacteria has been shown to cause bilateral breast abscesses, and we hypothesize that a similar process could have precipitated the bilateral NSTI in this case (20).
Table 1 Existing case reports of bilateral breast NSTI
In conclusion, we report the first case of a bilateral NSTI of the breasts of a male patient. This patient’s presentation was exceptionally distinct not only due to his sex and bilateral infection pattern, but also due to his presentation of altered mental status with subcutaneous emphysema, in the absence of other symptoms. Giving the potential lethality of these infections, the case emphasizes the importance of considering breast NSTI in the differential diagnosis of appropriate patients with an unusual presentation and imaging consistent with a necrotizing process.
Conflicts of Interest: LG Wilke is a minority stock owner for Elucent Medical. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Ethical Statement: The authors are accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Written informed consent was obtained for the patient for publication of this Case Report and any accompanying images.
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Cite this article as: Stoeckl E, Dedhia PH, Wilke LG, Long KL. Necrotizing soft tissue infection of the breast: bilateral presentation in a male patient. Ann Breast Surg 2019;3:19.
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By John Thatch / January 2, 2019
The art of tattooing has been around for centuries, but over the past decade or so the rise of reality TV shows focusing on tattoos has seen artists become as famous as singers and movie stars. These celebrity artists are undoubtedly talented, but, there are hundreds of other equally skilled tattooists out there creating beautiful work that also deserves to be seen by the masses.
With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of seven of the best tattooists to watch out for in the United States.
7. Nate Fierro
Kat von D is probably the most famous tattoo artist in the world, and her High Voltage studio in West Hollywood is well-known for being the setting of the reality show, LA Ink. She’s not the only incredibly talented artist inking clients there, though: Nate Fierro has been part of her team for over a decade and his detailed and vibrant work has rewarded him with a huge Instagram following.
Nate is heavily focused on the drawing process to ensure that each of his creations is unique. His specialties are illustrative neo-traditional Americana and Japanese, and he’s known for creating bright and bold tattoos in both color and black and grey.
6. Keith (Bang Bang) McCurdy
Another contender for the most famous tattooist in the world is Keith, better known as Bang Bang. He’s marked the skin of some of the most famous people in the world in some of the craziest places, including Rihanna in the tropics, Cara Delevingne on a roof, and Justin Bieber on a private plane.
Keith owns two tattoo studios called Bang Bang in NYC, and he regularly has celebrities in his chair but customers with patience can join his waiting list, too. The work he creates spans several genres and his projects range from small finger tattoos to large sleeves and stomach designs.
5. Tati Compton
LA-based artist Tati Compton is well-known for her stick and poke style of tattooing. Her lines are delicate and her themes play with the witchy and the mystical.
When she first started tattooing it was simply for the experience of trying something new, and she didn’t care much about how they turned out. This casual approach developed into the DIY artwork that Tati’s now famous for, and her appointment book is packed full of clients wanting one of her magical designs.
If you like Tati’s designs but don’t want to commit to getting one inked on your skin for eternity, her book contains over 800 of her illustrations that you can enjoy without any needles or pain.
4. Erick Holguin
Erick is an award-winning artist that specializes in black and gray artwork. His realism has to be seen to be believed, and his portrait work is truly photo-realistic. Erick started tattooing fairly recently in 2011 and has quickly grown a huge following at the Tattoo Dojo studio that he works for in Atlanta.
Most of the projects Erick works on are large-scale pieces such as back pieces, leg sleeves and torsos, but it’s not unknown for him to take on a smaller project if they’re creative and interesting. Check out his work with classical paintings and sculptures on his Instagram feed, they’re seriously spectacular.
3. Carolyn Elaine
This Chicago-based tattoo artist is popular for her strong black lines, vibrant watercolors, and neo-traditional wildlife illustrations. She was featured in Ink Masters season 8 which put her work on the map, and the gradients in her colors are said to be some of the best in the industry.
Carolyn first got into tattooing by drawing designs for her high school friends, and after being excited to see her illustrations on her fellow students she decided to learn how to tattoo them herself.
She’s now been working for seven years and is known as the Lady Tattooer at the highly respected Mayday Tattoo Co.
2. Luar Martinez
Luar has a long history of tattooing and first picked up a gun back in 1994. He’s owned Ancient Ink in Texas since 2004 and is renowned for his work with the art of Japanese Tebori tattooing (tattoos done by hand rather than by machine).
Luar was taught by world-class artist Horimaru in Japan and he continuously travels back and forth between the US and Japan to continue to enhance his skills.
Originally from Mexico, Luar also works with traditional Mayan and Mesoamerican designs from the Yucatan Peninsular in which he grew up.
1. Rene Marie Fleming
Rene is the least-known artist on our list, but her work deserves a mention. She works out of Pinos Bros Inks which is consistently rated as one of the best studios in Boston, and she’s definitely one to watch.
After a brief stint in metalwork, Rene switched her attention to tattooing and joined Pinos Bros Ink in 2017 to work under renowned artist John Meredith. Rene’s work is neo-traditional, fine lines, and heavy black and gray designs are particularly eye-catching.
If you’re in the Boston area and are looking for new ink, book in with Rene now before word gets out about her and her appointment book fills up.
Whenever you’re looking to get a new tattoo, make sure that you choose an artist with a great reputation and a portfolio that you can check out ahead of time. It can be frustrating to wait a long time for an appointment with your chosen artist, but it’s definitely worth being patient rather than settling for an artist whose work you don’t love.
Who’s your favorite tattoo artist? Let us know in the comments.
John Thatch
John Thatcher is a computer science educated artist. He uses technology to solve artist problems. His friends don't like it when he speaks of himself in the third person. But John does it anyway, because he's a rebel.
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10 Films you cannot miss at the Cinemasia Film Festival
By Asian Film Festival on March 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
We present a list of ten films that you shouldn’t miss at the Cinemasia Film Festival which will take place from March 4th – 8th in Studio/K & Rialto Cinemas, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
CinemAsia weaves Asian stories that help to enhance Asian visibility in culture and media, through which we foster an inclusive society.
Balloon by Pema Tseden – China | 2019 – 102 minutes
Part of the economy of a rural Tibetan society depends on exchanging rams and ewes during mating season. Meanwhile the citizens themselves are struggling with their own sexuality, in a clash between modern and traditional values. So when two young boys blow up their parents’ condoms, father Dargye (Jinpa) and his wife Drolkar (Sonam WANGMO) are faced with the practical consequences: they’ve lost their only anti-conceptive option.
China has recently introduced its one-child policy, which forbids starting large families. When Drolkar accidentally becomes pregnant with her fourth child, her fragile family life is about to collapse. The moral dilemma of what to do with the unborn child forces her to choose between the law and Buddhist tradition in this thoughtful and endearing drama from Tibetan master director Pema TSEDEN. (Cinemasia Film Festival)
Saturday | March 7th | Rialto Bovenzaal | 12:00 pm
Sunday | March 8th | Rialto Bovenzaal | 12:30 pm
Coming Home Again by Wang Wayna – Korea, USA | 2019 – 86 minutes – Fiction
The film is an emotional journey home for aspiring writer Chang-rae (Justin Chon), who cares for his ailing, cancer-stricken mother. And yet he is haunted by the sacrifices made as a Korean immigrant family in America. He cooks a New Year’s Eve dinner for his mother, one his mother always cooked for the family, trying to recreate the traditional Korean dishes he learned from her. Family sagas surface as they face down her inevitable death. (Léo Soeanto)
Saturday | March 7th | Studio/K SK3 | 17:15 pm
Complicity by Chikaura Kei – Japan | 2018 – 116 minutes
Chen Liang (LU Yulai) has left his native Henan, where he lived with his ill mother and elderly grandmother. Wanting to pursue a new life away from his responsibilities and family pressures to have a respectable career, he decides to move to Japan. However, settling down in a new place isn’t as easy as he thought. (Léo Soeanto)
Sunday | March 8th | Studio/K SK3 | 17:00 pm
John Denver Trending by Condez Arden Rod – Philippines | 2019 – 96 minutes – Fiction
This gripping debut feature based on a true story is a perfect example of how social media can shape, intensify and problematize sensitive narratives. It’s something that the fourteen year old farm boy John Denver (Jansen MAGPUSAO) is about to find out. His life is rapidly turned upside down when a video of him assaulting a classmate goes viral. Although the video is taken out of context and uploaded with the most malicious intent, nobody could have predicted the tragic outcome of this viral story gone wrong.
In his sensitive role of the misunderstood teenager, debuting actor Jansen MAGPUSAO proves to be an incredible screen presence. Debuting screenwriter and director Arden Rod CONDEZ is an equally talented newcomer, one of the more promising new voices to emerge from The Philippines, where John Denver Trending won six prizes at the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. (Cinemasia Film Festival)
Thursday | March 5th | Rialto Bovenzaal | 21:30 pm
Friday | March 6th | Studio/K SK1 | 16:50 pm
Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval – Philippines | 2019 – 95 minutes
An undocumented Filipina immigrant, paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American man she is secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she is transgender. (Cinemasia Film Festival)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom by Pawo Choyning Dorji – Bhutan | 2019 – 110 minutes – Fiction
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is the story of a young teacher from the capital of Bhutan who is set on a path of self-discovery when he is sent away to the remote mountain village of Lunana. He finds himself in a situation that is primitive compared to the more ‘Western’ comforts he is used to. The Himalayan village has no electricity, no textbooks, and a severe lack of luxury supplies. Through the warmth and generosity of the villagers, he becomes a changed man that learns to treasure the experience he initially feared.
Fittingly, the entire film was shot with the use of solar batteries, because Lunana actually hosts the world’s most remote school and cannot provide the electricity a regular film shoot requires. Behind the scenes the film crew went through a parallel situation as the main character, which might explain the endearing and loving portrayal of this remarkable place. (Cinemasia Film Festival)
Thursday | March 5th | Rialto Bovenzaal – 16:45 pm
Saturday | March 7th | Rialto Bovenzaal – 16:45 pm
Tezuka’s Barbara by Tezuka Makoto – Japan | 2019 – 100 minutes
Tezuka’s Babara tells a bizarre love story between a famous novelist Yosuke Mikuro (INAGAKI Gorô) and Barbara (NIKAIDO Fumi), an odd, sexually perverted woman who he picks up from the street. As Mikuro develops a maniacal obsession over her, he also begins to suffer from some mysterious hallucinations.
Based on a classic 1974 adult manga by Japanese manga artist TEZUKA Osamu, and directed by his son TEZUKA Makoto, this adult-orientated fantasy is not only quirky and wild, but also sarcastic about Japan’s political realities. The collaboration with jazz musician HASHIMOTO Ichiko and WONG Kar-wai’s cinematographer Christopher DOYLE (Chungking Express, 1994, In the Mood for Love, 2000) also brings the poetics of eroticism in the film one step further. (Cinemasia Film Festival)
Friday | March 6th | Studio/K SK1 | 00:15 am
The Wild Goose Lake by Diao Yinan – China, France | 2019 – 110 minutes – Fiction
Award-winning Chinese director DIAO Yi’nan (Golden Berlin Bear winner for Black Coal, Thin Ice in 2014) returns with another brooding crime noir, this time rain-soaked and dripped in sleazy neon lighting. It’s under these circumstances that a sudden brawl breaks out between local mobsters. Amidst the ensuing chaos, some gangsters are killed and a cop is shot, leaving anti-hero Zhou Zenong (HU Ge) as the most wanted man on both sides of the law.
The Wild Goose Lake is DIAO Yi’nan at his most moody, bloody and thrilling. It played in the prestigious competition section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and won the China Film Critics Association Award.
Verdict by Raymund Ribay Gutierrez – Philippines | 2019 – 126 minutes – Fiction
A spousal fight escalates to a bloody conflict in the opening scene of Raymund Ribay GUTIERREZ’ gripping debut film. Joy (Max EIGENMANN) is used to this kind of fights with her husband, a small-time criminal with an alcohol habit, but this time he has gone too far: their six-year-old daughter Angel is also hurt in the erupting violence. Finally, Joy takes a stance and reports her husband to the police. However, the odds of finding justice in the sprawling Philippines’ metropole of Manila are very slight.
GUTIERREZ captures the ensuing legal battles in intense shots and an urgent form of editing. His tense film style recalls the work of his mentor Brillante MENDOZA (Kinatay, 2009). This cutthroat depiction of bureaucratic indifference towards victims of domestic abuse garnered him a deserved Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.
Yellow Ribbon by Ju Hyunsook – Korea | 2019 – 85 minutes
April 16, 2014. A ferry departing from Incheon to the island of Jeju sinks. On board of the ship is a total of 476 passengers and crew. 304, of which 250 high school students, die a horrible drowning death. The sinking of the MC Sewol kickstarted a widespread political and social reaction within South Korea, aimed at the ferry’s captain and crew, ferry operator, and the entire PARK Geun-hye administration for its dramatic disaster response.
Five years later, director JU Hyun-sook retraces Korea’s national trauma by following five people with their own memories and scars of that fatal morning. Yellow Ribbon is an urgent and heartfelt documentary giving a unique insight in the aftermath of one of South Korea’s most sensitive traumas in recent history.
Friday | March 6th | Rialto Bovenzaal | 17:00 pm
Sunday | March 8th | Studio/K SK1 | 17:20 pm – SPECIAL GUEST attendance: prof. dr. Remco BREUKER. (Professor of Korea Studies at Leiden University.
For more information about the programme and schedule please visit the official website of the festival here: https://cinemasia.nl/
Tagged as: amsterdam, asian cinema, cinemasia film festival, films, netherlands
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It’s the end of the world as we know it and everyone except about 3,500 U.S. consumers feel fine.
Toyota has finally confirmed it’s curtains for the Toyota Land Cruiser after 2021 in the U.S.
The 2021 Toyota Land Cruiser is one of the most capable, and arguably one of the best traditional SUVs money can buy. But its flaws are glaring, and consumers’ tastes about what an SUV is and can do have changed.
For most, the Land Cruiser falls outside of that definition. For a few, it embodies that definition.
I spent a week with the 2021 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition and it only strengthened my feeling that the U.S. is losing one of the best vehicles on the market, though only for those who need it.
2021 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition
Hit: The definition of capable
Every Land Cruiser comes with full-time four-wheel drive teamed with a 2-speed transfer case for sticky situations or for more pulling power. The real trick setup is the Kinetic Dynamic Suspension system (KDSS), sway bars that disconnect and reconnect automatically. With 8.9 inches of ground clearance, an approach angle of 32 degrees, a departure angle of 24 degrees, a breakover angle of 21 degrees, and ability to ford 27.6 inches of water, the Land Cruiser is highly capable off-road, though it should roll on more capable tires than the street-oriented Dunlop Grandtrek AT23 285/60R18s. Knobbier tires would help it go over, down, or through nearly anything. The Land Cruiser features off-road modes that modify the stability control, traction control, and enable crawl control, which is essentially off-road cruise control for up- and downhill grades. The Land Cruiser can also drag the rear inside tire to tighten turns while off-roading through its braking system. In short, the Land Cruiser will get you where you need to go given proper tires.
Miss: Not made for hauling kids to soccer practice
While the neighbors might think you just bought a $40,000 Toyota Highlander, you most certainly did not. Most Land Cruisers have three rows of seats (though my Heritage Edition was a two-row model), but the best seats in the house are the two heated and cooled thrones up front. Everyone else is going to pay a price for the vehicle’s off-road capability. The third row splits in half and each half folds up to the side, which eats into the cargo room. Adults won’t be happy in the third row, and frankly neither will kids. The second row can seat three, but two will be far more comfortable on the heated seats. This is a massive three-row SUV with seating for up to eight people, but only four fit comfortably. The two-row version is much more useful for hauling cargo.
Hit: This is stealth wealth
“Honey, the neighbors got a new Toyota Highlander.” That’s what your neighbors might say if you were to buy a Land Cruiser. Most people have no clue what a Land Cruiser is and what it can do, and they certainly don’t know that it costs at least $86,880. My Heritage Edition tester cost $89,210. Want to hide how much you just spent on a vehicle loaded with LED lighting, a 9.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, four-zone automatic climate control, and a cooler box? A Land Cruiser will do the job.
Miss: Atrocious gas mileage
The Land Cruiser is capable of going over the river, through the woods, and up the mountain, as long as you have a fuel tanker along for the trip. The fuel economy is the Land Cruiser’s single worst sin. With EPA fuel economy ratings of 12 mpg city, 17 highway, and 14 combined, it’s bad on paper. In reality, it’s even worse. In past experiences I’ve averaged just over 13 mpg in mixed driving. My Heritage Edition tester featured a Yakima roof rack that dragged the fuel economy down and created annoying wind noise. I averaged 11.7 mpg over the course of about 100 miles of mixed driving. You can actually see the gas needle move while driving.
Hit: Powerful and reliable
Land Cruisers are powered by a 5.7-liter V-8 with 381 horsepower and 401 pound-feet of torque. If that sounds familiar that’s because it is. It’s in most of the Tundra pickup trucks Toyota sells, and it’s hooked to an 8-speed automatic transmission that should also be familiar. The V-8 feels powerful enough despite the Land Cruiser’s immense 5,815-pound curb weight (5,715 pounds in Heritage Edition trim). The V-8 is buttery smooth, even in the freezing cold, and the 8-speed is well mannered. The Land Cruiser is meant for cruising the land or highway while chugging fuel. That V-8 is known to be reliable. Just check Consumer Reports or ask any mechanic. Beyond that, it’s reasonably cheap to fix, which is why there are fleet Tundras with more than 200,000 miles on them.
Hit: It’s easy-to-use
Get in most modern cars and the dashboard is loaded with flashy lights and touch-sensitive buttons. They can be complicated, distracting, and even overwhelming. The Land Cruiser’s dashboard looks old because it is…and it’s fantastic. Sure, it has a 9.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system with navigation, but Toyota also provides a hard button, switch, or knob for every major vehicle function. It’s easy to use in a way vehicles haven’t been for more than a decade. No owners manual required, no guesswork needed.
Miss: Time moved on, but the Land Cruiser didn’t
While not all SUVs were as capable as the Land Cruiser a couple decades ago, most had more off-road chops than they do today. The competition has moved on to offer better packaging for more interior space and much better fuel economy. The Land Cruiser stayed put. At some point consumers realized they didn’t need the Land Cruiser’s capability, or simply couldn’t afford its high price tag. Could a more spartan, less luxurious Land Cruiser with a more efficient powertrain but all the legendary capability sell better than the 3,147 units Toyota sold in 2020? Possibly. But we won’t know because the next-generation Land Cruiser, the 300 series, won’t come to the U.S. with its rumored twin-turbo V-6 and possible hybrid variant.
Few vehicles can do what the Land Cruiser can do. None of them can do it with the grace, amenities, comfort, and reliability of the Land Cruiser. That leaves the Land Cruiser in a class of one, which is about to be a class of zero, and that’s a shame. Time marches on and it will have to do so without an SUV that’s beloved to a select few.
EPA fuel economy: 13/17/14
The hits: Incredibly capable, stealth wealth, powerful, legendary
The misses: Atrocious fuel economy, compromised interior packaging, expensive
This article was originally published by Google.com. Read the original article here.
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The Statistical Investigation on Posidon...
The Statistical Investigation on Posidonia Oceanica (L.) Delile Meadows in Izmir, Turkey
BOYACIOĞLU H. , Dural B.
ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & ASSESSMENT, cilt.14, ss.769-772, 2009 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10666-008-9178-y
Dergi Adı: ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & ASSESSMENT
In this study, variance analysis technique on unbalanced data was examined, and in this sense, Type II (fitting constants) methods were studied. The aim of this study was to show that meaningful evaluations can be performed even in unbalanced conditions and to contribute to the present investigations in biological area. In the implementation part of the study, the juvenile leaf densities of Posidonia oceanica-which is a sea grass that grows in Izmir Bay, and has very important ecological effects-in various regions and in various depths were determined. The results revealed that depth affect number of juvenile leaf (d.f. = 3, F = 523.90, R (2) = 0.998, p < 0,01). There were significant differences among region (d.f. = 3, F = 41.53, p < 0.01), site (d.f. = 1, F = 19.65, p < 0.01). As a result of Tukey ANOVA test it can be said that there were significant differences among Urla-Gulbah double dagger e (p < 0.001), Urla-Fo double dagger a (p < 0.001), Karaburun-Gulbah double dagger e (p < 0.001), Karaburun-Fo double dagger a (p < 0.001). It was found that Fo double dagger a had the highest juvenile leaf counts (782.15 +/- 435.71) whereas Urla had the lowest juvenile leaf counts (231.46 +/- 175.67). The mean juvenile leaf counts in Izmir was (496.23 +/- 377.61). it can be said that juvenile leaf counts in Karaburun(Island) had (448.13 +/- 250.85), and Fo double dagger a(Island) had (888.65 +/- 497.39).
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Hyundai And Hydrogen Load Up For Switzerland.
July 7, 2020 David
Hydrogen is being touted by Hyundai as the next thing in vehicle power sources and the Korean company has moved swiftyly into areas outside of passenger vehicles. In a global first, Hyundai have sent to Switzerland 10 units of their hydrogen powered machine called XCIENT. This commences a roll-out which will comprise 50 units to start with. A goal of 1,600 trucks are expected to be released by 2025. Due to the tax structures in Switzerland, Hyundai chose the country with one levy, the LSVA road tax on commercial vehicles which does not apply for zero-emission trucks, as a main consideration. That nearly equalises the hauling costs per kilometre of the fuel cell truck compared to a regular diesel truck. And thanks to the green energy costs from hydropower, it counts towards the eco performance of the country. The power system has a pair of 95kW hydrogen fuel cells. Just on 32 kilos of the fluid form are stored across seven super-strong storage tanks. Hyundai specifically developed the system for the truck with the current and expected infrastructure in Switzerland, and have engineered in a range of 400 kilometres. Refuel time minimises downtime with anywhere from 8 to 20 minutes. Hyundai says that this should work in with obtaining “the optimal balance between the specific requirements” of the customer base and that refuel infrastructure. In Cheol Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Vehicle Division at Hyundai Motor, opines: “XCIENT Fuel Cell is a present-day reality, not as a mere future drawing board project. By putting this groundbreaking vehicle on the road now, Hyundai marks a significant milestone in the history of commercial vehicles and the development of hydrogen society.”
A key attraction of the hydrogen technology is how well, like diesel, that hydrogen is admirably suited to long distance driving and the quick turn-around times required in heavy haulage. Engineering can also build engines, such as they have here, to deal with expected terrain such as the road system in a mountainous country. To that end, Hyundai is developing a unit for a tractor with a mooted range of 1,000 kilometres with markets such as the United States and Europe in mind.
The origination of the program goes back to 2019 with a joint venture named Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility, a partnership between H2 Energy in Switzerland and Hyundai. The basis for the trucks being operated will work around a lease agreement with commercial operators and on a pay-per-use agreement. This helps budget requirements as there is no immediate up-front costs.
Depending on the results, with expected high success levels, the program may be expanded to other European countries.
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CentOS is a free and powerful Linux distribution from RedHat Enterprise. Is an ideal distribution for small and big company and personal servers. With CentOS is easy to create a new general purpose or specific server.
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It is free, extremely easy to install. And probably the widest used Linux distribution used in organizations. I have only used the terminal version of it without a GUI.
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The image is not light weight due to so many tools and packages. The GUI part is not user friendly. Apart from these there are no major drawbacks of centos.
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I would strongly recommend to use centos as its similar to rhel and open source. You get all the features of rhel and the support you required from centos community.
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I use it at home and at work. I use it at home because I have five kids who click on anything and everything on the internet, and there's just not as much malware out there to affect a Linux operating system. Plus, it's just not as bloated as Windows, so performance is more efficient with the limited computing resources on my home computers.
Although I wouldn't run my mission-critical applications on it (since it is free), I feel safe running it in an enterprise environment for solutions such as firewalls, DNS, application front-end, etc. And you can purchase third-party support for it. It also has a great community of support on the internet, and software repositories are updated frequently and are reliable.
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Major drawback is its updates, you wont find the periodic system update for CentOS.As it is useful for server so in personal computer and desktop we may not get the support and even after installation we wont have proper software support if any one want to install on CentOS.
It is open source OS, fast, secure. It is very useful if you want to use for docker or container environment.
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The learning curve is high for beginners
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Sitting shiva offers a guide by which to live
Posted November 5, 2015 / Amy Hirshberg Lederman, Special to the AJP
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My husband Ray died on June 15, 2015, exactly three years, seven months and six days after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. From the beginning, we were a team and it became “our” cancer. We discussed everything, from chemo and hair loss to how to share difficult news with family and friends. We expanded our vocabulary of love while learning the terminology of clinical trials, side effects and treatment options.
Early on, we learned an essential lesson: that no matter how “out of control” we felt, we could remain empowered by making intentional choices. One such choice was our commitment to live with cancer and not let it define or determine who we were. A favorite card said it best: “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning how to dance in the rain.”
There were times when it felt like we were living in a minefield, tiptoeing cautiously through life for fear of what might explode next. Yet it was in that very space of not knowing, in the precious precariousness of life, that we became our best and truest selves.
It may sound odd, but ours was a luxurious death experience because we had so much time to talk, share, cry, have beautiful Shabbat dinners, connect with family and spend time with friends. I saw this period as an incredible challenge and an enormous opportunity. For as difficult as it was, I knew that our remaining time together could be every bit as beautiful and meaningful as the rest of our 32 year marriage had been. And it was.
Ray and I spent hours talking about how he wanted his final days to unfold. We formalized documents with our lawyer, made changes at the bank and organized the “details” of death. I made notes on a legal pad so I would be certain to remember what he said. These particulars may sound morbid but in reality, knowing exactly what Ray wanted made it easier for me and my family as we walked numbly through those first days and weeks of mourning. We found solace in knowing that we were honoring Ray’s wishes.
Ray felt strongly about observing the Jewish rituals of death and mourning, from the simplicity of his casket to sitting shiva for seven days. Sitting shiva is defined as the seven day period when Jewish mourners limit their activities and remain primarily at home to honor the deceased and begin the healing process. Tradition establishes a seven day period but many contemporary Jews limit the time from one to three days. In some houses, a candle remains lit, mirrors are covered and mourners sit on low stools to express their grief. Friends often arrange meals for the family and provide food for the guests.
Although I never expressed it, my initial reaction to Ray’s shiva request was a combination of anxiety and dread. I couldn’t imagine how I would manage seven days of socializing at a time when I anticipated that I would want to be private in my grief and alone my with family.
What I didn’t know before Ray died, but believe he intuitively understood, is how important, meaningful and helpful the shiva experience would be for our family. At a time when I felt totally untethered, the process of sitting shiva provided a sense of stability, structure and order, giving me a compass by which to navigate.
Sitting shiva was so much more than having our home filled with people and food. We held three community shivas and three smaller ones, to give us a chance to connect more intimately with family and close friends. Each shiva was led by a rabbi or cantor who offered wisdom, guidance, comfort and hope. During a time that felt painfully surreal, I was brought back to reality when we recited the Mourner’s Kaddish. Amidst a sea of voices and flanked by my family, we chanted the ancient Aramaic prayer, affirming our appreciation for life in the face of the greatest loss of all, death. And despite the effort it took to get up each day, I began to look forward to the evening when we would sit together, in community, and honor Ray.
On the seventh day, we held a morning shiva, which concluded when we removed our black mourning ribbons, extinguished the memorial candle and walked silently out of the house into the hot June sunlight. My children and I “re-entered” the world by walking around the block, then returned to our home to begin our lives anew, without Ray.
It was on the last day of shiva that I understood what Ray had known before he died. We needed to sit shiva to help us live. For while he had given me a responsibility, he had also given me a map by which to find my way and a path that would help me re-enter life with a sense of meaning and purpose.
Amy Hirshberg Lederman is an author, Jewish educator, public speaker and attorney who lives in Tucson. Her columns in the AJP have won awards from the American Jewish Press Association, the Arizona Newspapers Association and the Arizona Press Club for excellence in commentary. Visit her website at amyhirshberglederman.com.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance by Belle and Sebastian
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Patricia Cárdenas 01/26/2015
Sweet and melodious songs narrating tales of youth and innocence are Belle and Sebastian’s signature. With each record this band has released since its 1996 debut, band leader Stuart Murdoch has patiently and comfortably mastered his craft. Little by little, the band has explored with sonic elements of other musical styles to amplify the stories behind their songs. All of those experiments have ultimately led them to take a slight leap of faith on their ninth LP, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance.
Girls in Peacetime has the Scots trading out their intimate sound accompanied by string arrangements for a snappier one augmented by dance rhythms, drum machines, and synthesizers (with help from producer Ben H. Allen). This ultimately refines the atmospheric direction of the album. The problem with this is that it can feel very unsure of which direction it wants to take. Should it move your heart or get you dancing? Can it do both successfully? This uncertainty continues throughout its entirety, altering the flow of the record. The transition from Cat with the Cream to Enter Sylvia Plath is slightly startling, Enter Sylvia Plath being the most radical thing this band has done as far as changing their sound goes. Still, some of it feels too abrasive and out of character.
Album opener Nobody’s Empire is a personal and heartfelt tune about Murdoch’s younger years and his struggle with chronic fatigue syndrome. With lyrics like “if I had a camera I’d snap you now, ‘cause there’s beauty in every stumble,” it opens on a lovely and familiar note. Allie tells the story of a sensitive girl who no longer knows how to react to her surroundings. Driven by guitars, it could easily fit in 2010’s Write about Love. Lead single The Party Line is a suggestive dance track making great use of synthesizes. An attempt in folk and polka music, The Everlasting Muse is charming and playful. It follows the singer as he longs for an enchanting girl, to “steal her melody”. The only catch is she demands the singer “be popular, play pop” for her affection. Eight track Perfect Couples is a cynical and upbeat number with guitarist Stevie Jackson on lead vocals. It features some pleasant instrumentation such as bongos, bells and chiming guitars, which only enhance its appeal.
The strongest moments this album lives out are the gorgeous The Cat with the Cream and Ever Had a Little Faith, which are delicate, sentimental, and embellished by strings, faithful to the band’s usual style. Not all of their sonic experiments fail to deliver; The Party Line, The Everlasting Muse, and Perfect Couples are dynamic enough to keep things interesting. Some of the tracks here, such as new-wave attempt Enter Sylvia Plath and the Caribbean inspired Play for Today (which features Dee Dee Penny) needlessly drag on for more than they should, the latter going on for seven and a half minutes. The final two songs, The Book of You (lead by Sarah Martin) and Today (This Army’s for Peace) are outshined by some of the finer moments that came before, lacking some of the momentum felt in the album’s first half.
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is ambitious, yet nervously timid. Belle and Sebastian has proven they still have the ability to pen beautiful songs and flirt with different sounds. However, if what they want is to completely change their brand, they’ll have to fully flesh it out to avoid some of the stumbles between styles on this record.
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