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December 22nd: A Bestiary of Creatures
Author Christopher Dell has collected an astonishing array of art from around the world depicting many obscure and mysterious creatures in his new book Monsters: A Bestiary of Devils, Demons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Magical Creatures.
Christopher Dell joins the MonsterTalk crew to discuss why humans are so fascinated by these bizarre entities.
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December 1st: The Iceman Goeth
Late in the 1960s, in the era which gave us the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, fairgoers in Minnesota were confronted with a marvel: a hairy, primitive-looking humanoid frozen in a block of ice. Was it an anthropological relic? Was it a sasquatch?
As investigators from the Smithsonian Institute and cryptozoological researchers studied the frozen creature, they came to very different conclusions as to what it represented. The MonsterTalk hosts interview Bigfoot researcher and former side-show performer Matt Crowley — and try to crack the case of The Minnesota Iceman.
Read a complete transcript of this episode
November 3rd: On Monsters
This week on MonsterTalk, author Stephen Asma (Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago) speaks about his comprehensive book surveying Western monster-lore.
Is humankind’s fascination with monsters broader than any single cause? Asma’s On Monsters examines hundreds of legends — and their cultural, psychological and social implications.
October 20th: The Rise of Bat Boy
In the pantheon of American monsters, only one truly dominated the newspapers of the 1990s. Checkout lines everywhere were haunted by the bald-headed, wide-mawed visage of Bat Boy.
What was Bat Boy, and where did he come from? The MonsterTalk team interviews cartoonist Tye Bourdony, a former employee of the Weekly World News. Bourdony shares his insights about Bat Boy and the rise and fall of the famous tabloid paper.
September 29th: Dragon*Con’s Skeptrack 2010
This week’s episode was recorded before a live studio audience at Dragon*Con’s Skeptrack 2010 (in Atlanta, Georgia).
MonsterTalk hosts Ben Radford and Blake Smith bravely faced the horror of live questions from listeners — including Australian skeptical activist Dr. Rachael Dunlop, Skeptoid’s Brian Dunning, and others!
September 15th: Just Scratching the Surface
MonsterTalk frequently explores tales of imaginary monsters — creatures of myth, fiction, and folklore.
Today, the hosts consider a real creature, one that preys on humans and their closest animal companions. It is often invisible. It drinks blood to survive. And, it is responsible for many of the sightings of the dreaded chupacabra.
Podcast audiences may cringe and recoil in horror to learn the true facts of the creature known as — Sarcoptes scabiei!
September 1st: Cryptozoology & Science, Part 2
This week, MonsterTalk continues its discussion of the intersection between science and cryptozoology. The hosts interview Dr. Donald Prothero and Daniel Loxton, who are working on a book that will give a deep overview of the field of cryptozoology and how it intersects with actual science. This interview was recorded at The Amaz!ng Meeting 8 in Las Vegas.
August 11th: Cryptozoology & Science, Part 1
What is cryptozoology? Is it science? Is it folklore? Does it make predictions?
In part 1 of a 2-part series, MonsterTalk examines cryptozoology as a field, including speculation on the cryptids most likely to turn out to be real. Guest Dr. Darren Naish, paleontologist and science blogger, makes some surprising statements about the field, its role in science and culture, and the intersection of amateur and professional science.
July 21st: The Columbus Poltergeist (featuring James Randi)
In 1984, objects began to fly around the room in the presence of a Columbus Ohio teen named Tina Resch. The local paper claimed this was a poltergeist attack, and published photos to prove it.
Tina’s story caught the attention of a young organization called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal [CSICOP, now Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)] and its chief investigator, James “The Amazing” Randi. In this episode, Randi tells the MonsterTalk hosts about the outcome of this case — and shares his personal views about the unfortunate impact it may have had on Tina’s life.
June 16th: Cthulhu Rises
In this special literary edition, MonsterTalk ventures into a dark domain that can be confidently called fiction: the monstrous, genre-defining oeuvre of horror writer Howard Philips Lovecraft. Joined by noted Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price and biologist PZ Myers, the MonsterTalk hosts discuss Lovecraft’s life and works, and dare to confront his most famous creation: the vast alien monstrosity Cthulhu. Can the hosts gaze into the shrieking outer darkness and return with their sanity intact? Find out on this episode of MonsterTalk!
Read the complete transcript for this episode
May 26th: Bringing Light to a Moth
In this episode, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP) investigator Joe Nickell joins the MonsterTalk crew for a look into the West Virginian legend of Mothman — allegedly a human-sized creature with wings and glowing red eyes. Nickell discusses the ways monsters evolve following a community’s initial reports, and the cyclical nature of spates of sightings.
May 5th: Monsters from the Lab
In this week’s episode, MonsterTalk looks once again at genetics and creatures created in the laboratory. Dr. Marcus C. Davis joins the hosts to discuss what constitutes a “monster.” In his work, Davis deals with paleontology, as well as embryological manipulation — which, by some definitions, means he literally creates monsters.
What kinds of creatures are scientists making in labs today? What is the scope of their power? What guides their ethics? Learn more this week on MonsterTalk!
April 21st: Historical Ghost Investigations Part II: Sinking the Watertown
This week, MonsterTalk continues its two-part discussion of historical ghost investigations. Blake Smith describes his investigation into a famous photo that allegedly shows two dead sailors floating off the side of a 1920s oil tanker. Methodology for conducting historical investigation is detailed, using Ben Radford’s upcoming book on scientific paranormal investigation as a basis for the talk.
Did two sailors haunt their fellow shipmates? Does the photo really show two ghosts? Find out the answers in this informative conclusion — and find out how you can solve your own cases!
April 7th: Historical Ghost Investigations Part I: Kimo / Therapy
Ghost investigations often feature in television shows and other media. Typically, these amount to people wandering around at night with EMF detectors, talking into the darkness and jumping at shadows and noises.
But how does one do a scientific paranormal investigation? On this first half of a two-part MonsterTalk, the hosts review two past ghost investigations (Ben Radford’s “Kimo Theater Ghost” and Dr. Karen Stollznow’s “Waverly Hills Sanatorium” investigations) and discuss some of the techniques that can help solve such cases. What steps are common to this type of research? Learn more this week on MonsterTalk.
March 24th: Ghost Bird
What happens when a creature thought to be extinct is spotted alive in the swamps of Arkansas? Can such a creature have survived? Can scientists verify the story? And when a town’s hopes and a school’s grant money are on the line, to what lengths will people go to find proof?
This week on MonsterTalk we discuss these issues with Scott Crocker, the documentary filmmaker behind Ghost Bird — a feature length exploration into the mystery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker.
March 3rd: Getting into the Spirit of Things
Things get spooky this week on MonsterTalk, as the hosts venture into the science of ghosts.
What does neuroscience have to say about the possibility of consciousness or mind existing outside the body — or continuing on after the body has died? This episode’s guest is neurologist Dr. Steven Novella (veteran of on-site ghost investigations, and host of the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast), who shares his insights on brains, minds, and specters from beyond the grave.
February 17th: Suitable for Framing
In this episode, the hosts of MonsterTalk talk with Greg Long, author of the 2004 book The Making of Bigfoot (which was reviewed at the time by Skeptic’s own Daniel Loxton).
Long’s book is built from hours of interviews with surviving contemporaries of Roger Patterson, the filmmaker who shot the influential Patterson-Gimlin footage. For many people, this film remains the best evidence that Bigfoot is real. However, Long’s research uncovered a side of Patterson most people had never heard of before — and it isn’t pretty.
According to Long, the famed Bigfoot film shows nothing more than a man in a modified gorilla suit. Moreover, Long may have found the man who wore it…
February 3rd: Bigfoot: First Impressions
In the world of Bigfoot, good evidence is hard to come by. Anecdotes and blurry photos keep the documentaries coming, but most skeptics agree that a body or a living specimen are needed to confirm the existence of a large North American mystery mammal.
But what of alleged Bigfoot footprints? One expert claims that at least some track castings contain proof of an actual unknown ape. That expert is retired law enforcement agent Jimmy Chilcutt — and he’s agreed to come talk with the skeptics on MonsterTalk.
January 13th: Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!
Giants appear in cultures around the world: Biblical tales of giants more than ten feet tall; Roman and Greek stories of titans and heroes; European stories of giants of mountain and hill. They all have one thing in common: enormous monsters.
On this episode of MonsterTalk we chat with archeologist Dr. Ken Feder about giants, biblical archeology — and one of the biggest hoaxes in American history.
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My Tai Chi, Xingyiquan and Qi Gong school.
Wedding photography par excellence: Peter Thomas Photography.
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On-line Forteana & Paranormal
Blather explores the paranormal in Ireland from its Dublin headquarters. An irregularly-published magazine that should not be missed. UFOs, ghosts, BVMs, the Hellfire Club, lough monsters - they're all in here.
The Charles Fort Institute is a developing site where volunteers are building a web resource and museum devoted to the man's life works.
The Fortean Times site is an excellent on-line forteana resource. It's been put on hold as of October 1999, prior to being relaunched. The sooner, the better.
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Dave Barry's column in the Miami Herald is always worth a read. A unique look at important aspects of life such as spray can cheese, inflammable underwear and television.
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Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
An innovative research-based residency
The Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) program provides visual artists from across the world the opportunity to work with Smithsonian museums, research sites, collections, and scholars in self-directed research leading to the creation of new artwork. SARF Fellows spend one to two months in residence at the Smithsonian immersed in its unparalleled collections and multidisciplinary scholarly expertise, building connections between art, science, history and culture.
The program embodies the depth and breadth of the Smithsonian. Fellows have studied not only what is on view in the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums and National Zoo, but also the vast collections in non-public areas, libraries, archives, gardens, laboratories, storage facilities and field sites in the U.S. and abroad.
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Application
2020 Artist Research Fellows
10th Anniversary Symposium (October 12, 2018)
Meet a Few of Our Fellows
Paco Cao | 2015
Paco Cao discusses his fellowship project at the National Portrait Gallery.
Vivian Beer | 2014
Vivian Beer shares a video on her creative process with the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery.
Kim Schoenstadt | 2012
Hirshhorn’s ARTLAB+ Lead Audio/Visual Mentor Drew Doucette speaks with Kim Schoenstadt.
Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt | 2010
Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, a.k.a. Semiconductor, discuss an installation based on their study of live volcanoes in the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador.
Rachel Berwick | 2008
Meet the artist. Rachel Berwick's sculptural installations investigate ideas of vulnerability and loss in the animal world.
Terrence Gower | 2007
Smithsonian artist fellow Terence Gower explores the history of the Hirshhorn building with curatorial research associate Ryan Hill.
Exhibitions Featuring Our Fellows
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
June 21, 2018 – January 6, 2019 American Art Museum
UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar
March 23, 2018 – January 6, 2019 Portrait Gallery
Perspectives: Michael Joo
July 2, 2016 – July 9, 2017 Sackler Gallery
Linn Meyers: Our View from Here
May 12, 2016 – August 13, 2017 Hirshhorn
Directions: Shana Lutker: Le 'NEW' Monocle, Chapters 1-3
October 29, 2015 – February 15, 2016 Hirshhorn
The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art
October 31, 2014 – February 22, 2015 American Art Museum
Peter Coffin: Here & There
June 29, 2013 – October 6, 2013 Hirshhorn
The Bright Beneath: The Luminous Art of Shih Chieh Huang
September 3, 2011 – January 8, 2012 Natural History Museum
Artists in Dialogue 2: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira
February 2, 2011 – January 8, 2012 African Art Museum
Black Box: Chris Chong Chan Fui
April 19, 2010 – August 1, 2010 Hirshhorn
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort
October 16, 2009 – August 8, 2010 American Indian Museum
Directions: Terence Gower: Public Spirit
November 5, 2008 – March 22, 2009 Hirshhorn
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Archbishop Cordileone Decries “Oppression” Despite Oppressing Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone decries the toppling of a statue of St. Junipero Serra and suggests that the Catholic Church is the victim of oppression by today's protesters for social justice. However, he admits there may be "historical wrongs" committed by the saint and that those wrongs, perhaps, deserve discussion.
But what about current wrongs caused by the Archbishop's actions? Oppression comes when facts are suppressed and people are prevented from knowing about dangers in their community and protecting their children from them. Archbishop Cordileone may eloquently argue to defend a saint, but we at SNAP want him to eloquently support current survivors of sexual abuse by clergy.
The Archbishop still has not published a list of abusers from the San Francisco Archdiocese. As such, his Archdiocese is only one of about two dozen dioceses nationwide that have failed in this basic outreach to survivors.
SNAP did not topple the statues in Golden Gate Park. However, God often works in mysterious ways. Perhaps the Holy Spirit is saying that St. Serra is an empty symbol as long as Archbishop Cordileone refuses to acknowledge that hundreds of clerics from San Francisco are connected to the sexual abuse of children.
As the Archbishop pauses to consider the historical sins of the long-dead priest Fr. Serra, we call on him to also consider the living shame of how his Archdiocese is refusing a full disclosure of the sexual violence within it. Until the system of enabling and covering up abuse is completely exposed, Catholic children today continue to be at risk.
CONTACT: Dan McNevin, SNAP Treasurer (dmcnevin@aol.com, 415-341-6417), Zach Hiner, SNAP Executive Director (517-974-9009, zhiner@snapnetwork.org)
(SNAP, the Survivors Network, has been providing support for victims of sexual abuse in institutional settings for 30 years. We have more than 25,000 survivors and supporters in our network. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
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Section 5: Nantlle to Rhyd Ddu
5. Nantlle to Rhyd Ddu
Distance: 8.2km, 5.1mls Ascent: 260m, 850ft Time; 2 - 3hrs
The Nantlle Valley is an unfrequented place of beauty, with the bulk of Mynydd Mawr on the one side and the towering cliffs of the Nantlle Ridge on the other. This is an easy walk along the valley bottom before an ascent, with one very boggy area, to the forest and a descent into Rhyd Ddu with its pub and café.
Note: The route through the forestry has been altered. Follow the existing route out of the valley, meeting the forestry at the former location of the stile. Turn right until you get to a new gate. Turn left into the woods and continue until you meet the main path. Then turn right to join the original route
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Nantlle - Rhyd Ddu: https://my.viewranger.com/route/details/MzA4MTEyMg==
An overview of the section by Vicky Anne Jones (also includes Llanberis to Nantlle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMCraXFWowk&t=3s&fbclid=IwAR2hs-h7Mvw1uAKl0FjdHD_aeA0sLB4n0HHxR1UXmkXYEytkv4t3MNQgPNo
After a short walk along the main road from the village to Llyn Nantlle Uchaf, take a good farm track for some miles to Tal y Mignedd campsite. Here, the route joins the road for a distance, through the small settlement of Drws y Coed. Look out for the memorial stone which commemorates the destruction of a chapel by a falling rock.
At Drws y Coed Isaf farm, leave the road and follow the way markers past the unused dam and into the woods. You then have a short, initially steep, walk overlooking Llyn Dywarchen and through the forest to Rhyd Ddu with its choice of accommodation and refreshment stops, as well as the Welsh Highland Light Railway.
Information about the places along the route in this section.
Note that Grwp Gweithred Cymuned Cwm • Cwm Community Action Group is not responsible for third party websites.
Llyn Dywarchen
Once upon a time Llyn-y-Dywarchen had an additional floating island. Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188 told of the lake
‘having a floating island in it which is driven from one side to the other by the force of the wind’. His explanation at that time was perfectly rational. ‘A part of the bank naturally bound together by the roots of willows and other shrubs may have broken off and being continually agitated by the winds....it cannot reunite itself firmly with the banks.’
The astronomer and scientist Edmund Halley swam out to the island in 1698 to verify that it did indeed float.
Thomas Pennant in 1784 claimed to have seen the island and confirmed that cattle which strayed upon it when it was near the shore were occasionally marooned when it began to move.
One legend associated with the lakes talks of a father who put his daughter on the island to prevent her from marrying her working-class lover. She died of a broken heart but, when the island was blown to touch the shore, one could witness the spirits of the lovers kiss.
The floating island does not now exist.
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/wales/gwynedd/other-mysteries/llyn-y-dywarchen.html
Welsh Highland Light Railway
The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) was formed in 1922 from the merger of two companies - the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGR) and the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway (PBSSR) (successor to the Portmadoc, Croesor and Beddgelert Tram Railway).
The NWNGR had originally built a line from a junction with the standard gauge London and North Western Railway line at Dinas to Bryngwyn with a branch from Tryfan Junction via Waunfawr to Llyn Cwellyn (Snowdon Ranger). The line was opened in 1877 and was extended to South Snowdon (Rhyd Ddu) in 1881. This closed to passengers in 1916, but goods traffic continued up to its absorption by the WHR in 1922.
In 1902, the newly-formed PBSSR took over the failed Portmadoc, Croesor and Beddgelert Tram Railway with the aim of extending it to South Snowdon slate quarry in the Nant Gwynant Pass. Work was abandoned by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. By 1921, the NWNGR, the PBSSR, the Snowdon Mountain Railway and the Festiniog Railway were in common ownership and controlled by the owners of the Aluminium Corporation and the North Wales Power and Traction Company with headquarters at Dolgarrog.
In 1922 the order was made to create the WHR to serve the quarrying industry; it opened in 1923.
It was not a success and the owners tried to attract visitors by opening the first narrow gauge buffet car and by painting their carriages bright colours. However, these ideas did not work and the last passenger train ran on 5 September 1936.
The railway was restored in the late 1990s, early 2000s and includes an extension to Caernarfon.
Snowdonia Slate Trail on Countryfile 12 November 2019
Repair to stile 28 January 2019
Mobile phone app 13 December 2018
Progress report March 2018 03 April 2018
Progress Report November 2017 06 February 2018
Launch event 03 October 2017
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Snowdonia Slate Trail has been supported by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to create this long distance walking trail.
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Section facilities for route
Bangor to Bethesda
Bethesda to Llanberis
Llanberis to Waunfawr
Waunfawr to Nantlle
Nantlle to Rhyd Ddu
Rhyd Ddu to Beddgelert
Beddgelert to Croesor
Croesor to Tanygrisiau
Tanygrisiau to Llan Ffestiniog
Llan Ffestiniog to Penmachno
Penmachno to Betws y Coed
Betws y Coed to Capel Curig
Capel Curig to Bethesda
The route by section
Section 1: Bangor to Bethesda
Section 2: Bethesda to Llanberis
Section 3: Llanberis to Waunfawr
Section 4: Waunfawr to Nantlle
Section 6: Rhyd Ddu to Beddgelert
Section 7: Beddgelert to Croesor
Section 8: Croesor to Tanygrisiau
Section 9: Tanygrisiau to Llan Ffestiniog
Section 10: Llan Ffestiniog to Penmachno
Section 11: Penmachno to Betws y Coed
Section 12: Betws y Coed to Capel Curig
Section 13: Capel Curig to Bethesda
Progress report September 2017 03 October 2017
Progress report August 2017 23 September 2017
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June 30, 2008 David
Euro 2012: A Look Forward
Spain gets to enjoy four years as European champions, but in two years time, qualification across Europe will commence for Euro 2012. A look at three teams from Euro 2008 plus three outsiders follows.
1. Spain – The champs are an obvious choice. Torres, Villa, Fàbregas, and Silva will be major components of the attack. Ramos, Marchena, Navarro, Albiol, and perhaps even Puyol will remain in defense. Captain Iker Casillas will be in the prime of his goalkeeping career and having an elite backup in Liverpool’s Reina is a major plus.
2. Portugal – Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo will be in his late twenties and potentially still the best player in the world, but more importantly, Nani, Miguel Veloso, Ricardo Quaresma, and João Moutinho will be seasoned attacking options by 2012. In defense, Pepe and José Bosingwa will also be under thirty. Goalkeeping could be a question mark if Ricardo retires from international duty after the 2010 World Cup.
3. Netherlands – The embarrassment of attacking options from the forward and midfield positions will be back in four years. The likes of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie, Ibrahim Afellay, Wesley Sneijder, and a healthy Ryan Babel will all be under thirty in 2012. Can the Dutch find defenders and a goalkeeper to place behind this offensive juggernaut?
And now three who were on the outside looking in at Euro 2008. These three national teams could make a splash at Euro 2012.
1. England – The obvious choice here with a bevy of skilled attackers and world-class defenders to choose from. Assuming Fabio Capello is in charge after a successful World Cup run, he should have a solid defense with the likes of John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, David Weather, Micah Richards, and Steven Taylor to select from. In midfield, Stewart Downing, Ashley Young, David Bentley, Joe Cole, and Michael Carrick are likely components. Up front, Wayne Rooney will still be years away from thirty as will the likes of Theo Walcott, Dean Ashton, etc, etc.
2. Scotland – The Scots are entering into a phase where most of the top players are under the age of 25 meaning serious runs at the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 are likely. Attacking options in 2012 could include: Shaun Maloney, Kris Boyd, Steven Fletcher, James McFadden, Steven Naismith, and Darren Fletcher. Currently in goal, Scotland has Craig Gordon (26), David Marshall (23), and Allan McGregor (26) to select from. Defense will be a concern, but if the Scots can steal some away points like the historic victory against France in the run up to Euro 2008, the team could be in the final 16 at Euro 2012.
3. Ukraine – The team receives an automatic bid because Ukraine co-hosts the tournament with Poland. Without having to worry about qualification battles, the Yellow-Blues can work on the player’s technical development. Young stars include: Dmytro Chyhrynskyi, Andriy Rusol, Oleh Husev, and Artem Milevskiy. The country has a stable of rich investors who will be looked upon to help the national team succeed in four years time.
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I am a long time soccer fan who grew up in England traveling the country watching Coventry City in the 70's. Now living in the U.S. I am still as passionate about soccer as I was when I was a kid.
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Elkhart Truth: Walorski tapped for influential Ways and Means Committee
Ben Quiggle – The position vacated by former U.S. Rep. Todd Young, an Indiana Republican who was just sworn in as a U.S. Senator, is the oldest standing committee in the House, according to a press release. It is the chief tax-writing panel in the House and has jurisdiction over federal revenue, such as Medicare, [...]
WIMS: Walorski comments on Kerry Speech
“Secretary Kerry’s comments today, coming on the heels of the Obama administration’s abstention on the U.N. Security Council’s disgraceful anti-Israel resolution, represent yet another blow to Israel in the final days of the Obama presidency. These comments show why we need new leadership in the White House, and I look forward to working with President-elect [...]
South Bend Tribune: Walorski earns third term in Congress
Kevin Allen – U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski told supporters on Tuesday night that “our Republican message just rocked the entire state of Indiana.” Walorski rocked the 2nd Congressional District, too. The Jimtown Republican convincingly won a third two-year term in north-central Indiana’s congressional seat. According to preliminary results, Walorski garnered 59 percent of the vote [...]
Walorski Visits WNDU (Video)
Republican Jackie Walorski has clinched a third term in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional district. She visited WNDU the morning after the election. Watch the Video Here >>
NAWBO Endorses Jackie Walorski for Congress
The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is announcing its endorsement of Jackie Walorski in her bid for re-election to Congress from Indiana’s 2nd District. NAWBO National screens candidates for endorsement solely on their history of business ownership or their voting record demonstrating their consistent support of business owners. “We share Jackie Walorski’s commitment [...]
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Kanye West @ Vector Arena, Auckland. [Review by Darlene Brown]
On December 3, 2008, in parties, review, by Dr Hitchcock
Seeing Kanye West play in Auckland December 1st was really a last minute decision:
“Should we buy a 2 for 1 ticket, and can I borrow the money?”
flatmate says: “yes”.
“How much was it?”
“$70”.
Considering I only had four of his songs on Hungry Hungry iPod I wasn’t sure if I had made the right choice…
I turned up to Vector on the night, and was really surprised at the amount of young (dare I say it – white) people that were there! Although this year all I’ve seen at Vector is grey haired concert after adult contemporary concert so it’s been a while since I have seen a large gathering of youth. Also surprising was the security measures at the gate. I opened my bag for inspection and the woman picked up my pain killers and demanded to know “what pills are these?” I said nothing as I watched her turn the packet over to display “Signature Range” on the foil. This wasn’t enough: “what PILLS are these??” to which I gingerly responded “aspirin”.
Anyway, I got in to see Nas’ band playing (is that the correct use of an apostrophe here?). To be honest I don’t know ANY of his songs, but he was phenomenal and I would definitely go to see him perform on his own. His guitarist wore a Ramones t shirt. We missed Scribe opening, but I’m sure he was crapping his pants with excitement to be there.
After Nas, the lights went up and we paced the stadium waiting, watching and wishing I wore my $3 Kanye glasses after all…until finally it went dark. The stage was illuminated with bars of neon, flashing lights and blade-runner style costumes (all designed by Daft Punk apparently). Kanye showed up looking very small, but stylish and took us on a retrospective journey through the hits. “Through the Wire” was the second song (my fave of all his tracks) and basically he just went through his singles in order after that. I even thought “wow he could totally release a best of!”. He didn’t play “American Boy” though; and the crowd went crazy over the song “Homecoming” featuring Chris Martin which I found bizarre! “Flashing Lights” and “Good Life” were personal favourites to dance to, along with this track where he pitch shifted his voice to sound like a demon rapping from Hell (“Get ’em High”).
Kanye West – Live at Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ – Dec 08
People I’ve talked to have mentioned Kanye’s ego hindering their enjoyability of the show, but aren’t all rappers a bit up themselves? There was one point after “Touch the Sky” where he kept repeating “I hope you’re having a good night, I hope you’re having a good night…fuck it, I hope you’re having the time of your life!” which was a bit presumptuous… Anyway, it didn’t bother me, and in terms of an overall concert I would say it was average to good. I’m glad I got to see him perform but still not sure about that seventy bucks…
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2 Responses to Kanye West @ Vector Arena, Auckland. [Review by Darlene Brown]
Adam P. says:
He dropped his 2 versus from the Estelle hit ” American Boy”?? you weren’t listening? You didn’t miss much of scribe though? aparently he was excited to be “Rapping with Kanye and Nas” ? I don’t even think they were in the building when he was on?? so ” Opening for Nas and kanye” should of been the more appropriate term? hehe. I think I paid $140 for my ticket? allocated seating, now that was a waste of Money, everyone on the general admission floor looked like they had more fun!!
cam8001 says:
Cool that you got to see him at a dedicated show. I saw him before U2 (another last minute decision) and the sound was so bad it was totally impossible to enjoy. Such a bummer when that happens!
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Minnesota officials: 'Nothing left undone to keep Capitol safe'
By Thomas Lee
February 13, 2012 — 2:56pm
Adele was the undisputed winner of last night's Grammy Awards telecast, taking home six trophies for her sophomore effort, "21," including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year.
But Adele didn't even need to sing her own songs to generate positive word of mouth. It was just that kind of night for the British superstar.
Immediately after Adele performed her hit "Rolling in the Deep," CBS aired a commercial from Minneapolis-based Target Corp. plugging its exclusive version of "21."
Led by 11-year-old Denise, the singers are from Staten Island's famed P.S. 122 chorus. The kids' rendition eventually gives way to Adele's voice before the commercial closes with the tagline: "Fans who know Adele best know the best place to buy the album."
Nice touch Target.
Composed of 60 to 70 fifth and sixth graders, the P.S.22 chorus has performed everywhere from "Good Morning America" to last year's Academy Awards.
Target first noticed the group when they appeared on YouTube performing the song in April 2011. The video has since attracted over 1 million views, a number likely to grow because of the Target commercial.
Point of Sale on hiatus
NBC's "Fashion Star" tries to out-Target Target
From merchandising and advertising to real estate and technology, business reporters offer insight into the latest trends and people that define today’s top retailers.
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North Loop nabs Madewell denim test store, only the 3rd in the country
The new store will sell women's and men's denim
Target offers 10% off Target gift cards this Sunday, Dec. 8
Target dropped its Cyber Monday 15% off site-wide promotion but held on to the gift card promo.
Cyber Monday deals from Twin Cities retailers from Haskell's to Target
Locals having deal include Essence One, Sol Oranics, Buca, Haskell's, and Pranko.
Costco's website outages on Thanksgiving continue into Black Friday
The warehouse retailer is honoring Thanksgiving Day-only specials on Friday, but outages persist.
Twin Cities home improvement stores offer 50% off storewide on Black Friday
Only a recent, large shipment of hand tools already discounted 60% is exempted from the additional discount.
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Young: Is it self-government, or just about uniforms?
By John Young
I’ve seen that blank look from someone who doesn’t know football.
“I don’t follow it. Don’t understand the rules — just teams in different uniforms.”
I see the same look these days from some about impeachment.
“I don’t follow it. Don’t understand it. Just two parties going at it.”
Just parties. Two sets of uniforms. Just a game.
Yep, that describes it — like, oh, just armies on the black sands of Iwo Jima, on the rolling Gettysburg terrain. Who understands that war stuff?
Then again: A whole bunch of us are quite versant on football: stats, personnel, schedule. Ask for the depth chart of that favorite team.
But politics? Governing? A whole bunch of the same people quickly say they’re out of their depth.
With wonder, social commentator Noam Chomsky has observed people discussing sports with “quite a high degree of thought and analysis ... On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it’s at a level of superficiality that’s beyond belief.”
Most often when one hears the claim, “I don’t keep up with that stuff” when the stuff is politics, the follow-up response is that the person doesn’t trust politicians, any of ‘em, and the two major parties are one and the same.
Easy to say for one who doesn’t keep up with that stuff.
One and the same? Yes. And Ohio State and Appalachian State are in the same conference.
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Never in my memory have the two parties been so distinct.
The Republican Party has chained itself to the ankles of a lumbering agent of chaos who tweets like a second-grader, flaunts ethics and can’t spell “accountability.”
The Democratic Party increasingly is earning its stripes as a reflection of a diverse nation, not just with people of color but people of varied sexual orientation.
To get the GOP nomination and hold the South, Donald Trump, a one-time adherent of abortion rights and gay rights, decided against both.
The Democratic Party remains the vanguard on behalf of both.
Trump, who at one time said he supported universal health care, has been devoted as president, along with his Republican foot soldiers, to yanking health coverage out from under millions.
From FDR through LBJ to Obama and Pelosi, the Democratic Party has been a foe of a philosophy that treats proper health care as a hood ornament.
Trump and the Republicans, harping all the way about the deficit, in 2017 mortgaged the future to award tax cuts to people who didn’t need them. And look now — a deficit that dwarfs that left behind by Trump’s predecessor.
Republicans talk a good game about budget austerity, but they are far more inclined to award themselves tax benefits, leaving the balance of payments and debits further out of whack.
Again, the differences between the parties could not be more glaring. And so it is with the impeachment proceedings.
Trump was caught using military aid to bribe a foreign nation under siege by Russian forces and Trump BFF Vladimir Putin. The Republican defense of this outrage has been a ground blizzard of obfuscation.
Americans are entitled to focus on Sunday’s game or Macy’s balloons. They are entitled to think the impeachment process is “just politics.”
But they can’t say these things don’t matter. Those who assailed Iwo’s beaches and sprawled across Gettysburg’s fields didn’t.
As Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State, ‘What does it matter to me?’ the State may be given up for lost.”
Sure, but what did Rousseau have to say about football games lost?
Longtime newspaperman John Young lives in Colorado. Email: jyoungcolumn@gmail.com.
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Instruments which children and young people play or would like to play in France 2014
Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 6, 2014
This statistic presents a ranking of the musical instruments that children and young people play or would like to play in France in 2014. Less than 10 percent of young people aged 8 to 16 years old played or wanted to learn how to play the flute that year.
Ranking of instruments that children or young people play or would like to play in France in 2014
Share of respondents
September 8 - October 27, 2014
Number of respondents
438 respondents
18 years and older
parents of children aged 8 to 16
Method of interview
The question was asked by the source as follows: "What musical instrument (s) does your child play or would he like to learn to play? "
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Purchase of the CD or the DVD of a live music show in France 2018
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Purchase of goodies of a live music show in France 2018
Frequency of attendance at live music shows in France 2017
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Attendance level of the twenty biggest festivals in France 2019
Number of people who attended a music festival in France 2016-2019
Music festival attendance evolution in France 2017-2019
Share of musical shows attendance at festivals in France 2015-2017
Number of admissions of live shows by attendance in France 2017
Artists most featured during summer festivals in France 2019
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Number of live shows playing in festivals in France 2016-2017
Number of live shows by attendance in France 2017
Share of musical performances playing in festivals in France 2015-2017
Share of ticket sold in festivals in France 2015-2017
Ticket sales value generated in festivals in France 2016-2017
Live show ticket sales value by attendance in France 2017
Other expenses planned when attending a live music show in France 2019
Breakdown of French festival-goers by age in France 2019
Information sources on live music shows in France 2019
Reasons for attending live music shows in France 2019
Most important aspects of a music festival according to French festival-goers 2019
Impact of security measures on music venues and festivals in France 2017
Instruments the French are playing or would like to play 2014
French people who play a musical instrument France 2014
French taking dance classes in France 2014
French people taking singing lessons in France 2014
Children playing a musical instrument in France 2014
Brazil: importance of playing varied music to children 2018
Share of households with three or more adults without children UK 2017/18, by decile
Share of non-retired households with three or more adults without children UK 2018
Share of non-retired households with two adults without children UK, by decile
Share of households with two adults without children UK 2017/18, by decile
Bread consumption in France 2015, by meal time
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Children taking dance classes in France 2014
Children taking singing lessons in France 2014
Countries with the largest music product sales revenue worldwide 2018
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France Bleu, & Télé 7 Jours. (November 6, 2014). Ranking of instruments that children or young people play or would like to play in France in 2014 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 15, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/766964/instruments-of-music-la-france/
France Bleu, und Télé 7 Jours. "Ranking of instruments that children or young people play or would like to play in France in 2014." Chart. November 6, 2014. Statista. Accessed January 15, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/766964/instruments-of-music-la-france/
France Bleu, Télé 7 Jours. (2014). Ranking of instruments that children or young people play or would like to play in France in 2014. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 15, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/766964/instruments-of-music-la-france/
France Bleu, and Télé 7 Jours. "Ranking of Instruments That Children or Young People Play or Would like to Play in France in 2014." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Nov 2014, https://www.statista.com/statistics/766964/instruments-of-music-la-france/
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EITM Europe 2020/2021
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James Lo (University of Southern California)
The basic motivation of EITM is that it pays to be more conscious and purposeful about how game theoretic models and statistical tests are connected. Unfortunately, game theory is often taught in a manner that submerges its relationship to testing, and statistical training typically begins with the hypothesis for testing having already been developed. The Foundations Seminar presents statistical methods that lend themselves well to testing predictions from formal models.
Our course begins with an introduction to probability models, covering random variables, important probability distributions, and Bayes' theorem. We then discuss the use of maximum likelihood as a method to conduct statistical inference, as well as its relationship to the Bayesian framework of inference. Our discussion of Bayesian inference includes coverage of conjugate bayesian models, as well as common techniques for computation such as the Gibbs sampler and Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. We conclude with applications of these ideas to the study of bargaining models, and to models of latent measures.
James Lo is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. Previously he was Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University and Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim.
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* 6/18/1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
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Nicola Kraus 8/17/1974 Birth US novelist
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John Keats 10/31/1795 Birth British poet
Richard Graves 5/4/1715 Birth English writer
Innokenty Annensky 9/1/1855 Birth Russian poet
Mikhail Kuzmin 10/6/1872 Birth Russian writer
Eoin Colfer 5/14/1965 Birth Irish writer
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Mildred Benson 5/29/2002 Death US writer
Tony Hillerman 10/26/2008 Death US writer
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl... 1/29/1706 Death English poet and courtier
Paul Foot 7/18/2004 Death British journalist
George CoÅŸbuc 5/9/1918 Death Romanian poet
Axel Jensen 2/13/2003 Death Norwegian author
Georges Bataille 7/8/1962 Death French writer and philosopher
Aegidius Tschudi 2/28/1572 Death Swiss historian
John O'Grady 1/14/1981 Death Australian writer (Nino Culotta)
* 3/20/1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
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Gilbert Ryle 10/6/1976 Death British philosopher
Rudolph Goclenius 6/8/1628 Death German philosopher
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Pope Gregory IX 8/22/1241 Death
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* 10/6/1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Rev...
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Sir William Beveridge 3/5/1879 Birth British economist
Gustaf Dalén 11/30/1869 Birth Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille 3/15/1713 Birth French astronomer
Ernst Kummer 1/29/1810 Birth German mathematician
Johann Heinrich von Mädler 5/29/1794 Birth German astronomer
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 12/15/1958 Death Austrian-born US physicist, Nobel laureate
Frederick Augustus Abel 9/6/1902 Death English chemist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 12/10/1911 Death English botanist
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Charles Nicolle 2/28/1936 Death French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize ...
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* 6/8/1992 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
* 2/23/1941 - Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
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Jack Ruby 3/25/1911 Birth killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
Laci Peterson 5/4/1975 Birth US murder victim
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Moisis Michail Bourlas 5/9/1918 Birth Greek member of the World War II resistance
George Hull Ward 7/3/1863 Death US general
John Ogonowski 9/11/2001 Death pilot for US Airlines Flight 11
Horatio Nelson 10/21/1805 Death British admiral
Armand Călinescu 9/21/1939 Death Romanian prime-minister (assassinated)
George Carpenter 4/9/1948 Death Australian Salvation Army general
Peter J. Ganci, Jr. 9/11/2001 Death Chief of Department, FDNY
* 2/18/1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York C...
* 7/3/1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
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* 8/2/1989 - 1989 Valvettiturai massacre was carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethn...
* 2/8/1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur China starts the Russ...
* 10/21/1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm reapi...
* 4/9/1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin.
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* 9/11/2001 - The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11) were suspected to...
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Jason Reso 11/30/1973 Birth (aka "Christian Cage"), Canadian professional wrestler
Henry Fotheringham 4/4/1953 Birth former South African cricketer
Bart Starr 1/9/1934 Birth US football player
Billy Cannon 8/2/1937 Birth US football player
Brian Cashman 7/3/1967 Birth US major league baseball executive
Cory Bailey 1/24/1971 Birth US baseball player
D.J. Houlton 8/12/1979 Birth US baseball player
Doug Christie 5/9/1970 Birth US basketball player
Jay Adams 2/3/1961 Birth US skateboarder
Joe Gans 11/25/1874 Birth US boxer
Jon Heidenreich 6/28/1972 Birth US professional wrestler
Jordan Hasay 9/21/1991 Birth US track and field athlete
Kelly Shoppach 4/29/1980 Birth US baseball player
Marty Brennaman 7/28/1942 Birth US sportscaster
Nick Saban 10/31/1951 Birth US college football coach
W. G. Grace 7/18/1848 Birth English cricketer
Johnny Oduya 10/1/1981 Birth Swedish ice hockey player
Torsten Palm 7/23/1947 Birth Swedish racing driver
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte 10/11/1815 Birth Italian-born adventurer
Roy Tattersall 8/17/1922 Birth England cricketer
Arnau Riera 10/1/1981 Birth Spanish footballer
Miguel Ãngel Angulo 6/23/1977 Birth Spanish footballer
Abdelmalek Cherrad 1/14/1981 Birth Algerian football
Alan Eagleson 4/24/1933 Birth Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter
Cindy Klassen 8/12/1979 Birth Canadian speed skater
Mathieu Biron 4/29/1980 Birth Canadian ice hockey player
Percy Williams 5/19/1908 Birth Canadian athlete
Stafford Smythe 3/15/1921 Birth Canadian hockey executive
Joel Natalino Santana 12/25/1948 Birth Brazilian soccer coach
Júlio Baptista 10/1/1981 Birth Brazilian footballer
Romário 1/29/1966 Birth Brazilian footballer
Tarso Marques 1/19/1976 Birth Brazilian racing driver
Thierry Boutsen 7/13/1957 Birth Belgian racing driver
Hayden Foxe 6/23/1977 Birth Australian footballer
Jason Ellis 10/11/1971 Birth Australian professional skateboarder
Ken Arthurson 10/1/1929 Birth Australian rugby league identity
Bill Whittington 9/11/1949 Birth race car driver
Dave Trembley 10/31/1951 Birth Major League Baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
Ron Hunt 2/23/1941 Birth baseball player
Angel L. Juarbe, Jr. 9/11/2001 Death US firefighter
Connie Mack 2/8/1956 Death US baseball manager and executive
George Glas 11/30/1765 Death British merchant and adventurer
Robbie James 2/18/1998 Death Welsh footballer
Kid Gavilan 2/13/2003 Death Cuban boxer
Garnet Bailey 9/11/2001 Death Canadian hockey player and scout
Bill Johnston 5/24/2007 Death Australian cricketer
Neil Hawke 12/25/2000 Death Australian cricketer and footballer
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* 7/8/1962 - Ne Win sieged and dynamited the Ragoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
* 10/31/1587 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
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Thomas Hazlehurst 2/18/1842 Death English soap and alkali manufacturer
Hidetsugu Yagi 1/19/1976 Death Japanese electrical engineer
Edward Bronfman 4/4/2005 Death Canadian businessman
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Noah Webster 10/16/1758 Birth US lexicographer
Victor Fleming 2/23/1889 Birth US director
Walter Reuther 9/1/1907 Birth US labor union leader
Michael Buerk 2/18/1946 Birth British newsreader
Vadim Pruzhanov 6/18/1982 Birth keyboardist for the British group Dragonforce
Alia al Hussein 12/25/1948 Birth of Jordan
Zauditu of Ethiopia 4/29/1876 Birth
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Barry Tuckwell 3/5/1931 Birth Australian horn virtuoso
Mohammed Zahir Shah 10/16/1914 Birth Shah of Afghanistan
John Geoghegan 11/10/1941 Birth Silver Star recipient
Phil Margera 7/13/1957 Birth father of Bam Margera
Bill W. 1/24/1971 Death US co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
David Angell 9/11/2001 Death US sitcom creator
Elaine Esposito 11/25/1978 Death US woman who holds the record for longest coma
McGeorge Bundy 9/16/1996 Death U.S. National Security Advisor
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William Matthew Flinders Pe... 7/28/1942 Death English Egyptologist
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Émile Peynaud 7/18/2004 Death French oenologist
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Tone 4 Self-existing
Measuring * Form * Define
Tribe 11 Monkey
Play * Illusion * Magic
Affirmation for: Blue Self-existing Monkey I Define in order to Play
Measuring Illusion
I seal the process of magic
With the Self-existing tone of Form
I am guided by the power of Accomplishment
Reading for: Blue Self-existing Monkey
Reading for Blue Self-existing Monkey
Blue Monkey is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming. Blue Monkey represents the Divine Child, the child that is ever in a state of open-hearted wisdom, innocence, trust, simplicity and joyful wonder. What would it feel like to actually BE a magical child in this culture and time? The secret that very few know - because they may feel more comfortable trying to protect themselves - is that the divine child offers the strongest of all protections, the invulnerability of openhearted Love. Through innocence, a kind of immunity is created that allows the divine child to be TRANSPARENT so that the apparent 'slings and arrows' of the world can pass right through without being personalized into wounds, reactions or hurt feelings. This is the path of innocence regained. Transparency is the path of the new consciousness.Look deeply into the eyes of a happy two year old. There you will see the innocent trust, openheartedness, and spontaneous joy that typifies the divine child. Imagine yourself as an enlightened two-year old, in a state of ecstatic communion and delight. In childhood, you didn't have to remember to be playful - you could easily and fluidly express your emotions. You didn't have to understand whys and wherefores - you knew with your heart. This if your natural state of being, the state of ecstasy, the path of revealed innocence.In Western culture, many people have a distorted understanding about what it is to be a human being. We are often taught that sucessful adults are responsible, serious, rigid, controlled and goal oriented. In your journey with society, your developmental stages may have been incomplete. The natural sensitivity, fluidity, and freedom of the child may have been left behind in partial passage. Perhaps your inner child was wounded or treated insensitively, and you carried this unresolved process into adulthood. Blue Monkey encourages you to bring forth this incomplete or wounded part for integration and healing.In this New Myth, your spontaneous, divine child will usher in and anchor the new frequency. How can you heal your inner child? Explore what truly gives you joy. Find types of work that support your sensitivity and create deep satisfaction. Be simple: love, play, dance, draw, colour, sing. These activities are for all divine children - they serve the expression of the magical child in everyone. Consciously make time for the joyful freedom and magic of play!
The number for Blue Monkey is eleven, the vibration wherein novelty and spontaneity break down resistant forms. When unity merges with Essence Self, a mystical foundation is created that disintegrates old patterns. This is actually integration in disguide. As your walls tumble down, they crack into a smile, and the illumination of self shines through.
Blue Hand is your Higher Self & Guide.Blue Hand is a gateway, an opening, a portal from one understanding to another. A clue to the meaning of Blue Hand is found in the meditation, "I am, by thinly veiled design, the threshold to other dimensions. In my ending is my beginning. The initatory gateway awaits." Blue Hand is the seventh or last archetype in the cycle of development of primary being. It represents the power found in completion. Blue Hand is seen as a closure, which is really an opening to another level of being.
Like the fluidity of moving water, Blue Hand is associated with the process of dance, mudra, and beauty. This movement is a metaphor for the ebb and flow of life. In meditation with Manik, experience the flowing quality that is the beauty of the cosmic dance. Remember this essence and this fluidity at times when your life feels most inflexible or lacking in beauty.
Blue Hand represents the 'beauty way', the ability to see intrinsic beauty within yourself and in all things. Living the beauty way requires being in your full beauty and power. From this place, your self-authority naturally flows. This is the position where your ego is aligned with divine will. When you are standing in your full beauty and power, your very presence invites others to be all that they are. To the Maya, Blue Hand represents the deer, the gentle, serenely aware guide who walks in fluid beauty and grace, opening and revealing.
The energy of Blue Hand will also help you to manifest spiritual skills - especially those intuitive gifts such as oracular divination. In each incarnation, you bring certain gifts. Each path - from priest and priestess to shaman and dancer to artist and gardener - carries varied tools and skills. You have chosen certain gifts and tools that offer you a way to interact with others and your life process. This may be as simple as calling on your innate wisdom and insight in order to see clearly the gifts and tools that you carry.
White Dog is your Subconscious Self and Hidden Helper.One of the gifts of White Dog is the calling in and recognition of other companions of destiny. Other beings with the same longing are waiting to meet and acknowledge you - beings who can see you as you authrentically are. When you have truly been seen, you feel empowered, and remembrance of a shared sacred trust is ignited. This is a natural process, divinely designed for recognition through vibrational affinity, freed from personal expectations.
White Dog can be seen as an access point for developing relationships with guides, totems, allies and guardians. There are many ways to work with these spiritual guides, including guided visualizations, shamanic journeys, and meditation. A useful construct is viewing them as aspects of yourself, part of your life stream that is asking to be integrated. Remember, there is no 'other'. In this grand adventure, you are being asked to embody all that you are.Profound insights are garnered through shared purpose and relationship with others who are willing to be in their truth and integrity about the light and shadow aspects they perceive in themselves.
Similarly, intimate relationships can be viewed as unique opportunities to bring forward in each other deep emotional patterns to be transformed. In this case, those you have drawn to you hold the ability to assist you in your own integration as well. There are no mistakes. Be willing to look deeply into the truth held within any relationship. The expression of intimacy is a gift of love; the lack of it may be a symptom asking for honest communication and healing. It may also be guiding you to reevaluate your relationship and the purpose it is serving.White Dog signals a breakthrough in your life: new beginnings, new perceptions, new allies and friends. As you express more authentically who you are, you draw your true family closer to you.With your guides and companions, you have the ability to manifest your inspired visions and dreams. Recognize the eyes and hearts that spark the remembrance of a sacred trust.The harmonic wisdom of White Dog is affinity, the attraction of like vibration or substances for one another. Spiritual affinity is not limited to family kinship - it is part of the natural affinity between companions of destiny. Such companions of are drawn together by the same aligned force that draws iron filings to a magnet. Companions of destiny are drawn togther to do work that is naturally harmonious.On the surface at times, it may seem that you have little in common with these companions, yet the attraction remains. This is because Essence Selves are often committed to work together long before they meet in the physical world. This is a natural process of affinity, rather than a process motivated from personal desire. Follow this guidance into your unfoldment within the larger pattern.
Red Dragon represents your Challenge and Gift. With maturity and awareness this challenge will turn into a Focus. This is what you desire to learn in this lifetime.In the shadow of Red Dragon are found issues of trust. This can appear as a lack of basic trust in the Source to nurture you and provide what is needed for your journey. Perhaps you do not trust in life's transformational process to bring you the perfect lessons and gifts required for your growth. Primal trust implies the understanding that there are no mistakes and no victims - only lessons, gifts, and growth processes on the way to wholenes. If you perceive that there are no mistakes as you move toward wholeness, then learning to trust the transformational process becomes much easier.Trusting, however, does not mean acting blindly without awareness or waiting without action; it means moving forward with and learning from your journey of experience. No matter what the appearance, whatever manifests in your world actually holds potential gifts on the path to wholeness. In the cycle of giving and receiving, trust is like the lubricant that eases the way for the transformational process. And when you understand that every particle of the universe is made up of love, then trusting can be perceived as a natural state of being.In the shadow of Red Dragon are hidden feelings of unworthiness to receive, often manifested as embarrassment or discomfort when others offer you something. These feelings can stem from many places. Often then stem from early childhood, when your gifts may not have been received or when you heard that "it is better to give than to receive." Or perhaps you developed a reality based on praise for being "self-sufficient" or not owing anyone anything. Regardless of the source, these feelings spring from only a partial truth. You are intrinsically worthy to receive, simply because you are. Love just is, and you are part of the cycle of love.In the shadow of Red Dragon, you may also be overly identified with being a source of support and nurturance for others - the caretaker or a 'cosmic mama.' Giving without receiving is limiting. In Western society we are unknowingly taught to be dependent and co-dependent. Perhaps from an inability or unwillingness to nurture and support yourself, you have abandoned yourself for another. Perhaps you expect that other to know intuitively what your needs are and to meet them without direct communication.As an example, the shadow of Red Dragon might say, "If they really loved me, they would understand how I feel"; or "If I have to ask for it, it's not worth it." In other words, you may be avoiding responsibility for being aware of and communicating your own desires and feelings. In the shadow of Red Dragon there is the belief that love is magical, that relationships should just 'happen', and that love is a need rather than a natural state of being.If you are in the shadow of Red Dragon, you are being encouraged to step into the primal waters of your being to discover the core of your self-acceptance, your intrinsic value, your own wholeness. Find the wellspring of your feelings. Be willing to explore more fully and honestly, expressing your true desires, dreams, and truths.
Yellow Star is your Compliment - something that comes naturally to you. You are a starseed! You contain a holographic 'seed packet' of your evolution into the Mind of Light and the energy that directs you toward wholeness. This resonance offers an expanded view of the larger self and new ways of perceiving reality. Through self-acceptance, you are gifted with this journey. Yellow Star is ignition, like a cosmic milkweed explosion of resonant sparks. It is the launching pad from which you can hear the rumble of the rocket of your accelerated evolution. The energy of Yellow Star may be experienced as a gentle rocking that becoes a floating and spiraling sensation, ending in a rush of feeling as you move into expanded reality. This sensation has been described as gently cascading fireworks, shimmering burst on the tapesty of Creation. Cascade into this unchartged perspective. Flow on the cosmic winds wherever Divinity directs, arching back to this reality wth a new experience of self.
Yellow Star's starseeded gift is the revelation of the harmony that unites all things. Instead of just aspiring to be harmonious, become harmony. Practice harmony not just as an abstraction, but as a living reality. This practice blends different energies, thoughts, people, and processes. Act on intuitive guidance as to what to combine and when. As you begin to follow your heart, you will know the feeling of being on the return path to the stars.Yellow Star offers you the ability to hold a greatly expanded focus, a unity of awareness that encompasses aspects of the larger constellation of self. An example of this would be a simultaneous awarenss of the desires of the existential self and the truth of the Essence Self. This star harmony encompasses the greatly enlarged perspective of your starseeded self, the part within you that holds the potential of your greatest destiny.Unlike the preceding 7 tones, which were seperate and distinct, Yellow Star begins a more complex harmonic series as it completes the preceding octave. On a spiritual level, Yellow Star begins the development of higher being. The fundamental tones that occur in this series are of a more expanded frequency than those of the preceding seven tones. In this new octave, there is alignment in the harmonies of Earth and the harmonies of the stars that are now being sounded on Earth. Yellow Star is the first in a series of star harmonies that evoke accelerated growth of the starseed potential within you.
Your Tone is Tone 4 - Self-ExistingOrder, definition, discrimination, natural cycles, meaningful alignment.
Four is the ray of measure, the alignment with natural cycles. It is the square, the base of the pyramid, the solid foundation that unifies the lines of directional force. Four is the diamond asking you to utilize tools of discrimination.
Now is the time to manifest your dream or vision. Look to natural logic, order and definition - these gifts support the whisperings of your creative spirit. You are the architect who manifests your dreams! Open the door and call forth the sacred Four. You are being brought into meaningful alignment, bringing healing into this cycle of your life.
The four directions offer you assistance in understanding universal physical laws. Use measure as a tool of consciousness to mold time, form and space. Now is the time to focus, to connect tangibly with the undefined. Take your ideas and give them discipline and form. Develop the ability to discriminate without creating separation or judgement. Channel your creative energy constructively, generating the power for practical manifestation!
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Sidney Girls Golf Take 6th at State
Eastern Nebraska's spell of cold and rainy weather shortened the NSAA girls golf Class B State Tournament from two rounds to one as the girl's completed play on Monday, then learned Tuesday that the second round would be cancelled and the results from the first round would be final.
The cold and wet weather made for challenging conditions throughout Monday's round, but the Sidney golfers battled through the elements to earn 6th place in a field of twelve teams.
Senior Tiara Ginther continued to lead the Lady Raiders, finishing the round with a score of 92 which earned her 12th place in the individual competition. The Lady Raider's team score of 431 placed them sixth in the Class B standings.
The final results had the team from Omaha Duchesne Academy placing first with a score of 330, Gering placing second with a score of 360, while the team from Elkhorn finished third with a score of 377. Omaha Duchesne's impressive score was the product of three of their golfers finishing in the top 10 with Anna Boor placing first with a score of 74, Lauren Goertz placing third with a score of 80 and Bridget Duffy finishing fourth with score of 82.
Sidney's score of 431was comprised of Ginther's 92, followed by sophomore Ashlee Ringleman's score of 112 which earned her 45th place. Junior Karsyn Huck placed 48th with a round of 113, junior Amanda Beier placed 52nd with a score of 113, and senior Janay Brauer finsihed 57th with a score of 119.
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Mike Plant
Our lead guitar player is also the band's leader. Mike as kept busy over the years working with various local artists as a studio session player or live touring. His main act for the past 15 years as been ''Les Porn Flakes'' a Quebec variety band that only has special guests as singers. To date he as worked with over 100 singers from all over the world with the likes of Dee Snider and most recently Vince Neil. He also keeps in shape working the yard for a landscaping store. But the stage and playing his songs are his calling....
Dan Hughes
The Drummer. His Bonham inspired drumming kept him busy behind his kit either working with Canadian rock band Too Many Cooks and his sister Lulu Hughes or one of his brother Rick's different projects. He also played with a variety of local acts. Off the stage you'll find him coaching hockey and soccer with his kids. Dan is also a freelance cameraman. Most often covering local sports for Quebec's TVA Sports station. Sword's come back in 2011 pushed him to get back in shape to do 2 hours straight of heavy metal drumming and he couldn't be happier !
Formed in 1980 in Montreal, Sword released their debut album Metalized in 1986 described as; Aggressive, Melodic, Loud and Rude. And to which Kerrangs Mark Putterford said; “My eyes are a painful shade of purple. My ears are ringing tortuously. My mouth is awash with blood and broken teeth, I’ve just been ten rounds with a Montreal mob called Sword. “
They were hand-picked by Metallica to open the Quebec leg of the Master of puppets tour, Alice Cooper’s Canadian Return of the nightmare tour and then crisscrossed the UK with the Mighty Lemmy on Motorhead’s Rock’n’roll tour.
It was followed by the Heavy but diverse Sweet Dreams in 1988.
After a short US tour promoting the album, they started work on their 3rd album. All hell broke loose and a parting of ways ensued… Until 2011, when they reunited for a few select shows in Canada and Germany and found the urge to go back in the studio to finish where they had left off. Fall 2020 it will be, on Cambat Records.
Rick Hughes
Our lead vocalist , is also known in Quebec for is popular french solo career that as him touring locally constantly. He was seen for 10 years on the hit Quebec TV musical quiz show ''La Fureur'' as vocalist with the house band. He also did a 8 year stint as back vocalist for Quebec's french rocker Éric Lapointe. He also keeps himself vocally in shape by working with a Led Zep tribute band and his own rocking band " the Rick Hughes Show."
As of late, he has been pretty busy with the ''American Story Show'' , a rocking musical that has local critics excited and the many sell outs have proved them right. Add to all that Sword, and you have one pretty busy LV.
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Mike LaRock
Our bass player , the strong quiet type. He's kept his hand over the years by teaching guitar lessons and jamming with his friends. He made it up the ladder working in the warehousing business while raising his many children. When the phone rings and its time to Sword-up, the beast awakes and he's ready to make the earth shake.
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Resident Alien's Chris Sheridan reveals his personal UFO tale and comic Easter eggs that inspired the series
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.
Mar 26, 2019, 9:45 AM EDT (Updated)
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The Sun is feisty. Rising and falling packets of ionized gas (called plasma) below its surface generate fierce magnetic fields, which store vast amounts of energy. This can give rise to such features as sunspots, explosions like flares and coronal mass ejections, and huge, towering plumes of plasma called prominences.
While observing the Sun yesterday, April 29, my pal and friend of the BA Blog Alan Friedman captured an amazing sequence of shots of an eruptive prominence, one that doesn't simply fall back down to the solar surface, but also blasts material out into space:
[Click to greatly enfilamentate.]
Wow! Alan estimates that at its peak the eruption was 150,000+ kilometers (100,000 miles) in height -- compare that to the size of the Earth, a mere 13,000 km (8000 miles) in diameter. Yowza.
He also made a color image of it which is lovely and terrifying.... and slightly familiar. It didn't take me long to recognize it. That treacherous profile, that conniving nose, that sinister haircut...
Oh, it's clear who's really behind this eruption:
Exxxxcellent.
[UPDATE: Good news, everyone! When I posted this on Google+, commenter Artemis Entreri mentioned it looks more like Professor Farnsworth. I can't believe I didn't think of that myself! I blame Wernstrom.]
Image credit: Alan Friedman, used by permission; The Simpsons⢠& © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used under The Fair Use Act. And yes, I'll admit it looks more like Abe Simpson than Burns, but if I used Abe I could't write the headline I did. And the nose is definitely Burns'. Also? BURNS. Because it's hot. So clearly this was the correct choice.
- A fiery angel erupts from the Sun
- The delicate tendrils of a solar dragon
- GORGEOUS solar eruption
- The Sunâs angry red spot
- The face of our star
- Giant sunspots are giant
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Service Submission
Service. It’s something that a lot of submissive say they are into giving. While it’s quite clear that the definition means that we are helping or doing work for someone, performing a kindness or favor, when we apply that term to D/s it tends to take on a more indepth role. Let’s explore some of the ways service submission exists in D/s relationships.
Items in the series
BDSM and Submission: The Five Precepts of Service
Meditating on these precepts offers me inspiration and guidance. I think of these as five bottomless practices that can be continually explored and deepened. They are not linear and have no value as theories or concepts. To be understood and realized, they have to be lived into and communicated through action.
Reactive and Proactive Service: What's the Difference?
There is no right or wrong way to serve. I do think some slaves are more prone to reactive service and there are some slaves who are more proactive.
Real Service
While the book isn’t very long, it is still full of amazing information and I do highly recommend it to any service-oriented s-type.
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Service: There’s an App for that!
Well, there’s not really an App for service. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were? However, there are a lot of Apps out there that can make running your household (and your Master!) a lot easier!
The Best Resources for a Submissive's Service Library
For the service submissive, one who gets their pleasure from serving in some capacity it's nice to have a section of your library reserved for books that can help you with improving and utilizing new methods to make your service more complete.
The Real Meaning Behind Service and Serving as a Submissive
Service is any activity or function that you fill to make your dominant partner's life easier. This could be as simple as preparing their coffee, laying out their clothes for them or performing domestic chores. Yes, it does include the play and sex aspects of some relationships, but not all of them are wired this way.
What Does Service Submission REALLY Mean?
Service. It's something that a lot of submissive say they are into giving. But what does that mean?
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What is Devotional Service?
It is the selfless service that many of us strive for that is devotional. When you choose to do nothing but please your Dominant and that your joy is in the service and not some reward or praise, this can be seen as devotional service.
What is Positional Service?
Positional service is probably the most prevalent in non-D/s settings. This is essentially customer service; you are in a position to serve and so you serve. The service is defined by a set of itemized expectations.
What is Situational Service?
Situational service encompasses what I called conditional service. You serve only when presented with a specific set of circumstances, thus the situation is perfect for your service. This could be that you only submit on the weekends, or that you serve best when directed to do x, y and z.
Creating A Training Resume
BDSM With Kids In The Home
5 Myths About Submissives and Submission
Single in the Scene Part II: Service
Some Thoughts on Domestic Service from a Male Submissive
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STUART — Martin County Fire Rescue crews have sealed a liquid oxygen leak that started Wednesday evening in Stuart, said Brian Bossio, spokesman for the Stuart Police Department.
Fire Rescue crews were dispatched to the leak about 7:04 p.m. at a wound care center in the 300 block of Southeast Hospital Avenue, said Dan Harshburger, bureau chief for Martin County Fire Rescue.
The leak prompted authorities to close Southeast Ocean Boulevard at Southeast Hospital Avenue and Southeast High School Avenue shortly after 7 p.m., Bossio said. The road reopened about 10:20 p.m.
No injuries are reported, according to Harshburger.
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No announcements have been posted yet for CT Bombers 18-U.
2020 CT Bomber Openings
Posted by Connecticut Bombers at Dec 27, 2019 6:31AM PST ( 0 Comments )
There is only on 2020 CT Bombers team looking for players, the 10-U team. Looking for two players born in 2009 or 2010 with the drive, determination, and desire to become the best Softball player they can become. A strong work ethic and supportive family are two major components needed.
If you have such a player please contact Rich Hiscox 860-908-0330 or richh32@comcast.net
2019 Fall-Ball Clinic & League
Posted by Connecticut Bombers at Jul 21, 2019 12:16PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
The CT Bombers will hold their 21st annual Fall-Ball skills clinic and league, With all activities based in Giddings Park, 185 Pond Road (Rte. 207) Franklin.
5th-8th grades Saturdays only.
High School Sundays only.
Starting the weekend after Labor Day (Sept 7th or 8th) with a day long clinic taught by CT Bombers Travel Team coaches. Followed by 6 weeks of double-headers. the final day of the 8 week program will have a Championship tournament with playoffs being seeded based on the 6 weeks prior results.
There is a nice mix of travel and non travel players with the main goals being to enhance current skills and develop new ones.
The per player fee for the program is $90.
Attached is a two page PDF which is all that is needed to register for this program
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2019 Season by the Numbers
Posted by Connecticut Bombers at May 27, 2019 5:03PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
The weather was hot, the softball was scorching!
12-U Teal, Nutmeg State Games, New Britain CT, 8 teams
Pool play was shortened to 70 minute games due to the (over-hyped) temperature concerns. Game 1 saw a 10-5 victory over the CT Titans Green, Game two, played with 8 players, ended with a 8-7 loss to the Rawlings Wildcats ’07. Game 3 was recorded as a 7-0 victory as the Bristol Gators withdrew after losing their first two games (badly). Sunday was called off again due to the over-hyped heat that failed to meet expectations on either day. The decision was driven by the City of New Britain, not by the Nutmeg State Games. As will be evident below, anyone who had issues did so as a failure to prepare and maintain proper hydration. Coaches, Parents, and players alike bear that responsibility. The temperatures were manageable and in fact were less than last years hottest weekend where less mitigating steps were taken.
12-U White, Nutmeg State Games, New Britain CT, 8 teams
The older team started a bit later with pool play resulting in a 12-0 win over the Shoreline Sting Blue, a 5-4 loss to the Tucci Elite, and wrapping up with a 9-0 win over the East Coast Impact.
The two 12-U teams finished as the #2 seeds in their respective pools. If seeded 1-8, White would have been #3 and Teal #4. The top seeds in each pool were declared the Champions and Runners-up. All in all a disappointment of a weekend that was out of our control.
14-U Black, Skirt in the Dirt, Leominster MA, 12 teams
Pool Play was shortened to 2 games and saw a 6-5 loss to Raiders Softball – Gray and a 4-3 win over the RI Thunder Futures. The 1-1 record earned the squad the #4 seed and a morning match-up with the Noreasters which ended with a 6-1 victory. That set up a game vs the older CT Bombers White (the #1 seed) which resulted in a 3-2 win to advance to the semi-finals. There, vs the RI Futures, the teams run ended with a 4-3 loss and exact reversal of the Saturday match-up of the same two teams. A 3-2 record and a Third Place finish for the weekend heading into USA Nationals in VA.
14-U White, Skirt in the Dirt, Leominster MA, 12 teams
The shortened Pool Play saw a 8-0 victory over the New England Storm – Gamble followed by a 8-1 victory over the Noreasters. The 2-0 record with 1 run allowed earned the team the #1 seed and a first round bye. In the quarterfinals they matched up with the #4 seeded younger Bombers Black, a hard-fought battle ended with a 3-2 loss and a shortened weekend for the White team. Next up USA Nationals starting Thursday in Sterling VA.
16-U Black, GROWS/Rapids Tune-up, Watertown CT, 8 teams, @ the 18-U Level
In a respectfully non-adjusted Pool Play the team earned a 9-1 victory over the CT Hornets, a 6-5 win over the Host CT Rapids, and concluded with a 8-3 win over the Freedom. Sunday morning saw a rematch with the Freedom and a 10-2 victory, followed by a tough 3-2 come from behind win over the Hurricanes to set up a rematch with the host CT Rapids in the Championship where the Bombers prevailed 6-5. A perfect 6-0 weekend heading into the USA Nationals in the Richmond VA area. Note: Delaney Harrington had 3 home runs over the weekend including a 2 run shot in the finals!
16-U White, Cape Cod College Showcase, Swansea MA, 36 teams @ the 18-U Level
Four Pool Play games, 1 Fri and 3 Sat, saw a 7-4 victory over the Dighton Dirt Dawgs, a 10-0 win over the Bay State Blaze Glen, a 9-2 victory over the Bay State Thunder, and finally a 4-2 win over the South Coast Scream Todd. Sunday started a bit late, due to good seeding, and went much later than usual. First elimination game was a tight 2-1 win over Firecrackers 2, then a 4-3 win over the Drifters Gold, semi-final saw a 7-5 win over the RI Aftershock, the Championship game ended with a 6-2 victory over the Vermont Rockets featuring the VT Gator-aid Player of the Year (Pitcher). a terrific 8-0 weekend heading into the teams trip to USA Nationals in VA.
A 23-5 weekend for the organization with two Championships and a Third Place finish.
The weather wasn’t the only thing hot!
12-U Teal, Woburn Tournament of Champions, Woburn MA, 10 teams
Pool play was scheduled to start on Friday under the lights but thunderstorms on Thursday night changed that. Saturday started pool play with a 7-6 win over the North Shore Breakers, a 4-3 victory over Miss Scotties (who would be the #2 seed only giving up 5 runs in pool play) and completed with a 12-3 loss to the Lumber Yard Xplosion. Due to the runs allowed Teal seeded 5th of 10. Sunday’s elimination round started and ended with a 16-4 loss to the #4 seeded Hokomoke Rox. A 2-2 weekend.
12-U White, Woburn Tournament of Champions, Woburn MA, 10 teams
Pool play schedule was redone taking away a game under the lights, so the team created their own spotlights.
Saturday morning saw a 8-1 victory over the New England Storm, a 16-1 crushing of the Tewksbury Redmen, and ended late in the evening with a 19-1 drubbing of the North Shore Breakers. The team earned the #1 seed and an late start on Sunday. The quarter-finals saw a 17-0 whitewash of the North Shore Breakers, followed by a 13-12 come from behind, and walk-off, win over the Hokomoke Rox in the semi-finals and finally a 11-0 mercy victory over the New England Storm in the Championship. A very long and hot 6-0 weekend.
14-U Black, Bash at the Beach, Pawcatuck RI (and surrounding towns) 14 teams
An odd schedule with 2 games on Friday and the third Pool Play game on Saturday, then eliminations on Sunday.
Pool play saw a 10-0 blanking of the Bay State Blaze, a 5-3 win over the Ravens, and finished with a 5-2 victory over the CT Rapids. This earned the team the #2 seed for Sunday. A late start and added delays threw the scheduled times out the window, but results are what matter and they were a hard fought come from behind 3-2 victory over the CT Diamond Club Black, a tougher than it sounds 9-1 victory over the FPN 14-U, and a 10-0 barrage over the Ravens in the Championship. A 6-0 weekend where the play was hotter than the temperatures.
All the issues mentioned above with the 12-U teams. While successful, not a tournament we will revisit in the future.
An abbreviated 2 game pool play started with a 10-2 victory over the New England Storm – Gambale, a 4-3 win over the Mass Fusion. This earned the team the #1 seed from their pool, Elimination play started with a 8-0 victory over the
New England Storm Allie, followed by a 8-0 victory over Mass Fusion, a 12-0 victory over the Mass Drifters, and completed with a 2-0 win over the Rangers in the Championship game. A perfect 6-0 record on a perfect July weekend!
16-U Black, Elite Showdown, East Hartford CT, an 8 team event
A new group running tournaments at the P&W complex, seemed worthy of a try.
Pool play saw a 10-2 victory over the CT Bullets, a 6-4 loss to the CT Intensity, followed by a 2-0 win over the CT Crush. This earned the team the #2 seed going into Sunday. Elimination play saw a 3-2 victory over the CT Crush, a 5-0 revenge win over the CT Intensity, and finally a hard fought 8-7 loss to the CT Diamond Club in the Championship game. The 4-2 record earned the squad a Runners-Up finish worthy of a very gritty team.
16-U White, South Coast Scream Open, New Bedford MA, a mixed 16-U & 18-U event, 5 teams
Pool play saw a lackluster day of a 5-2 win over the South Coast Scream Rich, a 4-2 Loss to the South Coast Scream Todd, and finally a 10-2 victory over Metro-West Thunder. Sunday’s elimination rounds returned to the teams business-like approach and saw a 4-3 win over South Coast Scream Todd, and ended with a 6-1 victory over South Coast Scream Rich for the Championship. a short 4-1 weekend that ended way better than it started.
For the organization, a 28-5 weekend with 4 Championships and a Runners-Up.
What a weekend it was in CT Bombers Land!
12-U Teal, Lightning Flash, Southington CT, 14 teams
Pool play started on a promising note with a 13-0 Defeat of the Westchester Heat followed by a 7-3 victory over the CT Bullets before facing the CT Seahawks Black where the team suffered a 13-0 loss. Still the 2-1 recorded earned the young squad the #5 seed and a Sunday early game vs the 12th seeded Shoreline Sting Blue. They showed up, we didn’t and the 11 year old team went don 10-3 ending the weekend with a disappointing 2-2 record.
12-U White, Lightning Flash, Southington CT, 14 teams
A near perfect pool play started with a 5-1 victory over Team Nitro L.I. before a 4-3 win over the host Southington Lightning which featured, among other things, a nifty 4-6-3 double play. Then on to a 12-0 drubbing of the Monroe Mustangs. The 3-0 pool play record earned the team the #2 seed and a late start on Sunday. Eliminations began with a 10-0 win over Team Nitro L.I. and an 8-4 triumph over Southington Lightning before a heartbreaking 5-4 loss in the Championship game to the CT Seahawks Black. Still an impressive 5-1 weekend and a Second Place finish.
14-U Black, NSA New England Regionals, Plainville MA, 12 Teams,
Pool play saw a 5-5 tie with the N.E. Hurricanes Blue, a 13-3 win over the Bay State Blaze, a 4-3 victory over the MASS Dynamites, and a 9-1 victory over K.P. Pride. Double elimination started with a 5-2 loss to the R.I. Rebels, followed by a 5-4 win over the Seacoast Hurricanes Red, and 11-1 thumping of the R.I. Thunder Futures before a 7-0 loss tot he R.I. Rebels ended the run. A very good 5-2-1 weekend finishing in Third Place.
14-U White, NSA New England Regionals, Plainville MA, 12 Teams,
The Pool Play set an interesting tone, a 14-0 humiliation of the Seacoast Hurricanes Blue, a tough 4-1 loss to the R.I. Rebels, a 9-0 win over the N.E. Dirt Dawgs Gold, and a 15-0 win over the Bay State Blaze, a 11-2 win over the R.I. Thunder Futures and a 3-0 victory over the Mass Dynamites. The pool play record afforded the team a late start while lesser teams were eliminated. Then there was a 9-1 victory over the R.I. Rebels and a wit for the last team to emerge from the losers bracket. Wouldn’t you know, the R.I. Rebels came back around. The team, down 9-0 and three outs from being mercied, fought back and tied the game at 9 in the bottom of the 5th before winning the Championship by a score of 10-9 with a walk-off in the bottom of the seventh. Aaliyah had 6 HR’s with three being Grand Slams, Paige also had an HR. Too many highlights to list. A very good 6-1 weekend.
16-U Black, NSA New England Regionals, Swansea MA, 12 Teams
Results were, 9-5 win over Bay State Blaze, 5-0 over New Hampshire Comets, 11-1 over Metro West Thunder, 8-0 over Frozen Ropes, earning the #4 seed. Elimination rounds saw an 11-1 victory over the Central MASS Crushers before a 4-0 loss to the CT Titans and a 4-2 loss to the Mass Drifters Navy to end the weekend with a 5-2 record.
16-U White (@18-U), NSA New England Regionals, Yalesville CT, 12 Teams
Pool play began with a 6-5 late inning loss to CT Freedom Elite, an 8-0 victory over the Boston Batbusters, 9-5 win over CT Mirage, a 15-1 drubbing by the Ulster Fillies and a 4-2 win over the Shoreline Sting. Elimination rounds saw a 7*4 victory over Team CT, a 4-3 semi-final ITB win avenging of yesterdays loss to the Ulster Fillies, and finally a 5-4 loss to the CT Freedom Elite in the Championship game. a terrific 5-3 weekend ending with a Second Place finish.
12-U Teal started with a 5:00 game on Friday afternoon. This may have been the team’s single worst effort of the season suffering an 18-3 loss to the Valley Fusion. There was a frank discussion after the game and the girls held a mini-team meeting prior to the next game on Saturday. Saturday started with a well played game ending with a 5-1 loss to CT Diamond Club (Windish) followed by an event filled 9-4 victory over the BVSA Titans. Sunday saw a rematch from Friday ending in a 10-4 loss to the Valley Fusion. a 1-3 weekend where the losses were to the eventual Champion (2) and the Third Place finisher. The important thing was the way the team responded after the Friday debacle.
12-U White traveled to Saratoga Springs NY to play in the 12 team Saratoga Miss Softball tournament. Pool play started with a 8-5 loss to the Classie Lassie Heat followed by a 9-1 victory over the Burnt Hills Spartan Crush and a 13-0 win over the Saratoga Thunder Red.Sunday’s elimination rounds started with a 16-0 laugher vs the Dalton Warriors and ended with a tough 7-6 loss to the Mass Drifters a foe from the past. The tieing and winning runs were on third and second respectively when the final out was recorded. A 3-2 weekend record.
14-U Black, Played in the 7 game guaranty Firecracker on the Fourth in Windsor CT, a 14 team affair. A long Pool Play started with a 5-1 victory over the South Jersey Thunder, a 15-1 drubbing of the Shoreline Breakers, a 7-3 win over the Capitol District Fusion, a tough 1-0 win over the Polar Crush, a 5-5 tie with the UNY Revolution, and concluded with a 6-6 tie with the R.I. Rebels. The Black team was the only one undefeated in pool play earning the #1 seed for Monday’s elimination rounds. Sunday started with a 6-1 victory over the R.I. Rebels before coming to an earlier than expected end with a 11-6 loss to the L.I. Surge. A terrific 5-1-2 weekend ending with a Third Place finish.
14-U White also attended the 7 game guaranty Firecracker on the Fourth in Windsor CT, a 14 team affair. Their Pool Play consisted of a 5-1 loss to the L.I. Surge, a 9-2 victory over the Shoreline Breakers, a 5-4 victory over the CT Gators, an 11-2 win over the R,I, Rebels, a 7-3 win over the Southington Lightning, and ending with a 9-7 loss to the UNY Revolution. The 4-2 pool play record earned the White team the #4 seed. Sunday began with a 8-1 victory over the CT Lady Knights before a 4-3 loss to the L.I. Surge ended the day. All in all a good 5-3 weekend earning a Fifth Place finish.
16-U Black attended the Tradition College Showcase in Wallingford CT. Pool play saw a 3-2 victory over the Ridgefield Rebels, a 4-0 win over the Ulster Fillies, and a 12-0 loss to the Valley Fusion. Sunday saw a heart-breaker in a tough fought 2-1 loss to the N.H. Comets. A rare 2-2 weekend that Coach Trad feels will pay dividends down the road.
16-U White played in the same Tradition College Showcase but at the 18-U level. The weekend started with a 4-2 victory over the N.J. Sparks and a 11-4 win over the Sting Gold, before concluding with a 4-1 loss to the CT Titans Green. Sunday saw a match-up with 3 of Coach Scott’s graduates from his HS program now playing for the 18-U Green Devils where the team suffered a 7-6 loss after three innings of ITB to determine a winner. A tough battle that someone had to lose and it was simply the wrong someone. Also a rare 2-2 weekend.
12-U Teal, visited our friends the Southington Lightning for their Summer Scorcher. The 12-U division had 8 teams with Pool Play saw a 5-4 victory over the Long Island Surge Blue followed by a spirited 7-2 loss to the Host Southington Lightning ’06, and concluded with a disappointing 12-4 loss to the Tucci Elite. Teal seeded third in the A Pool so they were matched up with the second seed from the B Pool the NY Warriors. Sunday morning saw a well fought if not disappointing 6-3 loss.
12-U White also went to Southington but with very different results. Pool play saw a 10-0 run rule game over the Empire State Huskies only to be followed with a 18-3 run rule victory over the NY Warriors and concluding with a tough fought 5-4 walk-off win over the Long Island Surge ’06. The 3-0 day seeded the White team as B1 and a Sunday match-up with A4 the L.I. Surge Blue which ended in a 4-3 victory. The semi-final match-up was with the L.I. Surge ’06 who were dispatched by a score of 9-6. The Championship game saw a rematch with the NY Warriors. The White team dispatched them again, this time by a 9-1 margin. A perfect 6-0 weekend.
The next 4 teams all attended the Silver City Slugfest with 9 14-U and 10 16-U teams.
14-U Black, Started off with a 7-2 win over East Coast Firecrackers Blue before a 2-1 loss to the CT Barracudas and finishing pool play with a 9-2 win over the CT Bullets Red. Sunday saw a rematch with a familiar foe where the Black team went down 2-1 vs the CT Lady Knights.
14-U White, Started Saturday with a 13-1 victory over the CT Angels, followed by a 10-0 win over the CT Lady Knights and finishing up with a 11-0 dispatch of the CT Bullets Red. Sunday saw a late start with a 9-0 shutout of the CT Bullets Red along with a 8-2 victory over the CT Lady Knights before a 16-1 drubbing of the CT Barracudas in the Championship game. A perfect 6-0 weekend where the team simply outclassed the competition.
16-U Black Started Saturday with 10 players (1 away at a wedding) and a 6-0 victory over the CT Gators, one player suffered an injury and a second had to leave also for a wedding (don’t these people know it’s softball season?) before game 2 leaving the team with 8 players for the remainder of the day. game 2 saw a 2-2 tie with the Valley Fusion followed by a 4-0 win over the CT Wreckers. Sunday’s elimination games started with a 5-1 victory over the Ridgefield Rebels, a 5-0 victory over the Valley Fusion and finally a 3-2 loss to the CT Bombers White in the Championship game to end as Runners-up.
16-U White, A great weekend starts with pool play results of 3-0 over the RI Aftershock, 6-0 over the MA Drifters, and 8-4 over the CT Mayhem. Seeded #1 allows a late start on Sunday and a 9-1 win over RI Aftershock and a 10-0 victory over the MA Drifters to reach the Championship where the White team put down the Black team in a tight 3-2 victory. A perfect 6-0 weekend.
For the Organization, 25-6-1 with three Championships and a Runners-Up between the 6 active teams.
12-U Teal, attended the NSA Dynamite Classic in Taunton (Lakeville) MA. Pool play started with a rushed and resounding 13-0 victory over the Bay State Blaze followed by a disappointing 9-8 loss tot he South Shore Chaos and a lackluster 18-6 run rule loss tot he South Coast Scream. The 1-2 record earned the team the #7 seed of 10 teams. Sunday morning started with a rematch with the South Coast Scream with the run rule being avenged with one of our own registering a 15-5 run rule victory to advance to the Semi-Finals. Unfortunately the team ran into a buzz saw in a very short 13-0 loss to the host Mass Dynamites. A 2-3 weekend with more lessons learned.
12-U White, went to the Lightning Strikes event in Southington CT. Pool play saw a 10-3 victory over the Rawlings Wildcats followed by a 7-4 loss tot he CT Mirage Nationals and ending with a 6-5 loss to the TC Futures. The 1-2 record earned the team the #6 seed out of 12 teams. Sunday began with a 4-3 victory over the NY Warriors before ending with a 8-7 loss to the Northeast Hurricanes. A 2-3 weekend for the older 12-U team.
14-U Black, attended the CT Bombers NSA Father’s Day Slug Fest in Franklin CT. Pool play saw an 11-3 defeat of the CT Crush followed by an identical 11-3 victory over the Shoreline Sting Blue before suffering a 9-1 defeat at the hands of the CT Lady Knights. The 2-1 record gave the team the #2 seed and a bye to the Semi-Finals. Sunday began with a 12-0 drubbing of the CT Shock in the Semi-Final and a 4-2 loss in the Championship to the CT Bombers White, the older 14-U team. The 3-2 weekend earned the squad the Runners-Up of the 6 team tournament.
14-U White, attended the CT Bombers NSA Father’s Day Slug Fest in Franklin CT. Saturday began with a 6-1 victory over the CT Shock, a 6-5 win vs the CT Lady Knights, and concluded with a 8-4 win over the Shoreline Sting Blue. The team was the only one to go 3-0 earning the #1 seed and a bye to the Semi-Finals. Sunday saw a rematch with the CT Lady Nationals ending with a 9-0 victory to advance to the finals where the White team prevailed 4-2 to earn the Championship. All in all a very nice 5-0 weekend at home.
16-U Black, traveled to Swansea MA to play in the NSA Xtreme Father’s Day tournament hosted by the S.E. Mass Xtreme. Pool play saw a 12-0 victory over the Bay State Blaze followed by a 7-1 win over the Franklin Fury before enduring a 11-4 loss to the Mass Drifters Navy. the 2-1 pool play earned the squad the #2 seed for Sunday morning. Swansea uses an interesting elimination bracket where the lower seeds meet then the winners take on the next lower seeds etc. this results with the #2 seed, in an 11 team tournament, getting a bye tot he semi-finals. There the Black team registered a 5-0 victory (avenging Saturday’s defeat) over the Mass Drifters to advance to the Championship where they notched a 6-5 victory over R.I. Fire & Ice. A good 4-1 weekend.
16-U White, also traveled to Swansea MA to play in the NSA Xtreme Father’s Day tournament at the 18-U Level hosted by the S.E. Mass Xtreme. Saturday saw a 12-0 victory over the Bay State Blaze, a 8-3 victory over the New England Phoenix, and concluded with a 10-0 win over the Metro West Thunder Regional. The 3-0 record allowing only 3 runs earned the team the #1 seed. Using the same elimination format as described above under the 16-U Black the White team earned a bye to the Semi-Finals where they notched a 9-3 victory over the R.I. Fire and Ice Red to advance to the Championship where they needed to score 1 in the bottom of the seventh to claim the
3-2 victory over the R.I. Fire and Ice Blue. A very nice 5-0 weekend playing up at the 18-U level.
Over all a 21-9 weekend with 3 Championships and a Runners-up.
10-U, took their first trip to Southington and Panthorn Park for the 8 team Summer Lead off Tournament. Pool Play was interesting starting with a 6-6 tie with the CT Diamond Club, a 12-0 whooping from the Empire State Huskies, and a fantastic 5-2 loss to Team Long Island, a very good team. The team pulled 9:30 match-up with the Rawlings Wildcats, the seventh match-up this season! The first inning was terrific and saw a legitimate (over the fence) Grand Slam by Madison Taylor. Despite good pitching by Jillian Fugere the game devolved from there and the good guys finished their season with a 15-4 loss and an overall record of 11-22-1. The season was MUCH better than that record indicates. Now the Baby Bombers will go their separate ways and see one another across the diamond in their LL All-Star tournaments.
12-U Teal, traveled to Watertown to the GROWS/Rapids Spring Bash a 6 team NSA Tournament. Saturday saw an unexpected 7-6 loss to the CT Titans Green followed by a 24-8 drubbing of the Wolcott Eagles and concluded with a 5-2 loss to the Host CT Rapids. This earned the team the #6 seed and a game vs the older CT Bombers White who seeded #3. The 11’s put up a scrappy fight requiring the White team to score two in the bottom of the last inning to win 6-5. A non-disappointing loss to end Teal’s weekend with a 1-3 record.
12-U White, also attended the Spring Bash in Watertown. Pool play results were a 16-0 victory over the Southington Lightning 07, a 15-0 victory over the CT Hurricanes, and concluded with a 7-2 loss to the Valley Fusion. The 2-1 record earned the team the #3 seed and a match-up with the #6 seeded younger CT Bombers Teal. After time expired Melina Grazziano hit a hard shot double to drive in the tying and winning runs in a 6-5 victory. Next was a 7-3 victory over the Southington Lightning and a rematch with the Valley Fusion in the Championship game. This didn’t go as desired and ended with a 10-2 run rule loss. The team finished with a 4-2 record, a Second Place finish, with both losses coming at the hands of the tournament Champions.
14-U Black, the younger 14-U team also attended the Watertown Spring Bash. Unfortunately there were but 5 teams in the 14-U division. That said there were games to be played. Pool play saw a 7-1 victory over the CT Hurricanes, a 6-1 victory over the Host CT Rapids, and ended with a 12-0 win over the Shoreline Sting White. The team earned the #1 seed as a result. Sunday’s semi-final saw a 5-0 victory over the CT Bullets to advance to the Championship game, Once there the good guys went down 7-4 to the Host CT Rapids earning a 4-1 record and Second Place in the tournament.
14-U White, traveled to Swansea MA for the Xtreme NSA National Qualifier, a 13 team event. Saturday didn’t go as expected with a 8-6 loss to the N.E. Dirt Dawgs, followed by a 12-0 victory over the South Coast Scream, and concluding with a 9-3 loss to the R.I. Fire and Ice. With the rust shaken off Sunday was the day to go to work! Results were 10-2 victory over the Shoreline Sting, a 13-0 avenging of yesterdays loss to R.I. Fire and Ice, followed by a 8-7 semi-final win over the CT Titans setting up a 6-4 victory over the K.P. Pride to take the Championship with a 5-2 record for the weekend.
16-U Black, had an excellent Saturday playing up at the 18-U level in the State of Shock tournament. An NSA sanctioned event in Meriden CT, Pool play saw a 7-0 victory over the CT Lady Knights, a 7-4 win over the Queens Nassau Comets, and finally an 8-0 win over the CT Tides. Sunday was a new day and saw a tough 4-3 loss to the CT Lady Knights ending the teams weekend. Still a 3-1 outing for the first weekend back together portends good things for the season.
16-U White, also played up at the 18-U level in the State of Shock tournament in Meriden. The older 16-U team saw a 7-0 win over Team CT followed by a 8-0 loss to the CT Eliminators and a 4-4 tie with the CT Rapids. Sunday saw a 6-2 win over Team CT followed by a weekend ending 7-0 loss to the CT Eliminators. a 2-2-1 first weekend of the season.
For the Organization a 19-15-2 weekend with a Championship and two Second Places.
10-U competed in the CT Titans Mike Arburr Memorial Tournament in Windsor CT.
Game 1 resulted in a 13-4 victory over the CT Gators
Game 2 was a 18-2 loss tot eh Rawlings Wildcats
The final Pool Play game ended with a 12-0 shellacking from the Southington Lightning
The team was seeded 8th of 11 and matched up with the 9th seeded Westport Wreckers. The Baby Bombers pulled away for a 10-3 victory and the sixth match-up of the year withe the eventual Tournament Champions (now have a record of 33-2) the Rawlings Wildcats. The good guys went down 11-1 ending their 2-3 weekend.
12-U Teal also competed in the CT Titans Mike Arburr Memorial Tournament in Windsor CT.
Pool Play saw a 10-3 win over the CT Titans Green before a 8-1 loss to the NY Warriors, and (no disrespect intended) a 16-3 loss to the inferior Blue Angels. The 1-2 record earned the team the 18th seed out of 22 teams and a spot in the Silver Bracket. Sunday’s eliminations started, and ended with a 8-3 loss tot he Berlin Bulldogs where the team was snake-bitten to hit virtually every ball right at a defensive player. The Bulldogs made the plays and ended Teals day early. A 1-3 weekend.
12-U White competed in the Hurricane on the Hill. Last year the team had finished second in a 12 team event here. So they returned to defend or improve upon that finish. This year there were only 5 12-U teams, the first a a few disappointments for this weekend. Due to two injuries and a family wedding (Maine) the squad would compete this weekend with only 8 players, taking an out every time the ninth spot in the line-up came around. Pool ply started with an 19-7 victory over the Fireballs. In the second game the good guys were up on the New Milford Chaos before a horrific and bizarre sliding injury resulted in Summer having to leave in an ambulance, later to be diagnosed with a broken pelvis. With the team down to 7 players the game resulted in a 7-0 forfeit, as did game #3. The 1-2 record gave the team the #4 seed and a play-in game with the #5 seeded Fireballs for Sunday morning. With a flurry of communications it was arranged for the Teal team to supply an 8th player for Sunday, leaving them with 9. However The player who was in Maine for a wedding, supported heavily by her family, would return very early Sunday morning allowing the team to compete with their own players, albeit only 8, as they desired. So elimination game #1 resulted in a 12-0 win over the Fireballs, #2 with a 12-1 defeat of the New Milford Chaos, and in the Championship a 7-5 victory over the CT Diamond Club. All with only 8 players! There is not enough time or space to recount all the heroics of this weekend. Suffice it to say it is one none of these girls will ever forget. Now all thoughts and prayers are directed at Summer as we await definitive word on her condition and prognosis.
14-U Black competed in what was thought to be a major event, the Tradition Futures Classic in Wallingford CT. Unfortunately it was less than anticipated drawing only 6 teams in it’s inaugural season. Pool play progressed with victories of 11-0 vs the Shoreline Sting White, 12-5 vs the CT Raiders, and 16-2 vs the Shoreline Sting Blue. The team earned the #1 seed for Sunday. Elimination rounds resulted in a 5-2 victory over the Cheshire Flames and the Championship game ended with a 14-0 routing of the CT Raiders. While not the road expected the results were what was desired. This team will earn hardware all season long!
*May 25-26
This weekend all 4 active teams went to the same Ed Keene Memorial Tournament in Plainville MA. This is another NSA Tournament that uses a no new inning after 90 minute format so the girls get to play more than the USSSA or USA 75 minute format.
10-U, a rough but very productive weekend started with a 5-3 loss to a talented and disciplined South Coast Chaos. A quick change of venues and back on the field for a 10-1 loss tot he R.I, Rampage followed by a 5-1 loss to the Rangers. The 0-3 pool play saddled us with the B4 seeding and an elimination game vs the A1 seeded East Coast Lady Sting where the team went down in a 5-3 defeat. The 0-4 record defies the steps forward and the increased competitiveness of the team as a whole.
12-U Teal, started off with a 11-5 victory over the NE Shockwave followed immediately with a second 11-5 win over the Bay State Blaze. A single game slot break and them a 13-1 loss to the Mass Drifters, a very professional and disciplined team, The 2-1 pool play record earned the team the #6 seed for Sunday’s elimination rounds where they would play the winner of the #11 vs #14 seeds. The squad faced the host team K.P. Pride Green and in a tighter match than the score reveals they were victorious 10-3. This set up a quarterfinal game vs the #3 seeded Mass Dynamites who, after a close and spirited start ran away with a 15-5 defeat over Teal. Teal had some significant firsts in their third outing. 1st two win Saturday, 1st Sunday win, and 1st winning weekend (3-2). The journey begins.
12-U White, started off where they left off the past two weekends, a 7-3 win over the Polar Crush followed by a 13-1 run rule game over the South Coast Scream and after a break pool play finished with a 5-4 victory over Raiders Softball. The 3-0 record earned White the #4 seed and a later start on Sunday. Elimination rounds began with a 5-3 victory over the Walpole Crush followed by a semi-final 8-6 loss to the Mass Drifters. A good 4-1 showing for the weekend. THIRD PLACE
14-U Black, began Saturday with a 7-1 victory over the NE Storm before some hometown cooking favored each opponent going forward. The second game was a tough 5-4 loss to Raiders Softball followed by a slightly bizarre 8-2 loss tot he Bombers Elite. The 1-2 record earn the team the #9 seed and a match with the #8 seeded host KP Pride. The good guys went down 12-5 and ended the weekend with a very rare 1-3 record.
CT Bombers Welcome NSA back to Southern New England
Posted by Richard Hiscox at Sep 30, 2018 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
After declining choices due to the self inflicted demise of PONY the CT Bombers are very happy to welcome and support the return of NSA to southern New England. The additional choice of sanctioning bodies will serve the softball community well by forcing all to provide the players a better product.
Posted by Richard Hiscox at Jul 31, 2018 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
The 16-U CT Bombers finished THIRD in the 72 team USSSA Eastern Nationals in Salisbury MD! The 7-3 trip was one to remember.
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The Realme X50 Pro 5G gets UK price and release date
Realme X50 Pro 5G confirmed: Release date, price & specs
Realme's new flagship phone can give the Galaxy S20 a run for its money at half the price
Galaxy S20-esque specs at half the price
By Chris Martin, Reviews Editor | 05 May 2020
Realme couldn't go ahead with its first MWC launch, but went ahead with an event for the X50 Pro 5G in Madrid on the same day. Here's what you need to know about this power-house smartphone including release date, price and specs.
You might not have heard of Realme yet, but it's another Chinese phone maker ready to take on the big names following the likes of Xiaomi, OnePlus and Oppo. The phone follows the Realme X2 Pro.
When is the Realme X50 Pro 5G release date?
There's really not long to wait for the X50 Pro 5G as it will be available starting today, 24 February, at 6pm (India time) from realme.com and Flipkart.
In Europe it will arrive in April and the UK has a release date of 13 May via Realme and Amazon.
How much does the Realme X50 Pro 5G cost?
The X50 Pro 5G is available in three different variants, all with 5G so you just need to choose how much memory and storage you want:
6+128GB - ₹44,999 or 599 Euro (approx £500/US$650)
8+128GB - £569, ₹39,999 or 669 Euro (approx US$725)
12+256GB - £699, ₹37,999 or 749 Euro (approx US$810)
Note that the 6/128GB is not confirmed for the UK. At these prices, it must compete with the likes of the OnePlus 8 and Galaxy S10 Lite.
What are the Realme X50 Pro 5G specs?
We already knew a bunch of things about the X50 Pro ahead of the launch including its Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 5G processor, 90Hz refresh rate and 65W SuperDart charging. However, here's the full run down now the device is official and it's not far off some of the Galaxy S20 phones,
Realme says the X50 Pro 5G will be the first 5G phone available in India, despite the lack of a network to use it on just yet. The Snapdragon 865 is extremely powerful and can get a score of over 600,000. It covers the major 5G bands and has a total of 13 antennas (8 of which are for 4G/5G) to ensure stable connectivity
The screen is 6.44in via Samsung and uses Super AMOLED technology with a Full HD+ resolution, 20:9 aspect ratio, 1000nit brightness and pill shaped punch-hole cut out for the two front facing cameras. There's a 92% screen-to-body ratio, 90Hz refresh rate and up to 180Hz touch sampling rate.
Those front facing cameras are 32Mp wide angle and 8Mp super wide angle (105 degrees) with support for things like HDR, portrait and Super Nightscape.
At the back is four more cameras starting with a 12Mp telephoto that can offer up to 20x hybrid with smooth zoom feature. There's a 64Mp main camera, an 8Mp Ultra wide (119 degrees) and macro (3cm), then finally a black and white portrait camera with an f/2.4 aperture.
Camera features include Super Nightscape 3.0 which can do up to 50 seconds long exposure on a tripod and an Expert mode with various settings for saving RAW images.
The insane 65W SuperDart charging - with the charger supplied in the box - will mean you can get the 4200mAh battery from dead to full in just 35 minutes. Realme claims a tiny three minute top up will provide you with enough charge to watch 100 minutes of video.
Embedded in the screen is a fingerprint scanner which Realme says can get the job done in just 0.27 seconds.
The phone comes with dual speakers with support for Dolby Atmos and H-Res, plus even has a headphone jack. Realme says you can connect a pair of wired and wireless headphones at the same time.
Other features of the phone include a Tectile Engine Linear Motor, Wi-Fi 6, NFC, Dual Channel GPS, LPDDR5 memory and Dual Channel UFS 3.0 storage. The latter allows apps to boot 40% faster. As mentioned earlier you can get up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB storage for not much more than the other models.
On the software side, the X50 Pro 5G will come with a new version of Realme UI based on Android 10 ColorOS 7 which the firm says is closer to stock. It features things like Sunrise Dark Mode, HyperBoost and customisable icons.
Author: Chris Martin, Reviews Editor
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PTI Entertainment Jun 16, 2020, 11:18 am
Staging T20 World Cup unrealistic amid COVID-19 pandemic: Australia
Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings on Tuesday conceded that this year’s T20 World Cup amid the COVID-19 pandemic seems “unrealistic” as it will be difficult to fly in 16 teams to the country.
The fate of the event, scheduled to be held in October and November, is shrouded in uncertainty as several countries continue to have in place, strict travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected over 8.1 million people across the globe.
“I would say it is unlikely…trying to get (teams from) 16 countries into Australia when most countries are still going through COVID spiking is unrealistic or very, very difficult,” Eddings said during a video conference.
Last week, the International Cricket Council (ICC), after a board meeting, said a decision regarding the tournament will be made next month.
The world body stated that it wants to continue exploring contingency plans for some more time as a call of this magnitude needs to be taken after every possible deliberation.
There is speculation that the event is headed for a postponement and the window will be utilised by the IPL, which is currently suspended.
This is despite the fact that Australia is among the countries that have managed to flatten the curve.
Just over 7000 cases have been reported here and more than 6000 of them have recovered from the deadly infection.
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Japanese economy slumps to decade low amidst Covid-19 pandemic
Japanese economy slumps for the 3rd straight quarter
Government rolls multi trillion-dollar stimulus package to support the ailing economy
Some green shoots visible, but economy not out of woods yet
Japan, the world’s third largest economy registered sharp drop in GDP performance during the Apr-Jun quarter, following the trend in other major countries around the globe which too recorded acute drop in their economic activity amidst the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Economies around the globe went to a standstill during most of the first half of 2020 as coronavirus affected the health of millions of individuals, pushing governments to announce complete and/or partial lockdown in industries across the length and breadth of the economy. In Japan, report from Cabinet office showed, overall economic output contracted by 7.8% during the Apr-Jun quarter, when compared sequentially and marking its third continuous quarterly drop. This was the worst performance in any quarter for the Japanese economy, at least dated back to 1980 when the government started providing comparable economic performance. The fall was so big in terms of quantum that the overall size of the real GDP came down to 485 Trillion Yen, the size seen in early 2011, around the time the much talked and debated ‘Abeconomics’ started under the leadership of Japan’s PM, Shinzo Abe. Japan’s economy was already under pressure during the last quarter of CY 2019, as rise in consumption tax from 8% to 10% during October last year, slowing demand in China and other major importing nations and a number of natural disasters during the past year pushed it into contraction even before the pandemic hit the country in early 2020. Growth in the earlier 2 quarters Oct-Dec 2019 and Jan-Mar 2020 stood at -1.8% and -0.6%.
Fall in Japanese economy during the Apr-Jun 2020 quarter was even worse if we look at the data on an annualized basis with the reading standing at negative 27.8% as local demand plunged whereas exports of goods and services crashed nearly 20% during the period under review. Silver lining was attached with the fact that numbers stood broadly in-line with major economists’ estimates, and moderately better than the performance reported by other key world economies during the same quarter. During the same period, US GDP came down by 32.9% while double digit drop was seen in the most major EU region countries. Data from Eurostat showed, quarter on quarter GDP during Apr-Jun quarter slid by 12.1% in the EU while UK GDP also fell by 20.4% in the period. Nevertheless, almost all Asian countries fared better with China even registering modest growth in economic output after the slump in past quarter.
Onto the health management front, Japan has fared better than many other economies in comparison to its overall size and also when equated to total population in the country. Total number of cases in Japan stand just above 55,000 (16th Aug) with mortality rate standing just near 2%, faring better than the world average and indicates strong government and local control of the situation as against many other developed and developing countries. Around the onset of the Covid-19 fallout, Japan was amongst the first ones to announce closure of schools while incorporating a number of and public safety measures along with government initiatives that aided in keeping overall numbers low. Still, Japan being one of the major exporting nations in the world maintains critical position in technology, manufacturing, and industrial sectors across the globe. With other nations hard hit due to the Coronavirus pandemic, indirect effect was felt on Japan as well, a gift of globalization and result of its dependence on exports as well as imports (natural resources).
Positively, the Japan's government and central bank have announced series of fiscal and monetary policy measures to contain the effect of the pandemic. The government in May month approved second round of stimulus measures amounting to nearly 117 Trillion Yen of budgetary allocations, which is a follow-up of a similar amount worth of investments and budget allocations announced in April this year. The new package pushed the total spending the Japanese government has put to fight Covid-19 to be around 234 Trillion Ten or around $2.18 trillion, standing at ~40% of Japanese GDP and marking it as one of the biggest ever fiscal package announced by any government around the world. The package would be a mix of bond buying by the central bank, incentives to small and medium enterprises, interest free loans, increased spending on medical and healthcare and inclusive of direct payment to individuals and corporates who were directly affected by the pandemic amongst other measures. Some green shoots are visible as well in the different economic cues in the last few months which showed amelioration. As the economy started to reopen gradually towards May end and with further improved business activities in June and July, economic cues have improved with fall in unemployment rate, rising retail sales as well as improvement in industrial activity.
On one hand, we see some optimism coming back into the Japanese economy, however, on the other end, Covid-19 cases which fell for most of May and stayed under 100 per day for most of June month have seen sharp rise in July and first half of August. This doesn’t sound very well as second round of case rise is likely to affect the psychology of corporate and the people alike and has capacity to stall or at least derail the rebound. While almost all countries in the world are moving into unlock mode as they try to seek the balance between economic and individual growth along with caution being kept in terms of health and safety, Covid-19 is testing the public and administration both as they fight against the pandemic, with Japanese people and government also working on similar lines. From a macro level, while the worst seems behind for the Japanese economy, but it is going to be followed by slower growth for many quarters going forward before the economy really starts to accelerate on the growth path ahead.
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Recent Press and Commentaries
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience
National Center for Biological Science
K. VijayRaghavan
Roy Parker Lab
Welcome to the Ramaswami Lab
A major focus in Neuroscience is to decipher molecular cellular and circuit mechanisms that enable neural operations. We predominantly study: (1) how brains learn to recognize and ignore familiar patterns of stimulation; and (2) how local regulation of synaptic mRNA translation occurs and contributes to long-term learning of familiar stimuli.
Two recent insights, which we believe to be of fundamental importance, drive our research.
First, our work on olfactory habituation suggests a "negative-image model for habituation (Ramaswami in prep.)" that theoretically explains habituation in most neural systems and species. The model makes testable proposals for the underlying synaptic mechanisms as well as for how these are induced, gated and regulated by experience and behavioral states of an organism.
Second, we have proposed that altered neuronal mRNP-aggregation mechanisms cause defects in synaptic mechanisms of long-term memory, as well as, unexpectedly, various age-associated neurodegenerative conditions (Ramaswami et al., 2013, Sudhakaran, Hillebrand et al. submitted, McCann 2011). Our findings and those of our collaborators lead to well-developed molecular models for mRNP regulation, which are testable with assays we have developed to assess mRNPs in vivo, as well as their involvement in synaptic memory processes and neurodegenerative disease.
While focused on in vivo studies in Drosophila melanogaster, the scope of our work is extended by deep collaborations with many top Drosophila, neural-circuit, RNA and clinical-research laboratories in the world. Particularly long-standing interactions are with K. VijayRaghavan and K.S. Krishnan in the NCBS Bangalore, and Roy Parker in the HHMI and University of Colorado, Boulder.
There are rich opportunities for young scientists considering working in these areas.
Project 1. How do animals ignore familiar stimuli? The negative-image model for habituation.
Habituation is conceptually simple: an animal′s response to an experience reduces if the experience is repeated multiple times. It remains mysterious, in that its mechanisms remain unknown.
Based on studies of olfactory habituation in the fly (Pushkar 2012, Sudhakaran 2012, McCann 2011, Das 2011, Larkin 2010), we have proposed a general mechanism for habituation termed "the negative-image model (Ramaswami in prep.)" We suggest that, frequent or sustained unreinforced exposure to a stimulus creates a neural "negative image" that filters/ dampens the net neuronal response to familiar stimulus. We suggest that such negative images are created through synapse-specific potentiation of highly connected local-circuit interneurons that mediate recurrent (feedback) inhibition driven by a stimulus-evoked excitation.
In a few years, we hope to have determined whether this constitutes a general cellular and neural network mechanism for behavioral habituation. . In addition, we will have discovered how habituation is achieved in terms of molecular and synaptic mechanisms that drive changes in a beautifully accessible neural circuit that underlies olfactory behavior. Further, we expect to hav e learned, at the level of molecules and individual cells, how mechanisms of olfactory habituation are regulated by attentional, motivational and painful stimuli. Finally, through recently initiated collaborations, we will have new information on how and whether defects in habituation arise and contribute to autism and other forms of neuropsychiatric disease.
The experiments on synaptic signaling and circuit mechanisms of habituation are part of a closely coordinated project with the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, initiated with the late Veronica Rodrigues and continued with K.VijayRaghavan. This work may be further advanced by a nascent collaboration with Aravi Samuel and Marta Zlatic′s groups (in Harvard and Janelia Farm).
Project 2. How is mRNA translation regulated in neurons? How do these mechanisms contribute to memory and neurodegenerative disease?
The regulation of mRNA is hugely important field in all fields of biology. In neurons, mRNA translation is controlled by miRNAs, RNA binding proteins, multiple associated factors and, importantly, by synaptic signaling. RNA regulation is required for functions ranging from long-term memory to neuronal development and survival. Key insights to which we have contributed significantly are: a) neuronal mRNAs are frequently packaged into mRNP aggregates (particles) from which they may be released for translation (Hillebrand 2010, Cziko 2009,Kwak 2008, Hillebrand 2007,Barbee 2006); b) these mRNP aggregates are functionally related to intracellular aggregates associated with neurodegenerative disease (McCann 2011, Ramaswami et al. 2013); and c) that the identical RNA regulatory mechanisms may participate in long-term memory formation, mRNP aggregate/ inclusion body formation and neurodegenerative disease (Sudhakaran, Hillebrand submitted).
We expect, over the next few years, to have provided new insight into the mechanisms that regulate synaptic mRNAs during memory formation in vivo, as well as to have comprehensively tested the idea that the dysregulation of physiological mechanisms of mRNP aggregate formation revealed by our studies, is a major causal factor in neurodegenerative disease.
We are guided in these experiments by observations, findings and models on mRNA regulatory mechanisms in yeast from the lab of Roy Parker (HHMI and the University of Colorado, Boulder). The project is greatly enabled by Drosophila genomic resources (TFF) being built in the NCBS (in collaboration with MPI Dresden and Munich), new technologies being designed by Pablo Labrador (Trinity) and Markus Affolter (Zurich), as well as nascent collaborations with clinician scientists.
Research and "training" opportunities in the lab.
There are several interesting, multidisciplinary (and potentially translationally relevant) projects available to progress the questions outlined above. We hope that innovative and energetic young scientists will join the lab to define and drive the experiments and so advance our thinking.
In addition to learning and doing excellent research, for postdocs and Ph.D students the lab is a place in which to define their interests and long-term goals as well as to proactively map suitable career paths. We try to accommodate diverse interests and aptitudes by maintaining a vigorous, open intellectual environment in which young scientists have the opportunity to pursue independent, creative and multidisciplinary science. More independent and demanding projects are possible with the participation of a wide range of outstanding collaborators and friends. Unique career and funding opportunities exist for young scientists who would like to establish strong links with the NCBS, Bangalore and/or independent research programmes in India.
If you are interested either in the questions that we are currently working on or in developing ideas that might direct your future in science and technology, please feel free to contact us for formal or informal conversations.
Trinity College | Institute of Neuroscience | Last update: Sept 2013
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LG G6 appears in leaked image ahead of MWC debut
T-Mobile has been home to many LG flagships in the past, and that’ll likely continue with the G6, which is expected to debut at the end of February. Before it does, though, an image of the device has given us a look at its front.
A newly-leaked render allegedly shows the front of the LG G6. According to The Verge, we’re looking at a device with a glass and metal body and a screen-to-bezel ratio greater than 90 percent, which suggests that there will be slim bezels all around the display.
Speaking of the display, this image also suggests that the LG G6 will have rounded display corners. That’s not something we’ve seen on many smartphones, but Xiaomi did recently launch a phone called the Mi Mix that also has rounded screen corners.
LG has officially said much about the G6, but the company has confirmed that it’s holding an event on February 26 at which the phone will likely make its official debut. LG Display has said that the G6 will have a 5.7-inch 2880×1440 display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, which will make the screen a bit taller than most other smartphone displays. Considering that the G6 will be a flagship, we’ll likely see at least 4GB of RAM and a high-end Snapdragon processor in there, too.
Tags: Android, LG, LG G6, MWC 2017
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Wayde Philpot
Looks like a Note 7
lomsha
Finally a 5.7 phone.
Wish we could get someone to make a 6in phone!
I would go for that.
2017 will be the year of no bezels and I love it!
The only problem is the g series has an issue getting the phones out after announcement. G5 was announced in feb too but i believe was not available to buy until April. They are gonna have to be available way ahead of the galaxy s8 (which may also be unleashed in April) to try to steal it’s sales. If they can ship it by mid March they may be able to snatch a few who were waiting on the s8 including myself. But if it’s only a week or 2 before the s8 I’ll just wait.
compsciphd
so what are the chances this has a bootloop issue as well. My G3 died with a bootloop (but LG refused to repair even though in warranty period due to what they claimed was water damage, ended up using CC insurance). My G4 then died the same way after warranty, but LG was good to replace it. I’ve heard the G5s aren’t immune to the issue either. A bit insane that for years they’ve been suffering from this issue.
Rgvuser956
Actually most owners after android 7.0 on the G5 haven’t had that problem. I, for one haven’t.
Note I didn’t say all had it. I said not immune. Could be rare but still happening.
Zacamandapio
The G5 was the worst LG phone I’ve had. So many issues. GPS didn’t lock. Battery would not hold a charge for long. Maybe I had a dud but I never came even close to buying another one.
From the G3 and on everything went down.
I wish LG would work on their interface. It makes TouchWiz look downright sophisticated. I ditched my G4 because I couldn’t get past the cartoon like skin.
Corey Jalette
I agree. It always feels like a downgrade the the software when I use an lg phone.
taxandspend
I think I like the LG skin. I don’t feel like it was too different from stock.
Wow, have you ever looked at stock Android?
Yeah, I have a Nexus 7. I like that too. I’ve seen some that are far different from stock. I feel like the LG interface is stock plus a few enhancements.
That’s how I felt about my LG G3. I preferred the color palette they used over what I was used to on the Note 3.
Bonedatt
Nova or any other launcher could’ve fixed that, instead of buying another phone.
pda96
Hate to say it…but the edges look like an iPhone. But for me, the end result is the same as previous LG models. No stereo speakers = no sale!
LakeFish
Serious question — why is that a deal breaker for you?
When I’m watching or listening to something on my phone, it’s usually just for me, and I use headphones. If it’s with others or I’m alone (where I can turn the sound up), I use a bigger device. Phone speakers are tiny and can be at most about 5″ apart.
So although I’m not sure what circumstances make stereo speakers on a cell phone useful, there’s obviously something I’m not getting.
I rarely use headphones of any sorts. I’m not one of those people walking around with earbuds stuffed in their ears, completely oblivious to what’s going on around them.
The only time I listen to music is when I’m in my car. One of my cars has Android Auto. So I connect my phone to that and listen to music. My other cars are older and don’t support “today’s technology”. So I rely primarily on the phone’s speakers instead.
No, a phone’s speakers cannot be considered “hi-fidelity” by any stretch of the imagination. But if a phone has front facing stereo speakers, they will still sound one hell of a lot better than a single bottom facing one.
That makes sense, and I totally agree it sounds so different.
Before I installed a head unit with Bluetooth, I was using an FM transmitter in the car. But when I’m alone in the car, it’s usually audiobooks, so the sound quality there isn’t as important for me.
At work or at home, there’s times I need to be oblivious if I’m going to get any work done. ;)
Phong Trinh
How long before this one bootloop too?
I think this might be the year that all flagships will look nearly identical. Apple, Sammy, and LG have opted to put as much screen space available to use along with the fingerprint scanner possibly placed underneath. I can’t see these phones being that much different from each other, but what may set them apart will be the hardware specs and/or the customers are just complete fanatics of the company they are loyal to. I think innovation has reached the highest point in terms of design. You could say the same for the hardware. Nothing seems to be different these days. It all comes down to what you want people to see you with just like when you drive up to work. Do you want the Chevy, Ford, or Kia? Same old, same old.
Haha I would like to see apple get rid of all that bezal but idk if they can do it.
Bitting going to have 821 CPU blah blah
bkat11
LG will not be getting the Snapdragon 835 so the phones will not all be the same. It will have the same issues that the Pixel has
Andrew Singleton
what issues are the pixel having?
Hardware issues like battery drain like in the Iphone 7, software issues such as phone locking up, connectivity issues
The 7 is not having battery issues. The 6s and 6 are, and what is your source of this knowledge? I haven’t heard any of this!
Kim F
Hope it does better than G5!
Dan Rubin
All these deals for the new customers but I have been with T-Mobile for 12+ years. I want free 1 year of Hulu.
Bryck
The only way I was going to buy this phone was if the 835 Snapdragon was on board. Sad to say that I’m disappointed about the news.
Wonder why it’s 821 I had heard there was 830
821 Google assistant if only it was getting 835
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The vast repertoire of music, literature and art created by the extended Banai family are among the intricate cultural pieces that give Israel its unique identity. The mulberry tree, #1 Pear Stree, scents of jasmine, an old melody, the Machane Yehuda market and the neighborhoods of Nachlaot are now more than objects and locations. Through their cultural reconception they have found their way into collective Israeli pop culture, sparking nostalgia and sentiment for Jerusalem.
This new exhibition at the Tower of David is a sensory musical journey of the voices, the sounds and the sights that tell the history of a family whose story embodies the story of Israel.
The story begins in far-off Shiraz, Persia, the city from which Rachamim Bana and his wife, Rachel, immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881. The story takes us through the neighborhoods of Jerusalem to the Machane Yehuda market, wandering through childhood vistas, inspirational spaces and historical events in the family’s narrative through the generations.
BANAI – A Musical Journey from Persia to Jerusalem highlights the creativity of this unique family, whose roots were nurtured in the traditional Jewish Persian culture of Shiraz, but crystallized just as a modern and avant-garde society was emerging in Jerusalem. Throughout the generations, these talented family members and their work have reflected and refashioned Israeli culture, and they are mainstays of Israeli cultural life even now.
* Please note: Due to ongoing construction at the Tower of David there may be changes in the accessbility of parts of the site. Please call *2884 for up to date information.
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Eric Clapton’s Son Died Running Out of a 53rd Story Full-Wall Window a Janitor Had Removed to Let in Fresh Air
December 28, 2011 Daven Hiskey 21 comments
Clapton’s son, Conor, who he had with model and actress Lori del Santo while still married to Patti Boyd, died at the age of four years old after falling from a window in del Santo’s 53rd floor, New York City apartment. The window was a full wall window that had been removed by a janitor to let fresh air in while he worked. Conor was playing hide and seek with a nanny and running from her when he ran into the room with the open window and straight out of it. Clapton found out when he arrived later to pick up Conor and del Santo to go to the zoo.
This gave rise to one of Clapton’s most popular songs, “Tears in Heaven”, which is referencing Clapton’s grief as well as regret that up until that point he had been a reluctant father who was often absent and, according to del Santo, only the night before had told her that he wanted to become a much bigger part of Conor’s life, only to have Conor die the next day; hence the “Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?”
According to del Santo, during her pregnancy, Clapton attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself, but ultimately just passed out and eventually regained consciousness. Clapton’s manager also attempted to get del Santo to abort the baby as he thought del Santo would try to use the baby to extort money from Clapton, which ultimately never happened.
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Tragic story that could happen to anyone. One slight mistake and look what happens
Grant L. Rosie
Things like this wouldn’t happen if more of us paid attention to one another, and cared for each other’s safety, and we’ll being. I’d feel exactly the same if it happened to anyone else in the universe.
noneofyourbuisness
wait so are you trying to say its Conor’s dad Eric’s fault or his mothers fault bcause they “were not” paying attention?
I hope that janitor was sued as well as imprisoned for negilgant homicide. My heart aches for him as I know what it is like to lose a son.
sandyjeanie
He was an idiot janitor for sure but..he was never blamed for the terrible accident that cost little Conor his life. But worse than that..the janitor never said he was sorry to Eric or Lory for the accident; nor did he ever express condolences to them for their son’s death. So, it’s one thing to be an accidental idiot (for Conor’s accidental death)..but to be a purposeful idiot (for purposely ignoring Conor’s death)..has to be the worst.
barbj
He got off scot free and no one was sued, really disgusting.
Lynda Berry
Just say sorry for your lost of your son only 4 years old miss out been with his mum and dad and rest of brothers and sister grandparents see you in heaven one day soon
It was a horrible accident. Clapton didn’t blame anyone. Not even the janitor who left the window open. Clapton said the janitor probably didn’t know a child was in the apartment. It’s one of those things where you want to scream WHY?!! Just an unbelievable accident. Pray for Eric and Conor’s mother Lory Del Santo.RIP little Conor.
I pray for Eric and Lory.
ELLEN Vanous
RIP little Conor. You were very loved and missed. Will pray for your parents who are in agony for your lose of life.
Tim M Podhorn
Eric Clapton & his girl friend are idiots. Even though Clapton is a savant…
eileen whitney
YES, ERIC. HE WILL KNOW YOU IN HEAVEN. MAYBE HE WILL WANT TO LEARN TO FLY FISH. MAYBE HE HAS WRITTEN A COUPLE OF SONGS FOR HIS DAD. THANK YOU, ERIC, FOR THE MUSIC. I GUESS GRIEF IS FOREVER. BUT, THEN, SO IS MUSIC. I’M GLAD YOU SEEM TO KNOW HOW THE MUSIC HELPS. BECAUSE YOUR MUSIC HELPS ME. I BET HIM TOO.
One person interviewed claimed the janitor didn’t know there was a child in the apartment, yet the mother said she heard him tell the nanny to keep Conor away from the window. So the janitor definitely knew as did the mother know the window was removed, yet she left the room to check a fax and was gone 15 minutes! Who does that? Janitor should’ve been charged, maybe not since his name was José which explains a lot. Somebody should’ve been charged.
Sthu about the janitor.The mother has only herself to blame.Never ever would i leave my kid trust those stupid nannies knowing there’s an open window like that.
If there ist someone to be charged then it’s the one who builds openable full wall windows in the 53rd floor.
How can it be possible to “run straigth out of an opened window”? At least I would expect there to be some kind of
a barrier so that things like this can not happen accidentally.
But one the other hand this raises the question if an appartment like this is the right place for a child of this age.
I mean parents do anything to avoid little children from touching powerplugs and all this stuff so someone surely missed to check the location wheter or not it’s a potential danger for the child.
This horrible accident happened in 2011. This VERY accident was one of the reasons that hotel and upper story apartment windows no longer open.
Anita Pettinato
I feel so badly for Eric and Lory. The janitor was not totally responsible for the accident but the fact that he did not Express his condolences makes him just a bad man. I hope he was fired since he wasn’t I actually charged with anything. I listen to the song Tears in Heaven quite often and I usually cry. But is it such a beautiful Legacy for Connor. The song talks about things that would happen in heaven if they met there but it also says I must be strong I must carry on and I think writing and Performing the song is his way of carrying on. Condolences to Eric and Lory and to all the family and friends of Connor. I have three grown sons I know I am so lucky because they are doing exceptionally well. I cannot imagine anything like this or any tragedy befalling them. Please continue with your wonderful music Eric and Lory I hope you find a way to deal with your tragedy.
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Tavern 360 Comes Full Circle and Closes
Tavern 360 at 360 Pharr Road has closed. The restaurant opened earlier this year as Olde Towne Tavern before getting into a legal dispute with the franchisor and changing their name. The space in which they opened may be about the most cursed restaurant space in Buckhead. Tib's Grill, a higher end concept from the makers of Popeyes, was slated to open there, but abandoned the buildout halfway through. Spondivit's later renovated the space for their needs but didn't last long. Harry Bissett's, of Athens fame, opened in the space in 2008, closing only a few months later. Saskatoon, a peculiar concept in and of itself, foolishly opened in the space in early 2010 before closing in early 2011, making way for the current tavern concept.
Earlier in the week, if you were to call the restaurant, their answering message indicated they are not open Monday through Wednesday, and even when open, they have limited hours. As of ten PM Friday night, the restaurant seemed closed and as best I could tell, liquor and beer had been removed from the bar, a telltale sign of a closure. As of 6pm Saturday, "Space Available" signs were posted by the Shumacher Group and agent Steve Josovitz, the same agent who has leased the space repeatedly, a result of his close relationship with AFC Enterprises, who apparently still holds the lease.
Oddly, though I'm told a management / ownership change had already occurred, the branding on the restaurant's exterior signage continued to reflect Olde Towne Tavern, not the more generic Tavern 360. Additionally, the Suwanee location, which was opened by the original owner of the Buckhead location, Robert Moravek, continues to operate under the Olde Towne branding, despite a message on the restaurant's website making clear the two are not affiliated.
All in all, a very odd series of events and a very challenged location.
What do you think would do well in this space when the current establishment closes? If you live nearby, what would make you dine, shop or patronize this space? Should something other than a restaurant open? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
Labels: 86'd, Deathwatch, Eateries by Atlantan99
Billy said...
I'm not sure that even a spectacular restaurant concept could perform well in this Buckhead space now. Maybe it could have done well back in 1995 when people actually went to this area of Buckhead. Or maybe when Buckhead Atlanta is finally complete in 2085. Until then, this space should be used for anything but a restaurant.
This place has gone from beyond cursed to radioactive now.
I've said it before, Modern is next. Aside from a silly name, Modern's largest problem is curbside perception. The place looks absolutely dead from the outside. Compare it to Twin Peaks that has exterior lighting that even if nobody was in there it looks like it is busy. If I drove by Modern wanting to give it a shot I would think it wasn't open based solely on how it looks outside.
Atlantan99 said...
@Anon,
Great minds think alike. Modern wont last a year. Space is boring, food is ok, looks dead all the time.
The Olde Town Tavern seemed to be doing fine there. It was a great place to grab a bite and watch the game. I don't know why they were so quick to pull the plug.
I don't know why a sports bar/restaurant can't succeed there. I enjoy driving Pharr Road much better then the parking lot that is Peachtree Road in Buckhead. There's plentiful parking, little traffic.
That whole stretch of Pharr from Piedmont to Peachtree is an embarrassment right now, with a bunch of crap from end to end. Can't we have some forward-thinking developer come in and clean the whole stretch up??
Actually, Tibs did a soft opening. It was that complete. I work nearby, and we walked up there one day thinking it had opened. We sat down, and orders were taken. When the food arrived, the waiter asked what "group" we were with. He was shcoked when we asked what he meant. According to the waiter, the event was only open enmployees of various entities associated with Popeye's. They still served us, and it was great. Spindivits came in and redid the whole place. Then bissett's came in and changed it around again.
In my opinion, this needs to be like the Wing Factory on Roswell. A place where the kids from the baseball park just down the street can come after the game. Olde Town was too "nice". A true sports bar with a reasonable price point would succeed here.
As a total aside, what chances of success do you give Lime on West Paces? Although it was opriginally packed, it seems completely empty now. I don't think iot will make it until Spring 2013. Of course, this is no surprise in light of the consistent complaints regarding horrible quality.
@ Anon RE: Lime,
All Atlanta area Lime Fresh locations ( Buckhead, Peachtree Hills and Midtown) are DeathWatch material. Their food is ok but overpriced and 2/3 of their locations are poorly located. The midtown one is the only one in a pretty good spot, with plenty of walk by traffic and not a ton of competition but even it is not that busy. Atlanta is home to too many chains and local outfits already that Lime simply doesn't stand a chance. I'm with you, closed by Spring...summer at the latest.
Thanks for your comments and for reading the site.
Whoever advised them to go into this space should be out of the real estate business as they clearly werern't working in Olde Towne's best interest.
Diddo, for anyone who puts another restaurant in this space.
True this location is challenging & has too many square feet.
BUT the last two: Saskatoon & then Olde Town / Tavern 360 had horrid service. Had increasing record breaking HORRID service. Being excited ‘bout the closeness - I gave Olde Towne two tried early on. The service & food got logarithmically worse. I watched two dolt lazy managers & hostess lay around & crack jokes whist the waitress ran around trying to serve a few other customers. Staff appears to hate each other. The manager bitterly changed the keg for our then didn't even tell her it was ready so 15 mins for a beer. Sticky uncooked batter on the fish & chips for my buddy & cold in the center Salmon BLT for me. Felt ill that night. Bad pop music on the PA. Worse than a Barrett Parkway experience.
Finally, why don’t the dolt owners place a “free garage parking” rather than free valet which many folks hate?
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Sir Geoff's new performance goal
By Jonathan Prynn for MailOnline
Updated: 19:00 EST, 8 February 2000
A generation after scoring the Wembley hat-trick that propelled him to legendary status, Sir Geoff Hurst is backing a company that plans to turn around struggling companies through the business equivalent of the managers' half-time pep talk.
England World Cup hero Sir Geoff, a successful businessman in his own right, has been appointed vice chairman of Players United, which today seeks to raise £5 million through an offer of shares under the Enterprise Investment Scheme.
The company, led by former banker Paul Flanagan, will invest the money in acquiring small companies and use sporting motivation techniques to revitalise them. Advisers to the company include top sports psychologist Dr Ian Cockerill.
Sir Geoff and a handful of other founder backers, who include Aston Villa striker Dion Dublin and former county cricket captain Phil Neal, are ploughing £170,000 of their own money into the company. Its first investment was a company called Vanstyle, a 'one-stop shop' supplier of van accessories. Players United plans to build a stable of around 25 companies.
Sir Geoff, who is contracted to work an average of three days a month, will help motivate under-achieving workforces
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Trump Goes Full Authoritarian Dictator
What we saw last night was the dictator's playbook.
Tell violent white supremacist racists to "stand by" and encourage them to show up at polling places to intimidate voters.
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Donald Trump swindled his father's estate for several hundred million dollars and turned himself into a phony billionaire. We now know it was all a con.
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Trump is Broke: Has He Already Sold Out America To Get the Money He Needs?
Back in the day, Donald Trump's niece alleges, he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from his father's estate, screwing his other family members and the IRS (you and me).
He then went on a massive spending binge, pouring that money into airlines, steaks, vodka, Trump-branded games, casinos, a fake university, etc. Virtually all of them failed, and he experienced multiple bankruptcies.
The Republican Party's sordid history in Florida shows just how far they'll go to save Trump
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Those who forget history, the old saying goes, are doomed to repeat it.
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Republicans ruthlessly reshaped America to hold onto power - can Dems do the same thing to save it?
In the power grab to fill the Supreme Court seat announced the same evening as the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mitch McConnell didn't do anything new. The GOP has a long history of playing hardball power politics.
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One of the big lessons that Donald Trump has learned through his years at the center of the New York tabloid media is that he can normalize just about anything.
When he was getting bad press because he was having an affair on his first wife, for example, he called newspapers pretending to be his own assistant to say that Marla Maples was astonished with "the best sex ever." It changed the entire newspaper narrative, and Trump proved to himself one more time that he can normalize just about anything.
Trump has told us how he and the Republicans plan to steal this election: can we stop him and save our republic?
Donald Trump became president by exploiting a loophole called the Electoral College. The majority of Americans did not want him or vote for him as president, but he's there anyway.
Now he's planning on using a different loophole, the 12th Amendment, to hang onto power.
Trump "Never Noticed" A Modern-Day American Genocide
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Although they haven't yet publicly acknowledged it in such stark terms, it's clear now that the Trump administration has decided pursue a herd immunity strategy to deal with the coronavirus.
Trump's new White House advisor on coronavirus, Scott Atlas, has said it on numerous occasions in multiple venues, and now our Attorney General, Bill Barr, is trying to argue that lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus are as bad as slavery. Trying to achieve herd immunity in the United States against the coronavirus, assuming it's even possible, would involve between two and 6 million Americans dying.
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Gary Brown: Putting the fix in for an education
Gary Brown CantonRep.com Correspondent @gbrownREP
Parents helped, but in a more traditional way.
As it turns out, my mom and dad apparently didn't love me enough to lie, cheat, bribe and maybe go to prison to make sure I got a great education.
Oh, don't get me wrong, the fix was in, for sure. From my earliest age, and that of my siblings, books were packed onto shelves in our home and we were encouraged to read them. Children's books. Reader's Digest condensed versions of classic fiction. Contemporary novels. Biographies and other nonfiction. There were two sets of encyclopedias on top of the family's upright piano — a young people's version and more bulky and educational adult volumes. We were going to be literate in spite of ourselves.
My father subscribed to a pair of newspapers — the local paper and the closest large metropolitan daily. Then he made sure his offspring saw him reading each issue every night, with a hope we might mimic him.
Oh, he and my mother watched situation comedies and sporting events on television, as well. But, they balanced that viewing with news at night, Sunday morning political shows, and documentaries from public television. We played cards and board games, but the competitions we engaged in taught problem-solving and fostered social skills.
Our homework? It had to be done, if not right after school at least right after lively family discussions during dinner.
Still, when it came down to choosing a college, my parents left both the choice and the application to their children. They apparently didn't love us enough to intervene on our behalf by stacking the deck to ensure we were dealt a satisfactory educational hand. Oh, my father would drive us to the site where we would take SAT or ACT tests. But, I never once saw dad take one of the test administrators aside, hand him a few dollars, and whisper, "There's another sawbuck in it for you if you correct some of his math answers ..."
Picking A School
When it came right down to planning for my further education, I chose to apply to state schools — one near where I lived in western New York and another in the western part of the state of Ohio. Then I decided to go to the more distant campus. It was a good school, but apparently it was not exclusive enough to require my parents to prove their love for me through any illegal payoffs for admittance above tuition and room and board.
My older brother had picked a university even farther away — in the upper peninsula of Michigan. My younger brother and sister both chose to stay closer to home in New York for their college educations.
I recall that I hesitated at first in telling my parents about continuing my education. We were not the wealthiest family, and four children would be planning their futures. With one brother already three years into the university part of his life, my time on campus would double the expenses his final year.
So, I tentatively approached my mother — she was stirring part of a meal on the stove — with my decision.
"I've decided I want to go to college," I announced to her, leaning against a door casing with body language which asked, even before I did, "Is that OK with you and dad?"
"Oh, honey, your father and I always assumed you would."
Issue Was Decided
And so, each member of my generation in our family went on to college.
Small academic scholarships earned by some siblings eased the financial burden. Had any of us practiced one sport instead of playing a variety of them, I suppose we eventually could have achieved a level of skill to be offered athletic scholarships. But, that was not to happen.
Now, if recent indictments are any indication, it's apparently possible for a student — accompanied by cash — to get admittance to a university on the basis of athletic talent regardless of whether or not the student ever has even participated in the sport. For that reason, I guess, my mother, by taking a second or third mortgage out on our house and maybe borrowing from relatives, could have paid to have some coach — let's say crew — sign me up for his team. And she could have done it sort of honestly, since it more or less conformed to the advice she always gave her children — "You can accomplish anything you want in life."
But, when all was said and done, I suppose my mom didn't have enough blind faith in my ability to say I could handle an oar in a racing shell when I never even had paddled a canoe to that point in my life.
Or, maybe she simply didn't think that her having to do hard time in prison to get me into college was a great lesson for me to learn.
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ValleyCats: Minor-league announcement expected this week
Season in serious doubt because of coronavirus pandemic
Mark Singelais
June 1, 2020 Updated: June 1, 2020 7:09 p.m.
The Tri-City ValleyCats are expecting an announcement this week on the status of the 2020 minor league baseball season.
It won't be news they want to hear, according to a report in The Athletic, which said the season will be canceled.
ValleyCats president Rick Murphy and general manager Matt Callahan said by text they have been told there will be a joint statement from Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball this week regarding the season, on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Murphy said it will come in the next couple of days. Neither Murphy nor Callahan said what the announcement will be.
But Britt Ghiroli, a reporter for The Athletic, tweeted Sunday that Washington Nationals minor leaguers who were released were told there will be no minor-league season.
The ValleyCats are scheduled to open their season at Vermont on June 18 and play their first home game against Williamsport at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium in Troy on June 24.
Murphy said last month he was “cautiously optimistic” the ValleyCats, a New York-Penn League affiliate of the Houston Astros, will play this summer. But he also said then it’s not financially feasible for the team to play without fans, which could be a necessity during the pandemic.
1of5Tri-City ValleyCats Joe Perez makes a play during a game against the Vermont Lake Monsters on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 at the Joseph L. Bruno Stadium in Troy NY (Jim Franco/Special to the Times Union.)James FrancoShow MoreShow Less
2of5Tri-City ValleyCats designated hitter Nate Perry after ripping a homerun over the leftfield fence during a game against the Vermont Lake Monsters on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 at the Joseph L. Bruno Stadium in Troy NY (Jim Franco/Special to the Times Union.)James FrancoShow MoreShow Less
3of5Tri-City Valleycats starting pitcher Jairo Lopez against the Staten Island Yankees at the Joseph L. Bruno Stadium in Troy NY on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 (Jim Franco/Special to the Times Union.)James FrancoShow MoreShow Less
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He added the ValleyCats would need a definite answer by June 1 in order to have the stadium up and running for the season to begin on time.
The Capital Region has yet to reach the fourth phase of New York's reopening, tentatively scheduled to begin July 1, which would include arts, entertainment and recreational facilities.
If the season is canceled, it would be the Capital Region’s first summer without minor-league baseball since 2001, the year before the ValleyCats relocated from Pittsfield, Mass.
It’s not even clear if there will be major league baseball. MLB and the players’ union are involved in contentious negotiations over what the big-league players will be paid over a shortened season.
Reach Mark on
Mark Singelais covers Siena basketball, UAlbany lacrosse, horse racing and other sports. Contact him at (518) 454-5509 or msingelais@timesunion.com.
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BierCab
TYPE: Beer Bar & Bottle Shop (BB/BS)
HOOD: Eixample
STREET: Carrer de Muntaner, 55
HOMEPAGE: BierCaB
TRANSIT: Metro Map
TAPS: Yes
FOOD: Yes
The Eixample (expansion) District of Barcelona is well-known for the Modernista architects that made their mark on the area over a century ago. It's consequently a big draw for visitors looking to tour some of Antoni Gaudí's famed buildings, such as Casa Batlló and Casa Milà. While a sunny walk down the Passeig de Gràcia is highly recommended, for some historical context on this section of the city, you should also know that our target destination sits in the center of an exploding beer corridor just to the southwest. As it turns out, BierCaB has a unique significance in the beery fabric of said corridor and was one of the very first to set up shop. Today, it's quite amazing to see how many breweries, bottle shops and bars are collectively transforming this quarter of Barcelona into a significant beer destination. It demands closer inspection.
With that brief historical context out of the way, let's get to the task at hand. Where, oh where, to begin with an appropriate narrative for BierCaB? Let it be known up front that any words conveyed here may fall short in revealing just how charmed one will feel during a visit here. This indeed will be a tough measure of The Hop Leaves, but this is what they do and let's see what new heights can be reached. With superb subject matter along the lines of BierCaB, this baby should write itself, right? No pressure...
BierCaB is one of those mystical places one consistently hears about in European beer-travel folklore. A quick interweb search also tells us so, as it seems to routinely surface alongside other list-toppers from all around the continent. But what is truly behind all of the buzz and why might one feel as if there's no way it could possibly live up to the hype in person? After further inspection, it's a multi-faceted affair and you truly begin to feel it as soon as you walk in the door.
There is an energy at BierCaB, not of a stressful variety, just...an energy. The unique design, stunning attention to details, out-of-this-world beer selection and warm staff collectively appear to put you on notice. There will be nothing ordinary about your stay here, and all of your senses are now under assault in the very best of ways.
Manolo is the talisman of BierCaB's wonders. So much so, in fact, that the place might lose some of it's magical powers if he were somehow not at the helm. Not only is he an expert host, but he is continually attending to all of those little things that keep the place humming along (insert spinning plates on poles visual here). To be clear, however, his contributions to the whole are only the beginning. His positive energy is clearly contagious to those around him. The staff has just as much enthusiasm and passion as he does, it's evident everywhere you look. No matter your walk of life, they somehow make you feel as if you've known them well before this visit.
Something else that clearly needs to be addressed straightaway, is the food at BierCaB. You are in Barcelona, this city by the sea is overrun with extremely scrumptious foodie restaurants, tapas bars and everything in between. So why on earth would you spend one of those finite and precious meal opportunities in a beer bar? Well, here's the thing, it's not really just a beer bar. While their beer options squash many others out there, The Hop Leaves are onto them and know fully well that it is a high-quality tapas bar masquerading as a world-class beer bar. Or, is it a high-quality beer bar masquerading as a world-class tapas bar? I digress, the point is that everything is quite consistent in the level of quality. If you're not in the mood for tapas, how do you feel about 9 different Wagyu burger options? Mind blown...
And then there's the beer culture. Wow, no discussion of beer yet. How is that possible on a beer-travel website? Well, let's just say we've saved the best for last. This is where BierCaB continues to delight in all directions. Are you looking for global variety? Are you looking for attention to rare beers? Lambics? Stouts? Hazy IPAs? It's all here and it's all carefully curated by an evidently very well-traveled palate. They even feature delicious beer brewed by their nearby partner, and equally impressive entity to experience, NaparBcn. If you're feeling blue at the end of your time here, be sure to pop into the bottle shop next door on your way out. The same tastes have been applied to the takeaway selection and now you can recreate some semblance of your BierCaB experience on the next leg of your travels.
A close friend once made this statement: "The day you rank a beer at a perfect 5 on Untappd, is the day that it's game over." Thus claiming that you've successfully made it to beer heaven and you've full-filled your beer destiny. While that profound observation is perhaps a topic to be debated on another day, it does spring to mind in the context of beer experiences as well. Given everything that we've learned, could it be that BierCaB is BierHeaveN? Is it really game over after this? Respectfully, let's just score it at 4.95 (theoretically, as Untappd would never allow such a nuanced entry) so the quest can continue on for another day. Who knows, you may have to already reconsider your position when you visit their partner's location just around the corner. That didn't last long at all now, did it.
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NaparBCN
Barri Gòtic (Gothic Quarter)
Casa Batlló
Casa Milà
La Boqueria
Museum of Contemporary Art
Barcelona Homepage
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04jul(jul 4)6:30 pm07(jul 7)11:59 pmWexford Literary FestivalEnniscorthyType:Festivals,LiteraryCounty:Wexford
Over the last 7 years, the Wexford Literary Festival has evolved into one of the finest Live Literature Festivals in Ireland. It aims to attract national and international writers and
Over the last 7 years, the Wexford Literary Festival has evolved into one of the finest Live Literature Festivals in Ireland. It aims to attract national and international writers and readers and lovers of literature to gather and enjoy its eclectic programme of readings, workshops and awards events. As part of the festival there is a range of unique fringe events including exhibitions, music and drama performances, craft and lots of events for kids as well, all set around the picturesque historic town of Enniscorthy.
Enniscorthy is home to Colm Tóibín, one of Ireland’s most renowned writers. County Wexford’s rich history of other world-renowned writers include John Banville, Eoin Colfer, Anthony Cronin and Billy Roche and recently Carmel Harrington, Shane Dunphy and Paul O’Brien. Other recent acclaimed writers in Wexford include Caroline Busher, John J. Kelly, Paul O’Reilly, Sheila Forsey, Cat Hogan of whom many have been Committee members of the Wexford Literary Festival.
Founded in 2012 as the Focal Festival, with Focal in Irish meaning “Word”, the festival was rebranded as the Wexford Literary Festival in 2014. The Festival commenced its literary Awards programme sponsored by Communty Development, Wexford County Council, to include the Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award, Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award and most recently the Billy Roche International Short Play Award as well as the Eileen Gray Window Display Award, the Denis Collins Visual Arts Award and the Cursed Murphy Spoken Word Award.
The festival continues to grow each year with the participation of established as well as emerging writers across many genres who inspire and entertain attendees of all ages in a casual friendly way.
For all the latest festival information including booking tickets, please check out the Festival website at wexfordliteraryfestival.com. You can also follow on Facebook or Twitter for the very latest information. If you have any queries then please email [email protected] or call the ticket office on +353 0(53) 923 3000.
4 (Thursday) 6:30 pm - 7 (Sunday) 11:59 pm
Enniscorthy Library, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland
Wexford Literary Festival CommitteeEmail: [email protected]
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Montgomery County's active COVID-19 case count breaks 1,000 for the first time
Jennifer Babich
Montgomery County's active COVID-19 case count broke 1,000 for the first time Friday, hitting 1,012.
Public health officials reported Montgomery County has now had 1,875 lab confirmed COVID-19 cases, along with another 8 probable cases. Of those, 1,012 are still active cases, 858 people have recovered, and 13 people have died. 195 of those cases are among youth ages 5-18.
There have been 2 new hospitalizations since Thursday, bringing the total number of hospitalizations since March to 84.
Public health director Joey Smith said in a statement that, to him, it's the deaths and hospitalizations that are the metrics of greatest concern.
"I'm more concerned with the increase in deaths and hospitalizations," said Smith. "In the last 10 days we've had 4 deaths due to COVID-19 ... that's just over 28% of our total COVID-19 deaths. These folks are our neighbors and serves as a reminder that we have to work together to keep this virus away from those that are vulnerable."
There have been 68 new cases out of 506 test results since Thursday, according to Smith.
There's been 24,645 total negative lab results for Montgomery County.
If you need COVID-19 testing
The Montgomery County Health Department moved its drive-thru testing site on Monday to Civitan Park at 650 Bellamy Lane in St. Bethlehem.
Montgomery County spokesperson Michelle Newell said that will serve as a long-term location, after moving from two previous locations due to early voting and preparations for the school reopenings.
Testing hours are 7 a.m. to noon each weekday.
Any holiday closures will be shared on Montgomery County Government social media accounts, Newell said.
For questions about the move or any other information related to the Montgomery County Health Department, visit www.mcgtn.org/health or call 931-648-5747.
For additional COVID-19 information visit www.mcgtn.org.
Reach Jennifer Babich at 931-245-0742 or by email at jbabich@gannett.com.
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Bain Capital Tech Dealmaker Joins Crosspoint
December 9, 2020 | Bloomberg News
Blackstone, Bill Gates Weigh $4.3B Signature Aviation Bid
Private flying is one of the few travel sectors to have benefited from the coronavirus pandemic.
Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, Who Backed Trump, Urges “Peaceful Transition”
Schwarzman says the “election is very clear and there must be a peaceful transition of power.”
It’s Time for the Private Equity Industry to Step Up
The moment has come for the private equity industry to lead the way on ESG, diversity and inclusion.
Ian Loring, a Bain Capital LP veteran of more than two decades, has joined private equity firm Crosspoint Capital Partners LP as a managing partner.
“Crosspoint’s strategy will allow us to seek to partner with Bain Capital, and we and the senior team at Crosspoint are committed to find ways to work together with Bain,” Loring said in a memo to Bain staff seen by Bloomberg News.
Loring was hired by Bain’s private equity arm in 1996 and held roles including co-head of technology investing and leader of the San Francisco office. During his tenure, Bain participated in buyouts of companies including BMC Software Inc., NXP Semiconductors NV and SunGard Data Systems Inc.
Crosspoint Capital’s managing partners include Greg Clark, a longtime technology executive who’s been the chief executive officer of companies such as Blue Coat Systems Inc. and E2open, and former Seagate Technology Plc CEO Steve Luczo.
“It is fun to be building a business from whole cloth with people that I respect and trust,” Loring said in the note, adding that Bain had just 35 staff and $300 million under management when he joined, a fraction of its roughly $105 billion today.
Loring will remain a senior adviser to Bain and on the board of CentralSquare Technologies, a software maker backed by the firm.
Woodside, California-based Crosspoint Capital has raised about half its $1 billion target for a debut fund focused on cybersecurity and infrastructure software deals, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. A representative for Crosspoint declined to comment.
It joins firms seeking to raise first-time funds including BayPine led by Silver Lake co-founder David Roux and former Blackstone Group Inc. executive Anjan Mukherjee.
More From Private Equity
Golden Gate Reportedly Weighs Sale of Mavis Tire Centers
Investcorp Takes a Stake in Centre Lane Partners
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The Misfits Lair
Smart Cities Research
research articles & papers
Smart Cities for All
G3ict – The Global Initiative on Inclusive ICTs partnered with leading technology companies and civil society organizations, like Microsoft, AT&T, and World Enabled, to launch the Smart Cities for All initiative to define the state of ICT accessibility in Smart Cities worldwide. Our focus is to eliminate the digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities around the world. We are partnering with leading organizations and companies to create and deploy the tools and strategies needed to build more inclusive Smart Cities.
Visit Smart Cities For All official website
Country Representative Program
Country Representative ProgramSmart Cities for All benefits from a global network of expert country representatives. These Country Representatives collaborate with local and national governments, civil society, and private sector stakeholders in making global cities more inclusive in the context of the UN SDGs (#11), the UN Habitat III New Urban Agenda, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Country Representatives bring to their countries the global work of Smart Cities for All, a broad understanding of accessibility and universal design for technologies and environments, the UN CRPD, and the perspectives of a variety of disabilities.
G3ict's Smart Cities for All Toolkit
The toolkit contains four tools to help Smart Cities worldwide include a focus on ICT accessibility and the digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons.
The toolkit supports a range of organizations and roles related to Smart Cities, including government managers, policy makers, IT professionals, disability advocates, procurement officials, technology suppliers, and developers who design Smart City apps and solutions.
Each of the tools addresses a priority challenge identified by global experts as a barrier to the digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities.The toolkit contains four tools to help Smart Cities worldwide include a focus on ICT accessibility and the digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons.
Each of the tools addresses a priority challenge identified by global experts as a barrier to the digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities.
The Smart Cities for All initiative confirms through its research that most of today’s Smart Cities, in both the global north and the global south, are not fully accessible. The result is a growing digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons.
The Smart Cities for All initiative engages experts and communities in an ongoing way to generate new data and learnings related to digital inclusion in Smart Cities.
In 2016-17, the initiative surveyed more than 400 international experts from city governments, industry, civil society, and academia, and convened a series of expert roundtable discussions with program managers, disabled persons organizations, and technologists in Smart Cities worldwide. Our work is informed by this rigorous research.
G3ict and its partners believe that six interrelated strategies can help address the barriers to digital inclusion in today’s global Smart Cities. The six strategies described in this document will help ensure that Smart Cities worldwide, their policies, programs, and growing technology investments, will not leave behind persons with disabilities and older persons.
Download the Six Strategies Towards More Inclusive Smart Cities Worldwide.
Smart Cities for All: A Vision for an Inclusive, Accessible Urban Future
To subscribe to Smart Cities for All newsletter, visit their official website.
For news, articles plus a wealthy KB about Smart Cities, please bookmark their official news channel.
Reference library for current research projects, articles and papers about Smart Cities.
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Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav Detained In Lucknow
TNA Bureau
Published on : 07 Dec, 2020 , 9:13 am
Lucknow, December 7 (TNA) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav was on Monday afternoon detained by the UP Police and sent to Eco Garden in the state capital. The 47-year-old was picked up by the police when he was making way to Kannauj from where his party is launching a statewide Kisan Yatra against the farming laws brought by the government of India.
As soon as his cavalcade came out of his bungalow, a heavy continent of police intercepted him and told him that he was not allowed to proceed. The former chief minister of UP fretted and fumed but the police paid no heed and packed him along with his supporters inn aiming vehicles which were sent to the Eco Garden.
Talking to reporters, Yadav slammed the BJP government in the state of targeting the opposition. "When their leaders step out in large processions, hold rallies there is no problem, but when we do, we are detained citing prohibitory ordered due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic" he said.
Samajwadi Party
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James Caspian on the suppression of his research into people who detransition.
In 2017, James Caspian, an experienced psychotherapist, attempted to undertake a research project into the phenomenon of ‘detransitioning’, where men and women who have transitioned to another gender come to regret their decision and take steps to reverse the process. But Bath Spa University rejected his research proposal on the grounds that it was ‘politically incorrect’ and ‘might cause offense’. The university’s ethics committee said it could result in criticism of the university on social media.
Since then, Caspian has been fighting the university in the courts. This week, the High Court rejected his bid for a judicial review on procedural grounds. He plans to appeal the decision. spiked asked him about his research and the political climate that led to its suppression.
Continue Reading @ Spiked Online.
My Battle With The Transgender Thought Police
By AM Friday, June 7, 2019
political correctness Spiked Online Transgenderism
Ciaran Goggins 11:58 AM, June 08, 2019
Bath Spa? Not exactly a heavy hitter academically speaking. TG rights are the next civil liberty battle field.
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The Wheel of Time Reread
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Path of Daggers, Part 1
Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:42pm 236 comments 1 Favorite [+]
Hola, chicos y chicas! I have no idea if I spelled that right, but the sentiment is sincere, as is my welcoming you to a brand new section of the Wheel of Time Re-read!
Today’s entry begins the eighth novel of the Wheel of Time Series, The Path of Daggers, in which we cover the Prologue. It is definitely a beginning!
Previous re-read entries are here. The Wheel of Time Master Index is here, in which you can find links to news, reviews, and all manner of information regarding the newest release, The Gathering Storm, and for WOT-related stuff in general.
This re-read post contains spoilers for all currently published Wheel of Time novels, up to and including Book 12, The Gathering Storm. If you haven’t read, read at your own risk.
And that… is the introduction. Except for the rest of the intro, of course, which is below the cut. Click it and see!
So, The Path of Daggers. Which, as some of you may recall, I am on record as considering my least favorite novel of the entire series. So to say I approach this portion of the Re-read with…trepidation…is probably to understate the case.
I reeeeally don’t know how this is going to go. My policy throughout this re-read has always been to be honest about my reactions. Which sounds like a “duh” statement, but you don’t know how many times I’ve been tempted to soft-pedal some of my harsher or more controversial thoughts regarding what I’m reading, because I know the kind of reaction it’s going to generate.
But then again, if I’m just going to toe the party line and nod and smile and be a yes-woman the whole time – well, that’s not only crappy ethically, but I also think it would have made for a pretty boring re-read. There can be no doubt whatsoever that I am a very big Wheel of Time fan, but I have never made any bones about the fact that for all its wonderful virtues, I also believe that it has many flaws. Intellectual integrity compels me to be as honest about the latter as the former, and I have a feeling that this is going to be a portion where we’re going to be reminded of that a lot.
…That being said, though, I’m not 100% positive that this will be the case, either. I’ve mentioned before my theory that more often than not, the WOT novel any given fan tends to like the least is the first one they had to wait for, and this is definitely the case with me. But the other result of that is, out of all the novels in the series (with the obvious exception of the most recent novel, TGS), TPOD is the only one I’ve actually almost never re-read in its entirety, at all.
As a result, a lot of what happens in TPOD is very vague to me. I remember certain very significant plot points, but most of the details are totally gone. Therefore this re-read will really be in a lot of ways much more like reading the novel for the first time than any other WOT book. And I’ve already been surprised more than once by how different my reactions were on this go-round than they were before.
So, in conclusion, we will see. I can’t promise that this whole section won’t be me complaining bitterly the whole time, but we can hope that I – and you – might be pleasantly surprised.
Let’s find out, shall we?
Prologue: Deceptive Appearances
Ethienielle, Queen of Kandor, rides through the Black Hills with fifty retainers, her First Advisor, Lady Serailla, and her Swordbearer, Lord Baldhere, who since Ethenielle’s husband’s death twenty years ago has also commanded Kandor’s armies. Ethenielle considers how lucky they’ve been to get this far without anyone noticing, and asks Serailla if she made the right choice. Calmly, Serailla answers that all her other options were just as risky as this one.
“Whatever the truth, Majesty, the White Tower appears to be paralyzed as well as shattered. You could have sat watching the Blight while the world crumbled behind you. You could have if you were someone else.”
The simple need to act. Was that what had brought her here? Well, if the White Tower would not or could not do what had to be done, then someone must.
She asks Baldhere’s opinion, and he replies that he doesn’t like hiding who they are; what they do will get them either killed, in the history books, or both, so it might as well be known “what names to write.” A scout returns with the signal that they are nearing the meeting point, and Ethenielle sighs to see Baldhere order a watch; she thinks the times breed suspicion even between allies of long standing.
Too many rulers to the south had died or vanished in the last year for her to feel any comfort in wearing a crown. Too many lands had been smashed as thoroughly as an army of Trollocs could have achieved. Whoever he was, this al’Thor fellow had much to answer for. Much.
The meeting place is near an Age of Legends relic, a spire of “gleaming golden lace” that supposedly kills anyone who touches it, which is why they can be sure no one will see them here. In the clearing, Ethenielle meets with King Paitar Nachiman of Arafel, Paitar’s advisor Ishigari Terasian, King Easar Togita of Shienar, his councilor Kyril Shianri, his shatayan Alesune Chulin, and General Lord Agelmar Jagad. Ethenielle greets her fellow rulers (and relatives by marriage), and hopes they’ve come without detection; Easar snorts and comments that if they’ve been seen they may as well turn back now. Shianri makes a cutting remark to this, implying cowardice, but Alesune counters that “foolhardiness is not courage,” pointing out that what they do could end with their heads on pikes even if they succeed, and meanwhile they’re leaving the Blight all but unguarded. Terasian comments that he’s never seen the Blight so quiet as it has been, but Jagad answers that “the Shadow never sleeps.” Ethenielle interjects that what she’s left behind will guard the Blight “short of the Trolloc Wars coming again,” and asks if any of them can really contemplate turning back now. Queen Tenobia Kazadi of Saldaea chooses this moment to gallop up dramatically (accompanied by one of her uncles, Kalyan Ramsin) and declare that she will not turn back for any reason; her dear Uncle Davram was supposed to bring her Mazrim Taim’s head, and instead has somehow ended up working with him under “this al’Thor,” and she intends to show Bashere and al’Thor both who rules Saldaea. Ethenielle exchanges sardonic looks with her advisors, and thinks Tenobia is going to be a problem. Ethenielle muses for a bit on why Tenobia has never gotten married:
Tenobia’s requirements for a husband were on a level with everything else about her. He must be able to face and slay a dozen Myrddraal at once. While playing the harp and composing poetry. He must be able to confound scholars while riding a horse down a sheer cliff. Or perhaps up it. Of course he would have to defer to her—she was a queen, after all—except that sometimes Tenobia would expect him to ignore whatever she said and toss her over his shoulder. The girl wanted exactly that! And the Light help him if he chose to toss when she wanted deference, or to defer when she wanted the other. She never said any of this right out, but any woman with wits who had heard her talk about men could piece it together in short order. Tenobia would die a maiden. Which meant her uncle Davram would succeed, if she left him alive after this, or else Davram’s heir.
Then she realizes Easar and Paitar are discussing Aes Sedai, and asks what about them; her own Aes Sedai advisor (Nianh) and Easar’s Aisling had both disappeared after receiving news of the trouble in the Tower. Paitar’s, however, had not left, and he confesses to them that not only does he have Coladara with him, but she’d just happened to have had seven more sisters visiting with her, and they’ve come along too. Ethenielle is aghast, and then Tenobia blithely adds that she has five more with her; they had run into Tenobia as she was traveling – by accident, Tenobia believes – and insisted on coming along (and their leader, Illeisien, was insistent that their presence be secret). Ethenielle is sure the White Tower knows their every move, then. Paitar is fatalistic about this.
“Further south,” Easar added, “it may be well to have thirteen Aes Sedai with us.” That brought a silence while the implications hung in the air. No one wanted to voice them. This was far different from facing the Blight.
Tenobia laughs and suggests they have dinner at her camp that night, and adds to Ethenielle that Kalyan would be honored to sit next to her at the meal. Ethenielle looks at Tenobia’s uncle and is shocked to see him looking at her as a woman, not a queen. Tenobia smirks, and Ethenielle is outraged at the woman’s blatant manipulation for a moment, but then has to ruefully admit to herself that she was playing matchmaker for her relatives when even younger than Tenobia. She looks at Kalyan again, and is not unpleased by what she sees, but turns the subject back to doing what they came for; this meeting had only one purpose, a ceremony that has only been performed seven times in the Borderlands since the Breaking, that would commit them “beyond anything words could do.” The four rulers move close to each other, and each slashes his or her palm.
Four hands reached out and met, gripped, heart’s blood mingling, dripping to the ground, soaking into the stony dirt. “We are one, to the death,” Easar said, and they all spoke with him. “We are one, to the death.” By blood and soil, they were committed. Now they had to find Rand al’Thor. And do what needed to be done. Whatever the price.
Verin leaves a weak and shivering Turanna (White) in her tent to poke her head out, feeling rather tired herself. In the vast Aiel camp outside, she sees another of the Aes Sedai prisoners hauling rocks, with a Wise One shielding her and Maidens switching her whenever she falters. Verin wonders if it’s coincidence that she sees that one, as she had come across Coiren earlier that day and Sarene Nemdahl the day before. Perhaps the Wise Ones want her to know that this could be her fate too; Verin has been unable to determine how their hierarchy works, though she thinks there might be an advantage in noting that no one ever ordered Sorilea around. Sorilea had demanded to know that morning what would shame Aes Sedai most; Kiruna and the others had not understood, but Verin has prepared a list she intends to give Sorilea later.
Life was going to grow much more difficult for the women in black. And her own efforts would be aided no end, with luck.
She tells one of the two Aiel guards outside that she’s done with Turanna, and asks that they send Katerine Alruddin to her next; she wants to deal with the sisters with no Warders first. One leaves, but the other stays to watch her, seeming to wait for her to make a mistake, but Verin thinks to herself that it had been “seventy-one years” since she had last made a serious mistake. Verin spots Irgain, formerly Green before Rand stilled her, grinding flour, and ducks back inside feeling sick to her stomach. She worries that Irgain was also a subtle message, and also worries what will happen if Sorilea decides to break her, Verin, before dismissing it as a useless worry. She vaguely comforts a despondent Turanna until two Wise Ones (Daviena and Losaine) enter the tent and link to shield Turanna; Verin frowns, sure that the Wise Ones had not known how to make a circle only a few days ago. Turanna is hauled out, and as Verin waits, she thinks about the disturbing appearance of Cadsuane Melaidhrin, accounting her both dangerous and unpredictable. The Wise One Aeron enters the tent, and Verin scrambles up to curtsy deeply, even though Aeron cannot channel at all, dropping her notebook. Aeron grabs it and criticizes coldly that it only contains notes about plants and such; Verin answers meekly that she likes to write down what she sees.
One day she would have to write out the cipher she used in her notebooks—a lifetime’s worth of them filled cupboards and chests in her rooms above the White Tower library—one day, but she hoped not soon.
Verin reports that she hasn’t learned much from the prisoners yet, but is sure she will; Aeron stares at her, and Verin remembers that she had said Aes Sedai have no honor. Verin is not afraid of Aeron – she has faced much worse – but she does not want to waste this opportunity, and strives to appear meek and compliant. Two Maidens bring in a sister Verin recognizes as Beldeine Nyram, a very young Aes Sedai, and Verin asks diffidently why she was not brought Katerine. One of the Maidens spits that Katerine escaped the night before.
“You let her escape?” she burst out without thinking. Tiredness gave no excuse, but the words spilled from her tongue before she could stop them. “How could you be so foolish? She’s Red! And neither a coward nor weak in the Power! The Car’a’carn could be in danger! Why were we not told of this when it happened?”
The Maiden answers that it wasn’t discovered till this morning, and Katerine had killed four people, including a Wise One, to do it; Aeron shuts her up, and tells Verin that though her concern for the Car’a’carn does her honor (reluctantly), an apprentice does not speak that way to a Wise One. Verin apologizes profusely, and the Maidens give Beldeine over to her. Aeron warns her not to mention Katerine’s escape to the Car’a’carn, as he has enough on his mind as it is. Verin agrees quickly, thinking perhaps a note would do, and Aeron leaves. Verin offers Beldeine wash-water and Healing, but Beldeine only spits at her for “revealing Tower secrets” to a bunch of savage wilders. Verin tsks irritably.
Who should know better than an Aes Sedai that a sister had to wear many faces in the world? You could not always overawe people, or bludgeon them, either. Besides, far better to behave as a novice than be punished like one, especially when it earned you only pain and humiliation. Even Kiruna had to see the sense of that eventually.
She offers water to Beldeine, and Beldeine observes bitterly than Verin’s dress is very nice, and tells her that the Aiel burned all her possessions except her Great Serpent ring, which she supposes even they didn’t dare destroy. She goes on that she knows what they intend to do: break the prisoners so that they will swear to al’Thor the way Verin did. She asks how Verin could do such a thing, accounting it even worse than rebelling against the Tower. Verin wonders briefly if it would have been better if all the prisoners had been caught up in the same “ta’veren swirl” as she had at Dumai’s Wells, but then thinks of how Kiruna et al are still arguing over what exactly their oath means, and decides it’s better this way. She explains to Beldeine what it means to the Aiel that she and the others are da’tsang, and that the purpose of their treatment was to shame them; Verin says she doesn’t think they would let them swear to al’Thor even if they wanted to. Beldeine is shaken by this, but not enough, so Verin prattles on, imagining out loud different ways they could humiliate her, which unnerves Beldeine more, but she replies stoutly that they will be rescued, or – Verin finishes, or escape? She’s afraid there’s no chance of that; Beldeine is all alone, but she can at least let Verin Heal her. This time Beldeine allows it, and after Healing Verin begins weaving something else:
Spirit predominated by far, but there was Wind and Water, Fire and Earth, the last of some difficulty for her, and even the skeins of Spirit had to be divided again and again, placed with an intricacy to boggle a weaver of fine carpets.
Beldeine asks groggily what she’s doing, and Verin reassures her that it is nothing that would harm her, though to herself she thinks Beldeine “might die inside the year, or in ten” because of this, but the weave itself wouldn’t hurt her. She questions Beldeine as she lays the complicated weave, trying to ascertain if Rand’s confidence that he had secret allies in the Tower is true, but Beldeine knows nothing about it. Beldeine insists on the necessity of keeping Rand “safe” in the Tower, but admits that she thinks his treatment after capture was “wrong.” Verin thinks “disastrous” was the better word for it, considering what it did to Rand’s opinion of Aes Sedai, and shudders to think of the consequences of a ta’veren of his strength actually being inside the Tower. Meanwhile she concentrates on her weaving, and thinks to herself that nearly every wilder who came to the Tower had a “trick,” something she did unconsciously with the Power before learning she could channel, and almost invariably those tricks fell into one of two categories: a way to eavesdrop, or a way to make other people do what they wanted. The Tower didn’t care much about the first, but the second was far too close to Compulsion for comfort, and the very impulse to even think of doing it was usually wrung out of any novice long before she attained the shawl.
From bits and pieces and scraps of half-remembered weaves created by untrained girls for very limited purposes, Verin had reconstructed a thing forbidden by the Tower since its founding. In the beginning it had been simple curiosity on her part. Curiosity, she thought wryly, working at the weave on Beldeine, has made me climb into more than one pickling kettle. Usefulness came later.
She thinks it is interesting that Beldeine is one of those sisters who seems to think that Rand needs to be protected from the world, as well as the other way around. She finishes her weave and activates it, and gives Beldeine her orders, though she knows that the weave is imperfect, and if Beldeine could not come up with reasons inside herself to obey, it wouldn’t work. As Beldeine thrashes from the effects, Verin muses that it’s a pity the weave also requires trust from the subject to work, since that means it’s very difficult to make it work on a man, few of whom ever trust Aes Sedai. Beldeine comes out of it, and has forgotten the whole thing; Verin goes to tell her guards that she’s done, and adds that Beldeine knocked over the water pitcher, which she knows will be passed on to the Wise Ones, and hopefully help speed Beldeine’s decision. She sees Irgain again, and asks the guards to bring her next.
How would her life have gone if she had not been so curious, Verin wondered. For one thing, she would have married Eadwin and remained in Far Madding instead of going to the White Tower. She would be long dead, for another, and the children she had never had, and her grandchildren, too.
[…] The pain in her muscles tomorrow would be a small penance for Beldeine’s suffering over that spilled water, but that was not why she did it, or even her curiosity, really. She still had a task. Somehow, she had to keep young Rand alive until it was time for him to die.
The furnishings in the windowless, doorless room are grand, but Moridin doesn’t care. He occasionally strokes one of the two mindtraps strung around his neck as he contemplates the game board before him, of a game called sha’rah, of which the most important piece is called the Fisher.
Only nine people living even remembered the game. He had been a master of it. […] The first object was capture of the Fisher. Only then did the game truly begin.
Of all the pieces, only the Fisher’s capabilities vary depending on where it is on the board, and when experts play, the Fisher switches sides many times in a game. Moridin thinks that there are generally three ways to win the game; two involve strategy, but the third always degenerates into a bloody melee, with total annihilation of your opponent the only way to win.
He had tried that, once, in desperation, but the attempt had failed. Painfully.
He is enraged suddenly, and almost crushes both the Fisher piece and the two mindtraps before easing off.
The Fisher was always worked as a man, a bandage blinding his eyes and one hand pressed to his side, a few drops of blood dripping through his fingers. The reasons, like the source of the name, were lost in the mist of time. That troubled him sometimes, enraged him, what knowledge might be lost in the turnings of the Wheel, knowledge he needed, knowledge he had a right to. A right!
He calms himself and thinks there is no need for destruction yet. Maybe the Fisher figure did come from a faint historical remembrance of Rand al’Thor, but he thinks it doesn’t matter, and realizes he is laughing.
On the board, the Fisher stood waiting, but in the greater game, al’Thor moved already to his wishes. And soon, now… It was very hard to lose a game when you played both sides of the board. Moridin laughed so hard that tears rolled down his face, but he was not aware of them.
Well, it’s a start!
Actually, as WOT Prologues go this one is pretty inoffensive. Only three scenes, and one of them a first-time-ever Verin POV, so that’s really not too shabby. So far, so good.
All three of these scenes are of a specific type, really, the kind Jordan does with any POV characters he wants the reader to be in doubt about. I always think of this type of POV as the “oblique POV”: you’re getting the character’s point of view, but it’s not necessarily going to lead you in the direction you ought to be going, or tell you what you want to know about the character’s motivations, or sometimes even let you know the character’s identity.
I am little undecided, myself, whether (in hindsight) I regard this type of POV to be clever, or just manipulative. Some of both, I suppose. One line in particular that jumps out at me in Verin’s scene, for example, is her thought to herself after she sends for Katerine Alruddin, that she wants to deal with the sisters with no Warders first. We know now that Verin knew Katerine was Black Ajah even before the revelation that she murdered people to escape (which, granted, isn’t absolute proof that she is Black per se, since she used poison instead of the Power to kill her victims and thus technically violated no Oaths, but it certainly is a pretty strong argument that she is, you know, evil). And yet in Verin’s thoughts, we only get the information that Katerine doesn’t have a Warder.
Which, first of all, duh, she’s Red, but in retrospect it’s a little much to suppose that Verin wouldn’t have also thought to herself, Oh, and also, she’s Black Ajah. But of course, to have Verin think that “out loud” at this point, so to speak, would be giving too much away to the reader; so she just… doesn’t think about it. So from a certain point of view (heh), in an oblique POV we’re not really in the character’s head at all.
So, does that make it awesome authorial sneakiness, or cheating? Give me your thoughts!
Either way, though, I think we can all agree on the awesome sneakiness of Verin herself.
But first, the Borderlander Conference of Ominous Vagueness. Okay, quick: without looking, name everyone at that meeting!
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Sheesh.
So obviously, this was written to make it seem like the Borderlanders are planning something Not Fun for Rand, with the thirteen sisters they happen to have with them to add a little extra Uh-Oh. However, the fact that they didn’t start out with those thirteen sisters indicates that the worst case scenario we’re all thinking of is clearly not what they were thinking of – at least not originally.
(As a side note, I’m sorry, but the name “Illeisien” has got to be violating some law about vowel-to-consonant ratio. Srsly.)
So what are they planning? Well, obviously I don’t know for sure, but I think I always assumed that the Ominous Ominosity of this scene was total misdirection on Jordan’s part, and really they just wanted to go find Rand and swear loyalty to him, maybe after shaking their finger at him a bit first. Even all that business about ending up with their heads on pikes can fit this scenario, when you consider that (if I’m right) this is four ruling monarchs agreeing to hand over all their sovereign authority to a guy destined to go crazy. From a certain viewpoint that could be considered treason to their respective nations, after all.
Of course, later events… well, actually I don’t know what later events indicate. The stuff with Elayne was pretty much completely extraneous – both in general (ooh) and in the specific sense of what the Borderlanders’ ultimate intentions were. I know that Rand later has a sort-of confrontation with them in TGS (if you count standing outside Far Madding and yelling Come out, come out or I’ll blow your house down!, and then… not doing that as a confrontation), but I don’t think that really cleared anything up either, since Rand was pretty much completely Crazypants at that point, and I probably would have run and hidden from him too, no matter what I eventually intended to do. If there was more to that scene I don’t remember it; I’ve only read TGS one and a half times, after all.
Ethenielle: I like her. (Though there seems to be some confusion about her surnames.) She comes across as being very down to earth and common sensical, which is always going to earn you points with me. Her and her advisors being all “Oh Lord” when Tenobia shows up was pretty funny, too.
Tenobia herself was amusing in an obnoxiously endearing kind of way. I have to assume that Ethenielle’s musings on Tenobia’s impossible husband standards (which was also funny) was a kind of indirect commentary on Faile’s also-occasionally-psychotic standards for Perrin. Or maybe it’s meant as a Could-Be-Woise panacea: if you think Faile’s bad, check out her loony cousin! In either case, I find myself agreeing with Ethenielle’s conclusion that Saldaeans are collectively all nutcases. Adorable nutcases (mostly), but nutcases.
And, of course, we also get the obligatory foreshadowing of Faile-n-Perrin’s enRoyalling. And… well, yeah. There it is. Still annoyed that Bashere has to die, though.
Next up, Verin!
Well. THIS is certainly different to read, post-TGS, eh? It certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense, that’s for sure. So much sense, in fact, that I’m not sure what to say about it that isn’t just stating the obvious, other than to paraphrase what someone on the newsgroup once said (quite presciently, it turns out): that Verin is not Black, exactly – just very dark Brown.
“Dippy, good-natured ruthlessness” is not a character trait I can honestly say I’ve come across that often, and I enjoy it quite a lot in Verin. I had to laugh at Verin’s blithe statement about whipping up a handy list of good humiliations for Aes Sedai to give to Sorilea, just for example. Not to mention, of course, her use of a very Dark Side tool – namely, Compulsion – to ultimately further the cause of the Light. Which, in a way, sums up Verin’s entire life, we now know. Slightly creepy, yet totally awesome: that’s Verin.
As a side note, I’m assuming the “cipher” Verin thinks about here is the same one she gave to Egwene for her Black Ajah notes; at least I hope it is, because in a geeky way I think it would be a terrible shame if all the other things Verin studied over the years was lost.
One other interesting thing in this scene is Beldeine. I remember many fans were rather excited at her appearance, since we assumed that this was the same Beldeine who was Egwene’s Keeper in her Accepted test vision way back in TDR. It seems, though, as of TGS we were wrong, since to date Egwene’s never even laid eyes on Beldeine, and has named Silviana to be her Keeper instead. Of course, there’s nothing to say things can’t change later, but, well. I suppose it’s not that important in the grand scheme of things, but one could regard it as a missed opportunity for symmetry, or synergy, or something.
(Jem is outrageous!)
(Sorry.)
Last but not least, Moridin and his Fake Chess of Symbolic Portent. The Fisher piece that Jordan introduces here is one of the most symbolically fraught items introduced in WOT, and that’s saying quite a lot, all things considered. There’s not a lot I can say about the legends it refers to that hasn’t been said already, and better, by others, so I will let them.
There was a bit of discussion in the comments, I saw, about whether Moridin’s musings here that the Fisher often changes hands in the course of the game means that his earlier statement to Rand that the Dragon has fallen to the Shadow before is correct, or if Rand’s later assertion in TGS that he knows he has never turned to the Dark Side in any incarnation is the truth.
Personally, I tend to think Rand is right, and Ishydin was lying. And though I also seem to recall someone coming up with a signing/interview quote from Jordan that proves me wrong, I have decided I don’t care, and am going with this notion unless and until it is definitively disproven in the text. Because Rand’s declaration just feels right, and nicely fits with my earlier also-possibly-already-disproven notion that the only way the Shadow can absolutely win is if the Dragon turns (as opposed to just dying).
Why? Because I like it, dammit. It is all symmetrical and nobly good-and-evil diametrical and stuff. And anyway, I have to be irrationally stubborn about SOME loony theory, don’t I? Well, here it is. Nyah!
And since childish petulance is the perfect note to end on, here’s where we stop! Have a fabulous weekend, guys and gals; those of you going to JordanCon have a grand time, and raise a glass on my behalf if you get a chance. See you next week!
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When important projects get built we often have a look back and the renderings and wonder, did it live up to the hype? When MVRDV won a competition to turn an old elevated expressway into a park, I wondered about it, writing:
Everywhere you look these days, cities have either Highlinitis or Bilbaosis, trying to imitate the magic that attracts thousands of people and revitalizes cities and neighborhoods. But can you really compare this project in Seoul to the High Line?
And indeed, Dezeen calls it "South Korea's answer to New York's High Line, the 983-metre-long park occupies a stretch of the 1970s highway destined for demolition. It now contains 24,000 trees, shrubs and flowers set into cylindrical planters." But in many ways it is a very different thing.
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I also wasn’t sure if it would be very nice to actually walk on, being on top of a highway and a rail yard.
The High Line is surrounded by stuff to look at and has lots of access points. This overpass will act as a useful shortcut for people who no longer have to walk around the station to get to the big Namedaemun Market, but doesn't provide much of a view of anything but tracks and highways leading into the railway station. The high line provides and outward view; this is far more introspective and inward looking.
© MVRDV
Now that it is finished, I have to say that I am impressed at how in most cases, it looks pretty much like the renderings; here is the closest match between the concept and the built project.
And in a few years when the plants have grown up a bit more might even be more like them.
You can see here how they strive to make it inward looking, they even have some kind of screen to act as a visual break, because all there appears to be to look at outside is a road full of cars.
It is also just the start. According to MVRDV,
In the future, the overpass will evolve with new plants and new activators so as to become an ‘urban nursery’, rearing trees for the surrounding districts. Additional structures of stairs, lifts and escalators as well as new ‘satellite’ gardens, can connect to the Skygarden, sprouting like branches from the existing structural piers. These extensions can inspire further additions to the area’s greenery and public spaces, and will connect the Skygarden to its surroundings both physically and visually through plant species related to each of the neighbourhoods.
Two years ago I wrote:
Highlinitis and Bilbaosis are terrible urban diseases where good ideas that work in one place spread and infect other cities where they do not have the same magical effect. However this is a useful bridge that will get pedestrians across this vast sea of rail lines in style and comfort. It looks like it will be magical in its own, original way.
And I think that they have pulled it off. It is a useful pedestrian connection on a highway that could no longer carry cars, and it looks really popular. The number of CCTV cameras on tall poles is a bit scary, but that's urban life these days. Lots more images on Dezeen and Inhabitat.
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A recent decision in the family courts may well have a significant bearing on future big money divorce cases.
Lord Justice Pritchard has told a mother-of-two that divorcees with children over 7 years of age should work for a living. The facts of the case are as follows:
Tracey Wright a former riding instructor lives with her daughter (aged 10), and chose not to work when she and her then husband, Ian, divorced in 2008 after 11 years of marriage. In the divorce settlement, Mrs Wright got a £450,000 house (mortgage-free), plus stabling for horses, following an order to sell the matrimonial home. Mr Wright was also ordered to pay £75,000p.a. in spousal maintenance and school fees.
In 2014, Mr Wright returned to the High Court seeking a reduction in the annual maintenance bill, arguing it was unfair to expect him to support his ex-wife indefinitely, even post retirement, while she made no effort whatsoever to seek employment. The judge agreed that there was no good reason why Mrs Wright had not done paid work since the divorce and criticised her for being “evasive” on her earning capacity.
That decision has been upheld on appeal with the judge ordering that Mrs Wright’s personal maintenance payments must cease, with a tailing-off over a five-year period leading up to Mr Wright’s retirement. Upholding Judge Roberts’s earlier ruling, Lord Justice Pitchford confirmed that it is now “imperative that the wife go out to work and support herself, the time had come to recognise that, at the time of his retirement, the husband should not be paying spousal maintenance.”
The decision in some ways reflects the greater equality that exists in relationships relating to both family and working lives. In the vast majority of cases both husband and wife contribute jointly to running a household and both also contribute financially. In many cases the wife returns to work after a period of time raising children. The expectation that a wife can use the circumstances of divorce to become a stay at home mum appears unrealistic following these developments.
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B.C. Liberals promise to ban elections in a provincial emergency
Andrew Wilkinson rolls out party platform before debate
B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson released his party’s platform for the Oct. 24 election Tuesday, as party leaders prepared for their only leaders’ debate in the surprise election called by NDP leader John Horgan.
Wilkinson pledged to amend B.C.’s election law if he forms the next government, banning elections during provincial states of emergency such as the one that has been extended since the COVID-19 pandemic began early this year. Horgan used the provision in the current law to advise Lt. Gov. Janet Austin to call the election a year before it is scheduled.
The platform includes a pledge to build 10,000 new child care spaces, and appoint an independent commission to review all provincial taxes, including the 23 new or increased taxes that the B.C. Liberals say have been added during three years of NDP minority government.
The platform includes an ambitious 60-day program for a B.C. Liberal government, including a COVID-19 economic response plan that incorporates Wilkinson’s promise to cancel the provincial sales tax for a year and bring it back at a lower rate.
The 60-day plan includes a pledge to “improve students’ and teachers’ health and safety, by implementing a province-wide framework for hybrid and online learning options, promoting distance learning programs and restoring the $12 million the NDP cut from independent distributed learning programs.”
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With B.C.’s deficit already estimated at nearly $13 billion for the current fiscal year, Wilkinson repeated his vow that a B.C. Liberal government would not cut services to balance the books. The platform contains more than $2 billion in new spending commitments, including an additional $200 million to improve health care.
The PST cut alone would cost nearly $7 billion in the first year. Wilkinson said his target is to return B.C. to a balanced budget within five years, but for the near future, every developed country is borrowing heavily to get through the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the economy.
A top priority is tourism, where the B.C. Liberals have promised loan guarantees as bridge financing for tourism and hospitality business that are worried about getting through the winter.
“We need to avoid a complete collapse in our tourism industry, and that’s what we intend to do,” Wilkinson said.
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Weed: the Elephant in the DA’s Office
By Mike Geniella on December 31, 2009
Former prosecutor David Eyster is jumping into the race for Mendocino County District Attorney, setting the stage for a robust debate over the county’s current zigzag approach to prosecution of marijuana and other criminal cases.
Eyster, a Ukiah attorney with a reputation as a tough, skilled prosecutor, is backed by a broad range of supporters from former police chiefs to champions of the late maverick DA Norm Vroman. Their shared concern is the lack of clearly defined prosecution standards in a county facing rising crime and a flourishing underground marijuana industry.
“The DA’s office these days is a rudderless ship,” says Eyster.
Ukiah Attorney Keith Faulder, a Vroman protégé who lost his bid to become DA three years ago, has thrown his support behind Eyster. “There’s no better candidate,” says Faulder.
Former Willits Police Chief Ron Caudillo of Willits, former District Attorney Duncan James and Raleigh Vroman, Vroman’s widow, are also endorsing Eyster.
Eyster presents the most formidable challenge yet to Meredith Lintott, the current district attorney. Lintott in 2006 had to wage a year-long battle against Vroman and later Faulder, who stepped into the race after Vroman suddenly died in the middle of the campaign.
Eyster is already taking an early lead in discussing an issue that other candidates tend to side-step: prosecution of marijuana growers.
A litany of excuses underscores the current pot prosecution efforts, from budget cutbacks in the DA’s office to legal confusion over conflicting county, state and federal enforcement standards.
It seems rampant commercial marijuana cultivation remains an uncomfortable subject in a county where the illicit cash crop dwarfs in value the combined production of big timber, wine grapes, or for that matter any other legitimate economic enterprise.
Eyster calls it “the elephant in the room.”
For instance current DA Lintott and candidate Matt Finnegan, a former Lintott deputy prosecutor before she fired him, discussed the issues as they saw them in an interview last week published in the Ukiah Daily Journal.
None of their published remarks addressed marijuana prosecution efforts. Instead there was the usual campaign fodder about “leadership,” “public safety,” “efficiencies” and “community involvement.”
In announcing his candidacy for district attorney, Eyster quickly addressed his positions on medical marijuana use, and lagging prosecutions of commercial pot growers.
Eyster said, for example, that he believes the “philosophical fight is over” regarding pot’s legalization for medical purposes, a step California voters took a decade ago.
“It is legally and morally wrong to prosecute patients who are trying to comply with the letter and spirit of the law,” said Eyster.
But Eyster said as district attorney he will aggressively target “able-bodied, for-profit pot growers” who have flocked to the county in recent years.
“I will vigorously prosecute the illegal profiteers and trespassers who trash our lands, kill wildlife, divert water resources, and make parts of Mendocino County dangerous places to live,” said Eyster.
Eyster is a skilled prosecutor who knows his way around a courtroom. He’s brash and confident, sometimes excessively so, say his detractors.
But ducking issues is not Eyster’s style. His entry into the race is likely to force a long-needed debate among all candidates on the adequacy of current marijuana prosecution efforts.
You can contact Mike Geniella at mgeniella@gmail.com.
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The declining share of interest-only mortgages issued by Australian banks, in one chart
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Since APRA’s lending restrictions in March 2017, the average portfolio share of interest-only loans among the big banks has fallen from 39.5% to 27.9%. The shift in behaviour partly illustrates the effect of tighter lending standards, which have been cited as the main catalyst for Australia’s housing downturn. Westpac’s […]
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Darrell Issa warns absent Ebola czar he needs to show up to the next hearing
Ebola coordinator Ron Klain listens as President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the government’s Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin\n
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said he was "disappointed" that President Barack Obama's new Ebola czar, Ron Klain, did not appear before his hearing on Ebola Friday morning, and warned that Klain shouldn't skip the next hearing.
"We did invite the president's new czar, Mr. Klain, to testify, and we're very disappointed that he was not able to," Issa said as he opened the hearing. "But we understand he has just started, and we do not expect that that would be repeated if there's a followup hearing."
Ebola coordinator Ron Klain wasn't at a House hearing on Ebola on Friday, which prompted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to warn that Klain will need to be at any followup hearings that might be held. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Obama administration has said all week that Klain would not testify, as he just started his job coordinating the federal government's response to Ebola on Wednesday.
Klain is likely to hear criticism from Congress whenever he arrives. Like other Republicans have said in the past few weeks, Issa said he believes Klain is the wrong pick for the job.
"President Obama's appointment of Ron Klain to serve as the Ebola czar sadly, in my opinion, shows the administration has on one hand recognized the missteps, and on the other hand is not prepared to put a known leader in charge, or in fact, a medical professional in charge," Issa said.
Issa said one question he has is whether Klain will be charged with creating the interagency coordination needed to handle cases of Ebola in the United States, or overseeing a process that already exists.
The administration has been criticized for failing to organize hospital standards that should be followed when dealing with Ebola or suspected cases of Ebola. Some have said the lack of coordination played a role in the infection of two nurses in Dallas who dealt with the first patient ever diagnoses with Ebola in the United States.
At Issa's hearing, an organization representing thousands of nurses around the country said the government has so far failed to keep nurses safe, and said a federal standard for dealing with the virus is needed.
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Choosing a university
University facilities
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There are over 150 institutions in the UK to choose from. Think about which ones match your preferences when it comes to courses, teaching style, location, type and extra-curricular opportunities.
Ask yourself these questions to help you shortlist universities you’d be happy to study at.
Which universities offer the subject area or specific course you’re interested in?
Don’t go to a university if it doesn’t offer what you want.
Where do you want to study?
Think about proximity to home and if you want to be in an urban or rural area.
What type of university do you want to go to?
Think about size, reputation, and if you want to go somewhere with a greater emphasis on research or teaching.
What other opportunities and facilities do you want or need?
There could be certain societies and sports clubs you want to join, or you may need specialist support.
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Going somewhere with the opportunities and facilities you want will help you create a good balance between studying and socialising. Most universities will offer similar things, but the quantity and quality will vary.
What societies and sports clubs do you want access to?
You might have a sport or hobby that you want to start or continue at university. Most universities will cater for popular sports like football or rugby and will have societies linked to academic departments. However, smaller universities won’t necessarily be able to satisfy more niche interests.
You can research the students’ union to find out what it offers, how responsive it is to students, and what its reputation is like.
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Do you need any special services?
Universities should be able to accommodate anyone with special needs. They’ll understand the Disability and Equality Act (2010) and associated legislation, and will want to make you feel welcome.
However, you can contact the university to make sure it will meet your needs. This could be by asking about the accessibility of old buildings or seeing what’s on offer for learning support.
Is having a good careers service important?
University careers services help with everything from finding internships to industry networking. They can also help you get a part-time job to earn extra money during your studies.
If you’re looking for a high level of career support, make sure you research what services are available at the universities you’re interested in.
Is there affordable, accessible accommodation in a convenient location?
University accommodation varies in price and quality across universities. Each institution will have a range of options to suit different budgets and requirements. Use our accommodation section to find advice on what to look for.
The right location can help you make the most of your time at university. You may want to stay close to home or experience living in a completely new place.
Do you want to leave home or be able to commute from there?
Moving somewhere new can offer different experiences than living at home. This may be the first time you’re living independently, so you’ll have different responsibilities.
Alternatively, you may choose to live at home or be limited by personal circumstances. You’ll still be able to immerse yourself in university life even if you’re not living with your peers in student accommodation.
If you decide to leave home, how far away do you want to be?
You might want to move somewhere new but close enough so you can still easily see family and friends at home. Alternatively, you might crave independence and a fresh start that comes with moving far away.
You don’t have to limit your search to UK universities either. Studying overseas offers different experiences and challenges to staying in the UK.
What do you want your university surroundings to be?
Universities are located in a variety of environments, from cities and towns to the suburbs and countryside. Each offers a different experience.
A more rural setting will be quieter and safer. This could be better for concentrating on work, but there might be less varied social and cultural opportunities. Going to a city will expose you to a much busier lifestyle with a more diverse population and more opportunities to socialise, but could mean too much distraction.
By visiting a university on an open day, you can find out:
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What size university do you want to go to?
UK universities vary from large – with 30,000+ students, offering courses in a broad range of subjects – to small, specialist institutions of a few hundred people, and everything in between.
A smaller university will likely provide a stronger sense of community, but won’t match the large universities for the number of courses, clubs and societies on offer.
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A campus university has accommodation, teaching spaces, research facilities and other amenities such as shops, restaurants and laundrettes all on one site. They’re usually just outside a large city or town. Campus universities can be safer and more convenient, and have a stronger community spirit.
A city university has facilities spread across a number of different locations within the same city. They allow you to get more involved with what the city has to offer, such as industry opportunities, nightlife and cultural experiences.
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Universities in the UK vary in age, from ancient institutions such as the Oxford and St Andrews to more modern ones like Harper Adams. The age of the university can be an indicator of the types of subjects taught and teaching style.
Older universities usually have a more ‘traditional’ academic focus and a strong emphasis on research. Newer universities often offer less traditional and more vocational courses, with a greater attention on teaching over research.
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6-Week Ban in Ohio Would Block Abortion Before Women Knew They Were Pregnant
By Lisa Ryan
Ohio lawmakers passed a six-week abortion ban. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
The “heartbeat bill” that Ohio lawmakers passed on Tuesday would prohibit abortion in the state at only six weeks of pregnancy. But because most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage — and most doctors won’t see them until they’re further along — the bill basically bans women in the state from accessing abortion at all.
The bill, which doesn’t include exceptions for rape or incest, is just one of Ohio’s challenges to abortion rights, as lawmakers are expected to pass a 20-week abortion ban, too. Both may soon be signed into law by Republican Governor John Kasich. Yet, earlier in the year, the Supreme Court refused to overturn rulings that blocked a similar 6-week ban in North Dakota and a 12-week ban in Arkansas. So, unless Donald Trump is successful in his quest to appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, the Ohio bills may also be deemed unconstitutional if they actually become law.
As artist and author Jessica Hische pointed out on Twitter, the bills actively restrict women’s rights to make their own reproductive choices, particularly given the timeline of a woman’s pregnancy.
If you don't get why early abortion bans are a big deal, here is the timeline to explain how pregnancy works. pic.twitter.com/fpdveUtqVs
— Jessica Hische (@jessicahische) December 7, 2016
Pregnancy technically begins the first day of a woman’s last period — before she’s even pregnant. Furthermore, many women learn that they are pregnant sometime between weeks four and seven. A woman’s first prenatal visit usually isn’t until around week eight, because of the high risk of miscarriage in the first trimester. Fetal anomalies, such as those caused by the Zika virus, are usually only detected starting around week 20.
The excessively restrictive six-week ban would therefore block a woman’s access to abortion before she even had the opportunity to discover she was pregnant or talk to her doctor about her options. We can only hope Governor Kasich doesn’t sign these bills into law — or if he does, that the Supreme Court will once again protect women’s reproductive rights.
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A faster, less risky close: how thedocyard makes completing the deal a non-event
Greg O’Reilly, Head of Customer Success, thedocyard
You’ve reached the finishing line. You’ve got a deal in principle; you just need to cross the t’s and dot the I’s to make sure it gets done – and quickly. You’re trying to capture the essence of what has been agreed to in a way that is waterproof and doesn’t leave room for any unwanted surprises.
Yet with so much on the line in the ‘black hole’ of the deal close phase, you may often scramble to stay on top of a mammoth list of to-dos. You’re trying to manage a multitude of versions, and generally to keep the process moving towards completion.
Unfortunately, the virtual data room alone does little to help. Sure, data rooms are helpful when you’re doing the due diligence, but beyond that, you’re on your own.
As an end-to-end deal management solution, thedocyard includes several features to improve the pace, accuracy, communication and cost of wrapping up the deal. Here are a few examples:
1. Know what you’re agreeing to thanks to thedocyard’s dashboard
In this crucial closing phase, you’re pinning down the final details of exactly what you’re agreeing to. You’re dealing with version after version. It’s hard to be 100 per cent sure of the status of the deal with documents flying around over email.
In thedocyard things are different. With real time dashboards and checklists, you can see what the latest version is at a glance. This makes it easier to know whether you’re agreeing on the most up to date version and nothing has been missed, reducing risk when things close.
2. Everyone in the loop with in-app communication
When you’re closing a deal, it’s particularly critical that everyone is aware of the status of the deal and what the latest version of the agreement is. In a typical deal flow, each time something is completed, the Word doc will get updated and shared around again. There are daily meetings and teleconferences to check what’s been completed and what’s outstanding.
By forgetting to cc a particular person on an email, deal completion can be thrown into disarray at a later stage, leading to delays, or worse yet, risks post-deal.
When doing deals in thedocyard, you get a single source of truth. Create a checklist and assign tasks within the platform. Thedocyard will automatically update all relevant parties when tasks are completed and versions are updated, leaving nothing to human error.
3. Keep things flowing
Despite everything being theoretically agreed to at this point, there are lots of boxes to tick to get the deal done. With many different parties required to finalise their contributions to the agreement, it’s easy for bottlenecks to occur.
thedocyard’s checklists and task management improves visibility during the deal close stage, keeping things flowing. Easily see who is working on the latest version, and when their input is due. You’ll receive notifications when someone has finished their assigned task and it’s the next person’s turn to take the reins.
Greater transparency brings greater accountability and productivity. With visibility on all sides, the process is naturally driven towards completion.
4. Done with deal bibles with one click reporting
Compiling the dreaded ‘deal bible’ at the end of the process can often take weeks. The same thing can be done in minutes through thedocyard. In the same way, you can also download and save the entire deal, giving you an audit-ready record of what you need should the regulators come knocking, today, tomorrow or six years down the line.
That’s handy if, like a friend I spoke to recently in the industry, your company gets audited to discover that no one involved in the deal remains at any of the companies involved.
5. Reduce client costs
With the help of checklists, task management, document management, collaboration tools, and more, you’ll reduce the time to get through the process and the cost to your client. By providing a more efficient and smart process, you’ll be more likely to maintain that client and grow your engagement. By making things more efficient, you also have time take on new clients.
So there we have it. From a ‘black hole’ of admin and deal completion drama, thedocyard ensures closing becomes almost a non-event. In fact, you might not have to meet up to finalise everything at all, having incrementally worked your way through your deal close to-dos in a way that’s visible to all. Though if a celebratory COVIDSafe drink is top of your closing day to-do list, we’re not going to stop you.
Built by deal-makers for deal-makers, thedocyard provides workflow, compliance and productivity in one platform. Learn more about our end to end deal management platform or book an online demo with our customer success team.
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TimeFinder SnapVX Overview
TimeFinder SnapVX provides a highly efficient mechanism for taking periodic point-in-time copies of source data without the need for target devices. Target devices are required only for presenting the point-in-time data to another host. Sharing allocations between multiple snapshots makes it highly space-efficient. A write to the source volume will only require one snapshot delta to preserve the original data for multiple snapshots. If a source track is shared with a target or multiple targets, a write to this track will preserve the original data as snapshot delta and will be shared for all the targets. Write to the target will be applied only to the specific target.
1. Create local point-in-time copies (snapshots) of data without requiring pairing between Source and Target Volumes – Target Volumes are required only if host access to point-in-time data is desired.
2. Highly scalable – Up to 256 snapshots per Source Volume Up to 1024 linked target volumes per source volume.
3. Highly space efficient – Sharing of point-in-time tracks among different snapshots.
TimeFinder SnapVX Terminology
Below are the terminologies used in TimeFinder SnapVX. Host writes to source volumes will create snapshot deltas in the SRP. Snapshot deltas are the original point-in-time data of tracks that have been modified after the snapshot was established.
Source Volume – A VMAX3 device whose point-in-time copy is to be preserved
Snapshot – Preserved point-in-time image of the Source Volume.
Snapshot Delta – Original Source Volume tracks at the point-in-time of the Snapshot that were preserved during host wr•ites to the Source Volume.
Linked Target Volume – A VMAX3 device that is used to provide access to point-in-time data by linking it to a Snapshot.
Storage Resource Pool – A collection of data pools that are managed by FAST and provide physical storage for VMAX3 thin devices.
Re-direct on write
When the snapshot is created, both the source device and the snapshot point to the location of data in the SRP. When a source track is written to, the new write is asynchronously written to a new location in the SRP. The source volume will point to the new data. The snapshot will continue to point to the location of the original data. The preserved point-in-time data becomes the snapshot delta. This is the re-direct on write mechanism.
Under some circumstances, SnapVX will use Asynchronous Copy of First Write (ACOFW). This might be done to prevent the degradation of performance for the source device. For example, if the original track was allocated on Flash drive, then it would be better to copy this down to a lower tier and accommodate the new write in the Flash drive.
Snapshot Generations and Time-to-live
Snapshot Generations
Each snapshot is assigned a generation number. If the name assigned to the snapshot is reused, then the generation numbers are incremented. The most recent snapshot with the same name will be designated as generation 0, the one prior as generation 1, and so on. If each snapshot is given a unique name, they will all be generation 0. Terminating a snapshot will result in the reassignment of generation numbers.
Time-to-live (TTL)
Time-to-live (TTL) can be used to automatically terminate a snapshot at a set time. This can be specified at the time of snapshot creation or can be modified later. HYPERMAX OS will terminate the snapshot at the set time. If a snapshot has linked targets, it will not be terminated. It will be terminated only when the last target is unlinked. TTL can be set as a specific date or as a number of days from creation time.
Linked Targets
A snapshot has to be linked to a target volume to provide access to point-in-time data to a host. The link can be in NoCopy or Copy mode. Copy mode linked targets will provide full volume copies of the point-in-time data of the source volumes – similar to full copy clones. Copy mode linked targets will have useable copy of the data even after termination of the snapshot – provided the copy has completed. Default is to create NoCopy mode linked targets. NoCopy mode links are space-saving snapshots that only consume space for the changed data that is stored in the source device’s SRP. NoCopy mode links do not retain point-in-time data once the link is removed. The link mode can be changed after the link has been created.
Writing to a linked target will not affect the snapshot. The target can be re-linked to the snapshot to revert to the original point-in-time. A snapshot can be linked to multiple targets. But a target volume can be linked to only one snapshot. Up to 1024 target volumes can be linked to the snapshot(s) of a single source volume. This limit can be achieved either by linking all 1024 volumes to the same snapshot from the source volume, or by linking multiple target volumes to multiple snapshots from the same source volume.
There is no benefit to have the NoCopy mode linked targets in an SRP different from the Source SRP. Writes to the Source volume will only create snapshot deltas which will be stored in the Source volume’s SRP. The writes will not initiate any copy to the target. A target volume that is larger than the source can be linked to a snapshot. This is enabled by default. The environment variable SYMCLI_SNAPVX_LARGER_TGT can be set to DISABLE to prevent this.
Linked Targets – defined/undefined Tracks
Snap VX introduces the concept of a “defined” state for linked target tracks. When a target is first linked to a snapshot, all its tracks are considered “undefined”. Shortly after linking, a background defining process will change the pointers of each track to reflect the location of the tracks for the specific point-in-time. In the undefined state, the location of data for the target has to be resolved through the pointers for the snapshot. In the defined state, data for the target points directly to the corresponding locations in the SRP.
Defining aids the performance of host access of target tracks that have not yet been copied to the target by presenting data directly from the SRP and eliminating the need for a redirect to source or snapshot. The user does not need to wait for a target volume to be defined before accessing the point-in-time. A write to an undefined track will invoke the defining process for the track, and a read to an undefined track will be redirected to the appropriate point-in-time version of the track.
Relinking and Unlinking targets
Relink provides a convenient way of checking different snapshots to select the appropriate one to access. A link between the snapshot of the source volume and the target must exist for the relink operation. Relink can also be performed with a different snapshot of the same source volume or a different generation of the same snapshot of the source volume. Unlink operation removes the relationship between a snapshot and the corresponding target. Copy mode linked targets can be unlinked after the copying completes. This will provide a full, independent useable point-in-time copy of the Source data on the Target device.
NoCopy mode linked targets can be unlinked at any time. After unlinking a NoCopy mode linked target, the target device cannot be considered as useable. This is because the target would have shared tracks with the source volume and/or the snapshot deltas. These tracks would not be available on the target after the unlink operation and hence render it un-useable.
Restore to Source
As the data on the Source volume from the host’s perspective will be changing, the Source volume should be unmounted prior to the restore operation and then re-mounted. To restore from a linked target, a snapshot of it must be established; and this snapshot should be linked to the Source volume. The Source volume cannot be unlinked until copy completes. So the link should be created in copy mode.
Restore from snapshot
– Snapshots can be directly restored to the Source volume.
– data will be set back to the point-in-time of the snapshot.
– Only changed data has to be restored from the snapshot delta—inherently differential operation.
Restore from linked target
– Two-step process
1. Create a snapshot of the linked target
2. Link this snapshot with the Source volume (which will now be a linked target)
Cascading Snapshots
Snapshots of linked targets can be created. These can further be linked to other targets. This is referred to as cascading. There is no limit to the number of cascaded hops that can be created as long as the overall limit for SnapVX is maintained. However, there may not be many practical uses for cascading, given the efficiency of SnapVX technology. Writes to linked target do not affect the snapshot. It always remains pristine – in effect the “gold” copy. If one must experiment with data on the linked target, there is no need to save a gold copy prior to this. When done with the experimentation, one can always refresh the target data with the original snapshot data by relinking.
The linked target must be in a defined or copied state before a snapshot of it can be created. A cascaded snapshot can only be restored to the linked target that is in copy mode and has fully copied. If the linked target is in NoCopy mode, it cannot be unlinked without first terminating any snapshots that have been created from it. A linked target that has a cascaded snapshot must be fully copied before being unlinked. A snapshot with linked targets cannot be terminated.
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Come together? DER aggregation sparks more confusion than consensus in power sector
Utilities and DER providers have divergent opinions on how the aggregation of distributed resources will develop
The rise of renewable energy is now “inevitable” and clean energy sources will soon be the “norm,” Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz recently told a group of the world’s energy ministers.
Considered fringe technologies less than a decade ago, wind and solar energy are steadily becoming competitive with traditional generation, making them an increasingly attractive investment for power providers in states like Colorado or Texas, even when compared with natural gas.
But as quickly as that revolution in the power system became commonplace, another is picking up steam.
The next big change, already in the works and raising urgent questions, is the aggregation of distributed energy resources (DERs) into a reliable grid resource. The growth of distributed generation is expected to top that of new central-station plants worldwide after 2018, according to a recent Navigant Consulting report.
Providers say it is time to remove the obstacles to using software-managed fleets of distributed resources like rooftop solar and behind-the-meter battery storage to meet grid needs, just as a traditional generator would. Already, some pilot programs are underway in states like New York, California and Hawaii.
With power sector leaders and regulators all working to form new market rules for the distributed energy future, a recent report of industry insiders from GTM Squared sheds light on many of the obstacles they face.
The report, “Annual Survey Report 2016: The Future of Global Electricity Systems,” highlights four key areas of concern that need to be answered before aggregated DERs can become a broadly marketable product:
The real value of DERs in electricity markets;
Whether DERs managed by third parties present a threat to electric reliability;
If and how utilities and build a new business model by competing in the DER marketplace;
Whether third-party providers or utilities are better positioned to aggregate and market DERs.
The survey finds few concrete answers, but, according to utilities and DER providers queried by Utility Dive, there are some areas of agreement where consensus might be built.
Limited consensus
For its report, GTM Squared surveyed 468 distributed energy insiders, chosen because, because “they know what they are talking about,” Spokesperson Nicholas Rinaldi said.
The bulk of survey respondents (209 of 468) were from utilities, with 57% of those from investor-owned utilities, 18% from municipal utilities, 11% from retail electric providers, 9% from transmission system operators, and 5% from electric cooperatives. Other respondents included regulatory staff, policymakers and private sector DER providers.
The wide-ranging survey, which also touched on net metering and DER growth, delivered a number of insights. But Rinaldi highlighted one he said illustrates how difficult it will be for the sector to answer the four areas of concern with DER aggregation: Attitudes toward the sector’s readiness for the distributed energy transition.
When asked whether they felt the sector as a whole is prepared for a DER-heavy grid, 80% of respondents said no. Only 30%, however, said their own companies were not ready.
“There was a consensus but not a logical consensus,” Rinaldi said. “That essentially says, ‘there is a problem but it is not my problem.’”
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Utility respondents are more consistent. They were three times more likely to say both the industry and their companies are not prepared, GTM noted.
Among utilities and DER providers reached for comment by Utility Dive, attitudes toward DER-readiness spanned the spectrum.
At one end was Duke Energy, the nation’s second-largest utility by customer base and an emerging leader in utility-scale solar.
“This issue isn’t on our radar,” Spokesperson Randy Wheeless said when asked about aggregation.
At the other end of the spectrum is EnerNOC, a leading demand response provider. Though the roles of utilities and DER providers “will vary by region and regulatory regime,” Senior Manager and DER Team Lead Jeff McAulay said, “there is a collective realization that DER have more value together than they do separately.”
In other words, some see a transformation coming and are preparing for it and some don't and aren't.
Even as his company has begun preparing, however, McAulay acknowledged that DER aggregation is new and it is not yet clear “which stakeholders can capture that value.”
Southern California Edison (SCE), which serves more than 14 million in the Golden State and has a DER aggregation pilot with SolarCity, was mid-spectrum. The transformation is coming, Director of Energy Policy Gary Stern said, but the distribution grid is not yet ready for it.
In particular, Stern does not yet see the technology in place to provide utilities with the visibility they need to manage DER and maintain reliability. “
We are working to modernize the grid so it can handle the proliferation of these resources,” he said. “We are not quite there yet but that is what we are trying to achieve.”
A data point from the survey expands on Stern’s point. In answer to the question of whether current efforts to value and monetize DER are sufficient, over 90% of the answers are “no.” Almost six in ten respondents say inadequate consensus among stakeholders on those and other questions is preventing progress.
The message is clear. The agreement now is that agreement is lacking. But embedded in the contention are crucial hints about the answer to the biggest question of all: Who will do the aggregating?
Agree to disagree: DER valuation
Distributed resources, especially rooftop solar, were seen just a few years ago the herald of a “utility death spiral.” Today, they figure highly in many utilities’ resource planning.
But if DERs are to be truly marketable as a grid resource comparable to conventional generation, their value must be defined. That’s difficult, since each type of DER, from solar to batteries and grid-enabled water heaters, offers different attributes from one another, and from traditional plants.
In states like California, Hawaii and Arizona, where DER proliferation is greatest, regulatory proceedings are already underway to answer that question, but most involve deep-seated disagreements between utilities and DER providers about valuation.
Whether DERs will be deployed as a merchant resource in electricity markets or used by utilities to create new revenue streams, the value question must be addressed, the GTM survey notes. At the very least, the diverse respondents appear to agree on the root of the problem.
When asked the greatest obstacle to DER valuation, 60% of respondents said the lack of consensus among stakeholders is the greatest hurdle to proper DER valuation. Among investor-owned utilities, the number was higher — 63%.
There is similarly broad agreement that the best way for regulators and policymakers to support utilities through the DER transition is with mechanisms that assign value to DER. Regulators (76%), private providers (67%), and utilities (49%) support regulatory and policy mechanisms that impose market-based reforms to deal with or assign value to DER, the survey reports.
“The numbers suggest that utilities, their regulators, and the private sector all want more of a role for the market and they are looking for regulators to provide that clarity,” Rinaldi said.
As utilities expand their distribution system resource planning, they will identify location specific needs where DER will be of value, said Avista Utilities Fellow Engineer Curt Kirkeby.
“The utility is in a unique position to leverage economies of scope as well as economies of scale that should incent investment and be competitive with third party aggregators,” he noted.
But there will also be an opportunity for DER providers, he added. “The value proposition for aggregators will be to deliver the same values the utility can at a lower price, or provide more value than the utility can deliver.”
From the survey and answers to Utility Dive queries, it is clear stakeholders are placing an increasing emphasis on the opportunity in DER aggregation.
“The market is already seeing utility movement,” the survey notes. Examples include Georgia Power’s recent launch of solar sales and installation services, Arizona and Hawaii utilities’ solar programs, and NextEra Energy’s investments in energy storage.
But the opportunity cannot be fully seized until the proper method of valuing DER is established, the survey reports. “The ability of utilities and private-sector service providers to bid into grid services markets relies on it, and the stakes are higher than ever for CEOs and decision-makers looking to develop profitable DER business models.”
DERs and electric reliability
“The challenges of accommodating a greater penetration of DERs on the grid are enormous and varied,” the survey reports. “There are issues of capacity shortfalls, ratepayer exposure, and finding the right business partner, to name a few.”
All these possible DER futures fuel the ongoing and unresolved debate over whether participation by DER providers might threaten reliability.
DER providers queried by Utility Dive are confident reliability is not at risk.
“Reliability will be managed through contractual means between the utility and the third-party aggregator,” EnerNOC Western Regulatory Affairs Director Mona Tierney-Lloyd said. “The third party aggregator should be able to put different resource characteristics together to meet the need, just like the utility could.”
Reliability would not be threatened if the right safeguards and economic incentives and dis-incentives are in place around DER performance, agreed Valery Miftakhov, founder of electric car charger company eMotorWerks.
“Aggregation services would and must be subject to contractual terms that dictate performance,” Avista’s Kirkeby agreed. “Reliability is still the responsibility of the utility. It must assess the quality of the aggregator’s portfolio and put appropriate mitigation measures in place, should the aggregator fail to perform. The utility would complete the same assessment if it was the aggregator.”
Franco Albi, manager of integrated resource planning at Portland General Electric (PGE), Oregon’s dominant electricity provider, told Utility Dive he is also confident.
“Everybody is going to protect reliability, regulators, the utility, and the providers,” he said.
PGE is, however, just beginning to develop DERs.
“As we learn more about the benefits to the distributed network, we are learning more about where we want them sited,” added Director of Customer Specialized Programs Bruce Barney. “As our distribution planning gets up to speed, we will have a lot more information available.”
SCE is deeper into the process and is concerned about an “information gap,” Stern told Utility Dive. “We need to coordinate what is happening on the distribution grid with what is happening on the transmission grid so we can insure reliability. We have been working with the California ISO for almost a year to make sure that information is accessible.”
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), California’s largest electricity provider, has pilot demand response programs and 1,700 MW of interconnected distributed solar, giving it some of the most experience with DERs among large utilities.
Even so, Mark Esguerra, head of electric asset management at PG&E, has some concerns.
“Leaving DER aggregation to the private sector, the utilities, or third parties, is not inherently threatening to system or local reliability DER aggregations do pose challenges to reliability,” he told Utility Dive.
But for safe, reliable, and cost-effective dispatch of aggregated DERs, there must be operational coordination and the appropriate levels of visibility, monitoring, and controls for the transmission system operator, the utility operating the distribution, and the DER aggregator, he said.
“The simultaneous response of multiple DERs on a single circuit from a single price signal may pose challenges to distribution reliability,” he stressed.
Utilities and DER: Anti-competitive?
To date, the private marketplace has been the main driver of DER growth, with developers targeting individual consumers for sales of rooftop solar, batteries, electric vehicle chargers, and the like.
With utilities beginning to see opportunity, a new debate has emerged regarding whether utilities should be able to compete with third-party DER providers to sell such products and services, either through their regulated businesses or unregulated subsidiaries. Given the utility’s existing customer relationship and access to usage data, many providers believe utility involvement in the DER space to be uncompetitive.
“Utility ownership of DERs does threaten the business model of developers like SolarCity,” EnerNoc’s McAulay said. “Grid operators should define the need and then allow aggregated DERs to bid in against other resources to meet that need.”
Utilities will not interfere with third party aggregators or the free market, SCE’s Stern insisted. “The information about the system necessary to them will be available.”
SCE is not arguing utilities have to be the aggregators, he added. California’s regulators have already approved the participation of third parties.
“We are asking for the appropriate-information sharing, not about market elements, prices, or deals, but about the physical activity of the resources so we can ensure the coordination between the distribution grid and the transmission grid,” he said.
Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) agreements for aggregated DER will include “performance requirements and penalties similar to a contract with an independent power producer,” Spokesperson Darren Pai said.
There is no threat to the free market as long as utilities stay focused on their obligation to their customers, PG&E’s Esguerra agreed. Instead, collaboration between utilities and third parties will enable DER aggregation and associated technologies.
The big question: Who will aggregate DER?
While utility respondents felt comfortable ensuring that they would not stand in the way of DER growth, they and others could provide no such confidence in identifying who would be the primary entity to aggregate DERs, for one simple reason: No one seems to know.
Utilities will do the aggregation with cooperation from vendor partners, CPS Energy Sr. Manager Rick Luna told Utility Dive. CPS Energy is now successfully operating one of the first U.S. utility-owned distributed solar programs with cooperation from vendor partners.
Because of its existing customer relationships, the utility is “a trusted partner and looked to by customers for expertise in deploying new technologies,” Luna said. It is positioned to “leverage the value of DER in the market.”
These advantages and Esguerra’s concerns with reliability may suggest utilities will move into the DER aggregation themselves, but are waiting until technology maturity, market rules, and regulation are in place before moving more aggressively.
More than 20% of utility, regulatory, and DER respondents agree that between 6% and 20% of a traditional utility's revenue will come from renewables, storage, and resiliency services by 2021, according to the survey. About 20% more say those technologies could be as high as 35% of utility revenues by then.
But those revenues aren’t likely to come from DER aggregation services, many respondents agreed. A larger portion, including almost a third of utilities (30%), almost half of DER providers (46%), and over half of regulators (52%), expect DER providers to be the primary aggregator by 2021.
This is a particularly striking data point because so many of the key decisions will fall on the shoulders of regulators. Reinforcing it, 21% of utility respondents and 19% of DER provider respondents answered “I’m not sure” to the aggregation question, compared with 9% of regulators.
“Clearly, regulators see DER providers leading the charge into aggregation,” Rinaldi said.
“Although fully formed valuation mechanisms have yet to come to the market, third-party service providers are lining up to take advantage of the opportunity,” the survey reports.
California’s rules allow utilities, private sector vendors, and other entities to become aggregators, SCE’s Stern and PG&E’s Esguerra both noted.
“There is no specific advantage for either,” Stern added. “We envision a future in which utilities can offer the same services and have the same revenue opportunities that the market does.”
HECO has pending pilot programs in which the utility will administer private-sector demand response aggregators but the role, but impact of each on the market “is still not clear,” Pai said.
It is also not clear that utilities are up to compete in the market, he added. “Whether utilities or third parties can most effectively recruit customers and deliver the grid services achievable through aggregation will play out through the market and regulatory forces.”
DER providers believe all they need is adequate access to the proprietary data held by utilities.
“The utilities are, without a doubt, the entity who should be determining what the system need is and where it is and what types of ‘response’ could meet the need because no one else has the access to that information,” EnerNOC’s Tierney-Lloyd said.
But their determinations “should be vetted in an open process,” she added. “Ultimately, there has to be some criteria developed as to how decisions are made between competing options.”
Some DER management functions may have to end up under utility control, Miftakhov of eMotorWerks agreed. But private sector vendors are better positioned to be the primary aggregators because they have a “deep understanding” of DER owners’ technologies that utilities lack.
“For the utilities, these will remain only fringe resources economically for a long time,” he said.
Avista’s Kirkeby saw the same question from the opposite point of view. DERs “provide locational value for multiple uses that when stacked can derive much higher economic return,” he acknowledged. But without access to system information, aggregators “may not be able to realize the additional values that utilities can.”
If there’s one point of consensus among all respondents, it’s that the sector will have to learn by doing for a while.
“We would, as part of the process, provide the information to the transmission system operator and the aggregators,” SCE’s Stern said. “But we are just getting into the space. It is new. We anticipate being ready but we are still developing the information protocols that will help us insure reliability.”
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For one night, it was 1978 again.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John recreated their iconic "Grease" characters, Danny and Sandy, on Friday night in West Palm Beach, Florida. The pair came to town for a sing-along of the movie and a Q&A session at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre.
It's the first time the two have been in costume since they first made the movie more than 40 years ago, Newton-John wrote on Instagram. Both actors posted a photo of their arrival at the event Friday -- looking like they just stepped off the movie set.
Appearing in her "good girl" outfit, Newton-John is sporting her yellow skirt and matching cardigan, complete with the white button up.
Travolta, meanwhile, is wearing a classic leather jacket, with his hair slicked back in a way that would make any greaser proud.
But fans of Sandy's bad girl transformation at the end of the film have nothing to worry about. Newton-John made time for a quick outfit change, donning a leather jacket and black pants in time for the Q&A.
The throwback comes just days after a fan, who purchased Newton-John's black leather jacket from the movie for $243,200 at a charity auction, presented the jacket back to the actress.
Her entire "bad girl" ensemble -- the skin-tight black leggings and jacket -- sold for $405,700 at an auction in November, with proceeds going to Newton-John's cancer wellness center in Australia.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tom Perrotta, Claire Messud and Lemony Snicket Come to Portland For Maybe Wordstock’s Biggest Line-up Ever
Nearly half of the authors on the line-up come from the Pacific Northwest.
On Tuesday, Literary Arts announced the mammoth, 103-author line-up for Portland's Wordstock book festival, the massive book festival that will take over the Portland Art Museum, multiple churches and the entire Portland Center for Performing Arts on November 11.
There are some major, major names coming to town—and one of the biggest is author and Atlantic columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer Toni Morrison has said filled the intellectual void left by James Baldwin; his forthcoming book of essays, We Were Eight Years in Power, is an elegy for the aftermath of the Obama presidency.
Other huge news? Massively best-selling Tom Perrotta, author of Election, is coming to town with a brand-new novel about sex, schools and suburbia, Ms. Fletcher. Other major novelists rolling in? Claire Messud (The Emperor's Children) and Jeffrey Eugenides (Virgin Suicides).
Other touring authors will include poet and writer-about-poetry Matthew Zapruder, prodigious young comics star Tillie Walden, Hugo-winning (and George R.R. Martin-optioned) sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor, and children's author Lemony Snicket, both as Snicket and as his alter-ego Daniel Handler.
Nearly half of the Wordstock authors will be drawn from the Pacific Northwest, including Carson Ellis and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Oregon Book Award-winner Kate Carroll de Gutes, multi-Oregon Book Award-winner Lidia Yuknavitch, novelist and frequent Todd Haynes collaborator Jon Raymond, and future-dystopian novelist Omar El Akkad, among many others.
Here's the full list of Wordstock authors.
Amid Threats of Inaugural Violence, Oregon Legislature Delays Start of Session
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Monroe County to get more detox beds with the help of state dollars
By Randy Gorbman • Feb 27, 2018
The Rochester area will be getting some badly needed detox beds to help people who are dealing with addiction withdrawal.
Governor Andrew Cuomo says a total of $10 million is being distributed to five providers across the state in areas that are now underserved in terms of resources to help deal with opioid addiction and other substances.
That includes $2.14 million that will go to the Villa of Hope in Monroe County, to establish 18 detox beds.
Villa of Hope usually focuses on treatment and service for young people and their families, but president and CEO Christina Gullo says these new beds will be open to people with addiction problems at all ages.
She does feel there is a strong focus now on expanding the state’s ability to deal with opioid and other addictions.
“We all know of somebody who’s going through something like this, so I do think that there’s been enough attention on it, that it is time and people are stepping up and putting some dollars toward the treatment,” Gullo told WXXI News.
A WXXI News investigation recently showed that currently there are just 25 detox beds in all of Monroe County, even though addiction specialists say the need is at least four to five times that number.
Gullo says more detox beds are needs, but this latest grant for the 18 beds provides a good start.
Gullo says these detox beds are critical in providing help to people who are trying to get help with addiction problems.
"There’s a lot of physical illness that comes with detoxing, so this will be a place for them for 17 to 14 days, to go through that kind of physical detox, and as well as start to get some treatment, and then refer them to where they need to be appropriately."
All of the current Rochester area detox beds are offered through Syracuse Behavioral Health, and Gullo says Villa of Hope officials will be in touch with that organization to see how much of an impact these latest detox beds will have on reducing the waiting list of people who need these kinds of services.
Villa of Hope is based in the Town of Greece with other services spread out around the area. Gullo is not sure yet where the newest detox beds will be located.
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Some people in Seneca Falls feel a special connection to the Biden-Harris win
By Randy Gorbman & Greg Cotterill • Nov 7, 2020
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Learning on Saturday that Joe Biden is president-elect and Kamala Harris is vice president-elect is exciting to people associated with the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls.
WEOS Reporter Greg Cotterill caught up with three Pennsylvania residents, Brook McDermott, Debra Condon and Jeff Hamilton, who have been planning to celebrate - what they hoped would be - the election of the Biden-Harris ticket.
Condon said that they started planning the trip to the Finger Lakes last month.
Expectation for big crowds at Susan B. Anthony's gravesite on Tuesday
By Randy Gorbman • Nov 2, 2020
WXXI News File Photo/Sasha-Ann Simons
City of Rochester officials are anticipating big crowds at Mount Hope Cemetery on Tuesday, with the potential for thousands of people paying respects to suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
An estimated 10,000 or so people filed past the grave of Susan B. Anthony prior to the 2016 presidential election. Pat Corcoran, president of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery, said there is the potential for another big turnout.
Protective covering put over Susan B. Anthony’s gravestone
By James Brown • Oct 26, 2020
Max Schulte / WXXI News
The City of Rochester has devised a plan to protect Susan B. Anthony’s grave and keep a new tradition alive.
Mt. Rushmore to feature projections of key women in the suffrage movement
By Randy Gorbman • Jul 1, 2020
Christina Korp/Look Up to Her / Projection mapping partner: Quince Imaging
Projections of the faces of women who were involved in the suffragist movement will be projected onto Mt. Rushmore later this summer. WXXI's Randy Gorbman explains:
While President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Mount Rushmore as part of an Independence Day celebration later this week, plans are underway for another type of commemoration, marking the contributions made during the women’s suffrage movement.
Christina Korp is the producer of a project called Look Up to Her, and it is one of the ways the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission is helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which was written to guarantee and protect a woman’s constitutional right to vote.
RMSC plans exhibition on local women who changed the world
By Alex Crichton • Apr 15, 2020
rmsc.org
The Rochester Museum and Science Center is thinking ahead to the time when it can reopen.
On Tuesday, it said it plans to open a new exhibit this fall that's inspired by the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and celebrates the stories of regional innovators.
The exhibit, scheduled to open in October, is called, The Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World.
Kathryn Murano Santos is senior director of collections & exhibitions at RMSC.
Susan B. at the symphony
By editor • Jan 31, 2020
This year’s observances of Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday celebration and the centenary of the 19th Amendment are momentous events, but at first glance they may not seem to inspire musical celebrations. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is prepared to prove otherwise this weekend and next.
Suffragist City Parade in Rochester celebrates 'equality for all people'
By April Franklin • Sep 15, 2019
WXXI News
People in Downtown Rochester celebrated "equality for all people" on Saturday with the third annual Suffragist City Parade. The event drew hundreds to Madison Street for a block party celebration at Susan B. Anthony Square.
President and CEO of the Susan B. Anthony House, Deborah Hughes, said the parade is a precursor for the many milestone celebrations taking place in 2020.
Connections: What can we learn from Susan B. Anthony?
By Evan Dawson & Megan Mack • Nov 6, 2018
What can we learn from Susan B. Anthony?
This week in 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony illegally voted in the presidential election. Two weeks later, she was arrested and fined $100.
On this Election Day, we reexamine this moment in history and ask ourselves what lessons we can learn. What would Susan B. Anthony say to people not planning to exercise their right to vote? Our guests:
Deborah Hughes, executive director of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House
Autumn Haag, special collections librarian and archivist for research and collections at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries
Connections: Author Elaine Weiss and her book, The Woman's Hour
By Evan Dawson & Megan Mack • Feb 6, 2018
Author Elaine Weiss and her book, The Woman's Hour
One hundred years ago, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that the 19th Amendment would survive. It came down to Tennessee, which became a kind of battleground. Some of the biggest figures of the time fought for and against suffrage.
Author Elaine Weiss details the struggle in her new book The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Weiss will be the keynote speaker for the Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon in Rochester.
She joins us to discuss her book, and we address other issues related to equality in modern times. Our guests:
Elaine Weiss, journalist, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, and keynote speaker for the Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon
Deborah Hughes, executive director of the Susan B. Anthony House
Connections: VoteTilla commemorates 100 years of woman suffrage in NYS
By Evan Dawson • Jul 12, 2017
VoteTilla commemorates 100 years of woman suffrage in New York State
VoteTilla is a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of woman suffrage in New York State. Boats will take a week-long journey on the Erie Canal, stopping at a number of cities from Clyde to Rochester, to commemorate the history of woman suffrage. Activities include reenactments of speeches by activists, films, a parade, and more.
We talk about the celebrations and the history with our guests:
Bruce Schwendy, co-chair of the Fleet Committee for VoteTilla, and board member for the Canal Society of New York State
Jenni Werner, literary director and resident dramaturg at Geva Theatre Center and board member for the ImageOut Film Festival
Anne Coon, professor emeritus at the College of Liberal Arts at RIT, writer, and independent scholar
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Syndactyly type II (SynPolyDactyly; SPD) is an autosomal dominant condition with incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity [1].
Affected males from this family also have hypospadias, not previously described in SPD, but consistent with HOXD13 expression in the developing genital tubercle [2].
We describe a six-generation family in which a novel combination of brachydactyly and central polydactyly co-segregates with a missense mutation that substitutes leucine for isoleucine at position 47 of the HOXD13 homeodomain [3].
Heterogenous fusion transcripts involving the NUP98 gene and HOXD13 gene activation in a case of acute myeloid leukemia with the t(2;11)(q31;p15) translocation [4].
Sensorineural deafness, abnormal genitalia, synostosis of metacarpals and metatarsals 4 and 5, and mental retardation: description of a second patient and exclusion of HOXD13 [5].
OBJECTIVES: We sought to clarify the familial relationship between five putative schizophrenia-related personality disorders (schizotypal [SPD], paranoid, schizoid, avoidant, and borderline) and schizophrenia, other nonaffective psychoses, and affective illness [6].
Schizotypal and borderline personality disorders (SPD and BPD, respectively) appear to be different at follow-up, yet they are poorly discriminated from each other by current DSM-III symptom criteria [7].
This review considers the possible familial relationship of schizotypal and paranoid personality disorders (SPD, PPD) to schizophrenia (SCZ) and affective disorders (AD) [8].
The UPD group, although impaired on a spatial recognition task, showed intact discrimination learning and reversal; the MPD and SPD patients showed non-perseverative reversal impairments on both reversal tasks [9].
Of these, 98 Caucasians (23 SPD, 52 NSPD and 23 NC) performed a brief neurocognitive battery: Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT), California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT), Visuospatial Working Memory (DOT) and Visual Delayed Recall (Wechsler Memory Scale Visual Reproduction, WMS-VR) [10].
Polyalanine expansion in synpolydactyly might result from unequal crossing-over of HOXD13 [11].
Here, it is demonstrated that synpolydactyly, an inherited human abnormality of the hands and feet, is caused by expansions of a polyalanine stretch in the amino-terminal region of HOXD13 [12].
Moreover, we found that the mutant HOXD13 with the p.Q317R substitution was unable to transactivate the human EPHA7 promoter [13].
Mutations in HOXD13 Underlie Syndactyly Type V and a Novel Brachydactyly-Syndactyly Syndrome [13].
In the family with syndactyly type V, we identified a missense mutation in the HOXD13 homeodomain, c.950A-->G (p.Q317R), which leads to substitution of the highly conserved glutamine that is important for DNA-binding specificity and affinity [13].
In the family with complex brachydactyly and syndactyly, we detected a deletion of 21 bp in the imperfect GCN (where N denotes A, C, G, or T) triplet-containing exon 1 of HOXD13, which results in a polyalanine contraction of seven residues [13].
Patients whose platelets are deficient in glycoprotein (GP) Ib, IIb-IIIa (thrombasthenia), or granule substances (storage pool deficiency, SPD) were studied to define further the properties of platelets that mediate platelet adhesion and thrombus formation on subendothelium [14].
In six cases we determined MR, plasma aldosterone, and SPD in patients with preeclampsia before and 3 months after delivery [15].
In Salmonella typhimurium TA1535 expressing the rat GST5-5 the number of revertants was increased compared to the control strain by CH2Br2, ethylene dibromide (EDB) and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (BDE); in contrast, mutagenicity of 1,2-epoxy-3-(4'-nitro-phenoxy)propane (EPNP) was reduced [16].
Two hundred eleven patients consecutively submitted to ERP for upper abdominal symptomatology, with suspected pancreatic disease (SPD; 79 patients) or without (NSPD; 132 subjects), were classified in 3 groups of different ethanol intake: 1 (0-40 g/day), 2 (41-80 g/day), 3 (more than 80 g/day) [17].
The genomic structure of HOXD13 established in this study consists of two exons that encodes a polypeptide of 335 amino acids [18].
Sixty-two meioses from a kindred with 425 individuals were used to map the SPD locus to 2q31 region, approximately 1.7 cM (Lod score = 12.96) centromeric to HOXD8 intragenic marker [1].
We report a novel type of mutation in HOXD13, associated in some cases with features of classic SPD and in all cases with a novel foot phenotype [19].
Missense mutations in the homeodomain of HOXD13 are associated with brachydactyly types D and E [20].
The condition has recently been shown to be caused by expansions of an imperfect trinucleotide repeat sequence encoding a 15-residue polyalanine tract in HOXD13 [2].
In two unrelated families, each with a different intragenic deletion in HOXD13, all mutation carriers have a rudimentary extra digit between the first and second metatarsals and often between the fourth and fifth metatarsals as well [19].
In addition, the overexpression of hMTH1, SPD, ITGA11, and COL11A1 was correlated with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis [21].
Elimination of this sump by adding complete dissection of the splenic vein and division of the splenocolic ligament to DSRS (splenopancreatic disconnection, SPD) could preserve portal perfusion, decrease shunt loss of hepatotrophic factor, and improve survival in alcoholic cirrhotics [22].
Moreover, our in vitro results reveal that microsomes prepared from human, rat and mouse liver possess the ability to form BDE from BMO [23].
Interindividual and interspecies variation in the initial rate of oxidation of 80 microM BMO to BDE was determined using 10 samples of human liver microsomes and single pooled samples from rats and mice [23].
Genomic structure of HOXD13 gene: a nine polyalanine duplication causes synpolydactyly in two unrelated families [18].
Members of the 11, 12, and 13 paralogs do not cooperatively bind DNA with Pbx1a, despite the presence of tryptophan residues N-terminal to the homeodomain in Hoxd-12 and Hoxd-13 [24].
Both C-H bond dissociation energies for cyclobutene were measured in the gas phase (BDE = 91.2 +/- 2.3 (allyl) and 112.5 +/- 2.5 (vinyl) kcal mol-1) via a thermodynamic cycle by carrying out proton affinity and electron-binding energy measurements on 1- and 3-cyclobutenyl anions [25].
The genetic basis for butadiene carcinogenicity is likely mediated by its metabolite, 1,2:3,4-diepoxybutane (BDE) [23].
Oxidation of butadiene to 1,2-epoxy-3-butene (BMO) and further activation to BDE is catalysed by cytochrome P450 (CYP) isozymes [23].
A 117-kb microdeletion removing HOXD9-HOXD13 and EVX2 causes synpolydactyly [26].
An updated order of D2S142-D2S111-(D2S335/D2S333)-D2S326-D2 S1238-SPD- (HOXD8/D2S1244)-(D2S300/D2S138)-D2S148- D2S324- D2S1384-D2S434 [sequence:see text] was deduced from meiotic recombination events [1].
We report here a novel NUP98 partner gene, HOXD11, not HOXD13, in a pediatric patient with de novo AML having t(2;11)(q31;p15), using a cDNA panhandle PCR [27].
In this report we discuss what is known about HOXA13 and HOXD13 function during GU development, highlighting some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlled by these proteins during the GU formation [28].
HOXD13, the most 5' gene of the HOXD cluster, encodes a homeodomain transcription factor with important functions in limb patterning and growth [20].
Two-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses using probes covering the centromere of chromosome 2 or HOXD13 (2q31) confirmed the CGH findings, and showed that the common region for gain in 2q was centromeric to HOXD13 [29].
The full length HOXD13 clone (1.1 kb) generated with this technique was confirmed by sequence analysis [30].
Highly purified RNA was isolated, and expression of shh, BMP4, Hoxa13, and Hoxd13 genes was confirmed with RT-PCR [31].
DSRS + SPD preserved portal perfusion better (p less than 0.05) in alcoholic cirrhotics than did DSRS alone [22].
BDE added to dry bleach have been associated with immunologic sensitization and development of clinical allergic disease in detergent workers and occasionally in consumers [32].
Localization of the syndactyly type II (synpolydactyly) locus to 2q31 region and identification of tight linkage to HOXD8 intragenic marker. Sarfarazi, M., Akarsu, A.N., Sayli, B.S. Hum. Mol. Genet. (1995) [Pubmed]
Synpolydactyly phenotypes correlate with size of expansions in HOXD13 polyalanine tract. Goodman, F.R., Mundlos, S., Muragaki, Y., Donnai, D., Giovannucci-Uzielli, M.L., Lapi, E., Majewski, F., McGaughran, J., McKeown, C., Reardon, W., Upton, J., Winter, R.M., Olsen, B.R., Scambler, P.J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1997) [Pubmed]
An I47L substitution in the HOXD13 homeodomain causes a novel human limb malformation by producing a selective loss of function. Caronia, G., Goodman, F.R., McKeown, C.M., Scambler, P.J., Zappavigna, V. Development (2003) [Pubmed]
Heterogenous fusion transcripts involving the NUP98 gene and HOXD13 gene activation in a case of acute myeloid leukemia with the t(2;11)(q31;p15) translocation. Arai, Y., Kyo, T., Miwa, H., Arai, K., Kamada, N., Kita, K., Ohki, M. Leukemia (2000) [Pubmed]
Sensorineural deafness, abnormal genitalia, synostosis of metacarpals and metatarsals 4 and 5, and mental retardation: description of a second patient and exclusion of HOXD13. Mendioroz, J., Fernández-Toral, J., Suárez, E., López-Grondona, F., Kjaer, K.W., Bermejo, E., Martínez-Frías, M.L. Am. J. Med. Genet. A (2005) [Pubmed]
The Roscommon Family Study. III. Schizophrenia-related personality disorders in relatives. Kendler, K.S., McGuire, M., Gruenberg, A.M., O'Hare, A., Spellman, M., Walsh, D. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry (1993) [Pubmed]
Testing DSM-III symptom criteria for schizotypal and borderline personality disorders. McGlashan, T.H. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry (1987) [Pubmed]
Schizotypal and paranoid personality disorder in the relatives of patients with schizophrenia and affective disorders: a review. Webb, C.T., Levinson, D.F. Schizophr. Res. (1993) [Pubmed]
Probabilistic learning and reversal deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease or frontal or temporal lobe lesions: possible adverse effects of dopaminergic medication. Swainson, R., Rogers, R.D., Sahakian, B.J., Summers, B.A., Polkey, C.E., Robbins, T.W. Neuropsychologia. (2000) [Pubmed]
Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype variation is associated with prefrontal-dependent task performance in schizotypal personality disorder patients and comparison groups. Minzenberg, M.J., Xu, K., Mitropoulou, V., Harvey, P.D., Finch, T., Flory, J.D., New, A.S., Goldman, D., Siever, L.J. Psychiatr. Genet. (2006) [Pubmed]
Polyalanine expansion in synpolydactyly might result from unequal crossing-over of HOXD13. Warren, S.T. Science (1997) [Pubmed]
Altered growth and branching patterns in synpolydactyly caused by mutations in HOXD13. Muragaki, Y., Mundlos, S., Upton, J., Olsen, B.R. Science (1996) [Pubmed]
Mutations in HOXD13 Underlie Syndactyly Type V and a Novel Brachydactyly-Syndactyly Syndrome. Zhao, X., Sun, M., Zhao, J., Leyva, J.A., Zhu, H., Yang, W., Zeng, X., Ao, Y., Liu, Q., Liu, G., Lo, W.H., Jabs, E.W., Amzel, L.M., Shan, X., Zhang, X. Am. J. Hum. Genet. (2007) [Pubmed]
Platelet adhesion and thrombus formation on subendothelium in platelets deficient in glycoproteins IIb-IIIa, Ib, and storage granules. Weiss, H.J., Turitto, V.T., Baumgartner, H.R. Blood (1986) [Pubmed]
Mineralocorticoid effector mechanism in preeclampsia. Armanini, D., Zennaro, C.M., Martella, L., Scali, M., Pratesi, C., Grella, P.V., Mantero, F. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. (1992) [Pubmed]
Human glutathione S-transferase T1-1 enhances mutagenicity of 1,2-dibromoethane, dibromomethane and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane in Salmonella typhimurium. Thier, R., Pemble, S.E., Kramer, H., Taylor, J.B., Guengerich, F.P., Ketterer, B. Carcinogenesis (1996) [Pubmed]
Frequency of pancreatographic changes in subjects with upper abdominal symptoms and its relationship with alcohol intake. Angelini, G., Antolini, G., Bovo, P., Cavallini, G., Fratta Pasini, A., Lavarini, E., Piubello, W., Rigo, L., Scuro, L.A. Int. J. Pancreatol. (1987) [Pubmed]
Genomic structure of HOXD13 gene: a nine polyalanine duplication causes synpolydactyly in two unrelated families. Akarsu, A.N., Stoilov, I., Yilmaz, E., Sayli, B.S., Sarfarazi, M. Hum. Mol. Genet. (1996) [Pubmed]
Deletions in HOXD13 segregate with an identical, novel foot malformation in two unrelated families. Goodman, F., Giovannucci-Uzielli, M.L., Hall, C., Reardon, W., Winter, R., Scambler, P. Am. J. Hum. Genet. (1998) [Pubmed]
Missense mutations in the homeodomain of HOXD13 are associated with brachydactyly types D and E. Johnson, D., Kan, S.H., Oldridge, M., Trembath, R.C., Roche, P., Esnouf, R.M., Giele, H., Wilkie, A.O. Am. J. Hum. Genet. (2003) [Pubmed]
Great potential of a panel of multiple hMTH1, SPD, ITGA11 and COL11A1 markers for diagnosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Chong, I.W., Chang, M.Y., Chang, H.C., Yu, Y.P., Sheu, C.C., Tsai, J.R., Hung, J.Y., Chou, S.H., Tsai, M.S., Hwang, J.J., Lin, S.R. Oncol. Rep. (2006) [Pubmed]
Splenopancreatic disconnection. Improved selectivity of distal splenorenal shunt. Warren, W.D., Millikan, W.J., Henderson, J.M., Abu-Elmagd, K.M., Galloway, J.R., Shires, G.T., Richards, W.O., Salam, A.A., Kutner, M.H. Ann. Surg. (1986) [Pubmed]
Oxidation of 1,2-epoxy-3-butene to 1,2:3,4-diepoxybutane by cDNA-expressed human cytochromes P450 2E1 and 3A4 and human, mouse and rat liver microsomes. Seaton, M.J., Follansbee, M.H., Bond, J.A. Carcinogenesis (1995) [Pubmed]
The Abd-B-like Hox homeodomain proteins can be subdivided by the ability to form complexes with Pbx1a on a novel DNA target. Shen, W.F., Rozenfeld, S., Lawrence, H.J., Largman, C. J. Biol. Chem. (1997) [Pubmed]
Cycloalkane and cycloalkene C-h bond dissociation energies. Tian, Z., Fattahi, A., Lis, L., Kass, S.R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2006) [Pubmed]
A 117-kb microdeletion removing HOXD9-HOXD13 and EVX2 causes synpolydactyly. Goodman, F.R., Majewski, F., Collins, A.L., Scambler, P.J. Am. J. Hum. Genet. (2002) [Pubmed]
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Pres. Trump holds Friday evening briefing
National and World
by: The Associated Press and Nexstar
WASHINGTON (AP) — A last-ditch effort by Democrats to revive Capitol Hill talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money collapsed in disappointment Friday, making it increasingly likely that Washington gridlock will mean more hardship for millions of people who are losing enhanced jobless benefits and further damage for an economy pummeled by the still-raging coronavirus.
President Donald Trump said Friday night he was likely to issue more limited executive orders related to COVID, perhaps in the next day or so, if he can’t reach a broad agreement with Congress.
The day’s negotiations at the Capitol added up to only “a disappointing meeting,” declared top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, saying the White House had rejected an offer by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to curb Democratic demands by about $1 trillion. He urged the White House to “negotiate with Democrats and meet us in the middle. Don’t say it’s your way or no way.”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, “Unfortunately we did not make any progress today.” Republicans said Pelosi was relying on budget maneuvers to curb costs and contended she has overplayed her hand.
Often an impasse in Washington is of little consequence for the public — not so this time. It means longer and perhaps permanent expiration of a $600 per-week bonus pandemic jobless benefit that’s kept millions of people from falling into poverty. It denies more than $100 billion to help schools reopen this fall. It blocks additional funding for virus testing as cases are surging this summer. And it denies billions of dollars to state and local governments considering furloughs as their revenue craters.
Ahead is uncertainty. Both the House and Senate have left Washington, with members sent home on instructions to be ready to return for a vote on an agreement. With no deal in sight, their absence raises the possibility of a prolonged stalemate that stretches well into August and even September.
Speaking from his New Jersey golf club Friday evening, Trump said “if Democrats continue to hold this critical relief hostage I will act under my authority as president to get Americans the relief they need.”
Trump said he may issue executive orders on home evictions, student loan debt and allowing states to repurpose COVID relief funding into their unemployment insurance programs. He also said he’ll likely issue an executive order to defer collection of Social Security payroll taxes, an idea that has less support among his Republican allies.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said, “This is not a perfect answer — we’ll be the first ones to say that — but it is all that we can do, and all the president can do within the confines of his executive power.”
Friday’s Capitol Hill session followed a combative meeting on Thursday evening that for the first time cast real doubt on the ability of the Trump administration and Democrats to come together on a fifth COVID-19 response bill. Pelosi summoned Mnuchin and Meadows in hopes of breathing life into the negotiations, which have been characterized by frustration and intransigence on both sides — particularly on top issues such as extending the bonus pandemic jobless benefit that expired last week.
Pelosi declared the talks all but dead until Meadows and Mnuchin give ground.
“I’ve told them ‘come back when you are ready to give us a higher number,’” she said.
The breakdown in the negotiations is particularly distressing for schools, which have been counting on billions of dollars from Washington to help with the costs of reopening. But other priorities are also languishing, including a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people, a cash infusion for the struggling Postal Service and money to help states hold elections in November.
In a news conference on Friday Pelosi said she offered a major concession to Republicans.
“We’ll go down $1 trillion, you go up $1 trillion,” Pelosi said. The figures are approximate, but a Pelosi spokesman said the speaker is in general terms seeking a “top line” of perhaps $2.4 trillion since the House-passed HEROES Act is scored at $3.45 trillion. Republicans say their starting offer was about $1 trillion but have offered some concessions on jobless benefits and aid to states, among others, that have brought the White House offer higher.IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY:
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Mnuchin said that renewal of a $600 per-week pandemic jobless boost and huge demands by Democrats for aid to state and local governments are the key areas where they are stuck.
“There’s a lot of areas of compromise,” he said after Friday’s meeting. “I think if we can reach an agreement on state and local and unemployment, we will reach an overall deal. And if we can’t we can’t.”
Democrats have offered to reduce her almost $1 trillion demand for state and local governments considerably, but some of Pelosi’s proposed cost savings would accrue chiefly because she would shorten the timeframe for benefits like food stamps.
Pelosi and Schumer continue to insist on a huge aid package to address a surge in cases and deaths, double-digit joblessness and the threat of poverty for millions of the newly unemployed.
On Friday, they pointed to the new July jobs report to try to bolster their proposals. The report showed that the U.S. added 1.8 million jobs last month, a much lower increase than in May and June.
“It’s clear the economy is losing steam,” Schumer said. “That means we need big, bold investments in America to help average folks.”
Senate Republicans have been split, with roughly half of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s rank and file opposed to another rescue bill at all. Four prior coronavirus response bills totaling almost $3 trillion have won approval on bipartisan votes despite intense wrangling, but conservatives have recoiled at the prospect of another Pelosi-brokered agreement with a whopping deficit-financed cost.
McConnell has kept his distance from the negotiations while coordinating with Mnuchin and Meadows.
In addition to restoring the lapsed $600-per-week bonus jobless benefit, Pelosi and Schumer have staked out a firm position to extend demanded generous child care assistance and reiterated their insistence on additional funding for food stamps and assistance to renters and homeowners facing eviction or foreclosure.
“This virus is like a freight train coming so fast and they are responding like a convoy going as slow as the slowest ship. It just doesn’t work,” Pelosi said Friday.
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Maybe diamond discovery is driving the push for Barotseland seperation
Dr Wezi Chekwe
Dredging the Zambezi Riverbed by Spirit of the River Zambia, a subsidiary of Spirit of the River International of Canada has resulted in the discovery of commercial diamonds in Western Zambia.The company has also discovered more than three kimberlite pipes, mother rock in which diamonds crystallise, in Zambia’s Western Province.
Spirit of the River Zambia’s geophysicist and gemmologist/mining managers Dr Wezi Chekwe and Inyambo Muhau respectively told this reporter during a recently conducted tour of their operations at Namande Mine Site along the Zambezi River that their initial activities concerning alluvial mining by dredging the riverbed as approved by the Zambian Ministry of Mines have born fruits.“We have found diamonds. Now we are striving to localise the exact places for viable commercial production,” said Mr. Muhau.
Mr. Muhau said the company first picked a commercial diamond weighing one carat on November 29, 2006 within a month of serious operation.“29th November is when we found a diamond. The first diamond was found at Namande site at 14:20 hours by our boss (Dave Schaffer). This has been specially certified,” he explained. According to a certificate from the Gemmological Unit Laboratory of the Geological Survey Department dated December 15, 2006, the colourless sample was identified as a natural commercial diamond.
Muhau further explained that through their prospecting using satellite imagery system they found kimberlite pipes, the mother rock where diamonds crystallise near Kalabo, a remote district on the border with Angola.He said the sited areas had greater probability of having large quantities of commercial diamonds.He said the find in the area was basically the continuation of what was in Angola’s Moxico Province.“There is a gradient… Angola is like somewhere here (upper) and we are getting lower, so the diamonds should have flowed more and more to the confluence of Luanginga and Zambezi rivers (in Zambia). That’s why we said let’s go down stream first then upstream because upstreamthat’s where larger quantities should be expected,” Mr. Muhau explained.
And Dr Chekwe said they also found micro diamonds during prospecting process.He said a few days after their first find, three more pieces of diamonds were picked at Namande site and that on December 7, 2006, they picked another, which weighed 2. 3 carats.“For us this (Namande) is on the outskirts, the real vicinity is in Kalabo, that’s where the kimberlite pipes are. I must tell you this, In Angola so vast as that country is the producing kimberlite pipes which they have not even started mining are only three.
In South Africa, there are only two including that famous Kimberley site which mined for 100 years. Definitely we have found more than three,” he said. “The figures I don’t think we are allowed to say that but we have found more than three kimberlite sites in Western Province, fully identified through aero magnetic data and satellite imagery system. Without any level of doubt we know that there are diamonds in this place and that is why we are working into the viability of the project and the business management and the President of our company is organising other investors so that more activities can be done in the soonest time.”
However, Dr Chekwe said their company has not started marketing yet but is concentrating on production.“Our job now is to increase production. There is continuous flow of equipment now. As of now we are saying production is stepping up, injection of new equipment is stepping up,” he said.
Dr Chekwe also said they have located another suspected kimberlite pipe nearer to Namande which they are also investigating.“For now we will say suspected kimberlite pipes because no one will tell you in a yes or no situation that this is it. That is why we are careful not to say there is plenty of diamonds because you excite people.An investor injects 10 million dollars on your statement and finds nothing, you are a fraud,” he said.“This is not a joke. It’s not fortune hunting.”
He said their find was significant because it gave them confidence that there was diamonds in the area.“It gives confidence that we are doing the right thing but they are still so small that we can’t go to the world market and say this is the Zambian diamond. That doesn’t make sense,” he said.
Dr. Chekwe said their findings would considerably change and help re-write the geological history of the province.He ruled out the question of probability in their operation.“It’s not a game of chance. There are two theories here. The real diamond we found it. The rock that bears diamonds is also here at several locations. This is just the first one we want to exhaust. How much diamonds we are going to find we will tell after mining a few months and checking the quantities and which ones are diamonds of what grade,” he said.
The company has started dredging the riverbed downstream about 80 to 100 kilometres from Kalabo where the kimberlite pipes have been identified.Spirit of the River is the only one among the prospecting companies that has publicly declared its find of the precious stone that has long been suspected in the area.
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Universal Orlando Review
My family took a vacation of a lifetime and we went to Orlando. We stayed two weeks and had tickets for both Disney World and Universal Studios. We timed our vacation to be there for the opening of Diagon Alley and the Hogwarts Express. Let me just say that Disney World was wonderful and Universal Studios can sink into the ocean for all I care. We have a ten year old daughter who has Caudal Regression Syndrome which means she is missing the lumbar and sacral vertebra. She cannot walk but she gets around great in her wheel chair and “walking” on her hands. Let me just say she is an amazing little girl who we have raised to believe she can do anything she wants. She is not handicapped but handicapable! Universal Studios refused to let her ride any rides including the kiddie rides. They said it was clearly stated in the ride brochure. It is NOT! We had spent a lot of money on 3 day passes that included both parks. We left with this beautiful little girl crying because she felt she had ruined her brother’s vacation. We stopped at customer service to lodge a complaint. After waiting in line for 30 minutes, I told the young girl at the counter that I was extremely angry and that I would like to speak to a manager because she was not paid enough for me to take it out on her. She said first I needed to let her know what was going on and I told her about the ride operators letting my little girl get on the ride only to have a supervisor come over and say no, they don’t let cripples ride and she would need to get off. This happened not once, not twice but 5 times and that included the kiddie rides. I was furious but controlled myself since it was not this poor girls fault. She then went back to get her manager. We waited another 15 minutes then this young girl came back and said her manager authorized her to refund our tickets for the day. I said very nicely, where is the manager and she said her manager told her to do this. I asked if my complaint mattered and she said of course. I said apparently not since the manager couldn’t even bother to come and talk to me! The young lady left close to tears and I almost felt bad but considering why I was there and the fact that I did warn her stopped my pity. The Public Relations manager came and with her came the ride manager Brian. Brian, I will never forget. The young man needs to learn to listen! I told them what had happened and Brian said yes that was company policy. I said where does it state this? In the ride brochure. i held it up and said show me where? I have looked and nowhere in there does it say handicapped people can’t ride. It listed weight limits, operating instructions, height requirements but nothing about people who can’t walk not being able to ride! He tried to take the brochure from me but I refused to give it to him. The public relations lady asked me what i wanted and I told her an apology to my daughter and I wanted Brian to escort her to any ride she wanted and make sure she got to ride it provided she met the restrictions posted and not the ones they made up to keep her off. She offered to refund all three days and I told her no this wasn’t about money it was to teach my daughter that she was worth fighting for and that people like this park where wrong! Brian said no no no. He talked over me and could not even acknowledge what I was saying or even apologize because we felt that way. He was right and we needed to leave. I will never go back there and I tell everyone who considers going that they better be in excellent health or they will waste their money!
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Michael deAgonia
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A first look at RPG: turns out it's n...
A first look at RPG: turns out it's not only Role-Playing Games
Phillip Khandeliants
Many of you have heard about one of the oldest programming languages, COBOL, and you have also heard that COBOL programmers are much asked for nowadays to maintain old legacy code. There's another old-timer which few know about and which is still in use and will be in use for quite a while for applications in various specific fields (i.e. finance, banking, etc.). Its name is IBM RPG.
RPG is a high-level programming language for business applications. It is an IBM proprietary programming language and its later versions are available only on IBM i- or OS/400-based systems.
RPG has been around for more than half a century. By the end of the 1950s, IBM had built a huge number of electromechanical devices called tabulating machines. The last mass-produced tabulator model was the IBM 407 Accounting Machine:
Figure 1. IBM 407 at U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, 1961.
By the way, this tabulator rented from $800 to $920 per month ($8100 to $9300 per month in 2016 dollars), depending on the model. They were withdrawn from marketing on December 17, 1976.
As you know, scientific and technological progress was striding forward at the time, and the end of the 1950s saw the birth of the first transistor computers. The first IBM computer of this type was IBM 1401 built in 1959:
Figure 2. IBM 1401 at the Endicott History and Heritage Center.
The Computer History Museum has one working unit. Take a look at how it all worked - that's really interesting (I especially like the phrase, "We need a little bit of cooling," at 4:41):
To facilitate ease of transition for their customers to the new transistor computers, IBM developed two tools in 1959 to replicate punched-card processing on computers: FARGO (Fourteen-o-one Automatic Report Generation Operation) and RPG (Report Program Generator). Both languages' syntax resembled that of the instruction language of electromechanical tabulators. FARGO and RPG also replicated an important feature of tabulators: cyclic processing mode (known as the program cycle), in which tabulators read punched cards, summarized their contents, and printed a result. IBM still maintains backward compatibility with the program cycle even in the latest dialect, RPG IV.
Even though RPG was developed under much influence of FARGO, it took RPG just a few years to replace its predecessor as a more superior language. The next system to receive RPG support was mainframe IBM System/360 Model 20:
Figure 3. IBM System/360 Model 20 at the Deutsches Museum.
A couple of years later (at the end of the 1960s), IBM released the next dialect, RPG II, for midrange computer System/3:
Figure 4. Midrange computer IBM System/3 Model 10 and the operator at work.
RPG has since evolved into an HLL equivalent to COBOL and PL/I. Its distinctive feature (in contrast to modern languages) was the so called fixed-format syntax, so programs were difficult to read without a special debugging template.
Figure 5. Debugging template (click to enlarge).
An RPG program once typically started off with File Specifications, listing all files being written to, read from, or updated, followed by Data Definition Specifications containing program elements such as Data Structures and dimensional arrays, much like a "Working-Storage" section of a COBOL program or "var" statements in Pascal. A variable is defined with a fixed-format Definition Specification. In the Definition Specification, denoted by a letter D in column 6 of a source line, the data type character (see the table below) would be encoded in column 40. Also, if the data type character is omitted, that is, left blank, the default will be A if no decimal positions are specified. Otherwise, the default will be P.
Basing-Pointer
Procedure-Pointer
System-Pointer
Address to Data
Address to Activated Procedure
Address to Object
Alphanumeric character
1 to 16,773,104 bytes (fixed)
1 to 16,773,100 bytes (varying-length)
Binary numeric
1 byte (8-bit)
2 byte (16-bit)
4 bytes (32-bit)
Signed binary integer
UCS-2 character
1 to 8,386,552 characters (fixed)
1 to 8,386,550 characters (varying)
16-bit UCS-2 character (DBCS or EGCS)
Date: year, month, day
Floating point numeric
Signed binary floating-point real
Graphic character
16-bit graphic character (DBCS or EGCS)
Integer numeric
Character indicator
'1' = TRUE
'0' = FALSE
Size undisclosed
Object reference
Packed decimal numeric
1 to 63 digits,
2 digits per byte plus sign
Signed fixed-point decimal number with integer and fraction digits
Zoned decimal numeric
1 digit per byte
Time: hour, minute, second
Unsigned binary integer
year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microseconds
Further the Calculation Specifications were given, which are the list of commands for execution. Output Specifications could also follow, they determined the layout of other files or reports.
The following is the description of all the specifications types:
The U or Auto Report spec is only required for Auto Report programs.
The H or Header spec is at the top of the program and describes compiler options such as maximum compile size, whether the program is an MRT (Multiple Requestor Terminal) program, and what type of listing is generated when the program is compiled. The object name of the program created is located in columns 75-80; if a source does not have an H spec, the name RPGOBJ is used.
The F or File spec(s) are next, and describes the files used in the program. Files may be disk files (DISK) or may be devices such as a printer (PRINTER), the workstation (WORKSTN), keyboard (KEYBORD), unformatted display (CRT or DISPLAY), or user-defined (SPECIAL). Record size, block size, overflow indicators, and external indicators are described. It is possible that an RPG program will not use any F specs.
The E or Extension spec(s) are next, and describe arrays and tables, which may be prefetched from disk files (an Input table), drawn from constants placed at the end of the source between ** and /* symbols, or built from calculations.
The L or Line Counter spec(s) are next, and if present, describe the form to be printed. It defines the number of lines in a page and the positions where printing begins and ends.
The I or Input specs are next, and describe the data areas within files. RPG II permits redefinition of data areas so that a field named FLDA might occupy the same area as an array AR that contains 8 elements of 1 character each. Non-record areas such as data structures can be described. Depending on the values of the input record, indicators may be conditioned.
The C or Calculation spec(s) are next. Total fields may be described and accumulated. Complex computations and string manipulations are possible. Indicators may be conditioned.
The last specification(s) are O or Output specifications, which describe the output record in terms of fields and output positions.
Now, here's a small example for you to practice reading RPG programs (F and D specifications are omitted):
* Asterisk (*) in column 7 defines a comment line
* In column 6, you write a character denoting
* the specification type to be used. The type of specification
* defines what the source line does (i.e. definitions section,
* calculations section, etc.).
* "C" spec (calculation) describes calculations to be done.
C HOURS IFLE 40
C HOURS MULT RATE PAY
C ELSE
C RATE MULT 40 PAY 72
C HOURS SUB 40 OTIME 30
C RATE MULT 1.5 OTRATE 94
C OTRATE MULT OTIME OTPAY 72
C ADD OTPAY PAY
C END
This code looks complicated, doesn't it? And that's just a simple payroll tax calculation for an hourly employee (employees get time and a half for hour worked beyond the first 40).
In 1978, IBM introduced midrange computer System/38 and a new RPG dialect, RPG III, for it:
Figure 6. Midrange computer IBM System/38
From that moment on, IBM was gradually abolishing the limitations of the language; programmers were allowed to write specifications in free form:
/free
If Hours <= 40;
Pay = Hours * Rate;
Else;
Pay = (40 * Rate) + ((Hours - 40) * (Rate * 1.5));
/end-free
Finally, the last version, RPG IV (aka RPGLE, ILE RPG), was released in 1994. Its three prominent features are built-in functions, procedures, and free-form programming. Until November 2013, the free format applied exclusively to the calculation specifications. With the V7R1 TR7 upgrade to the language, the "/free" and "/end-free" calculations are no longer necessary, and the language has finally broken the ties to punched cards.
RPG remains a popular programming language on the IBM i operating system, which runs on IBM Power i platform hardware:
Figure 7. IBM Power i server series
All in all, the RPG programming language has been used on 1401, /360, /3, /32, /34, /36, /38 AS/400 and System i systems. There have also been implementations for the Digital VAX, Sperry Univac BC/7, Univac system 80, Siemens BS2000, Burroughs B700, B1700, Hewlett Packard HP3000, ICL 2900 series, Honeywell 6220 and 2020, Four-Phase IV/70 and IV/90 series, Singer System 10 and WANG VS, as well as miscellaneous compilers and runtime environments for Unix-based systems, such as Infinite36 (formerly Unibol 36), and PCs (Baby/400, Lattice-RPG).
Today, RPG IV is a more robust language. Editing can still be done via SEU, the simple green-screen editor:
Figure 8. Green-screen editor.
However, a long progression of tools has been developed over time. Some of these have included Visual Age for RPG, which was developed by IBM and promoted by Jon Paris and others. Currently the preferred editing platform is IBM's Websphere Development Studio client, now named RDi (Rational Developer for i), which is a customized implementation of Eclipse:
Figure 9. Rational Developer for i.
There is also an RPG compiler for Microsoft .NET. This version contains extensions to RPG IV beyond that of the base IBM compiler. These extensions provide Microsoft Windows and .NET hooks in the Native and System 36 environment, as well as the ability to port DB/2 files to Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server databases via ODBC.
Although RPG is quite an exotic language, it is a fact that there exists a large amount of code written in it in specific fields such as finance, banking, and the like. The language is quite diverse: it includes 4 dialects and supports both fixed- and free-form programming. The need to maintain old legacy code and write new code force companies to seek RPG developers, who seem to be on the Red List for threatened species. Given the circumstances, additional code-quality control tools such as static analyzers are much called for.
You must have already guessed what the reason for writing this article is and what we are driving at. You're right: we are now considering the idea of creating a static code analyzer for the RPG language. I believe such an analyzer would be a great aid to those who still maintain and develop RPG programs. But we haven't come to a decision yet. Needless to say, it's quite a specific niche.
That's why we need you to tell us if you want PVS-Studio analyzer to become a tool that could detect bugs in RPG programs. Dear potential users of PVS-Studio RPG, we are looking for you. Don't hesitate to email us!
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Community prays for matriculants
Phiri Cawe
The hall was filled with matric pupils in their graduation gowns.
Parents, priests, and teachers at Langa High School appealed for divine intervention the day after matric pupils started writing their final examinations.
The prayer meeting was organised by a local photographer, Luthando Vimbi, who said they were all concerned about this year’s exams because there were so many distractions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Like everything else in the country, schools were closed for long periods of time.
Mr Vimbi said he decided to team up with World Harvest Ministries and the school to have a prayer meeting.
“The aim is simple – to encourage them and to show them that they are not alone. We have seen the damage caused. It has distracted so many of us.
You then think about these young people, whose future depends on education. That is why we have to come together, even if it is for a few minutes,” he said.
At the event, pupils – in their graduation gowns – and their teachers were in a jovial mood, singing and dancing. Their matric ball was also incorporated into the day of prayer.
Grade 12 teacher Xoliswa Kedama said they had to pray for an improved pass rate and show love to their children.
“Most, if not all, of our pupils encountered problems during the Covid-19 lockdown. Remember, we are in a disadvantaged area where some pupils could not afford data, cellphones or money to buy these tools.
“We as teachers tried to teach them via WhatsApp groups but not everyone has access to those gadgets. We had to re-educate them again to finish the syllabus. We are glad to say we have done a good job and big up to our pupils because they were also willing to be at school from Monday to Monday.
“Weekends were like school days,” she said.
Member of World Harvest Ministries Church, Reverend Lubabalo Mbekeni, led the prayers. He encouraged pupils to take things easy and do their best.
School principal Mrhwebi Maguga also encouraged pupils to take a proactive role in their education.
Matriculants said they were ready to go.
Sinalo Solani and Nikho Swaartbooi said they were happy to have teachers who were “always on their case” and that while it had been a challenging year, and that they had not expected it to be easy, everyone was ready to write the exams.
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A WHOLE NEW FLAVOUR – MY TOP 5 OFFBEAT FILMS
This post is a part of the Miss Lovely Activity in association with BlogAdda.
Why watch an offbeat film when you have different flavours of commercial films which entertain the audience for 2 and a half hours? Watching an offbeat film is like waking up from a deep slumber. Once in a while an offbeat film gives a fresh lease of life to the industry as a whole. It provides a whole new never before seen perspective. If it does strike a chord with the larger section of the audience it can bring about a social change.
So here goes my top 5.
A WEDNESDAY – There has never been a movie which so wonderfully captures the predicament of the common man. The protagonist of the movie is actually a villain in the eyes of the law. The end result is gratifying for a few fleeting moments until you leave the cinema hall. It also puts forth few important questions. Is violence morally right? Do Gandhi’s principles still hold good today’s fast world? Both Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah are at their very best. The film haunts our conscience and makes us question our own moral duty towards the society. It also presents a very real picture of the lawmakers of our country who still hesitate when it comes to punishing the actual wrong doers. A very honest attempt from Neeraj Pandey.
VICKY DONOR – The reason why I included Vicky Donor in the list is because it deals with a social taboo. We as Indians are not as broad minded when it comes to speaking out with regards sex, adoption or sperm donation. It is actually a sin to speak out. What happens when your husband is a sperm donor? All hell breaks lose in Ayushmann Khurrana’s carefree life. The chemistry between Ayushmann Though it all turns out well in the end. I loved the irony. The sperm donor isn’t able to have a child of his own naturally all because of a quirky twist of fate. Though it does seem like a breezy romance on the outside. It deals with a couple of important social issues Infertility and Sperm donation. A royal salute to Shoojit Sircar.
STANLEY KA DABBA: We have all seen Taare Zameen Par – a film conceived by Amol Gupte. Stanley Ka Dabba is one of his lesser known gems How do you weave a story around a lunch box and a soul stirring one at that. The climax just leaves you shell shocked. I was so touched that I couldn’t sleep for a couple of days. Very rarely has someone touched child labour as deftly as Amol Gupte. That one scene just leaves you asking for more. All the kids in the movie are at their natural best. Partho Gupte, Amol Gupte and Divya Dutta just live their roles. After Taare Zameen Paar Amol gupte once again creates magic on screen with a kid as a protagonist. Child labour isn’t just morally wrong. It is unacceptable.
IQBAL: I fell in love with IQBAL the moment I heard the concept. There only very few films which showcase the difficulties of a differently abled person. Iqbal is one such film. Though we have seen triumph against all odds in numerous films n number of times Iqbal offers a different view point. It shows us how the society perceives a differently abled person. It also re-affirms the good old principle “WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY”. Never let fate pull you down search within. U might find the right answers. A worthy debut from Shreyas Talpade. Critics favourite Nasserudin Shah shines once again and one of many crowns in Nagesh Kukuoor’s impeccable C.V.
SWADES: Though it’s not of his box office successes it is SHAHRUKH’S best film till date. It takes a whole lot of conviction to star in a movie sans the usual commercial elements. Ashutosh Gowariker once again comes up with a story which shows the real India in more ways than once. The film gives us what we all need in tons- hope- hope for a social change. It also shows that one man’s thought process can influence the whole society. A down to earth film after the over the top Lagaan with some impressive and soul stirring music by our very own A.R Rahaman.
Here’s a poster and trailer link of one such lovely attempt.
Miss_Lovely_India_Trailer from Future East on Vimeo.
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Liked the way you talked about off-beat films as 'waking up from a deep slumber.' But you inclusion of 'Stanley ka dabba' is quite surprising… this was one movie that was shabbily directed and had a hopelessly lost script.
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@Arvind Passey: I included Stanley Ka Dabba because of the theme.. I loved it personally…
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Imitations of Life
A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama
Edited by Marcia Landy
Subjects: Film History, Film Theory and Criticism, Filmmakers, Television Studies
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Pages: 624 Size: 6x9
Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting the stage for the essays that follow.
The book's seven sections examine the history of melodrama, its emphasis on emotional excess, its manicheanism, and its dependence on non-verbal strategies to communicate. Essays focus on the family melodramas of the 1950s, the role of Hollywood directors and stars in the development of the genre, and melodrama in the silent films and on television. The book concludes with an exploration of the use of melodrama in European and Latin American cinema, both silent and sound.
Imitations of Life thus provides a variety of perspectives-chronological, theoretical, and international-on the genre while investigating its cultural, social, and political significance.
Published by: Wayne State University Press
Marcia Landay is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. A Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, she is the author of Facism and Film: Italian Commercial Cinema, 1930-1943 as well as articles in such journals as Film Criticism, Jump Cut, and Cinema Journal.
Contributors Include:
Richard Abel, Charles Affron, Robert C. Allen, Ien Ang, John Belton, Jean-Loup Bourget, Peter Brooks, Charlotte Brunsdon, Noel Carroll, Alan Casty, John G. Cawelti, Pam Cook, Mary Ann Doane, Raymond Durgnat, Richard Dyer, Charles Eckert, Thomas Elsaesser, Jane Gaines, Daniel Gerould, Naomi Greene, Chuck Kleinhans, Marcia Landy, Ana M. Lopez, Ruth McCormick, Tania Modleski, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Christopher Orr, Griselda Pollack, Michael Renov, David N. Rodowick, Christine Saxton, Thomas Schatz, Ellen Seiter, Nicholas Vardac, Christian Viviani, Linda Williams, Katherine S. Woodward
Significant texts on film and television melodrama from a variety of perspectives-chronological, theoretical, international, and feminist-and their sociological significance.
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BWE08: Milblog Conference
September 21, 2008 By Lauren
It was incredibly exciting to be in attendance at the Milblog Conference track of Blog World Expo 2008. What a difference it was to be involved in this track because the attendees and panel speakers were not of the echo chamber flavor. Most folks were not communications or marketing professionals, but the backbone of the military community. It was refreshing to sit in the audience and just listen to these passionate people.
Instead of representing Communicators Anonymous, I was at Blog World Expo this year representing my day job employer, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES or commonly referred to as the BX/PX). AAFES is developing new media tools to better communicate with our military community. What better place to go to begin to understand the milblog community than this conference?
The morning began with opening remarks from JP Borda. He had a fan club in the crowd…his loving family was there to support his first public speaking event. JP, just as his writing style, is charismatic and warmed up the crowd with an overview of what has occurred in the milblog community in the past year.
LTG William Caldwell then addressed the audience with opening remarks via video. By empowering his staff to tell the military story, LTG Caldwell expressed the necessity to confront change with change. “Information is currency,” said LTG Caldwell. It was evident that he means what he says, but led to the question of the day – Is this openness to new media trickling down to tactical level?
LTG Caldwell requested “what happens in Vegas (at the Milblog Conference) is heard around the world.” (Not sure he meant the Penthouse party.) Thanks to eMail Our Military, this message is being syndicated to a larger military audience! Be sure you were well represented.
The first panel addressed the relevance of milblogs. Panelists included, Ward Carrol of Military.com, Phil Carter of Intel Dump and Obama for America, Matt Burden of Blackfive, Greyhawk of The Mudville Gazette and MilBlogs and CJ Grisham of Soldier’s Perspective. Undoubtedly, the milblog is still needed, but roles are evolving. There remains a tension between op sec and enlightened information, however, dialogue between is open. To CJ, WordPress remains his psychologist and his blog is relevant as long as the author deals with his demons. For Matt, his blog and mission is evolving to more main stream media content and that scares him. All agree the stories are not just about the war, but of the American patriot family and good of our country.
The second panel addressed the topic nearest to my heart and mission, milblogging as a community. Panelists included Melinda of SpouseBUZZ and Most Certainly Not, Beth of Soldier’s Angels and Fuzzilicious Thinking, Mrs. Greyhawk of The Mudville Gazette and MilBlogs, Karen of Parents Zone and Proud Liberal Army Wife and Sarah of SpouseBUZZ and Trying Not To Grok. Moderator, Melinda, should be a stand-up comic. She had me chuckling the entire session! The relevance question from Panel #1 was also answered by these women. Spouses and parents are going to the Internet seeking comradery in the hot topics too personal and delicate to discuss with the family and friends in their “real” lives. The need for the military story to be told to the extended military family (parents) was also stressed. The virtual connection has proven to be a vital support element to a community stationed all over the world.
Before the third panel began, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Cartwright, addressed the audience. Similar to LTG Caldwell, General Cartwright expressed his desire to empower individuals with tools to communicate truth.
“The vision of human liberty unfolds with each post.” -General James Cartwright
The third panel was a special edition of DOD LIVE Bloggers Roundtable with guests Pete Geren, Secretary of the US Army and MG Kevin Bergner, Chief of Public Affairs, Army. Secretary Geren stressed new media as an important opportunity. He told the audience he includes blog updates in his morning briefings and is encouraging his staff to go beyond blogging and embrace other appropriate tools such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. The need to communicate to the extended military family is paramount.
Once again, the issue of bringing new media openness and training to a more tactical level was addressed. The issue was recognized and Secretary Geren emphasized his desire to move the military away from a risk adverse culture, embrace new media voices as the best ambassadors and increase tolerance for these communication methods. General Bergner agreed with this direction and informed the audience his staff was drafting new policies to encourage this direction.
Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the final panel of the day addressing the new cadre of war reporters because I had to jump on a plane home. A huge thank you to Andi for organizing the event. It was an honor to be in the presence of the community I serve. It is also a privilege to share my day with the community of eMail Our Military.
(Photo courtesy of scripsi_scriptum.)
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Anesthesia Experts
Nasal Ventilation: Oxygenation, NO DESAT, and THRIVE
October 12, 2016 by Dr. Clemens Leave a Comment
Anil Patel, MD, FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
S.A. Reza Nouraei, MBBChir, PhD, FRCS
Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgeon
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Otolaryngology,
High-flow nasal oxygen optimizes preoxygenation and apnea time compared with low-flow techniques, and improves carbon dioxide (CO2) clearance.
The delivery of oxygen via nasal cannulas is widely used to provide supplemental oxygen or increase airflow to patients in need of respiratory support as a consequence of hypoxemia, hemodynamic insufficiency, or increased work of breathing. Oxygen can be delivered by a number of devices, including nasal cannulas, simple face masks, Venturi face masks, non-rebreathing face masks with a reservoir, transtracheal catheters, and warmed humidified high-flow nasal oxygen systems.
More recently, the use of supplemental oxygen via nasal cannulas has been described to increase apnea times in anesthetized paralyzed patients in the context of:
NO DESAT (nasal oxygen during efforts securing a tube),1,2 which uses a simple nasal cannula with standard low-flow cold dry oxygen at a rate of 5 to 15 L per minute. NO DESAT allows apneic oxygenation to continue while attempts at tracheal intubation are performed, and it increases apnea times by 2 to 5 minutes.
THRIVE: High-flow nasal cannula preoxygenation. Flow rate of 30 L per minute.
THRIVE (transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilatory exchange),3 which uses high-flow oxygen at a rate up to 70 L per minute with warmed humidified nasal oxygen (Figure 3). THRIVE combines the benefits of apneic oxygenation with continuous positive airway pressure and gaseous exchange through flow-dependent dead space flushing. THRIVE increases apnea time by enhancingapneic oxygenation and provides apneic ventilation, reducing the rate of rise of CO2 to approximately one-third of that expected (Figure 4). In patients with difficult airways, THRIVE increased the mean apnea time after induction of anesthesia and muscle paralysis to 14 minutes, with no patients experiencing desaturation.3
THRIVE: Following induction of anesthesia, flow rate increased to 70 L per minute. Nasal high-flow cannula placed on forehead. Confirmation of airway patency by face mask ventilation.
During World War I, oxygen was administered to the victims of gas poisoning through small-diameter (8- to 10-Fr) rubber catheters placed directly into the nasopharynx.4 By the 1920s, nasal oxygen was being used in pediatric care.5These oxygen delivery systems developed further with a Y-tube to split oxygen flow into a double nasal catheter, halving the effect of flow on the nasal mucosa,6followed by less invasive oxygen prongs that allowed oxygen to be directed just inside the nares.
By the 1940s, early versions of low-flow nasal cannulas had been introduced. As their use increased, the limitations of oxygen administration via the nasal route began to be recognized. Nasal discomfort, pain, drying, and bleeding of the nasal mucosa resulted from the use of cold dry oxygen. This was a particular problem at high oxygen flow, and prevented the use of high-flow nasal oxygen until systems were developed that allowed warming and humidification of oxygen at higher flows. With low-flow nasal oxygen, considerable variability of the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) also was seen, depending on the breathing pattern. Despite these problems, nasal oxygen allowed patients to eat, drink, speak, and avoid the claustrophobia associated with face masks.5,7
High-flow nasal oxygen systems were developed to improve the clearance of secretions in patients with cystic fibrosis. High-flow systems allow warmed humidified oxygen–air mixtures at flow rates up to 70 L per minute. Early systems were developed for and used exclusively in racehorses to treat exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage. By the 1980s, early systems (Transpirator MT-1000, The Oxygen Company Inc) could reach flow rates up to 20 L per minute. In 2000, the first commercial adult high-flow nasal cannula systems designed to deliver oxygen flow with accompanying humidifiers appeared, manufactured by Salter Labs and Vapotherm.8
Today, Vapotherm’s 2000i High Flow Therapy system allows for the high flow of gases to be delivered via a nasal cannula while warming and saturating the gas stream. The device delivers a flow range up to 40 L per minute, with 95% to 100% relative humidity and a temperature range of 33 to 43°C (~91-109°F).9
Teleflex offers high-flow nasal cannula therapy through its Comfort Flo Humidification System. The system is designed to provide a heated humidifier to deliver flow rates up to 40 L per minute through a line of specialty nasal cannulas.10
The Optiflow Nasal High Flow cannula (Fisher & Paykel) began clinical use in 2006 (Figure 5).11 The Optiflow cannula is designed with a wide bore in order to deliver a complete range of gas flows up to 70 L per minute at optimal temperature (37°C/98.6°F) and humidity (44 mg/L), thereby improving patient tolerance and optimizing mucociliary clearance.11
THRIVE: High-flow nasal cannula placed in position. Apneic oxygenation and apneic ventilation allow apnea times between 10 and 60 minutes.
Low-Flow Nasal Oxygen
Low-flow oxygen delivery systems include the standard nasal cannula, which protrudes into a patient’s nares and delivers an FiO2 of 24% to 44% at oxygen flow rates ranging from 1 to 8 L per minute. Low-flow systems allow dilution with ambient air as minute ventilation exceeds oxygen flow, resulting in a lower FiO2than expected.
With quiet breathing, the inspiratory flow rate at the nares of an adult usually exceeds 12 L per minute, and with mild respiratory distress can exceed 30 L per minute. Both breathing rate and tidal volume affect the FiO2, with lower inspiratory flows generating a higher FiO2. Conversely, the faster inspiratory flows associated with respiratory distress generate a lower FiO2.
Low-flow nasal cannulas provide limited FiO2 to spontaneously breathing patients.1 After induction of anesthesia and the administration of muscle relaxants, the nasal cannula can be left on while flow rates can be increased to 15 L per minute, allowing the pharynx to fill with oxygen (pharyngeal oxygen reservoir) and increase the FiO2.2 Low-flow apneic oxygenation provides no ventilation or CO2 clearance.
Apneic Oxygenation
Apneic oxygenation is a physiologic phenomenon in which alveoli will continue to take up oxygen without any diaphragmatic movements or lung movement, provided that a patent air passageway exists between the lungs and the pharynx. The difference between the alveolar rates of oxygen removal (~200-250 mL/min) and CO2 excretion into the alveoli (~20 mL/min) generates negative pressure up to 20 cm H2O.2 This generates a mass flow of gas from the pharynx to the alveoli, which drives oxygen into the lungs.
Apneic oxygenation has been used both experimentally and clinically as a strategy to extend the apneic window by providing a pharyngeal oxygen reservoir. The application of low-flow oxygen (15 L/min) through a nasal cannula increases pharyngeal FiO2, which acts as a pharyngeal oxygen reservoir that leads to a greater amount of oxygen delivery during the mass flow of gas from the pharynx to the alveoli. This maintains oxygenation for longer and increases apnea time. Taha et al showed no desaturation during the course of 6 minutes in patients receiving 5 L per minute of oxygen through a nasal catheter, while the control group desaturated in an average of 3.65 minutes to the study cutoff of 95%.12
A randomized controlled trial of obese patients receiving 5 L per minute of oxygen through nasal cannulas during their apneic period showed the apneic oxygenation group had significant prolongation of the time spent with peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2) of at least 95% (5.29 vs 3.49 minutes), a significant increase in patients with SpO2 of at least 95% at 6 minutes (8 vs 1 patient), and significantly higher minimum SpO2 (94.3% vs 87.7%).7,13
Apneic oxygenation will allow continued oxygenation and increase the apnea time, but will have little effect on CO2 clearance, resulting in hypercapnia and acidosis.
NO DESAT
Simple nasal cannula for preoxygenation.
Small nasal cannulas can be left on during preoxygenation (Figure 6), mask ventilation (provided a good seal is generated; Figure 7), and tracheal intubation attempts. After the administration of anesthetic agents and muscle relaxants, NO DESAT improves the efficacy of apneic oxygenation during attempts at tracheal intubation and increases apnea time by 2 to 5 minutes.12,13
NO DESAT: Mask ventilation after induction of anesthesia.
High-Flow Nasal Oxygen
High-flow nasal cannulas deliver nasal oxygen flow rates up to 70 L per minute with warmed humidified oxygen. Heating and humidification are critical for tolerance of these higher oxygen flow rates. Without heating and humidification, pain, drying, and bleeding of the nasal mucosa will occur.
Heating and Humidity
Without achieving adequate humidity and temperature, high nasal oxygen flow rates quickly result in drying of the airway mucosa, impairment of ciliary function, and decreased mobilization of secretions. Administering an inspired gas with a relative humidity of 100% at 37°C effectively prevents these complications and minimizes respiratory heat and water loss. Modern high-flow nasal oxygen devices achieve close to 100% relative humidity at a temperature of 37°C at clinically relevant flow rates.2,11
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
Low-level positive airway pressure is delivered with high-flow nasal oxygen that increases with flow rate during breathing and is greater with a closed mouth compared with open.
The positive airway pressure that is generated reduces atelectasis, improves lung ventilation/perfusion, decreases the work of breathing, improves decreased compliance in adults, and treats atelectasis in surfactant-deficient newborns.
In healthy volunteers, the expiratory pharyngeal pressure varied from 0.8 to 7.4 cm H2O, with flow rates ranging from 0 to 60 L per minute during mouth-closed breathing and from 0.3 to 2.7 cm H2O during mouth-open breathing at the same flow rates.14
At 35 L per minute, spontaneously breathing intensive care patients generated a mean nasopharyngeal pressure of 2.7 cm H2O (mouth-closed) and 1.2 cm H2O (mouth-open), respectively,15 compared with pressures generated by humidified Hudson mask oxygen therapy (at 35 L/min) of 0.2 (mouth-closed) and 0.1 cm H2O (mouth-open) breathing, respectively. At flow rates of 50 L per minute, the average nasopharyngeal airway pressure was 3.1 cm H2O, and an average expiratory pressure of 3.8 cm H2O was seen with mouth-closed breathing.16 A clear positive linear relationship between flow and mean airway pressure exists.17
Increased FiO2
High-flow nasal oxygen prevents secondary entrainment of room air by delivering a higher FiO2 than face mask oxygen.18 High-flow nasal oxygen also provides optimal nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal oxygen reservoirs as well as improved washout of anatomic dead space, reducing dead space breathing and improving ventilatory efficiency.19 The higher the nasal flow rate, the faster the clearance of gas from the upper airway and the lower the minute ventilation required to maintain the same effective alveolar ventilation, which can lead to reduced arterial CO2 concentration.
The reduction in anatomic dead space can decrease a patient’s minute ventilation requirement and respiratory rate.20,21
Warmed humidified nasal oxygen is better tolerated than conventional oxygen therapy.22
THRIVE describes a technique that maintains oxygen saturation for significant periods of time after commencement of apnea in surgical patients and reduces the rise of CO2 over time.3 This suggests that utilizing high-flow nasal oxygen at 70 L per minute during the apneic period allows apneic oxygenation (maintaining oxygen saturations) and apneic ventilation (reducing the rise of CO2; Figure 8). This is in contrast to low-flow nasal cannula techniques in which classic apneic oxygenation improves oxygenation without affecting ventilation.
THRIVE: Flow rate of 70 L per minute after induction of anesthesia and administration of muscle relaxants.
THRIVE combines the benefits of “classic” apneic oxygenation with continuous positive airway pressure and flow-dependent dead space flushing. A major advantage of THRIVE is that it can be continued during laryngoscopy and airway instrumentation. Any reduction in oropharyngeal FiO2 as a consequence of oral suctioning of secretions (~45 L/min of air are suctioned from a Yankauer suction tip) is immediately replenished with high nasal flow rates. THRIVE describes a technique that could transform the practice of anesthesia by changing the nature of securing a definitive airway in emergency and difficult intubation settings from a highly pressured stop–start process to a smooth and unhurried undertaking (Figure 9).
THRIVE: Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation transformed from a pressured stop–start process to a smooth and unhurried undertaking.
Preoxygenation
High-flow nasal oxygen also is used to optimize preoxygenation (Figure 10). High-flow nasal cannulas significantly improved oxygenation in patients undergoing intubation in the intensive care unit when compared with standard oxygen therapy with a non-rebreathing mask.23 High-flow nasal oxygen also improved preoxygenation in morbidly obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery.24
THRIVE: Flow rate of 30 L per minute during preoxygenation.
Unlike face mask preoxygenation, in which an “active” decision is taken to hold a face mask and ensure a good seal, using high-flow nasal oxygen is a “passive” process in which the nasal cannula can be placed as soon as the patient enters the operating room while other preparations are made for induction of anesthesia. No additional time is required compared with “active” face mask preoxygenation.
Awake Fiber-Optic Intubation
High-flow nasal oxygen has been used to optimize oxygenation and intubating conditions during awake fiber-optic intubation (AFOI).25 High-flow nasal oxygen was well tolerated in spontaneously breathing patients undergoing AF OI with improved oxygenation during the procedure and prevention of apnea- and hypoventilation-associated desaturations. High-flow nasal oxygen therapy is currently the only option to provide continuous delivery of 100% FiO2 in high-risk patients undergoing AFOI.
Nasal oxygen is a well-established treatment for patients breathing spontaneously in need of respiratory support. More recently, it has been used to improve oxygenation in patients breathing spontaneously during preoxygenation, fiber-optic bronchoscopy,26 and AFOI. After induction of anesthesia and muscle relaxants, low-flow nasal oxygen (NO DESAT) improves apneic oxygenation and increases apnea time by a few minutes. High-flow nasal oxygen (THRIVE) optimizes preoxygenation and significantly improves apnea time compared with low-flow techniques while enhancing CO2 clearance.
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But there is a question back home.
YOU MAY OR may not have kept up with the recent Foreign Affairs uproar that merged into current Chinese tariff barriers on Australian agricultural imports? Well at the baseline of what became an Australian, US and Chinese bunfight, was a simple request for an independent enquiry into the biological source of the current coronavirus pandemic.
That was articulated by the NSW Agriculture Minister David Littleproud in the first instance back in March/April. He went on radio programs and sent press releases with statements like this:
“There are risks with wildlife wet markets and they could be as big a risk to our agricultural industries as they can be to public health so we have to understand them better.
“The G20 of Agriculture Ministers have a responsibility to lead the way and draw on global experts and engage international organisations to rationally and methodically look at the many significant risks of wildlife wet markets.
“Our people should have confidence that the food they eat is safe. We owe it to our domestic population and our international markets.”
The wet (meat) market at Langfang near Beijing. Photo: Giuolia Marchi, for The New York Times.
Indeed, more on that in a moment.
While Australia got mired in trying to define what a ‘wet market’ is; and whether coronaviruses are weaponised in shady biological laboratories; and whether the World Health Organisation was an accessory to this devious plot, the Australian Agriculture Minister was in no doubt of what to look at.
It was the wildlife trade adjunct to fish and meat markets at the epicentre of the problem. Here was a conduit for zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 jumping from animals, say bats, sometimes via an intermediary host, possibly civet cats [our feature image above, photo by Weerapat Kiatdumrong, on Dreamstime] or pangolin sold at the markets, to humans who consumed or even just handled them. It has happened before in recent times from HIV to Ebola, to other forms of coronaviruses in countries that consume bushmeat. And domesticated animals could be infected. Think bird flu and swine flu epidemics in recent times.
Simple question: the source of the current pandemic
Littlepround called for the World Health Organisation (as is now happening) to investigate wildlife trade and consumption as the source of the most recent pandemic. A pandemic that has brought the global economy to its knees along with causing three million human infections and counting. And focused laser-like media attention on the human death toll, leaving little room for other investigations.
While this outbreak started in China, other South-east Asian countries have similar trades. The point is to look at the underlying risks and stop them.
From the perspective of humane and compassionate people everywhere, the massive and lucrative trade in the world’s diminishing and endangered wildlife (for food, traditional medicines, clothing, or amusement) is evil, in and of itself, even before a pandemic risk is attached.
Littleproud told Samantha Armytage of Channel 7’s breakfast show Sunrise:
“We’re looking at the cause of this and I’m asking the World Organisation of Animal Health to be the lead agency on that. We’ve got to understand not all wet markets are bad, it’s when wildlife, exotic wildlife is added to them, which is what’s happened in this case, as the Chinese officials have identified and reported to the World Organisation of Animal Health.
“So there are many of these around the world. It only makes sense. The world’s got smaller; we’re part of a global community, that we come together and we do the right thing to protect one another but also protect our agricultural production systems that underpin our food security.”
It was recently reported that China had taken legislative steps to shut down the growing and selling of wildlife for these wet markets.
Farmers would be helped into vegetable production enterprises. While this is good, the same reports said China had taken no action on the rest of the domestic and international wildlife trade for traditional medicines, (bears and tigers come to mind) fur, other products, and amusement.
Meanwhile back at the ranch…
And while Minister Littleproud and his government did well here, compassionate Australians might logically ask them (in the name of safe food for humans and pets), when Australia will finally end its own little-reported bushmeat trade — killing kangaroos — the nation’s emblem and a top global tourist draw.
The world’s biggest terrestrial wildlife slaughter is conducted nightly, unmonitored and accompanied by institutionalised cruelty to joeys, in unsanitary conditions in the bush. What is mainly an export trade and now a rekindled petfood trade in Victoria and South Australia, has shamed this country since the 1960s. Most Australians either don’t know or would rather not consider it. But it may be past time to do so.
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Microsoft says backward compatible games will run better and look better on Xbox Series X
When Microsoft first announced the Xbox Series X, then only known as Project Scarlett, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said that it will run four generations of Xbox games. In other words, backward compatibility was a priority from the start, and Director of Program Management for Xbox Series X Jason Ronald penned a blog post today detailing those plans. As we know, the Xbox Series X will launch with a library of thousands of games, supporting all Xbox One games and all of the Xbox 360 and Xbox games that are playable on the Xbox One via the Backward Compatibility program.
All of these games are going to run better than ever before, thanks to the custom NVMe SSD, the Zen 2 CPU, and the GPU. Even though some platforms run in emulation, Microsoft says that some games will see better performance than the consoles that they were originally designed for.
But that’s not all, because these games aren’t just being boosted by the new hardware. Microsoft is adding HDR reconstruction, meaning that it can automatically add HDR to games. This is a completely new enhancement for older games that companies won’t be continuing to develop, such as original Xbox games that came out nearly two decades ago.
HDR means better color, but backward compatible games will also play at higher resolutions and frame rates. In fact, some games can run at double their original frame rates, meaning that they’ll be boosted from 30fps to 60fps, or 60fps to 120fps.
And of course, these games are getting support for Quick Resume, a feature that lets you pick up exactly where you left off. Like HDR reconstruction, this feature requires no additional effort from the game developer.
Microsoft still hasn’t provided pricing or availability details for the Xbox Series X, only that it will be available this holiday season.
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Columbus Crew SC 1, Portland Timbers 2 | MLS Cup Match Recap – Timbers.com
Before the 2015 MLS Cup final, Portland Timbers coach Caleb Porter wrestled with the question of whether he believed in destiny, ultimately deciding that hard work begets success.
Portland Timbers win MLS Cup with 2-1 victory over Columbus Crew – The Oregonian
The Portland Timbers jumped up and down at midfield, as thousands of Timbers fans looked on from the stands, waving flags and singing in a moment of pure elation.
Timbers cap memorable 2015 with MLS Cup title – SBI
The champagne fumes were overpowering. The music was blaring. There was dancing, singing, joking, beer guzzling, and even a FaceTime call to an old teammate. The Portland Timbers were on cloud nine, having just capped a strong and memorable 2015 with an MLS Cup trophy that few on the outside thought was obtainable as recently as two months ago.
MLS Cup recap: Portland wins sloppy final – Empire of Soccer
It wasn’t a shimmering example of the league’s play, but the 2015 MLS Cup produced a lot of entertainment. The Portland Timbers held on to a 2-1 lead they claimed early in the match, and won their first title on the road in Columbus.
Timbers deserved winners of dramatic MLS Cup – Sportsnet
A goal within the opening 30 seconds, blown calls by the refs, a bit of controversy and a number of shots that went off the posts and crossbars—the 2015 MLS Cup was one of the most memorable in recent history, providing plenty of drama and entertainment.
Porter’s perseverance and Timbers’ faith pays off with MLS Cup – Goal
Disappointing results earlier in the season never shook Caleb Porter’s faith in his Portland Timbers, who lifted their first MLS Cup title on Sunday.
Portland Timbers set the tone in MLS Cup victory over Columbus Crew SC – MLS
Portland were already selling out with their high press, and you can see one of their defensive leaders pushing his team even higher. They were determined to, at the very least, land a couple of body blows in the game’s first couple of minutes. Instead they landed an uppercut, and the hosts never really recovered.
Portland Timbers’ game plan to attack early paid off says Valeri, Porter – ESPN FC
The Portland Timbers had a plan to attack early in their first MLS Cup appearance. They didn’t expect it to work to perfection so quickly.
Columbus Crew SC goalkeeper Steve Clark takes blame for Timbers’ opener: “This is completely on me” – MLS
Steve Clark is usually one of the surest goalkeepers in MLS when the ball is at his feet. But with MLS Cup on the line on Sunday night at MAPFRE Stadium, all it took was on long touch, one lapse in concentration for that to become moot.
Columbus Crew SC fans stayed behind to cheer on a dejected Kei Kamara – MLS
As crews set up the stage and the Portland Timbers rushed to the south end of MAPFRE Stadium to celebrate their first MLS Cup title with their supporters, Columbus Crew SC’s Kei Kamara sat on the grass in the north end watching a celebration he’s never been part of.
Columbus Crew supporters throw beer cans at Portland Timbers players during MLS Cup Final – The Oregonian
Columbus Crew supporters hurled more than a dozen cans onto the field after Portland Timbers winger Rodney Wallace scored in the seventh minute of Sunday’s MLS Cup Final.
Marrudo: ‘Assistant Referee did not see ball leave play’ – Soccer America
MLS Cup 2015 was decided — the deciding second goal was scored by Portland — after a ball played out of bounds by Portland. The Crew’s Tony Tchani assumed the ball was out and dribbled to play it back it when Portland’s Darlington Nagbe took the ball and started the play that led to the Timbers’ second goal in their 2-1 win.
MLS Cup highlights the league’s officiating woes – the11.ca
On Sunday, referee Jair Marrufo and his crew had a stinker of a game that simply can’t be overlooked. Portland’s 2-1 triumph over Columbus in MLS Cup will likely be held up as the new standard for everybody who believes the quality of officiating in North America simply isn’t good enough.
Timbers’ Paulson, Crew’s Precourt owners for MLS’s present, future – SI.com
Presumably none of the old-guard MLS owners who arrived for the league’s owners meetings and the MLS Cup final were lamenting this week’s death of former Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland. But Merritt Paulson, the 42-year-old owner of the Portland Timbers, isn’t like most MLS owners.
MLS playoff format is an outlier in world soccer — and that’s a good thing – Washington Post
If soccer purists had their way, the MLS season would have ended six weeks ago when the New York Red Bulls raised the Supporters’ Shield for their endurance across a 34-match campaign.
MLS Board of Governors announce support for expansion, new policies for 2016 – Whitecaps FC
Following Saturday’s Major League Soccer Board of Governors meeting in Columbus, MLS announced its support for future expansion to 28 clubs, with a process and timeline to be unveiled at a later date.
Where Will MLS Expand Next? – Northern Pitch
On Saturday, the day before the MLS Cup Final, the league made official what just about everyone knew to be inevitable. MLS would expand beyond 24 teams. After the runaway success of the last round of expansion, it was clear that there was more untapped interest in MLS.
Busy week ahead in MLS: ‘There has certainly been a lot of discussion’ – Whitecaps FC
As of Monday, teams are once again able to make trades within MLS. Free Agency begins on Tuesday. The Waiver Draft is on Wednesday. And Stage One of the Re-Entry Draft is on Friday.
Breaking down the possible player moves as MLS offseason action is set to kick off – The Province
Major League Soccer won’t get the Free Agent Frenzy treatment afforded other sports leagues.
Midfielder Russell Teibert undergoes successful left ankle surgery – Whitecaps FC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC confirmed on Friday that midfielder Russell Teibert underwent successful surgery for a bone spur in his left ankle this morning. Teibert is expected to make a full recovery prior to the start of the 2016 training camp.
NYCFC announces roster cuts, returnees – and trialists – Empire of Soccer
NYCFC announced today that it has also declined the contract options for Ned Grabavoy, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Jeb Brovsky and Pablo Alvarez.
One-on-one with Garber: Miami, FIFA corruption, promotion/relegation and more – Goal
Goal USA’s Ives Galarcep spoke with MLS commissioner Don Garber about a wide range of topics, including MLS expansion, FIFA/CONCACAF corruption, and much more.
MLS gaining global stars, but still lagging on travel – TSN
Never in the history of MLS have so many footballers of global renown made the switch to our shores. Ownerships willingly forked out lavish salaries. Paradoxically, throughout the season the teams flew on commercial airlines traveling in economy, save the few times they were permitted to charter. A matter recently bought up in the media by Montreal Impact star Didier Drogba, one of the members of MLS’s outstanding Class of 2015 DPs.
2015 Montreal Impact Season Review – Red Nation Online
When I wrote my preview it was pre-Drogba, Frank Klopas was in charge of the club, and I was both analytical and critical of the Impact squandering upcoming opportunities for 2015 season. This included predicting America CF would win the CONCACAF Champions League and the Impact themselves would not make the 2015 MLS playoffs and instead struggle at the bottom of the Eastern Conference with new expansion clubs New York City FC and Orlando City.
Vieira could manage Man City after developing with NYCFC – SBI
Patrick Vieira may have just taken the head coaching position at New York City FC, but one Manchester City official is already considering him as an option to succeed current manager Manuel Pellegrini.
MLS at 20: How football in the USA is thriving at last – BBC Sport
Everybody works for the same company, you can never leave no matter how bad you are, you spend eight months deciding who wins only to play for two more months to decide somebody else has won and you do all this while every other player in the northern hemisphere is on the beach.
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VISL Scores for Week 13 and Upcoming Matches – VISL
Week 13 in Division 1 only had 1 surprise as Lakehill defeated Nanaimo to earn some valuable points near the bottom of the table.
Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency play to 1-1 draw against Houston Dynamo – Whitecaps FC
Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency wrapped up their participation at the 2015 USSDA Winter Showcase with a 1-1 draw against Houston Dynamo on Sunday.
U-16 Residency earn second straight win at USSDA Winter Showcase – Whitecaps FC
Whitecaps FC U-16 Residency earned their second straight victory at the 2015 USSDA Winter Showcase. It was the sixth consecutive victory overall for the Northwest Division leading U-16s.
Wolves roar against Pacific United – Tri City News
The Coquitlam Metro-Ford Wolves maintained their position at the top of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League Premier Division standings after taking down Pacific United 5-1 last weekend.
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CANADA SOCCER NEWS
CONCACAF U-20 women’s championship: Canada in semifinals – CBC
Taylor Pryce had a hat trick as Canada’s women’s under-20 team routed Jamaica 7-0 on Sunday in the qualifying round of the CONCACAF women’s under-20 championship in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Canada’s Women’s National Team release Natal 2015 Roster and schedule change – CSA
Canada’s Women’s National Team has arrived in Natal, Brazil and will take the pitch for the international tournament starting December 9th.
How Canadian College and University soccer is hurting young soccer players – and what can be done about it – Red Nation Online
In the Canadian college/university system, the play-offs and National Championships are microcosms of the competitive season, with multiple 90+ minute matches scheduled over a very short period of time, including several instances of back-to-back matches, as well as periods of time with 3 games played over just 4 days.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER NEWS
USWNT: Rapinoe tears ACL before final Victory Tour games – Empire of Soccer
U.S. Women’s National Team and Seattle Reign midfielder Megan Rapinoe has torn the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee. The non-contact injury occurred during training in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Dec. 4. An MRI scan confirmed the injury and Rapinoe will return home to Seattle to prepare for surgery.
USWNT match in Hawaii canceled due to field conditions – SI.com
Former U.S. soccer star Julie Foudy tweeted a photo showing the turf being lifted just under where goalie Hope Solo would have been standing. Jenny Taft of Fox Sports 1 also reported that small pieces of sharp plastic were found mixed in with the rubber pellets normally found in artificial turf.
“Equal Footing” by the U.S. WNT – The Players’ Tribune
“We have the best fans in the world, and we wouldn’t have won the World Cup without their support. To us, that’s just a fact. They made the trek to Canada. They made us feel like we were playing at home in every match. And most of all, they made us feel like, by winning the World Cup, we were a part of something much bigger than ourselves. And that’s why it was such a difficult decision for us to cancel our match vs. Trinidad and Tobago — and one that we did not take lightly at all. Here is what happened.”
U.S. Soccer continues to treat the USWNT worse than they do the USMNT – Stars & Stripes FC
The disparity between the way U.S. Soccer treats the men and the way they treat the women is clear as day. And this isn’t just a matter of economic equality or the way the two teams are presented. This is about how seriously they take the quality of play and health of the players.
Were the US women’s soccer team right to boycott their own victory tour? – The Guardian
When the US women’s national team threatened to boycott a friendly in Hawaii on Sunday (the game was subsequently called off), it was not the first time the players had complained about playing conditions.
PENN STATE WINS NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP – NWSL
Penn State are national champions for the first time in program history. The Nittany Lions topped Duke 1-0 in the 2015 NCAA Division I College Cup final on Sunday with senior midfielder Raquel Rodriguez scoring the game-winning goal in the 72nd minute and redshirt senior goalkeeper Britt Eckerstrom producing a three-save shutout.
Penn State outlasts Duke 1-0 for College Cup title – NCAA
In a game highlighted by strong defense, it was a lone goal by Penn State defender Raquel Rodriguez that tipped the balance – and the 2015 women’s College Cup national championship to the Nittany Lions. It is the first women’s soccer title in the school’s history.
Lucy Bronze named FA women’s player of the year – BBC Sport
England and Manchester City defender Lucy Bronze has been named player of the year at the Football Association Women’s Football Awards.
Westfield W-League Round 8 Review – Westfield W-League
Derby weekend in the Westfield W-League ended in more glory for Melbourne City and parity between the Sydney rivals.
U.S. ready to bounce back at CU20W – CONCACAF
With a young squad in Honduras for the 2015 CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship, it’s not a stretch to say the United States has a team with a number of players short on international experience.
Bundesliga player officiates girls’ match as punishment for referee insult – Fox Sports
The 22-year-old, a Turkish youth international Kerem Demirbay has repeatedly apologized for allegedly directing sexist comments towards referee Bibiana Steinhaus after being sent off during his side’s 2. Bundesliga victory over FSV Frankfurt last week.
Busacca: Male and female referees have to work together – FIFA
“Men and women have to work together, because we are convinced that this should be our philosophy. The game is the same, the decisions they take are the same, and thus the preparation for the referees and assistant referees should be, too,” said Busacca. “That is why in all our seminars – starting with two important elite ones in February 2016 – we will present exactly the same information and we’ll organise activities to discuss and analyse situations together; men and women referees”.
NASL & USL NEWS
Brett Levis working hard to continue his rise with Vancouver Whitecaps and make the “hardest jump” from USL to MLS – AFTN
Brett Levis signed his first professional contract with Vancouver Whitecaps’ USL side back in February of this year, and after a stellar debut season, the 22-year-old will be back in a ‘Caps jersey for 2016.
Bournemouth’s Glenn Murray heads home to pile more misery on Chelsea – The Guardian
The former Wilimington Hammerhead stuns Chelsea with his winner on Saturday.
S2 Announce Return of Anderson, Samuel – USL
S2 announced the return of the two internationals on Friday as part of a number of roster moves for Ezra Hendrickson’s side. Anderson had four goals in 16 appearances for S2 as the side reached the 2015 USL Playoffs, while Samuel had two goals and one assist in his lone appearance for the club as his season ended prematurely due to injury.
Harrisburg City Islanders: President Lopes leaves, replacement to be announced “shortly” – Penn97
On Wednesday, the City Islanders announced that President Tiago Lopes would be leaving his position in Harrisburg. Lopes came to City Islanders in 2012 after working with Manchester United and USL as Associate Director of International Relations. He became acting President of the Harrisburg City Islanders in 2014.
What USL Got Wrong in 2015 – Steel Army Blog
Part two off our off-season filler takes a look at three things USL got wrong this past season. All of these are things that were preventable and need to be corrected or avoided going into 2016. You’ll also notice that everything we list here can be summed up in the idea of ‘being more professional. For as much as the league took positive strides to look more professional, now is the time to make more than superficial changes and operate a more professional league.
Report: San Francisco NASL team to be announced in 2016 – SI.com
The North American Soccer League has accepted Ricardo Stanford-Geromel’s San Francisco-based expansion bid, and the team is expected to be announced as early as February, Evan Ream of Davis Enterprise reports.
WORLD SOCCER NEWS
Just Deny It: Nike knows nothing about bribes, but it did pay Traffic affiliate $40m – Inside World Football
In the wake of last Thursday’s superseding indictment, issued by the US Department of Justice, in the FIFA corruption cases, Sportswear company Nike has once again issued a statement to the effect that it is cooperating fully with authorities and to insist its officials were not aware of any bribery or wrongdoing in connection with the millions the company sent to a Swiss bank account.
Fifa: FBI probing Sepp Blatter role in $100m bribery scandal – BBC Sport
The FBI is investigating the role played by Fifa president Sepp Blatter in a $100m (£66.2m) bribes scandal, a BBC investigation has discovered.
Leaked memo on FIFA gig gives Platini a thin lifeline to stay in the game – Inside World Football
A leaked memo published in a French newspaper on Sunday should clear Michel Platini’s name and allow him to bid for the FIFA presidency in February, according to his legal team.
Chelsea not ‘too big, too good’ to be relegated – Sportsnet
No doubt, the reigning English champions have stumbled through the first four months of the schedule by losing eight (yes, eight!) of 15 matches. Sitting 15th in the table and 14 points out a top four spot, Chelsea looks like a long-shot for Champions League football next season. But relegation? Surely they’ll avoid the drop, no?
Pumas and Tigres reach Liga MX final after dramatic wins– ESPN FC
Pumas will face Tigres in the two-legged Liga MX final on Dec. 10 and 13 after the pair edged their respective semifinals, with both matches going right to the wire.
Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp ‘worries’ Sir Alex Ferguson in Man United rivarly – ESPN FC
Sir Alex Ferguson admits he is worried Jurgen Klopp’s “fantastic personality” could see Liverpool once again become a threat to Manchester United.
Newcastle upsets Liverpool 2-0 in Premier League after another own goal from Skrtel – canada.com
Martin Skrtel scored his seventh Premier League own goal as relegation-threatened Newcastle upset Liverpool 2-0 on Sunday.
Bayern Munich average across the board in loss at Gladbach – ESPN FC
Shock. Horror. Bayern Munich slipped to their first league defeat of the season, falling 3-1 at Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday.
The FIFA Club World Cup in numbers – FIFA
The fans making their way to Japan are counting down the days to the start of the 12th FIFA Club World Cup, when the champions of the six confederations and the host nation’s title holders will vie for the biggest club title of all, with Osaka and Yokohama staging the tournament’s eight games.
Racing Club, Independiente showcase the best, worst of Argentine football – ESPN FC
On Sunday, two Argentine clubs had one place left to fight for in the 2016 version of the Copa Libertadores, South America’s equivalent of the Champions League — and the dispute for it could hardly have been more evocative.
A-League fans boycott a genuine game-changer – here’s why – Sydney Morning Herald
It wasn’t long ago that active fans were seen as little more than highly-trained happy-clappers eager to part with hundreds of dollars in exchange for the right to cheer “their” team. The idea of a boycott, or walkout, or any kind of protest was – at least in this country – unthinkable. Perhaps even un-Australian. But this is a new era and the old rules no longer apply.
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Lost in Transition — ‘Will Be Ugly’
Sunshine briefly this Wednesday morning here on California’s north coast — bright gaps in an otherwise rolling weather system churning northward, bringing mostly just heavier-than-drizzle precipitation.
And continuing to weather the T-Rump age — already lost in transition.
Philip D. Zelikow, a former director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and a senior figure in the George W. Bush transition (Washington Post): “Confusion is the norm (for transitions), but there are some unusual features here, because they’re trying to make some statements…They feel like their election was a lot of the American people wanting to throw a brick through a window. They want to make appointments that make it sound like glass is being broken.”
(Illustration: ‘President Trump,’ by Jonathan Bass, found here).
Eliot A. Cohen, former counselor to Condi Rice, and a long-time T-Rump opponent, who at first advised folks to work for the T-Rump administration, now has transitioned out of that mental-mode, claiming the operation “will be ugly.”
In a nutshell on the future, Cohen nailed it: ‘“It became clear to me that they view jobs as lollipops, things you give out to good boys and girls, instead of the sense that actually what you’re trying to do is recruit the best possible talent to fill the most important, demanding, lowest-paying executive jobs in the world.”‘
And T-Rump continues as king asshole (New York Post):
President-elect Donald Trump gave the press the slip on Tuesday night so he could sneak out and enjoy some grub at the 21 Club in Midtown.
The billionaire was spotted inside the upscale steakhouse around 7:30 p.m. — just over an hour after his spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, told pool reporters he was bedding down for the night.
“I wasn’t aware of this movement,” she later explained, adding that she would never purposely “leave the press in the dark.”
Posted by: Bruce Maulden // Bullshit, Politics // assholes, bullshit, Donald Trump // November 16, 2016
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The answer to the much awaited question, "which film has the taken the box office lead between Bajirao Mastani and Dilwale?" is here.
If box office collections of three days — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — are anything to go by, Dilwale has emerged the winner, inching towards Rs. 100 crore.
Bajirao Mastani, featuring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, minted Rs.46.77 crore in India in three days.
Dilwale, Rohit Shetty's romantic action-comedy, has collected Rs.121 crore in its opening weekend worldwide. It's India business stands at Rs.65.09 crore, and it made $8.5 million (approximately Rs.56 crore) came in from the overseas market. Both the films released on Friday.
Trade Analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted about the figures from the first two days:
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh)
The difference was also seen in the international box office collections, where Dilwale managed to take a lead again, over Bajirao Mastani:
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Source: www.firstpost.com
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1 Title: New Yorkers of the xix century
Creator: Van Rensselaer, John KingMrs, 1848-1925
Publication: F.T. Neely, New York,1897.
Notes: Title page illustrated. Contains pedigrees of the Bard, Barclay, Bronson, Buchanan, Delafield, Duer, Emmet, Fish, Glover, Hoffman, Jay, King, Lynch, McVickar, Morton, Renwick, Rutherford, Schuyler, Stuyvesant and Van Rensselar families.
Call #: F9ZF V27
Extent: x, 56 p. : 49 cm.
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
2 Title: The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: containing chronological record of the years 1938-1945 : genealogical record, 1934-1945 : constitution and by-laws as of March 1, 1945 : the Saint Nicholas Society medal of merit, 1937-1945 : list of officers, former officers and members : and other matters of interest to the members of the Saint Nicholas Society
Creator: Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Publication: The Society], New York,1945.
Notes: Contains "Tradition," a poem by Wallace Stevens.
Call #: F9F S147S 1945
Extent: 174 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
3 Title: Nineteenth century apprentices in New York City
Creator: Scott, Kenneth.
Publication: National Genealogical Society, Arlington, VA,1986.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Call #: F9ZF S430
Extent: 474 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects: Apprentices -- New York (State) -- New York -- Registers | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
4 Title: New York City court records, 1797-1801: genealogical data from the Court of General Sessions
New York (N.Y.) Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the City of New York.
Notes: Includes index.
Subjects: Court records -- New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
5 Title: New York City 1850 census index
Creator: Jackson, Ronald Vern.
Teeples, Gary Ronald
United States Census Office. 7th census, 1850.
Publication: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Bountiful, Utah,c1976.
Call #: F9ZFC 1850 Index
Extent: 382 p. : map ; 29 cm.
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Census, 1850 -- Indexes | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
6 Title: Naturalizations in the Marine Court, New York City, 1827-1835
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Publication: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York,1990.
Call #: F9B N527C6 v.13
Subjects: Naturalization records -- New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
7 Title: Rivington's New York newspaper: excerpts from a loyalist press, 1773-1783
Uniform Title: Royal gazette.
Publication: New York Historical Society, New York],1973.
Notes: "The aim of this volume is to make readily available the information given in his newspaper about thousands of persons great and small, their activities in New York City and in other locations, and life in the metropolis in the trying years 1773-1783." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #: F9B N531Cp v.84
Extent: ix, 470 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
8 Title: Prominent families of New York: being an account in biographical form of individuals and families distinguished as representatives of the social, professional and civic life of New York city
Creator: Weeks, Lyman Horaceed
Publication: The Historical company, New York,1897.
Notes: Preface signed: Lyman Horace Weeks, editor.
Call #: F9ZH W395
Extent: 1 p. l., 7-641 p. 31 cm.
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Biography | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
9 Title: The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: history, customs, record of events, constitution, certain genealogies, and other matters of interest. v. 1-
Publication: New York,1905-
Notes: Title varies: vol. 1-2, Genealogical record, Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. Subtitle varies.
Call #: F9F S147G
Extent: v. ill., ports. 24-27 cm.
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Societies, etc | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
10 Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and family history of New York
Creator: Pelletreau, William S. (William Smith), 1840-1918
Publication: Clearfield Company, Baltimore, MD,1998.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Lewis Pub. Co., 1907. Title on spine: Genealogical and family history New York.
Call #: F9F P388
Extent: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subjects: New York (State) -- Genealogy | New York (State) -- History | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
11 Title: Contributions to the history of ancient families of New Amsterdam and New York
Creator: Purple, Edwin R. (Edwin Ruthven), 1831-1879
Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900
Publication: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass,2013.
Notes: "With a biographical sketch of the author; and additions and emendations to the work by Samuel S. Purple."--Reproduction of original title page. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Privately printed, 1881 (Sabin no. 66714). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #: F9F .P985 2013
Extent: 138 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
Subjects: Purple, Edwin R. -- (Edwin Ruthven), -- 1831-1879 | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy | Family histories
12 Title: The New York Foundling Hospital: an index to its federal, state, and local census records (1870-1925)
Creator: Inskeep, Carolee R.
Publication: Printed for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co, Baltimore, Md,2004, c1995.
Notes: "The names in this volume represent 13,000 children who lived in the New York Foundling Hospital, many of whom were sent to adoptive families in the West"--Introd.
Call #: F9ZF I59N53 2004
Extent: vii, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects: New York Foundling Hospital -- Registers | Foundlings -- New York (State) -- New York -- Registers | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
13 Title: Naturalizations in the Marine Court, New York City, 1834-1840
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subjects: Naturalization records -- New York (State) -- New York | Court records -- New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
14 Title: Annals of Staten Island, from its discovery to the present time
Creator: Clute, J. J.
Publication: Heart of the Lakes Pub, Interlaken, N.Y,1986.
Notes: "In commemoration of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, July 1986, with an added all name index by Walter Steesy"--Verso t.p. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Press of Chas. Vogt, 1877. Includes index.
Call #: F9X S797C 1986
Extent: xii, 464, [33] p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) -- History | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Genealogy | New York (N.Y.) -- History | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
15 Title: New York City Methodist marriages, 1785-1893
Creator: Fisher, William Scott.
Publication: Picton Press, Camden, Me,c1994.
Call #: F9ZF F537
Extent: 2 v. ; 24 cm.
Subjects: Marriage records -- New York (State) -- New York | Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
16 Title: Coroners' reports, New York City, 1823-1842
Creator: Scott, Kenneth, 1900-
Publication: New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, New York,1989.
Call #: F9B N527C6 v. 12
Subjects: Registers of births, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York | Mortality -- New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
Extent: 315 p. ; 24cm.
18 Title: The George Bell and Eleanor Ruddell Outten family: predecessors and descendants, 1660-2009
Creator: Brockman, Adrianne.
Publication: A. Brockman, Lake Oswego, Ore,c2008]
Call #: Outten family
Extent: 224 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Subjects: Outten, George Bell, -- 1848-1927 -- Family | Outten, Eleanor Ruddell, -- 1848-1931 -- Family | Outten family | Maryland -- Genealogy | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy
19 Title: Marriages and deaths from the New Yorker (double quarto edition), 1836-1841
Uniform Title: New Yorker (New York, 1834-41)
Publication: National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C,1980.
Call #: F9F S427M
Extent: v, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects: Registers of births, etc. -- New York (State) -- New York | Registers of births, etc. -- New York (State) | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy | New York (State) -- Genealogy
20 Title: Aid to finding addresses in the 1890 New York City Police census: an index of all street addresses in Manhattan and the west Bronx found in the 894 extant books of the 1890 New York City Police census
Creator: Jensen, Howard M.
Publication: Willow Bend Books, Bowie, Md,2003.
Call #: F9ZF J54
Extent: viii, 282 p. ; 28 cm.
Subjects: Street addresses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Indexes | New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy | New York (N.Y.) -- Census, 1890 | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Genealogy | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Genealogy
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Rising Tides Threaten the Swamp (Pop): Great Flood of 2011 Takes Aim at Atchafalaya’s Teeming Musical Tapestry
May 20, 2011 Lakeview Kid 5 Comments
Atchafalaya Basin map.
The opening of the Morganza Spillway to spare Baton Rouge and New Orleans from potentially massive Mississippi River flooding has many Ponderosa Stomp fans breathing a sigh of relief, but not so for those still in harm’s way: the hardy denizens of the Atchafalaya Basin’s culturally rich communities, which have served as spawning grounds for Cajun, swamp-pop, and other visceral forms of Looziana music.
“There have been some unique communities in the Atchafalaya Swamp then and now,” writes Jiro “Jireaux” Hatano in a 2003 article titled “The Music Entertainment in the Atchafalaya Swamp.” “While some of them were abandoned after the great flood of 1927, others are still alive, and a couple of communities are doing well at music entertainment business.” As the great flood of 2011 looms, how many of these fragile but surviving music epicenters will be wiped out?
Ancient moss-draped cypress trees tower above the Atchafalaya Swamp.
Many Looziana music lovers are familiar with the on-the-beaten-path Cajun venues such as Angelle’s Whiskey River Landing and Pat’s Atchafalaya Club in Henderson, where Interstate 10 meets the northern end of the Atchafalaya Swamp. Nestled along the Henderson levee, Whiskey River spotlights Cajun and zydeco stars like Steve Riley and Geno Delafose, while Pat’s offers those genres as well as swamp-pop legends such as Warren Storm, Willie Tee, TK Hulin, Tommy McLain, and GG Shinn.
The dancefloor at Whiskey River Landing in Henderson, awaiting the arrival of the likes of Steve Riley or Geno Delafose.
Swamp-pop legend Tommy McLain performs in front of the massive swamp-scene mural at Pat's Atchafalaya Club in Henderson.
But head south toward Morgan City, where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf of Mexico, and along the swamps and bayous and lakes of the basin you’ll find in little one-horse towns – or just up the bend along winding country roads amid dense junglelike vegetation – some still-vibrant oases of coonass culture, where the multi-generations (grandparents, mom/dad, and grandchildren) all come out to kick out the jams on Saturday nights, learn the Cajun two-step at the Sunday fais do-dos, and scream “Aaaaaiiiieeeeeee” to their sometimes angst-ridden, other-times joyous ancestral sounds.
In the relatively large petroleum-powered burg of Morgan City you might find one Vince Anthony, former Looziana rockabilly blazer from the late 1950s who now cranks out countless CDs of well-crafted swamp-pop originals — with the same regularity that sugar cane is harvested each fall — all sung in a voice as smooth as Mello Joy coffee and rich as Steen’s cane syrup. Born Vincent Guzzetta, Anthony and his band the Blue Notes recorded singles for the Hilton and Viking labels, including at Cosimo Matassa’s legendary studio in New Orleans. Later, GG Shinn recorded a scorching version of the Anthony-penned “Devil of a Girl” for Montel Records in Baton Rouge.
Morgan City swamp-popper and rockabilly guitarist Vince Anthony in the late 1950s or early '60s.
Morgan City also served as the post-rock retirement home of former Specialty recording artist and Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack runnin’ pardner Jerry Byrne of “Lights Out” fame (not to mention “Carry On” and the humid south Looziana dirge “Raining.”). Having eschewed the decadent life of dim lights, thick smoke, and loud, loud music in his later years, Byrne died in 2010, an apparently successful nonmusical businessman.
Specialty recording artist and longtime Morgan City resident Jerry Byrne ("Lights Out").
Brothers in swamp pop and unique hairstyles: Warren Storm and Don Rich pose outside LA Cajun Stuff record store in Houma.
North toward Pierre Part, along Louisiana Highway 70 midway between Morgan City and Donaldsonville, you’ll find yourself on the shores of Lake Verret – in Don Rich country. Son of the legendary-in-those-parts musician Golen Richard, Cajun keyboardist, accordionist, and soulful singer-songwriter Don Rich is keeping the swamp-pop fires burning in numerous gigs along the U.S. 90 corridor stretching from Lake Charles to Gretna.
Don Rich's sister, Liz the Gator Queen from the "Swamp People" TV show.
A Jin recording artist and Louisiana and West Bank music hall-of-fame member, Rich also tips his hat to traditional Cajun music, classic country such as George Jones, and soul giants like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. When the godfathers of swamp pop pass into that great sock hop in the sky, Don Rich will take his rightful place as an elder statesman of the tear-jerking genre. Don also has a few notable relatives, including cousin Bobby “Da Cajun” Richard, a disc jockey with a swamp-pop and Cajun show on KCIL 107.5 FM in Houma, as well as his sister Liz “The Gator Queen,” who is starring on The History Channel’s “Swamp People” show.
Don Rich is no stranger to the musical venues of Pierre Part and environs, and this writer had the pleasure of visiting one that now is lost to the ages, perhaps a casualty of Hurricane Gustav’s rising waters in 2008: Chilly’s on Lake Verret (827 Shell Beach Road). “The Cajun Country Guide” by Macon Fry and Julie Posner describes the boisterous joint in its latter heyday:
“This is just a great place, a hidden treasure! How could such a wildly popular dance hall exist since the 1930s on a tiny scrap of sinking land 2.5 miles off the Baton Rouge to Morgan City Highway? It helps that the dance hall actually sits on stilts over tranquil Lake Verret and that hundreds of recreational fishermen back their boats in here on weekends. Slow dancers can gaze out the window at moonlight and moss reflecting on the water. The place does not look very old; according to current owner ‘Chilly’ Russo, grandson of the original builder, it was 75 percent obliterated by Hurricane Andrew and few years earlier 50 percent destroyed by Hurricane Juan. After each storm a new plywood floor was placed on the old pilings. A young crowd shows up for the Saturday-night Swamp Pop shows by local singer Don Rich, but the big event is the Sunday-afternoon Cajun dance. Folks drive from Morgan City and Baton Rouge or come by boat from around Lake Verret to dance, drink, and hang out on the patio by the lake.”
Indeed, this place was a true gem, reminiscent of the now-obliterated seafood shacks and camps mounted on pilings at New Orleans’ West End and elsewhere along Lake Pontchartrain. Here’s a video of Foret Tradition playing the Fats Domino classic “Josephine” at Chilly’s (also known as “The Old Lake” club).
The legendary swamp-pop/Cajun music stronghold Chilly's nightclub, mounted over rickety pilings on Lake Verret.
Alas, Chilly’s is gone-pecan, but still going strong is the Rainbow Inn on La. 70. According to Fry/Posner:
“The Rainbow is perhaps the quintessential South Louisiana barroom and dance hall. Built in the late thirties, it is a wooden structure with a broad stucco face that sports two round Coke signs and its name is bold red lettering. An old kitchen and dining area in one side is now unused, but the main room with its long bar and wide dance floor still gets action. Bands are scheduled intermittently but usually on Thursday night. The favorite performer is Don Rich, a young local Swamp Pop singer. In its heyday the Rainbow got top Country acts as well as South Louisiana stars like Johnny Allan and Warren Storm.”
The circa-1930s Rainbow Inn in Pierre Part, also known as "Don Rich country."
Another amazing throwback-style dancehall is Stevie G’s in nearby Belle River, also on La. 70. This joint really packs them in, and during breaks from the live music, the dance floor fills up with young flesh cavorting and gyrating to the sounds of a DJ, generating a sexy, sweaty scene not much different from a late-night Crescent City meat-market bar such as F&M’s or the Goldmine. But when Don Rich or one of the visiting swamp-pop legends takes the stage on weekends, you know you’re in Cajun country, and the elder folk join their younger progeny to cut the rug in grand, effortless, and tireless fashion. Stevie G’s also brings in the torch-bearing young Turks of swamp pop from New Orleans’ West Bank – bands like Foret Tradition, Junior and Sumtin Sneaky, and Brad Sapia – as well as the hugely popular college-and-beer-oriented zydeco stars Jamie Bergeron and Travis Matte from central Acadiana.
The packed dancefloor at Chilly's on Lake Verret near Pierre Part.
A glowing billboard beckons to swamp-pop lovers outside Stevie G's nightclub in Belle River.
Music abounds from the teeming Cajun bayous, but then so does the food – and not just seafood. And some music joints have found new life serving up the grub. One unique venue just outside Morgan City perfects finger-licking-good yardbird in an imposingly squat venue a few miles off U.S. 90: Chester’s Cypress Inn. According to Fry/Posner:
“Nestled in a stand of cypress trees halfway between Houma and Morgan City, this little hideaway has the best fried chicken this side of grandma’s kitchen table. A sign boasts, ‘If the Colonel had our recipe, he’d be a general.’ You won’t find any nouveau Cajun cuisine here, just plates piled high with fried chicken, fish, froglegs, and mounds of crispy onion rings. Chester Boudreaux has passed away, but his children, Calvin Boudreaux and Bobbie LaRose, have kept the Inn much the same as it was when he opened in the forties. The tables are still covered in plastic, and the waitresses still carry cardboard plates laden with golden fried food from the adjacent building that houses the kitchen. Crowds drive the twenty miles from Morgan City and Houma (past dozens of new fast-food franchises) to eat in the homey dining room that once housed a dance hall.”
Chester's Cypress Inn outside Morgan City, where a motorcycling Bob Dylan ate the onion rings.
And I’m not the only outsider captivated by the semi-submerged charms of Looziana’s backroad bastions of swamp culture: No less than Robert Zimmerman, aka world-renowned rock bard Bob Dylan, famously describes a motorcycle sojourn he took through these sugarcane- and cypress-studded hinterlands during his 1990s stint living in New Orleans to record for producer Daniel Lanois. Dylan too has partaken of the joys of Chester’s antique grease, according to this excerpt from his autobiography “Chronicles”:
“Crossing into Thibodaux, we rode near Bayou Lafourche. It was a clammy day, light rain off and on and the clouds were breaking up, heat lightning low on the horizon. The town has got a lot of streets with tree names, Oak Street, Magnolia Street, Willow Street, Sycamore Street. West 1st Street runs alongside the bayou. We walked on a boardwalk that ran out into the water above the eerie wetlands-small islands of grass in the distance and pontoon boats. It was quiet. If you looked you could spot a snake on a tree branch.
“I moved the bike up close near an old water tower. We got off and walked around, walked along adjoining roads dwarfed by ancient cypress trees, some seven hundred years old. It felt far enough away from the city, the dirt roads surrounded by lush sugarcane fields, labyrinths of moss walls in crumbled heaps, marshlands and soft mud all around. On the bike again we cruised along Pecan Street, then over by St. Joseph’s Church, which is modeled after one in Paris or Rome. Inside there’s supposed to be the actual severed arm of an early Christian martyr. Nicholls State University, the poor man’s Harvard, is just up the street. On St. Patrick’s Street we rode past the palatial grand homes and big plantation houses, deep porched and with many windows. There’s an antebellum courthouse that stands next to clapboard halls. Ancient oak trees and decrepit shacks side by side. It felt good to be off by ourselves.
“It was early afternoon and we’d been going for a while. Dust was blowing, my mouth was dry and my nose was clogged. Feeling hungry, we stopped into Chester’s Cypress Inn on Route 20 near Morgan City, a fried chicken, fish and frog legs joint. I was beginning to get weary. The waitress came over to the table and said, ‘How about eating?’ I looked at the menu, then I looked at my wife. The one thing about her that I always loved was that she was never one of those people who thinks that someone else is the answer to their happiness. Me or anybody else. She’s always had her own built-in happiness. I valued her opinion and I trusted her. ‘You order,’ I said. Next thing I know, fried catfish, okra and Mississippi mud pie came to the table. The kitchen was next door in another building. Both the catfish and the pie were on cardboard plates, but I wasn’t nearly as hungry as I thought I was — just ate the onion rings.
“Later on, we rode south towards Houma. On the west side of the road there’s cattle grazing and egrets, herons with slender legs standing in shallow bays – pelicans, houseboats, roadside fishing – oyster boats, small mud boats – steps that lead to small piers running out into the water. We kept rolling on, started crossing different kinds of bridges, some swinging, some lifting. On Stevensonville Road we crossed a canal bridge by a little country store and the road turned to gravel and began to wind treacherously through the swamps. The air smelled foul. Still water – humid air, rank and rotten. Kept riding south until we saw oil rigs and supply boats, then turned around and headed again towards Thibodaux. Thibodaux was neither here nor there and my mind started thinking opposites. Thinking about maybe going up to the Yukon country, someplace where we could really bundle up. By dusk we’d found a place to stay outside of Napoleonville. We pulled in for the night and I shut the bike down. It was a nice ride.
“We stayed at a bed-and-breakfast cottage that was behind a pillared plantation house with sculpted studded garden paths, a cream stucco bungalow that had a certain charm stood like a miniature Greek temple. The room had a four poster comfortable bed and an antique table – the rest, camp style furnishings, and it came with a kitchenette equipped with utensils, but we didn’t eat there. I laid down, listened to the crickets and wildlife out the window in the eerie blackness. I liked the night. Things grow at night. My imagination is available to me at night. All my preconceptions of things go away. Sometimes you could be looking for heaven in the wrong places. Sometimes it could be under your feet. Or in your bed.”
Speaking of Houma, one of the best places to buy swamp-pop and Cajun music CDs (when not listening to the power-packed programming on KLRZ-FM out of Larose or KMRC in Morgan City) is at LA Cajun Stuff in the Southland Mall, a staunch booster of local music from in and around the Atchafalaya Basin, with numerous in-store performances with artists such as Vin Bruce and Treater, always-free bottomless coffee, and the colorful conversation and down-home hospitality of owners Pat and Dale Guidry. A former shrimper from Cut Off — the same town that spawned ex-Saint QB Bobby Hebert and swamp-pop legend Joe Barry — the bilingual Dale is often called out to speak French to the visiting buses of European tourists hungry for a genuine ethnolinguistic experience to write home about. Swamp-pop singer-songwriter and Stomp favorite Jerry Raines of “Our Teenage Love” fame also still calls Houma home these days.
LA Cajun Stuff at the Southland Mall in Houma, your source for swamp-pop, Cajun, and zydeco music.
These are just a few of the Looziana cultural islands — and icons — at risk from the spillway’s rising floodwaters. Though this Touro Infirmary baby can’t claim to know even a fraction of them intimately or to have even scratched surface in describing this diverse, multi-ethnic area, I’d feel gut-punched if they are swept away – like so many legendary local venues lost to the eroding sands of time and/or decay (and a tidal wave of parking lots), like the Dew Drop Inn and the Club Tijuana in New Orleans, the Joy Lounge in Gretna, or the Junkyard in Marrero. And America will have lost some of the remaining, endangered vestiges of a rich culture whose roots can be traced back to the Acadians’ Grand Dérangement and whose contributions to the nation — and indeed the world — are incalculable. And like the wetlands that envelop it — irreplaceable.
The opening of the Morganza Spillway threatens an Atchafalaya Basin teeming with life -- and music.
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EOD Warrior Foundation Receives $10,000 American-Made Hero Donation
Thursday, June 22nd, 2017, 10:28am
The EOD Warrior Foundation has received a $10,000 donation from Evan Williams® Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The donation is on behalf of Adam Popp, one of six military veterans selected to receive the Evan Williams American-Made Heroes award. Chosen from thousands of candidates, he and five other military heroes will be individually featured on nearly 1 million special edition Evan Williams Bourbon bottles across the country this summer.
“We are honored to be Adam’s charity of choice, and to be receiving this generous donation from Evan Williams,” explains Nicole Motsek, executive director of the EOD Warrior Foundation. “This donation will make a tremendous impact on deserving EOD warriors like Adam and their families.”
BASIS Independent McLean 3rd Grader Places Second in WETA-TV Kids Writer’s Contest
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017, 4:29pm
BASIS Independent McLean, third-grader, James Fishman won 2nd place in the 2017 WETA-TV Kids Writer’s Contest out of almost 400 entries for his illustrated story, Cats and Kitties, which is posted on www.weta.org. For more information about the school, go to http://mclean.basisindependent.com or call 703.854.1253.
The WETA-TV Writer’s Contest was open to children in kindergarten through third grade who live in Washington, D.C., Maryland or Northern Virginia, with entries submitted by May 1, 2017.
A first, second and third place winner were announced at each grade level. First place winners will have their stories made into a hardcover book. Additionally, the area school that submitted the most entries received a free classroom library of books and a visit from a PBS Kids costume character.
No. Virginia Couple Debuts COOK in CUBA; Havana Culinary Tour Now Available
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017, 12:41pm
‘Welcome to Cuba!’ is what you’ll hear from George and Linda Meyers, owners of Cook in Tuscany and Cook in Mexico at their latest culinary tour spot--Havana, Cuba . Cook in Cuba is now taking guests to Old Havana, exploring Cuban cuisine, history and culture. Cook in Tuscany, a Tuscan culinary tour, recently named one of the top 15 Foodie Destinations by USA Today, just launched its third culinary tour, Cook in Cuba in Havana, Cuba. For more information, go to www.cookincuba.kitchen.
Monza Voted Best Bar and Best Outdoor Dining by Virginia Living Magazine
Monday, June 5th, 2017, 1:22pm
Monza of Historic Manassas, Va. was named Best Bar and Best Outdoor Dining by Virginia Living Magazine’s 2017 Best of Virginia issue. Go to www.eatmonza.com for more information.
Virginia Living Magazine has an annual Best of Virginia issue.
“We’re thrilled to be selected by Virginia Living Magazine for Best Bar, our customers are exceptional and we love what we do,” said Alice Pires, owner of Carmello’s and Monza of Historic Manassas, Va.
Metropolitan School of the Arts Opens New Black Box Theatre
Thursday, May 25th, 2017, 3:04pm
Metropolitan School of the Arts (MSA) of Alexandria Va. recently revealed its newly constructed Black Box Theatre, perfect for intimate dance, music and theatre performances, seating 130. Costing $140,000 to build, MSA received an anonymous gift of $60,000 to help with the cost of the theatre. Go to www.metropolitanarts.org for more information.
“We are the only Alexandria performing arts space to offer this type of theater for public use in Alexandria,” said Melissa Dobbs, founder and executive director of Metropolitan School of the Arts of Alexandria, Va. “Other performing arts groups can also take advantage of this space through rental options, as we encourage more performing arts opportunities in the greater Alexandria area,” said Dobbs.
Donate Swimsuits For CASA Kids at Monza and Get $10 Monza Gift Card
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017, 11:19am
From now through May 31, the public can drop off new swimsuits for CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Children) of Manassas, Va., at Monza and Carmello’s of Historic Manassas, Va. in return for a $10 Monza gift card. For more information, go to www.eatmonza.com.
“Swimming pools will be opening soon, and so many kids go without proper swimsuits,” said Alice Pires, owner of Carmello’s and Monza of Historic Manassas, Va. “CASA is a tremendous support for kids in need of support, guidance and love, and we love the opportunity to be able to give back,” said Pires.
BASIS Independent McLean Students Enjoy Senegal for Spring Break
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017, 2:34pm
Many area students enjoyed a break from school over spring vacation, but BASIS Independent McLean (BIM) French students decided to take their break in Senegal, far from their classroom, but still deeply immersed in an enriching, educational experience of a lifetime. World travel is an optional opportunity for BIM students looking to take their education outside their textbooks and familiar settings. Senegal not only gave French students an immersive environment in the French language, but also provided them a new cultural and societal viewpoint of life outside of McLean, Va. For more information on the school, go to http://mclean.basisindependent.com.
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Graphic Gothic: Reading the Comics Page.
Round, J., 2017. Graphic Gothic: Reading the Comics Page. In: Graphic reading: a symposium, 19 May 2017, University of Birmingham. (Unpublished)
Graphic Gothic - paper 3.pdf - Accepted Version
Official URL: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departme...
This paper focuses on the Gothic qualities of the comics medium. It argues that many points of comics narratology can be rearticulated using gothic literary theory, including the spatial layout of the page and the depiction of time as space, the active role of the comics reader in the gutter, and the mobility of visual and verbal perspective. It reconsiders these areas using the gothic tropes of haunting, the crypt, and of excess. It opens by discussing Gothic in comics, arguing that this mode of writing (Punter 1980) is not limited to the historical genres of horror comics but instead informs comics culture and content across genres. It then examines the formal properties of the comics medium more closely. Using examples taken from different genres of British and American comics it firstly looks at the layout of the comics page. It demonstrates that this is a haunted place where all moments co-exist and within which gothic motifs of doubling and mirroring are often used. It then discusses the active role of the comics reader using cryptomimetic theory (Castricano 2001): defining the gutter (between panels) as an encrypted space that can exist only retrospectively, in our ‘backward-looking thoughts’ (Davenport-Hines 1998). Finally, it considers the multiple combinations and subversions of perspective that are possible in comics as examples of gothic excess: for example the use of an extradiegetic/external narrative voice combined with an intradiegetic visual perspective (of a story character). The paper concludes that Gothic informs the content, cultural status and structure of contemporary British-American comics.
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Where is this game heading?
Started by Gratius, Dec 29 2020 08:57 PM
Zen has a good point here. Veterans who already spent their money on prems and are unlikely to spend more - having 'everything' already - or players who vow not to spend a dime on the game are not exactly the kind of client any company has at heart. We may dislike it, but that's business. High turnaround of players who buy premium items is what benefits the company most. This can have a thicker or thinner layer of candy on it, but all boils down to the group that give company money for their product. You probably know well enough that nothing is 'for free' on the internet; time we veterans spend in WoWP is only a very distant factor for WG (as in, the more time we spend here, the less we do on other games/products/companies, thus giving WG some king of competitive edge on the market) - the real grease for this machine is selling in-game items for real money. That's why we are seeing all the bundles in premium shop, that's why we have a steady trickle of 'new' premium planes, that's why there is gold as special currency in this game. It's only natural for Victor to sit down with people from the accountant department, rather than with Community Managers or the like - if the title earns money, it's good, if not, they will be looking for ways to monetize it better. You know the drill, no point in me dwelling on it.
Personally I accept this, because there is no other choice (other than quitting the game alltogether). I know I am not the focal point for WG, and stopped being such quite some time ago (though there will still be offers that are supposed to squeeze some more money out of me and other veterans). However, when it comes to development plans or changes to game's mechanics, it is rather inevitable that they will be tailored to grab the attention of new players/customers, then make them buy stuff, before they too move on; game is supposed to keep them interested long enough to maximize the profit. Solutions like bots and respawn, for us are quality of life changes, but for the company they serve the purpose of keeping a paying playerbase at some reasonable level. Having the game already demoted to last priority of the trio, it's no wonder for me that whatever effort there is put into WoWP, is mostly centered around 'streamlining'. The other business model to ensure a steady income, thus facilitating keeping a bigger staff working on content etc, is monthly subscription model - and we all know how did that go for lots of titles. We have a 'f2p' model, with all the pros and cons; had the game been a bigger success, had there been a bigger paying playerbase, we would probably be in quite a different point right now. As it is, with relatively low population, there is only so much we can both ask for, and expect from the company. This isn't a charity, neither it is an indy title made by a group of aviation history buffs.
Edited by apartclassic, 01 January 2021 - 08:29 PM.
Gratius #22 Posted 01 January 2021 - 09:08 PM
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Zen has a good point here. Veterans who already spent their money on prems and are unlikely to spend more - having 'everything' already - or players who vow not to spend a dime on the game are not exactly the kind of client any company has at heart. We may dislike it, but that's business. High turnaround of players who buy premium items is what benefits the company most.
So, according to your description, WG's basic business model looks like this - join our community, spend as much money as you can and once you're not willing to pay anymore, GTFO.....
If that's the case, why should I, as a client, have any respect for such company? If they want a steady source of income, there's simpler and far more effective way to generate it - monthly or yearly subscriptions. They could still attract new players while in the same time appreciate those they already have. After all, it's not their most popular franchise, therefore every active player is quite valuable. IMHO the only thing WG is achieving here is chopping a branch they're sitting on.
Edited by Gratius, 01 January 2021 - 09:09 PM.
Gratius, on 01 January 2021 - 09:08 PM, said:
You are basically right. And it's not WG, it's common market practice everywhere - as long as you're paying, we love you, the moment you stop paying, we forget you. And obviously, judging by the very small marketing effort put, WG does not want your respect, it's money they (like every single competitive company on the market) are after. I am not writing this to belittle WG in any way, this 'sound business practice' is so ever-present it has lost any qualifying value long time ago; I think I'm merely stating facts. The only value this title has to WG is economical - it's either making money or not; if not, depending on loss margin, it will be sustained (to remain in company's portfolio as part of the trio) or shut down without remorse.
Welcome to capitalism, mate. That's how the world rolls in 21st century.
[F]eatures like unlimited respawns and fast tier progress (Levlos mentioned that above) aren't exactly a good incentive for a new player to learn how to play tactically, don't you think?
Respawns were a good solution to the serious problem of waiting minutes for a game, then being destroyed and out of the game the moment you approached your first sector. There is no "fast" tier progress outside of the usual WG mechanics; not even something like World Of Tanks' blueprints. These are good things, don't you think?
I personally love the respawns !
It lowers the frustration, adds some tactical layer and allows high tier bombers to completely dominate tier X...oh wait, no, that's not good in this case. More seriously, in WoT, the single respawn is the mother of all problems (the uncles being the -2 +2 matchmaking, the unbalanced tanks and the lousy map design).
As for players flying in tiers completely above their experience, i'd say that going up tiers is still too easy -buying tier v and above premiums should be locked until the player achieves a suitable XP per sortie, I'd say. But that does not make sense economically, does it ?
Sure, a lot of new players got wrecked time and time again while charging at each other. So what? After a while you've had only 2 options left,- either curse the game and quit or come to sensible conclusion that you aren't doing everything right. Those who were easy to discourage just left the game and more persistent ones started to learn how to avoid dying in first 20-30 sec of every match.
These days, with unlimited respawns, there;s no need for learning or to tactical thinking on even basic level, you can just make one dumb mistake after another but that doesn't matter at all since you'll be back in the game in no time. Limiting spawns to 3-5 per match would be far better choice but I guess mindless brawls over central points are considered a "streamlined gameplay" now.
RoyalFlyingCorps #27 Posted 02 January 2021 - 06:11 PM
Limited respawns per player may be a worthwhile idea.
FotisK2000 #28 Posted 02 January 2021 - 07:52 PM
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I consider respawns one of the worst ideas in 2.0 amongst others. I do not understand what purpose it serves. Apart from making players reckless. They do any old nonsense knowing they can get back in the game, most pay no attention, ram u just for the hell of it, suicide because they can to name just a few downsides. There is also the case where you air combat with someone fairly, you win one on one after a tough dog fight and your health has been reduced to perhaps 20%. what happens next 95% of the time? The bloke you have just killed returns while you are engaged elsewhere and gets revenge from behind. And then u return to do the same...and that's how the game progresses. What a great idea!!! Respawn helps from waiting minutes for a game??????????? What???? When did this ever happen to you since bots were introduced back in 1.9? You fight you die and join a new game in less than 2 minutes....only a little wiser. Something that unfortunately does not happen now with the majority of players. Respawn??? A very bad idea. That's my opinion anyway.
Two million applicants for Beta, that was a world record.
I was in a WoT clan, all 100 of us came. 98 left resigned, with "what? to wait 15 minutes for battle only to be killed, and then staring at the screen for 10 minutes for a battle to end so I will repeat that 20 minutes of staring at the screen?" Think for it for a moment: two f *** million avid, eager gamers came and all two million left stating the inability to be active in a game more as a reason. Only several thousand stayed. Out of two million!
Respawning was the best idea ever, only implemented 6 years too late to make any difference.
Having thought about it, I suspect limiting or eliminating respawns would make very little difference to player behaviour in the game. Look at World Of Tanks (WoT from now on) where destruction of a vehicle brings its game to an end. Yet, despite this disincentive, even at the top tiers there is a vast number of players who have never learned how to play the game effectively. In other words, losing one's tank and therefore being eliminated from a game has not encouraged these players to learn how to play well. Instead, it has produced two foolish behaviours, the so-called "YOLOing" where a player rushes headlong at the enemy team and, more commonly, avoiding engagement with the enemy team by "red line camping", that is, sitting at the back of the map in the hope of getting a shot or two at an advancing enemy tank without being spotted.
I see no reason why World Of Warplanes (WoWP) players would, unlike their WoT counterparts, suddenly learn to play more wisely if upon destruction of their aircraft they were eliminated from a game. Since there's no equivalent of "red line camping" in the game, they will continue to madly rush for and die upon the airfield on a map with two missile bases. I believe many people have no interest in putting in the time to learn how to play the game well. Rather, they are looking for a little bit of distraction via the action the game provides and don't really care whether they win or lose provided they have a bit of fun.
Outside of the game, limiting or eliminating respawns would likely have the effect Zen describes, even if battle times are relatively short owing to the presence of bots. People would stop playing the game, since there's a limit to the patience even of enthusiastic "can't learn, won't learn" incompetents.
Wow defending respawn with such passion...was it your idea monk? Let me repeat one more time respawn in my opinion creates erratic pilots. And as for the waiting time, I for one never had 10 minutes of waiting time even at 4 am waiting for 1 player but I suppose some may have, was eliminated with bots. I cant understand why you are stubbornly persisting with that argument. Respawn has no major role in queues in my opinion, bots do.
FotisK2000, on 03 January 2021 - 04:28 PM, said:
Let me repeat one more time respawn in my opinion creates erratic pilots.
So let me concisely reprise my preceding post; no, I don't believe it does. The overwhelming evidence of poor play in World Of Tanks even at high tiers shows that many people will stick to bad habits rather than improve their play.
Edited by RoyalFlyingCorps, 03 January 2021 - 05:31 PM.
Wow defending respawn with such passion...
Nah nah, there was no passion in my post, only the brutal power of arguments.
They do hit hard, though, so it might feel overpowering when they crush one's repeated fallacies.
Power of argument...that respawn helps with queue time....and you want me to take that as a serious argument...ok bb
I believe that when one knows that he is out of the game when killed he is much more careful. That is my experience from 1.9. Everybody did the best they could not to get killed whether that had to do with tactics, protecting wingman and so on. That is how I learned playing. Respawn is a good idea for 10-year-olds. Again this is my personal opinion.
Edited by FotisK2000, 03 January 2021 - 09:00 PM.
If you think that's what I said, it explains why you can't understand what and why happened to the game.
I believe that when one knows that he is out of the game when killed he is much more careful.
I don't.
blindfoId #38 Posted 04 January 2021 - 02:41 PM
Hi Gratius,
1. There are no plans to change MM system in the near future.
2. As soon as UI issues are investigated and fix is prepared, the fix will be surely shipped, however we cannot give any ETA. Regarding pilot skills, they work correctly and that have been confirmed by the developers team and pilots. The problem is purely in displaying skill icon during the battle.
3. We always announce all planes that are introduced to the game in the patchotes. At the moment, the list of aircraft for 2021 is still being discucced.
4. No, there are no plans to add fundamentally new maps.
5. As it's been announced earlier it's highly unlikely that France, Italy or China will get their own tech trees. Currently we have only premium warbirds united into "European nation", and there are no plans to introduce other tech trees in the near future.
Finitan #39 Posted 04 January 2021 - 03:43 PM
Unfortunately not so many good news from player point of view (no new map, no new tech tree), but by the way thank you @blindfold to toke some minutes to wrote an answer.
blindfoId, on 04 January 2021 - 02:41 PM, said:
Thanks for your reply. I guess news could've been worse, nontheless the future doesn't look as bright as I hoped.
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Posted on July 22, 2017 July 23, 2017 by Ian Chadwick
Bullying the hospital again
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Brian Saunderson never seems to tire of creating conflict with our local hospital. When he’s not acting all lawerly and grilling the volunteer members of the board and its representatives like guilty suspects in a trial, he’s coming up with new ways to be confrontational and adversarial. All in a vain attempt to make it look like he, the town administration, and his sycophant Block minions are not the cause of the problem. Sneaky, Brian, but ineffectual.
You, dear reader, know the truth. You’ve followed the story here, you’ve watched the hospital representatives being attacked and insulted by Brian and his buddies on council and staff when after public presentations to council. You’ve heard the disrespect and the snide remarks, the condescending piffle from taxpayer-paid, sole-sourced consultants and out-of-town lawyers. You’ve read the media stories about the continuing roadblocks and demands the town has put up.
You know without any doubt that The Block and the town administration are to blame for the failure of the redevelopment plan to get ministry funding. No amount of misdirection, no self-righteous lawerly blustering can hide that.
And you also know that local media’s biased reports favour The Block’s antagonistic stand, rather than offer objective reporting. That makes them complicit in this mess.
There’s story in the Connection this week, headlined “Collingwood hospital not ready to release feedback on development plan.” The article notes that the process is still ongoing and the hospital will first respond to the province, then provide the information to the entire public. That’s not enough for Saunderson because his sense of entitlement doesn’t include “everyone.” Saunderson is quoted as saying:
I do find it concerning we’re not being made aware of what these comments say until after a response has been generated. When the hospital says on their website community engagement and consultation is an important part of the redevelopment process, if you don’t have that process until after you’ve framed your answers to these questions at this important juncture, I’m not sure the community consultation is really beneficial.
This from a guy who has gone behind closed doors with his sly buddies to discuss the hospital redevelopment more often than they’ve discussed it in public (not to mention all the other local issues they refuse to discuss openly – selling Collus-PowerStream, selling our water utility, breaking the shared services agreement, creating a new IT services department and hiring three people, selling our airport and so on…). This from The Block who have avoided ALL public engagement and consultation for more than two and a half years over selling our electrical utility, selling our water utility, breaking the shared services agreement, creating a new IT services department and hiring three people, selling our airport, contracting with Fire Marque to the detriment of residents, and so on… ain’t hypocrisy grand?
And note: the article doesn’t quote the mayor, who speaks for council and the town, but gives centre stage to Saunderson.
What the paper didn’t report was that at that meeting, the Mayor read a letter from the hospital, dated July 11, that said,
In the spirit of collaboration, our sixth joint mayors’ Forum scheduled for July 25 will provide the opportunity for us to share key components of our redevelopment journey with all municipalities at the same time. During this meeting it is our intention to provide a high-level overview of the comments we received from the Capital Investments branch of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term care (MOHLTC)… Please appreciate that at this time it is the mission of the hospital, the NSM LHIN and the Stage 1 planning consultants to focus our efforts on responding to the clinical and operational information required (by the Ministry)… CGMH is happy to share a copy of the comments we received from the MOHLTC, with our responses, after we have submitted the document to the MOHLTC in the fall. At that time, we will also post the document on our website, which will ensure the context to all comments and the answers are clearly understood by the public.
In other words, they have to work through the process before they release anything. When that’s done, the information will be made public. Not good enough for Brian, who behaves like he’s king of the hill.
The paper, however, didn’t quote from the letter or, apparently, asked hospital officials about it. Very sly. But Brian was copied with that very same letter, so he knew what it said.
Saunderson then made a notice of a motion his oleaginous Block sycophants will of course approve at the August 21 Council meeting:
Whereas the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital has received information from the Ministry providing additional comments regarding their redevelopment submission;
And Whereas Council is concerned this information may be of serious significance and impact on healthcare provision in the future;
Therefore be it resolved that Council herein request comments directly from the Ministry regarding the Hospital’s Phase 1A and 1B redevelopment submissions.
You, dear reader can tell this is just more of his confrontational bullshit. First, “Council” isn’t concerned. No matter how high and mighty he thinks of himself, Brian doesn’t speak for either council or the town. That is the mayor’s role. There are two at the table who actually support the hospital – Mayor Cooper and Councillor Lloyd – and Brian certainly doesn’t speak for them.
And frankly the correspondence between the ministry and the hospital is NOT the town’s or council’s business. The town has no authority over healthcare, no jurisdiction here: these demands are merely interference in the process. The hospital has made it clear the information will be released when the process permits. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
Sanderson and his wannabe thugs plan to keep up the schoolyard bullying until they win (of course his Block minions will do whatever he tells them).
So instead of working cooperatively, instead of accepting the hospital’s assurances, Brian wants to go behind their backs (always his way) to the Ministry like some schoolyard tattletale. He knows full well that this request will further exacerbate the town’s relationship with the hospital, and underscore the “lack of alignment” between the town and hospital which the Ministry noted as the reason for not approving the earlier request for funding. Saunderson knows the damage his motion will do and he simply doesn’t care. He wants to get his own way.
Towards the end of the article there is a disturbing paragraph:
CAO John Brown suggested planner Don May come speak to council. May recently made a presentation to the hospital board, suggesting they needed to be “less combative,” in their process.
My first thought, why WTF is the interim CAO recommending council hear from someone who is not involved in the process, doesn’t sit on the board, an outsider. Aside, that is, because Brown possibly thinks that – like when he hired those sole-sourced lawyers and consultants using taxpayer money to defend this position at the public meeting – it will make Saunderson and the administration look good. That it will somehow support their sorry claim that they’re not to blame.
No chance. We’re not fooled.
Having May bloviate in public and criticize the hospital will simply widen the rift between town and hospital and make the hospital look like they are the bullies. Which, of course, is, I suspect, the real hidden motive for inviting him. Unless this was already planned beforehand, and the invitation already accepted, why would Brown mention May in a public statement?
In late June, May made a presentation to the hospital board that might be politely called a stern dressing-down and rebuke:
He also laid the blame for the perceived “lack of alignment” in the community for the Poplar Sideroad site at the feet of the board, citing the hospital’s “adversarial, confrontational attitude towards this undertaking.”
The newspaper reporter slyly didn’t ask anyone at the hospital board or staff for their comments on May’s presentation, but did ask May for his own self-serving comments after:
May told Simcoe.com he was speaking to the board as a resident, and a professional health care planner.
“When you’re watching a process and you know you have so much experience and things are missing in the process you feel a responsibility to speak up,” he said. “It’s like an engineer watching a bridge being built; if they have reason to believe that it’s not thorough, you have a professional duty to speak up.”
(My sources tell me Saunderson was seen at dinner with May in Northwinds in late June, just after this presentation to the hospital. And my sources also tell me the only one on the hospital board who appreciated May’s browbeating was our own Councillor Jeffrey, a pillar of The Block.)
Does the interim CAO really think having another blowhard pontificate about something that he’s an outsider to will cement the Block’s position in the public’s mind? If so, he’s sorely mistaken. It will just make people angrier at the devious machinations in town hall. But like I said earlier, Saunderson knows and doesn’t care. He’s out for one thing only: getting his own way.
Less politely, this has been a massive clusterfuck. While all our surrounding municipalities have gone out of their way to work collaboratively and positively with the hospital, our town and The Block have consistently been at odds with the hospital, and gone out of their collective way to put up roadblocks, attack the hospital’s credibility, and create controversy. The public knows that the “adversarial and confrontational” approach has been our town’s – not the hospital’s.
No matter what deceptive, weasel words the town uses on its website to pretend the opposite, we know the truth. And the community is fed up with it. Next election, this meddlesome, interfering lot needs to be turfed from office.
Collingwood and our hospital deserve better.
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“You know, Emma, I’m not even going to ask how you got yourself into this kind of situation, because I have a feeling I already know,” Lyla said as she walked in to the grey wolf’s house. A few days ago, she had been invited by the wolf to come over and chat a bit, which to Lyla meant that Emma probably wanted to fuck.
Or maybe for Lyla to watch Kevin fucking her? Lyla was never too sure with Emma. Although it did seem that she was steadily getting better in terms of general insanity and moodiness, she was still rather sex-hungry. Lyla was too, she had to admit, if only because she had gotten used to having her pussy filled at least once, if not multiple times per day for months on end.
“I don’t think I know you though,” Lyla asked the other horse, fucking Emma’s ass as deep as he could go. He was a Clydesdale, although Lyla had the feeling that the only reason she knew that was because Kevin told her a couple of weeks ago, about the time he and another horse had both taken Emma at the same time.
The wolf herself was on her hands and knees, her hands pushing herself off of Kevin’s chest with her legs splayed wide as the horse pumped his massive cock into her pussy, hilting himself inside her womb with every thrust. The other horse was on top of her, fucking her ass deeply. Inwardly, Lyla had to wonder just how stretched out would Emma’s insides be out in the outside world. And how she wasn’t screaming with pain with every thrust.
“I’m Ethan,” the horse introduced himself, his breath hitched a bit as he suddenly grabbed Emma’s hips. “Ready?” he asked. Emma only moaned loudly as her only words. Kevin said nothing, but he gave a quick nod as he sped up.
Lyla watched with satisfaction as she watched Emma’s genitals suddenly take far more cock than she probably should, far faster than she had before. Her pussy and ass were forced to stay open as she took every inch she could, moaning out her pleasure to the world. Ethan forced her ass onto his cock, and gave a soft moan as he came in her ass.
Kevin came a second later, hilting himself in as deep as he could, with barely a small groan. Floods of cum jutted out into Emma’s body, and although the wolf’s legs relaxed her stomach was slowly starting to fill, from being cummed in on both ends. She moaned with each kick of their cocks.
Lyla knelt down to the wolf’s head. “I feel bad for your drain,” she said quietly, taking a small teasing tone. Emma’s eyes opened, before shutting them quickly. Lyla chuckled as she waited for the inevitable snarking comment. Both of the boys were still groaning as they came.
“I just let it drain naturally, as I know you do too,” Emma said after a few minutes. Lyla grinned. There it was. “God that felt amazing…you two really know how to pound a girl,” Emma moaned. Large amounts of cum dribbled from her pussy and ass, remnants of their orgasm that she was slowly pushing out.
“I’m guessing Alex was found?” Kevin asked shortly. Lyla nodded. It was well known among the Alenkans that Lyla and Alex were a Thing -much like Simon and Sam, although no one had bets on Lyla and Alex…that they were aware of- and of course it was Kevin that had realized Alex had disappeared first.
“Yeah, he was over at the north tower trying to get Dave to fly around, see if he couldn’t spot anything from the skies,” Lyla explained. Kevin rolled his eyes.
“I’m guessing it didn’t go well.”
“Of course not, it’s Dave. When does he do anything involving other people? Or the light of day in general?” Lyla said. Kevin chuckled, and afterwards Emma did as well. “Feeling good, Emma?” she asked teasingly.
“Oh very. You have to try it sometime, getting pounded by these two…they’re damn good at what they do,” Emma said. Ethan blushed, his fur turning a deeper red than what his normal coloring was.
“Right…Ethan, right? What is it that you do, then?” Lyla asked curiously. It was always interesting to her, ever since she had been trapped in Alenkas, what the Influxxers did that joined after their little ‘experience’.
“Oh, uh…I’m a banker,” Ethan replied. He seemed hesitant to continue, as if he wasn’t telling the entire story. Lyla wasn’t surprised, that’s how many of them actually took to things. They were a rather private bunch.
“A banker? No wonder you get along well with Emma then,” Lyla teased. The wolf glared at her, and Lyla only shrugged. “I’m just saying, since you’re good with finances and such…” she continued.
“Really? I’m surprised you guys have finances all things considered,” Ethan said.
“We have a harder limit nowadays, now that NuVO’s finally giving us at least something to subsist on. It’s harder than it seems though,” Kevin replied. Ethan gave him a quick curious glance. “Nah, we got it,” Kevin continued. Ethan shrugged, and gave a quick little bump of his hips.
“So why did you call me over here, Emma?” Lyla asked eventually. It wasn’t that she felt her time was better off elsewhere; she actually liked watching Emma get fucked as long as Emma knew what she was in for. Hell, that was the same with most of the girls, for Lyla. She definitely didn’t mind watching.
“Oh, I wanted to ask if you wanted to have a foursome with me and these two,” Emma asked with a straight face. Lyla blinked, before shrugging.
“Sure, but it looks like they’re rather…tied up at the moment,” Lyla said. Emma shook her head.
“Nah, Ethan’s cock is starting to rise up again. I can feel it expanding in me…you want him or Kevin?” Emma asked.
Lyla shot her a glance. Honestly, she didn’t particularly care, but what she definitely didn’t like was how Emma referred to the guys as hers to do with as she chose. “Honestly, whichever one wants me,” she said. It wasn’t that she didn’t want a foursome -god knows she did, and she could feel her pussy start to pulse with want and need- but rather Emma could have told her beforehand.
She would’ve been warmed up already. Although seeing the show of the double penetrated wolf…that would do it too. She laughed as both of the horses raised their hands. Maybe it wasn’t that Emma was controlling, but rather sex was just on their minds. Both could very well be true.
“How about Ethan, as it seems it’d be rather hard for Kevin to get up at the moment,” Lyla said.
“Oh it’s hard for both of them right now,” Emma teased. She moaned as she felt Ethan slowly extricate himself from her ass. Lyla’s eyes rose as she realized just what kind of cock the horse had. “He’s big isn’t he? Sometimes I wonder if this good for my sanity or not, other times I realize I don’t give a shit,” Emma continued.
Emma moaned in discontent as Kevin pushed her up, slowly getting up himself, and pulling out of her womb and pussy. “Aww, what’s that for?” she asked. Kevin made a quick glance at Ethan, before going around Emma, turning her around abruptly, and shoving her breasts into a table. She moaned as she realized what his plan was.
Amused, Lyla got into the same position next to her, lifting her tail up to reveal both her soaking wet pussy and lubed up ass. “Which do you prefer?” Ethan asked. Lyla thought about it for a moment, before shrugging.
“Surprise me,” she said. Emma gave her a shocked look right before Kevin thrust in to her pussy, causing her back to arch and her breasts to shove into the table as she moaned to the world. A moment later Lyla moaned as she felt her pussy start to get the large rod shoved inside.
She lay next to Emma, with both of their pussies stuffed, breasts being shoved against the table, moaning their hearts out. Slowly she took one of her hands and tapped Emma on the shoulder, causing the wolf to look at her, both of their faces starting at each other in ecstasy.
They groaned in discontent as both horses withdrew out of their pussies and shoved them into their asses. Emma moaned loudly as Lyla relaxed into the familiar feeling of a cock in her ass.
Lyla felt her ass being abused, and absolutely loved it. She shared a look with Emma, who also was feeling amazing at the cock being shoved into her ass. “Ready?” Ethan asked as Lyla felt his hands on her hips. She nodded shallowly, wondering just what his plan was. She noticed out of the corner of her eye that Kevin did the same to Emma’s hips.
She was shocked as hell when Ethan suddenly pulled out of her ass, leaving her gaping to the open air, as he shoved himself back into her pussy. Her eyes widened as pleasure shot through her spine -she was glad that Ethan wasn’t pulling a Kevin, and plunging his entire cock into her pussy. There was no doubt that she couldn’t take the entire thing-, moaning loudly to the world.
For minutes the four continued to fuck, with both of the horses occasionally pulling out of their hole of choice and moving to the other one. Lyla was thankful that Alenkas didn’t need to bother with clean-up, because damn the feeling that she was getting from her ass and pussy both being fucked at different times sent her careening towards her peak.
“I’m going to cum soon, where do you want it?” Ethan’s voice called out. Lyla forced her arms to hold her up, the massive horse cock jammed into her pussy. She pushed him back, trying to shove it deeper inside her.
“She wants it inside her pussy!” Emma cried out from beside her. She shrieked as Kevin did a particularly forceful jab, her back arching impressively as she came hard. Lyla didn’t know how many times she’d come before, but it probably had to be quite a bit to last as long as she did.
Lyla herself was close enough to the edge that no matter what Ethan tried to do now she was about to cum herself. She felt her pussy and ass tense up, squeezing the cock inside her hard as her juices flooded her pussy. She groaned and moaned loudly, her body feeling nothing but pleasure as it shot up her spine from her puss and ass.
She felt Ethan jam himself in as deep as he felt it could go -there were still another four or five inches outside of her pussy, and it was already at the deepest level it could go- and felt her pussy flush with his cum. She groaned as she felt his cock jump, shooting waves and waves of cum inside her.
She breathed heavily as Ethan leaned over her. “Thanks…” Lyla said softly as she felt her eyes close of their own accord. Ethan chuckled as he felt himself cum inside her more. Kevin was next to him, also cumming inside Emma, and the two gave a quick high-five to each other as Ethan logged out.
And back to regularly-scheduled Alenkas.
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The team on the show was in an California city that was never identified. He played the leader of this team and the leader's name was "Hondo." Rod Perry played the second command on the team and went by the name of Sgt. Other people on the show were Robert Urich, James Coleman and Mark Shera.
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Dushku appeared in the Simple Plan music video for 'I'm Just A Kid' and in the video for 'Rockstar' by Nickelback.
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The driver of the transport was "Sam," and he was never given credit for his prominent role in the title sequence.
This show was produced by Leonard Golberg and Aaron Spelling. The theme song became number one hit single in 1976 as sung by Rhythm Heritage. As the theme song played, the team runs to their transport, with their weapons drawn.
The show includes many guest-stars like Kal Penn (Hunt/Unidentified psychic demon), Leonard Roberts (Forrest Gates), Christina Hendricks (Unidentified barmaid), Clare Kramer (Glorificus), Wade Andrew William (Gregor), Kristoffer Polaha (Dylan Blim), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Sam Ryan) , Courtnee Draper (Annabelle) and Alec Newman (Drogyn) Dushku turned down the chance to appear in another Buffy spin-off which would have focused on the character of Faith.
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Frozen In Time: The Cinematic Legacy Of Japan's 'Eternal Virgin'
Setsuko Hara's iconic career spanned only three decades.
For more than three decades, she dazzled audiences as the ideal Japanese woman. Boys fell in love with her, women wanted to be like her, and everyone respected her incredible talent. Then, in the blink of an eye, her career was over. Japan’s Eternal Virgin, Setsuko Hara, had retired, never again to be seen by the public eye.
Born Masae Aida, Hara began her journey to stardom in 1935, with her big break coming in 1937, when she starred in The New Earth, a German-Japanese collaboration that cemented her role as “the go-to actress” for young female characters.
The film features Hara as an innocent girl who, upon being rejected by her fiancé in favor of a German woman, attempts to jump into a volcano in order to end her suffering. Eventually, her father convinces the fiancé, who had fallen in love with Germany and its culture, to embrace Japanese culture once more and proceed with the wedding. The film, intended to strengthen the alliance between Nazi Germany and Japan while introducing Japan and its culture to the rest of Europe, was a commercial success in Japan, and was well reviewed in Germany, mainly because the government ordered critics to praise it.
The New Earth was one of the rarely screened WWII propaganda films featured in Japan Society’s ongoing series The Most Beautiful: The War Films of Shirley Yamaguchi & Setsuko Hara, which shows how the actresses' roles reflected a nation during a time of upheaval and change. Continuing through Saturday with iconic postwar films, the series also juxtaposes the actresses' lives. Yamaguchi was often in the public spotlight (Artforum wrote that "the entire twentieth-century history of the Pacific Rim is reflected" in her life). In stark contrast, Hara was about as fond of interviews as Greta Garbo.
Two Hara films remain to be shown in the series, both of which would eventually define her legacy.
In Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), screening April 3, Hara finds herself trapped in the middle of a love triangle. Her suitors are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, with one being a liberal-minded man and the other a militant radical. Her decision brings her great sadness, and serves to reinforce the idea of democracy as a positive change, with women’s rights and anti-militarism being points of emphasis.
Screening April 4 is Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring (1949), the first in a series of films often referred to as the “Noriko Trilogy”, comprised of Late Spring, Early Summer (1951), and Tokyo Story (1953). All three films featured Setsuko Hara as a character named Noriko, showing her gradual progression from a daughter who fears marriage into an eventual widow, and the conflict between the demands of society and the desires of the individual.
Aiko Masubuchi, Japan Society Film Program Officer, notes that throughout Hara’s entire career, it was as if she were two separate entities – the onscreen Hara, and the private Hara, known to only her close friends. Even now, we can only guess as to what she was like in private. Her onscreen persona was was often representative of an idea, an existence that changed to suit the prevailing ideas of the time, from militarism to democracy. On the silver screen, she was the sweet sisterly figure supporting the future pilots of the Japanese air force, the perfect daughter, and a devoted wife.
Where the cinematic persona of Setsuko Hara was usually a stoic, serious woman, Masae Aida was surprising her fellow actors with her love of beer and her sense of humor, playfully kicking actor Ryo Ikebe for teasing her.
Hara’s collaboration with Ozu would go on for 12 years, lasting until 1961. When Ozu died of cancer two years later, Hara, then 43, announced soon afterward her retirement in a shocking press conference, where she admitted that she enjoyed neither her job nor any of the work she had done. She was merely providing for her family, and now that that was done, she could finally retire and be herself again – not Setsuko Hara, but Masae Aida.
After her retirement, she retreated to Kamakura, in Kanagawa Prefecture, where she still lives to this day. She has consistently refused all media requests for interviews and photographs, and has not been seen by the public eye since her final press conference, save for a few paparazzi photos taken without her consent. Having never married, she exists to the public as the “Eternal Virgin”, a name given to her at the peak of her career.
And it is at that peak where her image will forever remain, frozen in time.
--Mark Gallucci
Images (from left to right): Setuko Hara stars in The New Earth, 1937; Toward a Decisive Battle in the Sky, 1943 © Courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd.; Late Spring, 1949 © Shochiku Co., Ltd.; No Regrets for Our Youth, 1946 © Courtesy Toho Co., Ltd.; and Tokyo Story, 1953 © Shochiku Co., Ltd..
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#MyCorona, Filmed In Ravenna During Quarantine, Premieres Saturday In Kearney
by Becca Costello, NET News
Cooper Tomlinson as Alex (left) and Mya Hudson as Zoe on the set of #MyCorona (Courtesy Photo)
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A movie filmed in Nebraska during quarantine earlier this year will premiere at the World Theatre in Kearney this weekend. The romantic comedy #MyCorona is believed to be the first movie directed remotely over FaceTime.
The coronavirus pandemic has isolated billions of people during stay-at-home orders, lock-downs, and quarantine.
But for Zoe and Alex, the lead characters in My Corona, the pandemic is what brought them together — through a thin, shared wall in their Los Angeles apartment building.
"It's the middle of quarantine; can't go anywhere, can't do anything, both laid off from their jobs," said writer and producer Kirk Zeller. "So they find themselves at home a lot and without the backdrop of the LA commuter traffic suddenly they can hear everything. That becomes quite a bit of the theme of the movie actually, is that dynamic between them and over-hearing every phone call on each other's lives. And really, through that, kind of getting integrated into each other's lives."
And it wasn’t just quarantine for the fictional characters — Zeller and the rest of the production team were faced with filming a movie safely in the middle of a global pandemic.
So rather than film in LA, where the story takes place, they set up shop in Zeller’s home town: Ravenna, Nebraska.
"The three buildings that we planned to use are all buildings that I either own or rent, so it gave us a hundred percent control when we shoot how we shoot, who has access to the building," Zeller said. "And we're in central Nebraska, [with] low population density, which in the midst of COVID meant something as well."
One of those buildings had apartments where the cast and crew could stay during the six days of shooting, and in some cases those apartments doubled as the film set.
Casting director and acting coach Crystal Carson, a Nebraska native who now lives in California, had an acting role in #MyCorona.
"We were all in the building, just like the characters were all in the building," Carson said. "So actually having to sequester together was exactly what the characters were doing and it all fed on itself."
Zeller says everyone on the project took precautions like wearing masks and sanitizing constantly. They kept interactions to the absolute minimum. The film’s director, Phil Gorn, didn’t even come to Nebraska.
"He saw everything I saw by me carrying my iPad everywhere I went, and he would talk to the actors through my iPad," Zeller said. "I fed him the camera feeds through a Google meet connection, so he could see the A camera, the B camera, everything the camera crew was seeing he could see. And then we were just constantly in communication."
Phil Gorn directing remotely during the filming of #MyCorona. Cooper Tomlinson and Elizabeth Contreras of Omaha are pictured. (Courtesy Photo)
The rural location of Zeller’s hometown made Ravenna an ideal place to film safely during the pandemic.
But there’s another reason Zeller moved back to Nebraska a few years ago after working in Hollywood. He says the cornhusker state is a great place for film. He and Gorn were working on another film here that got interrupted by the pandemic.
"Much of A Picture of Daria Gray was going to be taking place Fremont. It is actually set in Fremont," Zeller said. "Fremont really is the only significant city in Nebraska…that does have film rebate programs."
Tax credit programs are a huge factor in choosing a location to film. Carson says even without film rebates, Nebraska is much cheaper than other options, like LA.
"Let's say you want to shoot at my house; it's going to be about 10 grand to shoot at my house," Carson said. "And then my neighbors are all suddenly going to find a need to mow their lawn, and you have to go and put money in their hands. And it's a constant bleeding of cash for no reason."
Eastern Nebraska Film Commissioner Stacy Heatherly is largely responsible for bringing the film rebate program to Fremont – but also building what she calls a “film-friendly” community.
"So for example, we offer free production space, which is a huge line item on their budget," Heatherly said. "And we just started recruiting filmmakers from Nebraska to shoot their Nebraska project here. And we've been highly successful in recruiting those films."
Heatherly says the general public may not think of eastern Nebraska as having a film industry, but it’s here and it’s successful.
"A lot of times we think about the people who have moved and live in LA or New York for their craft, but there are so many professionals that live in Nebraska," Heatherly said. "We can name Randy Goodwin, an actor. We can name Tom Elkins, Ron Howard's editor, Mauro Fiore, Oscar-winning cinematographer for Avatar, Lew Hunter, the guru of screenwriting, Jon Bokenkamp, writer of The Blacklist. We can just go through the list of professionals that live in Nebraska and work from their home state, and they're highly successful and very busy."
#MyCorona is premiering in Kearney and continuing the social distancing theme of the film.
The World Theatre is temporarily closed because of the virus, but they’ve set up a drive-in theater at the Buffalo County Fairgrounds.
The movie starts at 8 p.m., followed by a Q&A with Carson and Zeller. Tickets are available at theworldtheatre.org.
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The UK Cabinet has been meeting via Zoom – something researchers say may not be ideal
The hugely popular video meetings app Zoom has “significant weaknesses” which might make it unsuitable for secrets.
A team at The Citizen Lab found that Zoom was using a non-standard type of encryption, and transmitting information through China.
Government use – such as Boris Johnson’s use of the app for Cabinet meetings – may not be wise, the researchers warned.
But the app is fine for keeping in touch for most people, they said.
Until recently, Zoom was used mainly by large businesses for video conference calls. But the explosion in users during the coronavirus pandemic has created “a new gold rush for cyber-spies”, The Citizen Lab’s report said.
It warned that Zoom “may not be suitable” for:
Governments and businesses worried about espionage
Healthcare providers handling sensitive patient information
Activists, lawyers and journalists working on sensitive topics
But for people using Zoom for contacting friends, holding social events or organising courses or lectures, “our findings should not necessarily be concerning”, the report said.
Analysis: Still fine for most
By Joe Tidy, Cyber-security Reporter
Zoom says there are now 200 million meetings held on it every day, and despite the serious flaws uncovered in this latest report, it’s probably safe to say that 199 million of them are not in danger.
The Citizen Lab has shown compelling evidence here that it is possible to collect all the data of a video meeting and then partially unscramble it to find out, roughly, what was said and what was seen.
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However, it would take a huge amount of time and effort for a hacker to achieve this – and it simply wouldn’t be worth the effort for an average work huddle or friendly pub quiz held on the service. It’s the high-level talks at company board level, or in government, that will be targeted.
The government has been led by the National Cyber Security Centre and other security experts on this since the beginning. The goal has always been to allow for open and smooth communications to take place, but this research may well lead to the advice on Zoom changing fast.
“Zoom has made the classic mistake of designing and implementing their own encryption scheme, rather than using one of the existing standards for encrypting voice and video content,” said Bill Marczak, a Research Fellow at The Citizen Lab.
“To be sure, Zoom’s encryption is better than none at all, but users expecting their Zoom meetings to be safe from espionage should think twice before using the app to discuss sensitive information.”
The research has not taken the security services in the UK by surprise and it is understood that a project is working “at pace” to adapt existing communication systems to the demands of home working and security.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a statement saying: “Zoom is being used to enable unclassified crisis COVID-19 communications in the current unprecedented circumstances. Assured services are in place for more sensitive communications and the provision of these services is being widened given the demands of much greater remote working.”
The government is not disclosing which meetings are eligible for Zoom and which ones are not. As an example, the BBC was told that Zoom is safe for Cabinet-level discussions but not for emergency Cobra meetings.
A Chinese ‘heart’ for the US company
Aside from the encryption standards, the researchers also found that Zoom sends traffic to China – even when all the people in a Zoom meeting are outside of China.
“During multiple test calls in North America, we observed keys for encrypting and decrypting meetings transmitted to servers in Beijing, China,” the report said.
Zoom remains hugely popular despite the concerns expressed in some quarters
The report also pointed to the strong involvement of Chinese firms in the company. Zoom has its headquarters in the US, but has about 700 employees across three companies in mainland China working on the app’s development.
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“Running development out of China likely saves Zoom having to pay Silicon Valley salaries, reducing their expenses and increasing their profit margin. However, this arrangement could also open up Zoom to pressure from Chinese authorities,” the report said.
A ‘roll your own’ approach
The team said there are mixed and confusing messages around the type of encryption that Zoom actually uses.
In some places, it tells users that it uses “end-to-end” encryption – the gold standard for secure messaging, which makes it impossible for the service, or any other middlemen, to access data. In its documentation, Zoom has said it uses a type of encryption called AES-256.
But the researchers said this is not true. Instead, Zoom has “rolled their own” encryption – using a variant of something called AES-128 in “ECB mode”.
Among security researchers, ECB mode “is well understood to be a bad idea”, because it preserves some of the patterns of the original, the report said.
The report highlighted that “ECB mode” preserves patterns, and is “a bad idea”
The report also says that Zoom does not use end-to-end encryption “as most people understand the term”. Instead, it uses “transport” encryption between devices and servers.
“Because Zoom does not implement true end-to-end encryption, they have the theoretical ability to decrypt and monitor Zoom calls,” the report said. But it noted that Zoom itself has already addressed this concern, promising that they have never built such a mechanism, even if it is theoretically possible.
During their research, the team was able to extract a still image from a video meeting using the encryption key.
Zoom clarified its encryption policy on 1 April, apologising for incorrectly suggesting that meetings were capable of end-to-end encryption.
It also moved to quell fears about privacy and security issues, promising to spend the next 90 days exclusively working on “trust, safety, and privacy issues”.
Alan Woodward, a professor of computer science at Surrey University, told the BBC that a major fix is needed.
“I don’t believe this is something that Zoom can just add to their list of jobs to do in the next 90 days. It’s possible, but this requires a re-engineering of the way they encrypt their calls, so it’s a major undertaking.”
Prof Woodward added: “I would not use Zoom for any sensitive or secret discussions.”
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Back to School(ing) 2020
With countless children across the nation continuing their education online amidst COVID-19, they’re at a greater risk of exposure to the harmful effects of pornography that is all too often and easily accessible on school devices and databases. Parents and educators are overwhelmed and anxious trying to mitigate the many risks and unknowns of the upcoming school year. Combatting pornography accessible through school-issued technology is beyond their individual capacity to control, especially in our current context. They need support and concrete measures to be taken by all accountable entities.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s 2020 Back to School(ing) Campaign aims to equip families and educators with information, resources, and actions they can take to keep kids safe online as vast numbers of students start the school year in a virtual learning environment. Over the four week campaign, we’ll feature the people, organizations, and entities that can have the greatest impact ensuring a safe online learning environment, specifically: families, school administrators, corporations, and the US federal government.
The ABCs of Safe Online Home Learning
Student Online S-A-F-E-T-Y: Is your school making the grade?
Corporations in the Classroom: What are Google and EBSCO teaching our kids?
Promoting Pornography-free Schools: The Role of the US Dept. of Education
Download Protect Young Minds’ Back to School Online Safety Planner and 4 Safe & Sane Strategies for Virtual School
Check out the FBI’s Stop Sextortion campaign
Schools and libraries should serve as safe and healthy havens for children to expand their minds, strengthen their character, and build positive relationships with peers and adults.
Unfortunately, sexually exploitive material is all too often easily accessible in these learning environments. Research shows that exposure to pornography and sexually explicit material puts children and adolescents at risk for a host of harms that threaten their intellectual growth, productivity, socio-emotional stability, relationship-building capacity, and healthy sexual development and behavior.
Schools and libraries can and should do more to foster safe, healthy, productive learning environments for children: and that means doing everything possible to ensure our kids are not exposed to pornography or sexually explicit material.
Five ways schools and libraries can promote pornography-free learning environments:
Ensure adequate Internet and Wi-Fi filters are in place and functioning properly.
Reject online school research databases that expose children to pornography, normalize sexually violent and risky acts, and promote prostitution.
Secure filters and safety controls on school-issued devices like Chromebooks, iPads, laptops before they are distributed to children (*this is especially critical when students take home devices and/or are using devices for virtual learning).
Train school and library staff on Internet safety, critical porn analysis, the harms of pornography exposure on minors, and protocols and policies for when a student or minor library patron is exposed to pornography.
Educate students about Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety with clear instructions on what to do if they come across sexually exploitative material.
We need partnerships and policies between corporations, school administrations, and parents that prioritize the social, emotional, and physical well-being of children. Stronger protections against pornography on school-distributed devices is a concrete step in the right direction.
Continue reading for more resources and information about how we can all work toward Safe Schools, Safe Libraries.
A Hidden Crisis in Education: Children Being Exposed to Pornography in School from Center On Sexual Exploitation on Vimeo.
Three ways schools and libraries are fostering unhealthy and unsafe learning environments:
Online school databases that expose children to pornography, normalize sexually violent and risky acts, and promote prostitution.
EBSCO Information Services offers online library resources to public and private schools (K-12), public libraries, and more. These are online resources provided by schools that children often use to do research for a school paper, or to complete other online homework. In its advertising for schools, it promises “fast access to curriculum-appropriate content.” However, several of EBSCO’s products provide easy access to hardcore pornography sites and extremely graphic sexual content. Innocent searches provide pornographic results. Via a system that bypasses school Internet filters, EBSCO brings the dark world of XXX to America’s elementary, middle, and high school children. Learn more here.
Inadequate, or non-existent, computer and Wi-Fi filters to prevent exposure to pornography.
Most schools and libraries are not using effective filtering on both the school computers and Wi-Fi, despite laws requiring them. In 2000 Congress passed (and the Supreme Court later upheld) the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)—a federal law that imposes requirements to filter Internet access to obscene pornography, child pornography, and other material that is harmful to minors. These requirements must be met in order for any school or library to receive funding from a governmental program called the E-rate program, which makes technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. However, CIPA requirements have been egregiously under-enforced, so schools and libraries are not being held accountable to filter.
Inadequate, or non-existent, filters to block pornography on school-owned devices like iPads or laptops that are distributed to children.
Beyond the responsibility of schools to create safe environments on their physical property, they also have a responsibility to create safe learning environments on school-owned devices they distribute. Schools around the country now give students iPads or laptops or other electronic devices with few, if any, monitoring systems. This is unacceptable. School administration responsibility extends beyond the school grounds—whether that is regarding a school-sponsored trip, or a school-sponsored device. On any fieldtrip schools would not allow students to be exposed to violent, degrading pornographic images, and so too they must take the necessary precautions to ensure school-distributed electronic devices are not exposing children to harmful material.
This is a national outrage.
Parents and guardians trust the schools and libraries to hold themselves accountable to a higher standard of protecting children from sexually exploitive, objectifying, and damaging material. Yet, news reports of children gaining access to porn in schools and public libraries are a regular occurrence.
Pornography turns once-safe community schools and libraries into a XXX space that fosters child sexual abuse, sexual assault, exhibitionism, stalking, and lewd behavior in libraries across the country.
Quick facts about the harms of pornography:
A 2014 study found that increased pornography use is linked to decreased brain matter in the areas of motivation and decision-making, impaired impulse control, and desensitization to sexual reward.
A 2015 meta-analysis of 22 studies from seven countries found that internationally the consumption of pornography was significantly associated with increases in verbal and physical aggression, among males and females alike
As a result of viewing pornography women reported lowered body image, criticism from their partners regarding their bodies increased pressure to perform acts seen in pornographic films, and less actual sex, while men reported being more critical of their partners’ body and less interested in actual sex.
A 2015 study found that men’s frequency of pornography use is positively linked to body image insecurity regarding muscularity and body fat, and to increased anxiety in romantic relationships.
For citations and further research, visit https://endsexualexploitation.org/publichealth/
Is this the kind of sexual education we want our communities to promote?
The good news is you can make a difference through the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s Safe Schools, Safe Libraries project.
Our Safe Schools, Safe Libraries project is a grassroots campaign designed to empower parents throughout the country with the tools needed to identify the local schools and public libraries where children are at risk.
Using our tactics, dozens of concerned citizens around the country have been able to get their local schools and libraries to improve policies.
We provide you with three “getting started” packets to help you protect the children in your community. Thank you for taking a stand!
Getting Started: Online Library Databases
Getting Started: Filtering in Schools and on School-Distributed Devices (Upcoming)
STATEMENT – EBSCO K-12 Databases Expose Children to Pornography, Despite its Claims to the Contrary
EBSCO Sent NCOSE “Cease and Desist” Letter, but NCOSE Investigation Reveals Children Have Easy Access to Porn Through EBSCO Databases Washington, DC (November 3, 2020) – Responding to a “cease and desist” letter from EBSCO Information Services, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has called on the company – a leading provider of research…
Our children’s health and well-being affects not only them as individuals, but greatly determines the overall health and well-being of our families, our communities, our country. Among the greatest threats our youth are currently facing is exposure to harmful pornography and sexually graphic material which can greatly affect their short and long-term mental, physical, and…
This blog was edited on 10/30/20 in the section about EBSCO for further clarity after receiving a request to do so from EBSCO’s legal counsel. Please see the letter from EBSCO and our response on our webpage about EBSCO here. Corporations and brands shape culture, and unfortunately, their influence has permeated into our education system….
Covid has laid bare many social truths—not least how truly essential our teachers and our schools are to the health and wellbeing of our children, our families, our communities. Parents and guardians across the nation developed a deeper appreciation for the many challenges our teachers face as they were thrust into the role of teacher…
We get it. We’re parents too and this is not the school year beginning any of us envisioned for our children. Parents and guardians would much rather be rummaging ransacked shopping aisles for that last available three-ring binder than negotiating complex schooling decisions affecting our kids against this ever-shifting landscape. One thing is certain amidst…
Read More Updates
Sign the Letter: Tell Google To Make Chromebooks Safe for Students
Help Pass the EARN IT ACT to protect kids online!
Introduced by a bipartisan group of Senators in March 2020, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act, S. 3398) is designed to increase Big Tech accountability for two hideous problems related to the sexual exploitation of children:
1) Widespread availability of child sexual abuse material (CSAM, also known as child pornography) online;
2) Far too frequent enticement, grooming, sex trafficking, and sexual abuse of children on digital platforms.
Contact your U.S. Senators today!
Insist on Google’s Help
A majority of school-assigned or school-provided computers are Google Chromebooks. While this is a great tool for learning, often, these devices are left unprotected and students are left more vulnerable to sexual predators, pornography, bullying, and other online dangers. Join us in asking Google to help overburdened schools by automatically turning on built-in protective controls on these systems!
Take Action Here
Have your kids been exposed to sexually explicit content through their schools?
Stop Explicit Content in School Research Systems
EBSCO Information Services offers online library resources to public and private schools (K-12), colleges and universities, public libraries, and more. In its advertising for schools, it promises “fast access to curriculum-appropriate content.” However, its Explora, Science Reference Center, Literary Reference Center, and other K-12 products, sometimes provide easy access to hardcore pornography sites and extremely graphic sexual content.
Check Your Local School’s Online Databases
Download the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s action packet “The ABCs vs XXX: How to Ensure Your School’s Online Library Databases are Pornography Free.” This is a useful tool for any concerned parent or citizen who wants to protect children from being exposed to pornography and sexually graphic materials on school online resources.
Use this Guide to Ensure Safe Filters in Your Schools, Libraries
It often just takes a few concerned citizens to simply ask for effective filters to be installed and the libraries and schools will do it! Please take on this project and lead the way in your neighborhood. Download the “Getting Started Packet” here.
Learn about the ALA’s Involvement
The ALA zealously encourages public libraries to not install Internet filters on public-access computers, thereby granting patrons—including children—the opportunity to view sexually obscene or explicit material. Learn more here.
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Be a Community Leader
Do you want to do something about pornography and sexual exploitation in your local schools and public libraries? You can be a leader in your area! We have many resources to help you.
You can download our “GETTING STARTED” packet right here.
Please let us know that you’re leading the charge in your area and let us help you! We are here to help you organize, coordinate, network, and be successful! Send us your name, phone number, and location. Email public@ncose.com.
Proof of Harm in Schools & Libraries
Video Proof
This is a playlist of videos uploaded by library patrons, most made by teens, who have caught other patrons viewing pornography at their local libraries. After talking with many librarians, looking at the news articles that pop up in “Google Alerts” daily on this topic, and just a quick perusal of YouTube – one can see that this is clearly a common occurrence in public libraries.
News Articles Demonstrating Harm
The Coronavirus Pandemic Puts Children at Risk of Online Sexual Exploitation
Pandemic causing exponential rise in online exploitation of children
Sweetwater Union High School District investigating instances of porn popping up during virtual classes (California)
Students in Surprise school exposed to porn in virtual classroom (Arizona)
Former Hockaday School teacher arrested on child pornography charge (Texas)
Instagram The Worst As Social Media Slammed As ‘A Gateway For Child Abuse’
Instagram biggest for child grooming online – NSPCC finds
Snapchat Has Become A ‘Haven For Child Abuse’ With Its ‘Self-Destructing Messages’
5 Angry Parents Speak Up About Unprotected School-issued Chromebooks
5 Things You Can Do to Ensure Your Children are Safe Online During Quarantine
STATEMENT – Google Fails to Protect Kids on School Sanctioned Chromebooks
“Cops: Sex offender viewed porn at library”
A 43-year-old Berwyn man convicted of sexually assaulting a child in Wisconsin in 2014 is free on bond after being arrested by Riverside police for viewing pornography on a computer at the Riverside Public Library in violation of the conditions of his sentence.
“Porn on school iPad: Pasco mother says special education students exposed son to porn”
In Florida, the parents of a boy with special needs say that older students in his special education classes used an iPad to show their son pornography. The boy’s mother also “claims the school’s gym teacher called her son a ‘tattle-tale’ after he reported what happened.”
“Parents arrested after demanding answers about porn on school computer”
Parents of a boy in New York said their son came home from school one day and said that another boy had been looking at porn on a school computer. The parents showed up on campus to talk to school administrators about the incident, and the administrators could not provide any details because the matter was under investigation. The parents refused to leave the school property until they received answers, and they were arrested for trespassing.
“Rowan County mother says pornography not blocked on 7-year-old son’s school-issued Ipad”
A mother claims her son unintentionally viewed pornography three times on a school-issued iPad. Her son typed in the phrase “girls with trucks” and nude pictures of girls popped up.
“Her granddaughter glimpsed porn at the public library. What’s a library to do?”
A woman’s nine-year-old granddaughter saw a man looking at pornography on a computer at the library. She did some research and realized that looking at adult websites at public libraries is actually legal. Librarians who see patrons viewing pornography can ask them to move to a computer with a private screen, but they claim they have no power to regulate the content that users view.
“When patrons look at porn, librarians have a ‘tough needle to thread’”
Librarians report that they often have a hard time balancing the right of freedom of information against protecting the rights of other patrons. Libraries that receive federal funds are required to install filters, so many libraries forego these funds in order to maintain “intellectual freedom.”
“Should people be allowed to watch porn at the library? Many are, and some aren’t happy”
NBC4’s report on pornographic viewing in libraries have spurred two city council members to take action and demand the installation of filtering software on library computers.
“Batavia man accused of accessing child porn at public library”
After being caught viewing child porn on a public library computer, a man is facing federal child pornography charges. A librarian says he had confronted the man about looking at pornography several times in the past couple of years. Currently, the library does not use filtering programs to block certain websites.
“Police investigate possible child-porn viewing at library”
A woman saw a man viewing child pornography on a library computer and the police department is investigating the report. Although child pornography in any form is illegal, the library policy does not limit or restrict access to information due to controversial content. In fact, the library does not have any filters on its public computers.
“West Richland parents say school computer porn filter not good enough”
Parents of a twelve-year-old boy say that their son stumbled upon pornographic images on his school-issued laptop. After the parents looked into the matter, they realized that the school filters did not block hundreds of pornographic images. The problem with the school district’s filtering system is that it can only block websites based on web address, keywords, or category, so it often fails to block explicit images.
“Parent concerned about Huntsville City Schools laptop content filters”
A father of two children noticed that his son was able to pull up YouTube on a school-issued laptop, on which YouTube was supposedly blocked. After doing some simple searches, the father realized that pornographic content was easily accessible on the laptop.
“You Can Watch Porn at Chicago Libraries, But That Doesn’t Mean You Should”
A woman went to the library to fill out forms for her mother’s nursing home, but instead saw someone watching “very explicit” porn without blinders, without headphones, and videotaping it on his phone. “It’s not my business what they look at,” said a librarian at Harold Washington Library.
“Olney man, 70, faces porn charges”
Monte Carrol Wainscott had several search warrants executed in which officers were able to impose 15 charges of possession/ promotion of child pornography. It was found that he was using the library’s computers to upload pornographic pictures of children.
“Man imprisoned, downloaded child porn on public computers”
Using the Washoe County Public Library (Nevada) computers, a man downloaded child sexual abuse images (i.e., child pornography) and email them to himself.
“Anderson man arrested on child pornography, voyeurism charges after graphic photos found on phone”
Police say the 36-year-old man was taking inappropriate pictures of children, teens and adults without their knowledge. Library workers in Indiana told police that they found child pornography on a computer that the man had recently used.
“S.E. Idaho man arrested after allegedly viewing child porn at public library”
A man was arrested after allegedly viewing child pornography at a public library in Southeast Idaho.
“Kids Get an Eyeful At Public Library”
Kids studying after school at their local library went to check out a book, but from the checkout line could see someone viewing porn on one of the library computers. The ALA says “the use of filtration software is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech.”
“Officer injured in arrest of suspect over possible child porn at library”
Police in Austin, Texas, watched live security video showing a man searching for child sexual abuse images. Police say it appeared the man was saving the images to a hard drive. The security officer recognized the man, having kicked him out of the library once before for viewing pornography on the public computers.
“Police Catch Bridgewater Man Watching Porn In Public Library”
A Bridgewater, Connecticut, man was arrested at the town’s library after police caught him committing a lewd act while apparently watching pornography on a computer. Police say a 14-year-old was sitting next to him at the time.
“Man Charged With Viewing Child Porn at Library”
A Knox County, Kentucky, man was arrested Tuesday after he was allegedly discovered looking at child sexual abuse images on a Pulaski County Public Library computer.
“Man accused of viewing child porn at Cabell County library”
A man in Huntington, West Virginia, was arrested and charged with distribution of child porn after Huntington Police state he accessed child porn via computer at the Cabell County Public Library’s main branch in downtown Huntington.
“Houston library Wi-Fi shut down after porn downloads”
Two of Houston County’s public libraries were hacked and for downloads of pornography. The libraries will both shut off their Wi-Fi until they obtain federal money to update their systems.
“Sex offender arrested for downloading child porn at National City library”
A convicted sex offender was arrested allegedly downloading child pornography on a computer at a San Diego, California, library and then distributing the images to other people.
“Hamden Man Viewing Child Pornography at Library Leads to Arrest”
A complaint of a man viewing child pornography on a computer at the public library in 2014 led to his arrest in 2016 for possession of child sexual abuse images.
“Appeals Court Upholds UW-Eau Claire Library Porn Citation”
A state appeals court says a man does not have a constitutional right to view pornography on a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire library computer.
“Billings Teacher Unsettled By Pornography Incident At Library”
While on a fieldtrip with her students at the Billings Public Library, a local teacher saw of pornography on one of the private screens.
“Seattle Molester Under State’s Watch Begged For Child Porn”
Police say U-District sex offender fresh from prison downloaded child sexual abuse images at a number of public Wi-Fi sites, including the Seattle Public Library.
“Winlock Man Held on $100,000 Bail After Arrest for Child Pornography”
A Winlock, Washington, man was arrested after an FBI investigation revealed that he was allegedly using a social networking site and public library Internet service to send and receive child sexual abuse images.
“Library Approves Unfiltered Computers in Children’s Section”
In what may be a national first, a public library has approved the use of unfiltered computers in the children’s section of the library.
“Charge: Man had child porn at library”
A convicted sex offender is accused of distributing child sex abuse images from a public computer at the Bellmawr branch of the Camden County Library, New Jersey.
“Rochester Library Staff Member Injured Confronting Man Allegedly Watching Pornography”
The library staff was alerted after a man was seen sitting at a computer, watching porn and masturbating. After staff told the man to leave, he started screaming and threw a computer keyboard. A staff member followed him to the parking lot where the man hit the staff member with is car.
“Man Charged with Touching 8-Year-Old Girl at Library”
An Oregon man was charged Wednesday with first-degree sexual assault of a child after police said he touched an 8-year-old girl on the buttocks while she played a game on a computer at the Madison Public Library. Police in another jurisdiction reported multiple contacts the man because he searched for pornography as school and public libraries. .
“FBI: Sex offender watched child porn at Akron libraries”
A homeless sex offender faces federal charges for watching pornography at several Akron libraries.
“Orland Park Library Still Covering Up Child Porn”
The Orland Park Library is the scene of the latest effort by a library to cover up its literally criminal ways by having published a letter to the editor of the Orland Park Prairie.
“Internet pornography is welcome at our local public library”
Library patrons are disturbed by a man viewing pornography on public computers. The librarian claims that all she can do is suggest he move to a more discreet computer, of one is available.
“Man Arrested Watching Child Porn at Cabell. Co. Public Library”
A man uses public library computers to view underage girls in pornography. Library patrons are surprised and stunned that a man could use the computer to look up such explicit and illegal material.
“Pornography in Local Libraries”
A group of regular library visitors is known for viewing sexually graphic video and images with parents and children nearby. They also print sexually explicit images, which cause other library patrons using printing services to be involuntarily exposed to the material.
“Man Accused of Viewing, Printing Child Porn at Westland Public Library”
High school students spotted a man viewing child pornography on the computer at the Westland Public Library. After arresting the man, the police found hundreds of items related to child pornography in his home.
“Man charged with searching for child pornography on Fargo Library computer”
An arrest was issued for a Fargo man accused of using a public computer at the Fargo library to search for child pornography.
“Sex offender imprisoned for viewing child porn at library”
A La Crosse man claimed he was looking at pictures of models on a public library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Murphy Library, but officers found sexually graphic videos and pictures of children as young as 4-years-old during a search of the computer.
“Mom Upset Her Young Daughter and Friend Saw Man at Library Viewing ‘Porn’ On Computer”
An 11-year old girl and her friend saw a man viewing porn on a computer, despite the privacy screens, at a public library. She immediately told the librarian, who informed her, and then her mother, that it was “his right” to view pornography at a public library.
“Porn in public library? Let’s do something about it”
A mother is concerned about the exposure of children to pornography at Auburn Public Library. The woman was in the kid’s section with her children and witnessed hard core pornography being watched on a screen in the adult section that was facing right in their direction.
“Man Charged for Viewing Child Pornography at Library”
A Portland man is facing charges after he allegedly viewed child pornography inside the Central Library in downtown Portland on Tuesday.
“Gilbert school bus driver downloaded child porn at library”
A former school bus driver on probation was arrested for downloading hundreds of images of child porn at Scottsdale library. He specifically used the Mustang Library because, according to him, its computers “don’t filter as well as the other libraries.”
“Sexual Predator Gets 10 Years For Viewing Child Porn At Library”
A northwest suburban man listed by the state as a sexual predator will spend 10 years in prison for looking at child pornography on a computer at a public library last year.
“Sex Offender Watched Child Porn at Akron Libraries”
A homeless sex offender faces federal charges that accuse him of watching child pornography at several Akron libraries.
“Parkersburg Man Convicted of Accessing Child Pornography on Library Computer”
A 41-year-old Wood County resident was convicted of accessing child pornography with intent to view it while he was logged on to a computer located at the Parkersburg and Wood County Library.
“Police: Man Looked at Child Porn on Public Library Computer”
A 23-year-old Gresham man is facing criminal charges after police said he looked at pornographic photos of children on a public computer at the library.
“Westmont Man Charged After Viewing Porn at Library”
A Westmont man was charged with obscenity and disorderly conduct after he viewed online pornography in the youth services area of his local library.
“Should libraries ban pornography on public computers?”
Seattle public library says, that because it is an issue of censorship, the libraries will not stop their customers from accessing information that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“Library patron accused of watching child porn”
A woman reported seeing a man viewing child pornography on a public computer at Monroe library. The man had been downloading child pornography from the city library onto a cellphone.
“Bloomingdale Sex Offender Went To Library To Look At Child Porn”
A Bloomingdale sex offender was arrested Wednesday after police say he was viewing child pornography at a public library.
“Chicago Public Library Openly Allows Porn Despite the Law”
Director of marketing and communications for Chicago Public Library said Chicago libraries don’t use filters because “in terms of pornography, it is legal.”
“He’s watching that, in public? Pornography takes next seat”
In response to the complaints from numerous library patrons concerning pornographic images being in full view of passersby, a library installed 18 computer monitors with plastic hoods. They prefer this solution to filtering or censoring images.
“Porn, Sex Crimes in San Juan and Martin Luther King Libraries”
Man found stripped to his underwear in library; police report shows the past year of assaults, lewd acts, drug-use have occurred at San Juan Library; Martin Luther King Library has big problems with patrons accessing pornography on computers.
“Porn Case At Library Indicted”
A Corsicana man arrested for allegedly viewing child pornography on a Corsicana Public Library computer was indicted Thursday on 10 counts of possession of porn.
“ACLU Sued Library for Not Allowing Online Porn”
The ACUL is suing a Washington state library district with the claim that not allowing porn is censorship.
“Seattle Libraries: No Eating or Sleeping Allowed, But Porn-Watching OK”
The Seattle Public Library has a long list of rules of things you can’t do in the library. You can’t eat, sleep, look like you’re sleeping, be barefoot, be too stinky or talk too loudly. But you can watch graphic porn on a public computer in front of kids.
“Librarians Stand Aside As Patron Watches Porn and Engages in Lewd Acts”
A resident complained last week about a man watching pornography on a public computer and behaving lewdly in front of a Malibu library. According to a county Board of Supervisors policy, the Malibu Library is unable to stop customers from using computers to view pornography.
“Seattle Library Lets Man Watch Porn, Despite Complaint”
A Seattle librarian refused to force a man watching hardcore porn on a computer to move to a more discreet location, even after a woman with two children complained.
“Police Blotter: Man In SUV Seen Snapping Photos of Kids at Park After Watching Porn at Library”
A man was seen snapping photos at the park. On the same day, a woman reported that her daughter had just left RSM library where the same man was watching pornography on a library computer.
“Porn in Library Startles Patrons”
Library patron printed pages of pornography off a computer used by the public, but never collected them at the printer before it ran out of paper.
“Libraries walk a tightrope on porn”
When a homeless man was accused of fondling himself in the Laguna Beach public library while viewing pornography. Laguna Beach libraries have insisted that they are obliged to provide Internet access to pornography as a matter of their clients’ free- speech rights.
“Hannibal Man Gets 25 years for Porn on Library Computer”
A Hannibal man accused of downloading child pornography on a Hannibal Public Library computer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Gary Wayne Martin, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury of one felony count of production and two felony counts of possession after an arrest last March.
“Library User Viewing Porn Upsets Girl”
Fourth grader exposed to hardcore pornography while visiting library with mother. Mother says the girl was deeply affected and could sleep that night. Librarian refused to do anything about it.
“Court Week: Pornography on the Library Computer on the Dockets”
Grand Rapids resident, Alan Waldron, 43, faces a maximum of five years in prison for using the Lowell Library’s wireless to download more than 100 images of pornography—including some that depicted sexual acts between children.
“Registered Sex Offender Charged After Viewing Child Pornography at Public Library”
A registered sex offender from Orange County made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday, following his arrest at a local public library where witnesses allegedly observed him viewing child pornography on one of the library’s computers.
“Homeless Men Caught Watching Porn at Laguna Beach Library, Patrons Say”
Eight men watched pornography at a public library computer while one masturbated in public. The library responded to public outrage, saying there wasn’t much they could do.
“Library Opts Against Restricting Online Access to Explicit Material”
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library will continue its policy to not restrict Internet access, despite several incidents of involving pornography and public masturbation in the library.
“Los Angeles libraries grapple with online pornography”
After a recent outcry about online pornography at a Chinatown branch library, Los Angeles has been working to protect bystanders while not infringing on computer users’ 1st Amendment rights.
“Sex Offender Arrested After Surfing For Porn In Library”
A sex offender is behind bars after police say he surfed for porn in a public library, in front of a child.
“Libraries Suit: Computer Porn Use Lead to Groping While Children Present”
Birmingham, AL librarian sues library for having a ‘hostile work environment’ where patrons view porn in her presence, harass and grope her, and are allowed to do so in presence of children.
“After Several Incidents of Public Indecency, Quincy Official Says: Expose Library Porn Watchers”
Quincy, MA, councilman wants list of people accessing porn in libraries after several incidents of public indecency.
“Court Rules Library Can Have Internet Filter”
The Washington State Supreme Court voted 6-3 in favor of the North Central Regional Library when the library was sued by the ACLU for installing Internet filters to prevent access to pornography.
“Michael Houle Charged With Downloading Child Pornography at Holyoke Public Library”
Holyoke MA man charged with downloading child porn from library computers. The library he viewed it at had allowed 40 computers to remain filter-free after library governing body had required filters for the computers.
“Internet Porn Statistics at Dallas Central Library Prompt Concern”
7.5% of web traffic was for pornography at a local Dallas library over a randomly selected period.
Part of the Problem: Google Chromebooks
Part of the Problem: EBSCO Research Databases
Part of the Problem: American Library Association
State School and Library Filtering Laws
Find Your State School and Library Filtering Laws Here
CIPA – Federal Library & School Safety Law
Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Additionally, it is important to note that a specific law pertaining to libraries and schools regarding the Internet was passed by Congress in 2000 and was found to be constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003. The ALA and the ACLU commonly misinterpret this law and disseminate misleading information to libraries and schools regarding their rights to place filters on computers. You will likely face this.
The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program – a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA.
What CIPA Requires
Schools and libraries subject to CIPA may not receive the discounts offered by the E-rate program unless they certify that they have an Internet safety policy that includes technology protection measures. The protection measures must block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene, (b) child pornography, or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors). Before adopting this Internet safety policy, schools and libraries must provide reasonable notice and hold at least one public hearing or meeting to address the proposal.
Schools subject to CIPA are required to adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors.
Schools and libraries subject to CIPA are required to adopt and implement an Internet safety policy addressing: (a) access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet; (b) the safety and security of minors when using electonic mail, chat rooms, and other forms of direct electronic communications; (c) unauthorized access, including so-called “hacking,” and other unlawful activities by minors online; (d) unauthorized disclosure, use, and dissemination of personal information regarding minors; and (e) measures restricting minors’ access to materials harmful to them.
Schools and libraries are required to certify that they have their safety policies and technology in place before receiving E-rate funding.
CIPA does not affect E-rate funding for schools and libraries receiving discounts only for telecommunications, such as telephone service.
An authorized person may disable the blocking or filtering measure during any use by an adult to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purposes.
CIPA does not require the tracking of Internet use by minors or adults.
Visit the Federal Communications Commission’s info page about CIPA by clicking here.
Opposition to CIPA:
In 2001, the ALA and the ACLU challenged the law on the grounds that the law required libraries to unconstitutionally block access to constitutionally protected information on the Internet. They specifically argued that “no filtering software successfully differentiates constitutionally protected speech from illegal speech on the Internet.” In 2003, upon appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the law was upheld as constitutional and that it was permissible to install filters on all school and library computers, and further held that it was constitutional to mandate libraries receiving specific funding to have filters installs.
The ALA and ACLU often argue that it is against a person’s First Amendment rights to have to ask a librarian to remove a filter for a desired search. However, this is exactly what the High Court said was sufficient in instances where an individual wanted to access material blocked by a filter. Adults may ask the librarian to unblock material. This is an important added barrier to individuals viewing indecent material in our schools and libraries. The mere need to ask would deter most individuals from attempting to view such material, and the requests would largely remain for material that is reasonable or for a specific purpose other than gratifying one’s personal desire to view porn.
The Laws on Porn
What Are The Laws Relating to Pornography/Obscenity?
Local: Your local community might have specific regulations already in place. You’ll have to check your specific area.
State: Some states have legislation in place already. You can find details about your state here: http://bit.ly/xPCEuW. The list is not complete, but we are working on providing an updated database for you.
Federal: There are a number of federal laws relating to pornography and specifically to filtering in schools and public libraries. See below for more details on these. You can also learn more about federal obscenity laws here: www.WarOnIllegalPornography.com.
Children’s Internet Protection Act: It is important to note that a specific law pertaining to libraries and schools regarding the Internet was passed by Congress in 2000 and was found to be constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003. This law mandates that libraries and schools must have filters in place if they opt-in to receive specific e-rate federal funding. The ALA often recommends that libraries refuse this funding so that they don’t have to filter.
Much of the available hard-core adult pornography online is actually illegal.
First, one common misconception people have is that pornography is legal and protected by the First Amendment. The truth is that obscenity (hardcore adult pornography) is prohibited under existing Federal laws. These laws prohibit distribution of hardcore, obscene pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite or hotel/motel TV and in sexually oriented businesses and other retail shops. Additionally, it is important to understand that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. This has been repeatedly upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The role of the Federal Government should be, as it has been in the past, to prosecute the major producers and distributors of obscene pornography. However, the U.S. Justice Department is not currently enforcing these laws and for the last 20 years only sporadically enforced them. Thus, illegal, obscene pornography is flooding our nation and the harm is great.
Many people do not understand that obscenity is actually illegal. The American Library Association (ALA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other anti-filtering groups often exploit this common misunderstanding to argue against the use of filters. You should often point out that filters would block obscenity, which is a majority of the hardcore adult pornography accessed on the Internet and likely accessed at your library/school.
For details on federal obscenity laws and U.S. Supreme Court rulings upholding these laws, visit https://endsexualexploitation.org/doj/.
What is pornography?
The term “pornography” is a generic, not a legal term. As noted by the Supreme Court in the landmark 1973 obscenity case, Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 20, n.2, the term: “Pornography” derives from the Greek (harlot, and graphos, writing). The word now means “1: a description of prostitutes or prostitution 2. a depiction (as in a writing or painting) of licentiousness or lewdness: a portrayal of erotic behavior designed to cause sexual excitement.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary [Unabridged 1969]…
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What is obscenity?
The term “obscenity” is a legal term, and in Miller v. California, supra the Supreme Court established a three-pronged test for determining whether a “work” (i.e., material or a performance) is obscene and therefore unprotected by the First Amendment. To be obscene, a judge and/or a jury must determine:
First, that the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; AND second, that the work depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, as measured by contemporary community standards, “hardcore” sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable law; AND third, that a reasonable person would find that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political and scientific value.
SIDE NOTE: Typical “hardcore pornography” (e.g., a website, DVD or magazine) consists of little if anything more than one depiction of hardcore sex after the other (i.e., it’s “wall-to-wall” sex).
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MICRO LEADERSHIP TRAINING
SALES - NINE TYPES TEMPERAMENT IN BUSINESS
STRATEGIC PLANNING PROJECT
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
COVID 19 TRAININGS FOR EMPLOYEES
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN FOR COVID-19
KONYA HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGERS MEETING
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NEW CORONA VIRUS (COVID-19)
The precautions we have taken as PETEK PLASTİK;
Public use areas (offices, dining hall, relaxation area, dressing room, WC and sinks) are disinfected daily.
Personnel services are disinfected daily.
Hand sanitizer is provided to each of our working units.
The hygiene rules that are applied routinely in the cafeteria are provided in packaging the bread as extra. The forks, knives, spoons are removed from common use and are given to our employees by kitchen staff. PCV/Cardboard cups are used instead of glass cups during tea services at meal times.
For tea service in the production rest room, the use of cardboard cups has started instead of glass cups.
Local and foreign drivers who move from outside the company to the warehouse unit are measured with laser thermometers at the security point, gloves and masks are provided if necessary, although disinfecting process is carried out. Drivers with a fever of 38 degrees or above or showing other symptoms are not allowed to enter the company.
The informational image of "14 Rules Against Corona Virus" published by the Ministry of Health was hung in areas where it can be seen by the employees (dressing room, sinks, OHS board, resting area).
Domestic and international travel of our employees has been stopped.
The temperature of our employees will be measured before getting on the shuttle services. Employees with 38 degrees and above will also be prevented from getting on the shuttle service and their names will be recorded. The names of these persons will be delivered to Human Resources by service drivers.
The temperature of the employees is also measured in company entries or in cases where necessary during the working period. Employees with fevers of 38 degrees or more or employees who also show symptoms of the disease are directed to the health care institutions.
Information leaflet and hand sanitizer are provided in the secretarial unit.
An emergency backup was established within the company by establishing the "Personnel Buddy System".
The fingerprint reading section of the Personnel Attendance Control Systems device is cancelled and only face reading for entry and exits are performed.
Our employees have received training in hygiene and corona virus prevention by our company doctor.
A new staff member is added to the Security (Advisory) and a staff member to the Secretariat for the day shift in order to tightly control the entrances of shipping companies, cargos and guests.
The second personnel reinforced to the Security (Advisory) unit will check the movements of transport companies’ drivers within the company during the day and perform their duties in accordance with the directions of the main security personnel.
The secretary main staff will certainly never leave the post. The second personnel who have been reinforced will perform their duties in accordance with the directives.
People from cargo companies are prohibited from going upstairs in the administrative building.
The guests who come to our company will be asked by Security whether they have an appointment. In both cases, information will be given to the guests who wants to visit. If the guests have arrived without an appointment, the guest’s entry will be rejected in accordance with the guidance of the relevant employee or will be directed to the Secretariat for a meeting. Accepting or rejecting guests who have arrived without an appointment is at the initiative of the employee they have come to visit to.
For accepted guests, the social distance (at least 1.5m range) will be taken into account in the Secretariat. Guests with a fever of 38 degrees or above and who have symptoms of the disease will not be accepted.
The sanitation procedures of the accepted guests, the supply of masks and gloves will be made by the Secretariat unit where necessary.
Interviews will be held again in each employee's own office taking into account the social distance (at least 1.5m range).
The temperature of the accepted guests will be measured at the entrance of the company.
Shipping company drivers will use WC located in the security unit. Entrances to the warehouse and the mess hall are strictly prohibited. They will eat their lunches in the container reserved for them outdoors.
By providing single-use prayer rugs to our mosques, we have limited the number of people who pray at the same time to a maximum of 3 people.
In order to reduce contact within personnel services, the number of services will be increased in accordance with the circular.
In accordance with the work schedule program, white collar staff working in offices will come alternately. In this process, white collar staff who need to come continuously due to the intensity of the work program will continue to work. Each department has done a flexible work program within itself. Our goal is to minimize as much contact as possible.
Working alternately the white-collar personnel will have common space and Micro connection so that they can work remotely. These personnel will continue their normal working behaviors as if they were working in the same company by making a quick turn to telephones, teleconferences and e-mails during their time working remotely, and will be available at any time.
In cases deemed very urgent and necessary, all personnel will be prepared to being call back for overtimes.
A maximum of 3 people will come side by side in offices and in closed areas such as the Quality Control Laboratory, preserving the social distance.
Locker rooms are closed for operators working shifts and blue-collar workers during the day shift. All employees are given spare work clothes. Employees will go home in their own work clothes and wash their work clothes or hang them on the balcony for ventilation without touching anywhere. They will come in a spare workwear the next day.
Staff entrances will be made from the usual place, but exits will be made from the back.
A maximum of 5 people will enter the rest room at the same time with social distance protection and tea will be brewed every hour.
Occupation Health Safety Specialist will continue to work part-time and continue their Occupation Health Safety activities without interruption.
Services will continue in normal order.
The use of masks in all areas within the company has become mandatory. Guests who come are also obliged to wear masks.
Personal distances are constantly controlled in 3 steps.
All personnel whose birth date is after January 1, 2000 were allowed in accordance with the final circular not to come to work.
Recycling bins for medical waste (masks and medical gloves used by staff) are positioned at different points in accordance with the last waste circular. Announcements for awareness were hung on all boards, e-mails and messages were sent from digital media.
The instructions were prepared to define the actions that must be followed by the drivers of the transportation companies who enters in our company. Each driver signs at the entrance of the company.
The direction of the pandemic in Turkey, the rules/regulations, circulars, etc. implemented and updated by the Turkish State, all kinds of action will be closely monitored on a daily basis and the above-taken actions will be updated.
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MITSUHIRO ARITA / WORKS
Illustrator / Designer / Artist
HI, I’m Mitsuhiro Arita. I know I’m quite well known as an artist of Pokémon TCG, but I have been working on a lot of other projects that you may never know.
I was born in Fukuoka, Japan and now living in Tokyo, Japan. I started my career as a professional illustrator in 1996, and the first project for me was Pokémon TCG. Sounds like a dream? But that was even before the first GBA Pokémon has not released. I honestly worried about to find another project before the end of my contract. Anyway, I started work on Pokémon TCG since the prototype stage. I drew illustrations for prototype and designed first five energy mark as well.
While I’m working on first Pokémon TCG product, I got a connection with a small publisher, named SHINKIGENSHA. SHINKIGENSHA is the publisher mainly making books about mythology, history and fantasy subjects that is suitable for the reference material for artist, comic artist, authors, and game creators. I drew tons of cuts for their books and got knowledge about those subjects.
Meanwhile, I suddenly found out by KENICHI IWAO, who well known as a planner and the creator of the world of Final Fantasy XI, named “Vana’diel.” He said he saw my drawings on the book “ARMS & ARMOR”(SHINKIGENSHA, 2004) and want to ask me to draw the world of Vana’diel. That was the beginning of my work for SQUARE ENIX.
I worked on Final Fantasy XI over ten years. Mainly I draw cuts for the articles about worldview but also the announcements about season events. I also worked on the scenario “Seekers of Adoulin”(2013) as the in-game cutscenes artist. I think nobody knows but I designed Final Fantasy XIV’s “Guild Leave Card” as well. Unfortunately, I left from Final Fantasy XI because they decided shrink the operation of XI and pass the baton to XIV after 12 years continuously expand and that is the rare long life for ONLINE MMO RPG. They even made an exhibition in their official store “ARTNIA” at Shinjuku, Japan for one of their 11th anniversary event.
During I had been working on Final Fantasy XI, I also did almost one hundred card illustrations for computer card & board game “Culdcept” series (OMIYA-SOFT, 1997-2016),
Illustrations for the series of novels “Guardians of Ga’hoole“,”Wolves of the beyond“, “Shark Wars“, “The Wild Ones” (Japanese translated version from KADOKAWA). In addition, Warner Bros made a 3D animation film named “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole“(Warner Bros. 2010) based on the series of “Guardians of Ga’hoole”, directed by Zack Snyder (300, Sucker Punch)
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card design for “DICE-O“(BANDAI) that is based on the characters from “SENTAI TV series” well known as “Power Ranger” in western countries I think, key visuals for “GANBARIDE“(BANDAI) that is the card game based on the characters from the TV series “KAMEN-RIDER”(Masked rider), they are a sort of comic heroes in the western countries.
I also worked on some of animation film titles, unfortunately “BERSERK: The Dolden Age Arc“(Warner Bros.) part I (2012) part II(2013) part III(2014) was the only a title that released. You can see a bit of my work in another post. I’m looking forward another one, “Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari“(Warner Bros. 2017) will be released in safe that I worked on as a concept designer for a year.
Left from the story of my commission work. I don’t have any background to do art. I went a collage and studied about Electronic engineering and studied mainly about Software engineering. Then after I graduate, I become to be an illustrator in some reasons. Of course I didn’t have enough skill to do professional illustrator, So I have to teach myself to survive as an professional Illustrator. It was natural I started to do sketching in daily life. I learnt almost everything from sketching. I mainly used to use pen, brush pen or fountain pan for years to do that, but recently I started sketching with watercolor even in the train. Every time I have t go far from my hometown, I drew something during the trip. I’m very excited to do sketching in Europe this time. I’ll post my sketches time by time, so please keep following me on Facebook or Twitter if you like.
From the experience of self taught, I’m talking while live drawing a picture at the collages and companies. I did live demo in many places all over Japan in last seven years, from northernmost state HOKKAIDO to southernmost state OKINAWA. I also had a live demo tour in China in 2013 for a week, and did in public library in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. in 2015.
From the experience of live demo, I started invited from the events sometimes. I did live demo at Collective Con(2015) and Tokyo Comic Con(2017). I painted a creepy old man on the big (3Mx1.5M) panel and took a picture with Lance Henriksen (great actor, greatly known as BISHOP in “Alien 2″1986)!
I was be a guest a couple of official signing event at Seattle (2000) and Orlando (2004) both in U.S. But on 2014, Ocala Comic Con was invited me as a special guest. After that, I started to be a guest at Comic Conventions as an artist. I was invited as a guest at Collective Con 2015 , and Ocala Comic Con 2016 again, then Tokyo Comic Con 2017.
I usually signing and take a picture with fans. I also do commissions if I have spare time. You can see Black and White and Colored in the pictures above.
Mitsuhiro,
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Jon Baker says:
I love your work, and try to collect every card in Pokemon that is by you. Some I can’t afford, but I’m near complete. I particularly love A Skarmory card on it’s cliff nest, The Lickilicky, The Girafirig and all your amazing Gyarados cards.
Mitsuhiro Arita says:
Thank you for the comment. It’s my pleasure to hear I have fans like you. Thank you for your continusous suport 🙂
Suyash Kumar says:
Hi Mitsuhiro, just discovered you have a site. Great stuff! Your Pokémon cards are my favourite and I’ve begun collecting as many as I can find 🙂
Any plans on releasing an artbook of your Pokémon illustrations? Keep up the amazing work.
I can’t release anything about Pokemon personality but there are already two artbooks released from the CREATURES inc, the company that had been developing the Pokemon TCG. The first one has the interview and making article of me, and the second one has a lot of early artworks I did, include Charizard and Pikachu of the first basement set, and the interview with Mr. Ishihara (Executive Producer of the Pokemon Universe), Mr. Oyama (Game designer of Pokemon TCG), and me as the first artist for the Pokemon TCG.
Nate N says:
When do you plan on visiting the US again? You were just in Texas and I found out after you were gone I’m from Michigan, any chance you would visit near by next time? P.s. I’m a huge fan of your pokemon art
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Caden Samuel Crawford says:
Did you design the illustrator card?
What do you mean by the illustrator card?
HampTC says:
Hi Mitsuhiroさん! I’m a big fan of your work, my dream is to be a professional illustrator like you! (I want to work at Nintendo) However I’m still a beginner at drawing and I’m not sure how to practice well.
You said you sketched from daily life. How did you learn anatomy? I’m having difficulty learning it. Did you also sketch from your imagination a lot?
Mitsuhiroのような絵が上手になるために必要な練習は何ですか？ 助けてください
I know you are asking the same question for the other people.
If you just follow somebody others path, You will be lost. You have to found your own way.
Just keep sketching. The real world will teach you everything.
Thank you very much. I will follow your advice
Rey McSriff says:
Hi Mitsuhiro, I’ve been a long time fan of your work since seeing your Pokemon TCG illustrations as a kid.
I would love to work in Japan as a freelance illustrator, but I’m not sure how to go about it. Is there any advice you could give on finding work as a foreigner freelancing in Japan?
First if all, people in Japan will not work with people who can’t speak Japanese. So you should study the Japanese first.
Also, you have to draw a lot. If you could come to Japan, I can speak you how I made my skill by self-taught at my sketching seminar.
Thank you for the response. I understand learning the language is important so I plan to work hard studying at a Japanese language school. I hope to attend one of your seminars when I am studying in Japan. Thanks again for your time!
Timothy Fields says:
I’m a big fan of your pokemon work and art in general, but ive always sort of wondered: of all the artworks you’ve done, which is your personal favorite?
The artwork I’m working on.
Lez and Jordan says:
Hi Mitsuhiro, my son and I got into pokemon around 2 years ago, and both love your work, we came about looking you up today as he was asking who was actually drawing the pokemon he loves so much.. so I recommended looking you up he loved to see a face to the name and we both enjoyed looking at your other work, we hope at some time in the future you are able to come to the UK for a comic con or similar event, as your work here is very muched loved, and wed both love the opportunity to meet you, all the best Lez and son Jordan.
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MMBFC Home Fish and Fishing Catch & Release Guide
We've all worried about our fish dying after being released and grimacing every time we think they have swum away strongly after being handled, shocked, burned and lobbed back into the water. Thinking it may swim away, but it will probably die. Here are some pointers as how best to release fish to maximise their chances of survival.
Upon catching, the fish will be highly stressed, muscle tissue will be lacking oxygen and will very have high levels of lactic acid build-up, known as lactic acidosis, and that lactic acid eventually finds its way into the bloodstream. You know this happens in human muscle tissue giving the feeling of pain and heaviness in muscles during exercise.The pH, or measurement of the blood's alkalinity, drops because of the addition of the acid. Once the blood's pH is disrupted, it can mean curtains for the fish.
Fish bodies are constantly supported by water, supporting around a third of their weight (just imagine you are 15st, and suddenly you become 20st). Lifting big fish from this supportive environment may very well cause muscle, cartilage and other tissue damage. As for holding them by the gill plate for a photo...just think of the stress in that area and on the backbone.
Fish in the main are cold blooded creatures, their temperature is rarely more than 1 degree centigrade above ambient water temperature, the exception in our water being sharks. When the water temperature is say 10 degrees centigrade and warm human hand of around 36 degrees centigrade picks up a fish you are likely to burn it and also remove the protein jelly (slime) that covers the fish skin, which helps to reduce friction through the water and vitally, to help protect the fish from disease pathogens.
So, how do you release fish to live and fight another day. Here are some key points, including keeping takers fresh for eating
Fish with barb-less hooks, flattening the barb with long nose piers or similar still leaves a little bump which helps keep the fish on during battle and also greatly facilitates the release of the fish as quickly as possible. Also helpful if you are unfortunate to hook yourself.
Try not to handle the fish at all, a flick of the wrist while the fish is in the water will easily release a de-barbed hook, if you must handle it, then use a wet towel (bar towels are great for this) and minimum contact.
Try not to take the fish out of the water, and if you have to use a net, make sure it is of the knot-less type of mesh.
If you have taken the fish from the water for whatever reason, hold it gently in the water by the caudal section (tail) again with a wet cloth to allow time for the lactic acid to disperse and for oxygen to return to unusable muscles, then release.
Hold the Fish Horizontally
You can use your metal claw – that's fine, but don't hang the fish to weigh it. Put one hand underneath the gills, or use your claw to hold its head. When catching and releasing a 150lb tarpon, we grab them with hard and stiff grips by the top lip. It's a shelf directly connected with no joints to the fish's flat skull.
This lovely lady was back home in the water after the angler's wet hands allowed her to swim away. Do it right, and the fish hardly knows what happened to it ten minutes after the release. Do it wrong, hang her twenty-five pounds by the head, for example, and you can do serious internal damage, including tearing the muscles in their throat. They die, and people who hate our sport have one more thing to point out about how cruel we are.
Hooked a fish
Catch-and-release anglers put fish back without a guilty conscience. They're skilled at landing and handling the fish and can remove the hook quickly, the fish's blood and well being will most likely go back to normal and everyone is happy. But if it takes too long to land the catch, then the fish could die, as much as three days later, from the imbalance in the blood. It's all about time. An experienced catch-and-release angler tries to get the fish back in the water as quickly as possible to prevent this from happening.
Another reason a fish can get injured is from the hook. Ideally, the fish is hooked in the mouth, usually called shallow hooking. Shallow hooking also includes the cheek and jaw. Deep hooking refers to a fish being hung on its belly, through the gills or deep into the throat near internal organs. Hooking the gills and stomach area is likely to kill the fish. Deep sea fish can also have trouble in surface pressure, just like a scuba diver does.
The quest to become a responsible catch and release angler starts with the kind of tackle used. There are two ways to attract a fish. One is with bait, and the other is with a lure.
Bait can be anything from a worm to a live bait fish. Lures come in all shapes and sizes, but they usually look like a small fish and have multiple hooks. Some bass lures don't look like fish, but simulate attractive movement with shiny spinning metal spoons. Bait is more likely to cause a gill or stomach hook, which is not so good.
Treble hooks, which have three prongs, are more likely to puncture and wound the fish as well. Many lures come with treble hooks, but you can replace them with single hooks. They even get through the water easier that way. Fly anglers use tiny artificial flies made by hand that have similarly low mortality rates.
There two basic types of single-pronged hook, J-hooks and circle hooks. J-hooks look like a letter 'J.' Circle hooks have a similar shape, but the bottom of the 'J' is typically wider, and the point comes around more toward the stem instead of straight up. Using circle hooks is less likely to result in deep hooking. For each, there is also the option for tiny metal barbs along the metal. Barbed hooks are tougher to get from a fish's mouth.
You can speed up the time it takes to remove a hook by only using barbless hooks or crimping the barbs with some pliers. It's also important to buy hooks that are appropriately sized for the fish you're trying to catch. If the hook is too large it can do more damage. A strong line also helps to get the fish in quickly.
So you've got your barbless circle hook, and you're using a lure instead of bait. The fish hits your line, and it's time to land it. Bring the fish in quickly and efficiently using a steady and deliberate technique. You should never pull the fish from the water using the line. You need to man up and do it with your hands or a net. If you use a net, use one made of knot-less cotton mesh or rubber that's less likely to harm the slime layer. Some anglers don't advocate the use of a net at all.
Photographing your catch is a good way to show off your skills, but for the sake of the fish, you've got to do it quick. Make sure your photographer has the camera ready and pre-focused. Until then keep the fish wet and calm. Crouch down close to the water and carefully hold the fish with two hands, supporting it under the belly and firmly by the tail. Wait a second for the fish to become accustomed to your grasp and then carefully lift it less than a foot from the water. Flash your pearly whites, take the picture immediately and return the fish gently back to the water.
Do Not Hang the Fish by it's Neck
For good catch and release you also need to be aware of what not to do. Do not grab a fish somewhere around its head and lift it vertically into the air. Think about it. It's cruel beyond any conscious creature's belief system to think it has to feel good to grab a creature that was living in a weight and gravity free ecosystem, and suddenly make its internal organs hang vertically from a hand or claw.
Do not pick fish up by the head, they were meant to remain horizontal.
Remove the Hook Right
Fish caught in shallow water can injure themselves thrashing around on rocks. So, look for a deep pool nearby. Once it's time to get the hook, see if you can do it with the fish still in the water. If you need to get the fish out of the water, wet your hands and lift it, holding it firmly by the tail and supporting it gently under the belly. Avoid touching the gills or squeezing the fish.
Use needle-nose pliers to remove the hook. Grasp the hook by the stem and, while holding the fish in the water, twist and pull gently, backing the hook out the way it came in. Don't ever wiggle the hook or pull with too much force if it's snagged. If the fish is gut-hooked or the hook is too deep into the throat, it's best to cut the hook as close to the body as possible and leave it in there. Many times the hook will simply dissolve and get spit out. The fish has a better chance at living than if you struggle to free the hook.
Once the hook is out, you need to revive the fish. "Tossing a fish" back into the water should remain an expression. Never throw a fish into the water. If you're bass fishing, you can hold the fish by the lower jaw and ease it back into the water. If it's a trout or another non-bass, lower the fish head-first with both hands the same way you handled it out of the water, supporting the belly. If it's a river catch, point the fish with its head upstream in a slow current. You may need to help it out some by moving it gently back and forth to allow water to flow into the gills. The same holds true for lake fish. Once it begins to come around and tries to swim away, simply release your grasp. Larger fish may take a little longer to revive.
If you plan on catch and release fishing and you should, be prepared ahead of time. Get the proper tackle, have your pliers within easy reach and the camera ready. Fish can only live for a few minutes out of the water, but you should never even come close to using this amount of time. Try and keep the time out of the water to less than 30 seconds. Experienced catch-and-release anglers never allow the fish to leave the water at all.
Keeping fish fresh for the table
If the fish is destined for the dinner table, kill it as quickly as possible. This will not only minimise its suffering, it will maximise its eating qualities. Fish that thrash and gasp themselves to death on the deck or or in the fish box may end up with bruised flesh.
The most effective way to kill a fish is by delivering a sharp blow across the head with a priest ( a solid wooden cosh or similar). It helps to hold the fish on a firm, flat surface, using a cloth so it doesn't slip from your hands then crack it over the head, as if you're banging a nail in with a hammer. As you might imagine, the bigger the fish, the harder and more numerous the blows required to kill. Sometimes in the frenzy of catching lots of fish, mackerel for example, it is tempting to abandon this responsibility, this should not be the case on the Club boats. You can easily kill a mackerel or similar small fish as you unhook it – by putting your thumb in its mouth, or gills, and pulling its head back to break its neck. This alternative method of dispatch works for most fish under a pound.
After you have whacked a fish and rendered it unconscious, its heart will still beat for a minute or two as the blood continues to circulate through its body. This gives you the opportunity to bleed it. There are three good reasons for doing this. 1. it ensures the fish dies quickly. 2. it empties the blood from the veins that weave through the fish's flesh. Bled fish have clean, translucent fillets, without vein tracks or dark patches of trapped blood, and both look and taste better for it. 3. to prolong, blood attracts and nurtures bacteria much faster than flesh, so draining it off means the fish can be kept fresh for longer. You need to bleed a fish while its heart is still pumping - so within a minute or less of that blow on its head. Cut its gill on both sides of the head with either a sharp blade or a pair of stout scissors. A major artery passes through the gills, who job is to pass oxygen from the water. You should see the blood start to flow from the gills almost immediately. We like to bleed our fish in an empty tray for ten minutes or so before rinsing them off and transferring them to the icebox.
To achieve optimum freshness it is best to gut the fish before they go in the icebox. If your busy catching, the gutting can wait, just so long as your fish is kept cold.
We hope this helps all anglers to better understand the reasons behind best practice of catch and release, no point releasing damaged fish if we are keen on maintaining the fish stock.
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