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Person Page - 57
John Walter Fox1,2,3,4
M, b. 9 February 1900, d. 8 March 1991
John Walter Fox was born on 9 February 1900 at Kirby, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of William Phillips Fox and Elizabeth Rachel Iseminger. He married Ivis Martha Minnie Hendrickson, daughter of Thomas Alva Hendrickson and Frances Amelia Hardinger, on 9 April 1924 at Washington Co, PA.. He married Frances Elizabeth Frye, daughter of Albert Layton Frye and Ocie Evelyn Moore. He died on 8 March 1991 at Ormond Beach, FL., at age 91.
Child of John Walter Fox and Ivis Martha Minnie Hendrickson
Jocelyn Mae Fox b. 7 Feb 1928, d. 30 Oct 2008
Children of John Walter Fox and Frances Elizabeth Frye
Samuel Albert Fox+ b. 29 Jun 1939, d. 5 Dec 2012
John William Fox+ b. 15 Aug 1941, d. 2013
Evelyn Kaye Fox+
Frances Elizabeth Fox+
[S1462] Letter, Jocelyn Wilms to Howard Hickman, 1986 through 2007.
[S1167] 1930 Greene Co, PA. Census, Whiteley Twp.
Minor "Scott" Fox1,2,3,4
M, b. circa September 1850, d. 8 June 1887
Minor "Scott" Fox was born circa September 1850 at PA. He was the son of Josephus Fox and Elizabeth Renner. He married Eliza J. "Lydia" Cowell circa 1874. He died on 8 June 1887 at Allegheny Work House, Allegheny Co, PA..5
Children of Minor "Scott" Fox and Eliza J. "Lydia" Cowell
Libbie Fox b. 5 Jun 1875, d. 17 May 1877
Minnie L. Fox+ b. Sep 1876, d. 3 Aug 1939
John W. Fox b. 1879, d. 27 Nov 1903
Charles Albert Fox+ b. 25 Nov 1885, d. 2 Aug 1921
[S1252] 1870 Greene Co, PA. Census, Perry Twp.
[S61] Roland D. Furlong, Dulaney-Furlong, p. 218.
[S1088] Obituary ,Waynesburg Republican, 16 Jun 1887.
Mary 'Polly' Renner1,2,3,4,5,6,7
F, b. 13 July 1827, d. 13 October 1863
Mary 'Polly' Renner was born on 13 July 1827 at Whiteley Twp, Greene Co, PA.. She was the daughter of Barnet Renner and Elizabeth Hickman. She married Lewis Fox, son of John Fox, before 1850. She died of child birth. She died on 13 October 1863 at Monongalia Co, WV., at age 36.7 She was buried at Renner Cemetery, Perry Twp, Greene Co, PA..
Children of Mary 'Polly' Renner and Lewis Fox
Catherine Fox+ b. 1851
Elizabeth Fox+ b. 1853, d. 16 Nov 1918
Annettie Fox+ b. 30 Jul 1856, d. 15 Oct 1940
Elvina "Nancy" Fox+ b. 8 Dec 1858, d. 2 Oct 1939
Sarah Renner b. 12 Oct 1863, d. 2 Nov 1863
[S1495] Perry Twp, Greene Co, PA. Tax Records, Tax Assessor's Office, Waynesburg, PA.
[S1091] Letter, Ronald Fox to Howard Hickman, c 1988.
[S1282] 1860 Monongalia Co, VA. Census, District #7, Job.
[S2377] Renner Cemetery Readings, Perry Twp, Greene Co.
[S1044] WV Death Record.
Robert Renner1,2,3,4,5,6
M, b. June 1825, d. 16 August 1913
Robert Renner was born in June 1825 at Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Barnet Renner and Elizabeth Hickman. He married July A. Haines. He left Perry Twp., Greene Co, PA. and moved to McLean Co, IL. in 1852. He married Theda Jane Gibbs on 28 July 1864 at McLean Co, IL..7 He married Francis A Leaman on 3 June 1873 at Logan Co, IL..7 He was a farmer in 1880 at Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co, IL.. He was a farmer in 1900 at Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co, IL.. He died on 16 August 1913 at Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co, IL., at age 88.
Children of Robert Renner and July A. Haines
E.J. Renner b. 1847
Emily Renner+ b. 1849
Barbara Ellen Renner+ b. 11 Jul 1854, d. 16 May 1905
Children of Robert Renner and Theda Jane Gibbs
Ethel M. Renner b. Dec 1865
Edith Renner b. c Feb 1870
Children of Robert Renner and Francis A Leaman
Mabel G. Renner b. Sep 1875
Claude William Renner b. 26 Oct 1877, d. 1961
Fred A. Renner b. May 1880, d. b 1900
Guy Arthur Renner+ b. 12 May 1881, d. 1963
Margaret Maggie Renner+ b. May 1883
[S1011] Greene Co Orphan Court Records ,3/176.
[S1208] 1880 Logan Co, IL. Census, Mt. Pulaski.
[S1215] Logan Co, IL. Probate Record of Robert Renner, 16 Aug 1913 ,Book 31, p. 352 and p. 366.
[S1193] IL Marriage Record.
John N. Renner1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
M, b. 4 March 1833, d. 29 October 1913
John N. Renner was born on 4 March 1833 at Whiteley Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Barnet Renner and Elizabeth Hickman. He married Nancy (---) in 1857. He married Elizabeth J. Arnett on 4 June 1874 at Monongalia Co, WV.. He died on 29 October 1913 at Perry Twp, Greene Co, PA., at age 80.
Children of John N. Renner and Elizabeth J. Arnett
Leonard W. Renner+ b. 1 May 1875, d. 11 May 1958
Charles Moss Renner+ b. 16 Sep 1877, d. 7 Jul 1965
Hetty L. Renner b. 6 Jun 1879, d. 14 Mar 1963
Dora Renner+ b. 8 Mar 1882, d. 10 Nov 1969
Cora Bell Renner+ b. 8 Mar 1882, d. 18 Sep 1958
Grover Cleveland Renner+ b. 29 May 1884, d. Apr 1964
Owen Silas Renner+ b. 17 Jul 1886, d. 30 Jan 1970
Spencer Thurmand Renner+ b. 30 Aug 1888, d. 25 Apr 1966
[S1011] Greene Co Orphan Court Records ,30/179.
[S1182] Greene County, PA. Death Records ,Book 2, pg 138, line 32.
[S1133] Greene Co, PA. Estate Records ,Will 12/461.
[S1088] Obituary ,Waynesburg Republican, 13 Nov 1913 and 18 Dec 1913.
Samuel Hickman1,2,3,4
M, b. circa 1795, d. circa January 1862
Y-DNA Test Results of Hickmans of Greene Co, PA, Surry Co, NC. and Chester Co, PA.
Samuel Hickman was born circa 1795 at Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Robert Hickman and Mary Magdalena Livengood. Samuel served twice in the War of 1812. First, he served as a Private in Captain William Harper's Company of Infantry, 1 Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, from October 2, 1812 to April 15, 1813. After the burning of Washington D.C. by the British, he served as a Private in Captain Levi Smith's Company under Major Mitchell's Pennsylvania Volunteers, from November 10 to December 4, 1814.
Samuel first appears in the tax rolls of Whiteley Township, Greene County, as a "singleman" in 1816, probably working and living on his parent's farm on Frosty Run. In 1819, he worked for Jesse Hammers making iron ploughs. He is listed on the annual Whiteley Twp tax lists through 1822 when he is listed as "removed" on the Whiteley Twp tax lists. He is not listed on any Greene county tax lists until the fall of 1828, when he reappears in the Whiteley Township tax.
He married Elizabeth (---) circa 1823. In the 1830 Census, he is listed adjacent to the Shriver families in Whiteley Twp. Very little is known about Samuel's wife. We know her first name was Elizabeth, based on the following notice Samuel placed in the Sept 1, 1834 Waynesburg newspaper. "NOTICE. I hereby forwarn all persons against trusting or harboring my wife Elizabeth, as she has left my bed and board without just cause or provocation; and I herefore determined no debts of her contracting after this date." According to family recollections, Elizabeth left Samuel and the children when they were still young. In 1835, Samuel moved onto the 15 acre parcel in Franklin Township, that was owned by his father. Her son, Morgan, is said to have attempted to visit her later in life, but that he was dissuaded in order "not to stir up old hurts."
Samuel's only trade was a blacksmith. He did not live a prosperous life. In the 1833 tax record, his daughter was listed as a "poor child" needing County Assistance for her schooling. When his sons grew up, he lived with them, his occupation being listed as "day laborer." In the inventory of his estate, there was only the bare essentials plus a shotgun and shoe making tools. When his father died in 1842, Samuel inherited his father's clothing and only the use of the 15 acres in Franklin Township, which was specifically willed not to Samuel, but his two sons.
In 1851 and 1856, Samuel received two military bounties of 80 acres each, for his service in the War of 1812. As was common practice, he stayed in Greene County and sold his bounties of property in Iowa and Wisconsin to others willing to travel further west. In 1854, he purchased 22 acres on the Whiteley and Jefferson Township border, adjacent to his father's old homestead. He lived there for the rest of his life.
He died circa January 1862 at Greene Co, PA; There is no record of his death, but the proceedings for his estate began on February 7, 1862. He was buried at Hickman Cemetery, Frosty Run, Greene Co, PA; Photos of Hickman Cemetery.
Children of Samuel Hickman and Elizabeth (---)
Christina Hickman+ b. 1825, d. 28 Feb 1888
Jesse A. Hickman+ b. 1828, d. 12 Jun 1885
Morgan Hickman+ b. 1830, d. 29 Mar 1896
[S1154] Family History written by Jesse Hammers. Source: Scott Hanna 805-373-4519.
[S1870] Samuel Hickman sources ,Greene Co. Tax Records 1816 to 1862; 1830-60 Census Records; War of 1812 Military Records, National Archives; Bounty Application File #51412 in National Archives; Land Warrant #17603 and #22450, National Archives; Estate File #1969, recorded Greene Co. Deed Book 3, p.338; Greene Co. Deed Book 58, p.40; Greene Co. Orphan Court Dockets, Vol. 4, p.86 and Vol.5, p.86; W.P.A. 1935 Veteran Burial Survey [located in Greene Co Veterans Affairs Office, High St, Waynesburg in 2007]; Waynesburg Messenger notice, Oct. 28, 1834; family recollections as recorded by Samuel's great-granddaughter, Willa Hunter.
Christina Hickman1,2,3
F, b. 1825, d. 28 February 1888
Christina Hickman was born in 1825 at Greene Twp, Greene Co, PA.. She was the daughter of Samuel Hickman and Elizabeth (---). Christina was often called by her nickname "Tina." When her parents separated, her mother moved away and remarried, so Christina was probably raised by her father. The family was evidently poor as she was one of the six poor children of Franklin Township, whose schooling was paid by the County in 1833.
She married Benjamin Knisely, son of John Knisely and Elizabeth Yeater, circa 1845.
(The surname "Knisely" was sometimes spelled "Nicely".) Their first son was born about 1846. Christina, Benjamin and their children are listed together in the 1850 and 1860 census of Wayne Township, Greene County.
The Greene County Poorhouse opened in June 1862. On October 29th of that year, Christina and all her children were admitted to the Poorhouse. She spent the remaining 26 years of her life living in the Poorhouse, while her husband lived on his brother's farm, until his death in 1880. Christina had at least eight children, six of them were listed as "idiot" in one or more of the census. This may have been due to their being raised in the austere conditions of the Poorhouse. While in the Poorhouse, six more "Nicely" children were born. Most, if not all, were children of Christina's unwed daughters, who lived in the Poorhouse.
She died on 28 February 1888 at County Poor House, Greene Co, PA..
Her death is recorded in the County Poorhouse records. The Greene County Poorhouse building is well preserved and is now the home of the Greene County Historical Society and Museum. It is open to the public and located on old Route 22, east of Waynesburg.
Children of Christina Hickman and Benjamin Knisely
Robert Lindsey Knisely b. 1846
Sarah Knisely+ b. Apr 1848, d. a 1900
George W. Knisely b. 1851, d. 15 Nov 1903
Rebecca Knisely b. Jun 1853, d. 5 Aug 1901
Rachel Anna Knisely+ b. 30 May 1856, d. 4 Apr 1933
Elizabeth Mary Knisely+ b. 1857
John Eagon Knisely b. Apr 1860, d. 17 Jan 1873
William Henry Knisely b. Feb 1862, d. 25 Mar 1932
[S1641] Greene County Poor House, Greene County Poorhouse Records.
[S1873] Christina Knicely Sources ,Samuel Hickman's Estate Papers; 1850-1880 census; County Tax Records.
[S3513] 1880 Federal Census, Supplement Schedules for Dependent, Defective, Delinquet Classes ,Franklin Twp, Greene Co, PA. Idiot List, Listed as Pauper.
Morgan Hickman1,2,3,4,5,6,7
M, b. 1830, d. 29 March 1896
Morgan Hickman
Morgan Hickman was born in 1830 at Whiteley Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Samuel Hickman and Elizabeth (---). He married Mary Eliza Parrott, daughter of Thomas F. Parrott and Susan Evans, on 5 June 1857 at Pulaski Co, IL.. He died on 29 March 1896 at Jefferson Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was buried at Morrisville, Greene Co, PA..
Morgan's parents separated when he was young and he was raised by his father in poor surroundings. In the 1850 Census, he is listed living with his brother Jesse. He apparently moved away from Greene County, PA, as he does not appear on any Greene County tax list until 1860. Where he lived during his twenties is unknown, but it is known that on June 5, 1857, Morgan married Mary Eliza Parrott in "Pulased" County, IL. In 1860, he and his wife returned to Greene County to live again with his father and brother.
Morgan was a carpenter by trade. For the next 22 years, Morgan lived on a 22 acre parcel of land in Jefferson and Whiteley Townships, Greene County, which he eventually inherited from his father.
Morgan served as a private in the Civil War, enlisting on September 8, 1862, in Company C, 18th Regiment of Calvary, Pennsylvania Volunteers. In the winter of 1862, they drilled and camped just west of Washington D.C. in log cabins with shelters for their horses. After frequent scouting assignments, the 18th Calvary participated in the battle of Gettysburg in the summer of 1863. At the end of the battle, the 18th Calvary followed and harassed the Confederate Army, riding and fighting for 48 straight hours. It was at this point, that Morgan Hickman left the 18th Calvary, being listed as a deserter on July 4th, at Emmitsburg, MD. When he filed for a pension in 1883, he stated that he had been ill with yellow jaundice at the time.
Where he lived during the time of his desertion is unknown. He is not listed in the tax records in Greene County in 1863, 1864 and 1865. If he lived in Greene County, he hid from the tax assessor as well as the Army's General Provost.
In April 1865, President Lincoln issued a Presidential pardon for all those who had deserted, and Morgan returned to the U.S. Army on April 27. He then mustered out on July 10, 1865, at Fairfax, VA., receiving an honorable discharge.
In 1882, Morgan sold his 22 acres in Greene County, PA. and moved south to Glover's Gap, Marion County, WV.
About 1884, Morgan and Mary adopted a ten year old boy, "Archibald." Archibald was born with the name "Otto", in the Greene County Poorhouse on Dec 30, 1873. He was the son of one of the unwed daughters of Morgan's sister, Christina Niceley, who lived in the Poorhouse.
In 1890 he returned to Greene County, PA. buying 32 1/2 acres, in Jefferson Township. Morgan and Mary lived their last years in poverty, with doctor's bills reducing the equity on their property. They relied on financial assistance from Morgan's nephew, William Riley Hickman.
Morgan died at his home on Sunday, March 29, 1896, after a 18 month long spinal illness. He was buried the following day at the Public Cemetery of Morrisville at N.188 E.78. His wife Mary died 21 May 1897 and was also buried in the Morrisville Cemetery.
Morgan and Mary had no children, other than their adopted son Archibald Hickman. Archibald married Matilda May Funk and they lived in Jefferson Township until 1917, when they moved to Washington, Washington County, PA, where they worked in a glass factory.
(Sources: Military Records and Pension Records for Morgan Hickman, National Archives; Greene County Tax Records, Waynesburg, PA; Greene County, PA. and Marion County, WV. Land Records; Greene County Death Records; Will of Morgan Hickman, File #4395, Greene County Will Book 7, pp.421-2; W.P.A. Veteran Burial Survey. Informant: S.S. Rinehart, 26 Nov 1935, Card File located at the Greene County Historical Society in 1988; "History of the Eighteenth Regiment of Calvary" by the Publication Committee of the Regimental Association, New York, 1909; U.S. Census records, Greene Co, PA: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910; Washington Co. PA: 1920. Family remembrances as told to great niece, Willa Hunter.)
[S1053] Waynesburg Newspaper, 30 June 1852.
[S1182] Greene County, PA. Death Records ,Book 1, pg 66, line 11.
[S1252] 1870 Greene Co, PA. Census, Kirby.
[S1250] 1850 Greene Co, PA. Census, Jefferson Twp.
[S1085] Letter, Phyllis Justice to Howard Hickman, 1990 to 2010, photograph.
Edna Gale Six1,2,3,4,5,6
F, b. 12 May 1898, d. 22 November 1946
Edna Gale Six was born on 12 May 1898 at Jollytown, Greene Co, PA.. She was the daughter of George Gidley and Matilda Six. She married Jesse Cleveland Phillips on 12 June 1920 at Waynesburg, Greene Co, PA.. She died on 22 November 1946 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA., at age 48.
Child of Edna Gale Six and Jesse Cleveland Phillips
LeRoy Phillips
[S1128] Greene County Birth Record.
[S1130] 1900 Greene Co, PA. Census, Gilmore Twp.
[S553] 1920 Greene Co, PA. Census, Gilmore Twp.
[S1167] 1930 Greene Co, PA. Census, Waynesburg.
[S1088] Obituary ,Democrat Messenger, 23 Nov 1946.
Cassander A. Hickman1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
F, b. 1801, d. 9 July 1885
Cassander A. Hickman was born in 1801 at Greene Co, PA.. She was the daughter of Robert Hickman and Mary Magdalena Livengood. She married Hiram Nichols. She died on 9 July 1885 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. She was buried at Family burial ground, Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA..9
Children of Cassander A. Hickman and Hiram Nichols
Levina Nichols+ b. 3 Oct 1821, d. 19 May 1884
Mary Nichols+ b. 1823, d. 1859
Robert H. Nichols+ b. 1824, d. 9 Mar 1899
Elias Nichols+ b. 22 Jun 1826, d. 8 Nov 1901
Valentine Nichols+ b. 15 Jun 1827, d. 9 Jun 1901
Charlotte Nichols b. 1837, d. bt 1880 - 1884
John Van Buren Nichols+ b. 27 Dec 1837, d. 30 Nov 1892
[S1133] Greene Co, PA. Estate Records ,Will #3493.
[S1247] 1820 Greene Co, PA Census, Greene Twp.
[S1248] 1830 Greene Co, PA. Census, Greene Twp.
[S1249] 1840 Greene Co, PA. Census, Wayne Twp.
[S1088] Obituary ,Waynesburg Republican, 21 Jul 1885.
Valentine Nichols1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Valentine Nichols was born on 15 June 1827 at Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Hiram Nichols and Cassander A. Hickman. He married Jannettie Spragg on 5 October 1848 at Greene Co, PA.. He moved to Colfax, WV. in 1896. He died on 9 June 1901 at age 73. He was buried at Colfax Cemetery, Colfax, Marion Co, WV..
Children of Valentine Nichols and Jannettie Spragg
Mary Ann Nichols+ b. 13 Nov 1849, d. 11 Jan 1929
Carson J. Nichols+ b. 20 Apr 1851, d. 25 Sep 1932
William Benson Nichols+ b. 14 Jul 1856, d. 16 Jan 1935
Cassander M. Nichols+ b. 13 Nov 1858, d. 7 Sep 1942
Nancy Nichols b. 1862, d. b 1907
John L. Nichols b. 1864, d. 4 Jun 1928
Hiram Lee Nichols+ b. 13 Jul 1866, d. 15 Feb 1946
[S1118] Newspaper clipping ,Waynesburg Messenger 10 Oct 1848 (as published in 2000 Cornerstone Clues p41).
[S1522] Nuzum Cemetery Readings www.wvpics.com/NuzumCemetery.htm.
[S2439] 1900 Belmont Co, OH. Census, Smith Twp.
Carson J. Nichols1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
M, b. 20 April 1851, d. 25 September 1932
Carson J. Nichols was born on 20 April 1851 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Valentine Nichols and Jannettie Spragg. He married Rachel Ann Knisely, daughter of Joseph Knisely and Rachel Shriver, in 1874. He died on 25 September 1932 at Hundred, Wetzel Co, WV., at age 81.
Children of Carson J. Nichols and Rachel Ann Knisely
Ida Rozell Nichols+ b. 11 Apr 1874, d. 6 Jul 1955
Charles T. Nichols+ b. 3 Oct 1876, d. 13 Feb 1952
Jennie Alice Nichols+ b. 23 Jan 1881, d. 14 Dec 1956
Thomas Commodore Nichols b. 23 Aug 1882, d. 25 Feb 1949
Minnie E. Nichols b. 13 Mar 1886, d. 22 Sep 1886
[S1273] 1930 Wetzel Co, WV. Census, Church District.
Robert H. Nichols1,2,3,4,5,6,7
M, b. 1824, d. 9 March 1899
Robert H. Nichols was born in 1824 at Greene Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Hiram Nichols and Cassander A. Hickman. He married Rachel A. Spragg, daughter of Jeremiah Spragg and Sarah Shriver. He died on 9 March 1899 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was buried at Fairall Cemetery, Greene Co, PA..
Children of Robert H. Nichols and Rachel A. Spragg
Sarah Ann Nichols b. 15 Oct 1851, d. 24 Oct 1851
Inghram Nichols+ b. 11 Feb 1852, d. 8 Aug 1915
Josephus S. Nichols+ b. 6 Nov 1853, d. 21 Jun 1928
Melissa J. Nichols+ b. 5 Mar 1855, d. 21 Apr 1924
Lafayette Nichols+ b. 2 Apr 1856, d. 2 Oct 1956
Melvin H. Nichols+ b. 17 Feb 1859, d. 22 Dec 1944
Eliza Ella Nichols+ b. 28 Feb 1865, d. 6 Mar 1946
Lucy C. Stewart b. 1871
[S1141] Greene County Cemetery Readings.
[S1133] Greene Co, PA. Estate Records ,Probate 8/229, 10/216.
[S1088] Obituary ,Waynesburg Republican, 3 Mar 1899.
William Lindsey Renner1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
M, b. 12 July 1857, d. 8 February 1935
William Lindsey Renner was born on 12 July 1857 at Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Elisha T. Renner and Jane Gump. He married Katie Josephine Sanguinette, daughter of Peter Augustus Sanguinette, on 3 April 1879 at Dallas Co, TX..9 He and Katie Josephine Sanguinette were divorced. He lived in 1920 at Grand Prarie Precinct, Dallas Co, TX; living with son Sylva. He lived in 1930 at Dallas, TX; living with son Sylva. He died on 8 February 1935 at Dallas, Dallas Co, TX., at age 77.10 He was buried at Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Dallas, TX..10
Children of William Lindsey Renner and Katie Josephine Sanguinette
Harry Abby Renner b. Jan 1880, d. b 1900
Silvester V. "Silva" Renner+ b. 19 Jan 1885, d. 20 Nov 1947
Earl Elisha Renner+ b. 14 Mar 1888, d. 17 Nov 1945
Maude Evelyn Renner+ b. Feb 1890, d. 10 Apr 1966
Thomas Perry Renner+ b. 6 Feb 1892, d. 26 Feb 1930
Cloie Darlene Renner+ b. 22 Jul 1894, d. 3 Dec 1981
Charles Christopher Renner b. 14 Nov 1896, d. 27 May 1962
Albert S. "Pete" Renner b. 12 Jul 1899, d. 4 Jan 1960
[S1460] 1870 Champaign Co, IL. Census, Champaign.
[S1251] 1860 Greene Co, PA. Census, Springhill Twp.
[S1461] 1880 Dallas Co, TX. Census.
[S1497] 1900 Dallas Co, TX. Census, Justice Precinct 03 aheet 23 and sheet 15.
[S1523] 1920 Dallas Co, TX. Census, Grand Prarie Precinct.
[S1525] TX Death Index.
[S1088] Obituary ,Dallas Morning New, 9 Feb 1935.
[S3934] TX Death Record.
[S3246] TX Marriage Record.
[S1524] Chad Osteen, e-mail to Howard Hickman, 2007.
Elias Nichols1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
M, b. 22 June 1826, d. 8 November 1901
Elias Nichols was born on 22 June 1826 at Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Hiram Nichols and Cassander A. Hickman. He married Lucy Shriver on 4 November 1850 at Greene Co, PA.. He died on 8 November 1901 at Maxwell, Pleasants Co, WV., at age 75. He was buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, Maxwell, WV..
Children of Elias Nichols and Lucy Shriver
Martha Jane Nichols+ b. 25 Sep 1852, d. 1 Aug 1945
William Nichols+ b. 20 Jun 1854, d. 9 Oct 1927
Robert Nichols+ b. 10 Jul 1856, d. 9 Apr 1895
Henry Nichols+ b. 16 Apr 1858, d. 31 Oct 1922
Archibald Nichols+ b. 20 Oct 1860, d. 20 Jan 1938
[S668] Cemetery Readings.
[S1485] 1880 Pleasants Co, WV. Census.
Mary Nichols1,2
Mary Nichols was born in 1823 at Greene Twp, Greene Co, PA.. She was the daughter of Hiram Nichols and Cassander A. Hickman. She married Samuel L. Shultz. She died in 1859 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA..
Children of Mary Nichols and Samuel L. Shultz
John Luce Shultz+ b. 9 Sep 1846, d. 18 Mar 1903
Hiram Shultz+ b. 20 Jul 1848, d. 20 Apr 1920
Cassander Elizabeth Shultz+ b. Jan 1850, d. 12 Jul 1930
Samuel Reason Shultz+ b. 8 Sep 1852, d. 30 Jun 1924
Solomon Shultz+ b. 19 Dec 1855, d. 5 Nov 1910
Remembrance Shultz b. 1859, d. 23 Aug 1924
[S143] Waynesburg Republican (1979 Cornerstone Clues p. 63).
John Luce Shultz1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
M, b. 9 September 1846, d. 18 March 1903
John Luce Shultz was born on 9 September 1846 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Samuel L. Shultz and Mary Nichols. He married Amelia Yeager, daughter of Alexander Yeager and Lucy Thralls, on 24 December 1869. He died on 18 March 1903 at Whiteley Twp, Greene Co, PA., at age 56.
Children of John Luce Shultz and Amelia Yeager
Haddie Belle Shultz b. 14 Mar 1874, d. Oct 1931
Sierra Nevada "Sarah" Shultz+ b. 5 Aug 1876, d. 2 Jan 1938
Emma May Shultz+ b. 15 Sep 1878, d. 6 Apr 1946
Mary Margaret Shultz+ b. 3 Feb 1881, d. 3 Apr 1944
Jesse Lee Shultz+ b. 18 Nov 1883, d. 18 Jul 1957
Annie D. Shultz+ b. 1886
Sadie Oscie Shultz+ b. Apr 1889
Roy Owen Shultz+ b. 21 Dec 1892, d. 1967
Glenn Fossie Shultz+ b. 24 Aug 1894, d. 15 Mar 1944
[S144] Cornerstone Clues 1988 p.107 & 1985 p.77.
[S1133] Greene Co, PA. Estate Records ,Probate 20/209.
[S1130] 1900 Greene Co, PA. Census, Franklin Twp.
[S553] 1920 Greene Co, PA. Census, Franklin Twp.
[S1088] Obituary ,Waynesburg Republican, 26 Mar 1903.
Hiram Shultz1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
M, b. 20 July 1848, d. 20 April 1920
Hiram Shultz was born on 20 July 1848 at Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Samuel L. Shultz and Mary Nichols. He married Hannah Delphia Yost. He married Mary Ellen Tustin on 12 October 1895 at Greene Co, PA..11 He was a stone mason. He died on 20 April 1920 at Waynesburg, PA., at age 71. He was buried at Phillips Church Cemetery, Greene Co, PA..
Children of Hiram Shultz and Hannah Delphia Yost
Mary Elizabeth Shultz+ b. 1873, d. b 1944
Casander E. "Cassie" Shultz+ b. Mar 1875, d. b 1944
Samuel E. Shultz b. 1876, d. b 1920
George Thomas Shultz+ b. 20 Jun 1877
William M. Shultz+ b. 28 Mar 1881, d. 23 Dec 1946
Jennie Shultz b. 14 Mar 1882, d. 13 Oct 1944
Fannie L. Shultz+ b. 1890, d. 1968
Children of Hiram Shultz and Mary Ellen Tustin
Sarah Lydia Shultz+ b. 23 Apr 1896
John L.S. Shultz b. 26 Dec 1897, d. May 1967
Edwin Shultz b. 13 May 1902, d. 7 Mar 1983
[S1129] Weaver Funeral (Cornerstone Clues 1989, p. 20).
[S1150] 1900 Monongalia Co, WV. Census, Clay District.
[S1151] 1910 Monongalia Co, WV. Census.
[S553] 1920 Greene Co, PA. Census, Waynesburg.
[S1088] Obituary ,22 Apr 1920.
[S1334] Greene Co, PA. Marriage Records.
Cassander Elizabeth Shultz1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
F, b. January 1850, d. 12 July 1930
Cassander Elizabeth Shultz was born in January 1850 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. She was the daughter of Samuel L. Shultz and Mary Nichols. She married John Thomas Rinehart, son of Samuel Rinehart and Rachel Crayne, in 1872. She died on 12 July 1930 at Downs Station, WV., at age 80.
Children of Cassander Elizabeth Shultz and John Thomas Rinehart
(---) Rinehart d. b 1900
Eleanor Harriet Rinehart+ b. 29 Jun 1874, d. 21 Jul 1930
Dorcas Malinda Rinehart+ b. 6 Apr 1876, d. 4 Mar 1967
Emma Belle Rinehart b. 24 Oct 1877, d. 8 Sep 1941
Inghram Rinehart+ b. 14 Dec 1877, d. 6 Dec 1949
Mary Viola Rinehart+ b. Jan 1880, d. b 1910
Charles Rinehart b. 23 Dec 1881, d. 16 Jan 1957
Martha Anne Rinehart+ b. Feb 1884, d. Jan 1969
Robert C. Rinehart b. 16 Nov 1888, d. 27 Aug 1912
Shirley Francis Rinehart+ b. 17 May 1893, d. 3 Mar 1970
[S1133] Greene Co, PA. Estate Records ,19/272.
Solomon Shultz1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
M, b. 19 December 1855, d. 5 November 1910
Solomon Shultz was born on 19 December 1855 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was the son of Samuel L. Shultz and Mary Nichols. He married Susan C Franks, daughter of Jacob Franks and Anna McDougal, on 31 January 1880 at Wayne Twp, Greene Co, PA.. He was a manager of a livery stable in 1910 at Waynesburg, PA.. He died on 5 November 1910 at Waynesburg, PA., at age 54.
Children of Solomon Shultz and Susan C Franks
Francis Irene "Fannie" Shultz+ b. Feb 1881, d. 1922
Orpha M. Shultz b. Mar 1887, d. 17 Sep 1960
Hazel D. Shultz b. Nov 1896, d. 27 Sep 1976
[S148] Cemetery Records (1986 Cornerstone Clues p.19).
[S1133] Greene Co, PA. Estate Records ,Will 11/492, 19/66.
[S1130] 1900 Greene Co, PA. Census, Washington Twp.
[S1088] Obituary ,Waynesburg Republican, 10 Nov 1910.
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Judge Jeanine Pirro rips into Democrats telling Trump to ‘accept he lost and move on’
November 16, 2020 Dianne Reeves US News
Judge Jeanine Pirro launched an attack on Democrats and others who are telling President Donald Trump and his supporters to accept that he lost the election to Joe Biden at the top of her Fox News show on Saturday night.
Pirro’s rant came hours after tens of thousands of Trump fans marched through Washington DC to show support for the president’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.
The host listed off some of those claims and insisted that Trump has no obligation to concede until they are investigated fully.
‘We’ll pursue all legal avenues where there are irregularities, anomalies, illegalities and corruptions, and until the certification and the electors vote, that is not a lot to ask,’ she said of herself and other Trump supporters.
‘So don’t you dare ask us to just accept it and move on, and don’t you dare tell me I’m being un-American by questioning what even a Supreme Court justice has put a hold on.
‘And don’t you dare ask us to go quietly into the night.’
Judge Jeanine Pirro launched an attack on Democrats and others telling President Trump to accept that he lost the election to Joe Biden at the top of her Fox News show Saturday night
Pirro’s rant came hours after tens of thousands of Trump fans marched through Washington DC to show support for the president’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud
Pirro pointed out that it is not up to the media to declare the winner of the election – a complaint that has been pushed loudly and frequently by Trump and his allies – even though the media has signaled a presumptive winner in every election in modern history.
She also questioned the true motivations behind changes made to this year’s election procedures in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as Trump has done.
‘We are criticized because we are asking questions,’ she said. ‘Under the cover of Covid, rules were changed, providing opportunities for wrongdoers.
‘Covid cannot be used to run herd on our constitution. Covid is not a prophylactic that prevents us from exercising our constitutional fundamental right to vote.’
Pirro listed off several allegations of voter fraud pushed by the Trump campaign in lawsuits across various states, such as GOP poll watchers being barred from counting centers, ballots being accepted late and corruption of machines that tally votes.
While those allegations have yet to be substantiated, Pirro insisted that they must be probed extensively.
‘The question is, will any of these allegations affect a sufficient number of votes to change the result of the election?’ Pirro asked. ‘Maybe yes, and maybe no.’
She then acknowledged the possibility that the allegations would not sway the result, and said she could accept a Biden presidency in that case.
‘If the answer is President Trump did not win, then on January 20, Joe Biden will be my president,’ she said.
‘But until then, President Trump is my president because America has only one president at a time.
‘And in the meantime, please don’t tell me that we cannot examine the ballots. Please do not tell me that we cannot pursue these irregularities. That’s laughable!’
‘The question is, will any of these allegations affect a sufficient number of votes to change the result of the election?’ Pirro asked. ‘Maybe yes, and maybe no. If the answer is President Trump did not win, then on January 20, Joe Biden will be my president. But until then, President Trump is my president because America has only one president at a time’
Trump appeared to agree with Pirro’s commentary as he retweeted five clips from her show.
Hours later on Sunday morning Trump admitted for the first time that Biden won the election – but quickly clarified that he still believes he is the rightful winner and the election was ‘stolen’ by Democrats.
‘He won because the Election was Rigged,’ the president tweeted. ‘NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!’
President Trump tweeted for the first time Sunday that Biden won the election more than week after it was called for the Democrat by most major media outlets
Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani explained the tweet on the Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures. When asked by host Maria Bartiromo asked if the tweet was a concession, Giuliani said: ‘No, far from it.’
‘What he’s saying is more, I guess, you would call it sarcastic, or a comment on the terrible times in which we live, in which the media has said he won, but by going on to point out that it was illegal,’ Giuliani continued. ‘Obviously, he’s contesting it vigorously in the courts.’
Trump also assured that he is not conceding in a second tweet.
‘He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING!’ he wrote.
‘We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!’
Giuliani also said that the election will be overturned, as he asserted to Bartiromo that there is vast evidence that the machines used for counting ballots were rigged for Biden and deleted Trump’s votes.
‘Beyond this election, which I believe will get overturned – but, beyond this election, this whole thing has to be investigated as a national security matter,’ he said.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer, said Sunday on Fox News that Trump was being ‘sarcastic’ when he said via Twitter that Biden had won the election
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It’s the Winter of Backcountry. Here’s How to Start Safely.
27 November 2020 Travel 2 Views
Just an hour from Seattle lies Snoqualmie Pass, home to several ski areas and vast backcountry skiing terrain. The ski tour to Pineapple Pass is a classic for its quality terrain and gorgeous setting. Starting from the parking lot of the Alpental Ski Area, you ski up following the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River into Pineapple Basin. The basin is ringed by the thousand-foot walls of Bryant Peak, Hemlock Peak and the Tooth. It is a spectacular landscape.
After skinning up Pineapple Pass (the upper section can be wind loaded and avalanche-prone), there are views to the south of the massive profile of Mount Rainier. The scenery is rewarding enough, but another highlight awaits on the 1,800-vertical foot ski descent back the way that you came. “The ski touring is moderate but the terrain is spectacular,” said Mr. Volken. There are many options for expanding the tour to venture further into this dramatic mountainscape. Pro Guiding Service offers tours. — D. G.
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Teton Pass is a good option for relative beginners to backcountry skiing and riding, and is accessible as a day trip from Jackson Hole, according to Thomas Turiano, the author of the “Teton Pass Backcountry Guide” and, “Jackson Hole Backcountry Skier’s Guide: South.”
“Teton Pass has a lot of moderate terrain that is 25 degrees or less,” he said. But, he cautioned, there are usually a lot of tracks going every which way, and a skier shouldn’t assume they are safe and follow them. “You do have to be selective. You want to stay on the ridges and out of the gullies and off the steep faces,” he said.
While Teton Pass usually has great snow, it doesn’t have enough parking for the number of users, so it fills up quickly. There is talk of a permit system, which could go into effect next year.
For guiding companies, Mr. Turiano recommended Exum Mountain Guides, in Moose, the Mountain Guides in Jackson Hole, and Teton Backcountry Guides, just across the state line in Driggs, Idaho.
Teton Backcountry Guides owns four yurts that are available for winter use. The company will rent them without guides to experienced parties, or, for $1,200 per person, it offers three-day, two-night trips for all levels of skiing and riding that includes two guides for up to six guests, catered meals and porters to carry all the food. — K.S.
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Revision as of 14:15, 6 March 2012 by YitzchakSultan (talk | contribs) (→Brushing one's teeth)
1 General prohibition
2 Removing peas from a pod
3 Removing shell of nuts
4 Squeezing a fruit
4.1 Liquids that oozed out themselves
4.2 Squeezing a lemon
4.3 Squeezing out excess liquid
4.4 Sucking on a fruit
4.5 Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon
4.6 Squeezing grapes
4.7 Squeezing on Yom Tov
5 Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth
6 Using a sponge or brush on Shabbat
7 Cleaning a counter or table
9 Nursing
10 Squeezing water from hair
11 Brushing one's teeth
General prohibition
Dash includes removing any earth-grown food from its natural shell or attachment.[1]
Mefarek is a Toldah of Dosh. Mefarek includes squeezing juice from fruit or liquid from a cloth. [2]
Removing peas from a pod
One may not remove peas from an inedible pod on Shabbat. [3]
Peeling fruits (such as oranges or bananas) or vegetables (such as onions or cucumbers) is not considered a violation of Dosh. Nonetheless one should be careful of the conditions of Borer such as only peeling it right before eating and not using a peeler (but one may use a knife or one's hands). [4]
One may not the husk from an ear of corn on Shabbat. [5]
Removing shell of nuts
One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on Shabbat. [6]
One may not remove the outer hull (a thick pulpy layer) of an almond or walnut on Shabbat, however, one may remove the inner hard wood-like shell. [7]
There is a question of removing the outer thin peel of a garlic bulb on Shabbat however most poskim permit and certainly it's permitted to remove the peel around the individual cloves. [8]
Squeezing a fruit
It’s forbidden to squeeze a fruit in order to extract it’s liquid if one squeezes the fruit into a liquid or empty vessel. The prohibition is violated whether it’s done with one’s hand or a utensil. [9] One may not squeeze a fruit into an empty vessel with intent to put solid food in afterwards. [10]
It’s permitted to squeeze a fruit with one’s hand onto a solid food if either the food absorbs the liquid or the liquid is meant to improve the flavor of the food. [11]
Liquids that oozed out themselves
Juice that oozed (by itself) out of fruit, which is specifically designated to be eaten, is permitted to drink. [12]
Squeezing a lemon
For example, it’s permitted to squeeze a lemon on sugar even if one’s intent is to put the sugar in a liquid afterwards, however, there are authorities who are strict on this issue. [13]
It’s permissible to cut a slice of lemon and put it into a drink even though the juice will seep out. [14] Note that if the drink is hot tea its only permissible if it is made in a Kli Shelishi (see Bishul). One may gently stir the tea but one may not press the lemon against the wall of the cup. Additionally, one should cut the lemon directly over the tea. [15]
Squeezing out excess liquid
It’s permitted to squeeze out excess liquid in a food to improve it’s taste if it’s done immediately prior to eating. For example it’s permitted to squeeze a pickled cucumber to remove some of it’s vinegar if one is going to eat the pickle right away. [16]
One may squeeze out latkes from excess vegetable oil if ones intention is to get rid of the oil and it is done right before eating.[17]
It's commendable to refrain from squeezing a piece of meat, fish, or chicken to get rid of excess gravy if the gravy contains water or wine.[18]
Sucking on a fruit
One may suck on any fruit except for grapes even though one is extracting liquid with one's mouth. However, one shouldn’t squeeze the fruit with one’s hand. [19]
It’s permitted to dip bread in a soup or other dip and then suck off the liquid, but it’s preferable to eat a little of the bread with it. [20]
Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon
It’s permitted to cut a grapefruit (or watermelon) even if liquids will ooze out as long as one doesn’t intend specifically to drink the juices rather to eat the fruit and that one doesn’t intentionally doesn’t squeeze the fruit. [21]
One may scrape out grapefruit with a spoon to eat the pulp (the flesh of the fruit) attached to the peel, however, it's forbidden to press the spoon against the pulp in order to extract juices. [22]
Squeezing grapes
It’s preferable not to squeeze grapes even onto solid foods that will absorb the liquid or be improved. [23]
One shouldn’t suck on grapes while holding them in one’s hand, rather one should put the entire grape in one’s mouth, eat (or suck on it) and take out what’s left. [24]
Juice that oozed out of grapes by itself, is forbidden to drink. [25]
Squeezing on Yom Tov
It’s permitted to soak matzah and squeeze out the liquid in preparation to cooking. [26]
Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth
It is forbidden to squeeze any liquid out of any cloth on Shabbat. [27]
If wine spilled on a tablecloth one may not wring out the cloth. If some of the liquid didn't get absorbed one may scoop it off with a spoon if one is careful not to spread the colored wine over a wider area (which is an issue of Tzoveya. [28]
A wet washcloth or rag is not Muktzeh and may be moved if one is careful not to grip it tightly. [29]
Using a sponge or brush on Shabbat
One may not clean dishes or even gently wipe a countertop with a sponge because gripping the sponge will inevitably cause liquid to be squeezed out where one's fingers grasp the material. However, using a sponge which has a handle or a vinyl back one may gently wipe a countertop but it is still forbidden to wash dishes.[30]
One shouldn't use a dry sponge to wipe up a spill unless the sponge has a handle or vinyl back.[31]
One may not use a wet brush to scrub if the brush's fibers are soft and dense. However, if the fibers are stiff, sparse, and made out of synthetic material one may use that brush for scrubbing. Similarly, a plastic mesh or wire mesh may be used for scrubbing only if the fibers are thin and the netting is widely spaced. However, one may not use a mesh if the fibers are closely packed; for example, one may not use a steel wool pad. To determine whether the fibers are considered dense or sparse one should conduct the following test before Shabbat: Immerse it in water and upon removing it if the water drains out immediately the fibers are considered widely spaced, however, if water stays absorbed it is considered densely spaced.[32]
A wet sponge is Muktzeh Machmat Issur and may only be moved if the space it is occupying is needed. When moving a wet sponge one should do so gently so as not to squeeze out any liquid. However, a dry sponge or a wet sponge which has a handle or vinyl backing aren't muktzeh and may be moved for any necessary purpose. [33]
Cleaning a counter or table
One may use a rag or towel to wipe up a spill if the rag or towel is able to soak up the entire spill without needing to wring it out. One may also use many rags at the same time if together they can absorb the spill. [34]
One may not wipe a surface such as a counter or table top with a wet cloth. However, if a counter is sticky one may sprinkle water on the surface and then wipe it clean with a dry rag but it's preferable to used a paper napkin.[35] When necessary one wipe a surface very gently using a saturated rag or wet wet napkin. [36]
Some say that one may use baby wipes to clean a baby if one does it gently and doesn't press down.[37] However, some advise not using baby wipes but rather tissues and water as described in the following halacha. [38]
One should not wet a cloth and then wipe the baby rather the liquid such as water, thin lotion, or oil should be applied to the baby's skin and then wiped with a paper napkin or paper towel and if that's not available then one may use a dry cloth. If one uses a dry cloth then once it gets wet one should be very cautious not to apply pressure when wiping. [39]
It is only permissible to nurse on Shabbat if the infant feeds directly from the mother. A nursing mother who is experiencing pain may express excess milk if it goes directly to waste and is not collected in a cup or container. [40]
Squeezing water from hair
It is forbidden to squeeze water out of one's hair on Shabbat. [41]Similarly, one shouldn't shampoo one's hair on shabbat. [42]
One may wet one's hair if one does not squeeze it out. [43]
One should not shake one's head vigorously in order to remove the absorbed water. [44]
One may tightly wrap a towel on one's hair to absorb the liquid because the liquid is absorbed immediately and becomes useless. [45]
Brushing one's teeth
See Brushing Teeth on Shabbat
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 317)
↑ Rashi Shabbat 73b and Rambam Shabbat 21:12 write that Mefarek is a Toldah of Dosh. Rambam 21:12 writes that squeezing fruit is a violation of Mefarek. 39 Melachos (Dosh note 113) quotes Tosfot Ketubot 6a D"H Hay who holds that squeezing a liquid from a cloth is also considered Mefarek.
↑ Rama end of 321, Chaye Adam 14:1, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 323-4)
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 327-8) writes that according to some opinions it's forbidden. However, Halachos of Shabbat (Rabbi Eider, chap 8, pg 95) writes that it's forbidden (and bases it on the Maharsham 320:83).
↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:1,2. Squeezing a liquid out of a solid (Sechita) is Mefarek which is a Toldah of the Melacha of Dash (Iglei Tal, Dash #8, Mishna Brurah 320:1).
S"A 320:1 writes that it's forbidden to squeeze olives and grapes and the juice which flows from them by itself is forbidden for consumption, however, berries and pomegranates even though they are forbidden to be squeezed the juices from them that flow by itself are permissible if the fruit was meant to be eaten and not be squeezed for the juice, lastly, all other fruit is permissible to squeeze. The Rama 320:1 explains that in places where it's normal to squeeze certain fruits for it's juices it is also forbidden to squeeze like berries and pomegranates. Mishna Brurah 320:5 explains that squeezing berries and pomegranates is forbidden rabbinically because some people squeeze them for the juice like grapes and olives. However, all other fruit in the days of Shulchan Aruch weren't squeezed for juice but rather were eaten and so it would be permissible because the fruit if considered like a solid and extracting one solid from another is permissible.
Therefore, the Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (chap 5 note 4) writes that nowadays that it is common to squeeze all fruit for the juice it's forbidden to squeeze any fruit on Shabbat. On the other hand, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 328) lists certain fruits which are rabbinically prohibited to squeeze includes oranges, lemons, grapefruits, apples, pineapples, cherries, strawberries, peaches, plums, pomegranates, and tomatoes. Similarly, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 3, 343 and 491) delineates certain fruits which are squeezed for the juices in some places such as grapes, olives, berries, pomegranates, apples, grapefruits, pears, mangoes, tangerines, and pineapples would be forbidden to squeeze on Shabbat, however, fruits which are not squeezed anywhere such as quince or watermelon one may squeeze it on Shabbat. Yalkut Yosef (pg 344) adds that even when it's permissible to squeeze a fruit it may only be done by hand and not with a juicer (tool).
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:5
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:3,7, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 345)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:11
↑ 39 Mleachos (vol 2, pg 340)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:8, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 350)
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 342)
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 339). Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 248) and Halichot Olam (vol 4 pg 106) permit even regarding grapes but add that it's a proper practice to refrain.
↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:12, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 3, pg 345), 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340), Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com
↑ S"A 320:12, 18, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 347)
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348-9)
↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349-50)
↑ [Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com
↑ Mishna Brurah 326:25
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LJ Idol Season Nine: "Sideways Inspiration"
Sideways Inspiration
lj idol season nine | week 19 | 630 words
Even in high school, I was a fan of male/male slash fiction. This was before the Internet, so the offerings amounted to occasional gay novels bought in bookstores. "The Fancy Dancer," with its secret affair between a priest and a local Native American man had some clichés, but wasn't bad. "The Front Runner," by the same author, developed a surprising second purpose completely unrelated to its appeal as erotica.
I went to college in Eugene, and I was an on-again/off-again runner during those years. The "off" season was winter, because of its frequent, heavy rains. Nowadays, running in the rain isn't pleasant, but it won't kill you and then it's over. In college, things were different. I didn't own a blow-dryer, the nearest clothes-dryer was at a distant Laundromat, and my rented house was like most student housing and had no central heating. If you got drenched while running, you'd stay wet for hours, and it could be a week before your shoes dried—possibly after sprouting a mildew colony or two.
When the rainy season started, running went on hiatus until the spring. Once the weather turned promising again, "The Front Runner" was what I used to find my motivation.
The story features a middle-aged running coach who works at a small college and falls in love with one of his students. The coach is also a runner, and the book is filled with descriptions of crisp, morning workout sessions and athletes breezing through practice-sets of 5-minute miles. The team members who specialize in the longer 5K and 10K races eat warm-up miles for breakfast, and the coach himself runs for hours, going in and out of Zen-like hypnosis as he tries to distract himself from his feelings for that one special student.
Every year, spring returned to Eugene and within a week or two I'd get that urge to take up running again. I'll go tomorrow or the day after, I always thought, and I'd get out "The Front Runner" and start reading in preparation. About two or three chapters in, I'd find myself thinking, It's all so simple—all you need is determination! Forget tomorrow—I'm going now. I'd change my clothes and lace up my shoes and be off.
The reality was never anything like the fantasy of ease the book portrayed, but it was a return to a familiar habit and that first outing always carried me through the season.
After college, I lived in Illinois for three years, where the snowed-in winters guaranteed my status as a sporadic runner. The book helped me start back up again each spring (though I learned that without the dance classes I'd taken all through college, my feet were no longer prepared to go right from moderate indoor-use to blocks and blocks of pounding the pavement).
When I moved to Sacramento, I found a climate where I could run year-round. I have my own clothes-dryer, and the winters are much drier (in fact, the cold weather is my favorite running season). I've only had to stop and start running a few times, during both pregnancies and then after a terrible bout of plantar fasciitis. Maintaining basic running is much easier and simpler than having to fire everything up again year after year.
I'm not even sure I still have that book anymore, since I no longer need my Magic Motivator to kick things off every spring.
But if I were to find a copy and start reading it tomorrow, I have no doubt that I'd get about two or three chapters in and find myself under its influence all over again:
You know, four miles is kind of a puny effort, hardly anything at all. You should really start working your way back up to doing five!
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The legend ends (DVD)
The legend ends
Alex Agnew (performer)
Stand-up comedy, België
Alex Agnew
stand-up comedy, Nederlands
Sony Music Entertainment, 2013
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About Alex Agnew
Alex Agnew (born December 22, 1972) is a Belgian stand-up comedian and hard rock vocalist. According to the Nigel Williams autobiography "Had ik maar een vak geleerd" ("If Only I'd Learned a Proper Trade"), Alex was already an established comedian in Belgium since at least the 1999-2000 season. This is somewhat contradicted by the 2011 show "Larger than Life", celebrating "the best of Agnew 10 years on stage". Undisputedly however, he attained nationwide fame when he became the first Belgian to win the prestigious Dutch Leids Cabaret Festival in February 2003.
After this initial success he has been performing in comedy shows like De Bovenste Plank and Comedy Casino on the Belgian television channel Canvas.
Agnew is the son of an English father, footballer John Agnew, and a Flemish mother. He is influenced by action movies, superheroes, comic books and a great variety of music, ranging from Tom Jones and musicals to heavy metal and the new-ag…Read more on Wikipedia
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Aurelio Miguel Bocanegra
Good Bad Funny
Big name... Even bigger LAUGHS!
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About Aurelio Miguel Bocanegra
Aurelio Miguel Bocanegra was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Ever since this US Air Force Veteran with the BIG name decided to pick up the microphone, he has seemed destined to provide even bigger laughs. Aurelio has performed at clubs & colleges all across the country, for Fortune 500 company's, in Canada, all over Europe on tour performing for the US Military and he's even "tail hooked" onto the USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier to perform for the US Navy!
Aurelio has opened and shared the stage with some of the biggest names in Comedy! He is one of the stars of the Cholo Comedy Slam DVD Special, he was featured in a segment on the Latination TV show and was a Guest Star on the TV Show “Bones” on Fox.
Once on stage Aurelio captivates the audience with his stories of being a hardworking fiancé, a fumbling step dad, a proud Veteran and a fan for 80's cinema. Aurelio’s talents for entertaining are undeniable. His comedic style is magnetic and his comedy continues to captivate audiences in one way. They want more! Once you have seen Aurelio Miguel Bocanegra, you will see why he is one the funniest entertainers around and why he will have you wanting more too…
Since 2008 Aurelio's talents have extended beyond comedy and into acting. He has starred in numerous independent movies, Student films, Plays, comedic sketches and was a Guest Star on the TV Show "Bones" on FOX.
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If you're wondering why I chose "iBlackmouth"as the name of my website and social media, my last name is Bocanegra. In English it literally translates to "Blackmouth". It's much easier to find me instead of "hello, I’m Aurelio Miguel Bocanegra. Now find me dot com". PS I dislike talking about myself in the third person but they make you for your bio.
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David Mamet’s Bowtie Rule
Nice tie
Some of the guilty feel compelled to give the game away, as it were. Zionist Wag the Dog (1997) screenwriter and playwright David Mamet happens to be one of them. Yesterday I watched his early movie House of Games (1987), which is concerned with a group of Seattle conmen, and followed it up by listening to his audio commentary with actual hustler and sleight-of-hand manipulator Ricky Jay, who plays one of the flim-flam men in the film. Mamet, who has a pronounced affection for shysterism and cons, would return to the theme in The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and other screenplays. Just like Lindsay Crouse’s character Dr. Margaret Ford, who has a fatal “tell” and inadvertently gives herself away by making repeated Freudian slips, David Mamet also feels compelled to say too much. He and Jay, he says, “spent many, many years talking about the similarities between drama and the confidence game – that what you’ve got to do is distract the person in order to get them to do something they wouldn’t ordinarily do. For example, to distract them so they don’t say, ‘Wait a second. Elephants can’t really fly, this movie’s a bunch of nonsense.’” Jay concurs that “the power of film in general is one of the biggest cons.” Profanity merchant Mamet’s greatest revelation is still concealed up his tuxedo sleeve, however. Remarking on the character of the conman played by Mike Nussbaum, Mamet says, “One of the great rules of life – I made it up – is never trust a Jew in a bowtie.” Just remember, readers, that it was the racist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracy-theorizing bigot Mamet who said that – not me.
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Tags bowtie, chutzpah, cinema, con, con artist, confidence game, confidence man, conman, conspiracy theories, David Mamet, film, flim-flam, flimflam, Freudian slip, hoax, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, House of Games, illusion, Jewish, Jews, Lindsay Crouse, magic, Mike Nussbaum, movies, revelation of the method, Ricky Jay, Schindler's List, Seattle, Shoah, shyster, Sigmund Freud, sleight of hand, Steven Spielberg, The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog, Zionism, Zionist
American Hustle ***
To be perfectly honest, this reviewer was bored for lengthy portions of American Hustle, David O. Russell’s unaccountably lauded opus about the Abscam scandal. Like too many period pieces set in fashion-distinctive epochs, Hustle evinces an overly polished and inorganic quality, more concerned with fussing about its garish clothing, bizarre hairstyles, and flaunting an unwarranted sense of its own super-coolness than with the development of characters deserving of the audience’s interest. As with the less inspired moments in Scorsese’s oeuvre, American Hustle is too content to slide by on the likability of its vintage pop soundtrack and slick but empty visual flair, with – of course! – the obligatory trip to a decadent discotheque.
The performances of Bale, Cooper, and others are fine, but hardly career highlights. Russell’s unconvincing dialogue, co-credited to Eric Warren Singer, bears much of the blame for the film’s lifelessness. Actors can hardly be blamed for failing to salvage compelling drama out of the likes of the following yawners: “This is bullshit. We are bullshit. You were bullshit. You were bullshit.” While no character in American Hustle is particularly sympathetic, there are some affecting moments toward the end of the film when flimflam man Irving Rosenfeld (Bale) begins to feel guilty about misleading and ruining a mark he has come to view as his friend. This in no way justifies a run time in excess of two hours, however – leaving the viewer to wonder whether the tale of this potbellied, philandering Jew con artist with a heart of gold needed to be told at all.
ICA’s advice: For a 70s con game period piece, see Richard Gere in The Hoax instead.
3 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that American Hustle is:
8. Pro-drug. Nothing sells marijuana like the sight of a beautiful temptress (Amy Adams) smoking a joint.
7. Anti-American. Check the title.
6. Multiculturalist. Mayor Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner) maintains friendly relations with the minority community and even adopts a black kid to show what a great guy he is.
5. Pro-gay, with one gratuitous lesbian kiss.
4. Pro-slut. Movie stars making out in a bathroom – how glamorous! Rosenfeld does “the right thing” by marrying single mother Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence).
3. Zionist, calling attention to the undying bogeyman of American politicians’ insidious willingness to sell out the country’s well-being to the Arabs. Dismissive reference is also made to (Israel-hating, Palestine-loving) “fuckin’ Jimmy Carter”.
2. Relativistic. “That’s the way the world works. Not black and white like you say. Extremely gray.”
1. Obamist. In union-friendly Carmine Polito, American Hustle portrays the corrupt but humble and likable politician as tragic hero, a man of the people, a caring, avuncular figure genuinely concerned with the welfare of his constituents, and who presides over a system of corruption only so as to create new jobs. “We dream and we build,” he says. Overly zealous investigators like DiMaso (Cooper) are ruining America, Rosenfeld charges, by exposing high misdeeds and so destroying the people’s faith in their leaders. So lay off the Solyndra, Benghazi, NSA, IRS, and other scandals, American Hustle cautions, lest the spiritually vulnerable masses lose their precious hope.
Tags 70s, Abscam, American Hustle, Amy Adams, anti-American, Arabs, Barack Obama, bathroom, Benghazi, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, cinema, con, con artist, con man, corruption, David O. Russell, decadence, degeneracy, depravity, disco, discotheque, employment, Eric Warren Singer, FBI, film, flimflam, gangster, great recession, homosexuality, IRS, Israel, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Jew, Jewish, Jewry, Jews, Jimmy Carter, mafia, Martin Scorsese, mayor, miscegenation, movies, multiculturalism, multiculturalist, New Jersey, NSA, Obamist, organized crime, Palestine, politician, politics, pro-drug, pro-gay, pro-slut, recession, relativism, relativist, review, Richard Gere, single mother, slut, Solyndra, sting, The Hoax, unemployment, unions, Zion, Zionism, Zionist
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Is There an Alternative for Irrigation Reform?
Suhardiman, Diana
Giordano, Mark
Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists in developing countries despite numerous policy interventions over the last four decades. We argue that many of these interventions have failed, because they did not recognize irrigation bureaucracies as prime actors in policy change. This paper examines the varied actors and agendas within irrigation bureaucracies, highlighting the dichotomy between “hydraulic missions” on the one hand and direct service provision to farmers on the other. To increase the significance of future reform, bureaucracies must be considered as explicit actors, and reform efforts should derive from better understanding of the farmer–agency interface.
Suhardiman, Diana & Giordano, Mark, 2014. "Is There an Alternative for Irrigation Reform?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 91-100.
Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:57:y:2014:i:c:p:91-100
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.11.016
File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X13002672
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Midwest Tech Firms Might Skirt Big Valuation Dips, Experts Say
by High Alpha
From Indianapolis Business Journal:
For many private technology startups, 2015 was full of tailwinds that helped send valuations sky-high, including an eye-popping $51 billion valuation for ride-hailing service Uber.
Those winds have mostly subsided in 2016, and some investors have even moved to cut valuations. The impact of those trends on firms in the Midwest, however, should be fairly muted, according to industry experts at IBJ’s Technology Power Breakfast on Thursday morning.”I think it’s pretty negligible, at least on a relative basis,” said High Alpha partner Kristian Andersen, speaking about the pullback’s impact on cities like Indianapolis, versus tech hubs on the East and West Coasts.
“I think it’s pretty negligible, at least on a relative basis,” said High Alpha partner Kristian Andersen, speaking about the pullback’s impact on cities like Indianapolis, versus tech hubs on the East and West Coasts.Outside the Midwest, industry leaders are forecasting depressed valuations and capital raises, and calling for companies to focus on bootstrapping and capital efficiency, Andersen said.”That’s essentially what we’ve been doing in middle America for the past 20 years, so this is not a new dose of medicine for us,” he said. “We have been practicing those three things: raising money at reduced valuations, being more capital efficient, focusing on bootstrapping. We’ve spent 20 years building those muscles.”
Outside the Midwest, industry leaders are forecasting depressed valuations and capital raises, and calling for companies to focus on bootstrapping and capital efficiency, Andersen said.”That’s essentially what we’ve been doing in middle America for the past 20 years, so this is not a new dose of medicine for us,” he said. “We have been practicing those three things: raising money at reduced valuations, being more capital efficient, focusing on bootstrapping. We’ve spent 20 years building those muscles.”
“That’s essentially what we’ve been doing in middle America for the past 20 years, so this is not a new dose of medicine for us,” he said. “We have been practicing those three things: raising money at reduced valuations, being more capital efficient, focusing on bootstrapping. We’ve spent 20 years building those muscles.”Company valuations can be determined a variety of ways, including as a multiple of annual revenue.
Company valuations can be determined a variety of ways, including as a multiple of annual revenue. Valuations in turn can play a pivotal role in helping investors determine how much they are willing to plow into a company in exchange for shares.A recent Bloomberg investigation found that valuations can be based on slippery variables such as growth projections and a CEO’s ego.
A recent Bloomberg investigation found that valuations can be based on slippery variables such as growth projections and a CEO’s ego.”For the most mature startups, investors agree to grant higher valuations, which help the companies with recruitment and building credibility, in exchange for guarantees that they’ll get their money back first if the company goes public or sells,” according to the Bloomberg article.
“For the most mature startups, investors agree to grant higher valuations, which help the companies with recruitment and building credibility, in exchange for guarantees that they’ll get their money back first if the company goes public or sells,” according to the Bloomberg article.
Large mutual fund companies like T. Rowe Price Group and BlackRock Inc. run funds that hold shares in private tech firms valued at more than $1 billion. A recent analysis by The Wall Street Journal found that a select group of mutual funds slashed valuations at 13 out of 40 such companies to prices below what they originally paid for those shares.The average cuts were about 28 percent.
The average cuts were about 28 percent.As The Wall Street Journal summarized, “The mutual-fund pullback threatens to deepen a wider downturn that has already led to falling valuations, shrinking ambitions and layoffs as the receding tide of capital forces startup companies of all kinds to focus on the bottom line rather than growth at any cost.”
As The Wall Street Journal summarized, “The mutual-fund pullback threatens to deepen a wider downturn that has already led to falling valuations, shrinking ambitions and layoffs as the receding tide of capital forces startup companies of all kinds to focus on the bottom line rather than growth at any cost.”Ting Gootee, the chief investment officer at Elevate Ventures, said that after the financial crisis, valuations surged nationally, reaching their peak in late 2014. At their peak, median valuations were at 10 to 15 times revenue. Now they have pulled back to more like six to eight times revenue.
Ting Gootee, the chief investment officer at Elevate Ventures, said that after the financial crisis, valuations surged nationally, reaching their peak in late 2014. At their peak, median valuations were at 10 to 15 times revenue. Now they have pulled back to more like six to eight times revenue.“There is concern how this will trickle down to investors and portfolio companies,” she said. In a phone conversation, she said she has seen some local startups pare back their own valuations somewhat.
“There is concern how this will trickle down to investors and portfolio companies,” she said. In a phone conversation, she said she has seen some local startups pare back their own valuations somewhat.Angel Morales, co-founder of predictive analytics company SmarterHQ, said the valuations in central Indiana never have been so lofty. “We as an investment community look at value. It is not so much the hype.”
Angel Morales, co-founder of predictive analytics company SmarterHQ, said the valuations in central Indiana never have been so lofty. “We as an investment community look at value. It is not so much the hype.”“We need to be judicious with every dollar invested,” he said, taking a pass on things like “super-cool laminated business cards.”
“We need to be judicious with every dollar invested,” he said, taking a pass on things like “super-cool laminated business cards.”Andersen said corrections have benefits. It can allow investors to take advantage of bargains, deploying more capital or owning more of those companies.
Andersen said corrections have benefits. It can allow investors to take advantage of bargains, deploying more capital or owning more of those companies.”But also, I think it just strengthens companies and separates the wheat from the chaff,” Andersen said. “So it becomes easier, frankly, for investors to figure out who’s the real deal and who are pretenders.”
“But also, I think it just strengthens companies and separates the wheat from the chaff,” Andersen said. “So it becomes easier, frankly, for investors to figure out who’s the real deal and who are pretenders.”
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Imagine Communications Unveils Next-Gen Scheduling and Planning System
The modular and cloud-enabled xG Schedule unifies linear and nonlinear scheduling operations
Imagine Communications, empowering the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation, today introduced xG Schedule™, a next-generation, cloud-based scheduling and planning system for linear, on-demand and digital platforms at the CABSAT 2016 tradeshow and exhibition in Dubai (booth ZA1 20). The latest innovation from the Imagine Communications revenue enablement portfolio provides broadcasters with a unified solution for leveraging content assets — from planning through delivery — across all distribution platforms and available usage windows, maximizing investment and streamlining operational workflow.
Today’s video advertising landscape is growing increasingly complex and can no longer be effectively addressed by a loosely stitched together assembly of singularly focused tools. Broadcasters require business process solutions that possess the power and versatility to unify ad management across all linear and nonlinear platforms, including on-demand, mobile and streaming. Imagine Communications has purpose built xG Schedule to help satisfy these requirements and to meet the needs of broadcasters and other media companies now doing business in a multiplatform world.
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Multiplatform scheduling. Manage single or multichannel visual scheduling and nonlinear multiplatform content in a single application.
Unprecedented flexibility. Manage packages and individual items across year, month, week and day for on-demand, mobile and streaming environments.
Unprecedented integration. Use a single system to provide better visibility across all platforms and content usage.
Contracts and Programs. Integrate rights information and view it within the xG Schedule windows to help ensure content licenses are valid across the multiplatform environment.
KPI Dashboards. Customize dashboards to spotlight program planners’ interests and draw instant focus to critical information.
Platform portability. Compatible with all desktop browsers, top 5 Android devices and all Apple devices.
Designed for maximum flexibility, xG Schedule is adaptable to the cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployment models. It incorporates advanced search capabilities across content inventory and features integrated media playback, providing media professionals with the option to preview a single item or a complete break.
xG Schedule has also been designed for a global audience. The application dynamically adapts to all cultures and languages — including support for right-to-left (RTL) orientations. Menus, dates and times, schedules and content information automatically adjust to the selected language. The system also features full multicurrency capabilities to allow broadcasters to support multiple regions and markets in a centralized or distributed environment.
A critical component of Imagine Communications’ modular and open approach to ad management, xG Schedule is designed to tightly integrate with existing and future Imagine Communications xG modules, as well as Landmark™ Sales, Rights & Scheduling and Broadcast Master™, to create an intelligent, end-to-end workflow for nonlinear/linear scheduling.
xG Schedule will make its North American debut at the NAB Show 2016 tradeshow and exhibition, Las Vegas, NV, beginning April 18. For more information, please visit booth N2502 or www.imaginecommunications.com.
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Bosses of Us: Doctors, Administrators, and the Profit Motive
by Michael Gallagher, MD at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation
When I was an intern, my program faced a total collapse of one of the non-teaching hospitalist groups that staffed our institution. As the census on the teaching service began to explode and both teaching and non-teaching attendings could not adequately handle the volume of patient care, the program proposed folding the neuro-intensive care unit (ICU) service in with the general ICU.
Intensivists and residents alike balked at the idea, arguing that the explosion in the overall ICU census would lead to poorer outcomes, unhappier staff, and was not the type of situation we had agreed to when we signed our contracts. The program directors trotted out our chief resident to have a town hall regarding our concerns. He had no answers for us. The program directors themselves were absent.
About a month later, I began my extra ICU rotation and ran into a Saturday where we had back-to-back admissions rolling into the unit the minute after we got sign-out. In the era of COVID-19, this scenario seems like a dream of easier years.
COVID drove the ire that residents and attendings alike have felt over the current situation in American medicine into a fever pitch — online forums have suddenly flooded with calls for unionization, work stoppages, improved safety standards. The virus is not the only villain of this story: the scapegoat gaining traction are the MBAs who forced their way into the art of medicine, bringing with them business and the cold logic of the profit model.
Certainly, administrative takeover in the name of big business has happened across medicine. But the idea of medicine as profit, the idea of medicine as lucrative and prestigious and a source of power, existed far before anyone with a business degree and no clinical experience crawled their way into a hospital boardroom. Residents from programs where their leadership — staffed by clinicians — has failed them know this all too well. In the last few months, we have been told by the clinicians leading us that the virus would be no worse than the flu, even as cases mounted. We have been asked to take off our masks. We have been exposed, quarantined and infected.
The struggle before us, the one that lies after this disease is vaccinated against or, hope-against-hope, disappears from the global scene as its predecessors SARS and MERS did, cannot simply be a call to remove people with business degrees from medicine, or for physicians to reclaim the great big piece of the pie they once had. The profit motive, the drive for reputation, glory, recognition, infect all of us. Clinicians are not exempt, clinician-leaders even less so. Residents have known intimately that they are cheap labor for hospital systems, trading promised education for the assurance that they will remain underpaid cogs in the medical billing machine. An entire medical organization has sprung up around this labor: program directors, attendings, mid-level providers and business administrators all benefit from their residents’ work.
It is not merely a shift in the administrative capacities of the hospital system we need: it is solidarity. The pain of this profession, indeed of all professions involved in the direct care of people suffering disease, binds us together. Attendings, residents, nurses, housekeepers, unit secretaries, patient transporters, technicians. Under the weight of a pandemic that kills so unceasingly, we workers are all suffering. That suffering, as much as it is the direct cause of a horrific lethal illness, is as much at the feet of those businessmen who neglected us as it is at the feet of the physicians who co-opted the health care system as a way to make a name for themselves, to secure finances, to become a bigger part of the mill of a system chewing up patients and care-givers in the name of making more and more money for an anonymous face in a boardroom. It is not a single group of people with the wrong degree, with the wrong understanding of power that have poisoned our art: it is the avarice within all of us, the greed and ambition that has turned our patients into human capital, and health care workers into movers of that capital.
The horror facing us during this pandemic makes it easy to seek a scapegoat in business administrators, but many housestaff have seen that both their hospitals’ business leaders and clinician-leaders are failing them. Unionization, a necessary step toward righting the labor struggle in medicine, is only a first step. Signing a portion of one’s paycheck to the union may give the union more names to a list to submit as proof of its support in contract negotiations, but it is not enough.
The pandemic points to an important lesson: a rejection of traditional leadership structures, at least those that feed into a profit-based medical system, may be necessary in order to create a different world. The union provides such a framework, vesting power in a collective of voices. But in order to succeed at the level of a union, physicians need to let their voices join that collective — they cannot expect a delegate or representative alone to do the entire job, just as we might expect a program director to guide us in the right direction.
The need for actual collectivity, actual mutual aid among physicians, runs antithetical to the training hierarchy of program director-attending-resident, or the hierarchal hospital structure where doctors issue orders for nurses to carry out. The struggle to drive a cultural shift among residents who are used to doing what they are told has been brewing within my own program. Even as our union begins to push for hazard pay, it remains enormously difficult to get the residents to publicly voice their demands or tell their stories. Short of those already ideologically aligned with the principles of united labor, even the angriest of housestaff are reticent to put their concerns into the world.
That the hierarchy has already carved its expectation of obedient silence into us is obvious. But there is no help coming for us unless we help each other by driving the narrative of this catastrophe with our collective voice, speaking the story of our collective suffering: the entire leadership class, clinician and politician and businessperson alike, has failed us by profiting off the healing art. Through speech, through protest, through constant and united pressure against those in power who refused to prepare even as Wuhan and Lombardy buckled under the weight of COVID, we stand a chance of one day speaking into being the kind of care-giving of which we dream. But we cannot do it with only a few of us.
We would do well to remember our suffering in the days after this disease abates. We would do well to let it join us in collective action against the drive to profit at the expense of patients, to ambition at the expense of our colleagues’ labor, to reputation at the expense of our personal ethics, to turn away from the great art of healing the sick. But we must do so with true unity, as a true union.
Image credit: University of Washington Housestaff Association on The Stranger
Michael Gallagher, MD (1 Posts)
Resident Physician Contributing Writer
Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation
Michael Gallagher is a PGY-3 resident in physical medicine & rehabilitation at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation interested in palliative care, the ethics of rehabilitation and physiotherapy, and health care labor relations. Outside of work he is a mediocre 400m sprinter, sci-fi writer, and amateur barista.
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All the ingredients of a brand revolution
Creative workshops on brand opportunities for Premier Foods
"Within a month of completing the creative workshops, Premier Food's brand teams were already developing new product concepts to test with consumers."
Premier Foods, owner of a UK brand portfolio that includes such household names as Mr Kipling, Ambrosia and Batchelors, needed to put consumers at the centre of their ten-year plan for growth, to ensure these well-loved brands stayed relevant in consumers’ lives.
We used in-depth qualitative and complex quantitative techniques to build a multi-category landscape framework, drawing on – among others – the key elements of occasions, needs and consumer typologies. We built it to be fit-for-purpose for today, but crucially also future-proofed it for tomorrow.
The resultant framework was strategically important and rich with potential. But it couldn’t just be left to work its own way into the organisation’s business culture. Ultimately, the outputs needed to be honed and owned by brand teams. The tools we created, and the thinking they inspired, had to command the confidence of senior management and then had to deliver for multiple functional teams.
So we developed a series of presentations, informal sessions and full-on creative workshop events to enable the right people to encounter and interact with the outputs in the right way. Everything we provided and did was optimised to ensure the framework took root.
We challenged teams’ thinking to make sure the resultant brand challenges and opportunities were properly understood in depth and could be built into their strategy. We left only when the framework was fully owned as a language throughout the business – as something teams could instinctively work with and derive implications and actions from.
Within a month of completing the creative workshops, Premier Food’s brand teams were already developing new product concepts to test with consumers.
Consumer, New product development, Tangible plans
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What’s the Big Deal?: Fifty Shades of Grey Live-Blogging Edition, Chapter 23
August 22, 2012 by euphqueen1
I thought about setting some crazy goal like, “I will finish this piece of crap book before I move!” Realistically, I move in 10 days and I’m fried, you guys. So my crazy goal has turned out to be more like, “Ugh. I’ll do whatever.”
Let us soldier apathetically onward through the marshy wilderness known as…
by E. L. James
The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House, $9.99 Nook book, ISBN-10 1612130291
Last time on Fifty Shades of What the Hell is Christian’s Problem Already, Ana left Christian behind in Seattle and went to Georgia on the pretext of visiting her mother, but as usual, Ana’s actions were really motivated by her desire for some time to obsess over Christian while someone else pays for her food, coupled with her driving need to run away from the man she thinks she loves. Her getaway lost its away when a phone conversation with Christian ended with Ana realizing…the call is coming from inside the bar. Also, the Cosmos are coming from inside the bar and a lot of them are now inside the Ana.
Chapter 23: Why My Mom Is Awesome and Ana’s Mom Sucks
When Ana explains to her mother that she’s jittery because Christian is in the bar with them, Mom is understandably confused as Ana has “neglected to mention Christian’s stalker tendencies.” I am now waiting for Mom to freak the eff out. He followed Ana across the country, literally, and somehow tracked her to the bar even though he has no (ethical) way of knowing where she is? No mom worth her salt is going to let this slide.
Ana’s inner goddess jumps up and cheers from her chaise longue. Chaise longue? Pom poms? Gymnastic routines? How does she have room for all this? Just how much empty space does Ana have in her head?
Oh. Right.
Ana is so happy Christian is here! No, wait, she is mad at him! But…she can’t be angry in front of mom! That would be admitting she has emotions. What to do?
Ana introduces Christian to her mother and is shocked when Christian greets Mom by her name, which Ana has never revealed to him. Apparently he did some stalker’s homework on the plane. Not only is he delving into Ana’s life without permission, he’s now invading the privacy of her friends and family. Okay, no, someone’s name is not private information, but does anyone believe he stopped at her surname? I bet Taylor has Mom’s measurements in his man-servantly day-planner just in case European lingerie becomes necessary.
Instead of asking why the hell Christian decided to fly across the country (again, literally! Washington state to Georgia, people!) to intrude on a family visit, Mom goes all fluttery-stupid as soon as he smiles at her. If the women in this family were superheroes, Christian would be their kryptonite. Somehow I don’t think anyone will ever accuse Ana of being a superhero, though.
Ana’s not sure whether to hug Christian or yell at him, so instead she asks the question that’s burning in my mind: “What are you doing here?” Yes, Christian, what are you doing following a girl across the continental United States and interrupting her Mommy & Me time? Excellent question!
Oh, well, you know, she said that she wished he were there, so he just came there. Also, he didn’t creepily track her to the bar. He’s staying in the hotel. Isn’t that a nifty coincidence? Or is it?
Mom invites Christian to drink with them. Let’s get this drunken whore party started! Christian gives an unnecessarily fussy drink order (down to: if you have this gin, I want this garnish, but if you have that gin, I want that garnish) and Ana orders another round of Cosmos, figuring that parentally sanctioned drinking won’t count as a violation of the contract that is not legally binding and that she has not signed anyway.
They chit chat about Ana’s new shirt (he flew across the country), catch up on Ana’s vacation news (without warning her), sip their drinks (to invite himself into the middle of family time,) and generally make googly eyes at each other (when she had already told him she did not want him there). Ana’s mom won’t stop staring at Christian, which Ana finds insulting because obviously the staring comes from Mom’s disbelief that her daughter could attract a man, not from the fact that Mom wants to find out if Christian is cougar-hunting. Things my mom would never do #1: Drool openly over my boyfriend. She might make a remark or two in private, but ogle him openly? Not unless I brought home Johnny Depp.
Finally Christian excuses himself, claiming he has “work to do.” Work? What work? Talking into the phone about Darfur and shitting or busting? Or finding Ana’s mom’s social security number? Of course, he doesn’t “want to interrupt the time you have with your mother.” Aw, that’s so thoughtful of him to fly across the country when he was specifically not invited so he could not interrupt Ana’s time with her mother. You know what would help him not interrupt their time? Staying in Seattle!
On to Mom’s reaction. Now, if my mother and I were in this situation, the conversation would go like this:
Mom: So…why did you ask him to fly all the way out here? I thought we were going to spend some time catching up!
Me: Oh my God, Mom, I don’t even know how he found us! He also upgraded my tickets to first class, which is sweet, except I didn’t tell him my flight number.
Mom: Okay. I’m dialing 911. Let’s go hide in the bathroom until the cops get here. Bring your Cosmo.
What does Ana’s mom do? Oh, she invites Christian to dinner, because who doesn’t want a deranged stalker to come over for roast chicken and conversation? Also, she heads for the bathroom, obviously for the sole purpose of letting Ana and Christian talk. Things my mom would never do #2: Leave me alone with a deranged stalker.
As soon as Mom’s gone, Ana and Christian start sniping at each other over Hester the Molester while simultaneously getting all hot and bothered. Christian denies having a sexual relationship with Hester the Molester at present, Ana calls her a domineering child molester (yup), and Christian insists that the relationship helped him. Rather than continue the discussion, Christian offers to flee back to Seattle, where he should have stayed in the first place. Ana tells him to stay but also tries to explain that just as he gets jealous because she hangs out with her purely platonic friend Jose, she gets jealous when Christian hangs out with the crone who used to statutorily rape him. With spanky-spanks. Christian defends himself! He went out with her because they are friends! He did not mean to upset Ana! Okay. And that’s different from her friendship with Jose because…? Clearly Christian subscribes to the When Harry Met Sally bullshit school of “men and women can’t be friends because sex.”
Ana asks why he and Hester the Molester parted ways. Oh, that? Her husband found out.
Okay. So. She seduced and dominated him at 15, AND she’s an adulteress. I completely understand why their friendship has endured. She is quite a prize, if you’re into that Desperate Housewives kinda thing.
Mom walks back into the conversation just as Ana’s about to ask if Christian loved Hester Molester. They lie to Mom and tell her everything’s peachy, and Christian heads off to his hotel room, leaving Ana without answers. Big shocker.
Mom immediately starts blathering about what “a catch” Christian is. Oh, there’s a catch, all right, Mom. Mom’s advice is to go talk to him! Obviously they have something special together! He flew thousands of miles to see her! Isn’t he wonderful?
Things my mom would never do #3: Observe that a man has flown thousands of miles to see me when he was not invited and make me feel like I’m being rude.
Ana and her mom have a pathetic “He loves you!”/”No, he doesn’t love me” angstfest. Ana’s mom actually utters the phrase, “Go to him!” and tells Ana where her housekey is hidden and to have safe sex. Things my mom would never do #4: Encourage me to go have sex with a deranged stalker. Ana suggests they finish their drinks first. Mom says, “That’s my girl!” Things my mom would never do #5: Praise me for turning into a total alcoholic. Well, all right, Ana’s mom probably doesn’t realize that Ana’s had a drink in her hand since chapter 5, so maybe we can let that one slide.
Ana goes to Christian’s hotel room, which we all expected her to do. Otherwise, they would miss the opportunity to do it in his hotel room.
Christian is “working.” You know what that means: he’s chattering incomplete sentences about “redundancy packages” into his phone. Do you know, I don’t think there’s actually anyone on the other end of the line? I think as soon as he hears Ana approach or knock, he whips out the phone and starts “working.” Otherwise she’ll figure out that he’s made his billions and is locking himself in a conference room to play HALO all day.
Ana describes the hotel room — “ultramodern, very now” — and grabs an orange juice from the minibar. I wish Christian had some weird idiosyncratic character trait that caused him to buy her extravagant gifts but force her to pay for her own coffee and juice, as that would be amusing and fit in with his general jackassery, but alas. Idiosyncrasies take creativity to develop.
A whole page of business babble. Christian hangs up and Ana jumps right back into the Hester the Molester conversation like she didn’t just unexpectedly waltz into Christian’s hotel room without preamble.
Christian didn’t love Hester the Molester. And we all heave a collective sigh of relief, because we were all holding our breath to find out, because we care sooooo much. Yeah.
Well, that solves that issue, apparently. On to the sex! Ana was mad, and Christian finds that sexy because he doesn’t “remember anyone but my family ever being mad at me.” Paging Dr. Freud!
Ana’s desire starts “pooling, unfurling…everywhere.” I would hate to be the maid assigned to room 612 in the morning. “Oh mah GAWD, we-all are gonna need a mop in hee-yah!”
Ana knows they should talk, but…The Sex! Nothing is more important than The Sex!
Like any dog, Christian can smell blood, and like any dog, he has no shame about bodily functions, so he asks Ana point-blank if she’s menstruating. Not in those words, of course. No, he asks, “Are you bleeding?” which could mean anything from “Are you menstruating?” to “I just stabbed you in the ass with a letter opener. Why aren’t you screaming?”
They head off to take a bath together. Christian has set up a romantic bathtime scene with candles in the time it took Ana to have a 30-second conversation with her mom and suck down the rest of her Cosmo, which only supports my theory that he didn’t pick up the phone until Ana showed up. He directs her in undressing, possibly because it’s sexy and possibly because he’s justly worried that she’ll forget how. In the middle of the scene, he drops my current favorite for Least Sexy Line in Book: “I’m going to have you in the bathroom, Anastasia.” 1. Stating the obvious. 2. Since when is having someone in the bathroom a worthwhile sex goal? 3. She already went down on him in the tub several chapters ago, so bath-play is nothing new here.
Christian makes Ana stand in front of a mirror and tells her to “See how you feel.” Look at this intangible sensation in the mirror, Ana!
He takes her hands and guides her in stroking herself, which I had the impression he didn’t want her to do, but whatever. You guys know what Ana has to say about this: “how arousing…It is so erotic.” And here’s an extra fun new sentence: “Truly I am a marionette and he is the master puppeteer.”
Truly, indeed. He manipulates and controls her every move and she never, ever does the same to him. Ahem.
Just when the mood is getting mellow and romantic, Christian asks Ana those words every woman longs to hear… “When did you start your period, Anastasia?”
………..What?
…………………What? You’re asking now? Really? Even a gynecologist has the good grace to ask that question before the pants come off. For a master seducer, Christian sure sucks at setting and maintaining a sensual atmosphere.
And then he…
***Okay, listen up, any squeamish people in the audience. Christian is about to do something that may repulse, disgust, and/or nauseate you. I said “Ewwww!” so many times, my housemate finally walked across the hall and asked me what on earth was going on, and then I couldn’t bear to tell him. He’ll have to read the blog like everyone else. Also, we’re about to talk about menstruation, so if that bothers you, just scroll to the next asterisks and read on from there.***
And then he has her brace herself against the sink and pulls out her tampon.
Ewww! Ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Why did no one warn me about this scene? Why has this scene not gotten review coverage? Why did I have to walk into this scene completely blind? Why, God, why?!
Don’t get me wrong, I have no issues with menstruation. No, that’s not true. I’m a woman, of course I have issues with menstruation, like, “Why do I have to do this?” I’m not squeamish about it, is what I mean. I’d love it if the rest of the world would stop making me feel like I should be squeamish about it. I would love it if my boyfriend did not get that deer-in-the-headlights look just because I say I’m having cramps. I mean, I don’t understand what goes on in your pants, either, mister, but you don’t see me getting all last-cigarette-before-the-firing-squad if you mention the subject.
However, it’s one thing to be an adult about a natural bodily process. It’s another to assume ownership of that process.
Ana’s still a newly-minted non-virgin. Not only has she never had sex during her period, she’s never even discussed her period with a man, or, knowing Ana, anyone at all. She had never even been to the ob/gyn until Christian forced her to start birth control pills. Is Christian sensitive to her feelings? No. He doesn’t ask if she minds having sex during her period. He doesn’t reassure her. He just uncorks her like a bottle of wine — obviously, red wine. Sorry, I had to.
Every heterosexual man should strive to be comfortable with the female body. (Gay guys, y’all are off the hook. You have other crosses to bear.) However, being comfortable does not translate to taking possession without so much as a by-your-leave.
I’m deeply disturbed right now that women all over the country are savoring this book as some sort of ultimate sexual fantasy. Christian never asks. He takes. As far as I can tell, that’s what women find so arousing about this book. To those women, I say:
Are you serious? Tell me you are not serious. You don’t honestly find it sexy to discard any attempt at a dialogue of equals in favor of “Come on, baby, you know you want it.” Please tell me that kind of relationship isn’t what you want for yourselves. Please tell me it isn’t what you want for your sisters, your friends, your daughters, your granddaughters, even your grandmothers. Please tell me you are not looking at that respectful, loving partner I sincerely hope you have and thinking, “If he really felt passion for me, he’d stalk me relentlessly and take away my choices. He’d assume he has as much right to take out my tampon without permission as a mother has to remove a baby’s dirty diaper. If he loved me, he’d treat me like I needed to be controlled, like he couldn’t trust me, like he was mentally, physically, and morally superior to me. Why, oh why, am I in such a stagnant pit of being allowed to be my own person?”
Don’t even try to tell me, “Oh, it’s just a harmless fantasy for grown women to indulge in!”
Do not tell me that when I have been approached several times at the public library by teenage girls asking where they can find Fifty Shades of Grey.
Do not tell me that when I have received an email from a friend asking just how bad Fifty Shades of Grey is, because her sister-in-law is a high school teacher and got upset when some of her teen female students brought copies to read during class.
Do not, do not, do not tell me this crap is harmless fun, and if you do, prepare to see whether Christian Grey can effectively spank your ass after it’s been handed back to you on a platter.
Sex, sex, sex. Ana feels herself “quicken,” which I assume she’s using in the “get excited” sense of the word and not the “get pregnant” sense of the word, since she’s on the pill now.
Orgasms, mutual collapse, some namby-pamby pillow talk. Then Ana remembers: “I’m bleeding.”
Christian asks her, “Does it bother you?”
I… He… I hate you, Christian. I completely, overwhelmingly hate you! You’re asking her now, after the fact, when it’s not a matter of “Are you okay with this?” but rather a matter of “Did I just traumatize you?” I hate you. You suck. You have reduced me to a complete lack of words for my feelings toward you beyond “I hate you” and “you suck.” That’s how much I hate you. That’s how much you suck.
Ana decides she’s not bothered by having sex during her period, and I’m glad she’s so mature and open-minded about it. I wish I could say I’m surprised that she’s not bothered by the “Oh hey let’s just pull this string” maneuver, but I don’t think Ana has any surprises left for me. She’s a total loss.
***Okay, we’re done talking about menstruation!***
For no earthly reason, Ana has a sudden epiphany that Christian’s scars are from cigarette burns. No. Really? Once again, you guys, Ana has proven herself a real Poirot and proven us to be slackers. When she brings up her fascinating realization, Christian gets standoffish and snaps at her. Ana asks if Hester the Molester gave him those scars, and Christian says he can’t understand why Ana has to “demonize her.” Yeah, I hate it when people ascribe all sorts of awful behaviors to pedophiles just because they’re pedophiles. Where’s the justice?
Ana suddenly feels awkward that they’re having a nude, bloodied, post-coital argument, when “neither of us has anywhere to hide, except perhaps the bath.” Wait, just how deep is this bath, and how long does Ana plan to hold her breath while hiding in it?
They both hop in the tub, Christian giving Ana the silent treatment, Ana handing it right back to him. Exciting, no? We’re really getting somewhere! They’re playing the Quiet Game! They have finally reached the maturity level of first graders.
Finally Christian tries to explain to Ana that Hester the Molester’s “love” distracted him from his bad-boy ways and kept him from becoming like his birth mother, which could mean he was turning into a crack addict, a whore, or a crack whore. We don’t know which one, you guys. We just don’t know. Anyway, thank God he had the love of a pedophile to save him.
Ana is glad he’s opening up to her and points out that she prefers his honesty to his completely successful attempts to distract her with sex. Christian explains that he has a hard time discussing his feelings except with his therapist and with Hester the Molester.
Oh, no. Christian. You just talked her down from a jealous fit, and then you go and say that? No brains, folks. I do not believe this guy could make billions of dollars in real life.
To make matters worse, he admits that he and Hester discuss his relationship with Ana, and that she gives him advice! Hm, suddenly his insane behavior makes more sense. Perhaps he has no clue how to relate to women outside the bedroom, so he’s asking ol’ MILFy Hester, and she’s jealous enough to give him bad advice that will derail his relationship with Ana. If that’s the case, she has seriously underestimated Ana’s relentless stupidity.
When Ana keeps pushing the issue, Christian tells her to stop before he spanks her, as though she’s a child having a tantrum and not a woman with legitimate concerns about her relationship. Well, actually, her concerns aren’t terribly legitimate, as she’s mainly worried that Christian and Hester still have a thing, when she should be worried that Christian talks to his ex about their relationship instead of talking to Ana.
Then he gripes at her for not answering his email, and she reminds him that there’s not much point emailing someone when they show up in front of your face. After all, when was she supposed to email him? While they were having a face to face conversation? During the tampon scene? From the tub?
Christian wants Ana to be honest about her feelings, since he went first. She tells him she’s still not into the whole contract idea, and he agrees that she’s not good at submission. She admits that the spanking wasn’t bad, but that she felt uncomfortable getting pleasure out of an unpleasurable activity. Christian agrees that it “takes a while to get your head around it.” Hm. Exactly how long does Stockholm Syndrome take to set in? He also explains that he needs to control her because “it satisfied a need in me that wasn’t met in my formative years.” What need? I don’t remember needing to spank people when I was a child. Anyway, Ana is comforted to realize the BDSM lifestyle is a kind of therapy for him.
She’s a goner for sure. He just hit her where she lives: If I do this spanking thing, I’ll be helping him! I’ll be saving him with my love! He’ll be redeemed by me, and I’ll be worthy of him, and he’ll be worthy of me, and we’ll be, like, all totally worthy together!
They spend about 10 more seconds trying to talk about a serious topic (the fact that he tells her not to defy him but then tells her to keep challenging him), and then it’s back to sex, sex, sex. They do it in the tub. Christian looks “hot.” They have meh-gasms.
Finally the lovebirds hit the sheets, where Ana wants to talk again. Good! You get him back on topic and you iron this stuff out, Ana. I’m sick of all this wishy-washing, no one ever saying what they mean.
Oh. Wait. She wants to talk about their favorite movies, because it’s integral to the plot to know that Christian loves The Piano.
The topic goes back to sex, and Christian reveals that while he has had 16 submissives, he’s had sex with many more women than that. In fact, he doesn’t know the exact numbers, although he assures her it’s in “the tens.” Not the teens, the tens. That could be anywhere from 19 to 90. Apparently Christian used to go to some sort of BDSM boot camps to train as a Dom, and he got to “practice” with women training to be subs. I don’t think he got the fundamentals down. You know, like getting your partner’s consent? I’m pretty sure that’s a biggie.
Disappointed that she can’t shock Christian except by wearing his underwear, not wearing her own, being a virgin, and saying his name (huh?), Ana agrees to go back to the Red Room of Pain and play hide-the-crop again next weekend. Elated, Christian promises her a surprise, which I’m sure will be large and expensive, and then tells her good night. Well, not so much tells her good night as “commands” her: “Sleep.” As though she’s a voice activated gadget, Ana powers down for the night and all is well.
Oh, gosh. I’m powering down for the night, too. Is it possible Christian’s having an effect on me, too? Oh wait. I’ve been awake for 17 hours. I’m probably just tired.
Tune in next time to find out whether Christian prefers Always or Kotex!
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Kimberly Schwan on August 27, 2012 at 3:28 am said:
So I just found your blog, I googled “What’s the big deal about 50 Shades of Grey?” SO glad I found you. I’m not jumping on that bandwagon, wasn’t planning to, and am now obsessed with your blog. I read it out loud to my husband and we were both disappointed this was the last entry lol! Can’t wait to read more! 🙂
Ynne on November 3, 2014 at 10:12 pm said:
The tampon scene left me traumatized. Honestly. She might have been deeply shaken and hurt by his actions. I mean, I wouldn’t like it, so I might have different point of view than the writer, but he did not ask her. Ever. So from my point of view, what he did crossed all limits (not that he’d ever do anything for Ana, or treated her like normal boyfriend, or… you know, the usual, he’s a psycho).
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TAkot 2018: Happily Never After
All Dressed Up And Ready To Scare
October 31, 2018, Alabang. Yesterday afternoon’s TAkot 2018 was a riot!
Every last Wednesday of the month, TeamAsia celebrates Pop Up, a beloved employee engagement activity where everyone stops work to get together for a few hours of fun, fellowship and camaraderie. It is also a time when birthday celebrants are greeted, and friends break bread (though it was barbecue, noodles and doughnuts yesterday). New employees are welcomed, but first, they have to either perform a talent or butt-spell their name, a hilarious exercise that has everyone cheering them on.
The most awaited of these monthly Pop Ups is Halloween. This time around, we moved Pop Up to Tuesday as many of our employees will be traveling to the provinces today to celebrate Undas, the Filipinos’ way of honoring their dead by visiting the cemeteries and coming together as families to pray and remember loved ones that have gone ahead.
Happily Never After was this year’s theme for TAkot. A twist on musicals that end happily and make everyone believe life is dandy, the theme had everyone thinking creatively of a different and unexpected ending for Halloween. One where you witness something terrifying and unnerving, and you are lucky enough to escape and tell the tale.
Five departments competed in the quest: Creatives with The Lion King, Digital/IT and Web with Moana, Marketing and Accounts with The Wizard of Oz, Experience with Trolls, and Content with The Little Mermaid. With imaginative minds and creative juices working overdrive, the TeamAsians delighted us with their productions, and made my job as judge difficult. Luckily there were other judges to spread the work around.
The Creative folks danced with abandon, representing the animal kingdom rejoicing the birth of the Lion King, when suddenly they removed their animal costumes and turned into zombies dancing to Michael Jackson’s Bad.
Starting with a video clip from Moana where she saves the island from devastation, the Digital/IT and Web boys danced to their own ditty of “mag walis, mag-bunot, mag-laba, mag-sampay” as their fitting welcome to the triumphant Moana, ably played by Chiara, who they then kill as “women are not allowed on their island.” Undertones of gender bias, but happily, we have our first female team member in what for the longest time was an exclusive male domain.
Pam’s baby Coco adorably dressed as a princess troll stole the scene from the Experience Department’s performance. Coco didn’t even cry when she was taken from her “dying” Mama Troll Queen’s arms and given to the Troll King as sacrifice. Abi Bibat ably led the group in singing.
Lynda surprised everyone with her singing for the Wizard of Oz, as the unlikely group of friends, Enzo as the Scarecrow, Joyce as the Tin Man, Erika as the Cowardly Lion, and Patrick as Dorothy hop-skipped their way through the Land of Oz. Aire as the Wicked Witch of the North and Denise as the Wizard herself completed the cast of characters. And when Erika the Lion received her badge of courage and stopped being cowardly, she pounced on Dorothy and killed her, then gave away Dorothy’s heart to the Tin Man and her brains to the Scarecrow. It was indeed a surprise ending, and a hilarious performance.
Content’s Little Mermaid’s story addressed the environmental crisis, weaving in undertones of the ocean’s desecration by the massive garbage and plastic being thrown into the sea. As Johanna, alias Ariel, sang longingly of exchanging her fishtail for feet so she could explore the earth, the other content staff swam, or rather bobbed, around. There was Luigi as a seahorse, Tony as a starfish, BeaF as an octopus, Ana as Nemo. Vince told the story, while the other team members served as extras or production staff; throwing the garbage and blowing bubbles in the air. Intent on achieving her dream, Ariel goes to Ursula, devilishly played and sang by Axl, complete with sidekicks Flotsam and Jetsam. Ariel gets her wish, while Ursula is caught by a fisherman. And once on dry land, hungry Ariel decides to stop by a kiosk to buy takoyaki, a popular Japanese street food made of octopus balls. Goodbye Ursula! A deadly twist indeed, reminding us that the garbage we throw out into the sea, end up in the seafood that we consume. Hats off to Elton, the master storyteller and scriptwriter!
After the performances, we headed off to the pantry to get food, while the young ones went around to collect goodies. It was heartwarming to see the little sons and daughters of our staff having fun and playing in TeamAsia.
And we all had fun dressing up! Bea was the evil queen holding a box with a heart, while I dressed up as Esmeralda of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The night before, Bea asked me to make her a crown for her outfit, and I remembered all those halloweens past when my children were young and we dressed up in outrageous costumes.
Soon it was time for butt-spell. We had a record number of butt-spells this time, with BVernie of Content doing it so fluidly it must have been cursive! Bea then announced the winners of the competition: Content bagged the first prize, followed by MAD and Creatives.
Takot 2018 was definitely a blast, an occasion for TeamAsians to unleash their creativity while having fun. I look forward to what our Pop Up team can come up with for the next one.
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Stop buying face masks to protect against coronavirus, says US surgeon general
by Candace Hagan (2020-04-06)
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People across the world are wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website.
Walk around any crowded area during flu season and you'll see people wearing medical face masks to protect themselves from germs and other contaminants. With the rapid spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and increased concerns about a US outbreak, face masks have flown off store shelves. But do they really work?
Disposable face masks block large particles from entering your mouth, while more tight-fitting N95 respirator masks are far more effective at shielding you from airborne illnesses. Both of these masks could potentially help protect you from getting a viral infection, but US government officials have emphasized that the American public should not purchase face masks to prevent themselves from getting infected. Instead, only people who are displaying symptoms of coronavirus should wear masks to prevent the spread of the disease to others.
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On Feb. 29, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted:
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
— U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020
Adams' tweet echoes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance that the general public should not use face masks to protect themselves from coronavirus -- only those who are exhibiting symptoms should wear masks to protect others. The CDC's page on COVID-19 treatment and prevention states: "CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a face mask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19."
Despite that, fears of coronavirus have made finding these masks online difficult. As of Feb. 29, both face masks and N95 respirator masks are either sold out online or marked up significantly, especially on Amazon and Walmart.com.
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A better way to protect yourself from coronavirus
Despite the small number of coronavirus cases in the US, many people are eager to protect themselves. The best way to protect yourself from the current coronavirus -- and any other virus such as the flu -- is to stick to basic hygiene habits. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, avoid touching your face (especially your mouth, nose and eyes), sneeze or cough into your elbow, stay home when you're sick and disinfect surfaces often.
You can also use hand sanitizer to clean your hands if you don't have access to running water, but you shouldn't make your own if you can't buy it.
If, after heeding the above advice, you've determined you need a face mask, here's a primer on the different types and how they work.
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Face mask vs. respirator
This NIOSH-approved N95 respirator will prevent airborne particles from entering.
If you've ever been to the dentist, surgical face masks will look familiar -- healthcare professionals use them to prevent the splashing of fluids into their mouths. They're loose-fitting and allow airborne particles in. People commonly wear face masks in East Asian countries to protect themselves from smog and respiratory diseases, but these masks aren't designed to block tiny particles from the air.
A face mask's main purpose is to keep out the liquid of an infected person's sneeze or cough from entering your mouth or nose (gross, I know). Wearing one can protect you from getting sick if you're in close contact with someone who is ill and also help prevent you from spreading your illness to someone else, as it's common practice for 패션 medical professions to wear them around sick patients.
Face masks can also help prevent hand-to-mouth viral transmissions, because you can't directly touch your own mouth while wearing one. Viruses, however, can be transmitted through your nose or eyes and virologists say that surgical face masks cannot block airborne viruses from entering your body.
Surgical face masks don't block small particles, but they can prevent liquid from getting on your mouth or in your nose.
For that you'll need a respirator, a tight-fitting protective device worn around the face. When people say "respirator," they're usually referring to the N95 respirator, which gets its name from the fact that it blocks at least 95% of tiny particles. Several brands manufacture N95 respirators, and they come in all different sizes. When shopping for this kind of mask, be sure the packaging says "N95" -- some masks will only say "respirator," but if they aren't marked as N95, you won't get the full level of protection.
Dr. Michael Hall, a CDC vaccine provider, said in an email that N95 respirators are the most protective, but that surgical masks can be worn when taking public transport or entering crowded areas to help protect you from other people's coughs and sneezes.
N95 masks are tricky to put on, so make sure you watch a video or check out a guide on how to fit one to your face. Hall says that the key is to wear the mask firmly around your nose and mouth without any gaps. And once it's on, leave it on -- a respirator that's only worn sometimes isn't nearly as effective.
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Aboriginal health research in the remote Kimberley: An exploration of perceptions, attitudes and concerns of stakeholders
In late 2006 a local research review panel – the Kimberley Aboriginal Health Planning Forum (KAHPF) Research Subcommittee – was formed to improve research processes and encourage appropriate research. This was in response to concerns raised across the Kimberley, particularly from Aboriginal people and health services, about the health research being been carried out here.
The Research Subcommittee aims to encourage a coordinated approach to health research and promote research that is meaningful, useful and results in practical change and development within the region.
Why did we review the Research Subcommittee and its processes?
As the number of applications to the Research Subcommittee increased, concerns were raised by Kimberley organisations about the burden of research. Also some researchers criticised the processes of getting approval for their projects. The Research Subcommittee reported this to KAHPF and proposed to review its own activities.
How did we review the Research Subcommittee and its processes?
We conducted a retrospective audit of all the data from the Research Subcommittee from 1 January 2007 to 31 October 2013. All data used in the review of the Subcommittee were collected as part of the Subcommittee’s normal procedures.
We analysed text in the data collected to identify broad themes related to research in the region that reflected opinions, attitudes or insights of stakeholders. We then compared the perceptions, attitudes and concerns of local stakeholders connected to the Research Subcommittee with external stakeholders’ perspectives on the issues they faced conducting research in the Kimberley.
What did we find?
From 1 January 2007 to 30 June 2013 the Subcommittee received 95 proposals:
60% were driven by researchers based outside the region (external researchers).
Local stakeholders raised concerns about 40% of all projects – most of these projects were driven by external researchers.
The major concerns of local stakeholders (22 people from 12 different Kimberley organisations) were:
Inadequate community consultation and engagement;
Burden of research on the region;
Negative impact of research practices;
Lack of demonstrable community benefit; and
Power and control of research in the region.
The major themes identified by external stakeholders (25 external researchers who completed the review form in mid-2013) were:
Unanticipated difficulties with consultation processes;
Conflict between importance of face-to-face visits and barriers to travel;
Perceiving research as a competing priority for health services; and
Time-consuming ethics processes.
External stakeholders also identified strategies for improving research practices in the Kimberley:
Importance of community support in building good relationships;
Employing local people;
Being flexible in approaches to research; and
Importance of allocating sufficient time for consultation and data collection.
Health research in the Kimberley has improved in recent years, however significant problems remain. Prioritising research addressing genuine local needs is essential in closing the gap in Aboriginal health outcomes and life expectancy.
The long-term aim is for Kimberley health service connected researchers to identify priorities, lead, conduct and participate in the majority of Kimberley health research. For this to occur, a more radical move involving changing the research process is needed. Changes to funding processes (e.g. government research funding to go directly to health services rather than universities and giving researchers extra time for community consultation and feedback of results) could improve remote area Aboriginal health research.
What changes to the Research Subcommittee processes have resulted from this review?
Kimberley communities and organisations expect to be involved in the development of research proposals and for research to be based on local priorities. They have the right to be informed of the results of any project in which they were involved.
The Research Subcommittee wants to ensure that research conducted in the Kimberley is in line with local priorities and is supported by local communities and organisations. The Research Subcommittee encourages Kimberley communities and organisations to get in touch if they have any questions or concerns about research that is occurring / planning to occur in the Kimberley. Contact details are available on the Research Subcommittee website.
To hold researchers accountable we are in the process of updating the Research Subcommittee Project Form. Researchers will need to list any Kimberley projects that they have been involved in and if these have finished they will need to describe the feedback provided to the communities and organisations involved in their research.
We have updated the advice that we give researchers on the processes of conducting research in the Kimberley. We will continue to streamline processes (e.g. reporting requirements) with the WA Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee.
Frieda Mc Loughlin, Nyssa T Hadgraft, David Atkinson and Julia V Marley. Aboriginal health research in the remote Kimberley: An exploration of perceptions attitudes and concerns of stakeholders. BMC Health Services Research 2014; 14:517.
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Kandos History
Kandos a Rare 20th Century Town
About Kandos
architecture, cement history
Beneath a Moving Ropeway at Kandos
May 24, 2019 May 23, 2019 Kandos History
There was something magical about the ropeway. A continuous stream of buckets gliding across the landscape, sliding against those imperial towers, over rugged hills, atop deep gullies, above sheep grazing in paddocks or a plough turning the soil. Bucket after bucket. One line carrying limestone, the essential raw material for cement making, from the quarry to the works; another line of empties returning.
The ropeway was a showpiece for the cement industry, on view from many parts of the town; on entering or leaving; by road or train. While the cement works was hunkered beneath the mountain, a secretive and mysterious mass of buildings, noise and smoke, the ropeway was out there, showing off product and industry.
Now the ropeway is gone. I’m sad. Terry’s sad. At the time of closure, he suggested it could be remodelled as a tourist experience. Get a big paint company like Dulux, he said, to promote their paints. Imagine bright coloured buckets of visitors gliding across that landscape. Better than hot air ballooning, probably safer. But no chance now.
I was surprised to discover, that during the life of the cement works, there was not just one ropeway but three. The first one took about six months to erect in 1915, though there isn’t a great deal of information about it. The Mudgee Guardian reported at the time that it ran for about three miles and could carry a ton and a half of limestone per minute at a cost of twopence per ton per mile – all of which makes little sense to me, but some of you will be able to process that. You might ask, as others did at that time, why a ropeway, not a tramway. The answer is in the terrain – too precipitous, a one-in-three gradient in parts.
One thing I’ve learnt from trawling through early local newspapers is that the cement industry at Kandos was continually expanding and improving – more kilns, more silos, more mills, more dams, more machinery, more stacks, more tramways. So why not another ropeway? The fact was, number 1 was not carrying enough, fast enough. And the quarry workers were getting jack of having to work so much overtime (that came as a surprise!).
So tenders were called in October 1920 for supply and delivery of a monocable aerial ropeway over 3 ¼ miles. From tender to completion was eighteen months. Both ropeways would operate together and be known as No 1 and No 2. The latter had a capacity of 120 tons per hour as against 40.
Just imagine the work that went into its construction by 50 men. The first job, to survey the route, was carried out by G Watson working for the successful tenderer Gibson Battle. He prepared plans, submitted them for approval and ordered the machinery which arrived in April 1921. The next job was to set out the position of each of the 68 towers (No 1 had 50), followed by clearing the route and constructing a “well-formed” road, for transport of materials, installation of the rope and general maintenance. Lorries and tractors were used for transport; bullocks with scoops and men with picks and shovels were used for clearing and construction. And there was a great deal of invention and ingenuity.
For the towers themselves the ground had to be excavated and concrete foundations laid. The next job was to install the driving plant and machinery for automatic loading and unloading of the limestone. Did they use the original protection bridges over the railway, Anzac Avenue and the Sydney road or build wider ones? I’m not sure.
One other task was to make application in the Warden’s Court to build the ropeway on public and private land. The warden made a judgement that rent for private land should be five pounds per annum with ten pounds compensation. Rent on Crown land was set at one pound per annum.
So that leaves No 3 ropeway, which came into commission on 22 December 1989, a bi-cable ropeway, with 130 clam shell buckets, not just fully automatic but computerised.
It wasn’t always smooth sailing across the landscape. Over the years there were quite a number of what were euphemistically called ‘mishaps’. These usually involved some part of the mechanism breaking and buckets tumbling into each other or into towers or tumbling onto the ground or careering down the cable. Mr Anderson, assistant chemist in 1923, would recall, if he was alive, driving his motorbike into a lowered cable and being thrown into the air. “What might have happened,” questioned the Lithgow Mercury “if the rope had caught him across the neck?” Editors were more ghoulish in those days.
At the time No 2 ropeway was built, it was said to be the finest ropeway in Australia…or was that in the southern hemisphere? Yes, I know, promotion by the company, but still impressive.
As far as I know all that’s left of Kandos ropeway history are protection bridges, a single tower, No 35, at the beginning of Cooper Drive and a couple of towers in a paddock that you can see as you drive along the Bylong Valley Way. No 35 tower is accompanied by a nicely designed plaque produced by David Fuller, giving the history of the ropeway, especially of ropeway No 3. It’s worth a visit.
This image and the featured image, with thanks to Kandos Museum. It too is well worth a visit.
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Published by Kandos History
Four things about me. I like reading, writing, researching and living in the country. In particular I like living at Kandos, where we have been for more than a decade. I have deep roots in this part of the country. My mother spent her early life in Kandos. My father was born at Rylstone. My grandparents were pioneers of Kandos and Rylstone. And I was born at Lue - and went to school in Mudgee. The history of this area excites me and I would like to share it with you. Currently I am writing monthly blogs posted on the 1st of each month. If you "Follow" and give your email address the blogs will be automatically sent to you. View all posts by Kandos History
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17 thoughts on “Beneath a Moving Ropeway at Kandos”
Fiona MacDonald says:
Great article and thanks for the plug!
Enjoyed this well researched story. Terry’s Dulux paint idea was a good one. Sorry the ropeway is gone. This story will help it “live”
Kandos History says:
Thank you Gillian. Come to Kandos!
Daphne Ward says:
My Dad Ron Munro worked on the rope way at the Quarry end. Lots of memories growing up.
I was so pleased I had an opportunity to visit the quarry before it all closed down. What an industry!
Michelle Tomkinson says:
You are doing a fantastic job as I love reading your history of where my father grew up. Makes me home sick for the country . Takes me back to when I was a small girl living in Kandos .
It’s great to know Kandos History is reaching people who are far away but have fond memories of Kandos. I love discovering its history. Such an amazing town.
Neil Moore says:
Great to see the photos of the old ropeway there was another ropeway which crossed the Bylong valley way, back from the quarry turn off approach 1 kilometre back towards Clandulla it was similar to the No1 ropeway with a single rope running on “wheels” I think it went to the Charbon works before Brogans Creek quarry was established. There used to be a tower just beside the road and another tower near the Reedy Creek dam near Charbon works. Charbon works had another ropeway which came from Brogans Creek which operated until Charbon closed in 1977
Thank you for that Neil. I knew Charbon works installed one but never saw it unless as a child but I remember those wheels in a photo.
C & K says:
Thanks Col, for another fascinating article about a lovely town.
Glad you are still reading it Kath. I think my next blog might be on the Lue church which will mention Bruce.
Daphne Ward (nee Munro) says:
That will be great too Col. look forward to seeing that.
James Martin says:
Our company, CA & DB Martin, helped maintain and supply parts for Charbon Ropeway and Kandos 1, 2, & 3 ropeways. We maufactured the new buckets for No.3 and many of the other parts. The protection structures under No.3 were fabricated & erected & maintained by us.We were involved in No. 3’s construction. All of the No.3’s disastrous crashers were rectified by us. Most of the latter crashes on No.1 & 2 were fixed by us. We assisted at Charbon incidents. 1 to 2 years(?) after Charbons’ closure we were hired to get the rope going again to remove the buckets which had been left hanging along the whole 9km. If you want info on these ropes, feel free to contact me. Regards, James Martin.
Good to learn all that James. will certainly keep you in mind for any questions that come up about the ropeway.
I remember your business up the top of town. I left in 1969 but try to go back often.
Matthew Quomi says:
I believe No. 3 ropeway was constructed by Electric Power Transmission (E.P.T.) Pty Ltd. Are you able to confirm this? I understand the scope of works including replacing the towers and reconstructing the dump station, as well as the commissioning. The splicing of the cable was subcontracted to an English company.
Matthew all I know at this stage is from a comment from James Martin further down:
“Our company, CA & DB Martin, helped maintain and supply parts for Charbon Ropeway and Kandos 1, 2, & 3 ropeways. We maufactured the new buckets for No.3 and many of the other parts. The protection structures under No.3 were fabricated & erected & maintained by us.We were involved in No. 3’s construction. All of the No.3’s disastrous crashers were rectified by us…”
I will check media information for the opening of the third ropeway when I am next doing research in the State Library and try to answer your question.
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20% uranium enrichment by Iran stems from US unilateral withdrawal from JCPOA
The European Council issued a statement on Monday acknowledging that Iran's decision to restart the process of enriching uranium to 20% stems from the US unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran Press/Europe: The statement, a copy of which was posted on the European Council website, reiterated the EU's strong commitment to and continued support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
"The JCPOA is a key element of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture and an achievement of multilateral diplomacy, endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council through resolution 2231," the statement said.
Elsewhere in the statement, the EU said, " The initiation of uranium enrichment to up to 20% by Iran at the underground Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which was confirmed by the IAEA on 4 January, is a very serious development and a matter of deep concern. Iran's action is also inconsistent with the JCPOA's clear provisions on Fordow and has potentially severe proliferation implications. At this critical juncture, Iran's action also risks undermining efforts aimed at building upon the existing diplomatic process. We urge Iran to refrain from further escalation and reverse this course of action without delay. Continued full and timely cooperation with the IAEA remains critical."
"We acknowledge the issues arising from the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the agreement and the re-imposition of its sanctions. The EU has upheld its JCPOA commitments, including regarding sanctions lifting as foreseen in the agreement. Despite the severe challenges to the JCPOA, the EU has continued to work hard to preserve it. We take note of the Ministerial statement of JCPOA Participants of 21 December 2020. We express support for the ongoing diplomatic efforts in the framework of the Joint Commission, with the EU High Representative as its coordinator, to ensure full JCPOA implementation. In this context, we also express our support to intensive diplomacy with the goal of facilitating a US return to the JCPOA and Iran's return to full JCPOA implementation."
This is while the Islamic Republic of Iran reduced its nuclear activities after the nuclear deal in 2015 based on the agreement with the P5 + 1 and had no delay in this regard, but on the other hand, the Americans temporarily lifted some sanctions and at last withdrew from the agreement.
Iranian officials have said that the condition for the United States' return to the JCPOA is the lifting of all oppressive sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Transmission in vitro of hepatitis C virus from persistently infected human B-cells to hepatoma cells by cell-to-cell contact
Virus cell-to-cell spread has been reported for many different viruses and may contribute to pathogenesis of viral disease. The role played by cell-to-cell contact in hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission was studied in vitro by cell cocultivation experiments. A human lymphoblastoid B-cell line, infected persistently with HCV in vitro (TO.FEHCV), was used as HCV donor [Serafino et al., 2003]; recipient cells were the human hepatoma HepG2 cell line. Both cell types were co-cultured for 48 hr to allow the cell-to-cell contacts. The hepatoma HepG2 cells are not permissive to free-virus infection, but they were infected successfully using TO.FEHCV cells as source of virus. The kinetics of viral RNA synthesis and the percentage of infected cells were compared in cell-mediated-and cell-free-viral infection. After co-cultivation, a consistent proportion of hepatoma cells replicated HCV and stably expressed viral antigens. Virus produced was infectious as demonstrated by the ability to reinfect fresh B-cells. This cell model shows that permissiveness to HCV infection can be achieved in vitro in non-permissive hepatoma cells by direct cell-to-cell contacts with infected human Bcells. This mechanism of virus spread may also play a pathogenic role in vivo.
Titolo: Transmission in vitro of hepatitis C virus from persistently infected human B-cells to hepatoma cells by cell-to-cell contact
VALLI MB
SERAFINO A
CREMA A
BERTOLINI L
MANZIN, ALDO
LANZILLI G
BOSMAN C
IACOVACCI S
GIUNTA S
PONZETTO A
CLEMENTI M
CARLONI G.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
Abstract: Virus cell-to-cell spread has been reported for many different viruses and may contribute to pathogenesis of viral disease. The role played by cell-to-cell contact in hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission was studied in vitro by cell cocultivation experiments. A human lymphoblastoid B-cell line, infected persistently with HCV in vitro (TO.FEHCV), was used as HCV donor [Serafino et al., 2003]; recipient cells were the human hepatoma HepG2 cell line. Both cell types were co-cultured for 48 hr to allow the cell-to-cell contacts. The hepatoma HepG2 cells are not permissive to free-virus infection, but they were infected successfully using TO.FEHCV cells as source of virus. The kinetics of viral RNA synthesis and the percentage of infected cells were compared in cell-mediated-and cell-free-viral infection. After co-cultivation, a consistent proportion of hepatoma cells replicated HCV and stably expressed viral antigens. Virus produced was infectious as demonstrated by the ability to reinfect fresh B-cells. This cell model shows that permissiveness to HCV infection can be achieved in vitro in non-permissive hepatoma cells by direct cell-to-cell contacts with infected human Bcells. This mechanism of virus spread may also play a pathogenic role in vivo.
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The Irish of the North overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party during the period of the American Civil War. Many had little time for Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans, and in the 1864 Presidential Election most rowed behind George McClellan– the former commander of the Army of the Potomac– who was hugely popular among the Irish. Though his Democratic affiliations made him the natural choice for many Irish, McClellan nonetheless had put work into endearing himself to them. One such occasion was his appearance at a meeting in 1863, organised to raise funds for the relief of the poor of Ireland. McClellan no doubt saw this as an ideal opportunity to garner significant Irish support. His speech that evening is reproduced in full below, as is an explanation from one Irish Legion voter as to why he intended to support McClellan in the 1864 Election.
George McClellan and his wife during the Civil War (Library of Congress)
The speech below was given at the Academy of Music in New York on 7th April 1863. The event had been organised in an effort to raise funds for the relief of the poor of Ireland (to read more on these efforts, see posts here and here). The New York Times described the event as follows:
At half-past 7 o’clock the entire edifice was filled with beauty and fashion. On the stage were the officers of the Society known as the Knights of St. Patrick; Mayor Opdycke, who presided over the meeting; His Grace Archbishop Hughes; Rev. Messrs. O’Reilly, Mooney, Schneider, Hon. Judge Daly, Hon. Recorder Hoffman, Brig. Gen. Meagher, Very Rev. Dr. Starrs, Vicar General;Rev. Thomas Quinn, of Rhode Island, Rev. Mr. Moran, of Newark, Mator Kalbfleisch, of Brooklyn, and several other distinguished gentlemen, both of the lay and clerical orders. (1)
The evening wasn’t just for Democrats– Mayor Opdyke, who was also in attendance, was a staunch anti-slavery Republican. Among the other speakers was Thomas Francis Meagher, who although a Democrat, would ultimately support Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Though “Little Mac” protested that he had not intended to speak at the event, he had undoubtedly intended to do exactly that. His speech, which by all accounts was extremely well received, was calculated to link himself still further to the Irish. McClellan spoke of springing from a “kindred race,” and of witnessing the bravery of Irish soldiers on the battlefields of Mexico and the Civil War. He went as far as could reasonably be expected in condemning the British position in Ireland, pointing out that the Irish were little represented in the Government of Ireland and had no influence on the laws of the land. One can imagine what the expression of such views meant for those in the crowd with designs on gaining American support for Irish independence. He accentuated the idea that the United States had become a refuge for Irish exiles, stoking Irish pride by noting what a boon this had been for America. He closed by taking the opportunity to espouse the cause of Union, and the importance of the current fight. It would be more than a year before “Little Mac” would receive the Democratic nomination to challenge Abraham Lincoln, but, as his speech below demonstrates, he was already preparing the groundwork for Irish support in his future political career.
The Academy of Music was an impressive venue. This was the Russian Ball held there, only a few months after McClellan’s speech, in November 1863 (Library of Congress)
MY FRIENDS: I came here to-night as a listener and spectator, not as a participant in the proceedings of the evening. I came to hear the ablest and best of the friends and sons of Ireland plead her cause to-night. I have departed from my usual rule to avoid large assemblies, because I knew that this meeting had neither partisan nor political purpose. [Cheers.]
I knew that you had assembled for the noblest of all purposes– that of charity towards suffering brethren in a distant land. I came here simply to evince my sympathy in your cause; for I have strong and peculiar reasons for feeling an intense sympathy for and interest in all that relates to Ireland and the Irish [great applause.] I sprung myself from a kindred race. I have often seen the loyalty of the Irish to their Government and to their General proved. I have seen the green flag of Erin borne side by side with our own Stars and Stripes through the din of battle [Cheers.] I have witnessed the bravery, the chivalry, the devotion of the Irish race, while I was a boy, on the fields of Mexico, and in maturer years on the fields of Maryland and Virginia [Loud cheers] It has often been my sad lot, pleasant withal, to watch the cheering, smiling patience of the Irish soldier while suffering from disease or ghastly wounds; and I have ever found the Irish heart warm and true. [Cheers]
I feel, then, that I have a right to sympathize with your cause to night. It is most unfortunate that there are so many in Ireland who need our sympathy; but at least we should thank our God that He has given us the means to extend our hands to them. [Enthusiastic cheering.] It is perhaps unfortunate for Ireland that laws, in the making of which the Irish have had but little to do- that a Government in which perhaps they been but little represented- should have induced so many to have left their native land and sought foreign climes. But what has been the loss of Ireland has been the gain of America [Cheers] It has given us some of the proudest intellects that have adorned our history, countless strong arms who have developed our resources, and soldiers innumerable, who, on every field, from those of the Revolution to those of the present sad rebellion, have upheld the honor of their adopted country. [Wild Cheers] And so, I repeated, we have gained what Ireland has lost. [Continued cheers]
One thing more before I close. Although, as I said before, we have come here to-night for no political purpose, yet no true friend of his country, in the present crisis, can repress altogether the thoughts that will crowd upon his brain. What is it that enables us now to extend our hands in succor to your brethren across the Atlantic? What is it that our fathers worked for, and for which we too worked, and are working now? It was to establish on this broad continent one nation, one free Government, that might be a refuge for all from foreign lands. I know, then, that I express the sentiments of all who listen to me when I say that all oue energies, all our thoughts, all our means, and, if necessary, the last drop of our blood, must be given to uphold that unity, that nationality. [Great cheering]
I did not rise to make a speech, but simply to express my warm and most cordial thanks for the greeting with which I have been honored. I will therefore thank you again, and then make way for abler and more eloquent men who will plead the cause of your country to-night. (2)
‘Irish Brigade Giving to the Cause of Ireland’, for which McClellan was speaking. Detail from New York ‘Irish World’, 1903
When the election finally did arrive in 1864, many Irish were extremely vocal in their support for McClellan’s efforts. This widespread support is borne out among the private letters of soldiers I have been studying in the widow’s and dependent pension files. To gain a sense of some Irish views you can see previous posts here and here. A letter published in the Irish-American of 22nd October 1864 is illustrative of Irish backing for McClellan. It was written by Captain Thomas Norris of the 170th New York Infantry, part of Corcoran’s Irish Legion. At the time of his writing the Killarney, Co. Kerry native was in hospital in Annapolis, recovering from a wound received at Petersburg on 16th June 1864. Norris was best known in later years for his efforts to preserve the Irish language, which have been featured in a previous post here. Norris was replying to a letter from a (presumably Irish) Sergeant about the election, and particularly to a comment that all of the officers would vote for “Old Abe and the niggers”, highlighting how many Irish felt about Lincoln, African-Americans, and emancipation. It is worth noting that these views did not prevent men like this unnamed Sergeant from wanting to return to his regiment, and to fight for a Government which by this date had made clear its intent with respect to emancipation. Like many Irish troops, he likely felt emancipation was a means to an end in the goal of preserving the Union, which was the strongest ideological motivational factor for Irish (as for native-born) troops. (3)
Democratic Party Poster for the 1864 election supporting McClellan and Pendleton (Image via Wikipedia)
OFFICER’S HOSPITAL, MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, ANNAPOLIS, MD., Oct. 4, 1864.
Dear Seargeant- I received yours of the 24th ult. I am glad to hear you are well, and in hope of going to your regiment soon. I feel no trouble, save all that my wounds give me, which is enough. I had a letter from the Colonel, stating that he had but sixteen men left with him in the regiment (we got cut up “right smart, I reckon”); but it is consoling to know that there is not a dark spot on our whole career, which is partly substantiated by our colors being still in our possession. We lost our men, but not our colors; we have them both yet.
You compliment me highly, indeed, when you say- “I suppose that all of you (officers) will vote for Old Abe and the niggers.” I think I taught you to be more respectful to your superior officers. But as you are so far away, you think you are all right. Did you ever see me do, or know me to say anything, not right, or honorable, or contrary to my principles, to please any person or to curry any favors? Did you ever hear me say that I did or would vote for President Lincoln? Don’t you know that I could do better out of the army as a citizen, than in it as an officer? and still you make use of the above language to me. As I am in the service for the country’s good, and not for the immediate good of my family, I intend to serve the country by voting for George B. McClellan. When President Lincoln was legally elected (not by my vote) to be the President of the United States, I thought it my duty to support him as such. So did George B. McClellan, and every true Democrat; and, no matter how we liked the workings of his administration (as soldiers), we found no fault. If he is again elected, I have no objection- nay, it will be my duty, to maintain him. I have done it before, with musket and sword, and I challenge a living man to say that I have not done my duty. But I must say, that I hope he won’t require support from either of us as the President of 1865. We are going to lick the South; but I hope the country will have a man that will say to the whipped party- “Arise and don’t whine over your bruises. It’s all your own fault. You have done wrong against your father’s house (the Government and the Constitution), and got the worst of it. Repent now of your past follies, and be good citizens in future, and you shall be men, once more, having all the rights and privileges our glorious Constitution guarantees to the children of the Republic. Yes, as for the Prodigal Son, we shall kill for you the fatted calf, on seeing signs of your repentance: we shall love each other once more, and be as one body and one fold, animated by one spirit, under one Government and one Constitution as framed by the never-to-be-forgotten fathers of American freedom and independence. Your rashness has brought desolation on yourselves and weeping to the whole country, but we must try to turn past evils to future profits. our family quarrel has developed our strength and resources, and proven the ability of our republican form of government to maintain itself from invasion from abroad or commotion from within, and put secession out of the question for evermore. But we are now, as we were before the war, a ‘Republic,’ and as a part of the same you shall stand without distinction. Let remorse be your punishment for the past; you are welcome once more to our sisterhood of States, on that equality which must exist in conformity with the nature and workings of republican institutions.”
The man to say the above is, in my estimation, George B. McClellan. He is the man to unite the whole country. And whilst I think so, I am with him; and I think that every man (soldier), who fought and bled for the Union, ought to be with and for him. No doubt, the mis-named Union men of to-day will call every man a “Copperhead” who does not pretend to endorse their pretended views. But I am afraid that a great many of these would hereafter wish- should they succeed at present in their crazy rantings, and perhaps drift the country into God knows what- that they had copper or brass heads, or no heads at all, instead of adder-heads and numbskulls. I hate what is called- Copperhead, or a rebel sympathiser, as much as the Devil hates holy-water, and, consequently, I detest the humbug calling himself a Republican who would feign have it believed that every good man who loves his country, and who considers it his duty to vote for Seymour or McClellan, is a Copperhead and a traitor. Did not the present President and his Administration force the pay of a Major-General on McClellan since he was relieved from command, whilst they deprived the country of his services. Then, are President Lincoln & Co., traitors and Copperheads? How consistent the prating of those radicals must be. I don’t go for permanent subjugation and a standing army in the South or elsewhere; that would be a military despotism, and only the beginning of monarchy. We must whip the rebels back into the Union, place their States on an equal footing with the other States, and themselves on an equality with the other citizens of the country. If they won’t have that, why I say we must either extinguish or exterminate them; for, with McClellan, I say, “The Union must be preserved at all hazards;” and we all know that there is not a man in the United States that can raise such a volunteer army for the purpose to-day as George B. McClellan. Then I say, my boy, that he must have my voice, and may God grant him success.
THOMAS D. NORRIS,
Captain 170th Regt., N.Y. Vols. (4)
Despite the strength of Irish support, McClellan lost the 1864 Presidential election. President Abraham Lincoln advanced to a second-term, wartime victory, and assassination. In many respects, the Democratic Irish majority’s opposition to Lincoln and views towards emancipation have placed them on the wrong side of history. However, there was far more to their political views than simply racism towards African-Americans, and it is worth listening to their thoughts on the matter in order to attempt an understanding of those views.
Captain Thomas David Norris, 170th New York Infantry, Corcoran’s Irish Legion, and veteran of the 69th New York State Militia at the First Battle of Bull Run. He voted for McClellan in the 1864 election. (New York State Military Museum).
(1) Irish American 9th April 1863; (2) Ibid.; (3) Irish American 22nd October 1864; (4) Ibid.;
New York Irish American Weekly 9th April 1863. The Suffering Poor of Ireland. Relief Meeting– Speech of Gen. McClellan.
New York Irish American Weekly 22nd October 1864. The Irish Soldiers for McClellan.
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How to start a workout: cardio or weights
By Ivy Boyle Last updated Feb 12, 2020
You decided to do sports seriously, but the question arose before you – how is it better to begin training? Start with a warm-up, and then you need to choose what will you do first: pump over the main muscle groups or do cardio. Most trainers recommend working with weights in the first part of the training, as you are full of strength and energy and can work more productively. But some studies show that not everything is so simple. Two groups of men of approximate age took part in one study. One group began training with working with weights, and the second alternated strength training with cardio, that is, they alternated sets.
Upon completion of the training, it turned out that both groups were tired, which means that the sequence of training does not affect well-being. But measurements were taken of the concentration of lactate in the blood and it turned out that those guys who alternated strength sets with HIIT had time to recover and energy consumption was less. The group that worked with weights spent more energy and this was a serious challenge for the body.
After the experiment, everyone agreed that it does not matter what to do first, it all depends on the goal you are pursuing, but if you want to make your workout as effective as possible, start it with cardio and alternate with strength exercises.
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Review: Bobby Ether And The Academy by R Scott Boyer
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publisher Description: Join Bobby and his best friend Jinx as they avoid school bullies, a suspected assassin, and meta-human henchmen alike to unravel the many mysteries of the Academy – the ancient and enigmatic monastery in Tibet where kids with extraordinary potential are sent to study. But is the Academy truly what it claims to be?
Review: Covert art is way lame. Is this a coloring book or “See Jane Run”?
Bobby is gullible. To wit he is a negative foul mouthed little turd. But who can blame him. His parents were killed and he has been kidnapped to a Tibetan castle to develop his latent powers to utilize the energies that surround us. Hence the last name Ether.
As the story begins Bobby is whisked away by the beautiful Cassandra whom tells him half-truths and outright omissions as to why these creeps are chasing them. Bobby subsequently escapes and runs right into the creeps who take him away while he watches his parents in a car accident. Once at this school with other children, Bobby makes some friends, some enemies and begins to realize his potential. The strange thin about Bobby is that he believes all the bad people that surround him until it is patently obvious that what he once thought were bad people (Cassandra), are only trying to help him. During his tenure at the academy, Chief Benson Eagle Heart (BAHAHAHA!) shadows and protects him. But dumb Bobby thinks he is an assassin even when Chief Mighty Soaring Eagle fights off an attacking bear. Fug me.
This was well written and the characters fairly entertaining. It just seemed to fall a little flat. Perhaps the character attachment was lacking due to Bobby’s negative whining for much of the novel. The Only characters that played well throughout the novel were Master Jong and Jinx. Master Jong exhibits compassion even in the face of evil and stands resolute to do that which embodies Truth. Jinx is fun as he plays the super smart kid that is self-deprecating at the same time.
The next novel would really have to embody a formative plot coupled with a fast pace in order to build any sense of the characters as viable. The stop and go action of this novel and the ruminative inner dialogue of Bobby really slowed the whole ride down. One major glitch was Bobby’s apparent self-healing and bracing of the bookcase collapse. Why was his evident power only displayed once or twice?
Still, this gets close to 3 stars as it was an engaging read.
Review: Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers by Wilkie Martin
Publisher: The Witcherley Book Company
Publisher Description: Receiving unwanted attention after foiling an armed robbery, the unhuman Inspector Hobbes takes a long-overdue camping holiday, with Andy, his accident-prone friend, and Dregs, the delinquent dog. In the bleak and dangerous Blacker Mountains, Andy stumbles across something shocking, before falling for an attractive widow, while Hobbes wonders why an old gold mine has reopened.
Review: Pretty lame cover art.
Once again I was transported into another world where the characters are interesting and build in tandem with the story line. This author has become one of my favorites as he uses his characters to showcase a dry wit in tense situations. No one character leaves the story unscathed by this rapier like wit.
We finally get an idea as to what Inspector Hobbes truly is while riding along in search of stolen gold and the mystery of the Blacker Mountains. Although the plot is easily figured out early in the novel, most of your interest is in Andy. Why Andy? Well you can’t help but pull for the bungler especially when a cute damsel is in play.
Have fun with this one and hope that the author writes another.
Review: The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher: DelRey
The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace.
Review: Kewl cover.
This started out really good. Aliens chewing eating people, frantic escapes to the planet, body doubles of both the good and bad kind then PFFFT. Nada. Total scene frenetic story-line shift that was neither compelling or interesting. The process of getting through this novel quickly became a chore to the point it gets my lowest rating with no rating.
Review: Shadow Boxer (Alterations #2) by Jen Greyson
Publisher: Alexander Cole
Publisher Description: Fatigued from her latest mission where sleep was fleeting, time traveler, Evy Rivera will see no reprieve. Urgently, she must again travel back to ancient Rome. With one mentor kidnapped and the other threatening to eliminate scientists from the past, Evy must prioritize with the utmost care. But the next girl on the list is one she knows–and daughter of the man who trained her and stole her heart. Evy must push aside her heart-wrenching desire to reconnect with Constantine to focus on her task.
Review: I really like the cover but once again I am a dude.
This was a fairly solid story-line. I am a sucker for time travel as you never know what perspective the author brings to the past. The failings with the novel was the character development. Evy is just plain boring. She is especially boring when her and Constantine get together to spar, talk or hump. The humping scenes, coupled with the dialogue just seem to go on forever and have nothing to do with the overall plot. It is like some relational segue into the past that attempts (and fails) to render the characters in a more personable light. Only it comes off tedious and you start skipping pages to get back to the main story-line/plot. The Tesla sequence was really good and would have been better if maintained without the Papi/Mami worry or the “I am so concerned about my family but am humping Constantine right now…”
This would have been a great novel if the author had limited her romantic femme’ fatale’ interactions with Constantine and focused on Arcing and rendering historical instances. She can get her kicks whenever she wants but who wants to hear her continuous inner ruminative thought process on the whole relationship? I don’t.
Review: Black widow by Jennifer Estep
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publisher Description: Lethal, sexy, and always ready to protect her friends, Gin Blanco (a.k.a. the Spider) takes on the mysterious M.M. Monroe in book twelve.
Review: Love the cover only in that I am a dude.
Gin Blanco is a hard driving elemental assassin (with a heart of gold) whom kills people that piss her off. She’s hot, sexy and makes ravenous love to her man, Owen. She can, in a heart beat, knock the brains out of an assassin’s head with a frying pan and calmly drag the corpse into a freezer and serve you food 5 minutes later.
This read like the “Adult’s Guide to Juvenile Behavior”. Every encounter that Gin has with her enemies is this endless stilted and juvenile dialogue. The character exchanges fit this weird formula of 1) overt/covert antagonism 2) Grinding of teeth, clenching of fists and icy stares 3) dialogue that intimates veiled innocence and finally 4) direct threats with some righteous retribution. The metaphors are really lame and usually involve the words “cold” and “Ice”. The overuse of words to expedite scene development are many. “Murmured” and “Growled” were used a total of 34 times. The fight scenes don’t take you to any place that is believable and not because the emphasis is the use of magic. There seems to be a creative limit on the use of magic in fight scenes that renders the interaction to the mundane. Maybe because all the fight scenes are coupled with this weird dialogue of “HAHA I am stronger than you!”….”I will make you pay for your evilness!” “How are you still alive after I poured every ounce of magic into destroying you!!” I AM MELTING!! WHAT A WORLD WHAT A WORLD!!
It is beyond comprehension that readers give this an average of 4 stars. This doesn’t even fall into the category of “Have fun and don’t take it too seriously” as the writing is just plain bad. Besides all the female haughtiness (spinning on heels, flashing of teeth, mouth smirks and smug looks) you have a main character that imbues everything you can’t stand in a character. She murders people but has many close friends. In any situation she is ready to kill and will talk to you about it for 20 pages and let you know why you made this terrible mistake. She’s really hot and her enemies are even hotter so there is no great loss in ridding humanity of an evil hottie. She plays the reluctant hero shtick where all she ever wanted was to be left alone but ends up the big over-boss. Fug. Everyone runs around insulting each other and generally behaving like petulant little children where they have tantrums and red faces of rage.
This was a tedious experience I hope to not experience again.
Review: A Call to Duty by David Weber, Timothy Zahn
Publisher: Baen
Publisher Description: Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life . . . the two things his neglectful mother couldn’t or wouldn’t provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he’d finally found the structure he’d always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn’t exactly what he expected. Boot camp is rough and frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still recovering from a devastating plague, the Navy is possibly on the edge of budgetary extinction.
Review: The cover art would be really good if I was high. Looks like a gay superman…”UP, UP, AND…Oh my gosh this outfit is to die for!!”
This was a surprisingly fun read. It has a self-deprecating anti-hero with the lowest of self-esteem whom is constantly riddled with doubt. He ends up exerting control over his life with a hyper-sense of protocol that lands him in some shjt. This had a little more militaristic operational dialogue than I expected. For once the writing is really good and coupled with the increased dialogue makes for more palatable reading. Initially you think Travis is going to be “THE” story yet there are multiple character story lines occurring throughout.
Travis was a good character but your left waiting for him to rise from the ashes of obscurity and save the day. He does save the day, kind of, yet is rewarded in an offhand way. Perhaps the next novel in the series will see him rise to great heights.
I will be interested in seeing where these authors take the next installment. It could be great or nose dive with excessive dialogue.
Review: Astrum Divinus by John D. Christopher
Publisher: John Dobija
Publishing Date: August 20, 2014
Publisher Description: All his life, Dr. Peter Northcott has been plagued by disturbing dreams: apocalyptic scenes of angels and demons, and visions of fire and blood. As a historian and scholar, he discounts these to concentrate on his academic life in Rome. He is approaching his thirty-third birthday when a mysterious priest makes contact.
Review: Really bad cover art. A cabin in the woods….
I had a hard time fighting through the first few chapters due to the extended self-indulgent situational banter. The British upper crust approach to life wears thin and you develop no concern for the main character when he has “dream visions” of demons etc. When a person can avail themselves of familial advantages it’s hard as a reader to feel any sympathy. “Wahhhh, baby had a bad dream…righty oh, time to go to Rome or drive around in Daddy’s Morgan”. So Asshat, er…..Peter is finally introduced to some weird people that may help explain his even weirder dreams and this innate ability to influence people with mere words strung together into sentences which may create a paragraph or two.
This novel hints at wanting to be a movie. The character development is sacrificed for the story-line and subsequent plot. Novels that are designed with the reader in mind, couple character development with the movement of the story-line so there is a better sense of what the character is made of. This creates depth and empathy. In this novel the characters seem removed from the story-line, until they are suddenly thrust into a culmination of uncontrollable events. Here the event takes over and we are still left not really caring what happens to Mr. Penny Loafers. When Peter is finally elevated as an Archangel he is not in any real jeopardy as he cannot be harmed by Satan (according to Azrael).
This is a much used Dan Brown shtick where Super Dr. Phd. uncovers historical remnants of secret sects with dodgy types running around trying kill Mr. Smart Pants. Why not make the guy, hmmm, a plumber in Basingstoke. Rough around the edges yet with a deep respect for life. You know, hidden sensitivity. Now let him discover that he has a mum he never knew about and away we go. This novel was very dialogue heavy and the towards the end this dialogue got more and more stilted. Almost like the action (movement) just couldn’t kiss the characters.
Although I didn’t like the characters, I liked the writing and the scene descriptions. But that’s about it.
Review: Dukkha Unloaded by Loren W. Christensen
Publisher: YMAA
Publisher Description: Detective Sam Reeves is barely seated in a cab when he learns that during his two-week trip in Southeast Asia, hate crimes have rocked his city of Portland, including one very brutal lynching. As the crimes continue, thousands of fearful protestors march the streets, clashing with police and demanding more be done to put an end to the escalating violence!
Review: Nice cover art, although the caliber bullets don’t look like they belong to that gun.
Honestly, I had a hard time finishing this novel due to the lengthy dialogue that took up more than 2/3 of the novel. Blah, blah, blah race this, hate crime that and poor bully stories. All tendered to generate some kind of emotional angst and self-righteous indignation in the reader. Only it doesn’t. Rather than draw you into the characters and story-line, you’re left with a tired rendition of hate that has been overplayed. This constant pummeling of the race card, which is myriad in this novel, doesn’t move you as it should. It is a blame based conflagration with no real sentiment other than vengeful pride.
I get that in order to sell books you have to put yourself out there. The “I am a martial artist so I know” is anathema to the art. This is, IMHO, is an Americanized perspective on martial arts which is largely ego driven. There are a lot of writers out there that preface their work with being an expert martial artist much to their detriment. My advice is to just write.
The writing is good yet the characters are thinly developed and lack depth. The story-line is just tired and suffers from over-abuse. Characters really come to life when movement (action) is coupled with character discovery. The stresses of the action reveals the character under pressure and subsequently the reader is immersed. Pure dialogue doesn’t evoke or pull emotions from the reader. Pure dialogue leaves the reader flat.
Review: Shadow Memories by Nicholas Erik
Publisher: Tinderboxed Press
Publisher Description: Kurt Desmond and Cassie Atwood are private investigators in the ramshackle town of Seaside Heights. It isn’t quite the California pictured on the brochures, but the pair manage to eek out a living chasing down stray dogs, errant husbands and other small game. Life is peaceful, if boring – until a strange man comes to town, asking the pair if they can track down an ancient cave drawing. With an offer of forty grand dangling in front of them, Kurt and Cassie take the job.
Review: That cover art is just awful. Some kind of 35mm moiré’ nightmare.
This novel was a really fun read. Full of acerbic wit, comedic sarcasm and engaging characters. Kurt has this funny take on life that is constantly at the forefront of every scene. His glib internalizations ride shotgun to his outer expressions. This novel had great movement and an engaging story-line.
This work was a mystery/thriller until aliens were introduced. Cassie, Kurt’s live in GF is a tough gal with a lot of secrets, including banging rich millionaires. She is one of the guardians, a group working for the aliens and against the machinations of “The Singularity”. The ending is really just the beginning of this story and I can’t wait for the continuance.
A short read for sure, but turn the pages slowly so you can savor it.
Review: Silvern by Christina Farley
Publisher: Skyscape
Publisher Description: Jae Hwa Lee is ready to forget about immortals and move on with her life. Until the god of darkness, Kud, sends an assassin to kill her. She escapes with the knowledge that Kud is seeking the lost White Tiger Orb, and joins the Guardians of Shinshi to seek out the orb before Kud can find it. But Kud is a stronger and more devious god than Jae ever imagined. Jae is soon painfully reminded that by making an enemy of Kud, she has placed her closest friends in danger, and must decide how much she can bear to sacrifice to defeat one of the most powerful immortals in all of Korea.
Review: Cover art is trippin’.
This was made for the YA crowd, so I will attempt to keep that in mind during this review. Jae Hwa Lee is a whiner. There is no easier way to put it. She whines and cries about everything. If she is not indignant about people making choices for her, or her boyfriend being too clingy, then she is whining or crying. She cries constantly about her aunt and whines about being too sore or having no energy. She is always falling into the arms of her protector, the Prince of Douche Baggery..Marc. Marc is a constantly worried and clingy boyfriend whom will drive you bat shit crazy in about 20 pages. But, Jae always sees the “TWINKLE IN HIS GREEN EYES” or the beating of his heart through his muscular chest. Fug.
So we have three sixteen year olds, battling super evil, looking for a creation Orb and generally saving the world from destruction. Yeeeeah. Of course our little band of intrepid hormones experience near death at the hands of bad thingies, but Jae’s kung Fu is better than yours, so suck it. There is burgeoning WUV triangle, but Jae quickly gets over it because Marc is so hunky and attentive and the other dude is pure evil. Do you hear my inner scream?
This is a really long novel that you literally have to have Triathlete type endurance to get through to the finish. And the ending is just another interlude to the next in this series. NO RESOLUTION FOR YOU!
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High-Tech Disruptors Are Coming to Sink Old-School Rite Aid
Amazon will put an end to this faux recovery story
By Matt McCall and the InvestorPlace Research Staff, Editor, MoneyWire Feb 5, 2020, 1:36 pm EST February 5, 2020
Over the next several years, transformational innovations will prove many bears wrong. Just think back to the early 1990s when they were busy calling tops. Boy, were they wrong. That was the best time to buy equities, and this next decade, the roaring 2020s, is shaping up to be similar. But not all stocks will get a boost. Those companies that don’t embrace change will sink, and Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) stock is one headed to the bottom.
Let’s turn to football for a moment, for a quick illustration of just what I mean. With the Super Bowl putting a wrap on the 2019 NFL season, many hardcore fans will set their eyes on late April when the draft is scheduled. As you may know, this is an opportunity for teams to acquire the missing pieces they need for future success. Obviously, some teams need more help than others. It’s a fascinating time, watching teams wheeling and dealing, wagering on a young player’s potential impact.
With so many variables, it’s hard to know what they’re thinking before they pull the trigger. But one thing is certain. Very few teams will draft a fullback.
As any fan knows, the fullback is a yesteryear position, a hefty, clunky typewriter competing in the tablet era. It’s not that the fullback position is obsolete — there will always be a need for blockers in the running game. But using a limited (and therefore coveted) spot on the active roster for such a role? That thinking is becoming untenable.
The game has transitioned from specialization to multi-functionality. Why draft a fullback when you have tight ends that can perform both functions? It’s also the reason why mobile quarterbacks today are more highly valued than ever.
Still don’t get it? Moving into 2020, RAD stock is a fullback trying to make the cut. Don’t hold your breath.
Don’t Draft RAD Stock
But what I’m saying now doesn’t jive with the present momentum in Rite Aid shares. Following a strong fourth-quarter earnings beat against Wall Street’s expectations — and a decidedly positive print compared to the year-ago comparison — RAD stock went vertical (in the right direction).
For all the talk that we heard from the organization, especially with new CEO Heyward Donigan taking over the reins, Q4 delivered something far more valuable than a per-share profitability beat: credibility.
Shares have come back down from earth since peaking in late December due to profit taking. However, the growing consensus is that Rite Aid is finally turning the ship. If that’s the case, then this is an opportunity for contrarians to ride the rally before it sparks.
I think the consensus is wrong. RAD stock remains a specialized blocker, a one-trick pony in a market that has less need for such services.
Again, it’s not that Rite Aid is necessarily irrelevant. As the coronavirus has demonstrated, people get sick. When that happens, they turn to their doctors, who in turn provide them prescriptions. And the pharmacy receives those orders, providing the end product to the patients.
So no, the pharmacy business isn’t going anywhere. But it’s certainly changing. Tech will disrupt the traditional means by which people obtain medication.
I’m speaking of course about Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). The ultimate disruptor, Amazon is the unicorn player that can run, catch, throw, maybe even kick a field goal in a pinch. After forever changing the retail landscape, the e-commerce firm has impacted several other sectors, from groceries to courier services.
And now the giant disruptor has its eyes set on the pharmacy business. This is what should worry anyone considering Rite Aid.
Demographic Pressure Threatens Recovery Effort
In addition to football, I’m a big fan of history. While it may not always repeat, it usually rhymes. And because of this dynamic, you can glean useful information about future events.
Why am I so confident about the roaring 2020s? History teaches us that periods of transformative innovations result in massive opportunities. In the coming years, groundbreaking technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence will spark a huge leg up in the markets, perhaps for the next 10 years.
But you have to be aligned with the trend in order to benefit. Otherwise, you end up with something like RAD stock.
In 2018, Amazon bought out PillPack, an online pharmacy. Part Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and part CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), PillPack’s service revolves around individual patient needs. Delivered monthly, PillPack includes a patient’s medication in small packages labeled with a time and day to take them, along with printed instructions.
With PillPack, the pharmacy comes to you, not the other way around.
Interestingly, health insurers are enthusiastic about PillPack, mainly because their members are. I’m not surprised.
According to the Pew Research Center, millennials are the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. Logically, they would be most attracted to solutions that align with their consumption trends. And unsurprisingly, the average Amazon shopper is around 37 years old.
But most of Rite Aid’s customers are over 55 years old. Moreover, they skew even older than Rite Aid’s direct competitors, CVS and Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA).
In other words, Rite Aid customers are not the most receptive to digital solutions that the company needs to truly become relevant. On the other hand, Amazon is winning over the youth market, and that’s the market that will drive the healthcare industry of tomorrow.
Two-Minute Warning
Heyward Donigan promised to deliver details about Rite Aid’s long-term strategy to revitalize its brand. Undoubtedly, she’s doing the best job she can. But to me, this is like a fullback pledging to block harder than before.
The problem isn’t Donigan nor the team working long hours to make the recovery work. Instead, it’s the fact technology is shifting in big ways. It will make many winners over the years. But it will also leave those who can’t adapt in the dust.
RAD stock enjoyed phenomenal growth when it was relevant. But in the digital age, the pharmacy’s yesteryear business model (and its core consumer base) can’t do anything but muster a low-probability Hail Mary pass.
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Home Audience Creators Electropreneur Park Helps Startups in Every Possible Way During Incubation
Electropreneur Park Helps Startups in Every Possible Way During Incubation
Sanjeev Chopra, CEO, Electropreneur Park
Electropreneur Park helps electronics startups in incubation
The lab and facility is located in the South Campus of Delhi University
It also helps startups prepare professional pitches for VC rounds
Electropreneur Park has mentored more than 40 electronics startups till now
Sanjeev Chopra, CEO, Electropreneur Park, in an exclusive conversation with EFY’s Mukul Yudhveer Singh, sheds light on how the organisation is helping India based startups incubate, accelerate and pitch ideas to VCs. Located in the Delhi University, Electropreneur Park has mentored more than 40 electronics startups till now.
Q. What do you offer startups, in terms of support?
A. We offer every incubated startup a dedicated office space at our center, with the primary objective of giving full time access to the state of the art electronic lab facilities, and product development assistance.
Typically, an electronics startup needs to invest about Rs 2 million to 3 million in necessary test and development equipment. We have advanced testing equipment like spectrum analysers, variable DC loads, 3D printing, PCB prototyping machines, EDA/software tools and embedded tools for creating embedded designs, and more.
Then, as a part of the programme, we offer each startup an anchor mentor, who could be a leader/expert in a company or a successful entrepreneur.
We also facilitate interactive sessions with technical experts from the industry, such as chip manufacturers /distributors like Infineon Technologies,STM, Arrow Electronics etc. We arrange visits by technical engineers from leading organisations to visit Electropreneur Park and sit down with startup team members to understand the application and help startups choose the right set of components for the product or solution they are building.
While all the facilities are extended to a startup without any outright fee or charges , we expect each startup to share a small percentage of equity for sustainability of Electropreneur Park project.
Q. Do you also help startups when it comes to pitching to VCs?
A. We help startups in every way possible during the incubation period. Electropreneur Park helps them connect to industry leaders, vendors and others. We invite various investors and VC to Electropreneur Park from time to time for providing startups ample opportunities to make a business pitch and seek investment. We also engage experts to help startups create a professional pitch for the investors.
Q. How are startups paired with mentors? Can mentors invest in these startups?
A. Both, the startup as well as the mentor, should be comfortable with each other. It is not a simple process of pairing a mentor with the startups. We want both the startup and the mentor to be excited about being coached, and mentoring, respectively. We arrange maybe two or three sessions between the mentors and the startup.
After that, we check how the startups and mentors are feeling. The initial three to four months is about interacting with the various potential mentors before formally assigning a specific mentor to a startup.
A startup can have more than one mentor. One could be on the strategic side and the second could be with a very specific domain expertise.
Q. How long does a season usually run for? How many startups have you helped so far?
A. A formal call for proposals and outreach activities are conducted every eight to nine months depending on the availability of incubation space. We have already conducted six seasons. We started operations in April 2016 and are in our fourth year of operation.
Till now, we have been able to support 40 startups in various programmes. Out of these 40, we are expecting that by the end of this year, we will have exit from one or two startups ,though many of the startups have completed the incubation period and graduated.Our programme typically runs for one-and-a-half to two years, as far as the incubation is concerned.
Q. What does the term ‘exit’ signify?
A. By ‘exit’ we mean that we completely let go of whatever equity we hold in the startup that is exiting. The money that comes in can be used to sustain this project. Exits generally happen when venture capital (VC) comes in and there is a VC level of funding involved. We expect our startups to achieve a consolidated valuation of more than Rs 3 Billion by end of this year and a possible exit from 1 or 2 startups.
Q. How many types of programmes do you run?
A. We have two types, mainly – the pre-incubation programme and the incubation programme. There is also a third category, which is the virtual acceleration. It is offered to startups that are not located at Electropreneur Park premises.
For example, we have one startup under virtual acceleration in Bengaluru. That programme involves more mentoring and other support services.
Q. What if a startup is not ready to make an exit two to three years after the incubation?
A. We understand that every startup may not be able to offer us an exit upon graduation (two years) as electronics startups need time to develop the product and scale it to the desired level to attract institutional investors.
Apart from the physical space, all the other support is available to startups that have graduated. If a startup graduates after two years but still wants mentoring or access to our lab facilities, we extend these facilities without any charges from the startup. We also continue to extend our support in market access to these startups.
Q. What happens if a startup makes an exit and another reaches out to you with the same idea?
A. We don’t incubate at any given time two directly competing startups unless we see a synergy among them. So far, we have also not taken on any startup working exactly on the same idea of an already graduated startup. However, if a startup is working on an idea with a new value proposition, though addressing maybe the same problem as an earlier startup, then we may consider taking it on board.
Q. From all the applications you receive, how do you select the startups?
A. We have a two-stage process. We receive close to 100 proposals every season, Out of those, we do the first-level screening to shortlist 20 complete and most promising proposals. These teams are then called for making a detailed presentation and pitch to a panel of industry leaders and experts.
This panel consists of highly experience industry veterans like Dr Ajai Chowdhry, co-founders of HCL, Jaswinder Ahuja, MD of Cadence; Ajit Manocha, ex-vice chairman of Global Foundries; Pradeep Gupta, MD of Cyber Media; the director of STPI, Delhi University representatives and other industry leaders.
After making presentations, a lot of cross-questioning and discussion takes place. We typically coach about six to eight startups every season.
Q. What if the panel sees potential in a startup but is still not sure?
A. We have started a pre-incubation programme. For the first two seasons, we were only taking startups that had a validated proof-of-concept (POC) for Incubation. But then we realised that few of the startups had a good business idea and we started a pre-incubation programme, which typically lasts for three to six months.
If a startup has a very good business idea, and we see potential in the team, then we give them free access to the lab and the office for a period of three months along with the required technical and business mentorship.
Once the startup is able to demonstrate a POC , the startup gets an opportunity to pitch again to the panel for Incubation programme.
Q. Are POCs mandatory for applying to the incubation programme directly?
A. Yes, for incubation programmes POCs are required. This is accessed at the time of startup making the required pitch to the panel of Industry experts. Either we completely reject a startup, or in case we are satisfied with the current progress by a startup, we offer it pre-incubation on the condition that the team demonstrates the POC. This is reviewed and the result is declared after three months.
Q. Are you focusing on startups working around some specific technologies?
A. We are open to startups working around any technology. While selecting a startup, we look for innovation, uniqueness of idea, business potential, team capabilities and feasibility of the project to create a sustainable business venture within 1 to 2 years.
We also ensure that we are able to offer the required mentor-ship and facilities in the technology area of the startup we Incubate. For example, we took on a startup from Bengaluru, which was creating an electric helicopter.
Now, we don’t have the technology to create an electric helicopter in-house, but we took startup on-board as we could facilitate the access to LAB facility at ITI complex in Bengaluru and expertise from HAL Laboratories in Bengaluru.
Q. How do you reach out to potential startups?
A. We use all possible forums – through the online and print media, We reach out to various engineering colleges for roadshows and sharing programs on college social media pages for students. This season we also used Google adwords, organic and non-organic promotion on other channels like Facebook and Instagram.
We are also getting a good number of prospects from Startup India portal and Meity startup hub portals. Initially we were doing roadshows on a pan-India basis by visiting various cities. But last season, we did a live webcast for those who were out of town to address all questions of potential Incubatees.
Q. Where is the Entrepreneur Park facility located?
A. We are in the South Campus of Delhi University. We are on the third floor of the library building. It is a 10,000 square feet space, where we have set up an RF and a power lab. Around 72 people can be accommodated. We have different cubicles since electronics startups working on a product need to protect their patents.
Every startup that comes on board is given a cubicle, which is either a five-seater or an eight-seater. They can use the lab facilities as and when required.
Author – Mukul Yudhveer Singh. An avid reader, Mukul finds peace in books and technology. He’s as passionate about writing as he is about cricket and Playstation. If not writing or reading, you will most likely find him drawing tattoo designs or analyzing political campaigns.
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TAX INVESTIGATIONS NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
Britain hits Airbnb UK with extra £1.8 million tax bill after probe
British authorities hit Airbnb UK with an extra tax bill of 1.8 million pounds last year, the home rental company’s accounts showed on Tuesday, following an investigation into the firm.
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British Airbnb Hosts face probe after company is forced to share letting details with UK tax authorities:
The Airbnb UK accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 included a statement that the company will share data with HMRC about the earnings of hosts in the UK for the years 2017/18 and 2018/19. Paul Southward comments that anyone who rents out UK properties through the Airbnb platform should review their letting activity for the last few years. If they have declared the income and paid tax on their rental activity, then they should be fine. If income has not been declared to the tax authorities, they should consider whether or not a declaration should be made even if they believe there is no tax liability. Read Paul’s guide here: Airbnb-Tax-enquiries
TAX NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
Sunak warns of hard choices ahead
The Chancellor yesterday told the Conservative Party conference that the Government has a “sacred responsibility” to balance the books for future generations warning that there were “hard choices” ahead. Rishi Sunak indicated that not all Conservative party manifesto promises will be easy to meet considering the expenditure on the coronavirus crisis arguing that flexibility will be required. Mr Sunak said that the “mismatch” between public spending and tax revenues “can’t go on forever”, adding that balancing the books was “economically and morally” the right thing to do. The Telegraph reports on fears that the Government has political cover for a wealth tax to plug the budget shortfall after an Ipsos Mori poll found 41% of the public support the move over other revenue-raising measures. Elsewhere in the paper, Matthew Lynn says Sunak has the perfect opportunity now to “ rip up the entire tax system and start again from scratch”.
Financial Times, Page: 3 The Times, Page: 6 BBC News The Daily Telegraph, Page: 5 The Daily Telegraph, Business, Page: 1, 2 The Guardian, Page: 10 The Sun, Page: 4 Daily Express, Page: 1, 4-5, 14 Daily Mail, Page: 15
Capitalism, not socialism, will hoist us out of the mire
Kate Andrews says in a piece for the Telegraph that it is capitalism, not socialism that will heave us out of this crisis and that Britain is lucky to have leaders who believe in the power of markets and enterprise. But the conditions need to be created whereby enterprise can start to flourish again, continues Andrews. And this does not mean a digital services tax on businesses that have adapted to the crisis by moving online. Employers should not face a financial burden for hiring new employees and workers should get to keep more of their own income, Andrews adds, as she urges the Government to put its free-market beliefs into action.
The Daily Telegraph, Page: 16
TV presenter to take HMRC to court in tax bill row
TV presenter Eamonn Holmes is reportedly fighting a £250,000 bill by taking HMRC to court, with his case based on whether he is treated as a freelancer by ITV. A spokesman for the star stated that he “has always considered himself a self-employed freelancer and has never knowingly avoided paying taxes,” while HMRC had earlier stated that it needed to make sure employees pay “employment taxes” even if they are working through their own companies.
Daily Mirror Daily Express
Watch seller will be dented by VAT changes
Watches of Switzerland could miss out on £58m of sales next year if a proposed change to duty-free shopping and VAT refunds goes ahead. The Government said recently that from the start of next year only cigarettes and alcohol would be exempt from taxes at UK airports, while everything else – including expensive watches – would be liable. As for VAT, overseas visitors will be able to get a refund in British shops, although what they buy has to be shipped to their home address.
The Times, Page: 43
HMRC urges universities to warn new students of tax scams danger
Students starting university this year are being warned by HMRC that they could be targeted by a fresh wave of tax scams. HMRC has written to universities, through Universities UK, asking them to help ensure their students know how to spot a scam.
The Times, Page: 13 Press Release
FINANCE NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
New framework to help businesses deal with Covid loans
The Treasury is in talks with the banking trade body, UK Finance, to develop guidelines for the treatment of borrowers using the state-backed bounce back loan scheme should they fall into difficulty. The Government and the finance industry are working on a code that will establish a standardised process that borrowers could expect, including offers of forbearance to help struggling businesses to stay afloat. However, industry sources say banks will resist applying the framework to other emergency state lending programmes. Kevin Hollinrake, a Conservative MP and co-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on fair business banking, welcomed the talks, saying that he hoped for a “standardised code of practice to make sure that businesses are fairly treated and given time to restructure their finances should they run into cash flow difficulties”.
CORPORATE NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
Duncan Smith hits out at firms following remote working guidance
The Mail considers how large City firms including PwC, HSBC and Goldman Sachs and have stalled plans to shift workers back to the office after Boris Johnson urged Britons to work from home again amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus. The paper cites former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who says: “Smaller businesses cannot be up and running unless the big companies get their staff back to the office. It’s deeply unpatriotic of them to stay away from their offices, causing chaos for those businesses which rely on them and their staff. It will lead to massive job losses.”
Daily Mail, Page: 8
PROPERTY NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
Market fears dampen house sales
Concerns about job security and worries about house prices are putting one in five people off buying a home, according to a survey by PwC. However, 10% of respondents said they are more likely to buy, partly due to the stamp duty holiday. Jamie Durham, an economist at PwC, said: “The pandemic is making many people consider their next move very carefully.” The firm predicts that if COVID-19 remains contained, house prices could grow by 1% in 2021. A second national lockdown could, however, see prices fall by 7%.
Daily Mirror, Page: 11
ECONOMY NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
Services sector figures released by IHS Markit
The IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the services sector fell to 56.1 last month from August’s score of 58.8. However, although the pace of the recovery has slowed, the reading was better than an initial “flash” estimate of 55.1. Any figure above 50 indicates expansion. IHS Markit chief economist Chris Williamson commented: “The UK service sector showed encouraging resilience in September, with business activity continuing to grow solidly despite the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme being withdrawn.” He went on: “Unsurprisingly, spending in the restaurant sector slumped after spiking higher in August, and many other consumer services activities showed a similar slide back into contraction as renewed lockdown measures were introduced, causing the overall rate of expansion to moderate.” Meanwhile the final composite PMI reading for the eurozone was reduced to 50.4 last month, against 51.9 in August.
The Daily Telegraph The Times, Page: 36 City AM
Increase in ‘zombie firms’ weighs on economy
Russell Lynch, writing in the Telegraph, discusses so-called ‘zombie firms’ and their effect on the economy. He quotes Bank of America Merrill Lynch which says the “build-up of zombie companies can make it more difficult for economies to escape vigorously from recessions, and can potentially hinder longer-term trend rates of growth.” Insolvency veteran Nick Hood, meanwhile, stated: “I think there will be a surge of insolvencies next year because I think all those gloves will be off and all those companies will start to go bust. There are a number of sectors that are going to be irreversibly changed by the pandemic, not just hospitality.”
OTHER NEWS – TUESDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2020
Johnson vows to make UK the Saudi Arabia of wind energy
Boris Johnson will suggest in his address to the virtual Tory conference today that the coronavirus crisis should be used as a catalyst to invest in green energy and wind power. The PM will promise to power every home in the UK with offshore wind energy within a decade. Mr Johnson will say: “We will invest £160m in ports and factories across the country to manufacture the next generation of turbines. And we will not only build fixed arrays in the sea, we will build windmills that float on the sea — enough to deliver 1 gigawatt of energy by 2030, 15 times as much as the rest of the world put together.” More huff, puff and bluster from the old duffer?
The Times, Page: 1 Financial Times, Page: 1 The Daily Telegraph, Page: 1 The Guardian
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2020: “The Hope of the Text”; “It’s Not OK, Boomer”; “Joßche (expanded)”; “The Performer”; “The Embowered Imagination”; “Goodbye, Aunt Jemima”; “On Teaching at a Shitty College”
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355 REDUCING MECHANICAL IMPEDANCE OF ROOTS IN COMPACTED SOILS INCREASES ROOT AND SHOOT GROWTH
Susan D. Day and Nina L. Bassuk
Four techniques for compaction amelioration were studied: 1) Vertical drainage panels; 2) vertical gravel-filled sump drains; 3) soil trenches filled with sandy loam; and 4) peat amended back fill. The control was backfilled with existing soil on the site. Vertical drainage mats and vertical gravel-filled sump drains were shown to increase O2% in surrounding soil; however, all O2 levels regardless of treatment were above what is considered limiting. Shoot and root growth of Pyrus calleryana `Redspire' was greatest for treatments that alleviated mechanical impedance (soil trenches and amended back fill) and least for treatments that did not (controls and vertical drains). Vertical drainage mats which alleviated mechanical impedance to a lesser degree showed intermediate growth.
In HortScience Volume 29 (1994): Issue 5 (May 1994)
Planting Depth at Onset of Container Production and Subsequent Root Ball Remediation at Transplanting Affects Pin Oak and Littleleaf Linden
J. Roger Harris and Susan D. Day
Root flares of landscape trees are increasingly found to be much deeper than their forest counterparts, indicating that their root systems have been situated deeper in the soil. Planting deeply in production containers contributes to this phenomenon, yet the consequences of deep planting in production containers or the consequences of any adjustments made to planting depth at the time of transplant on growth in the landscape have not been reported for many species. Container-grown (11.4 L) liners of Tilia cordata Mill. (littleleaf linden) and Quercus palustris Münchh. (pin oak) were planted in 50-L containers with the first main lateral roots (structural roots) at substrate-surface grade or 10 cm or 20 cm below grade (deep planting). Trees were grown in the 50-L containers for two growing seasons and in a simulated landscape for three additional seasons after transplanting with the top of the container substrate at soil level or with some roots and substrate removed such that the original structural roots were just below the soil surface (remediated). Deep planting pin oak, but not littleleaf linden, slowed growth during container production; however, the effect did not persist after transplanting. Remediation of the 20-cm-deep pin oaks slowed growth during all three post-transplant years. Littleleaf linden remediation slowed growth for the first season after transplanting to a simulated landscape for 10-cm-deep trees and for the first two seasons for 20-cm-deep trees. Evaluation of pin oak root systems 3 years after transplanting revealed vigorous growth of non-deflected adventitious roots that had formed on the trunks of deep trees, and these roots appeared to be developing into main structural roots. No adventitious roots were present on littleleaf linden; instead, deflected roots grew and produced deformed root systems. Deep planting of linden reduced suckering; however, we conclude that remediation of deep-planted littleleaf linden is warranted as a result of potential hazards from trunk-girdling roots. In some species such as pin oak, non-deflected, strong adventitious root systems may assume the role of structural roots and diminish the effect of deflected and circling roots systems formed during container production. Remediation of these trees is likely not as critical as for species without abundant adventitious roots.
In HortScience Volume 45 (2010): Issue 12 (Dec 2010)
Water-quality Education Program Affects Consumer Behavior and Attitudes
Susan D. Day, Paula Diane Relf, and Marc T. Aveni
A multi-faceted extension education program to reduce consumer contributions to nonpoint source pollution by encouraging proper landscape management was initiated in Prince William County, Va., and funded through the USDA-extension service. The program now is being replicated in several counties in Virginia, primarily in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The program recruits participants through educational field days, advertisement and other means. Educational techniques include one-on-one assistance from Master Gardener volunteers and the use of Extension publications developed for this program. Publications developed include The Virginia Gardener Easy Reference to Sustainable Landscape Management and Water Quality Protection—a concise reference of Virginia Cooperative Extension landscaping recommendations that includes a calendar for recording fertilizer and pesticide applications, IPM, and other maintenance activities. The Virginia Gardener Guide to Water-wise Landscaping, was recently added to supplement the program in the area of water conservation. In Prince William County, over 700 people have participated. Most of those who complete the program report being more satisfied with their lawn appearance and spending less money. Participation also resulted in consumers being more likely to seek soil test information before applying fertilizer. Other effects include greater participation in leaf composting and grass clipping recycling and greater awareness of nonpoint source pollution.
In HortScience Volume 30 (1995): Issue 4 (Jul 1995)
Master Gardener—Tree Stewards: Advanced Training to Enhance Community Volunteerism
Susan D. Day, Sheri T. Dorn, Diane Relf, and J. Roger Harris
Virginia Cooperative Extension's (VCE) Master Gardener!Tree Steward program (MGTS) provides advanced training in leadership development and arboriculture to Master Gardener (MG) volunteer educators so that they may expand the influence of extension through leadership in community forestry. According to a statewide survey, 70% of VCE MGs and agents with MG programs would like to be involved in community tree programming. Only 26% were currently involved. Typically, agents cite limited staff and volunteer resources as the primary factors in restricting program expansion. Furthermore, 90% of municipal foresters indicated they would like to work with trained volunteers. The MGTS program simultaneously answers the desire of MGs to expand their role in the community landscape and the need of VCE to expand its outreach with increasingly limited resources. MGTS training, guided by a 10-unit resource book, integrates technical and program management expertise to foster volunteer pride and self-sufficiency. This allows MGTSs to coordinate much of their own training and recruit and manage large numbers of non-MG volunteers to whom they can provide limited training for specific projects, thus, allowing program expansion without additional staff.
In HortScience Volume 31 (1996): Issue 4 (Aug 1996)
Advanced Master Gardener-Tree Steward: Training to Enhance Community Volunteerism
The Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) Advanced Master Gardener-Tree Steward (AMGTS) program provides advanced training in leadership development and arboriculture to MG volunteer educators so they may expand the influence of extension through leadership in community forestry. A statewide survey of agents, MGs, and foresters served as the basis for developing the training package, which was funded in part by the Virginia Department of Forestry. According to a statewide survey, 70% of VCE MGs and extension agents with MG programs would like to be involved in community tree programming, while only 26% was currently involved. Typically, agents cited limited staff and volunteer resources as the primary factors in restricting program expansion. Furthermore, 90% of municipal foresters indicated they would like to work with trained volunteers. The AMGTS program simultaneously answers the desire of MGs to expand their role in the community landscape and the need of VCE to expand its outreach with increasingly limited resources. AMGTS training, guided by a 10-unit resource book, integrates technical and program management expertise to foster volunteer pride and self-sufficiency. This allows MG tree stewards to coordinate much of their own training and recruit and manage non-MG volunteers to whom they can provide limited training for specific projects, thus allowing program expansion without additional staff. The training is designed for delivery by knowledgeable professionals in the local community, such as arborists, horticulturists, college professors, extension specialists, MGs, and others who can provide quality training following the program guidelines.
In HortTechnology Volume 7 (1997): Issue 4 (Oct 1997)
A Nursery and Greenhouse Online Knowledge Center: Learning Opportunities for Sustainable Practice
John D. Lea-Cox, Cindy Zhao, David S. Ross, Theodore E. Bilderback, J. Roger Harris, Susan D. Day, Chuanxue Hong, Thomas H. Yeager, Richard C. Beeson Jr, William L. Bauerle, Andrew G. Ristvey, Mary Lorscheider, Sarah Dickinson, and John M. Ruter
Increasing environmental concerns and legislation in many states and in other countries require that we take a more comprehensive sustainable “best management” approach to production techniques in nursery and greenhouse operations. This is particularly important because these production facilities are typically intense users of resources that are applied to relatively small land areas. We have developed an online knowledge center to facilitate the implementation of more sustainable practices within the nursery and greenhouse industry. A web-based knowledge center provides the most cost-effective mechanism for information delivery, as our potential audiences are extremely diverse and widespread. We currently have a registered user database of over 450 educators, growers, and industry professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students. A gateway website provides an overview of the issues and the goals of the project. The associated knowledge center currently has 25 in-depth learning modules, designed in a Moodle learning management framework. These learning modules are designed to actively engage learners in topics on substrate, irrigation, surface water, and nutrient and crop health management, which are integral to formulating farm-specific strategies for more sustainable water and nutrient management practices. Additional modules provide assessment and implementation tools for irrigation audits, irrigation methods and technologies, and water and nutrient management planning. The instructional design of the learning modules was paramount because there can be multiple strategies to improve site-specific production practices, which often require an integration of knowledge from engineering, plant science, and plant pathology disciplines. The assessment and review of current practices, and the decision to change a practice, are often not linear, nor simple. All modules were designed with this process in mind, and include numerous resources [pictures, diagrams, case studies, and assessment tools (e.g., spreadsheets and example calculations)] to enable the learner to fully understand all of the options available and to think critically about his/her decisions. Sixteen of the modules were used to teach an intensive 400-level “Principles of Water and Nutrient Management” course at the University of Maryland during Spring 2008 and 2009. The water and nutrient management planning module also supports the nursery and greenhouse Farmer Training Certification program in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Agriculture provides continuing education credits for all consultants and growers who register and complete any module in the knowledge center. Although these learning resources were developed by faculty in the eastern region of the United States, much of the information is applicable to more widespread audiences.
In HortTechnology Volume 20 (2010): Issue 3 (Jun 2010)
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Classification images
Applying the classification image methodology to shape
Generalizing to complex natural shapes
Matching the noise to the signal
The ideal observer
Computing the shape-classification image
Assessing the shape-classification image
Experiment 1
Appendix A: Phase distribution of a complex normal variable
Appendix B: Yes/no classification images with correlated stimulus noise
Article | August 2018
Frequency tuning of shape perception revealed by classification image analysis
John Wilder; Ingo Fruend; James H. Elder
John Wilder
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jdwilder/
jdwilder@cs.toronto.edu
Ingo Fruend
Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Canada
ifruend@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/ifruend/
James H. Elder
jelder@yorku.ca
http://elderlab.yorku.ca
Journal of Vision August 2018, Vol.18, 9. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/18.8.9
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John Wilder, Ingo Fruend, James H. Elder; Frequency tuning of shape perception revealed by classification image analysis. Journal of Vision 2018;18(8):9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/18.8.9.
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Classification image analysis is a powerful technique for elucidating linear detection and discrimination mechanisms, but it has primarily been applied to contrast detection. Here we report a novel classification image methodology for identifying linear mechanisms underlying shape discrimination. Although prior attempts to apply classification image methods to shape perception have been confined to simple radial shapes, the method proposed here can be applied to general 2-D (planar) shapes of arbitrary complexity, including natural shapes. Critical to the method is the projection of each target shape onto a Fourier descriptor (FD) basis set, which allows the essential perceptual features of each shape to be represented by a relatively small number of coefficients. We demonstrate that under this projection natural shapes are low pass, following a relatively steep power law. To efficiently identify the observer's classification template, we employ a yes/no paradigm and match the spectral density of the stimulus noise in FD space to the power law density of the target shape. The proposed method generates linear template models for animal shape detection that are predictive of human judgments. These templates are found to be biased away from the ideal, overly weighting lower frequencies. This low-pass bias suggests that higher frequency shape processing relies on nonlinear mechanisms.
A considerable portion of primate visual cortex appears to be involved in the coding of object shape (Connor, Brincat, & Pasupathy, 2007). Although objects in our visual world are generally three dimensional, the boundary of a 3-D object projects to the retina as a closed contour, and the shape of this planar contour provides an important cue for object detection and recognition (Elder & Velisavljević, 2009). In this paper, we focus on the visual coding of this planar shape information.
There are many theories of planar shape representation but little consensus on which is the best account of human shape perception. Early theories (Attneave, 1954; Hoffman & Richards, 1984) emphasized local features of the contour, such as curvature extrema and inflections, and later work generalized these features across scale-space (Mokhtarian & Mackworth, 1986; Dubinskiy & Zhu, 2003). Alternatively, shape can be encoded as a sum over global basis functions of the contour (Granlund, 1972; Pavlidis, 1980).
An alternative to a contour-based representation is a symmetry axis representation in which a planar shape is represented by its skeleton and an associated distance function (Blum, 1973; Feldman & Singh, 2006; Kimia, Tannenbaum, & Zucker, 1995). This approach has the advantage of making perceptually salient shape symmetries explicit and capturing regional properties of shape that are not directly represented by contour methods.
A third class of theory considers shape as a process of transformation or growth (Elder, Oleskiw, Yakubovich, & Peyré, 2013; Grenander, Srivastava, & Saini, 2007; Jain, Zhong, & Lakshmanan, 1996; Leyton, 1989; Sharon & Mumford, 2006; Thompson, 1917). These theories have a natural generative expression that can be used to support inference with noisy or incomplete visual data and are more able to capture topological properties of objects (Elder et al., 2013).
In order to test these theories as models for human shape perception, a general method for measuring human sensitivity to shape features is required. Ideally, the method will not be biased toward a specific theory and can be applied to a wide variety of shapes, including natural shapes. One candidate is the classification image methodology, which measures how human judgments vary with random perturbations in the stimulus in order to identify selectivity for visual features. This methodology has been used effectively to reveal aspects of linear (Beard & Ahumada, 1998; Murray, Bennett, & Sekuler, 2002) and nonlinear (Morgenstern & Elder, 2012; Nandy & Tjan, 2007; Solomon, 2002) spatial contrast encoding. The question we ask in this paper is whether it can be applied to shape perception.
In a standard yes/no classification image experiment, the observer is required to discriminate between two deterministic visual signals (signal 1 and signal 0; Figure 1). On each trial, a random sampler selects one of these two signals, and a random sample of white Gaussian spatial pixel noise is added. The resulting noisy stimulus is then displayed to the observer, who must decide which of the two signals is present.
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The standard classification image experiment.
It can be shown (Green & Swets, 1966) that, to generate the largest proportion of correct responses, an ideal observer must have an accurate model, called a template, of the difference (signal 1 − signal 0) of the two (noiseless) signals (Figure 2). The ideal observer then computes the inner product of this template with the noisy stimulus and forms a decision by comparing this decision variable with a fixed threshold.
The linear template model of visual detection.
If a human uses the same strategy but with an imperfect template and internal additive Gaussian noise, that template can be estimated with the classification image methodology. Specifically, an unbiased estimate of the template is obtained by computing the mean of the stimulus noise for each of the four possible (signal, response) pairs, adding the two means for the response = signal 1 trials and subtracting the two means for the response = signal 0 trials (Ahumada, 2002; Beard & Ahumada, 1998; Murray et al., 2002). We henceforth refer to this method for template estimation as the noise-averaging method.
It has also become increasingly popular to view this problem within the framework of the generalized linear model (GLM) and to estimate the template by maximizing the likelihood of the observer's responses (Abbey & Eckstein, 2001; Knoblauch & Maloney, 2008; Murray, 2011; Solomon, 2002). Once again, we assume that an observer's judgment is formed by computing the inner product of an imperfect template with the noisy stimulus and then comparing against a fixed threshold. Logistic regression generates a maximum likelihood estimate of the template under the assumption that internal noise follows a logistic distribution, and probit regression assumes that internal noise follows a normal distribution.
Although the GLM approach is not guaranteed to be unbiased, by explicitly maximizing the likelihood of the data, it may be more efficient than the noise-averaging method. Because studies of the relative efficiency of the two methods have yielded mixed results (Abbey & Eckstein, 2001; Knoblauch & Maloney, 2008; Murray, 2011), we evaluate both approaches to the estimation of shape templates (see Linear systems identification method).
In the standard form of the classification image methodology, noise is added in the luminance domain in the form of a perturbation in the gray level at each pixel, and the method estimates the weight assigned to the gray level at each pixel. This is useful for estimating human contrast sensitivity but is not appropriate for understanding shape perception. This is because shape is defined not in the luminance domain, but in the spatial domain as a sequence of spatial (x, y) coordinates in the image. Thus, to understand shape perception, noise must be added not to the gray levels of the image but to the spatial coordinates of the shape.
Kurki, Saarinen, and Hyvärinen (2014) have recently adapted the classification image methodology to explore the perception of an interesting class of planar shapes called radial frequency (RF) patterns. An RF pattern is a closed planar contour that can be conveniently represented in polar coordinates with origin at the center of the shape. RF patterns are, by definition, shapes that can be represented as a sum of simple radial basis shapes whose radial coordinates are sinusoidal functions of polar angle.
To explore human perceptual sensitivity to features of these shapes, Kurki et al. (2014) displayed each shape as a pattern of bright spots and then added random noise to the radial coordinates of the elements. Under the assumption that human shape discrimination is based upon an inner product of the stimulus with a stored template of the difference in the radial position of these spots for the two signals, the classification image technique can be used to estimate this template. Specifically, Kurki et al. used classification image methodology to examine the perceptual sensitivity to perturbations of the so-called RF4 pattern, which has the appearance of a rounded square. By sampling these patterns at a relatively small number of locations, Kurki et al. were able to keep the dimensionality of the stimulus low, which allowed reasonably accurate estimates of the classification image. The results of these experiments suggest that human observers integrate information globally over the shape in order to form a judgment.
We are inspired by this successful application of the classification image technique to simple shapes and in this paper seek to extend this success in a number of important ways. First, the stimuli employed by Kurki et al. (2014) consisted of a disconnected pattern of circular blobs that must be perceptually integrated into a coherent object. In order to dissociate this process of perceptual organization from the perception of shape, it is desirable to employ smooth, continuous contours.
Second, although RF patterns are an interesting class of shape, shapes that are not roughly circular cannot generally be represented as RF patterns, and this excludes many natural shapes (e.g., animals, human bodies). Given that our visual system has evolved to process natural shapes, it is important to be able to directly measure how these more complex shapes are processed.
In the present study, we use animal shapes drawn from the Hemera photo object database as visual stimuli. Animal shapes are of particular ecological relevance, figuring prominently in the earliest known examples of cave art (Aubert et al., 2014) and are known to be processed efficiently by the primate visual system (Elder & Velisavljević, 2009; Fabre-Thorpe, Richard, & Thorpe, 1998; Thorpe, Fize, & Marlot, 1996). We represent these shapes as high-resolution polygons, which appear as smooth continuous contours when rendered on a digital display.
An immediate issue arises: These smooth continuous contour stimuli generally consist of thousands of points—too many dimensions to estimate efficiently and reliably using a classification image methodology. To address this issue, we employ a Fourier descriptor (FD) representation of shape (Granlund, 1972; Pavlidis, 1980) in which each vertex (x, y) of the polygon is represented as a coordinate x + yi in the complex plane. By taking the Fourier transform of the complex vector representing these vertices, we obtain the FD representation, which represents the complex amplitude of the shape at each frequency over the index space of the vector. We stress that by coding a shape as a function of arc length rather than polar angle, the FD representation generates a complete (i.e., invertible) description of an arbitrary polygon in the plane and, thus, can faithfully represent general shapes, including natural shapes. This is quite distinct from radial basis functions, which can only represent shapes that are functions of polar angle (e.g., convex shapes, star-like shapes). Importantly, one can capture the main features of a natural shape using only a small number of the lowest FD frequency components, limiting the dimensionality of the stimulus to a manageable level.
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\begin{equation}\tag{1}{S_k} = {1 \over N}\sum\limits_{j = 0}^{N - 1} {s_j} {e^{ - 2\pi ijk/N}},\quad k \in \left[ { - M, \ldots ,M - 1} \right].\end{equation}
Here k indexes frequency: k = 0 is the DC component that determines the location of the stimulus (fixed to zero), the sequence k = −1, −2, …, −M represents low to high negative frequencies and the sequence k = 1, 2, …, M − 1 represents low to high positive frequencies. (Although for real input signals Fourier coefficients for negative frequencies are simply the conjugates of the coefficients for the corresponding positive frequencies, this is not the case for complex signals.)
To limit the dimensionality of the estimation problem, we require that M ≪ N. In the section on dimensionality, we demonstrate through simulation how using a smaller value for M leads to more accurate estimation of template coefficients. In our psychophysical experiments, we set M = 16; Figure 3 shows an example. Because we must represent both real and imaginary FD coefficients, this shape is described by a total of 64 parameters. These low-pass animal shapes will be used as signal 1 for our discrimination experiments. For signal 0, we construct a stimulus consisting only of the first fundamental (S−1 + S+1) of the FD representation for the corresponding animal shape with all other coefficients (including DC) set to zero. The resulting signal 0 stimulus traces an ellipse roughly approximating the animal shape. Note that, because the DC component and first fundamental are matched between signals 1 and 0, discrimination must be based on the 29 positive and negative higher frequency components k = ±2, …, ±(M − 1), −M.
The Fourier descriptor (FD) representation of a planar shape.
In our experiments, the visual stimulus Display Formula\({\bf{\tilde S}}\) will consist of one of the two possible signal shapes S corrupted by a complex Gaussian noise vector N added in the FD domain: Display Formula\({\bf{\tilde S}} = {\bf{S}} + {\bf{N}}\). The real and imaginary components of the noise are drawn independently. In the spatial domain, our noisy stimulus Display Formula\({\bf\tilde s}\) will be given by Display Formula\({\bf\tilde s} = {\bf{s}} + {\bf{n}}\), where n is the inverse Fourier transform of N. Note that because the Fourier transform is linear, n will also be Gaussian.
Although the standard classification image method uses white noise, natural images tend not to be white but low pass, containing more energy at low frequencies than high frequencies (Field, 1987). Natural shapes, when represented in the FD domain, also tend to be low pass. In particular, we find that, for animal shapes drawn from the Hemera photo object database, spectral density decreases roughly linearly in log–log space, indicating a power law: Display Formula\({S_k}\propto |k|^{ - \alpha }\). Figure 4 shows the spectral amplitudes for the three animal stimuli we employ in this study. We see that the amplitude spectra are roughly approximated by power laws with exponents α in the range 1.3 to 1.7. (Power law fits explain between 48% and 65% of the variance in these three examples.)
Amplitude spectrum of the three animal shapes used in this study.
Due to the low-pass nature of the shapes, adding sufficient white stimulus noise to reduce human performance to 75% correct would drive the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for higher frequencies to zero, rendering them useless and preventing any estimation of higher frequency coefficients of the human template. Also, there would be a large difference in the amplitude spectrum of signal 0 (white) and signal 1 (low-pass) stimuli, which might dominate the observer's decision at the expense of phase information. For these reasons, we elected to roughly match the spectral density of the added noise to the spectral amplitude of the signal difference, using low-pass power-law noise with exponent matching the power-law fit to the amplitude spectrum of the animal shape. This roughly equalizes the expected SNR of low and high shape frequencies for the ideal observer although deviations of the stimulus amplitude spectrum from the power-law model mean that the exact utility of each frequency will vary. The FD representation makes the addition of low-pass noise straightforward as the noise added to each FD coefficient of the stimulus remains independent.
The ideal observer uses the matched filter W that maximizes SNR and, hence, discriminability d′. If the noise were white, the ideal observer would form a real-valued scalar decision variable R given by Display Formula\(R = {\rm{Re}}\left( {{{\bf{W}}^H}{\bf\! {\tilde S}}} \right)\), where W = S1 − S0 is the signal difference, WH is the Hermetian conjugate (i.e., the conjugate transpose) of W and the operator Re() takes the real part of its argument.
For our nonwhite noise, the matched filter is also shaped by the noise: Display Formula\({{\bf{W}}^I} = {\Sigma ^{ - 1}}\Delta {\bf{S}}\), where Σ is the real-valued covariance of the added noise over frequencies k (Kay, 1998). Because in our case the noise at each frequency is independent, Σ is diagonal, and the ideal template can be written as
\begin{equation}\tag{2}W_k^I = {S_k}/\sigma _k^2 \propto {S_k}{\left| k \right|^{2\alpha }},k = \pm 2, \ldots , \pm (M - 1), - M.\end{equation}
Because the spectral amplitude of the signal S falls roughly as Display Formula\(|k{|^{ - \alpha }}\), the ideal observer's template is actually high pass, increasing in amplitude with frequency, roughly as Display Formula\(|k{|^\alpha }\). This makes sense because, although the SNR is by design equalized across frequencies, the signal amplitudes are falling roughly as Display Formula\(|k{|^{ - \alpha }}\), and so higher frequency components must be boosted to contribute equally to the decision variable.
By Parseval's theorem, the decision variable R can also be computed in the spatial domain: Display Formula\(R = {\rm{Re}}\left( {{{\bf{w}}^H}{\bf\tilde s}} \right)\), where w is the inverse Fourier transform of W. In other words, the observer's computation can be thought of as an inner product in either the FD or spatial domains, and the corresponding templates are related through the Fourier transform.
We model human perceptual shape discrimination using the linear template model (Figure 2) in the FD domain. In the standard noise-averaging classification image method the added noise is white, and an unbiased estimate Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W}}\) of the observer's inner template W can be computed as
\begin{equation}\tag{3}{\bf{\widehat W}} = ({{\bf{\overline N}}_{11}} + {{\bf{\overline N}}_{01}}) - ({{\bf{\overline N}}_{10}} + {{\bf{\overline N}}_{00}})\quad ({\rm{White\ stimulus\ noise}}),\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\({{\bf{\overline N}}_{ij}}\) is the mean of the added noise over all trials in which the stimulus contained signal i and the observer indicated signal j (Ahumada, 2002; Beard & Ahumada, 1998; Murray et al., 2002).
In our case, the noise is low pass, not white. Abbey and Eckstein (2002) considered the discrimination of two distinct signals embedded in additive nonwhite Gaussian noise within a two-alternative, forced choice (2AFC) experimental paradigm. In particular, they showed that, for a linear observer with additive Gaussian internal noise, generalizing from white to nonwhite stimulus noise involves normalization of the estimated template by the covariance of the added noise. Murray (2016) extended this result to a yes/no paradigm, but because that proof is embedded in the context of an analysis of more general decision rules, we provide in Appendix B a proof specific to the yes/no task with a threshold decision rule. In particular, we prove that an unbiased estimate Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W^{\prime} }}\) of the observer's inner template can be computed for general multivariate Gaussian stimulus noise, added independently to real and imaginary coefficients by dividing the biased estimate by the real-valued noise covariance Σ:
\begin{equation}\tag{4}{\bf{\widehat W^{\prime} }} = {\Sigma ^{ - 1}}{\bf{\widehat W}}\quad ({\rm{General\ case}}).\end{equation}
In our case, the covariance matrix is diagonal, and the coefficients of the observer template are given by
\begin{equation}\tag{5}{\widehat W^{\prime} _k} = {\widehat W_k}/\sigma _k^2 = |k{|^{2\alpha }}{\widehat W_k}.\end{equation}
Because the GLM framework does not depend upon the distribution of the stimulus, no adjustments to it are required to estimate the observer template Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W^{\prime} }}\).
In a white-noise framework, the ideal template is simply the signal difference, and deviations of the human observer from ideal can be assessed by comparing the estimated human template with the signal difference. However, in our low-pass stimulus noise framework, the ideal observer must also normalize the stimulus by the noise covariance: Display Formula\(W_k^I \propto {S_k}/\sigma _k^2 = {S_k}|k{|^{2\alpha }}\), resulting in a high-pass template. In order to visualize human template tuning to the low-pass FD frequency structure of natural shapes, we therefore scale estimated templates by the noise covariance Display Formula\(\sigma _k^2 = |k{|^{ - 2\alpha }}\). For the noise-averaging method, this cancels the earlier normalization to the calculation of the classification image (Equation 5), and so the similarity of human and ideal observer tuning can be assessed by simply comparing the un-normalized classification image Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W}}\) (Equation 3) with the signal difference ΔS. However, for the GLM method, the estimated template Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W^{\prime} }}\) must be multiplied by the noise covariance Σ prior to comparison with the signal difference ΔS.
The human observer template W is only identifiable up to a scale factor. To facilitate comparison with the ideal observer, we scale the classification image Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W}}\) by the positive scale factor β that minimizes a measure of deviation from the signal difference ΔS. We expect uncertainty in the estimated coefficients of the observer template W to scale with the standard deviation of the stimulus noise σk. We therefore determine the scale factor β that minimizes the weighted squared deviation between the observer template and the signal difference:
\begin{equation}\tag{6}\beta = \arg \mathop {\min }\limits_{\beta ^{\prime} } \sum\limits_{k = \pm 2, \ldots , \pm M,M + 1} {\left( {1/\sigma _k^2} \right)} {\left| {\beta ^{\prime} {{\widehat W}_k} - {S_k}} \right|^2} = \arg \mathop {\min }\limits_{\beta ^{\prime} } \sum\limits_{k = \pm 2, \ldots , \pm M,M + 1} | k{|^{2\alpha }}{\left| {\beta ^{\prime} {{\widehat W}_k} - {S_k}} \right|^2}.\end{equation}
Scaling estimated templates by the noise covariance also allows us to visualize the templates in the spatial domain. The estimated spatial template is simply the inverse Fourier transform Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat w}}\) of the estimated (and noise-scaled) FD template Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W}}\), and tuning can be assessed by comparing Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat w}}\) to the signal difference Δs. Note that the fundamental of the FD representation forms an ellipse in the spatial domain that acts as a kind of “scaffold” that higher FD frequencies modulate. Because the fundamental for signal 0 and signal 1 are matched, the fundamental for the signal difference is zero. As a result, rendering the signal difference or estimated human template without the fundamental generates an uninterpretable squiggle. This is rectified by adding the fundamental to the ideal and estimated human templates prior to displaying in the spatial domain.
Before reporting psychophysical results, we present the results of three simulation studies that have informed the design and validation of our method.
Linear systems identification method
To compare noise-averaging and GLM approaches to template estimation, we conducted a simulation experiment using the rabbit shape as signal. The stimulus noise gain was set to the mean value required for our three human observers to perform at 75% correct (see Experiment 2 below). We simulated a noisy ideal observer model, adding internal Gaussian noise to bring performance down to 75% correct. We generated estimates Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W}}\) of the simulated observer template using both noise-averaging and probit GLM methods for 100–5,000 trials, repeating the experiment 30 times. These estimates were evaluated by computing the squared error (Equation 6) of the (noise-scaled) estimated template Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat W}}\) relative to the signal difference. We found that the two methods led to very similar accuracies with the GLM having a slight edge for experiments with between 500 and 2,500 trials (Figure 5a). Because the experiments described below employ 1,500 trials, we employ the GLM method in most of the analyses to follow.
Results of template estimation simulations using the rabbit shape as signal. The simulated observer used an ideal template with added internal Gaussian noise. Plots show mean and standard error over 30 repetitions. (a) Total weighted squared error (Equation 6) for the noise averaging and probit GLM template estimation methods as a function of the number of trials. (b) Weighted squared error at each frequency (Equation 6) for a 1,500-trial experiment as a function of the dimensionality M of the stimulus.
To evaluate how the dimensionality M of the low-pass FD shape representation affects the accuracy of template estimation, we conducted a second simulation, again using the rabbit shape as signal but varying the dimensionality M of both the signal and the noise components of the stimulus (i.e., the number of low-frequency harmonics) and adjusting the gain of the stimulus noise to maintain 75% correct performance. For each value of M, we ran 30 simulated experiments of 1,500 trials each and used the GLM method to estimate the observer template. Figure 5b shows that, as the stimulus dimensionality M increases, the mean error of estimated observer template coefficients also increases for all estimated FD frequencies. This result demonstrates the importance of using a low-dimensional FD subspace to obtain accurate shape template estimation.
Amplitude and phase information
The Gaussian noise added to the FD coefficients induces noise in both the FD amplitude and phase domains. To interpret the psychophysical results that follow, it is helpful to know how this noise determines the information available in these two domains for our shape-discrimination task. The amplitudes of the noisy FD coefficients follow a smooth, positively skewed distribution defined on Display Formula\([0,\infty )\) known as a Rice distribution (Rice, 1945, equations 3.7–10). In the FD phase domain, the stimulus noise induces a smooth, symmetric, unimodal distribution centered on the signal phase. When conditioned on amplitude, the phase distribution is von Mises; however, the marginal phase distribution is more complicated; we derive an analytical expression for this distribution in Appendix A.
To understand how this low-pass noise affects the information available in the FD amplitude and phase domains, we employed our analytical models for the marginal amplitude and phase distributions of the noisy FD coefficients (Appendix A) to implement “limited ideal” observer models that are allowed to use either only one complex FD frequency component or just the amplitude or the phase of that one FD component. We then ran these models on the experiment, using the rabbit shape as signal, to determine their sensitivity (d′) (Figure 6). We found that although both FD amplitude and phase carry information, phase is, on average, somewhat more informative than amplitude (mean d′ of 1.2 for phase vs. 0.75 for amplitude). A similar pattern is seen for the other two shapes used in this study.
Sensitivity (d′) of FD coefficients, their amplitudes, and phases for the shape discrimination task (rabbit shape).
There were three observers: author JW (O1), author IF (O2), and a third naïve observer (O3). Observers gave informed consent prior to participation.
The observer was required to discriminate between two signal shapes: signal 1 and signal 0. For signal 1, we employed three different animal shapes in a blocked design: a deer, a rabbit, and a turtle (Figure 4). The shapes were derived from the Hemera object data set, which consists of blue-screened images of isolated objects, roughly 600 × 500 pixels in size. The bounding contours of the objects were extracted at pixel resolution and represented in the FD domain using only the 16 lowest negative and 15 lowest positive frequencies. For signal 0, we employed the first fundamental (S−1 + S+1) of the FD representation for the corresponding animal shape (signal 1), which traces an ellipse roughly approximating the animal shape.
On each trial, the visual stimulus consisted of one of these two signals corrupted by independent low-pass Gaussian noise added in the FD domain. In particular, we set Display Formula\({\sigma _k}{ \propto _{}}|k{|^{ - \alpha }}\), where σk is the standard deviation of the added Gaussian noise at frequency k and α is the power-law exponent of the spectral density of the natural shape being discriminated (signal 1). Note that independent noise was added to real and imaginary components of each FD coefficient.
Each shape was shown as a white contour centered at the center of the screen, roughly 16° × 16° in visual angle on a dark gray background. At the viewing distance of 57 cm, each pixel subtended roughly 1.5 arcmin.
Design and procedure
The experiment adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.
The experiment was blocked by animal. There were 1,500 trials per animal, run in three sessions of 500 trials each. Before each session, the observer was (re)familiarized with the two signal shapes. First the (noise-free) animal shape (signal 1) was shown until the observer pressed a button and then the (noise-free) ellipse (signal 0) shape was displayed. A second button press ended the familiarization procedure.
On each trial, one of the two possible signals was randomly selected with uniform probability, a random sample of low-pass Gaussian noise was added in the FD domain, and the inverse Fourier transform was applied to this noisy FD signal to generate the displayed spatial stimulus (Figure 7). The observer was given unlimited time to indicate with left/right arrow keys which of the two signals was shown. Feedback was provided in the form of a 1-s auditory tone (high pitch indicating correct, low pitch indicating incorrect).1
Stimulus generation. The plots show real and imaginary FD coefficients across frequency.
An adaptive psychometric procedure (Quest, Watson, & Pelli, 1983) was used to adjust the gain of the noise after each trial in order to maintain performance near 75% correct.
We found that the Quest procedure reliably maintained performance near 75% correct (Table 1). Figure 8 shows an example of the estimated human shape template in both FD and spatial domains for one observer and one shape. Note that the noise-averaging and GLM methods generate very similar templates. Qualitatively, the estimated human template seems to roughly track the ideal at low frequencies but is attenuated at high frequencies. Figures 9a and d shows that this low-pass bias is consistent across observers and shapes.
Experiment 1. Performance (percentage correct) for each observer and shape.
Experiment 1. Example shape classification image estimated with noise-averaging and GLM methods.
Experiment 1. Estimated spatial observer templates \({\bf{\widehat w}}\).
To quantitatively assess this apparent low-pass bias, we fit power law models to the estimated human template coefficients Display Formula\({\widehat W_k}\) (Figure 10). Observe that the fall-off in spectral density as a function of frequency is much steeper for the estimated human templates than for the corresponding ideal templates.
Experiment 1. Amplitude spectrum for ideal and estimated observer templates; α is the maximum likelihood estimate of the power law exponent in \({S_k} \propto |k{|^{ - \alpha }}\), i.e., the negative of the slope of the best-fitting line, shown in blue.
One prediction of the linear template model is that templates estimated using signal 0 trials only should not be systematically different from templates estimated using signal 1 trials only. Further, it has been shown that nonlinearities in human detection and discrimination mechanisms tend to bias templates toward the signal (Beard & Ahumada, 1998; Goris, Zaenen, & Wagemans, 2008; Morgenstern & Elder, 2012; Nandy & Tjan, 2007; Solomon, 2002). Thus, if human shape-discrimination mechanisms involve substantial nonlinearities, templates estimated from signal 1 trials only are predicted to look more like the animal shapes than templates estimated from signal 0 trials only. Conversely, any resemblance between the animal shapes and templates estimated from signal 0 trials only cannot be due to such bias because the animal shapes were not present in the stimulus for any of these trials.
Spatial observer templates estimated from signal 0 trials only and signal 1 trials only are shown for the GLM method in Figure 9b and c, respectively, and for the noise-averaging method in Figure 9e and f, respectively. We observe that templates derived from signal 0 trials only still track the low frequencies of the animal stimuli, indicating a significant linear component to this shape-discrimination task. At the same time, systematic differences between templates derived from signal 0 trials and those derived from signal 1 trials indicate the presence of nonlinearities. Qualitatively, the signal 1 templates seem to exhibit sharper features than the signal 0 templates.
To assess whether these nonlinearities can be explained in terms of differences in shape-frequency tuning, we fit power-law models to the templates estimated from signal 0 trials only and from signal 1 trials only; Figure 11 summarizes the results. Despite the apparent difference in the spatial templates, there is no consistent difference in the spectral slopes (α exponents of the best-fitting power laws) for templates estimated from all trials, signal 0 trials only or signal 1 trials only, F(1, 12) = 0.29, p = 0.6. This suggests that these nonlinearities have more to do with the phase tuning of human shape-discrimination mechanisms.
Experiment 1. Power-law exponents for estimated human and ideal templates. Error bars represent standard error of the mean.
Do these nonlinearities bias the signal 1 templates toward the animal shape? To test this, we computed the weighted squared deviation of estimated templates from ideal (i.e., the objective minimized by Equation 6). Figure 12 shows that templates estimated from signal 1 trials are indeed, on average, slightly closer to the ideal templates, and a three-way ANOVA (signal 0 vs. 1 × shape × observer) reveals that this main effect is statistically significant, F(1, 12) = 23.5, p = 0.0004.
Experiment 1. Deviation (root mean weighted squared deviation, Equation 6) of estimated observer and ideal templates. Error bars represent standard error of the mean.
Evaluating the model
We employ two methods to evaluate the estimated linear shape templates as models of human shape discrimination. Specifically, we compare the agreement between a linear model MH based upon the estimated human shape template and a linear model MI based upon the ideal template. To avoid overfitting, MH templates and responses were computed using leave-one-out cross-validation over the 1,500 trials of the experiment.
First, we use the t score method employed by Morgenstern and Elder (2012), which is related to the measure of choice probability introduced by Britten, Newsome, Shadlen, Celebrini, and Movshon (1996). Although the original choice probability method was nonparametric, in our experiments the Gaussian nature of the stimulus noise means that model responses will also be Gaussian distributed, making a parametric approach appropriate.
The t score method measures the agreement between the scalar values of the model decision variable and the binary responses of the human observer. The premise is that if the model decision variable is causal on the human responses, its value should be predictive of those responses. To assess this, the trials are first partitioned into a subset in which the stimulus contained signal 0 and a subset in which the stimulus contained signal 1. Then, for each of these subsets, the t score for the difference in the mean model response when the observer responded signal 1 versus when they responded signal 0 is computed:
\begin{equation}\tag{7}t = {{{\mathbb{E}}\left[ {{R_M}|{R_H} = 1} \right] - {\mathbb{E}}\left[ {{R_M}|{R_H} = 0} \right]} \over {\sqrt {{\rm{Var}}\left[ {{R_M}|{R_H} = 1} \right]/{n_1} + {\rm{Var}}\left[ {{R_M}|{R_H} = 0} \right]/{n_0}} }}.\end{equation}
Here RM is the model response, RH is the human response, and n1 and n0 are the number of trials in which the human observer responded signal 1 and signal 0, respectively. To be consistent with human judgments, the model should generate high values when the observer responds signal 1 and low values when the observer responds signal 0, thus producing a large positive t score.
Figure 13 compares the t scores for a linear template model MH based on the estimated human template with those for a linear template model MI based on the ideal template; t scores are generally higher for MH, F(29, 1) = 10.3, p = 0.0033, indicating that the model based upon the estimated human template is more consistent with human behavior than the ideal template model.
Experiment 1. t score measure of agreement between linear template models of shape discrimination based upon estimated human templates (MH) and the ideal template (MI).
Our second method of evaluation takes into account the presence of internal noise in our human observers. Our human observers perform in the 73%–79% correct range on our shape-discrimination task. Simulations reveal that the ideal observer performs at 100% correct for the same stimuli, and a linear model based upon the estimated human templates performs in the 76%–81% correct range. This suggests that at least part of the inefficiency in human observer responses derives from internal noise, and to be complete, a model of human performance must take this noise into account.
To this end, we revise our models MH and MI to include added internal zero-mean Gaussian noise. MH employs the estimated observer template, and MI employs the ideal template. The gain of the internal noise was adjusted so that the proportion correct of the model matched that of the human observer. Specifically, we measured proportion correct for the model over a range of noise gains, fit a sigmoid function, and then from this function estimated the noise gain that would generate the proportion correct attained by the human observer.
To assess these models, we measured trial-by-trial agreement with human psychophysical responses. Figure 14a shows the trial-by-trial agreement of the two models with the human data (i.e., the proportion of model responses matching human responses). These are compared against the agreement expected by chance for an observer that matches human performance but is otherwise statistically independent, given by Display Formula\(p_c^2 + {(1 - {p_c})^2}\), where pc is proportion correct. The estimated observer template model MH is consistently more predictive of human judgments than the ideal template model MI, and a three-way ANOVA (model × shape × observer) reveals that this difference (main effect of model) is significant, F(1, 12) = 26.42, p = 0.0002. This result clearly indicates the utility of the shape-classification image method: It produces a model that is significantly more predictive of human performance than could be obtained by simply degrading an ideal observer model with noise.
Experiment 1. (a) Trial-by-trial agreement of observer template model MH and ideal template model MI with human responses. (b) Trial-by-trial internal consistency of observer template model MH and ideal template model MI with different samples of internal noise. The blue horizontal bar and shading indicate mean and standard error of the agreement/consistency expected by chance. In both cases, this is given by \(p_c^2 + {(1 - {p_c})^2}\) and represents a model observer that matches human proportion correct pc but for which all errors are due to internal noise.
The trial-by-trial agreement of model MH with human judgments is in the 70%–76% range. Should this be considered good? If MH were a perfect model of the human observer, we would expect its agreement with the human observers to be comparable to its internal consistency, i.e., the agreement between its responses to identical stimuli (same stimulus noise sample, but different internal noise samples). The results of this analysis are shown in Figure 14b. We observe that the internal consistency of the noisy ideal observer MI is at chance levels, indicating that internal noise is the dominant factor limiting its performance. In contrast, we observe much higher internal consistencies for our noisy observer template model MH, in the range of 72%–90%, indicating that stimulus noise and internal noise jointly determine its performance. Importantly, we note that the internal consistency of MH is considerably higher than its agreement with our human observers. This discrepancy shows that MH is not a perfect model of human shape detection; deviations could include both inaccuracies in the estimated template as well as unmodeled nonlinearities in the human visual detection mechanism.
To gain further insight into how far MH is from being a perfect model, it would be helpful to also know the internal consistency of the human observer when presented with repeated trials of exactly the same stimulus (same signal, same noise sample). This internal consistency yields an upper bound on the agreement any model with the same internal consistency could hope to achieve with the human data. If model MH achieves agreement near to this upper bound, it should be judged a good model. This motivates our second experiment.
Our second experiment was identical to our first with the exception that each stimulus (signal + noise) was repeated twice, in separate trials, separated by a random interval. This double-pass technique allows us to measure human internal consistency and compare this with model–observer agreement.
Methods are identical to Experiment 1 except where noted below.
Three human observers participated in this experiment. O1 and O2 were the authors (JW and IF) who were also observers in Experiment 1. O3 was a new observer, naïve to the purpose of the experiment.
Stimuli were the same as for Experiment 1.
The procedure was identical to Experiment 1 with the following exceptions. Although for Experiment 1 we used Quest to adapt the gain of the noise from trial to trial, in Experiment 2 the gain of the noise was set independently for the three shapes to match the average noise threshold over observers from Experiment 1. The noise was then fixed at this gain for all trials and for all three observers.
Observers performed 3,000 trials per shape: two passes of 1,500 trials each. Each trial of the first pass involved an independent sample of the stimulus noise. These same stimuli (with the same noise samples) were presented again in the second pass, but in a different random order. Exactly the same noise samples were used for all observers, allowing consistency both within an observer and agreement between observers to be computed. Although the order of the trials was randomized so that the delay between repeated presentations varied widely, all observers saw the stimuli in the same order.
We found that the fixed noise gains selected for each shape yielded performance close to 75% correct for all observers (Table 2). Figure 15 shows the estimated templates. The results are qualitatively similar to the results of Experiment 1.
Experiment 2. Spatial observer templates \({\bf{\widehat w}}\) estimated from (a) all trials, (b) signal 0 trials only, and (c) signal 1 trials only.
As for Experiment 1, we employed two methods to evaluate the estimated linear shape templates as models of human shape discrimination. (For details of the methods, please see the earlier section on Evaluating the model.) Figure 16 compares the t scores for a (noiseless) linear template model MH based on the estimated human template with those for a (noiseless) linear template model MI based on the ideal template; t scores are generally higher for MH, F(29, 1) = 25.1, p = 2.5 × 10−5, indicating that the model based upon the estimated human template is more consistent with human behavior than the ideal template model.
As for Experiment 1, we also added internal noise to our observer models MH and MI to match the performance of our human observers. Figure 17a shows the trial-by-trial agreement of the two resulting models with the human data (i.e., the proportion of model responses matching human responses) together with the average agreement between different human observers as a reference. A three-way ANOVA (model × shape × observer) reveals a significant main effect of model, F(2, 20) = 31.78, p = 6.2 × 10−7, and a (protected) least significant difference (LSD) post hoc test indicates that the model based on the estimated observer templates MH is significantly more predictive of human responses than the noisy ideal observer model MI, t(2) = 5.36, p = 3.12 × 10−5. At the same time, the agreement between different human observers exceeds that between MH and human observers, t(2) = 2.43, p = 0.025. We conclude from this analysis that, although the noisy observer template model MH provides a better account of human judgments than the noisy ideal template model MI, there is an important aspect of human shape discrimination, common to our three observers, that is captured by neither model.
Experiment 2. (a) Trial-by-trial agreement of observer template model MH and ideal template model MI with human responses compared with agreement between observers. (b) Trial-by-trial internal consistency of observer template model MH and ideal template model MI with different samples of internal noise, compared with internal (within) consistency of human observers. The blue horizontal bar and shading indicate mean and standard error of the agreement/consistency expected by chance. In both cases, this is given by \(p_c^2 + {(1 - {p_c})^2}\) and represents a model observer that matches human proportion correct pc but for which all errors are due to internal noise.
The double-pass design also allows us to compute the internal consistency of each of our human observers and compare against the internal consistency of our models (Figure 17b). As in Experiment 1, the internal consistency of the noisy ideal model MI hovers around chance levels, indicating that internal noise is the dominant factor limiting its performance, and the internal consistency of the noisy observer template model MH is consistently higher, indicating that both stimulus and internal noise jointly limit its performance. A three-way ANOVA (model × shape × observer) reveals a significant effect of model on internal consistency, F(2, 20) = 33.96, p = 3.7 × 10−7. Post hoc tests, again using Fisher's protected LSD, reveal that model MH has significantly higher internal consistency (lower internal noise) than MI, t(8) = 5.54, p = 2.0 × 10−5. At the same time, our human observers have higher internal consistency than MH, t(8) = 2.50, p = 0.02.
Figure 18 provides a more detailed comparison of the human data with our noisy models. Here we varied the internal noise gain for the two models over a broad range to sweep out curves that relate performance (proportion correct) to internal consistency; note that the gain of the internal noise decreases from left to right as these curves are traversed. We also plot our nine experimental measurements (3 observers × 3 shapes) as points in this space. The substantial downward displacement of these points relative to the ideal observer highlights the substantial degree of systematic inefficiency present in the human visual system: for the same level of internal noise, proportion correct for our human observers may be up to 10% lower than for the noisy ideal. The fact that the human data points fall near to the estimated classification image observer (MH) curves suggests that MH does a reasonable job in capturing this systematic inefficiency.
Proportion correct versus internal consistency for the human data (symbols), observer template model MH (colored curves), and the ideal template model MI (black curve).
In this paper, we have introduced a new yes/no classification image methodology to explore the discrimination of 2-D (planar) shape. In contrast to prior work (Kurki et al., 2014), our method can be applied to fully general shapes, including ecologically important stimuli, such as animals. Critical to the success of the technique is the projection of shape stimuli onto an FD basis, which allows the essential features of the shapes to be captured by a small number of coefficients, limiting the dimensionality of the observer template that must be estimated.
Because natural shapes are steeply low pass (Figure 4), efficient identification of these weights also depends upon the use of low-pass (correlated) stimulus noise. We have provided a methodology for analyzing responses from a yes/no shape discrimination task using low-pass stimulus noise and proven that an unbiased estimate of the observer template can be estimated by the standard noise-averaging method as long as mean noise fields are normalized by the noise covariance (Appendix B; see also Murray, 2016). Alternatively, templates can be estimated by maximizing the likelihood of a generalized linear model.
There are several aspects of our results attesting to the utility of this new methodology. First, the method yields observer templates bearing a resemblance to the target shapes (Figures 9 and 15), demonstrating that the method is picking up information relevant to the task. Second, templates estimated from signal 0 trials only are similar, although not identical, to templates estimated from signal 1 trials, showing that the resemblance of estimated templates to target animal shapes is not just an artifact of a nonlinearity in the human shape-discrimination system (Ahumada & Beard, 1999; Morgenstern & Elder, 2012; Nandy & Tjan, 2007; Solomon, 2002). Third, using two different evaluation methods, we find that the trial-by-trial agreement between human responses and models based upon estimated observer templates is significantly higher than for models based upon ideal templates. Fourth, the internal consistency of the estimated noisy observer template model MH approaches the internal consistency of human observers when matched to human performance (Figure 17). Finally, a plot of performance (proportion correct) versus internal consistency (Figure 18) reveals that human performance is limited by a substantial degree of systematic inefficiency, roughly matched by the systematic inefficiency of our estimated observer templates (model MH).
In summary, it seems that the proposed method is sound and can help characterize human shape-discrimination performance. In particular, what it appears to tell us here is that human shape discrimination can be modeled, to some approximation, within the linear template framework and that discrimination is based primarily on lower shape frequencies. Consistent with this selectivity for lower frequencies, Figure 18 shows that the human data and the MH model are closest to ideal for the turtle shape, which is the most low pass of the three shapes tested (Figure 4).
Why would human shape-discrimination mechanisms revealed by our method be biased toward lower shape frequencies? One possibility is that spatial uncertainty generates greater phase uncertainty for high shape frequencies than low frequencies. For example, suppose that spatial uncertainty can be modeled as a Gaussian process Display Formula\(\sim {\cal N}\left( {0,{\sigma ^2}} \right)\) in the arc length coordinate of the shape. This would cause phase uncertainty to scale roughly as kσ, where k is the FD frequency. To take this into account, the observer should attenuate these higher shape frequencies in the linear template. This hypothesis could be tested in the future by measuring performance as a function of the variance of added phase noise to identify the equivalent internal phase noise for both high and low frequencies (Pelli & Farell, 1999).
The small but apparent differences between shape templates estimated from signal 0 and signal 1 trials (Figures 9 and 15) show that there are significant nonlinearities in human shape-discrimination mechanisms. What is the nature of these nonlinearities? One possibility is that the human visual system deals with the increase in phase uncertainty with FD frequency by shifting from linear to phase-invariant mechanisms at higher FD frequencies. To test this idea, we modified the input to our linear template model to include not only the complex FD stimulus coefficients Sk, but also their phase-invariant moduli Display Formula\(\left| {S_k} \right|\). We reasoned that if the human visual system shifts from linear to phase-invariant encoding at higher frequencies, this expanded model should yield higher agreement with the human data, and we should see a shallower fall off in the Display Formula\(\left| {S_k} \right|\) template coefficients relative to the fall off in the Sk template coefficients. We found that, in fact, the agreement with the human data for the two models was very similar, and the low-pass fall off was nearly identical for the linear and phase-invariant coefficients. We conclude from this analysis that nonlinearities in human shape discrimination cannot be accounted for by a simple shift from linear to phase-invariant encoding of the stimulus at higher frequencies.
If not a simple shift to phase-invariant mechanisms at higher frequencies, what could explain the evidence for the nonlinear encoding we see in our data? Prior work in the domain of spatial vision may provide insight. Classification image analysis in the power-spectrum domain (Morgenstern & Elder, 2012) suggests that large-field contrast grating detection is based on an incoherent (phase-invariant) energy pooling but over highly localized linear filters. Similarly, it is possible that in our experiments higher shape frequencies are coded at least partially incoherently by localized shape mechanisms and combined through nonlinear (e.g., energy) pooling. Candidate localized shape encoding mechanisms include shapelets (Dubinskiy & Zhu, 2003) and formlets (Elder et al., 2013). It is also quite possible that higher FD frequency components are not processed independently from other components. For example, coding of higher FD frequencies may be conditioned upon phase alignment with lower FD frequencies.
Given these possibilities, we should be careful in our interpretation of the low-pass bias in estimated linear templates; this bias does not necessarily mean that higher shape frequencies are not important, only that they are not used in a linear way. Repeating the experiments reported here but with higher shape frequencies removed could serve to better quantify the nonlinear role of higher frequencies in shape discrimination. A modest decline in performance would suggest that these higher frequencies are not critical to human performance (whether processed linearly or nonlinearly), and a substantial drop in performance would suggest that the high frequencies are being used but in a nonlinear way.
We must also ask to what degree the task we set for our observers is a reasonable approximation of how we use shape “in the wild.” In our experiments, observers were asked to repeatedly discriminate the same noisy animal shape from a noisy ellipse, always presented at exactly the same location, orientation, and size. This is quite unlike the typical way we process shape information in day-to-day tasks in our normal visual environment, in which we must be prepared to discriminate between thousands of different shapes that may appear at arbitrary locations, poses, and scales.
We note that our method could easily be adapted to vary the location, orientation, and scale of the shape, and this would serve to make the task more natural. Although there have been some attempts to generalize the classification image methodology to more than two-way discrimination (Dai & Micheyl, 2010; Knoblauch & Maloney, 2008; Watson, 1998), as with the two-class method, these multiclass methods estimate difference templates, not the templates themselves. This problem is magnified in the multiclass case because the template for a category contains the negative images from each other class (Murray, 2011). In addition, the number of trials needed to get reliable estimates of the templates increases with the number of alternative categories.
A third issue concerns the nature of the noise. We employed low-pass noise here in order to match the spectral density of the signal (the shape) and to improve the efficiency of template estimation. However, prior work (Abbey & Eckstein, 2007) suggests that human observers can, under some conditions, adapt their templates to be more efficient depending upon the spectral density of the noise, e.g., by up-weighting higher frequencies in low-pass noise. This issue points clearly to new experiments: estimate the observer shape template with different types of noise and assess how estimated templates adapt.
The authors would like to acknowledge funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CREATE Program in Vision Science & Applications, and the NSERC Discovery Grant Program. IF also acknowledges receiving York University Bridging Funds.
Commercial relationships: none.
Corresponding author: John Wilder.
Email: jdwilder@cs.toronto.edu.
Address: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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1 Although we defined correctness in terms of the signal (0 or 1) used to generate the stimulus and not in terms of the ideal observer response, for the range of noise gains used in our psychophysical experiments, the ideal observer always generated the correct response, and so the two were equivalent.
Let z = x + iy be a complex normal random variable, where the real and imaginary components may have different means but identical variance: Display Formula\(x\sim {\cal N}\left( {{x_0},{\sigma ^2}} \right),y\sim {\cal N}\left( {{y_0},{\sigma ^2}} \right)\). z can also be represented in polar coordinates (r, θ), where x = r cos θ, y = r sin θ. We wish to identify the probability density of z in this polar coordinate frame.
By the multivariate change of variables theorem, we have that
\begin{equation}\tag{8}{p_{R,\Theta }}(r,\theta ) = \left| {{{\partial (x,y)} \over {\partial (r,\theta )}}} \right|{p_{X,Y}}(r\cos \theta ,r\sin \theta ),\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\(\left| {{{\partial (x,y)} \over {\partial (r,\theta )}}} \right|\) is the Jacobian of the inverse transformation and evaluates to Display Formula\(\left| {{{\partial (x,y)} \over {\partial (r,\theta )}}} \right| = r\).
Thus, we have
\begin{equation}\tag{9}p_{R,\Theta }(r,\theta ) = rp_{X,Y}(r\cos \theta ,r\sin \theta ) = {r \over {2\pi \sigma ^2}}\exp \bigg\{ - {1 \over {2\sigma ^2}}\Big( {{{( {r\cos \theta - {r_0}\cos {\theta _0}} )}^2}} + {{( {r\sin \theta - {r_0}\sin {\theta _0}} )}^2} \Big) \bigg \} = {r \over {2\pi \sigma ^2}}\exp \bigg\{ - {1 \over {2\sigma ^2}}\Big( {{r^2} - 2r{r_0}\cos ( {\theta - {\theta _0}} ) + r_0^2} \Big) \bigg\} = {r \over {2\pi \sigma ^2}}\exp \bigg\{ - {1 \over {2\sigma ^2}}\Big( {{( {r - {r_0}\cos ( {\theta - {\theta _0}} )} )}^2} + r_0^2{\sin }^2( {\theta - {\theta _0}} ) \Big) \bigg\} = {r \over {2\pi {\sigma ^2}}}\exp \bigg\{ { - {1 \over {2{\sigma ^2}}}{{( {r - {r_0}\cos ( {\theta - {\theta _0}} )} )}^2}} \bigg\}f(\theta ),\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\(f(\theta ) \buildrel \Delta \over = \exp \left\{ { - {{r_0^2} \over {2{\sigma ^2}}}{{\sin }^2}\left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right)} \right\}.\)
Defining Display Formula\(r^{\prime} = r - {r_0}\cos \left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right),r^{\prime} \in \left[ { - {r_0}\cos \left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right),\infty } \right)\), this can be written as
\begin{equation}\tag{10}{p_{R^{\prime} ,\Theta }}\left( {r^{\prime} ,\theta } \right) = {1 \over {2\pi {\sigma ^2}}}\left( {r^{\prime} + {r_0}\cos \left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right)} \right)\times \exp \left( { - {{{{r^{\prime} }^2}} \over {2{\sigma ^2}}}} \right)f(\theta ).\end{equation}
Marginalizing over r′ on the domain Display Formula\(r^{\prime} \in \left[ { - {r_0}\cos \left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right),\infty } \right)\) then yields
\begin{equation}\tag{11}p_\Theta(\theta) = \bigg({1\over {2\pi}}\exp\bigg(-{r^2_0\cos^2(\theta - \theta_0) \over2\sigma^2}\bigg) + {r_0\cos(\theta-\theta_0) \over \sqrt{2\pi}\sigma}G\bigg({r_0\cos(\theta-\theta_0) \over \sigma}\bigg)\bigg)f(\theta),\!\end{equation}
where G(x) is the cumulative distribution of a standard normal variable x.
Defining Display Formula\(u(\theta ) = \left( {{r_0}/\sigma } \right)\cos \left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right)\) and Display Formula\(v(\theta ) = \left( {{r_0}/\sigma } \right)\sin \left( {\theta - {\theta _0}} \right)\), this can be expressed more compactly as
\begin{equation}\tag{12}p_\Theta (\theta ) = \bigg( {{1 \over {2\pi }}\exp ( { - {u^2}/2} ) + {u \over {\sqrt {2\pi } \sigma }}G(u)} \bigg)\times \exp \left( { - {v^2}/2} \right).\end{equation}
Thus, the marginal distribution of the phase θ is symmetric about θ0. We have verified this equation by sampling z and comparing against the resulting empirical density of the phase.
In the standard classification image method with additive white Gaussian noise, an unbiased estimate Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat w}}\) of the observer's inner template w can be computed as
\begin{equation}\tag{13}{\bf{\widehat w}} = ({{\bf{\overline n}}_{01}} + {{\bf{\overline n}}_{11}}) - ({{\bf{\overline n}}_{00}} + {{\bf{\overline n}}_{10}}),\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\({{\bf{\overline n}}_{ij}}\) is the mean of the added noise over all trials in which the stimulus contained signal i and the observer indicated signal j (Ahumada, 2002; Murray et al., 2002).
What if the noise is Gaussian but not white? Abbey and Eckstein (2002) considered the discrimination of two distinct real signals embedded in additive nonwhite (correlated) Gaussian noise, within a 2AFC experimental paradigm. In particular, they showed that, for a linear observer with additive Gaussian internal noise, generalizing from white to nonwhite noise involves normalization of the estimated template by the covariance of the noise. Here we show that this result generalizes to a yes/no task. We first prove the claim for real signals and then show that it easily generalizes to complex-valued stimuli.
Let Display Formula\({\bf{\tilde s}} = {\bf{s}} + {\bf{n}}\) be an m-dimensional real-valued random vector representing a visual stimulus, where s is a binary signal variable taking one of two values s0 or s1 and Display Formula\({\bf{n}}\sim {\cal N}\left( {0,\Sigma } \right)\) is added zero-mean multivariate normal stimulus noise with covariance matrix Σ. Following Ahumada (2002), we model the internal source of variability by assuming that the criterion β is also a random variable. We let Display Formula\(R \in \{ 0,1\} \) represent the two possible responses of the observer.
Let Display Formula\({{\bf{\overline n}}_{ij}} = {\mathbb{E}}\left[ {{\bf{n}}|{\bf{s}} = {{\bf{s}}_i},R = j} \right]{}\). Then
\begin{equation}\tag{14}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i0}} = {{\mathbb{E} }_{{\bf{n}}\beta }}\left[ {{\bf{n}}|{{\bf{w}}^ \top }\left( {{{\bf{s}}_i} + {\bf{n}}} \right) \lt \beta } \right],\!\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\tag{15}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i1}} = {{\mathbb{E} }_{{\bf{n}}\beta }}\left[ {{\bf{n}}|{{\bf{w}}^ \top }\left( {{{\bf{s}}_i} + {\bf{n}}} \right) \gt \beta } \right],\!\end{equation}
where w is an m-vector representing the observer template. Without loss of generality, we assume that Display Formula\(||{\bf{w}}||\; = 1\).
Let U be an orthonormal rotation matrix with first column w, so that Display Formula\({{\bf{U}}^ \top }{\bf{w}} = {{\bf{e}}_1} \buildrel \Delta \over = {\left[ {1,0, \ldots ,0} \right]^ \top }\), and let Display Formula\({\bf{n^{\prime} }} \buildrel \Delta \over = {{\bf{U}}^ \top }{\bf{n}}\) and Display Formula\({\bf{s}}_i^\prime \buildrel \Delta \over = {{\bf{U}}^ \top }{{\bf{s}}_i}\). Note that Display Formula\({\bf{n^{\prime} }}\sim {\cal N}\left( {0,\Sigma ^{\prime} } \right)\) is also zero-mean multivariate normal with covariance matrix Display Formula\(\Sigma ^{\prime} = {{\bf{U}}^ \top }\Sigma {\bf{U}}\). Note also that Display Formula\({{\bf{w}}^ \top }\left( {{{\bf{s}}_i} + {\bf{n}}} \right) = {\left( {{{\bf{U}}^ \top }{\bf{w}}} \right)^ \top }{{\bf{U}}^ \top }\left( {{{\bf{s}}_i} + {\bf{n}}} \right) = {\bf{e}}_1^ \top \left( {{\bf{s}}_i^\prime + {\bf{n^{\prime} }}} \right) = {s^{\prime} _{i1}} + {n^{\prime} _1}\), where Display Formula\({s^{\prime} _{i1}}\) and Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _1}\) are the first elements of Display Formula\({\bf{s}}_i^\prime\) and n′, respectively.
In this new coordinate frame, Display Formula\({\bf \overline n_{\it i\rm 1}}\) can be expressed as
\begin{equation}\tag{16}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i1}} = {{\mathbb{E} }_{{\bf{n}}\beta }}\left[ {{\bf{n}}|{{\bf{w}}^ \top }\left( {{{\bf{s}}_i} + {\bf{n}}} \right) \gt \beta } \right] = {\bf{U}}{{\mathbb{E} }_{{\bf{n^{\prime} }}\beta }}\left[ {{\bf{n^{\prime} }}|s_{i1}^\prime + {n_i^\prime} \gt \beta } \right].\end{equation}
Let us now consider the conditional expectation of each element Display Formula\({n^{\prime}_k}\) of the noise Display Formula\({\bf n^{\prime}}\) in this new coordinate frame. Consider first the conditional expectation of the first element Display Formula\({n^{\prime}_1}\):
\begin{equation}\tag{17}{\mathbb{E} }_{{\bf n}^{\prime}}\left[ {n_1^\prime|{n_1^\prime} \gt \beta - s_{i1}^\prime} \right] = \int_{\beta - {s_{i1}^\prime}}^\infty {{n_1^\prime}} p\left( {{n_1^\prime}} \right)d{n^{\prime} _1} = {1 \over {\sqrt {2\pi } {{\sigma_1 ^{\prime} }}}}\int_{\beta - {s_{i1}^\prime}}^\infty {{n_1^\prime}} \exp \left( { - {{n^{\prime2} _1} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right)d{n^{\prime}_1} = {{ - {{\sigma_1^{\prime} }}} \over {\sqrt {2\pi } }}\left. {\exp \left( { - {{n^{\prime2} _1} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right)} \right|_{\beta - {{s_{i1}^\prime}}}^\infty = {{{{\sigma_1^{\prime} }}} \over {\sqrt {2\pi } }}\exp \left( { - {{{{\left( {\beta - {s_{i1}^\prime}} \right)}^2}} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right),\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\({\sigma^{\prime}_1}\) is the standard deviation of Display Formula\({n^{\prime}_1}\).
Now consider the conditional expectations of the remaining elements Display Formula\({{n^{\prime}_k}, k \ne 1}\):
\begin{equation}\tag{18}{\mathbb{E} }_{\bf{n^{\prime}}}\left[ {n^{\prime} _k}|{s_{i1}^\prime} + {n^{\prime} _1} \gt \beta \right] = {\mathbb{E} }_{\bf{n^{\prime} }}\left[ {n^{\prime} _k}|{n^{\prime} _1} \gt \beta - {s_{i1}^\prime} \right] = \int_{\beta - {s_{i1}^\prime}}^\infty p \left( {n^{\prime} _1} \right)\int_{ - \infty }^\infty {n^{\prime} _k} p\left( {n^{\prime} _k}|{n^{\prime} _1} \right)d{n^{\prime} _k}d{n^{\prime} _1}.\end{equation}
Because Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _1}\) and Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _k}\) are jointly normal, the conditional random variable Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _k}|{n^{\prime} _1}\sim {\cal N}\left( {{\mu ^{\prime}_{k|1}},\sigma ^{\prime2} _{k|1}} \right)\) is univariate normal with mean and variance given by
\begin{equation}\tag{19}{\mu ^{\prime} _{k|1}} = {\left( {{\sigma ^{\prime}_{1k}}/{\sigma ^{\prime}_1}} \right)^2}{n^{\prime} _1},\!\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\tag{20}\sigma ^{\prime2} _{k|1} = \sigma ^{\prime2} _k - \sigma ^{\prime4} _{1k}/\sigma ^{\prime2} _1,\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\(\sigma ^{\prime2} _k\) is the variance of Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _k}\) and Display Formula\(\sigma ^{\prime2} _{1k}\) is the covariance of Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _1}\) and Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _k}\). (See, for example, Bishop, 2006, p. 87, equations 2.81–2.82.)
\begin{equation}\tag{21}{{\mathbb{E}}_{{\bf{n^{\prime} }}}}\left[ {{n^{\prime}_k}|{s_{i1}^\prime} + {n^{\prime}_1} \gt \beta } \right] = \int_{\beta - {{s^{\prime} }_1}}^\infty {{\mu ^{\prime}_{k|1}}} p\left( {{n^{\prime}_1}} \right)d{n^{\prime} _1} = {\left( {{\sigma ^{\prime}_{1k}}/{\sigma ^{\prime} _1}} \right)^2}\int_{\beta - {s^{\prime} _{i1}}}^\infty {{n^{\prime }_1}} p\left( {{n^{\prime }_1}} \right)d{n^{\prime} _1} = {{\sigma ^{\prime2} _{1k}} \over {\sqrt {2\pi } {\sigma ^{\prime} _1}}}\exp \left( { - {{{{\left( {\beta - {s^{\prime} _1}} \right)}^2}} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right).\end{equation}
As a result, we can write
\begin{equation}\tag{22}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i1}} = {\bf{U}}{{\mathbb{E}}_{{\bf{n^{\prime} }}\beta }}\left[ {{\bf{n^{\prime} }}|{s_{i1}^\prime} + {n^{\prime} _1} \gt \beta } \right] = {1 \over {\sqrt {2\pi } {\sigma ^{\prime} _1}}}{{\mathbb{E}}_\beta }\left[ {\exp \left( { - {{{{\left( {\beta - {s_{i1}^\prime}} \right)}^2}} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right)} \right]\times {\bf{U}}{\left[ {\sigma ^{\prime2} _1,\sigma ^{\prime2} _{12}, \ldots ,\sigma ^{\prime2} _{1m}} \right]^ \top } = {c_{i1}}{\bf{U}}{{\mathbb{E}}_{{\bf{n^{\prime} }}}}\left[ {{\bf{n^{\prime} }}{n^{\prime} _1}} \right],\!\end{equation}
where Display Formula\({c_{i1}} = {1 \over {\sqrt {2\pi } {\sigma ^\prime _1}}}{{\mathbb{E}}_\beta }\left[ {\exp \left( { - {{{{\left( {\beta - {s^{\prime} _{t1}}} \right)}^2}} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right)} \right]{}\) is a positive proportionality constant.
This result can be transformed back to the original pixel coordinates by applying the inverse rotation U and making the substitution Display Formula\({n^{\prime} _1} = {{\bf{w}}^ \top }{\bf{n}} = {{\bf{n}}^ \top }{\bf{w}}\) before taking the expectation:
\begin{equation}\tag{23}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i1}} = {c_{i1}}{{\mathbb{E}}_{{\bf{n^{\prime} }}}}\left[ {{\bf{Un^{\prime} }}{n^{\prime} _1}} \right] = {c_{i1}}{{\mathbb{E}}_{\bf{n}}}\left[ {{\bf{n}}{{\bf{n}}^ \top }} \right]{\bf{w}} = {c_{i1}}\Sigma {\bf{w}}.\end{equation}
Thus, we have that an unbiased estimate of the observer template w can be obtained by premultiplying Display Formula\({{\bf{\overline n}}_{i1}}\) by the inverse covariance of the stimulus noise:
\begin{equation}\tag{24}{\bf{w}} = {\left( {{c_{i1}}\Sigma } \right)^{ - 1}}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i1}},\quad {\rm{with}}\quad {c_{i1}} = {1 \over {\sqrt {2\pi } {\sigma ^{\prime} _1}}}{{\mathbb{E}}_\beta }\left[ {\exp \left( { - {{{{\left( {\beta - {s_{i1}^\prime}} \right)}^2}} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right)} \right].\end{equation}
It is straightforward to show that for Display Formula\({{\bf{\overline n}}_{i0}}\) an analogous equation holds but with a negative proportionality constant. Specifically,
\begin{equation}\tag{25}{\bf{w}} = {\left( {{c_{i0}}\Sigma } \right)^{ - 1}}{{\bf{\overline n}}_{i0}},\quad {\rm{with}}\quad {c_{i0}} = - {1 \over {\sqrt {2\pi } {\sigma ^{\prime} _1}}}{{\mathbb{E}}_\beta }\left[ {\exp \left( { - {{{{\left( {\beta - {s^{\prime} _{i0}}} \right)}^2}} \over {2\sigma ^{\prime2} _1}}} \right)} \right].\end{equation}
We now generalize this result to complex-valued signals. In our complex-valued linear template model, discrimination is based on a real-valued scalar decision variable r given by Display Formula\(r = \rm{Re}( {{{\bf{w}}^{\it{H}}}{\bf{\tilde s}}}\ )\), where w is the complex-valued observer template and Display Formula\({\bf{\tilde s}}\) is the complex-valued noisy stimulus. This can be re-expressed as a sum of two real-valued inner products:
\begin{equation}\tag{26}r = {\bf{w}}_x^ \top {{\bf{\tilde s}}_x} + {\bf{w}}_y^ \top {{\bf{\tilde s}}_y},\!\end{equation}
where wx and wy are the real and imaginary components of w and Display Formula\({{\bf{\tilde s}}_x}\) and Display Formula\({{\bf{\tilde s}}_y}\) are the real and imaginary components of Display Formula\({\bf{\tilde s}}\), respectively. This can be reduced to a single real-valued inner product if we stack the real and imaginary components of the template and stimulus:
\begin{equation}\tag{27}{{\bf{w}}_{xy}} = {\left[ {{\bf{w}}_x^ \top ,{\bf{w}}_y^ \top } \right]^ \top },{{\bf{\tilde s}}_{xy}} = {\left[ {{\bf{\tilde s}}_x^ \top ,{\bf{\tilde s}}_y^ \top } \right]^ \top } \to r = {\bf{w}}_{xy}^ \top {\bf{\tilde s}}_{xy}.\end{equation}
From the proof above, we know that an unbiased estimate Display Formula\({{\bf{\widehat w^{\prime} }}_{xy}}\) of the real-valued template wxy can be obtained by normalizing the biased estimate (Equation 13) by the covariance of Display Formula\({{\bf{\tilde s}}_{xy}}\):
\begin{equation}\tag{28}{\bf\widehat w}^\prime_{xy} = \Sigma _{xy}^{ - 1}{{\bf{\widehat w}}_{xy}}.\end{equation}
Because there is a 1:1 identification of the real-valued coefficients of the template wxy with the real and imaginary coefficients of the complex-valued template w, Equation 28 also yields an unbiased estimate Display Formula\({\bf{\widehat w^{\prime} }}\) of the latter. In our particular case, because the same real-valued independent and identically distributed noise process Display Formula\(\sim {\cal N}\left( {0,\Sigma } \right)\) is used to generate both real and imaginary components of the stimulus, Σxy is block-diagonal and can be written as
\begin{equation}\tag{29}{\Sigma _{xy}} = \left[ {\matrix{ \Sigma&{{{\bf{0}}_m}} \cr {{{\bf{0}}_m}}&\Sigma \cr } } \right],\!\end{equation}
and so
\begin{equation}\tag{30}{\bf{\widehat w^{\prime} }} = {\Sigma ^{ - 1}}{\bf{\widehat w}}.\end{equation}
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Jinks, Catherine
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2009.
Characteristics: 362 pages ;,21 cm.
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BostonPL_JordanD Oct 31, 2014
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
Read by: Anna/Boston Public Library
Originally posted to the BPL Teen Blog on 11/2/2012.
This is the story of real vampires. They don’t sparkle. They don’t run fast. They don’t have superhuman strength. They’re just not cool. Instead, they’re constantly sick. They throw up a lot. They’re weak. They must avoid sunlight and drink the blood of guinea pigs to keep themselves going.
Sounds glamorous doesn’t it? But what happens when one of their own is killed and the slaying leads to an illegal werewolf fighting ring? Wait… werewolves exist? Yep. They change shape with the full moon and don’t have any health hangups. Lucky them. So now it’s up to a bunch of weak vampires to travel a far distance, in daylight, to save the life of a werewolf and capture the humans believed to have slayed a vampire.
For those of you who might remember, I actually read the sequel to this book first several months ago, which focused on the werewolves, rather than the vampires. I have to say, I enjoyed The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group much better than this one. This was good, but it took me about ten chapters to get into it. I needed to see some action, and with sick characters who can barely do anything, it took awhile for anything to actually happen. That was my biggest problem with the book. Once the story got going and the pace picked up, it was a very enjoyable read.
slime2000 May 20, 2014
great book.period.
ChristchurchLib May 05, 2014
"Forget the smoulderingly gorgeous vampires of Twilight; Australian author Catherine Jinks' vampires border on being pathetic -- especially permanently 15-year-old Nina Harrison. Her boring life is a far cry from the exciting escapades of vampire Zadia Bloodstone, the heroine of the novels that Nina writes under a pen name. And the whiny other members of her nonviolent vampires' support group are starting to really grate on her nerves...until one of them is staked, and Nina must pull the group together to find and fight the slayer who threatens them all. Action-packed, hilarious, and decidedly offbeat, this fang-in-cheek adventure is a must-read for paranormal fiction fans." Teen Scene May 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/515e7532-4038-4168-8725-1036f63eb05a?postId=06aaa369-dd80-4052-98aa-98302d9e4c06
s_kundrik Jun 29, 2013
I found this okay, but not terribly wonderful. The premise is interesting, vampires form a support group to help each other lead as normal lives as possible and not prey upon humans. The execution, however, was a little lacking. There were too many characters introduced too quickly, so it was hard to keep everyone straight. The characters were not terribly deep. The action was more matter-of-fact instead of suspenseful, and a lot of time was taken up with the characters annoying one another. There was a little romance, but seemed thrown in at the last moment and not fully explored.
0Charlie Jan 31, 2013
I was expecting this book to be funny and lighthearted. However, the author has made a rather strange group of "reformed" vampires interesting - sad and kinda pathetic. It also becomes more than a set piece for vampire angst - they are forced to join forces when a vampire killer enters their world. I could not predict what would come next. Recommended as something different.
PSMP0005997157 Aug 17, 2012
this book is sooo romantic! i cant get enough of it! if ur a hormone crazed girl with the need for romance then read this and the hush hush saga! great read!
harleyboo Aug 03, 2012
This book did Nothing for me. Blah characters that did nothing but whine. Terrible main character that was just soo boring to listen to( as if she had anything really to say). The plot and settings would have been good if they told you more about where they actually were(Australia) and not "I'm in a car , in a house, in the backyard" ect....... on the whole this book might have been good if it was written by someone else. It was really boring, no memorable characters and nothing really exciting happened. I think this is the worst book I have ever read. Don't waste you time! 2 BIG thumbs down. :(
hollyheartsYA Jul 11, 2012
I really liked that this book wasn't heavy on the romance. It was more about Nina coming to terms with being a vampire, growing up and her involvement with this group of vampires, who've determined not to spread their "infection." Bring in a mistreated werewolf and you've got an exciting adventure (and a premise for the next book). I also liked the setting of the author's home country of Australia, it was refreshing to read a story set somewhere different. I really enjoyed getting to know these characters and can't wait to read the next book!
hardkorelish Dec 16, 2010
What a wonderfully creative book. The take on vampires was quite unique and if I may say - incredibly well thought out. In this novel vampires are not the all powerful stalkers in the night as we have thought of them for many a year, but they are sickly, weak and completely lack in any corageousness. Story line itself was rather dull, somewhat tiresome and definitely been done before. I would still give it a read just to read the wonderfully graphic descriptions of bleeding eye sockets and vomitting black tar. Enjoy!
BiblioPhyle May 13, 2010
A great book. Months after, I find myself still thinking about some of the plot twists and characters. I listened to it on audio, the australian accent added to the telling of the story.
Kemendraugh Sep 16, 2010
"There's no way we could make you do anything that you don't want to do. Not us. We don't have what it takes."
For some reason, this particular argument struck a chord. Reuben's scowl yielded first to a pensive expression, then to a slow and sweet (though slightly crazed) little smile.
"I dunno about that," he said. "If you wanted me to take you dancing, I reckon I would. And I hate dancing."
"The plain fact is, I can't do anything much. That's part of the problem. Vampires are meant to be so glamorous and powerful, but I'm here to inform you that being a vampire is nothing like that. Not one bit. On the contrary, it's like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime televistion, forever and ever."
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Authentic Learning In the Digital Age
Unit Plan: Author Emulation Handbook
Like many English teachers, I’m a little preoccupied with the craft of writing. I am always nudging my students to think about how an author wrote something before they start gabbing about what the piece was about.
The challenge to these conversations is that they can feel a bit dry. Why look at narrative structure or sentence variation when we could be dissecting the juicy points of the plot? As a result, discussion of craft was something I would squeeze in here and there, but it was only last year that I decided to devote a whole unit and benchmark project to the concept.
What systems do I use in my own writing?
What impact does writing style have on the reader?
How can we emulate the writers we love?
My bright idea was that students would pull from their independent reading to create a kind of handbook. First, they would learn the basic terminology and concepts of writing style, and then use those to analyze selections from their own books. Finally, they would write a miniature scene (300 words or so) of their own, seeking to emulate the author’s style they had just dissected.
This is a good example of a project that I had to try doing myself, at least partially, before I could ask my sophomores to try it. We used the online layout app Lucid Press, and I created both a blank template and a Partially filled out version.
Here’s a few examples of projects that met or exceeded expectations:
I am Malala, from Kiah
Enders Game, from David
Americanah, from Sofia
What Makes This Unit Work?
Letting students explore an independent reading book puts them in the driver’s seat — it’s on them to pick something they would like to spend a couple weeks dissecting.
I also emphasize the difference between emulation and copying. When it comes to creative expression, studying the style of others is how we define our own, whether it’s our clothes, our music, or our writing. Professional authors spend a ton of time thinking about the how in addition to the what, so we should all practice that.
I also asked students to do an “About the Authors” page where they included info about themselves alongside the author they chose to emulate. These are as fun to read as you are hopefully imagining.
Lastly, I made it a requirement that students reach out to the author they emulated to share their work, whether it was via Twitter or an email to their publisher. There were a bunch of automated responses, but a few personal ones as well. The process of sharing definitely made the students nervous, in a good way.
Oh — and after the gallery day of reading each other’s projects, they had to use somebody else’s handbook to overhaul their short writing piece. Trying to turn a piece of writing that was originally supposed to sound like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie into something that sounds like Orson Scott Card? Weird, fun, in the spirit of Mad Libs but with actual skill involved.
Here’s the UbD unit plan with a sketch of the daily timeline, as well as the project instructions and rubirc.
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Unit Plan: Science Fiction Short Story Writing
Editors note: I’ve renewed my commitment to posting more unit plans in the coming year. All of these resources are collected on the curriculum page.
You would think that working at a school with the word “Science” in the title would mean Science Fiction all the time. But I didn’t develop a unit for this genre until several years at SLA. At first, it was an interdisciplinary unit developed with former Physics teacher Rosalind Echols. Since then, it’s evolved into something that I merged with an earlier unit about short story writing.
Here’s the full unit plan. The basic flow is as follows:
A science fiction book club, where students can pick any novel or short story collection they wish, provided 3-5 students want to also read that book
A series of in-class activities to introduce students to both the history and concepts of the genre
An introduction to the terminology and concepts of short story writing
A series of in-class activities to expose students to different elements of fiction, including characterization, dialogue, modes of narration, and theme
Time to outline, draft, peer edit, and revise a Sci-Fi short story
I used to give students free rein to write short stories about anything at all — and the work was often unfocused or uninspired as a result. Having the short stories emerge from a science fiction book club provides just enough of a constraint to keep students on their toes. The students who claim to not be big Sci-Fi fans are often the ones who draft the most compelling stories because they care about the plot, not the potential bells and whistles of time travel or aliens.
I also make a point to expose students to two college-level texts as a part of our analytical work. We read selections from Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction and also Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. Since this is the last unit of the year, and it overlaps with asking my Juniors to write drafts of an essay suitable for college admissions, I definitely play up the idea that I am throwing them into the deep end a bit. The Oxford text, in particular, includes a lot of support for vocabulary.
“Accept, Reject, Dismantle”
This past summer, I got an email inviting me to write about what it’s like to work in a school that doesn’t really believe in standardized tests… but still has to administer them.
Unbeknownst to Brett Murphy, the esteemed editor of Inside Our Schools, I am one of the testing coordinators at SLA, so I had a lot to say on this topic. The title of the chapter became a summation of our options — and by “our” I mean all of us: Accept, Reject, Dismantle.
If that sounds heavy, don’t worry. The chapter also gave me the chance to share a delightful tradition we have for the role of testing coordinator at SLA. It was established many years ago by Mr. Zac Chase:
“From here on out, I am not going to be Zac when I am doing this work,” he announced at the start of one of our proctor training sessions, somewhere back in the Spring of 2009. “I don’t want to be myself while I’m doing this job. Whenever you need to talk to me about testing, you need to talk to Rick.” Rick was randomly selected, but subsequent testing coordinators leaned towards adopting celebrity names or fictional personas: Nurse Ratched, Marky Mark, Beach Dave.
After a brief brainstorming session, we hit on an obvious choice: Boris and Natasha. We would play the villains, but they would be the loveable, cartoonish kind. The fact that one of us is Russian leant a vague air of legitimacy to the choice. The staff responded positively to the appearance of our cartoon personas in the training slide shows. But more than anything, the names were valuable because they gave us open license to be grumps. Teachers stopped asking me about testing matters without any warning. They developed the delightful habit of saying, “I have a question for Natasha”—to which I could reply, “sorry, she’s not available right now.” Conversely, on a testing day, they would warn the (mildly confused) students: “Don’t bother her. She’s not Pahomov today.”
I am beyond excited to get my hands on the final product, not in the least because the other chapters are written by Michelle Gunderson and a host of other excellent educators, some of whom I will be meeting for the first time through their writing.
If you are at all curious as to what life is really like in schools, order your copy today. You can get 20% off your order directly from Harvard Press with the code IOSS17.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2017 by lpahomov.
EduCon Reflection: How to Teach Like a Human
A lesson I am still learning from EduCon is that the less planning you put into your session, the more interesting the outcome of that conversation will be.
Here’s my write-up for this year’s session:
Classrooms in “progressive,” “alternative,” or “non-traditional” schools are often seen as magical spaces — free of conflict and without any need for classroom management. But teachers in these spaces actually have many concrete, specific techniques. What do they do? Come discuss and discover.
The secret was that I had not prepared any specific examples from SLA — this session was going to rely entirely on examples that we all generated together and shared.
The first step was to brainstorm what human qualities we wanted our students to develop in school — to think not about skills and content, at least not as it relates to our “subject areas,” but to think about what abilities we wanted our students to carry with them five or more years after they left our classroom.
Tables made free-form lists on poster paper.
After that, we looked at the most common practices of a typical school day or class period — openers and closers, direct instruction, class discussion, independent practice, keeping students on task, and dealing with conflict.
For each category, participants wrote their answers to the following prompts:
What exactly do you do and say?
What skills does this encourage in your students?
There was a lot of scribbling and typing for most of the hour. Many responses live on this 15-page Google Doc.
People had a LOT to share. The challenge of this session, though, was not just describing your practice — it was explaining how your practice directly supported the human qualities you wanted to instill in your students in the long term. Making a list of those in the abstract was easy. And most educators knew that their classroom practice did encourage their students to be better people. But when, exactly? And how?
Here are a few examples of how people made their practice transparent — in our session, and also to their students:
For group work, I encourage them to establish norms and expectations for their groups. I tell them, “How you work together here is at least as important as what you accomplish.” This helps them understand each other’s individual goals and build positive relationships with the folks they’re working with. – Brian Lakatos
With my first period class we typically start with a little bit of time (3ish minutes) to just talk. Sometimes there’s a prompt (silly ice breakers at the start of the year, acknowledgement about something happening currently at school / in the city / in the country) sometimes it is just a chance to talk about how we spent our evenings. The idea is that we acknowledge there is a transition between home and school – they are different spaces which require different kinds of navigating. The idea is also to show that we value one another and the opportunity to just be together. – Hilary Hamilton
I often set up a backchannel conversation space or a collaborative notes document so learners can share their thinking during the instruction, and have a place to capture their questions and identify which should be addressed in the moment and which might be able to be addressed afterward. This encourages learners to take responsibility for their own thinking and learn how to share the responsibilities of notetaking as well as add to one another’s thinking. – Jessica Raleigh
What I like about these examples is that they are very concrete things that people DO in the course of a class period. They are not strictly “classroom management techniques” but they’re not curriculum-based either. They are examples of how the methods of teaching are what ultimately send the most powerful message.
You can check out the video of the full session here:
P.S. At one point, a participant did ask: when are you going to share the SLA examples? At which point my secret was revealed: SLA has lots of answers to these prompts, but we don’t have THE answer. The expertise does not exist in some distant book or building — it’s already in the room, waiting to be built out of the collective knowledge of the group.
P.P.S. There were, admittedly, a few people utterly transfixed by the fact that their classroom practice did nothing to encourage the qualities they wanted to see in their students. I’m glad that they were in the room to think about it for the first time.
Not By Force, But By Example
What does it take for a movement to become mainstream?
I thought about this a great deal as I walked nine miles during the Women’s March on Washington yesterday. It weighed on me most deeply at the MLK memorial, where the above photo was taken.
I would not have described myself as a political person before I became a teacher. A voter, sure. In college, I was your average English major without a plan (being a teacher was not in the cards, or so I thought). What I believed in was reading, thinking about it, coming up with analysis, and writing that down.
The thing is, when you do these things well — when you truly are literate — you figure stuff out. And once you figure stuff out, you can’t go back to where you were before.
I have chosen to dedicate my life to helping students become literate, but I have not paused my own ongoing exploration of the world in the process. It’s been quite the opposite. As inequality in our country increases, I find myself both working harder to make my classroom a place where students can freely explore the “how” and “why” of our world, while also personally becoming more certain as to some of the reasons that our nation fails at ensuring justice and security for all its people.
There are plenty of moments I where I don’t share my personal opinion on something we are exploring in class. But that doesn’t mean I stop thinking it, or that I hide it from them permanently. My responsibility as a teacher is to both educate my students and advocate for a world in which they will be able to achieve everything that education promises them. They are capable of understanding that complexity.
So: I can have students making all kinds of economic arguments in their 2Fer essays, and also choose to stand with Fight for $15 protestors outside City Hall.
I can be honest about my personal voting record, and still watch and analyze the inauguration with my journalism students, imaginary press passes hanging around our necks.
I can both help a student revise their “Why I Supported Donald Trump in the Election” column and also be clear that, if our current president can’t bring himself to follow the three rules for conversation at SLA, he is not welcome in my classroom.
And when it comes to matters of civil rights, I can help set the stage for our nation to evolve — not by force, but by example. Schools set the bar for what our world should and will look like. The pressure is huge, but the potential payoff enormous.
This coming week, teachers at my school are choosing to explore the foundational ideas of the Black Lives Matter movement with their students. This is a part of a citywide effort on the part of my union caucus to raise consciousness about issues of racial justice. I look forward to all of the conversations we will have, the moments of discovery and debate. I feel fortunate that my union, the American Federation of Teachers, has already given significant support to BLM. And I feel hopeful that individuals and groups who are just getting to know this new chapter in our nation’s history of civil rights will join us in our learning.
Figuring this out was not a complex political act. It is not activism. What it took was some reading, thinking, and talking with others. Stop by my classroom this week, we’ll be doing just that.
This entry was posted in Big Picture, Uncategorized on January 23, 2017 by lpahomov.
In The Room Together
What does a truly diverse school look like?
One of the things that I love most about SLA is that our student body is diverse on many fronts — their country of origin, race or ethnicity, socio-economic status, which neighborhood they hail from. We pack a lot into one building.
But what does this look like beyond the numbers? How does it actually play out for our students over the years?
One thing Matt Kay constantly points out to the freshmen (and then to staff) is that most of our students also hail from middle schools where most of their peers looked like them. Transitioning to a school where no single demographic makes up more than 50% of the population is not always easy. Our home is not perfect (and never will be). But I think it’s telling that, when you assign the juniors a project called “Best Personal Essay Ever,” many students choose to write about what that transition has been like for them, clear-eyed, honest, appreciative and critical of both themselves and the world around them.
Here are three two-minute “visual essays” from three students who, had it not been for SLA, may never have crossed paths in our fair city. With these stories, each of them is weaving themselves into the world, making it one more cohesive fabric.
https://www.wevideo.com/embed/#825167720
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2017 by lpahomov.
Speaking of Love
In my first year of teaching at SLA — which was my first year of teaching in my own classroom — a student asked me, “do you love us?”
The question gave me pause. This was a student in the crankiest class I taught that year (hello, Fire Stream, class of 2010) and it seemed, for a moment, that the query might be a trick. But I still knew the answer in my heart.
“Yes, of course I love you.”
The student wasn’t buying it. “What? You lyin’. We really annoy you in our class.”
Zac Chase, who was listening in, came to the rescue here: “You mean you’ve never been driven crazy by somebody you love?”
It was only a couple of years in that I came to realize how truly rare this conversation was at the high school level. Love exists between young children and their parents, with teachers serving as proxy; as those children become adolescents, the definition of love shifts towards romance. Our popular portrayals of “I love you” further narrow our understanding of the experience — with our heads full of images of (straight, white) couples in joy or anguish, we lose contact with the universal experience that love can be.
And yet. I am lucky — beyond lucky — to work at SLA. What I have witnessed here has helped expand my understanding of what love is and how it can save us.
When a student carries a friend in a cast down the stairs during a fire drill, that’s love.
When an entire advisory turns out for the funeral of a parent, that’s love.
When a teacher takes a student into their own home so they will make it to graduation, that’s love.
And when we feel concern, fear, even terror about the changing political landscape, our love for each other is not just comfort or safety, but an act of resistance against the forces that would prefer to see us tear each other down in hate rather than lift each other up.
Late in the evening of election night — but long before the results were made official — a question formed in my head: What are we going to say to the kids tomorrow?
That question lead to a few lines of text, which then became a collective letter that SLA teachers composed between midnight and 7AM the next morning. We got to school early, wrote it out on poster paper, and made photocopies for every teacher to read out loud at the start of first period.
These actions saved me that day, and it brought strength to many teachers (perhaps even more than the students).
At the end of the next day, I had a chance to debrief a bit with my advisory. I had to tell them: It’s not every teaching staff that would start a letter with “to our school family” and sign off with “love.”
And yet, I’ve been hearing and seeing expressions of love more than ever since last week. Not just in my building, or in my house, but all over this fine city.
There are some dark times ahead. But it is the dark moments that make love the most precious, the most essential. Let’s not lose that.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2016 by lpahomov.
Conference Session: Building Teacher Tools that Work
If you’re here because you attended my session at the SREB HSTW conference or the Leyden Summer Symposium, welcome! Here are the resources that I showcased in the session. They’re all different online tools that SLA teachers have built to improve communication between students, teachers, and administrators.
“Behind the Scenes” Communication Between Teachers and Admin
IEP Progress Monitoring Form
IEP Progress Monitoring Results (Sample)
School “Walk Through” Visitation Form <– Most popular!
Survey for the book “Authentic Learning in the Digital Age”
Tools for Use During Learning Time
Independent Reading Survey
Book Club Meeting Calendar
Group Contract Template <– Most popular!
Water Quality Schuylkill River Testing Form
Student Reflection
SLA School-Wide Rubric
Ms. Pahomov’s first day survey <– Most popular!
Ms. Pahomov’s Mid-Year Survey, version 1
Ms. Giknis’ “Being Human” course reflection
Eight Years In
I had the incredible good fortune to do entirely too many things this past school year.
First and foremost, I had a teaching year where I didn’t have to spend my prep time laying on a couch.* I already knew that the upside to being sick was the moment when you begin to feel better. Turns out that is extra true for bone surgery.
Physical improvement also meant I had something to give to helping run a slate for union leadership. Two years prior, the Caucus of Working Educators was a nebulous idea, but one that was sorely needed in a town that hadn’t seen any kind of internal union election in eight years, and had essentially been a one-party union for decades. If you ever have the chance to make the world more democratic: do it. If it’s a struggle, even better. If you win the vote, great. If you don’t, you will have still won so much.
Other things happened, too.
In February, SLA hosted a citywide PD day for district teachers from dozens of schools. We blew past our projected attendance and a few schools are directly adopting some of our best practices, advisory and Student Assistant Teaching, as a result of their experiences that day. Having this event felt like the best kind of reunion–so many good people from so many buildings coming together and sharing their best work.
In March, I helped organize the biggest single meeting SLA has ever hosted, about the state of our current home (which we do not own) and where the future might take us. Over 700 people lined up around the block to show their support, in many cases taking to the mic and sharing their many truths about how SLA and its location mean the world to them. We all wore name tags, and students from the first class got to meet the current freshmen got to meet parents of all years got to meet community partners got to meet former teachers who came out to support.
In April, I got to go to the White House, again (thank you, Jose) — this time as a guest to honor the Teachers of the Year from every state. There were about 300 people packed into the East Room, elbowing each other to get a look at the three speakers on stage, all African-American: The President, The Secretary of Education, and Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes.
“This is the last time we’re doing this,” Obama said. “We figured we should make it a blowout.”
In May, SLA held the first-ever Alumni Organizing Meeting for the six graduated classes of SLA. Thirty-five kids showed up, way more than I expected. With the oldest of them being all of 25, they wanted to know what the school needed–no really, what do we need? A prime piece of Center City real estate and many millions of dollars for a building, I told them. They’re on it.
In June, I hugged my second set of advisees as they crossed the stage at graduation. I started to see my life in cycles of four years. How many left before I retire? How many left before I die? It didn’t seem absurd, all of a sudden. When I started this job, I didn’t have a single thought about how it might affect the rest of my life. Now I see that it already has. For me, SLA has become a place both flat and endless. Flat in that I sometimes feel like I am experiencing every version of it at once, stacked up and playing simultaneously in my mind (see: March) and that I also, for the first time, imagine generations forward into its impact on this city (see: May).
If this is what it means to be a veteran teacher, I’ll take it.
*Not that I didn’t choose to lay on a couch at work at all this year. I definitely did that.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2016 by lpahomov.
New Historicist Lens (A Lesson in Reverse)
I just had a chance to send this letter off to one of my Sophomore classes:
Dear Silver Stream,
Just wanted to give you a collective shout out for the quality of today’s conversation in class. Here are a few things that made it so good:
You talked about how you felt, not just what you thought. The space was safe enough for you to share some deep feelings.
You really listened and took each other’s viewpoints into consideration. You built off of each other, and sometimes surprised me with where you agreed and disagreed (in a good way).
You really used the literary lens we had just learned to dig deeply into the different angles of our topic, so it wasn’t just strong feelings. It was strong feelings and analysis.
There are many schools where this kind of complex, emotional conversation would never happen. Thank you for making our school a place where we can really talk. I am proud to call you all my students. Keep asking good questions.
Peace, Ms. Pahomov
Here’s the topic that prompted the conversation that went so well:
And here is the super-condensed literary analysis tools that we reviewed before diving into this discussion:
Talking about “A Birthday Cake for General Washington” wasn’t even on my official plan for this conversation — but some of my pre-written prompts made me think of it on the fly:
People often wonder how we make things work at SLA. Listen to Saltz: there is no secret sauce. This lesson was embedded in a book-long conversation about literary lenses, so this was not their first time applying some critical theory. But thanks to a few years of inquiry and learning to talk about race in the classroom — props to the work of fellow SLA English teacher Matt Kay here –the students were able to speak their minds and actually listen to each other.
They were able to say, I’m sick of having to hear about slavery, as if that’s the way my people came into this world.
They were able to say, I’ve spent so long learning about slavery as an abstract, horrible thing with a lot of numbers attached, we need something to humanize what often gets painted as a phenomenon without real people in it.
They were able to argue about when children need to learn about the problems of the world, and whether it’s acceptable to sugar coat the bad stuff (and to what degree).
And they were able to to both agree with and challenge each other, across racial lines that you don’t always see in the room together in Philadelphia, converging and diverging in ways you didn’t expect in the first place.
At the end, we were asking questions: How do you tell the story of somebody who was denied the chance to tell it themselves? Do you even have a right to? Should we trust stories told by anybody other than the person who experienced it personally? What do we have to gain by re-creating the past?
So yes, having this conversation can be easy. And yes, it takes a whole school to make it happen.
And yes, the work is totally, totally worth it.
This entry was posted in Big Picture, Ethic of Care, SLA on February 11, 2016 by lpahomov.
Larissa Pahomov
I teach students English at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. Some things we believe in include: project-based learning, the ethic of care, technology as a tool for empowerment, and no bells between classes. This blog is one window of many into the school and our practices.
I'm also a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, a speaker of German, a happy urban cyclist, and holder of many other interests and ideas relating to education and the world.
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Closely following Daniel Pearl case, says US after SHC ruling
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State Dept says they have been assured that accused have not been released
US says it continues to stand with Pearl family
SHC declared detention of accused exonerated in Daniel Pearl case illegal
WASHINGTON: The US on Thursday expressed "deep concern" over the Sindh High Court's (SHC) ruling ordering the release of the accused in the Daniel Pearl case, adding that it will be “closely following” the matter.
Taking to Twitter, State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs said: “We are deeply concerned by the reports of the December 24 ruling of Sindh High Court to release multiple terrorists responsible for the murder of Daniel Pearl.”
The State Department's bureau said that they have been “assured” by the Pakistani authorities that the “accused have not been released”. It added that the case was ongoing and would be monitoring it closely.
“We continue to stand with the Pearl family through this extremely difficult process. We continue to honour Daniel Pearl’s legacy as a courageous journalist,” said the State Department SCA Bureau.
SHC declares detention of accused illegal
A day earlier, the SHC declared the detention of the accused in the Daniel Pearl case illegal and ordered their immediate release.
The court declared the notification regarding the detention of Umer Shaikh and four other accused illegal and ordered their immediate release. The court also directed officials to place the accused on the Exit Control List.
The SHC said the accused have been in jail for the last 18 years without committing any crime. It added that their imprisonment was illegal and ordered them to appear before the court when they are summoned.
Earlier this year, the SHC had acquitted three of the accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. It had also converted prime accused Umer Saeed Sheikh's death penalty into a seven-year prison sentence.
Later, however, Sindh had invoked the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law to prevent all of the Daniel Pearl murder suspects from walking free, ordering they be kept in detention for another 90 days.
Following, the SHC verdict, the Sindh government filed an appeal in the Supreme Court over the ruling in which three of the four accused were acquitted and a death sentence of the prime accused was commuted.
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Mind & Braind
Recommendations for fair and regulated access to a COVID-19 vaccine
Published: - Nov 12, 2020
The first COVID-19 vaccines could be authorized as early as the start of 2021.
While sufficient vaccine doses are available, priorities will need to be established. / Photo: Unsplash
EurekAlert | LEOPOLDINA
Leer en español: Recomendaciones para un acceso justo y regulado a una vacuna COVID-19
Joint position paper of the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO), the German Ethics Council, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on ethical, legal, and practical framework conditions.
The first COVID-19 vaccines could be authorized as early as the start of 2021. However, in all likelihood, there will not be sufficient vaccine doses at the beginning for all the people willing to undergo vaccination. This is why prioritization will be necessary. In the position paper published today, medical-epidemiological aspects of infection prevention are presented alongside ethical, legal and practical considerations. On this basis, the authors develop a framework for action for the initial prioritization of vaccination measures against COVID-19.
Prioritization helps with decisions on who should receive which vaccine first. However, prioritization should not be based on medical-epidemiological findings alone. It is rather the case that ethical and legal considerations should play a decisive role, too.
According to the experts, decisive results on the characteristics of the vaccines from the ongoing clinical trials (phase 3) are not yet available. Consequently, a detailed recommendation by STIKO concerning priority groups for vaccination is still not possible at the present time. However, the ethical and legal principles according to which prioritization is to be undertaken have already been established. In addition to self-determination, they are non-maleficence and protection of integrity, justice, fundamental equality of rights, solidarity and urgency.
These ethical and legal principles are reflected in concrete vaccination goals: prevention of severe courses of COVID-19 (hospitalization) and deaths; protection of persons with an especially high work-related risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 (occupational indication); prevention of transmission and protection in environments with a high proportion of vulnerable individuals and in those with a high outbreak potential; maintenance of essential state functions and public life.
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The paper points out that the distribution of the initially scarce vaccines touches on relevant ethical values and values pertaining to basic rights, and therefore necessitates clear legal regulation. Furthermore, vaccine distribution is to be organized in such a way as to ensure that the vaccination goals are achieved. This requires suitable new structures. Uniform, transparent distribution is needed that inspires confidence and ensures acceptance. This argues in favor of a vaccination strategy that relies not on individual general practitioners but on vaccination centers mandated by the state.
In principle, informed, voluntary consent is required for vaccination. Therefore, prioritization criteria must be presented to the population in a comprehensible way. Furthermore, the authors of this position paper also rule out undifferentiated, general compulsory vaccination.
Experts are of the opinion that a self-determined decision about vaccination is dependent on ongoing, transparent information and education of the population regarding both the efficacy of vaccination and the associated risks. In order to identify and minimize vaccination risks at an early stage, the timely nationwide recording of all vaccinations and an evaluation of adverse events must be established in parallel to vaccination. To this end, the authors call for the product-based recording of COVID-19 vaccinations in a central database, also for the purpose of exactly determining vaccination coverage rates.
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ENTER'08 Call for Papers
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ENTER 2008
eTourism: The View from the Future
The 15th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism IFITT's Global Travel & Tourism Technology and eBusiness Forum January 23rd - 25th, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria =========================================================================
Organised by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), ENTER 2008 offers a unique forum for academics, industry and government to present and debate state-of-the-art research and industry case studies on the application of information and communications technologies to tourism and travel. In 2008, ENTER will celebrate its 15th anniversary of innovative thinking by returning to its roots in Innsbruck, Austria. With its high-tech conference venue, Innsbruck is easily accessible for international participants, and offers a rich cultural experience combining tradition with modern values.
Papers are invited across a wide spectrum of Information and Communications Technologies applied to the travel and tourism sectors. Applied industry research is particularly welcomed. The conference proceedings (published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York) will include the full text of all accepted research papers. An award for the best research paper will also be presented during the conference. Updated information will be available at www.ifitt.org/enter/
Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory / issues, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial / industry / social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations. Please refer to the 'Author Advice'
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Posted by melhpine on April 12, 2017 April 20, 2017
I have blogged mostly about Buddhism, which is my spiritual home. But my religion is Unitarian Universalism, a faith that encourages members to do the hard work of building their own theology. So on most Sundays I go to a UU church, where I find a community of open-minded individuals who respect each other’s paths. It’s a safe place, except for every once in a while when it’s not.
I found UUism in the mid-1980’s, when I was approaching the age of 40. I had for about 20 years been interested in Buddhism, but UUism gave me the push to go beyond “interested” to becoming a practicing Buddhist.
My first UU church was Community Church of New York, in mid-town Manhattan. I was working then for Mobil Oil (before its merger with Exxon), just a half mile or so from the church, which had a long and proud history in civil rights. About half of the church’s members were African-Americans, some of them the congregation’s backbone, and I was a white newcomer.
Mobil at the time was the largest U.S.-based employer in South Africa, so eventually the building where I worked was picketed by the members of my own church. I’d say hello to the pickets and cross the picket line. It made no sense to me that forcing Mobil to withdraw from South Africa would do anyone any good. We were much more progressive in our working conditions and promotion practices than whatever South African company we’d be forced to sell our assets to.
When I explained this to my church friends, they smiled and shook their heads, but I never felt personally attacked. I was accepted. No one suggested that I was a racist. It was a safe community for me, until…
Just a year or two later, I witnessed one of the darker moments of UU history. A lesbian couple had been selected by the Community Church Search Committee to jointly fill the vacant position of Associate Minister, and the congregation rejected them in a meeting I can only describe as hate-filled. So that church no longer felt safe, but…
After another year or two, I found myself in Connecticut with small children who needed a church. The minister of the nearest UU church was one of the women who had been rejected at Community Church, and as it turned out she helped me through one of the most difficult crises of my life. So I was back to UUism and feeling not only safe, but with a debt to it that I needed to repay.
In 1990, I moved to Virginia and immediately joined the UU Church in Reston, where for a decade I developed my UU lay-leadership and preaching skills as well as my Buddhist practice. In 2000, after a move further west in Virginia, I joined the UU Church of Loudoun, where I remain in what seems like a safe community. Except that…
UUism at the national level is in crisis. It’s a complicated mess and some will object to the way I simplify it, but my feeling of safety is again being threatened and I need to do my own version of speaking truth to power. In a nutshell (pun not intended but appreciated now that I see it), a coup has disrupted the democratic process.
The demands of one UU faction have led to the resignation of the denomination’s democratically elected president (three months before the natural end of his eight years in office), the resignations of the chief operating officer and a department head, and the decision by a parish minister to decline the leadership role to which he had been appointed.
The denomination’s annual General Assembly, at which a new president will be elected, is scheduled for June 21-25, and the new president takes office immediately. But the faction now in control is determined to get what it wants before then, so the Board of Trustees has appointed three interim co-presidents and charged them to give the faction what it wants before the new president is elected at the regularly scheduled General Assembly.
I know that the way I have described the crisis will upset some of my UU friends, but I am in the position of no longer feeling that my religion, at least at the national level, is a safe place. I don’t disagree with much of what the faction in control stands for, but I abhor its tactics. So this time I have decided not to withdraw but to go to this year’s General Assembly and work toward a possible future elected role.
Stay tuned for future announcements.
Note: Understandably, my use of the word “coup” upsets some readers. In my Merriam-Webster, the second definition implies violence and an attempt to take over a government. What happened in UU governance falls under the first definition: “a brilliant, sudden, and usually highly successful stroke or act.” That would be this. I respect Christina Rivera for the integrity it took to speak her truth and hope that she and her supporters can accept that I speak mine out of my love for our shared faith. Her coup, was, of course, followed up by much expressed support, including this.
Note #2, added late evening, April 20: I intended this blog post as a brief look for my usually small and largely non-UU audience about a concern I have about UU governance. I had no idea that I and this post would become a symbol of the faction — yes, that’s a legitimate word — that is seen as resisting racial change in UUism. I left out some details that I otherwise would have included, for example that the eventual outcome in South Africa proved me wrong. Mobil did pull out, and the boycott worked. If you want to learn more about me and my stands on racism, please read my followup, My White Privilege, and my October 2015 posts about the UU anti-racism programs, Why I Flunked Racism 101 and Anti-Racism Part 2.
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I don’t know what to think about all this. I admire you for not sitting on the sidelines and for working towards a possible future elected role.
I tend to feel that the important work gets done at the congregational level anyway. I’ve been a UU for 20+ years and quite active in multiple congregations, and I didn’t know these positions–“regional” leads, and so on–even existed until this controversy. I also tend to be deeply suspicious of big bureaucracies. (It’s something I dislike about the Roman Catholic church, for example).
A few years ago, the RE class I was leading did the lesson from the tapestry of faith curriculum about Rev WHG Carter, and the black Unitarian church he founded in Cincinnati.
http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/adults/river/workshop1/reconciliation
This was the first time I’d heard of Rev Carter, the Unitarian church he founded, or the disgraceful and disheartening actions of the American Unitarian Association, who didn’t support it. I just wonder if there are other people out there like Rev Carter, other organizations and churches and people that we don’t know about but should. And if outreach and welcoming towards those people wouldn’t be a better use of our energy than this bureaucratic infighting, which really turns me off from getting more involved.
As I said, I applaud you for what you are doing!
melhpine says:
I agree that what really counts is what goes on in the individual congregations, but we have these two universes — the UUA and the congregations — that speak different languages and have little connection with each other except when the time comes to get a new minister or get rid of an old one. That’s a waste when each congregation is paying a per-member fee to the UUA. We ought to be getting more, at the congregational level, for our money than a bunch of infighting.
I couldn’t agree more! I’ve been trying to think of what would make what goes on in the UUA more relevant to my congregational life, and I’m having a hard time. I’ve never been to a GA and that’s my fault. But I’ve never even heard much–good or bad–from anyone who has been to one. It seems to me that ministers should all go, or send someone, and then talk about it in their sermons when they get back.
I’ve been to two so far. Most ministers do go, and I think it’s fair to say that what goes on there seeps into their sermons throughout the year. There are some inspiring services, a lecture from a prominent figure who may or may not be UU, a very large number of workshops to choose from, and the business meetings, which only official delegates, ministers and credentialed DREs can attend. I have avoided being a delegate in the past, so for the first time I’ll be attending the business meetings. The problem with a report to the congregation from GA is that it turns into “how I spent my summer,” or in this case a week in June. I’ve seen it tried but never with success.
If it “seeps in,” I think it needs to be made more explicit. The topic of my sermon is X and here’s what so-and-so at the UUA has to say about X and here is why I agree or disagree with that. I know what you mean about reports to the congregation. I’ve never seen it even attempted, except maybe as an optional post-church meeting, but I can imagine! I clicked through and read some of the coverage you linked to, and I feel sympathy for a lot of what Morales said, particularly talking about using the words “white supremacy” in relation to the UUA. That seems very counterproductive. I also am not sure how I feel about the 8th principle. I think I like it (in principle–ha), but I’ve only heard about it on social media (not at church, even) and I would think there should be a lot of discussion and a vote that includes everyone, before we do something as drastic as amend the 7 principles!
I think the 8th principle is OK but should have more generalized language so that it includes all ism’s. We never know which one will be the focus at a given time, and it should be worded to last for decades or more. There are two wording changes in the principles that will be voted on this year. If passed, the first principle will be about the “inherent worth and dignity of all beings,” not just people. And the source that sites the words of “prophetic men and women” will become “prophetic people” so that it includes those with no gender identification. Of course, just to push the power of my delegate position this year, I may introduce a resolution to change the word to “persons.” Even though I am pretty well plugged in to denominational stuff, I had not heard of those propsed changes until I became a delegate and looked over the material. That almost no lowly members of actual congregations know about the propsed changes is an indication of that gap we’re talking about.
Amy Zucker Morgenstern says:
We’re joining the teach-in on April 30, and one of the things I’m thinking about for next steps is an ARE class on the history of exclusion of African Americans from UU congregations and leadership. The first essay in Darkening the Doorways (edited by Mark Morrison-Reed) is by our own Dan Harper.
Hi Amy, When would the ARE history class meet? I joined and am attending UUFS services these days, but would be very interested in coming up to that class when it is offered if you would allow members of other congregations. Please keep me posted, or I’ll find out on your blog if you post it there. And thank you for the book recommendation of Darkening the Doorways. I just ordered it!
Wow, I didn’t know about either of these, and I have never heard anyone at my church mention them. I’m especially not crazy about changing the first principle to “all beings” from “every person.” And I agree that if we have the 8th principle it needs to include all kinds of -isms and last for decades.
Peace Paul says:
Aloha Mel,
Thank you for sharing. It is not my tradtion but I can sympathize with the sentiments that you express in you post. I really respect your willingness to participate in helping the institution grow through this issue.
Louise Pare-Lobinske says:
I had the feeling that my religion was no longer a safe place when the news broke about the Catholic Church child sexual abuses, even though I was officially no longer a Catholic at that point. So I do feel at least some of your pain. Good luck in trying to find a way to address it.
DiDi Delgado says:
You wrote: “I don’t disagree with much of what the faction in control stands for, but I abhor its tactics.”
MLK wrote: “The Negro’s great stumbling block is not the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate […] who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods.”
YESSSSSSSS!
So shall it be!
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Jennica Davis says:
While I work for our UUA I am not leaving this comment as a UUA staff member but wanting to speak as one Unitarian Universalist to another. Mel, I disagree with you and think this post is hurtful and misleading. The people of color you address as a ‘faction’ are important in our faith and have not been treated as having inherent worth and dignity. They deserve to feel safe in our congregations and wider faith. Remember the times you felt unsafe and people showed you empathy and listened to you? Some people are here wanting to serve and we are being asked to make it possible for them (your words http://www.uua.org/worship/words/reading/5898.shtml) by taking a hard look at the fact that we are not immune to the systems of white supremacy that operate in our larger world.
Thank you, Jennica. I appreciate your measured words and your effort to learn more about me than these 800 words. I’m sure I could have said them more perfectly, but my issue is with the process, not the result. I think I would have been more vehement if this had ended with a 10-week charge from the board to abolish any hiring goals before the elected president takes office.
Paul Roche says:
Thanks for this Mel. Well worded and thought out as usual. In my opinion our beautiful, saving, religion is being held hostage to a politically correct culture that is tearing us apart. I was not a fan of Rev Morales, but stand firmly with him on this. We are becoming a caricature of ourselves…
reverika says:
Hogwash. “Politically correct” is a pejorative way of saying “treating one another with respect.” Inform yourself, please, about what’s really happening in our faith and how Mel has used his blog to perpetuate racist patterns.
Michele Marlene York says:
“…our beautiful, saving religion….held hostage….”???? I adamentaly disagree. UU still sits in the stench of white straight male superiority & that script has to go. 😳 It’s antiquated, served no one but white straight males and those that followed suit.
JolindaStephens says:
I was a part of the action you label a coup. We did not demand that anyone resign. We merely pointed out with good statistics and anecdotal evidence offered at great risk to future professional option that more than one administration had failed to implement the orders democratically set by more than one General Assembly, the governing body. We were acting in the aid of democracy, justice, safety for UUs of color and the future of our faith.
Denise Konen, First Universalist Church of Minneapolis says:
I do not see this as in-fighting. This is about recognizing that our faith has been unwelcoming to black people and POCI all along and we are ready to finally do something about it. I am grateful that we have the opportunity to take a good look at this festering wound in our faith that has damaged all of us. Only through bringing it out to the surface can it be healed.
Exactly. It’s been a festering infected pulsating wound that needs to be incised cleanly….lead by those most effected…PoC… And what needs to be done, how it’s done, & when it is considered “done” is defined by them & them alone. Bottom line.
I am also a white UU man, though my journeys to manhood and UUism are likely quite different than yours. But my whiteness is just the same, so let’s say that as a White UU, your blog post does not speak for me. The coup you cite is the start of my denomination’s much needed reformation. The faction you speak of us composed of people I will happily stand behind as they lead us forward. May it be so.
“The demands of one UU faction have led to the resignation of the denomination’s democratically elected president (three months before the natural end of his eight years in office) . . . ”
No one demanded anyone’s resignation. I think this description does a disservice to Peter Morales in particular, since he said he hoped his leaving his post early would refocus our attention on the underlying issue: “My comments have become a focal point in the ongoing discussion. It is clear to me that I am not the right person to lead our Association as we work together to create the processes and structures that will address our shortcomings and build the diverse staff we all want.”
I was one of the ministers who signed a letter objecting to Peter’s tone and language in his letter to staff and I do not in any way consider myself responsible for his decision to resign rather than, say, respond with “I screwed up with that letter, didn’t I–let me try this again.” Lordy, if receiving a critical letter were really enough to make someone quit an elected position, then few people would stay in such positions for long, including parish ministers.
Twenty years ago, the UUA committed to a multicultural, multiracial UUA. Ten years ago it renewed the call. The change has been glacial–another point on which I agree with Peter. Maybe this time we will really live up to our own promises and live into our own values.
Kenda Ford says:
I wonder why your post doesn’t mention that the “faction” is people of color and the concern is systemic racism?
cyndisimpson says:
The concern is addressing the UUA as a white supremacy organization.
There is so much wrong with Mel’s post that it is head-spinning. And above all there resides in it a nasty, nasty tone, as well as a boatload of assumptions about Peter’s resignation. To say that his resignation was anything other than Peter’s choice (no “forcing” involved) is to disrespect Peter and his agency and insight.
I am so glad that Leslie Mac has posted a video rebuttal to this post, a post I did not experience in the least as “measured” or “thoughtful.” but rather a demonstration of the centering of whiteness and white concerns above all.
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Mary Alm says:
I am grateful to the people of color in my life and in my denomination for enlarging my understanding of the world. Without their courage to speak up and speak up, I would be ignorant of the noxious bubble of white supremacy in which I live. I need them, and I intend to be their ally in this life-giving work.
Mary McKinnon Ganz says:
I am deeply disturbed by these characterizations of our new leaders as a “faction” and of the events that led to their stepping up to serve as a “coup.” I have never been more hopeful about our Unitarian Universalist Association than I am at this very minute. I was sorry Peter chose to resign rather than modeling making a mistake and working to make it right, but I believe the Board has seized the moment in choosing the leaders they have chosen, each of whom I know to be wise and deeply, deeply committed to this faith we share and to its potential for transformation. I would invite the author of this post to reconsider and retract this divisive, inflammatory language, and give us all a chance to build the religious movement we all have said we want for a long time. And — as a white person, I don’t want to feel “safe” if it’s at the expense of someone else’s safety. I’m as white-blind as the next person, so I am grateful beyond words when People of Color or anyone who doesn’t feel safe feels safe enough to say so, or maybe it’s fed-up enough to say so.
ladynhytefall says:
Mel, may I ask why it is that you see Unitarian Universalism as a refuge for the middle-class white male, and not for our Majority Melanin? Why do you fear equity and equanimity? If our professed shared faith, our shared covenant, is nothing more than a systemic cover of perpetuating white supremacy to you, then you are no longer in right relations with the mission, promise, or Principles of Unitarian Universalism. You sir, are a stellar example of what is – and has been – wrong with out denomination.
Yes, you may ask if you intend it as a question. I want UUism to be a refuge for all, and my discontent is centered on the charge to the interim ministers. I feel that the working out of the hiring program can best be done in collaboration with the incoming elected president, whoever she is. She will have to carry it out over six years and should be participating in its formulation. I didn’t go into all these details because my blog has a much more general audience, with UUs being a small segment.
You keep on slinging your alternative facts, Mel. ALL THREE of the candidates for UU President immediately voiced their support for and commitment to a critical examination of race and hiring processes at the UUA. There is no reason to believe that these 3 women have any problem with the current duties of the Interim Co-Presidents. And if they did – they would be speaking up about the issue. They don’t need you defending what they “might” think or feel because they are women of power and agency and therefore perfectly capable of making their own decisions.
So, what you are then doing is denying, deflecting and attempting to create a fake problem as yet another way to diminish the voices, lived experiences and needs for safety of the people of color in our movement. In other words, it’s still all about you and all about your whiteness and your maleness.
And in creating this fake, bullshit issue, you are also denying the agency, intelligence, commitment and STATED VIEWS of the three candidates and inserting yourself. Please take a whole rows of seats and try to demonstrate the least bit of humility and compassion for others. You know, there is a world religion truly centered on humility and compassion. What’s the name? I think it starts with a B. Maybe you should check it out.
Mel, I find your original blog post terribly damaging; your follow-up apology a tone-deaf refusal to learn to do better; and your responses to comments here patronizing, as well as track-covering. Having a blog doesn’t entitle you to broadcast uninformed and damaging opinions without consequences.
(Like Jennica, above, I work for the UUA — so I know many of your claims to be utterly false — but I speak for myself as a minister and a UU who’s committed to dismantling oppression of all forms.)
So far, you’re offering readers a blazing demonstration of white fragility wrapped in white privilege. In the process, you have hurt and offended many people (not just people of color, but white UUs like me) — and then dug in deeper by veering your argument, disingenuously, into the language of “process.”
Stop running. Stop fighting. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Can this be an “aha” moment for you? You have the opportunity to gather yourself and listen. This is an opportunity to pause, take your hands off the keyboard, and ask people — whose experience is nothing like your own — to tell you what you’re missing, or what you still don’t understand. You have a chance to let go of proving a point or being right, or even having an opinion, and instead ask, “What if there’s something I’m missing here — something that I need to learn?”
Would you be willing to do that? It’s going to be uncomfortable. You’re going to have to choose to move off-center — to make this not about you or your opinions, but about the thousands of people who have been pushed out of the way… not intentionally, perhaps, but by the forces that confer automatic privilege and power to white men like you. You’re going to have to surrender some of your centeredness, which means acknowledging it, if you backtrack on some of your certainty.
I hope you do so, for the sake of us all. The only way forward is together, and this faith of ours is too precious to lose.
Is it the fear of losing your place of privilege as a white male that you are fearing by opposing the critical examination of our denomination’s patterns of white supremacy? I ask only because you have noted a few things that indicate this may at the heart of your issues:
1. “Mobil at the time was the largest U.S.-based employer in South Africa, so eventually the building where I worked was picketed by the members of my own church. I’d say hello to the pickets and cross the picket line.” Here, you chose to ignore the calls of solidarity, choosing to perpetuate systems of oppression in favor of your own interests.
2. “A lesbian couple had been selected by the Community Church Search Committee to jointly fill the vacant position of Associate Minister, and the congregation rejected them in a meeting I can only describe as hate-filled.” …and yet you stayed silent, choosing to flee the congregation and perpetuate (again) systems of oppression.
3. “…a coup has disrupted the democratic process. The demands of one UU faction…” As Leslie Mac so accurately and succinctly pointed out, this is a racist dogwhistle meant to call other white folk to your cause of perpetuating systems of racial oppression. It is a dogwhistle meant to divide and preserve your position of privilege. People resigned not through pressure to do so, but because of the realization their adherence to systems of racial inequality would no longer be tolerated.
4. “…Board of Trustees has appointed three interim co-presidents and charged them to give the faction what it wants before the new president is elected at the regularly scheduled General Assembly.” The three folks you just dismissed are three extremely respected and capable folks with proven track records of progressive action in the movement- including Rev. Bill Sinkford, a former UUA president.
I could go on, but these four points serve to confirm one thing, Mel: Your issue is that there is no longer a white man at the top of the hierarchy. You are part of the problem in Unitarian Universalism.
Donald Whisenhunt says:
I will just put this here:
Victoria Weinstein says:
Mel, I don’t know you but this post is a nauseating combination of whining entitlement and ruthless attack. Your framing of what is happening at the UUA is destructive, misleading and dangerous. You are obviously willing to burn it all down rather than concede any emotional or institutional space to the people of color in our movement. As Leslie Mac says, your time is over. We’re not pandering to white feelings anymore. Learn, grow, or get out of the way.
Donald W., thank you so much for sharing the video response.
revstrumbore says:
Hi Mel – Glad to see you at the UUBF Convocation at Menucha this month. Hope it was restorative for you and you made some good connections.
Glad Donald posted Leslie Mac’s comments above. I was about to do it too. Strongly encourage you to listen to her voice and hear what she is saying. She is correct that no one pressured Morales to resign and almost everyone was surprised when he did so abruptly. I appreciate the dedication and talent of Harlan and Scott but they too are realizing they have been complicit with systems of oppression.
I don’t see a faction or conspiracy either. These UUA challenges are long, long overdue and delayed. They are systemic problems much older than any of the players. To a great degree they are problems that mirror the society in general, especially corporate culture.
As a white male myself, I recognize the feelings of discomfort that arise when I hear people’s anger, especially people of color. For me it is a mindfulness bell to pay attention even more closely. When my attachments and aversions surface, they usually trigger discomfort and avoidance behavior. I’m striving to unlearn that behavior and be present and feel the impact of what I have said and done.
I’d listen to Leslie’s post several times in fact to absorb it fully. She is deeply in touch with the barriers currently operating in UUism that are holding us back from realizing the potential of our faith. The term white supremacy culture points to something real that operates in our movement. It is the water white people swim in and don’t notice.
Take the intensity of her words and allow them to penetrate your heart. I know you have inherent worth and dignity and have a lot of meditation practice under your belt. This is the time to use your practice to help you see where you are clinging and where you are rejecting that are about your own ego and not about the truth of this situation.
This is a very bright moment for significant institutional change that could make UU far more welcoming than it has been in the past. Our survival as a movement in an increasingly diverse world depends on it.
omaslove says:
Hi Mel – I’ve read your blog and most of the comments. As a friend, neighbor, fellow UU and white woman, I join others in a call for you to listen – really listen. In order to grow and transform our faith, the very structure that represents the majority that is supporting injustices must crack and break apart to make way for change. Those who have long supported the current structure are going to feel the pain the most. Your blog is full of references to pain. This change is necessary and long overdue and I will support it in any way I can – I hope you’ll eventually join me.
Patrick Dougherty says:
Mel, I wince every time I read your post, and apology, and wince more deeply every time I read it again.
When white guys like you and me use words like “not feeling safe” or “needing to speak truth to power” we are exploiting the language of those truly oppressed and it tells me we are feeling defensive and not wanting to hear something very challenging.
I have learned that it is us good liberal white guys that are the quiet glue that hold the whole white power structure together, both inside and outside the church.
And I have found it so incredibly humbling to find myself, a 40 year long social activist, to be filled with and clinging to white privilege and to be an integral player in maintaining the power structure I profess to abhor.
And I am so glad to be in a congregation were we are challenging each other, in relative safety, to try and truly do what our faith calls us to in our 7, hopefully 8, guiding principles.
You and me are part of the problem Mel. We need to hear what POCI are telling us, know that the change needed is not going to be initiated by us and can’t happen in a manner that is comfortable to us.
And us white guys need to challenge each other and support each other in seeing and undoing what we have the power to undo. And we can’t spend a year or two in support groups talking about it. We need to being doing it right now.
Jamie Hinson-Rieger says:
As a white male I am deeply grateful for the work UUs of color are doing and have been doing to advance our faith out of a culture of white supremacy. It should not be their work to do.
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Leslie Mac now making threats against you on behalf of her husband. What on earth is this woman doing in UU in the first place? Not a UU, but been tracking her and her buddy Didi Delgado on social media for a while. They are serious lunatics. Nothing religious, spiritual, or positive about either one…
“Those of you who know Mel Pine would be wise to tell him to stay away from my husband at GA in June “:
Mitch Lee says:
Sometimes when a problem seems intractable, frustration leads to extreme and even counterproductive actions. For several years now I have been worried the the push for racial justice is reaching that state. True there have been some wonderful messages like the wake up slogan Black Lives Matter. But even that can be focused too narrowly into anger, a lack of generosity, and impulsiveness. When Jesus was asked how to treat enemies, what did he answer? What did Gautama answer? Trick them? Hate them? No, of course not. They both agreed with Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger who wrote the standard text on Psychological Warfare used at West Point that helped shorten the Korean War. They all three said the same thing, “Love them. First love them.” Most people extended genuine love will question their own cruelty. At a minimum wishing the “enemy” well encourages dialogue. We need to get back to this as a core principle in working for justice no matter how frustrated we have become.
Chris White says:
You have no idea how much emotional labor Black Lives of UU has put into to telling people what is going on and how it affects the church. Folks could have just left. They could have expressed their pain in a way that was not so thoughtful and caring. They didn’t have to work so hard to try get everybody to see what they have been put through, but they DID because they love the church.
I did not hear anybody in this controversy ask anyone to resign. I heard demands that the leadership take accountability and change behaviors. Rather than seize this opportunity, they backed out. I recognize this dynamic as the racist behavior I get caught doing. We need to stop being so fragile and take it and grow and heal.
Where is your outrage about the “process” before? If you don’t object to the changes, then what is the argument really about. How was the previous leadership any more or less a “faction?”
I didn’t say (and don’t believe) that BLUU and its allies asked anyone to resign. And I believe anyone who wants a system to change is part of a faction. I explain in a later post what factions I’d say I fall into. My “outrage” about the process is simply the charge to the interim co-presidents that they create an anti-racist hiring and promotion plan in the 10 weeks before a new (elected) president takes office for six years. That charge doesn’t pass to sniff test of an organization that values the spirit of democratic process, even if it is permissible under the bylaws.
I’m a Christian Universalist, but was interested in hearing your perspective.
Thank you, Nicole, for reading what I did actually write, which is different from what some think that I wrote. In a way, our current UUA crisis stems from our Christian Universalist roots. Do we really believe in Universal salvation? There was a time when Universalists weren’t so sure that included those of African descent, and we UU’s are justifiably repentant about that (and misdeeds on the Unitarian side, too). But now it appears that some UUs are not so sure universal salvation applies to those of European descent. The original sin in this case is being born white. Or at least that’s how I’ve come to see it after the fierce reaction to this post. The way you identified yourself as a Christian Universalist interested in the issue brought that to mind. I welcome any thoughts you may have.
I admit, I do not know what the issue was really about. However, I have a tattoo on my arm that is from 1 Timothy 4:10 that God “is the savior of all people, especially those who believe.” I know also that, according to scripture (2 Corinthians 3:6) it is not the letter of the law, but the spirit that gives life. Perhaps that verse would be useful in creating more peace in the issue UU (although I’m not UU) is having.
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(732) 858-5857 18 Kings Highway
Middletown, NJ 07748
Juvenile, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Real Estate
Mr James M Porfido
(973) 683-1140 31 Washington St
James M. Porfido, Certified Criminal Trial Attorney by the State of New Jersey for 25+ years is a former Morris County Prosecutor who now fights for the accused.
Mark Cheser
Union, NJ Juvenile Law Attorney with 42 years of experience
(866) 456-9864 2424 Morris Ave Suite #202
Union, NJ 07083
I was born and raised in NJ. graduating Emory Law School, Atlanta Georgia in 1978. I was a Governor's Intern assigned to the Union County Prosecutor in 1977 while in Law School and became an Assistant Prosecutor there,1980-83. I was assigned to the Appellate Section, Juvenile Section, Assignment Judge's Trial Team, Elizabeth Project Trial Team, and the Narcotic Strike Force, handling over 300 files and trying 28 case to verdict. I learned how the police and prosecutors think and act.
I have only practiced criminal defense since leaving the Prosecutor's Office, first as a partner at Nassberg...
Maria Blancato
Summit , NJ Juvenile Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
(908) 277-2410 783 Springfield Ave
Summit , NJ 07901
Free ConsultationJuvenile, Personal Injury, Traffic Tickets and Workers' Comp
I clerked for a Union County judge in the civil division in Union County to start my career. I then had the pleasure to learn criminal trial litigation at the Somerset County Prosecutors Office for nearly four years.
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I work with people who need my help. I would be honored if you gave me the opportunity to help you.
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Elizabeth, NJ Juvenile Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(908) 349-8462 618 Newark Avenue
Elizabeth, NJ 07208
Juvenile, Business, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
Nace Naumoski, Esq. is an attorney with offices in Union County and Passaic County, New Jersey, who practices in the areas of criminal defense, DWI defense, juvenile defense, personal injury, partnership disputes, breach of contract, and general business litigation. Since starting his practice in 2009, Nace Naumoski has been named as a New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star, an honor bestowed on the top 2.5% of attorneys under the age of 40 in New Jersey, for criminal defense. Nace Naumoski has successfully handled criminal matters in federal, state, and municipal court and has a track record of success...
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Jersey City, NJ Juvenile Law Attorney with 6 years of experience
Juvenile, Criminal Defense, Education and Traffic Tickets
Mr. Natoli defends individuals charged in federal, state and municipal court.
Mr. Natoli is a former prosecutor with significant trial experience. While a prosecutor, Mr. Natoli was involved in trials related to vehicular homicide and other felonies that gained media attention.
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(201) 630-0065 665 Newark Ave
Juvenile, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Landlord Tenant
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744 Broad Street, 16th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
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Joseph Reinhart Donahue
River Edge, NJ Juvenile Law Attorney with 30 years of experience
(201) 488-7707 70 Grand Avenue, Suite 100
River Edge, NJ 07661
I am a Former Prosecutor in the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. As an Assistant Prosecutor I Served as the Chief of the Criminal Investigations Squad and as the Assistant Trial Chief for the Office. Since 1998 I have been a Criminal Defense attorney based in Bergen County, New Jersey. I practice criminal defense and dwi/dui defense primarily in Northern New Jersey's State, Federal and Municipal Courts. I am a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney; a Top 100 Trial Lawyer - NJ; a Super Lawyer in Criminal Defense; and I carry a "Superb 10" Rating in Avvo.
Colin Bonus
Trenton, NJ Juvenile Law Attorney with 37 years of experience
(609) 498-7486 222 S Broad St
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Thomas H. Martin
(732) 431-2224 96 W. Main Street
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Thomas Hugh Martin is an experienced and competent professional who has represented thousands of clients throughout New Jersey for decades. He has successfully tried criminal, juvenile, municipal, DWI, and final restraining order cases.
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Christopher P. Perry
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(201) 556-1570 254 State Street
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(732) 451-2283 3828 River Road, Suite 100
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For Lutherans It’s ‘Us Too’
October 19, 2018 December 26, 2018 / Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada / Leave a comment
By Sheila Freed
At the end of September, the country was absorbed in a real-life soap opera, broadcast live from a hearing room in the U.S. Senate. The Brett Kavanaugh hearing was just the latest event in a year’s worth of controversy over sexual assault and harassment. The Me Too movement seemingly just happened last year. One might be surprised to know that the ELCA identified and addressed gender-based violence in 2015.
ELCA Social Messages are second in rank below the Social Statements, and are typically used when the church wants to speak out on an issue that needs immediate attention. Social Messages are adopted by the Church Council, and do not require the lengthy deliberation of a Social Statement. So the [churchwide] Church Council adopted a message on gender-based violence in late 2015.
The introductory paragraph says, “Gender-based violence is an ancient sin that for thousands of years has harmed countless women, children, and men. It is a sin that Christians need to recognize, understand, and confront, for our religious history also bears its stain.” The message then recounts a shocking story from Second Samuel, in which Amnon, King David’s firstborn son, rapes his half-sister Tamar. King David learns of it, but does nothing to punish Amnon, whom David loved and intended to succeed him as king. How many versions of this story have we all heard?
The message goes on to explore the ways we are all involved in gender based violence, which is defined as “physical, sexual, psychological, emotional, or other personal harm inflicted on someone for gender-based reasons.” Included are hurts some don’t think of as gender based violence, such as harassment, coercion, elder and child abuse, and pornography. The message notes that the factors contributing to gender based violence are deeply woven into society and our individual lives. It says we all share in the brokenness and judgment brought on by this sin. It points out that we are all survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders.
The message bluntly states, [Gender-based violence] “occurs in the church, in workplaces, the educational system, city streets, war, the military, and the health care system. It occurs, for example, by acquaintances, friends, strangers, caregivers, teachers, clergy, coaches, and work supervisors. Through this violence, someone creates or maintains power and control over someone else. God calls us to love. Gender-based violence is not love.”
The message goes on, “Acts of gender-based violence always involve sinful individual choices to exercise power and control. The choice to inflict violence is a personal responsibility.” . . . . “While individuals are culpable, social systems influence individuals’ actions. This church has proclaimed that God’s grace calls us not only to confront individual sin, but also to confront sin in social systems.” The message talks about how patriarchy and racism in our society and the church contribute to gender-based violence.
Advocacy is our response to God’s call to confront the sins in our social system. LEAN is already working to learn about the bills that will come up in the 2019 Nevada Legislative Session. We know of at least one Bill Draft Request (14-87) by Assemblyman Steve Yeager, about protecting rights of sexual assault victims. We will be watching this and other bills as more is known. However the Social Message makes clear that gender-based violence is more that criminal acts. The power relationships we all engage in and tacitly allow are sin, and we need God’s forgiveness and love to deal with it. It is Us Too.
The Sierra Pacific Synod, of which Northern Nevada’s ELCA congregations are a part, recently published a link in its newsletter to a call to action regarding the August 2019 nationwide Churchwide Assembly and the opportunities to add much-needed language to the church’s Social Statements. You can read it here, and please take a moment to watch this eye-opening video regarding the persistent obstacles and offensive language current and potential female ELCA pastors encounter in some congregations.
LEAN Advocates Become ‘Legislators’
September 13, 2018 September 13, 2018 / Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada / Leave a comment
On August 7, Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada met at the Nevada State Senate for a role-play called ULegislate. It was great fun, and in typical Lutheran fashion, the group questioned authority.
ULegislate is a learning experience in which participants play the roles of Senators and have floor debate on actual bills that passed in the 2017 Session. On two of the three bills that were up for debate, LEAN voted the same way that the Legislature did. However LEAN voted down the third, and the reason was quite Lutheran. The bill, Senate Bill 322, requires every pupil in Nevada to pass a civics test before graduating high school. This is a concept we can all support, and LEAN did. However the bill has several exceptions, and the group did not like that. We Lutherans embrace the “priesthood of all believers,” and take seriously the notion that all believers are equal before God. So the majority voted no, in hopes that the bill would return in a more acceptable form.
Participants learned the rigid protocol of Senate business, and that much of the legislative process happens not on the chamber floors, but in committee meetings and legislators’ offices. Here is where advocacy comes in. Our paid Advocate meets with legislators individually to present the moral arguments on selected bills, with particular reference to the ELCA Social Statements. Individual parishioners can do the same, either in person or by email, phone call, or letter. The LEAN Advocate also testifies at committee hearings on selected bills.
The Senate staff was helpful and accommodating. They even made a video for us!
It’s great fun to watch, for several reasons. First, you will learn some facts you may not know, and hear some arguments for and against the bills that you might not have thought of. You will hear a bit of Bob Marley quoted! You will see people you know and those you don’t, so a roster of participants is included here. LEAN is excited that people came from Las Vegas to participate, and that new people from both north and south were there.
“Senators” participating in ULegislate were: Chad Adamik, Pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Family, Carson City; John Biggs, Pastor of Saved by Grace, Pahrump; Veralyn Combs, member of Holy Cross, Reno; Ed Cotton, member of Community Lutheran, Las Vegas; Diane Drach-Meinel, Pastor of Christ the Servant, Las Vegas; Sonja Dresbach, member of Faith, Reno; Sheila Freed, member of Good Shepherd, Reno; Timothy Johnson, member of Lord of Mercy, Sparks; Bill Ledford, LEAN Advocate; Diane Ludlow, member of Holy Cross, Reno; Shaun O’Reilly, pastoral intern at Lord of Mercy, Sparks, Mike Patterson, retired pastor, Gift of Grace, Fernley; Barbara Peterson, member of Holy Cross, Sparks; Thomas Rasmussen, member of Saved by Grace, Pahrump; Pennie Sheaffer, member of Lord of Mercy, Sparks; Scott Trevithick, Pastor, Holy Cross, Reno; Ashlynne Valdez, member of Lord of Mercy, Sparks; Vic Williams, member of Good Shepherd, Reno. “Secretary” of the Senate was Allan Smith, former LEAN Advocate. If you want to learn more about LEAN, please connect with one of these folks.
ULegislate was just the first in a line-up of events designed to engage parishioners as LEAN moves into the 120-day 2019 Legislative Session. Watch for “Pencils for Pupils” in January, followed by the LEAN kickoff lunch on February 4, the session’s first day.
How Christians Can Help Save Democracy
April 4, 2018 / Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada / Leave a comment
The research branch of The Economist magazine has for the past several years published an annual report about the health of democracies around the world. In 2017 they downgraded the United States from “full democracy” to “flawed democracy.” We knew that, one might say, and it’s certainly true that most Americans report dissatisfaction with the way our government functions. The Economist uses statistics for its analysis, and has documented declining faith in the functioning of government and a significant drop in political participation. In vernacular terms, we can say we think government is beyond fixing, so we’re dropping out. Unfortunately, that is exactly the wrong approach because it allows the worst abuses of government to grow.
I was stunned recently to hear Professor Fred Lokken, chair of the Political Science Department at Truckee Meadows Community College, say that he tells his young students, “You will live under facism in your lifetime.” That is a really grim prediction, and it derives in part from what he described as the lack of an engaged electorate. This is true at all age levels, but especially students. Under-30 people are often very good at protesting and Tweeting, but the majority do not vote or register to vote.
The ELCA Social Statement “The Church in Society: A Lutheran Perspective” speaks directly to the danger of losing our freedom due to apathy. The Statement says, “The witness of this church in society flows from its identity as a community that lives from and for the Gospel. . . . The Gospel does not take the church out of the world but instead calls it to affirm and enter more deeply into the world. . . . This church must participate in social structures critically, for sin is also at work in the world. . . . This church, therefore, must unite realism and vision, wisdom and courage in its social responsibility. It needs constantly to discern when to support and when to confront society’s cultural patterns, values, and powers.”
The statement names many ways we Christians carry out our baptismal vocation in daily life, and then says, “Christians also exercise their calling by being wise and active citizens.” The statement closes with several Commitments on behalf of the entire church, including: “Promote sound, critical and creative citizenship and public service among its members,” and “Expect its pastors, bishops and lay leaders to pray for and to exhort those in positions of authority on the basis of God’s prophetic Word.”
The ELCA’s position clearly is that staying on the sidelines is not an option. Democracy doesn’t just happen, and we Christians, who believe all are equal, must work through public institutions to make equality the hallmark of our democracy. Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada exists to carry out both the commitments. We work to keep people informed on issues Nevada Lutherans care about, and we have an Advocate at the Legislature to do the prophetic exhortation. Our name says it all.
The next Nevada legislative session will begin in February 2019, and we expect the topics most in need of attention will be shortage of affordable health care, shortage of affordable housing, and education. We will share information on these and other issues as we learn it. However in the meantime, LEAN will be offering an exciting learning experience. This will be a role-playing time at the Nevada Legislature, in which people can experience firsthand the give-and-take required to pass legislation. More details will be published soon.
ELCA Bishop Eaton Responds To Alleged Trump Comments
January 15, 2018 January 15, 2018 / Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada / Leave a comment
Editor’s Note: On Friday, Jan. 12, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s alleged comments regarding immigrants from certain nations the previous day:
I am very disappointed and disturbed by the remarks that President Donald Trump is reported to have said yesterday – and confirmed by others who were present – in the context of a discussion about immigration.
Regardless of the context, references of that kind have no place in our civil discourse and, if true, reflect racist attitudes unbecoming any of us, but especially a president of the United States.
Instead, we should be fostering a world where each of us sees every person – regardless of race, origin, ethnicity, gender or economic status – in the image of God and, therefore, worthy of dignity and respect. Our church has relationships and partnerships with Christians and others on six continents. These are our sisters and brothers. We strive to accompany them and they us, across boundaries and cognizant of our diversity, yet all seeking the common good. In working for a healed, reconciled and just world, we all should faithfully strive to participate in God’s reconciling work, which prioritizes disenfranchised, vulnerable and displaced people in our communities and the world, bearing witness – each of us – to the love of God in Jesus Christ.
“We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
God’s peace,
Elizabeth A. Eaton
ELCA Presiding Bishop
LEAN Names New Advocate
November 30, 2017 November 30, 2017 / Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada / Leave a comment
Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada is pleased to announce it has retained a new Advocate. William (Bill) Ledford will be LEAN’s voice at the Legislature in 2019 as well as the organization’s representative in congregations and the larger church.
Ledford comes from a not-Lutheran background, and therefore provides a fresh perspective on our issues and activities. He is presently a Master of Divinity student at Multnomah University, and did his undergraduate work at Simpson University in Redding, California. Until recently he was the Youth Pastor at Valley View Christian Fellowship in Reno. Before that he was Youth Pastor at Discovery Fellowship Baptist Church, and while an undergraduate he led youth activities at faith organizations in the Redding area.
Ledford is articulate and thoughtful, and brings to the job an ability to form relationships. This skill is central to advocacy. In reviewing his qualifications, the LEAN board asked him to read the ELCA Social Statements, since all LEAN’s advocacy springs from them. His responses overcame any concerns about his conservative evangelical roots. Here are some excerpts from that letter:
“It is not an easy time being a more liberal “socially minded” Christian in the cliché Evangelical environment that I have been in for years. . . . . I have found it impossible to divorce my devotion to the Gospel with my desire to defend the oppressed, the marginalized, and the environment. . . . . While I have not spent any time with a Lutheran church, I have familiarized myself with the Social Statements and find myself refreshed in my agreements with almost all of them. . . . . These issues [social justice] are my life, my faith, my passion. . . . . And it would be my absolute joy to prove this to the organization and, in so doing, make a difference for the Gospel in my state.”
Ledford starts work with LEAN on December first. Two previous Advocates and continuing Board members, Allan Smith and Pr. Mike Patterson, will train him and introduce him to church officials at all levels. In the coming year will find Bill will reach out to congregations throughout Nevada while parishioners share with him their hopes and concerns for the 2019 Legislative Session.
To read the ELCA Social Statements visit https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements.
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Chinese Hackers Escalate Attacks Against India and Hong Kong Amid Tensions
An emerging threat actor out of China has been traced to a new hacking campaign aimed at government agencies in India and residents of Hong Kong intending to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes revealed in the latest report shared with The Hacker News.
The attacks were observed during the first week of July, coinciding the passage of controversial security law in Hong Kong and India’s ban of 59 China-made apps over privacy concerns, weeks after a violent skirmish along the Indo-China border.
Attributing the attack with “moderate confidence” to a new Chinese APT group, Malwarebytes said they were able to track their activities based on the “unique phishing attempts” designed to compromise targets in India and Hong Kong.
The operators of the APT group have leveraged at least three different Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), using spear-phishing emails to drop variants of Cobalt Strike and MgBot malware, and bogus Android applications to gather call records, contacts, and SMS messages.
“The lures used in this campaign indicate that the threat actor may be targeting the Indian government and individuals in Hong Kong, or at least those who are against the new security law issued by China,” the firm said.
Using Spear-Phishing to Install MgBot Malware
The first variant, observed on July 2, alerted recipients with the “gov.in” domain stating some of their email addresses had been leaked and that they are to complete a security check before July 5.
The emails come attached with a “Mail security check.docx” purportedly from the Indian Government Information Security Center. Upon opening, it employs template injection to download a remote template and execute a heavily obfuscated variant of Cobalt Strike.
But a day after the aforementioned attack, the operators swapped out the malicious Cobalt Strike payload for an updated version of MgBot malware.
And in the third version seen in the wild on July 5, the researchers observed the APT using an entirely different embedded document with a statement about Hong Kong from the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson allegedly promising to admit three million Hong Kongers to the country.
The malicious commands to download and drop the loader — which are encoded within the documents — are executed using the dynamic data exchange (DDE) protocol, an interprocess communication system that allows data to be communicated or shared between Windows applications.
A RAT With Several Capabilities
The dropped loader (“ff.exe”) masquerades as a Realtek Audio Manager tool and contains four embedded resources, two of which are written in Simplified Chinese.
This, along with the use of DDE and template injection, suggests the campaign could be the handiwork of a China-based threat actor, given the prior history of attacks that took advantage of the same TTPs.
Subsequently, the loader escalates its privileges through a CMSTP bypass before installing the final payload, while also taking steps to avoid detection by debuggers and security software.
To thwart static analysis, “the code is self modifying which means it alters its code sections during runtime,” the researchers said.
“It uses ‘GetTickCount’ and ‘QueryPerformanceCounter’ API calls to detect the debugger environment. To detect if it is running in a virtual environment, it uses anti-vm detection instructions such as ‘sldt’ and ‘cpid’ that can provide information about the processor and also checks Vmware IO ports (VMXH).”
Ultimately, it’s this final malware executable (“pMsrvd.dll”) that’s used to conduct the malicious activities, which it does by posing as a “Video Team Desktop App.”
Not only is the bundled remote administration Trojan (RAT) capable of establishing a connection to a remote command-and-control (C2) server located in Hong Kong, it has the ability to capture keystrokes, screenshots, and manage files and processes.
What’s more, the researchers also found several malicious Android applications as part of the group’s toolset that comes equipped with RAT features, such as audio and screen recording and functions to triangulate a phone’s location and exfiltrate contacts, call logs, SMS, and web history.
Interestingly, it appears this new China APT group has been active at least since 2014, with its TTPs linked to at least three different attacks in 2014, 2018, and March 2020. In all their campaigns, the actor used a variant of MgBot to meet its objectives.
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Osseo Summer School Staff Walks Out, Saying COVID-19 Precautions Are ‘Extremely Lacking’
Filed Under:COVID-19, Osseo
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On Wednesday, a group of staff at Crestview Elementary School in Osseo walked out of their summer school program citing concerns with the district’s lack of execution of COVID-19 procedures.
The six week Freedom School program serves 150 students across three sites. Teachers said they signed up to work because they believed the environment to be safe. However, said the COVID-19 precautions were “extremely lacking.”
“Crestview is extremely dirty, it’s extremely filthy,” said site coordinator Brittany. “We have not been given enough products to clean, they want us to clean in the same spaces with the children, they are advising the children to use the cleaner they’re not supposed to touch.”
“The thermometers do not work. They’re not even showing up the correct temperatures. They are just marking down whatever temperature comes to their head,” she added. She also mentioned new workers were not tested for their temperature upon arrival.
“Our Black and Brown children do not deserve to be guinea pigs in a system that does not even know yet how to run in COVID,” said Devyn, a servant leader intern with the program.
Around 15 people came to the protest including a parent, teachers, and a school board member.
The district will take Thursday and Friday to look into the concerns staff reported and take action. On Monday, the district will share findings with staff and retrain on COVID-19 related health and safety practices.
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The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
From Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny
Drawing on recent advances in evolutionary biology, prominent scholars return to the question posed in a pathbreaking book: how evolution itself evolved.
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Calcott and Sterelny deserve our thanks for bringing together a renowned group of philosophers and evolutionary biologists to revisit a recent classic with a fair yet critical tone that also treats readers to a glimpse of the cutting edge. This collection is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the promise of theoretical unification in evolutionary biology.
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In 1995, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry published their influential book The Major Transitions in Evolution. The "transitions" that Maynard Smith and Szathmáry chose to describe all constituted major changes in the kinds of organisms that existed but, most important, these events also transformed the evolutionary process itself. The evolution of new levels of biological organization, such as chromosomes, cells, multicelled organisms, and complex social groups radically changed the kinds of individuals natural selection could act upon. Many of these events also produced revolutionary changes in the process of inheritance, by expanding the range and fidelity of transmission, establishing new inheritance channels, and developing more open-ended sources of variation. Maynard Smith and Szathmáry had planned a major revision of their work, but the death of Maynard Smith in 2004 prevented this. In this volume, prominent scholars (including Szathmáry himself) reconsider and extend the earlier book's themes in light of recent developments in evolutionary biology. The contributors discuss different frameworks for understanding macroevolution, prokaryote evolution (the study of which has been aided by developments in molecular biology), and the complex evolution of multicellularity.
$60.00 X ISBN: 9780262015240 336 pp. | 7 in x 9 in 36 b&w illus., 6 tables April 2011
Brett Calcott
Brett Calcott is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASU/SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011).
Kim Sterelny
Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Language and Reality (with Michael Devitt; second edition, MIT Press).
Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences
Daniel S. Brooks, James DiFrisco, and William C. Wimsatt
Rethinking Cancer
Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, and Mina J. Bissell
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Biochemistry of homologous recombination in Escherichia coli.
S C Kowalczykowski, D A Dixon, A K Eggleston, S D Lauder, W M Rehrauer
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Homologous recombination is a fundamental biological process. Biochemical understanding of this process is most advanced for Escherichia coli. At least 25 gene products are involved in promoting genetic exchange. At present, this includes the RecA, RecBCD (exonuclease V), RecE (exonuclease VIII), RecF, RecG, RecJ, RecN, RecOR, RecQ, RecT, RuvAB, RuvC, SbcCD, and SSB proteins, as well as DNA polymerase I, DNA gyrase, DNA topoisomerase I, DNA ligase, and DNA helicases. The activities displayed by these enzymes include homologous DNA pairing and strand exchange, helicase, branch migration, Holliday junction binding and cleavage, nuclease, ATPase, topoisomerase, DNA binding, ATP binding, polymerase, and ligase, and, collectively, they define biochemical events that are essential for efficient recombination. In addition to these needed proteins, a cis-acting recombination hot spot known as Chi (chi: 5'-GCTGGTGG-3') plays a crucial regulatory function. The biochemical steps that comprise homologous recombination can be formally divided into four parts: (i) processing of DNA molecules into suitable recombination substrates, (ii) homologous pairing of the DNA partners and the exchange of DNA strands, (iii) extension of the nascent DNA heteroduplex; and (iv) resolution of the resulting crossover structure. This review focuses on the biochemical mechanisms underlying these steps, with particular emphases on the activities of the proteins involved and on the integration of these activities into likely biochemical pathways for recombination.
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Home » ICO » Bitcoin could hit $146K long-term by ‘crowding out gold,’ says JPMorgan
Bitcoin could hit $146K long-term by ‘crowding out gold,’ says JPMorgan
01/05/2021 ICO Comments Off on Bitcoin could hit $146K long-term by ‘crowding out gold,’ says JPMorgan
Drawing parallels between Bitcoin (BTC) and gold’s role as a hedge for investors has been popular for years. Until now, the stark discrepancy in the total market capitalizations of the two assets has limited these analogies to a significant extent. Gold, even after a major Bitcoin price rise in Dec. 2020, continues to command roughly 4.6 times Bitcoin’s current $5.85 billion market capitalization.
Yet strategists at the American multinational megabank JPMorgan Chase are forecasting a possible scenario in which Bitcoin can seriously take on its predecessor. On Jan. 5, a Bloomberg report cited a note from the bank’s strategists, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, in which they sketched out a path to the total private sector investment in Bitcoin coming to equal the value that is currently invested in gold via either exchange-traded funds or bars and coins.
Yet such a path crucially depends on Bitcoin’s volatility converging with that of the precious metal, they stressed, and that is likely to take some time:
“A crowding out of gold as an ‘alternative’ currency implies big upside for Bitcoin over the long term […] a convergence in volatilities between Bitcoin and gold is unlikely to happen quickly and is in our mind a multiyear process. This implies that the above-$146,000 theoretical Bitcoin price target should be considered as a long-term target, and thus an unsustainable price target for this year.”
As Cointelegraph reported yesterday, Bitcoin has weathered a couple of days of choppy and highly volatile price action, with a brief dive down to $27,700 on Jan. 4 followed by a bounce to almost $30,000. As of press time, the coin is trading closer to $31,5000. Yesterday’s plummet was the starkest since the coin recovered the $20,000 price point in December 2020.
Amid this backdrop of persistent volatility, the JPMorgan strategists nonetheless identified strong positive signs for the cryptocurrency — pointing to an accumulation of speculative long positions — yet warned that reading the investment landscape in the medium-term remains difficult:
“The valuation and position backdrop has become a lot more challenging for Bitcoin at the beginning of the New Year […] While we cannot exclude the possibility that the current speculative mania will propagate further pushing the Bitcoin price up toward the consensus region of between $50,000-$100,000, we believe that such price levels would prove unsustainable.”
On Jan. 1, Bitcoin reached an all-time-high against gold, surpassing its previous peak back during the winter 2017 bull market. In December of last year, the same team of strategists led by Panigirtzoglou was already suggesting that Bitcoin could eat into gold’s market share in the future, envisioning a major shift in institutional allocation towards the cryptocurrency.
Meanwhile, an eventful trading climate has caused volumes on major cryptocurrency exchanges to hit record highs. On Jan. 4, Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume, reported an all-time-high of $80 billion in 24-hour trade activity. “To put this in perspective, from Nov 15, 2017 to Dec 15, 2017, the month leading up to the ATH [all-time-high] in 2017, Binance did $20 billion in trading volume in 1 month,” the exchange’s CEO wrote on Twitter.
Equally unprecedented, however, was futures traders’ loss of a total of $190 million on Binance alone in just one hour, the largest value of a mass liquidation to date on the platform.
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COVID-19 and the medical care of a child: what you need to know
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How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect the medical care of children?
May 25, 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic is keeping clinics and hospitals very busy. How does this situation affect the medical care of children?
How does the pandemic modify the medical care of children?
What Happens During a Telemedicine Appointment?
Are Children Still Vaccinated?
What Should I Do If My Child Is Hurt or Sick?
Is There a Risk That My Child May Catch COVID-19 in a Clinic or Hospital?
“At the onset of the pandemic, medical care appointments slowed down, says Dr. Marie-Claude Roy, a pediatrician at the Sherbrooke University medical centre and the director of its developmental pediatrics clinic. However, as soon as we felt that the situation would last for a while, we reminded that basic care and follow-up visits needed to resume, especially for children 0 to 2.”
The situation is similar at Montréal’s CHU Sainte-Justine. “Over the last few weeks, we have tried to increase the number of appointments we do in person, confirms Dr. Marie-Joëlle Doré-Bergeron, a pediatrician at that hospital. We must, however, follow strict rules and we are not allowed to see the same number of patients as before.”
According to Lin Quach, some clinics had to close because they did not have the safety equipment required to maintain their services. It is recommended to call ahead to make sure that a clinic is open instead of just showing up. If the clinic is closed, a voice message will indicate how to reach the required resources.
“Follow-up visits are maintained for children 0 to 2, says Lin Quach, interim coordinator of perinatal and pediatric services at the Direction du programme jeunesse at CISSS de Laval. But for children 2 and up, it is done via telemedicine.”
That is the preferable approach according to Dr. Roy. Follow-up visits are an opportunity to detect issues and to answer the questions their parents might have. These visits are also essential for prevention and vaccines.
“Children under 2 need in person follow-ups because we need to examine them, she explains. If, for example, a child seems to have a motor delay, we must make sure the neurological examination is normal to determine if there is an underlying issue.” In the case of a 4 or 5 year-old with a normal development, the annual follow-up may be delayed by a few months.
“This depends on each family medicine group (GMF), says Patricia Rhéaume, spokesperson for the CISSS de l’Outaouais. For appointments, we ask parents to contact their GMF or clinic. Someone will answer and will proceed to a telephone assessment to determine if an in-person appointment is necessary.”
That is also how L’Autre maison clinic, in Longueuil, operates. “If a parent has questions or is concerned about their child, whether it is their eating or sleeping habits or something else, they should call us, confirms Dr. Chantal Ouellet, a physician. We will plan an appointment with them. If, for example, they have a bathroom scale, they can weigh and measure the child. They should also prepare a short list of questions that may be of concern to them.” It is also possible to send pictures to the clinic via email when that is necessary.
The pandemic has transformed the way medicine is carried out. “As telemedicine evolves, we learn new ways of doing things, says Dr. Roy. We can accomplish quite a bit when it comes to follow-ups through secure virtual platforms or on the phone. We carry out a remote preliminary appointment and if we feel we need to see the child, we plan an in-person visit.”
“All vaccines up to 18 months are maintained according to the normal schedule, says Lin Quach. However, as per the public health guidelines, vaccination of children older than 18 months has been suspended.”
Dr. Roy believes it is a wise decision. “We want to maintain vaccination to avoid a resurgence of infections such as measles and meningitis, and those are the main vaccines children receive in their first two years.” Vaccines given between the ages of 4 and 6 are mainly boosters. Moreover, the timeframe to receive them is more flexible. It is therefore possible to delay them by a few months. “These vaccines have to be administered before the age of 7, however, if we do not want them to become less efficient.”
Dr. Doré-Bergeron does note that some CLSC have reduced the number of vaccination appointments during the pandemic. “Because of the pandemic, over the last few months, we have noticed some backlogs in the vaccination of children. It is crucial that we catch up as soon as possible.”
“Because of the pandemic, people seem to think they should not go to the clinic or call, says Patricia Rhéaume. That can lead to very worrisome situations.”
Parents should not hesitate to seek medical attention, according to Dr. Roy. “If you are even a little concern, seek medical attention,” she insists. For diseases that manifest suddenly, the recommendations are the same as usual. If, for example, a 4- or 5-year-old child has a fever but is generally well, you can wait up to 72 hours before seeking medical attention. In the case of accidents or injuries, you should not hesitate to consult a doctor.
“Even in the case of problems that are considered less urgent, you should not hesitate to ask for an appointment, says Dr. Roy. Certain situations can amplify during this stressful period.” That is why it is useful to have a telephone appointment with your family doctor or your child’s pediatrician.
Children who are not followed by a family doctor often have access to walk-in clinics. “Your CLSC can also offer you some support, says Dr. Roy. Their personnel can point parents towards the appropriate resources. Moreover, there are several telephone hotlines that offer psychosocial support and support for parents.”
According to Dr. Doré-Bergeron of CHU Sainte-Justine, some patients and some parents are afraid of visiting a hospital since the pandemic began and they turn down appointments. “Fear should not prevent us from taking good care of ourselves, says Dr. Roy. One might put the necessity of some consultations in perspective, but not consulting at all is not an option. Care facilities are safe places.”
Indeed, the safety measures implemented in clinics and hospitals are extremely strict. “At the hospital’s entrance, you will see a security guard that points people to the right place, says Dr. Roy. We make sure that people who might have COVID-19 symptoms are never in contact with people who are considered ‘cold.’”
At CHU Sainte-Justine’s outpatient clinic, a triage system is in place to deal with the coronavirus’s risks. “We ask questions on the phone, first, to determine if the child or their family is at risk of carrying the virus,” says Dr. Doré-Bergeron. The goal is to make sure that children with COVID-19 or similar symptoms do not visit the outpatient clinic. These children can be seen in a separate section of the hospital.
The situation is similar at L’Autre maison clinic. “Children with symptoms that are linked to a cold or the flu are not seen in our offices,” says Dr. Chantal Ouellet. These children are evaluated in designated clinics that are able to implement the required disinfection and protection measures for their personnel.
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Power Shift conference emboldens climate activists
Post author:Kat Grimmett
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Students and young activists from all corners of the Southeast United States came together at the 2016 Regional Power Shift Conference held in Orlando this past weekend. Organized by the Power Shift Network (formerly the Energy Action Coalition), Power Shift provided a space to open up multi-faceted discussions on climate change.
The weekend kicked off on Friday with the opening Plenary, which addressed how to build a “safe space” that holds equity and justice at the forefront. Afterwards, Power Shifters were invited to a community art build to create signs and banners for Saturday’s direct action march on the world’s largest McDonald’s off International Drive.
Power Shift has been in gear since 2007 but this year’s convergence stood confidently apart from it’s predecessors. For the first time, the Power Shift Network was able to assemble four regional conferences: Southeast, West, Midwest and Northeast.
“We were very intentional around what we wanted to do being that this is the first regional set up versus national so we thought about the issues in the Southeast and how they relate back to the host state, Florida,” Yulissa Arce Orlando director for the Florida Institute for Reform and Empowerment (FIRE) said. Arce was a speaker on the (em)PowerVote Plenary which addressed voter power and how to strategically shift politics to boost the issues.
“I think a regional powershift is really important because it’s like identity and place and it’s easier to identify your role in the movement when you’re in your place right here,” Nat Sassine, a junior at the University of North Florida, said. Sassine attended Power Shift back in 2013 when it was still a national convention and recognized a stronger direction with the regional set up.
An unmistakeable theme for this year’s Southeast Powershift was intersectionality. This focus was threaded into every workshop, every conversation. Even at the direct action march one could hear chants familiar to movements such as Black Lives Matter, Fight for $15 and the Alliance for Fair Food.
Elle Hearns – a lead organizer in the Movement for Black Lives – articulated the theme eloquently in her keynote speech. “As we move through the world, fighting for liberation, it is our people who we are responsible to. It is ourselves that we must challenge. We do have to choose whether or not our movement will be in isolation or in collaboration with other movements.”
Practically every workshop either centered itself in the cross-section of two movements or offered an intersectional approach to a particular issue. “Reproductive Justice is Environmental Justice,” “A World Without Racism” and “The Impact of Harmful Trade Deals on Climate” to name a few examples. Miami native Valencia Gunder challenged her audience in “Climate Gentrification” to take obstacles head on to achieve a better, more just society.
“She told us to hold people accountable like our local commissioners and she told us about getting involved in resiliency planning in our community, which I definitely want to look into in Sarasota,” Catalyst staff writer Cassandra Manz said. “She talked a lot about equity, not equality and saying that different people and different communities need different things.”
Power Shift received a strong presence from New College with more than a dozen students in attendance and a workshop held by fourth-years Jay McWilliams and Orion Morton on “Restorative Ecology for a More Just Climate.” McWilliams and Morton offered three techniques of land and soil restoration: community-based bioremediation, phytoremediation and mycoremediation.
While accessible and innovative to all, their presentation impacted one audience member in a particularly powerful way. John Gakumba attended Power Shift to find and invest in ideas to bring back to the Nile Basin Initiative, an intergovernmental partnership around sustainably managing the Nile River basin.
“I come from Rwanda, that’s East Africa, and we have a lot of food security challenges so restoring land and a system of resources is the way to provide food sustainably so that’ll affect the soil life and the need to have more organic life in the changing climate,” Gakumba said. “So they said John, maybe you could find an event, a session that will be of interest that you can contribute. This is the one, I really like it. I took their contacts and I’m going to get that book.”
The book that Gakumba referred to is Earth Repair: A Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes by Leila Darwish. Morton and McWilliams attributed much of the content in their powerpoint to Darwish’s book.
The conference hosted more than 20 workshop sessions and each one got down to the nitty-gritty of a particular issue, facilitated solution-focused discussions and offered hands on training for skills such as mobilizing a community and navigating the political system.
In “Beyond the Campus: Building Statewide Power,” speakers Evan Weber and Matt Cordiero offered a five-step plan to making a vision reality and broke the audience into groups to test out different ideas. “Why Food is Important” had a simpler answer to the issue of food security: grow your own! Participants were given biodegradable pots to plant tomato, carrot or radish seeds for an empowering push.
Throughout the conference, the theme of intersectionality never faltered. In her speech, Elle Hearns gave a humbling reminder to Power Shifters that it is praxis that changes the world.
“There’s a lot of mentioning of intersectionality here, which is great. However, the actual practice to manifest this is not always one that is realized or introduced in intentional ways in community spaces that we all engage in together. It’s time for us to actually choose how we practice being a community.”
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Experimental transmission studies of SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs and chickens
8 May 2020 SSRN Schlottau et al.
In this study, available as a preprint and thus not yet peer reviewed, transmission experiments of SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens confirm that pigs and chickens are not susceptible to infection; fruit bats are susceptible but show transient viral shedding and limited transmission to contact animals; and ferrets are susceptible and capable of efficient transmission to contact animals. These results could guide the development of effective infection models in bats and ferrets to study viral shedding and possible vaccines. Human-to-bat transmission is a potential risk that could complicate the management of the pandemic, so contact with wild bats by researchers and wildlife managers should be limited during this time.
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The study population consisted of nine fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), nine ferrets, nine pigs, and seventeen chickens inoculated intranasally with SARS-CoV-2 (oculo-oronasally in chickens). Three direct contact animals per species were included 24 hours post-inoculation. The authors also tested the susceptibility of embryonated chicken eggs and three different cell lines from pigs typically used for virus isolation. All animals tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 genetic material and antibodies prior to the experiment. Viral shedding was tested from nasal washes and rectal swabs (ferrets), oral swabs and pooled feces (bats), nasal and rectal swabs (pigs) or oropharyngeal and cloacal swabs (chickens) between day 2 and day 21 post-infection. Two or three animals of each species were sacrificed on days 4, 8, and 12 days post-infection; all remaining animals were euthanized on day 21.
Pigs, pig cell lines, chickens, and chicken eggs were not susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection; fruit bats and ferrets were susceptible to infection, with limited pathological signs (predominantly rhinitis) in both animals. All inoculated bats became positive and oral swabs tested positive for viral genetic material between days 2 and 12 post-inoculation. Oral swabs from 2/3 contact animals were positive 8 days post-inoculation. Pooled feces from all bat cages also tested positive days 2 and 4 post-inoculation. All inoculated bats produced detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies starting at 8 days post-inoculation, and one contact bat at day 21, but titers were low. Eight of nine inoculated ferrets tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 between days 2 and 8 post-inoculation, and all three contact ferrets tested positive starting at day 8; rectal swabs also tested positive, although with lower amounts of virus than in nasal washes. Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 were detected in all inoculated ferrets by 8 days post-infection, and by 21 days in all contact ferrets.
The study corroborates results from Shi et al. finding that pigs and chickens are not susceptible to infection, and that ferrets are susceptible. This work improves on this study by including contact animals to demonstrate transmission among ferrets. This is the only study to date that investigates replication and transmission of the virus in bats.
Based on previous work on SARS-related coronaviruses, fruit bats are probably not the reservoir hosts of SARS-CoV-2, but rather insectivorous Rhinolophus spp. However, the ease of maintaining fruit bats in captivity compared to insectivorous bats makes them a useful model for studying virus-host interactions and transmission, but may have limited relevance in the field and to our understanding of the ecological maintenance of the virus. The study only tested an intranasal route of infection in animals; the possibility of alternative routes including fecal-oral transmission will need to be assessed. Inter-species transmission was also not investigated.
The study confirms that fruit bats and ferrets are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and can transmit the virus between animals of the same species. It provided experimental verification that bats can be infected. Fruit bats are not the primary hosts of SARS-related coronaviruses, so this could have implications for understanding the ecology of the virus and the risk of transmission from humans into atypical host species (therefore further complicating management). Ferrets are useful animal models for studying the efficacy of antivirals and vaccines.
This review was posted on: 17 June 2020
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King Harishchandra Story – The King who is an Epitome of Truth and Virtue
Author Mythgyaan Published on September 16, 2018 9 min read
Harishchandra Story – King Harishchandra is an epitome of truth and virtue in ancient Indian history. He is known for his truthfulness and commitment.
Due to his commitment to Sage Vishwamitra to give Dakshina (donation) for his rajasuya yajna, he gave away everything he had including his wife and his son.
Fun Fact: Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film is based on the legend of King Harishchandra. It was a silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, the Father of Indian Cinema in 1913.
There are many stories related to King Harishchandra but the most famous one is from Markandeya Purana.
Harishchandra Story
King Harishchandra lived in Treta Yuga. He was a virtuous king known for his good deeds.
During his regime, everyone was happy and prosperous. He had a wife named Shaivya (also known as Taramati) and a son named Rohitashva.
Once he was pursuing a deer in the forest. Suddenly he heard cries of a woman saying “Save Me”.
Hearing this, he proceeds towards the direction of sound which in reality is an illusion created by Vighnaraja, the lord of the obstacles.
Actually, Vighnaraja is trying to create obstacles in the meditation (Tapasya) of Sage Vishwamitra.
Seeing king Harishchandra, he (Vighnaraja) possessed his body and started abusing the sage to disturb him (sage). Due to this, Vishwamitra lost all the learning that he gained through his Tapasya (meditation).
Sage Vishwamitra was filled with rage and anger due to this. Suddenly the king came back to his senses and apologized for his mistake.
Sage Vishwamitra told him:
If, O king, you observe fully all the duties of a king, I appear before you as a Brahmana desirous of begging something: give me my desired-for gift.
Harishchandra was delighted hearing this and promised him (Vishwamitra) to give him whatever he wants – be it silver, gold, body, life, kingdom, fortune or any other thing.
Then Vishwamitra asks him to first give Dakshina (donation) for his Rajasuya Yajna. The king asks him what he wanted in the donation.
Vishwamitra told him to give everything he has except his own body, his wife, and his son.
The king happily gave away his kingdom, his forces, and everything he has to Sage Vishwamitra as a donation.
Vishwamitra also asked him to leave the kingdom with his family as now the kingdom does not belong to him.
Vishwamitra stops him again:
As he was going away from his kingdom with his wife Shaivya and son Rohitashva, Vishwamitra stops him and demands for another donation for Rajasuya Yajna.
Harishchandra told him that he has nothing to offer now but promised him to give the donation for Rajasuya Yajna within a month’s time.
Vishwamitra agreed and wishes him good luck for his new journey.
Vishwamitra beats them with chastising rod:
Harishchandra leaving his kingdom along with his wife and son.
The citizens of his kingdom began to lament over his departure saying:
…Why do you renounce us? Wherever you will be we will go; wherever you live there is our happiness; wherever you reside there is our city – where the king is there is our heaven.
Upon hearing this, the king possessed by grief and compassion, stopped on the way. Seeing this, Vishwamitra gets enraged and starts beating them with chastising rod to make them go away sooner.
Seeing this, five Vishwadevas (guardians of the directions) condemned this action of Vishwamitra.
Hearing their words, he (sage) gets angry and cursed them to take birth as human beings. Also that although they were born as men, they will not get children nor wives.
Therefore, these five guardians deities were born as five sons of Pandavas and Draupadi in Mahabharata. This is the reason why the sons of Draupadi did not obtain wives.
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Harishchandra reaches Varanasi:
Nearly after a month, they reached the holy city of Varanasi but at the entrance of the city, they saw Sage Vishwamitra.
The sage reminded him of his promise to give him Dakshina for his Rajasuya Yajna within one month. He also told him that one month’s time is completed today.
Harishchandra requests him to wait for half a day more.
Vishwamitra agreed to this and told him that if his (Vishwamitra’s) demand is not fulfilled today then he (Vishwamitra) will curse him.
Harishchandra was worried about how to give Dakshina to the sage which he has promised as he has nothing to give.
Meanwhile, Harishchandra’s wife suggested to sell her and whatever money he gets can be used to give Dakshina to the sage.
Hearing this, Harishchandra, deprived of consciousness, fell down on the ground.
Again Vishwamitra came there and reminded Harishchandra of his promise and warned him about the outcomes of not fulfilling his promise.
Harishchandra sold his wife and son:
Harishchandra sold his wife and son.
Again his wife suggested the same. This time after some hesitation he agrees to sell her for money. An old man bought her as a maid-servant.
Rohitashva, his son started crying seeing his mother going away from them. Shaivya (his wife) requested his owner to buy her son as well so that he can be with her.
The old man agreed to this and bought her son as well for the extra money.
Immediately after this, Vishwamitra came there to the king and asked for the donation. Harishchandra gave him all the money he gets from the old man.
But Vishwamitra gets angry and says that the amount of money is not enough. He told Harishchandra that a fourth of the day still remains and he will wait till then.
Immediately after the sage, a Chandala came there who is actually the Deity of Virtue in disguise and offered to buy him in return for whatever amount of money he wants.
Harishchandra asks him, “Who are you?”.
The Chandala replied:
I am a Chandala. I am the executioner of those that are sentenced to death and take the blankets from the corpses.
(Basically, a Chandala is someone who deals with the disposal of corpses.)
But Harishchandra refused to be his servant.
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Harishchandra sold himself:
In the meantime, Vishwamitra returns and questions the king that, why he refused to be a servant of a Chandala in exchange for money which he can give as a Dakshina to him.
Harishchandra requested Vishwamitra to make him his servant. Vishwamitra agreed but declares that:
If you are my servant, I make you over to this Chandala for the consideration of a hundred million coin.
This way Vishwamitra sold King Harishchandra to the Chandala in exchange for hundred million coins.
The Chandala used Harishchandra as an employee at his cremation ground. He job was to strip the clothes of the corpses at the cremation ground.
He was instructed by the Chandala to take fees for everybody cremated there.
A part of the fees goes to the king, another part goes to the Chandala and the remaining is his (Harishchandra’s) commission.
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Death of Harishchandra’s son:
Harishchandra started living in the cremation ground itself.
One day he dreamed about his past life. He thought that his present condition is a result of his past sins. In his dream, he also sees his wife crying before him.
One day his bewailing wife came to him with their son who had died due to snake bite.
At first, they both did not recognize each other because of the change in appearance due to their miseries.
But soon Harishchandra recognized his wife from the tone of her lamentations and after that his wife also recognized him.
Both began to lament over the death of their son.
Harishchandra thought of committing suicide. But then he realized that if he does so without the permission of his master, he has to bear the consequences of it in his next birth.
After some hesitation, he decided to devote himself to death on his son’s funeral pyre (fire) irrespective of the consequences. He told his wife:
If I have practised charities, if I have performed sacrifice, if I have pleased my spiritual guide, I shall again, in another world, be united with you and my son.
The queen also decides to die in the same manner.
After placing their son’s dead body on the funeral pyre, they began to meditate upon the Lord Narayana (Vishnu).
In the meantime, all the gods along with Vishwamitra headed by Dharma arrived.
Dharma (the god of Righteousness) stopped him from his rash decision of devoting himself to death.
Dharma told them that he is pleased with Harishchandra’s forgiveness, self-control, truthfulness, and other qualities.
Indra, the king of gods, told him that he, his wife and his son have acquired a place in heaven because of their good deeds.
Harishchandra, his wife and his son go to heaven:
Harishchandra’s son is restored to life by Indra.
However, he refused to go to the heaven without the permission of his master (Chandala).
Dharma then reveals to the king that he himself assumed the form of a Chandala.
The king again refused to go to the heaven without the people of his kingdom who laments over his departure and are equal sharers in his merits.
He requested Indra to allow the people of his kingdom to accompany him to heaven, at least for one day.
Indra accepted his request. After that, Harishchandra along with his people ascends to heaven.
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Fight between Sage Vashistha (Ari) and Sage Vishwamitra (Heron):
Fight between Sage Vashistha (Ari) and Sage Vishwamitra (Heron)
Vashistha is the sage of Harishchandra’s royal dynasty.
He spent 12 years in meditation (Tapasya) on the Ganges. After his meditation gets over, he learned about misfortunes that happened to Harishchandra and his family.
Sage Vashistha gets enraged and curses Vishwamitra to be transformed into a Heron (crane). In return, Vishwamitra also curses Vashistha to be transformed into a bird of species called Ari.
Both with mighty strength and power fought with each other.
Finally, this fierce battle was stopped by Lord Brahma when he restored them to their original forms.
Brahma explained to Vashistha that Vishwamitra was only testing the king. And in this process, he had eventually helped King Harishchandra ascend to heaven.
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Origami-inspired ballistic shield now available to police forces
Origami-inspired ballistic shi...
The Swift Shield can stop a bullet from a .44 Magnum handgun
The Swift Shield, all folded up
A full view of the Swift Shield
Although the bulletproof shields used by police officers are definitely life-savers, the things are also quite heavy and bulky. The origami-inspired Swift Shield offers an alternative, as it folds down into a lightweight package when not in use.
Manufactured by US-based company ATCS (Advanced Technology Compliant Solutions), the device is actually the commercialized version of a prototype developed three years ago by a team at Utah's Brigham Young University.
While that first incarnation utilized Kevlar to stop bullets, however, the Swift Shield's armor plating consists of what are described as "ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene materials." Covering those materials is a waterproof, chemical-resistant and firm-yet-flexible shell made of Hypalon, which itself is a form of polyethylene.
The shield can be folded up inside a vehicle when not needed. Once it's required, though, users can quickly unfold it into a 24 by 36-inch (0.6 by 0.9-m) rectangle, providing 6 square feet (0.6 sq m) of ballistic protection. More specifically, it has an NIJ (National Institute of Justice) armor level of IIIA – this means it's able to stop .357 Sig FMJ FN (Flat Nose) bullets traveling at a velocity of about 1,470 ft/s (448 m/s), and .44 Magnum SJHP (Semi Jacketed Hollow Point) rounds travelling at 1,430 ft/s (436 m/s).
It tips the scales at a claimed 5 lb (2.3 kg), allowing officers to stay mobile.
"The Swift Shield represents a new category in personal protection in law enforcement because it is ready to deploy-and-protect any time," says Chet Linton, CEO of AEGIX Global, which will be selling the product to police forces and other groups. "Its foldable nature makes it possible to store in an officer’s car door, in between the front seats or backpack. It can be deployed on a windshield, folded in half on top of the trunk or hood of an officer’s vehicle."
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JeffK January 23, 2020 08:07 PM
Surprised it took this long to develop. Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) deployed a transparent "Bat Shield" that folded down into four sections for storage all the way back in about 1966 on the campy TV series.
paul314 January 24, 2020 05:48 AM
Can it stop rifle rounds?
Robert Schreib January 24, 2020 12:13 PM
?? If Graphene is supposed to have a tensile strength 400 times greater than steel wire, how is it that it has not been incorporated into bulletproof materials?
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Panasonic and Mozilla team up to bring Firefox OS to smart TVs
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COVID-19 • Startups • Venture
The Scramble To Create Job Boards For Laid-Off Workers Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
As the number of unemployed in the United States has mounted exponentially in recent weeks, a number of organizations are stepping up to help match laid-off employees with open positions.
One of those is Torch Capital, a New York-based early-stage consumer tech fund. Founder Jon Keidan and investment partner Katie Reiner have created an online job database to help those affected by layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic by connecting them with potential employers.
The firm says it saw more than 200 total postings within the first 24 hours of creating the database. As of Monday morning, it has 738 open job postings from companies such as Dollar Shave Club, Zumper and Amazon. Nearly 730 people have also added themselves on the platform with a wide range of talent including business development, engineering, finance, operations, analytics and design. The majority of job openings have been posted by startups.
“Being an early-stage venture investor, we’re seeing firsthand how the current situation is affecting startups across the spectrum,” Keidan told Crunchbase News. “There are people and companies that have had to cut costs drastically and unfortunately, layoffs have been a big part of that.”
But at the other end of the spectrum are companies that are still hiring.
“This isn’t a situation where companies are laying off their worst performers,” Keidan said. “It’s straight up cost-cutting. There’s a lot of talented people looking for work. So we were trying to figure out how to connect a committed pool of people looking for jobs with those hiring from that same pool.”
The idea for putting together the spreadsheet was born out of an internal strategy of trying to figure out ways Torch could help portfolio companies grow and cut costs.
“A friend knew that one of our companies was hiring and mentioned that she had to lay off 25 incredible engineers,” Reiner recalls. “I saw the list and realized how incredibly tough it is to find such quality talent in normal environments. The light bulb came on.”
Reiner started putting together a Google spreadsheet that quickly went viral, she said.
“At that point, we decided to create a unified website,” Reiner told Crunchbase News. “This was built to stretch way beyond Torch’s portfolio companies, and invigorate the market.”
Speaking of portfolio companies, Torch has funded about 23 companies since its inception two years ago. They include Acorns, Ro, Sweetgreen, Zocdoc, Naadam, Recess and others. It raised nearly $70 million across two tranches for its first fund.
The company is not charging for its job-matching services.
Another resource
Earlier this week, a new company based out of North Carolina, LayOffers, announced it is accelerating its launch in light of the economic uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeffrey Jewett, a tech executive who has held senior roles at the likes of Impact Technologies, Procore, PitchBook and Smartsheet, actually founded the service earlier this year but went live at LayOffers.com on April 6. He’s self-funded.
The site tracks layoff events and has over 10,000 jobs posted on it with “thousands of recruiters and candidates joining the site.” While most sites are focused on only the tech industry, Jewett said he wants LayOffers to be a resource for all industries.
LayOffers also provides a company directory where it says people can discuss potential layoffs anonymously–“like Glassdoor or Indeed focused on layoffs with a Reddit style company discussion around recent layoff events.” There folks can provide reviews on their outplacement services and report on the company’s outlook.
It also offers a candidate explorer where recruiters can find people who have been laid off from specific companies and set up criteria-specific alerts that trigger notifications once candidates join and match this criteria. It monitors layoffs in real-time and also offers a forum where users can provide mental and emotional support to one another.
“The traffic we are experiencing is fueled by the misfortune of others during an unprecedented health crisis and for that reason, we have decided to make the service 100% free. There is no go-to resource for displaced workers and our rapid growth is a testament to the need for critical information around layoffs, benefits, severance packages and more,” Jewett said in a statement.
Eventually, he said, there will be a long-term monetization strategy around partnering with outplacement vendors or other services that can benefit the audience through affiliates or other partnerships. However, there is no immediate timeline for this because of COVID-19.
After launch, ZoomInfo agreed to give LayOffers a recruiter list with hundreds of thousands of recruiters, Jewett told Crunchbase News.
“With such unrivaled data, we are now able to turn our mission into a reality,” Jewett said
‘Actively hiring’
Drafted says it has retooled its hiring technology to create a free platform for laid off workers to get connected with hiring recruiters. The Boston-based startup says it has more than 5,000 recruiters on its mailing list and 500 recruiters “actively hiring” on its platform from companies such as Amazon, Uber and various growth startups.
Venture-backed Catalyte is working on a unique approach. It is helping individuals from any professional background learn how to become software engineers.
“We have engineers who were baristas, roofers, fast-food workers, teachers, PhD candidates, you name it,” said Jacob Hsu, Catalyte CEO.
The Baltimore, Maryland-based company’s screening identifies software development aptitude. It claims to then provide “the technical and soft skills needed to be a successful junior developer.”
“This is so important now as we have millions of people unemployed, almost all without a computer science degree or prior tech experience,” Hsu wrote via email. “Many of their previous positions aren’t coming back. We need to be able to slingshot around this crisis and provide better, more stable, more lucrative careers for those who can do the work.”
Illustration: Li-Anne Dias
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Penn State recognized among top 25 LGBTQ-friendly schools by Campus Pride
Penn State received five out of five stars for overall campus climate by Campus Pride, a national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to improve LGBTQ environments at colleges and universities. Image: Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State is once again named among the top 25 schools in the nation in the 2017 Campus Pride Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning-Friendly Campus Climate Index.
The University received five out of five stars for overall campus climate by Campus Pride, a national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to improve LGBTQ environments at colleges and universities.
"Receiving this recognition for Penn State and our LGBTQ+ community is exciting and showcases the hard work of students, faculty and staff working together to make the Penn State experience an ever more inclusive one,” said Brian Patchcoski, director of Penn State's LGBTQA Student Resource Center.
"While Penn State has received this honor for several years, the recognition is not easily attained," he added. "As the number of institutions growing this work on their campuses has grown, so has the need for us to think broader and more strategically to move our own work forward. Our students share so much of themselves as they work with us and challenge us to make Penn State stronger. This honor is in recognition of them and their desire for Penn State to innovate and grow its understanding of diversity and inclusion."
The Campus Pride Index is a national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities which self-assesses LGBTQ-friendly policies, programs and practices, conducted by and for LGBTQ experts in the field of higher education. The index, now in its ninth year, includes more than 235 colleges and universities with searchable profiles online. Each campus can update their index annually and use the benchmarking tool to make improvements.
The index tool includes 50+ self-assessment questions, which correspond to eight different LGBTQ-friendly factors: policy inclusion; support and institutional commitment; academic life; student life; housing; campus safety; counseling and health; and recruitment and retention efforts. Each school listed receives an overall LGBTQ-friendly score based on a five-star model, as well as breakdowns based on sexual orientation, gender identity/expression and the eight LGBTQ-friendly factors.
In order to be in the Top 30 listing, an institution had to score the highest percentages in the benchmarks.
View Penn State’s current Campus Pride Index report card here.
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Dallas Noncompete Lawyer Discusses Evolution of Texas Noncompete Law
/cdklawyers.com// 10/26/2012 Dallas noncompete lawyer Keith Clouse has practiced employment law for over 20 years. During that time span, he has closely monitored trends and developments in noncompete law. This area of the law changes rapidly, and each new case provides insight into how courts will interpret and enforce these agreements. At one time, […]
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Texas Supreme Court Issues Opinion Regarding Pay Discrimination Matter
/cdklawyers.com// 09/06/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently addressed an issue of first impression: Does the federal Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act apply to claims brought under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act so that the 180-day limitations period begins anew each time a claimant receives a paycheck containing a discriminatory amount? Prairie View A&M […]
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Texas Supreme Court Addresses Age Discrimination Issue
/cdklawyers.com// 07/20/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently addressed an age discrimination issue. Mission Consolidated Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Garcia, No. 10-0802 (Tex. June 29, 2012), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2012/jun/100802.pdf. The Court addressed the question: Can a plaintiff establish a prima facie case of age discrimination when undisputed evidence shows she was replaced by someone older? […]
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Texas Supreme Court Addresses Attorney’s Fee Award in Employment Discrimination Matter
/cdklawyers.com// 07/13/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently considered the calculation of an attorney’s fee award in an employment discrimination and retaliation case brought pursuant to Texas’s antidiscrimination statute. El Apple I, Ltd. v. Olivas, No. 10-0490, (Tex. June 22, 2012), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2012/jun/100490.pdf. Texas uses the lodestar method when awarding attorney’s fees. A court […]
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Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Issues Regarding Wrongful Termination Cases in Texas
/cdklawyers.com// 04/27/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled on a case involving the wrongful termination of an employee because the employee refused to perform an illegal act. Safeshred, Inc. v. Martinez, No. 10-0426 (Tex. Apr. 20, 2012), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2012/apr/100426.pdf. The employee refused to drive a truck because the truck did not comply with […]
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Texas Supreme Court Addresses Jury Trial Waiver in an Employment Law Matter
/cdklawyers.com// 03/16/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently held that a threat to fire an at-will employee for refusing to sign a jury waiver does not amount to coercion that would invalidate the jury waiver agreement. In re Frank Kent Motor Co., No. 10-0687 (Tex. March 9, 2012), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2012/mar/100687.pdf. The at-will employee had […]
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Texas Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Compensation Coverage Issue
/cdklawyers.com// 02/10/2012 The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled on a workers’ compensation coverage issue. Port Elevator-Brownsville, L.L.C. v. Casados, No. 10-0523 (Tex. Jan. 27, 2012), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2012/jan/100523.pdf. The plaintiffs’ son suffered a fatal work-related injury while working as a temporary worker for Port Elevator. The plaintiffs did not seek workers’ compensation benefits from Port […]
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Texas Noncompete Attorney Explains Recent Change to Texas Noncompete Law
/cdklawyers.com// 10/14/2011 Keith Clouse, a Dallas, Texas noncompete attorney, explains how a recent Texas Supreme Court opinion radically changes Texas noncompete law. This summer, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that a covenant not to compete signed by an employee in consideration of stock options was enforceable because the company’s provision of stock options was reasonably […]
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Texas Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Compensation Issue
/cdklawyers.com// 09/16/2011 The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled on an issue involving the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act. Ins. Co. of the State of Penn. v. Muro, No. 09-0340 (Tex. Aug. 26, 2011), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2011/aug/090340.pdf. The plaintiff sought lifetime workers’ compensation income benefits after she fell at work and injured her hips, back, shoulder […]
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Texas Supreme Courts Addresses Workers’ Compensation Issue
/cdklawyers.com// 12/21/2010 The Texas Supreme Court recently addressed an issue arising under the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act. Leordeanu v. Am. Protection Ins. Co., No. 09-0330 (Tex. Dec. 3, 2010), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2010/dec/090330.htm. The Court answered the question, “Is traveling from one workplace to another while on the way home in the ‘course and scope of […]
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Rating: NNNIn Brave Films, Wild Nights, his history of the Toronto International Film Festival, Brian D. Johnson notes that in.
By John Harkness
Rating: NNN
In Brave Films, Wild Nights, his history of the Toronto International Film Festival, Brian D. Johnson notes that in one year he went from driving films around in a van to reviewing them for Maclean’s.
The latter job, he writes, is less crucial to the film world, though it did get him into parties.
On the one hand, Johnson is making a little joke. On the other, Freud says we are never more serious than when we are joking.
So what he gives us is a reasonably fat year-by-year history of the festival, documenting a few thousand films, assorted parties and some fairly well-known scandals — they say the Toronto Historical Board is putting up a plaque in the stairwell where Theresa Russell is said to have done a festival volunteer.
The book also immortalizes a cast of god-like characters known as festival directors.
Like David Halberstam, Johnson believes the proper perspective for a journalist vis à vis the powerful is on his knees, looking up.
Wayne Clarkson, Helga Stephenson and Piers Handling are described in such glowing terms as to make us wonder why they’re doing anything as insignificant as running a film festival.
Why aren’t they out negotiating a workable peace for the Middle East or curing cancer?
Johnson loves that news-magazine writer’s tactic of pumping descriptions with steroids to convince the casual reader of the importance of the subject matter.
And while he’s perfectly willing to comment on films critically, whenever he wants to say something the least bit negative about the festival or a personality, he finds someone else to say it, preferably on the record.
This book was commissioned by the festival. Johnson insisted on maintaining his editorial independence, but he’s a tame writer.
Still, it’s an entertaining book, and, aside from its treatment of festival directors, not nearly the total blow job I expected.
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Billy Strings channels Grateful Dead ESP shows with Deja Vu Experiment
Bluegrass/CountryJam/ProgressiveWestchester
By Pete Mason On Jan 13, 2021
In 1971, the Grateful Dead performed at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester over six nights – February 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 24. Billy Strings will present The Deja Vu Experience on FANS and The Relix Channel on those same nights, 50 years later, with a six-night livestream.
With a nod to those historic shows, Billy Strings will perform on these same dates as the Grateful Dead did, adding an aire of deja vu to the run of streams, in hopes of tapping into the musicianship and fearlessness that the Dead did 50 years ago.
Much like the Dead, Billy Strings has the potential to unlock the improvisational boundaries of music and psychedelia in a familiar yet unique way.
During the 1971 shows, the Grateful Dead conducted ESP Experiments, prompting Deadheads in the audience to focus on imagery shown by the band and telepathically send the imagery to a test subject.
The Deja Vu Experiment is aiming to similarly tap into a sense of clairvoyance and togetherness by asking the streaming audience to use their minds to collectively “see” and send imagery to special guest receivers.
Concerts in the age of streaming beg fans to transport their mind; to feel connected to a live performance when we cannot physically be together. This experiment is not scientifically backed, rather, a hypothesis that the collective mind has the power to tap into extrasensory perception and manifest connection.
Tickets to February 19, 20, 21, and 23 are on sale now. February 18 + 24 are FREE on The Relix Channel, exclusively on Twitch. A portion of proceeds will benefit The Rex Foundation and Backline.
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Secukinumab, an Anti–Interleukin-17A Monoclonal Antibody, Exhibits Minimal Immunogenicity in Subjects with Moderate to Severe Psoriasis
Huang, Jiaqing and Bruin, Gerardus and Liang, Eric and Fox, Todd K and Reich, Kristian and Blauvelt, Andrew and Lloyd, Peter and Armstrong, April (2016) Secukinumab, an Anti–Interleukin-17A Monoclonal Antibody, Exhibits Minimal Immunogenicity in Subjects with Moderate to Severe Psoriasis. British journal of dermatology, online (xx). xx-xx. ISSN 1365-2133; 0007-0963
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjd.149...
The pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-17A plays a pivotal role in psoriasis pathogenesis. Secukinumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody that selectively targets IL-17A, has been demonstrated to be highly efficacious in the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis, starting at early time points, with a sustained effect and a favorable safety profile. mAb therapies may be associated with production of anti-drug antibodies (ADA) that can affect drug pharmacokinetics, diminish response, or cause hypersensitivity reactions. Secukinumab immunogenicity in plaque psoriasis subjects exposed to secukinumab was evaluated at Baseline and at Weeks 12, 24, and 52 in 6 phase 3 studies. Treatment-emergent ADA (TE-ADA) were defined as a positive ADA signal detected in post-treatment samples from subjects with a negative baseline signal. Confirmed positive samples were further analyzed for drug-neutralizing potential. Among 2,842 subjects receiving any dose of secukinumab during the 6 phase 3 studies and evaluated for ADA up to 60 weeks, 11 subjects developed TE-ADA. Correlations between TE-ADA and secukinumab dose, frequency, or mode of administration were not observed. Neutralizing antibodies were detected in 3 of 11 subjects with TE-ADA. Development of TE-ADA or neutralizing antibodies was not associated with loss of secukinumab efficacy or other issues of clinical concern.
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Dirt 5 - Review
Dirty weekend.
byLuke Reilly
With hardboiled rally enthusiasts and sim junkies currently well-served by the stern and serious spin-off Dirt Rally 2.0, Codemasters has swerved to reshape its main off-road series into a sort of Driveclub on dirt; Dirt 5 is an accessible and rowdy racer that’s easy on the eye and fun to pick up and play, even if it’s ultimately a shade on the shallow side relative to what I’ve come to expect from these games.
It’s perhaps symbolic that Codemasters has included Colin McRae’s old co-driver in Dirt 4 for the first time in one of its rally games since Colin McRae Rally 2005, because Dirt 4 very much feels like a return to the good old days of the series. Hearing Grist’s pace notes again – a voice drilled into my brain in the late ’90s and early 2000s via my ravenous consumption of all games beginning with the word ‘Colin’ – has taken me back nearly 20 years. Back then Codemasters’ rally games were the yardstick against which all other racers with off-road aspirations were measured (at least up until the likes of Richard Burns Rally and WRC: Rally Evolved). Well, those days are back. Accessible yet tough and grimy yet gorgeous, Dirt 4 sets a new standard in rally racing – and its well-considered career mode and endless stages inject it with tremendous stamina. Absolutely stonking brilliant. - By Luke Reilly, June 12, 2017
Score: 9.2 Read the full Dirt 4 Review
My key criticism of the career mode is that the variety it appears to offer doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny. I’ve been playing Dirt 5 for a week and there are still event types I can’t really tell the difference between. Land Rush and Stampede in particular both blur into one for me, and Rally Raid doesn’t feel much different to those either.
Path Finder events are a handful of hill climb time-attacks in a specialty rock bouncer but, while these courses are the steepest and narrowest, they don’t really require a particularly finessed approach so I didn’t find them as interesting to tackle as I thought I would. Sprint racing? Well, it feels like it’s in the wrong game.
The ice racing is probably my highlight – not only are they generally the best showcase for Dirt 5’s impressive lighting and weather effects, but ice is perhaps unsurprisingly the most satisfying drifting surface. These ice racing events require the most car control and, as such, I found them the most rewarding.
However, while Dirt 4’s custom stage generator may have got the chop, Dirt 5 comes with its own custom content solution: a stunt track editor Codemasters has dubbed Playgrounds. When career mode ran out of sizzle for me, I found myself in Playgrounds – and right now I suspect it’s here I’ll stay. It’s perhaps best described through a modern lens as a Dirt-flavoured slice of Trackmania-style madness, but more pertinently Playgrounds might be as close to a modern-day version of the 1990 MS-DOS cult classic Stunts (or 4D Sports Driving) as I’ve ever played. You may be unfamiliar with this 30-year-old relic but at one point as a kid I basically lived in it.
Whether you’re placing stacks of crushed cars or enormous corkscrews, Playgrounds’ editing tools are all quite straightforward – although I’m yet to build something I’m truly happy with. In the interim, I’m having plenty of fun attacking the user-created tracks already available.
In some ways Playgrounds feels a bit like it comes from a completely different game, but it’s an excellent addition to the Dirt 5 package – especially in conjunction with four-player splitscreen multiplayer.
Dirt 5 represents a complete about-face for the main Dirt series, shedding virtually all semblance of simulation in favour of an unabashed, arcade-inspired racing experience that draws from just about every influence you can name except its direct predecessor. It’s not especially deep, and there isn’t as much variety in the career mode as it claims, but it’s fast, frantic, and extremely handsome, and the wild and wacky stunt track editor truly has its hooks in me.
Developer: Codemasters
Release Date: Dec. 31, 2020
Platforms: Xbox Series X, xbox-4, Xbox One, Stadia, Pc, PlayStation 4, playstation-5
Dirt 5 isn't particularly deep, but it’s fast, frantic, extremely handsome, and buoyed by a superb stunt track editor.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Available Now for Digital Preload, But Won't Have Early Digital Release
The file size comes in just over 100 GB.
byAndrew Smith
Posted April 3, 2020, 8:32 p.m.
The highly anticipated Final Fantasy 7 Remake is officially available for worldwide preload on PlayStation consoles. With the game set to launch on April 10, Square Enix has said it wants to ensure fans have plenty of time to get the game downloaded on their consoles.
“We know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and many people having to stay at home, some of you may be experiencing extra pressure on your internet bandwidth," said the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase. "We wanted to give all our fans some extra time to download the game.”
With the file size coming in at over 100 GB, some players will likely benefit greatly from the extra time to download the game. Developers shared that it created custom assets for every part of Midgar, which greatly increased the overall file size. Essentially, this means when you venture into different parts of Midgar, like the Slums, you won’t see assets re-used in other areas of the game.
Despite some Australian and European retailers selling the game early. Square Enix has confirmed that digital copies of the game will not be released early. While this may be upsetting to some fans, the release is only a week away!
If you're not familiar with the game, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be released in different episodes to ensure "the highest visual quality." Be sure to keep your eye on IGN's official Final Fantasy 7 Remake wiki page for help when the game comes out.
Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.
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Fuser - Review
Burn fast and burn bright.
byJarrett Green
Harmonix made the late 2000s rock. You couldn’t go to a party or bar without seeing four plastic Rock Band instruments in a corner just begging for you and your friends to butcher a classic pop tune with. The music game fad tragically died out in the 2010s, but for a brief while Harmonix’s new DJ simulator, Fuser, rekindles some of its high points and inspires hope that the genre could make a comeback. Fuser does an admirable job of invoking the sensation of being an artist by helping you freely mix tracks like a pro, but score chasers may find that for them, the party is short-lived.
Every set of Fuser begins the same way. First, you fill your digital crate with records that span several eras and genres. The selection feels truly all-encompassing, with over 100 options from back-in-the-day jams like Patti Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade” to new-school hits from the likes of Dua Lipa and Bad Bunny along with plenty of obscure filler songs. Add in some digital noise-makers like drum machines and synths, and you're ready to hit the stage. From the moment you drop your first disc, your job will be to wow the crowd by mixing and matching tracks across different songs; each one comes with up to four components representing vocals and various instruments, and those can be remixed independently. Can the drums from Brad Paisley’s “Mud on the Tires” sound great with the strings from Salt-n-Pepa’s “Push It?” Of course they can!
This works seamlessly more often than not, because there is a lot of behind-the-scenes heavy lifting being done by Fuser to make everything mesh and sound like disparate parts were supposed to be together all along. Inevitably, however, there’s a number of mixes where the magic trick feels far less enchanting, including some that just never feel like they would truly be considered as party starters in a scenario like this. Is there anything more cursed than dropping the vocals to “Killing in the Name Of” over any part of Smash Mouth’s “All Star?”
The right moves will send the crowd swinging from the digital rafters in elation when blended perfectly.
Regardless of the material, the key to good DJing is dropping records with pinpoint timing. That could be in a general sense, like making sure you're cuing your music either on every fourth beat (the downbeat) or more track-specific pickups that signal the perfect time in the next group of bars to drop your piece. On top of that, you can change the key or tempo of your running mix among a bunch of other options, and all will send the crowd swinging from the digital rafters in elation when blended perfectly. The nuances of how the scoring system works are pretty obscure though, so while nailing the basics consistently promises good scores it’s difficult to know how to break through to five-star runs.
On that note, hopping into any mode before playing the eight to 10-hour campaign would be a mistake. The story of an up-and-coming DJ stumbling into opportunities to play on the stages of the world’s biggest acts is a boring and rote one, but it’s also Fuser’s effective tutorial, spreading handfuls of lessons and techniques over its 36 levels. In almost all of them, you’ll learn a new trick like adding distortion filters to tracks or how to synchronize drops of multiple instruments at the same time. There’s a smattering of objectives to complete during each performance, usually revolving around using the newly introduced skill or ability in your set. This is the most effective way to learn how to combine Fuser’s many components into a good show. That said, there are so many things to learn, involving so much menu surfing and management, that I rarely used any of these concepts outside of when I was specifically asked to.
When things clicked for me, Fuser felt as cool and challenging as my best times with Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Going back to old stages to try to beat my personal best, armed with new knowledge and songs, was fun and fulfilling. The campaign is also the only mode with nearly this much to do. Frankly, the absence of a dedicated mode that takes the objective-based play of the campaign into a more arcadey setting is a big disappointment. The campaign stages are fun but fixed rather than dynamic, and don't allow you to feel like you’re being fully trusted to keep up with the level’s demands without the tutorial-like guardrails.
Progression also feels a bit drawn out. On level up, you gain two types of points to spend on music and cosmetics. The amount of XP you gain per set feels very low. I finished the campaign at level 7 and still had a significant amount of songs that I couldn’t afford to unlock. I can’t imagine sinking a dozen more hours into Fuser just to unlock songs I’ve never heard before and likely wouldn't hear again elsewhere.
The sharp focus on the basic loops of gameplay does keep Battle mode feeling balanced and strategic.
The online-only Battle mode pits DJs head-to-head, retaining a basic set of Fuser’s gameplay rules while modifying others to create a sense of competition. The spontaneous song requests and specific asks – drop a song from the 2000s, play a guitar record, etc. – remain and are the major way to earn points on top of solid execution of the basics. But all of the advanced stuff you learned, like fading and rising, and tempo switching are disabled. The sharp focus on the basic loops of gameplay does keep Battle mode feeling balanced and strategic. Ranked play restricts the music you can put in your crate at lower levels, but once you rise up the ranks there’s a deck-building quality to preparing your lineup and specific mix combos in advance before throwing down with opponents. Post-campaign, people who want a more hardcore DJ experience will spend lots of time in Battle mode, despite how confusing the more nuanced rules can be.
In Freestyle mode, you are let loose to do whatever you want with the tools you have available. This is the mode Fuser bridges the gap between rhythm game and actual digital instrument in a way that most in the genre can only hope to. With a little practice, you can create whole performances that feel like real artistic expression as opposed to dressed up karaoke. You can even share them for others to experience. This fits right into the rising demand for musical performances on streaming sites like Twitch (though maybe not into its relationship with playing licensed music on its platform). There’s a co-op mode as well, and here a pair of people can pass the mix back and forth to one another in collaborative set-slamming. The mileage you'll get from Freestyle is user specific, of course; I got my feet wet with it a few times but didn’t find much there for me without a score to chase but a real musical creative type could spend ages with it.
None of the multiplayer modes are local, which feels like a sin for what is a game tailored for social settings. Sure, nobody is going to parties these days, but in a hopeful future where people can see each other in person again it’s odd that playing Fuser together is off the table. That two people can stand at the same table and mix together, or that you can't watch up close as a rival sees you hit a huge drop combo in the head-to-head mode, is a huge miss.
At its best, Fuser feels like the most promising attempt yet to bring back the glory days of social music gaming. The tutorial-like campaign scratches the itch for fast-paced rhythm-based score chasing, while the Freestyle mode could be turned into a true platform for content creation in the right hands. But a dearth of replayable game modes, lack of local multiplayer, and an exhausting grind to unlock more tracks can really kill the vibe.
Developer: Harmonix
Publisher: NCsoft
Platforms: Pc, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
Fuser Review
For a few brief moments Fuser reinvigorates the glory days of social music gaming and in the right hands can be effectively be an instrument of music creation, but outside of the campaign there's little for the rest of us to do.
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Indian farmers to continue highway protests after talks fail - notd.io
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What do you want to see in future UNIT releases?
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 11, 2016 1:28:42 GMT whiskeybrewer, agentten, and 1 more like this
Post by omega on Jun 11, 2016 1:28:42 GMT
I'd like to hear more about Kate's and Osgood's families. Will we see an appearance by Kate's son from Downtime? Will Osgood's sister, mentioned in Day of the Doctor, cast a shadow over her? It'd help to flesh out both characters.
Be sure to check out the indexes for the various Big Finish ranges!
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 11, 2016 9:42:13 GMT
Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jun 11, 2016 9:42:13 GMT
UNIT UK versus other UNITs (maybe even the Russian UNIT which is according to the books called OGRON) over the Zygon immigration, with the whole "the Doctor did it" not washing with certain parties.
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 11, 2016 13:02:21 GMT causality likes this
Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jun 11, 2016 13:02:21 GMT
A Torchwood infiltration of UNIT similar to SHIELD VS 'Real SHIELD' in Agents of SHIELD Season Two.
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What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 11, 2016 16:04:14 GMT
Post by chrisscorkscrew on Jun 11, 2016 16:04:14 GMT
Quantity!
I'm not being flip. I just so enjoyed the quality and sheer entertainment value of the first boxset, that I really hope that UNIT develops into the longstanding series it deserves to be.
Chriss C.
Post by icecreamdf on Jun 11, 2016 17:10:51 GMT
Jun 11, 2016 13:02:21 GMT dalekbuster523finish said:
Torchwood doesn't really exist anymore by the time Kate took over.
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 11, 2016 17:52:40 GMT barnabaslives likes this
Jun 11, 2016 17:10:51 GMT icecreamdf said:
Neither did SHIELD in Agents of SHIELD Season Two. You could either have Jack or a new character lead people under a rebuilt Torchwood that still technically doesn't exist against UNIT because they don't trust them due to their employment of Zygons.
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 11, 2016 22:08:31 GMT barnabaslives, icecreamdf, and 1 more like this
Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jun 11, 2016 22:08:31 GMT
The Forge then.
charlesuirdhein
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 12, 2016 1:25:11 GMT icecreamdf likes this
Post by charlesuirdhein on Jun 12, 2016 1:25:11 GMT
A time travel story flinging Klein forward to 2016 plus from the 90s. Because Tracy Childs is too good.
Post by icecreamdf on Jun 12, 2016 2:08:37 GMT
The BF Torchwood series has already established that Torchwood isn't rebuilt until 2016. Since the UNIT series is all set pre-Day of the Doctor, it wouldn't really work.
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 13, 2016 18:35:16 GMT via mobile
Post by captain jack on Jun 13, 2016 18:35:16 GMT
I'd like them to incorporate Ruth Matheson, Charlie Sato & Mike Yates into the stories more than anything.
bobod
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 15, 2016 10:50:22 GMT charlesuirdhein and whiskeybrewer like this
Post by bobod on Jun 15, 2016 10:50:22 GMT
Emily Chaudry!
Post by aztec on Jun 15, 2016 10:53:36 GMT
whiskeybrewer
How in the name of The Other did i forget that?
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Jun 15, 2016 12:50:29 GMT bobod likes this
Post by whiskeybrewer on Jun 15, 2016 12:50:29 GMT
I'm a Doctor, but probably not the one you were expecting
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"Who I Am Is Where I Stand. Where I Stand Is Where I Fall."
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 11, 2019 9:41:31 GMT
Post by Ian McArdell on Apr 11, 2019 9:41:31 GMT
I was interested to read, in the latest Vortex (Issue 122), that Matt Fitton is leaving his role as Script Editor, to be replaced by Andrew Smith after the upcoming Series 8 'Incursions'. With contributions Extinction, Shutdown and Encounters under his belt, as well as his stirling work elsewhere, I'd suggest he's an ideal choice. Unfortunately, it also mentions a delay... I wonder if stories will be firmly in the Twelfth Doctor, two Osgoods era (like the one from The Eighth of March) from now on?
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What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 11, 2019 12:44:35 GMT via mobile whiskeybrewer, Whovitt, and 1 more like this
Post by Digi on Apr 11, 2019 12:44:35 GMT
This is quite counter to UNIT under Kate and Osgood, but I think I’d be interested in seeing a more militarized/militaristic UNIT. Not ‘the military is bad’ anti-hero UNIT, I just think it would be interesting to see an incarnation wherein they don’t screw around with alien threats; they’ve got an armoury and a fleet of tanks at their disposal, and they put them to use. I suppose for this to work in a way that doesn’t make UNIT look bad would probably require larger/planet-threatening villains.
This doesn’t have to be a forever/ongoing arrangement, I just think it would be a neat change of pace for a little while.
Alternatively (or perhaps in tandem), an anthology approach might be nice. A boxset set in the 70s followed by a set in the 2010s, a Chaudhry set, one in the 80s, maybe one in the future. Just to shake things up.
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 11, 2019 12:49:55 GMT number13 likes this
Post by whiskeybrewer on Apr 11, 2019 12:49:55 GMT
Apr 11, 2019 12:44:35 GMT Digi said:
I had an idea for a UNIT Team that was like that. I for some reason called them Stewart's Brigade
Tempting fate on Skaro.
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What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 12, 2019 12:36:11 GMT whiskeybrewer and number13 like this
Post by Wolfie on Apr 12, 2019 12:36:11 GMT
Apr 11, 2019 12:49:55 GMT whiskeybrewer said:
Grouping these two posts together: sort of a pressure point branch used for worst case scenarios where negotiations have combusted? I've got this image of UNIT putting tanks on the Moon because someone's come down to set up an interplanetary artillery post and doesn't give a toss about the consequences.
"Courage isn't a matter of not being frightened you know;
It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."
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What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 13, 2019 10:27:57 GMT Wolfie and number13 like this
Apr 12, 2019 12:36:11 GMT Wolfie said:
Yeah like the last LAST line of defence.
High Council
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 13, 2019 11:57:41 GMT barnabaslives, agentten, and 2 more like this
Post by number13 on Apr 13, 2019 11:57:41 GMT
Now BF have cast Jon Culshaw as the Brig., I'd love an unashamed fan-pleaser where a timey-wimey event takes him from his active service days in the 70s (TV broadcast date I mean, don't let's go there!) and lands him in the middle of a modern-day UNIT operation just as things are going pear-shaped and with Sam and Shindi both incapacitated/missing, Josh needs some senior officer guidance right now.
Kate and her dad both learn a lot from their shared experience in the field and emerge victorious thanks to their combined skills - science, diplomacy and large explosions - and when the action lets up it's hankies all round of course before he fades back to his proper timestream...
(I can dream, can't I? )
What do you want to see in future UNIT releases? Apr 14, 2019 0:59:45 GMT whiskeybrewer and number13 like this
Post by Wolfie on Apr 14, 2019 0:59:45 GMT
Ahh, the last people standing:
"And what is your function, sergeant?"
"Major," she replied distractedly. Remembering herself, she tensed with a salute, adding: "Ma'am."
She reexamined the insignia on her shoulder band. "Oh, I'm sorry. Major."
The scientist gently pulled down the saluting hand with a wry smile. She returned to her equipment, but indicated she was still listening.
"Well, ma'am," reported the soldier. "If the fighting continues up to this laboratory floor... Are you using this space here?"
"No, please."
"I use this service rifle," a heavy thunk, "these grenades," a lighter chunk, "and this service pistol," the lightest, it was a tik-tap noise. "Down to the last bullet in the cartridge."
They turned to one another. Both looked fairly serious. "Then what?" asked the scientist.
I put my body in front of yours, ma'am, and I keep doing it 'til I can't stand no more."
"Do you have a name, major?"
"Unimportant, ma'am. You'll only try to do the same if you get to know me. You can call me Jane."
"Jane?" she studied the look in her eyes. "Thank you, Jane, I hope it won't come to that."
The soldier smiled pleasantly, reslinging the rifle. "I'd like that too, ma'am, but we'll see."
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"I see. I had a feeling that would be your answer. But, I had to ask anyway. Besides—that woman would have given me an earful if I snatched one of her people away." Aurie stated. She was disappointed that Izroth turned down her offer, but it was not outside her expectations.
She then turned to Maeva and asked, "What about you, Lieutenant Maeva?"
"This..." It was so sudden that Maeva did not know how to respond. If she said that she was no longer interested in joining the Resource Management Division, it would be a lie.
That being said, she enjoyed traveling with Izroth as part of the GSU. But, if she became a member of the Resource Management Division, Maeva understood that she would not be without some restrictions on her movements.
Of course, the main thing that troubled Maeva was that she did not want Izroth to think that she was ungrateful. After all, he was the one who took her in and granted her the position of Lieutenant in his Division. In addition, if not for him, Maeva doubted that Aurie would have made her such a favorable offer. If she left him now, wouldn't it seem like she was tossing him aside for greater benefits?
"I-" Just as Maeva was about to give her answer, she was interrupted by Izroth.
"Maeva, sometimes one must be selfish with their actions. Whatever you decide to do, whether it's as the Mystical Realm Palace's owner or your Captain, I will not hold it against you. Do you remember the words I said to you back on the steps of the Event Center?" Izroth commented.
〔Flashback〕
"Light and darkness are usually never far from one another. Since your circumstances are set, you can only do your best to make the most of them." (Izroth)
"Until you decide on how to do that, you are welcome to accompany me, 'Lieutenant Maeva'," (Izroth)
A look of astonishment found its way onto Maeva's face. Before she knew it, her lips had curved into a smile, and the hesitation in her eyes had vanished without a trace.
"I've decided—please allow me to join the Resource Management Division, Commander Aurie," Maeva requested.
She faced Izroth and continued, "I am grateful to you, and although our travel together was short-lived, it was an enlightening experience. But, I know that my skills will flourish under the Resource Management Division. In this way, not only will I improve myself, but also become a larger asset to the Mystical Realm Palace."
Maeva did not want to become someone who depended solely on Izroth to advance in the event. If she remained with him, Maeva believed that there would be no shortage of potential opportunities, especially considering what he told her about that realm with those Shadahi creatures.
But, Maeva knew those achievements would not belong to her. In the end, she would end up being no more than Izroth's shadow—this was not something she desired.
Izroth gave a small nod of agreement as he replied, "You are a member of my Mystical Realm Palace. Not only do you have its full support, but mine as well."
Even though Izroth would not have held anything against Maeva, his opinion of her would have lowered some if she chose to stay in the GSU. A fish was meant to swim and a bird to fly. In this case, Maeva was the bird, and the Resource Management Division was her sky to soar to new heights. Right now, she was a bird trying to swim in an ocean that was the GSU.
Izroth was no mind reader, but one would have to be blind not to understand what was going through her mind. If she passed up this chance for growth over such an insignificant reason, her priorities would have fallen out of order. After all, one should never stunt their own development for the sake of keeping others happy. That type of person—Izroth was not interested in having them as part of his Mystical Realm Palace.
"Then, it's settled. Since you're joining the Resource Management Division instead of the War Brigade, I'll have to send in a transfer notice. It should take around an hour to complete. Until then, you should stay close. You will have to return your insignia to the GSU's Xanaharpe base of operations and pick up your new one from the Resource Management Division headquarters at the outpost." Aurie explained.
After going over a few essential details regarding the transfer of war branches with Maeva, Aurie shifted her attention back to Izroth.
"What will you do now, Captain Izroth? Since things have quieted down here, I doubt you'll be sticking around." Aurie inquired.
"I have not been in the Commander's company long, yet you seem to already know me so well. Indeed, I will be taking my leave from the Unsanctioned Zone and head towards the Demilitarization Belt situated between Tempest and Rosentarus. Though I suppose it can't be called that anymore now that there's a war going on." Izroth responded.
"You're headed to the frontlines so soon?" Aurie knew that with his talent, Izroth would make his way there eventually, but not this early in the war.
"Yes. Though it is related to a personal matter I need to take care of. You can say that I have a few heads I need to hunt." Izroth answered nonchalantly.
A few moments later...
Izroth sat alone at a small table inside of a tent. While the space it provided was smaller than the one Aurie used, its size was decent and did not leave one feeling uncomfortable.
Izroth requested the use of this private tent from Aurie, and she gladly made the proper arrangements. After everything he did today, how could she deny him such a simple request?
As for Maeva, she parted ways with Izroth and went to Xanaharpe to return her GSU insignia.
'It has been some time since I've journeyed alone. But, considering what I intend to do next, it's probably for the best. For now...'
Izroth looked down at the table in front of him. On its surface were the two items he received from the system after completing the dreamworld.
The first item was a transparent crystal a little more than thirty centimeters in length called a Spirit Awakening Contract Crystal.
'Interesting. Aren't these the same crystals that summoners use to form a Pseudo-Soul Contract with a spirit? However, it's certainly abnormal. A standard Contract Crystal is only the size of a finger, but this one is several times larger. It also has Spirit Awakening in its name, something I have not seen before. As for the other item-'
The second item Izroth acquired was a palm-sized orb with specks of blue energy particles dancing within its confines. This item was called the Essence of a Great Spirit.
'I didn't expect to find one here of all places. It's the first time I've obtained one for my own use.'
There were two ways to increase the power of one's Source. The easiest and most commonly used method was the Source Chant, while the other involved obtaining a treasure birthed and formed from the world. To Izroth's surprise, the Essence of a Great Spirit was such a treasure!
It could not compare or come anywhere close to what a page from the Book of Beginnings was able to offer, but it was still a treasure of the world.
'This will be my first experience consuming something like the Essence of a Great Spirit to develop my Source. I wonder how great its effects will be. I suppose there's only one way to find out.'
Izroth placed his hand onto the small orb as the blue energy within it spiraled into a vortex before quickly rushing out of the orb and into Izroth's hand!
The energy rapidly spread throughout his entire body as a refreshing and cool feeling washed over Izroth.
'What gentle energy. It's like dipping into a cool spring after a long hot summer's day.'
〈System Alert: You are absorbing the natural energies carried within the «Essence of a Great Spirit» at an efficiency of 20%!〉
〈System Alert: The effect of your trait «Perfect Source Compatibility» has been activated! Absorption efficiency has increased to 100%!〉
〈System Alert: Your Essence is steadily increasing...〉
〈System Alert: Your rate of Essence Regeneration is steadily increasing...〉
Although it said steadily, Izroth could physically feel the Essence in his body expanding at an insane rate. In just a few seconds, his Source Stage actually ascended to the next level!
〈System Alert: Your Source Stage has increased to 2.〉
But, it did not stop there. Izroth's Essence continued to grow as it devoured every last drop of the energy that was contained within the Essence of a Great Spirit.
Then, just as the final bit of natural energy merged with Izroth, his Source Stage rose yet another level!
〈System Alert: All natural energies have been absorbed.〉
In the blink of an eye, Izroth's Source Stage had not risen by one, but two levels—nearly doubling his Essence and Essence Regeneration in the process!
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LeBron James calls Westbrook 'one of the most loyal people I know'
After a heated exchange between Russell Westbrook and a Utah Jazz fan on Monday sent shock waves throughout the NBA, many players have come out in support of Westbrook.
The underlying issue that most agree with is there needs to be better protection for players from the harsh language often said from fans close to the action.
Westbrook said on Monday that the fan and his wife each yelled at him to “get back on his knees” while he was near the team bench area. Westbrook called the comments “disrespectful” and “racial.”
The fan refuted those claims by Westbrook and said he instead told Westbrook to sit down and ice his knees, referring to the ice packs he was wearing on his knees.
A video captured by Jazz beat writer Eric Woodyard of The Deseret News showed Westbrook cursing at the fan and his wife. Westbrook threatened the fan in question and his wife for their vulgar language.
The Jazz on Tuesday agreed with Westbrook after the organization announced that it has placed a permanent ban on that fan from all events at Vivint Smart Home Arena.
“The organization conducted an investigation through video review and eyewitness accounts,” the statement read. “The ban is based on excessive and derogatory verbal abuse directed at a player during the game that violated the NBA Code of Conduct.”
Several players have supported Westbrook in the aftermath of the incident, including teammates Patrick Patterson and Raymond Felton, Dwyane Wade and Donovan Mitchell among others.
LeBron James joined that group on Tuesday night by defending Westbrook after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Chicago Bulls. He addressed the situation with reporters.
As bad as social media is, the good thing about social media came out when they went through everything that [the fan] has said about Russ, said about other people in his little timeline.
Obviously, Russ is a very passionate guy but Russ is married with three kids, a set of twins. No matter if you like him or love him or the way that he plays the game, the guy is one of the most loyal people that I know; one of the most down to earth guys that I know. That guy just took it too far on the other end.
There could have been some words Russ could have said a little bit different but at the end of the day, he was in the right, that guy was in the wrong. Stand up and I salute the Utah Jazz with their organization for doing what they did and we move forward.
Fans I understand that they pay their hard-earned money to watch our beautiful game and watch our beautiful players and I respect that but there is a fine line when you go to the disrespectful side on talking about, ‘Am I cheering my team on? Am I heckling the opposing guy? Or am I crossing the line?’ That line is very bold and everyone knows when you’re crossing the line.
On Russell Westbrook and the fan in Utah, LeBron James supports Westbrook and the Jazz for banning the fan. He added there’s a bold line, not a fine line, between cheering for your team and being disrespectful. “Everyone knows when you’re crossing that line.” pic.twitter.com/XiCEZcaWdw
— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) March 13, 2019
The NBA fined Westbrook $25,000 on Tuesday for directing profanity and threatening language to a fan but did not offer a statement beyond their decision to dock Westbrook money.
Many around the game are hopeful the incident on Monday can shed some light on the issues that players face from some fans. Mitchell issued a statement and vowed to end all hate speech and racism for players.
While the Jazz have been commended for acting quickly to investigate the matter and ban the fan, many are calling for security in all arenas to be heightened in recognizing these potential problem areas.
The league has been proactive in the past on several social issues and it evident that they will need to devise a zero-tolerance policy on unruly fans in an attempt to better protect their players.
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Russell Westbrook named 2019 NBPA Freshest Award winner
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On Tuesday, the National Basketball Players Association announced their list of 2019 award winners on Twitter.
While some of the awards presented have to do with efforts on the floor — like Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo being named the NBPA MVP and Boston Celtics forward Gordon Hayward earning NBPA Comeback Player of the Year honors — others had to do with things off of the court. Houston Rockets forward P.J. Tucker was the NBPA Sneaker Champion and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James received the NBPA Best Side Hustle Award and was named the NBPA People’s Champion.
Another off-the-court award was the NBPA Freshest Award, which related to a player’s fashion. This was bestowed upon Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, who’s known throughout the league for both his play and attire.
It’s a bird. It’s a plane…it’s the flyest player in the game. Presented by @Isaianapoli, it’s @Russwest44, the 2019 NBPA Freshest Award winner. 👕🕶
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Westbrook could retain the honor in 2020, too. After Oklahoma City’s 2019 playoff run came to an end, Westbrook went to France and took in the Acne Studios Menswear Spring Summer 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.
🤫 …shhh…it’s that time…. #pfw #whynot
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Keep it down Russ…🤫 #whynot #pfw
A post shared by Russell Westbrook (@russwest44) on Jun 20, 2019 at 9:28am PDT
@honorthegift 🤫🤫 #whynot #pfw
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However, it’s looking less and less likely he’ll win the award at the end of 2019-20 as a member of the Thunder, with Westbrook now being made available in trade discussions.
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We have to distinguish between two types of atheism, negative and positive. The former type of atheist is simply apathetic: he doesn't pretend to know and pretends not to care. It is a fundamentally unserious view of life, and not worthy of Homo sapiens sapiens, AKA the doublewise homo. We won't spend any more time on him. He's not even clever enough to be wrong.
Positive atheism makes the bolder and more grandiose claim that God definitely does not exist. Of course, it depends upon what the atheist means by "God." Generally speaking, nor do we believe in the atheist's conception of God, but we'll leave that to the side.
What? Have you been listening to the Bob's story? You have no frame of reference, do you?
I'll say it one more time: we are immersed in the unpleasant and thankless task of reconciling the pure Darwinism -- or evolutionary psychology, to be precise -- of The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, with the pure Thomism of Introduction to the Science of Mental Health. Both of these cannot possibly be true, at least not in the same way.
By the way, which book is the more difficult? Which requires more brainpower, both to read and write? No contest: anyone with a room temperature IQ can comprehend the mechanism of natural selection. After all it has only three moving parts: genetic variation, differential reproduction, and survival. According to this view, every human trait is a consequence of this trinity.
Well, not exactly, for any number of traits slip through the net of natural selection. In other words, just because a trait survives and persists, we can't necessarily say it was adaptive to a particular environment. Noses weren't selected to hold up eyeglasses, and all that.
Anyway, the big black book of Thomism is much more challenging. The WEIRD book is just tedious and predictable. It very much brings to mind a number of apt observations by the Aphorist:
Science easily degrades into fools’ mythology.
To believe that science is enough is the most naïve of superstitions.
The natural sciences can be adequately cultivated by slaves; the cultivation of the social sciences requires free men.
Scientific ideas allow themselves to be easily depraved by coarse minds.
In this context, Henrich is like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie and wants to know what it's about. He's out of his element!
Really, he wants to have it both ways; he wants to have his crock and eat it too. What I mean is that he acknowledges the centrality of Christianity in laying the groundwork for our WEIRDness -- our Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic civilization -- but wants to pretend it's all just a random genetic aberration. As Professor Backflap puts it,
Henrich reveals how the Roman Catholic Church unintentionally shifted people's psychology, and the trajectory of Western civilization, by transforming the most fundamental off human institutions: those related to marriage and kinship. It was these social and psychological changes in Europe that... [laid] the foundation for the modern world (emphasis mine).
Unintentionally? The Church was trying to make the world a worse place?
Bear in mind that biology cannot evaluate whether or not the changes wrought by the Church were Good Things. Rather, they're only Things. Biology is descriptive, not prescriptive. It describes what is, not what ought to be. Ought Henrich avoid such breathtakingly simplistic and anti-intellectual generalizations? Biology can't say.
A few years ago we wrote a series of posts on an excellent book called Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. As I recall, it tills much of the same ground as does The WEIRDest, only without the fanciful attempt to squeeze it all into a scientistic bed of genetic reductionism.
What I want to ask is: who is the anti-intellectual here? Henrich? Or St. Thomas? Who is the more generous, the more curious, the more open-minded, the more humanistic? The less dogmatic, narrow-minded, and doctrinaire? The questions answer themselves.
Although Christianity is responsible for our progress from premodern anonymity to modern individuality, from tyranny to democracy, and from subsistence to abundance, here is the sum-total of what Henrich knows about religion and God (for if this is all he knows, this is all he can know, i.e., it is a frank confession of total ignorance):
Just to be clear, I'm not praising either world religions or big gods. To me, they are simply another interesting class of cultural phenomena that demands explanation.... These beliefs evolved not because they are accurate representations of reality but because they help communities, organizations, and societies beat their competitors.
Oh. I was wondering why sociobiology evolved. Henrich's ideas are so adaptive, he must have like a dozen children!
Back to one of our main points: which is the more capacious metaphysic? Which has more explanatory power? Well, by definition the theistic view does, since there can be nothing more capacious than God. My God is always larger than your godlessness.
I'm going to briefly switch gears to overdrive and see what Fr. Spitzer has to say about the subject:
At first glance there appears to be a conflict between the Bible and evolutionary theory. The Bible suggests that human beings are a special creation of God independent of other biological species....
However, the theory of evolution suggests that human beings did come from an evolutionary progression. Can the two be reconciled?
Not only can they be reconciled, they must be reconciled. It is only for us to understand how. In other words, the reconciliation already exists. It not only precedes us, but is a necessary condition for the very possibility of science. You are free to drain the world of transcendence, but doing so necessarily drains it of both immaterial knowledge and the transphysical knower. Spitzer:
The Bible is making the theological point in Genesis that human beings were created as distinct from the animals and “made in the image and likeness of God.” Can these two theological truths be consistent with the truth of evolution?
Yes -- so long as we hold that human beings are not only biological organisms (subject to an evolutionary process), but have a unique transphysical soul individually created by God.
Is the existence of the soul in any way inconsistent with natural selection? Of course not, any more than is the existence of music, poetry, painting, and science. Obviously, evolution does not "create" transcendence. And it certainly doesn't prevent it, or I'm not typing this sentence and you're not understanding it. Spitzer:
the soul cannot be reduced to any physical or biological structure or process.... Can Catholics believe that the physical-biological part of human beings evolved from other species? Yes. Can they believe that even the cerebral cortex came from an evolutionary process -- from homo-erectus to Neanderthal to homo-sapien? Yes.
Is there a problem? Not for us. The more truth, the merrier: "Catholics should always seek the truth, for there can be no contradiction between reason and faith. As St. Thomas Aquinas implied -- how can there be a contradiction?" There can only be a contradiction if we get things out of order. Beginning with our own minds.
I commend this essay to readers: How the Great Truth Dawned, by Gary Saul Morson. It is surprisingly relevant to the Current Project in a number of ways, beginning with the importance of narrative as vehicle for truth:
Novels of ideas... exhibit a masterplot: a hero or heroine devoted to an idea discovers that reality is much more complex than the idea allows.
For example, a materialist believes that love is nothing but physiology and that individual people differ no more than frogs, yet he falls deeply in love with a particular woman (the plot of Turgenev’s Fathers and Children). A moralist asserts that only actions, not wishes, have moral value, yet winds up consumed by guilt for a murder he has fostered only by his wish for it (the plot of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov)....
As mentioned in the previous post, our Current Project involves the reconciliation of evolutionary and Thomistic psychologies -- where they converge, where they diverge, and where only one can possibly walk out alive. This cosmos -- no cosmos -- is big enough for two ultimate truths.
If I were a novelist, perhaps I'd write a story of a strict sociobiologist who insists that love is nothing but a deception of the genes to trick us into reproducing, yet falls deeply in love with a particular woman. Only then does he discover a reality that transcends his little ideology, and that frogs and persons aren't of equal value and significance.
On an even deeper level, I wonder if the biblical narrative -- the arc of salvation that spans from creation to the beatific vision -- isn't a bug but a feature? In other words, this metastory not only must be told in history, but with history. What if history is made of truth -- the truth of fall and redemption?
I have a note to myself: consequences of Darwinism. Suffice it to say that no Darwinist actually thinks and lives the consequences of his ideology. Indeed, if he takes them seriously, he could under no circumstances take them seriously, because they abolish the very possibility of knowing truth. Only a sociopath could be an intellectually and morally consistent Darwinian.
Volodin recalls Epicurus’s words: “Our inner feelings of satisfaction and dissatisfaction are the highest criteria of good and evil,” and only now does he understand them. “Now it was clear: Whatever gives me pleasure is good; what displeases me is bad. Stalin, for instance, enjoyed killing people -- so that, for him, was good?”
How wise such philosophy seems to a free person! But for Volodin, good and evil are now distinct entities. “His struggle and suffering had raised him to a height from which the great materialist’s wisdom seemed like the prattle of a child.”
Similarly, compared to St. Thomas, the wisdom of evolutionary psychology seems like the prattle of a child.
Solzhenitsyn explains: “To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.... it is in the nature of a human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
Here again, a strict Darwinian can never speak of natural law or of a transcendent human nature.
Why is it, Solzhenitsyn asks, that Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses, while Lenin and Stalin did in millions? The answer is that Macbeth and Iago “had no ideology.” Ideology makes the killer and torturer an agent of good, “so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.” Ideology never achieved such power and scale before the twentieth century.
How does the ideology of Darwinism explain this? More to the point, from the perspective of Darwinism, on what basis can we say that Stalin and his ideology are evil?
Anyone can succumb to ideology. All it takes is a sense of one’s own moral superiority for being on the right side; a theory that purports to explain everything; and -- this is crucial -- a principled refusal to see things from the point of view of one’s opponents or victims, lest one be tainted by their evil viewpoint.
If we remember that totalitarians and terrorists think of themselves as warriors for justice, we can appreciate how good people can join them.
Ideologies have consequences. The consequences of atheism are absolutely ruinous:
Bolshevik ethics explicitly began and ended with atheism. Only someone who rejected all religious or quasi-religious morals could be a Bolshevik because, as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and other Bolshevik leaders insisted, the only standard of right and wrong was success for the Party.
The bourgeoisie falsely claim we have no ethics, Lenin explained.... But what we reject is any ethics based on God’s commandments or anything resembling them, such as abstract principles, timeless values, universal human rights, or any tenet of philosophical idealism. For a true materialist, Lenin maintained, there can be no Kantian categorical imperative to regard others only as ends, not as means.
Each of our lives is a narrative, a story. Indeed, how could human life even be conceived if not as an unfolding drama? But what is the drama about? Does it point to a telos beyond itself, or is it only about the past -- about our past adaptations to this or that contingent environment? Can it really be about nothing other than selfish genes, or class warfare, or the elimination of people with white privilege?
Kopelev, Solzhenitsyn, and others describe the key event of their life as the discovery that just as the universe contains causal laws it also contains moral laws. Bolshevik horror derived from the opposite view: that there is nothing inexplicable in materialist terms and that the only moral standard is political success.
Project 2 + 2 = 5
Just for metaphysical kicks & giggles, I'm reading two books that represent opposite sides of the spectrum, after which I will try to reconcile them and thereby fashion a daring jailbreak from a supposedly inescapable, ultra-postmodern ideological prison surrounded by impenetrable and crock-solid walls of pure nothingness!
The first is the unwieldy and dryasdust Introduction to the Science of Mental Health, which exhaustively and exhaustingly lays out the Christian/Thomistic view of our predicament. I'm about halfway through with that one. It's somewhat slow-going, like reading a medication insert that goes on forever.
The second is called The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. I'm only 20 pages into this one, which comes at it -- or us, rather -- from a strictly evolutionary standpoint.
Now, both of these can't be true. And yet, let's assume they are. How can this be? We can't simultaneously have a universal human nature if what we call "human nature" is just a contingent adaptation to everchanging environmental circumstances. Can we?
The challenge is in figuring out how both perspectives can possibly be true. Of course, there are levels of truth, so that's one way to pull it off. Still, we want details: how exactly can contradictory truths be true on a deeper or higher level?
So, that's what we're working on at the moment, and I first have to get further into the books before putting them into the cosmic blender. And as usual, I have other responsibilities gumming up the works, including my dreaded semiannual continuing education requirements and the upcoming MLB playoffs.
Therefore, if things are a bit slow around here, that's my excuse. I'll leave off with a few aphorisms which may point the way upward and provide a bit of preluminary light for the journey:
Two contradictory philosophical theses complete each other, but only God knows how.
Every truth is a tension between contradictory evidences that claim our simultaneous allegiance.
Truths do not contradict each other except when they get out of order.
It is not the false idea that is the dangerous one, but the partially correct one.
The philosopher who adopts scientific notions has predetermined his conclusions.
There are sciences that can be taught and others we can only learn. Natural sciences, social sciences.
Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence
Science, when it finishes explaining everything, but being unable to explain the consciousness that creates it, will not have explained anything.
Without philosophy, the sciences do not know what they know.
The Christian who is disturbed by the “results” of science does not know what Christianity is or what science is.
The doctrines that explain the higher by means of the lower are appendices of a magician’s rule book (Dávila).
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Book Review| September 01 2000
Review: Architecture in the United States by Dell Upton
Architecture in the United States
Dennis Domer
Dennis Domer; Review: Architecture in the United States by Dell Upton. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2000; 59 (3): 411–413. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/991667
Copyright 2000 The Society of Architectural Historians
Bottom-Up Postmodernism: Unauthorized Church Architecture in Socialist Poland
A Triumphal Arch for the Count of Moctezuma: Architectural Poetics and Artistic Competition at the Cathedral of Mexico City, ca. 1670–1700
The National Computing Centre: “White Heat,” Modernization, and Postwar Manchester
Review: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Critical Reconsideration, edited by Matthew A. Cohen and Maarten Delbeke
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Party time in Amsterdam with The Local Spastics and DEATH ALLEY
On February 8th 2014 in celebration of the release of the OBEY X Suicidal Tendencies collection we threw a party in Amsterdam. At Ludwig nightclub we had live performances by Death Alley and The Local Spastics accompanied by DJ’s Father Futureback and Hugo (Red Light Radio). The place was packed and things got pretty wild.
The Local Spastics is a young punk rock band that started around 2010. After a first demo that takes you back to the sound of seventies punk and reminds you of bands like The Dead Boys, The stooges and FEAR, the trio quickly built up quite a reputation with their aggressive live shows, politically incorrect behavior and sarcastic lyrics. Dozens of shows follow in and out of the Netherlands. Playing In squats and on festivals, with bands like Reagan Youth, Gewapend Beton and Aux Raus.
Fresh from the basements of Amsterdam, DEATH ALLEY is here to show you a serious musical rock’n roll statement. DEATH ALLEY combines ingenious but blistering guitar parts with and intensity of drumming that justifies the present-day existence of John Bonham’s Vista-Lite drum kit. Drums, guitar and the thundering bass riffs are topped off with husky vocals that remind you of nothing. The New Wave of Dutch Loudness gave birth to not just another band. No, thriving on the sharp edges of Motörhead’s rock and roll, soaked in MC5-fuelled protopunk and forged with Sabbath’s edginess, DEATH ALLEY brings a unique swinging rawness that savours of Blue Öyster Cult on steroids.
OBEY X SUICIDAL TENDENCIES RELEASE PARTY AMSTERDAM from OBEY CLOTHING on Vimeo.
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Home News British Cemetery Ceremony honors ‘the bravest little ships’
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British Cemetery Ceremony honors ‘the bravest little ships’
A memorial marker at the Ocracoke British Cemetery lists the names of the Bedfordshire fallen. The wreath at right is from the American and Royal Legion Riders. Photo: C. Leinbach
By Connie Leinbach
The Royal Navy Patrol, of which the ill-fated HMT Bedfordshire was a part, put itself in harm’s way before any of the other allied ships off the coast here in WWII.
“They were the Navy within the Navy,” said Richard Eagles of Margate, Fla., and formerly of England, who for the last several years has represented the Patrol at the annual British Cemetery Memorial service that honors the four sailors from that ship buried on Ocracoke.
Called “Harry Tate’s Navy,” these trawlers aggressively hunted submarines.
“They weren’t given military uniforms,” he said.
The ceremony, at this little piece of England beside Teeter’s Campground, this year on Friday (May 11) was on the same day 76 years ago in 1942 that the Bedfordshire and its crew of 37 was destroyed by a German U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic, a campaign from 1939 to 1945 over tens of thousands of miles, said Commodore Martin Connell, the British attaché based in Washington, D.C.
Commodore Martin Connell, the British attaché based in Washington, D.C., right, talks with fellow Brits and first-time ceremony visitors Margaret Williamson and Susan Jarvis. Photo: C. Leinbach
The Bedfordshire was one of 24 trawlers pressed into the Patrol as advance-guard mine sweepers and escorts for British supply ships.
“The Royal Navy didn’t care if they lost a trawler,” Eagles said in an interview after the ceremony. “Where the (Navy) fleet went, the mine sweepers had already been there.”
Eagles’ connection to the Patrol is that his uncle, Jeffery Palmer of England, was a member, though he was not on the Bedfordshire.
“These men were seamen before they were sailors,” Eagles said. “They fished for fish and fished for mines and they were very good at it.”
Staged in Canada, the trawlers sailed along the eastern Atlantic in the first six months of 1942 during the height of the Paukenschlag Offensive, or, “Operation Drumbeat.”
German U-boats stalked offshore from New York to Florida and sank nearly 400 largely unarmed merchant vessels, hampering the delivery of food and war supplies from England.
On May 11, 1942, the German U-boat U-558, fired three torpedoes at the Bedfordshire. The third torpedo struck the vessel amidships killing everyone on board.
Of the four British sailors interred here, Ordinary Telegraphist Second Class Stanley R. Craig is the other known sailor. Two other bodies were discovered a week later at the north end of the island. Though never identified, it was assumed they were from the Bedfordshire.
Commander Mark Lister, senior British officer at the Naval Ocean Processing Facility in Dam Neck, Va., gives an impromtu lesson on the Bedforshire history to a group of day visitors to Ocracoke. Photo: C. Leinbach
All four sailors were interred on land donated by Alice Wahab Williams. Ocracoke has commemorated these sailors every year since 1942.
“They were the bravest little ships,” Commander Mark Lister, senior British officer at the Naval Ocean Processing Facility in Dam Neck, Va., told a group of eight women from Athens, Ohio, about the trawler patrol.
The women were staying in Hatteras, and, while visiting Ocracoke for the day, happened upon the ceremony, said Kay Perkins about the group.
“They were the slowest,” Lister said about the trawlers. “They were outgunned and out-maneuvered, yet they still went out into the deep water and became targets.”
The Battle of the Atlantic was a seminal event, Capt. Dermott Mulholland, the Canadian Forces Naval attaché, said during the ceremony. “These ships were the workhorses. They defeated the U-boat menace. These young men gave their lives in the defense of freedom.”
Susan Jarvis of New Bern, formerly of England, and her visiting friend Margaret Williamson of London, also happened upon the ceremony during their visit to the island.
They hadn’t known about this part of WWII, though Williamson said she remembered the Germans dropping bombs near her home in Darbyshire when she was 1 year old.
“It was very moving,” Williamson said of the ceremony, echoing others about this little-known aspect of WWII.
New to the ceremony last year, the American Legion Riders, a group of veterans who ride their Harley Davidson motorcycles around the country to honor military veterans, again brought water from England for a “Blending of International waters” during the ceremony.
Andrew W. Johnson, a Marine Corps veteran Fredericksburg, Va., and group leader, said a relative of one of the British riders obtained two ounces of sea water off the coast of England where the Bedfordshire was launched.
Capt. Dermott Mulholland, the Canadian Forces Naval attaché, salutes the wreath commemorating the Canadian WWII effort. Photo: C. Leinbach
“It was hand carried by four guys before I got it,” Johnson said.
On their way to Ocracoke, the group gathered water from Cape Hatteras, off which the Bedfordshire sank, and blended the two together before sprinkling the water on a commemorative wreath laid at the headstone listing all the lost personnel of the Bedfordshire.
Ocracoke School seniors Liam Caswell read the story of the sinking of the Bedfordshire and Lupita Martinez read the roll call of personnel.
Following the ceremony, members of the Royal Naval Tot Club of Antigua Barbuda, drank a finger, or “tot,” of Royal Navy Pusser’s Rum.
Each day, the Bedfordshire sailors had a specific toast, Capt. Joe Karpinski told the crowd of close to 200 attendees.
“On Friday, their toast was ‘To a willing foe and sea room and the Queen, God bless her,’” he said.
A daily ration of rum was part of the Bedforshire crew’s pay, Eagles noted.
The U.S. War Graves Commission oversees the cemeteries and the Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras, represented by Danny Couch of Hatteras, president, coordinates the Ocracoke event and the one in Buxton the day before that honors two unknown sailors buried there from the San Delfino, another trawler sunk in May 1942.
In addition to the representatives from England and Canada, members of the U.S. Coast Guard included CWO Joshua Figueredo, master of ceremonies, Lt. Matthew Shepard, chaplain, and Commander Javier Delgado.
Ocracoke Islander Crystal Canterbury, who coordinates the Ocracoke event, enlisted about 20 volunteers to help with everything from tidying up the cemetery to helping with the reception.
Richard Eagles, representing the Royal Navy Patrol, of which the Bedfordshire was a part, blesses the wreath for the fallen. Photo: C. Leinbach
Attendees at the 2018 British Cemetery Ceremony. Photo: C. Leinbach
U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band begins the ceremony followed by the U.S. Coast Guard Honor Guard who performs the 21-gun salute after the ceremony. Photo: C. Leinbach
The American and British Royal Legion Riders blend water from England and Cape Hatteras to commemorate the WWII fallen. Photo: C. Leinbach
Members of the Royal Tot Club of Antigua Barbuda quaff a ‘tot’ of rum to honor the Bedfordshire crew. Photo: C. Leinbach
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johntjeffery May 15, 2018 At 8:13 am
This is one place on Ocracoke that I intentionally come to each time I visit the island. I have had the opportunity to educate two other generations of our family there about this hallowed ground, and the significance of leaving coins there. Perhaps one day I will make it to the ceremony.
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OCR04137 - *YES* Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword & Breath of the Wild "Treading the Maze of Trials"
By Rexy,
December 12, 2019 in Judges Decisions
Rexy
Judge, Project Chaos Asst. Director
RebeccaETripp
Rebecca Tripp
http://www.crystalechosound.com/
Game(s): Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild
Song Title: Treading the Maze of Trials
Songs Remixed: Sealed Grounds, Sheikah Tower
Gamer of the Winds helped with this one as well!
MindWanderer
I'm a bit torn on this one. On one hand, it does a nice job of mimicking the minimalistic style of the source material and expanding upon it with some different instrumentation and substantial riffing. On the other hand, it's five and a half minutes that don't have a whole lot of variation. In particular there are a couple of simple motifs that are repeated over and over again, and they really start to grate by about the 3:35 mark.
I keep going back and forth on this one. Sometimes I find myself paying close attention to some clever interplay, other times I'm tuning out or getting actively irritated by the repetitive elements. I'll come back to it later.
prophetik music
Judge, Chronopolis/Thieves of Fate/Threshold of a Dream Director
nearly 5db headroom.
there's some fun instrumentation in this one. i found that most of the performances by instruments that weren't live were pretty robotic - the marimba was the main culprit here, there's just no variation on attacks, but the sustained cello (?) was also pretty bland. beyond that, i also thought it had some nice interplay in the parts until around 3:35, like MW thought. at that point the harpsichord was really starting to bother me as well, but the change in the context was welcome and really a great contrast to the first several minutes. as a whole, though, the arrangement was actually real solid i thought. it doesn't ever actually repeat the same thing from what i heard, and i'm comfortable saying that the variations are enough to get it over the bar.
from a mastering perspective, aside from the headroom, i thought it was fairly nuanced in the volumization across the board, and i liked the soundscape. the chuff pad could have easily blown everything away with all that white noise but it never was too much.
i think this one does enough. i'll agree that it's not perfect and it's probably too long for the amount of content it has, but overall i think it definitely clears the bar.
As is the norm with Rebecca's submissions, the modifications to the sources are simple but effective. The structure is simply two run-throughs of Sealed Grounds, an original bridge and a singular push through Sheikah Tower, so no integration between either of them - but the number of additional background instruments more than make up for it. I also like how Greg got free reign to add more to the flute's notation during that second loop - it felt like the melody walked between the lines of original content and source changeup, and that is a big plus in my book. If I have to be honest, though, I felt the addition of Sheikah Tower at the end got slapped on for no reason - but the smooth transition between the two sources accommodated its presence anyway, so it's not too much of a big deal.
The production is also clean and well-balanced, so no problems with anything clashing. I also feel the headroom works well for the sound palette - it's supposed to feel delicate, so I'm okay with a 5dB gap. But just like with prophetik, my main concern is with the articulations behind a handful of synthetic instruments. I concur with the critique on the cello and mallets, but I also feel the panpipes stick out too. The held legato notes - with the biggest offender at 3:31 - felt stiff and sound like they used more air than a human can naturally breathe in, plus the attacks leave little transition room from pipe to pipe.
In this context, the articulations aren't what I consider dealbreakers, as the track did a lot more right in the arrangement, balance and performance values to bring it over the bar. I wouldn't call it one of Rebecca's more elaborate works, but it is one of Greg's best contributions and is worth checking out on that merit alone. Great job to both of you!
Edited August 23, 2020 by Rexy
May 14 Rexy changed the title to 2019/01/20 - (2Y/1?) Legend of Zelda: SS & BotW "Treading the Maze of Trials"
Chimpazilla
Judge, Esther's Dreams Co-Director
Yep, another mix with huge headroom. Other than that, I really like the instrumentation used in this conservative mix. I particularly like the low breathy instrument paired with the mallets, flute and harpsichord, the contrast is just lovely. I find plenty of variation from the source including lots of Rebecca's signature flourishes. I think the two themes transition well. The track is simple yet effective, a relaxing and fun listen.
Sep 2 Chimpazilla changed the title to 2019/01/20 - (3Y/1?) Legend of Zelda: SS & BotW "Treading the Maze of Trials"
Emunator
Judge, Double the Trouble! Director
For the most part, I felt like this arrangement played well to Rebecca's strengths as an arranger - as Kris mentioned, the interplay between the shorter staccato instruments like the marimba and harpsichord and the more expressive flute legatos, courtesy of Gamer of the Winds, sounds really fabulous. Overall, this is a really breathy, spacious arrangement that expands nicely on the sources.
I wish there was a bit more bite to the harpsichord on the production side, and the velocity work on the marimba is less than ideal. I also found the reverb levels to be lower than I would have liked on an arrangement with this much space between the instruments. However, this definitely gets the majority of things right and I'm happy to sign off on this. Nice work!
Oct 5 Liontamer changed the title to OCR04137 - *YES* Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword & Breath of the Wild "Treading the Maze of Trials"
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What will it take to awaken us to the "impending danger"?
Catte Black
by Catte
The semi-dormant war for the future of Donbass/Eastern Ukraine has been sputtering back to life since June, as is being reported by both sides. Ukrinform cites a UN report alleging the “highest number of civilian casualties” in Donbass since “August 2015”. Fort Russ has been repeatedly reporting shelling of Donbass regions by the UAF (Ukrainian Armed Forces), targeting “infrastructure and civilians.” Meanwhile Interfax Ukraine is claiming the UAF has itself come under essentially unprovoked fire from “militants”.
Is the recent spate of violence in the region just a passing thing, or is it a sign the Washington Uber-Hawk response to loss of face and direction in Syria is going to be – not a reality check – but a renewed attempt to ignite wider conflict? Are we pivoting back to the pincer-movement so often talked about, a final and crazed attempt to imprison Russia between a burning Ukraine and a burning Middle East?
The western media is – predictably – largely ignoring these developments. The corporate outlets universally upholds the line that Russia deserves renewed sanctions for its alleged “failure” to implement Minsk2 (even though Russia is not a party to the agreement) and its alleged reluctance to put pressure on Donbass to implement the agreement. But they fail to record either the alleged violation of the ceasefire by the UAF and the civilian deaths that result, or the Kiev government’s own reluctance to accede to the requirements of the deal, most notably its total failure to support or facilitate the holding of elections in the region.
If/when renewed war does break out in Donbass expect to see the Guardian et al offer up the usual soundbite intelligence-propaganda, devoid of content, informing docile readers that it’s all the fault of Vladimir Putin and his “territorial ambitions,” while continuing to airbrush out of existence the violations and incursions of the side we are supposed to support.
But how much longer can this go on? With the current NATO summit preaching the need to “reinforce eastern Poland & the Baltic states against Russia,, the recent unprecedented NATO drills on Russia’s borders, and as the US places its pre-emptive-strike “missile defence shields” in Poland, Romania and South Korea how will even the most sanguine or self-delusional mainstream journalists be able to avoid asking themselves where this is going? How long can they continue to brush off Russian fears as “anger” or “paranoia”? How long until they realise that what Russia fears should frighten all of us?
It would be good to know if there are any brakes on this war-wagon the human race has been herded aboard. But even if there are, who’s going to apply them if the Labour Party is lost in internecine warfare with its own right wing that clearly would rather be dead than democratic? What help can we expect from a “quality press” busy re-blogging Langley talking points, wittering about identity politics or faux feminist “issues”, hawking their books about how absolutely horrid Russia is because reasons, or giving space to witless foreign ministers celebrating the drift to Armageddon? What will it take to make these people realise they – like all of humanity – will be in the front line of this particular conflict if it ever ignites, and not just cheering on the action from the Houses of Parliament or filing embedded updates from the cosy safety of a hotel bar 100 miles from the nearest death zone.
“I don’t know how to get through to you people” Putin told assembled reps of the corporate western media recently, in an impassioned explication of the current insanity. He talked about the real purpose of the “missile defence” program and how, inevitably, if nothing changes, there will be a catastrophic war. The corporate journos stared back, glazed, ever so slightly bewildered.
And so far as I can tell not a single one of them reported what he said.
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Oldan Sceptical
Might there be a war? If we don’t watch out we could maybe perhaps find ourselves in the vicinity of the edge of the slippery slope (or the greasy pole?) that perhaps leads to some sort of conflict that might possibly be termed “war”? Which could maybe lead to war war? Like with big atomic bombs and such? Aw phooey! Right now we are at war with Russian and China. Blood has been spilled. Armies have been sent abroad. Boots are on the ground. It’s time for us to pull our heads out of the sand and look around. World War III underway right now! The submarines are out there, loaded with nuclear death! Ah, but ignorance is bliss, isn’t it. Let’s keep pretending. Maybe that will work (ie., until the Big Light goes on and we get incinerated.. at which point it just won’t matter anymore!)
archie1954
I haven’t trusted the Western MSM for over a decade now. I don’t watch TV, I don’t read mainstream newspapers, I don’t access mainstream internet sites. All of my information on a daily basis comes from alternate news sites on the internet. I find that I can cross check the same news on a number of different sites, some of which originate in foreign countrie. It is the best way to gauge truth. Those American Faux “News” watchers are the most ignorant people in the World and CNN, CBS etc are hardly any better.
Brian Harry, Australia
Reply to archie1954
I have to agree with you 100%. If you read, watch, or listen to the MSM you are willingly choosing to remain ignorant of what is actually happening in the World. This World is definitely NOT what it seems……………
JOHN CHUCKMAN
This is a good piece which captures a good deal of what is going on. These are matters I follow pretty closely by comparing what is said in a number of places and evaluating the statements.
Unfortunately, over at The Guardian itself, you’d never know these things, not a hint.
Despite its traditional reputation as a progressive paper, current management, more often than not, sounds like the Washington Post.
Just packed with propaganda against Russia, for NATO and Obama, and full of distortions about Syria and Ukraine. And Israel is always treated as an honored member of the world community rather than what it actually is.
But now here comes Hillary, the worst American dog of war in memory.
And if she is elected, all bets are off in international affairs, and a serious war gains as a possibility.
As Paul Craig Roberts wrote recently: the ignorance of the American people could destroy the world.
After all, her close associates include savages like Madeline Albright and Victoria Nuland.
While Trump, who offers at least some expectations of better days in foreign affairs, appears to have the Republican nomination locked-up, there is a serious quiet movement in the committee running the Convention to alter the rules so that delegates won in the primaries are not bound to a candidate.
They still do not have enough votes to carry out the Party coup, but if they succeed – and I’m sure they will use all kinds of lures and threats – and substitute an ineffective chump like Cruz or Romney, Hillary is almost sure to win.
By the way, in any serious war, Russia can definitely hold its own. It has new nuclear systems which guarantee America’s being incinerated, and I’m sure America’s establishment knows it. The problem is that with the kind of insanity now going on in Europe – kind of a giant game of chicken like teen-agers in hot rods used to play in the 1950s – the slightest miscalculation can lead to disaster. With each additional move and exercise, chances of things going very wrong are increased.
Reply to JOHN CHUCKMAN
What needs to happen is a tax revolt centred on the race to Armageddon.
People need to withhold any controllable monies and pivot this just say no program on the fact that such irresponsible action as to consider military conflict with Russia can be regarded as insane. The social contract is broken and thus null and void.
Ruhrblick
Look at the people in the streets who have become slaves to their smartphones. We can’t expect help from them to get us out of this dangerous situation. The cattle is never going to join or organize an effort to eliminate their butchers.
We’re too few to make a difference. Maybe we should just accept the situation for what it is and make the best out of our last days on the planet. There is no help nor hope in sight. It has been a nice 4.5 billion years here for life on Earth, but now evil has won.
Just keep in mind never to reincarnate in this doomed place ever again. I’ve already got plans to come back as a tree on a primordial planet: Worst thing that could happen there would be to get hit by a load of dinosaur poo. Quite prefarable to a nuclear bomb in comparison.
mariannewildart
There are no winners in the use of next generation nuclear weaponry ….This is from the 1960s and the full film is no longer online.. This clip is worth watching https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOZzBwXGS0
cettel22
Catte, you’ve raised terrific questions here.
Everytime I hear people talking about what a good idea a nuclear war actually might be, I think of ‘the war game’; a 1965 BBC ‘documentary’ of the last few weeks before Great Britain is attacked by a nuclear bomb from the USSR.
The documentary is not about good vs. bad, but about what will happen to a country (any country) and its citizens (any citizens) when it’s hit by a nuclear bomb. It also effectively shows how citizens of a country (any country) can be made gung hoo for going to war and how large populations of a country can be talked into the idea that retaliation against innocent people (Russians or Brits, the country where you are from really doesn’t matter) may be a very good and justifiable thing to do.
Watching that documentary for the first time certainly shook and shocked me, as a wake up call is supposed to do.
Perhaps journalists should watch the ‘documentary’ too for a good shake and shock which they can do here for free: http://m.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/167578/The_War_Game_1965/
Of note, this 50 minute BBC ‘documentary’ was so good, that the BBC decided to ban it from the screen for 20 years. “Too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting”, the BBC censor said time and again, meaning that people were not allowed to know what their leaders at the time were hatching and certainly would have led to a life “nasty, brutish and short” if nuclear war was tried at that time.
But the British were not allowed to know by the BBC. And in 1985 (when the documentary was finally aired) only once.
Which reminds me of the situation that we (the west) are in now, talking about good (we) and evil (Russia) only leading to fear without knowing what we actually should be afraid of (if one would only read MSM news). Which is the worst fear of all and therefore applied by NATO, the US and their (very special) relations with countries and their media. It makes their worst enemy, their OWN population, very docile and meek. Which is good for closed societies, who hate one thing more than anything else: a change of the status quo.
Therefore, watch the War Game if you have not done so already. It makes you active.
Richard Le Sarcophage
Reply to Willem
Forty years of absolute dominance of Western societies by the Right has had the expected result. The Right, by which we mean ‘the psychopaths’, insatiably greedy, narcissistically egomaniacal, insanely destructive, with no human empathy or compassion, unscrupulous and violent, have projected their psychopathy on Western societies, thus ‘normalising’ the pathological.
They do this through total control of the brainwashing apparatuses of the MSM, advertising, ‘entertainment’ and PR, and to do so these organs have been steadily purged of all but psychopaths over the decades. One need only look at what the BBC and Guardian have become, and the loathsome, Satanic, sewer that is Murdochism to see the process in action.
One feature of the rule by psychopaths is the normalisation of their genocidal death-worship. The pace of killing has been relentless, and more and more directed at civilians in target countries, often by the second-hand strategy of murderous sanctions, when direct obliteration is not yet required. The ‘Western Moral Values’ that lie behind this mass murder of defenceless innocents was best expressed by that loathsome flower of Western womanhood, Madeleine Albright (ie Davros’s evil twin sister)with her infamous, but totally suppressed, observation that the murder of 500,000 Iraqi children under five (over one million children of all ages were thus murdered) was a price that ‘Yes’, was ‘Worth it’.
Reply to Richard Le Sarcophage
You are describing H. Clinton!
michaelk
What the public in the West needs, to wake them up from their docile slumber, is a good shake or shock, but what form should it take? Should the Russians attempt to provide it? Would this, in itself, be seen as a dangerous escalation, more Russian aggression, that could tip over into a more serious conflict that could lead to war itself?
Putin cannot ‘get through’ to the West. It seems… impossible, using arguements and logic, appealing to self-interest, because the ruling elite in the West is totally, at least in public, subserviant to Washington.
The current situation is chillingly similar to the period prior to the outbreak of WW1, though, at least then, there was a powerful opposition to the outbreak of war; we, don’t even have that. Since Iraq, which was regarded with horror by the elite, the anti-war opposition has been crushed. It’s still there, but dormant.
So the drift towards conflict with both Russia and China, which isn’t really ‘drift’ but a constant movement that actually wants conflict, is getting stronger and there’s a deliberate momentum that’s going to be extremely difficult to change or stop. What’s frightening is that most people, the Western public, are blissfully unaware of the dangers and the direction we are heading in, diverted as we are by other things.
Like WW1 we’ve created a bizarre set of ‘excuses’ for a conflict by allowing tiny nations on our borders to assume the role of ‘trip wires’ which could ‘drag’ the larger nations into a larger conflict quite easily, if that’s is what they want. This seems to be the reason and purpose behind the complex nest of alliances we’ve created. Triggers designed to legitimise war with Russia if a localised and symbolic conflict ‘gets out of control.’
Is Ukraine going to be the trigger for a wider war with Russia? Clearly there are forces in the West that believe, and this again reminds one of WW1, that if we are going to fight Russia it’s better to do it now before Russia succeeds in reforming and modernising their military and becoming too strong. The ‘window of opportunity’ is closing, so why wait? Also the Americans believe they can fight a war in Europe with Russia and win it, thereby undermining Putin’s credibility and status and this will lead to a ‘coup’ or uprising that’ll see him chased from the Kremlin and lynched by a screaming mob Gadaffi style. Then, after the ‘revolution’ Russia will be ‘open for business’ once again. All of this is, I would argue, a total, deranged, fantasy. Russia isn’t Libya and the Russians are a different people with a different history and culture. Attacking Russia is always a really bad idea.
Lupulco
Reply to michaelk
Too true, missiles can reach Washington from Russian subs in the Atlantic. So the missile shield in eastern Europe will be bypassed.
Game, Set and matched to Putin.
While the rest of us who survive go to hell in a handcart.
Reply to Lupulco
There won’t be any survivors, or, if a few, they’ll ‘envy the dead’. Washington DC has always been Thanatopolis, and it is about to self-immolate, and take humanity with it.
As usual, the first to suffer will be those closest to the immediate war zone. Europe will go up in smoke, later the US will suffer the same fate. Sure there will be no more Moscow but those Russians living outside the major cities will survive as they have done for many centuries. You see Russia is simply too large a nation to totally destroy.
jimsresearchnotes
Reblogged this on EU: Ramshackle Empire.
todawgs
Government is the number one and main tool of the oppressor! Communism, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, Fascism, etc., etc., etc., have never existed, but maybe on paper or in somebody’s ‘mind(s)’. But Government has and does exist. In fact one cannot name or describe Government without calling it by it’s real and accurate name, and that is: Corrupted-Totalitarian-Government-By-The-Few! As long as humans worship and demand and allow, Corrupted-Totalitarian-Government-By-The-few, they will be oppressed, impoverished, and murdered, and done so increasingly.
Oddlots
If there’s one thing I admire Putin for it is these occasional outbursts of clear speech. You can gauge how delusional the west is by how deaf we are to them.
My favourite:
\”They sit there across the Pond, and sometimes I think they feel like they\’re in a lab and they\’re running experiments on rats and not understanding the consequences of what they are doing,\” the Russian president said at a press conference.
A close second was the – rough translation “and even now do you not understand what you have done?”
Any politician that speaks that plainly about, well, anything, but ESPECIALLY the shameful results of the West’s interventions has my utmost respect.
In fact I almost wonder whether such plain language is available to our politicians anymore. I really think our brains have been so addled by marketing and PR that we’re defenceless in the face of our own self-serving bullshit.
“When fascism comes to the West, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a Cross”………..Sinclair Lewis.
falcemartello
Reply to Brian Harry, Australia
Thats rite not a single anglo-zionist MSM journo has reported on anything that has been said in the last fortnite. The Italian foreign minister, Holland , Steinmier and other Eurocrats have all stated the danger in continuing this gunboat style diplomacy. They r creating more trip wire areas to justify the war they want. The South China Sea is a perfect example, the newly elected President of the Philippines is not a washington consensus type of guy. He has just publicly stated at the end of the wholly day of Ramadan in southern Philippines that all these global events are all manufactured and supported by the Us and the west along with Israel , Turkey and the GCC. I really dont know what to do in demonstrating to the vast populations of the west that we r walking with the dead at this pace. Nuclear winter is getting very near . Putin,Lavarov,Medved Xi have all said as much but in the west this never gets any air time. Orwellian times we r living. The West has to realise that the continual extortion of Iran,Syria,Iraq,Russia,and China is no longer going to wash with these countries they will not succumb to the blatant extortion of the anglo-zionist. Enough is enough and the real danger is all it takes in one mistake and the whole can of nuclear bombs will be unleashed. We r a hair trigger away from the END. Will cooler heads prevail. It appears that some leaders in Europe r coming out of the closet.
Reply to falcemartello
Boy are you right. It is so sad to have to say so.
Kathleen Lowrey
Whose interest does this war mongering serve? The defense minister of Canada was interviewed on cbc this morning and seemed just as genial and vapid as the pm. The interviewer lobbed him a softball about how some say this is reminiscent of the cold war and find it worrisome and he didn’t even have a prepared soundbite. Just said oh no not at all! We like dialogue too! The most frightening thing is how truly dim many people in positions of Western power appear to be. He explained the build up in Latvia as a response to “fears of” Russian aggression… Real troops and weapons to stand against emotive projections. And he didn”t seem even flustered about how silly what he was saying…. seemed to feel his address to the Canadian public was going really well. Very jolly like a happy student explaining his nice book report or science project.
Reply to Kathleen Lowrey
They all need to be approved by Washington and Tel Aviv, so are not the cream of the human crop.
reinertorheit
blockquote> Whose interest does this war mongering serve?
Barack O’Bomber, Shillary Clinton, Robert Kagan, Victoriwhore Nuland, Trash Carter, Jens Stoltenberg, Philip Breedhate, Curtis Crapalotti, Susan Lice, the Council on Foreign Relations, Condosleazewhore Lice, Colin Powell, George Soros, Roger Ailes, Billo Reilly, John Bolton, John McLame-Brain-Insane…..
…. need I go on?
Very jolly like a happy student
Like a psychopathic murderer. No brain, happy grin!! Who does it remind us of?
Reply to reinertorheit
You spelt “Colon Bowel” incorrectly…………
Nerevar
“If Hitler invaded Russia I would make at least a favourable reference to Hitler in the House of Commons.” That paraphrased quote is not so cool. Are we going to rehabilitate Nazis in the name of “Freedom”? Which one?
Norman Pilon
Oh, but Catte, didn’t you get the memo from Langley? A nuclear war with Russia is winnable. Besides, “Russia must understand that it would be a serious miscalculation to consider nuclear escalation as a viable option.” That’s why we have to hit them first . . .
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“Abe Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories”
Posted by Adrian Covert in Readings
books, civil war, History, leo w. spratt, lincoln, san francisco, slavery
On February 13th, 1861, the editor of South Carolina’s Charleston Mercury newspaper penned a defiant polemic against the new Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America. The crime? In an appeal to moderate border states, rebel delegates outlawed the importation of new slaves from Africa. “The South is now in the formation of a Slave Republic“. Slave society, he argued, was something to “avow and affirm…as a living principle of social order” which could fail only if its leaders failed to fully embrace it as such. He urged rebel leaders across the South to just come out and admit what everyone knew but for some reason (shame, most likely) couldn’t: that they were fighting for slavery because they believed in it.
The editor’s name was Leo W. Spratt. 40 years later in 1901, Spratt bought a book, a Christmas present, titled ‘Abe’ Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories (a greatest hits album of sorts to Lincoln’s legendary humor). Spratt gifted the book to a man named “Darius”. On May 31, 1922, Darius cut out a newspaper clipping, a picture of the 79 year old Robert Todd Lincoln, the President’s only surviving son, who had attended the dedication of his slain father’s memorial the previous day. Darius folded the clipping into the book.
90 years, six months, and five days later (aka December 5, 2012), I met a colleague for a work lunch at a Galette 88, a modern creperie located in San Francisco’s financial district. We discussed innovations in the water sector. I had the smoked salmon crepe.
On my way back to the office I passed by a book seller. Nothing much, just a couple stands run by a man named Rick.
Rick had some gems. But one edition in particular took my eye–a dark work, covered in ornate gold leaf, tarnished and earthen by over four score of hands and neglect. Emblazoned on the cover was the portrait of Lincoln, looking every bit the man whose melancholy was once described as having “dripped from him as he walked”.
The inside cover revealed a lonely newspaper clipping, an old man had joined an entire nation in loving remembrance of his long dead father. The book was signed:
Leo W. Spratt
Dec 25: 1901
To Darius [unreadable]
What motivated this old rebel to spend money on a slapstick Lincoln totem? Had he recanted? Was it a gag gift? A joke among old confederate buddies? Did Darius cut out the picture of Robert as a keepsake? Were they, as former enemies of the president, as gripped by Lincoln’s overwhelming legacy as the rest of the us?
Spratt once had a terrible vision of an imperial Slave Republic at the center of global power, respect, and commerce. “Bride of the world, rather than the miserable mistress of the North” he wrote. Forty years later he was giving Lincoln jokes to buddies.
Now he’s dead, and his book is mine.
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Why is my Prime Minister your Fuehrer?
Posted on February 20, 2019 February 21, 2019 by P A Krishnan
Mr Narendra Modi is my Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of millions and millions of sane Indians. He will be my Prime Minister and the millions and millions of sane Indians, if he is elected again. But he is considered their Fuehrer by the lunatic Hindutva hordes and the Braying and other brigades. According to them, he can do no wrong and his government is the most wonderful in the history of the world. All those who oppose him are, according to them, trairors who deserve punishment and are subjected to filthy abuse. The Indian constitution calls India a secular republic and it also has a special article concerning Jammu & Kashmir – article 370. To the Fuehrer worshippers, all those who consider India secular are vile and all those who recognize the existence of article 370 are traitors.
Let me elaborate.
1. The Governor of Meghalaya, who calls himself a right wing Hindu socio-political thinker, says:
“An appeal from a retired colonel of the Indian Army: Don’t visit Kashmir,don’t go to Amarnath for the next 2 years. Don’t buy articles from Kashmir emporia or Kashmiri tradesman who come every winter. Boycott everything Kashmiri.
I am inclined to agree.”
Now, if Kashmir is an integral part of India, which it is, and Kashmiris are Indian citizens, which they are, is it not ridiculous to appeal to other Indians not to visit Kashmir or not to buy Kashmiri goods? Only hate-befuddled Nazi minds will think like this. But a constitutional authority thinks like this and is supported by the Modi-worshipping hordes.
2. Barkha Dutt, a respected journalist the world over, is being abused in the vilest language by the Hindutva hordes, just because she has a different view point. Let me quote ‘The Hindu’:”I have continued to get hundreds of abuses, sexually violent messages and threats to my life for a second day running. I urgently ask @Delhi Police @MPpoliceonline @ PoliceRajasthan @PunjabPoliceInd to intervene. FIR with Delhi Police,” Ms. Dutt appealed on Twitter on Tuesday. In separate tweets, she posted that she had received 1,000 abusive messages, including a message to shoot her, a nude photo and a rape threat.
3. Ravish Kumar, another respected journalist, is being constantly abused by the Hindutva thugs, just because he has a different view point. This is what he says: “These cuss-words reveal to me the thought process of the foul-mouths. Their wanton use of profanities involving the genitalia of mothers and sisters clearly reflects their infinite hatred towards women. This hatred is so unfathomable that they are disgusted by me, yet vent their anger invoking mothers and sisters. No woman has ever abused me. All these gutter-mouths are men. It is another matter that the leader and the politics these men follow are also supported by lakhs of women.”
4. A Non-Resident-Indian calls Gandhi a scumbag, Nehru a traitor and Godse a Mahatma. He calls for the rape of Muslim women a hundred times over, if a Hindu woman is touched. He says that is what Dharma is all about. He is being fervently applauded by admirers of Modi, especially Tamil Brahmin admirers.
5. Hundreds of Kashmiri students in Uttarkhand ran away from their institutions in fear, because the Modi-loving students do not want them to continue their studies. But the management was coerced into saying that they would not admit Kashmiri students in future.I applaud the Dehradun police for arresting them. https://www.news18.com/news/india/22-students-arrested-in-dehradun-for-protesting-against-kashmiri-pupils-police-on-alert-2042115.html
6. In Patna, a rampaging mob attacked the shops of the Kashmiris and threatened them with dire consequences if they didn’t clear out within 24 hours. watch this video:
Kashmiri Traders being Beaten, Abused & Warned to leave in 24 hours, Pakistan must be Celebrating these Horrendous scenes from Bihar.
Come on, India is known for its Unity in Diversity, Let's not tarnish the fabric of our Nation !!#PulwamaAttack pic.twitter.com/Zco2JevVkm
— Aarti (@aartic02) February 16, 2019
But Indians who consider Mr Modi their Prime Minister came in support of the traders. In West Bengal too, several Indians who consider Mr Modi their Prime Minister came in support of the hapless Kashmiris.
Let me repeat.
Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of the democratic India and millions and millions of Indians – and I am one of them – consider him their Prime Minister. But they don’t think he is above criticism or his government is spotless and must not criticized for being inefficient or callous. But to the hate-filled, Muslim and Christian hating Hindutva hordes and the intellectuals who guide them, he is the Fuehrer who can do no wrong. The tactics used by them is identical to the tactics used by the Nazis in defence of their Fuehrer. My request to the sane few among them is this: Please return to democratic and secular India. Consider Mr Modi your Prime Minister, and not your Fuehrer.
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Super Mario World 2nd Opinion
Author: antipop I’m a bit of a late bloomer, as far as gaming goes. I was born in the golden age of gaming. One would think that by the time the Super Nintendo launched, I would’ve been primed and ready for pure gaming bliss. This, however, was not the case.…
antipop December 24, 2018 March 12, 2019 Reviews Bowser, Dinosaur Land, Luigi, Mario, Miyamoto, Nintendo, Princess Toadstool, SNES Hub, SNES Hub Reviews, SNES Reviews, Super Mario World, Super Mario World 4, Super Mario World review, Super Nintendo, Yoshi 0
Attacking the SNES Commercials
Author: John Legendoffzelda I’m 20 years old, and I’m too young to have been around for when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was a hot item with kids. Of course, this generational gap doesn’t keep me from adoring the SNES as an esteemed game console. But there are a…
John Legendoffzelda February 2, 2014 March 12, 2019 Articles Bad TV commercials, Bad video game commercials, Final Fantasy, Horrible TV commercials, JonTron, Kirby Super Star, Link to the Past, Retro Commercials, ScrewAttack, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Super Nintendo Commercials, Video Game Commercials 6
“Super Mario World” Cartoon Review
Author: John Legendoffzelda Nintendo’s new video game, Super Mario World, was released in North America in August of 1991. Even at first glance it seemed destined to be a runaway hit. It was a good game to start with, but Nintendo really pushed it along its path – bundling copies…
John Legendoffzelda September 22, 2013 March 12, 2019 Articles Cartoon, DiC, Flintstones, Harvey Atkin, Inspector Gadget, Luigi, Mario, Mark Mothersbaugh, Super Mario World, Tony Rosato, Yoshi 7
Super NES Box Art Article
Author: John Legendoffzelda I like Super Nintendo box-art. The layouts are clean, and the title illustrations at the center are particularly interesting. At least, I have more fun thinking about the title illustrations than, say, the blocks of hype-text next to them. (I have organized the types I notice the…
John Legendoffzelda May 19, 2013 May 19, 2013 Articles Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Final Fantasy, Joe and Mac, Kirby Super Star, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Super Nintendo, Super Nintendo box artwork, Super R-Type 2
Super Mario World Review
Author: Mongunzoo If there is one game that defined Nintendo during the 16-bit era, this would be it! Created as a launch title for the newborn SNES, it came out the same year that Sonic the Hedgehog was released for the Genesis. This was the game that was…
Mongunzoo March 16, 2012 July 18, 2017 Reviews Dinosaur Land, Donut Plains, Forest of Illusion, Koopa Kids, Mario, SNES Hub, SNES Hub Reviews, SNES launch title, Star Road, Super Mario Bros. 4, Super Mario World, Super Mario World review, Super Mario World Review SNES, Super Nintendo, Super Nintendo launch titles, Yoshi 8
Dino City Review
Author: Masamune Did you like dinosaurs as a kid? I did. I was the go-to-kid for dinosaur information in the second grade. Did you wish you could go back in time and actually see and interact with these fascinating creatures? Well, you can get a chance to…
Masamune February 19, 2012 July 11, 2017 Reviews 16 bit, Adventures in Dino City, Adventures in Dinosaur City, Dino City, Dino City review, Dino City Review SNES, Dino City Review Super NES, Dino City Review Super Nintendo, Irem, SNES Hub, SNES Hub Reviews, SNES Reviews SNES Hub, Super Mario World, Super Nintendo, Super Nintendo Reviews SNES Hub 13
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Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Lands 11 Funko Pop Figures
Update: When Funko first announced a wave of Pop figures based on Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, it looked like it would be a smaller line consisting of just three figures, all of Miles. That number has jumped to 11 with Funko planning a second series slated to launch this April.
Oddly, all of the figures are again just of Miles. Prowler, Rhino, and other characters have not yet gotten Pop figures. This line does, however, dive deep into Miles’ closest of suits, and consists of the tech-based 2020 suit, the Bodega Cat suit, the winter suit, and more. You can see all of the new additions below:
Original Story: Many of you are working your way through Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on your PlayStation 4 or newly purchased PlayStation 5. If you like what you play, or are just a huge fan of Miles Morales, you’ll soon be able to add three new Funko Pop figures inspired by the game to your collection.
Unlike the figures that were created for Marvel’s Spider-Man in 2018, you won’t get figures of any villains or supporting characters. All three figures are of Miles in action. The first Pop is of what Insomniac calls Miles’ “Iconic Suit,” which is modeled after his traditional comic book garb. He’s airborne and ready to clobber someone with a Venom Punch. Since he is highly posed, he needs to be positioned on a stand.
The second figure is exactly the same pose, but is mask free, just like Game Informer’s recently released cover story.
The third figure is slightly different in pose, showing Miles soaring soaring through the air on a webline. We also see him in his sleek Track Suit.
All three of these figures are in Funko’s traditional Pop scale and will be available on March 4.
I reviewed Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales for Game Informer, and gave it a respectable 9 out of 10 score, saying “For a second act, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales satisfies. Taking to the web-line and soaring across a wintery New York skyline is every bit as enthralling as it was before, and Miles develops into a fantastic hero. This follow-up doesn’t have as much of a sinister punch, but it delivers some great plot twists and concludes with another eye-opening post-credits sequence that teases an exciting future for Insomniac’s Spider-Man series.”
Are you playing Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales? What are your thoughts on it thus far? In that same breath, what do you think of PlayStation 5 if you are playing the game on it?
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Mayor & Council » Crest & Coat of Arms
On July 1, 1967, Bylaw 762 was passed authorizing the adoption of a crest and coat of arms for the Town of Peace River. Former Mayor, E.R. Whitmey (1965-1971)was instrumental in the development and adoption of this crest and coat of arms.
From the middle of the 12th century onward as a practical and vital means of identification on the battlefield and in the tournament lists, knights wore a distinctively coloured coat over their armour. This was called a “Coat of Arms”. These colours were also displayed on the shields, flags or banners, and even on the horse cloths.
A personal crest made of light wood or leather was worn on top of the helmet, and a silk mantle was hung from it to keep the sun off the helmet. This was held in place by a circular wreath of twisted silk cord.
In displaying the shield, supporters may be granted. Usually there are two supporters, although in rare cases a single supporter is used.
Civic status is depicted by the use of a mural crown, and rivers by wavy lines.
Blazoning is, to describe in technical terms, the details of the Coat of Arms. The wording used is a mixture of English and old French and not only gives the colour of the detail but also its exact location.
Coat of Arms of the Town of Peace River
Vert a Pall wavy Argent thereon another wavy Azure over all a Dove volant in the beak a sprig of Olive between in chief a Mural Crown in the Dexter flank three Ears of Wheat stalked and leaved and in the sinister flank a Tomahawk contourney, all Or.
The Crest Blazon
On a wreath Argent and Gules A Canada Goose wings elevated and displayed proper Murally gorged on each wing charged with a Bar Barry wavy of four Argent and Azure.
The Supporters’ Blazon
On either side a moose regardant proper, attired and unguled. Or, collared gemel wavy argent, in the mouth a branch of olive fructed proper.
The Shield Explicit
The field of the Shield is green, which represents the fertility of the area. The wavy silver and blue lines represent two rivers joining to become one (the confluence of the Smoky and Peace Rivers), the mural crown civic status, the dove over the river symbolizes peace thus Peace River. The tomahawk alludes to ancient troubled past and the three ears of wheat to modern peaceful agricultural pursuit.
The Crest Explicit
A Canada Goose open winged with wavy lines of silver and blue with a mural crown around its neck, representing a town in Canada located on a river.
The Supporters’ Explicit
Moose (indigenous to the area) with wavy lines around the neck representing the river and an olive branch in fruit in its mouth, representing peace, hence Peace River.
Vert = Green
Argent = Silver
Azure = Blue
Fructed = In Fruit
Or = Gold
Gules = Red
Dexter = Right
Sinister = Left
The Town of Peace River would like to thank Diane Gayton formerly of the Peace River Centennial Museum & Archives (1946-2004) for providing the Town with the information regarding the components of the crest and coat of arms.
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Southwest Florida Attractions
Most of the attractions in Southwest Florida are outdoor venues or learning centers, which educate and inform visitors about the region’s bountiful nature and wildlife.
Take Naples, for instance, where the most visited attractions include the Naples Botanical Garden and Naples Zoo. The garden, which opened a new visitors’ component with a café in 2014, showcases subtropical vegetation in settings that reflect the culture of Brazil, the Caribbean, Asia and Florida. The zoo began as botanical gardens in 1919 and today is home to wild animals from around the world. In 2016 it debuted a special Florida panther exhibit to house a local cat blinded by a shotgun blast.
Tourists can feed giraffes at Naple Zoo
The Collier County system of museums occupies five unique venues in Marco Island, Naples, Everglades City and Immokalee—all of them family-friendly. The Naples Depot Museum unveils a restoration of its 1947 tavern car in February 2017. The town’s most family-friendly museum, Golisano Children’s Museum of Naples, sits next to every kid’s favorite, the Sun-n-Fun Lagoon water park in North Naples.
Naples is known, too, for its superlative golfing opportunities. Besides playing lush, natural golf courses, adults and kids alike can get their game on at various golf schools and programs in the area.
In Fort Myers, the Southwest Florida Museum of History dwells in a former-life train depot. The Edison & Ford Winter Estates, one of Southwest Florida’s finest historic treasures, offers guided and self-guided tours and recently debuted a special family audio tour and petting zoo events. Families should not miss the nearby hands-on Imaginarium Science Center.
Imaginarium Science Center – Florida
New on Fort Myers Beach, the Mound House, under development for several years and the town’s oldest standing structure, opened a cultural museum in late 2015 examining the Calusa, who built a shell mound on the property. Go inside and take a peek.
For families in Sarasota, the canopy boardwalk in the new Children’s Rainforest Garden at Marie Selby Gardens is a don’t-miss. Other family musts include the circus museums at The Ringling, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium and Sarasota Jungle Gardens.
Children’s Rainforest Garden – Sarasota, Florida
Bradenton’s history dates back to Hernando de Soto, and a national historic site recalls his first landfall. The South Florida Museum and Parker Manatee Aquarium nicely displays de Soto-related exhibits, plus prehistoric animal recreations and an aquarium starring Snooty the manatee. Manatee Village Historic Park gathers the town’s history in an oak-framed park setting.
Bradenton’s Cortez community retains its feel of an Old Florida fishing village with a working waterfront and maritime museum. A number of charter boats depart from the docks to take you deep-sea or back-bay fishing. Head east of town for a little extreme adventure at TreeUmph!, an aerial obstacle course with zip lines.
TreeUmph!! zip-lines course
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Gibson announces the SLASH 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck
by MuzoPlanet | Sep 28, 2019 | Gear News
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Gibson, the legitimate leader in professional instruments proudly presents the Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck. A pre-sale period that was officially underway since 11 September 2019 for the Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck guitars, sold through select Authorized Gibson dealers will be available in-store October 1st. Whether that includes South Africa is unknown at this point.
SLASH bought the original guitar from a small music store in Indiana in 1990 and put it into rotation almost immediately. Using the natural chime and chorus of the twelve-string neck and composing epic solos on the other, became a favourite tool for studio and stage and an indelible part of SLASH’s signature sound. Gibson is proud to present this exact replica of the original guitar, constructed and aged by the skilled craftspeople at the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville, TN. Each Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck will be hand-signed by SLASH himself and includes a striking vintage replica hardshell case, a custom SLASH concho guitar strap and a Certificate of Authenticity.
“Slash continues to inspire legions of players all over the globe,” adds Cesar Gueikian, Chief Merchant Officer at Gibson. “The creation of new 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck is the perfect way to pay homage to Slash’s extreme talent and share a favourite guitar with generations to come.”
The release of the new Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck comes as SLASH and his band, Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators recently wrapped their 2018-2019 headlining world tour in support of their most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed LIVING THE DREAM. LIVING THE DREAM (Snakepit Records/RoadRunner Records) is the third full-length offering from Slash Ft Myles Kennedy And the Conspirators. The Los Angeles Times described LIVING THE DREAM as, “his best work since the demise of Velvet Revolver. …full of “unexpected funk, boogie, blues and garage rock influences.” While Rolling Stone declared it, “a biting blues filigree at the end of a riff, weeping solos full of long notes, boogie-woogie riffs.” Elsewhere, Classic Rock magazine added, “it’s the bands third and Best Album, ‘The Great Pretender’ is the album’s masterpiece and one of the best things Slash has ever done.” With the Top 5 rock song “Driving Rain,” and its live-action, animated video, as well as, the best critical acclaim of their career, LIVING THE DREAM debuted with 10, Top 10 chart placements around the world. The current single “Mind Your Manners”–which Rolling Stone hailed “a menacing blues-rocker”–continues to climb the charts at Rock radio. “Mind Your Manners” follows “Driving Rain”–SLASH’s fastest rising single to date–which recently became the band’s 5th, Top 5 radio hit in a row. Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators have now had 7 consecutive, Top 10 hit singles at radio and will release a special live concert album and DVD titled the LIVING THE DREAM TOUR worldwide on September 20, 2019 via Eagle Vision: Here. Fans can purchase or stream the new album LIVING THE DREAM Here. Catch Slash and his 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck live in action this fall as he rejoins his Guns N’ Roses bandmates for the next leg of their Not In This Lifetime tour, which restarts at the end of September.
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October 6, 2016 July 2, 2020 dougandcarlotta Reviews, Stage Barefoot in the Park, Bridget Schlebecker, Carmel, Carmel Community Players, comedy, Joe Meyers, john, Lauren Hall, Lori Raffel, Neil Simon, Nicholas Barnes, play, review, Will Pullins
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Some days, all you need from a stage play is just an easy-going fun comedy. Maybe something by Neil Simon? Then head on up to the Carmel Community Players stage in Clay Terrace for its production of Simon’s first hit, “Barefoot in the Park,” playing weekends through Oct. 16.
In the winter of 1963 in New York, a free-spirited new bride, Corie (played by Lauren White Hall), has chosen an oddly-shaped fifth-floor walkup for a first apartment for her and her husband, Paul (Nicholas Barnes), a rather straight-laced young lawyer. It’s not what he would have wanted, but out of love for Corie, Paul tries to make do with the living arrangements – broken skylight and all. Making the situation even more interesting are visits by Corie’s mother Ethel (Bridget Schlebecker) and eccentric upstairs neighbor Victor (Will Pullins). A horizon-expanding evening with the four enjoying drinks and a dinner out proves fateful for all.
Hall is effervescent and charming, and Barnes ably plays the more reserved but still likeable half of the duo, making it believable that these two opposites did attract one another. Schlebecker and Pullins are natural scene-stealers in two of the more fun roles of the Simon repertoire. And Joe Meyers hits the right note as the telephone repair man whose timely advice helps fix more than a broken line.
Director Lori Raffel (also executive director at Theatre on the Square) found a fun solution to the problem of the set change between the first two scenes – a time-consuming transformation of the apartment from bare to fully-furnished. Under half-light, the cast brings out the bed, tables, couch, etc., to a dance routine. Raffel said she even got help from a member of Dance Kaleidoscope in arranging the actors’ steps with minimal improvisation. The result is almost as entertaining as the play itself.
As for the play, “funny,” “romantic” and “satisfying” are words too easy to throw around, but they fit so well here, to the greatest extent of their meaning.
Put on your shoes and head up to the top of Carmel. Info and tickets at 317-815-9387 or www.carmelplayers.org.
John L. Belden is Associate Editor at The Eagle (formerly The Word), the central-Indiana based Midwest LGBTQ news source.
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Carla Hall Spreads Holiday Cheer with 'Care Packages' Amid Pandemic (Exclusive)
By Victoria Moghaddami - November 23, 2020 06:07 pm EST
Carla Hall is one of America's most beloved chefs, and the former Top Chef star revealed that while times have been tough, it makes her feel good to give back, especially during such difficult times. Throughout the pandemic, Hall has done various things to spread a little love to her fans, from posting positive videos to her social media account, interacting with followers, and even sending them care packages. In an exclusive interview with PopCulture.com, Hall revealed how she's been making the best of the circumstances 2020 has sprung on everyone, and how she's helping educate people on ways to support those facing food insecurity this year, especially during the holiday season.
"You know what makes me feel good?" she said during our PopCulture @ Home series. "Honestly, I've been doing so many cooking demos here at home, and I just give the food away. I actually am very happy just giving food away and making random care packages, sending them to unsuspecting friends. I've been doing cooking demos for just people that I've met online; some are my followers, we make biscuits and that makes me happy, it gives me joy."
Friends and fans aren't the only people she's trying to help feed during this tumultuous time. The former The Chew star recently teamed up with United Gateway Card, Chase and United Airlines for their "Gateway to Giving" campaign to help educate the public on how they can support those in need. "I am really, really excited to be working with the United Gateway Card for their Gateway to Giving Campaign, and they will be donating $700,000 to Feeding America," noting she's worked with the organization for her "entire culinary career."
"So it is an organization that is very near to my heart," she continued. "[...] That $700,000 will provide nearly 7 million meals to local food banks all across the country during this holiday season, and it's just such a critical time of need." Donations will focus on top United hubs like Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
While she's helping put food on people's tables, she's also spreading joy with her "mantra" of Say Yes, also the new title of her podcast. "The title came from my mantra that I had been saying for about seven years, which is 'say yes,' adventure follows, then growth" she explained. "And that's pretty much how I live my life." For more on Carla Hall and your other favorite celebrities, keep it right here at PopCulture.com.
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Gilead’s R&D chief to step down as new CEO O’Day rings the changes
Gilead’s chief scientific officer, John McHutchison is to leave the company at the beginning of next month during a period of change at the big US pharma.
CEO Daniel O’Day, formerly Roche’s pharma chief, took over at the beginning of March and is already making waves by reshaping the company’s senior management team.
He has already hired former Eli Lilly exec Christi Shaw to lead the Gilead’s Kite cancer immunotherapy unit.
John McHutchison
McHutchison had only held the role since March last year after Gilead’s veteran R&D chief Norbert Bischofberger stepped down.
Now McHutchison is to leave too – Gilead has said that he has decided to step down from the job from 2 August. There was no word about where McHutchison will go, although he should be able to take a nice holiday as he weighs up his options.
Gilead’s filing with the US financial regulator said he will get a $1.1 million payoff to settle his contract.
McHutchison joined Gilead in 2010 and helped to develop the hepatitis C drugs that have been the backbone of the company’s sales over the last decade.
He also helped to develop Gilead’s first cancer drug, Zydelig (idelalisib), which has not been a huge commercial success because of safety issues but has paved the way for much larger projects such as its $11.9 billion merger with cancer cell therapy firm Kite Pharma.
Also out are two high-ranking execs – chief patient officer Gregg Alton, and executive vice president of human resources Katie Watson will also go, Gilead said.
Alton joined Gilead in 1999 and led its corporate and medical affairs functions, and developing world access programmes, as well as commercial operations in certain countries in Asia and Latin America.
He also served as general counsel and helped to shape the company’s access model to HIV and viral hepatitis drugs in resource-limited countries.
Alton will remain with Gilead until 4 October and plans to be on hand as an advisor until the end of the year as others take on his responsibilities.
Jyoti Mehra has been named executive vice president of human resource and will assume responsibility for the worldwide HR function.
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Danny Mendick named to White Sox’ 60-man pool for 2020 MLB season
By Billy Heyen on June 29, 2020 MLB, Pine Pieces
Danny Mendick will take part in the 2020 MLB season for the Chicago White Sox.
Marshall High-alum Bob Keegan surprised at the plate on May 14, 1954
By Billy Heyen on May 14, 2020 MLB, Pine Pieces, Red Wings, WNY Sports
Bob Keegan graduated from Rochester’s Marshall High School before playing Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox.
Birthday bash: Danny Mendick homers for White Sox on his 26th birthday
By Billy Heyen on September 28, 2019 MCC, MLB, Pine Pieces, WNY Sports
By BILLY HEYEN Danny Mendick may have provided himself the best present he receives for his 26th birthday Saturday. On a 3-2 fastball from MLB veteran Edwin Jackson, Mendick drove a flyball to left field and out of the ballpark for a two-run home run. It’s Mendick’s second MLB home run since the White Sox […]
Danny Mendick hits safely for second-straight night for Chicago White Sox
By Billy Heyen on September 6, 2019 MLB, MCC, Pine Pieces, WNY Sports
By BILLY HEYEN Baseball’s irony extends between MLB lines, too. Danny Mendick hit three balls relatively hard on Friday night, all of which turned into outs. He hit safely for the second night in-a-row, though, on the softest of four balls he put in play at Guaranteed Rate Field. Mendick finished 1-for-4 on Friday night […]
Heyen: The ironies of baseball give Danny Mendick his big league call
By Billy Heyen on September 3, 2019 Minor League Baseball, Pine Pieces, WNY Sports
You see, the 40-man roster is a tricky thing. For much of the season, Chicago’s has been full, and placing a player on the 40 affects roster construction down the line. A player cannot be called to the big leagues without being on it, though, and as of Monday, Danny Mendick wasn’t on it. The White Sox had to designate a player for assignment to make room for Mendick…
Danny Mendick called up to Chicago White Sox for potential MLB debut
By Billy Heyen on September 3, 2019 Minor League Baseball, MCC, Pine Pieces, WNY Sports
Danny Mendick (Pittsford Mendon/MCC/UMass Lowell) has been called up to the major leagues. He’ll join the Chicago White Sox in Cleveland after completing his season with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights on Monday. When Mendick enters a game for Chicago, it’ll be his Major League Baseball debut…
Gee dominates; Puig connects in extras and have you noticed what Cole Hamels has done in August?
By Brittany Cairns on August 21, 2017 MLB, Pine Pieces
Brian Dozier and Jorge Polanco combined to plate six runs for the Twins, who are now winners of five of their past six games…
Five Cubs Go Deep; Boston Literally Walks Off; Mets Bats Come Alive
By Joe Ceraulo on July 15, 2017 MLB, Pine Pieces
The O’s came back from an 8-0 deficit to tie things up, but Addison Russell’s eighth home run of the year broke the tie in the ninth. The Cubs went deep five times in the win, and a scoreless ninth inning from Wade Davis gave him his 17th save of the year…
Hey Now, You’re an All-Star; Home Team Disadvantage; Year of the Home Run
By Nate on July 3, 2017 MLB, Pine Pieces
Bryce Harper celebrated the news that he would be starting for the National League in the All-Star Game by hitting two home runs and driving in four RBI…
Yankees shut-out Royals; Pirates rally past Braves in extra innings and Cardinals cruise past Dodgers
By Jacob Vanderbroek on May 25, 2017 MLB, Pine Pieces
– Didi Gregorius homered against Jason Hammel (1-6) leading off the third inning, Gregorius’ seventh hit in a span of 12 at-bats…
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Share this Story: Union launches political but 'non-partisan' campaign
Union launches political but 'non-partisan' campaign
The largest union for white-collar professionals in Canada’s public service is preparing for an unprecedented “political” campaign in the 2015 election that some worry could breach the tradition of non-partisanship among bureaucrats.
Gary Corbett, a former PIPSC president, said the government’s actions have “pushed” the union into becoming more political. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /CP
More than 400 delegates at the annual meeting of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) voted Friday to “take all necessary” political action – short of becoming partisan – to prepare for the 2015 election and a round of collective bargaining that could end with most members on strike.
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“Let’s face it, this government is probably the worst employer we’ve had to deal with since PIPSC became a union in 1967,” said PIPSC president Debi Daviau in her opening address.
“After all, the Harper Conservatives didn’t drop the word ‘progressive’ from their name by accident.”
For the first time in the union’s 95-year history, a motion reached the floor calling for PIPSC to abandon “its traditional stance of non-partisanship” and mount an advertising campaign for the 2015 election campaign targeting the Harper government’s “far-right agenda” and “anti-union” policies. That motion was withdrawn in favour of a softer approach.
Daviau said the union isn’t endorsing a party or candidates but rather will publicly oppose the Conservatives’ record in what it calls an “issue-based” campaign.
“We very much want a change in government,” said Daviau. “Are we targeting Conservatives? … In strict partisan terms no, but we will be holding the Conservatives’ feet to the fire on the issues that are important to our members.
“We have taken a new stance to be more politically active – still non-partisan – but very active on the issues important to our members and their careers.”
With the delegates’ support, PIPSC will put together an action plan and advertising campaign for the upcoming election. Many delegates agreed they have no choice with what they see as the Conservatives’ assault on the public service, cutting 35,000 jobs by 2017; watering down its bargaining rights; and taking away sick leave. Many expect the government will target pensions in future.
PIPSC’s militancy has been growing slowly over the past decade and the first big break with tradition came in 2012 when it joined the Canadian Labour Congress.
This is the first time the union has waded into an election campaign, bringing it closer to the tactics of the giant Public Service Alliance of Canada, the most militant of the 17 federal unions.
Steve Hindle, a long-time PIPSC president who has returned to the union as vice-president, said he is astonished at the growing militancy of the union that, historically, shunned anything to do with politics.
“We have not become partisan at this point but being non-partisan does not mean being apolitical … the politics this country has an impact on the people we represent,” he said.
Gary Corbett, a former PIPSC president, said the government’s actions have “pushed” the union into becoming more political but he worries it will change PIPSC’s “identity” and risk veering into partisan activities.
“We have 56,000 members and some of them like what the Conservatives are doing so they won’t agree. It may create dissension in the ranks,” he said.
Daviau acknowledged the union will be walking a fine line between “political activity” and non-partisanship.
“We won’t be telling anyone how to vote,” she said. “We are ensuring members get the information they need to make what we hope will be the right choice … and we are guessing that information we will send them isn’t going to incite them to vote Conservative. ”
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Patricia Sandberg
"The best place we ever lived.' Life at a uranium mine during the Cold War.
Early days of Gunnar Mines, construction photos circa 1954
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A Uranium City kid – now an adult – contacted me yesterday, on the second year anniversary of publishing Sun Dogs and Yellowcake. He recounted some tales of his time around Lake Athabasca, including an adventure involving a plane and a cadaver, but first some background.
A northern workhorse. The Norseman planes operated by McMurray Air Service Limited supplied Saskatchewan’s northern mining communities.
Brian Hemingson arrived in Uranium City, Saskatchewan – 25 air miles distance from Gunnar Mines, and a few short miles from the border with the Northwest Territories. It was 1956 and he was eleven years old. Uranium City was the ‘big smoke’ for Gunnar people until they wanted real action and flew to Edmonton.
The Saskatchewan government intended Uranium City, which would eventually reach about 5000 people, to serve northern mines indefinitely. No one realized that its survival depended on the continued operation of federally-owned Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited. When that corporation announced it was closing its uranium mines in 1982, Uranium City effectively shut down. Brian describes how, mere days before the announcement, mine personnel were touring new employees around Uranium City and pointing out the foundations of their future homes.
Gunnar became a ghost town in 1964 and Uranium City limps along with perhaps seventy residents on a good day. The stories, however, live on. Like every teenaged boy in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, Brian had his share of adventures in Uranium City and some of those involved Gunnar Mines.
A short camping trip
One summer, Brian and a friend decided to walk from Uranium City to Gunnar. That involved some detouring and a fair bit of bushwhacking as there was no road linking the two communities. By the time they reached the mine, they were hungry and stopped in the cafeteria in the community centre. They had just ordered hamburger and chips and apple pie when the mine’s security guard walked in. Gunnar was a company town, closed to outsiders unless invited and apparently that applied also to kids. He asked questions:
“What are you doing here, where are you staying?”
“Came for a visit, going to camp by the airport,” they answered.
“Your parents know you are here?”
The guard left and the boys felt any concerns had been addressed. When they finished their food, however, the security guy returned. He wanted to know if they wanted a ride back to the campsite. From his tone of voice, they knew it wasn’t optional. When they were dropped off at their proposed campsite, the guard said, “You boys have a nice safe trip back to Uranium City in the morning.” And that was the end of their Gunnar visit.
Gunnar Cadaver
When Brian was fifteen, he had a part-time job working at McMurray Air Service Limited. One day, he was asked to put gas in the Norseman for a flight to Gunnar. The pilot asked if Brian would like to go along on the trip and he said yes.
Then he watched as not one but two RCMP officers arrived with a large tin shipping container and boarded the plane. The plane landed on floats in St. Mary’s Channel and a boat approached and waved them in closer to the shore.
“What are we doing here?” Brian asked as the two police officers donned hip waders and jumped into the water.
“Got a floater,” was the answer. And then Brian saw a body on the beach. The men were having trouble getting the body into a body bag.
The pilot said, “Get out there and give them a hand – I want to get home for supper.”
Brian jumped out of the plane and waded through waist-deep water to the shore. The drowned man had been in the water for a while and various aquatic creatures had partaken of his bloated flesh. Brian describes the experience as ‘like handling a slimy jackfish’. The group eventually managed to wrestle the body into the bag then struggled again to get the bagged corpse on board. Then Brian realized the purpose of the tin container: it was the coffin.
He had the dry heaves and the young cop was sick.
“Enjoy this trip, did you?” the pilot asked with a grin.
Brian told me yesterday, after reading Sun Dogs and Yellowcake, that the book “really brought out the spirit of the people up there.” That was the best praise possible as I knew from the outset that the story could only be told through the words of the people who lived there.
Brian spent his working life flying aircraft all over North America. He even flew a Twin Otter to Burma. He took the long route from Anchorage to Yellowknife, then Frobisher Bay, then through Europe. After many stops, he finally reached Burma. My thanks to Brian for sharing his stories.
Author: Patricia Sandberg
A former mining and securities lawyer, Patricia relied on her family’s history and interviews of over 150 people to write about the Cold War uranium mining town in Northern Canada that residents said was ‘the best place they ever lived’. She is now working on a novel. Sun Dogs and Yellowcake has won two international awards, was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Fred Kerner award, and was finalist for Whistler Independent Book Awards 2017. View all posts by Patricia Sandberg
Author Patricia SandbergPosted on September 10, 2018 October 18, 2020 Categories Sun Dogs Publicity, StoriesTags Eldorado Mining
2 thoughts on “Uranium City kid and Gunnar cadaver”
Terry Schorn says:
Great story Pat!
Patricia Sandberg says:
Thanks Terry. It was a great conversation with Brian that led to these stories.
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I'm happy to report (and also embarrassed about the delay) that I started reading and am well into your book now, and I have to say that I am very impressed.
I thought it was going to be just another memoir of a small town girl, but the addition of the Cold War context, and the amount of historical research that you have done is simply remarkable. I love and read a fair bit of history, but I'd forgotten or didn't know a lot about this era. Very informative.
The photos are great, and the anecdotal sidebars give it personality and bring it alive. And from a copy editor's standpoint (I used to be one) it is flawless as far as I can see. You might know otherwise. 🙂
Anyway, you have produced an important book, and it deserves a place in every library and bookstore in the country. I hope you're working on that.
Congrats on a job well done! -David Tycho, writer, editor and artist extraordinaire.
It's an amazing true tale of the men and women who built and lived in a uranium mining town on the shores of Lake Athabasca, Sask during the 1950s - 1960s. Yes, uranium! The ore that was key to the manufacture of nuclear bombs during the height of the cold war. This is an elegantly told, respectful story ... It is also about fearless pioneers, risk-taking and commitment to building a community - all values worth remembering. — Simon Johnson, best-selling author of House of Wives
.....My sincere thanks and congratulations for this great little book. One of my first tasks when I moved to Watson Lake, Yukon, was to go over to Cassiar BC and empty our church there prior to its being sold and moved out. All around me homes and two story apartments were being dismantled. Cassiar was a mining town. Its life was the asbestos mine. The town, like Gunnar, had every recreational facility and resource; every building in this neat, properly laid-out town, complete with sidewalks, was heated from the mine's steam plant. In winter, the doors would be open because it was still too hot inside.
When I held the Rite of Deconsecrating the church I invited any and all remaining members to attend. All declined. It was too emotional for them. So my congregation was just my son.
My father was a bush pilot flying out of Yellowknife after the war, but had left there before Gunnar opened. My daughter lives in Yellowknife and just recently the Giant head frame was knocked down. The town was divided between those who wanted it kept as an historic site and those who wanted to be rid of the memories it brought up.
Thanks Patricia for making Gunnar come alive with the residents' memories. John Tyrrell
Sun Dogs and Yellowcake is more than a story of a mining town, it is a story of the Canadian experience and heritage whose parallels exist in small towns throughout the country. Ms. Sandberg unfolds the experiences of the Gunnar community in which the reader assumes a front-row, central seat as the story evolves. What sets this work apart is the superb story-telling and comprehensive research into the historical mining community of Gunnar. Crafted with readable script and supported with excellent graphics and images, it presents the community’s issues, voices, and personalities clearly. Ironically, the enduring significance of what the town represented outlives its eventual demise. A delightful addition to the Canadian library of historical mining communities, Ms. Sandberg has preserved the account of a story almost lost, and added a delightful addition to the Canadiana library! KH
I’ve finished reading your book. Fascinating; brings back long ago memories for me! It must have been a huge amount of work to track down and contact the many ex-residents and obtain their input.
My interest in this story dates from a summer spent camped near the mine. In the summer of 1954, I joined a small crew from the Geological Survey of Canada as camp cook (sort of under false pretences!). It had two senior geologists and two juniors, working in pairs, doing general geology in the southern part of the Crackingstone Peninsula. We were camped along the shore about 2.5 kilometres west of the open pit site from early May to late September. Looking at the map on page 29 of Sun Dogs, it appears that the west townsite eventually extended to within 1/2 km our campsite. We had an arrangement with the mine for our fresh meat and veggies, for which we canoed over to the mine about twice a week.
The memories of a lot of it still remain vivid. An adventure, a summer job after first year of engineering studies at the U of A. Excitement mixed with loneliness amongst a tiny five-person world. This was somewhat relieved by brief trips to the mine for supplies; the excitement of the monthly canoe trips into Bushell and U-City for canned and dry food supplies; deep disappointment at missing out on one such trip. Precious mail, received via the mine. The strange call of the loons, the ravens and foxes, all this new to a prairie boy. Regards, Des Williams
P.S. It was a pleasant surprise to find that my teenage grandson was interested and has begun reading some sections of the book. Maybe I should do some sort of a write-up of what I still remember!
What I’ve read in your book so far is fantastic reading from both a personal and historical perspective. Mining history is a particular passion of mine as I was a brought up in a small coal-mining village in Scotland. Saskatchewan mining in general has been a large part of my business in my current position for more than 25 years and our youngest son will soon graduate from the University of Saskatchewan as a geologist.
I will most certainly pass along your website to my colleagues and friends and recommend they read your book.
It is interesting that in the process of your childhood you 'rubbed up against' one of the most crucial components of the twentieth century—specifically, the mineral that fueled so much of the Cold War.... The book is a vivid, compelling read, and even things that might have become mundane details are interesting—for example, when you get into the parts of how the government became involved in the search for, and in the ownership of, uranium. Very, very interesting. Neil
Beautiful format, pictures, and artwork. Just an amazing telling of the history of Gunnar. — Laurie
Truly, the heart and soul and love and time you invested was well worth it.
I’m enjoying each and every story you collected and wrote. — Sheila J
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