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The Nikola Tesla Museum is an institution of special character. Apart from having museological collections, representing a backbone of its activity, it also keeps Tesla’s personal archive and architecture. Apart from museological activities, the mission of this museum is also reflected in the exhibition and publishing activities.
Personal items and documentation of Nikola Tesla were brought to Belgrade in 1951, thanks to Tesla’s heir Sava Kosanović. After one year, at the initiative of the Council for Science and Culture, the Government of the Federative People’s Republic of Yugoslavia on December 5, 1952 reached the decision on the establishment of Nikola Tesla Museum. Chosen as the first director was the professor of the Faculty of Philosophy Veljko Korać. One year later, on April 15, 1953, the first Advisory Council of the Museum was selected with the following members: Sava Kosanović, Veljko Vlahović (Director of the Borba newspaper), Božidar Kraut, Aleksandar Damjanović, Ilija Obradović, Josip Lončar and Milan Vidmar, professor at Ljubljana University.
Since its foundation, the tasks of the Museum were, inter alia, to keep the scientific and personal legacy of Nikola Tesla, to further collect and keep the documentation and personal items related to the life and work of Nikola Tesla, to maintain permanent exhibition of materials from its collections and to organise and facilitate the studying of that material, as well as to publish the works and writings of Nikola Tesla and, as the owner of author rights, authorise publications by others.
Prof. Veljko Korać performed the function of Museum Director for full three decades, between 1952 and 1982. He established and realised the goals and task of this first memorial-technical museum in Yugoslavia.
After the foundation of the Museum and the arranging of the archive materials, the preparations for the arrangement of permanent exhibition started. The project of rearranging the ground floor of the Genčić villa in 1955 was prepared by the architect Slobodan M. Vasiljević Macuoka, student of Dragiša Brašovan. A team of professors of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, led by the director of the newly founded museum, took part in the formation of the permanent exhibition. The making of the exhibits to be exposed was assigned to the SAN Institute for the examination of electric cables, Nikola Tesla.
The first part of the permanent exhibition is situated in three premises and it chronologically follows the biography of Nikola Tesla. Exposed in the first room was the factual material testifying about Tesla’s European period, while documents related to his stay in the United States of America were exposed in the other premise. The third premise is of a memorial character and is a place where Tesla’s urn is placed today. Presented in the second part of the exhibition was the development of science in the areas of electricity and magnetism until Tesla’s discoveries.
Such a concept had not been changed until July 2016 when certain corrections were made, as well as the modernisation of exhibition with the elements of modern technology.
The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade was opened for public on October 20, 1955 and was the first technical museum in Yugoslavia. Presented on this occasion was the permanent exhibition at which the visitors could see the models made accurately according to Tesla’s drawings. Many celebrities from the fields of culture and science attended the opening procedure, including Moša Pijade, Petar Stambolić, Rodoljub Čolaković, Milentije Popović, Mijalko Todorović, Sava Kosanović, Đuro Salaj and others.
Today, the Museum is a unique institution of science and culture in Serbia and in the world. It is the only museum that keeps original and personal legacy of Nikola Tesla. It possesses extremely valuable collections:
over 160,000 original documents;
over 2,000 books and newspapers;
over 1,200 historical-technical exhibits;
over 1,500 photos and glass photo-boards, original technical objects, instruments and appliances;
over 1,000 plans and drawings.
The Museum plays a special role in organising, encouraging and promoting explorations in the field of science in order to observe more clearly Tesla’s contribution to the development of sciences and technology in late 19th and early 20th century.
By: Ivana Ćirić, curator
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal picked apart second round opponent Matthew Ebden 6-3 6-2 6-2 at the Australian Open on Wednesday, in a near flawless display of top-spinning artistry.
Tennis - Australian Open - Second Round - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, January 16, 2019. Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates after winning the match against Australia's Matthew Ebden. REUTERS/Edgar Su
The second seed overcame an early first set challenge from the Australian, who should have secured a break-of-serve with the scores locked at 3-3.
Ebden missed a backhand volley off an unexceptional passing shot - and it proved costly.
The Australian was broken the next game, succumbing with a double-fault, and the Spaniard went through the broken line of defense, securing the set and an early break in the second.
“I started a little bit slow ... then I saved that game at three-all,” Nadal said.
“After that, things changed. I think I played well.”
Sensing an early end to the proceedings, the crowd tried to lift one of its few remaining local hopes, while at the same time being dazzled by the Spaniard’s control of the court.
The 17-times Grand Slam winner was never seriously challenged again, and the third set became an exhibition match.
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Man, 28, sentenced for role in 2006 shooting death of Oceanside police officer
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In 2006, five days before Christmas, a gunman’s bullet pierced the heart of an Oceanside police officer.
Now, 12 1/2 years after Officer Dan Bessant was gunned down during a traffic stop, the third of three gang members who opened fire that night has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Oceanside police Officer Dan Bessant
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On Friday, Bessant’s parents Steve and Jeanne and several law enforcement officers watched in a Vista courtroom as Superior Court Judge Carlos Armour sentenced Jose Compre, now 28. During the hearing, Steve Bessant, 59, made a statement to the judge.
“The enormity of this crime can’t be overstated,” his statement reads. “On that night, on that terrible night 12 years ago, our family was torn apart. It’s as if a bomb exploded in our lives and we will never be the same.”
Compre was 16 when he and two fellow teenage gang members ambushed the 25-year-old officer during a traffic stop on Dec. 20, 2006.
Authorities said all three opened fire. One of the bullets struck Bessant, the father of a then-two-month-old son.
The other two gunmen were found guilty of murder at trials several years ago, but lack of evidence led a judge to dismiss the case against Compre. He was rearrested and charged with murder in 2016. Authorities said they had new evidence, but did not disclose it.
Compre pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, and admitted that he personally fired a gun during the incident that killed the officer and that it was done for the benefit of a street gang. As part of the plea deal, Compre agreed to the lengthy sentence and waived his right to appeal.
Deputy District Attorney Tom Manning, who has been the prosecutor on the case since the beginning, said Friday that the plea provided “a reasonable and just resolution for a case that is more than 12 years old.”
The killing in Oceanside’s back-gate area was a crime of opportunity.
The trio of teens were standing in front of a home on Arthur Avenue when Bessant and another officer conducted a traffic stop a half block away at the corner of Gold Drive.
Prosecutors argued the three teens had been drinking beer and had watched the police activity for about 15 minutes before opening fire. Two of the teens had handguns, the prosecutor said, and one had a rifle.
A rifle round struck Bessant. No one else was hit.
Compre and two fellow gang members Meki Gaono, then 17, and Penifoti “P.J.” Taeutui, then 16, were charged as adults.
Compre’s charges were dismissed, but Gaono and Taeutui were convicted at separate trials. Each was sentenced to life in prison.
Steve Bessant addressed Compre at Friday’s hearing, telling the defendant that he’d “caught a huge break” when the charges were dismissed years ago, but had failed to redeem himself. Bessant encouraged Compre “to begin the hard work of learning how to be someone who makes the world better.”
“You have the hope of returning to your family before you reach middle age,” his statement reads. “Let that hope drive your actions.
After the hearing, Bessant thanked the police and prosecutors who worked on the case, saying there were “a lot of people who never relented.”
“The idea of closure is a false idea,” Bessant said, “although this does bring some relief.”
Compre’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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HOMO FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Christmas Divas: Five Singers Who Ought To Release Holiday Albums
By Graham Gremore December 14, 2013 at 9:12am · 34 comments
Most singers record Christmas albums to make a quick buck. It’s a cheap and easy way to fund their holiday shopping sprees, and it keeps the fans happy between studio albums.
Every now and then, however, a Christmas album can have a lasting impact on an artist’s career (Mariah Carey’s 1994 album Merry Christmas, for instance, has sold over 15 million copies and remains the bestselling Christmas album of all time).
Given Mariah’s success, we can’t help but wonder why more divas don’t release Christmas albums. We’ve compiled a list of divas who we think should consider releasing holiday albums.
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Seriously? 5 Choices and you pick Kanye West? I’m out.
Not a huge Mariah Carey fan but I have to say that if you like Christmas CD’s hers was pretty great.
Niall
Yes if there’s one thing I’ve always thought Christmas music lacked, it’s a bit of Britney Spears and Kanye West.
December 14, 2013 at 1:12pm
kpj558
R.I.P Donna Summer. She would have taken all these other bitches to school.
jimbryant
Spare us these “divas”. All they do is give us gay guys a false sense of security. They prevent gay and bisexual male singers from having success on the charts. They are blocking them.
There is not one openly gay or bisexual male singer in the ITunes top 200 singles chart. Not one. Nuff said.
Tyler100
@jimbryant:
That’s it Jim: female pop stars have conspired against gay and bisexual men to prevent them from being successful in the music biz. Those Illuminati wenches and their crafty reverse-sexism laced with homophobia are to blame for the lack of majorly successful, openly gay and bisexual men in music. That’s a perfectly sound and not an all crazy idea. You’re super sane and it shoes.
You’re mentally ill and desperately paranoid. Nuff said.
Believe it or not, Rupaul not only has a VERY NICE Christmas CD but his/her very memorable TV special from the 1990’s is well worth a look on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUSl7no6cI
I do wish SOMEONE had stopped Madonna from butchering Santa Baby. Only the late, great Eartha Kitt can do that song at Christmas time.
Are you so stupid that you can’t see that these divas have blocked gay male success? I’m certainly not stupid.
Let’s cut through the crap here. We gay guys have been fed this crap that these divas are gay-friendly and that they embrace us. Embrace us, my foot. All they really embrace is money. Money, money, money.
We have been tricked into supporting these divas with the false embrace. What these divas are actually doing is physically blocking the idea that gay male singers should be charting. By blocking them, these divas have forced our allegiances down the path that leads to their bank accounts.
Divas suck.
You’re right, Jim/Rick: you’re not stupid. You’re sick.
If divas don’t embrace “us” then you and divas have that in common. Let’s cut through the crap here: you can’t stand gay men, particularly openly gay men. You loathe the entire LGBT community, but particularly the G community, because you hate yourself. Every and all comments you posted to this site are indicative of that.
You know full well that there aren’t any openly gay male acts on the ITunes top 200 music charts. Have you ever bothered to question why?
It’s because the recording labels won’t sign them. They prefer to sign “divas” whom they can then market to us gay guys as being “gay-friendly”. We’re being conned by the recording labels and by the divas.
These divas are the product of homophobia. They are the enablers of homophobia. So long as we gay guys continue to embrace them, they will continue to be enablers of homophobia.
Just because you keep repeating it doesn’t magically turn that point into anything resembling truth. Shout it until your face turns blue. At the end of the day, the only truth realized is that you’re a hyper paranoid, misogynist troll who detests anything involving women or male effeminacy.
Nobody cares about what you are saying except your reflection in the mirror.
I’ve made a factual case. There are no openly gay or bisexual male singers in the ITunes top 200. This proves that there is a campaign to keep them out. “Divas” are a part of this campaign to keep us out.
The only convincing argument you’ve made is for your institutionalization.
queertyreader
I absolutely don’t like Beyoncé and Kanye West because they wear fur (and Beyoncé even produces it with her own clothing line). Anyone who has ever seen a video of a Chinese fur farm (I encourage you to take a look on YouTube) will agree that it is absolutely WRONG to wear or endorse fur. Only people who have no emotions would do such a thing.
Deepdow
Ugh Jimbryant
I would actually gay bash you.
Yes Jim, we get it, somebody’s mommy didn’t hug him enough and now you hate all women.
Rockery
@Caine:
Kanye was one of the first rappers at the height of his career to speak out not only against homophobia, but to speak positively about the gay community.
Mariah Carey makes Christmas special, great voice
@Tyler100: @Cam: @Deepdow:
Underneath his hatred for women and odd tangents he does have a point that no one has addressed all year. Why are there no OUT men in the on top of Billboard 200 not even a single on Top 100? Where is our community? How many known Out performers have even made Top 50? Can you name 5? Adam Lambert, RuPaul, Elton John I can’t think of anyone else off hand… It’s something to think about.
I love the conspiracy theory that divas prevent gay men from making the charts. Why not blame rap or country as well? Country takes up a lot of chart positions and so does rap. How about the plight of rock musicians in 2013 where pretty much every guitar-oriented act is labeled a “hipster act” and only makes indie charts and we have a generation now who thinks Maroon 5 is a rock band when they’re really just an older One Direction.
It isn’t divas holding gay men back on the charts… it’s fundamentalist right-wing Christians who think we deserve AIDS and to go to hell.
I do love Jimbryant’s rants about how much women hate gay men and everything… when if anything women seem more openminded to LGBT issues than straight men. I remember when Queer As Folk was on the air, it was well known that adult straight women made up the biggest part of the viewing audience for the show, not gay men. Look at how fanatical Adam Lambert’s female fans are and how they try to act like being a fan of his that they understand what being gay is like more than those of us who ARE gay men but not a fan of his lame milquetoast pop music. This whole “women hate us” thing is just playing a victim.
@Rockery: Kanye may be pro-gay, but he’s still a huge arrogant douchebag who has alienated more people than made fans by his pompous “I am God” attitude and his behaviour. He might support the gay community, but it doesn’t take away the fact that he’s a prick who sees himself as the second coming. Just because he supports gay rights doesn’t mean I have to like a man who has aligned himself with the Kardashian family, the biggest famewhores on the planet… proving he’s no better than they are if he can have any woman on the planet and chooses her.
@jimbryant: Why divas and no other act? Why are divas holding gay men back any more than all the country artists that sell big numbers or the rappers, or everyone else who has a spot on the chart?
And I love the irony that you have such an innate hatred for divas while having Bryant in your username… Guess you are the type of masochist who loves being spit on and having people put cigarette burns out on you if you name hate “divas” but have a love for Anita Bryant… someone who could’ve had a huge gay following but threw her gays away and treated us worse than dirt. I bet you also queen out over Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann and how “fabulous” they are, correct?
Rockery,
The problem is that we gay guys have been lulled into a sense of false security by these divas. We are led to believe that these divas are “fiercely standing up” for us gays. It lulls us into thinking that we don’t need to worry anymore about gay representation.
The sad and shocking truth is that these divas are holding us back. It’s a horrific truth.
Keep in mind that, since that so-called gay advocate and purported diva Madonna hit the scene 30 years ago, only one openly gay American male has had commercial success, and that’s Adam Lambert. Out of thousands of pop acts, there has only been one. His success has vanished in recent years.
Here’s another shocking truth: there is much greater acceptance of women who are gay or bisexual. Thus, there is a double standard which is holding gay men back. Women are largely to blame.
Another shocking truth: you need proper mental health treatment and a hug.
I call it as I sees it. The divas are holding us back.
what about Frank Ocean?
Lambert’s career didn’t live to expectations because his music was milquetoast pop crap. He went on and on about how he was this “rock star” and how his idols were Bowie and Freddie Mercury and how he wanted to bring glam rock back yet when his album came out it was the exact same watered down soccer mom garbage that acts like Maroon 5 and Daughtry made. Gays didn’t embrace him not because of internalized homophobia, but because there’s no reason we should embrace someone if we can’t stand the music. Adam tailored his music for 40 year old housewives who consider Maroon 5 to be a hip and edgy rock band, not for gay audiences.
Frank Ocean has never said he’s gay.
The key thing to understand here is that the labels where these divas are signed will not sign an openly gay male singer. This is further evidence that the divas are part of a ploy to hold us gay guys back.
Christmas is coming up, Jim/Rick. What size should I get your tinfoil hat in?
krystalkleer
ok 1st off Jim…yer just a few flavors short of a bowl of fruit loops…enough with the pour’n of yer mental milk! Boy George…Pete Burns…Elton John…Adam Lambert? correct me if i’m wrong (actually don’t cuz you will be anyways) but are ya gett’n the picture here? and lastly…the BIGGEST DIVA of them ALL…M-A-D-O-N-N-A was brilliant with Santa Baby…and needs to come out with her own xmas cd!! http://getoffmydress.blogspot.com/2013/12/ho-ho-hold-up-minute.html
Can you humor us please and name us five singers you do like? You hate artists you consider homophobic, you hate openly gay acts… but at the same time hate artists who are embracive of LGBT rights and gay fans because you are a conspiracy theorist who believes that they’re all secretly the same as Anita Bryant and want to keep the gay man down. Seriously, I bet Cyndi Lauper for example has done more for the gay community than you ever will.
Pete Burns, Elton John and Boy George were British, not American. They were not out during their success. After John and George came out, their success on the chart waned.
Let’s face it – the divas are holding us back. They are blocking gay male success on the charts.
Look. I like very few of the pop divas on the charts now. I can’t stand Gaga, Britney, Beyonce, Katy Perry, etc…, but my dislike of those artists has nothing to do with “homophobia” but more that my musical preferences are in another direction. I bet you were one of those five people who threw their Madonna fandom away when she defended Eminem’s right to freedom of speech despite looking at the bigger picture and realizing she would’ve come off the biggest hypocrite in the world if she’d called Eminem out and told him what he cannot say after all the times people tried to silence her a decade earlier.
And again. Name me five artists that meet the Jimbryant stamp of approval. You’re really reaching if you’re wasting energy that should be saved for Westboro Baptist Church and other religious and conservative leaders on people like Lady Gaga, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper (who I think has more than shown she is a true ally to the community. She opened a shelter for runaway gay teens… what have YOU done to help gay people in need?). If you’re going to hate Gaga, hate her for the fact that everything she does is a gimmick and that she’s flash over substance, not because you fear that she’s secretly a Bible-totin’ bigot even though she wrote a song for Adam Lambert and gave Scissor Sisters an opening act slot on her tour, exposing them to a larger audience.
Jimbryant, we’re still waiting.
FIVE artists, just five, that you actually like. It isn’t really hard, unless you hate homophobes for being homophobes, gays for being gay, and pro-gay straight artists for secretly being Anita Bryant’s with better business sense.
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Man receives jail sentence after spitting at Killarney gardaí
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A man has received a five-month prison sentence after spitting at three gardaí in Killarney.
Jamie Power, with an address of Muckross Road, Killarney but who’s originally from Tralee, pleaded guilty to assault at Tralee District Court.
Jamie Power, who’s in his twenties, was arrested on a public order matter on Monday night, July 27th, and brought to Killarney Garda Station.
While in custody, he spat at three gardaí.
Mr Power was charged with assault under section two of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.
He appeared before Tralee District Court yesterday where he pleaded guilty to assault.
Judge David Waters sentenced Mr Power to five months in prison.
Mr Power’s solicitor Pádraig O’Connell put forward an abject apology on behalf of his client and told the court that Mr Power had been on prescribed medication and had consumed alcohol. Mr O’Connell said Mr Power was taking his punishment on the chin.
Mr O’Connell said Jamie Power spat at the gardaí while under arrest in the cell area of the station and was in a highly emotional state. Mr O’Connell stated that the early plea was indicative of his insight into his wrongdoing.
Supt Flor Murphy of the Killarney Garda Division stated that this behaviour is disgusting and particularly nasty during the current pandemic. He said it also showed what gardaí have to deal with on a regular basis.
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ON THE PACE: HIRVONEN TAKES SECOND IN PORTUGAL
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M-Sport World Rally Team’s Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen were back on form at this weekend’s Vodafone Rally de Portugal. Fighting for the lead, the pairing finished in a strong second place – their best performance of the season to date.
Straight on the pace, Hirvonen took an early lead with an inspired tyre choice through the first full day of competition. Despite falling victim to a revived Sebastien Ogier, the Finn looked at one behind the wheel of his Ford Fiesta RS WRC. Finding himself outside of the top-three on only four of the 15 speed tests, the Finn produced a highly competitive and consistent performance.
Tyre choice was a tricky call for the final day. Having selected the prime option for each of the earlier legs, Hirvonen was at a disadvantage for the final loop with just a selection of well-worn soft compounds in his arsenal. Opting for a configuration of worn-soft and fresh-hard tyres, Michelin’s resilient rubber held up to the challenge and the Finn was even able to post a second fastest time through S. Brás de Alportel (SS15).
Growing in confidence with each new kilometre, the M-Sport driver commented on how natural he felt behind the wheel of his reacquainted charge. Able to fight risk-free at the head of the field, this weekend’s result provides the perfect platform for a resurgent Hirvonen to make his mark on the championship.
Speaking of comebacks, Elfyn Evans came back fighting after a disappointing retirement on Friday’s opening leg. Rather than holding back, the Welshman was encouraged to continue the pace he was setting at the beginning of the rally. The youngster didn’t disappoint and rewarded his team of expert mechanics – who had worked throughout Friday night to provide him with a perfect Fiesta RS WRC – by posting a fourth fastest time on SS12 and continuing his development at the WRC’s highest level.
Regularly around half a second a kilometre off the pace of the leaders, Evans and co-driver Daniel Barritt are making real progress whilst displaying all the potential for future success.
Following a successful weekend for the M-Sport team with 42 Ford Fiestas appearing on the entry list – the highest number of M-Sport cars to have ever appeared at a single WRC event – the team prepares for Rally Argentina with what looks set to be one of its highest entry percentages.
The rally organisers have released a provisional entry list, and of the 22 cars entered to date, 55 per cent carry the Blue Oval. Entries for the South American fixture close this Tuesday.
Mikko Hirvonen (2nd) said:
“I’m really happy with this result. We came here wanting a good, clean rally and that is what we have done. The car has been absolutely perfect – and really competitive – all weekend so a big thanks to the boys for the top job they’ve done.
“We knew that we had the pace, it was just a case of bringing everything together and I think that we did that this weekend. We’ll keep developing and learning, so hopefully we can fight even harder in the coming rallies.
“We’ve been another step closer this weekend, and it’s really good for the whole team. I’m sure this result will boost everyone and that we can continue to challenge at the head of the field.”
Elfyn Evans (22nd) said:
“After the mishap on Friday, the rally has been quite good to us. I need to say a huge thanks to the mechanics who worked through the night to provide us with a perfect car from Saturday onwards. After the state we left it in, I really wasn’t expecting it to be perfect! They did a brilliant job and I hope that we’ve done them proud over the past two days.
“We had a chance to learn a lot about the car and the driving so it’s been a great learning experience and another good step forward. Obviously we have another new rally next, so we might see a slightly different approach there, but I’m pleased with the way things are going so far.”
Team Principal, Malcolm Wilson OBE, said:
“I cannot tell you how satisfying it is to see Mikko [Hirvonen] fighting for wins again. We all knew that he had the speed and the determination to do it and to see it all coming together now is fantastic. He had the perfect strategy for the opening phases – taking an early lead – and then controlled it brilliantly to bring home a season-best second place.
“I was also very impressed with how strongly Elfyn [Evans] came back after Friday’s disappointment. He continued to run at the same pace and set some very encouraging times. He’s making some really good progress and we’ll be sure to see more from him as the season continues.”
ADDITIONAL M-SPORT DRIVERS
Never giving anything less than 100 per cent as he piloted his Ford Fiesta RS WRC through Rally de Portugal’s tricky speed tests, Henning Solberg secured an impressive fifth place overall. The charismatic Norwegian set a string of highly competitive splits and was able to challenge the WRC regulars on what has been his first gravel event in a World Rally Car for more than two years.
In the WRC 2 category, M-Sport continued their dominant display with another victory. A range of M-Sport cars occupied the top eight places with Nasser Al-Attiyah’s Ford Fiesta RRC securing the win ahead of the Ford Fiesta R5s of Jari Ketomaa and Pontus Tidemand. The Ford Fiesta S2000 of Karl Kruuda finished in fourth place – proving that M-Sport’s product range remains competitive at every level.
Being run by the M-Sport team, Tidemand’s podium was a fantastic result on what is the Swede’s first outing with the Fiesta R5. The reigning FIA Junior World Rally champion put in a composed, managed and progressive drive. When his podium position came under threat, he posted the fastest time on SS15 – some 7.7 seconds quicker than anybody else – to underline his speed and potential. Continuing to develop, Tidemand’s next outing in the WRC’s premier support series will be at Rally Italia Sardegna in June.
Henning Solberg (5th) said:
“I am very satisfied with the job we have done this weekend. This is my first time in a world rally car on gravel in more than two years and I was really very pleased with the pace we were able to set.
“I can go faster, I am sure of that. I’m an old guy, but I am very motivated. Give me a couple of days testing and I’ll be beating these young guys again, I can tell you that!”
Pontus Tidemand (3rd in WRC2) said:
“I am very pleased with the job we have done this weekend. We were able to make some really good progress and, when we came under pressure, we were able to show some really good speed too. It’s been a very controlled rally and I’m really pleased with the result.
“The car has been perfect all weekend so a big thanks to the team for that. It’s such a comfortable car to drive, and I’m really looking forward to the next events to see what we can do.”
“Henning Solberg, is there really much more that you can say? It’s always a pleasure to have Henning in the service park, and to see him performing so well here this weekend – more than two years after his last outing in a world rally car on gravel – is something very special. A very competitive performance from him and Ilka [Minor, co-driver] and if we see them back this year, I’m sure he’ll be challenging the young guys once again.
“It’s also been another very encouraging weekend for our Fiestas in the WRC 2 category with another clean-sweep of the podium. The [Ford] Fiesta RRC, R5 and S2000 were all represented in the top-four and I think that just goes to show what a competitive product range we have developed with Ford.
“I was also very impressed with Pontus’ [Tidemand] drive. This was his first outing in the Fiesta R5 and he controlled his debut brilliantly. He didn’t take any unnecessary risks and managed the entire rally with some very encouraging progress. Then, when his podium position came under threat, he posted an absolutely sensational time [on SS15]. This has been a very good event for him, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what he can do as he gets more accustomed with the car.”
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LUSAIL (Qatar): Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah cruised through the final six gravel special stages of the Manateq Qatar International Rally to seal a convincing victory on Saturday.
A record-breaking 14th victory in his home event also marked a remarkable 70th MERC victory in the 211-event history of the FIA Middle East Rally Championships since 1984. His French co-driver Matthieu Baumel duly claimed his third win in Qatar and a career 18th in the MERC.
The success also marked the first outright FIA championship rally win for Volkswagen’s Polo GTI R5 that made its debut at the WRC in Spain last October and claimed WRC 2 success in Sweden in February with Norwegian driver Ole Christian Veiby. Customer Polos have already won national events in Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Latvia this year
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RALLY MUNDIAL 2015: RALLY REPORT MAGAZINE ARGENTINA OBSERVA SU EDICIÓN 124 Y LLEGA A 11.000 MIL SEGUIDORES EN LA FANPAGE DE SU EDITOR
4. febrero 2015
Mucho trabajo, preparativos para el armado de la edición 124 de nuestra publicación RRM Argentina y además muy felices con la estupenda aceptación de miles de seguidores en nuestras fanpages en las redes sociales. Mucho agradecimiento y confianza para seguir por más en todos los aspectos de la información en la actividad a nivel nacional e internacional.
Hola Amigos & fans, les quiero agradecer profundamente su seguimiento diario, mediante mis informes, fotos, links de mis fanpages de trabajo, de teams, drivers, videos y todo lo relacionado con la actividad que nos apasiona, y nos une en cada jornada, el RALLY, en especial el WRC. Llegamos juntos a 11.000 friends que comparten esta pasión, y labor junto a mí.
Los quiero mucho, un fuerte abrazo y vámos por más.
Les entrego esta emocionante foto de uno de mis autos favoritos, diría de leyenda el Subaru Impreza WRC 555 que tripulaban en el Rally de Cataluña en España 2002, el vikingo noruego Petter Solberg y su navegante galés Phil Mills junto a la histórica empresa británica Prodrive, bajo el apoyo económico desde Mitaka en Tokio en Japón by STI.
A menos de 10 días del Rally blanco de Suecia, con mucha expectativa para volver a ver a los mejores exponentes del WRC en los caminos forestales nórdicos, les dejamos una foto recordatoria de la edición 1995 con el Impreza 555 de Grupo A que intervinieron en esa instancia en el equipo azul de Prodrive, el español Carlos Sainz, el recordado escocés Colin McRae y el local Mat Jonsson.
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I love them dearly, a big hug and go for more.
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Dos grandes amigos y fotógrafos de la historia en el WRC, un italiano, Manrico Martella & Miquel Liso., un español que ha dado todo por el Rally en la década de los años 90. Hoy con dos trabajos diferentes, Manri con la labor a tiempo completo en el Rally Mondiale e Miquel con su talento innovador en las fotografías en la fórmula 1.
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M-Sport’s Managing Director, Malcolm Wilson OBE, is celebrating 40 Years in Business this summer. Since forming Malcolm Wilson Motorsport in 1979, his company has gone from strength to strength and M-Sport now operates a thriving motorsport business on the stages and circuits of some of the world’s most acclaimed motorsport series.
To celebrate, the EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRCs will carry a commemorative logo at this weekend’s Neste Rally Finland – harking back to the original Malcolm Wilson Motorsport design. Teemu Suninen and Gus Greensmith will also wear special red gloves in celebration of Wilson’s ruby anniversary, while the retro-inspired logo will appear as the profile picture on M-Sport’s social media platforms.
“When I started Malcolm Wilson Motorsport, I never imagined it would become what it is today. Likewise when the company became M-Sport and we moved into Dovenby Hall, I never thought we would outgrow the space. But we now have a state-of-the-art facility in Krakow and are in the midst of building the M-Sport Evaluation Centre which will provide a unique centre of excellence for engineering design and development.
“It’s really quite humbling when I look back at all the success we have achieved over the past 40 years, and how the company has grown and developed in that time. But none of it would have been possible without the hard work and dedication of every single member of the team who have passed through the doors of both M-Sport and Malcolm Wilson Motorsport.
“The business has been blessed with some fantastic people, and it’s those people who have made this success possible. I would like to say a massive thank you to each and every one of them.”
OF WILSON’S SUCCESS
Founded in support of its namesake’s career, Malcolm Wilson Motorsport grew alongside the Cumbrian’s own success and was soon running customer cars on a global scale. In 1994 Wilson achieved a long-held ambition by securing the British International Rally Championship crown, and in that same year Wilson-run Escorts also won national titles in Italy, Portugal and the Middle East.
Then in 1996, Malcolm Wilson Motorsport achieved something phenomenal – the privately-run team from the edge of the English Lake District taking Jarmo Kytölehto and Arto Kapanen to the podium at the 1,000 Lakes Rally – bettering all of the factory-run Fords at the Finnish round of the FIA World Rally Championship and ensuring that the world was paying attention.
At the end of that year, Wilson was offered the Ford contract for rallying as well as competition research and development. Ford’s trust was not misplaced, and victories in Greece and Indonesia the following year saw Ford secure the runner-up spot in the FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers.
Work on the design of a brand new Ford Focus WRC started in Cumbria and in 1999 the new car made its debut in the hands of a new driver – Colin McRae. The car set fastest times on its debut and was a rally winner by its third event – the late, great Scotsman securing victories at the Safari Rally as well as a month later in Portugal.
Under Wilson’s leadership, the team enjoyed much success. In 2000 they moved from Wilson’s home into new premises at Dovenby Hall, and in 2006 Ford won the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time in 27 years – followed by a second successive manufacturers’ title in 2007.
Ford had to make a tough decision and withdraw officially from the championship in 2012, but Wilson kept going – continuing to work closely with the Blue Oval and keeping the Ford name at rallying’s highest level.
His dedication to the brand was rewarded in 2017 when M-Sport’s privately-run team delivered its most impressive performance to date – out-performing three of the world’s largest manufacturers to secure the FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Drivers and Co-drivers.
A second Driver and Co-driver crown followed in 2018, and the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team has become one of rallying’s most popular and successful corporations.
In its mission to be a world leader, M-Sport also continues to operate a thriving customer business – assisting Ford drivers around the world and establishing a comprehensive ‘Ladder of Opportunity’ with the all-new Ford Fiesta R1, R2 and R5 providing a clear progression path from grass root to top-level rallying.
Wilson also expanded the rally firm with a new state-of-the-art new facility in Krakow which is now responsible for all two-wheel-drive design, development and manufacture.
But it’s not just in rallying that Wilson’s team excels, and in 2013 M-Sport’s engineering excellence caught the eye of Bentley Motorsport – the two companies joining forces for an all-British assault on the racetrack.
Operating as the luxury car firm’s technical partner, success was swift and Bentley Team M-Sport secured victories at Silverstone and Paul Ricard in its debut season. In 2017, the team were victorious in the Blancpain GT Series Teams Endurance Cup, and the partnership now also operates a flourishing customer programme across four continents.
In 2018, Wilson also ensured his team were invested in up-and-coming green motorsport and joined Jaguar as technical partner for the I-PACE eTROPHY – a battery electric zero-emission series which supports the FIA Formula E Championship.
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RRM WRC ARGENTINA MAGAZINE 137 🇦🇷 🌍
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A 21 años de historia en el Rally Mundial, con este número 137. Nos desplegamos con una nómina de temas, muy interesante, desde el Rally de Gales con el triunfo de Ott Tänak, sobre la Yaris WRC de Toyota, que gestiona el finés Tommi Mäkinen. Además de una nota bastante significativa de la noruega Veronica Engan, hermosa copiloto y haciendo experiencia en la estructura de Jÿvaskyla en TGR WRT.
La despedida victoriosa del «vikingo» noruego Petter Solberg, en la clase WRC 2, junto al local Phil Mills, que en su última incursión en el Mundial de Rally, en Inglaterra al volante del Polo GTI R5 de la gerencia deportiva de Hannover por VW Motorsport. Y su hijo Oliver, que estrenó su vínculo en el WRC con el otro auto alemán de nueva generación.
El romano Max Rendina, regresa a la actividad profesional del Rally Mundial en el año próximo con la Fabia R5 EVO by Motorsport Italia.
El estupendo momento de Hyundai Motorsport GmbH, ante el liderazgo en la tabla de posiciones entre las marcas con sus veloces i20 WRC Plus 2019.
La normativa del flamante vehículo estadounidense en la clase R5, que fabrica y proyecta M-Sport, que conduce el inglés Malcom Wilson, el novedoso Fiesta R5 MK II.
La ratificación en el calendario de la entrada de japón al WRC 2020.
Prodrive, sigue aumentando ingresos para retornar a la base de su categoría estrella, el CMR, será en el 2022 con los coches híbridos. Volverá el auto azul de Mitaka con Banbury en la división técnica desde el Reino Unido.
Pläzy, festeja el título ecuménico de la WRC2 Pro con el escandinavo Kalle Rovanperä, ganando en Liverpool.
El anuncio oficial del WRC 2020, con la continuidad del Rally de la República Argentina en sus 40 años de historia, que se correrá en los días iniciales de mayo, en el ciclo venidero.
Fabio Andolfi, la realidad italiana, que expone ACI Sport y MSI en el WRC 2, manejando la Fabia R5 de la formación romana, que lideran Bruno De Pianto & Max Rendina.
STARD & TEIN, cumplen con el sueño de proyectar el Fiesta eléctrico «PROJECT E», que correrá en el World RX 2021.
Una temporada auspiciosa, que nos eleva una epílogo más con la publicación RRM WRC Argentina, en sus 21 estaciones con la disciplina en el ámbito nacional y internacional.
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PETTER SOLBERG 🇳🇴 LANDS THE HIGH FIVE WITH ANOTHER WALES RALLY GB WIN 🇬🇧🌍
8. octubre 2019
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The stars aligned for Petter in Wales last week,as former team-members joined him at Wales Rally GB.
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Emotional farewell as Petter signs off with a WRC 2 victory
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Mixed emotions doesn’t come close for the Solberg family following another thrilling week in Wales.
Petter and Oliver drove their Volkswagen Polo GTI R5s on one of the season’s most complicated and competitive rallies. Both have a story to tell…
For Petter, a four-time Wales Rally GB winner, the last week has been an astonishingly rapid run down memory lane. It’s seven years since the triple world champion competed in Britain, but it felt like yesterday when he delivered the dream: a fifth Wales Rally GB win – admittedly, this one was in the WRC 2 category.
This time, even Hollywood was almost lost for words.
“Incredible,” he said. “Unbelievable. Since we planned the Farewell Tour at the start of the year, I wanted to come here and wanted to do GB. It was different this time with Oliver driving as well. The emotions were a little bit more complicated, but this result… what can I say?
“The comeback starts now!”
Petter admitted returning to one of the season’s most complicated rallies was not straightforward.
“I didn’t underestimate how tough this would be? But maybe I forgot a little bit about how tough it was! This rally is one of the hardest in the championship and it always was – that’s one of the things that make it so special when you are having the success here.
“The days are long and the roads are so, so difficult to read and take confidence from, but when you get it right, it’s the best feeling in the world.”
More on that comeback?
“Do you think I should? Maybe? No, we’re working on Oliver’s plan now. Oliver is the future for the Solberg story, mine is a little bit in the history now. Honestly, it’s been really nice, fun and a lot of emotions coming to this rally. I love this place and these people, so to share my last proper WRC round with Wales was so special for me and Phil.
“That was the proper way to say goodbye.”
In the last week, Oliver’s World Rally Championship dream got real.
After an already insanely successful rookie season of four-wheel drive rallying, where Oliver has become the youngest ever European Rally Championship event winner and taken America by storm with Subaru Motorsports USA, Wales Rally GB was the next mountain to climb.
Predictably, Oliver made short work of his big moment. He was fastest of all the R5 cars (including WRC 2 Pro and WRC 2) on just his third stage in the World Rally Championship.
Unfortunately, a misted-up windscreen spoiled SS1, while a smashed wheel rim on the second test ruled him out Friday. After a day by the north Wales seaside, Oliver was very much back in business on Saturday morning.
That’s when the fastest times started. Nobody drove an R5 car faster than Oliver through Dyfi and Myherin. Nobody.
Unfortunately, just as the weekend was starting to fly, Sweet Lamb turned sour and Saturday was done.
“The car stopped,” said Oliver. “We don’t know why. We checked everything, but it wasn’t possible to continue. We came to service and the team made lots of investigations, worked on the car and then I could come back again on Sunday.
“Of course, it was disappointing that we couldn’t take the experience we wanted from all of the stages, but the thing I wanted to have a look at for myself was the speed.
“I have been asking myself for the whole time: “Where am I for the speed? How will I compare with the other guys?
“When I came to the first stage on Saturday morning, it was really difficult. I had nothing to win and a lot to lose if I crashed. Honestly, we drove at around 95 per cent and the times were good.”
Good? Try sensational.
Through the 26-kilometre Dyfi test, Oliver was 9.1 seconds faster than any other R5 cars. And 24.7s up on Papa.
“That was good,” he said. “I enjoyed that one – the grip was really good in places and this took me by surprise. I was braking early many times.”
In Myherin, Oliver could only manage fastest by 3.1s and this time Petter was just eight down.
After that, Saturday went south, but Sunday demonstrated more speed and more potential before he rolled in the penultimate test.
Oliver said: “The end of the event wasn’t like we wanted, but the dream really has come true for me to be here. Wales and the World Rally Championship wasn’t like my Papa told me it would be. It was evenbetter.”
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Nasser Al-Attiyah celebrated his sixth Cyprus Rally victory on Sunday evening by revealing that he’s considering a full FIA European Rally Championship campaign in 2020.
Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, has enjoyed a long run of success in stage and cross-country rallying at both regional and international level.
He’s yet to tackle more than a handful of ERC events in any one season but that could change next year.
“We are thinking to the European [championship] next year, we will sit with the team and we will see,” said Al-Attiyah, who drove an Autotek Motorsport-run Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 to victory in Cyprus.
“To compete in different race [is the reason], we know everybody, the atmosphere in this European championship is really great, a family, and a lot of media. And when you win you win the race.”
In addition to a possible ERC bid, Al-Attiyah also confirmed he hopes to represent Qatar in skeet shooting at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Frequent, improper use of stun gun on suspects earned MPD officer nickname: taser face
MPD fails to refer this and other excessive force cases to prosecutors, yet exonerates more officers
Marc Perrusquia
Joshua Cortez sits outside his home in East Memphis where MPD patrolman Colin Berryhill used a Taser on him for “pain compliance’’ as he was held by four other officers. (Houston Cofield/Special to The Daily Memphian)
He had a nickname: “Taser Face’’.
Memphis Police Officer Colin Berryhill picked up the moniker last year from a lieutenant after the patrolman used his department-issued electroshock Taser gun on a series of suspects. But as supervisors began exploring those incidents, a trail of questions emerged:
Berryhill deployed his Taser on a handcuffed motorist during what appeared to be an otherwise minor traffic stop; he zapped a juvenile in the back following a dispute; he used it again to stun a troubled young adult as he was held by four other officers during a domestic disturbance.
“They tased him. I’m thinking, why?’’ said Jose Cortez, whose son Joshua was stunned by Berryhill as he was surrounded by officers during an April 2019 incident at the Cortez family’s ranch house in Memphis’ Colonial Acres area. “Why? I mean, he’s a kid.’’
Though internal investigators found Berryhill violated department regulations governing use of force in each of the three incidents, the Memphis Police Department did not seek prosecutorial review of his actions to determine if they might have violated criminal laws.
His is the sixth such use-of-force case identified by the Institute for Public Service Reporting and The Daily Memphian in which prosecutors say they didn’t receive a referral despite questions of possible criminal conduct by officers.
“I’d love to give you my side’’ of the story, said Berryhill, 31, an 11-year police veteran who remains on the force. The disciplinary case against him is still pending, however, and he said he can’t discuss it without his bosses’ approval.
Cases identified in the Institute and Daily Memphian’s running investigation include a opens in a new window2015 incident reported earlier this month in which officers repeatedly hit, kicked and humiliated a prisoner who was handcuffed behind his back. Three cases from 2019 — reported here for the first time — include one involving an opens in a new windowenraged patrolman who repeatedly pepper-sprayed a handcuffed prisoner in the face.
Owen Buzzard sits in his carport near the scene where MPD patrolman Colin Berryhill stunned him with a Taser as he was restrained in handcuffs. (Houston Cofield/Special to The Daily Memphian)
“Just send it to us. Let us look at it,’’ said District Attorney Amy Weirich, who said the six cases are the sort her office should review.
“Not every case that meets the standards for a violation of policy is going to rise to the level of criminal prosecution because of our high-standard approach. But send them to us, let us look at it.’’
After weeks of silence on the issue, MPD issued a statement late Monday, July 27, confirming that the three cases from 2019 had not been referred for criminal review.
“Currently, being in line with other local law enforcement agencies, there is no formal process in place for submitting use of force complaints to the District Attorney General’s Office,” MPD said in an email from spokeswoman Karen Rudolph.
Citizens are advised they may submit a criminal complaint if they want, and internal investigators in MPD’s Inspectional Services Bureau (ISB) also make criminal referrals at times, the statement said.
Owen Buzzard
“During any administrative investigation, if an ISB investigator determines that there may have been criminal misconduct on the behalf of an officer, the ISB investigator should notify the ISB commanding officer immediately,” the statement said. “The ISB commanding officer is then required to notify the Command Staff for further direction.”
Answers have been slow in coming as the Institute and Daily Memphian continue to dig through records documenting MPD’s internal investigations into use of force between 2015 and 2020. The city has released some but not all of those records following a June 1 opens in a new windowrequest for information.
Those records are bringing one trend into focus: Body camera footage is resulting in the dismissal of a number of citizen complaints alleging excessive force. Among 21 excessive force investigations launched in 2019, allegations were not sustained in four. In another 12 other cases, officers were listed as “exonerated’’ — a term virtually absent from reports in 2015 prior to the advent of bodycam video.
“People are making accusations that aren’t necessarily true,’’ said Mike Williams, president of the opens in a new windowMemphis Police Association, a labor union representing the city’s 2,100 commissioned police officers.
“(But) once they look at the bodycam footage, it shows that the police officers were actually courteous. It shows that they didn’t do anything wrong, that they assisted the person, and even a lot of times let the person go.’’
‘I popped him’
Owen Buzzard backed his pickup truck out of his driveway that warm April night in 2019. As he shifted into drive and headed down his quiet residential street in Memphis’ Parkway Village section, a neighbor shouted he was dragging a strap from the trailer he was pulling. So, he stopped in the opposite lane to adjust his rig.
That’s when the trouble started.
A patrol car pulled up behind him flashing its blue lights.
Officer Colin Berryhill asked for Buzzard’s driver’s license. When he found it had been suspended, he placed the motorist under arrest, handcuffing him behind his back.
As video on Berryhill’s body camera rolled, the officer accused Buzzard of reaching into his back pocket. The officer then pulled Buzzard to the ground and, as he later told internal investigators, zapped the motorist in the abdomen with his Taser gun in self-defense.
”The only thing that was available to me was my Taser, because I was down on this side,’’ Berryhill said. “So, I popped him.”
Buzzard offered a less sinister explanation for his reaching for his pockets: His pants were falling down and he was trying to pull them up.
“I said, “I ain’t reaching for nothing, man,’ ’’ Buzzard, 40, said in an interview last week. “I’m taking my pants up so I don’t lose them here right in the middle of the street.’’
After investigators reviewed the body camera footage they sided with Buzzard.
“According to Officer Berryhill’s Body Worn Camera footage, Mr. Buzzard’s hands were secured in handcuffs behind his back as Officer Berryhill pulled him to the ground,’’ an internal report says. “As (the suspect) began to lean forward, he was tased on the abdominal area by Officer Berryhill.’’
The report by MPD’s Inspectional Services Bureau continued:
“The evidence obtained during this investigation supports the allegation that excessive force/ unnecessary force was used against Mr. Buzzard. Mr. Buzzard did not resist arrest at any time. He willingly stepped out of his vehicle and allowed Officer Berryhill to place him into handcuffs. … According to Officer Berryhill’s Body Worn Camera, Mr. Buzzard’s hands and handcuffs could be seen as Officer Berryhill pulled Mr. Buzzard to the ground. Mr. Buzzard fell on his back onto the asphalt, while handcuffed, with his hands outside of his pants.’’
Buzzard suffered a cut on his right palm that required three stitches to close.
Video also shows a supervisor, Lt. Kam Wong, made the scene shortly after the incident.
”Hey, by the way. You got a new nickname,’’ Wong tells Berryhill, according to the internal report. “It’s Taser Face.”
Two more Taser incidents
If the comment was directed at Berryhill’s prolificacy with a Taser it’s not clear in reports. But investigators decided to review the officer’s Response to Resistance reports — records that police are required to file when they use force during an arrest. They soon uncovered more concerns.
Investigators found Berryhill had used his Taser just six days earlier. It happened when numbers of officers responded to a domestic disturbance call. The parents of Joshua Cortez, then 21, complained he’d been drinking and had damaged their front door. According to police, the young man told them he’d been depressed. A decision was made to make an emergency commitment for evaluation.
Joshua Cortez sits outside his home in East Memphis where he was stunned with a Taser as four officers held him. (Houston Cofield/Special to The Daily Memphian)
“According to Officer Berryhill’s (bodycam footage), there were a minimum of four officers on the scene that had full control of Mr. Cortez’s arms and hands. He did not demonstrate any overt intentions to use violence or any uncontrollable force against the officers on the scene,’’ said an internal report that called Berryhill’s actions “unnecessary and needless.’’
Berryhill told investigators that Cortez allowed officers to cuff his right arm, but resisted when they tried to cuff his left.
”I felt that a simple pain compliance for a second would get him to comply long enough to where we could get him into cuffs,’’ Berryhill said, explaining his decision to use his Taser. “I drive stunned him for about two seconds, which it immediately worked.”
MPD issues yellow-colored TASER X2 stun guns to certain trained officers that allow two methods of use. One is called probe deployment. In this mode the device — also called a Conducted Electronic Weapon — fires two barbed darts intended to penetrate the skin and deliver a modulated electric current that can incapacitate a subject by disrupting the body’s neurological communication from the brain to muscles.
This is the mode Berryhill used on motorist Buzzard.
But the officer used a second mode — drive stun — on Cortez. In this mode the device is placed in immediate contact with the subject, without firing darts, to create discomfort but not necessarily override the body’s motor functions.
opens in a new windowGuidelines issued in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Justice recommended against the use of drive stun to control a subject because it may actually “exacerbate the situation by inducing rage in the subject.’’ The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, opens in a new windowbanned drive stun techniques to control a subject absent immediate danger to officers or others.
Additionally, MPD procedures prohibit use of a Conducted Electronic Weapon “in drive stun mode for pain compliance to prod or escort persons’’ or “solely as a compliance technique to overcome passive resistance’’ by an individual “who does not demonstrate an overt intention to use violence or force.’’
In an interview last week, Cortez admitted he’d been drinking and had become loud and belligerent, but said he’d calmed down and was cooperative when officers arrived. He admitted to some resistance, saying he didn’t want to be taken from his home, but said the Tasing was unnecessary.
“He shouldn’t have pulled out a Taser. There was enough officers there. They have enough strength to get me, to get me down,’’ Cortez said. “I don’t know why he tased me. That just was just uncalled for. And that wasn’t cool. He needs to be (demoted) or he needs to be fired.’’
“He shouldn’t have pulled out a Taser,” Joshua Cotez said. “There was enough officers there. They have enough strength to get me, to get me down.” (Houston Cofield/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Berryhill’s Response to Resistance reports revealed a third incident in May 2018 in which he used his Taser on a juvenile suspect. He and other officers had responded to a call to Wooddale Middle School. An administrator there reported an auto burglary and pointed toward a group of teens walking nearby.
When officers detained one teenager his friends got mouthy, an internal report says. The youths shouted profanity. Berryhill told the youths to leave.
“According to Officer Berryhill’s (body camera) Footage (one teen) was walking away as Officer Berryhill requested. (The teen) stated, ‘I am walking away.’ ’’ an internal report says. But Berryhill then pursued the youth and “went hands on with’’ him, sparking a “tussle.’’
”You see I was walking away, right? You didn’t give me time,” the youth is heard saying on the video.
Berryhill told investigators he rushed the teen from behind because the youth was bigger than him.
“I wanted to have the upper hands, surprise him, detain him, while we went further into our investigation.,’’ he said.
Body camera footage depicts a desperate struggle.
At one point, “Officer Berryhill had one hand on his (baton) as his right arm was around (the youth’s) neck,’’ the report said. The teen is heard pleading, “Stop choking me, Cuz!’’
At another point the teen reaches for Berryhill’s baton, but then breaks free.
“As (the teen) got off the ground and attempted to walk away, he was tased in the back twice by Officer Berryhill,’’ the report said, describing how the teen was then taken into custody.
Again, Berryhill fired his Taser in drive stun mode, telling personnel on the scene that night there was no need to take the youth to a hospital.
”No, no we ain’t got to do all of that,’’ Berryhill said as his body camera rolled. “I didn’t shoot him with the full Taser. I just did a drive stun. I didn’t ‘tase him’ tase him.”
Analysis of use of force
“The amount of force used in this particular event was unnecessary,’’ the report said, noting the youth “was walking away after being ordered by Officer Berryhill. These actions place Officer Berryhill in violation of the Memphis Police Department’s DR 301 Excessive Force/Unnecessary Force Policy.’’
DR 301 — the departmental regulation governing use of force — prohibits unprovoked or unnecessary force. Internal investigations rely on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, opens in a new windowGraham vs. Connor, which weighs several factors in determining if force is reasonable, including the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses “an immediate threat’’ to the safety of officers or others and whether the suspect is resisting or attempting to flee.
The low-level nature of the offenses — a suspended driver’s license in on instance and a dispute among parents and their child in another — weighed into the finding of unnecessary force against Berryhill.
Under MPD protocol, internal investigations are conducted by the Inspectional Services Bureau, which issues findings that are then used to guide the disciplinary process. If ISB sustains allegations, a statement of administrative charges typically is issued that can lead to consequences ranging from a written reprimand to suspension without pay or termination in severe cases. Officers may also appeal.
It’s unclear where Berrryhill is in that process.
MPD spokesman Louis Brownlee called a journalist recently to say the police agency made a mistake when it released a 23-page case summary detailing the investigation of the officer. More than a year after Berryhill arrested motorist Buzzard, the disciplinary case against him is not complete, Brownlee said.
“I’m going to ask if you would hold off on (writing about the case) until the investigation and the hearings and everything are complete,’’ Brownlee said.
Buzzard said he believes Berryhill should be charged with a crime.
“I don’t know if it should just be assault. To me, it was a weapon whether he was authorized to use it or not. I would say aggravated assault. Or battery,’’ said Buzzard, who said he pleaded guilty to resisting arrest two days after his encounter with Berryhill because he needed to get out of jail to make a court hearing on another case in Mississippi. “I had no choice,’’ he said.
A notation in an internal summary said the investigation into Berryhill’s actions was not submitted to the District Attorney’s Office for review.
Weirich said the case appears to be one her office “should’’ take a look at.
Police labor union president Williams said he was unfamiliar with Berryhill’s case but said officers often are pushed to use force because citizens won’t cooperate with police.
“I would have to read (Berryhill’s) whole file,’’ Williams said. But situations often “escalate because you have people intervening or you have people that don’t necessarily want to comply,’’ he said.
Internal investigators also found Berryhill in violation of compliance of regulations, which forbids the use of Conducted Electronic Weapons on “handcuffed or secured’’ individuals who aren’t “overly combative”.
Oddities and exonerations
Internal files reveal two cases from 2019 with seemingly stunning reversals:
Police arrested Officer Ralph Confer last October charging him with assault following a confrontation with a medical technician in a kitchen area at The Regional Medical Center. Confer had put handcuffs on tech April Chaney and placed her in a holding cell after she allegedly persisted in helping herself to a hot dog he’d bought. Chaney told investigators Confer threw her into a cabinet door at one point. Investigators found Confer in violation of MPD’s use-of-force policy. But General Sessions Judge Loyce Lambert Ryan later dismissed the criminal charge against Confer. The status of the administrative case against Confer, 48, is unclear. MPD spokesman Brownlee said the matter remains open and that the case summary was inadvertently released.
Officer Christopher Brunson was found in violation of the use-of-force policy after surveillance footage showed him hitting a mental patient at the Crisis Assessment Center last September. A statement of charges said the patient first punched Brunson, who then knocked the patient to the floor and hit him “six to seven times in the area of his face, head, and shoulders.’’ Though internal investigators said Brunson’s action “showed a lack of self-restraint and was viewed to be excessive,’’ hearing officer Col. Gloria Bullock dismissed the charge, saying Brunson “immediately restrained himself.’’ Bullock in turn issued written reprimands to Brunson for failing to comply with regulations and failing to file a use-of-force form.
In 12 of of 21 of the 2019 cases, investigators in the Inspectional Services Bureau concluded that officers should be exonerated of excessive force claims, a finding typically grounded in video and audio evidence found on body camera footage.
In one case, officers Leployer Franklin and Adam Bittick were exonerated when body camera footage contradicted a suspect’s claims his nose was broken when police broke through his window and beat him with handheld radios in January 2019.
According to an internal report, body camera footage showed the window in question was already broken when officers Franklin and Bittick caught up with the man, who was wanted for aggravated kidnapping. When Officer Franklin knocked on his door the man answered then attempted to close the door, retreating to his sofa where he had a gun, reports says.
“Per the officer(s) body worn camera, officers advised the suspect for almost a minute that if he did not comply that hard hands would be used. The suspect refused to comply and officers struck him several times in the face with closed fists,’’ the internal report said.
In another case, investigators exonerated officer Jermaine Ezell, who’d been accused by a woman of injuring her wrist while twisting her arm behind her back during an arrest following an April 2019 domestic disturbance. However, body camera footage showed the woman “being very argumentative, and refusing to cooperate,’’ the internal report said.
The officers “gave multiple warnings to calm down, in an attempt to de-escalate her behavior, and allow the handcuffs to be applied. Though she torqued her body back and forth, they kept a firm hold on both of her arms. It was obvious that she attempted to pull away from their control,’’ the internal report said.
MPD said in its statement Monday that footage from Body Worn Cameras (BWC) and In Car Video (ICV) is adding “clarity and transparency’’ to policing:
“The BWC/ICV program has the potential to improve community relations by providing an objective record that can be used to confirm valid allegations while providing an unbiased record that may assist in disproving false allegations. Furthermore, the ICV/BWC program improves accountability by providing objective data for review.”
District Attorney Weirich agrees.
“The body cameras have gone a long way in helping us prove someone’s innocent, show that somebody’s innocent or more times than not prove their guilt — establish that exactly what is written up in this report and exactly what these witnesses are saying is exactly as it played out on the camera,’’ Weirich said.
“People can call up, here or anywhere, and complain about a number of things. And they do. And sometimes there’s some truth to it. And oftentimes it’s just complete hooey when you start looking at the facts and looking at the evidence. And the body cameras have really changed that.’’
This story first appeared at dailymemphis.com under an exclusive use agreement with The Institute. Photos reprinted with permission of the Daily Memphian.
Written By Marc Perrusquia
Marc Perrusquia is the director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, where graduate students learn investigative and explanatory journalism skills working alongside professionals. He has won numerous state and national awards for government watchdog, social justice and political reporting.
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Allderdice High School biology teachers Angela Lindenfelser and Mariah Diehl stood in the sweltering heat of an August afternoon taking the temperatures of model frogs placed outside of Langley Hall at the University of Pittsburgh.
The models simulated the water content in real frogs, and about two dozen Pittsburgh teachers examined how the body temperature rose — even in the shade — to levels that could prevent a real frog from jumping far enough to find food or water or escape predators.
“Think of frogs as canaries in the coal mines,” said instructor Rainee Kaczorowski, an outreach coordinator for Pitt’s Department of Biological Sciences. “They are a good indicator of what’s happening in the environment.”
Pittsburgh Public Schools, like other local districts and charter and private schools, incorporate climate change into the science curriculum. But it’s not a requirement. Pennsylvania is one of about 10 states without requirements that climate change be taught in the classroom.
Shy of mandates, the state Department of Education has standards for study of the environment and ecology. These standards include lessons in 10th grade for students to analyze how human activities may cause changes in an ecosystem and the environment.
The state Board of Education recently directed the Department of Education to start updating the state’s science standards to “align them with current research and best practices,” according to a Sept. 12 release from Gov. Tom Wolf. That process will include a review of the Next Generation Science Standards [NGSS], which explicitly include climate change curriculum. Implementation of new standards could take more than two years, according to the Department of Education.
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The Pittsburgh district already uses NGSS.
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“While ‘climate change’ is not explicitly stated, the concepts of climate change could be addressed by a school curriculum in any number of the subchapters found in the (state’s) Academic Standards for Environment and Ecology,” Eric Levis, press secretary for the education department, wrote in an email.
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In the Mt. Lebanon School District, students are required to take a geoscience course as a graduation requirement. The courses cover such topics as environmental pollution, global change and sustainability and how human interaction can impact the Earth’s systems.
In Woodland Hills, the topic is expected to be a top priority this year after the school board was the first in the state to adopt a climate change resolution in July. The national resolution, called “Call to Climate Change Action,” commits the district to “advocate for climate action leading to climate restoration” and notes that children are especially vulnerable to the accumulation of greenhouse gases.
Woodland Hills School District board president Jamie Glasser expects to see more climate change lessons in district curriculum and a more environmentally-conscious operation of the school district.
The resolution directs Superintendent James P. Harris to establish a Climate Change Committee that will oversee curricular and educational opportunities, facility and operational priorities, a climate-friendly food service and advocacy with local, state and federal lawmakers on climate policies. The committee will be open to board members, administration, staff, parents, students and community members.
The resolution, similar to ones approved by 55 districts across the nation, was brought to the board by the environmental organization Communitopia, which, funded by the Heinz Endowments,* provided climate change workshops to Woodland Hills students. Some of those students lobbied the board in favor of the resolution.
Workshops were also presented at Fox Chapel Area High School, Neighborhood Academy and Propel Montour. In the summer months, mobile climate labs were presented at Carnegie Library branches, said Katie Modic, coordinator for educational initiatives at Communitopia.
Allderdice High School biology teachers Angela Lindenfelser (left) and Mariah Diehl measure and capture temperature data on model frogs for a climate change experiment at the University of Pittsburgh. (Photo by Jay Manning/PublicSource)
The Pitt program attended by the Pittsburgh teachers in August, called “Ectotherm ER: Frogs Under the Weather,” is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Grable Foundation.* It is provided free of charge to districts, said Becky Gonda, assistant director of outreach in the biology department.
The program provides teachers with supplies and lesson plans they need to teach the lesson in their classrooms.
In addition to Pittsburgh, teachers in 24 school districts in nine Western Pennsylvania counties have participated in the training and used the lesson with their students, Gonda said.
In Pittsburgh schools, students start to learn about climate and weather in elementary school.
“Every year in elementary in every unit there is some connection to weather and climate. Whether it be a water system or ecosystem. But the idea is that it builds so students have an understanding that climate change exists from K-5,” said Rhonda Graham, K-12 science curriculum supervisor.
“Some believe it’s human intervention. Some believe it’s natural cycles of the Earth. I think part of what they believe is what their parents think and what they see online.”
By sixth grade, Pittsburgh’s teachers are covering global warming and its impact on habitats and ecosystems and students spend several weeks on a project that has them analyzing what climate change means for organisms in their habitats, Graham said.
A big part of the lesson is “looking at human activities and the good and bad and ugly of them and how they contribute to climate change,” Graham said. The curriculum used is “Science and Technology Concepts,” developed by the Smithsonian.
Lindenfelser and Diehl said climate change can be a challenging topic to teach because of its complexity and the skepticism of some students.
“Some believe it’s human intervention. Some believe it’s natural cycles of the Earth. I think part of what they believe is what their parents think and what they see online,” Lindenfelser said.
But the activity with frogs will be a specific measurable lesson for students — one that can lead to discussions about how the decline in the number of frogs will affect the larger ecosystem.
“What happens to their prey if they aren’t around. And their predators don’t have food. We can go up the food chain,” Lindenfelser said.
At Shady Side Academy, a majority of eighth-grade students take an environmental science class where climate change is introduced early in the course. Hands-on activities demonstrate for students the concepts of greenhouse warming and how carbon dioxide buildup accelerates it, said science teacher John Matia.
To understand the natural greenhouse effect, students create miniature greenhouses in bottles and measure temperatures as the bottles sit in the sun. Then, after adding carbon dioxide to some of the greenhouses, they learn through their measurements that the temperatures rise more quickly, Matia said.
“The glass in the greenhouse mimics what the greenhouse gases are doing in the environment," Matia said.
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North Hills High School junior Ryleigh Murphy sees climate change as an urgent issue. She said her only course that covered climate change was an environmental science elective. But it was a trip to St. Croix in the wake of Hurricane Martha that convinced her to start reducing her personal carbon footprint.
Murphy, 16, was part of the effort to help rebuild severely damaged homes of island residents and it prompted her to research weather changes caused by climate change.
She’s now a vegetarian, carries her own containers to restaurants to avoid using Styrofoam containers for leftovers and keeps metal straws in her backpack to give to friends who use plastic straws.
Murphy participated in the Youth Climate Strike in March and plans to be part of the Sept. 20 climate strike as well.
She said most of her peers don’t share her concerns about the environment.
“A lot of teenagers haven’t opened their eyes,” she said, “but we are the generation growing up with the effects of climate change.”
Correction (9/20/2019): The previous version of the story misstated the name of Shady Side Academy and the title of science teacher John Matia.
Mary Niederberger covers education for PublicSource. She can be reached at 412-515-0064 or mary@publicsource.org
This story was fact-checked by Samuel Marks.
*Grable Foundation and The Heinz Endowments have provided funding to PublicSource.
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TNA IMPACT RESULTS 5/20: Keller's ongoing "virtual time" coverage of show on Spike TV including Top Ten Contenders revealed
May 20, 2010 - 9:02:44 PM
By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor
KELLER'S TNA IMPACT REPORT
TAPED MONDAY IN ORLANDO, FLA.
AIRED ON SPIKE TV
-The show opened with a highlight package of highlights on the Sacrifice PPV. It made Sacrifice seem like an eventful, newsworthy PPV, but they covered so much ground it was hard to pick one or two major things out of it and remember them.
-Show Title: "10 Card Stud."
-They skipped the TNA Impact opening and went right into the arena as pryo blasted and Mike Tenay introduced the show. He hyped that the Top Ten Contenders list would be revealed in just moments. They showed Tenay and Taz at ringside. Tenay said they just received word that there would be a huge announcement "from the Hulk Hogan/Eric Bischoff regime" regarding their main event tonight. Taz touted the return of Kurt Angle. They replayed the ill-advised top-of-the-cage moonsault. Good to see TNA highlighting something that showed terrible judgment. It's like when WWE highlighted Chris Benoit's top rope headbutt after his neck surgery and after many (including me) were publicly calling for WWE to fine him or fire him if he did the top rope headbutt because it showed such poor judgment in the zeal to be noticed as a stud athlete.
-Bischoff walked out with his female assistant to announce the Top Ten Rankings. He called the TNA World Heavyweight Championship "the most coveted title in all of entertainment." Entertainment? Does a scripted entertainment TV show about police officers refer to the police station as a "set"? Does a scripted entertainment TV show about doctors do a scene where they give an award to the "Actor of the Year" instead of "Doctor of the Year"? I do not at all understand how this mindset continues where people within pro wrestling are so scared to "insult" viewers by referring the word "sport" when referring to what they are presenting. It's just mind-boggling how off-base this is. TNA has gone both ways on this, sometimes trying to contrast WWE's marketing itself as "sports entertainment" and at other times like this going right along with it. It's so stupid. Anyway...
Bischoff said the Championship Committee consists of Hulk Hogan, Dixie Carter, and himself. They also took into account fan voting online, career won-loss record and previous championships, and their TNA win-loss and championship record. The showed Dixie Carter, Hogan, and three men in suits leaning toward a monitor in anticipation of this big announcement of the top ten wrestlers, which was ridiculous since the only two recognizable people in that picture ARE ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP COMMITTEE and CREATED THE LIST THEMSELVES. This promotion is so tone deaf sometimes it's just mind-boggling. Plus, they were all overacting and it looked like a cartoon scene the way they were acting like kids who were told a juggling clown was about to walk into the room. Tenay said regarding that scene: "That just shows how important this announcement is." Anyway...
Bischoff announced Samoa Joe was no. 10. His music played and Joe walked out onto the stage. A short vignette aired touting his strengths. Up next was Global Champion Rob Terry. He walked out to his music. Another vignette aired. Next was Desmond Wolfe at no. 8. Then "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero at no. 7, who is out with an injury so yeah, give him a title shot. No. 6 was Abyss, no. 5 was Mr. Anderson, no. 4 was Jeff Hardy, no. 3 was A.J. Styles, no. 2 Kurt Angle, and no. 1 was Sting. Angle didn't come out when he was announced. The crowd chanted "We want Angle! We want Angle!" Sting did walk out when announced.
Let's see... They've got wrestlers standing up there for this ceremony all together on the stage who have made false accusations of assault leading to an arrest and a hit and run. Taz said he thinks Sting should be suspected, not named no.1 contender, after what he did to Jeff Jarrett on Sunday. Bischoff told Sting that he will face RVD at Slammiversary next month, but first tonight he'll face Jeff Hardy and have a chance to prove he deserves to be the no. 1 contender. "Oh ho ho, man. That's huge!" Guess who said that. Taz is the correct answer.
Sting said he'll do the same thing to Hardy that he did to Jarrett on Sunday. Sting swung his bat and knocked down three podiums with signs that said "TNA Top Ten." Sting then jabbed Bischoff with the bat in the leg. Abyss ran in, but Sting jabbed him with the bat and clotheslined him over the top rope. Hardy ran in and yanked the bat away. Bischoff limped at ringside. They had a staredown. Hardy slapped Sting. Sting kicked Hardy between the legs. RVD's music played. With Sting distracted, Hardy gave Sting a Twist of Fate. They did a good job making a big deal of the Top Ten List with this ceremony, and I'm sure the order makes sense to them storyline-wise, but it's so out of line with the fan voting it's kind of embarrassing, plus the revealing of the list dragged a bit. The angle with Sting-Hardy was a solid way to add some heat to the main event, plus getting RVD involved made booking sense. [c]
-Tenay and Taz briefly recapped the angle before the break.
-They cut backstage to Bischoff wincing in pain. Hogan was tending to Bischoff. Matt Morgan walked in and said it looks like it must hurt, but now he knows what it's like to have Samoa Joe running around attacking people. Hogan told him to back down and said it's a bad time. Hogan said he has his tag title rematch, but "good luck finding a partner." Hogan said he's the least of their problems and they need to concentrate on how to get rid of Sting. I know. Fire him. If only Hogan and Bischoff had that kind of power. Oh wait...
1 -- ROXXI vs. MADISON RAYNE
Tenay said they were still awaiting the return of Angle. Taz speculated that Roxxi was concerned about her cardio since she went for three quick covers in the opening seconds. Tenay noted that Sting vs. Hardy tonight is the first time those two ever meet. Nice to see it get all of an hour and a half of time for fans to anticipate it and TNA to build it up. Roxxi only needed a couple minutes, though, to finish Rayne with a Voo Doo Drop. "This is humongous!" Who said it? Taz, of course. Tenay and Taz made a big deal out of this being a big upset. It would seem that way if Rayne had been built up for months in a logical manner as a rising Knockout with an impressive winning streak against tough competition. Instead, she won out of nowhere on a whim and thus beating her really doesn't mean much even if the announcers say so. The announcers are right to make the best of the lousy situation the bookers created for them, although injuries did force the booking team's hand.
WINNER: Roxxi in 3:00.
-Backstage Chelsea was broken up over having to stand next to Abyss for the next 30 days. Wolfe tried to calm her saying "you are my girl" and nothing will change that.
-The roving cameraman caught up to Angle as he arrived. He asked why he didn't come out when they named him the no. 2 contender. He asked Angle if he even knew he was ranked no. 2. Angle paused, then kept walking, without saying anything at all.
[Q3] [c]
-A video package aired on Angle with music credited to Taproot; song-title "Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)." Appropriate song name considering his broken neck and his catch phrase. However, when he predicted his arrival in TNA would lead to Impact ratings doubling, well that part didn't turn out to be true.
-Angle walked out to his entrance music. Taz said it was great to see Angle back in TNA. A month off is not that big of a deal. The way they're treating this it's like he was gone for a year or two. He said he's noticed a lot of change over the last four years in TNA since he first arrived. He said when he started in TNA he was one of the elite, one of the best. The crowd chanted, "You still are! You still are!" He was just ranked the no. 2 contender, after all. Angle listed RVD, Hardy, and Anderson as big signing, plus Styles, Samoa Joe, Eric Young, and Jay Lethal as TNA wrestlers who elevated themselves. He said he is now no longer one of the elite. "Kurt Angle is just another name on the TNA roster," he said.
He said he will wrestle for free. He said it's never been about money or ego or the spotlight. He said it was about wrestling in the ring, looking his opponent in the eye, battling, and one walking away a winner, the other a loser. He said he was bred to be a winner, referring to himself in the third person. He said he's going through a tough time right now which maybe a mid-life crisis. He said he's accomplished everything as a wrestler - amateur, Olympic, and professionally. "What can I do to reinvent myself? What can I do to make myself new?" He said he's going to start from scratch, take himself out of the top ten, and wrestle each and every one of the top ten wrestlers beginning with no. 10 and ending with no. 1. He said fans are going to see some of the greatest matches of all time. "That is real! That is damn real!" Taz couldn't believe he gave up his no. 2 contender spot. What does that man? Can do that? What does it matter if only the no. 1 contender gets a title shot? Tenay said they'd stay on top of the situation.
-Christy Hemme interviewed Ric Flair, asking him who he thinks Lethal's partner will be against Beer Money later. Flair said he doesn't care. Good. Can't wait for that tag match that Flair doesn't care about. He then talked about Lethal imitating him. "There is only one," he said. "I'm taking it completely as an insult. You not only humiliated me, you insulted me." He said his other mistake was costing Styles the TNA Title at Sacrifice. Flair said he needs the gold. He rubbed Hemme's hand on Storm's arm and pec. He asked if she liked that. She said no, as if he had shoved her hand onto a giant rat. Flair said, "That's muscle!" Kaz walked in and asked for a moment to talk to Flair. Flair told Beer Money it was okay and to go prepare for their match. They left. Flair asked Hemme, "Is it true you got married without Living the Legend?" Hemme said, "We're done here" and walked away.
-Tenay hyped Sting vs. Hardy as the main event. [c]
-Terry said he was just informed by doctors that his knee is severely injured in four places, but nothing will stop him from fighting Orlando Jordan later. He said with all the talk about securing a place in the company, he's only been in TNA for a year yet he's already Global Champion. He said it will be painful, but he's going out there to knock Jordan's teeth down his throat.
2 -- ROB TERRY vs. ORLANDO JORDAN
Jeremy Borash is such a better ring announcer than Dave Penzer (sorry Dave). He also vocally is much less associated with so many of those terrible WCW years. Jordan was lowered to the ring by that hot pink piece of cloth under his shoulders. Terry limped to the ring. Jordan focused on Terry's knee early in the match. Jordan pulled off Terry's knee wrap and then applied a cranking knee lock. The ref stopped the match even though Terry didn't tap. How about establishing what the rules actually are? These rep stoppages without a tapout or verbal submission are so flat because it just screams "copout finish" because "we didn't want either wrestler to do to the job." Jordan wouldn't let go of the hold afterward for a minute despite several referees yelling at him. Tenay said he's heartless.
WINNER: Jordan in 3:00.
-A vignette aired with Lethal saying one of the greatest moments in his history went all wrong because Flair took his imitation of him the wrong way. RVD entered his locker room and offered to be his partner later. Lethal looked at the camera and said with a smile, "I guess Rob Van Dam is going to be my partner today. That's awesome!" [c]
-They showed Hardy putting make-up on his face. He said Sting inspired him when he was 11 years old to wear make-up. He said he idolized him and always wanted to be in a match with him, but he never envisioned it'd be like tonight. They're figuring out a better way to present these "candid" camera shots. No more creepy sneak-peeks through blinds in the locker room, but instead just the sense that the camera is roaming around and catching wrestlers being themselves and not being in "promo mode." It's good.
-Ink Inc. walked up to Team 3D and asked Brother Ray why he did what he did on Sunday. Ray said what he did was an "attitude adjustment." Is he allowed to say that legally? He said they got a big head after one World Tag Team Title shot. Jesse Neal said maybe "Bubba" is jealous. Ray said he's one half of the world's most famous tag team. He said he has no reason to be jealous and told him to use his brains before he talks. Neal told him to keep his distance. That set off Ray who went after Neal. Moore and Devon pulled them apart. Ray got in a shot and then shouted, "There's my distance! There's my distance!" Ray said he told Devon "from Day One," implying he never liked or trusted Neal.
3 -- BEER MONEY INC. vs. ROB VAN DAM & JAY LETHAL
No Black Machismo get-up for Lethal. Just orange and white trunks and boots. Taz said it was good to see Lethal being himself and not in some other persona. Storm shoved Lethal off the top rope at 4:00. Beer Money double-teamed Lethal with stomps in the corner. Taz said he doesn't like the chances of RVD & Lethal considering that Beer Money have teamed so much longer and have had so much success. Tenay said he just received word that the Championship Committee just received word of Angle's withdrawal from the no. 2 ranking. He said that opens up no. 10 because everybody is moving up a slot. He said TNA has added an eight-man X Division battle royal to determine the no. 10 position. "Talk about a high stakes match!" Tenay said. Why is it a high-stakes match? What does being no. 10 mean? And this seems rather arbitrary. What about career titles history and won-loss record? What about fan voting? Why an X Division wrestle? Isn't this top ten list supposed to be for the heavyweight title? So with no X Division wrestlers in the announced top ten, we're supposed to now accept that a battle royal will determine the lone X Division wrestler in the top ten? What about the X Division Champion and other X Division contender? They were all bypassed and none made the cut? Why would an X Division wrestler want to be in the top ten for the Heavyweight Title anyway? Putting one X Division wrestler in the top ten at no. 10 after all were bypassed previously just says none of the X Division wrestlers were good enough to make the cut. Instead, they should have a separate Top Contenders list. This is low-IQ booking on display here. Everything just seems so arbitrary or contradictory you just stop caring.
At 3:00 RVD tagged in. After a kick off the second rope, RVD went for a pin on Roode, but Storm broke it up. RVD fended off a double-team attempt. Lethal hit a top rope dropkick on Storm, then he gave Roode the Lethal Combination, then RVD hit Rolling Thunder on Roode, and then Lethal put Roode in the figure-four for the tapout.
WINNERS: RVD & Lethal in 4:00.
STAR RATING: * -- Way too short for a tag match with this level of wrestlers involved. It cheapens the whole concept of a big-name tag match to go just four minutes. How does anyone get excited about a PPV of six to eight matches when TNA establishes on TV intriguing matches between evenly matched wrestlers such as this is over in around four minutes. It's totally arbitrary that PPV matches go much longer than TV matches. At least in WWE, TV main events tend to be PPV length, although they're often guilty of going very short with evenly matched wrestlers otherwise on the show.
-After the match, Flair walked out. Lethal met him on the ramp. They brawled briefly. As RVD took a victory lap, slapping hands with fans, Sting came out through the crowd and attacked him, shoving a chair into his face. Sting, creatively, was wearing a Sting mask which made RVD think it was just a fan dressed as Sting. Sting took it easy on RVD for some reason, just hitting him flush in the head one more time with a shove (not a swing) of the chair and then walked onto the ramp and threw the chair at him (but missed), and then left. [c]
-A recap aired of Sting's actions.
-Hardy stood in the ring. He said he's made a living of walking to the beat of a different drummer. He said nobody knows what goes on in his mind. He said, "Thank God!" He dared Sting to "try and figure me out" in the next hour because he and the Creatures of the Night "are going to take you beyond your wildest imag-eye-nay-shun!" His music played and he walked out. Tenay excitedly said he was getting word of something going on in the back
-Backstage security pounded on a locker room and Wolfe opened it. He told Chelsea it was time. This is like that Eliott Gonzales scene years ago. Chelesea reluctantly got up as Wolfe scolded security for forcing people to do things they don't want to do. He told them if they put one hand on her, they'll have to answer to him.
-Abyss walked to his entrance song, a hybrid of his music and Hulk Hogan's "American Made" music. He said Wolfe has something that belongs to him, "so let's do this." He said, "Bring her to me!" Security dragged her to the ring. Tenay said, "Almost against her will." Almost? Taz said it's like watching a horror movie. She pleaded with security, but they did their job. Abyss said it's quite ironic what's going on "because Sunday at Sacrifice I made you my bitch and tonight I'm taking yours." Wolfe said, appropriately, "Ohhh, zinger!" That's the type of moment that explains why Abyss got 1 percent of votes and Wolfe got over 50 percent in fan voting. Abyss always stresses the naughty words too much like he's "getting away with something" and Wolfe is always the coolest man on the screen, so you do the math. Wolfe said, "You're taking her over my dead body," said Wolfe, who then kicked Abyss between his legs. He did the same to a security member. That's three crotch kicks in one show. A lot of fans popped and chanted, "Desmond Wolfe! Desmond Wolfe!" No talk from the announcers explaining how this situation would be enforced by management. Would management really force the ludicrous stip to be enforced? Wolfe broke a bottle and then threatened Abyss with the broken glass. Wolfe sliced Abyss's arm with it. Abyss, who falls onto thumbs tack for fun and no-sells chairshots, went down like he was shot. Wolfe ordered Chelsea out of the ring as Chelsea indicated he was going too far. That distraction gave Abyss a chance to give Wolfe a Black Hole Slam. Ah, the good ol' Beauty and the Beast storyline. Chelsea began to leave with Abyss, who then picked her up and carried her away. "I guess a deal is a deal no matter how sadistic it is," said Taz. Tenay said: "Abyss has the services of Chelsea for 30 days. Folks, let your imagination run wild!" (For Tenay's sake, I hope that was scripted for him to say and not his idea.) Taz said, "It'll be like a grizzly bear mating with a rabbit. It's gross." At least I think he said "mate with." It was difficult to clearly hear him. [c]
-In the ring stood Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Eric Young. Young said, "I understand the boos. I have everything and you have nothing. I'm in the Band and you're not." He said he, Hall, and Nash are like brothers. "We're blood," he said, adding they're the only person in wrestling he shares anything in common with. Young said Nash is an ass-kicker who does what he says he's going to do. He said nobody else in the business has the balls to do what Nash does. "Well, except for me and Scott." I know Michael Chiklis went from "The Commish" to "Det. Vick Mackey" and pulled it off brilliantly, but it's still so tough to see Young as anything but that comedy mid-card figure of his first six years in TNA no matter how well he delivers a promo, and he did a nice job here. Hall made "I can't believe he just said that" facial expressions throughout Young's promo. Neither Hall or Nash talked.
4 -- SHANNON MOORE (w/Jesse Neal) vs. ERIC YOUNG (w/Scott Hall, Kevin Nash)
Okay, I'm going to ask. Why does Tenay always call Eric Young "Eli"? Or is it "Ely" because his full name is "Eric Leslie Young" or something like that? And shouldn't that be explained now and then, or is it that obvious? [Edit: I've been informed he calls him simply "E.Y." That makes sense. I wonder if I've been alone in the world wondering from time to time why his nickname is Eli. I never cared enough to ask before; glad I did now. Scratch that off my list of things I need to figure out an answer to in life.] Moore punched his way out of a loosely applied armbar by young at 2:00. Ray walked to ringside a minute later. Neal tackled Ray. With the ref distracted, although awkwardly executed, Hall hit Moore in the back with a tag strap. Young then finished Moore with the leaping piledriver.
WINNER: Young in 3:00.
-Ray got the better of Neal. He kicked him in the back of the head. He chewed him out. Devon told him to leave it alone. Ray said, "I brought you in, I'll take you out!" Tenay asked Taz if he had seen this situation between Ray and Devon before. Well, there was that one time they feuded and nobody cared, but other than that, no. [c]
-Tenay and Taz recapped the angle with Brother Ray and Devon before the break.
5 -- 8-MAN BATTLE ROYAL
Homicide, Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Kaz, Amazing Red, Generation Me #1, Generation Me #2, Brian Kendrick. Hilariously, with 14 minutes left in the show, Tenay said Spike TV will stay with this even if it goes past 11 o'clock. Oh, he was including Sting vs. Hardy in that comment; that makes more sense. Flair walked out. Taz said Kaz got new energy when he saw Flair, indicating he wanted to impress him. Kaz played to Flair. Kendrick snuck onto the match late and battled Kaz. Tenay said this could be a "career-changing win" for whoever is the last standing. Taz said it would put them on the radar. Flair looked impressed. Kaz seemed excited to have impressed Flair.
WINNER: Kaz in 4:00. [c]
5 -- STING vs. JEFF HARDY
As Sting made his ring entrance, Taz said RVD may have a few cracked ribs for Sting hitting him in the head with a chair. Hardy came out second. With five minutes left in the show, this epic never-before-seen dream match began. The poor saps in the crowd had no idea how much time was left in the taping, so they thought they might actually be on the verge of seeing something special instead of yet another devaluing of the whole concept of a star vs. star match-up. Had Sting and Hardy's careers taken a slightly different course the last six months, this could have been a co-headliner at WrestleMania 26. And it would have boosted the WrestleMania buyrate had it been promoted right. And here it is, a five minute throwaway match on Impact given away with zero weeks' notice. This is why TNA deserves what they get (or, I should say, don't get). There's very little difference between Sting's in-ring style in 2010 and Kevin Sullivan's in the late-1990s. Both styles incorporate standing up during their methodical kick-punch office, raking eyes, and avoiding taking any bumps.
At 4:00, after Sting controlled the entire beginning of the match, he missed a Stinger splash in the corner when Hardy moved. Hardy missed with a top rope flip dive when Sting side-stepped him. Sting then moved Hardy nearer the bottom rope so Hardy could grab it after applying the Scorpion Deathlock to force a break. Hardy crawled toward the bottom rope and forced a break. The ref tumbled out of the ring when Sting yanked Hardy back into the ring. The ref had to create all of his own motion. Mr. Anderson entered and gave Sting a Scorpion Death Drop just as Sting was about to give it to Hardy. Anderson rolled to ringside and hid as Hardy scored the three count. Anderson then entered the ring and raised Hardy's arm.
WINNER: Hardy in 6:00.
STAR RATING: *
-Afterward, Hardy shoved Anderson. Anderson talked to him and tried to convince him he wasn't his enemy. Some vocal fans chanted, "Anderson! Anderson!" Sting entered the ring and hit both Hardy and Anderson from behind with a bat. Some fans chanted, "Hogan! Hogan!"
FINAL THOUGHTS (4.0): An annoying show in many of the usual unnecessary ways of TNA's sloppy booking team. I can't believe how little they got out of the first-ever Sting-Hardy match. Can they plan more than one week ahead and get something out of all of this money and star power they've acquired? Geesh! I mean, there was some sensible basic Booking 101 stuff pulled off successfully amidst a lot of nonsense. I think they're turning Mr. Anderson too soon, but they might sense the fans were going to cheer him anyway. But if TNA turned everyone that fans rejected in the role they were cast in, half of the roster would have to be turned. They're also losing out on RVD vs. Anderson as a major feud this summer, and really forever because there's no way RVD should turn heel and there's no way Anderson should be turned back heel after a short run as a babyface. Other than Taz saying being in the top ten puts you "on the radar," no explanation was given to how it's advantageous to be no. 4 instead of no. 7, or no. 10 instead of no. 3 for that matter.
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Lockyer mayor calls for MP to resign over bypass funding
by adavies
Adam Davies Senior Journalist
Adam was born in New South Wales and was educated at the prestigious Scots College in Sydney. He has worked both in Australia and United Kingdom for some of the largest newspapers in the two respective countries. He joined APN as a senior journalist at The Chronicle in Toowoomba in 2010, before moving to APN’S Brisbane Newsdesk in 2013 where he covered politics and court. Adam won a 2015 Queensland Clarion Award - the state's premier journalism awards - and was named 2011 APN Daily Reporter of...
6th Sep 2013 6:45 AM | Updated: 2:13 PM
UPDATE: Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones has called on Member for Groom Ian Macfarlane to resign over botched funding for the Toowoomba bypass.
"Mr Macfarlane, whose electorate takes in the Toowoomba region, pledged $700 million in funding from a Coalition Government towards the $1.6 billion Toowoomba Bypass project or he would stand down," he said.
"Well, it's now time for him to resign.
"I am absolutely disgusted to learn that the project will now receive just $130 million during the next four years.
"That's a $570 million shortfall of what was originally pledged and more than $1.4 billion short of what the entire project will cost.
"We have been pushing for a second range crossing now for 25 years.
I am absolutely disgusted to learn that the project will now receive just $130 million during the next four years
"Band aid solutions are no longer acceptable and it's about time all levels of government stopped mucking around and got on with the job on delivering this project.
"You only have to look at the way the government has gone about trying to fix the current Toowoomba Range to understand how important it is to have an acceptable alternative route.
"If there was a second crossing we would not have any delays and traffic would continue to flow on this important road," he said.
"I for one call on Mr Macfarlane to stick to his word and either find the $570 million within the first term of a Coalition Government, or resign immediately," Cr Jones said.
"It's an absolute disgrace.
"He knows how vital a bypass is for the region and to swear black and blue that a Coalition Government would fund the project to the tune of $700 million only to then cut it to just $130 million is abhorrent."
EARLIER: Coalition budget costings released ahead of tomorrow's federal election reveal only $130 million has been allocated towards the Toowoomba Range bypass project over the next four years.
The Fiscal Budget Impact of Federal Coalition Policies, announced by shadow treasurer Joe Hockey, shows $50 million has been allocated in 2015-16 and a further $80 million in 2016-17.
Incumbent Federal Member for Groom Ian Macfarlane had promised $700 million for the project in the Coalition's first budget should they win office.
Mr Macfarlane told The Chronicle on January 25, 2013, he would not seek re-election if the money was not delivered.
He went on to say he would put his reputation on the line in relation to the project.
However, the Fiscal Budget Impact of Federal Coalition Policies document told a different story with only $130 million being made available in the Coalition's first term should they win tomorrow's election.
An open letter from Tony Abbott and Ian Macfarlane to the voters of Groom. "That includes $700 million to get work on the Toowoomba Bypass, which will be built under a Coalition Government." Just not this Coalition Government.
"We are committed for $700 million towards the Toowoomba Range bypass," Mr Macfarlane said.
"I have said all along the Federal and State Governments as well as private investors need to pitch in.
"I can understand people are anxious about this.
"Nothing has changed with our commitment," he said.
Should Ian Macfarlane resign from politics over the botched bypass funding promise?
This poll ended on 10 September 2013.
This is not a scientific poll. The results reflect only the opinions of those who chose to participate.
Mr Macfarlane said he still believed the project would go ahead under a Coalition government.
"It is a five year project. You do not put up the $700 million in the first year," he said.
"I have never said we would.
"Everyone needs to cough up on this.
"The total spend will start quite small and it will ramp up from there as the project proceeds.
"The Toowoomba Range bypass will be started by the next election."
Does this change who you will vote for tomorrow?
The Fiscal Budget Impact of Federal Coalition Policies also showed only $180 million had been allocated for the much-hyped inland rail project.
The Coalition had previously said it would match Labor's $300 million pledge to the Melbourne-Brisbane railway.
"You will have to talk to Warren Truss in relation to the inland rail," Mr Macfarlane said.
Mr Macfarlane had also pledged $500 million in his election campaign towards Warrego Highway upgrades.
The Fiscal Budget Impact of Federal Coalition Policies showed the Warrego Highway would receive $50 million in 2014-15, $50 million in 2015-16 and $100 million in 2016-17.
The costing also revealed $2.5 billion will be cut from the Regional Infrastructure Fund.
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Aftercharge Beta Impressions
Aftercharge is a 3v3 shooter/stealth game that has a team of “Workonics” trying to destroy six electrical charges spread around the map while a team of “Enforcers” attempt to stop them. The Workonics are invisible until hit with a blast from the Enforcers and if they begin striking the electrical stations (which take 10 hits to break), or if the enforcers shoot near the Workonics, they are revealed - which is a place they want to be as the enforcers are able to charge up ammunition which is used for their gun or abilities at these charging stations. The Enforcers and Workonics are both broken up into 5 classes all of which are slightly different. The game ends with a victory for the Workonics if all electrical stations are destroyed and a victory for the Enforcers if they manage to shut down all of the Workonics.
The beta for Aftercharge really impressed me, technically - after six hours with the game I experienced no bugs, the game ran very smoothly and the graphics style is simple yet both practical and beautiful. After my first three matches I was having fun, however, all three matches were set in a snow-covered park. This became slightly worrisome as I had already grown tired of the location. Thankfully my fourth game threw me into a beautifully dark landscape with lush and colorful vegetation. On both of these maps, the electric station stood out due to the heavy contrast of the dark landscape.
I was having fun competing with my other teammates, switching back and forth between Workonic and Enforcer. Sadly, as I approached my last hour of Aftercharge, the loop hadn’t hooked me - the progression was almost non-existent and there wasn’t enough to separate the different classes of Workonics and Enforcers. I found that I liked playing as the liquidator enforcer and cyclops Workonic but that was mostly due to cosmetic preferences.
Both sides of the competitive online multiplayer are surprisingly balanced - the almost instant revival time makes rescue missions as a Workonic feel possible and rewarding. This is contrasted by the ability of the Enforcers to move the shut down Workonics into areas that are easily defended which gives the enforcer a sense of strategy beyond simply pointing and shooting. Sadly, this balance was periodically disrupted by players frequently leaving the game after being shut down which grew to be very frustrating.
Chainsawesome Games have created a fun but simple competitive multiplayer that fails to be engaging due to its lack of features and diversity. I do understand that this is only a beta and there is still time to diversify and expand the world of Aftercharge - so I have faith in them doing just that. As it stands, Aftercharge is a cool concept, it just needs more..concepts.
This review was written by freelance writer Michael Holmes and edited by Corey Putney. Follow Michael on Instagram: @michaeldholmes
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1. Subject
-These Terms and Conditions govern the contractual relationship between Royal Air Maroc and each member of the Safar Flyer program. They contain very important information about the rights and obligations of the Safar Flyer member, as well as the limitations and exclusions that may apply in this contractual context.
-Any person applying for this program is deemed to have read and accepted these terms and conditions.
-These terms and conditions are in effect at the date of publication and are subject to change without prior notice. Amendments to these terms will be posted on the Safar Flyer website and become mandatory for all members.
- Activity date is the effective date of the flight for which the miles were recorded. Example: A Safar Flyer member has made a flight on 01/25/2016, the date of expiry of the saved miles for this flight is 31/12/2019.
- Airline partner: Any airline, member of the oneworld Alliance and other airlines whose flights are eligible to earn or redeem Miles.
- AT: IATA code of Royal Air Maroc.
- Award-miles: Correspond to the totality of accumulated Miles that can be used in exchange for flights, upgrades, extra luggage allowance or other premiums described in the SF Communication.
- Award ticket: Award airline ticket obtained through the conversion of accumulated Miles.
- Blue: Basic status of Safar Flyer. The Blue card is granted automatically after the effective credit of the first flight made on Royal Air Maroc airlines.
- Corporate program: Program reserved for companies, giving them access to a certain number of advantages, according to the conditions in force.
- Effective membership: membership in the Safar Flyer loyalty program is effective from the date of the first flight made by the member on the Royal Air Maroc lines and recorded on his Safar Flyer account.
- Gold: Intermediate status of Safar Flyer. The Gold Card gives access to personalized services and exclusive privileges according to the conditions in effect. Requiring thirty-five thousand (35,000) qualifying miles or thirty-five (35) qualifying flights.
- Member / Identification Number: Safar Flyer membership number that the member receives when registering for the Safar Flyer program online or on the temporary membership card in paper format.
- Mile: The mile, which is one thousand six hundred and nine (1609) meters, is the universal unit of measurement of aerial distances.
- Non-airline partner: Partners other than an airline partner such as Hotels, car rental companies and any other companies with which Safar Flyer members can earn and / or redeem Miles for the products or services offered by these Partners.
- oneworld : Alliance of International Airlines, whose members are available at www.oneworld.com
-oneworldpartner: Any airline member of the oneworld alliance, other than Royal Air Maroc.
- oneworldstatus: Corresponds to the Emerald, Sapphire and Ruby status used by oneworld to recognize the status of the loyalty programs of each airline member of oneworld.
- Partial use: Use of part of the sections of a reward ticket.
- Partners: Airline and non-airline partners (car rental companies, for e.g.) of Royal Air Maroc.
- PIN Code: Internet access code, allowing the Safar Flyer member to access his personal space.
- Platinum: Highest status of the program. The Platinum Card gives access to personalized services and exclusive privileges according to the conditions in effect. It is accessible from 75,000 qualifying miles or 75 qualifying flights.
- Qualifying flights: Accumulated flights, exclusively on flights operated by Royal Air Maroc and some of its partners as defined in the SF communication, during a calendar year (January 1 to December 31) determining the level of card (Blue, Silver, Gold and Platinum).
- Safar Family program: Offered to families, it makes it possible to group the Miles accumulated by different members of the same family in a single account called « Safar Family ». It allows an easy accumulation of Miles and quick access to Safar Flyer bonuses, according to the conditions in force.
- Safar Flyer: The Safar Flyer fidelity program is intended for regular travelers of Royal Air Maroc. t aims to reward loyal customers of Royal Air Maroc by awarding them Miles, which can provide access to a wide range of premiums and benefits in accordance with prevailing conditions.
- Silver: Intermediate status of Safar Flyer, requiring twenty thousand (20,000) qualifying miles or fifteen (15) qualifying flights, and giving access to a number of benefits.
- SF communication: communication destined to members of the Safar Flyer program and in particular the SF website, communication media (leaflets, newsletter, etc.) whose purpose is to promote the product, to inform the client of the novelties of the program.
- SF website: Safar Flyer website accessible from www.royalairmaroc.com
- Status miles: Miles accumulated, exclusively on flights operated by Royal Air Maroc and some of its partners as defined in the SF communication, during a calendar year (January 1 to December 31) determining the card level (Blue, Silver, Gold and Platinum).
- Term of validity of the miles: • Miles accumulated on an individual Safar Flyer Blue, Silver and Gold account are valid for three (3) years from the date of activity; • Miles accumulated on an individual Safar Flyer Platinum account are valid for five (5) years from the date of activity; Miles accumulated on a Safar Flyer Family account are valid for five (5) years from the date of activity; • Miles accumulated on a Safar Flyer Corporate accounts are valid for two (2) years from the date of activity.
3. Joining Safar Flyer
The member guarantees the accuracy of all information communicated to Safar Flyer and will be solely responsible for any erroneous, incomplete or obsolete identification. The member expressly agrees that Royal Air Maroc may regularly check the account information at any time and undertakes to provide the required information.
Membership in the Safar Flyer program is free. The program is open to individuals aged 2 years and over; for minors, parental authorization, or legal guardianship is required, if applicable. Legal persons or groups of people cannot participate in the program. Employees, managers of all airlines, travel agencies, tour operators cannot benefit from the advantages of the Safar Flyer program.
Any eligible person wishing to join the program will have to register directly online on the SF Website or fill out a paper application form, available at Royal Air Maroc agencies, sign it and return it to Royal Air Maroc.
Any person applying to join the program is deemed to have read and accepted the present « Terms and conditions ».
Only one registration per Member is accepted. In case of duplicate, the member must report it to Safar Flyer; only the oldest account will be kept and will be credited with the miles possibly accumulated on the most recent account, with exception of the rewards already credited on the old account.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to refuse the membership of any person who does not meet the criteria for participation in the program as detailed in this document or who does not meet the regulatory criteria that apply to this program.
For families, a special product called «Safar Family» is offered. The specific conditions of adhesion of the said product can be consulted below.
For companies, a special product called « Safar Flyer Corporate » is offered. The specific conditions of adhesion of the said product can be consulted below
4. oneworld
Royal Air Maroc is a member of oneworld .
Silver, Gold and Platinum members benefit from status recognition on flights marketed and operated by other oneworld Alliance member airlines according to their corresponding oneworld status.
Safar Flyer members must present their membership card and mention their membership number when booking travel with other oneworld member airlines.
oneworld benefits with other oneworld member airlines are offered to the Safar Flyer member and provided by oneworld and the airline in question.
Royal Air Maroc declines all responsibility for modifications or the provision of said benefits by oneworld or by other airlines members of oneworld .
5. Accumulation of Miles
Each member holds a personal account on which his Miles are credited.
The Miles are obtained: - From flights operated and marketed by Royal Air Maroc, - From code sharing partner companies under code number AT, - From flights marketed by Royal Air Maroc and operated by any other oneworld partner, - From flights marketed by a oneworld partner and operated by Royal Air Maroc - From flights operated and marketed by a oneworld partner , - The Miles are obtained via services provided by Non-Airline Partners on the basis of the Safar Flyer program schedule specified in the SF Communication. Royal Air Maroc is likely to expand its Safar Flyer program by integrating new partners and will then inform the members of the conditions governing the relationship between Safar Flyer and its new partners.
The Safar Flyer member can accumulate Miles only on flights he has actually made or benefits from Airline and Non-Airlines Partners he has already benefited from.
If the beneficiary of the Award ticket is not the holder of the Safar Flyer account, Royal Air Maroc has the right to ask the beneficiary of the award ticket to present the documents proving the identity of the account holder (a copy the Safar Flyer account holder's ID and a copy of the account holder's Safar Flyer card).
The negotiation of the purchase or sale of Miles and / or rewards, unauthorized purchase of rewards and unauthorized use of rewards are strictly prohibited.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to check the accounts of Safar Flyer members, paying particular attention to the origin of the miles earned, as well as the use of the rewards on the service of Royal Air Maroc or those of its Airline and Non-Airlines Partners. Royal Air Maroc also reserves the right to claim damages for any incorrect use of a Safar Flyer card, Miles or Rewards.
Safar Flyer Members must communicate their full name and membership number during any activity with Royal Air Maroc or its Airline and Non-Airlines partners. Miles are credited exclusively to members who have communicated their membership numbers when booking / issuing the ticket, registering the flight and before using any service with Safar Flyer Airline and Non-Airlines partners. Miles earned by the member will be credited to his account, regardless of the identity of the person or entity who paid for the tickets or services at Safar Flyer Airline and Non-Airlines partners. Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to change the rules for earning Miles, it may at any time: - Determine the fare level eligible for Miles credit; including increasing, reducing, excluding certain booking classes or fare categories on Royal Air Maroc flights or Safar Flyer Airline Partners; - Increase, reduce the scale or exclude certain services from its Non-Airline Partners.
For each flight eligible for the accumulation of Miles, the participant shall see his account credited with a certain number of Miles. This number depends on:
- The distance between the airports of departure and arrival of the said flight. All distances are based on the departure and destination points shown on the passenger ticket and IATA standards. Minimum Miles are awarded, regardless of actual distance, for short distance flights under 500 Miles;
- Classes of transport / booking in which the trip will have been made. Flights and fares allowing the accumulation of Miles are determined by Royal Air Maroc and may be modified without notice with immediate application. Safar Flyer Members traveling in Business class receive a mileage bonus for their class of travel;
- Status of the Safar Flyer member; Silver, Gold ou Platinum members receive a non-qualifying bonus based on Miles credited for the route / class in question.
Miles are accumulated according to the booking class as booked, paid and billed and not the class in which the person actually traveled.
In case of upgrade, the flight credit will correspond to one hundred percent (100%) of the miles of the journey.
The member can not claim the credit for Miles in case of cancellation of flights for reasons beyond the control of the carriers (including cancellations in case of internal or external strike or for security reasons).
Are excluded from the accumulation of Miles:
- Travel with Award tickets; - Unused, confiscated, fraudulent, lost, expired or refunded tickets.
Each Safar Flyer member is required to keep the necessary documents such as boarding passes, passenger receipts and service invoices from Non-Airline Partners that may be required by Royal Air Maroc or Safar Flyer Airline and Non-Airline Partners in the event of a retroactive credit application. Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to refuse the credit of the activities for which the aforementioned documents have not been communicated by the Safar Flyer member.
For any individual Safar Flyer account Blue, Silver or Gold, accumulated Miles for an activity registered at N-3 expire on 31/12 / N without exception or extension.
For any individual Safar Flyer account Platinum, accumulated Miles for an activity registered at N-5 expire on 31/12 / N without exception or extension.
For any Safar Flyer Family account, accumulated miles for an activity registered at N- 5 expire on 31/12/N without exception or extension.
For any Safar Flyer Corporate account, accumulated miles for an activity registered at N- 2 expire on 31/12/N without exception or extension.
Each Safar Flyer member can access his individual account online on the SF Website and obtain the details of his own activities.
Each Safar Flyer member will have to make sure personally that the Miles corresponding to his activity have been credited to his account. If the member finds that there is an activity not yet credited, he will have to make a request for retroactive credit to Royal Air Maroc within (six) 6 months. A request must be sent to SF customer service according to the procedures available on the SF Website.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to debit the account of a Safar Flyer member with Miles improperly credited, but also reserves the right to award additional Miles credits for occasional promotional campaigns.
Safar Flyer members have the option to transfer their Miles for free to the preferred account of their choice.
Advantages (discounts, facilities, privileges, etc.) can also be obtained with Safar Flyer Airline or Non-Airline partners according to the conditions defined by each Partner and described in the SF Communications.
It is the responsibility of the Safar Flyer member when using the services of the partners to check with them the conditions in force. Any complaint on this subject can only be addressed to the partners concerned.
Unless otherwise specified by Royal Air Maroc or its airline or non-airline partners, members who also participate in other loyalty programs will only be able to earn miles on a single program per flight or service; members will be required to choose their program for each flight or service.
Miles earned on Blue, Silver and Gold accounts during a calendar year N (1 January to 31 December) are valid until 31 December of year N + 3 (example: Miles earned in April 2018 are valid until 31/12/2021). Miles earned on Platinum account during a calendar year N (1 January to 31 December) are valid until 31 December of year N + 5 (example: Miles earned in April 2018 are valid until 31/12/2023). The validity of five (5) years only concerns Miles credited as Platinum status. Miles earned before qualifying for Platinum status will be valid for three (3) years.
The Safar Flyer member will have to ensure the use of accumulated miles on his account before they expire. No claim for the credit of expired Miles will be accepted. Miles can not be bequeathed as part of an inheritance (without a third party / rightful claimant being able to claim any compensation), assigned or combined for free or on account to the account or Miles of any other Safar member Flyer (unless otherwise specified by Safar Flyer).
6. Safar Flyer cards
Royal Air Maroc will communicate its Safar Flyer Blue card member after the credit of his first flight with Royal Air Maroc.
The Safar Flyer membership card is personal and is not assignable, only the member whose name is on the card is authorized to use it or to communicate the membership number. In case of loss or theft of the Safar Flyer Card or if it is damaged, the member must immediately inform Safar Flyer. Royal Air Maroc declines any responsibility for any fraudulent use of the card or in case of non-compliance by the member of this clause.
Safar Flyer cards are the property of Royal Air Maroc and must be returned when needed.
The Safar Flyer member must present his card at any time when Royal Air Maroc or one of his Airline and Non-Airline partners requests it during his travels, or during the use of services offered within the framework of the Safar Flyer program.
In case of account closure the card (s) in the possession of the member or his successors must be immediately returned to Royal Air Maroc.
7. Change of status
In the case of a change of status of a given Safar Flyer member, Royal Air Maroc will communicate to the latter the card relating to its new status.
Depending on the number of qualifying Miles and / or Qualifying Flights accrued annually from January 1st to December 31st by the Safar Flyer members, they shall see their status evolve from Blue to Silver to Gold and then Platinum. The Safar Flyer Blue Card is valid for life, the Silver, Gold and Platinum cards are valid until the expiration date shown on it.
The Silver, Gold or Platinum levels depend on the scales described in the SF Communication. Royal Air Maroc may at any time, and without notice, change the rules governing the number of Qualifying Miles or Qualifying Flights governing the granting of Silver, Gold and Platinum cards.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to modify at any time, and without notice, the advantages granted by each card.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to add, without notice, new card levels and to fix the advantages of the latter.
The time limited cards are subject to annual renewal, which will concern expiring cards. Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to qualify or degrade members as well as to extend the validity date of certain cards.
8. Partners
Miles and / or benefits (discounts, facilities, privileges, etc.) can also be obtained with Safar Flyer Airline or Non-Airline Partners according to the conditions defined by each partner and described in the SF communication. It is up to the Safar Flyer member to communicate his membership number when booking or purchasing a service with Royal Air Maroc Partners. It is the responsibility of the Safar Flyer member when using the services of the Airline or Non-Airline Partners to check with them the conditions in force. Any complaint on this subject can only be addressed to the Partners concerned.
Royal Air Maroc declines any responsibility as for uncredited Miles from the activities with its Non-Airline Partners. Any complaint on this subject can only be addressed to the partners concerned. Each Safar Flyer member is required to send all the proofs (voucher, invoice, etc.) requested by the Partners so that they can communicate the retroactive activities to credit to Royal Air Maroc.
Airline or Non-Airline Partners benefiting from specific agreements are solely responsible for the awarding of Miles (Award-miles only) and / or benefits (discounts, facilities, privileges, etc.) regarding their services. Royal Air Maroc declines any responsibility as for the non-performance of the services by the Partners. Any complaint on this subject can only be addressed to the Partners concerned.
9. Using Miles
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to propose specific bonuses for each product which are detailed in the SF Communication.
When the Safar Flyer member has accumulated a valid number of required Miles, he is entitled to claim a reward in accordance with the procedures governing the issuance of rewards (flight tickets, upgrading, etc.) described in the SF Communication and in accordance with the scale available on the SF Website.
The use of rewards is subject to the present terms and conditions, the specific ones of granting of the rewards detailed in the SF Communication and those governing the occasional promotions. Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to modify these conditions at any time.
Only the member is authorized to send a request for a reward to SF customer service according to the procedures available on the SF Website.
Minors enrolled in the program require parental permission, or legal guardian for all reward requests.
According to the scale in effect on the date of the request, the Safar Flyer member's account will be debited the number of Miles corresponding to the reward requested. The oldest Miles being debited first.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to change the conditions for obtaining any reward, including the number of miles required and to cancel any reward offer without notice with immediate effect. The granting of rewards is subject to the specific regulations of each Safar Flyer product.
Rewards may be subject to certain capacity restrictions or, blocked at certain periods determined by Royal Air Maroc or / and its Airline or Non-Airline Partners.
A premium may be issued for a third person upon request of the member subject to presentation of the identity document of the third person coming to take possession of the premium, as well as a copy of the card of the member and an original signed certificate by the member authorizing the remission of the premium to it. Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to modify or suspend this procedure at any time. Rewards for minors can only be given to parents or legal guardian.
Rewards are valid for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of issue, with exceptions - such as Promotional Offers described in the SF Communication.
The Safar Flyer member may offer a reward provided that the conditions of the reward allow it. The member is solely responsible for the use of the rewards, whether used by him or by a third party.
The Safar Flyer member may cancel a reward in case the conditions of the latter allow it, if it is still valid and if it has not been used partially. The member's account will then be credited with valid Miles and used for the benefit of the reward.
If a reward is canceled, expired Miles cannot be refunded. The member or a third party can not claim credit for these Miles.
Rewards are indivisible. Under no circumstances may they be awarded retroactively, have a redemption or exchange value, be extended, sold or redeemed, replaced in the event of loss, theft or destruction.
The rewards obtained by the Safar Flyer member cannot, in any case, be transferred, bequeathed or transferred for free or for money except with prior agreement of Royal Air Maroc.
Airline Awards: In the case of possible remote processing, the air award will be sent to the e-mail address provided by the Safar Flyer member. If necessary, the Award must be removed from the Royal Air Maroc agencies. The delivery of the award is subject to the collection of taxes.
Airline Awards redeemed for Miles are also subject to Royal Air Maroc's Terms and Conditions.
Aerial Awards of different natures can not be cumulated for the same beneficiary on the same flight / date. Award tickets:
Award Ticket : Rewards are requested on the SF Website, from the Safar Flyer Call Center or Royal Air Maroc agencies. Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to change the procedures for obtaining rewards at any time without notice. To benefit from an Award Ticket, the member must make a booking, within the limits of availability, with the Call Center or a Royal Air Maroc agency or on the website www.royalairmaroc.com .
Access to Award Tickets depends on the number of seats reserved for the Safar Flyer program. Royal Air Maroc and all the partner Airlines companies in the program are the only judges of the number of seats available for this purpose; no complaints from members will be accepted, including in the case of an incomplete flight. Therefore, members are advised to reserve their seats as soon as possible by indicating, in addition to the membership number, that it is an award ticket.
All Award Tickets must be operated on routes operated by Royal Air Maroc or Safar Flyer partner airlines. Award Tickets may be limited on some code-share flights. Award tickets are issued under the name of the member and / or the name of any other person designated by himself on the electronic or paper « reward request » form, in accordance with the conditions in force when the reward ticket is issued.
The choice of route is governed by the terms and conditions of Award Tickets, Royal Air Maroc or its airline partners, published on the SF website. All flight segments belonging to the same reward ticket must be booked at the same time. After issue of the Award Ticket, the change of the name of the beneficiary will not be accepted under any circumstances.
The change of the travel date of the Award Ticket within the same area, after its issue, will be allowed free of charge only once within the validity of the ticket. This change is subject to availability and must be made at least forty-eight (48) hours before the scheduled departure time.
In the event of an additional change, Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to apply a fee in accordance with the fare conditions and card status.
In case of cancellation of an Award ticket, Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to apply a fee in accordance with the fare conditions.
The member requesting the reward is the sole responsible for the payment of all taxes and any taxes applicable to the rewards granted by the program. The member will have to pay all taxes whoever the beneficiary of the reward.
The Award ticket cannot, under any circumstances, be used for the following cases: stretcher transport, accompaniment of a child by a hostess, to obtain a baby seat or to benefit from an additional seat unless otherwise communicated published on the SF Website.
The Safar Flyer member accompanied by a child under two (2) years old and traveling with a Award ticket will have to make a reservation for the baby at the applicable price conditions.
Upgrade reward:
An upgrade reward is defined as the ability to travel in the class immediately above the one paid.
The upgrade reward is valid exclusively on Royal Air Maroc direct flights and cannot be endorsed.
Once the upgrade reward has been issued, the cancellation or modification is governed by the fare conditions of the original ticket.
The conditions of use of this reward are published on the SF Website.
Extra luggage allowance:
The extra luggage allowance is defined as the possibility of carrying extra luggage, in addition to the luggage allowance on the ticket and the privileges granted by the Safar Flyer member's card if applicable..
Extra luggage allowance is valid exclusively on eligible Royal Air Maroc flights and is not transferable. Extra luggage allowance will not be accepted for the transportation of special luggage or for transportation of animals.
The conditions of use of this reward are specified on the SF Website.
10. Management of the personal space on the SF Website
Each Safar Flyer member can access his personal space online on the SF Website by entering his member number and PIN. It will thus be able to access all the services described in the SF Communication. The member is responsible for the use of his PIN Code and will not disclose it to any third party. Royal Air Maroc cannot be held responsible for the intentional or unintentional communication of these identifiers by a member to a third party, allowing the latter to access the data online and to carry out certain transactions.
Only the member himself can act on his personal account such as updating the profile, requesting bonuses, changing his consents for the receipt of Royal Air Maroc offers. The account holder can make such changes through the features available on the SF Website or by email sent exclusively from the email registered on his Account or in writing signed and sent to Safar Flyer.
The member is required to update his contact information at Safar Flyer. As such, he is responsible for updating his profile information (postal address, email, telephones, etc.) in accordance with the provisions of the preceding article.
11. Communications with the members
By joining the Safar Flyer program, the member agrees to receive Safar Flyer communications that are an integral part of the program (account balance, threshold reminder, miles expiry etc.) Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to launch targeted communications at any time.
All communications under the Safar Flyer Program will be made only with the account holder.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to personalize these contact channels by member status. Each member will have to use the published contacts corresponding to his status for all communications with Safar Flyer.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to choose the media, channels and periodicity most suitable for Safar Flyer communications. Royal Air Maroc may at any time, and without notice, modify its media, its channels and its periodicities of communication
12. Audit
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to audit all accounts of the Safar Flyer Program, at any time, and without notice to members, in order to ensure compliance with applicable program rules and conditions of transport and/or prices.
If an audit reveals irregularities or violations, the account of the responsible member will be suspended by Royal Air Maroc until such irregularities or violations have been satisfactorily resolved. While waiting for this resolution, it may be forbidden for the member responsible to convert Miles, access to the salons and use bonuses, services or benefits related to the program, at the sole and absolute discretion of Royal Air Maroc.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to debit the account of any member who fraudulently acquired Miles.
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to exchange information with partners or their agents for audit purposes.
13.Termination
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to exclude from the Safar Flyer program, to cancel the account and to confiscate all accumulated Miles with immediate effect, if the member concerned:
Does not respect the terms and conditions of transport of Royal Air Maroc or the present terms and conditions;
Does not provide proof of identity upon request from Safar Flyer within one (1) month;
Behaves maliciously against any employee Royal Air Maroc or its airline and non-airline partners, on board or in the lounges, refuses to follow the instructions of an employee;
Misuses the related privileges by providing false information or by any other improper or fraudulent means, he will be held responsible for any loss resulting from this act;
Do not earn Miles for twenty-four (24) consecutive months;
Is deceased, his account will then be closed following the receipt of a death certificate by Safar Flyer. Accumulated Miles cannot be bequeathed as part of an inheritance.
The member is entitled to terminate his membership with the Safar Flyer program. He must then notify Royal Air Maroc in writing. As a result, the accumulated Miles will be canceled and the account will be closed.
In case of termination, the Miles accumulated until then will be confiscated in full and will lose all value, and the rewards previously issued but not used will be canceled and this, without the member or any third party being able to claim any compensation and without prejudice to any damages that the Safar Flyer member may owe to Royal Air Maroc as a result of such termination.
14. End of the program
Royal Air Maroc reserves the right to terminate the Safar Flyer Program with three (3) months' notice to the members, it being specified that the balance of the Miles on the date of termination can be used at the latest in the three (3) months following this cancellation.
The Member is responsible for any harm and damages caused to Royal Air Maroc and its staff as a result of poor performance, partial or total non-fulfillment of the obligations of this contract.
Royal Air Maroc declines all liability for damages caused by the use of a reward, except for damage occurring during transport for which the carrier's liability is governed by the Warsaw Convention or by Moroccan law; in the case of domestic transport and the Terms and Conditions of transportation of Royal Air Maroc.
Royal Air Maroc declines all responsibility in case of use by a minor of a Safar Flyer service without prior authorization of his legal guardian.
In the case that a reward has been wrongly refused, Royal Air Maroc's liability will be limited to the value of this reward. Any compensation can be made only in the form of a reward of equivalent value.
Royal Air Maroc will not be liable in case of loss or theft of rewards or any other document issued by it in the framework of the Safar Flyer program and whose cause does not fall directly to it.
Royal Air Maroc cannot be held responsible for delays or losses caused by postal services or customs procedures. The Member is responsible for any third party claim related to his participation in the Safar Flyer Program Royal Air Maroc cannot in any case be held liable for loss or damage resulting from the termination or change of the Program, or withdrawal from the program of one of the Partners, Royal Air Maroc will do its best
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The Best Jedi Fight Scenes
by Craig Boyle August 16, 2020
(Main image is a screenshot of a copyrighted film, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, used under Fair Use.)
The main Star Wars films have shown us some incredible battles – the sort of fights that have lived on in our collective cultural memory. Who can forget Obi-Wan’s duel with Vader in A New Hope? Who doesn’t remember Luke versus Vader’s final clash? These infamous scenes are etched into history – but are they the best?
As time went on and more films were released, we as an audience were treated to a plethora of new lightsaber battles. We saw Jedi from the glory days of the republic battling in the Clone Wars. We witnessed a new breed of jedi in Rey fighting Snoke’s bodyguards. Due to the expanded canon, we have also seen so many extra jedi fighters such as Ashoka Tano.
This has resulted in exciting duels and fight scenes across the whole franchise – making a best of list more difficult but so much more enjoyable. So, without further rambling, here are our favourite jedi fight scenes…
Luke Skywalker Vs Darth Vader (Star Wars Episode VI: The Return Of The Jedi)
The first clash between this troubled father/son pairing is iconic and for good reason – it’s when the big reveal about Luke’s lineage occurs.
As a duel, however, it’s short-lived and ends with poor Luke’s arm going down into the clouds. Their second meeting is much more pleasing for fans. We see Luke at the height of his powers, having completed his training and risen to the occasion. He and Vader clash in front of Emperor Palpatine in a battle that’s about so much more than winning or losing.
This duel helped define Star Wars as a franchise for years and has withstood the test of time perhaps better than any other duel in the OT.
Obi-Wan & Qui Gonn Jinn Vs Darth Maul (Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)
This battle is perhaps best described by one sentence: DUEL OF THE FATES. The epic soundtrack to the first double-bladed lightsaber appearance in Star Wars hjstory still sends pulses of nostalgia straight down even the most hardened fan’s spine. It’s a soaring, unforgettable soundtrack and the battle itself is one of the peak moments from the prequels. Darth Maul’s savage fighting style bests Qui Gonn and we are witness to Obi Wan’s impressive counterattack that puts an end to maul. Or does it…
Obi Wan Vs Darth Maul (Star Wars Rebels)
Darth Maul is Obi-Wan’s nemesis. Their original battle in the film franchise pales in comparison to their ongoing feud throughout the expanded trilogy. Maul survives being cut in half and returns for revenge, and the two clash repeatedly.
It is not until later, during Obi-Wan’s exile on Tatooine, that we see the final battle take place. Maul tracks Obi-wan down and correctly guesses that the Jedi is protecting something on the planet. Obi-wan, knowing this, knows he cannot let Maul leave the planet alive.
The duel is over quickly, but the technical brilliance that Obi-Wan shows during it is exceptional – and a real sign of the Rebels writer’s knowledge of Jedi lore. He baits Maul with the same stance as Qui Gonn used in Episode I, then rebukes his attacker and finishes him for good. In a bittersweet embrace between the two enemies, Maul confides that he hopes infant Luke will ‘avenge us’ – showing he still has good in him, somewhere.
Rey Vs Kylo Ren (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Perhaps a controversial addition, but this is one of the best examples of cinematography in the entire franchise. Rey’s blue saber flashes through a dark forest, whilst Ren’s crackling red one sizzles, smokes and drags its way through the night. When they clash, the energy of two eager, not fully-trained warriors is plain to see.
Any criticism of Kylo tends to be around how he should be more powerful and not have been bested by Rey in this fight – but those people are missing the point: Ren is all misplaced anger, frustration, and jealousy. He wants to fight like a Sith lord but has never faced another saber wielder and has no knowledge of that style of combat. Plus, he’s just been shot by Chewie’s bowcaster. His brash, bold strokes and striding movement show this perfectly. Rey, who is becoming attuned to the force, defeats him with precision and grace.
But really, this battle is included solely for how mind-boggling cool it looked on screen.
Special mention: Rey and Ren’s scene versus Snoke’s guards is also incredible – but misses the mark because it’s not saber on saber combat.
Yoda vs Count Dooku (Episode II: Attack Of The Clones)
For years, everyone always questioned how a dimunitive green alien could truly be the master of the Jedi order. Sure, we saw Yoda’s force powers in the original trilogy – but how could be stand toe to toe with Sith and battle them?
This fight, which could have become a parody, is instead a thrilling and surprising battle where we finally see Master Yoda’s acrobatic fighting style. With the force on his side, he flips, spins and slashes his way to victory over a seasoned duellist in Darth Tyrannus/Count Dooku.
Anakin Vs Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith)
The tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker is finalised here, where he battles his own master and friend, Obi-Wan, in the fiery pits of Mustafar. Obi-Wan practically begs Anakin not to fight him and to come back to the light, but it is too late. The young jedi has completely fallen to the Dark Side, and this fight shows it.
However, it also shows Obi-Wan’s experience and empathy. After taking the high ground, he makes a final plea for Anakin not to continue fighting. Anakin, bold and presumptuous, ignores the advantage his master has and attacks anyway.
And the rest, as Anakin lies screaming in pain, is history. He is saved from the lava and becomes Darth Vader – forever sealing his fate.
It would be easy to continue listing great fight scenes, but those are our favourites and we stand by them (although we bet the Force Awakens entry will be controversial). Which are your best Jedi fight scenes? Let us know on social!
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Tokyo Filmex to open with Tsai Ming-liang's Face
By Jason Gray2009-09-18T02:38:00+01:00
Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang’s Face will open the 10th anniversary edition of Tokyo Filmex, which runs from November 21-29 in the city’s Yurakucho and Tsukiji districts.
Face premiered in Cannes competition this May and is currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The closing film at Tokyo Filmex will be Park Chan-wook’s Thirst, which shared the jury prize with Fish Tank in Cannes.
Ten competition films will vie for a $10,970 (Y1m) grand prize: Omri Givon’s Seven Minutes In Heaven (Israel), Bahman Ghobadi’sNo One Knows About Persian Cats(Iran), Hana Makhmalbaf’s Green Days (Iran), Vimukthi Jayasundara’s Between Two Worlds (Sri Lanka), Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Nymph (Thailand), Joon-han Yeo’s Sell Out! (Malaysia), Chang Tso-chi’s How Are You, Dad? (Taiwan), Soi Cheang’s Accident (Hong Kong), Ik-june Yang’s Breathless (Korea), Go Shibata’s Doman Seman (Japan).
The competition jury will be headed by director Yoichi Sai. He is joined by Chinese director Lou Ye, Toronto programmer Giovanna Fulvi, programme director of the Cinematheque Francaise Jean Francois Rauger, and Taiwanese actress Chen Shiang-chyi, who appears in Face.
In addition to the opening and closing films, the ten-film special screenings programme includes world premieres of Toshiaki Toyoda’s The Blood Of Rebirth and Tatsushi Omori’s A Crowd Of Three, Lou Ye’s Spring Fever, Bradley Rust Gray’s The Exploding Girl and Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa’s The Milk Of Sorrow.
Also part of the tenth anniversary lineup is a retrospective on legendary French director Jean-Pierre Melville and the 27-title “Nippon Modern: 1930s” programme, which includes classic films by Yasujiro Shimazu and Yasujiro Ozu.
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Yang's Breathless takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
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Waltz With Bashir takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
Director Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir was awarded the grand prize at the conclusion of the 9th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 22-30). The award carried a cash prize of $10,470 (Y1m). The film's animation director Yoni Goodman was on hand to receive the honour. An Israel-France-Germany co-production, Waltz ...
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This establishing shot of the real Orange County was first seen on "The O.C."
in Episode 23 (of season two) - "The O.Sea"
This is supposed to be the Cohen's neighborhood. In fact, the real Cohen house is located in Malibu.
These are actually the Pelican Point homes, surrounded by the Pelican Hill golf course,
north of Crystal Cove in Newport Beach.
(Farther up the hills are the similar homes of Pelican Hill and Pelican Crest.)
In these photos, we are looking north, up from the beach.
The houses in the foreground are on Pelican Point Drive & Shoreline, south of Coast Highway.
Note: these Orange County locations are not really where The O.C. is filmed.
These are only "establishing shots", used in the show to create the illusion
The show does not film in Orange County.
By Episode - By Category - By Geographical Location - Clickable Map of All O.C. Locations - Establishing Shots
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SHCFA Grassroots Awards 2018
Calum Oakenfold
Celebrating Our Local Grassroots Heroes
Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA was proud to present the 2018 FA McDonalds Grassroots awards last week held our Rotherham United's New York Stadium. The annual awards evening is put in place at the end of each season to celebrate our local grassroots heroes and recognize the work they do.
This years awards saw over 200 nominations for the 14 awards with many fantastic examples of individuals, groups and organisations completing voluntary work across our county. A panel of independent judges selected the 14 winners through an extensive assessment process.
Over the past few years the awards evening has been held at Sheffield's Baldwins Omega restaurant but this years awards traveled to the New York Stadium in Rotherham. This excellent venue provided the perfect back drop for the awards and guests the opportunity to view the great facilities this club has.
Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA, General Manager, Simon Frost stated: "Its great to be here in Rotherham for our awards tonight and the stadium is a great setting for football awards. The awards feature winners from across our county so it is nice that they will all be able to come together under one roof and celebrate their work together."
Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA, Marketing and Communications Officer, Calum Oakenfold stated: "The grassroots awards are a great opportunity for to celebrate and recognize all the hard work that goes on across our county to support the grassroots game. We received so many excellent nominations that it was very difficult to select this years winners and obviously we wish we could have everyone here to attend the awards. The stories that we have from this years winners really show how much time and commitment goes into supporting local football and these awards evenings are a great opportunity for us to give a little back. We are proud to hold these awards and are already looking forward to next seasons."
Sheffield & Hallamshire CFA 2018 Award Winners:
Young Volunteer of the Year - Owen Evans (presented by SHCFA Chairman Brian Jones)
Owen received this award for his voluntary work that he completes at his local club that includes supporting coaches during training, helping develop players and officiating games.
Volunteer of the Year - Darren Warner
Darren has received this award for the work he completes with Club Doncaster Titans. Darren has taken the club and developed the attendance alongside linking with local organisations to support that individuals that come to Darren's sessions.
Community Project of the Year - Fit Rovers
Scott and the team at Fit Rovers have created a health and well being programme based at Doncaster Rovers Keepmoat Stadium that has seen over 200 men attend. The programme is a great opportunity for men to socialise, work out and talk about issues to do with mental health and well being. Alongside this, the programme also has guest speakers come in to talk about success stories, provide advice and support the individuals attending.
Charter Standard League of the Year - Sheffield & District Junior Sunday Football League
Sheffield & District Junior League has received this award for its continual support of FA campaigns such as the Respect programme along with promoting its own campaigns to ensure they can create the best environment for youth football as possible.
Charter Standard Club of the Year - Sheffield Wednesday Ladies FC
SWLFC have won this award for its commitment to developing the club and the women's game. The club has shown significant growth since is start and now features female teams at all age groups. The club is self funded and provides excellent facilities and coaching for girls looking to play football.
Young Referee of the Year - Aaron Hallam
Aaron has won this award in recognition of his developments as a referee. Aaron shows excellent potential as a referee and his performances on and off the pitch have been very impressive.
Respect Award - Julie and Brian Haywood
Julie and Brian have helped support Brierley Cubs for a number of years and have promoted the Respect message throughout their time. They both hold multiple roles at the club and have helped develop the children during their time at the club.
Match Official of the Year - JB Marsh
Brent has won this award for his contributions to refereeing. His service to the County FA has been exceptional and over the past 4 years, Brent has donated all his match fees to local hospitals and charities.
Coach of the Year - Mark Roe
Mark has won the award of Coach of the Year for his efforts at AFC Dronfield. Mark has exceptional philosophies towards coaching and player development and installs these messages into the club and his players.
Grounds Team of the Year - Shelley FC
Ash Berry and his team and Shelley FC have won this award for their efforts in developing the Stafflex Arena. The work they complete around the ground allows players to play at exceptional facilities and experience a positive football environment.
Derek Dooley & Geldart Award Winner - Sheila Allsebrook
Double award winner Sheila received the Derek Dooley and Geldart awards this season. Sheila receives the Derek Dooley award for her commitments to local football for so many years and helping to support the game. She also received the Geldart award for her contributions to youth football and putting the foundations in place to allow the youth game to grow and develop.
Unfortunately not all our winners could attend the evening but we would like to mention a special congratulations to the two individuals below that were not with us on the evening.
Supporter of the Year - Lisa Godfrey (Hickleton Harriers)
Long Service Award for Refereeing - Brian Coddington
Written by Calum Oakenfold
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DeWitt column: Of pecans and poachers
Michael DeWitt
As a modern Southerner, I have a love/hate relationship with many things Southern: grits, country girls who catch bigger fish than I do, and last but not least - the pecan.
Sure, I love the taste of pecans and almost anything with pecans in it. I can eat my weight in pecan sandies - with or without a glass of milk. I once tasted a slice of Kentucky-bourbon-infused pecan pie in a fancy restaurant that was so good, in a moment of weakness, I wrote a romantic sonnet to the pastry chef right there on my napkin. Now that’s true love.
The hate? The pecan, that evil Carya illinoinensis, has caused me more pain, suffering and corporal punishment than any other plant species on this green Earth. Now, I don’t normally go around questioning The Great Creator’s designs, but if he did not intend for little boys to shoot pecans from slingshots at 80 meters per second toward kitchen windows, then why did he make them such perfect, hard-shelled projectiles? If the Good Lord did not intend for little brothers and sisters to get struck in the head by pecans, why did he make them such slow-moving targets?
(To add insult to injury, it was usually a pecan limb that was used to beat the dust out of the rear of my britches, but that’s another column in itself.)
Those diabolical pecans also stood between me and my boyhood dream of catching every fish, bagging every bird and shooting every deer in the Coosawhatchie River swamp. A humble river born from ditch drippings in nearby Allendale County, South Carolina, the Coosawhatchie meandered behind my grandmother’s house on it’s 40-mile path to the sea and served as the backdrop of my childhood. Ah, but those pecans ...
“You boys have to pick up a five-gallon bucket of pecans if you want to go gallivanting,” Granny would say, as soon as we stepped off the school bus. Other than this mean streak, Granny was usually a mighty fine person who did good deeds, like making pecan pies and fruit cakes for sick folks and church events. Her pecans fed folks for miles around and the extras were sold to pay the county taxes on her farm.
My cousins and I quickly devised a plan: we would fill the bottom two thirds of the bucket with pecan leaves, then top it off with a layer of nuts. By the time Granny discovered the ruse, we would be knee deep in the swamp engaged in boyhood adventures. What could go wrong?
I must confess that, while exploring that dark and mysterious swamp, we may have unintentionally violated a fish or game law or two. A redbreast or catfish may have inadvertently entered our crawdad traps without permission and got carried home to the fryer. An illegal female deer may have thrown herself in front of a bullet meant for a legal deer. While generously feeding some cracked corn to the bream and river bass, we may have accidentally attracted some ducks, a federally protected species even back then.
The crafty local game warden caught us once. He had me and my cousin by the scruff of the neck, knee deep in cracked corn and dove feathers, and was about to haul us both to the wildlife dungeon downtown, or wherever they take errant country boys. It was about that time that Granny crested the ridge where it drops off into the swamp and stood silhouetted against the skyline with her hands on her hips in righteous indignation, her kitchen apron flapping in the breeze like the cape of an angry superhero who has finally caught up with the villian.
Apparently, she had found the bucket full of pecan leaves.
It was equally apparent that, as much as we quivered at the sight of the game warden, even the wildlife officers feared Granny.
“You can have them both when I’m done with them,” Granny hissed ominously.
“Yes, ma’am,” was all the law enforcement officer said, before he slunk back into the forest wetlands.
It was always a long walk back home, with a lot of pecan limbs along the route. We called it the Coosawhatchie Death March. We knew we wouldn’t be able to sit down comfortably and eat supper that night.
But looking on the bright side, at least there was pecan pie for dessert.
Michael M. DeWitt Jr. is the managing editor of The Hampton County Guardian newspaper in South Carolina. He is an award-winning humorist, journalist and outdoor writer and the author of two books.
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Kanban in German
9. February 2011 Markus Gärtner 2 Comments
Today I attended a presentation for the German edition of the Kanban book by David Andersen at the Lehmann’s book store in Hamburg. My colleagues from it-agile, Henning Wolf and Arne Roock translated the English book to German. They gave an introduction to Kanban, and answered some questions from the roughly 100 attendees.
Henning Wolf and Arne Roock started the introduction with a play between an IT consultant and a CxO in IT. The two meet again after years, and exchange some thoughts. The CxO asks the consultant how they could get faster from the idea for something new to earning money from it. The consultant starts to explain Kanban and how he uses it for software development.
The consultant Arne explains to Henning that there are four main principles. First of all the workflow in the company is visualized. Arne introduces Henning to the Kanban board with several columns. Arne asks Henning about their different step sin the way they work. He starts to fill a Kanban board with several columns with the name of the process step as the header. In Henning’s company there are the steps ToDo, Analysis, Development, Test, and Live. The next step in the visualization of the workflow is to fill the board and columns with items on which the team is currently working. There are quite various items. From features, to stories, and even there are quite some bugs floating around.
When asked Henning explains that they currently use JIRA to track these items or tasks. Arne suggests to use a physical board in parallel to an online tool if he needs a computer tool at all. In order to track the items, index cards or sticky notes are usually fine. Arne explains that they fill up the Kanban board from the right to the left. They start with the tasks for the two testers in the team on the right. The testers are currently working on six tasks in parallel. On the column left the ten developers are currently busy with three tasks. Oh, and of course there are also some bugs, six in number. Finally, the two analysts are currently working on a single task. And of course there are lots of ideas floating in the ToDo column as well. Arne notices that Henning has a ratio of 50:50 for tasks in relation to bugs.
As a side note Arne explains that Kanban is Japanese for signal card. In the medieval these cards were used to indicate that someone has something to sell. They were placed outside the ironsmith house, and everyone knew that this shop was open. Toyota took the concept to indicate that a worker while manufacturing a car needs maybe 5000 screws. The card denotes what is needed, and is then passed to the workstation before the worker in question.
Continuing to get the initial Kanban board set up, Arne explains Little’s Law to Henning. Little’s Law says that the lead time for a system is the number of currently on-going work – that is work-in-progress – divided by the throughput to that system. Since Henning wants to reduce the lead time in order to get from concept to cash in less time, there are two factors which he can take influence on. On way is to maximize the throughput. Henning can achieve this by putting more people to the problem, or maybe by reading more management books. Henning claims that he already did that, and he has a gut feeling that the situation improved.
As a second option to reduce the lead time in the system, Arne explains that Henning may reduce the amount of currently on-going work. As Henning objects to this idea, Arne explains that this might sound counter-intuitive, but when he finishes one task first, and then starts to work on another one, he can make money with the first item sooner as if he works on both in parallel. Henning can take competitive advantage from the first finished item, and maybe for the second he has to wait for some new hardware, which is not yet available. Arne therefore suggests to put limits on each of the columns in their development cycle. Arne and Henning come up with the initial limits of three for analysis, fourteen for development and three for the test activities. Arne explains that this limits the system to overall 20 tasks in progress at one time. Arne also hints to the broken limit in the test column, where currently six items are in progress, but a limit of three is suggested. Over time the testers will finish some of the tasks, and re-ensure the work-in-progress there.
After a while Henning and Arne meet again. Henning explains to Arne that they put the board in place, but now have a problem. The testers finished some of their cards, and hit the work-in-progress limit, but the developers also finished some of their activities on bugs. They moved the tasks from the development column to the test column, and broke the limit again. Arne notices that he might have forgotten a point to explain to Henning. While the second point in the Kanban system is to limit the work-in-progress (which they seem to have forgotten), the third major principle in Kanban is the pull principle.
While Henning may be used to push the work into the development system, in Kanban the pull principle brings benefits. In the Toyota environment on each card the worker denotes what he needs, how much of it, and when he needs it. For example, the worker in need for new screws will send out a card just-in-time before running out of screws. He will tell upstream processes that he needs maybe 5000 screws within the next hour, and then continue working. Likewise in software Kanban tasks are asked for when workers are ready to take on another task. This is called the pull principle.
But there is a problem. Where do you place the cards that are finished when they are finished, Henning asks. Arne explains that there are several ways to distinguish in-progress work from partially finished work in one column. Since he also wants to make this visual, dividing up each column into a sub-column doing, and another sub-column done is one way to do this. Another option is to indicate finished tasks per column with a colored-dot, or to simply turn the card by 90 degrees.
Arne warns Henning that pull principle does not start with demanding it. For example, “just be spontaneous” doesn’t work that way either. The pull principle needs trust in order to work. Arne explains that team members are happy to do something, and they want to have a feeling of achievement. When doubted by Henning, Arne explains that this does not equal a request programme. Self-organisation means that the team works on the tasks at hand. And in case there are work-avoiders in his workplace, they will also find their way to avoid work in any other system. The next task is usually taken based upon a team rule.
Usually Kanban teams use a FIFO rule. The task that first got into the system is taken first from the upstream process. This implicates that when starting a task for the first time a starting date is denoted on it. Another option for a team rule could include to handle bugs before any new developed feature, or to handle the cards based on their overall business value. This raises the question how to measure the success of the pull principle. Arne does not have numbers, but based on his feeling pull systems are successful more often than other systems.
Henning notices that a pull principle may lead to the problem that developers may not take on new work, as their column hit the limit. Arne explains that Kanban makes this problem transparent. When developers can not take on new work, they are stuck by a possible bottleneck in the system. What each company does with this transparency is different. The team’s primary priority then should become to re-establish the workflow again. One way to do this could be to have developers help testers out with some of their tickets. Maybe developers can help the testers by automating some of their manual work, or the idle developers could seek opportunities to improve the process overall. The Theory Of Constraints teaches that a system is constrained by its lowest bottleneck or constraint. Up to this point throughput can be achieved, but no more – unless the system can be changed, i.e. having developers help testers out.
After two weeks Arne and Henning meet for the third time. Henning claims that they are finished with Kanban. He is happy to state that they put everything in place that Arne and he discussed. By shifting two developers from development to test, they changed the system, and re-adjusted the limits. Now they got a limit 10 for their eight developers, and a limit of five for their four testers. Arne is suspicious about Henning’s claim to have finished Kanban. He asks what their current throughput through the system is. Henning explains that they got from initially 60 days – numbers taken out of JIRA from the previous work – down to 10 days per ticket which is quite impressive. Arne challenges the 10 days, and asks what Henning needs to get down to 8 days, or even lower.
Arne thereby introduces the fourth principle of Kanban, which is called Kaizen. Kaizen means to take tiny steps in order to move forward. This implicates that there is no “finished” for Kanban. A working Kanban system is context-dependent. A system that is working for one team may even fail for another team (or even another time). Henning find this trying.
Arne explains the two principles of Kaizen. First the team applies a measure to the work. For example for each ticket a starting and ending date is denoted. If the measures their throughput with 15 days, then he would raise the question how to reduce it even further down to 12 days maybe. Of course, principles like garbage-in, garbage-out also hold for Kanban. But the team is asked what it needs to do in order to reduce the time a ticket takes to get through the system.
The second principle of Kaizen is to reflect. This is done in two ways. First, there is a daily stand-up meeting. Similar to the stand-ups in Scrum, this may be organized by going through each person, answering the three questions. Alternatively the team can go over each ticket and raise the question what does it take to get this to the next column. Arne also likes to indicate blocking point on each card using red sticky notes. On the red stickies he denotes the reason for that card being blocked, and how they overcame this. The second way to reflect in Kaizen is the retrospective. On a regular basis the team gets together to think about ways to improve their process.
At this point Henning and Arne conclude there play for the introduction to Kanban, and introduce the German translation of David Anderson’s Kanban book. The German translation has one additional chapter with a field report from mobile.international and their use of Kanban. Markus Andrezak wrote this additional chapter. Also the German book is more up-to-date as the English version, since they incorporated some lessons in the translation which will be up in the 2012 edition of the English version. Arne and Henning explained that it was an honor to translate the book.
They said that roughly two years ago a colleague introduced them to Kanban, and they saw the potential. Since then it-agile has worked closely together with David Anderson, and even offer courses taught by him in Germany. Henning explains that Kanban answered many of the problems they faced with XP or Scrum introductions to companies. Kanban thereby became another tool in the methodology toolbox.
For the additional field report from mobile.international in the book, Arne and Henning explain that they track whole projects on a separate Kanban board. They have a portfolio Kanban board. Upper management meets in front of that board to make strategic decisions for the whole company. Each project is later tracked on a separate board in isolation.
On the usage of Kanban in software development, Henning explained that he would use it anywhere where iterations do not make sense. This includes too small tickets for bugs for examples, but also for too large tickets that do not fit into an iteration at all.
Arne and Henning finished their presentation stating that Kanban is evolutionary compared to the revolutionary approach of methods like Scrum where a whole company is working differently after the introduction. With Kanban changes happen slowly in smaller steps. Self-organization, and the Scrum roles are challenging for many companies. For Kanban this change happens more slowly and based upon insights from the teams doing the work in front of the board. Thereby Kanban can be a tool in the toolbox of a consultant.
Henning and Arne answered some questions from the audience. One question was about how to organize releases using Kanban. Instead of waiting for a release, Arne explained, that each ticket should be as independent as that it can be released in separation the others. This implicates that the tickets need to be a so called minimal marketable feature, a minimal feature, which can be released. Another way is to organize tickets in swim lanes. Each lane marks a release, gets an additional ticket for building the release in the end, and once all tickets from one lane are finished, the release can go out.
Another question was raised regarding how to deal with Kaizen improvements for individual software projects. Arne and Henning explained that the goal of Kaizen is a process improvement. This will probably hold over multiple different projects as well as the current team. They also raised the point that as part of this process improvement the team may conclude to use better development techniques, grow reusable components, etc., which then in turn may become a competitive advantage for the company.
The third question asked about possibilities for visualization through a bug tracker. JIRA with GreenHopper are one way to do this, and there are surely some web-based tools around. Arne explained that he prefers to use a tangible Kanban Board over a computer tool. The haptic, tangible feeling provides an advantage as well as the feeling of success when a team member moves a card one column to the right. Also a physical board with cards has the advantage of physical dimension. While it’s easy to add another card in a tool, there are some limits to do this on a real board. Also the flexibility of a real board is impressive. Teams come up with ideas like ringing a bell when a card is finished, sweats on the board, and the like. Finally, computer tools are more inhibitive to innovation, since people prefer to work around tool problems, rather than to solve them.
On the pro side for computer Kanban boards, these provide ways for statistical evaluation, and for highly dispersed teams there is no way to have every participate on a physical board.
The fourth question handled about an effect often seen in Scrum. One team member gets stuck, and at the end of the sprint everyone is helping out to get the remaining work for the review done. How does this work in Kanban? The goal of Kanban is not to build a team, though this might be an implicated goal in order to improve further in the long-run.
Regarding skills needed for Kanban, Henning and Arne explained that Kanban defines no roles at all. Kanban is a method for change management. Kanban makes the problems surface, but I still need to handle them.
Regarding the size and effort of each ticket, Henning and Arne said that for Toyota there is a pace. Each 57 seconds a new car leaves the plant. Referring to Scrum, this can be thought of as the velocity. Something similar does not exist for development work. Variability is a Must for development, otherwise innovation may be harmed. Regarding ticket sizes they suggested not to use too small tickets, reflect over the course regularly. For some teams T-Shirt sizes (S, M, L, XL) work fine.
Regarding the initial limits of the Kanban board, Arne proposed to try out any limit that make sense, and adapt when it stops working. One participant asked whether Scrum should be used for large projects, while Kanban works best for maintenance. Henning explained that David Anderson introduced Kanban to a 80 person project with a single board. So, Kanban also works very well for larger teams. Of course, a Scrum-like Daily stand-up does not make sense for a 80 person team in front of one board. Instead they then talked about each card, rather than each person. Regarding Scrumban – starting with Scrum, and improving further using Kanban’s WIP limits – Arne hinted at Corey Ladas book called Scrumban.
Regarding estimations of tickets, Henning and Arne explained that detailed hourly estimations are not needed, since this rather might try to solve the problem when a release is finished. Instead, T-shirt sized for tickets work quite fine. Henning cited from Anderson’s first Kanban project. They measured the time they spent on estimation on that project, which was 30% of their overall time. In the Lean sense this is wasted work time, so they disestablished estimations very early on in the project. Kanban as a method does not teach to use estimations, but it also doesn’t say you should avoid it. There is no must for estimation, but you may if you like.
Regarding the practicability of Kanban, Henning explained that he hasn’t seen a project where Kanban couldn’t be used. But he could think of two circumstances where Kanban would not be his first bet. If one goal is to build teams, then he would rather prefer Scrum over Kanban. Another goal of the project could be to increase the truck number – the number people that could get hit by a truck before the project suffers from it. If you want to spread your insulated knowledge within the team, then Kanban can achieve this, but way slower compared to revolutionary methods as Scrum. Henning also explained that there are a lot of projects doing Kanban, and there he has seen nearly everything done with it. Last, a third situation came to mind, where Henning would avoid Kanban. On a project, which has just three months left before a critical release, he would rather go for Scrum, since changes in the organization happen too slowly for Kanban to help the organization.
The last question was about a company which moved from Kanban to Scrum. In this case Henning and Arne explained that probably Kanban was used in order to make transparent where the organization currently was, and then started the overall transformation progress towards Scrum, when the Kanban system indicated to do so.
Before ending the event, Henning and Arne pointed to the free magazines of the Agile Review and a Kanban card, which explains the method in brief as takeaways for the attendees. Since the presentation happened in a book store, participants also were asked to stay and browse for some books, and maybe buy them.
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2 thoughts on “Kanban in German”
Markus Andrezak says:
Hi Markus,
da hast du Dir ja Mühe gegeben. Unglaublich wie detailgetreu du das ganze event nacherzählst. Danke, da ist es ja gar nicht mehr so schlimm, dass ich nicht kommen konnte ;)
Markus Gärtner says:
oh, I left out most of the jokes, so you still might want to attend a talk by them. :)
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General discussion and ruminations about the movies. Includes the contents of the reviews and trailers categories.
Take care of yourself for Christmas 2020
24-Dec-20 9:30 AM by Ken Gagne
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A lot of our fiction hasn't caught up to this reality: the few new television shows and movies that have been released tend to exist in the past or in some alternative reality where there is no coronavirus. There are exceptions, such as NBC series Superstore or the horror movie Host, though this sensitive topic hits so close to home that how it's handled in media can be hit or miss.
Yet sometimes, this denial of reality can be just what we need. Some marketing firms release commercials and advertisements that aren't really about the product come across more as short films. Apple's Frankenstein ad, now four years old, is a good example:
But for media created in a time of pandemic, I find myself watching and rewatching this season's "Take Care of Yourself":
There is so much emotion captured in these wordless two minutes. The glory of days gone: The frustration of lost agency — something my own father struggled with. The self-consciousness of trying and failing in public. The inspiration of the next generation. The self-sacrifice to do something for someone else. And choosing to live in the present, not the past.
I myself am missing my family this holiday. As a digital nomad, I was on the road in 2019, too — but at least then I found distant family to celebrate Christmas with. This year, I've been welcomed into the home of a family that is not my own. It still leaves me wistful for simpler times when everyone could be together.
By depicting an unrestricted family gathering, this commercial plants itself firmly not in the reality of 2020. Yet for some reason, it's something that I needed. Maybe it's because I have neither grandparents nor children, making its abstract lesson more noticeable than the setting or context. Or maybe it's the inspiration that if we work hard enough, we as a society can endure and accomplish anything — including surviving this pandemic.
This year, being alone during the holidays and socially distancing so that you won't give or get the coronavirus is an act of caring for others. Your loneliness means you are not alone, you are an essential part of the world.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 20, 2020
Whatever comes after the pandemic won't be a return to "normalcy" as we've known it. But this Christmas isn't cancelled any more than last year's was or next year's is. Each year will be different, and if we can find the strength and motivation to adapt, then that itself is something to celebrate.
The Wishgranter
10-Sep-16 10:30 AM by Ken Gagne
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Happy birthday to a special someone! May all your wishes come true.
04-Jan-15 9:01 AM by Ken Gagne
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Happy New Year! It's been four years since I took this opportunity to reflect on the past year of movies, so I have some catching up to do!
For about a decade, my moviegoing was stable at 10–16 outings a year. I've never been one for Hulu or Netflix, so anything I didn't catch in theaters, I'd either borrow on DVD from the library or miss entirely. But lately, my habits have changed:
Not since I was in college have I gone to the movies as often as I did in 2014! What changed? I attribute this uptick to several causes, in order:
This was my first full year living in Boston. I now have easy access to so many theaters that it's easy to hop on a bus or subway and see one after work or on a weekend.
Likewise, I also have easier access to friends who live in Boston, where I went to grad school. Many of them don't have cars but can use public transit to coordinate outings. More invitations to the movies equals more movies.
The Brattle Theatre, a non-profit theater in Harvard Square. It has only one screen and generally shows a different film every day, ranging from classics to indies to regional debuts. I'm a patron of the Brattle, which grants me a dozen free tickets a year. Darned if I'm going to let them go to waste! However, this also means not every movie I saw in 2014 was necessarily a 2014 release, such as Labyrinth and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
RiffTrax Live. The creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have kicked up the number of live-streaming comedic commentary events, with four in 2014 alone. I backed two of them via Kickstarter, so of course I was going to see my name up in lights!
Having gone to the theaters so many times, I thought the competition for best films of the year would be stiffer, but the choices are fairly obvious — especially if you like children's films: Frozen (which technically came out in 2013), The Lego Movie (essentially a retelling of The Matrix), and Big Hero 6, which I liken to a cross between How to Train Your Dragon and The Incredibles. All three films were a pure joy, and though there is a place for cinema to be challenging and address dark or difficult subjects, I felt like these movies made moviegoing fun, while featuring believable characters and some plot twists that elevated them above being insubstantial tripe.
I'm not going to make predictions for 2015. The last time I offered predictions, they included promises that I would not be seeing X-Men: First Class or the Footloose remake. I ended up seeing and thoroughly enjoying both! So enjoy whatever the year has to offer. Showbits' official debut was eight years ago this month, and though my energy for blogging has mostly been directed elsewhere, theatergoing is still a big part of my life. I look forward to sharing those experiences with you for years to come!
Halt and Catch Fire adds sizzle to PC history
11-Jul-14 10:56 AM by Ken Gagne
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In the fifteen years since I cancelled my cable service, the television landscape has changed: "reality TV" was invented, medical and legal procedural dramas boomed, and HDTV became the norm. So it was interesting to watch and review the AMC series Halt and Catch Fire for Computerworld. Not being an AMC subscriber, I bought a season pass for the first four episodes on Amazon Instant Video and paid for the fifth episode individually.
It's hard to judge any show by its early episodes — I doubt any of the various Star Trek series would've lasted long by that metric. So I tried to keep my critical eye at bay for the first few episodes, which was not easy. The three main characters — Joe MacMillian (Lee Pace), Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) — are trying to develop one of the first IBM clones of 1983, but their subterfuge and machinations, with both corporations and each other. I roll my eyes at such drama for the same reason that I stopped watching soap operas. MacMillian, who physically reminds me of a cross between John Cusack and Andy Garcia, is a vile businessman who oozes deceit and smarm. He's a character you love to hate.
Lee Pace as Joe MacMillian. What a jerk.
But there are some really nice moments of character development, too. Clark, the show's Steve Wozniak-like character, struggles to realize his dream of creating the ultimate computer and will hitch his wagon to whoever can help him get there. At the same time, he's trying to be a good husband and father, though his family clearly isn't his priority.
Overall, I've enjoyed watching the first five episodes and will likely continue watching the series as time permits. For more details, read my full review on Computerworld.com, "Halt and Catch Fire adds sizzle to PC history".
It's easy to fall in love with Her, Computerworld, and MIT
20-Jan-14 7:30 PM by Ken Gagne
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This month marks two one-year anniversaries. January 12 was my departure from Computerworld, the magazine and website where I'd been an editor for six years; January 22 commemorates my arrival at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I now work on the MIT Medical marketing team. I was concerned that leaving the publishing field would diminish my value as, and opportunities to be, a journalist. Much to my pleasant surprise, the opposite has proven true, with resources and collaborations now possible that weren't a year ago.
When Monica Castillo of the Cinema Fix podcast recommended I see the movie Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix, I sensed the opportunity for a story. Monica had previously gotten me into a press screening of Jobs, which I turned into a review for Computerworld. With Her's focus on a lonely bachelor's romantic relationship with a Siri-like mobile operating system, this film also seemed up the alley of Computerworld's readers. I sold my pitch to their news editor.
Here's the thing about writing film reviews for Computerworld: it's a publication that covers IT, not cinema. For the article to be a good fit, it would have to connect to the IT angle somehow. Past methods of doing so wouldn't work. For my first Computerworld movie reviews — The Bourne Ultimatum, Live Free or Die Hard, Iron Man, and Iron Man 2 — I paired with a security expert and analyzed that aspect of the movie's tech. But Computerworld didn't feel I needed a co-writer for Her. Jobs had plenty of historical fact to assess, but Her was a fictional, futuristic work. My editor suggested that "It would be great if we could set the context around the melding of technology and day to day life as opposed to just a straight out 'this was a good/bad movie'." I wanted to do more than that — but what do I know about artificial intelligence?
Fortunately, whatever technical knowledge I lack, MIT has in spades. Right in my own academic backyard is CSAIL, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I reached out to the MIT News Office, and Abby Abazorius connected me with principal research scientist Boris Katz. On short notice, Katz made himself available to discuss the basics of artificial intelligence and consciousness and how they compared with the capabilities of Samantha in Her. Even though Katz had not seen the film, my line of questions based on my own viewing opened him right up. After just 45 minutes of conversation, I had ample material to transcribe.
The resulting article, "It's easy to fall in love with Her", was published on January 11 — a year to the Friday that I left Computerworld for MIT. I found it a fitting manifestation of the ways in which I can continue to be a contributing member of the Computerworld community, even more so now that I have access to everything MIT has to offer. Who knows what other stories lie about MIT, waiting to be unearthed?
Jobs movie applies its own reality distortion field
19-Aug-13 1:45 PM by Ken Gagne
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Less than two years since Steve Jobs' passing, his life story hits the silver screen today. The limited release of Jobs, the feature-length film directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Ashton Kutcher, was delayed from its original April release after it received poor reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. The official release will please Apple fans with its casting and acting as much as it will frustrate them with its script and dramatic reinterpretation of events.
Josh Gad & Ashton Kutcher as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
Continue reading my review at Computerworld.com »
A big thanks to the Cinema Fix weekly movie review podcast, whose co-host got me into the Jobs press screening that made my review possible!
Summer Shorts sellout: My favorite CGI films
19-Jun-13 12:23 PM by Ken Gagne
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I spend so much time watching YouTube that, in 2009, I applied that knowledge toward creating a Showbits feature: Summer Shorts. Every weekday for a week, I posted a different short film to this site. In 2010, I revisited the format but over a longer period of time, sharing one video every Friday for 17 weeks.
After a two-year hiatus, I'm pleased to announce Summer Shorts is back, though in a new context. Going with a thematic approach and a commercial outlet, I've compiled my nine favorite CGI shorts into a video gallery. "9 animated shorts that give Pixar a run for its money" is my first freelance feature for ITworld, an affiliate of Computerworld, the magazine where I was an editor for six years.
Who needs Pixar? Here are my 9 favorite CGI shorts that you can watch for free right on YouTube.
Two of the nine shorts will be familiar to long-time Showbits readers. Pigeon: Impossible and Kiwi, though older, stand as some of the most enjoyable and memorable animated films I have seen online. Five other shorts I'd seen before but had not previously shared, leaving Rosa and The Chase as new to me, the result of extensive research into YouTube's library.
There were enough other candidates that ITworld's gallery could have been nearly double its length: six more videos, including The Passenger and Sebastian's Voodoo, nearly made the cut. As is, the final playlist totals an hour, making for an fun and diverse showcase of the fastest, funniest, most poignant CGI films YouTube has to offer.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer
11-Jun-13 6:03 PM by Ken Gagne
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Last year's release of The Hobbit was warmly received by this blogger. In many ways, I actually preferred it to the Lord of the Rings: it seemed lighter, somehow, and there was more obvious character growth in our protagonist. Though a bit uneven in pacing, it didn't feel too long, either. It left me eager to see the rest of the series.
That wait got a bit shorter today with the release of the first trailer for the second part in this trilogy. Behold The Desolation of Smaug:
I'm actually a bit underwhelmed by this trailer, which I feel reflects more on the editing than on the source material. There weren't many surprises or major plot references. The most intriguing, but still unsurprising, aspect was the appearance of a certain well-known elf. As someone not well-versed in Tolkien lore, I'm unsure how Legolas Greenleaf works into this tale, seeing as how he was not in the original book. But all will be revealed upon the film's release on December 13, 2013.
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Three Keys For a Chiefs Win Over the Dolphins
The last time the Kansas City Chiefs played at Hard Rock Stadium, they left with a pretty significant win. What do the Chiefs need to do to make sure that happens this week against the Miami Dolphins?
Tucker Franklin
The Kansas City Chiefs are returning to the site of their Super Bowl victory for their Week 14 game against the Miami Dolphins and are in search of the same result to keep pace in the race for the No. 1 seed in the AFC.
But what do they need to do against an 8-4 Dolphins team that is trending in the right direction heading towards the postseason to become victorious?
All Dolphins publisher Alain Poupart joined me on today's Roughing the Kicker podcast to preview and break down the Chiefs and Dolphins' first meeting since 2017.
Here are three things the Chiefs need to do to secure a victory on Sunday.
1. Get some solid pressure.
Blitzing is a pretty common theme when it comes to defenses facing rookie quarterbacks. Either the pressure will make them crack or every once in a while it'll make diamonds (Patrick Mahomes). But more often than not, rookies crack under pressure. With recent struggles in the pass-rushing department, I would expect Steve Spagnuolo to send a variety of blitzes with disguised coverages to keep Tua guessing. If Kansas City can get a pass rush, this game won't be close.
2. Put the ball in Patrick Mahomes' hands in the red zone.
It's no secret the red zone offense hasn't been up to par. From oddly conservative play calling to wild special plays, the Chiefs haven't been able to find the endzone in their last seven trips inside the 20-yard line. If Kansas City is faced with an opportunity to score from close range this week, Patrick Mahomes should have three or more chances to make a play. No runs. Put the ball in the hands of the best player in the league and have him make a play. A foolproof plan.
3. Hold the Dolphins under 20 points.
Having lofty expectations for these defense hasn't really panned out this year. The Chiefs defense began to turn a corner around this time last season and there are no signs of that happening. Arrowhead Report's Conner Christopherson wrote a great piece on the recent trend of Kansas City's defense and it's definitely worth the read. Maybe 20 points is too high of an expectation for the Chiefs' recent form but the Dolphins aren't built to go score for score with Mahomes, so 20 points is reasonable.
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Tucker Franklin is an alumnus of Northwest Missouri State University, majoring in sports media and graduating in 2019. Tucker was previously the sports editor for The Maryville Forum and is now the Deputy Editor for Arrowhead Report on SI.com. Follow Tucker on Twitter @tuckerdfranklin.
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Search for Fossett suspended
Sun news service
The official search for famed aviator Steve Fossett has been suspended, according to the Associated Press.
Search headquarters moved from Minden to Carson City two weeks ago. The aerial search was suspended about the same time.
A new lead, lead to an exhaustive search of the area southeast of the Flying M Ranch, where Fossett took off for a Labor Day flight in a borrowed aircraft.
The search has been the largest in Nevada history.
Searchers said that with the beginning of deer hunting season, there is a chance Fossett’s aircraft will be found. Hunters are asked to contact local authorities if they spot anything.
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Seattle Houseboat Update
Houseboat Regulations Update
Floating On Water Residences, House Barges
& Vessels With Dwelling Units
For the last 4 years, houseboat owners have been struggling to stay afloat in Seattle. Not much news has been published since last summer, so we wanted to provide an update and offer some new information. Please note that the information provided here is NOT official, but rather is representative of our understanding of the current and proposed regulations. We have previously published updates on Seattle-Houseboat.com and SpecialAgentsRealty.com.
Seattle’s Shoreline Master Plan Update is NOT Final
Seattle has been working to complete the Shoreline Master Plan (SMP) for a long time and has indicated that they expect this to be completed by March of 2015. Until that time, Seattle’s existing SMP (Adopted in 1987) remains in force. How does this relate to houseboats?
1987 SMP is in Effect
The 1987 rules do not specifically call out “houseboats.” Those rules instead refer to Vessels, having steering and propulsion, that are used as dwelling units and to Housebarges, vessels capable of navigation by being towed. The ambiguity of this rule led to numerous Notice Of Violations being issued by Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD – previously known as DCLU) primarily against houseboats. DPD began developing the drafts for the new SMP in 2007, it became apparent that Houseboats were in danger of being eliminated entirely in Seattle Waters. As a result, we (Kevin & Linda Bagley) formed Lake Union Liveaboard Association (LULA) and began organizing to protect the houseboat community.
SB 6450 Went in Effect June 2014
Over a 5 year period, representatives of LULA participated in City Council meetings, DPD Meetings, and met with Mayors, Legislators, and Senators to try to develop a solution. In June of 2014, Senate Bill 6450 went into effect, protecting “Floating On Water Residences” (FOWR).
A floating on-water residence legally established prior to July 1, 2014, must be considered a conforming use and accommodated through reasonable shoreline master program regulations, permit conditions, or mitigation that will not effectively preclude maintenance, repair, replacement, and remodeling of existing floating on-water residences and their moorages by rendering these actions impracticable.
Floating On Water Residences (State Definition) effective July 1, 2014
Other than Floating Homes
Designed or used primarily as a residence
Has detachable utilities
Owner/occupant held ownership interest or lease or sublease to use space in a marina since a date prior to July 1, 2014
Floating On Water Residences (Seattle Definition) effective SMP Implementation Date
Affects any floating dwelling unit (houseboats, housebarge) regardless of steering or propulsion
Vessels with Dwelling Units (Seattle Definition) placed in moorage between July 1, 2014 and SMP Implementation Date
affects “houseboats” with steering and propulsion
Owner/occupant held ownership interest or lease or sublease to use space in a marina since a date ON OR AFTER July 1, 2014 and BEFORE SMP Implementation Date
Housebarges Vessels without steering and propulsion, capable of navigation by being towed.
Pre SMP Implementation Date, continue to be regulated under 1987 SMP
post SMP Implementation Date, may continue to be house barges, or may become FOWRs. Owner’s choice.
What is a Floating On Water Residence (FOWR)?
In June of 2014, the State of Washington adopted SB 6450 into law, creating a state definition for a Floating On Water Residence (FOWR).
“floating on-water residence” means any floating structure other than a floating home, as defined under subsection (5) of this section, that: (i) Is designed or used primarily as a residence on the water and has detachable utilities; and (ii) whose owner or primary occupant has held an ownership interest in space in a marina, or has held a lease or sublease to use space in a marina, since a date prior to July 1, 2014.
The City of Seattle has created proposed rules to regulate FOWR’s in Seattle that are expected to go in effect sometime around March of 2015. The following update is based on communications with the Director of Compliance for DPD , Faith Lumsden;
Based on the fact that the new law is NOT yet in effect, the current, existing law is still valid until the new law takes effect (probably around March, 2015). A “Vessel having steering and propulsion” can be brought in under the existing (circa 1990) law and would continue to be legal to be used as a live-aboard vessel. The City is calling these “Vessels With Dwelling Units” The city is proposing to offer a Plaque for these types of vessels.
Under the new law, only those “Floating On Water Residences” (FOWR) that have been in Seattle – with a moorage agreement or ownership interest, at a marina, PRIOR to July 1, 2014, would be eligible for the City of Seattle DPD Floating On Water Residence Plaque.
A FOWR would NOT be allowed to be brought in after the implementation of the SMP because the new law prohibits its use as a live-aboard vessel.
I know it is confusing, but there are 5 ways of living on the water in Seattle, four of which will be eligible to apply to receive a City of Seattle Plaque. For the purposes of clarification, I have created 4 Seattle Specific Definitions. These definitions apply to vessels moored in Seattle waters. The 5th classification will NOT receive, nor be eligible for a plaque, but is allowed to be used as a liveaboard in Seattle Waters. NOTE: If your Floating On Water Residence is NOT located within the city of Seattle, you are still a Floating On Water Residence, however, you are not eligible for a Seattle plaque, and will not be allowed in Seattle as a liveaboard vessel after the implementation of the Seattle Shoreline Master Plan (SMP) expected sometime in March, 2015.
Seattle Specific Definitions (See Chart Below):
Floating On Water Residence (FOWR) – A vessel (with or without propulsion) that was designed primarily as a residence and was legally moored in a marina in Seattle waters PRIOR to July 1, 2014.
Vessel with Dwelling Unit – Vessels that have steering and propulsion, which may be designed primarily as a residence, but are navigable, and obtained legal moorage in Seattle waters BETWEEN July 1, 2014 and the SMP Implementation Date (Estimated March of 2015).
House Barge – Vessels primarily designed as residences, lacking steering and propulsion, but capable of navigation by being towed.
Floating Home – a single-family dwelling (NOT A VESSEL) constructed on a float that is moored, anchored, or otherwise secured in waters. Floating homes are required to be located in approved “floating home moorages”
Liveaboard Recreational Vessels – Vessels, designed primarily as Recreational Vessels (Excluding Houseboats) as described in the new SMP regulations (Estimated March of 2015).
Seattle Floating On Water Residence (FOWR) Vessel with Dwelling Unit House Barge Floating Home
Moored legally in Seattle prior to July 1, 2014. Moored legally in Seattle between July 1, 2014 and date of SMP implementation. Was not in Seattle prior to July 1, 2014. Has been continuously moored and used for residential purposes within the City of Seattle since June 1990. A single-family dwelling constructed on a float that is moored, anchored, or otherwise secured in Seattle waters.
Designed primarily as a residence. May or may not have steering and propulsion. May be designed primarily as a residence, however must have steering and propulsion. Designed and used for navigation but lacks a means of self-propulsion and steering equipment or capability (for example, it is designed and used for navigation by towing) Floating homes are required to be located in approved “floating home moorages”
Includes houseboats Includes houseboats with steering and propulsion. After SMP Implementation, may be converted to a Floating On Water Residence, at owner’s option.. Must have direct connections to sewer and water utilities.
No new Floating On Water Residences allowed in Seattle after July 1, 2014. No new Vessels with Dwelling Units in Seattle Waters AFTER SMP implementation date. No new house barges are permitted. Subject to building codes and other specific restrictions
Meets CITY and STATE definition of Floating On Water Residence. May be legal outside of Seattle Waters, depending on local SMP regulations. There are currently 34 authorized house barges in Seattle Waters.
May be replaced. Has remodeling restrictions – Height, footprint, and square footage. May not be replaced after SMP implementation Can be expanded. Has the same restrictions as a FOWR.
NO PLAQUE
Post-SMP Implementation RECREATIONAL VESSEL
Is legally moored in Seattle
Designed primarily as a recreational vessel.
Excludes houseboats.
Allowed both before and after July 1, 2014 and after SMP Implementation
Does not meet CITY or STATE definition of Floating On Water Residence. These are Recreational Vessels.
No Replacement or Remodeling restrictions.
Houseboats on the Multiple Listing Update
While Floating Homes and Moorage are able to be listed on the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS), Houseboats listings were removed from the NWMLS in March of 2013. Although houseboats had been listed on the NWMLS for decades, they were removed because most houseboats are vessels and selling a vessel requires a Vessel Dealer License. Most Real Estate Brokers are not licensed Vessel Dealers. For some time, Special Agents Houseboats has been the only licensed Vessel Dealer specializing in Houseboat sales and has listed houseboats for sale on Seattle-Houseboat.com, SpecialAgentsRealty.com, and on LakeUnionLiving.com. We understand that this limits the market for the sale of a Houseboat and makes it difficult for people not familiar with our company to locate houseboats for sale. We have been working with the Department of Licensing to allow Floating On Water Residences to be sold by licensed Real Estate Brokers, which would then allow them to once again be listed on the NWMLS. To do this, the Real Estate and Vessel Dealer Licensing laws must be changed. The Real Estate Commission formed a task group comprised of interested stakeholders and commission members and crafted a draft of the proposed law changes. Bob Mitchell, Executive Projects Director for the Government Affairs committee of the Washington Realtors Association has taken the reigns to get this submitted to the legislature for the coming session. With little or no opposition, we expect this to be passed easily and to have bipartisan support. Send us your questions and we will respond! (Kevin@Seattle-Houseboat.com)
Floating On Water Residences: Q&A
Q: Does my Floating On Water Residence require a plaque? A: After the SMP Implementation, you will have a period of time to apply for and obtain your FOWR plaque. You will be required to have a plaque or be a Recreational Vessel as described in the new SMP regulations. Q: Can I bring in a new Floating On Water Residence? A: Until the new SMP has been implemented, Vessels, having steering and propulsion with Dwelling Units may be brought into Seattle Waters after July 1, 2014 and BEFORE the new SMP Implementation. These vessels will be categorized as Vessels with Dwelling Units. The process for applying for a Vessel with Dwelling Unit is not yet known. Q: What value to me is the plaque? A: The plaque provides security, assuring your FOWR can be maintained, remodeled, and replaced. FOWR’s are protected from NEW regulations which might preclude these rights. Q: Can I sell my plaque? A: No. You can sell your houseboat and your plaque will go with it, or you can remove your houseboat from the Seattle SMP area and replace the existing foot print with a new structure Q: Can I expand my FOWR? A: Yes. Seattle FOWR’s may be expanded up to 120 square feet (with height and footprint constraints) without any new requirements. Expansion beyond 120 square feet require containment and disposal of gray water. Q: When are the new regulations effective? A: Although the regulations may not take effect until after July 1, 2014, your FLOWR must have been “legally established prior to July 1, 2014” Q: Does my FLOWR need to have engines? A: No, Engines are NOT required. This proposal by DPD has been eliminated. Q: I heard proposals requiring Sail Area to Length Ratios, Freeboard Requirements, Symmetrical mooring cleats, fore and aft boarding stations, visibility requirements. Do these still apply? A: No. These proposals by DPD have been eliminated. Q: I heard I would be required to drive my vessel on a 1 mile round trip, hire a naval architect, and have my vessel certified. Does this still apply? A: No. These proposals by DPD have been eliminated. No performance test is required. Q: Can I repair, remodel, or replace my FLOWR? A: Yes, with some restrictions. Repair is allowed, but there are some restrictions as to what can be done in a marina (max 25% of vessel at a time). An expansion of up to 120 sq. ft. is allowed provided it does not exceed the height restrictions. You can add Deck railings (36” max) and stairs. If expansion over the life of the vessel exceeds 120 sq. ft., gray water containment and disposal are required. Q: Can I expand the size of my footprint? A: No, with the single exception of a one time changes for stability as certified by a naval architect. NOTE: If you utilize the stability expansion, you cannot expand in any direction after the stability expansion. Q: What are the height restrictions? A: If your current height is 18 ft. or less, you cannot increase the height above 18 ft. If your current height is between 18 and 21 you cannot increase your height. If your height is 21 ft or more, you cannot create an expansion exceeding 21 ft. Q: Does my FLOWR have to be USED as a place of residence prior to July 1, 2014 A: The regulations indicate that ”For the purpose of this chapter, a structure will be considered designed or used primarily as a residence if it contains a dwelling unit.” Per this statement, if your FLOWR contains a dwelling unit, it will meet the requirement of being USED as a place of residence. Q: How do I register my FLOWR? A: The exact process and fee amount has not yet been established. We anticipate that you will have to submit dimensions of your vessel, pictures, and some evidence that you were moored in Seattle waters, held a lease or ownership in a marina, were designed or used as a dwelling unit prior to July 1, 2014, and have detachable utilities. Q: After I apply and pay my fee, will I receive something that indicates compliance? A: Yes. After DPD verifies your FLOWR, you will receive a numbered plaque that is to be displayed on your FLOWR on the pier or landward side or side most used for access. Q: I’m not sure if my vessel is a FLOWR. Should I submit for verification? A: We are recommending that you submit for verification if you are unsure. Once verified, your FLOWR will then be secure and protected. Q: If I get my FLOWR plaque, can the city make new regulations that will jeopardize my houseboat? A: No. Once you have your plaque, you are officially verified as a “Floating On Water Residence” which is governed by Washington State Senate Bill SB-6450. Q: Can I keep my FOWR on private property? A: No, the regulation requires that the owner or primary occupant has held an ownership interest in space in a marina, or has held a lease or sublease to use space in a marina.
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In 2017, Women Only Made Up 7.5% of Country Radio’s Top 40
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Yes, this topic again. And if you don’t like reading about it, tough titty. Perhaps if mainstream country radio put out a modicum of effort to even try to hide the fact they’re outright excluding certain artists from radio play strictly due to their gender, we could shut the hell up about all of this. You’re tired of reading about it? Well I’m twice as tired writing about it. But the problem continues to get worse instead of better, clearly corroborated by the end-of-year numbers for country radio and the abysmal representation of women once again. The numbers don’t just compel one to speak up on the issue, they downright require it.
And no, this isn’t just about putting crappy pop performers on country radio simply because they’re women. Obviously, quality should be the biggest qualifier of what should succeed on country radio, not an artist’s sets of chromosomes. It just happens top be that restoring some gender balance would likely result in better quality, and more country-sounding music as well, with certain exceptions of course.
And don’t act like this isn’t a problem because it’s solely being driven by what people want to listen to. Pretty consistently, the singles released by women do better on the Hot Country Songs chart—which factors in sales and streams—than they do on radio. For example, the Maren Morris song “I Could Use a Love Song” sits at #25 on the year-end Hot Country Songs chart, but falls all the way to #44 on the radio chart. Miranda Lambert’s “Tin Man” comes in at #43 on the year-end Hot Country Songs chart, but doesn’t register at all in the Top 60 on radio. Miranda Lambert’s latest album The Weight of These Wings comes in at #4 on the end-of-year album sales chart, yet without a single song registering in the Top 60 on radio.
And for the record, Chris Stapleton had the #1 and #2 best selling albums of 2016 with his From A Room installments, and also doesn’t have a single song in the radio Top 60. So the idea this discrepancy on country radio is due to sales or appeal is bunk. Country radio is whatever the country music industry is telling their fat cat cronies at radio to play, and they’re not playing women.
Country radio consultant Keith Hill encapsulated the sentiment the country radio format has towards women best when he said, “If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out,” even though the numbers don’t always bear this out. And sure, maybe folks just like listening more to men than women, but with this ridiculous discrepancy?
This is not a “snowflake” issue. When you have radio consultants saying on record that radio should stop playing women, and it bears itself out so dramatically as illustrated here, it’s a distinct bias that should be an embarrassment to the country radio industry, which should pride itself in respecting the women of country like the legacy of the genre has always done.
Want to know how bad it is for country women, here’s a breakdown:
No Solo Women Artists in the Top 10 Most-Played Songs on Country Radio in 2017
And except for Lady Antebellum, which includes one female member (out of three), and a guest appearance by Lauren Alaina on Kane Brown’s “What Its,” there’s no women representation whatsoever.
No Solo Women in the Top 15 Most-Played Songs on Country Radio in 2017
A Maren Morris guest appearance on Thomas Rhett’s terrible “Craving You” (#11) is the only additional caveat.
Only 1 Solo Woman in the Entire Country Radio Top 20
That’s Carly Pearce, and her song “Every Little Thing” that comes in at #16. And the only reason it was able to crack the Top 20 is because it benefited from iHeartMedia’s “On The Verge” program which awards additional spins to certain songs across their fastly-crumbling radio empire.
Only 3 Solo Women in the Country Radio Top 30
With Kelsea Ballerini’s “Yeah Boy” coming in at #22, and Lauren Alaina’s “Road Less Traveled” at #25, that gives women a meager and embarrassing 10% representation when looking at the Top 30. But wait until we zoom out a little farther . . .
That means only 7.5% of the artists played in the Top 40 were women, with the Top 40 being the radio industry standard for representing the playlists of most stations, with a side note of Little Big Town’s “Better Man” coming in at #34. Little Big Town’s lineup includes two men, and two women.
Only 1 Nominee for the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in the Country Radio Top 40
That’s right, so even the most popular and successful women of the genre aren’t getting radio play. Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Kacey Musgraves, and even Maren Morris were all locked out of the year-end Top 40 in 2017. Only Kelsea Ballerini makes an appearance, and she was still locked out of the Top 20.
Even as you continue to zoom out your perspective on country radio, the gender bias doesn’t improve as you start to consider the margins and also-rans. It arguably gets even worse. Even adding Maren Morris and “I Could Use a Love Song” at #44, it still only improves the percentage of women to 8%.
Only 5 Women in the Country Radio Top 60
You have to count past 51 songs and artists until you come to one who has won a CMA for Female Vocalist of the Year, and that’s Carrie Underwood with “Dirty Laundry.” So even zooming out as far as Billboard makes the year-end country radio charts available, the representation of women is still only 8.3%, and the current CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Miranda Lambert, is still nowhere to be found.
Country Radio Year End Top 40
*Women shown in red
“Body Like a Backroad” – Sam Hunt
“Small Town Boy” – Dustin Lynch
“You Look Good” – Lady Antebellum
“Dirt On My Boots” – Jon Pardi
“Hurricane” – Luke Combs
“My Girl” – Dylan Scott
“What Ifs” – Kane Brown
“No Such Thing as a Broken Heart” – Old Dominion
“Do I Make You Wanna” – Billy Currington
“In Case You Didn’t Know” – Brett Young
“Craving You” – Thomas Rhett
“Somebody Else Will” – Justin Moore
“Yours If You Want It” – Rascal Flatts
“Drinkin’ Problem” – Midland
“Flatliner” – Cole Swindell
“Every Little Thing” – Carly Pearce
“A Guy With A Girl” – Blake Shelton
“The Fighter” – Keith Urban
“More Girls Like You” – Kip Moore
“Black” – Dierks Bentley
“How Not To” – Dan + Shay
“Yeah Boy” – Kelsea Ballerini
“The Weekend” – Brantley Gilbert
“Think A Little Less” – Michael Ray
“Road Less Traveled” – Lauren Alaina
“Fast” – Luke Bryan
“Any Ol’ Barstool” – Jason Aldean
“They Don’t Know” – Jason Aldean
“If I Told You” – Darius Rucker
“Hometown Girl” – Josh Turner
“Every Time I Hear That Song” – Blake Shelton
“Today” – Brad Paisley
“When It Rains It Pours” – Brad Paisley
“Better Man” – Little Big Town
“Sober Saturday Night” – Chris Young
“Kill a Word” – Eric Church
‘God, Your Mama, and Me” – Florida Georgia Line
“All The Pretty Girls” – Kenny Chesney
“Heartache on the Dancefloor” – Jon Pardi
“Ask Me How I Know” – Garth Brooks
Carly Pearce, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Kelsea Ballerini, Lauren Alaina, Miranda Lambert
Oyster Boy
Is this the outrage du jour? Get ’em, tiger!
It’s because women aren’t as good! Except Miranda!
Is this truly an unprecedented trend, or has it been this bad for female country artists before? I’m not trying to refute the point of the article, it’s a legitimate question I’m posing to see if this type of thing has been seen before.
I know less than 5 of those songs and I enjoy less than that. Women being played is an issue but so is country being played on country radio. The #1 song is more proof than ever that country radio is anything but.
TheBarroomPoet
Oh boy, that’s one sad looking list, and not just for the reason stated in this article.
Tough titty, indeed! What a dire read. 2017 has been rubbish in so many ways: the re-awakening of white supremacy, Weinstein and company and now this. Nothing no like a dose of misogyny to end the year. Thanks for highlighting this, Trig. Here’s to a better 2018.
How many white supremacists do you know? Probably the same as me, zero. #FullOf…
You apparently live under a bridge in Norway then. Disgusting troll.
Triggered!
Absolutely shameful. I wonder when and how things will change. Thank you for your continued coverage of this important issue. Even though people are talking about it, nothing is actually changing. As you say, it seems to be getting worse. As I’ve commented before, there were more women being played in years past. We had Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Reba, Shania Twain, Patty Loveless, Lorrie Morgan, and I could go on. They were played on mainstream country radio. Of course, women have always struggled to be heard in the music business. That is nothing new, but we cannot ignore the terrible state of things right now, and the statistics prove it.
Amen to all of this.
They all sucked, Caitlin. Maybe you should listen to Adult Contemporary.
LimaOhio09
What an intelligent response
Sinycalone
I believeLauren Alaina’s Road Less Traveled benefited from her Artist on the Verge arrangement with iHeart, too.
It is bad but there have been worse years. I did a data project and 2003 & 2013 for example had zero #1 singles by a solo female artists. Actually per decade, the 70s had the most weeks with a female solo artist being at #1. (It is kind of difficult to trend this with all the changing charts Billboard has thrown at us).
The Australian Country Tracks Top 40 Of 2017:
#1 – Aly Cook – “Western Line” (female artist)
#2 – The Long & Short Of It – “Gypsy Whitemoon” (male/female duo)
#3 – The Long & Short Of It – “Kangaroo Rodeo” (still a male/female duo)
#4 – Tania Kernaghan – “That’s A Tradie” (female artist)
#5 – Kel-Anne Brandt – “All That Matters” (female artist)
#6 – Emma Jene – “Yahoo” (well…female artist)
#7 – Casey Barnes – “The Way We Ride” (nope..not female)
#8 – Becci Nethery – “Can’t Just Kiss You” (female artist)
#9 – Connie Kis Andersen – “Happy Day” (…yep)
#10 – Kalesti Butler – “Just Down The Hall” (female artist)
13 female solo artists + 6 female artists as part of a duo, trio or group in the Top 40. (A couple of acts with 2 or 3 entries.) Not bad.
Not every song in the aussie charts is a winner or good…but the US “Country” Top 40 are in a sad state.
71dude
Wow that list is depressing, even with Jon Pardi in it.
Sir Honky Of Crackerdom
Why do you care which gender is played? It seems very sexist to me, that you want more people played simply because of their gender.
good one, Honky. I think the point he is making here is quite clear and there is nothing sexist about it. Sunny Sweeney, for example, should be cathing air-time on every country station in the world right now. As should Nikki Lane, Angeleena Presley, and COUNTLESS others. This “turn-the-other-way and just play the boys” thing is real. And it is keeping a lot of people from hearing a lot of incredible artists. it really is a total slap in the face to a lot of talented women. just my two cents.
I agree. BUT I feel like the efforts to remedy the problem are making it worse.
Is the radio that won’t play Stapleton honestly going to play Angeleena Presley? or are they going to play Sunney Sweeney?
They don’t play Stapleton, they don’t play Arcus, Whitey Morgan, Dale Watson.
As I see it, since the radio isn’t playing quality country music by men, they won’t play quality country music by women either.
and then when we complain about the gender ratios we get Bebe Rhexa.
And you’re kidding yourself if you think they’ll actually play talented country music females when they won’t play talented country music men.
the radio stations want to play female jason aldean, and female sam hunt, because that’s what fits their agenda.
so they create bebe rhexa.
we complain.
they now have prove we don’t want women.
they play more sam hunt.
they play bebe rhexa
we complain
they now have reason to believe we hate women.
and don’t hold your breath to hear nikki lane or Cam or anyone else on radio because radio doesn’t play talented people.
don’t i just know it. Very good points. It’s a very unfortunate situation across the board. Times like these, I am very thankful for my Spotify Premium subscription and my ever growing record collection. Radio has been total s#!t for many years, now.
Lord Honky Of Crackersley
I generally prefer male performed music, because I’m a male, and can better relate, and sing along etc.
Other than that, if I cared any less about this make-believe issue, I’d be a corpse.
I love listening to women sing, because it allows me to fall in love with them for 3-5 minutes. Unfortunately I just can’t get that same emotional connection with a man, even if I can identify with their perspective easier.
I prefer listening to females than men cause I’m a guy that likes the opposite sex.
You must not be married.
if YOU are married, Honcho, you better re-think either your decision to marry the lady you married or maybe your sexual orientation.
I don’t really care if the music is coming from a man or woman, I just want good ole COUNTRY music. NOT SAM HUNT!
It’s really sad and disappointing when these talented women are constantly overlooked.
Meanwhile the press and industry makes sure we know what Thomas Rhett’s wife and kids are up to at all times. Pathetic.
Blackh4t
Trig, I get this is an issue and good on you for bringing it up, but the question is what do we do about it?
As you point out, fans are doing what they should with sales being much more diverse, and radio is crumbling.
The capitalist system has spoken, give it time and radio will be replaced.
Incidentally, with the Australian country charts, it should be noted that country radio hardly exists. I live in a rural area and i never hear it. There are the occasional spots on community radio.
With this issue, like all gender issues, we have to be careful we don’t cause the opposite effect. Saying that a female artist should be popular but isnt popular excludes the people who buy only hidden unpopular artists and also people who want to listen to whatever is being played.
Music is a business, not a moral right.
I’ll be honest as a male I enjoy my country sung by men with the very few exceptions, Womack, Krause, Goens and of course the legends. I don’t really listen to country radio anymore so I’m not sure I am missing out on any female singers. Maybe more women should be played but as someone who has no idea how radio works is this a case of supply and demand?
The idea that radio plays the artists the public wants to hear is a myth. When you have three of the Top 4 selling albums in country music in a given year (Stapleton, Stapleton, and Lambert)—all three of which have been certified Gold, and two of which have been certified platinum—and yet no one song from either of those three albums can’t even inch into the Top 60 of country radio, you know demand has nothing to do with it. Radio doesn’t play what people want to hear. Radio decides what people want to hear. The idea that the public is demanding no female artists is the lie they hide behind. Radio is simply a way to promote mainstream artists on tour.
I often wonder if sponsors who advertise on radio using every stupid ploy possible to sell shit , clue into the fact that the lowest common denominator ( read ..folks who don’t think for themselves ) is an easier sell . And that lowest common denominator doesn’t seem to think for itself when it comes to music either. If ‘country’ radio plays crap their target demographic will listen to endlessly BECAUSE they don’t really care about whether its good or not but whether its dirt simple and a mindless choice of pastime,sponsors want THAT demographic. That lowest common easy-to-market-to denominator ….NOT music fans ,whatsoever . Just an easy-to-target demographic who are either too buys or too lazy or simple too gullible to consider the options to what radio and/or sponsors are trying to feed them .
I suppose the silver lining in this is that there ARE people who DO care about what they are being fed and they support REAL music in phenomenal ( in these times ) numbers by purchasing Stapleton’s stuff , Sturgill’s stuff , Lambert’s stuff WITHOUT significant radio exposure .
BTW ….in case you aren’t convinced that human’s can be so dimwitted , I just heard that someone recently called 911 …yes ..911…because the nail polish they got didn’t match the colour on the container . THIS must surely be the demographic sponsors are targeting by supporting shit music on ‘ country ‘ radio .
Country radio these days is not meant for the masses as we like to say, it is niche programming meant as nothing more to push corporate beer and domestic full size trucks to the target demographic of consumers, and to promote LiveNation-sponsored tours. It’s basically one big infomercial.
seak05
Stapleton also has no radio strategy. He still hasn’t actually released a single off of his second album this year. That said, I hope they stick with Broken Halos. It’s still climbing at radio & actually has decent testing.
jessie with the long hair
I know first hand that “music row fat cats” only care about making money and would sell off their child to get rich. The market and money dictate what they choose to promote. Do you think those assholes listen to Sam Hunt or Florida Georgia Line in their free time? No, they could care less about how good the music is or what gender is singing it. They care about making money. If you have ever spent much time backstage or at merch tables at country concerts you would see how sex driven a big majority of female country fans are. They are more interested in how the male stars look than the music. Female fans drive the market and they want hunks on their concert t-shirts. It’s sad to watch. I’m sure this will be unpopular on here but there’s no conspiracy. Music Row doesn’t say “no” to making money. That’s just crazy. Also, there are women in the industry that use complaining about this conspiracy to keep their names in the headlines by making this their cause. Did you ever hear Dolly Parton whine about unfair treatment? No, and she came up in a time when women were really treated poorly. Dolly just did it better than all the men and became one of the most successful artists, songwriters, actors, and business people in America. That’s how you win.
Believe it or not, I mostly agree. I think there is a major issue with women being repressed in the mainstream and specifically due to their gender. But at some point, as an artist you have to stop making excuses about how the system is rigged and that’s the reason for your lack of success, and start doing the best you can and beat the system at its own game. This is what Loretta did. This is what Dolly Parton did. This is what Rose Maddox and Kitty Wells did. You want to speak up about the issue? Excellent. But then also go out there and do something so badass, it can’t be held down. Unfortunately a lot of mainstream women (and their labels) think they need to compromise with pop to get radio’s attention, when even these efforts are failing at this point.
I disagree. There’s a reason sports merchandise was designed solely for men despite women making up over 40% of viewers. When everyone at the top is male, they stick with what they know and find it very difficult to try new methods. (Also why when they finally did offer women’s sports shirts they were pink, I mean how much more degrading can you be).
Jacob W.
What is really a travesty is that the three songs highlighted on the top 40 are terrible. So, basically women are not legitimately represented at all.
With the exception of a couple of guilty pleasures, I really don’t want to hear a song performed by a woman. I also don’t want to endure the spectacle of a woman attempting to make me laugh, announcing a sporting event, or giving me investment advice. If you want to get rich, short sell the stock of any company that names a female CEO.
Jtrpdx
You forgot to include your standard disclaimer of “* I am a bitter virgin, don’t own any stocks, and know jack shit about sports or the capital markets”.
Some comments were deleted here. Let’s please stay on topic, and refrain from using insulting heavily-insulting language towards each other. Thanks!
Trigger, I totally agree with you on the general point, but you’ve got to stop using the hot country songs chart as a barometer of well anything. And that goes double for the year end charts (any year end chart actually), because they’re so reliant on timing, and rise spped.
(also the streaming balance is off, but that’s a slightly different issue)
Scotty J
As someone who’s a big fan of chart history it really saddens me what has become of the Hot Country Songs chart. Between the pop airplay counting and the streaming issues that you mentioned it is really a meaningless indicator at this point. But yet it is THE gold standard for country charts because of the Billboard name and the long running history so now Hunt and FGL and Bebe whatshername are racking up history making achievements to rival Merle, Dolly and Hank. Depressing.
Nobody doing history numbers (that I know of) uses the current HCS chart. I don’t even hear people in industry talking about it.
The focus here was not the Hot Country Songs chart, it was Country Airplay. I completely agree with you about Hot Country Songs and have raged against it on many, many occasions. But in this instance I though it gave at least some insight into the discrepancy between consumer appetite, and what the radio is serving.
HCS seems to be the metric you use when comeplaining about airplay. But HCS can be extremely variable from week to week & is influenced heavily by high profile performances, where radio is a longer term trend game. I think generally you’d be better off looking at the avg sales position to make your same point.
As it pertains to the yr long list, the problem is, to use tin man again, this is a song that is benefiting on hcs from sales from dec of last yr to dec of this year + a huge boost from acm’s. For radio it’s only been a single from April – early dec. Generally speaking it’s ranking on HCS on a week to week basis is around its airplay (both mid-20’s). Not saying that people don’t like & don’t want to buy the song, but it hasn’t been a commercial smash single (also true of Chris, people buy the album but don’t seem to latch on to a particular single as much), & the year end discrepancy makes sense.
This of course all ignores the point that radio doesn’t really care about sales. Now maybe they should, but that’s a different debate.
Also, if half the people love a song, and half hate it, it will sell well, and radio isn’t going to convert it to power, because it’ll cause an audience drop. Whereas, if 80% of people like a song, it won’t sell well, but radio will play the heck out of it.
Also look for Lindsay Ell’s criminal to be named the next OTV selection when the new year starts (now that she’s broken up with Bobby Bones).
Yep, it’s pretty much a guarantee that songs by women have very polarizing like/dislike numbers when you look at the call outs. Going back to Shania Twain through Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert they all would have big dislike numbers. I think it’s why their singles would always tumble rapidly even if they reached the top.
Why this is so is another story but it’s a fact.
Interestingly, Carrie & to a lesser extent Kelsea get some ok to good call out scores. Also lauren Alaina’s road less travelled and Carly’s elt got avg- good call out scores. What is then truly infuriating is that radio refuses to give the next single from these artists a chance, & just keeps playing the old one.
I wonder if part of this goes to that On The Verge thing and a feeling from programmers that they are only playing this because of that and when that single runs it’s course then their work is done. We’ve seen that with some of the other acts that have benefitted from that also. That program is such short term thinking.
I also think that the newer, younger generation of programmers that have almost all come from a pop radio background are much more comfortable with the one hit wonder concept and don’t feel any need to build relationships between listeners and performers. Again, short term thinking.
of course, none of this specifically explains the lack of women but it is all part of the equation.
Makes you think that if radio can’t be trusted to play what most people would enjoy , why worry about their existence at all . Perhaps its a case of stepping up the battle on all other fronts by artists in order to ensure exposure ….ie more live shows ….more festival spots ….better marketing overall …..dealing only with labels that guarantee exposure and promotion from more sources than radio …etc
My son’s band was recently signed for several years with a local label that , outside of funding the project and videos , did almost NOTHING to secure any kind of radio or streaming exposure and even less to book , through pro agencies , live appearances or Tv spots. Makes you shake your head …..an investment of well over 200,000 bucks in the act and nothing seriously done to get them exposure . It convinced me that if you want something done DO IT YOURSELF ..or as much of it as you can …your chances of success will be at least as good as the A-listers capitol “A” artists who get less than warranted exposure
I think people have a mis-perception of what OTV does. It doesn’t take a song to #1, or even #10. The problem for most new acts is getting their song spun at all on the radio, never mind getting the song enough exposure for it to register in testing. OTV basically takes a song into the top 20, and gets the song enough exposure for testing.
Now the songs are selected by programmers, so it tends to be songs that radio programmers want to add into rotation, and think are going to test well, which is why (so far) they have all gone on to make top 10. So they do want to play the song.
But I think you’re right about them not maybe caring as much about the artist. Also I think they prefer to play a safe song they already know listeners like, then a new one, and given women get played so rarely, they don’t want to play 2 Lauren Alaina songs.
(This is also why I sort of wish Trigger would stop using Miranda as his example, her radio experience isn’t what it looks like for most women at country radio. Miranda’s singles do get added to rotation, and put into rotation high enough for testing, and even when they don’t test well radio is willing to leave them in low to medium rotation for months. Unless your name is Carrie, Miranda, Kelsea, or Maren, your problem is just getting your song high enough for testing.)
But I do think there is an unspoken agreement that songs will get continued airplay after the original push. If not then a higher percentage of the songs would die immediately after the push.
(last post) This is unfortunately a vicious cycle. You don’t hear many women voices on the radio, so when you hear one it’s a bit jarring. This causes negative feedback numbers, and causes fewer women to be played, and repeat. And the streaming charts are arguably worse, with zero single solo female songs in the top 25, and no women in the top 10 overall streamers.
It’s not just country either, the rock charts for instance are arguably even worse. It’s just a frustrating problem.
Sam Cody
Well yea, but if you add up all the times those dudes say “girl” in that list of songs…that’s a lot!
Orest
With so many options available I’m really surprised people still listen to the radio. I personally stopped listening to radio decades ago as I did not like to be told what to listen to. And really who cares about the charts but the artists themselves. Don’t really care what’s #1 or # 2. I care about good music and radio generally does not provide that.
Bill Weiler
And the congregation says “Amen”.
The topic is (and correct me if I’m wrong) Women only make up 7.5% of what’s PLAYED on corporate Country radio. First off I find it funny that most of us on here don’t or rarely listen to those stations anyway myself included save for a few minutes here and there when I’m in the car and don’t want to “start an album” but we all certainly have opinions on it and more importantly the ramifications of it and it’s effects on the success of the careers of those ladies that are deemed “worthy” on here.
First off, yep the demographics of those stations listeners are women age 16-40 who want to hear and SEE hot hunky guys singing about………you guessed it women, love and yep even “shakin it girl”. You know, the ones that packed the sold out Brett Young show last week. The ones that didn’t even care that a woman “what’s her name? Carly something?” was onstage opening. “Oh she sings that song on the radio”. These are the same ones who wouldn’t support or care about a Margo Price or Sunny Sweeney and do you know why? Because they’re not played on the radio. The sheeple that listen to the radio will like and go see anything that’s shoved down their throats over and over and OVER. It’s been that way since radio was invented. Big 95.5 Country Christmas 2017 – 5 dudes NO WOMEN sold out. At least last year the threw in Maren Morris and Cam. It’s wrong on so many levels. I personally love many women’s music in all genre’s but for some reason even I (like many guys above said) still play mostly men’s albums when it’s time to put one on. It’s easier for US to sing along with one of our own.
Oh and 1 more thing kind of off topic but still matters here. Whitey Morgan is playing the dinky bar up the street from my house tonight (which I found out yesterday by accident) You know where I didn’t hear of him? The radio. You guys turned me on to him and I love it. If he was played on the radio he wouldn’t be playing a dinky bar because more people like me would go. Many people don’t know these people exist.
I don’t know where else to post this because this site isn’t set up that way but I need to apologize to Whitey and the venue. It wasn’t a “dinky bar” it was the Brauerhouse Live venue next door connected to the dinky bar (Capacity 700). Absolutely incredible show!!! Whitey and his band tore it up. I was blown away! As was everyone else! Thank all of you on here for letting me know about him. THIS is what’s wrong with the system. There was 600 people there and as of yesterday I didn’t even know this show existed and was 10 miles from my house because it was at a venue that’s not normally Country. No radio promo or anything else. I actually found it by accident searching for anything that was going on around my area tonight yesterday. I have no idea how the 600 people even knew about this how?
There are certainly women who like to hear men sing about women. But there are plenty of women who like to hear women sing about men, & men & women sing about life in general. The argument that women don’t want to hear women is definitely false. Now if you want to say men don’t want to hear women, that’s possible. I’ve been to numerous female country artist concerts and the fans are mostly female. Kenny Chesney, his audience was much more even male/female though perhaps skewed male.
For whatever reason a number of men seem to have a hang up about listening to female artists. Like it doesn’t make them masculine if they do or something.
CountryKnight
As I said before, you can’t fix the women problem on radio until you fix the stupid problem on radio.
And quite frankly, I would trade every female singer to hear the Turnpike Troubadours on the radio.
All men, but the sings are all about women. Commercial music is about selling commercials, just as bar music is about selling beer. How to sell commercials to women? Feed their vanity, frustration, and ensuing fantasies.
That’s what all this “male” music does. When was the last time you heard men singing about work, history, or politics? Never. This is music made by men, but it is entirely geared toward women.
Did you really think a commercial venue would somehow allow art to trump commerce? Only as a sop. It’s futile to expect a new paradigm from a commercial environment. Men have known this for a very long time.
Go outside. Preferably somewhere hilly.
IMO women in general have better voices than men, so this problem seems stupidly ridiculous to me, though I am a man who is attracted to women, and that may play into my personal bias.
But I also know a LOT more men who like country music than women, so it also doesn’t make sense to me that radio would basically turn their backs on their largest demographic (men who actually like real country music regardless of the singer’s gender), unless radio is just a smaller piece of a larger sales and marketing monopoly, which of course it is.
This reads an awful lot like a post I wrote earlier this year on Austin’s country radio scene:
https://notthatyouaskedit.wordpress.com/2017/09/19/no-girls-allowed-on-one-austin-country-radio-station
It’s sad that articles like these even have to be written.
January 4, 2018 @ 10:57 am
At this point the playlists of radio stations are finely tuned algorithms that generate the highest revenue. If recordings of rooster orgasms made the most money rest assured we’d be hearing nothing but throaty cock-a-doodle-do’s over the airwaves.
The key is why playing women’s songs generates less money. These days it appears it takes a hot guy singing about trucks to generate the cash. The Shania formula seems to be the rare exception. Or Taylor. And maybe they’re outdated at that.
This coming from a guy whose walk-up song would be ‘Keep Your Distance’ by Patty Loveless.
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Sonic: South Island ...
Sonic: South Island Warped is a currently in progress hack of Sonic the Hedgehog. It's main point of interest is the retRead more
Sonic: South Island Warped is a currently in progress hack of Sonic the Hedgehog. It's main point of interest is the return of the time travel mechanic from Sonic CD, along with a few other new features added to set it apart from the original Sonic 1. Zones are split into four acts each; three main acts and and a boss act at the end. Sonic is capable of traveling to the past or the future of the zone he's currently in via the signposts hidden in each of the levels. Each act, sans act four, has a robot generator that, when destroyed in the past, will remove all badniks for the rest of the act and also create a good future for that act. Destroying all three generators for a zone will remove Eggman's influence in the fourth act, which always takes place in the future.Time Stones also return, collectible alongside the Chaos Emeralds. One Time Stone will be hidden in each zone, and it will only be obtainable within the future of that zone. If attempting to retrieve the Time Stone in the bad future, Sonic will have to face off with one of Eggman's machines. If in the good future, the Time Stone will be unguarded and ready to be collected. The fourth act of a zone contains no generators, Time Stones, or signposts, only a boss fight against either Eggman or Metal Sonic. The Chaos Emeralds will be obtained during these boss fights, usually right after the boss is defeated, but you may also be able to reach it before the boss does, preventing it from making the fight more difficult.As of now, this is just a demo of GHZ, which even on it's own is still in need of much work. Honestly there's a lot I couldn't get around to doing just yet, but I still wanted to give everyone a sample of what I'm making. More than anything, I just hope you all enjoy what you play. Everything in this is release was done by me with the exception of the sound driver and the one original song port done for this hack. Both of those were by Varion Icaria who I can't thank enough for helping out. Also have to give a thanks to the many users of both Sonic Retro and SSRG who made all of the informative guides and tutorials hosted on both sites.
Sonic: South Island Warp...
Sonic: Virtual Adven...
A Hack based on Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Eggman plans to conquer the Mobius and rule the entire planet.To fulfill his evil Read more
A Hack based on Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Eggman plans to conquer the Mobius and rule the entire planet.To fulfill his evil scheme, the villain has created his most dangerous invention yet, the Egg-Virtualizer.With the help of his evil machine, Eggman attempts to virtualize the Mobius and become its only powerful ruler. He uses the Chaos Emeralds to power the machine, but things went not as he planned.Shortly after its activation, the machine broke, dispersing the emeralds' shreds all over the virtualized Mobius.Help Sonic to collect all the emeralds once again to destroy the machine and restore the planet!This is A DEMO VERSION CREDITS!Hack Idea:Ladego TeamProgramming:- EgorTF- TheBlad768- SHooTeR- VladislavSavvateev- VladikComperMusic Compositing:- EgorTF- Ivan YOSMPS Porting:- EgorTFLevel Creating:- Dr.RobotnikGraphics:- SHooTeR- Mr.Cat- EgorTFBosses:- TheBlad768Beta Testing:- Razor- Vladikcomper- Abyssal LeopardSpecial Thanks:- Abyssal Leopard- Solareyn
Sonic: Virtual Adventure
Sonic.EXE AgustinBaz...
Sonic.EXE AgustinBazan683 Edition is Sonic 1 hack made by AgustinBazan683
Sonic.EXE AgustinBazan68...
Sonic's Fun and Easy...
Sonic's Fun and Easy Adventure is a hack by Novedicus. It's based off of an optimized version of the Sonic 3 & KnuckRead more
Sonic's Fun and Easy Adventure is a hack by Novedicus. It's based off of an optimized version of the Sonic 3 & Knuckles engine and is made to be played on the Sega Mega Drive.This project was created and released for the Hacking Expo of SHC 2017. The hack has many objects and elements ported over from Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog CD, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 that were considered to be the most frustrating parts of those respected games and was made to resemble Sonic CD for aesthetic reasons.This hack also uses a technique similar to Sonic 3D Blast's FMV process to create a completely custom Sega Screen. Something not seen in many Sonic ROM hacks.
Sonic's Fun and Easy Adv...
SonicMT
This hack started as a small joke hack, just to see if I could add something we all love to classic Sonic games; micro-tRead more
This hack started as a small joke hack, just to see if I could add something we all love to classic Sonic games; micro-transactions. This was more or less a success, although not as I imagined it. Nevertheless, I found myself just adding more and more random bits for substance, and eventually even found myself playing around with something completely foreign to me on the side. This led me to have an idea for a bossfight, and as such GHZ2 boss was born! And by that, I got an idea; What if I make full hack with new boss fights! And since then I've been pretty much adding anything to my mind comes up with, as well ass lots of bosses.But, what is this hack? Well, I dont know to be honest. It was at one point a joke, then a real hack... And then a joke again? I lost track by now. What I do know, is that none of this makes sense, especially the secrets... err, features in this hack. I would especially like to help following people for their major contributions to making this hack be as good (or bad :V) as it is:Vladikcomper: Sound Driver, Mega PCM, lots of cool music, and help with sound driver issues.djohe: Bug testing, Quality assurance, and help with solving some issues.Ducks: Bug testing, Quality assurance, and lots of neat ideas.Jorge: A lot of help with hardware information and Natsumi screen help.Other people who helped:Betatesting: Vladikcomper, Sonicvaan, TheStoneBanana, MarkeyJester, Animemaster, DA. Garden, DiscotheBat, Abyssal Leopard, LuigiXHero, RalakimusMusic: Vladikcomper, DalekSam, S\\_T\\_D, Electroball, NatsumiDucks: TheStoneBanana, Abyssal Leopard, LuigiXHero, Ralakimus, ThomasSpeedRunner, NeoFusionBox, Robobot, Clefable
soniNeko
soniNeko is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit) for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by nineko. It is notable because of itRead more
soniNeko is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit) for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by nineko. It is notable because of its extended playlist, which not only completely replaces all the songs from the original game, but also introduces several new songs, bringing the grand total to 71 (instead of 22 as in the original Sonic 1); most of those songs are conversions from MIDI and MOD files (as a demonstration of xm2smps/xm3smps capabilities), and a small amount of them are conversions from games that use the Cube/Iwadare sound engine. None of those songs have been converted from other games that use the SMPS sound system, something soniNeko is still unique for.
Sorcerers Kingdom
Sorcerer's Kingdom (ソーサルキングダム?, "Sorcer Kingdom") is a tactical RPG for the Sega Genesis thaRead more
Sorcerer's Kingdom (ソーサルキングダム?, "Sorcer Kingdom") is a tactical RPG for the Sega Genesis that was published in 1992 by NCS Corp.[1] It was localized for North America and PAL regions by Treco.
Sorcerian (ソーサリアン, Sōsarian?) is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom, and the fifth in thRead more
Sorcerian (ソーサリアン, Sōsarian?) is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom, and the fifth in the Dragon Slayer line of games. It was originally released for the NEC PC-8801 in 1987, and was later ported to other personal computer platforms such as the NEC PC-9801, the NEC PC-88VA, the Sharp X1 Turbo, and the MSX2, for which it was released under the title Dragon Slayer V: Sorcerian. An English version for MS-DOS PCs was published by Sierra Entertainment in 1990, ports for the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple IIGS and Macintosh platforms were announced, but not released. In 1997, Falcom released Sorcerian Forever for Microsoft Windows95/98 -based PCs. In 2000, Falcom released Sorcerian Original, a remake of Sorcerian for Microsoft Windows-based PCs. In addition, console versions of Sorcerian with somewhat differing content from their PC counterparts were developed: A version for the Mega Drive was developed by Sega, a version for the PC Engine CD was developed by Victor Musical Industries, and a version for the Dreamcast was developed by Victor Interactive Software.
South Island Adventu...
South Island Adventure is a large scale hack of Sonic the Hedgehog by Hivebrain, featuring Espio the Chameleon. It has nRead more
South Island Adventure is a large scale hack of Sonic the Hedgehog by Hivebrain, featuring Espio the Chameleon. It has new sprites, several new levels, and numerous other alterations.
South Island Adventure
Space Harrier 2
Space Harrier (スペースハリアー Supēsu Hariā?) is a third-person rail shooter game, released by Sega in 1985. Read more
Space Harrier (スペースハリアー Supēsu Hariā?) is a third-person rail shooter game, released by Sega in 1985. It was produced by Yu Suzuki, responsible for many popular Sega games. It spawned several sequels: Space Harrier 3-D (1988), Space Harrier II (1988), and the spin-off Planet Harriers (2000). Space Harrier was originally made for the arcades, and later saw ports to many home game systems. Space Harrier's release on the Sega Master System is notable, as there were two versions: one was just like the arcade, while the other, entitled Space Harrier 3-D was actually a sequel. It was one of the first arcade games to use 16-bit graphics and Sega's "Super Scaler" technology that allowed pseudo-3D sprite-scaling at high frame rates,[2] with the ability to scale as many as 32,000 sprites and fill a moving landscape with them,[3] along with over 32,000 colours displayed simultaneously on the screen. It also introduced a true analog flight stick for movement, with the ability to register movement in any direction as well as measure the degree of push, which could move the player character at different speeds depending on how far the stick is pushed in a certain direction.[4] The game was also an early example of a third-person shooter;[5] it was influenced by the earlier 1982 Sega game Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, and Space Harrier in turn influenced later 3D shooters such as Nintendo's Star Fox/Starwing in 1993.
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Authorities on Thursday located the unlicensed driver who allegedly ran over and killed a woman in Albert Lea, Minn., and fled the scene.
Joanne Carol Klein, 66, of Albert Lea, was hit by a pickup truck about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday outside a McDonald’s near the intersection of E. Main and Katherine streets, police said.
Klein ended up in the median of Main Street and was dead by the time emergency responders arrived. Police later Wednesday released to the news media and on Facebook a photograph of the truck and asked for help in locating the vehicle and the driver.
Shortly after 8:30 a.m. Thursday, officers were told that a pickup matching the description of the one being sought was at the Motor Inn auto dealership in Albert Lea, a little more than a mile east of where the incident occurred.
The suspect, 51, of nearby Hartland, Minn., was located by officers at the dealership, brought in for questioning and then arrested on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide.
Police said the man has a Utah driver’s license but it’s expired.
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DOD Memoranda Guiding Discharge Review Boards on PTSD, TBI, and MST
This article provides important information to veterans with less-than-honorable discharges who want to upgrade their discharge based on in-service mental health conditions or experiences.
Department of Defense Memoranda Guiding Discharge Review Boards
The information below will offer key guidance to those want to upgrade their discharge based on mental health conditions and focuses particularly on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD ), traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST ), and related conditions. In short, there have been many recent favorable changes that make it more likely for veterans to receive a discharge upgrade, even if they were denied one in the past.
In the early years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the military community did not understand the full impact that PTSD , TBI, or MST could have on the lives of veterans. As the wars progressed, however, these conditions and experiences became better understood. The Department of Defense (DoD) responded to this new knowledge by issuing a series of memoranda. These memoranda stated that PTSD , TBI, MST , and related conditions could contribute to in-service misconduct, which in turn can lead to a less-than-honorable discharge from the service.
Congress has also enacted several statutes in recent years mandating more careful and generous treatment of discharge upgrade applications based on PTSD , TBI, or MST . Together, these new laws and DoD memoranda have increased the likelihood that veterans who experienced PTSD , TBI, MST , or similar conditions will have their less-than-honorable discharges upgraded. Three of these memoranda are particularly important for veterans applying for a discharge upgrade who are diagnosed with, show symptoms of, or are affected by, PTSD , TBI, MST , or other behavioral health conditions. Another memorandum applies to all veterans seeking an upgrade based on injustice or unfairness.
Known as the Hagel, Kurta, Wilkie, and Carson memoranda, these documents direct that veterans who satisfy certain conditions receive “liberal consideration” from Discharge Review Boards (DRBs) and Boards for Correction of Military/Naval Records (BCM/NRs). Among other things, liberal consideration requires that Boards determine whether PTSD , TBI, MST , or other mental health conditions mitigate and outweigh misconduct when reviewing a discharge upgrade application.
A veteran who might meet the conditions in these memoranda should include relevant evidence along with their discharge upgrade application. Veterans who provide relevant evidence will make it easier for a Board to grant their application.
Hagel Memorandum
The Sept. 2014 Hagel Memorandum requires that Boards give “liberal consideration” to applications by veterans that document one or more symptoms of PTSD or related conditions. Special consideration is given to Department of Veterans Affairs determinations related to these conditions, especially when they connect events from a veteran’s military service to these symptoms. The memo describes several ways in which veterans can document evidence of PTSD or related conditions. Though service treatment records that contain diagnoses or symptoms of PTSD or related conditions are very relevant, the Hagel Memorandum provides more examples of relevant evidence. For example, diagnoses or records from non-VA civilian doctors can be relevant evidence. Moreover, Boards must consider any other evidence submitted by a veteran that suggests the veteran was affected by a mental health condition in service. Any evidence that connects a mental health condition to in-service misconduct is also very relevant, according to this Memo.
You can read the full Hagel Memorandum by clicking here.
Kurta Memorandum
The Aug. 2017 Kurta Memorandum greatly expands on the Hagel Memorandum and clarifies how discharge upgrade applications that document PTSD , TBI, MST , or other mental health conditions should be reviewed by the Boards. The Kurta Memorandum specifically emphasizes that the invisible wounds left by these injuries are often hard for Boards to understand and the reality of these wounds can often be overlooked. The Kurta Memorandum therefore lists certain events or markers that might indicate that a veteran was experiencing a mental health condition, even if they were not diagnosed or acknowledged during their service. The Kurta Memorandum sets out four questions with accompanying comments that DRBs and BCM/NRs should use to guide their review in these cases.
You can read the full Kurta Memorandum by clicking here.
We also encourage you to read StatesideLegal’s more in-depth page here discussing the Kurta Memorandum.
Wilkie Memorandum
The July 2018 Wilkie Memorandum emphasizes the importance of granting discharges to ensure fundamental fairness and directs the Boards to consider both clemency and rehabilitation in their decision-making process. It lists many factors that Boards should consider when determining whether to upgrade a veteran’s discharge status is in the interest of fundamental fairness. This Memorandum requires Boards to consider many factors, such as the applicant’s candor, whether the applicant accepts responsibility for their misconduct, character references, and the applicant’s conduct after their discharge. The Wilkie Memo emphasizes the value of rehabilitation over accomplishment. It also recognizes that a veteran’s service does not have to be flawless to be considered Honorable.
You can read the full Wilkie Memorandum by clicking here.
Carson Memorandum
The Feb. 2016 Carson Memorandum allows veterans with certain mental health conditions to apply to BCM/NRs, but not DRBs, no matter how long ago they were discharged. It also allows veterans whose applications were previously denied by the Board to apply again and have their application benefit from the Hagel Memorandum (as well as other new memos). When veterans reapply, the Board is required to make an entirely new decision and not consider any past rejection when reviewing the new application.
You can read the full Carson Memorandum by clicking here.
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Source URL: https://www.statesidelegal.org/dod-memoranda-guiding-discharge-review-boards-ptsd-tbi-and-mst
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HIRING OUR HALLS
We have two rooms in our church hall building which are available for hire at various times.
Behind the church at the eastern end of Eric Road, and is still sometimes known locally as The Marshall Hall (after Canon Marshall who was vicar for many years after WWII).
The two rooms for hire are:
a main hall - (12m x 11.25m) [39ft x 37ft]
accommodates about 100 for buffet-style events or about 80 for a sit-down meal
a smaller room known as "The Royal Room" - (5.76m by 6.89m) [18ft 10" x 22ft 7"]
accommodates up to 25 people
Both of the above available for Children's Parties, Social Events and Community Activities.
For bookings and all hall enquiries, please contact Debbie on 07757 696952 on Mondays and Wednesdays between 1 pm & 4 pm or email hallbookings@stchads.church
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U.K. COVID-19 variant coming to Routt County, if it isn’t here already, experts say
Kari Dequine Harden
kharden@SteamboatPilot.com
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The new COVID-19 variant, known as B.1.1.7, was first detected in the United States in a Colorado National Guard member Dec. 29 in Elbert County.
There are now three confirmed cases in the state, with a second National Guard member in Elbert County confirmed, and a third case confirmed Thursday in a staff member at the Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons in Aurora. Another staff member in the same facility has a possible case, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).
As of Friday, the variant had been found in eight states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In recent weeks, it has become the dominant variant in the U.K. and has been attributed to a rapid increase in cases which led to mass shutdowns.
If it isn’t already, “it’s going to come here,” said Lauren Bryan, an infection preventionist at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center.
So what does that mean? And how does it change things?
Initial studies from the U.K. are associating the variant with increased transmissibility, said Nicole Harty, epidemiologist and data manager for the Routt County Public Health.
“This means that, in comparison, the dominant strain we have currently, one person infected with the U.K. variant who behaves identically to someone with a different strain is likely to infect more people,” Harty said.
And that means sticking with the same mitigation measures that have been urged throughout the pandemic, she added, “particularly proper mask-wearing and avoiding personal gatherings. We know indoor, prolonged gatherings that involve eating and drinking are some of the riskiest activities in terms of disease transmission. That will remain true with this new variant.”
On a brighter note, Harty said, “There is no evidence that the U.K. variant leads to more severe disease, which would certainly lead to increased hospitalizations and deaths. However, with more people contracting the virus, hospitalizations and deaths are expected to increase.”
Finding the variant depends on how much any given community, state or country is looking for the variant.
“Other states haven’t done as much testing and identified it as quickly as Colorado did,” said Bryan. “That doesn’t mean it’s not there.”
Finding it, said Bryan, is like a kid’s matching game. Specifically, the testing machines look for the “S gene dropout.” Certain touch points are expected, Bryan described, and if only four out of five are matched, that indicates the sample might be the variant.
“Then the sample is sent off for whole genome sequencing to determine if it is a match to the variant,” Harty said. “It is after this whole genome sequencing is complete that the state lab can confirm whether or not a sample is the U.K. variant.”
Bryan said all positive PCR tests collected at UCHealth are being sent to the University of Denver, where they are looked for that “S gene dropout.” If that is detected, they are then sent to the state lab.
The rapid antigen tests cannot detect it, she said.
In terms of the testing done by public health, Harty said, “the state lab has partnerships among a variety of labs across the state, including labs where many of the samples collected in Routt County are sent. … The state lab is in regular communication with local public health agencies and would share these results accordingly.”
A variant is not the same as a mutation. Nor can variant be used interchangeably with “strain.” There is only one strain: the Sars-Cov-2 strain, which is the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease. A mutation is the process by which a strain can take on new variants.
With COVID-19, mutations are expected, Bryan said. “How many mutations a virus sees is a function of how many hosts it can find,” she said. And there have been plenty of available hosts, especially in the U.S.
The U.K. variant, in particular, has gotten a lot of attention because of the concern about increased transmissibility. However, more data is needed on that increased transmissibility, noted Routt County Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Harrington.
Vaccine effectiveness against the new variant
The good news regarding the U.K. variant is, at this time, the belief is the vaccines are just as effective against it, Harrington said. In general, however, the family of coronaviruses are not known to have very good lasting immunity, he said.
COVID-19 may require an annual vaccine, he said, and variants, like the U.K. one, could be part of adjusting the vaccine each year.
There is another variation also getting a bit of attention and close monitoring by the CDC and CDHPE — one out of South Africa.
“This variant has multiple mutations in the S protein,” according to the Mayo Clinic. “Early research suggests that this variant is associated with higher amounts of virus in the body (viral load), which might make it easier for the variant to spread among people. The variant has been detected in a few other countries.”
The South Africa variant “could impact vaccine efficacy,” Bryan said. Still, if starting at 95% efficacy, even if lowered, it would likely still have relatively good efficacy, she said. And “tweaking the recipe” on vaccines to match changing targets is something scientists are accustomed to doing, especially with viruses like influenza.
More data will be coming out of the U.K. on whether the variant is affecting vaccine efficacy, Bryan added.
Bryan and Harrington said they don’t think the new variant showing up in Routt County should necessarily cause major new anxieties — but it is a reminder to be all the more conscientious about the same preventative measures, they said. “And get vaccinated,” Bryan said. “That is our single best defense — immunity.”
Harrington said if it indeed is more infectious, it could make that 14-day quarantine period necessary, as opposed to the recently shortened CDC recommendations to 10 days, or seven with a negative test.
“We should assume the U.K. variant is already here in Routt County and act accordingly,” Harty said.
To reach Kari Dequine Harden, call 970-871-4205, email kharden@SteamboatPilot.com or follow her on Twitter @kariharden.
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Florida (Hardcover)
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE 2019 STORY PRIZE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018
The universally acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies and Matrix
"Haunting and arresting." (New York Times Book Review)
"Outstanding." (The Boston Globe)
"Marvelous." (The Economist)
"Gorgeously weird and limber." (The New Yorker)
"Easily the year's best story collection." (Vogue)
"Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” (NPR’s Fresh Air)
Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often moving" (NPR Fresh Air) --as Groff is recognized as "Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California." (Washington Post)
In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother.
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.
Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and two short story collections, Florida and Delicate Edible Birds. She has won the PEN/O. Henry Award and The Story Prize, been a two-time finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, along with several Best American Short Stories anthologies, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.
"Lauren Groff is a great storyteller . . . Florida is restorative fiction for these urgent times. Its final gestures, even the most ominous . . . lean toward love and the promise of good people, in not just this state but the world." – New York Times
"Something untameable lurks restlessly beneath the surface of this book. Groff’s incomparable prose pulsates with peril; its beauty, like that of the titular state itself, lies in a certain wild lushness." – Financial Times
"These new stories are tight and contained, and they pulse with menace and feral energy." – Wall Street Journal
"Florida is a gift to writers. . . . There is more than a little of David Lynch in Ms Groff’s Floridian landscape: exotic and bright, yet pulsing with hidden malevolence . . . Ms Groff’s writing is marvelous, her insights keen, each story a glittering, encrusted treasure hauled from the deep." – The Economist
"As fine and beautifully crafted as any fiction she has written . . . . . [Groff] is one of the best writers in the United States, and her prize-winning stories reverberate long after they are read. In past years, the rare short story collection . . . has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Florida should be in the running next year." – LA Review of Books
"Groff throws open the windows and turns off the A/C, mosquitoes and heatstroke be damned . . . Groff’s Florida may do the same thing for its readers: surprise and menace us, fascinate and sometimes frighten us, and leave the whole world fuller than it was before." – Slate
"Masterful. . . Amid the horror, wonder perseveres." – Esquire
"The gems here are like the Florida Keys: distinct islands, each beautiful in its own way. Meet a lonely runner, two lost sisters and a son growing up without his mother. Prepare to sweat, see snakes and get lost in a swamp. Groff’s depictions aren’t always pretty, but they’ll keep you turning the pages—and not just for the breeze." – People Magazine
"[A] transcendent writer. . . [Florida] isn’t a short-story collection so much as an ecosystem." –The Atlantic
"[Groff] stakes her claim to being Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California."—Washington Post
"Superlative collection — seriously, there’s not a dud in the bunch ... Groff is an extra terrific writer, as ever...Having followed an astonishing, astonishingly accessible novel with such an outstanding, accessible collection, Groff is surely poised to topple the tiny monkeys in charge of deciding that the perceived realm of the feminine isn’t sufficiently deep." – Boston Globe
"Taken together, the stories have the feel of autobiography, although, as in a Salvador Dali painting, their emotional disclosures are encrypted in phantasmagoria . . . The sentences indigenous to Florida are gorgeously weird and limber . . ." – The New Yorker
"The landscapes in the short stories are silty, rich, sun-bleached, cold as stone. They are strong characters of their own that will not be ignored." – Electric Literature
"Impossible to put down." – Vox
"Groff’s mythic almost gothic stories about Florida and domesticity and entrapment took me right back to the Bronte sisters . . . Masterfully made." – LitHub
"You’re helpless to the power — the sheer virtuosity — of Groff’s evocative prose." – Entertainment Weekly
"Groff is still on-brand. Her writing about relationships rarely sticks within the narrow, Updike-ian confines of domestic dysfunction, though. Even in short stories, she prefers broader canvases, and much of Florida is filled with hurricanes and other violent storms that run parallel to the personal crises she describes . . . Straightforward but moody and metaphorical — magical realism without the sparkle and sense of wonder." – Los Angeles Times
"Groff’s Florida is touched by sublimity. It is an ‘Eden of beautiful things,’ glorious and decayed, attacked and altering." – The Rumpus
"[The stories] overflow with imagery so powerfully tangible that it’s hard to believe the humidity and rainstorms aren’t truly escaping from the page to touch you . . ." – Chicago Review of Books
"Florida gives off strong vibes of magical realism, where snakes, sinkholes and panthers in hidden Florida towns replace Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo with its yellow butterflies and ghosts." – Palm Beach Post
"Brooding, inventive and often moving short stories . . . In Groff's trademark zigzagging storytelling style, revelations ricochet between pages — and sometimes even within single sentences . . . Groff, through her own acrobatic style, attests to the benefits of a firm grounding in grammar and vocabulary. Lots of things go south fast in the stories collected in Florida — like marriages, careers and the weather — but throughout, Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher." – NPR Fresh Air
"Groff’s desire seems to be to show — in a frequently funny, sometimes painful and always deeply sensitive way — that women and children are often stronger than we tend to think, and that the Earth is more fragile than we usually allow ourselves to understand." – San Francisco Chronicle
"Easily the year’s best story collection . . . these indelibly vivid tales read like inoculations against cynicism." – Vogue
"[The stories] take on an inexplicably cohesive form with a sad-, beautiful- and naked-ness that reverberates in the mind long after the book is shut." – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"She hasn't lost a step since Fates And Furies . . . Groff's language is, as always, gorgeous and precise. Her ability to map the inner contours of characters who seem to exist entirely in extremis — and, almost entirely, within a fragile shell of feigned competence and normalcy — is remarkable. Her Florida is a frightening place that bends (solely through the eyes and experiences of her characters) into a discomfortingly modern Southern Gothic tradition. Her stories — all of them — are haunted." – NPR Books
"Slime mold, a father killed by snake venom, a mother haunted by a deadly panther, and half-feral little girls abandoned on an island—these bizarre happenings could be set only in the Sunshine State, and be written only by Groff, the Gabriel García Márquez of Gainesville. Reading as required as insect repellent in a swamp." – O Magazine
"Groff has grasped the true grotesqueness of Florida, an ‘Eden of dangerous things’ spliced with stinking bodies, living and dead. In her hands, Florida as state and state-of-mind becomes an alembic, cohering these discrete stories as perfectly as if they were written in one sitting . . . Florida is so much, perhaps too much. Florida is just enough . . . Groff’s powers transform that glut of vitality into something startlingly precarious and, even to a forsworn Floridian like me, something startling and precious." – The Millions
"[Florida] evinces a deep comprehension and appreciation of the wildness that reaches from the state’s swamps and forests to inform even the most developed pockets of civilization. Life cannot be tamed here, Groff suggests, and the characters . . . feel the state’s inexorable, unsettling pull. The book is no less difficult to resist." – South Florida
"Subversive, but quietly; it captures what’s mysterious about the inevitable, what’s bizarre about the inescapable . . . these narratives of young families, divorced couples, and unconventional women vibrate with something new . . . The rains in Florida are biblical to say the least. The margins between earthen and celestial routinely dissolve . . . Florida suggest that the relationship between humans and our planet—that home none of us chose—transcends the power struggle of dominance and submission." – The Paris Review
"Masterful . . . Groff’s writing is stripped down and honed, with few extraneous words. She experiments with form without veering into gimmick or forsaking the power of language, which she expertly wields." – am New York
"A weird, spooky love letter to Florida, by one of Obama’s favorite writers . . . Groff’s detailed descriptions are transportive; you feel like you’re there in the dank cabin or in the eye of the hurricane . . . And don't get us started on the snakes. Florida, man." – PureWow
"This collection of 11 stories . . . speak to each other not in the light of the Sunshine State, but in the shadows. Groff’s world is a dark, strange one of tempests and terrors. Her characters . . . fall into loneliness and self-ruin at each turn." – Town & Country Magazine
"Florida mesmerizes and unnerves." – Business Insider
"A humid closeness that makes every twist of fate and new character feel intimately familiar . . . Each tale contains Groff's signature mixture of poetic beauty and visceral poignancy." – Harper’s Bazaar
"As much plot and detail packed into. . .15 pages as you'll find in many novels. . . The whole world is Florida, paradise because it’s dangerous and dangerous because it’s paradise." – Tampa Bay
"Filled with the mesmerizing, decadent language . . . the titular state looms as a setting of lush beauty and swift menace . . . Groff's storytelling has such ferocious energy."– Star Tribune
"We would probably give a five-star review to Lauren Groff’s grocery list. Her language is beautiful, surprising, and always unfolding. Florida is a visceral story collection . . . told through a series of rich, layered characters . . . It’s as if you’re eavesdropping the whole time, peering in on lives vastly different from and yet so familiar to your own."– GOOP
"If Barack Obama found time as president to read Fates and Furies, Groff’s third novel, you can clear a weekend this summer to read her follow-up. Florida is a blistering series of short stories set in a state where calm and intensity work hand in hand." – Conde Nast Traveler
"Groff sidesteps Miami glitter for the sticky, snake-thick subtropics, the swamps and summer heat giving birth to an electrifying array of characters and worlds." –Vanity Fair
"Readers can practically feel the mosquitoes buzzing at their necks in stories Ms. Groff started writing a decade ago after moving to Florida . . . In her stories, predators bite, hurricanes destroy and nature does not forgive." –Wall Street Journal
"A dangerous energy, buoyed by rich and unsettling details, run through the Fates and Furies author’s new collection as her characters face down snakes, hurricanes and their own self-destructive behavior." –Time Magazine
"Think of the stories in Lauren Groff's collection Florida as gems. You'll want to revisit them over and over, and see how you'll react to them under different circumstances, different slants of light. But on a more basic level: Each story is exquisite." –Refinery29
"Groff moves adroitly through an impressive range of lives, times, and places...The book stages an intriguing relationship between the individual and the collective." –Harper's Magazine
"Groff fans will recognize the descriptive zest instantly. . . raw, danger-riddled, linguistically potent pieces. They unsettle their readers at every pass . . . A literary tour de force of precariousness set in a blistering place, a state shaped like a gun." –Kirkus, starred review
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Paperback, Large Print (June 5th, 2018): $29.00
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Evening Entertainment With...
Evening Entertainment With Danone Nutricia
Posted: Nov 05 2015
Tags: Evening Entertainment
The fabulous Mottram Hall played host to a wonderful night of evening entertainment for guests of Danone Nutricia, as they took part in our fun-filled and fast paced Interactive Quiz night to follow on from a day of conferencing. The entertainment kicked-off in style with our Hit or Miss Game Show round after a few lovely gift presentations from the Danone team.
The Hit or Miss got the competitive spirit flowing early doors, as each player battled it out to be the last man or woman standing...! High energy and up tempo tunes were played as we made our way down to the finalists, all of whom joined us on stage before the Head-to-Head showdown between Steph and Katie! They match each other blow for blow until Steph pulled it out of the bag and secured the first set of points of the evening for her North & South Unite team.
More fantastic Quiz Rounds flowed through dinner, including a specialist Danone Round, which Norfolk ‘N’ Chance struggled in (P45's all round!), whereas Team Simon Says performed sensationally! The Guess Who and Name the Movie Rounds were hotly contested, with Moby and mates (joined by special guest for the evening, Moby - the actual real one, we are certain!) striking gold in the Guess Who, and the ultra-corporate Nutrition Ninja's scoring a massive 900 points on the Movie Round...they certainly knew their Catching Fire's from their MockingJay's!
The grand finale came in the shape of the Music Round, as teams bid to guess the name of the song and artist from just a few seconds of music! Alan's Angels made up for their dismal Movie Round with a solid score, and the Booby Collective continued to show promise with a decent 700 points. As the Music Round came to a close, the Danone group had a wonderful surprise in store for one of their longest serving colleagues, Alan, who enjoyed a hilarious 'This is Your Life' sketch up on stage which brought the evening to a fitting (and at times, emotional) close. With the This is Your Life show over and not a dry eye in the house, all that was left to do was find out which team would be walking away as Team Challenge Company Interactive Quiz Winners!
But firstly, in last place and taking home the Wooden Spoon was the small but perfectly formed Norfolk ‘N’ Chance Team with 1800 points. All other teams who didn't quite make top of the pile joined us on stage to rapturous applause, until only 2 remained. Finishing in 2nd place was the mighty North & South Unite with 3300 points, who were pipped by just 100 points by the mighty Simon Says Team - the crowd going wild as they stepped up to lift the much-coveted Winners Trophy - legends!
A wonderful night of evening entertainment had been enjoyed by all, and the room was a buzz of hilarity as we wrapped up for the evening. Some final big cheers must go to our special guests on the night - Prince Harry, Phil (or Grant) Mitchell, Moby, and of course the lovely Katie for all her efforts and hard work in organising the evening and making it such a success. It was a great pleasure to work with the entire Danone team, and we very much hope to see you all again soon for the re-match!
OMG what an evening, not laughed and nearly cried for a long time. I love how everyone got sooooooo competitive over a good old pub quiz and a press up lol!!!! Thanks for a fab fun filled few days, we are a fantastic GIANT team :-))
What a fun-filled night of Big Quiz Entertainment with the group from Danone, there were so many highlights that there are too many to list! My personal favourite moments include Steph's celebration dance after victory in the Hit or Miss, and a certain gentleman in your team struggling with the Specialist Danone Round...! A great pleasure working with Katie in designing and delivering this evening, very much hope that all in attendance (especially Alan) had a brilliant night, we very much look forward to seeing you all again soon
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Australian MP Pushes Back Against Expanded Site And Search Blocking Laws
FCC Falsely Declares Community Broadband An 'Ominous' Attack On Free Speech
EFF Sues California Law Enforcement Agency For Refusing To Hand Over Stingray Documents
from the when-six-warrants-is-a-constellation-of-records dept
Tue, Oct 30th 2018 3:30am — Tim Cushing
The EFF is taking the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department to court. The dispute centers on Stingray warrants possessed by the agency. The Sheriff's Department likely holds more of these records than any other agency in the state. According to the Desert Sun's investigation -- based on state law-mandated reporting on electronic searches, San Bernardino residents were 20 times more likely to be subjected to an electronic search than residents elsewhere in state.
Even more troubling, a lot of these searches -- including Stingray deployments -- were performed by the department when it had no idea who it was looking for or whose devices it was searching.
If the situation is deemed an emergency, the judge can grant law enforcement the option to delay notification for up to 90 days.
A 90-day delay is also granted in cases when the identity of the person they are investigating is not known by the investigating agency.
Warrants are only reported to the California Department of Justice if the warrant receives the 90-day delay for notification. The department does not include records of warrants for electronic property, if the target is notified immediately.
Of the more than 700 warrants reported to the California Department of Justice by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, only 47 received emergency status, meaning 93 percent of their warrants were granted to investigate people whose identity was unknown to the department.
The department did not provide an explanation for why they are investigating the digital property of so many people before identifying them.
The numerous searches -- which apparently include a large number of fishing expeditions -- is an ongoing concern, especially with California's more stringent privacy laws in play. The Sheriff's Department has been a fan of Stingrays for a long time, but hasn't been very forthcoming about its deployments. This dishonesty extends to judges, who were handed pen register order requests that disguised the true nature of the search. The "insert probable cause" boilerplate pen register request obtained by Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica suggests invasive searches were performed with plug-and-play paperwork that both laundered the evidence and utilized one-size-fits-all phrasing when seeking judicial approval.
What the EFF is seeking is a very small subset of Stingray warrants possessed by the Sheriff's Department. It's attempting to obtain copies of six warrants specifically identified by the state's Department of Justice in mandated publications. The search for these documents by the Sheriff's Department should be made even easier thanks to the inclusion of a noticeable typo.
EFF determined that the county has used cell-site simulators 231 times in the last year and filed a request under the California Public Records Act in August to obtain search warrant information for six specific searches that were made public by the DOJ. Each of the searches included authorization for the use of “cell-site stimulators” [sic], an apparent misspelling of the cell-phone tracking technology in the records submitted by San Bernardino to the DOJ.
EFF’s public records request sought court case numbers associated with the search warrants, which would enable researchers to locate court records like affidavits justifying the need for a warrant and other information vital to assessing whether police are following the law and their own policies when obtaining warrants. The request contained detailed information about each warrant, made public by the DOJ, such as the nature of the warrants, the precise start and end dates of the warrants and verbatim quotes about the grounds for each warrant.
The Sheriff's Department responded to this hyperspecific records request with more government agency boilerplate. It claimed the request was "vague" and "overly broad" and failed to describe an "identifiable record." This deliberate obtuseness will now have to be defended in court. Considering the request, the EFF's arguments aren't that difficult to make. From the filing [PDF]:
In an attempt to learn about Defendants’ use of these devices, EFF sent a request for records relating to six cell site simulator warrants that precisely identified each warrant using the information on the Department of Justice’s OpenJustice website, including the date range of the authorized search, the nature of the investigation, the items to be searched for, and the exact date and time Defendants electronically provided information about them to the Department of Justice.
Defendants refused to comply with the request, claiming that it failed to reasonably describe the records at issue and that the records are exempt from disclosure as records of an investigation under Government Code § 6254(f).
Neither of these is a legitimate justification for failing to provide the records:
The request more than reasonably described the target records. In fact, it uniquely identified the warrants in question, providing the exact time frame covered by the warrant, the exact date and time the Defendants provided information about the warrants to the Department of Justice, and other identifying information. Defendants’ claim in this regard is particularly weak because their own policy – which state law requires them to adopt and make public – requires their personnel to obtain high-level approval for, and then maintain a log of, all warrants like those here at issue. This log must contain the dates that the cell site simulator was used, which would mirror or be contained within the time frame covered by the warrant, and so would allow Defendants to easily identify and locate the requested warrants.
The EFF also points out the Sheriff's Department can't throw a blanket exception over court records -- which are presumptively public. In addition, the California DOJ has specifically instructed the EFF to obtain documents (like these warrants) listed on its OpenJustice website directly from the agency that created them.
Having been forced into openness by legislation, the Sheriff's Department is hoping to maintain some level of opacity even as it continues its record-setting pace for electronic searches of individuals it can even identify. It shouldn't take long for the court to decide the Sheriff's claims about vagueness and broadness are ridiculous. Hopefully, the court won't decide presumptively-public documents like court orders and warrant affidavits can be withheld just because a cop shop says they might reveal cop stuff.
Eff Stingray Lawsuit (PDF)
Eff Stingray Lawsuit (Text)
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Y was there all these people at 9:00 o’clock with flashlights looking n the back of my truck. I finally noticed that there were cops. And what I kno about them they do what ever there Hart desires.
Not to side track this story but I have heard that they took a young man to the canyon and beat his ass so bad that he shit his pants but he said the scariest part was when they put a knife to his neck. At first I really didn’t believe it but after meeting these gentlemen in person. Yeah they are pretty bad ass. Like if I could go back n time I think maybe I would be them, u kno a different career. Anywho I’m goin way off the story.
About 10mins went by, and not sure how long these gentlemen were on my property lookin n back of the truck and over the Fence trying to open the door. I thought for a second, and then said to my self I’m ok they should b leaving soon because if they had a warrant it would’ve been you hear already so I sat back and watch. They must have been about 10 all of them pacing back-and-forth looking for clues signs of who knows what. All of a sudden I hear them inside my house, like if they’re in the kitchen. I jump up off my bed and walked out to the Dining room towards the kitchen.
Avila put your hands behind your back and after that the hang cuffs were around my wrist. They started to walk me out side and then I see my mother I was like when did she get here. Oh that’s how they must of got in. Mom: take the hang cuffs off off my son, why do u have him in hang cuffs, you told me that he was tied up in side my house and you guys where just making sure there was nothing else wrong with him. You lied to me, I want you guys to leave my property now.
Sheriff: mam we just need to look around to see if there any guns or drugs here
Mom: No I want you guys to leave right now I don’t trust you. You already lied to me already.
Sheriff: mam if you don’t let us n we well have to arrest you.
Just to let you know this is just half of the story. The other half is detail facts of how they were acting with us.
I have two more stories that I can tell, no one is better then anyone maybe better at certain things in life. And we all live under the same laws and I kno the consequences for the things I do. I don’t get mad at myself when I have to go to jail or prison. But when u don’t have to go somewhere like that, it’s a new feeling that I haven’t experience yet knowing you are somewhere u can’t do anything about it cuz maybe I can’t afford to get a attorney or what ever the reason would be. And for people to know private of things of my life and for some one to say remarks, that me and my wife would only know. I do apologize if I didn’t make sense to some of you reading this, not very good at being a writer.
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Let Your Coaster Do the Talking
An interactive surface encourages conversation by letting coasters communicate.
Once the hallmark of lonely barflies, playing with your beer coaster could actually help you socialize, thanks to a smart bar surface that brings ordinary coasters to life.
Coaster to coaster: Jack Weedon demonstrates his communicative beer coasters with Sara Smith, another student from Newcastle University’s Culture Lab.
The coasters communicate by sending messages across the surface. The messages are meant to act as icebreakers between bar patrons, says Tom Bartindale, who invented the coasters with fellow postgraduate student Jack Weeden at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab. “It’s a starting point for an actual conversation,” Bartindale says.
An infrared light source and a camera beneath the partially transparent surface recognize ordinary circular coasters because their white underside causes more light to be reflected (a technique called diffused illumination). A projector, also below the surface, creates a halo around each coaster and shows text messages that spin around them.
When a coaster is first placed on the bar, it is assigned a random gender and sexual preference, says Bartindale. It will then try to “chat up” other coasters within a 60-centimeter range by displaying lines such as: “If I had a chance to rearrange the alphabet, I would put ‘U’ and ‘I’ together,” and, “Are you a parking ticket? Because you’ve got ‘fine’ written all over you.”
“We Googled ‘bad chat-up lines,’ ” Bartindale says. As the lines are delivered, animations showing love hearts reach out to the target of the beer mat’s affections.
Researchers have shown interest in interactive surfaces in recent years. Allowing such surfaces to recognize objects has expanded their possible applications.
“It’s quite a cute idea,” says Eva Hornecker, a lecturer in computer science at Strathclyde University. Others have tried using interactive badges to encourage social interaction, she notes, but those usually require users to enter their own personal details, which can be awkward.
When one beer coaster is contacted by another, it scores the amorous advance depending upon the chat-up lines used, and a preset state of interest. If a potential suitor repeatedly scores badly, the coaster on the receiving end will refuse to talk to it anymore.
One of the problems with other interactive surfaces, Hornecker says, is that they can interfere with using the surface as a table. “This is quite interesting because it turns a supposed limitation into the core of the idea,” she says.
Bartindale says he and Weeden got the idea after a conference in Germany, where lots of people were sat in isolated groups.
The coasters were put to the test last week at the university’s Culture Lab Jam 45, an event that showcases student ideas. “People loved it,” Bartindale says. “And we did notice that people that didn’t know each other were talking to one another, which was encouraging.”
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The northern sector of Aleppo countryside witnesses renewed clashes between the Turkey-loyal factions and the Kurdish Forces deployed in the area
Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored violent clashes using medium and heavy weapons after midnight of yesterday; in “al-Daghalbash” area west of al-Bab city in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, between the Kurdish forces who are deployed in the area against the Turkey-loyal factions, accompanied by artillery shelling by the Turkish bases at the north of Aleppo targeting positions of the Kurdish forces, but no information about casualties so far.
The Syrian Observatory published on the 23rd of October 2019 that it monitored artillery shelling by the Turkish forces who are positioned on the outskirts of Azaz city; targeted the Kurdish forces positioned in Mar’anaz font in the northern countryside of Aleppo, no information about casualties.
The Turkish forces target positions of the Kurdish forces in Maraanaz front in the northern countryside of Aleppo by artillery shells
Regime’s helicopters and Russian warplanes interrupt the cautious calm in “Putin – Erdogan” area by targeting Kabani hills by barrel bombs and air raids
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Regime attacks | Forces target seven towns and villages in Jabal al-Zawiya and Sahl al-Ghab
SOHR sources say that regime forces targeted with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns areas in Safohin, Kafr Aweid, the perimeter of Kansafra, Ruwayha and Benin in southern Idlib countryside, and other areas in Qulaydin and Ankawi in Sahl al-Ghab northwest of Hama, but no casualties have been reported. Meanwhile, reconnaissance drones were seen flying over Jabal al-Zawiya.
Yesterday, SOHR sources reported two airstrikes by Russian fighter jets on Mashoun village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib. The airstrikes coincided with flights of Russian reconnaissance drones over Jabal Al-Zawiyah and the western countryside of Idlib.
Syrian Observatory sources reported earlier that regime forces fired several rockets in the early hours of Sunday morning, targeting positions in Al-Faterah, Kansafra, the surrounding areas of Al-Bara in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib, and Al-Ankawi in Sahl Al-Ghab in western Hama.
Violations in Daraa governorate | Clashes erupt between regime forces and 5th Corps in countryside
Eastern countryside of Daraa | Unidentified gunmen target house of Military Intelligence member
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These Tampa Bay businesses are busier than ever during coronavirus
Crime scene cleanup, essential oils, travel insurance and others are seeing a surge.
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The crews show up breathing through respirators, wearing hooded hazmat suits and two layers of rubber gloves.
In normal times, they’re the ones called upon to clean up the grisliest scenes — bloody homicides, suicides and lonely deaths that go undiscovered for months, hoarding situations where layers of food and trash have accumulated for years in poorly ventilated spaces.
Now, businesses like Tampa-based Spaulding Decon are being called in to clean up a pandemic.
“It’s been crazy. We’ve actually done over $30 million in estimates in two weeks,” said owner Laura Spaulding. “In that period normally? It might be a hundred thousand.”
Spaulding said “the phones are ringing off the hooks” at all 24 offices of Spaulding Decon across the United States due to the spreading coronavirus. Most offices are hiring extra help to fulfill demand from restaurants, banks, government buildings, gyms and day cares. Spaulding is even flying cleaning crews around the country to help out in the busiest places.
The majority of clients are just taking preventive measures, but some are anxious to have their facilities scrubbed down after someone who had been there tested positive for the coronavirus.
Laura Spaulding uses replicas of a home interior at the Spaulding Decon warehouse to help train new workers. She uses pig's blood for the training. [MONICA HERNDON | Times]
“We just did a job in Kentucky this past weekend that they had an exposure,” she said. “And we did a courthouse in Philly.”
Often, the crews slip in and scrub the buildings overnight, “because a lot of them just don’t want that pretense of being associated with an exposure when they haven’t been.” Spaulding said they use a chemical that is “EPA registered” and kills the virus in 90 seconds.
At a time when many employers are laying workers off or cutting hours, she has hired six new cleaners in Tampa. She’s looking for 10 more.
Airlines, hotels and restaurants are losing millions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Supermarkets have seen a well-documented surge in business as people frantically buy supplies.
But a few local businesses that might not be top of mind are also busier than usual.
At Great American Natural Products in St. Petersburg, Amy Hamilton-Wray, who runs the store with family, came in Monday on her day off to help out because of all the customers. She said the store, which sells a range of vitamins, herbs, supplements and essential oils, was slammed all weekend and they’ve had to reorder many items from suppliers.
“I came back today, because I couldn’t even get in the door on Saturday,” said a customer who only wanted to identify herself as Barbara. She was buying four spray bottles of the store’s Immune Guard spray, a mixture of cloves, lemon, cinnamon bark, oregano and grain alcohol.
Others were buying roll-on applicators of lavender and chamomile oil blends to help soothe stress, or asking about iodine, vitamin C or zinc tablets.
Hamilton-Wray said she doesn’t make claims about the products’ health benefits, but that “customers can do their own research." That didn’t stop shoppers from discussing it among themselves. Those in line on Monday chatted about antiviral properties and boosting immune systems.
Squaremouth, a St. Petersburg-based travel insurance comparison software company, which also sells its own travel insurance policies, has been working steadily to keep up with a flood of phone calls and online messages from customers.
“It’s an all-hands-on-deck situation,” Squaremouth spokeswoman Kasara Barto said. “We’re even getting messages on Facebook.”
They’re coming from both new customers seeking to ensure they don’t lose what they spent on an already booked vacation, and old customers asking what’s covered in their current policy.
Since the outbreak began, inquiries have more than doubled, and purchases of their Cancel for Any Reason policies have more than tripled. Barto said the company rarely recommends such expensive coverage, but in the case of the coronavirus, a policy that covers absolutely everything may be some would-be travelers’ only good option.
“A lot of what we’re hearing is that they’re afraid to travel," Barto said, “but fear of travel isn’t something covered by a standard policy.”
Cleaning supply wholesalers such as Sani-Chem, which keeps a large stock of toilet tissue, paper products and disinfectants in its Clearwater warehouse, have been extremely busy. Owner Carol Barth said they usually supply office buildings and janitorial companies, but this week they’ve been discovered by the public.
“We’re about five times our normal business,” she said. “We sell in case sizes, 96 rolls of toilet tissue per case, and we had a line of people constantly buying those for their homes.”
Grocery delivery services have also seen an uptick in business. Mason Ness is a full-time student from Lakeland who typically works about 15 to 20 hours a week as a shopper for Instacart, a grocery delivery app and website. He said he usually averages around $15 an hour going into grocery stores, finding the items people have asked for and driving them to their homes.
“Over the last week, I worked in Coral Gables for 42 hours and made $1,250 in one week, averaging almost $30 per hour,” he said. One order was 250 items, and the total came out to $720. “I filled three carts completely full, stuffed the items into my car and delivered to the 22nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton residences in Coconut Grove and got a huge tip.”
Tampa’s Tommy Moody Jr. said he recently finished working a 70-hour week shopping for the service.
But many said that despite the extra hassle of long lines, crowds and many of the items customers ordered being out of stock — in which case they have to find substitutes or face hours-long waits on hold with Instacart themselves to cancel the orders — they haven’t seen their earnings or tips grow at all.
Missy Monroe, who shops in Jacksonville, said: “I’ve truly experienced the worst of humanity.”
Still, Instacart appears to have added many new users this week, the shoppers said, and the work has been steady if they want it.
One other business that’s been boosted: guns. The number of background checks for gun buyers in Florida has risen sharply in the past few days.
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Bigg Boss 14: Asim Riaz to enter the show?
Asim might enter the show, and if he does then his fans will be the happiest!
MUMBAI: Asim Riaz has a huge fan following. The model-actor came into limelight after participating in the reality show Bigg Boss 13. He bagged the runner-up position.
During his stay in the Bigg Boss house, he grabbed the headlines for his fights with Siddarth Shukla, and he was one of those few contestants who were picked by Salman Khan and was grilled in every episode.
Post Bigg Boss, he worked in a couple of music videos and impressed viewers with his performance. Asim is quite active on social media. He regularly treats his fans and followers by sharing posts.
The model has gained immense fan following for his stint in the reality show. He is a hot favorite topic on social media and keeps trending on Twitter.
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There is news doing the rounds that Bigg Boss 14 makers are planning to call ex-contestants on the show, where they would come and support their favourite player and stay in the house for about two weeks.
As per media reports, ex Bigg Boss contestant Asim too has been approached to be a part of the show, though there is no confirmation about the same.
Since the show began and toofani seniors entered the house, the fans wanted to see Asim too in this season. Earlier too he was offered to be a part of the show but he declined it.
It will be interesting to see if Asim will accept this offer or not. If he accepts the offer then the fan would certainly be super excited to watch him on screen.
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2020 SUMMER CAMP
THRESHOLD ACADEMY
2020 Threshold Summer Camp
Threshold Athletics is excited to offer another unique cross country and track summer camp experience. In the summer of 2020, we are coordinating with our global partners to host a group of international athletes ages 13 to 18 for nine days of training, culture, university exploration and, of course, FUN!
Campers will spend 7 days training under Threshold Athletics' renowned staff. Additionally, campers will receive two full days of elite coaching and athlete-education from established NCAA and professional coaches on the campus of Harvard University. While training will occupy much of the mornings, afternoons will be spent exploring the rich history and culture of Boston. One day will focus on a full-length campus tour of the Harvard campus.
Who are the Counselors?
Housing, Meals and Accommodation:
Athlete-Education:
Camp Dates:
Campus Visits:
This camp is designed to give track and field athletes that are interested in attending an American university and competing in athletics the opportunity to tour and visit multiple campuses while also improving their training and athletic profiles.
Any rising 9th through 12th grade cross country or track athlete that is interested in a training camp that delivers elite athletic, academic and cultural experiences. There are no specific academic or athletic requirements to attend this camp.
Parent Inclusion:
This camp will promote academic and athletic achievement among the campers. And, by providing a group experience, we are able to provide an itinerary that is more fun and more affordable than traveling as a small group or family.
We offer two options for parents or coaches interested in participating in our camp as chaperones. Space is limited. Please contact us for details.
Option 1: Parents receive Room and meals only. This option is intended for parents that are primarily interested in travelling with their students.
Option 2: Parents receive Room and meals AND participate in all camp activities, including campus tours.
This year's camp will feature a group tour of Harvard University. Additional tours may be available at MIT, Boston University or other local universities.
Sean McManus, Director of Threshold Athletics and Olympic and national champion coach in the sports of cross country and track, will serve as camp director. Additional counselors and staff will be comprised of current and former NCAA athletes and coaches. .
A full list of counselors will be shared with campers prior to camp.
All campers, staff and chaperones will be housed in hotel accommodation on the edge of the Harvard University campus. Camp fees include all lodging, meals, local transportation, facility access, campus tours and activities.
Campers are responsible for travel to and from Boston. For those arriving by air, we will have a group coach pickup. For those arriving outside of the main group, we will do our best to provide airport transfer. The hotel is accessible by public transportation, rideshare or taxi.
Camp fees include all local transportation. Activities in Boston are accessible on foot or via short trips on public transit.
In addition to training and campus tours, campers will also experience some of the historical and cultural activities in Boston. Planned activities include:
Boston Duck Tours and/or Freedom Trail
New England Aquarium and Whale Watch
Campers will receive education in several areas to prepare them for their upcoming seasons. These areas should include:
Foundations of Training
Please contact us to discuss pricing and registration details.
Training will be conducted in a variety of locations. These include the Charles River Trail, the track facility at Harvard University, and the New Balance Fitness Center.
Sample Schedule:
Day Training with Threshold Staff
7:00am: Wake Up
7:30am: Light Breakfast
8:00am: Morning Training
10:00am: Conclude Training
10:30am: Shower
11:30am: Lunch
12:00pm: Depart for Afternoon Activity
1:00-5:00pm: Boston Museum of Science
5:00pm: Depart for Hotel
6:00pm: Arrive Hotel
6:30pm: Dinner
7:15pm: Preparing for College Symposium
and Q&A
8:00pm: FreeTime
10:00pm: Lights Out
Day Training at Harvard Clinic
7:30am: Wakeup and Shower
8:00am: Group Breakfast
8:30am: Depart for Harvard University
9:00am: Harvard University Morning Session
12:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm: Harvard University Afternoon Session
5:00pm: Free Time
7:30pm: Evening Games and Activities
9:30pm: Students to Rooms
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Duration of Cover for Individual Travel Vaccines
One of the most common questions that we are asked by our patients is whether or not they are still covered by their previous vaccines. This is not as straightforward a question as there are a number of factors which always need to be taken into account when trying to advise if suitable cover is still in place.
This information must not be used in place of a detailed medical consultation with one of our staff members and is only provided to give general guidelines.
I understand and accept the limitations of the information given regarding the duration of vaccine cover
There are different types of vaccines used to protect the international traveller. They may be given in different ways (orally or by injection, given once or on a number of occasions etc) but generally all work by 'training' the body's immune system to produce protective antibodies against a specific disease. This can be described as a 'priming course' where the body is exposed to a specific vaccine and in doing so learns how to create the necessary protective antibodies for that specific disease in case of future exposure.
Some vaccines are extremely efficient and give excellent cover to almost everybody who receives them (eg Yellow Fever vaccine ~ 99%) whereas others provide more limited cover (eg Typhoid ~ 60% to 80%). Just because you have received a complete vaccine course does not necessarily mean that you have achieved full cover so this always needs to be borne in mind.
Also various international authorities (eg WHO, CDC etc) may also assign different durations against the cover provided by a certain vaccine which can lead to great confusion. For instance the US authorities state that the intramuscular version of Typhoid vaccine provides cover for 2 years whereas the European authorities have opted for a 3 year cover duration.
In cases where a vaccine course has not been completed, or the recommended schedule has not been followed, the level of cover may vary quite significantly from what would normally be expected. To get the individuals immune system correctly 'trained' may require that further doses (more than the usual recommended number) are given to get the immune memory sufficiently 'primed' so it can respond in case of future exposure.
The information below purely seeks to give you an overview of the vaccine duration question relating to the most commonly used ones within our practice. Please understand that this is purely an overview and does not seek to answer every possible variation which may occur within the cover for any individual. The individuals personal immune status, previous surgery or medications they are taking may significantly influence their personal response to any individual vaccine.
The current vaccine used against Yellow Fever in Europe is called STAMARIL. The International Health Regulation [IHR] body met in July 2016 to agree that, in the majority of situations, the vaccine provides life-long cover after a single full injection. However it may take some time for this information to filter down through the layers of government officials and border guards before it is accepted internationally without exception. On that basis some patients may be recommended to have their original vaccination 'revalidated' to confirm their cover and lessen the possibility of issues arising at border check points.
NOTE: There is a growing level of international concern that this 'life-long' cover may in fact not be correct in certain individual circumstances (eg when the vaccine was given during pregnancy, in a child under 2 years of age, in an immunocompromised individual, after bone marrow transplant etc) and so this long duration of cover does need to be considered on an individual basis.
Poliomyelitis / Tetanus / Diphtheria / Pertussis
There are a number of vaccines used in adults which provide cover against these diseases. The most commonly used ones are REVAXIS (which covers against Polio, Tetanus and Diphtheria and may be written in the WHO yellow vaccination book as TdIPV) and DIFTAVAX or DiTe (which provides cover against Tetanus and Diphtheria and written in the yellow book as Td). In an individual who has received a full initial priming vaccine course (usually given at birth since approximately 1945) then a single dose is all that is required to provide cover. However in those individuals where there is no clear history of having ever received a full vaccination course they may be encouraged to have the vaccine on three occasions. Once the priming course has been given then only a single injection every 10 years is recommended for the international traveller.
There are also two other Tetanus-containing vaccines used in Ireland at present;
BOOSTRIX (provides cover against Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis - often written as TdaP)
BOOSTRIX IPV (provides cover against Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis and also Poliomyelitis - may be written as TdaP_IPV)
The cover against Polio, Tetanus and Diphtheria is as above (usually boosted every 10 years) but in the case of Pertussis the cover is more questionable. Many authorities (including the Irish ones) would accept that the Pertussis cover lessens quite quickly (within a year) and so may encourage reissuing this vaccine on a much more regular basis if there is a specific risk of exposure.
The most commonly used vaccines against Typhoid are called TYPHIM Vi and TYPHERIX. Following a single vaccine (by injection) it is known that these vaccines provide approximately 60% to 80% cover against this disease and that the cover falls after about a two year period. This is why the US authorities usually recommend boosting this vaccine every 2 years. In Europe the cover is thought to be sufficient for up to 3 years. It is for this reason that within TMB we would regularly encourage our patients to have this vaccine before a trip even though they may officially have a further 3 to 6 months of cover remaining (based on European guidelines).
The two most commonly used single vaccines against Hepatitis A are AVAXIM and HAVRIX. The initial priming course for both of these vaccines requires them to be given on two occasions. The normal recommendation is that these two doses should be given approx. 6 to 12 months apart. However internationally it is well accepted that actually it is possible to separate the initial and the second completion dose by up to 10 years (approx.) and that following this it is still expected that the individual should have cover for at least 25 years (probably longer).
The two most commonly used single vaccines used against Hepatitis B are HB VAX PRO and ENGERIX. The normal primary course is to administer the vaccine on three occasions over a 6 month period. In some cases, where cover is needed more quickly, a rapid schedule can be used. This requires that the vaccine is given on three occasions over approximately one month and then a 4th dose in 12 months time. This final dose can be given some time later and should still suitably complete this initial course but if the gap between the 3rd and the 4th dose is considered excessive then some groups may recommend that the individual should have two further doses rather than the single one which was initially scheduled. Once a completed course has been achieved (either using the standard three dose regime or the rapid 4 dose regime) then ideally the individual should have a blood test a month or two later to check that they have achieved a sufficient level of protective antibodies. This basically shows that the body's immune system has been 'primed' and ready to produce protective antibodies should the need arise in the future following exposure. In the case of Hepatitis B the body's immune system is excellent in that once an individual shows a sufficient level of antibody production it is accepted that they should not require any further vaccination cover against this disease.
Combined Vaccines
There are a number of combined vaccines where cover against two or more diseases is included within the same administration. However the cover provided against the individual components may vary considerably and so the information below is just provided to give some guidance as to what would usually be recommended.
TWINRIX provides cover against both Hepatitis A & Hepatitis B. The vaccine is usually scheduled along the same protocol as used for Hepatitis B vaccines as indicated above in that a routine (3 dose) or rapid (4 dose) regime can be used. Once a course has been completed the cover against Hepatitis A is usually excellent and last for approximately 25 years. The Hepatitis B cover should be confirmed with a blood test designed to show that a suitable level of antibody production has been achieved.
VIATIM / HEPATYRIX are both combined Hepatitis A and Typhoid vaccines. Following a single dose of either of these vaccines the cover against Typhoid is thought to last for between 2 to 3 years (see Typhoid section above) and the cover for Hepatitis A needs to be completed with a further dose at approximately 12 months (see Hepatitis A section above)
There are and have been a number of Rabies vaccines used in Ireland over the past decades. These are frequently written into the WHO yellow vaccination book as VERORAB or HDCV or RABIPUR. In all cases these vaccines are given on either 3 or 4 occasions to provide the initial 'priming' cover against this disease. The usual initial course is given on three occasions over one month followed by a further 'booster' at about 12 months. If the standard schedule has not been followed correctly then the individual may be recommended to have more doses to try and ensure that suitable 'training' of the immune system has been achieved.
The way this vaccine works is that by providing the vaccine on a number of occasions the individual's immune system basically 'learns' how to produce the protective antibodies so that if they are exposed to risk in the future the required protective antibodies can be very rapidly created. Unfortunately this immune memory is not anywhere as efficient as what is provided for other vaccines (see Hepatitis B section above) and so it is essential that after any possible exposure the individual urgently seeks further vaccination (typically on two occasions if a full initial course has been given) to get protective antibodies circulating to help protect against this deadly disease.
This immune 'amnesia' (where the body's ability to rapidly remember how to produce the necessary antibodies is lost) varies from individual to individual and that is why all international authorities recommend that, even though you may have had the initial vaccines very recently, you should always seek further vaccines following any and every potential exposure.
The most commonly used vaccines against the bacterial form of Meningitis (Meningococcal) are usually written in the WHO yellow vaccination book as either ACYW-135 or NIMENRIX. Over the past few years (since September 2012) we have mainly used NIMENRIX and this is thought to provide cover in most situations for between 3 to 5 years. In fact the duration of cover could even be longer as this is what is known as a 'conjugate' vaccine and similar to the one used for many years in the childhood vaccine programme. However in certain situations (eg entrance to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia) the duration of the vaccine is set much shorter and so a further dose may be required for entrance formalities to obtain a visa.
The current vaccine against this disease is called IXIARO. This vaccine is currently given by injection on two occasions about a month apart and then a further dose is given at 12 months (approx.) to complete the initial priming course. The length of duration provided by this 3 dose course remains uncertain so a single booster dose (for those at continued risk) is usually recommended every 3 years.
The oral vaccine DUKORAL is taken on two occasions between 1 to 6 weeks apart before travelling to a region where there is an expected risk. The duration of cover is thought to last approximately 2 years and a single booster dose at that stage should cover for a similar duration. If there has been a gap of more than 2 years since the initial course was completed then two further doses (1 to 6 weeks apart) may be recommended. This vaccine also provides cover against one of the most common causes of traveller's diarrhoea - E coli. However the duration of this cover is much shorter than what is provided against Cholera. It is thought that cover against E coli may only last for 3 to 4 months and so in many patients a single dose of DUKORAL is often recommended before travel even though this may be within the 2 year cover provided against Cholera.
Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE)
The current vaccination against TBE is called TICOVAC. The vaccine is given by injection on two occasions (usually 1 month apart but can be shortened if necessary due to expected exposure) and then completed with a further single dose at 12 months. If the initial two dose regime has not been completed with the 3rd dose and a patient returns to obtain protection some years later then a further two dose course may be recommended.
The vaccine against Influenza is usually given by a single injection each year as the WHO and other international experts seek to change the vaccine constituents to cover the expected strains which will circulate in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Ideally the vaccine should be given during the months of September or October each year.
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Musical instrument retailer Guitar Center to file for bankruptcy
By ADAM DAIGLE | Acadiana business editor
Adam Daigle
Musical instrument retailer Guitar Center, which has one location in Lafayette and three others in Louisiana, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company announced Friday its plan to restructure its debt with creditors and will have $375 million financed by existing shareholders and lenders.
The retailer has been struggling for years with excessive debit, according to a report from the USA Today, but will not close any stores as the result of the move.
It has hired a real estate firm to “focus on investments that best position the company to return to its growth trajectory prior to COVID-19,” the company announced.
Guitar Center sells and rents instruments and provides lessons and maintenance.
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Claims of ‘bigotry’ as councillors clash over promotion of Gaelic in Fife
February 4 2015, 10.44am Updated: April 19 2016, 3.19pm
Councillors clashed over the promotion Gaelic in Fife.
Councillors have been accused of “vile and bigoted” behaviour in a furious row over promotion of the Gaelic language in Fife.
Battlelines were drawn over whether Scottish Government efforts to safeguard Gaelic will be a drain on cash-strapped Fife Council’s resources or an invaluable opportunity to safeguard the future of a declining language.
Councillors were split over whether the promotion of Gaelic language and culture in Fife could be justified.
Crucially, there are just 10 days to go until the local authority decides how to plug a £77 million budget black hole.
Differences of opinion were expressed over whether Gaelic had even ever been spoken in Fife.
But angry SNP members hit back, claiming that those comments were on a par with Islamophobia.
Fife Council has a statutory responsibility under the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 to publish a Gaelic Language Plan by February 28.
Bord na Gaidhlig, the principal public body in Scotland responsible for promoting Gaelic language under the Act, aims to secure the status of Gaelic as an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to English.
In 2013, a Gaelic language plan was published requiring authorities to promote Gaelic in the workplace and the community.
In a report to Fife Council’s executive committee, head of community and corporate development Paul Vaughan said that according to the 2011 census, the number of people who can speak, read or understand Gaelic in Fife was 2,462.
A Fife plan has been drawn up to meet the February 28 deadline and “no additional resources should be required”, the report said.
But Independent Cupar councillor Bryan Poole, backed by Lib Dem Kirkcaldy councillor Susan Leslie, expressed concern about potential hidden costs.
Mrs Leslie said: “There is a high degree of cynicism amongst the public in Fife where Gaelic was never even spoken.”
Glenrothes Labour councillor Kay Morrison said there were at least 22 languages used in Fife and Gaelic was near the bottom in terms of numbers.
She noted that during a consultation, 18 responses had stated that during times of austerity, the council should not be spending money on promoting a “dead” language.
The report did not state, however, how many people had favoured Gaelic promotion.
Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay Conservative councillor Dave Dempsey also had doubts about costs.
Noting that Fife Council would have to change its corporate logo to incorporate Gaelic, he said: “I want an assurance that there will be no binning of material and no temptation to throw out headed notepaper.
“What would happen if language was invented today?
“There would be one world language.”
Labour councillor Pat Callaghan said: “This is all wrong. I’ve never spoken Gaelic in my life. We should be doing the minimum to promote it.”
But SNP councillors reacted angrily to the comments.
Cupar member Karen Marjoram launched into reading part of the report in Gaelic, adding: “I don’t speak Gaelic but I’m trying my best.
“I fully support the plan and there should be more effort. Gaelic is useful. Learning any language is good for the brain.
“We’ve only got one class in Fife at the moment and it’s run by St Andrews University. The cost to Fife Council of this promotion will be negligible.”
Dunfermline South SNP member Brian Goodall said he had been “annoyed and angered” by the “vile and bigoted” anti-Gaelic comments.
He said: “If these comments had been made about any other language we would have the council equalities officer on our case.”
SNP group leader and Glenrothes West councillor Peter Grant said Fife’s Gaelic heritage was well documented.
He added: “Let’s get rid of the nonsense that because it’s not spoken widely now that it’s not an integral part of who we are or who we want to be.
“Language is not just words. It’s at the centre of an entire way of thinking and living.”
Dunfermline Central SNP councillor Neale Hanvey said he had found the “bigoted” comments “disgraceful”.
Councillors agreed that the matter should be further discussed at scrutiny committee.
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Uncategories Ayade’s Chief of Staff Empowers Cross-Riverians
Ayade’s Chief of Staff Empowers Cross-Riverians
2:49:00 am 0 The Daily News Ng
The chief of staff to the Cross River state Governor, Honourable Martin Orim has embarked on an empowerment program aimed at further extending dividends of democracy to the people of Cross River state.
Flagging off the program at Ukpe and Alege/Ubang wards last Saturday, Honourable Martin Orim said, "This gesture is part of my little effort to further the good works His Excellency Professor Ben Ayade has been doing in the last three years." The program is been executed through his Foundation, G.F.O Foundation. The empowerment program has a medical outreach designed to help the less privileged in the society through detection, diagnosis and treatment of many life-threatening diseases including eye problems.
Another arm of the project is the distribution of items such as motorcycles, cars, sewing machines and food items among many others to the people of the ward. The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ukpe ward went home with a brand new car.
The beneficiaries were full of gratitude to God and expressed their heartfelt joy and thanks to the chief of staff for his kind gesture. One of them, Mr. Theo Agbi who got tricycle said, "I was riding a commercial motorcycle, but with this, my life has gotten better". He also thank Governor Ayade for appointing Martin even as he lauded his contributions to Ayade's government.
Hon, Martin in his closing remarks told the people that they should expect more from him and the governor. He also took the opportunity to take a swipe at those he called "opportunistic politicians", trying to contest against the governor. He reminded the people that they had never had it so good, even as he solicited their support for the governor if they want more dividends of democracy.
The medical outreach by the Foundation is to last one week beginning from last Saturday.
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TalentBridge Technologies’ CALIBRAT- Assessment Simplified
By The Enterprise World / June 1, 2020
Every organization focuses on hiring only the best candidates for their teams. If your organization is still using traditional recruitment processes then you might be holding your growth back. Evaluating and generating results from assessments to acquire appropriate talent that suits your company’s requirement is now more seamless with the use of a cloud-based assessment platform. As all of us know, the cloud is everything! Cloud-based assessment platforms help recruiters getting feedback from the key people about the candidate; however, traditional recruitment processes make it strenuous to get everyone up-to-date on the latest candidates.
The recruitment landscape has changed drastically with the adoption of new technologies. TalentBridge Technologies is a leading name in the recruitment industry with comprehensive and unique offerings. The company offers the cloud-based assessment platform- CALIBRAT.
CALIBRAT (earlier iHiring) is an advanced, scalable and secure online assessment platform which helps the talent acquisition team to evaluate Aptitude, Technical Skills and Written Communication Skills using various evaluation formats. Innovations in assessment solution have greatly reduced the manual efforts in administering and proctoring the screening tests, and also nearly eliminated the possibility of evaluation errors. The security features are an important element of the online assessment platform as it’s extremely critical to protect the integrity of assessment and prevent anyone from compromising the credibility of the screening process. The state of art security features like random candidate snapshot (with Face detection and recognition technology) while candidates are taking assessments eliminates any impersonation and makes the assessment secure particularly in a remote environment without any invigilator or proctor. The assessment platform can track the on-screen activities of candidates while they are taking assessments and the test administrator can monitor all the candidates centrally. The evolved assessment platform also offers features to conduct multi-lingual online assessments.
The masterminds behind the long-standing growth of the company are its founders, Mr. Gauravendra Shukla (CEO) and Mr. Sandip Yuwanati (COO). Under their innovative and solution-oriented vision, TalentBridge Technologies’ team is making efforts to transform businesses with quality HR solutions.
CALIBRAT (earlier iHiring) is an advanced, scalable and secure online assessment platform which helps the talent acquisition team to evaluate Aptitude, Technical Skills and Written Communication Skills using various evaluation formats.
Solutions that Make Recruitment Processes Easier
In recent years’ scalability and security of the platform has become a key driving factor to determine the suitability of the platform. CALIBRAT has been built with emerging technologies. It’s a highly scalable and secure platform with intuitive UI/UX. State of the art feature like ‘Proctor’ ensures remote proctoring using a central monitoring console along with Face Detection and Recognition technology to authenticate the identity of the candidate. Such features give complete control to the Assessment Administrator to maintain the integrity of the assessment. Mobility coupled with enterprise-scale functionality (for delivery of assessments) has been a tremendous value-addition to overcome infrastructural and geographical bottlenecks.
Bringing Innovation to the Table
As the job market is becoming competitive in India as well as across the world, assessment and interviewing platforms would evolve as a growing segment in HR Technology. This growth will be driven by advanced forms of assessments, machine learning and AI-based assessment solutions, and advanced analytics for a higher level of predictive insights on screening.
TalentBridge aspires to build innovative solutions in measurement and predictive tools using some of the next-generation technologies.
The recruiters not only can do away with hard copies of resumes but can screen resume without actually going through each resume using resume or profile rating tools. Even a simple feature like randomizing the questions and options appearing on the test screen reduces the possibility of any cheating or violation by the candidates.
The mobility delivery assessment solutions offer a very effective mechanism to conduct assessments overcoming infrastructure bottlenecks.
With the proliferation of Tablets and smartphones well supported by internet infrastructure, online video interviews are becoming convenient and cost-effective modes to conduct personal discussions. The assessment reporting and analytics provide tremendous flexibility to prune the candidate shortlist considering all possible dimensions of assessment scores and profiles.
Increased mobile and social media-based technologies using AI are increasingly offering efficient solutions. The proliferation of social media is making organizations to look beyond the traditional sourcing methods at the same time their social media presence has also become an extension of their corporate brand. The technologies which are likely to redefine the landscape of this space include Machine Learning, speech recognition, NLP, AI, and written content analysis.
Solid Leadership
Gauravendra Shukla (CEO)
Gauravendra has over 21 years of experience in Sales and Marketing in the IT industry in India and abroad. He has worked for some of the most respected companies like ISPAT group, TECS, Ingram Micro, Kobian Pte Ltd, and IBM. He has handled the entire spectrum of channels. He holds MBA Marketing from KJ Somaiya, Mumbai and BE Honours from NIT Surat (REC Surat).
Sandip Yuwanati (COO)
Sandip, in his career span of over 14 years has handled functional areas ranging from Sales, Marketing, Business Analysis, Operations, Finance, Product Management, and Corporate Planning & Strategy. Prior to TalentBridge, Sandip worked with Asian Paints Ltd., Deloitte and Aliens Group. An alumnus of IIM Lucknow and VNIT (REC), Nagpur.
Massive Changeover in HR Solutions Sector
Today HR Technology is not only an indispensable dimension to effectively run HR in any company but also is increasingly becoming core to the businesses. HR Technology has been evolving much faster covering every aspect of the HR function including the complete lifecycle of an employee starting from sourcing of an employee till the exit. Numerous cloud-based HR Technology companies are building next-generation tools for sourcing, assessments, interviewing, on boarding, L&D, payroll, benefits, productivity tools, and other engagement programs. Recent trends also show the increasing number of HR Technology players investing heavily in AI, Machine Learning, mobility and analytics to reshape the entire Talent Management segment in HR Technology.
Though globally HR Technology has become a norm, Indian businesses have been gradual in adoption however in recent years’ adoption has increased at a faster rate which is will lead to significant improvement in the efficiency of HR-related systems and processes.
Recent trends also show the increasing number of HR Technology players investing heavily in AI, Machine Learning, Mobility and Analytics.
Given the geographical barriers and physical as well as technology infrastructural bottlenecks to screen manpower at large scale will only be possible with mobility delivered online assessments platform. The scale and security offered by an online assessment platform have expanded the reach of screening process to remote locations well supplemented by the improvement in internet infrastructure as well as an increase in mobile/computing device proliferation.
The online assessment platform is a great enabler in overall talent acquisition and talent management activities for employers’ thereby increasing reach and scale which in turn enables employable talent pool employment opportunities. The online assessment platforms have enabled organizations to conduct customizable and auto-proctored online assessments seamlessly which not only have organized the hiring process but also reduced time, effort and cost in screening substantially. The online assessment platforms are definitely the way to future not only in terms of the sophistication and ease of conducting the screening but also evolving the evaluation methodologies.
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Columns are the opinion of the author, and include both facts and the individual’s personal perspective. Community members are encouraged to submit guest columns up to 600 words for consideration.
Fri., December 04, 2020
Iowa Democrat pursues rare election contest. Here's how it works
Law professor: Congress usually defers to the state process, but sometimes develops its own rules
The Capitol is seen in Washington, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Derek T. Muller
Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District election has become one of the closest congressional elections in history. The original canvass showed a 47-vote margin of victory for Mariannette Miller-Meeks over Rita Hart among nearly 400,000 votes cast. A recount across 24 counties narrowed the margin to just six votes. The state certified Miller-Meeks as the winner. Hart has announced that she plans to file an election contest in the House of Representatives.
Election contests in Congress are rare, and winning a contest rarer still. It’s worth looking at how the election got here and what a contest looks like.
I had the privilege of serving as one of Miller-Meeks’s designees to the recount board in Johnson County. Recount boards are three-member panels with a designee from each candidate, plus a neutral third person jointly selected. Ballots were counted publicly and transparently to all observers. The recount board reaches most decisions unanimously, but divided 2-1 decisions occasionally occur.
Each county’s recount board decided on how to proceed with the recount. In some counties, the board unanimously agreed to a machine recount, running the ballots through a counting machine and reporting the totals. We picked a different procedure in Johnson County. We worked for eight straight days, looked at every one of the 84,197 ballots by hand with our own eyes, and tallied the results.
After the recount yielded a six-vote victory Miller-Meeks, Iowa certified the results Nov. 30. Hart had two days to file a contest in the Iowa courts. A special five-judge court led by Chief Justice Susan Christiansen and four district court judges would have reviewed questions about errors in the tabulation or the omission of legal votes from the tally.
But this court’s deadline would have been short — the court would have needed to issue a decision by Dec. 8. That would have been enough time to look at a handful of disputed ballots, but probably not enough for a second recount, if Hart had asked for that.
Instead, Hart announced that she would skip this step and seek review in Congress. The Constitution guarantees, “Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members.” That means the House of Representatives is the final decision-maker about who was elected.
The framers of the Constitution gave Congress this final power to protect the legislature. They worried that other branches of government might meddle with the legislature, as the King of England had interfered with members in colonial legislatures. The people elected candidates to the legislature, and the legislature itself would judge those elections.
Congress used to involve itself regularly in election disputes. But over the last one hundred years, it has increasingly trusted state election officials and state courts.
That means Congress usually defers to the state process. The State of Iowa is presumed to have election officials who performed their duties loyally and honestly. Miller-Meeks has a certificate of election showing that she is entitled to the seat and, absent an extraordinary finding, will be seated Jan. 3 when Congress convenes.
Hart’s challenge would then proceed under the Federal Contested Election Act of 1969. Hart would allege to Congress that she is entitled to Miller-Meeks’s seat. A contest looks like a lawsuit — Hart would file a notice of intention to contest, Miller-Meeks would be served and have to respond, and the case would go to discovery to exchange information and gather evidence.
Hart’s first difficulty arises because she chose not to file a contest in Iowa state court. Precedent in Congress indicates that contestants should avail themselves of state procedures first, and Congress has sometimes dismissed disputes if a contestant failed to exhaust state remedies.
But Congress might still choose to hear the claim despite this precedent. Congress might engage in its own recount, or it might examine disputed ballots to determine whether they should be counted. It would look to Iowa law to set the recount rules.
Congress, however, sometimes develops its own rules. And that was the source of the last major election feud in Congress after the 1984 election, in a dispute known as the “Bloody Eighth.” Republican candidate Rick McIntyre carried Indiana’s Eighth Congressional District by a 34-vote margin over Democratic candidate Frank McCloskey. Indiana declared him the winner after he won a count and a recount.
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Democrats in control of Congress refused to seat McIntyre. Congress then referred ballot counting to a task force that developed its own counting rules — rules that were not consistent with Indiana law. After counting put Mr. McCloskey ahead by just four votes, the task force changed its rules again and stopped counting ballots. Democrats then voted to seat McCloskey. Republicans walked out of Congress in protest.
Rarely do election contests get as bitter or partisan as the Bloody Eighth. And rarely does Congress ever overturn a result when a candidate won the recount and arrives in Congress with a certificate of election. But one never knows what Congress will do.
The goal is to wrap up the contest within six months. After all, a congressional term of office is only two years. So buckle up. It may be a bumpy ride ahead.
Derek T. Muller is a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. He served as a designee of Mariannette Miller-Meeks on the Johnson County recount board.
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Philippines grants asylum to Iranian woman held in airport
Bahareh Zare Bahari was subject of Interpol arrest warrant after criticising regime
Bahareh Zare Bahari feared she would be jailed or executed in Iran on politically motivated charges. Photograph: Bahareh Zare Bahari
Carmela Fonbuena in Manila
Fri 8 Nov 2019 23.04 EST
First published on Fri 8 Nov 2019 07.19 EST
The Philippine government has granted asylum to an Iranian former beauty queen and critic of the Iranian regime after she was stranded for four weeks in an airport.
Bahareh Zare Bahari was the subject of an Interpol “red notice” issued by Iran, resulting in her detention on 17 October when she attempted to enter the Philippines. She cited fears that she would be jailed or executed in Iran on politically motivated charges.
The Philippine justice department recognised Bahari as a refugee on 6 November, but released the document only on Friday.
The justice department ordered her to report to the Bureau of Immigration so she could be issued a visa and registration certificate. “If the refugee has no passport or valid passport, visa stamping is not required,” the document said.
The document also recommends that a travel document be issued and work permit requirements be waived if Bahari wishes to work in the Philippines.
On Saturday, Bahari was reportedly still in the airport, citing fears for her safety if she left.
Bahari said she had studied dentistry in the Philippines since 2014, the year she left Iran. She entered the public eye at the 2018 Miss Intercontinental beauty contest in Manila when she displayed a poster of Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian former crown prince and critic of the current leadership. She has also spoken in favour of Iranian women’s rights.
The decision to grant her asylum comes after Bahari revealed the toll her detention had had on her mental health.
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Intelectuales europeos llaman a la solidaridad con los refugiados
04 Mar 16 Posted under: Antiracismo/Migración
Un llammamiento lanzado por intelectuales en solidaridad con los refugiados. Firma rellenando tu nombre, correo electrónico y país en los campos de la derecha
WELCOME REFUGEES TO EUROPE A MORAL AND POLITICAL NECESSITY
We citizens of the Member States of the European Union, of the Schengen Area, the Balkans, of the Mediterranean, and of the Middle East as well as citizens of other countries in the world, who share our concerns, are launching an emergency appeal to our co-citizens, to our government leaders and our representatives in national parliaments and in the European Parliament, as well as in the European Court of Human Rights and in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
The refugees from the Middle East must be rescued and welcomed !
For years now, immigrants from the southern Mediterranean fleeing poverty, war, and repression have been drowning at sea or been dashed against barbed wire. When they have succeeded in crossing the sea, after suffering extortion at the hands of smuggler rings, they are expelled, incarcerated, or thrown into clandestinity by the states who designate them as ‘dangers’ and ‘enemies’. Despite this, they are courageously persevering and helping each other to save their lives and create hope of a future.
But since the wars of the Middle East and especially in Syria have assumed the proportions of mass slaughter with no end in sight, the scale of the situation has altered. Held hostage between the warring parties, bombed, starved, and terrorised, entire populations have been thrown into a perilous exodus that, at the price of thousands more dead, pushes men, women, and children towards neighbouring countries and knocking at Europe’s doors.
This is a major historic and humanitarian catastrophe. It presents us with a responsibility of which there is no way out.
The incapacity of the governments of all our countries to put an end to the causes of this exodus (if they are not indeed contributing to their exacerbation) does not exonerate them of the obligation to save and welcome the refugees, while respecting their fundamental rights, which, with the right to asylum, are enshrined in the foundational declarations and conventions of international law.
However, with few exceptions – Germany’s exemplary initiative, an initiative that has still not been suspended today; and the gigantic effort by Greece to rescue, welcome, and escort the thousands of survivors who daily arrive on their shores, even if its economy has been plunged into devastating austerity; to which should be added Portugal’s willingness to relieve Greece’s burden with taking a share of refugees – Europe’s governments have refused to face the overall situation, to explain it to their populations, and to organise solidarity and go beyond national egoisms. On the contrary, from east to west and north to south, they have rejected the minimal plan for distributing the refugees worked out by the European Commission or are involved in sabotaging it. Worse, they are engaging in repression, stigmatisation, and the brutalisation of refugees and immigrants in general. The situation of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, followed now by its violent dismantling, in disregard for the spirit and letter of a court decision, is a scandalous, though not the only, illustration of this.
By contrast, it is the citizens of Europe and elsewhere – fishermen and inhabitants of Lampedusa and Lesbos, activists of refugee relief and immigrant support networks, lay and religious shelter centres, endorsed by artists and intellectuals – who have saved our honour and pointed the way to a solution. However, they are running up against insufficient means, and sometimes the hostility of public authorities, and they have to face, like the refugees and immigrants themselves, a rapidly growing European xenophobic front ranging from violent, openly racist or neo-fascist organisations to ‘respectable’ political leaders and governments increasingly overtaken by authoritarianism, nationalism, and demagoguery. Two completely incompatible Europes are facing each other, and from now on we have to choose between them.
This xenophobic tendency, which is deadly for the victims of violence and ruinous for the future of the European continent as an space of liberty must be reversed immediately.
With 60 million refugees in the world, Lebanon and Jordan receive a million of them each (representing, respectively, 20 per cent and 12 percent of their populations), and Turkey receives 2 million (3 per cent). The million refugees who arrived in Europe in 2015 (one of the richest regions in the world, despite the crisis) only represent 0.2 per cent of its population! Not only do the European countries, taken as a whole, have the means to welcome the refugees and treat them with dignity but they must do so in order to continue to lay claim to human rights as the foundation of their polities. It is also in their interest if they want to begin to recreate the conditions for peace and collective security, along with all the countries of the Mediterranean area that have shared the same history and same cultural heritage for thousands of years. And this is what has to be done to remove from our horizon, once and for all, the spectre of a new epoch of organised institutional discrimination and of the elimination of ‘undesirable’ human beings.
Nobody can say when and in what proportion the refugees will ‘go back home’, and nobody should underestimate the difficulty of the issue to be solved, of the resistance which it generates, and the obstacles and dangers it carries with it. But nobody can continue to ignore the will of the populations to receive refugees and the refugees’ wish to integrate. Nobody has the right to declare the problem unresolvable in order to evade it more easily.
Very large-scale emergency measures thus are needed immediately.
The task to provide assistance to the refugees from the Middle East and Africa in the framework of a state of emergency has to be proclaimed and implemented by the governing bodies of the EU and carried by all the Member States. It has to be upheld by the United Nations and be the object of a permanent consultation with democratic states of the whole region.
Civilian and military forces have to be deployed, not to carry out a coastal guerrilla action against the ‘smugglers’ but to bring aid to the immigrants and to put an end to the scandal of the drownings at sea. It is in this framework that it will possibly be necessary to crack down on the traffic and condemn the complicity that benefits from it. It is prohibiting legal access that generates Mafioso practices, and not the inverse.
The burden of the frontline receiving countries, in particular Greece, must immediately be relieved. Their contribution to the common interest must be recognised. For them, unacceptable isolation must be reversed into solidarity.
The Schengen free-circulation area must be preserved, but the Dublin Regulation that provides for pushing immigrants back to the entry country must be suspended and renegotiated. The EU should pressure Danube and Balkan countries to reopen their borders and negotiate with Turkey to convince it to stop using refugees as a political-military excuse and bargaining chip.
At the same time, air and sea transport has to be operated to transfer all the registered refugees to the northern European countries that are objectively able to receive them instead of letting them accumulate in a small country in danger of becoming a detention camp and a ‘dumping ground’ for humanity.
In the longer term, Europe – facing one of the great challenges that is changing the course of the history of peoples – has to develop a democratically controlled aid plan for the survivors of this huge slaughter and for those who are helping them. It has to establish not only receiving quotas but also social and educational aid, proper housing, and therefore a special budget and legal provisions guaranteeing new rights that embed the displaced populations in the receiving societies in a dignified and peaceful way.
There is no other alternative. It is either hospitality and the right to asylum or barbarism !
First Signatories:
Michel AGIER (France)
Horst ARENZ (Germany)
Athéna ATHANASIOU (Greece)
Chryssanthi AVLAMI (Greece)
Walter BAIER (Austria)
Etienne BALIBAR (France)
Sophie BESSIS (Tunisia)
Marie BOUAZZI (Tunisia)
Hamit BOZARSLAN (France, Turkey)
Judith BUTLER (United States)
Claude CALAME (France)
Marie-Claire CALOZ-TSCHOPP (Switzerland)
Dario CIPRUT (Switzerland)
Patrice COHEN-SEAT (France)
Edouard DELRUELLE (Belgium)
Matthieu DE NANTEUIL (Belgium)
Meron ESTEFANOS (Erythrea)
Wolfgang-Fritz HAUG (Germany)
Ahmet INSEL (Turkey)
Pierre KHALFA (France)
Nicolas KLOTZ (France)
Justine LACROIX (Belgium)
Amanda LATIMER (UK)
Camille LOUIS (France)
Giacomo MARRAMAO (Italy)
Roger MARTELLI (France)
Sandro MEZZADRA (Italy)
Toni NEGRI (Italy)
Maria NIKOLAKAKI (Greece)
Josep RAMONEDA (Spain)
Judith REVEL (France)
Vicky SKOUMBI (Greece)
Barbara SPINELLI (Italy)
Bo STRÅTH (Sweden)
Etienne TASSIN (France)
Mirjam VAN REISEN (The Netherlands)
Hans VENEMA (The Netherlands)
Marie-Christine VERGIAT (France)
Frieder Otto WOLF (Germany)
Mussie ZERAI (Erythrea
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Leigh Anne Taylor
The President presides at all official meetings, coordinates the work of the Executive and Fellowship Boards, communicates frequently with the membership and weekly with the Executive Director. The President also monitors the progress of the Nominating Committee and the Election Committee and serves ex officio on all other committees.
Leigh Anne Taylor is a Deacon in the Virginia Conference, serving as Revitalization Coordinator for the Lynchburg District after three decades in full-time music ministry in Texas, Kansas, and Virginia. She enjoys tending her spiritual garden and sharing its fruits in a new season of leading spiritual retreats. She is co-author of Our Family Outing: A Memoir of Coming Out and Coming Through, that celebrates the power of God’s love to heal and reconcile. Leigh Anne is married to Hugh Ballou and together they have five children and three grandchildren.
2019-2021 National Board
Leigh Anne
President: Leigh Anne is Revitalization Coordinator for the Lynchburg District of the Virginia Annual Conference and an ordained deacon.
President-Elect: Nancy is Music Director at Stevensville UMC in Stevensville, MI, and an elementary music teacher.
Immediate Past President: Shawn is Director of Music Ministry at First UMC in Hershey, PA, an instructor at Messiah College,…
Recording Secretary: Shelia is director of the Chancel Choir and JuBellation Handbell Choir at First UMC in Hastings, MI, and…
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Vice President of Administration: Douglas is the Director of Music Ministries at First UMC in Peoria, IL, and is on…
Vice President of Community: Bodie is Pastor of Music and Worship at Westbury UMC in Houston, TX, and is pursuing…
Vice President of Content: Catherine is Director of Music Ministries at St. John's UMC in Aiken, SC, and a board…
Development Coordinator: Brad is a past national president of The Fellowship, and an adjunct professor of music at Texas A&M…
Financial/Personnel Coordinator: Kevin is Minister of Music and Worship at Emmanuel UMC in Memphis, TN, and an ordained deacon.
Chapter Coordinator: Peggy is Director of Worship Arts at Aldersgate UMC in Nixa, MO.
Membership Coordinator: Carrie is Minister of Worship Arts and an associate pastor at Hawthorne Lane UMC in Charlotte, NC, and…
Events Coordinator: Amberly is Director of Music and Worship Arts at Mount Pisgah UMC in Greensboro, NC, and president of…
Publications and Media Coordinator: Dakota is Director of Music & Worship Arts at First UMC in Dyersburg, TN.
Executive Director: David works with the national council to manage the program and financial affairs of The Fellowship.
Carla Swank Fox
Communications Director & WorshipArts Editor: Carla is a communicator, church musician, and adjunct instructor in interactive media and journalism.
Dave Wiltse
WorshipArts Editor Emeritus: Dave retired as WorshipArts editor in 2019, having led the publication since 1991.
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Traveling by small vessels enables us to get up close to nature and wildlife in some of the most scenic areas of the world. While delivering exceptional access to these areas, we realize our presence has an impact and foster responsible practices to lessen our environmental footprint—from replacing engines for more efficient models to making arrangements in each port for recycling and proper disposal of waste. Our teams on board and ashore work together to operate responsibly.
A key part of operating a responsible business is ensuring we leave a positive impact in the communities we visit. This core value is part of our initial itinerary planning on through to operations management and office practices. Whether it’s a cruise donation to an organization for a fundraising effort or partnering with locals for tours, we look for ways to share the wealth and enrich the lives of those we meet.
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We are stewards of the lands where we travel—our teams on board and ashore work together to operate responsibly.
Additionally, UnCruise adheres to these guidelines and codes of conduct in our efforts to protect wildlife and habitat, and to minimize our impact in the places we explore:
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We continually look for ways to share the wealth and enrich the lives of those we meet, and have partnered with a number of organizations and programs who share our vision.
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch® program helps seafood buyers, like our chefs and galley crew, make choices that support wild, diverse, and healthy oceans. The program’s scientifically-based recommendations help consumers and businesses purchase seafood that is fished or farmed in ways that minimize environmental impact. We’re proud to partner with Seafood Watch and serve only seafood they list as a “Best Choice” or “Good Alternative” aboard our vessels.
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Sheriff would lead consolidated law enforcement, charter committee decides
Jimmy Settle
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle
Under a unified, or metropolitan form of government in Clarksville-Montgomery County, the constitutionally elected sheriff would serve as the community's chief law enforcement officer, the charter commission decided Thursday.
That 15-member mayoral-appointed charter commission is moving toward a projected June 28 vote on the entirety of the proposed charter for what consolidated government might look like in Clarksville-Montgomery County.
Staying on course will ensure that the commission is able to have the referendum on whether to switch to consolidated government placed on the Nov. 6 election ballot along with the State General and Clarksville City Election.
One of the key topics in the process of writing the proposed charter for voters to consider is, how local law enforcement would be restructured, and who would be in charge of it.
The decision to theoretically place the sheriff in charge passed Thursday by a vote of 9-6.
The nine charter commission members voting "yes" included Chairwoman Katie Gambill, Vice Chairman Charlie Foust, Secretary Katy Olita, Jay Runyon, Maria Jimenez, Carl Wilson, Bob Yates, Jon Hunter and Don Jenkins.
In the minority, voting "no", were Ray Williams, Mark Smith, Keith Lampkin, Debbie Frazier, Lynn Stokes and Mark Kelly.
Gambill said Thursday the measure would not necessarily abolish all aspects of the Clarksville Police Department as residents currently know it. "You would still have a chief of police, but the sheriff would be the chief law enforcement officer," she told The Leaf-Chronicle.
The Public Safety Committee of the charter commission drafted the language stating that the sheriff would serve as chief law enforcement officer.
The draft language now goes back to the Public Safety Committee for additional review before the final article is presented. Facets of the proposed law enforcement restructure under the consolidated government model remain to be ironed out.
Among other activity Thursday, the charter commission determined that, if voters approve consolidated government, likely in the November vote, they would also dictate any future changes in the charter once the unified government is instituted.
Any amendments to the charter would have to be approved by public referendum, with approval by more than half of residents both in the urban services district (current Clarksville city boundaries) and General Services District (unincorporated Montgomery County), required.
The articles on Public Safety and Agencies, Boards, and Commissions will be reviewed and voted on at the charter commission meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 21.
Final discussion of the charter, any proposed amendments, and a final vote on the full document is scheduled for Thursday, June 28.
Reach Business Editor Jimmy Settle at 931-245-0247 and on Twitter @settle_leaf.
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Here’s why Madhuri Dixit stopped doing movies with Anil Kapoor
The reason Madhuri Dixit decided to stop working with her Tezaab co-star Anil Kapoor will leave you stunned
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By Cheena Khanna Last updated Apr 15, 2020
Madhuri Dixit Nene is one of the finest actresses of Bollywood. The Dhak Dhak girl is also one of the best dancers that Bollywood has ever had. She gave us many hit flicks and formed hit onscreen Jodi with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and many more. But the best was Anil Kapoor and Madhuri’s onscreen Jodi. The sizzling chemistry between the two was much loved by their fans. Anil and Madhuri have come together for most of the hit flicks. But sadly the Dancing Diva stopped working with the Jhakaas star for reasons unknown.
Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor films performed well at the box office. The actor started signing more movies together. Soon rumours of something brewing between the two also started making rounds of B-Town. If media reports were to be believed, the two of them also began spending too much time with each other on the sets of their films. But all this changed one fine day when Anil Kapoor’s wife Sunita came to meet him on the sets with their kids.
Madhuri saw Anil interacting with his wife Sunita and kids. The ‘Ek Do Teen’ girl made a huge decision that day itself. She decided not to star in any more films alongside Anil Kapoor and also to maintain distance from him. The actress also admitted the same in one of her interviews that she will never do something that will bring harm to Anil Kapoor’s family members. This is the reason why Madhuri Dixit stopped working with Anil Kapoor despite giving multiple hits with him. The two of them were last seen in the 2000 film Pukar.
Madhuri and Anil Kapoor reunited for 2019 released flick ‘Total Dhamaal’ which also starred Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, and many others.
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Worked as a teacher, but was born a movie buff. So, followed my passion and love for Salman Khan. Ended up being an entertainment reporter for The Live Mirror. What more do you want?
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Hartlepool Railways by George Smith
By George Smith – Hartlepool Railways
Paperback, illustrated with 60 black and white photographs. 128 pages. Publication date 2013
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Without the railway, the Hartlepool of today would be very different. The present town of Hartlepool is really an amalgamation of what local people call Old Hartlepool and West Hartlepool; the latter not existing before the arrival of railways. The railway and dock complex, created by rivals George Stephenson and Sir John Rennie, grew up in a way that reflected the rivalry between the two towns. The first Hartlepool railway was created at the beginning of the railway age. At the height of the town’s prosperity, there were nearly 200 miles of working railway within the dock complex alone, and this book covers the rise and gradual decline of this system. The railways have witnessed a number of significant events, such as the bombardment of Hartlepool by German warships during the First World War and the devastation caused to the docks and railways during the Second World War. Hartlepool Railways records the history of Hartlepool from its pre-railway origins as a medieval port through to the present day. The book draws on numerous sources, including the Robert Wood collection at the Hartlepool Museum, Hartlepool Library, the Teesside Record Office, and the National Railway Museum at York and Shildon. The railways made Hartlepool. This is their story.
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Here’s What ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Could Mean for the Hulk’s Future
The comics might provide some clues as to where Hulk and Bruce Banner’s “performance issues” could lead in “Avengers 4”
Phil Hornshaw and Ross A. Lincoln | August 4, 2018 @ 8:00 AM
(Note: This post contains spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War.”)
In “Avengers: Infinity War,” there’s something really odd about The Incredible Hulk/Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo): the Hulk’s almost total absence from the story after the first scene.
“Infinity War” begins right where “Thor: Ragnarok” leaves off, with Thanos (Josh Brolin) having murdered half of the Asgardians who survived the events of the earlier film. In the middle of that mess, the Hulk attacks Thanos and for a hot minute it looks like he might even give the Mad Titan a real fight. Turns out, however, that Thanos was just having a little fun — after he and Hulk trade a few punches, Thanos absolutely kicks Hulk’s ass. Hulk only survives because a dying Heimdall (Idris Elba) uses the last of his dark magic to create the Bifrost (Asgard’s rainbow-colored wormhole transportation system), zooming Hulk to Earth so he can warn the Avengers of what’s coming.
Also Read: The 'Avengers: Infinity War' Deleted Scene That Should Have Been in the Movie
When Hulk finally arrives back in New York, he quickly morphs back into Bruce, and the weird thing is that for the rest of the film, Bruce is unable to transform back into the Hulk. In fact, on two different occasions, the Hulk briefly emerges from Bruce’s face to tell him “no!” before retreating back to wherever the Hulk lives when Bruce is in control of their body.
So what exactly is up with Hulk and Banner? According to the director commentary on “Infinity War,” we’re seeing Hulk refusing to come out and fight Banner’s battles for him. It’s not that Hulk is afraid of Thanos — it’s that Banner relies on Hulk to do the dangerous stuff, and he’s tired of Banner only tolerating him because of his strength. (We actually learned a whole lot from the commentary — read about all the cool tidbits right here.)
It also looks like this hangup between Bruce and “the other guy” looks like the next big step in the Hulk’s character arc, one that could fundamentally change the nature of the Banner/Hulk relationship.
Also Read: 'Avengers: Infinity War': Here's Why Thanos Waited to Go After the Infinity Stones Himself
The thing to remember first is that by the start of “Infinity War,” Bruce Banner and his big green alter-ego have been through quite a lot. Exile from earth. Two years spent fighting in The Grandmaster’s gladiator games on Sakaar. An expedition to liberate Asgard from the goddess of death. And that’s not including years Banner spent desperately trying to exert some kind of control over his transformations.
An important detail is that in “Thor: Ragnarok,” we see Banner has been locked in his Hulk form since the ending of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” two years earlier. Not only that, Banner has become afraid that if he turns back into the Hulk again, he’ll be stuck in that form. Despite those fears, he chooses to do so at the “Ragnarok” climax, recognizing how necessary being Hulk is even if he doesn’t want to, helping to save the day even if he’s still in that form at the end of the film.
But a Thanos ass-kicking later, he’s back as Bruce Banner and somewhat ironically, stuck in that form instead. As Banner noted near the end of “Infinity War,” the pair have a lot of things to work out. And a read through Marvel Comics lore suggests what that might mean — a version of one of The Hulk’s weirdest incarnations when “Avengers 4” drops next year.
Also Read: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Filmmakers: 'We Looked Pretty Smart' Thanks to 'Black Panther' Success
Bruce Banner’s situation is a little more complex in the comics universe than what we’ve seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For instance, there’s a third personality: the Grey Hulk.
Unlike the rage-filled yet childlike Green Hulk (“Savage Hulk,” as he’s known in the comics), Grey Hulk speaks in full sentences and is smarter and more cunning — although he’s still not as smart as Bruce Banner, and they’re still distinct personalities.
The Grey Hulk is actually a retcon of sorts. In The Hulk’s first appearance (“Incredible Hulk” #1) in 1962, he was grey. According to later accounts, Stan Lee wanted a color not associated with any human ethnicity, and preferred grey, but changed his mind after seeing how that looked after issue #1 came out. From issue #2-on the color was changed to green and for the next 20 years, even reprints of the first issue changed the color to green.
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That stopped in 1984, when it was established via flashbacks that Bruce originally turned into Grey Hulk before developing into the more formidable green version. Two years late, in issue #324 (1986), Banner reverted back to transforming into Grey Hulk instead of Green Hulk.
Grey Hulk is a slightly smaller and weaker Hulk than the green version. In the new backstory, Banner originally transformed into the Grey Hulk uncontrollably at night, and Grey Hulk used that time to work as a bouncer in Las Vegas, going by the name Mr. Fixit.
Around the same time (starting in 1985), Banner’s split personality issues began to be explained in the comics as stemming from abuse as a child, his Hulk personas the result of dissociative identity disorder stemming from that trauma. There are apparently other potential Hulk personas buried inside Banner, but only the strongest of them ever manifest on the surface. The main personalities have even been merged together, creating different versions, such as the Savage Grey Hulk, the Gravage Hulk, and two we think tie most closely to “Infinity War”: the Merged Hulk, and “Doc Green.”
Also Read: After 'Avengers: Infinity War,' What in the Hell Happens Now?
The Merged Hulk, who first showed up in 1991, is a version of the Hulk in which all the personalities come together into a single, balanced person — and that includes the Banner personality. The character is as powerful as Hulk at his strongest, but is able to use Banner’s intellect. Basically, it’s Hulk at his most well-adjusted. This version called himself “The Professor” and claimed to be the best of all components of Banner, but this was later retconned as a reality distortion.
More recently, a new version of Hulk appeared in the comics — Doc Green. In a 2014 storyline, Bruce Banner exposed himself to chemicals that reacted with the Extremis virus (that’s the one that allowed for genetic manipulation, which bad guy Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) planned to use in “Iron Man 3”), creating a super-smart version of the Hulk persona. It was basically Hulk with Banner’s brain, although not his personality.
A Banner-ized version of Hulk feels like culmination of a long-term story heading into “Avengers 4,” as Banner and The Hulk figure things out.
Also Read: 'Avengers: Infinity War' -- Here's What Happened Next in the Comic Book Version of the Story
At first, Bruce Banner was all about fighting to repress his Savage Hulk identity, because when he Hulks out, the Hulk’s rage is often indiscriminate and innocent people get hurt. That’s the focus of both Marvel’s recent “Hulk” movies, particularly 2009’s “The Incredible Hulk,” which is part of the MCU (though Ed Norton played Banner in that one, rather than Ruffalo).
Beginning with “The Avengers” and lasting until “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Banner attempts to live with Hulk in a kind of psychological truce. In the first film, after being manipulated into becoming the Hulk again he figures out how to provoke a transformation on purpose: “That’s my secret. I’m always angry,” as he puts it near the end. But by “Ultron,” Banner’s willingness to become Hulk on purpose is tested when he’s driven temporarily insane and tears up a city. This time however, it is Hulk, not Banner who takes control of things. Banner is once again tricked into becoming Hulk during the film’s final battle, but when it’s over, instead of calming down and letting Banner take the body back, Hulk chooses to leave earth behind rather than live among people who fear him, (including The Avengers.)
Which brings us to “Thor: Ragnarok,” where we find Hulk on Sakaar. As noted above, Hulk hasn’t turned back into Banner in over two years, and when we meet up with him he’s developed considerably. Now capable of expressing himself coherently, it seems he feels intense loneliness and a need for companionship despite awareness of his all consuming rage. But after turning back into Banner, Banner says he’s terrified he’ll be stuck as Hulk if he does it again. By the end of the film, it looks like that might even be the case.
Also Read: How Will 'Captain Marvel' Play Into That Wild 'Avengers: Infinity War' Ending?
In “Infinity War,” though, the opposite happens — Banner gets stuck as, well, Banner. It seems the loss (more or less his first ever) has demoralized Hulk, or even rendered him scared to come back out to fight. But this time, the Hulk is able to communicate his refusal to come out to Banner clearly. That’s the first time Banner’s dual personalities have ever been able to communicate with one another, and it has to have huge implications for the future of the MCU.
Given where Bruce and the Hulk’s arcs have been headed, it seems like “Avengers 4” might finally find them trying to figure out their situation once and for all. What we’ve seen so far, particularly in “Infinity War,” that suggests that some kind of take on the Merged Hulk or Doc Green could definitely be in their future.
In other words, we might be looking forward to not only Hulk smash, but Hulk articulately explain why Hulk Smash. So here’s to Hulk being the strongest and smartest there is.
The home video release of “Avengers: Infinity War” has introduced a lot of new information about the state of the MCU. Here’s everything we learned from the “Infinity War” director commentary, and why Red Skull is probably pretty happy about the Thanos situation. We also learned why Spider-Man lingered a bit after Thanos’ snap; that you don’t have to be “worthy” to wield Thor’s new “Stormbreaker” axe; why Thanos didn’t go after the stones years ago; and why Thanos didn’t just double the universe’s resources.
We’ve spent a lot of time digging through the details to try to figure out what’s coming not just in “Avengers 4” but also “Captain Marvel.” We have come up with a pretty solid guess about what is involved in the one future Doctor Strange saw in which the Avengers defeat Thanos. Click here for our deeper look into how “Captain Marvel” might impact that distressing plot twist at the end of “Infinity War.” There’s also another obscure Marvel Comics hero who could be essential to “Captain Marvel” and “Avengers 4.” Click here for our discussion of the whole Vision situation and whether he’s really dead. Here’s a rundown of how “Infinity War” could actually be a giant, elaborate test. If that’s not weird enough for you, here are some other wild fan theories. And, finally, here’s our run-down on how the comic book version of these events played out.
All 58 Theatrically Released Marvel Movies Ranked
As "The New Mutants" heads into theaters -- at least the ones that have managed to reopen due to the pandemic -- we look back at every movie based on Marvel Comics that has opened theatrically.
58. "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"
Just a nightmare. A total nightmare. There have been a number of bad superhero movies, but from the talking gas cloud the filmmakers cast as Galactus to Jessica Alba's dye job, this one transcends bad.
57. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
A totally chaotic stir fry of nonsense that tells the story of how Wolverine got his claws. Features an early version of Deadpool (also played by Ryan Reynolds) whose mouth is stapled shut, which should tell you all you need to know about it.
56. "Elektra"
That five minutes when they tried to turn Jennifer Garner into an action star went about as well as it should have.
55. "X-Men: The Last Stand"
Just a total mess, incoherent from the word "go." After losing director of the first two X-Men films Brian Singer to the first Superman reboot attempt, replacement Matthew Vaughn gave way to eventual director Brett Ratner, who might have killed off the superhero genre entirely were "Spider-Man" not blowing up the box office.
54. "Fantastic Four" (2015)
There could maybe have been a good movie in here somewhere -- the cast (Michael B Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara) certainly warranted one. But this Frankenstein of a film is a behind-the-scenes horror story, and you can see it in the totally disjointed final product.
53. "Daredevil"
This was basically "Early-2000s: The Movie," with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell and Michael Clark Duncan as the main players. The cherry on top of this turd sundae was that damn Evanescence song.
Tim Story's first "Fantastic Four" is just sort of there, challenging you to remember it exists. With Chris Evans, who played the Human Torch here, going on to embody Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that gets tougher every year.
51. "The Punisher" (2004)
This is the Punisher as a straight revenge thriller, and it's not bad. Thomas Jane performs admirably, but the whole thing is missing that extra something that would have elevated it beyond standard genre fare. Setting it in Tampa didn't help.
50. "Spider-Man 3"
Maybe the bad outweighs the good here, but Emo Peter Parker's dance number remains one of the greatest single moments in any comic book movie, sorry, haters.
49. "Howard the Duck"
A notorious flop at the box office and, yeah, it's not exactly "good." But now, 30 years removed from its premiere, "Howard the Duck" is pretty fun as a relic of the '80s.
Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. star in a low-rent '80s grunge C-level classic. This one's all novelty value.
47. "Ghost Rider"
For a movie starring Nic Cage about a dude who rides a Harley and turns into a flaming skeleton, this is a surprisingly mundane movie.
46. "The Amazing Spider-Man"
We may never figure out what went wrong with Marc Webb's Spider-Man duology, but his choice of Andrew Garfield to play Peter Parker is still brilliant. It just sucks that this movie doesn't really make any sense.
45. "X-Men"
The beginning of the current wave of theatrical superhero movies, "X-Men" was kind of a cheapie and it showed. Novel at the time, now it just comes off as unremarkable mid-budget action fare as Fox was merely sticking its toe in the superhero waters. Timid.
44. "The Incredible Hulk"
It's sometimes hard to remember that this one counts as part of the MCU, since it placed Ed Norton in the Dr. Banner role since inhabited by Mark Ruffalo in the "Avengers" films. It's also hard to remember because it's generally not memorable.
43. "Thor"
The fantasy Marvel movie is directed by Kenneth Branagh, who covers the whole movie in canted angle shots and theatrical stylings. It's pretty boring, also, but at least it looks cool.
42. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"
More of the same impossible-to-follow hack-n'-slash plotting from the previous movie, offset by Andrew Garfield continuing to be awesome and Jamie Foxx going way over the top as the big bad.
41. "Thor: The Dark World"
"The Dark World," in contrast to the first "Thor" movie, is certainly not boring. If anything, it suffers the opposite problem, going so hard and fast that it loses substance.
40. "Blade: Trinity"
Starring a pre-Deadpool Ryan Reynolds basically playing a vampire-slaying Deadpool, throwing out one-liners like his mama's life depended on it, this may not a "good" movie, but it sure is fun.
39. "X2: X-Men United"
A big step up from the first "X-Men" both in production values and quality, it still lacks much in the way of energy. Which is inexcusable when you've got Alan Cumming as the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler all over your movie.
38. "Spider-Man"
Sam Raimi truly assembled the prototypical superhero movie with this first entry in the "Spider-Man" franchise, in 2002. Like "X-Men" before it, "Spider-Man" is a bit underwhelming today, but unlike "X-Men" it was proud of its nerd roots.
37. "X-Men: Apocalypse"
Could have been a bizarre ironic summer classic if it were structured like a real movie and had any character development whatsoever. Instead it's just a shot of visual adrenaline that I'll probably want to revisit at some point -- but not when I'm sober
36. "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
"Ultron" is frustrating for what it lacks -- chiefly the feeling that it's advancing the overall story arc of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But as with the first "Avengers" movie its weaknesses are overcome by great character work.
35. "The Avengers"
The story is a total mess, relying heavily on moviegoers' memories of previous MCU films (if you didn't remember or know coming in what the Tesseract was, hoo boy). But the novelty of the Marvel's first big superhero team-up was irresistible, and director Joss Whedon balanced his ensemble expertly, giving everyone plenty to do so none of them ever fades into the background.
34. "Blade"
Pure B-movie trash, which is fine because that's precisely what it aims for: bloody, crass, awesome. Blade, by the way, remains the only black comic book character besides Shaquille O'Neal's "Steel" to get his/her own movie, though Marvel's "Black Panther" is slated for a 2018 release.
33. "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance"
For the sequel, they tapped the "Crank" director duo known as Neveldine/Taylor. It was an inspired choice, because "Spirit of Vengeance" was exactly as nutty as you'd hope a PG-13 comic book movie would be. Shame that it was apparently stressful enough to break up the tandem of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
32. "Captain America: The First Avenger"
A lot of folks like to complain that all superhero movies are the same. But this was actually a pretty good World War II movie, too.
31. "Guardians of the Galaxy"
Plot-wise, it never really adds up to anything, but the strength of the cast and the bizarre world they explore more than make up for it.
30. "Blade 2"
Beloved nerd Guillermo del Toro took over for this one and ramped everything up to 11. More vampires, more blood, more people getting sliced up -- and of course baddies whose jaws can split open and swallow a person's head whole.
29. "Big Hero 6"
Disney Animation Studios made a Marvel movie, and it's really sweet. Sure, it's the kiddie version of Marvel, but that doesn't prevent it from being a wholly satisfying experience.
28. "Captain Marvel"
It’s fine, but “Captain Marvel” feels like a movie from before Marvel Studios really hit its stride in Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Right now it’s a movie that seems very much out of place.
27. "Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2"
An improvement on the first film, and an absolute delight from moment to moment -- but it never quite coalesces into a coherent whole because so many subplots distract from the core story and rob it of its emotional impact. Would be a top 5 comic book movie if it had just reigned in the plot.
26. "Iron Man"
It was Robert Downey Jr.'s reemergence on the big screen, and he's flawless in this origin story that takes Tony Stark from billionaire playboy weapons manufacturer to billionaire playboy other-things manufacturer.
25. "Avengers: Endgame"
This movie is, frustratingly, far from perfect. In fact, it’s kind of a huge mess. But it’s also awesome and thrilling and hilarious and contains some individual moments that are perfect. I wish it was better, but with everything required of a movie that exists to wrap up 21 movies’ worth of story arcs, I’m glad it’s as good as it is.
24. "Hulk"
In 2003 the modern wave of superhero movies was still in its infancy, and Ang Lee -- still the best filmmaker to do a comic book movie -- got experimental with "Hulk." And what he made was an incredible melodrama with visual stylings meant to ape comic book panels. It didn't sit well with audiences, but "Hulk" remains one of the most compelling and interesting Marvel movies to date.
23. "The Wolverine"
This was, like, just a legitimately enjoyable melodramatic action movie. Sure, it turns into a video game boss battle by the end, but for most of its running time it's just an actual movie.
22. "Punisher: War Zone"
Whereas the previous "Punisher" movie was melodramatic and contemplative, this one is just murderous. And it's awesome.
21. "Venom"
How can anybody resist the pull of Tom Hardy doing comedy? This movie knows exactly what it's trying to be, and what it's trying to be is dumb and fun and nothing else. And it is extremely fun.
20. "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
Its time travel logic is a bit iffy, but "Days of Future Past" is still tremendously entertaining because, while epic, it's not overly serious. As "Back to the Future" taught us long ago, you can get away with a lot of logical leaps if you strike the right tone.
19. "Iron Man 2"
Swaps Terrence Howard for Don Cheadle, while Mickey Rourke breaks cars with laser whips. Who knows what was going on in this movie, but it was almost OK anyway.
18. "Deadpool"
In the angsty and angry times we live in, "Deadpool" is perfect. Aggressively violent and flippantly meanspirited, it's the exact emotional release we needed.
17. "X-Men: Dark Phoenix"
The main series "X-Men" movies have never achieved any sort of greatness, but at least "Dark Phoenix" ends the whole thing with one of the best efforts of the bunch. And that sequence on the train in the third act is easily the best action sequence of these movies.
16. "Spider-Man: Far From Home"
It’s frustrating that it doesn’t really deal with the immense fallout from “Avengers: Endgame,” but it’s still as visually creative as any movie in the MCU, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio is an all-timer of a villain. Dude goes all the way out in this.
15. "X-Men: First Class"
The first "X-Men" movie that could be described as "fun." It's basically two movies crammed into one, story-wise, but director Matthew Vaughn's touch is so breezy and enjoyable that it totally works anyway, thanks in large part to a brilliant cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy.
14. "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
Not quite the best "Spider-Man" movie, but still an absolute delight, with a cast full of scene stealers. Michael Keaton as the Vulture makes for one of the best Marvel villains ever.
13. "Deadpool 2"
While you may get whiplash from the "Deadpool" sequel's occasional very serious and emo scenes, the rest of the movie is thoroughly delightful, somehow managing to be even funnier -- and more hilariously violent -- than the original.
12. "Ant-Man"
"Ant-Man" represented a first for the MCU by being a straight-up comedy. And it's a very good one, with a cast that's perfectly suited for it. Aside from Paul Rudd who plays Ant-Man himself, Michael Pena is the true standout as Scott Lang's best friend and former cellmate.
11. "Ant-Man and the Wasp"
It's ever so slightly frustrating that this one doesn't fully integrate into the "Infinity War" situation, but even so it's thoroughly a delight. Evangeline Lilly is so good at the Wasp that I'm retroactively irritated that she didn't don the suit in the previous "Ant-Man" movie.
10. "Doctor Strange"
If it weren't hamstrung with all the requisite elements of an origin story, "Doctor Strange" might have been the best Marvel movie ever. That's the power of the astonishing visual imagination on display here. People love to talk about the nebulous concept of capturing some long lost childlike sense of wonder though the magic of cinema -- "Doctor Strange" is one of the only movies I've watched as an adult that really accomplishes that.
9. "Spider-Man 2"
This is a movie that fully understands its main character and taps into what made him such a captivating figure for so long. Yeah, Peter Parker's a superhero, but he's also a college kid working a minimum wage job to make rent while also taking university physics classes. Peter buckles under the pressure, something we can all relate to.
8. "Iron Man 3"
As far as I'm concerned this is the "Iron Man" movie. Somehow, Shane Black was able to infiltrate the MCU and make a legitimate Shane Black movie with all the wit and raw humanity you'd expect from him. It carries exactly the sort of authorial identity we should want all these movies to have.
7. "Thor: Ragnarok"
A thorough delight. This might be the most fun we had at the movies in all of 2017, and so we can't help but love it.
6. "Captain America: Civil War"
Multiply the two previous best Marvel movies by one another and you get "Civil War." It packs the sort of emotional payoff all the disconnected Marvel movies can't really provide. And as an action film it's easily the best of the superhero genre.
5. "Avengers: Infinity War"
You could certainly make the argument that "Infinity War" does not really hold up on as a complete movie on its own, because it kinda begins with the second act. But I don't care. The culmination of this ten-year shared universe experiment should stand on the shoulders of the movies that came before it. The fact that it packs such a profound emotional punch, however, is what really makes it work.
4. "Black Panther"
It's held back a little by being saddled with standard "origin movie" issues -- introducing audiences to the world of Wakanda isn't a quick and easy task, and it could use an extra 15-20 minutes to flesh out the supporting characters -- but still manages to be the most substantial superhero movie ever. It's kind of amazing that Disney let writer/director Ryan Coogler make this overt a political statement -- it's the most openly political mega-budget movie I've ever seen . Also, while I'm listing superlatives: Michael B Jordan delivers the best performance ever in a superhero movie. Good lord.
3. "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
The best superhero movies, and movies in general, are the ones that are truly most human. And "Spider-Verse," despite being animated, despite the wacky cast of Spider-People, despite the outlandish premise, is as real as movies get.
2. "Logan"
James Mangold's small-scale western is a game changer for the entire superhero genre, daring to defy pretty much standard by which you expect these movies to operate. It's just a great movie by any normal standard. Where "Civil War" elevated the genre, "Logan" opts instead to be something else entirely and we're all the better for it.
1. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
The Russo brothers, who made their entrance to the MCU directing "Winter Soldier" before taking the reigns on "Civil War" and, eventually, 2018's "Avengers: Infinity War," really impressed with "Winter Soldier." It's a classic spy thriller with a superhero twist. And Robert Redford as the bad guy is a really nice touch.
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Location: The northern half of the continent, in between Western Australia and Queensland
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The NT has a desert climate in central Australia and a tropical monsoonal climate in the coastal north that sees a dramatic, stormy wet season and a sunny dry season.
Summer average: 27–33°C
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Average rainfall: 200–2,000 mm
The economy of the NT strongly relies on the industries of construction, government and community services, and mining, which account for about half of the territory’s total economic output.
In January 2015, the NT was said to have the best economy and job market thanks to increased construction spending and investment in the gas industry – though population growth was found to have slowed.
Housing prices vary greatly depending on location and the most densely populated part of the NT is the Top End Region (which is, as it sounds, the northernmost part), in and around the state capital of Darwin.
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Slinky Spirals of Clay Form Topsy-Turvy Vases by Michael Boroniec
Michael Boroniec subverts the age-old conception of pots and vases as useful vessels of containment with his sculptural ceramics. The artist began his spiral motif in 2008 with a focus on teapots, and the style has since become the predominant theme of his body of work. Boroniec forms each vessel on his potter’s wheel, and then carefully slices through the still-soft clay to deconstruct the traditional shape. He describes his intention behind these deconstructions in a recent Instagram post:
This process reveals aspects of the vase that most rarely encounter. Within the walls, maker’s marks become evident and contribute to the texture. The resultant ribbon effect, reminiscent of a wheel trimming, lends fragility, elegance, and motion to a medium generally perceived as hard and heavy. This emphasizes a resistance of gravity, allowing negative space to unravel and become part of the form.
Boroniec studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and now lives and works in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He is represented by Lyons Wier Gallery, where his work is on view in a group exhibition through April 28, 2018. You can see more of his work on tumblr and Instagram. Mark Cantin and Cat Burt also directed and produced a short film about Boroniec, which you can view below.
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Netflix cancels 'Friends From College' after two seasons
Keegan-Michael Key starred in the Netflix series "Friends From College," which has been canceled. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
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Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Netflix has canceled its comedy series Friends From College after two seasons.
Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Savage, Cobie Smulders, Billy Eichner, Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse and Jae Suh Park starred on the series, which followed former Harvard classmates who are now in their 40s.
Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco co-created Friends From College and also served as executive producers. Stoller additionally directed the series with Delbanco penning the script.
Stoller confirmed on Twitter Monday that the show was canceled. "Friends From College will not be returning for a third season. Thanks to everyone who watched it. Happy Presidents' Day!" he said.
Friends from College will not be returning for a third season. Thanks to everyone who watched it. Happy Presidents’ Day!
— nicholasstoller 🇺🇸 (@nicholasstoller) February 19, 2019
"We're grateful to creators Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco for creating a wise, funny and supremely relatable show. We also want to thank the hard-working crew, and we raise a glass to the amazingly talented cast," Netflix said in a statement.
Friends From College debuted in 2017 with Season 2 added to the streaming service in January.
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Closed call
19 November - 26 February 2019
Research project grant for international collaboration on graphene – basic research (FLAG-ERA)
This grant aims to support international collaboration within basic research into graphene. Sweden, via the Swedish Research Council, is one of the 22 research councils from 18 countries taking part in the FLAG-ERA3 call, which rewards research of the highest scientific quality in international competition.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
FLAG-ERA: Graphene – basic research
Individual researcher who participates as Swedish project leader in a consortium with partners from at least 3 participating countries. Only researchers at an administrating organisation approved by the Swedish Research Council may apply.
Grant period
Minimum 400 000 SEK per year.
Budgetary framework
Total for 3 years: 750 000 EUR (indicatively 2–4 projects) for Swedish participation.
Call deadline
Project outline: For the consortium application to FLAG-ERA: 19 February 2019 (17.00)
For the Swedish project leader’s application in Prisma: 26 February 2019 (14.00)
Full application: Beginning of July 2019; the exact date and time will be notified to consortiums that go forward to this stage.
Publication of grant award
No later than the beginning of November 2019
Start of grant period
Grant conditions
General grant conditions
Specific grant conditions
Open access to publications
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Call text in full
Grant applications within FLAG-ERA are made in a two-stage procedure, where a simplified version of the application, known as a pre-proposal, is first submitted. Applicants whose outline applications are approved shall then submit a full proposal. Both the pre-proposal and full proposal are peer reviewed, and ranked in competition with other applications.
The application to the FLAG-ERA consortium call shall be submitted by the research consortium’s international coordinator.
As project leader representing a Swedish partner in the research consortium, you must submit the corresponding applications (Pre-proposal/Project outline and Full proposal/full application) via the Swedish Research Council’s application system Prisma in parallel with the international coordinator submitting the consortium application. More information on what to do in practical terms is available in the section “How do I apply” below.
The content of your outline application will be transferred automatically to the full application if your consortium is invited to submit a full application to FLAG-ERA. You will thereafter have to update the content of your application to the Swedish Research Council, so that it corresponds to the full consortium application submitted to FLAG-ERA, and also complete a section on ethical considerations. More information on this is available in the section “How do I apply” below.
The following requirements must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible to apply for the grant. We carry out checks to ensure ineligible applications are rejected from further processing.
The applicant for the research project grant must be a participant in a FLAG-ERA consortium with at least 3 partners. You can see full eligibility requirements for the composition of the consortium in the call text on FLAG-ERA’s website . You must set aside adequate time for the project throughout the grant period, with a scope (activity level) that corresponds to at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent. You must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or a corresponding foreign degree, awarded no later than the deadline for this call. The degree award date we use is the date you fulfilled all the requirements for a doctoral degree, such as mandatory courses, oral defence and an approved doctoral thesis. For applicants with Swedish doctoral degrees, the award date listed in Ladok applies.
Grants from the Swedish Research Council shall be administered by a Swedish university or HEI or another Swedish public organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations . To apply, your organisation must therefore be approved as an administrating organisation. Please note therefore that Swedish researchers working for a company, for example, cannot be funded and may therefore not submit an application to the Swedish Research Council, even if they are part of a consortium application.
If you are awarded a grant, you must be employed by the administrating organisation at the start of and throughout the grant period and any additional availability period, unless the Swedish Research Council approves an exception. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent. You do not have to be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of applying.
Number of applications and previous grants
The requirements described in this section only apply to applicants (project leaders).
What grants may I apply for simultaneously from the Swedish Research Council?
You may only submit one application for this grant under this call, and you may only be the Swedish partner of one consortium in this call. Other restrictions on the grants you may apply for during the same year are shown in the table below. Grants under this call are counted as ”Research project grant with focus” in the table.
Table: Grants you may apply for simultaneously
What requirements apply if I already have a grant from the Swedish Research Council?
There are certain restrictions if you are the project leader of a previously awarded grant that is ongoing, that is to say where the grant period (payment period from the Swedish Research Council) overlaps the grant period of the grant this application covers. Please note that the availability period, that is to say the time during which you can draw down the grant awarded, is normally longer than the grant period. Information about the requirements for your previous grant can be found in the “Approval of conditions” you received from the Swedish Research Council. You cannot submit an application under the call if you are already the project leader for an ongoing project grant awarded within FLAG-ERA. If your ongoing grant has another focus, you are eligible to apply, however, provided your application is for another project idea.
Please see the table below for further information on grants you may apply for if you have an ongoing grant. Grants under this call are counted as ”Research project grant with focus” in the table.
Table: Grants you may apply for if you have an ongoing grant
Note: If you have been the project leader for previous grants from the Swedish Research Council that have ended, final financial reports for all of these must have been submitted within the permitted time frame in order for you to apply for a new grant. Please contact your administrating organisation if you are unsure whether all your final financial reports have been submitted.
What applies for applications to or grants from other funding bodies?
If your application to the Swedish Research Council relates to the same project idea as a grant you have already been awarded by, or are applying for to another funding body, please describe this in your application to FLAG-ERA.
Costs and grant amounts
Grants may be applied for to finance all types of project-related costs, such as salaries (including your own salary, however no more than corresponding to your activity level in the project), premises, operating costs (such as consumables, travel including stays at research facilities, publication costs and minor equipment), plus depreciation. Grants may not be used for scholarships. If a doctoral student participates, project funds may not be paid out as salary for the period when the doctoral student is teaching.
You may apply for a grant to cover 3 years, starting from January 2020. The first payment will be made no earlier than December 2019.
The consortium shall submit a joint application in FLAG-ERA's application system .
You as the Swedish partner and project leader in a FLAG-ERA consortium must also register in parallel a corresponding application electronically in Prisma , which is the Swedish Research Council’s application system. Please note that for practical reasons, the parallel call in Prisma for you as the Swedish partner will close a few days later than in FLAG-ERA’s application system. This applies for both the project outline and the full application.
To the application form in Prisma
You create your application in Prisma by filling in the text fields, uploading information from your personal account, and attaching the appendices requested.
To enable you to apply, your organisation must have been approved as an administrating organisation and have created an organisation account in Prisma.
For most items in Prisma, there is a user manual describing all the steps, as well as answers to FAQ . Please refer to these when filling in your application.
Please avoid stating your own or anybody else’s full personal identity number in the application except where specifically requested.
Creating a personal account in Prisma
Before you apply, you must create a personal account in Prisma , where you can save your personal and CV data. The information only needs to be entered once, and can thereafter be supplemented or changed as required. As most of the Swedish Research Council’s calls employ foreign reviewers, please use English when entering any descriptive text in you CV data. You can also input your publications for future use. Please note that no publications can currently be uploaded from your account to the application form.
Please allow plenty of time to create your personal account. The applications you register in Prisma will be linked to your personal account.
Some text fields can be formatted, which means that the font, alignment and font size can be changed, and that tables and symbols can be inserted. If you insert a text written using a word processing program (such as Microsoft Word), you may need to adjust the formatting after insertion, using the tools in Prisma. Images cannot be included in the text fields, however. We recommend that you use the fonts Arial, Calibri or Verdana.
All text fields have a limit on the number of characters, and this is illustrated by a character counter. If you use too many characters, the application cannot be registered.
Attached documents and appendices
You will need to attach an appendix to some fields as instructed. The appendix must consist of one file only, and you can only attach documents in PDF format. All appendices are limited as to file size and number of pages. You will not be able to register your application with an appendix that exceeds the stated maximum size.
The outline application shall be signed electronically in Prisma by you as applicant. Please note that an outline application shall not be signed by the administrating organisation.
The full application shall be signed electronically in Prisma both you as project leader (applicant) and an authorised representative of the administrating organisation. Please see further information under “Registering the application” below.
What must the application contain?
Please refer to FLAG-ERA´s call text and the application form in Prisma in parallel with reading the instructions below.
Foreign experts are involved in the scientific assessment of the applications within FLAG-ERA. Please therefore complete your application in English.
Sections of the application
The application form in Prisma contains the following tabs (applies to both outline and full applications):
Participants (only administrators in this call)
Descriptions of the information requested under each tab follow below. Mandatory information is marked with an asterisk (*) in Prisma.
Under this tab, please fill in the project title in Swedish and English, and select SCB codes and key words. Please also fill in the abstract and popular science description as instructed below.
The abstract shall include a brief description of:
what is to be done: purpose and aim
how the research will be carried out: project organisation, time plan and the scientific methods to be used
what is important about the planned research
The abstract shall provide a summary guide to the purpose and implementation of the research. Please use wording to ensure persons with another subject specialisation can understand the information.
The description may cover a maximum of 1 500 characters including blank spaces (approximately one third of an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing).
Popular science description
Describe the project in such a way that a person who is not familiar with the subject can understand it. Describe what is to be done and why, and explain in what way the new knowledge may be important.
The popular science description is an important tool when we inform about the research funded by the Swedish Research Council. If we grant your application, we reserve the right to use the description for information purposes.
Note: The popular science description must be written in Swedish, unlike the rest of the application. For the project outline, the popular science description may be very brief. For the full application, the popular science description must be detailed and able to be used for information purposes.
The description may cover a maximum of 4 500 characters including blank spaces (approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing).
Under this tab, please describe any ethical considerations (only for full applications), and attach the consortium’s joint application and any other appendices requested.
Ethical considerations (only applies to those invited to submit a full application)
Describe the ethical issues raised by your project or corresponding. You must also describe how you plan to address ethical dilemmas that may arise. Please justify why the research should be carried out against the background of the ethical issues you have identified. How do your research questions and expected results measure up in relation to the ethical issues? Please also state whether the research involves any handling of personal data, or experiments on animals or human subjects. If no ethical issues are raised, please justify this.
Application for the international collaboration
Here you shall attach the application submitted by the consortium to FLAG-ERA in PDF format. Please note that the attachment may consist of a single file only with a maximum size of 20 MB.
Other appendices
No other appendices need to be attached to this field.
Under this tab, please state the administrating organisation and project site. The administrating organisation is the organisation that administers the funds for a project awarded and is responsible for it according to the conditions set. The project site is the organisational unit where the project is carried out. Normally, the administrating organisation and project site correspond to the HEI and the department where the project leader is employed.
To allow you to link your application to an administrating organisation, the organisation must have an approved account in Prisma. Please contact your administrating organisation and ask it to apply for an organisation account with the Swedish Research Council if it does not already have one.
If your project site is not listed in Prisma, please contact the person responsible for the organisation account at your administrating organisation. You will not be able to finalise the registration of your application if the project site is missing.
Here you as grant applicant may invite any participating administrators to your application. A participating administrator is a person who is not involved in the project, but who can help you to input and edit information in the application. Please make sure you use the correct email address linked to the person’s Prisma account. You may invite participating administrators who do not already have an account in Prisma, but in order to participate in your application they must register their own personal accounts in Prisma. All participating administrators must accept the invitation before you can finalise the registration of your application.
Please note that you may not invite any participating researchers in this application.
Under this tab, please upload the following CV information from your personal account in Prisma:
Education: Third cycle higher education (doctoral degree)
Work: Current employment (including whether it is permanent employment or not).
Registering the application
The tab “Check and register” shows a summary of the fields in your application that you need to adjust in order to register it (such as mandatory fields not filled in, text fields with too many characters, or discrepancies from limits on the possible project period or budget). The registration of your application is not finalised until you click on the “Register” button.
Please make sure you use the preview function before registering your application.
Note: Any participating administrators invited by you in your application must accept the invitation before you can register the application. If an invitation is not accepted, it must be deleted.
The registered application can thereafter be found in your personal Prisma account in the tab “Applications and grants”, under the menu choice “Applications”. Until the deadline for the call, a registered application may be de-registered, amended and re-registered again as necessary.
You are responsible for ensuring the application is complete and corresponds to the application in FLAG-ERA’s application system, that is to say the application form is correctly filled in, the correct appendices are attached and the information requested has been provided according to the instructions. Please only submit material specifically requested. We do not accept any additional information after the deadline, except when specifically requested.
Project outline application: When you register the project outline, it is signed by you as project leader. The project outline shall not be signed by the administrating organisation.
The applicant’s signature confirms that:
the information in the application is correct and complies with the Swedish Research Council’s instructions
secondary occupations and commercial ties have been reported to the administrating organisation and that nothing has emerged that breaches good research practice
the permits and approvals required have been obtained before the research is started, such as permits from the Swedish Medical Products Agency or approval from an ethical review board or an ethical committee on animal experiments
the applicant will comply with all other conditions applicable to the grant
Full application: To ensure the full application is deemed complete and included in the review process, both the applicant and an authorised representative of the administrating organisation have to sign the application. The representative is normally the head of the department where the research will be carried out, but this is dependent on your administrating organisation’s structure.
The signature of the administrating organisation confirms that:
the research or research-supporting activity described can be given room at the administrating organisation during the period and to the extent stated in the application
the applicant will be employed by the administrating organisation during the period covered by the application
the administrating organisation approves of the budget in the application
the administrating organisation will comply with all other conditions applicable to the grant
The above points shall have been discussed by the parties before the representative of the administrating organisation approves and signs the application.
Note: The authorised representative of the administrating organisation must sign the application in Prisma no later than one week (7 calendar days) after the call deadline date in order for the application to be considered further in the review process.
How your application is assessed
The scientific assessment of the application is carried out by FLAG-ERA (see the assessment process in FLAG-ERA´s call text .
When you have registered your application and the call closes (at 14.00/2 pm on the deadline date of the call), the registration of your application is automatically finalised in Prisma and you are given a registration number.
Full application: Your application is automatically forwarded to the representative of the administrating organisation for signature in Prisma. The application must be signed by the administrating organisation no later than one week (7 calendar days) after the deadline. You will receive an email when the application has been signed.
Thereafter you will find information about the status of the application, registration number and signature of the application in your account in Prisma, under the tab “Applications and grants”.
FLAG-ERA will make a decision on the outline applications in April 2019. The decision is notified to the coordinator of the consortium with a statement in the form of a written comment.
Notice of the decision will be published in your personal account in Prisma. If your outline application is approved, you will be notified of this via email, with an invitation to submit a full application. Relevant information from the outline application will automatically be transferred to your draft for the full application.
The applications that are approved and invited to submit a full application shall do so no later than the middle of June 2019. The exact date will be notified to the Swedish partners in the consortiums invited to submit a full application to FLAG-ERA.
FLAG-ERA decides which consortiums will be recommended for funding by the respective national research funding body. The decision is notified to the coordinator of the consortium with a statement in the form of a written comment. The Swedish Research Council makes the grant decisions for Swedish participants. Shortly after the grant decision has been made, a notice of the grant awards will be published on the Swedish Research Council’s website. You will thereafter find a notice of the decision on your application in your personal account in Prisma, under the tab “Applications and grants”.
The EU's ABS Regulation and due diligence declaration: As from 12 October 2015, users of genetic resources (genetic material of actual or potential value) and traditional knowledge relating to genetic resources, obtained after 12 October 2014, shall comply with the EU’s ABS Regulation (No 511/2014) by making a “due diligence declaration”. This applies only to grant recipients. Due diligence entails the user being able to show that the genetic resource was obtained according to applicable legislation in the country in question and that the possible benefit of the genetic resource will be allocated in a reasonable and equitable way.
Exceptions apply to research into: the human genome, plant genetic material included in Appendix 1 to the international agreement on plant genetic resources, pandemic influenza virus and genetic material obtained from international waters. If you have any questions about the regulations and due diligence declaration, please contact Naturvårdsverket .
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Louis Vuitton trunk by artist Grayson Perry
To coincide with his exhibition, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum, artist Grayson Perry has created a bespoke Louis Vuitton trunk, which is currently on display at the luxury fashion brand’s New Bond Street Maison
Grayson Perry’s exhibition The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman now has a companion piece, in the shape of an installation at Louis Vuitton’s flagship London store. The luxury fashion house, co-sponsors of the British Museum show, invited the self-styled ’transvestite potter from Essex’ to design a bespoke trunk to be displayed in the Exhibition Space of its the New Bond Street Maison.
The themes of The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman are craftsmanship and sacred journeys, which ties in neatly with Perry’s trunk. Adorned with his trademark folkloric figures, the trunk is called ’LVAM1’ (rather like a number plate), short for ’Louis Vuitton Alan Measles 1’ - Alan Measles being the artist’s 50-year-old teddy bear and the star of much of his work.
The purpose of the trunk, which was made at the Louis Vuitton atelier in Asnières, is twofold. Perry wanted it to act both as a shrine to Alan Measles (though the bear on display is in fact a ’stunt double’ named Elton) and as a travel case to transport the elaborate frocks the artist is famed for wearing. Perry hopes to road test the trunk next year when he travels to the Venice Biennale.
Also on display at Louis Vuitton are three dresses designed by students on the Fashion Print degree at Central St Martin’s School of Art. Every year Grayson Perry tutors the BA students, who then design garments for him. This year’s winning designs, by Morgan Levy, Min Nan Hui and Columbine Joubert, were remade by Perry’s personal dressmakers. A film following the creation of both the Louis Vuitton bespoke trunk and the dresses will be displayed alongside the installation.
On Tuesday night, to celebrate the launch of ’The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman’, Louis Vuitton also hosted a conversation between Grayson Perry and Tim Marlow at The British Museum. Perry carried a Louis Vuitton handbag, of course, as well as the winning Central St Martins entry - a gown/cape by Morgan Levy featuring an ejaculating phallus design in crystals. The artist said it made him feel quite overcome.
Adorned with his trademark folkloric figures, the trunk is called ’LVAM1’ (rather like a number plate), short for ’Louis Vuitton Alan Measles 1’ - Alan Measles being the artist’s 50-year-old teddy bear and the star of much of his work
Perry wants it to act both as a shrine to Alan Measles (though the bear on display is in fact a ’stunt double’ named Elton) and as a travel case to transport the elaborate frocks the artist is famed for wearing
Perry hopes to road test the trunk next year when he travels to the Venice Biennale
The artist wears a gown/cape by Central St Martins student Morgan Levy, featuring an ejaculating phallus design in crystals. Each year Perry tutors BA students at the school, who then design garments for him. He told us the Levy dress made him feel quite overcome
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Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance offering invasive plant removal in South Walton
The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) of Northwest Florida State College in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Longleaf Alliance will begin the second year of the Habitat Rx invasive plant removal program in South Walton County. The program is designed for interested property owners who wish to improve local habitat and restore plant and animal biodiversity.
Invasive plants disrupt the delicate balance of ecosystems by out-competing beneficial native plants, diminishing biodiversity, and reducing food sources and habitat for native wildlife and insects. These invasive plants, including Chinese tallow trees, mimosa trees, and torpedo grass, spread rapidly and grow quickly. Chinese Tallow trees are especially detrimental because they can thrive on the shorelines of waterways and minimize and divert water flow. Their leaves can change the soil chemistry as they degrade making it difficult for other plant species to grow, and their berries and sap contain toxins that can be harmful to humans and animals.
“With funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, CBA is able to offer this innovative program free of cost to South Walton property owners,” stated restoration coordinator, Rachel Gwin. Habitat Rx offers property owners in all Walton County areas south of Hwy 20 the opportunity to have invasive plants on their property treated and removed, and they will receive a native tree, such as a sassafras or red maple, to replace an invasive tree. CBA will take enrollment forms until September 21, 2015. The Longleaf Alliance will partner with CBA to conduct site visits through the end of September, and remove the invasive trees in October.
For more information about the Habitat Rx program, including enrollment forms and invasive plants brochure, please visit www.basinalliance.org and click on Habitat Rx under the “Restoration” tab. CBA must receive an enrollment form and hold harmless forms from property owners interested in participating by September 21, 2015.
CBA is an entirely grant and donor-funded, 501(c)3 non-profit watershed organization whose efforts are focused on raising awareness to increase the health and sustainability of local waterways, through monitoring, research, restoration and education. For over 19 years, CBA has promoted water stewardship within the Choctawhatchee watershed, growing the network of supporters who have joined in the mission to provide a future for these natural resources. For more information about CBA, please visit www.basinalliance.org.
For more information about CBA’s Habitat Rx invasive plant removal program, or to schedule an interview, please contact Rachel Gwin at (850) 200-4164 or gwinr@nwfsc.edu.
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Sights and sounds of night tour with Nonie’s Ark Animal EVEntures Aug. 28
Walton County fishing report for Aug. 12
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Mozambique national airline banned from Europe
The Mozambican national air carrier, Mozambique Airlines (LAM) has been banned from entering European airspace after failing to meet European Commission safety regulations. The company has said it will continue to provide a service to Portugal despite the ban, and claims that it meets all international guidelines. It said: "Flights to Portugal will continue as the Boeing 767 we are using is leased from EuroAtlantic, a Portuguese air company which is not on the ban list."
However, according to the European Commission, aviation authorities in Mozambique are not enforcing essential practices such as the provision of quality technicians. The commission has justified its ban, citing "significant deficiencies faced by the civil aviation authorities of this country [Mozambique] as reported by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)".
The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has reacted with "great disappointment and concern" at the decision and has pointed out that since LAM was established in 1980 it has not had any major accidents, and said that since 1989 there have been no accidents of any kind involving LAM aircraft.
LAM is the latest airline to join the list of 269 air carriers from 21 countries, 14 of them African, which have been banned from entering European airspace.
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Interviews from the 1990s by Seattle-area activist Gary Greaves on how the area changed after the 1962 World’s Fair are now offered online by UW Libraries.
Arts Roundup: Dance, opera – and the University District Street Fair
Dance, opera, exhibition openings and the Roethke Reading fill this especially busy week in the arts. From the MFA Dance Concert to School of Music and Pacific MusicWorks’ production of G.F. Handel’s “Semele,” there’s plenty to see and do on the main stages.
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• De Grasse pulls out of World Athletics Championships with hamstring injury
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Andre De Grasse has withdrawn from the World Athletics Championships with an injury.
The double Olympic bronze medalist Andre De Grasses injured his hamstring just couple days before the opening day of the 2017 World Championships.
The 22-year-old De Grasse had a potential to win medals in the 100 and 200 metres. He also served as the anchor on Canada’s 4×100 relay team.
"To my fans and my supporters; " De Grasse wrote on his facebook page"
"Earlier this week in practice, I suffered a hamstring tear that has forced me to withdraw from the World Championships."
"Injuries are a part of the sport, and the timing of this one is especially unfortunate. While I’m in the best shape of my life and extremely disappointed that I will not have the chance to compete for my country in London, I can't forget or be ungrateful for the successes that I've been blessed with up to this point in my career."
"Thank you to my family, friends and fans that have supported me all the way….. I'll be back stronger and faster than ever."
"But for now, Canada still has a very strong team at the World Championships. They are preparing to take on the world, and the focus should be on them. "
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In the 2000s, Mr Tsang held senior product management positions at Yahoo!. Products he managed included Search, Answers, Sports and Games. He created Yahoo! Mahjong, a legendary multiplayer online game tapping into the Chinese population globally.
Mr Tsang also has extensive integrated marketing experience with major brands such as Colgate Palmolive and Logitech, where he transformed the traditional marketing team into a digital marketing organisation. He is also an advisor for startups which focus in blockchain, machine learning and the app economy.
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Home » Celebrities » Landon Barker [Travis Barker's Son] Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Girlfriend
Landon Barker [Travis Barker's Son] Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Girlfriend
By Chakrit Subedi | On: 02 Dec, 2019
Landon Barker is one of the youngest social media stars, who like to maintain his genuine fan base on the social media platform. Being a son of a prominent Musician, he gained the limelight at an early age after he appeared on the MTV reality series 'Meet the Barkers'.
Now let us dwell inside and find out more about him and his renowned family.
Wiki And Age
Landon Barker, who hailed from Fontana, Californi, was born on 9 October 2003—he celebrated his 16th birthday in 2019. His full name is Landon Asher Barker.
He holds the celebrity status as his father is the prominent band member, a renowned drummer of Blink 182. Landon is widely known for his appearance in MTV’s reality TV show named “Meet the Barkers.”
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Even at such a tender age, he has a good fashion sense and interactive ability to communicate with his fans and followers. In fact, he has been able to amass more than 260 thousand followers on Instagram. He constantly keeps in touch with them and shares his ideas and views about music, fashion, and personal interest.
Parent Plus Sibling
Talking about his parents, his father, Travis Barker, who has an astounding height of 5 feet 9 and a half inches(1.76 meters), is the renowned musician of Blink 182. Likewise, his mother, Shanna Moakler, was former Miss New York and title runner up of Miss USA in 1995. They were in a marital relationship for four years before they got divorced in 2008.
However, they started living together to instill a good family culture in their children. Both of the couples appeared on the MTV reality series Meet the Barkers from 2005 to 2006, where their day to day life was portrayed along with the musical tour of Travis Barker. During the show, Landon also accompanied his father in the musical tours.
Landon Barker(left) with his father Travis Barker and sister Alabama Barker (Photo:- pinterest.com)
Besides his parents, Landon has a younger sister named Alabama Barker, who is a singer and social media star. She garnered massive admiration for her song Heartbreaker.
Likewise, Landon has an elder stepsister named Atiana De La Hoya, a daughter of Oscar De La Hoya. Ariana has appeared on the shows named Growing Up Supermodel and Meet the Barkers.
About Girlfriend
Good news for all the guys and girls out there!
Landon barker possibly is single and looking for someone to mingle. In January 2019, he released his solo song named ‘I don’t Need Her,’ which somehow reflects that he has moved on from the reminiscence of his ex-girlfriend Devenity Perkins. However, with an interview with the online magazine, Meaww in January 2019, he revealed that he drew his inspiration for this song from his previous relationship.
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Landon barker dated Devenity Perkins back in 2016, but their relationship couldn’t withstand for a long time. As a result, they both parted ways in the same year in December, which left Landon crestfallen.
Landon barker's earnings and net worth details are not disclosed yet. Nevertheless, as being the son of a celebrity father, Travis barker, and mother Shanna Moakler, he enjoys the personal freedom of using their fortunes. His father, Travis Barker, has an estimated net worth of about $45 Million, whereas his mother Shanna's net worth is about $15 million.
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Ag Briefs: Class III Milk Price grazes 2014 mark
Class III Milk Price grazes 2014 mark
Farmers are hoping their share of this month's milk check will reflect the (unimagined three months ago price) of $24.54/cwt. released by the USDA for July for Class III milk.
The July price is $3.50 over June's price and a whopping $6.99 higher than the Federal Order Class III price this time last year. The last time the Class III price was this high was back in Oct. 2014 when it was announced at $26.40.
A few short months ago farmers saw prices just above the $12 mark. The all milk price for June 2020 was $19.50/cwt., just $1.60 more than this time last year, according to the USDA.
2020 Falcon Frontier Days Rodeo cancelled
The 2020 Falcon Frontier Days Rodeo held at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls each fall will not be held this year.
Given concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, the UWRF Rodeo Club has decided to cancel the Falcon Frontier Days Rodeo scheduled for September 11 and 12.
220,000+ WI households to receive extra FoodShare benefits
The public health emergency declared by Governor Tony Evers on July 30 enables the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) to once again provide additional FoodShare benefits to eligible households. These benefits will help those Wisconsin families with the costs of food for July and August.
Wisconsin families received emergency benefits in March, April, and May; however, because the state was no longer under a public health emergency, families did not receive additional benefits in June. The additional July benefits will be available on QUEST cards on August 9, and the additional August benefits will be available on QUEST cards on August 23.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over farm story
A federal judge in Iowa has dismissed a $77.5 million lawsuit California Rep. Devin Nunes filed against a major media organization that alleged he was defamed in a magazine story about his family's Iowa dairy farm.
Nunes filed the lawsuit in September 2019 in federal court in Iowa against Esquire publisher Hearst Magazines and former reporter Ryan Lizza. It alleges a Sept. 30, 2018, story about the farm has caused "injury to his good name and professional reputation."
Judge C.J. Williams found that Nunes failed to prove that Lizza's article contained false and defamatory statements about him. according to an Associated Press report.
Nunes in the latest lawsuit repeatedly refers to the Esquire story by Lizza, entitled "Devin Nunes's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret" as a "hit piece."
The story focused on Nunes' parents, brother and other family members who have lived and operated a family dairy farm in Sibley, Iowa for more than a decade even though Nunes continued to tout his deep roots around his family's Tulare, California, dairy farms.
Lizza claims Nunes and his family kept their move from California to Iowa a secret. The story also delves into the sensitive issue of immigrants living illegally in Iowa and working at the state's dairy farms.
Powerful derecho leaves path of devastation across Midwest
A rare storm packing 100 mph winds and with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it moved through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan.
The storm known as a derecho lasted several hours Monday as it tore from eastern Nebraska across Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois, had the wind speed of a major hurricane, and likely caused more widespread damage than a normal tornado, according to an Associated Press report.
Across Iowa, large trees fell on cars and houses. Some semi-trailers flipped over or were blown off highways. Farmers reported that some grain bins were destroyed and fields were flattened, but the extent of damage to Iowa's agriculture industry wasn't immediately clear.
USDA to buy $30M in shrimp to aid seafood industry
The Gulf of Mexico seafood industry is getting help from the federal government.
The USDAsays it will buy $30 million worth of shrimp from Gulf Coast fishermen in an effort to stabilize the industry, according to Associated Press.
The announcement comes after Louisiana and Mississippi officials called for federal assistance over fears that the price of seafood could collapse because of an excess in product amid the pandemic, news outlets reported.
Louisiana is the second-largest supplier of seafood in the nation.
Destructive European Chafer beetle discovered
The European chafer beetle, an insect that can cause major damage to turf grass, has been found for the first time in Minnesota.
A resident of south Minneapolis first noticed large swarms of beetles in their yard at dusk and reported the find to a University of Minnesota Extension entomologist who suspected the beetles were European chafers and reported them to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). The MDA worked with the USDA to confirm the identity of the insect since it had never been found in Minnesota before.
The European chafer beetle was discovered in the United States in 1940 in New York state and is currently found in the northeastern U. S., as well as Michigan and Wisconsin.
The grub of the European chafer can cause more damage to turf than Japanese beetles because it spends a longer portion of the summer feeding on turf. However, adults do not eat at all, so they do not defoliate other plants like Japanese beetles are known to do. Home lawns, golf courses, and turf growers could be significantly impacted if the European chafer beetle becomes established in Minnesota.
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Former Clemson and ECU football player drowns during family outing
Posted: Jul 6, 2019 / 05:36 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 6, 2019 / 05:39 PM EDT
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) – Former Clemson and East Carolina running back Tyshon Dye drowned Friday after swimming in a lake during a family outing.
Dye was 25 years old.
Elbert County Corner Chuck Almond told several media outlets Dye was at Richard B. Russell State Park in Georgia when he tired in the water and could not make it to shore. The coroner’s office ruled Dye’s death accidental.
Dye played at Elbert County Comprehensive High School before coming to Clemson. He was a reserve on the Tigers’ 2016 national championship team then transferred to East Carolina for his final college season.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said everyone with the Tigers was heartbroken over Dye’s death. Swinney called his former player one of the “sweetest souls” he’d ever known and was praying for Dye’s family.
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20. Because Bernice changes during the course of "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," she's said to be a _______ character. A. static B. one-dimensional C. dynamic D. symbolic
Because Bernice changes during the course of "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," she's said to be a dynamic character.
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16. Another term for doing your fair share of work is A. being prompt. B. balancing horizontal and vertical relationships. C. carrying your own weight. D. communicating honestly.
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Another term for doing your fair share of work is: carrying your own weight.
4. The most difficult kind of frustration a person must deal with is probably A. financial frustration. B. not being appreciated on the job. C. general frustration when everything seems to be going wrong. D. getting a poor grade after working hard on school project.
The most difficult kind of frustration a person must deal with is probably general frustration when everything seems to be going wrong.
Which of these is most important to success in your job? A. Keeping busy B. Showing up and being on time C. Spending quality time with your supervisor D. Socializing with your coworkers
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The chief reason that family and friends are frequent targets of aggression is that A. they're convenient. B. frustration-producing obstacles are often unclear. C. as obstacles, they're unremovable. D. they cause the most frustration.
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8. You can often tell what a word means by its _______ in a sentence. A. context B. spelling C. placement D. order
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Coronavirus in NY: New Yorkers must wear masks or cover face in public, Cuomo says
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New Yorkers will soon have to start wearing masks or cloth coverings over their mouths and noses in public to help fight the novel coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
Cuomo issued an executive order mandating the masks be worn whenever those in New York can't maintain at least six feet of space between themselves and others in public, citing the social-distancing measure taken to limit the risk of infection.
"If you are in public and you cannot maintain social distancing, then have a mask," Cuomo said.
The order takes effect Friday at 8 p.m. to allow people time to obtain masks or cloth coverings to follow the new rules, Cuomo said, adding local authorities will be tasked with enforcing the mandate.
It applies to anyone over the age of two.
He noted there could be a civil penalty imposed in the future if people don't follow the new rules.
More: How to make your own face mask to stop the spread of coronavirus
The order comes after the Trump administration earlier this month advised people to start wearing face masks in public to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a reversal on previous guidance that urged people not to wear masks.
For months, the federal government recommended the general public not wear masks, in part to help preserve the supply for health care workers.
Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, had previously said the general public did not need to wear masks unless they came into contact with coronavirus patients or if they were sick.
Cuomo's mask-wearing mandate comes as New York's death toll reached 11,586 as of Wednesday afternoon, up 752 from the prior day. The figure didn't include thousands of probable coronavirus deaths reported in New York City connected to a new method of counting the virus's death toll, though Cuomo said the state will update its reporting methodology in the coming days.
Cuomo described how people would be wearing the masks on public transit, in grocery stores and crowded streets. He noted people could still take walks and jog once the mandate takes effect.
"You wear a mask, you keep it below your chin, and then when you are running and come close to a person, you either run across the street or you put the mask up over your mouth and nose," he said.
Meanwhile, guidelines from the World Health Organization advise people to limit the number of times they touch masks or cloth coverings in public.
"Avoid touching the mask while using it; if you do, clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water," WHO guidelines state.
The CDC guidelines for cloth coverings advise they should be "routinely washed depending on the frequency of use."
The CDC added, "A cloth face covering is not intended to protect the wearer, but it may prevent the spread of virus from the wearer to others."
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Yaozizhai - an 'off-the-beaten-track' area of Zhangjiajie National Park
Last Update: 6th October 2020
What is Yaozizhai?
Located in the northeast of Zhangjiejie National Forest Park, Yaozizhai Mountain is around 1,050 meters tall. Few of visitors, especially Chinese tourists, explore the mountain due to its steepness.
Yaozizhai Fast Facts
Chinese Name: Yaozizhai (鹞子寨)
Length: 12 x kilometers
Things to do there: Photography, hiking
Who visits: Photographers, Hikers, Adventure enthusiasts!
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What to expect at Yaozizhai
Yaozizhai Mountain is situated in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. It takes about 6 hours to hike the whole tour route to the mountain. There is no other transportation method except with foot to explore the mountain. The trails here are very characteristic. There are "mushrooms", "footprints", "quincuncial piles" and "staff" made of stones. What is more distinctive is that the attractions here were all named by the Generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Yaozizhai Area is the largest scenic area in Wulingyuan with the most scenic spots and the most tour routes.
Yaozizhai offers five tour routes, including Baiying Valley, Top of Village, Pine Ridge, Dove Tree Bay and Valley of Flowers, with more than 100 attractions. Attractions such as the Heaven Bridge, Laoyingzui, the Rabbit Looks at the Moon and so on have long been famous overseas, while more than 80 new spots in the area are newly open to visitors, such as Paishan Daohai, Lingkong Jinghun, Shenxian Cave, Bihai Songhua etc.
Best time to visit Yaozizhai
If you are planning to visit Yaozizhai for photography purposes, you can visit it around the year as it presents different stunning views in 4 seasons. Generally speaking, it is recommended that you visit it in April, May, September and October for the four months are not too hot or too cold.
How to get to Yaozizhai
Yaozizhai Mountain is closest to National Forest Park Ticket Station. After entering the station, walk forward for 5 minutes. Arrive at Oxygen Square (氧吧广场). Continue walking by the big iron concentric lock and you will see the gate of Yaozizhai. There are the tourists bus from Zhangjiajie Bus Station to National Forest Ticket Station. Therefore, there are several options.
Rent a car from Zhangjiajie airport, Zhangjiajie Train Station or Zhangjiajie Bus Station to the National Forest Park Ticket Station. This is the quickest and most direct option.
Take a flight to Zhangjiajie airport from Guilin, Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi’an and other cities. Then, rent a car to Zhangjiejie Train Station to take the shuttle bus. It takes 40 minutes drive from the station to National Forest Park Ticket Station. Alternatively, rent a car to the ticket station.
Take a train to Zhangjiajie train station from Guangzhou, Nanning, Shenzhen, Wuchang and other cities. Then, walk to the Zhangjiajie Bus Station to take the tourists bus. It takes 40 minutes drive from the station to National Forest Park Ticket Station. Alternatively, rent a car to the ticket station.
Additional Yaozizhai Travel Advice
As Yaozizhai is located in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park which is part of Wulingyuan Scenic Area, visitors can enter the the park from National Park Ticket Station with the pass ticket for Wulingyuan Scenic Area. The pass ticket is valid in four days from the date when you get it ( For example, if the ticket is issued at 13:00 on Monday 9th July, 2018, the ticket is valid by 13:00 on Friday 13th July, 2018). You could take a complimentary eco-friendly car with the pass ticket. With the pass ticket, you can visit all the four scenic areas mentioned above and can enter the Wulingyuan from one of five entrances at the five ticket stations.
After entering the ticket station, walk forward for 5 minutes. Arrive at Oxygen Square (氧吧广场). Climb the stone steps on the left. If your condition is unfit for climbing, please take the shuttle bus in the area with your pass ticket to the lower station of the cable car for Yellowstone Village.
As at 6th October 2020, admission fee which is applied between March 1st and November 30th plus the Spring Festival is as follows. Admission fee to Wulingyuan Area is 248 CNY per adult (including the insurance); Children under 1.3m (1.3m not included) and the elders above 70 years old (70 years old included) are free of charge whilst these people are charged 68 CNY per person for the eco-friendly car(including insurance); Children between 1.3m (1.3m included) and 1.5m (1.5m not included) are charged 163 CNY per person(including insurance); The elder between 60 years old (60 years old included) and 70 years old ( 70 years old not included) are charged 168 CNY per person (including insurance)
As at 6th October 2020, admission fee which is applied between December 1st and February 28th/29th is as follows. Admission fee to Wulingyuan Area is 126 CNY per adult (including the insurance). Notes: The area can be closed because of the snow in winter.
For the latest pricing information, please contact us via email (info@wendyweitours.com)
It is recommended that you take an umbrella with you when visiting the Wulingyuan Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie.
If you plan to visit the area in summer, you’d better take the sunscreen, floral water, sunglasses, band-aid and hats. Please remember to wear antiskid hiking shoes.
During the National Day Festival of China, Spring Festival and the summer holiday, pricing for hotels and restaurants also goes up as they are the peak season in China.
The ticket offices of most scenic spots offer luggage storage service.
Be sure not to explore the areas marked with "No Passing" and "Dangerous" .
The mountain road is wet and slippery in rainy days. In addition, rain and fog can also lead to unclear sight. Thus, it is not suggested that you risk climbing the mountain in the rain.
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Estatutos Seleccionados: Minnesota
Chapter 257. Children; Custody, Legitimacy
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518.06. Dissolution of marriage; legal separation; grounds; uncontested legal separation
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Chapter 604. Civil Liability
604.30. Definitions
604.31. Cause of action for nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images; sexual solicitation
Chapter 609. Criminal Code
609.0341. Maximum fines for gross misdemeanors; felonies
609.26. Depriving another of custodial or parental rights
609.221. Assault in the first degree
609.222. Assault in the second degree
609.223. Assault in the third degree
609.2231. Assault in the fourth degree
609.224. Assault in the fifth degree
609.2242. Domestic assault
609.2244. Presentence domestic abuse investigations
609.342. Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree
609.343. Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree
609.344. Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree
609.345. Criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree
609.3451. Criminal sexual conduct in the fifth degree
Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
609.507. Falsely reporting child abuse
Theft and Related Crimes
609.527 Identity theft
Public Misconduct or Nuisance
609.748. Harassment; restraining order
609.749. Harassment; stalking; penalties
Crimes Against Reputation
609.765. Criminal defamation
Crimes Relating to Communications
609.79. Obscene or harassing telephone calls
Chapter 617. Abortion; Obscenity; Nuisance
617.261. Nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images
Chapter 624. Crimes, Other Provisions
624.713. Certain persons not to possess firearms
Chapter 629. Extradition, Detainers, Arrest, Bail
Warrants; Bail Bonds
629.715. Release in cases involving crimes against persons; surrender of firearms
Chapter 645. Interpretation of Statutes and Rules
Construction of Words and Phrases
645.11. Published notice
Subdivision 1. Gross misdemeanors. Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $1,000 or for a maximum sentence of imprisonment of one year or which is defined as a gross misdemeanor shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $3,000 and for a maximum sentence of imprisonment of one year.
Subd. 2. Felonies. (a) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $2,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $4,000.
(b) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $3,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $5,000.
(c) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $5,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $10,000.
(d) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $7,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $14,000.
(e) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $10,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $20,000.
(f) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $15,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $30,000.
(g) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $20,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $35,000.
(h) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $25,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $40,000.
(i) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $30,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $45,000.
(j) Any law of this state which provides for a maximum fine of $40,000 shall, on or after August 1, 1983, be deemed to provide for a maximum fine of $50,000.
Subd. 3. Repealed by Laws 1984, c. 628, art. 3, § 10.
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Charging Ahead: Brent Perry & his Sterling PBES Team Drive Maritime Battery Tech
Greg Trauthwein November 20, 2020
Brent Perry, CEO of Sterling PBES is a 40+ year veteran of the marine business, and one of the pioneers in delivering battery solutions to boats and ships at sea. Photo Courtesy Sterling PBES
Brent Perry, CEO of Sterling PBES is a 40+ year veteran of the marine business, and one of the pioneers in delivering battery solutions to boats and ships at sea.
Please give us a by the numbers look at Sterling PBES today?
Right now we are sitting in a position where we had anticipated delivering somewhere in the neighborhood of $20-21 million worth of product, which is about 35 megawatt hours. And we’re scheduled to blow past that to almost $40 million. And we’re looking at the following year as a year of over a $100 million, maybe $120 million with about a quarter of that already committed today.
Put in perspective the pace of acceleration of change you see on the uptake of new battery technology?
Today 80% of the vessels that are under design consideration include energy storage in some shape or form. Initially it was ferries and tugboats that had the practical application and made financial sense. That’s now expanded to the point where a good portion of our business is being made up of blue water carriers. I’m the chairman of Zero Emissions Shipping Technology Association (ZESTA), and our role is to help influence IMO with sustainable legislation. Basically we’re creating metrics within IMO that ships are going to be graded on their environmental contribution or their environmental impact, with freight rates decided by environmental impact too.
What are some of the unique challenges within the marine industry versus a land-based industry?
You have some application challenges in that marine tends to run 24/7/365. So you can’t transfer a car technology into the marine industry. The user requirement, the service requirement, the uptime requirement is significantly different and that requires another level of execution at the engineering stage. The other is that, to be perfectly blunt, nobody needs a battery. A battery by itself is just an element. And ship owners and operators and fleet managers today aren’t looking to become experts in energy storage, they want to buy a solution. So bringing in the power electronics, AC or DC, the batteries, the fuel cells, the new fuel structures that everybody’s looking at and packaging them up into something that is turnkey so that the customer basically can plug it in, in one direction or the other and run is maybe one of the more unique challenges about the marine industry, because it’s such a complex infrastructure onboard a ship.
And the more that people incorporate energy storage, fundamentally, the better payback and the better improvement of performance that you have. I had a long conversation with an owner of 300 offshore vessels the other day, and (he) asked “what is the fundamental value of your industry?” I said, “it’s a really simple, one-line drawing. You need generation on one side, you have the battery in the middle, and then you have the application at the end. And if I can figure out how generation is going to charge my batteries, at constant speed, constant power, and my batteries are going to supply all the dynamic load that the application needs. So that’s the way I can deliver the fundamental payback that these guys need to have.” If I do that, then you have a payback today of between one and three years. And these are systems that will be installed for up to 30 years. So the metrics today are to the point where we’re not pushing into the space anymore, Greg, we’re being pulled into the space.
Sterling PBES created CanPower, a containerized micro grid, incorporating all of the fundamental safety and management systems. “And because we’ve changed the design of our battery a little bit, instead of it being 100-volt module, we’ve now doubled the number of cells. So it’s a 200-volt module.” Photo Courtesy Sterling PBES
When you look at the industry by vessel niche or geography, where do you see opportunity in the coming one to five years?
That’s kind of the frightening part, Greg. Northern Europe and Scandinavia were the markets that started the ball rolling. It’s a fundamental support mechanism of powerful government support, legislative support, social support, and a willingness to actually put projects in the water.
The Northern European market has sustained itself and is growing quickly, which we’ve seen that through commitment to zero emission vessels by 2030, 2040, 2050. Now, places like the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, India, China, even North America are starting to take up the mantle ... they are basically where we were in Norway 10 years ago. The conversations I have with the ship owners and operators feels a little bit like déjà vu, except now we can point at the number of vessels that are actually working every day.
Can you share details of a recent project or two that illustrate the solution that you discussed?
This year, we saw the need for something beyond energy storage, and we created what we call CanPower, which is a containerized micro grid. Basically it incorporates all of the fundamental safety and management systems, incorporates the AC power conversion equipment and the energy storage itself within a box. And because we’ve changed the design of our battery a little bit, instead of it being 100-volt module, we’ve now doubled the number of cells. So it’s a 200-volt module.
We were able to increase the energy density of a 20-foot container to almost two megawatt hour, including the power electronics. On a commercial vessel, footprint size costs money, so the smaller the footprint the better. That one solution has completely transformed our business. Today we’re applying it with offshore blue water vessels as a cold ironing solution. So not only does it supplement and augment their offshore performance by replacing generators in operation during transit, but it gives them the latitude to come into a port, either under electric propulsion, if that’s part of the package.
So completely self-contained cold ironing with the ability to be a peak shave, black start, preventive performance augmentation tool when it’s doing its regular trip. Which three years ago, the cost metrics did not make any sense for that at all. We’ve recently signed a deal to provide a fleet of LNG carriers with these cold ironing solutions. The other one which is really dear to my heart is a partnership we’re building with a company called Cavotec, which provides the onshore charging connections for a lot of our battery systems. A partnership with a group like Cavotec to tie charging into our battery systems in a way that is suitable for these kinds of vessels is a unique way for us to offer a turnkey to the customer as well. And part of that is an innovation which I’m revealing for the first time: We’re launching the cartridge battery.
Meet the Cartridge Battery: "We’ve designed a battery system that will plug into the boat like a battery will plug onto your drill. And with a small crane onshore, we can pick the battery up and off the boat when it’s depleted, and drop in a fully charged battery," said Perry. Photo Courtesy Sterling PBES
What, exactly, is a Cartridge Battery?
We’ve looked at, for example, fast passenger vessels that can’t add a lot of weight. We’ve designed a battery system that will plug into the boat like a battery will plug onto your drill. And with a small crane onshore, we can pick the battery up and off the boat when it’s depleted, and drop in a fully charged battery.
And we build an infrastructure for charging the batteries on the shore, just like a car charging station. So we take away the need to manage fast charging, the added weight and everything that the battery system brings onto these boats. In essence it replace it with a battery system that’s probably lighter than the old fuel heavy engine that you had.
So you can have three or four batteries on one ship, or you can have a single battery. But what we can do now is treat the battery like it’s a switchable commodity within an infrastructure. They’ll be able to use different batteries because the form factor is all the same. And that, I think, is going to revolutionize that aspect of the industry.
What do you see as the chief challenges to growing the battery business in the maritime sector?
Greg, the chief challenge is that the acceptance of this as a commercial technology has happened too fast. When you think about it, I have the oldest installed battery systems in the marine industry in the world, but I don’t have a system yet that has been running for 10 years. When you think about the global adoption and the pace of business growth in this market, it usually would take 10 years to be in business just to prove that you should be in the business. The knowledge that we’re gaining from every time a vessel travels with the battery is contributing to the improvement of the type approval standards, the engineering and the safety of the systems.
So managing that and working with the class and the flag authorities to ensure that we are always delivering a safe product and not letting the standards down, if you want, to deal with the demand of the market, but effectively making sure we keep everybody safe and do this, is a big challenge in the industry.
We’ve had our own technical issues in the applications as we’ve tried things that nobody had ever tried before. It’s the nature of the beast.
But we learn from them and we incorporate them into our design and make it better for the next day. But that is probably, to me, the single biggest challenge that we face is that we have to keep up with the safety and the engineering standards.
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Pitchfork Pat Plots Sticking It to the GOP
By Paul A. Gigot
Sept. 3, 1999 12:21 am ET
Al Gore hasn't had much luck lately, but he may soon hit the jackpot: Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan are teaming up to burn another Bush.
The same pair combined, under separate cover, to grease President Bush's exit in 1992. Now they may unite to deny the White House to his son, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, by running Mr. Buchanan as the Reform Party candidate in 2000.
This is the real news behind Mr. Buchanan's dalliance with divorce from the party that made him famous. His recent fifth-place finish in Iowa means that as a GOP presidential candidate Pitchfork Pat is now an American Gothic. Steve Forbes and Gary Bauer are fresher voices on the right. Yet Richard Nixon's favorite writer still sees himself as a man of political destiny--and debating Eleanor Clift isn't it.
Enter the Perotistas, who thanks to liberal campaign reformers have $13 million in public money to offer the Reform Party nominee next year. In 1995 Mr. Buchanan electrified a Perot crowd in Texas with his populist and protectionist riffs. His biggest cheerleaders now are Perot allies who see him as the key to making Reform a permanent political force.
"When you run through his issues, other than the social issues, our policies are about the same," says Pat Choate, the economics pamphleteer who was Mr. Perot's running mate in 1996. Another key backstage promoter is Roger Milliken, the textile magnate who has teamed up with Mr. Perot to fight free trade.
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Why do the stars shine and how do thermonuclear weapons work?
When you look at a night sky without city lights, there is more stars than the number of sand particles on all beaches in the world .How pale they look, each of them is like the Sun in their system. The life of the creatures depends on the stars (from the non-astrological):
Creation of essential elements for life
Usable Energy
Increasing diversity by mutating genetic material
Our bodies are made of remnants of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies
The nearest star, the Sun, is medium-sized 4.6 billion years old and converts about 4,000,000,000 kg of mass into energy (ΔE = Δm c2) every second.The mass that turns into energy is usually broadcast in photon format. The photon formed in the nucleus was born in a very dense plasma and interacts with continuously charged particles, leaving the surface after colliding about 1 million years and reaching the world in 8 minutes. Our energy is ready to be used.How it works?
Basically, a fusion reaction takes place inside the stars. Approximately 73% of the Sun’s mass is hydrogen.
It is obtained by converting 4 hydrogen nuclei (protons) into helium nuclei.In this process, we can understand why energy is released by Bonding Energy.
If you go from left to right on the chart, the stars will shine (fusion) and if you go from right to left, atomic bombs (fission) will explode.
Nuclear binding energy: the energy required to separate the nucleus of the atom into its components. Strong nuclear force is very short-range but very powerful, it helps to hold nucleons together.When we examine the binding energies per nucleon graph, the binding energy per nucleon increases until Iron-56 and then decreases. If you want to find the mass of an atom, you subtract the binding energy from the energy of its nucleons.Energy and mass are two sides of the coin.
Stagnant energy of an atom = Energy of the nucleons it contains-Binding energy
A Helium atom contains 2 protons, 2 neutrons, if we compare a weighing scale with 2 protons, 2 neutrons and Helium atoms, we would see that the Helium atom is lighter because some of the energy is used to keep the nucleons contained in it strong nuclear force.
A reaction in the sun is deuterium + tritium = helium + neutron + 17.6 Mev energy is given out,If you operate with neutron proton and bonding energies, you can find energy around 17.6 Mev.
According to classical mechanics, the sun should not be burned, the core temperature is 15.000.000 degrees on average and it is insufficient to continue the fusion. Thanks to quantum tunneling, energy barriers can be overcome.
As a result of this process, stars form heavier elements with nucleosynthesis, this process runs up to the iron element because the binding energy starts to decrease after iron, the energy of the element to be created is higher than the inputs.
The stars that begin to form iron in their nucleus begin to die, and if they are not very large, they eventually pass the super nova and scatter the essential elements of life in the universe.If elements are produced up to iron, it may be asked where gold or heavier elements come from, they are formed by star collisions or high energy at the moment of supernova.
From creating to destroying
Thermonuclear weapons is an attempt to bring the sun to the earth.When you start compressing a gas, it gradually starts to increase in temperature, first it loses its electrons, ionizes and turns into plasma, then it loses its atomic structure and divides into proarks and neutrons, and then becomes nucleons.
Before a star is born, it is in the form of a cloud of dust and gas. The gravitational sphere begins to compress the particles to take the form of a sphere. Protons are positively charged. When they approach each other, they apply electrostatic force (increasing)and deviate from their path before they reach the distance at which nuclear force can interact.This is called the Coulomb barrier.
Atoms or nucleons with enough kinetic energy enter the range of strong nuclear force and nuclear reactions may occur when they approach each other by 1 Fentometer (10 ^ -15 meters).The stars can do this heating process thanks to their huge mass, so how can we carry out this heating process in the world: Do not try it at home!
The main parts of Thermonuclear Weapons:
Chemical explosive
Atomic bomb (Fission)
Hydrogen bomb (Fusion)
Basic operation The chemical explosive transports the fission bomb to the critical mass and starts a nuclear reaction to the chain. Atom bomb is used to match the hydrogen bomb.
Understanding the critical mass is important for controlling weapons, we can ask the question how a chemical reaction starts a nuclear reaction.
Over 90% enriched uranium-235 or plutonium-239 does not initiate a self-chain reaction because there is too much gap between atoms and neutrons leak out.
There are 3 steps you can take to reach the critical mass:
1-Adding more items
2-Reducing the surface area that neutrons can escape
3-Increasing the density
The chemical explosive compresses the fissile material, increasing its density, making it explosive spherical, so it has less surface area and Beryllium reflectors are placed around the sphere, a fast neutron trying to escape, hitting the beryllium reflector, slowing the sugar and continuing the fission with an increased number.The atomic bomb is now activated, the mass transforms into energy and radiates to blindly illuminate even the darkest night.
Before the shock wave disrupts the integrity of the weapon, the high-energy Gamma and X-rays (speed of light) start heating the hydrogen bomb to millions of degrees, which takes place at 550 billionth of a second.
The fuel of the hydrogen bomb is Lithium deuterite, it reacts with neutron and forms Helium + Tritium, then Helium + Tritium reacts and energy is released, this process takes place in 50 billionth of a second.The energy released in fusion is much more than fission.
The energy of 10,000,000,000 kg of TNT is in a very hot plasma, the plasma expands and begins to cool by forming a vortex.
It causes sudden changes in the pressure of the air around the shock wave, lowers the ambient temperature, as a result, moisture in the air condenses and briefly creates Wilson clouds. It can also be observed in jet aircraft that perform suddenly maneuver.
If there was no gravity, the cloud would have been dispersed in a similar way to the sphere. The famous mushroom cloud formed by these explosions can be seen even from 965 km away and can reach as high as 30 km.
A person looking from Istanbul can easily see the mushroom cloud in Mersin unless there is a big obstacle.Objects in the regions near the center of the explosion evaporate and mix into the cloud due to the plasma, which is even warmer than the sun.Then they fall on the earth with radioactive particles depending on the direction of the wind.
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We Need Fathers Helping With Child Care To Smash Gender Stereotypes: MP Rajeev Satav
By Rajeev Satav in #SansadUnplugged
2nd August, 2018
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of #SansadUnplugged, a campaign by Young Leaders for Active Citizenship India and Youth Ki Awaaz where your elected representatives engage directly with you on key policy issues that matter. Find out more and engage with those you vote for here.
I am a father and have experienced the challenges faced in devoting sufficient time towards childcare. Being a member of the Block Panchayat during our son’s birth, and a member of the Legislative Assembly when we were blessed with a daughter, I was amidst the people soon after the birth of my children. It was my wife, Dr. Pradnya, and our families who took on the onus of taking care of our infants. It struck me then how fathers in India aren’t expected to lend an equal hand when it comes to infant care and this fact always lingered with me.
Two years ago, in August 2016, the Maternity Benefit Bill was passed in the Upper House during the monsoon session. I have been putting several amendments to various legislations that come up for discussion in the House. So, when the Maternity Benefit Bill came up for discussion in Lok Sabha in March 2017, I proposed an amendment to introduce the concept of ‘paternity’ benefit in the Bill and to change its name accordingly. Surprisingly, I was not allowed to even introduce the concept. This, however, turned out to be a blessing in disguise as this gave me the idea of introducing a full-fledged and comprehensive bill on Paternity Benefits.
During discussions on the Maternity Benefit Bill, MPs across party lines had said there were lacunae in the bill and raised the issue of how, unless a similar legislation is introduced for paternity leave, it will work against the interest of women. Due to a churn in our social fabric and a spurt in the number of nuclear families, lawmakers and organizations need to take cognizance of this reality and tailor laws and policies accordingly.
As per a 2014 report by International Labour Organization, “Fathers who take leave, especially those taking two weeks or more immediately after childbirth, are more likely to be involved with their young children. This can have positive effects for gender equality in the home and at work and may indicate shifts in relationships and perceptions of parenting roles and prevailing stereotypes.”
The holistic development of a newborn should be the joint responsibility of both the mother and the father. Their involvement and time is sine qua non (essential condition) for the proper well-being of the newborn. The absence of paternity leave is reflective of a stereotype that child care is the sole responsibility of the mother. An effective policy outlining paternity leave will be instrumental in bringing about a change in attitude and bridge gender divide in matters of child care.
Under the Maternity Benefit Act, the entire financial burden has been imposed on employers and absence of any paternity leave might be counterproductive as it may discourage the private sector, which is driving women employment, from hiring, retaining or promoting women. A recent report confirms my apprehension and worryingly states how the Maternity Benefit Act, in its current form, may put 1.2 crore women and families under acute financial stress. There has been a global shift away from a system which provides for a full employer liability system towards a collective social security scheme which involves contribution from the employee, employer and Government towards maternity and paternity benefits. India needs to move in this direction.
To reduce gender divide and recognize the need for equal participation of parents in childcare, I had the privilege to introduce the Paternity Benefit Bill, 2017 on July 21, 2017, in Lok Sabha. The Bill fixes many problems present in the Maternity Benefit Act.
Ambit and scope: The Maternity Benefit Act is only applicable to women in the formal sector, that is just 4% (60 lakh) of the women workforce. Paternity Benefit Bill aims to extend the paternity benefit to both formal and informal sector, thus covering the entire 32 crore male workforce.
Period of Paternity Leave: The maximum period for which any man with less than two surviving children shall be entitled to paternity benefit shall be fifteen days.
Provision for Adoptive Father: The bill also talks about providing similar benefits to adoptive fathers and those who have had a child through surrogacy.
Creation of a dedicated fund for Paternal Benefit: The government should constitute a Parental Benefit Scheme Fund in which all employees (irrespective of gender), employers and the Central government shall contribute in a pre-defined ratio.
India currently has a 15-day paternal leave policy for central government employees (under, CCS (Leave) Rule 43-A), and none for the private or unorganized sector; although several private companies have their own paternal leave policies in place.
In future, India must explore parental leave, a period of longer-term leave available to either or both parents to allow them to look after an infant or young child, usually after maternity or paternity leave expires. Generally, women avail parental leave and this weakens their footing in the labour market and exacerbates gender inequalities both in the workplace and in the division of work at home. Eighteen countries offer paid parental leave equivalent to 2/3rd or more of previous earnings. According to the ILO report, most countries are setting out parental leave as a shared entitlement; where either the mother or the father has the right to take parental leave and the parents determine the allocation of leave themselves.
Also read: Indian Men Need Paternity Leave And These 5 Dads Explain Why
The inception of a decent paternity leave policy may not entirely offset the imbalance, but it could act as a precursor to incremental attitudinal changes, and the blurring of gender role distinctions. India being a developing country also needs to ensure gender equality in childcare for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Now is the time to move towards the grant of paternity benefit to ensure equal participation of both the father and the mother in future.
Rajeev Satav is the Member of Parliament from Hingoli in Maharashtra. He was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 elections.
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Sir, this is a brilliant initiative by you to ensure both optimal child care and workplace gender equality. I hope it gets adequate support in the Parliament.
Regarding your article, I would like to make a suggestion. It is very hard to distinguish between the words paTERnal and paRENTal in your article as both words use the same alphabets. It took me quite some time to grasp the meaning of your article as I continued to read paRENTal as paTERnal. Please highlight the difference with bold, italics or underline in your article so that readers grasp the meaning correctly – this is just a humble suggestion.
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An ambassador and trained facilitator under Eco Femme (a social enterprise working towards menstrual health in south India), Sanjina is also an active member of the MHM Collective- India and Menstrual Health Alliance- India. She has conducted Menstrual Health sessions in multiple government schools adopted by Rotary District 3240 as part of their WinS project in rural Bengal. She has also delivered training of trainers on SRHR, gender, sexuality and Menstruation for Tomorrow’s Foundation, Vikramshila Education Resource Society, Nirdhan trust and Micro Finance, Tollygunj Women In Need, Paint It Red in Kolkata.
Now as an MH Fellow with YKA, she’s expanding her impressive scope of work further by launching a campaign to facilitate the process of ensuring better menstrual health and SRH services for women residing in correctional homes in West Bengal. The campaign will entail an independent study to take stalk of the present conditions of MHM in correctional homes across the state and use its findings to build public support and political will to take the necessary action.
Saurabh has been associated with YKA as a user and has consistently been writing on the issue MHM and its intersectionality with other issues in the society. Now as an MHM Fellow with YKA, he’s launched the Right to Period campaign, which aims to ensure proper execution of MHM guidelines in Delhi’s schools.
The long-term aim of the campaign is to develop an open culture where menstruation is not treated as a taboo. The campaign also seeks to hold the schools accountable for their responsibilities as an important component in the implementation of MHM policies by making adequate sanitation infrastructure and knowledge of MHM available in school premises.
Read more about his campaign.
Harshita is a psychologist and works to support people with mental health issues, particularly adolescents who are survivors of violence. Associated with the Azadi Foundation in UP, Harshita became an MHM Fellow with YKA, with the aim of promoting better menstrual health.
Her campaign #MeriMarzi aims to promote menstrual health and wellness, hygiene and facilities for female sex workers in UP. She says, “Knowledge about natural body processes is a very basic human right. And for individuals whose occupation is providing sexual services, it becomes even more important.”
Meri Marzi aims to ensure sensitised, non-discriminatory health workers for the needs of female sex workers in the Suraksha Clinics under the UPSACS (Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society) program by creating more dialogues and garnering public support for the cause of sex workers’ menstrual rights. The campaign will also ensure interventions with sex workers to clear misconceptions around overall hygiene management to ensure that results flow both ways.
Read more about her campaign.
MH Fellow Sabna comes with significant experience working with a range of development issues. A co-founder of Project Sakhi Saheli, which aims to combat period poverty and break menstrual taboos, Sabna has, in the past, worked on the issue of menstruation in urban slums of Delhi with women and adolescent girls. She and her team also released MenstraBook, with menstrastories and organised Menstra Tlk in the Delhi School of Social Work to create more conversations on menstruation.
With YKA MHM Fellow Vineet, Sabna launched Menstratalk, a campaign that aims to put an end to period poverty and smash menstrual taboos in society. As a start, the campaign aims to begin conversations on menstrual health with five hundred adolescents and youth in Delhi through offline platforms, and through this community mobilise support to create Period Friendly Institutions out of educational institutes in the city.
A student from Delhi School of Social work, Vineet is a part of Project Sakhi Saheli, an initiative by the students of Delhi school of Social Work to create awareness on Menstrual Health and combat Period Poverty. Along with MHM Action Fellow Sabna, Vineet launched Menstratalk, a campaign that aims to put an end to period poverty and smash menstrual taboos in society.
As a start, the campaign aims to begin conversations on menstrual health with five hundred adolescents and youth in Delhi through offline platforms, and through this community mobilise support to create Period Friendly Institutions out of educational institutes in the city.
Find out more about the campaign here.
A native of Bhagalpur district – Bihar, Shalini Jha believes in equal rights for all genders and wants to work for a gender-equal and just society. In the past she’s had a year-long association as a community leader with Haiyya: Organise for Action’s Health Over Stigma campaign. She’s pursuing a Master’s in Literature with Ambedkar University, Delhi and as an MHM Fellow with YKA, recently launched ‘Project अल्हड़ (Alharh)’.
She says, “Bihar is ranked the lowest in India’s SDG Index 2019 for India. Hygienic and comfortable menstruation is a basic human right and sustainable development cannot be ensured if menstruators are deprived of their basic rights.” Project अल्हड़ (Alharh) aims to create a robust sensitised community in Bhagalpur to collectively spread awareness, break the taboo, debunk myths and initiate fearless conversations around menstruation. The campaign aims to reach at least 6000 adolescent girls from government and private schools in Baghalpur district in 2020.
Read more about the campaign here.
A psychologist and co-founder of a mental health NGO called Customize Cognition, Ritika forayed into the space of menstrual health and hygiene, sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights and gender equality as an MHM Fellow with YKA. She says, “The experience of working on MHM/SRHR and gender equality has been an enriching and eye-opening experience. I have learned what’s beneath the surface of the issue, be it awareness, lack of resources or disregard for trans men, who also menstruate.”
The Transmen-ses campaign aims to tackle the issue of silence and disregard for trans men’s menstruation needs, by mobilising gender sensitive health professionals and gender neutral restrooms in Lucknow.
A Computer Science engineer by education, Nitisha started her career in the corporate sector, before realising she wanted to work in the development and social justice space. Since then, she has worked with Teach For India and Care India and is from the founding batch of Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), a one of its kind organisation creating leaders for the development sector through its experiential learning post graduate program.
As a Youth Ki Awaaz Menstrual Health Fellow, Nitisha has started Let’s Talk Period, a campaign to mobilise young people to switch to sustainable period products. She says, “80 lakh women in Delhi use non-biodegradable sanitary products, generate 3000 tonnes of menstrual waste, that takes 500-800 years to decompose; which in turn contributes to the health issues of all menstruators, increased burden of waste management on the city and harmful living environment for all citizens.
Let’s Talk Period aims to change this by
Mobilising young people between the age of 18-35 to become ‘Eco-Period Champions’ by making the switch to a sustainable menstrual alternative and becoming advocates for the project
All existing and upcoming public institutions (pink toilets, washrooms, schools, colleges, government offices, government buildings) across East Delhi to have affordable provisions for sustainable menstrual product options
Find out more about her campaign here.
A former Assistant Secretary with the Ministry of Women and Child Development in West Bengal for three months, Lakshmi Bhavya has been championing the cause of menstrual hygiene in her district. By associating herself with the Lalana Campaign, a holistic menstrual hygiene awareness campaign which is conducted by the Anahat NGO, Lakshmi has been slowly breaking taboos when it comes to periods and menstrual hygiene.
A Gender Rights Activist working with the tribal and marginalized communities in india, Srilekha is a PhD scholar working on understanding body and sexuality among tribal girls, to fill the gaps in research around indigenous women and their stories. Srilekha has worked extensively at the grassroots level with community based organisations, through several advocacy initiatives around Gender, Mental Health, Menstrual Hygiene and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) for the indigenous in Jharkhand, over the last 6 years.
Srilekha has also contributed to sustainable livelihood projects and legal aid programs for survivors of sex trafficking. She has been conducting research based programs on maternal health, mental health, gender based violence, sex and sexuality. Her interest lies in conducting workshops for young people on life skills, feminism, gender and sexuality, trauma, resilience and interpersonal relationships.
A Guwahati-based college student pursuing her Masters in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bidisha started the #BleedwithDignity campaign on the technology platform Change.org, demanding that the Government of Assam install
biodegradable sanitary pad vending machines in all government schools across the state. Her petition on Change.org has already gathered support from over 90000 people and continues to grow.
Bidisha was selected in Change.org’s flagship program ‘She Creates Change’ having run successful online advocacy
campaigns, which were widely recognised. Through the #BleedwithDignity campaign; she organised and celebrated World Menstrual Hygiene Day, 2019 in Guwahati, Assam by hosting a wall mural by collaborating with local organisations. The initiative was widely covered by national and local media, and the mural was later inaugurated by the event’s chief guest Commissioner of Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) Debeswar Malakar, IAS.
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Incorporation of a Pd catalyst at the fuel electrode of a thin-film-based solid oxide cell by multi-layer deposition and its impact on low-temperature co-electrolysis
Cam Anh Thieu, Jongsup Hong, Hyoungchul Kim, Kyung Joong Yoon, Jong Ho Lee, Byung Kook Kim, Ji Won Son
To enhance the electrochemical performance and syngas production in low-temperature co-electrolysis (LT-Co-EC), incorporation of Pd into the nickel-yttria-stabilized zirconia (Ni-YSZ) fuel electrode functional layer (FEFL) of a thin film-based solid oxide cell (TF-SOC) by multi-layer thin film deposition was investigated. The optimal configuration to insert a Pd layer without disturbing the surface and cross-sectional microstructure of the FEFL was fabricated by alternating multi-layer deposition of Pd by sputtering and nickel oxide-yttria-stabilized zirconia (NiO-YSZ) by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). TF-SOCs with Pd (Pd-cell) and without Pd (Ref-cell) were fabricated and compared based on the electrochemical reaction and syngas production in LT-Co-EC. The results showed that the catalytic activity by forming the Pd-Ni alloy on the electrochemical performance and thermochemical reaction are improved by Pd incorporation at low temperatures (≤600 °C). Detailed microstructural analyses showed that Pd distributes from the electrode/electrolyte interface to a depth of several tens of microns in the anode support and forms a nano-structured Ni-Pd alloy, which contributes to improving the electrochemical reaction and thermochemical reactions such as water-gas-shift (WGS). It was also found that the performance stability was superior in the Pd-cell because pore array generation at the electrolyte/electrode interface was significantly suppressed in comparison with that of the Ref-cell.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ta00499k
The authors are grateful to the Global Frontier R & D Program on Center for Multiscale Energy Systems (Grant No. NRF-2015M3A6A7065442) of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP), and to the Institutional Program of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) for financial support.
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Thieu, C. A., Hong, J., Kim, H., Yoon, K. J., Lee, J. H., Kim, B. K., & Son, J. W. (2017). Incorporation of a Pd catalyst at the fuel electrode of a thin-film-based solid oxide cell by multi-layer deposition and its impact on low-temperature co-electrolysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(16), 7433-7444. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ta00499k
Thieu, Cam Anh ; Hong, Jongsup ; Kim, Hyoungchul ; Yoon, Kyung Joong ; Lee, Jong Ho ; Kim, Byung Kook ; Son, Ji Won. / Incorporation of a Pd catalyst at the fuel electrode of a thin-film-based solid oxide cell by multi-layer deposition and its impact on low-temperature co-electrolysis. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2017 ; Vol. 5, No. 16. pp. 7433-7444.
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Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing
The first comprehensive look at the groundbreaking field of energy medicine and how it can be used to diagnose and treat illness, from one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Today, more of us than ever are discovering the curative powers of energy medicine. Scientific studies continue to confirm its validity, and medical doctors are regularly prescribing treatments such as acupuncture to their patients. But even for those of us who have benefitted from such treatments, the question remains: what exactly is energy medicine, and how does it work?Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) scholar Jill Blakeway has been treating patients for more than twenty-five years. For Jill, the term “energy medicine” refers to the wide range of healing modalities used to diagnose and treat illness by manipulating the energy—the vital life force referred to as “qi” in TCM—that pulses through the cells of our bodies. But even this seasoned practitioner admits she doesn’t truly understand how some of her patients are healed under her care, and retains a healthy skepticism about her own abilities as well those of her peers. In Energy Medicine, Jill invites us on her global journey to better understand, apply, and explain this powerful healing force. Moving from her own clinic to the halls of academia, she talks to top healers, researchers, and practitioners—from the Stanford and Princeton professors researching the physics behind energy medicine and healing; to a Chinese Qi Gong master who manifests healing herbs directly from her palm; to a team of skeptical scientists who use “hands on” healing to repeatedly cure mammary cancer in mice. She also tells the story of how she discovered energy medicine and became one of the most sought-after healers in the world.Lively, entertaining, and informative, told in Jill’s funny, relatable, and wholly grounded voice, Energy Medicine bridges the gap between science and spirituality and offers a persuasive, evidence-based case that advances this ancient healing practice.
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Explained: How do Tizen OS vulnerabilities affect your Samsung devices?
The past calendar year hasn’t been kind to Samsung. From executives being arrested by the Korean government to fiery phones with the Note 7, the Samsung brand has taken quite the hit in previous months. Unfortunately, a new independent security study of their watch and TV operating system may add to the PR woes. Security researchers have reportedly found more than 40 flaws in the system, including the ability of hackers to completely hijack the devices remotely.
The lead researcher behind the exploits, Amihai Neiderman, cites the lack of security in multiple aspects of the code for Tizen OS, but the biggest is that certain flaws allow elevated privileges to the highest OS level. Using the Tizen app store which has this root file access, hackers can easily install their own code to take control of the devices if they wanted to do so.
“You can update a Tizen system with any malicious code you want,” he says.
“Tizen is going to be Samsung’s biggest thing. We might see the new Galaxies running Tizen, it could happen that soon. But right now Tizen is not safe enough for that.”
“may be the worst code I’ve ever seen,”
So what does this mean for the average consumer? Well, you don’t need to throw out your TV by any means…but you might want to cut off WiFi on it until news of updates to these risks are resolved. With the extent of the exploits having root access, they could indeed hijack your device and other information stored on the device. Disabling the internet connection could be used as a temporary barrier to remote hacks. We would also recommend extreme caution or not side-loading any applications onto Tizen-based devices in their current form. As for your smartwatch, it would be safest to go along the same lines if possible.
All of that said, your Samsung smartphone, as long as it is Android-based, should be safe — it just depends on how bad Samsung’s coding really is and if anything from Tizen carried over to the company’s Android skin.
The good thing is that Samsung is aware of the situation and has contacted Amihai Neirderman to start working towards a solution for this problem. He has said to have shared examples from his findings with Samsung team and strongly recommended the company work towards halting any other devices or software releases until the flaws are controlled.
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For The Record: Album Reviews
Toddamus Music, Reviews
The most exciting thing about music is that is speaks to people in many different ways. What I like may not make any sense whatsoever in your brain. There are bands people send to me, raving about how great they are, and I just don’t get it. I find that fantastic! Today’s music scene certainly has something for everyone.
Sometimes we gravitate to different bands because of our first experience. For me, though, it is about the full package: record and live show. Have you ever heard a fantastic record and then when you attended the live show, it didn’t translate, and you were left a little empty inside….deflated? Conversely, I have seen a ton of amazing live acts whose records didn’t live up to the energy they produced on stage and left me equally vacant.
So in saying this, I decided to take a different approach and share with you my thoughts on some artists I am currently listening to and enjoying, and how they measure up live.
Sheepdogs – Learn And Burn (LP)
I have to admit I have been listening to this record on and off for quite some time now, and have even met the guys in the band. Four super nice dudes from the prairie heartland of Canada who look every bit like their moniker, who play music that sounds a little bit Eagles and a little bit CCR yet uniquely their own. I love this record and it appears the producers on the Jimmy Fallon show did too, as they are the only Canadian band featured in a contest to win a spot on Fallon and the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Live Show: Mind blowing.
Rebekah Higgs – Little Voice (EP)
A quirky little gem from a soon to be well-known Canadian songstress. This Halifax native blends Indie rock, folk and pop all together to form a style that could be called all her own. The title track recently charted at number 1 on CBC Radio 3…no small feat considering the competition on this station. What a wonderful surprise to stumble upon this artist. I am very much looking forward to her full-length release in 2011.
Live Show: Every bit as engaging as the record.
Decemberists – The King Is Dead
Right from the first listen, I was in love with this record. The material can best be described as…. it sounds like your favourite pair of jeans feel, so comforting and lush. Every bit as it should sound, considering this is a band that is on its sixth album and also has another 13 releases, not counting side projects since its inception
Live Show: Hard to believe I have not seen them live yet but they are on my “live show bucket list”.
Alcoholic Faith Mission – Running With Insanity (EP) (Release Denmark Feb 21 and North America March 29, 2011)
This Danish six piece has fantastic lush sounding recordings, a little bit indie folk, a little dash of electronic. It is original but familiar at the same time. Virtually unknown in North America, the band has been building a solid base of fans across Europe and has its sights firmly set on the big market across the pond.
Live Show: I will be attending one, if not two of their performances at this years Canadian Music Fest. (March 9 at Rancho Relaxo/March 11 at Dakota Tavern. Info: www.CMW.net)
The song that started my crush on Alcoholic Faith Mission:
Young The Giant – Young The Giant (LP)
I had heard some modest buzz at SXSW 2010 about this California band, but until Rose from Roadrunner Records passed me a copy of their disc I had not spent any time listening to their music. Rose raved about Young The Giant, sat me down, called up the band’s video for “My Body” and cranked up the office speakers…SOLD! Within the first 48 hours of having the record I have listened to it three times and my wife has jumped quickly onto the Young The Giant bandwagon (she almost never likes a band on first listen, so that tells me Roadrunner is on to something).
Live Show: Excited to see them in Toronto (free show Apr.5th @ Horseshoe Tavern, presented by 102.1 The Edge)
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Detail #367: Neutral Participles
Consider participles that are not marked for voice at all. (Note: the English past vs. present participles are rather passive vs. present, although the way English participles work is a bit more complicated than that.) Now, such participles could behave in different ways depending on how we want to structure the language - animacy hierarchies, for one, could be a very natural approach to how to parse them.
However, let's go for something less obvious, but still pretty obvious: let's have the case role of the NP with regards to a finite VP also double as its role for the participle:
the man sold the castrate-PTCPL horse:
horse is the object of sold, so it's also the object of castrate, thus:
the man sold the castrated horse
the travel-PTCPL man made a bid:
man is the subject of offer, and therefore also of travel, thus:
the travelling man made a bid
What can we do with this? One obvious potential restriction could be one of only permitting this to work for arguments – non-argument adverbials and such seem less likely to have their 'role' passed on to a participle.
A second thing we could do is make the role that is passed on to the participle be less carefully differentiated - maybe not distinguishing objects from indirect objects or somesuch.
Here, a light ergativity could be introduced: intransitive participles could be accepted as 'active' participles for objects of transitive verbs.
To make the system more flexible, one could use resumptive pronouns in the desired case, which could lead to a neat way of turning case markers into voice markers.
I had an idea on ergativity and participles, that I have since forgotten. I am hopeful that I might be able to reconstruct it fully and post it soon enough.
A constructed language with no multimorphemic words: all words are one morpheme. But there is also an EXTENSIVE case system, so for every noun, there are multiple unique single morpheme words for each case. Words in word-morpheme groups need not be related phonologically.
Orgit - ‘book’ Nominative
Thalim- 'book’ Accusative
Dom - 'book’ Dative
Borrif - 'book’ Genitive
Theebo - 'book’ Instrumental
If - 'book’ Vocative
Zan - 'book’ Ablative
Zee - 'book’ Lative
Pingo - 'book’ Casual
Kib - 'book’ Ornative
'Soo’ - 'book’ Instructive
And so on and so on.
Friday, January 5th, 2018
Make a conlang only for the beasts of burden in your conculture. It’s called an “Ox-lang”.
Make an agglutinating language where the potential morphemes in any slot do not form a natural group of morphemes; maybe the first slot for inflections on the verb can take one out of [1sg, past, imperative, mirative, causative], the second slot can take one out of [2sg, 3pl, present, negative, passive], and so on. Nouns and adjectives are similarly twisted.
Update on the Grammar Writing Process V
Happy new year, everyone! I suppose it’s time again to provide a brief update on my progress with writing my grammar of Ayeri. The whole last year I’ve been trying to figure out describing its syntax formally. This will continue to preoccupy me for the time being also in the new year because verbs are still not fully described, and complementizer phrases (used for complement clauses, relative clauses and such) are lining up to be next. Then, I will also have to work on correcting some things in the sections on raising and control with regards to syntactic typology (I should have figured out constituent structure first), and also describe pronominal binding. And after this, I will have to go back to the beginning of the chapter and fix things for consistency and do proofreading.
The compiled PDF is now close to 400 pages (in A4 format, but with generous margins because LaTeX) without frontmatter, appendices and backmatter, and 400 pages is what I had wanted the main part to be at most once everything is done. The section on the syntax of verbs alone is already almost 100 pages long currently, though granted, verbs are probably the most complex part of the language (or any language?), and all those diagrams take up an awful lot of space. I will definitely have to shave some pages off after writing will be done hopefully some time later this year, though, and especially the argumentative parts are probably predestined for some literal cutting to the chase in spite of my trying not to ramble unnecessarily. The description of Ayeri’s alphabet might also rather go in the appendix. Years at university have taught me that good writing can’t be produced on the spot, anyway.
Honestly, sometimes I wish I had an editor to look over my writing to guide me with it. With the syntax chapter especially, I wish someone could check the plausibility of my hypotheses and analyses once writing is done, too. And then, there’s still proofreading of the whole grammar to do. My English may be pretty good overall, but I’m always somewhat distrusting my abilities as a non-native speaker. Proofreading one’s own writing is generally hard in my experience, though, even in one’s native language.
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The Language of the People of the Plains
Dashiel N. Stevens received a BA in linguistics from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. With a language-curious background, he stumbled into the world of linguistics through language creation. He has created several languages, favoring a posteriori languages, including Geulish (Geulge), Stranden (Westerlondisc), Briggan (Austerlandisk), Byzerine (Byzedueto), Selenese (Elyird Zeleneziyo), and others. Most of his languages occupy the world of “The Westlands” which is the setting for a tabletop role-playing game and novel that he has been working on for the last few years.
The Jogos Nhai are a warlike people who live east of the Bone Mountains on Essos, in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire universe. Their language and culture have been critically underrepresented in associated media, and both are explored (with an obvious focus on the language) in this non-exhaustive reference grammar on Jogos Nhaiang Chahar, the language of the people of the plains, the Jogos Nhai.
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Hapag CMA CGM Modify North EuropeCentral America Service
zoom Europe-based container shipping majors Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM plan to enhance their joint service linking North Europe and Central America, starting from January 2017. The companies intend to add a call at London Gateway in the United Kingdom and to replace the current call at Cartagena, Columbia by calling Caucedo in the Dominican Republic.The changes will become effective with M/V CMA CGM Fort St. Georges calling at London Gateway on January 6, 2017, according to CMA CGM.The enhanced service will include the following ports: London Gateway (UK), Hamburg (Germany), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Le Havre (France). Caucedo (Dominican Republic), Kingston (Jamaica), Santo Tomas De Castilla (Guatemala), Puerto Cortes (Honduras), Puerto Limon (Costa Rica).The service will be run by five CMA CGM vessels of 2,300 TEUs and one Hapag–Lloyd vessel.Hapag-Lloyd refers to the service as the Central America Express (SW3) service and CMA CGM as the ECS service.Image Courtesy: Hapag-Lloyd read more
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RollsRoyce Stena Line Join Forces on Intelligent Awareness
zoom UK-based power systems provider Rolls-Royce has signed a deal with Swedish ferry company Stena Line AB to collaborate in the development of its first intelligent awareness system.“Intelligent awareness systems will make vessels safer, easier and more efficient to operate by providing crew with an enhanced understanding of their vessel’s surroundings,” Rolls-Royce said.The company added that this would be achieved by fusing data from a range of sensors with information from existing ship systems, such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) and radar. Data from other sources, including global databases, will also have a role, the company informed.“We have been exploring and testing how to combine sensor technologies effectively and affordably for some time. Pilot projects such as this will allow us to see how they can be best adapted to the needs of a commercial vessel and its crew and allow us to develop a product which better serves both,” Asbjørn Skaro, Rolls-Royce, Director Digital & Systems – Marine, said.“Successful pilots and product development programmes are also an important step towards the further development of remote and autonomous vessels and meeting our goal of having a remote controlled ship in commercial use by the end of the decade,” Skaro added.Rolls-Royce said it expects to be able to undertake an Approval of Concept and have its intelligent awareness product commercially available later in 2017.Earlier in March, the company received an approval for a research grant by Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, supporting its aim to make remote and autonomous shipping a reality bu enabling it to invest further in a research and development centre in Turku, Finland.Rolls-Royce plans to carry out further development projects there focused on the future development of land-based control centres, and the use of artificial intelligence in future remote and autonomous shipping operations.The intelligent awareness system will benefit from Rolls-Royce’s experience in the Tekes funded project Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA), which has been running since June 2015. read more
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BC FILM AND TV INDUSTRIES HIT SECOND CONSECUTIVE RECORD YEAR 34 BILLION
Twitter Advertisement British Columbia’s film and TV industry continues its hot streak. For the second consecutive year, B.C. hit another record amount that screen productions have spent in the province.Creative BC announced on July 16 that the number of productions filming in B.C. qualifying for tax-credit certifications rose to 452 (an increase of 34 percent from the previous year) and contributed $3.4 billion to B.C.’s economy in the 2017-2018 fiscal year.The 31.2 percent increase in expenditures shattered the record set by the previous period of 2016-2017, which amassed $2.6 billion from 338 productions. In comparison, 297 productions brought in $1.9 billion for 2015-2016. Advertisement Login/Register With: Advertisement Of the 110 feature films shot in the province in 2017-2018, War for the Planet of the Apes was filmed in Vancouver and Tofino (spending $81 million in B.C.) and Deadpool 2, starring Vancouver-raised actor Ryan Reynolds, filmed in Vancouver, Coquitlam, and Victoria (spending over $100 million) and featured recognizable Vancouver locations including Stanley Park and Lions Gate Bridge.Deadpool 2Other major feature films that have shot in Vancouver and B.C. this past year include The Mountain Between Us (starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba), Skyscraper (starring Dwayne Johnson and Neve Campbell), Welcome to Marwen (starring Steve Carrell), Project Gutenberg (starring Chow Yun-Fat and Aaron Kwok), Richard Says Goodbye (starring Johnny Depp), Dragged Across Concrete (starring Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson), and Hard Powder (starring Liam Neeson).Skyscraper, starring Dwayne Johnson, was filmed in Vancouver.In B.C., 164 TV series were shot here in the 2017-2018 period. Among the TV shows that have filmed in Vancouver over the last year include A Series of Unfortunate Events, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Exorcist, The Flash, The Good Doctor, Lost in Space, The Magicians, Once Upon a Time, Riverdale, Six, Supergirl, Supernatural, Van Helsing, and The X-Files.RiverdaleThe Reel Thanksgiving Challenge, a fundraiser involving locally shot screen productions such as The Man in the High Castle, raised a record $205,831 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.Several new TV series have chosen to shoot in B.C., including Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the Charmed reboot, Altered Carbon, Blue Book, Snowpiercer, and more.Direct industry jobs and labour income made up about $1.78 billion.Meditation ParkWhile foreign productions consisted of 289 projects, 163 B.C.-based productions, which included Meditation Park (starring Sandra Oh) by Vancouver filmmaker Mina Shum, brought in almost $404 million, up by 29 percent from $313 million in the previous year.Although concerns have been raised about foreign productions squeezing out domestic projects amid heightened demand for locations, crews, and resources, the number of B.C.–based productions had grown by 35 percent from 121 productions in 2016-2017. Domestic feature films increased from 24 to 27 projects while domestic TV series rose from 32 to 45.U.S.-Canadian TV coproductions that shot in B.C. include Chesapeake Shores (filmed on Vancouver Island), When Calls the Heart, and Travelers.Toronto-born actor Eric McCormack stars in the Vancouver-shot TV series Travelers.The Vancouver Island North Film Commission unveiled Vancouver Island Film Studios in Parksville, featuring five sound stages, in October 2017.More recently, in June, Burnaby’s Eagle Creek Studios completed the construction of a new 15,000-square-foot sound stage in Kelowna for productions in the Okanagan.Amid an accelerating global demand for content, among the factors contributing to the ongoing industry growth, in addition to the tax credit program, have been a low Canadian dollar; proximity to Los Angeles; well-established animation, visual effects, and post-production industries, as well as local crews and talent; multicultural populations and resources; and diverse locations that cover ocean and shorelines, desert-like regions, forests and mountains, and urban areas.by Craig Takeuchi | THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT Deadpool 2 was one of several film productions shot in B.C. that injected the provincial economy with millions of dollars. Facebook LEAVE A REPLY Cancel replyLog in to leave a comment read more
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SNK Heroines AC Tag Team Frenzy
SNK Heroines AC Tag Team Frenzy is a fighting action game starring the heroines of various SNK titles. The game is available via Taito's NESiCAxLive2 today. Two players team up to fight. There are an attacker on the front of the screen and a supporter at the back. The game is simple to play and players can use deadly techniques with only one button. And, even if the opponent's physical strength reaches 0, the unique way to finish him is the ultimate deathblow "Dream finish". The fighters line-up includes Athena Asamiya, Kula Diamond, Kakoruru, Mai Shiranui, Leona Heidern, Yuti Sakazaki, Shermie and others. As there are only girls in the game, a female version of Terry Bogard is available.
House of the Dead - Scarlet Dawn
9 years after The House of the Dead EX, Sega releases at last a HOTD game: The House of the Dead - Scarlet Dawn. The story takes place after the events of The House of the Dead 4 and the main characters are Ryan Taylor (James Taylor's brother) and Kate Green (already featured in The House of the Dead 4). There are 5 missions. The gamplay includes many features from the previous titles such as hostages and civilians to rescue (as in House of the Dead 1 & 2) and "save your partner" sequences as in House of the Dead III, well-know ennemies as The Chariot that is back in damaged form but with new attacks and branching paths prompted the same way as in The House of the Dead III. The game has two game modes: Normal and Master. In normal mode, different weapons are used for specific moments of the game. The Master mode is more difficult but you start with 2 weapons of your choice out of 6 (shotgun, flamethrower, grenade launcher, hand grenade, laser gun and rocket launcher). In the Japanese version, an Aime card is required to unlock the Master mode. The Aime card allows you to take part in nationwide ranking and win trophies. This new episode displays the largest crowds of zombies ever seen in a House of the Dead game, perfectly animated through Unreal Engine 4. The House of the Dead - Scarlet Dawn is playable in a theather cabinet featuring an air canon, 5.1 surround sound, and vibrating seats and floor. The game controller looks a bit like an Apache-SMG with recoil effect. It has two handles, a second trigger and a switch to change weapons. The controller uses an unique vibration technology producing realistric recoil feeling: by controlling the frequency to the vibration unit, the controller generates the right type of recoil that feels natural for the kind of weapon used in the game. The cabinet also features a button to lower the volume of explosions. Sega also scheduled an occidental release in November! The House of the Dead - Scarlet Dawn will be present on Sega’s booth at IAAPA from 13th to 16th November.
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Happy 175th Anniversary! Come visit us at Millford during this special year.
Millford is located in Sumter County, SC.
Public tours are available the first Saturday of each month, with tours every Saturday in April.
(See article below, by Peter Kenny, about the return of an original "swing" dressing glass to Millford.)
Wunsch Award recipients Peter Kenny (left) and Morrie Hecksher (right) with Peter Wunsch (center).
WUNSCH AWARD 2016
We are very pleased to share the news that Classical American Homes' own Peter Kenny, Co-President, and Morrie Heckscher, Emeritus Chairman of the American Wing, were the honorees of the 2016 Wunsch Award.
Christie's hosted the fourth annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January 20th, 2016 at their Rockefeller Center Galleries. This year the award honors Morrison H. Heckscher and Peter M. Kenny for their dedication and contributions to the field of American Decorative Arts.
Heckscher and Kenny are recognized for "the expansion and modernization of the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. They oversaw renovations to the American Wing from 2003 to 2012, which modernized the existing building - comprised of the original 1924 structure and its 1980 expansion - adding galleries for American paintings, sculptures and 18th century decorative arts. They spent much of their careers at The Met acquiring architectural elements, whole rooms and fragments, all for this ultimate installation and update, carrying on the museum's history of collecting interiors."
Wunsch Americana Foundation President Peter Wunsch states, "it's an honor to know these two accomplished scholars and leaders in the field, who consistently delivered the best of the best for The Met with such grace and academic rigor."
Richard H. Jenrette and Classical American Homes Preservation Trust received the award in 2014. Click here to read more.
Peter Kenny, co-recipient of the 2016 Wunsch Award
Morrie Hecksher, co-recipient of the 2016 Wunsch Award
Attendees at the 2016 Wunsch Award hosted by Christie's
Noah Wunsch, Susi Wunsch, Peter Wunsch, Eric Wunsch, and Roisin McElroy.
Courtenay Daniels, Martha Willoughby, and Daniel Ackermann.
Lulu Wang, Sylvia Yount, Betsy Kornhauser, Leslie and Peter Warwick.
Mike and Lucy Danziger
Welcoming remarks given in the Drawing Room at the George F. Baker House.
WUNSCH Foundation
The George F. Baker House and
To honor and celebrate the accomplishments of Morrie Heckscher and Peter Kenny, the Wunsch Americana Foundation organized a tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing followed by a cocktail reception at the George F. Baker House. Almost 150 people attended the tour led by Alyce Perry Englund, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts, which included a discussion about the major acquisitions of 18th and 19th century American furniture, many acquired by Mr. Heckscher and Mr. Kenny as former curators of the American Wing. Special beverages provided by Domaine Chandon and Brooklyn Gin capped the evening! Click here for more images from the Wunsch Foundation.
Wunsch Foundation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing
Wunsch Foundation cocktail party at the George F. Baker House
Margaret Pritchard, Senior Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpaper at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; and Melanie Christian, Decorative Arts Trust Governor.
AMERICANA WEEK
Winter Antiques Show 2016
George F. Baker Houses
January in New York was an exciting and busy month at Classical American Homes. CAHPT founder and chairman Richard H. Jenrette welcomed guests to the George F. Baker house in New York City to celebrate Americana Week. We enjoyed catching up with friends from Colonial Williamsburg, MESDA, and Winterthur for this annual get together which kicks off the Winter Antiques Show. Thankfully, we were graced with mild weather on the night of the event - in years past guests had to brave blizzards to make it! Please visit our Facebook page to see more photos of the evening and share your own pictures from the party.
Tom Savage, Director of Museum Affairs at Winterthur, and Dick Jenrette.
Robert Leath, Chief Curator and VP Collections and Research; Courtenay Daniels, and Dick Jenrette.
Daniel Crouch of Daniel Crouch Rare Books & Maps; Henry Taliaferro of Cohen & Taliaferro Maps; Daniel Ackerman, MESDA Curator of Collections; Janine Skerry, CWF Curator of Metals.
Barbara Fuldner and John Stuart Gordon.
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that "Swing"
By Peter Kenny
Fig. 1. Marika and Thomas Smith with their swing dressing glass before conservation.
We've got our "swing" alright, thanks to the generous gift of one of the original "swing" dressing glasses from Millford by longtime friends and supporters Marika and Thomas Gordon Smith (fig. 1), architect and former Chairman of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Handsome and architectural, this dressing glass now stands in the southeast corner bedroom at Millford (fig. 2) quite possibly in the place it occupied when it first was uncrated and assembled. Two "swing glasses" packed in their own custom crates are recorded on a June 2, 1841 bill of lading sent from Duncan Phyfe & Son to John Laurence Manning at Millford. Fortuitously, two also survive today, our recently acquired example and a second one in a private collection (fig.3). With four bedrooms and two dressing rooms on the second floor at Millford, however, it was always suspected that there may have been more. Now, due to some surprising discoveries made during the course of the restoration/conservation of the CAHPT dressing glass, it can be stated unequivocally that there were at least three.
... Read more.
Fig. 2. View of recently installed bedroom at Millford with original "swing" dressing glass by D. Phyfe & Son in left corner.
Fig. 3. D. Phyfe & Son. "Swing" dressing glass made for Millford in 1841. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kelly.
Click here to see a video of the restoration/conservation of the Millford "swing" dressing glass.
The guest house at Edgewater.
Edgewater's Guest House
Hudson Valley, NY
In December 2015, Classical American Homes received a charitable gift from Richard Jenrette of the Edgewater Guest House and roughly 2.3 acres of Hudson River-front land, situated on a point across a lagoon from Edgewater in Barrytown, New York. The neo-classical guest house marks Mr. Jenrette's own architectural imprint on the property. Edgewater was originally built in 1825 by Lowndes and Margaret Livingston Brown then sold to Robert Donaldson in 1852. Mr. Jenrette commissioned architect Michael Dwyer to build the Guest House, and it was constructed by Michael Pelletier in 1997-98.
The house is designed as a small temple, with four Doric columns framing a large porch looking down the Hudson River. The house, viewed from Edgewater's front porch across the lagoon, serves as an architectural folly extending the sweep of landscape to the north. This property includes the main gates and entrance to the property and is an integral part of the Edgewater estate, which will eventually be owned in its entirety by CAHPT. The property also includes part of a scenic, one-mile meandering footpath, largely along the riverbank, which surrounds the estate. Classical American Homes currently coordinates group tours of Edgewater by appointment, which can be scheduled by visiting our website.
Click here to see more images of Edgewater and some of the fine art, furniture and decorative arts in the collection.
Ayr Mount's Bicentennial:
An Anniversary Year to Remember
"A Hundred Thousand Welcomes" was the theme for Ayr Mount's bicentennial year - which in Scottish Gaelic is "CEUD M�LE F�ILTE". The house, built in 1815 by William Kirkland, merchant and family patriarch, was named after his birthplace of Ayr, Scotland. Throughout the year of 2015, we honored Kirkland's roots as well the historic house and extensive grounds that make Ayr Mount a unique place to visit. The celebratory calendar was full of music, dancing, dining, learning, sharing, socializing, and just a whole lot of fun!
The opening event for this banner year was the Earth Day Fair at Ayr. Visitors ambled on the grounds and the Poet's Walk, planted trees, and learned about a myriad of topics: vermicomposting, recycling, land conservation, and the North Carolina Mountains-To-Sea Trail, which crosses over CAHPT land.
Friends and supporters at the 200th Anniversary dinner for Ayr Mount.
Keiko Sekino and Andrea Edith Moore at Broadwood Ayr.
Wake & District Pipe Band at the C�ilidh in the Ayr.
A 200th Birthday Dinner held on May 2nd brought 230 friends, patrons and preservationists together for a festive celebratory evening. Music, delicious food, perfect weather and a bright full moon made it a night to remember. Opening with a kilted bagpiper welcoming guests as they arrived and closing with Dick Jenrette leading the group in a chorus of Carolina Moon Keep Shining, it was a true Classical American Homes moment. ... Read more.
For more information about Ayr Mount's Hours and Directions, click here.
TOURS AND VISITORS
The 2015 tour season was yet another busy and successful year for Classical American Homes due to the many individuals and groups who visited our properties - and we are looking forward to continuing this enthusiasm in 2016. Thank you so much to all who visited us!
Some highlights from the end of the year include a group from Clemson University's College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities (see photo below, left) to the Roper House in Charleston, SC; The Danish Historians to Estate Cane Garden in St. Croix, USVI; and The American Friends of the Georgian Group (see photo below, right) to the George F. Baker Houses in New York City.
To kick-off the start of the new year, we hosted the fourth annual cocktail reception with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library during Americana Week in New York (see article above). And, this month, we have been honored with a notable visit from the First Lady of Cyprus, Andri Anastasiades (see photo above), who is married to the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades.
Although the weather has been unpredictable, as it keeps vacillating between arctic winter and warm spring-like temperatures, the site supervisors at each of the CAHPT properties are working hard to prepare the houses for the many groups who have already made reservations to visit us this year. We are very much looking forward to visits from the Atlanta Ceramics Society, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Sandlapper Garden Club, and the Historic Charleston Foundation, this spring.
First Lady of Cyprus, Andri Anastasiades (at right) with Margize Howell, Co-President of CAHPT, at the Baker House.
Students and professor from Clemson University, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at the Roper House.
The American Friends of the Georgian Group at the Baker House: (left to right) Ralph Harvard of Ralph Harvard, Inc.; Tim Lykins, AFGG Executive Director; William Rutledge of Ferguson & Shamamian Architects; and David Wood, AFGG Secretary.
If you or a group you belong to find yourselves planning a trip near any one of our houses, please consider visiting us. We always look forward to meeting with old friends as well as making the acquaintance of new ones! To make a reservation, please visit our website, www.classicalamericanhomes.org.
Fifth Annual
Join us in the Double Parlor at Millford - the setting for the fifth annual musical program on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016.
MUSIC at MILLFORD
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016
Mark your calendars! The upcoming fifth annual Music at Millford will be held on Sunday, September 18, 2016.
We are delighted to announce that Robert deMaine, Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will be both a performer and the Artistic Director of this year's program! He brings his talents as a virtuoso to the "stage" as well as to the planning of a unique concert program that will highlight the setting of experiencing music at Millford.
Robert will return to Millford with two new guests to perform as a string trio - featuring Nathan Cole, First Associate Concertmaster on violin, and Ben Ullery, Assistant Principal Viola, both from the LA Philharmonic. Do not miss this opportunity to experience world-class music at one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the country.
To see video clips from last year's performance with Robert deMaine, click here for an excerpt of Brahms and here for an excerpt from Hayden.
Robert deMaine, Principal Cello
Nathan Cole, First Associate Concertmaster on Violin
Ben Ullery, Assistant Principal Viola
Click here for information about Millford. And, stay tuned for more details about this year's event.
UPCOMING EVENTS - Save these Dates on your Calendar!
Peter Kenny to give the keynote lecture at the 2016 MESDA Furniture Seminar
March 18th-19th, 2016
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts will be presenting their annual Furniture Seminar on March 18-19, 2016 with a series of lectures, tours and workshops on the theme Celebrating Fifty Years of Southern Furniture Studies. Peter Kenny, Co-President of CAHPT, will be speaking on Friday, March 18th on "American Furniture: So What's the Point of this Story?"
Please click here or on the image (above right) to see a PDF version of the full Schedule as well as registration information.
The George F. Baker Houses in New York City, designed by Delano & Aldrich.
Spring Patrons Party
George F. Baker House
Come by for cocktails at the George F. Baker House! Our annual Spring party to thank friends and donors for support of our programs and mission will be held on May 19th. Please check our website in the coming weeks for more information.
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Bumi protections blunt TPP benefits, think-tank says
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The Malay Mail Online 2 December 2015
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — The protection of Bumiputera interests in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will reduce the benefits Malaysia can extract in the short term, a libertarian think-tank said today.
Dr Razeen Sally, the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs’ (IDEAS) chair in political economy and governance, said the main benefit of the free trade agreement for Malaysia would be the liberalisation of the Malaysian market and increased competition.
“[But] with the carve outs for the Bumiputera on investments and state-owned enterprises, the benefits for opening up will be less for Malaysia in the short term,” Sally told a press briefing here.
He also said the TPP would not just benefit American corporations, but also non-Bumiputera companies here, except that such benefits would be “weakened” as a result of the Bumiputera protections.
“It would help to open up certain areas, not just for multinational corporations, but efficient enterprises here that don’t have snouts in the Bumiputera trough,” he said.
According to the TPP text, Malaysia has offered to open up the government procurement market, but the Bumiputera policy is reserved, with 30 per cent set aside for Bumiputera contractors in the construction services and a margin of price preference to Bumiputera suppliers and manufacturers in the goods and services sector.
Malaysia also has exemptions for government-linked corporations like Khazanah Nasional and Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), said Sally.
“The ideal situation would be for the government to continue the ETP (Economic Transformation Programme) and GTP (Government Transformation Programme), rather than dance around the NEP (New Economic Policy), and to lock it in with the pro-competition TPP,” said Sally.
He also lauded the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provision under the TPP that allows corporations to sue governments, pointing out that many member states of the TPP have weak institutions including their judiciary.
Sally argued that the ISDS is necessary for investors to have confidence to invest in a particular country so that they can opt for independent arbitration as a last resort.
He also said the case of tobacco giant Philip Morris suing Uruguay for enlarging health warnings on cigarette packs under the terms of a bilateral trade agreement was an “isolated” case.
“The ISDS has been used by many countries. Ninety-nine per cent of cases were settled well,” he said.
According to Sally, the TPP also allows governments to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices and to break patents in the event of a pandemic.
“There are safeguards in this agreement,” he said. “While there are costs for poorer countries, it’s not as big as critics make it out to be”.
The TPP cost-benefit analysis for Malaysia is expected to be released tomorrow.
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WRD 103: Composition & Rhetoric I: Autumn Quarter 2014
Course Reflective Portfolio
Dialogic Reading Journals
Laptop Requirements
Multimodal Essay: Literacy & Technology
Op-Ed Essay Project
Reflective/Synthesis Essay: Theorize Yourself As a Writer
Remix Project: Statement of Goals & Choices
Remixing the New York Times
Rhetorical Analysis Project
Stasis Theory & Practice
What is “Literacy”?
Remix Project Reflection:
Statement of Goals & Choices
Compose your Statement of Goals & Choices in four parts:
A description of your remix project goals — you can quote from your worksheet, if you like, summarizing [a] “The other options that I had in mind for this project, but did not use …”, [b] your choice of materials and [c] your intended rhetorical effects
An extended description of all of the choices you made during your process
The specific conditions in which your final product will be experienced
A list of people who contributed — think of it as credits that roll at the end of a film: who did you talk to about your remix project? Who helped? Who drove you to Home Depot? Who gave you ideas? List every interaction with every person and their contribution.
Sample Extended Description of Choices
The student whose reflective statement appears below chose to focus on the way her sources represented a 1950s version of womanhood. The final product was housed inside a DVD case for the film Mona Lisa Smile, within which the bulk of the author’s research was contained in a thick “chapter” booklet.
This student’s project is different in aims & purposes than our remix projects, but her Statement of Goals and Choices is exactly what you want to aspire to: to articulate every single choice and decision you made. Even if it feels insignificant to you, document it and articulate it. Notice how this student links all of her choices to her intended effects:
My goals for this piece were to reflect the data through my representation of the data the sources themselves were presented to society. Many of my sources came from different forms of media and therefore I wanted to present my analysis of the sources in the form of a media source. I wanted the reader/viewer to experience the intake of information like women in the fifties did when presented with media from that era. The argument that I make in this piece is that media from the 1950s impact the dreams of women in that day. I argue that the media has messages behind it that influence women to choose the life of being a housewife. I believe that the media was a strong force in that day and women were highly impressionable by the media. The sources that I have chosen for this project are either artifacts of media in the fifties or they are articles from today and they discuss the impact of media on women in that day.
My Choices and Reasons:
Why is the project presented inside the cover of the movie Mona Lisa Smile? I chose to present my data inside the movie because not only was this movie the main inspiration for my topic but also I wanted the viewer/ reader to be able to experience what I learned from the movie. Why presented in a booklet? I formatted my data and reflection into this booklet because I wanted it to look like a little booklet that comes with some movies that tells about the summary and reviews of the movie. I also wanted this booklet to aid the viewer as they watch the film. I wanted them to have background knowledge about the issues discussed in the movie so they can have a better understanding.
Why is the first section labeled with the title “summary”? I titled the first section “summary” because movie reviews always start out with a brief summary of the film. In this case it is a brief summary of my topic and the sources as well as an overview of the film. I wanted this booklet to look like a guide to the movie.
Why is the following section labeled with “scene selection” and subtitled with “chapters”? The section is titled “scene selection” because often with movies on DVD they give a list of the different scenes you can select to watch. I found this to be appropriate because the reader can choose which information they want to read, which analyses they want to look at. The subtitles of “chapter” are appropriate because movies will often title the different scenes by chapters. I chose to title the sections with “chapter” because each section talks about a different type of media and my analysis of its impact on the dream of women in the fifties.
Why is the next section of the booklet titled “reviews”? This section is titled “reviews” because I wanted to stay with the movie review aspect. The phrases in the review are my analysis of the movie as a source. They are also my concluding thoughts on the topic. This seemed to suit since a movie review discusses the movie much like how my comments analyze the movie as a source.
Why is the last section titled “credits”? Because the credits of a movie give appreciation to all the people behind the scenes of the movie. This section is my works cited page. This seemed appropriate because it gives recognition to all the sources that were a part of my analysis about my topic. Why did I choose the sources that I did? I chose my sources to come from actual forms of media in the fifties because I wanted to look at and analyze the real source. Some of my sources are pieces that reflect on a certain media. I chose to use them as a few of my sources because I wanted to look at how they inform today’s public of the issues. These sources also helped to aid my analysis of the primary sources and my discussion of the topic.
SoGC examples — but keep in mind that these students were working on semester-length projects, so they are much more fully developed and detailed in ways that we are doing in a compacted period of time:
Media Tree
“Mass Observation Archive and Project”
Michael R. Moore
Section #133: TTh 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Classroom: 300 SAC
Office: 362 SAC
Mondays: 10:00 a.m.-noon
Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m.-noon
— Digication Log in
— Digication Organizing
— Digication Help & How to
OED Word of the Day
St. Martin’s Handbook
Rhetorical Strategies & Appeals
WRD/FYW Learning Outcomes
NYT Resources
Inside Story (PDF)
Lens: NYT Photography
Your Art Museum
Student E-Mail Accounts
Steans Center (Community-based learning)
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Datel Sound Sampler
The Artist II
Softek International Ltd, £14.95 (48K), £17.95 (128K)
The front screen to THE ARTIST II, showing the pull-down menu system
Back in September ’85 Softechnics, a division of Softek International, launched a graphics package that seemed to make any other type of utility redundant. The Artist had some really excellent facilities which made it stand out from the crowd, but was sadly put in the shade by the launch of Art Studio from the now defunct software house, OCP. Art Studio brought a fresh whiff of Macintosh air to the Spectrum with the introduction of the mouse and window environment.
Softechnics have now come back with a vengeance, launching Artist II which combines the multitude of revolutionary facilities of the original with the now obligatory mouse-come-window technique. Artist II should mouse itself to the top of the league despite the strong contender, Art Studio, which is now marketed by Rainbird.
PAGE MAKEUP
If electronic looks could kill...
Ever since Eddie Shah, who brought the merits of electronic page composition to the national newspapers of this country, computer page makeup has tumbled from the megabucks mainframe environment right down to the top-notch personal computer scene and everyone with an inspiration of becoming a Murdoch Kidd (sorry, -ED, I just couldn’t resist) has had to buy a new Habitat desk to support their Desk Top Publishing hardware, with which to ambush a willing or unwilling readership. Coming soon at your local Spectrum ... Yes, included in this package is Page Maker, which lets you create a full size page of text and graphics on an equivalent area of 96 lines of 64 characters length.
No, you’re quite right, it doesn’t fit all on one piddling Spectrum screen — you have to work on 4 separate blocks of two screens. Each set of screens is printed out at a time. And no, Page Maker does not drive a laser printer, yet ... Spectrums driving laser printers, that’ll be the day!
The cassette contains Artist II, the graphics designer program; Sprite & Font Designer — utilities to create (still or moving) sprites and fonts; Page Maker — the program which could have reduced Eddie Shah’s loan requirements (and probably his colour resolution), and Screen Compressor, the Scrooge of memory.
First of all, the question of hardware compatibility; Artist II file handling copes with the Opus disk drive and the Sinclair Microdrive as well as the usual cassette recorder. Configuring to disk or Microdrive media provides access to features such as CATaloguing and ERASEing from within the program. Other interfaces may be accommodated, as Softechnics thoughtfully have a BASIC driver routine, that allows softies such as me to change the load, save and verify instructions to suit the specific hardware. In fact, in view of the review period, I even managed to save Artist II on Microdrive by altering the BASIC cassette load header.
Moving onto mice, Artist II will work either with the Kempston or the AMX mouse. Less fortunate users will be pleased to know that Artist II happily can be operated from joystick or keyboard using Q,S and I,O keys for direction and N and M keys for setting/selecting or erasing. Joystick freaks without a Kempston joystick interface can get their rusty old programmable interfaces out of the cupboard.
On the printer front, things are not so easy... Artist II is designed to work immediately either with the Kempston ‘E’ printer interface or the Opus Centronics output of the disk drive. Strangely, Artist II seems to neglect the AMX mouse Centronics port altogether. Here comes my first and only gripe. Neither AMS, makers of the AMX mouse, nor Softechnics provide any useful information to the unfortunate user wishing to access the Centronics interface. This is more annoying since Softechnics have made it possible to modify a simple BASIC program.
Some help could have been provided in initialising the printer interface and setting up the correct printer commands. Perhaps a look at the competition wouldn’t be such a bad idea — Art Studio allows you to enter the appropriate code to change the line pitch and set up the 8-bit graphics command; information which can be gleaned from the printer manual.
Having sorted out the hardware aspects, it’s all song and dance. All functions are accessed via a mouse and window technique. Fixed origin and concatenated (LMLWD) lines, circles, ellipses and boxes are available in the selected brush mode and with and without fill routine. Drawing is accomplished according to the selected drawing mode, accessed in the MODE window. This can be set for mono work without affecting the attribute data in inverse, over or normal mode, either with solid fill or pattern fill, or in colour mode, with the preset colour choices.
There are three ways of changing colour. Selecting palette in the MODE pull-down menu provides for entry of ink, paper and border colour with choice of bright and flash. Similarly, pointing and clicking the colour swatch at the bottom right of the screen shows the same result. The last option is to use the keyboard: 1 and 2 for ink, 3 and 4 for paper, 5 for bright and 6 for flash. Different brush sizes can be selected by clicking the brush icon.
Thirteen brushes are available, including 8 square, 1 round, 2 italic slant, a spray can effect and a blank brush. The blank brush is useful for filling areas without hard edges. The brush patterns can be redesigned with the font designer residing in the EXTRAS menu. Painting and filling areas can be done by using any of the 28 patterns, which include a solid and blank pattern. Again, patterns can be redesigned. Up to six different fonts are available in text mode. Each font can be redesigned using the font designer in the EXTRAS menu. The brush designs are held in font 6.
Detail work is best dealt with using the magnify mode. The screen is divided into two areas, the normal-sized image on the left and the magnified image on the right. Pointing and clicking the mouse over the area to be worked on moves the magnification to that spot. In normal mode the screen is partly covered by the icon selections. Access to this area is reached by scrolling the screen up or down using the SCREEN menu. Full view of the screen is gained with the VIEW function. An UNDO function avoids any dramas of wrecked pictures due to silly mistakes. To avoid clearing wanted work it is best to OK the current state of the picture from time to time.
The STORAGE menu provides all the functions for saving and loading of screen designs and fill patterns. It also provides output to the ZX printer or dot matrix printer. Two different print sizes are available. Apart from the straightforward dumps there are also two grey scale dumps with stippling effect giving a mono representation of the colour screen display.
The two real beauties of Artist II are the CUT and PASTE and the WINDOW facility. CUT and PASTE provides the facility of cutting out any shape segment from the current screen or from a saved screen design and transferring it to any location on the existing screen. The cut-out can be scrolled into position, inverted, mirrored, turned, blended or mixed into the main screen. To help with the cutting out of the image there are circle, line and fill functions to tackle the most complicated segments to be transferred. Screens can be composed from any screen source on record.
WINDOWS provides a set of functions which manipulate a screen sector designated by a window boundary. Using the window icon a relevant screen area is framed and a number of functions are at your disposal to manipulate the specified area: this includes functions such as CLEAR, TURN (90 degrees), INVERT, MIRROR, SCROLL within the window and global setting of paper and ink colours. Special functions include THICKEN, which thickens lines and dots within the window area and OUTLINE, which outlines any change of ink and paper (excellent solarising effects). INSERT allows insertion of another screen detail from storage and is equivalent to the cut & paste option.
Page Maker combines the graphic facilities of Artist II with the text facilities of The Writer to provide a modest Page Makeup system. Page Maker can handle a print area of 96 lines 64 characters wide which represents approximately an A4 page. Due to the restraints of the Spectrum screen the work is divided up into 4 blocks of two Spectrum screens side by side providing a scrolling display area of 24 lines by 64 characters.
To begin, load the text from a Writer file. Forward planning is required, as the text has to be laid out in advance in the correct position within the specified display area.
Page Maker supports up to 5 character sets called up via special font commands embedded in the Writer file. Similarly, special commands provide underline and inversion of text.
Once the text is in place, blocks of graphics can be inserted by creating window areas and loading previously generated screens. The graphics can be scrolled into the correct position and fixed. There is no limit to the number of graphic areas on the 2-screen block area. When satisfactory, the block can be output to the printer and the next block tackled. Each block can be saved to tape or disk/cartridge for later use.
The Artist II package includes a very useful sprite and font designer — Sprite II — which allows creation of up to 6 x 6 character square sprites. It provides the facility of loading a complete screen design and grabbing only certain areas for the sprite design. The sprites can be animated by displaying the individual sprite frames in sequence at various speeds, and the sprites can be mirrored, inverted, scrolled, thickened and outlined. Sprites can be finally saved as raw bytes for further programming.
A Screen Compressor is also included in the package, which reduces memory requirements for screen designs.
Summing up, The Artist II is the most comprehensive graphics utility on the Spectrum scene. The introduction of the mouse and window technique has improved its user friendliness, but keyboard slaves need not despair: operating the variable speed cursor without mouse or joystick is just as much fun. Artist II rightly deserves a CRASH SMASH!
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What You Meant
Humans are human, even at work. Emotions will get involved. Sometimes that's good - pride in a job well done, seeking of praise and approval, etc. But there are about a million ways to insult a human, intentionally or unintentionally. This is why we watch not only what we say but how we say it.
For the most part, this is straightforward. Other times, you can say something with the best of intent, but what the other person is likely to hear is totally different. For example:
"I know you're too busy to review this presentation"
What you meant: I'm trying to save you some time.
What they heard: You can't handle your current work, much less something else. Oh, and I don't really value your work or opinion anyway.
What you should have said: "It would be great if you could review this presentation, but I understand if you can't, or if someone else should. Just let me know."
"I couldn't ask you to work this weekend"
What you meant: I'm trying to respect your time.
What they heard: It's not like you're going to step up, anyway. OR You're looking run down from how much you've been working lately, and I don't think you can handle it any more. (NOTE: In certain situations, where the person has, say, their wedding, this does not apply - what you mean is what they'll hear)
What you should have said: "The team needs to accomplish X this weekend, and Bob and Sue have been stepping up lately. Do we have any other volunteers to come in and help out?" (This is known as the attempt-to-guilt-trip-the-rest-of-the-team approach.)
"Way X is the only logical way."
What you meant: Way X makes more sense, so it's what we'll do.
What they heard: What kind of illogical moron would come up with way Y?
What you should have said: "Way X gives us A, B, and C, with the downside of D, which we will mitigate by E. Way Y has the downsides of way X, but we don't get C and we can't really mitigate D. Way X is the way we'll go." (Translation: Explain why, and attack the idea on the merits, not by simply calling it stupid)
There are other phrases you have to watch, of course. These are just some of the nefarious ones. The point is that although we'd all like to think we're egoless engineers, and although in some environments knocking people down is an acceptable thing, most of the time, we need to try to not insult other people. And you know the things that secretly hurt you even though you kind of know they didn't mean to? Everyone has those, that secret little cringe when they feel just a bit insulted, even if they know it wasn't meant as an insult.
So mind your phrases, make sure you say what you actually mean, and that you're not taking shortcuts that will only hurt someone's feelings.
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The Trail Snob: When Bad Ideas Are a Good Thing
The Trail Snob presents the periodic, ill-informed opinions, malformed thoughts, and inappropriate convictions of a certain Web Content Editor. Art’s Cyclery disavows all knowledge of, responsibility for, and concordance with anything that comes out of their keyboard.
As any observer of bike-related websites understands, there are only two things cyclists like better than riding bikes: making fun of other people who ride bikes, and spewing hate about new cycling products. Some people, like a recently decanonized road pro, deserve every drop of hate they garner. When it comes to new products, however, most of the vitriol is a result of cyclist’s, actually humanity’s, fear of anything different. At first glance, many of the new product ideas published on bikerumor.com are slightly ridiculous, but upon closer inspection, many of these bad ideas tend to show some upside as well. After all, innovation has to start somewhere, right?
The Giro Switchblade, common ancestor to all things Enduro.
Take the Giro Switchblade, for example. Not only did the thing look ridiculous—like Pac-Man’s WWE bad guy twin—but it was a pain-in-the-arse to use. First of all, where were you supposed to put it when not connected to the helmet? Strap it on your back? Hang it like cod piece? Wearing it to the top not only made you look like a praying mantis, but air flow was surprisingly compromised considering how minimal the attachment was. Once at the top of the hill, installing the “chin bar” required tightening six bolts and snapping a couple straps. If you sneezed, there was a good chance the whole thing would fall off. If you fell and impacted the ground, there was an even better chance it would either a) snap in half, or b) catch on a rock and pry the entire helmet off your head as if the ground was a lighter and you were a bottle of stout. As hideous as the Switchblade was in its execution, there was something to its concept: that a piece of mountain biking gear could be light and comfortable enough to climb with, yet (allegedly) beefy enough to allow you to charge descents like a downhiller. Eventually this ethos was applied to bikes, and the trail/all-mountain category began to pick-up steam until The Enduro was spawned, which nobody can deny is a good thing. Thanks to the Giro Switchblade, we now have modern mountain biking.
Power Post!
Another product that would have garnered more than its fair share of message board ridicule was the Power Post (ca. 1996), a boat anchor of a seatpost featuring four positions to “optimize” your riding orientation. In its two rearward settings, which ostensibly assisted with descending, the parallelogram design moved backwards and down a couple of inches, which did nothing to prevent the bucking bronco effect on any obstacle less than an inch high. Additionally, since the saddle was moved back as it was lowered, attempts to hang your butt over the rear wheel for steep sections were blocked, keeping your weight well forward of where it should be for safe navigation of near-vertical sections of trail. In it’s lowest position, the Power Post folded forward, perpendicular to the ground, slamming its height but placing the saddle in a most inopportune area for bike control—you would have been better off with an Azonic Love Seat between your knees. About the only thing the Power Post had going for it was its handlebar-mounted remote. However, a few riders realized that the concept behind the power post was golden, it was the execution that was limiting. Eventually, the Speedball, Gravity Dropper, and Command Post improved on the adjustable height seatpost—something no mountain biker should be without—which has found its current zenith in the Rock Shox Reverb and Kind Shock Lev products.
Thank goodness some more engineers took an interest in suspension.
Something once laughed at, but now an integral part of off-road cycling, is suspension. Believe it or not, there was a time when mountain bikers—hardcore, cutting-edge mountain bikers—thought that suspension was a bad idea. Back in the late ’80s/early ’90s, suspension actually was a bad idea. Heavy, flexy forks, with under two inches of “travel” provided little more than a false sense of security to riders who wanted to push the limits of control. Early elastomer-sprung suspension forks required constant maintenance and barely worked when temperatures fell below 45 degrees. Heck, they barely worked in a dust-free, mild Mediterranean climate even after a thorough cleaning and lubrication. Not heeding the hue and cry of the populace denouncing suspension as unnecessary and ineffective, engineers pushed forward, eventually creating suspension components that would enable your average trail rider to climb like a roadie and descend like Stevie Smith.
The Bone Collector jersey from Primal Wear couldn’t die fast enough.
Finally, who didn’t once think that Primal Wear jerseys were the most embarrassing thing to ever be associated with cycling? And now look… Oh, wait. Those were horrible, and still remain a black eye on the visage of cycling style. What the heck were they thinking with those!? Unbelievable…
Tribal Tough? Please…
Special thanks to Geoff N. at Sram for his esoteric knowledge of half-baked ideas.
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Never Forget…. 1973
On the 7th anniversary of the terror attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, the predictable ones are predictably commenting with such tropes and memes as “Never Forget” and “Never Again”, etc.
Yes, it was an awful thing that 2000 people died on that day. And I hope everyone who was responsible is brought to justice, and I hope the like never happens again.
But I also hope that the event ceases to become a reason for further pointless murder in such places as Iraq and Afghanistan. It behooves me to say it, but someone needs to: well beyond 2000 have now been murdered ostensibly in the name of vengeance for those killed in 2001. And I say “ostensibly” because thinking people realize that the real reason for those wars has very little –if anything– to do with 9/11 or terrorism.
And as far as the “Never Forget” bit goes…. Well, how many remember another September 11, back in 1973? I think Americans should never forget that date, either, though most have. Chileans certainly haven’t. On September 12, 2003, I wrote:
Yesterday every media outlet in the world had something to say about the anniversary of September 11…. 2001. Since they’ve got it well covered, I’d like to turn your attention to September 11, 1973. On that date, 30 years ago, US-backed terrorists overthrew the peaceful and democratically elected government of Chile.
Ohhhh, some of you are saying, Ray is bashing the US government again. But listen: there’s a connection between what the Nixon administration (which included Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld!) did back then, and what happened to innocent people on 9/11 of 2001. By overthrowing a popular democratic government in favour of a brutal murdering dictator (General Pinochet), the world learned to see the USA as a regime whose rhetoric of freedom and opportunity only applies to its own interests, while pain and repression are its goals for the rest of us. That’s the vision digested by Al Qaeda; and given the events of 1973, it’s difficult to argue with that interpretation.
The Pinochet “government” went on to murder thousands.
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people,” Kissinger said of Chile at the time. No wonder people like Osama bin Laden feel no remorse about punishing similarly “irresponsible” people.
“It is not a part of our country’s history that we are proud of,” Colin Powell said of the Chile affair. Yet why are Cheney and Rumsfeld rewarded with wealth and power, instead of being prosecuted like the criminals they are?
And on Dec 12, 2006, I wrote:
No one talks about it much anymore, but let’s not forget that [BushCo] are torturing murderers who belong in the same category as Pinochet. One day –hopefully not too long in the future– W’s funeral will cause the same introspection among Americans as Pinochet’s has among Chileans, and for much the same reasons: the apologists for his crimes will weep, while we who protested will be saddened that the world was too cowardly and morally bankrupt to ever try him and his cronies for their crimes.
In other, more banal, news, have you noticed the new “RD” icon flashing in the web address box on your browser? That’s courtesy of my new hired gun flash/java/etc consultant, Adam B, young progeny of Nasty Nicky B.
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!colspan="4"| Unconsolidated Sedimentary
||Pleistocene
||Quaternary (Pleistocene to Recent)
||Unconsolidated sequence of clay, sand and gravel of varying thickness in the river valleys.
||Unconsolidated sedimentary sequences of alluvial clay, sand and gravel of varying thickness in the river valleys.
||There are reported alluvium thicknesses of up t 70-80 m in Sabi Valley, and 45 m in the Zambezi Valley. Elsewhere, the unconsolidated deposits are generally less than 25 m thick.
||There are reported alluvium thicknesses of up to 70-80 m in Sabi Valley, and 45 m in the Zambezi Valley. Elsewhere, the unconsolidated deposits are generally less than 25 m thick.
||Cretaceous-Tertiary
||Cretaceous sedimentary
||Mudstone, arkose, grit-conglomerate and sandstone bands
||Mudstones, fine grained arkose, grit-conglomerate and sandstone bands
!colspan="4"| Igneous - largely volcanic
!colspan="4"| Igneous - Upper Karoo Basalt
This thick series of alternating sandstones, siltstones and mudstone is overlain by the Upper Karoo Batoka basalts (see above).
| Great Dyke
|Great Dyke
||Late Precambrian
!colspan="4"|Precambrian calcareous metasediments and quartzite
!colspan="4"|Precambrian Metasediments
|Umkondo Group; in the southeast of Kariba are sedimentary, calcareous and metamorphic rocks of the Deweras, Lomagundi and Piriwiri (all part of the Magondi orogenic belt), and Sijarira and Tengwe River groups.
|Umkondo Group; Deweras, Lomagundi and Piriwiri formations (all part of the Magondi orogenic belt); Sijarira and Tengwe River groups.
||Mid to Late Precambrian (Proterozoic)
||These rocks include shales, phyllites, quartzites, siltstones, sandstones, conglomerates, limestones and dolomites as well as basic metavolcanics: phyllites with subordinate quartzite of the Piriwiri Formation; slates and shales with minor quartzite of the Lomagundi Formation; shales of the Tengwe River Group; and shales, siltstone and fine grained sandstone of the Sijarira Group.
||These Precambrian metasedimentary rocks include shales, phyllites, quartzites, siltstones, sandstones, conglomerates, limestones and dolomites as well as minor basic metavolcanics. The Deweras, Lomagundi and Piriwiri formations are all part of the Magondi orogenic belt. The Piriwiri Formation comprises phyllites with subordinate quartzites. The Lomagundi Formation comprises slates and shales with minor quartzites. The Tengwe River Group comprises shales. The Sijarira Group comprises shales, siltstones and fine grained sandstones.
!colspan="4"|Precambrian Craton - Metavolcanics and Metasediments (Greenstone Belts)
!colspan="4"|Precambrian Basement Complex and Metavolcanics
|Greenstones, made up of the Sebakwean, Belingwean, Bulawayan and Shamvaian supergroups.
|Precambrian Basement Complex with belts of metavolcanics and greenstones, including the Sebakwean, Belingwean, Bulawayan and Shamvaian supergroups.
||Early Precambrian / Archaean
||Irregularly shaped bodies of greenstone material (also known as gold belts). The Greenstone Belts comprise metavolcanics and metasediments.
||The Basement Complex covers at least 60% of the country area, including a large portion of central Zimbabwe. It is characterised by vast areas of gneissose rocks into which younger granite bodies of various sizes have been intruded, including Proterozoic granites, and granodiorites, adamellites and tonalites of the Younger Intrusive Granites.
||Moderate to deep weathering occurs within the Greenstone Belts.
The Basement Complex contains irregularly shaped bodies of greenstone material, making up mineralised greenstone/gold belts, which also contain metavolcanics and minor metasediments. Other linear belts are formed by dolerites and sheets of dolerite composition trending in various directions across the Basement Complex area.
!colspan="4"|Precambrian Craton (Granites, gneisses and mobile belt gneisses)
The Limpopo and Zambezi Mobile Belts are zones of deformed and metamorphosed rocks with a SSW-NNE trend in the south of the country, and a NW-SE trend across the north of Zimbabwe and into Zambia. They comprise paragneisses and anorthosite gneisses.
||Different weathering thicknesses occurs in the Basement Complex, distinguished by different erosional surfaces. Weathering thicknesses range from greater than 30 to 35 m on the African erosional surface, to shallow, less than 30 m on the Post African and Pliocene/Quaternary surfaces.
|The Basement Complex Granitoids, and Mobile/orogenic Belts (Limpopo and Zambezi).
Moderate to deep weathering occurs within the Greenstone Belts.
||Archaean
||The Basement Complex occupies a large portion of central Zimbabwe, and is characterised by vast areas of gneissose rocks, into which younger granite bodies of various sizes have been intruded, including Proterozoic granites, and granodiorites, adamellites and tonalites of the Younger Intrusive Granites.
The Limpopo and Zambezi Mobile Belts are zones of deformed and metamorphosed rocks with a SSW-NNE trend in the south of the country, and a NW-SE trend across the north of Zimbabwe and into Zambia . They comprise paragneisses and anorthosite gneisses.
There are additional lineaments formed by dolerites and sheets of dolerite composition.
||Different weathering thicknesses occur in this unit, distinguished by different erosional surfaces. Weathering thicknesses range from greater than 30 to 35 m on the African erosional surface, to shallow, less than 30 m on the Post African and Pliocene/Quaternary surfaces.
====Sedimentary - Intergranular Flow====
====Igneous - Fracture Flow====
{| class = "wikitable"
|Cretaceous-Tertiary Sedimentary
||The aquifer properties of these sedimentary rocks are controlled by primary porosity and permeability. The more favourable horizons are the conglomerates and cleaner sandstones, particularly in the vicinity of rivers.
Water tables are typically less than 15 m deep, and boreholes are usually drilled to 70 – 100 m depth. Transmissivity is usually less than 1.5 m<sup>2</sup>/d, and specific capacity below 10 m<sup>3</sup>/d/m.
|Igneous – Karoo Basalt
||Aquifers in the Karoo volcanic rocks are limited to discrete zones of weathering, fracturing and jointing, and contact zones with underlying Forest Sandstone and interbedded sandstone. Wide sheets of basalt occur in the Victoria Falls and Nyamamdhlovu, and Beitbridge and Chiredzi areas with numerous smaller remnants forming high lying cappings in the Gokwe area.
These aquifers are unconfined, have variable transmissivity from about 9 – 90 m<sup>2</sup>/d and specific capacity of the order of 1-10 m<sup>3</sup>/d/m.
The water table is usually less than 15 m depth, and borehole depths average 50 m, varying from about 40 to 60 m. Borehole yields vary from 10 to 250 m<sup>3</sup>/d.
||These aquifers have low groundwater development potential.
||This aquifer has moderate groundwater development potential.
||Water quality is moderate to good with total dissolved solids (TDS) concentrations ranging from less than 1000 mg/l to 2000 mg/l. The water poses a potential encrustation hazard.
|| The quality of the groundwater in this unit is good, with total dissolved solids (TDS) concentrations normally below 1000 mg/l. There is no identified fluoride hazard, although it may pose a mild encrustation hazard in places.
|Cretaceous Sedimentary
|Igneous – largely volcanic
||Aquifers in the volcanic igneous rocks are limited to discrete zones of weathering, fracturing and jointing, and contact zones with underlying Forest Sandstone and interbedded sandstone. Wide sheets of basalt occur in the Victoria Falls and Nyamamdhlovu, and Beitbridge and Chiredzi areas with numerous smaller remnants forming high lying cappings in the Gokwe area.
====Sedimentary - Intergranular & Fracture Flow (Karoo sequence)====
|Lomagundi Dolomite and Tengwe River Formation
|Precambrian Metasediments - Lomagundi Dolomite and Tengwe River Formation
||Some water-bearing horizons exist within the Precambrian metasediments. Aquifers exist primarily due to karst features in the calcareous rocks of the Tengwe River and Lomagundi Dolomite formations (massive dolomites and limestones). Karst features are thought to be developed to an average depth of approximately 60 -70 m. Weathering of shaley horizons in the limestones also increases the potential for groundwater storage and flow.
||Some water-bearing horizons exist within the Precambrian calcareous metasediments and quartzites. Aquifers exist primarily due to karst features in the calcareous rocks of the Tengwe River and Lomagundi Dolomite formations (massive dolomites and limestones). Karst features are thought to be developed to an average depth of approximately 60 -70 m. Weathering of shaley horizons in the limestones also increases the potential for groundwater storage and flow.
The Lomagundi Dolomite has high groundwater development potential. Average specific capacity of boreholes is 505 m<sup>3</sup>/d/m. Typical borehole depths are 60 to 80 m . The water level varies from ground level at spring occurrences to 50 m depth, depending on land use (commercial or subsistence farming).
The Tengwe River Formation has moderate groundwater development potential. Borehole specific capacity is 4 to 120 m<sup>3</sup>/d/m. Typical borehole depths are 50 – 70 m. Water levels tend to be generally shallow (about 10 m) in the area of Tengwe limestone/shaley limestone.
Yields of 500 - >2000 m<sup>3</sup>/d are possible.
||Water quality in the Lomagundi Dolomite is generally very good with a slightly hard calcium/magnesium character. Water quality in the Tengwe River Formation is generally very good with a slightly hard calcium/magnesium character.
|Lomagundi Dolomite
||Typical borehole depths are 60 – 80 m in the Lomagundi Formations. The water level varies from ground level at spring occurrences to 50 m depth, depending on land use (commercial or subsistence farming).
The specific capacity of boreholes in the Lomagundi Dolomite is 505 m<sup>3</sup>/d/m.
||This aquifer has high groundwater development potential.
||The water quality is generally very good with a slightly hard calcium/magnesium character.
|Tengwe River Formation
||Typical borehole depths are 50 – 70 m in the Tengwe River Formation. Water levels tend to be generally shallow (about 10 m) in the area of Tengwe limestone/shaley limestone.
The specific capacity of boreholes in the Tengwe River Formation is 4 -120 m<sup>3</sup>/d/m.
====Basement====
====Basement Complex and Metavolcanics====
|Precambrian Craton (Granites, gneisses and mobile belt gneisses)
|Precambrian Basement Complex
||The gneissose rocks and intrusive granites are devoid of any primary porosity, so the aquifer properties of these basement rocks are controlled by the degree of secondary porosity and permeability, often associated with fracturing, jointing, schistosity planes and weathering. Two hydrogeological sub-units are recognized, each with characteristic groundwater occurrence:
||The gneissose rocks and intrusive granites of the Basement Complex are devoid of any primary porosity, so the aquifer properties of these basement rocks are controlled by the degree of secondary porosity and permeability, often associated with fracturing, jointing, schistosity planes and weathering. Two hydrogeological sub-units are recognized, each with characteristic groundwater occurrence:
*the granite and gneiss below the African erosion surface; and
- the granite and gneiss below the African erosion surface; and
*the granite and gneiss below the Post-African and Pliocene Quaternary erosion surfaces.
- the granite and gneiss below the Post-African and Pliocene Quaternary erosion surfaces.
||These aquifers have low groundwater development potential. The highest groundwater development potential is found in those areas possessing the deepest and most aerially extensive weathering as in the larger African surface. Chemical weathering along faults, shear zones and dyke contacts may produce equally important water bearing structures.
|Bulawayan Supergroup of the Greenstone Belts
|Greenstone belts, including the Bulawayan Supergroup
||The rocks of the Greenstone Belts generally have very low permeability, but groundwater occurs where fracturing and weathering have created adequate porosity and permeability. The Bulawayan Supergroup can support yields of 1.2 - 2.9 l/s (Interconsult 1986). The average borehole depth is in the range 30 - 50 m, and the water level is typically from 5 to greater than 20 m below ground level.
||The rocks of the Greenstone belts generally have very low permeability, but groundwater occurs where fracturing and weathering have created adequate porosity and permeability, and consequently this aquifer has high groundwater development potential. The Bulawayan Supergroup can support yields of 1.2 - 2.9 l/s (Interconsult 1986). The average borehole depth is in the range 30 - 50 m, and the water level is typically from 5 to greater than 20 m below ground level.
Africa Groundwater Atlas >> Hydrogeology by country >> Hydrogeology of Zimbabwe
4.1 Unconsolidated
4.2 Igneous - Fracture Flow
4.3 Sedimentary - Intergranular Flow
4.4 Sedimentary - Intergranular & Fracture Flow (Karoo Sequence)
4.5 Sedimentary – Fracture flow (including karst)
4.6 Basement Complex and Metavolcanics
6.3 Other references
7 Return to the index pages
Daina Mudimbu, Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe, P.O Box MP167, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Dr Richard Owen, Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe, P.O Box MP167, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Emily Crane, Kirsty Upton, Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, British Geological Survey, UK
Political Map of Zimbabwe (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the geography resources section)
Estimated Population in 2013* 14149648
Rural Population (% of total)* 67.4%
Total Surface Area* 386850 sq km
Agricultural Land (% of total area)* 41.9%
Capital City Harare
Region Eastern Africa
Border Countries Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal (2013)* 4205 Million cubic metres
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Agriculture* 78.9%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Domestic Use* 14.0%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Industry* 7.1%
Rural Population with Access to Improved Water Source* 68.7%
Urban Population with Access to Improved Water Source* 97.3%
Rainfall time-series and graphs of monthly average rainfall and temperature for each individual climate zone can be found on the Zimbabwe Climate Page.
For further detail on the climate datasets used see the climate resources section.
Surface Water Map of Zimbabwe (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the surface water resources section)
Soil Map of Zimbabwe (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the soil resources section)
Land Cover Map of Zimbabwe (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the land cover resources section)
This section provides a summary of the geology of Zimbabwe. More detail can be found in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
The geology map on this page shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (see the Geology resources page for more details). The map is available to download as a shapefile (.shp) for use in GIS packages.
File:Zimbabwe Geology.png
Unconsolidated sedimentary
Quaternary (Pleistocene to Recent) Unconsolidated sedimentary sequences of alluvial clay, sand and gravel of varying thickness in the river valleys. There are reported alluvium thicknesses of up to 70-80 m in Sabi Valley, and 45 m in the Zambezi Valley. Elsewhere, the unconsolidated deposits are generally less than 25 m thick.
Sedimentary Kalahari Basin
Lower Pipe Sandstone and Kalahari Sand. Tertiary and Quaternary The Pipe Sandstone is composed of buff or pink sands. It is unconsolidated in places; in others it is weakly cemented by silica, and traversed by numerous hollow pipes; and in some places it is cemented into a hard secondary quartzite or silcrete.
The Kalahari Sand comprises pink or buff coloured, structureless, aeolian sand with a high proportion of fine silt.
Approximately 44000 km² of western Zimbabwe is covered by unconsolidated Kalahari Sands. In places, the thickness of the sand is in excess of 100 m.
Sedimentary – Cretaceous-Tertiary
Cretaceous sedimentary Mudstones, fine grained arkose, grit-conglomerate and sandstone bands
Igneous - Upper Karoo Basalt
Upper Karoo Batoka Basalts Triassic The Batoka basalts comprise amygdaloidal lava flows with interbedded tufa horizons.
Sedimentary – Mesozoic-Palaeozoic (Upper and Lower Karoo)
Upper and Lower Karoo Carboniferous to Permian These arenaceous and argillaceous sequences are conventionally subdivided into the Upper and Lower Karoo. The Upper Karoo comprises the Forest Sandstone and the Escarpment Grit. The Lower Karoo consists of the Madumabisa Mudstone and the Upper and Lower Wankie Hwange Sandstone.
Igneous intrusive (Great Dyke)
Great Dyke Late Precambrian The Great Dyke is a large linear mafic-ultramafic intrusive feature composed of norite, gabbro and anorthosite. Up to 1000 m thick
Precambrian Metasediments
Umkondo Group; Deweras, Lomagundi and Piriwiri formations (all part of the Magondi orogenic belt); Sijarira and Tengwe River groups. Mid to Late Precambrian (Proterozoic) These Precambrian metasedimentary rocks include shales, phyllites, quartzites, siltstones, sandstones, conglomerates, limestones and dolomites as well as minor basic metavolcanics. The Deweras, Lomagundi and Piriwiri formations are all part of the Magondi orogenic belt. The Piriwiri Formation comprises phyllites with subordinate quartzites. The Lomagundi Formation comprises slates and shales with minor quartzites. The Tengwe River Group comprises shales. The Sijarira Group comprises shales, siltstones and fine grained sandstones.
Precambrian Basement Complex and Metavolcanics
Precambrian Basement Complex with belts of metavolcanics and greenstones, including the Sebakwean, Belingwean, Bulawayan and Shamvaian supergroups. Early Precambrian / Archaean The Basement Complex covers at least 60% of the country area, including a large portion of central Zimbabwe. It is characterised by vast areas of gneissose rocks into which younger granite bodies of various sizes have been intruded, including Proterozoic granites, and granodiorites, adamellites and tonalites of the Younger Intrusive Granites.
Different weathering thicknesses occurs in the Basement Complex, distinguished by different erosional surfaces. Weathering thicknesses range from greater than 30 to 35 m on the African erosional surface, to shallow, less than 30 m on the Post African and Pliocene/Quaternary surfaces.
This section provides a summary of the hydrogeology of the main aquifers in Zimbabwe. More information is available in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
The hydrogeology map on this page shows a simplified version of the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see the Aquifer properties resource page for more details). The map is available to download as a shapefile (.shp) for use in GIS packages.
File:Zimbabwe Hydrogeology.png
Groundwater development potential
In the National Master Plan for Rural Supply, Interconsult (1986) classed aquifers by their Groundwater development potential, as follows:
High: Suitable for primary supply, piped supplies, and small and large-scale irrigation schemes
Moderate: Suitable for primary supplies, small piped schemes and small-scale irrigation schemes
Low: Suitable for primary supplied from boreholes.
Unconsolidated
Save Alluvial Aquifer, Umzingwane Alluvial aquifer, Grootvlei/Limpopo (transboundary) Alluvial deposits are only locally developed within Zimbabwe, with the largest occurrences found in the Save (Sabi)- Limpopo river system and major tributaries; along the Zambezi River; and along the Munyati and Sessami rivers in the northwest. The alluvial deposits vary in thickness, being generally less than 25 m in most areas, but as much as 45 m in the Zambezi Valley and up to 70 m in the Sabi Valley. They form unconfined aquifers.
Aquifer properties are extremely variable and may range from locally low to locally high average hydraulic conductivity. The water table ranges from about 5 - 40 m deep, but is generally over 20 m deep.
Boreholes in the alluvial deposits are typically 20 – 70 m deep, and provide yields of 100-5000 m³/d.
These aquifers have high groundwater development potential. Water quality is generally good. Lenses of brackish water occur in the alluvium of the Sabi river, which may be fossil water and/or water recharging via the adjacent Karoo strata.
Kalahari Sands The Kalahari Sands aquifer is mainly unconsolidated, but also include the consolidated Pipe Sandstone. It forms an unconfined aquifer. Boreholes in the Kalahari Sands are commonly 70 – 100 m deep, and provide yields of 100-1000 m³/d. The aquifer properties of the Kalahari Sands are extremely variable and may range from locally low to locally high average hydraulic conditions. The water table is generally over 20 m deep. This aquifer has high groundwater development potential.
Igneous - Fracture Flow
Igneous – Karoo Basalt Aquifers in the Karoo volcanic rocks are limited to discrete zones of weathering, fracturing and jointing, and contact zones with underlying Forest Sandstone and interbedded sandstone. Wide sheets of basalt occur in the Victoria Falls and Nyamamdhlovu, and Beitbridge and Chiredzi areas with numerous smaller remnants forming high lying cappings in the Gokwe area.
These aquifers are unconfined, have variable transmissivity from about 9 – 90 m2/d and specific capacity of the order of 1-10 m3/d/m.
The water table is usually less than 15 m depth, and borehole depths average 50 m, varying from about 40 to 60 m. Borehole yields vary from 10 to 250 m3/d.
This aquifer has moderate groundwater development potential. The quality of the groundwater in this unit is good, with total dissolved solids (TDS) concentrations normally below 1000 mg/l. There is no identified fluoride hazard, although it may pose a mild encrustation hazard in places.
Sedimentary - Intergranular Flow
Cretaceous Sedimentary The aquifer properties of these sedimentary rocks are controlled by primary porosity and permeability. The more favourable horizons are the conglomerates and cleaner sandstones, particularly in the vicinity of rivers.
Water tables are typically less than 15 m deep, and boreholes are usually drilled to 70 – 100 m depth. Transmissivity is usually less than 1.5 m2/d, and specific capacity below 10 m3/d/m.
These aquifers have low groundwater development potential. Water quality is moderate to good with total dissolved solids (TDS) concentrations ranging from less than 1000 mg/l to 2000 mg/l. The water poses a potential encrustation hazard.
Sedimentary - Intergranular & Fracture Flow (Karoo Sequence)
Hydraulic conductivity ranges from 0.1 to 2.09 m/d and specific yield from 0.02 to 0.11.
Nyamandhlovu Forest Sandstone aquifers (Karoo) The Forest Sandstone is widely developed in the Hwange – Zambezi Basin and constitutes an important regional aquifer. It is mainly confined, being unconfined only close to outcrop. Boreholes are typically 30 – 100 m deep, with water levels sometimes less than 10 m depth but more commonly greater than 20 m depth. Yields range from 0.1 to 5.9 l/s. This aquifer has high groundwater development potential. Water quality is generally good with total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration below 1000 mg/l. There is no recognised fluoride threat, although it may pose a mild encrustation hazard. Recharge estimates indicate an annual recharge of 105.5 mm with 38.4%, 52.1% and 9.5% accounting respectively for direct recharge, water mains and sewer leakages (Rusinga and Taigbenu 2005).
Escarpment Grit The Escarpment Grit forms a confined aquifer in the Hwange and Save-Limpopo basin. Boreholes are typically 30 – 100 m deep, with water levels about 10 – 15 m and greater than 20 m depth respectively. Yields range from 1.2 to 3.5 l/s. This aquifer has high groundwater development potential.
Madumabisa Mudstone The Madumabisa Mudstone is associated with shallow weathering, but has low groundwater development potential. Boreholes are typically 30 – 100 m deep, with water levels about 10 – 15 m and greater than 20 m depth respectively. Yields are relatively low in the Madumabisa Mudstone (0.1 - 0.6 l/s); successful boreholes are usually sited in the vicinity of rivers. This aquifer has low groundwater development potential.
Upper and Lower Hwange (Wankie) Sandstone The Upper and Lower Hwange Sandstone is widespread in the Karoo basin; it is found at depth and the aquifer is always confined. It was previously known as the Wankie Sandstone. Boreholes are usually 100 – 150 m deep in the Upper and Lower Hwange Sandstones. Yields range from 1.2 to 5.8 l/s. This aquifer has high groundwater development potential.
Sedimentary – Fracture flow (including karst)
Precambrian Metasediments - Lomagundi Dolomite and Tengwe River Formation Some water-bearing horizons exist within the Precambrian metasediments. Aquifers exist primarily due to karst features in the calcareous rocks of the Tengwe River and Lomagundi Dolomite formations (massive dolomites and limestones). Karst features are thought to be developed to an average depth of approximately 60 -70 m. Weathering of shaley horizons in the limestones also increases the potential for groundwater storage and flow.
The Lomagundi Dolomite has high groundwater development potential. Average specific capacity of boreholes is 505 m3/d/m. Typical borehole depths are 60 to 80 m . The water level varies from ground level at spring occurrences to 50 m depth, depending on land use (commercial or subsistence farming).
The Tengwe River Formation has moderate groundwater development potential. Borehole specific capacity is 4 to 120 m3/d/m. Typical borehole depths are 50 – 70 m. Water levels tend to be generally shallow (about 10 m) in the area of Tengwe limestone/shaley limestone.
Yields of 500 - >2000 m3/d are possible.
Water quality in the Lomagundi Dolomite is generally very good with a slightly hard calcium/magnesium character. Water quality in the Tengwe River Formation is generally very good with a slightly hard calcium/magnesium character.
Basement Complex and Metavolcanics
Precambrian Basement Complex The gneissose rocks and intrusive granites of the Basement Complex are devoid of any primary porosity, so the aquifer properties of these basement rocks are controlled by the degree of secondary porosity and permeability, often associated with fracturing, jointing, schistosity planes and weathering. Two hydrogeological sub-units are recognized, each with characteristic groundwater occurrence:
These aquifers have low groundwater development potential. The highest groundwater development potential is found in those areas possessing the deepest and most aerially extensive weathering as in the larger African surface. Chemical weathering along faults, shear zones and dyke contacts may produce equally important water bearing structures.
Incorrectly sited boreholes may fail during the dry season.
Granite and gneiss below the African erosion surface Rocks beneath the African erosion surface have relatively well developed hydraulic properties resulting from extensive weathering, which generally exceeds 30 - 35 m in depth. Aquifer thickness is about 30 to 50 metres; boreholes are usually drilled to 40 – 50 m depth. Sustainable borehole yields are in the region of 50 - 100 m3/d. Here, transmissivity is low to moderate (<10 m2/d) and specific capacity is moderate (30-50 m3/d/m). Groundwater in the aquifers beneath the African erosion surface is generally of good quality with a total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration below 1000 mg/l and no recorded fluoride hazard.
Granite and gneiss below the Post-African and Pliocene Quaternary erosion surfaces The hydraulic properties of the rocks beneath the Post-African and Pliocene-Quaternary erosion surfaces are considerably less well developed. Areas of weathering tend to be patchy and shallow (10 - 30 m). Aquifer thickness is about 10 to 30 m, often less than 15 m. Boreholes are typically 30 – 40 m depth. The transmissivity of these rocks is low (1 – 10 m2/d), while boreholes have low to moderately low specific capacity of the order 2 – 20 m3/d/m. Areas of granite and gneiss pavement, very shallow bedrock and inselbergs and other features producing positive relief common in the Post-African and Pliocene/Quaternary surfaces are associated with marginal to nil groundwater resources. In aquifers associated with the Post-African and Pliocene/Quaternary surface the groundwater quality is generally good. TDS is usually below 1000 mg/l, however it is higher in the Beitbridge and Nuanesti area (TDS of 1000 to 2000 mg/l) where there is also a fluoride hazard.
Greenstone belts, including the Bulawayan Supergroup The rocks of the Greenstone belts generally have very low permeability, but groundwater occurs where fracturing and weathering have created adequate porosity and permeability, and consequently this aquifer has high groundwater development potential. The Bulawayan Supergroup can support yields of 1.2 - 2.9 l/s (Interconsult 1986). The average borehole depth is in the range 30 - 50 m, and the water level is typically from 5 to greater than 20 m below ground level.
Groundwater quantity
Overall, all the hydrogeological units in Zimbabwe are suitable for the development of small, single point primary water supplies, either by means of dug wells or by boreholes. Units classified as possessing moderate or high groundwater development potential are capable of supporting more extensive exploitation for piped water supplies and irrigation schemes (Interconsult 1985).
Groundwater quality
The groundwater quality throughout Zimbabwe is usually good and generally does not pose any constraint to use for human consumption. Of the constituents that are a threat to health, the few cases of high nitrate are ascribed to poor borehole construction.
High fluoride is found in isolated pockets in the Gokwe area and appear to be associated with the outcrop area of the Wankie (Hwange) Sandstone. At the regional scale, fluoride concentrations are not a constraint to exploitation (Interconsult 1985).
Groundwater is the main drinking water source in rural parts of Zimbabwe. According to the 2012 census, about 38% of a total of 3,059,016 Zimbabwean households fetched their water from boreholes and protected wells (Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency 2012).
In addition to domestic use in rural and urban areas, groundwater supplies agriculture and industry in Zimbabwe.
The total annual abstraction of groundwater in the rural areas, from some 40,000 boreholes, is estimated at 35 x 10 6 m³ and the total groundwater abstraction for the agricultural sector is estimated at 350 x 10 6 m³. Groundwater is also abstracted for emerging towns known as Growth Points (e.g. Gokwe), urban centres (e.g. Bulawayo) and rural institutions (e.g. schools, health and business centres). Overall, groundwater presently contributes not more than 10% to the total water use in Zimbabwe (Sunguro et al. 2000).
In rural areas, water is mainly abstracted by boreholes fitted with a hand pump, due to limited electrification, while electric pumps are more common in urban areas.
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate Resources is responsible for the formulation and implementation of sustainable policies regarding the development, utilisation and management of water resources in cooperation with user communities and institutions.
The Water Act (1998) established the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA), a parastatal tasked with providing a framework for the development, management, utilisation and conservation of the country’s water resources through a coordinated approach. ZINWA has a groundwater branch tasked with specifically looking into the management of the national groundwater resources.
The Water Act also specifies the establishment of Catchment Councils. Seven catchment councils were established in the major hydrological zones of the country, with functions covering both groundwater and surface water, including: preparing an outline plan for river systems, determining applications and granting water permits, regulating and supervising the use of water, supervising the performance of functions by Sub-catchment Councils, and dealing with conflicts over water. However, due to the limited capacity and lack of adequate information regarding the quantity of groundwater, groundwater resource management poses a challenge to the councils.
Recent developments in the major cities have seen a collapse in municipal water treatment and distribution systems, with a shift towards the private use of groundwater at household and even industrial levels. There has been a rise in bulk water suppliers abstracting huge volumes of groundwater. This has led to new challenges in dealing with conflict over falling groundwater levels in residential areas, which the catchment councils have inadequate capacity to deal with.
In addition to the Water Act (1998), groundwater regulations and guidelines were developed for Zimbabwe in 1999 to control groundwater development and management. The regulations and guidelines compliment the Water Act (1998) and have been formulated within a framework of integrated water resources management (IWRM).
Zimbabwe has five transboundary aquifers as detailed by UN-IGRAC (2012):
Limpopo Basin (Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Tuli Karoo Sub-basin (Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Eastern Kalihari Karoo Basin (Botswana, Zimbabwe)
Nata Karoo Sub-basin (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Medium Zambezi Aquifer (Zambia, Zimbabwe).
For further information about transboundary aquifers, please see the Transboundary aquifers resources page.
The following summary is taken verbatim from the IGRAC report, Groundwater Monitoring in the SADC Region, which was prepared for the Stockholm World Water Week in 2013 (IGRAC 2013).
National groundwater monitoring network
“Groundwater resources management is carried out by the Groundwater Department of the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA). ZINWA is a parastatal under the Ministry of Water Resources Development and Management. Monitoring of groundwater level fluctuation is currently confined to only three major aquifers. These are the Lomagundi Dolomite Aquifer situated in the north western part of the country, the Nyamadlovu Sandstone Aquifer situated in the south western part of the country and the Save Alluvial Aquifer located in the south eastern part of the country.
Water levels are measured using data loggers and readings are collected monthly. Chloride deposition has been monitored in six monitoring stations throughout the country but has been discontinued due to lack of funds. The information was used in the assessment of groundwater recharge rates. The Department also used to carry out chemical surveillance on groundwater and surface water but again the programme was suspended due to lack of resources.
Data management and assessment
Groundwater fluctuation levels are recorded on template sheets during the last week of the month by field observers who send the records to the main office in Harare. The data is recorded in Excel and an initial quality control exercise is performed. The data is then reformatted and importated into a national groundwater database called Hydro GeoAnalyst. The software has proven to be quite versatile and meeting the needs of ZINWA. Hydrographs and groundwater maps are produced which assist in overall groundwater development and management.
The main challenges encountered relate to lack of financial resources, logistical support and limited staff. Another challenge is related to vandalism of facilities by local communities. In certain instances, monitoring boreholes are clogged with debris making water level recording impossible. Specialised entrances for data loggers and locking mechanisms are currently being manufactured for monitoring boreholes in the Save Alluvial Aquifer. It is desired to revive both the chloride deposition and chemical surveillance programmes and to have telemetric (real time) data collection for the water level fluctuations.” (IGRAC 2013).
Many of the references below, and others relating to the hydrogeology of Zimbabwe, can be accessed through the African Groundwater Literature Archive.
Interconsult. 1985. National Master Plan for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation. Volume 22 Hydrogeology. Ministry of Energy and Water Resources Development, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Surveyor General. 1994. Zimbabwe Geological and Mineral Resources Map, scale 1:1,000,000. Surveyor General, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Geological Survey Bulletins
IGRAC. 2013. Groundwater Monitoring in the SADC Region.
Rusinga F and Taigbenu AE. 2005. Groundwater resource evaluation of urban Bulawayo aquifer. Water SA Vol. 31 No. 1 January 2005. ISSN 0378-4738.
Sunguro S, Beekman HE and Erbel K. 2000. Groundwater regulations and guidelines: crucial components of integrated catchment management in Zimbabwe. “1st WARFSA/WaterNet Symposium: Sustainable Use of Water Resources; Maputo 1-2 November 2000”.
UN-IGRAC. 2012. Transboundary aquifers of the world, update 2012. 1:50 000 000. Sepcial Edition for the 6th World Water Forum, Marseille.
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency. 2012. Zimbabwe Population Census, 2012.
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DOORKEEPER By Joanna Michal Hoyt
Richard Flores IV March 27, 2018 No comments
By Joanna Michal Hoyt
Haavi stands empty-handed in front of the mirror-paneled door, waiting to turn them away.
The waiting is long. Only a few dare to risk everything to find the Last Door and receive the power to right the wrongs at the foundation of this crooked world. Some of these die on the sennight’s journey across the desert, or flee the fear-beast on the first floor of the tower. Some are too greedy to keep their hands off the gleaming gold on the second floor, or the crown on the third. But some…
Haavi hears footsteps on the stairs, looks into the wall-mounted mirror that reflects the mirrored door. Another woman’s face appears there, diminishing in an infinite regress of reflections. At the end of that tunnel Haavi sees what the woman seeks.
The woman doesn’t care about the Door, the power. Her mind is full of another face that Haavi has seen before. No wonder the newcomer passed the tests of the tower. She has come in love.
Haavi has dealt with love before.
The newcomer stops three paces from Haavi, waiting like a cat at a mouse-hole, or like a mouse steeling itself to look out and see whether the cat has gone. Haavi waits like a stone.
“What did you do to Quinniane?” the newcomer asks. “She told me where to find water in the desert, how to pass the beast, why not to touch anything on the lower floors. She didn’t tell me what you did to her.”
“I told her, ‘You are wise and fearless. Once you pass me, nothing can keep you from your heart’s desire.’”
“And?”
“She believed me. She looked in the mirror a long time, and then she walked away. I knew she would not come back to risk getting her heart’s desire.”
The woman turns away like the woman she loved. Still loves, though not quite in the same way.
Time passes. Others come to Haavi.
The man with the long staff uses words and gestures simple and sure enough to pass for magic outside the tower. Haavi reminds him of the harm he has done in his well-meaning pride, names three names. He turns away.
The hard-eyed young woman with the knife in her belt names the needless sufferings she has seen, the wrongs she has come to right. Haavi answers with the words of mourning which have no meaning but grief. Then she begins to name the sufferings and the deaths she knows. Her memory is much longer than that of the young woman, who ages before Haavi’s eyes and finally goes away.
The ancient woman carries a staff, not for magery, but to keep herself from falling. Haavi sees her deep-lined face in the mirror, tries to see her desire and fear, sees nothing she can understand.
Haavi waits like a cat at a mouse-hole, like a mouse steeling itself to look and see whether the cat has gone. The old woman waits, like a stone. Finally Haavi speaks.
“What did you come for?”
“You lied to me. I asked Quinniane before she died, and she told me—she’s no liar. You didn’t tell her what you told me you’d told her. I was ashamed of my heart’s desire. She wasn’t.”
“I told you what was needful.”
“Needful? What’s needful but the truth?”
“You came back here. Back to the heart of your fear. None of the others did that. Not even your Quinniane, though she was brave. What did you come for? Only to call me a liar?”
“To see what you’re here for.”
“To guard the door.”
“Any fool can see that. You do it well, for a woman armed only with a mirror and a lie.”
Haavi waits.
“Don’t you need more than that to guard the Last Door? Whether the gods are kind or cruel to keep the power from us, why leave it to one woman to guard?”
“And the desert, and the tower, and the beast…”
“I got past them. So did Quinniane. There must be others wiser and braver than us. Others that could get past you.”
“But maybe the tales are false. Maybe there’s worse behind you.”
“Is that really the Last Door, or is there another?”
“Is there any Last Door? Is that a lie too? Why spend your life waiting in service of a lie?”
Haavi chooses her words carefully. “How would it have been if you thought there was no Last Door?”
“And no chance,” the old woman says softly. “And no hope but what we can make ourselves. Life’s easier with another hope. No, not easier. Grander.”
“Would you blame me if I spent my life and more to guard that grandeur?”
“A grandeur that’s a lie?”
“More than your life?”
“I am not old as you are, but I remember more, and I have waited much longer. While I stay here nothing can hinder my waiting, and only one thing can free me from it.”
“Do you wish to be free?” the old woman asks.
“Yes, but not by leaving my place empty.”
“Who could fill it?”
“Someone brave enough to give all.”
The old woman looks into the mirror, into Haavi’s eyes. She holds out her hands.
“I am Avhara,” she says, “and I will take your place.”
Haavi clasps her hands. “Take it,” she says, “and take the blessing and the ward of those who set me here.” She feels the weight and ward lift from her; steps back, smiling.
“Those who set you here?” the old woman repeats. “Is it not a lie?” She stares into the mirror. “You didn’t even lie. You asked me questions, you told me nothing. Do you know what’s behind the door? Did you turn back at the last, like all the rest of us?”
She looks away from the mirror too late. There is no answer. Haavi is gone.
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PHOENIX, FALLEN By Rebecca Birch
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