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Adelsheim Bryan Creek Vineyard Pinot Blanc 2008
Pinot Blanc from Willamette Valley, Oregon
This 2008 Pinot blanc features peach, citrus zest, melon and floral aromas. On the palate, one finds a fascinating mix of meyer lemon and casaba melon. There's a mid-palate richness that is offset by the wine's general raciness. It pairs superbly with a wide range of foods - from shellfish to quiche to spicy Asian food.
From estate vines planted in 1993, this deeply fruity wine has a flavorful blend of banana and other tropical fruits with citrus and citrus rind highlights. Full bodied, almost fleshy for a Pinot Blanc, its mouth-cleansing acidity leaves a fresh, lemony flavor on the tongue, ready for another sip or a bit of pasta, seafood or poultry.
Established in 1971, Adelsheim is a family-owned and operated winery with estate vineyards located in Oregon's northern Willamette Valley. Over the past 41 years, the Adelsheim Vineyard estate has grown to include twelve exception vineyard sites throughout the Valley, totaling 237 acres. Company co-founder, David Adelsheim, has done work throughout the years to benefit both the Oregon and American wine industries: grape and wine research, wine labeling, industry education, and promotion. He is recognized for his "outstanding service" to the industry and has played a vital role in building the Oregon wine industry and establishing its reputation worldwide. Today, he leads a current generation of passionate staff devoted to leading the industry in crafting consistently transcendent wines.
Willamette Valley Wine
One of Pinot Noir’s most successful New World outposts, the Willamette Valley is the largest and most important AVA in Oregon. With a continental climate moderated by the influence of the Pacific Ocean, it is perfect for cool-climate viticulture and the production of elegant wines.
Mountain ranges bordering three sides of the valley, particularly the Chehalem Mountains, provide the option for higher-elevation vineyard sites.
The valley's three prominent soil types (volcanic, sedimentary and silty, loess) make it unique and create significant differences in wine styles among its vineyards and sub-AVAs. The iron-rich, basalt-based, Jory volcanic soils found commonly in the Dundee Hills are rich in clay and hold water well; the chalky, sedimentary soils of Ribbon Ridge, Yamhill-Carlton and McMinnville encourage complex root systems as vines struggle to search for water and minerals. In the most southern stretch of the Willamette, the Eola-Amity Hills sub-AVA soils are mixed, shallow and well-drained. The Hills' close proximity to the Van Duzer Corridor (which became its own appellation as of 2019) also creates grapes with great concentration and firm acidity, leading to wines that perfectly express both power and grace.
Though Pinot noir enjoys the limelight here, Pinot gris, Pinot blanc and Chardonnay also thrive in the Willamette. Increasing curiosity has risen recently in the potential of others like Grüner Veltliner, Chenin blanc and Gamay.
Approachable, aromatic and pleasantly plush on the palate, Pinot Blanc is a white grape variety most associated with the Alsace region of France. Although its heritage is Burgundian, today it is rarely found there and instead thrives throughout central Europe, namely Germany and Austria, where it is known as Weissburgunder and Alto Adige where it is called Pinot Bianco. Interestingly, Pinot Blanc was born out of a mutation of the pink-skinned Pinot Gris. Somm Secret—Chardonnay fans looking to try something new would benefit from giving Pinot Blanc a try.
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Boarding Schools for Girls in Mitchell, SD
WinGate Wilderness Therapy is one of the leading Treatment Programs for troubled girls from Mitchell, SD who are coping with behavioral, psychological, emotional, addiction, and academic issues. Parents of struggling teen girls in Mitchell, SD have a lot of option when it comes to providing treatment for their daughters, with many parents turning to a Girls Boarding School for answers.
These same-sex treatment centers offer great benefits to struggling girls, reducing distractions experienced in a co-ed setting. However, there are alternatives to all girls boarding schools that still provide effective treatment for troubled adolescent girls.
WinGate is one such program and is one of the top treatment programs in the country, as well as being the leading Wilderness Therapy Program available. While it may be located outside of the Mitchell, SD area, our treatment program is open to struggling teens throughout the nation, with many teenagers finding additional benefits in being further removed from the unsupportive peers and situations that contributed to their problems in the first place.
Our Wilderness Therapy Program is unique among treatment programs in that it creates an environment where troubled adolescents can address their issues objectively and where they actively choose to move forward, working toward their treatment and on the path to recovery. This self-directed motivation greatly encourages life long change and happens in a way that cannot be found in an All-Girls Boarding School.
WinGate Wilderness Therapy recognizes that such a unique and effective approach naturally produces questions in the minds of parents of at-risk teen girls in Mitchell, SD. As such, we have consultants available to answer any questions as well as to discuss the options available to parents and teens. Call (800) 560-1599 to speak with an adviser now.
Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Mitchell, SD
Teenage girls have emotions that run high during their adolescent years, and many Mitchell, SD area teens end up struggling with substance abuse, depression, and anger issues. When this occurs, parents of these struggling adolescents often seek out therapeutic boarding schools for girls in order to help them re-build themselves and facilitate a successful recovery.
However, not all experts agree that single-sex education and therapeutic services offer much of an advantage over their co-ed counterparts – and in cases where significant behavioral change is needed, it’s co-ed Wilderness Therapy Programs like that of WinGate Wilderness that provide more effective results.
There is an abundance of evidence that separating the sexes may actually hinder a teenager’s ability to achieve both social and personal growth and, by default, reinforce gender stereotypes which can cause self-confidence and self-esteem issues in teen girls already struggling through recovery. In fact, according to an Arizona State University study, adolescents who were not exposed to the opposite sex and who did not learn from or about each other harbored more stereotypical gender views.
If this is truly the case, and struggling teens are not taught how to manage themselves amongst both sexes during their therapeutic process, how can they then be expected to be successful when re-entering the real world?
At Wingate, we recognize the significant benefits which co-ed therapeutic boarding schools offer. However, while we consider diversity to be an important part of the therapeutic process, we approach recovery and treatment in a more unique way than traditional co-ed boarding schools: we use nature as a primary catalyst for change.
As an affiliated member of National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, our direction is entirely focused on achieving lasting results, and WinGate believes that distractions which get in the way of the recovery process aren’t necessarily from gender. Instead, they come from lack of focus. WinGate provides the optimal environment for focus through their wilderness therapy programs, and as a result, they are able to achieve meaningful, long-lasting change.
It is imperative that all teenage girls from Mitchell, SD receive the treatment they need before irreparable, long-term damage is caused – but segregation of the sexes may do more harm than good.
Wilderness Therapy for Mitchell, SD Adolescents
Although parents may search for girls boarding schools when attempting to find the right facility for their at-risk daughters, finding a treatment program which provides the most effective care for teens from Mitchell, SD, frequently proves to be a more difficult than expected. Most parents gravitate first toward more traditional options; however, it’s important to keep in mind that they don’t always provide the type of therapy which some teenage girls really need.
Wingate’s wilderness therapy and adventure therapy programs provide a distinctive treatment opportunity which features an extremely high success rates in adolescents suffering from addiction and various behavioral disorders, and it is fast becoming the preferred alternative when it comes fast long-lasting recovery.
Wilderness therapy programs take struggling teens from the Mitchell, SD area, and places them in outdoor environments where the cooperation between peers and the natural challenges which nature provides encourages organic change in a troubled teen’s behavior. Unlike therapeutic boarding schools, WinGate’s wilderness therapy programs get down to basics in their behavioral modification approach.
Through assigned tasks and group therapeutic exercises, an environment of positive and negative consequences – and their respective rewards – is created. WinGate believes that confrontation and change initiated through force results in impermanence, while inspiring change through cooperation imparts deep, relevant change.
When considering where to send their daughters, parents can’t help but be attracted boarding schools which have a shiny, happy appearance on the outside. They may promoting respect and offer an incentive for good behavior through a number of perks and benefits for those attending, however, much of this is more of an appeasement to parents of struggling teen girls from Mitchell, SD who perhaps feel a little guilty about sending their daughters away.
At WinGate, Mitchell, SD troubled adolescent girls who are in need of treatment for substance abuse, anger issues, or behavioral and mental health issues get more focused and directed care. By eliminating the distractions, struggling teens learn to find peace and a change of heart through WinGate’s Strengths Based/Natural Consequences model.
We believe that permanent change comes from personal growth, not fabricated perks and rewards, and for parents who are looking to heal their teen daughters through permanent change WinGate should be the first choice.
Call (800) 560-1599 now, and see how WinGate Wilderness Therapy can help heal and provide lasting results.
National Council for Behavioral Health: Excellence in Mental Health Act - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, recently released a Request for Applications for Planning Grants for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. It is particularly useful for community-based behavioral healthcare organizations that plan to deliver extensive, multidisciplinary, person-centered, assessment, evidence-based screening, diagnostics, prevention, treatment, and wellness services; including 24/7 peer support and crisis response services.
Boys Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens from Mitchell, SD
Mitchell, SD is similar to every other city. Living in an outstanding city doesn't make teenagers immune to the problems of drug or alcohol addictions. The problems of emotional or behavioral problems also exist everywhere, along with the difficulties caused by inappropriate friends.
Your troubled teen might be able to be helped at Dakota Counseling Institute, but that might not be the best answer for your son or daughter.
Even though we are not located in Mitchell, SD, Wingate Wilderness Therapy provides a way to help you and your teenager confront the depths of frustration caused by serious problems.
Unfortunately, Mitchell, SD is no different from many other cities in the growing plague of drug abuse and the other events that often follow the increase in drug use. At WinGate we understand, and can help you in these difficult times. Call WinGate Therapy to get the help your family needs at (800) 560-1599.
Troubled Teens From Mitchell, SD are Helped at WinGate
WinGate Wilderness Therapy is not located in Mitchell, SD, but we certainly can help your trouble teen escape from the depression and stress caused by serious problems.
Family chaos and anger is a common result of a troubled teen experiencing emotional or behavioral issues or struggling with substance abuse probblems. WinGate Wilderness Therapy programs address the whole problem, not just symptoms of deeper difficulties. You can trust our experienced and well-trained staff to help your troubled teen achieve full recovery and restoration.
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CommentaryOUTBREAK!
Marxist China spearheaded devastating lockdowns
Exclusive: Hanne Nabintu Herland implicates Bill Gates, WHO, CNN in panic shutdown of planet
By Hanne Nabintu Herland
Published May 6, 2020 at 7:12pm
China set the example for lockdown of national economies in an unprecedented move. Western nations followed the Chinese example and shut down their own economies too. Lack of supply or demand didn't halted growth, but political decisions did. We are consequently facing the financial meltdown of a century by political choice.
China is now the world leader, spearheading how everyone handles pandemic crisis. What the Marxist-Leninist president of the People's Republic, Xi Jinping, does, we all follow and implement. Or do we?
Nobody seems to have noticed that China mainly closed down one city, Wuhan, and its province, Hubei. Five million Wuhan inhabitants were allowed to leave and traveled elsewhere in China, which leaves 6 million in lockdown Wuhan. By March 14, most of Hubei were to resume work and production. That means there was a lockdown for approximately four weeks in most of Hubei. Other areas were also affected, national borders and so on.
The point is, China only closed down epicenter areas, but the West closed down whole nations, counties, towns, municipalities, everywhere. This has severely impacted the economy on a level that may be far worse than China.
From Day 1, I suggested that the coronavirus crisis must be seen in light of the U.S.-China trade war. It seems that the Western worship of oligarchs now gives China the upper hand.
The panic advice to shut down came from a mix between oligarch Bill Gates, the WHO leader, Marxist-Leninist Dr. Tedros, and was massively pushed by the CNN-led media. Western oligarch-owned CNN is actually proud of spearheading panic; they even summed it up in a CNN article.
Dr. Tedros first under- then over-reporting is central, since Western leaders believe that the WHO is equivalent to God. He allegedly under-reported the China numbers, then brutally switched to over-reporting prospects of millions of dead on March 10, to EU leaders.
In the March 10 meeting, he estimated a 3.5% or more death rate among the infected, describing the outbreak as "pandemic" and predicting millions dead in Europe. Apparently, Angela Merkel was so shocked that others had to calm her down. An estimated 60-70% in the population were expected to contract the virus. British authorities stated 60-80%. By March 12, the EU closed down its economies.
This combined with, in essence, the Imperial College draft, which was not even peer-reviewed, caused the fear of a bug on a level never seen before. As it turns out, the Imperial College report thatmotivated the U.K. and other nations to leave its herd immunity strategy, turns out to not be peer-reviewed and written by a professor Neil Ferguson who highly overestimated the numbers for Ebola and Swine influenza. It predicted that 510,000 could die in the U.K. without lockdown, while 250,000 could die even with an isolationist strategy.
This was recently pointed out by Johan Giesecke, the state epidemiologist for Sweden who also served as the first chief scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Everyone also forgot that 650,000 people die yearly of a regular influenza, according to the WHO. Even in the U.S., the 2018 deaths from regular influenza was around 80,000, according to CNN. Bill Gates, WHO and CNN did not make fuss about that.
We currently have politicians who eagerly flock around billionaire "pandemic expert" Bill Gates to take his oligarch advice rather than to listen to national pandemic experts.
Stanford School of Medicine professor John Ioannidis says that the lockdowns could be a "once in a century evidence fiasco." He has described the coronavirus as a "very common, mild infection for the vast majority." Do we know enough to justify the massive measures that violate human rights in our free democratic society? So asks Germany's forefront virus expert in microbiology, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, in his open letter to the chancellor of Germany. Of course, Merkel does not listen to him.
Dr. Bhakdi says: "This is the incredible tragedy. The life expectancy of millions is now being shortened because of this. The horrifying impact on world economy threatens the existence of countless people."
Over 1 billion people are now threatened by hunger due to worldwide lockdowns. In the U.K. alone, 3 million go hungry. Many are asking if the COVID-19 reaction was overblown. In that case, who pushed the exaggerations? If politically motivated, the misinformation may have contributed to the largest economic meltdown in a century. Let us at least now stop continuing the socio-economic suicide and get back to work.
Watch Hanne's recent interview with the Rutherford Institute's John Whitehead:
Hanne Nabintu Herland
Hanne Nabintu Herland is a historian of religions and best-selling author. She is the founder of The Herland Report Scandinavian news site, TV channel on YouTube and Podcasts which have millions of readers/viewers yearly. This is a great place to watch interviews with leading intellectuals from across the political spectrum. Her latest book is "Trump: The Battle for America." Also read "The Culture War: How the West Lost its Greatness." To learn more about her, visit www.theherlandreport.com and follow her on social media: YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
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Nicole Gonzales and Michel "Mich" Velazquez met at a concert a couple of years ago. When Velazquez told Gonzales he wanted to show her some of his art at his Capitol Hill apartment, she figured it was a line. “I didn’t quite believe him,” Gonzales remembers. But when they got back to his place, Gonzales was blown away by “pieces he’d thrown together on cardboard,” she says. “It was incredible, and we hit it off from there.”
Velazquez had moved to Denver nine years ago looking for a fresh start; his father, Diego Velazquez, is still in Guadalajara, where he’s a popular artist. “Mich and his dad would paint all around Guadalajara; his dad is on national monuments and churches, and he’d drive Mich along and have him help paint,” Gonzales explains.
When Velazquez struck out on his own, he started with chalk art, working with body frames, mostly in black and white. Then Gonzales brought color into his life and his art.
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At the time, Gonzales was “more into performance arts,” she says, noting that she’s even auditioned for the Denver Nuggets cheerleading team. But, she adds, “I’ve always liked artwork and had been a huge fan,” and Velazquez encouraged his new friend to start painting, too.
“I’ve become his student, and he has become my mentor,” Gonzales says.
Today Gonzales and Velazquez create urban abstract collaborations under the moniker VelArt, which pays homage to Velazquez’s father. The process of collaborative painting is “hard to explain,” admits Gonzales.
“One of us will get started painting, and then the other will grab the paintbrush. Sometimes we work together on the same canvas; other times we paint independently and are each other’s critics,” Gonzales says. Neither artist has any formal training. “It’s been a complete hobby for both of us — a result of messing around with colors,” as Gonzales puts it.
The duo is inspired by almost anything. “Colors, artists and things people say, and the music we like, and all of the really, really, really small things,” Gonzales says, listing a few of her many muses.
“We like to create from something that’s absolutely nothing and turn it into something gorgeous and beautiful,” adds Velazquez.
The result is vibrant art meant to “send a really positive vibe,” Gonzales says. VelArt pieces send a positive message, too, about environmental conservation.
“We’re from downtown, and we’re real eco-friendly,” explains Gonzales. So she and Velazquez prefer old cardboard shipping boxes to canvas. When boutiques, restaurants and bars started requesting work from VelArt on canvas, the duo began making their own “rustic canvases,” she says, using plywood and discarded fencing recovered from alleyways.
Velazquez and Gonzales sell their art at yard sales, in conjunction with Enrique Gonzales’s handmade furniture. VelArt has also showed at the now-defunct DADA Art Bar, Cuba Cuba Cafe & Bar and Adelitas Cocina y Cantina. On Sunday, May 15, the duo will hang their work at the Bistro at Stapleton.
For more information, follow VelArt on Instagram and Facebook.
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Covid crisis appeal success secures future for North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Harry Potter was filmed on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Photograph: John Hunt
13 Jan 2021 @ 1.44 pm
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One of the UK’s most popular attractions, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, says its ‘Crisis Appeal’, which was set up to support the not-for-profit charity over the pandemic, has been a huge success and has now closed.
It has raised an incredible £440,000.
It started at the begining of the first lockdown in Spring 2020, to raise vital funds from the loss of operating and to ensure that the railway could operate as planned in the future.
Chris Price, General Manager at NYMR commented: “It’s an understatement to say that this year has been challenging for us. Whilst we are now feeling more positive, Spring 2020 was a bleak time.
When we should have been opening our doors for the start of the season, we were having to lockdown the railway, not knowing when we would run services again.
The generosity of our members and the local community has been staggering; raising an incredible amount which will help get us back on our feet.
From the whole team at the railway, thank you!
We’ve had phenomenal support, and this funding has enabled us to retain our people and keep operating with plans for the future.”
The NYMR is extremely important to the region, both economically and culturally. Funding throughout the pandemic has meant that the Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey (YMJ) project can carry on.
This includes building its conservation and heritage apprenticeship programmes, lineside ecological conservation work, fuss free access for disabled visitors, expanding the railways learning offer and reaching out to individuals, groups and communities to share the charities passion for the history of the region through steam travel.
In addition to the crisis appeal, the railway was further supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) as part of its YMJ project, and was awarded £1.9m as part of the Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund administered by the Arts Council. The railway has also been helped with the reassurance of backing by its bankers, Santander, as part of the CIBLS loan scheme.
For more information about NYMR visit nymr.co.uk/
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Tuesday 26th September 2017
I went to a physio today about my back. There’s part of me that’s amused by the fact that if you’d said 5 years ago I would be going to see a sports physio, I would have not believed you.
Anyways, the good news is that it’s not a trapped nerve or a slipped disc or anything serious. It just seems that my thighs are so rock solid that it’s causing my lower back to get compressed. It also means that when I do things like squats and deadlifts I’m doing it through my legs and not through my glutes.
I had a bit of a massage to loosen it up but was told to carry on as normal because I got the impression that they want to see how I tense up over the next week.
But the result was that I seemed to be rushing all over the place today. As a result when I got in this evening, I collapsed on the bed and fell asleep until the evening. I’ve been feeling quite fatigued today and suspect that a mix of post-tournament exhaustion, work stress, not sleeping well due to back pain and getting over my cold last week, have left me feeling a little run down.
To be honest, the only downside to the sleep was that I was really late starting meal prep for the next few days and so by the time I sat down the evening had pretty much happened.
I played some Warcraft to chill out whilst watching some Youtube videos for research. However, even that was complicated today by the fact that my keyboard mappings seemed wrong, and I wasn’t able to get to my secondary abilities. A couple of app uninstalls and reinstalls alter and I’d come to the conclusion that I’d worn out my keyboard. Given how many words I’d written on it coupled with the amount of gaming I was not be surprised.
However, given that I’d had to shell out for the first of a number of physio appointments, buying a new expensive keyboard was going to have to wait. I remapped to another key and thought that I’d just have to make do. However, I noticed upon logging into a different character the modifier button worked, so it’s some weird config issue.
Annoying, but at least it’s not going to be expensive.
Despite feeling a bit exhausted I’ve still felt quite upbeat after yesterday. I think the thing for me is that no matter what anyone could say, I feel I fought well… and I did so without prepping my focus as I usually have to do. Plus, I had a bad back.
Obviously, I’m now interested as to whether the bad back reigns me in somewhat (and therefore makes me fight better) or whether I’m not fighting at my full potential. However, that might be a few weeks.
The physio thinks they’ll have me right long before my next tournament. That would be good as I really could do with a good night’s sleep. After the cold and then pulling my back, I don’t feel I’ve slept well in ages. That said, I didn’t feel as bad after my nap this afternoon.
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AI-powered tool aims to help reduce bias and racially charged language on websites
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22% of more than 500,000 business websites contain some form of racial and gender bias, according to UserWay.
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Website accessibility tech provider UserWay has released an AI-powered tool designed to help organizations ensure their websites are free from discriminatory, biased, and racially charged language.
The tool, Content Moderator, flags content for review, and nothing is deleted or removed without approval from site administrators, according to UserWay.
UserWay’s customers are using its AI-powered accessibility widget, an advanced AI-based compliance-as-a-service (CaaS) technology that ensures brands provide an accessible digital experience that meets strict governmental and ADA regulations, the company said.
“Focusing on digital racism and bias is long past due, and our team is eager to contribute to the conversation positively,” UserWay founder and CEO Allon Mason said in a statement.
In June, Google announced that it would be reevaluating what it considers acceptable language, Mason noted. So far, Google has changed terms including “blacklist” to “blocked list,” “whitelist” to “allowed list,” and “master-slave” to “primary/secondary,” among others, he said.
“That was the spark that triggered us to build this tool. At the time, we were enhancing our AI-powered capabilities that supply [alternate] text descriptions of images for screen readers,” Mason said. “We realized that if word choices can make our customers’ digital content inaccessible even without intending to, UserWay should help.”
The goal of the Content Moderator isn’t to censor or silence, he added, but to make web teams aware of problematic language in user-generated content or in content they may have overlooked.
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Discriminatory language on websites is pervasive
Before launching Content Moderator, UserWay ran its rule engine across more than 500,000 websites. The findings were concerning, the company said.
Some 22% of the sites scanned contained some form of biased, racially charged, or offensive language, UserWay said. Of those:
52% were sites with instances of racial bias
24% were sites with instances of gender bias
12% were sites with instances of age bias
5% were sites with racial slurs
3% were sites with disability bias
Words that the tool most often flagged for gender bias included “chairman,” “fireman,” “mankind,” “forefather,” and “man-made,” UserWay said.
Many of these terms have only recently been understood to be divisive and prejudicial. It is an enormous task for most site owners to keep track of the latest consensus around culturally sensitive terms, the company noted. The tool aims to make this task simple, centralized, and scalable, UserWay said.
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How Content Moderator works
Historically, content moderation software using AI to detect racial bias and divisive speech has been site-specific, expensive, and available only within large social media platforms, the company maintained. A website owner can drop in the UserWay widget and will be alerted to divisive or offensive language as it appears, in real time. The widget works in three steps:
Scan: Content Moderator scans all the content on a website, both static and dynamic.
Flag: The tool then flags words and phrases that may inadvertently promote stereotypes or prejudice, including text that could be considered racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, xenophobic, violent, intolerant, or otherwise offensive.
Review: Site administrators review the suggestions and choose the ones they would like to accept. They can also edit the suggestions to flow with the site’s content or recommend alternative replacements that are then fed back into UserWay’s AI.
More inclusive speech is needed now
In the past few weeks, many legacy brands such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben’s, and Eskimo Pie, among others have yielded to mounting pressure from consumers to rid products of racial and ethnic stereotypes. Technology companies have likewise been reevaluating the usage of racialized words like “blacklist” and “whitelist” in favor of more inclusive language
But brand integrity isn’t the sole issue. Civil rights advocates, led by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), have increased pressure to ensure websites are carefully moderated, and recent calls for repeal of Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act may expose online publishers to future legal action for defamation based on opinions or reviews created by platform users, according to UserWay.
In tandem with UserWay’s Accessibility Widget, Content Moderator helps organizations mitigate the legal risk of both ADA- and ADL-related violations, the company said
“We all know a list of words that are mocking (to put it mildly) of a variety of racial groups, or a variety of religious groups, or other political or gender persuasions,” UserWay quoted Israel W. Charny, Israeli psychologist, genocide scholar, and executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, as saying. “UserWay’s … tool flags these words and allows you to change them, an act of voluntary editing with cultural sensitivity. Giving options for improvement reduces the onus of the coerciveness that some people are feeling.”
In the same way that HTML code is remediated, Content Moderator can help users pinpoint and update word choices on their site, Mason said.
“While Google and Apple are approaching the issue as a simple search-and-replace, UserWay looks deeper into the problem of bias,” he said.
The tool looks to detect verbalization patterns that consistently and routinely marginalize and disempower specific cohorts, he said. Its dictionary is frequently updated to align with cultural and social changes.
A content owner can choose to agree, modify, or ignore the Content Moderator’s suggestions, Mason added.
“We intend to empower users by making them aware of the content that exists on their site–especially legacy and user-generated text that may not reflect their brand values,” he said. “More importantly, we hope that by removing blatantly and subtly offensive content, we can help these sites become barrier-free and inviting for all users.”
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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteer explains his side effects on CNN Updated: 2020-12-05 09:57:11 KST
One COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteer in the U.S. described the side effects he experienced.
However, experts assure that flu-like symptoms is a normal reaction after receiving the treatment.
Kim Jae-hee has the full story.
With Moderna's vaccine showing around a 94-percent efficacy rate, many people actually volunteered to be injected with the vaccine during its trial process.
But fears of side effects rise, after one trial participant said on CNN that he developed a low-grade fever, had fatigue, chills, stiffness, and muscle soreness in his left arm, as if he had been punched, before feeling better the next day.
Amid rising concerns, Britain said on Thursday that it will compensate any individuals who suffer severe side effects from vaccines, ahead of Pfizer's rollout next week.
But many experts say that slight flu-like symptoms are normal after being vaccinated, as this shows that the body is reacting to the vaccine.
Kelly Moore of the Immunization Action Coalition also offered assurances, saying that having reactions to vaccines just means that they're working, and there's nothing dangerous about it.
Experts also say that any potential side effects which are only temporary should not prevent people from getting vaccinated.
Meanwhile, American IT company, IBM, has warned of hackers potentially targeting companies which are critical in supplying COVID-19 vaccines.
The company said on Thursday that a coordinated, global network of hackers had targeted organizations linked to so-called "cold chain" the process of keeping vaccine doses at extremely low temperatures during their storage and transportation.
The company said that starting September, the hackers had targeted organizations across the globe, including those in Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Taiwan and even South Korea.
Kim Jae-hee, Arirang News.
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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad has returned to Nigeria after a brief trip to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
An unimpeachable source told CITY LAWYER that Justice Muhammad flew back to the country yesterday.
“There are strong indications that the CJN is currently at his duty post in the office as we speak,” the source told CITY LAWYER.
A member of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa had reportedly told the audience at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria (MULAN) in Abuja that Justice Muhammad had tested positive for coronavirus and had been flown to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates for treatment.
Justice Muhammad was absent at the new legal year ceremony of the Supreme Court where he was scheduled to preside over the inauguration of 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria, leading to anxiety over his health status. The event was presided over by the next most senior Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour.
Justice Saulawa’s comment was supposed to have doused the anxiety but the Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Dr. Festus Akande described the COVID-19 report as a rumour, adding: “In furtherance to the press statement earlier issued, I wish to state categorically clear that there is no medical report so far made available by anybody indicating that the Hon. CJN has tested positive for Coronavirus.
“Those peddling the rumour should go a step further to confirm from their sources and equally obtain the copy of whatever laboratory test result they are relying on.
“As of this moment of issuing this statement, no one has so far shown me or any other person in Supreme Court a copy of the test result they are referring to in the report.”
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Oh Sure, He Looks Innocent Enough
But trust me, those Cub Scouts can be shifty little bastards
The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”
Simple solution, really: change his name to Abdullah Hicks and have his father report him to the FBI. He’ll never be delayed or searched again.
After years of long delays and waits for supervisors at every airport ticket counter, this year’s vacation to the Bahamas badly shook up the family. Mikey was frisked on the way there, then more aggressively on the way home.
“Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch — someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he’s a criminal,” Mrs. Hicks recounted. “A terrorist can blow his underwear up and they don’t catch him. But my 8-year-old can’t walk through security without being frisked.”
But really, folks: the Government will run Health Care perfectly.
Nanny State, Politics | Mr. Bingley | January 14, 2010 10:57 am
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Brilliant @ Simple solution, really: change his name to Abdullah Hicks and have his father report him to the FBI. He’ll never be delayed or searched again.
The FBI would never expect this. ha.
JeffS says:
But but but but….Cub Scouts have knives and other dangerous stuff!!!!
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They are sick — and tired too — of playing second fiddle to New Orleans. Just like New Orleans, Port Arthur’s schools are still closed, but East Texans here say they’ve been cheated of both help and sympathy.
“People are, frankly, sick of hearing about Katrina around here,” says Wayner Moore, the administrator of Christus Hospital-St. Mary. That, says Moore, is because there was suffering here too.
Has there been any storm before or after Katrina for the past year? I don’t think so. On a lighter note, Major Dad sent me a CNN “your emails” link that seems lifted from our post-Wilma discussion the other day. The tenor of the emails chosen is amazing for an MSM column!
People who live in hurricane prone areas should learn to be self-sufficient. It is their responsibility to have at least 72 hours worth of food and water; they should fill their tubs, gas tanks and get as much cash as possible. This country was not built by people who depended on others to take care of them. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960’s all of South Florida kept about a week’s worth of food and water in their linen closets in case a bomb was dropped. The concept of self reliance is not new, just common sense. The government should not set expectations that they will be there any sooner than 72 hours. They actually did a great job in South Florida — the people failed their government.
Edi Meadows, Weston, Florida
Gives one a tiny glimmer of hope, pas vrai?
UPDATE: Well…DUH. But the whole concept is racist and insensitive.
Humanity...or the Lack Thereof | Mr. Bingley | November 1, 2005 9:58 am
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Then move…..
Heh, someone had to say it….8^P
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John Mulaney Was Investigated by the Secret Service over a Trump Joke on 'SNL'
"Am I stoked there's a file open on me? Absolutely. Did I enjoy it in the moment? Not so much."
By Josiah Hughes
John Mulaney may be a guy who owns a giant trench coat, but he's not a mysterious baddie hellbent on murdering the president. This has now been confirmed by the Secret Service, who investigated the comedian after he made a pointed (if somewhat abstract) joke about Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.
While hosting the show with David Byrne earlier this year (the first of two times hosting in 2020), Mulaney suggested that Donald Trump was a lot like Julius Caesar, adding, "And another thing that happened with Caesar is that he was stabbed to death by a bunch of senators because he went crazy."
Speaking with Jimmy Kimmel, Mulaney explained that the joke resulted in an investigation from the Secret Service. "I guess they opened a file on me because of the joke," he said. "Am I stoked there's a file open on me? Absolutely. Did I enjoy it in the moment? Not so much."
Mulaney was then asked if he had written any rants or "manifestos" about Trump online. "I said, 'No. I have bad writing habits. I could never pound out a manifesto,' " he replied. "I was cleared by the Secret Service — I've been told."
Watch Mulaney discuss the strange investigation below.
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The 3+3 Program is a rigorous program designed to accelerate the completion of the Bachelor’s degree from FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Juris Doctor degree from FSU’s College of Law. Admitted students will complete their studies in six years rather than the typical seven. This program is only open to juniors in the Criminology major who have earned 90 credit hours and completed all Liberal Studies requirements.
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The College of Criminology & Criminal Justice may identify other requirements upon their students who choose to participate, so long as they fall within the general parameters of the 3+3 Program. Criminology students who gain admission into the J.D. Program through the 3+3 Program will follow the usual prescribed course of study for full-time, first-year law students. Upon successful completion of the first year of law school, the 30 credits earned will be counted toward the College of Criminology & Criminal Justice undergraduate degree, sufficient to complete University requirements for the Bachelor’s degree. With completion of the 30 credit hours, students will be awarded a Bachelor’s degree and must apply to graduate following the FSU Registrar’s guidelines. Eligible students may participate in the commencement ceremony.
The Juris Doctor degree will not be awarded until successful completion of the required minimum 88 total course credits in the law school (including the 30 hours earned during the first year as part of the 3+3 Program) and all other J.D. graduation requirements. The College of Law does not guarantee admission; each student must meet the admission standards in place at the time of their application. A denial of admission under the 3+3 Program will not preclude students from applying to the College of Law (as well as other law schools) in the future upon completion of the Bachelor’s degree. Students who fail to successfully complete the first year of law school, or who elect for other reasons to withdraw, may return the next semester to the University without applying for readmission as a Bachelor’s degree candidate. Any successfully completed course work at the law school will be treated by the University in the same manner as other transfer credit.
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N. M. Mosina, A. S. Migunova (Saransk, Russia). Existential verbs as a means of the expression locative categories in Erzya and Finnish
Existential verbs as a means of the expression locative categories in Erzya and Finnish
Mosina Natalia M.,
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Finno-Ugric and Comparative Linguistics, Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia), natamish@rambler.ru
Migunova Anna S.,
Postgraduate student, Department of Finno-Ugric and Comparative Linguistics, Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia), zyuzyaevaanya@mail.ru
The article discusses the content of “locative” category, which is common in linguistics and has a variety of means of expression. It gives definitions of “linguistic category”, and “space”. It considers existential verbs as one of the means of expression of the locative category in the Erzya and Finnish languages.
Keywords: locative category; existential verb; space; Erzya language; Finnish language.
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9. Mosina, N. M., Migunova, A. S. (2015), Synthetic and analytical tools of expression locative in Erzya and Finnish, Ogarev-online, Section “Philology”, № 2, available: http://journal.mrsu.ru/arts/sinteticheskie-i-analiticheskie-sredstva-vyrazheniya-lokativnosti-v-ehrzyanskom-i-finskom-yazykakh.
10. Mosina, N. M. (2013), The system of deep cases in Erzya language, Monograph, Saransk: Mordovia University Press.
11. Alhoniemi, A., Agafonova, N., Mosin, M. (2000), Suomalais-ersдlдinen sanakirja (Finnish-Erzya Dictionary), Saransk: “Red October” Press.
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13. Lehtolainen, L. (2007), Luminainen (Snow Woman), Helsinki: Tammi.
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All you need to know about the train to Machu Picchu
March 27, 2015 /in Peru /by admin
Once in a while, I see an article that stands above most in detail and usefulness. Britt Fracolli of PeruForLess.com penned this recent article which appeared in Peru This Week. An excellent guide to using the train from Cusco to Machu Picchu.
via Peru this Week
When planning a trip to Machu Picchu, figuring out how to get there is likely at the top of your to-do list. Travelers must fly (or bus) to Cusco and then either take the train to Aguas Calientes, the town nearest to Machu Picchu, or hike the Inca Trail.
The train to Machu Picchu takes about 2 to 4 hours depending on what train station (in Cusco or the Sacred Valley) you depart from. For travelers with limited time, the train is the easiest and fastest option. On the other hand, the iconic Inca Trail is a multi-day trekking adventure through towering Andean peaks. (Learn more about the Inca Trail and alternative treks to Machu Picchu.)
For travelers taking the train, the natural beauty of the region is on-board entertainment. Between Cusco and Ollantaytambo the railway meanders through a narrow gorge flanked by steep mountains before dropping down into the Sacred Valley. The train tracks then mirror the path of the Urubamba River into lush, tropical terrain as they approach Machu Picchu.
PeruRail and Inca Rail operate trains to Machu Picchu. Both companies offer various levels of service (from high-end luxury to more economic options) with different departure times for each train.
Train Routes Via PeruForLess
All aboard PeruRail
PeruRail is a Peruvian-British company, part of the Belmond Group, that operates the majority of railway service to and from Machu Picchu. There are three classes of service: Expedition, Vistadome, and the first class Hiram Bingham.
Expedition Train: If you’re looking for the most economic option without sacrificing comfort, all aboard the Expedition. Carriages have comfortable cloth seating and basic snack service. There is slightly less legroom to be considered a “luxury” experience, but the panoramic side windows to take in the beautiful landscapes make up for it. Expedition service departs from two stations: Cusco (Poroy) and the Sacred Valley (Ollantaytambo).
Vistadome Train: The panoramic side and overhead windows are the focal point of this train! From the comfort of your seat, spectacular views of the Andean Mountains are the definition of a “sensory experience.” Carriages have leather seats and gourmet snacks are served along with a beverage. During the return journey from Machu Picchu, the train staff performs a fashion show wearing alpaca and other textile items while lively Andean music plays. All items shown during the fashion show are for sale. The Vistadome has three stations of departure to Machu Picchu: Cusco (Poroy), Sacred Valley (Ollantaytambo) and Sacred Valley (Urubamba).
Hiram Bingham: Named for the man who reintroduced Machu Picchu to the world more than 100 years ago, this luxury train offers signature service to the Inca citadel. Polished wood and plush seating decorate the interior of this exquisite train. The train has two dining cars, an observation and bar car, and a kitchen car. To Machu Picchu, brunch and entertainment are included onboard followed by tea time at the famous Sanctuary Lodge adjacent to the Inca citadel. The return trip features a gourmet Andean-inspired meal paired with wine and onboard entertainment.
PeruRail Schedule (getting to Machu Picchu & back)…
Train Schedule (Current train schedule: PeruRail website)
Click here to view the Sacred Valley (Ollantaytambo and Urubamba) schedule.
All aboard the Inca Rail
Unlike PeruRail, Inca Rail only offers rail service between Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu at this time. There are three different trains to pick from: the Machu Picchu Train, Inca Train, and the Inca Princess.
Machu Picchu Train: This train is great for travelers who want to minimize expenses. As Inca Rail’s most affordable option, it’s a no-frills ride, but beverage service is included and the seating is comfortable. This train runs daily all year round between Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu Train Schedule
Inca Train: This train offers Executive Class and First Class options. Executive Class runs daily all year round and includes beverage service. First Class only runs in high season (April 1st and October 31st) and at Christmas and New Year between December 21st and 31st. On-board First Class includes a welcome cocktail and gourmet meal.
Inca Train Schedule
Inca Princess: This is Inca Rail’s most decadent train service (Presidential Class). Sip on a welcoming glass of champagne while enjoying top-notch service. Savor the flavors of Peru while eating a five-course meal and cruise to Machu Picchu in style.
Inca Princess Train Schedule
Train tickets to Machu Picchu can sell out several days in advance during the high season (May to September). For this reason, travelers on a tight schedule should make their train reservations in advance and not wait to purchase them in Cusco.
Britt Fracolli writes for Peru For Less. She is a travel enthusiast on a mission to explore the length and width of South America and always plotting out her next adventure. Interested in a trip to Peru? Contact www.peruforless.com, the Peru travel experts.
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China carbon industry to face severe overcapacity -association
Beijing (Reuters) -- 22 Dec 2018
China’s carbon industry will face severe overcapacity from the second-half of 2020, after producers rushed to expand capacity amid fat profit-margins, an official from the China Carbon Industry Association (CCIA) said on Saturday.
Carbon products are widely used in sectors such as metallurgy, chemicals, aviation and renewable energy due to their strong resistance to corrosion and good conductivity.
“Extravagant profits have lured companies who shut down in bleak years to resume operations and even expand capacity,” Sun Qing, CCIA’s general secretary, said at an industry conference.
“Meanwhile, some who don’t have carbon capacity are planning to launch new production lines.”
Beijing’s aggressive environmental protection campaign has tightened supplies of carbon products, but has also boosted demand for products such as graphite electrodes used to melt scrap in electric arc furnaces (EAF).
EAFs emit less toxic air compared to other steelmaking equipment.
Net profits at Fangda Carbon New Material, China’s biggest producers of graphite electrodes, surged 5,267.7 percent in 2017 from the year before to 3.6 billion yuan ($521 million), while average profit-margins in the Chinese carbon industry last year jumped more than 3,000 percent, according to CCIA data.
China is expected to have graphite electrode capacity totalling 1.5 million tonnes by 2020, up 66.7 percent from 900,000 tonnes in 2017, said Sun. That will exceed demand of less than 800,000 tonnes in 2020, he added.
Prebaked anode, a raw material used at aluminum smelters, will also see a glut in supply, with redundant capacity set to reach 9 million tonnes in 2018, before climbing more in the coming three years, according to Sun.
Unlike China’s steel and coal industry whose capacity is strict controlled by the central government, carbon producers do not need to acquire approvals from authorities to add new capacity as long as they are able to meet environmental standards.
However, despite the capacity expansion, China will still face tight supply of high-quality carbon products such as needle-coke, which is used to make lithium-ion batteries.
“Carbon makers must not only focus on short-term interest and blindly expanding capacity ... but should seize this rare opportunity to improve technology and upgrade their products,” said Sun. ($1 = 6.9048 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Muyu Xu and Philip Wen Editing by Joseph Radford)
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/22/reuters-america-china-carbon-industry-to-face-severe-overcapacity-association.html
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* June 10 - Family Photo Album says farewell?
In a new posted entitled "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9462&hl= Farewell.]", Family Photo Album posts another cryptic message. The post contains the phrase "Answe'''red Point'''edly" (emphasis added) which leads some to believe the party is located at Redpoint.
*June 11 - Xerox, who had initially posted on [http://Twoism.org Twoism] on June 1st claiming that a personal friend was working on a project with [[Boards of Canada]], posts a [http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=637&p=14967#p14967 detailed documentation] of his supposed experiences at Redmoon. Much of which seems to be accurate to other confirmed accounts of what happens at said events. It is still unknown as to whether this is genuine, most seem to be inclined to believe that this is in fact a true account.
* June 11 - JimCanada
In numerous interviews, Boards of Canada have referred to "Red Moon nights", free-form outdoor gatherings with friends, music, movies and bonfires that Hexagon Sun has celebrated for years.
In April 2005, a cryptic image appeared on the Boards of Canada web page, seemingly referring to this practice. This image, and another following it, sparked a series of curious events as fans around the world collaborated in an attempt to determine the meaning of the mysterious images amidst red herrings and false clues posted by opportunistic hoaxers.
1 The images
2 Timeline of events
The images
The first image appeared on or before April 2, 2005. The image is of a full moon, tinted red, on a black background. Over the face of the moon are two lines of text:
g60h p5-omh g2h2.t 0-n
(- April 2] - Music70 contact page is updated with a link to http://www.music70.com/rm.html. The page contains a single image of a red-tinted moon with "100606" in large text as well a second line comprising the what becomes known as the first Red Moon code.
April 22, 23 - Family Photo Album appears
A user with the name "Family Photo Album" appears on WATMM and starts a new thread entitled "? ?????? ??????". FPA makes three posts in the thread, two containing animated GIFs containing pictures of Mike and Marcus, images of nature and the text "100606". An account of the same name also appeared on this date on the Twoism forum.
May 11 - Martyrs Monument appears
A user with the name "Matyrs Monument" appears on WATMM, starting a thread entitled "g60h p5-20mh g2h2.to-n" about the first code and containing references to the Pentland Hills. An account of the same name also appears on Twoism, making two posts with roughly the same content.
May 12, 4:46 PM EST - Another Family Photo Album post
In the WATMM thread "g60h p5-20mh g2h2.to-n", Family Photo Album posts a cryptic message.
(- May 31] - A second image of a photo-negative human eye is added, with additional (reversed) text that becomes known as the second Red Moon code.
May 31 - More Martyrs Monument posts
In a WATMM thread about the second Red Moon image, Martyrs Monument posts a link to an mp3 entitled "10June.mp3". MM also posts a second comment about the mp3.
June 01 - Xerox
In the Twoism Red Moon thread, a new user named Xerox posts a message claiming to have a friend working with BoC setting up an event of some sort "in the next week".
June 05, ~2 PM EST - music836.com
A banner ad for http://www.music836.com appears on the xltronic messageboard (thread). This site has a pop-up of a kaleidoscopic campfire image with the text "6/6/6" and a short looped background music with campfire sounds. 836 is second smallest wierd number.
June 6, 1:49 PM EST - Another Martyrs Monument post
Marytrs Monument suggests that more will be revealed today.
June 6, ~10:10 AM EST
The link to rm.html from the contact page and the page at rm.html itself are now gone.
June 6 - Twoism breakthrough?
A group of users of the Twoism forum believe they have cracked the code. The method is detailed in the Red Moon Party thread. By inputting various portions of the numbers in the two Red Moon codes into a UK goverment mapping site, two closely-located positions in the Pentlands region south of Edinburgh are identified.
June 6 - music386 hoaxer revealed
An artist named Pycho takes credit for the music836 site as a promotion for his new mp3 release.
June 10 - Family Photo Album says farewell?
In a new posted entitled "Farewell.", Family Photo Album posts another cryptic message. The post contains the phrase "Answered Pointedly" (emphasis added) which leads some to believe the party is located at Redpoint.
June 11 - Xerox, who had initially posted on Twoism on June 1st claiming that a personal friend was working on a project with Boards of Canada, posts a detailed documentation of his supposed experiences at Redmoon. Much of which seems to be accurate to other confirmed accounts of what happens at said events. It is still unknown as to whether this is genuine, most seem to be inclined to believe that this is in fact a true account.
June 11 - JimCanada
New user JimCanada posts a story about going to Redpoint on the 11th and finding signs of a bonfire and some melted tapes. In a second post, he posts a short mp3 that he claims was salvaged off one of the melted tapes.
June 11 - Family Photo Album cuts the crap
Family Photo Album makes a new thread entitled "Time to cut the crap." in which he admits that his posts, as well as the JimCanada posts, were a hoax.
June 11 - Twoism expedition results
User twofingersism posts a report on the results of the expedition of Twoism users who journied to the Pentland Hills hoping to find a BoC party based on the locations Twoism users determined on June 5th. In short, no signs of BoC, but a lovely time was had by the hopeful searchers, who built their own fire and kicked back with some beers and good tunes. Fellow searcher Licolnshire Poacher contributes a photo of the group.
Celadon submits more photos of Redmoon meet-up at the Earlyburn Observatory. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157594163705685/
In the end, virtually nothing concrete is known about what (if anything) happened on June 10, 2006. Apart from the strange images posted on the official site, all additional websites, forum posts, etc. were ultimately found to be created by attention-seeking artists and opportunistic hoaxers. Meanwhile, no additional information (or even acknowledgment) about the incident has come from any official or trusted sources (including hexagonsun_official).
As it stands, the meaning of the strange images is as unknown as it was in the beginning.
Stikipad page about the Red Moon code
Stikipad page about the second Red Moon code
Twoism forum
WATMM Boards of Canada subforum
Yahoo! boards-of-canada group
Yahoo! boardsofcanada group
xltronic message board
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Are You Foam Rolling All Wrong?
Fitness by Christine Yu on 10/2/2016
These days, foam rollers are everywhere — the gym, your physical therapist’s office, your living room and even your suitcase. After all, foam rolling has emerged as the darling of the fitness world and the cure-all for many different aches.
Essentially, foam rolling is a form of self-myofascial release, or self-massage, that gets rid of adhesions in your muscles and connective tissue. These adhesions can “create points of weakness or susceptibility in the tissue,” according to Chris Howard, C.S.C.S. and LMT at Cressey Performance. “If the muscle isn’t contracting uniformly from end-to-end, it could lead to injury and pain.” Foam rolling also increases blood flow to your muscles and creates better mobility, helping with recovery and improving performance.
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Foam Rolling Dos and Don’ts
Sounds great, right? Yes, foam rolling offers tremendous potential to relieve pain and help you move better — if used the right way. If not, you risk irritating, and possibly injuring, your body further.
Here’s a breakdown of five common mistakes people often make when using the foam roller.
Mistake #1: You roll directly where you feel pain.
When we feel pain, our first inclination is to massage that spot directly. However, this might be a big mistake. “Areas of pain are the victims that result from tension imbalances in other areas of the body,” says Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT, manual therapist, creator, and author of The MELT Method.
“If you iron out areas of inflammation, you can increase inflammation.”
Let’s take the IT band, for example. Foam rolling is a commonly prescribed remedy for iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS). While religiously rolling out your IT band might feel good, “the idea that you are going to relax or release the IT band is a misconception,” Hitzmann says. The phrase roll out your IT band itself makes it sound like you are rolling out a piece of dough, but your IT band is anything but pliable. It’s a remarkably strong piece of connective tissue, and research has shown that it cannot be released or manipulated by manual techniques such as foam rolling. “If you iron out areas of inflammation, you can increase inflammation. And if you are in pain, your body will be too stressed to repair itself,” says Hitzmann.
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The fix: Go indirect before direct. “If you find a spot that’s sensitive, it’s a cue to ease away from that area by a few inches. Take time and work a more localized region around areas that feel sore before using larger, sweeping motions,” suggests Hitzmann. For the IT band, work on the primary muscles that attach to the IT band first — specifically the gluteus maximus (the largest muscle in the buttocks) and the tensor fasciae latae (a muscle that runs along the outer edge of the hip).
Mistake #2: You roll too fast.
While it might feel great to roll back and forth on a foam roller quickly, you’re not actually eliminating any adhesions that way. “You need to give your brain enough time to tell your muscles to relax,” says Monica Vazquez, NASM certified personal trainer and USA Track and Field Running Coach.
The fix: Go slower so that the superficial layers and muscles have time to adapt and manage the compression. Feel where the tender spots are with the roller, and use short, slow rolls over that spot. “There’s no reason to beat up the whole muscle if there are only a few sensitive areas,” Howard says.
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Mistake #3: You spend too much time on those knots.
We’re often told that if you feel a knot, spend time working that spot with the foam roller. However, some people will spend five to 10 minutes or more on the same area and attempt to place their entire body weight onto the foam roller. If you place sustained pressure on one body part, you might actually hit a nerve or damage the tissue, which can cause bruising, according to Vazquez.
The fix: “Spend 20 seconds on each tender spot then move on,” Vazquez recommends. You can also manage how much body weight you use. For example, when working your IT band, plant the foot of your leg on the floor to take some of the weight off the roller.
Photo by Alex Orlov
Mistake #4: You have bad posture.
Wait, what does your posture have to do with foam rolling? A lot. “You have to hold your body in certain positions over the roller,” says Howard, and that requires a lot of strength. “When rolling out the IT band, you are supporting your upper body weight with one arm.” When you roll out the quads, you are essentially holding a plank position. If you don’t pay attention to your form or posture, you may exacerbate pre-existing postural deviations and cause more harm.
The fix: Work with an experienced personal trainer, physical therapist or coach who can show you proper form and technique. Or, consider setting up your smartphone to videotape yourself while foam rolling, suggests Howard. That way, you can see what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong, like sagging in the hips or contorting the spine.
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Mistake #5: You use the foam roller on your lower back.
“The thing that makes me cringe is when people foam roll their lower back. You should never ever do that,” say Vazquez. Hitzmann agrees. “Your spine will freak out and all the spinal muscles will contract and protect the spine.”
The fix: According to Vazquez, you can use the foam roller on your upper back because the shoulder blades and muscles protect the spine. “Once you hit the end of the rib cage, stop.” If you want to release your lower back, try child’s pose or foam roll the muscles that connect to your lower back — the piriformis (a muscle located deep within the glutes), hip flexors and rectus femoris (one of the main muscles in your quads).
Most importantly, understand what the origin of your pain is before you start. Know what you are trying to achieve through foam rolling and how to do it properly. And don’t forget to stick with it. “To get the benefits of self-massage, it’s repeated exposure that’s most important,” says Howard. “You have to show up and put in the work.”
Originally published March 2014. Updated October 2, 2016.
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Matchstick Streaming Stick
I have a Roku 3, three AppleTV's and a Chromecast, so (of course) I had to back a new Kickstarter project that's delivering a streaming stick built on Firefox OS, with the hope that an open source version will eventually lead to new and exciting capabilities.
And it's only $18 (I also love cheap).
This project blasted through its funding goal in just a day. I think they're a little surprised.
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Romanian Doctor's Incisive Intervention at the Synod of the Families
[R] Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, President of the Association of Catholic Doctors of Bucharest
Along with the 270 Synod Fathers participating in the Ordinary Synod on the Family, there were some laity participating. Planners asked for a variety of input, including a couple of Catholic Pre Cana Marriage Counselors from India.
But among the Synod interventions which have found their way out of the Paul VI Audience Hall was a pointed speech by Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, the President of the Association of Catholic Doctors of Bucharest (Romania). Her views having come from a culture which had been wrecked by political Marxism, was insightful in interpolating how cultural Marxism could skew our weltanschauung and threaten our salvation.
Dr. Cernea's intervention in its entirety:
Your Holiness, Synod Fathers, Brothers and Sisters, I represent the Association of Catholic Doctors from Bucharest.
I am from the Romanian Greek Catholic Church.
My father was a Christian political leader, who was imprisoned by the communists for 17 years. My parents were engaged to marry, but their wedding took place 17 years later.
My mother waited all those years for my father, although she didn’t even know if he was still alive. They have been heroically faithful to God and to their engagement.Their example shows that God’s grace can overcome terrible social circumstances and material poverty.
We, as Catholic doctors, defending life and family, can see this is, first of all, a spiritual battle.
Material poverty and consumerism are not the primary cause of the family crisis.The primary cause of the sexual and cultural revolution is ideological.
Our Lady of Fatima has said that Russia’s errors would spread all over the world.It was first done under a violent form, classical Marxism, by killing tens of millions.Now it’s being done mostly by cultural Marxism. There is continuity from Lenin’s sex revolution, through Gramsci and the Frankfurt school, to the current-day gay-rights and gender ideology.
Classical Marxism pretended to redesign society, through violent take-over of property.
Now the revolution goes deeper; it pretends to redefine family, sex identity and human nature.
This ideology calls itself progressive. But it is nothing else than the ancient serpent’s offer, for man to take control, to replace God, to arrange salvation here, in this world.
It’s an error of religious nature, it’s Gnosticism.
It’s the task of the shepherds to recognize it, and warn the flock against this danger.“Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.”
The Church’s mission is to save souls. Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not from income disparity or “climate change”.
The solution is: Evangelization. Conversion.
Not an ever increasing government control. Not a world government. These are nowadays the main agents imposing cultural Marxism to our nations, under the form of population control, reproductive health, gay rights, gender education, and so on.
What the world needs nowadays is not limitation of freedom, but real freedom, liberation from sin. Salvation.
Our Church was suppressed by the soviet occupation. But none of our 12 bishops betrayed their communion with the Holy Father. Our Church survived thanks to our bishops’ determination and example in resisting prisons and terror.
Our bishops asked the community not to follow the world. Not to cooperate with the communists.
Now we need Rome to tell the world: “Repent of your sins and turn to God for the Kingdom of Heaven is near”.
Not only us, the Catholic laity, but also many Christian Orthodox are anxiously praying for this Synod. Because, as they say, if the Catholic Church gives in to the spirit of this world, it is going to be very difficult for all the other Christians to resist it.
It was remarkable that Dr. Cernea felt empowered to rail against the Church involving itself in climate change politics, particularly after Pope Francis' ecological cri-de-coeur Laudato Si. It is a good thing that Pope Francis takes a broad view of Synodality. The question is how he will use this information.
h/t: LifeSite
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A Chat with Stuart Paul, creator of DC / WildStorm’s “Ides of Blood”
Posted by Will Harris (08/28/2010 @ 12:00 am)
Fact: real men read comics.
I’m sure some would still try to argue this point, but in a world where it seems like just about every comic-inspired movie finds itself atop the box office on its week of release, it’s hard to pretend that comics are strictly the domain of the geeks and the nerds. (Would that this transition could’ve occurred when I was still in high school.)
As such, Bullz-Eye is going to try to tackle more stories from the medium…and when I was sent a copy of “Ides of Blood,” a new series from DC / WildStorm which is – at least according to the press release – not entirely unlike a blend of “True Blood” and “Rome,” it certainly seemed like something that our readership might be interested in learning more about.
God bless DC’s publicity department: they quickly put me in touch with series creator Stuart Paul, who gladly answered a few questions for us about his own introduction to comic books, the origins of “Ides of Blood,” his semi-controversial decision to have characters in ancient Rome use modern colloquialisms, which of DC’s stable of superheroes he’d like to take a shot at writing, and much much more.
Since I’ve seen the phrase “new to comic books” used in conjunction with your history of writing for the medium, what’s your personal background with comics? And don’t be shy: if your memory stretches back that far, feel free to offer up the very first comic you remember buying.
My childhood experience with comics was pretty limited. Other than reading the occasional issue of Moon Knight or X-Men at my friend’s house, the only comics I personally bought were “Star Trek” comics—mostly “Next Generation” and some of the original crew that took place in the post-“Wrath of Khan” time period. It wasn’t until college that my girlfriend reintroduced me to comics through Sandman. Once I realized there were comics for adults out there, I started reading them more and more. Initially, I stuck with the superstars—Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Brian K. Vaughan, Garth Ennis. I was kind of a Vertigo whore at first. I guess I still kind of am, but not as much. I have to hear a lot of good buzz about something before I’ll invest in a whole series like Walking Dead, but I’ve definitely branched out. Once I discovered Urasawa’s Pluto, I started getting into manga more. Right now, I’ve got 20th Century Boys, Basilisk and Lone Wolf and Cub to read. I also went through a period of reading a lot of DC superheroes. Jeph Loeb’s Batman stuff is my favorite. Sometimes I’ll still read X-Men, but it’s pretty rare for me to read superheroes these days. My favorite series right now is probably Okko. I think Archaia is doing some of the most creative and well-made comics today. Also, Chew is the only series I read on a monthly basis. Everything else is TPB’s, although the iPad is kind of changing that.
There’s been much talk about how fans of both “True Blood” and “Rome” will find much to enjoy in Ides of Blood. Is that combination what led to the concept for this series? If not, what were its origins, and how do you feel about those points of comparison?
No, neither show existed when I originally came up with the idea and wrote the first draft. I mean, I don’t have a problem with people using those as points of reference. It’s an effective shorthand, but it’s the type of thing you’d bring up in a Hollywood pitch meeting. The problem is that you don’t necessarily know what connotations those shows have for the reader and also, they’re such current references that it makes the comic sound like it’s just trying to exploit the zeitgeist. I mean, if you said it’s “Gladiator” meets… well, actually, “Dracula” might have too much baggage attached to the name, so I guess “True Blood” probably is a good descriptor. The point is, I don’t mind the comparison, but I do think it has as much potential to put-off readers as it does to draw them in. Anyway, the concept for the series came out of boredom. I don’t really like vampires, so it started as a challenge to myself to figure out what I’d have to do to make vampires interesting to me. Julius Caesar just popped into my head.
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Carl Jung once said that the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are. This quote always makes me think about how to maximize our full potential. It is up to each of us to develop and embrace opportunities for growth and learning. But it is also the responsibility of employers, leaders and line mangers to build a learning culture. And herein lies the problem…or should I say the gap.
As economies rebound globally, companies are still lagging in their understanding of workforce issues. According to a major new global research study sponsored by SAP, ‘Workforce 2020’ by Oxford Economics, both executives and employees agree that companies are facing a leadership cliff and are not focused enough on developing future leaders.
Cultivating leadership and creating a workplace learning environment is something many businesses struggle with, yet it remains one of the fundamental building blocks of success. It’s hard to effectively manage something if you’re not measuring its progress and development – particularly something like leadership. When it comes to cultivating and enriching the skills of current and future leaders, every organization sets its own pace and expectations – either formally or by default. (Even if you’re doing nothing, that’s still a set point!)
Our study in partnership with Oxford Economics found that more than half of executives worldwide agree that problems with talent and skills are affecting business performance. One key difference we found is that a company’s level of revenue growth affects how well they are dealing with these problems.
Companies with above average revenue growth are more likely than their peers to provide employees with advanced training and development programs, and provide access to the information required to perform their jobs well. What may surprise you, however, is that underperforming companies are more confident about their leadership abilities – at least in their own assessment of their leadership performance and development. Yet high performing organizations are more cynical about their talent and continue to balance internal promotions and external hiring. This is what I call a healthy "Talent Paranoia" that keeps these organizations ahead of their competition putting them ahead on trends (think Millennials, contingent workers, globalization and an ageing workforce et al). In fact, more than half cite difficulty in attracting employees with basic to moderate skills – which has a direct impact on their workforce strategies. We are essentially looking at a polarized skills gap on a global scale. In other words, we are seeing a bifurcated economy of highly skilled and unskilled.
The good news is that research shows this gap can be bridged through better training and education, which has the potential to benefit both employees and employers alike. High performing companies have heard the message and are creating a learning mandate for their organization. They understand the benefits and impact to their business. This is also echoed in the research findings, which reveal that that high performing companies offer significantly more training programs as an employee benefit. Many companies start at the top of their leadership positions however, I believe ensuring you have the strongest first line leaders who touch the majority of your workforce is the most important place to start to grow the best leaders of the future.
The reality is that most companies still have a lot of ground to cover to prepare for tomorrow and need to rethink how they approach saving and focusing internally as they are trying to grow. Carl Jung is right in that is it a privilege to become who we really are. As employers, we have a responsibility to enable our employees to develop their talents and leadership skills for the benefit of both themselves and their organization. That requires HR to be at the forefront of creating a learning culture, and technology is the catalyst for change. It is important to lay the ground work now for making HR and learning strategic priority. Now is the time! Carpe Diem.
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Nigerian govt fully supports 2020 Bid – Osinbajo
August 8, 2019 August 8, 2019 0 Comment
The Federal Government of Nigeria is in full support of the bid by the country to host the 10th FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in 2020, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo declared in Abuja on Thursday.
Nigeria’s number two citizen spoke when a team from FIFA and accompanying officials of the Nigeria Football Federation and members of the Bid Committee paid him a courtesy call at the Presidential Villa.
He said, “The Government of Nigeria guarantees to back the bid 100 per cent. We are actually excited with the prospect of hosting the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in 2020. For us, football is a unifying force. Government interest in hosting is beyond commercial; football is a measure of unity and well-being of our people as diverse as we are.”
Osinbajo promised that the Government will mobilize every apparatus to ensure a successful hosting, in the areas of infrastructure, security and other logistics.
The Vice President also stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is an ardent football lover and is excited about Nigeria hosting the tournament and is in full support of the bid, while thanking the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, the NFF leadership and the Bid Committee for putting forward a strong bid for Nigeria.
Earlier, Pinnick had informed Osinbajo about the excellent facilities present in the four proposed host cities – stadia, training sites, hotels, hospitals, road network, security and seamless ar travel.
“We had warm welcome from their Excellencies the Governors and people of the four States, who had worked tirelessly to put in place the appropriate structure to host a successful and memorable tournament. Hosting the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in 2020 will leave a lot of legacies beyond the physical; it will impact on humanity.”
Pinnick traced the history of the U20 Women’s World Cup, saying Nigeria had been an ever-present, and highlighted how the competition served as discovery forum for players like Asisat Oshoala, Desire Oparanozie and Rasheedat Ajibade who are now the leading lights of African women football and are known globally, and are also giving back to the next generation of young girls through NGOs and direct investment in the Nigeria economy. He thanked FIFA for considering Nigeria as a strong contender to host.
Leader of the FIFA team, Heyral Kaj Jurgen praised Osinbajo for the warm welcome the team received in all cities visited. With him were Christopher Exley (Security) and Kliment Taseski (Tournaments and Events).
The delegation to Vice President Osinbajo was led by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr. Olusade Adesola accompanied by the President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Habu Ahmed Gumel, and also included Seyi Akinwunmi (NFF 1st Vice President); Mallam Shehu Dikko (NFF 2nd Vice President); Dr. Mohammed Sanusi (NFF General Secretary).
The FIFA team, which arrived in Nigeria through Lagos on Monday evening, inspected facilities in Lagos, Benin City, Asaba and Uyo, meeting with Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Godwin Obaseki, Ifeanyi Okowa and Udom Emmanuel, who variously assured them of the keen interest and desire of their various governments and peoples to meet FIFA requirements for hosting the competition.
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Development Coaching for Business
The is4profit team August 23, 2006
Why coaching matters to business
Coaching is in the news.
We see serious-looking ex-CEOs in the FT and bright four-colour-enthusiasm-on-legs in the media. In between there are therapists, HR professionals, sales people, the charismatic, the damaged, ‘certified’ coaches, ‘master’ coaches, ‘chartered’ coaches.
Sometimes it seems like everyone and their dog is a coach.
“So what’s going on and is it any use to me and my business?”
The answer to this last question is “yes, almost certainly”. In this series of articles I’m going to explain exactly why coaching has emerged in the business environment; how people describe their coaching and what that means; what coaches actually do and how that generates benefits.
These are all personal perspectives that other people in the field may disagree with. My aim with these articles is to give people in business a better understanding of this growing and important field so that managers and leaders can make an informed choice.
Why coaching matters more than ever
In this first article I will explain my personal view of why coaching has emerged in the business environment. So right back to the beginning. What’s going on? For businesses, it’s all about complexity.
The rise of uncertainty
I’ve seen three big changes in the world of work since I started my career. Firstly, the final demise of the career-for-life. Managing your own career is now the norm. Secondly, the growing diversity and speed of change of markets. This has fuelled the continuing growth of the market-responsive small/medium firm in the economy and has seriously challenged large established companies. Finally, the decline of the concept of an establishment of blue-chip businesses: the kind of businesses that have always been there and always will be there. This has been turned upside down by radical change in the business landscape.
So what’s the point of this? Well let’s just think about how these changes affect people and businesses.
Uncertainty in careers
Many years ago, people’s first job had an enormous impact on the rest of their career. Many people stuck with the same employer for life. Yes, change happened, but it was not the expectation. Nowadays, we know we cannot rely on the same job, employer, or even profession lasting a whole working lifetime. Nowadays, we need constantly to reinvent ourselves; constantly to be alert; to assess and reassess the impact on our own lives of changes in society, work and business. A complex world, but one of infinite opportunity in which every person’s situation is unique. It’s almost as if there are no rules. There is no text book any more.
Uncertainty in markets
The second theme I mentioned was the impact of rapidly changing markets. This does to business what business has done to careers. It wasn’t always so, and to an extent businesses have been able to lessen the effects of change. Take for example, Henry Ford. He optimised his production line by stabilising his market: the Model T famously came in “any colour as long as it’s black”. Ford lived in an age of industrial rationality. How to do things well could be worked out from first principles.
Now come back to the present. Now business needs to innovate constantly, to develop new processes and new proposition. How could you characterise the difference? It’s like there’s no textbook any more.
Uncertainty in business
So to the final theme. In this uncertain world, some very established businesses fail. They fail to change. They fail to adapt. Or they just get it wrong. Businesses that seemed infallible fail. At the same time, new names emerge: the phenomenal growth of Microsoft, Amazon’s radical business model. Were either of these thinkable even 20 years ago? We no longer know who to rely on. What do we know? Nothing: another illustration that there are no certainties, no text book.
And the spirit of adventure
What do all these changes mean to people actually doing business? What they mean is that every situation, every individual, every decision is novel and complex. There is no set formula. In place of reliability we rely on talent. Talent has taken the place of competence. It is an age not of industrial rationality, but of industrial adventure. In this age there is only talent.
And here’s the big thing: you can’t regulate talent: you can’t write it down; you can’t deliver a course in it (after all, there’s no text book). It’s about experience and learning (exploring) and it’s individual. It’s about where you’ve been and what you know, and then it’s also about where you’re going and constant adventure.
THIS is exactly what coaching supports: individual experience, learning, developing knowledge and adventure. THIS is why coaching is significant for modern business, THIS is why it is just as important to the small business as it is the the large corporate, and THIS is why it has grown so rapidly over the last 20 years. It has emerged as the most effective way of developing the personal adaptability – the talent -to deal with complexity and uncertainty. We’re all explorers now.
So, what is coaching and how will that help my business? That’s the subject of my second article.
Peter Jackson says that he “helps people to make the choices that best serve them in their professional and personal life”. He writes and lectures on coaching and is editor of the Bulletin of the Association for Coaching.
Visit his website at www.jackson-pdc.co.uk or telephone 01453 731689 to talk about how coaching can help you.
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How Do You Spot a Bully?
Kate Bornstein · October 1, 2011
I put the question out on twitter: how do you spot a bully? what is it that bullies do that makes them instantly recognizable as bullies. I'll be using these answers in a new book I'm working on, but I think the way articulate feedback I got is important enough to share right now, along with the twitter names of the folks who wrote them. Some folks, including yours truly, came up with several ways to spot them.
So… watch for these signs:
@katebornstein: They hurt/pick on/target ppl who aren't in a position to fight back. Like #BofA charging $5 a month to use yr debit card.
@katebornstein: They ask you either/or questions, eg my way or the highway.
@katebornstein: They shout you down, don't let you speak your ideas or opinions.
@mary_menville: They believe that the only way to meet their needs is at the expense of yours
@msmanitobain: stare at you; mutter derogatory names at you as they pass by
@musingvirtual: the more subtle ones gaslight, reference "Are You Being Gaslighted"
@UrbanRoguery: They make 'you' statements bc its easier to attack than reflect and hear. They fight to 'win' not solve.
@fgg23: they think laughter is a weapon in itself, and sometimes it works
@fgg23: They are always SO SURE that they will get away with everything.
@fgg23: They use ignorance to their benefit. "I don't understand you" = "You're wrong"
@blurabbit147: they laugh at the suffering of others, not from a place of relating, from a place of cruelty.
@sbearbergman make themselves feel big by making you feel small
@AHaefner: ad homenim attacks (eg: They attack your words instead of responding to your point)
@SaraEileen: They belittle your emotions / opinions / sense-of-self by insisting you can't understand them, or yourself.
@Siniful They spread misinformation, for either their own gain or to put down others. They thrive by ignorance.
@LauraVogel They put forth their views in a way that make you feel dumb for disagreeing. "I'm right, you're stupid."
@supermattachine They insist they know you better than you know yourself.
@AliceSinAerie: they use you to make themselves look/feel more important
@AliceSinAerie: they intentionally embarrass you in front of others
@heavenscalyx They hurt you (physically, emotionally) then claim it was a "joke". Or maybe that's #howtospotanabuser
@BigDaddyKeltik: they'll test you, see how you respond, if you show weakness, you become a target. They'll test with little attacks, comments, questions, and it'll build from there. Whatever your weakness is, thats what they exploit
@danielsiders: references NY Times article "Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark"
@MSvairini: They act like they have nothing at all in common with you. Not even humanity.
@NJrugger45 almost nothing stops them. Not ignoring it, not talking back, not crying. Usually takes someone to intervene
So, wow, right? These seem pretty spot on to me. If you have any to add, please do so in the comments section below.
Wishing you safe bully-spotting.
Auntie Kate
Trans Pride — Talking Points, Toronto 2011
Kate Bornstein · July 4, 2011
I was invited to Toronto this year to speak at Trans Pride. I don't often get invited to speak at Pride events, so not too many people have heard or read what I think about LGBTetc Pride, and more specifically Trans Pride.
A lot of what I said at Toronto Trans Pride is part of a book I'm working on for Seven Stories Press, called No Votes For Bullies: Democracy For The Rest of Us. If all goes according to plan, the book should be out in September, 2012—a couple of months after my memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, comes out from Beacon Press in June, 2012.
So, here are the talking points I used for my talk on Trans Pride, delivered to some hundreds of lovely gender anarchists and sex positive, sex inclusive outlaws at the post-march Gender Revolution stage in Toronto on July 1st, 2011.
Click to download Talking Points PDF file
Okey dokey, then. I'm still writing the first draft of my memoir, It goes to the printer at the end of August and I have miles to go before I sleep.
To T, or Not to T. That’s The Frakking Question.
Kate Bornstein · November 18, 2010
Last night, I wrote a blog in which I apologized for using the word tranny. I said I'd try my best not to use it in public any more. Well, I did try my best and it made me feel miserable. I cried myself to sleep, and I woke up crying. I woke up feeling weaker than I've felt in a long time.
I like the word tranny. It makes me feel strong and happy when I do use the word tranny. I like other people who use the word tranny affectionately with one another. I don't want to stop using the word. Of course I don't want to be mean to people who are hurt by the word, but the fact is I have never used the word tranny with the intention of being mean to people.
I've been on an extremely rigorous tour schedule for the past few months, and I'm exhausted. I made the decision to post last night more out of fear and overwhelm than out of strength of conviction. So, I've reconsidered what I said and why I said it, and I've taken down that post.
Kiss Kiss,
your everlovin' tranny auntie kate
Open Letter to LGBT Leaders Who Are Pushing Marriage Equality
Kate Bornstein · December 4, 2009
To the leaders, membership, and supporters of The Human Rights Campaign, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and state-wide groups supporting marriage equality as your primary goal,
Hello. I'm Kate Bornstein, and I've got a great deal to say to you, so you deserve to know more about me: I write books about postmodern gender theory and alternatives to suicide for teens, freaks and other outlaws. I'm a feminist, a Taoist, a sadomasochist, a femme, a nerd, a transperson, a Jew, and a tattooed lady. I'm a certified Post Traumatic Stress Disorder survivor. I'm a chronic over-eater who's been diagnosed with anorexia. I'm sober, but I'm not always clean. I've got piercings in body parts I wasn't born with. I'm also an elder in the community you claim to represent, and it is with great sorrow that I must write: you have not been representing us.
Let's talk about a love that unites more people than have ever before been united by love. Let's defend some real equality.
The other day, New York State's lesbian and gay bid for marriage equality went down in flames, enough flames to make people cry. Thousands of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people and their allies spent a lot of money and heart-filled hours of work to legalize marriage equality, with little to show for it. That sucks, and I think the reason it didn't work is it's because marriage equality is an incorrect priority for the LGBTQetc communities.
Marriage equality—as it's being pushed for now—is wasting resources that would be better deployed to save some lives. There are several major flaws with marriage equality as a priority for our people:
Marriage as it's practiced in the USA is unconstitutional… if you listen to Thomas Jerfferson's interpretation of separation of church and state. The way it stands now, if you're an ordained leader in a recognized religion, the US government gives you a package of 1500-1700 civil rights that only you can hand out to people. And you get to bestow or withhold these civil rights from any American citizen you choose, regardless of that citizen's constitutionally-granted rights. The government has no constitutional right to hand that judgment call over to a religious body.
Marriage equality—as it's being fought for now by lesbian and gay leaders who claim they're speaking for some majority of LGBTQetc people—will wind up being more marriage inequality. Single parents, many of whom are women of color, will not get the 1500-1700 rights they need to better and more easily raise their children. Nor will many other households made up of any combination of people who love each other and their children.
When lesbian and gay community leaders whip up the community to fight for the right to marry, it's a further expression of America's institutionalized greed in that it benefits only its demographic constituency. There's no reaching out beyond sexuality and gender expression to benefit people who aren't just like us, and honestly… that is so 20th Century identity politics.
Marriage is a privileging institution. It has privileged, and continues to privilege people along lines of not only religion, sexuality and gender, but also along the oppressive vectors of race, class, age, looks, ability, citizenship, family status, and language. Seeking to grab oneself a piece of the marriage-rights pie does little if anything at all for the oppression caused by the institution of marriage itself to many more people than sex and gender outlaws.
The fight for "marriage equality" is simply not the highest priority for a movement based in sexuality and gender. By simple triage, the most widespread criminality against people whose identities are based in sex and gender is violence against women. Women still make up the single-most oppressed identity in the world, followed closely by kids who are determined to be freaky for any reason whatsoever.
Lesbian and gay leaders must cease being self-obssessed and take into account the very real damage that's perpetrated on people who are more than simply lesbian women and/or gay men, more than bisexual or transgender even. Assuming a good-hearted but misplaced motivation for all the work done on behalf of fighting for marriage equality, it's time to stop fighting on that front as a first priority of the LGBTQetc movement. It's time to do some triage and base our priorities on a) who needs the most help and b) what battlefront will bring us the most allies.
I'm asking that you to fight on behalf of change for someone besides yourself. Please. I promise the rewards of doing that will revisit you threefold. Who needs the most help is easy: women. To lesbian and gay leaders, I ask you to ally yourselves with the centuries-old feminist movements and their current incarnations. You want to get a bill passed through Congress? Take another run at the Equal Rights Amendment. Unlike gay marriage, the ERA stands a better chance of making it into law, given the Obama Administration and our loosely Democratic majority in congress.
Stopping the violence against women and freaky children, and backing another run at the ERA have got the good chance of creating national front, lots of allies. On the home front of sex and gender, there's plenty of room for change that doesn't require millions of dollars and thousands of hours.
Looking into the community of people who base their lives on sexuality and gender, there's a lot of door-opening to do. Beyond L, G, B and T, there's also Q for queer and Q for questioning. There's an S for sadomasochists, an I for intersex, an F for feminists, and another F for furries. Our community is additionally composed of sex educators, sex workers, adult entertainers, pornographers, men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women, and asexuals who have sex in whatever manner they define their asexuality. You want to create some real change? Make room for genderqueers, polyamorists, radical faeries, butches, femmes, drag queens, drag king, and other dragfuck royalty too fabulous to describe in this short letter.
There are more and more people to add to this ever-growing list of communities whom you must own as family and represent in your activism. You cannot afford—politically, economically, or morally—to leave out a single person who bases a large part of their identity on being sex positive or in any way a proponent of gender anarchy.
That's what I have to say to you. That and thank you for the good hearts you've clearly demonstrated in your activism. I'm asking you to open your hearts further is all.
You're welcome to leave comments on this blog, but the best way to engage me in a conversation or recruit me to help is to contact me through Twitter. I look forward to talking with you, and I hope we can work together on the terms I've outlined above.
Warmly, and with respect,
Your Auntie Kate
My Moving Fingers Write and Having Writ, Move On
I'm out on the road, and I haven't been doing much blogging. I've been writing, but I've been writing for other folks. Here are some links to some new pieces:
My SciFi/Fantasy self goes freewheeling in an interview for Crossed Genres magazine, where I answer questions about alternate universes, and which of 'em I'd like to live in.
A couple of weeks ago, President Obama signed into law the first-ever piece of legislation written that includes protection for transfolk. My take on hate crimes legislation is up on Pam's House Blend.
I've got a couple of pieces of my graphic art (pen and ink) up on the wall in an art exhibit at New York's La Mama Galleria, curated by the fabulous Mx. Justin Bond.
I hope you have fun going through these new pieces. I'm on the road for another two weeks. Best way to stay in touch is through Twitter.
My Keynote Address to Women’s Consortium, PA
Kate Bornstein · November 8, 2009
I've recently completed a non-stop four day visit to Philadelphia as "visiting scholar," guest of the Pennsylvania State Higher Education Women's Coalition. Six colleges and universities in three days. On the fourth day, I was to deliver a keynote address to the Women's Consortium's annual shindig being held at West Chester University. I wrote the address the night before I delivered it at the Consortium's luncheon (pictured here), so the talk was about as close to extemporaneous as I allow myself to get while I'm out speaking. I promised my Twitter twibe that I'd post it here if it worked. It worked, so here are my notes for that talk.
A Theory of Othering Sex and Gender Outlaws
Kate Bornstein · October 11, 2009
I'm going to keep this short and sweet, to keep myself from wandering off into Mobius strips of postmodern theory. I've been paying attention to some trans activists who are using the word cisgender. According to its very own Wikipedia page:
"The word has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis, meaning "on the same side" as in the cis-trans distinction in chemistry. In this case, "cis" refers to the alignment of gender identity with assigned gender."
Who knew? Not me. I'd only begun to hear the word about a year ago but according to its own Wikipedia page, cisgender has been in use on the internet since 1994. So this is me trying to play catch up.
Here's what I've got worked out so far.
1) Cisgender/Transgender is a valid gender binary. I don't like the prefix cis, but that's my problem. A global binary exists that is worthy of examination for its impact on the quality of our lives.
2) Identifying people with fixed gender identities as sex partners is key to both the identities and desires of cisgender lesbians and gay men, as well as to heterosexual men and women. Bisex, Polyamory, Asexuality, et al break cisgender rules of fixed desire. Trans, Genderqueer, Drag et al break cisgender rules of fixed identity.
3) To hold on to any power gained thru classimilation, middle class cisgender lesbians, gay men, and heterosexual men and women must defend their desires/identities as both correct & natural.
4) Cisgender people who are sex positive & gender embracing are more than allies, they're family. That's where the idea of any othering of trans by some monolithic cisgender identity ultimately falls apart.
5) Sex positivists and gender anarchists are simply too sexy for inclusion in any middle class arena, including the current "LGBT" movement whose agendas are set by mostly middle class cisgender lesbian women and gay men.
OK. That's as far as I've gotten. It has not been my intention to offend anyone. This is a theory in progress. I believe that no valid theory of identity, desire, or power can other a single sentient being. If you feel offended I was wrong. I'll do my best to right the wrong. I'm talking about this on Twitter so if you've got a comment please tweet me. I've got faster and more frequent access to Twitter than I have to this blog.
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The Yes Men: Not Your Grandpa’s Activism
I'm an old fart—a curmudgeon and a crone—so I get to say things like "Back in my day…"
Like: back in my day (which was the '60s), we knew how to protest. Back in my day, we did street theater to fight the war in Viet Nam. And back in my day, we marched the streets in the very first Gay Pride parades, and we said things like "We're just like you…" which went over well with people who wanted to think they were worth us wishing we were just like them.
All these actions sort of worked back then… before the right wing conservative think tanks figured out how to counter us. Bad news: the right wing has succeeded in countering old-fashioned activisms. Good news: there are new forms of activism they don't know how to fight yet.
This evening, I saw the film The Yes Men Fix The World. Please go see this movie if you can. It's the face of a new activism. It's an activism that the right wing think tanks haven't got a hold on yet, and I find that exciting.
What do The Yes Men do that works? They lie. They lie BIG. They lie in a way that makes us wish they were telling the truth, and the right wing think tanks don't know what to do with that. Like this phony issue of The New York Times. Click on it to see it big, or download the full PDF.
Am I saying that activism in the form of big protest marches and street theater and shouting "We're just like you" are bad actions? No. I'm saying that these are your grandpa's activisms and they're not as effective as you might like them to be.
The right wing has learned how to carve up the radical left wing into virtually separatist groups working hard to achieve equity in ten seemingly disparate arenas: race, age, class, gender, sexuality, looks, ability, religion, citizenship, family status, and age. Any truly radical 21st century activism must effect a coalition of all ten vectors of activism.
The Yes Men are pointing the way to a new activism. Like Michael Moore, The Yes Men are pranksters. Like Stephen Colbert, The Yes Men tell great big lies. Like Jon Stewart, they're smart. The Yes Men throw wrenches into corporate America's well-oiled machine. They're not alone. My friend Andrew Boyd, founder of Billionaires for Bush makes us laugh, makes us cry and makes us get off our butts and actually do something. If you're looking for a new activism—one that has a chance of succeeding beyond your wildest dreams and the planet's deepest needs—check out the links on this page.
As an old fart activist, I'm asking you: please, create or contribute to a new activism that fights for equity across the boards—including whatever might be your own oppression, as well as the systems oppressing others. That would make your activist grandma and grandpa proud. I promise.
And I promise to do whatever I can to help you make that happen. Really. Tweet me, and let's see how we can build a shiny new coalition of activists.
With curmudgeonly and cronely love, respect, gratitude, and best wishes for success, I remain…
Has Germaine Greer Become A Ghastly Parody?
Kate Bornstein · August 23, 2009
I’m feeling pretty damned good about ground gained in western culture by transgender people. I was there at the beginning of this loosely-knit yet somehow united movement, and things are a whole lot better for trans people today in Western culture than they ever have been.
There are many people who are claiming and living lives far beyond man or woman. There are many people who live fluidly gendered lives. There are many people who know the dangers of gender when it plays itself out as an unconscious social binary.
It’s not Mission Accomplished, not by a long shot. But talented trans people are scaling the walls of political power and artistic genius. There are deeply compassionate trans people who are religious scholars and clergy. Transdora's box is wide open and we're never going back. I am tranny, hear me frakking ROAR!
And then along comes Germaine Greer—genuine warhorse and goddess of feminism—on 20 August, 2009 with an Op-Ed piece in The Guardian she calls Caster Semenya sex row: What makes a woman? In this new piece, Ms. Greer refers to transwomen—me and my brave sisters and mothers and daughters—as “ghastly parodies” of women.
I’m not going to talk about Caster Semenya’s dilemma beyond saying that she’s being treated with intolerable rudeness and disrespect by the media. It’s the same savagely uncaring journalistic strategy used against Dr. Renée Richards when she was so rudely outed to the world in the 1970s and 1980s.
Yes, yes. Ouch. It hurts to be called a ghastly parody. And that kind of talk feeds transphobia across the world. So, shame on The Guardian for printing these hateful words. But who is Ms. Greer to be hurling these invectives, and why? Greer is no one to dismiss as an idiot or complete jerk. Through her relentless work, Ms. Greer has raised the volume of women’s voices in the world. She got people around the world to start taking women more seriously.
And here's the problem: all the time she was doing that great social activism, Greer believes to the core of her being that woman is an essential identity. The gender battleground on which Germaine Greer fought and learned her political strategies was gender-as-man-and-woman-only. On that battlefield, it's easy to attack transgender people as freaks.
The good news is that Germaine Greer's transphobia is more the exception among todays scholars, artists and activists. They work as tirelessly as Greer herself on issues of gender rights, freedoms, parameters, and dignity. Postmodern gender theory has been taught in colleges and universities around the world for over fifteen years. It's over-spilling the walls of academia. The battlefield/playground has shifted. Nothing is essential any more.
Germaine Greer's tragedy is that she has not considered as even possible the theory of gender fluidity. For her kind of activism to work, MAN and WOMAN can and must be essential as well as easy to tell apart from each other. Greer is a fierce warrior, but to nail down the gender binary, she concludes her op-ed piece by saying,
“People who don't ovulate or menstruate will probably always physically outperform people who do.”
Ms. Greer is claiming that biology is, in fact destiny.
The price of being a writer of vitriol is that it reveals your most private fears, which you've penned in the form of an attack on someone else. And sadly, that makes Ms. Greer a ghastly parody of herself. What she wrote was painful and destructive. But the loss of her fierce presence on the front lines of feminism is more to be mourned than scorned.
And the point of all this is to assure you: it really has gotten a lot better for transgender people. There's a long, long way to go. But it's much, much better. I promise.
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Cooperstown: Sunday – And More On Rose
The Hall of Fame induction speeches are always heartfelt and always noteworthy, but rarely do they have such emotional impact as this year’s.
Frankly, Rickey Henderson gave as good a speech as anybody could’ve imagined. It was respectful, it was self-deprecating, it was eloquent, it was moving. The only self-references were to say “I thank” – and he seemingly thanked everybody. And between his childhood memories of being bribed to play the game with donuts and quarters, to adolescent stories of asking Reggie Jackson for an autograph but getting only a pen, Henderson’s good-heartedness and generosity did more to enhance his reputation than anything else he could have done in fifteen minutes. I also think that Rickey finally admitted he had retired – the first-ever combination HOF acceptance/retirement speech.
Jim Rice was equally genuine and sincere, and instead of making even the slightest reference to the indefensible delay in his election, he poured oil on the troubled waters by saying it made no difference to him. My friend Tony Kubek did what he had always done so well: give us insights about others in the game. He began with a reference to his first Yankee roommate, and the man seated beside me, that roommate, Moose Skowron, tried to hide. Tony later inspired the longest sustained applause of the afternoon by thanking Henry Aaron for being such a hero and role model, inside and outside the game.
But the day was headlined by the daughter of the great Yankee and Indian second baseman Joe Gordon. Noting that her father, who had died in 1978, had ordered that there be no funeral nor ceremony, Judy Gordon said that her family would now consider Cooperstown his final resting place. If there was a fan who did not tear up, or feel a lump in the throat, he or she was not evident from where I was sitting.
Coming up tomorrow, a little more on the Pete Rose/Sparky Anderson ice-breaking I reported here Saturday night – the story is not only correct, but it’s only the beginning of what Rose considered a very rewarding weekend. First, some ground-level photos from Cooperstown 2009.
The mass of humanity assembles. It’s still more than an hour until the ceremony and thousands are already present:
A little Yankee-Red Sox interplay. Brian Cashman at the left; Sox co-owner John Henry in the nifty hat, on the right:
A colleague of mine – part of the contingent sharing the big day of his old partner Tony Kubek – interviewed, beforehand. Afterwards Bob and more than a dozen NBC Sports production figures of the ’70s and ’80s gathered for a lengthy reception in Tony’s honor:
Mr. Kubek himself – getting a brief pre-ceremony pep talk from son Jim:
And one more – that rare, almost transcendent appearance of Sandy Koufax, in the moments after the speeches ended. He is talking to Dave Stewart, once an Albuquerque Duke while Koufax was the team’s pitching coach. Eddie Murray at the right:
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Gerald Keegan's Summer of Sorrow, 1847 (Published 1895)
I went to the cooking booth and found a Frenchman in charge. Bribing him with a shilling he gave me a loaf and a tin of hot tea. Aileen could not eat a bite, though she tried to do to please me, but drank the tea. The rain continued and the east wind penetrated between the boards of the wretched sheiling. What a night it was! I put my coat over Aileen, I pressed her to my bosom to impart some heat to her chilled frame, I endeavored to cheer her with prospects of the morrow. Alas, when morning came she was unable to move, and fever and chill alternated. I sought the doctor, he was not to be had. Other emigrant ships had arrived, and he was visiting them. Beyond giving her water to assuage her thirst when in the fever it was not in my power to do anything. It was evening when the doctor, yielding to my importunities, came to see her. He did not stay a minute and writing a few lines told me to go to the hospital steward, who would give me some medicine. Why recall the dreadful nights and days that followed? What profit to tell of the pain in the breast, the raging fever, the delirium, the agonizing gasping for breath -- the end? The fourth day, with bursting heart and throbbing head, I knelt by the corpse of my Aileen. There was not a soul to help; everybody was too full of their troubles to be able to heed me. The island was now filled with sick emigrants, and death was on every side. I dug her grave, the priest came, I laid her there, I filled it in, I staggered to the shed that had sheltered us, I fell from sheer exhaustion, and remember no more. When I woke, I heard the patter of rain, and felt so inexpressibly weary I could think of nothing, much less make any exertion. My eye fell on Aileen's shawl, and the past rushed on me. Oh, the agony of that hour; my remorse, my sorrow, my beseeching of the Unseen. Such a paroxysm could not last long, and when exhausted nature compelled me to lie down, I turned my face to the wall with the earnest prayer I might never awaken on this earth.
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I lifted him in my arms and carried him out of the shed. I was powerful strong when I was young, and tho' he was tall and broad-shouldered he was wasted to skin and bone. I laid him down in the shade of a tree, for the sun was hot. He didn't look at the river or the hills beyond, but fixed his eyes on a spot that I took to be a burying place. 'Go back,' he whispered, ' and bring the bag below my berth.' I went, and found a woman had already been put in the poor bed I had lifted him out of. I reached for the bag and took it to him. Pointing to a spot in the burying-place he told me to go there and I would see a grave with a cross at its head and the name Aileen cut on it. 'You can read?' 'Yes' says I. I did his bidding and coming back told him I had found the grave. 'Promise me, you'll bury me beside that grave.' I promised him. 'Open that bag and you'll find in it a little book.' I reach it to him. 'Take it,' says he, 'there are pages in it I would tear out were I able. Let it go. Save the book; it will tell to those now unborn what Irish men and women have suffered in this summer of sorrow.'
In addition to the diary excerpts, the 1991 edition of Keegan's story contains two newspaper accounts of the quarantine station where many emigrants disembarked.
The Montreal Gazette, September 5, 1847:
In the hastily erected emergency sheds the people were dying by the score in the crowded sheds, in the stench and the heat, desperately neglected. When there were enough attendants they were hastily tossed into shallow pits nearby when they succumbed to the fever. In all the history of Montreal there is no story so poignant. There were hundreds of orphaned children. Many of the little ones had to pulled from the arms of a parent who had suddenly died. Older ones were wandering around frantically looking for parents who were already buried in the pits. The scene in the children's shed was beyond description.
From the Montreal Immigrant Society Bulletin in 1848:
From Grosse Isle, the great charnel house of victimized humanity, up to Port Sarnia and all along the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, wherever the tide of immigration extended, are to be found the final resting places of the sons and daughters of Erin -- one unbroken chain of graves where rest fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, without a stone to mark the spot. I do not know that the history of our times has a parallel for this Irish exodus. . . . It was the forced expulsion and panic rush of a stricken people and it was attended by frightful scenes of suffering and death.
END OF KEEGAN DIARY
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The project was an 11,800 SF warehouse expansion – as well as existing warehouse and office building renovations – of the Carenbauer Distributing Corporation building.
The project started with the demolition of the old 5-story Sterling Drug Building, and use that site to add an addition onto the Carenbauer Distributing Corporation building.
The building addition included a large open span cold storage warehouse with a 26’ clear height ceiling; large enough to hold 3 stacked pallets. This room needs to have temperature setpoints for every month of the year, ranging from 60 to 67 degrees.
In addition, the building addition holds a point-of-sales storage room and mezzanine, a staging area, and a loading dock with 3 bays. The docks included levelers, bumpers, trailer restraints, bollards, etc. The addition is connected to the existing structure via motionactivated overhead metal rolling doors. The building’s floor was designed to withstand continuous fork lift traffic.
The renovations included the offices, conference room, kitchen, and men’s restroom, as well as new women’s restroom and a new warehouse manager office. Furthermore, new egress was added at multiple exterior locations around the exiting building and the new addition, and there were upgrades to HVAC, electrical, and plumbing.
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Emmanuelle joined the Animal Population Ecology Lab as a post-doctoral fellow in January 2014. Her research focuses on population dynamics and habitat selection. She is currently studying the effect of weather and density on both survival and reproduction of ungulates, and effects of social and environmental factors on the relative contribution of individuals to population growth. This approach will be useful for both our research programs on Sable Island and Saskatchewan Boreal Caribou.
Emmanuelle initially began to be interested on ecology and behaviour of mammals, especially ungulates, by the way of her outdoor activities hobbies. After fieldwork and lab training as an undergraduate, she worked at the laboratory of Wildlife Behaviour and Ecology (Comportement et Ecologie de la Faune Sauvage CEFS-INRA) in Toulouse (France), under the supervision of Dr. N. Morellet. There, her work focused on the sexual selection of large herbivores and in particular the excursion of female roe deer during the rut. This topic led Emmanuelle to initiate research on spatial ecology and her Ph.D. thesis at the Biometry and Evolutionary Biology lab in Lyon (France). Under the supervision of Dr. J.-M. Gaillard (CNRS) and Dr. S. Saïd from the French National Hunting and Wildlife Agency (Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, ONCFS), her Ph.D. focused on the interaction between red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). She used three approaches, looking at (a) how the two species shared resources and space through habitat use and habitat selection; (b) the impact of red deer on the performance of roe deer; and (c) the impact of both species on vegetation. She became project manager on the wildlife reserve where her project was being conducted until commencing research at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA Trondheim), where she worked with Drs. E. Solberg and B. van Moorter. Her post-doc presented her the opportunity to link habitat (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), foraging behavior, and performance of individual moose.
Suraud J-P, Tolon V, Richard E, Gaillard J-M, Fritz H. From repulsion to attraction: how an endangered species copes with anthropogenic disturbances. Animal Conservation (in revision).
Richard E, Saïd S, Hamann J-L, Gaillard J-M 2014. Daily, seasonal and annual variations in individual home range overlap between two species of deer. Canadian Journal of Zoology (accepted April 23, 2014).
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“Clash of the Titans” Film Review
The Elf forgives the faults in lieu of the fun
First, I’m not claiming to be an unbiased movie reviewer here – I admit my love of the first Clash of the Titans has fully influenced my impression of this new one. It brought out the little girl in me and I pretty much couldn’t stop smiling throughout the movie, intellectually knowing that I was watching a very imperfect, kinda crappy flick, but emotionally swept away and feeling happy and giddy and embracing the big, dumb, fun with all my heart. So if you’re expecting some sort of intellectual, unbiased New York Times-ish review of Clash, ain’t gonna happen here.
Hit the Jump to continue reading The Elf’s spirited review of the new, 2010 Clash of the Titans…
“Trying to compare the classic Clash to this 2010 Clash is kind of like comparing Los Angeles to NYC (kind of pointless). Obviously technology has made giant leaps since 1981, but they didn’t destroy the camp of the original.”
Second, I’m just gonna come out and say it: I had more fun watching this new, silly Clash of the Titans than I did watching Avatar. Sue me, crucify me, call me a loser, I don’t mind, it’s the truth! I’m definitely not saying the new Clash is incredible or even really, really, great, but damnit it’s FUN, and it’s not trying to hit you over the head with a bunch of pseudo-spiritual we-are-the-world, one-love messages like Avatar did so self-consciously and, well, annoyingly. I don’t need my “deep” life lessons spoon-fed to me by what should be a big, dumb, fun action movie with pretty people running around, thank you very much! OK, I said it. I feel better now and we can move on.
Yes, Louis Leterrier’s Clash is fun AND pretty dumb, and after investigating both sides of the fence, you really don’t need to see it in 3D. In fact, don’t. You can kind of tell the shots and little moments where they tried to slip the 3D thrills in, and for me it just takes away from the experience of seeing the movie. And speaking of the visuals, trying to compare the classic Clash to this 2010 Clash is kind of like comparing Los Angeles to NYC (kind of pointless), but a girl can try. Obviously technology has made giant leaps since 1981, but they didn’t destroy the camp of the original. In fact, they paid tribute to it, in a subtle way, so good for them. The Gods’ lair still is a little disco-y, and the visuals in general kind of winked back at the original from time to time while still saying to the audience, “This is 2010 people, we’re getting rid of the silly little mechanical owl and we’re making the scorpions GIANT, like, super huge! We’ve advanced!” Yes, they show the little owl for a second, when the slightly dim Perseus with the weirdly Aussie accent asks, “What’s this?” and he’s told to “leave it behind.” Poor Bubo barely gets a cameo. Smart on their part. Trying to stay too close to the classic would have been a mistake, and nerds like me would probably be bitching if they had tried to make a literal remake. I mean, it’s cool that Pegasus is black now, not white (probably tougher looking – a warrior on a white winged horse might come across as pansy-ish these days, right? Not that Harry Hamlin didn’t look pansy-ish, but it was 1981, weren’t straight men still wearing tight, shiny bell bottom pants back then? So a hereto hero on white winged horse was probably more acceptable. Probably.)
I did miss Andromeda being carried to Calibos every night in the cage, by that turkey-falcon thing, but I give them props because this new Calibos scared the hell out of me! He was freakier than the Kraken. Every time he was on screen, and especially during his first fight with Perseus and his men, I found myself cringing. I wouldn’t want to pass this Calibos in a dark alley. Not so with Medusa. While they took Calibos and made him Freddy Kruger-ish and terrifying, their Medusa was a watered-down, too pretty take on the original. And her lair was way too brightly lit! The original Medusa moved in that jerky way that was and is so wrong and weird and nightmare-ish. And she was UGLY. U.G.L.Y. This Medusa had a face that looked like a sweet, pretty model chick that occasionally turned ugly when she got REAL mad. I was so amped up for the Medusa sequence and as soon as she appeared, I pretty much relaxed back into my seat, my shoulders slumped like a pouty kid. What were they thinking? I guess they were trying to make Medusa sexy, since the other women in the movie (Andromeda and Io) are kind of… blah. Doesn’t work. If you need a break to get popcorn or whatever, Medusa might be a good time.
Speaking of the female characters – YAWN! I mean, if Andromeda isn’t the love interest then what the hell is Perseus’ motivation for going through all this crap and risking his life for and fighting giant scorpions and snake-headed ladies? The original Andromeda wasn’t much more than a pretty face, but at least there was a love story. And you knew why Perseus risked life and limb. This new Andromeda is about as exciting as a slightly cute girl on a Greenpeace ship. She’s a pretty do-gooder, yay for her, but I for one was more worried about the citizens of Argos (except that annoying as hell little street urchin with the bun on his head) than about the princess. Let the Kraken eat her so the citizens of Argos are saved! We’re supposed to believe that Perseus is going through with all of this because his beloved “father” (not his real father, the Daddy Warbucks of the skies, Zeus, but his adoptive father, the salt of the…sea…fisherman) told him that “someone has to take a stand” against evil. Sorry, but that’s not a strong enough reason for me. Maybe the real problem is that Sam Worthington, sexy as he may be, just can’t act. I gave him the benefit of the doubt in Avatar because he is so pretty, but in Clash, my love quickly faded. He just sort of stands there. I didn’t care about him, didn’t root for him. That’s a big problem. I cared more about the warrior Draco (Mads Mikkelsen) than about Perseus – Draco’s a true warrior! I mean, maybe his daddy couldn’t give him a magic sword to use, but he was tough. At least Harry Hamlin’s Perseus accepted the fact that he was kind of a spoiled, trust fund kid and he took the magic sword and helmet and wore them shamelessly. This Perseus spends the entire movie whining that he doesn’t want daddy’s help, and he wants to triumph “as a man”, but in the end he winds up using the magic sword AND when daddy performs a very convenient magic trick in the end (which I won’t spoil here in case you haven’t seen it), Perseus accepts it with open arms. What happened to his principals? Where’s Russell Crowe when you need him?
Liam Neeson (Zeus) and Ralph Fiennes (Hades) manage to elevate the movie a little because they can ACT, unlike Worthington, and Gemma Arterton as Io is interesting to watch even though her character is more of a prop than a real person. This woman needs a juicy role! She was the best thing about the last Bond movie, until she was killed by that hotel-room oil slick. Alexa Davalos as Andromeda is just fine. Probably not her fault – I mean, expecting fully drawn characters in a sword and sandal epic may be way too much to ask, I realize. I do think we can expect the leading man, the HERO, to get under our skin though. And Worthington isn’t that hero. When’s Hollywood gonna figure that out?
It probably seems at this point like I hate this new Clash of the Titans. I mean, it has its faults, sure, but like I said I had FUN watching it! The audience clapped at the end! There was a smile on my face the whole time, even as I was making a mental checklist of its faults. But the best, most wonderful thing about this new Clash? It makes me love and respect the original all the more.
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The Idle and Thackley Little Theatre
by Dave Ayres
1st - 10th December 2017
In 2017, for our 29th Annual Pantomime, we presented a new interpretation, written by member David Ayres, of the old family favourite pantomime, Aladdin.
Blackadder III
by Richard Curtis & Ben Elton
7.30 pm, 22nd - 25th June 2017
Regency London. Whilst King George III talks to the flora and ends his sentences with the word 'penguin', his son, the future King George IV, is Prince Regent. Widely regarded as the most stupid man in London, Prince George is arrogant and foppish with a passion for socks, enormous trousers and women of negotiable virtue.
Assisted and thwarted in roughly equal measure by his butler, Edmund Blackadder, and his dogsbody Baldrick, the Prince aims to better himself through literary patronage, increase his popularity through public speaking and swell his finances through a propitious marriage before spending a potentially fatal evening of passion with a pair of Wellingtons.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
21, 22, 25-29th January 2017
This year for our 28th Annual Pantomime we presented a new interpretation, written by member David Ayres, of the gothic Parisian tale, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Based on the Victor Hugo novel, it recalls the story of Quasimodo and Esmerelda as they defy evil Judge Claude Frollo in pursuit of acceptance.
Who Killed the Holiday Rep?
23rd and 24th September 2016
It’s Monday August 7th 1989 and while Britain shivers on its wind-battered beaches the tourist season is at its peak in Benidorm. Sweltering days give way to sultry evenings and as the sun dips slowly over the Mediterranean there’s a collective appetite for sangria, paella… and also, for murder!
Join us for an evening of murder and mystery (in 1980s Spanish holiday attire if you wish) and solve the puzzle of who killed the holiday rep. Prizes for the most correct, and the most imaginative, solutions.
Supper is included in the price of the ticket and will be served during the show. Table ticket includes complimentary jug of sangria or mocktail. A licensed cash bar is available.
Blackadder II
6th - 9th April 2016
Tudor England. Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, cuts a frustrated figure as she tries to lose the sobriquet whilst courtiers aim to gain her favour without losing their heads. Lord Edmund Blackadder, a minor noble with ideas above his station, is no exception as he seeks to increase his standing in court and swell the size of his purse. Ably hindered by Baldrick, the worst servant in London, and Lord Percy Percy, intellectually challenged heir to the Duchy of Northumberland, will he succeed in sidestepping the Queen's advisor, Lord Melchett, and fulfil his ambitions?
Read a review by Judith Smith at the NODA website.
and the Babes in the Wood
3rd - 13th December 2015
Read a review from Judith Smith on the NODA website
The Vicar of Dibley II
9th - 12th September 2015
Richard Curtis' award-winning TV comedy returned to The Little Theatre in a new adaptation for the stage by Bob Cochrane and Alyson Hunter which takes up the story from where we left the characters in our 2013 production.
It's Spring in Dibley and love is definitely in the air. After 26 years, will Hugo and Alice's relationship progress beyond shaking hands? Will Geraldine find true love - or at least an alternative to Owen's advances - which rivals her relationship with Dairy Milk? Will Mrs Cropley finally get the recognition she deserves as a pioneer of molecular gastroenteritis?
5th - 14th December 2014
“Beauty comes from within, no matter what any of us look like...”
For their 26th annual pantomine, the Idle and Thackley Theatre Group present a brand new version of the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. Join Rocquel, the castle gargoyle, as she tells the story of Belle and the Beast, and how true love can transform even the scariest monster back into a prince. Joined on their journey by a crazy cast of characters, including Miss Coffey the castle maid, Bouton the servant, Smyth the castle guard, and the evil Lemal, this panto is filled with songs, dances, jokes and slapstick, which will delight audience members both young and old.
Read a review by Judith Smith at the NODA website.
Blackadder Goes Forth
24th – 28th June 2014
"A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside."
It's 1917 in a trench near Passchendaele: Capt. Edmund Blackadder, Lt. the Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh and Pte S. Baldrick await Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett's invitation to join the 'big push' to "advance Field Marshall Haig's cocktail cabinet six inches closer to Berlin".
The three men view the prospect very differently. For George, this is an opportunity to put the skills learned on the playing fields of Eton into practice "to give Harry Hun a darn good British-style thrashing, six o' the best, trousers down!" For Baldrick, it's a terrifying experience which he is not looking forward to. For Captain Blackadder it's something to be avoided at all costs with the assistance of a succession of ever more cunning plans.
Read reviews of this show by Pam Booth at the NODA website and Catherine Anne Hulme at the West Yorkshire Theatre Network website.
The Odd Couple - Female Version
22nd - 25th April 2014
10th - 14th December 2013
The Little Theatre
Our 25th Annual Pantomime was the much loved story of Cinderella.
12th - 14th September 2013
Richard Curtis' award-winning TV comedy in a hilarious new adaptation for the stage by Alyson Hunter and Bob Cochrane. When the long serving vicar of Dibley, Reverend Pottle, dies during Sunday Service, the replacement appointed by the Bishop of Wykeham, Geraldine Granger, splits local opinion. Shortly afterwards the stained glass window of St Barnabus' Church is shattered in a storm and Geraldine realises she will have to use all her charm and ingenuity to win over the eccentric locals and, with their assistance, raise the money to replace it.
by Noël Coward
19th - 22nd June 2013
Socialite and novelist Charles Condomine lives a reasonably contented life in Kent with his second wife Ruth. One evening, as research for his forthcoming book, he invites local medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to conduct a séance at his home with has unforeseen consequences...
by Emma Burton and Liam Hunter
8th-15th December 2012
A new pantomime loosely based on the classic European fairy tale, written by Idle and Thackley Theatre Group members Emma and Liam.
Directed by Richard Knowles.
by Jeremy LLoyd and David Croft
7th and 12th-14th July 2012
The classic BBC comedy series parodying Secret Army and other wartime resistance dramas brought to the stage by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
Directed by Emma Burton.
27th January - 5th February 2012
The classic pantomine where Jack saves his family from being cast out from their cottage with a little help from a giant's horde, a dancing cow and a handful of beans.
6th-8th October 2011
A compilation of numbers from a century of musical theatre, from old favourites like Anything Goes, Oklahoma and Hello Dolly!, through Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and 42nd Street, to modern classics such as Miss Saigon, Blood Brothers and Rent.
Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
11th-12th May 2011
Billy is a world famous poet, a celebrated thinker, a decorated soldier and a great lover. Unfortunately he is only any of these things in his imagination. He continually fantasizes his life away to avoid facing the more mundane truth of his life at home with his parents and grandmother, his engagement to Barbara and his job as an undertaker's clerk.
Puss in Boots is a panto with plenty of jokes, great characters and fabulous singing and dancing for the audience to join in with. Join our Dame as she struggles to pay her increasing rent, but finds happiness when her son, thanks to a talking cat, falls in love with the princess, becomes the Marquie of Carabas and gains riches beyond their wildest dreams. Laugh as the village idiot Stewart Smallpiece entertains the audience with jokes and comedy scenes with a little help from Ivana Itch and Ida Scratchett and be enthralled as the Demon Wolf is overpowered by Fairy Mary.
Thoroughly Modern Musicals
A lively all singing and all dancing show which puts together your favourite numbers from contemporary musical theatre with a few you may not have heard before.
by John Godber and Jane Thornton
It's the 80's and Shakers Cocktail Bar is the place to be after work. It’s a place where girls can meet guys, guys can meet girls, and, whether you’re celebrating or drowning your sorrows, the drink will flow. In John Godber’s sparkling comedy, four young waitresses in the bar reveal the lives of its staff and customers and offer an insight into their hopes, dreams and disappointments.
Rokella
by Peter Aveyard and Alyson Hunter
Rokella lives in Norveden at the edge of the Arctic circle. Norveden's only export is Dryvita a tasteless crisp bread made from cardboard. Rokella has a dream, to be a sh-tar but what chance does she have living in the far flung wastelands of Scandinavia?
Enter Hugh Rynal, impresario of the famous Shaft Lifters bar in the North of England. Rynal offers Rokella a chance to represent his club in this years Euro Idol Competition. She has the talent to succeed but no one counted on Das Underband the dastardly German electro nerds - hell bent on winning at all costs.
Queen of the Air
by Peter Aveyard
The story of aviatrix Amy Johnson’s struggle for equality in a man's world, and her love for her married mentor Jack.
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Local Grass Seed Farm Boy Finds Niche in Developing Fine Whiskey
August 20, 2020 /in Recent News /by Angie Smith
Lebanon Local
DUSTIN HERB checks the oil level in a glass of Waterford whiskey as he explains how to experience fine whiskey. Photos by Sarah Brown
Dustin Herb considers his path in life part heritage, part hard work, and mostly luck.
If he could brag about anything – which isn’t a natural trait, he would say it’s that he got paid to go to school to drink beer and whiskey, and travel.
He was not, actually, a big beer drinker at the time, and he “couldn’t stand” whiskey, Herb said.
“I had to learn to love it, and then ended up loving the process behind it and the culture and the people.”
The plant breeder at OreGro has a side hustle in the pioneer development of terroir in whiskey, a movement started by Mark Reynier, founder of Waterford Distillery in Ireland.
Lebanon native Dustin Herb has become an expert in how the environment affects barley used in creating fine whiskey.
“Terroir is the relationship between the plant and the environment, and how it gets into the flavor,” Herb said. “So that’s our aim here, is to figure out how the barley is interacting with the environment in which it’s being grown, and the management – how it’s being grown – and how that contributes to the final product. In this case, whiskey.”
For centuries, terroir has played a significant role in the wine industry. Consumers look at the year, the “vintage,” of a bottle of wine, and they look at its terroir – where the grapes were grown, Herb said. Knowing each year’s climate in a particular location helps determine the quality of what’s in the bottle.
“So that’s a very similar thing that we’re looking at,” he said. “We’ve grown the same (barley) varieties on the same farms in two different soil types that have slightly different climactic regions in southeast Ireland, and they give different weather patterns.”
For the past four years, Herb and Waterford Distillery have been tracking all the data, including results from their weather stations and soil analyses, and working with a trained panel to define flavor aspects. The distillery would have made its first presentation at the World Distilling Conference in Scotland last May, but it was postponed due to COVID.
Herb’s story starts on the family farm in Lebanon.
He was born into one of the families that founded OreGro, a grass seed company out of Albany. Having always worked on the family’s research farm, it was natural for him to want to study turf breeding, but his dad told him instead to “go into something that somebody can eat or drink.”
That was because they were in the middle of the most recent recession.
So Herb attended Oregon State University, intending to study grain.
“Then the brewing thing, distilling, it all just sort of fell into my lap,” he said.
Following advice from a professor, Dr. Pat Hayes, a barley breeder and genetics teacher at OSU, Herb went to Texas A&M University to get his master’s degree. There, he studied energy sorghum.
“I worked with crushing sweet sorghum and carving out the juice and using ethanol for renewable energy.”
Herb stands in his research plot on his family’s Lebanon farm.
Then he returned to OSU for his Ph.D in the Barley Project under Hayes, researching whether barley varieties and their genetics play a role in beer flavor.
“It’s the first time that anybody ever looked at barley as a major flavor contributor to alcohol production,” he said.
Industry leaders always considered the impact that malt, water, yeast and hops made as contributors of flavor, but never barley itself, he said.
Herb also added to his project the consideration of how the environment and the management of barley affects flavor. In other words, the terroir.
To complete his Ph.D, Herb needed to gain funding and experience from breweries across the U.S. They were called the “Flavor Seven Pack:” Sierra Nevada, Bell’s, Deschutes, Firestone Walker, New Glarus, Russian River, and Summit.
Herb also served an internship at Rahr Malting Company, which afforded him the opportunity to visit and work with some nearby funders on the Flavor Project.
Barley flavor is like the canvas of a painting, in terms of beer, he said. If beer is the finished work of art, then barley is the canvas.
“It’s the backbone, it’s the soul of the beer, a canvas on which these brewers paint.”
Brewers add malts of different intensities, hops of different flavors, different yeasts, and they play with the hardness of the water, he said. All those things add to the way the “painting” is going to turn out.
Now, when terroir is added to the metaphor, it becomes a discussion about whether the painting is on canvas material, printer paper, concrete, stainless steel, and so forth.
“You got different canvases now that you can play with,” he said.
Once his Ph.D was complete, Herb presented speeches on his papers. At the World Brewing Conference in 2016, his dissertation about barley variety and growing environment contributions to flavor was presented, and somebody tweeted it, he said.
Herb is with Mark Reynier, CEO of Waterford Distillery, which has added Herb to its research team.
Photo courtesy of waterfordwhisky.com
Enter Waterford Distillery. Reynier, the founder, has long touted the claim that terroir affects whiskey flavor, Herb said. Reynier had just started his new distillery when he saw the tweet, and determined he wanted Herb on his team.
“They wanted me to help design some experiments around their production to see if I could classify their terroir. They had already determined for themselves that terroir existed within whiskey, because they could taste it when they were making the whiskey, but they wanted my help to help quantify that.”
Classifying varieties and terroir is a nuisance for some big industry leaders, who have been selecting barley for consistency in their products for centuries, Herb said.
Many barley varieties have about 10 years of high production rates before they begin to taper and are replaced by varieties that have better disease resistance and better agronomics, Herb said. But a few varieties from the 1960s maintain low, yet constant production that brewers love.
“They always say there’s something about this variety, some kind of flavor, some kind of attribute that makes their beers, their product, unique,” he said.
Part of Herb’s Ph.D studies involved isolating the part of the barley’s genes that contributes to that beloved flavor, and mixing it with barley that has better agronomics.
So when they start establishing that barley varieties have different flavors, and add onto that the terroir aspect, the traditional brewers get nervous because they want their product to taste exactly the same from its original release to 500 years from now, he said.
So how do Herb and his team of sensory panelists classify flavor aspects of the same barley variety grown at different locations? The only way to test it is to taste it.
“It’s a really rough job,” he said with a laugh.
In addition, there are highly sensitive gadgets that isolate compounds of flavor in each whiskey, which are sent through an olfactory test.
Waterford’s whiskey includes details about its ingredients.
As Herb took a sample pack of Waterford’s first release of whiskeys, he explained how to examine its flavors.
First, he said, the glass of whiskey should be rolled in the hands to warm it up.
“When you move it around, the heat is going to help release its volatiles,” he said. “You want to get the ethanol out.”
After he warmed his glass, Herb swooshed the fluid around and observed the “legs” of oil dripping down, which adds a nice quality to whiskey, he said.
“It kind of helps the flavor sort of linger out and have a nice finish.”
Next, he smelled the whiskey to look for the “soul” of the drink. Does it smell like cereal or grain? Will it taste fruity or floral?
“Seems like a dry fruitiness, like an apricot, a slight apricoty, pruney flavor to it,” he said.
Following a first taste, he gave his interpretation, which, he said, can be subjective and vary based on where you’re at at the moment.
“I can taste cloves and ham. You got a little peppery spice to it. It’s got a nice lingering; it kind of sits on the tongue, especially as you breathe through it.”
He added: light floral, a little bit of honey, fresh and dried fruit flavors, and light maltiness.
A sample from a different farm elicited a different analysis: more peppery, more earthy and herbaceous, more cereal, and not as fruity or floral.
“A good way I describe it is barnyard-y, like wet hay cut in the field. It’s dried, but then it rains a little bit and you get that kind of a sharp, sort of a grassy flavor. So it has that sort of a wet hay, slightly pungent (taste).”
Maybe that’s because the sample came from a farm more inland, where the deeper, heavier soils are, he said.
Herb noted that people who “shoot” whiskey, who typically consume it quickly, from a shot glass, always in a single gulp, are not actually experiencing and enjoying whiskey,” Herb said.
“They just want to get drunk.”
Distilleries such as Waterford spend time and money to make a product that should be enjoyed, he said.
“This has got class. This has got style. This has got craft in it.”
Granted, novices to whiskey will say it all tastes the same, Herb noted. They’ll taste the burn, the alcohol, the spicy smokiness.
It’s connoisseurs and trained tasters who will notice the subtle differences.
A decade ago, Herb said, he would’ve only tasted the burn, the spicy smokiness, and he certainly wouldn’t have been drinking it for fun.
But here he is now, “just a normal person from Lebanon,” growing grass and training specialists to differentiate flavor aspects of terroir in fine whiskey. It’s been a trip.
Dustin shows a sample of Waterford whiskeys while sitting at his river-side property.
“I was not expecting to make the jump from sorghum to barley and beer, and then from barley and beer to whiskey. That was not on my radar at all.”
Addendum: A note from Mark Reynier
“I first learned about Dustin when he published a thesis while at Oregon about the barley flavours, a subject that has been of great interest to me since my days last Bruichladdich Distillery and now at Waterford.
I noticed that during his trials and tests he had somewhat inadvertently demonstrated that the principle of terroir could exists for barley. We got in touch and I explained what I was wanting to do – the definitive proof that terroir exists for barley and the whisky distilled from it; extraordinarily, it appears no one, not even the French, had bothered to proof the concept of terroir; they just accept it as Gospel. So for the last three years we have worked together to do the definite study which will have far reaching implications – a bit of a grenade in the heavily consolidated industry. We are also embarking on a similar trial but for sugar cane and rum in the Caribbean island of Grenada.”
Originally published 8/18/20 in Lebanon Local
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Since Ottawa literary publisher Chaudiere Books was founded by Jennifer Mulligan and rob mclennan in 2006 the press has produced an impressive thirteen titles of poetry and fiction (including a couple of anthologies) by writers both emerging and established. Originally founded in part to advocate for the enormous amount of literary activity around Ottawa, Chaudiere has produced single-author titles by a number of locally-based writers including Nicholas Lea, John Newlove, Anne Le Dressay, Monty Reid, Pearl Pirie, Marcus McCann, and Clare Latremouille. Attempting to engage Ottawa writers in a conversation with writers across Canada, the press has also produced works by Meghan Jackson, Michael Bryson, and Joe Blades. Unfortunately, due to a series of life events and sundry other things, the press has been unable to keep to a regular schedule since 2010.
Co-founder Jennifer Mulligan officially left the press earlier this year to focus on her work in film and Ottawa poet, designer, and book conservator Christine McNair has stepped in to fill the role of co-publisher. With the assistance of Monique Desnoyers (web designer) and Stephen Brockwell (sage advice); we've been enormously busy over the past few months (apart from the fact that McNair and mclennan are expecting a child any day now) working towards a return to a proper publishing schedule, beginning with the publication of our first new title in December.
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from Gil McElroy's “Introduction: An Integral”
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“Readers who picture Luther’s theology as being predominantly obscure and abstruse have a surprise coming. While he gave generations to come plenty to read…he had many ways to express his thought.
For example, he liked pictures and stories. He came to the publishing scene when movable type was new, books had become more easily available, and some of the major artists of the day were drawn to his gospel preaching. He would see even his earliest printed books brightened with woodcuts, often of biblical scenes. Most significant among these is his seal.” (October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World, p.28)
“The Catholicism of Luther’s day certainly saw itself as ‘universal,’ and documents published in the days of Columbus and Luther claimed the whole world for Catholic power and sovereignty. But in the eyes of Luther and other critics, the ‘catholic’ or ‘whole’ or ‘holistic’ concepts of the faith were being narrowed by practices, definitions, and sovereign or colonial edicts and subsequent corollary practices. The longer career of Luther and the developments of the Catholic Church under the papacy as it faced modernity gave many evidences of further narrowing or fragmenting.” (ibid, p.36)
Regarding Theses 75, 77, and 79: “Luther attributes the statements…directly to Johann Tetzel, who categorically denied ever saying these things.” (The Roots of Reform, p.43)
67. The indulgences which the demagogues acclaim as the greatest graces are actually understood to be such only insofar as they promote gain.
68. They are nevertheless in truth the most insignificant graces when compared with the grace of God and the piety of the cross.
69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of papal indulgences with all reverence.
70. But they are much more bound to strain their eyes and ears lest these men preach their own dreams instead of what the pope has commissioned.
71. Let him who speaks against the truth concerning papal indulgences be anathema and accursed.
72. But let him who guards against the lust and license of the indulgence preachers be blessed.
73. Just as the pope justly thunders against those who by any means whatever contrive harm to the sale of indulgences.
74. Much more does he intend to thunder against those who use indulgences as a pretext to contrive harm to holy love and truth.
75. To consider papal indulgences so great that they could absolve a man even if he had done the impossible and had violated the mother of God is madness.
76. We say on the contrary that papal indulgences cannot remove the very least of venial sins as far as guilt is concerned.
77. To say that even St. Peter if he were now pope, could not grant greater graces is blasphemy against St. Peter and the pope.
78. We say on the contrary that even the present pope, or any pope whatsoever, has greater graces at his disposal, that is, the gospel, spiritual powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written. (1 Co 12[:28])
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Silence said:
dpdownsouth, stop talking sense! That's not what this discussion is about!
Apologies, it won't happen again. I haven't been feeling myself lately.
Jim_Smith said:
What country was your post about? South Africa or the US?
Initially, I reposted a tweet from a US journalist. Then I posted an example of a weaponized narrative from my neck of the woods. Crazy times.
Jim_Smith
Democrats are rioting and Democrat politicians give them tacit approval because the Democrats have very little political power and they are resorting to violence because they can't gain power through legal means.
The Democrat party has very little power within the Federal Government in Washington D.C. There is a Democrat majority in the House, but Republicans control the Senate and the Presidency and Trump is appointing more and more federal judges who will interpret the law as it was meant when enacted and not according to liberal ideology. And Democrats control fewer state governments than Republicans.
https://www.atr.org/map?amp
Republicans Have Full Control of 22 States, Democrats 15
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020, 2,00 PM
Republicans have full control of the legislative and executive branch in 22 states.
Democrats have full control of the legislative and executive branch in 15 states.
Population of the 22 fully R-controlled states: 132,338,323
Population of the 15 fully D-controlled states: 120,326,393
Republicans have full control of the legislative branch in 30 states.
Democrats have full control of the legislative branch in 19 states.
People invented democracy so the strong couldn't oppress the weak. Evidently the Democrats didn't learn that in history class. They want to settle everything with violence so the powerful can always get what they want regardless of the needs and opinions of the weak. What an ignorant bunch of hypocrites.
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K9! said:
Police put Lebron James on the spot.
LeBron never said that he condones or encourages violence against the police? He hasn't.
What twisted logic would attempt to discredit LeBron's speaking up regarding excessive police force against black people because he isn't putting up reward money for other causes such as violence against police? Why hasn't he offered all of his wealth to any number of society's scourges of violence such as domestic abuse, rape, child abuse, etc. This is an elementary logical fallacy.
Finally, the leadership of the LA Sheriff's department has been less than stellar. This is the same department that allowed a half dozen or so of its officers to use personal cell phone cameras to take and distribute pictures of the Koby Bryant (and its other victims) at the crash site. Shaming a celebrity should be the least of his priorities.
Ironic that you're class shaming 150,000,000 Americans by calling them ignorant. Its not a window you're looking through Jim; its a mirror.
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So I take it you think settling elections by force is a good thing?
By extension you approve of the Democrat approach to politics - use any strategy that might work - impeach a president for nothing impeachable, wine about Russia collusion until the investigation produces nothing, let ANTIFA prevent people you disagree with from speaking, let cities burn if you think it makes a political point, try to stir up racial tension for political reasons.
The Dems will lose the election badly unless they can fiddle enough postal ballots to 'win'.
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David Bailey said:
There is zero difference between the dems and republicans when it comes to politics David. Drop the virtue signaling for one side.
You also completely missed the point, but whatever. There are millions of Americans who identify as Democrats and the vast majority are no more radical (i.e., the nonsense you put forth) or ignorant than their republican counter parts. Jim's labeling of them as ignorant just reflects poorly on him. Nothing new I guess.
The Department of Justice has identified New York City, Portland And Seattle as jurisdictions permitting violence and destruction of property, which is the first step in withholding federal money from those cities.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/depa...portland-and-seattle-jurisdictions-permitting
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 21, 2020
Department Of Justice Identifies New York City, Portland And Seattle As Jurisdictions Permitting Violence And Destruction Of Property
Identification is Response to Presidential Memorandum Reviewing Federal Funding to State and Local Governments that are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities
The U.S. Department of Justice today identified the following three jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities: New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The Department of Justice is continuing to work to identify jurisdictions that meet the criteria set out in the President’s Memorandum and will periodically update the list of selected jurisdictions as required therein.
This is the Presidential Memorandum:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...anarchy-violence-destruction-american-cities/
PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA
Memorandum on Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities
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Issued on: September 2, 2020
(a) Within 14 days of the date of this memorandum, and updated as appropriate but no less than every 6 months thereafter, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of OMB, shall publish on the Department of Justice website a list identifying State and local jurisdictions that have permitted violence and the destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract these criminal activities (anarchist jurisdictions).
(c) Within 30 days of the date of this memorandum, the Director of OMB shall issue guidance to the heads of agencies on restricting eligibility of or otherwise disfavoring, to the maximum extent permitted by law, anarchist jurisdictions in the receipt of Federal grants that the agency has sufficient lawful discretion to restrict or otherwise disfavor anarchist jurisdictions from receiving.
Kinda scary isn't it? Sure, for those who haven't stepped foot in those cities, I'd be curious to know on what basis they support this type of federal interdiction.
Message here seems to be: Don't do Trump's political bidding? He'll use the immense powers of the federal government to punish. Exactly what the founding fathers had in mind I guess.
There are millions of Americans who identify as Democrats and the vast majority are no more radical (i.e., the nonsense you put forth) or ignorant than their republican counter parts.
Well a fair few democrats have moved to the #Walkaway movement - for democrats who have had enough.
Look, I have voted Labour, Conservative, and UKIP at different times in my life. I am also still a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. I am not the right-wing nutter that you try to paint me as. The problem - as you must surely have noticed - is that left and right labels don't mean the same as they did 30 or 40 years ago.
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erickh
I would support a walkaway movement from both political parties. They are only creating more and more division and becoming more and more dualistic.
Division is purposely sown so that the elite can continue to extend their power. The net worth of the upper 0.1 percent has rapidly grown in comparison to the bottom 80 percent. Is this acceptable to the American people? Are we content to let our economy grow closer to the feudal system of medieval Europe? The only reason this is allowed because of the extreme polarization of our two political parties. As long as this division continues the wealth gap will get greater and greater until our democracy collapses and is replaced by a more authoritarian one to enforce more "law and order".
Instead of scapegoating the other side we need to see that both sides have valid points. We need to see the people on the other side as fellow human beings first and only after connecting with that basic humanity we share will we engage on differing viewpoints. Both sides want what is best for the American people (or whichever country you reside in) they only differ in how to get there.
I consider many of the people from both sides posting on this board to be perhaps a bit more "conscious" than your average Joe. Those that are more conscious have to lead the way in showing respect for the other side. This respect can slowly spread like rings in the water and a more compassionate, understanding dialog can begin amongst the general population. This seeing this basic humanity of the other side doesn't start with the other side it starts with us.
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The mainstream media is more guilty of creating division that either of the main political parties are. I miss journalism. Real journalism, the kind that asked hard questions of both parties and actually presented the facts.
A free press should be there to keep the politicians in line. We've lost that.
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Republicans are not creating divisions, The media deliberately misreporting on Republicans and on many issues is creating divisions.
Democrats have been preaching identity politics and trying to silence opposition with political correctness for decades. That is one of the biggest sources of division. Trump won the Republican primary in 2016 because he is the only public figure in the country to stand up against political correctness and defend conservatives against the liars calling us all racists. Trump is only divisive if you 1) believe the false media reporting or 2) accept that opinions contradicting liberal ideology should be censored.
"Law and order"is not authoritarian. Rule of law was invented so that the same laws would apply to everyone both the powerful and the weak. Law and order is what protects us from authoritarianism which is rule by whim (the whim of judges, bureaucrats, presidents and mobs) - the alternative to rule of law.
Trump is not appointing judges who interpret the law according to conservative ideology, he is appointing judges who interpret the law according to its intended meaning when it was passed. That is a fair compromise between left and right but Democrats don't want a fair compromise, they don't want rule of law or democracy. Their acceptance of violent riots shows they want to go back to rule by violence where the strong can oppress the weak.
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Agree: I miss journalism. A free press. Its tragic where we are presently.
Disagree: Trump's role IS as a servant to the people. While the press has been perverted by "for profit" motives from which it is owned, the POTUS should be above that and has one primary role: to serve the people and provide leadership. On the division notion, Trump's been at least as guilty as any one individual or group and IMO (yes, just as yours is) has been public enemy number one on this point. He's a train wreck in this regard. History will arbitrate this difference of position between us and I'm confident I've got it right.
Republicans are not creating divisions, The media deliberately misreporting on Republicans is creating divisions.
Source? Or are you just continuing your personal opinion campaign?
Just drop it Jim. You've carved out your worldview here and have rigidly rejected any alternative view. Trump is a MASSIVE part of this problem and, again as I shared with K9, the prime mover/cause IMO.
Its almost shocking that any thinking person would make the statement you've made here. Its tone deaf.
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Even Jordan Peterson has identified Trump's trollish behaviour, particularly on Twitter, to be his worst trait.
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While I may disagree with many of the groups impacted by this ban, isn't anyone mildly concerned about free speech implications here? All bow to Lord Trump I guess.
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Free speech also means you have the freedom to walk away and not listen to someone or freedom to decide to argue against them. You can’t do that if it’s a job requirement.
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So the government is going to fix that for us? The broader point here is the traditional ask of conservative republicans for less regulation, smaller government. Trump is enacting a form of regulatory control, effectively, with this policy.
What's next, any private company with democratic leanings is to be banned from government contract work? Its a slope that might be slippery is all.
Trump is enacting a form of regulatory control, effectively, with this policy.
No, you're totally off. We already have a federal regulatory agency, the EEOC, which is ostensibly there to protect employees from discrimination based on a host of things including ideology. That agency is so backed up with claims it takes months or years to work through the process. All Trump did was to say "stop it" to things that are already illegal unfair infringements on people's rights.
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Splits AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS TBB K GDP OBP SLG
Total .158 17 38 4 6 0 1 1 4 0 0 6 15 1 .273 .289
vs. Left .111 - 9 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 .273 .111
vs. Right .172 - 29 - 5 0 1 1 4 0 0 4 12 0 .273 .345
Home .214 7 14 4 3 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 3 1 .353 .571
Away .125 10 24 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 12 0 .222 .125
Grass .148 14 27 4 4 0 1 1 4 0 0 5 10 1 .281 .333
Turf .182 3 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 .250 .182
Day .214 7 14 2 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 5 4 0 .421 .429
Night .125 10 24 2 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 11 1 .160 .208
Runners and Outs
None on .167 - 24 - 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 10 0 .259 .292
Runners On .143 - 14 - 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 5 1 .294 .286
Scoring Pos .000 - 5 - 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 1 .375 .000
None on/out .000 - 6 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 .143 .000
ScPos/2Out .000 - 2 - 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 .500 .000
Inning 1-6 .154 - 26 2 4 0 1 0 3 0 0 6 11 1 .313 .231
Inning 7+ .167 - 12 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 .167 .417
Pre All-Star .158 17 38 4 6 0 1 1 4 0 0 6 15 1 .273 .289
July .250 2 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 .400 .750
August .154 7 13 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 5 1 .267 .385
September .143 8 21 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 9 0 .250 .143
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vs.Oak .000 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 .111 .000
vs.Sea .250 2 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 .400 .750
vs.Tex .214 4 14 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 .267 .214
vs.LAD .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .000
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By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
The Mid-American Conference, the first major college football league to postpone its season because of the pandemic, became the final one to jump back in, making it 10 out of 10 conferences that will play in the fall.
As university presidents in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Mountain West have done over the last 10 days, MAC leaders on Friday voted unanimously to reverse their August decision to push football to spring. The MAC will instead open its season Nov. 4.
Just like the other conferences returning to fall ball, the MAC cited advancements in COVID-19 antigen testing as key to the change of direction. The conference will begin testing athletes four times per week, starting Oct 5.
If all goes well, by the first weekend of November, there will be college football from coast-to-coast. That seemed highly unlikely throughout much of the summer as the United States struggled to contain a virus that has killed more than 200,000 people across the country.
The pandemic is still not under control in many states, but college football will go on in front of empty stadiums or limited attendance.
"The risk of college football spreading the virus is much less than the risk of fraternity parties or off-campus parties or concerts that are happening," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. "The risk is much more for coronavirus off the field than it is on the field."
The MACtion will start on a Wednesday, of course, and the championship game will be played Dec. 18 or 19. A full schedule will be released later, along with the conference's full medical protocols.
"Our decisions, in August and again today, have been guided by an overriding concern for the well-being of the student athletes, institutions, and the community at large," Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said. "Our medical advisory group, presidents, directors of athletics, and others, have worked hard to develop a plan that provides the opportunity for student athletes to compete."
Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier, who along with NIU's president pushed hard for the postponement, said he felt good about the MAC's new protocols.
"No one was more hesitant than me," he said. But, he added, the MAC's doctors and experts "made me a believer."
The MAC, a 12-school league of mostly Midwestern schools with relatively small athletic budgets, postponed all fall sports on Aug. 8. Within a few days, the Mountain West, Big Ten and Pac-12 had done the same.
Six conferences, including the Southeastern, Atlantic Coast and Big 12, held firm but the major college football season started Labor Day weekend with 40% of the teams that play at the highest level of Division I having announced they would sit it out. There have already been plenty of disruptions to the schedule, but the SEC starts Saturday, the Big Ten is set to kickoff Oct. 24 and the Pac-12 on Nov. 7.
Even independent Massachusetts said earlier this week it would attempt to play a small schedule this fall. Of 130 Bowl Subdivision programs, only UConn, New Mexico State and Old Dominion remain on the sideline.
The Mountain West plans to start football on Oct. 24 and play an eight-game season. It announced a deal with Quest Diagnostics to provide antigen testing capabilities to its schools.
"Without that we wouldn't be here today," said Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson, who added the cost to the conference will be in the millions.
The Mountain West will test its athletes, coaches and staff three times per week. The Pac-12 and Big Ten plan to test athletes daily. The hope in those wealthy Power Five conferences is frequent testing will also decrease the likelihood that large numbers of players who test negative for the virus still end up in quarantine through contact tracing.
That's been major factor in 22 FBS games being postponed or canceled over the last month. Charlotte's game at Georgia State was called off Friday because of COVID-19 issues with the home team, becoming the fifth game this week to be wiped off Saturday's schedule.
Dr. Tony Islas, head team doctor at the University of Nevada in Reno, said the antigen test the Mountain West will be using is highly sensitive and "just a tiny fraction less than a PCR test" in terms of accuracy.
"And we're confident that because that test is actually a very sensitive and very specific test we'll probably be able to factor out those false negatives and false positives as well," he said.
With other sports looming, the NCAA on Friday released health and safety recommendations for basketball that include testing for everyone involved, including officials, three times per week on non-consecutive days throughout the season with either PCR or antigen tests. The college basketball season is set to start Nov. 25.
When the Pac-12 announced a partnership with a diagnostic testing company on Sept. 3, Commissioner Larry Scott called it a game-changer for the conference.
Adalja agreed.
"That's really the only thing that's changed," Adalja said of the last six weeks.
He said advancements in antigen testing have made them more affordable and available to schools compared to more reliable PCR tests that must be processed in a lab.
"All of these athletes that are being screened are asymptomatic. With asymptomatic individuals, the only questions you're really asking is: Is this person contagious to others?" Adalja said. "And antigen tests are likely sufficient to be able to answer that question. Especially if you're doing them on a daily basis."
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Saturday, January 16, 2021 ..:: Community Outreach » Scams Aimed at the Elderly ::.. Register Login
Scams Aimed at the Elderly
The elderly are scammed out of some $2.6 billion a year. Scary, isn't it?
Financial scams targeting seniors have become so prevalent that they are now considered "the crime of the 21st century." Why? Because seniors are thought to have a significant amount of money sitting in their accounts.
Financial scams often go unreported or can be difficult to prosecute, so they're considered a low-risk crime. However, they are devastating to many older adults and can leave them in a very vulnerable position with little time to recoup their losses.
And, it's not just wealthy seniors who are targeted...low-income older adults are also at risk of financial abuse.
It is not always strangers who perpetrate these crimes. Over 90% of all reported elder abuse is committed by an older person's own family members, most often their adult children, followed by grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and others.
Listed is just a sample of scams.
The Social Security Rip-Off
This scam involves ID thieves stealing personal info and contacting the SSA to change the payment routing info to the thieves’ own bank accounts or prepaid debit cards. Be wary of any calls or emails requesting personal information. One ruse the con artist may use: The say they need a bank account number so then can deposit a lump sum of money in the account. Notify the Social Security Administration to block all account changes not made by the seniors themselves. If you suspect fraud, contact the SSA’s Inspector General.
The Classic Con
Meeting seniors anywhere – at religious institutions, community centers, retirement homes, the beach, supermarket, etc. – old-fashioned con artists envision red bullseyes shimmering on the faces of their prey. The first thing they do is to become your newest best friend. They ask questions to see where your Achilles heel is: Oh, you are a widow. Oh, you love your grandchildren. Oh, your relatives all live out of state. And you are so lonely that you think: Yeah, I’ll talk to this person about my IRA, listen when he needs a loan, or when he is with Goldman Sachs and has a good deal for me that will help fund my grandchildren’s education and retire more comfortably. And, of course, he would not scam me, because he is a member of my church. Keep vigilant and if you need to use your rudeness, do so.
Engine Trouble
Pulling into a parking space, a senior exits the car and enters a store. The scammer, who has been waiting and watching specifically for elderly drivers, swiftly approaches the car after the owner is out of sight and disables it. He then waits out of sight for the senior to return. When the car doesn’t start, the scammer poses as a helpful passerby, fixes it, then demands a large cash reward. They literally get into the car and go to bank with the elderly person. Beware and have some type of back-up, such as a road-side assistance plan.
Granted unlimited access to senior’s bodies and homes, ‘caregivers top the list’ of those who exploit the elderly. Although caregiver agencies are required by law to do background checks on all potential employees, many don’t bother. But often this kind of perp often has no criminal record, but simply cannot resist the temptation to snatch unattended cash, clothes, credit cards, meds, checkbooks, jewelry, electronics, and person information. Once caught, these people rationalize their crimes by saying that the old lady wanted me to have this because she loves me. Forgetful seniors face yet another scam when employees who have been paid claim that they haven’t. Forgetting that they wrote the previous checks, the seniors write more.
The Credit Card Company Fraud Call
The caller often hits later at night and says he's from the senior's credit card company. He even ID's the last four digits of the card as proof. He's checking on a possible fraudulent purchase. When the senior denies making the purchase, the caller offers to reverse it immediately. He just needs the three or four digit verification code on the back of the credit card. At this point, expect foul play. Thieves have probably copied the front of the card, but still need the verification code. Even though this is a scam, it is a good idea to cancel and replace the card, just to be on the safe side.
The Fake/Lottery/Sweepstakes
Remember, ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’. This mail scam comes in two flavors: The "pay to play" scheme or the "You've won! Here's your check" scam. The first ploy entices seniors to buy inexpensive trinkets or magazine subscriptions (which they really do receive) in order to have their name entered in the contest. In the second case, the elderly person receives an authentic-looking check, with notification they have already won the foreign country lottery. Shred both offers. It's illegal for companies to require you to buy anything to enter a sweepstakes, and it's also illegal for Americans to enter a foreign country's lottery. These scams require the 'winner' to wire back a share of their 'winnings' (which will initially clear the bank but later prove to be counterfeit) for taxes or administrative fees.
The Discount Prescription Plan
Callers offer seniors presciption drugs at 50 percent off. The catch: Hucksters require a $200 'membership fee' to join a discount club, along with seniors' credit card numbers. Or the drugs never arrive as promised, or the 'medicine' is actually a generic herbal replacement. What the senior should do is to be dubious. Check with your state's program for low-income health insurance (often called a state health insurance program or SHIP). These agencies maintain a list of reputable discount programs.
The Grandparents Scheme
The grandparent scam is so simple and so devious because it uses one of older adults’ most reliable assets, their hearts. Scammers will place a call to an older person and when the mark picks up, they will say something like, “Hi Grandma, do you know who this is?” When the grandparent guesses the name of a grandchild the scammer most sounds like, the scammer has established a fake identity without having done a lick of background research. Once ‘in’, the fake grandchild will usually ask for money to solve some unexpected financial problem (overdue rent, payment for car repairs, etc.), to be paid via Western Union or MoneyGram, which doesn’t require ID to collect. At the same time, the scam artist will beg the grandparent “please don’t tell my parents, they would kill me.” While the sums from such scam are likely to be in the hundreds, the very fact that no research is needed makes this a scam that can be perpetrated over and over at very little cost to the scammer.
Perhaps the most common scheme is when scammers use fake telemarketing calls to prey on older people, who as a group make twice as many purchases over the phone than the national average. While the image of the lonely senior citizen with nobody to talk to may have something to do with this, it is far more likely that older people are more familiar with shopping over the phone, and therefore might not be fully aware of the risk. With no face-to-face interaction, and no paper trail, these scams are incredibly hard to trace. Also, once a successful deal has been made, the buyer’s name is then shared with similar schemers looking for easy targets, sometimes defrauding the same person repeatedly.
Examples of telemarketing fraud include:
“The Pigeon Drop”
The con artist tells the individual that he has found a large sum of money and is willing to split it if the person will make a ‘good faith’ payment by withdrawing funds from his bank account. Often, a second con artist is involved, posing as a lawyer, banker or some other trustworthy stranger.
“The Fake Accident Ploy”
The con artist gets the victim to wire or send money on the pretext that a family member is in the hospital and needs the money.
“Charity Scams”
Money is solicited for fake charities. This often occurs after natural disasters.
While using the internet is a great skill at any age, the slower speed of adaption among some older people makes them easier targets for automated internet scams that are everywhere on the web and email programs. Pop-up browser windows simulating virus-scanning software will fool victims into either downloading a fake anti-virus program (at a substantial cost) or an actual virus that will open up whatever information is on the user’s computer to scammers. Their unfamiliarity with the less visible aspects of browsing the web (firewalls and built-in virus protection, for example) make seniors especially susceptible to such traps.
One example includes:
Email/Phising Scams
A senior receives email messages that appear to be from a legitimate company or institution, asking them to ‘update’ or ‘verify’ their person information. A senior receives emails that appear to be from the IRS about a tax refund.
Investment Schemes
Because many seniors find themselves planning for retirement and managing their savings once they finish working, a number of investment schemes have been targeted at seniors looking to safeguard their cash for their later years. From pyramid schemes like Bernie Madoff’s (which counted a number of senior citizens among its victims) to fables of a Nigerian prince looking for a partner to claim inheritance money to complex financial products that many economists don’t even understand, investment schemes have long been a successful way to take advantage of older people.
Homeowner/Reverse Mortgage Scams
Scammers like to take advantage of the fact that many people above a certain age own their homes, a valuable asset that increases the potential dollar value of a certain scam. A particularly elaborate property tax scam in San Diego saw fraudsters sending personalized letters to different properties apparently on behalf of the County Assessor’s Office. The letter, made to look official but displaying only public information, would identify the property’s assessed value and offer the homeowner, for a fee of course, to arrange for a reassessment of the property’s value and therefore the tax burden associated with it. Closely related, the reverse mortgage scam has mushroomed in recent years. With legitimate reverse mortgages increasing in frequency more than 1,300%, scammers are taking advantage of this new popularity. As opposed to official refinancing schemes, however, unsecured reverse mortgages can lead property owners to lose their homes when the perpetrators offer money or a free house somewhere else in exchange for the title to the property. Seniors are frequently targeted through local churches and investment seminars, as well as television, radio, billboard and mailer ads. A legitimate HRCM loan product is insured by the Federal Housing Authority. It enables eligible homeowners to access the equity in their homes by providing funds without incurring a monthly payment. Eligible borrowers must be 62 years or older who occupy their property as their primary residence and who own their property or have a small mortgage balance.
Tips for Avoiding Reverse Scams:
Do not respond to unsolicited ads.
Be suspicious of anyone claiming that you can own a home with no down payment
Do not sign anything that you do not fully understand
Do no accept payment from individuals for a home you did not purchase
Seek out your own reverse mortgage counselor
Funeral & Cemetery Scams
The FBI warns about two types of funeral and cemetery fraud perpetrated on seniors. In one approach, scammers read obituaries and call or attend the funeral service of a complete stranger to take advantage of the grieving spouse. Claiming the deceased had an outstanding debt with them, scammers will try to extort money from relatives to settle the fake debts. Another tactic of disreputable funeral homes is to capitalize on family members’ unfamiliarity with the considerable cost of funeral services to add unnecessary charges to the bill. In one common scam of this type, funeral directors will insist that a casket, usually one of the most expensive parts of funeral services, is necessary even when performing a direct cremation, which can be accomplished with a cardboard casket rather than an expensive display or burial casket.
Fraudulent Anti-Aging Products
In a society bombarded with images of the young and beautiful, it’s not surprising that some older people feel the need to conceal their age in order to participate more fully in social circles and the workplace. After all, 60 is the new 40, right? It is in this spirit that many older Americans seek out new treatments and medications to maintain a youthful appearance, putting them at risk of scammers. Whether it’s fake Botox like the one in Arizona that netted its distributors (who were convicted and jailed in 2006) $1.5 million in barely a year, or completely bogus homeopathic remedies that do absolutely nothing, there is money in the anti-aging business. Botox scams are particularly unsettling, as renegade labs creating versions of the real thing may still working with the root ingredient, botulism neurotoxin, which is on of the most toxic substances known to science. A bad batch can have health consequences far beyond wrinkles or drooping neck muscles.
Counterfeit Prescription Drugs
Most commonly, counterfeit drug scams operate on the internet, where seniors increasingly go to find better prices on specialized medications. The scam is growing in popularity. The FDA has investigated an average of 20 such cases per year. The danger is that besides paying money for something that will not help a person’s medical condition, victims may purchase unsafe substances that can inflict even more harm. This scam can be as hard on the body as it is on the wallet.
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Dangerous constitutional times
These are constitutionally dangerous times for the nation, what with a president who has absolutely no respect for the separation of powers principle, as enshrined in the Philippine Constitution.
Noynoy Aquino had directly called on his allies in Congress, majority of whom are Liberal Party (LP) members, to impeach the Ombudsman, Merceditas Gutierrez, and they all agreed to do so.
Such a move brings on a dangerous situation that goes beyond Noynoy’s call to his allies in the House of Representatives to impeach a constitutional officer he personally dislikes, and wants thrown out.
The reason is simple: It works both ways. Noynoy is himself an impeachable official and calling on his LP allies in the House to impeach the Ombudsman and with these same allies agreeing to do so on Noynoy’s marching orders, also means that he can call on these same allies too, to reject any and all impeachment complaints that would be lodged against him or a close buddy..... MORE
Correcting the past or repeating it? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/09/2011
Correcting the past or repeating it?
With Noynoy’s open marching orders to his Liberal Party mates in the House of Representatives to impeach Merceditas “Merci” Gutierrez, LP senators were quick to claim they had no such marching orders from Noynoy by way of handling Merci’s impeachment in the Senate and stressed that they were not present during that luncheon meeting with the LP allies in Malacañang.
Maybe so, since this order to prosecute Merci was mainly for the House to do — at that stage of the impeachment game.
Noynoy did get what he wanted from his LP allies. The House justice committee, as predicted, voted overwhelmingly to find probable cause in the two impeachment complaints, which must have pleased the Malacañang tenant and his sycophants in the House no end, as his orders were heeded. But the question is, will the LP senators and other allies of Noynoy in the Senate who will act as judges also heed an order from Noynoy to convict Merci — not on the merits of the case, but on partisan lines?.... MORE
Long war of attrition in prospect in Libya — experts FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/09/2011
Long war of attrition in prospect in Libya — experts
CAIRO — Three weeks in, Libya’s popular uprising has lost all resemblance to those in its Arab neighbors amid rising death tolls and world powers’ stuttering search for peace as it tips closer to civil war.
Libya watchers believe the conflict has all the ingredients for a long drawn-out war of attrition that will exercise world diplomacy for many months to come.
“A civil war is already in progress,” says Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, a Libyan specialist at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
“I don’t see any party backing up, so the likelihood of a protracted war of attrition is relatively high at this stage.”.... MORE
Cityhood laws C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/09/2011
Cityhood laws
The “Cityhood Laws” were those passed in the last two Congresses converting 16 municipalities into cities whose constitutionality became the subject of heated challenges before the Supreme Court. The petitioner League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) which groups the existing cities under its then President Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Trenas and, in their personal capacities, Calbayog City Mayor Mel Senen Sarmiento and Trenas himself petitioned the high court to junk the said laws for being unconstitutional and “violative of the equal protection clause.” In its ruling dated Nov. 18, 2008, the court en banc by a vote of 6-5 granted the petitions and struck down the cityhood laws. The respondent 16 cities filed a motion for reconsideration which the court en banc denied on March 31, 2009 by a 7-5 vote. A month after, on April 28, 2009 the high tribunal by a 6-6 vote issued a resolution denied a second motion for reconsideration on the ground that the same was a prohibited pleading. However, the respondent 16 cities persisted and found solace in the court’s June 2, 2009 resolution which clarified its earlier decision and took cognizance of the second motion for reconsideration. It then handed another decision on Dec. 21, 2009 declaring the cityhood laws constitutional by a vote of 6-4. The petitioners questioned this decision and urged the court to reinstate its earlier rulings which the court through a resolution dated Aug. 24, 2010 voted 7-6 to set aside. Finally, after almost a year of review, the high court on Feb. 15, 2011 affirned the constitutionality of the said cityhood laws by the same 7-6 vote. That is latest ruling on this much discussed and reviewed case and will stay until it is overturned..... MORE
Harlem Globetrotters: Not your average basketball cases FEATURE 03/09/2011
Harlem Globetrotters: Not your average basketball cases
FAIRFAX — Eighty-five years after starting life in a Chicago ballroom where business was slow, the Harlem Globetrotters are still innovators in the game of basketball and the world of showbiz.
The team that made former Pope John Paul II an honorary member, helped to develop the slam dunk — when a player leaps into the air and slams the ball into the net — and performs skits on the court is due to kick off its 51st tour of Europe with a game in Frankfurt, Germany on March 18.
From there, the players, their mascot Globie, his big brother and a back-up crew of entertainers who number some of the best break-dancers ever to grace a basketball court, will visit 42 European cities in two months, including 10 in France, nine in Britain and eight in Italy.
Also on the cards is a week’s visit to the United Arab Emirates in April..... MORE
The battle within SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/09/2011
The battle within
The recent speech given by President Benigno Aquino III to the 196 members of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Laon Alab Class of 2011 spoke about resisting corruption.
I must say that this is new coming from a Philippine president. In her last speech before the PMA in 2010, for which she was late for about two hours, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lauded the young cadets for their “brilliance.” The class, according to the PMA superintendent, was “the product of a reformed curriculum,” which emphasizes technology. President Arroyo upheld the importance of excellent education in the future of our youth.
She also made the audience erupt in applause when she announced that the monthly stipend of P10,000 being received by the cadets would become P19,000..... MORE
Officers and gentlemen! HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/09/2011
Officers and gentlemen!
Courage. Loyalty. Integrity.
And when they forget all these, they either get rich or they develop amnesia.
A wayward few develop suicidal tendencies, but that’s too punk for a PMA graduate.
They did not start that way. The crooks developed their crookedness along the way.
And there are many forms that make one mark his career with bends — some small, others wide. The higher the position he gets, the greater the degree of his dishonesty.
He becomes unscrupulous, his ways fraudulent. He becomes a crook.
It was not too much for President Aquino to ask the first batch of PMAers to graduate from their courses under a P-Noy leadership to stay clean.
That is all he can do, especially when the Armed Forces of the Philippines is under tremendous scrutiny after revelations of cases of stolen money by the millions of pesos while junior officers rebel against an old, problematic system and get punished for it..... MORE
Impeach vote set for plenary By Gerry Baldo 03/09/2011
MERCI CALLS HOUSE JUSTICE COMMITTEE ‘KANGAROO COURT’
Impeach vote set for plenary
Heeding the marching orders of President Aquino to ensure the prosection of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, the House justice committee voted to find “probable cause” to impeach her, with the justice panel chairman Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr. defining probable cause as “reasonable grounds to support the well-founded belief that the respondent committed an impeachable offense and should be held for trial.”
The votes predictably went the way of the Aquino majority, with the first complaint getting 39 in favor, nine against and one abstention. The second complaint obtained 39 in favor, six against and one abstention.
Gutierrez refused to appear before what she called a “kangaroo court” but appeared unfazed by the threat made by Aquino, stressing, however, that the Liberal Party congressmen and allies of Aquino should have followed the rule of law and not the rule of men.
Gutierrez appeared before the media at the weekly forum sponsored by the Catholic Media Network, saying she is ready to face the Senate trial..... MORE
Lacierda cites Arroyo court, picks fight with SC’s Marquez By Aytch S. de la Cruz 03/09/2011
Lacierda cites Arroyo court, picks fight with SC’s Marquez
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 03/09/2011
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda who indirectly called the majority of justices composing the Supreme Court as an Arroyo court yesterday engaged in a word war with his counterpart in the Supreme Court (SC), Jose Midas Marquez, who earlier issued a statement implying that President Aquino would like to appoint justices who would be loyal to him.
This developed as Marquez cautioned Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas, a known ally of the Aquino administration, on his plans to subject SC justices who concurred with the status quo ante (SQA) order on the House committee on justice which delayed deliberations on petitions to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez to impeach-proceedings themselves.
Marquez reportedly took such move as a concerted effort to bring the court down in a perceived attempt of the President to finally appoint justices who would be loyal to him, a statement that seriously irked Lacierda..... MORE
Angara demands ‘vigorous protest’ over Spratlys incident By Angie M. Rosales 03/09/2011
Angara demands ‘vigorous protest’ over Spratlys incident
A senator yesterday dared the government to undertake a vigorous protest against what he described as a bullying act of China after its military ships harassed a government-owned exploration vessel near the disputed Spratly islands but clearly within Philippine territories as the Chinese government yesterday reiterated its claim over the contested islands in the South China Sea.
Aside from the Philippines, Vietnam has also protested to Beijing over its naval activity in the contested waters.
Sen. Edgardo Angara said while the country has “no reason to quarrel with China, nor does China have a reason to infringe on our rights.”
China’s display of power – one that shows a big country strong-arming a poor country – should not be allowed to pass without strong complaint and vigorous protest,” Angara said as he took the floor in the Senate to bring the current subject of tension with the Chinese government..... MORE
SC warns UP Law profs over plagiarism protest row By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/09/2011
SC warns UP Law profs over plagiarism protest row
Faculty members of the University of the Philippines College of Law got a slap on the wrist from the Supreme Court over their stand off with the high court over their protest against a ruling by the SC which had been copied from unacknowledged sources.
Speaking to newsmen, Court spokesman Midas Marquez said that “in a vote of 9 to 5 the court admonished (UP College of Law Dean) Marvic Leonen for intemperate language, setting a bad example to law students, but exonerated (lawyer Raul) Vasquez who has apologized to the court, while others (faculty members were) reminded of their duty.”
On the other hand those who voted to find the compliance of UP satisfactory Marquez said were Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio and Associate Justices Conchita Carpio- Morales, Antonio Nachura,Martin Villarama and Lourdes Sereno.
Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo who had been at the center of the controversy took no part..... MORE
Noy wrong to order allies against Merci —Marcos By Angie M. Rosales and Aytch S. de la Cruz 03/09/2011
Noy wrong to order allies against Merci —Marcos
By Angie M. Rosales and Aytch S. de la Cruz 03/09/2011
With President Aquino taking a direct hand in having his allies in the House of Representatives prosecute Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, the proceedings against her are clearly a political move rather than a legal proceeding, Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said yesterday.
The marching order given the presidential House allies “created the effect of galvanizing the House members to accelerate the process of impeachment.”
Aquino’s allies in the Senate, however, gave conflicting statements in confirming or denying the participation or even on the order of the President among majority bloc members in the lower house to pursue the impeachment move against Gutierrez.
“It’s his (Aquino’s) prerogative but again it throws into suspicion whether or not their (House members’) vote is a vote based on the merits or a vote based on the partyline. If it’s partyline, then we have introduced partisan politics into the the impeachment process which is perhaps not entirely proper,” Marcos said..... MORE
Aussie envoy pushes MILF peace pact By Michaela P. del Callar 03/09/2011
Aussie envoy pushes MILF peace pact
Decades-old Muslim unrest in southern Philippines not only hinders peace but also drains the country’s development funds, scares away foreign investors and impedes the government’s efforts to ease the lives of poor Filipinos, Australia’s top diplomat to Manila said as he called on the Aquino administration and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to finally forge a lasting peace settlement.
“There is a large opportunity cost to not securing peace. Scarce government resources will continue to be sapped, investment will remain constrained and efforts to raise living standards will be diluted,” Smith said in a statement before the Philippine Development Forum held last week.
“Low-level insurgencies and difficulties in bringing the peace process to completion, contribute to unrest,” he added..... MORE
13,000 OFWs repatriated from Libya By Michaela P. del Callar 03/09/2011
13,000 OFWs repatriated from Libya
At least 13,000 of the estimated 30,000 Filipinos have exited tension-plagued Libya as government teams scour for hundreds more who seemed undecided about leaving and will try to convince them to evacuate as the conflict intensifies.
The latest Philippine government chartered flight left Tunisia yesterday while two more chartered flights are being arranged to bring home Filipinos evacuated in Crete, Greece.
So far, 5,381 have returned to the Philippines since government mass evacuations began in Libya two weeks ago.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday said there will be no forced evacuation of Filipinos there amid the escalating conflict but has called on remaining workers there to get out of the troubled North African state and avail themselves of the repatriation being offered by the government. A number of Filipinos refuse evacuation for fear of losing their work benefits..... MORE
P10.5 billion worth of TCCs go to Shell, Petron not to exporters By Angie M. Rosales 03/09/2011
P10.5 billion worth of TCCs go to Shell, Petron not to exporters
Of the almost P11-billion tax credit certificate (TCC) issued by the government last year to exporters as tax refunds, P10.5 billion ended up in the hands of major oil companies, particularly Pilipinas Shell and Petron Philippines, senators were told yesterday.
At a hearing conducted by the congressional oversight committee on the comprehensive tax reform package (COCCCTRP), lawmakers learned that the P10.92 billion TCCs issued by the Bureau of Customs (BoC) last year virtually wiped out the P9 billion excise taxes paid by the oil companies for their imports in 2010.
“This means that aside from enjoying fat profits from their relentless oil price hikes, oil players effectively save millions more on their import taxes through the use of discounted TCCs,” committee chairman Sen. Ralph Recto noted.
The panel is now eyeing of abolishing TCC and replaced it with outright tax refund scheme, limited only to export industry members..... MORE
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Recently Brandon Hall School hosted a showing of the film “Screenagers” for their students’ parents and local community. “Screenagers” is the first feature documentary to explore the impact of screen technology on kids and to offer parents proven solutions that work.
Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston decided to make “Screenagers” when she found herself constantly struggling with her two kids about screen time. Ruston felt guilty and confused, not sure what limits were best, especially around mobile phones, social media, gaming, and how to monitor online homework. Hearing repeatedly how other parents were equally overwhelmed, she realized this is one of the biggest, unexplored parenting issues of our time.
Director Ruston turned the camera on her own family and others—revealing stories that depict messy struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction.
As an additional resource to parents Tamara Ancona was invited to participate in a panel discussion following the film, and help answer questions parents had surrounding their own teen’s screen usage.
Tamara has a Master of Arts in Psychology with a Clinical Counseling Specialty and holds her certification as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Georgia. Her area of specialty prior to establishing her educational consulting practice has included counseling individuals and families in the acute care, corporate, and private practice settings. She also has vast experience facilitating therapeutic, educational and experiential groups with both the adult and teen populations.
Since 1998, her focus as an educational consultant has been to provide families within the Southern Region and across the United States with distinct educational options or therapeutic alternatives for their struggling teen or young adult children.
If you have a teen or young adult struggling with appropriate screen usage call Tamara Ancona, MA, LPC, at (678) 297-0708 for an evaluation, and to discuss potential solutions.
What Makes Technology So Irresistable?
What makes technology so irresistible? As it becomes more prevalent in our society it is vital to look at long term consequences, and how we can positively control the effect on future generations?
The following is an article written by the New York Times featuring a new book titled, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” by Dr. Adam Alter, which focuses on these issues.
Why We Can’t Look Away From Our Screens
In a new book, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” the social psychologist Adam Alter warns that many of us — youngsters, teenagers, adults — are addicted to modern digital products. Not figuratively, but literally addicted.
Dr. Alter, 36, is an associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University who researches psychology and marketing. We spoke for two hours last week at the offices of The New York Times. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity and brevity.
What makes you think that people have become addicted to digital devices and social media?
In the past, we thought of addiction as mostly related to chemical substances: heroin, cocaine, nicotine. Today, we have this phenomenon of behavioral addictions where, one tech industry leader told me, people are spending nearly three hours a day tethered to their cell phones. Where teenage boys sometimes spend weeks alone in their rooms playing video games. Where Snapchat will boast that its youthful users open their app more than 18 times a day.
Behavioral addictions are really widespread now. A 2011 study suggested that 41 percent of us have at least one. That number is sure to have risen with the adoption of newer more addictive social networking platforms, tablets and smart phones.
How do you define “addiction”?
The definition I go with is that it has to be something you enjoy doing in the short term, that undermines your well-being in the long term — but that you do compulsively anyway.
We’re biologically prone to getting hooked on these sorts of experiences. If you put someone in front of a slot machine, their brain will look qualitatively the same as when they take heroin. If you’re someone who compulsively plays video games — not everyone, but people who are addicted to a particular game — the minute you load up your computer, your brain will look like that of a substance abuser.
We are engineered in such a way that as long as an experience hits the right buttons, our brains will release the neurotransmitter dopamine. We’ll get a flood of dopamine that makes us feel wonderful in the short term, though in the long term you build a tolerance and want more.
Do the designers of the new technologies understand what they’re doing?
The people who create video games wouldn’t say they are looking to create addicts. They just want you to spend as much time as possible with their products.
Some of the games on smart phones require you to give money as you play, so they want to keep you playing. The designers will build into a game a certain amount of feedback, in the same way that slot machines offer an occasional win to hold your interest.
Not surprisingly, game producers will often pretest different versions of a release to see which one is hardest to resist and which will keep your attention longest. It works.
For the book, I spoke with a young man who sat in front of his computer playing a video game for 45 consecutive days! The compulsive playing had destroyed the rest of his life. He ended up at a rehabilitation clinic in Washington State, reSTART, where they specialize in treating young people with gaming dependencies.
Do we need legislation to protect ourselves?
It’s not a bad idea to consider it, at least for online games.
In South Korea and China, there are proposals for something they call Cinderella laws. The idea is to protect children from playing certain games after midnight.
Gaming and internet addiction is a really serious problem throughout East Asia. In China, there are millions of youngsters with it, and they actually have camps where parents commit their children for months and where therapists treat them with a detox regime.
Why do you claim that many of the new electronic gadgets have fueled behavioral addictions?
Well, look at what people are doing. In one survey, 60 percent of the adults said they keep their cell phones next to them when they sleep. In another survey, half the respondents claimed they check their emails during the night.
Moreover, these new gadgets turn out to be the perfect delivery devices for addictive media. If games and social media were once confined to our home computers, portable devices permit us to engage with them everywhere.
Today, we’re checking our social media constantly, which disrupts work and everyday life. We’ve become obsessed with how many “likes” our Instagram photos are getting instead of where we are walking and whom we are talking to.
Where’s the harm in this?
If you’re on the phone for three hours daily, that’s time you’re not spending on face-to-face interactions with people. Smart phones give everything you need to enjoy the moment you’re in, but they don’t require much initiative.
You never have to remember anything because everything is right in front of you. You don’t have to develop the ability to memorize or to come up with new ideas.
I find it interesting that the late Steve Jobs said in a 2010 interview that his own children didn’t use iPads. In fact, there are a surprising number of Silicon Valley titans who refuse to let their kids near certain devices. There’s a private school in the Bay Area and it doesn’t allow any tech — no iPhones or iPads. The really interesting thing about this school is that 75 percent of the parents are tech executives.
Learning about the school pushed me to write, “Irresistible.” What was it about these products that made them, in the eyes of experts, so potentially dangerous?
If you were advising a friend on quitting their behavioral addictions, what would you suggest?
I’d suggest that they be more mindful about how they are allowing tech to invade their life. Next, they should cordon it off. I like the idea, for instance, of not answering email after six at night.
In general, I’d say find more time to be in natural environments, to sit face to face with someone in a long conversation without any technology in the room. There should be times of the day where it looks like the 1950s or where you are sitting in a room and you can’t tell what era you are in. You shouldn’t always be looking at screens.
If you feel like your teen or young adult has trouble using technology in a healthy way contact Tamara Ancona, MA, LPC, at (678) 297-0708 for an evaluation, and to discuss potential solutions.
National Unplugged Day 2017
If someone challenged you to a day without technology how do you think you’d do? The morning of March 3rd through the morning of March 4th is National Unplugged Day – and your chance to put yourself to the test!
The idea behind the challenge is to rest, reconnect with those around you face-to-face, and to recognize the ways our lives are immersed in technology.
At TAG Counseling we challenge you to participate and unplug for 24 hours. After you do, spend some time as a family evaluating the differences you felt that day – did you like having more time to connect on a personal level? Did you feel like you were missing out? How much time do you think you saved not being on your devices?
If you feel like your teen or young adult has trouble using technology appropriately contact Tamara Ancona, MA, LPC, at (678) 297-0708 for an evaluation, and to discuss potential solutions.
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Americans Don’t Want To Be Zionist Slaves – People Vs. AIPAC: Mighty Pro-Israel Lobby Loses Grip in US
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People Vs. AIPAC: Mighty Pro-Israel Lobby Loses Grip in US
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will hold a high-profile conference starting this weekend attended by many powerful American politicians. The meeting promises to become the most interesting event in a history of the political lobby, author and journalist Max Blumenthal told Loud & Clear’s Brian Becker.
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AIPAC is considered to be the “main arm of the pro-Israeli lobby” in the US, has long seen unconditional bipartisan support in the US Congress. The lobby has long attempted to impose its will on US leaders in questions of foreign policy. For instance, it carried out a costly and ultimately unsuccessful campaign in the US to urge the American establishment to oppose the Iran nuclear deal, Blumenthal said. But this year, he pointed out, AIPAC has seen a decline in its political support.
“AIPAC is being challenged in the way it has never been, by coalescence of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement and by very unpredictable presidential campaign,” Blumenthal said to Becker, pointing to the ongoing presidential run in the country.
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AIPAC now faces the possible win of two independently-minded candidates from Democratic and Republican sides, he said referring to Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
“Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side has support from grassroots donors. He’s got millions of dollars from thousands and thousands of contributors and none of them have anything to do with AIPAC,” he said. “Trump is a self-funding candidate that does not really rely on kind of donors that AIPAC and pro-Israel lobby had hoped to dictate foreign policy on the Republican side.”
Another indication that the trends are reversing for AIPAC is a sea change in public opinion among American Jews toward Israel. Israel, as a culture presenting itself as an exponent of Jewish interests around the world, has lost points by openly suppressing Palestinians and occupying Arab lands in the West Bank.
“The fact is that Israel has an extremely right wing government since 2009,” Blumenthal asserted. “It’s taken an adversely religious, messianic overtone. It’s seeking to impose a kind of “McCarthyism” campaign of censorship on campuses across the country and across the West.”
The fundamentalist position is “anathema” for the liberal Jewish mind and mentality prevailing among the Jewish community in the US, he said, citing polls indicating that the US Jewish population is turning away from the current Israeli administration.
“Most young Jews don’t see Israel as a country committed to peace, don’t support Benjamin Netanyahu and don’t think he’s serious about a two-state solution,” he said. “The Israeli lobby is losing its bipartisan support and it’s losing Jewish grassroots. Liberal Jews overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders – and you see the same amount among young Arab Americans and Muslim Americans. This is AIPAC’s nightmare.”
© AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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A recent petition, launched by the BDS movement, calling on Bernie Sanders not to attend AIPAC meetings, has shown that the political climate is changing. Despite the AIPAC’s fierce opposition and attempts to suppress those who support BDS, the petition has gained 20 thousand signatures, showing that people stand for equal rights, and, more specifically, equal rights for Palestinians, according to the journalist.
“It’s clear what the AIPAC agenda is. It’s not to find a solution to Israeli-Palestinian crisis. It’s to criminalize dissent against the special relations with Israel across the United States and across the West,” he said. “The Israeli lobby has become a major threat to free speech in the West.”
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The Israeli government’s assault on free speech in the countries like the UK, France and Canada has been successful because AIPAC is dealing with “people who have something to lose,” such as politicians, according to Blumenthal. But dissent has gone beyond the rank and file of ordinary people, angry with the Israeli policy of oppressing Palestinians. Given that “Israel has no strategy of ending conflict with the indigenous population of Palestine,” the violence and dissent will intensify, Blumenthal said.
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Why the Iran Deal Ensures War
October 6, 2015 8:16 am / 22 Comments / Victor Davis Hanson
The Iran agreement will remake the Middle East — for the worse.
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online
Civilians survey damage after an air strike in Douma, Syria. (Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty)
There are several scenarios the Obama administration may be entertaining as it pursues its diplomacy in the Middle East. It may believe that the new agreement with Iran will lead to “engagement” with reform-minded theocrats. The idea is that this will insidiously liberalize the regime, empower a younger generation of pro-Western reformers, and put the theocracy on “an arc of history” back into the “family of nations.” Or perhaps an Obama-inspired second green revolution will overthrow the regime, and we will see a Euro-socialist Iranian republic renounce nuclear weapons — or at least, having inherited custodianship of the existing arsenal, oversee it in the fashion of democratic Israel or France.
Alternatively, the administration may imagine that a Shiite Axis — Iran, Syria, Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas — empowered by Putin’s Russia, will balance the region, either, strategically, convincing the Sunni monarchies to accept the new balance of power, or, morally, ensuring that formerly outlaw anti-American radical regimes find parity with the pro-American conservative and right-wing regimes in Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf monarchies. Or, less concretely, the United States may simply wish to abdicate the Middle East and let the players there all fight it out, reentering when the players are worn out and defeated.
All these scenarios are probably fantasies. In truth, the deal will make the world a much more dangerous place. Here are five reasons why.
I. How to Negotiate a Bomb
The U.S. has now established an official blueprint on how to get nuclear weapons without being relegated to pariah status. Iran, unlike Pakistan and North Korea, is not renegading its way to nuclear weapons, but is negotiating its pathway with the approval of the West. Yet Iran’s government is just as unhinged as those of the last two nuclear newcomers, is more centrally positioned in the Middle East, and has far more financial resources, given its singular reserves of natural gas and oil. Other would-be nuclear nations will make the necessary adjustments, asking for similar sorts of American-backed supposed non-proliferation protocols, as they shadow Iran step by step into nuclear readiness. The combination of Iran’s transition to nuclear status under the aegis of the U.S., and the Obama administration’s simultaneous renunciation of America’s prior Middle East role, amounts to a one-two punch to the Sunni world, which will assume that neither conventional arsenals nor American guardianship will deter Iran. Again, the Sunni nations will eventually make the necessary nuclear adjustments in the manner that worked for Iran. A nuclear Middle East will be the bastard child of this treaty.
II. The Logic of Israel
Conventional wisdom assures us that the Iranian nuclear facilities cannot be completely destroyed militarily. Any attempt to do so supposedly would fail to eliminate all the hidden and fortified enrichment plants and would only elicit both an Iranian conventional response and an asymmetrical terrorist response. Thus, Israel, for example, would not be so foolish as to try. Perhaps. But conventional wisdom does not always work in the Middle East in general, and in particular not for Israel, which has no margin for error, given its size and location. Instead, the impossible may in truth become the most likely. Israelis remember what the world’s assurances and civilized veneer got their ancestors the last time a head of state talked about eliminating Jews.
Israel’s leadership will not assume that even a 90 percent likelihood that Iran either won’t get nuclear weapons or won’t use them against Israel is good enough to ensure the impossibility of another Holocaust. Are Jews for the next 20 years supposed to listen to an Iranian general du jour wink and nod about nuclear weapons as he blusters about the end of the Jewish state, only to hear the next day that the supposed threat was due to a mistranslation of the Farsi or that it was an unauthorized outburst from a minor official — with the cycle of staged nuclear bombast starting again the next week and the week after that, as the world advises Israelis to watch their manners and observe proportionality?
I doubt that the descendants of those who went through the Holocaust are going to sit still permanently under an Iranian nuclear sword of Damocles and be serially teased about how frayed is the string holding it above them. Regional Götterdämmerung may seem preferable to certain eventual strangulation. And the pious assurances of John Kerry sound too much like those of an earlier generation of State Department blue-blood grandees like John McCloy and Breckinridge Long in the run-up to World War II — and are just as empty and in the end would prove just as cruel.
III. A Pitiful, Helpless Giant
The appearance of U.S. capitulation is already rippling throughout the world. President Obama has issued at least five deadlines about nuclear proliferation and then looked the other way as the Iranians have flouted them. For all the Western braggadocio about the Iran deal, most observers worldwide will glean from the agreement that a tired West caved on sanctions, was eager to trade with the Iranians and make money, is afraid to stand up to the theocracy and its supporters, and sees the deal as part of a grand recessional from past American prominence. It matters not whether this is a factual description of U.S. efforts to negotiate with Iran; it matters only that it is becoming the general global consensus. Evidence of that supposition includes the abrupt renunciation of the Oslo agreements by the Palestinians, and Putin’s brazen entry into and bombing in the Middle East and his sponsorship of a new Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, and Hezbollah arc that will eventually threaten the Sunni oil producers.
Three American lapses account for the current Middle East mess: 1) the failed reset with Putin, coupled with John Kerry’s invitation to Russia to enter the Syrian red-line fiasco; 2) the dropping of effective sanctions against Iran and the appearance of caving in to Iranian demands; and 3) the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in late 2011 and the ensuing vacuum that fueled ISIS.
The ripples of American impotence reach well beyond the Middle East, as we see with Putin’s inroads into the former subject nations of the Soviet Union, the sudden rearming of the Japanese, China’s indifference to warnings about cyber attacks and its new artificial atolls in the Pacific, and the increasing bluster of the Latin American socialist dictatorships. The world has been reviewing U.S. behavior via-à-vis Iran and has concluded that the only mystery is whether America’s enemies are now allowed to do as they please, or whether, in fact, they are no longer enemies but friends. The result is growing chaos. The medicine that will eventually be needed to treat this disease will make the post-Obama years the most dangerous era in American foreign policy since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
IV. The Collapse of Iranian Dissent
There is no evidence, either from history or from the contemporary world, that engagement with an appeasing West infects dictatorial systems, as their enslaved masses get hooked on freedom and Western consumer junk, and eventually revolt. More likely the opposite is true. It was a minority of Germans that voted Hitler into power. Many of the Junkers on the German General Staff had, by 1938, rightly sized Hitler up as a dangerous nut whose insane geostrategic gambling was going to get an utterly unprepared Germany into a global war that it could not win. They were right, but entirely discredited after Munich. A Western sellout destroyed German clandestine opposition to Hitler, who boasted of his bullying as the German people basked in his reflected glory. What sent Hitler permanently into his Führerbunker and dissipated the once-adoring crowds was not the Munich Agreement, but Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Hamburg aflame. Carterism did not bring down the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet system did — because of the post-Carter pressures of the Reagan administration’s deterrent rhetoric and military renaissance. I-Phones and thousands of Chinese students at Berkeley and Yale have not created a liberated Tiananmen Square–like China or stopped Chinese cyber warfare.
The nuclear deal with Tehran will undermine Iranian dissidents. The Iranian economy, flush with cash and new oil revenues, will uplift the Iranian people, and the theocracy will rightly take the credit, adding the relish that its policies have both led to better economic times and rubbed the Great Satan’s snout in the muck. It may be true that Iranian youth love America, but that admiration was based on our own opposition to Iran’s eroding and incompetent seventh-century theocracy — not on our later appeasement and empowerment of the mullahs. The theocracy will gain public support from its new global status, likely acquisition of nuclear capability, and rebooted economy; its opponents will lose face, and the world will be the worse off.
V. Deterrence?
Some believe a nuclear Iran can be deterred like any other such power. The makeup of the region, however, may argue against that theory. The modern Middle East has given us Pan-Arabism, the Baath party, Khomeini, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and ISIS. In terms of methodology, it has given the world the electronic fatwa, the modern foot-soldier version of the kamikaze suicide bomber, and the apparent right to murder novelists, cartoonists, and satirists anywhere on the planet. Airline hijackings and the use of jumbo jets as cruise missiles are also Middle East specialties. What other region can boast of a rogues’ gallery with the likes of Yasser Arafat, Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Assads, Saddam Hussein, and Moammar Qaddafi?
Where else in the modern world are Christians crucified, beheaded, incinerated, and drowned — as if the very elements are not enough for the sick homicidal imaginations of ISIS murderers? What Middle East country has not fought another Middle East country? Egypt, the best of the bunch, in the postwar era has gassed the Yemenis, invaded Libya, and attacked Israel. Iraq has invaded Kuwait, attacked Iran, sent missiles into Israel and Saudi Arabia, and gone to war with much of the world. Lebanon has been a battleground for every warring sect and state in the region. Gaza is a wasteland. Syria is fighting ISIS and itself, while threatening its neighbors. Only in the Middle East does removing a monster from power often lead to something worse.
This litany is not meant to denigrate the Middle East, merely to suggest that it is the most violent and unpredictable region of the world, where three religions intersect amid postmodern petroleum-fed decadence and premodern elemental poverty — all not far from fat and weak Europe. The idea that logic and restraint will operate in a nuclear Middle East beyond Israel is lunacy.
In sum, the region is North Korea cubed, an Islamic shoot-’em-up Tombstone or Dodge City where punks with nuclear six-guns, not sober classical deterrence, will make the rules.
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22 Thoughts on “Why the Iran Deal Ensures War”
Robert Winkler Burke on October 6, 2015 at 11:19 am said:
Once again, professor Hanson, you prove the internet can improve mind, character and soul of the nations. Keep up your outstanding work!
GP on October 6, 2015 at 12:43 pm said:
Can we keep the Middle East from exploding all over us? Why is China immune from outside forces infecting their country? Obviously I know the answer. It’s a highly controlled Country. Basically closed unlike the open U.S. We are doomed , right? I mean what keeps us from continued decline. Narcissism without strength is Obama. Narcissism with strength is Putin. I’m just saying what is going to change in our Country to bring about a renewal?If you went to college pre 1960’s you could get a decent liberal, classical arts education. After that period you got more of an indoctrination in social justice. We’re reaping that shift in education right now. So even though some of us may be genuinely interested in providing some context on world and U.S. history to our children when they come home from school. I think there are some quality teaching aids in our pop culture; i.e. Hell On Wheels (nice perspective on U.S. expansion West), Mountain Men (self-reliance). But the vast majority of media that bombards us in everyday life is telling us how we need to make up for the sins of our fathers. The emotional age of our American males and females has been dropping as swiftly as their I.Q.’s. When/How does that stop and young people start growing up?
QR on October 10, 2015 at 8:28 am said:
Excellent analysis
john jay on October 6, 2015 at 1:51 pm said:
i suggest you look to caroline glick and others who have worked out the logic of this situation.–
briefly, glick’s position is that the world will find out that iran has a workable nuke when they explode the same over jerusalem. to my mind, this scenario is pretty compelling.
what are the iranians to do? are they going to explode one somewhere first, to see if it works? not hardly, for to do so will invite instant israeli retaliation, and israel will bomb iran until her nuclear capacity is destroyed. one can simply note, it is entirely irrelevant how deeply iran’s assets are buried …. nuclear plants need electricity, and they need water, and israel will simply obliterate iran’s electrical grid, and bomb her water canals. for as long as needed.
i believe israel will act a long time before this situation. iran will get so far in her programs, the israelis will conclude that it is too damned close, and they will act.
any u.s. policy that doesn’t accept this as reality is blind. and, at this point, we say hello to mr. obama. things will work themselves out in the middle east, but, it won’t be as a result of western leftist ideology. israel will act to preserve itself, or go down fighting, or simply disappear under the burden of the arab birthrate.
personally, i prefer giving israel north dakota. or perhaps, nebraska.
GP on October 7, 2015 at 2:35 pm said:
I’d rather inspire American’s to support Israel and what they believe to be their “home”. Islam as practiced by a significant number of “bats.it” crazy human beings would have us living in a hell on earth. Just not interested in their religion except to understand enough to properly defend myself against the nuts.
S. Plankenberg on October 9, 2015 at 8:47 pm said:
Sorry to say it is already too late for Israel to do anything militarily to stop Iranian nuclear development.
The U. S. Is now obligated by our recent ” agreement ” to use our considerable assets to help defend Iran against any and all interference with their nuclear developments.
The chances of Israeli aircraft or missiles getting past our own, and now Russian, radar and air reconnaisance patrols into Iranian airspace undetected are virtually nil.
Now it’s just a matter of sitting back and laying bets on where and when the first Islamic – generated mushroom cloud appears.
It won’t be a long wait . . . .
Rob Miller on October 10, 2015 at 8:25 pm said:
Actually John, the Israeli birthrate is doing just fine. At just over 3 children per woman among Israeli Jews, it is the highest birthrate in the developed world and actually higher than the Arab birthrate in Judea and Samaria. The biggest problem isn’t the Arab birthrate, but the way Obama and the EU have a tizzy whenever Israel attempts to build homes and infrastructures for its people.
Dwight Monson on October 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm said:
Listening to you on Hugh Hewitt as I read this! I greatly appreciate your analysis!
Albert on October 6, 2015 at 5:07 pm said:
I think it is a mistake for Israel to be overly concerned about Iran. Iran wants a nuclear weapon not to cause trouble with Israel but to defend itself or serve as a deterrent against its Sunni Arab neighbors. Iran as a state feels weak and vulnerable, surrounded by hostile elements who are bent on its destruction. Sunnis consider Shiites heretics and will cut their throats in the streets as we’ve all seen.
It is unfortunate that the Iranians or Persians, who have a grand tradition of their own extending to the origins of human civilization, decided to this day to follow an Arab religion imposed upon them by conquest. I just hope that in a hundred years, we will not be saying the same thing about Europeans….
Constancio S Asuemn Jr on October 6, 2015 at 10:16 pm said:
Pres. Obama is the quintessential Wretched of the Earth of Franz Fanon. He was never any good for America and the ideals which underpin the Republic. However, her national polity has been saturated to the brim with low information voters that the advent of the Obama Regime was rendered inevitable. ~> That Barack Hussein Obama ascended into the Oval Office is symptomatic of the political dyslexia that the country has sunk into, thanks in part to sustained assault on American educational institutions perpetrated by the so-called “Progressives,” that goes as far back as the turn of the last century, and the philosophical ideas of John Dewey, See, e.g., pp, 220 ff at http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000001612306/Constancio-Sulapas-Asumen-Flirting-with-Flirting with Misadventures: Escapades of an Exotic Life
I cannot help wondering if any sector of Iranian society wax nostalgic for the glorious reign of Darius of yore. Would anybody mind enlightening me on the matter?
Sad to say, the name of Barack Hussein Obama belongs to the following list ~> What other region can boast of a rogues’ gallery with the likes of Yasser Arafat, Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Ayatollah Khomeini, the Assads, Saddam Hussein, and Moammar Qaddafi?
Donald Cusack on October 7, 2015 at 3:15 am said:
Victor Davis Hanson for at least Secretary of State. The Mossad intelligence in the far east is second to non,. Israel will try to eliminate or at least delay and keep delaying Iranian Nuclear ambitions until the middle east finally blows up.
WRFREE on October 7, 2015 at 9:19 am said:
Just thinking that we got to the place with Iran as a result of ‘peaceful’ efforts relating to its nuclear capability. Of course there has been duplicity and of course put to the sideline in the interest of getting an ‘agreement’. The West better pinch themselves hard on what lies ahead.
Where will we be 15 years on? You know if the ‘peaceful’ quest for Iranian nuke power continues on well there’ has to be a probability the West may not be around or some of its countries won’t . There just may be that a great wringing and gnashing of teeth will follow perhaps after enabling a theocratic/autocratic state to follow ‘peaceful’ intentions. How many times have we heard that line?? This is a horse that cannot be made to run. There’s too much poison in its system and it started from the get-go..
Roy Digliani on October 7, 2015 at 10:23 am said:
My hope is that the Jews are as smart as Obama and Kerry are dumb.
There may be a path that through Israeli brilliance, unintended consequences and the grace of God leads to an unimagined positive synergetic outcome.
Did we know at the outset of WWII that we would have a bomb?
Did England really have a prayer after Dunkirk or at the beginning of the battle of Britain?
War in reality as much as anything is a context for spiritual growth.
Maybe Bibi is a “Savior General”?
They’ll most likely wait and see who the new American president is before they act.
Right now they have plans and are making plans.
It’s not clear what form action will take but they will act.
One thing I know for certain …This time the Jews won’t be caught short.
Jeff Stanley on October 7, 2015 at 5:03 pm said:
The question on the table is, does Israel have enough nukes to answer a first strike by annihilating Iran? They might want to consider constructing a strategic submarine force sufficient to assure MAD.
Kerwin Lebeis on October 8, 2015 at 7:29 am said:
Are you sure those are not zombies in that picture? This reading is as good as watching all of those zombie Walking-Dead-type movies and TV programs. Keep up the entertaining horror. Thx.
dupere on October 8, 2015 at 12:15 pm said:
“”” In major escalation, US to sail warships zero hedge.””” The world in 5 years under commander Hillary, Bernie or commander joker’s smile. The National Review award—bringing to light the ongoing destruction of the West. With the warped mental capacity in all seats of power, a forlorn hope.
Earl Tower on October 9, 2015 at 1:40 pm said:
My own fear is that we are seeing just the start of an Iranian domination of much of the Middle East. With a tentative Russian approval and matching geostrategic moves it makes a deadly combination. Russia gets the power project it wants into the Indian Ocean and Med, China gets the guaranteed energy resources it needs, and Iran gets to further its Persian ambitions. If the Turks find themselves unable to respond adequately or find it in their best interest to go with the flow, then the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia starts to slide toward a geostrategic axis rotating around Moscow and Tehran with some acquiescence of Beijing.
People tout the Arabs/Sunnis as not cooperating with such a trend in events, but I find the Arabs to be a very weak foil toward anything these days. Europe is so inept at handling the crises it faces that they’ll not react in time to stop such a trend. And the USA….I despair of us being able to undo some of the bad geopolitical and strategic trends of the past 12 years short of a third World War.
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M&M on October 19, 2015 at 8:36 pm said:
Barack and wife do not like the US, per their comments that some event finally gave them something to be proud of for America. Barack is at least Muslim-leaning, per his comment that the sweetest sound is the Imam calling for morning prayer. Has his goal all along been bringing America down (by loading on untenable debt and sowing discord everywhere)? Has his goal all along been to bring Muslims to power world wide. Is he not accomplishing all of this?
It is so absurd that the progressives bought right into this.
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US A State Sponsor Of Terrorism?
Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog notes:
MEXICO CITY — Authorities are sounding the alarm about an influx of assault rifles, armor-piercing pistols and fragmentation grenades from the United States, weapons that they say are increasingly being used to kill police and soldiers fighting drug cartels.
It sounds like the US is proving weapons to narco-terrorists who are attacking Mexican law enforcement. Maybe the Mexican government should classify the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms a terrorist organization?
Dean is set to slam into the Antilles as a Cat 2 with 95 mph winds around dawn tomorrow. The center in now set to hit Martinique with Dominica to the north also affected, but it is moving at a brisk 25 mph to the west. The wind map indicates is still has a tight core, so the hurricane force winds do not extend out very far.
BR – Before Reagan
Before Reagan there were all kinds of pesky rules around that said things like: banks are banks; insurance companies are insurance companies; stock brokerages are stock brokerages. Obviously such restrictive rules prevented American business from prospering, so they were done away with and with a general “who cares” attitude about regulations we saw wonders like the Resolution Trust bailout of savings & loans, the Enron accounting frauds [with multiple clones], and all kinds of good things like soaring salaries for CEOs and outsourcing for the rank and file after the pension fund was looted.
Atrios and Whig provide some basic background of what’s going on, and R. Neal covers the impact on the South.
A Hint For The Housing Industry
Everyone is now aware of the meltdown in the housing market and the associated slump in the stock market as the number of foreclosures soar and the mortgage lenders experience the Coriolis effect associated with sanitary drains.
According to Southwest Florida’s Herald Tribune people think Sarasota is the drain:
SARASOTA — Readers of the famously salmon-sheeted Financial Times woke up Friday morning to a story linking the global credit crunch and stock market dip to the sandy shores of Southwest Florida.
“Like the proverbial butterfly that flaps its wings and sets off a tidal wave on the other side of the world, Sarasota, Florida is the centre of the U.S. housing bust that sent shockwaves through global markets,” said the London-based newspaper’s story by Eoin Callan.
Blogiversaries™:
Ellroon at Rant From The Rookery – one year
Whig at Cannablog – one year
Quiddity at Uggabugga – five years
And Cookie Jill at skippy the bush kangaroo wrote the 13 millionth comment on dKOS.
Who says nothing ever happens in August.
Time To Pay Attention
Hurricane Dean is not simply the first hurricane of the season, it is on track to become a major hurricane. It will smack into the Lesser Antilles around Dominica as a Cat 2 Friday morning and continue to strengthen as it crosses the Caribbean. It threatens the south coast of Hispaniola and will probably be a Cat 3 at Jamaica. On the current track it will be a Cat 4 smashing into the Yucatan Peninsula around Cozumel and exit into the Gulf as a Cat 1 hurricane.
Erin came ashore around Lamar, Texas and is moving to the northwest as a rain event, and Flossie losing strength in the cooler waters west of Hawaii.
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Savant Blu-ray Review: “Foreign Correspondent” (1940)
By Glenn Erickson On February 15, 2014 · Add Comment
We’ve had our fill of tell-all biographies about Alfred Hitchcock’s alleged sexual obsessions with his leading actresses, a trend that came to a head a couple of seasons back with the shockingly fictitious movie Hitchcock. In the 1940s Hitch was being driven batty in a different way, putting up with David O. Selznick, the powerful producer and talent broker. Selznick brought England’s most entertaining director to Hollywood, where the creative possibilities within the massive studio factories seemed unlimited. Hitch had been on a roll with witty U.K. spy thrillers that put attractive amateurs into high jeopardy, fighting assassins on moving trains and fleeing enemy agents on the Scottish moors.
Selznick instead first assigned Hitchcock to help fashion a glamorous but overlong romantic thriller, Rebecca (1940). After a flaming finale the characters must continue talking for several minutes to clear away the story deadwood.
Selznick was so busy with his other films and with promoting Jennifer Jones that he loaned Hitchcock out several times during the run of his contract. Almost immediately came Foreign Correspondent (1940), a gutsy ‘spy’ chase given real bite by the international situation. England was already at war, and independent producer Walter Wanger was eager to strike a propaganda blow against Hitler. A committed leftist, Wanger had produced Fritz Lang’s critical crime picture You Only Live Once as well as the somewhat muddled anti-Franco drama Blockade, both starring Henry Fonda. In perhaps the most direct bit of revolutionary theater transferred to the screen, Fonda wails that the Great Democracies are doing nothing to stem the Fascist atrocities in Spain: “Where is the conscience of the World?!”
As it turned out, patriot Hitchcock was the tempering influence behind Foreign Correspondent. Wanger salted in dialogue lines referring to Hitler’s progress across Europe, but Hitch worked to keep the film’s tone as light and entertaining as possible. The movie turns to overt propaganda only at the end, in the brief but famous “The lights are going out all over Europe”.
Hitchcock critics are much better informed today, but there was a time when they debated the same rather narrow issue: is Hitch’s best work his clever ’30s spy chases The Secret Agent, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes? Or do his glossy, star-driven Hollywood thrillers show a maturity in his style: The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, Topaz?
I’m of the opinion that Foreign Correspondent is the best of Alfred Hitchcock’s spy chase thrillers. While not blessed with top box office stars, its leading actors Joel McCrea and Laraine Day are intensely likeable, and Hitchcock puts them through a series of exciting, fresh adventures that never strain credibility, or go for cheap jokes. As with the earlier English classics, Hitchcock makes use of silent movie visual gags to involve the viewer in the action. The easiest of these is the bobbing forest of umbrellas in Holland, which both hide the assassin and reveal his escape path. Hitch also uses visual shorthand to add droll visual jokes, like the hotel sign that suddenly makes its own comment on anxious pre-war Europe. Some of these visual gags are so simple they remind us of the hand-drawn cartoons Hitch reportedly added to silent movie cards when he was just starting out.
Although filmed in Los Angeles, Foreign Correspondent is also the kind of fast moving travelogue that Hitchcock preferred. A few of his later VistaVision pictures take time out to observe flower markets, or just admire the countryside. After WW2, breaking countries down into simple references (like Switzerland = chocolate) would have been insulting. Hitch tried a ruthlessly unsentimental spy story in Topaz and nobody felt engaged in the story. The new lovers in Correspondent cuddle and kiss on the deck of a ship crossing the English Channel. He: “You see, I love you and I want to marry you.” She: “I love you and I want to marry you.” He: “Well, that cuts our love scene down quite a bit, doesn’t it?” For once every line of dialogue is a witty gem; there are no clunkers. That’s how it should be when talent like Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton and Robert Benchley are properly applied to a script.
With the bigger, glossier ’50s films name stars take a much bigger role. James Stewart and Doris Day’s marital relationship in the Man Who Knew Too Much remake is terribly dated. Day’s traumatized mother is sedated before being told that her son has been kidnapped; it’s assumed she can’t handle the pressure. The frightened couple also break Hitchcock’s rule by going to the police early and often. So we have to listen to the cops in scene after scene.
Finally, career adapter Ernest Lehman turns North by NorthWest into a ‘best-of’ collection of Hitch’s Greatest Chase Hits. When not wowing us with extraordinary set-piece scenes like the Corn Field Crossroads, Lehman baldly repeats situations from earlier films. It’s a great movie with marvelous characters. As in most of the ’50s Hitchcocks, the bad guys are identified from the moment they’re introduced.
This by no means is a criticism of any of these Hitchcock pictures, almost all of which are superb entertainments. Foreign Correspondent quickly breaks free of thriller conventions. Its hero Johnny Jones is not a two-fisted adventurer but a crime reporter who loves his Mom, keeps losing his hat and punches out policemen. Half the time the tone is of a screwball comedy. Harry Davenport is Jones’ grinning, mischievous editor, and co-writer Robert Benchley is on hand as an alcoholic, slacker foreign correspondent that greets Johnny’s boat.
When the spy threat becomes more intense, the humor doesn’t depart, but instead morphs into proto- James Bond witticisms and caustic observations by George Sanders’ good-guy intelligence agent. Haughty and bored-looking in all but the most unpleasant situations, Sanders’ unflappable cool is highly entertaining — and impressively original.
Finally, Foreign Correspondent has several bravura set piece scenes that for my money top anything before or since in similarly themed Hitchcock pictures. Walter Wanger secured for his director the best technical wizardry in Hollywood, starting with William Cameron Menzies, whose distinctive designs gave shape to many a shaky production. Johnny Jones’ escape out a high hotel window is only a refinement on standard matte painting techniques. But Menzies’ genius is fully realized in the Holland windmill scene. When he enters the noisy, dust-filled windmill Johnny Jones is trying to determine if the shooting of the beloved Peace advocate Van Meer (Albert Basserman) has been faked. The noise and the turning gears allow Johnny to hide, even when it seems certain that his presence will be discovered. Hitchcock and Menzies use every trick they can think of — a villain changing his sweaters give Johnny a chance to shift position, for instance. But then Johnny’s raincoat gets caught in the gears and is dangled practically in the faces of the bad guys. Every shot in this swift sequence is a complex beauty. What dialogue we do hear is irrelevant – the pictures tell the story, compelling us to share Johnny’s experience at a gut level.
Before CGI was used for everything, some of the best special film effects were little more than clever slight-of-hand-gags. To escape from the fourth or fifth floor of building under renovation, one of the heroes leaps from a window, rips through an awning and gently alights at sidewalk level. The shot looks like one take, an amazing feat. But closer examination shows the stunt to be constructed in two halves — the man making the big drop is a dummy, and the actor takes over for the drop through the awning. It always gets applause in theatrical showings.
The sequence that really wows ‘em is the crash of a flying boat in mid-Atlantic. Here Menzies uses everything he knows to inject realism (1940-style) into the spectacle of a passenger plane shot down by a warship. The ship interior tilts and hand-held cameras reflect the passengers’ panic as the cabin floods with real water. The actual moment of crash impact was an expensive “this better work” gag involving large water dump tanks — it’s better seen than explained. When the survivors climb out on the few pieces of the plane still floating, we see real water, rear-screen projected waves and other effects working that are much harder to analyze. The important thing is that the Foreign Correspondent plane crash is still one of the most effective, audience-engaging disaster scenes ever filmed.
We’re told that Alfred Hitchcock resisted letting Foreign Correspondent become an outright attack on Hitler and the Nazis. One factor might have been that patriotic films being made in England were careful not to provoke the Germans too much, for fear of reprisals against Brits already in prison camps. Our Isolationist (read: pro- Bund) congress was censuring Hollywood to curb all propaganda movies. But Correspondent does mention Hitler by name. The epilogue in the BBC radio room as the air raid begins is a message for America to get active, now. It might be too late for England, leaving America as the world’s only hope. I think it’s one of the most stirring calls to battle ever made by a movie, and all the more effective because of Hitchcock’s breezy treatment.
The Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray + DVD of Foreign Correspondent is quite a surprise. Remastered from its owner Westchester Film, the B&W HD image is gorgeous, far surpassing Warners’ earlier DVD and looking like something one might see on a screen in 1940. Alfred Newman’s great score (with an infectious little tune to represent the inexperienced Johnny Jones) comes through more strongly than ever. Shots that before were lost in darkness, leaving visual details difficult to assess, are now sharp as a tack. A photo-story Life magazine article arranged by Hitchcock shows how idle rumors hurt the war effort. Joseph Cotten appears in a 1946 radio adaptation, and the insert booklet carries an essay by James Naremore.
Effects spokesman Craig Barron provides a lengthy breakdown of the film’s wizardly camera tricks, while Mark Harris provides an absorbing visual opinion essay called Hollywood Propaganda and WWII. An episode of the Dick Cavett Show has Hitchcock as its coddled guest.
Criterion’s Dual-Edition release contains all extras on both Blu-ray and DVD. The In-House producer is Susan Arosteguy.
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MSA - Systematics/Evolution
Ryberg, Martin [1], Larsson, Ellen [1], Jacobsson, Stig [1].
An evolutionary perspective on morphological and ecological characters in the mushroom forming family Inocybaceae (Agaricomycotina, Fungi).
Inocybaceae is one of the larger families among the gilled mushrooms (Agaricales) but the taxonomy of the group is still not fully settled especially considering new phylogenetic insights. We here investigate the evolution of five morphological and four ecological characters to explore their potential use in taxonomy. We find two morphological characters, spore shape and the presence of a cortina, to have the greatest taxonomic potential as they are relatively conserved evolutionary. They have, however, not evolved in a way that easily delimits monophyletic groups, and other characters will be required. Three of the ecological characters are reflective of the evolutionary history of the species at the scale investigated here. The states of these ecological characters can therefore be predicted in a phylogenetic framework for species where they are unknown.
1 - University of Gothenburg, Plant and Environmental Sciences, Box 461, Goteborg, 40530, Sweden
ancestral state reconstruction
character evolution.
Presentation Type: Oral Paper:Papers for Topics
Session: 29
Location: Cottonwood D/Snowbird Center
Number: 29005
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One of the first Nationally Board Certified teachers in America, Rick brings innovation, energy, validity, and high standards to his presentations and his instructional practice, which includes 30 years teaching math, science, English, physical education, health, and history, and coaching teachers. Rick's work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC's Good Morning America, Hardball with Chris Matthews, National Geographic, and Good Housekeeping magazines, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century, and The Washington Post.
With his substantive presentations, sense of humor, and unconventional approaches, he's been asked to present to teachers and administrators in all 50 states, Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Australia, the Middle East, and at the White House. He is a seasoned veteran of many webcasts, and he is Disney's American Teacher Awards 1996 Outstanding English Teacher of the Nation. He won the 2008 James P. Garvin award from the New England League of Middle Schools for Teaching Excellence, Service, and Leadership, and he has been a consultant for National Public Radio, USA Today, Court TV, and the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Partners Program and their search for the Giant Squid.
He lives in Herndon, Virginia with his wife and two children, one in high school, one in college, where he is currently working on his first young adult fiction novel.
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Cheryl Mizerny is a veteran educator with more than 25 years of experience–most at the middle school level. She began her career in special education, became a teacher consultant and adjunct professor of educational psychology, and currently teaches sixth grade English in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cheryl writes about student motivation and engagement at The Accidental English Teacher and about teaching middle school in her blog "It's Not Easy Being Tween" for MiddleWeb.
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Tara Brown
Tara Brown is an award-winning educator, coach, author, and international speaker. She holds a Masters degree in Administration and Supervision and is a nationally certified personal trainer. Her professional journey has taken her from rural Florida to gang territory in California and to one of the largest high schools in Tennessee with over 40 countries represented. She worked extensively with under-resourced students from hard core gang members to hard core rednecks. Her international engagements have included Dubai and Beirut, training both educators and students. Tara received the Pioneer Award and ‘Teacher of the Year’ Award in 2006 for her work in developing a groundbreaking leadership development program in Nashville, TN. Known as the ‘Connection Coach’, Tara strongly believes that forming powerful connections between students and staff is a major key to academic success. She also is known for her ability to connect with educators on all levels with her humor, passion, and ability to ‘keep it real’ in trainings and keynotes. Tara is committed to providing cutting edge research-based presentations in a way that will inspire, engage, and educate. Whether your organization needs a long arm around their shoulder or a swift kick with her size 11s, she’ll make sure they enjoy the process, get the most out of it and leave ‘em wanting more.
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Sue Vansant
Sue Vansant is a 27-year veteran of education, having taught at both the middle and high school levels. She is a former National Board Certified Teacher in English-Language Arts, however, Sue has taught every academic subject. Sue’s expertise is engaging instructional strategies and best practices that work with middle grades students. For more than 10 years, she has conducted workshops on a variety of topics for schools and school systems in Georgia and across the United States. Her approach to educational workshops is serious and candy-coated with lots of humor. Her workshops are truly exciting.
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Dedra Stafford
Dedra Stafford is a dedicated consultant and a proud member of the Association for Middle Level Education On-Site Professional Development Cadre. She is an educational speaker and has presented at international, national, state, and local conferences across the nation sharing inspirational ideas from technology to school climate. Dedra is passionate about providing quality staff development for educators.
Dedra creates entertaining workshops that get crowds energized, motivated, and inspired to be their best for the students they serve. As a former classroom teacher, she understands the need for professional development where practical ideas can be implemented immediately in the classroom. She creates fun-filled workshops designed to be hands-on and interactive. Dedra has a unique ability to put teachers at ease as she teaches concepts and beliefs and incorporates humor in a user-friendly way.
You will laugh, learn, and have a new enthusiasm about technology, climate, curriculum, and classroom techniques in any of Dedra's sessions.
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Mark Springer
After earning degrees from Haverford College and the University of Chicago, Mr. Springer taught for 35 years at Radnor Middle School in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Early in his career, Mr. Springer developed and taught interdisciplinary humanities, creative writing, and American studies courses. He also co-directed the school’s gifted program for six years before creating, along with co-teacher Ed Silcox, the award-winning Watershed Program, which he taught for 12 years. In 1998, Mr. Springer pushed his student-centered philosophy even further by creating the Soundings Program, an integrative and democratic curriculum for eighth graders. He implemented this curriculum until retiring from the classroom in 2010.
Mr. Springer now serves as a consultant for schools across the United States and around the world. His audiences include private and international schools, as well as public school districts in the US, and he has presented workshops at annual conferences such as AMLE, ELMLE, and SRB. In addition, Mr. Springer has served as a faculty member with several professional development institutes, including five years with AMLE's Institutes for Middle Level Leadership, and 15 years with the Maine Association of Middle Level Educators' MLEI. In addition to other honors, Mr. Springer received AMLE's first Distinguished Educator Award in 2004.
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Debbie Silver is truly a "teacher's teacher"! She is an award-winning educator with 30 years experience as a classroom teacher, staff development instructor, and university professor. Her numerous recognitions include being named the 1990 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year and the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus from the College of Education at Louisiana Tech University.
Debbie is one of the most popular keynoters and in-service presenters in the United States. Audiences everywhere respond to Debbie's use of humor and sensitivity to remind them how important teachers are in the lives of children. Her insights into student and teacher behavior are extraordinary. Through research-based theory, poignant stories, and hilarious characterizations she connects with the souls of all who are involved in education.
Dr. Silver has been an invited author for several educational journals and has given keynotes at state, national, and international conferences in 49 states, throughout Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and Asia. She has been a featured teacher for the PBS OnLine Teacher Chat and several online teacher courses.
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Dr. Bobb Darnell is president of Achievement Strategies, Inc. and an advocate for high student achievement and daily professional growth. He served as director of staff support for more than 1,700 staff members in a northwest Illinois school district and taught for more than 25 years. Bobb has served on the board of trustees for the National and Illinois Staff Development Councils, Illinois International Branch of the Dyslexia Association, and has been a member of numerous national and state task forces and committees. He is the author of ASCD's 2002 action tool kit—A Guide for Instructional Leaders, and has written four staff development guides for Wavelength's award winning educational comedy videos. Bobb's work on the 21st Century Instructional Leader is featured in ASCD's 2010 PD Quick Kits.
Dr. Darnell is an internationally known speaker who has delivered keynote presentations and conducted workshops for educators at all grade levels. Bobb's high-energy workshops are filled with "edutainment" and practical ideas about Common Core State Standards, formative assessment, data-driven instruction, literacy improvement, and intervention strategies. He helps administrators and teacher leaders fine-tune their knowledge and skills for leading school improvement initiatives. Teachers and administrators can easily sense his enthusiasm for continuous improvement, job satisfaction, and lifelong learning. He is truly committed to helping teachers build high performance classrooms and develop responsible and self-directed students.
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Cathryn Berger Kaye
Cathryn has provided professional and organizational development programs throughout the United States and the world, including conference keynotes, in-depth institutes, and exceptional education and learning resources on service learning, 21st century competencies, youth engagement, effective teacher strategies, and environmental sustainability around the world. All of her work aligns with current Common Core standards. Cathryn also works with the International Baccalaureate Organization to advance service learning and student action.
A former teacher, Cathryn has been called an "edu-tainer," capturing participants with interactive experiences that reinforce key concepts, practical ideas that work, poignant stories that inspire, and strategies that enliven education. She is known for high level engagement and always modeling best teaching practices.
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Nancy Doda
Nancy Doda is an internationally renowned speaker, workshop leader, and author. Regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on middle grades education, she has devoted much of her career to improving middle grades education. Recipient of AMLE's most prestigious award, the John H. Lounsbury award, Nancy has supported thousands of middle grades educators in their efforts to improve learning for young adolescents. She has a broad range of expertise from school organization and climate, to curriculum and instruction. She is best known for customizing professional development.
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5 ways to improve the game
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by Dathan7 on March 26, 2015
I am of the belief that Allen H. “Bud” Selig is one of, if not the undisputed greatest commissioner our beloved game has ever had. Is that disputable and up for debate? Sure, it is.
What, pray tell, about this game, isn’t?
Those who have read my musings here, and at blog sites past, know I’m a TLR fan. I’m also big on Bud. (The recently retired commissioner of baseball, not the frosty cold beverage, big boy. Heh heh heh) I don’t think Selig’s reign was without blemish, or that he’s some infallible god of the game. I support a lot of his bold decisions that helped grow the game to move it forward, even if I didn’t like them at the time. Interleague play, wild card, the other wild card, anyone? I will also be among the first in line to admit that when he missed his spots, they were “juuuust a bit outside”.
The end of that ’02 ASG was bad. Bad enough that the Barry/Torii catch “moment” is about the only other thing most folks remember.
What followed, perhaps, was even worse: The ASG determining HFA for the WS. I’ve written about this before, but am frankly too lazy to search for that piece, and link back to it. (Editor’s note: Not only is he too lazy, but he tasked me with the job, which of course I succeeded at.–C70)
My intent today is not to provide a list of bullet points of accomplishments, lauding Commissioner Selig’s greatness. Nor is it to gush about how Commissioner Manfred has such huge shoes to fill. Rather, I have decided to take a proactive approach, and try to assist Mr. Manfred in his approach to helping our poor, broken, nearly defunct league that is barely being propped up by the over 30,000 fans that come out night after night to watch 30 teams play a 162-game schedule.
For Pete’s sake (#RoseHOFReference), the game has only seen a paltry 70,000,000 or more fans pay for tickets to watch live games (not including zillions of dollars from TV & MLBAM-related media money) for 15 of the last 17 years. This includes 2007, when those of us who know how to perform non-common-core arithmetic might round up to a cool 80,000,000 (actual 2007 MLB tickets sold: 79,503,175, according to Forbes’ Maury Brown).
Billions of dollars for teams in LOCAL TV deals?
Owners making more money than ever?
Players making more money than ever?
More fans than ever paying to see a game, whether in person, via subscription, or on their mobile device?
Popularity the game has never seen?
Truckloads of money for local economies all over this country and others, for when the season starts in Japan, Australia, or elsewhere?
O. M. G. — Somebody had better fix this. . . and fast!
Commission Selig supposes the result of the 2002 All-Star Game must be a 7-7 tie.
Not to worry, Robbie. Ol’ Dathan has your back with a couple more ideas to help fix what is apparently oh-so-broken, in addition to that nifty little pitch clock thing you’ve got.
Suggestion #1: Eliminate balls and fouls.
Everything is either a strike or a BIP. No more of those time-sucking walks that we all hate so much. Sorry, Matt Carpenter, I don’t know what to tell ya about going deep into counts. That was then, this is now. In fact, to help offset the imbalance this might bring, I have an additional, and related suggestion…
Suggestion #2: Replace intentional walks with intentional strikeouts. “IK” is the new “IBB”, folks. It’s simple. Just ring ’em up. Manger of the team in the field puts up three fingers, and that’s that. Let me give you some solid examples of when this might come into play:
Are the bases loaded with only one out? IK.
Is your starter running out of gas, bullpen tired, and a guy in scoring position, with 3-4-5 due up? IK.
Is your name Dave Stieb? IK.
Are you the 2011 Texas Rangers? IK.
Suggestion #3: Reconfigure the diamond by eliminating 1st and 3rd bases.
The foul lines would experimentally remain where they currently are unless it was determined that one of two conditions was not satisfactorily being met: Either the offense wasn’t producing enough runs or the pace of game was still unacceptably slow. Eliminating 1st and 3rd also ties nicely into my next suggestion.
Suggestion #4: Allow a run to be scored when a runner reaches home from second base. (May also require changing the name of “second base” to simply, “base”.)
Seemingly intuitive, this rule would require implementation to ensure that a batter could hit an inside-the-park-homerun by driving a ball into the gap, and basically running a suicide sprint to second base and back.
…And finally, perhaps the biggest no-brainer in the history of the game, and one that I AM CERTAIN is already in the process of being implemented behind the scenes:
Suggestion #5: Bring the DH to the National League.
Clearly, the tail has begun to wag the dog.
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG $25 TICKETS VIA FREE LOTTERY BEGIN MONDAY, DEC. 3
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BROADWAY IN CHICAGO ANNOUNCES DIGITAL LOTTERY
FOR 20 TICKETS FOR $25 EACH FOR EVERY SHOW
TO BEGIN MONDAY, DEC. 3
ORIENTAL THEATRE
DEC. 4-17, 2018
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Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce that a digital lottery will begin Monday, Dec. 3 at 9 a.m. for the National Tour of the Tony Award-winning THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. The show will play at Broadway In Chicago’s Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph) for a limited two-week engagement December 4—16, 2018.
Twenty tickets will be sold for every performance at $25 each. The lottery will happen online only the day before each performance. Seat locations vary per performance.
·Visit http://www.broadwayinchicago.com/show/the-play-that-goes-wrong/
·Follow the link “Click here for details and to enter the lottery”
·Click the “Enter Now” button for the performance you want to attend.
·Fill out the entry form including the number of tickets you would like (1 or 2). Patrons will receive a confirmation email once they have validated their email (one time only) and successfully entered the lottery.
·After the lottery closes, patrons will be notified via email within minutes as to whether they have won or not.
·Winners have 60 minutes from the time the lottery closes to pay online with a credit card.
·After payment has been received, patrons can pick up tickets at the Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph) no sooner than 30 minutes before show time with a valid photo ID.
ADDITIONAL RULES
Limit 1 entry per person, per performance. Multiple entries will not be accepted. Patrons must be 18 years old and have a valid, non-expired photo ID that matches the names used to enter. Tickets are non-transferable. All lottery prices include a $3.00 facility fee. Ticket limits and prices displayed are at the sole discretion of the show and are subject to change without notice. Lottery prices are not valid on prior purchases. Lottery ticket offer cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. All sales final - no refunds or exchanges. Lottery may be revoked or modified at any time without notice. No purchase necessary to enter or win. A purchase will not improve your chances of winning.
ABOUT THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
What would happen if Sherlock Holmes and Monty Python had an illegitimate Broadway baby? You’d get THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Broadway & London’s award-winning smash comedy! Called “A GUT-BUSTING HIT” (The New York Times) and “THE FUNNIEST PLAY BROADWAY HAS EVER SEEN” (HuffPost), this classic murder mystery is chock-full of mishaps and madcap mania delivering “A RIOTOUS EXPLOSION OF COMEDY” (Daily Beast). Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s “TONS OF FUN FOR ALL AGES” (HuffPost) and “COMIC GOLD” (Variety) – sure to bring down the house!
Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is a riotous comedy about the theatre. The play introduces The ‘Cornley University Drama Society’ who are attempting to put on a 1920s’ murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident-prone thespians battle on against all odds to get to their final curtain call.
The Broadway production of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG opened at the Lyceum Theatre on April 2, 2017. The show, which was slated to close on Broadway in August of this year, will extend its run due to popular demand through January 6, 2019. By then, the Broadway production will have played 27 previews and 745 performances, making it the 2nd longest running show in the history of the Lyceum Theatre. THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG received a Tony Award for Best Set Design, Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award for Best Play, and the Theater Fans Choice Award for Best Play.
Awarded the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, 2014 WhatsOnStage Best New Comedy and 2015 UK BroadwayWorld Best New Play Awards, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is now in its fourth year in the West End, is currently on a 30 week UK tour and playing on six continents. The producers have avoided Antarctica for fear of a frosty reception.
It is a remarkable rags-to-riches story for a play which started its life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first performance, and has gone on to play to an audience of over 2 million people around the world.
Mischief Theatre, the Olivier Award-winning theatre company led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer, was founded in 2008 by a group of graduates of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and began as an improvised comedy group. Mischief Theatre performs across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work.
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG tour is directed by Matt DiCarlo with original Broadway direction by Mark Bell, featuring set design by Nigel Hook, lighting design by Ric Mountjoy, sound design by Andy Johnson and costume design by Roberto Surace.
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum, J.J. Abrams, Kenny Wax, Stage Presence Ltd., Catherine Schreiber, Ken Davenport, Double Gemini Productions / deRoy-Brunish, Damian Arnold / TC Beech, Greenleaf Productions / Bard-Roth, Martian Entertainment / Jack Lane / John Yonover, and Lucas McMahon.
For more information, visit www.BroadwayGoesWrong.com or follow
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram: @BwayGoesWrong
Tuesdays at 7:30PM
Wednesdays at 2PM and 7:30PM (no matinee performance on Wednesday, December 5)
Fridays at 7:30PM
Saturdays at 2:00PM and 8:00PM
Sundays at 2:00PM and 7:30PM (no evening performance on Sunday, December 16)
Individual tickets are on sale now and range in price from $25-$98 with a select number of premium tickets available. Tickets are available now for groups of 10 or more by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at (312) 977-1710 or emailing GroupSales@BroadwayInChicago.com. For more information, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
ABOUT BROADWAY IN CHICAGO
Broadway In Chicago was created in July 2000 and over the past 18 years has grown to be one of the largest commercial touring homes in the country. A Nederlander Presentation, Broadway In Chicago lights up the Chicago Theater District entertaining more than 1.7 million people annually in five theatres. Broadway In Chicago presents a full range of entertainment, including musicals and plays, on the stages of five of the finest theatres in Chicago’s Loop including the Cadillac Palace Theatre, CIBC Theatre, Oriental Theatre, and just off the Magnificent Mile, the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place and presenting Broadway shows at The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. For more information, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
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500 Movie Challenge: M
Time to revert back to the classics. M has been recommended to me for going on a decade. It’s a thriller, centered around a serial killer. It’s an old movie, but I didn’t expect to be shocked.
Holy sh*t, this movie’s amazing.
The gist: M opens with a city living in fear. I’ve read after watching this movie that it’s set in Berlin, but the city feels so much smaller and tightly knit. Everyone’s scared for each other, because there’s a murderer on the loose. It’s a serial killer, who specifically preys upon little girls.
The police don’t have a clue, and we witness them searching forests and rivers for any indicator as to who this person may be. Everyone’s jumpy. Anyone who offers to help a child get home is harassed by passerby. But most angry of all are the ordinary criminals. Think thieves, pimps and extortionists. This guy’s increasing the police presence in the city, and even they won’t begrudge someone who kills children. So the crime bosses come up with a little search party of their own: Homeless people.
The murderer himself (played with Pedobear brilliance by Peter Lorre) is twitching to steal another child. But one of the homeless guys on the crime bosses’ payroll hears the special tune he whistles. He alerts a low-level criminal, who brands him with the letter “M” in chalk. He’s been marked. The city has their murderer. Time to hunt his a*s down.
What I “learned”: I hate using this word, but it’s unavoidable: When it comes to crime movies in the 2010s, we are pussies.
In our fervent desire to make movies about charming psychopaths and boxes of bloody execution, we forget what crimes in the real world really look like. We forget that the victims of those crimes had families. It’s not just hard-boiled detectives who can be haunted by crimes. When the bodies have been wrapped up and the bad guy’s in jail, there are still mothers who tell their daughters not to go out at night for fear they’ll get “snatched.”
M is a scary movie because people really act like they’re frightened. Not a sanitized crime-movie frightened, where they buy a gun and prowl around menacingly. These people are really frightened by this lurker who doesn’t sleep. They feel helpless. As a result, the movie is more effective than any crime movie I’ve seen in a long time. Apparently no one has the cahones to make a movie that tells a somewhat realistic movie about killin’ folks.
See this movie if you like: Movies that are about crime itself, as opposed to detectives solving crimes. The police force plays a very small role as the events of the crime spree unfold. You don’t even care about the cops. You’re most curious about whether that little girl is going to make it home okay. It’s more important that the “innocent” criminals get out in one piece. You’re watching the investigation as if it were a sporting event, the city versus this slippery character. The hunt is on.
Avoid this movie if: You’re not a fan of movies where the city is a character in and of itself. It can come off as really pretentious to some people, and this movie definitely uses the device. It’s nowhere near as irritating as From Rome With Love. But if the whole concept strikes you as tired, this movie will annoy you beyond measure.
New Films Watched: 89
Films Re-Watched: 6
Total Number of Films: 95
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Fusion-Activated Ca2+ Entry: An “Active Zone” of Elevated Ca2+ during the Postfusion Stage of Lamellar Body Exocytosis in Rat Type II Pneumocytes
Miklavc, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9419-4293, Frick, M, Wittekindt, OH, Haller, T and Dietl, P 2010, 'Fusion-Activated Ca2+ Entry: An “Active Zone” of Elevated Ca2+ during the Postfusion Stage of Lamellar Body Exocytosis in Rat Type II Pneumocytes' , PLoS ONE, 5 (6) , e10982.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010982
Background Ca2+ is essential for vesicle fusion with the plasma membrane in virtually all types of regulated exocytoses. However, in contrast to the well-known effects of a high cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]c) in the prefusion phase, the occurrence and significance of Ca2+ signals in the postfusion phase have not been described before. Methodology/Principal Findings We studied isolated rat alveolar type II cells using previously developed imaging techniques. These cells release pulmonary surfactant, a complex of lipids and proteins, from secretory vesicles (lamellar bodies) in an exceptionally slow, Ca2+- and actin-dependent process. Measurements of fusion pore formation by darkfield scattered light intensity decrease or FM 1-43 fluorescence intensity increase were combined with analysis of [Ca2+]c by ratiometric Fura-2 or Fluo-4 fluorescence measurements. We found that the majority of single lamellar body fusion events were followed by a transient (t1/2 of decay = 3.2 s) rise of localized [Ca2+]c originating at the site of lamellar body fusion. [Ca2+]c increase followed with a delay of ∼0.2–0.5 s (method-dependent) and in the majority of cases this signal propagated throughout the cell (at ∼10 µm/s). Removal of Ca2+ from, or addition of Ni2+ to the extracellular solution, strongly inhibited these [Ca2+]c transients, whereas Ca2+ store depletion with thapsigargin had no effect. Actin-GFP fluorescence around fused LBs increased several seconds after the rise of [Ca2+]c. Both effects were reduced by the non-specific Ca2+ channel blocker SKF96365. Conclusions/Significance Fusion-activated Ca2+ entry (FACE) is a new mechanism that leads to [Ca2+]c transients at the site of vesicle fusion. Substantial evidence from this and previous studies indicates that fusion-activated Ca2+ entry enhances localized surfactant release from type II cells, but it may also play a role for compensatory endocytosis and other cellular functions.
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BREXIT! The FUN Begins!
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💩 British lawmakers approve Johnson's Brexit bill, clearing path for Jan. 31
OK, what's the latest Over/Under for Brexit actually HAPPENING on Jan 31st?
British lawmakers approve Johnson's Brexit bill, clearing path for Jan. 31 EU departure
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UK Parliament advances Boris Johnson's Brexit withdrawal plan
The long-running saga of Britain's exit from the European Union could soon be coming to a close; senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports from London.
British lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill approving the U.K.’s departure from the European Union at the end of the month, signaling a possible end to three and a half tumultuous years of Brexit negotiations.
Lawmakers voted by 330-231 to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which sets the terms of Britain's departure from the 28-nation bloc. The comfortable majority won by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives in last month’s election secured the bill's passage despite the opposition of minority parties.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during the first Prime Minister's Questions of the year, in the House of Commons in London.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during the first Prime Minister's Questions of the year, in the House of Commons in London. (House of Commons via AP)
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After passing through Parliament's House of Lords, the bill should become law in time for the U.K. to leave the EU on the scheduled date of Jan. 31 and become the first nation ever to quit the bloc.
Thursday's vote was a major victory for Johnson, who has made delivering Brexit the key aim of his premiership. Before the Dec. 12 election, lawmakers had repeatedly defeated attempts by both Johnson and his predecessor Theresa May to secure backing for their Brexit plans.
The Jan. 31 departure will only mark the start of the first stage of the country's EU exit. Britain and the EU will then launch into negotiations over trade, security and a host of other areas by the end of 2020.
"Leaving the EU doesn't mean that we will have got Brexit done," said Paul Blomfield, a Brexit spokesman for the Labour Party. "We'll have completed the first step, departure, but the difficult stage is yet to come."
UK, EU tout Brexit agreement in joint appearance: 'Deal is about people and peace'Video
BRITISH POLITICS IN 2019: THE YEAR BREXIT WAS WON
Top officials in the bloc are already saying that sealing a new deal will be tough given that international trade agreements typically take years to complete. Britain and the EU will have to strike deals on everything from trade in goods and services to fishing, aviation, medicines, and security. The EU insists there is no way to deal with all these issues in less than a year.
Both sides also have conflicting demands that are likely to complicate negotiations. Johnson says the U.K. wants a wide-ranging free trade deal with the bloc without the EU’s rules and standards. The EU says the U.K. won't get good access to its market unless it agrees to alignment.
As a member state, Britain was bound by strict state aid rules enforced by the powerful European Commission to make sure there is no unfair competition among nations inside the EU's vast single market. Third countries aren't immediately bound by such strictures.
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💩 BREXIT !!!! At long last...
...now, how will the Markets react?
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Re: BREXIT! The FUN Begins!
My guess is that they will go up. It seems the "markets" believe that money printing by the Fed will solve everything. We here all know that that's not the case. Someday (and probably soon???) there will be at least a big correction, but right now, the corona virus, Brexit and non-impeachment are all reasons why Apple and Tesla will go to the moon. Right?
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💩 After Brexit Day, Britain still has to work out its future relationship with
So, nothing has changed. Another year of Kick-the-Can Bullshit.
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💩 UK, EU kick off fourth round of post-Brexit trade talks
Brexit is BACK!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/uk-eu-kick-fourth-post-brexit-trade-talks-200602120338022.html
UK, EU kick off fourth round of post-Brexit trade talks
Trade negotiators from UK and EU begin four-day video conference to forge deal on future relations.
The UK charges the EU with wanting to to keep it bound by the bloc's EU rules in future [Leon Neal/Getty Images]
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The four-day negotiations by video conference began on Tuesday with officials trying to make headway after the last three rounds yielded little progress.
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The UK formally left the bloc on January 31 after a slim majority voted for Brexit in a 2016 referendum. Little has changed in practice during a planned 11-month transition period.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised not to extend this period, despite a lack of progress in talks that have been overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis.
The end of June is the deadline for the UK to ask for more time for talks, and both sides are due to take stock of the progress so far.
Johnson suggested the country would accept a "no-deal" Brexit if London and Brussels cannot agree on new trade rules by December 31.
Meanwhile, calls from British opposition politicians to request an extension are growing louder. London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday urged the government to "put political ideology aside".
Michel Barnier, EU chief Brexit negotiator, told the Sunday Times the UK had failed to meet its commitments to the negotiations on future trade and other arrangements.
London had taken "a step back - two steps back, three steps back - from the original commitments," he said.
The British side rejected these accusations and charged the EU with wanting to keep it bound by the bloc's EU rules in future.
💩 UK ready to quit EU on 'Australia terms' if no Brexit deal, Johnson says
Yes, Brexit is still out there...
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu/uk-ready-to-quit-eu-on-australia-terms-if-no-brexit-deal-johnson-says-idUSKBN23Y0J6
June 27, 2020 / 12:10 PM / Updated 17 hours ago
UK ready to quit EU on 'Australia terms' if no Brexit deal, Johnson says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will be ready to quit its transitional arrangements with the European Union “on Australia terms” if no deal on their future relationship is reached, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki on Saturday.
Britain left the bloc on Jan. 31. A transition period, during which Britain remains in the European single market and customs union, expires on Dec. 31 and pressure is mounting to agree a free trade deal before then.
With the two sides still far apart, a round of “intensified negotiations” is due to start next week.
“He (Johnson) said the UK would negotiate constructively but equally would be ready to leave the transition period on Australia terms if agreement could not be reached,” Johnson’s Downing Street office said in a statement.
Australia does not have a comprehensive trade agreement with the EU. Much of EU-Australia trade follows default World Trade Organisation rules, though specific agreements are in place for certain goods.
Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Alex Richardson
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💩 EU says “real risk” of no trade deal with UK by end of year
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💩 Post-Brexit deal between UK and EU seems unlikely, says Michel Barnier
Can they PUHHLEEEZE just get this shit over with already?
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💩 My blue passport has arrived – and with it a crushing new sense of our Brexit
The Sun Sets on the British Empire...at last!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/my-blue-passport-has-arrived-and-with-it-a-crushing-new-sense-of-our-brexit-nightmare
My blue passport has arrived – and with it a crushing new sense of our Brexit nightmare
Zoe Williams
We definitely are not in the EU any more. No stars, just a lion, a unicorn and a peculiar illustration of the UK. Yet that’s not even the worst thing about this document
The new blue British passport
‘The colour of the new passport is not the nostalgia kick you might have hoped for.’ Photograph: Shaun Daley/Alamy Stock Photo
Mon 24 Aug 2020 01.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 24 Aug 2020 03.46 EDT
In February, I lost my passport in the stupidest way yet. I was not mugged, pickpocketed or burgled (passports one to three), I did not drop it in a pond (passport four), or lose it in a house move (passport five), I just walked through a station in a bit of a daze, and by the time I got to my platform, it was gone. I tried to self-soothe with the fact that, at least I now had time to renew before the blue ones came in, but that plan did not square with the global pandemic, and the document arrived today, as blue as midnight and also as dark.
Some observations: we definitely are not in the EU any more. There are no stars, just a lion, a unicorn and a peculiar and bereft illustration of the UK, with Northern Ireland a floating blob, the rest of the landmass etched out like Trotsky’s face. I don’t know why I should find this so disappointing. Obviously on some subconscious level, I thought it was all a dream, or a joke.
The colour, meanwhile, is not the nostalgia kick you might have hoped for, if that was your thing, since it genuinely is blue, while the pre-EU ones looked more like black. This somehow says it all about the Brexit project, that it would fight to the death over a principle that was trivial and wrong. Three flowers and a shamrock are embossed on the back, for poetry I suppose, except the daffodil could be any flower, and the overall effect is of someone finding free graphics on the internet for a superbly boring PowerPoint presentation.
Yet by far the worst thing about it was my own photo, as ever, contriving to look meaner and more like Myra Hindley than the last, which was itself the worst picture I had ever taken. Remarkably, and powerfully, this lifted my spirits. Some things never change. Every passport has a worse photo than the last – even, mysteriously, one you lost after only six months. But everything else can change, and who knows, by 2030, the blue years could be over.
• Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
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Ten songs
I am an enormous control freak. But it's OK, I like it, don't worry about it. Some people have bafflingly liberal ways of dealing with important things like iPod playlists, though, don't they? They'll have their entire music library, tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands of tracks, all in iTunes and will tell their device to just fill space randomly. I could not live that way. I have to know where stuff is when I am going to need it.
My iPod currently contains 1230 songs. The fact that this number ends in either a 0 or a 5 will, of course, come as no surprise to you. I think the most I've ever had on it is 1300 and the least something like 1150. The longest one of these tracks (excluding podcasts and the like) is In A Silent Way/It's About That Time by Miles Davis at 19m57, the shortest is currently Round Up The Usual Suspects by Barry Adamson at 43 seconds.
When adding new stuff as a control freak, of course, one has to be mindful of both disc space and frivolous numerological issues. In putting some things on, some things will have to come off to make space but equally, some will have to come off to make the overall number of tracks one which is acceptable to me.
Choosing which ones will go is something of an artform. There are 173 stand-alone artists in that 1230 song list, that is, people with only one appearance. These are the ones who you'd think would be the first to suffer. But they are not. They are often sacrosanct. The precise reason they only have one song is because it's so perfect or has sufficient meaning for me to disregard all its brethren. The usual victims of my culls, then, are the Beatles (currently 125 songs) and Bob Dylan (102). I'm sure their huge financial security offers either act a crumb of comfort in this difficult time.
Today, a list of ten of the artists who only have one song in my 29.8.2011 vintage iPod playlist.
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
This is a brilliant, defiant and fragile rock and roll classic. It was a favourite of Malcolm McLaren and the song which John Lydon did his audition for the Sex Pistols for, singing along to the jukebox in McLaren's Kings Road shop.
Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books
Belle & Sebastian were one of those acts that people slightly more trendy than me were all over when I was a student. Listen to Belle & Sebastian, they all told me. Of course, telling me something like that was simply bound to end in my not doing it as I am awfully stubborn. However, I chanced upon this song about 10 years ago whilst channel-hopping around during the Glastonbury Festival. I loved it and still love it. Oddly, though, I've never wanted to hear anything else of Belle & Sebastian. Maybe because of it. I am worried they'll not live up to the perfection of this.
DB Boulevard - Point of View
I am a sucker for electro, pop music, Italian disco music and old episodes of Sex and The City. This song ticks all of those boxes. One of the most lovely, sunny, electro pop songs I know.
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Donna Summer, disco queen and soul music legend. Ideal credentials for me to have loads of her work. But again, this is too perfect to take the risk. The most perfect single ever released, and that's simply the end of that.
Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World
Jazz singing is something which either engages me or makes me want to pull teeth. At its very best, though - and this IS its very best - it is delightful. This should be the national anthem of every country on Earth.
Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K - Got to Get
Remember how I'm a sucker for electro, pop and Euro Dance? This one fulfills all those criteria once again. I don't even know if anyone involved in this record ever made anything else and nor do I care. It's also fused in my mind with certain times, places and people, so its awesome hold over me grows ever stronger. I am simply unable to hear this song - or even just see it in the playlist - without smiling.
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Because it's the greatest song-film tie-in of all time and because I increasingly base all my fashion decisions on Ally Sheedy.
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby
Another for the "did they do anything else? don't care" list. A proto-disco/soul classic. I get the feeling this song is achingly uncool and simply don't care about that, either.
Sugarcubes - Hit
I remember hearing this when it first came out and thinking it was a bit exciting, a bit left-field, whilst still being accessible. Of course, this later became Björk's USP. A perfect pop record, with just the right amount of silly.
White Town - Abort, Retry, Fail (Your Woman)
WHO REMEMBERS THIS ONE? I suppose White Town was the prototype modern-day MySpace pop star, really. At the time, though, he was just a weirdo in his student digs with a brilliant, brilliant pop song. I believe that everything else he made was rubbish, which of course makes little difference here. I was ill for all of January 1997 - two ghastly internal infections and then influenza. Listening to this on the radio remains a strong memory.
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Sadie Port said...
Everybody should base their fashion decisions on Ally Sheedy. Everybody!
Leila K said...
g'wan, get up!
I have that White Town song!! I like to break it out at parties and watch as one or two chosen heads bounce along.
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XXXVI (2013)
MIRCEA ANGHELINU,
Fitting the ladder to the tree: A common sense view on the cognitive evolution of the Pleistocene human lineage
The mismatch between the human paleoanthropological ‘tree’ and the paleo-cognitive ‘ladder’ has been recently attributed to epistemological biases affecting the mainstream narratives on cognitive evolution. The present paper takes issue with such a perspective and argues for a rather continuous cognitive development along the human lineage, as documented archaeologically by the early emergence of a ‘familiar’ human mind and by the cumulative features of Pleistocene cultural evolution in general. These facts seriously question the paleo-cognitive relevance of the acknowledged branchy taxonomy and point strongly towards a more anagenetic view on human biological evolution. Moreover, as the prerequisites for complex behavior and a consistent ability for cultural transmission were already among the capacities of the Homo erectus grade, the scope of further major cognitive changes, as usually invoked in connection to the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens, appears limited.
Keywords: Paleolithic, cognition, paleoanthropology, cultural evolution, Homo erectus.
VALENTIN-CODRIN CHIRICA,
L’art mobilier du Paléolithique Supérieur en Europe occidentale et méridionale
(Upper Paleolithic Portable Art in Western and Southern Europe)
Our approach focuses on the art of the Upper Palaeolithic portable art in Western and Southern Europe. This geographical area covers roughly the current territory of Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Belgium. Portable art means all artistic representations on a movable support. In addition, we refer only to the visual arts and we exclude scenic arts, music, dance, and generally any kind of perishable art (including transient visual arts, such as sand drawings or paintings on bark) that has not survived to this day as an archaeological witness. We are analyzing figurines, carved contours, pebbles, pendants, pierced sticks, propellants, harpoons, lamps, pots, spears, spatula, rings, jewellery, and other utilitarian or non-utilitarian object that possess any form of decoration – figurative and / or geometric – and which is portable.
Keywords: Portable art, figurines, pendants, pierced sticks, propellants, harpoons, lamps, pots, spears, spatula, rings, jewellery, stylistic elements.
SENICA ȚURCANU,
Cucutenian body ornamenting items: from the raw materials perspective
The paper provides a systematization of the types of the raw materials known and/or processed by the Cucutenian communities for obtaining the body ornamenting items. The main research directions that can be followed by the analysis of the body ornamenting items from the perspective of the raw materials they are also pointed out. In this regard, the paper tackles problems pertaining to the provision of raw materials and exchange relations, to paleotechnology and the level of technical knowledge as reflected by these artifacts. On the same line, the symbolic valences of these items are also pointed out (both as separate items and as assembled items), pointing out various aspects such as typology, intrinsic value of the artifacts, including the complex symbolism of colors and the usage of fruits and seeds of certain plants as body ornamenting items probably due to their medical or magical properties.
Keywords: Chalcolithic, Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex, body ornamenting items, raw materials.
ALEXANDER RUBEL,
Pietate personală şi trăire religioasă. Caracteristicile religiei greceşti plecând de la cultele salutifere
(Personal Piety and Religious Experience. The Character of Greek Religion against the Background of Healing Cults)
Ancient Greek healing cults can be studied in the context of “personal piety.” This article emphasizes personal aspects of the Greek religion. It shows that the concept of “polis religion” does not embrace major aspects of ancient Greek piety. I analyze the direct and personal relation of worshippers in healing cults, especially that of Asclepios, with the deity. By doing so, I put forward a new reading of Greek religion in the context of the concept of “personal piety” developed in Egyptology. The well-known “embeddedness” of religion in the structures of the Ancient Greek city-state led to a one-sided view of ancient Greek religion, as well as to aspects of ritual and “cult” predominating in research. Simultaneously, aspects of “belief” are often labelled as inadequate in describing Greek (and Roman) religion. Religion as ritual and cult is simply one side of the coin. Personal aspects of religion, and direct contact with the deity, based on “belief,” are thus the other side of the coin. It follows that they are also the fundament of ritual. It is necessary to combine “polis religion” with “personal piety” to display a complete picture of Greek religion. The Isyllos inscription from Epidaurus is presented here as a final and striking example for this view. It reports the foundation of a cult of the polis on behalf of a personal religious experience.
Keywords: Greek Religion, personal piety, healing cults, Asclepios, Epidaurus.
CONSTANTIN ICONOMU,
Euctemon – un producător de lucerne la Tomis (I)
(Euctemon – a maker of lamps in Tomis) (I)
The paper starts by presenting the criteria which allow differentiating the lamps produced in Scythia Minor from the ones brought there from other provinces. It should be noticed that the lamps made in Tomis and in other Dobrudja centres are provided with ring handles instead of lamellar handles. The pottery manufacturer Euctemon – who signs the lamps made in his workshop with one name only, proof of his origin as a slave – produced three types of lamps. The first type stamped Euctemon belongs to the category of Firmalampen, the second type, with a rosette on the disk, is stamped EYKTHMΩN EIIOIEI, in Greek letters on two rows. The third type, with heart-shaped nib, can be further divided into five groups, according to the patterns represented on the disk: rooster, crater, grape, shell and cantharus, all bearing the same stamp in Greek: Euctemon has made it (the lamp). The largest quantity of stamped lamps is to be found in Tomis, a fact that makes us place his workshop in that city. His lamps are dated to the 2nd century AD, but imitations, made in other workshops, circulated from the 2nd to the 4th century AD.
Keywords: Scythia Minor, lamps, workshop, Euctemon.
MICHEL KAZANSKI,
Les fibules germaniques danubiennes dans le contexte slave (VIe siècle)
(The Danubian Germanic brooches in a Slavic context (6th century)
The fingered brooches (fibulae), of Germanic tradition, belong to the Slavic material civilization of the 6th-7th centuries. They are well known from the sites of three cultures that most specialists consider to be Slavic, namely the one of Prague (ascribed to the Sclavenes of written sources, that is to the Slavs proper), the one of Penkovka (belonging to the Antes), and the one of Koločin, whose representatives remained without a name. But most of the finds under discussion actually represent “international” types, such as the “little” brooches designated as “Slavic” or “Danubian”; or the ones of local origin, such as those designated as “Antean” or “Dnestrian.” We propound a survey of the oldest fingered brooches discovered on Slavic sites. Their origin is Danubian Germanic, most probably Gepidic. They were unearthed in the territory occupied by the Slavs in the 6th century. Such finds could contribute to a better understanding of the formation of the Slavic woman’s costume at the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Keywords: fingered brooches, Sclavenes, Slavs, Antes, Danubian Germanic, woman’s costume.
GEORGE BILAVSCHI,
Dinamica economiei agricole din Moldova oglindită în izvoarele veacurilor XIV–XVII
(The dynamics of the medieval agrarian economy reflected in 14th-17th-century written sources)
The present article contains a thorough analysis of the medieval rural world of the Eastern Carpathian area. Such an article meets the necessity of an enlarged database, as it takes into consideration information provided by foreign travelers, by chroniclers and chronographers, as well as by simple clerks, scribes and copyists. By corroborating disparate and often anachronistic or confusing data, the author points out agrarian aspects, directions and methods used by local medieval communities of Moldavia. Special aspects of interest are the evolution of agricultural technologies and of specific implements, the development of work relationships (in both craftsmanship and commerce) and of social-legal regulations, etc. The historical background, as determined by the political and military context of the epoch, became a decisive factor for state individualization in the area between the Carpathians and the Nistru (Dniester). The repeated invasions, the conflicts with nomadic populations and with the armies of neighboring states, as well as climatic variations, epidemics and natural disasters, all influenced the rate of economic development of the Moldavian state. In other words, under the impact of the above-mentioned factors, the dynamics of agrarian economy displayed stages of involution, but also of real progress, when the Moldavian territory became a market, a place of storage and a source of raw materials for most of the neighboring states.
Keywords: medieval agrarian economy, Moldavia, written sources, cereals, cattle, trade, tribute, tithe, honey, mills.
VIRGIL MIHAILESCU-BÎRLIBA,
Noi analize şi interpretări privind moneda romană republicană
(New analyses and interpretations regarding Republican Roman coin)
In Kris Lockyear’s recently published book, which also represents his doctoral thesis (Patterns and Process in Late Roman Republican Coin Hoards, 157-2 BC, BAR International Series 1733, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2007, 328 pp. [139 Figs. + 5 Tables, includes in the text]), the Roman coin of Dacia is also extensively treated. Lockyear sustains the use, on a large scale, of statistics in numismatics, and he wishes that the numismatists and statisticians could find better ways to cooperate. For his analysis, the author chooses three areas of Europe (Spain, Italy and Dacia) where the presence of the Roman coin was particularly strong. We must observe that, in order to reach statistic results as credible as possible, the gathering, organizing, correcting and handling of information must be very correct. There are some observations to be made regarding the methodology that was used by the author under discussion: e. g. hoards are included even if they contain a very small number of coins (1-5). The list of the hoards of Roman coins found in Dacia can be completed with eleven more which have not been registered. This author has analyzed the problem of supply with coins, their circulation as well as the process of hoarding. He used the correspondence-analysis method to study the hoards, and he pointed out that the great number of hoards of Republican Roman coins closed with the one of the years 74-73 BC found in Romania. He also mentioned that the hoards of Roman Republican coins of Dacia have an archaic profile and, probably, they reached the north of the Danube much later than the date of their last coins. As for the problem of the circulation speed of the coins, Lockyear used the cluster-analysis method. This author (like Lockyear) reached the conclusion that – although statistics does not manage to clear up all the numismatics problems – diversity of methodologies used for the study of the coins is to be recommended.
Keywords: Lockyear, Republican Roman coin, Dacia, denarii, hoards.
COSTEL CHIRIAC,
Sigilii dobrogene inedite. II
(Inedited Dobroudja seals. II)
The author presents three unedited Byzantine lead seals discovered in Dobroudja (Paradounavon/Paristrion Theme. – Pl. 1). 1) The seal of empress Euphrosina Kamaterina Doukaina (1195 – 1203); 2) The seal of the Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos (end of the 11th c.); 3) The seal of Demetrios Katakalon, katepano of Paradounavon (50th – 60th of the 11th c. ).
Keywords: Dobroudja, Byzantine seals, Euphrosina, Kedrenos, Katakalon, Paradounavon.
MONICA DEJAN,
Un tezaur de monede moldoveneşti de la începutul secolului al XVI-lea în legătură cu înfiinţarea Mănăstirii Armeneşti Adormirea Maicii Domnului „Hagigadar” din apropierea oraşului Suceava
A hoard from the beginning of the 16th century regarding the establishment of the Armenian monastery Assumption of the Virgin – Hagigadar near the city of Suceava
The article presents some information about the foundation of the Armenian monastery Assumption of the Virgin – Hagigadar near Suceava, and about its founder, Drăgan Dănovac. The archaeological investigation made there in 2010, unearthed a hoard of seven Moldavian coins issued under Bogdan III (1504-1517). The presence of this hoard was linked with the start of the building site, probably between 1511 and 1512. Drăgan Dănovac, an Armenian merchant, lived in Suceava in the first half of the 16th century. His name was recorded in documents that reflect a series of legal disputes between the Armenian community of Suceava and Saint Elias’ Monastery about a landed property in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Keywords: hoard, Armenian community, Suceava city, the 16th century, Drăgan Dănovac.
LUCIAN MUNTEANU, RODICA POPOVICI,
Descoperiri monetare în aşezările rurale medievale de la Borniş, jud. Neamţ (secolele XV–XVII) (I)
(Numismatic finds in the medieval rural settlements at Borniş, Neamţ County (15th – 17th centuries) (I)
The numismatic finds of Borniș „Silişte” consist in 23 pieces, which are isolated finds (Moldavia – 1 pc., Poland – 8 pcs., Hungary – 3 pcs., Sweden – 4 pcs., Ottoman Empire – 1pc., Romania – 1 pc.) as well as a small „hoard” (Sweden – 5 ex.). Most of the coins were uncovered during the archaeological excavation in the medieval site, mainly inside houses, with well-defined archaeological contexts. Only two pieces were random finds. The range of dates of issue is very wide, of more than two centuries. However, most of the dates of issue are within the last decades of the 16th and most of the 17th century. The chronological limits could frame the habitation of most of houses within the settlement of Borniş „Silişte”. The most recent coins are the ones of the „pocket hoard”, uncovered in feature (house) No. 4. The occupation of the site ends in the last years of the 17th century and the core of the village moves to an adjacent area. The total nominal value of the uncovered coins is relatively small (with the exception of two Leeuwendaalders), but the large number of small denominations uncovered indicates the frequent use of metallic means of payment and the connection of the settlement to the monetary circuits of the time.
Keywords: coins, medieval village, Moldavia, 15th – 17th centuries.
LUCIAN MUNTEANU,
Descoperiri monetare din Moldova. V
(Monetary Discoveries from Moldavia. V)
We continue the regular publication of the coins found in Moldova, by presenting a hoard and some isolated finds from different points of this part of Romania. The coins date back to the Roman, medieval and modern times and were found in the following locations: I. Gâdinți (jud. Neamț) (1 AR denarius, Traianus, Roma, 114-116); II. Hârtoape (com. Vânători, jud. Iași) (1 AR denarius, Marcus Aurelius, Roma, 174); III. Huși (jud. Vaslui) (hoard with 23 tetradrachms „Huși-Vovriești” type, c. 250-150 B.C.); IV. Rădăuți-Dornești (jud. Suceava) (1 AR denarius, Vespasianus, Roma,77-78; 1 AR denarius, Caracalla, Roma, 211); V. Roşiori (com. Dulceşti, jud. Neamţ) (1 AR denarius, Traianus, Roma, 105-107/107-108); VI. Turturești (com. Girov, jud. Neamț) (1 AR, didrachm, „Adâncata-Mânăstirea”type, Dacia,c. 150-120 B.C.; 1 AR denarius,L. Manlius Torquatus, Roma, c.109/113-112 B.C.; 1 AR denarius, C. Norbanus, Roma, c.80/83 B.C.; 1 AR denarius, C. Servilius C.f., Roma, c. 62-63/57 B.C.); VII. Doljești (jud. Neamț) (1 AR 5 kreutzer, Franz II. (I.), Wien, anul 1820); VIII. Iaşi (jud. Iaşi) (1 AR Denar, Maximilian, Kremnitz, 1573; 1 AR Denar, Rudolf II, Kremnitz, 1590-1599).
Keywords: coin finds, Moldavia, museum collections, Roman coins, medieval coins.
CORNELIA-MAGDA LAZAROVICI,
Gropile de cult din aşezarea Poieneşti –Măgura/Dealul Teilor
(The offering pits in the settlement of Poieneşti-Măgura/Dealul Teilor)
In this study we present the artifacts discovered in two offering pits (705, 905) at Poieneşti – Măgura/Dealul Teilor. This settlement is considered to represent a secondary one, archaeological complexes being of small size and archaeological material very fragmentary. The settlement was entirely excavated during the 20th century by C. Cihodaru, R. Vulpe and a team led by M. Babeş (starting with 1979). Over the time in this site over 40 pits have been investigated; offering pits are represented only by pits 705, 905, as well as maybe pits 351 and 81-86, investigated by R. Vulpe. We present the main archaeological inventory from these pits, that include some very interesting cultual pots (pit 705 – a bowl with a zoomorphic protome; a fragment of a bowl whose handle was shaped as a human face; a pot-stand; pit 905 – a basket type pot; a small chair; an altar-table), as well as other entire or fragmentary artifacts, animal bones, ashes and charcoal fragments. We connect these offering pits to important seasonal events of the local community.
Keywords: Cucuteni A phase, offering pits, archaeological inventory, cultual pots, altar-table, ornaments.
BOGDAN PETRU NICULICĂ,
O descoperire de bronzuri uitată: depozitul de la Prisăcăreni (nordul Bucovinei)
(A forgotten discovery: the bronze hoard from Prisăcăreni (Northern Bucovina)
The recovery of old lost information regarding the discoveries of bronze hoards on the territory of the former historical province of Bucovina has a special importance. During the second half of the 19th century, there were found several bronze deposits which were “hidden” to the specialists’ eyes, being only summarily published in Viennese magazines, or in unknown provincial publications. In the present study we submit for the first time to the attention of the searchers the hoard of Prisăcăreni (today on the territory of Ukraine). In 1885, the former Mayor of the town of Siret, Captain Josef von Gutter pointed out the discovery of a bronze hoard consisting in a bronze cauldron, containing a clay urn full of ash. The urn was surrounded all around by 12 bronze axes (celts). After analyzing these elements, we believe that the deposit can be ascribed to the Gáva-Holihrady culture (the Grăniceşti cultural group), characteristic of the Early Hallstatt in the northeastern Carpathian space. This deposit can be considered to be a votive offering connected to certain cult practices/ religious ceremonies and to the religious pantheon of the Gáva population, or it may also be a sacrificial tomb.
Keywords: bronze hoard, Bucovina, Prisăcăreni, Gáva-Holihrady culture, Grăniceşti cultural group, Hallstatt B.
GEORGE NUŢU, COSTEL CHIRIAC,
Noi bronzuri figurate din Dobrogea
(New figural bronzes pieces from Dobrudja)
Recent studies concerning the figural bronze pieces from Dobrudja have shown their iconographic diversity and the influences that occurred in northeastern Moesia. New discoveries, presented in the present article, bring contributions to the domain of minor statuary pieces, furniture appliqués and zoomorphic representations of the region between the Danubius and the Pontus. Seven fragments of statuettes are presented, of which three made of silver, appliqués representing divinities, mythological characters (such as Amor, Attis, Gorgona Medusa), anonymous or animal-like figures, an oenochoe handle with the image of a maenad, and one of the rare enameled figurines representing a rooster. The hereby presented figural bronze pieces, discovered in an unknown place on the Dobrudjan territory, chronologically belong to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD.
Keywords: early Roman period, Moesia Inferior, Dobrudja, figural bronze pieces, fragments of statuettes, decorative appliqués.
DOREL PARASCHIV, IOAN IAŢCU,
The Christian basilica of (L)Ibida. Elements of interior decoration
There are very few details known about the Christian basilica within the large fortified Late Roman town of Ibida (6th century AD). In the course of time, the few archaeological excavations carried out, as well as a series of random finds, uncovered a varied range of decorative marble elements. These finds are structural elements (bases, columns and capitals) as well as pieces of liturgical apparatus (pilasters, small columns and finials of the chancel bannister). The pieces were manufactured from the best material available, Proconnesus and Aphrodisias marble. The range of decorative motifs of the finds is limited to crosses and vegetal decoration (acanthus leaves), very simplified and schematic. The occurrence of such marble pieces at the site of Ibida, proves the inclusion of this religious edifice in the wide beautification program attributed to the reign of Justinian I, which was implemented on the whole territory of the Scythia Province.
Keywords: Scythia, basilica, marble, capitals.
COSTIN CROITORU, GABRIELA APOSTU,
Two mediaeval axes discovered at Tulucești (Galați County)
In this short presentation we discuss two iron axes spotted on a school “museum corner”. The artifacts refer to have been discovered accidentally, most probably in isolation, in the Tuluceşti village area, hence they lack any archaeological context. The only reference point we have concerns their identification in the old village Vorniceni, north from Tuluceşti, towards Tătarca. They have not been associated with other archaeological material. We do not know whether they were found in the same place. The first one is an iron hammer-axe with narrow elongated body, a semicircular blade which is edged on both sides, well profiled, spread out almost symmetrically from the body. The second iron axe has a triangular body in longitudinal profile, a narrow blade, asymmetrical for the longitudinal axis, broadens towards the curved cutting edge, executed on both sides.
Keywords: medieval, archaeological findings, iron axes, fortuitous discoveries, tool, weapon, Tulucești, Prut River, Moldavia.
RODICA POPOVICI,
Cercetări arheologice în aşezarea rurală de la Băiceni (jud. Iaşi)
(Archaeological research in the rural settlement at Băiceni (Iaşi County)
The present paper presents the late medieval archaeological finds from the site of rural settlement of Băiceni, located at the point known as „Dâmbul lui Pletosu”. The paper discusses the pottery and some other categories of finds from a dwelling dating from the first decades of the 17th century. The point known as „Grădina lui Pascal”, revealed some features dating from the end of 18th – the beginning of 19th century. The paper analyzes the finds from these features (three dwellings and a garbage dump), with special attention for the tobacco pipes, which contribute significantly to the chronological definition of the features.
Keywords: rural settlement, ceramic, tobacco pipes, the 17th–19th centuries.
PIERRE NOIRET,
Mircea Éliade et la pensée mythique au Paléolithique Supérieur
(Mircea Eliade and the mythical thought of the Upper Palaeolithic)
In regard to the Upper Palaeolithic, abundant data shed light on symbolic functions. Beyond simply technical activities, it is possible to reconstruct certain elements of mythical thought, comparable to that described by ethnologists and historians of religion. Their study does not enable us to identify the myths recounted, but rather to clearly envisage their nature and their fundamental role in the functioning of Palaeolithic societies. During the 1990s, the discovery of the Chauvet Cave challenged the linear evolution of parietal art established by André Leroi-Gourhan. The recent discovery of very similar paintings in Romania, at the Coliboaia Cave enables us to complement the approach to the initial phases of that art. The similarities between the images in the two caves suggest we should return to the concept of myth.
Keywords: Mircea Eliade, myth, religious beliefs, Upper Paleolithic, parietal art, Chauvet, Coliboaia.
CĂTĂLIN IULIAN HRIBAN,
„Protimisis” şi „sultan-mezat” în peisajul sonor al Moldovei pre-moderne. Puterea politică și controlul spațiului urban
(„Protimesis” and „Sultan-mezat” in the acoustic landscape of the pre-modern Moldavia. The political authority and the control over the urban space)
A particular feature of the land law in the Post-Byzantine world is the priority of seller’s relatives in any land exchange. This right of preemption, “protimesis” (προτιμήσις) was strictly enforced, any irregularities in the transaction resulting in it annulment, even one year after the fact. The “crying” of the sale, at the crossroads and in the majority of public places, had precisely the role of determining the relatives of the seller or, in certain cases, one of the previous owners of the land, to make known his/her formal option of accepting or declining the purchase, exerting or waiving thus the right of preemption. The crying procedure used the same personnel as the procedure of public auction announcement in the cases of sale of sequestered/confiscated goods or properties (sultan-mezat). As the official gazette was inexistent, the crying is the only public address instrument, for official announcements and commercial advertisement, the professional criers being equal in importance to the executors and the land surveyors. In certain cases, the crier was also employed as one of the latter, and this versatile profession is one of the bases of the concept of public servant in modern Moldavia. The main documentary source consists in the legal decisions and court orders bearing on disputed and/or seized property. As there is no clear-cut evidence for the existence of public space in the Romanian Middle Ages, the presence of the criers in the documentary sources indicate the reality of an implicit public space, with visual and sonorous existence, even though it lacks a materiality that is clear, stable and formally defined. The fixed “crying spots” at the crossroads are augmented by the mobile announcements of the infamies during the “walk” of the felons from the court to the place of punishment, which could be in certain cases the one’s domicile or the scene of one’s crime.
Together with the cried official announcements, both fixed and mobile, of the government’s decisions, the real estate market is the main formal contributor to the sound-townscape in the Proto-Modern European Orient.
Keywords: Protimesis, sultan-mezat, tax-farming, preemption, town-criers, auctioneers, soundscape, real estate, post-Byzantine
PARASCHIVA-VICTORIA BATARIUC, NICULINA DINU,
Un vas Kraak Wanli păstrat în colecţia de arheologie medievală a Muzeului Bucovinei din Suceava
(A “Kraak Wanli” plate kept in the Bucovina Museum’s collection of medieval archaeology from Suceava)
The Bucovina Museum’s medieval archaeological collection includes a fragmentary plate and some Chinese porcelain fragments from other six plates that belong to the category of “Kraak Wanli,” dating from the period 1610-1630. The fragments were found at the Citadel of Suceava and it may be related to the reign of Vasile Lupu, prince of Moldavia, who undertook the last works of redevelopment of the citadel.
Keywords: Chinese porcelain, „Kraak Wanli”, 17th century, Suceava’s citadel.
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Guwahati, Sunday, May 20, 2012
Silver jubilee Bihu celebrations in London
GUWAHATI, May 19 – More than two decades ago, a dozen children – aged between 3 and 10 – crowded on to a stage waving red balloons as they sang as part of London’s Rongali Bihu celebrations.
Almost 25 years later, some of those same children – now grown-up and some married –repeated that performance of ‘Ronga Balloone’ at the Silver Jubilee of the London Bihu Committee, the group that has been organising the UK capital’s Bihu gatherings for a long time.
The performance on May 6, at the Campion School in Hornchurch was the climax of a cultural programme that had been designed specifically to mark 25 years of unbroken celebrations in London for Rongali Bihu.
Dr Neera Borkakoti – whose son Jayanta and daughter Nandita were among the Ronga Balloone singers – said that the performance typified what celebrating Bihu in London was about.
Rita Kakati Shah, who was also one of the Ronga Balloone ensemble, made a speech on behalf of the younger generation to pay tribute to those who have ensured the annual event.
“We, the second generation, have ‘lived’ the London Bihu Committee over the last 25 years,” Rita K Shah told the audience. “Our experiences go beyond reading and writing Assamese and singing and dancing; we’ve grown up together because of it, developed lifelong friendships and can truly say we are an extended family.”
A video encompassing memories from traditional performances such as ‘husori’ to what has become known as the Bihu Olympics was also screened.
Dr Khogeswar Lahon, who delivered this year’s Bihu message, said the film captured the essence of the annual event: “The celebration of Rongali Bihu is unique, colourful and vibrant with a feeling of joy, feasting, merriment and enthusiasm everywhere.”
For newcomers to the London Bihu Committee, the Silver Jubilee video gave them a sense of what the community they are part of has been doing to stay a “close knit unit”.
Zaved Chowdhury, who joined the London Bihu Commitee this year, said: “During the film, I found out that the committee used to hold an Assamese Sunday School to teach those born in the UK about Assam - from its language to its culture.
Chowdhury added: “The committee has not only managed to preserve our rich cultural heritage and our deep Assamese Indian roots but also motivates us and pass it over to the next generation.
Dr Helen Walker and Dr Pauline Taylor, who had spent many years working in Assam also participated in the function.
“It was a great surprise to see so many people and lovely to meet them,” said Dr Walker. “We particularly enjoyed the excellent dancing and seeing the children learning various elements of the rich Assamese culture. In a way it made us homesick.”
Geeta Borooah, the president of the London Bihu Committee, summed up the general feeling of bihu-goers: “This year is a big year for the UK as the Olympics are being held here and it’s the Queen’s jubilee - which is why it feels apt we’re celebrating 25 years of our committee.
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An Easy Death: Sorcery and fast guns in an alternate-history America
An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
In An Easy Death (2018) the first book of her latest series, GUNNIE ROSE, Charlaine Harris introduces readers to Lizbeth Rose, a nineteen-year-old “gunnie” (gunslinger) living in what was once the United States of America — until Franklin Roosevelt was assassinated before becoming the thirty-second President, and the ensuing chaos fractured the country into different regions, each with their own laws and social codes. Operating with a crew as a gun for hire is lucrative work, should a body live long enough to receive payment, whether that’s guiding folks across the border from Texoma into New America, engaging in firefights with bandits, or hunting down the dangerous grigori (wizards) who flourish under the auspices of the Holy Russian Empire’s strongholds on the West Coast.
Lizbeth’s latest job is to protect two Russian wizards hunting a renegade grigori, suspected to be hiding somewhere among the border towns or even in Mexico proper, and whose blood might be the key to prolonging Tsar Alexei’s life. The Russians have access to a range and depth of sorcery Lizbeth can only imagine, along with decades of deeply-kept secrets, and Lizbeth has a lifetime of secrets tucked close within her vest, so their time rumbling up and down dusty roads is ripe for meaningful glances across campfires and hushed conversations barely overheard through thin hotel walls. Each step closer to the Russians’ goal brings the trio closer to risking death — but will it be the “easy death” gunnies wish one another, or something more tortured and terrible?
I’d been looking for an easy read lately, something that would entertain me for an afternoon or two and keep my interest without requiring a huge investment, and An Easy Death fit the bill perfectly. Harris’s worldbuilding is intriguing and provides just enough hints about how this world is different from our own while leaving room for expansion into details regarding the contemporary state of, say, Europe or South America. (I have a lot of questions about the novel’s approximate timeline, the global effect of America’s Deconstruction period, and what happened to the Weimar Republic during the European political/magical upheaval after the Russian imperial family fled to what was once California. I’m curious to see whether and how Harris continues to explore the larger implications of sorcery’s effect on the world in subsequent novels.)
Fair warning: An Easy Death relies on mentions of sexual assault as both character backstory and as a plot device; readers might want to keep this in mind when considering this title. For myself, this seemed like an unnecessarily grim and heavy-handed method of repeatedly reinforcing Harris’s point that this alternate version of America is dangerous (particularly for women), in addition to the numerous and no-less-extreme ways in which daily life is already a struggle. Your mileage may vary.
Lizbeth is an appealing narrator: young enough to maintain some optimism about the world, but experienced and street-smart enough to know that nothing in life comes easy or free. Her life and her world feel fully-realized, down to her concerns over strawberries going bad in her electricity- and refrigeration-free home, and her devastating prowess with firearms comes from a lifetime of diligent practice rather than authorial flights of fancy. The pair of Russian wizards, Ilya “Eli” Savarov and Paulina Coopersmith, are fairly easy to suss out: Eli’s got a more agreeable temperament and uses his magic more subtly, while Paulina is brash and quite literally wears her symbols of power tattooed on her face. (I couldn’t stop thinking of them as slightly-tweaked versions of Eric Northman and Pam Ravenscroft from Harris’ SOUTHERN VAMPIRE MYSTERIES, and particularly, their portrayals in the HBO series True Blood.)
The mystery at An Easy Death’s heart is relatively uncomplicated, and goes toward setting up the GUNNIE ROSE series for future instalments and conflicts that will, assuredly, complicate Lizbeth’s life more than she’d like. I enjoyed traveling across Texoma and northern Mexico, and considering that the recently-published second novel, A Longer Fall, takes Gunnie into Dixie, “where social norms have stepped back into the nineteenth century,” I’m looking forward to seeing what Harris has in store for Lizbeth and her readers.
~Jana Nyman
The author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels jumps into the Weird West with her latest series, GUNNIE ROSE: It’s a combination of Old West + magic + alternative history. An Easy Death appears to be set in the 1930s or 40s, but not in an era we’d recognize. When Franklin Roosevelt was assassinated before taking office, the U.S. fractured and chunks of it were claimed by other countries, including the Russian royal family taking over California and Oregon, Mexico taking back Texas, and Native Americans reclaiming much of their territory. Nineteen-year-old Lizbeth Rose is a gunslinger or “gunnie,” part of a crew that gives travelers an armed escort to protect them on their journey.
The very first thing we see Lizbeth Rose doing at the beginning of this book is cutting her hair into a pixie cut, mostly because her much older boyfriend Tarken liked it long and cutting it is her way of pushing back against his too often telling her what to do. It’s a signal of Lizbeth’s obstinacy and independence — qualities she’s going to need in the conflicts and difficulties coming her way. It’s grimly amusing that “an easy death” is the accepted way to say goodbye to a gunnie and the kind of luck they wish for.
After the Tarken Crew’s job escorting two farming families from Texas to New America takes a disastrous turn, Lizbeth — somewhat at loose ends, and financially strapped — overcomes her detest for wizards and accepts a job protecting a couple of Russian wizards or “grigori.” These wizards, Eli and Paulina, are searching for a particular Russian, Oleg Karkarov (or if not him, his descendants), whose blood is needed for transfusions to preserve the life of Tsar Alexei. Apparently the blood of Grigori Rasputin and his relatives has a salutary effect on hemophilia (it’s nice to know that in this world Rasputin was good for something). What the wizards don’t know, although Lizbeth mentions it in her narration to the reader fairly early on, is that [HIGHLIGHT TO REVEAL SPOILER] Lizbeth is actually Oleg’s daughter … and that she killed him herself, for excellent reasons [END SPOILER].
In this gritty Wild West territory, life is precarious and the lives of most people, other than the wealthy, are hardscrabble. Cars and homes with electricity exist, but they’re too expensive for most folk, including Lizbeth. Bandits and magicians are equally feared. It’s not easy for a young woman to stake out her position in this world, but Lizbeth is determined both to make her own way and to protect those who she’s responsible for.
There’s lots of action in An Easy Death, with guns blazing and magic slaying, but the book isn’t a whole lot deeper than that, and the logic of the plot got a little murky. But Lizbeth Rose is an honest, tough and appealing heroine, and her continuous adventures and struggles against opposition make for captivating if not profound reading. Like Jana, I’ll definitely follow Gunnie Rose into Dixie in the sequel, A Longer Fall, where the antebellum South has risen again.
~Tadiana Jones
Published in 2018. The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, and the Midnight Crossroad trilogy adapted for NBC’s Midnight, Texas, has written a taut new thriller—the first in the Gunnie Rose series—centered on a young gunslinging mercenary, Lizbeth Rose. Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it. They’re searching through the small border towns near Mexico, trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner, Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and that Oleg’s blood can save the young tsar’s life. As the trio journey through an altered America, shattered into several countries by the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, they’re set on by enemies. It’s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth Rose is a gunnie who has never failed a client, but her oath will test all of her skills and resolve to get them all out alive.
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Progress report: The 2011 special teams
Since it's Michigan's bye week, it's a good time to take stock of where the team is currently in relation to where we expected them to be preseason. Previously: Where are they now: The team, the team, the team, The defense, The offense
Preseason expectations:
The word for special teams this season is competence. For three years, we've watched this Michigan team fumble and bumble basically every special teams play that didn't feature Zoltan kicking the ball to the moon. If the kickers are competent, that means 3-6 more points per game. If the returners are competent, that means better starting field position and more possessions. This year, all signs point toward competence. But don't expect much more.
Best case scenario for the 2011 season was a competent kicking game, competent returners, and no awful busts. For the most part, this has been the case. Despite uninspiring returns from the kick and punt return units and a few misses from Brendan Gibbons, Michigan has been spectacularly average. This is universal improvement over the endless stream of mistakes from the special teams last over the last three seasons.
Placekicking
Projecting how these two will kick throughout the year is tough (How many opportunities will they get? How long will the kicks be? etc), but it's worth venturing a guess. While Gibbons is being given a shot early on, I expect him to struggle, making 2/4 or some other uninspiring performance, opening the door for Wile to assume the permanent gig. By the year's end, Michigan's kickers will be somewhere in the combined range of 18/24. Hoke's more conservative approach will see the team taking a lot more chances in the kicking game, and if Wile proves a noticeable improvement over last year (he has to be, right?), that shouldn't be such a harrowing experience.
Despite being given a scholarship to kick footballs through the uprights, true freshman Matt Wile hasn't attempted so much as an extra point. This ranks somewhere in the range of mildly disappointing, given the team's field goal struggles in the previous few years. Returning harbinger of doom Brendan Gibbons, meanwhile is 4/6 on field goals and 32/33 on extra points. While these are uninspiring numbers, Gibbons has at least been close on his missed field goal attempts as opposed to last year where, well, you know.
Before the season, Hoke said that Wile would be the kicker on long-distance field goals, but Gibbons has seen all kicking duty. I don't know if this is poor performance by Wile in practice or simply a coin flip, but for whatever reason, Hoke appears to be sticking with Gibbons throughout the season. He's been good enough that Michigan was able to run a fake field goal because MSU actually thought we could kick from that distance. This is a bonus.
Kickoffs, as expected, are being handled by Wile who has proven an immediately improvement over Gibbons. Wile has the leg to get the ball into the endzone on kickoffs, which pushes returners back at least 10 yards from where they were catching the ball last season. Unfortunately, there's something horribly wrong with Michigan's coverage. I don't know if it's getting out of your lanes or just poor tackling, but Michigan's kick coverage is broken. I don't understand a ton about the fundamentals of kickoff coverage, but I know that Michigan shouldn't be allowing returns to consistently bring the ball beyond the 30 yard line.
Grand Statement of Optimism: I don't know, Gibbons is 4/6 or something? His performance seems sustainable and Michigan hasn't kicked less than one field goal per game. If Gibbons can stay consistent within 30 yards, I won't curse his name every time he steps on the field.
Grand Statement of Pessimism: Gibbons 2010. Michigan is currently tied for 93rd in the country with a 66% success rate.
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In [Hagerup's] absence, Wile will be handling punting duties. Here, best case scenario is no terrible shanks. Even if Wile doesn't boom the ball down the field like Hagerup can, as long as he doesn't commit any huge errors, Michigan should be able to sneak by the first half of the season with Wile puting. When Hagerup returns, punting should be a strong part of Michigan's game, and given Hoke's Carr-like tendencies, an integral part of the gameplan.
With Hagerup missing the first five games of the season, Wile did an admiral job holding down the fort. Zoltan he was not, but he got the job done, averaging 41.1 yards on 14 kicks. Hagerup's return, however, has been uninspiring. He is averaging a meager 33.6 yards per kick on 10 attempts. You would expect Hagerup's numbers to resemble those of last year eventually (43.6 yards per kick; a long of 72, wheeee).
The bigger issue punting has been the coverage downfield. MGoBlog has been railing against the use of the traditional punt formation all season and with good reason:
Michigan's return to a traditional punt formation puts a burden on two lone gunner tasked with tackling the returner. This can only produce bad things. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear like Hoke will be changing this strategy anytime soon.
Grand Statement of Optimism: Hagerup proved last year that he has a good-to-great leg. His early-season struggles are probably just a statistical anomaly.
Grand Statement of Pessimism: Traditional punting
Punt/kick returns
Hemingway and Odoms have both proven themselves to be competent catchers, but neither are particularly explosive on punt returns--though Odoms' returns late last season would be to differ. My guess is that Dileo, who was recruited specifically for punt returns, will be the primary returner by season's end, unless he experiences the same drops and mistakes of the last three years.
As for kick returns, Gallon, Kelvin Grady, and Vincent Smith are listed on the depth chart. With the loss of Darryl Stonum for the year to his DUIshirt, there are very few explosive returners on the roster. Grady may have the shiftiness to make a few guys miss, but no one here has the flat-out speed to take one to the house. Again, we should hope for competence here and let the chips fall as they may.
This has been a constant source of frustration this season, though not in the areas you'd expect. Castoff Jeremy Gallon has developed into a sure-handed punt returner after being a travesty the past two years. Though he can't make a ton of yardage after fielding most punts (largely due to the spread/rugby punt formation), Gallon has caught everything that's catchable without any crippling fumbles. I don't know how the coaching staff managed this, but it's a testament to their skills.
Kickoff returns are another story. For whatever reason, the coaches have Vincent Smith as the primary kick returner. Smith is emphatically not a kick returner. Not only does he lack the prototypical speed to take it to the house, he barely gets beyond the 20 yard line on most returns. Michigan is currently 111th in kickoff returns and averaging just over 18 yards per return. What's odd is that the current make-up of the roster is that of speedy slot receiver types that are great in space. You'd think that someone (Grady, Dileo, etc) would be a viable replacement, but for whatever reason, Hoke has elected to use the team's #1 running back--a guy who couldn't take a long run to the house because he's just not built like that--as the primary kick returner. If I had a dollar for every time I screamed at the TV because Smith was returning a kickoff, I would have 7 dollars.
Grand Statement of Optimism: Gallon can catch punts and doesn't make my eyes bleed.
Grand Statement of Pessimism: Vincent Smith on kickoff returns makes my eyes bleed. Same amount of eye blood loss.
Mid-season report
Though it hasn't been pretty, the special teams have mostly gotten the job done. Clear improvement from Gibbons is an added bonus but the lack of Wile appearances bothers me. If the team can correct its coverage issues on kickoffs and switch to a rugby punt formation, special teams could be something we don't have to constantly think and worry about.
Grand Statement of Optimism: Hagerup will get better. Gibbons is functional. Wile can force touchbacks on kickoffs.
Grand Statement of Pessimism: Vincent Smith. Eye bleeding.
Ed. Note: In keeping with the series, I was going to do a coaches progress report, but I think most of that content would be redundant as it's already covered in the offense and defense posts.
By Chris Gaerig
Tags: brendan gibbons, drew dileo, jeremy gallon, matt wile, vincent smith, will hagerup
Tim Sullivan said...
Gibbons is 93rd in the country with .67 made field goals per game, not a .67 success rate (though that is indeed his success rate). That's mostly on account of his few attempts - he's tied for second-fewest attempts out of any kicker in the top 100.
His 2/3 conversion rate is good for a 6-way tie for 71st in the country (still not outstanding, but again: sample size).
Chris Gaerig said...
I think you're wrong. Michigan has played 7 games and he's attempted 6 FGs. That's .85 FG per game.
Well, you could, like, look at the stats, which are sorted by made field goals/game. The NCAA only counts Michigan as having played 6 games, and he's made 4 field goals in those games. That's .67 made field goals per game.
Blast, so it is. Any idea why the NCAA only recognizes 6 games? Michigan has only played against FBS opponents. Or does the NCAA really think that little of Minnesota?
The Western game didn't count toward statistics because they didn't complete 3 quarters.
Ha, I just remember that and was coming here to post the same thing.
Thanks for remembering these things better than me and for the stat correction.
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New 3DS Model & U.S. Monster Hunter Tri 3G at E3?
Notice the Wi-Fi Logo. Official box art, or fake box art? Maybe officially fake?
"Would a 3DS redesigned with two circle pads make you more likely to purchase the system...or perhaps trade your current 3DS system in for an 'upgrade'?", was a question I asked last year in my April Fools post.
In the last few weeks there have been a few events with Nintendo's handheld lineup, and a current situation with the Nintendo 3DS at one major retailer, that leads me to believe Nintendo will be revealing a new 3DS system at/before E3 this year.
Is the evidence clearly pointing to a new Nintendo 3DS design soon to be unveiled? Or, is it too much analyzing and perhaps not enough coffee on my part? Let's take a look!
The Brew - 3DS Lite
Earlier this month on May the 10th, Nintendo announced that the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL would both be getting price drops effective May 20. The Nintendo DSi XL dropped from a MSRP of $169.99, down to a MSRP for $129.99, while the Nintendo DSi system dropped from a MSRP of $129.99, down to just $99.99.
Then last Sunday, May 20, coinciding with the DSi and DSi XL's price drops, major retailers such as Best Buy, Target, and Toys "R" US started offering $20 gift cards with the purchase of new Nintendo 3DS systems.
While those retailers are not offering a $20 gift card with the purchase of a 3DS this week, another major retailer, the largest online retailer to be specific, has not had the Nintendo 3DS system in stock for the last 2 weeks that I have been checking.
Amazon.com only has the Nintendo 3DS available for sale only from third party vendors, and all of them have the 3DS listed for more than the MSRP of $169.99. When I contacted Amazon about the inventory issue, they could not state whether the item was discontinued, or if they were just waiting for more shipments of the 3DS to arrive. I was told to "Just keep checking the site."
So Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, does not have in its stock what is supposed to be Nintendo's flagship handheld now, and hasn't for at least the last 2 weeks?
Shows only fulfilled by Amazon, not being sold by Amazon.com.
So why would Nintendo cut the prices of the DSi and DSi XL, and then three major retailers offer $20 gift cards with the purchase of new 3DS systems the same week? I think it signals a "fire sale", and perhaps a clearing of inventory. I am really thinking that perhaps Nintendo will be making a surprise announcement of a newly designed 3DS at E3. Two circle pads and additional shoulder buttons are a given, and I also think there will be higher resolution cameras on it. Perhaps I'm incorrect, but we will find out soon enough.
The Brew - Monster Hunter Tri 3G
Now, why do I think the U.S. will be getting Monster Hunter Tri 3G? Well, when Monster Hunter Tri was released on the Wii, you might remember how Capcom and Nintendo worked together, and Capcom even had input on the design of the Classic Controller Pro. When was the Classic Controller Pro first released in the U.S.? The day Monster Hunter Tri was released. It was bundled with the game for $59.99, and sold separately with a MSRP of $19.99.
Last year Nintendo announced the Circle Pad Pro, which adds additional shoulder buttons and a second circle pad to the 3DS, was being released in Japan the same day Monster Hunter Tri 3G released. They even had a Monster Hunter Tri 3G Slide Pad bundle released in Japan, and Nintendo has since released the Circle Pad Pro in the U.S., though only through Game Stop. You can still find the 3DS Circle Pad Pro for $19.99 at GameStop.com.
What hasn't seen a release in the U.S. though? Monster Hunter Tri 3G.
Based on the history of Monster Hunter Tri and the Classic Controller Pro on the Wii, and with Nintendo releasing the 3DS Slide Pad in Japan for Monster Hunter Tri 3G, I am really thinking that perhaps at E3 Nintendo could be making the new 3DS Lite announcement, along with announcing that Monster Hunter Tri 3G will be releasing in the U.S with online WiFi multiplayer support (the Japanese game does not have online multiplayer). I believe this would help show Nintendo is serious about the 3DS' online service and multiplayer moving forward.
Two is better than one? For monster hunting it is!
In short, the original Classic Controller was redesigned to the Classic Controller Pro with input from Capcom for Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii, and I believe this makes a 3DS redesigned to 3DS "Lite", with a second circle pad and additional buttons, with input from Capcom for Monster Hunter Tri 3G is not that far of a stretch.
Let's do a quick list recap of the points above:
Nintendo cut the DSi and DSi XL prices on May 20
Best Buy, Target, & Toys "R" US offered $20 gift cards with 3DS purchases the week of May 20
Amazon.com has only been shipping 3DS systems from 3rd Party Vendors, not selling it directly themselves, for at least the last 2 weeks
Monster Hunter Tri released in the U.S. the same day as the newly designed Classic Controller Pro, while Monster Hunter Tri 3G released in Japan the same day as the newly designed Circle Pad Pro/Slide Pad 3DS accessory.
Monster Hunter Tri 3G has not been released or announced for a U.S. release yet.
The original Nintendo DS had been released for 1 year, 2 months, 5 days before Nintendo announced they would be releasing the Nintendo DS Lite model. The Nintendo 3DS released in North America last March, and from its release date to Nintendo's E3 press conference next week, it will be 1 year, 2 months, 9 days.
Do you think, based the information provided above, that Nintendo is preparing a new 3DS design soon to be released and perhaps announced at their E3 2012 conference? Do you think that Monster Hunter Tri 3G will be released in the U.S. the same day as the new 3DS system, if my speculations above are correct?
If you are a current Nintendo 3DS owner, have you purchased the Circle Pad Pro for it? If so, would you recommend the Circle Pad Pro to other 3DS owners?
If you are interested in the Circle Pad Pro attachment, you can purchase it from GameStop by clicking its image below, and you can also see that Amazon.com is still not directly offering the current 3DS models by clicking the images below:
Labels: 3DS, model, Monster Hunter 3DS, Nintendo, XL
Brad Jerger May 28, 2012 at 3:49 PM
Tough to know for sure. It seems the 3DS was still selling well without a new redesign and they just release a new color (purple) a month ago. I'm not sure if Nintendo would do this for Monster Hunter unless they found out that Japan were demanding it. I woeuld be more apt to see them do it with a Western Game COD 3DS?
coffeewithgames May 28, 2012 at 3:49 PM
"It seems the 3DS was still selling well without a new redesign and they just release a new color (purple) a month ago."
In Japan, it is selling well. The UK is selling slower than the DS was though I believe, and I'm not sure if Nintendo has announced how it is tracking in the US compared to same-time DS sales.
I do know though, that I could walk in our Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores, and see them just sitting on the shelves...unlike with the Wii where for nearly 2 years it was a ghost.
Also, if they release a new model with Monster Hunter Tri 3G in the U.S., that would already have them prepared for a COD 3DS, which I am guessing will be happening this November (looking a n-Space!).
As for the sales ranks of the 3DS on Amazon.com, they are HORRENDOUS compared to what the Wii and DS were. Sure, there are many more models now, but even with the Wii being sold out for so long, it was in the "Top 100" forever, even when only available from 3rd Party Vendors...that's why something here isn't making sense.
Dexter May 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM
I think a redesign might be offensive, but they may be angling for Wii U Tablet + 3DS functionality which would essentially alow them to release a Wii U tablet in retail with 3DS functionality, including a game card slot, and dodge the full redesign issue for a while longer.
This is of course dependent on how the multiple tablet support situation looks, but Nintendo did openly discuss using the 3DS as a tablet substitute, and no doubt the vanilla models will get an app to do just that. But why not take it a step further and release a tablet/3DS hybrid.
I've seen similar sales before christmas so while I'm sure Nintendo has redesign plans, I don't base that off the current rebate situations. Maybe nintendo has also learned how to properly keep up with demand unlike the Wii. (yeah, I had to get a friend to snatch one off the shelf at walmart before they were gone in later 2008)
But who knows, a redesign is not out of the question especially if they are wanting to support more games like COD/MTH/etc. that could use another pad. Putting a 3DS/DS card slot in the U tablet though seems like it may cannibalize sales for certain segments.
superphillip32 May 28, 2012 at 3:55 PM
The 3DS is making Nintendo lose money on every system sold, so I don't understand why a new model would come out unless it got Nintendo money for every new model sold. Nintendo said the current 3DS would be profitable in the fall, so I don't understand why they would do that.
Only time will tell, but it does seem odd that every color is out on Amazon. (just 3rd parties or 3rd's being fulfilled by amazon) I believe they were completely out last summer as well along with a temporary shortage of Flame Red when I wanted to purchase.
So, the big question is: are you prepared to jump on a 3DS 2/lite/whatever if they do redesign over the summer? :)
Having the U's tablet output 3D would be cool and could lead to some interesting control schemes if implemented well. Doing non-game content there also seems interesting. (eg: use the TV for other things while the kids watch a movie on the tablet)
Me May 28, 2012 at 8:49 PM
I don't they would redesign it that much because with the ds to the dsi the most drastic change was dsiware. If they added a second analog stick and made games dependent on it that would make everyone who currently owns a 3ds have to buy the Circle Pad Pro. If games aren't dependent on it that would be great but I personally would be upset because I would have to buy the ugly Circle Pad Pro attachment to be up to "status quo" to speak. But that might just be me. And personally, I don't want to have to use batteries on my handhelds anymore. Just saying.
coffeewithgames May 29, 2012 at 12:14 AM
"So, the big question is: are you prepared to jump on a 3DS 2/lite/whatever if they do redesign over the summer? :)"
Depends on if they can convince me with anything at E3. If they do announce the new 3DS like I'm expecting/hoping, I'm more likely to get one. You may remember how I had originally pre-ordered the 3DS before it released, then canceled my pre-order on it.
Last year after the crazy price drop, I was tempted to buy on then...but with the 3DS Circle Pad Pro announcement/leak last year, I decided to hold off.
If they can show at E3 an improved online (communication), and perhaps cross functionality with the Wii U, I'll more than likely pick one up if there is a redesign. If not, I'll hold onto the cash for now.
"If they added a second analog stick and made games dependent on it that would make everyone who currently owns a 3ds have to buy the Circle Pad Pro."
That could be solved very easily by having a development requirement to have both touch screen and Dual Circle Pad controls. If Microsoft can have requirements for Achievements, and online, I don't see why an additional control option would hurt...and if anything, we may hear at E3 that developers were telling Nintendo it needed to be done for certain types of games now, to make them easier to play (Monster Hunter Tri 3G being one maybe, and Call of Duty 3DS maybe another).
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Biography – BESNARD, dit Carignant, JEAN-LOUIS – Volume IV (1771-1800) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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BESNARD, dit Carignant, JEAN-LOUIS (he signed L. Carignant), merchant-trader; b. 22 Nov. 1734 in Montreal, son of Jean-Baptiste Besnard, dit Carignant, and Marie-Joseph Gervaise; m. 13 Aug. 1764 Charlotte Brebion in Montreal; m. there secondly on 20 Jan. 1770 Félicité, daughter of Montreal merchant Pascal Pillet; d. 3 Dec. 1791 at Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.).
Jean-Louis Besnard, dit Carignant, followed in the footsteps of his father, a Montreal merchant and outfitter. Around 1770 he was engaged in the fur trade, outfitting voyageurs for amounts sometimes exceeding 20,000 livres; in addition he ran a flour mill at Lachine, near Montreal. Although he rapidly acquired many debtors, Carignant was not afraid to go into debt himself to his suppliers. Like every merchant in the colony, he had to speculate on credit and choose his debtors carefully. However, he had less luck in this game than others [see Jean Orillat], and on 30 Sept. 1776 he had to declare a bankruptcy that would have repercussions on the political life of the province.
On 9 Oct. 1776 Carignant submitted a balance-sheet to his creditors which showed 222,306 livres in debts and 140,640 livres in assets, 65,000 livres of the latter in accounts outstanding; his creditors were London merchants Brook Watson* and Robert Rashleigh, the firms of Pierre Foretier* and Jean Orillat and of John Porteous in Montreal, and also Montreal merchants Jean-Marie Ducharme*, Jacob Jordan, Toussaint Lecavelier, Louis-Joseph and Charles-Jean-Baptiste Chaboillez*, Charles Larche, and Ignace Pillet (Carignant’s brother-in-law). Carignant had contracted his largest debt – the sum of 88,000 livres – with the firm of Watson and Rashleigh. The balance-sheet also revealed the losses he had incurred in trading in furs and wheat, but these could not by themselves account for the bankruptcy, which Carignant attributed to “unfortunate events . . . bad promises and swindles of which he has been the victim.”
Yet a few hours before declaring bankruptcy, Carignant had completed a series of deals with Montreal merchant Richard Dobie* through which Dobie had bought furs worth 130,000 livres from him and he, after deducting his debts to Dobie and Dobie’s partner Adam Lymburner*, had made 63,000 livres not shown in the books. Carignant’s creditors, to whom he had assigned his property, accused Dobie of fraud and took legal proceedings against him because, according to them, he had entered into secret agreements with Carignant to pay for the furs. When the Court of Common Pleas in Montreal decided in favour of the creditors, Dobie appealed to the Legislative Council, and as a result of Chief Justice Peter Livius’ summation it reversed the judgement on 30 April 1778. The next day Governor Sir Guy Carleton* dismissed Livius from his post without explanation. During the subsequent inquiry, Livius insinuated to the British authorities that Carleton had been influenced by Brook Watson, who was Carignant’s principal creditor and who, according to Livius, “was in great habits with Sir Guy Carleton & was very much trusted by him in his private concerns, & in some matters of a public nature, particularly in Indian Affairs.” Livius was reinstated but never returned to Canada. As for Carignant, his combined assets could in no way cover his debts at the time of his bankruptcy; his creditors allowed him to remain in business, hoping to be repaid gradually, but whether this hope was fulfilled is not known.
Carignant’s business papers and the documents produced at the time of his bankruptcy provide some useful indications of his commercial practices and style of life. Of the 128 debts recorded in his accounts receivable ledger in 1776, only eight exceeded 1,000 livres but they amounted to nearly 50,000 livres, three-quarters of the total. His assets also included 12,500 livres in furs, ginseng, and merchandise, a house on the construction of which he had spent 26,000 livres (and which his creditors sold for 36,000 livres in 1777), furnishings valued at 12,000 livres, a library of some 40 titles appraised at 1,200 livres, and two black slaves, a man worth 1,600 and a woman worth 1,200 livres. Judging from the inventory of the house, Carignant lived comfortably, and he owned several expensive articles – a mahogany table, a faience fountain, some silverware, and some crystal.
Carignant’s subsequent career seems to have been rather varied. He was trading in wheat again in 1777 and apparently received a contract for supplying flour to the army, perhaps in concert with his old creditor, Jacob Jordan. In 1780 he went into partnership with his brother-in-law, Antoine Pillet, to run a bakery. In the winter of 1781–82 he was in trouble with the authorities. Rebel sympathizers who had been taken prisoner accused Carignant of having established relations with the Americans; he was arrested and taken to Quebec. In his defence he submitted a certificate of loyalty signed by such residents of Montreal as Luc de La Corne, Pierre Guy*, Jacob Jordan, Christian Daniel Claus, James McGill*, and Edward William Gray*. He was released for lack of evidence at the beginning of 1782. But his bakery business fell off, and he had difficulty again with his creditors. In May 1785 he received a commission as notary at Michilimackinac, and he was living there in 1786 and 1787. In 1788 he was appointed superintendent of inland navigation at Michilimackinac. He drowned in Lake Michigan on 3 Dec. 1791.
Hilda Neatby*, after reviewing the Dobie case, decided that Carignant was simply dishonest. But if so, it is hard to see why he would of his own free will have made over all his belongings to his creditors in 1776, or why they would have agreed to let him continue in business once the supposed fraud had been discovered. Besides, why would he have been granted the official posts at Michilimackinac if his honesty or loyalty had been in doubt? As for his inability to succeed in business, Carignant like many others was probably a victim of the development in the fur trade which concentrated control increasingly in the hands of a small group of merchants and led to the creation of the North West Company in 1783.
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In The Green Room With… Nicholas Richberg
Posted on February 15, 2014 by Bill Hirschman
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida’s best known professionals.
Careful, he’s got a gun. Nicholas Richberg is waving around a Civil War pistol these days and sporting an equally dangerous moustache while he sings as John Wilkes Booth in Zoetic Stage’s production of the musical Assassins which has one more week in its run.
He’s currently nominated as best actor in the current Carbonell competition for last summer’s performances as “M” in GableStage’s Cock. We wrote at the time “But the standout here is Richberg, who imbues his character with texture and soul. Even though John is the character in conflict, John’s boyfriend, in Richberg’s capable hands, is the one who seems to go through the most changes. Sometimes he’s catty, hateful and venomous, and sometimes he’s insightful, loving and vulnerable. Sometimes he oppresses, other times he seems the real victim of the piece. And Richberg’s performance is riveting.”
He’s just as adept as comedy (the suicidal hero in Zoetic’s All New People). Much of his decade in professional theater has been tied up with Zoetic’s co-founder Michael McKeever including starring in the world premieres of McKeever’s Melt and Stuff.
But there are hidden sides to Richberg, revealed here, including his cat’s reactions to his singing, how real estate is like theater, and a previously undisclosed talent involving a semi-tractor trailer.
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You’re a native Miamian. Are there many of you?
A few. Most deflect the question or flat-out deny it. The humidity scrambles our brains at birth.
How long have you lived/worked in South Florida?
I started working locally right out of school, before even. That was…oh boy…2001ish. But I grew up at The Hollywood Playhouse (probably way too fast) doing amazing work with very talented people who taught me a lot about producing theater for the sheer love of it.
What school did you graduate from/what was your major?
I was a voice major at UM for three years before my heart (and stubbornness) led me to NYU and back to UM again where I became very active in the theater department and finally graduated with a BA in Music. Theater was my minor.
You are Zoetic’s social media director. How does that job differ from Julie on The Love Boat?
I mean, I have good hair, but I can’t compete with Julie’s do. Plus I think if she were around now, she could out-tweet me any day.
You fire that pistol a lot as Booth in Assassins. Have you much experience do you have in firing guns? If so, when; if not, what was it like learning? Did it help in keeping the director in line on this project?
My dad was a City of Miami policeman for 25 years. So I grew up around guns. I actually had my own and went shooting all the time with my dad when I was a kid. Of course, they’re dangerous, but there’s nothing inherently evil about them. There are different rules for “Theatrical Firearms” and we had a great teacher. They definitely demand respect and we’re incredibly careful and regimented with them. Our director also comes with his own set of rules, and can take years to learn how to operate.
How did you prepare for the role of Booth in Assassins? When did you start working on it?
I think I probably started working on it as I stumbled out of (the New York revival at) Studio 54 in 2004 blown away and convinced I had to do it someday! It’s a challenging score so I started learning the music over the summer to be able to get the toughest parts in my bones. I also did some research on the historical Booth, but, ultimately, I serve the Booth John Weidman wrote- who is probably a lot more fun that the real one. OH and the ‘stache started in November!
What did you learn about Booth that you didn’t know? The power of the ‘stache.
You do a great deal of singing in Assassins; how long has it been since you sang in a show and what was it? Is it true as you wrote on Facebook that your cat hides when you practice at home?
Oh, Facebook. First, the last time I sang in a show in Miami was 10 years ago in Blood Brothers, my first Carbonell nomination, by the way. I still love that bizarre little show, and that production had so much heart. As for Frances the cat, she may, in fact, run and hide under the kitchen cabinets when I sing at home. I had a teacher who used to say, “Make all your ugly noises in the practice room, so no one has to hear them on stage.” Frances is an unwilling audience of one when I vocalize at home before a show. That said, she comes running when my wife Lisa sings. OK, FINE, she hates my singing. She also licks herself and buries her food with imaginary dirt, so I don’t feel too bad. Everyone’s a critic.
Your day job is as a real estate broker. How do the two professions intersect? Improv skills. There’s VERY little I haven’t had to deal with on the fly as a broker, especially in New York City. They’re similar in the sense that you have to be a good self-starter and disciplined. In Miami I’m lucky to have a very cool business partner who understands my “dual life” and is a lover of the arts, and a supporter of Zoetic Stage.
You tried to establish a base in New York. What lessons did you learn up there that young actors down here might benefit from?
I moved to NYC in 2006 and began checking off all the right boxes, the right auditions, the right connections, etc. Life had other plans, and I changed course to guide my mother through a year-and-a-half of battling cancer. When the dust finally settled, my priorities changed and I realized Miami was my home for better or for worse. My wife Lisa and I moved back in 2011, and decided we would make it for the better. I couldn’t be happier with our decision. New York City is an amazing place for young people pursuing a dream. My one bit of advice would be, if you find you’re spending more time and energy pursuing New York than pursuing your dream, or if your dreams change, leave. Only blind men are afraid to change course.
Do you have any pre-show rituals?
It totally depends on the role. Some require a great deal of emotional focus. For this one, aside from the boring warm-up, steam and chug water, I enjoy tormenting younger cast members, commenting on how good my costume looks, and gobbling backstage baked goods. Anything to keep my energy up and focus on fun, versus getting in my head.
What do you do after a show? How do you wind down and leave the work behind?
I go home! Once in a blue moon I’ll go out after, but I’m not much fun because I don’t drink during a show and I don’t talk in loud restaurants. As for leaving work behind, there’s not much challenge in that for me. I’m an actor. I wear pretend clothes and say pretend words while reacting carefully to the people around me. That’s an oversimplification, of course, but it’s the bottom line. If you play the play, as they say, and the play is over, there’s nothing to take home. There are occasional emotionally exhausting exceptions (Cock by Mike Bartlett) but in general once the bows are over, I can’t wait to run home to my DVR.
What was the first show you were involved in and what did you do?
I played the singing shepherd in my 4th grade Christmas Pageant. I was in Mack & Mabel (with the amazing Patti Gardner) at The Hollywood Playhouse when I was 12 wearing short pants and carrying a giant lollypop. My first Equity job was Barnett Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart in 2002 at Shores Performing Arts Theater.
When did you know this was what you wanted to do and why?
When I was a kid my dad took me to see a small local production of Dracula the Musical, only because I really loved Dracula. My love of Dracula was instantly replaced by a love for the magic of theater. And a childhood realization that becoming an actor would be a little easier than becoming a vampire.
What role/play are you dying to do but no one would think of you for?
I have two that pop to mind. I’ve always had a Tom Wingfield in me waiting to get out. I may not have much time left, I suppose, but I think often actors are too young to bring the right perspective to the role. Also The Baker. When I profess my love of Into the Woods as my favorite Sondheim, most people assume I’d want to play Wolf/Prince, but I’d really really love to play the Baker.
What show will you be happy never to see again unless it gets you a job?
If I didn’t enjoy seeing it, I probably wouldn’t want to be in it. One of my faults as an actor is I have to believe in the material.
What’s the best advice you’ve been given about the business and who gave it to you?
Honestly, I wish I remembered who, because it’s true: “Run your own race.”
What’s the hardest part of what you do?
Staying childlike. Oh, and deciding what to do with my hair.
Do you have unexpected special talents and skills?
Hmmm…I did an industrial film once and learned to do a full pit stop service on an 18-wheel truck. And I tap.
Do you get stage fright? If so, how do you cope with it?
Anyone who says they don’t is full of it. The adrenaline can keep you on point if you channel it right.
What do think has been your best work in the theater to date, and why?
I learned a long time ago that I’m my own worst judge – plus there are so many elements that have to align for something to be seen as the “best.” I do have my favorites though.
What do you think was your worst, and why didn’t it work?
I don’t think “worst” is the right word, but I did a Michael McKeever play called Wait and See. It is about a man who loses everything and finds himself through the hope he gives others. I don’t think I’d lived enough. It’s a role that I’ve thought about during some tough times in my life and thought, “Ohhh, THAT’S what that feels like.”
What one role/show would like to do over or just do again?
Well, maybe that one. I also thought Stuff (also by Michael McKeever) was really good and so much fun, and I think it deserves to be seen by more people.
What was the worst on-stage mishap you dealt with?
I played a terrible prank ages ago and swapped vodka for water in a flask that my scene partner took a giant swig of. Later in the show I could see the booze and panic in her eyes and I felt really bad. But it was also pretty funny.
What’s the weirdest/worst non-theater job you ever had?
I consider myself extraordinarily lucky that I’ve never had to wear a sandwich board. But some of my worst jobs have BEEN theater-related, do those count?
What did your parents think of your profession? If you haven’t told them yet, what do they think you do?
My dad has no background in the arts, so it’s funny that he’s the one that really fostered my love of it at an early age by making most of our father/son weekend outings trips to the theater. But my whole family has always been very supportive, even as a teenager dropping me off at the opera (when it was too obscure for anyone to want to join me). I was most probably the youngest solo season ticket holder in FGO history. And, of course, my mom was my biggest champion, and now always has the best seat in the house.
What would you do if you couldn’t be in theater?
Have a normal life.
What is your favorite line from any play or musical?
Well, to this day I still choke up at the end of Les Miz when they sing “To love another person is to see the face of God,” but that credit goes to Hugo, so since we’re in Sondheim mode I’ll say, it’s from Sunday in the Park with George, “Anything you do, let it come from you—then it will be new. Give us more to see.”
What is the one performance you attended that you’ll never forget?
There are so many – Ann Reinking’s last day in Chicago; Ragtime, a week after the Tony nominations, Zoe Caldwell in Master Class, Kristin Chenoweth’s last day in Wicked, Irene Adjan in Yours, Anne…
What’s your most unforgettable theater experience?
Seeing Hugh Jackman and Audra MacDonald in a concert of Carousel at Carnegie Hall and getting to meet and talk to them at the party after. They proved you can be at the absolute top of your profession and still be humble and real.
What do you say when someone you like is in a terrible show or does a poor job?
I can’t give up my best lines.
How do you cope when there are more people on stage than in the audience?
That doesn’t faze me. If anything, it makes me work harder to give them a good show, because I know how lame it can be to see a play in an empty theater.
What TV programs do you DVR when you’re working a show?
On my DVR right now are Downton Abbey, American Idol, Dan Le Batard, and the Olympics. And when they’re on, America Horror Story, Homeland, Mad Men and lots of Bravo junk TV.
Why doesn’t South Florida theater have a higher profile nationally?
I think in some circles there is the antiquated impression that South Florida only produces dinner theater for blue hairs. Some people think everything – not only theater – in Miami is done half-heartedly between trips to the beach and the club. I’m not sure that will ever be fully overcome. But, I do think national relevance comes from contributing to the medium in a meaningful way, and that means new work. Producing new work requires a great deal of money and a great deal of bravery, but it puts you on the map.
If you could change the Carbonells in any way, what would you do?
I would move it back to honor the best work in a theater season rather than a calendar year.
Finally, add a question you wish I had asked.
MORE? If anyone made it this far, they know more about me now than they probably ever wanted to.
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Imprisoned Palestinian Journalist Reiterates Call for Solidarity
Imprisoned Palestinian journalist and director of Al-Quds TV Alaa Rimawi said on Sunday, 19 August that the arrests carried out by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian media and journalists are part of a comprehensive attack on Palestinian media, preventing it from doing its work and minimizing its role in publicizing Palestinian realities.
In a statement released by his family and lawyer, Rimawi said that this agenda was clear during the interrogation sessions he was subjected to personally in the past two days. He also noted the cases of journalist Ali Dar Ali, arrested by occupation forces, and the administrative detention of journalist Mohammed Muna, saying that these attacks reflected the same purpose.
Rimawi said in his statement that the occupation considers terms like “martyr,” “occupation,” “steadfastness,” “confrontation” and “resistance” to be “inciting” content. He also noted that the arrests of journalists is meant to keep the situation in Palestine from being covered in the media. “The occupation is carrying out a policy of intimidation with its police and intelligence services. This is clear and obvious, bringing forward the names of journalists to continue these detentions, a threat against every free Palestinian journalists.”
He called for a unified position in support of Palestinian journalists from the International Federation of Journalists, Arab Press Union and other concerned bodies around the world to come together with a unified goal of protecting Palestinian journalists under occupation.
Occupation arrests of Palestinian journalists like Dar Ali, Muna, Lama Khater and others, and the forcible closure of media institutions by military bodies have escalated recently, under various pretexts and charges.
Israeli court extends detention of journalist Ali Dar Ali
An Israeli military court has extended the detention of Palestinian journalist Ali Dar Ali, who works as a reporter for Palestine satellite channel, for five days.
According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-detainees’ Affairs, the Ofer military court renewed the detention of Ali in order to give Israeli interrogators more time to question him before holding another court hearing next Monday.
The commission said that the journalist is accused of inciting against Israel on social media.
Israeli court extends detention of Palestinian journalist
Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) on Wednesday said that Israel's Ofer military court has decided to extend the detention of the Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi until 19th August.
A PPS lawyer said that the court's decision followed an earlier decision to extend al-Rimawi's detention for seven days.
Israeli occupation forces on 30th July arrested al-Rimawi along with four other journalists who were released later.
Since July 2018, Israeli occupation forces have launched a large-scale arrest campaign targeting Palestinian journalists in the West Bank. About nine journalists have been arrested, including Ali Dar Ali who was kidnapped from his house at dawn Wednesday in Ramallah.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Journalist In Ramallah
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Borham village, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted a prominent Palestinian journalist, a correspondent with Palestine TV.
The Palestinian TV has reported that the soldiers invaded the home of its “military correspondent,” Ali Dar Ali, and violently searched the property before abducting him.
It is worth mentioning that Ali is a well-known journalist in Palestine, especially due to his constant reports from the field, and was frequently assaulted by the soldiers who repeatedly attempted to stop him.
His abduction is part of escalating Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists and media outlets in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli soldiers carried out 31 violations against the journalists in July alone, and arrested several reporters.
Just two weeks ago, the soldiers abducted four Palestinian journalists in the occupied West Bank. There were among 520 Palestinians, abducted by the army in July.
IOA imposes administrative detention on Palestinian journalist
Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Sunday issued a six-month administrative detention order against the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mona, 36.
Mona's father said that the IOA sentenced his son to six months in jail without charge or trial two weeks after his arrest.
Israeli occupation forces in early August arrested Mona after raiding his house in Nablus city, north of the West Bank.
Mona directs a local radio station called "Hawa Nablus", and he had previously spent several years in Israeli jails, mostly in administrative detention.
Israeli bullets take two more Palestinian lives in Gaza
Abdullah al-Qotati medic
Ali Saeid al-Aloul 55
Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinians taking part in a protest in the area between the occupied territories and the besieged Gaza Strip, leaving two people killed.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Abdullah al-Qotati, a young medic, was killed by Israeli fire east of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Friday. video
The spokesmen for the ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra, added that Israeli forces also killed 55-year-old Ali Saeid al-Aloul east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.
According to the ministry, at least 170 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, were also injured during the protest.
Tensions have been running high near the fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed “The Great March of Return.” Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.
The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
Israeli fire has taken the lives of nearly 160 Palestinians since March 30. Nearly 15,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries, of whom at least 360 are reportedly in critical condition.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.
On Thursday, Israeli aircraft bombed a multi-story building in Gaza City amid threats of another full-scale military offensive against the besieged coastal enclave.
Israeli Court Extends Remand Of Palestinian Journalist
Abdul-Nasser Nubani, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli “Ofer” military court, near Ramallah in central West Bank, has extended the remand of a Palestinian journalist, and released four others.
The journalist, Ala’ Rimawi, 40, was ordered under further interrogation until his court hearing, next Wednesday.
Rimawi was supposed to be released on a 5000 Israeli shekels bail, but the military prosecutor filed an appeal against his release.
The PPS said Israel released for other journalists, identified as Mohammad Sami Alwan, Qoteiba Hamdan, Hosni Anjass and Ibrahim Rantisi, after ordering each of them to pay a 5000 shekels bail.
They were among eight Palestinian journalists, who were taken prison by the soldiers in July and this month.
It is worth mentioning that Ala Rimawi has launched a hunger strike on the first day of his imprisonment on July 30th, 2018.
He was abducted along with three other journalists, identified as Hosni Anjass, Mohammad Alwan and Qoteiba Hamdan.
Israel to release 4 Palestinian journalists on condition
The Israeli military court of Ofer decided on Wednesday to release four Palestinian journalists on the condition of paying a 5,000 shekels bail each, rights sources revealed.
The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said that the Israeli public prosecution requested that the four journalists' detention be extended until Thursday in order to appeal against the decision.
The four journalists, Alaa al-Rimawi, Muhamad Ulwan, Qutaiba Hamdan and Husni Injas were detained by Israeli forces from the central West Bank district of Ramallah on July 30th.
Meanwhile, Salem military court extended the arrest of the journalist Mohamed Muna for three additional days for unknown reasons.
Muna, whose detention was extended for the second consecutive time, was arrested from his family house in Nablus on August 1.
Along the same line, TRT reporter Ibrahim Rantissi is scheduled to be brought before Israeli court on Thursday after being arrested from his house, west of Ramallah, on August 6.
23 Palestinian journalists are currently held in Israeli jails, including eight detained over the past month.
16 Palestinians kidnapped by IOF in W. Bank and J’lem
Nader Baybars
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last night and on Monday morning kidnapped 16 Palestinian citizens, including two journalists, in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, five citizens were taken prisoners during an IOF campaign in al-Khalil.
The detainees were identified as Abdullah al-Harroub, Firas Abu Sharkh, Hazem al-Jiyawi, Ibrahim Annajjar and Wa’el Abu Sharkh.
The IOF also kidnapped four brothers working as shepherds in al-Marj area, west of Jericho, after they defended themselves when a horde of Jewish settlers harassed and assaulted them.
Journalist Ibrahim al-Rantisi and another citizen were kidnapped from their homes in an IOF campaign in Ramallah and Bireh province.
A photojournalist called Nader Baybars was also rounded up by Israeli police forces during a raid on his house in Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
Another four citizens were kidnapped by the IOF in Bethlehem, Tulkarem and Qalqilya.
PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fourteen Palestinians In West Bank”
Ibrahim Rantisi
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, at least fourteen Palestinians, including one woman and a journalist, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The Hebron office of the PPS said the soldiers said the soldiers invaded many neighborhoods in the city, and surrounding communities, before storming and ransacking many homes, and abducted five Palestinians.
It added that the soldiers also stopped and searched many cars at military roadblocks, in the northern part of Hebron, and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
The soldiers also invaded and searched homes, and social institutions, in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah, before searching them.
The PPS said the soldiers abducted a journalist, identified as Ibrahim Rantisi, who works as a correspondent for the Turkish National Television (TRT), after storming his home and ransacking it, in Rantis village, northwest of Ramallah.
He is the sixth Palestinian journalists to be abducted by the army in one week; Israel is still holding captive 22 journalists.
On Sunday, dozens of journalists protested in front of Ofer prison, west of Ramallah, calling on the International Community to oblige Israel to stop its violations against journalists, and to ensure the implementation of Security Council Resolution #2222 regarding the protection of journalists.
In Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Susan Abu Ghannam, the mother of Mohammad Abu Ghannam, 20, who was killed by Israeli soldiers on July 21st, 2017.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded the Saff Street, in the center of the city, and summoned Maher Omar Ziyada, 22, from interrogation in Etzion military base and security center, south of Bethlehem.
In addition, the army also invaded and searched homes in Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and abducted Ala’ Rafiq Damiri, 38.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as:
Ibrahim Rantisi (Journalist), Ramallah.
Ibrahim Riyad, Ramallah.
Ehab Abu Hamda, Qalqilia,
Tareq Silmi, Qalqilia.
Ala’ Rafiq Damiri, Tulkarem.
Shadi Nawawra, Bethlehem.
Ibrahim Nawawra, Bethlehem.
Maher Nawawra, Bethlehem.
Firas Abu Sharkh (former political prisoner), Hebron.
Nidal Abdullah al-Hroub, Hebron.
Nidal Mahmoud Safi, Hebron.
Hazem Jibril al-Jeyyawi, Hebron.
Ibrahim Hasan Najjar, Hebron.
Suzan Abu Ghannam, Jerusalem.
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Mon, 12 October 2020
Ashley Tisdale Shows Off Growing Baby Bump In New Selfie
Ashley Tisdale is pregnant with her first baby, and she’s now showing off her bump!
The actress and producer shared a new selfie on social media of her bare bump and how far along she is.
“Four months 🤰,” she simply captioned the photo.
Ashley and her husband Christopher French first announced that they were expecting back on September 17th.
A week later, Ashley was seen wearing a tight dress and cowboy boots, where you could see her baby bump. We can’t wait to see baby French!
“I’ve had my highs and lows during quarantine and have to say I’m so grateful for this gift. It hasn’t been an easy first trimester, but everyone is different and I know there are people who’ve had it way worse,” Ashley shared on her website Frenshe. “I definitely fall somewhere in the middle where I didn’t just have nausea, but threw up a couple of times and felt like I’ve had stomach flu for three months (Lol!).”
“Funny enough, the night before we found out we were pregnant we had watched Expecting Amy! I think that Amy Schumer is amazing and she definitely doesn’t hold back (highly recommend that one). However, finding out the next day was WILD after seeing that,” she added.
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Pregnant Ashley Tisdale Steps Out For Lunch in Form Fitting Dress In Los Angeles
Ashley Tisdale wears a white mask while arriving at Urth Caffe for a lunch date in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon (September 25).
The 35-year-old actress and singer, who is expecting her first child, wore a chic form fitting gray shift dress to show off her growing baby bump. She added a pair of cute cowboy boots and Louis Vuitton purse to complete her look.
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Ashley and her husband, Christopher French, revealed they were expecting their first child last week.
In her blog on her website, Frenshe, Ashley opened up about how pregnancy has been treating her so far.
“I’ve had my highs and lows during quarantine and have to say I’m so grateful for this gift,” Ashley wrote. “It hasn’t been an easy first trimester, but everyone is different and I know there are people who’ve had it way worse.”
She added, “I’m excited about this new adventure, and I’m being very optimistic with every step.”
If you didn’t see, find out how Ashley‘s Phineas & Ferb brother, Vincent Martella, reacted to the news…
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Ashley Tisdale's 'Phineas & Ferb' Co-Star Vincent Martella Reacts To Pregnancy With Funny Tweet
Ashley Tisdale announced she was pregnant with her first child on Thursday (September 17) and got a lot of great, celebratory reactions!
One standout reaction to the news is from her Phineas & Ferb co-star/on-screen brother Vincent Martella.
He retweeted a post about Ashley‘s announcement, and wrote, “phineas is going to make an awesome uncle”.
Be sure to watch their latest movie, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against The Universe, which is now streaming on Disney+.
Her husband Christopher French said they are “so moved and filled with joy by the amazing and beautiful outpouring of Love from all over the world for this little one.”
Ashley opened up about their decision to finally start a family after six years in a new blog post on her new site Frenshe.
“Once I was married, everyone was asking when I was having kids. To be honest, it just felt invasive,” she wrote. “I wasn’t ready for that step yet and I wanted to be selfish and have Chris all to myself for a while. Honestly, I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”
“I’m glad I worked on myself before we decided to make this decision. After six years of marriage, we built a strong foundation, and the timing just felt right,” Ashley added. See her full post on Frenshe.com!
Congratulations once again to Ashley and Christopher!
phineas is going to make an awesome uncle https://t.co/QwN63vfB1N
— Vincent Martella (@VinMan17) September 17, 2020
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Pregnant Ashley Tisdale Steps Out for a Hair Appointment
Ashley Tisdale looks so pretty in these new photos that were snapped just hours after she revealed that she’s pregnant!
The 35-year-old High School Musical actress was spotted while leaving a private home after her hair appointment with Tracey Cunningham on Thursday afternoon (September 17) in West Hollywood, Calif.
Ashley and her husband Christopher French are expecting their first child together after getting married back in 2014.
“Thank you for all the love + support! So overwhelming. I can’t stop smiling. I love you guys so much,” Ashley wrote on her Instagram Stories after the news was revealed.
Ashley posted photos of herself cradling her baby bump to announce the news to her fans. We’re so excited for her!
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Thu, 17 September 2020
Ashley Tisdale & Hubby Chistopher French Are Expecting Their First Baby!
Ashley Tisdale is pregnant!!!!
The 35-year-old actress and producer revealed the exciting news on her Instagram on Thursday morning (September 17).
Ashley and her husband Christopher French both shared photos on their individual accounts with no captions. This will be the first baby for the couple!
The High School Musical star’s friends and family flooded the comments with congratulatory messages.
“Best Birthday present ever!!!!❤️ #auntjen #cousinmikayla ❤️ Love you & @cmfrench soooo much!!!” her sister Jennifer wrote.
“Couldn’t be more excited! Does this make me a grandmother?? Congratulations @ashleytisdale and @cmfrench!!” Ashley‘s Carol’s Second Act co-star and TV mom Patricia Heaton commented.
Ashley‘s BFF Vanessa Hudgens shared, “Just the freaking cutest.”
Even fellow expecting mom Emma Roberts shared her excitement, simply with a few emojis, “😍😍😍”
Ashley and Christopher were married in 2014 and have two dogs, Ziggy and Sushi. Congratulations to the growing family!!
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Candace Gets Abducted By Aliens In This New 'Phineas & Ferb The Movie' Clip (Exclusive)
JJJ has an exclusive look at Candace’s abduction in Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against The Universe!
We got to saw a sneak peek of this moment in the trailer, but now we get to see the whole scene and what happened right before Candace (Ashley Tisdale) and Vanessa (Olivia Olson) gets abducted by aliens.
In the all new Phineas and Ferb movie, Phineas and Ferb set out across the galaxy to rescue older sister Candace, who has been abducted by aliens and has found utopia in a far-off planet, free of pesky little brothers.
If you missed it, a new music video featuring the cast was just released last week where they sing “We’re Back.”
The very first song released from the movie, “Such a Beautiful Day,” is actually the opening song in the film and features Candace. Check it out if you haven’t already!
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against The Universe premieres on Disney+ on Friday, August 28th!
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Ashley Tisdale, Julianne Hough & More To Be Featured In New Disney+ Series 'Becoming'
Ashley Tisdale is opening up about overcoming challenges in the new series Becoming!
The new show comes from executive producer LeBron James and will be airing on Disney+, not to be confused with Michelle Obama‘s Netflix documentary of the same name.
In Becoming, each episode centers around a visit to the celebrity’s hometown, touring important locations central to their upbringing. A supporting cast of family members, coaches, teachers, mentors and friends are interviewed, sharing rarely heard anecdotes and insights into the star’s “becoming” story.
Celebrities featured in the show range from actors to athletes, and musicians, including Ashley, Julianne Hough, Caleb McLaughlin, Adam Devine, Anthony Davis, Candace Parker, Colbie Caillat, Nick Cannon, Nick Kroll, and Rob Gronkowski.
Check out the official trailer right here, and catch it when it premieres Friday, September 18th on Disney+!
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Can Social Media Be Saved?
Kevin Roose
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I don’t need to tell you that something is wrong with social media.
You’ve probably experienced it yourself. Maybe it’s the way you feel while scrolling through your Twitter feed — anxious, twitchy, a little world weary — or your unease when you see a child watching YouTube videos, knowing she’s just a few algorithmic nudges away from a rabbit hole filled with lunatic conspiracies and gore. Or maybe it was this month’s Facebook privacy scandal, which reminded you that you’ve entrusted the most intimate parts of your digital life to a profit-maximizing surveillance machine.
Our growing discomfort with our largest social platforms is reflected in polls. One recently conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey found that all three of the major social media companies — Facebook, Twitter and Google, which shares a parent company with YouTube — are significantly less popular with Americans than they were five months ago. (And Americans might be the lucky ones. Outside the United States, social media is fueling real-world violence and empowering autocrats, often with much less oversight.)
But it would be a mistake to throw up our hands and assume that it has to be this way. The original dream of social media — producing healthy discussions, unlocking new forms of creativity, connecting people to others with similar interests — shouldn’t be discarded because of the failures of the current market leaders. And lots of important things still happen on even the most flawed networks. The West Virginia teachers’ strike and last weekend’s March for Our Lives, for example, were largely organized on Facebook and Twitter.
The primary problem with today’s social networks is that they’re already too big, and are trapped inside a market-based system that forces them to keep growing. Facebook can’t stop monetizing our personal data for the same reason that Starbucks can’t stop selling coffee — it’s the heart of the enterprise.
Many of the fixes being proposed involve regulation. The Honest Ads Act, a bill in the Senate, would require greater transparency for online political ads. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect in May, aims to give users greater control of their digital information trails. Continue reading the main story
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But these efforts don’t touch the underlying problems, and in fact could make it harder for start-ups to compete with the giants.
If we’re really serious about changing how social networks operate, far more radical interventions are required. Here are three possible ways to rescue social media from the market-based pressures that got us here.
Give Power to the People
In their book “New Power,” which comes out next week, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms write about the struggle between centralized, top-down institutions, which represent “old power,” and decentralized, bottom-up movements, which represent “new power.”
Facebook, they write, is an example of a new power institution that serves old power interests. It harvests the creative output of billions of people and turns it into a giant, centralized enterprise, with most users sharing none of the economic value they create and getting no say in the platform’s governance.
Instead, the authors ask, what if a social network was truly run by its users?
“If you’re contributing economic value to something of this much social consequence, you should share in the value you’re creating,” Mr. Heimans told me.
Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, had a similar idea in 2016, when he proposed that Twitter users band together to buy the platform from its shareholders and convert it into a user-run collective, similar to the way a local credit union is run. People who made valuable contributions to the network, such as employees and power users, would receive bigger stakes and more voting power. And users would have a seat at the table for major decisions about the platform’s operations.
It’s exceedingly unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg, who has fought hard to keep control of Facebook, will ever convert the company into a user-owned and run collective. But Mr. Schneider believes that giving more control to responsible users could help restore trust in the network, and signal the kind of values Mr. Zuckerberg says he wants Facebook to represent.
“He could show that he takes democracy seriously enough to start with his own baby,” Mr. Schneider said.
Create a Social Federation
Another radical approach would be to make social networks work more like email — so that independent apps could seamlessly work together with one another, across a common protocol.
Instead of one big Facebook, a federated social network would look like clusters of independent nodes — Mombook and Athletebook and Gamerbook — all of which could be plugged into the umbrella network when it made sense. Rather than requiring a one-size-fits-all set of policies that apply to billions of users, these nodes could be designed to reflect users’ priorities. (A network for privacy hawks and one for open-sharing maximalists could have different data-retention rules, and a network for L.G.B.T. users and one for evangelical pastors could have different hate speech rules.) If a node became too toxic, it could be removed without shutting down the entire network.
“Email is the most resilient social network on the internet,” Mr. Schneider said, “and the thing that allows it to adapt is that it’s an open protocol, and people build apps on top of it, and we evolve how we use it.”
Versions of this kind of network already exist. Mastodon, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, has gotten more than a million registered users since its debut in 2016. And various social networks based on the blockchain — the ledger system that underlies virtual currencies like Bitcoin — have sprung up in recent months.
To be sure, decentralized networks have their own problems. They’re messy to administer, and they can still be gamed by bad actors. They can also fall prey to the same kind of privacy issues that Facebook is being criticized for. (In fact, part of the reason users are angry at Facebook right now is that the company’s data infrastructure was too open, and made it overly simple for third-party app developers to take user information outside Facebook.)
None of this is a panacea. But experimenting with more decentralized models could give social media users a sense that platforms represented their interests, rather than those of a faceless corporation.
Put Expiration Dates on Social Graphs
A single friend of mine once remarked that the major difference among dating apps like OKCupid, Tinder and Bumble wasn’t the way they were designed or the companies behind them — it was how long they had existed.
New apps, she said, were more likely to attract interesting and smart people who were actually looking for dates. Older apps, by contrast, were eventually overrun with creeps and predators, no matter how well built they were.
A similar theory might apply to social networks. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat all had plenty of issues in their early years, but they were by and large cleaner, with fewer types of exploitation and malicious behavior. Today, the enormous size and influence of these platforms have made them irresistible honey pots for bad actors, and many of our “social graphs” — Facebook’s term for the webs of digital connections we create — are clogged with years’ worth of clutter.
In a blog post last year, the venture capitalist Hunter Walk proposed an interesting idea: a legally mandated “start over” button that, when pressed, would allow users of social networks to delete all their data, clear out their feeds and friend lists, and begin with a fresh account.
I’d go even further, and suggest that social networks give their users an automatic “self-cleaning” option, which would regularly clear their profiles of apps they no longer used, friendships and followers they no longer interacted with, and data they no longer needed to store. If these tools were enabled, users would need to take affirmative action if they didn’t want their information to disappear after a certain number of months or years.
Making social graphs temporary, rather than preserving them forever by default, would undoubtedly be bad for most social networks’ business models. But it could create new and healthy norms around privacy and data hygiene, and it would keep problems from piling up as networks get older and more crowded. It might even recapture some of the magic of the original social networks, when things were fresh and fascinating, and not quite so scary.
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Meghan Markle news: Duchess thinks ‘every day’ about making world better for Archie | Royal | News
The Duchess made the startling revelation during an appearance at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit. Due to COVID-19 the invite only event was hosted virtually.
Meghan addressed the event via video link from her home in California.
Asked whether becoming a mother had made her braver she replied: “It’s interesting because my gut is that it makes you more courageous.
“It makes you so concerned for the world they’re going to inherit, and so the things that you’re able to tolerate on your own are not the same.
“For you go every single day how can I make this better for him, how can I make this world better for Archie? And that is a shared belief between my husband and I.
“As a parent I can enjoy all the fun and silliness and games with my son, but I wouldn’t be able to feel proud of myself as a mom if I didn’t know that I wasn’t doing my part to make it a better place for him.”
Archie was born on 6 May 2019 at London’s Portland Hospital.
Reflecting his parentage, he holds both British and American citizenship.
Archie doesn’t have a title as his parents said they want to give him a more normal upbringing.
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“Like many others, and you know, there are very few things in this world where you call the person who’s engaging with it a user.
“People who are addicted to drugs are called users and people who are on social media are called users and there is something algorithmically that is in there that is creating this obsession and I think it’s very unhealthy for a lot of people.”
Harry and Meghan caused a global sensation in January when they announced their plan to step down as senior members of the Royal Family.
The couple performed their final official Royal duty at the 2020 Commonwealth Day Service in March.
After a brief stay in Canada the Duke and Duchess moved to California shortly before the state went into coronavirus lockdown.
Last month Netflix announced it had agreed a major new deal with Harry and Meghan.
The couple will produce films, documentaries and children’s shows for the streaming giant.
During her Fortune summit appearance Meghan also said she’s wary of speaking out on some controversial issues out of fear for her family.
She commented: “At the same time I am cautious of putting my family in a position of risk by certain things, and so I try to be rather very clear with what I say and to not make it controversial, but instead to talk about things that seem fairly straight forward – like exercising your right to vote.”
Harry and Meghan recently moved into a £11.2million home to the north of Los Angeles.
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My Beloved Lebanon
Michel Hayek: from butcher's boy to Middle East's 'Nostradamus'
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Haro Chakmakjian
BEIRUT: Michel Hayek, a butcher's boy who has risen to the status of an Arab media celebrity, has the knack of making accurate predictions in an anxious and uncertain Lebanon looking for answers and a touch of baraka. "I believe everyone has what I have. It's a sense like your eyes, or your ears. If I feel something strongly, I follow my instinct," says the man nicknamed the "Nostradamus of the Middle East" who hails from a Metn mountain village northeast of the capital. "I was born with it. If you call your eyes a gift, then it's a gift," he says, seated in a garden with Mediterranean views in front of his two-storey luxury apartment on the outskirts of Beirut.
Hayek, 40, says his lifestyle is financed by salaries, plus bonuses, paid by three companies overseas: firms of solicitors, accountants and stockbrokers. He has been on their payrolls for the past seven years. An investor in real estate, a profitable sector in Lebanon even as it struggles to recover from last year's war with Israel and political paralysis, Hayek also restores, converts and then sells old Lebanese houses. Among past - and documented - predictions, Hayek has foreseen the untimely deaths of Britain's Princess Diana and Lebanon's ex-Premier Rafik Hariri, as well as MP and media baron Gibran Tueni. He tried to warn the Americans of the Challenger space shuttle disaster before it blew up in 1985, but was not taken seriously. New predictions see "dangers" lurking at Lebanon's Baabda presidential palace, amid a lack of consensus on a candidate to be elected by Parliament with barely four months to go before President Emile Lahoud's term runs out. He also sees a new Hariri family tragedy in 2007, and the date 10/10/2007 has mysteriously appeared before his eyes.
Despite reservations, Hayek has a tradition of going on air on the LBC satellite television every New Year's Eve to make a long list of predictions, many of them vague. "Some people hate anything to do with the future," Hayek says of his critics who accuse him of being a phoney with a talent for lucrative self-publicity. He has also been seen at times as a "doer of evil, or even a devil." But "I am not a thief of the future," he protests. "I have no power to change the will of the Creator." Hayek puts much of his own popularity down to widespread disgust with Lebanese politicians and his strong track record. He is frustrated by rumors linked falsely to his name that swirl though Beirut to sow insecurity, often for political ends. "I'm someone who can feel things and see a bit of the future, a bit like children, something similar," he says, while admitting to being fascinated by magic from an early age, for which he often ran into trouble at school.
Hayek started from modest roots, helping out at the butcher's shop of his father after being stirred daily from bed in the middle of the night to collect meat in the family van from a local slaughterhouse. He happily switched to a grandfather's church bell-manufacturing business but was kept out of the loop on secrets of the trade, before finding his real vocation. With predictions aplenty ever since his youth, Hayek started making a name for himself on radio, traveled around the world for 13 years, drawing the attention of newspapers. But it was the launch of Arab satellite televisions that gave him celebrity status. "All I am doing is what I am feeling," he says. It has not been easy at times, especially at the end of 2004 when Lebanon was booming, its market-leading Solidere shares for downtown reconstruction riding high, and Gulf Arab visitors spending lavishly and snapping up real estate.
In hugely unpopular predictions for 2005, Hayek foresaw the massive seafront explosion in Beirut that killed Hariri, and he warned that Tueni was also in danger. "No one believed me. They were angry with me, they made fun of me on TV comedies," he says. "I said at the time I can see 12/12, when the rock of Beirut will cry for someone," he says. "I went to Tueni's funeral and got dirty looks. I had warned his wife not to allow him to buy that black four-wheel-drive" in which the MP was gunned down on December 12, 2005." Offering a peek into his private life, Hayek this year plans to marry Caroline, a student in children's psychology, after proposing on only their third date. "Something inside me told me to propose. She was very surprised, but I told her I have a feeling."
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Nepal demurs the Kailash-Mansarovar Link Road; summons the Indian Envoy
By Pratyaksha Mitra on May 12, 2020 No Comment
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Kathmandu – The Kailash-Mansarovar Link Road, built from Uttarakhand to China border by India, has received backlash from Nepal. On Saturday, the Nepalese citizens conducted demonstrations in front of the Indian embassy. Moreover, the Nepal Foreign Ministry issued summons to the Indian Embassy. Nepal has also decided to deploy its army at the Lipulekh Pass.
On Friday, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the ‘Kailash-Mansarovar Link Road through video conference. However, only a few hours later, Nepal raised an objection. The Nepal government reminded of the Treaty of Sugauli, which was established in 1816 and declared that India building on that road only means trespassing. Hence, it is mentioned in the summons that the discussions to resolve border-related issue can raise further problems.
The repercussions of this new route developed by India were witnessed in Nepal Parliament. The leaders of opposition criticised the Nepal government. On Sunday, volunteers of several political parties in Nepal held demonstrations before the Indian embassy. All these protestors were then arrested. On Monday, Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali held a discussion with Indian Envoy, Vinay Mohan Kwatra. During this session, Nepal’s Foreign Minister briefed his nation’s stance on this road and also presented an appeal.
India has already answered Nepal’s expectations. The road developed by India in the Pithoragarh district is very well situated within the Indian border. Hence, India has said that Nepal’s objection is wrong.
Meanwhile, even though Nepal has raised an objection against India on the grounds that this road passes through Kalapani river, the analysts suspect China to be the culprit behind this situation. Currently, Nepal is under the rule of pro-Chinese communist party. Apart from that, this Lipulekh-Dharachula route is going to smoothen the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrim. Moreover, this route is also closer to the China border. Thus, it also holds strategic significance. This will enable India to supply the life-essentials to the soldiers deployed on the China Border. Hence, analysts speculate that China is inciting Nepal against India.
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Want to Sing?
As with everyone affected by the Coronavirus, we're having to make changes to how we can come together and continue to sing. So, we're doing virtual rehearsals with the Artistic Director, Aaron Howe, using Zoom meetings. On Monday nights, the 1st Tenor and 2nd Tenor sections meet first and rehearse together. Then afterwards, the Baritone and Bass sections rehearse together. During the virtual rehearsals, everyone is muted except for the Artistic Director, while we all follow Aaron's direction and sing along at home. Please continue to read further, as we've adapted some of the information below as it pertains to the "new normal" for NMGMC.
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Because of COVID, we are holding virtual rehearsals using Zoom meetings. Login information is provided to the singers.
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During COVID, we're playing it by ear! So we are going to rehearse to prepare for the next concert we can have (whenever that is). We are also recording and posting music on YouTube and other social media platforms.
Members are asked to pay dues to be a singing member of the Chorus. Dues can be paid either annually or per semester. Annual dues are $120 for the year and only available as an option at the beginning of the Fall semester. Semester dues are $75 per semester and available as an option for either semester. Our policy is that no one should be prevented from singing by inability to pay dues. Scholarships are available if you need to make other arrangements for dues. If you have such a situation, you may speak with the Chorus President. We understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone, and are sensitive to the financial implications to our membership.
Once we can perform in front of an audience again, we'll need our wardrobe ready! For most performances, a tuxedo or suit-equivalent is required and consists of a black jacket, black trousers, white business shirt with collar, blue tie (provided by the Chorus), black socks, and black dress shoes. Other occasional wardrobe requirements are announced for concerts as necessary, but in most cases, members already have these other items in their closets. Members are responsible for purchasing the needed wardrobe items.
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A Chorus member will download the music electronically, as a PDF file. Many members prefer to download the music to their tablet or smartphone and read off of that, rather than dealing with printed copies. For those who prefer to use paper, the Chorus asks that, if possible, the member print his own copy from the supplied PDF.
All music is expected to be memorized for the concerts. This often requires spending a small amount of time outside of rehearsal to learn your music. Practice tracks are also made available for you to download so you can practice in your car or listen on a digital music player (.e.g iPod, smart phone, etc).
Auditions & What to Expect
Because the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus strives for artistic excellence, acceptance as a singing member is determined by an audition. We understand that the idea of an audition can be intimidating, and we do our best to make the audition process as informal and friendly as possible. Overall, the whole process should not take more than 5-10 minutes. The Artistic Director will help you feel comfortable and at ease for your audition.
Auditions are conducted on non-rehearsal dates at the beginning of each semester. Auditioners must choose a date and time to schedule their audition after they've signed up. If joining mid-season, the Artistic Director will email you about an audition time.
Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, auditions will be held via a Zoom meeting. You'll be provided with the login information ahead of time.
Auditions consist of:
An Audition Song. We encourage you to bring your own prepared song to audition. But you may also choose any of the commonly known songs listed below to audition.
A Tonal Memory Test (singing back a series of notes that is played beforehand on the piano).
A Music Reading Test (a simple piece of music that auditioners must attempt). Auditioners do not need experience in reading music (only show a willingness to attempt it).
Auditioners will be informed of their membership status before the first rehearsal.
Auditioners who cannot make the audition dates must schedule an audition outside of rehearsal at the discretion of the audition team.
If a member goes on leave of absence, he may be asked to re-audition to regain his spot in the chorus.
We encourage you to audition with a song of your choice or select from these commonly known songs listed below. The audition song can be a capella, with piano (bring sheet music), or pre-recorded. However, we do not have a way to play the pre-recorded music, so you will be responsible for bringing a device to play it.
amazing_grace.pdf
my_country_tis_of_thee.pdf
happy_birthday.pdf
May I sit in on a rehearsal prior to my audition?
Normally the answer would be yes. However, because of COVID, we are having our rehearsals virtually using Zoom meetings. So we don't have any opportunity for a "regular" rehearsal right now for you to sit in.
Do I have to “re-audition” if I have sung in the chorus before?
Yes, current chorus members may be asked to re-audition from time to time. Why? In order to make sure that everyone is in the correct section and singing well, the Artistic Director periodically needs to hear everyone in an audition setting.
Sign Up to Sing
Sign up by clicking the button below to sign up. If visiting this page prior to a scheduled audition event, the form will allow you to schedule a time to audition. If visiting this page during the middle of a semester, the link will gather your contact information and place you on our Wait List. We will contact you later about auditioning. You'll also receive an email with helpful information from the membership team.
Ask us a question about joining by emailing us at:
Other Ways to Be Involved
If singing is not your forte, that's ok! The Chorus has many aspects that needs your help! Click below for more information.
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.22-23.2018
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Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 22-23, 2018. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size.
For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, September 23-24, 2017:
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 20 and Sunday June 21, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same…
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Ecstasy Alternative Benzofuran Linked to Cambridge Drug Deaths
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013. 11:47pm
Scene of Riverside Deaths in Cambridge – July 2013
A public meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership on the 23rd of July 2013 heard that the recent deaths of Kim Reid and Jimmy Sinclair on the banks of the River Cam, opposite Jesus Green, were due to “benzofuran” a drug of the amphetamine class which was marketed as legal form of MDMA (ecstasy).
It appears the council officer, Susie Talbot, who released the identity of the drug involved, perhaps considers the release of this information was a mistake, as she asked me not to tweet, or report on, her contribution to the meeting.
The first report of the deaths stated there had been arrests “on suspicion of supplying a class A drug” giving the impression the deaths may have been linked to warnings to heroin users issued a few weeks earlier.
Later reporting of the deaths resulted in speculation from the Cambridge News that a different drug (Mexxy) was responsible
A police press release issued at 15:12 on 23rd of July warned those attending the Secret Garden Party festival not to take drugs but did not specifically identify the drugs thought to have caused the recent deaths in Cambridge; saying merely: “the deaths of two people in Cambridge last week were linked to possible drug use.”
I think the state, the police, councils and others should be as open and transparent as possible about what they know; so people can make as informed decision as possible about taking drugs. Allowing an impression that there’s a problem with heroin in Cambridge but not giving due weight to concerns about risks associated with this alternative to ecstasy is in my view reckless.
I understand there may be other considerations, such as investigating the source, seeking to bring criminal convictions, and even checking the accuracy of initial conclusions; but I think transparency is the best option.
What Happened at the Meeting
While I was observing the meeting of Cambridge Community Safety Partnership on the 22nd of July 2013 I was approached in the public seating by Cambridgeshire County Council officer Susie Talbot, described as the leader of the Cambridgeshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team, who asked me if I was tweeting from the meeting and asked me not to tweet about the contribution she had just made.
My response was to point out it was a public meeting, and suggest that if there was something she wanted to raise in private, she ought to have proposed entering a private session. I had by then already written and published live tweets during her item.
Without the officer’s bizarre and in my view inappropriate behaviour I would probably not have considered her contribution to be worth writing specifically about, beyond the live tweets. Perhaps there was something in the presentation which was inaccurate, misleading, or she felt she should not have said. I got the impression perhaps it was the name of the drug she stated was responsible for recent deaths which she was concerned about publicising. No justification for the attempted “reporting restrictions” was made clear though.
Susie Talbot began her “Drug and Alcohol Action Team report: Update” with a rant about the Daily Mail’s coverage of the recent drug related deaths in Cambridge.
Sunbathers pictured relaxing by the River Cam… yards from the bodies of a man and woman ‘who were killed by drugs’ – 16th July 2013
Death by the river and the contamination of a gilded city: Sunbathers by the River Cam yards from the bodies of a couple killed by drugs. – 19th July 2013
The latter article draws attention to the extent of the problems with drug abuse in Cambridge; which is perhaps something someone who has had a role in providing drug treatment services for a number of years is not proud of.
After complaining about the Daily Mail coverage, describing it as “unfortunate”, but not pointing to any factual errors, Talbot said that the “drug alert system” had not been used in Cambridge for many years, but had recently been used twice, latterly on the day of the deaths and related hospitalisations.
Talbot told the partnership that inter-agency working on the day had worked very well, and very quickly. She stated that her team had been able to contact “service users” with a warning by 4pm on the day when the deaths had occurred at midday. Talbot said the accident and emergency consultant at Addenbrookes was very quick to identify the problem, link the cases, and kick off the NHS’s own systems, involving public health services, for responding to the situation of a toxic drug in circulation; and eventually the council had been involved too, with disseminating the warnings.
Talbot told the partnership that the identity of the drug involved was known very rapidly, by the time her team issued the warning at 4pm on the day, but a decision was taken to state the identity of the drug was unknown. She also told the partnership that an active decision was made not to describe the way the drug was formulated or packaged as they didn’t want to give the impression that if a capsule wasn’t yellow, for example, it was safe, and instead put out a message suggesting using trusted dealers and sticking to known substances – “make sure you know what you’re taking” – being the core of the message.
The drug involved was described by Talbot as “amphetamine based”; it was named, but due to poor acoustics, and no speakers being turned on in the public speaking area, and Talbot facing away from the public while speaking I didn’t quite catch what she said. My notes, based on recording what I heard phonetically, say “benzythermn”. Talbot added the drug had been banned by the Government in June.
The The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) Order 2013 which came into force on the 10th of June 2013 bans benzofuran substances. Benzofuran appears, with a high degree of certainty, to match what I heard. The Home Office Circular accompanying the temporary banning order states:
The benzofuran substances … are commonly sold under the brand name ‘Benzofury’ and marketed as a legal form of MDMA, available in the form of powders or tablet (although the latter is referred to as “pellets” to avoid overt suggestions that it is for human use). The ACMD advise that some users experience adverse effects, including MDMA like symptoms. Several deaths and hospitalisations in the UK have been associated with these compounds, albeit mostly with other drugs.
Talbot stated the incidents a month ago, which also triggered warnings, were different, and due to “strong heroin”.
I only wrote three tweets during officer Susie Talbot’s “Drug and Alcohol Action Team report: Update”
Officer from Drug & Alcohol Action Team complaining about Daily Mail article on recent Cambridge drug deaths. Cambridge CSP #live
— Richard Taylor (@RTaylorUK) July 23, 2013
Drug users in Cambridge warned by Drug & Alcohol Action Team 4 hours after recent deaths. Cambridge's Community Safety partnership. #live
Housing officers to urge tenants to drink less alcohol Cambridge's Community Safety partnership #live told « Nanny state thriving
I also reported live on a follow-up contribution from the police:
Police have arrested dealers linked to recent drug deaths in Cambridge Cambridge's Community Safety partnership #live told
"6 bed controlled drinking project" on Newmarket Rd. Cllr Bick notes its expensive, Qs throughput. Cambridge Comm. Safety partnership. #live
My subsequent tweet reported:
Drug and Alcohol Action team leader has asked me to stop tweeting from Cambridge's Community Safety partnership. #live
The meeting’s papers contain a paragraph on the heroin related issue, which occurred a few weeks before the deaths by the riverside opposite Jesus Green:
On Wednesday 19th June, 5 non fatal overdoses were reported to Cambridgeshire DAAT, 3 of which
occurred in a one hour period. The partnership work which followed between the DAAT, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Public Health, Inclusion Drug Treatment Service and Link–Up and Feedback (independent service user group) to trigger the alert system, was outstanding. The purpose of which was to ensure that all agencies and service users were informed that this incident had occurred, to try and keep individuals safe and to try and prevent a fatal overdose from occurring. Following this incident the DAAT has reviewed its Alert system to ensure that the level of gravity is clear to recipients and what action is required
After the meeting, while seeking a copy of an unpublished meeting paper from the meeting’s clerk, I told Cambridge City Council officer Liz Bisset (Salary £91,891/year) who was chairing the meeting about the officer’s attempt to impose “reporting restrictions”. Bisset suggested that officer Susie Talbot may not have been aware there were any members of the public present at the public meeting; raising the rather surprising suggestion that the partnership’s meetings, or other meetings at which decisions about how the city is run, might well run quite differently when no members of the press or public are there to observe what’s happening. Officer Bisset suggested that that naming the drug responsible in public was likely to be officer Talbot’s concern, but didn’t explain why that would be a problem.
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership meeting papers for the 23rd of July 2013
This entry was tagged Cambridge, Drugs, Jesus Green, River Cam on July 23, 2013 by Richard Taylor.
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4 comments/updates on “Ecstasy Alternative Benzofuran Linked to Cambridge Drug Deaths”
Richard Taylor Article author July 24, 2013 at 12:40 am
Cambridgeshire police recently tweeted the following, a number of times:
Two people died in #Cambridgeshire last month after reportedly taking an ecstasy type pill http://t.co/wbbPzn0U #sgp2012 #secretgardenparty
— SGP2012 @CambsCops (@SGPCops) July 21, 2012
However there is no longer anything at the link given in the tweet which expands to:
http://www.cambs.police.uk/news/newsitem.asp?NewsID=6848
Richard Taylor Article author July 24, 2013 at 1:36 am
Cambridgeshire Police posted a link to the removed news article on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CambsCops/posts/312156148879966
Along with the link to the news article, they stated:
Will you be attending this year’s Secret Garden Party, or do you know someone who is? We’ve issued a drugs warning following recent deaths linked to pink ecstasy and legal highs.
A death in Manchester is today in the papers, being linked to the same type of drug:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377140/Benzo-Fury-Jennifer-Whiteley-killed-legal-high-banned-effects.html
Richard Taylor Article author February 22, 2014 at 8:16 pm
A report on the inquest in to the deaths in Cambridge: Newly-banned Benzo Fury drug to blame for deaths of Jimmy Sinclair and Kim Reid by Jesus Lock in Cambridge, inquest finds.
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Oct. 21, 2020, 2:24 a.m. EDT
William Hill sales partially recover from COVID-19
By Matteo Castia
William Hill PLC said Wednesday that net revenue began to recover from the coronavirus pandemic during the third quarter on the back of resuming live sport events and reopening retail businesses.
The betting company said net revenue in the 13 weeks ended Sept. 29 was down 9% on the year, taking the year-to-date decline to 25%. This compares with a revenue fall of 32% in the first half, it added.
"The live sporting calendar has resumed, delivering a strong complement of fixtures across football, horse racing, tennis and American sports," the company said.
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The directors of cultural and tourism departments from many places entered the battlefield to 'live the goods' and the 'May 1st' passenger competition began in advance
The recent "May 1st" holiday vacation consumer demand has accelerated the release trend.
Half a month before the "May Day" small holiday, the competition for tourists in the province has already begun. On April 14, a reporter from the Beijing Business Daily learned from many pigs such as Feizhu and Ctrip that after the recent announcement of the five-day holiday on May Day, the popularity of the local tourism market was quickly ignited. The volume of product searches for group tours and free travel soared by more than 300% month-on-month. Although China's cross-provincial tourism has not yet been liberalized, it does not affect all localities to compete for the "May Day" tourist source in the province. It is reported that the directors of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of Guilin, Sanya, Hangzhou, Tonglu, Lin'an, Yuhang, Jiande and other relevant officials of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of Sanya, Yangshuo and Xiufeng all said that they will personally board the OTA platform "Goods", shouting flags for local tourism resources and cooperating with the launch of a batch of discount products. In the industry's view, for tourists in the province, most of the traditional tourism resources are no longer uncommon. How to repackage various products and make new routes in various places is more critical in this round of competition for passenger sources in the province.
The speed of the Qingming holiday vacation market is recovering faster than the industry expects. Although the domestic inter-provincial tourism has not been unblocked, many local cultural and tourism departments, scenic spots, and tourism companies have already prepared for the "May 1" holiday vacation products in advance. . According to the relevant person in charge of Flying Pig, from April 14th, in a week-long period, the directors of cultural tourism in Guilin, Sanya, Hangzhou and other places will personally go live to bring live goods. Among them, the Director of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of the four districts of Tonglu, Lin'an, Yuhang and Jiande in Hangzhou will use live broadcasts to "Amway" local characteristic tourism resources, covering old docks, ancient villages, national parks, aviation towns and other forms. Many supporting tourism products are promoted by discounts and discounts to stimulate tourists to book and purchase.
In fact, the recent "May 1st" holiday vacation consumer demand has accelerated the release trend. The latest data released by the China Tourism Research Institute show that during the Qingming holiday, the domestic tourism market has recovered 40% year-on-year, and some areas are showing signs of strong recovery. The upcoming "May Day" five consecutive days off will also further accelerate the recovery of the tourism industry. According to Ctrip statistics, just after Beijing and other places announced the five-day Labor Day holiday this year, the search volume of the platform for group tours and free travel increased by more than 300% in a day. Ctrip believes that from the current data analysis, the number of domestic tourist arrivals during the "May Day" holiday is expected to reach a recent high, reaching more than twice that of Qingming, becoming the first tourism peak since this year. Among them, short- and medium-distance travel and intra-provincial tourism continue to recover Therefore, the "guaranteed supply" of tourism enterprises will accelerate the recovery of the market. "From Qingming to" May Day ", the increase of holidays from 3 days to 5 days will effectively stimulate more tourists to choose more than 3 days of multi-day trips and overnight trips. Therefore, this year's Labor Day holiday has a" compensatory consumption " The probability is higher. "Peng Liang, a researcher at the Ctrip Tourism Big Data Lab, said.
It is reported that currently, the search and booking of "May Day" peripheral games on various OTA platforms are generally showing a rapid rise. Taking Ctrip as an example, more than 70% of tourists on the platform said they would choose to travel by car during the Golden Week. At the same time, due to the signs of recovery in the group tour market, Ctrip has already launched more than 40,000 intra-province group tour routes. From the industry's point of view, for the provincial tourists who are the main force of the "May Day" tourism, most of the well-known local tourist attractions are no longer new. Only in this way can we seize the opportunities in this round of competition for passengers.
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Audit market structure, fees and choice in a period of structural change: evidence from the UK – 1998–2003
Abidin, S., Beattie, V. & Goodacre, A., 09/2010, In : British Accounting Review. 42, 3, p. 187-206 20 p.
Firm leverage and investment decisions in an emerging market
Umutlu, M., 08/2010, In : Quality and Quantity. 44, 5, p. 1005-1013 9 p.
Shareholder Voting and Directors' Remuneration Report Legislation: Say on Pay in the UK
Conyon, M. & Sadler, G., 07/2010, In : Corporate Governance: An International Review. 18, 4, p. 296-312 17 p.
Bridging the gap between Accounting and Finance
Pope, P. F., 06/2010, In : British Accounting Review. 42, 2
Predictable dynamics in implied volatility surfaces from OTC currency options
Chalamandaris, G. & Tsekrekos, A., 06/2010, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 34, 6, p. 1175-1188 14 p.
Skills for sale: what is being commodified in higher education?
Miller, B., 05/2010, In : Journal of Further and Higher Education. 34, 2, p. 199-206 8 p.
Does ADR listing affect the dynamics of volatility in emerging markets?
Umutlu, M., Altay-Salih, A. & Akdeniz, L., 05/2010, In : Finance a uver-Czech Journal of Economics and Finance . 60, 2, p. 122-137 16 p.
Uncertainty and stepwise investment
Kort, P. M., Murto, P. & Pawlina, G., 1/04/2010, In : European Journal of Operational Research. 202, 1, p. 196-203 8 p.
The effect of mean reversion on entry and exit decisions under uncertainty
Tsekrekos, A., 04/2010, In : Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 34, 4, p. 725-742 18 p.
Does cultural distance matter in international stock market comovement? Evidence from emerging economies around the world
Lucey, B. & Zhang, Q., 03/2010, In : Emerging Markets Review. 11, 1, p. 62-78 17 p.
The degree of financial liberalization and aggregated stock-return volatility in emerging markets
Umutlu, M., Akdeniz, L. & Altay-Salih, A., 03/2010, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 34, 3, p. 509-521 13 p.
The price of higher education: how rational is British tuition fee policy?
Miller, B., 02/2010, In : Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 32, 1, p. 85-95 11 p.
Human capital, value creation and disclosure
Beattie, V. & Smith, S. J., 1/01/2010, In : Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting. 14, 4, p. 262-285 24 p.
Deposit insurance and bank risk-taking: evidence from internal loan ratings
Ioannidou, V. P. & Penas, M. F., 01/2010, In : Journal of Financial Intermediation. 19, 1, p. 95-115 21 p.
Strategic quality choice under uncertainty: a real options approach
Pawlina, G. & Kort, P. M., 01/2010, In : Manchester School. 78, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.
The use of the R2 as a measure of firm-specific information: A cross-country critique
Alves, P., Peasnell, K. & Taylor, P., 01/2010, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 37, 1, p. 1-26 26 p.
Macroeconomic risks and characteristic-based factor models.
Aretz, K., Bartram, S. & Pope, P., 2010, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 34, 6, p. 1383-1399 17 p.
Spreads vs professional forecasters as predictors of future output change
Aretz, K. & Peel, D., 2010, In : Journal of Forecasting. 29, 6, p. 517-522 6 p.
Corporate finance and the (in)efficient exercise of real options
Lambrecht, B. M. & Pawlina, G., 2010, In : Multinational Finance Journal. 14, 1/2, p. 129-156 28 p.
Resolving the exposure puzzle: the many facets of exchange rate exposure
Bartram, S., Brown, G. W. & Minton, B., 2010, In : Journal of Financial Economics. 95, 2, p. 148-173 26 p.
The contribution of Philip W. Bell to accounting thought
Peasnell, K. V. & Whittington, G., 2010, In : Accounting Horizons. 24, 3, p. 509-518 10 p.
Option prices and risk-neutral densities for currency cross-rates
Taylor, S. J. & Wang, Y., 2010, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 30, p. 324-360 37 p.
The information content of implied volatilities and model-free volatility expectations: evidence from options written on individual stocks
Taylor, S. J., Yadav, P. K. & Zhang, Y., 2010, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 34, p. 871-881 11 p.
Volatility Risk and the Value Premium: Evidence from the French Stock Market
Arisoy, Y. E., 2010, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 34, p. 975-983 9 p.
Harvesting and recovery decisions under uncertainty
Shackleton, M. B. & Sodal, S., 2010, In : Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 34, 12, p. 2533-2546 14 p.
Efficient quadrature and node positioning for exotic option valuation
Chung, S. L., Ko, K., Shackleton, M. B. & Yeh, C. T., 2010, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 30, 11, p. 1026-1057 32 p.
The use and consequences of performance management and control systems: A study of a professional services firm
Beekes, W. A., Otley, D. T. & Ururuka, V., 2010, In : Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Research Executive Summary Series. 6, 10, p. 1-6 6 p.
Value-at-risk disclosure and cost of equity capital
Gao, Z. & Chen, H., 2010, In : Global Economy and Finance Journal. 3, 2, p. 61-75 15 p.
Joint Venture instability in developing countries under entry
Banerjee, S. & Mukherjee, A., 2010, In : International Review of Economics and Finance. 19, p. 603-614 12 p.
Asset Revaluation at Asiana Airlines
Choi, S., Baik, B., Lee, M. & Yim, S-G., 2010, In : Korean Accounting Journal .
The Association between Human Resource Investment in Internal Control and Audit Fees
Choi, S., Choi, J-H. & Lee, J., 2010, In : Accounting and Auditing Research .
Time for a change: loan conditions and bank behavior when firms switch banks
Ioannidou, V. & Ongena, S., 2010, In : Journal of Finance. 65, 5, p. 1847–1877 31 p.
The correlation structure of FX option markets before and since the financial crisis
Chalamandaris, G. & Tsekrekos, A., 2010, In : Applied Financial Economics. 20, 1-2, p. 73-84 12 p.
The management of accounting numbers: case study evidence from the crash of an airline
Jorissen, A. & Otley, D., 2010, In : Accounting and Business Research. 40, 1, p. 3-38 36 p.
NGO accountability and sustainability issues in the changing global environment
Unerman, J. & O'Dwyer, B., 2010, In : Public Management Review. 12, 4, p. 475-486 12 p.
Enhancing the role of accountability in promoting the rights of beneficiaries of development NGOs
O'Dwyer, B. & Unerman, J., 2010, In : Accounting and Business Research. 40, 5, p. 451-471 21 p.
Bank market structure, competition, and SME financing relationships in European regions
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British research in accounting and finance (2001–2007): The 2008 research assessment exercise
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Bicameral Conflict Resolution in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis of Conciliation Committee Bargains
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Novel tertiary amine oxide surfaces that resist nonspecific protein adsorption
Dilly, S. J., Beecham, M. P., Brown, S. P., Griffin, J. M., Clark, A. J., Griffin, C. D., Marshall, J., Napier, R. M., Taylor, P. C. & Marsh, A., 12/09/2006, In : Langmuir. 22, 19, p. 8144-8150 7 p.
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The Pattern of Investment Surrounding CEO Retirements: UK Evidence
Conyon, M. & Florou, A., 09/2006, In : British Accounting Review. 38, 3, p. 299-319 21 p.
A Model of the Supply of Executives for Outside Directorships
Conyon, M. & Read, L., 06/2006, In : Journal of Corporate Finance. 12, 3, p. 645-659 15 p.
Real options in an asymmetric duopoly: who benefits from your competitive disadvantage?
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A new method for ranking academic journals in accounting and finance
Beattie, V. & Goodacre, A., 2006, In : Accounting and Business Research. 36, 2, p. 65-91 27 p.
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Beattie, V. & Davie, E., 2006, In : Accounting, Business and Financial History. 16, 1, p. 1-25 25 p.
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Beekes, W. A. & Taylor, P. A., 2006, In : Internationalisation of the Curriculum and Support for International Students, Higher Education Academy.
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Peasnell, K. V., 2006, In : The HR Director. Apr, p. 25 25 p.
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Wong, K. P. & Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2006, In : Kredit und Kapital. 39, 2, p. 211-232 22 p.
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Goncharov, I. & Zimmermann, J., 2006, In : Journal of International Accounting Research. 5, 1, p. 45-61 17 p.
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Data Masking by Noise Addition and the Estimation of Nonlinear Regression Models
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Does monetary policy affect the central bank's role in bank supervision?
Ioannidou, V., 01/2005, In : Journal of Financial Intermediation. 14, 1, p. 58-85 28 p.
Auditor independence and audit risk: a reconceptualisation
Fearnley, S., Beattie, V. & Brandt, R., 2005, In : Journal of International Accounting Research. 4, 1, p. 39-71 33 p.
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Duck, P. W., Newton, D. P., Widdicks, M. & Leung, Y., 2005, In : Journal of Derivatives. 12, 4, p. 34-44 11 p.
The Black-Scholes equation revisited: asymptotic expansions and singular perturbations
Widdicks, M., Duck, P. W., Andricopoulos, A. D. & Newton, D. P., 2005, In : Mathematical Finance. 15, 2, p. 373-391 19 p.
TIPS, break-even inflation, and inflation forecasts
Lehnert, T. & Bardong, F., 2005, In : Journal of Fixed Income. 14, 3, p. 15-48 34 p.
Earnings conservatism, litigation, and contracting: the case of cross-listed firms
Huijgen, C. & Lubberink, M., 2005, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 32, 7-8, p. 1275-1309 35 p.
Earnings components, accounting bias and equity valuation
Pope, P. F. & Wang, P., 2005, In : Review of Accounting Studies. 10, 4, p. 387-407 21 p.
Bridging the earnings GAAP
Choi, Y. S., Walker, M. & Young, S. E., 2005, In : Accountancy. 135, p. 76-78 3 p.
A primer on the exposure of nonfinancial corporations to foreign exchange rate risk
Dufey, G., Frenkel, M. & Bartram, S., 2005, In : Journal of Multinational Financial Management. 15, 4/5, p. 394-413 20 p.
Another look at the relationship between cross-market correlation and volatility
Bartram, S. & Wang, H., 2005, In : Finance Research Letters. 2, 2, p. 75-88 14 p.
On the portfolio problem with two risky and a riskless asset
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2005, In : Finance Research Letters. 3, 4
On the errors and comparison of Vega estimation methods
Chung, S. L. & Shackleton, M. B., 2005, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 25, 1, p. 21-38 18 p.
Strategic trading behaviour and price distortion in a manipulated market: anatomy of a squeeze
Merrick, J., Naik, N. Y. & Yadav, P. K., 2005, In : Journal of Financial Economics. 77, 1, p. 171-218 48 p.
The impact of commodity price risk on firm value - an empirical analysis of corporate commodity price exposures
Bartram, S., 2005, In : Multinational Finance Journal. 9, 3/4, p. 159-185 27 p.
Discussion of "Accruals, accounting-based valuation models, and the prediction of equity"
Pope, P. F., 2005, In : Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. 20, 4, p. 347-354 8 p.
Board monitoring and earnings management: do outside directors influence abnormal accruals?
Peasnell, K. V., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2005, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 32, 7-8, p. 1311-1346 36 p.
Strategic investment under uncertainty: a survey of game theoretic real option models
Huisman, K. J. M., Kort, P. M., Pawlina, G. & Thijssen, J. J. J., 2005, In : Journal of Financial Transformation. 13, p. 111-118 8 p.
Discussion of "A UK test of an inflation-adjusted Ohlson model"
O'Hanlon, J. F., 2005, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 32, 3-4, p. 535-547 13 p.
Smooth pasting as rate of return equalization
Shackleton, M. B. & Sodal, S., 2005, In : Economics Letters. 89, 2, p. 200-206 7 p.
On the use and improvement of Hull and White's control variate technique
Chung, S. L. & Shackleton, M. B., 2005, In : Applied Financial Economics. 15, 16, p. 1171-1179 9 p.
Mergers and acquisitions as a response to economic change
Lambrecht, B. M., 2005, In : Journal of Financial Transformation. 13, p. 73-76 4 p.
User needs in sustainability reporting: Perspectives of stakeholders in Ireland
O'Dwyer, B., Unerman, J. & Hession, E., 2005, In : European Accounting Review. 14, 4, p. 759-787 29 p.
Compensation Committees and CEO Compensation Incentives in U.S. Entrepreneurial Firms
Conyon, M. & He, L., 12/2004, In : Journal of Management Accounting Research. 16, 1, p. 35-56 22 p.
Do Wages Rise or Fall Following Merger?
Conyon, M., Girma, S., Thompson, S. & Wright, P., 12/2004, In : Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 66, 5, p. 847-862 16 p.
Increased stakeholder dialogue and the internet: Towards greater corporate accountability or reinforcing capitalist hegemony?
Unerman, J. & Bennett, M., 10/2004, In : Accounting, Organizations and Society. 29, 7, p. 685-707 23 p.
A methodology for analysing and evaluating narratives in annual reports: a comprehensive descriptive profile and metrics for disclosure quality attributes
Beattie, V., McInnes, B. & Fearnley, S., 09/2004, In : Accounting Forum. 28, 3, p. 205-236 32 p.
Enron, WorldCom, Andersen et al. A challenge to modernity
Unerman, J. & O'Dwyer, B., 08/2004, In : Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 15, 6-7, p. 971-993 23 p.
Auctions with cross-shareholdings
Dasgupta, S. & Tsui, K., 07/2004, In : Economic Theory. 24, 1, p. 163-194 32 p.
The reform of the UK’s auditor independence framework after the Enron collapse: an example of evidence-based policy making
Fearnley, S. & Beattie, V., 07/2004, In : International Journal of Auditing. 8, 2, p. 117-138 22 p.
Managerial risk-taking incentives, product market competition, and welfare
Dasgupta, S. & Shin, J., 04/2004, In : European Economic Review. 48, 2, p. 391-401 11 p.
A grounded theory model of auditor-client negotiations
Beattie, V., Fearnley, S. & Brandt, R., 03/2004, In : International Journal of Auditing. 8, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.
Publishing patterns within the UK accounting and finance academic community
Beattie, V. & Goodacre, A., 03/2004, In : British Accounting Review. 36, 1, p. 7-44 38 p.
CEO Compensation, Incentives and Governance in New Enterprise Firms
He, L. & Conyon, M., 2004, In : Journal of Derivatives Accounting. 1, 1, p. 47-60 14 p.
Curtailing the range for lattice and grid methods
Andricopoulos, A. D., Widdicks, M., Duck, P. W. & Newton, D. P., 2004, In : Journal of Derivatives. 11, 4, p. 55-61 7 p.
Real R&D Options
Newton, D. P., Paxson, D. A. & Widdicks, M., 2004, In : International Journal of Management Reviews. 5-6, 2, p. 113-130 18 p.
An empirical investigation of option returns: overpricing and the role of higher systematic moments
O'Brien, F. & Shackleton, M. B., 2004, In : Derivatives Use, Trading and Regulation. 10, 4, p. 300-330 31 p.
The effects of interactive use of management control systems on product innovation
Otley, D. T. & Bisbe, J., 2004, In : Accounting, Organizations and Society. 29, 8, p. 709-737 29 p.
Option pricing bounds and the elasticity of the pricing kernel
Huang, J., 2004, In : Review of Derivatives Research. 7, 1, p. 25-51 27 p.
Balance sheet versus earnings conservatism in Europe
Garcia Lara, J. M. & Mora, A., 2004, In : European Accounting Review. 13, 2, p. 261-292 32 p.
Predicting corporate failure in the UK: a multidimensional scaling approach
Mar Molinero, C. & Neophytou, E., 2004, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 31, 5,6, p. 677-710 34 p.
Predicting corporate failure: empirical evidence for the UK
Charalambous, C., Neophytou, E. & Charitou, A., 2004, In : European Accounting Review. 13, 3, p. 465-497 33 p.
The link between earnings timeliness, earnings conservatism and board composition: evidence from the UK
Beekes, W. A., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2004, In : Corporate Governance: An International Review. 12, 1, p. 47-59 13 p.
The timing and terms of mergers motivated by economies of scale
Lambrecht, B. M., 2004, In : Journal of Financial Economics. 72, 1, p. 41-62 22 p.
Residual income valuation: are inflation adjustments necessary?
O'Hanlon, J. F. & Peasnell, K. V., 2004, In : Review of Accounting Studies. 9, 4, p. 375-398 24 p.
The value of statistical forecasts in the UK association football betting market
Dixon, M. J. & Pope, P. F., 2004, In : International Journal of Forecasting. 20, 4, p. 697-711 15 p.
Dirty surplus accounting flows: international evidence
Isidro, H. D., O'Hanlon, J. F. & Young, S. E., 2004, In : Accounting and Business Research. 34, 3, p. 383-410 28 p.
Discussion of M. Gietzmann and A. Ostazewski 'Predicting firm value: the superiority of q-theory over residual income'
O'Hanlon, J. F., 2004, In : Accounting and Business Research. 34, 4, p. 379-382 4 p.
Pricing options with American style average reset features
Chung, S. L., Shackleton, M. B. & Chang, C. C., 2004, In : Quantitative Finance. 4, 3, p. 292-300 9 p.
CAPM, higher co-moment and factor models of UK stock returns
Hung, D. C. H., Shackleton, M. & Xu, X., 2004, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 31, 1-2, p. 87-112 26 p.
What role taxes and regulation? A second look at open market share buyback activity in the U.K.
Oswald, D. & Young, S. E., 2004, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 31, 1-2, p. 257-292 36 p.
Greece's investor protection leaves something to be desired
Florou, A. & Pope, P. F., 2004, In : Kathimerini. Jan, p. 13 13 p.
Strategic investment under uncertainty: merging real options with game theory
Huisman, K. J. M., Kort, P. M., Pawlina, G. & Thijssen, J. J. J., 2004, In : Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft . 67, 3, p. 97-123 27 p.
What valuation models do analysts use?
Walker, M., Strong, N. & Demirakos, E., 2004, In : Accounting Horizons. 18, 4, p. 221-240 20 p.
Forecasting currency volatility: a comparison of implied volatilities and AR(FI)MA models
Pong, E., Shackleton, M. B., Taylor, S. J. & Xu, X., 2004, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 28, 10, p. 2541-2563 23 p.
Linear and nonlinear foreign exchange rate exposures of German nonfinancial corporations
Bartram, S., 2004, In : Journal of International Money and Finance. 23, 4, p. 673-699 27 p.
Strategic entry and market leadership in a two-player real options game
Shackleton, M. B., Tsekrekos, A. & Wojakowski, R. M., 2004, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 28, 1, p. 179-201 23 p.
Strategic capital budgeting: asset replacement under market uncertainty
Pawlina, G. & Kort, P. M., 10/2003, In : OR Spectrum. 25, 4, p. 443-479 37 p.
A “matching auction” for targets with heterogeneous bidders
Dasgupta, S. & Tsui, K., 10/2003, In : Journal of Financial Intermediation. 12, 4, p. 331-364 34 p.
Issues concerning web-based business reporting: an analysis of the views of interested parties
Beattie, V. & Pratt, K., 06/2003, In : British Accounting Review. 35, 2, p. 155-187 33 p.
Development financial institutions, financial constraints and growth: evidence from the Indian corporate sector
Bhandari, L., Dasgupta, S. & Gangopadhyay, S., 01/2003, In : Journal of Emerging Market Finance. 2, 1, p. 83-129 47 p.
Enhancing organizational global hegemony with narrative accounting disclosures: An early example
Unerman, J., 2003, In : Accounting Forum. 27, 4, p. 425-448 24 p.
And then there were four: a study of UK audit market concentration – causes, consequences and the scope for market adjustment
Beattie, V., Goodacre, A. & Fearnley, S., 2003, In : Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. 11, 3, p. 250-265 16 p.
Corporate Boards and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from the UK in 1935
Conyon, M., Pitts, M. & Sadler, G., 2003, In : Corporate Ownership and Control. 1, p. 129-138 10 p.
Risk management with derivatives by dealers and market quality in government bond markets
Naik, N. Y. & Yadav, P. K., 2003, In : Journal of Finance. 58, 5, p. 1873-1904 32 p.
Do dealer firms manage inventory on a stock-by-stock or a portfolio basis
Naik, N. Y. & Yadav, P. K., 2003, In : Journal of Financial Economics. 69, 2, p. 325-353 29 p.
Wann gehen Aktienoptionspläne ins Leere?
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2003, In : ZEWnews. Jun, p. 4-5 2 p.
Mortgage default and possession under recourse: a competing hazards approach
Lambrecht, B. M., Perraudin, W. R. M. & Satchell, S. E., 2003, In : Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 35, 2, p. 425-442 18 p.
Real options and preemption under incomplete information
Lambrecht, B. M. & Perraudin, W. R. M., 2003, In : Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 27, 4, p. 619-643 25 p.
On the persistent undestatement of shareholders’ equity in Europe
Garcia Lara, J. M. & Mora, A., 2003, In : Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting. 115, p. 44-68 25 p.
Accounting conservatism in Europe (II)
Garcia Lara, J. M., 2003, In : Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting. 115, p. 379-382 4 p.
The asymmetric timeliness of earnings in a European context
Garcia Lara, J. M. & Mora, A., 2003, In : Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting. 116, p. 235-264 30 p.
Impact on option prices of divergent consumer confidence
Huang, J., 2003, In : Review of Derivatives Research. 6, 3, p. 165-177 13 p.
A sustainable approach to business
Beekes, W. A., 2003, In : The Utilities Journal. 6, Nov, p. 38-39 2 p.
The impact of delivery risk on optimal production and futures hedging
Adam-Müller, A. F. A. & Wong, K. P., 2003, In : Review of Finance. 7, 3, p. 459-477 19 p.
Zur Verbesserung der marktwertbezogenen Vergütung in diversifizierten Unternehmen
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2003, In : ZEWnews. Dec, p. 2-4 3 p.
The transparency of executive compensation
Pope, P. F., 2003, In : Economikos Tahidromos. p. 63 63 p.
The quality of the audit review
Pope, P. F., 2003, In : Kathimerini. p. 24 24 p.
Environmental performance under the spotlight
Beekes, W. A., 2003, In : The Utilities Journal. 6, Sep, p. 34-35 2 p.
Oswald, D. & Young, S. E., 2003, In : Accountancy. 131, p. 54-55 2 p.
Practice developments in budgeting: an overview and research perspective
Hansen, S. C., Otley, D. T. & Van der Stede, W. A., 2003, In : Journal of Management Accounting Research. 15, p. 95-116 22 p.
Book Review: Lectures on corporate finance by Peter L. Bossaerts and Bernt Arne Odegaard
Lambrecht, B. M., 2003, In : Journal of Finance. 58, 1, p. 467-469 3 p.
The simplest American and real option approximations: Geske-Johnson interpolation in maturity and yield
Chung, S. L. & Shackleton, M. B., 2003, In : Applied Economics Letters. 10, 11, p. 709-716 8 p.
Efficient quadratic approximation of floating strike Asian option values
Chung, S. L., Shackleton, M. B. & Wojakowski, R. M., 2003, In : Finance. 24, 1, p. 49-62 14 p.
Management control and performance management: whence and whither?
Otley, D. T., 2003, In : British Accounting Review. 35, 4, p. 309-326 18 p.
Rzeczywiste prawdopodobienstwo wykonania i wartosci oczekiwane wyplaty opcji (Real probability of exercising and expected values of option payoff)
Wojakowski, R. M. & Shackleton, M. B., 2003, In : Rynek Terminowy. 20, 2, p. 125 125 p.
Comparative study of administration and administrative receivership as business rescue vehicles: an update
Katz, A. & Mumford, M. J., 2003, In : Insolvency Law and Practice. 19, 6, p. 238-240 3 p.
Universal option pricing using quadrature
Andricopoulos, A. D., Widdicks, M., Duck, P. W. & Newton, D. P., 2003, In : Journal of Financial Economics. 67, 3, p. 447-471 25 p.
Managerial equity ownership and the demand for outside directors
Peasnell, K. V., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2003, In : European Financial Management. 9, 2, p. 99-118 20 p.
Discussion of "Positive (Zero) NPV projects and the behavior of residual earnings"
Pope, P. F. & Wang, P., 2003, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 30, 1,2, p. 17-24 8 p.
Stock market reaction to the appointment of outside directors
Lin, S., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2003, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 30, 3,4, p. 351-382 32 p.
Discussion of "Disclosure practices, enforcement of accounting standards, and analysts"
Pope, P. F., 2003, In : Journal of Accounting Research. 41, 2, p. 273-283 11 p.
Information arrivals and intraday exchange rate volatility
Chang, Y. & Taylor, S. J., 2003, In : Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 13, p. 85-112 28 p.
Post earnings announcement drift in the UK
Strong, N., Xu, X. & Liu, W., 2003, In : European Financial Management. 9, 1, p. 28, 89
Research and development activity and expected returns in the United Kingdom
Al-Horani, A., Pope, P. F. & Stark, A. W., 2003, In : Review of Finance. 7, 1, p. 27-46 20 p.
Corporate governance and financial distress: when structures have to change
Mumford, M. J., 2003, In : Corporate Governance: An International Review. 11, 1, p. 52-64 13 p.
Uncertainty, arbitrage, and intra-industry trade
Dasgupta, S., Ray, T. & Pong Wong, K., 11/2002, In : Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique. 35, 4, p. 757-785 9 p.
What explains cross-country differences in industry growth rates: trade, development and finance
Chang, Y. Y. & Dasgupta, S., 06/2002, In : International Review of Finance. 3, 2, p. 105-129 25 p.
The impact of graph slope on rate of change judgements in corporate reports
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 06/2002, In : Abacus. 38, 2, p. 177-199 23 p.
The Productivity and Wage Effects of Foreign Acquisition in the United Kingdom
Conyon, M., Girma, S., Thompson, S. & Wright, P., 03/2002, In : Journal of Industrial Economics. 50, 1, p. 85-102 18 p.
The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Company Employment in the United Kingdom
Conyon, M., Girma, S., Thompson, S. & Wright, P., 01/2002, In : European Economic Review. 46, 1, p. 31-49 19 p.
The Disclosure of Directors Share Option Information in UK Companies
Conyon, M., Mallin, C. & Sadler, G., 2002, In : Applied Financial Economics. 12, 2, p. 95-103 9 p.
Top Executive Dismissal, Ownership and Corporate Performance
Conyon, M. & Florou, A., 2002, In : Accounting and Business Research. 32, 4, p. 209-225 17 p.
On the enhanced convergence of standard lattice methods for option pricing
Widdicks, M., Andricopoulos, A. D., Newton, D. P. & Duck, P. W., 2002, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 22, 4, p. 315-338 24 p.
Measurement distortion of graphs in corporate reports: an experimental study
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 2002, In : Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 15, 4, p. 546-564 19 p.
Financial regulation of public limited companies in the UK: a way forward post-Enron
Fearnley, S., Brandt, R. & Beattie, V., 2002, In : Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. 10, 3, p. 254-265 12 p.
Enhancing shareholder value with corporate risk management
Bartram, S., 2002, In : Corporate Finance Review. 7, 3, p. 8-13 6 p.
Earnings management: empirical evidence on value relevance and income smoothing by Dr Bart van Praag. A discussion
Lubberink, M., 2002, In : Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfsadministratie (Dutch Journal of Accounting).
Evidence of a bank lending channel in the UK
Huang, Z., 2002, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 27, 3, p. 491-510 20 p.
Residual income and value creation: the missing link
O'Hanlon, J. F. & Peasnell, K. V., 2002, In : Review of Accounting Studies. 7, 2/3, p. 229-245 17 p.
The interest rate exposure of nonfinancial corporations
Bartram, S., 2002, In : Review of Finance. 6, 1, p. 101-125 25 p.
What to do if a Dollar is not a Dollar? The impact of inflation risk on production and risk management
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2002, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 22, 4, p. 371-386 16 p.
British research in accounting and finance (1996-2000): the 2001 research assessment exercise
Boom time for buybacks
On the equivalence of floating- and fixed-strike Asian options
Henderson, V. & Wojakowski, R. M., 2002, In : Journal of Applied Probability. 39, 2, p. 391-394 4 p.
Intraday volatility forecasts using different seasonality adjustment methods
Martens, M. P. E., Chang, Y. & Taylor, S. J., 2002, In : Journal of Financial Research. 25, p. 283-297 15 p.
The realized volatility of FTSE-100 futures prices
Areal, N. M. P. C. & Taylor, S. J., 2002, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 22, 7, p. 627-648 22 p.
Asymmetric and crash effects in stock volatility for the S and P 100 index and its constituents
Poon, S., Taylor, S. J. & Blair, B. J., 2002, In : Applied Financial Economics. 12, p. 319-329 11 p.
The binomial Black-Scholes model and the Greeks
Chung, S. L. & Shackleton, M. B., 2002, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 22, 2, p. 143-153 11 p.
The expected return and exercise time of Merton-style real options
Shackleton, M. B. & Wojakowski, R. M., 2002, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 29, 3-4, p. 541-555 15 p.
What is knowledge and the technology to support it worth to the firm? Review of Westland, Christopher, Valuing Technology: the new science of wealth in the knowledge economy, John Wiley and Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, 2002.
See-To, E. W. K. & Xu, X., 2002, In : Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. 4, 1, p. 65-67 3 p.
Accounting conservatism in Europe (I)
The Disclosure of UK Boardroom Pay: The March 2001 DTI proposals
Conyon, M., 10/2001, In : Corporate Governance: An International Review. 9, 4, p. 276-285 10 p.
Corporate Tournaments and Executive Compensation: Evidence from the UK
Conyon, M., Peck, S. & Sadler, G., 08/2001, In : Strategic Management Journal. 22, 8, p. 805-815 11 p.
Do Hostile Mergers Destroy Jobs?
Conyon, M., Girma, S., Thompson, S. & Wright, P., 08/2001, In : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 45, 4, p. 427-440 14 p.
Executive Pay, Tournaments and Corporate Performance in UK Firms
Conyon, M. & Sadler, G., 06/2001, In : International Journal of Management Reviews. 3, 2, p. 141-168 28 p.
A six-country comparison of the use of graphs in annual reports
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 05/2001, In : The International Journal of Accounting. 36, 2, p. 195-222 28 p.
Performance Pay and Corporate Structure in UK Firms
Conyon, M., Peck, S. & Read, L., 02/2001, In : European Management Journal. 19, 1, p. 73-82 10 p.
On the expected payoff and true probability of exercise of European options
Shackleton, M. & Wojakowski, R., 1/01/2001, In : Applied Economics Letters. 8, 4, p. 269-271 3 p.
CEO compensation, Option Incentives, and Information Disclosure
Conyon, M. & Sadler, G., 2001, In : Review of Financial Economics. 10, 3, p. 251-277 27 p.
The determinants of audit fees: evidence from the charity sector
Beattie, V., Goodacre, A., Pratt, K. & Stevenson, J., 2001, In : Accounting and Business Research. 31, 4, p. 243-274 32 p.
The impact of debt financing on entry and exit in a duopoly
Lambrecht, B. M., 2001, In : Review of Financial Studies. 14, 3, p. 765-804 40 p.
Das Positionspapier der Arbeitsgruppe Stock Options des Deutschen Standardisierungsrates: Implikationen für Bilanzierung und Besteuerung
Wangler, C. & Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2001, In : Finanz Betrieb. 1, 1, p. 1-11 11 p.
Forecasting S&P 100 volatility: the incremental information content of implied volatilities and high-frequency index returns
Blair, B. J., Poon, S. & Taylor, S. J., 2001, In : Journal of Econometrics. 105, 1, p. 5-26 22 p.
Modelling S&P 100 volatility: the information content of stock returns
Blair, B. J., Poon, S. & Taylor, S. J., 2001, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 25, 9, p. 1665-1679 15 p.
British management accounting research: whence and whither? Opinions and recollections
Scapens, R., Hopper, T. & Otley, D. T., 2001, In : British Accounting Review. 33, 3, p. 263-291 29 p.
Extending the boundaries of management accounting research: developing systems for performance management
The characteristics of firms subject to adverse rulings by the financial reporting review panel
Peasnell, K. V., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2001, In : Accounting and Business Research. 31, 4, p. 291-311 21 p.
The relation between incremental subsidiary earnings and future stock returns in Japan
Pope, P. F., 2001, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 28, 9/10, p. 1141-1148 8 p.
A wealth-based explanation for earnings conservatism
Lubberink, M. & Huijgen, C., 2001, In : Review of Finance. 5, 3, p. 323-349 27 p.
A good analyst has power over managers
Lubberink, M., 2001, In : Financial Analysts Journal. 2, p. 46-47 2 p.
Financial statement information: the influence of investors and managers
Lubberink, M., 2001, In : Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfsadministratie (Dutch Journal of Accounting). 105, 1224, p. 220-223 4 p.
Investment bank reputation and initial public offerings
Kolff, L., Huijgen, C. & Lubberink, M., 2001, In : Tijdschrift voor Corporate Finance. 6, 3, p. 6-15 10 p.
One profit number would be ideal, but not attainable (Een winstcijfer ideal, maar niet haalbar)
Lubberink, M., 2001, In : Financial Analysts Journal. 2, 6, p. 24-27 4 p.
The undervalued role of feedback in the relation managers – investors
Lubberink, M., 2001, In : Tijdschrift voor Corporate Finance. 6, 1, p. 6-10 5 p.
Accounting performance measurement: a review of its purposes and practices
Otley, D. T., 2001, In : International Journal of Business Performance Management. 3, p. 245-260 16 p.
International portfolio investment: theory, evidence, and institutional framework
Bartram, S. & Dufey, G., 2001, In : Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments. 10, 3, p. 85-155 71 p.
On the expected payoff and true probability of European options
Shackleton, M. B. & Wojakowski, R. M., 2001, In : Applied Economics Letters. 8, 4, p. 269-271 3 p.
Recognition versus disclosure: an investigation of the impact on equity risk using UK operating lease disclosures
Beattie, V., Goodacre, A. & Thomson, S. J., 11/2000, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 27, 9&10, p. 1185-1224 40 p.
The Prince and the Pauper? CEO Pay in the United States and United Kingdom
Conyon, M. & Murphy, K. J., 11/2000, In : Economic Journal. 110, 467, p. 640-671 31 p.
Discussion of the Increasing Use of Non-Executive Directors: Its Impact on UK Board Structure and Governance Arrangements
Conyon, M., 11/2000, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 27, 9-10, p. 1343-1348 6 p.
The Structure of Executive Compensation Contracts: UK Evidence
Conyon, M., Peck, S., Read, L. & Sadler, G., 08/2000, In : Long Range Planning. 33, 4, p. 478-503 26 p.
Executive Compensation: Evidence from the UK and Germany
Conyon, M. & Schwalbach, J., 08/2000, In : Long Range Planning. 33, 4, p. 504-526 23 p.
Bargaining, bonding, and partial ownership
Dasgupta, S., 08/2000, In : International Economic Review. 41, 3, p. 609-635 27 p.
Behind the audit report: a descriptive study of discussion and negotiation between auditors and directors
Beattie, V., Fearnley, S. & Brandt, R., 07/2000, In : International Journal of Auditing. 4, 2, p. 177-202 26 p.
Impression management: the case of inter-country financial graphs
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 06/2000, In : Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. 9, 2, p. 159-183 25 p.
Operating leases and the assessment of lease-debt substitutability
Beattie, V., Goodacre, A. & Thomson, S. J., 03/2000, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 24, 3, p. 427-470 44 p.
Changing graph use in corporate annual reports: a time series analysis
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 2000, In : Contemporary Accounting Research. 17, 2, p. 213-226 14 p.
Teaching quality assessment in accounting: the Scottish experience
Beattie, V. & Collins, B., 2000, In : Accounting Education. 9, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.
The future of corporate reporting: a review article
Beattie, V., 2000, In : Irish Accounting Review. 7, 1, p. 1-36 36 p.
Properties of financial accounting earnings: some recent insights
Buijink, W. & Lubberink, M., 2000, In : Monthly Journal of Accountancy and Business (Dutch). 74, 1, p. 2-11 10 p.
Econometric Modelling of UK Executive Compensation
Conyon, M., Peck, S. & Sadler, G., 2000, In : Managerial Finance. 26, 9, p. 3-20 18 p.
European Differences in Executive Pay and Corporate Governance
Conyon, M. & Schwalbach, J., 2000, In : Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft . p. 97-114 18 p.
Accounting for Goodwill: An Examination of Factors Influencing Management Preferences
Taib, F., Taylor, P. & Gore, P., 2000, In : Accounting and Business Research. 30, 3, p. 213-226 14 p.
Corporate risk management as a lever for shareholder value creation
Bartram, S., 2000, In : Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments. 9, 5, p. 279-324 46 p.
The management of financial risks by nonfinancial corporations
Bartram, S., 2000, In : Die Unternehmung. 54, 2, p. 107-121 15 p.
Financial risk, exposure and risk management of nonfinancial corporations
Bartram, S., 2000, In : Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium. 29, 5, p. 242-249 8 p.
Constituent lobbying and its impact on the development of financial reporting regulations: evidence from Germany
McLeay, S., Ordelheide, D. & Young, S. E., 2000, In : Accounting, Organizations and Society. 25, 1, p. 79-98 20 p.
The increasing use of non-executive directors: its impact on UK board structure and governance arrangements
Young, S. E., 2000, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 27, 9,10, p. 1311-1342 32 p.
Stock index and price dynamics in the U.K. and the U.S.: new evidence from a trading rule and statistical analysis
Taylor, S. J., 2000, In : European Journal of Finance. 6, p. 36-69 34 p.
Hedging price risk when real wealth matters
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 2000, In : Journal of International Money and Finance. 19, 4, p. 549-560 12 p.
Exports and hedging exchange rate risk: the multi-country case
Estimating the equity risk premium using accounting fundamentals
Steele, A. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 2000, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 27, 9,10, p. 1051-1083 33 p.
Residual income and EVA
O'Hanlon, J. F. & Peasnell, K. V., 2000, In : Economic and Financial Computing. 10, 2, p. 53-95 43 p.
Accrual management to meet earnings targets: UK evidence pre- and post-Cadbury
Peasnell, K. V., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2000, In : British Accounting Review. 32, 4, p. 415-445 31 p.
Asset revaluation and current cost accounting: UK corporate disclosure decisions in 1983
Lin, Y. N. & Peasnell, K. V., 2000, In : British Accounting Review. 32, p. 161-187 27 p.
Breaking the rules: attributes of firms censured by the review panel
Peasnell, K. V., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2000, In : Accountancy. 125, p. 87 87 p.
Detecting earnings management using cross-sectional abnormal accruals models
Fixed asset revaluation and equity depletion in the UK
Lin, Y. N. & Peasnell, K. V., 2000, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 27, p. 359-394 36 p.
Are NEDs good for your wealth?
Lin, S., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 2000, In : Accountancy. 126, p. 129 129 p.
Trading volatility spreads: a test of index option market efficiency
Poon, S. & Pope, P. F., 2000, In : European Financial Management. 6, 2, p. 235-260 26 p.
Budgetary criteria in performance evaluation: a critical appraisal using new evidence
Pollanen, R. & Otley, D. T., 2000, In : Accounting, Organizations and Society. 25, 4/5, p. 483-496 14 p.
Reliance on accounting performance measures: dead end or new beginning?
Fakiolas, A. & Otley, D. T., 2000, In : Accounting, Organizations and Society. 25, 4/5, p. 497-510 14 p.
Valuing the strategic option to terminate a life insurance business: theory and evidence
Klumpes, P. J. M. & Shackleton, M. B., 2000, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 24, 10, p. 1681-1702 22 p.
Changes of ownership
Beekes, W. A., 2000, In : The Utilities Journal. 3, July, p. 16-17 2 p.
The timing of arbitrage: an options approach
Lambrecht, B. M., 2000, In : Finance. 21, 2, p. 131-167 37 p.
An empirical analysis of alternative parametric ARCH models
Watt, W. H., Yadav, P. K. & Louden, G. F., 2000, In : Journal of Applied Econometrics. 15, p. 117-136 20 p.
Lessons for accounting measurement from transaction cost economics
Mumford, M. J., 2000, In : Australian Accounting Review. 11, 2, p. 51-57 7 p.
Discussion of S. Cahan et al.: Value-relevance of mandated comprehensive income disclosures
O'Hanlon, J. F., 2000, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. p. 1303-1311 9 p.
Methodological issues - Reflections on quantification in corporate social reporting content analysis
Unerman, J., 2000, In : Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 13, 5, p. 667-681 15 p.
Change and Complementarities in the New Competitive Landscape: A European Panel Study, 1992–1996
Whittington, R., Pettigrew, A., Peck, S., Fenton, E. & Conyon, M., 09/1999, In : Organization Science. 10, 5, p. 583-600 18 p.
Markov processes and the distribution of volatility: a comparison of discrete and continuous specifications
Taylor, S. J., 1/08/1999, In : Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 357, 1758, p. 2059-2070 12 p.
Ethical relativism: A reason for differences in corporate social reporting?
Lewis, L. & Unerman, J., 08/1999, In : Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 10, 4, p. 521-547 27 p.
Australian financial graphs: an empirical study
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 02/1999, In : Abacus. 35, 1, p. 46-76 31 p.
Information sharing, information free-riding and capital structure in oligopolies
Dasgupta, S. & Shin, J., 1/01/1999, In : International Journal of Industrial Organization. 17, 1, p. 109-135 27 p.
Perceptions of auditor independence: UK evidence
Beattie, V., Brandt, R. & Fearnley, S., 1999, In : Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. 8, 1, p. 67-107 41 p.
Audit regulation: a partial solution expanded
Beattie, V., Brandt, R. & Fearnley, S., 1999, In : Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. 7, 1, p. 31-47 17 p.
The Governance of Directors Pay: Evidence from UK Companies
Benito, A. & Conyon, M., 1999, In : Journal of Management and Governance. 3, 2, p. 117-136 20 p.
Performance management: a framework for management control systems research
Otley, D. T., 1999, In : Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management. 10, 4, p. 363-382 20 p.
International differences in timeliness, conservatism and classification of earnings
Walker, M. & Pope, P. F., 1999, In : Journal of Accounting Research. 37, p. 53-87 35 p.
Directors: who are they?
Peasnell, K. V., Pope, P. F. & Young, S. E., 1999, In : Accountancy. 123, p. 114 114 p.
The value-relevance of UK dirty surplus accounting flows
Pope, P. F. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1999, In : British Accounting Review. 31, 4, p. 459-482 24 p.
Systematic measurement error in the estimation of discretionary accruals: an evaluation of alternative modelling procedures
Young, S. E., 1999, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 26, 7/8, p. 833-862 30 p.
Corporate risk management practices of nonfinancial corporations
Bartram, S., 1999, In : Finanz Betrieb. 1, 6, p. 71-77 7 p.
Discussion of: G. Whittington and M. Tippett: The components of accounting ratios as co-integrated variables
Incomplete contracts, ownership rights, and the optimality of equity joint ventures
Dasgupta, S. & Tao, Z., 30/12/1998, In : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 37, 4, p. 391-413 23 p.
Corporate Governance and Directors’ Remuneration: Views from the Top
Clarke, R. N., Conyon, M. & Peck, S. I., 12/1998, In : Business Strategy Review. 9, 4, p. 21-30 10 p.
Discussion of arbitrage-free valuation of exhaustible resource firms
Shackleton, M. B., 1/11/1998, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 25, 9-10, p. 1391-1395 5 p.
Directors' Pay and Turnover: An Application to a Sample of Large UK Firms
Conyon, M., 11/1998, In : Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 60, 4, p. 485-507 23 p.
Does the Market for Top Executives Work? CEO Pay and Turnover in Small UK Companies
Conyon, M. & Nicolitsas, D., 09/1998, In : Small Business Economics. 11, 2, p. 145-154 10 p.
Audit market competition: auditor changes and the impact of tendering
Beattie, V. & Fearnley, S., 09/1998, In : British Accounting Review. 30, 3, p. 261-289 29 p.
The relationship between ownership, financing decisions and firm performance: a signaling model
Bajaj, M., Chan, Y-S. & Dasgupta, S., 08/1998, In : International Economic Review. 39, 3, p. 723-744 22 p.
Board Control, Remuneration Committees and Top Management Compensation
Conyon, M. & Peck, S., 04/1998, In : Academy of Management Journal. 41, 2, p. 146-157 12 p.
Board Size and Corporate Performance: Evidence from European Countries
Conyon, M. & Peck, S., 1998, In : European Journal of Finance. 4, 3, p. 291-304 14 p.
Auditor changes and tendering: United Kingdom interview evidence
Beattie, V. & Fearnley, S., 1998, In : Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. 11, 1, p. 82-98 17 p.
The impact of constructive operating lease capitalisation on key accounting ratios
Beattie, V., Edwards, K. & Goodacre, A., 1998, In : Accounting and Business Research. 28, 4, p. 233-254 22 p.
Auditor iIndependence and the expectations gap: some evidence of changing user perceptions
Beattie, V., Brandt, R. & Fearnley, S., 1998, In : Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. 6, 2, p. 159-170 12 p.
The determinants of managerial accounting policy choice: further evidence for the UK
Young, S. E., 1998, In : Accounting and Business Research. 28, 2, p. 133-143 11 p.
Discussion of ownership structure, firm performance and top executive change: an analysis of UK firms
Young, S. E., 1998, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 25, 9,10, p. 1119-1126 8 p.
Exotische Optionen: Merkmale, Bewertung und Einsatz
Schäfer, K. & Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 1998, In : Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium. 27, 11, p. 559-564 6 p.
The articulation of returns and accounting-related variables when returns lead earnings: UK evidence
O'Hanlon, J. F., 1998, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 9, 10, p. 1163-1201 39 p.
Wall Street's contribution to management accounting: the Stern Stewart EVA ® financial management system
Peasnell, K. V. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1998, In : Management Accounting Research. 9, p. 421-444 24 p.
De waarderelevantie van jaarrekeninggegevens in de periode 1983 – 1995’ (The value relevance of financial statement information over the years 1983 – 1995)
Lubberink, M., 1998, In : Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfsadministratie (Dutch Journal of Accounting). 102, 1209, p. 12-18 7 p.
Discussion of "Earnings management using asset sales: an international study of countries allowing asset revaluation"
Peasnell, K. V., 1998, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 25, p. 1319-1324 6 p.
A new model board
Valuation accounting and corporate finance
Walker, M. & Pope, P. F., 1998, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 25, 9,10, p. 1033-1036 4 p.
Intraday effects of foreign exchange intervention by the Bank of Japan
Chang, Y. & Taylor, S. J., 1998, In : Journal of International Money and Finance. 17, p. 191-210 20 p.
Pricing strategy and financial policy
Dasgupta, S. & Titman, S., 1998, In : Review of Financial Studies. 11, 4, p. 705-737 33 p.
Personal skills development and first year undergraduate accounting education: A teaching note
Agyemang, G. & Unerman, J., 1998, In : Accounting Education. 7, 1, p. 87-92 6 p.
Noise-proof equilibria in two-action signaling games
Carlsson, H. & Dasgupta, S., 12/1997, In : Journal of Economic Theory. 77, 2, p. 432-460 29 p.
Information disclosure to employees and rational expectations: a game theoretical perspective - a comment
Pope, P. F. & Peel, D., 10/1997, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 24, 9, p. 1433-1435 3 p.
Women in the Boardroom: Evidence from Large UK Companies
Conyon, M. & Mallin, C., 07/1997, In : Corporate Governance: An International Review. 5, 3, p. 112-117 6 p.
Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
Conyon, M., 07/1997, In : International Journal of Industrial Organization. 15, 4, p. 493-509 16 p.
A comparative study of the use of financial graphs in the corporate annual reports of major U.S. and U.K. companies
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 02/1997, In : Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. 8, 1, p. 33-68 36 p.
Deep and surface learning: a simple or simplistic dichotomy?
Beattie, V., Collins, B. & McInnes, B., 1997, In : Accounting Education. 6, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.
Taking Care of Business: The Politics of Executive Pay in the United Kingdom
Conyon, M. & Singh, R., 1997, In : Contemporary British History. 11, 4, p. 1-20 20 p.
A Review of Compliance with Cadbury
Conyon, M. & Mallin, C., 1997, In : Journal of General Management. 22, p. 24-37 14 p.
Export and hedging decisions under revenue and exchange rate risk: a note
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 1997, In : European Economic Review. 41, 7, p. 1421-1426 6 p.
The incremental volatility information in one million foreign exchange quotations
Xu, X. & Taylor, S. J., 1997, In : Journal of Empirical Finance. 4, p. 317-340 24 p.
Merkmale und Einsatz von exotischen Optionen
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 1997, In : Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung. 38, p. 559-564 6 p.
The impact of offshore financial centers on international financial markets
Bartram, S. & Dufey, G., 1997, In : Thunderbird International Business Review. 39, 5, p. 535-579 45 p.
A multi-disciplinary identification of issues associated with 'contracting' in market oriented health service reforms
Hindle, A., Burgoyne, J. G., Mumford, M. J. & Brown, D. H., 1997, In : British Journal of Healthcare Management. 8, p. 39-49 11 p.
Time to default in the UK mortgage market
Satchell, S. E., Perraudin, W. R. M. & Lambrecht, B. M., 1997, In : Economic Modelling. 14, 4, p. 485-499 15 p.
Approximating the finite sample bias for maximum likelihood estimators using the score
Satchell, S. E., Perraudin, W. R. M. & Lambrecht, B. M., 1997, In : Econometric Theory. 13, 2, p. 310-312 3 p.
Tender offers, proxy contests, and large shareholder activism
Dasgupta, S., 1997, In : Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 6, 4, p. 787-820 34 p.
Does goodwill accounting matter?
Gore, P., Taib, F. & Taylor, P., 03/1996, In : Accountancy. 117, 1231, p. 124-125 2 p.
Creditor races and contingent claims
Perraudin, W. R. M. & Lambrecht, B. M., 1996, In : European Economic Review. 40, p. 897-907 11 p.
Measure for measure?
O'Hanlon, J. F. & Peasnell, K. V., 1996, In : Accountancy. p. 50-52 3 p.
The time series properties of the components of clean surplus earnings: UK evidence
O'Hanlon, J. F., 1996, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 23, 2, p. 159-183 25 p.
Accounting, legitimation and ethics: A case study of single issue, direct action politics
Unerman, J., 1996, In : Journal of Applied Accounting Research. 3, 2, p. 37-72 36 p.
Second Thoughts on the Analytical Properties of Earned Economic Income
Peasnell, K., 09/1995, In : British Accounting Review. 27, 3, p. 229-239 11 p.
Directors Pay in the Privatized Utilities
Conyon, M., 06/1995, In : British Journal of Industrial Relations. 33, 2, p. 159-171 13 p.
Taking Care of Business: Executive Compensation in the United Kingdom
Conyon, M., Gregg, P. & Machin, S., 05/1995, In : Economic Journal. 105, 430, p. 704-714 11 p.
Labour Share, Market Structure and Trade Unionism
Analytical Properties of Earned Economic Income
Peasnell, K., 03/1995, In : British Accounting Review. 27, 1, p. 5-33 29 p.
Optimal regulation of MNEs and government revenues
Dasgupta, S. & Sengupta, K., 02/1995, In : Journal of Public Economics. 58, 2, p. 215-234 20 p.
Strategic R and D success announcements
Bag, P. K. & Dasgupta, S., 01/1995, In : Economics Letters. 47, 1, p. 17-26 10 p.
Commonalities Between Added Value Ratios and Traditional Return on Capital Employed
Kwong, C., Munro, J. & Peasnell, K., 1995, In : Accounting and Business Research. 26, 1, p. 51-67 17 p.
The importance of audit firm characteristics and the drivers of auditor change in UK listed companies
Beattie, V. & Fearnley, S., 1995, In : Accounting and Business Research. 25, 100, p. 227-239 13 p.
Industry Profit Margins and Concentration: Evidence from UK Manufacturing
Conyon, M., 1995, In : International Review of Applied Economics. 9, 3, p. 275-290 16 p.
Tenure and Contracts: The Experience of UK CEOs
Conyon, M., 1995, In : Personnel Review. 23, 5, p. 25-33 9 p.
Return/earnings regressions and residual income: empirical evidence
O'Hanlon, J. F., 1995, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 22, 1, p. 53-66 14 p.
The univariate time series modelling of earnings: a review
O'Hanlon, J. F., 1995, In : British Accounting Review. 27, 3, p. 187 - 210 24 p.
Conditional volatility and the informational efficiency of the PHLX currency options markets
Xu, X. & Taylor, S. J., 1995, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 19, p. 803-821 19 p.
The changing structure of the market for audit services in the UK: a descriptive study
Extraordinary items and income smoothing: a positive accounting approach
Beattie, V., Brown, S., Ewers, D., John, B., Manson, S., Thomas, D. & Turner, M., 09/1994, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 21, 6, p. 791-811 21 p.
An empirical study of graphical format choices in charity annual reports
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 08/1994, In : Financial Accountability and Management. 10, 3, p. 215-236 22 p.
Top Pay, Company Performance and Corporate Governance
Conyon, M. & Leech, D., 08/1994, In : Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 56, 3, p. 229-247 19 p.
Pay at the Top: A Study of the Sensitivity of Top Director Remuneration to Company Specific Shocks
Conyon, M. & Gregg, P., 08/1994, In : National Institute Economic Review. 149, 1, p. 83-92 10 p.
Corporate Governance Changes in UK Companies Between 1988 and 1993
Conyon, M., 04/1994, In : Corporate Governance: An International Review. 2, 2, p. 87-99 13 p.
Modelling stochastic volatility: a review and comparative study
Taylor, S. J., 04/1994, In : Mathematical Finance. 4, 2, p. 183-204 22 p.
Expectations, Security Yields, and Inflation: Ex ante Risk Premia on UK Shares, Corporate Bonds and Gilts, 1969 1987
Yaansah, R. & Peasnell, K., 03/1994, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 21, 2, p. 155-174 20 p.
Information design and manipulation: the case of financial graphs in corporate annual reports
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 1994, In : Information Design Journal. 7, 3, p. 211-226 16 p.
The term structure of volatility implied by foreign exchange options
Xu, X. & Taylor, S. J., 1994, In : Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 29, p. 57-74 18 p.
The magnitude of implied volatility smiles: theory and empirical evidence for exchange rates
Xu, G. & Taylor, S. J., 1994, In : Review of Futures Markets. 13, p. 355-380 26 p.
Investment trust discounts and abnormal returns: UK evidence
Cheng, A., Copeland, L. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1994, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 21, 6, p. 813-831 19 p.
Sur la structure par terme et des options (on term structure and options), in French
Quittard-Pinon, F. & Wojakowski, R. M., 1994, In : Note de recherche GRID No 94-10, Ecole Normale Superieure.
Discovering errors in tracking error
Pope, P. F. & Yadav, P. K., 1994, In : Journal of Portfolio Management. 20, 2, p. 27-32 6 p.
Stock index futures mispricing
Pope, P. F. & Yadav, P. K., 1994, In : Journal of Banking and Finance. 18, 5, p. 921-953 33 p.
Threshold autoregressive modelling in finance: the pricing of equivalent assets
Paudyal, K., Pope, P. F. & Yadav, P. K., 1994, In : Mathematical Finance. 4, 2, p. 205-221 17 p.
The impact of short sales constraints on stock index futures prices: direct empirical evidence
Pope, P. F. & Yadav, P. K., 1994, In : Journal of Derivatives. 1, 4, p. 15-26 12 p.
Capitalisation of Interest
Peasnell, K., 03/1993, In : British Accounting Review. 25, 1, p. 17-42 26 p.
Sunk investment, bargaining, and choice of capital structure
Dasgupta, S. & Sengupta, K., 02/1993, In : International Economic Review. 34, 1, p. 203-220 18 p.
Bargaining and brinkmanship: capital structure choice by regulated firms
Dasgupta, S. & Nanda, V., 1993, In : International Journal of Industrial Organization. 11, 4, p. 215-234 20 p.
Effect of graphical presentations on insights into a company's financial position: an innovative educational approach to communicating financial information in financial reporting : a comment
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 1993, In : Accounting Education. 2, 4, p. 303-309 7 p.
Deregulation and UK stock market volatility
Pope, P. F., Yadav, P. K. & Peel, D., 1993, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 20, 3, p. 359-372 14 p.
Portfolio theory applied to on-line financial information: a computer based graphical approach
Bielinski, B., Whiddett, D., Ho, S. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1993, In : Accounting Education. 2, 2, p. 123-142 20 p.
Optimal currency hedging, export, and production in the presence of idiosyncratic risk
Adam-Müller, A. F. A., 1993, In : Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. 192, 2, p. 197-208 12 p.
Income Distribution, Efficient Bargaining and Market Structure
Conyon, M., 10/1992, In : Economics Letters. 40, 2, p. 181-185 5 p.
Credit-rating agencies: the relationship between rater agreement and issuer/rater characteristics
Beattie, V. & Searle, S. H., 1992, In : Journal of International Securities Markets. 6, p. 371-375 5 p.
Bond ratings and inter-rater agreement: a cross-sectional analysis
The use and abuse of graphs in annual reports: a theoretical framework and an empirical study
Beattie, V. & Jones, M., 1992, In : Accounting and Business Research. 22, 88, p. 291-303 13 p.
Stock market over-reaction and price reversals: the UK evidence
Thomas, V. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1992, In : Greek Economic Review. p. 149-162 14 p.
Market recognition of differences in earnings persistence: UK evidence
Poon, S., Yaansah, R. A. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1992, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 19, 4, p. 625-639 15 p.
Intraweek and intraday seasonalities in stock market risk premia: cash vs futures
The Determination of Profit Margins in UK Manufacturing
Conyon, M. & Machin, S., 06/1991, In : Journal of Industrial Economics. 39, 4, p. 369-382 14 p.
The impact of nonserial publications on research in accounting and finance
Beattie, V. & Ryan, B., 03/1991, In : Abacus. 27, 1, p. 32-50 19 p.
Market-Structure and the Empirical Specification of Profit Margins
Conyon, M. & Machin, S., 02/1991, In : Economics Letters. 35, 2, p. 227-231 5 p.
Testing index futures market efficiency using price differences: a critical analysis
Pope, P. F. & Yadav, P. K., 1991, In : Journal of Futures Markets. 11, 2, p. 239-252 14 p.
The relationship in time between annual accounting returns and annual stock market returns in the UK
Do UK security analysts over-react?
O'Hanlon, J. F., 1991, In : Accounting and Business Research. 21, 85, p. 63-74 12 p.
O efeito tamanho versus o efeito mes-do-ano no mercado de capitias Brasileiro: uma analise empirica
da Costa, N. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1991, In : Revista Brasileira de Mercado Decapitais. p. 61-74 14 p.
Forward foreign exchange rates and risk premia - a reappraisal
Pope, P. F. & Peel, D., 1991, In : Journal of International Money and Finance. 10, 3, p. 443-456 14 p.
Competition for procurement contracts and underinvestment
The policy anticipation hypothesis and the expected inflation hypothesis: Some new evidence using index linked bonds
Peel, D., Pope, P. & Paudyal, K., 10/1990, In : Economics Letters. 34, 2, p. 121-125 5 p.
Stock index futures arbitrage: international evidence
Volatility and the big bang factor - has the big bang made UK stock prices more volatile?
Pope, P. F., Yadav, P. K. & Peel, D., 1990, In : Professional Investor. p. 20-22 3 p.
Managing procurement auctions
Dasgupta, S. & Pulber, D. F., 1990, In : Information Economics and Policy. 4, 1, p. 5-29 25 p.
Empirical evidence on the properties of exchange rate forecasts and the risk premium
Peel, D. & Pope, P., 12/1989, In : Economics Letters. 31, 4, p. 387-391 5 p.
Performance indices and related measures of journal reputation in accounting
Beattie, V. & Ryan, B., 09/1989, In : British Accounting Review. 21, 3, p. 267-278 12 p.
Information, prices and efficiency in a fixed-odds betting market
Pope, P. F. & Peel, D., 1989, In : Economica. 56, 223, p. 323-341 19 p.
Day of the week effects in the UK equity market: a cross-sectional analysis
Choy, A. & O'Hanlon, J. F., 1989, In : Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 16, 1, p. 89-104 16 p.
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The Saudi media and human rights activists reported that the Saudi Arabian government intends to execute 6 youths from the Al-Qatif province in the coming days. There are serious concerns over the observation of fair trial principles.
The charges against the individuals are full of ambiguities and the crimes they are accused of do not fall in the category of the most serious crimes. Charges such as destruction of commercial properties, blocking traffic etc. against the individuals have been reported. The individuals facing imminent execution by the Saudi authorities are:
The ODVV is extremely concerned about the fate of these individuals and calls upon all human rights activists, international NGOs active on the Middle East, and also the UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities to immediately protest against this matter and to put pressure on the Saudi government to stop the executions and review the issued sentences in accordance with international standards.
Mojtaba Nader al-Suwaiket
He is 21 years old, was arrested in the first half of 2013 at Damam airport and is accused of collaborating with a number of individuals suspected by the security services in organising an anti-government march and causing damages to some public properties. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
Abd al-Aziz Hassan al-Sahwi
He is 22 years old and is accused of planning and participating in various demonstrations, burning tyres and causing unsafety and disturbance. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
Abd Allah Salman al-Sarih
He is 21 years old and one of the most wanted individuals in the top 22 list of the police. He is accused of killing a police officer, firing at security forces patrols and burning police cars in Al-Awamiyah while carrying out their duties. The individual is also accused of carrying out armed robberies in some commercial properties in Al- Awamiyah. He was arrested in a planned police sting operation and had some drugs in his possession. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
Hossein Hassan Aal al-Rabii
He is 31 years old and the older brother of suspect on the run in the top 22 most wanted list (Hossein al-Rabii). He is accused of firing shots at some police patrol units and armed robbery. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
Monir Abd Allah Adam
He is 22 years old and was arrested in 2012. A light machine gun was found in his possession. He is accused of opening fire on the Al-Awamiyah police headquarters. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
Salman Amin Aal Qoraysh
He is 21 years old, was arrested at the beginning of 2013, and is charged with participation in anti-government protests, blocking traffic, throwing firebombs (Molotov cocktails) at police and security forces patrols. He is from Safawi.
Furthermore, the following have had arrest warrants issued against them which are serious causes for concern with regards to failure to observe fair trial, prohibition of torture, the right to personal freedom and security and humane behaviour principles, in treating these suspects.
1 – Hassan Abd al-Wahab al-Jazayeri, 22. Charged with: blocking traffic, disrupting traffic, participation in anti-government protests, burning tyres on streets to create obstacles and prevention of police movements. He is from Al-Qatif.
2 – Abd Allah Hani Aal Tarif, 22. Charged with: collaborating with a number of individuals under investigation accuse of selling weapons and transportation of individuals on the run. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
3 – Mohammad Mansour Aal Nasser 23. Charged with: armed robbery and targeting police patrols while carrying out their duties. He is from Al-Qatif.
4 – Mostafa Ahmad Darwish, 22. Charged with: firing at a police patrol and injuring one of the officers in the vehicle. He is from Al-Qatif.
5 – Fazel Hassan Labbad, 25. He was one of those detained in the first half of 2012, who is charged with collaboration with a terror cell and some police officers who are under accusation and also targeting the al-Awamiyah police headquarters. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
6 – Saeid Mohammad al-Sakafi, 21. He was arrested at a checkpoint. In 2012 he was tried on charges of firing at a Saudi citizen and targeting the Al-Awamiyah police station. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
7 – Ahmad Faisal Aal Darwish, 24. He was arrested in 2013 at a checkpoint He is charged with blocking traffic by burning tyres and participation in causing damages to public property. He is from Al- Awamiyah.
8 – Mohammad Khalil al-Shaqaq, 24. Charged with firing at police patrol while patrolling one of the city streets. He is from Al-Qatif.
At this critical moment, the ODVV calls upon all international human rights organizations, Mr. Zeid Raed Al-Hossein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and human rights activists to work hard towards saving the lives of these individuals and to have their human rights observed.
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The Sith Are Unleashed This February in STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL #1!
New York, NY – November 15, 2016 – This February, hatred has a new face. Marvel Entertainment & Lucasfilm Ltd. are pleased to announce STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL #1 – the next thrilling Star Wars limited series comes to comic shops and digital devices everywhere! Blockbuster writer Cullen Bunn (Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, Monsters Unleashed) and artist Luke Ross (Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adaptation) take you inside the mind of Darth Sidious’ star pupil as he embarks on a personal quest – with deadly consequences!
Bred on hate, fear, and anger. Steeped in the ways of darkness…trained to kill. Darth Maul’s time as an apprentice to Darth Sidious has long been cloaked in shadows, but at last we will reveal his tale of revenge. His master tells him to embrace his anger, but to stay hidden and bide his time. Maul has waited long enough – his patience growing ever thinner. His moment to step into the light has finally come. Prepare for a tale of unbridled rage as Darth Maul readies one of his first encounters with his mortal enemy…with the Jedi.
“Darth Maul was, as you might imagine, my favorite character in The Phantom Menace,” says Cullen Bunn in an interview with Marvel.com. “I loved that we were seeing a new kind of Sith. Though he was only in the movie for a few short scenes, he left his mark. I couldn’t help but wonder what had driven his brash, impatient anger. That’s part of what we’re exploring with this book.”
The fan-favorite character takes center stage this February as Bunn and Ross take you inside the mind of the Sith in the can’t-miss STAR WARS: DARTH MAUL #1!
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Focus Market Asia
Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
Status as per 1st September 2010
§ 1 Scope
These General Terms and Conditions shall apply to all contracts concluded with Yabylon GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “Yabylon”) by a contracting party with respect to localisation, globalization, Internet and consulting services unless expressly otherwise agreed. They shall take precedence over all terms and conditions of the contracting party, even if this is expressly excluded in the General Terms and Conditions of said party. This shall be deemed as recognised by the contracting party upon contract conclusion.
§ 2 Conclusion of a contract
Orders shall be binding only if the contracting party has accepted in writing a written quotation submitted beforehand by Yabylon. In the sense of this provision, in writing shall also be deemed to include a statement sent by fax or e-mail.
§ 3 Terms of payment
Payments shall be due immediately after performance of the work and services without deductions. The statutory regulations with respect to default shall apply. Reminders, invoices and similar correspondence may also be sent electronically, and in particular by e-mail.
§ 4 Localisation and globalisation services
a) Object
Localisation and globalisation services comprise in particular, but not exclusively
Translations of all kinds
Production of market analyses
Production of project plans for localisation programs (= overall concept for adaptation of a product to the cultural and linguistic
conditions of the target market)
Management of localisation programs
Items 2 to 5 will also be referred to below as “other services”.
Other services shall be subject solely to the legislation applicable to service contracts. Yabylon shall not in any case be liable for success in the sense of the law on contracts for work, but shall be responsible for proper performance of the services. In the case of all other services, the focus of the activities performed by Yabylon shall be on providing consulting for the customer. Documents which are produced by Yabylon in this context are auxiliary materials and not the due result of the contract.
b) Warranty and contract termination
aa) General
In cases of liability based on fault, the liability of Yabylon shall be limited to intent and gross negligence. The maximum amount of liability shall be limited to the net order value (not including value-added tax), irrespective of the legal foundation on which liability is based. Liability for loss of profit shall be excluded. The upper liability limit shall expressly not apply to loss of life, physical injury and damage to health.
bb) Translation work
In deviation from the legal regulations, the warranty period shall be one year from delivery. In so far as not otherwise legally prescribed, warranty periods of all kinds shall commence at the latest upon delivery of the work and services to the contracting party, e.g. upon delivery of the files after completion of translation work. The contracting party shall examine the work and services immediately for defects of all kinds, and shall notify Yabylon immediately and in writing of any complaints. If the contracting party does not comply with this obligation, all warranty claims shall be excluded. If the contracting party does not expressly specify a defined terminology, particularly for the translation of certain terms, then it shall not be in any case deemed to be a defect if Yabylon uses translations with the correct meaning which can be found in general dictionaries. If the contracting party does not specify the notation of proper names or other fixed designations which cannot be represented in the Roman alphabet, Yabylon shall be entitled to use a notation which represents the sound pattern as exactly as possible without further consultation. Yabylon shall not be obliged to carry out a separate check or observe transliteration conventions defined in international agreements.
If defects are established, the contracting party shall have the rights defined in § 634 BGB (German Civil Code). However, he shall be entitled to invoke his right of self-performance (§§ 634 Item 2 and 637 BGB) or right of rescission or reduction in price (§ 634 Item 3 BGB) only if at least three attempts at remedy by Yabylon have failed. Further warranty rights, particularly claims for compensation, shall be excluded for the period of defect remedy.
If the contract is terminated prematurely by the contracting party in accordance with § 649 BGB during the performance of translation work, Yabylon shall retain its entitlement to the agreed consideration, but shall be obliged to offset flat-rate saved costs amounting to 5% of the net order value as saved costs. Notwithstanding this provision, both parties shall be entitled to prove that the saved costs were higher or lower in their favour.
cc) Other services
If Yabylon performs other services in the sense of § 4 Sub-paragraph a) Items 2 to 5 of these General Terms and Conditions, then ordinary termination of the contract shall not be possible in the cases of Items 2, 3 and 5, and the contract shall end upon delivery of the concept. The right of extraordinary termination shall not be affected. In the case of Item 4, the period of notice shall be 4 weeks.
Yabylon does not provide legal consultancy services, and shall be liable only for diligent consultancy services within the scope of other services. Yabylon shall not be liable in any case for the general business risk of the contracting party. If the contracting party terminates the contract, he shall be obliged to pay any remuneration due up to the point in time at which the termination comes into force. This shall include reimbursement for all working hours performed at the hourly rate specified in the order or, if such a rate is not specified, at the hourly rate usual for work and services of the respective kind, and shall also include reimbursement for cost of materials. Yabylon shall be entitled at any time to assert claims for losses incurred over and beyond this as a result of termination.
§ 5 Internet services
Internet services are all services offered in conjunction with presentation and communication on the Internet, and comprise in particular, but not exclusively:
Development and maintenance of web sites and Internet presences
Web hosting (leasing of memory space on Web servers)
Audio, video and image processing with the full or partial intent of use on the Internet
Editorial activities (creation, revision and maintenance of content)
Technical support services (data format conversion, creation of data processing programs)
The warranty provisions for localisation and globalisation services in § 4 Sub-paragraph b Section aa) shall apply analogously to all Internet services. In so far as not otherwise agreed, both parties shall have the right to terminate a contract for all Internet services with a period of notice of 4 weeks.
§ 6 Copyrights
Yabylon shall transfer to the customer all transferable copyrights and other rights with respect to the work and services performed for publication, duplication, utilisation, exploitation, dissemination, processing, conversion and modification of the work and services supplied by Yabylon, including all conceivable legal positions relating to drafts and designs in any medium and of any kind. Said transfer shall be unrestricted in time, place, purpose or any other way. It shall be subject to the condition precedent of complete payment of the agreed remuneration.
Yabylon shall be entitled to a contractual claim of restraint against the client during default of payment which is independent of copyright claims. This shall apply to the use of work results produced by Yabylon in products of the client until the contractually agreed remuneration has been paid in full.
§ 7 Written form
Contractual agreements, ancillary agreements, additions and changes to the contract with Yabylon shall be made in writing, as shall all statements within the scope of the contractual relationships such as, in particular, notice of termination and other unilateral legal transactions. This shall also apply to a change in the requirement for written form. Written form shall also include sending by fax or e-mail if adequate identification of sender and transmission time is ensured.
§ 8 Separability clause
If an invalid provision should be agreed between the parties or one of the contractual provisions become invalid, then this shall not affect the validity of the rest of the contract. The parties shall be obliged in such a case to replace the invalid provision by a valid provision which is as close as possible to the economic purpose of the omitted provision. Each party shall have the right to propose such a provision in writing; this provision shall then be deemed as agreed if the other party does not object in writing within 14 days after receiving the proposal.
§ 9 Applicable law and place of jurisdiction
All contracts concluded on the basis of these General Terms and Conditions shall be assessed exclusively in accordance with German law. The place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be Berlin.
§ 10 Data storage
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Tag archive for ‘Mexican immigrants’
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
Post-Pandemic Immigration Issues to Expect According to Jean Danhong Chen
The current COVID-19 pandemic has already affected international relations. It has restricted non-essential travel and led to the closure of borders in some cases and this is likely a trend that’s not going More...
By Brandon Jones On Friday, June 5th, 2020
Jean Danhong Chen on the Positive Economic and Social Impacts of Immigration
Immigration has emerged as one of the primary issues in political campaigns all over the world. Despite a historic openness to immigration in the United States which has helped to enrich its culture, expand economic More...
By Butter Bracco On Thursday, March 12th, 2020
Trump wins another immigration lawsuit as SCOTUS rules to support ‘remain in Mexico’ policy
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a win to President Trump on Wednesday by allowing his administration to enforce the “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy. This meant migrants had to get asylum protection More...
By Brandon Jones On Saturday, July 27th, 2019
Trump wins on immigration again as Guatemala vows to restrict asylum applications
President Trump said on Friday that an agreement with Guatemala to restrict asylum application to the United States from nations south of the U.S. border as been reached. photo/ donkeyhotey “The so-called More...
Elijah Cummings yells at DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan for immigration political theater, health care for illegals
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan testified before the House Oversight Committee, where Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) went into a tirade over the border crisis. It was directed at Secretary More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
Trump moving to end asylum of migrants from Central and South America
President Trump may be making headlines over the bickering House Democrats “the squad,” while moving to reverse the U.S. policy to end all asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico More...
By The Dispatch On Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
5 People Charged with Forced Labor Conspiracy, Trafficking Victims to work Wisconsin Farms
United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that five people were indicted for conspiracy to commit forced labor, labor trafficking, and five additional labor-related More...
By The Dispatch On Sunday, December 16th, 2018
New York: Violent Mexican MS-13 ring broken up ahead of gang war, assassination and planned burglaries
Twelve alleged members of the La Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13, street gang were indicted by a Queens County grand jury Tuesday on various charges including attempted murder and conspiracy, in addition to drug and weapons More...
By Brandon Jones On Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Texas border patrol arrests more sex offenders, MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, drug runners
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley arrested two sex offenders and a gang member in separate incidents. Friday, agents from the Fort Brown Station working near Brownsville, Texas, arrested a Salvadoran More...
By The Dispatch On Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
MS-13 gang member Manuel Lopez-Gomez and felon Andres Abel Garcia arrested in Arizona, trying to get to California
Manuel Lopez-Gomez Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an MS-13 gang member from Mexico along with three U.S. citizens and five other illegal aliens attempting to travel to Los Angeles in two separate immigration More...
By The Dispatch On Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
San Antonio man, Gerardo Javier Carreon, sentenced for transporting illegal aliens in tractor trailer
A San Antonio man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for his role in transporting illegal aliens inside of a tractor trailer. This sentence was announced U.S. Attorney John Bash, Western District More...
By The Dispatch On Friday, September 14th, 2018
Yuma Arizona border patrol arrest nearly 200 illegal aliens in 33 hours
In the past 33 hours, Yuma Station Border Patrol agents encountered 188 illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico. From noon Tuesday to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Yuma Station agents apprehended 23 groups of people More...
By The Dispatch On Saturday, September 1st, 2018
Texas: Border patrol rescues over 60 illegal aliens inside ‘refrigerated tractor trailer’
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate Highway 35, north of Laredo, Texas, rescued 62 illegal aliens from a refrigerated tractor-trailer. Border Patrol agents rescued 62 illegal More...
By The Dispatch On Thursday, August 23rd, 2018
3 Obstacles To Clear On The Road To Immigration Reform
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated issues of our time, often dividing Republicans and Democrats as reform measures are discussed. TIME Magazine covers features Illegal Immigration Photo/TIME Rather than More...
By Brandon Jones On Thursday, May 31st, 2018
TBS’ Samantha Bee goes Roseanne crazy, calls Ivanka Trump a ‘feckless c**t’
TBS’ Samantha Bee made shocking and disgusting comments about President Trump’s oldest daughter Ivanka on Wednesday night, calling her a “feckless c**t,” attacking Trump’s immigration More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
Fake News: AP perpetuates Caravan migrants’ ‘confusion,’ thinking Trump will use ‘nuclear weapons’ on border
A bizarre tone taints an AP story by Christopher Sherman on the “caravan of migrants” in southern Mexico which appear to have prompted President Trump to ramp up border wall rhetoric. The article, titled More...
By Kaye Wonderhouse On Monday, February 12th, 2018
Illegal cop killer Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes mocks the court, ‘I’m going to kill more cops soon’
A California illegal immigrant mocked the court after found guilty of murder two deputies in 2014 and threatened “to kill more cops soon” as he was taken away. Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes, 37, was found More...
By Brandon Jones On Saturday, February 10th, 2018
Antonio Sabato Jr explains immigration stance on ‘The View’, saving money with a wall
Actor and model Antonio Sabato Jr. appeared on The View and took questions on immigration, a proposed Southern border wall. Sabato is both an immigrant and pro-border security, a contrast that the liberal hosts More...
Nancy Pelosi body shames grandson in racist reveal of his ‘birthday wish’ to have brown skin, eyes
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gave an eight-hour speech in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients on Wednesday that included a story about her grandson wishing he was Hispanic. photo/ More...
By Butter Bracco On Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Latino Victory Fund’s heinous and race baiting campaign ad pulled after terrorist attack
A shocking campaign television ad depicting supporters of Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Ed Gillespie as evil Confederates who attack children of color has been pulled in the wake of the terror attack in New York More...
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We are renovating our website to represent the Titus Task version 2.0
Below is a glimpse of our history and where we are going. More information coming soon.
Titus Task - in the beginning
From 2008 to 2014 - the Titus Task assisted 30 orphaned children worldwide come home to their forever families through adoption grants and created awareness of orphaned and vulnerable children through community events. From 2010 to 2014, Titus Task developed and nurtured a relationship with a community church in Delmas, Haiti through short term missions with World Orphans and providing resources to acquire a permanent location for the church. In 2014, Titus Task passed the baton to a new partner through World Orphans, but we remain in contact with Pastor Andre and the ministry of the church. In 2013, the Tugwell family moved to Haiti full time and effectively became Titus' Task as they learned, lived, and loved there for 3 1/2 years.
Titus Task - 2.0
Titus Task has always sought to reach the vulnerable in an intimate way, both in third world countries and in our own community. What started as seeking to provide families to those without, has now expanded beyond just orphan care to orphan prevention - with strengthening families and community at the core of our mission.
Titus Task - USA
Our mission is to bring the gospel in motion by building community at home with opportunity for connecting with others interested in joining with our Haitian brothers and sisters in tangible ways.
Titus Task - HAITI
Our mission in Haiti is to enhance the interconnection of a community through faith building and family strengthening initiatives.
Titus Task - to the ends of the earth
We desire to pursue ways to strengthen families and be the hands and feet of Jesus wherever God leads. With this in mind as we launch TT 2.0 we will be prayerfully considering adoption assistance, foster care and family reunification initiatives, and coming alongside other people in communities around the world who share our desire to build up the Church.
We Learn. We Love. We Live - Together.
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RICK STEVES' EUROPE: European sweet treats
Baklava is the traditional queen of desserts in Turkey.
Photo by Cameron Hewitt, Rick Steves' Europe.
By Rick Steves
We all know that Belgians are connoisseurs of fine chocolate, and Italy's gelato is an edible art form. In France, travelers look for tempting "patisseries" where they can indulge in eclairs, fruit tarts and macaroons. Americans in Germany expect to try the famous Black Forest cake, a mouthwatering concoction with alternating layers of schnapps-soaked chocolate cake, cherries and whipped cream.
But dig a little deeper with your dessert spoon in Europe and you'll uncover a bounty of lesser-known treats to sweeten your trip abroad.
In Portugal, a wonderful local pastry is the cream tart called "pastel de nata." Popular all over Portugal, this delicacy was born in Lisbon's Belem district, where locals have been coming to the famous pastry shop Casa Pasteis de Belem since 1837 to get them warm out of the oven. Here and elsewhere, you'll also find various concoctions made from egg yolk and sugar, such as "barriga de freiras" ("nuns' belly") and "papo de anjo" ("angel's double chin"). For a quintessential taste of Lisbon, duck into one of the funky hole-in-the-wall shops throughout town and ask for "ginginha," a sweet liquor made from the sour cherry-like ginja berry, sugar and schnapps. In Portugal, "Sabe melhor que nem ginjas" ("It tastes even better than ginja") is a high compliment.
In Italy, visitors headed to the gelato shops often overlook the country's tasty traditional cookies. In Rome's colorful Trastevere neighborhood, pop into Biscottificio Artigiano Innocenti, a traditional bakery that's been here since the 1940s. In the face of modern efficiency, humble Stefania Innocenti, who was "artisanal" long before it was cool, continues to bake the seasonal cookies that Italians love to eat. Romeo and Juliet have their own special sweets: "baci di Giulietta" (vanilla meringues, literally "Juliet's kisses") and "sospiri di Romeo" (hazelnut and chocolate cookies, literally "Romeo's sighs").
Other Italian desserts (dolci) will vie for you devotion. Try "bigne," a cream puff-like pastry filled with "zabaione" (egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine) or "crostata di ricotta," a cheesecake-like dessert with ricotta, sweet Marsala wine, cinnamon and bits of chocolate. "Torta della Nonna" ("grandmother's cake") has a creamy custard filling and is topped with pine nuts. In Siena, look for panforte, a rich, chewy concoction of nuts, honey and candied fruits that impresses even fruitcake-haters; and a chewy, white macaroon-and-almond cookie called "ricciarelli." Throughout Italy you'll see vendors at little booths serving up "grattachecca," shaved ice flavored with sweet syrups like "limoncocco" (lemon and coconut with fresh chunks of coconut).
In Turkey, baklava - thin layers of phyllo dough, baked and soaked in syrup - has reigned as the queen of desserts for centuries. Of the countless variations, Turks tend to favor baklava with pistachios. But don't stop there - Turkey has much more to offer a sweet tooth. Try one of the various puddings Turks love: "Sutlac," rice pudding (or "firin sutlac," rice pudding with a burned top), and "keskul," milk pudding with coconut, vanilla and eggs. Also look for "ayva tatlisi," a quince dessert topped with crushed nuts, and "sekerpare," cookies in honey syrup. Americans may find some of the other offerings unusual for a dessert tray: "kadayif," shredded wheat served with crushed nuts; "kunefe," shredded wheat with unsalted cheese; and "ekmak kadayifi," bread pudding served with "kaymak," the thick cream of water buffalo milk.
Visitors to Norway, Sweden or Denmark, may not realize before they arrive how much Scandinavians love sweets. Bakeries - often marked by a golden pretzel hanging above the door - fill their window cases with cakes, tarts, cookies and pastries. The most popular ingredients are marzipan, almonds, hazelnuts, chocolate and fresh berries. Many cakes are covered with sheets of solid marzipan.
Scandinavian chocolate is some of the best in Europe. In Denmark, seek out Anthon Berg's dark chocolate and marzipan treats, as well as Toms' chocolate-covered caramels. In Sweden, look for Maribou milk chocolate. The Freia company, Norway's chocolate goddess (named for the Norse goddess Freya), makes wonderful delights like Smil soft caramels and Firklover milk chocolate with hazelnuts. Licorice and gummy candies are also popular. Black licorice ("lakrits") is at its best here, except for salt "lakrits" (salty licorice), which is not for the timid. Black licorice flavors everything from ice cream to chewing gum to liqueur. Throughout Scandinavia, you'll find stores selling all varieties of candy in bulk. Look around at the customers in these stores ... they aren't all children.
As a traveler, you naturally want to relish the iconic desserts of Europe. And by all means do indulge in the creamiest gelato and crispiest croissants you can find. But also make time to search out other delightful treats that bring joy to locals wherever you are. They're some of the sweetest things in European life.
Rick Steves (www.ricksteves.com) writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. Email him at rick@ricksteves.com and follow his blog on Facebook.
(c)2016 RICK STEVES
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GOT7’s Jinyoung Reveals The Words He Said To His First Love
Jinyoung was extremely embarrassed!
GOT7 recently guested on 1theK Original‘s Prison Interview, where they answered questions and completed challenges. During the show, there was a moment where Jinyoung talked about his first love.
It began when Jinyoung was asked, “Can you say a word that every lover must have said when they were students?”
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Jinyoung then faced the camera and said, “Do I… like you?” However, Jinyoung’s answer was rejected since it was “lacking”.
Jackson then decided to ask Jinyoung about his first love and what he said to her.
Jinyoung then revealed that he shyly approached his first love to give her some candy, telling her, “I have… the candy here…“. After giving the candy, Jinyoung ran away.
After Jinyoung revealed this, he succeeded in his mission.
Jackson was a bit confused by Jinyoung’s answer and asked him to talk about his first love again. Jinyoung then revealed that he gave the candy to the girl and ran away because he was embarrassed.
Here’s the full video below!
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Watch WWE SummerSlam 2020 online for free on Kodi
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Without a doubt, we can say that WWE SummerSlam 2020 is the highlight of August 2020. The fans have been eagerly awaiting heated fights to spice up their boring quarantine routines. So get ready to be entertained by the best Kodi addons to watch WWE SummerSlam 2020 online for free.
SummerSlam 2020: Drew McIntyre vs. Randy Orton – WWE Championship Match
We all witnessed Drew McIntyre’s legendary achievement as he embarked on his first-ever WWE Championship run. But if you’ve followed Randy Orton’s exemplary wrestling strategies, you know he’s more than willing to give the crowd a worthwhile match.
To reach the highly competitive top of WWE, Drew McIntyre proved his dominance in the ring through Brock Lesnar aka The beast and many legendary wrestlers and stars. Randy Orton, however, is a fierce competitor who must have left the Scottish wrestler in terror after his ultimate feat in defeating Edge. That match would be one of the greatest matches in WWE history.
The Unsanctioned Matched revealed the Viper’s grim and brutal nature when he viciously attacked Big Show and Christian.
The gigantic Big Show failed to intimidate The Viper and succumbed to its brutal attack. Orton shifted this highlight in his favor, leaving a threatening message for the WWE Champion; there is an RKO in his future at the SummerSlam and he will never see it coming. Orton’s win in Extreme Rules Match against Dolph Ziggler and immediately dropping McIntyre with his RKO finisher posed a compelling threat.
So, will the Viper prove to remain undefeated or can McIntyre stop Orton?
To stay tuned, watch the WWE Clash and SummerSlam 2020, which will be streamed on the award-winning WWE network on Sunday, August 23 at 7 ET / 4PT
August is the most anticipated month for WWE fans as it brings the exciting SummerSlam season. While the global pandemic has eliminated the ability for the public to enjoy the live game, the shows will be held at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida and fans will be able to watch the live streaming. However, no major changes are expected in the event and WWE is optimistic to bring the feeling of a big show to the eagerly waiting fans.
You may have learned from WWE SummerSlam’s streaming experiences in the past that shows usually start an hour earlier than the other pay-per-view events. The designated time of events is 6:00 PM ET, but kick-off shows begin at 5:00 PM. We may not expect the same pattern this year as no indication is given as to the current circumstances affecting the planned timing of SummerSlam 2020.
As SummerSlam approaches, the question arises as to the contests that will hold the audience to their screens. Several matches have already been made official, but based on matches from Raw, Extreme Rules and SmackDown, the public should expect something to happen.
All eyes will be on the Raw Tag Team titles when Andrade and Angel Garza take on The Street Profits. Dominik Mysterio sets out to avenge the Messiah’s relentless attack on his father on Monday Night. During the United States Championship rematch of SummerSlam, MVP and Apollo Crews will meet.
Brand: Raw and SmackDown
Promotion: WWE
Event title: SummerSlam 2020
Host: WWE Performance Center (Amway Center), Orlando, Florida
Date: 23 August 2020
Time: 6:00 PM ET, 11:00 PM (London) and 5:00 PM ET (kick-off)
Official broadcaster: WWE network
Match ticket SummerSlam 2020
WWE Championship Game Drew McIntyre to Randy Orton
Raw Tag Team Championship Match The Street Profits vs. Andrade & Angel Garza
Raw Women’s Championship Sasha Banks to Asuka
Universal championship game Braun Strowman vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt
Title contest of the United States Apollo Crews vs MVP
Seth Rollins to Dominik Mysterio
SmackDown Women’s Championship Bayley vs. TBD
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Best addons to watch NXT TakeOver XXX on Kodi for free
1. Click on Sville Add-on
ClickSville is a highly recommended and reliable Kodi addon to watch Fight Sports including UFC and WWE. Go to the main menu, select Real Debrid Vault and click Sport Zone. Here you will find WWE UFC and Specials, click on that option and select WWE events. In this section you can search the latest WWE events by time and date.
After you choose the event, the system will search for Real-Debrid and free links by default. Choose a suitable link and you can start streaming your favorite events on this Kodi add-on. The high speed and high quality of the content are commendable given the free price of this add-on. You can install ClickSville very easily by following the instructions here.
2. Fight Club add-on
Fight Club is my all-time favorite add-on to WWE events and UFC matches. I will highly recommend this add-on to all fans who are raving about it watch WWE SummerSlam 2020 online for free. Follow the steps outlined here to quickly install Fight Club on your system.
The user interface of Fight Club add-on is very fast and convenient for the users. When you set it up, you will be prompted to generate a link from www.pinsystem.co.uk. This is a one-time thing; It won’t be time consuming. You can easily choose Boxing, WWE, UFC or MMA to watch new shows and events. Start a VPN before using this add-on for smoother functionality.
3. Mercury Addon
This Kodi add-on is all-in-one and can be easily downloaded from DeJaVu Repo. In general, the media content available on the Mercury Kodi addon in particular is only Real-Debrid. But thankfully, the event recordings from WWE shows and UFC matches are non-Debrid and as such completely free!
Mercury is a third-party add-on and therefore all free links to it are not exactly stable. These links can take longer to load than you expected and sometimes these links don’t even work.
But you should sincerely try the Mercury Kodi add-on to see if it suits you. Check out this post for information on how to install it on your system. But make sure to use a VPN to ensure secure streaming and optimal performance.
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Art & Design Achievements
Any student achievement in fine art, literature, fashion, graphic design, music, or culinary arts; cool exhibitions, or design festivals organized by a college or institute etc.
Total of 112 submissions.
Help us reach our goal of 150 inspiring stories celebrating the achievements of colleges and institutes across Canada.
NBCCD Alumna Samaqani Cocahq: Sharing the Teachings of her Ancestors
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Graduate Cat Squires: How They Found Their Fit in Graphic Design
Do you fit in yet? Cat Squires does. Graphic Designer Extraordinaire, Expressive Artist, Gender Fluid Person, Borderline Personality Disorder Manager, Non-Profit Supporter, Loving Daughter, Proud Mother, Devoted Wife. Depending on which direction you approach Cat, you could try to label them a hundred different ways. They are all of these things – but cannot be…
Durham College art instructor’s unique project invites the community to take part
from The Oshawa Express: A single person’s life is filled with countless stories. Some of them happy, some of them sad, some exciting and other times tragic; for one local artist, those stories can be the gateway to something bigger, and she’s looking to channel that idea into her latest project. Dani Crosby, an Oshawa…
Photographer Kelly Baker: Telling Untold Stories
What do an anthropologist and a photographer have in common? A pure obsession with storytelling. Little wonder that Kelly Baker was drawn to pursue both career paths. In fact, before entering the photography program, she had already completed a PhD in Anthropology: “I went to school for a lot of years to become an anthropologist,…
The Queen Street Billboard Project
The new billboards on display in downtown Fredericton are designed to intrigue your sense of thought – they reframe the concept of how a typical billboard is used and showcase colourful eye-catching designs that each have a story to tell. This project flips the marketing norms to use billboards as exhibition space, and to give…
Dare to Achieve, by Gavin MacDougall
To mark Centennial College’s 50th anniversary as well as Canada’s 150th birthday, the college commissioned an outdoor mural at the new Centennial Residence and Culinary Arts Centre (CRCA) at Progress Campus. The winning design, entitled ‘Dare to Achieve’ by artist Gavin MacDougall, a graduate from Centennial’s Fine Arts Studio program, was unveiled on June 22. “Art that’s in the…
Monsters Rule at Selkirk College’s Tenth Street Campus
Building on an educational foundation for both elementary and college students, the Selkirk College Digital Arts & New Media Program joined forces with Hume Elementary School for a spirited project that brought to life some wonderful creatures. From the minds of Hume Elementary School students to the computer screens of Selkirk College Digital Arts & New…
NBCCD Alumna Kelsey Schroeder: Fashion Photographer & Content Creator
Kelsey Schroeder, new graduate of the Photography Diploma, wasn’t even out the door before she was in high demand as a fashion photographer and content creator. She did not wait to graduate to start building her business and she did not wait to have a career handed to her on a platter. She plunged headlong into blogging and social…
NBCCD Alumna Jennifer McInnis-Wharton: The Fire Tamer
Jennifer McInnis-Wharton is a sight to behold as she fearlessly pulls pots out of 1050 degree kiln and drops them into a pile of newsprint and sawdust, igniting the lot with the heat of the glowing ceramic. Equal parts brutal and dazzling, the process of Raku gifts her with marvels of metallic colour. Jennifer is…
Langara students pen the memoirs of local Holocaust survivors
In Fall 2016, Langara launched Writing Lives: the Holocaust Survivor Memoir Project. Writing Lives is a one-time two-semester project at Langara College, coordinated by English instructor Dr. Rachel Mines, in which second-year students are connected with local Holocaust survivors to interview them and write memoirs of their lives before, during and after the Holocaust. An interdisciplinary initiative, the…
NBCCD Textile Design Alumna Emily Blair Weaves a Poem
Featured on CreatedHere: Weaving is a code that transcends mediums. Known by an exclusive group of highly skilled craftspeople, this code empowers the weavers who use it to create something incredible from nearly nothing: from string into cloth, and sometimes beyond. Emily Blair is an up-and-coming weaver on the verge of graduating with her Diploma in…
Selkirk College alumnae embody homegrown philosophy at Lōkel Hair Studio
The owners of Nelson’s chic Lōkel Hair Studio personify their namesake. It doesn’t get much more local than the duo Ashely Simon and Michelle Devine. They were locally born and raised, locally schooled and are now local business owners. “We’re local to Nelson. Our families are local to Nelson. Our learning is local to Nelson,” says Simon.…
Virtual Reality 3D Modeling Software Created by Student Researchers at the Algonquin College Office of Applied Research & Innovation
Masterpiece VR is a Virtual Reality application used to create stunning 3D art, including sculptures, paintings, and even whole scenes. This is all achieved through a combination of PhD level mathematics, cutting-edge technology and professional grade software/UI design. The technology also makes it possible for multiple users to collaborate seamlessly in real time across the globe…
Digital Tools for Textiles: How They Are Being Used by a New Generation of NBCCD Designers
Which kind of maker are you? Do you surround yourself with physical materials – bits of string, balls of clay, stones and metal? Or do you set yourself down in front of a computer – ready to skillfully use your powerful virtual tools? Or maybe, you lie somewhere in between… Craft is turning toward the…
Alison Murphy: The Artist and the Administrator
The line between artist and administrator has never been so blurry than in Felt/Mixed Media Artist and Craft NB Executive Director Alison Murphy. Alison the artist was born in her father’s studio. Touching his brushes, his palette, and his creativity, she developed a love for colour and for collecting. After graduating in 2004 with a…
NB Heart Truth: Featured Fashion Designer Chavah Lindsay
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Rory Greythorn has made a conscious decision to slow down his path in Jewellery/Metal Arts, and have a more “textured” experience. Rather than rushing to get the basics, move on to the next learning project and putting “his eyes on the prize of the diploma”, Rory wants to build, explore and have time to absorb…
NBCCD Alumna/Instructor Melissa LeBlanc: Characterizing Clay
Melissa LeBlanc has found what many of us aspire to have – an ideal balance. Two days of every week, she has her hands in the mud, conjuring expressive animal characters from blocks of inert clay. Three days of the week, she teaches in the Diploma in Ceramics at NBCCD, pulling the best and most…
La loi 63 et le design d’intérieur au Nouveau-Brunswick
CCNB
Les designers d’intérieur du Nouveau-Brunswick accueillent favorablement une nouvelle loi qui devrait créer davantage d’intérêt pour le baccalauréat de quatre ans conjointement offert par le CCNB – Campus de Dieppe et l’Université de Moncton. L’Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick a récemment adopté la Loi relative aux designers d’intérieur, ce qui est une étape déterminante pour l’Association…
Indigenous Skateboard Workshop
In the summer of 2016, Sheridan’s Faculty of Animation, Art and Design partnered with Sheridan’s Centre for Indigenous Learning and Support to create a skateboard workshop for First Nations high school youth. The skateboards were created in Sheridan’s Furniture Studio and the workshop was led by faculty member Connie Chisholm. Now in its second year,…
Sask Polytech celebrates Indigenous culture with new mural
Saskatchewan Polytechnic
The new mural at the Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Moose Jaw campus is another aspect of the institution’s indigenization efforts, which are developed towards reconciliation and long-term positive change. With enrolment for Indigenous students increasing 31 per cent since 2011-12, it is the responsibility of the entire organization to ensure every student feels welcome on our campuses.…
Hope and Fear Exhibition
Portage College
Portage College Native Arts and Culture students and instructors were invited by the University of Alberta to produce a piece for ‘Hope and Fear Our Collective Response’. An exhibition by the University of Alberta and Portage College Art and Design Departments. This artwork which incorporates caribou hair sculpting, porcupine quill plaiting, traditional leatherwork, beading, printmaking,…
NBCCD Textile alumna Monica Memory makes little things you didn’t know you wanted
Monica Memory. Let that name sink in. How fitting that an artist with such an evocative name is in the business of making little memories. Each earring, each pendant, each pocket mirror is a tiny perfect illustration. Her work is reminiscent of childhood – bright and cute and bringing a smile to the lips every…
NBCCD graduate Vincent Briggs: Designing Identity
Vincent Briggs was once known by a different name. In high school he kept to himself, spending more time in the library than with other students. He “tried to be invisible, and did a reasonably good job of it.” Fast forward to today. Vincent is a presence in any room, wearing spectacular handmade garments that…
NBCCD Metal Arts Program is Tailored for Budding Entrepreneurs
At a recent workshop, Brigitte Clavette held a bowl aloft and declared, “Now you can save your own life.” That sounds dramatic, but when it comes to teaching jewellery and metal arts at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD), Clavette takes her work seriously. “That bowl was hammered from a six-inch metal…
NBCCD Support the Creation of Mawi’art: Wabanaki Artist Collective
from Charles Gaffney, Department Head, NBCCD: In 2013, I had a vision regarding our graduating students of the Aboriginal Visual Arts (AVA) Program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD). How great would it be for them to transition from college to a supporting entrepreneurial environment that would enable them to refine their business…
Amy Sullivan & Rachel Greenwood: Making Space for Clay
Good partnerships don’t grow on trees. You find them buried in the mud. Amy Sullivan and Rachel Greenwood are mud goddesses. Both have been making a living with their work since graduating from the NBCCD Ceramics Diploma in 2006. Both of their respective businesses, Amy Laloon Pottery & Greenwood Pottery, are well known in the Maritimes. Now they have partnered…
Michael Rurka: The Digital Nomad
A decision faced by so many new grads: Build a Career or Travel the World What if you chose to do both? Before graduating with a Diploma in Graphic Design from the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, Michael Rurka had already created an illustration that would be featured in Applied Art Magazine. Immediately after graduating he was…
Photography graduate Lanaya Flavelle showcases women as role models
Lanaya Flavelle was shy as a child, and being creative was the best way for her to express herself. Thanks to her mother who was an artist herself, Lanaya developed a love for art at a very young age. She credits this early exposure for helping her find not just photography, but a purpose and…
Lethbridge College wins awards for its alumni and community magazine, Wider Horizons
Lethbridge College
from the press release: “Lethbridge College’s Advancement team received two awards on Friday in Seattle at the CASE District VIII 2017 Communication Awards ceremony. The winning submissions appeared in two different issues of Wider Horizons, the college’s alumni and community magazine that is distributed to nearly 40,000 people three times each year, and included: A gold…
Red River College creative communications students organize fashion show in support of Winnipeg’s homeless
from CBC News: “Dapper men who used to live on the street suited up for a fashion show last week that organizers now say helped raise thousands of dollars for Winnipeg’s homeless. The Runway to Change fashion show at the Fort Garry Hotel on Thursday raised $8,000 for the Main Street Project, a 24-hour drop-in homeless shelter in Point…
GAME program partnership between Brock University and Niagara College teaches students about design and production of video games
from Erie Media: “It’s a nice problem to have. Brock University staff have been flooded by applications in a new program where students learn about the design and production of video games. The GAME program is a partnership between Brock and Niagara College. When it launched for its debut season in September, nearly 400 applications…
College of the North Atlantic student, alumna, and faculty member nominated for East Coast Music Association awards
College of the North Atlantic
from the press release: “Three people, three backgrounds, three awards. A College of the North Atlantic (CNA) student, alumna and faculty member will be contending for awards at the East Coast Music Association (ECMA) annual awards presentation, taking place in Saint John, New Brunswick this April. Leading by example, Sound Recording & Production instructor, Michelle…
Kwantlen Polytechnic art exhibit explores Collective Unconscious
Kwantlen Polytechnic
from The Runner magazine: “Throughout the past few weeks, fourth-year art students have been exhibiting some of their work in the Arbutus gallery on the Surrey campus. The exhibit, Collective Unconscious, includes a number of powerful artworks ranging from oil paintings to sculptures, and offers a hint of what’s to come at the year-end grad…
Fleming College and Sheridan College sign new pathway agreement for art and design students
Fleming College, Sheridan College
from Fleming College: “Fleming College and Sheridan College have signed a new agreement that provides a pathway from a Fleming diploma to the Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design (BC&D) degree at Sheridan. The agreement applies to eligible graduates of Fleming’s Visual and Creative Arts Diploma program who have specialized in fibre arts, glassblowing or…
Vancouver Community College hair design grad finds dream job at Vancouver salon
Vancouver Community College
from the press release: “The one thing Jackie Penev knew she wanted to do after high school was play volleyball. After graduating, she entered an education program at a local college and made the varsity team. Only a few months into the season, however, Jackie developed a severe throat infection that prevented her from playing…
Vancouver Island University celebrates 25-year anniversary of Bachelor of Arts program with profiles of successful grads
from Vancouver Island University: “Happy Silver Anniversary, VIU BA! Twenty-five years ago, Malaspina College offered its first Bachelor of Arts program (Liberal Studies) in partnership with the University of Victoria. In 1996, the institution, which had then become Malaspina University-College, began offering homegrown BA degrees in a range of subjects. Today, as Vancouver Island University,…
Red Deer College visual arts faculty and staff exhibit mixed-media works at First Friday gallery opening
from the Red Deer Advocate: “Art doesn’t have to be serious — so how about catching some stand-up comedy or wacky printmaking at February’s First Friday gallery openings in Red Deer? Described as a combination of historical printmaking, pop culture “and a little bit of insanity,” the Making a Good First Impression exhibit is on at the…
Emily Carr University artist and professor works to solve mystery of Tom Thomson’s death through clay facial reconstruction
from the Regina Leader-Post: “A hundred years ago this summer, the painter Tom Thomson died in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. His artistic legacy is unquestioned. Barely five years of serious painting during the First World War produced works, like The West Wind and Northern River, that still inspire the Canadian imagination of wilderness. His contemporary admirers…
Une table interactive aux surfaces irrégulières
Cégep régional de Lanaudière
INÉDI, le centre collégial de transfert de technologie (CCTT) du Cégep régional de Lanaudière, vise à faire progresser la pratique du design industriel et son utilisation dans les entreprises du Québec et dans d’autres CCTT par l’entremise du transfert technologique découlant de mandats et de projets de recherche appliquée. INÉDI a travaillé sur le projet du PARC…
Anasthasia More: NBCCD Ceramics student make ball-jointed dolls
New Brunswick College of Craft & Design
Anasthasia More has always known what she wanted to do. She wanted to come to NBCCD for many years and now she is finally here, studying in the 2-year Diploma in Ceramics. But she’s not here to do functional pottery. Anasthasia is here to increase her skills and knowledge for making porcelain ball jointed dolls.…
Algonquin College graphic design students and grads participate in digital comic book project to raise awareness about the immune system and vaccinations
from Metro Ottawa: “A prominent Ottawa doctor has teamed up with graphic-design prodigies to convince children to get vaccinated. Immunization Warriors is a digital comic book that aims to get children thinking differently about needles and go over the heads of reluctant parents. Comparing viruses to invading extra-terrestrials, the comic aims to explain the role of white…
Cumberland College calendar promotes Indigenous art
Cumberland College
from the Melfort Journal: “A new calendar for 2017 is promoting the work of Indigenous artists young and old while also promoting education. The calendar was created by Cumberland College, who is partnering with the North East School Division. “We want to acknowledge and celebrate the work of our Indigenous students,” said Brenda Mellon, Manager…
Northwest Community College receives donation of Indigenous art
Northwest Community College
from the press release: “It was a momentous event for First Nations Fine Arts students on December 8, 2016 when two carvings, crafted by Freda Diesing herself, were donated to the art studio at Northwest Community College. Donors Kelsey Wiebe (on behalf of her grandparents, Jim & Jane Christison) and Corey Bulpitt, presented a Wolf…
Sheridan College and Emily Carr University of Art + Design grads among Oscar nominees for animated short-films
Sheridan College, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
from Newscaf: “Canada is a leader in animation, pumping out scores of professionally trained artists every year from places such as Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont., and Vancouver’s Visual College of Art and Design. But as they enter the industry, they face a tumultuous landscape of rapidly changing technology and economic upheaval. Three of the…
Algonquin College partnership with Shopify to offer students a hands-on experience in graphic design
from Techopia: Shopify U has added graphic design to its course offerings. The e-commerce company announced a partnership with Algonquin College to offer 60 students a hands-on education in graphic design. Shopify employees partnered with instructors from Algonquin College to design a nine-week multidisciplinary course as part of the School of Media and Design. As…
Capilano University Graphic Design students transform experiences from seniors into shareable posters
Capilano University
from TrendHunter: “Capilano University’s IDEA School of Design, a department that’s located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, assigned its students to visit the Silver Harbour Seniors’ Centre in to interview those there. The goal was to get an understanding of their experiences and to attain useful advice that could be transformed into a graphic design.…
Selkirk College Hairstyling grad finds successful, passion-filled career in Vancouver
from the press release: “One of Selkirk College’s top Hairstylist Program graduates has cut, coloured and up-done herself to a successful career in a downtown Vancouver salon. Full of enthusiasm and ambition, she’s just 20 years old. Amber Beckjord graduated from Selkirk College’s Hairstylist Program in 2014 at the age of 17 passionate about all things hair.…
Cambrian College Graphic Design students benefit from partnership with local businesses
from the Sudbury Star: “Cambrian College Graphic Design students will be earning credits and pay cheques at the same time thanks to a partnership with four local businesses. The partnership was announced on January 13 between Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program; its applied research arm, Cambrian Innovates, and the Ontario Centres for Excellence VEBTA program. …
Selkirk College professor brings the art and culture of graphic novels to students:
from the Nelson Star: “Once condemned as a dangerous force of moral degradation, comics and graphic novels have come to be recognized as important cultural texts. “I’ve always been interested in popular culture as an expression of our deepest desires,” said Nelson professor Renée Jackson-Harper. “Graphic novels like Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David B’s Epileptic,…
Emily Carr University graduate exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver
Emily Carr University
from The Source, a forum for diversity: “In the upcoming exhibitions, running from Jan. 13–Mar.17 at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Wild Child and The Quantified Self Poems redress our preoccupation with labeling. “The two projects are conflated in some ways,” says Taşdelen. Always curious, the Emily Carr University graduate approaches his ideas through research – first through the…
Student-powered OddBird Studio has a remarkable year
The third-year Bachelor of Game Design students who fuel OddBird Studio entered the 2016 fall term at Sheridan in the same whirlwind manner that has characterized much of their past year as indie developers. They spent the first week of September in Seattle, showcasing their debut game Arrow Heads at PAX West – one of…
Sheridan signs historic agreement with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
from the press release: “Sheridan College took part last week in a Commercial Signing Ceremony held in Shanghai, China, and witnessed by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of International Trade. The agreement, signed by Michael Rubinoff, Associate Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Sheridan, and Yang Shaolin, General Manager of the Shanghai Dramatic…
Contemporary Artist Kent Monkman
from Ovation, Sheridan’s Alumni Magazine: “It’s easy to be drawn into Kent Monkman’s paintings. He seduces the viewer with beautiful, richly colourful works, often depicting romantic 19th century western landscapes. But a closer look reveals images of violence and oppression central to the artist’s revisionist version of North American aboriginal history. Of Cree descent, Monkman…
Les finissants d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy s’exposent
Cégep de Sainte-Foy
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants finissants du programme d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy exposeront leurs œuvres dans le hall du pavillon des arts et du design du Cégep, dès le 27 mai. Le vernissage de l’exposition intitulée Callipyge aura lieu le vendredi 27 mai dès 17 h, une occasion rêvée de rencontrer la…
Les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy récompensés à l’Exposition de Design industriel 2016
du communiqué de presse : « Du 20 au 26 mai dernier, la Galerie Espaces Parenthèse du Cégep de Sainte-Foy accueillait l’exposition des finissants en Design industriel du Cégep de Sainte-Foy. Les finissants, au nombre de 16 cette année, en ont mis plein la vue aux visiteurs. Lors du vernissage, le mercredi 25 mai, plusieurs prix ont été…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy fête une Semaine Shakespeare
du communiqué de presse : « Du 7 au 11 novembre, tous les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy vibreront au rythme de Shakespeare, dans le cadre du 400e anniversaire de la mort du célèbre auteur. La semaine thématique organisée conjointement par les quatre disciplines de la formation générale (Français, Philosophie, Éducation physique et Anglais) propose aux étudiants…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy forme une nouvelle génération de graphistes avec le STUDIO Jeune coop
du communiqué de presse : « Favoriser l’insertion professionnelle de la prochaine génération de graphistes et développer les aptitudes entrepreneuriales de ces derniers, voilà les objectifs que vise la toute nouvelle coopérative scolaire du programme de Graphisme du Cégep de Sainte-Foy : Le STUDIO jeune coop. Unique au Québec, cette coopérative scolaire permet à quelque 32 étudiants de…
Les étudiants du Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les Marchands
Cégep Limoilou
du communiqué de presse : « Pour sa 38e saison de théâtre d’excellence, le Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les marchands du 23 au 25 novembre, à 19 h 30, à la salle Sylvain-Lelièvre. Une représentation de jour aura lieu le vendredi 25 novembre à 13 h 15. Les marchands est un texte de Joël Pommerat, mis en scène par Joanie Lehoux. Produit par…
Le Cégep Limoilou fête le succès du premier Show Mode socio
du communiqué de presse : « La première édition du Show Mode socio qui s’est déroulé le 23 novembre dernier au campus de Charlesbourg, fut un beau succès! Plus de 40 étudiants se sont mobilisés pour ce projet socio qui a été chapeauté par des étudiants de 3e année en gestion hôtelière : Coralie Blairon, Jennifer Chabot-Plourde, Myriam Dostie, Jean-Michel…
Le Cégep Limoilou lance un tout nouveau programme AEC Artiste 3D
du communiqué de presse : « Une toute nouvelle AEC Artiste 3D voit le jour au Cégep Limoilou pour répondre aux besoins de l’industrie. Les cours débuteront dès le 27 février prochain. C’est donc le temps de s’inscrire ! Les artistes 3D créeront les environnements et l’ambiance d’une scène, pour le cinéma ou la télé, par exemple,…
Le Collège Vanier ouvre une nouvelle librairie coopérative
Collège Vanier
du communiqué de presse : « Le Collège Vanier est fier d’annoncer que l’ouverture officielle de Jake’s Co-op, la librairie coopérative du cégep, s’est déroulée le 7 décembre 2016. La nouvelle librairie est gérée par la coopérative étudiante et est membre de la Fédération québécoise de coopératives en milieux scolaires (FQCMS). L’équipe de la librairie avait du…
Le Cégep régional de Lanaudière met en vedette les étudiants et enseignants du département de Musique
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants et les enseignants en Musique du Cégep à Joliette ont connu un automne haut en couleur. Plusieurs spectacles donnés, présence radiophonique et télévisuelle, participation à des événements de grande importance; c’est la tête haute et le cœur rempli de fierté qu’ils terminent cette session d’automne 2016. Lors de la partie d’ouverture de…
Le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles lance une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts
du communiqué de presse : « C’est avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme que le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles annonce la mise en place d’une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts, lettres et communication entre les Campus de Carleton-sur-Mer et des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, dès l’automne 2017. De la côte…aux Îles! Ce programme proposera une approche multidisciplinaire mettant de…
Les étudiants en journalisme de La Cité récompensés lors de la soirée « Reportages vidéastes 2016 »
du communiqué de presse : « La soirée de «Reportages vidéastes 2016» a récompensé des étudiants en journalisme lors d’une présentation qui s’est déroulée à l’amphithéâtre de La Cité. Douze reportages réalisés dans le cadre du cours Atelier de Journalisme Télé 1 ont été présentés. Chaque étudiant a effectué la recherche, la couverture, le tournage, le montage et la…
Vancouver Island University Culinary Arts grads find rewarding careers with luxury hotels
from the press release: “Vancouver Island University (VIU) Culinary Arts program graduate Perry Assu is living his dream. For fun, he snowboards down some of the finest slopes in the world at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort and for work, he cooks up fine culinary creations in the luxurious Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Assu, 19, who…
Former St. Clair College Graphic Art students launch cathartic exhibit in Southern Ontario
from The Windsor Star: Artist Dave Mutnjakovic started drawing as a cathartic way to deal with the challenges of living with Crohn’s disease. “I nearly died when I was 14 because I was misdiagnosed,” said Mutnjakovic. “Suddenly I started drawing and it poured out of me for six years.” Now 34, he works as an…
Red River College’s training restaurant is quickly becoming a culinary hub on Winnipeg’s hot new food scene
from Maclean’s: “It started with Deer + Almond in 2012. The small-plate restaurant popped up on Princess Street in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, offering a new option to downtown office workers and hip university students. Then, King and Bannatyne’s sandwiches drew lunchtime crowds. Next, Bronuts and Chosabi opened side by side in 2015, each tempting diners…
Architectural Technologies students learn both building sciences and interior design at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Architectural Technologies program incorporates interior design, building sciences, drafting methods, and geometry in a practical trades program. from Maclean’s: “Back in the ’70s they were known merely as draftsmen: people hunched over tables using pencils and mechanical tools to churn out blueprints for architects and contractors. But an evolutionary educational process has spawned…
Durham College Music Business Administration grad makes it to Top 40 with debut single
from Maclean’s: “Sarah Mark didn’t realize just how much she had learned in college until she got her first Top 40 hit on the radio. Granted, she had barely finished college when that happened. Her debut single “Tun Up,” a jaunty R&B summertime pop anthem, started getting serious airtime on Canadian radio stations just as…
Emily Carr University of Art and Design grad turns technicolour paintings and love of baking into edible works of art
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
from The Globe and Mail: “What colours come to mind when you think of a dimly lit parking garage in the heart of an urban city centre, a Saskatchewan sunset at the beginning of autumn or a big, creamy scoop of Saskatoon berry ice cream? A visual artist and pastry chef in San Francisco, Leah…
Red River College mechanical engineer designs handlebar adaptation for Canadian paralympian
Red River College mechanical engineer designs a handlebar adaptation for Canadian competing in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. from CBC: “When Chantal Givens raced Sunday at the Paralympic Games, she had a piece of Winnipeg along for the ride. The three-time Canadian paratriathlon champion, who competed in the sport’s Paralympic debut in Rio, was born missing her left hand. In an effort to…
Yukon College artistic collaboration explores climate change in northern communities
A collaborative project from Yukon College art students looks to tackle climate change through multimedia: from Maclean’s: “A collaboration between Yukon College’s school of visual arts in Dawson City, its Yukon Research Centre in Whitehorse and the University of Saskatchewan is adding a human dimension to the science of climate change. “We are trying to…
Giant pinhole camera offers a new experience for photography students
Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD)
An associate professor from Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) developed a giant pinhole camera to offer students a view of how a camera works from the inside: from Maclean’s: “Think back to high school photography class and recall the pinhole camera. Remember nothing? A quick refresher: “When light comes into any light-tight chamber,…
Cambrian College Graphic Design grad earns top award in RGD Student Awards Competition
from the press release: “An outstanding graduate of Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program has been recognized for excellence in visual communication and design, earning top awards through the RGD Student Awards competition. Neli Nenkova’s winning work was selected by judges from the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and was featured at the annual DesignThinkers conference held in Toronto in November 2016. Nenkova…
Former student at Emily Carr University on display at Heritage Hall in Vancouver
Paintings by Lan Yao, a former art student at Emily Carr University, on display at the Shiny Fuzzy Muddy show at Heritage Hall in Vancouver. from The Squamish Chief: “Squamish’s Lan Yao never really found the opportunity to produce art on her own time when she worked in 3D animation in Vancouver. But, in recent…
Lethbridge College adds new way of designing to its Interior Design Technology program
Lethbridge College Interior Design Technology program launches virtual-reality component to help both students and clients better visual projects. from the Lethbridge Herald: “There’s a new way of designing, and students at Lethbridge College are getting the chance to explore it firsthand. Students in the Interior Design Technology (IDT) program are getting the opportunity to work…
George Brown College opens another BIM Visionarium lab
George Brown College opens its second Building Information Modelling (BIM) lab to help students develop digital skills in building design and modelling. from the press release: “The BIM Visionarium officially opened on Nov. 25, 2016 at the Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies at Casa Loma Campus – the second space of its kind at the campus. BIM technology…
Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit features artists from Emily Carr University
An new exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ambivalent Pleasures, features artists with ties to Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Of the 40 artists exhibited, 26 are either faculty or alumni of the University! The exhibit presents Surrealist strategies, a range of approaches to abstraction, and concepts which address today’s social contexts. from…
Seneca College partners with CFC and AGO on ground-breaking virtual reality exhibit
Seneca College’s School of Creative Arts and Animation, the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) partner on Small Wonders: The Gothic Boxwood Miniatures exhibit to showcase rare boxwood carvings in 3D. from the press release: “The Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), Seneca’s School of Creative Arts and Animation and the Art…
ACAD receives prestigious art & design designation
Alberta College of Art and Design
from the press release: “ACAD is pleased to announce that it has received the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s (NASAD) designation of Substantial Equivalency – their highest designation for a post-secondary institution not located in the United States. The institution is the only independent art, craft and design post-secondary institution in Canada…
George Brown College signs agreements with Design schools in Ireland and Italy
George brown college launches two exciting new opportunities for art & design students to further their education abroad, both with the Institute or Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Ireland and with Politecnico di Milano in Italy. from the press release: “The creation of this opportunity is a significant announcement – not only for us,…
Okanagan College once again hosts Short Story Contest to encourage young writers
A challenge has been issued to local writers: go big on creativity while short on time. Okanagan College’s English department is once again inviting up-and-coming writers to step out of their comfort zones and into the frenzied creative world of the popular 3-Hour Short Story Contest, returning Saturday, Nov. 5 at all four campuses. The…
Centennial College unveils new Culinary Arts Centre
In fall 2016, Centennial College unveiled its new Culinary Arts Centre, complete with seven kitchen labs, a teaching restaurant and nine new classrooms that can accommodate 600 students. from Centennial College: “The striking new building takes the shape of a quadrangle with a central courtyard to allow natural light to reach all of the residence…
Fleming College receives design award for Haliburton school rebranding
from the press release: “The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) is recognizing the transformation and rebranding of Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art + Design (HSAD) with a prestigious design award. Fleming College will receive an RGD In-House Design Award of Distinction at the Association’s upcoming DesignThinkers conference in Toronto on Nov. 4. Formerly known as…
Medicine Hat College art installation raises awareness for MMIW across Canada
Medicine Hat College
In 2016, Medicine Hat College hosted its first ever REDress Project, an art installation in which red dress are hung around campus in order to raise awareness and memorialize the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) across Canada. from Medicine Hat News: “A simple but beautiful red dress that’s easy to put on. It’s the…
UFV Library literary arts project displays “human books” to bust stereotypes
UFV’s unique literary arts project aims to display a Human Library that builds on personal experiences and outward appearances to challenge prejudices on campus. from the UFV blog: “Our mission is to present unique experiences that challenge peoples’ understanding of stereotypes and educate people on diversity,” says Lisa Morry, a UFV library technician and part of…
Four institutions sign transfer agreement for Arts students
Capilano University, Douglas College, Langara College, Okanagan College
from the press release: “Four post-secondary providers have made it easier for college transfer students to complete a bachelor of arts at Capilano University. The University recently signed agreements to enable Douglas, Langara and Okanagan college students to transfer seamlessly into year three of Capilano University’s bachelor of Arts with a major in Liberal Studies.…
College of the Rockies hosts “Repatriation as Reconciliation” art presentation
College of the Rockies was pleased to host a unique presentation from University of Victoria professor, Dr. Andrea Walsh, entitled ‘Repatriation as Reconciliation: Children’s Art from the Alberni Indian Residential School’. from the press release: “A visual anthropologist specializing in 20th century and contemporary aboriginal art, Dr. Walsh is interested in collections of objects and images…
Great Plains College students weld metal art for can’t miss-auction
Great Plains College
Great Plains College’s unique metal-art auction showcases student art achievements. as profiled in Maclean’s: “Chad Hittel, 21, has to step up his A game. Since he graduated in 2014 from the pre-employment welding certificate program at Great Plains College (GPC), Hittel always donates a piece of metal art to the program’s annual fundraising auction. In…
Niagara College excels in Culinary Arts
from the press release: Niagara College’s Junior Culinary Team Canada proved that it has the recipe for success, winning a gold medal in its first of two competitions at the 2016 Culinary Olympics. The team from Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute competed in its first competition at the IKA /Culinary Olympics in Erfurt,…
University of the Fraser Valley launches “Bachelor of Arts 2.0”
from the press release: “The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is reshaping the venerable Bachelor of Arts degree, the foundation of many university graduates’ education. The new BA is linked to UFV’s key learning outcomes and emphasizes four core competencies as well as personal and social responsibility, and adds a mandatory online ePortfolio that highlights the…
MITT GPTech program thrives through industry collaboration
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology’s (MITT) Graphic and Print Technician (GPTech) program not only provides students a learning experience which spans the continuum from design to ship-ready product; it also gets them hands-on experience with bona fide industry tools, including a large-format printer which Hamilton says is “in huge demand” these days. This is…
Candace Sanderson: The Sculptor
Grande Prairie Regional College
Candace Sanderson did not give herself a ‘Plan B’ when she made the decision to pursue her creative passion full time in 2012. “I always knew I wanted to be an artist even from a young age,” says Sanderson in work boots, with bright eyes and her hair pulled back into a braid that falls…
Collection et Créations sous influences
« Créations sous influences » est un projet qui existe depuis 10 ans. Ce projet, qui est une initiative du département d’Arts, lettres et communication du Cégep de Lanaudière à L’Assomption, a pour objectif de permettre à des étudiants de travailler sous la direction d’artistes professionnels. Depuis 2006, une cinquantaine d’étudiants ont ainsi produit une vingtaine…
OFFF Tour Québec
Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
Le OFFF Tour Québec, créé par le Département de techniques d’intégration multimédia du cégep Édouard-Montpetit, est un événement annuel d’envergure internationale regroupant des centaines d’amateurs et de professionnels du domaine de la création numérique. Sur place, les participants assistent aux prestations d’artistes de renom des quatre coins du monde qui présentent le fruit de leur…
Holland College student trades hockey stick for paint brush
Holland College
Three years ago, Dylan McQuaid’s résumé would have led one to expect that the 20-year-old would pursue a career in business or sports. After several years of playing hockey – the last three in the Maritime Junior-A Hockey League and the Island Junior Hockey League – he seemed destined to follow the path of many…
St. Clair College’s Jason Fabok
Windsor, Ontario born Jason Fabok is a graduated from St. Clair College’s Tradigital Animation program in 2007 and was honoured as an Alumni of Distinction in 2014! Fabok has carried his passion for creative pursuits since he was a young boy. A fan of television cartoons, he enjoyed drawing the characters and watching them come…
Le design responsable du Collège LaSalle
Collège LaSalle
Le Collège LaSalle de Montréal “a pour mission d’offrir une éducation qualifiante de haute qualité en réponse aux besoins du marché du travail et à ceux du développement des individus, dans un contexte de mondialisation”. À l’aide de divers intervenants du milieu de la mode, les étudiants en Design sont appelés à développer leurs connaissances…
Native Arts and Culture Alumni: Amy Malbeuf
Portage College will be hosting a Visiting Artist Presentation in which accomplished alumni speak to students of the program from which they graduated. Recently, alumna Amy Malbeuf was invited to return to the College for a presentation to the public and for the students of the Native Arts and Culture Program. Having alumni return to the…
Future Ways of Living Cultural Celebration and Pop-Up Lab
The unique George Brown College Institute without Boundaries (IwB), a Toronto-based educational program and design studio, works to achieve social, ecological, and economic innovation through design collaboration. from George Brown College: “The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) was founded in 2003 by the School of Design at George Brown College, in consultation with Bruce Mau. The…
I am my Ancestors…My Ancestors are me
Amber Weasel Head is a visual artist, a student in Portage College’s Social Work program, and a graduate of the College’s Aboriginal Art Certificate program and its Artisan Entrepreneurship Diploma program. “I am my Ancestors… My Ancestors are me” tells her story: “This film is about my connection with my ancestors. I am the first…
Hairdressing Fantasy Competition
North West College
North West College offers the full breadth of Adult learning opportunities, one of which is a pre-employment certificate program in Hairstyling, teaching students to perform techniques on hair, wigs, hairpieces, skin and nails. Each year, the Hairstyling students are challenged to compete in a Fantasy Competition. Judged by a panel of experts, students submit mannequins finished…
Career training and culture coalesce at MITT
When the Downtown Winnipeg Biz put out a call for street banners to celebrate the Year of the Monkey (“Fire Monkey”), students in Jan Hamilton’s Graphic and Print Technician program (GPTech) at Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology answered the call, submitting 22 amazing designs. One of those designs – by MITT student Zhiling (Lucia)…
Lakeland College Interior Design student a double winner in design competitions
Lakeland College
Sydney Melnyk still can’t believe she’s a double winner in student design competitions. “It’s pretty crazy; I can hardly believe it,” says the Lakeland College alumna of winning first place in two National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) design competitions: the 2015-16 Charette Design Competition and the 2015-16 Schoolhouse Charm Student Design Competition. Competing against…
Camosun College’s Comic Arts Festival celebrates the artistry of visual storytelling
Camosun College in Victoria, BC, delivers a nationally unique certificate program in Comics and Graphic Novels each year to approximately 30 students. The one-of-a-kind program was created for students who have a desire to learn the language of visual storytelling, and focuses on skills-based learning for six career paths: comic book creation (print & online),…
“Carrying On” Indigenous Art Exhibition 2016
Portage College students from the Native Arts and Culture program were successfully juried into the “Carrying On” Indigenous Art exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council Discovery Gallery last year from June 18th to July 23rd, 2016. The show was also part of The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton, which is presented by The…
Fanshawe collaborates on motion capture suit for Parkinson’s patients
Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology
Fanshawe College has collaborated with researchers at Movement Disorder Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (MDDT), a locally-based medical device company to create a prototype of a motion-capture suit and tremor arm sleeve to be used in the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s patients. MDDT collaborated with Fanshawe’s School of Design to create a prototype suit that can…
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance is an important contributor to the Southern Alberta arts community – one that also enjoys the distinction of being one of the institution’s eldest programming areas, opening its doors shortly after the College was founded in 1965. On an annual basis, almost 1,000 multi-generational students enrol…
Full Blood Moon Entertainment: Films that Shifts Perspectives
They call themselves “The Four Horsemen.” They have more to do with film-making than the apocalypse, but the four gentlemen who make up Full Blood Moon Entertainment Inc. are working hard to create a global shift nonetheless. Today, however, they are taking a break at their shared alma mater. Sitting in dark suits in the…
Kelsi McInnes found her calling
Before Kelsi McInnes became a music therapist she first had to discover the profession existed. It all started when the Manning, AB, native was working in part-time respite care as a university student. Her client was a little girl with spinal muscular atrophy. McInnes found it incredibly fulfilling to help improve the well-being of another…
Dalen Landis is a man of many talents
As a photographer, landscape painter, custom tiler, videographer, music-festival organizer and now, professional beer brewer, Dalen Landis is not kidding when he says “I have my fingers in a few different pots.” This morning his fingers are busy filling kegs with fresh Redwillow Falls Amber Ale. A co-owner of Grain Bin Brewing, Landis has also…
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