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Label: Scepter Records - PC 12022 • Format: Vinyl LP, Compilation • Country: Germany • Genre: Funk / Soul • Style: Rhythm & Blues
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Meztitaur
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Rechanneled Vinyl release of Great Wilson Pickett Hits on Discogs. Label: Wand - DT,Wand - DT • Format: Vinyl LP, Club Edition, Reissue, Stereo Rechanneled • Country: US • Genre: Funk / Soul •3/5(3).
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits on Discogs. Label: Atlantic - K • Format: 2x, Vinyl LP, Compilation • Country: UK • Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul • Style: Rock & Roll, Gospel, Soul, Funk/5(8).
Wilson Pickett (March 18, – January 19, ) was an American R&B, soul and rock and roll singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, many of which crossed over to the Billboard Hot /5().
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Dogor
Raw southern soul brilliance from Wilson Pickett! This Atlantic album boasts the hard-to-find R&B hits I'm in Love ; She's Looking Good, and Jealous Love. 1. Jealous Love 2. Stagger Lee 3. That Kind Of Love 4. Im In Love 5. Hello Sunshine 6. Dont Cry No More 7. Weve Got To Have Love 8. Bring It On Home To Me 9. Shes Lookin Good /5(2).
Mooguhn
referencing Great Wilson Pickett Hits, LP, Comp, GP All this records are a poorly documented re-issues of the first Wilson Pickett " It's Too Late "-Lp done by U.S. company Double-L Records (2) SDL
Wilson Pickett (March 18, – January 19, ) was an American singer and songwriter.. A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, many of which crossed over to the Billboard Hot Among his best-known hits are "In the Midnight Hour" (which he co-wrote), "Land of 1, Dances", "Mustang .
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Did Led Zeppelin Rip Off a Folk Singer?
By Conneyfogle,
June 29, 2010 in News
Conneyfogle
Location:Cornwall
http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/29/led-zeppelin-dazed-and-confused-jimmy-page-lawsuit-jake-holmes/
swandown 27 posts
cookieshoes 22 posts
kaiser 18 posts
Yupter 14 posts
Yupter
A little late to the party?
I had no idea it hadn't been settled already
manuforte
Someone is needing $$$
Matjaz1
Everybody is!!
The chord progression and vocal melody are identical!! I certainly think writing new lyrics, a few riffs , solos and power chords is also songwriting, so Jimmy has some right to it, but the basic structure that makes the song is stolen!!
I'm just getting scared that Randy California might eventually sue for the Stairway intro. It will not be a problem of cash(Jimmy's got plenty), but a problem of reputation, because then a lot more people will know about it!!
I remember Jimmy going to court a few years ago, to sue some bootleger, it seems now he is going to be in a different role.
Oh well, he is used to it, he was sued in the seventies for Whole lotta love, which really is only lyrically similar and for Bring it on home, where the middle section is entirely original!
Who cares, he is still the greatest and wrote some tremendous songs!! When people say Page is a thief, they should first think of the incredible songs he wrote completely by himself, like The rain song, Kashmir, Ten years gone, Heartbreaker and the list goes on and on!!
Edited June 29, 2010 by Matjaz1
This feels like deja vu all over again.
hecube
He has no grounds. Led Zep's might have been inspired by it but plagiarism? No.
Lycanthrope
Location:The Darkest Depths of Mordor
Great. More fuel for the haters.
kdh
Location:kill devil hills, nc, usa
Rip off? Let the courts decide. Was there deceit? Only if Jake Holmes and Jimmy Page had some pre arranged deal. Other than that, its the old blues phrase of "borrowing".
cousinlouie
Location:Penfield, New York
My Favorite song, by my favorite band!!!!!!!!
Of course they ripped it off, LOL
The first 2 Zeppelin albums, are nothing but "borrowed" songs LOL
Whole Lotta Love, what more can you say?
Led Zeppelin borrowed many songs!
I could never FATHOM the drum beat on Fool In The Rain, and loved John Bonham for it, then maybe 2 years ago I heard Burnie Purdie and realized, even on the last album, Led Zeppelin borrowed many things!
Go on Youtube and type in Burnie Purdie or The Purdie Shuffle!!!!
And dont forget the similarities between Superstitious by Stevie Wonder and Trampled Underfoot!
Led Zeppelin was a very impressionable young band, I think they are the best but facts are facts!
I love Zep, but even as we wait for Plant's new CD, I hear it's all covers, lol
Lets say they take in the society around them, and give it back to us, LOL
But they did have some original ideas, and a driving force, and UNBELIEVABLE musicianship!!!!!
No offense to anyone
I'm the biggest Zep fan I know, except for everyone on this forum!!!!!
Seems the Statute of Limitations gives him only 3 years dosh max, i can hear the fluttering of moth wings as we speak.
"Decades after the song’s release, Holmes has, for some reason or another, decided to now file a lawsuit against Page, reports TMZ. Holmes, who says he owns the copyright to the song, can only sue for damages from the last three years, however, due to the statute of limitations. Decades after the song’s release, Holmes has, for some reason or another, decided to now file a lawsuit against Page, reports TMZ. Holmes, who says he owns the copyright to the song, can only sue for damages from the last three years, however, due to the statute of limitations."
http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=844&fid1=47775
Regards, Danny
Anjin-san
Jake remember what you said?
DanelectroGod
It's all about $$$. Who cares? I remember when George Harrison got sued for "My Sweet Lord" for ripping off "She's So Fine". In most cases, the suing party should be thankful
Hi Kev,
Spill the beans mate, Heinz if you can get em.
Very Kind Regards, Danny
tom kid
Location:Auckland, New Zealand
Pretty much. A mate of mine loves to rip at me about Zeppelin just because I listen to them so much and he can't fathom how I can do it. He's said to me before that they ripped off pretty much all of their songs or something along those lines. I know half of the time it's just a rark up but I don't get how he will refuse to even listen to them anymore just because I listen to them a lot.
Most of the "stolen" stuff was always overhyped, a few blues lines being quoted as thundreds of bands did in the era being painted as entire songs being stolen by a xenophobic american media(honiestly the only "claim" white americans have on the blues is causing them ). This is clearly one case where Page was a little bit naughty though, yeah he added alot himself in the Yardbirds and Zep BUT large parts of the track are still near identical to Jake Holms original and did clearly deserve a co writters credit.
Edited June 30, 2010 by greenman
Robette
Location:Transilvania
External link from another forum:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=220589
jsj
holmes once remarked that he feels one of the reasons jimmy wont concede to a credit or even part credit is because its a song that is so closely attached to jimmy through it containing his bow repertoire and how it was such a main chunk of the set, particulalry in the earlier years. i remember he's also said he's wrtten to him over the years to ask him for a part credit out of fairness but has always been ignored.
i think i'm right to say that he has wanted to sue before at times but didnt have the funds to do so.
of course it's a steal. other yardbirds members have stated how they saw homes play the number and then went and got his album to check it out. oh, and then mysteriously they came up with a song that sounded very much like it, but hey it must have been coincidence? come on....
it doent make me dislike the song, band, or page in particular any less because of this. maybe jimmy should have paid him off behind the scenes to avoid this happening and it going public.
i think most the zeppelin "steals" claims were mostly due to planty using standard old blues songs as starting points for his singing rather than musical steals.
just my two pennuth
Bad Times, Worse Times: Led Zeppelin Sued for Copyright Infringement
By DAVE ITZKOFF Neil Zlozower/Rhino Records Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin in an undated photo. Led Zeppelin historians have chronicled the creation of that rock band's early hit "Dazed and Confused" for so long it's understandable if fans can no longer tell what's true about its authorship. One thing is for certain: Jake Holmes, a folk singer who asserts he recorded a similar song, also called
in 1967, says that he is the song's creator and has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Led Zeppelin and its guitarist, Jimmy Page, as well as the band's record labels and Mr. Page's publishing company.
According to court documents filed on Monday in United States District Court in California and reported by TMZ.com, lawyers for Mr. Holmes say his "Dazed and Confused" was first copyrighted in July 1967, and its copyright renewed in December 1995. The song was later covered by the Yardbirds, the blues-rock band in which Mr. Page performed before Led Zeppelin, and the Zeppelin song was recorded in 1968 and released on the band's self-titled debut album in 1969.
Mr. Holmes's suit says Mr. Page copied the song "without authorization or permission" and "knowingly and willfully" infringes on his copyrights. A management company listed for Mr. Page said it no longer represented him, and a press representative for Led Zeppelin at Atlantic Records did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
swandown
This claim has been reported on numerous occasions, but it doesn't pass the sniff test for several reasons:
1. Holmes made a VERY good living as a jingle writer. Anyone who grew up in the '70s and '80s will recognize some of the jingles that he wrote.
2. for a case as obvious as this, there should be no shortage of lawyers POUNDING ON HIS DOOR to work on contingency. There were literally millions of dollars at stake.
3. who says he needed to hire a lawyer in the first place? Anne Bredon never hired a lawyer. She simply contacted Jimmy and informed him that she was the correct author of BIGLY, and Jimmy immediately rectified the situation.
Personally, I think if it weren't for the same title and vocal melody, Holmes wouldn't have a case.
Musically, its way too different, even the descending guitar/bass line is (which is the only musical similarity)
is quite different.
I think Jake Holmes deserves a co-writing credit (thanks to Plant, once again).
Why should they be sued for the intro to Stairway? It's only 3 chords and the notes are different. Stairway is an ascending arpeggio and Taurus is descending. Unless it can be proven that that chord progression was never played before Taurus was written (highly unlikely) what grounds for a lawsuit are there? The thing about the accusations of ripping off that annoys me is that if you know where to look most songs could be considered stolen. Art (music, literature, painting etc.) has been around for as long as we have been. Everything we see, hear and read are reinterpretations of what came before. The only originality is in new genres or in giving something a different twist. Zeppelin didn't do anything that every other band hasn't done themselves. I believe one of the biggest reasons Rock is essentially dead is that most of what could be reworked into new material has already been used. The main riff of Dazed was lifted from Jake Holmes so he should have been given partial songwriting credit (although Jimmy did come up with an entirely different song with the riff). Why did the dummy wait so long?
Oh yes i absolutely agrre stairway intro is quite different from taurus, but there are still some similarities. Anyway zeppelin made en epic song, that is the sum of all of it's parts, not just the intro and even the intro is pretty much original, but it might just be enough similar to taurus, to make a case.
I also aboslutely agrre that all (great) artists steal! it's normal that some of the things form the past get recycled!
Quite a touchy subject, but the similarities of DnC is hard to deny. It's not just the riff but the vocals as well; Jimmy should've known better.
An out of court settlement is most likely to happen.
If nobody ever lifted a lyric or a lick then we would still be whistling Dixie, or playing Greensleeves on a Harpsichord, , Perish the thought.
PS, and its mostly the Record Companies who go after Plagiarists (or Pagerists, ) not the original artists, now that says something.
In 1990, Musician magazine quizzed Page on the subject, asking if Holmes was the original composer. "I don't know about all that," Page replied. "I'd rather not get into it because I don't know all the circumstances. What's he got – the riff or whatever? ... I haven't heard Jake Holmes so I don't know what it's all about anyway. Usually my riffs are pretty damn original."
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Inspector Gesicht
500 Zeus a body.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais's videos may be rough and his appraisals may be florid, but he even he has standards as he said Mass Effect: Andromeda sucks. Also convinced me get Dying Light on sale.
# ? Apr 24, 2018 11:26
Trojan Kaiju
Noah is by far my favorite. It's really too bad that he had to stop living on the road because those travel videos are some of my favorites. Totally understand why he had to, though.
For all the poo poo these threads can sometimes get into, they've been a great resource for finding people like Noah, the YouTube leftists, Lindsay, Dan, and Cosmonauts.
If you LP what I LP
And if you work retail like I work retail
You would also scream like I scream
BobbyK posted:
No ones made me laugh as hard as DSP has so he's my favorite. Listening to him breathlessly explain why he has to cancel a stream because he needs to get a haircut or something but he hopes everyone will still help support him paying his unpaid taxes is why I signed up for this internet thing.
What the fffufufuffffffuuucckkkkk. How is someone this bad?!
I discovered Jenny through a video titled "I found the worst book" and its about a woman who falls in love with someone who trolls her.
Absurd Alhazred
I'm the babyliberal, gotta love me!
Lindsay and Jim Sterling are my favorites.
I want to say that I got to Lindsay's stuff through the gators, either directly or indirectly? When their thread got sent into D&D, I tried reading up about what the hell that was about, and they were either complaining about her directly or I got one of her videos recommended after I watched one of Anita's (which I never really got into). This was after she'd moved most of her stuff to Youtube, so I watched the back catalog, as well as the new stuff, and have been hooked ever since.
Jim I started watching around the same time, again probably showing up as a suggested video by Youtube when I was looking around at various horrible ess jay dubbya game reviewers.
Antifa Turkeesian
This isn’t a review thing exactly, but I guess it’s kind of Night Mind-related: DarkHarvest01, a slenderman-related youtube series from 2010 has started back up. It’s been silent since 2012 at least and was never very good. But now that the kids behind it have graduated from high school and college, maybe it will have some kind of conclusion that Night Mind will go apeshit for.
Unlockable Ben
DSP is what you get when you take an average sympathetic failure and inject them with Schadenroids
Absurd Alhazred posted:
Anita Sarkeesian’s stuff has gotten better since she ended her video series. Now she just fucks around on podcasts with two of her friends or Feminist Frequency coworkers and it’s pretty fun. Whoever blamed the director/producer she hired (who does Pop Culture Detective now) for making her poo poo stuffy and boring was right, it turns out.
Plus she cemented her status as a true comrade by dressing up like Emma Goldman and teaching the kids about anarchism.
business hammocks posted:
Podcasts don't really appeal to me.
I was searching my Youtube history, and I think that I also ran into HBomb, whom I also like, through Anita.
Pushing Up Roses, meanwhile, I probably got recommended through various let's plays and such, so not everything goes back to the gators, I suppose.
My whole exposure to many of these things was backwards because of the years I spent effectively offline focusing on my PhD.
Kim Justice
H3 did a podcast with the single hottest person on YouTube right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12qaVEyW14
TBH his hair seems to have more personality than he himself does, but I'm just mean because frankly he seems nice enough - an inoffensive, pretty and not all that obnoxious face for gamers in 2018 who isn't going to do anything stupid (probably). It appears as though Ninja playing Fortnite Duos with Drake is now officially "the moment when gaming became cool" (obviously it's never been cool up to this point)...still, he seems chill. Better him than Logan Paul.
By the way, if you're interested in seeing what playing Fortnite Duos with Drake, Travis Scott etc. can do for your YouTube channel, check out the man's SocialBlade. https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/ninjashyper
No lie, it's been like this since the start of 2018. 100k subs virtually every day. The man had around 400k subs at the start of this year, and now he's broken 9 million. At this rate he'll be at 10 within...um, a fortnight and the diamond button will be in the post. That's loving INSANE. I've never seen growth like it or even remotely like it.
John Murdoch
I have special eyes.
Just think of all the cool stuff I can see.
corn in the bible posted:
Also I like to watch Big Clive disassemble AC adapters
Oh yeah, Big Clive does fun stuff. In that same pool of "niche but fascinating and well-presented" is BosnianBill's lockpicking stuff.
Phelous was a weird case where I was actually familiar with him well before he started doing critic stuff thanks to being introduced to Eskimo Bob by a friend (Canadian, natch) waaaaay back in the day. And then also eventually coming across his Newgrounds submissions, like this classic.
I'm usually not one to really narrow down absolute favorites, but Mark Brown's Game Maker's Tool Kit is probably the channel I'm most consistently interested in. Every episode is a big warm hug of exploring game design.
Waffles Inc.
Conal Cochran posted:
Who is your favorite internet reviewer and how did you discover them.
Definitely gotta go with Hbomb and K.Waste. I really dig the way Hbomb constructs and edits his videos; I could watch a billion hours of him. K.Waste's vids are probably the most thoughtful film criticism on Youtube
Even though they're not a reviewer per se, I really like the channel Just Write, as well--I've read a couple books on storytelling that have come up in their videos
John Murdoch posted:
Yes!! Game Maker's Toolkit is so loving good! I wish he had a more regular updating schedule--highly, highly recommended
What the-
Lindsay got me into internet critics back when she was the Nostalgia Chick, and to this day remains in the Top 10 for me. I'd say Todd in the Shadows is my favorite critics, because man his One Hit Wonder teaches me something about the decades I wasn't around for. In a similar respect, RetroManCave, LGR, 8BitGuy, and NostalgiaNerd are currently teaching me about old computer stuff that I just find simply interesting, 8Bit in particular going through his thought process for making his games for older machines being incredibly fascinating.
Todd is great because his twitter is 90% pictures of his dog, whose adorableness defies reality.
Brad Jones also has an instagram that was only pictures of his cats, but he quit posting so whatever—he’s dead to me now.
21 Muns
by FactsAreUseless
Someone linked me to a relatively new guy named Big Joel a while ago, and I really like him; I don't agree with all of his positions, but his approach to media is one that I really want to take myself, and he's also really good at persuasively framing his theses. I think he might legitimately be my favorite internet critic. Haven't watched all of his videos, but would really like to.
They've already been mentioned, but I really like Fredrik Knudsen and Ross Scott. Down The Rabbit Hole is probably the best documentary series I've been introduced to over the internet, and Ross Scott just has a great voice and personality that could get me to listen to just about anything.
Oh, almost forgot, there's an up-and-coming cartoon reviewer called Robobuddies, who I really like. You can tell that she's kind of young and really geeky - she even does that weird thing where she draws a cool OC version of herself and uses it in her videos as a standin for herself, which I think originated from MLPFIM fandom, yikes - but her opinions are often really insightful and well-supported, and her voice is very pleasant. Standouts include the "Why Donkey Matters" video, which legitimately changed my perspective on Shrek, and the Emoji Movie "video", which was apparently improvised on a Skype call in one take, and is some of the funniest poo poo I've ever heard. She's apparently well-known for a video she did on Steven Universe, and I'm looking forward to watching it, although I haven't yet because I'm not caught up on the show.
Gonna take the recommendation on Jenny Nicholson! Excited to see what she's like, I've heard a lot of good things about her at this point.
RareAcumen
Hell if I know how I found out about this stuff, I can never remember what the first video I watch on anything was.
It was either Hbomb's buttgate video- because I was actually aware of that 'controversy' when it happened as opposed to obliviously missing everything like I do with most gaming shouting matches- or the one on Virtue Signaling. If it was the second one, then it was probably because someone in the idiots on social media thread linked it or something.
Mokinokaro
At the end of everything, hold onto anything
Remember how Phelous lost his creator network Fullscreen earlier this month?
Fullscreen isn't sure if they or any other MCN will be around on YouTube by the end of the year.
Mr Phillby
~TRAVIS~
AHOY has produced some phenomenal documentaries in the past few years. It's always a treat when he pops up in my subscriptions.
I started following him when he did regular weapon guides back at the height of COD's popularity.
Puppy Time
21 Muns posted:
You can tell that she's kind of young and really geeky - she even does that weird thing where she draws a cool OC version of herself and uses it in her videos as a standin for herself, which I think originated from MLPFIM fandom, yikes
That originated from every creative geek ever. If you've got the opportunity to present a persona to the world, and you're not actually very cool in real life, you're usually gonna lean on the wish fulfillment. We did that back in the early days of the internet, back when My Little Pony was "that cartoon you watched when you were a little girl but then disappeared forever."
Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .
The Big Monkey!
Balding, doughy internet nerds have been redistributing their pounds and hairlines in webcomic form for ages.
Speaking of, do internet personalities trying to branch off into webcomics count? Because man is that a well of tepid genericness punctuated with moments of insanity.
Tired Moritz
wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS
(n o i c e)
I patiently wait for someone to do a review of that bridalplasty show. *wink wink*
Tarquinn
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
Hell Gem
Kim Justice posted:
I hope somebody does an analysis of his meteoric rise someday, because it is just unreal.
Probably some kind of Faustian bargain. Yeah, I am going with that. Sounds plausible.
ricdesi
Does it really need saying?
So I'm not insane, then, for not knowing who this guy was until like a month ago, cool.
BobbyK
by Cyrano4747
Puppy Time posted:
Gonna say that originated with Penny Arcade.
DoubleCakes
We forgot that Jim Sterling did a 100% objective review of the greatest "video" game of all time.
I watch her stuff occasionally. She's not high on my cartoon reviewer list but I've seen her stuff including that Steven Universe video which I think is her best work to date.
Speaking of Night Mind just the other week one of the subjects in his latest video had their hub obliterated so that sucks
Twincityhacker
Yeah, I've been using Oblivion Character Overhaul.
I've been watching Linkara every week for several months at this point. I discovered him this time because of TV Tropes, because Atop the Forth Wall storyline was under some meta tropes. I'm not really sure why I like it so much - I did read comics, until local comic book stores kept closing until the most local became the one that is an hour drive away. But I like the vibe, I love the storylines, and it's just fun. And, yeah, to quote the movie, I just think everyone should have more fun.
The BF and I have also been watching "Welcome to the Basement" for years. We used to watch another series that they put out - Beer and Board Games - but dropped that after awhile. The conceit about "Welcome to the Basement" is that one of the guys has bought way more movies than he could ever watch, so they are slowly working though the back catalouge. Some of the movies are great, some of them are terrible, and they could be from any decade from the 1930's to roughly now. Most of the time, they agree on whether the movie was good or not, though very, very occasionally get into a heated debate about it. But it's usually just them being chill, drinking wine, and talking about film.
dmboogie posted:
todd in the shadows and rap critic are the only people i've really followed consistently over the years, but thanks to however mentioned jenny nicholson's Worst Reality TV Show video because i looked it up without any real expectations but i was at rapt attention for the ~20 minute duration. she's cool and good
Exact same on the Worst Reality TV Show video. Holy hell.
I also loved her takedown on The Greatest Showman.
Lindsay has been a fav for years, back to NChick days. When I was having a really bad time of it, short videos were all i could do to distract from the anxiety, and she was a go to for that, so thanks, Lindsay.
Whachoodoin?
DoubleCakes posted:
We did? Are you sure? :p
I just finished watching that video. I only chose it for the chance it would support my personal narrative that Steven Universe is tragically unfunny and it's popularity is a mystery to me.
I enjoyed it - I think the reviewer was a little tryhard at times, but it was an entertaining watch that kept me from doing stuff I should be doing for a while, so it works.
She reminds me of Super Butter Buns, who is one of my fave creators outside of the ones previously mentioned. She makes me laugh.
KayTee posted:
I'm not sure, I probably missed it but these threads move fast.
Super Butter Buns is another reviewer I like. Her recent video on SMT: Nocturne is probably my favourite of hers so far. Her style of humour is right up my alley. I don't know how you'd describe it: ridiculous analogies, shouty sarcasm, and lots of funny editing.
It helps that she her tastes line up with mine. She's never made a video on a game I'm not interested in ( a lot of 3D platformers and JRPGs).
she even does that weird thing where she draws a cool OC version of herself and uses it in her videos as a standin for herself, which I think originated from MLPFIM fandom, yikes -
Almost every single cartoon reviewer does this. I honestly find it distracting and I think that it often hinders them from growing in the way they talk and present things. Especially because they just reuse the same 4 stills and they are rarely more expressive than their actual face would be. Which is weird because that kind of the point of animation.
It's nice to see someone actually animate it though.
Yardbomb
What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?
ricdesi posted:
If you ever wanted to sell me a conspiracy theory, it'd be one about how this dope suddenly gained a berjillion gatrillion followers overnight playing the same boring flavor of the month games as everyone else.
AriadneThread
The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.
Yardbomb posted:
i don't understand how twitch streaming is so popular
who has the time to watch five hours of unedited video game footage??? even as background noise, i've got like six things competing for that space
Arcsquad12
I Love Satan
Sarcopenia posted:
Do you really want to see Moviebob's face? Because you get that in his movie reviews, and it's why his In Bob We Trust series is slightly less frustrating.
AriadneThread posted:
Hell, I watched a few TIHYDPs after Phil became a full time streamer and my god, the guy makes a career off people who are cool seeing someone mess with controls for 20 minutes.
Children have a LOT of free time. And there are a LOT of children.
I literally only found out this guy exists because of the media shitstorm from dropping an N-bomb on his stream. If someone tried to sell me on him being a patsy for some convoluted YouTube/Twitch shadow war to manipulate the monetization platforms of both, I'd read into it.
Hemingway To Go!
im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway
I disagree with it on some points about the plot, but it's interesting to finally find a reviewer that discusses things from someone who has a full vocabulary for animation and an understanding of how animation can tell a story.
(lol there's at least one definite "plinketism" in here, "what's that on the ground, is this that the script")
I don't know anyone who's a hardcore stream watcher so I don't know the rationale behind it, but hey I'm the guy who's in the middle of binging a stream archive of Final Fantasy VI T-Edition so even I will dedicate the time of watching a 100-hour video series as background noise if the game is interesting enough to me.
I literally only found out this guy exists because of the media shitstorm from dropping an N-bomb on his stream.
I thought that was pewdiepie unless all these people are just terrible, which I could believe. Big twitch channels are trash, small to medium ones are nice.
You ascribe way too much originality to the PA boys.
I can see some benefits to having an abstracted avatar; you get a bit of armor in terms of the parasocial relationship thing, and maybe a bit less of random comments dummies critiquing your looks. Especially if you don't feel like doing full makeup and hair for every goddamn video.
If I were inclined to do talking head videos, I'd probably use a cute pet. More people should use their pets in videos. Pets are great.
Leal posted:
I'm definitely not a typical stream watcher, but during, say, an SGDQ or AGDQ I definitely have the stream up all day on an extra monitor while I'm working
My guess is that kids and teenagers who are really into streaming tune in at the scheduled times the way that people used to for TV shows
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > December 2020 Current Events: Rue Britannia! Waive the rules!
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This poll is closed.
Yes 44 35.20%
No 81 64.80%
Total: 125 votes
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Vincent Van Goatse
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
Smellrose
The current event is that it's December and we're almost free of the stupid year.
# ? Dec 1, 2020 04:46
Shaddak
This accursed hell year will never end, December makes no difference.
Leavemywife
Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.
I saw Obama was arrested, and this is clearly important news.
Anarcho-Bidenism
I'm EST and there's still 10 minutes left you power hungry clown
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
Is it still infrastructure week?
Acebuckeye13
There's only one prescription for Nazism and it's 76mm HVAP
Ultra Carp
Icon Of Sin
31 days left in 2020, anyone want to make bets on what other stupid things will happen this year?
Already covered:
Record shattering hurricane season in the Atlantic (one town got in 2 warning cones at the same time!)
Leads to my favorite experience of the year,
evacuating from the NC Outer Banks during a
pandemic (I called it the “coronacaine
clusterfuck”)
Record breaking wildfires (US and Aus, at the very least)
Mentioned earlier, but bears repeating: COVID
Kobe Bryant’s helo crash (that was January!)
We came close to war with Iran, repeatedly
US started aiding Taliban vs ISIL
Deaths of Chadwick Bozeman, John Lewis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
CAROL loving BASKIN
George Floyd (and many others )
Election clusterfuck (senate control is still up in the air!)
What else have I missed?
Obligatory “John Oliver blows up 2020” video for everyone’s enjoyment:
https://youtu.be/w405p8GeTps
Milo and POTUS
I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
November lasted almost as long as march
Leavemywife posted:
Hard to believe it was the same month as the election....
sharknado slashfic posted:
I live in the middle of the Atlantic.
orange juche
lousy smarch weather
Comrade Blyatlov
should have picked four fingers
Icon Of Sin posted:
Don't forget Luca winning the election in Nz by unanimous vote
Comrade Blyatlov posted:
RIGGED ELECTION!!!
Kooler than Jesus
I think I'm ok with that rigging.
Kesper North
EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY
I wanted frigging in the rigging and there has been none.
Sweet! I got a phishing email that got past the regular gmail screening. AT&T Thanking me for my 'order' with an email of att-services.cn.597067815@genericdl.att-mail.com
my kinda ape
Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler
ded posted:
I get so many phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from Paypal and Apple. Most of them are super obvious and they send like 3-4 in a day to make sure you don't fall for it. I want to contact them and tell them to gently caress off but I'm afraid they'd just put me on the list of addresses to focus on or something
Almost never get any other spam though. Occasionally I'll get a really good phishing email and I actually kind of like those because at least they're interesting.
Godholio
Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Tiger King was released three years ago and you can't convince me otherwise.
my kinda ape posted:
This one looked very good actually. Except for the email address and the fact when you hovered over an image in the email it changed to 'download now'.
Oh and thinking about that OBAMA WAS ARRESTED bs, Obama is like the only black man on the planet who doesn't have to worry about getting killed by a cop. But that is only because of his secret service detail.
Platystemon
Acebuckeye13 posted:
This is what a leap second looks like on most clocks that support them, in the UTC timezone.
We’re not getting one this December because the discrepancy created by Earth’s slow rotation, relative to the reference period circa 1900, hasn’t built up to the point where adding a second would help synchronise things.
In fact, Earth’s rotation has lately been faster than it was in twentieth century, and we’re not entirely sure why. The general trend is that it slows because the Moon’s stealing our momentum. The speedup we are now experiencing must be due to changing mass distribution in one way or another, but degrees to which Earth’s interior layers, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are involved is an open question.
There are many variables, we don’t have a good understanding of all of them, and we don’t have good historical measurements.
This is a graph of the difference in the length of the day versus the ideal of eighty‐six thousand four hundred SI seconds, as measured by atomic clocks. Units are seconds.
Ditto, but only the last five years
For a comparison of the magnitudes involved, the complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet would bring that water closer to the Earth’s axis by an amount that would result in a speedup of two milliseconds.
tl;dr: Earth is spinning faster and we don’t know why.
But the changes are tiny and it’s probably not foreshadowing catastrophe. For all we know, the same weird things were going on in the time of Julius Cæsar; he just didn’t have cæsium atomic clocks to compare against.
Hotter planet = less dense = more speed
Might be something that simple.
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Taco Defender
Seconds are getting longer.
The Monolith is a giant troll.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/monolith-...ory?id=74465679
The monolith that mysteriously appeared out of nowhere in the Utah desert was removed from its location in the middle of the night over the weekend while a similar structure showed up in Europe, according to officials and witnesses.
It's now in Romania.
Woofer posted:
Not at all, we just threw out every vote that wasn't for him per standard practice
BIG HEADLINE
Make your move...'cause mine's gonna be ugly.
The "obelisk" looked errantly like one of the stands that used to hold up those "futuristic" AT&T phones with the dot matrix screens that you'd see at larger airports back in the 80s and early 90s.
Top marks go to clickbait headlines that started with "mystery metal" to imply they were something other than garden variety stainless steel, too.
Don't worry, guys. We'll have the 'rona under control in no time. Just gotta drop those pesky constitutional barriers between church and state.
Oklahoma Governor Stitt declares Dec. 3 as statewide day of prayer and fasting for Oklahomans affected by COVID-19
Governor Kevin Stitt announced today he is declaring Thursday, Dec. 3 as a statewide day of prayer and fasting for all Oklahomans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Oklahomans have always turned to prayer to guide us through trials and seasons of uncertainty, and I am asking Oklahomans of all faiths and religious backgrounds to join together with me on Thursday,” said Gov. Stitt. “I believe we must continue to ask God to heal those who are sick, comfort those who are hurting and provide renewed strength and wisdom to all who are managing the effects of COVID-19.”
Verbatim from the executive proclamation, dated 30 November:
Whereas, when we unite in prayer, we are reminded that there is no burden too heavy for God to lift or for the state to bear with His help. 2 Chronicles 7:14 proclaims that, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land;"
Now Therefore, I, Governor J. Kevin Stitt, do hereby proclaim December 3, 2020, as "Oklahoma Day of Prayer and Fasting" in the State of Oklahoma
A statewide mask mandate? No, that would be ridiculous. As of 30 November, a mere 1,743 people have died of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. They presumably didn't pray hard enough.
Platystemon posted:
seems like a fuckup on his part
e: oh wow it's not based on that. Neato
LingcodKilla
I ate too much crab and transformed into this.
Current clocks are two generations of 20 beryllium decay.
Coasterphreak
I like cookies.
wait did anyone think otherwise
I expected it was just some locals (broadly speaking) having fun, not that it was a worldwide campaign.
Riot Carol Danvers
It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.
Judging by the finish on the Romanian one, they're not related except that someone took advantage to make it interesting.
Spoggerific
https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...nown-study-says
This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, but covid had likely been circulating around the US in December, weeks before the first reported cases in China, and nearly a month before the first official case in the US. Covid antibodies were detected during an analysis of blood donations made near the start of the year.
Researchers found coronavirus antibodies in 39 samples from California, Oregon, and Washington as early as Dec. 13 to Dec. 16. They also discovered antibodies in 67 samples from Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin in early January — before widespread outbreaks in those states.
EDIT: The link to the study in the NPR article doesn't work, so here's a working link if anyone wants to check it out. https://academic.oup.com/cid/advanc...iaa1785/6012472
Spoggerific fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Dec 1, 2020
As Nero Danced
Alright, let's do this
This year's felt like a decade. God I hope 2021 is boring, whoever said "may you live in interesting times" is an rear end in a top hat.
What's left on the natural disaster checklist, volcano?
A Bad Poster
Seriously, shut the fuck up.
As Nero Danced posted:
Were coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the March 11 tsunami. Seems like the right time for the Cascadia fault to go.
My thoughts on 2020
Jarmak
When I hear people talk about "the rich" I mentally replace it with "the Jews." This shows that everybody else has a problem with anti-Semitism.
Spoggerific posted:
That's interesting cause I was the sickest I've ever been in my life for the last two weeks of December, but have always written off any possibility it was COVID because of the date. Still probably wasn't but it is crazy how much it hits all the right marks: got better for a couple days before getting way way worse, really hard time breathing at the worst point, and the worst fatigue I've ever felt. I even called my parents in a panic at one point and made them drive half-way across the state because I was alone with my 2 year old and thought I was going to lose consciousness or need to call 911.
It was the first time being sick ever made me feel scared. Like I've been on a 4-man SKT running a 102 fever with the medic freaking out about whether he had to call in a bird or if I'd be able to walk out before the sun came up and this was on a whole other level (see also: why you don't take someone running a 100 degree fever on a loving SKT in late November just because an E6 is too important to fill in for a specialist machine gunner)
Also where I live/work/go to school and my family situation if there was any virus in MA in Dec it's not implausible for me to have been exposed.
Still probably not but it feels nuts.
Volcano, tsunami, and meteor (which has been threatened this year a few times). There have been some decent earthquakes around the world this year, last one being ~7.0 and hitting Turkey right before our Election Day.
LongDarkNight
It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.
I still have hope that 2020 can claim Kissinger and Queen Liz.
bird food bathtub
College Slice
gently caress it, go big. Yellowstone do your thing.
CommieGIR
If Godzilla can do it, you know I can deliver!
Arecibo fell
https://twitter.com/PlanetTreky/sta...9603182593?s=19
Hot Karl Marx
Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Legal Eagle has been helpful to understand these trump "lawsuits" better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-nblE8ps2M
CommieGIR posted:
that sucks
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To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 4 October 1791
From Daniel Smith
Southwest Territory, 4 Oct. 1791. Letter of 12 Aug. to William Blount is received in his absence.—Provides answers to questions TJ asked relating to boundaries of Indian claims.—Rumors that Zachariah Cox has established a settlement on the Tennessee River are untrue. The Chickasaws permitted him to set up a post solely to trade with them. His acquittal by the Superior Court has encouraged others to think they can settle in that territory contrary to law. He has published a proclamation forbidding such incursions into the territory and enjoining those already there from aiding them.
RC (DNA: RG 59, SWT M-471/1; full text in Carter, Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, 1934–1962, 26 vols. description ends , iv, 83–4); 2 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 24 Oct. 1791 and so recorded in SJL.
“To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 4 October 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-22-02-0175. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 22, 6 August 1791 – 31 December 1791, ed. Charles T. Cullen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986, p. 185.]
From Smith to Jefferson [1 September 1791]
From Smith to Jefferson [9 December 1791]
All correspondence between Smith and Jefferson
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Drakes Circus
Drakes Circus, Plymouth, UK
Stationnements étagés
The impressive 60 800 m2 construction, Drake Circus Shopping Center, was built on a steep slope with an 8 m drop in level across the site, but it was still in most respects a straightforward construction venture. What made it quite different from many other projects was the structural frame. Drake Circus Shopping Center is the UK's first large-scale application of DELTABEAM®, and for Peikko this was the largest delivery financially to date. In addition to numerous other benefits, the use of DELTABEAM® enabled the contract to be completed 3 months faster than if conventional construction methods had been used.
Excellent shopping and easy parking
It all started in the beginning of the 21st century, when Barry Bleach from Clarke, Nicholls and Marcel, a structural engineering company in the UK, was introduced to the DELTABEAM® concept through Skanska with whom they were working with in the UK on another project. Skanska arranged a visit for CNM to Scandinavia to look at shopping centres and how the DELTABEAM®s had been used in them. The enthusiastic group also visited Peikko's DELTABEAM® factory in Lahti, Finland. A few years later, at the time of planning the Drake Circus development, the decision to use DELTABEAM®s was agreed by P & O Developments (The Client) on the advise of Mr Bleach, who was anxious to find a faster, more efficient method of erecting a structural frame than the traditional in-situ reinforced concrete method he would have normally chosen. "We wanted to use as much prefabrication as possible in the Drake Circus construction due to the location of the site and the problems with obtaining labour for conventional construction. DELTABEAM® offered a key element in the prefabrication route for the project and had the extra benefit of offering a nearly flat soffit which would help the distribution of services around the centre", describes Mr. Bleach. "If we would have done this job with in-situ concrete we would have needed another 600 or so workers on site plus 6, 7 or even 8 tower cranes."
Remarkably long spans with DELTABEAM®
The building plan comprised a modern shopping development with 48 shop units, restaurants, cafés, and two department stores. A new multi-storey car park with spaces for 1270 cars was also included. "The client P&O were convinced that by using DELTABEAM®, they would get a modern and highly functional building", says Jorma Kyckling, Sales Director at Peikko Group. The frame consists of precast concrete columns supporting steel DELTABEAM®s, which in turn support precast concrete hollow-core Bison planks. The result is a strong floor construction with wide spans and smooth, flat soffits. Some in-situ concrete has been used, but sparingly. "DELTABEAM®s work best on regular repeated patterns," says main contractor Bovis Lend Lease project managerSimon Allen. Bovis Lend Lease had scrutinised the DELTABEAM®s closely, but were quickly convinced they were the perfect solution. "The remarkably long spans possible with DELTABEAM® are extremely desirable in a construction of this kind. In the retail sector you want nice open floor areas without lots of columns breaking it up", says Mr. Allen. The longest distance between columns is in the multi-storey car park at the western end of the site. "The floor loadings are relatively low and evenly distributed", Mr. Allen explains. "This means we could create a very open, clear space for the parking bays. We used 16 m Bison planks, so we are talking pretty hefty spans". It was no coincidence that Mr. Allen was chosen as project manager for Drake Circus. He joined Bovis Lend Lease from Skanska Construction specifically to take on this job, having previously worked on the new Met Office headquarters in Exeter. This contract, undertaken by a Skanska/Costain joint venture was, until Drake Circus, the largest building project in the UK to use DELTABEAM® construction. Intumescent protective coatings add considerably to the cost of steel frame, but not only do precast concrete columns require no fire treatment, neither does the DELTABEAM®. "All the reinforcement is inside the steel beam, encased in concrete", says Mr. Allen.
The quick and efficient DELTABEAM® reduces labour
Mr. Allen's enthusiasm for DELTABEAM® is matched by the frame contractor, Byrne Brothers. Before Drake Circus, Byrne Brothers had no experience of the DELTABEAM® system. Construction director Steve Lillie is today a passionate advocate of DELTABEAM®. "It is a brilliant concept", he says. "It is quick, efficient, and significantly reduces labour requirements." At Drake Circus, the DELTABEAM®s are bolted onto steel connectors cast into the tops and bottoms of the precast concrete columns. The floors comprise standard concrete hollow-core planks from Bison Structures. The ends of the Bison planks sit on the DELTABEAM®s' thin bottom flange and reinforcement is threaded through the holes in the DELTABEAM® before the whole assembly is filled with concrete. Finally, a 100 mm thick structural topping is cast on top of the beams and planks. The finished floor is a flat, smooth structure with only the exposed bottom flange to indicate the position of each DELTABEAM®. 8 km of DELTABEAM® was transported to the UK for the Drake Circus frame; the largest project so far in length is in Sweden, where 11 km of DELTABEAM® was used.
Peikko on the fast learning track
For Peikko, the project was one of many challenges. It required high load-bearing capacity, very long spans and very high fire-resistance properties. There were also many new issues regarding work safety, for instance, which required much planning on Peikko's side. These included how to construct and erect railings for the work phase and how to attach safety nets, for example. The project schedule was extremely tight and stretched Peikko's delivery capacity to the limit. All in all, from the tender to the delivery of the last beam, the project lasted 36 months. 915 DELTABEAM®s were delivered. "This commission was a learning process also for Peikko", says Simo Peltonen, Design Manager at Peikko Group. "We advanced our own know-how in design as well as production. The delivery also required investments in our production, both new cranes and roller tracks were necessary due to the exceptionally heavy weight of the beams."
Big open space for parking
According to Mr. Bleach, the collaboration between CNM and Peikko was excellent. "The cooperation and assistance offered gave us much confidence with the DELTABEAM® system and the support details, which were also designed by Peikko." He continues to describe that the main challenge with DELTABEAM® is to ensure that the details are all agreed well in advance of the production in the factory. This was not achieved initially, but the situation improved vastly as the project progressed and everything was eventually completed on time.
All parties involved agree that the project was a huge success. Says Mr. Bleach: "We understand that all the shoppers really enjoy the shopping centre. The element most shoppers see of the DELTABEAM® is in the car park and the big, open space they have for parking their cars."
As for Peikko, the successful Drake Circus project quickly gained the company a couple of new commissions in the UK. Simo Peltonen has every reason to be pleased with the outcome of all the hard work. "This was really a tremendously good reference project for us and regarding the future, it would seem the sky is the limit for DELTABEAM®".
The success of DELTABEAM®s at Drake Circus has subsequently resulted in Bovis Lend Lease teaming up with Byrne Bros. on the next project to use the same construction technique again. Simon Allen and Steve Lillie both working again with the DELTABEAM®.
Taille du projet:
Entreprise de construction:
Byrne Bros (London)
Designer structurel:
Clarke Nicholls Marcel (London)
Année de réalisation:
Corbeaux invisibles
John Metcalfe
john.metcalfe@peikko.com
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The Dingleberrys (DVD) – Another S.O.V. flick that is one of these so-called “lost films” from Warlock Video in 1986 aka 2012. The main plot of the film is similar to ‘Critters’ just with poo globs! The disclaimer at the beginning of the film claims this is the worst film ever made and it is now shown in all its horrible glory of a space gladiator landing on earth to capture or kill the space poo globs. Quasar wants to rid the universe of this menace but will need help from some young horror nerds in order to accomplish the task. The film really isn’t feature length and far from the worst movie ever in my opinion. I have seen much worse, this is more of just some inexperience kids having fun with some cool poo creature masks from DWN Productions that made me laugh a couple times. For that I give this Indy flick 1 ½ stars.
Ravagers (On Demand) – A 1979 post-apocalyptic film that stars Richard Harris as a man who wanders the wasteland after some bandits kill off his girlfriend. They were planning to go searching for a safe place called “Land of Genesis”. Thus causing Harris to seek revenge and run from these horrific people as they will hunt him down until death. See one day it stopped raining thus killing off life slowly and sending the world into chaos. After quite a bit of time it started to rain again but most of the population died off. Survivors went underground and separated into two gangs of folks called the Flockers and Ravagers. Now in 1991, Ravagers are the type of humans if you can consider them that any longer that look to rape and pillage what is left above ground. The film wasn’t the most exciting flick in this genre for me as it felt more like a TV movie but could not find any info claiming it was as I give it 2 stars. Note: Film is hard to find on any format but has recently been made available on Amazon Prime.
Planet Earth (DVD) – It is 2133 and the earth has survived the apocalypse and John Saxon aka Dylan is our new hope! Dylan was frozen in the old world and awakens from his sleep by PAX to build planet earth up again. ‘Planet Earth’ is a 1974 TV movie that was a sequel to ‘Genesis II’ that continues the John Saxon character storyline of a man from the past helping the future. In this adventure PAX has found Amazon women who are buying and trading men as slaves to do their bidding and the men are called “dinks”. PAX believes this is where a good doctor friend of theirs has disappeared. So they send in a small team to search for the doctor and talk to these Amazon women in hopes of helping them? Instead John Saxon gets a lesson in being a male slave and humanity still sucks as I give the TV flick 2 ½ stars.
Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again (DVD) – An early 80s comedy based on the old Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story with Dr. Jekyll being the finest surgeon in the world who has just retired from doing surgery ever again. The surgeries are getting in the way of his research but the hospital he works for has other plans as a huge donor wants a total transplant and Jekyll is the man. During his research the good doctor falls asleep during an experiment and accidentally snorts his concoction (cocaine) and becomes a monstrous dancing punk pimp who needs sex! Of course he becomes addicted to this formula and hilarity ensues. This film has not aged well and I firmly believe ‘Doctor Detroit’ (a film a little similar) is a better product than this project. There are most likely still fans of this film or they wouldn’t have released it on Blu-ray but I give it 2 stars.
Killer Waves (DVD) – An Indy film from James Balsamo where a killer in an old diver suit is slaughtering people who are involved in a surfing contest. The film has its funny moments, good camera work at times, fun cameos, huge body count, and a surfboard made out of human flesh. But also the film as its issues of running too long and feeling like there was nothing script wise outside of the killer in the old diver suit. I liked his film ‘The Litch’ but this flick felt thrown together more than thought out completely. I do know Mr. Balsamo has a growing fan base that I believe this project caters to more than the average independent film fan as I give the film 2 stars.
Metal Noir (DVD) – Author Laurel Oberion has just bought a home where she hopes to jump start to write her next book. As she settles in and struggles with her “writer’s block” the more she dreams about her haunted home she has just moved into. Her dreams are not lying as Laurel has satanic nymphos in her basement who want her soul. The demons’ plan is too slowly torture the young lady to madness that sends her into their orgy of descent for their dark lord! This 1990 S.O.V. flick was never properly released and was believed lost because the company that had the rights went into bankruptcy and closed. So thanks to Tony Masiello starting a project in 2012 that deals with “S.O.V. films” he happened to watch the movie on a random VHS tape. From there Masiello was able to get in contact with the ‘Metal Noir’ filmmaker David R. Williams and begin the process of putting together a special edition of the film to be released for the very first time in 2019. The DVD is loaded with extras and perfect package for that independent film collector as I give it 3 stars.
Ghoul Scout Zombie Massacre (DVD) – An evil brother/sister team trying to scheme a plan to take over the world with a secret formula. Their goal is to inject the emo boy population and use them for smut films to sell overseas. So how do you get these young men to take the secret formula? How about using sexy reform school girls to sell Girl Scout, oh sorry ghoul scout cookies that sister Cassandra houses. When the males begin to eat the cookies something goes wrong. Instead of them being under control of the evil duo they become flesh eating ghouls at a concert that begins to eat all the attendees. Those who didn’t eat the cookies must defend themselves and find the antidote. The film plays out like if Troma made a full fledge zombie film that I would have liked to see focus more on the gimmick of “Ghoul Scout Cookies” than the nudity? But hey the film is what it is… Saying that if the film was edited down to a lean and mean 70 minutes (not 111 minutes long) I can easy see this becoming an Indy cult hit. But some filmmakers fail to see how much editing can help their projects for the long haul as I give it 2 stars.
Tokyo Home Stay Massacre (DVD) – Three college kids head to Japan to stay with a host family. Their goal is to get the clicks for their YouTube channel as they are unlikable characters that even have a subplot about one of the three getting an abortion to project their relationship. Little do the three know is the family plans to drug them, torture them, and eventually set them up for some kind of weird sacrifice. The film was somewhat interesting but once midway through the film tries too hard to be weird and lost me as a viewer as I give it 1 star.
Zombies (DVD) – A 2017 film I stumbled upon stars Tony Todd where a zombie apocalypse just happens and takes over the world. Detective Sommers, Luke, and crew decide to set up shop in their small town and go out on missions to save folks nearby and bring them into a safe place. Their goal is to keep people safe and gauge how long this will go on? This zombie film goes more for dramatic take than the possible bloodbath zombie films can be but with an unusual twist ending as I give it 2 stars.
Sky Sharks (On Demand) – Trailers looked great, the movie idea sounds great, but… Anyway, a large warship has been found in the artic and a flight from Vancouver has been attacked by Nazi sharks controlled by undead SS officers! A once thought lost genetic experiment from WWII has survived and has resurfaced. The man behind Reichter Tech was once a part of these so-called secret experiments and has kept himself alive because of them. The K7B formula was made for world domination which killing their own people which he did not agree with. Now the Sky Sharks are mutating and making them harder to detect and defeat. Because of this the only solution left is another horrible experiment from Reichter in 1968 called Project: Dead Flesh! With an incredible cast and all this said sounds like it should be a wonderful B-movie for the ages instead plays out like a dull hot mess. Or best way to summarize, “It’s no Iron Sky” as I give this disappointment 1 star.
Day of the Pigs (Vimeo) – A 12 minute short about three men in Luchador masks who just did an armed robbery of a bank. They run into a bit of misfortune during the getaway and need to adjust their plan and find a phone. Now walking they find a farmhouse where they believe their prayers for a phone has been answered. It looks even better with the farmhouse being owned by two beautiful sisters who are not what they appear to be? A crude, but very cool short film from Michael S. Rodriguez, as it combines the horror and action genres in an entertaining manner that shows this filmmaker is very capable of putting together a bigger project. Movie nerds this is another to remember for the future as I give this flick 3 stars.
She Wolf Rising (DVD) – Gina Skylar (Tiffany Shepis) is a popular horror film actress who uses her sexual appeal to convince longtime fan Jake to help her with her boss Lonzo. Now most of the film is told like a story from Jake’s point of view to his best friend after finding Gina Skylar’s latest unreleased film on DVD in Jake’s apartment. Gina has Jake investigate people from Lonzo’s work past to understand what is going on as Gina wants to be the number one scream queen. The more Jake gets involved with Gina’s worries the more the film becomes a love story with werewolves. The movie has a hot mess appeal but leave it to the super talented Tiffany Shepis and a good supporting cast in (Debbie Rochon, Tina Krause, and Alan Rowe Kelly) to keep the film interesting enough to make it to its incoherent ending. As usual Tiffany always makes a movie that much better with her amazing on-screen presence but this movie feels like it couldn’t exactly decide what it wanted to be throughout as I give it 2 stars.
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Get The First Glimpse of Jennifer Lawrence's Engagement Ring
Published Sun Feb 24 2019 By Jessica
You can now finally get the first glimpse of Jennifer Lawrence's engagement ring.
Oscars winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and her art gallery director boyfriend Cooke Maroney got engaged at the beginning of this month. And nearly after three weeks, we are finally able to witness what her multi-thousand dollars engagement ring looks like.
Whilst the actress and some of her close friends were out and about at a New York City restaurant on Thursday night, paparazzi shot some pictures of her stunning diamond ring.
Since the engagement news broke, Lawrence kept a very low profile from the public. However, at her recent outing with her friends, 'The Hunger Game' star finally decided to display her massive diamond engagement ring.
Jennifer Lawrence's shows off her engagement ring
SOURCE: Elle
It's reported the actress previously wore a thin band ring on her wedding finger at one of her date nights with fiance Maroney in New York City, just a day before the engagement news of the couple broke.
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Later in the same week, the 28 years old actress was found wearing the same ring but with a small diamond attached to it on the center whilst grabbing dinner with Maroney again.
The small diamond designed in round shape placed on the gold thin band is speculated to be the same ring, just that the diamond is now revealed on the center as it was previously turned inside.
HuffPost states, Alicia Davis of ShaneCo.com told the news site that the center diamond piece appears to cost an amount of nearly $85000 since it's of four carats.
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The news of the pair dating was confirmed in June after the two met through a mutual friend, Laura Simpson. Only after a short span on their first meet, the two were found enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner in New York.
As a matter of fact, Lawrence and Maroney were even snapped together on their Europian holiday in August last year.
The newly engaged couple also attended the New York Film Festival premiere of 'The Favourite' that includes Jennifer's ex Nicholas Hoult and close friend Emma Stone as some of the movie casts.
In addition, her other former boyfriend, 'Mother!' director Darren Aronofsky who Lawrence dated for more than a year as well attended the same event.
The blonde actress previously also dated English rock band, Coldplay's lead man, Chris Martin.
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Lawrence's art gallery director fiance, Maroney works at the Gladstone Gallery’s Upper East Side location in the famed Edward Durell Stone House.
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Therefore, we studied the stability of the complexes in DMEM. In addition, the stability of PEI—DNA complexes during transfection are prerequisites for their effective in vivo transfection.
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Additionally, many factors, including temperature, surfactants, complex concentration, ionic strength, viscosity, and pH, can greatly impact the aggregation process. Two factors might contribute 96658 the increase in particle size: particle aggregation from colloidal instability and particle swelling due to charge screening Ren et al.
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From Iceland — The Westman Islands Are Alive (Even In The Wintertime)
The Westman Islands Are Alive (Even In The Wintertime)
Rebecca Conway
Hrefna Björg Gylfadóttir
Hrefna and I stumble onto Strætó’s 53 bus at precisely 5:43 in the morning. Behind us, the Mjódd bus station looks as if it belongs in a ‘CSI’ murder scene. The bus driver breaks the morning silence with a booming exclamation: “Where the hell are you guys going?” When we tell him we’re taking the ferry from Þorlákshöfn to Heimaey (“Home Island”) to do a travel article for the Reykjavík Grapevine, he asks, genuinely curious, “They make you do this kind of stuff often?”
The answer is no. It was actually us interns who came up with the idea of visiting Vestmannaeyjar, the Westman Islands, during wintertime, and to find the least expensive way of getting there. Our research on Strætó’s website left us with one option: taking a bus in the wee hours of the morning and finding somewhere we could wait in Þorlákshöfn, the small town from which the ferry leaves in the winter months.
After some wandering in the cold and seemingly dead town, we decide to kill time in the cosy and warm Kaffistofa Meitilsins, which miraculously opens at 7am. Despite the comfortable surroundings, the four-hour wait for the ferry was still a long one. Even we began to wonder where the hell we were going.
Winter in the Westman world
Given the lack of demand, the lack of easy transportation hardly shocked us. Research had already told us that many restaurants are closed and tours are limited in the off-season. Understandably (and due mostly to lack of wild puffins), tourism drops drastically during the colder months on Heimaey, the only inhabitable island of the Westmans.
To top that off, travellers must also endure a longer ferry ride in winter, as the boat only sails from Þorlákshöfn rather than the much closer Landeyjahöfn. An extended ferry ride and stronger winds increase the potential for seasickness, a fact made evident by the vomit receptacles sprinkled around our ferry boat. It was also evident by my wooziness on the way over.
Despite these challenges, Hrefna and I were determined to make it work. With growing concern over swells of summer tourists, what better way to ration the crowds than to see sites in the snowier months? Though activities such as wild puffin viewing and boat rides were off-limits, we found myriad ways to keep ourselves occupied. One of those ways even involved explaining to locals, and to ourselves, why the island is worth visiting in cold, cold weather.
Westman of winters past
Though many summer tourists come to the island to see puffins, Heimaey is perhaps best known as the site of a volcanic eruption. In the early morning of January 23, 1973, lava and debris began shooting from Eldfell. Though the volcano had been active for a while, it was at this point officials decided to initiate evacuation. That same night, many of the island’s inhabitants were taken by boat to the mainland of Iceland, or the “northern island,” as the Westman locals like to call it. Though the evacuation was successful, many people lost their homes during the event. Following the eruption, about 400 houses were completely covered by a brand new lava field.
The eruption is hard to ignore once on the island, even from the hotel. Hrefna and I drop our things in our rooms at Hótel Vestmanneyjar, and immediately step out onto the balcony. The sun hits the city sideways, magnificently lighting up the houses. In the distance, Eldfell and Helgafell, the island’s two volcanoes, loom, beautiful but menacing.
Right down the street is the new lava field. We climb a set of steps up the steep wall of lava, and immediately start exploring the paths that wind through the clumped masses. Standing on the lava field, we have a beautiful view of the city below. From here, it’s especially easy to imagine the ground beneath us sliding over the nearby buildings.
Later, we find out that Hótel Vestmanneyjar has redone some of its rooms. The one we see uses the eruption as inspiration for its design. The lava, it seems, slid not only into the city’s buildings, but into its aesthetic as well.
Sifting through debris
The relatively new, fascinatingly high-tech Eldheimar Museum was a huge help in understanding how formative (literally and figuratively) the eruption is in Westman Islands history. The museum’s bottom floor contains a house that was buried in the eruption. Cameras mounted in various rooms allow visitors to see aspects of the room using a joystick and a video screen. Visitors are encouraged to spot household items such as a curling iron, a glove, and even an unopened wedding present, all of which are scattered and half-covered in volcanic rubble.
The exhibit not only promotes interaction with the excavation process, but also underlies the eruption as something that literally swallowed people’s material lives. It treats the eruption as a tragedy, and demonstrates the event’s grave impact.
The upstairs portion of the museum is a bit happier. Rather than the natural disaster, it focuses on the geologic phenomena of the most recently born Westman island, Surtsey. Surtsey is a sort of “quickie island,” arising in the late twentieth century and now rapidly disintegrating. Unless the rate of erosion slows drastically, it will likely be gone by 2130.
The most exciting part of the upstairs exhibition involves a timeline with a sliding dial, in which you can watch Surtsey’s size, geology, plant life, and animal life change over time. Watching the changes in land area and species occupation over time illustrates an intense and fascinating process of geologic and ecologic aging: Surtsey as an island very much stuck in time.
At one point while holding him, I notice he’s strangely restless. I set him down and he promptly (and very politely) poops on the floor, clearly versed in bathroom pleasantries. Everyone in the room is suitably impressed with his manners.
Westman wildlife
For those who want a taste of the wildlife beyond Surtsey, there’s also the Sæheimar Aquarium and Museum. Like Eldheimar, Sæheimar is a must-see on the island, especially for winter visitors. The museum houses many aspects of the Heimaey’s natural history, from an extensive collection of volcanic rocks to an aquarium with fish species that live in the waters around the island. It even has stuffed versions of birds that frequent the Westman Islands.
The best—and our most-anticipated—part of Sæheimar were its three resident rescued puffins. Margrét, a curator at the museum, tells us about each puffin and how he or she came to be rescued, asserting that each bird has a distinct personality. While Margrét shows us pictures of Tóti, the museum’s longest avian tenant, Tóti himself plods up to the photo frame, as if to marvel at himself.
Visitors during quieter hours can even hold Tóti, as he is accustomed to and comfortable with human handling. At one point while holding him, I notice he’s strangely restless. I set him down and he promptly (and very politely) poops on the floor, clearly versed in bathroom pleasantries. Everyone in the room is suitably impressed with his manners.
Margrét tells me that when taking in puffins, they ultimately aim to release the birds back into the wild. The puffins that live there, however, could not be released, so now they live the comfortable lives of minor celebrities. Other puffins that come to the museum are tagged and released, and information from tagging is used to shed light on the aging and geographic patterns of the birds. Using tagging, one puffin was even recorded as being 40 years old, revealing that the birds live longer than researchers had previously thought.
Taking the tour
As much as we loved seeing the birds, our tour guide, Alfreð Alfreðsson of Viking Tours, gives us some perspective on puffins and tourism in the Westman Islands. He tells us many tour guides hope to steer tourists more towards the volcanic history of Heimaey, as this aspect is more unique to the island and is a more dependable interest to foster.
As it turns out, a winter tour of the island is to focus on this aspect. We drive all over the island, and there is nary a puffin in sight, save for the puffin heads inscribed on the city’s signs. Instead, we get to focus on the site of the popular summer festival Þjóðhátíð; the windiest place in Europe, Stórhöfði; and Heimaklettur, the oldest part of the island, among other places.
Alfreð even shows us the house he lived in before the eruption, and recalls playing in an area now covered in a thick layer of lava. Though his parents moved to the east after the eruption, Alfreð returned to Heimaey to live with his friend Óskar and Óskar’s parents. Alfreð is eager to tell us about his experience during the eruption, and his memories add a personal, invaluable flair to the seemingly unfathomable event.
The land is alive
Standing on the ferry’s deck as it sails away from the Westman Islands, I think back to one point in our tour, when Alfreð tells me, “The land is alive, and we choose to live on it.” Heimaey is alive in many senses, but most apparently in its oscillation between eruption and recovery, as well as its transition between busy summers and tranquil winters. Running through it all is a determination to carry on, an attitude that seems to imbue both its history and people.
While walking around the docks on our last night, we see perhaps the best example of this determination. When a man clad in a scuba suit walks by, we immediately follow after him. As he patiently answers question after question, he continues to pull on his gear, not pausing for a second.
The scuba diver’s name is Smári, and he doubles as dry cleaning store owner and commercial diver. After I make a comment about his interesting hobby, he smiles and says “I’d rather be doing this in the Caribbean.” Still, he bravely jumps in, even nodding to the camera after doing so. Coupled with our shock and admiration, his nonchalance reveals the fascinating routines going on behind the scene.
Treading paths
As we begin our journey back to the mainland, Hrefna and I grow increasingly nervous about missing our bus from Þorlákshöfn back to Reykjavík. We call Strætó, only to find out the bus will wait for all ferry passengers to exit the boat before leaving for the city. We also find out that a seemingly phantom bus, not mentioned on Strætó’s website or anywhere we can find online, leaves for Þorlákshöfn from BSÍ at 10. It’s explicitly intended to transport ferry passengers and costs the same amount as our 5:43 bus from Mjódd.
Hrefna and I can laugh about the early morning bus ride and four-hour wait now that we’re fresh off a successful trip. The mystery bus even seems a well-deserved treasure now, something we had to go to the island to find out about. It’s the kind of thing you inevitably learn when you venture onto lesser-treaded paths in the lesser-treaded seasons. And we’re grateful for it.
Thanks to Hótel Vestmanneyjar for graciously accomodating us, Alfred Alfredsson and Viking tours for showing us around, and both the Eldheimar and Sæheimar Museums for allowing us to visit.
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Preview: Quantum & Woody: Earth’s Last Choice
Posted on November 2, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team
QUANTUM & WOODY: EARTH’S LAST CHOICE TPB
Written by CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS
Art by RYAN BROWNE
Colors by RUTH REDMOND
Letters by HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU
Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
On sale NOVEMBER 4th | 112 pages, full color | $14.99 US | T+ | ISBN: 978-1-68215-362-8
Supervillains and mad scientists are on the loose and only the world’s worst superhero duo can save us!
Eric and Woody Henderson have been a lot of things – fractious foster brothers, washed up failures, and, ever since the freak accident that gave them their powers, reluctant crimefighting partners. But now against all odds they’ll be Earth’s LAST hope of stopping a coalition of mad scientists from destroying the planet!
Superstar scribe Christopher Hastings (The Unbelievable Gwenpool) and astonishing artist Ryan Browne (Curse Words) team up for a side-splitting superhero adventure!
Collecting QUANTUM & WOODY (2020) #1–4.
Review: Quantum and Woody #4
Posted on July 8, 2020 by Alex K Cossa
Home Alone, the boys are left to defend their lair against would-be bandits! What is Woody’s dark secret? The truth is finally revealed in Quantum and Woody #4!
The finale to the four-part miniseries finds writer Christopher Hastings, artist Ryan Browne, and color artist Ruth Redmond coming together one more time (though hopefully not for the final time) for a comic I have waited nearly three months to read. Was it worth the wait? Was I able to just pick it up and enjoy it without refreshing myself by reading the first three again?
Two kill two birds with one stone, the answer is yes.
While not everybody will want to just pick the book up and dive in after three months, the way the Hastings has been crafting the story over three almost standalone issues means that while there are some elements that cross the four issues, the specific events don’t need to have been memorized to enjoy Quantum and Woody #4 (though if you do want a refresher, there’s no reason not to go back and read the other three).
Hastings has once again packed a full story, start middle and end, into a single comic, though with the finale he also wraps up the threads he had left over the course of the previous three issues. It is in many ways a bitter sweet comic, because as far as we currently know, there aren’t any plans to bring Hastings back to Quantum and Woody, but he ends his story on a high note without leaving any real loose ends dangling – but you’ll be wanting more from him and the creative team by them time you turn the final page.
Browne’s art has been perfectly suited to the chaos that has been this series, and both he and Redmond shine in the final issue. There’s often a lot occurring on every page, but the comic never loses its ability to tell a coherent visual story. The art is bright, bold, absolutely insane, and I love it. There’s a lot going on in almost every page, but you’re never lost; this is a book that you’re going to want to take your time reading, or read it a second time so that you can really appreciate the talent on display here.
I’ve never really been the biggest Quantum and Woody fan, but Hastings, Brown, Redmond, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou have delivered one of my favourite series this year. This is a nigh-on perfect comic book in its own right, but when you take it as the final part of a four-part miniseries, then it becomes an absolute must-read book.
If every comic that I read after Diamond started delivering again was half as good as this, I’d be happy.
Story: Christopher Hastings Art: Ryan Browne
Colors: Ruth Redmond Letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Valiant provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Preview: Quantum & Woody #4 (of 4)
Posted on July 4, 2020 by Graphic Policy Team
QUANTUM & WOODY #4 (of 4)
Cover A by DAVID NAKAYAMA
Cover B by RAHZZAH
Preorder Cover by GURIHIRU
Extra Virgin Variant Cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
On sale JULY 8th | 32 pages, full color | $3.99 US |T+
Home Alone, the boys are left to defend their lair against would-be bandits!
What is Woody’s dark secret? The truth is finally revealed in the miniseries finale!
Posted on June 13, 2020 by Alex K Cossa
Exclusive: Christopher Hastings Talks Quantum and Woody Plus an Exclusive Look at issue 4!
Posted on June 5, 2020 by Alex K Cossa
Quantum & Woody is the world’s worst, to us one of the best, superhero teams. Fans will be able to get their hands on the finale to the current volume, Quantum & Woody #4, on July 8 with the final order cut off on June 15th from writer Christopher Hastings, artist Ryan Browne, colors by Ruth Redmond, and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Home Alone, the boys are left to defend their lair against would-be bandits! What is Woody’s dark secret? The truth is finally revealed!
Writer Christopher Hastings talked to us about the series and we have an exclusive first look at the final issue.
Graphic Policy: Before we get started, I’ve got to warn you that the first three issues have been some of my favorite comics from the last year. I’m really enjoying the approach you’re taking with the story and the characters; how did you end up writing the World’s Worst superheroes?
Christopher Hastings: Well, thank you very much! I’ve been a lifetime fan of these characters, and it’s a massive honor to contribute to their ongoing story. As for how I wound up writing them, that’s all on our editor, Heather Antos. Heather was my editor on Unbelievable Gwenpool, and thank goodness it seems like I did a good enough job that she thought I would be good for Valiant’s best action-comedy characters.
GP: As I read the first three issues, I’ve noticed that the creative team has been in a groove from the first page. Did you know any of the creative team prior to the first issue?
CH: As our scheduling went, I don’t think we actually had our full team set by the time I finished the script for the fourth issue, which is unusual. Heather and Valiant really did me a kindness as far as getting the story down well ahead of time, which allowed us all to really make sure that the story across all the issues is cohesive. That said, Ryan Browne and I came up in a similar time of webcomics, and I think we always had similar sensibilities, so when Heather suggested putting us together, it was a no-brainer. Ryan and I are two celestial objects that have been in a decaying orbit for years, and Quantum and Woody is the project where we finally collided.
GP: How does working with Valiant differ from working with other publishers?
CH: I think the biggest thing is how much I’ve been able to get to know the sales and marketing folks. These are the people who take my insane little fantasies and have to get them into comic shops. It’s been a really wonderful experience getting to talk to them on a regular basis, take road trips to signings with them, and just get to see what that side of the comics industry looks like. It’s easy for the writer of a comic to be removed from the whole picture, but with Valiant, I feel like I get to be along for the whole trip, from inception to every individual reader.
GP: Do you approach writing for an ongoing series differently than a miniseries?
CH: Certainly! If I know a miniseries is 4 issues, I’m not going to introduce something in issue 2 that I’ll “pick up later”. When I write, I’m really conscious of the beats of various plots, and I want to make sure there is room for all of them. I don’t want to do a beat 1 and 2 if I can’t do a 3.
GP: Each issue so far has essentially been a self-contained story; did the series initially set out that way, or did it evolve as you were writing?
CH: This was probably my top priority/artistic goal when I got the chance to even just pitch for Quantum & Woody. I miss episodic comics, and I wanted to make a real effort at putting them out myself. A comedy is especially well suited for this style of serialized storytelling. Drop in for a particularly funny issue, even if you haven’t read the previous! You can watch any episode of Cheers without seeing another one. Why can’t we do that in comics? I’ve also read just about every comic Marvel put out in the 60s thanks to their Essential collections, and it was the same there. If it’s good enough for Stan Lee, it’s good enough for me.
GP: Can you talk a little about your inspiration behind Woody’s “disguise” in the first issue? I thought that the sewer sequence was a great reminder to not see what you wanted to see.
CH: Clark Kent can convince people he isn’t Superman with a dumpy suit, glasses, and his hair parted on the other side of his head. Why can’t Woody?
GP: You’ve been using the brother’s powers in unique ways throughout the series; do you ever feel you’re in danger of making them competent heroes?
CH: Haha, no I think they are far enough down on the ability ladder that it left some room for them to get a little better without totally destroying their entire deal. That said, one of my favorite things in comedy is when the all around idiot happens to show off the one tiny thing they are good at. A little bit of competence goes a long way as far as character likability goes.
GP: Ryan Browne’s linework and layouts have been really exciting at times in this book, especially around the ice-skating scene. I’m always interested in how much direction writers give to artists in scenes such as those. Did it come out how you expected?
CH: Ryan is in my favorite class of artist where he can look at a fairly specific, panel-by-panel, shot-by-shot written out script, see what I’m *actually* trying to communicate, and make changes from the script to do it better, punching up the whole thing. Ryan gets down everything important in the story, and then he just PEPPERS the rest of it with a million fun extra things. It makes the book a very satisfying one to reread several times, honestly.
GP: Was there anything you wanted to include in this series, but had to end up saving it for the next?
CH: I have SO MANY ideas for what I would want to do with Quantum and Woody after this. I sure hope I get the chance. Fingers crossed x1M.
GP: If you could write any other Valiant character, who would it be?
CH: Top choice is easily Archer & Armstrong. Such a great premise, great world, infinite potential for hijinks. Close for second place is Ninjak, just because I am a long time fan. And third place, I’d love to do Bloodshot like an 80s action movie.
GP: Thanks so much for answering our questions!
Check out the exclusive preview below!
Preview: Six Million Dollar Man TP
Six Million Dollar Man TP
writer: Christopher Hastings
artist: David Hahn
cover: Michael Walsh
FC | 120 pages | $19.99 | Action/Adventure | Teen +
THE DRASTICALLY DEPRECIATING MAN
It’s the 1970s. Things are going great. Steve Austin (used to be an astronaut, now has robo-parts & a laser eye) heads to Japan to help Secret Agent Niko Abe stop a madman with missiles. Steve figures, no sweat. But then…sweat. How’s Steve going to complete his mission, when his fancy $6,000,000 body starts (DRASTICALLY) depreciating in value!?
Posted on March 25, 2020 by Alex K Cossa
Quantum and Woody are back in high school – this time to solve a murder!
But are their combined powers a match for the haunts that await them? Find out in Quantum and Woody #3!
When I read this comic the first time verses the second time, a lot had changed. And it changed my appreciation of the comic, too. It went from being a fun diversion to a life raft.
Y’see, because my wife has lung issues, we’re effectively in quarantine already, and so I was in desperate need of a distraction. Even having read this book once, the second time through still allowed me to escape for just long enough to reset myself. So judging this book critically will be tough but then sometimes you just have to judge a book in the moment. And in this moment Quantum & Woody #3 was perfect.
Written by Christopher Hastings, with art by Ryan Browne and colors by Ruth Redmond, this book was everything I didn’t know I needed. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed it the first time I read it; this isn’t a comic that went from average to amazing simply because I read it after a tumultuous weekend.
Hastings has once again packed a full story, start middle and end, into a single comic. He has so far given us three complete stories in three issues that have all tied together with elements that are bound to come together in the finale next month whenever the fourth issue comes out. It isn’t often you get as much story in a comic as you have with Quantum & Woody #3 these days, which is a refreshing change of pace and it feels like you’re getting far more than you’re paying for in comparison to other books.
Browne’s art is absolutely perfect for this comic; there’s an energy to his line work that jumps from the page. Whether it’s Quantum punching somebody or Woody running out of a panel this comic has a lot to look at at, and Browne is able to make the art tell a complete story despite how much is happening between the covers. His art flows and makes sense. There’s no need to make a logic jump from panel to panel (you know how when you’re reading a comic and all of a sudden it feels like you missed a panel or two? That’s not here), which is a testament to Browne’s ability to tell a story visually.
Ruth Redmond has the unenviable job of coloring the insanity taking place in this comic, and does so in a way that nothing is lost on the page. Quantum & Woody #3 is a bright book because of Redmond’s vibrant colors as much as the story itself.
I also want to highlight Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou‘s lettering in this book. Hastings has a lot of words in this comic, and Otsmane-Elhaou’s work is so spot on to be almost unnoticeable. I say almost, because once I noticed his lettering because of the sound effects. I realized just how impressive the work is in this comic. Read the book, then read it again paying attention to the lettering and you’ll see what I mean; the font choices, the sizing and the sound effects are perfect for this book.
I don’t know when we’ll get to read the fourth issue at this point, and just typing that sucks. We’re all living in a time that few of us ever expected. Things have changed on us overnight. If you need a moment of brightness, a distraction from the news, then the third issue of this series is ideal for that.
It’s absolutely a perfect way to distract yourself. It’s a pretty stand alone book you can enjoy this without reading the first two issues. I’m going to be reading those three comics a lot over the coming months. Join me, won’t you?
Preview: Quantum and Woody #3
QUANTUM AND WOODY #3
Cover B by CASPAR WIJNGAARD
Cover C by WILL ROBSON
Pre-Order Edition Cover by STEVE LIEBER
Cover E 1/20 “Extra Virgin” Variant by DAVID NAKAYAMA
On sale MARCH 25 | 32 pages, full color | $3.99 US | T+
Quantum & Woody are back in high school – this time to solve a murder!
But are their combined powers a match for the haunts that await them?
Posted on February 28, 2020 by Alex K Cossa
The world’s worst superheroes unleash brand-new superpowers in Quantum and Woody #2! Can Woody’s new visions of the future be trusted when it leads the duo to face their arch-rival DOCTOR TOILET?!
(No, they most certainly cannot.)
Sometimes you read a comic that you’re expecting to be average because you’ve decided that you need to read everything that a certain publisher or series puts out. Over the years I’ve read almost every Valiant comic I could get my hands on. Some are far better than others. There are always the odd one or two that take me entirely by surprise. I hoped that I’d enjoy Christopher Hastings Quantum & Woody. I had no idea that with a single issue it’d take me by the ankles and rip the rug out from under me.
The first issue struck such a chord that I’ve been waiting for this issue for what feels like months and not weeks. Hastings, artist Ryan Browne, and colorist Ruth Redmond have been able to capture something that I’ve often missed in American comics. Quantum and Woody delivers a quintessentially British feeling. I’m aware that none of the creators are British. They’ve been able to capture the spirit of comics like weekly anthology comic 2000A.D. For me that’s a huge plus. I was always amazed at how much was crammed into the short space in the anthology’s stories, and the same is very true here.
Hastings has packed a full story, start middle and end, that could have easily been spread across multiple issues. Probably at least four to six if it was a bi-weekly comic from a certain dedicated company. Even so, the issue doesn’t feel like the story is being stretched thin. Which isn’t to say this comic is too packed; between Hasting’s writing and the art of Browne and Redmond this comic strikes the perfect balance.
Where the first issue reintroduced us to the brothers and their relationship this issue focuses on their attempt to become legitimate superheroes by attacking an ice dancer. It’s as glorious as it sounds. But this also gives us one of the best sequences in the series so far with Woody sliding through the panels which only adds to the chaos of the brothers and the ice dancer on the page. Visually, this is a great example of why comics are such a unique medium; Browne is able to turn what is essentially a sight gag into the border of the panels while highlighting the frantic pace of the page.
It’s a simple trick, but it’s impact cannot be denied. You simply can’t do this in any other medium.
I’ll make no apologies for the love-letter to Quantum & Woody #2 that this review has become. I frankly don’t care. This comic is utterly fantastic in every way. Genuinely gutted that we’re only getting four issues of this creative team at this point, but these four issues are on pace to be some of the best comics featuring the World’s Worst superheroes I’ve ever read.
Cover B by JOE QUINONES
Cover C by REILLY BROWN
Pre-Order Edition Cover by TODD NAUCK
On sale FEBRUARY 26 | 32 pages, full color | $3.99 US | T+
The world’s worst superheroes unleash brand-new superpowers!
But can Woody’s new visions of the future be trusted when it leads the duo to face their arch-rival DOCTOR TOILET?!
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Ben Caplan and Harrow Fair: Live in Pittsburgh, PA
With our scaled down travel schedule through December, we were definitely fighting the effects of ‘cabin fever’ (also known as ‘no live music’), and eager to greet the arrival of a New Year and new concert schedule. In 2017, we waited right up until the final weekend of January before attending our first show. Fortunately, 2018 would not keep us waiting as long this time around, although some last minute winter weather conditions did pose a threat as to the feasibility of hitting the road. With a well-timed break in the snowfall over Western PA this past weekend, we pointed the car west towards Pittsburgh for an eagerly awaited night of music from both Harrow Fair and Ben Caplan.
Arriving in downtown Pittsburgh, we made our way through the snow packed streets to Club Café, an intimate music venue on the south side of the city. With a much appreciated ‘early show time’, we were able to escape the cold outdoors and settle ourselves with some food and beverages, and of course, some great live music.
At 6:30pm, the familiar sounds of “Harrow Fair Pig Auction” playing over the café speaker system signaled the beginning of the show, with both Miranda Mulholland and Andrew Penner taking the stage. And as the cries of “Sold” rang out from those speakers, Andrew’s bluesy opening guitar riffs meant that Harrow Fair were ready to go, launching into their popular opening number, “Told A Lie To My Heart.”
Given that this was their first live performance in Pittsburgh, Harrow Fair naturally brought their ‘A’ game for the great turnout of music fans in the room. With a solid 45 minutes of stage time, the duo knocked out an eleven track set list that featured popular cuts from their debut “Call To Arms” album, along with some cover versions of known hits that were much appreciated by those in attendance. The lengthier stage time allowed Harrow Fair to incorporate a few lesser played gems into their set too, including “Been There Ways” and a cover version of the Turnpike Troubadours’ “Long Hot Summer Day” (preceded by the short instrumental “The Hunt”).
Miranda would tell the tale of their ‘Valentine’s Day’ release (“Wicked Game”), and Andrew would remind us of how Chris Isaac’s ‘spicy’ music video for this tune proved to be quite the distraction in the recording studio. A voice from the back of the room commented that Harrow Fair’s version was better than the original, to which Andrew offered his gratitude. With their impeccable musicianship and genuine chemistry, it remains evident that both Miranda and Andrew are having so much fun with Harrow Fair. The crowd at Club Café certainly appreciated the 45 minute set, and of course, we are always happy to see such good friends perform time and time again.
Harrow Fair Set List:
Told A Lie To My Heart
I Will Be Your Man
Been There Ways
Held Tight
Long Hot Summer Day (Turnpike Troubadours cover)
Hangnail
Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover)
When The Levee Breaks (Muddy Waters cover)
Bite The Way
The last time we had the opportunity to catch Ben Caplan live was back in April of last year in London, ON. For that particular show, Ben was supported by his full band, but for this smaller US tour, drummer Jamie Kronick would be the only musician to accompany Ben. Yet just a couple of minutes into the opening “Birds With Broken Wings,” it was immediately apparent that these two gentlemen could produce an almost full-band sound between them. And with a room full of music fans, many of which were much more familiar with Ben’s music that I would have imagined, the duo performed a flawless twelve-track set list with material that spanned both of his popular albums.
Ben Caplan is an incredibly charismatic and theatrical entertainer. I made that point very clear during my review of his London show, and I want to make it abundantly clear again. Once beneath those stage lights with his guitar or keyboard at hand, Ben transforms from his humble self to an eccentric performer who whips his fans into a frenzy with his rambunctious on-stage persona. Conversing with the audience in a hushed, somber tone one minute, then in a maniacal wild and crazy fit the next, Caplan keeps everybody engaged with such antics. Of course, this is all part of the experience, as is the enjoyment of the unscripted and off-the-cuff banter between Ben and his fans. There was plenty of off-the-cuff banter bouncing back and forth between Caplan and Kronick too, leaving no doubt that these gentlemen thrive on the entertaining aspect of their profession.
The audience were treated to a collection of Ben’s popular hits, and positive feedback was thrown at the duo all night upon the recognition of favorite tracks. “Belly Of The Worm” in particular led to shouts of ‘I so wanted to you do this one’ from an audience member just behind us. Ben balanced his choice of tunes perfectly, offering the slower paced tracks such as “Beautiful” and “Night Like Tonight,” along with the up-tempo “Under Control” and “Seed Of Love.” And with a nod to his recent “Old Stock” musical production, Ben shared the new track “Lullaby” from the upcoming soundtrack currently in the pipeline. Ever hopeful that the set list would include some of my favorite Caplan tunes, I was grateful to hear him perform his fiery cover version of Amelia Curran’s “The Dozens.”
Opting to close the show with the well-received “40 Days and 40 Nights,” the Club Café faithful gave Ben Caplan the ovation he deserved. Both Ben (and Harrow Fair) were only too happy to meet and greet with many fans following the show and all earned the admiration of many new found fans too. For Team GDW, it was wonderful to have such good friends and musicians venturing down here to the Keystone State, and naturally, all are invited back again anytime. A great evening of live music on a cold and snowy Saturday in Pittsburgh – what a great way to start our 2018 concert calendar.
Ben Caplan Set List:
Night Like Tonight
Lullaby ***New Track***
The Dozens (Amelia Curran cover)
Belly Of The Worm
Down To The River
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Greenlee team to participate in 2018 Washington Media Scholars Case Competition
Lindsey Moor ('18 public relations), left, and Ashley Kirkpatrick, senior in advertising, will compete for the National Excellence in Media Award and scholarship money in Washington, D.C.
Two Greenlee students will showcase their media planning expertise this week as they participate in the national 2018 Washington Media Scholars Case Competition in Washington, D.C.
Lindsey Moor (’18 public relations) and Ashley Kirkpatrick, senior in advertising, will compete for the National Excellence in Media Award and scholarship money as they present their strategic media plan for a multimillion-dollar arts funding promotion.
Sponsored by the Washington Media Scholars Foundation—a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization—the competition challenges students to apply their knowledge by developing public policy advertising campaigns. Only 24 teams across the country are selected to participate in the competition after an initial qualifying round. Of those, only six teams are selected to go to D.C., where they will also have the opportunity to meet leaders in the media industry.
Moor and Kirkpatrick’s case features a full media plan and budget created to increase funding, infrastructure and attendance for a fictional city’s cultural association.
Moor and Kirkpatrick said taking Advertising Media Planning (Advertising 335) with Greenlee Associate Professor Jay Newell and lecturer Michael Wigton helped prepare them for the competition because they were challenged to use real data to create media plans in the class.
This semester, Newell structured the course’s first assignment in a similar format as the initial round of the Washington Media Scholars Case Competition. In the class, students also receive feedback on their final projects from current advertising professionals—Newell’s former students who now work in the industry—to help them better prepare them for their future careers.
“It’s kind of cool when you think about it—you start out in a classroom in the basement of Hamilton Hall in January, and in June you’re presenting your ideas at the Newseum in D.C. in front of people that buy literally tens of millions of dollars of advertising every year,” Newell said. “I’m very excited for them.”
To gain additional insight into their case competition, Moor and Kirkpatrick met with Angela Ossian, Greenlee advisory council member and former executive director of the Metro Arts Alliance of Greater Des Moines.
“What they did was really smart,” Newell said. “The plan that Moor and Kirkpatrick had to do is about arts funding, so they got to learn about that territory.”
Newell also arranged opportunities this summer for the pair to rehearse their presentation in front of Des Moines advertising agency representatives at Flynn Wright, Strategic America and ZLR Ignition.
Ashley Kirkpatrick (left) and Lindsey Moor rehearsed their presentation in front of representatives at Flynn Wright in Des Moines in May.
Prior to presenting their case Thursday, Moor and Kirkpatrick will also visit various D.C.-based advertising agencies, political consulting firms and media outlets as part of Media Scholars Week. The week will culminate with a networking reception attended by professionals from across the country.
“You just can’t beat it—it’s going to be an amazing opportunity,” Moor said. “Meeting the other teams will be interesting too. Hopefully we can become lifelong friends and keep in touch with them.”
Kirkpatrick, who interned for Senator Charles Grassley last summer, is excited to return to Washington D.C.
“I’m interested to go back and talk to the news outlets and the networks and agencies that would be putting out what the senator, President and representatives are saying,” she said.
Iowa State students have enjoyed recent success in this competition. Emily Staples, a junior in advertising, and Katherine Quimby, a junior in advertising, also qualified for the semi-final round of this year’s competition.
Last year, Iowa State alumnae Emily Belloma (’17 marketing, advertising) and Mia Guion (’17 advertising) won the competition, earning the National Excellence in Media Award from the Washington Media Scholars Foundation, in addition to $5,000 scholarships.
“We have students entering contests like the American Advertising Awards and winning,” said Newell. “We have students entering contests like the Effie Awards—the advertising effectiveness awards—and winning. I think our students are really smart.”
Associate Professor Jay Newell, right, has helped prepare Greenlee students, including Lindsey Moor, left, and Ashley Kirkpatrick, center, for the Washington Media Scholars Case Competition.
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Health Startup Digest - 6/10/16
Startup Highlight: Xip Xip is creating a tool for EDs to conduct fast, point-of-care blood tests for
Issue #16 • June 10 • View online • Suggest a link
The latest news and information about innovations in healthcare.
Startup Highlight: Xip
Xip is creating a tool for EDs to conduct fast, point-of-care blood tests for patients to detect everything from troponin for heart attacks, to STDs, and other tests that typically require longer turn around. While point-of-care tests exist today, as the company mentions, they, “require unwieldy instruments and often cannot detect low yet meaningful levels of troponin.” Seems quite interesting if they can get the science to work beyond heart attack detection.
As always, if you come across news, announcements, videos, or podcasts that you think the other 4,900+ subscribers would benefit from, e-mail me at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com or tweet @R_Scott_Munro and subscribe to the digest, here.
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Where are we in the Robotics Revolution? | MedTech Talk
This is a great session from the recent MedTech Conference with Paul LaViolette of SV Life Sciences/TransEnterix, John Pavlidis, CEO of VytronUS, and Eric Timko, former CEO of Blue Belt. They go through a series of discussions from whether or not robotic surgery is still in its infancy (spoiler alert: it is), to how the FDA treats robotic devices, to various marketing strategies they employed at their companies. It’s a great look at where robotics is today, and how the market (physicians and consumers) view the technology.
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Scientists Find Form of Crispr Gene Editing With New Capabilities | The New York Times
As folks in the “know”…. know CRISPR is not just one gene editing tool, but an umbrella term for a number of different systems of gene editing, of which Cas9 is just one. This article goes into detail about C2C2 which can, “make molecules that can attack RNA and chop it up.” Now, you may be asking yourself why this is important, well these bacteria with C2C2 can potentially attack RNA made in particular cancer cells, as Dr. Feng Zhang mentions in the article, thus selectively destroying the cancer. Read more in this NYT piece.
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The Real Cause of Deadly Medical Errors | Scientific America
I usually don’t like putting something on here when I have seen it on another digest, but this piece from Dr. Ashish Jha was too good to pass up. He goes through how we think about medical errors, and whether or not we should really broaden the definition to include challenges that arise from, for instance, interoperability struggles. Via a vignette Dr. Jha asks: Is the death of a patient caused by lack of information on a patient’s history because it’s stored in a siloed EMR at another hospital a medical error? He believes it should be, and in the 21st century we owe it to our patients to do better.
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Freenome Raises $5.55M from Andreessen Horowitz, others | Medium
This is another example of the type of article I don’t usually like sharing: funding updates. In this case, Freenome’s CEO, Gabriel Otte, goes into far more detail than just the fact that they are raising money. He actually also gives some background on their company (based on cfDNA technology) and why they think they can win in the liquid biopsy market. This is quite a crowded market, and cfDNA is by no means new. In fact many companies are currently commercializing liquid biopsies around this very technology (cfDNA). The secret sauce may be in their “Adaptive Genetics Engine” as the company suggests. Color me skeptical, but its a good read anyway.
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The Commonwealth Fund Case Study Special Online Virtual Issue | The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation
This quarter’s Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation is focused on an incredibly important topic: aligning incentives and outcomes in the new fee-for-outcome world. When I first accessed these articles they were free until July 1, not it seems they are free until June 1. Astute readers will notice that is a date in the past. So, if you can get a hold of these articles, I suggest reading them, if not, sorry for teasing you like this!
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IDB - Venture Night
The good people at the Inter-American Development Bank wanted me to share this link and the following blurb with everyone.
“Do you have a startup in Latin America and the Caribbean that has developed a health, water , sanitation and hygiene solution, product or service that is improving lives? If so, this is the contest for you! Apply to be one of the startups selected to experience Demand Solutions, and network, pitch, and compete for awards during Venture Night.”
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“All of this begs the question why—why is our system so sloppy? The answer: because it can be. Because the costs of medical errors are hidden. No senior hospital administrator or Washington policymaker heard about Mr. Jones’s death. Even when the errors are more obvious, the financial consequences to institutions are small. And until we fundamentally shift the incentive structure of the system so that the most careful and safe systems get rewarded handsomely (and the poor performers get punished), none of the sloppiness goes away.”
- Ashish Jha, MD
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Tyler Herro Says He Wishes Dwyane Wade Was His Teammate - Heat Nation
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Tyler Herro Says He Wishes Dwyane Wade Was His Teammate
Miami Heat rookie guard Tyler Herro never got the chance to play with retired Heat legend Dwyane Wade.
Over the weekend, Herro indicated that he wishes he could have played alongside the future Hall of Famer.
D wade https://t.co/6AF8Dhhpr2
— Tyler Herro (@raf_tyler) April 6, 2020
Wade completed his memorable 16-year career last year, taking part in a season-long farewell tour that saw him recognized across the league for his many accomplishments.
Two months after Wade’s final game, Herro was selected by the Heat with the 13th overall pick in the draft.
Wade took time to recognize the drafting of Herro, and he also included some strong advice to embrace the Heat’s rigorous attention to work ethic.
Herro took that advice to heart and had put together a strong first season prior to the NBA’s suspension of play on March 11.
The 20-year-old Herro was contributing largely off the bench, starting only six of his 47 games on the season.
However, in those contests, he was averaging 12.9 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game, helping the Heat to a 41-24 record on the year.
While Herro never got the opportunity to play with Wade, he has forged a strong bond with Jimmy Butler, who has brought much of the fire and talent that Wade possessed during his time in a Heat uniform.
The good news for Herro is that Wade continues to keep close tabs on the Heat and has always been open to offering advice to players seeking his counsel.
Judging from the reverence that Herro has for Wade, it’s likely that such conversations will take place in the years ahead.
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Net Migration Falling – Could This Tip NZ into Recession?
Posted on July 30, 2018 by Glenn
Some news out of Australia relating to migration rates and the impact on the Australian economy got us thinking about how the same might apply in New Zealand.
The Daily Reckoning Australia yesterday discussed the risks to Australia if policy makers cut back on immigration rates. See: Australia’s Secret to Dodging a Recession:
“Australia’s population has grown 50% in the past three decades. And if it weren’t for the constant flow of migrants to our shores, Australia would’ve been broke four times over.”
Their Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants to cut annual immigration from 190,000 to 110,000. Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton is also calling to drastically cut back on the number of migrants.
They explain how Australia is only in its 27th recession-free year due to “blind luck and occasional intervention.”
First in the mid 1990’s there was a relaxation of lending standards and reinstatement of negative gearing.
The tiny Aussie tech sector meant the dotcom bust had little impact.
Then China’s rise caused Aussie exports of the likes of iron ore to soar in the 2000’s.
Then China saved Australia from the 2008 crisis by unleashing a “credit fuelled construction boom”.
So Aussie houses just kept on rising and while most of the rest of the world struggled, Australia came out of 2008 pretty much untouched.
Australia defied recession once again in 2015 after China’s yuan devaluation.
Then soon after when commodity prices dropped, and the construction sector struggled, the Aussie government launched massive nationwide infrastructure projects.
“But the only reason this blind luck and economic intervention worked was because of high migration numbers.
The definition of a technical recession is two consecutive quarters of declining GDP growth.
As you can see in the chart below, when you strip down the numbers to show economic growth per person (blue line), there are four periods in the past 15 years in which Australia faced the real prospect of recession.
Economic growth per person
The graph would’ve looked much worse if we didn’t have the influx of new migrants coming to settle in Australia permanently.
The point is, Australia’s booming population, at 25 million, is one of the few things keeping us out of recession.
The simple reason for this is that the more people there are, the more spending there is in the economy. That applies to both the public and private sector.
In addition, the waves of new workers settling in Australia should help balance out the 25% of the population retiring over the next decade. We simply don’t have enough young people to fill this gap.
Whether some people care to admit, the ongoing prosperity Aussies enjoy now heavily relies on new migrants.
If policymakers put an end to that, the rug will be ripped out from under the Australian economy in time.
And it would almost surely take our record-breaking recession-free run with it.”
How Does New Zealand Compare?
When we look at the factors outlined above, New Zealand has a lot of similarities.
Following the recession in the early 1990s, the land tax was repealed altogether in 1992. This helped to boost real estate values. (This was a long standing tax dating back to 1878). Source.
Then there was the change from stamp duty to a higher GST which came into effect in 2001. This helped boost the economy following the dotcom bust.
These tax changes made residential property the even more favoured investment in New Zealand.
We now have twice as much capital invested into the land as we hold in financial assets, such as bank deposits and managed funds. (See: Land taxation: a New Zealand perspective – Jonathan Barrett and John Veal 2012).
New Zealand didn’t see the same sort of Government interventions following the 2008 crisis. So house prices did dip here more than Australia.
However the boost that China gave Australia was felt two-fold here. These two countries are New Zealand’s main export partners. So with Aussie and China doing well, we did okay too. Overall we sink or swim with Australia.
How Has Migration Impacted New Zealand’s Economy?
Just like in Australia, the New Zealand population also grew sharply over the past decade. Particularly over the last 5 years, fed by rising migration. Perhaps then this is no surprise that this period was when the New Zealand “rock star” economy was at its best?
source: tradingeconomics.com
New Zealand Migration is Already Slowing
Here in New Zealand the new government policy was to tighten up on migration.
But latest numbers indicate this is happening already without any government intervention.
“New Zealand’s years of record breaking migration appear to be over with the latest Stats NZ data showing annual net migration at its lowest since November 2015.”
Annual net migration eased slightly to 65,000 in the June 2018 year, as fewer migrants arrived and more left, according to Stats NZ.
That total is down by 7,400 from the peak of 72,400 in the June 2017 year. But monthly migrant arrivals also dropped in June – to 4,850 from 5,080 in May.”
“…Non-New Zealand citizen migrant departures were up by 21% year-on-year in the June 2018 year, while migrant arrivals dipped below 130,000 for the first time since the April 2017 year.
More New Zealand citizens are also now leaving the country long term than returning.
But ASB senior economist Jane Turner says the easing migration flow was largely due to the lift in non-New Zealand citizen departures.
Departures to Australia remain low and steady (which is where New Zealanders often head) while departures to Asia, Europe and the Americas are climbing, she says.
“This suggest the strong surge in arrivals seen in recent years is now boosting the level of departures as some of these ‘long-term’ residents head home, possibly after completing studies or the expiration of a two-year youth working holiday visa.”
At the same time, migrant arrivals appear to have peaked and are starting to show tentative signs of turning lower, Turner says.
“The Australia labour market has improved materially over the past six months, and this is likely to see more New Zealanders remain in Australia and, over time, also increase the number who move across the Tasman.”
This is another indicator that the New Zealand economy is entering a slow down. Refer back to what we wrote 2 weeks ago in: NZX50 Near Highs But This Indicator Says the NZ Economy is Slowing Sharply
Westpac senior economist Satish Ranchhod agrees, saying they expect that migration will continue to ease back over the next few years.
“Much of the increase in migration in recent years was due to people arriving on temporary work and student visas. We are now seeing many of those earlier arrivals departing.
“At the same time, economic conditions in many other regions are firming as growth in New Zealand slows. This is making us less attractive as a destination.”
Migration Affects House Prices and Economy. But Economy Affects Migration Too
There has been plenty of debate about the impact of foreigners buying New Zealand housing.
But there likely wouldn’t be too much debate that the increase in migrants in the past decade would have helped push N.Z. house prices higher. More people chasing the same number of houses increases prices.
So New Zealand would seem to be in a similar boat to Australia. Namely, if migration slows markedly here, the economy will likely slow and so will house price growth.
This could also be somewhat of a negative feedback loop too. If the New Zealand economy slows, migrants will be less likely to come here. But lower migration also means less demand in the economy and also less demand for housing, and so on.
It’s early days but migration flows are another indicator to keep an eye on.
Why Buy Precious Metals?
Precious Metals are negatively correlated with other asset prices. So in a recession (such as occurred in 2008) gold is likely to rise in price when the likes of property and the share market fall.
If the economy in New Zealand is in fact starting to slow now, then this would be a good time to take our some financial insurance and buy some gold and silver.
Read more: New Zealand in the News Around the World – For All the Wrong Reasons
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Jared Leto’s ‘Spider-Man’ Spin-Off Movie ‘Morbius’ To Wrap Filming In May
We have a new production update to share concerning Sony Pictures’ Morbius, the second Spider-Man spin-off feature film focusing on villain turned hero Dr. Michael Morbius, played by Oscar-winner Jared Leto. Filming is said to begin this February (previously supported by producer Matt Tolmach) in London, England and HN Entertainment has now learned the production is expected to wrap photography sometime in May.
Morbius will be using the working title Plasma something that was previously revealed by ProductionWeekly, and we’ve been able to reaffirm ourselves from our own sources.
The production team assembled for Morbius includes cinematographer Oliver Wood (Safe House, Bourne trilogy, The Equalizer 2), production designer Stefania Cella (White Boy Rick, Lucy In The Sky aka Pale Blue Dot), 2nd unit director/stunt coordinator Gary Powell (Skyfall, Jason Bourne, Spectre, Casino Royale), and art director Martin Gendron (Venom, Punisher: War Zone).
The rest of the casting announcements should be made in the near future as actress Adria Arjona is reportedly in talks for the role of Martine Bancroft.
There is a good chance that Venom 2 could begin filming in late summer or fall, as Sony has just hired returning screenwriter Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks) to pen the sequel while the studio seeks a new director.
Sony Pictures hasn’t made this official but there is now an expectation that Morbius will be released on July 10th, 2020 and Venom 2 for October 2nd, 2020. The studio had recently mapped-out those dates for Marvel projects.
SOURCE: HN ENTERTAINMENT
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Redefining Shot Quality: One Pass at a Time
January 27, 2016 January 27, 2016 Ryan Stimson Exploring Context, Passing Data, Uncategorized
Shot quality has been a topic of late on hockey twitter and various sites. Only a few weeks ago, the Hockey-Graphs Hockey Talk was centered around this topic. Shot quality is a lightning rod and much of the talking at or past one another that people often do stems from a single issue: there is no agreed-upon definition of what people mean when they say “shot quality.” Well, I like what our own Nick Mercadante had to say on the subject:
@77PGC and that’s where guys like @RK_Stimp and @Vallys_View come in with the tracking work. Give me a base repeatable skill to analyze.
— Nick Mercadante (@NMercad) January 17, 2016
Establishing a base, repeatable skill that accounts for pre-shot movement and an increased likelihood of a goal being scored are what we need to properly analyze player contributions. Quantifying passing also gives us another actionable piece of data that everyone understands and coaches can use as well. Often, the simplest metric or method is the best. And, we should able to do that now that we’ve obtained a significant set of data. This chart may look familiar, but it’s essential to understanding how important passing is to goal-scoring. This is from all tracked passing sequences from the six teams (Chicago Blackhawks, Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, and Washington Capitals) that we tracked last season.
From this point on, I want you to forget whatever it is you think of when you hear the term, “shot quality.”
When I hear shot quality, I think we should be talking about any aspects of a shot that consistently increase the chance of a goal being scored. The reason we value Corsi and Scoring Chances is that they are both rather basic, repeatable, and predictive. What we are going to do in this post is examine the value in a single, repeatable metric that can tell us anything about what happens before the shot is taken. Specifically, we’re going to evaluate what we can learn from the shot assists a player generates.
For those unfamiliar with my work, I have been tracking passes, shot assists, and a whole bunch of other stuff over the last three seasons. Over the past two seasons, many people have joined me in this pursuit of better data to make better evaluations of players. Today, we can do just that. You can learn more about the project here and please reach out if you’d like to volunteer.
Let’s get into it, shall we? All data you will see is from 5v5 situations. We’re going to use the 72 forwards that played in at least 60 games for the 2013 – 2014 New Jersey Devils, and then the Chicago Blackhawks, Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, and Washington Capitals from the 2014 – 2015 season. I chose this number as I wanted a good enough sample from their respective seasons and playing at least 75% of the season seemed like a good place to start.
What we’re going to do is look at how well the rate at which a player assists on shots (makes the final pass before a shot) predicts their assists and primary points over the rest of the season (from their 1st game played to their 60th). To begin, we’ll look at the repeatability over the course of a season for both a player’s own shots (yes, I’m a Micah Blake McCurdy convert and have come to express shots as tantamount to shot attempts as it’s more intuitive) and those they assist on.
We see that the rate at which a player assists on shots closely follows the rate at which they shoot the puck themselves. Naturally, we would expect a player’s own shot rates to be slightly more repeatable as they have full control over that event. All of us have witnessed a player make a pass and expect another player to shoot, only to fumble the puck or take too long deciding. However, these are fairly close and we can identify that primary shot assists is a talent.
Next, we’ll combine a player’s shots and shot assists into one metric called Primary Shot Contributions. Due to the random nature of secondary point allocation in the NHL, most people tend to value a player’s Primary Points higher than their total points. As such, we will now look at the repeatability of a player’s Primary Shot Contributions/60 with the above chart.
As logic would tell us, a player’s Primary Shot Contributions/60 follows the same pattern for repeatability as its two components do.
Now we will look at using a player’s Primary Shot Contributions and predicting their Primary Points over the course of a season.
This tells us that a player’s primary shot contributions (again, their own shots and those they set up for others as the final passer) can more accurately predict their primary points over the remainder of a season and can do so far, far quicker. In fact, you need only eleven games of data to find the strongest correlation between a player’s Primary Shot Contributions/60 (hereafter PSC/60), and how many Primary Points/60 (hereafter PrP/60) they’ll score over the rest of the season. A correlation, mind you, that is never that strong using PrP/60.
In short, if you want to know how many points a forward will score over the remainder of the season, you’re much better off using their Primary Shot Contributions than Primary Points. Points can be deceiving. Shot Contributions are more exact.
Next, we will take a look at the predictive aspects of a player’s own shots versus those he sets up for others. Some of you might be saying, “Well, how much of this predictive power is simply due to the shots a player takes? How much impact are his passes actually having? Which is more important?”
What we learn when we break down PSC/60 into its two components – Shots/60 and Shot Assists/60 – is that a player’s ability to set up others has a much stronger influence over the remaining number of primary points they will score than their own shooting does.
Lastly, we will look at predicting Primary Assist rates using PSC/60.
Again, we see how quickly we can predict the remaining Primary Assists a player will score over the course of a season. After only 8 games, the correlation is as its zenith (0.261) and you would need to wait until a player’s 41st game to find a stronger correlation using their A1/60 (0.269). At this point, the season is already half-over.
One of the aspects of hockey that has never been quantified is what is often referred to as “pre-shot movement.” What I’ve done here is accounted for one aspect of that by creating a rate metric of shot assists created by passes. Passing accounts for several things: sustained possession, pace and speed of play, particularly in the offensive zone, and an implication that the goalie is moving to track the puck and has to then get set. All of that is now contained in a repeatable and predictive metric that enhances player evaluation and surpasses existing goal metrics of Primary Points and Assists that may have been viewed as superior for predicting future goal involvement.
So, why is this important? In a nutshell:
More accurately predict player points in a given season
More accurately identify players that generate offense
The ability for GMs to quickly evaluate talent in order to re-sign, trade, or waive accordingly
Exploit market inefficiencies by investing wisely in players that can pass effectively
By tracking passes in the way that myself and many others have done, we have finally provided the hockey community with a baseline metric to account for shot quality. A baseline metric, mind you, that is both repeatable and predictive, two things that are essential if you want to convince people how to quantify and define shot quality.
Having established this baseline, the next step is to continue to test it as we accumulate more of our publicly available data. The goal is to complete the tracking of this entire season by the end of this year. Also, I’ll gradually include other aspects of what we track (one-timers, Royal Road passes, multiple passing sequences, etc.) to weight our events in the same fashion as existing expected goals models. Provided, of course, those are also repeatable and enhance what we already have. Certain events may sound important in theory, but ultimately become noise as the sample grows. This is the first step in cutting through the noise that is shot quality.
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very cool stuff. I wonder why the predictability for Primary Assists peaks so soon in the season. I wonder if that peak will move further to the right over the course of the season, and smooth into a more traditional curve, when you add in more players/data.
Rick Nashtag (@PopsTwitTar)
It certainly could move to the right. I was surprised it peaked that early as well. As we finish teams for this season, I’ll add each one in and post the findings.
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Good post. A few comments.
1. Your definition of shot quality is the correct one. Shot quality is anything that contributes to scoring goals above and beyond quantity.
2. Your first chart indicated multiple passes are important at boosting shooting percentage. This would indicate that there is value in the secondary assist. This is probably particularly true if the passes are occurring in the offensive zone.
3. I suspect another component in all of this is quickness of the play which is a bit more difficult to track. How quick you turn a pass into a shot or a subsequent pass could be a huge component of the shot quality equation. Unfortunately I am not sure how easily this will get captured with human tracking as even as little as a half a second could be a huge difference between the goalie getting across the crease to make a save and not. Tracking passes and puck movement certainly pushes the boundaries back though so good job.
4. The last chart is a little concerning for me. It basically says that with small sample sizes primary shot assists will predict future primary assists than primary assists do. This makes sense because shot assists will occur far more frequently than assists. What concerns me is that predictability seems to max out at ~8 games and it steadily declines from there and gets overtaken by primary assists at about the 33 game mark. That limits the value of the stat to just situations where we have G/60 vs G/60->G/60. I am curious to see if it would look similar to the last chart.
Good work though. Very interesting.
The quickness of the play and subsequent shot are certainly factors. We partially account for this by tracking one-timers versus all other shots. The time between passes would be nice to have, but it would take far longer to track.
I wonder if there may be some useful data hidden in secondary assists based on pass location too. Certainly a pass from the defensive zone that is successful on the other side of the opposing team’s redline would be meaningful if it led to a goal.
Really cool stuff! Apologies if I missed this somewhere — what is the exact difference between Overall Passing and Multiple Passes in the first graphic?
Bert G.
Overall passing is from all passes. So, a shot could come at the end of a single passing or multiple passing sequence. The Multiple Passing % is isolating shots from at least two passes only.
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General Hospital Spoilers: Tamron Hall To Make An Appearance In Port Charles
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By Rita Ryan Last updated Sep 13, 2019
General Hospital spoilers tease that Tamron Hall, well-known news anchor and host of such programs as Investigation Discovery’s “Deadline Crime With Tamron Hall” will guest star on General Hospital Friday, September 13.
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A short extension was tacked onto the end of the weekly promo “Secrets Revealed” after the original promo was released, which shows Tamron at a table with Jasper Jacks (Ingo Rademacher) sharing drinks. It looks like Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) may be involved in this scene also, but all that is shown is the back of her head. Deductive reasoning tells us it must be Maxie since both Maxie and Jax are associated with Crimson Magazine, and although no great deal of information has yet been released about her General Hospital appearance, or if she will play a character other than herself, there may be more updates before Friday’s episode.
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Tamron Hall has been hosting “Deadline Crime With Tamron Hall” on Investigation Discovery since July 2013 and it is a program about true crimes and the judicial outcomes of the cases, and she and her team investigate how the crimes happened from many different sources. It could be considered investigative journalism meets murder mystery since most of the cases deal with homicides. Tamron’s own sister was killed in an unsolved homicide which to date is unsolved, and she dedicated her crime series to her. The show also airs on OWN.
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At times, Tamron’s broadcast history has entailed some controversy, with a talk show she was trying to get off the ground in 2017 having unfortunately been associated with Harvey Weinstein as a partner in the show’s creation and production when the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal came to light. Otherwise, she has hosted news programs on Fox News, NBC, and MSNBC, including the Today Show.
Hall was also featured on a 2014 episode of “Running Wild With Bear Grylls”, a reality adventure show featuring survival skills. She and Grylls hiked for two days in the Pink Cliffs of southwestern Utah and rappelled down several cliffs, cooked a squirrel over a fire, and hiked over extremely rugged terrain. Her first program on her own, however, was NewsNation With Tamron Hall, in 2010. This included high-profile interviews and coverage of US, global, and entertainment news and aired weekday afternoons. She covered a live broadcast from Ground Zero in New York City during the Twin Towers disaster on September 11, 2011, the death of Osama Bin Laden, the final space shuttle launch in 2011, and Hurricane Issac in 2012.
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Constitutional law has long assumed that mothers and fathers are fundamentally different. Maternity, that law posits, is certain, obvious, and monolithic — consolidated in an easily identifiable person who is at once a biological, social, and legal parent. Paternity, in contrast, is construed as uncertain, nonobvious, relative, and often unclear. Over time, constitutional law has grown more insistent about the obviousness of motherhood. It also has cemented its idea of maternity into a fundamental principle of sex equality law that applies in settings — like transgender rights — that have nothing to do with certain mothers and uncertain fathers.
Constitutional law’s logic of maternal certainty and paternal uncertainty invites criticism for many reasons. It channels the notion that pregnant women are presumptive mothers. It perpetuates questionable stereotypes about mothers and fathers. It determines who can be a parent and how he, she, or they ought to parent. It is in serious tension with constitutional law’s disestablishment idea. For all of these reasons, constitutional maternity warrants reform, and one promising pathway of reform is family law’s less regressive and more multidimensional vision of motherhood.
Never as uncomplicated as the Supreme Court has assumed, maternity has become considerably more complex in light of the new forms of kinship enabled by alternative reproduction and its legal accommodation. During the exact time that the Supreme Court has insisted that women and men are inherently different because of maternal certainty and paternal uncertainty, state family law has painted a more complicated picture. Maternity, that picture suggests, often is uncertain and nonobvious. It often is relative. Like paternity, it often is a matter of opinion — judicial opinion. Most remarkably, state family law has shown that maternity is all of these things by relying on the same body of federal constitutional doctrine that insists that mothers and fathers are fundamentally different — and fundamentally different because mothers, unlike fathers, are basic, singular, and monolithic.
This Article argues that progressive advances surrounding the new maternity ought to unsettle regressive tendencies surrounding constitutional maternity. These regressive tendencies touch and burden many: from unmarried fathers and transgender individuals to nonbiological and biological mothers. This Article imagines what the new maternity emerging from family law would mean for constitutional law. The idea that the new maternity could unsettle constitutional maternity is not necessarily radical — that project has been unfolding in state courts for years. The consolidation of the new maternity in constitutional law, however, could have meaningful consequences both within and beyond the law of parenthood, destabilizing everything from parentage regimes that rest on the notion of essential biological difference to the argument that transgender discrimination is not illegal because “sex” is not “a stereotype.”
* Donald Hinkle Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law. Sincere thanks to Kelli Alces Williams, Albertina Antognini, I. Glenn Cohen, Mathilde Cohen, Avlana Eisenberg, Dov Fox, Germaine Gurr, Susan Hazeldean, Jake Linford, Jessica Littmann, Douglas NeJaime, Michael Morley, Marc Spindelman, Mark Spottswood, Sarah Swan, and Allison Tait, as well as participants at the Baby Markets Roundtable at the George Washington University Law School and faculty workshops at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the Florida State University College of Law. For outstanding research and editorial assistance, I thank Alexander Purpuro, Caron Byrd, and the editors of the Harvard Law Review.
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The skin care brand striving to make medical-grade topicals both more luxe and accessible
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This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation.
Many new skin care and beauty brands tout leaning on ingredients that are natural, vegan, and intended for all skin types. But not all of them are medica-grade, and few are founded by health care professionals.
Founded by a nurse practitioner and a beauty industry veteran, The Route launched in October 2019. The pair wanted to make medical-grade skin care products more luxurious, but also mass market-accessible while simplifying the skin care routines of busy moms like them—both women are in their fifties and live in Southern California.
Fortune recently spoke with cofounders Courtney Baber and Nancy Pellegrino, RN (a.k.a. Nurse Nancy) to learn more about their business, the lessons learned, the hurdles overcome, and their plans for next year.
The following interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
Courtney Baber and Nancy Pellegrino, RN, cofounders of The Route.
Photograph courtesy of The Route
Fortune: What were you doing professionally prior to launching The Route?
Baber: I graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a major in Communications and minor in Retail Marketing. But the most valuable education I received was at Estee Lauder, one of my first jobs in the beauty industry. I like to say I got my Masters there. And when I was with Sephora, over a decade later, I helped bring Indie Beauty to Europe, which meant I got to travel and live and work abroad. The lessons learned and experiences I had overseas was like getting a PhD in life and business. Urban Decay was the culmination of all of these experiences and is what gave me the tools and ability to launch my own brand. On-the-job education has been priceless and has taught me probably more than I learned in college.
Pellegrino: I went to nursing school at Cal State Long Beach and got my Masters in Nursing at UCLA; I’m proud to say I graduated top of my class. I started out my nursing career as a hospital nurse in the cardiac catheterization lab. I went on to nurse practitioner school and began working in internal medicine with a focus on women’s health. I did this for eight years.
In 1991, I decided to get into aesthetic nursing, a field that was largely uncharted. I was drawn to the opportunity to help women in a different way. To do what I could to help them feel a little more confident and beautiful. I’d always been fascinated by makeup, even working as a makeup artist during nursing school, and the field of aesthetics seemed to tie my two passions, nursing and makeup artistry, together nicely.
There was no formal training or programs when I started in 1999, so I would travel around the country to get my hands on every class and lecture I could. I researched and then researched some more. I wanted to learn the best of the best techniques, participate in think tanks, and find mentors so I could perfect my craft as quickly as possible. I opened my own aesthetics business in Newport Beach in 2007.
What inspired you to launch The Route? How does it stand apart in the skin care industry?
Pellegrino: I met Courtney at NP Aesthetics 12 years ago. She was a senior vice president at Urban Decay and just had her second child. We became fast friends and discovered our shared desire to create a skin care brand that was beautiful, medical grade, results-driven, and didn’t cut corners. As mothers of young children who had tried and tested virtually every cream, serum, and treatment in the business, we knew that together we just might be able to create something amazing. I had dreamt of creating a skin care line a decade prior, but never made it happen. When I met Courtney, I knew that this was my chance, and I grabbed onto it.
With Courtney’s prestige beauty expertise and my experience treating thousands of women’s skin, we knew we could bring a fresh yet educated perspective. In addition to creating best-in-class products, we wanted to make medical-grade skin care more widely available. And because there are so few nurse-founded skin care brands, we were even more motivated to do it right. We sought out arguably the best medical grade skin care formulator on the planet, John Garruto; he’s often referred to as the godfather of cosmetic chemistry. When we met him, we knew he was the one we wanted to help us create our formulas.
Baber: I think it’s fair to say Nurse Nancy and I are early pioneers of aesthetic nursing and indie beauty, respectively. We have combined 60 years in the beauty industry and seeing how the indie beauty industry has evolved over time has been fascinating. Fusing our decades of experience with our unique, complementary expertise is one of the things that makes us stand out as a brand and we tried really hard to make it shine through in our products.
Because we’re both in our fifties, we started by addressing all the reasons the skin ages. We made sure the formulas could stand the test of time and were looked at through both medical-grade and luxury skin care lenses. We also made sure to use all ingredients at their clinically tested levels of efficacy because that’s what makes them perform the way they’re intended. We made a pact to one another from the start that we would not skimp on any ingredients, which is something that happens too often in the industry. Taking the easy route isn’t in our DNA. We want to do what works best, and we want to do it right. It’s expensive to do but if you want to see results, it’s crucial. It took us three years to develop the formulas because we are very thoughtful and careful with everything we do; we are laser-focused on creating a brand capable long-term success.
The Route makes vegan creams, primers, and invisible peels that are meant to work on virtually all skin types.
Courtesy of The Route
How have you divided up the workload between yourselves? How has your workforce grown since establishing the company?
Baber: For the most part, it divided naturally based on our areas of expertise. Nurse Nancy is the cook in the kitchen working with the formulators and the chemist. Nancy is also more of the face and voice of the brand because she’s a nurse and has been working on people’s skin for decades. She also creates more of the video content, social media, and education, whereas I focus on the strategy, operations, running the business, and leading the team.
Our workforce has evolved primarily on the operations side. A year ago, we didn’t think we needed an operations lead, but learned quickly that it was a vital part of the business and something we should have had from Day One. The day we hired a head of operations is the day things started to fall into place and feel more manageable. We use consultants and contractors for everything else—creative, IT, social, PR, etc.—and made the choice not to set up payroll early on. We will probably begin setting it up in 2021, but as a new company, it’s a big burden. My recommendation is only hire what you absolutely need, leverage your network, and be able to work high and low every day—meaning ship packages one day, negotiate a deal the next.
Pellegrino: There are a lot of people graduating and struggling to find jobs right now. They are savvy about the digital world and can see things from a fresher perspective. Hiring them to help out with social media can be wonderful and for us, it was just that. We brought on some interns in the beginning and are also lucky to have some really nice friends with invaluable expertise who were happy to lend it to us when needed.
The founders say they wanted to make medical-grade skincare products more luxurious—but also mass market-accessible—while simplifying the skincare routines of busy moms like themselves.
Skin care is increasingly outselling cosmetics in the beauty business. Why do you think that is? How much of a role does social media play in your branding and marketing?
Baber: There is a movement of people wanting to take care of themselves, which includes their skin and being more minimalist about makeup. Social media has helped fuel this fresh face, healthy skin, #nomakeup trend. People are now looking at beauty from a skin-first lens. And skin care is far more innovative and creative than ever before. There is no shortage of amazing ingredients out there, and I don’t think it was as interesting or cutting edge 10 or 20 years ago.
Pellegrino: I agree with Courtney. When I started out in aesthetics skin care was referred to as “lotions and potions,” the latter making it seem magical or unreal. And people are still somewhat skeptical of skin care claims. But now, thanks to ingredient technology and science, you really can have transformative results. In the era of COVID, people are staying home, going on zoom, and choosing comfort. They are working out, eating better, taking care of their skin, and letting their skin breathe, which is always a good thing and something I encourage my patients to do. A little skin freedom goes a long way. Simplifying your routine has become a movement, too. For the most part, more is no longer more when it comes to skin care.
Baber: As far as social media goes, it is a key part of who we are and how we market ourselves. It’s a non-negotiable. But you have to figure out how to play in the world of social media in a way that makes sense for your brand. And that’s not that easy to do. Your website and social media are the windows to your brand. So whatever you put out there has to reflect your brand DNA. And how you do it has to be extremely thought through and unique to your brand. But the first year is a learning experience, for sure.
Pellegrino: We chose from the start that we would write the copy ourselves as much as we could because we wanted to be authentic and have our personalities and voices shine through. We will continue to do that.
What has been your most successful or greatest “hero” product since launching? Have customers been asking for any new offerings in particular?
Baber: By far, The Party Peel. It’s the gateway to The Route. It’s something you can get both immediate and long-term results from, not to mention it’s selfie-worthy and super fun to use. It is our number one product.
Pellegrino: The Party Peel is the first product that we made. It’s patent-pending, and based on the most popular peel I did in my office. I wanted to bring it to people at home, no appointment necessary. Customers have been asking us for an SPF and cleanser to round out the routine and really make the brand give you everything you need. We agree, and we want them to be special and different just like our other products. These two products will add to our essential line, which currently includes our day and night face and eye creams and our next-gen retinoid, The Golden Rule. We didn’t want to rush the development so just like all of our products, it’s taking time to formulate and get just right. I have stacks and stacks of tester bottles to prove how long this process takes for us. But we plan to launch both in 2021.
The Route launched in October 2019 and rolled out to Ulta Beauty stores as lockdowns orders were beginning in March 2020.
How are you funded? And given the ongoing economic crisis, what has been raising funds been like during this time?
Baber: Up until October 2020, we’ve been self-funded. Bootstrapping allowed us to be really thoughtful about what we were doing and what we wanted to do without having to answer to anyone else. When you have to supply 400 stores with inventory after being in business for just a few months, that’s a big undertaking. But being able to do this in the first year of business is an honor. It’s also a challenge and we wanted to do it right, not cut corners, and ensure things rolled out exactly how we wanted them to.
Not everything is seamless; for example, the week we launched with Ulta, the first lockdown orders were going into effect and stores had to close, but we kept at it and evolved accordingly. We just did our very first friends and family raise, and think it will keep us going for the foreseeable future. We are very grateful and plan to do them proud.
Pellegrino: We waited until we felt we had proven ourselves to raise money. We wanted what we had done already and what we were offering to be exciting and compelling. During this uncertain time, having real proof is vital and also ensures you can feel confident in what you’re selling. Not just the proof that we could do it pre-2020, but that we were able to both survive and ultimately (and thankfully) thrive amidst an economic time like no other. Both Courtney and I asked people who we wanted to go on this journey with us first. What we learned was that people believed in us and wanted us to succeed. That was so validating.
Post-pandemic and five years down the road, where do you see The Route in the market?
Baber: I want to set the brand up to be uber-successful in the U.S. initially and recognized as a top medical-grade, luxury skin care brand. I also hope we can partner with someone who will help us propel the business and expand globally. I’ve learned early on from mentors to do one thing and do it really well. That’s such a great recommendation. You can only handle so much so prioritize and excel accordingly.
NN: I want to be traveling around the world on a leisure trip and see The Route in women’s bags and suitcases. I want to see The Route at the local beauty boutique down the street, in a thousand languages. I want to continue helping people feel beautiful in their skin. I want to teach my daughter what I learned along the way and have her upstage me in business and in life.
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Fax: +63.46.471.59.24
info@iba.edu.ph
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New Cambridge International School
New Cambridge International School (also known as NCIS, and formerly known as Cambridge College Thailand) is a reputed private international school in Thailand. The school offers unique opportunities for Thai and international students in academic subjects as well as vocational courses.
Cambridge International Education in Northern Thailand
Established in 2011, the international day and boarding school located in the historic Phitsanulok township of northern Thailand, offers Key Stage 3 and IGCSE examinations as well as a recognised qualification which helps students get enrollment into reputed universities across the world. The school has a partnership with Brockenhurst, UK and students are given the opportunity to pursue their studies and enhance their qualifications after graduation.
Students grow up to be responsible individuals during their journey with the school. NCIS’ curriculum is dynamic, rigorous, and oftentimes inspiring for the students, streamlining the major subjects into digestible streams, including dedicated streams for Science and Business studies.
New Cambridge International School follows the Project-Based Learning Programme where students gain knowledge and skills by investigating and responding to questions, handling problems and challenges. This helps them acquire skills such as problem-solving, collaboration and self-management skills.
Affordable, Family Oriented Academic Institute
NCIS students are prodded to reach beyond the limiting confines of their learning environment, and to extrapolate additional skills and requirements that are fundamental to developing 21st century school goers. NCIS considers itself a very family oriented school that allows for a significant range of personal growth to be cultivated, not only inside the classroom- but outside in and around the campus, as well.
Students are kept at the centre of all activities in the school. The school creates a friendly and stimulating atmosphere making it a happy place to be. The school also has boarding facilities with a full setup for a comfortable living.
Fees-wise, the school is quite affordable. The school challenges the potential of each student and respects their differences in accepting the views and beliefs of others.
458/1 Moo 3 Phitsanulok-Uttaraditr Road, Tambon Samo Khae, Amphur Muang, Phitsanulok, 65000 Thailand
Pricing THB 36500 - THB 36500
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Kirakira Kids International Kindergarten
Kirakira Kids International Kindergarten is a school offering bilingual education – Japanese and English. The school follows a Japanese culture where Japanese teachers provide guidance to students. The school works hard in conditioning the mind and body and teach children the Japanese culture.
Bilingual Kindergarten in Bangkok
Kirakira Kids was originally opened as Glitter Kids Kindergarten in November 2006 in the Sukhumvit 61 neighbourhood of Bangkok. Besides offering a bilingual education that encourages expressive thinking, culture, and language development- the preschool also enhances the physical, social, and emotional development of young Japanese kids growing up in Thailand, and thereby enriching their relationships not just with their families and peers, but also with nature and their surrounding environment.
The school incorporates the four seasons of Japan through various events and lessons, to ensure that children understand Japanese cultural experiences well. This helps children develop emotions and sensibilities in relation to their culture and heritage as Japanese.
Teachers at Kirakira Kids International Kindergarten hold the kindergarten teacher’s license and the bilingual teacher’s license. Hence they can teach children successfully in English although they are not native English speakers. These teachers have years of child-care experience.
Japanese Kindergarten in Thailand
The curriculum includes various activities tailored to the developmental stages of children. The school concentrates on harmonious development of mind and body so that students can smoothly cope up with primary education in Thailand, Japan or any country in the world.
From the curriculum and pedagogy to arrangement of classrooms to class sizes, everything has been done keeping students in mind. The school believes that students learn best through nurturing and fosters Developmentally Appropriate Practices which support a child’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive, cultural and language development.
The young students are learning and growing up in a secure and conducive environment that is surrounded by lush greeneries and a host of age-appropriate equipment, amenities and toys. Some of the spaces with child-friendly facilities include the Japanese and English classrooms, the multipurpose Red Room, the multipurpose Physical Education room, swimming pool, cafeteria, big playground, computer room, small playground, library, plus picturesque waiting areas for both parents and children.
81, 83 Sukhumvit 61 Klongton Nua, Vadhana, Bangkok 10110
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Live-action Akira gets a teaser trailer — but this one's fan-made
The on-again-off-again live-action Akira movie is probably not meant to be, but that isn't stopping some fans from imagining just how a live action version might look. This fan-made trailer does whitewash at least its Tetsuo character, but manages to strike a gloomy tone.
This trailer was directed by Fabien Dubois who also worked that fabulous Welcome to Hoxford fan movie (which was itself directed by Julien Mokrani, who worked as the producer on this trailer). I can't say this is the Akira I'd want to see in the theaters, but I wouldn't mind seeing a series of these fan-made trailers, with different directors offering their live-action reinterpretations of the classic anime film.
Watch a 15-minute fan film based on Welcome to Hoxford, Ben Templesmith's werewolf prison riot c...
A group of independent filmmakers have put together a snazzy homemade film based on Ben…
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What's it going to take to get everyone to stop talking about white-washing, with any potential American-remade Akira project?
No one flipped out when Infernal Affairs was remade as The Departed, with, shockingly, no Asian characters. Same for the Ring. Is it the name? Is that it? Is it some sort misplaced rage over The Last Airbender, where the white-washing was a genuine issue?
Please, get over it already, so we can focus on what's really important: How awful the proposed live-action projects have been, so far, including this weird mess above.
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Is This The World We Created? - Queen - Live Magic (Vinyl, LP, Album)
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Sep 05, · This grouping gathers together all versions of the "Live Magic" album, originally released in December on vinyl/tape/CD (shortly after concluding their "Magic" tour), as well as subsequent (remastered) repressings and bootleg versions. - "Is This The World We Created?"/5(K).
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Live Magic is a live album by British rock band Queen. It was recorded at various live shows during The Magic Tour and was released on 1 December However, it was not released in the United States until August It received strong criticism from fans, due to the heavy editing of many songs. For example, the opera section was removed from "Bohemian Rhapsody", the second verse and .
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Explains why the King's Gambit is such a good chess opening, and shows and describes matches featuring this strategy
By Steve Berry, Phil Booth, Viktor Korchnoi and Vladmir G. Zak
See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)
9780020220206 | Updated edition (Collier Books, September 1, 1986), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Explains why the King's Gambit is such a good chess opening, and shows and describes matches featuring this strategy
The Boy Who Wouldn't Speak
Owen, a little boy who has never spoken a word to anyone, befriends two giants who have moved into his neighborhood
By Steve Berry and Deirdre Betteridge (illustrator)
See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)
9781550372304 | Annick Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Owen, a little boy who has never spoken a word to anyone, befriends two giants who have moved into his neighborhood
School and Library:
9781550372311 | Annick Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Owen, a little boy who has never spoken a word to anyone, befriends two giants who have moved into his neighborhood
The Amber Room
Product Description: The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of historyâs most intriguing mysteries...read more
By Steve Berry
Hardcover:
9780786258574 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller It's one of the greatest treasures made by man: an entire room forged entirely of exquisite amber.
9780345460035 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
9780345504388 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 27, 2007), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture.
9780345483430 | Ballantine Books, November 2, 2004, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture.
9780345460042 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
9780345469717 | Random House Inc, August 26, 2003, cover price $9.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739354070 | Abridged edition (Random House, November 6, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
The Third Secret: A Novel Of Suspense
Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to behind the scenes intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's powerful Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff, while Father Colin Michener, the pope's secretary, investigates the murder of a Romanian priest connected to the secrets. (Suspense)
9780375435102 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, May 24, 2005), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to behind the scenes intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's powerful Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff, while Father Colin Michener, the pope's secretary, investigates the murder of a Romanian priest connected to the secrets.
9780345484345 | Ballantine Books, May 17, 2005, cover price $9.99
9780739320082 | Abridged edition (Random House, May 24, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff.
La profecia Romanov / The Romanov Prophecy
After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
By Steve Berry and Ramon Buenaventura (trans)
9786077000716 | Italian edition edition (Booket, December 30, 2008), cover price $7.95
9788432296604 | Seix Barral, October 11, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
The Templar Legacy: A Novel
Cotton Malone, a former covert U.S. Justice Department operative, and his ex-supervisor Stephanie Nelle, follow a labyrinthine trail of danger, treachery, high-level intrigue, and overwhelming ambition across Europe on a quest that leads them to the enigmatic secrets of the Knights Templar. Reprint.
9780345476159 | Ballantine Books, February 14, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.
9780345476166 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 30, 2007), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.
9780345493774 | Random House Inc, February 21, 2006, cover price $9.99
The Alexandria Link: A Novel
When his son is kidnapped and his bookshop destroyed, Cotton Malone embarks on a desperate race against time to uncover clues to the whereabouts of the long-lost Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago, unaware that finding the lost cache could have dire consequences for the balance of world power. 500,000 first printing.
9780345485755 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, January 30, 2007), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: 'Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped.
The Alexandria Link
When his son is kidnapped and his bookshop destroyed, Cotton Malone embarks on a desperate race against time to uncover clues to the whereabouts of the long-lost Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago, unaware that finding the lost cache could have dire consequences for the balance of world power. Reprint.
9780340899274 | Hodder & Stoughton, May 31, 2007, cover price $23.20 | also contains The Alexandria Link | About this edition: From the New York Times bestselling author, an ambitious and explosive international thriller with an unexpected historical twist.
9780739326978 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, January 30, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: When his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago.
9780345485762 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 27, 2007), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: When his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago.
9780345497123 | Random House Inc, February 6, 2007, cover price $9.99
9780739365731 | Abridged edition (Random House, November 27, 2007), cover price $14.99
9780739341261 | Abridged edition (Random House, January 30, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago.
9780739342305 | Unabridged edition (Random House, January 30, 2007), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: When his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago.
La habitacion de ambar / The Amber Room
Product Description: BOOKS IN SPANISH
9788498003901 | 1 tra edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, May 10, 2008), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH
9788498003161 | Italian edition edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, March 1, 2007), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
Los Caballeros De Salomon / The Templar Legacy
Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts and plunges him back into the cloak-an
By Steve Berry and Francisco Lacruz (trans)
9788432296895 | Italian edition edition (Seix Barral, April 3, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.
9788432217579 | Booket, June 15, 2007, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
La profecia Romanov
9789707490550, titled "La profecia Romanov / the Romanov Prophecy" | Booket, June 30, 2007, cover price $11.95
TV Cream Toys: Presents You Pestered Your Parents for
9781905548279 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, November 1, 2007, cover price $20.05
Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff.
9780345476135 | Ballantine Books, May 24, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff.
9780345504401 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 27, 2007), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff.
9780345476142 | Ballantine Books, January 31, 2006, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Haunted by the secrets revealed in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, the obsession of Pope Clement XV leads to intrigue at the Vatican as Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State, plots to bring down the troubled pontiff.
9780739333464 | Abridged edition (Random House, January 31, 2006), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller.
The Templar Legacy
Product Description: New York Times BESTSELLER -- "Exciting... hard to put down without reading one more page." - The Florida Times-UnionThe ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost...read more
9780345504418 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 27, 2007), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: New York Times BESTSELLER -- "Exciting.
9780739343111 | Abridged edition (Random House, February 27, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes .
9780739332016 | Abridged edition (Random House, February 14, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.
The Venetian Betrayal: A Novel
Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great, unaware that his grave holds the key to a deadly modern mystery that could save the lives of millions. 350,000 first printing.
9780345485779 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, December 11, 2007), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great.
9780345504456 | Random House Inc, December 11, 2007, cover price $9.99
The Venetian Betrayal
Product Description: In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting placeâunknown to this dayâremains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters...read more
9780340933435 | Hodder & Stoughton, May 15, 2008, cover price $35.35 | About this edition: In 323 B.
9780345508652 | Reprint edition (Random House, December 30, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In 323 B.
9780345485786 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 25, 2008), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: In 323 B.
9780739326985 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, December 11, 2007), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great, unaware that his grave holds the key to a deadly modern mystery that could save the lives of millions.
9780739341285 | Abridged edition (Random House, December 11, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great.
9780739358948 | Unabridged edition (Random House, December 11, 2007), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great.
La conexion Alejandria / The Alexandria Link
Product Description: Fundada en el siglo III a.C., la biblioteca de Alejandria era la mayor fuente de conocimiento del mundo entero. Pero hace 1.500 anos desaparecio entre el mito y la leyenda sin dejar rastro arqueologico alguno. Su saber ha sido desde entonces codiciado por academicos, buscadores de tesoros y aquellos que creen que sus secretos esconden la llave del poder...read more
9788432231810 | Planeta Pub Corp, June 30, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Fundada en el siglo III a.
The Romanov Prophecy
Product Description: Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918. Ten months have passed since Nicholas IIâs reign was cut short by revolutionaries. Tonight, the White Army advances on the town where the Tsar and his family are being held captive by the Bolsheviks...read more
9780345460059 | Ballantine Books, August 31, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
9780375434204 | Random House Large Print, August 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
9780345504395 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 27, 2007), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918.
9780345460066 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, April 26, 2005), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: After the fall of Communism and a vote on the part of the Russian people to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, Atlanta attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow with the assignment to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment soon turns unexpectedly dangerous.
9780739320853 | Abridged edition (Random House, January 10, 2006), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
9780739314814 | Abridged edition (Random House, August 31, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780739314807 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 1, 2004), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: After the Russian people vote to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but his assignment turns unexpectedly dangerous.
Prebinding:
9781439565940 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918.
The Charlemagne Pursuit: A Novel
9780345509635 | Random House Inc, December 2, 2008, cover price $9.99
El tercer secreto / The Third Secret
Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD
9788432231629 | Seix Barral, June 30, 2009, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD
The Charlemagne Pursuit
Product Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESETSELLER • “Those who relish suspense in the Da Vinci Code vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told that his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic...read more
9780345485793, titled "The Charlemagne Pursuit: A Novel" | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, December 2, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files.
9780345485809 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 24, 2009), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: NEW YORK TIMES BESETSELLER • “Those who relish suspense in the Da Vinci Code vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series.
9780345518637 | Random House, October 29, 2009, cover price $7.99
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The Paris Vendetta: A Novel
When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he?Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. Actually, it breaks and enters in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his heels. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally.Their first stop is the secluded estate of Malone's good friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for Napoleon's legendary lost treasure can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy.But Thorvaldsen's real objective is much more personal: to avenge the murder of his son by the larcenous aristocrat at the heart of the conspiracy. Thorvaldsen's vendetta places Malone in an impossible quandaryâone that forces him to choose between friend and country, past and present. Starting in Denmark, moving to England, and ending up in the storied streets and cathedrals of Paris, Malone plays a breathless game of duplicity and death, all to claim a prize of untold value. But at what cost?
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The Balkan Escape (Short Story): A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure
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Mobey Forum Appoints Maikki Frisk As Executive Director
Mobey Forum, the global industry association empowering banks and other financial institutions to lead the future of digital financial services, today announces the appointment of Maikki Frisk to the position of Executive Director, effective from 1st February 2017.
Maikki Frisk brings a wealth of digitalisation skills and experience to Mobey Forum, specialising in sector disruption, digital service and change design, cloud, IoT and mobile technology. A holder of both an MA and MBA, Maikki Frisk built an extensive international career over a 16-year period at Microsoft, Nokia Corporation and Line Ltd., in strategic, executive business development and program and product management, holding both team leadership and partnership positions.
In 2015, Maikki Frisk co-founded Tribula, a consultancy firm to which she was appointed CEO, which provided an environment in which she could steer the digital transformation programmes of a variety of clients and assume leadership positions in digital and data analytics start-ups.
“Mobey Forum has a proven format that creates a unique quality of interaction and insight for its members,” comments Maikki Frisk. “My experience comes from helping companies adapt to the digital age and design a digital user experience that will keep them ahead of the curve. Thanks to the advent of digital services the financial sector is undergoing huge and rapid change. These are testing times for banks and financial institutions but they are also filled with opportunity; the fields of data analytics and artificial intelligence, in particular, have incredible potential. I’m delighted to have the chance to play my part at Mobey Forum and am very excited about what we can achieve together.”
The change of leadership at Mobey Forum comes at an exciting time in the association’s evolution, explains Jordi Guaus, Chair of Mobey Forum: “We are very excited to welcome fresh leadership to Mobey Forum and look forward to continuing our journey with Maikki at the helm. 2016 was a watershed year for Mobey Forum. We have expanded the association’s focus beyond mobile to analyse digital financial services. As a result, our work groups have diversified significantly and are attracting more engagement from our members than ever before. Our work in North America has continued to expand and was consolidated by the launch of Mobey Day Toronto in November. The association also attracted a record eighteen new members in 2016.”
In 2017, Mobey Forum moves forward with five international work groups, addressing a range of topics from banking disruption to measuring the use of predictive analytics in finance. Each work group examines the trends, technologies, innovations and business models that will ultimately combine to deliver a better user experience in digital financial services.
Maikki Frisk’s appointment follows the recent resignation of Sirpa Nordlund, who will leave the Executive Director post at the end of January to assume another senior role within the payments industry.
“It is important that we acknowledge the tremendous contribution that Sirpa Nordlund has made to Mobey Forum’s transformation,” adds Jordi Guaus. “Her tireless positive energy, enthusiasm for changes in the industry and constant drive to deliver value for our members will be missed. We wish her every success in her new role.”
Sirpa Nordlund departs from Mobey Forum after six years in the Executive Director role. “This has been a remarkable period in my career,” she says. “The pace of change has been electric and it has been fantastic to follow the industry’s evolution from a position with an excellent view! I have had the privilege of gaining insights from many leading companies and made friends with amazing people. In Maikki’s hands, Mobey’s future is looking very bright. I look forward to watching its continued success from close by.”
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News World Biting passengers on flight is no reason for cash compensation delay: EU...
Biting passengers on flight is no reason for cash compensation delay: EU court adviser
Air travellers cannot receive cash compensation if their flight is delayed by a passenger biting others and assaulting crew members, an adviser at the Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday.
Such incidents were “extraordinary circumstances,” Advocate General Priit Pikamae wrote in a non-binding opinion, a form of guidance that is normally followed by the court.
A traveller flying from Brazil to Norway via Portugal in Aug. 2017 with Portuguese airline TAP sought 600 euros compensation in accordance with EU law, after his flight departed late from the Brazilian city of Fortaleza.
The plane had to be diverted to disembark a passenger biting and assaulting crew members before it could land back in Brazil, delaying the following outgoing flight.
“A passenger biting other passengers and attacking the cabin crew trying to calm him down, resulting in the deviation of a Lisbon-Fortaleza flight to the nearest airport in order to disembark this passenger and his baggage, leading to a flight delay, falls under the concept of extraordinary circumstances,” Pikamae said.
TAP argued that the delay at arrival in Lisbon, resulting in the passenger missing his connecting flight to Oslo, was due to the fact that the airline used the same plane that was diverted on its way to Brazil to disembark the violent passenger and it was not possible to send another plane on time.
The court itself will likely rule in two to four months on the matter. It typically follows the opinions of its advocate generals.
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After Pell fell: Millions looking for reform and change
By Lee Duffield | 9 March 2019, 8:00am | comments |
George Pell will be sentenced on 13 March (screenshot via YouTube).
Cardinal George Pell waits in gaol ahead of an appeal against his conviction for a paedophilic attack on two children.
Dr Lee Duffield provides a wrap on the case and notes that in the fall-out there are fresh calls for reforms to try and end such abuses.
THE ARGUMENT sparked by the incarceration of Cardinal George Pell last week produced some national soul-searching about power and impunity, raising the hope that some good might be salvaged from the man’s disgrace.
Three prominent Catholics on the ABC forum, Q and A, on Monday – Kristina Keneally, Jim Molan and Francis Sullivan – together began musing about forms of organisation to curtail the exclusive authority of an all-male priesthood.
Keneally and Molan are Senators from New South Wales – Labor and Liberal respectively –and Sullivan is chief executive of the Truth Justice and Healing Council, a Church agency formed in tandem with the 2013 Royal Commission on child abuse.
They reflected the soul searching going on, first among Catholics, as among other confessions with their own share of bad deeds, but also country-wide because of the responsibility of all towards children.
The public response to Pell’s conviction for the 1996 sexual assault of two choirboys, while Archbishop of Melbourne, within his cathedral, also included certain hostile reactions directed against the court process itself.
That had a clear bearing on matters of power: the question of who gets to be in charge and in what circumstances.
We only have one message and it is to survivors:
We hear you.
We believe you.
We love you.#QandA pic.twitter.com/AfG9aG51lz
— Fr Rod Bower (@FrBower) March 4, 2019
The radical right's dissent
The reactionary grouping on the right wing of the Liberal Party,mentioned in these columns now and then, rallied in support of Pell as one of their own, a Churchman holding rigidly conservative views and ready to push them in secular politics. Much of his advocacy would support restrictive laws imposed on sexual behaviour and reproduction: against gay sex, single-sex marriage, contraception and debates on abortion.
The dissident grouping includes the two former Prime Ministers, Tony Abbott and John Howard, mates of Pell. The first of those rang him and said publicly just “wait for the appeal”, the other told the Court in a character reference its verdict had not changed his esteem for the man.
Another part of the radical right formation is a chorus of partisan opinion writers appearing under the banner of “commentary” in News Corp publications, and these have expressly challenged and insulted the Victorian County Court that heard Pell’s case.
The line has been that they felt incredulous that the tactic of the defence – to raise enough considerations as to prevent a decision beyond reasonable doubt – did not work.
The defence case had focused on evidence that a lot of people would have been nearby when Pell attacked the two boys in the Cathedral Sacristy; that in any event he would have been somewhere else, following his habit of meeting the congregation outside; timing would have been very tight, it would have been too awkward getting his genitalia out from under his ecclesiastical robes; the boys hardly could have got away from their group unnoticed; it was so long ago that even the actual date could not be given and so on.
So the News Corp writers 'could not accept' the finding of the court.
Respect for the course of justice
A few points are needed in reply, in fairness and respect for the conduct of justice:
The single first-hand witness, one of the boys, now 36, had convinced all members of the jury he was telling the truth. The family of the other victim reported that he had deteriorated emotionally from the time of the assault and died from a drug overdose at age 30. The Defendant did not give evidence on his own behalf, where he might have been questioned again under oath about whether he did it.
That point may affect an appeal which the Cardinal has already filed. Legal opinion is divided on its chances.
A man died from a drug overdose because of Pell his life was so shattered he could no longer live - nothing you say anymore is of any relevance not that it ever really was please shut up and fade away you peadophile defender
— Mumzee (Nelle) (@ng_mingnelle01) February 28, 2019
Barriers to reporting
That is the shape of the story to date, though points of detail here may be stretched because parts of the trial were closed and the verdict was withheld from publication in Australia for over two months. It was done evidently to prevent publicity disrupting a fair trial, given how controversial it was. The journalists’ organisation, the MEAA, expressed displeasure, counting the case in amongst its objections to many constraints on reporting. Some 100 journalists have received contempt of court notices for breach of the reporting ban, some of those notices withdrawn this week.
The Chief County Court Judge, Peter Kidd, who presided, identified an arrogant and aggressive attitude in the Defendant not expressing remorse or regret and having a sense of impunity: it had been “brazen offending”, the protests and resistance of the victims repulsed. It was “callous” with “an element of brutality … an element of force”.
Priestly power gone toxic?
That information brings back the matter of priestly power identified by the speakers in the ABC debate on Monday 4 March.
The foundation of it is the role of a priest as the representative of God, as at Holy Communion, a power able to over-awe innocents and one that is given trust. And in the Catholic faith these powers are reserved for men to exercise.
Such authority unchecked and unwatched might become toxic, as in a case like the heavily publicised story of George Pell: country conservative upbringing; in a sexually-repressive environment; intelligent and promising; marked for a vocation; aggressive and over-ambitious; discovering a chance in the ecclesiastical hierarchy; going on to enthusiastically take part in a world of men asserting authority and getting themselves into political conflicts.
I will believe the Church is serious about combatting sexual abuse when:
--It adopts a zero tolerance policy
--It makes records of abusers public (protecting i.d. of victims)
--It encourages prosecution of abusers
--It allows marriage of priests
Otherwise, it's all navel gazing. https://t.co/5Fm519D6Xo
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) February 25, 2019
Protection of innocents
This is where the case of Pell and many like him becomes a problem for all. When something goes wrong, and is bad, innocents suffer. The protection of innocents like the two choirboys is Australia’s responsibility.
The speakers expressed hopes for wrong-proofing change: accountability, improved status for women, a place for lay members of the Church in decision-making. Maybe they are saying some kind of new Reformation, and in that case just as 500 years ago, hierarchical authority and the mysterious powers vested in priests would have to be addressed in the debate.
It is not unthinkable. There are churches being governed at every level by councils, synods or assemblies of Bishops, clergy and laity — women and men, where priests can marry, and which have evolved, female Bishops today ordaining women as priests.
None of this discussion discounts the great benefits and blessings which flow from the spiritual guidance, humanity and good works of the Christian churches — it calls for better and more.
George Pell was convicted by a jury on 11 December. The verdict was released in court on 26 February and bail was revoked at a pre-sentence hearing the next day. He was scheduled for sentencing on 13 March.
https://t.co/HDEUngNU5g so true
— Mari R (@randlight) March 5, 2019
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Modi’s bold move to press ahead with Air India sale
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By pressing ahead at this time with the privatisation of Air India and announcing that Non Resident Indians will be allowed to bid for and buy 100 per cent of India’s ailing national carrier, Modi is proving himself to be unabashed about continuing to walk the talk on economic reforms, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa.
In a bold decision, the Modi government is going ahead with the privatisation of the perennially loss-making national carrier Air India.
I call it bold not just because of the timing but also because it has taken considerable political courage to also allow non-resident Indians (NRIs) to bid for and buy up to 100 per cent of the ailing airline.
Reforming rules to allow NRI ownership
I have come across reports in sections of the Indian media that this decision falls foul of the Substantial Ownership and Effective Control (SOEC) rules of the Aircraft Rules 1937. Under these norms, an air operator permit is granted to a company only if it is registered in India, the chairman and two-thirds of its directors are Indian citizens and the substantial ownership and effective control is vested in Indian nationals or the Indian government. Under these norms, NRIs could own only up to 49 per cent stake in Air India.
But in keeping with its commitment to make India a globally preferred destination for FDI, the Modi government will dilute these norms to allow NRIs to own 100 per cent in the airline. In January, the government came out with a Preliminary Information Memorandum (PIM) for the sale of its 100 per cent stake in Air India. Also on the block are budget airline Air India Express and the national carrier’s 50 per cent stake in AISATS, its joint venture with Singapore Airlines.
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The Modi government will dilute norms to allow NRIs to own 100 per cent stake in Air India.
There’s no ‘right time’ to sell Air India
I have also come across criticism over the timing of the sale. Privatising a loss-making airline at a time when the global aviation industry is struggling for survival in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak is not the wisest thing to do, is the argument being put forward by some well-meaning critics.
That, excuse the harsh turn of phrase, is complete tosh! There is no “good time” to sell a chronically loss-making, money guzzling asset like Air India. The longer the government holds on to the airline, the more public money it will have to pour into it. This money will, perforce, come at the cost of much needed development and/or infrastructure-related expenditure. So, by throwing good money after bad – that’s what deferring the sale of Air India will do – the Indian government will be doing its citizens a great dis-service.
India to have a fifth of global workforce by 2025
Look at what a potential buyer stands to gain: By 2025, India will have almost a fifth of the global workforce, according to a 2017 Bloomberg analysis of United Nations population data. Hence, a revived airline will have a ready market for its services as rising prosperity and a much larger economy fuel the demand for greater access to air travel. As we have seen already over decades now in the IT industry, India has a burgeoning young and enterprising population which sees that world as its oyster.
Air India, in private hands, will provide India with several collateral advantages.
Regional airline hub
Then, a strong Air India, in private hands, will provide India with several collateral advantages as well. I have, like many of my fellow people of Indian origin who regularly fly to India, have often wrung my hands in frustration to see a large and proud country like India being reduced to the status of a feeder market for airline hubs in the Middle East. For example, the UK’s international standing is undoubtedly strengthened by the global connectivity that British Airways provides and the brand it conveys.
Yet till now India has undersold itself by being satisfied as a feeder rather than a leader in the aviation industry. Instead, it can with the right ownership and inspired private leadership can position itself as a major regional airline hub. Thus, not only will it gain from the flow of transit passengers and additional flights but this will also help position India as a major aircraft maintenance and overhaul centre. A financially stable and operationally viable Air India can help India in this regard.
Burnishing India’s reformist image
And finally, the sale of Air India will burnish the Modi government’s reformist credentials by proving to the world that it is walking the talk on its commitment to the private sector. I have always passionately believed that government’s have little business to be in business. But have every reason to support business through enlightened and timely policies, and that also means biting the bullet on past mistakes.
This decision to privatise Air India and the prospect of a truly modern, well run world class airline, I am sure, will help attract foreign investors to India in several unrelated sectors as well.
Manoj Ladwa is the Founder and CEO of India Inc. publishers of India Global Business.
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Halton is to supply gas-tight fire dampers and gas-tight shut-off dampers for the compressor and measuring stations of the 1,850 kilometre-long Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline being built across Turkey. Slightly under a half of the dampers made at Halton's Lahti factory were delivered by the end of November 2017 and the rest will be delivered during 2018.
The delivery in question is the largest one ever for Halton's Marine business to the area of Turkey and the Caspian Sea. A delivery by Halton that was comparable in terms of its size and products was supplied to Southern Italy a year ago.
The TANAP shipment includes 2,000 fire and shut-off dampers which have been designed and manufactured in accordance with the special requirements of the site. The products, which are being delivered to explosive areas, are also ATEX-certified. The ATEX designation relates to legislation and standardisation which concerns devices meant for explosive areas, amongst other things.
”Getting the order took over a year of hard work from our sales and project teams and we're really excited about this significant opening of a door into the market area in question,” says Sami Piirainen, the Director of Halton's business division. The subcontractor in the project to whom Halton is delivering the products is Enefcon Engineering Ltd., a technology provider of HVAC, fire suppressing and sanitary plumbing solutions and related control systems.
“Our high expectations towards our HVAC solution partner in this project included flexibility in many areas in order to meet the needs of demanding project specifications as well as to manage the overall tight schedule. We considered Halton to meet these requirements best and their production quality and quality control system to be the assurance of the success of this delivery,” says Ertaş Erzincan, Project Coordinator at Enefcon. TANAP in brief (Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline)
The object of the TANAP project is the construction of a natural gas pipeline westwards from the Turkish-Georgian border, through 20 Turkish provinces and all the way to the Greek border. The length of the gas pipeline is 1,850 kilometres, and along it there will be seven compressor stations, four measuring stations, 11 pigging stations, 49 block valve stations and two off-take stations. Further information: www.tanap.com
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Why spending money can make you happy
A string of studies show that spending your income can really boost your mental wellbeing
By Marina Gerner
Updated October 16, 2020 9:43 am
Experiences such as seeing the Northern Lights loom large in the narrative of our life (Photo: Getty)
Those who say money can’t buy happiness may not be spending it the right way. A budding field of behavioural science is analysing how our spending decisions influence our well-being.
We explain how money can buy happiness – if you follow the right principles.
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One morning, people on the streets of Vancouver were asked to take part in an experiment by Harvard Business School researchers led by professors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton. Those who agreed to take part received an envelope containing either $5 (£4) or $20 (£15).
They were asked how happy they were and instructed to spend the money by 5pm. Crucially, half of the group was told to spend it on themselves, while the other half were told to donate to charity or buy a present or spend it on somebody else.
Measurable happier
Those who spent the cash on others were measurable happier than those who bought themselves something (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty)
That evening, each respondent received a phone call from the researchers. They were was asked how happy they felt and how they had spent their money.
People from the first group had bought themselves coffee from Starbucks, sushi and even earrings.
The second group had bought toys for younger relatives, given money to homeless people or bought coffee for someone else.
How did these purchases make them feel? It turned out that the amount of money people discovered in the envelopes didn’t matter. Exactly what they bought didn’t matter either. What did matter, was who they spent it on.
Those who were asked to spend money on others were measurably happier at the end of the day than those who spent it on themselves.
Buy experiences rather than things
Millennials are often said to prefer spending money on experiences over material goods. And research suggests they are on to something.
Studies show that spending money on experiences makes us happier than spending it on material goods.
“You buy furniture to convey an image of who you are,” says Thomas Gilovich, a professor of psychology at Cornell University in New York. Material things don’t define us the way experiences do.
Think of an unforgettable play at the theatre or a trip to see the northern lights.
“Experiences loom large in the narrative of our life,” notes Prof Gilovich.
Telling a compelling story about ourselves is core to wellbeing. What’s more, developing skills through experiences gives us pleasure as mastering our environment makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.
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Use money to ‘buy time’
We say that time is money, but is it actually the other way around? Despite rising incomes, people increasingly feel pressed for time, which undermines their wellbeing, according to Ashley Whillans, a professor at Harvard Business School.
Once people make more than enough to meet their basic needs, additional money does not bring greater happiness. Yet our choices do not reflect this. Prof Whillans found that the majority of people – including millionaires – tend to prioritise having more money over more time.
Prof Whillans then surveyed more than 6,000 working adults in the Netherlands, Denmark, US and Canada and found that people “who spent money on time-saving services reported greater satisfaction with their lives”.
This includes paying someone else to do disliked household chores such as cleaning and cooking.
It also means we should think twice before accepting a better paid job with a longer commute, or a marginally cheaper flight that would require more waiting around.
The personality test
Researchers at the University of Cambridge asked 625 participants to fill out a personality test. Then, they asked them to ascribe traits to things they might spend money on – like books, coffee, insurance, pets and clothes – as if they were people.
Pubs, they decided, are outgoing and a bit impulsive. Home insurance is reserved and dependable. And gift shops are even-tempered.
The researchers then culled 76,000 bank transactions of these participants for six months. They analysed how similar each participants’ personality was to that of their shopping basket’s character. The result: “personality-matched consumption” results in higher levels of happiness.
In other words, extroverts are happier to receive a voucher for a bar, while introverts prefer a gift card or a bookshop.
So the secret to happiness? Make sure that you spend money on others, prioritise experiences over things, use money to buy time – and spend it in a way that suits your personality and values.
‘I’ve sold my hot tub’
David McDonald, 54
After three decades of working as a financial planner, David McDonald, 54, who lives near Hastings, experienced a feeling of unease and unhappiness.
“I couldn’t quite put my finger on it,” he says, “but it was going on at a time when I was getting more concerned about environmental issues”.
Planning to retire, he put his business up for sale.
Then, his son’s suggestion to watch Cowspiracy, a documentary about the environmental impacts of animal agriculture, left a lasting impression. McDonald decided to set up The Path, a financial practice that focuses on investments combating the climate crisis.
“People are doing these micro activities [like avoiding plastic bags]. But moving £20,000 from traditional investing into impact investing is the carbon equivalent of taking one car off the road.”
Now he’s helping clients align their savings with their environmental values, and he fundamentally changed his own spending and lifestyle: he changed his car, sold his hot tub, turned off his oil Aga “because it consumes needless energy”, and reduced his meat consumption.
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Steve Watters, from Winchester Station, will join 40 other firefighters flying to Canberra where a state of emergency has recently been declared.
The mission was organised by firefighter-run charity Tunnel2Towers to re-establish communities and work alongside wildlife organisations
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has declared a state of emergency as large bushfires continue to rage in Canberra. More than 18,500 hectares is burning in the territory’s south and residents have been warned of possible evacuations.
In the past four months Australian bushfires have killed 33 people and destroyed thousands of homes. More than 11 million hectares of land have been scorched and a billion animals are estimated to have died.
The team of current and retired firefighters will be camping in Adelong and working closely with Fire and Rescue New South Wales (NSW).
Whilst the team won’t be doing any actual firefighting, they will be assisting with re-establishing boarders and restoring farms and homes. Steve will help rebuild the farming communities by constructing fences, buildings and animal shelters.
They will also be working with BlazeAid, RSPCA Australia and WIRES (Australia’s largest wildlife rehabilitation charity) to rescue, recover and provide welfare to injured koalas and kangaroos.
The group intend to spend time with and embed themselves into the Aboriginal and indigenous communities to share learning, knowledge and practices about the land and bushfires. This will encompass a vital part of the work for coordinating relief efforts and applying the learning internationally.
The 51-year-old said, “I’m doing this because it’ll be an amazing development opportunity that is close to home for me. I have family living in Australia and I’ve seen the devastation and how hard communities have been hit.
“This is a chance for me to give something back and help people in need. I’m sure this will be an experience that will stay with me forever.
“Every little bit helps, and I’ve always believed that if you can help, you should. The more people that join and come together as a team, the sooner these communities can get back to their normal lives.”
Steve has been a part of Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service for nearly 25-years, serving as a firefighter at Eastleigh, Andover and now Winchester.
He has honed his skills with Hampshire’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team, assisting with the collaboration and planning of deployment to the earthquakes in Haiti and Christchurch, New Zealand, and Japan after the tsunami hit in 2011.
Group Manager Jerry Leonard, who had a fundamental role in developing the Hampshire USAR team, said “HFRS is pleased to be supporting the ongoing situation in Australia.
“Steve has diverse skills to offer, not only his specialised knowledge from being with the service and USAR, but also his practical ability.
“Our firefighters can bring a wealth of experience and capabilities in many areas to cope with the worst type of incidents, and Steve has the full support of the Service behind him.”
The Tunnel2Towers group plan to fly to Canberra later this week. They will be the first group, with a further 20 additional members joining every two weeks.
Follow our Twitter and Facebook pages for updates on Steve and his team’s journey.
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You must be pretty acquainted with the neural networks if you are a Deep Learning enthusiast or a Deep Learning practitioner.
Understandably, we don’t pass a single day without innovation or research. And hence in recent times, it gets difficult to cope up with the latest advancements happening in deep learning.
Deep learning has an extraordinary impact on several high-profile fields, which include research like natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition, face recognition, machine translation, and many more! Let us know about the advancements in deep learning considering the architectures which have been successful in the Computer Vision domain.
Among the five deep learning architectures, CNN and LSTM are the oldest yet most widely used architectures.
The RNN is useful in Speech recognition, handwriting recognition.
LSTM/GRU network is helpful in Natural language text compression, handwriting recognition, speech recognition, gesture recognition, image captioning.
CNN is for image recognition, video analysis, and natural language processing.
DBN is for Image recognition, information retrieval, natural language understanding, and failure prediction.
DSN is mostly for information retrieval and continuous speech recognition.
Let us now study them in brief.
Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
All the other deep learning architectures are built using the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architecture since it is the foundational network architecture. A typical recurrent network and a multilayer network have a primary difference. Rather than entirely feed-forward connections, a recurrent network might have connections that give feedback into the same layers (or into the prior layer). RNNs maintain the memory of past inputs and model problems in time, allowed by the input.
RNNs consist of a rich set of architectures. The primary and critical differentiator is feedback within the network, which could manifest itself from the output layer, a hidden layer, or some combination. RNNs can be trained with standard back-propagation or by using a variant of back-propagation, called back-propagation in time (BPTT), or can be unfolded in time.
LSTM or GRU Networks
Hochreiter and Schimdhuber created LSTM in 1997, but its popularity has grown in recent times as an RNN architecture for various applications. You can find LSTMs in products that you use in your everyday life, such as smartphones. For milestone-setting conversational speech recognition, IBM applied LSTMs in IBM Watson.
The LSTM introduced the concept of a memory cell departing from the typical neuron-based neural network architectures. Retention of value in the memory cell can happen for a long or short time concerning its inputs; this allows the cell to remember its last computed value and what’s essential.
The LSTM memory cell consists of three gates that control how information flows out of or into the cell. The input gate controls the flow of any new information into the memory.
In case an existing piece of information is forgotten, the forget gate controls, allowing the cell to remember new data.
A simplification of the LSTM was introduced in 2014 called the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). Getting rid of the output gate present in the LSTM model, the GRU model consists of two gates. Performance of the GRU is similar to the LSTM in many applications, but the difference is that being simpler means fewer weights and faster execution in GRU.
The GRU consists of two gates viz: an update gate and a reset gate. The update gate looks after how much to maintain the previous cell content. The reset gate defines the ways to incorporate the new input with the cell earlier contents. Only by setting the reset gate to 1 and the update gate to 0, a GRU can model a standard RNN.
The GRU can be trained more quickly and can be more efficient in its execution and is way more straightforward than the LSTM.
Convolutional Neural Network or CNN
A Convolutional Neural Network aims to learn higher-order features in the data with the help of convolutions. As the name suggests, the network employs convolution, a mathematical operation. In at least one of their layers, these networks use convolution in place of general matrix multiplication, so these networks are neural networks.
They can identify faces, street signs, platypuses, individuals, and many other visual data aspects. Using optical character recognition, CNNs overlap with text analysis since they are well suited to object recognition and consistently top image classification competitions. They are also useful in analyzing sound or when analyzing words as discrete textual units.
Deep Belief Network or DBN
The DBN includes a novel training algorithm and is a typical network architecture. The DBN is a multilayer network in which each connected layer is a restricted Boltzmann machine RBM). Corresponding to this, DBN is represented as a stack of RBMs.
In the DBN, the raw sensory inputs are represented by the input layer, and each hidden layer learns abstract representations of this input. The network classification is implemented by the output layer, which is treated somewhat differently than the other layers. Unsupervised pre-training and supervised fine-tuning are the two steps of training.
In unsupervised pre-training, to reconstruct its input is trained to each RBM. The next RBM is trained on similar lines, but the first hidden layer is treated as the visible or the input layer. Till each layer pertains, this process continues. Fine-tuning begins when the pre-training is complete.
Deep stacking networks
The DSN is the final architecture, and it is also called a deep convex network. Although it consists of a deep system, a DSN is different from traditional deep learning frameworks. DSN is a deep set of individual networks, each with its hidden layers. This architecture overcomes one of the problems with deep learning: the complexity of training. The complexity of training increases exponentially in a deep learning architecture, so the DSN doesn’t view training as a single problem but as a set of individual training problems.
There are wide and varied numbers of architectures and algorithms in deep learning. We have successfully learned about five of the most popular deep learning architectures.
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Stop Watching Propaganda – #PropagandaWatch (video)
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 01/07/2021 - 00:19
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Stop Watching Propaganda – #PropagandaWatch
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 01/06/2021 - 00:42
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/propagandawatch-stop.mp3"][/audio]The new year brings with it a new approach, and that means the regular #PropagandaWatch series is being discontinued. Today James explains the decision to change tactics, reflects on the value of the information contained in this podcast, and teases the introduction of a new series . .
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Limited Hangout Podcast ‘Winds of Change’ Being Adapted for TV
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 12/27/2020 - 08:37
Online streaming service Hulu have announced that they are adapting the popular podcast series ‘Winds of Change’ into a TV...
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What I Learned From the Master of Propaganda – #PropagandaWatch
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Homeland Security in Hollywood: How the Dept Controls Its Image On Screen
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 09/04/2020 - 05:29
In my latest article for Shadowproof I delve into the Department of Homeland Security’s Hollywood office, which works on everything...
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Avi Weiss, who protested Mandela, seeks defeat for Jamaal Bowman
Jamaal Bowman and Eliot Engel disagree on Palestinian rights.
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How much responsibility does the TV crime genre have for police racism, brutality and corruption? On this month’s subscriber-only podcast...
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Theaters of Command Trailer
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Everyone knows truth is the first casualty of war – but in a modern world where America’s wars know no...
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Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda – Tom Secker on CBC
The first episode of the three-part radio documentary Myths on Screen: Hollywood’s Role in War and Propaganda has just come...
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Killer Ratings: Watch Fox News and Die
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 05/02/2020 - 07:00
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fox News has made a fortune delivering misinformation to an audience that gobbles it up. During a pandemic, however, this is a recipe for disaster — and some viewers will pay the ultimate price.
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ClandesTime 204 – Why the Entertainment Liaison Offices Matter
Over more than a century the US government’s entertainment liaison offices have supported over 1000 movies, along with thousands of...
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Lockdown: The Dark Side of Social Distancing (FULL EPISODE)
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Subscribercast #40 – Lockdown: The Dark Side of Social Distancing
In this subscriber-only podcast I explore the haphazard and irrational implementation of the COVID-19 social distancing lockdowns currently in place...
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COVID-19, World War Z and Chinese Government Censorship of Movies
With each passing day of the COVID-19 fiasco it has become abundantly clear that no one has a clue what’s...
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Interview 1525 – James Corbett on The Propaganda Report
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2020-03-12_James_Corbett.mp3"][/audio]via The Propaganda Report: The Corbett Report’s James Corbett joins us to discuss critically thinking about the news, the coronavirus agenda, how global power operates, the WWI blueprint for modern propaganda, how to fight back, and much more.
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Is David Schwimmer’s ‘Intelligence’ Propaganda for GCHQ?
I tried something a bit different to my usual approach – a lighthearted, daft-minded video critique of the new Sky...
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Coronavirus, Contagion and the Security State
The mass media feeding frenzy over the spread of coronavirus has sparked a range of predictable but weirdly connected consequences. ...
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John Krasinski Plays the Innocent Act When it Comes to Making Political Propaganda (Again)
13 Hours and Jack Ryan star John Krasinski gave another interview recently where he claimed that appearing in cryptoconservative propaganda...
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JAG: The Movie That Was Never Made
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Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
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Subscribercast #38 – The Negotiator and Israel’s Nuclear Smuggling Ring
When you think of radical or counter-establishment films the 1998 thriller The Negotiator probably doesn’t come to mind, especially if...
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Jack Ryan vs Venezuela – Tom Secker on Fortress on a Hill
I joined Henri, Keagan and Danny for a broad discussion of Amazon’s Jack Ryan and the CIA’s true history in...
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Spy Culture Accused of Being Pro-Russian Propaganda (Spoiler: It Isn’t)
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[Video] Jack Ryan, the CIA and Venezuela
A video essay presenting my breakdown of Amazon's Jack Ryan, including how the CIA, DOD and other US government agencies were involved in producing it. I outline some of the history between the government and Tom Clancy productions before breaking down how seasons 1 and 2 are propaganda for US foreign
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Jack Ryan, the CIA and Venezuela
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Jack Ryan, Midway, and For All Mankind
It has been another curious week of half-truths, spin and outright falsehood as culture commentators get to grips with recent releases Jack Ryan (on Amazon), For all Mankind (on Apple TV) and Midway (in theaters now).
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Jack Ryan Star John Krasinski Tries to Dispell Allegations of Propaganda
With just a week to go before season 2 of Amazon's Jack Ryan is released and the eponymous star John Krasinski has tried to downplay allegations that the show is propaganda for a US coup or war in Venezuela. In an interview he trie
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Vietnam Bans a Movie, But Somehow It is China’s Fault?
Today's entertainment news features an absolute gem of political hypocrisy: Vietnam's one party 'Communist' state has banned the animated kids' movie Abominable, and the Western media are heralding the decision, claiming that Vietnam are standing up to China's censorious one party 'Communist' state. This is perhaps the dumbest employmen
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ClandesTime 195 – The New Cultural Cold War
The original Cultural Cold War has been the subject of numerous books and articles on both sides of the divide, but the new version has been almost entirely ignored.
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Atlantic Wall • 2013 • episode "1/6" • Nazi Megastructures
Uncovering what is left of Hitler's ambitious structures which were built in a bid for world domination, beginning with a look at the Atlantic Wall. Created in order to protect Europe from an Allied invasion it stretches thousands of kilometres from France to Norway, and on D-Day the fortifications were put to the ultimate test.
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5/13 • The Amazing World Of Aviation • 2009 • Technology
A.I. and the Destiny of Mankind
A.I. is a primal force, like fire. The same fire that warms us can incinerate our homes; A.I. could enslave mankind -- or, join us in a grand alliance to reach the stars.
Oppenheimer vs Heisenberg
The heated contest between Heisenberg and Oppenheimer had dramatic impact on the end of WWII.
S1E8 • American Genius • 2015 • Technology
Entertainment of the Future
Today, virtual reality headsets are reaching the masses and can already let users dive into spectacular new worlds. From our couches, we can now float through space, fly over New York, or zip along roller coasters. But, what will it be like in the future?
S1E9 • Dream the Future • 2017 • Technology
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Perception, attitude and usage of complementary and alternative medicine among doctors and patients in a tertiary care hospital in India
Vandana Roy, Monica Gupta, Raktim Kumar Ghosh
Aim: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been practiced in India for thousands of years. The aim of this study was to determine the extent of use, perception and attitude of doctors and patients utilizing the same healthcare facility. Methods: This study was conducted among 200 doctors working at a tertiary care teaching Hospital, India and 403 patients attending the same, to determine the extent of usage, attitude and perception toward CAM. Results: The use of CAM was more among doctors (58%) when compared with the patients (28%). Among doctors, those who had utilized CAM themselves, recommended CAM as a therapy to their patients (52%) and enquired about its use from patients (37%) to a greater extent. CAM was used concomitantly with allopathic medicine by 60% patients. Very few patients (7%) were asked by their doctors about CAM use, and only 19% patients voluntarily informed their doctors about the CAM they were using. Most patients who used CAM felt it to be more effective, safer, less costly and easily available in comparison to allopathic medicines. Conclusion: CAM is used commonly by both doctors and patients. There is a lack of communication between doctors and patients regarding CAM, which may be improved by sensitization of doctors and inclusion of CAM in the medical curriculum
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Single dose intravenous methyl prednisolone versus oral prednisolone in Bell's palsy: A randomized controlled trial
Prithvi Giri, Ravindra Kumar Garg, Maneesh Kumar Singh, Rajesh Verma, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Praveen Kumar Sharma
Objectives: Corticosteroids have been used in the treatment of Bell's palsy and several other postinfectious neurological conditions. We hypothesized that administration of a single dose of intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone might be an effective alternative to oral prednisolone. Materials and Methods: In this open label, randomized trial, patients with acute Bell's palsy were randomized into two groups. One group received single dose (500 mg) of IV methylprednisolone while the other group received 10 days of oral prednisone. Outcome was assessed at 1 and 3 months with House-Brackmann scale. Results: At 3 months, 93 (79.48%) patients had completely recovered. IV methylprednisolone and oral prednisolone groups had similar recovery rates (80% vs. 78.33%, P > 0.05). Patients with Grade 2 and 3 recovered completely. In patients with Grade 6, the recovery rate was 20%. A better outcome was observed if corticosteroids were administered within 3 days of onset of palsy. Conclusion: Intravenous methylprednisolone and oral prednisolone showed equivalent benefit in patients with acute Bell's palsy.
DRUG WATCH
Fixed drug eruptions with modafinil
Loknath Ghoshal, Mausumi Sinha
Modafinil is a psychostimulant drug, which has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of narcolepsy associated excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep disorder related to shift work, and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. However, presently it is being used as a lifestyle medicine; in India, it has been misused as an "over the counter" drug. Modafinil is known to have several cutaneous side effects. Fixed drug eruption (FDE) is a distinctive drug induced reaction pattern characterized by recurrence of eruption at the same site of the skin or mucous membrane with repeated systemic administration. Only two case reports exist in the literature describing modafinil induced FDE until date. Here, we report two similar cases. The increasing use of this class of drug amongst the medical personnel might be posing a threat to the proper use and encouraging subsequent abuse. There might be a considerable population using these drugs unaware of the possible adverse effects. Authorities should be more alert regarding the sale and distribution of such medicines.
A retrospective study of the effects of angiotensin receptor blockers and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in diabetic nephropathy
Jahnavi V Pathak, Ervilla E Dass
Objective: Till date, several studies have compared angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) in terms of delaying the progression of diabetic nephropathy. But the superiority of one drug class over the other remains unsettled. This study has retrospectively compared the effects of ACE inhibitors and ARBs in diabetic nephropathy. The study aims to compare ACE inhibitors and ARBs in terms of delaying or preventing the progression of diabetic nephropathy, association between blood pressure (B.P) and urinary albumin and also B.P and serum creatinine with ACE inhibitor and ARB, know the percentage of hyperkalemia in patients of diabetic nephropathy receiving ACE inhibitor or ARB. Settings and Design: A total of 134 patients diagnosed with diabetic nephropathy during the years 2001-2010 and having a complete follow-up were studied, out of which 99 were on ARB (63 patients of Losartan and 36 of Telmisartan) and 35 on ACE inhibitor (Ramipril). Subjects and Methods: There was at least 1-month of interval between each observation made and also between the date of treatment started and the first reading that is, the observation of the 1 st month. In total, three readings were taken that is, of the 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd month after the treatment started. Comparison of the 1 st and 3 rd month after the treatment started was done. Mean ± standard deviation, Paired t-test, and Chi-square were used for the analysis of the data. Results: The results reflect that ARBs (Losartan and Telmisartan) when compared to ACE inhibitor (Ramipril) are more effective in terms of delaying the progression of diabetic nephropathy and also in providing renoprotection. Also, ARBs have the property of simultaneously decreasing the systolic B.P and albuminuria when compared to ACE inhibitor (Ramipril). Conclusions: Angiotensin receptor blockers are more renoprotective than ACE inhibitors and also provide better cardioprotection.
Exploring the role of curcumin containing ethanolic extract obtained from Curcuma longa (rhizomes) against retardation of wound healing process by aspirin
Rajesh Singh Pawar, Fedelic Ashish Toppo, Avinash Singh Mandloi, Shabnam Shaikh
Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the curcumin containing ethanolic extract (EtOH) obtained from Curcuma longa (Cl) against retardation of wound healing by aspirin. Materials and Methods: Wound healing process was retarded by administering the dose of 150 mg/kg body weight of aspirin orally for 9 days to observe the effect of EtOH obtained from Cl using excision and incision wound model in rats. The various parameters such as % wound contraction, epithelialization period, hydroxyproline, tensile strength were observed at variant time intervals and histopathological study was also performed. Results: Curcumin containing 5% and 10% ethanolic extract ointment have shown significant (P < 0.01) wound healing activity against an aspirin (administered 150 mg/kg body weight orally for 9 days) retarded wound healing process. Topical application of ointment showed significant (P < 0.01) difference as compared to the control group. Histopathological studies also showed healing of the epidermis, increased collagen, fibroblasts and blood vessels. Conclusion: Ethanolic extract of Cl ointment (EtOHCl) containing 10% curcumin displayed remarkable healing process against wound retardation by aspirin.
Patient safety in medical education: Medication safety perspectives
Reginald P Sequeira
Acute and sub-chronic oral toxicity study of black tea in rodents
Tapas Kumar Sur, Suparna Chatterjee, Alok Kumar Hazra, Richeek Pradhan, Supriyo Chowdhury
Objectives: Systematic oral toxicity study for black tea (Camellia sinensis), the most commonly consumed variety of tea, is lacking. The present study was undertaken to assess the iron load on black tea (Camellia sinensis) and its safety aspects in animals. Materials and Methods: The analysis of iron was done in six tea samples as per American Public Health Association method using flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Maximum physical iron-loaded tea sample was identified on black tea sample 2 (BTS-2), and this was further studied for acute and 90-day sub-chronic toxicity following Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines. Results: Black tea sample 2 did not show any signs of toxicity or mortality at up to 2 g/kg per oral dose in Swiss albino mice. 90-day toxicity studies in Wistar rats did not reveal any evidence of toxicity at up to 250 mg/kg/day (2.5% infusion of BTS-2) oral dose as exhibited by regular observations, body weight, food consumption, hematology, serum chemistry, organ weights, and histopathology. Further, serum iron, total iron binding capacity, unsaturated iron binding capacity, and ferritin were not altered after 90 days of treatment. Masson trichrome staining and Perls' staining did not reveal any abnormalities in hepatic tissue following 90-day treatment of high iron-loaded BTS-2. Conclusions: This safety study provides evidence that BTSs, in spite of relatively high iron content, show no significant iron-related toxicity on acute or sub-chronic oral administration in animals.
Acebrophylline-induced angioedema
Sanitha Kuriachan, Mohan Babu V Amberkar, Manu K Mohan, Hameed Aboobackar Shahul, Meenakumari Kamal Kishore
A 53-year-old woman visited her physician complaining of acute breathlessness and productive cough. Her medications included budesonide and formoterol for asthma, fixed-dose combination aspirin 150 mg + clopidogrel 75 mg + atorvastatin 20 mg for ischemic heart disease. History revealed that she had allergic rhinitis and was hypersensitive to penicillins. The patient was prescribed acebrophylline (ABP). Six hours after ABP therapy she presented with generalized urticarial lesions, swelling of hands, feet, lips and face, suggestive of angioedema. ABP was stopped immediately, and the patient was treated symptomatically. This case was categorized as probable as per standard causality assessment scale.
A case report on toxic epidermal necrolysis with etoricoxib
JS Kameshwari, Raju Devde
Etoricoxib is a selective cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX-2) enzyme inhibitor and is exploited for its analgesic activity in various disease conditions like osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis, acute pain including postoperative dental pain and primary dysmenorrhea, etc. Although highly efficacious in pain management the safety profile of this COX-2 inhibitor is yet to be established in a broader sense. Short-term clinical trials and postmarketing surveillance have shown a very rare incidence of very serious skin reactions like Steven Johnson syndrome or toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). In this case report, we summarize regarding a patient who developed TEN after treatment with etoricoxib for osteoarthritis that later resolved in 15 days after withdrawal and symptomatic treatment.
Enhancement of nootropic effect of duloxetine and bupropion by caffeine in mice
Pravin Popatrao Kale, Veeranjaneyulu Addepalli
Objective: The existing evidence suggests an association between depression and memory impairment. The objective of present study was to assess the effect of low dose caffeine with duloxetine and bupropion on memory. Materials and Methods: Mice were divided randomly into seven groups. Intra-peritoneal treatment of normal saline (10 ml/kg), caffeine (10 mg/kg), duloxetine (10 mg/kg), bupropion alone (10 mg/kg), caffeine + duloxetine (5 mg/kg, each), caffeine + bupropion (5 mg/kg, each), and bupropion + duloxetine (5 mg/kg, each) were given to groups I-VII, respectively. Elevated plus maze was used to evaluate transfer latency (TL) and Morris water maze was used to estimate the time spent in target quadrant. Results: Caffeine with duloxetine treated group was better than other combination treated groups in terms of a significant decrease in TL and increase in the time spent in target quadrant recorded. Conclusion: Combining lower dose of caffeine with duloxetine may enhance cognitive benefits than respective monotherapies.
Fundamentals of experimental pharmacology
R Balaraman
Differential effects of dexamethasone and rosiglitazone in a sephadex-induced model of lung inflammation in rats: Possible role of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-3
Jignesh K Nagar, Praful P Patel, Jogeswar N Mohapatra, Manoranjan M Sharma, Gaurav M Pandya, Malik M Umar, Abhijit A Chatterjee, Shrikalp S Deshpande, Mukul R Jain, Hitesh M Soni
Objectives: To study the effects of two different classes of drugs in sephadex-induced lung inflammation using rats and explore the potential mechanism (s). Materials and Methods: Effects of dexamethasone (0.3 mg/kg, p.o.) and rosiglitazone (10 mg/kg, p.o.) treatments were evaluated up to 3 days in sephadex challenged rats. 72 h postsephadex administration, broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) was collected for cell count and cytokine estimation. Lung tissues were harvested for gene expression and histopathology. Results: Dexamethasone treatment resulted in significant inhibition of lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and neutrophils, whereas rosiglitazone inhibited eosinophils and neutrophils only. Further, dexamethasone reduced the elevated levels of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and leukotriene B4 (LTB4) after sephadex challenge while rosiglitazone significantly reduced the PGE2 levels without altering LTB4 in the BALF. Hydroxyproline content in rat lung homogenate was significantly reduced with dexamethasone treatment but not with rosiglitazone. Both the drugs were found to suppress matrix metallo proteinase 9, whereas only dexamethasone showed inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and up-regulation of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 3 (TIMP-3) expression and preserved the broncho-alveolar microstructure. Conclusions: Our results revealed that up-regulation of TIMP-3 corroborated well with dexamethasone mediated inhibition of collagen degradation and restoration of alveolar micro-architecture.
Effect of a combination of duloxetine with hydroxyzine on experimental models of anxiety in mice
Sonam Patel, Pravin Popatrao Kale, Veeranjaneyulu Addepalli, Amrita Sarkar, Jay Savai
Objective: There is a strong association between depression and anxiety. Duloxetine, an antidepressant agent, is also used in the treatment of anxiety. Hydroxyzine is preferred over benzodiazepines in the treatment of anxiety. Present study was designed to study the impact of a combination of duloxetine with hydroxyzine in treatment of anxiety. Materials and Methods: Mice received intraperitoneal injection of normal saline (10 ml/kg), duloxetine alone (10 mg/kg), hydroxyzine alone (10 mg/kg), and hydroxyzine plus duloxetine (5 mg/kg, each). Results: The in vivo results (elevated plus maze and light/dark transition tests) showed significant anxiolytic activity with the hydroxyzine treatment than the control group. The brain monoamines were significantly increased in hippocampi, cerebral cortices, and whole brain in drug-treated groups than in the control group. The group receiving the combination showed similar results in the in vivo models and in vitro tests (brain monoamine estimations) than respective monotherapies, with the exception of a greater increase of norepinephrine levels in cerebral cortices in duloxetine-treated group. Conclusion: Combination of duloxetine with hydroxyzine is not beneficial in anxiolytic treatment than the respective monotherapies. There is a need to study the pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions to understand the present study outcomes.
Comparison of the efficacy of liraglutide with pioglitazone on dexamethasone induced hepatic steatosis, dyslipidemia and hyperglycaemia in albino rats
K Vinodraj, IM Nagendra Nayak, J Vikram Rao, Paul Mathai, N Chandralekha, B Nitasha, D Rajesh, TK Chethan
Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of liraglutide with pioglitazone for prevention of dexamethasone induced hepatic steatosis, dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia in Albino rats. Materials and Methods: There were four groups of six rats each. First group received dexamethasone alone in a dose of 8 mg/kg intraperitoneally for 6 days to induce metabolic changes and considered as dexamethasone control. Second group received liraglutide 1.8 mg/kg subcutaneously 6 days before dexamethasone and 6 days during dexamethasone administration. Third group received pioglitazone 45 mg/kg orally 6 days before dexamethasone and 6 days during dexamethasone administration. Fourth group did not receive any medication and was considered as normal control. Fasting blood sugar, lipid profile, blood sugar 2 h after glucose load were measured. Liver weight, liver volume, and histopathological analysis were done. Results: Dexamethasone caused hepatomegaly, dyslipidemia, and hyperglycemia. Both pioglitazone and liraglutide significantly reduced hepatomegaly, dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia (P < 0.01). Reduction of blood sugar levels after glucose load was significant with pioglitazone when compared with liraglutide (P < 0.01). Conclusion: Liraglutide has comparable efficacy to pioglitazone in prevention of dexamethasone induced hepatomegaly, dyslipidemia and fasting hyperglycemia.
A case of hypersensitivity to soluble and isophane insulins but not to insulin glargine
Mahesh N Belhekar, Sarayu Pai, Parimal Tayade, Pradip Dalwadi, Renuka Munshi, Prema Varthakavi
Insulin is an important agent for the treatment of diabetes mellitus (DM). Allergic reactions to insulin therapy, although rare, have been evident since animal insulin became available for the treatment of DM in 1922. Hypersensitivity to insulin has considerably been reduced with the introduction of human insulin produced by recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid technology. Here, we present a case of Type 2 DM who demonstrated immediate (Type 1) hypersensitivity reaction on the sites of subcutaneous injection of soluble and isophane insulin but insulin glargine was tolerated well and provided good glycemic control.
Protective effects of amifostine on ischemia-reperfusion injury of rat kidneys
Ayse Arducoglu Merter, Burhan Mayir, Okan Erdogan, Taner Colak
Objectives: Amifostine is a drug which can eliminate free oxygen radicals that appear in the body after radiation or chemotherapeutic agent exposure. It is used to decrease the renal toxicity of cisplatin. The aim of this study was to determine the role of amifostine in warm ischemia kidney model for prevention of ischemia/reperfusion injury and also to find out the mechanism for prevention from ischemia/reperfusion injury if such an effect does exist. Materials and Methods: Adult female rats (n = 40) that used in our study were divided into three groups. Group 1: Control (n = 8), group 2: Ischemia-control (n = 16), group 3: Amifostine treated (n = 16). The effect of amifostine on ischemia/reperfusion injury investigated in rat kidneys. Results: At the 7 th day, blood urea nitrogen level was statistically significantly higher in ischemia-control group than all groups (P = 0.001) and mean serum creatinine levels were found to be the highest in ischemia-control group (P = 0.091). Mean malondialdehyde levels in left kidneys removed on the 7 th day were not significantly different (P = 0.105) at all three groups. Between ischemia-control group and amifostine group, there was a significant difference in reduced glutathione (GSH) levels (P = 0.001). In amifostine group, grade 4 necrosis was not detected neither on 7 th day nor day 0. Conclusion: Amifostine could decrease the degree and severity of necrosis after reperfusion. Amifostine could not prevent membrane lipid peroxidation caused by superoxide anion radicals in kidney but they could protect tissues from the harmful effects of ischemia/reperfusion injury by increasing the level of reduced GSH which is a well-known oxygen radical eliminator.
Cycloserine induced psychosis with hepatic dysfunction
Vishal R Tandon, Neelam Rani, Roshi , Rahul Gupta, Manu Arora, Vijay Khajuria, Vivek Mahajan
With the increase in the cases of multidrug resistance tuberculosis, second line anti-tubercular drugs like the cycloserine are being prescribed frequently. Isoniazid and ethambutol are reported to cause psychosis like state; however, few reports of cycloserine induced psychosis are available. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of cycloserine induced psychosis with hepatic dysfunction.
Pharmacological screening of glycine amino acid prodrug of acetaminophen
Arun Parashar
Objective: To develop an amino acid prodrug of acetaminophen with comparable therapeutic profile and less hepatotoxicity than acetaminophen. Materials and Methods: Acetaminophen prodrug was synthesized by esterification between the carboxyl group of amino acid glycine and hydroxyl group of acetaminophen. Analgesic, antipyretic, ulcer healing, and hepatotoxic activities were performed on Wistar rats in this study. Results: Prodrug showed a 44% inhibition in writhings as compared to 53.3% of acetaminophen. Acetaminophen also offered highest antipyretic activity. Prodrug showed gastroprotective and hepatoprotective effects as it reduced the gastric lesions by 32.1% (P < 0.01) and significantly prevented the rise in liver enzymes (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase and bilirubin). The most notable effect of prodrug was in preventing the depletion of hepatic glutathione (GSH), which is reduced by acetaminophen. Conclusion: Prodrug showed hepatoprotective and gastroprotective effects, although the therapeutic efficacy was compromised. Prodrug was successful in preventing a decrease in GSH, thereby exhibiting promising results in the field of prodrug designing to avoid the toxic effects of acetaminophen.
Effect of ethanolic extracts of Justicia neesii Ramam. against experimental models of pain and pyrexia
Nimmakayala Sridhar, Duggirala Suguna Lakshmi, Puchchakayala Goverdhan
Objective: The main objective of this study is to evaluate the analgesic and anti-pyretic activities of ethanolic extracts of Justicia neesii Ramam. by different experimental models. Materials and Methods: The analgesic activity of plant extract was evaluated against thermal and chemical stimulus induced by Eddy's hot plate and acetic acid respectively in mice. Brewer's yeast induced pyrexia was used to evaluate the antipyretic activity in rats and TAB vaccine induced pyrexia was used to evaluate the antipyretic activity in rabbits. Results: In the hot plate model 400 mg/kg p.o. dose of J. neesii has shown its maximal effect at 3 h. The results are significant (P < 0.05) and comparable to the values of standard drug pentazocine (30 mg/kg i.p.). In acetic acid induced writhing model 400 mg/kg p.o. of plant extracts have shown highly significant activity (P < 0.001) and better than standard drug indomethacin (10 mg/kg p.o.). The 400 mg/kg p.o. dose of plant extract has given significant results against both yeast induced pyrexia and TAB vaccine induced pyrexia (P< 0.01 and 0.05 respectively). These values are comparable to that of paracetamol 100 mg/kg p.o. standard dose. Conclusion: This study shows that the ethanol extract of J. neesii has significant analgesic and antipyretic activity.
Teratogenic effects of insulin: An experimental study on developing chick embryo
Pradeep Bokariya, Ruchi Kothari, Vijay K Gujar, MR Shende
Objective: The objective was to observe the effect of insulin on chick embryos with reference to their growth and developmental defects. Materials and Methods: An experimental study was performed to assess any abnormal growth pattern caused by insulin. For this, two batches of 100 fertilized eggs were utilized. One batch of 50 was used as a control group and other as an experimental group. Insulin (2 IU) was injected on day 2 of incubation. Chicken eggs were dissected out on day 19 of incubation and were carefully observed for any congenital abnormalities. The embryos thus dissected out were subjected to measurement of crown-rump length (CRL), changes in weight of egg, volume of embryos were compared in two groups. The embryos were also examined for any congenital anomalies. Results: No major malformations were observed. Decrease in weight and CRLs was lower in the experimental group as compared to their control counterparts. Values for volume of the embryo were similar in two groups. Conclusion: No obvious teratogenic effects are observed with insulin in the dose use for the study.
Hematobiochemical and pathological alterations due to chronic chlorpyrifos intoxication in indigenous chicken
Shameem Ara Begum, Tirtha Nath Upadhyaya, Taibur Rahman, Debesh Chandra Pathak, Kavita Sarma, Chandana Choudhury Barua, RS Bora
Objective: The present study investigates the effect of oral administration of chlorpyrifos (CPF) in indigenous chicken. Materials and Methods: The birds were divided into two groups I and II. Group I served as control and group II was treated with CPF (0.36 mg/kg) orally daily up to 12 weeks. Blood samples were assayed for hemoglobin (Hb), total erythrocyte count (TEC), total leukocyte count (TLC), differential leukocyte count, and biochemical constituents like alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), cholinesterase (CHE), total protein and uric acid. Representative pieces of tissues from liver and kidney were collected weekly for histopathological examination. Results: A significant (P < 0.01) increase of Hb, TEC, TLC, and heterophil percent and decrease of lymphocyte percent was observed. Serum ALP, AST, ALT, and uric acid increased significantly and CHE values decreased significantly in CPF treated birds. The protein level remained similar. Uric acid level was found to be increased significantly in the treated group. The results indicate that chronic CPF intoxication produces hematological, biochemical, and pathological changes in treated birds.
Chemical genetic effects of Sargassum wightii during embryonic development in zebrafish
Rajaretinam Rajesh Kannan, Appadurai Muthamil Iniyan, Samuel Gnana Prakash Vincent
Objective: Phenotype based small molecule discovery is a category of chemical genetic study. The aim of this study was to observe the phytochemical based genetic effects of Sargassum wightii during organogenesis in embryonic zebrafish. Materials and Methods: The phytomolecules from S. wightii were extracted using organic solvents and treated with the 24 h old developing zebrafish embryos. The active extract was partially purified by column chromatography, C 18 Sep-Pak column and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Results: Initially, cardiac bulging was found in 2 dpf to 3 dpf (days post fertilization), then bradycardia and tubular heart were observed in the next 8 h, which also showed the reduction in the heart beat rates. The phenotypic mutation effects of bre, has, dou yan, heg and you were observed in the 3 dpf and 4 dpf of the extract treated zebrafish embryos. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that the phytomolecules from S. wightii exhibited potential molecular switches on the developmental process, which might have significant role in understanding the development based chemical genetic studies in zebrafish.
Clozapine induced akathisia: A case report and review of the evidence
Sandeep Grover, Swapnajeet Sahoo
Clozapine is a second-generation antipsychotic medication, which is mostly used in patients with treatment resistant schizophrenia. It is considered to be associated with lower incidence of extrapyramidal side-effects. Akathisia is considered to be a rare side-effect of clozapine. In this report, we describe a patient who developed akathisia while receiving clozapine and review the literature. Existing literature suggests that except for few initial reports, data suggests that clozapine is in general associated with lower incidence of akathisia compared to first generation antipsychotics. Data comparing clozapine with other atypical antipsychotics is equivocal.
An evaluation of adherence to society of pharmacists' standards care in pharmacy information systems in Iran
Sakineh Saghaeiannejad-Isfahani, Javad Sharifi-Rad, Ahmadreza Raeisi, Asghar Ehteshami, Razieh Mirzaeian
Introduction: Pharmacy information system (PIS) is a complex computerized system used for collecting, storing, and managing the medication therapy data in the course of patients' care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of adherence to the standards established by the societies of pharmacists in the PISs employed in the hospitals in Isfahan, Iran. Methods: The present study was an applied, descriptive-analytical study conducted on the PISs of 19 teaching, private and social insurance hospitals in Isfahan in 2011. Study population consisted of the PISs available in the hospitals under study. Study sample was the same as the study population. The data collection instrument was a self-developed checklist based on the guidelines of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, whose validity was assessed and confirmed by expert professors' views. Having been collected by observation and interview methods, data were analyzed by SPSS 18 software using Mann-Whitney statistical test. Results: The findings of the study revealed that the highest rank in adherence to the standards of societies of pharmacists was obtained by social services hospitals (32.75%), while the private hospitals obtained the lowest rank (23.32%). Conclusions: Based on the findings, in the PISs in the hospitals under study, some standards of the society of pharmacists were ignored. Hence, prior to designing and implementing PIS, a needs analysis is required to increase its users' motivation to identify the system potentialities and to allow the system development in compliance with the world technology advancement.
Oral contraceptive pills induced hemichorea in an adolescent female with polycystic ovarian disease
Vijayan Sharmila, Thirunavukkarasu Arun Babu
Chorea is a neurological adverse effect of oral contraceptive pills (OCPs). The onset of chorea following OCPs usage varies widely from few weeks to several years. We report a rare case of chorea which developed within a week of starting OCPs in an adolescent girl with polycystic ovarian disease.
Gamma activity model for treatment-resistant bipolar psychotic mania
Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Vinod Kumar Sinha, Sai Krishna Tikka, Nishant Goyal
Objectives: The objective was to investigate the effect of clozapine on spontaneous gamma activity in treatment-resistant bipolar psychotic mania. Methods: Patients with treatment-resistant (TR) bipolar psychotic mania on clozapine monotherapy and nontreatment-resistant bipolar psychotic mania patients receiving lithium were prospectively studied for 6 weeks on severity of psychopathology and 30-49 Hz gamma spectral power. Results: Spectral power significantly increased in the lithium group and decreased in the clozapine group; no within group significant difference found. Conclusions: We propose a model highlighting the role of gamma spectral power and modulations of GABAergic neurotransmission in TR bipolar psychotic mania.
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Chapter 210 – A Timely Meeting in the Restaurant
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Chapter 210: A Timely Meeting in the Restaurant
The caravan entered the city without any problems. Jian Chen and the Loyal Spirit Mercenaries bid each other farewell and set about their own paths.
Seeing Jian Chen walk farther and farther away, Hudolf had a look of hesitation on his face as he sat on his mount. His head lowered in thought before biting his lips as if he had reached a conclusion before turning to look at this group of mercenaries. “Brothers, after all of the goods are delivered properly, do not leave yet. There is one more matter I wish to talk to everyone about.”
“Yes, captain!”
The Loyal Spirit Mercenaries all cried out in agreement. Although each one of them had some sort of question on their mind, not a single one of them said it out loud.
Jian Chen walked through the large streets, but unlike last time, Jian Chen felt that the atmosphere in the city was heavier as if some big event was about to happen soon.
He then walked into a restaurant where people bustled about their business and the sweet aroma of food wafted into his nose.
Smelling the unique fragrance of meat and vegetables, Jian Chen couldn’t help but stop and admire the smell for a brief moment before continuing in. While he resided within the Huang Village, Jian chen had spent many days with a simple meal and tea and hadn’t been able to eat any delicacies that only a city restaurant could offer.
At the beckoning of a waitress, Jian Chen sat at a table so he could have a meal to eat. There was a window located by the table.
Right now the day was already noon so the restaurant was full of people. A group of sturdy looking people sat near him and talked loudly over their meals.
“Do you know when this next magical beast wave will happen or how long it’ll last?”
“The city lord made an announcement; the wave should occur within a few days time. But according to the last wave, this wave might last for over ten days.”
The sounds of chatter reached Jian Chen’s ears; the interesting tidbits he heard caused his ears to vibrate in interest. In thought, Jian Chen muttered to himself, “A wave of magical beasts, could it be that the magical beasts from the Magical Beast Mountain Range are coming to besiege the city? If so, then it’s no wonder that the atmosphere in the city is so tense.”
With that, Jian Chen continued to eat his meal while listening in on the men talking to each other. With each bite of food he made, he digested the information he heard.
“Hey, look! Isn’t that the Zhou Mercenaries?”
One voice in particular stood out to Jian Chen, and the moment the words registered in his head, Jian Chen immediately froze in place as he was reaching out with his chopsticks to pick up a slice of meat. Slowly raising his head, he looked out the door of the restaurant only to see a group of four armored mercenaries with an impressive design walk into the building.
These four mercenaries had the same exact armor with an identical emblem imprinted on their armor. Aside from the helmets, these mercenaries looked to be the same exact ones like the ones Jian Chen had met at the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
The four Zhou Mercenaries walked to a table near Jian Chen and sat down. After ordering a meal, the four began to talk quietly among themselves.
Following the entrance of the four Zhou Mercenaries, the topics in the restaurant began to divert to be about the Zhou Mercenaries.
“I’ve heard the Zhou Mercenary captain Zhou Yun made a breakthrough into the Great Saint Master level three months ago. With a Great Saint Master, the Zhou Mercenaries are surely much stronger than before. Right now within Wake City, the Zhou Mercenaries are nearly unparalleled in strength.
“That sounds about right. Ever since Zhou Yun made a breakthrough to Great Saint Master, the strength of the entire group increased rapidly. Right now their members number over a hundred, and with the support of the Zhou Clan, then within Wake City, the Zhou Mercenaries can easily be considered one of the strongest three.”
Many of the diners were chatting quietly, but each one of them were quite strong, so they could easily talk to each other without fear of angering the four mercenaries.
Hearing the chatter of all the people around them, the four Zhou Mercenaries sitting near Jian Chen couldn’t help but have arrogant looks on their faces. Within the small Wake City, a Great Saint Master was considered one of the peak experts. Their statuses had skyrocketed ever since their captain made a breakthrough to become a Great Saint Master as well as gaining so many members.
“Zhou Mercenaries, I didn’t think I’d see you in Wake City.” Jian Chen stared coldly at the Zhou Mercenaries with an intense desire to kill.
Slowly putting down the chopsticks in his hand, Jian Chen walked to the four Zhou Mercenaries and looked straight at them before speaking slowly. “You four are from the Zhou Mercenaries?”
The four Zhou Mercenaries all looked at Jian Chen. From his tone and posture, the Zhou Mercenaries could all tell that Jian Chen was not favorable to them. In a flash, their own eyes stared coldly back at Jian Chen.
“Correct, we are members of the Zhou Mercenaries. Kid, who are you? Speak your name.” A sturdy looking mercenary said arrogantly to Jian Chen.
Everyone within the restaurant began to look at the interaction between the four Zhou Mercenaries and Jian Chen. Putting down their bowls and chopsticks, everyone tried to pay close attention to what they were saying and started to prepare themselves just in case a fight would happen.
“Hmph,” Jian Chen snorted. There was a look of disdain on his face as he remained quiet. Instead, the Light Wind Sword instantly appeared in his hand before spearing the throat of one of the Zhou Mercenaries.
Seeing the sword pierce their comrade’s throat, the other three mercenaries were in shock for a brief moment before recovering themselves and crying out furiously.
“To dare go against us Zhou Mercenaries, do you seek death?!” One roared as the other two members charged at Jian Chen with their Saint Weapons ready to slash at Jian Chen.
He pulled the Light Wind Sword out from the dead mercenary with a smooth gesture before it flashed silver once more. As the three Saint Weapons danced and flew at Jian Chen, his sword flew out and cut through the throats of two of the mercenaries and stopped right in front of the neck of the final remaining mercenary.
As the Saint Weapon stopped briefly in front of his neck, the last mercenary quickly recalled his own Saint Weapon with an extremely pale face. He didn’t dare believe that a twenty year old youth like Jian Chen would be able to beat him. His strength was at the Primary Saint Master level, but he was no match for a small youth like Jian Chen.
His eyes shook slightly as he turned his head to look at the two previously alive mercenaries by his side. His eyes could only see the small rivulet of blood pouring from their necks before their bodies fell to the ground.
At this, the final mercenary’s courage broke as he felt panic in his heart. Hastily, he began to cry out for forgiveness, “Don’t kill me, don’t! Great swordsman, if there’s something you want to say, say it! Just don’t kill me, I’ll do anything you want me to!”
Seeing the look of fright on the mercenaries face, Jian Chen sneered, “Bring me to your general headquarters for the Zhou Mercenaries, otherwise, I’ll kill you here and now.”
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Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor are essential in controlling an experimental orthopedic implant-associated infection
Yu Wang, Alyssa G. Ashbaugh, Dustin A. Dikeman, Jeffrey Zhang, Nicole E. Ackerman, Sophie E. Kim, Christian Falgons, Roger V. Ortines, Haiyun Liu, Daniel P. Joyce, Martin Prince Alphonse, Carly A. Dillen, John M. Thompson, Nathan K. Archer, Lloyd S. Miller
Orthopedic implant-associated infection (OIAI) is a major complication that leads to implant failure. In preclinical models of Staphylococcus aureus OIAI, osteomyelitis and septic arthritis, interleukin-1α (IL-1α), IL-1β, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) are induced, but whether they have interactive or distinctive roles in host defense are unclear. Herein, a S. aureus OIAI model was performed in mice deficient in IL-1α, IL-1β, or TNF. Mice deficient in IL-1β or TNF (to a lesser extent) but not IL-1α had increased bacterial burden at the site of the OIAI throughout the 28-day experiment. IL-1β and TNF had a combined and critical role in host defense as mice deficient in both IL-1R and TNF (IL-1R/TNF-deficient mice) had a 40% mortality rate, which was associated with markedly increased bacterial burden at the site of the OIAI infection. Finally, IL-1α- and IL-1β-deficient mice had impaired neutrophil recruitment whereas IL-1β-, TNF-, and IL-1R/TNF-deficient mice all had impaired recruitment of both neutrophils and monocytes. Therefore, IL-1β and TNF contributed to host defense against S. aureus OIAI and neutrophil recruitment was primarily mediated by IL-1β and monocyte recruitment was mediated by both IL-1β and TNF.
Journal of Orthopaedic Research
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Experimental Implants Medicine & Life Sciences
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Wang, Y., Ashbaugh, A. G., Dikeman, D. A., Zhang, J., Ackerman, N. E., Kim, S. E., Falgons, C., Ortines, R. V., Liu, H., Joyce, D. P., Alphonse, M. P., Dillen, C. A., Thompson, J. M., Archer, N. K., & Miller, L. S. (2020). Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor are essential in controlling an experimental orthopedic implant-associated infection. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 38(8), 1800-1809. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.24608
Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor are essential in controlling an experimental orthopedic implant-associated infection. / Wang, Yu; Ashbaugh, Alyssa G.; Dikeman, Dustin A.; Zhang, Jeffrey; Ackerman, Nicole E.; Kim, Sophie E.; Falgons, Christian; Ortines, Roger V.; Liu, Haiyun; Joyce, Daniel P.; Alphonse, Martin Prince; Dillen, Carly A.; Thompson, John M.; Archer, Nathan K.; Miller, Lloyd S.
In: Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Vol. 38, No. 8, 01.08.2020, p. 1800-1809.
Wang, Y, Ashbaugh, AG, Dikeman, DA, Zhang, J, Ackerman, NE, Kim, SE, Falgons, C, Ortines, RV, Liu, H, Joyce, DP, Alphonse, MP, Dillen, CA, Thompson, JM, Archer, NK & Miller, LS 2020, 'Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor are essential in controlling an experimental orthopedic implant-associated infection', Journal of Orthopaedic Research, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1800-1809. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.24608
Wang Y, Ashbaugh AG, Dikeman DA, Zhang J, Ackerman NE, Kim SE et al. Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor are essential in controlling an experimental orthopedic implant-associated infection. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 2020 Aug 1;38(8):1800-1809. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.24608
Wang, Yu ; Ashbaugh, Alyssa G. ; Dikeman, Dustin A. ; Zhang, Jeffrey ; Ackerman, Nicole E. ; Kim, Sophie E. ; Falgons, Christian ; Ortines, Roger V. ; Liu, Haiyun ; Joyce, Daniel P. ; Alphonse, Martin Prince ; Dillen, Carly A. ; Thompson, John M. ; Archer, Nathan K. ; Miller, Lloyd S. / Interleukin-1β and tumor necrosis factor are essential in controlling an experimental orthopedic implant-associated infection. In: Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 2020 ; Vol. 38, No. 8. pp. 1800-1809.
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Girl Scouts filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America
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NEW YORK — The Girl Scouts of the United States of America filed a trademark infringement lawsuit on Monday against the Boy Scouts of America for dropping the word “boy” from its flagship program in an effort to attract girls.
In the complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the Girls Scouts claim the program “does not have a right under either federal or New York law to use terms like scouts or scouting by themselves in connection with services offered to girls, or to rebrand itself as ‘the Scouts.’”
“Such misconduct will not only cause confusion among the public, damage the goodwill of GSUSA’s Girl Scouts trademarks, and erode its core brand identity, but it will also marginalize the Girl Scouts Movement by causing the public to believe that GSUSA’s extraordinarily successful services are not true or official ‘Scouting’ programs, but niche services with limited utility and appeal,” the complaint said.
The Girl Scouts is among a number of major youth organizations in the nation seeing declines in membership in recent years due to competition from sports leagues and busy family schedules. The organization argued that only it has “the right to use the Girl Scouts and Scouts trademark with leadership development services for girls.”
In a statement, the Boy Scouts said it was reviewing the lawsuit “carefully.”
“We applaud every organization that builds character and leadership in children, including the Girl Scouts of the USA, and believe that there is an opportunity for both organizations to serve girls and boys in our communities,” the statement said.
In May, the Boy Scouts — the program for 11- to 17-year-olds — announced it would change its name to Scouts BSA in February. The parent organization will remain the Boy Scouts of America, and the Cub Scouts — its program serving children from kindergarten through fifth grade — will keep its title, as well.
The organization already has started admitting girls into the Cub Scouts, and Scouts BSA begins accepting girls next year.
The Girls Scouts claim it has already been damaged by the name change announcement, saying that “throughout the country, families, schools and communities have been told that GSUSA and BSA have merged, or even that GSUSA no longer exists.”
“Parents interested in signing up for Girl Scouts programs have instead mistakenly signed up for the new girls’ programs offered by BSA,” the complaint said.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction against trademark breaches and monetary damages.
Source: The World
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The Arctic Tropopause Fold
M. A. Shapiro 1 , T. Hampel 1 , and A. J. Krueger 2
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2 NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
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Analyses of research aircraft observation, satellite total columnar ozone retrievals and synoptic upper-air soundings are used to describe the structure of Arctic jetstreams and their associated frontal zones and tropopause folds. These analyses document the presence of major tropopause folding events within the Arctic that occur at the flanks of large-scale (∼2000 km) polar vortices. One example shows a polar vortex and its associated tropopause fold and Arctic front that migrated from the high Canadian Arctic southward into midlatitudes over central North America. The frigid cold-air outbreak associated with this migration was an important component in the record setting daily minimum temperatures that were recorded from the Great Lakes to southern Florida. Total columnar ozone measurements from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) are shown to identify the location of polar vortices and the mesoscale (∼200 km) ozone gradients at the flanks of these vortices which coincide with regions of Arctic tropopause folding and associated stratospheric-tropospheric exchange (ST) processes. A major modification to earlier models of the meridional structure of the tropopause and primary wind systems is proposed. The model introduces the Arctic jetstream and its associated tropopause fold as a primary wind system and vehicle for ST-exchange. The model also uses the ST-discontinuity in potential vorticity to define the pole-to-equator structure of the tropopause.
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Ram Vilas Paswan in favour of Reservation Policy
During 1990-91, Mr. Paswan, a Cabinet Minister in VP Singh’s cabinet, championed the cause of Reservation. However on December 12, 1987, in a speech at Benepatti, Madhubani, he demanded amendment in the Constitution to end the prevalent policy of Reservation for Harijans and backward classes in Government Services and replacing it by right to work for everybody, because…Reservation system had failed to achieve its purpose and had created social tensions in the country. Later on, he changed his views and opined as under :-
It is ironical that, “The one, who makes clothes, does not have clothes to wear, the one that makes shoes, does not have any to wear himself and the one, that makes houses, does not have a roof over his head.”
“The mindset of the upper-caste is difficult to change, which has hardened over a thousand years of oppressing Harijans and regarding them a lesser being.”
“Right now our society is like this, with each caste lying oppressively on the one below it.”
“Though several laws have been enacted to improve their lot, much of it remain on paper…Harassment, brutalisation and killings of Harijans continue in remote backward areas, where a majority of Dalits still live in the dark ages of denial and deprivation.” i
Paswan regarded Reservations in jobs and educational institutions necessary, because it had made it possible for a son of oppressed to become a collector or SP.
“Nothing will change till they are given a share in land, industry and administration beside politics. No amount of reform with the old structure will do, it needs to be dismantled wholesale.” ii
‘There is no justification for finishing Reservations for downtrodden, till caste-system exists.’
“If justice was denied to poor, the doors to violence would be thrown open.’ iii
Paswan challenged the argument of merit by saying “Merit ! what is Merit… What merit is there in Capitation fee system?”
i Times of India. Dated, April 18, 1993, p15.
ii Frontline August 31, September 3, 1991 P.100.
iii Times of India, Dated, April 8, 1992.
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A Whole New Way for the Blind to Create
Tag: innovation
Posted on July 14, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
“I always felt that if I could see, then I would enjoy painting.”
Margaret Wilson-Hinds, age 67, is participating in a special workshop at the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB) main office in Peterborough, England. Along with several other blind and partially-sighted participants, Margaret has just tried the 3Doodler Start for the first time.
Beginning with the launch of the first 3Doodler in 2013, members of our community reached out to us to explore opportunities for using the 3Doodler to overcome a variety of learning obstacles. We spoke with community centres, teachers of non-traditional learners, physical rehabilitation specialists, and teachers of the blind—all of whom thought the 3Doodler could be used to make a real difference in individual lives. As our company has grown, so has our ability to focus on these needs, with our first challenge being to adapt the 3Doodler Start for the blind and partially sighted.
“The original thinking with the first version of the 3Doodler was that it could be used by teachers of the blind and partially sighted to make tactile learning aids,” explains 3Doodler President, Daniel Cowen. “This could include raised line graphing, maps and directions, shapes or objects a student could feel, quick braille markings, feeling handwriting, and more.”
"The real goal was to create a pen that blind and partially-sighted users could use themselves." Share
Daniel and 3Doodler CEO Maxwell Bogue took note as feedback came in from those who saw how a 3D printing pen could fill a gap amongst learning aids, and provide support for the blind.
“From our earliest discussions with interested community members, we also learned that existing aides, like swell paper, were expensive and could be inadequate for these needs,” says Daniel. “The 3Doodler offered a robust way to draw touchable learning aids.”
However, there was one significant shortfall—up until that point most of the discussions had been with teachers for the blind and had been focused on educators using the pen to make tactile learning aids for their students. The real goal was to create a pen that blind and partially-sighted users could use themselves—placing the joy and accomplishment of creativity and learning directly into their hands.
Three years later, the launch of the 3Doodler Start provided the pathway to make this possible. With no hot parts and a plastic cool enough to touch, we finally had a 3D printing pen that was safe for all users.
Shortly after launching the 3Doodler Start, our team began the process of understanding what changes would be needed to create a meaningful experience for blind and partially-sighted users.
“RNIB wanted to test the product because the whole idea of 3D printing is a revolution,” explains RNIB Head of Strategy Steve Tyler. “But this take on it is particularly interesting because it’s portable, it’s hand-held, and it’s a whole new way of being able to allow children, young people, and anybody who is vision impaired to be creative.”
With a proactive approach to new tech and how it could be applied to helping the visually impaired, RNIB was a natural fit for a collaboration with 3Doodler, and would ensure rigorous testing and feedback so that the product could be adapted and enhanced in a meaningful way.
Conversations with RNIB provided the 3Doodler team with useful preliminary advice—such as incorporating tactile markings on the pen instead of braille, and the importance of audio instructions for blind users.
Now, after a year of feedback and testing—which included individuals, as well as two schools for the blind and partially sighted—the 3Doodler Start has been given the official RNIB product endorsement, a quality assurance mark for products identified as “easy-to-use” for those who are blind or have sight loss.
And opening new avenues for the blind to express creatively isn’t just about innovation, it has a direct personal impact on people’s lives.
“Being able to draw, and being able to feel what you’ve drawn, or being able to create a product using this kind of manual 3D printing method is really new and innovative,” says Steve. “I’ve got a 5 year old son, and I spent an hour with him yesterday. A sighted son, and me as a blind father, and we were able to enjoy the 3Doodler together.”
"It’s a whole new way of being able to allow children, young people, and anybody who is vision impaired to be creative." Share
Back at the RNIB office in Peterborough, Roger Wilson-Hinds admits he was reluctant to participate in the 3Doodler workshop. “I came thinking I couldn’t cope with this kind of stuff, I had to persuade myself to come,” he says. But after experimenting with patterns on cups and forms, and creating a ring for himself, he’s glad he stepped out of his comfort zone. “I’ve come away with the idea that [the 3Doodler] could be really good, this could be good for lots of people.”
The official RNIB case study put the 3Doodler Start into the hands of both young students and adults, with participants aged between 8 and 78 and with varying degrees of sight loss and vision.
Through participant feedback as well as recommendations from RNIB, the 3Doodler Start now has tactile buttons, new audio instructions to help users get started, and will soon have full instructions in Braille.
“For me, I always enjoyed art but I could never fully see what I was doing,” says Mark Evans, at the RNIB workshop.
“And I’d have the idea in my head, and I’d draw it on the page, and it’d look awful! Because I’m not a great artist,” he laughs.
But with the 3Doodler, Mark didn’t feel the same sense of frustration he’d had in the past with traditional creative tools. “This would enable me to do things and be creative and produce a better quality of work and enjoy art a lot more,” he says.
Everyone at 3Doodler is immensely proud of the work done with RNIB, as well as the impact these product changes will have on the creative lives of our users. We want to thank everyone who has been involved in this project to date, and underscore our commitment to creating a world where every person, regardless of ability, can have access to the tools they need to create and learn.
To learn more about 3Doodler EDU products, click here:
Visit the official RNIB website to learn more about their work in supporting the blind and partially sighted.
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5 Pieces of Real Life Star Trek Tech
Posted on June 27, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
It’s been over half a century since Star Trek first aired and amazed fans with a look into the possible future of technology.
And while Star Trek tech was only science fiction at the time, a huge range of the items used aboard the Enterprise are now commonplace today. Cellphones, bluetooth headsets, and tablet computers were all predicted by the futuristic series.
But while we’re still several hundred years away from James T. Kirk’s famous five-year mission of 2265, recent breakthroughs in technology have gotten us closer to a Star Trek reality than ever before, and in surprising ways:
1. Replicators
The replicators on Star Trek: The Next Generation synthesized foods for meals on demand, produced medications, or manufactured spare mechanical parts.
Today’s 3D printing technologies have made this Next Generation tech a current generation reality. Our own 3Doodler is a hand-held version that prints not only in plastic, but also metal, nylon, polycarbonate, and wood.
And current technology is working toward making real life even stranger than fiction. While the replicators of Star Trek could not produce living organisms, advancements in medical 3D printing are leading us in that direction. It is already possible to 3D-print bone, cartilage, tissue with blood vessels, and even heart valves, and scientists are even honing in on the process for printing human skin.
2. Hypospray
Medical tech is often where the sci-fi future envisioned by Star Trek meets reality.
When the medical officers of Starfleet’s science division needed to administer liquid medicines, they were able to do so without needles, blood, pain, or injection sites by using the hypospray.
Now, researchers at MIT have developed a similar method of jet injection which mimics the sterile, needle-free technology of the hypospray. Jet injection shoots a very thin and fast jet of medicine straight through the skin and into muscle. The jet is so fine that it won’t cause any pain, and the mechanics are precise enough to administer the correct doses for different patients.
3. Universal Translator
With a mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before, the crew of the starship Enterprise made frequent use of various universal translator technologies, allowing them to freely interact and converse with aliens from all reaches of space.
In our current digital age, communication is key. Which is why companies all over the world, from Japan to The Netherlands, are creating tech that lets us talk across languages.
Other more accessible tech takes translation to the page, with apps like Google Translate becoming more sophisticated all the time, allowing you to read foreign languages through instant scan-and-translate functions on your phone.
4. Bionic Eyes
Born blind, Geordi La Forge got his first VISOR—Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement—for his fifth birthday.
The Next Generation VISOR technology in Star Trek was worn like a pair of glasses, and detected and transmitted electromagnetic signals to the brain through neural implants in the temples, letting the user “see” in infrared and ultraviolet.
Now, advancements in medical tech have made impressive strides in visual prosthesis—more commonly referred to as bionic eyes. These surgical implants connect a digital camera mounted on glasses (a similar concept to the VISOR) which are then sent through a wireless processor and implant in the retina. The implant—an array of 60 electrodes—emits pulses of electricity which bypass the damaged photoreceptors to stimulate remaining cells within the retina and transmit visual information to the optic nerve and brain.
5. Impulse and Warp Drives
“Set engines to Warp Factor 9! Engage!” When it came to going faster than light, the Enterprise relied on its Warp drive to send it further and faster.
While FTL travel hasn’t quite been reached yet, new electromagnetic drives being developed in both China and by NASA are getting us one step closer. These EmDrives are propelled by electromagnetic radiation held within a microwave cavity, and therefore use electricity instead of fuel to generate movement—unlike traditional engines that expel mass to generate thrust. EmDrives are still undergoing testing, but are now making the Star Trek Warp drive look more like reality than sci-fi.
And when it comes to less interstellar and more interplanetary travel, scientist are catching up to the Enterprise even faster.
The impulse drive was the main form of propulsion for the Enterprise and other Star Trek starships when travelling below the speed of light, using fusion reactors to drive the ship forward efficiently.
The Neumann Drive is an ion engine that promises to transport a spaceship from Earth to Mars and back on a single tank of fuel. While the previous record for specific impulse was held by NASA’s High Power Electric Propulsion with 9,600 seconds, the Neumann Drive nearly doubles this efficiency with recordings of 11,300 seconds.
While the Neumann Drive certainly operates at slower speeds than the EmDrive (a trip to Mars and back would take an estimated three to five years, but only use 20kg of fuel), it takes us one step closer to the interplanetary exploration of the Enterprise.
Looking to get your hands on your own piece of Star Trek tech? Go to Kickstarter to get your own limited edition Star Trek “Crew Edition” 3Doodler Create!
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5 Careers That Didn’t Exist 10 Years Ago
Posted on May 2, 2017 April 16, 2019 by mcdoodle
Technology is changing the world, sometimes faster than education can keep up! With new career options developing, students now have a wider selection than ever before.
We believe in the importance of getting kids used to new tech and educational advancements early on. After all, this is what will shape the landscape for future career and job possibilities later on.
This week, we take a look at five new in-demand career options for STEM and tech-savvy students to consider.
Genetic Counselor
One field that has seen great benefits from new advancements in technology is medicine. New understandings of genetics and the data now available has opened up specialized opportunities for jobs that would have sounded like science fiction not too long ago.
Genetic Counselling can cover everything from cancer treatments to prenatal care and family planning. Some Genetic Counselors even specialize in specific fields like cardiology, neurology, or fertility.
Counselors look at each individual patient’s genetics, and examine the data to try and predict and prevent medical disorders. But the main part of the job, of course, is the patient. Genetic Counselors need to know how to connect and support each patient, and help explain the complicated medical side of things in ways that are easy to understand.
To be a Genetic Counselor, you’d need a Master’s degree in genetics, and likely would also need some certification in counselling as well. For students who love science and data, but are also very people-focused, this would be a perfect field to explore.
Nuclear Medicine Technologist
The job title alone seems daunting, but the actual job is less scary than it sounds. This is another new field that has sprung up alongside technological advancements in medicine—specifically all the new machinery that modern medicine relies on.
Nuclear Medicine Technologists operate all specialized medical equipment, like CT and PET scanners, gamma cameras, and other imaging tools used to help diagnose medical issues. The technologists need to know how to care for and operate the machines, a vital task considering how closely technology and medicine are tied.
And as medical technology continues to grow and improve, so will this career field. Continual developments and innovation means a need for technologists who understand and can work alongside doctors and patients to help reach a diagnosis.
The job doesn’t require a medical degree, but does take good interpersonal skills and attention to detail, as the machines are often delicate and complicated. An interest in robots and engineering is important, and there are accreditation programs available for students looking to enter this field.
Sustainability Manager
When it comes to business, everyone knows it’s all about the green. No, we’re not talking about money! The new trend for businesses is environmentalism and sustainability, and more and more companies are realizing that going green is the way forward.
That’s where Sustainability Managers come in. This role means making sure a company is doing all it can to enforce the most environmentally-friendly practices possible, but at the best price for the company. This takes a lot of creativity, and excellent communication skills to get everyone on board and make your ideas a reality.
And it’s not just companies that are looking to fill this new role. Everything from corporations to universities, and even large cities need Sustainability Managers to create long-term plans to help them go—and stay—green.
A degree in Environmental Science and a passion for saving the planet is the way to go for students interested in pursuing a career in this field.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles sounds more like a code name for flying saucers rather than a new career field. But UAVs and drones are flying us into the future, with major companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook looking to expand their drone teams.
Drone Operators are in high demand, and for a large variety of purposes. While Amazon is looking to expand drone use for package delivery, news and media companies are looking for operators with more artistic talent to capture aerial footage in photos and videos.
For this new job field, the sky is the limit when it comes to possibilities. Some experts expect drones to be used in everything from agriculture to public safety, oil and gas exploration, and even in the film industry.
Some universities are already beginning to offer specialized courses in drone operation and manufacturing, but as it’s still a new field there are a lot of different backgrounds that students can explore. Drone Operators should have an interest in robotics and engineering, but can supplement this with skills in photography and videography, or other personal passions and interests.
Data Miner
What’s more precious that rubies and diamonds? Data—for companies, at least. In our new digital age, customer information and behavioral patterns are crucial for businesses to stay on top of the game, and they need experts to make sense of all the data they collect.
Data Miners help companies deal with “Big Data”. They predict future trends based on current and past consumer behavior, all extracted from the world of data that businesses collect. Everything from transactions to complaints and even social media reviews gets picked through by Data Miners to find patterns and make sense of it all.
And there’s plenty of related jobs within this data-driven career field. Digital Marketing and Social Media Management are new roles that are also becoming increasingly necessary as consumers take to online platforms for everything from shopping to costumer service. Businesses are finding that having an online presence is vital, and they need people familiar with how social media works in order to get the job done.
As a brand new field, there are lots of educational paths students can take if they’re interested in a Data Mining or other digital careers. A degree in Library Sciences is great for Data Miners, while a background in marketing or writing is useful for other jobs within the social sphere.
For students looking for new career opportunities, imagination is really the only limit. We are constantly seeing new fields open up, often in places we never even thought of.
And of course, students always have the option to invent something completely new! After all, the 3Doodler didn’t even exist five years ago.
Looking for more ways to bring 3Doodler into your classroom?
Check out our dedicated EDU section for classroom tips, lesson plans, and exclusive EDU bundles for educators.
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DIY Accessories to Customize Your Bicycle
Posted on April 13, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
At 3Doodler we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to try and DIY—Doodle it yourself. For our latest exploration into Doodled additions, we decided to take our show on the road.
Avid cyclist (and 3Doodler Marketing Director) Kelley Toy teamed up with 3Doodler Product Development Engineer Samson Wong to conceptualize and road test a series of Doodled solutions for two common cycling needs: a drink bottle cage, and an action camera handlebar mount. While these solutions were prototyped and tested on a road bike, all of the designs could easily be adapted for a mountain bike, touring bike, or daily commuter.
The Prototyping Process
“I started by borrowing a bottle cage from Kelley,” Samson says. In order to start the design process, Samson needed a jumping off point. Using common accessories that any cyclist might need was the first step to getting an idea for a customized design.
While a water bottle cage attachment may seem like a simple enough design concept, Doodling one from scratch is a more complicated task. Getting the tension and strength just right while having it fit the bottle snugly is important, all the while making a sturdy enough design that would hold up to actual use.
It was also important for Samson to understand how the piece would be attached to the bike. “I needed an actual bottle cage to trace the holes used for mounting it to the bike,” Samson explains. “I made a template based on the original so I could Doodle the holes at exactly the right measurements.”
For his first prototype, Samson used the same design concept as Kelley’s old bottle cage, with two “arms” coming from the mounting to grip the bottle. “After the first Doodled trial, I found that the arms were a bit too weak,” Samson says. His Doodled version needed the right balance of strength and flexibility.
"After the first Doodled trial, I found that the arms were a bit too weak." Share
In his next prototype, he knew better what improvements he needed to make. “The second design focused on reinforcing the two arms,” he says. “To make it strong enough I Doodled three layers of ABS, building up the plastic to be roughly 5mm thick.”
When choosing which filament to use, Samson had to consider the different properties of ABS and PLA. “ABS is a bit more flexible,” he explains. “PLA is strong, it’s rigid, but it’s a little bit brittle. So for this type of project, ABS is a better choice, because the cage has to flex a little bit to get the bottle in and out.”
Testing and Re-working
Once Samson had a prototype in hand, it was time for biking veteran Kelley to test it out. After taking the new Doodled bottle cage through a variety of terrains, Kelley was pleased with the results, but still felt there were more improvements to be made. “The cage performed well and there was no sign the bottle was going to launch at any point, and it was very easy to get the bottle in and out while riding,” she says. “But I heard a small crack the first time I loaded the bottle into the cage, and the fit around the bottle was not snug and this reduced contact area with the bottle.”
As an end result, Kelley felt a sturdier design was necessary. “The bottle flexes the plastic cage a lot, and I would ultimately not feel confident about the durability of the design,” she says. It was back to the drawing board for Samson. “I did some research, checking how other bottle cages look,” he says. “I found a few designs that had a whole ring around the bottle instead of the two arms.”
"At first I thought this design was going to be a fail, as off the bike it was tough getting a bottle in and out." Share
With Kelley’s feedback in mind, Samson thought this new design could provide the stability and tighter fit around the bottle that the first prototype lacked. “Molding the cage to the bottle, this one has got a lot of gripping power and a lot of friction, so the bottle won’t move anywhere when you’re riding,” he says.
“At first I thought this design was going to be a fail,” Kelley admits, “as off the bike it was tough getting a bottle in and out.” But Samson was confident this new design would be an improvement.
And Kelley was pleasantly surprised. “It is totally rock solid!” she says. “Once loaded on the bike—and with a small adjustment on my part on the angle—I loaded and unloaded the bottle while riding easily.” Kelley also found another bonus of the new prototype: “I also like the minimal look of this design on the bike.”
Creating concepts for practical DIYs requires a continual process of prototyping and testing, but Samson says that in the end you can wind up with some great results.
The first step, he recommends, is to copy. “Copy existing products, and then go from there,” he explains. “Modify it to fit your needs.”
Innovation for Creative Solutions
Samson used this same principal when creating an action camera mount for Kelley’s bike. After researching existing mounting solutions, he was able to better understand how he could begin to construct his own. “Some mounts have a hinge on one side for opening and closing,” he says, “but it’s kind of hard to make a hinge out of Doodled plastic, so I made a whole ring in one piece, and made it a little flexible.”
Adapting a commercial design for custom use was exactly what Kelley was looking for. “While camera mounts for round handlebars such as mine are commercially available, I liked that the mount was custom designed for my handlebars and therefore I could place it exactly where I wanted so it didn’t get in the way,” she says. “Also the Doodled mount is considerably less bulky and lighter than the commercial ones available, which is always important for weight-conscious roadies.”
When designing the mount, Samson was faced with a new array of issues and problems to overcome. During the prototyping process, he says it’s important to experiment and take risks to find solutions. In this case, Samson found that mixing materials was the best fix for the mount. “I had to use FLEXY on the inside of the ring to provide grip,” he explains. “The inside surface was too smooth, and when it grabbed the handlebar it would still move a little bit even when you screwed the bolt really tight.” When faced with a problem, finding creative solutions is key. “I put the FLEXY inside basically to act like a tire tread to grip onto the handle bar,” he says.
And road-testing confirmed his mixed-filament experiment. “The addition of FLEXY provided excellent grip, and meant there was no rotation even when riding on rough bumpy surfaces,” Kelley says.
With DIY projects like this, Samson says it’s all about adapting designs to fit what you can do, while getting the results you want. “It might not be the best looking product, or be good for selling to the public,” he says, “but if it works, then it’s a good DIY project.”
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Creating Connections with Shim Jeong-Sub
Posted on March 9, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
For South Korean artist Shim Jeong-Sub, everything is about making a connection.
A student at Hongik University, Jeong-Sub studies woodworking and furniture design. But artistry and design is all about innovation, and for Jeong-Sub’s latest project it was time to look beyond traditional construction materials.
Demonstrating the strength of a Doodled truss structure
“While experimenting with different tools and materials during the starting process, I turned my eyes to 3D printing,” Jeong-Sub says. In order to make 3D-printed furniture a reality, it was important to consider the strength and durability of 3D printing filaments like PLA and ABS.
"The 3Doodler uses the latest technology, but it can apply a wide range of human creativity." Share
While using a 3D printer was a possibility, there was something more appealing to the hand-made nature of using the 3Doodler. “Unlike previous 3D printers which require a complex method and high cost, the 3Doodler allows users to draw in 3-dimensions while keeping the same basic process of an FDM 3D printer with ejected molten plastic,” explains Jeong-Sub. “The 3Doodler uses the latest technology, but it can apply a wide range of human creativity.”
With a concept in place and new technology to make it a reality, the next task was to create the intricate structure which would successfully serve as functional furniture.
While most Doodled structures are created with standard horizontal and vertical lines, creating furniture required something different. “After judging that the thickness and the length of the filament would not support the weight of an average man, I experimented with various forms of structure,” says Jeong-Sub.
"I tried to pursue the natural and composite texture of connected filaments, creating a more coincidental impression." Share
After rigorous testing, Jeong-Sub finally found a solution. “I used a truss structure, which can support the most force,” he reveals. “By ejecting the molten plastic and connecting them one by one, the work was produced.”
“Assuming the ability to sit, I first formed a structure which supports the weight of a person,” Jeong-Sub explains. “After judging that it can support the force, I tried to pursue the natural and composite texture of connected filaments, creating a more coincidental impression.”
The result was a full-sized chair and design masterpiece which Jeong-Sub appropriately named “Connect”. The finished piece took two full months to complete, with a total of 450 meters (almost 1,500 feet) of connected filament.
Jeong-Sub continues to explore how hand-drawn 3D forms made with the 3Doodler can be elevated to sculptural interior design pieces. His latest works follow the same concept as his Connect chair. He is currently putting the finishing touches on a pendant light and an electroformation, where Jeong-Sub created an underlying structure modeled with the 3Doodler which was then electroformed and covered with copper.
All of his work reflects Jeong-Sub’s own take on modern life. “This piece ‘Connect’ visualizes in detail the figure of modern people living with connections,” Jeong-Sub explains, “as well as focusing on showing the effect of coincidence when each connection creates a structure with more complexity and variations.”
Read additional coverage of Shim Jeong-Sub’s work at Dezeen
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How tactile technology can help those with learning disabilities
One (teaching) size fits all? Experienced educators know that’s not how it works— especially when it comes to teaching students with learning disabilities. Not every student responds well to traditional, classroom-based teaching methods, and what makes one student’s eyes light up in understanding, might leave another as confused as they were before the start of class.
One in five children and adults in the US are affected by learning or attention issues, and approximately 8% of children aged 3-17 are reported as having been diagnosed with a learning disorder. While personalized learning for those with learning disabilities might be the ideal, adapting teaching methods to individuals can be difficult in a large classroom, and teachers don’t want students with learning disabilities to feel singled out.
Moving towards tactile technology
Many teachers are turning to tactile learning and evolving technologies as a way to engage students across different learning styles and needs. As part of a multi-sensory learning approach, tactile technology can help students across a range of skill development areas and a broad range of subjects. Such an approach is especially helpful for students with learning difficulties like dyslexia and similar impairments such as dyscalculia and dysgraphia—which affect math and writing understanding and abilities.
Assistive technology that plays to the student’s strengths and works around their challenges has already been making its presence known in the classroom—from interactive white boards, to the more recent addition of 3D printers.
More schools for students with learning disabilities are embracing technology, and makerspace tech like 3D printers, cameras and robotics kits can now be found in educational facilities across the USA and around the world. The results are clear: hands-on learning with physical tools helps students to understand ideas and concepts that are otherwise hard to grasp, enables interest in industries related to technology, and can be particularly effective in cultivating interest in STEM subjects. And there’s plenty of successful examples of this in practice.
The Benefits of Hands-on Learning
Tactile teaching—using physical, demonstrative, auditory or visual objects—can help keep students engaged and helps them focus their minds on the present. Tech that encourages people to physically be involved like the Raspberry Pi, 3D printers, and of course 3Doodler bring a new or relatively unexplored aspect of learning into the classroom.
Students who struggle with ADHD may vastly prefer tactile learning methods over auditory or visual learning styles. Having to create a diorama or a model might mean students understand better than if they were asked to simply imagine a spatial arrangement, the concept of geometry, or complex equations in their head. "When students are given the tools to physically create a model, they can see exactly how all the parts come together to function as a whole." Share Asking a student to create a model of the Eiffel Tower, for example, demands much more due diligence than just getting them to sketch it out. It may be difficult for someone who has dyslexia or ADD to concentrate long enough on understanding why the tower’s structural integrity relies on many different factors, but physical tools would help engage them enough to grasp why certain shapes work better than others, how math factors into construction, and why some materials work better than others.
Teachers have found that using tactile teaching methods in subjects like biology can reap better results than when students are asked only to visualise a concept. When students are given the tools to physically create a model of a cell, for example, they can see exactly how all the parts come together to function as a whole. Consider if students who have dysgraphia are asked to explain why a beetle looks the way it does—if they can create their own beetle and physically point out why it has adapted to its environment, they stand a better chance of being able to contribute to a class discussion than if they are forced to fall back on writing it out.
Dyslexic students, who may have visual or auditory deficiencies, may find that they excel when they apply tactile or kinesthetic methods to their learning. People who have trouble reading words, letters or numbers could benefit from creative solutions such as making their own words, letters or numbers (handy for those with dyscalculia) on plastic blocks helps them process sequences or equations better.
Across the board, in subjects that range from the arts to hard sciences, tactile technology has proven tremendously beneficial. When it comes to adapting for students with learning disabilities, it’s time to put down those pens and pencils and pick up a tool of a different sort. With new tactile tech, your students can have their hands (quite literally) full with tools to help them grasp the practical skills and knowledge that comes from innovative learning.
Get out there, and be creative. Your students will thank you for it.
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3Doodler: Disruption & Reinvention Four Years On
Posted on February 17, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
Disruption is a word we hear more and more. Uber disrupted transportation, Airbnb changed the way millions of people book accommodation the world over, and social media has altered the way we interact with everything from friends to news. This theme of disruption and reinvention lives at the core of 3Doodler, a company that is built on the strength of our community and your never-ending support for our work.
As we hit our pen’s fourth birthday, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate with four stories of disruption and reinvention that made our journey possible, many of which started with you!
From one disruptive technology to another
3Doodler began with a mistake—a 3D print gone wrong. Back in 2012 we were a two-man band, inventing toys—anything that could be a hit—and licensing them to much bigger companies. Our go-to tool for creating new concepts was our 3D printer, an invention which is still disrupting industries large and small. The printer we were using missed a line in our print, leaving a glaring hole in our latest model. The print would have been unusable, wasting valuable time and materials.
That’s when inspiration hit: what if we just took the head of the printer off and filled in the gap?
And so, unexpectedly, disruption bred yet more disruption. The 3Doodler was born.
Community-led disruption
We had the idea, but without a community of users it would have ended there. Enter Kickstarter, and our community of visionary early adopters. Relying on the power of the internet, and our hope that you would recognize the potential of the 3Doodler (or just want to have fun with it!), we launched our campaign.
The result was one of the most-funded technology Kickstarters of all time, and a 25,000-strong community to join this amazing journey. A decade ago we would have been asking for money, pleading with retailers to take a chance on us, and most likely seen our dream end in disappointment. With community-led crowdfunding, this paradigm has been turned entirely upside down.
More than a passing fad
Disruption is only good until it is disrupted itself. We have made it a mission to ensure that whatever comes next, it comes from us. Most importantly, while we’re on our way there, we’ll do all we can to keep you engaged and inspired.
That very much speaks to our focus on growing a vibrant and engaged community (more on that soon!) as well as the wide product universe we have created around 3Doodler—ensuring you have every color of plastic you could need, as well as all kinds of accessories to help bring your ideas to life. Now with three pens in our product range—the 3Doodler Start, Create, and PRO—there is a pen for everyone, ages 8 through 80, hobbyist or professional, and we’re not stopping there!
Taking “toy” to 3D
A special mention to the 3Doodler Start, the little pen that could. Three years in the making, and as a newcomer to the highly competitive toy market, we wanted to get this one really right.
To do that we had to develop our own plastic, stubbornly insisting that it be biodegradable, and melt at impossibly low temperatures. We were also going up against a growing tide of tech-connected toys with a pen that is entirely (and proudly) “unconnected”.
The result was amazing, with the award-winning Start kicking butt at retail, and our whole team glowing at the amazing things made by our new community of young creators. Bye bye screens, hello drawing in 3D!
It’s humbling to stand here after four years, with an amazing team of over 30 talented people around us, on course to hit our millionth pen in the next few weeks. Thank you all for helping us on this journey, and we hope to provide many more disruptions in the years to come.
Sincerely and with thanks,
Max, Dan & Pete
Co-founders, 3Doodler
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5 Lifesaving DIY Doodles for the Home
Posted on February 1, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
When it comes to the things we use most around the home, small breaks are bound to happen with the general everyday wear and tear of life. It’s unavoidable, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fixable!
With your 3Doodler in hand, you can DIY your own fixes and repairs for all sorts of breaks and damages that can happen around the house.
1. Broken Scissors Just Won’t Cut it
It’s tragic when an otherwise great tool is wrecked by one little bit of broken plastic. That’s what happened to these scissors. While the blades are still fine, they won’t work properly when the plastic handles are broken.
Fortunately that’s a quick fix with the 3Doodler! To fill in the cracks, PLA will create a strong, solid hold. You can also weld the plastic together with the Create’s hot tip. Using a combination of both will give a lasting solution that will make your scissors stronger than ever.
A bit of extra plastic and a little welding keeps your scissors snipping
2. Saving a Stand for the Kitchen
When this cutting board stand started to crack, it looked like the end for this handy storage unit. What good is a stand that won’t hold up?
Luckily all it took was a bit of repair work with the 3Doodler to make it like new – and possibly even stronger than before! With added PLA plastic which welded and reinforced the stress points of the stand, it can now continue to hold up under constant kitchen use.
3. Zapping a Problem Zipper
There’s nothing more frustrating than a broken zipper. Whether on a bag, jacket, purse or any other zip-able item, you need that zipper to do it’s job!
Fortunately, there’s this handy fix and video tutorial from Creative World to help you Doodle your way back to a fully functional zipper.
4. A Doodle DIY for Your Deck
A quick Doodled replacement makes this home repair a snap!
The plastic ring that hold the umbrella in place on this deck table kept breaking. And a wobbly umbrella can upset the whole balance, and ruin an afternoon outdoors!
Fortunately, all it takes is your 3Doodler and a bit of measuring, and you can create your own custom ring that withstand even more wear and tear than the original. You can use ABS or PLA to create the ring, and could even add some FLEXY around the bottom and inside to give it a non-slip upgrade!
5. A 3DIY Fix for Your 3D Prints
It’s the repair that sparked the whole idea for the 3Doodler: what do you do when your 3D printer misses a line, or a 3D print breaks or cracks? Fill it in using your very own hand-held 3D printer, of course!
The 3Doodler is perfect for fixing damages or accidents that can happen to your 3D prints. Don’t waste the time and effort involved in 3D printing, just make a quick repair and you’re good to go.
Using a @3Doodler pen to fill gaps on my larger assembled #3dprint. Messy but does the job #technology #repair #maker #process pic.twitter.com/mIKAK5l9BW
— Dr James Novak (@edditive) December 14, 2016
With so many options to fix and repair, the 3Doodler can save not only your tools and home items, but can also save you lots of money by avoiding costly replacements!
Not sure where to start when it comes to using your 3Doodler around the house? Check out our Hot Tips section to get insider ideas on how get the most out of your 3Doodler, and have you Doodling like a pro.
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7 DIY Hacks to Doodle for Your Camera
Posted on January 26, 2017 April 11, 2019 by mcdoodle
Whether you’re a professional photographer, photo-hobbyist, or like getting the perfect shot for your Instagram, you’ve probably invested time and money in your cameras and equipment. As with any investment, you want to protect your kit and make sure you get the most out of it.
With that in mind, we’ve put together these lifesaving hacks that you can DIY with your 3Doodler to extend the life of your gear. From top-of-the-line gear or a single point-and-shoot, we’ve got the fixes for you!
1. Repair a Cracked Lens Cap
A Doodled fix can save a cracked lens cap
One of the most important components of any camera – and often the most expensive part – is the lens. Keeping your lens as pristine as possible is a necessity, but the lens cap can too often be lost or broken.
A cracked cap that no longer grips onto your lens is just as bad as a lost lens cap. That’s where adding plastic with the 3Doodler, while holding the pieces together saves the day – and possibly hundreds to thousands of dollars for a new lens.
2. Replace a Lost Lens Cap
Lost your lens cap altogether? Doodle a new one to custom fit your lens!
1. Hold the lens flat on a piece of paper and trace the circular outer edge.
2. Using ABS or PLA, fill the inside of the circle with 3Doodled plastic. Tip: Make it smooth and solid by moving your hand in slow, steady, and consistent lines. Hold it up against a light when you’re done to see if there are any gaps or holes that need to be filled in.
3. Place some aluminium foil over the end of the lens and Doodle around the outer edge using FLEXY plastic. Make sure that there are no gaps or holes in the cap so that no dust or dirt can get in.
4. Hold the flat circular piece you’ve created to the FLEXY ring and use some more FLEXY and Doodle the two pieces together. Add some FLEXY further down the sides of the lens to make sure that it stays in place. Tip: Be sure to add lots of plastic when connecting the pieces together, as you want them to be very solid and sealed up nice and tight.
3. Doodle Yourself a New Tripod
With a bit of patience there’s no reason why you can’t create a whole new custom tripod using the 3Doodler! We recommend ABS plastic for the best rigidity. We whipped up this smartphone tripod, with adjustable legs and FLEXY feet to keep it standing right in place.
A custom tripod matches any model phone.
4. Repair a Broken Tripod Adjustment Knob
Repair the grip, reattach the knob, or Doodle a new one.
Whether you’re using a DSLR with a telephoto lens or your smartphone, the tripod is an invaluable asset. With all the adjustable parts, a broken knob can be a real pain! With your 3Doodler and your choice of ABS, PLA, or FLEXY, you can fix a broken knob, repair the rubber grip like in the photo below, or if it’s fallen off just Doodle a completely new one right on to the end of the screw. If your new Doodled piece is loose, simply add a little extra plastic and adjust your tripod to the perfect angle for your next great shot.
5. Replace a Missing Tripod No-Slip Bed
FLEXY is perfect for creating a non-slip surface.
Got an old, but quality tripod with just a minor issue? Make it new again with a few Doodled repairs! The one below lost the rubber bed that the camera rests on – without it, the mounting screw won’t tighten and the camera remains loose. A fix that’s quick but lasting is to create a small washer with ABS or PLA plastic which works as a perfect spacer to hold the camera firmly in place.
Want to take this fix a bit further? Using FLEXY, recreate the original piece and affix it back onto the tripod for good!
Tip: Place a piece of paper over the top of the tripod and sketch a stencil outline to work from.
6. Replace a Strap Adjuster
If you’ve got one camera, two cameras, or a whole bag full of them, chances are you’re dealing with a few straps, each one of them with at least one clip or adjuster. Breaking one can seem like the end of the line, but with your 3Doodler you’ve got an easy way to DIY your strap as good as new.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3:
1. Doodle a letter “E” with horizontal lines as long as the width of your strap.
2. Slide the “E” over the strap so the prongs are arranged like they were with the original piece.
3. Doodle a straight line down, connecting the the three points of the “E” and securing your straps in place. Tip: Make sure to Doodle this piece nice and thick, and ensure that the plastic really melts to itself so that it is sturdy and holds the straps in place.
7. Repair or Reinforce Cables
Cables, cables, everywhere! Whether charging cables or the cords for your lighting setup, these are the veins that power your gear. Your gear can’t work without cables, and neither can you!
That’s why it’s crucial to give them support when they show any signs of wear and tear. A bit of FLEXY around the stem of a damaged cable can reinforce it and make it even stronger than before.
A bit of fLEXY does the trick to keep your cables from cracking.
Repairing and replacing parts with the 3Doodler also serves as a way of customizing and identifying your gear in no time at all! Then again if you’re looking to keep things on the down low, you can match colors or use black filament so that your repairs won’t even be noticed.
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Design Thinking at 3Doodler
Posted on November 17, 2016 April 12, 2019 by mcdoodle
“Why don’t you add Bluetooth? Or have an app? Or put more sensors in it? You can get in the Apple Store!”. But that wasn’t what we were doing, or what 3Doodler is about. Sure it’s tempting to adapt a product and add bells and whistles so that you can sell even more, but at what cost?
What we sacrificed was being able to say we were part of the Internet of things. What we gained was the ability for anyone, tech savvy or not, young or old, smartphone equipped or not, to use our pens.
The idea of a 3D pen is such a new and unexpected concept that it needed to be as simple and easy to learn as possible. A tactile experience, just like using a pen or a pencil.
We’ve stayed true to that philosophy for over four years, and even with the release of the 3Doodler PRO, our most advanced product, it’s all about getting tactile, and eradicating any barriers that might exist between a user and their ability to create what they want.
"It’s about connecting you and your movements with the pen, and there’s no better way to do that than with your hands"-Howard Share
If anything we’ve been on a mission to make our products even simpler, not more complex; and not more connected or virtual. For example, the PRO has dials where it could have had switches (or an app that communicates with the pen). As a user gently turns those dials the pen responds, raising the speed or the temperature the same way one would gently nudge up the volume on a sound system. It’s about connecting you and your movements with the pen, and there’s no better way to do that than letting people get hands on.
That same tactile experience has also driven much of what we do in education. Back in 2014 we started to work with teachers for the blind and partially sighted, using our pens to draw instant tactile learning aids. In 2015 we ran a case study with a UK-based school and found, conclusively, that the tactile experience of using the 3Doodler gave visual learners a welcome leg-up in class.
Now with the kid-safe 3Doodler Start, which is completely cool to the touch, the scope for getting hands on has jumped another level. Users can touch and mould their Doodles the instant they come out of the pen – and those same blind and partially sighted students now have a pen they can use safely without any concerns about hot plastic.
So while the world is putting iPads in front of kids, or trying to connect everything to the big wide web, we’re putting down the screens and asking you to pick up, feel and craft; to rediscover what you can do with your hands in an unvirtual reality. We’re using the power of touch – and not the screen – to take you back to an era (not that long ago!) when creativity and play meant doing something with your hands.
And it’s working. As we near 2017 we’ll be marking our millionth 3Doodler, with users creating everything from curricular aids, to architectural replicas, 3Doodled dresses and cars, as well as art that is being proudly displayed in galleries worldwide. That’s a staggering win for the tactile, and the reason we’ll always strive for simple and accessible rather than overly-complicated.
Written by Daniel Cowen, Co-Founder & COO
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The Creative Nostalgic: Why bringing back the 90s is good for new ideas
Posted on August 18, 2016 April 12, 2019 by mcdoodle
From the resurgence of Pokémon, never ending movie remakes, as well as recurring trends in fashion and music, reminders of the 90s appear to be everywhere these days. Recent studies have shown that nostalgia has a positive impact on creativity and can inspire openness and new ways of thinking. 3Doodler investigates.
2016 is the new 1996
The X-Files and Fuller House are on TV, and the cool kids are wearing overalls. Blink 182 is selling out concert venues and the Backstreet Boys are back (and recording again). It’s 2016 but we may as well be partying like it’s 1999.
Den of Geek says there are at least 109 movie remakes and reboots planned for the next few years, and many of the titles will be familiar to a 90’s nostalgic audience. From Comedy with Ace Ventura, to SciFi with Stargate, and childhood favourites like Jumanji and Power Rangers, all these reboots will give audiences who love the 90’s plenty of reason to wax nostalgic.
Why We Love the 90s
“Every generation seems to long for their childhood and revels in the nostalgia of the pop culture of that time”, noted San Diego State University professor of Psychology, Dr. Jean Twenge in a recent interview. “Boomers did this for the ‘60s, GenX for the ‘80s.” It’s a common cycle to see. “Nostalgia is a powerful connection to a time when things at least seemed more innocent and simple.”
But why is 90s nostalgia hitting so much harder than past nostalgic trends, particularly for today’s Millennials? “The ‘90s were, arguably, the last good decade—the last time the economy was doing pretty well and the last time we weren’t worrying about terrorism,” Twenge argues. “Many Millennials experienced a ‘90s childhood of peace and prosperity, only to enter adulthood during the Great Recession. It’s like someone baited and switched them.”
Tumblr Teachings
One user on Tumblr also pointed to the rapid advance of technology as an explanation for Millennial obsession with the “simpler” decade of their childhood.
Linking Nostalgia and Creativity
While the media loves to portray the Millenial generation as full of self-centered narcissists – what with their love of selfies and Instagramming each meal – there’s an argument to be made that this generation may end up being the most creative as well.
And it’s all because of nostalgia.
Psychologists from the University of Southampton recently published findings in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology showing that nostalgia can have a positive impact on creativity.
The team, led by Wijnand van Tilburg, tested the effect of nostalgic memories, defined as a memory that triggers “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past” against both ordinary memories and happy memories as preparation for writing a short story.
The study showed that people who were asked to think nostalgically had more linguistic creativity in their stories, compared to other participants who were asked to think of ordinary or even happy memories.
Van Tilburg believes that nostalgia may help form a willingness to try new experiences, which is directly linked to creativity.
“One of the strongest personality traits that predicts creativity is openness,” van Tilburg says. “People who are very open to novelty are more likely to, say, play around with new ideas or create connections between things where others would not.”
Because nostalgia gives people a rooted sense of belonging and security, they then feel more of that sense of openness that leads to creative thought.
Old Vs New
University of Connecticut educational psychologist Jonathan Plucker has a different idea. He says the connection between nostalgia and creativity may come more from the juxtaposition of the old with the new. Because creative ideas often happen when two different concepts are combined or compared, nostalgia may spark the creative process because it requires thinking about past experiences in context with a person’s current life.
“The warm, fuzzy feelings we get from nostalgia may actually make it easier for us to use that older information,” Plucker says. “And if nostalgia is just a very efficient way of getting disparate concepts, then I would absolutely expect it to lead to more creativity.”
So when brainstorming your next project, don’t be afraid to go old school. Pop on an old episode of Captain Planet, crack open a can of Crystal Pepsi, load up Pokemon Go on your phone – and let the creativity flow!
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10 Things to Love About the 3Doodler Start
Introducing the 3Doodler Start, the world’s first truly kid-safe 3D printing pen! We love the newest addition to the 3Doodler family. Simple to use, the 3Doodler Start makes creating easy, engaging, and fun! Here’s 10 reasons why we think you’ll love the Start too…
1. Totally Touchable
The 3Doodler Start has no exposed hot parts, which means no risks of burnt fingers! Not only that, our amazing Eco-Plastic melts at super low temperatures, so it comes out of the pen at a totally touchable temperature.
2. Wonderfully Wireless
With the 3Doodler Start, you can Doodle anywhere, anytime! Charge it up and get 45-60 minutes of Doodle-tastic wireless use.
3. Ready to Reboot
Make your old toys last longer with Doodled repairs made with the 3Doodler Start. Doodle a new head or costume for an action figure, a ramp for toy cars to jump, or create entire scenes and accessories for imaginative fun!
4. Helpfully Hands-on
The 3Doodler Start’s incredible Eco-Plastic is easy to mold and shape before it hardens into a permanent form. Get your Doodles looking exactly how you want them by fine tuning with your fingertips!
5. Without Waste
Our Eco-Plastic is entirely environmentally friendly (hence the name!) and will decompose in your back yard or in any household compost! Mother Earth, you’re welcome!
6. So, So Simple
The 3Doodler Start has one temperature, one speed setting, and one button. Simply turn it on, insert a strand, and start Doodling!
7. Engaging Education
With the hands-on help of the 3Doodler Start, kids can develop the skills needed for design, planning, building, and spatial understanding!
8. DoodleBlocks for Building
Kids will love using the new 3Doodler Start DoodleBlocks to create beautiful, accurate Doodles across a range of themes.
9. Extending Exploration
One plastic strand of our Eco-Plastic can make Doodles up to 10 times its original length. How many Doodles can you make?
10. Undeniably Unique
In case you missed it, the 3Doodler Start is the first 3D printing pen that’s truly safe for kids aged 8+.
The 3Doodler Start is available now from our online store along with a full range of DoodleBlock kits, accessories and Eco-Plastics.
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World’s First Solid Gold Doodles
It all started with heart. “My friend Michael Husted sent us a heart made with the 3Doodler and asked me ‘David, do you think this will cast?’ The result of that piece is what launched us into the exploration of using the 3Doodler for designing more jewelry,” says David Cunningham.
David owns New York-based DGC Jewellers, and has had incredible success using the 3Doodler in an unexpected way: casting Doodles and turning them into pieces of fine jewelry.
After experimenting with his friend’s Doodled heart, David found it was not only possible to make casts of Doodles, but the results were organic forms that opened up a new realm of possibilities.
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“There was a relatively short learning curve in learning how to control the pen,” says David. “But the challenge wasn’t in how we were going to make it, but rather what we were going to design with it.”
For his first piece, David decided to try a pendant design. “It was a kind of work in progress,” he says. “I used the triangle tip and printed almost like I was decorating a cake with frosting. This gave me a shape that I really liked, but I didn’t know what to do with it.”
As David experimented with the shapes and forms, the end result began to take shape. “I printed the swirl wire around it and cast it, but it wasn’t until I was looking at the cast piece that I decided to antique the pattern, and set an onyx bead at the bottom that completed the look,” he says.
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Working with brightly colored plastic made it challenging to visualize how the final piece would look once cast with metal. “We were surprised on several occasions how different the pieces looked after they were cast, compared to how they looked in green, yellow, pink, and blue plastic!” David says.
What David was really looking for when using the 3Doodler was innovation. “We really tried to focus on what we could make with the 3Doodler that would be difficult or impossible to make using traditional methods of jewelry manufacturing,” he explains.
Of course creating the actual jewelry relies on traditional methods of casting. “When we have the piece ready for casting we invest it [surround it in plaster], then burn it out overnight, and then cast it the next day,” David says. “So this is a two-day process.”
Investment casting is a process all on its own, and David works with jeweler Rob Oakley to bring it all together. “We attach wax sticks (called sprues) to the pieces and attach the sprue to a large wax base called a button,” David explains. “The button is attached to a rubber base that a steel cylinder (called a flask) will fit into.”
Once everything is set into place, plaster is poured into the flask around the Doodled piece. Then when the plaster is set, it can go into the burnout oven, where it’s heated overnight up to 1550° Fahrenheit.
“When the burnout schedule is complete there is a negative cavity in the plaster in the shape of the Doodled piece, and the flask is held at 1000°F for casting,” says David. A special casting machine is used to inject molten metal into the space left in the plaster mold, taking the form left from the Doodle. “The cast piece then has to have the sprues cut off and cleaned up, sandblasted, tumbled, polished, and stones set if the design requires it.”
How long the finishing touches take depends on the complexity of the piece. “With most of these pieces we cast several of them at once and spent three to four days from start to finish to complete a group of them,” David says.
While David was using a blend of old techniques and new technology, using a new tool meant it was important to find a distinct look that made the pieces unique. “We made a few pieces that we liked, but we decided that they could be easily made with metal wire or wax wire,” says David. “So we went back to the drawing board with them.”
What ended up making distinguishing the Doodled pieces ended up being the flaws in the process. “The organic look and variation of thick and thin, and even some of the little mistakes add to the interest and appeal of what we make with the 3Doodler.”
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Fashion Focus with Patrick Tai
“I looked and looked for fabrics with repetitive lines, shapes, and unique textures,” says fashion designer Patrick Tai. “I didn’t have much luck, so I decided to improvise and sort of create my own texture.”
The search for something new was what led Patrick to the 3Doodler. A recent Fashion Design graduate from the Art Institute of Charlotte, Patrick was looking for a way to express his unique vision and aesthetic.
“My inspiration comes from geometric shapes, modern architecture, and unique textures,” he explains. “I want the texture of my garments to reflect my inspiration, and that presented a challenge.”
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When he found the 3Doodler, Patrick knew right away it would be the perfect match for his designs. But it took some trial and error—and a lucky mistake—for him to discover the perfect mix of fashion and Doodling. “I originally started by experimenting with ABS plastic to get familiar with the 3Doodler,” he explains. “I started running out of plastic filaments, so I purchased more. I accidentally purchased the new FLEXY strands, and liked the flexibility of it more.”
As he Doodled more with the FLEXY plastic, Patrick’s design began to take shape, and an entire dress was created using only the 3Doodler. “Most of the dress is made with FLEXY plastic, with some ABS plastic at the edges for support,” he says. “The dress made completely with the 3Doodler took me just under 100 hours, not including the accessories.”
From that first dress, Patrick expanded his line to include more wearable dresses and accessories with Doodled accents and additions. “I’ve been lucky enough to showcase some of my designs in NCFA (North Carolina Fashion Association), along with other Fashion Shows around Charlotte, North Carolina,” says Patrick. “I have also participated in a couple of charity Fashion Shows.”
Wherever his Doodled designs are shown, Patrick says the response is overwhelming. “The reactions that I have received from these 3D fashions have been nothing but positive,” he says. “People have been so supportive and full of compliments, some people couldn’t believe that the pieces were created by a pen.”
For Patrick, the 3Doodler allowed him to take his personal creative vision and make it possible, by creating textures and concepts that hadn’t previously existed.
Patrick’s work with the 3Doodler is crucial to his designs and fashion concepts. “I feel that giving your audience the chance to feel your designs whether it’s being seen in a photo or on a runway is important.”
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Exploring Space with the 3Doodler
Posted on September 27, 2014 April 12, 2019 by mcdoodle
“In my artistic work I am primarily concerned with the question of space,” explains design undergraduate Oktavia.
For Oktavia, the concept of “space” is at once familiar and nebulous. What she really wanted to focus on was how to create a clearer definition. “Is our environment created only with our perceptions in mind,” she asks in her undergraduate thesis, “or does it exist independently of us?”
“In my work I am looking for ways to visualize spatial ideas and create a wide range of works on this topic,” she explains. “Materiality and abstraction play just as important a role as variety and spontaneity do.”
When looking to expand on this concept and delve deeper for her thesis, Oktavia looked for new tools to help demonstrate her line of thinking. “When dealing with space, which is generally defined as consisting of at least 3 dimensions, the question arises, where do the limits between 2 and 3 dimensions lie?” she says. “Through this specific question, I came across the 3Doodler as a futuristic tool that could help me further.”
Unlike other more precise drafting or modeling tools, Oktavia was drawn to the imperfect nature of Doodling. “I determined relatively quickly that it was not always possible to draw with exact precision with the 3Doodler,” she explains. “But that’s exactly what makes the objects created with the 3Doodler so exciting. The small elements of coincidence make the difference. So I deliberately tried not to be the best technical Doodler, but to let myself be guided by the characteristics of the tool, making those elements the focus of my thesis.”
As she experimented, she found the 3Doodler was able to add structure and variation to her concept in a way no other tool had. “Because the lines of the plastic thread seem uncertain, the 3rd dimension works to ‘dreamify’ the space-filled graphics,” she says. “The jump between drawing on the wall or canvas and drawing in space creates something fantastical and offers the viewer the opportunity to dream about further dimensional jumps.”
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3Doodler for DIY
While the 3Doodler can be used to make incredible sculptures and works of art, it’s practical applications can’t be overlooked.
With a tool as diverse as this, the DIY options are endless. Here’s eight examples of simple fixes or DIY ideas for your 3Doodler.
1. Give Your Phone an Upgrade
Looking for a style switch up? Doodle yourself a new phone case. No need to look like everyone else, make yourself a case that will give your mobile phone some personal flair while keeping it safe.
2. Make Your Own Doodled Clock
Make a statement with your home decor and create your own interior design pieces with personal flare. For wall pieces, hard-setting PLA works great, and will help you Doodle pieces that will last.
3. Repair Snaps in a Snap
Instead of buying a new pair of glasses, fix them with your 3Doodler. PLA adheres to metal better than ABS, so it works great for quick fixes like this one. Simply join the two pieces and Doodle around the break point. This little fix makes for quite the talking point too!
4. A DIY That Holds Water
Repairing cracks in plastic cups or soap dishes is easy with your 3Doodler. Both ABS and PLA work well for this kind of quick fix. ABS is excellent for plastic-on-plastic Doodling because of its higher melting point which helps weld plastics together, and PLA has naturally strong bonding properties. The PLA Clearly range also makes for more discreet fixes!
5. Doodle Your Own Wallet
Use FLEXY to create a hand-made plastic wallet of your very own! For a more fabric-like look, push the nozzle of your 3Doodler flush with the surface you are Doodling on, moving it quickly to form a thin film of Doodled plastic.
6. Repairing Your Home Appliances
3Doodler came to the rescue to fix the shell of this broken vacuum cleaner. A simple repair saves time and money, and gets your back on track with minimal fuss!
7. Lighten Things Up
Get creative and make your own lampshade. This lampshade was constructed for our display window at the MoMA Design Store. Made from over 50 small triangles, the pieces were welded together like a mosaic to produce this stunning lampshade. Pick your own colours and style – it’s simply a matter of joining the pieces.
8. Mix Doodling for Dynamic Projects
Louis DeRosa was able to combine a passion for electronics and the 3Doodler by using it to help make his own Hexacopter. As you can see, when you start to apply your imagination to 3Doodling, the sky really is the limit!
With so many options to fix and repair, the 3Doodler is your go-to DIY tool for any occasion!
Not sure where to start when it comes to using your 3Doodler for DIY? Check out our Hot Tips section to get insider ideas on how get the most out of your 3Doodler, and have you Doodling like a pro.
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Making Patterns with Plastic
Fashion-forward creatives have been finding new and exciting ways to incorporate 3D aspects into their designs. But Hong Kong fashion art house SHIGO went beyond Doodled additions and constructed an entire dress made entirely with the 3Doodler.
SHIGO love to break from traditional thinking and try new things. Led by two young Hong Kong fashion designers, SHIGO is meant to serve as a platform to express creativity and ideas through fashion. “No one has used the 3Doodler to produce clothing made completely from plastic,” say SHIGO’s co-founders, who set out to do what no one had done before—make Doodled clothing a reality.
The duo began with a concept based from seashells. Taking two types of shell patterns, they wove the spiralling designs together to create an intricate design.
With this textile-like pattern, SHIGO then adapted the design to create a lace-like concept for the dress. The pattern was printed and applied to a base layer of heavy paper to test and fine-tune the form and placement before beginning work with the 3Doodler.
Using Blue Steel PLA and Diamonds & Pearls PLA, the final dress had a subtle shimmer which added elegance, sophistication, and enhanced the impressive 3-dimensional nature of the construction.
The final Doodles were peeled away from the paper base, leaving an intricate lace-like shell made of fine strands of surprisingly sturdy plastic.
The dress was left split down one side, with buckle attachments to make it easier to put on and take off.
The end result was something completely new in both the worlds of fashion and 3D printing. With the free-hand nature of the 3Doodler, SHIGO had created the world’s first entirely Doodled dress.
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Exploring Doodling with Louis DeRosa
Posted on May 29, 2014 April 12, 2019 by mcdoodle
“One of my favorite things about the 3Doodler is that every time I use it I come up with new methods to get the results I’m looking for,” says Louis DeRosa. “I don’t anticipate that exploration ever ending with this product.”
After only a few days after receiving his pen, Louis caught the eye of 3Doodler when he posted an adorable Doodle of his dog Bindi on social media. Impressed by how easy Louis made Doodling look in such a short time-frame, "The freehand ability offered by the 3Doodler makes it even more versatile than a conventional 3d printer." Share the company reached out to him for further collaboration. Louis has now helped the team with several projects including the MoMA Window Display, and has also led the way to discovering new tricks and techniques to use the 3Doodler to its fullest potential.
Louis says using the 3Doodler did take some getting used to, as it was an experience like none he’d had before. “When I first got the 3Doodler I wanted to use it like a regular 3d printer, building up layer at a time,” he explains. “But I soon realised 3d printers have to work that way. With the 3Doodler you’re free to work on whatever part of your creation you want without being limited to working from the bottom up.”
This realization encouraged Louis to experiment more with the pen and what it could do. “The freehand ability offered by the 3Doodler makes it even more versatile than a conventional 3d printer,” he says.
Experimentation has led Louis to discover new techniques that have surprised even the 3Doodler team. “I’ve found that combining techniques leads to the most interesting and intricate doodles,” he says. “Laying out structural elements flat on a sheet of paper and then peeling those up and putting them together and fleshing them out in midair has resulted in some of the coolest things I’ve made so far.”
Louis says sometimes the simplest solutions are best when it comes to Doodling. “Paper works as a really great under structure for creating all sorts of things,” he explains. “For example, I’ve made "We have only just begun to see what creative minds can do with the 3Doodler." Share custom rings by rolling paper around my finger to get the desired size then taking it off and taping it in place so I have the perfect size template to then doodle around. Once you’ve got your ring the right size you can doodle anything on top of it and get as wild as your imagination will allow.”
Louis says that ultimately the 3Doodler is a new creative tool that can inspire anyone with drive and imagination. “Like the many different ways people have used the paintbrush over the centuries, we have only just begun to see what creative minds can do with the 3Doodler, and we are not limited by canvases!” he says. “Truly, imagination is the limit, and when that’s the case anything is possible.”
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City SCS may face more problems than other Alberta sites: report
By Lethbridge Herald on March 5, 2020.
ARCHES employees pick up debris outside of the city's supervised consumption site Thursday after the provincial supervised consumption services review committee released its report earlier in the day. Herald photo by Ian Martens @IMartensHerald
Tim Kalinowski
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The Supervised Consumption Site (SCS) Review Committee report released on Thursday paints a scathing picture of many in the community’s views on the supervised consumption site in Lethbridge, but also draws conclusions which some state are one-sided and purely anecdotal.
According to the report, the SCS Review Committee found “based on multiple comments from stakeholders, it was the committee’s impression that the Lethbridge SCS site may be facing the most problems in the province, since the expressed concerns were disproportionately higher than expressed at other sites.”
These concerns included the cost of providing the service in Lethbridge being much higher than other jurisdictions, reports of increased criminal activity around the site and a testy relationship between SCS staff and local law enforcement.
The report also chronicles many of the same concerns local community members have expressed to City officials and local media in the past, including concerns about needle debris, heightened concerns about public safety due to the SCS and increased social disorder in the downtown because of the SCS.
The report also states ARCHES appears to have a contentious relationship with many in the community and it questions ARCHES’ reporting practices and its response to the general criminality increasing in the area around the SCS.
Coun. Blaine Hyggen welcomed the report, which truly expressed, in his opinion, the central social and economic concerns of many local community members to the provincial government.
“I have really advocated for this — to make sure we have a review from citizens that have concerns,” he said. “There is businesses out there, there’s citizens, and we just haven’t addressed that, I don’t believe. Communities have spoken, not only ours, to the concerns that they have.”
Hyggen said he hoped the report would help improve and better target the provincial response to the local drug crisis, and meaningfully address the social issues which have arisen since the SCS opened in Lethbridge.
“I have said numerous times, I have never advocated for closing the site down,” he told reporters on Thursday. “I have always spoken to the way it is run. Again, not the individuals working there because we have gone through that before, but it’s more of how it is operated, and that was my frustration. Do we need that as a pillar? Supervised consumption? Yes, we do. It’s just how is that going to be delivered is what I am hoping to hear from (the province). Another thing I am hoping to hear is the needles will not leave the site so we not have to deal with all this needle debris.”
Mayor Chris Spearman acknowledged the mixed reaction the community would likely have to the report.
“The supervised consumption site here, and its operation, has always been the responsibility of the province,” stated Spearman. “And we as city council, like other residents in the community, have been awaiting the results of the review. This report will be happily received by some in our community, and equally the news will be received with disappointment by others. Regardless of which camp residents find themselves in, we all need to find the common thread, which remains the need for more supports for those battling substance abuse in our community.”
Spearman said the City would work with the province in whatever way it chooses to go on the local SCS, but he hoped what ultimately comes out of those provincial discussions will lead to better things for Lethbridge which, until recently, lacked almost all the pillars it needed to deal with the drug crisis.
“There needs to be harm reduction,” Spearman stated. “And we need to figure out what that looks like. One of the things I am concerned about is the barriers to access to some of our treatment facilities. You have to be clean for three weeks. Are people going to get into that facility? How do we ensure people are more successful at accessing treatment and recovery? If the supervised consumption site is shut down what then happens with needle debris and needle distribution? Will there be more of that? And will it be throughout the city? I think we have to have considered responses, and we need to make sure whatever the solutions are we end up with a net benefit and a net positive impact on the community in the city.”
ARCHES executive director Stacey Bourque felt the report showed only one half of the picture in Lethbridge regarding supervised consumption services.
“There were no considerations on the merits of supervised consumption services,” she stated, “particularly since the report’s focus was on economic and social impacts of SCS based on people’s perceptions, and anecdotal information they have received. It definitely makes it very difficult, especially when reading through it, when most of the information doesn’t align with reality or the practices that we have in place.”
The Supervised Consumption Site Review Committee co-chair Rod Knecht acknowledged the report did not deal with the harm-reduction side of things when asked by a reporter, who attended the Lethbridge SCS Committee sessions back in September, why positive opinions on harm reduction put forth by several participants weren’t referenced in the report’s ultimate findings?
“When people are using the site itself, they are being supervised, they’re tended to, their street wounds are being looked after,” Knecht acknowledged. “If they have serious medical issues, or other medical issues, those are being addressed in some way, shape or form. And specific to needle debris, of course those people that are injecting in the supervised consumption sites those needles are being disposed of in a safe and healthy manner within the site itself. I guess what happens is, what we determined is, a lot of folks aren’t using the supervised consumption sites. Or folks are using the supervised consumption sites sporadically.”
“The challenge is getting more people using the sites,” he added, “but clearly that’s where the debris issue came in, and the rise in debris, as a consequence of people not using the supervised consumption site.”
The province has stated it will take the report’s findings and conduct a city-by-city examination of supervised consumption sites to come up with what it feels is the best local system to deal with the drug crisis, which may or may not include supervised consumption services going forward.
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Many of us who have been impacted are now being recognized . . . but the city has sustained international notoriety, infamy due to this site! There have been misleading figures released from the site on a regular basis and no seemed to care, as our city was destroyed! The site adminisration denied impacts on the area, ignored police stats released and now it is time for the truth!
The Mayor and Council failed to open their eyes and recognize the impact or listen to pleas from the citizens to close the site ( and their words made to Ottawa and Edmonton WOULD have been beneficial), from business owners who were losing their livelihoods, struggling to keep afloat . . . all denied and in some cases some were accused of faking issues! Council turned their back on businesses and the citizens for a few hundred addicts that were allowed to slowly kill themselves, as the SCS enabled them, giving all the paraphenalia needed to do so.
Morally, spiritually wrong and inhumane when you look at what the drugs do as they use them!
The 4 pillars that everyone talks about has not worked in BC after 17 years of injection sites and has become a nightmare that is spreading from the Vancouver DTES to every city in the province! It doesn’t work . . . look at it closely! It is a failure that has continues to kill people by slowly emaciating them and their bodies geting various related diseases and illnesses!
In both BC and Alberta about 70% of fatal overdoses happen in the residence of the addict!
The report states that fatal overdoses increased, just like BC after the sites opened!
Lethbridge had some lower fatal stats in 2019 but the users dramatically increased meth use and used less opioids, which doesn’t have the high overdose rates!
It is a very sad situation when City Council fails to listen to it’s residents and business community but listens to the few hunderd addicts and SCS employees . . . turning their backs on us all!
Take a walk around downtown . . . look at all the empty business spaces . . . broken dreams and sometimes families from the bankruptcy and stress . . . look at the damage done in just 5 years of bad leadership . . . but we have $60 million of new art’s facilities and a parkade that sits empty most of the time . . . great leadership . . . we need change!
Thank you UCP for coming to our rescue . . . now close this site that takes healthcare back to the medieval ages of blood letting and let’s get our city back!
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Words of wisdom, common sense, Ewingbt. Nothing more needs to be said.
SSSSSHOCKING!
As one person put it sometime back …’they throw a pile of manure in the middle of the street and now are shocked that we’ve got a ‘bug problem’. ARCHES is more than a pile of manure- its an irresponsible failed ‘pie in the sky’ make-work project that benefits only Ms Borque and others like her who make their living off this sordid sector of society squandering our hard earned tax dollars ultimately growing the problem not alleviating it.
Government needs to fire them all; shutter the place and face the elephant in the room which is admitting that most of the problem has its origins on the Blood reserve. Too many families churning out bad progeny unloading the problem onto us. Put money into parenting skills and education.
Dennis Bremner
Hyggen said : “I have said numerous times, I have never advocated for closing the site down,” he told reporters on Thursday. “I have always spoken to the way it is run. Again, not the individuals working there because we have gone through that before, but it’s more of how it is operated, and that was my frustration. Do we need that as a pillar? Supervised consumption? Yes, we do.
Really? You were calling for its closing for a longtime and even joined the Lethbridge Alliance which has a mandate saying it must be shutdown. So the question is Mr Hyggen, who/whom got to you, it certainly is not the residents?
You have now become just another Councillor to toss at election time!
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Bolivia: 15 Years After the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse
Philippa de Boissière
Fifteen years ago this month the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia were victorious in their now-famous showdown with one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, in what has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. The attempt by the US Engineering giant Bechtel to privatize the city’s water supply backfired spectacularly when the people of Cochabamba faced down government forces to kick the multinational out of the country and to reclaim their rights to one of the most basic human necessities on the planet.
For people the world over, this stunning popular victory over corporate hubris in the Andes not only continues to inspire hope that another world is indeed possible; it also shines an urgent light on three fundamentals in the ongoing wider battle against the abuses of corporate power in South America: how the road is paved to allow foreign corporations to seize control of the continent's forests, waters and territories; the damages they inflict when they get there; and how communities are fighting back against a deepening transnational assault on their resources and on their sovereignty.
For Bechtel, the road into Bolivia and its water systems was paved by Washington Consensus-inspired loan conditionalities. In the late 1990s the World Bank told Bolivia to privatize Cochabamba’s Water as a condition of further lending for water expansion. In 1999, the Bolivian government agreed and signed a lavish forty-year lease with a mysterious Bechtel subsidiary that wasted no time in hiking up the cost of water. Rates rose by 50% and sometimes by as much as double. The result for ordinary Cochabambinos was devastating, with many families being forced to choose between such basics as water or food. People from across the department responded with unified indignation, three times shutting down the entire city with blockades, marches, and general strikes. Despite heavy state repression that left one teenage boy dead and hundreds more injured, the people succeeded in kicking Bechtel out of the country, reclaiming their water supply and achieving a powerful victory that still resonates globally today.
Fast forward to South America 2015. These same fundamental themes of foreign corporate dominance and resistance are echoed across three current cases involving powerful European multinationals, profiled in a recent report, Corporate Conquistadors, from the Democracy Center, Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute. In Peru, Spanish Repsol is threatening not only the sovereignty but the very existence of local indigenous communities, as it pushes ever deeper into fragile Amazonian ecosystems in the insatiable quest to expand its reserves of oil and gas. To the south of Peru, in the region of Espinar, Swiss Commodities and Mining conglomerate Glencore Xstrata is bulldozing over human rights as local community members share testimonies of already scarce water supplies being destroyed by its twin mega mining projects, Tintaya and Antapaccay. Finally, Italo-Spanish energy giant Enel-Endesa is set to flood some 8,500 hectares of vitally important agricultural lands in Huila, Colombia where it is constructing a 400MW dam to generate cheap energy - either for export or to set in motion a new wave of mega mining and unconventional gas operations.
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Lithuania’s AI Lab aims at making a leap in AI progress
Lithuania is widely known as a global fintech hub, however its growing AI potential is hard to ignore with multiple AI startups emerging in recent years and a wide range of companies actively executing AI solutions. A country of roughly 2.5 million people currently hosts over 40 mature AI companies and 100 startups developing AI solutions. To further maximise Lithuania’s artificial intelligence potential, business and academia partnered at establishing country’s own AI Laboratory.
Win-win for all
Lithuanian AI Laboratory opened its doors this October at the Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University. It is a result of cooperation between Vilnius University and a Lithuanian biometrics company “Neurotechnology”.
The AI Laboratory will aim at fostering the practical application of knowledge by solving actual scientific and technological problems related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, automatization and robotics.
“The main idea behind this lab is to have a space for cooperation between young researchers and students with AI businesses. In Lithuania, very few companies can afford having a R&D department”, says Dr. Virginijus Marcinkevicius, Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
According to Dr. Marcinkevicius, a creation of this laboratory is a win-win for both business and academia. Universities can provide skills and knowledge on-demand to analyze and solve specific problems or develop new prototypes, while business allows AI algorithms to reach people’s lives and and provides invaluable feedback to the academic community.
One of the first points on the Lab’s “to-do” list is working towards establishing a wider network of companies interested in AI research that will provide problems and initial data for research and match-making them with bachelor, master and PhD students who can look for solutions to these problems. The Lab will also provide open lectures to businesses and students helping them to explore AI methods and opportunities.
Talents on the rise
According to data collected by the Artificial Intelligence Association of Lithuania, the country is a home for over 300 seasoned AI professionals and around 1000 aspiring AI talents.
Dr. Povilas Daniusis, an algorithm engineer at „Neurotechnology“, considers talents to be Lithuania‘s most precious national resource. He believes that AI Lab will help to discover and grow promising AI engineers and scientists.
„It will contribute to the progress of Lithuanian AI and serve as creative space for students, providing the required infrastructure for experiments. AI is not only vibrant and rapidly evolving field of computer science, but also one with huge and still undiscovered commercial potential”, says Dr. Daniusis.
Gintas Kimtys, Head of the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology of Lithuania, says that AI is a field where a size of a country or its population doesn’t matter – everything depends upon growing talents and encouraging investment.
“If we invest in education, support the creation of new businesses and startups, prioritize and fund AI – we have all the chances to make a breakthrough. Lithuania has a lot of potential in the domain of AI and, I believe, that such spaces as a newly opened AI Laboratory, significantly contribute to letting our AI talents share ideas, learn and thrive”, says G. Kimtys.
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A new film highlighting the benefits of medicinal marijuana focuses on children whose lives have been improved by using cannabis treatment. The filmmakers hope to “remove the stigma” associated with the drug, director Abby Esptein told CBS News. Epstein and producer Ricki Lake spoke with CBSN’s Reena Ninan about the children featured in their new documentary, “Weed the People.”
“These are babies – literally babies – in the film going through chemo and you see how much this medicine – in some cases, their parents are crediting it for saving their lives. It’s pretty dramatic,” Epstein said.
“Weed the People” follows the journey of families fighting to gain access to cannabis treatments for their children diagnosed with cancer.
A child featured in the new documentary, “Weed the People.”
Proponents of medical marijuana got a significant boost recently when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agreed to minimize restrictions on Epidiolex — a FDA-approved drug derived from marijuana to help treat epilepsy. Yet, even as medical use of marijuana becomes more widespread, “Weed the People” sheds light on the everyday struggles of some families who risk legal implications to save their children’s lives.
Lake called out skeptics who challenge whether medical marijuana or cannabis-derived drugs can help these families.
“We’ve been brainwashed to think that this plant doesn’t have medicinal value,” Lake said. “There is now a FDA approved drug for epilepsy. So it’s this hypocrisy. I think it’s about really informing the public to understand the history. And how this was a medicine for thousands and thousands of years and only hasn’t been a medicine for 80 years.”
Lake said the project started both with her late husband and a 7-year-old girl who contacted Lake while she was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.” Lake said she called Epstein to tell her she was taking the girl to meet a doctor about medical marijuana, and Epstein said, “Wait, I think this is our next movie.”
While Lake and Epstein have been working on the film for over five years, Lake believes the theatrical release couldn’t have come at a better time.
“I think our film really has an opportunity to kind of be the tipping point for really having the public understand what this plant is about, what it can do,” said Lake.
“Weed the People” filmmakers Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake.
Lake and Epstein hope the project will advance the medical understanding of marijuana – and possibly even help counter the U.S.’s current opioid crisis.
“We really hope this film is kind of a game-changer for people who are really skeptical or just didn’t understand what medical cannabis really looks like,” said Epstein.
The film depicts families opting for medical marijuana over prescription drugs. While their stories might convince skeptical viewers about the medical benefits of such treatments, Lake said that for her, it’s more important that the film creates more awareness of treatment options rather than persuade viewers to start using marijuana.
“My whole sort of basis in all the movies we make together are about informed choice,” Lake said. “I’m really not about getting people to think how I think or do what I did, it’s really about expanding people’s knowledge of something and have them be able to make a judgment and decision that’s best for them and their bodies.”
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Acasă Marea Britanie Dr Ion Jinga, Ambassador of Romania to the UK. A Slice...
Dr Ion Jinga, Ambassador of Romania to the UK. A Slice of History: Romanian Army’s Day
70 years ago, on 25 October 1944, the Romanian Army liberated the town of Carei in North-West of the country. It was the complete liberation of North-West Transylvania from foreign ruling and administration, following the outrageous Vienna Diktat in 1940 arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
In the autumn of 1940 Romania was completely isolated on the international arena. Its main allies in the inter-war period were France and the United Kingdom, but in June 1940 France capitulated and Britain was under siege. On 26-27 June, the Romanian government was forced to accept Soviet ultimatums and allowed Moscow to take over Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, both historical Romanian provinces which rejoined the Kingdom of Romania after WW1, in application of the principle of self-determination proclaimed by the US President Woodrow Wilson.
In Budapest, Regent Miklós Horthy, who had established close relations with Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, saw the opportunity and asked his friends to put pressure on Romania to give up Transylvania. The alliance with Nazi Germany had already made possible Hungary’s gaining of Southern Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Subcarpathia in 1939. Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany and Galeazzo Ciano of Italy met on 30 August 1940 at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna and simply produced a map detailing what the settlement was to be: North-West Transylvania, a land of 43,492 km² with a population of 2.4 million, was given to Hungary. According to Romanian census of 1930, the population in North-West Transylvania was 2,393,300: Romanians – 1,176,900 (50%); Hungarians – 912,500 (38%); Germans – 68,300; Jewish – 138,800 (one year after the Vienna Diktat, the Jewish population was only 47,400); Other – 96,800. These figures are confirmed by the Hungarian historian Árpád E. Varga who writes: „The census conducted in 1930 met international statistical requirements in every respect. In order to establish nationality, the compilers devised a complex criterion system, unique at the time, which covered citizenship, nationality, native language and religion”.
The Romanian Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu collapsed when he saw the map and had to be revived. The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in the Balkans wrote on 8 October 1940 in his article „Hungary wants more. Vienna Diktat was not a settlement at all”: „When the time comes for peace-making, a country like Hungary, therefore, will have a natural tendency to cash in as much as possible on the grounds that „if the Axis wins, we keep what we have; if the Axis is defeated or weakened, then the more we have, the less we are likely to lose in proportion.””
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Living in a World of Microseconds
By LMS, Inc. | November 23, 2020
Designing Microservice Ecosystems that Can Keep Up with Consumers
Modern customers require more than cookie-cutter services and experiences. They want personalized, even magical experiences from companies, whatever the industry. And the bottom line is they want it fast.
Creating those kinds of lightning-speed personalized customer experiences requires an agile technological approach, but not all approaches are equal to the task. The traditional technological model of so-called monolithic applications — massive software suites built from the ground up out of tightly interwoven, opaque components — cannot compete in terms of agility and flexibility with loosely coupled ecosystems of microservices.
Microservices are independent applications that can be deployed quickly, communicating with each other via lightweight application program interfaces (APIs). An API can also be a bridge for information from outside applications to enter a particular ecosystem or vice versa.
Microservices offer speed and scalability and are not stuck in the lockstep development process required of monolithic applications, where even small changes can require the whole system to be redeployed.
This is the age of cloud-based personalized service, typified by giant consumer-facing brands like Amazon and Netflix. But a microservice-based development approach puts the ability to provide that kind of personalized service in the hands of smaller companies, too. The most successful companies that excel at optimizing the customer experience are those built on an ecosystem of microservices.
The overall customer or guest experience involves every touchpoint in their journey — anything from a commercial transaction to making reservations or ordering food for delivery. How the background systems work together to accomplish these goals will ultimately impact the end-user.
This requires a shift in viewpoint.
Traditionally, in tech development, there has been no overall initiative to focus on the individual customer or guest experience. Developers believe in technology. They believe in building software products and building apps. They believe in Big Data. But not all companies realize they are only concentrating on how the technology affects their bottom line instead of the “why” of the actual tech itself.
In this context, the “why” is serving the customer. Technology ultimately affects the customer experience. It is not necessarily how the customer interacts with a specific system but how the ecosystem works together overall.
So, a microsecond world is best served through a microservice architecture. Using this kind of model, companies can leverage technology to be able to create an environment that is centered on the customer experience, creating an infrastructure to handle all the background tasks that customers will never see but result in service that can keep up with their thoughts.
The best strategy is to design a tech ecosystem that can pull in the necessary information in microseconds and that is all-inclusive but is also evergreen. Microservices allow the creation of applications that are ever-changing, evolving, and have extensibility to incorporate all the favorite services that a person can enjoy. The goal should be to create a decentralized system of services that can speak to each other, just as fast as an individual can think.
In the end, it is the companies with the foresight to invest in flexible and responsive technology architectures that can most quickly respond to the demand for personalized customer experiences. Developing a responsive ecosystem of microservices is the first step toward reaching that goal.
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June 1, 2018 by Brian Krasman
PICK OF THE WEEK: YOB’s bleeding, triumphant return from near death swells on ‘Our Raw Heart’
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This is a rare day around here, because we’re going to bask in positivity. With all of the vile and grotesque metal records we gleefully cover, combined with the cataclysmic state of the country and the world, it’s often a real downer in these parts. But not today, when we have so much to celebrate.
We almost never got a new YOB record, much less one as massive, cathartic, and healing as their eighth platter “Our Raw Heart.” Hell, we almost didn’t have Mike Scheidt, period. Likely most people know of his battle with diverticulitis and infections that nearly cost him his life last year, as it’s been a story widely told. The pain and near descent into the void would be enough to devastate most people for good, but not Scheidt, who often has stood as a beacon in a sea of murk with his messages that espouse love and inner strength and spirituality, along with ones that also navigate through darkness. The band and the man both survived, and taking on their new seven-track, 74-minute mammoth of an album is enough to fill one’s heart with goodness and happiness because one of metal’s finest institutions is alive, well, and rejuvenated. Along with bassist Aaron Rieseberg and drummer Travis Foster, guitarist/vocalist Scheidt crafted these new epics and added more grit, heart, and emotion than ever before, and while it’s quite the demanding listen, it’s one that’ll call you back over and over to hear the messages and continue to walk its path until you gain greater understanding.
“Ablaze” is the 10:28 opener, and right away you can feel the emotion that permeates this entire record. Scheidt’s raspy singing comes in pretty shortly, feeling different and evolved, though later some growls bleed in. Later, the pace ruptures and sludges, as Scheidt’s growls rumble, and even after a brief period of calm, the music explodes again, ending in a heartfelt pyre. “The Screen” couldn’t be more different, as it’s one of the gnarliest, grimiest songs in their catalog. The guitars chew at muscle, with riffs that send gut punches, and Scheidt’s singing is blunt and coarse, wailing, “Ancestral rusted blade, broken hilt, deep thrust,” as it he’s experiencing that pain as he sings, which isn’t far off. The thick bass slithers like a black snake, while the band grinds away, with Scheidt demanding, “Rise! In this moment!” The track ends machine-like, with the guitars feeling like massive, oppressive gears. “In Reverie” begins quietly before ripping open and releasing summer heat. The track is slow driving and bludgeoning, with riffs burning, the singing smearing filth, and everything coming to a smothering conclusion.
“Lungs Reach” is the shortest cut at 5:39, and its eerie noise stretches and infects before the song tears open and reveals its monstrous side, eventually dissolving into a mud pit. “Beauty in Falling Leaves” is the longest track, weighing in at 16:49, and it’s the indisputable core of the record. It’s a wrenching doom ballad that ultimately has a positive, life-affirming theme, as the music slowly unfurls but builds into the crescendo of a chorus, where Scheidt belts, “Been this way throughout my life, your heart brings me home.” That sentiment keeps repeating, and every time it does, you can feel the blood rushing from the band’s collective heart, as they snake their way throughout this song. Later, the tempo switches, as they pour new colors into the mix, but they always return to the meat of the song, getting spacey and psychedelic before the track melts away. “Original Face” is the most traditionally YOB-like song on the entire record, with molten riffs, gruff vocals, and a heavy sentiment compounded by harsh shrieks. “There is nothing else, this is all there is,” Scheidt insists, as the punishing pace pushes on, the soloing scorches, and things come to a hellishly mauling finish. The title cut ends the album, a 14:41 epic that battles “Falling Leaves” for the emotional center point and does a hell of a job capturing your soul. The start is trippy and makes you see vibrant colors, and from there, the song takes you on a long journey that, weirdly, doesn’t feel like it lasts half as long as it does. There is emotional space, cosmic hurtling, and Scheidt calling, “Beckoning my restless ghost, leaving, nothing left behind.” The song feels like a total triumph, a statement from a band that started death in the face, survived, and lived to spread their positivity on an entirely new level.
YOB’s mission always has included a great dose of survival instinct, and that is partially what helped “Our Raw Heart” see the light of day to start with. It’s great to have Scheidt on the mend, sounding as vibrant and husky as ever, and the rest of the band pounding away like only they can. We can’t feel miserable all the time. This is a record that should put a smile on your face, light embers within your soul, and hammer home the point that even while we’re immersed in negativity elsewhere, it’s OK to stop and feel good every now and again.
For more on the band, go here: https://www.yobislove.com/
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To access the music and songbook on a mobile device, you’ll need the app, which is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play store, for free.
Once in the app, you’ll have to log in by clicking the 3 dots in the top right corner and choosing Login.
If you do not have a Music Together® account, you’ll have to create one (follow the prompts). As long as you use the same username and password you can access your account on multiple (I believe up to 5, but it might be 10) mobile devices— so Mom’s phone, Dad’s phone, Kids’ tablet, etc. — just be sure to use the same login info!
If you have an account already, you can just log in.
Once logged in, click the 3 dots in the top right corner again and click “Access Code” Here you will enter the access code at the bottom of this email and tap Submit
Once the access code is accepted, you’re good to go on your mobile device!
To access the Songs:
From the Home screen of the app, tap the “Music” speech bubble to access the songs — you’ll be able to see all the collections you’ve done (for which you entered your code into the app) and either download them to your app or stream them. If you’ve entered multiple access codes and thus have multiple semesters’ worth of songs in your app, you may need to swipe at the bottom to get to Maracas 2020.
You can also now make playlists with songs from all your downloaded collections!
Click the 3 dots in the top corner and tap Playlists
Tap Add Playlist
Tap the playlist you’ve just created (it’ll say it’s empty)
Tap Go to Music
Tap the checkmark to the right of each song you want to add to the playlist
Swipe along the bottom red bar to access different semesters
Check the box next to the name of the playlist to which you want to add the song and press OK
To access the Digital Songbook*:
Tap on the “Let’s Play!” speech bubble
Tap Maracas Family Songbook
Tap the white arrows to turn pages
*If on a phone, I recommend turning the phone horizontally to see better, as it is quite small so, ideally accessing the songbook on a bigger screen, like a tablet, computer, or screen mirroring to a tv if you can, is better!
The app is full of other fun features!
To access the music and songbook on a computer, visit the main Music Together® website at https://www.musictogether.com.
Click “Login” in the red banner, top right, and either log in using your account if you already have one, or follow the prompts to create an account if you don't have one yet
Once logged in, click on the “Music Zone” button in the red banner, top left
Click “Access Code” in the blue menu banner on the right, enter your access code in the box and click “Submit”
Click “Music Library” on the menu on the left side of the screen. This will take you to a list of songs.
If you’ve entered codes from previous semesters, to access the current songs, find Maracas 2020 from the “Collection” drop down menu
You’ll see a screen that looks like this (mine is a little different since it’s the teacher version but it should be pretty similar):
To play a song (stream it on the computer without downloading it) click the blue circle with the white triangle to the left of the song name (highlighted by purple star)
To download a single song to your computer, click the arrow button (highlighted by yellow hexagon)
To download the entire album, click the album name (highlighted by the green oval)
To see more activity ideas, click the Activities button (highlighted by the red rectangle
If you choose to download the songs to your computer (open them with your computer’s music app (like iTunes) and you can play the songs there! You can also sync your mobile device with your computer and play the songs through your music app on your phone/tablet rather than through the app
To access the Digital Songbook:
Click “Let’s Play!” on the menu on the left side of the screen
Here you’ll have your Family Songbook, the Music Notation book for those of you who can read music and want the sheet music, as well as other fun ideas of how to Sing And Play with your Music Together® Maracas collection
Click on the various digital books to access them
Turn pages by clicking the arrows or clicking the top of the corners when they fold over like dog ears
Use the magnifying glass icon to toggle between single-page view and side-by-side open book two-page view
Click on the musical activities to see all sorts of fun musical games you can play as you sing the Maracas songs!
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After Recovering From COVID-19, Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank Shares His Story
Phebe Wahl | May 29, 2020 | People Style & Beauty National
Now recovered, cosmetic dermatologist, chief medical officer and founder of the PFRANKMD brand Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank shares his personal COVID-19 journey—and a page from his new book that centers on the healing power of positivity.
"After being a direct victim for two terrifying weeks with COVID-19, my priorities dramatically shifted from common concerns of family business and personal chores to a dire state of regaining my health and my strength,” shares Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank. Instead of the usual feed of cosmetic treatments and procedures, Frank’s Instagram profile became a resource for so many to learn more about the virus as he shared his firsthand account in real time. “I first became inspired when I realized I had turned the corner with my illness,” he shares. “My fever had broken at day 12, and my breathing difficulties started to improve. I knew then that the most integral part of my recovery was to help in any way I could.”
Frank’s desire to help did not stop with sharing his personal journey. “As a victim of COVID-19, now healthy with a negative test, my next priority was to do whatever I could to help those who are in the battle, including donating my blood,” he says, noting that he also donated any items he could from his medical office. “Mount Sinai hospital is my affiliated medical center and who I am working with directly. In addition, engaging my social media audience allowed me as a physician and a victim to provide a steady stream of information for people.”
Frank says the days are passing surprisingly quickly thanks to his nonstop efforts to help the relief cause. “It is part of my recovery process physically and mentally to stay active and do whatever I can.” As for others who want to help? Frank advises the most helpful thing one can do is simply stay home. “If people do nothing else other than stay home and minimize contact with anyone other than those who live in their household, they are active and valuable participants in the battle. If we all pretend we are infected, it’s better than all worrying about getting infected. It’s not just about playing defense, it’s also about playing offense and protecting people on the outside.” Frank believes a positive approach to recovery is key. “In my book, The Pro-Aging Playbook ($27, Post Hill Press), I outline how our perspective and proactive behavior can optimize the aging process—the same rings true with any challenge in life, including the one at hand.”
Frank is changed by his experience and imagines the world is changed as well. “My expectations are that people may appreciate more the gifts of life that were right in front of them the whole time,” he says. “Like tragedies that fell before us in the past, clearly these challenges will make us stronger. Rebuilding our healthcare infrastructure, regaining strength in commerce, showing gratitude to those who fought the battle on the front line, and the appreciation for the socially interactive hustle and bustle that New York is known for will persevere.”
Tags: beauty COVID-19
Photography by: Curtesy of Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank
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10.1: Parametrizations of Plane Curves
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UCD Mat 21C: Multivariate Calculus
10: Parametric Equations and Polar Coordinates
Parametric Equations and Their Graphs
Eliminating the Parameter
Cycloids and Other Parametric Curves
Contributors and Attributions
Plot a curve described by parametric equations.
Convert the parametric equations of a curve into the form \(y=f(x)\).
Recognize the parametric equations of basic curves, such as a line and a circle.
Recognize the parametric equations of a cycloid.
In this section we examine parametric equations and their graphs. In the two-dimensional coordinate system, parametric equations are useful for describing curves that are not necessarily functions. The parameter is an independent variable that both \(x\) and \(y\) depend on, and as the parameter increases, the values of \(x\) and \(y\) trace out a path along a plane curve. For example, if the parameter is \(t\) (a common choice), then \(t\) might represent time. Then \(x\) and \(y\) are defined as functions of time, and \((x(t),y(t))\) can describe the position in the plane of a given object as it moves along a curved path.
Consider the orbit of Earth around the Sun. Our year lasts approximately 365.25 days, but for this discussion we will use 365 days. On January 1 of each year, the physical location of Earth with respect to the Sun is nearly the same, except for leap years, when the lag introduced by the extra \(\frac{1}{4}\) day of orbiting time is built into the calendar. We call January 1 “day 1” of the year. Then, for example, day 31 is January 31, day 59 is February 28, and so on.
The number of the day in a year can be considered a variable that determines Earth’s position in its orbit. As Earth revolves around the Sun, its physical location changes relative to the Sun. After one full year, we are back where we started, and a new year begins. According to Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, the shape of the orbit is elliptical, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse. We study this idea in more detail in Conic Sections.
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Earth’s orbit around the Sun in one year.
Figure \( \PageIndex{1}\) depicts Earth’s orbit around the Sun during one year. The point labeled \(F_2\) is one of the foci of the ellipse; the other focus is occupied by the Sun. If we superimpose coordinate axes over this graph, then we can assign ordered pairs to each point on the ellipse (Figure \( \PageIndex{2}\)). Then each \(x\) value on the graph is a value of position as a function of time, and each \(y\) value is also a value of position as a function of time. Therefore, each point on the graph corresponds to a value of Earth’s position as a function of time.
Figure \(\PageIndex{2}\): Coordinate axes superimposed on the orbit of Earth.
We can determine the functions for \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\), thereby parameterizing the orbit of Earth around the Sun. The variable \(t\) is called an independent parameter and, in this context, represents time relative to the beginning of each year.
A curve in the \((x,y)\) plane can be represented parametrically. The equations that are used to define the curve are called parametric equations.
Definition: Parametric Equations
If \(x\) and \(y\) are continuous functions of \(t\) on an interval \(I\), then the equations
\[x=x(t)\]
\[y=y(t)\]
are called parametric equations and \(t\) is called the parameter. The set of points \((x,y)\) obtained as \(t\) varies over the interval \(I\) is called the graph of the parametric equations. The graph of parametric equations is called a parametric curve or plane curve, and is denoted by \(C\).
Notice in this definition that \(x\) and \(y\) are used in two ways. The first is as functions of the independent variable \(t\). As \(t\) varies over the interval \(I\), the functions \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\) generate a set of ordered pairs \((x,y)\). This set of ordered pairs generates the graph of the parametric equations. In this second usage, to designate the ordered pairs, \(x\) and \(y\) are variables. It is important to distinguish the variables \(x\) and \(y\) from the functions \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\).
Example \(\PageIndex{1}\): Graphing a Parametrically Defined Curve
Sketch the curves described by the following parametric equations:
\(x(t)=t−1, \quad y(t)=2t+4,\quad \text{for }−3≤t≤2\)
\(x(t)=t^2−3, \quad y(t)=2t+1,\quad \text{for }−2≤t≤3\)
\(x(t)=4 \cos t, \quad y(t)=4 \sin t,\quad \text{for }0≤t≤2π\)
a. To create a graph of this curve, first set up a table of values. Since the independent variable in both \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\) is \(t\), let \(t\) appear in the first column. Then \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\) will appear in the second and third columns of the table.
\(t\)
\(x(t)\)
\(y(t)\)
−3 −4 −2
−2 −3 0
The second and third columns in this table provide a set of points to be plotted. The graph of these points appears in Figure \( \PageIndex{3}\). The arrows on the graph indicate the orientation of the graph, that is, the direction that a point moves on the graph as t varies from −3 to 2.
Figure \(\PageIndex{3}\): Graph of the plane curve described by the parametric equations in part a.
b. To create a graph of this curve, again set up a table of values.
−2 1 −3
The second and third columns in this table give a set of points to be plotted (Figure \( \PageIndex{4}\)). The first point on the graph (corresponding to \(t=−2\)) has coordinates \((1,−3)\), and the last point (corresponding to \(t=3\)) has coordinates \((6,7)\). As \(t\) progresses from \(−2\) to \(3\), the point on the curve travels along a parabola. The direction the point moves is again called the orientation and is indicated on the graph.
Figure \(\PageIndex{4}\): Graph of the plane curve described by the parametric equations in part b.
c. In this case, use multiples of \(π/6\) for \(t\) and create another table of values:
0 4 0 \(\frac{7π}{6}\) \(-2\sqrt{3}≈−3.5\) -2
\(\frac{π}{6}\) \(2\sqrt{3}≈3.5\) 2 \(\frac{4π}{3}\) −2 \(−2\sqrt{3}≈−3.5\)
\(\frac{π}{3}\) 2 \(2\sqrt{3}≈3.5\) \(\frac{3π}{2}\) 0 −4
\(\frac{π}{2}\) 0 4 \(\frac{5π}{3}\) 2 \(−2\sqrt{3}≈−3.5\)
\(\frac{2π}{3}\) −2 \(2\sqrt{3}≈3.5\) \(\frac{11π}{6}\) \(2\sqrt{3}≈3.5\) -2
\(\frac{5π}{6}\) \(−2\sqrt{3}≈−3.5\) 2 \(2π\) 4 0
\(π\) −4 0
The graph of this plane curve appears in the following graph.
Figure \(\PageIndex{5}\): Graph of the plane curve described by the parametric equations in part c.
This is the graph of a circle with radius \(4\) centered at the origin, with a counterclockwise orientation. The starting point and ending points of the curve both have coordinates \((4,0)\).
Exercise \(\PageIndex{1}\)
Sketch the curve described by the parametric equations
\[ x(t)=3t+2,\quad y(t)=t^2−1,\quad \text{for }−3≤t≤2. \nonumber\]
Make a table of values for \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\) using \(t\) values from \(−3\) to \(2\).
To better understand the graph of a curve represented parametrically, it is useful to rewrite the two equations as a single equation relating the variables \(x\) and \(y\). Then we can apply any previous knowledge of equations of curves in the plane to identify the curve. For example, the equations describing the plane curve in Example \(\PageIndex{1b}\) are
\[\begin{align} x(t) &=t^2−3 \label{x1} \\[4pt] y(t) &=2t+1 \label{y1} \end{align}\]
over the region \(-2 \le t \le 3.\)
Solving Equation \ref{y1} for \(t\) gives
\[t=\dfrac{y−1}{2}. \nonumber\]
This can be substituted into Equation \ref{x1}:
\[\begin{align} x &=\left(\dfrac{y−1}{2}\right)^2−3 \\[4pt] &=\dfrac{y^2−2y+1}{4}−3 \\[4pt] &=\dfrac{y^2−2y−11}{4}. \label{y2}\end{align}\]
Equation \ref{y2} describes \(x\) as a function of \(y\). These steps give an example of eliminating the parameter. The graph of this function is a parabola opening to the right (Figure \(\PageIndex{4}\)). Recall that the plane curve started at \((1,−3)\) and ended at \((6,7)\). These terminations were due to the restriction on the parameter \(t\).
Example \(\PageIndex{2}\): Eliminating the Parameter
Eliminate the parameter for each of the plane curves described by the following parametric equations and describe the resulting graph.
\(x(t)=\sqrt{2t+4}, \quad y(t)=2t+1,\quad \text{for }−2≤t≤6\)
\(x(t)=4\cos t, \quad y(t)=3\sin t,\quad \text{for }0≤t≤2π\)
a. To eliminate the parameter, we can solve either of the equations for \(t\). For example, solving the first equation for \(t\) gives
\[\begin{align*} x &=\sqrt{2t+4} \\[4pt] x^2 &=2t+4 \\[4pt] x^2−4 &=2t \\[4pt] t &=\dfrac{x^2−4}{2}. \end{align*}\]
Note that when we square both sides it is important to observe that \(x≥0\). Substituting \(t=\dfrac{x^2−4}{2}\) into \(y(t)\) yields
\[ y(t)=2t+1\]
\[ y=2\left(\dfrac{x^2−4}{2}\right)+1\]
\[ y=x^2−4+1\]
\[ y=x^2−3.\]
This is the equation of a parabola opening upward. There is, however, a domain restriction because of the limits on the parameter \(t\). When \(t=−2\), \(x=\sqrt{2(−2)+4}=0\), and when \(t=6\), \(x=\sqrt{2(6)+4}=4\). The graph of this plane curve follows.
b. Sometimes it is necessary to be a bit creative in eliminating the parameter. The parametric equations for this example are
\[ x(t)=4 \cos t\nonumber\]
\[ y(t)=3 \sin t\nonumber\]
Solving either equation for \(t\) directly is not advisable because sine and cosine are not one-to-one functions. However, dividing the first equation by \(4\) and the second equation by \(3\) (and suppressing the \(t\)) gives us
\[ \cos t=\dfrac{x}{4}\nonumber\]
\[ \sin t=\dfrac{y}{3}.\nonumber\]
Now use the Pythagorean identity \(\cos^2t+\sin^2t=1\) and replace the expressions for \(\sin t\) and \(\cos t\) with the equivalent expressions in terms of \(x\) and \(y\). This gives
\[ \left(\dfrac{x}{4}\right)^2+\left(\dfrac{y}{3}\right)^2=1 \nonumber\]
\[ \dfrac{x^2}{16}+\dfrac{y^2}{9}=1. \nonumber\]
This is the equation of a horizontal ellipse centered at the origin, with semi-major axis \(4\) and semi-minor axis \(3\) as shown in the following graph.
As t progresses from \(0\) to \(2π\), a point on the curve traverses the ellipse once, in a counterclockwise direction. Recall from the section opener that the orbit of Earth around the Sun is also elliptical. This is a perfect example of using parameterized curves to model a real-world phenomenon.
Eliminate the parameter for the plane curve defined by the following parametric equations and describe the resulting graph.
\[ x(t)=2+\dfrac{3}{t}, \quad y(t)=t−1, \quad\text{for }2≤t≤6 \nonumber\]
Solve one of the equations for \(t\) and substitute into the other equation.
\(x=2+\frac{3}{y+1},\) or \(y=−1+\frac{3}{x−2}\). This equation describes a portion of a rectangular hyperbola centered at \((2,−1)\).
So far we have seen the method of eliminating the parameter, assuming we know a set of parametric equations that describe a plane curve. What if we would like to start with the equation of a curve and determine a pair of parametric equations for that curve? This is certainly possible, and in fact it is possible to do so in many different ways for a given curve. The process is known as parameterization of a curve.
Example \(\PageIndex{3}\): Parameterizing a Curve
Find two different pairs of parametric equations to represent the graph of \(y=2x^2−3\).
First, it is always possible to parameterize a curve by defining \(x(t)=t\), then replacing \(x\) with \(t\) in the equation for \(y(t)\). This gives the parameterization
\[ x(t)=t, \quad y(t)=2t^2−3. \nonumber\]
Since there is no restriction on the domain in the original graph, there is no restriction on the values of \(t\).
We have complete freedom in the choice for the second parameterization. For example, we can choose \(x(t)=3t−2\). The only thing we need to check is that there are no restrictions imposed on \(x\); that is, the range of \(x(t)\) is all real numbers. This is the case for \(x(t)=3t−2\). Now since \(y=2x^2−3\), we can substitute \(x(t)=3t−2\) for \(x\). This gives
\[ y(t)=2(3t−2)^2−2=2(9t^2−12t+4)−2=18t^2−24t+8−2=18t^2−24t+6. \nonumber\]
Therefore, a second parameterization of the curve can be written as
\( x(t)=3t−2\) and \( y(t)=18t^2−24t+6.\)
Find two different sets of parametric equations to represent the graph of \(y=x^2+2x\).
Follow the steps in Example \(\PageIndex{3}\). Remember we have freedom in choosing the parameterization for \(x(t)\).
One possibility is \(x(t)=t, \quad y(t)=t^2+2t.\) Another possibility is \(x(t)=2t−3, \quad y(t)=(2t−3)^2+2(2t−3)=4t^2−8t+3.\) There are, in fact, an infinite number of possibilities.
Imagine going on a bicycle ride through the country. The tires stay in contact with the road and rotate in a predictable pattern. Now suppose a very determined ant is tired after a long day and wants to get home. So he hangs onto the side of the tire and gets a free ride. The path that this ant travels down a straight road is called a cycloid (Figure \( \PageIndex{8}\)). A cycloid generated by a circle (or bicycle wheel) of radius a is given by the parametric equations
\[x(t)=a(t−\sin t), \quad y(t)=a(1−\cos t).\nonumber\]
To see why this is true, consider the path that the center of the wheel takes. The center moves along the \(x\)-axis at a constant height equal to the radius of the wheel. If the radius is \(a\), then the coordinates of the center can be given by the equations
\[x(t)=at,\quad y(t)=a\nonumber\]
for any value of \(t\). Next, consider the ant, which rotates around the center along a circular path. If the bicycle is moving from left to right then the wheels are rotating in a clockwise direction. A possible parameterization of the circular motion of the ant (relative to the center of the wheel) is given by
\[\begin{align*} x(t) &=−a \sin t \\[4pt] y(t) &=−a\cos t.\end{align*}\]
(The negative sign is needed to reverse the orientation of the curve. If the negative sign were not there, we would have to imagine the wheel rotating counterclockwise.) Adding these equations together gives the equations for the cycloid.
\[\begin{align*} x(t) &=a(t−\sin t) \\[4pt] y(t) &=a(1−\cos t ) \end{align*}\]
Figure \(\PageIndex{8}\): A wheel traveling along a road without slipping; the point on the edge of the wheel traces out a cycloid.
Now suppose that the bicycle wheel doesn’t travel along a straight road but instead moves along the inside of a larger wheel, as in Figure \( \PageIndex{9}\). In this graph, the green circle is traveling around the blue circle in a counterclockwise direction. A point on the edge of the green circle traces out the red graph, which is called a hypocycloid.
Figure \(\PageIndex{9}\): Graph of the hypocycloid described by the parametric equations shown.
The general parametric equations for a hypocycloid are
\[x(t)=(a−b) \cos t+b \cos (\dfrac{a−b}{b})t \nonumber\]
\[y(t)=(a−b) \sin t−b \sin (\dfrac{a−b}{b})t. \nonumber\]
These equations are a bit more complicated, but the derivation is somewhat similar to the equations for the cycloid. In this case we assume the radius of the larger circle is \(a\) and the radius of the smaller circle is \(b\). Then the center of the wheel travels along a circle of radius \(a−b.\) This fact explains the first term in each equation above. The period of the second trigonometric function in both \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\) is equal to \(\dfrac{2πb}{a−b}\).
The ratio \(\dfrac{a}{b}\) is related to the number of cusps on the graph (cusps are the corners or pointed ends of the graph), as illustrated in Figure \( \PageIndex{10}\). This ratio can lead to some very interesting graphs, depending on whether or not the ratio is rational. Figure \(\PageIndex{9}\) corresponds to \(a=4\) and \(b=1\). The result is a hypocycloid with four cusps. Figure \(\PageIndex{10}\) shows some other possibilities. The last two hypocycloids have irrational values for \(\dfrac{a}{b}\). In these cases the hypocycloids have an infinite number of cusps, so they never return to their starting point. These are examples of what are known as space-filling curves.
Figure \(\PageIndex{10}\): Graph of various hypocycloids corresponding to different values of \(a/b\).
The Witch of Agnesi
Many plane curves in mathematics are named after the people who first investigated them, like the folium of Descartes or the spiral of Archimedes. However, perhaps the strangest name for a curve is the witch of Agnesi. Why a witch?
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) was one of the few recognized women mathematicians of eighteenth-century Italy. She wrote a popular book on analytic geometry, published in 1748, which included an interesting curve that had been studied by Fermat in 1630. The mathematician Guido Grandi showed in 1703 how to construct this curve, which he later called the “versoria,” a Latin term for a rope used in sailing. Agnesi used the Italian term for this rope, “versiera,” but in Latin, this same word means a “female goblin.” When Agnesi’s book was translated into English in 1801, the translator used the term “witch” for the curve, instead of rope. The name “witch of Agnesi” has stuck ever since.
The witch of Agnesi is a curve defined as follows: Start with a circle of radius a so that the points \((0,0)\) and \((0,2a)\) are points on the circle (Figure \( \PageIndex{11}\)). Let O denote the origin. Choose any other point A on the circle, and draw the secant line OA. Let B denote the point at which the line OA intersects the horizontal line through \((0,2a)\). The vertical line through B intersects the horizontal line through A at the point P. As the point A varies, the path that the point P travels is the witch of Agnesi curve for the given circle.
Witch of Agnesi curves have applications in physics, including modeling water waves and distributions of spectral lines. In probability theory, the curve describes the probability density function of the Cauchy distribution. In this project you will parameterize these curves.
Figure \(\PageIndex{11}\): As the point \(A\) moves around the circle, the point \(P\) traces out the witch of Agnesi curve for the given circle.
1. On the figure, label the following points, lengths, and angle:
a. \(C\) is the point on the \(x\)-axis with the same \(x\)-coordinate as \(A\).
b. \(x\) is the \(x\)-coordinate of \(P\), and \(y\) is the \(y\)-coordinate of \(P\).
c. \(E\) is the point \((0,a)\).
d. \(F\) is the point on the line segment \(OA\) such that the line segment \(EF\) is perpendicular to the line segment \(OA\).
e. \(b\) is the distance from \(O\) to \(F\).
f. \(c\) is the distance from \(F\) to \(A\).
g. \(d\) is the distance from \(O\) to \(C\).
h. \(θ\) is the measure of angle \(∠COA\).
The goal of this project is to parameterize the witch using \(θ\) as a parameter. To do this, write equations for \(x\) and \(y\) in terms of only \(θ\).
2. Show that \(d=\dfrac{2a}{\sin θ}\).
3. Note that \(x=d\cos θ\). Show that \(x=2a\cot θ\). When you do this, you will have parameterized the \(x\)-coordinate of the curve with respect to \(θ\). If you can get a similar equation for \(y\), you will have parameterized the curve.
4. In terms of \(θ\), what is the angle \(∠EOA\)?
5. Show that \(b+c=2a\cos\left(\frac{π}{2}−θ\right)\).
6. Show that \(y=2a\cos\left(\frac{π}{2}−θ\right)\sin θ\).
7. Show that \(y=2a\sin^2θ\). You have now parameterized the \(y\)-coordinate of the curve with respect to \(θ\).
8. Conclude that a parameterization of the given witch curve is
\[x=2a\cot θ, \quad y=2a \sin^2θ, \quad\text{for }−∞<θ<∞.\]
9. Use your parameterization to show that the given witch curve is the graph of the function \(f(x)=\dfrac{8a^3}{x^2+4a^2}\).
Travels with My Ant: The Curtate and Prolate Cycloids
Earlier in this section, we looked at the parametric equations for a cycloid, which is the path a point on the edge of a wheel traces as the wheel rolls along a straight path. In this project we look at two different variations of the cycloid, called the curtate and prolate cycloids.
First, let’s revisit the derivation of the parametric equations for a cycloid. Recall that we considered a tenacious ant trying to get home by hanging onto the edge of a bicycle tire. We have assumed the ant climbed onto the tire at the very edge, where the tire touches the ground. As the wheel rolls, the ant moves with the edge of the tire (Figure \(\PageIndex{12}\)).
As we have discussed, we have a lot of flexibility when parameterizing a curve. In this case we let our parameter t represent the angle the tire has rotated through. Looking at Figure \( \PageIndex{12}\), we see that after the tire has rotated through an angle of \(t\), the position of the center of the wheel, \(C=(x_C,y_C)\), is given by
\(x_C=at\) and \(y_C=a\).
Furthermore, letting \(A=(x_A,y_A)\) denote the position of the ant, we note that
\(x_C−x_A=a\sin t\) and \(y_C−y_A=a \cos t\)
\[x_A=x_C−a\sin t=at−a\sin t=a(t−\sin t)\]
\[y_A=y_C−a\cos t=a−a\cos t=a(1−\cos t).\]
Figure \(\PageIndex{12}\): (a) The ant clings to the edge of the bicycle tire as the tire rolls along the ground. (b) Using geometry to determine the position of the ant after the tire has rotated through an angle of \(t\).
Note that these are the same parametric representations we had before, but we have now assigned a physical meaning to the parametric variable \(t\).
After a while the ant is getting dizzy from going round and round on the edge of the tire. So he climbs up one of the spokes toward the center of the wheel. By climbing toward the center of the wheel, the ant has changed his path of motion. The new path has less up-and-down motion and is called a curtate cycloid (Figure \( \PageIndex{13}\)). As shown in the figure, we let b denote the distance along the spoke from the center of the wheel to the ant. As before, we let t represent the angle the tire has rotated through. Additionally, we let \(C=(x_C,y_C)\) represent the position of the center of the wheel and \(A=(x_A,y_A)\) represent the position of the ant.
Figure \(\PageIndex{13}\): (a) The ant climbs up one of the spokes toward the center of the wheel. (b) The ant’s path of motion after he climbs closer to the center of the wheel. This is called a curtate cycloid. (c) The new setup, now that the ant has moved closer to the center of the wheel.
1. What is the position of the center of the wheel after the tire has rotated through an angle of \(t\)?
2. Use geometry to find expressions for \(x_C−x_A\) and for \(y_C−y_A\).
3. On the basis of your answers to parts 1 and 2, what are the parametric equations representing the curtate cycloid?
Once the ant’s head clears, he realizes that the bicyclist has made a turn, and is now traveling away from his home. So he drops off the bicycle tire and looks around. Fortunately, there is a set of train tracks nearby, headed back in the right direction. So the ant heads over to the train tracks to wait. After a while, a train goes by, heading in the right direction, and he manages to jump up and just catch the edge of the train wheel (without getting squished!).
The ant is still worried about getting dizzy, but the train wheel is slippery and has no spokes to climb, so he decides to just hang on to the edge of the wheel and hope for the best. Now, train wheels have a flange to keep the wheel running on the tracks. So, in this case, since the ant is hanging on to the very edge of the flange, the distance from the center of the wheel to the ant is actually greater than the radius of the wheel (Figure \(\PageIndex{14}\)).
The setup here is essentially the same as when the ant climbed up the spoke on the bicycle wheel. We let b denote the distance from the center of the wheel to the ant, and we let t represent the angle the tire has rotated through. Additionally, we let \(C=(x_C,y_C)\) represent the position of the center of the wheel and \(A=(x_A,y_A)\) represent the position of the ant (Figure \( \PageIndex{14}\)).
When the distance from the center of the wheel to the ant is greater than the radius of the wheel, his path of motion is called a prolate cycloid. A graph of a prolate cycloid is shown in the figure.
Figure \(\PageIndex{14}\): (a) The ant is hanging onto the flange of the train wheel. (b) The new setup, now that the ant has jumped onto the train wheel. (c) The ant travels along a prolate cycloid.
4. Using the same approach you used in parts 1– 3, find the parametric equations for the path of motion of the ant.
5. What do you notice about your answer to part 3 and your answer to part 4?
Notice that the ant is actually traveling backward at times (the “loops” in the graph), even though the train continues to move forward. He is probably going to be really dizzy by the time he gets home!
Parametric equations provide a convenient way to describe a curve. A parameter can represent time or some other meaningful quantity.
It is often possible to eliminate the parameter in a parameterized curve to obtain a function or relation describing that curve.
There is always more than one way to parameterize a curve.
Parametric equations can describe complicated curves that are difficult or perhaps impossible to describe using rectangular coordinates.
cycloid
the curve traced by a point on the rim of a circular wheel as the wheel rolls along a straight line without slippage
a pointed end or part where two curves meet
the direction that a point moves on a graph as the parameter increases
an independent variable that both \(x\) and \(y\) depend on in a parametric curve; usually represented by the variable \(t\)
parametric curve
the graph of the parametric equations \(x(t)\) and \(y(t)\) over an interval \(a≤t≤b\) combined with the equations
the equations \(x=x(t)\) and \(y=y(t)\) that define a parametric curve
parameterization of a curve
rewriting the equation of a curve defined by a function \(y=f(x)\) as parametric equations
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The character whisperer: Zandi Tisani
Kwanele Sosibo
Zandi Tisani: ‘For any person
Zandi Tisani (31) remembers a pair of films stacked at the far end of her friend’s mother’s video collection —positioned, presumably, to be out of reach of children.
Not quite unreachable, the films — a rare copy of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It and the Eddie Murphy-conceived Boomerang — provided countless hours of clandestine entertainment for the two schoolgirls.
Tisani tells this story at the end of the interview, after explaining how her first love was always theatre and how her father would have none of it, thereby making filmmaking an acceptable compromise. “I think he felt like he couldn’t see a way of me being able to support myself at all with theatre,” she says.
Work and meaning
After enrolling for film and media studies at the University of Cape Town in 2004, Tisani majored in screenwriting.
Not one to shy away from writing, she remembers that, after university, she amassed a lot of scripts but “none of them got made. It was writing for myself. For any person, looking at your early work is painful, because you are looking at your mistakes and the aspirational quality in your stories, which can be quite embarrassing.”
A short film she wrote and directed in 2014 titled Heroes was among her earliest projects to move beyond the level of script, the result of a grant from the National Film and Video Foundation.
“I wrote the script before I knew about the grant,” she says. “It was based on a story my older sister told me. A white neighbour was telling her about what it was like before we moved in: they had a meeting about us and a debate about how to manage our arrival.”
The impetus in Heroes emerges from Tisani’s professed signature of character-driven stories. “I’ve never been a sloppy writer, always been more about developing a character than going for the excitement. My characters are where I find my plot.”
Her other documentary-style projects reveal an oblique way of envisioning worlds that are in close proximity to her. Highlands and Style Diary: Yeoville, made in 2015, although two very different films, both pull from beneath the surface to showcase the hard-won dignity of everyday people. For instance, a homeless man living in an incomplete concrete hovel on Yeoville’s sacred ridge casually says: “I’m watching movies here, people robbing people. People stealing people’s things.”
Tisani’s aesthetic emerges, it seems, from an egoless part of her subconscious. In Style Diary, she was interested in fashion that had “nothing to do with what was on the blogs”.
Represented by Arcade Content as a commercials director, an environment she says has helped her become a professional as opposed to just a creative, Tisani has more or less continued to write, something she is hoping to do more of soon.
A pilot for a web series she developed about two years ago went to the New York Television Festival and played in competition.
She landed a development deal for the project, titled People You May Know.
She is also setting her sights on historical fiction.
Kwanele Sosibo is the editor of Friday, the arts and culture section of the Mail and Guardian.
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Friday in the Sun!!! (January 20)
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Posted By: Casey Reynolds January 20, 2017
This was the first week of the legislative session and today is the first day of the Trump administration, so buckle in, this is going to be a rough couple of months for everyone.
With that, let us begin our sometimes serious, always entertaining and occasionally absurd trip through the week that was in Alaska politics.
Leg Session First Week Fails —
Gavel Alaska: It appears Rep. Scott Kawasaki had plastic surgery to look exactly like Rep. Neal Foster.
House Majority Caucus: Here was the banner on the new House Majority website at he beginning of the week. Let’s play “which one of these things is not like the other, which one of these things doesn’t belong.” In case you don’t see it, that’s Pat Higgins there in the top left corner. Not only is he not in the majority, he didn’t even win his race against Rep. Charisse Millett.
***UPDATE*** The banner has now been updated after I pointed out the problem — I do what I can for y’all at the legislature.
Looking For A Job? — Check out the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) website, there are plenty of openings. Jon Bittner, who was Vice President, and Pamela Kauveiyakul, who was Business and Economic Development Director, have both been erased from the website in recent days. Word on the street is AEDC head honcho Bill Popp had given assurances he wouldn’t re-up when his contract expired, which would allow Bittner and staff to move up. But then he re-upped for another three years and they bolted.
West Anchorage Moves — The candidacy of Don Smith’s granddaughter Sara Rasmussen for the West Anchorage Assembly seat lasted less than three full weeks. She has now dropped out, telling me:
“I decided, with my son being one, I will wait a year or two before running. He’s my biggest priority and I don’t want to miss so much while he’s going through so many milestones.”
I’ll say this for Rasmussen, that is certainly more believable than the normal “I’m leaving to spend more time with my family” line many politicians spout.
With Rasmussen out, many-time conservative candidate for State House and School Board David Nees has filed his APOC paperwork to run. It looks like he will be the Republican-backed candidate in the race.
Right Out Of The Gate… Really? — Since Nees is now a candidate, it’s appropriate to point out he posted this pic and comment combination to Facebook this week. I’m not Native, but I’m guessing those who are might take exception.
Days Until The Next State Election — 663
Days Until Muni Election — 81
Capitol Tunes — Dems haven’t just gotten themselves control of the State House, now there are enough of them in the legislature to form their own band. From what I hear, a group is forming including Rep. Adam Wool on drums, Rep. Bryce Edgmon on mandolin, Sen. Tom Begich and Rep. Neal Foster on guitar, Rep. Matt Claman on trumpet, and Rep. Chris Tuck on the sax.
Now all they ned is a name. Any suggestions? I hear the leading idea right now is the Bicameral Boys.
Top five songs they should play:
I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty (To play during the special session, errr, I mean if there is a special session)
Fight The Power – Public Enemy (For when the Senate Minority wants to complain the majority won’t listen to them)
Don’t Stop Believing – Journey (When Sen. Pete Kelly won’t give the House an income tax)
Faith – George Michael (To play when social conservatives offer a bill on LGBT, abortion, sex ed, or really any issue)
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond (For when you need a sing-along. Can anyone resist this song?)
Midnight Sun On The Air!!!! — Master of Morning Radio Rick Rydell (AM 650 KENI) has asked us to come on every week and share Friday in the Sun with his audience. So listen for our inside scoop every Friday morning at 7:35.
Guy I’m Most Jealous Of — Commissioner of Fish and Game Sam Cotten just returned from a two-week vacation with his wife and friends to the newly opened isle of Cuba. According to Cotten, the group spent the time at a farm in the countryside and enjoyed touring around in ‘40s- and ‘50s-era cars and visiting tobacco farms, museums, and the Bay of Pigs, among other things. Sounds lovely.
How Open — House Majority Leader Chris Tuck made a point at the House Majority’s first press conference of announcing his caucus’s meetings would be open to the public and held 30 minutes prior to floor sessions. That’s supposed to allow more transparency to the public than the normal practice of caucuses of having closed-door deliberative sessions.
I heard, however, that the majority held closed-door caucus meetings on Saturday in the Speaker’s chambers and Sunday at the Sealaska building. When asked, the majority clarified that in addition to having the open caucus meetings before floor sessions, they will also be having closed-door caucus meetings as needed.
Um, so what exactly is the point of having — and touting — the open caucus meetings? Won’t anything the public might want to hear just be held until the closed meetings?
Our Alaska — Congrats to Drew Cason, who started his new gig as the House Majority’s Deputy Press Secretary this week. Cason’s move adds to a growing list of young professional group Our Alaska’s members accending to new positions in the halls of Alaska power. Other notable group participants rising just this month include newly sworn-in Rep. Jason Grenn and the Governor’s new special assistant John-Henry Heckendorn.
Our Alaska has clearly succeeded in providing a pathway for younger adults to go from fledgling outsiders trying to affect the political system to influencers inside the power structure. The future of the group seems unclear at this point, but even if it does nothing else, that is a pretty solid accomplishment.
Appointment Listening — Join the throngs of The Midnight Sun The Podcast listeners who wait eagerly for the latest episode to drop every Sunday morning. If you aren’t already addicted, you soon will be. This week Forrest Dunbar and Casey Reynolds are joined by legislative staffer Jesse Kiehl and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner political reporter Matt Buxton to discuss the first week of the legislative session and the Governor’s State of the State speech.
Not Really Moving Up — Mallory Walser, better known as Mallory Peebles, is settling into her new role as House Minority Press Secretary, but it hasn’t been without a few bumps. I hear there was quite a spat between her boss Rep. Charisse Millett, who wanted a new office for her girl, and Rules Chair Gabrielle LeDoux, who controls such things. LeDoux couldn’t find Walser an office and was content to let the minority flack work out of the leadership’s office, as has been done in the past.
I hear quite the war of words broke out between the two before Sen. Gary Stevens finally helped settle things by finding a desk for Walser/Peebles in Senate Majority controlled offices in the Thomas Stewart building.
Dr. Mark — Last night the Alaska Democratic Party held a mysterious event at the IBEW offices in Anchorage billed as “A Dialogue with Mark Begich.” The room filled with about a hundred people, including notables like the Mayor’s Chief of Staff Susanne Fleek-Green, Schawna Thoma, David Ramseur, Pete Higgins, Robert Gottstein, and local candidates Andy Holleman, Assemblyman Pete Petersen, and Chris Constant. Heck, even the Alaska Republican Party’s new Executive Director Josh Walton showed up to see what was happening.
Was Begich making a major announcement like “I’m running for Governor?” Was it a party fundraiser? Was it a policy talk or rally of some sort? No one seemed to know, but the uncertainty only added a nervous energy to the room. It almost felt like a campaign kickoff.
What the night turned out to be was some much-needed group therapy doled out by Dr. Mark for Dems suffering from pre-PTSD due to the imminent inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump. Begich told those in attendance they needed to get up off the mat and keep fighting. He went on to point to Dems’ recent election successes in local and State House races in Alaska as proof they are making real headway.
Did it help? We’ll have to wait and see.
For Next Week — The State House got a last minute shake-up to its floor session seating chart. Here is the seating arrangement before and after the change. We’ll bring you some insight into the changes next week, but for now, just try to spot the changes and have some fun seeing if you can figure out why they were made.
Dearly Departed — Today is the last day for outgoing House Majority Press Secretary Jeremiah Campbell. Send him some flowers, he likes pretty things.
Political Fly Into The Sun — If you have morsels you’d like shared in this column, please email us at [email protected].
Here are just some of the other events you can find on our Political Calendar —
2 Comments on "Friday in the Sun!!! (January 20)"
Lynn Willis | January 20, 2017 at 6:40 pm | Reply
For that band how about the name “The Secret Six” since they (despite a promise to do otherwise) are going to caucus behind closed doors.
skinnerAK | January 21, 2017 at 4:55 pm | Reply
It used to be that “muck” was a pejorative term for Alaska natives, on par with say, “klootch”.
1. he took the post down, and
2. he doesn’t really deserve any benefit of doubt
I’ll just assume David was purposely using an ugly, antiquated ethnic slur, to deride the Lt Governor.
I’d never vote David for dogcatcher, much less Assembly (apologies to those in Animal Control).
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Short-covering midweek supported hard red spring (HRS) and soft red winter (SRW) futures prices while new harvest pressure in Texas and Oklahoma pressured hard red winter (HRW) futures prices week-over-week. MGE HRS futures gained 8 cents to close at $5.09/bu. CBOT SRW futures added 7 cents to end at $5.13/bu. KCBT HRW futures lost 8 cents to close at $4.44/bu. CBOT corn futures fell 1 cent to end at $3.18/bu. CBOT Soybean futures lost 5 cents to end at $8.33/bu.
Slow export demand and new harvest pressure softened SRW export basis for June and July deliveries. Beneficial precipitation in dry regions of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) (see below) pressured soft white wheat export prices from last week. HRS export basis in both the Gulf and PNW are unchanged week-over-week.
Despite recent precipitation across parts of the Southern and High Plains (see below), USDA reduced the total U.S. winter wheat crop rated as good to excellent from last week’s 53% to 52% this week. Total crop ratings increased in Kansas from 38% good to excellent on May 11 to 40% on May 18. Colorado’s total crop rating fell significantly from 35% good to excellent last week to 28% this week. In Oklahoma, winter rated as good to excellent fell from 56% last week to 53% this week.
Unfortunately, with concern over the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Wheat Quality Council (WQC) Hard Winter Wheat tour was cancelled. Instead, Kansas Wheat and Kansas State University Research and Extension, in conjunction with the Kansas Department of Agriculture and other industry partners, held a virtual tour. Based on a limited sample size, on May 21, the tour participants estimated the 2020/21 Kansas HRW wheat crop potential at 7.73 MMT, 7% below USDA’s May 12 estimate of 8.33 MMT and 16% below last year’s production volume of 9.20 MMT. Persistent drought conditions and freeze damage across the state, particularly in the west were cited.
U.S. spring wheat planting for fall 2020 harvest is only 60% complete, slightly behind last year’s 63% and well behind the 5-year average of 80% complete. Across much of the Northern Plains, cool temperatures, overly wet field conditions and delayed field work from the 2019 harvest are slowing farmers down.
This week’s commercial sales of 176,000 metric tons (MT) for delivery in 2019/20, through May 14, were down 14% from last week’s 203,000 MT but in line with trade expectations of 100,000 to 250,000 MT. Year-to-date commercial sales for delivery in 2019/20 total 24.6 MMT, 3% ahead of last year’s pace. USDA’s latest forecast of total 2019/20 U.S. wheat exports is 26.4 MMT, up 3% from last year, if realized. Adjustments in commercial sales are often made as the marketing year ends.
This week’s commercial sales for delivery in 2020/21, through May 14, totaled 254,000 MT. Year-to-date commercial sales for delivery in 2020/21 total 2.54 MMT, 24% behind last year’s new marketing year pace.
The USW Commercial Sales Report now features new marketing year export sales information by class, destination and marketing year. USW will continue to publish new marketing year information until May 31, 2020.
Click here to view the most recent USW Commercial Sales report.
U.S. Drought Monitor
Beneficial precipitation fell in parts of eastern Colorado and western Kansas this week, but the Drought Monitor still shows severe to extreme drought across that region. Favorable rainfall was also reported in dry areas in eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, boosting yield potential in that region after an extremely dry spring. Moderate drought spread in southwestern Oklahoma and abnormal dryness spread into eastern Nebraska. Looking ahead, more beneficial precipitation is expected in areas across the central and southern Great Plains. Rainfall across the Northern Plains could continue to slow spring wheat planting.
According to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Russian spring wheat planting is now 71% complete at 9.30 million hectares (23.0 million acres). IKAR, a Russian agriculture consultancy, cut its forecast of 2020 Russian wheat production from 77.2 MMT o 76.2 MMT on persistent dryness in several of the country’s southern provinces. USDA estimates Russia will produce 77.0 MMT of wheat this year, up 5% from 2019/20 and 6% more than the 5-year average, if realized.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture is working to extend the list of regions able to export wheat to China, namely the central-western province of Aktobe and the eastern-most province of East Kazakhstan. According to Trade Data Monitor, Kazakhstan exported 507,000 MT of wheat to China in 2018/19.
Dryness persists in northern France, northern Germany and England, countries where the most European Union (EU) wheat is grown. According to DTN, beneficial precipitation is expected to cover the region in the coming week.
The State Statistical Service of Ukraine estimates the country’s wheat ending stocks have fallen to a nine-year low of 2.80 MMT following a significant uptick in exports for the month of April on worries of a possible export ban. Ukrainian wheat exports for the month of April totaled 1.2 MMT, up 33% year-over-year. Ukrainian wheat exports now total 19.1 MMT, up 34% from last year.
Baltic and U.S. Dollar Indices
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), an assessment of the average cost to ship raw materials like grains, coal and iron ore, gained 21% from last week to close at 494.
The U.S. Dollar Index fell from last week’s 100 to end at 99.77.
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Mode Records » John Cage Edition 38: The Number Pieces 4
John Cage Edition 38: The Number Pieces 4
mode 186 John Cage: Volume 38: The Number Pieces 4 – Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo; Three. Written for and performed by Trio Dolce, recorders. First Recordings.
John Cage Edition 38: The Number Pieces 4 quantity
Composer: John Cage
Interpreter: Trio Dolce
Genres: Aleatoric/Indeterminate, Experimental
Instrument: Recorder
Format: 1 CD
Release Details
(viewed Feb. 7, 2013). Trio Dolce (Christine Brelowski, Geesche Geddert, Dorothea Winter, recorders). Recorded in 1998. Previously released as a compact disc.
Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo (1933-34)
for any three or more instruments encompassing the range: g below middle c to g one and one half octaves above middle c
Grave adagio (9:07)
Invention No. 1 (0:53)
Three (1989)
for three players having a variety of recorders
1 (2:40)
A (3:00)
B (3:00)
C (3:00)
D (3:00)
E (3:00)
F (3:00)
G (3:00)
H (3:00)
I (3:00)
Trio Dolce, recorders
first recording
Written for Trio Dolce
The first recording of Cage’s large scale composition for 3 recorder players.
The Trio Dolce wrote Cage for permission to perform Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment on three alto recorders, one octave higher than the prescribed range. In a letter from March 1987 Cage replied: “Of course you may use the 3 alto recorders. I am glad that you are playing that piece.” They performed it on July 1988 with Cage in attendance.
Cage’s enthusiastic reaction to this performance encouraged Trio Dolce to ask Cage if he would consider writing a work for them which “could take into account the ranges of the recorders” the Trio then owned. Upon meeting the members of the Trio during his residency at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in November 1988, Cage agreed to write a work for the Trio.
Three was completed in July 1989 and dedicated to Trio Dolce, who premiered it in July 1990 in the presence of the composer during a concert at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.
The performance instructions state that the indication “as legato as possible”. It requires great virtuosity and breath control, while at the same time changing recorders and maintaining a continuous legato, resulting in a sometimes fragile balance between the durations and dynamics.
Both outer movements of Three are interpolated by nine movements lettered A through I, one or any number of which may be played. The listener may choose which of the middle movements to listen to by programming the CD player.
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Dinner is served: blended food versus tube formula
Karoline Pahsini | On January 15, 2016
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In the early days of enteral nutrition, from antiquity until the twelfth century to be precise, there were attempts to deliver crucial nutrients to patients, who were unable to swallow, via nutrient enemas (German: Nährklistiere). Food was injected, as a clyster, into the rectum and consisted of puréed or liquid food: barley broth, soups, wine, sheep’s milk, buttermilk, melted fat, butter, olive oil, egg yolks and milk were among the tried and tested foods.
As a result of the advancement of medicine and the discoveries about human physiology, the stomach took over from the rectum as the main organ responsible for food intake. Blended food was administered via oral and stomach tubes, which led through funnel-shaped silver cannulas at first (fig. 1), then through syringes (fig. 2), and eventually through tubes, made from varying materials such as leather, rubber, silicon and polyurethane, through the mouth or nose into the stomach. Over time, different types of tubes were developed, which made it possible to feed patients, who were, for example, missing a piece of the oesophagus, through the small intestine. The foundation for baby formula (which made wet nurses replaceable) was laid by Justus von Liebig and his “Liebig Soup” in 1866. Liebig’s soup consisted of cow’s milk, wheat flour, malt flour and potassium carbonate, and its aim was to provide milk for infants who could not be breastfed, or whose mother was unable to produce breast milk. Blended food has been used for hundreds, indeed thousands of years, and is still very popular today.
Fig. 1: Enteral nutrition in the 12th century (Kalde et al., 2002).
Fig. 2: Enteral nutrition via syringe injection in the 17th century (Kalde et al., 2002).
The agony of choice
The proverb says, he, who has the choice, has the torment. This also applies to the variety of available tube nutrition. For, ever since the first moon landing in the 1960s, it became necessary to manufacture a specific diet for astronauts. This diet had to be optimised for astronauts, who sometimes would spend months or years in space and who were dealing with a changed metabolism as a result of the loss of gravity. The food therefore had to be as effective as possible, high in calories and with a long shelf life. It was especially crucial that the astronauts produced as few faeces as possible, since their disposal was highly problematic. Following the success of the first moon landing, there was an increase in trips to space. Supply and demand led to a veritable boom in astronaut food. Parallel to that, and the large successes achieved by the placement of the first PEG tube in the early 1980s, the first tube formulas were developed. This was not just an opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers, but also meant that there was a way to standardise and optimise nutrition. For parents, it was supposed to be a way to calculate their child’s nutrition accurately and to avoid the dangers and risks of blended food.
Why blended food?
Blended food can only be given to children with a functioning digestive system. This is why it is not suitable for children with short bowel syndrome, nor for children with allergies and those with metabolic diseases. In some countries, the treatment team will recommend the use of blended food.
This was the case with Hugo, a five-year old boy from Sweden, suffering from cerebral palsy, whose parents and doctors had in the past decided to give him pureed food via his PEG tube. The mother strongly believed in it, especially since she felt she was doing something good for Hugo. “If Hugo is already different from other children as a result of his underlying disease, he should at least have normal food,” she thought. Clara, from Croatia, was a similar case. Clara, two years old, had a neurological degenerative disease, and, unfortunately, only a short life ahead of her. The parents loved Clara more than anything and only wanted the best for her. Since food is a big part of their culture, from their point of view, blended food was the only option for Clara’s tube nutrition. The parents felt they could thus introduce Clara to good Croatian cooking and make her feel the warmth of domesticity – and through it, give her a little taste of life.
Both examples demonstrate that the decision for giving blended food is linked with nutritive, psychological and emotional aspects. It is important to take these into consideration when choosing a type of nutrition with the parents.
Advantages of blended food:
Blended food is cheaper than tube formula.
Blended food makes the parents feel more like they themselves are feeding the child. It lies in the nature of parenthood to want to prepare food for a child, especially when the child is sick.
Blended food gives more of an impression of normality.
Some children tolerate blended food better than tube formula.
Disadvantages of blended food:
It can only be used with children who have normal nutrition requirements. It is not recommended for children who, for example as a result of metabolic issues, have an increased need for nutrients, or for children with other diseases, for example, for children with weak immune systems.
As a result of its texture, blended food can regularly cause blockages in the feeding tube.
The perishable nature of certain food items.
Why tube formula?
The development of astronaut food led to the development of tube formula. Tube formula varies in the amounts of kilocalories contained in a millilitre of liquid. We differentiate tube formulas by energy density, usually from 0.5 – 2 kcal/millilitre. The ingredients are proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, fibre, trace elements and water, essentially all the nutrients the child needs. Parents of tube fed children are confronted with a whole array of tube formula manufacturers (Nestlè, Nutricia, Hipp, etc.). The medical treatment team usually recommends what the parents should tube feed. Not every tube formula is equally effective. Some children tolerate the first recommended tube formula well. With others, several tube formulas have to be tried until the best tolerance is achieved. Some parents describe a cautious and tentative approach to individual tube formulas, since they had experienced, in some cases, side effects such as diarrhoea, strong reflux, gagging and regurgitation.
It was a similar case with Harry, one-and-half years old, from the United States. Harry was born in the 26th gestational week, suffered from severe reflux and failure to thrive. In the summer of 2015, Harry and his family successfully participated in the Netcoaching Program. During his tube weaning, his parents reported that when Harry was one year old, his local specialists prescribed a tube formula with one kilocalorie per millilitre. But Harry did not tolerate it very well. The results were excessive vomiting and frequent diarrhoea. These circumstances led to speculation about Harry suffering from cow’s milk protein allergy, which to this day has not been confirmed. Harry received tube feeds without cow’s milk. After that, Harry was noticeably better, but the situation was not yet ideal. The parents accepted the persisting side effects, since they thought it had to be this way. Only due to the reduction of tube feeds during the weaning process, did the previously occurring side effects disappear.
Advantages of tube formula:
Variety of different formulas available.
Ability to precisely calculate the nutritional requirements and nutrient composition.
High-caloric energy density.
Long shelf life.
Disadvantages of tube formula:
Sometimes not well tolerated.
High costs. Not every health insurance covers the costs.
Some tube formulas have a bad taste.
Is one type of tube feed always better than another?
There is no general way to answer this question. There is not the one and only kind of tube feed for a child. This is not possible, in principle, since every human has his own individual metabolism. Every child reacts individually to a specific type of tube feeding. This is why it has to be a matter of course that the doctors know the child prior to placing a feeding tube. This way, they can make a recommendation based on the individual needs of the child and the parents. The nutritional status should be continuously re-evaluated during regular check-ups. If tube feeding is no longer medically necessary, tube weaning should be considered. The NoTube Team is here to help with that (help@notube.com).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to investigate after determining that ground beef was probably at the origin of an outbreak of E. Coli that made people sick in Indiana and five other states.
The epidemic, which was initiated by the CDC at the end of March, sickened 109 people in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. Seventeen of the patients were hospitalized.
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Studying one of the best beers in the world
The world's fifth (!) best new beer is brewed in Gvarv in Telemark. However, ‘beer farmers’ Ingeborg Lindheim and Eivin Eilertsen want to keep on developing both themselves and their products. Nofima Food Research Institute is a part of the exciting process of breaking new ground in the art of brewing.
This article was last updated more than two years ago.
The current keyword is spontaneous fermentation of beer.
Eivin Eilertsen and Ingeborg Lindheim own and operate the Lindheim Gård fruit farm. Fruit farming has long traditions at the farm in Telemark. But then there was Eivin’s great interest in beer. Could the fruit and beer be combined in some way?
The combination is quite unusual, but the couple behind Lindheim Ølkompani wanted to exploit the resources the farm commands. With great raw materials on its doorstep, they use their own fruit in many of their beers. Sour cherries, plums, raspberries, blackcurrants and morello cherries find their way into the beer vats.
They found inspiration to combine beer and fruit in untraditional ways in Belgian Lambic. It is here the method of allowing beer to spontaneously ferment instead of adding yeast is most developed. Eivin started up in 2014 – and was soon left with a series of questions on the process and optimisation that he was unable to resolve himself – and was unable to find information on. The idea of a research project thus arose.
“I have a Master’s degree in epidemiology myself, so I’m not unfamiliar with science. However, even on a global scale there is relatively little research into this way of brewing beer. For this reason, bringing scientists on board has been very exciting”, the ‘beer farmer’ says.
The couple were awarded project funds to develop the brewing process through research from Oslofjordfondet. And the expertise to start development came from the technical-industrial research institution Tel-Tek and Nofima Food Research Institute.
Ferments by itself
Water, yeast, malt and hops. Those are the traditional ingredients for boiling wort and brewing beer. But there is another way:
Lambic is a very special type of beer that is produced exclusively in Belgium. There are similar types of beer in the USA, but there it is called ‘coolship ale,’ as the Lambic name is protected. In Norway this type of beer is often called ‘sour beer,’ as it has a distinctively sour note. The method is special in that yeast is not added to the beer when brewing, but that the wort instead is cooled in open cooling vats (koelschip in Dutch/Flemish), so that microorganisms from the air and surroundings join the mix. After cooling, the cooled wort is transferred to wooden barrels – which also have their share of microorganisms. The beer is stored in the wooden barrels for quite some time, from one and up to six years. The beer thus ferments ‘by itself’, and such beer is thus often called spontaneously fermented beer. The microorganisms that have contaminated the wort start to grow, and this is how the spontaneous fermentation process arises.
Fermentation is a catabolic reaction in which sugar is converted to alcohol, acids and carbon dioxide by the microorganisms. This also takes place in normal brewing, but in this case by adding specific yeasts and bacteria. The types of yeast and bacteria found in spontaneously fermented beer are different and result in a very characteristic taste. It was such a process and taste Eivin Eilertsen and Ingeborg Lindheim wanted to achieve for their farm and their beer.
– Particularly qualified
“The owners of Lindheim Ølkompani have a vision that the fruit farm makes it ideal to achieve this process. The microorganisms that provide the desired fermentation in spontaneously fermented beer normally reside on fruit, among other things. Our role is to take numerous samples of the air, fruit, cooling vats and the finished product and then analyse these. Using modern DNA-based methods, we can analyse entire microbe communities with greater accuracy than ever. This method – which only a few professional communities in Norway are capable of carrying out – in combination with general fermentation expertise, make us particularly well-suited to identify the conditions for spontaneous fermentation. For example at what time of the year it is most favourable to start the fermentation process, how long the process needs, and so on,” says Lars Axelsson with Nofima. He is senior researcher in the field of safe and preservable food, and heads the research on beer.
The researcher can help give the brewer answers to just the questions he wants to ask:
“In Belgium they carry out the fermentation processes between October and April. Is that when it is most favourable in Telemark too? Or is it – as I believe – more favourable here in the autumn, when there is a natural high level of airborne microbes? I can’t find answers to these questions in textbooks. And I can’t carry out the experiments that can provide the answers myself,” Eivin Eilertsen says.
Because it takes several years to produce spontaneously fermented beer, it would be ‘nice to know’ as early as possible how the process can be optimised.
In the context of research projects, the Lindheim beer project is a small one. However, researcher Lars Axelson is positive towards using food research institute Nofima’s experts to develop niche products too. In the past 14 years more than 50 microbreweries have been established in Norway. Beer is the new black. The research at Lindheim will thus in all likelihood be relevant for others in the brewing community.
“And this beer thing is interesting too,” Axelsson smiles.
Brewer Eilertsen couldn’t agree more with the latter statement. So let it be that at times it can be difficult to be a good scientist while also being a good brewer.
“To me it’s important that the beer is good. Preferably I would like to take action to optimise the beer all the time. For example mix the contents of several of the storage vats when evaporation makes it natural to do so. But then I would muddy the research. And it does take a while, this research. And all the samples that have to be taken can coincide in time with other tasks I would prefer to be doing,” Eivin Eilertsen says.
Even though the project at Lindheim is small in a research context, is huge for Eivin and Ingeborg – both financially and in every other way in their life.
“All in all I am quite content that our beer is the subject of research – and with the answers it may provide,” Eivin Eilertsen says.
Among the world’s best
The result of the brewer’s painstaking work and enthusiasm has already become so good that the Lindheim beers achieved fifth place out of more than 3,800 beers when one of the world’s largest beer sites, RateBeer, published its annual ranking of the world’s best new beers in 2015. It isn’t just a lucky punch for one type of beer, but an assessment and feedback on the entire selection from Lindheim that forms the basis for the ranking. Albeit not the spontaneously fermented type, which is still at an experimental stage.
RateBeer’s list is considered an unofficial world championship in brewing, and Lindheim Ølkompani is described by the website as “The new star on the Norwegian beer scene, exploding out of nowhere”.
By expanding the selection with a Lambic-inspired beer, Lindheim Ølkompani hopes to further cement its position as one of Norway’s most unique microbreweries.
The Norwegian Association of Brewers: Great interest
Managing Director Petter Nome of the Norwegian Association of Brewers believes Nofima’s research on the Lindheim beer will be studied with great interest in the sector.
“Many Norwegian small-scale breweries provide extremely high quality and receive broad international recognition. Among the small breweries there is a widespread culture for sharing everything from recipes, knowledge and expertise to practical assistance and exchange of raw materials. New experience from one brewery benefits all, and the Nofima project will be studied with great interest. These people are thirsty for knowledge!” Petter Nome says.
The head of the brewer’s association refers to the fact that beer brewing has been a central part of the Norwegian culinary tradition for almost 3,000 years. However, developments over the last decade are completely without precedent.
“Now more than 1,000 genuinely different beers are brewed by hundreds of small-scale breweries all over the country. This has also stimulated the large breweries who now offer beer styles that were virtually unknown in Norway only a few years ago: Stout, porter, IPA, pale ale, blonde, brown ale, wit,” Nome says.
The Managing Director believes that the fact that Nofima is researching new ground in the brewing industry is a form of recognition. But he isn’t particularly surprised that the art of brewing has become the subject of scientific interest.
“I compare the artisan brewing wave flooding across the world with world music. Melodies, syncopes, rhythms and sound travel across borders, are mixed with local traditions and creative invention among individual musicians/brewers. The new beer wave was inspired by Europe and developed in the USA, and now we see a clear tendency that local raw materials and old local brewing traditions are becoming a part of the mix and completely new tastes are arising. Norwegian small-scale breweries have used apples, cherries, pine shoots, birch sap, yarrow, honey, blackcurrants, ginger, sweet gale, oatmeal, meadowsweet, birch leaves and dandelion flowers to imbue their beers with new and exciting flavours,” Nome says.
He’s looking forward to what lies ahead.
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By contrast, the wonderful thing about a socialist perspective is that it doesn’t ask you to show your ID papers, to demonstrate your worthiness, to haul out the testimony of ancestors—or even for that matter to account for proximate causes (like whether you smoke or eat pork or drink alcohol and soft drinks). Socialism doesn’t care how you got those comorbidity factors (diabetes, a heart condition, hypertension, etc.) that play an outsized role in the current health crisis. You’re going to get the healthcare you need because everyone is going to get it.
Open Letter on the Proposed Destruction of a Mural Cycle
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A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washington as a slave owner and as the author of Native-American genocide. It is an important work of art, produced for all Americans under the auspices of a federal government seeking to ensure the survival of art during the Great Depression. Its meaning and commitments are not in dispute. It exposes and denounces in pictorial form the U.S. history of racism and colonialism. The only viewers who should feel unsafe before this mural are racists.
Of All the Things to Say about Mayor Pete
these positionings continue to have appeal for academics, who are often relatively well-off at elite universities, who have the leisure to pose and play at abjection. Their work distills a schizophrenic desire: they want to run free with the wolves while howling in protest against their exclusion from society. But the authors are in fact very far removed from the lives of the most oppressed and marginalized, who they take as their models and who they purport to represent.
Farago’s Global Art History
Again: is this Farago’s politics, or is this something deep in the DNA of global art history? Insofar as globalization concerns itself with “subject positions,” it seems clear that struggles for state power and deep changes to the relations of production and the exploitation of labor are not just beyond its grasp but irrelevant to it.
More Neoliberal Art History: Pamela Lee’s Mid-Century Modern
BY Todd Cronan
That individual experience is what is at stake in an analysis like Lee’s and in projects like the Multinode Metagame and the Opsroom installation means that they are always different, always changing, always occasioning new “meanings.” This is the polysemic, and the polysemic is not the opposition, but the alibi of neoliberalism. It provides cover for exploitation, the glitter of a thousand stars to transfix the thousands of victims while their pockets are being picked.
Grimstad on Experience, Flatley on Affect: A Response
BY Walter Benn Michaels
Which suggests not only that it would be puzzling for a critical practice to declare itself against affect but that it’s equally puzzling to think of any critical practice as being for affect—to think, for example, of “reading for mood” as “a mode of reading.” There are no such things as modes of reading—there’s only trying to understand what a text is doing.
What We Worry About When We Worry About Commodification: Reflections on Dave Beech, Julian Stallabrass, and Jeff Wall
BY Nicholas Brown
In an advertisement, the only intention that matters is to sell a product. All manner of decisions can and do saturate an advertising image, but these are subordinate to the purpose (Zweck) of selling the product. In a successful work of art, all kinds of decisions are subordinate to a larger intention as well; but that intention is analytically identical with the meaning (Zweckmäßigkeit) of the work, so it makes sense to speak of the work as a whole as saturated with intention. As we saw, art-commodities may well bear the marks of industrial processes. A work of art may, on the other hand, choose to exhibit them, which is a different matter altogether. We can tell the difference between bearing marks and exhibiting marks because works of art tell us how to tell the difference, each time.
Postscript: on Some Responses to “Would Vanessa Place Be a Better Poet if She Had Better Opinions?”
BY Aaron Kunin
Everyone involved in this discussion appears to live by the difference between art and life. To my knowledge, no one has suggested that Gone with the Wind is something other than a novel or that Tweeting Gone with the Wind is something other than a work of art. (No reader misrecognized it as a different kind of Twitter account – for example, a moment by moment record of the passing thoughts of Vanessa Place). Nor has anyone started a liberation movement to protect the rights or advance the interests of fictional persons.
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Pan Trinbago to host four virtual Carnival events
Pan Trinbago president Beverly Ramsey-Moore. - ANGELO_MARCELLE
Pan Trinbago president Beverley Ramsey-Moore has said at least four virtual events will take place over the period that should have been Carnival. She said these will be announced after a meeting between the central and regional executives of the organisation on January 16.
Ramsey-Moore said the events committee will present its recommendations to the central executive next Tuesday.
“All the categories, including the single pan, the small conventional, medium conventional and the large conventional, will have an opportunity to do something virtually for the period.
"Special focus will be placed on Pan Showdown and Sweetest Pan in the World for the large bands, Keeping the Vibes Alive for the medium bands, and We Believe will be for the single-pan bands. Hopefully once the discipline is maintained in TT, then I am sure that we as a movement, that our resiliency will definitely determine the outcome of these fruitful events.
She added, "We are working closely with WACK Radio, who will be assisting us in putting on these events. All covid19 protocols will be observed.”
She said the difficulty in having a meeting of the general membership was that this cannot currently take place.
“It would mean that we would have to have a huge gathering where we will have a quorum to take the various decisions, but the constitution didn’t cater for that. A constitution never caters for a pandemic. So when the general membership can’t meet to take decisions, then the central executive can make decisions.”
She said Pan Trinbago had already put on two successful telethons, for which the bands would have been pre-recorded and streamed live.
“We would have had our band enthusiasts from all over the world giving their donations and contributions.
"We will continue to work closely with all the various stakeholders to ensure that we provide some entertainment for them.”
Ramsey-Moore said this time is a difficult one for the steelband community, both the players and the administrators.
“We’re definitely on a downtime, and we have held discussions with our line ministry in terms of providing support, not only financial support but the various types of support that will ensure that at the end of this difficult period that we will all be here to continue the legacy of our ancestors.”
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North Korea launches ballistic missile into sea; seems defying UN resolutions
March 18, 2016 NG News Network
Seoul: As stated by the Defence Ministry of South Korea, the North Korea, today on 18th March, has fired medium- range ballistic missile into the sea just days after the leader Kim Jong- Un ordered further nuclear warhead and missile test.
Moreover, it was also stated by the spokesman from the Ministry that the Missile was launched from southwest side of Country i.e. from Sukchon. And the time for such launch was 5.55 in the morning (local time). And it was seemed flying around 800 kilometres into the East Se, i.e. the Sea of Japan.
Moreover, the spokesperson found unable to confirm the type of missile, however, as per the South Korean news agency- Yonhap which has cited military sources as saying it was Rodong missile, a scaled- up Scud variant with a maximum range of around 1300 kilometres.
It is notable that from January, this year, the tension in divided Korean peninsula has been rising with the different activities form the both sides. It was on 6th day of January, 2016 North had carried out its fourth nuclear test, and later in the last month it had launched a long- range rocket which was widely seen as a disguised ballistic missile test.
Moreover, later, the United Nations Security Council has responded earlier in this month of March, and it has imposed its toughest sanctions on North Korea to date. Moreover, United States President- Barack Obama was seemed signing the order for implementation of such UN sanction against North.
Also, it was seen that there has been a regular nuclear strike threats from Pyongyang coming against both Seoul and Washington.
Moreover, showing its anger, the North was again seen firing two short- range missiles into the East Sea on 10th day of March. Moreover, after few days, the leader Kim Jong-Un also found threatening about the firing of the ballistic rockets “in short time”.
It is notably again that the Rodong test would be more provocative and its greater range would make it capable of hitting most of Japan.
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GoLookUp – Unclaimed Money Search Service
Wilmington, DE, December 11, 2017 –(PR.com)– GoLookUp, a deep analysis data information portal, offering Background Checks, Reverse Phone Lookup, Arrest Records, Criminal Records, Public Records, People Search Information, and other services; has announced its Unclaimed Money Data Base Update.
GoLookUp, a three year old website offering People Search records, has recently announced it will allow its users to perform Unlimited Unclaimed Money and Missing Money searches within with the same log in they use to perform Background Checks.
State and Federal agencies are holding more than $60 Billion in Unclaimed Money and other related benefits. That is roughly $200 per U.S resident. There are incidents where U.S residents are collecting as much as $1 million in unclaimed cash. There is over $350 million in pensions which are owed to over 40,000 people. Unclaimed money is ranging from a few cents to about $1 million.
By state laws, corporations, companies and financial institutions are required to report and turn over money, assets, or funds that are considered disregarded by their rightful owners.
States are often trying to find the unclaimed money owners via their websites, but in most cases fail to do so.
GoLookUp has recently updated its Background Checks and People search data base and added Unclaimed Money and Assets.
How can GoLookUp users use its new Unclaimed Money Data Base:
– Perform Unlimited Unclaimed Money Searches
– Search for family member Unclaimed Money
– Set up Unclaimed Money Alerts in their Name
– Use GoLookUp to find the right form to Claim Money
– Access Every Unclaimed Money Source Available Online
GoLookUp helps users find Unclaimed Money that may belong to them among other services. Information and data is updated real time and customer service is available seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
To find out more, visit: https://www.golookup.com/unclaimed-money
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Innovate Tees Valley support for software development company
September 4, 2018 @ 14:56 by Chloe Holmes
A company which provides bespoke software development to start-ups has added extra capacity to its team thanks to the support of Innovate Tees Valley.
Techquity, based in Fusion Hive on Stockton’s North Shore, has employed senior developer Tim Spratt to design new applications which will help it provide a more efficient and effective service.
Tim’s salary has been part-funded by Innovate Tees Valley, a Teesside University-led programme which helps SMEs do new things in their business and create and improve services, products and processes.
Techquity provides businesses, particularly start-ups, with technical support including web development and designing mobile apps.
Co-founder Richard Bendelow, who was a founder of Visualsoft, said Techquity aims to help new companies bring good business ideas to reality.
He said: “A lot of these companies fail because they don’t have in-house technical expertise and that can be off-putting to investors.
“We are more than just a contractor. We work with the company, like an in-house team to bridge that gap and give more confidence to investors.
Techquity is developing its own web applications which can be adapted quickly to meet customers’ needs, thus reducing the cost.
Innovate Tees Valley is formed from a partnership of Teesside University, DigitalCity, Nepic and MPI with funding from the European Regional Development Fund.
Its graduate placement scheme helps SMEs recruit and part-fund the salary of a graduate for up to six months.
The company was also helped by DigitalCity, through Innovate Tees Valley, to compile a market research report to help it position its product and service offer.
As a resident of Fusion Hive, which is managed by the University, Techquity is also able to access to the University’s significant business networks, expertise and training provision, and help in sourcing potential funding.
The company is currently working with Teesside University’s business team on a bid for innovation funding.
Richard added: “The University has understood our business model and worked with us throughout the whole process. It’s all gone very smoothly.”
Laura Woods, Director of Academic Enterprise at Teesside University, said: “Techquity’s technical expertise is giving start-ups a vital platform for growth. Digital capability in our businesses is crucial for performance and competitiveness.
“We’re delighted to have helped the company with talent and expertise through Innovate Tees Valley and DigitalCity, and look forward to continuing to work with Techquity as another successful tenant of Fusion Hive.”
For more information about Teesside University’s services to business visit www.tees.ac.uk/business.
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Stellarscope – “Standing In The Shadow Of Your Ghost”
Tags: Patetico Recordings, stellarscope, stellarscope Standing In The Shadow Of Your Ghost
Don’t Belong is the first track on Stellarscope’s Standing In The Shadow Of Your Ghost, a dense and bushy track that takes up a number of styles, sounds, and genres in the creation of a wholly unique sound. There are nods to mid-1980s The Cure, OK Computer-era Radiohead, and even acts like Muse. Falling is a dark, electronic-infused track that will work equally well in the Sisters of Mercy / Bauhaus-era of goth music just as it would with acts like Franz Ferdinand and The Bravery.
Only Strangers Now is our favorite track on Standing In The Shadow Of Your Ghost. There is a forward and insistent sound that will appease fans of 45 Grave and The Cramps. The instrumentation here works perfectly; there is nary a wasted second as Stellarscope hurtles to the end of this single.
All For You is a slower and more haunting, contemplative sound. Both the instrumental and vocal sides of things strive for dominance, making for a cut that will stick with listeners long after Standing In The Shadow Of Your Ghost ceases to play. You Feel It Too shatters the conception that the later registers of an album are weaker; the heady sound of the track adopts hints of Britpop and even a bit of the 1982 UK branch of punk music.
This Is How It Ends is the final track on Stellarscope’s latest, and it showcases a bit of everything that had been placed on the album while showcasing possible avenues for the band to built upon for their next album. Distinctive from beginning to end, Stellarscope’s “Standing In The Shadow Of Your Ghost” is out now on Patetico Recordings.
Top Tracks: Only Strangers Now, This Is How It Ends
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2021 Cadillac Escalade: Features, Price, and Engine Specifications
February 8, 2020 by OtakuKart Staff
The legendary SUV is finally coming your way! With more space adding the latest technology, we are already promised a dramatic display atop 2021 Escalade’s dashboard. The cool features of your dream car include a tech-packed cabin along with a more eye-catching exterior, and all this comes roughly at the same price level as the existing model. So features added at the same price!
The new SUV is revealed by Cadillac and is already regarded as the latest-generation of the best selling SUV. Your dream car lets you grab the latest features of the tech-savvy generation, which includes the Second Generation Super Cruise System. 2021 Escalade model is to come into five packages.
What is 2021 Cadillac Escalade Features?
Your Dream Car will have two different themes giving you a bolder and crispier exterior, making it almost impossible to miss. Inspired by the Escala Concept, the new grille of your car graces the front. It is adorned with sleeker horizontal headlamps in front and familiar horizontal tail lamps at the rear. Our dream car is also enhanced with 3D layers, and detailed edge finish making it a must-have for every adventure lover. Experts have evaluated that the features of the car are tied with other models like CT4 and CT5.
Your dream car has a big display for your best friends! It is equipped with curved OLED of 38-inches doubling the pixel density of like display. It is combined with three screens comprising a 14.2-inch cluster display for driver’s gages, a 7.2-inch touch control panel to the left, and a 16.9-inch infotainment screen at the center.
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Your dream car will also provide you a massive ten inches legroom along with front massage seats in Platinum Luxury and Platinum Sport versions. Because of its new independent rear suspense, its interior floor can be lowered too.
Your dream car is your ticket to the world of the future! With Augmented reality enabled navigation and optional rear camera mirror, the legendary SUV will feed your senses with technology. The Rear Seat Entertainment system adds two 12.6 inch touchscreens and a standardized AKG studio system.
What is 2021 Cadillac Escalade Price?
The manufacturers have expressed no intention to raise the price of the latest SUV above its existing range. Thus, your dream car will be priced at around $75,195 and will go on sale in late-2020. It will be available in five packages, namely luxury, premium luxury, platinum luxury, sport, and platinum sport versions.
What are 2021 Cadillac Escalade Engine Specifications?
Your dream car is as robust as its features. The engine of the latest SUV is termed as a New 6.2-liter V8 gas engine, which is strengthened with variable valve timing and auto stop/start. Your long-drive is guaranteed to be smooth and peaceful with a 10-speed automatic transmission powered by 420 Horse – Power and 460 lb-ft of torque.
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Game of Thrones Season 7 Pirated Over a Billion Times
Fiona Beathe Wed, 6 September 2017 Mon, 5 February 2018 Entertainment
The seventh season of Game of Thrones has brought tears and joy to HBO this summer. It was the most-viewed season thus far, with record-breaking TV ratings. But on the other hand, HBO and Game of Thrones were plagued by hacks, leaks, and piracy, of course. While it’s hard to measure piracy
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Torrent Sites Suffer DDoS Attacks and Other Trouble
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It’s not uncommon for torrent sites to suffer downtime due to technical issues. That happens pretty much every day. But when close to a dozen large sites go offline, people start to ask questions. This is exactly what happened this week. As reported previously, The Pirate Bay was hard to reach earlier,
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Kim Dotcom Wants K.im to Trigger a “Copyright Revolution”
The Editor Thu, 31 August 2017 Mon, 29 January 2018 Science & Technology
For many people Kim Dotcom is synonymous with Megaupload, the file-sharing giant that was taken down by the U.S. Government early 2012. While Megaupload is no more, the New Zealand Internet entrepreneur is working on a new file-sharing site. Initially dubbed Megaupload 2, the new service will be called K.im, and
Game of Thrones Traffic Surge Slowed Down The Pirate Bay
Fiona Beathe Thu, 31 August 2017 Mon, 5 February 2018 Entertainment
The Pirate Bay was unreachable for several hours today, after it already experienced connectivity issues on Monday and Tuesday. Today’s downtime was due to a DDoS attack, we were informed, and at the time of writing the site is working fine again. What’s interesting, though, is that the site’s connectivity issues earlier
Game of Thrones Piracy Peaks After Season Finale
Fiona Beathe Tue, 29 August 2017 Mon, 5 February 2018 Entertainment
The seventh season of Game of Thrones has been the most-viewed thus far, with record-breaking TV ratings. Traditionally, the season finale is among the most-viewed episodes of the season. This is true on official channels, but also on pirate sites. Despite numerous legal options, Game of Thrones remains extremely popular among pirates.
Live Mayweather v McGregor Streams Will Thrive On Torrents Tonight
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Tonight, August 26, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. will finally meet UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in what is being billed as the biggest fight in boxing history. Although tickets for inside the arena are still available for those with a lot of money to burn,
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Game of Thrones Episode “S07E06” Leaks Online Early
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Streaming video platforms were meant to put choice back in the hands of the viewer. They’d be able to watch the content they wanted, when they wanted. But the growing fragmentation of the on-demand market threatens to leave consumers worse off. While Netflix and Amazon are among the biggest subscription video
Game of Thrones Pirates Arrested For Leaking Episode Early
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Over the past several years, Game of Thrones has become synonymous with fantastic drama and story telling on the one hand, and Internet piracy on the other. It’s the most pirated TV show in history, hands down. With the new season well underway, another GoT drama began to unfold early August
Curb Your Enthusiasm on Those HBO Leaks
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Late July, news broke that a hacker, or hackers, had compromised the network of the American cable and television network HBO. Those responsible contacted reporters, informing them about the prominent breach, and leaked files surfaced on the dedicated website Winter-leak.com. The website wasn’t around for long, but last week the hackers reached
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Vicon Reveals Comprehensive Inertial Tracking System to Advance Training and Research in Sports and Academia
High-G Sensor Designed for Use With Three Separate software platforms for Multiple Applications; Blue Trident, Mobile App and IMU Step to debut at NATA, Available for purchase late August 2019
OXFORD, UK, June 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Today, Vicon announces Blue Trident, a lightweight wearable sensor capable of capturing the highest g data possible, and the focal point of a new inertial ecosystem to drive the future of sports, biomechanics and research. Using the new sensor, anyone from athletes in the field to researchers in the lab can record performance data and process it through one of three software platforms: Vicon Capture.U, the free iOS mobile app to deliver real-time data review and analysis, overlaid on video; IMU Step, the lower limb load monitoring tool to aid return-to-running and reduce reinjury risk; and Vicon’s Nexus 2.10 software, to integrate inertial data into optical mocap.
“June 27 is the two year anniversary of the acquisition of IMeasureU, and Blue Trident -- together with Capture.U, Nexus 2.10 and IMU Step -- is the outcome of that collaboration, combining everything we've learnt through our research and listening to our customers,” said Imogen Moorhouse, Vicon CEO. “Through our shared experience we are in a unique position to offer the best possible ecosystem to track, analyse and optimise human movement for athletes and teams -- from grassroots to elite -- and the sports scientists, practitioners, clinicians and biomechanists that support them.”
Fusing Vicon’s 35 years of industry-leading motion capture R&D with IMeasureU’s expertise in inertial tracking, Blue Trident excels when it comes to the data it records with the dual-g IMU, capable of capturing up to 200g, easily handling even the highest peaks of elite athlete movement. The low g sensor tracks lower intensity movements at 16g and both sensors measure movement simultaneously, ensuring high-fidelity data capture while eliminating sensor saturation. Blue Trident contains a gyroscope to record angular velocity and a magnetometer to determine direction as well.
Blue Trident is also IP68 rated, for use in water, adverse weather or underwater treadmills. As a user walks, runs, jumps or swims, the sensor records the impact of each movement, storing that data in the sensor’s 1GB of onboard memory, or streamed via Bluetooth 5 to a mobile device for review and analysis. The information can help assess an athlete's performance in order to increase output or chart recovery, making it ideal for use with running-based sports, including basketball, rugby and football, along with cricket, swimming and more.
“Motion capture is fast becoming an essential tool not only for biomechanics research but for sports injury rehabilitation and training at all levels,” said Dr Kim Duffy, Vicon life sciences product manager. “Blue Trident builds on the success of its predecessor. Data download speed is five times faster, it’s 25% smaller and lighter, and battery life is extended to up to 12 hours.”
As part of the Blue Trident ecosystem, Vicon is releasing Capture.U, a free mobile app compatible with iOS 10x and up. Users can connect multiple sensors to provide real-time overlay of data on video, or use one of the built-in “capture modes” to provide precise human movement insights faster in the field. Data can be recorded in free capture mode with personalised benchmarks set by the user. Specialised activity widgets to monitor jumping, sprinting, counter rotation, swimming and a power meter will be released in the near future. The capture can be reviewed in the app, and the video saved and exported with the data overlay or in PDF and CSV format through multiple means, including Apple AirDrop. Using the Capture.U Desktop companion app, data can also be exported via CSV for further analysis.
For athletes and trainers looking to optimise their training regimens or rehabilitate from injuries in running-based sports, Blue Trident will work with IMeasureU’s updated IMU Step software. IMU Step measures the musculoskeletal impact of each limb through every step taken and calculates cumulative bone loading and stride symmetry. Using these metrics -- and the faster workflow in the updated software -- athletes and trainers can better monitor and manage lower limb load in the field, reduce return-to-running risk, increase athlete availability and ultimately improve performance.
“Most wearable tracking technology is designed to address general use cases and is typically a single unit worn on the centre of mass or wrist,” said Matt Clarke, director of business development, IMeasureU. “Our approach with IMU Step is precise and specific. Subjects wear a high-fidelity, synchronised sensor on each ankle, the source of the running load, to accurately quantify the intensity of every step they take, on both limbs - whether they’re a professional player in rehab from an injury or a school track team looking to improve their times.”
For biomechanists and researchers looking to expand their work within a lab setting, Blue Trident is the only motion capture ecosystem with hard synchronisation. Vicon IMUs are natively integrated, enabling plug-and-play use of the sensors in Vicon Nexus, the world’s most clinically-validated life sciences mocap software. With hard sync, Nexus 2.10 accesses the full sensor capability for highly accurate synchronisation of inertial data with the precise tracking data from Vicon’s optical cameras. Within Nexus 2.10, Blue Trident will offer quaternions: global angles that calculate orientation and rotation of a joint in three dimensions, allowing biomechanics researchers to add inertial data on joint impacts and limb movement, to further develop the scope of their research.
“What we have seen so far with Vicon’s new technology is very exciting, especially the integration of video with the live IMU data feed,” said Jacqueline Alderson, assistant professor, University of Western Australia. This is a game changer for those working with athletes in the field. [As researchers] We want the numbers but for the athlete and coach the vision is everything.”
Availability/Compatibility
The Blue Trident sensor will make its official debut on June 24 at the National Athletic Trainers Association’s 70th Annual Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Blue Trident will then be available late August directly from Vicon and through distributors around the world. The Capture.U app will be released at the same time through the Apple App Store at no cost, and is compatible with devices running iOS 10x and up, equipped with Bluetooth 4.2 or better.
Nexus 2.10 will be available free of charge to all current Nexus 2 license holders this autumn. The IMU Step update is available now at no cost to active license holders.
About Vicon
Academy Award®-winning Vicon is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion capture and tracking systems. It serves customers in, biomechanics, sports, clinical sciences arenas, CG animation, object-tracking, virtual and augmented realities, and engineering.
Vicon is a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment, and engineering markets. Other holdings include Yotta, a provider of software and services for infrastructure asset management.
Among many others, Vicon global customers include:
Life Science: Loughborough University, Liverpool John Moores, Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, University of Brussels, Shriners Hospitals, Texas Back Institute, Northumbria University, Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital, Katholieke University Leuven, Amsterdam Medical Centre, and Humboldt Universitat zu, Berlin.
Entertainment: Framestore, Audiomotion, The Imaginarium, Quantic Dream, Ninja Theory, Konami, Activision, Sony, Dreamworks, ILM, USC, EA, Capture Lab, CD Projekt, Digic Pictures, IO Interactive, Creative Assembly, Plarium Games, Mocap Lab, Seasun
VR: Artanim, VR Tech, Dreamscape VR, Canon, Samsung
About IMeasureU
IMeasureU builds athletic solutions using the latest wearable technology, providing coaches, teams and athletes in training performance insights for fatigue identification that goes beyond GPS and heart rate. Built on science-driven sensor data and fused with physics-based computational models, IMeasureU provides comprehensive athletic movement and workload data, enabling optimal recovery, training and performance. In June 2017, IMeasureU was acquired by motion capture specialist, Vicon.
For more information about IMeasureU, visit https://imeasureu.com.
Ryan Fleming
Vicon Motion Systems
ryan@liaisonpr.com
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Cooking for a cause
by Melissa Howell
Published: Mon, April 10, 2017 5:00 AM
Volunteers pack boxes at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. [PHOTO PROVIDED]
Oklahoma City's top chefs put their culinary gifts to the test recently to cook up Oklahoma-inspired dishes in the 30th annual Chefs' Feast. Proceeds from the event support of the Regional Food Bank's Food for Kids programs.
More than 900 patrons attended the event at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, which raised in excess of $150,000.
All about comfort food
Guests voted Chef Larry McNeal, from McNeal's Catering, as the 2017 Foodie Favorite Award from among 25 participating chefs. A perennial contributor to the event, this the first year McNeal has taken top honors.
“It's an honor to do this. It's a good cause. I believe in what they do, McNeal said. “The competition is fierce, well laid out. It's like going to the playoffs. Everybody comes under one roof for one cause. I'm still in the clouds. For the audience to choose us, we felt truly blessed. I didn't sleep at all that night.”
McNeal, whose company specializes in “comfort foods,” said when he learned the competition would focus on Oklahoma foods, he had only one thought.
“I thought Head Country barbecue,” he said. And after a few phone calls, Ponca City-based Head County Bar-B-Que agreed to sponsor him. His winning dishes included pulled pork, candied yams, peach schnapps pineapple cobbler and Jamaica rum bread pudding.
Fighting child hunger
Funds raised from the event on March 23 will give 750 chronically hungry students access to food over weekends and school holidays, said Katie Fitzgerald, chief executive officer of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
“Chefs' Feast has proved to be a terrific event for celebrating our city's top chefs, thanking our existing supporters and inviting new people to the mission of fighting hunger and feeding hope,” Fitzgerald said.
“This event is so helpful because our Food for Kids programs are more important than ever. Today in Oklahoma, one in four children has inconsistent access to food, and our numbers of children in need are increasing. Just this year alone, we served 3,000 more children than last year in our backpack program — which means that today we provide weekend backpacks of food for 20,000 children in over 500 schools in central and western Oklahoma.”
The Food for Kids programs include the Regional Food Bank's Backpack Program, Kids Cafe, Summer Feeding and School Pantries programs.
“In addition to seeing much greater need in our backpack program, Oklahoma continues to rank 51st in the nation in the number of children participating in summer feeding programs despite the fact that the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma has grown its summer feeding program 70 percent in the last two years with 124 summer feeding sites expected to be in place in the summer of 2017,” Fitzgerald said.
Currently, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma provides enough food to feed more than 126,000 Oklahomans every week, 37 percent of whom are children.
“Chefs' Feast has become a wonderful way to celebrate these kind of accomplishments but to keep our community focused on the remaining needs we need to meet to ensure all children in Oklahoma have consistent access to healthy food,” she said.
The Chefs' Feast is open to guests 21 and older. Chefs' Feast 2018 is scheduled for March 22. For more information, contact nwood@regionalfoodbank.org. To volunteer with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, go to www.regionalfoodbank.org, or call 972-1111.
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma volunteers fill bags with food. [PHOTO PROVIDED]
2017 Foodie Favorite Winner Chef Larry McNeal, center, with Dunaway Hospitality Group Chefs Dustin Dunaway, left, and Chris Kriley. [PHOTO PROVIDED]
Members of the Chefs' Feast 2017 Foodie Favorite team are left, Samuel E. Lewis, Chef Larry J. McNeal and Rick Hornbeck. [PHOTO PROVIDED]
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Melissa Howell
Melissa Howell is a 1987 graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma. Following graduation she moved to Kansas City and began working for The Lenexa News, a small suburban weekly. In 1988, she went at the Kansas City Star as a reporter and... Read more ›
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Cannabis petition can collect signatures, but backer jailed for indecency
by Carmen Forman
Published: Wed, February 12, 2020 1:05 AM Updated: Wed, February 12, 2020 1:28 AM
Ongoing coverage: Marijuana in Oklahoma
Oklahoma's Secretary of State has given the go-ahead for supporters of an initiative petition to decriminalize marijuana to begin collecting signatures Wednesday.
But the petition's backer is being held in the Tulsa County jail for the next eight months, until after the 90-day signature-gathering window closes.
Self-proclaimed Tulsa activist Paul Tay was convicted last month on a misdemeanor charge of outraging public decency and was sentenced to serve nine months in jail and pay fees of $500. The conviction stems from a July 2019 incident in which Tay wore a sex toy attached to a bike helmet on his head and carried a sign offering lewd acts in exchange for money.
Tay filed proposed State Question 808 in response to another initiative petition that seeks to legalize recreational marijuana in Oklahoma. Many in the marijuana community have dismissed Tay's petition, partly because of its substance and partly because of Tay's colorful history.
Tay has had brushes with the law on other occasions, including for violating a protective order a Tulsa city councilor took out against him, claiming Tay had stalked, harassed and threatened her.
His petition seeks to decriminalize marijuana and hemp and would prevent the state or law enforcement from interfering with anybody growing or consuming cannabis.
Secretary of State Michael Rogers set May 11 as the deadline for Tay to turn in nearly 178,000 signatures to put his proposed State Question 808 on the ballot this year. He is likely to still be in jail at that time.
Tay also filed from jail a handwritten legal challenge against SQ 807. A referee for the Oklahoma Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the challenge later this month.
Carmen Forman
Carmen Forman covers the state Capitol and governor's office for The Oklahoman. A Norman native and graduate of the University of Oklahoma, she previously covered state politics in Virginia and Arizona before returning to Oklahoma. Read more ›
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interesting times Sept. 21, 2018
America, Land of Brutal Binaries
By Andrew Sullivan
Minds will not be changed. Photo: Getty Images
It was entirely a coincidence that I found myself reading Jonathan Haidt’s and Greg Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind in the same week that Brett Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexual assault in his teens, and Ian Buruma lost his job as editor of The New York Review of Books, after publishing an essay by a man credibly accused of 23 separate instances of sexual abuse, but cleared of all criminal charges. And the book does not, of course, address the specifics of either case. But it’s a sharp analysis of the toxic atmosphere in which our current debates take place, a reminder that it is close to impossible, in this polarized climate, to deal with the specifics and complexities of each scandal from a non-tribal perspective.
And so it seems that Kavanaugh is either a perfect exemplar of judicial expertise and impeccable moral conduct, or he is a lying rapist determined to destroy and control the lives of all women. Ghomeshi is evil, and granting any space for such a monster to defend or account for himself is itself an act of oppression, which must be shamed and punished. Those appear to be our choices, ladies and gentlemen, in this particular polarization cycle. There is little nuance in these battles and absolutely no mercy for anyone unlucky enough to get caught up in its swirling vortex. This is what our culture is driving us toward, and it’s a culture where each moment of conflict galvanizes and tribalizes us still further, in what seems like an endlessly repeating loop of resentment, righteousness, and revenge. It’s now even invaded the Catholic church.
Haidt and Lukianoff note how humans are constructed genetically for this kind of tribal warfare, to divide the world instinctively into in-groups and out-groups almost from infancy. For homo sapiens, it is natural to see the world, as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks put it, as radically “divided into the unimpeachably good and the irredeemably bad.” It is much harder to see, as Solzhenitsyn did, even after he had been sent to the gulag by his ideological enemies, that good and evil run through every human heart.
And it’s this reflexive, reptilian sorting of in-group and out-group that has now been super-charged by social media, by Trump’s hideous identity politics, and by campus and corporate culture. There seem to be just two inalterable categories: the oppressors or the oppressed; elite globalists or decent “normal” people. You are in one camp or the other, and, as time passes, those of us who don’t fit into this rubric will become irrelevant to the discourse, if we haven’t already got there.
After a while, the crudest trigger points of tribalism – your race, your religion (or lack of it), your gender, your sexual orientation – dominate the public space. As Claire Lehmann, the founding editor of the refreshingly heterodox new website Quillette has put it, “the Woke Left has a moral hierarchy with white men at the bottom. The Alt-Right has a moral hierarchy that puts white men at the top.” The looming mid-terms will not be about healthcare or executive power or constitutional norms (although all these things will be at stake). They will primarily be about which tribe you are in, and these tribes are increasingly sorted racially and by gender. The parties are currently doing all they can to maximize these tribal conflicts as a way to seek power. This isn’t liberal democracy.
And in this fevered, fetid atmosphere, where the stakes are always sky-high, there are no constraints. Dox, harass, troll, lie, smear, mock, distort, harangue, and preferably ruin: those are the tools of the alt-right just as much as they are the tools of the woke left. In such a civil war, the idea that the Supreme Court could ever perform the role it was designed to – interpret the law in a non-tribal way – is laughable. Indeed, the notion of a filibuster becomes moot, because it requires some sort of common ground between senators, and this is regarded by both sides as complicity in evil. Even a private, confidential hearing for accuser and accused is now, according to Senator Gillibrand, equivalent to silencing the accuser. I lean toward believing Christine Blasey Ford, as I believed Anita Hill and Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones, but I cannot know about something that happened 36 years ago. So I favor an FBI investigation and see no reason to rush a confirmation vote. But offering someone a chance to provide testimony in a private session wherever she chooses is not “silencing” her. Senator Hirono has gone further and told half the citizenry to “shut up” solely because they are male.
Equally, Republicans are so terrified of losing a Court seat (we’re on a rhetorical Flight 93 and have to rush the cockpit!), they cannot wait for a few days for an FBI investigation, even though they were prepared to wait over a year to fill an empty seat when a Democrat was president. Their tribal double standards continue to take my breath away. For Ed Whelan — a former Supreme Court clerk, no less — to spout off on Twitter yesterday, actually naming some other dude who’s a middle school teacher as the “real” assailant, because of a floor plan, is mind-bogglingly reckless and wicked. You first argue that no one should be accused of attempted rape without proof because it forever tarnishes his reputation — and then you go and actually name someone else as the culprit while simultaneously saying you can’t prove anything. This is how tribalism destroys minds.
In tribal warfare, there are no degrees of tribal loyalty. It is Manichaean, and it is binary. And so a movement that began with the exposure of horrific sexual abuse of power swiftly expands to cover much less serious offenses. Start with the crimes and horrors of Harvey Weinstein … and end with firing Ian Buruma for publishing a controversial essay. For a single lapse of judgment, if that’s what you believe it was, Buruma has now been punished in the same manner as Les Moonves, a grotesque serial abuser. (Full disclosure: I have known and deeply respected Ian for decades.)
And the reaction of the tribalists to this purging of an editor is … glee. “Halleluia!” tweeted someone who probably didn’t know who Ian was until last week. “It’s good. It’s so good. Actions have consequences,” tweeted another. “He can go back to the Netherlands!” tweets another. One of the leaders of the social-media push to see him fired, Nicole Cliffe, did a victory lap: “I wish I worked at a desk and not in bed so I could spin my chair around instead… Seriously, though, props to everyone at NYRB for this, it’s rare to have a win.” The “win” was a journalist getting another journalist fired for attempting to start a difficult conversation.
Mobs and tribes have always been with us, as the Founders well understood. But Haidt and Lukianoff suggest a variety of specific reasons for the sudden upsurge in toxicity. There is a serious disconnect between the winners and losers of globalization, and this has been exploited by demagogues. Social media has given massive virtual crowds instant mobilization, constant inflammation, and – above all – anonymity. Give a street mob masks, Haidt and Lukianoff note, so they can hide their identity and their capacity for violent and aggressive conduct suddenly soars.
Haidt and Lukianoff are particularly acute about how the generational shift has intensified the trend. Their hypothesis is that the members of the iGen generation (those born in the mid to late 1990s) have been raised (unwittingly and with good intentions) in such a way to maximize tribal identities rather than dilute them.
They have been told, in Haidt’s and Lukianoff’s view, that safety is far more important than exposure to the unknown, that they should always trust their feelings, and that life is a struggle between good people and evil people. This infantilizes them, emotionalizes them and tribalizes them. These kids have been denied freedom, have little experience of confronting danger and overcoming it themselves, have been kept monitored to all times. They tend to have older parents and fewer siblings. There is a reason the safest generation in history is also the most anxious, the most depressed, and the most suicidal. It is not that it’s all in their heads – prejudice and discrimination exist – but that they do not have the skills to put any of this in perspective. And so rather than rebel against their authorities, as students used to do, they cling to them like safety blankets, begging them to protect them just as their parents did.
This is what a cultural revolution feels like. It is given legitimacy by the top, but it is enforced horizontally from below. You are encouraged to denounce and expose your friends, your co-workers, and your bosses for the harm they inflict. Colleagues vie to signal that they are not guilty of being an oppressor, partly because they are not, and partly to avoid being the next scalp. Soon, silence is not enough – in fact, it’s suspicious. And so it becomes necessary to endorse the revolution, celebrate it, and enforce it, prove that you are in good standing. Examples are made of slackers – the more arbitrary the better – to keep fear alive in the minds of everyone. If you so much as quibble, you’ll be the next head on the chopping block. When the very existence of people is at stake – and it always is for the catastrophists – there is no limiting principle.
We live then in a paradox. Our society has less crime and less danger than ever, and yet we see threats everywhere. It has become more racially and culturally diverse than any society in the history of humankind, but it is plagued by “white supremacists” or “hordes of illegals.” And you cannot question these feelings because subjectivity is more important than objectivity, and sensitivity trumps reality. Gay, lesbian, and transgender people live in a world unimaginable to the overwhelming majority of humankind, and to our predecessors of only five years ago, and yet we are told by our leaders that we are “under siege.” As women kick ass in our economy and culture, as they achieve success that previous generations would have thought extraordinary, what is the response? Rage, of course! Furious rage!
This is a mind-set that Haidt and Lukianoff see as very similar to a clinically depressed one, catastrophizing, paranoid, leaning into ever-escalating feelings of victimhood rather than pushing against them with reason. Our entire society, they argue, needs a good cognitive-behavioral therapy session, to get some kind of grip on our emotions – and not a constant ratcheting up of tribal fever. CBT has been clinically proven to work for individuals – and Lukianoff tells the story of his own CBT recovery from depression. It helps you regain agency over your feelings. But individual agency is the last thing tribes want. They want you absorbed into a collective victimhood that constantly feeds on itself.
Look at the Kavanaugh-Ford nightmare. Both individuals are besieged by haters and trolls, requiring police protection. She or he has to be believed in the entirety of their claims, with no qualification. So because Ford is a lefty, she must be lying. Because Kavanaugh is an affluent white male, he must be guilty, and even if he isn’t, his privilege will compensate, so who cares? Kavanaugh’s striking record of hiring and mentoring women as clerks becomes evidence of his creepiness, not his decency. Ford’s completely understandable reluctance to go public is deemed proof of her duplicity. The idea that we should suspend judgment until an investigation concludes and we know all the facts we can know is not exactly a popular one.
The younger generation Lukianoff and Haidt identify and describe has had a huge influence on shifting the culture as a whole — the very atmosphere in which these two controversies of the past week are playing out. At the same time, our market economy wants to capture young adults more than any demographic. It’s salient to observe how Buruma’s job seems to have become untenable in part because of fears that university presses might remove their advertising from the NYRB, under intense pressure from their campuses. Similarly, campus rules and race and gender ideology have been imported wholesale into vast swaths of corporate culture. Working at Google is now indistinguishable from attending Yale. And the nonnegotiable defense of feelings, rather than objective reality, is contagious. It’s a short cut, it’s easy, and it can become its own reward.
These tribal instincts are as emotionally satisfying as they are toxic. I am not immune to them either. None of us is. They are the reason why we have this tribal president, who has, in turn, intensified the tribalism of his supporters and his opponents. They are the reason our universities are purged of non-leftists in the humanities, why Fox News fires its dissident conservatives, why the editors of our newspapers and magazines are slowly being intimidated into excluding any diversity of opinion.
I was struck in Haidt and Lukianoff’s book by a quote that is almost a perfect inversion of today’s political conversation. “When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them.” Those words were written in 1945 by Pauli Murray, a transgender, black civil rights activist. Her words foreshadowed the approach taken by Martin Luther King, a humanizing approach that today’s cultural revolutionaries have little time for. But Murray and King made a huge practical difference in moving everyone forward a little. They made things better by including more. That was also how we won marriage equality, the biggest civil rights victory of my generation. We did it by drawing larger and larger circles, by treating the other side as arguing in good faith, and appealing to a shared humanity, to what we have in common as citizens, rather than what divides us as members of a tribe. Today’s well-intentioned activists — the ones driving much of the conversation around Kavanaugh and, on a much smaller scale, Buruma — in contrast, are drawing an ever smaller, purer, more tightly policed circle, in order to wage a scorched earth war against another, ever-purer, tightly policed circle. And God help anyone who gets in their way.
The original version of this essay misidentified the author of the quote, “When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them” as Martin Luther King Jr. It was Pauli Murray, as the text now indicates. My apologies for the mix-up.
Brexit Uncertainty Continues
Brexit was about to turn a corner this week, but instead it stayed exactly where it was. The E.U. summit in Salzburg was supposed to be a step forward in the negotiations. It was, in fact, a step backward, as both sides misjudged and misread each other. Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet-backed compromise offer on trade with Europe was brusquely dismissed by the E.U. at the summit. E.U. Council president Donald Tusk simply told May her plan would not work, but didn’t seem too happy about it. French president Emmanuel Macron put the boot in: “We all agreed on this today, the proposals in their current state are not acceptable.” He seemed to relish this state of affairs, because it exposed the fantasy of the Brexit right (and of the anti-E.U. governments in Poland and Hungary and Italy) that a new deal for a less constricted relationship within the E.U. would be easy to negotiate and entail very few costs. Britain will be punished pour decourager les autres. The E.U. leaders are prepared to damage their own economies and cripple Britain’s rather than give an inch on their rules.
May found this out an hour before her post-summit press conference, where she appeared shocked, ticked off, and off-balance. She shouldn’t have been. Anyone could have told her that the E.U. would never compromise and give Britain a break. In fact, lots of people did. She somehow thought she could charm or blackmail her way to the next level of negotiation. But charm is not her strength, and her negotiating position is terribly weak.
And the problem of Ireland remains. A hard border between E.U. member Ireland and non-E.U. member Northern Ireland would risk inflaming the sectarian conflict, which the E.U. framework did so much to calm. An open border, however, with the single market covering the entirety of the island of Ireland, with tariffs added retroactively after the goods crossed the Irish sea, would sever Northern Ireland from the U.K. Most mainland Brits couldn’t give a shit about this, but May only has a Commons majority because of support from a Northern Irish party that would bring her down if she wobbled on this. E.U. leaders believed — not unreasonably — that May would propose something to resolve this somehow at Salzburg, but instead she said that a solution was impossible before the deadline of next March. That seems to have done it.
So we won’t have a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit by next March. We will have, as James Forsyth explains here, a blind Brexit, with Britain formally leaving the E.U. next year with no idea what the future relationship will be. That empty and vague option is probably all that could get through Parliament anyway. There is, however, a transition period that ends in December 2020, when the old trading rules expire, and something has to replace them, if only WTO rules.
The extreme uncertainty — and chance of catastrophe — will therefore continue, making it hard for businesses or the government to plan for it. And this will happen as British politics remains deeply unsettled, with both major parties divided, with their leaders openly disdained by a whole swath of their own members of Parliament, and with no one having any idea who will be running the country as it speeds toward an economic cliff edge. Good times. In their sublime moment of direct democracy, a majority of Brits voted for Brexit. To paraphrase Mencken, they’re going to get it, good and hard.
See you next Friday, if I’m lucky.
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Home News NATIONAL NEWS:- Colleen Case killed at Christchurch intersection with worn road markings
NATIONAL NEWS:- Colleen Case killed at Christchurch intersection with worn road markings
Authorities were warned of “significant concern” about an intersection and told worn road markings needed repainting. They were slow in making changes and an elderly woman was killed. Blair Ensor reports.
At the age of 83, Colleen Case was independent and active.
The widow – a mother of six and a keen bingo player – was a confident driver and could often be found visiting family and friends in Christchurch in her silver Mazda car.
As she returned home from such an outing on January 26, 2018, she was killed.
Case – described as “the glue that held her family together” – was driving along Logistics Dr at 50kmh when she failed to stop or slow down at a compulsory stop sign at the intersection of Sawyers Arms Rd, an industrial area on the outskirts of the city.
Her car was struck on the passenger side by a large truck and trailer unit that had right of way and no chance of stopping.
She died at the scene.
At first glance, it appeared an unremarkable crash where an elderly driver had failed to see a red stop sign.
Coroner David Robinson said road markings at the intersection were badly worn and an approaching motorist “could well be forgiven” for not seeing them. Photo / Stuff
However, when her son, David Case, visited the scene later that day he was struck by the intersection’s badly worn road markings.
He would later learn that six weeks before the crash police had told the Christchurch City Council the white and yellow lines needed repainting, but a contractor hadn’t completed the work as per its contract. And that the intersection had been flagged as one of “significant concern” but recommended changes hadn’t been made.
For nearly two years, Case has waited for the outcome of a coronial investigation, which has been slow in coming, in part because the agencies under scrutiny objected to some of its provisional findings.
The delays compounded the family’s grief, he says.
“I feel angry because … someone has not done their job – there are people who were negligent.
“I’d like to see some accountability.”
A TROUBLED INTERSECTION
The Sawyers Arms Rd and Logistics Dr junction was changed from a T to a crossroad intersection on December 23, 2015 as part of a roading project that gave motorists easier access to State Highway 1.
According to a council report, there were no crashes at the intersection in the 23 months before the change.
From that date until January 26, 2018 there were 10 crashes – the fatality involving Colleen Case, four that resulted in minor injuries, and five where those involved emerged unscathed.
In August 2016, temporary advance “stop” warning signs were installed “some distance back” from each intersection warning of the need to stop at the intersection.
An independent road safety audit provided to the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) in April 2017 raised “significant concern” about the intersection, saying the probability of a crash occurring was “common” and it was “likely” someone would suffer serious or fatal injuries.
The report recommended line marking changes which had not been made at the time of Case’s crash.
In findings, released this week, coroner David Robinson said there were four crashes at the intersection in the four months to October 26, 2017, and “greater priority should have been afforded to the implementation of the safety improvements arising from the … audit report”.
Robinson’s findings also show that on December 18, 2017, police told the council that the markings at the intersection required repainting.
The next day, the council alerted its contractor, Citycare, which assigned the work to Fulton Hogan.
The job was not highlighted as a safety issue so it was put on a regular maintenance schedule.
However, according to Citycare’s contract with the council, the intersection should have been inspected within two days.
That didn’t happen. If it had, and the state of the road markings were deemed to pose an “imminent hazard” to motorists, the work should have been carried out within six hours.
The markings weren’t repainted until the day after Case’s crash, six weeks later.
Robinson said the state of the intersection’s markings had not been “properly assessed”.
David Case was struck by the lack of road markings at the intersection of Sawyers Arms Rd and Logistics Dr when he visited shortly after his mother was killed. Photo / Stuff
They were badly worn and an approaching motorist “could well be forgiven” for not seeing them, he said.
However, at the time of the crash there was a red stop sign at the intersection and an advance warning sign 100 metres further back.
Robinson noted a comment from the then Canterbury road policing manager Inspector Al Stewart to council staff, which said:
“This is unfortunately one of those roads where in the absence of very clear signage drivers see only the straight road (heading north) and drive accordingly.”
Robinson said he did “not discount the appearance of the intersection as being a factor” in the crash but he was satisfied “the cause of the collision was likely to have been inattention on the part of Mrs Case”.
“The manner of driving is consistent with failing to see the stop sign. The extent to which the absence of road markings or the general appearance of the intersection contributed to the crash cannot be established with any degree of certainty.”
However, the circumstances “demonstrate the need for adequate markings and signage, and advance markings or signage where those at the intersection may be obscured”.
“While the ‘stop’ sign was visible, given the nature of the intersection, that alone in my view would not necessarily have been sufficient to alert the average driver to the compulsory stop. Traffic design must necessarily recognise the potential for a single road sign to be missed by even the prudent driver.”
Robinson said the key recommendations of the 2017 safety audit had been implemented since the crash and the “current layout clearly conveys that it is an intersection at which the user does not have the right of way”.
He recommended that the council and Citycare review their processes around prioritising road marking.
AGENCIES TO REVIEW PROCESSES
In a statement, the council’s city services general manager David Adamson said the organisation had “reinforced” to its contractors that any concerns about safety-related road markings must be responded to with urgency.
“We take any road crashes in the district very seriously and are committed to doing all we can to ensure the safety of all road users,” Adamson said.
“We will now thoroughly review the Coroner’s findings to ensure our practices and processes are aligned with the recommendations made.”
Citycare Group said it would “abide by the findings and recommendations of the coroner”.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said there were a variety of reasons an inquiry could be lengthy, including the need to consider evidence from a range of sources.
He acknowledged delays could be frustrating for families. The ministry was in the process of hiring eight relief coroners to ease a backlog of cases, and “hopefully improve … turnaround time”.
‘WE WANT AN APOLOGY’
David Case believes the coroner’s findings highlight the relevant issues in relation to his mother’s death.
However, the family would like an apology from those involved with the intersection prior to the crash.
An NZTA representative has agreed to meet with him to discuss the case. He will request that someone from the council does the same.
Case hopes greater urgency will be afforded to making changes to other intersections across New Zealand when issues are identified.
“We can’t have mum back but hopefully we can make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”
Source: Stuff
Featured image: Colleen Case was killed in a crash at the intersection of Sawyers Arms Rd and Logistics Dr in January, 2018.
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Two outta three ain’t bad
byJames Jackson
After witnessing their 14-game win streak end on Oct. 16, the Elmira Sugar Kings responded by winning two of three games last weekend to remain atop the Midwestern Conference standings.
They dropped their first game of the weekend on Oct. 21, a close 3-2 decision to Stratford, before beating up on the Guelph Hurricanes 8-1 and the Owen Sound Greys 6-2 last Saturday and Sunday.
Elmira’s Riley Sonnenburg, Scott Nagy and Andrew Smith scored three unanswered goals in a span of 2:32 to start the second period to help propel the Kings to an easy win over the last place Greys last Sunday on home ice.
Owen Sound had won just twice in 15 games prior to their match to Elmira, including two losses to the Kings earlier in the season by a combined score of 13-4.
Despite the win, head coach Dean DeSilva still wasn’t overly pleased with the way his players performed.
“We did some really good things and we did some things that weren’t so good,” he said following the win Oct. 23.
“We had players that were cheating, players that were missing some of their assignments, (and players) taking shifts that were way too long.”
It’s a trend the players have noticed as well, and one they hope to shake for future games.
“We just stopped working as hard as we normally do and got into a bit of a slump there, but the past couple of games we’ve started to get back to what we were doing to be successful,” said captain Colton Wolfe-Sabo.
The Kings’ Michael Hasson opened the scoring early with his first goal of the year just 5:57 into the first period, finishing off a 2-on-1 break with Sonnenburg.
Sonnenburg held the puck long enough to draw in the defender before passing to Hasson, who fired it into the open net past Greys netminder Domingo Torrenueva.
That was all the offence the Kings could muster in the period, however, as Torreneuva made 12 saves to keep the Greys close after 20 minutes.
“We went in as coaches (after the first period) and said that was pond hockey,” said DeSilva of his team’s lack of effort and finish.
“We said ‘go out and do the system or you won’t play.’”
The speech seemed to work as the Kings responded with three quick goals to start the period.
Sonnenburg fired home a wrist shot just 18 seconds in on a nice behind-the-back pass from Smith in the slot to put the home team up 2-0.
Nagy added to the lead just under two minutes later with his 9th goal of the season. After coming off the bench, he received a nice pass off the boards from Devon Wagner, giving him a clear breakaway. Skating in off the right wing, he faked forehand before shoveling a back hand past the Greys keeper.
“In the intermission we just talked about playing our systems and forechecking hard and just getting it done,” said Nagy after the game. “I came off the bench and Wag’s (Wagner) gave me a good pass and I broke in and just buried it.”
Smith would tally his league-leading 19th goal of the year 19 seconds later at 2:32 on a quick wrist shot from the slot to give the Kings a 4-0 lead.
Mac Clutsam added another at 14:44 with his first career Junior B goal, and the Greys got on the board at 15:10 on a goalmouth scramble.
Despite the strong opening minutes of the second, the Kings reverted back to some of their old habits and began to play a very individualistic style of play, according to the head coach.
“The guys went out and executed for the first four minutes, […]but then went right back to their old habits. Some players ended up sitting a little and missing some ice time,” said DeSilva.
In the third the teams traded goals, with Wagner scoring his 2nd of the season at 11:22 and Owen Sound scoring at 11:49 for the 6-2 final. The Kings dominated in shots, holding a 46-14 edge by the end of the third.
New Kings goaltender Justis Husak, acquired on Oct. 20, picked up his second straight win after playing the previous night in Guelph for the 8-1 win. Nick Coone was released by the team the same day they picked up Husak. The club aims to use him as a backup goalie for Nick Horrigan, who is in his last year of Junior B eligibility.
“He’s here to push Nick and make Nick better, because when (Nick) is at the top of his game our team is better too,” said DeSilva of the move.
“Justis is a character young man who will do well in the room and next year for us.”
The Kings had the whole week off and face Brantford tomorrow (Sunday) at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena at 7 p.m. and the Kings know they will have to be a whole lot better against Brantford than they were against the Greys in order to be successful.
“If we make the same mistakes against Brantford as we did (against Owen Sound), we won’t come out on the winning end,” said DeSilva.
“We’ve got to stick to our systems and play the full 60 minutes and we have to keep the gas pedal down,” echoed Nagy.
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Holy-Water Vat
Vat for Holy Water,
(French, benitier; Latin, situla, vas), a vessel in which the holy water was carried about, and which, according to Micrologus, was first consecrated by pope Alexander V, as Cranmer says, to "put us in remembrance of our baptism, and the blood of Christ for our redemption, sprinkled on the cross." Eadie says "this vessel was termed ama or amula. Du Cange recognizes aspersol, aspergillum, and aspersorium as the vessels from which the priests sprinkled the water, and guadalerium as that which contained it. The first three are plainly the same as the περιῤῥαντήριον of paganism." "The fixed holy-water stoup (q.v.) was used by those who came too late into church to receive the aspersion by the sprinkler and water carried in the portable vat, which in the churches of the West represented the bodily ablution made by the Oriental Christians. Walcott, Sacred Archeology, p. 315; Eadie, Eccles. Dictionary, p. 313.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Holy-Water Vat'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tce/h/holy-water-vat.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
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Email Essentials, Microsoft Outlook, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Office Watch /
Who does Hilary Clinton trust her private emails to?
The big political story in the USA is that Hilary Clinton used a private email service while Secretary of State instead of the State Departments own email system.
We don’t care much about politics, as Office geeks we’re interested in what Hilary Clinton’s staff used for her email hosting.
She used Microsoft! Specifically Microsoft Exchange Server with various add-on products to improve security.
We know this because news reports mention potential security risks via Outlook Web Access. OWA is the user web interface available to Exchange Server account users as an alternative to Outlook software or mobile apps.
This isn’t new and was legal at that time. Both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice had private email arrangements when in the same job, though they also used the government system. Former Governor and another presidential hopeful, Jeb Bush, also had a private email server.
Exchange Server makes sense. It’s a high quality system that been approved for use by governments around the world, including many US government agencies (maybe the State Department itself). Configuring Exchange Server can be difficult and it seems some relatively minor issues were overlooked. Ms Clinton’s system used a self-signed digital certificate which is probably sufficient though an externally sourced certificate would have been better.
A personal email server is expensive so it’s only for someone with deep pockets and a deep concern for their privacy. For proper secure email support in Exchange Server you need to buy add-on software from a third party. Just like Outlook itself, Microsoft pays little real attention to the need for secure, encrypted email.
Having an Exchange Server for one person is unusual these days but hardly unprecedented. Many tech geeks, including Office Watch’s editor in chief, had or have their own Exchange Server box. A decade ago it was the only way to get high quality email hosting separate from a large company.
These days even individuals can use Exchange Server because Microsoft and other companies offer cloud hosting with plans even for individuals. Organizing Outlook Email has a chapter devoted to modernizing your email, contacts and calendar to cloud based hosting with services like Exchange Server.
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In line with a study, sixty seven% and fifty nine% of faculty-likely children in city and rural locations, respectively, show up at non-public tuition centres from the evening. Private tuition can be an obsession and, in some instances, an absolute want felt because of the mother and father aspiring very good Occupations for their young children.
It is actually an obsession of this type of magnitude and depth amongst Pakistanis and other Asian nationalities even in the UK that most of the personal tuition centres in London are inundated with small children from non-European ethnic groups.A lot has previously been written about the economics of private educational facilities, but It is far from a solution that non-public tutors gain lots of money. The month to month for every capita payment for person tuition in city locations range from Rs1,000 to Rs50,000, depending on the topics, location and status of your tutor.
Tuition centres (with a variety of names such as coaching centres, academies and evening classes) abound. From villages into a cosmopolitan town like Karachi, there exist hundreds of Many this kind of tuition centres across the country.
Supplied the recognition of personal tuition, it could be produced as being a practical substitute job for instructors. Indeed, whether it is modernised and combined with some impressive Tips and techniques, it can become a new model of education and learning which can be exported to other nations around the world.One example is, Monthly bill Strickland, an American educationalist, has made an alternative tuition technique that mixes classic education and learning with arts and crafts. This technique has helped Countless disadvantaged young children who felt fired up to attend his tuition centres, immediately after acquiring been repelled by common colleges of their localities.
The product is a great deal pertinent to Pakistan, in which A huge number of “ghost universities” exist (The Specific Tribune, December thirteen, 2013) and children both uncover no education and learning at these universities or considerably less worthwhile than performing petty job. For that reason, they turn out Doing the job as little one labour.In the modern day planet wherever details has actually occur on tips (Google, Wikipedia, expert Web content covering Just about all disciplines, and virtual learning environments produced by men and women, universities and Other folks), the necessity for classroom instructing has unquestionably long gone down. In truth, due to gizmos now so frequently in use, a lot of the students in massive classrooms both WhatsApp one another or their mates in other places, or surf the net (updating Facebook profiles!).
For teachers, now it is a hardly ever-ending struggle to influence students to concentrate on their own lectures. The intelligent ones already determine what the teacher Commonly addresses and the students on the opposite aspect with the spectrum hold the convenienceTutoring of realizing that learning aid content is on the market on the net.
If non-public tuition is designed as an alternative to normal college or college or university education, it is predicted to convey a variety of socio-financial benefits for the region:
Given the massive unemployment within the country and constrained work prospects, a big proportion of latest graduates turn out offering individual tuition to young young children by spending residence visits on the households, preferring to acquire private tuition for their Youngsters while in the Secure natural environment of their residences.
This proves being a rewarding self-used company, since it involves no expense in premises together with other infrastructure for setting up a company. Actually, a lot of the well-founded private schools during the region evolved from this Preliminary organization model on the homeowners.
Financial savings on gasoline costsIf created as a substitute to sending youngsters to universities, the personal tuition design may also help an exceedingly significant range of households to save on their fuel expenses on sending their small children to educational facilities. This will not have any sizeable effect on the budgets of the person families however it must have implications for intake of petrol and gasoline in Pakistan, that’s in a disaster-like scenario with respect to petrol, diesel and CNG.
Easing out targeted traffic problemsIn massive metropolitan areas, traffic congestion is a huge issue, notably in locations which has a good deal of private schools and colleges. An alternate private tuition-based instructional procedure can be predicted to contribute to easing out the visitors troubles.Price savings on infrastructure costsThere isn’t any denial of the fact that classic educational institutions, colleges and universities are going to fade away to give in to a whole new engineering-primarily based design of Understanding. A business based upon this futuristic watch of instruction might help in building a new model of education, that is individual-centric and centered on furnishing what the child would like to learn and not just what the technique wants them to understand.
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One day, we got an unwelcome visit from one of the Saskatchewan Leprechauns – you’ll remember them from The Groovy Framing Elves™ page; they were the ones who tried to pass themselves off as ‘Shoemaker Elves’.
This one was swathed in polyester and constantly shot his cuffs. He had shifty little rodent eyes, white shoes and belt, waggling eyebrows, and a toothpick in his mouth that was always in motion…he looked like a weasel with a pompadour.
As The Colonel was cracking her knuckles in preparation of frog-marching him off of the premises, he said, “Wait! I understand you’re having troubles with your website.”
“Get out” The Colonel said.
He shot his cuffs “I know some guys.”
“Get out” The Colonel said, grabbing handfuls of polyester.
“They’re terrific!” he said as he sailed out the door.
“Tell you what, I’ll have them get in touch and see what they can do for you,” he called over his shoulder as he sprinted down the back alley, The Colonel in hot pursuit, kicking him in the seat of his pants about every third step.
Well…about two days later, a scream split the air at Jackson’s that was so startling it caused Owen to leap and bite the end of his tongue. One of the Groovy Framing Elves™ had gone into the furnace room to discover, to her horror and surprise, three spotty trolls looking for a DSL connection.
After the hubbub died down, the Groovy Framing Elves™ concluded that these must be ‘The guys the Leprechaun knew’.
The Colonel kicked them out, but the next evening as we were shutting out the lights, there they were, sitting there, making sort of chewing noises as they hunted and pecked on their keyboards.
She kicked them out again. They came back again. This continued for almost a week before The Colonel turned to Owen and said with that chilling finality “YOU deal with it”.
Naturally, Owen took this to mean “I love these things and think they should become a permanent attraction around here”.
How the Spotty Internet Trolls™ got into computers is a complete mystery. Their speech is a sort of monosyllabic grunting, and judging from the litter they leave behind, they seem to subsist on a steady diet of corn chips, pickled herring, and no-name pancake syrup. They sluff along and move like they’re underwater, and they have huge fat, stubby, salami fingers that you wouldn’t think could hit just one letter on a keyboard. As opposed to the fresh rain and vanilla scent the Elves leave behind, the spotty Internet trolls smell in equal portions of mushrooms, loam, dirt, mud, old banana peels, peat, damp basement, chalk, and stagnant creek bottom.
Thankfully, this fug vanishes instantly when exposed to sunshine.
They won’t really make eye contact with, or stand up to, the Groovy Framing Elves™, who constantly admonish them like a bun-haired old schoolmarm who’s scolding a large, clumsy, brain-addled puppy that’s eaten all the cat’s food, and missed the paper on the kitchen floor.
No one knows where they go during daylight hours, under a bridge somewhere one supposes…
Since they were here, The Colonel put them to work. They do what’s asked of them, sort of, but it takes forever and you have to explain things so many times that one often wonders if it just wasn’t faster to learn how to do it oneself.
So, I suppose we’re stuck with them. They don’t actually get paid, and they do a pretty rotten job, but we haven’t figured out exactly what to do about it…they won’t leave.
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Get started with Lumina for your Linux desktop | Opensource.com
Get started with Lumina for your Linux desktop
This article is part of a special series of 24 days of Linux desktops. The Lumina desktop is a shortcut to a quick and sensible Fluxbox-based desktop with all the things you can't live without.
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For a good number of years, there was a desktop operating system (OS) based on FreeBSD called PC-BSD. It was intended as an OS for general use, which was noteworthy because BSD development mostly focuses on servers. For most of its life, PC-BSD shipped with the KDE desktop by default, but the more KDE came to depend on Linux-specific technology, the more PC-BSD migrated away from it. PC-BSD became Trident, and its default desktop is Lumina, a collection of widgets written to use the same Qt toolkit that KDE is based upon, running on the Fluxbox window manager.
You may find the Lumina desktop in your Linux distribution's software repository or in BSD's ports tree. If you install Lumina and you're already running another desktop, you may find yourself with redundant applications (two PDF readers, two file managers, and so on) because Lumina includes a few integrated applications. If you just want to try the Lumina desktop, you can install a Lumina-based BSD distribution in a virtual machine, such as GNOME Boxes.
If you install Lumina on your current OS, you must log out of your current desktop session so you can log into your new one. By default, your session manager (SDDM, GDM, LightDM, or XDM, depending on your setup) will continue to log you into your previous desktop, so you must override that before logging in.
With GDM:
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Lumina desktop
Lumina delivers a simple and lightweight desktop environment. There's a panel at the bottom of the screen containing an application menu on the left, a taskbar in the middle, and a system tray on the right. There are icons on the desktop providing quick access to common applications and locations.
In addition to this basic desktop structure, Lumina features a custom file manager, PDF viewer, screenshot tool, media player, text editor, and archive tool. There's also a configuration utility to help you customize your Lumina desktop, and you can find further configuration options by right-clicking on the desktop.
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Lumina is very similar to several Linux lightweight desktops, especially LXQT, except without any reliance upon Linux-based desktop frameworks like ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, D-Bus, or systemd. Whether or not that holds any advantage for you depends on the OS you're running. After all, if you're already running Linux with access to those features, using a desktop that doesn't utilize them may not make much sense and cost you features. If you're running BSD, then running Fluxbox with Lumina widgets could mean not having to install the Linux-compatible libraries from ports.
Why you should use Lumina
Lumina is simple enough in design that it doesn't have many features you can't implement on your own by installing Fluxbox along with your favorite components (PCManFM for file management, a variety of LXQt apps, Tint2 for a panel, and so on). But this is open source, and users of open source love to find ways to avoid reinventing the wheel (almost as much as we love reinventing the wheel).
The Lumina desktop is a shortcut to a quick and sensible Fluxbox-based desktop with all the things you can't live without and very few of the finer details you'll want to configure yourself. Give the Lumina desktop a try to see if it's the desktop for you.
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Gene: COL4A3
COL4A3 (collagen type IV alpha 3 chain)
COL4A3 is in 11 panels
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ID is not part of the phenotype.
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Alport syndrome, autosomal recessive, 203780
Hematuria, benign familial, 141200
Alport syndrome, autosomal dominant, 104200
Variants in COL4A3
Rare genetic inflammatory skin disorders
Unexplained paediatric onset end-stage renal disease
Unexplained kidney failure in young people
Haematuria
Proteinuric renal disease
Groopman et al 2019 - Genes with diagnostic variants
Source Expert Review Red was added to COL4A3. Rating Changed from Amber List (moderate evidence) to Red List (low evidence)
COL4A3 was added to Intellectual disabilitypanel. Sources: BRIDGE study SPEED NEURO Tier1 Gene
COL4A3 was created by BRIDGE
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Deane, Hampshire Genealogy
Guide to Deane, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Deane, Hampshire
England Jurisdictions
Parish registers: 1659
Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
DEANE, a parish in Basingstoke district, Hants; on the Basingstoke and Salisbury railway, near Oakley railway station, 5½ miles W by S of Basingstoke. Post town, Overton, under Micheldever Station.[1].
Deane parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[8]
DEANE PARISH Online Records
FREG 1813-1841
1679-1813 (gaps)
↑ Wilson John M., Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870. Date accessed: 17 June 2103.
↑ 'Over 1.4 million new Hampshire parish records published', Find My Past, accessed 3 October 2013.
↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
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Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Birth/501 - 1000 CE
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For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.
The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
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1 $\text {501}$ – $\text {600}$
1.1 Metrodorus $($$\text {c. 500}$$)$
1.2 Varahamihira $($$\text {505}$ – $\text {587}$$)$
1.3 Severus Sebokht $($$\text {575}$ – $\text {667}$$)$
1.4 Brahmagupta $($$\text {598}$ – $\text {668}$$)$
1.5 Bhaskara I $($$\text {c. 600}$ – $\text {c. 680}$$)$
2.1 Bede $($$\text {c. 673}$ – $\text {735}$$)$
3.1 Alcuin of York $($$\text {c. 735}$ – $\text {804}$$)$
3.2 Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi $($$\text {c. 780}$ – $\text {c. 850}$$)$
3.3 Leon the Mathematician $($$\text {c. 790}$ – $\text {c. 870}$$)$
4.1 Mahaviracharya $($$\text {c. 800}$ – $\text {c. 870}$$)$
4.2 Al-Kindi $($$\text {c. 801}$ – $\text {c. 873}$$)$
4.3 Thabit ibn Qurra $($$\text {836}$ – $\text {901}$$)$
4.4 Abu Kamil $($$\text {c. 850}$ – $\text {c. 930}$$)$
5 $\text {901}$ – $\text {1000}$
5.1 Abu'l-Wafa Al-Buzjani $($$\text {940}$ – $\text {998}$$)$
5.2 Abu Bakr al-Karaji $($$\text {c. 953}$ – $\text {c. 1029}$$)$
5.3 Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham $($$\text {965}$ – $\text {c. 1039}$$)$
5.4 Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni $($$\text {973}$ – $\text {1048}$$)$
5.5 Halayudha $($$\text {c. 1000}$$)$
$\text {501}$ – $\text {600}$
Metrodorus $($$\text {c. 500}$$)$
Greek grammarian and mathematician, who collected mathematical epigrams which appear in The Greek Anthology Book XIV.
He is believed to have authored nos. $116$ to $146$.
Nothing else is known about him.
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Varahamihira $($$\text {505}$ – $\text {587}$$)$
Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer.
One of several early mathematicians to discover what is now known as Pascal's triangle.
Defined the algebraic properties of zero and negative numbers.
Improved the accuracy of the sine tables of Aryabhata I.
Made some insightful observations in the field of optics.
Severus Sebokht $($$\text {575}$ – $\text {667}$$)$
Syrian scholar and bishop.
The first Syrian to mention the Indian number system.
Brahmagupta $($$\text {598}$ – $\text {668}$$)$
Indian mathematician and astronomer.
Gave definitive solutions to the general linear equation, and also the general quadratic equation.
Best known for the Brahmagupta-Fibonacci Identity.
Bhaskara I $($$\text {c. 600}$ – $\text {c. 680}$$)$
Indian mathematician who was the first on record to use Hindu-Arabic numerals complete with a symbol for zero.
Gave an approximation of the sine function in his Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya of $629$ CE.
Bede $($$\text {c. 673}$ – $\text {735}$$)$
English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles.
Studied the academic discipline of computus, that is the science of calculating calendar dates.
Worked on computing the date of Easter.
Helped establish the "Anno Domini" practice of numbering years.
Produced works on finger-counting, the sphere, and division.
These works are probably the first works on mathematics written in England by an Englishman.
Alcuin of York $($$\text {c. 735}$ – $\text {804}$$)$
Hugely influential english scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher.
Wrote elementary texts on arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.
Leader of a renaissance in learning in Europe.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi $($$\text {c. 780}$ – $\text {c. 850}$$)$
Mathematician who lived and worked in Baghdad.
Famous for his book The Algebra, which contained the first systematic description of the solution to linear and quadratic equations.
Sometimes referred to as "the father of algebra", but some claim the title should belong to Diophantus.
Leon the Mathematician $($$\text {c. 790}$ – $\text {c. 870}$$)$
Archbishop of Thessalonike between $840$ and $843$.
Byzantine sage at the time of the first Byzantine renaissance of letters and the sciences in the $9$th century.
He was born probably in Constantinople where he studied grammar.
He later learnt philosophy, rhetoric, and arithmetic in Andros.
Mahaviracharya $($$\text {c. 800}$ – $\text {c. 870}$$)$
Indian mathematician best known for separating the subject of mathematics from that of astrology.
Gave the sum of a series whose terms are squares of an arithmetical sequence and empirical rules for area and perimeter of an ellipse.
Al-Kindi $($$\text {c. 801}$ – $\text {c. 873}$$)$
Persian mathematician, philosopher and prolific writer famous for providing a synthesis of the Greek and Hellenistic tradition into the Muslim world.
Played an important role in introducing the Arabic numeral system to the West.
Thabit ibn Qurra $($$\text {836}$ – $\text {901}$$)$
Sabian mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator who lived in Baghdad in the second half of the ninth century during the time of Abbasid Caliphate.
Made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy.
One of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system in Astronomy.
A founder of the discipline of statics.
Abu Kamil $($$\text {c. 850}$ – $\text {c. 930}$$)$
Egyptian mathematician during the Islamic Golden Age.
Considered the first mathematician to systematically use and accept irrational numbers as solutions and coefficients to equations.
His mathematical techniques were later adopted by Fibonacci, thus allowing Abu Kamil an important part in introducing algebra to Europe.
$\text {901}$ – $\text {1000}$
Abu'l-Wafa Al-Buzjani $($$\text {940}$ – $\text {998}$$)$
Persian mathematician and astronomer who made important innovations in spherical trigonometry.
His work on arithmetic for businessmen contains the first instance of using negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text.
Credited with compiling the tables of sines and tangents at $15'$ intervals
Introduced the secant and cosecant functions, and studied the interrelations between the six trigonometric lines associated with an arc.
His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death. He is known to have written several other books that have not survived.
Known for his study of geometrical dissections.
Pioneered the technique of geometrical construction using a rusty compass.
Abu Bakr al-Karaji $($$\text {c. 953}$ – $\text {c. 1029}$$)$
Persian mathematician best known for the Binomial Theorem and what is now known as Pascal's Rule for their combination.
Also one of the first to use the Principle of Mathematical Induction.
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham $($$\text {965}$ – $\text {c. 1039}$$)$
Persian philosopher, scientist and all-round genius who made significant contributions to number theory and geometry.
His work influenced the work of René Descartes and the calculus of Isaac Newton.
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni $($$\text {973}$ – $\text {1048}$$)$
Khwarazmi scholar and polymath.
Thoroughly documented the Indian calendar with relation to the various Islamic calendars of his day.
Appears to be the first to have defined a second (of time) as being $\dfrac 1 {24 \times 60 \times 60}$ of a day.
Halayudha $($$\text {c. 1000}$$)$
Indian mathematician who wrote the Mṛtasañjīvanī, a commentary on Pingala's Chandah-shastra, containing a clear description of Pascal's triangle (called meru-prastaara).
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District 8 - Anderson-Walker
DPIE News and Information
DPIE is the result of an initiative to streamline county government operations in the areas of permitting, business licensing, inspections, and property code enforcement. The information contained on this page is intended to provide our residents with alerts and other announcements sourced directly from DPIE. Feel free to contact their office if specific guidance and information is needed about a situation you have observed. If there is an issue that is directly impacting you, your property, or poses a hazard to others, please be sure to register your complaint with 311.
Melinda M. Bolling
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Which Agency Handles That — DPIE, DoE or DPW&T?
DPIE, the Department of the Environment (DoE) and the Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPW&T) frequently work cooperatively. The following chart defines the responsibilities for each:
Director: Melinda Bolling, mmbolling@co.pg.md.us
Website: dpie.mypgc.us
Agency phone: 301-636-2000, 301-636-2020
DPIE is responsible for streamlining government operations in permitting, business licensing, inspection, property maintenance and code enforcement for residents and businesses in Prince George’s County.
Divisions include:
Permitting and Licensing — Processes building and site plan permits
Building Plan Review — Reviews plans for residential and commercial projects
Enforcement — Investigates code violations at residential, commercial and industrial properties to maintain the safety and aesthetic value of our communities
Inspections — Regulates construction, development and grading through inspection and enforcement of codes
Site/Road Plan Review — Reviews and approves site and roadway plans for proposed development and road improvement projects
Director: (Acting) Michelle Russell, mwrussell@co.pg.md.us
Website: environment.mypgc.us
Agency phone: 301-883-5810
DoE’s core responsibilities include clean water services; flood prevention for buildings and structures; collecting waste and recycling; operating the County landfill; providing sustainability services to reduce greenhouse gas and emission; operating the animal services program including pet adoptions, operating the animal holding facility, issuing pet licenses, investigating cruelty complaints and conducting humane outreach and education events.
Animal Services — Cares for the health and welfare of the County’s animal population
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Sustainability — Works to move the County toward a sustainable tomorrow
Stormwater Management — Protects and restores water quality and stream systems and mitigate for flooding of structures
Director: Terry Bellamy, dpwt-od@co.pg.md.us
Website: dpwt.mypgc.us
DPW&T is responsible for nearly 2,000 miles of County-maintained roadways, including 900 bridges, as well as shoulders, sidewalks, curbs/gutters, stormwater management facilities, driveway aprons and nearly 3,000 acres of grassy area. The agency is also charged with snow and ice removal, upgrading traffic signals, installing street lights, clearing fallen trees, unclogging drainage inlets, maintaining stormwater management facilities and roadway and sidewalk repairs.
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Property Maintenance is Key in County Beautification Effort
DPIE is one of the agencies at the forefront of keeping Prince George’s County beautiful by enforcing property maintenance standards at residential, commercial and industrial properties.
DPIE’s focus on property maintenance aligns with the Beautification Initiative established by County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. The initiative brings together residents, the business community and visitors to decrease litter and increase individual responsibility in the anti-litter and County beautification efforts.
Property maintenance requirements were established to ensure that owners, managers and tenants keep residences, commercial and industrial buildings and grounds in good repair:
• Buildings must be in sound structural condition.
• Grounds must be well kept — grass must be cut, weeds pulled, trees and other vegetation trimmed.
• Properties must be kept free of trash and debris, including old vehicles, construction materials, discarded appliances, etc.
• Vehicles must be appropriately parked on paved surfaces.
• Parking lots at industrial and commercial properties must be well maintained and kept free of trash and debris.
“Keeping up communities by enforcing the County code is one of the most important things we do at DPIE,” said Enforcement Division Associate Director Val Cary. “The code provides a guide for residents and our business partners to keep neighborhoods clean and maintained.”
DPIE inspections of residential, commercial and industrial properties are conducted on an ongoing basis by inspectors working in assigned areas and as a result of complaints to 311. Failing to maintain property standards will result in a violation and possible fine. The County may abate violations and assess noncomplying property owners for the cost of repairs.
DPIE staffers also work to educate members of the public about County property maintenance standards by providing information on the agency’s website and speaking to homeowners and citizens' groups.
Report suspected code violations to 311, which will route the complaints to DPIE.
For additional information, visit the DPIE website. To schedule a DPIE staffer to address your group about property maintenance standards or other issues related to the agency, call 301-636-2053.
The 10 Most Frequent Code Violations in Prince George's County
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The Building Code of Prince George’s County has been updated to conform to the 2018 editions of the International Building Code, the International Mechanical Code, the International Energy Conservation Code and the International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings in connection with County Subtitle 4. The changes become effective as of January 11, 2021. There will be a transition period of six months from the date of adoption for the requirements to become mandatory. All single family and town house plans-on-file (PDF) submitted on or after July 2021 will be required to comply with the new regulations.
For additional information, contact the Building Plan Review Division at 301-636-2070.
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Kritik Und Metaphysik Studien : Heinz Heimsoeth Zum Achtzigsten Geburtstag.Heinz Heimsoeth - 1966 - De Gruyter.details
Religionskritik. Beiträge zur atheistischen Religionskritik der Gegenwart. Herausgegeben von Karl-Heinz Weger, Johannes Berchmans Verlag München 1976, 159 pp. [REVIEW]Heinz-Jürgen Loth - 1978 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 30 (2):175-177.details
Mauss, Buddhismus, Devianz: Festschrift für Heinz Mürmel Zum 65. Geburtstag.Heinz Mürmel & Thomas Hase (eds.) - 2009 - Diagonal-Verlag.details
Philosophy of Religion, Miscellaneous in Philosophy of Religion
Mauss, Buddhismus, Devianz: Festschrift für Heinz Mürmel Zum 65.Heinz Mürmel & Thomas Hase (eds.) - 2009 - Diagonal-Verlag.details
Children's Theory of Mind: Fodor's Heuristics Examined.Heinz Wimmer & Viktor Weichbold - 1994 - Cognition 53 (1):45-57.details
Development of Theory of Mind in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Modularity in Cognitive Science in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Konstruktivismus Und Kognitionswissenschaft Kulturelle Wurzeln Und Ergebnisse : Heinz von Foerster Gewidmet.Heinz Von Foerster, Albert Müller & Friedrich Stadler - 1997details
Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie. Mit Einem Schlusskapitel: Die Philosophie Im 20. Jahrhundert, Und Einer Übersicht Über den Stand der Philosophiegeschichtlichen Forschung Hrsg. Von Heinz Heimsoeth. [REVIEW]W. Windelband & Heinz Heimsoeth - 1957 - Mohr.details
The Influence of Orthographic Consistency on Reading Development: Word Recognition in English and German Children.Heinz Wimmer & Usha Goswami - 1994 - Cognition 51 (1):91-103.details
Philosophy of Psychology in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Mathematical Logic.Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus - 1996 - Springer.details
This junior/senior level text is devoted to a study of first-order logic and its role in the foundations of mathematics: What is a proof? How can a proof be justified? To what extent can a proof be made a purely mechanical procedure? How much faith can we have in a proof that is so complex that no one can follow it through in a lifetime? The first substantial answers to these questions have only been obtained in this century. The most (...) striking results are contained in Goedel's work: First, it is possible to give a simple set of rules that suffice to carry out all mathematical proofs; but, second, these rules are necessarily incomplete - it is impossible, for example, to prove all true statements of arithmetic. The book begins with an introduction to first-order logic, Goedel's theorem, and model theory. A second part covers extensions of first-order logic and limitations of the formal methods. The book covers several advanced topics, not commonly treated in introductory texts, such as Trachtenbrot's undecidability theorem. Fraissé's elementary equivalence, and Lindstroem's theorem on the maximality of first-order logic. (shrink)
Logic and Philosophy of Logic, General Works in Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Mathematical Logic in Formal Sciences
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Ernst Brandes- ein Vorläufer der Zeitgeistforschung.Hans-Joachim Schoeps - 1961 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 13 (4):333-345.details
Georg Brandes 1842-1927.Oskar Seidlin & The Editors - 1942 - Journal of the History of Ideas 3 (4):415.details
Wolfram Brandes, Finanzverwaltung in Krisenzeiten. Untersuchungen zur byzantinischen Administration im 6.-9. Jahrhundert. [Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte, 25.]. [REVIEW]John Haldon - 2004 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2):717-728.details
The history of the transformation of late Roman fiscal administrative structures into those of the middle Byzantine period have been at the centre of discussions of the nature of the Byzantine state for over a century, and not simply because they were fundamental to the ways in which late Roman and early Byzantine government could function. For the fiscal administration of the empire reflected both the social structure of the society in which the state was rooted as well as the (...) logistical and environmental constraints which informed the way in which the imperial court and the emperors could run their empire. Brandes' important contribution to this discussion is perhaps one of the most significant publications yet to appear, not only because he is able to take into account all the latest research but also because we now have at our disposal a far better basis in the contemporary sources than hitherto – and in particular, in the form of the vast wealth of sigillographic data which earlier scholars such as Bury or Dölger or Lemerle could only begin to appreciate. (shrink)
Cognitive Neuroenhancement: False Assumptions in the Ethical Debate.Andreas Heinz, Roland Kipke, Hannah Heimann & Urban Wiesing - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (6):372-375.details
The present work critically examines two assumptions frequently stated by supporters of cognitive neuroenhancement. The first, explicitly methodological, assumption is the supposition of effective and side effect-free neuroenhancers. However, there is an evidence-based concern that the most promising drugs currently used for cognitive enhancement can be addictive. Furthermore, this work describes why the neuronal correlates of key cognitive concepts, such as learning and memory, are so deeply connected with mechanisms implicated in the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour so that (...) modification of these systems may inevitably run the risk of addiction to the enhancing drugs. Such a potential risk of addiction could only be falsified by in-depth empirical research. The second, implicit, assumption is that research on neuroenhancement does not pose a serious moral problem. However, the potential for addiction, along with arguments related to research ethics and the potential social impact of neuroenhancement, could invalidate this assumption. It is suggested that ethical evaluation needs to consider the empirical data as well as the question of whether and how such empirical knowledge can be obtained. (shrink)
Cognitive Enhancement in Applied Ethics
Intentional Action and Action Slips.Heinz Heckhausen & Jürgen Beckmann - 1990 - Psychological Review 97 (1):36-48.details
Intentional Action in Philosophy of Action
The Dialectical Imagination. A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950.Heinz Lubasz & Martin Jay - 1975 - History and Theory 14 (2):200.details
Philosophy of History in Philosophy of Social Science
Theory of Production: A Long-Period Analysis.Heinz D. Kurz & Neri Salvadori - 1995 - Cambridge University Press.details
This compelling book contains a comprehensive analytical treatment of the theory of production in a long-period framework. Although the authors take a 'Classical' approach to their subject, the scope of investigation and methods employed should interest all economic theorists. Professors Kurz and Salvadori explore economic systems that are characterised by a particular kind of primary input in the production process, such as different kinds of labour and natural resources. These systems and the corresponding prices can be understood to reflect characteristic (...) features of a capitalist market economy in an ideal way: they express the pure logic of the relationship between value and distribution in an economic system. Specific chapters deal with prices and income distribution, economic growth, joint production, fixed capital, scarce natural resources, and heterogeneous labour. The historical origins of the concepts used are also discussed in considerable detail. (shrink)
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Toward a General Theory of Perception.Heinz Werner & Seymour Wapner - 1952 - Psychological Review 59 (4):324-338.details
Repraesentatio Mundi Festschrift Zum 70. Geburtstag von Hans Heinz Holz.Hans Heinz Holz & Hermann Klenner - 1997details
Unterschied Und Widerspruch: Perspektiven Auf Das Werk von Hans Heinz Holz.Hans Heinz Holz, Christoph Hubig & Jörg Zimmer (eds.) - 2007 - Dinter.details
German Idealism in European Philosophy
Vom Geist der Naturwissenschaft. Hrsg. Von Hans Heinz Holz Und Joachim Schickel, Eingel. Von Joachim Schickel.Hans Heinz Holz & Joachim Schickel - 1969 - Rhein-Verlag.details
Non-Standard Analysis.Gert Heinz Müller - 1969 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 34 (2):292-294.details
A History of Aristotle's Rhetoric with a Bibliography of Early Printings.Paul D. Brandes - 1989 - Scarecrow Press.details
Traces Rhetoric from its composition through its preservation in Greece and Rome; investigates its emergence in the Middle Ages; and explores the development of its editions in Greek and Latin.
Brewer, David Lnstone. 1i! Chniques and Assumptions in Jewish Exegesis Before 70 CE,(Texte Und Studien Zum Antiken Judentum 30), Tiibingen, Mohr, ISBN 3-16-145803-6, 1992, 16 X 24, Xiii+ 299 Biz., DM. [REVIEW]Georg Brandes & SflJren Kierkegaard - 1992 - Bijdragen, Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie En Theologie 53 (2):229.details
Judaism in Philosophy of Religion
Book reviews-die relativistischen paradoxien und thesen zu raum und zeit. Interpretationen der speziellen und allgemeinen relativitatstheorie.Jurgen Brandes & Frank Kohler - 1998 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 29 (2):136-138.details
Changing Perspectives–Changing Paradigms: Demand Management Strategies and Innovative Solutions for a Sustainable Okanagan Water Future.Oliver M. Brandes, Lynn Kriwoken, Water Conservation & Watershed Governance - forthcoming - Polis.details
Classical Greek Philosophy in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Das Gold der Menia. Ein Beispiel transkulturellen Wissentransfers.Wolfram Brandes - 2005 - Millennium 2:175-226.details
Friedrich Nietzsche.George Brandes - 1915 - Philosophical Review 24:566.details
Friedrich Nietzsche in 19th Century Philosophy
Fifty Years of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond.Brandes Wolfram - 2003details
Is There a Mexican View of Death?Stanley Brandes - 2003 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 31 (1):127-144.details
Latin American Philosophy: Ethics in Philosophy of the Americas
20th Century Latin American Philosophy in Philosophy of the Americas
Liudprand von Cremona.Wolfram Brandes - 2000 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 93 (2).details
Monsanto, Orgullo de Portugal.Stanley Brandes - 2014 - Endoxa 33:61.details
Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Seventh Century: Prosopographical Observations on Monotheletism.Wolfram Brandes - 2003 - In Fifty Years of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond. pp. 103-118.details
17th/18th Century British Philosophy in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan.Stanley Brandes - 2002 - In Nancy Scheper-Hughes & Loïc J. D. Wacquant (eds.), Commodifying Bodies. Sage Publications. pp. 111.details
Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous
The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan.Stanley Brandes - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):111-120.details
After a Guatemalan migrant worker living in northern California was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a highway one night, his family requested that his body be sent back to his native village in southwestern Guatemala to be mourned and buried according to traditional Catholic custom. But the County morgue confused this deceased individual with another Latino and cremated his body before it could be shipped. This article analyzes the cultural, psychological and economic ramifications of this accidental cremation. Although (...) permissible within the Catholic Church, the cremation caused enormous suffering to the family of the deceased as well as to the dead man's soul. At the same time it generated potential financial windfall not only for his relatives, but for lawyers and the present author. (shrink)
W. TREADGOLD, A History of the Byzantine State and Society.Wolfram Brandes - 2003 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 95 (2).details
Wie Wir Sterben: Chancen Und Grenzen Einer Versöhnung Mit Dem Tod.Marina Brandes - 2011 - Vs, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.details
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Democratic Erosion, Populist Constitutionalism, and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine.Tamar Hostovsky Brandes & Yaniv Roznai - 2020 - The Law and Ethics of Human Rights 14 (1):19-48.details
The world is experiencing a crisis of constitutional democracies. Populist leaders are abusing constitutional mechanisms, such as formal procedures of constitutional change, in order to erode the democratic order. The changes are, very often, gradual, incremental, and subtle. Each constitutional change, on its own, may not necessarily amount to a serious violation of essential democratic values. Yet, when examined in the context of an ongoing process, such constitutional changes may prove to be part of the incremental, gradual process of democratic (...) erosion in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This Article explores how courts can respond to such constitutional changes. We argue the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine should be adapted to respond to existing constitutional practices that utilize incremental and subtle amendments to dismantle the democratic order. We suggest that an aggregated judicial review should be developed. We must also rethink the automatic immunity – the result of two hundred years of revolutionary constitutional theory – provided to complete constitutional replacement from constitutional restrictions and scrutiny. Finally, as opposed to the instinct to require judicial self-restraint with respect to constitutional changes that concern the judiciary itself, we suggest that this is perhaps the type of changes that require strictest scrutiny. (shrink)
Brandes, Jürgen: Die Relativistischen Paradoxien Und Thesen Zu Raum Und Zeit. Interpretationen der Speziellen Und Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 2. Erw. Auflage. [REVIEW]Frank Köhler - 1998 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 29 (1):136-139.details
German Philosophy in European Philosophy
Space and Time in Philosophy of Physical Science
Brandes, J rgen: Die relativistischen Paradoxien und Thesen zu Raum und Zeit. Interpretationen der speziellen und allgemeinen Relativit tstheorie. 2. erw. Auflage. [REVIEW]Frank K. Hler - 1998 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 29 (1):136-139.details
Wolfram Brandes, Finanzverwaltung in Krisenzeiten: Untersuchungen zur byzantinischen Administration im 6.–9. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: Löwenklau, 2002. Pp. xiv, 775. €78. [REVIEW]Leonora Neville - 2005 - Speculum 80 (1):194-196.details
The Relationship of Phonemic Awareness to Reading Acquisition: More Consequence Than Precondition but Still Important.Heinz Wimmer, Karin Landerl, Renate Linortner & Peter Hummer - 1991 - Cognition 40 (3):219-249.details
Philosophy of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind
What Complexity Differences Reveal About Domains in Language.Jeffrey Heinz & William Idsardi - 2013 - Topics in Cognitive Science 5 (1):111-131.details
An important distinction between phonology and syntax has been overlooked. All phonological patterns belong to the regular region of the Chomsky Hierarchy, but not all syntactic patterns do. We argue that the hypothesis that humans employ distinct learning mechanisms for phonology and syntax currently offers the best explanation for this difference.
Other Areas of Linguistics in Philosophy of Language
Syntax in Philosophy of Language
Psychiatry's Contribution to the Public Stereotype of Schizophrenia: Historical Considerations.Heinz Katschnig - 2018 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24 (5):1093-1100.details
Ethical Autonomy and Engineering in a Cross-Cultural Context.Heinz C. Luegenbiehl - 2004 - Techne 8 (1):57-78.details
Autonomy in Applied Ethics in Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Technology, Misc in Philosophy of Computing and Information
Zur Rekonstruktion der Praktischen Philosophie Gedenkschrift Für Karl-Heinz Ilting.Karl-Otto Apel, Riccardo Pozzo & Karl-Heinz Ilting - 1990details
Adaptation of Tastes to Constraints.Heinz Welsch - 2004 - Theory and Decision 57 (4):379-395.details
This paper examines a model in which people’s preferences adjust to changes in their relative ability to attain various goals. Preference changes are modeled as changes in the configuration of weights (or values) attached to these goals. The model permits to explain common prototype changes of preferences such as the ‘sour grapes’ or the ‘overcompensating’ phenomenon. It is found that whether the first or the second phenomenon occurs depends on whether a goal is easy or difficult to substitute by other (...) goals. If two goals are sufficiently strong substitutes for each other, no weight will be placed on that goal which is harder to attain. The results readily apply to the standard microeconomic set-up involving goods and prices, rather than abstract goals and abilities. In this case, one implication of the model is that only a subset of the overall commodity space is relevant for everyday consumer choice, which reduces the complexity of the choice procedure. The model also permits to explain how new and unfamiliar products are incorporated into the consumer’s preference pattern. (shrink)
Modern Medicine and the One-Size-Fits-All Approach: A Clinician's Comment to Alexandra P'rvan's “Mind Electric” Article.Heinz Katschnig - 2018 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24 (5):1079-1083.details
[Not Available].Heinz Schott - 1986 - Philosophia Naturalis 24 (1):3-14.details
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