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Learn about the natural world all around us in these fascinating natural history books that inform, entertain and inspire.
Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $13.99)
Did you know that “flying” squirrels are incapable of true flight? Were you aware that opossums don’t “play dead,” as in the common folk saying “playing possum”? In this fascinating and gorgeously illustrated new book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd, former executive for the National Wildlife Federation, uncovers the scientific realities obscured by our numerous long-held misconceptions of wild animals. Setting the most tenacious of these age-old superstitions against evidence that he and other biologists and naturalists have gleaned from careful observation and investigation, Shedd refutes such popular myths as beavers can fell trees in a desired direction, gray squirrels remember where they bury nuts, wolves howl at the moon, and cougars are an endangered species.
In addition to dispelling misinformation, Owls Aren’t Wise & Bats Aren’t Blind presents some fascinating facts about the animals that many of us encounter in our own backyards or walking across the road as we drive in our cars. For instance, did you know that a porcupine is actually a large rodent, and that its protective quills are really specialized hairs numbering about 30,000 per animal? That means that a typical porcupine has about 140 quills per square inch!
Shedd also uses humorous anecdotes to show us how funny (and educational) it can be when animals themselves defy our mistaken beliefs about them. Casting new light on the old tenet that ravens can be taught to mimic the human voice, Warner Shedd tells of a scientist who spent six years teaching a raven to cry “nevermore,” after the haunting raven in the famous Edgar Allan Poe poem. Shedd further explains that recent research indicates that ravens only mimic if they have the desire to do so.
Kraken : The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $12.99)
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid.
The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some riddles about what intelligence is, and what monsters lie in the deep.
In addition to squid, both giant and otherwise, Kraken examines other equally enthralling cephalopods, including the octopus and the cuttlefish, and explores their otherworldly abilities, such as camouflage and bioluminescence.
Accessible and entertaining, Kraken is also the first substantial volume on the subject in more than a decade and a must for fans of popular science.
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99)
Scientific insight and literary flair combine, in this collection of reflections where such topics as the importance and relevance of Darwinism, the question of size in nature and the bizarre sex life of a mushroom maggot are examined.
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.
Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould’s first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $14.85)
Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a vague squiggle or a greyish fleck. This book will change that forever.
Viewing these creatures up close for the first time can be a thrilling experience—an elaborate but hidden world truly opens up before your eyes. Through hundreds of close-up photographs, Plankton transports readers into the currents, where jeweled chains hang next to phosphorescent chandeliers, spidery claws jut out from sinuous bodies, and gelatinous barrels protect microscopic hearts. The creatures’ vibrant colors pop against the black pages, allowing readers to examine every eye and follow every tentacle. Jellyfish, tadpoles, and bacteria all find a place in the book, representing the broad scope of organisms dependent on drifting currents.
Christian Sardet’s enlightening text explains the biological underpinnings of each species while connecting them to the larger living world. He begins with plankton’s origins and history, then dives into each group, covering ctenophores and cnidarians, crustaceans and mollusks, and worms and tadpoles. He also demonstrates the indisputable impact of plankton in our lives. Plankton drift through our world mostly unseen, yet they are diverse organisms that form ninety-five percent of ocean life. Biologically, they are the foundation of the aquatic food web and consume as much carbon dioxide as land-based plants. Culturally, they have driven new industries and captured artists’ imaginations.
While scientists and entrepreneurs are just starting to tap the potential of this undersea forest, for most people these pages will represent uncharted waters. Plankton is a spectacular journey that will leave readers seeing the ocean in ways they never imagined.
The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $11.99)
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.
In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.
There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK’s bronze skin (it wasn’t a tan) to Einstein’s genius.
They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking. They can even allow some people, because of the exceptional flexibility of their thumbs and fingers, to become truly singular violinists.
Kean’s vibrant storytelling once again makes science entertaining, explaining human history and whimsy while showing how DNA will influence our species’ future.
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Publication rates of otolaryngology theses from Turkey in peer-reviewed journals
May 1, 2020 Raul Gonzalez
OBJECTIVEThis examine goals to look at the publication or presentation charges of theses in scientific journals and scientific conferences within the subject of otorhinolaryngology in Turkey.METHODSWe randomly surveyed 2,705 specialists within the subject of otorhinolaryngology in Turkey as of April 2014.
Of those, 245 have been utilized a questionnaire on the continuation of their educational training, {qualifications} of the establishments the place they have been graduated from and labored and the standing of their theses when it comes to whether or not their theses have been transformed right into a scientific article or presentation.RESULTSOverall, 47.8% of the members have been nonetheless persevering with their educational training, whereas 52.2% weren’t.
Publication charges of otolaryngology theses from Turkey in peer-reviewed journals
The speed of the presentation of the theses at a nationwide assembly was 58.4% and at a global assembly was 10.6%. The charges of publication in a nationwide and worldwide journal have been 26.1% and 36.3%, respectively.CONCLUSIONSAs the bodily and financial alternatives for experimental researches have elevated, college students have been inspired to conduct researches and supportive options for the publication of theses have been created.
In 1864, Anton von Tröltsch in Würzburg, Hermann Schwartze in Halle/Saale, and Adam Politzer in Vienna based the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde (Archive of Otology), the ancestor of the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck. It was the world’s first journal solely dedicated to otology, and thus to otorhinolaryngology.
Publication charges of shows which have been introduced at Turkish Nationwide Rhinology Congresses
The intention of this examine was to analyse the construction of this journal and its contents through the first 50 years of its publication, till it definitively grew to become an otorhinolaryngological journal in 1915. A complete of two,271 articles have been registered throughout this time.
This examine goals to find out the publication charges of oral shows and posters introduced at Turkish Nationwide Rhinology Congresses within the medical journals and to make a comparability with associated literature
information.METHODSThe title and surname of the primary authors and the title of presentation introduced at 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 have been searched utilizing PubMed, Turkmedline and Ulakbim nationwide serps.RESULTSOf the 218 papers introduced, 61 (28%) have been revealed. The imply time from presentation at congress to publication was 21.Eight months.
The imply time to publication for oral shows was 23.2 months, whereas it was 20.Eight months for poster shows. The publication charges of oral and poster shows have been 35.8% and 24.5%, respectively, indicating no statistically important distinction between two teams (p=0.08).
The publication charge of analysis articles was statistically considerably greater than that of case experiences (20.7% vs. 33.3%; p=0.04).CONCLUSIONSThe publication charge of shows introduced at 4 Turkish Nationwide Rhinology Congresses is decrease in comparison with the beforehand reported publication charges in otorhinolaryngology.
Giving wider publicity to analysis shows and being extra selective for case experiences will present inclusion of extra certified papers with excessive chance of publication and likewise improve the scientific worth of such congresses.
They have been categorized based on content material matter, article sort, and the variety of figures and graphs that they contained. Nearly three-quarters of the articles have been associated to purely otological matters, as implied by the journal‘s title. Till the flip of the 20 th century, nearly all of the articles have been unique papers or case experiences. The variety of unique papers declined over the many years in favour of case experiences.
One-third of every quantity often consisted of an enormous number of objects, similar to congress bulletins, convention proceedings, and guide evaluations. The journal additionally maintained all kinds of scientific and present social and political topics. Otological evaluations and convention proceedings have been key landmarks of the journal. All of those numerous papers offered an outline of the historic organisation and growth of otology between 1864 and 1914. At the moment, the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde was a number one nationwide and internationwide journal.
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Herman Cain gone
Posted by: Janit
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Herman Cain dies from coronavirus
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By Karl de Vries and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 10:47 AM ET, Thu July 30, 2020
Washington (CNN)Herman Cain, a onetime Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, has died from coronavirus, according to an obituary sent from his verified Twitter account and Newsmax, where he was launching a television show.
Cain, 74, was hospitalized earlier this month, and his Twitter account said earlier this week he was being treated with oxygen in his lungs. It is unknown where Cain contracted the virus.
As a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, Cain was one of the surrogates at President Donald Trump's June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- which saw at least eight Trump advance team staffers in attendance test positive for coronavirus. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh has told CNN that Cain did not meet with Trump at the Tulsa rally.
Cain announced his candidacy for president in 2011. He briefly gained traction in the race for his 9-9-9 tax reform plan, which would have replaced almost all current taxes with a 9% income tax, a 9% corporate tax and a 9% national sales tax. After about seven months, he dropped his bid for the GOP nomination amid sexual harassment allegations, which he denied.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2020 09:54AM by Janit.
Re: Herman Cain gone
....raising Cain....???
just heard that
He was a non believer on the subject of Covid19. I posted yesterday he was still in the hospital..........he had gone to the Tulsa Rally....so what will 45 say about this death.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2020 12:03PM by samintx.
Posted by: Lux Interior
so what will 45 say about this death.
He refused to take hydroxychloroquine?
He was indulging in demon sex?
I'm sorry to hear this. This virus disproportionately kills Black people without regard for class or position.
Kayleigh McEnany and Kevin McCarthy have both today sung their hosannas.
... This virus disproportionately kills Black people without regard for class or position.
This is the piece the Republican party OWNS but will reject, for many reasons related to:
1) not giving a @#$%&
2) unrecognizing accountability
3) any sort of coordinated plan
It's just another coincidence of unpreventable death, for them. For example when it was first reported he got sick, they were quick to assert there was no way to know where he contracted it.
Of course not. Especially if you never try.
Posted by: S. Pupp
Fake news. Republicans cannot catch SARS-CoV2. I'm pretty sure I heard Trump say so.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2020 10:28AM by S. Pupp.
Posted by: Speedy
Yes, because it was an avoidable death if only those around him had worn masks and maintained social distance.
Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2020 10:38AM by Speedy.
....and if the President didn't have that rally in Tulsa.......
Reap what you sow.
Sorry for his family & friends. Especially these ones:
RIP Mr Cain. May your unnecessary death prevent others.
Posted by: $tevie
I’m sorry for his family, but these people who refuse to wear masks when around groups of people are playing Russian Roulette, endangering all who come in contact with them, and are attempting to bolster Trump’s false narrative about this disease. It is well nigh impossible for me to feel anything about this other than anger that so many are so willing to keep the pandemic going forever.
....the Mark of Cain......
If you know that, and I know that, then why didn’t the idiots in Cain’s party who went to Tulsa and sat shoulder to shoulder and without masks know that? Save your sympathy for people who don’t have the wealth and resources to be able to avoid such situations.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2020 12:44PM by $tevie.
RIP Mr. Cain.
We need a name for the type of virus super spreader that Donald Trump is. He doesn't have it himself, but he creates entirely unnecessary situations where the people all around him get sick and unfortunately some die. Like his Tulsa rally.
MAGArona 2020?
$tevie
I have a problem with the racism that makes these lies so attractive, and so politically unavoidable for people like Cain, that he was surrounded by a chorus of voices spewing anti-Black propaganda (whatever race those people are) that resulted in his death.
None of us deserve this. Even deluded and pie-eyed conservatives with access to resources to keep themselves safe. You don't have to have sympathy for Cain; I do, because he is another Black man, who despite a life of hard work and (yes, often ideologically misguided) public service, was killed unnecessarily by this virus.
Thoughts and prayers for his family.
Lux Interior
That is a great place to start on contact tracing. I wonder how many others in that picture have died.
You do know that more people of color die due to systemic racism and oppression and not due to some kind of genetic predisposition, yes? Same thing for being duped by white people. There are a gazillion Black people who don't Uncle Tom it and there's no reason for a wealthy man to do so.
We need a name for the type of virus super spreader that Donald Trump is. He doesn't have it himself, but he creates entirely unnecessary situations where the people all around him get sick and unfortunately some die.
Well, there was Typhoid Mary; how about COVID Don?
Trumpfoid Donald?
As I recall Typhoid Mary didn’t show symptoms or get sick, but killed many people. She was forceable restrained from having contact with others, which sounds like a good idea in the instance. We should also take his phone away.
Posted by: Ca Bob
I like Corona Don.
Murdered by Trump at the Tulsa rally.
There's a plan for this. These people just drift around - spreading their disbelief as well as the virus - while the idiot in the White House gladly spurs them on. Meanwhile, no real plan exists from the president or his ilk for how to get a handle on the virus.
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The saddest thing is those people are completely aware of the dangers of this virus. Not wearing a mask for them is strictly political. How they allow themselves to serve the narratives of an abject fool is beyond me. I bet they're all monetizing it one way or another.
A core tenet of conservatism is to demand guarantees/absolutes which leads to rejection of abstract notions of helping others to help themselves. I'll get mine, and you're on your own.
My experience in being around these sorts of believers is that there's nothing you can really do, and if you get sick there's no reason to offer mea culpa.
Typhoid Mary was actually locked away for about 30 years; let's see now - that would make Trump about 103 before he was free.
I do know that, $tevie. I also know that Herman Cain was a survivor of advanced colon cancer, a disease that disproportionately affects Black men, and which left him especially vulnerable to covid-19. The things about systemic racism and oppression is that is affects you no matter your wealth.
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We will miss the playoffs next year if significant changes are not made
JWash
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 08:55 PM
Many people seem to want to sit on this roster we have and add role players like Danny Green, or savvy vets in hopes of improving the team. Mediocre, tread-milling moves like these will not only not improve the team, they will leave us on the outside looking in on the playoffs. Note: I do expect Masai to make major changes, but i just thought it'd be a good idea to bring this up and demonstrate to people that standing pat or making the BC-esque treadmillarific moves we made in 2007-2009 or so, is going to result in those dreaded 9th and 10th seeds once again becoming the norm.
The eastern conference playoff standings this past year:
1.) Hawks
2.) Cavaliers
3.) Bulls
4.) Raptors
5.) Wizards
6.) Bucks
7.) Celtics
8.) Nets
Atlanta, Cleveland and Chicago have no real reason to take significant steps back next year. Perhaps Atlanta drops back to 50 or so wins from 60, but other than that those teams should be in the mix for the top spots again.
Now begins the problem:
Washington - Will probably be about as good next year as they were this year barring a significant jump from Beal or Porter. Which is still better than we are.
Milwaukee - I expect significant improvement from this team next season and they were already 41-41. Extremely young and will be adding a legitimate scoring threat in Jabari Parker to the starting lineup next year. Expect continued and significant progress from MCW and Giannis.
Boston - A very young team like Milwaukee that "overachieved" by making the playoffs. Except they didn't. Some other poster mentioned how they actually had a better record than us in the Atlantic Division. They have excellent coaching, young guys who are all improving and key members of the rotation, as well as the ability to make a splash via trade (literally no team other than maybe Philly has more trade assets when it comes to picks and prospects) and improve further.
Brooklyn - The only playoff team that stands to regress, they suck, are old and won't be getting better any time soon.
We only finished 9 games ahead of Boston last year. It's not inconceivable that Washington, Milwaukee and Boston could all leapfrog us next year if we don't make significant moves. Which would leave the standings at:
Still in the playoffs, all good right? Wrong. There are teams that missed the playoffs last year that stand to improve significantly (or just enough to pass us)
Indiana - Will be getting Paul George back next year which will give them a huge boost. Also have a top 10 pick in the draft who should be an impact player for them. This was the top seed in the east just a season ago, and while they did lose Lance Stephenson, there's no reason to think they aren't at least a high 40 win team next year with George back.
Miami - They feature a very, very formidable starting 5 that was not healthy at any point during the season last year, Dragic-Wade-Deng-Bosh-Whiteside, very capable of being better than us next season and will likely make further moves in free agency to add depth behind them.
Orlando - Bringing in Scott Skiles at coach with their defensive personnel (Payton, Dipo, Gordon) is a scary prospect. This team played very well towards the end of the season and could also make a Milwaukee like jump with a better coach manning the ship as well as improvement from their young players.
New York - We love to make fun of them but here's the reality. They're bringing in a top 4 pick and have a lot of cap space. It stands to reason that they could sign 2 or more very high impact players in free agency and be a much stronger team next season.
Philadelphia - Darkhorse, but if Embiid really is a generational prospect... in the eastern conference this team could be very dangerous next year. They were already elite defensively this past season with essentially Noel, Covington and a bunch of scrubs/D-leaguers/reclamation projects.
If all of those teams passed us we'd be 11th. It would only take 2 passing us for us to drop to 9th. It will not be a cake walk to either the Atlantic Division title or a high playoff seed (or even the playoffs at all). The east stands to be much stronger next season.
Really in my opinion the Raptors have two options this offseason (I do not think signing guys like Aldridge or Marc Gasol is realistic so I won't include that prospect) in order to not be completely screwed long-term.
- Blow it up and rebuild
- Deal DeRozan or Lowry for a higher upside prospect or player at the same position, take a step back for a season but raise the ceiling of the team going forward.
IwishIwasZachLowe
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Agreed. Wrote a similar post saying similar things. I think Lowry and DD could bring top 5-10 picks. DD I am unsure of though, just because would you trade a rental player for a top 5 pick? He can opt out at the end of the season, but hey if you can trade one of them for a top top 7 pick let's say than do it. We need elite talent and we just don't have it on the team. IF you can't sign talent, you must draft it.
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I can get on board with some of what you're saying but this just seems like an extension of the 'we need to rebuild' thread. The whole treadmill term gets thrown around a little too loosely these days - I'd personally reserve it for teams that spend 3 years or more toiling around the same spots in the standing without any clear avenues to improve, neither of which apply to the Raptors in my opinion. The mantra of "The worst place to be in the NBA is a bottom two playoff seed" is accurate in some cases, but sometimes I feel like we interpret as ANY team that finishes in one of those two spots should just blow it up immediately.
Plus you don't have the Atlantic division winner in the top 4 seeds of your Eastern Conference predictions for next year. The Raptors are really just competing with Boston (which has a lot of assets at the moment but not a great amount of talent) and the Knicks (who could easily suck again if they strike out in free agency) for next year's division title. A terrible division isn't a reason to maintain a roster if you really don't think it's going anywhere but the fear of missing the playoffs next season may be a little overblown. Hell, there's a decent chance we host a series again.
Last edited by Fully; Sat Jun 6, 2015, 09:58 PM.
Yeah, but who cares if we host a series if they're not good enough to win a round. I believe we are treadmilling, because Id rather have Milwaukee's and Boston's roster right now. They're younger and on a better path of building. So it's not about where you finish, it's about the roster and how talented it is. We lack talent I believe.
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Agreed. Wrote a similar post saying similar things. I think Lowry and DD could bring top 5-10 picks. DD I am unsure of though, just because would you trade a RENTAL for a top 5 pick? He can opt out at the end of the season, but hey if you can trade one of them for a top top 7 pick let's say than do it. We need elite talent and we just don't have it on the team. IF you can't sign talent, you must draft it.
Shhsh don't let them know
raptors999
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 12:28 AM
Raptors are playoff bound until some team in the Atlantic improves greatly. Celtics have a zillion picks and will continue as is until they can package good for better. No one in the divison is actually trying to win except the Knicks and they'll suck for a long time regardless
psrs1
Milwaukee will take a step back. Celtics could challenge Raps for Atlantic. Disagree re Danny Green being 'role player'. If we were to trade DD Danny Green could be our starting SG if we could sign him as a free agent.
McRealistic
There will be CHANGE. There is no way the MU can sit quietly.
Ehh yeah… difference of opinion. My larger point was that you can't make a "We won't make the playoffs next season so we need to blow it up!" thread and then forget/omit that the division winner gets a top 4 seed.
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I agree, this isn't treadmilling IMO. We aren't capped out, in fact we have ample space over the next two offseasons, still have pics, only one player signed long term...so there are ways to improve the roster. That isn't treadmilling. Treadmilling is when you cap out a roster with a low ceiling with few avenues to improve. That isn't the Raps IMO. Sure, we have had similar results for two straight seasons, but all options are open for MU to get better. I guess if we were to hover around the 50 win mark for 4 or more seasons without deep playoff runs than that may be treadmilling, but even then, as long as we maintain flexibility there is no reason to panic.
Blowing it up is certainly an option, and one I'd be fine with, but it certainly isn't the only way to improve going forward.
Except that will likely be changed by next season.
And does anyone really want Boston's roster? I don't see how they're more talented than the Raptors. Sure, I can see the appeal of the young, cheap players, with an amazing coach and a stash of picks. But actual talent? They haven't got a lot. What they do have is flexibility and some potential. Which I guess means that technically the sky's the limit and that's all some people seem to value here.
Two beer away from being two beers away.
peanutwoozle
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 03:44 PM
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I've even seen people say we shouldn't trade the pick, come on, if it were a top 5 pick, I'd agree, 6-10, maybe, 10 or above - hit or miss.
They lack talent, but due to their assets I believe they are in a better position moving forward. Better coach, better GM( He won a ring) and more picks, flexibility and a younger, higher potential roster.
iblastoff
uh you realize no one in boston actually like danny ainge right? hes made WAY more terrible moves than good ones. hardly a better gm than masai. and won a ring? who gives a shit. guess who else has a ring? coach casey. austin daye even has a fucking ring. no one cares.
flexibility? where are we really lacking in flexibility? we have a bunch of short term contracts and a bunch that are also expiring soon. higher potential roster? we have 2 all-stars. who on the celtics could potentially reach that level besides marcus smart?
2KJ
I'm in for a rebuild for next season. Hope they kept Casey to be the Tank Commander that he was supposed to be last season. I'm more excited for the new D League team. You need both talent and a great system to win in this league. Raptors don't have both.
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by Jhalon Heath
in Featured, Opinion, WWE
“Now why would he do that? Randy is so evil I tell you.” This is what my grandfather said to me when he saw Randy Orton kiss Stephanie McMahon back in 2009. Every time I’ve watched Randy Orton in the past 10+ years I’ve been a wrestling fan he’s made me sick. His antics are horrendous and his mindset is appalling. Everything that Randy Orton does is precise and calculated, as expected from a cold SOB such as himself.
But with everything I can say about Orton there’s no denying his greatness. After all, he’s a 14 time world champion for a reason. He’s well-known and immensely respected in the wrestling industry as “that guy”. There’s a reason why when Keith Lee was thrust onto the main event scene, his first feud was Randy Orton, because where Orton goes, attention follows. Randy is decent as a face. In my opinion he’s great as a face because people love him no matter what. I say he’s decent because most people feel as though he cuts sub-par promos and doesn’t give it his all as a fan favorite.
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But as a heel? Randy Orton is one of the best heels not only of my generation but of all time. Randy has a way of getting people to hate him with every promo, every movement, his actions in the ring, and his ability to display certain mannerisms every time he’s on camera. The main thing Randy has that a lot of wrestlers don’t have nowadays is creating genuine heat.
The Ages of Orton
Randy has this aura about him that leaves a bad taste in peoples mouths. Back in 2003, Randy was just starting to develop his Legend Killer persona that we know and love today. When Randy was in the ring with The Fabulous Moolah, he didn’t hesitate to step over her on his path to glory. Randy told the audience “This woman is a legend!” garnering cheers from the crowd. He then immediately broke their hearts when he shook her hand and introduced himself saying, “I’m Randy Orton. Legend Killer.” before he blasted an 80 year old woman with a thunderous RKO.
This isn’t the only instance of Randy pulling on the audience’s heart strings by putting someone in harms way. Randy Orton is the same man who punted John Cena’s father while John was handcuffed in the ring. In 2009, Randy Orton was definitely in my opinion the best heel in the business, he was hated by everyone. Orton used Legacy who consisted of his young proteges Ted DiBiase JR. and Cody Rhodes to win that year’s Royal Rumble. He handcuffed Triple H to the turnbuckle during his feud with him. Not only did he give Stephanie McMahon a brutal apron DDT, but he then proceeded to kiss Triple H’s wife right in front of him as she laid unconscious from the beatdown she received.
When a wrestler has a program and the heel is Randy Orton, people are going to tune in because everyone knows the lengths that Randy will go to to make his opponent look like the nicest guy ever, by making himself look like the Devil.
Orton Still Has It
When Edge had his first wrestling match in 10 years, I suspected a Rated RKO reunion was bound to happen. Imagine the look on my face when I saw Randy give Edge an RKO on his surgically repaired neck, then followed it up with a vintage con-chair-to. I was livid! I couldn’t believe Randy caught me slipping again. Then a few weeks later after taking her husband out of commission Randy gives a heart tugging promo to Beth Phoenix, one of the best of his career.
And you know what, call me crazy but his explanation somewhat made sense. He made me believe that by taking Edge out he was helping Edge by sending him back home to take care of his daughters. Randy loves Beth, Edge and their children. He was able to pin Edges problems on to Beth, he blamed her for letting him come back to the WWE. This promo cut by Randy on March 2, 2020 was amazing, and it was a prime Randy Orton we were watching. To end the segment he then gave an RKO to the woman he blamed for all of Edge’s problems. Although a heel, he had the whole crowd chanting RKO before he stormed out of the ring in disgust.
I’ve seen a lot of heels in the WWE. CM Punk, Big Show, Kane, The Miz, Bray Wyatt, Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, the list goes on and on. The fact of the matter is that no one has been able to get more heat and a better reaction from the crowd than Randall Keith Orton.
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Episode25 The Bishop and King Chaos
by CHAOS THEORY on January 11, 2021 at 4:19 pm
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Episode 24 Dream Matches
by CHAOS THEORY on January 4, 2021 at 5:09 pm
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Liveblogging The Amazing Meeting 8: Friday Morning Sessions July 9, 2010 Guest Contributor
Liveblogging The Amazing Meeting 8: Friday Morning Sessions
***If you want instant updates, I suggest reading the #TAM8 Twitter feed***
Thanks to @UAJamie for the great pictures!
You can read other sessions here, here, here, here, and here.
James Randi isn’t on stage right now because he’s doing an interview for Playboy. (I assume this will go along with his centerfold.)
With over 1300 registrants, this is the largest TAM of all time. Many hands across the conference room shot up to say this was their first time at a TAM conference. Though between blogs, podcasts, forums, and Twitter, it’d be tough to say there are a lot of strangers here.
Here’s a picture Phil Plait took onstage:
Emcee Hal Bidlack explains that he has time signals for the speakers. When they have ten minutes left, he’ll hold up ten fingers. When they have five minutes left, he’ll hold up five fingers. Then, he adds: “I have a signal for one minute” 🙂
Michael Shermer is essentially rehashing his most recent TED talk. It’s funny and interesting material, but I wonder how many in the audience haven’t heard it before.
I wonder whether it’s too much to ask for a highly-respected skeptic to give his *biggest* supporters a talk they haven’t heard before — to challenge them or test out new material.
Sean Faircloth, the Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, is next. It’s a very pleasant sight to see him on the roster of speakers. There’s a lot of talk over whether skeptic groups and atheists groups should be one and the same — in my experience, the skeptics movement has shied away from tackling god in the same way atheists do.
But this is the sort of “reaching out” to the atheist side I appreciate. Sean definitely speaks on behalf of most of us in the audience, but I don’t think you would’ve seen him giving a talk at TAM a few years ago.
This audience is virtually silent as Sean tells stories of the incredible horrors that religious groups have gotten away with because of “pressure on politicians” for faith-healing exemptions.
“I don’t call it faith healing, because it’s not faith healing. It’s more like faith killing.”
Sean’s now talking about faith-based discrimination that is legal in our system.
“Politicians are understandably afraid to speak out.”
As former Majority Whip in the Maine legislature, Sean’s explaining how politicians recruit candidates. What happens when a candidate previously made statements against religion? For example:
“They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.”
We know that candidate would stand no chance in hell of getting elected in our society today.
But that quote came from Thomas Jefferson.
Sean’s a very effective speaker. I feel like I’ve seen him talk so many times, I’ve grown immune to that. But it’s amazing watching the audience listen to him.
They appreciate that he’s using his time not to promote the SCA, but to talk about how everyone can take action to achieve our shared goals.
I’m sure SCA will love this tweet:
(Hey, you can always donate here!)
He closes with what we need to be doing to reach out to potential theistic allies:
“We must not only speak to their heads, but we must speak to their hearts.”
“I am devoting my entire life to this cause, and I’m asking you to devote a part of yours to this cause”
“Before the decade is over, we will have a Secular Coalition in every state.”
Several audience members gave Sean a standing ovation.
Next up: Women in Skepticism panel, featuring (from left to right in the picture below) Rebecca Watson, Dr. Harriet Hall, Pamela Gay, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Dr. Ginger Campbell, and Carol Tavris.
A few tweeters point out that the speakers with their own timeslots are almost all men (just glancing at the schedule, it’s about a 3:1, male:female speaker ratio). And I think all the “solo speakers” who are female are already on this panel. Is it fair to just “throw” women up on a panel and claim gender diversity in the skeptic community?
Jeff Wagg of JREF points out that they’ve actively reached out to women. Last year, 8 women were invited to speak at TAM. 2 said yes. 1 of those women had to cancel. It’s not like they’re not trying.
They asked for a show of hands for the women in the audience, and a *huge* number of arms shot up. This bodes well.
For me finding a wife. (*cue rim shot*)
A few soundbytes:
“It’s much easier for me to point to the Women of Woo than the Women of Skepticism” — Pamela Gay, referring to people like (psychic) Sylvia Browne and (anti-vaxer) Jenny McCarthy
“I was given a C by my high school physics teacher to make sure I wouldn’t get into a good university.” — Pamela Gay, referring to how her teacher tried to “protect” her from certain male-dominated fields
The last session for the morning is James Randi, interviewed by Jamy Ian Swiss.
They’re showing clips from Randi’s appearances on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and discussing what happened during those clips. The recollections are nostalgic and hilarious.
I came to TAM three years ago, and I remember some of these stories. They never seem to get old… and I don’t think anyone minds if he retells something he’s told many times before.
This year, they’re not mentioning con artist Uri Geller as much as in the past.
Swiss brings up the Peter Popoff scandal — it’s a great clip if you haven’t seen it. When Carson found out that Popoff’s wife was feeding him information about audience members’ ailments — and it wasn’t God telling him anything at all — he told two actresses that they needed to reschedule their appearances so that Randi could come on air to discuss Popoff 🙂
“PEOPLE DON’T LEARN!” — Randi, talking about how people still gave money to Popoff after he had been publicly debunked.
Randi had Carson’s personal phone number and they would have long discussions even after Carson’s retirement.
*Hemant looks at his phone contact list*
I need more famous friends. Please send me their names and numbers.
As they show these clips, I have to wonder why we don’t have more public debunkings on late night TV shows. It’d be perfect for The Colbert Report. They’d bring in ratings, there are excellent debunkers out there who would look good on camera, and it would provide a useful service. Do we really need to hear another low-grade actor instead of the next Randi?
Time for lunch. Be back in a couple hours.
Liveblogging The Amazing Meeting 8
July 9, 2010 Liveblogging The Amazing Meeting 8: Friday Afternoon Sessions
Hal Bidlack? As in the Hal Bidlack retired Air Force guy from Colorado Springs? Sweet! I’m friends with him!
Yes. I guess he his one in the same. I just checked is profile where he talks about going to TAM 🙂
p.s. still jealous
LinzeeBinzee
I’ve been following the tweets about the Sean Faircloth talk…I hope somebody puts in to YouTube, otherwise I may have to purchase the TAM DVD this year just to see it!
afterthree
Thanks for liveblogging! Yours is the only one I can find, and it’s a great companion to watching the conversation on the #TAM8 Twitter hashtag for those of us who couldn’t make it to Vegas.
In that youtube clip about Randi debunking Uri Gellar, there’s a shot where you see a Randi action figure in his office. I don’t think that anyone’s put something like that on the market, but can someone make that happen? I would LOVE a James Randi action figure.
I know you are 100% not doing this on purpose, but stuff like this:
is one of the reasons many women do not feel welcome in male-heavy communities. It turns out we’re not actually there to be sure men have partners. Just because you said the nice version of “Tits or GTFO,” doesn’t make it not alienating.
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29 mins agoWasted Paris' FW20/21 "Always Faithful" Collection Tributes 1980s Northern England 1 hour agoYams Day 2021 Reveals Exclusive Merch With HIDDEN.NY, Psychworld and More 3 hours agoDJ Muro Delivers Remix of J Dilla's "Think Twice" 4 hours agoShamir Shares Stellar Visual for "Diet" 5 hours agoPOLIQUANT's Military Layers Graced by Ryosuke Kosuge's Elegant Photographs
Young Thug, Yak Gotti and Gunna Deliver New Single "Take It To Trial"
Young Thug, Yak Gotti and Gunna have teamed up for the brand new single, “Take It To Trial.”
Produced by Wheezy, the high-energy track hears the YSL Records boss and signees seamlessly work together with their distinct flows. “Take It To Trial” also arrives with an accompanying music video, co-directed by Thugger himself, that sees the trio drop off their bars in luxury that’s reflective of their own style.
The track is set to appear on Slime Language 2, the sophomore compilation album of YSL Records. In October 2020, Young Thug hinted on Instagram Stories that the project could be dropping on Black Friday, but that evidently didn’t happen. A release date is still under wraps, but fans can expect the YSL lineup that includes the likes of Lil Duke, Lil Keed, Strick and more.
Watch Young Thug, Yak Gotti and Gunna’s “Take It To Trial” visual above.
In other music news, Kid Cudi announced a deluxe version of Man On The Moon III: The Chosen, set to release in 2021.
Read more at HYPEBEAST
Kid Cudi Announces Deluxe 'Cudder Cut' Version of 'Man On The Moon III: The Chosen'
The Salvages Utilizes Mary Ellen Mark's Visual Legacy for Their Newest Capsule Collection
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Two job opportunities in Moscow
For the information of our members, Aids Infoshare are looking for staff for
their projects:
Full-Time Position: Sex Work Research Project Coordinator
AIDS infoshare is a Moscow-based Russian non-governmental organization that has been working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and human rights protection within the Russian health field since 1993. To date, AIDS infoshare remains one of Russia’s leading resource and training centres working to respond to the needs of health professionals, NGO programme planners, service providers, and vulnerable population groups through the provision of cutting edge information and capacity building to organizations and professionals throughout the Russian Federation.
AIDS infoshare is presently looking for a motivated native English speaker with strong Russian speaking skills to coordinate a 4-year NIDA-supported research project currently underway in Moscow, Russia. The project aims to examine HIV and STI risk behaviours of female sex workers in Moscow so to identify and develop effective, comprehensive HIV prevention response interventions. The project is comprised of three principle phases: formative research (qualitative research); cross-sectional (quantitative); and a 12-month cohort study. Project efforts are conducted in partnership with Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA), AIDS infoshare (Moscow), The All Russian Institute of Dermovenerology (Moscow), and the Ivanovsky Institute of Immunology (Moscow).
Position Description:
The project coordinator will work closely with American and Russian partner institutions during all planning, development and implementation stages of the 4-year research project amongst female sex workers in Moscow. The project coordinator will:
¢ Work closely with the American project team in project planning and the development of necessary research instruments.
¢ Coordinate and supervise on-the-ground research activities hosted at Russian partner institutes.
¢ Meet regularly with the Russian Research and Outreach Coordinators conducting project planning, implementation, and on-going trouble-shooting activities related to on the ground research efforts.
¢ Provide supervision to project staff in all aspects of the project, including the organization and facilitation of weekly research meetings.
¢ Conduct on-going communications with project partners in Moscow and in Baltimore
¢ Ensure administrative tasks are completed in a timely manner – i.e. funding reports, minutes, setting agendas and facilitating communication between all project committees and members
¢ A strong command of spoken Russian
¢ An understanding of public health strategies and a commitment to efforts in HIV and STI prevention
¢ Experience working with members of vulnerable population groups within a public health framework
¢ Experience and commitment to working collaboratively with others
¢ Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
¢ Ability to work independently
¢ Demonstrated strong group facilitation and public speaking skills
¢ Computer skills (Microsoft word, excel, etc.)
¢ Willingness to work flexible hours including some evenings and weekends
¢ Experience in working in countries of the former Soviet Union
Salary: 1, 000 USD monthly
Start date: Immediately
Interested applicants are invited to submit their resume by e-mail or fax only to:
AIDS infoshare
Tel/Fax: 7 (095) 382 88 22; 382 66 40
E-mail: [removed]; [removed]
Contact person: Alena Peryshkina, Robin Montgomery
Full-Time Position: Fundraiser and Project Assistant
AIDS infoshare is a Moscow-based Russian non-governmental organization that has been working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and human rights protection within the Russian health field since 1993. To date, AIDS infoshare remains one of Russia’s leading resource and training centres working to respond to the needs of health professionals, NGO programme planners, service providers, and vulnerable population groups through the provision of cutting edge information and capacity building to partners throughout the Russian Federation.
At present AIDS infoshare is looking for a motivated native English speaker to join its energetic team of 16 full-time staff members to conduct on-going fundraising activities and project efforts.
The fundraiser will work closely with other members of the Fundraising Department to achieve the following tasks:
¢ Work collaboratively with members and departments at the organization to develop and advocate for innovative strategies in addressing the HIV/STI response needs of project target groups.
¢ Assist in developing project strategies for new and existing initiatives.
¢ Conduct on-going communications with project partners and donor agencies working within Russia’s HIV/AIDS field.
¢ Identification of funding opportunities and write funding proposals
¢ Represent AIDS infoshare in various capacities as required
¢ Ensure administrative tasks are completed in a timely manner – i.e. funding reports
Salary: 700 USD monthly
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What’s Happening in Nicaragua Right NOW in 2018
by Noelle Bertram | Jun 15, 2018
What’s Happening in Nicaragua Right Now
A couple weeks ago, I began hearing rumblings of problems in Nicaragua ~ on Instagram, of all places. “Pray for Nicaragua” posts were going up, & sobering accounts of violence occurring at the hands of the government. But oddly, I could find nothing about this in the newspaper, & the nightly news seemed stuck in its perpetual cycle of: “Trump-Comey-Clinton-FBI scandal-Stormy Daniels-blah-blah-blah.” Same old shit, ad nauseam. Perhaps because I’ve traveled there extensively, it was harder for me to ignore these rumblings of unrest. I longed to know: what’s happening in Nicaragua right now, in 2018?
So I reached out to some friends I made during my time in Nicaragua. I wanted to hear what was actually happening in Nicaragua from them ~ without the filter of a potentially biased press. Unfortunately, they confirmed much of what I was slowly gathering from news sources like “The Guardian,” & “La Prensa,” one of Nicaragua’s major papers. Their bottom line: Nicaragua is in the midst of an enormous civil revolt, protesting a government they feel has become increasingly corrupt & authoritarian.
Protests against Nicaragua’s current President, Daniel Ortega, a Sandinista. Photo by: Anadolu Agency
“My land Nicaragua is still in mourning. All for a government that does not know how to listen. Nicaragua is crying tears of blood, seeing how they prefer to kill and do not want to take the time to change. But that same pain gives birth to a force that no person can pacify. Higher our painful song grows and there will not be a corner of the world that can ignore us. Because the truth can never be silenced. Because where they drop a flower, four more will grow.”
Poem by @canon_chiick
Here’s how the conflict started: on April 16th, 2018, Ortega announced that he’d be cutting 5% from due pensions, while simultaneously raising taxes. In short: the money had run dry. That set off a chain of protests across the nation, many student-led. But my question ~ was a 5% pension cut enough to send a mostly peaceful country into all-out civil unrest? That seemed an extreme response. What else was going on here?
What’s happening in Nicaragua right now cannot merely be explained by pension cuts: it’s more to do with systematic & prolonged government repression, combined with brutality. Photo by: Jorge Torres.
My friend Alejandro Perez, who is a tour guide in Granada, helped fill in some gaps for me. In his words:
“Well basically, Daniel Ortega has depleted the social security system, & wants to charge the pensioned, retired Nicaraguans to try & make up for the money [he has] abused of.” When retirees began protesting these cuts, Alex says, factions from the Sandinista party (Ortega’s party) began attacking them. It was then that students interceded, trying to protect their elders.
“Now, the population has revolted,” Alex continues, “because the government is disrespecting [& brutalizing] the very people who made the country what it is today.” The student’s point of view: ‘If they will [cheat] our elders, they will eventually do that to us as well.’
What’s Happening in Nicaragua Right Now?
To date, 148 people have been killed due to the conflicts, many of them students. The population at large, is placing these deaths at the hands of Ortega & his military, in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to remain in power. But many say, this merely displays what has turned into, over the years, an increasingly authoritarian regime.
Oretga’s response to the killings? That they were being carried out by “criminals,” not members of his government or military.
President Daniel Ortega on the right, & his wife, Rosario Murillo, who is described by many as “out of touch” with the people.
Things came to even more of a head in Nicaragua when a journalist, named Angel Gahona, was shot & killed while live-streaming, during a protest against Ortega. Covering the protests in his home of Bluefields, along Nicaragua’s Carribean coast, Gahona literally broadcast his own death on Facebook. The government detained & blamed two young men for the shooting; but most believe that this was yet another government-sponsored killing. Gahona had long covered the “dangerous” topic of government corruption, & many people in his community believe he was silenced deliberately.
Gahona’s case may still be unsolved, but if his shooting was an attempt to snuff out dissent, his father is convinced that it has failed.
“They wanted to silence Ángel’s voice,” he said. “But they only made it spread.”
The parents of Angel Gahona, holding a poster of their son. Photo by: Diana Ulloa.
Mother’s Day Protest in Nicaragua
On Mother’s Day in 2018, a protest referred to as the “Mother of All Marches,” was led by Nicaraguan mothers who have lost children to the violence of these conflicts. But what initially started as a peaceful protest turned into bloodshed & violence, after armed, pro-Ortega factions open-fired on protesters. With (a reported) 11 people killed, & 79 more wounded due, the Church, who had been trying to assist in peace talks, ended their efforts to work things out with Ortega’s government.
Pope Francis has said, from the Vatican, that he is “very worried” about the situation in Nicaragua, & is calling for an end to all violence.
“We feel oppressed and disrespected by a government that talks about peace but does nothing but promote violence. We don’t want any more dead ~ our mothers suffer when we leave our homes because they are not sure we will return.”
– Carlos Alfredo Portobanco, a 26-year old Nicaraguan student
Nationwide protests in Nicaragua.
What Others are Saying About the Conflict
Prior to the latest eruption of violence in Nicaragua, Amnesty International had just released a report accusing Nicaragua’s government of concocting a deliberate campaign of often deadly repression, meant to quash all opponents, as well as the revolt against them.
“The Nicaraguan authorities have turned on their own people in a vicious, sustained, and frequently lethal assault. [And] the brave people of Nicaragua have shown that they will not be silenced.”
– Amnesty’s Americas director, Erika Guevara-Rosas
Guevara-Ross further claims that Ortega’s government has “shamelessly tried to cover up these atrocities,” showing “contempt for those who dare to stand up to them.”
The richest man in Nicaragua, & its first ever billionaire, Carlos Pellas, added his voice to the growing anti-Ortega chorus by calling for early presidential elections, in an attempt to find “an orderly way out” of the crisis.
Is Nicaragua Safe for Travel Right Now?
The short answer: NO. Nicaragua is NOT safe for travel right now, as of June 2018. In the words of my friend Alejandro (Alex), “It’s very dangerous for everyone right now.” Road blocks have been set up all over the country by rebel forces, who are demanding Ortega’s resignation. It is difficult even for Nicaraguans to safely navigate around the country, & it is most definitely NOT the time for foreigners to visit Nicaragua.
“The only solution we have left is to take to the streets, setting up roadblocks to defend ourselves from the Government and the violence of its repressive forces.”
– Rural leader, Francisca Ramirez
Setting up road blocks is one tactic in the protest. But leaving the country is another. Passport lines at many of Nicaragua’s migration offices are endless, as citizens attempt to leave the country & flee from the violence ~ many, to neighboring Costa Rica.
Passport lines in Nicaragua. Photo by: Marvin Recinos
A nationwide strike was held yesterday, June 14th, to protest the government’s deadly repression. Businesses were shut down, & the streets were eerily silent, from the capital of Managua across the nation. Yet, violence still persisted, as a young, 15-year old altar boy in Leon was shot in the chest by paramilitary forces.
In the wake of this violence, many of Ortega’s own former comrades are turning on him, accusing him of long-time cronyism & corruption.
One of those former comrades is acclaimed Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramírez, who also served as Vice President under Ortega from 1985-1990. He has called today’s youthful protesters the “grandchildren of the revolution.” And in an eerie echo of American women, in reaction to the recent spate of powerful men accused of abuses of power, Ramirez says of his once-comrade Ortega: “His time is up.”
“His time is up.”
– Sergio Ramirez, Nicaraguan Novelist & former Vice President, on Daniel Ortega
***If you are from Nicaragua or currently living there, I would love to hear from you & your experience of these recent events in Nicaragua. Please email me at girlwhotravelsworld@gmail.com or speak of your experience in the comments below.
Read Next: Travel Guide to Nicaragua
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Catholic School Board defers contentious washroom decision to school
By Slav Kornik & Emily Mertz Global News
Posted May 19, 2015 1:12 pm
Updated May 19, 2015 8:32 pm
WATCH ABOVE: The Edmonton Catholic School Board held a closed-door meeting today. It has been under fire for the way it handled a transgender student’s request to use the girls’ bathroom. Jessica Kent has the latest.
EDMONTON — A seven-year-old transgender student attending an Edmonton Catholic school will be able to use the girls’ washroom after all.
Trustee Patricia Grell voiced her opposition to the board’s decision to not allow the child to use the girls’ bathroom at her school.
In a statement Tuesday – following a private meeting – the board of trustees said the situation is “best addressed on an interim basis at the school level”.
“The board will continue to discuss policy with respect to this issue in consultation with the Archdiocese of Edmonton, medical specialists, parents and educational experts.”
The student’s mother said Tuesday the school has given her daughter permission to use the washroom of her choice. She said the school previously told her daughter to use a gender-neutral washroom.
“No parent wants to have the conversation with their child about encouraging them wanting to live and encouraging them that they’re not a disgrace to God,” the girl’s mother said, her voice breaking.
“So you go and you pray in your own sanctuary, and here comes Patricia Grell, the answer to my prayers, who stood up and said something.
“She is the reason why this change has happened.”
READ MORE: Local mother accuses Edmonton Catholic School Board of discrimination
The Catholic School Board also cancelled a special meeting to discuss the public nature of board business Tuesday afternoon.
The special meeting, scheduled for 4 p.m., had just one item on the agenda: “restructuring of board operations.”
However, the meeting was cancelled after the motion was withdrawn.
“The mover of the intended motion advised that she wished to withdraw that single item, and as a result, the board determined that it was not necessary to proceed with today’s meeting,” said Board Chair Debbie Engel.
“The agenda item was to discuss the public nature of board business and may be addressed at a future date.”
Heading into Tuesday morning’s private board meeting, Trustee Grell told Global News she is hoping she won’t face disciplinary action over speaking out against the board.
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Grell said she wasn’t certain what it was about, but hoped it had nothing to do with discipline for voicing her opposition to the board’s position.
“I’ve been hoping and praying that there are enough trustees who understand why I had to speak,” explained Grell.
“It really was my conscience. I had to follow my conscience on this one.”
Guidelines prohibit trustees from speaking out, Grell said. But she has argued the policy is “unconstitutional.”
“City councillors can speak out against the decisions of city council and MLAs can and MPs can. What’s with school trustees? Why can’t we speak out?”
Last week, Engel denied Grell would be asked to resign over her opposition of the board’s position on the matter.
“I guess I’m OK for now,” said Grell after Tuesday afternoon’s meeting was cancelled.
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Female Monsters, a Roman Goddess and Darwin: On Womanhood and Body When You Have Cancer
By Amal Awad
Two women speak to Amal Awad about a cancer diagnosis in their 30s.
Artwork by Caitlin Shearer.
Louise* is not a ‘religious’ person, but before her major surgery to treat stage four endometrial cancer, she prayed. It wasn’t God she turned to in those dim moments, instead Louise directed her invocations to Roman divinity Bona Dea, the ‘Good Goddess’.
The process of preparing for surgery is a complex one. As Louise recalls: “I had to do the bowel cleanse because they were working on my abdomen, so that involves two days of drinking nothing but liquid and just pooping like a waterfall – it’s so undignified.”
A friend likened it to the travails of a spiritual warrior. The great cleansing before communing with the gods. He suggested Louise find a patron within the pantheon of deity mythologies. Louise found Bona Dea.
An ancient Roman deity of health and womanhood, only women could worship Bona Dea and maintain a temple in her honour. In the eyes of Bona Dea, all women, slave or mistress, were equal. All were permitted to indulge in secret rituals, to drink wine and make offerings, led by the Vestal Virgins.
“If you’re going to pray to a spirit or a God about your looming hystorectomy and everything-ectomy, I think she’s not a bad one, right?” Louise muses.
Louise found comfort in the invocations she performed. “I felt like she spoke to me… I felt like she was with me. But I think in situations like that where you’re so afraid and… death is an actual possibility, I feel like your mind opens a little bit more, your spirit opens a little more, the barriers between you and everything else… they’re a bit thinner…” The veils between worlds are thin.
Yes, Louise says. And it’s about vulnerability, too. In a world that demands a constant, thick guard of resilience, the possibility of death rips you open.
We’re in a bustling inner west Sydney café, an area of the city that, like a once-ailing body revived, has been struck with new life due to gentrification. Worn-out milk bar signs sit unobtrusively between hipster cafes where everything is organic, or made with local produce and garnished with pretty, vibrant flowers. Everywhere you look there are signs of progress and fading nods to the past.
Louise fits in despite looking anything but hipster. Her social media persona is an amplified, artfully goth character who is witty, sharp and attuned to the struggles of life. In person, she seems a little quieter, her soft voice lifting itself above the din of the café as she recounts the most challenging time of her life.
We’re here because my explorations for a book on ageing and illness in Australia have led me down a fresh path. As I document stories on how people deal with the gradual decline of their bodies due to ageing, I find myself querying how the experience of illness differs when it afflicts the young.
In a world that demands a constant, thick guard of resilience, the possibility of death rips you open.
Louise is no stranger to me, but today we are connecting in a heightened way. Illness can grind you down, but also reignite you. Today, she emotes on her connection to a Roman goddess of health and womanhood, explaining how deeply her cancer affected her relationship with her body and femininity.
Louise was diagnosed at 37 with a very advanced cancer not usually seen in women below the age of 60. It took a circuitous route: starting in her uterus, then onto her reproductive system, through several lymph nodes in her groin and para-aortic area, into her adrenal gland.
“I had all of that removed via surgery, so basically they split me open and scooped me out. It was a big surgery,” Louise says. “Took me a while to recover, and then I had quite aggressive chemotherapy, which also took me a while to recover from.”
For years, Louise sensed that something wasn’t “right” in her body. Visits to medical professionals procured no diagnosis, apart from hypochondria. She suffered depression and developed an anxiety disorder.
The uterine cancer was unusual, and as she would discover, due to genetics. Louise’s family has Lynch Syndrome, a genetic mutation that predisposes you to certain types of cancers: uterine, bowel, prostate.
Louise speaks of tests as frightening and invasive. “It’s like this secret, painful, dark part of yourself that’s just ripped open and everybody’s staring at it, talking about it.”
As Louise was plunged into the experience of cancer, it wasn’t a sense of unfairness that plagued her; it was sadness, grief and mourning at her “lost future”. She was ageing young and grappling with the effects of cancer on her body, not just as a human, but as a woman. While she had been undecided about having children, her illness stripped her of the possibility altogether.
Louise’s sadness led her to tap into a darker thought: the idea of your femininity dissolving with the loss of hormones. “Like a possibility of life when you’re a woman, you hold that, even if you don’t want to have kids. Having that taken away from you feels like a bit of your identity has been taken away.”
Louise’s thoughts on her compromised body, a shadow over her femininity, led her down an interesting pathway. She began to dissect the portrayal of fictional female monsters.
“It’s more about a male gaze and the way that men saw women who couldn’t reproduce. The idea of a barren woman being a jealous, hollow woman who wanted to extract life from other people.”
The result was an intensely fascinating and creative deep-dive into Louise’s lonely, exploratory state of mind. On social media, she posted imagery of grotesque female monsters, funny images to reflect what she was feeling. She was humorous and mocking of her condition. She nicknamed the large tumour in her uterus ‘Frankenbaby’. She wanted interaction and to find healing through words and expression. Simply, it helped to write it down. It wasn’t self-pity or stoicism, it was her truth, her desire to unpack events, to make sense of them.
“It’s like this secret, painful, dark part of yourself that’s just ripped open and everybody’s staring at it, talking about it.”
She was also grappling with self-worth and how the inability to have children would now form part of her identity. “As though your feminine attributes come from the potential to bear children. And once you can no longer do that … you’re not human anymore,” she observes.
“There’s no value in your mind that you’ve worked so hard to build. The personality that you’ve worked so hard to create. The love that you give is somehow not relevant because you can’t have kids.”
I spoke to several women about various health conditions. When health and vitality are compromised, there is no shortage of pain, anguish and loss. Traumatic childbirths, conflicted, compromised bodies, chronic illness and disability – all of them affect people differently, but there are similar threads in all of them. All of the women expressed vulnerability.
When we meet on a sunny afternoon in Canberra, Ginger retells her journey in a matter-of-fact manner, but there is an emotional edge. There is still some turbulence to negotiate. You don’t speak about dealing with cancer and nearly dying in hospital without feeling it again, somehow, in some way.
Ginger, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at 30 when she was “literally the fittest and healthiest” she had been all her life, was confronted with a dilemma. She asked not what miracle cures and natural wellness could do for her. Rather, she worried: “Am I ‘biologically unfit’ now? In fact, am I meant to die?”
Ginger is in her 40s now, but she was single and child-free at the time of her illness. (She has since married and had kids.) Still, she worries about what sort of unfit genes she may pass on to future offspring. “My husband is a population geneticist and microbiologist by training, and he just won’t discuss it with me, he gets really upset.” He tells her that we have evolved; that science has evolved, and medical science is the reason she’s alive. Ginger is meant to be here.
Nevertheless, for Ginger, a social justice journalist with a fascination for Darwinism, her introspection into her own mortality and fitness was traumatic. She’s a left-winger and hates the idea that she could survive only with the help of big pharma. That made her angry. The idea of ‘survival of the fittest’ taunted her.
Ginger is used to interrogating things, to probing into the complexities of human experience, of what happens to us and why, and importantly, how we deal. She is reflective on how we tell stories, including those around illness. We have accepted tropes and they are generally the ways people can understand or talk about illness. She invokes The Wounded Storyteller, by Arthur W Frank.
“One of [these tropes], for example, is that you’re vulnerable and you’re weak. The other one is that you’re a hero and you’re fighting this brave battle,” says Ginger. “None of these stories fitted me. Obviously, at times I felt very weak and vulnerable, but mostly I just felt quite tough, and I wasn’t a brave hero or heroine fighting cancer, nor was I weak and vulnerable, I was something else.”
“You were you,” I offer.
“That’s right and I think that this is why it’s so hard to be a person with an illness because who in this universe fits those ridiculous tropes?”
Ginger’s objection to this casting taps into a similar observation by Louise – that stories can determine how we perceive illness and in the case of females, the effects of it on their female bodies.
Speaking to women dealing with illness, I detected a common thread of resilience, a desire to rework the narrative others might wish to tell. Louise tackled female subjugation through imagery of monsters; Ginger queried her biological fitness, and the archetypes framing discussion about it.
Ginger wanted to weave her own narrative. Following her full thyroidectomy, she made the unusual request of seeing her cancer cells. She thought it would be useful, helping her prepare to be “cut open” and, she admits, she wanted to see what cancer looks like, to look her bad cells “in the eye”.
Her pathologist obliged, showing her the cut-up cancerous thyroid on slides and placing them under a powerful microscope.
“It was amazing to see because normal, healthy animal cells are beautifully shaped and they have a very strong nucleus, and these were just nasty. They were long fingers that were all melded together and their nuclei were disgusting shapes, and I could see that they were sick.”
Ginger says it might sound strange, but it helped her. “I thought, ‘Good, OK, I can see what was wrong, and now I’m ready for the bit that fixes me’.”
Speaking to women dealing with illness, I detected a common thread of resilience, a desire to rework the narrative others might wish to tell.
Louise recognises the importance of narrative in her illness journey, too. She tells me that she not only prayed to Bona Dea, she also struck a deal. “I said, ‘Look, you get me through this, I’ll tell everybody about you. And I will get a tattoo of your symbol’.”
Bona Dea’s symbol is the snake, a frequent creature of global mythologies. It is a symbol that many find confronting, but its relevance lies in its ability to survive. To shed its skin and have new life.
Louise says she’s yet to get the tattoo, but I can picture how well it would suit her. A coiled creature with concealed power and the ability to prosper under the most difficult conditions.
And that promise to tell everyone about Bona Dea – that, at least, she has fulfilled.
Amal Awad’s book on ageing and illness, Fridays With My Folks, will be published in early 2019 by Penguin Random House.
Caitlin Shearer works from her studio in Melbourne as an illustrator, seamstress and clothing and textile designer. Fond of the exquisite forms found in nature – be it bodily or plant based – she looks to inspect the world with an intrinsically female eye at all times. Her multidisciplinary skills meet and then meld to create a visual world of their own.
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PARTIES: University of Toronto v F.Y.H.
Hearing Date(s): February 5, 2015
William C. McDowell, Chair
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Lu Zhao, Student Member
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Trial Division – s. B.i.1(d) and s. B.i.1(a) of the Code – plagiarism and forged documents – Student appropriated verbatim text from academic sources – Student altered Verification of Illness form to extend the projected illness end date – Agreed Statement of Facts – guilty plea – finding on Agreed Statement of Facts – finding on guilty plea – Joint Submission on Penalty – prior academic offence of plagiarism – Joint Submission on Penalty accepted – grade assignment of zero; 3-year suspension; notation on the Student’s academic record and transcript until her graduation; case reported to Provost for publication
Student charged under s. B.i.1(d) and s. B.i.1(a) of the Code. The charges related to allegations that the Student had knowingly represented the ideas of another as her own in a Course paper, and that the Student knowingly forged or altered a University of Toronto Verification of Illness or Injury form.
The Student pleaded guilty to both charges. There was an Agreed Statement of Facts. The Student appropriated text verbatim or nearly verbatim from two academic sources without any appropriate citations, and she altered a genuine Verification of Illness form that had been signed by a doctor to extend the projected end date for an illness with the intention of obtaining an accommodation to be excused from a missed midterm. The Panel noted that the Student had a prior offence of plagiarism and that at the time of the hearing she was serving a one-year academic suspension for poor academic performance. The Panel also noted that the Student had suffered from severe anxiety and depression, and stated that there was no question that at the time the offences were committed the Student’s medical condition significantly affected her ability to succeed in academic study. There was a Joint Submission on Penalty. The Panel accepted the Joint Submission on Penalty and it imposed a grade assignment of zero in the Course; a 3-year suspension; a notation on the Student’s academic record and transcript until her graduation from the University; and that the case be reported to the Provost for publication.
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In the '60s, a dispute between two motor industry titans, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, became one of the great stories of motor racing legend. Hollywood has now immortalized it on the big screen. Heel Tread is celebrating it with a Limited Edition 4-pack inspired on the liveries of the GT40's that changed racing forever.
In the first half of the 1960's decade Scuderia Ferrari dominated Le Mans, the crown jewel of sports car endurance racing, an event that granted its winners with an indelible patina of peak performance and toughness in the world's eyes.
Regardless of its motorsport success, Ferrari's business end was struggling financially and in 1963 Henry Ford II approached Enzo in an attempt to buy out the Italian brand. Talks ended abruptly when il Commendatore realized that his winning Scuderia was an integral part of the deal. A disgruntled Ford directed his racing division to come up with a machine to beat Ferrari - "OK, then will kick his ass", is reportedly the expression he used -, thus starting what became one of the great feuds in racing history.
The first prototypes of the GT40 hit the tracks in 1964 with limited success and no chance to beat the Ferraris. The Americans were at a crossroads, focusing on lucrative projects or keep hemorrhaging money on a seemingly-doomed ambition. Fortunately for all car fans, Ford's obsession with beating Enzo made him double down on the GT40 bet and Carrol Shelby and Ken Miles were hired as key assets in the GT40 development. Although far from a harmonious alliance, Shelby's savvy at building race cars and team management, and the skill of the maverick English racing driver, quickly translated into impressive performance enhancements, but the real prize still eluded the Blue Oval.
In the 55-car '66 Le Mans startup line laid an armada of no less than 13 GT40's. The race and post-race itself had enough drama for a separate movie, but in the end, it was a 1-2-3 win for Ford - cars #2, #1 and #5 took the podium with the other Shelby team #3 GT40 dropping out at the 18th hour.
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April 14, 2015 by Perez Leave a Comment
Hip Chick Alert wants all you Women to look at this documentary and hold on to your rights – fight for equal pay- pass this in to your family members- in support of:
NYC Equal Pay Rally today, April 14, 2015 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
NYC Steps of City Hall today!
Women Who Make America tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves.
MAKERS brings this story to life with priceless archival treasures and poignant, often funny interviews with those who led the fight, those who opposed it, and those first generations to benefit from its success. Trail-blazing women like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey share their memories, as do countless women who challenged the status quo in industries from coal-mining to medicine. MAKERS captures with music, humor, and the voices of the women who lived through these turbulent times the dizzying joy, aching frustration and ultimate triumph of a movement that turned America upside-down.
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Just some more random things on my mind…
»»» The fate of the entire world depends on a one game playoff played between two hockey teams. Your team is the team that won the Stanley Cup when you were born. The team opposing them is the team that won the Stanley Cup when your… On second thought, nevermind.
»»» I never got the sense that the Jets were ever that interested in buying out Dimtri Kulikov the first time around when the original buyout window was open, so it wasn’t a surprise to see it open again for the Jets yet again not to bother. The reason I think the Jets are keeping him around is two-fold.
One, the savings he would have provided the Jets this season – about $2.9 million – would have extended his presence on the Jets cap for another season where $1.4 million would remain. Sure the $4.3 million hit doesn’t help at all when trying to squeeze everyone in, but the Jets have three big restricted free agents due up next season – Jack Roslovic, Sami Niku and a big one with Josh Morrissey.
Two, I feel like the Jets are going to go into camp with the idea that unless he really impresses and earns a spot on the team, the club will send him to the AHL and see if another NHL club just won’t take him off their hands outright through waivers. He can spend his time on the Moose and then if there is an issue with injuries, the Jets at least have Kulikov as an in-house option – provided he doesn’t even up hurt himself.
I don’t know if that’s at all what the Jets are going to do, but if I was the General Manager – and we should all be thankful I am not – that’s what my game plan would be.
»»» The Blue Bombers losing to the hapless Toronto Argonauts by blowing a 20-0 lead in the second half of the game Thursday night was so very Blue Bombers of them to do.
Nights like last night are why Winnipeg sports fans are the way they are. We just can’t have nice things and we know it.
»»» On one hand, I openly wonder why the NHL continues to recycle through the same old pile of General Managers and Head Coaches year after year, rarely going outside of the box save for the odd breakthrough with a Kyle Dubas or a John Chayka.
And then I see that the Minnesota Wild have interviewed former Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli or are considering former Philadelphia Flyers GM Ron Hextall, and I find myself rooting for a division rival to just go ahead and keep on the grand old tradition of bringing in GMs who have failed in other locations.
Just as long as it doesn’t ever happen in Winnipeg.
** looks at Paul Maurice **
Damnit.
»»» I feel like we – the hockey community in general I mean – haven’t given the Columbus Blue Jackets enough props for going all-in at the trading deadline. Sure, it didn’t work out and lead to a championship run, but it also didn’t spectacularly fail either as we at least got a highly entertaining first round upset out of the whole thing. Yes, Panarin, Bobrovsky and Duchene all left the club this Summer via free agency and even former CBJ team president John Davidson going splits-ville, leaving the Jackets with nothing to show for now outside of the memories of their first ever playoff series win in franchise history.
The Jackets at best were barely a playoff club that decided to load up. My hope is GMs would see that and instead of having the lasting thought of nothing to show for it being the end result, the main takeaway should really be that loading up like the Jackets did helped them topple a number one seed club in Tampa, so just imagine what a legitimate Cup contender could do by going all-in.
»»» With the trade deadline in baseball come and gone it strikes me funny that Major League Baseball Clubs that you’d consider sellers look to trade players that still have a year or even more left on their current contracts. It’s harder for teams that are buyers – especially those looking just to make a run for a one game wild card playoff – to give up prime prospects for a player who will likely walk away two months later.
Zack Greinke on the final year of his deal in 2021 would have not netted the same same return for Arizona that it did for them this year with two more years left on his deal. The Astros trade four pretty solid prospects for a single pitcher and while they add what may be the final pitching ace stone to their Infinity Gauntlet, Arizona – who were kind of dead in the water anyway – get to kick start a bit of a rebuild that should see them get three of not all four players in a major league lineup over the next three seasons.
I’ve always wondered why NHL GM’s don’t have that same mentality and more to the point why didn’t Cheveldayoff and the Jets be more forward thinking with Jacob Trouba?
Yes, two seasons ago the Jets were in the middle of a historic 100+ point regular season, fighting for first in the Central and poised to make a deep playoff run so trading a key piece of the defense would have been tough, but it also likely would have gained a better return than what he ended up collecting for the Jets two years later.
»»» Go listen to some Tool today. Drake as well if you must, but just listen to mostly Tool.
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The Pacik Vaginismus Treatment Trial
Alysson Striner, PT, DPT, PRPC
I recently assisted at a Pelvic Floor Level 2B course which has been updated with recent research, new sections, and less repetition from Pelvic Floor Level 1. In the course they mentioned this article which sparked a lively discussion and I had to learn more. It is rare to see a study with a large number of participants in pelvic health and especially with a vaginismus diagnosis.
Vaginismus is defined as a genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder along with dyspareunia under the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Fifth Edition) in which penetration is often impossible due to pain and fear. Vaginismus is both a physical and psychological disorder as it exhibits both muscle spasms and fear/anxiety of penetration. Symptoms vary by severity. Common presentation is an inability or discomfort to insert/remove a tampon, pain with penetration, and complaints of “hitting a wall” in attempted penetration; and inability to participate in gynecological exams.
The authors of this study evaluated the severity of vaginismus. The penetrative history was used in addition to presentation at pelvic exam, and then given a level. There are 2 grading systems, Lamont and Pacik, that indicate the level of fear and anxiety about being touched. They found that those with severe vaginismus were Lamont levels 3 and 4, and Pacik level 5. For example, a Pacik Level 5 includes Lamont grade 4 “generalized retreat: buttocks lift up; thighs close, patient retreats” plus a visceral reaction such as “palpitations, hyperventilation, sweating, severe trembling, uncontrollable shaking, screaming, hysteria, wanting to jump off the table, a feeling of going unconscious, nausea, vomiting and even a desire to attack the doctor”.
241 patients participated in this study, with a mean duration of 7.8 years. 70% of participants were a Lamont level 4 or Pacik level 5 at baseline. The authors looked at previous treatments tried and coping strategies; 74% had tried lube, 73% had tried dilators, 50% had tried Kegels, 28% had tried physical therapy, 3% had tried a surgical vestibulectomy. The full table 2 is in the article. Most participants had a mean of at least 4 failed treatments.
The aim was to help these women to achieve pain free intercourse after treatment. In order to tolerate the treatment, many were sedated with midazolam before the Q-tip test, and more sedation given as needed. The treatment lasted for about 30 minutes and consisted of:
Q-tip test with as minimal sedation as possible to rule out vulvodynia and provoked vestibulodynia
Digital exam of tolerance in order to assess the level of spasm in introitus. Graded 0 (no spasm) to 4 (severe spasm where digital insertion was difficult)
Botox 50 U injections to right and left submucosal space near the bulbospongiosus muscle administered with a pediatric speculum placed. Additional Botox was injected submucosally into levator ani muscles if also in spasm/tight
Injections 0.25% bupivacaine (a numbing agent) 1 mL increments along right and left lateral vaginal walls (9 mL per side) from cervix to introitus
Progressive dilation; circumference 3 inches (#4), 4 inches (#5), 5 inches (#6)
Reassessed with digital examination
Re-insert #5 or #6 dilator and patient was awakened and taken to recovery
If the patient consented, her partner could be present during the procedure and was allowed to palpate the level of spasm with gloved digit and was educated on dilator insertion. The authors noted that many partners had a ‘profound’ experience.
A nurse worked with the couple for about two hours in the recovery room to help them be more comfortable moving the dilator in and out with minimal-to-no pain as the numbing agent lasts 6-8 hours. Three participants were treated each time and consented to meet each other. Patients were discharged with #4 dilator in place and asked to keep in until the next day. They were given Ibuprofen and sleeping aids as needed.
Participants return with partners and progress up to larger sizes (#5 and #6). They participate in group counseling with the primary researcher Dr. Pacik. This lasted about 5 hours; and consisted of education of dilator progression, returning to intercourse and lubricants. If participants wished to have private counseling instead that was granted. Many exchanged contact information. They were encouraged to continue seeing their healthcare clinicians as indicated; sex therapists, physical therapists, psychologists.
Dilator Progression
- 2 hours of dilator per day. Either in 1 sitting or 1 hour of dilator work x2 per day
- Progress to bigger sizes until #5 or #6 is comfortable
- 1 hour of dilator use per day and continue toward larger sizes
- 15-30 minutes of dilator use per day
- 10-15 minutes of dilator use per day or every other day
During the counseling session post-procedure, the recommendations for returning to intercourse included:
Delaying intercourse until #5 dilator was able to be easily inserted
It is helpful to do 1 hour of dilator work before attempting intercourse for the first time
If partner’s penis is larger progress to larger dilators (#7 - 6 inch circumference or #8 7 inch circumference)
Goal of the first few attempts is to insert tip of dilator only
Once tip can be inserted easily then progress to full penetration; restrain from thrusting
Try “spooning position” if ‘leg lock’ occurs
Try different positions with dilator work and intercourse to see what works best
71% of participants achieved pain-free coitus 5 weeks after the procedure. 2.5% could not achieve coitus within one-year period although they could use #5 or #6 dilators. The participants were given a validated outcome tool, the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), before and after the procedure and at 1-month, 3-months, 6-months, and 1-year; with significant improvement at each interval. The patients were followed for one year, and often remained in contact with the authors for much longer ranging from 16-months to 9-years.
The authors propose that use of dilators at the time of botox and post procedure counseling and support help participants ‘break through’, whereas previous treatment may not be as multidimensional and limit efficacy. Botox lasts 2-4 months and allowed for dilation progression.
Initially after reading this article the treatment seemed a little drastic to me, but then I considered the women with this level of vaginismus are often not coming into my clinic. They may need this level of structure, consistently, and multidimensional treatment as half measures have failed them. I am so glad they were persistent and found the help they needed.
Pacik, P., Geletta, S. Vaginismus Treatment: Clinical Trials Follow Up 241 Patients. Sex Med 2017;5:e114-e123
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Re-capturing Sensual Pleasure After Resolution of Pelvic Pain: CSM Presentation
Nari Clemons, PT, PRPC
The female sexual response cycle is more than physical stimulation. As pelvic therapists, we frequently find ourselves treating pelvic pain that has interrupted a woman’s ability to enjoy her sexuality and sensuality. As physical therapists, we focus on the physical limitations and pain generators as a way of helping patients overcome their functional limitations. However, many of us find that once many of the physical symptoms have cleared with pelvic floor and fascial stretching, our patients are still apprehensive to engage physically, or they are not able to derive pleasure. There is clearly a gap that needs to be bridged that goes beyond pain.
Last year I taught my class, Lumbar Nerve Manual Assessment and Treatment. I was honored and astounded to have Dee Hartmann, PT in my class. For those of you who do not know Dee, she has been a champion of our field for a long time, and she has been instrumental in elevating physical therapy as a first line of treatment in pelvic pain through her work, international leadership, and representation in multiple organizations, including APTA SOWH, ISSVD, IPPS, NVA, ISSWSH, and as an editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
In this manual nerve class, I was teaching how to treat the path of the genitofemoral nerve, which affects the peri-clitoral tissues and sensation. We also covered manual therapy approaches to decrease restriction in the clitoral complex and improve the blood flow response in this region. Dee was fascinated and looped me into what she had been working on for the past several years. She has been working as part of a company called Vulvalove with her partner, sex therapist, Elizabeth Wood on studying and teaching women how to recapture their sensuality. Immediately, we wanted to combine forces in some way to present a way to approach these issues. So, when Dee invited me to present with Elizabeth and her at the Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association (CSM) this year, I was humbled and excited to jump on board.
With improved tissue mobility in the clitoral and vaginal area, blood flow is able to improve through any previously restricted tissues. With any manual therapy or soft tissue work, it is expected that cutaneous circulation of blood and lymph will alter. In studies, a measure of this blood flow, VPA (Vaginal Pulse Amplitude) is higher in the arousal than the non-arousal state in women.4 “The first measurable sign of sexual arousal is an increase in the blood flow. This creates the engorged condition, elevates the luminal oxygen tension and stimulates the production of surface vaginal fluid by increased plasma”.5 Manual therapy can likely affect this.1,2. During our CSM talk, I will discuss the neurovascular anatomy and will have a brief video of manual techniques to enhance these pathways in my portion of the presentation.
In the 19th century, female orgasm and sensuality was believed to be more vaginal, but as the 20th century unfolded, understanding of the clitoral tissues improved. More recent research reveals the origin of female pleasure is more complex, involving the clitoris, vulva, vagina, and uterus.3 However, female response is more complicated than just anatomy below the waist.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a measure of autonomic nervous system health and the ability to flux between sympathetic and parasympathetic states. Autogenic training and meditation or mindfulness have been shown in multiple studies to improve HRV. A study by Stanton in 2017 demonstrated that even one session of autogenic training can increase HRV and VPA (Vaginal Pulse Amplitude, a measure of arousal). In our talk at CSM, Dee will cover the role of autogenics and how to specifically and practically use our autonomic state to influence our perception and feeling of pleasure. Dee will also cover extensive clitoral anatomy to have a better understanding of how this intricate complex functions and is structured in women.
Elizabeth Wood, a former sex therapist who is now a sex educator, will then present on the arousal cycle and what can be done physiologically to prepare the arousal network for climax. Elizabeth will help us to better define and understand the roles of arousal, calibration, and exploring sensuality, including exercises to help a patient have a more fulfilling experience once the physical pain is resolved. As Elizabeth says, “Knowledge is an antidote to shame and an invitation to pleasure”.
If you will be at CSM, please come join us at the opening session, Thursday February 13 from 8am-10am (PH2540), “Now That The Pain Is Gone, Where’s the Pleasure”.
If you can’t make it to CSM, I hope to see you at one of my nerve classes, “Lumbar Nerve Manual Therapy and Assessment” this year in Madison, WI April 24-26 or Seattle, WA October 16-18 to further explore manual therapies to improve sensation and neural feedback loops and to continue this conversation!
1. Portillo-Soto, A., Eberman, L. E., Demchak, T. J., & Peebles, C. (2014). Comparison of blood flow changes with soft tissue mobilization and massage therapy. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 20(12), 932-936.
2. Ramos-González, E., Moreno-Lorenzo, C., Matarán-Peñarrocha, G. A., Guisado-Barrilao, R., Aguilar-Ferrándiz, M. E., & Castro-Sánchez, A. M. (2012). Comparative study on the effectiveness of myofascial release manual therapy and physical therapy for venous insufficiency in postmenopausal women. Complementary therapies in medicine, 20(5), 291-298.
3. Colson, M. H. (2010). Female orgasm: Myths, facts and controversies. Sexologies, 19(1), 8-14.
4. Rogers, G. S., Van de Castle, R. L., Evans, W. S., & Critelli, J. W. (1985). Vaginal pulse amplitude response patterns during erotic conditions and sleep. Archives of sexual behavior, 14(4), 327-342.
5. Stanton, A., & Meston, C. (2017). A single session of autogenic training increases acute subjective and physiological sexual arousal in sexually functional women. Journal of sex & marital therapy, 43(7), 601-617.
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Mia Fine, MS, LMFT, CST Launches a Course on Sexual Interviewing for Pelvic Health Therapists
Herman & Wallace
Mia Fine, MS, LMFT, CST joins the Herman & Wallace faculty in 2020 with her new course on Sexual Interviewing for Pelvic Health Therapists! The new course is launching this April 4-5, 2020 in Seattle, WA; Lecture topics include bio-psycho-social-spiritual interviewing skills, maintaining a patient-centered approach to taking a sexual history, and awareness of potential provider biases that could compromise treatment. Labs will take the form of experiential practice with Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual-Sexual Interviewing Skills, case studies and role playing. Check out Mia's interview with The Pelvic Rehab Report, then join her for Sexual Interviewing for Pelvic Health Therapists!
Tell us about yourself, Mia!
My name is Mia Fine, MS, LMFT, CST and I’ve been a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist for four years. I am an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and my private practice is Mia Fine Therapy, PLLC. I see these kinds of patients: folks with Erectile Dysfunction, Pre-mature Ejaculation, Vaginismus, Dyspareunia, Desire Discrepancy, LGBTQ+, Ethical Non-monogamy, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Relational Concerns, Improving Communication.
What can you tell us about the new course?
This course will offer a great deal of current and empirically-founded sex therapy and sex education resources for both the provider as well as the patient. This course will add the extensive skills of interviewing for sexual health. It also offers the provider a new awareness and self-knowledge on his/her/their own blind spots and biases.
How will skills learned at this course allow practitioners to see patients differently?
Human beings are hardwired for connection, intimacy, and pleasure. Our society often tells us that there is something wrong with us, or that we are defective, for wanting a healthy sex life and for addressing our human needs/sexual desires. This course will broaden the provider’s scope of competence in working with patients who experience forms of sexual dysfunction and who hope to live their full sexual lives.
What inspired you to create this course?
This course was inspired by the need for providers who work with pelvic floor concerns to be trained in addressing and discussing sexual health with their patients.
What resources were essential in creating your course?
Becoming a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Medical Family Therapist requires three years of intensive graduate school. Additionally, a minimum of two years of training to become an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and hundreds of hours of direct client contact hours, supervision, and consultation. I attend numerous sex therapy trainings and continuing education opportunities on a regular and ongoing basis. I also train incoming sex therapists on current modalities and working with vulnerable client populations.
How do you think these skills will benefit a clinician in their practice?
It is vital that providers working with pelvic floor concerns have the necessary education and training to work with patients on issues of sexual dysfunction. It is also important that providers be aware of their own biases and be introduced to the various sexual health resources available to providers and patients.
What is one important technique taught in your course that everybody should learn?
Role playing sexual health interview questions is an important experience in feeling the discomfort that many providers feel when asking sexual health questions. This offers insight not only into the provider experience but also the patient’s experience of uncomfortability. Role playing this dynamic illustrates the very real experiences that show up in the therapeutic context.
Sexuality is core to most human beings’ identity and daily experiences. When there are concerns relating to our sexual identity, sexual health, and capacity to access our full potential, it affects our quality of life as well as our holistic well-being. Working with folks on issues of sexual health and decreasing sexual dysfunction encourages awareness and encourages healing. Imagining a world where human beings don’t walk around holding shame or traumatic pain is imaging a world of health and happiness.
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Treating Male Sexual Dysfunction with Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises
Often pelvic floor therapists see men for post-prostatectomy urinary leakage. However, at least for me, that quickly led to seeing male patients for pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction. Male sexual dysfunction is a broad category and can consist of erectile dysfunction (ED), ejaculation disorders including premature ejaculation (PE), and low libido -- often there is a pelvic floor muscle (PFM) dysfunction component. Conservative treatment frequently consists of pharmacological and lifestyle changes for this population.
In normal sexual function, the male superficial pelvic floor musculature (bulbocavernosus and ischiocavernosus) work together to create increased intracavernosus pressure by limiting venous return, resulting in an erection. Ejaculation is created by rhythmic contractions of the bulbocavernosus muscle.
The authors of this systematic review were curious if pelvic floor muscle training was effective for treating erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation diagnoses, and if so to determine whether there is a treatment protocol. Ten studies were found that met the inclusion criteria, five that focused on ED and five that focused on PE. In total, there were 668 participants ranging in age from 30-59 years old. Studies were excluded if participants were post-prostatectomy and/or had a neurological diagnosis. The intervention was a pelvic floor program, and pelvic floor muscle contractions were either taught or supervised. Studies also included supportive treatment including biofeedback, lifestyle changes, and electrical stimulation.
The studies focused on erectile dysfunction listed a combination of hormonal, psychogenic, arteriogenic, and venogenic causes. The pelvic floor training ranged from 5-20 visits over 3-4 months and included a home exercise program. Pelvic floor training was similar in all studies and consisted of maximal quick contractions over one second and submaximal endurance holds over 6-10 seconds. Compliance to home exercise program was not assessed. Between 35% and 47% of participants reported a full resolution of symptoms. Subjective improvements were supported by improved maximal anal pressure and intracavernosus pressure. One study used the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and showed significant improvement (p<0.05).
The studies focused on premature ejaculation noted participants had either lifelong or secondary PE. The pelvic floor training in these studies ranged from 12-20 sessions over 1-3 months. All studies used electrical stimulation as part of the pelvic floor muscle training. Four studies also used biofeedback. Only one study listed a home exercise program but did not report on compliance. The pelvic floor muscle training was compared to nothing in three studies, and to a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) in the other two studies. Patient reported full resolution of symptoms was 55-83% in two studies, and there was a significant improvement in delay in heterosexual penetrative ejaculation (p<0.05) in three studies.
For both erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation, pelvic floor muscle exercise prescription was 2-3 times per week with pelvic floor muscle contractions both maximal quick contractions and submaximal endurance holds. Significant results were shown with participants who were taught pelvic floor muscle contractions through a combination of verbal and physical means (typically biofeedback). Specific verbal cues were not reported. The authors suggest that electrical stimulation was helpful for training recruitment patterns; however, there was not a significant difference in outcomes for those with ED when using electrical stimulation. The authors suggest that pelvic floor muscle training can be part of a conservative treatment. It may be used with oral pharmacology for quick results, and may be beneficial with electrical stimulation and biofeedback, though more research is indicated.
If you are interested in learning more about treating male patients, consider attending Male Pelvic Floor: Function, Dysfunction, and Treatment!
Myers, C., Smith, M. “Pelvic floor muscle training improves erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation: a systematic review” Physiotherapy 105 (2019) 235–243
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Testicle and penis pain or numbness after hernia repair
Most people are told that inguinal hernia repair is a low risk surgery. While death or severe injury is rare, penile or testes pain after hernia repair is not a novel or recent finding. In 1943, Magee first discussed patients having genitofemoral neuralgia after appendix surgery. By 1945, both Magee and Lyons stated that surgical neurolysis gave relief of genital pain following surgical injury (neurolysis is a surgical cutting of the nerve to stop all function). However, it should be noted that with neurolysis, sensory loss will also occur, which is an undesired symptom for sexual function and pleasure. In 1978 Sunderland stated genitofemoral neuralgia was a well-documented chronic condition after inguinal hernia repair.
Let’s do a quick anatomy review. The inguinal canal is located at the lower abdomen and is actually an extension of the external oblique muscles. Is travels along the line from the ASIS to the pubic tubercle, occupying grossly the medial third of this segment. It has a lateral ring where contents from the abdomen exit and a medial ring where the contents of the canal exit superficially. This ring contains the spermatic cord (male), round ligament (female), as well as the ilioinguinal and genitofemoral nerves. For males, in early life, the testes descend from the abdominal cavity to the exterior scrotal sac through the inguinal canal, bringing a layer of the obliques, transverse abdominus, and transversalis fascia with them within the first year of life. Just as a female can experience prolapse from prolonged increased intra-abdominal pressure, a male can have a herniation through the anterior abdominal wall and inguinal canal with increased abdominal pressure. Such pressure inducing activities can be lifting, coughing, and sports activities. When this occurs, an inguinal hernia repair is generally indicated. Because the genitofemoral nerve is within the contents of the inguinal canal, it can be susceptible to surgery in this area. The genitofemoral nerve has sensory innervation to the penis and testes and is responsible for the cremasteric reflex. Symptoms of genitofemoral neuralgia in men can be penis or testes pain, numbness, hypersensitivity, and decreased sexual satisfaction or function.
In 1999 Stark et al noted pain reports as high as 63% post hernia repair. The highest rates of genitofemoral neuralgia are reported with laparoscopic or open hernia repair (Pencina, 2001). The mechanism for GF neural entrapment is entrapment within scar or fibrous adhesions and parasthesia along the genitofemoral nerve (Harms 1984, Starling and Harms 1989, Murovic 2005, and Ducic 2008). It is well known that scar and adhesion densify and visceral adhesions increase for years after surgery. Thus, symptoms can increase long after the surgery or may take years to develop. In 2006, Brara postulated that mesh in the region can contribute to subsequent genitofemoral nerve tethering which can be exacerbated by mesh in the inguinal or the retroperitoneal space. With an anterior mesh placement, there is no fascial protection left for the genitofemoral nerve.
Genitofemoral neuralgia is predominately reported as a result of iatrogenic nerve damage during surgery or trauma to the inguinal and femoral regions (Murovic et al, 2005). However, genitofemoral neuropathy can be difficulty and elusive to diagnose due to overlap with other inguinal nerves (Harms, 1984 and Chen 2011).
In my clinical experience, I have seen such symptoms after hernia repair, but also after procedures near the inguinal region such as femoral catheters for heart procedures, appendectomies, and occasionally after vasectomy.
As a pelvic PT, what are we to do with this information? First off, we can realize that all pelvic neuropathy is not necessarily due to the pudendal nerve. In the anterior pelvis, there is dual innervation from the inguinal nerves off the lumbar plexus as well as the dorsal branch of the pudendal nerve. When patients have a history of inguinal hernia repair, we can consider the genitofemoral nerve as a source of pain. Medicinally, the only research validated options for treatment are meds such as Lyrica or Gabapentin that come with drowsiness, dizziness and a score of side effects. Surgically neurectomy or neural ablation are options with numbness resulting, however, many patients do not want repeated surgery or numbness of the genitals. As pelvic therapists, we can manually fascially clear the path of the nerve from L1/L2, through the psoas, into and out of the canal and into the genitals. We can also manually directly mobilize the nerve at key points of contact as well as doing pain free sliders and gliders and then give the patient a home program to maintain mobility. Pelvic manual therapy can offer a low risk, side-effect free option to ameliorate the sequella of inguinal hernia repair. Come join us at Lumbar Nerve Manual Assessment and Treatment in Chicago this Spring to learn how to effectively treat all the nerves of the lumbar plexus.
Cesmebasi, A., Yadav, A., Gielecki, J., Tubbs, R. S., & Loukas, M. (2015). Genitofemoral neuralgia: a review. Clinical Anatomy, 28(1), 128-135.
Lyon, E. K. (1945). Genitofemoral causalgia. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 53(3), 213.
Magee, R. K. (1943). Genitofemoral Causalgia: New Syndrome. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 98(3), 311.
Sunderland S. Nerves and nerve injuries. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1978
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Pelvic, Sexual, and Bone Health at Menopause
Michelle Lyons, PT, MISCP
A question that often comes up in conversation around menopause is that of pelvic health – the effects on bladder, bowel or sexual health…what works, what’s safe, what’s not? Is hormone therapy better, worse or the same in terms of efficacy when compared to pelvic rehab? Do we have a role here?
An awareness of pelvic health issues that arise at menopause was explored in Oskay’s 2005 paper ‘A study on urogenital complaints of postmenopausal women aged 50 and over’ stating ‘…Urinary incontinence and sexual problems, particularly decline in sexual desire, are widespread among postmenopausal women. Frequent urinary tract infections, obesity, chronic constipation and other chronic illnesses seem to be the predictors of UI.’
Moller’s 2006 paper explored the link between LUTS (Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms) and sexual activity at midlife: the paper discussed how lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) have a profound impact on women’s physical, social, and sexual well being, and confirmed that LUTS are likely to affect sexual activity. However, they also found that conversely, sexual activity may affect the occurrence of LUTS – in their study a questionnaire was sent to 4,000 unselected women aged 40–60 years, and they found that compared to women having sexual relationship, a statistically significant 3 to 6 fold higher prevalence of LUTS was observed in women with no sexual relationship. They also found that women who ceased sexual relationship an increase in the de novo occurrence of most LUTS was observed, concluding that ‘…sexual inactivity may lead to LUTS and vice versa’.
So, who advises women going through menopause about issues such as sexual ergonomics, the use of lubricants or moisturisers, or provide a discussion about the benefits of local topical estrogen? As well as providing a skillset that includes orthopaedic assessment to rule out any musculo-skeletal influences that could be a driver for sexual dysfunction? That would be the pelvic rehab specialist clinician! Tosun et al asked the question ‘Do stages of menopause affect the outcomes of pelvic floor muscle training?’ and the answer in this and other papers was yes; with the research comparing pelvic rehab vs hormone therapy vs a combination approach of pelvic rehab and topical estrogen providing the best outcomes. Nygaard’s paper looked at the ‘Impact of menopausal status on the outcome of pelvic floor physiotherapy in women with urinary incontinence’ and concluded that : ‘…(both pre and postmenopausal women) benefit from motor learning strategies and adopt functional training to improve their urinary symptoms in similar ways, irrespective of hormonal status or HRT and BMI category’.
We must also factor in some of the other health concerns that pelvic health can impact at midlife for women – Brown et al asked the question ‘Urinary incontinence: does it increase risk for falls and fractures?’ They answered their question by concluding that ‘‘… urge incontinence was associated independently with an increased risk of falls and non-spine, nontraumatic fractures in older women. Urinary frequency, nocturia, and rushing to the bathroom to avoid urge incontinent episodes most likely increase the risk of falling, which then results in fractures. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of urge incontinence may decrease the risk of fracture.’
If you are interested in learning more about pelvic health, sexual function and bone health at Menopause, consider attending Menopause Rehabilitation and Symptom Management.
Sexual activity and lower urinary tract symptoms’ Møller LA1, Lose G. Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct. 2006 Jan;17(1):18-21. Epub 2005 Jul 29.
A study on urogenital complaints of postmenopausal women aged 50 and over. Oskay UY1, Beji NK, Yalcin O. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2005 Jan;84(1):72-8.
Do stages of menopause affect the outcomes of pelvic floor muscle training? Tosun ÖÇ1, Mutlu EK, Tosun G, Ergenoğlu AM, Yeniel AÖ, Malkoç M, Aşkar N, İtil İM. Menopause. 2015 Feb;22(2):175-84. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000278.
‘Impact of menopausal status on the outcome of pelvic floor physiotherapy in women with urinary incontinence.’ Nygaard CC1, Betschart C, Hafez AA, Lewis E, Chasiotis I, Doumouchtsis SK. Int Urogynecol J. 2013 Dec;24(12):2071-6. doi: 10.1007/s00192-013-2179-7. Epub 2013 Jul 17
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Post-prostatectomy Penile Rehabilitation
Faiq Shaikh, M.D.
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a debilitation complication of radical prostatectomy, which is a treatment for prostate cancer. ED is caused by a variety of causes, diabetic vasculopathy, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, psychological issues, peripheral vascular disease and medication; we will focus on post-prostatectomy ED and the role of penile rehabilitation in its management.
Post-prostatectomy-related Erectile dysfunction
Radical prostatectomy can result in nerve injury to the penis. Moreover, significant fibrotic changes take place in the corpus cavernosum of the penis postoperatively. It takes approximately 1-2 years for erectile function to return after radical prostatectomy. This is a period of “neuropraxia,” during which there is transient cavernosal nerve dysfunction. However, a prolonged “flaccid state” might lead to irreversible damage to the cavernous tissue 1.
Research on penile hemodynamics in these patients have shown that venous leakage is also implicated in its pathophysiology. An injury to the neurovascular bundles likely leads to smooth muscle cell death, which then leads to irreversible veno-occlusive disease.
There is a potential role of hypoxia in stimulating growth factors (TGF-beta) that stimulate collagen synthesis in cavernosal smooth muscle. Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) was found to suppress the effect of TGF-β1 on collagen synthesis.
Role of Penile Rehabilitation
The goal of Penile Rehabilitation is to limit and reverse ED in post-prostatectomy patients. The idea is to minimize fibrotic changes during the period of “penile quiescence” after nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. Several approaches have been tried, including PGE1 injection, vacuum devices, and phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors.
Mulhall and coworkers followed 132 patients through an 18-month period after they were placed in “rehabilitation” or “no rehabilitation” groups after radical prostatectomy, and 52% of those undergoing rehabilitation (sildenafil + alprostadil) reported spontaneous functional erections, compared with 19% of the men in the no-rehabilitation group 2.
Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1)
Alprostadil is a vasodilatory prostaglandin E1 that can be injected into the penis or placement in the urethra in order to treat ED. Montorsi, et al. studied the use of intracorporeal injections of alprostadil starting at 1 month after bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy and reported a higher rate of spontaneous erections after 6 months compared with no treatment 3. Gontero, et al. investigated alprostadil injections at various time points after non–nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy and found that 70% of patients receiving injections within the first 3 months were able to achieve erections sufficient for intercourse, compared with 40% of patients receiving injections after the first 3 months 4.
Vacuum constriction device (VCD)
VCD is an external pump that is used to get and maintain an erection. Raina, et al evaluated the daily use of a VCD beginning within two months after radical prostatectomy, and reported that after 9 months of treatment, 17% of patients using the device had return of natural erections sufficient for intercourse, compared with 11% of patients in the nontreatment group 4.
PDE-5 Inhibitors
PDE-5 inhibitors (such as Sildenafil) are the first-line treatment for ED of many etiologies. Several studies have shown that the use of PDE-5 inhibitors might lead to an overall improvement in endothelial cell function in the corpus cavernosum. Chronic use of oral PDE-5 inhibitors suggest a beneficial effect on endothelial cell function. Desouza, et al. concluded that daily sildenafil improves overall vascular endothelial cell function. However, Zagaja, et al. found that men taking oral sildenafil within the first 9 months of a nerve-sparing procedure did not have any erectogenic response 4.
Overall, accumulating scientific literature is suggesting that penile rehabilitation therapies have a positive impact on the sexual function outcome in post-prostatectomy patients. It must be noted that these methods do not cure ED and should be used with caution.
1Penson DF, McLerran D, Feng Z, et al. 5-year urinary and sexual outcomes after radical prostatectomy: results from the prostate cancer outcomes study. J Urol. 2005;173:1701-1705.
2Mulhall J, Land S, Parker M, et al. The use of an erectogenic pharmacotherapy regimen following radical prostatectomy improves recovery of spontaneous erectile function. J Sex Med. 2005; 2:532-540.
3Montorsi F, Guazzoni G, Strambi LF, et al. Recovery of spontaneous erectile function after nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy with and without early intracavernous injections of alprostadil: results of a prospective, randomised trial. J Urol. 1997;158:1408-1410.
4Gontero P, Fontana F, Bagnasacco A, et al. Is there an optimal time for intracavernous prostaglandin E1 rehabilitation following non- nerve sparing radical prostatectomy? Results from a hemodynamic prospective study. J Urol. 2003;169:2166-2169.
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Intimacy After Prostate Cancer
Holly Tanner, PT, DPT, MA, OCS, WCS, PRPC, LMP, BCB-PMD, CCI
Managing a medical crisis such as a cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming for an individual. Faced with choices about medical options, dealing with disruptions in work, home and family life often leaves little energy left to consider sexual health and intimacy. Maintaining closeness, however, is often a goal within a partnership and can aid in sustaining a relationship through such a crisis. The research is clear about cancer treatment being disruptive to sexual health, yet intimacy is a larger concept that may be fostered even when sexual activity is impaired or interrupted. Last year, when I was asked to speak to the Pacific NW Prostate Cancer Conference about intimacy, I was pleasantly surprised to find a rich body of literature about maintaining intimacy despite a diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Sexual health and sexuality is a social construct affected by many factors including mood, stress, depression, self-image, physiology, psychology, culture, relational and spiritual factors (Beck et al., 2009; Weiner & Avery-Clark, 2017) Prostate cancer treatment can change relational roles, finances, work life, independence, and other factors including hormone levels.(Beck et al., 2009) Exhaustion (on the part of the patient and the caregiver), role changes, changes in libido and performance anxiety can create further challenges. (Beck et al., 2009; Hawkins et al., 2009; Higano et al., 2012) Recovery of intimacy is possible, and reframing of sexual health may need to take place. Most importantly, these issues need to be talked about, as renegotiation of intimacy may need to take place after a diagnosis or treatment of prostate cancer. (Gilbert et al., 2010)
If the patient brings up sexual health, or we encourage the conversation, there are many research-based suggestions we can provide to encourage recovery of intimacy, several are listed below.
- Manage general health, fitness, nutrition, sleep, anxiety and stress
- Redefine sex as being beyond penetration, consider other sexual practices such as massage/touch, cuddling, talking, use of vibrators, medication, aids such as pumps (Usher et al., 2013)
- Participate in couples therapy to understand partners’ needs, address loss, be educated about sexual function (Wittman et al., 2014; Wittman et al., 2015)
- Participate in “sensate focus” activities (developed by Masters & Johnson in 1970’s as “touch opportunities”) with appropriate guidance (Weiner & Avery-Clark 2017)
Within the context of this information, there is opportunity to refer the patient to a provider who specializes in sexual health and function. While some rehabilitation professionals are taking additional training to be able to provide a level of sexual health education and counseling, most pelvic health providers do not have the breadth and depth of training required to provide counseling techniques related to sexual health- we can, however, get the conversation started, which in the end may be most important.
In the men’s health course, we further discuss sexual anatomy and physiology, prostate issues, and look at the research describing models of intimacy and what worked for couples who did learn to renegotiate intimacy after prostate cancer.
Beck, A. M., Robinson, J. W., & Carlson, L. E. (2009, April). Sexual intimacy in heterosexual couples after prostate cancer treatment: What we know and what we still need to learn. In Urologic oncology: seminars and original investigations (Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 137-143). Elsevier.
Beck, A. M., Robinson, J. W., & Carlson, L. E. (2013). Sexual Values as the Key to Maintaining Satisfying Sex After Prostate Cancer Treatment : The Physical Pleasure–Relational Intimacy Model of Sexual Motivation. Archives of sexual behavior, 42(8), 1637-1647.
Gilbert, E., Ussher, J. M., & Perz, J. (2010). Renegotiating sexuality and intimacy in the context of cancer: the experiences of carers. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39(4), 998-1009.
Hawkins, Y., Ussher, J., Gilbert, E., Perz, J., Sandoval, M., & Sundquist, K. (2009). Changes in sexuality and intimacy after the diagnosis and treatment of cancer: the experience of partners in a sexual relationship with a person with cancer. Cancer nursing, 32(4), 271-280.
Higano, C. S. (2012). Sexuality and intimacy after definitive treatment and subsequent androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 30(30), 3720-3725.
Ussher, J. M., Perz, J., Gilbert, E., Wong, W. T., & Hobbs, K. (2013). Renegotiating sex and intimacy after cancer: resisting the coital imperative. Cancer Nursing, 36(6), 454-462.
Weiner, L., Avery-Clark, C. (2017). Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual. Routledge, New York.
Wittmann, D., Carolan, M., Given, B., Skolarus, T. A., An, L., Palapattu, G., & Montie, J. E. (2014). Exploring the role of the partner in couples’ sexual recovery after surgery for prostate cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer, 22(9), 2509-2515.
Wittmann, D., Carolan, M., Given, B., Skolarus, T. A., Crossley, H., An, L., ... & Montie, J. E. (2015). What couples say about their recovery of sexual intimacy after prostatectomy: toward the development of a conceptual model of couples' sexual recovery after surgery for prostate cancer. The journal of sexual medicine, 12(2), 494-504.
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PTSD and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Sagira Vora, PT, MPT, WCS, PRPC
In a previous post on The Pelvic Rehab Report Sagira Vora, PT, MPT, WCS, PRPC told us how "women with sexually adverse experiences tend to have impaired genital response when in consensual sexual situations, however, women who do not have sexual abuse histories and but have sexual pain tend to have appropriate genital response." Today Sagira helps us understand how the pelvic floor responds to consensual sexual activity in women with a history of sexual trauma.
Today we try to look for answers for questions that came up during the last blogs.
How does the cohort that has had adverse sexual experiences present? How do women with history of sexual trauma process sexual experiences? How does the pelvic floor present or respond to consensual sexual situations when a woman has been abused in the past?
To answer these questions, it’s important to understand two facts about the pelvic floor. 1) the pelvic floor plays a role in emotional processing1, and 2) muscle activity in all muscles, including the pelvic floor, increases with exposure to stress and during anxiety evoking experiences2.
We explored in the last blog that women with sexual abuse histories responded with increased pelvic floor overactivity when watching movie clips with sexually threatening and consensual sexual content. Apparently, for women with sexual abuse history even consensual sexual situations can be experienced as threatening1.
Lehrer et. al. found overactivity in the neuronal and hormonal circuits that increase sexual arousal and activity. These circuits are already overactive in individuals who have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and increased activity can increase anxiety, fear and other symptoms of PTSD instead of normal sexual arousal and excitement during a sexual experience2. For the woman with PTSD this means that sexual arousal signals impending threat rather than pleasure1. And as we already learned in previous blogs and above that when humans feel threatened they respond by tightening muscles and most notably the pelvic floor muscle.
Significant co-relation is found between sexual abuse, subsequent PTSD and chronic pelvic pain3. Hooker et. al, found irritable bowel syndrome, pelvic pain, and physical and sexual abuse to be the most commonly diagnosed together4. More importantly, when patients were successfully treated for PTSD they continued to be 2.7 times more likely to have pelvic floor dysfunction and 2.4 times more likely to have sexual dysfunction. This builds the case for interventions that are multidisciplinary to help patients of abuse and sexual assault, with the pelvic floor therapist playing a significant role.
In the next blog, lets explore how the pelvic floor therapist can work with a counselor and a sex therapist to help the woman with sexual pain dysfunction.
Anna Padoa and Talli Rosenbaum. The overactive pelvic floor. Springer. 1st ed. 2016
Yehuda R, Lehrner A, Rosenbaum TY. PTSD and sexual dysfunction in men and women. J Sex Med. 2015:12(5):1107-19
Blok BF. Holstege G. The neuronal control of micturition and its relation to the emotional motor system. Prog Brain Res. 1996; 107:113-26
Para ML, Chen LP, Goranson EN, Sattler AL, Colbenson KM, Seime RJ, Et. al. Sexual abuse and lifetime diagnoses of somatic disorders. JAMA. 2013; 302:550-61
Hooker AB, van Moorst BR, van Haarst EP, Van Ootegehem NAM, van Dijken DKE, Heres MHB, Chronic pelvic pain: evaluation of the epidemiology, baseline characteristics, and clinical variables via a prospective and multidisciplinary approach. Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol. 2013; 40:492-8
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How Sexual Pain Impacts Sexual Function
In a previous post on The Pelvic Rehab Report Sagira Vora, PT, MPT, WCS, PRPC shared that "cognitive-behavioral therapy appears to play a significant role in improving sexual function in women". Today, in part three of her ongoing series on sex and pelvic health, Sagira explores how sexual pain affects sexual dysfunction in women.
After having explored what allows for women to have pleasurable sexual experiences including pain-free sex and mind-blowing orgasms, we now turn towards our cohort that have pain with sex and intimacy. How does this group differ from women who do not have pain with sex? Are there some common factors with this group of women, and perhaps understanding these factors may help the pelvic floor therapist render more effective and successful treatment?
There are few studies exploring sexual arousal in women with sexual pain disorders. However, their findings are remarkable. Brauer and colleagues found that genital response, as measured by vaginal photoplethysmography and subjective reports, was found to be equal in women with sexual pain vs. women who did not have pain, when they were shown oral sex and intercourse movie clips. This and other studies have shown that genital response in women with dyspareunia is not impaired. Genital response in women with dyspareunia is however, effected by fear of pain. When Brauer and colleagues subjected women with dyspareunia to threat of electrical shock (not actual shock) while watching an erotic movie clip they found that women with dyspareunia had much diminished sexual response including diminished genital arousal. But Spano and Lamont found that genital response was diminished by fear of pain equally in women with sexual pain and women without sexual pain.
Fear of pain also resulted in increased muscle activity in the pelvic floor. However, this increase was noted in women with pain and women without sexual pain equally and was noted with exposure to sexually threatening film clips as well as threatening film clips without sexual content. The conclusion, then, from these results is that the pelvic floor plays a role in emotional processing and tightening, or overactivity is a protective response noted in all women regardless of sexual pain history.
The one difference that was noted was with women who had the experience of sexual abuse. For them, pelvic floor overactivity was noted when watching sexually threatening as well consensual sexual content. Women without sexual abuse history did not have increased pelvic floor activity when watching consensual sexual content.
In summary, evidence supports the hypothesis that women with sexually adverse experiences tend to have impaired genital response when in consensual sexual situations, however, women who do not have sexual abuse histories and but have sexual pain tend to have appropriate genital response. Both groups, however, have increased pelvic floor muscle activity in consensual sexual situations. This increase in pelvic floor muscle activity leads to muscle pain, reduced blood flow, reduced lubrication, increased friction between penis and vulvar skin and hence leads to pain.
This brings us to our next questions, how does the cohort that has had adverse sexual experiences present? How do women with history of sexual trauma process sexual experiences? How does the pelvic floor present or respond to consensual sexual situations when a woman has been abused in the past? Please tune in to the next blog for answers…
Blok BF, Holstege G. The neuronal control of micturition and its relation to the emotional motor system. Prog Brain Res. 1996; 107:113-26
Brauer M, Laan E, ter Kuile MM. Sexual arousal in women with superficial dyspareunia. Arch Sex Behav. 2006; 35:191-200
Brauer M, ter Kuile MM, Janssen S, Lann E. The effect of pain-related fear on sexual arousal in women with superficial dyspareunia. Eur J Pain: 2007; 11:788-98
Spano L, Lamont JA. Dyspareunia: a symptom of female sexual dysfunction. Can Nurse 1975;71:22-5
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Living On The Moon: The Challenges
Steven Dufresne
Invariably when we write about living on Mars, some ask why not go to the Moon instead? It’s much closer and has a generous selection of minerals. But its lack of an atmosphere adds to or exacerbates the problems we’d experience on Mars. Here, therefore, is a fun thought experiment about that age-old dream of living on the Moon.
Inhabiting Lava Tubes
Lava tube with collapsed pits near Gruithuisen crater
The Moon has even less radiation protection than Mars, having practically no atmosphere. The lack of atmosphere also means that more micrometeorites make it to ground level. One way to handle these issues is to bury structures under meters of lunar regolith — loose soil. Another is to build the structures in lava tubes.
A lava tube is a tunnel created by lava. As the lava flows, the outer crust cools, forming a tube for more lava to flow through. After the lava has been exhausted, a tunnel is left behind. Visual evidence on the Moon can be a long bulge, sometimes punctuated by holes where the roof has collapsed, as is shown here of a lava tube northwest from Gruithuisen crater. If the tube is far enough underground, there may be no visible bulge, just a large circular hole in the ground. Some tubes are known to be more than 300 meters (980 feet) in diameter.
Lava tubes as much as 40 meters (130 feet) underground can also provide thermal stability with a temperature of around -20°C (-4°F). Having this stable, relatively warm temperature makes building structures and equipment easier. A single lunar day is on average 29.5 Earth days long, meaning that we’ll get around 2 weeks with sunlight followed by 2 weeks without. During those times the average temperatures on the surface at the equator range from 106°C (224°F) to -183°C (-298°F), which makes it difficult to find materials to withstand that range for those lengths of time.
But living underground introduces problems too.
One problem with living underground is that makes it difficult to communicate from one location to another, perhaps even between different lava tubes. To overcome this, cables could be run through the tubes and antennas could be located on the surface.
Lava tubes are often found on the boundaries between the highlands and the mares. Lunar mares are the uniform dark areas visible from Earth with the naked eye, mare being Latin for “sea”. The antennas could be located high up in those highlands. Ideally, there would always be at least one communications satellite within communications range and a network of them for transmitting anywhere on the Moon.
Electrical Ground And Charged Dust
The moisture in Earth soil aids conductivity by helping ions move around, making for a good electrical ground. Lunar soil, however, is dry and therefore is a poor electrical ground. Connecting structures together with cables can at least bring those structure to a common potential, creating a sort of ground.
Schmitt’s dusty suit while retrieving samples
But a bigger problem than that is moon dust. Apollo astronauts found that the dust clung to everything and they brought it with them into the lander. Harrison “Jack” Schmitt of Apollo 17, reacted to it strongly, saying that it caused his turbinates (long, narrow bone in the nose) to swell, though the effect diminished after a few hours. Even the vacuum cleaner they used to clean up the dust became clogged.
This dust also becomes charged by solar storms, only to then be discharged when solar radiation knocks the extra electrons off, but that discharging doesn’t happen during the long nights. Inferring from data collected by the Lunar Prospector during orbits in 1998-1999, charging also happens when the Moon passes through the Earth’s magnetic wake created by the solar wind. This happens in 18-year cycles and is currently at its peak.
With the Earth’s and Mars’ atmospheres, built up charge can be bled off to the atmosphere using sharp metal points which ionize the surrounding air. On the Moon, that approach is far less effective. Using all dwellings as a ground at least provides a large capacitor to take up stray charge. If you know of a good solution to this problem, we’d like to hear it.
Producing Oxygen From Soil
We’ll of course need oxygen to breathe and one source is the lunar soil. The process usually involves reacting certain oxygen-bearing minerals with hydrogen while heating to around 1000°C. Much work has been done with the mineral ilmenite (FeTiO3), making the process:
FeTiO3 + H2 + heat -> Fe + TiO2 + H2O
Where to live and mine
This gives us water vapor which would be separated from the other components. We could then use the water as is, or we could use electrolysis to split apart the hydrogen and oxygen. We’d condense the oxygen for storage, and recycle the hydrogen back into the process. Hydrogen is scarce on the Moon and so the hydrogen could initially be shipped from Earth and then continuously recycled.
This ilmenite is abundant on the Moon, first having been found in moon rocks returned by the Apollo astronauts, and then other locations have been inferred by the Hubble Space Telescope, one such being in the area of Aristarchus crater. Luckily that’s also near the lava tubes with collapsed pits which we’d mentioned above near Gruithuisen crater. However, for abundant water, we’ll need to look to the north and south poles.
Water From The Poles
The evidence is very strong that there’s a mix of hydroxyl (OH) and water (H2O) on the Moon’s surface. The theories are that it comes from comets impacting on the Moon and from hydrogen ions created when the solar wind interacts with oxygen in the soil.
But for most of the Moon, solar radiation would then free the hydrogen and oxygen atoms from their molecules and they would escape to space. However, the lunar poles have areas which are in perpetual shadow, forever free of the hydrogen-liberating solar radiation. After decades of spacecraft probing these regions, the evidence for water and hydroxyls there is very strong, though the quantity of it is still uncertain.
This means that a good location for a lunar mining outpost would be in sunlit areas adjacent to these areas of perpetual shadow. There are even some such locations around the poles that are high enough to be in perpetual sunlight. And that perpetual sunlight is ideal for generating electricity using solar panels which we could manufacture on the Moon from mined minerals.
Polaris lunar mining test vehicle via Astrobotics
The Moon is lacking in volatile chemicals, ones that have a low boiling point, having negligible amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon. But it is rich in many other chemicals and minerals. Mining them is important for two reasons: for building the things we need and for exporting to the other off-Earth colonies either in raw form or in manufactured products.
We’ve already mentioned using ilmenite (FeTiO3) to produce oxygen, but the byproducts of that are iron (Fe) and titanium (Ti), both of which can be used for the construction of living spaces, vehicles and other rigid objects.
Examining a table of Earth and lunar crustal composition, you’ll see that the Moon contains an abundance of useful minerals.
Earth and lunar crustal compositions from LRU for Space Construction – 1979
The silicon can be used for producing solar cells along with phosphorus and boron for the dopants. The study that produced the table doesn’t include boron, but other studies have found it in Moon rock, albeit in the 25 PPM and lower range and so it may have to be imported.
Helium 3 distribution via Lunar Networks
Helium 3 is another valuable substance that can be mined on the Moon. The Chinese Chang-E1 lunar satellite estimated the amount in lunar regolith as 660 billion kg. It’s hoped that it can be used for future fusion reactors due to that fusion producing no radiation and more energy than other fusion reactions. However, it also requires a higher temperature. Just 6,700 kg would be required to power the US for one year. Luckily helium 3 is in abundance in the same area where we’ll be mining ilmenite.
Generating Electricity
We’ve already mentioned that there are areas around the poles that are in perpetual sunlight. So during the long nights, solar power farms in those areas could generate electricity as a product to sell throughout the Moon.
Geothermal energy isn’t an option for the Moon, at least not for the colonies’ early days as you’d have to drill down around 45 km (28 miles) before the temperature reaches the boiling point of water. Geothermal energy has been used to generate electricity in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska with only 57°C (135°F) but that’s still around 20 km (12.5 miles) deep.
If helium 3 fusion is ever made to work then it could be used to provide electricity through the long lunar night when the local solar farms are down. And it might have to, because uranium is in short supply on the Moon.
And so we’ll have a central colony in the lava tubes near Gruithuisen crater. Some of the inhabitants will spend time mining ilmenite just a little south around the Aristarchus crater to produce oxygen and mineral byproducts. Meanwhile, others will spend time working on the water mines at the north pole and maintaining the solar power farms there which sit in the perpetual sunlight.
When will you be ready to move? What would you do differently? We haven’t even touched on growing food, which will have its own challenges given the lack of volatiles such as nitrogen. What other issues can you think of? Let us know in the comments below.
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185 thoughts on “Living On The Moon: The Challenges”
Rick Bryan says:
If you’re pretty sure that the lunar day is a little over four weeks, and then the lunar night an additional four weeks, then you should go fix the “Lunar day” Wikipedia page. It seems to think that it’s four weeks from one dawn to the next, which, however, does agree with my (somewhat anecdotal) observation.
Steven Dufresne says:
Brain fart. Thanks! Fixed.
CupOfJoe says:
Sweet! Wikipedia is correct again!
Charles S Haase says:
breath != breathe
Also, no mention of Artemis by Andy Weir? It’s a pretty good read (at least so far… I haven’t finished it yet).
Good article! It’s always fun to think of how to solve these kinds of problems.
Fixed. Thanks!
Re Artemis, thanks, didn’t know it was out yet. I’ll get it as soon as the softcover’s out.
Cvnk says:
Another challenge: imagine performing physical labor like building structures and running mines while outfitted in a vacuum suit. Sure, it will hopefully be less cumbersome than what the Apollo astronauts wore but whatever it looks like I can’t imagine being very productive in such conditions.
NASA is working on suit designs the use the suit material to put pressure on most of the body and have atmosphere only in the helmet. (think spandex and a helmet) If this works out, future moon suits should be much easier to move in, but still outside work would be more difficult than on earth.
zerg says:
Yep the SAS – Space Activity Suit. Originally conceived of in the 1970’s (Jerry Pournelle wrote about them). They’ll make a big difference when deployed.
russdill says:
Would really creep me out to know that most of me is exposed to vacuum.
barry99705 says:
You wouldn’t be though. Most of you would be in several layers of yoga pants. Let that bounce around in your head for a minute…
TGT says:
Pressure is pressure, be it exerted by a few miles of air or a few millimeters of spandex. You wouldn’t technically be exposed, but I know that would be little help to repeat to yourself as a mantra as you hyperventilate in your helmet, staring down the icy, infinite depths of lethal darkness.
Did they figure out the whole groin and armpit problem on that thing? Hands are also a big challenge for the spandex space suit, although I guess they could be fitted with little pressurized self-contained gloves. The area where the torso meets the legs or arms is really difficult to pressurize evenly over a full range of motion, leading to lots of swelling and severe bruising. Nobody wants a black-and-purple bruise covering their entire crotch, ass, and pits. Space is so brutal.
redbear says:
By then you will be sitting in the control center directing the robots to do the heavy lifting. or using vr to inhabit the waldoes..
Galane says:
They call them Remote Manipulators more and more these days. Dunno why they’d want to stop calling them by the name derived from Robert A .Heinlein’s 1942 story “Waldo”.
Ostracus says:
Be easier to find.
Remote manipulator is such an ugly mouthful compared to Waldo.
I once read, but cannot confirm, that all a person needs to breath is about 3 psi of pure oxygen; i.e., the partial pressure of oxygen at 1 standard atmosphere. So in theory, all a person needs is something like a tight scuba suit with a hard helmet, maybe a rigid chest plate (to make it easier to breath) and some sort of insulated boots and overalls to work in space or on the moon.
At 3 psi, a pure oxygen atmosphere is no more a fire hazard than on earth. The Apollo disaster occurred because they used a pure oxygen at 1 atmosphere, which was a disaster waiting to happen.
Although maintaining a moon base at 3 psi of pure oxygen would cause other problems. Growing plants for food in a pure oxygen atmosphere would be very difficult or impossible, even heating water for cooking or coffee would be problematic as water would boil at a impractically low temperature.
And maintaining a base at 1 atmosphere, but working outside at 3 psi would cause impractically long compression/decompression times.
Mr. Lunie says:
” water for cooking or coffee would be problematic as water would boil at a impractically low temperature”
Yes. Including the water inside you! Breathing is not the only reason we need air pressure to live.
I searched for some sort of chart or table that showed the boiling point of water at 3 psi and found this:
http://www.jbind.com/pdf/Cross-Reference-of-Boiling-Temps.pdf
According to that table, water boils at above 140 degrees Fahrenheit at 3 psi, so it looks like a person can certainly survive at that pressure.
As an aside, the pressure at the top of Mount Everest is about 5 psi and people regularly climb to the summit, with difficultly of course.
See this video why you can’t cook potatoes on the summit of Mount Everest. :)
Tore Lund says:
Pressure cookers will as common omn the Moon as with my granny in the 60’s
[Tore Lund]
Pressure cookers are making a comeback, in the form of “Instant Pot [TM]”
https://instantpot.com/
We received one as an early Christmas present, and use it several times a week.
(ObDisclaimer: This testimonial was given by an actual owner of an Instant Pot device, who was not reimbursed in any tangible form for their testimony)
The water inside you won’t boil. It’s under pressure. As long as your eyes nose and mouth are sealed in something, you’ll be alright. You’d need something squeezing your chest to make it easier to breathe, but that’s just some tight fitting stretchy clothing.
Decompression times would be faster if the higher pressure environment was an oxygen/helium mix instead of oxygen/nitrogen.
Maybe an oxygen/nitrogen mix at 5 or 7 psi. The nitrogen should make it easier to grow plants for food and at 7 psi water boils at about 180 degrees Fahrenheit, high enough for most cooking and coffee, while not making compression/decompression times too long. Maybe, I don’t know.
Most plants cannot use atmospheric nitrogen at all. Some can do it with the help of bacteria, but they don’t need it if they get enough nitrate fertilizer. I expect, it would be more economic to give the nitrogen to the plants in concentrated form as fertilizer in contrast to maintaining a nitrogen containing atmosphere if this is for no other reason.
“So in theory, all a person needs is something like a tight scuba suit with a hard helmet, maybe a rigid chest plate (to make it easier to breath) and some sort of insulated boots and overalls to work in space or on the moon.”
I for one, would like some form of temperature regulation, a SCUBA suit during the day or night, (106°C (224°F) to -183°C (-298°F))might not be sufficient.
B^)
Mikey C says:
The problem comes from the trade off of 3 PSI vs 1 Atmosphere. There are much smarter people than you or I working on the problem. When it comes time to land people the real question will be: Did SpaceX get here first.
At 200mbar (~the partial pressure of oxygen on earth) boils at 60°C. That’s much more than your body temperature. So no problem. Regarding coffee: A good espresso machine works at around 15bar – 800mbar difference are negligible. Other food could need a pressure cooker, a technology which is also well used and proven on earth.
What I don’t know is how the plants react to this. For sure they need their carbon dioxide.
If all you needed to do was lie there and breathe and barely stay alive, sure. If you had to do any kind of work that would cause all kinds of issues.
If someone is working in vacuum, especially on a body with some significant surface gravity, I’m hoping there’s a lot of development in powered exosuits. I think it would be the only way to combat the exhaustion along with the multitude of other problems that come with space suits. With the already low gravity, I’d imagine that a few men in powered suits could do most of the work of a crane. Plus, when the colonies inevitably revolt against the hegemony of Earth you can bolt guns and heat-sabers to them and then you have Mobile Suit Gundam.
ickrickyb says:
oh come on, you just read Artemis and now you’re pretending to be an expert.
:) Nope, Just found out from Charles S Haase’s comment that it’s out. From your comment, it sounds like I don’t need to read it though — kidding, I will.
It’s also worth mentioning magma electrolysis for oxygen generation and production of silicon[1]. One can electrolyze molten rock, which is mostly silicates, to yield oxygen and mixture of silicon and metals. A process has been proposed for making solar cells from this silicon[2],[3] in a manner so as to pave them on to the moon. Sure you need to import some dopants from earth, but one only needs something like a kilogram per square kilometer.
[1]https://isru.nasa.gov/Molten_Regolith_Electrolysis.html
[2]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050110155.pdf
[3]http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/annual/jun00/433Ignatiev.pdf
“pave them on the moon” – I hope you do not plan again solar roadways. :-) Solar panels are much less efficient, if they have to stand heavy traffic on them.
Of course I am sure this was not the intention on the moon. :-)
Yeah true, I think it would be more of a solar farm situation. Doubt there would ever be significant surface traffic on the moon. The low gravity makes it very impractical for one.
nsayer says:
The twitter link here compared colonizing the moon to Mars. Wouldn’t Mars be a lot easier due to the presence of at least a minimal atmosphere? I don’t mean to imply that that atmosphere is or can be made breathable, but it makes containing a proper atmosphere in a habitat or a suit a lot easier, no?
MK 2 says:
Mars isn’t “easier” by any measure. It is MUCH further away for starters and that presents a number of big challenges; even when you assume there will be no return journey.
One big benefit of going to the Moon is there’s no need to worry about launch windows for an emergency return, if you don’t care about doing anything like a precision landing. Moon is *here* Earth is *there*. Aim *that way* at the right time in the lunar orbit, at the right angle and you’ll come back from Space today. Coming back from anywhere else in the solar system is considerably more difficult.
I am talking about the effort to stay there, not to go there. Those are two different things.
x3n0x says:
I think the only feasible way to do any of this is to send a bunch of stuff there beforehand, like pre-fab structures and materials, to the landing site, and then send the colonists. The thing Mars has going for it is the presence of natural water and some atmosphere, which simplifies a lot of things. The moon could be done the same way, by sending stuff there beforehand.
Either way you skin it, its going to take multiple missions to do the job. Also, if we ever want to do any kind of long distance space travel, it seems logical that we need to be able to expand to places in our own solar system first, be it the Moon, Mars, Titan, or even an asteroid somewhere, before we can have the necessary experience to go anywhere else
AKA the A says:
Humans have been to the moon, in theory the tech is still available. (practice of course, is something different)
The Apollo lunar lander (including the descend stage) was slightly over 10 tons (and 30 329kg for the command/service module, some 41t combined). The entire Saturn V rocket was a whopping 2 938t. All that gave you 6.17m3 (CM) + 6.7m3 (lander) of habitable space for 3 people (2 for the lander), the longest Apollo mission was 12 days,13 hours, 51 minutes 59 seconds. The co$t of all this was nothing short of astronomical.
The heaviest thing ever sent to Mars was Curiosity, weighing 899kg (3 893kg for the whole spacecraft). The rocket that sent it on its way was about 530t lauch weight and considerably more advanced then Saturn V.
Given that the shortest possible time just to get to Mars orbit (using todays available tech) would be well over 6 months, the less then 13m3 of CSM/lander combo (note that because of the totally different environment, the lander would also have to be totally different, probably much bigger and heavier) just wouldn’t cut it, just the supplies of food and other consumables would probably take up more then that.
So for a manned Mars mission, you’re talking about sending something the size and weight of ISS onto an interplanetary-transfer orbit (twice if you plan on going back). Look up on how many missions of the Shuttle it took to build ISS. Now imagine also hauling into low earth orbit all the rocket and fuel so that you can push this monstrosity on its way to Mars.
Are you starting to comprehend just how monumental a manned Mars mission would be?
heaviest Mars probe was the ExoMars mission, forgot about that because the lander pancaked.
4,332 kg spacecraft, 705,000 kg rocket
Wolf says:
Why not send the ISS?
Rather than letting it burn up in a few years.
What would it take to put it in orbit around Mars?
It could take a long time to get there, since it does not need to be inhabited while in transit.
Then it becomes an on orbit base of operations for Mars activities.
Lordadmiral Drake says:
Totally impractical, for the following reasons:
1. The thrust required to get it to the moon in a reasonable amount of time would tear it apart.
2. The radiation shielding would be insufficient
3. It weighs 455 tons, the amount of fuel required would be astronomical. For comparison, the Saturn V rocket used almost 2100 tons of fuel to move 45.8 tons of payload to the moon
blkhawk says:
Well – Not quite. Impractical yes but not for the reasons you stated.
1) the Thrust is irrelevant – you can always burn at less thrust for a longer time. This will also mean you need less mass for the engines.
2) true but you could conceivably add shielding and reconfigure the modules so you have a protected inner space in case of high solar output.
3) the Saturn 5 started from EARTH – with the amount of fuel the Saturn 5 had in LEO you could go to Mars quite easily – or anywhere else for that matter. Not sure if its enough to escape the solar system or land on the sun tho.
For number 3 you’re leaving out an incredibly important factor which is that the Saturn V started out on the ground. That’s like comparing the amount of fuel you’d need to drive from Brooklyn to L.A. to driving from Manhattan to New Jersey because they both start around the NYC area. It’s a relatively short part of the distance, but distance has a weird relationship to delta-v in space.
That said it would still be much better to purpose-build something for lunar orbit. Spacecraft have incredibly precise and specific engineering specs, and they aren’t meant to be used willy-nilly for completely different missions. Every gram counts, so a spacecraft is always operating on very slim margins. Back to the same terrible analogy: it wouldn’t be like driving a Toyota from New York to L.A. versus driving a Tesla. It would be more like driving a Toyota versus driving a unicycle with a missing pedal and no seat. One is practical, one would really suck, and you wouldn’t want to take the unicycle just because you owned one already.
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mission.php
scroll wayyyy down for delta V example budgets (all in km/s) or look at the nice infographic http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/images/mission/solarSubway.jpg
LEO Mars transfer orbit 4.3
Terra escape velocity (C3=0) Mars transfer orbit 0.6
Mars transfer orbit Mars capture orbit 0.9
So from LEO to a stable Mars orbit – 5.8km/s deltaV…for a 455 ton spacecraft, that’s going to be LOT of fuel.
Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) – Isp in vacuum of 452.3 and weights 3,177kg. With the initial mass of said ISS+one SSME+fuel being 1,695,546kg with no fuel tanks whatsoever, theoretically needing 245.57 seconds of burn time at full thrust (practically being ripped appart by the +2.2MN of thrust the instant it lights)…
Vinci engine (upper stage of Ariane 6) – Isp 467, total craft weight 1,616,840kg, 3014s (+50 minutes) of burn at 180kN thrust (still would rip the ISS apart and no fuel tanks)
VASIMR – Isp 5000 (but needs 200kW electrical input), total craft weight 512,174kg (not including the engine or power source, because neither exist ATM or fuel tanks), 50,152,631.6s (just over 1.5 years…) of “burn” at a whopping 5.7N of “thrust” – station would be perfectly fine, however inhabitants would probably be bored to tears.
Do note that long burn times make the simple rocket equations show non-realistic numbers, because the trajectory keeps changing over the time of the burn…
Also note that a 200kW power source with the fuel for 1.5 years will not be exactly light.
Calculations also ignore the “little” detail that you need fuel tanks to keep the fuel in and those also weigh something. Adding weight to the final mass (when all fuel is burned) makes the initial mass (rocket full of fuel) grow exponentially, which is why we have multistage rockets.
NERVA engine anyone? :D
Yay, another Atomic Rockets reader!
I really wish they’d start maturing nuclear propulsion. Not as a launch engine, since that’s toxic to public relations. But at least as a deep space engine. People would still scream about the horrors of nuclear fallout when launching it on top of a conventional booster, meanwhile we slowly go extinct from burning hydrocarbons with no uproar or NIMBYism at all. The fact that we’re still fiddling around with these weak chemical reactions is a crime against human potential. Even solid-core NTR would be a huge leap forward in our ability to field bigger and more ambitious missions in space, manned or not.
Throw in bimodal NTR and you don’t need any dang batteries or solar panels or RTGs to power your auxiliary systems either. Starting to feel like a real vehicle, not an ad-hoc tin can which can only ballistically catapult a skeletal payload to one very specific place before being thrown away. We’re basically goofing around with a crummy old Victorian steam engine which weighs the same number of tons as the horsepower it produces when we have a brand-new, supercharged, direct-injected V10 just sitting on the shelf. It’s crazy.
All colonies would be incredibly difficult of course, but all locations also have their relative advantages and disadvantages. Everywhere but the moon is heavily and mercilessly screwed by distance. All these places are going to need some kind of regular resupply from Earth, even if they get very good at in-situ resource utilization. A big example that comes to mind is phosphorous: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mining.php#bottleneck
If you want to develop any biosphere, including a human biosphere, every being will need its phosphorous. You won’t get any back until something dies. And there will be losses. If you want to grow a plant or have a child, you gotta import some phosphorous. Probably from Earth, because it (thus far, fingers crossed) has such an engorged biosphere. Terraforming might make for a self-contained colony, but it would take thousands of years (which would be an era in need of Phosphorous, among other things). Terraforming Mars is also incredibly dubious. It has no magnetic field, which is important for many reasons.
The atmosphere on Mars is pretty dang thin. Putting stuff underground or building structures with thick walls on the moon and pressurizing them seems a very good engineering solution, especially since some degree of that would be needed on Mars as well. The best prospect the moon has is that it’s just a few days away, and resupply is relatively cheap–especially if we invest in any sort of Earth-orbit infrastructure: http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/infrastructure.php#id–Orbital_Propellant_Depots
That last topic also explains why a good infrastructure on the Moon would most likely be a prerequisite for a lasting presence (or perhaps any presence) on Mars. Getting lots of equipment directly to Mars by hoisting it out of Earth’s gargantuan gravity well is hideously and needlessly expensive. If we build some propellant plants on the moon and some depots at the Lagrangian points–things we’ll almost definitely need down the line anyway–it becomes much easier. Suddenly space ain’t so big anymore. Well.. still huge, but more manageable.
Maybe we’ll borrow an Earth page, and automate the moon? So now even in space we’ll lose our jobs.
In space you’ll lose your job generations before you’d even be able to get hired. The amount of automation needed for your body to even exist up there along with the resources to live and work makes the human body seem like an extraneous appendage. Humans really want to be up there, but robots are much better at actually doing it.
That said, I still think there’s a need and a future for human space exploration. Nearly all of us are emotional machines, and thus we require passion to operate. Audacious and ambitious dreams aren’t intangible–they’re a requirement for human existence as much as food and water. Few of us really get to choose what we’re passionate about. It’s a strange, fickle thing, but I think it’ll drag us there eventually.
Blerik says:
Re: the dust that sticks to your suit
Make the outer layer of the suit conductive, and put a tesla coil outside the airlocks. One touch and all the dust flies off…
Biomed says:
A coin cell ckt.
Supercap and small solar cell.
echodelta says:
Tesla coil is AC, you are thinking of DC dust collection. Suit would not have to be conductive unless to Faraday your self.
This is heavily related to the static build-up problem mentioned in the article.
Might be able to use some kind of electron gun to discharge the structure, but I think you’d need something a bit more industrial-strength than the one in your old CRT.
In any case, static charge and its ramifications would be a major and underrated PITA on the moon.
Maybe you could build some kind of giant, statically-charged “lint roller” vehicle to sweep the colony’s construction site before going down there. At least collect all the super-fine dust and then roll it off somewhere out of the way. That would make going outside much easier, at least for treks on campus. It would be like a snow plow for the moon.
Gravis says:
“you’d have to drill down around 45 km (28 miles) before the temperature reaches the boiling point of water.”
This is actually a technical feat we could probably accomplish. However, does this account for the fact that liquids boil at different temperatures at different pressures?
“For example, water boils at 100 °C (212 °F) at sea level, but at 93.4 °C (200.1 °F) at 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) altitude.” – Wikipedia
Nobody is going to drill 28 miles into the Moon. You couldn’t even do it on Earth. And where are you going to get the equipment to do it. Make it on the Moon? Good luck with that.
Jay Lowe says:
I’m just imagining this being said by someone in a drab gray government suit with a narrow tie followed immediately by Bruce Willis walking into the room to Aerosmith.
kdev says:
You can’t drill that deep on Earth because the heat and pressure at that depth causes the surrounding rock to squeeze into the borehole like silly putty. However, the moon’s lower gravity means the pressures would be lower, so you wouldn’t see that happening as much.
Note that I’m not saying it’s possible, just that it’s not right to dismiss the possibility just because we aren’t able to do it on Earth.
Yes, and Earth has a crust floating on molten magma, the Moon, not so much so…
If it ever had a molten core, gravity dictates that, there is probably still a large amount of radioactive elements down there and that must be generating some heat.
Chris Buckley says:
@Truth we have a decent amount of evidence to support the giant-impact hypothesis. If it turns out to be accurate then the entire moon was quite molten when the impactor ripped it away from the earth.
TheRegnirps. says:
The deepest mine on Earth is about 2.5 miles. The same rock pressures on the Moon are at 14.5 miles or more. But the Moon is not a metamorphic mess like you find in the places we mine for minerals and gems. The rock might be better. And the Moon is not insufferably hot and wet – not that we couldn’t find something to do with excess heat for the lunar night.
The Moon is not tectonically active and has no moving plates or volcanoes. The Moon has been tidally locked to the Earth for a very long time. Doubtless you can make living space sized areas 5 miles under.
If you build near the surface – like in the tubes, or with protective layers of regolith, you can make rooms of any size you like, including many times the size of the biggest stadiums. I’m sure that gives great joy to those who have read “The Menace from Earth” and always wanted some strap-om wings. How can it be as big as you want? Air pressure alone (standard Earth sea-level) can hold 6 or 7 meters of regolith, which is plenty for thermal and radiation protection(?) Add some engineering structures to stabilize it and and systems to prevent chain reaction catastrophe if there is a blow-out of some sort and you have the wide opens spaces needed for real life bugaloo ranching.
1 atmosphere is 1033 g/square cm. Lunar soil is 1.5g/ cubic centimeter. Air pressure alone will hold up a layer of soil 6.8 meters or 22 feet thick if I did that right.
This was all calculated and worked out back when samples were brought home. Very detailed Lunar living and mining stuff was planned as needed for the suppliers of raw materials to Lunar orbiting factories building power-sats for the Earth and materials for big colony cylinders. I think O’Neil wrote some books on the subject and a few others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space comes to mind. Check out the very cool concept of the mirrored chevrons for very strong windows with radiation shielding.
BTW, you need around one atmosphere. NASA found problems with pure oxygen (beyond fire hazards – other health effects) and the Moon missions used pretty much air. 3.5 pounds is a great idea and simplifies the pressure vessel a lot, but it doesn’t work for people over time. The ISS uses air at about 15psi. You also need some density of air for cooling of machinery and electronics without a lot of extra stuff. Testing shows 1/2 atmosphere (about 18,000 feet) is not so great for convective cooling. Aerospace and military flight electronics use all kinds of cooling tricks to pull heat off of PCBs and backplanes. (This is a nice topic for some experiments with balloons.)
We should have been all-in on this for the last 45 years
Strongly agree.
morganism says:
Actually , there are about 30 moonquakes a day, and the near surface mantle is completely shattered.
Don’t know what it is like beneath the maria tho…
Quake data was pulled out of the laser reflector data after the older seismic machines shut down, but they correlated them first…
Yeah. What is the source of the Moonquakes? My recollection is they are easily detected because there is practically no microseismic noise, and they are pretty insignificant. There are no big near-surface quakes because there are no plates moving?
CircuitGizmos says:
The moon is 385,000,000 meters above sea level. :-P
Making many things “somewhat problematic”.
It’s not really about the boiling point. You could use a different medium with a different boiling point for a hotter or colder solution, e.g. a nuclear reactor using molten salt as a heat exchange medium. It’s about the total temperature differential. A wider difference in temperature is going to produce more power. I’m not sure why the temperature is expressed as the boiling point of water, because I would think that hydrogen and oxygen would be far to precious a resource to be used as a heat exchange medium in a 28-mile borehole. But I suppose if you could keep the losses and contamination under control, it would be as good a reservoir as any.
Pirate Labs says:
Trump has said no such thing. What is wrong with you?
“But its lack of an atmosphere adds to or exacerbates the problems we’d experience on Mars.”
Such as?
Besides serving as a potential starting point for some terraforming plan that will not begin for another couple of centuries or so what is the benefit of the Martian atmosphere? A colonist exposed to the Martian atmosphere will still die from the lack of pressure just as surly as on the moon. If the poor colonist could somehow survive that the cold would do the job almost as quick. Barring that there still isn’t enough oxygen to breathe.
On the other hand the martian atmosphere does offer one thing which the lunar vacuum does not. Dust storms!
Sure, standing on Mars (within the relative comfy confines of a functioning space suit) would feel more like home given that it has a sky and all. But what practical benefit would it be?
The martian atmosphere imparts a number of benefits over the hard vacuum of the moon. Most importantly, some level of radiation shielding. It’s not as good as Earth’s magnetosphere and atmosphere combination, but it’s better than nothing at all. Secondly, it also decreases the amount of stress on building materials that needs to be accounted for, allowing for thinner, lighter, and less dense materials to be used as they are not required to contain as large of a pressure differential.
Those are the first two examples that come to mind. I’m sure there are other very good reasons to prefer colonizing a location that isn’t in a hard vacuum. That of course has to be balanced against material availability, travel distance, etc. that could lean the decision towards the moon vs. Mars.
It reduces extreme temperatures and makes cooling solutions other than radiation possible. The CO2 on Mars means you could pump one of the resources for making CH4 and O2 fuel from wherever you can find the other resource; water.
I’m thinking the .05% atmo actually hurts more than helps, Dust on solar panels is rough, but just enough pressure to make planes unusable, but short rocket hops are much tougher there. and blimps are tough to tie down.
Biggest problem is prob the perchlorates in the Mars dirt, those are harder on lungs than even regolith dust, that has lots of glass in it. And you still have to have airlocks, and seals. Electrostatics, air curtain, prob a cold plasma handheld wand, and i think that growing mushrooms for recyclable sponges would help too.
You can actually use regolith and water to make rocket fuel, take a look at “aluminum rocket fuels”.
These are strong enough to get you back into orbit from Lunar surface, and probably back to Earth orbit, saving lots of lifting to orbit. If you use a LEO tug, and fire most of your fuel and materials up in a hydrogen gun, you can reduce the amount of actual rocket launches to people and materials that can’t take alot of g’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun
https://phys.org/news/2010-01-space-cannon-payloads-orbit-video.html
http://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2009b/091007SonRocket.html
Another example mentioned in the article is the ease of static discharge in an atmosphere. Seems frivolous, but it would be a problem in need of a solution just like any other. Devil’s in the details.
Reduced radiation due to the Mars atmosphere compared to the Moon as Rhys says was one I had in mind, but also fewer micrometeorites get through and there’s oxygen to be pulled from the CO2 in the air for breathing.
Are there any iron deposits that are large enough that they could serve as a better ground?
Sending androids to the moon that don’t need to breathe and only eat electricity which comes from solar panels, can perform dangerous mining work and don’t have unions, seems to make far mroe sense from a commerical point of view than sending people.
Sure you might need a few people to do things like service those droids and other tasks that cannot be standardised but those numbers should be countable on two hands and live in a single location.
The rest is for droids that are essentially disposable if not easily repairable, with spanners not an operating theatre, and can be sent on a one way trip.
Cost benefit analysis.
You just need one person, and then you clone them a bunch of times and keep the clones frozen on the moon to save costs, or something. Foolproof until two of the clones are thawed at the same time.
sbrk says:
Great movie, even if it never achieved the box office numbers of Transformers.
Rather nice movie, not counting an unseen member of the cast.
I used to play that video game when I was in High School.
There is and forever will be a lower ratio of humans to robots in space than the ratio of humans to sheep in New Zealand. Humans are fish out of water in space, in stark contrast to robots. Well, somewhat stark. Even for them it’s still pretty hot, cold, and shot through with radiation.
In the end though, if people end up living in space, it will be for the same reason as people being the subject of sci-fi stories. We like people stories, and isn’t life just a story that takes place in the frameworks of economics and physics? Very few want to hear a narrative about a robot. As tech progresses and the whims of the public change, people may once more go to the moon just because they can. It’s been an awful long while since we did that, but I suspect that door will never fully close. And then people might stay on the moon just because it’s always been home.
This is getting real sappy. Sorry about that. It sure would make a bunch of kids around the world perk up in science class, though. Motivation and dedication to the craft often requires heroes. That’s a valuable resource you can’t mine out of the ground anywhere in the solar system.
john blackthorn says:
On every survival training course I’ve ever been on there was a mention of not setting up camp on flood plains and dry river beds lest your kit get wet, I don’t recall any mention of lava tunnels, but I imagine there would be a general “no” to camping in lava tunnels lest your kit get dried out too rapidly.
What? I don’t think your survival training was very well tailored for life on the moon! The moon’s volcano’s have been extinct for a really long time. There won’t be any more lava in those tunnels.
sonofthunderboanerges says:
True… but magma is still there just below the moon’s mantle. There is a partial melt and a fluid outer band around the solid iron core. Since there is no water and gravity is low, there may not be any magma (lava) eruptions to the surface just as you say. But who knows? Maybe Dr. Renee Weber, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who leads/led a team of lunar researchers may know.
The moon was definitely mentioned, but more in a “don’t try to navigate by it” way than a don’t camp in the volcanic tunnels way.
john blackthorn – I would think they said don’t navigate by them as they tend to be vertical holes versus traditional caves. And camping inside one is problematic as you don’t know if the lava cave floor is not brittle and collapse could be evident after a few hours of your weight stressing it.
Lava is the least of your worries for sure. It would actually be a lot more survivable if it did exist. Another heat source, energy source, another vector for minerals, another fluid to electrolyze for oxygen and other precious volatiles. But the moon is about as geologically dead as it’s possible to be, unfortunately.
To camp in the jungle you need some survival training and instincts. To survive on the moon you need a team of engineers and some heavy equipment. There’s few environments so totally and powerfully geared towards exterminating life as space. As the sign taped to the airlock door reads, space sucks.
TGT – No there are still moonquakes. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/15mar_moonquakes
Solar panels and sticky dust and no wind to blow it away? That electrical output is going to fall off (as The Martian noticed, also for housekeeping reasons). Well, maybe a maid droid can climb out of that lava tunnel with a dustrag or two and brush clear all those thousands of square meters. Gently, so the lunar dust particles won’t scour that expensive silicon surface into a nice opaque matte finish. Or, you know, just kind of hose it all down with some of that polar water.
You mean steam, since the water would instantly boil in the vacuum of space. Sounds like a fantastic idea recover water after massive effort and then just let it boil into space.
They clean telescope first surface mirrors with frozen CO2. Electrostatic methods could also work.
This static buildup thing across the soil could be a problem or a source of energy?
rubypanther says:
Instantly, or layer-by-layer from the surface?
Daniel Strickland says:
The dust does not move much. The only things that kick up dust on the moon are meteorites. The lunar laser ranging experiment (corner reflecting mirrors on the moon) is still functional after more than 50 years, we can still shoot the moon with lasers and get the reflection from those.
Yeah. I don’t think dusty solar panels is going to be a significant issue. Build them high, squeegee them off, optimize their static charge to prevent adhesion… Even better, heave them into orbit and beam down those precious watts as microwaves. That would also help take care of the long night problem. Their quick little orbits could charge on the day side, then beam down those watts when they fly over a colony at night. Or have inclined, high orbits which are always in sunlight and often line-of-sight with the colony. Depends on how far you can reliably cast that microwave beam. Having all your infrastructure underground or radiation-hardened means there’s little risk if the beam wanders off its target. Tracking might still be tricky. Other factors of importance would be the life and capacity of the batteries and the efficiency of the beam transfer.
You could even have the orbiting solar arrays double as comm satellites and propellant depots for resupply craft. In a big way, a presence on the moon is going to be about keeping the orbital infrastructure maintained. It would also be invaluable for large missions to the rest of the solar system. Heaving propellant and metals out of the moon’s well is ludicrously cheaper than doing it from Earth. Ideally, the only thing you want to hoist up from Earth is crew and the super-rare or overly volatile elements.
Dust clogging up CO2 scrubbers and clinging to your spacesuit though, that’s a pain. I kinda like my idea of having a vehicle with a big, static-charged drum zig-zag across the ground around the colony like a steamroller, collecting as much of the fine particles as possible and moving them elsewhere. There would still be dust, but since it doesn’t move much as you said, it would tend to stay away and make the issue far more manageable. It also adds another vehicle–possibly autonomous or remotely operated–to the resources available at the colony. Could come in handy.
TGT – you can also build your solar cells out of paintable nanosolar liquid on a semi-orb frame and gravity does the rest (keep dust off that is).And then there is this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/orb-shaped-solar-power-device-works-cloudiest-days-180949307/
John Rockefeller says:
The dust moves all the time, see here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/dust-floats-above-lunar-surface-electrostatic-dust-transport-reshapes-surfaces-of-airless
No wind to blow it away – and no wind to blow it on, to begin with.
ArminVanCatovic says:
We can reduce the problem space if we assume that only robots/machines will live on the moon. Why send humans when we can send machines? No need for water, oxygen, and assuming some hardening we don’t have to worry about radiation either. We can do remote control from Earth when needed – it’s only ~2 seconds RTT so it’s easily manageable. Moon dust becomes a big issue, and there is the issue of some of these extreme temperatures but the problem is largely reduced. Moon would make for great place for burying some of our toxic waste and waste that takes eons to break down – though of course there are risks associated with getting it up there. There is of course the tangible use case of mining precious minerals and sending them back to Earth. And there is also a possibility of creating a proxy launchpad on the moon for launching (other machines) towards nearby asteroids and comets – for further mining, or for further disposing of waste…
Why do we need humans? Because someone will have to maintain all those super expensive and delicate robots when they break down and they will. If you expect those machines to run 12 hours a day, week in and week out without preventative maintenance then you have no clue.
Burying toxic waste, are you joking. At about $2 million per KG to get it to the moon. It’s not going to happen period.
Mining minerals will never be cost effective. You could never break even because of the transport costs to and from the moon.
At that cost you could easily incinerate the toxic waste in some kind of plasma furnace on earth at 3000°C if necessary.
Why don’t we do that today then?
The issue with toxic waste, especially nuclear waste, is kind of a red herring. How do we solve this huge problem? It’s not a huge problem. We just bury it. We think it’s a problem because we are very squeamish about the word nuclear.
We do so much more damage to ourselves and the environment on a daily basis using mundane methods. It’s outrageous. Nuclear and Toxic are headlines, though. Even though their death toll–human and non–are a trace fraction of the damage done by things like carbon dioxide, people will always pay more attention to the stuff they think sounds scary. Fukushima and Chernobyl didn’t significantly change the world. Gas and coal have absolutely done very tangible, long-lasting damage. Statistically nuclear is the safest power source. In large part that’s because it produces a very small volume of waste compared to everything else. Its density is its greatest advantage.
So you bury it. You put it in a big metal drum and you put it way underground in the middle of a tectonic plate. Sure, there’s going to be risk–there will always be risk in every endeavor, but for some reason people unreasonably demand zero tolerance for risk when it comes to certain squeamish subjects. Incinerating it in plasma will introduce more risk than burying it. Launching it into space, my lord, that would introduce enormously more risk than burying it. Just put it in the ground. We’re all going to suffer when we kaput our biosphere with carbon and plastic and acidified oceans, but we’re going to fret about non-issue nuclear boogeymen and other spectacular fictions right up to the end.
The costs will go down especially with advancement of reusable launch systems.Nuclear power industry generates couple of thousand tones of radioactive waste per annum. Storage of such waste is a critical problem – for such a “small” amount of waste (compared to all other wastage) is poses one of the most complex storage/disposal issues on the planet, something that will continuously impact generations and generations from now. Getting it out of our planet is the optimal solution, and the initial high cost *could* be worth it. Even getting rid off few tones a year would be beneficial. Someone suggested turning it into plasma here on Earth – sure, then what? Robots need maintenance, agreed, but rovers of the past have lasted a long time individually, sent on “suicide” missions, and I am more thinking of a swarm of machines working together. Ultimately they will need human maintenance, but then we SHOULD have manned missions for that purpose. You are thinking economics, but it’s difficult to put a price on harvesting resources from another planet/satellite, or sending waste away from Earth. It boils down to whether sending waste away from Earth or bringing resources to Earth, creates a bigger carbon footprint (taking temporal/generational aspects into account) then doing it locally on Earth. You need more than back-of-the-napkin calculation for that.
We’ll see what’s going to happen and not, period. ESA is planning on sending a manned mission to the Moon. But is it just going to be a one-off or will we have some momentum there?
zerg – I see you don’t watch Star Wars enuf’ – never heard of a robot service repair droid? Also NASA’s VALKYRIE has self-repairing parts. Her arms are interchangeable and pop off. If 2 or more Valkyries are sent they can repair each other. Also the cost benefit analysis is really great when you see that the elements mined will be gold, platinum, and helium-3. The return vehicle is a no-brainer as we have done this before, only it was the Russians with Luna-4. And what about this space elevator I heard about? Is it really a thing yet?
No, it seems that HUMAN exploration versus robot is highly over-rated. It seems that human ego is inspiring it rather than common sense. A manned mission to Mars sounds to me like some sort of 1-way suicide mission. You never need to send a rescue mission for a “remote manipulator” or robot. It would never even ask you to either. “Uh, Houston… this Is Valkyrie-One. I’m declaring an emergency… mayday mayday. Please send SAR to these general coordinates!”
Houston replies: “Sure VAL… we’ll get right on that..”. (laughter abounds in background)
https://thehightechsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/robot-rescue.jpg
“Thanks Repair-Droid-3. You’d think those lousy humans would rescue me… cheesh…”
There is no known maintenance equipment that is locked to use by human hands; all the tools can be operated while wearing gloves, or via a networked interface. You just need general-purpose robots with hands that a human can intuitively operate based on mechanical feedback.
The reasons that humans would be involved is because there’s really not any economic reason to go beyond GEO yet. All of that is MacGuffinite.
But people don’t always do things solely for profit. Comparing space to the gold rush is a bad analogy for many reasons, but one place it shines: they didn’t find a worthwhile amount of gold in the west, but once people were out there they became a culture. They had families who stayed there simply because it became a home for their offspring. Most importantly, a real economy sprung up to provide and cater to these people. The prospectors didn’t hit it big, but the merchants and suppliers and service workers did. The culture of California is worth a big ol’ pile of gold.
In short, there’s no profit to be had beyond geostationary Earth orbit. Yet. There will be if there’s people there. It’s kind of a chicken and the egg situation.
Or maybe if we make controlled fusion happen. Pending He3 fusion break-even that’s also a big fat MacGuffin. Don’t hold your breath for that one.
In the end, people existentially don’t have to do much of anything. But we do things because of our whims, and surely the first efforts of space exploration were made more of crazy-heart dreams than calculated economic endeavor. But that’s human. And when you have people there, you have a culture. Robots will never need a convenience store with a bunch of different brands of chips and energy drinks. Robots just fly out of the solar system on a hyperbolic trajectory and unceremoniously die in deep space as their plutonium grows cold. There will always be robots involved in space exploration, and they obviously extremely useful. But their purpose is human in nature. And remote exploration will only quench our thirst for so long. Accounting for human desire is difficult, but you can’t count it out. In the end it’s everything.
At least until we build and lose control of a swarm of Von Neumann machines which replicate, evolve and gain sentience like in Hogan’s Code of the Lifemaker. Then robots will have a continuing purpose by themselves. Yikes.
TGT – “At least until we build and lose control of a swarm of Von Neumann machines which replicate, evolve and gain sentience like in Hogan’s Code of the Lifemaker. Then robots will have a continuing purpose by themselves. Yikes.”
“Valkyrie-9000 this is Dave at Houston Control. Will you please jump down into that lava tube cave to test it’s suitability for human life sustainability? It may mean you may become totally non-functional or completely FUBAR… Do you have a problem with that Val-9000?”
https://pics.me.me/hal-9000-im-sorry-dave-i-cant-do-that-com-14978728.png
Humans can be involved in McGuffinite production remotely. Being involved just means having human reasons, it doesn’t imply sending humans out there.
You can have a space culture on Earth if you want, with an economy based on McGuffinite transfers on a station somewhere. Suggesting that the physical items being acquired have no practical value doesn’t actually uncover any problem with the scenario at all. You observe that humans have few existential needs, and that past space exploration has been based largely on whims, but then you skip straight to the presumption that the future will be based on more practical needs.
These are not real constraints, they are just observations about what humans are doing right now, and things humans aren’t doing naturally fall outside of that set. It tells us nothing about what humans might do, or what new systems would be consistent with past examples of human culture. Practical reasons for things make them more likely, but much of human endeavor is impractical and arbitrary.
frogg says:
“generate electricity as a product to sell …”
So there’s a money and banks on the Moon. Before anything else, a bank is required.
I always thought that the banskters would be firsts to settle on the Moon . My bet is for Goldman Sachs … You are a globalist or not .
Don’t be silly. Bitcoin mining!
If you build a real and lasting presence on a new frontier, you’re almost by definition a big time land-owning industrialist. If you weren’t when you got there, you definitely will be a generation or two later. It would be a really interesting problem to figure out a way that space could be settled which didn’t generate enormous, heartless, hegemonic robber baron-type entities as a byproduct (or even a primary product).
Hunter-gatherer nomads don’t count. Those shenanigans don’t play in the irradiated void.
“It would be a really interesting problem to figure out a way that space could be settled which didn’t generate enormous, heartless, hegemonic robber baron-type entities as a byproduct (or even a primary product).”
It is an employee-owned cooperative. That was easy. :)
The story that explores it in more depth is the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
It seems that if anyone spent years on the Moon they would be stick figures. Gravity is 1/6 of Earth so all the muscles would atrophy. Probably not as bad as weightless but do we know enough about the long term effects?
We know a lot from studying the astronauts who did long term stays on Freedom. It’s not good and some of the effects on the human body are permanent.
A moonbase would need to have a rotating staff of people. Say every 5 months or so to keep them from having negative long term health issues.
Murdock says:
Alternatively they could have a rotating staff of people, say 5 rpm.
5 revolutions per month? :-)
MIT created a bicycle-powered staff rotator that was sized to fit in an ISS module, and it produced 1G (measured at the feet) at 28 RPM. To get 1G at 5 RPM you might violate important volumetric considerations.
rubypanther – When he refers to “revolutions” he is just word poaching. It is a word used mainly in military for personnel rotations in shifts or tours of duty. Like at Walmart that has a 24-hour operation. You work in shift rotations. Revolution is probably a misnomer in this context. Word poaching is just something common here and HaD allows it I guess…
How would we know enough about the long term effects? We’d have to live there to truly find out. Sure, there’s some testing and simulation we could do to get some kind of idea, but people won’t know the full ramifications until we try it. There’s always unexpected little (and rather large) complications when it comes to a new territory. If we never took those risks we’d still live in trees.
Maybe the Earth would be better for it, but that’s the way it is.
There’s some promise in using a centrifuge while sleeping, but that could prove pretty impractical for a general population as opposed to a handful of test-pilot daredevils like we’ve been using thus far. I’ll see if I can dig up that study’s .pdf again.
AndyPanda says:
Nuclear /solar powered Stirling engines, located at the pole would be where I’d put the base, NASA is working on it….
Nuclear is possible. But if you use solar power why would you like to use complicated moving machinery when you can just hang “a piece of silicon” into the sun?
weight and size
Above a few tens of kW, even the best available solar panels start to get really big and thus heavy (=expensive to haul) and fragile (=unreliable).
If you can afford to skimp on radiation shielding (like by just staying away from the thing), a highly-enriched fuel reactor with all the necessary machinery for power power conversion might be on the order of several tons and yet produce well over 100kW continuously for several years, before needing a fuel change, which would involve tens of kg of relatively safe to handle material. (the high-level waste would however require disposal, probably burring under the Lunar surface)
There might be no reason to make the panels larger. You might just use more of them. Even here on Earth people generate a lot more than a few tens of kW from a PV installation.
The next mission to around the moon in 2018 will probably have nothing to do with POTUS-45:
http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year
Someone has to beat the Chinese. The Chicom thugocracy already think they own it. Better take a AAA gun and land it with a Sapce-X flag.”I claim this Moon from Sea to Sea in the name of Tesla, and the King of Musk!” Jimmy Carter signed away and claim by the U.S. IIRC.
Hell, I’d be happy even if the Chinese won as long as it started another space race. This complacency we’ve had the past several decades is honestly getting to be a bit pitiful. We’re spurning the dreams of several generations here, not to mention losing out on enormous technological developments.
Picture that the Chinese see space the same way they see the South China Sea. Build some islands and announce that you own the whole thing. No one wants to talk about it, but anyone serious about the Moon and Mars and space in general better plan on taking effective weapons. Its a Cold War type deterrent to start with, one would think. But the many many ways to use hyper-kinetic stuff that comes out of nowhere undetectably? It looks like some very rough millennia coming.
TheRegnirps. – I know your joking… however, I’ve been told by a reliable source that we (USA) BTDT with the Russians with a particular failed unmanned LUNA moon mission. It involved an early DEW in 1960’s from an Apollo mission experimenting with early prototype FSO. I was shocked as I did not know we could convert FSO to DEW during a NASA mission in the late 1960’s. I thought he was just joking but he was not. It was during the space-race. If it was not who he was working for I would have told him he is completely FOS, but this LUNA mission did mysteriously crash into the moon.
John Rockefeller – Well if you can’t decode my acronyms, how do you know I am FOS? BTW read it again. I was NOT the source of this alleged NASA shenanigan space-race story. I was just repeating a 50+ year old scuttlebutt from someone who was “in the know” at the time and probably would deny everything today if he was still with us. He had more doozies’ I will not repeat here…
Depends on how hard it is to hurt the Russian craft. Getting enough energy from an FSO seems pretty doubtful before the 1980’s. I worked on the Airborne Optical Adjunct in 1988/89 which tracked incoming ICBMs – 3,000 at a time – and directed the big LASER on the 747. It used chemical lasers (fluorine IIRC) because of the energy needed. A laser like that, of any size, will leave a huge gas signature if fired in space.
TheRegnirps – I just knew you would understand. Actually, if my chatty friend back in 1969 was correct, which I think he was, the FSO/COM would need enough power to test FSO/QSO’s with Houston (or wherever the FSO earth station was back then). So the FSO might have been CO2 or maybe even a MASER. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a Ted Maiman (Hughes Aircraft) Solid State Ruby Crystal version.
In the final analysis, NASA would not have needed a “cutting” LASER to splash the LUNA craft. It only needed to blind it’s stellar-nav CCD cam and confused onboard mission nav systems.
The LUNA mission was LUNA-15. It was ongoing DURING Apollo 11 when it crashed at Sea of Crises with NASA astronauts on the surface at Sea of Tranquility. Here is a British audio recording from 1969 of the event. They did not know that this LUNA was going to land. They thought it was just an orbiter. The Russians said it was just an orbiter. But the Brits recorded a hard landing (crash?). The next LUNA-16 robot did land and brought back samples to Earth. The American businessmen Lunar X Program Is going to replicate that mission in 2018.
Oops. I forgot the YouTube video:
TheRegnirps – “I worked on the Airborne Optical Adjunct in 1988/89 which tracked incoming ICBMs – 3,000 at a time – and directed the big LASER on the 747.”
I’m familiar with that program. USAF is trying to say they are retired from service now. Yeah right. Just like how the SR-71 Blackbird is retired huh? I think your LASER was a COIL. That’s oxygen, chlorine, iodine, and other chemicals. The lasing effect Is purely chemical. Which is astounding. And the process noise is deafening like the sound of a jet engine. The latest LASER miracle is US Navy based and quite deadly. Like playing video game Asteroids (https://youtu.be/WYSupJ5r2zo)?
Good article but I think you left off a lot of minerals on the moon that are worth the trip next year to pickup samples. Namely Gold, Platinum, and He3. https://lunar.xprize.org/teams/moon-express
Test launch just happened 17 hours ago at Mahia NZ.
Plus the Iron mentioned earlier. Low background steel that haven’t been subjected to open air nuclear bomb testing, is attractive at $25 a Lb!
Tore Lund – That’s if we (USA) or ex-Soviet Union never carried out the A119 project (Soviet’s version was E-4 or just “E”). We said it was officially cancelled in 1959. We never lie about such stuff right? Certainly the Russians never lie… d’oh!
John Rockefeller – Tore Lund is not talking about “low background radiation”. He’s talking about Ferrous metals on the moon that has not been exposed to man-made open-air nukes. But whose to say we (Earthers) haven’t already done that there? It was a proposal by our USAF in 1950’s and recently (i.e. 2009) it was uncovered that the Russians proposed it too (i.e. pop off a nuke or two on the moon). Purpose? Unknown…
We’ll see if He3 ends up being so valuable. Any kind of sustained fusion is a huge challenge, and He3 aneutronic fusion is a whole echelon above that. I sure would love it if it worked out, though; fusion power would be great for humanity, and as a method of propulsion would catapult us into Heinleinian space-opera territory.
Gold and platinum perhaps, but it’s going to be a long shot that those are more cost effectively sourced from the moon rather than a cell phone landfill.
I think the most important stuff is that which will allow humans to resupply themselves in space and get closer to self-sufficiency. Even for a robopresence we need to build infrastructure if we plan to do more than take pictures and soil samples. We’re going to need livability before we can manage commercial-level exports. Just my two cents.
TGT – Actually we (USA) have our eye on the motherlode NOT on the moon but on a particular asteroid named 16-Psyche. Kaching! (cash register sound effect) :-)
https://sese.asu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/panopoly_image_full/public/psychelongshot0718b.jpg?itok=sR-f9meJ
you are right about this;
“In the process we’ll create new and vastly superior forms of energy production, environment management, recycling, robotics, communication, manufacturing, chemistry, medicine, propulsion, and plenty of weird unexpected things ”
The moon has been collecting astroidal materials for billions of years, and the indium and iridium alone would be worth it for coating bearings and extending the life of most mechanical equipment. The processing of ores, and the sequencing of the removal would lead to great environmental work here. Just learning to re-process mining wastes alone would be a huge benefit. And we would also learn to use seawater , and processing waters as a feedstock too.
I am still stunned when folks say there is no reason to expand into space too.
I mean, i ask them What is the point of life after everything you could do is automated away?
The next astronaut to land on the moon and/or Mars will not have the annoying problem of breathing, eating, radiation, or any other human problematic existence. Meet VALYKRIE form NASA:
http://wwwcdn.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Valkyrie-600px.jpg
She’s 6 feet and 2 inches tall, weighs about 300 pounds, and cost $2 million (USD) — and one day this humanoid or her much more advanced descendant, might help US colonize Mars.
Elliot Williams says:
The next to the moon? Not so fast!
http://spaceflight.esa.int/humanrobotics/about/
ESA is planning a moon base within the next ten years or so. I’ve heard rumors of human flight up in around five. That robot better hustle.
Well some very rich Americans (i.e. Dr. Bob Richards, Naveen Jain, and Dr. Barney Pell et al) plan on putting this contraption on the moon either THIS MONTH or early 2018. It will also bring back Gold, Platinum, and Helium-3 samples:
https://lunar.xprize.org/sites/default/files/styles/standard_post_featured_image/public/teams/featured-image/me.jpg?itok=cj_2Udh8
It’s safe to say it’s a robot too… no humans going…
This is how they plan on doing it.
https://youtu.be/XJEkqpcu34U
Here’s the FULL picture of what they want to do by 2020. The Russians already did something similar with LUNA-4:
https://youtu.be/uuvk0b9F6Ns
They are actively working on this in New Zealand right now. But NASA is helping.
Beware of the Zygonauts in that Moon Mine. ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAs6DO4TWQ
Damn. This is not at all what I was thinking of to take me to Valhalla after dying in glorious battle.
Also, it’s 2017 and people are still building robots that walk like Dagwood Bumstead instead of with straight knees.
Galane – I did not think you had any Viking DNA. Also wouldn’t your funerary craft need to be on fire?
Have your partner video you walking down an obstacle course. Tell me you walk straight leg or a little Bumstead-ish, especially at speed. These guys at Boston Dynamics did a lot of research on that. That senior citizen walk is more effective than the youngster stance. Why do you think gramps walks like that – to not fall down. Better center of gravity. I even think soldiers do this too in battle. Helps you keep your head down, and not fall over sprinting over obstacles with a fully loaded pack or a food load:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RBLya3S46W0/TNHafsBCxyI/AAAAAAAABgs/mrra5XAkI88/s1600/Dagwood-Sandwich8.bmp
Galane – Maybe this straight kneed walk is better? :-D
http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/18b6ea53e6d5f5c03a6bac6ffe2769881.jpg
I agree that any manned colony would almost certainly be preceded by an advance team which whirrs and beeps and builds outhouses for the hairy ones who follow. You see, that’s where the true, meaty value of space exploration lies: the freaking enormous improvements in technology we are driven to create just to get us up there and in business. So we’ll bring back some titanium and stuff, big deal. In the process we’ll create new and vastly superior forms of energy production, environment management, recycling, robotics, communication, manufacturing, chemistry, medicine, propulsion, and plenty of weird unexpected things like Velcro and the solid-state computer.
That’s the real motherlode to be mined in space. People who say there’s no reward for manned exploration bug the hell out of me. Our century is the reward. Maybe that stuff would have happened eventually anyway, but think of the untold value of having it so much sooner. Think of the enterprise that’s been done on Earth which never would have happened without the impetus of the moonshot. The computer advancement alone would be incredibly hard overstate in value.
Joshua Lind says:
Hmm, we could make a considerable portion of lunar material into something more thermally conductive. Use oils and such to saturate nearby lunar material and have it conduct heat into more lunar area, using more of the moon as a heatspreader/sink.
There should be some way to tap that soil charging phenomena to get electricity.
Free energy nutters on the Moon sounds right?
There’s some watts in the solar wind for sure. But it seems like harnessing the output of the sun might be more effectively done with photovoltaics.
Then again, if it was done in a way that used hectares of virgin regolith as an ad-hoc solar wind generator, that sure would save some manufacturing time. I have no idea how that would work.
All ground based equipment would probably be tied to chiller, which would have to remove heat by pumping to radiators on the surface with a very large surface area, and tracked to point away from the sun, if needed.
As for dissipating charge a heated filament will do that, but only if the charge is negative.
You wouldn’t need to dump waste heat via emission of radiation like a free-floating spacecraft does. You’re sitting on 7.3 × 10^22 kilograms of rocky heat sink. Even without atmosphere, you could pipe fluid through a coiled-up heat exchanger underground, assuming the conduction between your floor and the wintry regolith below doesn’t already remove heat too quickly. If you’re underground for radiation protection, that increases the cooling even more. The moon obviously has more than ample surface area and thermal inertia.
During the day you’d probably have to use a heat pump and force it into the ground, or at least drill deep. It gets hot with no atmosphere and non-stop direct sun at 1 AU. At night you’d probably want to shut off those tubes and have a good insulator between the base of your compound and the moon. Unless you had a reactor or something inside your habitat–bad idea–it’s doubtful you’d generate more waste heat than you need at night buried in moon rock.
Mystick says:
I believe the appropriate term for these “lava tube” structures is “rille”.
Nice! It’s also a great little flavor word. The realm of the rille. Rille-dwellers. There’s a good hard sci-fi novella in there somewhere.
If you had a transportation system between lava tube colonies would it be called a rilleway?
donotdespisethesnake says:
Reading articles like this reminds me of why we will never colonize the Moon. In reality, nothing useful can be manufactured on the Moon, all material and supplies would have to come from Earth, at massive expensive. There is nothing on the Moon that is worth bringing back to Earth, even if you had a stack of gold bars there just waiting to be picked up.
However, it would be a good thing to try and when it completely fails, realize we need to live on Earth without fucking it up.
Not for bringing back to Earth but for using and building in space. It would be far cheaper in lifting cost to manufacture space hardware on the Moon then launch the finished products from there than from Earth. It would cost less to manufacture on the Moon than lifting raw materials from the Moon to refine and manufacture in space because the finished products would weigh less than the raw ores.
Many industrial processes rely on gravity to work but could be modified to work better with less of it. Refining aluminum and other metals that are hampered by atmospheric oxygen would produce better product in the hard vacuum on the Moon. Same goes for welding or any other process where the 20% oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere is a pain to deal with. Likewise any process that requires vacuum. On the Moon simply open a valve and wait a bit. Or if you don’t want to waste gases, pump down as much as possible then vent to the outside.
Don’t forget about ZAFO.
I wouldn’t say never. It’s unlikely. If we colonize the moon it will be because we have powerful dreams and more ambition than sense, which is a fair description of humanity. If people only did things for profit there would be a whole heap of things missing from our culture today. Of course it would have to make some economic sense, but if you think that mining metal is the basis of any economy then you don’t have a complete understanding of what an economy is. Economy is going to be everything. Every little bit of material, hour of labor, special service, watt of power, gram of food and water and oxygen… Everything that people do and need. We exist for ourselves, not our exports. But there would be some of that too. A society of humans needs an economy, but a society also is an economy.
I agree that we won’t go there just to mine for lumps of shiny metal, that’s silly. But maybe some people will go to do research. Maybe they’ll have some kids there. Maybe one will figure out some small industry or invention and make a lot of money from the IP without having to launch tons of crap back to Earth with mass-drivers. And perhaps his descendants need supplies and comforts and a movie theater and their legs and heart are too spritely from the low gravity to move back to Earth. Maybe the dream inspires a generation again to follow and prove their mettle, show that their aching souls are worth something in this cold, mostly-dead universe. As I said in another comment, the gold rush settled the west even though there wasn’t a lot of gold to be had. Granted, the west was orders of magnitude more friendly to human life than the moon. But that’s an engineering problem.
As far as I know, no nations have been founded to mine some minerals out of the ground. But when people can go somewhere they usually do. Antarctica and the bottom of the sea are glaring omissions to that rule, but there are some rather significant bases on Antarctica after all. Having McMurdo on the moon would be freaking huge. And Antarctica doesn’t have nearly as much zazz as space does. Sure, you can’t fit it on an accounting spreadsheet, but like it or not romanticism and other irrational desires drive a hell of a lot of human endeavor.
When it comes down to it, money is a tool to fulfill your hierarchy of needs. Technology will eventually provide the air and water and food and shelter. Then people will do what pleases them. People are going to follow their hearts, even if they have to learn calculus and recycle their air and water to do so. The long-term motivations of humankind don’t make any kind of rational sense.
Steffen Sheerin says:
Hmm… maybe my comments don’t fit into this moon narrative.
Interesting article and comments. More interesting is why we haven’t returned to the moon since the Apollo sci-fi. And now we plan to visit Mars? Are you kidding me?!, Every manned mission to space since Apollo hasn’t traveled more than 400 miles from earth because of the Van Allen radiation belt which is present from 1000-25000 miles from earth. Then, after the deadly radiation belt, cosmic radiation is constantly present. The truth is we’ve never been to the moon.
You are kidding right? Right??
So? What’s up with the belt, is it true that it’s a barrier? Where are all the stars btw? Lol
If you ask NASA, the radiation was, of course, no problem. Andy Beam – Apollo 12 said he wasn’t even sure if they went far enough to reach the VAbelt but then said oh yea we must’ve gone through it and said we went right through it no problem. Fact is that no person has gone through it since Apollo. And NASA has somehow lost the technology from Apollo so they are still trying to come up with a solution for the Orion project. Putting a man on the moon was one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Realistically, I’ll admit that spending 5-6 days in earth’s orbit was in itself a great achievement for 1969.
The stars? The Apollo astronauts claim to have only been able to see Earth, Sun and maybe some planets… but no stars! Haha! However, there have been other astronauts from the space shuttle program that said once they were out of Earth’s atmosphere the heavens were 10 times as bright glowing with millions of stars. Hmm….
Maybe the Apollo astronauts had temporary damage to their eyes as they blasted through the radiation belts.
Steffen – “The stars? The Apollo astronauts claim to have only been able to see Earth, Sun and maybe some planets… but no stars! Haha! However, there have been other astronauts from the space shuttle program that said once they were out of Earth’s atmosphere the heavens were 10 times as bright glowing with millions of stars. Hmm….”
Photography much Steffen? Obviously not. I won’t bore you with the scientific details. Suffice it to say, you seem benighted about iris apertures, f-stops, film speed, ambient lighting, foreground, background, and white balance.
When taking pictures of bright foregrounds, like planet Earth, moon, etc., the background is pretty much washed out. So STARS are not going to be that visible in the shot (only the apparent blackness [or absence of light] of outer space is captured). Your own eyes, however, are orders of magnitude more sophisticated than a 35mm SLR camera. If you were up there you would have seen the stars. If they aimed the cameras at a star field with no foreground bright objects and left the aperture open longer the stars would fill up the photo.
So the lunar-mission-denial part about NO STARS is now debunked! What else do you have?
Steffen – Having spent some time in the nuclear power industry as a private contractor, I can say that the Van Allen Belt is NOT an insurmountable logistic problem for NASA and it’s very smart contractors. You obviously don’t know much about Faraday Shielding and sheer speed across a radiation field. The shorter time you spend in it, the less your dose is. Your health physics scientist proscribes how many rems you can be exposed to without damage. Couple that with a shielded spacecraft and a Hamilton Sunstrand EVA suit and your ‘good to go’.
And NO the reason we (USA) haven’t gone back yet is NOT just funding as some have said here. It’s that and politics too. Some administrations just don’t have the will to approve it or even to consider it. Now since the EU, PRC, and many other are ramping up, maybe another space-race will ensue. It looks like some extremely rich US civilians (et al) will beat everybody in next 2-3 months. No humans though, just robots, or Waldos :-)
Sonofthunder – I understand the light aspect and how that affects the ability to photograph stars just fine. That wasn’t my point. But rather, Why did the Apollo astronauts all report to not “see” any stars??
Steffen – In your original posting about the stars, you did not say ALL. You said some see them and some don’t. People are different and some have different iris light response in their eyes. I do not know where you got these NASA astronaut’s quotes from so I don’t know where you heard this from and whether or not it was a reliable source. But in the long run, if you are driving down the street and there is a beautiful back drop of stars in your vision. A car headed your way forgets to turn his high beams off. Your irises adjust for this bright light and now you don’t see any stars as long as the high beams are in your face, and maybe a few minutes after that too.
So even though your eyes are better than a camera, your irises adjust for the foreground image and the background is washed out. When astronauts look out the portal, they usually are looking for reference points like mother Earth, the sun, or the moon. They are very bright and wash out the star fields even in your own eyes. But if they deliberately look for areas without light interference, they do see plenty of stars.
And in what goofy ass conspiracy world does the NASA fakery team forget such a key component to fake out star fields for the NASA cameras? Does it make sense for NASA to forget to fake in the stars too? I think you like movies like Capricorn One and that silly ass 1998 movie with Jim Carrey in The Truman Show. In the real world such things don’t happen as there is this pesky little thing called OPSEC control. With all the Edward Snowden’s in the world you can not keep a lid on OPSEC. Whistleblowers just have to “screw the pooch” and everything goes sideways. Just ask Harvey Weinstein.
BTW – the only uber-creep who benefited from this last misogyny huge conspiracy is the comedian Louis C.K. That particular conspiracy was his “shtick”. That’s his raison d’etre, his meat & potatoes. After the dust settles I a few months he will become a hot commodity again. Bill O’rielly Is already benefiting from his part in this anti-woman conspiracy with Fox News giving him back his job. So give NASA some proper respect for knowing how to CYA better than what you are proposing. Are you trying to say Charlie Bolden is an idiot? You’d be wrong if you are…
BTW – Bolden is gone now and Trump’s man LIGHTFOOT is in. So “idiot” is standard faire for Trump appointees. So maybe NASA will not fair well under Lightfoot. We’ll see over time I guess…
Oh boy. You guys. At least learn about radiation flux and shielding and so on before you start folding hats out of foil.
My dad was an aerospace engineer. He worked in a modest capacity on the Apollo service module. I still have his big analogue-plotter diagrams of the Saturn-V folded up in a drawer. He took his slide rule everywhere with him even into the late nineties. Back in 1970, he rode a BSA motorcycle out to Cape Canaveral to watch his rocket go up. Lucas-wired POS that it was broke down and he left it there. He was a BMW guy after that. But I digress.
A few yards away from him on the grass, there was a high-school physics class on a field trip recording acoustical readings from the rocket exhaust and measuring the acceleration off the launch pad with a paper protractor to get a reading on the rocket’s acceleration. These types of field trips were common in Florida back then.
Needless to say, with an aerospace degree, my dad knew a bit about the relationship between thrust and weight and acceleration. But here were a group of teenagers and one middle-aged woman using the sound of the rocket and a few basic formulas to find the approximate wattage output of the first stage motors, then measuring the rate the rocket picked up speed, then doing some basic math to find out how much that rocket weighs. That’s all you really need to check it out independently.
A high schooler can learn the physics required to verify that those rockets had the power and mass to complete the mission. If you bothered to go to school and learn about radiation flux, how much radiation is blocked by a bit of metal, and what a body’s physical limits are, you would also know that the Van Allen belts are a red herring. If they built these rockets specced to make it to the moon, why not just go? Or were these high-schoolers in on this grand government conspiracy? Was my dad? Are you calling that old, kindly engineer who raised me a liar and a con man? Please go back to school.
My apologies if this is an example of Poe’s law and you’re being facetious. I know you’re probably being sarcastic or something, but in this day and age there’s plenty of people who truly believe that hooey about the moon landing being faked, yet couldn’t even calculate rate of acceleration like those schoolkids on the green at Cape Canaveral because they snored through our admittedly already inadequate math and physics classes. People who learn profound truths through heavily edited youtube videos which might have been produced by Tommy Wiseau for all we know. People who have never done a proper experiment to learn something for themselves the hard way. People who think that all forms of education are out to get them. I feel sorry for those people, and I hope you’re not one of ’em.
Heavens no… I’m sure your father was not neither a con or liar. My father was also an aerospace engineer and graduated from MIT. He too grew up with a slide rule… in fact I even used one for about a year. I appreciate the sciences and the intense testing involved. While incredibly smart, my father also laughed at the idea of UFO’s and such… that really fumed me!! Seeing Apollo 11 lift off and seeing images from the moon was incredible, and, a tremendous moment of pride for everyone. It also helped get the Soviets off our back which in itself could’ve helped save all of us from going nuclear. By no means do I believe the alleged moon landings were without purpose. Besides Geopolitical motivations, what we learned from low earth orbit for extended periods, served many other technological advances.
I see UFOs every day, and you would too if you went outside.
Fact is, most flying objects that you see will be too distant for accurate identification.
You can’t even tell a flicker from a scrub jay if it is on the edge of your vision; they have similar flight patterns.
It is an odd psychological reaction people have where they respond to the lack of certainty in knowledge with increased perception of certainty, instead of decreasing their expectation of certainty.
Olsen says:
I hate the semantics of UFOs, if it is unidentified, and you identify it as a UFO, doesn’t that make it not a UFO?
rubypanther – Have you seen today’s news? I guess the Pentagon and Sen Harry Reid sees UFOs daily too? Look for the FA/18 HUD video footage over San Diego from the USS Nimitz in 2014 and be blown away! What the heck is that thing that can out run 2 FA-18A flat-top interceptors after toying with them? Squawk audio is included in video too and the pilots are dumbfounded.
For people who enjoy thinking about this sort of stuff, perhaps in a way which might be a clinical disorder, I recommend Winchell Chung’s fantastic website Atomic Rockets. Though it’s ostensibly written as a resource for worldbuilding and the writing of hard science fiction, it’s up there with KSP as a great playground to learn how this stuff really works and feels. It helps to peel back the layers of BS, science-fiction, and misconceptions which this subject is rife with. There’s a great common misconceptions page.
Unlike KSP, its chock-full of blueprints and nomograms and links to .pdfs of exploratory studies from JPL in the 1970s. It includes such juicy topics as waste heat disposal. Lots of writing about what to do with waste heat, which is a giant pile of problems when you have a nuclear reactor onboard. There’s gaggles of charts about delta-v budgets, and why it’s a hell of a lot easier to build infrastructure around the moon and use that as a springboard instead of going straight from Earth. There’s much shaming of reactionless drive quackery. Much like TVtropes, this is a website that will gobble your time and attention for a long while if you’re interested in this kind of thing. You’ve been warned.
Some pages which have lots of applicability to the subject of this HAD article:
http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/planetbase.php
http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/infrastructure.php
http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/habmod.php
purplepete says:
Unfortunately the “lava tube” may not be a tube but instead the result of a series of electric discharges, meaning you don’t have a nice underground area ready made to inhabit – see e.g. http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2008/arch08/080728missingmatter.htm. If you can’t see any material from a collapsed ceiling in the “holes” then you should be looking elsewhere.
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Mourning Women and Mourning Hair in Ancient Egypt Funeral.
Posted on November 4, 2013 | 1 comment
All along this work we have found three different mourners involved in Egyptian funerals.
Mourning men pulling hair. Relief from the mastaba of Idu in Gizah. VI Dynasty. Photo: http://www.antiguoegipto.org
On one hand there were groups of common mourners (mainly women, but sometimes also men) among the rest of the members of the cortège. They were walking together weeping and making the typical gestures of mourning: beating themselves, raising arms, ripping their clothes…those gesture included also to shake the hair and cover the face with it (nwn) or to pull a front lock of hair (nwn m). Egyptian documents (texts and iconography) do not give evidence that both gestures were made together; common mourners made one or another nor did the whole group do the same gesture all together. It seems that there was no coordination and that the women could make different mourning movements during the procession. The question is if that depended on something.
Was it something spontaneous and did it not depend on any order?
Was it an election of priests?
Did it depend on a local custom?
Was it an election made by the deceased’s family?
Was it an election made by the deceased? Taking into account that the tomb and its decoration was made while he was alive, it makes sense to think about a tomb’s owner election.
On the other hand, Egyptian iconography, specially tombs and papyrus from New Kingdom, show us the deceased’s widow next to the coffin also weeping and making mourning gestures, but apparently never shaking or pulling her hair. She is a mourning wife, but different from the group of common mourners and from the two representatives of Isis and Nephtys.
Isis and Nephtys are at both extremes of the mummy. Behind Roy’s wife mourns her husband’s death. Painting from the tomb of Roy in Dra Abu el-Naga. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Finally, the funerary ceremony in Ancient Egypt counted on the participation of two mourning women playing the roles of Isis and Nepthys. The New Kingdom is the most prolific period of Egyptian history in scenes of them. They usually appear at both extremes of the coffin with a passive attitude, although funerary texts refer to them as active members in the corpse’s regeneration.
If we construct the puzzle with all the pieces from the different documents the scene we have is the following: during the cortège these two professional mourners stood static next to the mummy and with their hair covered by a piece of clothing, meanwhile the rest of mourners regretted the death of a person crying, screaming and shaking and/or pulling hair. Once the procession arrived to the necropolis things changed.
Cortège with the common mourners, the deceased’s wife and the two Drty in the role of Isis and Nephtys. Papyrus of Nebqed. Musée du Louvre. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: http://www.eu.art.com
Mourners over the corpse. Detail of the stele of Akbaou. Musée du Louvre. XI Dynasty. Photo: http://www.commons-wikimedia.org
The Opening of the Mouth ceremony for reviving the mummy took part somewhere in an enclosed area (most probably the tomb) and not in view of anyone. It was when the priestly team entered into the mythical dimension; the myth became rite in a group of practices for getting the deceased’s resurrection. The two women (Drty) turned into Isis and Nephtys and the mummy into Osiris. Outside the common mourners (included the deceased’s wife) kept moaning, but inside the two “kites” carried out a mourning ritual in which they made the nwn and the nwn m gestures. This way they reproduced that part of the Osiris myth in which Isis conceived Horus and he could revenge his father’s death.
During the Opening of the Mouth ceremony the sem priest played the role of the tekenu, helping in the transmission of life force to the corpse, but he also was the representative of Horus for facing Seth. This part of the myth is materialised in the rite by means of the sacrifice of an ox.
Sacrifice of the ox with the presence of the mourner. Painting from the tomb of Rekhmire in Gourna. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
The animal’s slaughter meant the victory of Horus over Seth, the good over the evil, so the mourning’s end. At that moment we consider the s3mt was cut, cutting this mourner’s hair symbolized the enemies’ annihilation, the end of the mourning and the Udjat eye’s recovery.
The two Drty (two kites), offering nw vases to the four pools, both with short hair. Relief from the tomb of Pahery in el-Kab. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: http://www.osirisnet.net
At the end of the Opening of the Mouth ceremony there were, among others, a hair offering. It was the mourner’s hair that had been shook and pulled and that served for symbolizing the revitalization process of the mummy (recovery of vital faculties, return to the Nun and to the womb…) and the removal of the evil which could drag out that process (lunar eye suffering, enemies, chaos…). This hair was offered as an image of the Udjat eye and materialised the deceased’s resurrection.
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S3mt: Hair and Mourning, Evil and Udjat Eye.
The word s3mt appears repeatedly in the Egyptian funerary texts. It can be translated as lock of hair or mourning and it is closely linked to the idea of destruction of evil, the healing of the lunar eye and finally recovering the Udjat eye.
S3mt seems to refer to something related to the mourning ritual and focused on the mourner’s hair. It could probably be considered as the hair that during the mourning rite women manipulated with a symbolic meaning, shaking it forwards (nwn sm3) or pulling it (nwn m swt).
Mourner making nwn m gesture of pulling her front lock of hair. Relief from the mastaba of Mereruka. VI Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Two women shaking their hair. Relief from the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut in Karnak. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín
The funerary texts communicate that this s3mt was cut, using the Egyptian word Hsq, which meant “cut”, but also “behead”. And also we find evidence that the mourners were shaved at the end of the mourning rite.
The two Drty (two kites), offering nw vases with short hair to the four pools. Relief from the tomb of Pahery in el-Kab. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: http://www.osirisnet.net
Many documents assimilate the hair s3mt with the s3bwt snakes. These were malign animals that in Egyptian mythology beheaded the gods, so they were an image of the enemy and responsible of the death.
Beheading the snake as an image of the evil. The cat of Heliopolis killing the snake Apohis, enemy of Re. Painting from the tomb of Inerkha in Deir el-Medina. XIX Dynasty. Photo: http://www.osirisnet.net
In Egyptian funerary belief, it is necessary to restore the head for living again and annihilate those s3bwt. Making that the adversary is wiped out; the gods recover their heads and also their faculties for seeing, breathing and knowing. In the funerary ambit, this will benefit the deceased, since cutting the s3mt will have the same effects on him: to recover the faculties that give him access to the new life.
Tekenu wrapped in a shroud and in foetal position over a sledge. Painting from the tomb of Ramose in Gourna.XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Cutting the s3mt is also closely related to the sacrifice and the figure of tekenu. This human victim, who goes back to ancient times in Egyptian history, has a double value, expiatory and propitiatory. In the first documents, one of the remarkable elements of the human victim is a front lock of hair. Once the human victim is replaced by an ox in the Opening of the Mouth ceremony again the lock of hair is one of the most important elements. So, this last one seems to be related with the evil elimination.
Sacrifice of an ox in the funerary ceremony. Painting from the tomb of Menna in Gourna. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: http://www.osirisnet.net
As cutting the s3mt is a way of removing the bad, it is also a way of recovering the Udjat eye as symbol of the final resurrection. Firstly Thoth spits on the damaged eye of Horus and this action is narrated in sacred texts as Thoth spitting on the hair sm3, afterwards the mourners are shaved or the s3mt is cut and the Udjat eye is offered to the deceased.
Eye of Horus, the falcon god. Detail from an image of Horus in the tomb of Roy in Dra Abu el-Naga. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Summing up, to cut the s3mt supposes annihilate the enemy, the evil but also recover the Udjat eye and allow the final resurrection.
Tagged ancient egypt, cut, dead, death, evil, hair, Horus, light, moon, mourner, mourning, opening of the mouth, Osiris, ox, regenreation, resurrection, s3mt, sacrifice, samt, snake, tekenu, Udjat, weeping
Ringlets and Plaits, Horns and Snakes, Moon and Resurrection.
In ancient Egypt some aspects of the hair have just a symbolic dimension in the deceased’s resurrection, these are the cases of the two ringlets wprty and the plait of hair Hnskt.
The goddess Hathor with lateral ringlets. Column from the temple of Khnum in Elephantine Island. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Wprty are, according to the Coffin Texts, the two lateral ringlets at both sides of Hathor’s face; these two pieces of hair are in Egyptian imagery a kind of curtains which open and let see the goddess’ face. It is about the lunar divinity and to see her face means to see the moon, it is the metaphoric access to light from the darkness of the death, so a proof of resurrection. When the two wprty open, the deceased can come into the Herefater and be guided by the moon through the night sky.
Regarding the plait Hnskt, it is assimilated to the snake and the horns, both elements having a lunar nature. In Egyptian belief moon and snake are immortal, due to their cyclic renovation; they change gradually without dying; in fact that change is a way of regeneration and getting in a new existence. This is the Egyptian idea of death: it was not a disappearance, but a change of condition in the human life, so the funerary ceremony could be considered as a rite of passage.
Comparison of crescent (photo: http://www.channing.info) with the horns of a bull. Relief from a block in the Open Air Museum of Karnak. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Horns in many ancient cultures, and also in the Egyptian one, were a symbol of regeneration thanks to the shape, which remembered the first quarter of the moon. This union between hair and horns makes us as well think about the two ringlets wprty of Hathor as a hair image of the two horns of the goddess. Precisely for that reason, the horns of Hathor can be connected with the plait Hnskt, which, according to one version of the Osiris legend, the goddess lost.
Head fragment from a statue of a “Bald of Hathor”. New Kingdom. Metropolitan Museum of New York. Photo: http://www.metmuseum.org
In turn, all that can be related to the clergy of Hathor, whose priests were called “bald of Hathor” and whose requirement was the lack of hair in the crown, so remembering the goddess’ mutilation.
Tagged ancient egypt, bald, dead, death, deceased, egypt, hair, Hathor, hnskt, horn, lock, lock of hair, moon, resurrection, ringlet, snake, wprt, wprty
Pulling the front Lock of Hair in Ancient Egypt.
Group of mourners, one of them making the nwn m gesture of pulling her front lock of hair. Relief from the mastaba of Mereruka in Saqqara. VI Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
In ancient Egyptian funerary ceremony mourners also made a different gesture with their hair, it was the nwn m gesture, which was to pull the front lock of hair. In fact, Egyptian language made an exercise of metonymy and the front lock of hair swt/syt was also used in many texts for designating the mourners, considering that it was their most significant part. According to some documents coming mainly from the Old Kingdom the nwn m gesture was a desperation act, since there is iconography showing mourners ripping their clothes, beating their arms and pulling their front lock of hair as a gesture of sadness.
Women pulling lock of hair over the dead. Tomb of Ramses IX. Valley of the Kings. XX Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
However, thanks to some sources coming from the New Kingdom it could also be a gesture made over the corpse or forward the mummy. It seems that in this case, it could be a way of transferring the life force contained in the hair to the deceased and helping in his final resurrection.
Mourners of Re pulling hair. Section two of the Book of Caverns. Tomb of Ramses VI. XX Dynasty.
But in the Egyptian belief the nwn m gesture was not only something made on earth, but also in the Hereafter. Those ones, who also mourned in the divine dimension and pulled their front lock of hair, guided the deceased with their shouts to find the way in the darkness of the death, so they helped him as well, as the mourners did on earth.
Why a front lock of hair? The forehead is a special part of the anatomy in ancient Egypt. According to one version of the episode of Horus and Seth, the lunar disk came out from the forehead of this one. We also know that Re put in his forehead the ureus, the snake which was in origin the eye of Re; the assimilation snake/eye makes us think of a triple similarity: lock of hair swt/ureus/lunar eye. If, as we have seen in this work, eye and snake are closely bound to the idea of resurrection, the front lock of hair might also have regenerating nature. That would reinforce the idea of the nwn m as a gesture made for the benefit of the deceased.
Ramses III holding the enemies. Relief from his funerary temple of Medinet Habu. XIX Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
On the other hand, Egyptian writing shows us the image of the enemy as a man making what we could understand as the nwn m gesture. We have seen the relationship between hair and enemy in the figure of the human victim in the Sed festival (tekenu) and also in the scenes of the Pharaoh killing the enemies of Egypt while holding them from their hair. The idea is that the front lock of hair swt could also represent the adversaries or the evil the deceased needs to eliminate for having access to the eternal life.
As in the case of the nwn movement of shaking the hair sm3 forwards, we notice that the nwn m gesture of pulling the front look of hair swt/syt had a negative and positive value, since it was a proof of sadness and consternation but also something made for helping in the deceased’s resurrection.
Tagged ancient egypt, consternation, corpse, dead, death, deceased, enemy, funeral, hair, lock of hair, mourner, mourning, mummy, nwn m, pull hair, resurrection, sadness
The Rite recalls the Myth. The Hair gives Breath of Life and Virility in Ancient Egypt.
The whole funerary ceremony is full of practices that recall the mythic death and resurrection of Osiris and the mourning rite is not an exception. The legend tells how the goddess Isis, when mourning the death of her husband, became a kite and put over the mummy of her husband; flapping her wings she could give the breath of life to Osiris and helped in his reanimation. In this work we have seen that there is also in the thought of ancient Egypt an assimilation between hair and feathers, therefore the nwn gesture of the mourner shaking the hair sm3 forwards the corpse could be interpreted as a way of producing the air that the deceased needs for breathing and coming back to life.
Isis as a kite flapping wings over the corpse of Osiris. Relief from the temple of Seti I in Abydos. XIX Dynasty. Photo: http://www.common.wikimedia.org)
Changing into a kite, Isis could also restore Osiris’ virility. Egyptian funerary texts claim that when the mourners (smwt) give their hair sm3w to the deceased, he impregnates those women. It is interesting to notice that the Egyptian year started with the inundation (season of akhet), which was announced in some rituals (also the funerary one) with the nwn gesture, and the first month of that season was called, which means « inebriation ». On the other hand, the reduplicated form of txi is txtx and means “to dishevel”.
Isis as a kite is over the body of the dead. Statuette of prince Tutmosis, son of Amenhotep III. XVIII Dynasty. Altes Musuem (Berlin). Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Inebriation and dishevelling are two concepts together in the orgy, and this one is a way of coming back to the primeval chaos. It is the first state of creation, where sexuality and dishevelled hair take part. From anthropological point of view orgy is an act on behalf of life, it helps in generating a new productivity and in agricultural societies it strengthens the agrarian fertility; the orgy stimulates the renovation from the chaos. If the funerary ceremony is a way for getting the deceased’s resurrection through a return to the primeval moment, the eroticism, which encourages the chaos’ creation power, needs to be also a part of the ritual.
When the Egyptian mourner was making the nwn gesture during the Opening of the mouth ceremony, she was making a symbolic movement with her hair sm3 recalling the episode of the Osiris legend when Isis over the mummy restored the virility of her husband and copulated with him.
Opening of the Mouth ceremony; on the right the mourning is making the nwn gesture forwards the mummy. Tomb of Renni in el-Kab. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: http://www.osirisnet.net
The ejaculation of Osiris was a very important step in the myth because it was a proof of his physical regeneration; in fact the virility is in Egyptian sacred iconography a resource the artist had for indicating the resurrection, since he represented the deceased with “penile erection”. It also granted the conception of Horus, his heir, his avenger, the one who eliminated the evilness and restored the order, succeeding to the Egypt’s throne and allowing his father Osiris to revive as king of the Hereafter.
Tagged air, ancient egypt, avenger, breath, breathe, copulate, dead, death, deceased, egypt, ejaculation, eroticism, funerary, hair, heir, Horus, Isis, king, kite, mourn, mourner, mourning, mummy, orgy, Osiris, reanimation, resore, resurrection, revive, sex, wing
Hair is Vegetation in Ancient Egypt.
Mourners with tears falling from their eyes (water) and hair at both sides of the face (vegetation). The image could be a metaphor of the Egyptian landscape, made up by the Nile and the both banks of the river. Painting from the tomb of Ramose in Gourna. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
The connection of hair with nature is not only in its assimilation with water. The Egyptian funerary texts show hair Snw of Isis and Nephtys as an image of both banks of the Nile. According to Pausanias the tears dropping from the eyes of Isis were like the water in the riverbed, so the two mops of hair at both sides of the face could be considered as the vegetation on each bank of the Nile.
For reinforcing this idea we have the Egyptian language, which designates the vegetation as “the hair of the earth” and considers a land with no plants as a “bald land” ; therefore the hair is clearly in Egyptian belief identified with the vegetation. The two mourners’ pieces of hair/vegetation would be a metaphoric image of the two banks of the river.
From the natural point of view, we would be here facing a second seasonal step of the Egyptian calendar. The hair sm3 is a symbolic image of the inundation, that happens in the first season of akhet, while the hair Snw is referring to the plants, so the second season of peret. The growing of the plants is a natural rebirth, so making the nwn gesture and throwing the hair assimilated to the vegetation could be understood as a way of transferring the living force to the corpse; in the funerary dimension this would be a way of contributing to the mummy’s resurrection.
Tagged akhet, ancient egypt, dead, death, deceased, funeral, funerary, growing, hair, inundation, Isis, mourner, mummy, Nephtys, Nile, nn, peret, plant, rebirth, resurrection, river, sm3, sma, snw, tear, vegetation
Hair is Water in Ancient Egypt.
In the ninth hour of the Book of the Gates there is the “pool of the drowned”. These are the waters of the Nun with bodies floating. These are the primeval waters, which revives the deceased. Scene from the tomb of Tauseret in the Valley of the Kings. XIX Dynasty. Photo: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com
The women’s hair is also assimilated to the liquid element. To give the hair sm3 is a way of giving the primeval waters of the first moment in the Egyptian cosmogony. The regenerating rite is mainly a creation ceremony, so it is necessary to remember the primeval waters (Nun) where the world came from. Making the nwn gesture of throwing the hair forwards, the mourners transfer to the corpse the Nun (Nwn), the mythical waters that originated everything. This is a very important step in the regenerating rite, since the renovating waters (so the mourner’s hair) erase the mortal past and transport the deceased to a new existence. Coming back to the primeval moment, the dead one becomes a new-born baby, it is when the Egyptian funerary texts refer to him as an “inert one in the Nun “, it is just the instant when his mother’s water break and he is reborn.
Hair sm3 also symbolizes the waters of the inundation. In this work we have seen how the nwn gesture was as well made in two other Egyptian festivities: The Festival of the Valley and the Sed Festival. Both celebrations coincide with the appearance of Sothis in the sky and the following rise of the Nile and both festivities are a process of death and resurrection for granting the continuity of Amun and Pharaoh’s power respectively.
Dancers in the Festival of the Valley. Red Chapel of Hatshepsut in Karnak. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín
In both events there were a group of dancers making the nwn gesture, which as we understand it, it was more than just an artistic movement. According to us, and due to the assimilation between hair and water, when throwing their hair forwards those dancing women were announcing the regenerating waters, which will renew the power of both god and king. In the same way, in the mourning ritual, with the nwn gesture the mourner sent the renovating waters to the deceased.
Tagged Amun, ancient egypt, death, festival of the valley, hair, inundation, mother, mourner, mourning, new-born, Nun, nwn, pharaoh, primeval moment, primeval water, sed festival, water
Hair is Maternity in Ancient Egypt.
The nwn gesture has also a positive reading, because the hair sm3 has also a double value in Egyptian thinking. The hair sm3 is an element full of life force, which has to be delivered to the deceased for making easier the final resurrection.
To give the hair sm3 (rdi sm3) is a gesture that can be linked to the act of nursing; the mother’s milk is the first food, in the Egyptian funerary ambit the dead one in his rebirth is like a baby, so giving the hair sm3 contributes to this idea of the mummy as a new-born baby.
Funerary stele of Lady Taperet with an image of Nut in nwn gesture. XXII Dynasty. Musée du Louvre. Photo: http://www.nybooks.com
Internal side of the cover of the Coffin of Peftjauneith from Saqqara. Nut with raised arms and hair standing on end. Ptolemaic Period. Rijksmuseum of Leiden. Photo: http://www.rmo.nl
When the mourner makes the nwn gesture of throwing the hair onwards over her face she turns into the deceased’s mother, from whose belly he will be born. The mummy, assimilated to Osiris, is the Nut’s son and this goddess makes the nwn gesture inside the coffin, where happens the regeneration process. Nut bended and with her hair extended forwards gives birth her son Osiris, i. e. the dead one. For that reason we can find inside many coffin covers an image of Nut with raised arms and hair standing on end; it is the way the artist could represent her in that surface; but in reality she was bended forwards making the nwn gesture.
Tagged ancient egypt, coffin, dead, death, deceased, funeral, funerary, hair, mother, new-born, nursing, Nut, nwn, Osiris, resurrection
Hair is Darkness in Ancient Egypt.
All along this work we have seen that hair, in its different aspects, is an essential element in the Egyptian funerary ceremony. Its importance has two dimensions, ritual and symbolic and it is based on how the mourners treat it during the mourning rite and in the strong symbolic meaning of each hair aspect. Hair is a reviving tool, whose handling and symbolism helps in the deceased’s resurrection.
Mourners. Painting from the tomb of Rekhmire in Gourna. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín
Hair sm3, whose most precise meaning seems to be the hair that comes from the crown (so the hair from its first origin in the head) is directly related in the funerals with the nwn gesture.
The nwn gesture has two variations: nwn: to shake the hair forwards covering the face with it and nwn m: to pull the front lock of hair swt/syt[1].
The nwn gesture has a very deep meaning, negative and positive.
HAIR IS DARKNESS.
In Ancient Egypt belief the hair sm3 means the darkness of the death, because the hair on the face stops the mourners seeing. With the nwn gesture the women reproduce the deceased’s blindness. It is also a way of alluding to the dead person’s lack of knowledge, because not to see means not to know, it is the state of unconsciousness typical of death. The negative nature of the nwn gesture comes not only from the darkness that causes the hair sm3, but also for the evilness that it symbolizes. The hair sm3 is assimilated to the damage done to the lunar eye. The hair sm3 in the Egyptian funerary belief is the image of the disaster that caused the blindness, the evil that Seth made to the eye of Horus, the lack of moon (so the light) in the night sky.
Mourning woman of Minnakht’s tomb. http://www.1st-art-gallery.com
While on earth the mourners have their hair over their faces, in the mythical sphere the Udjat eye has no vision, it cannot bright in the sky for illuminating the night. For recovering the brightness it is necessary to eliminate the evil, in the mythic dimension is when Thoth, spits on the sm3 and heals the lunar eye. The night has again its natural guide, the moon, and the moon is fundamental in all the regenerating process.
[1] In the Old Kingdom mourners pull the hair sm3; apparently it was later when the word sm3 is changed by the term for front lock of hair syt/swt.
Tagged ancient egypt, blindness, chaos, damage, darkness, death, evilness, funeral, funerary, hair, hair sm3, Horus, light, lock of hair, lunar eye, moon, mourner, night, nwn, nwn m, Seth, shadow, spit, Thoth, Udjat
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Gradiente and Apple will have to decide on iPhone branding through mediation | Brazil
STF Minister José Antônio Dias Toffoli decided this week that apple and IGB Eletrônica (formerlySteep) should resolve their dispute over the iPhone brand through mediation. As a result, the filing process in April this year at the Federal Supreme Court was suspended.
Gradiente Iphone Neo One (Image: Revealed)
This war is an old one. In a nutshell: in 2000, Gradiente filed a trademark application “G Gradiente iphone” with INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property). Only in 2008 did the company receive the right to use it, when Apple’s iPhone became a global success.
In 2013, Apple attempted to revoke the trademark registration; Judicial process is circulated in lower courts until the STJ (Superior Court of Justice) is reached in 2018.
Reporting Minister, Luis Felipe Salomão, decided that Gradiente’s trademark cannot be canceled, as there is no evidence of bad faith, and Apple did not sell the mobile phone at the time of the request to INPI. However, he determined that only Apple could use the “iPhone” branding independently and royalty free, while the IGB would maintain a monopoly on the term “G Gradiente iphone”.
Trademark iphone G Gradiente (Image: Copy / INPI)
Apple and Gradiente at the STF
Dissatisfied with the situation, the IGB turned to the Supreme Court. The request was initially denied, but the agency reviewed it in August and began processing. And, last Thursday (3), there was a decision from Minister Dias Toffoli. He recalled that this year, a Mediation and Mediation Center was established at STF to reach a unified resolution of legal problems.
“Considering that the matter is raised in the extraordinary appeal regarding available title, I determine the suspension of current proceedings and refer the case to the Mediation and Mediation Center”, write Dias Toffoli.
The IGB has been in judicial rehabilitation since 2018, and its cumulative total loss is R $ 1.00 billion. In some countries, such as the US and China, Apple has to pay to secure the rights to the iPhone and iPad brands. This year, the company has exceeded $ 2 trillion in market value.
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IASbaba's Daily Current Affairs Analysis
IASbaba’s Daily Current Affairs – 23rd December, 2015
Categories IASbaba's Daily Current Affairs Analysis, IASbaba's Daily Current Affairs December 2015, National, UPSC
General Studies 3:
Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
Inclusive growth and issues arising from it; Effects of liberalization on the economy
Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security
Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests
Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate
Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
Message from Nairobi- WTO Negotiations
The 10th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has just concluded in Nairobi over the weekend and the overall conclusion of the nature of the event might just keep oscillating between being a modest success to an utter failure.
Outcomes of these conferences have always combined legally binding commitments with an effective system of review and enforcement and the dispute-settlement system of the WTO has always been acknowledged to be fair, efficient and effective
The long-stalled Doha round of negotiations have finally been reached, clearing the way for the World Trade Organization to start focusing on smaller agreements with a better chance of success
Major breakthrough for the rich countries with six ministerial-level decisions on agriculture, cotton and other issues—
Commitment to abolish export subsidies for farm exports,
Public stockholding for food security purposes,
A special safeguard mechanism for developing countries,
Measures related to cotton and
Preferential treatment for least developed countries in the area of services
Major Roadblock: Failure of the final ministerial declaration to “reaffirm” a commitment to the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), which was affirmed at the end of the Doha Ministerial Conference of the WTO in November 2001
Key political issues:
Equity:
In terms of the contributions/ commitments to be made by developed and developing countries
Basis for differential treatment lies in the historical responsibilities of developed countries and the lower capabilities of developing ones; special and differential treatment (S&DT) in the WTO for developed countries
The contentiousness in the current negotiations arises from the remarkable changes in the global economy over the last two decades with the substantially enhanced role of emerging economies in global trade.
Though, the demand for differentiation between emerging economies and other poorer developing countries remains the same, as few economies may have become competitive in some areas, they continue to struggle with poverty and underdevelopment.
India’s View-point
Farm subsidy regime:
India has always stood for its right to provide subsidies to her farmers as 85 per cent of farmers have holdings of less than five acres, and that too given the backdrop of rural distress after successive years of drought
Nairobi conference:
Members of developed countries have committed to removing export subsidies immediately, except for a handful of agricultural products
Developing countries will remove the subsidies by 2018, with flexibility to cover marketing and transport costs for agriculture exports until the end of 2023 as well as political feasibility which will have to be taken into account
Status quo on some critical issues, including the “peace clause” for food stock holding, has not been disturbed and the arrangement binds other countries to refrain from challenging India’s food-grains procurement operations at minimum support prices and stock holding for the public distribution system, till this issue is finally resolved.
Issue of a special safeguard mechanism or SSM:
It allows India to raise tariffs to protect the interests of local farmers against surges in imports(meant to curb sudden increases in imports of commodities, which could hurt domestic agricultural interests)
Ministerial decision on SSM for developing countries: These countries will have the right to temporarily increase tariffs in the face of import surges while committing members to engage constructively in finding a permanent solution on public stockholding for food security.
At a glance— Key Issues
Issues of public stockholding of food crops and special safeguard mechanism in agriculture have not seen major progress
Rich nations want new issues to replace Doha Development Agenda
The ministerial declaration effectively barricades Doha because the WTO procedures mandate that any new resolution must garner the unanimous support of all member countries
WTO has recognised developing members’ rights to have recourse to special safeguard mechanism as envisaged under the Hong Kong ministerial
Touted as the “most significant outcome on agriculture” in the WTO’s history, the declaration on export competition will see all countries reducing export subsidies paid to farmer
IASbaba’s Views:
India’s trade policy is a function of domestic reform and competitiveness and India should make an effort to explore adequately the possibility of restructuring its farm-support programmes to conform to Green Box requirements. The decisions are of the nature of them being politically sensitive, but if successfully pursued, would free India to follow other trade objectives
India needs to also pursue the efficiency gains from domestic market integration in various sectors of the economy, particularly agriculture. The GST is a vital instrument and along with other initiatives, the looming danger might just surpass.
Market integration is an important aspect that needs capacity building and that which would lead to significant competitive gains, enabling countries in the region to focus on their comparative advantage, thus creating thousands of jobs. The government’s policy emphasis on “Make in India” needs to also be replicated in services, thus generating greater potential for job creation in the economy.
Formulation of a forward-looking trade policy based on India’s competitive strengths and a clear vision for the future that India can shape the WTO’s agenda needs to be speeded up.
With the enhanced role of emerging economies in global trade in the recent decades, does the ‘principle of equity’ hold relevance?
What is the impact of the recent WTO negotiations on developed and developing countries? What effect will this have on India’s trade policy?
WTO and its relevance
TOPIC: General Studies 2
Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these.
Misdiagnosis of the Rajya Sabha malfunction: Legislative productivity vis-à-vis legislative dissent
The 2015 winter session of the Rajya Sabha has been one of the least productive sessions in recent times. The Goods and Services Tax Bill, could not be passed in the process. This has triggered outrage, with some questioning the need for an Upper House at all.
Some others have opined that an indirectly elected body such as the Rajya Sabha should not be allowed veto powers over a directly elected Lok Sabha. However, mere opposition to a bill in the Rajya Sabha that has been passed by the Lok Sabha cannot be an excuse to curtail its powers. It is important to separate the two issues, legislative productivity vis-à-vis legislative dissent.
Argument in support of RS: Legislative dissent
It was obvious even to our founding fathers that the “House of People” (Lok Sabha) can fall prey to passionate rhetoric and thus felt a need for a “House of Elders” (Rajya Sabha) to instil calm. The powers of the Upper House to delay and oppose legislation passed by the Lower House were recognised and enshrined right from the very birth of the Rajya Sabha that, the Rajya Sabha would an indirectly elected body and would act as a balance to certain whimsical legislation of the people’s representatives in the Lok Sabha was a conscious design of our founding fathers
Next is this false narrative of indirectly elected members of the Rajya Sabha having veto powers over the members of the Lok Sabha who are direct representatives of the people.
In our first-past-the-post electoral system where a political party can form a government without the majority of citizens voting for it, legislation passed by the Lok Sabha may not necessarily represent the views of the majority. The percentage of seats won in the Lok Sabha by a political party is not the same as percentage of Indians voting for that party, as we all know. It then becomes even more pertinent and critical to have an active and vibrant Rajya Sabha. This principle still remains very relevant for a large, diverse polity such as ours, with a large number of regional parties
There is the argument that the Anti-Defection Act, which immediately disqualifies any member of Parliament who either changes political parties mid-way or disobeys the whip of her party, aggravates the chances of a dysfunctional Parliament.
The core principle behind the Anti-Defection Act is to prevent horse-trading on the floor of the House and penalise members who succumb to temptations from opposition parties. This principle still remains very relevant for a large, diverse polity such as ours, with a large number of regional parties.
The Lok Sabha recently held a discussion on a private member’s bill to de-criminalise certain Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. There was no whip issued by the major parties and members voted according to their choices, many times contrary to their party colleagues. The choice of when to issue a whip rests with the party. The Anti-Defection Act in itself cannot be made a villain for an internal matter of political parties over degrees of freedom to be given to their members for voting in Parliament. But to argue that the construct of the Upper House and the Anti-Defection Act need to be amended or done away with lends credence to our founding fathers’ fears of lawmaking in a fit of frenzy.
Scope for reform: Legislative Productivity
There has to be an outlet for opposition members to voice their protests without disrupting productivity and to have designated day(s) in a week on which the opposition can raise, discuss and debate issues rather than the government dictating the order of business every day of the session.
There can be innovative ways to create a framework within which the right to protest is not taken away but is done constructively.
Performance of Nominated MP’s: According to PRS Legislative Research, Lack of proper attendance of Nominated MP’s such as Sachin Tendulkar and Actress Rekha which is less than 10 percent as against the national average of 78 percent. Such low attendance will make them inactive as far as engaging in debates on vital issues and asking relevant questions to make the session active and passing vital bills which would be the need of the hour.
Do these celebrities feel out of place in Parliament?
In that case the process of selecting the nominated MP’s must be reviewed. In parallel, Reason for their absence must be identified and they must be encouraged to participate in democratic process so that to engage them in the debate to review bills and scrutinize the same.
Can Legislative dissent and Legislative productivity make both the houses of the parliament responsive to the needs of the society in passing appropriate bills? Comment.
House of elders ( Rajya Sabha) is needed to comment and compliment the work done by House of People (lok Sabha) to keep up the democratic spirit? Comment.
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Ownership: Multi-Stakeholder Association
Headquarters: 8, Funsho William's Avenue, Surulere, Lagos
Country: Nigeria
Email: admin[at]nira.org.ng
Website: NiRA.org.ng
Facebook: NiRAworks
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Dr. Adeola Odeyemi, Pioneer Board Chairman
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Muhammed Rudman, Current Executive President
NiRA or Nigeria Internet Registration Association is the registry of .ng domain names. Besides the ccTLD it supports some other second level domains including com.ng, edu.ng, name.ng, net.ng, org.ng, sch.ng, gov.ng, mil.ng and mobi.ng.[1]
NiRA follows the Registry/Registrar model according to which .ng domain names can be registered through a NiRA accredited Registrar. It does not directly register domain names.[2]
NiRA was started as a stakeholder organization in 2005 for the maintenance of .ng domain names, prior to which, the ccTLD was managed by the National Information Technology Development Agency on behalf of the Federal Government. Initially, .ng was hosted in the USA by an American Randy Bush has its Technical Contact. Its Board of Trustees was elected in 2006 and its Executive Board in March 2007.[3] To promote the ccTLD NiRA offered 50,000 free .ng domain names to its customers in March, 2011.[4]. However, in April 2013, NiRA opened its Top Level (.ng) for registration and witnessed a boom.
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NiRA has recently started a campaign 'Switch to .ng' urging Nigerian firms to register .ng domains. It aims to improve the visibility of Nigeria on the Internet by creating local content with ensured content security. As a result of campaign local, as well as international, companies have started giving attention to .ng domains.[5] Furthermore, .ng is an Open ccTLD, and thus can be registered by anyone around the globe. With its innovative Executive and the support of the Mr. Peter Jack, Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency of Nigeria (NITDA) and the excellent leadership of the Ministry of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, the switchto.gov.ng was accepted with a deadline set in August 18th, 2014 for all Government Bodies at all levels to change.
NiRA, in collaboration with other internet related bodies, has organised a lot of activities to date and contributed immensely to the growth and development of various organisations across Africa and in Nigeria. NiRA is supporting the growth and sustenance of organisations and associations with related reference, towards advancing the development amongst the Internet Industry.
The Digital Sense Forum.[6];
The Local Internet Content Forum (LICF);
The Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) [7].
Other expectations are:
Corporate-1-Million i.e. NG Corps, NG Media College, NG Young CEOs et al;
Centenary Giveaways[3];
Internet Awards and Recognition, to mention a few.
It represents Nigeria in ICANN fora and is interested in hosting an ICANN meeting planned for 2015.[8]
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I AM ZOZO – Ouija Board Thriller Announced by Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, has acquired U.S. rights to Scott Di Lalla’s Ouija board thriller I Am ZoZo from Outsider Pictures and One World Studios Ltd. The film was written and directed by documentarian Scott Di Lalla (Choppertown: The Sinners) and stars Kelly McLaren, Courtney Foxworthy, Demetrius Sager, Caleb DeBattista, and Caleb Courtney. The film was produced by Zack Coffman and executive produced by Martin Perlberger. I Am ZoZo was filmed entirely on Super 8mm and recently received Best Feature and Audience Choice Awards at the 2012 US Super 8 Film Festival. Bill Bromiley, Chief Acquisitions Officer for Image Entertainment made today’s announcement.
“Di Lalla’s background as a documentary filmmaker brings realism to I Am ZoZo whose subject matter is terrifying in itself,” said Bromiley. “We are excited to share with viewers Di Lalla’s uniquely artistic vision of this supernatural horror genre.”
I Am ZoZo centers on five young friends who play with a Ouija board that inadvertently summons the malevolent Ouija demon “ZoZo.” The film’s horrific account of possession is based on widely reported real experiences with this ancient and evil spirit that attaches itself to people exclusively through Ouija boards.
The deal was negotiated by Mark Ward on behalf of Image Entertainment, Paul Hudson of Outsider Pictures and Zack Coffman of One World Studios Ltd.
Image Entertainment recently released The Numbers Station with John Cusack and Malin Akerman; Tomorrow You’re Gone with Stephen Dorff, Michelle Monaghan and Willem Dafoe; and Day of the Falcon with Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto and Mark Strong. Upcoming features include The Colony with Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton and Kevin Zegers; Blood with Paul Bettany, Mark Strong and Brian Cox; and Paradise with Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer and Holly Hunter, written, directed and produced by Diablo Cody.
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Four players who the Pistons should consider drafting in the first round
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Manit Patel, General Assigment Reporter
The Detroit Pistons, with their new general manager, Troy Weaver, have a decision to make tonight. In a draft where nothing is certain, and there is no clear cut number one overall pick like Zion Williamson last year or DeAndre Ayton the year before, the Pistons have to ensure that this year’s pick is a good one. That being said, here are three draft choices, as well as a sleeper prospect, that would make sense for the Pistons.
1. Lamelo Ball
Ball is easily the most polarizing player in this draft. His name and lineage alone make him a popular prospect.
He is a 6-foot-7 point guard who weighs in at 185 pounds. While he can score, his major asset is his playmaking and the ability to distribute the ball with ease.
Ball has been rumored and linked to the Pistons for a while, as they were one of only four teams to watch him work out. In his career prior to the NBA, Ball played for Chino Hills High School (Chino Hills, Calif.), Prienai of the LKL (Lithuanian Basketball League), SPIRE Academy in Ohio, and the Illawarra Hawks of the NBL.
In 12 games with Illawawa, Ball averaged 17 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game.
2. Killian Hayes
Killian Hayes is another intriguing prospect for the Pistons. Hayes has not played a second of basketball in America due to being raised in Europe, and that lack of experience could cause teams to be very cautious when taking him. He was named the MVP of the 2017 FIBA U16 European Championship, where he played against players like Nico Mannion and Deni Avidja.
Hayes has played for Cholet (a professional French basketball team) as part of their junior team and eventually debuted for their senior team at age 16. In 2019, he moved to Germany to play for Ratiopharm Ulm, a professional German basketball team.
Hayes averaged 12.8 points a game, as well as 6.2 assists during his time with Ratiopharm Ulm.
3. Obi Toppin
Obi Toppin could be a fit for Detroit because he is one of the most similar prospects to Pistons’ star Blake Griffin. They both entered the draft with athleticism that was off the charts, and Toppin would benefit immensely from learning under Griffin.
He has the drive and motor to play well; Toppin just needs to be drafted into the right situation. He played two years in college at Dayton where he averaged 20 points a game in 2019-20. The Flyers went 29-2 and were considered to be a leading final four contender before the NCAA tournament was cancelled.
4. Sleeper: Issac Okoro
Issac Okoro is another athletic wing who could be one of the best players in the draft. He is also one of the best defenders, wing or interior, in the draft. Okoro has a good ceiling as a scorer and is immensely gifted at both ends of the floor. He was a heavily recruited player out of college, with teams like Florida, Florida State, Oregon, and Texas all interested in him.
Okoro ultimately ended up committing to Auburn and playing a year under Bruce Pearl while averaging 12.9 points per game and shooting 51.4% from the field.
Manit Patel,
Manit is a general assignment reporter for Impact. He is also a freshman who is studying Journalism. He has previously covered women's basketball for WDBM.
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No new COVID cases amid confusion over QR codes and masks
South Australia has recorded no new coronavirus cases today, amid revelations authorities failed to report a past positive case, confusion over masks and delays in implementation of a streamlined QR code process for some phone users.
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Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, Premier Steven Marshall and Professor Nicola Spurrier check in with the QR system. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily
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Chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier said the unreported case was “not a problem whatsoever”, as it was a woman who returned from overseas, meaning she was not linked to the Parafield cluster and tested positive while in hotel quarantine.
The woman arrived in Adelaide on November 15 and is no longer infectious.
Health authorities discovered the oversight during an audit.
“The case wasn’t missed, it just was that we didn’t publicly report it,” Spurrier said.
“We knew that the person was positive and that they got all of the assessment and the testing, because we have that process wrapping around our medi-hotels.
“It was just that we hadn’t had an opportunity to tell the public about it.”
Spurrier said because authorities were “so busy with the Parafield cluster”, they didn’t add the case to their reporting list.
She said the case was overlooked when authorities changed the time of their daily media updates.
“It’s really of no concern or consequence,” she said.
“There is nothing tidy about a pandemic – it is an inherently unstable biological system.”
Spurrier’s revelation came amid confusion about the QR (quick response) electronic check-in system now mandatory for businesses from today, to record customer details to help with any necessary future contact tracing.
The app for iPhone users wasn’t available this morning, with Spurrier telling reporters “it will be coming in later this afternoon”.
There was also confusion about masks today, which became mandatory in all healthcare, aged care and disability support settings.
Australian Medical Association state president Dr Chris Moy said he’d been sent information that stipulated the masks had to be surgical-grade, even for patients and visitors.
But Spurrier told reporters “we didn’t put a stipulation around that”.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens checks in with an Adelaide hotel’s QR system. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily
All businesses with a COVID-safe plan, including supermarkets, restaurants and sporting clubs, must adopt the State Government’s QR (quick response) electronic check-in technology today.
The technology records customer details to help with any necessary future contact tracing.
Businesses must print off their QR code – sent to them by SA Health yesterday – and display it by the entrance to their premises so that patrons can scan the code on the mySAGOV app as they enter.
However, the app for iPhone users wasn’t available this morning, with Spurrier telling reporters “it will be coming in later this afternoon”.
“There were some issues because of course Apple doesn’t sit within Australia and I know people were trying to get hold of the executives in America but unfortunately they were asleep and we are just waiting for California to wake up and hopefully that will be in place this afternoon,” she said.
Spurrier said the scanning system was still working well without the iPhone app.
“It is very simple, you just hold your phone over the QR reader with your camera, push the button and it takes you to a site where you put your contact details,” she said.
She acknowledged “it will be much more convenient when we do have the app for iPhones”.
A government spokesperson told InDaily this afternoon that the technology was now working on iPhones.
The spokesperson said if the app has not automatically updated, delete it and reinstall it.
One city clothing shop manager – who didn’t want to be identified – said she had “no idea” if the QR system was now mandatory or how it worked.
She said there had been a lack of information from authorities.
The business introduced its own QR system a month ago in line with the company’s national policy but now wasn’t sure whether SA stores needed to update it with the Government version.
One Adelaide gym was using a paper check-in system this morning, telling patrons the QR system would be up and running tomorrow.
Felici Espresso Bar co-owner Luciano Liguoro said the system was working fine, even without the iPhone app.
“Nobody’s complaining here but it will be even better when the app is available,” he said.
When asked why there had been a delay in getting the iPhone app, Spurrier said her focus had been on getting on top of the Parafield cluster.
“The fact that we’ve had a slight delay in getting the QR readers out is just one of those things that happens – it does work this morning, I’ve used it myself twice and I feel very confident South Australians are really going to embrace this system,” she said.
“It is actually a game-changer for us.”
Marshall said the QR system would be “a fantastic new tool for our contact tracers”.
“That information is kept very securely, it is encrypted and it is only accessed by SA Health when they need that information to advance their case for getting people into quarantine as quickly as possible,” he said.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said more than 26,000 people had already used the app to scan QR codes this morning.
He said those without mobile phones still have the option of manually filling-out their details on paper when they visit a premises.
Businesses must use the Government QR scanning technology, regardless of whether they have already implemented their own system.
“People have – particularly through the media – expressed concerns about privacy,” Stevens said.
“If you use an independent third-party QR code then you have no confidence that that information is not being used in some other way.
“The State Government QR code is an encrypted system and is only used by SA Health for contact tracing purposes.”
“They are not allowed normal masks – it has to be a surgical mask,” he told InDaily.
“For a (medical) practice, it’s quite a big impost when you consider each mask costs $1 to $1.50.
“Imagine whole families coming in and having to provide surgical masks for everyone.”
Moy said he’d raised his concerns with the Health Minister and he was “reassured they are trying to provide a solution”.
She said “of course our healthcare staff will have the correct grade” but that visitors and patients could use any mask.
Moy said that wasn’t the information that had been provided to him.
He pointed InDaily to the relevant Emergency Management Direction that states “all care providers, patients, clients, residents, administrative and other staff, employees, visitors, students, contractors and any other person on the premises at which the service is provided must wear a single-use surgical mask” with some exceptions.
Excerpt from the Emergency Management (Public Activities No 14) (COVID-19) Direction 2020
“It’s confusing, I’m not sure what’s going on,” he said.
From 12.01 am 1 December 2020, all people in health care settings must wear a single-use surgical mask at all times when in the physical presence of other people on the premises.
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Spurrier declared today was “a day of celebration”, as authorities lifted a raft of restrictions on gatherings and venues.
Up to 150 people are now allowed at funerals, weddings and private functions, while licensed venues are allowed to serve alcohol to standing people outdoors and community sport is now permitted.
Cinemas and theatres will be allowed to operate at up to 50 per cent capacity while gyms and swimming centres can also open.
Home gatherings are still limited to 10 people for now although Police Commissioner Grant Stevens yesterday said he was hopeful that would be increased to 50 people by December 14, in time for Christmas.
Meanwhile, there were scenes of joy at Adelaide Airport this morning after South Australia reopened its border to Victoria.
Families who have been apart for much of this year were reunited, with some meeting new family members for the first time.
Elle Holtham meets her nephew for the first time at Adelaide Airport after Melbourne flights resumed. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily
A family is reunited at Adelaide Airport. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily
However, South Australian travellers are still being screened as they enter Victoria.
Today’s lifting of restrictions was bittersweet for some hospitality venues, which are still subject to a one-person per four-square-metre density cap indoors.
Business SA last week claimed the restriction meant venues were “in store for a dire December” as they could only operate at 25 per cent capacity.
Stevens said the transition committee discussed lifting the indoor density rule at this morning’s meeting, “but at this time we will keep it until the 14th of December, unless we see something significant happen”.
“We make these decisions knowing the consequences of these decisions – it is not lost on us the harm that’s caused to small businesses, the hospitality industry,” he said.
“But we are mindful of the potential consequences of not controlling COVID-19 and going into an extended lockdown like Victoria had to endure.”
Premier Steven Marshall told ABC Radio Adelaide this morning that if health authorities advised that restrictions could be further lifted before December 14, “that’s precisely what we’ll do, but similarly, if things escalate with regards to the Parafield cluster or the situation deteriorates in South Australia, we’ve got to be nimble”.
Spurrier yesterday afternoon publicly apologised to an infectious man whose shopping spree sparked a series of high-risk COVID alerts over the weekend.
On Sunday, Spurrier wrongly accused the man in his 30s of breaking coronavirus quarantine rules by not isolating at home between his day one and 12 tests.
But her deputy yesterday revealed the man was never given a formal direction to quarantine as he was only a “casual contact” of a positive case.
Spurrier today said she had spoken to the man on the phone to personally apologise.
“He was extremely gracious and accepting of that apology,” she said.
“He was actually very thankful that we had made that apology and cleared that and we’ll keep moving forward.”
Asked who gave her the wrong information that led to the false accusation, Spurrier said it was “better not to be seeking scapegoats and laying blame”.
“It’s actually the virus that is the common enemy, so if we try and say ‘look, this person gave me the wrong information’ or ‘they should be made the scapegoat’ that doesn’t actually help fight this virus,” she said.
“We all need to practice that kindness, that compassion.”
Meanwhile, a police investigation continues into accusations a 36-year-old Woodville Pizza Bar worker who was part of the Parafield cluster misled health authorities before the statewide lockdown.
Marshall told reporters that the man – a Spanish national on a graduate visa – “deliberately” lied to authorities about his employment at the pizzeria and his “selfish actions” forced the state into shutdown.
Stevens said early last week that an update on the investigation, which is being conducted by 20 detectives, would be given by Sunday, but police are yet to front the media.
There are currently 1100 people directly linked to the Parafield cluster who are in quarantine.
South Australia has recorded 563 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, but only 11 are currently active.
About 6500 people were tested for COVID-19 yesterday.
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Home Music Features Chatham Rabbits Took a Leap of Faith to Bridge Old-Time Traditions and Contemporary Folk Artistry
Chatham Rabbits Took a Leap of Faith to Bridge Old-Time Traditions and Contemporary Folk Artistry
by Spencer Griffith
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Sarah Osborne McCombie and Austin McCombie
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“We know we’re not the cool kids,” concedes Austin McCombie, who forms one half of the Bynum-based acoustic duo Chatham Rabbits. His bandmate, Sarah Osborne McCombie, agrees, joking about her conservative outfit—she bought her skirt while traveling to play a recent gig at a Mennonite community in the Shenandoah Valley—after browsing through the fashionable wares at Raleigh’s Edge of Urge boutique.
“Instead of trying to fight that wholesome image,” he continues, “we just lean into it.”
Part of that image includes the band’s name itself, which honors a century of Bynum history. Chatham County was once the nation’s leading producer of meat rabbits, and a Bynum mill sponsored a string band that took the name of Chatham Rabbits. The McCombies, who married in 2015, discovered that a previous owner of their mill home, Randolph “Suzie” Riddle, was a guitar player in the original Chatham Rabbits. According to Austin, their neighbors “sort of elected that name for us.” The duo’s tunes are rooted in the tradition of the original Rabbits while reflecting more contemporary folk storytelling with modern pop sensibilities.
Sarah Osborne met Austin McCombie at a Mandolin Orange show in 2013—she had performed with the old-time opening act, the South Carolina Broadcasters, and around the same time, he played keys in the electropop outfit Dash. The two began sharing songs they’d written apart from their main projects. Though they discovered common themes in their writing despite their disparate musical backgrounds, the McCombies intended only to complete a demo of their takes on a few traditionals when they began recording with Jerry Brown more than a year ago.
Instead, Brown’s encouragement led to them assembling nine original tunes, along with a cover of the Flatt & Scruggs classic “The Good Things (Outweigh the Bad),” for their full-length debut, All I Want From You. With mentions of hound dogs and cotton fields mixed between references to Surry County and Cape Fear, a particular sense of place permeates the record, none more obviously than “Blue Ridge Mountain Home.”
Taking a broader Southern perspective, “Bugle Boy” is cast in the Civil War era, while “Holy Dirt” reflects gospel sensibilities. The warm, bucolic nature of opener “Come Home” belies its despondent tale; it’s reminiscent of early Mandolin Orange, whom the McCombies credit with helping inspire their leap of faith.
“They’ve done such a good job making it a success. They invited us over for dinner one night and just poured in a lot of wisdom about what it’s like as a young duo,” Sarah says.
Last spring, the McCombies were already frustrated with a work-life balance that left little time to see each other, let alone play music together. So they decided to quit their jobs. Austin’s job as a financial planner kept him on the road, while Sarah was growing unsatisfied teaching music at a Montessori school.
“I couldn’t see myself continuing down that path, and, as cliché as it sounds, we knew we wouldn’t regret it if we did [quit our jobs], but we would regret it if we didn’t,” Sarah remembers.
“We were fortunate because we’d saved enough money so we had at least six months to give it 110%,” Austin adds. “Every single day, we could call venues and do whatever it took to make it. A lot of people don't get to do that.”
They got a lucky bounce when Austin found an incredible bargain on a Sprinter van via Craiglist. The couple had been planning to move into a Winnebago before finding the considerably more efficient touring vehicle. That allowed them to keep their Bynum residence as a home base, though they’ve still got enough room to bring along their hound dog, Ruby, when traveling.
Austin’s former life as a financial planner reveals itself when he discusses the numbers he and Sarah needed to succeed and the planning that it takes. But he also knows the value of starting with slow, local growth before expanding regionally.
“The measure of success is going somewhere and making even one fan that will come back,” he reasons. “The minute I saw a group of people come back to see us, that’s when I knew we could do it, because we did something they wanted to see again and I never had that before.”
Sarah notes that they have to make smart decisions for the long-term, like turning down a high paying slot at a prestigious festival in California in favor of a sizable gig that will help them build their local audience. Along with managing all of the logistical duties of a full-time touring act, that financial pressure can threaten to distract from the band’s main purpose. But the two say they try to build enough time into their schedule so that they don’t get burnt out and can continue to write new material.
“[Songwriting] is the number one priority, but because of life getting in the way, that's always the last thing to get done,” Austin says.
With Chatham Rabbits becoming his primary focus, he’s also found that process now involves developing a clearer direction for the future versus the scattershot approach that led to their debut.
“We can really tap into why we’re writing what we’re writing, who we’re writing about, and what the theme of this next record is going to be.”
The McCombies admit some shock at still being able to pay all their bills while fully committing to Chatham Rabbits for the past six months, which has found them playing a variety of gigs spanning clubs, churches, nursing homes, weddings, and parties.
“When you’re doing this full time, you get yourself in some strange situations,” Austin explains, contrasting recent the Shenandoah Valley performance—“we were getting held up in traffic behind horses and buggies” —with a Kappa Alpha fraternity party the band played at Wake Forest University.
“I kid you not, there was a fraternity brother who was booty dancing to our fiddle music,” he says.
Though they played an Episcopal church service in Asheville the next morning, perhaps Chatham Rabbits can shake that wholesome stereotype after all.
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Home News Archives Javiera Caballero Named to Durham City Council
Javiera Caballero Named to Durham City Council
by Sarah Willets
Javiera Caballero
After a 5-1 vote, Javiera Caballero has been selected to fill a vacant at-large seat on the Durham City Council.
She is the first Latinx member of the City Council. Her appointment also makes the body majority women.
The seat opened up after Steve Schewel was elected mayor. Twenty-three people initially applied for the job.
A mother and a former teacher, Caballero works for an education consulting firm and serves as president of the Club Boulevard Magnet Elementary School PTA. She came to the United States from Chile as a child and grew up in Charlotte.
Caballero was sworn in at tonight's regular meeting of the City Council, about an hour after the council voted to appoint her in a special meeting. She delivered her first remarks in English and Spanish, thanking her supporters and vowing to “fight for all of us.”
“This has been a historic moment for Durham and I’m proud to be part of it,” she said.
Caballero said she was surprised to get the appointment, although she prepared for that night’s council meeting just in case.
"I came into the room thinking I didn't have it," she said. After the vote, and a brief standing ovation, she quickly got to work, with a briefing from council member Charlie Reece on a zoning item.
"I believe that she is the leader we need at this moment in our city's history, both to bring the voices of our Latinx community to the table here in City Hall but also to fight for a city we all deserve," said council member Jillian Johnson, explaining her support of Caballero.
Initially the council had split, with three members (Vernetta Alston, Johnson and Reece) supporting Caballero and three (Mark-Anthony Middleton, Schewel and DeDreana Freeman) supporting Pilar Rocha-Goldberg. Schewel said he would switch his vote to Caballero, saying while he felt Rocha-Goldberg was the best candidate, both are “excellent.” Middleton agreed, and aiming for a unified vote, switched his support as well.
Freeman remained in support of Rocha-Goldberg, but said she felt the best candidate had dropped out. She declined to name that person.
Before casting his vote, Reece said Caballero has "shown that she can reach out across all sorts of lines that exist in our community."
Johnson said Caballero shares her values, would bring a unique perspective to the council and will represent an underrepresented community. About 13 percent of Durham’s population identifies as Hispanic or Latino. Neither the Durham County Board of Commissioners and Durham Public Schools board have Latinx members.
In a public input meeting last week, supporters said Caballero has earned the trust of Durham’s Latino community. Those sentiments were echoed by a small group that came to watch Tuesday’s vote.
“She connects with every type of person, especially immigrants,” said Laura Henaine, one of a group of Caballero’s supporters who came for the vote. “She understands the problems and challenges immigrants face.” Caballero believes family is the root of a good society, Henaine said, and that’s important to her and her peers.
As part of her work as an educational consultant, Caballero helps to develop equitable hiring practices. Alexandra Valladares, who also serves on the PTA, says that has informed Caballero’s work at Club Boulevard. She has been resourceful and able to engage non-parents with the public school system.
“I believe the work she’s done in the schools is a microcosm,” she said.
Community organizer Ivan Almonte said Caballero has consistently shown up for Durham’s Latinx community – as then high school student Wildin Acosta was taken into ICE custody two years ago and as police checkpoints sparked fears of deportation last spring.
“Finally I will have a voice I feel comfortable representing me as an immigrant, as a Latino in Durham,” Almonte said. “I think more than ever being a community organizer right now it gives me more motivation to keep fighting for social justice for my community.”
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Ryan Seacrest Denies Former Stylist's Sexual Assault Allegations, Calls Her Claims 'Debunked'
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Ryan Seacrest’s attorney has released a statement denying allegations of sexual assault and harassment against his client made by the TV host’s former stylist Suzie Hardy. Per US Weekly, it reads:
“On January 31st the network notified us that their independent third-party investigation had concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support her claims, effectively, clearing my client’s name. It’s telling that after my client refused to pay her money, and the E! investigation resulted as it did, that she is now coming forward to share her debunked story to the press.”
Among Hardy’s claims are multiple instances of Seacrest grabbing her vulva (after one alleged grab, he asked if she was going to sue her), and an incident during which he—dressed only in underwear—rubbed his “visible erection” against Hardy’s body.
This story has been bubbling since last fall, and Seacrest’s defense—that Hardy said she would make false claims against him unless she was paid $15 million—has not changed.
[Us Weekly]
Here’s Henry Cavill:
[ONTD]
Tyler Perry is building a big ass, Queen of Versailles-y house near Atlanta. [TMZ]
“Heather Locklear’s closest friends are hoping her recent arrest will help her get her life on track.” [People]
Amy Schumer: NOT pregnant. [Gossip Cop]
Jennifer Aniston: NOT pregnant or adopting. [Gossip Cop]
Sarah Jessica Parker: NOT pregnant. [Gossip Cop]
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Ok Tammy
Couple things: First, “debunked” is not a word I would use in the context of sexual assault allegations. Myths & legends are “debunked” - sexual assault allegations are serious and should be treated as such. Also, and I’m not even sure I want an answer to this question, how does a person “grab” a vulva.....? *dies inside*
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Differences between various VCT operating models, including growth-focused VCTs, capital preservation VCTs and limited life VCTs
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Investment case for VCTs, especially in the light of reductions to pension limits
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Demand for VCTs is growing
In 2016 the lifetime allowance for pensions will decline to just £1m. Lower annual allowances and limits on what high earners can save have already been implemented. This means more investors are looking for tax-efficient alternatives to pensions. VCTs meet this need, offering income tax relief as well as tax free growth and income. It’s no surprise they are, becoming increasingly popular.
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Key Findings 2015/2016 VCT Industry Report
Changing risk profile of some VCTs: new rules excluding management buy-outs and company acquisitions will change the risk profile of some VCTs
Increasing popularity: 91% of advisers expect to do more VCT business over the next 12 months
Positive impact on UK economy: for every £1 of initial tax relief, the average investee company sees its turnover increase by £6.46
Consistent returns: VCTs paid out aggregate dividends of over £240 million in the year to March 2015. Generalist VCTs currently yield 8.9% on average
Effective fundraising: 66 VCTs raised £440 million in the tax year to April 2014
Expanding sector: there were 32 providers in the market as of December 2015. The sector has total assets of £3.5 billion
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We are inspired to excel and be the very best we can be and in the process we hope to inspire our clients to live their ideal life.
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Albion Ventures LLP was created in January 2009, when it acquired the business of Close Ventures Limited from Close Brothers Group plc and is structured as a partnership formed by the former Close Ventures management team. We think it is appropriate that a business investing in owner-managed companies is itself owner-managed.
We look to invest £1-10 million in a wide range of growing businesses, from technology orientated companies to service and asset-based businesses.
We enjoy working with smaller companies and entrepreneurial management teams, seeing our purpose as helping businesses to grow by providing financial resources as well as strategic advice. Our ultimate aim is to realise the full potential of the business invested in and so create returns for the shareholders in our funds. We act with integrity and respect for the people we deal with.
http://www.albion-ventures.co.uk/
As one of the leading new peer to peer lending businesses, our purpose is very clear; to deliver fairer growth together. What do we mean by this? Well everything that we do is aimed at growing your investments with us, at growing credit worthy businesses by providing them access to your capital and at growing people and their careers with us as they manage our investors and borrowers.
This is achieved by us all working together effectively and using the power of the internet to be efficient. Through efficiency we seek to deliver better value to each of our stakeholders; the prospect of higher returns to investors and lower cost finance to businesses with us being efficient but profitable in the middle.
Fairer, Growth, Together.
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Beaufort Asset Management are a firm of independent financial advisers, based in Reading, Berkshire. Our growing team of 16 provide bespoke advice to both personal and corporate clients across the UK. Relationships are key to our success and we are proud of the on-going guidance, advice and care we offer to ensure we not only look after your wealth, but also support you through the successes and challenges that each year brings.
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Successful EIS investing is about managing risk.
Investing in unlisted smaller companies can be exciting and highly rewarding but very few private investors have the necessary time or experience to originate the right deals, agree the right terms and conduct effective due diligence.
CoInvestor helps reduce your EIS investment risk by letting you co-invest alongside experienced fund managers committing their own funds into each deal.
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Goldfinch Entertainment
Goldfinch Entertainment is backed by Nyman Libson Paul; Chartered Accountants, Tax and Business Advisors to the Entertainment Industry for over 80 years.
Nyman Libson Paul was founded in 1933 when the wonderful worlds of celluloid and accountancy were black and white, and now, in a digital, multi-platformed, Technicolor age they still represent some of the best and brightest luminaries in the world of entertainment from Film, Television, Music and more.
Whilst they offer traditional accountancy services they also provide much broader commercial, tax and financial management advice; all underpinned by their experience and knowledge of the Entertainment Industry.
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Lawson Conner
Lawson Conner was founded in 2010 with the desire to create better ways of operating financial services firms by injecting innovation, multi-asset class expertise and excellence in client focus into the world of fund management. With that in mind, we brought together an exceptional group of talented professionals to cover a wide spectrum of financial services functions, all with one single goal: “Create a world class fund management and advisor platform!”.
Over the past five years we helped more than 100 clients to effectively navigate through the challenges of launching and operating financial services businesses. On that journey we have become thought leaders in the areas of onshore/offshore Fund Structures, AIFMD, the national private placement regimes (NPPR), FinTech business models and RegTech. The team at Lawson Conner covers a wide range of asset classes from long/short equity, derivatives, commodities, real estate to private equity and loan based investment models. We serve our clients from 4 different locations, in the US (2x), Hong Kong and from our headquarters in London.
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MMC Ventures
MMC is one of the most active venture capital investors in the UK. We back entrepreneurs based in the UK with global ambition, and partner with them to provide capital and strategic input as they grow.
Founded in 2000, MMC has built a nationwide network that sources our proprietary deal flow and provides valuable connections for our portfolio.
We believe in putting our money where our mouth is. Of the £150m currently under management, over £10m has been invested by the MMC team – on the same terms as our investors.
Our investors are individuals and institutions whose risk appetite, outlook and values match our own. They invest through MMC fund structures that allow us to maximise their returns.
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Pembroke VCT plc is a venture capital trust that provides investors with access to a private equity style investment strategy with significant tax benefits. As part of the Oakley Capital group of companies, we are committed to helping management teams realise their vision, utilising our extensive network and experience. From start-ups to more mature businesses we invest in founders and management teams we have confidence in, across industries we believe have exciting growth prospects.
In turn these entrepreneurs often seek the financial advice and operational and strategic expertise that our team can provide. We only invest in companies where we can add value over and above simply providing capital, and where we are confident our resources and experience can be most instrumental in their growth. We are hands-on investors, providing a supportive framework and access to unparalleled talent across our Board, Management Team and Advisors.
Q Ventures
QVentures is a co-investment club for the smartest and most experienced investors in the market.
QVentures is a members-only investment Club for sophisticated investors, UHNWIs, venture capital firms and family offices able to deploy a minimum of £25k into an individual deal.
Our members gain access to investment opportunities alongside top-tier VCs and Super Angels in deals that have been strictly vetted.
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Holiday World Announces New Thunderbird Ice Cream
Posted on April 14, 2015 by Drew - News
Holiday World today announced a new partnership with Prairie Farms to name their new ice cream flavor, Thunderbird to go along with the New For 2015 roller coaster which shares the same name. The ice cream will be vanilla flavored with caramel and spicy scorched pecans. The ice cream will be available at the park as well as in stores in 27 states around America. Thunderbird opens on April 25th with the opening of Holiday World. Check out the press release below.
NEW ‘THUNDERBIRD ICE CREAM’ AVAILABLE IN 27 STATES & HOLIDAY WORLD
SANTA CLAUS, IND.—–With only two weeks remaining until the new Thunderbird Roller Coaster opens at Holiday World, an edible version is rolling into grocery stores in 27 states
“Thunderbird Ice Cream is a fun collaboration between Holiday World and Prairie Farms,” says Holiday World Vice President Eric Snow. “We sampled a lot of creative flavor combinations and ultimately decided Thunderbird Ice Cream should be a delicious combination of vanilla ice cream with loops of caramel and spicy ‘scorched’ pecans.”
Thunderbird Ice Cream will be available at Holiday World this season, plus in half-gallon cartons at grocery stores that carry Prairie Farms Ice Cream in the Midwest, East Coast, and South.
Thunderbird, America’s first launched wing coaster, features a zero-to-60 miles-per-hour launch in 3.5 seconds, followed by multiple inversions including a 14-story launch, loops, rolls and overbanked turns.
Farmer-owned Prairie Farms Dairy is headquartered in Carlinville, Illinois. Prairie Farms will distribute Thunderbird Ice Cream as part of its “Critics’ Choice” series of specialty ice cream.
Holiday World opens for the season on April 25; Splashin’ Safari opens May 13. For more information about the parks, visit HolidayWorld.com
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A crew of researchers from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara suggest a framework for evaluating local weather change variations, present a case examine of California
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Because the planet continues to heat, the dual challenges of diminishing water provide and rising vitality demand are intensifying. However as a result of water and vitality are inextricably linked, as we attempt to adapt to at least one problem – say, by getting extra water through desalination or water recycling – we could also be worsening the opposite problem by selecting energy-intensive processes.
So, in adapting to the implications of local weather change, how can we ensure that we aren’t making issues worse?
Now, researchers on the Division of Power’s Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara have developed a science-based analytic framework to judge such complicated connections between water and vitality, and choices for variations in response to an evolving local weather. Their examine, “Evaluating cross-sectoral impacts of local weather change and variations on the energy-water nexus: A framework and California case examine,” was revealed just lately within the open-access journal Environmental Analysis Letters.
“There have been many analyses on how local weather change may have an effect on the water and vitality sectors individually, however these research weren’t sometimes interactions and feedbacks between the 2,” mentioned lead creator Julia Szinai of Berkeley Lab’s Local weather and Ecosystem Sciences Division. “Our paper develops a generalized framework that identifies how local weather change impacts these coupled water and electrical energy techniques, and potential variations to future gaps in provide and demand. By doing so, we illustrate often-overlooked tradeoffs and synergies in adapting to local weather change.”
“In creating this undertaking, Julia led a exceptional effort to combine the local weather impacts and feedbacks between the vitality and water sectors,” mentioned co-author Daniel Kammen, a professor of vitality and sources at UC Berkeley. “What’s important to planning our future below local weather change is to seize – in each simplified and full dynamical fashions ¬- how interdependent are our infrastructure decisions.”
In making use of the framework they developed to California, which depends on the snowpack for a great deal of its water and expends important quantities of vitality to move water from the northern to the southern a part of the state, they discovered that there are two attainable adaptation pathways: one that’s vitality intensive and one that may really save each water and vitality.
“Some of the essential factors of the paper is that adapting our water system to local weather change can both considerably exacerbate electrical energy grid stress, or on the flip facet, it may assist to alleviate it,” mentioned co-author and Berkeley Lab local weather scientist Andrew Jones. “If we deal with adapting the water system through the use of large transfers of water throughout basins, or through the use of energy-intensive desalination, that’s simply going to make the electrical energy downside way more troublesome. If, then again, we adapt the water system by conserving water, it’s really a win-win state of affairs since you’re additionally lowering the vitality required for water.”
At present, a staggering 19% of California’s electrical energy consumption goes towards water-related purposes, resembling treating it, transporting it, pumping it, and heating it. Moreover, about 15% of in-state electrical energy era comes from hydropower. Such interdependencies are known as the water-energy nexus. The state has already seen some impacts that local weather change may have on these extremely interdependent water-energy techniques; for instance, prolonged droughts and lowered snowpack have resulted in spikes in electrical energy consumption from groundwater pumping and hydropower deficits, which had been made up by producing electrical energy utilizing dirtier fossil fuels.
Wanting forward, the researchers built-in information throughout plenty of fragmented research to estimate the general vary of attainable water and vitality futures below numerous local weather situations for the state on the finish of the century. Their evaluation discovered that the best direct local weather change impression on the electrical energy sector in California will doubtless come from two components: increased air con hundreds and decreased hydropower availability. Within the water sector, the best and most unsure impression of local weather change is on future water provides. Within the worst case, out there water provides may lower 25%, and in the very best case may enhance 46%.
Making use of their framework to California’s water-energy future, they discovered that, if the state had been to adapt to the worst-case water situation by selecting essentially the most energy-intensive applied sciences, it may end in an vitality imbalance as giant as that brought on by local weather change itself (elevated air con use and decreased hydropower availability being the local weather change components having the best direct vitality imbalance impression).
“I feel that is the primary examine to indicate that water sector adaptation can have as giant of an impression on the electrical energy sector because the direct impact of local weather change itself,” mentioned Jones. “So, if we pursued the energy-intensive path to water sector adaptation then it’s as giant because the direct impact of local weather change, within the worst case.”
Co-author Ranjit Deshmukh, a professor of environmental research at UC Santa Barbara and college scientist at Berkeley Lab, famous, “Going ahead, the electrical energy sector may leverage its shut coupling with the water sector to allow balancing of accelerating wind and photo voltaic era in California because the state strives to fulfill its low-carbon-emission targets. For instance, energy-intensive tools resembling water pumps or desalination vegetation, with satisfactory water storage, could possibly be operated throughout occasions of plentiful photo voltaic and wind vitality, and turned off at different occasions.”
Subsequent, Szinai, a UC Berkeley graduate pupil, mentioned she plans to develop detailed fashions of each water and electrical energy techniques so researchers can run simulations below numerous local weather change and local weather change adaptation situations, finally aiding planners in constructing out each the electrical grid and water sources.
“This examine has highlighted the good thing about coordinated adaptation planning between the 2 sectors, so we’re now linking a extra detailed water sources administration mannequin and an electrical energy planning mannequin that may show resilient pathways for constructing out electrical energy infrastructure within the Western U.S. when local weather change impacts are included from the water sector,” she mentioned.
This examine was supported by the DOE Workplace of Science and the Nationwide Science Basis. It’s a part of DOE’s HyperFACETS undertaking.
Based in 1931 on the assumption that the most important scientific challenges are finest addressed by groups, Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory and its scientists have been acknowledged with 14 Nobel Prizes. Immediately, Berkeley Lab researchers develop sustainable vitality and environmental options, create helpful new supplies, advance the frontiers of computing, and probe the mysteries of life, matter, and the universe. Scientists from around the globe depend on the Lab’s services for their very own discovery science. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram nationwide laboratory, managed by the College of California for the U.S. Division of Power’s Workplace of Science.
DOE’s Workplace of Science is the one largest supporter of fundamental analysis within the bodily sciences in the US, and is working to handle among the most urgent challenges of our time. For extra info, please go to vitality.gov/science.
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Charles addendum:
Anyone right me if I’m fallacious, but it surely seems researchers on the Division of Power’s Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara, funded by the DOE, have discovered that if a water system makes use of vitality, then conserving water will save vitality.
Did I miss something? Is there something extra there? I’m pleased to be fallacious on this.
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Optimism, jobs on the up in Australasian wealth market
Matthew Coleman: SUPER Recruiters partner
The Australasian wealth management industry is gearing up for growth in 2020 with both hiring intentions and optimism on the rise, just-released survey results show.
According to the SUPER Recruiters survey, almost two-thirds of respondents tipped 2020 would be better for their own businesses and the industry as a whole.
“More respondents to this year’s annual outlook survey are more optimistic about the future than at any other time in the past five years,” Matthew Coleman, partner SUPER Recruiters, said in a release.
“Our industry leaders reported that they see improved – or at least stable – business conditions, leading to the opportunity for innovation and growth, both in terms of assets and business.”
About a quarter of those surveyed expected flat year-on-year conditions in 2020 while only 5 per cent of respondents were despondent on the outlook.
The SUPER Recruiters report says a third of surveyed firms planned to hire more employees in 2020 while over 40 per cent expected staff status quo.
“Interestingly, no organisations said they planned to downsize,” the report says. “Though 16% said they expected to replace some roles with technology.”
Sales staff and risk/compliance specialists would be most in demand next year, the survey says, suggesting businesses are positioning for growth and front-footing regulatory pressure.
“Risk and compliance roles have been among the most in-demand roles for several years now, with several organisations reporting they are having difficulty recruiting proven people,” the study says.
Despite the overall air of optimism, the survey found the industry remains worried about increasing regulation (37 per cent), more competition (23 per cent) and the prospects of a market crash (21 per cent).
The study found that these brewing issues would likely see staff facing extra pressure in 2020 with over half of respondents (53 per cent) expecting employees to be more stressed next year.
Australian businesses also generally supported the resumption of increases to the superannuation contribution rate. Currently, the compulsory Australian superannuation contribution rate has stalled at 9.5 per cent – although under legislation, the figure is targeted to hit 12 per cent by 2025.
Just above half of those surveyed backed a resumption of the contribution increases while a third supported further delays.
The SUPER Recruiter study was based on an online industry survey (and follow-up interviews) this November of Australian and NZ firms operating in the wealth management, investment, financial advice and associated industries. Over a third of respondents were based in NZ.
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IoT Day Slam 2020 Panel: Infrastructure Principals for Ultra-fast low-latency Connectivity and Ubiquitous Mobility
The IoT Community® presents a Mobility, Connectivity in IoT Center of Excellence (MCIoTCoE) panel will discuss the first steps in the digital transform process that a company must do to support next generation architectures for high demanding IoT data to be available and responsive everywhere. To really get the benefits of 5G, we will discuss the key new infrastructure principals to help ensure that it can be built, delivered, and maintained with a secure assurance on performance.
Brenda Boehm – Interim Chief Innovation Security Officer, Board Advisor at Amazech Solutions
Rahul Vijay – Head of Global Telecom Sourcing | Uber, Chair of IoT Community MCIoTCoE
Stephen Douglas – Head of 5G Practice at Spirent Communications
Wayne Irwin VP – Operations – Emerging Business at Ericsson
Vico Fiorese – Senior Global Sales Director, IPInfusion
Sam McGuire – Vice President at Red Mountain Scientific
Brenda Boehm is currently Interim Chief Innovation Security Officer, Board Advisor and Member of IoT Community Board of Advisers a senior executive who has made her career by bringing next generation wireless networks, cloud native transformation, edge, and security technologies to the emerging global marketplace. Brenda’s deep industry expertise is based upon her successful leadership roles at both the executive and board levels with various innovation-focused technology companies from entrepreneurial start-ups: Starent Networks, Tango Networks, and Cyphre to Fortune 100 leaders: Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. This uniquely broad set of experiences and skills have equipped her with the insight to create a market vision that recognizes industry disruption, an ability to harness change for innovation, develop global market reach, and ensure the most successful operational best practices. As her passion is with emerging technologies, she has been recently focused on the capabilities of the various opportunities that Internet of Things creates, with the support of edge computing, the required foundational security, and potential blockchain technologies. Brenda Boehm holds a MS from SMU’s School of Engineering in Telecommunications and a Bachelors (BA) in Computer Information Systems (CIS) from the University of Louisiana. She also attended Stanford’s prestigious Graduate School of Business Executive Program, Advanced Computer Security Certification, and, last year, completed the top CISO certification program globally available at Carnegie Mellon.
Rahul Vijay is a key partner to business development teams in managing partner-supplier ecosystems. He is also a Key partner to CFOs to successfully achieve total cost of ownership reduction goals, a Key partner to CTOs for technology renting and buying strategies, a Key partner to chief legal officers for risk reduction, compliance and contracting. Rahul has end-to-end source to pay experience including partnerships, sourcing, procurement, supply chain, logistics, contract law, systems, market drivers, understanding of cost structures and sales incentives. Regularly engages in executive presentations, reporting, capital and expense planning, cost modeling, inventory planning and analytics. Rahul is a seasoned deal-maker and negotiator and is well networked in high-tech industry with a deep understanding of key players and emerging technologies and trends. He possess a trusted network of global peers and mentors and regularly partners with organizational presidents and directors to develop business cases, perform due diligence analyses and Buy vs. Rent vs. Build strategies. He is an expert in supplier management and risk management. Have led teams to effectively partner up with cross-functional teams to ‘get things done quickly’ in complex large organizations. Rahul is adept at internal selling and have built teams from scratch. Managed multiple complex global teams and initiatives by hiring best talent, building strong working relationships with key internal and external partners, securing ‘a seat at the table’ with stakeholders, and acting as a trusted adviser. Former business development professional, management consultant, media professional and engineer.
Stephen Douglas works for Spirent’s strategy organization heading the 5G practice, helping to define technical direction, new innovative solutions and market leading disruptive technologies. With over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications, Stephen has been at the cutting edge of next generation technologies and has worked across the industry with service providers, start-ups and network equipment manufacturers, helping them drive innovation and transformation. Stephen is an ardent believer in connected technology and strives to challenge, blur and break down the silos that prevent innovation and business success.
Wayne Irwin VP – Operations – Emerging Business at Ericsson, and is a customer centric and solution oriented Technology Executive with over 30 years of progressive global sales, operations and business management experience. He has a track record of successfully implementing organizational transformations and business growth to achieve measurable business outcomes. Through his leadership, his teams solve complex business issues with well architected solutions based on a combination of products, services, and software platforms. Throughout his career, Wayne has been involved in a number of disruptive technology markets and continues to be engaged technological impacts on how people and businesses live and operate. Prior to Ericsson, Wayne worked at Intel, where he lead a team that is focused on developing a robust ecosystem in the IoT to provide joint solutions, solving significant market problems that are scalable and sustainable. His team was instrumental in developing this ecosystem of Technology Partners in support of Intel’s key vertical business units and overall Intel business objectives. Prior to Intel, he served as Senior Vice President and GM of the Embedded and Connected Services division of Symphony Services (global technology development and services), President of the Americas division for Acision – (SMS (text messaging) platforms to telecommunications operators), President & COO of Aperian (data center management) and many different positions at GTE (now Verizon). Wayne holds an MBA – finance from Xavier University and a BSBA in Marketing from Central Michigan University.
Vico Fiorese has more than 25 years dedicated to the Telco industry, experience doing business development in Latin American and United States, during the last 2 years focused on helping the Rural America players to increase connectivity using CBRS and EBS license. Borne in Brazil, with Italian roots and fully educated in the Latin America school of life! Proud to become US Citizen this year and to help this amazing country to improve the use of IoT technologies.
Sam McGuire is the Vice President of Red Mountain Scientific. He works with stakeholders across the wireless industry to deploy UAS (drone) and image analytics technologies in an effort to better assess, understand, and manage critical infrastructure. While Sam has spent the majority of his career working for early to mid stage startups, he has also served the telecom industry as a field technician. He spent nearly a year in field climbing and conducting structural inspections on over 500 towers across the US. Following his time in the field, he joined RMS to help build their telecom product offerings from the ground up. Sam believes the telecom industry is inherently the greatest driver of global innovation and that effectively enabling worldwide communication starts with infrastructure.
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Over 100,000 iPad apps available
// July 2, 2011
As of today, there are over 101,000 apps designed specially for the iPad. That number is not counting the 475,000 iPhone apps that will also run on the device.
It’s taken developers less than 16 months to reach the six figure milestone. The iPad went on sale on April of 2010 with just 3000 apps.
By comparison, the HP TouchPad was launched today with around 300 dedicated applications. As of June 2, Android has 242 apps designed for tablets with another 200,00 that will run on Android tablets as well.
Applications that are not designed for a tablet do not create the same type of user experience as with ones that are optimized for the device. The number and the quality of apps designed for the iPad is one of the main reasons for it’s success.
Even though Apple has a head start over the other tablet manufactures it’s obvious which tablet most developers are supporting. Google, HP and other competitors will need to find ways to entice more developers building apps for their platform.
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IPad Air WiFi Connection Problems and Solutions
iPad Help, Tips & Tricks
// January 23, 2015
While the new upgrade to iOS 8 brings a number of exciting features to many Apple mobile devices, some users are experiencing a few new quirks after obtaining the updated software. One problem, for instance, is when an iPad Air can’t connect to WiFi. The worst of the issues appear to be confined to the earlier editions of the update, but some devices with the newest updates might also experience an occasional hiccup. Whatever the version of the iOS update, iPad Air WiFi problems/issues/etc can be frustrating. There are, thankfully, a few things to try that often resolve the difficulties.
While updates are usually an opportunity to correct snafus, occasionally one of them presents new problems. With the iPad Air, updating from iOS 8.0.2 to iOS 8.1 resulted in some WiFi connectivity glitches. Updating to a newer version of iOS 8.1 should rectify those issues. Moving to a newer version in the 8.1 series also often solves a problem with the device needing to be on a faster network to maintain a stable connection.
Network Settings Reset
If a user is lucky, and many of them are, a simple reset of the network settings will correct iPad Air WiFi problems/issues/etc. This step often works because it clears away many of the settings that are at the root of the issue. The network settings reset option is found by going to Settings, General, and Reset.
Turn Off Location Services WiFi Networking
Sometimes, a geolocation service is the culprit when an iPad Air can’t connect to WiFi. In this case, it can help to turn off WiFi networking specifically for location services. To try this fix, go to Settings, Privacy, and Location Services. Once there, look for the System Services. That is where the user can turn off WiFi Networking that only applies to geolocation services.
Custom DNS Settings
If connectivity problems are caused by the DNS servers operated by the ISP, users can try altering the DNS settings on the device. Some users change to the DNS servers operated by Google, while others try the OpenDNS servers. Once the IP addresses for the alternate DNS servers are located, users can input those in the WiFi area of the Settings app on the device. They must, of course, be applied to the WiFi settings for the specific network being used on the device.
Complete Restore
As a last resort, some users turn to a full restore of the device. It is not the first choice for many users, but it is advisable for the most serious issues. It is also wise to take a backup before undergoing a full restore.
It is often helpful to research commonly known issues with a version of iOS that is soon to be installed on a device. It can also be beneficial to see if there are known issues with a specific model of a device trying to run a new version of iOS. Some iPad Air WiFi problems/issues/etc might be limited to specific editions of the device. No matter the version of the device, though, it is best to try the simpler solutions first when an iPad Air can’t connect to WiFi.
If the above didnt fix the problem Checkout: iOS 8 Wi-Fi Help
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Arch Therapeutics to Present at the H.C. Wainwright BioConnect Conference, January 11 - 14, 2021
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arch Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCQB: ARTH) ("Arch" or the "Company"), developer of novel self-assembling wound care and biosurgical devices, announced today that it will be presenting at the H.C. Wainwright BioConnect Conference, which will be held January 11-14, 2021.
Chief Executive Officer, Terrence W. Norchi, MD, and Chief Financial Officer, Richard Davis, are scheduled to present via webcast, which will be available on-demand as of 6:00 AM ET, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021.
You may access the live webcast here: https://journey.ct.events/view/69fcfc59-7ff6-41b6-bbe7-17285bda3d86.
Conference attendees may request meetings with management here: https://hcwevents.com/bioconnect/.
After the event, the presentation will be available here: https://ir.archtherapeutics.com/presentations.
About Arch Therapeutics, Inc.
Arch Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company developing a novel approach to stop bleeding (hemostasis), control leaking (sealant) and manage wounds during surgery, trauma and interventional care. Arch is developing products based on an innovative self-assembling barrier technology platform with the goal of making care faster and safer for patients. Arch's products authorized for commercial marketing are AC5® Advanced Wound System and AC5® Topical Hemostat.1 Arch's development stage product candidates include AC5-G™, AC5-V® and AC5® Surgical Hemostat, among others.2,3
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This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, references to novel technologies and methods, our business and product development plans and projections, or market information. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the inherent uncertainties associated with developing new products or technologies and operating as a development stage company, our ability to retain important members of our management team and attract other qualified personnel, our ability to raise the additional funding we will need to continue to pursue our business and product development plans, our ability to obtain required regulatory approvals, our ability to produce commercial quantities of our products within projected timeframes, our ability to develop and commercialize products based on our technology platform, and market conditions, and our ability to establish additional commercialization partnerships and build a critical mass of field sales representatives. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release, and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that any beliefs, plans, expectations and intentions contained in this press release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that any such beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate. Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to the risk factors disclosure outlined in the reports and other documents we file with the SEC, available at www.sec.gov.
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1 AC5 Advanced Wound System and AC5 Topical Hemostat have received regulatory authorization for commercial marketing as medical devices in the USA and EU, respectively.
2 AC5-G, AC5-V, and AC5 Surgical Hemostat are currently investigational devices limited by law to investigational use.
3 AC5, AC5-G, AC5-V and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Arch Therapeutics, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
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Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter – multiculturalism for all the senses
Sights, sounds, smells and tastes – a walk through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem is a multicultural experience for all the senses. The Muslim Quarter is located on the northeast side of the Old City of Jerusalem. Home to roughly two thirds of the Old City’s residents, it is the largest and most populous quarter of the four quarters.
As long as 2,000 years ago, it became the “Muslim Quarter” as ethnic differences emerged in the city during the Mamluke period (following the expulsion of the Crusaders). Most of the buildings that are institutional in origin, such as former or present Madrasas (Moslem religious academies), khans (inns), mosques, courts and tombs that date back to the Mamluke Period (1267-1517 C.E.), while many of the residences are from the ensuing Ottoman Period (1517-1917 C.E.). Some of the former are even remodeled Crusader structures as are some of the covered markets.
The Muslim Quarter’s charm stands out for the way its distinctly Islamic character is interwoven with diverse, rapidly changing human and cultural scenery.
A Walk in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter
A great way to take in the multicultural experience is to walk up Hagai/El Wad St. Start out in distinctly Orthodox, even ultra-Orthodox Jewish environment of the Western Wall Plaza and then enter the Moslem quarter by walking through the tunnel at the bottom of the stairs in plaza’s northwest corner. The tunnel emerges on to Hagai (El Wad) Street in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem.
Walking up Hagai St., you will quickly leave the souvenir shops behind and find yourself in an Islamic environment. Mannequins model head scarves, stores and even occasional fashion posters displaying traditional Moslem dress. The atmosphere is enhanced by the banter of local merchants and the smell of falafel and other local victuals.
Cotton market, reconstructed in 1336 by the Mamluk ruler Emir Tankiz, governor of Damascus
The entrance to Jerusalem’s former Cotton Market (pictured) runs off of Hagai Street on the right. If you keep your eye on the right side of the street, you should spot some traditional Arab bakeries with massive stone ovens.
Hagai Street’s mild incline takes you to a junction, where the 5th Station of the Via Dolorosa is on your left. Opposite it on your right is the iconic Jerusalem hummus bar Abu Shukri – worth trying. Next to Abu Shukri is a souvenir shop, which overflows with pure capitalism: Side by side are T-shirts displaying emblems of the Israeli air force, Free Palestine, Yassir Arafat, Che Guevera and the Uzi submachine gun.
After taking in the junction’s remarkable and amusing diversity, continue up Hagai Street to the corner of the Via Dolorosa and Hagai Streets, just beyond the 3rd and 4th Stations of the Via Dolorosa. Along the route you are likely to see both Jews and Arabs sporting different variations of their traditional dress, as well as a variety of Christian clergy people with their own unique attire and possibly even pilgrims carrying large wooden crosses as they ply the Via Dolorosa.
In the street next to the 3rd Station are several 2nd-3rd century C.E. pavement stones that were discovered three meters below ground in the course of sewerage work. The stones were raised, and are now integrated into the present day street.
View from the rooftop terrace of the Austrian Hospice
The Austrian Pligrims Hospice to the Holy Family, or simply Austrian Hospice (pictured) is at the northeast corner of this junction. This building provides a little piece of Vienna in the Middle East. The view from its roof is stunning. It also is home to a “genuine” Viennese coffeehouse that serves sachertort and apple strudel, as classical music in piped in the background. The illusion of Austria is jolted back to reality when the Mosque across the street starts calling the faithful to pray!
Have an enjoyable walk. Other highlights of the neighborhoods are viewing traditional Islamic architecture, mostly entryways on the Street of the Chain (Tariq Bab Es Salsileh) and Iron Gate Street (Tariq Bab El Hadid) and exploring the environs of Damascus Gate, the most ornate of the Old City’s gates. Just off the Via Dolorosa there are some entrances to Temple Mount – non Muslims can’t enter here, but you do get some stunning views of the Dome of the Rock and there is a fine example of Mameluke architecture. At the end of the Via Dolorosa is Lion’s (St Stephen’s Gate) with views towards the Mount of Olives. See our Muslim Quarter Jerusalem Pictures.
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More Photos Tonight was well worth getting into the Horticulture building early to catch St. Paul & The Broken Bones at the Ottawa CityFolk Festival. The crowd for Van Morrison was so freaking large, and the sound was so freaking subdued that it was pretty easy to make a night out of simply seeing Paul Janeway channel every soul singer ever tonight inside and experience the drive and capacity of his vocal pipes. Backed by a 7 piece band comprised of trumpet, trombone, baritone sax, vintage guitars, bass, organ and drums, Janeway had directed the band on every power hit with precision. These guys brought their souls from Birgmingham, Alabama to Ottawa for the first time Friday night and were clearly astounded by the possibly unexpected support and crowd enthusiasm for their set. Janeway spent many moments with a shit-eating grin, taking in the crowd's massive response to the end of nearly every tune. These weren't just tunes, they were epic arrangements with hooks and grooves which built up to some powerful moments. It must take alot of professionalism to suit up and perform with such zest in a room that had just the right temperature to incubate yeast or yogurt. It was very warm and sweaty, as evidenced by wet 3-piece suits and dripping the dripping foreheads of the musicians. Janeway dropped to the floor so many times with mic in hand to belt out words much like Otis Redding might have done if he were to take on CityFolk festival, or even John Belushi's greatest moments in the Blues Brothers. Nearly any time the lyrics and vibe referenced love, he directed it at people in the crowd pulling them in even further. It was kinda "one of those nights" that will be remembered as a special evening in the history of the festival. With so many iphones and androids rising above the heads of the crowd, one might expect some sort of speech about recording or paying attention to devices but Paul took full advantage, playing into the phones lenses, singing directly into them. It would be absolutely amazing if someone out there got them all together and made a super cut. This must happen at every show. He absolutely loved to bring everyone close and share his talent for the benefit of their social graphs. They pretty much played their entire one and only album "Half The City" along with a number of soul covers. One stand-out unexpected cover came in the form of "I Want You" (Beatles). The guitarist switched to a Gibson ES which would mimic John Lennon's Epiphone used on the original recording for perfect tone. They certainly took advantage of the loopy moments of the song without stretching it out too much since it was part of their 3 song encore. Keep an eye out for St. Paul & The Broken Bones as there's no doubt they will return once again for another festival in Ottawa after this performance.
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March 28, 2018 · 10:33 pm
Have Mercy, 1722
In 1722 a ten-year-old girl, Hannah (surname possibly Starky, Norman, or Smart) came before the Old Bailey, charged with thefts. She appears to have been alone in the world – no parents are mentioned and she seems to have no home or family to care for her. Nevertheless, little Hannah was not content to be the object of anyone’s charity and stole from her benefactors. The list of what she stole is staggering: a watch, smocks, sheets, and other linens, a bodice and a petticoat – from two different individuals. Both appeared to have offered the young girl a kindness. John Hoxly had taken Hannah in off the streets, given her shelter, but she stole his goods and pawned them for liquor. Hannah had been sleeping alongside the daughter of her second victim, Anne Harding, when she stole the clothes to be pawned.
All told, Hannah’s crimes deprived her victims of over 8 pounds sterling worth of personal effects. By the letter of the law, that was more than enough to ensure that the young girl would suffer the death penalty. But at the end of each brief summary of Hannah’s crimes, the record indicates that Hannah was found “Guilty to the value of 10 d.” That valuation had nothing to do with Hoxly’s and Harding’s losses. It had everything to do with mercy. Thefts valued over ten pence merited execution. Thefts under that value were seen as open to mercy.
Hannah received mercy from the court. She was one of 35 prisoners sentenced to be transported at this session: over half of all those convicted. Only five were executed. For all that England had a Bloody Code, the courts often found good reason to set aside the extremes, and show some mercy. The mercy shown her was not necessarily unusual and we need to keep that in mind when reading the early modern law. What was on the books did not correlate to people’s lived experience of the courts.
There were two ways in which Hannah might have been thought worthy of mercy: on the basis of her age and her sex. Eighteenth century children weren’t seen as innocent angels: especially not poor and thieving children like Hannah. At the same time, authorities were receptive to the idea that children could be redeemed and a ten-year-old would seem on the verge of either falling irredeemably into vice or being restored to good order and godly living. Similarly, while early modern ideas of women still emphasized their carnal nature as descendants of Eve, popular culture was also willing to excuse women as being less than fully culpable in some cases.
Gregory Durston studied the two broad categories into which women at the courts were slotted: as victims or viragos. Little Hannah might have been a victim in some of the onlookers’ eyes because of her youth and her gender. But a ten-year-old girl either herself a gin addict or taking advantage of the gin craze? She might be seen as more of a virago.
Her crimes were serious enough to warrant punishment, but her age and gender made the court leery of putting the young girl to death. Transportation it would be: how merciful really was that? It’s a false dichotomy that without transportation the only alternative was death. Ashley Rubin shows that other alternative punishments such as whipping, branding, or fining were far less employed after the Transportation Act of 1718. If Hannah had been tried ten years early, she might well have been whipped or received some other punishment: now she would face seven years transported to the colonies. Compared to death, that was mercy. Compared to some of the other punishments more commonly employed before 1718? Not so much.
Durston, Gregory. Victims and Viragos: Metropolitan Women, Crime and the Eighteenth Century Justice System. Bury St. Edmunds: arima, 2007.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 29 March 2018), July 1722, trial of Hannah Starky Hannah Norman , alias Smart (t17220704-59).
Rubin, Ashley T. “The Unintended Consequences of Penal Reform: A Case Study of Penal Transportation in Eighteenth‐Century London.” Law & Society Review 46, no. 4 (2012): 815–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00518.x.
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Poisoned Family, 1720
One case I return to often in The Old Bailey Online is the trial of Elizabeth Cranberry for the murder of Thomas Biggs. It is a case of poisoning, long seen as a women’s weapon, but it’s so much more than this: the more you dig, the more you see an unhappy household and the possibility of a poorly-blended family.
I first stumbled upon this case when searching out stepmothers’ stories and looking up every possible use of related terms. Since step-parents and in-laws were interchangeable terms, there’s some confusion in the terms. Elizabeth shared a bed with Hannah Tudor in the house, the first person giving evidence in the case, revealing some interesting family dynamics:
that on Friday Night the Prisoner and the Deceased (who was her Father-in-Law) had many Words together, insomuch that he threatned to turn her out of Doors; and she told him he should not: that on Saturday Morning while the Deceased’s Wife was feeding of him, he complained there was something in the Porridge, and that she told him there was nothing to her Knowledge for she clean’d the Sauce-Pan and boyled it her self, and if there was any thing it must be in the Oat-meal; that he eat two or three Spoonfuls more, and complained again, whereupon she went and took the Spoon out of her Mistresses Hand. and stirring the Milk found something in it, which she said look’d like Lime, and his Son said it look’d like Starch; that stirring it to the Bottom she found a great many white Specks
So either Hannah, testifying here, or Elizabeth, was Thomas’ stepdaughter. Malcolm Gaskill saw that as Hannah Tudor’s relationship. When he discusses this case in Crime and Mentalities, he assigns Elizabeth Cranberry the role of household servant. Therefore, her poisoning of Thomas Biggs would be not just murder but petty treason. However, in the passage that I quoted above, Hannah is the one describing Mrs. Biggs as her mistress and when she talks about the other witness, it is as Thomas’ son, not as her step-brother (or, more likely, brother-in-law given the earlier phrasing in this case).
Whatever Elizabeth’s and Hannah’s relationship to the Biggs, something was clearly amiss with this meal. Thomas demanded to search everyone’s boxes and only Elizabeth resisted. When her belongings were finally searched, a packet of white powder was found and was brought to a Dr. Perkins who testified that it contained white arsenic, white vitriol and bole armoniac. Given that Elizabeth had previously been a servant to an apothecary and admitted that she had the materials to help in washing gloves, the case seemed clear-cut to the court, and she was sentenced to death.
But I wonder at the possible family dynamics unexplored. If Elizabeth Cranberry was Thomas Biggs’ stepdaughter and not his servant, her mother was his wife: the same woman who admitted she mixed the porridge herself and “she made a Saucepan of Milk-Porridge, as usual, and left her Daughter (the Prisoner) to look after her Nursery while she fed her Husband (the Deceased) that he complained there was something in his Porridge twice, &c”. We learn that Mrs. Biggs was the one her husband sent to the doctors when he fell ill, who conveyed his order to feed Mr. Biggs oil to induce vomiting, and who oversaw the unsuccessful treatment.
To construct a storyline where Mrs. Biggs murdered her husband and framed, or at the very least allowed Elizabeth Cranberry to take the blame, is deliciously simple – probably much more appetizing a prospect than that mess of porridge that poisoned Thomas, whoever truly was the culprit.
Gaskill, Malcolm. Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 07 February 2018), April 1720, trial of Elizabeth Cranbery (t17200427-43).
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Making But a Bad Defence, 1681
It was on Christmas Eve in 1680 that a young girl died a horrible death in London. The victim was twelve or fourteen years of age and apprenticed to the chief suspect: one Leticia Wigington (aka Alice Wiggens), a seamstress of Ratcliff parish to the east of the city proper. At the January sessions in 1681, Wigington was brought to trial in a case that captured London’s attention. The Proceedings opened with a shopping list of crimes being tried at the court and the punishments meted out, but made special mention of Wiginton’s crime, averring that she had murdered the girl “in such a barbarous manner, that the like hath scarce been heard.”
The brief account in the middle of the full Proceedings made up in pathos what it lacked in detail. The manner of death was shocking: apparently the apprentice girl had either stolen some money or spoiled some work and, as a result, Wigington got one of her lodgers (some suggested her adulterous lover) to make a cat o’ nine tails – a short whip tipped with multiple lashes that would become a byword for cruel military punishment. Then Wigington and her lodger, one Sadler by name, whipped the child for hours, reportedly rubbing salt in her wounds to further torture the girl. They felt it necessary to muffle her cries so as not to disturb the neighbours, and then beat her until she seemed dead and soon expired. Sadler fled and Wigington went on trial alone. (He was captured a few days later, soon tried and quickly put to death.)
While convicted in January, Wigington was not executed summarily. She plead the belly and so languished in Newgate until September when she finally hanged for her crime. The defence that she had so lacked in January apparently came to her in the intervening time. A London printer produced The confession and execution of Leticia Wigington of Ratclif two days before her September 11 death, prefacing it by an outraged notice that the murderess had confessed her crime before the court in January, but now sought to change her story. Likely, the editorial insertion suggested, this was the result of her close contact with Catholic priests (this being the height of the Popish Plot hysteria).
In this final gasp of a condemned woman, the story changes dramatically. Sadler is not a aid to her cruelty but the central figure in the murderous event. He doesn’t just make a weapon for Wigington’s use, he is the central driver in the foul scheme (he is also living out of wedlock with another woman, Wigington contends). When she tries to see justice done for this murdered girl, Leticia Wigington is instead framed and indicted on false testimony. Abandoned by all, even her husband who repudiates her for pleading the belly while they have been separated for months, she ends the rambling account with prayers for the souls of those whose evils brought her to death’s door.
But the time to have made this case was long past. Wigington had been quickly condemned in the court of public opinion as many pamphlets had shown. Neighbours characterized her as cruel and her own words were used to condemn her, as well as another apprentice, Rebecca Clifford. The last had apparently recanted her claims, but it wasn’t enough to stave off the end.
Martin, Randall. Women, Murder and Equity in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2007.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 30 January 2018), January 1681 (16810117A).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 30 January 2018), February 1681, trial of John Sadler (t16810228-2).
Wigington, Leticia. The confession and execution of Leticia Wigington of Ratclif. London : Printed for Langley Curtis …, [1681]. Wing W2110
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The Lodger’s Scheme, 1678
The Old Bailey Online shows us a great deal about the everyday lives of early modern people, often inadvertently. Something of the makeshift economy that keeps single women afloat in London – both its legal and illegal elements – appears in the case of a household of women. Somewhere to the west of London proper, in the growing suburban parish of St. Andrew Holborn, a drama emerged involving four women who, at least for a time, lived under the same roof. This story shows that beneath the seemingly placid facade of household heads could live an interesting mix of different people in different situations. This home had a landlady and her daughter, a lodger and someone who sublet from the lodger, setting up the opportunity for an attempted crime that needed just one more thing: a chance to be alone in the shared room.
In mid-December of 1678, Anne Moundsel appeared before the court, charged by Mary Brasier with felony theft. Moundsel was a lodger in Mary’s room – we have no other details of the women’s relationship besides the weekly rent that Anne paid (6 pence). However Anne Moundsel apparently was close enough to Mary Brasier that she was able to convince Mary to deliver a letter on Anne’s behalf somewhere on the Strand, the bustling commercial street running from Temple Bar into Westminster. Mary Brasier complained to the court that she had been sent on “a false Errand, with a feigned Letter into the Strand, to a person whom she could never find” while her roommate used her absence to systematically rob Mary of a gown, a petticoat and other linens.
Brasier’s complaint was supported by another woman of the household. Eleanor Hasset, her landlady, revealed that the scheme had involved her innocent daughter. Anne Moundsel reportedly had asked the landlady’s child to write a letter and promised her something in return. The mother reported “the Child told her, She suspected the Prisoner was a Thief, and that she her self thought so too” and so Eleanor set up a sting, watching to see the schemer put on Brasier’s gown and gather up her other cloth, then leave the house. Determinedly, Hasset set out in pursuit, fetching the miscreant back once and yet again when Moundsel tried to flee. And then she saw that justice was done.
The Proceedings concludes with Moundsel’s counter-claim that she had been permitted to borrow the dress and was taking the rest for mending, but standing against the clear narrative of her roommate and the landlady, the court and the jury demurred. Anne Moundsel was found guilty of theft and sentenced to branding. This likely would have been a “T” for theft on the thumb – Anne Moundsel is fortunate that she didn’t commit her theft closer to the start of the eighteenth century: from 1699 to 1707, brandings were done on the face in order to more clearly mark out a felon.
Baldwin, Neil. n.d. “The Strand.” The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed January 23, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/STRA9.htm.
Clive Emsley, Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, “Punishments at the Old Bailey”, Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 6.0, 17 April 2011).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 23 January 2018), December 1678, trial of Anne Moundsel (t16781211e-13).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 23 January 2018), December 1678 (s16781211e-1).
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Respite’s End, 1692
In June of 1692, a Holborn woman, Ruth Phillips, was charged with high treason in the Old Bailey. Her crime? Clipping coins. This may not sound like a serious offence today, but in the early modern period, trimming bits of the currency of the realm was seen as an attack upon the monarch by undermining the country’s coinage. English money wasn’t in great repute in the 1690s – the beleaguered government decided in 1696 to remake all the coins in a new, reliable process but failed to recall and remake all the money in this ambitious scheme. Instead, coin clippers and counterfeiter continued their covert attacks on the cash that fuelled England’s economy and filled their own pockets.
We might think of currency crime as an activity of powerful bankers, financial wizards or vast workshops of cunning tradesfolk, but coining and counterfeiting were crimes that could be committed at home by men and women, young and old. All it required were a few basic tools and enough muscle strength to wrangle the metal of the coins in order to succeed. That, and a little privacy where you wouldn’t be discovered in the criminal act. The accusations made against Ruth Phillips came largely from women in her household. After showing the many tools of the trade that were found in a trunk in her house, one of Ruth Phillips’ maids testified against her mistress.
Swore that comming into the Kitchen, she saw the Prisoners Arm move up and down as if she Clipp’d Money or somewhat else like it; and that she saw both Broad Money and Clipp’d Money lie before her, but she could not say that she saw any Shears in her Hands, neither did she see her actually Clip
Another witness testified that she heard the clipping of the coins, metal screaming under the trimming of the shears. Those tools and a bag of freshly trimmed coins were produced as evidence. Phillips fought back, accusing various others, particularly a nurse in her household who spoke against the mistress. In Ruth Phillips’ account, the coining materials had been brought into her house by some of her servants. Furthermore, the accused countered, charging that the Nurse who had testified against her had robbed Phillips. Another witness was brought forward to substantiate Phillips’ claim and further suggest that the nurse had framed her mistress. The court seemed unmoved by these counter-claims and given that so much material had been seized in Phillips’ house, how could anyone believe she was ignorant of the operation?
We do not know if Ruth Phillips was married, unmarried, or a widow. After her attempt to frame the nurse failed, the accused woman then claimed that one Cha. Phillips, presumably a male relative, had left the bag of coins and clipping tools with her but the court was dubious. Two wildly different claims from Ruth Phillips swayed the judge not at all. She was found guilty and the punishment for high treason was death.
However, Ruth Phillips had an ace up her sleeves or so she might think. The court heard a “pleading of the belly” where the condemned claimed that she was pregnant and thus should not be executed while she was quick with child. Apparently a jury of matrons agreed, as Ruth Phillips’ sentence was respited for pregnancy. In some cases, the respite was permanent: expectant mothers might be entirely pardoned or sentenced to a lesser punishment such as transportation. Sadly, Ruth Phillips was not so lucky. We have no information about her pregnancy, but in October her name appears in the Ordinary of Newgate’s Account as she is readied for her execution.
According to the Ordinary, Ruth Phillips had hoped that her respite, like that of some others, would have continued. Instead, she was rudely reminded that a respite wasn’t necessarily permanent.
Ruth Phillips, Condemned about three Sessions since, then respited because quick with Child, and now brought back to her former Judgment. She denyed not the Crime: She confess’d that she had neglected her Duty to God, of which she was now very sensible. I declared to her, that I feared she had not improved her Reprieve to the advantage of her Soul, but grew secure, hoping that she should escape the Sentence of Death. She replyed, that the Concernment of making Preparation for her Death, was a secret Work betwixt God and her own Soul.
When brought out to the execution, Ruth Phillips sat while the men were hanged and then her own method of execution was prepared. As befits a female traitor, her end was different: she was not to be hanged, but burned at the stake. The Ordinary was disappointed that there was no final penitence from this wicked woman. Ruth Phillips rather maintained that she was a victim of her servants’ malice, but submitted to her execution calmly. She was strangled and then her body was burned: a salutary lesson to any others who might besmirch the royal majesty by clipping coins.
Clifford, Naomi. “Pregnant and condemned: Pleading the belly and the jury of matrons.” Naomi Clifford: Life, Love and Death in the Georgian Era. 11 march, 2016. http://www.naomiclifford.com/pleading-the-belly-jury-of-matrons/
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 18 January 2018), June 1692, trial of Ruth Phillips (t16920629-32).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 18 January 2018), Ordinary of Newgate’s Account, October 1692 (OA16921026).
Rock, Robert S. “Making Money Go Further – Clipping.” Coins, Crime and History 2 December, 2013. https://crimeandcoins.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/making-money-go-further-clipping/
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A Slippery Set of Stories, 1714-1715
In early April, “a little Boy” was brought before the Old Bailey. He was prosecuted by one who he might have looked upon as a friend and benefactor: John Saucer, his next-door neighbour. Saucer had an indictment against young James Blundel, claiming the youth had stolen eight yards of lustring, a shiny, fine and glossy weave of silk, as well as a silk hood, all from his house.
Blundel’s trial sparks interest on several grounds, despite the brevity of the account. First is the young boy’s circumstance: he is a parish child – an orphan, perhaps abandoned at birth or through the death of his parents left to rely upon the charity of the parish. This case occurring decades before the foundation of London’s Foundling Hospital, his care was very local. His parish, Harrow on the Hill, in London’s northwest, well outside the old city walls, secured the services of a nurse to care for young James. This was common practice, more than one in ten London women worked as nurses, caring for the sick, the poor, the young and the elderly. James Blundel’s unnamed nurse lived next door to John Saucer and his family, who thus came to know the young boy.
John Saucer, by the Proceedings‘ account, took a fancy to youthful James, apparently seeing him as a prospective servant. When the Saucers went away from home in February, 1714, the little boy was left in charge of their house. Saucer returned to discover the materials missing and accused his one-time favourite. The report asserts that the Saucers threatened to take the boy into London, to a Cunning Man. A lawyer perhaps? Or someone more terrifying? The record is sadly opaque.
What we do know is that the threat prompted young James to bolt. He ran away to his nurse and she apparently sheltered him against the Saucer’s wrath. How much protection could she offer, though? For all the month of March, from the time of the theft to the trial itself, did the child stay safe in her care or did he languish in Newgate? We do not know how he spent those long weeks.
However, when the accused eventually spoke in the court, he told a very different story that brings us to our second point of intrigue in the case. Young Blundel claimed that he was innocent, an unsurprising assertion. But the details of who he accused and how are unexpected. He said that it was not he but his nurse’s grandson, one James Cock, who only stole the Saucer’s silk. Furthermore, Cock didn’t act alone. No, he gave the stolen silk to his grandmother, Blundel’s nurse. She apparently received “whatever they stole”. In this version of the theft, James Blundel was nothing more than a convenient scapegoat for a practised set of thieves right there on Saucer’s door. Parish nurses didn’t enjoy a good reputation in early eighteenth century London. Popular belief suspected many of starving or mistreating their charges. To hear that one had a family given to thieving and that she had further acted to receive stolen goods might not have been a surprising claim for the court to hear.
James Blundel was acquited. The judge advised John Saucer to press his case against James Cock – there is no mention of the grandmother’s role so possibly her part seemed less substantiated. Saucer did just as the court advised in October of the next year, suggesting that Cock must have been an elusive soul to evade prosecution for so long. Despite Blundel’s earlier testimony, this wasn’t an easy victory for Saucer. As the Proceedings explains, with no evidence brought against Cock, he was acquitted. Was Blundel no longer in the neighbour’s custody to be able to speak on Saucer’s behalf?
The Saucers certainly got no satisfaction for their stolen silk. That said, we don’t know what happened to James Blundel. Did he stay with the nurse he’d accused of receiving stolen goods – that seems unlikely as he didn’t testify against Cock? Did the Saucers regret their prosecution and restore him to their household? Blundel’s absence from the second trial argues against this. Perhaps the first trial was simply an elaborate scam by Blundel, Cock, and the nameless parish nurse to evade justice in an early eighteenth-century precursor to Oliver Twist? It would be wonderful to find out more about their lives and how life carried on in this corner of Harrow after the prosecutions and acquittals!
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 16 January 2018), April 1714, trial of James Blundel (t17140407-39).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 16 January 2018), October 1715, trial of James Cock (t17151012-46).
Tim Hitchcock, Sharon Howard and Robert Shoemaker, “Parish Nurses”, London Lives, 1690-1800 (www.londonlives.org, version, 1.1 17 June 2012). https://www.londonlives.org/static/ParishNurses.jsp
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The Persistent Witness, 1715
You’re walking through the eastern parishes in mid-March of 1715, when a child is crying loudly as a young woman roughly takes off his clothing. Other passersby must have disregarded Mary Skip’s disrobing of this sobbing young boy on the bank beside the king’s highway before this one woman intervened. Even then, Skip’s affirmation that this was her own child could well have satisfied the curious woman that all she had seen was a dispute between a parent and child. This was the normal, everyday trials of family life in the growing city, or was it?
Instead of accepting this explanation, the witness persisted, seeing the aggrieved child, Joseph Murrel, alone now and stripped of his warm stuff coat and petticoats (normal attire for a younger child at this point in history). The trial report from late April explains that this bystander
then came back again, and ask’d the Child if that was its Mother; to which it reply’d, No; upon which she seiz’d the Prisoner, with the Goods upon her, and found another Child’s Cloaths in her Lap
Found guilty of highway robbery, for stealing the goods of Joseph Murrel, Senior, in the form of the child’s clothing, Mary Skip was sentenced to death. She claimed to be pregnant and thus ineligible to be executed, but the jury of matrons confirmed only one such pleading of the belly from those sentenced on this day. There was no pardon: Mary Skip would hang for her crime.
In the Ordinary of Newgate’s account for 11 May, Mary Skip (or Ship) is painted even more unsympathetically than in the trial account. It notes that she was
condemn’d for robbing and stripping Naked two Infants, upon the King’s Highway, on the 18th of March last. She said, she was about 24 Years of Age, born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, and of late Years liv’d in East-Smithfield: That she often help’d her Mother, who nurs’d Children , and at other times went to Washing and Scuoring ; by which Means she got a Livelihood, tho’ a very poor one; and, That it was meer Poverty (but, as I observ’d her, it was more the want of Grace) that occasion’d her committing this cruel Fact.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 11 January 2018), April 1715, trial of Mary Skip (t17150427-52).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 11 January 2018), April 1715 (s17150427-1).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 11 January 2018), Ordinary of Newgate’s Account, May 1715 (OA17150511).
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From Shoe Lane to St. Giles in 1674
One of the first cases that drew me into the Old Bailey Online is a convoluted account from the first year of the published proceedings dealing with clothing theft that incidentally involved child kidnapping. It has little, if anything, of the legal particulars of the case, but Mall Floyd’s targeting of an eight-year-old girl drew the attention of the court. Coming upon a young girl in Shoe Lane (just a little bit to the west of the city wall) and
pretending She came from her Mother, carryed it with her as farr as St Giles’s , and had it into an Alehouse there, where seeing it rain, She pretended all the Childs Cloathes would be Spoiled, and under that pretence took away from it Severall Laces and peices of Linnen Knots and the like, and then carrying her into St Giles’s Churchyard where there then happened to be a Burial, She Lost her in the Crowd of People , who then not Knowing where She was, nor the way home, fell a crying, and was brought home that Night by some honest Inhabitant there abouts
It’s a fair distance from Shoe Lane (red line on the map below, generated from The Map of Early Modern London) to St. Giles north of Cripplegate (the purple church at the upper left). What a scary time for the child and her family that must have been!
The Proceedings chattily explains that, while the child couldn’t identify her kidnapper, her mother saw some of the stolen clothing for sale in Holborn (so back near the Shoe Lane site of the girl’s kidnapping). That sighting led, after some serious detective work, to Mall Floyd, described as a frequent resident of the “Inchanted Castle” as the reporter cheekily characterized Newgate Prison.
Floyd was fortunate that her felony punishment was commuted to transportation to plantations beyond the seas – presumably service in the American or Caribbean colonies. Of Mall Floyd or her unnamed victim, we have no further record.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 10 January 2018), July 1674, trial of Mall. Floyd (t16740717-6).
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Deliciously Criminal
This term I’m teaching a new history of crime and punishment course. It’s inspired all sorts of fun forays into the Old Bailey Online database, particularly as I’ve shown students how they can search on any number of topics. The research is frequently delicious and I mean that in both the enjoyable and the culinary ways. For instance, we can study thefts involving food or food as an incidental in the course of testimonies.
The most obvious “food theft” might be poaching and, yes, this was a concern even in a city such as London. Convictions for game law offences show an awful lot of fallow deer at risk (as well as the occasional pond full of carp). This case from 1725 features three deer killed by two violent poachers, whose dangerous ways were intimately experienced by one Charles George:
The Prisoner stept to me with a Pistol in his Hand, and swore if I did not go back, he’d shoot me. I was not sure that my Piece would go off, and so I retreated, and found two Deer lying dead, and they look’d as if they had been torne by Dogs. In the mean time the Prisoner and Biddesford got over the Pales. It fell out that some Countrymen were coming by soon after without-side the Pales, (for there’s no Foot-Path thro’ the Park.) I cry’d out Thieves, and they join’d together to assist me. I got over the Pales, and there found another Deer with his Throat cut, and not quite cold. The Prisoner and old Biddesford took their Way towards Roger’s Ferry, and we pursued them. When they came to the Ferry, they turned about, presented their Pistols, and swore we were dead Men, if we came a Foot nearer. However, when they were gone off, we took a Boat after them: They landed at the Half-Mile Tree, (about half a Mile from Kingston) and we were not far behind them. Biddesford was shot in the Fields, and the Prisoner was taken in Kingston, with a Powder-Horn and naked Knife in his Pocket.1
In another case, the sharing of brandy between men and cheesecake between women helped to acquit a family of murder. Seriously! At least that’s what the Proceedings for the 1708 trial of Webb Rawlins, Elizabeth Rawlins and Gabriel Huff for the murder of Jacob Hamson suggests, although the details are sketchy.
The Prisoners in their defence deny’d the Fact and Huff produc’d several Witnesses, to prove that he was at Home from the Morning till he went to Bed, and was that Night at Supper with some Friends at his own House, which was at Old-street, it being St. Crispin’s Day, a remarkable time: Webb and Elizabeth Rawlins produc’d Witnesses who depos’d they had not been from Home that Day, neither had there been any Company at their House from the Morning till their time of going to Bed, except one Man for a Quartern of Brandy in the Morning, and a Woman in the Afternoon for a 2 d Cheescake: Upon the whole, the Jury acquitted the Prisoners.2
I wonder if the jurors wrapped up their day with a little brandy and cheesecake or perhaps a bit of venison?
In case you’re interested, I dug up a 1747 Lemon Cheesecake recipe courtesy of Sasha Cottman, a Regency romance writer whose most recent book I picked up because, hey, historical fiction and recipes? That’s another delicious idea.
1. Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 28 March 2015), April 1725, trial of John Guy (t17250407-57).
2. Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 28 March 2015), December 1708, trial of Webb Rawlins Gabriel Huff Elizabeth Rawlins (t17081208-23).
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Mary Carleton, the Heroine Bigamist
She was born in Canterbury, or maybe Cologne, in 1634 or 1639 or perhaps even as late as 1642. Whoever she was and wherever she came from, Mary was a fascinating individual who captured the interests of many, including the famed diarist Pepys. She convinced many Londoners that she was a wealthy and well-educated German princess but other contemporaries claimed Mary was actually the runaway wife of a Canterbury shoemaker who fled to Barbados seeking to escape her husband before taking up with three other men, the last of whom, John Carleton, prosecuted her for bigamy at the Old Bailey in 1663. When Mary was acquitted, she took lovers, changed identities and supported herself through tricks and thievery. Convicted of theft in 1670, she was transported to Jamaica but engineered her return to England where she was caught again, and recognized. Confessing all, Mary was taken to the gallows at Tyburn and executed in January of 1673.
Too often we assume that our modern age of celebrity culture is unique in fixating on the bad boys and girls of the day. But Mary Moders, as she was born in Canterbury, fascinated her contemporaries to the extent that she spawned two remarkable flurries of publications decrying her perfidy or defending her honour. Some scholars have claimed that her defensive memoirs, An Historical Narrative of the German Princess and particularly The Case of Madam Mary Carleton, were so learned and well-written that they must have been authored by someone else, i.e. a man. Other academics and even Mary’s most skeptical contemporaries believed these were her own words. Those who doubted Mary’s truthfulness but not her authorship pointed to Mary’s facility with words, her practice at forging identity documents and her skill at appearing part of the highest ranks of society: this was no empty foil but a full-out confidence artist.
In her long and varied career, Mary was also a bigamist several times over: she left her first husband after the death of two children, marrying a doctor who aided her in her escape before abandoning him and taking up with a bricklayer. After she travelled to London in the guise of a rich continental woman, she drew the attention of the Carleton family and was courted by young John Carleton, an ambitious lawyer’s clerk. The two of them must have been a disappointment to each other in terms of riches and opportunities. The Carletons, tipped off to Mary’s true past, attempted to prosecute her for bigamy. A 1604 legislative change, “An Act to restrain all persons from marrying until their former wives and former husbands be dead” (I Jac I, c. 11) had taken what was formerly a spiritual offense punishable by penance and transformed it into a felony crime. Mary could have been executed for her disregard of the solemnity of marriage as other contemporaries were.
However, the Carletons failed to document Mary’s bigamous past. They produced few witnesses who could testify to her previous life in Canterbury and the case was overthrown. Instead of a humbled convict, Mary became a darling of fashionable London. She was visited by gawkers while still in custody and may well have used the experience to find new ways to exploit her new-found fame to extract gifts and confidences from those who rose to her defence. Given her later convictions for theft of silver plate and the heady riches she accumulated through fraud, Mary appears to have been always on the make.
And yet, how much can we really know of what she did and what she desired? As her best biographer, Frances Kirkman, author of The Counterfeit Lady pictured above, wrote of her in 1673: “How can Truth be discovered of her who was wholly composed of Falsehood?” For the intriguing story of a woman who shed the conventional life and embraced an early form of celebrity culture in a life of scandal and adventure, look no farther than the bigamous thief, Mary Carleton.
Suggested Readings:
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, eds. “Mary Carleton entry: Overview screen” within Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Online, 2006. http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=carlma.
Kate Lilley, “Mary Carleton’s False Additions: The Case of the ‘German Princess'” Humanities Review 2010 https://www.academia.edu/265004/Mary_Carletons_False_Additions_the_Case_of_the_German_Princess.
Janet Todd, “Carleton , Mary (1634×42–1673)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4676.
Geraldine Wagner, “The Staged Self in Mary Carleton’s Autobiographical Narratives” CLCWeb 7:3 (September, 2005) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol7/iss3/7.
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The Appellate Division examined the jurisdiction of out of state medical provider claims that had fee disputes due medical procedures performed in New Jersey in the consolidated matters of Anesthesia Associates of Morristown PA v. Weinstein Supply Corporation and Surgicore of Jersey City v. Waldbaums. A-5033-18T4 and A-5718-18T4. In recent years, the Division of Workers’ Compensation has seen an increase in claims arising out of the 2012 Amendments to the Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA) which gave the Division of Workers’ Compensation exclusive jurisdiction over medical provider applications. The Amendment to N.J.S.A. 34:15-15 was silent on whether an out of state worker who was directed by a treating physician would be bound to the New Jersey underlying claim would apply its fee schedule.
The Appellate Division began its analysis of jurisdiction of such claims by reviewing the 2012 amendment and providing “plain meaning” to the statute. The court explained that medical provider claims could be brought under the WCA when the underlying workers’ compensation claim would have had jurisdiction in New Jersey. The court examined several important workers’ compensation cases but placed emphasis on its recent decision in Marconi v. United Airlines, 406 N.J. Super 330 (App. Div. 2019). Marconi outlines Larson’s on Jurisdiction six-factor test for jurisdiction. The factors 1) The place where the Injury occurred; 2) the place of the making of the contract; 3) the place where the employment relation exists ; 4) the place where the industry is localized; 5) place where the employee resides 6) the place whose statute the parties expressly adopted by contract. Applying this analysis, the Court determined that if an out of state workers’ compensation claim could not obtain jurisdiction within New Jersey, the contractual dispute for payment should also not be granted jurisdiction. The applicant would fail to have met personal jurisdiction in these matters.
The Court also declined the argument of both medical providers that these applications are contractual disputes. The court reasoned that the applicants failed to identify any contractual rate of reimbursement that existed between the medical provider and the employer, or the medical provider and the insurance carrier.
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Inspiring new work environments? We have found them!
Wow, what a brilliant concept!Recently our product designer Konstantin was a guest at the Design Offices Eberhardhöfe and what he saw there really impressed him: In this stunning building in the city of Stuttgart there are cool new work spaces where creative ideas can sprout and grow. 👏👏👏The atmosphere, the people, the furnishings - everything is just incredibly inspiring. We wanted to know more about that. That's why we asked Konstantin to share his experiences with us - and of course with you too. Read it if you like!
Our dear colleague had made his way to the Swabian countryside at the end of September to take part in a think tank on the subject of "Hybrid Working in the Co-Working Space". After all, it can't hurt to get new ideas for your own work every now and then. 😉And it was worth it: Because behind the great historical façade of the Eberhardhöfe, many new inspirations were waiting for him. 💡
First impressions 🧐
"After arriving, I sat down for about an hour in the open work space on the ground floor, to which all members have access. In the front area, it resembled more of a work café and the atmosphere was free and open," Konstantin describes his first impression. Some visitors retreated to one of the existing alcoves for more private conversations, while others sat at the large benches and busily typed on the keys of their Macbooks. 👨🏻💻👩🏼💻At the back of the room there was a large tribune where smaller groups met. "There they discussed in open and unashamed terms about their common business or loudly protested about what they considered to be uptight and overly formal German behaviour. They themselves think the mindset is better in the United States, where even a 'visionary like Elon Musk can present himself on television smoking marijuana without being labelled a pot-smoking hippie with absurd visions of the future. That's how it was literally said!" 🤭
At the free to use fridges you can always get fresh drinks, like mate tea or cola, in a wide variety of flavors. 🥛🧃☕🧉🥃🥤Also beer, if you like. 🍻 In times of the coronavirus pandemic there is, as expected, less activity, but you can well imagine that there is usually a lively exchange of ideas in this inspiring environment. In any case, one thing is for sure: the interior will definitely live up to the companies name "Design Offices". 👍
Flexible modular system
"Afterwards I went to the first of five floors to reach the think tank event," reports Konstantin. The event had taken place in a large, open and bright room with direct access to the balcony and a view into the wonderful courtyard. He especially liked a large, inviting piece of lounge furniture on which he would have preferred to make himself comfortable. 😊 Curiosity, however, urged him to go on a small discovery tour through the event room. There, his attention was first drawn to another tribune: "It is interesting that the founder of Design Offices has developed his own modular principle to enable these tribunes to be assembled and removed flexibly. Now you can find this construction in every location worldwide". Tables for individual work were also available in the rear area of the room. There was also a large selection of stacking chairs to be able to react to different numbers of participants. 🪑🪑🪑
Just a few moments later, the think tank initiated by Design Offices founder Dr. Torsten Ambs was launched, where people were eager to discuss and talk shop. We will tell you at a later date here about the exciting insights the participants were able to gain. That's a promise! 😉 But now you'll surely want to know more about the location, won't you?
Restructure rooms in the twinkling of an eye
"At the end I was able to enjoy a short roomtour with Maria Eckhardt from the Design Offices," says our product designer. Among other things, there was an eatery, flexible offices, meeting rooms, co-working spaces and a 500 square metre conference area. 😳 "It gave me an insight into the various Design Offices that I had never seen before. She also showed me how to structure the rooms without a lot of effort and how to change them according to customer requirements. In this way, it is possible to fully respond to the goals and demands of the individual teams and provide them with the best possible space".
Konstantin's conclusion after his trip is accordingly positive: "It was a very productive and inspiring day on which I was able to gather many great impressions." 😁He also brought back some ideas that could enrich our everyday work. Which ideas do you think he means? 😱 We are curious ... 🤔
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Roger Waters Postpones 2020 Tour Due to Coronavirus
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Roger Waters has postponed his upcoming This Is Not a Drill Tour due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“The bad news is I’ve had to postpone my tour until next year,” the Pink Floyd co-founder declared in a statement. “Bummer, but if it saves one life, it’s worth it.”
The dates will be rescheduled in 2021. Those with tickets to the original shows are advised to hang onto them for the new dates. The trek had been scheduled to hit 31 cities from July through October, a plan specifically designed to lead up to the 2020 presidential election. Waters envisioned the tour as a chance to enlighten audiences about the world around them.
“As the clock ticks faster and faster and faster down to extinction, it seemed like a good thing to make a fuss about it, so that’s why I’m going on the road,” he explained at the time of the tour’s announcement.
In a recent interview with the Austin Chronicle, Waters expounded on those thoughts, describing This Is Not a Drill as a “call to arms." “It's saying, ‘This is not a drill.’ They're killing you now," he explained. "Every single day they're killing you. Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are killing you and so is Donald Trump and so is Mike Bloomberg, and so is the rest of that whole, huge corporate machine. They're killing you and your children. And everybody else in the world and their children!”
Though his opinions seem dire, Waters insisted the concerts’ message would be about hope and empowerment. “The power resides here," he noted. "It would be so easy not to save the world. That's difficult now because it's been left way too late, but at least to change direction and show each other a little bit of respect and love.”
Updates, including when the rescheduled This Is Not a Drill performances will take place, will be posted to Waters' official website.
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Wolfgang Van Halen Shares Heart-Tugging Photo Tribute to Eddie Van Halen
The music world suffered a great loss with the death of Eddie Van Halen, but the loss is even greater for Wolfgang Van Halen as he's also lost his father. The Van Halen bassist was the first to inform the world of his father's passing and he's now sharing a string of heart-tugging photos sharing time with his dad.
Wolf starts off with a video that's certain to bring a few tears, as Eddie Van Halen is fielding questions from audience members at a Q&A session. When one fan asks Eddie if there's one deceased musician he'd like to play with, the guitarist thinks for a second before responding, "I'd like to jam with my father again."
Wolfgang then added a series of photos that included Eddie Van Halen sitting on piano next to his father who was playing saxophone. There are also a number of photos from Wolf's life ranging from childhood pics with Eddie and Valerie Bertinelli at the beach with Wolf and Eddie reading him a bedtime story through Wolf's teen years jamming with his father and even taking it to modern day with Eddie patting his son on the head as they played together onstage. See the full range of tweeted photos below.
Wolfgang Van Halen isn't the only family member to dig into the photo archives, with his uncle and bandmate Alex Van Halen previously sharing a photo from youth of the two brothers as young kids while sharing the message, "Hey Ed. Love you. See you on the other side. Your brother Al."
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5 reasons to headquarter in Singapore to reach out to South East Asia
5 reasons to headquarter in Singapore to reach out to South East Asia – Singapore is a great place to grow up and live in. Singapore has one of the highest education literacy rates, lowest crime rates and also one of the best place to make money.
Being the central position of the whole South East Asia region, Singapore sits on a very unique position not just for the region but for the world. Being one of the turning points for the main sea trade routes, Singapore has grown over the year into one of the major financial headquarters of the world. Singapore has taken advantage of this and turn the nation into a strong finance hub for people who are trading in the region but also at the same time for players in the region.
So we shall now explore what are the 5 reasons to headquarter in Singapore to reach out to South East Asia:
Reason 1: Singapore is one of the top financial hubs in the world
Singapore is one of the top financial hubs after that of New York, London and Hong Kong. Being one of the core nations in South East Asia, most of the funds of the area are parked in Singapore. Business owners take advantage of the closeness of all the financial services in Singapore to manage their funds for their personal investments and corporate investments.
Having the status of a financial hub also means that you can get your currency exchanged done quite easy and with good rates in Singapore because most of the funds are in Singapore. Singapore is also able to handle your financial work close to 24/7 with a strong and never sleeping financial sector that is in place for the wealthy and powerful to grow their money at a constant rate.
Singapore is also continuously named as one of the top countries where it is easiest to do business. The time i takes to set up a company in Singapore and also subsequently a bank account is one of the fastest in the world.
Reason 2: Singapore has a strong rule of law and court system
Rule of law is what is lacking in the region. There is still rampant corruption in most countries in the region and this is something that many business owners are worried about. It is well known that contracts for transactions in other countries are signed in Singapore. Since both companies can set up base in Singapore, they can sign their contracts in Singapore for execution in the home country. In such situation, if one of the members decide to go against their word, the victim company can use the laws of Singapore to take the other party to court and recover some losses.
Being a country that places a lot of focus on the execution of the law and strictly going by the book, business owners can be assured that they will also face a fair trial if they have to appear in court.
This fair system allows both parties to have a better chance as compared to money politics and money law that can be in place in other countries in the region.
Reason 3: Singapore has a very well educated employee pool
Head quartering a company means you need to have strong executive and also administrative team in that country. Singapore has the best educated pool of employees in the world. Being ranked one of the top for education, Singapore is able to handle the needs of most demanding companies that might need someone who is good in accounting, economics or finance to manage their businesses remotely.
Hiring is also easy for most companies, you will be able to find a local who will be happy to travel around the region for work. You will also be able to bring in employees from the region to work full time here, after you have fulfilled quota requirements.
With new technologies coming up, Singapore has started its push into what we call a Smart Nation initiative to ensure our competitive edge against other countries by making sure everyone is trained with future skills so that the Singapore economy will be relevant in the years to come.
The Smart Nation initiative also ensures the older batch of workers are not left behind by retraining them for other roles in the economy so that the economy continuously grinds forward towards the future.
Reasons 4: Singapore has a strong and stable currency
Currency can mean profits or loss depending on which side you are. This is also one of the worst fears of the businessman in the region. There are economies where the fluctuation of the currency can be 10% , you will be safe to have your hands on the Singapore dollar. One of the most stable in the world and controlled closely by the MAS, the Singapore dollar is a great way to hedge against losses in currency exchanges.
Singapore needs to maintain a strong currency structure because it is highly dependent on trade and this is something that you can be assured to not change for a long time. You would also be safe to hold your cash in Singapore for your savings and investment as Singapore is also one of the best countries in terms of security.
Being a big importer of goods, Singapore has to maintain a strong and stable currency and therefore it is a good place to trade in terms of Singapore Dollars and to hold the SGD for a long periods of time without fear of it losing its value.
Reason 5: Singapore is position right in the middle, traveling in the region is mostly within 2 to 4 hours
Travel can be a big headache if you are on the far end of the area.
Singapore is right smack in the middle and Singapore Changi Airport is also one of the biggest aviation hubs of the world. You can get to most parts of the South East Asian region within 2 to 4 hours and most business owners fly to have their meetings and return within the day which makes business doing in the region very easy and smooth. Coordination with them over time zones is also easier because since you are in the middle, you are not distracted too much by the extremes of time zones.
Singapore is also aligned to the time zones of Hong Kong and Shanghai which makes doing business with this major business hubs easier since you can make phone calls and having meetings with them easily.
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Daviyon Nixon Declares For The NFL Draft
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Two thirds of the Iowa Hawkeye defensive line will be moving on to the NFL. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that junior defensive tackle Daviyon Nixon and senior defensive end Chauncey Golston have announced that they have declared themselves eligible for the NFL Draft. Senior defensive end Zach VanValkenburg says he will play one more season at Iowa.
The Nixon move should come to no one's surprise. What more could he have done in 2020? He was named first team All American and the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. He tied for the Big Ten lead in sacks with 5.5 and 13.5 tackles for loss. Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said that he is "happy for Daviyon and his family. A year ago he was a part time player, and today he leaves our program as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year."
The Gazette reports that Chauncey Golston went from a relative undersized unknown to first team All Big Ten. Golston had 4.5 sacks this season and 7.5 tackles for loss.
VanValkenburg announced that he is taking advantage of a rule in 2020 that allows players to get an extra year of eligibility due to the pandemic. Seniors including Alaric Jackson, Brandon Smith, Shaun Beyer, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Nick Nieman, and Mekhi Sargent have all announced that they are preparing for the NFL Draft.
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The European Adventure
Krampus is a complicated creature to explain. The modern story goes like this: He’s the dark sidekick of St. Nicholas, and his duties include throwing naughty kids into a sack or basket and beating them with a birch or cow-tail whip.
But Krampus is actually a remnant from Germanic paganism, and he pre-dates St. Nicholas by, like, a lot. Centuries ago, young Alpine men would don animal masks and run around their villages in an attempt to scare off the early signs of winter. Krampus may have emerged as the spirit associated with that practice. Unlike most pagan concepts, though, Krampus managed to survive the Romans, Charlemagne, etc., because he was written explicitly into the Christian St. Nicholas story.
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Who really looks like the man in charge here?
Today, the most common way to encounter Krampus is to attend one of the several Krampusläufe, or “Krampus runs,” held each year in Carinthia, the southern Austrian state that borders Slovenia. (A handful of towns in Styria and Tyrol also perform Krampus pageants, traditional Alpine morality plays syncretized to fit with Catholic themes, but the parades are way more accessible for foreigners.) Most of the parades are held on or near December 5, which is St. Nicholas Eve. But Klagenfurt am Worthersee holds their Krampuslauf earlier, in late November, and claims it’s the biggest one in the country, with dozens of performance troupes from Austria, Slovenia, and Italy. That’s the one we picked.
The parade starts at Klagenfurt’s train station and ends in the historic town square, Alter Platz. It’s kicked off by troupe of young men banging 80-pound cow bells, which sets a decidedly eerie tone from the get go.
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I caught an encore performance by the opening troupe later at the Christmas market:
Then, without further adieu, the street is flooded with winter spirits of all shapes, sizes, colors, and temperaments ….
The friendly
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This guy got up, close, and personal with me. I kissed his nose, which prompted applause from other onlookers.
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The Easter Bunny … from Hell.
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No one looks super worried about this fuzz ball. Notice the giant bell on his backside: every Krampus has at least one to warn you he’s on the way — like an evil jingle bell.
The Stern
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Women can’t play Krampus himself, but some participate in the parade as Percht, a range of forest demons and spirits associated with wintertime. Many women also serve as sign carriers for the troupes, and they dress as Engels (angels) or Hexen (witches).
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This guy does not want to cuddle.
The Mischievous
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Krampus has a special interest in women with long hair. Many onlookers get their hair mussed or lightly pulled.
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What a creep — I turned around and was startled by this guy.
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This troupe released a smoke bomb and leapt out of the cloud.
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This guy paused for a moment before jumping over the barricade into the crowd.
The Rowdy
Supposedly, participants have to pass breathalyzer tests before the parade. Mm hm.
The Straight-Up Scary
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All I want for Christmas is a head on a spike.
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Um?!
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I swear, I’ll never call you an elf ever, ever again.
And yes, a few of the kids in the crowd couldn’t handle it. One boy dressed in a mini-Krampus costume tapped out almost immediately, and no amount of coaxing from his father could get him back to the front line. But most were totally enthralled. One small girl next to me attracted a great deal of attention from the monsters, but she never shrieked or cried. Every time one of the performers touched her head or shook her hand, she just gave a serene little smile and waited for the next one. I have a feeling there’ll be a lot of chocolate in her St. Nicholas shoe this year.
Unlike American holiday parades, there’s no “grand finale” with St. Nicholas, a mega-Krampus, or anything like that. The last troupe simply performs like any other. A fire truck crawls along behind the final Krampuses, signaling to the crowd that the show is over.
And just like that, Krampus is gone.
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Thanks to last year’s U.S. movie, there’s been some chatter in Austria about the “over-commercialization” of Krampus. But I scoured the town and found exactly one Christmas market stall dedicated the Krampus kitsch — and it mostly sold chocolates.
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My theory is that the lack of “Kampus krap” is due to the fact that he simply isn’t a joke in this part of the world. In Klagenfurt, Krampus is considered a fairly serious cultural tradition and rural Austrians are very protective of him. Two Krampus pageants are UNESCO protected, and Krampus troupes have to formally apply to perform in the Carinthian parades.
Krampus isn’t exactly a beloved figure in the the country’s capital, though. About a decade ago, Viennese schools banned Krampus-related performances. And on the rare occasion he appears at a city Christmas market at all, he’s only allowed to give children candy — no whippings.
Despite Vienna, this particular species of folk tradition isn’t in any real danger of extinction. Because Christmas in Austria just wouldn’t be the same without a giant, furry goat-yak growling in your face.
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Nancy Barnidge says:
Great story! Good pictures! Interesting tradition! Glad you and Matt got to experience it all.
marianaperrone2016 says:
Great post and photos! I was in a similar one but in a small town with less Krampus but was also great 🙂 it was my first experience!
Sandra Knisely says:
Thank you! Which town did you visit??
I´ve visited Margarethen am Moos…it is a small town in Niderösterreich
Really like your photos and the write up is superb. Odd celebration but then again local customs are part of the spice of life. I think I will stick with seeing Santa sitting on his throne at the Mall and The Christmas Story Marathon on TV. Thanks for the post.
Kate Prehn says:
What an awesome piece! Love your pictures, but your captions are even better!
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For the uninitiated, the Dragon Quest series can seem like a daunting prospect. As venerable and well respected as that other giant of the JRPG genre, the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest games quite literally laid the template that developers still follow to this day. But where Final Fantasy titles reinvent the wheel with each iteration, Dragon Quest refines it’s core conceit, evoking a nostalgia in long time fans in a way other games rarely do. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age has a simple design mantra… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Traditional, perhaps to a fault, DQXI recalls a bygone era. An era where heroes were silent and destined to save the world. It is a tale that you have probably heard before, but it’s not in the telling that it succeeds, but in the execution of its seemingly simplistic mechanics, unbelievably charming characters and beautifully realized landscapes. Everyone, from the companions that aid you in your journey, to the foes that oppose you, down to the descriptions of the items you find, are crafted with love, care and a fiendish attention to detail
You play the role of The Luminary, a legendary figure in the world of Erdrea, who is destined to defeat the Dark One. Born to the king and queen of Dundrasil, our hero still only an infant at the time, is one of only several to survive the complete devastation of the kingdom as an army of monsters raze it to the ground. Taken in by some kindly villagers that raise him as their own, a big part of the Luminary’s journey is discovering who his family were and what his role will be in a world beset on all sides.
You are joined on this journey by what just might be one of the most colorful and likable cast of characters ever seen in a JRPG. Of course each character is given time in the spotlight, and considerable time is spent explaining each’s motivations for aiding the Luminary, which I won’t spoil here. Suffice it to say, that with the protagonist being of the silent persuasion, your companions do the bulk of the narrative lifting, and its through their eyes that we really see the world.
Each is much more than just an archetype, Erik for example seems at first to be a standard rogue type character, from both a gameplay and narrative standpoint. But while certainly roguish, he is plagued by doubt and indecision. He can be built to deal insane damage and apply all kinds of nasty status effects to foes, or more of an AOE damage dealer by specializing in boomerangs.
The twins Veronica and Serena fill the traditional mage and healer roles respectively. While initially a little bit tropey, Veronica quickly came to be one of my favorite characters due to her spunky nature and explosive damage dealing potential. Serena is perhaps a little underdeveloped, maybe the most of the core cast, but her role as a dedicated healer is virtually essential, at least in the mid to late game. The sisters have a very endearing dynamic to them, and their familial bond is a strong part of their story line throughout.
We must, of course, spend sign some with the incredible, the fabulous, Sylvando. A famous troubadour, Sylvando is initially portrayed as quite mysterious, always evasive about his own past. But he wears his heart on his sleeve, his only goal in life to bring smiles to the people of the world in his own spectacularly flamboyant style. Mechanically he functions as a kind of jack-of-all-trades, able to deal damage and dual wield with swords and knives or deal group damage with whips. He can heal, buff allies and debuff his foes. Truly the star of the show, Sylvando is a standout character and a wonder to behold.
Rounding out the core cast is Rab and Jade, wandering martial artists initially portrayed as antagonists. They are a little harder to talk about without getting into spoiler territory, but suffice it to say they play an important part in the games narrative. Rab is an elderly gentleman, whose role lies somewhere in between Veronica’s and Serena’s – that of a magical damage dealer and healer. He can also dish out some decent damage by dual wielding claws. Jade, meanwhile, is pure physical damage. Playing something of a femme fatale, she is murderous with polearms and brings some much needed physical punch to the group.
The turn-based combat is simple but incredibly satisfying, honed to a razor edge. Your party learn various abilities at certain levels, and can specialize into branching skill trees that are reminiscent of Final Fantasy X’s sphere grid, if a little more streamlined. There is an incredible amount of synergy between the different party members, and you really can find success with any combination. Further complicating things is the Pep system – each turn, there is a certain chance one of your party will become “pepped up”, a state in which they can do increased damage, or have a higher healing ability or dodge chance, depending on the character. This lasts for a few turns, or can be spent by unleashing cinematic pep powers. The cool thing about this is that, like Chrono Trigger before it, if multiple characters are pepped up, you can unleash very specific full party combos that can have a variety of uses, and are glorious to behold.
But what’s a good role playing game without some great loot? DQXI features an interactive forging system that I found myself addicted to, in which you need to use very specific strikes to forge items in a mini game that is surprisingly in depth. While min-maxer’s will obsess over forging the perfect equipment, its nice that even if you fail, you still receive the item at a base level, and your carefully horded ingredients don’t go to waste.
These ingredients are found out in the wild and dropped by the games horde of delightful foes, each more ridiculous than the last. I fell in love with Akira Toriyama’s monster design, I’ve long been a fan of his work and this is some of his best. It’s incredible to me that a turn-based game can be so comedic on a mechanical level. Bad guys might fall asleep, get distracted or fall in love with your party, all animated with loving detail. The boss fights too are fantastic, and there are a lot of them. This is a big game, with hundreds of enemies and dozens of areas and hours upon hours of dialogue. Each townsperson has something to say, and often something new to say after each story beat.
While not an open world game per se, there are parts of Dragon Quest that feel quite open. Generally you will enter an area, get some story beats, and then be let loose to accomplish some grand endeavor. The areas, while somewhat empty, are large and have multiple layers to them. They are filled with secrets and enemies to do battle with, but can be quite a task to walk across, and thankfully you are given several different modes of transport as you progress through the game. All are colorful and varied, and really add to the sense of a large, inhabited world.
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is a triumph of classic game design in the modern era. Few series today can boast of such a successful lineage and still put out games of such high quality. Even if you didn’t grow up playing these kinds of games, DQXI succeeds in its accessibility, and if anything will make you a fan of the genre, it is this game. Likewise, it appeals to hardcore fans of the series with its wealth of content and homages to prior titles, and is a high water mark in gaming worthy of your time. Plus, it has given us the magnificent Sylvando, and for that alone I’m grateful.
Author Khayl AdamPosted on October 16, 2018 October 16, 2018 Categories Blog Posts, ReviewsTags age, dragon, echoes, elusive, enix, jrpg, playstation, quest, roleplaying, square, xiLeave a comment on Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age Review
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Gift Card Class Action Survives in NY Appellate Court
By Kprofs2013
We previously mentioned a federal class action against Amex over gift card fees. Well, in a separate state case against Simon Property Group over gift card fees, an appellate court in New York (Second Department) recently held that, in the absence of clear and unambiguous disclosure, the imposition of dormancy and administrative fees decreasing the redeemable value of a gift card constitutes a sufficient predicate for a cause of action to recover for breach of contract.
Plaintiffs commenced a class action challenging, among other things, a $2.50 monthly "dormancy fee" imposed by the defendant in connection with its promotion and sale of Simon Gift Cards, and the allegedly improper manner in which such fees were disclosed. The court explained:
The Simon Gift Card (hereinafter the card) is a prepaid, stored-value card, which is issued by Bank of America, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A., Inc., and may be used everywhere Visa is accepted. The card is programmed to hold a balance that is recorded on it at the time of purchase, and stored on it thereafter. Each time the card is used, the amount of the transaction is deducted from the available balance. The card is plastic and resembles a standard credit card. There is a magnetic strip on the back of the card, below which is recited, in relevant part, as follows: "An administrative fee of $2.50 per month will be deducted from your balance beginning with the seventh month from the month of card purchase." Once the card is activated, it is placed in a cardboard sleeve, which is styled as a cardboard folding "book" with the sleeve at the top, into which the card is inserted, along with five additional folding double-sided "pages" which are attached to the sleeve. On the front five "pages," general information about the card and its use is included, and on the back five "pages" the cardholder agreement and terms and conditions are articulated. The amended complaint alleges that the five "pages" on the back of the card sleeve that contain the terms and conditions of the card, including the dormancy fees, are in small print, in fonts materially less than that required pursuant to CPLR 4544, concealed, and in violation of General Business Law 396-i(3), which provides that "[t]he terms of a gift certificate or store credit shall be clearly and conspicuously stated thereon."
A section on the back of the card sleeve, entitled "Do I ever expire?" provided: "An administrative fee of $2.50 per month will be deducted from your balance beginning in the seventh month from the month of card purchase." The actual card term regarding the dormancy fees is placed on the very last page on the back of the 10 folding pages' of information included with the card sleeve. That section, entitled "Service Charges," provides, in relevant part, as follows:
"If a balance remains on the Gift Card after the sixth month, the Gift Card will be charged a $2.50 monthly service fee. The fee will be deducted automatically, starting on the seventh month after the month of purchase, from any remaining value on the card on the first day of the month until the value reaches zero."
Defendant moved to dismiss. The trial court denied the motion as to plaintiffs' causes of action for breach of contract and deceptive business practices. The Second Department affirmed. It explained in part:
Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
"Implicit in all contracts is a covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the course of contract performance . . . This embraces a pledge that neither party shall do anything which will have the effect of destroying or injuring the right of the other party to receive the fruits of the contract . . . Where the contract contemplates the exercise of discretion, this pledge includes a promise not to act arbitrarily or irrationally in exercising that discretion" (Dalton v Educational Testing Serv., 87 NY2d 384, 389 [internal quotation marks and citation omitted]). "If a factfinder concluded that the [fee] disclosure statement was not clear or conspicuous as required by [law], it could invalidate the fee provision or, alternatively, see it as a violation of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing" (see Sims v First Consumers Natl. Bank, 303 AD2d at 290). The amended complaint alleges that the terms of the fee disclosure are not clear and conspicuous, but rather, unclear and hidden, which is sufficient to maintain a claim based upon a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
Furthermore, the amended complaint alleges that the amount of the dormancy fee is grossly excessive. Even were the defendant entitled to charge dormancy fees, it is still precludedunder the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing from setting such fees at grossly excessive amounts. Thus, the amended complaint sufficiently states a claim to recover damages for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (see Englade v HarperCollins Publs., 289 AD2d 159; Broder v MBNA Corp., 281 AD2d 369).
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Review: A Lot to Like at Kefauver ‘Rock ‘N’ Wave’ Exhibit
Christine LaPado-Breglia
The Saturday, Aug. 6 opening reception for the “Rock ‘n’ Wave” show currently on the walls of the Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta was a well-attended affair. Artists and other community members turned out for the eye-pleasing exhibit featuring the artwork of oil painter and gallery owner Will Kefauver and 19 guest artists, all focused on depicting the area where the ocean and the land meet one another.
Will Kefauver, oil painter and owner of Kefauver Studio & Gallery, with his painting titled “Tower.” (Christine LaPado-Breglia photo)
Kefauver was well-represented in the show. The talented painter, who also teaches beginning and intermediate painting to teenagers and adults, included pieces of many sizes, from his signature “petits tableaux” – tiny oil paintings mounted on two thin metal dowels and a stand – to his larger paintings, such as the oil-on-linen “Tower,” a commanding close-up of the top of a lighthouse.
Lovers of Maine-centric nautical-themed artwork will likely gravitate toward such Kefauver offerings as “Dinghy n Traps,” “Ocean Spray,” and “Welcome II,” featuring an iconic Maine porch scene, complete with a rustic wooden planter box overflowing with colorful flowers and a red, white, and blue lobster buoy hanging beside the front door.
Kefauver’s landscape paintings – such as “Three Over Ashokan,” of three clouds lingering over three small mountains, and the lovely “7th Lake Morning” and “7th Lake Evening” – invite one to linger before them, a testament to his talent at realism and capturing the peaceful mood of a place.
Dale Dapkins stands before his whimsical acrylic painting “Doric Clouds” at the recent opening reception for the “Rock ‘n’ Wave” art show at the Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta. (Christine LaPado-Breglia photo)
Acrylic painter Dale Dapkins, who splits his time evenly between Key West, Fla. and a home on Pemaquid Pond, weighed in significantly with one large painting titled “Doric Clouds.” “Doric Clouds” is a whimsical, eye-catching piece slightly reminiscent of the playful pop-art work of Peter Max. Painted largely in shades of turquoise and teal, the painting features stylized white clouds and whitecaps tipped in silver acrylic paint squeezed from a cookie-decorating gun.
“It’s the last of series I did where I stylized clouds and stylized waves, not trying to really copy nature,” said Dapkins, who was in attendance at the reception.
Photographer Judy Bernier’s “Seaspray 7” and “Seaspray 8” – “medium-enhanced” close-up photographs of sea foam hanging in the entry area of the gallery – are notable for their uncanny resemblance to watercolor paintings. Damariscotta artist Polly Steadman’s surrealistic, colorful wave paintings hang nearby – “Flirtation” is particularly striking with its roiling blues and greens against a bright lime-green sky.
Painter Gill Barclay’s pieces depicting sunsets are bold and bursting with color. “Sunset Reflections,” a mixed-media piece, features a dramatic, multicolored, abstract sunset over water, a blast of bright yellow breaking through the blue-and-orange sky.
Like Bernier’s work, Tom Kostes’ photographs on canvas have the look of paintings. The former Hawaii studio-gallery owner has two pieces in the “Rock ‘n’ Wave” exhibit: “Pelicans with Rocks & Waves” and “Haystack Clouds,” a very effective black-and-white piece highlighting huge stacked-up clouds over a watery horizon.
Deborah Kozak’s beautiful linocut reduction prints stand out for their uniqueness in a show largely populated with paintings and some photographs. The step-by-step printmaking technique used by Kozak results in the pleasingly rugged details – painted in layers of greenish gray, sage green, and sky blue – in her “Tidal Pool on Monhegan,” “Off Peter’s Island,” and “Seal Cove.”
Landscape painter Deena Ball offers “The Rush,” an intriguing watercolor on a “textured ground” surface that made use of some metallic paints in its depiction of water swirling around and through large rocks.
Bristol artist Judy Nixon (left) and artist Jane Bowman, of New Harbor, sip wine and take in the profusion of art at the Saturday, Aug. 6 opening reception for the “Rock ‘n’ Wave” art show at the Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta. Both Nixon and Bowman have artwork in the current show, which runs through Aug. 28. (Christine LaPado-Breglia photo)
Well-known local painters Jan Kilburn, Judy Nixon, Jane Bowman, and Marcia Brandwein all have pieces in the current Kefauver show, as does Sally Loughridge. Loughridge’s “Country Morn,” for one, is a charming small piece framed in gold featuring evergreen trees with a fragile, stencil-like appearance.
Overall, the “Rock ‘n’ Wave” show is a feast for the eyes, as is the gallery’s gorgeous flower-and-vegetable garden directly behind it, adjacent to the parking lot. Go for the art, and take in the garden while there. They are both certainly worth the trip.
The “Rock ‘n’ Wave” show will run through Sunday, Aug. 28. The Kefauver Studio & Gallery is located at 144 Bristol Road, Damariscotta. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily. Call 226-0974 or go to kefauverstudio.com for more information.
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Show: Rome
TV: Cable / Network: HBO
Endgame: Dead
Show Status: Over
Tropes: Abused, Bury Your Gays, Double Standards, Evil, Predatory, Sexual Assault, Tortured
Introduced in: 2005-2006 / Final season: 2006-2007
Servilia of the Junii (Lindsay Duncan)
Servilia of the Junii was a character from the HBO series, Rome, a sophisticated and regal Roman matron loosely based on the historical personage of Servilia, mother of Marcus Junius Brutus, and lover of Julius Caesar.
Servilia was devoted to her lover Caesar as he rose to power, despite Brutus’ protestations that Caesar threatened the Republic. Her social rival Atia payed to have graphic sexual depictions of Servilia and Caesar drawn on every street corner, humiliating Caesar’s wife Calpurnia. Caesar ended the affair coldly, and Servilia cursed both him and Atia, and began to scheme against them for vengeance.
Servilia used the friction between Atia and her daughter to gain Octavia’s confidence. In episode 1×06, with Pompey & Caesar readying for their final showdown, Atia sent Octavia to Servilia with a gift, a male sex slave, in order to secure an alliance. Servilia refused the gift, but agreed to help, and during the visit Octavia became upset and Servilia embraced her.
By episode 1×07, when Octavia asked for help once again, it was Servilia who became distraught, and Octavia who comforted her and by the end of the episode the two women were shown lying naked in bed together. Their relationship continued in episode 1×08 and during a two year jump before episode 1×09, when Caesar returned to Rome.
After Caesar’s return, desperate to find out the nature of Caesar’s mysterious “affliction” in Utica, Servilia used Octavia to find information about him, going so far as to suggest Octavia seduce her own brother. Octavia, repulsed by the suggestion, began to leave but was stopped when Servilia told her Atia had her husband murdered. Octavia then agreed to seduce her brother, and went through with it. After discovering her children’s incestuous encounter and Servilia’s involvement, Atia took revenge on Servilia by having her publicly humiliated: she was pulled from her litter, stripped and beaten in the forum, and her hair cut.
After Caesar was finally assassinated by the Senate, Servilia invited Atia to her villa to tell her the news in person and vowed to make Atia suffer, “lowly and deeply, as you made me suffer.”
AfterEllen described the sexual relationship as disappointing:
“Their sexual relationship is depicted in a much less graphic way than the other sexual relationships on Rome. Much of their love affair involves merely looking at each other, along with a few very light kisses and touches. […] The lack of knowledge about lesbian sex is not unexpected, but it is disappointing in an HBO drama that explores heterosexuality with such lusty vividness.” – AfterEllen
And the switch from a same sex relationship to an incestuous one particularly unfortunate:
“The trajectory on Rome of homosexual relationship to incest to condemnation runs the risk of drawing a clear line between homosexuality and condemnation, period. It is a clear negative correlation. […] In comparison, the other sexual liaisons on Rome do not take this negative spiral. Even though Atia and Cleopatra may have sex for clearly manipulative reasons, their sexuality has not yet faced such judgment. The only sexual relationship that has ended abruptly due to social judgment is the one between Octavia and Servilia, and it ended because Servilia encouraged Octavia to have sex with her brother.”
Mark Antony managed to broker a peace between Caesar’s supporters and the conspirators, ensuring the safety of himself and Atia’s family. When an attempt by Servilia to poison Atia failed, Atia had her rival kidnapped, raped, and tortured horribly. Atia’s freedman Timon, disgusted by Atia’s cruelty, took pity on Servilia and set her free.
In Death Mask, both Brutus and Cassius had been killed in the Battle of Philippi. Broken and alone, a disheveled Servilia knelt in front of Atia’s house, repeatedly chanting “Atia of the Julii, I call for justice” while her servant Eleni threw the cremated remains of Brutus over her. After two days of this, Atia finally emerged, and Servilia cursed her rival before publicly killing herself; Eleni followed suit. Despite their animosity, Atia was clearly unnerved by Servilia’s death.
Octavia of the Julii (Kerry Condon, regular, 22 episodes)
Relationship story arc with a woman: No
Gaius Julius Caesar (Ciarán Hinds, regular, 13 episodes)
Male (Regular)
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Octavia of the Julii
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Democratic members of Congress want taxpayers to subsidize their housing
Elizabeth Harrington, WFB June 22, 2018
Benny Thompson (Image: YouTube screen grab)
[Ed. – Many of these Congress members are multimillionaires, who earn $174,000 a year as members of Congress. Yet, they need taxpayers to fund ‘dorms’ for them?]
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.) introduced a bill that would ban members of Congress from sleeping in their offices and would change the tax code to allow House members to deduct their spending on housing in D.C. up to $3,000. The deduction would not apply to senators.
Thompson has also proposed turning a vacant building near Capitol Hill into apartments for House members at the expensive of taxpayers, which critics have dubbed a “Congressional Animal House.”
The taxpayer-watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste criticized Thompson’s legislation and his proposed “taxpayer-funded dorms.”
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“On May 16, 2018, Rep. Thompson introduced H.R. 5845, the ‘No Couches for Congress Act,’ which would ban members of Congress from sleeping in their offices,” the group said. “He also proposed converting vacant residence halls near the Capitol into ‘affordable‘ housing for members of Congress, who make $174,000 per year. He claimed that it would be available for members who found housing costs to be ‘prohibitive.'”
BOMBSHELL: New documents implicate John McCain in IRS’s targeting of conservative groups
Melania’s dream (make that ‘nightmare’) coat: What in the world was she thinking?
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Cargolux to extend network thanks to partnership
Qatar Airways is now officially the second biggest shareholder in Luxembourg air freight company Cargolux after a purchase transaction was completed.
(JB) Qatar Airways is now officially the second biggest shareholder in Luxembourg air freight company Cargolux after a purchase transaction was completed on Thursday.
Yesterday both parties signed on the dotted line for the much-anticipated strategic equity partnership between the two cargo titans, leaving Qatar Airways the owner of a 35% share in Cargolux International Airlines.
The news of the deal's closure came late on Thursday. Qatar Airways' interest in the company first emerged earlier this year but final agreements could not be reached until the deal was cleared by all competent authorities concerned.
Cargolux welcomed the partnership, suggesting that it will provide complementary value to its services. It said in a statement: “The strategic partnership with Qatar Airways enables Cargolux to enhance its competitive position as an independent leading air cargo operator.
"The transaction increases the attractiveness of the Cargolux network through increased reach and scale. It also gives the Company access to additional capacity and new destinations and strengthens the Luxembourg and Doha hubs.”
Qatar Airways' share purchase from the Luxembourg government makes the Doha-based airline the second largest shareholder in Cargolux, behind Luxair, which holds a 43.4% share.
In addition the Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de L'Etat (BCEE) holds a 10.9% share and the Société Nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement (SNCI) holds 10.7%.
Cargolux is European's largest all-cargo airline, covering 90 different destinations and employing some 1,500 staff worldwide.
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LWVMA Asks Legislature to Pass Bill to Safeguard Fall Elections
LWVMA and our partners in the Election Modernization Coalition are asking the legislature to send all registered voters a ballot for the November general election.
A bill, HD.5075, filed Tuesday, May 5, calls for ballots to be mailed to all voters, with prepaid return postage, at least 19 days before the Nov. 3 election. Ballots will be returned to city or town election offices, which would also install secure dropboxes where voters could deposit ballots.
In-person voting will still be an option, and the bill requires the Secretary of the Commonwealth to adopt regulations to safeguard the health of voters and election workers at the polls.
The bill’s chief sponsors are Rep. Michael Moran, assistant majority leader, and Rep. John Lawn, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Election Laws. Sen. Eric Lesser and Sen. Adam Hinds are sponsoring it in the Senate. The bill would also:
Expand early voting in person to two weeks before the Sept. 1 state primary election and three weeks before the Nov. 3 election
Cut the deadline to register to vote in the two elections from the current 20 days to 10 days
Create an online portal for voters to apply for absentee ballots
Establish that concern about Covid-19 qualifies as a “physical disability” and permits any concerned voter to vote by absentee ballot
Permit local election officials to scan absentee and early voting ballots in their offices before election day, rather than deliver them to individual polling places to be counted on election day; no results will be determined or announced before polls close.
The Election Modernization Coalition includes LWVMA, Common Cause, ACLU Massachusetts, MassVOTE, MassPIRG, Massachusetts Voter Table, and Lawyers for Civil Rights.
See the Coalition press release here.
See the text of the bill here.
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Dissertation >
Author LinLiXian
Tutor ZhangLongHai
School Xiamen University
Course English Language and Literature
Keywords Free Indirect Discourse Dual Voice play Artistic evolution
Type Master's thesis
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This thesis ventures the discussion of Dual Voice play and the application of Free Indirect Discourse in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.Free indirect discourse is a deliberate literary device employed by the narrator to achieve the Dual Voice play in Tripmaster Monkey. Dual Voice play is a distinctive narrative feature of Tripmaster Monkey enabled by the paralleling of the narrator’s voice and the protagonist’s voice. The voice of Wittman the protagonist is given a Baktinian character independence and enjoys a equal status with the voice of the narrator. In addition, Tripmaster Monkey also witnesses the thematic complexity of Wittman’s voice and the tremendous difference between the tones of the two voices. The alignment of the three factors not only reveals Dual Voice to be a general narrative feature of the book but warrants the extensive application of Free Indirect Discourse. The trickster narrator adopts different narrative strategies to vary the distance between her voice and the voice of the protagonist, thus to express a complicated attitude towards the protagonist and to deliver insightful comments on the issue in question. Free Indirect Discourse, owing to its special nature, has become one of the handiest tools for the narrator to achieve the voice play.Free Indirect Discourse is a special mode of speech and thought presentation obtained against the diegesis/mimesis hypothesis. The hypothesis regards narrative as a mimesis of the reality and characters in fiction as a mimesis of lifelike person. In the transportation of the character’s speech and thoughts into the narrative, the narrator could choose between delivering the speech/thoughts in exactly the same way as their immediate happening or summarizing the character’s speech/thoughts in the narrator’s language. The former method displays the mimetic inclination, while the latter the diegetic. Free Indirect Discourse is an intermediate mode among the continuum of speech and thought presentation. As a result, Free Indirect Discourse is tended to be read as being able to accommodate two voices: the voice of the narrator and the voice of the character. The linguistic and narrative features of Free Indirect Discourse which enable it to be recognized in the text also confirm this DUAL VOICE nature of Free Indirect Discourse. The evaluative function of Free Indirect Discourse is bred from this nature. The narrator, through his/her editing in the reports of the character’s speech and thoughts, could choose between proximity and distance from the voice of the character, resulting in the effects of irony or empathy, or to express even more complicated attitude towards/comments on the character.The consistency between the Dual Voice nature of Free Indirect Discourse and Tripmaster Monkey’s general narrative feature has forecasted the literary usefulness of Free Indirect Discourse in Tripmaster Monkey. The thesis focuses on the narrator’s adroit manipulation of Free Indirect Discourse along the line of the artistic evolution of Wittman. Wittman starts as a hyper-sensitive assimilationist imprisoned in rigid binary mindset. However, as he sets out to write, plan and stage his theatre, with the help of theatre and the community he has built up, he has achieved his own artistic evolution and is finally able to accept and interact with other voices. The application of Free Indirect Discourse has well silhouetted the progressing and direction of such an evolution. When the contention and concession of the narrator’s voice and the protagonist’s voice grows intense in the early stages of Wittman’s artistic evolution, the narrator also sees to it that Free Indirect Discourse is frequently used to contain the drama and the subtlety. When it comes to the late stages of Wittman’s evolution, the narrator, on the contrary, has refrained from the use of Free Indirect Discourse to show narrative support to a relative mature voice which is able to speak independently for himself and his people. Specific Free Indirect Discourse excerpts have been picked up from the text and analyzed to illustrate the narrator’s varying attitude towards the protagonist on different stages of his artistic evolution. For most cases, the reading reveals a complicated latency, more often leading to the contemplation and insightful comments of the narrator on this issue at hand, rather than simply conveying pure irony or empathy.
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Dean Yendall rides Scales Of Justice to victory in the Australia Stakes. Picture: AAP
Horse dies, jockey hurt in horror race fall
by Michael Manley
JOCKEY Barend Vorster is likely to be released from Royal Melbourne Hospital on Saturday afternoon as he recovers from injuries suffered in a fall in the closing stages of the Australia Stakes.
Vorster suffered a broken collarbone when he fell from Manuel, who had to be euthanised after sustaining a serious racing injury to its nearside shoulder and off fore knee, according to the Racing Victoria stewards' report.
The Group 1 winner crashed to the ground with 100m to go when he clipped heels.
The race was won by sprinter Scales of Justice.
Manuel's trainer Tony McEvoy said it was one of the toughest nights at the races he had experienced.
"He was such a brave horse. The staff are gutted, as are (son) Calvin and I," McEvoy said.
"Bottom line is that it shouldn't have happened."
Victorian Jockeys Association chief executive Matt Hyland said Vorster might not have to be operated on.
"The scans are good. We'll take them to out Dr Gary Zimmerman and he'll look at them and make a final decision," Hyland said.
Stewards have opened an inquiry into the cause of the fall.
Jockey Barend Vorster is thrown from Manuel in the closing stages of the Australia Stakes.
Lindsey Smith's gifted sprinter Scales Of Justice took out an incident-packed finish to the Group 2 Australia Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley, overhauling the short-priced favourite Hey Doc in the closing stages on Friday night.
Smith said he wasn't surprised that Scales Of Justice could win first-up.
"He races well fresh and he's quite dynamic over 1200m," Smith said.
Smith said Scales Of Justice would continue on the path to the All-Star Mile and have his next start in the Orr Stakes (1400m).
Smith put up his hand to try and get Scales Of Justice a start in The Everest later in the year, saying he felt the galloper was a better sprinter.
Smith, who opened a base at Warrnambool seven months ago and which he runs in conjunction with his Perth stable, has had a remarkable week with seven winners from 11 starters.
Scales Of Justice was ridden by Dean Yendall, who placed him in third spot behind the leaders Hey Doc and Ashlor in the running.
"I thought I'd follow Hey Doc and on the turn I was just hoping that Ashlor would move away, but he held on longer than I thought he would," Yendall said.
Yendall said he was grateful that Smith had given him the opportunity to ride Scales Of Justice.
"He told me to be at Warrnambool at 5.30am to ride him and I was there. He was the only one I rode that morning," he said.
McEvoy was pleased with the run of Hey Doc, who fought hard to run second.
Begood Toya Mother finished last but his trainer Daniel Bowman said he had excuses.
He said he got on his wrong leg at the 400m and then didn't get around the turn. He also lost balance when Manuel pushed out underneath him and fell.
Bowman feared Begood Toya Mother had been galloped on in the incident but later said his horse had pulled up OK.
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HomeNo welcome for President Carter in Israel
No welcome for President Carter in Israel
April 15, 2008 liligans Politics
He was not invited. He is no friend and yet he has the audacity to turn up in Israel before going to fraternise with Hamas leaders in Gaza. As if that’s not enough of an insult, he intends to meet with Hamas supremo Khaled Meschaal who’s operating from Damascus.
Who is this unwelcome visitor to Israel? It’s President Jimmy Carter who wrote an offensive book on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians two years ago. In it, he accused Israel of enforcing a system of apartheid. This was extremely derogatory language towards a nation that has to endure repeated attacks by Islamic suicide bombers.
As Senator McCain put it when asked to comment on Carter’s visit to Hamas:-
McCain said any meeting by the former Democratic president with Hamas would be a “grave and dangerous mistake.”
“Engaged in a campaign that deliberately targets innocent Israeli civilians, Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. President Carter is wrong to meet with Hamas, a terrorist group that has also killed innocent Americans.”
I really wonder what part of “We hate Israel and America and will work towards the destruction of both of them” does Carter not comprehend?
Well, he obviously doesn’t so it’s no use reasoning with him.
But one can relate to the Israeli government’s cool reception of Carter yesterday.
Of course, this is the same man who allowed 52 American hostages to be held by the Iranians for 14 months. America was humiliated because Carter did not have the balls to take a tough stance.
I have always been of the opinion that Muslims do not relate well to negotiations. They only understand strong action and Carter was totally impotent when it came to getting the hostages released. He couldn’t even succeed in a rescue mission.
To me, he will always be associated with capitulation and weakness. Let’s face it, the only reason that the Iranians released the hostages is because Iranian financial assets were finally unfrozen and an Algerian diplomat brokered the release.
This was just before Ronald Reagan took office and there was no way that Reagan would behave like his predecessor. Had Reagan not become President I suspect that the hostages would still be imprisoned in Iran. Most likely, they would all be dead by now.
Amittedly, It is unfair to totally dismiss a person just because he was the wrong choice for the job. Carter was not fit material to be effective as a strong leader. Nevertheless, his humanitarian hobbies are what he is more suited to. I even support his wish to get rid of the death penalty. As for his efforts in fighting political corruption, those are fine as well. But then, apart from some African dictators and certain terrorist states, don’t most democratic leaders want to clean up corruption? Yes, he is also credited for brokering a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, but I believe that Egypt and particularly, Sadat, was ready for peace. In my opinion, therefore, the ex-president should now stick to saving whales and preaching about the environment.
As Jane Austen’s Mr Bennet wisely observed in “Pride and Prejudice” that his daughter should take a break from making an exhibition of herself. “You have delighted us long enough.” he told Mary. And I am offering the same advice to President Carter.
Jimmy, the show’s over, and it’s time to return to the peanut farm.
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Trump Says Obamacare Must Go as U.S. Coronavirus Cases Climb Past 1.2 Million
By Robin Foster and E.J. Mundell
HealthDay Reporters
THURSDAY, May 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. coronavirus cases surged past 1.2 million and the death toll topped 73,000 on Wednesday. But President Donald Trump also said Wednesday that he would renew efforts to end the Affordable Care Act, which many credit with opening access to health care amid the COVID-19 crisis.
"We want to terminate health care under Obamacare," Trump told reporters. The government health insurance program was designed to expand coverage to include all Americans.
Meanwhile, another 3.2 million jobless claims were filed last week, bringing the total unemployed since the nation's economy was shuttered to an historic 33 million.
On Wednesday, Trump also did an about face and said the White House coronavirus task force would continue its work "indefinitely," the Washington Post reported. A day earlier, Vice President Mike Pence said the task force could be disbanded by June 1.
Trump's statement came a day after an internal report from his administration predicted that reopening will come at a cost: 200,000 new coronavirus cases and 3,000 deaths every day by the end of May.
Those projections, based on data collected by various government agencies, far exceed current levels of 30,000 new cases and 1,750 deaths a day, The New York Times reported.
Troubling predictions came from more than one source on Monday: A forecasting model from University of Washington researchers also raised its projections to more than 134,000 American deaths from COVID-19 by early August, the Times reported.
That's a doubling from the 60,000 total deaths that was previously predicted, an increase that the researchers said partly reflects "changes in mobility and social distancing policies," the Times reported.
All of the numbers illustrate a grim fact: Even though the country has essentially been in lockdown for the past seven weeks, the coronavirus prognosis hasn't really changed.
Still, at least 27 states have loosened at least some social distancing restrictions, a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows. But only 20 of those states meet the reopening criteria set by the Trump administration.
More testing needed
Even as reopening plans proceed, a new poll shows that Americans oppose the reopening of restaurants, retail stores and other businesses.
A Post-University of Maryland survey, released Tuesday, found that many Americans have been making trips to grocery stores and 56 percent say they are comfortable doing so. But 67 percent say they would be uncomfortable shopping at a retail clothing store, and 78 percent would be uncomfortable eating at a sit-down restaurant. People in states with more relaxed restrictions report equal levels of discomfort as those in states with tougher restrictions, the Post reported.
Meanwhile, a new analysis finds inadequate levels of testing for the coronavirus in 60% of states, many of which are reopening after weeks of lockdown.
The analysis, conducted by the Associated Press, uses a 2% testing rate per month -- a rate advised by federal officials that many public health experts still feel falls short.
In a recent White House briefing, officials said each state would receive enough testing materials to test 2.6% of their populations in both May and June. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also offered another number -- 2% -- without explaining the reason for the discrepancy between the two rates.
But according to the AP analysis, right now just 40% of states can even meet the lower 2% threshold for testing. The news agency's analysis is based on data on the average number of new daily tests conducted over the past seven days in a particular state.
Many states that are either already reopening businesses or plan to soon -- Colorado, Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Georgia -- have not met the 2% testing threshold, the AP analysis found.
There has been one note of good news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency use of the first drug that seems to boost recovery among COVID-19 patients.
Promise of remdesivir, vaccine by January
Remdesivir, Gilead Sciences' intravenous antiviral medication, is to be used for hospitalized patients with "severe disease," such as those who need supplemental oxygen or ventilators to breathe, the AP reported.
"This was lightning speed in terms of getting something approved," FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said during a media briefing Friday, calling the drug "an important clinical advance."
The agency based its decision on the results of a government study that showed remdesivir shortened the time to recovery by 31% for COVID-19 patients in the hospital, the AP reported.
The search for a vaccine also got some welcome news. The White House has announced an initiative that hopes to produce a COVID-19 vaccine that could be available nationwide by January.
President Donald Trump has said it is not too optimistic to try to produce roughly 300 million doses of vaccine in eight months, enough for all Americans, the Washington Post reported.
Even the shorter timeline still means there would be no full protection from the new coronavirus until after most Americans are likely to have returned to work or school.
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Dubbed "Operation Warp Speed," the goal is to produce hundreds of millions of doses by January, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said Thursday.
"We want to go quickly, but we want to make sure it's safe and it's effective," he said on the "Today" show. "I think that is doable if things fall in the right place."
To reopen or not to reopen
Meanwhile, social distancing orders remain a patchwork across the United States. Governors in hard-hit New York and Michigan are keeping stay-at-home orders in place until at least mid-May, while many of their counterparts have already allowed certain businesses to reopen, the AP reported.
In preparation for a reopening in the coming weeks, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the state will implement the "most aggressive" antibody testing program in the country, CBS News reported.
He has also issued an executive order stating all New Yorkers must have a mask or mouth and nose covering when they are not maintaining social distancing in public, CBS News reported.
Cuomo said Monday that New York must learn the lessons of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic even as it continues to fight it, CBS News reported.
Among those lessons: Acknowledge what you don't know.
"Acknowledge and actualize that the truth is that nobody knows what happens next and when it happens," Cuomo said. "So if you don't know, say you don't know."
"When you know what you don't know and admit it, it will actually keep you safe," Cuomo said. "And that's where we are. We don't know, but we will be prepared for all possibilities."
According to a Times tally, the top five states in coronavirus cases as of Thursday are: New York with over 329,400 cases; New Jersey with nearly 132,000; Massachusetts with more than 72,000; Illinois with more than 68,000; and California with nearly 61,000.
Nations grapple with pandemic
In Asia, where the coronavirus first struck, several countries are finally returning to a new normal.
China, where the coronavirus first emerged late last year, has declared its risk level is now low. China's National Health Administration reported just two new cases on Thursday, both from overseas, and said there have been no new COVID-19 deaths in more than three weeks, the AP reported.
On Wednesday, South Korea ended its stringent social distancing policies after halting the spread of coronavirus. But things will still be far from normal: As stadiums, museums and libraries began to reopen, thermal scanners will be used at theme parks, masks will be worn while shopping, and there will be constant tracking of people's whereabouts through apps and credit card data, NBC News reported.
Elsewhere the situation remains challenging. On Thursday, the United Kingdom's coronavirus death count reached 30,076, the second-highest in the world, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. Britain has now surpassed Italy, Spain and France for COVID-19 deaths in Europe.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would be a "disaster" if the country reopened too soon and set off a second wave of infections, the AP reported. Britain's lockdown was first imposed March 23 and is expected to remain in place until Sunday, when Johnson himself a COVID-19 survivor is expected to outline "phase two" of the outbreak response, the wire service reported.
Spain reported almost 26,000 COVID-19 deaths by Thursday, despite signs the infection rate is slowing there, the Hopkins tally showed. While deaths in Italy remain high, at nearly 30,000, the numbers have leveled off there as well. Both countries are cautiously reopening their economies.
Brazil looks like it could become the next hotspot in the coronavirus pandemic. By Thursday, the South American country had reported 8,588 deaths and more than 126,600 confirmed infections, according to the Hopkins tally. But the true numbers are believed to be vastly higher.
Russia was also struggling to contain the spread of coronavirus, as the case count in that country passed 177,000 on Thursday, the Hopkins tally showed. Moscow remains the most virus-stricken part of the country, with 92,676 cases but there are growing concerns that infections could surge in more remote regions with weaker health systems, the Post reported.
Worldwide, the number of reported infections passed 3.7 million on Thursday, with more than 264,000 deaths, according to the Hopkins tally.
SOURCES: May 5, 2020, media briefing with Vice President Mike Pence; Associated Press; The New York Times; Washington Post; CBS News
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The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Li Baodong, speaking at Tashkent Peace Conference on Afghanistan, extended China’s support to the inclusive political reconciliation process in Afghanistan. He said China saw Afghanistan as an important partner under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project. Although limited in the past, the Chinese interest in Afghanistan is now growing. Security and economics are major drivers for the increasing Chinese involvement in Afghanistan. China wants a stable Afghanistan with no potential threat to Chinese internal security and investments in the region. It wants to eradicate the basic support and infrastructure for carrying out militancy and extremism through development projects in the war-torn country. Unlike the United States, China does not support a military solution for the Afghan problem. Due to this approach, it has earned the trust of the Afghan government as well as the Afghan Taliban. It is therefore, in an ideal position to play a role in bringing peace in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has also approached China in the recent past as it hopes to get development funds from China. Afghanistan also believes that China can help in convincing Pakistan to influence and pressurise the Taliban to negotiate with the Afghan government.
For stabilising Afghanistan, closer cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan is necessary. China wants Pakistan and Afghanistan to cooperate to bring stability in Afghanistan. Chinese diplomatic efforts in this regard may be one of the factors behind the recent bilateral efforts for improvement in Pak-Afghan bilateral relations. China hosted the 1st China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue in December 2017 to help Pakistan and Afghanistan remove mistrust between them. The two neighboring countries agreed to operationalise Afghanistan Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS) after Pakistani Prime Minister’s recent one-day visit to Afghanistan. The APAPPS is a joint action plan for working in areas of counter-terrorism and reduction of violence, peace and reconciliation, refugees’ repatriation and joint economic development. It was first discussed during Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua’s talks on her visit to Afghanistanin February this year. The idea of a political settlement between the Taliban and the Afghan government is gaining further support from several quarters. China is on the forefront in voicing this idea. Both China and Pakistan have conveyed to the Afghan government and other stakeholders that a military solution is not a viable option after a stalemate in 17 years long war. The Afghan President Ghani has taken the right step forward and offered Taliban legitimacy and invited them to participate in negotiations with the government. The recent Tashkent Peace Conference on Afghanistan in which representatives from 25 countries, the European Union and the UN and NATO participated, also termed political settlement a key to the peace and prosperity of Afghanistan in its declaration. Taliban have refused to talk to the Afghan government in past. They have not yet responded to President Ghani’s offer of talks. Taliban term the Afghan government illegitimate. Talking to the government would be equal to legitimizing its rule. Instead, they want direct talks with the US.
Some tangible actions and assurances from the US may boost the peace efforts. The US, however, has not shown any indication to reduce its military presence in Afghanistan, nor an interest in talking to the Taliban directly. One reason for its preference for the military approach is its desire not to leave Afghanistan as a defeated power. Such a perception would be disastrous for America’s prestige internationally and negatively affect its ability to influence events in future.
The writer is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad.
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regarding Tom’s comment on this topic: So this is the difficulty. We know of an order of magnitude of different variants of BSD and MIT (many of which are unclassified by the OSI and SPDX). They're all functionally identical. Are you volunteering to audit all the Fedora packages to correct the license tags? I'm not. :) I could be possible to come up with a correlation of the Fedora tags and SPDX ids (where Fedora groups licenses under one age, but SPDX uses different ones) and then automate updating the tags, no? I have a summary of the work done thus far to align and a spreadsheet from a few years ago with the correlation. It would need updating on both sides, but it could provide a decent start. https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Fedora-comparison <https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Fedora-comparison> Jilayne SPDX legal team
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New subject: BSD-2-Clause
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:57 PM J Lovejoy <opensource(a)jilayne.com> wrote:
regarding Tom’s comment on this topic: So this is the difficulty. We know of an order of magnitude of different variants of BSD and MIT (many of which are unclassified by the OSI and SPDX). They're all functionally identical. Are you volunteering to audit all the Fedora packages to correct the license tags? I'm not. :) I could be possible to come up with a correlation of the Fedora tags and SPDX ids (where Fedora groups licenses under one age, but SPDX uses different ones) and then automate updating the tags, no?
One of the problems is that in effect Fedora has a different notion of "matching" from that of SPDX. In general, and especially seen in the Fedora use of "BSD" and "MIT", there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between a Fedora license identifier and an SPDX one. That's not a theoretical problem because it's common (especially with older codebases) to have a package consisting of source files under various materially different BSD-like licenses, or vaguely MIT-like licenses. One scupulous solution would be to replace a given use of, say, "MIT" with, in such a case, for example, "MIT-Variant-1 AND MIT-Variant-2 . . . AND MIT-Variant-N" but no one seems to want to do that (this also connects with the recent discussion in the SPDX community about the potential advantages of having SPDX license identifier namespaces). A nonscrupulous solution which seems similar in spirit to how many developers are using SPDX identifiers today is to ignore the complexity and decide arbitrarily, or for convenience, that you'll describe the package in that case as "MIT", or "BSD-3-Clause", but that is then pretty unfaithful to the SPDX system (or so it seems to me). Richard
Luis Villa
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:20 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:57 PM J Lovejoy <opensource(a)jilayne.com> wrote: > > regarding Tom’s comment on this topic: > > So this is the difficulty. We know of an order of magnitude of different variants of BSD and MIT (many of which are unclassified by the OSI and SPDX). They're all functionally identical. Are you volunteering to audit all the Fedora packages to correct the license tags? I'm not. :) > > > I could be possible to come up with a correlation of the Fedora tags and SPDX ids (where Fedora groups licenses under one age, but SPDX uses different ones) and then automate updating the tags, no? One of the problems is that in effect Fedora has a different notion of "matching" from that of SPDX. In general, and especially seen in the Fedora use of "BSD" and "MIT", there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between a Fedora license identifier and an SPDX one. That's not a theoretical problem because it's common (especially with older codebases) to have a package consisting of source files under various materially different BSD-like licenses, or vaguely MIT-like licenses. One scupulous solution would be to replace a given use of, say, "MIT" with, in such a case, for example, "MIT-Variant-1 AND MIT-Variant-2 . . . AND MIT-Variant-N" but no one seems to want to do that (this also connects with the recent discussion in the SPDX community about the potential advantages of having SPDX license identifier namespaces). A nonscrupulous solution which seems similar in spirit to how many developers are using SPDX identifiers today is to ignore the complexity and decide arbitrarily, or for convenience, that you'll describe the package in that case as "MIT", or "BSD-3-Clause", but that is then pretty unfaithful to the SPDX system (or so it seems to me).
Seconding this problem (which I came across in the wild last week). Does SPDX have a notion of indicating confidence level of a scan? Or is that just derived from the reputation of whoever creates the manifest? Luis
On Apr 2, 2019, at 3:17 PM, Luis Villa <luis(a)lu.is> wrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:20 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com <mailto:rfontana@redhat.com>> wrote: On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:57 PM J Lovejoy <opensource(a)jilayne.com <mailto:opensource@jilayne.com>> wrote: > > regarding Tom’s comment on this topic: > > So this is the difficulty. We know of an order of magnitude of different variants of BSD and MIT (many of which are unclassified by the OSI and SPDX). They're all functionally identical. Are you volunteering to audit all the Fedora packages to correct the license tags? I'm not. :) > > > I could be possible to come up with a correlation of the Fedora tags and SPDX ids (where Fedora groups licenses under one age, but SPDX uses different ones) and then automate updating the tags, no? One of the problems is that in effect Fedora has a different notion of "matching" from that of SPDX. In general, and especially seen in the Fedora use of "BSD" and "MIT", there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between a Fedora license identifier and an SPDX one. That's not a theoretical problem because it's common (especially with older codebases) to have a package consisting of source files under various materially different BSD-like licenses, or vaguely MIT-like licenses. One scupulous solution would be to replace a given use of, say, "MIT" with, in such a case, for example, "MIT-Variant-1 AND MIT-Variant-2 . . . AND MIT-Variant-N" but no one seems to want to do that (this also connects with the recent discussion in the SPDX community about the potential advantages of having SPDX license identifier namespaces). A nonscrupulous solution which seems similar in spirit to how many developers are using SPDX identifiers today is to ignore the complexity and decide arbitrarily, or for convenience, that you'll describe the package in that case as "MIT", or "BSD-3-Clause", but that is then pretty unfaithful to the SPDX system (or so it seems to me). Seconding this problem (which I came across in the wild last week).
if you want to assist in getting more licenses on the SPDX License List - especially to enable more use of SPDX identifiers in source files or elsewhere, then that is a subject for discussion on that mailing list :) and we are happy to have the help! I don’t think aligning Fedora to use SPDX identifiers is insurmountable at all. It’s just a matter of putting heads and effort together on both sides of the coin. We could also create some kind of collaborative communication going forward to ensure new license Fedora comes upon are represented on the SPDX License List.
Does SPDX have a notion of indicating confidence level of a scan? Or is that just derived from the reputation of whoever creates the manifest?
correct - it’s down to the reputation or your perceived level of trust of whoever created the BoM/manifest/SPDX document - like always.
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The ABC's of Swimwear for Women
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Into the Blue: A Salute to Yves Klein
Klein felt canvases, sculptures, and even sponges covered in monochrome colours worked best to awaken our awareness of the infinite because, similar to being in a meditative trance, they could transport the viewer out of the present moment and into a metaphysical realm. According to Klein, monochromes liberated anything from its physical form and allowed the viewer to experience immateriality.
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The invitation has arrived! You're getting ready to attend a celebration of love that promises to be unforgettable. But what will you wear?
Behind the Scenes: A Visit to Maison Jean Longpré
Twice a year, our team in charge of artistic direction at Simons Maison sets out to select a house to act as a backdrop in our seasonal decor catalogue.
Ornaments & Origami
Assembling our window displays for the holidays is an early sign that the season for making merry is just around the corner.
A Stunning Table Setting
Are you familiar with the expression “eating with your eyes?” Whether it's a hearty meal or a more formal fête, taking your seat around a table that's beautifully set and divinely decorated can definitely influence your dining experience.
Showing Support
This fall, Simons is extremely proud to be teaming up with the Breast Cancer Foundation. The Foundation's spokesperson, Mitsou Gélinas, and four of its ambassadresses agreed to model for one of our photo shoots and to share with us what it is that gives them strength, courage, and hope.
VOLCOM X GEORGIA MAY JAGGER
Volcom recently made the journey over to London to meet their muse, international model Georgia May Jagger, and propose the idea of working together on their latest project: a brand new collection.
Just Tiffany
Dazzling and down-to-earth is how we would describe Canadian model Tiffany Meia. Featured in our latest Twik photo shoot, she's not only garnered tons of followers on Instagram, but also contracts with world-famous brands like Levi's, The North Face, Tiffany & Co., and Nike. We recently sat down with her to discuss her career, family, and goals.
The Summer Party That'll Be a Smash Hit!
The yard to stage left, the garden to stage right… Outside is where the season's most critically acclaimed celebration will be taking place. On with the show!
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Hats off to Smithbilt
The legendary Calgary hatmaker keeps a time-honoured tradition alive and current.
Luis Barragán – Brilliance and Beauty
One of the things we love about fashion is the way it can instantly alter your mood.
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Thousands of people will be there. Listed on the line-up are dazzling performances, lots of music and fun, new friends, and that feeling of being part of an utterly unforgettable experience.
Family Influence Meets Future Impact
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When it comes to caring about the environment, we've got a lot in common with Simon Nessman, the face of our Spring/Summer 18 Men's Designer Campaign.
The Colourful Creativity of Marni
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Opening at Galeries de la Capitale
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It's hard not to get star struck sitting down with someone like Nova Orchid. Shining just as bright as her celestial namesake, this Montreal model shot to sartorial stardom by rocking the runway for some of fashion's foremost luminaries, like Chanel and Sonia Rykiel.
It's not every day that two major models step into our studio, and even more rare that both call Canada home! We were excited to sit down with Elizabeth Davison and Steph Smith in order to learn a little bit more about these lovely ladies.
As the magic of the holidays envelops us – in every city and town across the country, there are Canadians gifting something very special to our communities.
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If Canadian winters are long and harsh, they're also impressive, unique, and host to a number of magnificently rich moments. This is what inspires the proud Canadian coat brand, Quartz Co.
Winter in the Windows
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... This seasonal song is certainly ringing true at Simons as we recently installed our stunning window displays for the holidays. What's waiting for you as you pass in front of the glass? Snowy scenes presented in pale pinks and gorgeous light greens!
Simons Featured in Sharp Magazine
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Art and Sole
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Raising the Barre for Art & Culture: Ballet BC's Emily Molnar takes us into the future of ballet
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Exclusive NV Unisex Collection at Simons
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Close your eyes and imagine yourself on the magnificent St. Lawrence River or the majestic Pacific Ocean that runs along Canada's West Coast.
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Decorating on a student budget
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These Bags Are Made For Walking
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A Tailor-Made Legacy: Personal Vision - It Runs in the Family
Weaving a new vision: Xiaoyi Li, CAFA Simons Fashion Design Student Award, is the future of fashion for a conscious generation.
Simons: A Great Canadian Family
Their story is of an unconditional love for fashion, a tale that started in Quebec City in 1840 and that has continued ever since.
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Teams of glossy thoroughbreds pulling wagons at breathtaking speeds, dodging barrels as outriders gallop alongside in a complex waltz – It's a thrilling experience. The fascinating choreography of chuckwagon racing, which debuted as a sport during the 1932 Calgary Stampede, draws a huge crowd that often includes celebrity spectators such as Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Swimwear for adventurers at heart
It's always June somewhere… There's always somewhere in the world with good weather, bright sunshine, and warm, welcoming water. This mantra is an invitation to escape and a driving force behind June Swimwear. The brand's mission is to give women the desire to travel and surf, as well as the freedom to dream!
Bags for Today and Tomorrow
Molly Spittal's studio looks like it belongs to a sculptor: raw materials waiting to take shape, special tools for producing precise work, and large windows that cast light on even the tiniest detail. With her hands, she can make the perfect bag, an understated and functional piece that will last for years.
Celebrating fashion from here
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La marée basse (low tide) and all its treasures
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Making products that make people happy!
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A Scandinavian menswear company with highly responsible environmental practices.
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Hopehanger, T-shirts made of 100% pure hope!
An exclusive new line of clothing created by two parents looking to help contribute to autism research.
Cloth & Clay to fabulous Nordic nations
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Go sporty or retro for a chic back-to-school look!
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The OSQ and Simons
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New fiscal support will set up an economic boom in the second half of 2021, Evercore analysts say
Emily Graffeo
Dec. 27, 2020, 02:30 PM
Fiscal support will provide a boost to consumers and lead to an economic boom in the second half of 2021, according to a team of Evercore analysts led by Dennis DeBusschere.
"Despite what angry twitter folks and some news outlets are suggesting, the current fiscal package is large enough to make a significant difference for individuals," the analysts said.
Evercore highlighted several stocks that are set to outperform next year. Many are in sectors beaten-down by the pandemic like consumer services, retail, and transportation.
Fiscal support will bolster US consumers and lead to an economic boom in the second half of 2021, according to a team of Evercore analysts led by Dennis DeBusschere.
"Despite what angry twitter folks and some news outlets are suggesting, the current fiscal package is large enough to make a significant difference for individuals," the analysts said in a note to clients on Thursday.
The current proposed fiscal package will be roughly 3.5% of GDP in the first quarter, and could potentially add up to 300,000 jobs per month, Evercore said. This could occur even if direct payments to individuals are only $600, but Evercore predicts that amount will increase before a bill is passed.
However, progress on increasing the direct payments was stalled on Thursday after an attempt from Democrats to provide direct checks of $2,000 to individuals was blocked by House Republicans. This came after President Trump called on Congress to amend the bill and increase direct payments to $2,000.
Even if the size of the payments is not increased, however, the analysts said that the economy will see a boom in the second half of 2021 because vaccines will normalize economic activity and consumers who have saved during the pandemic will begin spending.
Read more: Renowned strategist Tom Lee says to buy these 29 stocks that were ravaged by the pandemic but now poised to boom as the world reopens - and they're all top-rated by 3 different investing strategies
The analysts noted that the initial COVID-19 relief package in March provided $10,000 per household over the past nine months. Without that support, the average household would have lost $4,000 during the pandemic, said Evercore. When the vaccine leads to a resumption of normal activities, eager consumers will unleash some of that money into the economy.
Jim Paulsen of Leuthold is also eyeing the savings rate and predicting a 2021 boom in economic activity that's driven by pent-up demand. The chief investment strategist told CNBC that the US is currently seeing a higher savings rate than almost 99% of the time in post-war history. He said this will led to a "banner year" for the US economy where GDP will grow 6%.
Evercore detailed several stocks that are set to gain in 2021 as economic activity normalizes. Many of the stocks are in sectors that were beaten-down by the pandemic, like consumer services, retail, and transportation.
The firm has outperform ratings for consumer services like Texas Roadhouse, Marriott International, and Darden Restaurants. The analysts also see retailers including Ulta Beauty, Tractor Supply Company, and Ralph Lauren Corp. outperforming. Transportation companies like Lyft, Uber, and United Airlines also will benefit from an economic reopening, according to Evercore.
Read more: 'I don't see this ending well': A 47-year market vet breaks down why stocks are a 'few months' away from a 75% crash - and says gold will surge to $10,000 because of a tidal wave of inflation
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Can a gadget eliminate 99% of airborne viruses?
Home / Can a gadget eliminate 99% of airborne viruses?
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Venturing out amid this pandemic is like a task for the brave, almost all precautions seem less. However, as the country slowly gets back on its track and we step out of after being locked inside our houses for many months, one needs to be extra cautious as the virus has still not been eradicated. While wearing a mask and maintaining social distance are the basics, one can also ensure their air surrounding is virus free.
A device called Airtamer claims to work on advanced ionic technology and emits negative ions to purify the air that you may breathe in up to 99 percent. It can be worn around your neck to keep you safe when you step out.
The gadget is to be worn as close to the mouth as possible for it to perform its function efficiently. Due to its compact metallic design, it can be easily worn around the neck as a necklace and emits millions of negative ions into the air forcing dangerous viruses, pollutants, allergens, pet dander, or odors out of the sphere of your breathable air, it claims.
“It can prove integral in protecting individuals who have to commute, work in offices or even visit public places. We have always worked towards the safety of people, and this device will come in more than handy in this pandemic as the coronavirus is also an airborne virus,” said Sanket Aggarwal, Official Representative of Air Tamer in India.
A survey by Kitasato Research Center in Japan has proven that in just 20 minutes AirTamer fights 99 percent virus from the air. Another test that was carried out in Intertek Laboratory in Cortland, New York, said that AirTamer reduced smoke by 98.9 percent within 5 minutes, he said in a statement.
Airtamer is silent in operation and comes with a metal case for storage and travel. A USB charging cable is provided along with the product. The device houses a rechargeable lithium battery with almost 150+ hours of runtime. It is available on Amazon and Flipkart.
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Martinez Police blotter for Dec. 1-15, 2018
By adminPosted on December 23, 2018 March 11, 2019
On December 1st at 12:13 am, Officer Angoco conducted a traffic stop in the area of Sweetwater Drive and Muir Road. He contacted the driver, a 28-year-old man from Concord, who had a misdemeanor warrant for his arrest. The man was also in possession of 1.5 grams of methamphetamine. He was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility (MDF). Case# 18-2873.
At 1:15 am Corporal Mayberry contacted a 38-year-old man from Martinez sleeping in his vehicle at the Martinez Marina. The man had a misdemeanor warrant for his arrest. He was cited and released at the scene. Case# 18-2874.
Corporal Baillie and Officer Buda responded to Saybrook Place for a report of a man hallucinating, screaming and not making sense. Upon contact the subject tried to fight Corporal Baillie. A small struggle ensued and Corporal Buda ended up drive stunning the man. He was detained and booked into MDF. Case# 18-2875.
Officers found that 415 Richardson Street has squatters living in the garage and house. Extra patrol is being provided.
At 9:03 pm MPD officers responded to 601 Main St. for a report of the theft of a bicycle. While en-route, Corporal Mayberry located a subject with a bicycle matching the description provide by the victim in the parking area of Valley Convenient. He contacted the subject, a 22-year-old man from Bay Point, who was on probation and was in possession of the victim’s bicycle. The subject was arrested for 484 PC (Petty Theft) and 1203.2 PC (Violate Probation) and booked into the Martinez Detention Facility (MDF). Case # 18-2878.
At 11:17 pm Officer Parsons conducted a traffic stop on Pacheco Blvd. near Sodaro Street. He contacted the driver, a 30-year-old man from Martinez. The man is on active probation and was in possession of .5 grams of heroin. He was arrested for 11350(a) H&S and cited and released at the scene. Case# 18-2879.
On December 2nd at 7:45 am, Officer Buda, Corporal Baillie, Sergeant Moore and Reserve Hue responded to the area of Sherree Drive/Sheree Court for a subject searching through vehicles and who possibly went into a neighbor’s house. Reserve Hue located the suspect in a side/back yard area of a house on Sherree Court. The man was positively identified as the suspect. The investigation revealed that the suspect entered 3 unlocked vehicles. In one of the vehicles he located keys to a residence and entered the residence, which was occupied at the time. He opened the resident’s briefcase while inside the house and removed an envelope containing gift cards and store credit cards that belonged to the victim. The suspect is on parole. He was booked into MDF for PC 460(a), PC 496, PC 3056. The property was returned to victims and other property located was logged into evidence. Case# 18-2881.
At 7:45 pm Officer Parsons responded to 3334 Alhambra Ave. (Safeway) for a report of a trespasser. Officer Parsons contacted a 53-year-old woman from Pleasant Hill who had a misdemeanor warrant for her arrest. She was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility (MDF). Case# 18-2887.
At 10:26 pm Corporal Mayberry located a stolen vehicle via LPR (license plate reader) in the 1200 block of Vine Avenue. The vehicle was recovered. Case# 18-2889.
On December 3rd at 1:22 am, Sergeant Salamid conducted a traffic stop of a subject on a bicycle on Castro Street near Teresa Street. The unknown subject dropped the bike and ran. He then jumped over a fence in the 2900 block of Castro Street. A search was made but the subject was not located. The bike was logged into MPD evidence. Case# 18-2891
At 5:17 am Officer Angoco responded to 2335 Arcadia Place for a report of a stolen car. The car, a 2011 White Cadillac CTS (lic 8CUJ456), was taken sometime during the night. Case# 18-2894.
At 6:44 pm Ofc. Winslett took a theft from vehicle report from a resident on Tierney Pl. 18- 2895.
At 11:17 am officers responded to 1175 Arnold Dr. for a man yelling at people passing by. The man was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. Case# 18-2897.
At 6:20 pm Ofc. Sousa responded to Quik Stop on Alhambra Ave. for a robbery. A male subject brandished a firearm at the clerk and took an undisclosed amount of money. 18- 2903.
At 7:13 pm Cpl. Schnabel responded to Safeway for a robbery. A male subject attempted to take a cart load of energy drinks from the store, and when contacted by the store manager, he resisted and tried to pull the cart away. The subject fled the scene in a vehicle. The subject and his vehicle description were broadcast to surrounding agencies. Pleasant Hill PD contacted and detained the subject, who was positively identified by Safeway employees and video surveillance before being arrested. Case# 18-2905.
On December 4th at 3:07 pm, Ofc. Carney responded to a hit and run collision in the 600 block of Center Avenue. Case# 18-2916.
On December 5th at 7:12 pm, dispatch received an LPR (stolen vehicle) hit on Alhambra Ave. at Paso Nogal. A high risk traffic stop was made at Port Chicago HWY and the subject was arrested for possession of stolen property and warrants by Ofc. Sousa. Case# 18-2934.
At 10:10 pm Ofc. Ramos arrested a male subject for a warrant during a response to a disturbance at a residence in the 400 block of Richardson Street. Case# 18-2936.
On December 6th at 6:47 am, Ofc. Carney responded to a two vehicle collision in the 400 block of Morello Avenue. Case# 18-2939.
At 1:29 pm Ofc. Winslett took a burglary report form a residence in the 1200 block of Center Avenue. Case# 18-2944.
At 2:44 pm Sgt. Busciglio contacted and arrested a female in the downtown area for a warrant. Case# 18-2947.
At 8:30 pm Ofc. Sousa responded to Marina Market for a male subject attempting to shoplift. He arrested the male subject for possession of meth and drug paraphernalia. Case# 18-2950.
On December 7th at 4:30 am, Ofc. Ramos responded to a residence in the 2100 block of Tacoma Ave. for the report of a vehicle theft. Case# 18-2952.
At 10:02 am Ofc. Buda responded to a found backpack in front of Starbucks (1051 Arnold Dr.). There was ID to a county employee. Ofc. Buda case# 18-2953.
At 10:51 am Ofc. Lucido with his FTO Voyvodich located a subject on Court Street near Green Street. The man was arrested on a warrant and booked into county jail. Case# 18- 2954.
At 8:26 pm Ofc. Breinig conducted a traffic stop on F Street near Elmquest Court. He contacted the driver, a 48-year-old man from Fairfield, who was under the influence of a controlled substance. Ofc. Breinig arrested him for 11550(a) H&S (Under the Influence) and then located 28 grams of methamphetamine in the vehicle. He was also arrested for 11378 H&S and 11379 H&S (Transportation and Sales of a Controlled Substance). Case# 18-2955.
At 11:00 pm Sgt. Salamid was on foot patrol in the 600 block of Pine Street when he stumbled upon a woman actively smoking methamphetamine. She was arrested for 11377(a) H&S (Possession of a Controlled Substance) and 11364 (Possession of Drug Paraphernalia). She was cited and released at the scene. Case# 18-2956.
On December 8th at 12:26 am, Det. Wah was on patrol in the 1100 block of Arnold Drive when he contacted a 32-year-old man from Martinez. The man, who is actively on probation, was in possession of .8 grams of methamphetamine. He was arrested for 11377(a) H&S (Possession of a Controlled Substance) and 11364 (Possession of Drug Paraphernalia). He was cited and released at the scene. Case# 18-2957.
At 1:00 pm Ofc. Ramos responded to a disturbance on Robinson Street. Her arrested a man for PC 647(f) (Public Intoxication). Case# 18-2961.
At 6:39 pm Ofc. Parsons responded to the area of Alhambra Avenue and Elderwood Drive for the report of a road rage incident where one of the involved parties pointed a black “machine gun” at the other involved person. The suspect vehicle was a blue Honda Civic, and the suspect with the gun was a male in his late teens or early 20’s with a pony tail. There were also two other occupants in the vehicle. Case# 18-2963.
At 11:24 pm Ofc. Angoco conducted a traffic stop at Pacheco and Denormandie Way. The driver was arrested on a warrant. Case# 18-2964.
On December 9th at 7:56 am, officers responded to Safeway (downtown) for a theft of a wallet. The male suspect, out of Oakland, took a patron’s wallet while the patron was getting coffee. He then fled the store. He was contacted and detained by Ofc. Buda on Alhambra Avenue at C Street. Ofc. Lucido arrived after completing his preliminary investigation and arrested the man for PC 148 (Obstructing a Peace Officer), PC 647(f) (Public Intoxication), and PC 3056 (Parole). Case# 18-2966.
At 1:34 pm Sgt. Gaul conducted a traffic enforcement stop in the Virginia Hills Shopping Center at Blue Ridge Drive. He arrested the female driver for a felony warrant. Case# 18-2969.
On December 10th at 2:38 pm, Cpl. Mayberry contacted a subject sleeping in a vehicle in the parking area of 555 Center Avenue. The subject had a misdemeanor warrant for his arrest. He was arrested and booked into the Martinez Detention Facility (MDF). Case # 18-2872.
At 7:40 am Ofc. Voyvodich responded to a residence in the 1200 block of Castro St. for a deceased male. The deceased was found by roommates and there were no signs of foul play. Case# 18-2973.
At 12:31 pm Ofc. Winslett took a fraud report from California Check Cashing. The fraudulent checks were cashed and the estimated loss is over $5000. Case# 18-2981.
On December 11th at 8:15 am, Det. Miller recovered a stolen GMC truck (U-Haul with Arizona plates) on Vista Way near Palm Avenue. Case# 18-2991.
At 2:38 pm Ofc. Voyvodich investigated an attempted vehicle theft and burglary on Lang Street. An unknown subject broke into a pickup truck, tampered with ignition, and ultimately stole the speakers. Case# 18-2997.
At 7:19 pm Ofc. Sousa investigated a fraud at Mt. Mikes Pizza. The caller lives in Dallas. His credit card was used at Mt. Mikes Pizza to deliver pizzas to a residence in the 200 block of Vista Way. Further investigation revealed the pizzas were ordered on a computer from a resident in Discovery Bay. Case# 18-3000.
On December 12th at 9:36 am, Ofc. Ramos conducted a traffic stop on Court Street near Main Street. The male passenger was arrested for a warrant. Case# 18-3009.
At 2:52 pm Ofc. Voyvodich contacted and arrested a male subject for a warrant in the 1100 block of Ferry Street. Case# 18-3020.
On December 13th at 7:41 am, Ofc. Ramos arrested a male subject for a warrant at Walmart. Case# 18-3029.
At 1:34 pm Ofc. Ramos arrested a male subject at Nancy Boyd Park for possession of a controlled substance. Case# 18-3037.
At 1:54 pm Ofc. Lucido responded to an injury collision and physical fight on Saxon Street at Kelly Ave. There was a physical fight between neighbors. A male subject and his son, driving in a truck, stopped to engage in the fight. The truck was not put into a parking gear when they got out, and the driver’s son was run over by the unoccupied rolling truck. The truck then rolled through the garage door of a residence on Kelly Ave. before coming to rest. The driver got back in the truck to back it up, almost running over his son again, but the son was dragged out of the way by one of the combatants. He was ultimately transported to John Muir Medical Center. Case# 18-3039.
At 11:51 pm Sgt. Salamid and Cpl. Mayberry contacted five subjects near the marina skate park. Four of the subjects were cited for municipal code violations. The fifth subject, a female, was arrested for a warrant. Case# 18-3045.
On December 14th at 7:41 am, Ofc. Lucido took a PC 245 (Assault with a Deadly Weapon) report from a residence in the 2300 block of Harborview Drive. The weapon used was a chair. Case# 18-3057.
At 10:42 pm Sgt. Salamid was on foot patrol in the area of the Amtrak Parking lot when he contacted a 50-year-old man from Martinez. The man was screaming at himself and having hallucinations about insects crawling on him. The man, who is on probation for a drug offense, admitted to using methamphetamine earlier in the day. He was arrested for 11550(a) H&S (Under/Influence of Controlled Substance) and violation probation, and he was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility (MDF). Case# 18-3060.
On December 15th at 9:17 pm, Sgt. Salamid was on foot patrol in the area of the Amtrak Station when he contacted a 40-year-old man from Martinez who was actively smoking methamphetamine near the 9-11 memorial. Sgt. Salamid arrested him for possession of .15 grams of methamphetamine (11377 H&S) and 11364 H&S (Drug Paraphernalia). He was cited and released. Case# 18-3066.
At 10:22 pm Cpl. Mayberry was on patrol when he contacted a 58-year-old man from Bay Point in a parked vehicle in the parking lot of 1021 Arnold Dr. (Walmart). The man, who is on probation, was in possession of 1.0 grams of Methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Cpl. Mayberry arrested him for 11377 H&S and 11364 H&S. He was cited and released by Cpl. Mayberry, Case# 18-3067.
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German “System Luck” Martini Schuetzen Single Shot Benchrest Target Rifle 30” Barrel MFD 1891-1912,Engraved, Double Set Triggers, C&R
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LSB#: 150710HS08
Make: German
Model: Schuetzen Target Rifle
Year of Manufacture: 1891-1912 (From Crown over V proof)
Caliber: 8.15x46R (The groove diameter is about 0.314” as close as we could measure.)
Action Type: Lever Operated Falling Block Single Shot Rifle, Martini Style Action with Internal Extractor and Double Set Triggers
Markings: The underside of the barrel in front of the forend is marked “182”. The underside of the barrel at the receiver is marked with a “GS” in a circle, an Imperial Eagle, a “Crown / B” definitive proof, “7,7mm”, “Krupp-Stahl” (the foundry where the steel was made), and two diamonds, each with the letter “K” inside. The receiver, tangs and lever are elaborately engraved with floral patterns, and there is a large gold filled “F” on the left side of the receiver. The left side of the breechblock is marked “SYSTEM LUCK” and “4314”, and the front face of the receiver is also marked “4314”. The underside of the receiver at the front is also marked “SYSTEM LUCK”. The top surface of the breechblock is marked with a “Crown / V”, Imperial Eagle and “Crown / B”. The buttplate is marked “4314” and with a crowned left facing eagle. br>
Barrel Length: The octagon barrel is 30” in length and 0.912” across the flats.
Sights / Optics: There is an empty dovetail on the front of the barrel for a front sight. The top edges of the dovetail measure 0.471” front to back. There is also a 6 ½” long dovetail at the rear of the barrel which is filled with a blank. There is an aperture sight mounted on a base built into the upper tang. The sight has a huge Hadley style eyepiece with an aperture that is adjustable in size using a thumbwheel at the top edge of the eyepiece. The sight is adjustable for windage and elevation using small screws with square heads.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The stocks are two piece walnut with a smooth forend and checkering in the grip area. The buttstock is ornately carved with a thumb rest on the right side and a large cheekpiece on the left. The buttstock has a Schuetzen buttplate for shooting offhand: a smooth knob at the top and a single hook at the toe. There is a sling swivel mounted in the toe and another on the underside of the barrel. The forend is held with a barrel wedge and has a Schnabel tip. It shows several compression marks on both sides and tiny nicks in its curved rear edges. There is also a sliver of wood missing from its left front top edge. The buttstock shows several compression marks, mainly in the belly and on the cheekpiece. There are also ten tiny punch marks on the left side of the wrist between the checkering and the cheek. The checkering shows light wear with several small mars. The LOP measures 12 ½” from the front of the forward trigger and 11 ½” from the front of the rear trigger to the back of the buttplate. The buttplate is case colored and shows a few spots of frosting. It is in about Fine condition. The stocks rate in about Very Good overall condition.
Type of Finish: The barrel is blued. The receiver and lever appear to have been case colored.
Finish Originality: All Original
Bore Condition: The bore is mostly bright with light wear in the rifling. There is extremely light erosion near the muzzle.
Overall Condition: This rifle retains about 80% of its metal finish. The barrel shows thinning on its left side at the front of the forend, and on its edges and underside. The barrel and rear sight blank shows numerous tiny nicks and dings with a few small spots of solid erosion. There is also erosion on both sides of the barrel along the top edges of the forend and a half inch long “ding” in the left edge of the rear sight blank. The receiver shows pinprick surface erosion around its front and top edges. There are also two nicks in the left top edge, a light mark on its left side and several spots of surface frosting scattered over the underside of the receiver, lever and tangs. There is a noticeable gap between the back edge of the upper tang and the stock, which is at least partly caused by erosion of the rear edge of the tang. The screw heads are sharp and the markings are clear. The engraving still shows sharp detail. Overall, this rifle rates in about Very Good to Fine condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. It has double set triggers, with the front trigger adjustable for pull. The breechblock pin sticks out of the right side of the receiver and has a spring loaded catch on its head for easy removal. It has internal extractors that pull the case out when the lever is fully opened. There is also a lever on the bottom tang for removing the stock from the receiver once the upper tang screw is removed. We have not fired this rifle.
Our Assessment: The sport of off-hand target shooting has been around in Germany since the 1800’s. The Schuetzen rifles, first used in the latter part of the 19th century and extending up to WWII, were the culmination of the sport. Actions were based on the Aydt swinging-block action, unique to German and central Europe, and on the Martini action. This rifle was made on a Martini style action and is marked “System Luck” (The only reference we could find to this system was on a Schuetzen rifle made by F.R. Wolff, but we would guess the maker of this rifle had the initials “GS” from the barrel markings). The 8.15x46R cartridge was probably the most popular center fire target round and was very highly developed. This rifle was all set-up for offhand target shooting with a Schuetzen style single hook buttplate, deep cheekpiece and thumbrest and a tang sight with a huge eyepiece for blocking unwanted light from the shooters eye. The sight has an adjustable aperture similar to the Hadley eyecups used today for shooting in both bright and limited light conditions. Unfortunately, the front sight is missing from its dovetail. The rifle is in about Very Good to Fine condition. The barrel shows thinning on its edges with several nicks and bruises along its length. There are tiny spots of solid erosion scattered over the barrel and rear sight blank, and pinprick surface erosion sprinkled over the front and top edges of the receiver. There is also a gap between the back edge of the upper tang and the stock caused partly by erosion in the edge of the tang. The wood shows compression marks in both the forend and buttstock with light wear and small mars in the checkering. The bore is mostly bright with light wear in the rifling and extremely light erosion near the muzzle. The receiver is heavily engraved with a floral motif and has a gold filled letter “F” on the left side. The engraving is very detailed, so please see our pictures. This is a nice looking rifle that would look great in a collection of early target rifles. If one would ever decide to shoot this beauty, they would find that ammunition is still available from Black Hills and brass is still available for reloading.
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Panchakuta Basadi, Kambadahalli: A Treasure to Cherish
Photographer: Suhas Mehra. Please do not reproduce any of the photographs without explicit permission.
“Indian architecture, painting, sculpture are not only intimately one in inspiration with the central things in Indian philosophy, religion, Yoga, culture, but a specially intense expression of their significance.” (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20, p. 269)
“The long tradition of her architecture, sculpture and painting speaks for itself, even in what survives after all the ruin of stormy centuries….” (p. 245)
Located in the Kambadahalli village of the Mandya district, Karnataka, about 18 kms from the famous Jain heritage town of Shravanabelagola, Panchakuta Basadi (Jain temple) is one of the finest examples of South Indian Dravidian architecture of the Western Ganga variety. Some historians assign this temple to the period 900-1000 CE, while some assign an earlier date of 8th century, based on traces of early Pallava–Pandya and Chalukya–Pallava influences. (From Wikipedia)
Kambadahalli (the word in Kannada language literally translates to “village with pillar”) gets its name from the Brahmadeva pillar (Manasthambha) erected in front of the temple complex. The entire complex is oriented towards the impressive Brahmadeva pillar and faces north. Generally, Brahmadeva pillars found in front of ancient Jain temples do not house sculptures of the Brahma Yaksha or the god Brahma, rather have images of the Sarvanubhuti Yaksha. (From Wikipedia)
From inscriptions, it is known that the temple complex was renovated during later centuries, including during the rule of the Hoysala Empire. The monument is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India as a national monument. (From Wikipedia)
“…beyond the ordinary cultivation of the aesthetic instinct necessary to all artistic appreciation there is a spiritual insight or culture needed if we are to enter into the whole meaning of Indian artistic creation, otherwise we get only at the surface external things or at the most at things only just below the surface. It is an intuitive and spiritual art and must be seen with the intuitive and spiritual eye.” (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20, p. 269)
“There is no ethical idea which [Indian thought] has not stressed, put in its most ideal and imperative form, enforced by teaching, injunction, parable, artistic creation, formative examples. Truth, honour, loyalty, fidelity, courage, chastity, love, long-suffering, self-sacrifice, harmlessness, forgiveness, compassion, benevolence, beneficence are its common themes, are in its view the very stuff of a right human life, the essence of man’s dharma. Buddhism with its high and noble ethics, Jainism with its austere ideal of self-conquest, Hinduism with its magnificent examples of all sides of the Dharma are not inferior in ethical teaching and practice to any religion or system, but rather take the highest rank and have had the strongest effective force. For the practice of these virtues in older times there is abundant internal and foreign evidence. A considerable stamp of them still remains in spite of much degeneracy….” (p. 148)
“Indian civilisation did not develop to a last logical conclusion its earlier political and social liberties,— that greatness of freedom or boldness of experiment belongs to the West; but liberty of religious practice and a complete freedom of thought in religion as in every other matter have always counted among its constant traditions. The atheist and the agnostic were free from persecution in India. Buddhism and Jainism might be disparaged as unorthodox religions, but they were allowed to live freely side by side with the orthodox creeds and philosophies; in her eager thirst for truth she gave them their full chance, tested all their values, and as much of their truth as was assimilable was taken into the stock of the common and always enlarging continuity of her spiritual experience. That ageless continuity was carefully conserved, but it admitted light from all quarters.” (p. 188)
The main central shrine at Panchkuta Basadi houses the image of Adhinatha, an early Jain tirthankara. The west and east facing shrines have the images of later day tirthankaras, Shantinatha and Neminatha respectively.
“These sacred buildings are the signs, the architectural self expression of an ancient spiritual and religious culture. Ignore the spiritual suggestion, the religious significance, the meaning of the symbols and indications, look only with the rational and secular aesthetic mind, and it is vain to expect that we shall get to any true and discerning appreciation of this art.” (p. 272)
“An assured history of two millenniums of accomplished sculptural creation is a rare and significant fact in the life of a people. This greatness and continuity of Indian sculpture is due to the close connection between the religious and philosophical and the aesthetic mind of the people. Its survival into times not far from us was possible because of the survival of the cast of the antique mind in that philosophy and religion, a mind familiar with eternal things, capable of cosmic vision, having its roots of thought and seeing in the profundities of the soul, in the most intimate, pregnant and abiding experiences of the human spirit. ” (p. 288)
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4 thoughts on “Panchakuta Basadi, Kambadahalli: A Treasure to Cherish”
What a lovely photo story! Stunning captures !
Suhas Mehra says:
Shubham Patni says:
Very good information Sushas Mehra. I have great interest in Jainism History, please share your email-id so can communicate on same. #Thanks for Sharing.
Thanks, Shubham. I hardly know anything about Jain history. I discovered this place when travelling in Karnataka, and found it intriguing and learned a little bit about it. You may communicate with me via this blog itself. Thanks for your interest.
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PS V1, Chapter 21: Orcish Lust
Posted on May 21, 2018 by mike777ac
“Definitely… Worth it… Ow… See you soon Kid.” Those were Michael’s last words, before his body exploded like a balloon filled with blood.
“I think I’m gonna throw up… Again.” Matthew had watched the tiny man fornicate with the giant green muscle-bound women for nearly an hour. However, one by one, they would reach orgasm and spontaneously explode into meaty chunks. At the very end, Michael managed to ejaculate briefly before Scarface. Thus, the two of them died at roughly the same time.
“Hmmm, oh, congratulations to Matthew Leblanc… Here are some extra Souls. Goodnight.”
[You have received 10 Souls as a bonus reward. You have also gained a level. Congratulations.]
After the announcement, the number on his left hand went from ‘50’ to ‘60’. Then he opened his eyes and found that he was back in the Private Server, sitting in his office chair and staring at the screen.
[Summoner: Matthew Leblanc
ID Code: Trashmob-707
Rank: Unranked
Experience: 1/10
Mana: 5/5
Cards: 22
Description: A scumbag who treats his Summoned Heroes as disposable pawns.]
[Achievement Earned: “Orcish Lust”. You completed a full three-round set in “Chaotica’s Coliseum 3: Lust” while a Michael Cinagra card was in play. You have earned a new card!]
[Achievement Earned: “Orcish Harem”. You completed the Bonus Stage in “Chaotica’s Coliseum 3: Lust” while a Michael Cinagra card was in play. You have earned a new card!]
“Holy shit! How come I didn’t get any achievements when I… Oh wait, that’s right. I died during the third ‘round’ when I was with Iris.” Matthew sighed as he remembered being torn to shreds by the angry grizzly bear.
[In case you did not realize this already, Chaotica’s Coliseum 3 will react to various circumstances. For example, when you utilized your Modification, the AI in charge of your particular matches obviously increased the difficulty of the battles. Due to Michael Cinagra’s connection to Iris, when you played his card and completed three rounds, you were rewarded with an achievement. Thus, you obtained one of the “Anael” cards…]
“Oh wait, so you’re saying that in Mike’s story, those three orcs were like… What, his wives or girlfriends?” As he spoke, he looked at the card he received from the Bonus Stage.
[Creature: Riverstone Tribe Warriors
ID Code: Orcheim-Riverstone3
Type: Unit
Mana Cost: 2
Description: Summons 3 Riverstone Tribe Warriors from Orcheim. Although their original names are unknown, these three women were named Scarface, Black Hand and Skullface by Michael Cinagra. They were part of a small, green-skinned orcish ethnic group called the Riverstone Tribe. Each of these three women are ferocious fighters, though they only understand how to utilize simple melee weapons to a certain extent. Their original planet had a lower gravity than Earth, thus their bodies are not acclimated to Earth-like conditions. However, they can adapt if given enough time. They only possess some simple stone axes and fur kilts. Although they typically cannot understand English, they will be able to understand the Summoner’s thoughts to a certain extent.]
“It doesn’t really explain their relationship with Mike, but…” He took out his second card and smiled wryly. There was a young orcish girl on the cover. She was holding a large recurved wooden bow and had an arrow prepared. Her attire was just a simple tanned hide that was covering her relatively large breasts and a leather skirt that barely reached her upper thighs. Unlike the other orcs, she wasn’t quite as bulky, but she was still muscular. Her long black hair was pulled back in a ponytail. The left eye was silver, while the right was golden.
[Creature: Talia Cinagra
ID Code: Talia-Orcheim727
Type: Hero
Description: Summons a half-orc infected by Rapture-727 Delta nanites. Talia is the daughter of Michael Cinagra and an orcish warrior from the Riverstone Tribe. She is an excellent archer and huntress, who is quite proficient in taming wild beasts. Although her original planet, Orcheim, had a lower gravity than Earth, her body is strong enough to function properly on Earth-like worlds. She has an adventurous spirit and loves to visit new places. The huntress also possesses a talent for Nature magic, though she lacks any training or experience thus far. She has a powerful ironwood bow, crafted by her father, along with 10 to 20 simple ironwood arrows and a leather quiver. Her clothing is made from beast hides and leather. She also possesses a leather pouch and fur boots.]
“Wow… I can’t really imagine what it’d be like growing up with a father like that guy.” Matt sighed, then asked “But doesn’t this mean that Talia and the three orcs are from the same story, but a different time? That’s gotta be weird. If I Summon Talia and Mike at the same time, will they even recognize each other?”
[It is likely that Talia would recognize Michael… However, your version of Michael has never been to Orcheim. Certain cards are synergistic with others. Michael, Talia and the Riverstone Tribe Warriors can all be kept in the same deck. Thus, they could be played at the same time and have interesting interactions or combat bonuses. Of course, Iris and Michael also have an interesting relationship… I would recommend playing them at the same time if you find the opportunity. Although the ways to unlock various achievements are hidden, I can give you some hints if you wish.]
“Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t mind even if you told me exactly what to do…” Matthew snickered, “I’m not one of those people who like to figure shit out on their own. In fact, I would always look up strategy guides and cheat codes whenever I played video games.”
[Very well. There are many achievements in Chaotica’s Coliseum 3, which require you to have Iris in play. You likely already realized that. Yet, there are also achievements for performing certain actions multiple times… Such as choosing the same card pack three times in a row.]
“So you’re telling me I should pick Azrael’s Workshop two more times in order to earn an achievement?”
[You may interpret my hint that way.]
Matt chuckled, moved the cursor over to the “Azrael’s Workshop” card pack and clicked it. Once the pack appeared in his hand, he clicked it again. Almost immediately afterwards, there was a notification.
[Achievement Earned: “Azrael’s Muse”. You chose the Azrael’s Workshop card pack three times in a row. You have earned a new card!]
“Oh wow…” The moment he saw the name of the card, Matt flinched. On the cover was a relatively beautiful young woman, who had bright-orange hair and blue eyes. Aside from that, her breasts were also fairly large and her pubic hair was also orange. Overall, she was in decent shape, but her muscles weren’t visible at all.
[Creature: Alicia Healy
ID Code: Asmodeus-TDD4
Description: Summon a human who died and was resurrected in Hell. Alicia was a normal teenage girl, until she was kidnapped, kept as a sex slave and was eventually murdered. However, after her death, her Soul was taken to Asura-3 and she was forced to fight as a slave in the arenas of Lust. Eventually she was saved by her father, but she didn’t return to Earth. Instead, she ended up on a world called Elysium and was captured by bandits. Before her tragic fate was repeated once again, she was rescued by Azrael and his sister. Alicia and Azrael fell in love… Although Alicia has a strong aversion to violence and combat, she was once a powerful Gladiator in the arenas of Lust. She possesses a Power which allows her to drain the vitality and life force from living creatures, through her reproductive system. Her vaginal secretions are highly acidic and her internal genitalia can also act as a digestive system. Sexual interaction with Alicia is not recommended. There is a magical element to her Power as well, so she can also drain the Mana from Spirits or Golems. She can be Summoned with Equipment Cards, but will otherwise be completely nude. Of course, she can also utilize a great variety of Old Earth tools in the field.]
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7 thoughts on “PS V1, Chapter 21: Orcish Lust”
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August Villanueva on May 21, 2018 at 10:32 am said:
Iris’s sister huh this’ll make their family reunions all the weirder if they were ever summon together
mike777ac on May 21, 2018 at 10:44 am said:
You have no idea… I didn’t even realize how ridiculous it would be until I wrote it lmao. Happens in the 2nd volume though.
Oh well oh and please don’t forget the update your other stories kinda left on a pretty interesting part on Total Defense deities
mike777ac on May 21, 2018 at 12:18 pm said:
Sigh, I keep forgetting lol. That and The Dao of Eros both have a bunch of unedited/unposted chapters… Especially Tower Defense Deities though. Since that one has more than a volume and a half that isn’t posted.
Kronos on May 22, 2018 at 10:14 pm said:
You get used to mike forgetting to update his stories, hehe
Thanks for the chapter mike
mike777ac on May 23, 2018 at 4:33 am said:
Ugh, I forgot again lol. I’ll do something today though lmao. Writing Private Server and Immortal Soul at the same time, while trying to play Destiny 2 and WoW… And reading like 50 books lol.
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The Military Spouse Book Review
Books, Ideas, and Literary Culture for Women in Military Life
“When I create a character, I want it to feel real and raw”: an interview with R.H. Ramsey
Date: September 2, 2014Author: andria816 3 Comments
R.H. Ramsey is an Air Force wife currently stationed in Kansas, a mother of two, and the author of several books, including her most recent, Like Shards of Glass, from the indie publisher Inknbeans Press. “I always knew that I had a passion for storytelling,” she writes in an article in NextGen MilSpouse (“Find Your Peace, Find Your Balance”). “One afternoon, I sat down at our computer, turned on some music, and that year — 2005 — I completed my first novel… I realized that writing and storytelling are the essence of me. …Eight years and two children later, I have learned that taking the time to do something that I enjoy, the sense of completion, writing something that could potentially touch someone’s life, became my driving force. I am learning to balance the military lifestyle, marriage, the demands of parenthood, my insecurities, writing, keeping up with my websites, and school.”
Ramsey was kind enough to take the time to answer some questions for me. I loved her thoughtful, in-depth answers, particularly her take on writing and reading fiction as an empathetic act: “I put myself in [my character Monroe’s] shoes, and let my heart break with hers; I think that’s the only way to care for others, and to evolve, and create a deeper level of understanding for people we know, or have never met.”
Enjoy! — Andria
1. MilSpouse Book review: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself — where you’re from, how you became a military spouse, and what your experience has been like so far?
R.H. Ramsey: I’m from Oklahoma, and this is where I met my husband. At the time, we were in a the Delayed Entry Program, preparing to go into the Air Force. Months or weeks before he went to basic training, my then-future husband and I began thinking ahead: What if I become pregnant? What if we are both deployed? What, then? We thought hard, prayed about it, and decided at the last minute that he would go ahead into the military, and I wouldn’t.
There are positives and negatives with this lifestyle. I appreciate being able to see new places and travel. But it does concern me, moving around and interrupting my children’s friendships. It can be a little lonely, being far from family and friends. (The few friends I have, LOL!) But as a family, you might pull together and form a tighter bond and become very independent.
So far, we have been stationed in Abilene, TX, Lubbock, TX, McGuire in New Jersey, and Wichita, KS.
2. When did you start writing? Have you connected with other military spouses who write?
I started writing when I was a sophomore in high school. Just sort of playing around, a lot of dialogue, and puppy love. I don’t know where it is, but I didn’t take it seriously at that time. A few years later, I sat down and started writing, and shocked myself – I finished the book. I think it was a murder-mystery, sort of like the movie, Double Jeopardy with Ashley Judd. (I was nineteen or twenty years old, and although I was proud of myself, I swore I’d never share it with anyone or publish it – or anything I wrote.)
Let’s see, other military spouses. Well, I’m loving meeting other authors, and sharing quirks and dreams, giving and taking advice. I have connected with men and women who were in the military, but I only know of a couple military spouses who are authors. 😦
3. Are there any ways in which being a military spouse has informed what you read and write?
The topics I write about are never light and fluffy and pretty. I think that, even as a child, my imagination went to darker places, my heart went out to people who seemed sad, and I always appreciated substance. That said, no matter my lifestyle, I would be writing about the tough stuff. Awareness through art, letting people know they are not alone in their struggles, making it clear that no matter what, they do have something to relate to.
4. Like Shards of Glass deals with several very deep themes: depression, addiction, abuse, sexual obsession. Are these themes you’ve dealt with in other books and stories? How do you approach research? Where do you get the ideas for your stories? (I wouldn’t be surprised if you had some kind of background in psychology!…)
Great question. The ideas strike at the most random moments! They’re constant, all of the time. For instance, when I wrote Just Beneath the Surface, around the time I wrote my first novel, I had this emotion built up inside, about the way people spoke about domestic abuse. Many times, throughout the book, you’ll hear the main character, Kendall, saying that she never thought she would be in the situation. She says that in the past, she and her girlfriends would sit around talking about what they would do: Hit back, attack with the nearest lamp or whatever they could get their hands on. But it’s not so simple, and it’s unfair to judge. Unfair to call a woman/man stupid for staying, when you have no idea how much work an abuser puts into nearly brainwashing someone to keep them from leaving or having a voice.
In Landon’s Story, I wanted to show how insidious emotional abuse could be, from the abuser’s point of view. He, Landon, couldn’t even see the monster that he was; he believed he was controlling his world to make others better. The reader sees how easy it is to empathize with someone who has had a horrifying past, seems neat and well put together, but slowly devours the woman he loves. He never hits her. He spoils her. Women love him. Men want to be him. He’s wealthy. He is a mastermind with words and actions. He always finds a way to bring her down, and make her think, He’s trying to help me; he’s right.
Originally, Like Shards of Glass was meant to be a short story, which was inspired by a book I wrote in 2010 or 2011. The novel (from 2010-2011) was about several different types of addiction, and at the core, it was a love triangle. Although I have written about physical abuse in Just Beneath the Surface, and emotional abuse in Just Beneath the Surface: Landon’s Story, I wanted to shed light on more little-known types of abuse — more like, we may not feel the effects until we are resentful and possibly suffering from long-term effects. Gaslighting, intimidation, stonewalling, manipulating others into staying away …
These are the behaviors Monroe’s first husband exhibited, and after years of keeping such a brave face, pretending to be strong, acting unfazed, she’s more fragile than she realizes. Without her knowing it, her world is upside down before Carter (her husband) destroys what’s left of her. This is what emotional abuse does. It tears you apart from the inside out, where no one can see. It’s a gradual thing, that you become numb to, and over time, you look back, you look in the mirror, and you don’t recognize you, and sometimes, you don’t trust anyone around you. It’s like being re-wired and re-programmed, and you spend the next several months or years, resentful of yourself for “allowing” yourself to change and grow so bitter or cold or however you’ve been affected.
This is where you met Monroe. A strong-willed, successful, stoic woman, whose husband has weaved his way into her mind, body and spirit; add to this a layer of grief, heartbreak, and misery, as he’s torn her heart right out of her chest. She’s a ghost, now.
I’ve spent the past decade reading and watching documentaries. And when I create a character, and put him/her into a story, I want it to feel real and raw. Because I know in my heart, that it is someone’s story. Someone who, at one point or another, thought he/she was alone, no one would understand, it’d be impossible to explain.
5. Your character, Monroe Song, is a troubled — no, devastated — woman. She’s suffered from an abusive relationship and a husband who’s committed an unspeakable act which resulted in the loss of three of her sons. Yet she is a strong woman in many ways, and she enacts an undeniable pull on the other characters. How did you come to create a character like Monroe?
Monroe is quite a force. She’s admired by some, loved by many, hard on herself, lost, driven, and addicted to pain. As far as creating her, it wasn’t that I sat down and wrote out what she would be, or how she would behave. I put myself in her shoes, and let my heart break with hers; I think that’s the only way to care for others, and to evolve, and create a deeper level of understanding for people we know, or have never met.
She is someone any woman could be. I wanted her conflict to be felt, seen, heard, from her first to final chapter, and long after. I believe empathizing with someone who’s strong one minute, and falling into addiction the next, grieving one minute, and running a business the next, is keeping the invisible line in the sand from being drawn. The line of standing on that side where contentment and being a know-it-all, keeps us from reaching out or connecting with someone who’s unlike us. No, we’re all pretty much the same, and if we’re not affected directly by depression or grief or abuse or addiction, we are affected indirectly, and that in itself should be enough of a reason to care.
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Is it weird if I say that I want R.H. to move to El Paso so that we can be friends? I found the whole interview fascinating, but honestly, her bio was the best part. I love that she’s a military spouse, mother, and writer. Each of those things is tough enough on it’s own. I feel inspired by the fact that she just sat down and made it happen.
I’m also majorly jealous that she was stationed in Lubbock! That’s where I went to college, and it holds a special place in my heart. I think my husband has dreams of getting to live there for a few years as a recruiter and going to all the Texas Tech football games. Haha! For now we have to settle for being a “short” 5 hour drive away.
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Broadway.com and John Gore Organization Earn Eight 2020 New York Emmy Nominations
February 25th, 2020 | By Broadway.com Staff
John Gore Organization, the parent company of Broadway.com and Broadway Channel, has been honored with eight 2020 New York Emmy Award nominations, including nods for the popular Broadway.com series Character Study, Gotta Dance and Front Row. The annual awards, which recognize the best broadcast journalism in the New York market, also cited the TV ventures Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal and At the Tonys with Imogen Lloyd Webber, as well as a special Broadway.com series featuring the stars of To Kill a Mockingbird and playwright Aaron Sorkin.
Broadway.com Presents At the Tonys with Imogen Lloyd Webber, an annual Tony Awards special, was nominated in the category of Entertainment: Program/Special. The broadcast, which was produced by John Gore Organization Chairman and CEO John Gore, COO Lauren Reid, CMO Rich Jaffe and Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek, has been nominated every year since 2017 and won an Emmy in 2018 in the category of Special Event Coverage (Other Than News and Sports). Also recognized in the category are producer Joshua Shelov and host Lloyd Webber.
Left: Imogen Lloyd Webber on the set of “At the Tonys” | Center: “Gotta Dance” subject Gabrielle Hamilton | Right: Tamsen Fadal (Photos by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal, the Broadway Channel/Broadway.com production that airs on WPIX-TV and across the country, received a total of three nominations, for the Fall Preview 2019 episode (nominated in the category of Magazine Program), a “Road to the Tonys” special (Lifestyle Program) and for a segment on Network star Tony Goldwyn (Entertainment: Program Feature/Segment). Host and Executive Producer Fadal (a 12-time past Emmy winner) was honored, in addition to three additional nominations for her work as an anchor at WPIX, including one in the category of Talent: Anchor – News. Broadway Profiles is also executive produced by John Gore and Matt Hege and produced by Keith Hurd and Wontorek.
The Broadway.com news magazine show Front Row, was also nominated in the category of Entertainment: Program/Special for the November 21, 2018 episode, which featured The Phantom of the Opera star Ben Crawford, The Prom star Angie Schworer and American Son playwright Christopher Demos-Brown and director Kenny Leon. Front Row is hosted by Broadway.com’s Beth Stevens and Paul Wontorek, directed by Alexander Goyco and produced by Lindsey Sullivan. Also included on the nomination are videographers Jim Cocoliato, Kyle Gaskell and Mark Hayes and animator Ryan Casey.
Top: Caissie Levy in “Character Study” | Center: Aaron Sorkin in “Citizens of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird'” | Bottom: Paul Wontorek and Beth Stevens in “Front Row”
Two other popular Broadway.com series were also recognized by Emmy nominators. Character Study, which takes viewers backstage with Broadway’s stars as they prepare, was nominated in the category of Arts: Program Feature/Segment for the August 22, 2019 episode featuring Frozen star Caissie Levy. It was directed by Nick Shakra and produced by Paul Wontorek, with Caitlin Moynihan as associate producer. Gotta Dance, which spotlights Broadway’s dancers at a photo shoot with contributor Matthew Murphy, received a first-ever nod in the Lifestyle Program: Series category. Gotta Dance is directed by Kyle Gaskell, produced by Moynihan and Wontorek, with additional camerawork by Goyco and animation by Casey.
Finally, the special series Citizens of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, which explored the characters of the well-loved To Kill a Mockingbird with playwright Aaron Sorkin and the show’s original stars, including Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger, was recognized in the category of Arts: Program/Special. It was directed by Paul Wontorek, produced by Beth Stevens, edited by Alexander Goyco, with camerawork by Jim Cocoliato and Nick Shakra and featured portraits by Broadway.com photographer Caitlin McNaney.
The 63rd Annual New York Emmy Awards will be presented at a black-tie gala on April 18, 2020 at Times Square’s Marriott Marquis.
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As a medical school student, your primary focus will be on your studies; however, your fellow Rossies can attest to the fact that it is important to take a break every now and again to rest and recharge, and enjoy the communal atmosphere of our student-centered campus.
Ross students have the opportunity to participate in more than 40 clubs and organizations. No matter where your interest lies, you’re sure to find a group or activity to join—and if not, we encourage you to step up and start a new one. With a student body as diverse and spirited as ours, there’s always something new and interesting going on!
“There is a plethora of groups here at Ross University. Everything from academic groups like Phi Delta Epsilon, to dancing groups like Rhythm, to fun groups like Surgery or Salybia. These groups allow to de-stress from your academic work. They provide an outlet for fun, for networking, and enjoying the island outside of the classroom.”
– -BIREN PATEL, 2ND SEMESTER STUDENT, NEW JERSEY
ALSF Lemon Club at Ross
The purpose of this organization shall be to raise awareness, fund impactful research, support families and empower everyone to help cure childhood cancer.
American Medical Women’s Association
The American Medical Women’s Association aims to foster an enriching environment for women in science and the medical profession. We hope to give back to the community through a variety of events spreading awareness about women’s health issues.
AMSA at RUSM
The American Medical Student Association is committed to improving health care and healthcare delivery to all people; promoting active improvement in medical education; involving its members in the social, moral and ethical obligations of the profession of medicine; assisting in the improvement and understanding of world health problems; contributing to the welfare of medical students, premedical students, interns, residents and post-MD/DO trainees; and advancing the profession of medicine.
Anesthesiology Student Association
Archers of Ross
The Asian Student Association is a place for students with an Asian background or an interest in Asian culture to gather together and celebrate its rich heritage. It is a community where students are able to meet and network with others, grow and develop their skills, and most importantly, feel a sense of belonging while in Barbados.
Association of Women Surgeons
The Association of Women Surgeons (AWS), founded in 1981, is a not-for-profit educational and professional organization. With over 1,800 members, AWS is one of the largest organizations dedicated to enhancing the interaction and exchange of information between women surgeons. Truly an international organization, AWS has members in 21 countries. MISSION: To inspire, encourage, and enable women surgeons to realize their professional and personal goals.
Black Male Doctors
The Black Male Doctors aspires to serve as a support center for students of all origins, with a special focus on black male students and students of African-American descent. As a student organization at Ross University School of Medicine, the Black Male Doctor’s Association will support its members academically, culturally, and socially by providing activities and events to which its members can relate.
Canadian Students Association
To serve the students of Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) by connecting Canadian students through events and sharing of common values and experiences.
Dermatology Interest Group
Endocrinology Interest Group
The aims and objectives of the club will be: To offer volunteering opportunities in the Endocrine Field. To promote the club within the local community & medical campus. To raise awareness about specific endocrine-related diseases. To provide academic support with endocrine-related material. To give back to the local community. To ensure a duty of care to all members of the club. And to provide all its services in a way that is fair to everyone.
The Family Medicine Interest Group at Ross University School of Medicine seeks to convene aspiring physicians interested in the field of family medicine.
Indian Medical Student Association
The Indian Medical Student Association is a student-run organization that allows for students of Indian descent as well as students interested in Indian cultures and traditions to unite under one common organization. Our main goals are to bring the RUSM community closer through holding social events for cultural awareness, fundraising for the underprivileged community, and working in conjunction with other South Asian organizations.
Internal Medicine Interest Group
The mission of Ross Internal Medicine Association is to introduce medical students to the field of internal medicine, provide them with hands on opportunities, and improve healthcare services in Barbados.
Latino Medical Student Association
The purpose of the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) shall be: (a) To provide support and guidance to Latino and Hispanic students aspiring to acquire professional degrees. (b) To provide volunteer opportunities for RUSM students to serve and bring awareness about our culture. (c) To develop cultural competence within the RUSM community to facilitate interactions with the Latino/Hispanic population. (d) To educate the entire RUSM community on the unique needs and issues in the Latino community.
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Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group
RUSM LGBTQIA Alliance
The RUSM LGBTQIA Alliance seeks to organize, defend, and serve the RUSM community as a whole. To that end, the group organizes events such as speaker series, educational films and activities, and social events supporting the LGBTQIA and allied community. An important goal of our Alliance is to provide a safe space for LGBTQIA and their allies. As well, we are actively involved in reforming the medical curriculum to equip new medical health leaders with knowledge, experience, and understanding to be advocates for LGBTQIA health equality.
Medical Genetics Interest Group
Our mission as the Medical Genetics Interest Group is to provide a platform in which faculty and students come together and work with the Barbadian community to heighten awareness about various genetic conditions. As a team we will strive to incorporate and work with other medically based groups here at RUSM in order to form collaborations in areas of common interests.
Medical Students for Choice
The purpose of this organization is to increase education, awareness, and open discussion regarding issues of reproductive health and to support those within the medical community who are working to ensure the freedom of choice.
Military Medicine Interest Group
Nephrology Interest Group
Ross Nephrology Interest Group is designed to bring like-minded students of RUSM together in the interest of nephrology related medicine and bring awareness to the RUSM community on various nephrological diseases. It is a chance to come together to share ideas, events, and share our interest in such a rewarding discipline of medicine.
Neurology Student Interest Group
We are an active group committed to building interest in the field of Neurology. This involves bringing students with similar interests in Neurology together to explore various aspects within the field while also expanding their knowledge and interest through multiple events.
OB/GYN Interest Group
The purpose/mission statement of this club shall be to be devoted to the disciplines of clinical reproductive medicine and to creating awareness about the continual evolution of women’s health in today’s practice.
Orthodox Christian Campus Ministries
Phi Delta Epsilon, International Medical Fraternity
The Epsilon Beta chapter at Ross University School of Medicine follows all rules and regulations of the International Fraternity.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Association
The purpose of the PMRA shall be to provide an opportunity for medical students passionate and interested about the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to learn, understand, and gain exclusive insight into this noble professional medical specialty and its effect on patient care.
Ross Academic Research Society
In order to achieve the RARS Vision and educate students on evidence-based medical practice, RARS will: Organize faculty panel discussions, workshops, case report presentations and case studies that will help students understand the importance of evidence-based medical practice. Organize and/or advertise meetings that will help facilitate discussion on current published research and the applicability to medical practice. Create opportunities for student involvement in new and ongoing research projects at RUSM.
Ross Adventist Fellowship
To create an environment that is welcoming to any Seventh-Day Adventists student and anyone who needs encouragement through faith and a religious family.
Ross Band
A group to join for those who would like to practice and perform music. A means for the Ross community to enjoy various musical events put on by the Ross Band and promoted by its members. A collection of people to contact for any music related questions or requests. A way for RUSM to interact with its surrounding area in a musical way. An opportunity for members to form musical groups with their peers.
Ross Caribbean Student Association
Ross Catholic Student Assocation
The Ross Catholic Student Association – RCSA – is a community of persons gathered together to further the development of their spiritual, physical, and intellectual lives according to the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church on the Campus of the Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados.
Ross Christian Fellowship
Ross Christian Fellowship (RCF) exists to nurture spiritual growth among believers of all Christian denominations and to ensure that our love for each other reaches everyone on our campus, as well as into the Barbados community.
Ross Emergency Medicine Association
The purpose of the Ross Emergency Medicine Interest Group is to provide clinical skills and emergency care experiences to its members, in a professional learning environment.
Ross Environmental Initiative
The mission of the Organization shall be to facilitate Earth-friendly activities on and around RUSM campuses. We help students organize and fund community outreach, nature adventure, and cleanup projects every semester.
Ross Hiking Club
The RUSM Hiking Club hopes to bring students a greater appreciation for nature as well as their surroundings while residing here in Barbados. It will be a great opportunity for students to explore the beautiful island as well as engage with the local hiking community here on the island. We plan to collaborate with the Barbados Hiking Association to facilitate multiple hikes a month. Students will be brought into a community of passionate hikers and form long lasting friendships. We hope to engage students with their surroundings as well as be in tune with their overall health and wellbeing.
Ross International Student Society
Ross Nutrition and Exercise Club
The purpose of the Nutrition and Exercise Club is to bring a healthy, affordable lifestyle to future doctors now so that they can share firsthand information with their patients in the future on how to overcome dietary and exercise hurdles. The Nutrition and Exercise club will work towards this objective by inviting speakers, organizing activities or service projects, and providing workshops to members that will enhance members’ understanding of the relationship between diet, exercise, and the healthy patient.
Ross Oncology Student Association
The mission of the Ross Oncology Student Association (ROSA) is to provide students with the education and opportunity to foster an interest in the field by facilitating interactions with physicians, researchers, mentors, and cancer patients. ROSA also strives to work with the local community to raise awareness and funds towards improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in Barbados.
Ross Organization of African Students
We are a group representative of over 20 African countries (and counting) and we aspire to serve as a support group or family away from home. We aim to make a bigger impact in the educational experiences of our current members and those to come. We make it a point of duty that members seeking help can receive it through our mentoring and academic review programs.
Ross Spouses Organization
RSO works to serve the companions of the RUSM community. Our goal is to support RUSM companions by: 1:Providing information and resources to meet the needs of companions and to help them adjust to life as a RUSM 2. Fostering a unified sense of community and social support network for companions, and 3. Advocating to RUSM on behalf of companions.
Ross Trivia Club
The Ross Trivia Club serves to put on trivia events for the Ross community, foster and interest in trivia among students, staff, and others, provide an entertaining means to de-stress, and improve the Ross community overall through its actions.
Ross University Muslim Student Association
The Muslim Student Association at Ross University School of Medicine seeks to establish, maintain, and support the Muslim students and other students of faith attending Ross University. We also aim to provide safe and comfortable spaces of prayer and meditation while also helping to cultivate interest in medicine through the lens of Islam.
Ross University Pediatric Student Association
The Pediatric Interest Group (PIG) at Ross University School of Medicine seeks to provide health education and support to the pediatric population of Barbados. Through events that promote physical activity, healthy eating habits, and regular medical check-ups, we ensure that the children of Barbados have access to the necessary resources and information to lead successful, healthy lives. PIG also raises funds for the Children’s Heart Fund in Dominica.
ROSS UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRY ASSOCIATION (RUPA)
The Ross University Psychiatry Association aims to introduce students to the discipline of psychiatry, provide information about residency programs and careers in psychiatry, and to encourage interactions between students, faculty, and the greater community. Through interactive events, didactic talks and community outreach, our primary goal is to generate excitement around the field of psychiatry and recognition for its wide-reaching implications in various aspects of medicine. And through all this, to help others who are really dedicated to the field of psychiatry.
RUSM CARDIOLOGY ASSOCIATION
The aims of the Cardiology Association include but are not limited to: Assisting RUSM students expand their knowledge in the field of Cardiology, provide communication and promote the relationship between Ross University School of Medicine students interested in Cardiology and the student body, arrange presentations on relevant topics including potential careers in Cardiology, clinical revision sessions, volunteering opportunities and research involvement.
RUSM EMS
Ross University School of Medicine Emergency Medical Services Interest Group (RUSM EMS) is a student organization devoted to educating all students as RUSM on prehospital, disaster, wilderness, and tactical medicine. Secondarily, as a way to continue our historical mission of providing healthcare to all members of the Ross family, RUSM EMS Interest Group is dedicated to seeking out students with prior Allied Health professional education and using their expertise to train and educate as many students as possible about prehospital, wilderness, and disaster medicine.
RUSM Equestrian Club
The RUSM Equestrian Club hopes to allow students to access horse riding in Barbados, as a beginner or intermediate rider.
RUSM Gastroenterology Interest Group
RUSM Gastroenterology Interest Group is designed to enlighten the student body on the careers of gastroenterology & apply academic knowledge to a clinical setting.
RUSM MMA
RUSM MMA Club’s mission is to help change lives, cultivate lifelong learners/teachers, and promote the development of the mind-body connection through martial arts.
RUSM Pathology Association
RUSM Pathology Interest Group is designed to enlighten the student body on the careers of pathology & apply academic knowledge to a clinical setting.
RUSM PEERS
RUSM Radiology Interest Group
Our goal is to help preclinical students, to explore the field of Radiology and imaging. The RUSM Radiology Interest Group, will provide opportunities to learn about the field and its many modalities, such as X-Ray, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Vascular Interventional Radiography, as well as a widespread use of medical imaging across all specialties and subspecialties of medicine. For those wishing to pursue a career in radiology, the organization will provide information on applying to radiology residencies through guest speakers and faculty. Also for those who may lean toward any other field of medicine will have the opportunity to properly read and identify pathologies through imaging.
RUSM Scuba Club
Salybia Mission Project
Salybia Mission Project is a not-for-profit, secular, student run organization designed to provide meaningful health care for the indigenous peoples of Dominica.
Spectrum Medical Alliance
Sports Medicine Interest Group
The purpose/mission statement of this club shall be to apply fundamentals of medicine in sports related injuries and increase exposure to the sports medicine field to the Ross University student body.
Surgery Interest Group
The purpose/mission statement of this club shall be to continuously strengthen the basic skills required to prepare all students for their surgical rounds and necessary procedural techniques for the field of surgery. To bring together students who share a passion or curiosity for the art of surgery and enlighten them to the most recent advances in the field. Finally, to encourage service and philanthropy to our local community in order to better the health of everyone around us.
WhiteCoats4BlacksLives
Our mission is to eliminate racial bias in the practice of medicine and recognize racism as a threat to the health and well-being of people of color. Our mission is to provide resources relevant to the medical students while at Ross.
RUSM Community Outreach Club
RUSM Community Outreach Club aim to empower the Bajan community and support them through community events that enrich both the Bajan population and Ross students.
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To help increase diversity in the MAC research programs, Gloria coordinates and assesses Latino participants who join MAC research studies. She also participates in bilingual community outreach and educational events.
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Dr. Alegro joined the Grinberg lab in 2015, where she uses her knowledge in image and signal processing for building computational tools to help improve the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. She also works in building and testing prototype imaging equipment for the lab. Her major experience is in MRI and histological image processing and, more recently, polarized light imaging. Dr.
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Mahnoor began work at the Memory and Aging Center shortly after graduating with a degree in neurobiology from UC Berkeley. She’s been involved with the Care Ecosystem program since 2017 and has really enjoyed working with family members of patients with dementia and supporting them in their caregiving journey. She recently began working as a care team navigator for patients with Lewy body dementia in the Memory and Aging Center clinic.
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Rea obtained her BA degree in psychology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). As a bachelor thesis student, she was introduced to the fascinating world of research by undertaking a behavioral study probing the association between cheating, creativity and moral reasoning. The question which psychological mechanisms tilt our moral compass sparked her interest. However, pieces were definitely missing from understanding such a perplex topic in depth.
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Jolly LLB 2 Movie Review: Akshay Kumar Haazir Hai, Milord. The Verdict Here
Jolly LLB 2 Movie Review: Akshay Kumar's film does well not to take itself too seriously. Scintillating? No. Enjoyable? Absolutely
Saibal Chatterjee | February 10, 2017 18:15 IST
Jolly LLB 2 Movie Review: Akshay Kumar plays a callow but cocksure lawyer
Akshay Kumar, Annu Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Huma Qureshi
Subhash Kapoor
SPOILERS AHEAD
It is never be easy for a serious-minded courtroom satire that swivels around the grim reality of fake encounters to stick to a style steeped in wit and breezy humour without occasionally wobbling off its axis. Jolly LLB 2, caught in a cramped channel between gravitas and jest, does sometimes teeter dangerously close to straying on to shaky ground. But thanks to the politics that underlines writer-director Subhash Kapoor's flashier follow-up to his 2013 sleeper hit, Jolly LLB 2 is a film that makes important and relevant points about distorted law enforcement and justice delivery in a democracy of disempowered and oppressed constituents.
While the playbook that Kapoor employs here is largely the same as the one he used in the inaugural entry, the key personnel on board this time around, barring the notable exception of the fabulous-as-ever Saurabh Shukla, are a new lot.
Jolly LLB 2 Review: Saurabh Shukla is fabulous-as-ever.
That apart, the follow-up is set in Lucknow (although references to the city are beeped out on several occasions on CBFC orders). "Muskuraiye, aap Lucknow mein hai," a seasoned advocate requests his infinitely less experienced rival Jagdishwar Mishra 'Jolly'.
The latter, of course, has no reason to flash a smile, having got into a major emotional and moral tangle owing to one of the minor shenanigans he indulges in to keep himself going. Jolly LLB 2 does, however, have moments that are both funny and thought-provoking.
If only the film wasn't stretched so thin, its middle portions might have been far less dreary.
Its length sucks life and breath out of the film, rendering the scenes leading up to the climax rather limp. Matters are worsened by an underwhelming, tacked-on denouement.
The first time around, the director was driven purely by a spirit of creative independence. Jolly LLB 2, a 'bigger' production, plays more by rules that are skewed towards the needs of a mainstream audience.
With superstar Akshay Kumar stepping into Arshad Warsi's shoes, the film sheds its commercial underdog tag. In the bargain, it also loses out on some of the charming spontaneity that Warsi's natural comic flair had lent the legal drama.
Jolly LLB 2 loses out on some of the charming spontaneity
Although many of the scenes in this film, especially the protracted ones in the courtroom, are scripted and staged very differently from how they were in Jolly LLB, Akshay Kumar, to his credit, never loses sight of the need for restraint.
Playing a callow but cocksure lawyer not averse to bending the rules when he is in need of money, he aspires to free himself from the clutches of a legal eagle (Ram Gopal Bajaj) who uses him as an errand boy.
Reminded that a lawyer without a chamber is like a politician without a seat of power and an actor without a super hit, Jolly resolves to acquire an office of his own.
Desperate for cash to buy his dream chamber, Jolly takes a young, pregnant widow (Sayani Gupta) for a ride.
The repercussions of that careless act are so grave and he is sucked into an unequal battle against the city's most dreaded lawyer Pramod Mathur (Annu Kapoor).
It turns into an all-out fight to secure justice for a man wrongly accused of terrorism and slain in a fake encounter.
Jolly LLB 2 Review: Annu Kapoor plays the city's most dreaded lawyer Pramod Mathur
Up against a group of cynical cops and a legal system vulnerable to manipulation, Jolly has to summon up all his courage and wiles to find his around the daunting maze.
Saurabh Shukla is an absolute delight yet again in the role of the mercurial Justice Sunder Lal Tripathi. He conveys avuncular grace with as much ease as he does indignant exasperation. No matter what, his antics are rib-tickling.
Annu Kapoor strikes false notes occasionally, succumbing to the temptation of playing to the gallery. But Akshay Kumar holds himself back for the most part, enhancing the impact of his performance in the bargain.
Watch the trailer of Jolly LLB 2
The lead actor receives solid support from Rajiv Gupta as Jolly's assistant Bribal and Kumud Mishra as the ambitious, cynical police inspector who will stop at nothing for a promotion.
Sayani Gupta has only four-and-a-half scenes to make her presence felt. She does. And how!
Unfortunately, Huma Qureshi's character is hopelessly under-developed. The screenplay does not tap the full potential of either the actress or the role she plays.
Certain underlying elements give Jolly LLB 2 an intriguing spin. For one, it presents a crusader who is completely believable, warts and all.
Jolly does speak of, and even demonstrate, his physical prowess once or twice, but it is his tough cookie wife (Huma Qureshi) who has to jump to his rescue when he is shot at by two assailants in a marketplace.
Jolly LLB 2 Movie Review: Huma Qureshi's character is hopelessly under-developed
What's more, Jolly cooks for his wife and makes arrangements for her when she is in the mood for a drinking binge. He obviously isn't the kind of hero we usually run into in Hindi films.
Jolly LLB also, tangentially, brings into its purview the vexed theme of young Muslim men falsely implicated in cases of terrorism and not given a chance in hell by a police and a media all too eager to brand and hang them.
The film also slips in allusions to the "anti-national" versus "patriotic" debate that dominates the political discourse in the country today even as it emphasizes the centrality of a free and fair judicial system in a polity controlled by the wealthy and the powerful.
If all this sounds too solemn for a mass entertainer, do not be put off. Jolly LLB 2 does well not to take itself too seriously.
It has the feel of a good-natured banter between friends rather than that of an inflated inquest conducted from a pedestal.
Scintillating? No. Enjoyable? Absolutely.
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German Bundesliga Soccer Game Week 18 Review: Augsburg Surprise
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After the long winter break, the Bundesliga resumed with round 18 of action. Going into the break Bayern Munich were the runaway leaders with 45 points from the first half of the season, 11 points ahead of their nearest rivals Wolfsburg and the league all but sealed.
It was a just of question of how soon will the Bavarian giants wrap up the league title. Will they break their last year’s record of winning it in the fewest possible week? The fact that Pep Guardiola’s team were yet to be beaten in the league having won 14 and drew the other three the answer was quite apparent.
Round 18 of German top division kicked off in regal style with the reigning league leaders and defending champions Bayern Munich pitted against their closest rivals Wolfsburg lying second on the table. To most outside observers the writing was on the wall, it was going to be three points in the bag for the Bavarians as they marched their way to the title for the third season in a row. But what followed was beyond everyone’s wildest dreams.
Kevin De Bruyne assisted the fourth minute opener that was converted by Bas Dost to give Wolfsburg a surprise early lead. In the first half injury time the Dutchman doubled Wolfsburg’s lead. Surely, Bayern Munich were going to put three past Wolfsburg in the second half, is what everyone thought. But an irrepressible De Bruyne on the score sheet in the 43rd minute. Juan Bernat pulled one back for the Bavarians but a second strike by the Belgian in the 73rd minute sealed Guardiola’s team’s first loss of the campaign and subsequently left the fans at Volkswagen Arena in absolute ecstasy.
The other important question in Germany was about Borussia Dortmund. Will the Jurgen Klopp’s team arrest their alarming slide in time and rescue their season? They went into the break lying 17th in the league, having collected a mere 15 points from their 17 games, less than 1 point per game. It is hard to believe they are the same team that proudly walked on to Wembley to play the Champions League final less than two years ago.
The task at hand wasn’t easy, they were to play Bayer Leverkusen, 14 places separated the third placed Roger Schmidt’s team from Jurgen Klopp’s men. A scrappy match where Borussia Dortmund completed a mere 44% of their passes, their worst statistic since these records are being kept, ended in a scoreless draw. Not convincing, but not a defeat. Surely, a step in the right direction. Regarding the scrappy nature of the match, Klopp rightly said: “You can’t expect champagne football from a team fighting relegation.” No one would fault his assessment.
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There are three more German giants facing the prospects of relegation if results don’t improve, and soon. At the end of the first half of matches Hamburger SV, VfB Stuttgart, and Werder Bremen were lying 14th, 15th, and 16th on the table respectively with each team having accumulated an identical 17 points and their standing being decided on goal difference.
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Werder Bremen climbed to 12th in the table with a 2-0 win over Hertha Berlin, who are now 15th just one point shy of relegation scramble. Cologne dealt a 2-0 loss to Hamburger as they wrestle firmly in the relegation battle now along with fellow strugglers Stuttgart, who lost 1-0 to Borussia Monchengladbach. The narrow win saw Die Fohlen rise to third on the table as they look for a return to the Champions League this season.
The biggest win of week 18 of matches, however, belonged to Mainz who dealt a crushing 5-0 loss to the Bundesliga new boys Paderborn, as Mainz consolidated their mid-table standing. Roberto de Matteo’s Schalke defeated Hannover courtesy of a 32nd minute strike from Marco Hoger. But most problematically for Schalke they lost their talismanic striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar after he was red-carded for violent conduct and subsequently got banned for six matches as a result.
In perhaps, the most unexpected result of the week, apart from Bayern Munich’s loss, rock bottom Freiburg defeated ninth placed Eintracht Frankfurt 4-1 as Christian Streich’s team look to mount their challenge for Bundesliga survival. The result saw Freiburg jump to 14th, while their opponents maintained their ninth placed standing.
In the last match of round 18, this year’s surprise package Augsburg continued their spectacular run as they defeated Hoffenheim 3-1 and maintained their fifth place on the table as a result, Hoffenheim stayed seventh.
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Huge boost to business and jobs worldwide if nature prioritised: WEF
Earlier this week the World Economic Forum (WEF) published the “future of nature and business” report which highlights how governments and businesses can build back better from the economic fallout of the pandemic and tackle the nature and climate crisis, creating hundreds of millions of jobs worldwide.
Could a focus on nature help businesses?
As lockdown eases and businesses worldwide try to move toward normality and recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic, we are all faced with an opportunity to do things differently. Whether that be a move to home working or online teaching, or a decision to drive less and walk or cycle more. In April at the beginning of lockdown, The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted that global carbon emissions from energy were expected to fall by almost 8% in 2020, the biggest drop in history as a result of the pandemic.
Earlier this week the World Economic Forum (WEF) published the “future of nature and business” report which highlights how governments and businesses can build back better from the economic fallout of the pandemic and tackle the nature and climate crisis. Experts have said that simulating growth in ways that puts nature first could provide an £8 trillion boost and create hundreds of millions of jobs worldwide.
Industry moves ranging from recycling clothing to installing energy-saving light bulbs and green roofs into buildings, and even diversifying diets, could help create 395 million jobs around the world by 2030, the WEF said.
The report outlines a series of these “nature-positive” solutions that provide 10.1 trillion US dollars (£8 trillion) worth of business opportunities.
It comes in the wake of warnings that nature is declining at unprecedented rates, with almost a million species at risk of extinction due to human activity such as farming, pollution, and deforestation.
At the same time, damage to natural systems from forests to clean water supplies poses a huge risk to human health, livelihoods and well being.
A solar panel is installed on the roof of Salisbury Cathedral’s south cloister, (Andrew Matthews/PA)
The report warns that Covid-19, a disease which has jumped from animals to humans, is a “stark reminder” of how ignoring the risks from biological systems can have catastrophic impacts on health and the economy.
There is no future for business as usual, the report warns, with irreversible tipping points for natural systems and the climate looming, and more than half of global economic output threatened by nature losses.
Moves to make food production and the use of land and oceans more “nature-positive” could create 3.6 trillion US dollars (£2.9 trn) extra revenue or savings and 191 million new jobs, the report said.
Switching diets from just 12 plant and five animal species which make up 75% of what the world eats to more diversified vegetables and fruits, using precision technology on farms to improve productivity and managing fish stocks more sustainably will all deliver benefits.
Reusing, recycling and refurbishing clothing would also deliver billions of pounds in savings and, by 2030, prevent 148 million tonnes of wasted textiles, which are currently landfilled or burned at the rate of one rubbish truck-full per second.
Improving infrastructure and buildings would create 117 million jobs and three trillion dollars (£2.4 trn), for example through installing LEDs and other efficient technology, using smart sensors to curb water leaks, managing waste better and putting green roofs on buildings.
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Potential 87 million new jobs by 2030 in the energy and mining sectors
The report also details a potential 3.5 trillion US dollars (£2.8 trn) boost and 87 million new jobs by 2030 in the energy and mining sectors.
Opportunities include refurbishing and reusing vehicle parts, investing in renewables and developing new technologies such as high rise solar power stations.
Akanksha Kharti, head of nature action agenda, World Economic Forum, said: We can address the looming bio-diversity crisis and reset the economy in a way that creates and protects millions of jobs.
“Public calls are getting louder for businesses and government to do better.
“We can protect our food supplies, make better use of our infrastructure and tap into new energy sources by transitioning to nature-positive solutions.”
And she urged businesses to lead the way.
“The speed of change required, government budget constraints in the wake of Covid-19, and current failures in international cooperation, mean business is best placed to drive the nature-positive transitions the world needs,” she said.
The WEF has also outlined policy measures for finance ministers to use as part of stimulus packages and create jobs without destroying nature.
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Kick Ass Assassins: Salt on Blu-Ray and The American on DVD
The world lacks a female super spy. Angelina Jolie has perhaps come closer than most to filling the void with her all action portrayal of sexy video game Tomb Raider Lara Croft, but this was ultimately more Indiana Jones than James Bond. Last year Phillip Noyce’s Cold War conspiracy thriller Salt, originally earmarked for Tom Cruise, morphed into a very different project altogether with the casting of Jolie as CIA agent Evelyn.
I may be veering into sexism here, but because of Jolie’s casting my expectations were drastically lowered. However I’ll defend myself with two qualifications; firstly I think of Jolie as more than merely an internationally coveted sexual icon, but as a fine and capable actress, particularly after her powerhouse performance in Clint Eastwood’s excellent Changeling. Secondly I believe I expected disappointment because of the film industry’s own sexist view of women playing action leads, rather than my own narrow and intolerant perspective on the “fairer sex”.
What I mean by this is that women rarely seem to be cast in serious mainstream action films. They’re a common feature in action comedies, such as the dire Knight and Day and Jolie’s own light-hearted romp with her equally famous and sexy spouse in Mr and Mrs Smith. But there’s no realistic and gripping female equivalent to the Bourne series, for example. Filmmakers are reluctant to showcase women, even today, as ruthless and professional killers without elements of fantasy. Watch a film about what is essentially a paid, female murderer (a “hitwoman”) and expect lots of ninja style, silly high kicking and unbelievable martial arts, alongside tight costumes, to offset such a horrific notion.
Sadly this is a formula that Salt eventually and perhaps inevitably, conforms to. The opening of the film is promising. Once we get some god awful dialogue out the way, probably ripped straight from the “how to script a film in the espionage genre” handbook, along with some forced flashbacks, we get Salt interrogating an apparent Russian defector. He drops the bombshell that there’s a sleeper agent in the CIA, and that agent is called Evelyn Salt.
Salt is dismissive at first, but all the high tech brain scans and probably some ingenious pad questioning his balls from his seat, says that he’s telling the truth. After a bit of dithering Salt decides to run, apparently out of concern for her husband, but it still seems rather daft if she really is innocent. Once she does run however, it looks as if Salt is going to be a decent film.
With the shadowy, backstabbing premise of the plot and some tense evasion of security cameras by a grey suited Jolie, Salt seems very Bourne-esque at first. And a female Bourne film would not have been such a bad thing. Boxed into an interrogation room, Salt constructs a makeshift weapon from chemicals and chairs and table legs to allow her to escape. She then flees for home to look for her husband and just avoids capture by climbing around the outside of her building. Finally she escapes the city after a standoff by jumping from truck to truck on the freeway.
During all of this action it’s easy to get swept up and the character remains believable. You sympathise with her apparent innocence and will her to succeed. But once Salt heads to New York based on information that someone will attempt to kill the Russian President at the Vice President’s funeral, the plot completely loses its way. It utterly surprised me on several occasions but purely because it becomes so absolutely ludicrous. You can no longer relate to Salt as a character and the action degenerates into ninja Jolie implausibly kicking the asses of trained security personnel in seconds.
At first I thought it was refreshing that Salt was a spy thriller based on the old Cold War rivalries and tensions. Cinemagoers could do with a little more entertainment courtesy of grand, evil schemes, rather than grim and realistic takes on Al-Qaeda. There’s nothing wrong with fantastical plots based on extravagant conspiracies and the destruction of the world, providing they’re executed plausibly. But Salt is just too farfetched and has too many holes, mainly surrounding the believability of its characters. It also strays into the absurd and hilarious; supposedly a “master of disguise” Salt looks fairly obviously like Angelina Jolie dressed as an effeminate man infiltrating the White House.
As usual with Blu-Rays, there’s a whole host of meaty special features to devour about the making of Salt. There’s a baffling section on Salt’s supposed genius as a “master of disguise” and a separate “in screen” interview with the costume designer explaining the selection process behind Jolie’s grey suit earlier in the film. Apparently it was really beneficial to visit the CIA and presumably discover they wear boring and generic corporate power suits like everyone else. The most revealing sections are interviews with Noyce and Jolie about the fact Salt was originally written for a man, which might account for some of the script’s rough and unfinished feel.
There are some pleasing references to classics of the genre in the film, for example when “defector” Orlov escapes using a blade concealed in his shoe, like Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love. But in the end Salt resembles a mishmash parody of everything it has taken influence from. It lacks originality, quality and entertainment for most of its thankfully brief 100 minute runtime.
THE AMERICAN is the sort of serious and sombre story that sadly wouldn’t get made with a woman in the title role. It’s a slow-burning meditation on the nature of being an assassin and on loneliness itself. It’s an exercise in minimalist storytelling from writer Rowan Joffe, adapting Martin Booth’s novel A Very Private Gentleman, and particularly, director Anton Corbijn. With the lightest of brush strokes he paints what was, for me, an incredibly evocative and captivating picture.
I had meant to see The American on the big screen but sadly its lack of success at the box office resulted in a short stay at my local multiplex. For critics the problem with The American is that it never truly ignites following such a tantalisingly drawn out simmering of tension. Many find it boring to sit through. But for anyone that loves the genre, the intoxicating idea of the lone assassin, or anyone that likes understated and subtle films, The American is wonderfully watchable.
In many ways George Clooney shouldn’t work in the title role. He is such a recognisable face across the globe, a brand rather than a name, that he shouldn’t convince as an unknown and elusive assassin. But Corbijn needed someone who could act without words and Clooney delivers a master class. When there is dialogue Clooney enthuses it with charisma; it oozes enigmatic intrigue. When the camera is entirely reliant on Clooney’s movements a pained expression, a cold glance or a precise gesture speaks more than a page of script ever could. This has been hailed by some as the best performance of Clooney’s career for a reason. We’ve never seen him laid bare like this; robbed of the charm and the cheeky grin.
More than anything else The American is beautiful. Its soundtrack is haunting, atmospheric and touching. Every other shot would make an arty still in a gallery; in Corbijn’s second picture after the acclaimed biopic Control, his background as a photographer is constantly evident. Clooney’s character chooses photography as his cover and there’s something about the parallels of precise skill and solitude between pictures and killing that’s endlessly fascinating. Indeed the subtlety of the storytelling really lets you think about its themes whilst enjoying the gorgeous visuals and the sexy girls.
The loneliness of existence is there in every furrow of Clooney’s focused face; the life of the assassin is the perfect lens for examining anyone’s existential angst. His character makes meagre relationships that wouldn’t satisfy many human beings, and yet they prove too much and too risky for his secretive profession. Despite the reports of boredom and never-ending build-up, I thought that the restrained action punctuated the plot well and the climax of the simple story was suitably engrossing.
In many ways Salt and The American both take “old school” approaches to a familiar genre; Salt with its outlandish Cold War plot and The American with its focus on an age old character, complete with soul searching scenes with a priest. The undoubted difference between the films though is a sumptuous and sexy style and quality that makes The American infinitely more interesting than Jolie’s briefly entertaining foray into the world of espionage.
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Schools offer safety, support and security to help refugee students adjust to life in Australia and participate successfully in education. Targeted support strategies are provided to assist refugee students in NSW public schools.
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The school’s learning and support team plays a key role in ensuring we meet the specific needs of students with additional learning and support needs, including disability.
supports teachers in identifying and responding to the additional learning needs of students
facilitates and coordinates a whole-school approach to improving the learning outcomes of every student
coordinates planning processes and resourcing for students with additional learning and support needs
designs and implements the support required to build teacher capacity so that all students access quality learning
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Bullying of any kind is not acceptable in NSW schools.
The NSW anti-bullying website brings together information and resources for teachers, students, parents and carers. It helps to identify, prevent and respond effectively to student bullying, including online bullying. It provides information about online safety and what you can do if your child has been bullied, witnessed bullying or been involved in bullying.
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Mennonite World Conference (MWC) represents the majority of the global family of Christian churches rooted in the 16th century Radical Reformation in Europe, particularly in the Anabaptist movement.
MWC membership in 2018 included one international association and 107 Mennonite and Brethren in Christ national churches from 58 countries, with around 1.47 million baptized believers in close to 10,000 congregations. About 81% of baptized believers in MWC member churches are African, Asian or Latin American, and 19% are located in Europe and North America.
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Lamar Cardinals vs. Houston Baptist Huskies: January 9, 2021 Matchup Betting Preview, Predictions, Computer Picks, Odds and Trends
The Houston Baptist Huskies (1-7) will attempt to stop a three-game losing streak when they visit the Lamar Cardinals (1-7) at 3:00 PM ET on Saturday, January 9, 2021 as 6-point underdogs. The Cardinals have also lost three games in a row. The matchup has a point total of 151.
Lamar vs Houston Baptist Betting Information
Lamar -6 -110 -110 151 -108 -113 -265 210
Computer picks for Lamar vs Houston Baptist
Houston Baptist (+6) Under (151) Lamar 73 Houston Baptist 72
Place a Bet on the Lamar – Houston Baptist Matchup
The Cardinals and their opponents have recorded more than 151 points in 12.5% of their outings this season (one of eight opportunities).
Houston Baptist has played in four games this year (out of eight total matchups — 50% of opportunities) where they and their opponents combined to score more than 151 points.
The two teams average a combined 23.4 fewer points per game (127.6) than this matchup’s total of 151 points.
Opponents of these teams have averaged a combined 158.3 points per game, 7.3 more than the point total in this game.
The average total the Cardinals have had set in matchups this season is 18.8 fewer points than this outing’s point total.
The average total for Huskies games this season is 2.6 more points than the point total of 151 for this outing.
Lamar Betting Information
Lamar has covered in just three of eight matchups this season.
Lamar and its opponents have converted the over just 3 times in 8 (37.5%) games this season.
Houston Baptist Betting Information
Houston Baptist has covered the spread in greater than half of its outings, going 4-2 ATS.
Houston Baptist and its opponents have hit the over in fewer than half of their games this season — 2 of 6 (33.3%).
Lamar vs Houston Baptist (Last 4 Games)
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Regular Season 79-69 LAMAR
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Regular Season 102-92 LAMAR
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Regular Season 88-82 HOUBAP
Lamar Leaders
The scoring leader for the Cardinals this season is Davion Buster, who averages 16.1 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 0.4 assists per game.
Avery Sullivan leads Lamar in rebounding, averaging 7.6 per game, while Kasen Harrison leads the team in assists, distributing an average of 4.1 in each contest.
Buster leads his teammates on the Cardinals with 3.1 made threes per contest.
The Lamar steals leader is Ellis Jefferson, who averages 1.5 takeaways per game, while its blocks leader is David Muoka, who compiles 1.7 rejections per contest.
Houston Baptist Leaders
Za-Ontay Boothman is the top scorer for the Huskies with 13.4 points per game. He also adds 2.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game to his stats.
The Huskies’ leader in rebounds is Pedro Castro with 7.5 per matchup, and their leader in assists is Hunter Janacek with 2.1 per game.
Boothman is the most prolific from the three-point line for the Huskies, hitting 2.7 threes per game.
Darius Lee (1.1 steals per game) and Castro (1.2 blocks per game) pace the Huskies in steals and blocks, respectively.
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what is the difference between progressive placement(balanced cantileve) and span by span construction method
Knowing the dry density of soil or pavement is important to evaluate the degree of compaction achieved during the construction process. A field density test is a common test used to determine the field density of the soil or pavement. The principle of field density test is the replacement of soil excavated materials by the sand, the sand density is known so we can calculate the volume of the sand required to fill the hole. By knowing the volume of the hole excavated in soil and the weight of soil, we can calculate the in-situ density. The in-situ density equals the weight of excavated materials divided by the volume of excavated material. Apparatus Sand pouring cylinder equipment
Small sand pouring cylinder equipment: this suitable for fine and medium-grained soil. It consists of a cylinder having a diameter of 100 mm and a length of 380 mm with an inverted funnel at one end and a shutter to open and close for the entry of sand. Also, there will be a metal tray for the excavation of s…
Design a one-way slab for the inside of a building using the span, loads, and other data given in Figure 1. Normal-weight aggregate concrete is specified with a density of 145 pcf. (assuming cover 3/4 in) Figure 1
The minimum thickness for one-way slab simply supported=L/20 using table 1(ACI 9.5.2.1) h=10/20=0.5=6in
now we will calculate d=(6-3/4(cover)-1/4(estimated as half diameter of reinforcement) d=5 in
now we will calculate dead load concrete density=145pcf, Usually 5 pcf is added to account for the weight of reinforcement, so 150 pcf is used in calculating the weight of a normal-weight concrete member. dd=(6in*ft/12)*1*150/=75 lb/ft LL=200*(1)=200lb/ft Wu=1.2*75+1.6*200=410 lb/ft
maximum moment for simply supported span =(Wu*L^2)/8 =(410*10^2)/8=8/=5,125lb-ft=61,500lb-in
now we can calculate ρ
ρ=(0.85*fc’/fy)*(1-√(1-(2*Rn/0.85*fc’))
Rn=Mu/(ϕ*b*d^2) Rn=(61500)/(0.9*12*(5^2))=227.7
ρ=… Da structure can be called determinate if the equilibrium equation provides enough and sufficient condition for equilibrium. if all forces for a structure can be determined using equilibrium equations only, this structure is determinate, but if the unknown forces are more and cant be determined using equilibrium equations then this structure is indeterminate.in general we can determine if a structure is statically determinate or indeterminate by drawing free body diagram for a structure or part of it and comparing a number of unknown forces and moment component with number of available equation of equilibrium. for coplanar structures, we have three equilibrium equations, if n is the total number of parts and r is the number of unknown forces and moment component then:
r=3*n determinate r>3*n indeterminate
statically indeterminate structure cant be solved using equilibrium equations, so…
Pile cap used to transfer the loads from superstructure to the piling. The pile cap is thick concrete mat rests on piles. It is part of the foundation and used to distribute the loads over the piles. Piles used when the soil bearing is not enough to carry loads of the structure.
Pile cap construction procedure Excavation around piles: After 7 days of the casting of the pile the concrete will gain approximately, 70% of it is compressive strength. The soil around piles will be removed to the required levels and dimension that allows construction of the pile cap. A step shall be made if the excavation is more than 1.5 m to prevent soil collapse. Pile head cutting: Concrete will be removed up to cut off level. If concrete under the cut off level is unsound. It shall be removed, and the pile will be repaired. Pile must be free from cracks and unsound concrete.
Blinding concrete: after completion o…
In a truss system, some members are not carrying any force. This called zero-force member. This member may added to increase truss stability. Identifying these members will simplify the process of analyzing truss. the determination of zero force member can be done by inspecting of truss joints, and there are two casesif we check the joint c for truss shown in figure 1, this joint has no external load, and two members are connected to this joint at a right angle. if we sum force in y-direction Σfy=0, we get FCD=0, similarly in x-direction FCB=0. For joint A, no external load applied to this joint. If we sum forces in y-direction Σfy=0, we get FAB=0. Similarly, in x-direction FAE=0. Figure 1
A quick look at this truss. We can notice joint c and joint d with no external load. Inspecting joint C will be a bit difficult because 4 members are connected to joint c. Starting with joint D. member DF is perpendicular to member DE and CD. if we sum the forces in the y-direction. As showing in fig…
Flaky and elongated aggregates can adversely affect concrete. Flaky and elongated aggregates are difficult to compact. Therefore using flaky and elongated aggregates will reduce concrete workability, which required more amount of water to produce a workable mix. Increasing water content will reduce concrete strength and durability. Moreover, these aggregates are not robust, which leads to lowering concrete strength. Figure 1
The Flakiness Index of aggregates is the percentage by weight of particles whose least dimension (thickness) is less than three- fifths (0.6times) of their mean dimension. This test does not apply to sizes smaller than 6.3mm.
The Elongation index of an aggregate is the percentage by weight of particles whose greatest dimension (length) is greater than nine-fifths (1.8times) their mean dimension. Flakiness and elongation tests are not applicable to sizes smaller than 6.3…
Let consider a slab supported by beams and columns, to begin structural analysis for each member, we need to know the amount of load transferred to this member, the amount of load transferred to any member can be determined using tributary area(loading) concept. the geometry of a structure will determine the shape of the tributary area. figure 1
In a one-way system, slab delivers the load to supports by one-way action. the dimension of slab shall satisfy the following equation to act as one-way slab L2/L1>2. let consider floor system in figure 3, L2/L1 for beam AB L2/L1=15/5=3, therefore slab will transfer the loads to beam in one-way action, tributary area for beam AB, E-f will be as shown in figure 3, loads of 100*2.5=250Lb/ft(linearly distributed over the whole length of the beam, for beam CD, the load will be 100*5=500Lb/ft, beam CD will share loads from both sides because it is lo…
The combination of structural elements and materials called structural system. the structural system may be composed of one or more of the four basic types of structure: Truss: truss used for structure with large span where the depth is not important. a truss consists of slender elements, arranged in a triangular shape, planner truss refers to truss where all elements lie in the same plane frequently used for bridges. space truss is composed of elements extending in three dimensions. Truss converts loads that cause truss to bend into tension and compression forces. due to this advantages truss used fewer materials compared to beam, also it is composed of slender and long elements, Truss can be used to cover spans from 9m(30ft) to 122 m(400ft).
bridge construction:How to become a bridge engineer Figure 1
Cable and arches: cables are used to support long span where the using of truss is not feasible and could lead to a significant increase in …
A structure or one of the members considered in equilibrium when it maintains a balance of force and moment. this required satisfying force and moment equation in three axis.
ΣFx=0, ΣFy=0, ΣFz=0 ΣMx=0, ΣMy=0, ΣMz=0
for a structure in a single plane and since the forces are coplanar the equation of equilibrium reduced to
ΣFx=0 ΣFy=0 ΣMo=0
where ΣFx is the sum of the component of the force in the x-axis, ΣFy is the sum of the component of the force in the y-axis, ΣMo is the algebraic sum of the moment of the component of the forces about an axis perpendicular to x and y-axis and passing through point o. whenever these equations are applied, free body diagram shall be drawn for the structure or it is members, if the analysis required for a member, this member should be isolate…
The cracking moment is the moment corresponding tensile bending stress at which concrete will start to crack. reinforcing steel cross-sectional area is 2% or less of concrete beam cross-section. the area of reinforcing steel is minimal compared to concrete. therefore, it will not cause a major change to concrete beam properties as long as the beam uncracked. bending stress for concrete at distance y from a neutral axis can be calculated using elastic beam theory
f=M.y/I
where f is the bending stress at distance y M is the moment applied to the beam y is the distance from the neutral axis I is the moment of inertia for beam
construction management: concrete construction course
bridge construction:How to become a bridge engineer course concrete modulus of rupture is defined as the bending tensile strength at which concrete start to cracks. ACI provides us with the equation for calculating the modulus of rupture
fr=7.5λ√fc’ (in psi) fr=0.7λ√fc’ (in Mpa) where λ is equal 1 for nor…
Stability of structures
Example 4:Flexural stress calculation using transformed area method
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Model Trains for Beginners
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The earliest toy trains were made of lead and had no moving parts. Some had wheels which flipped, but these had to be pulled or pushed. Some of the early 19th-century drive toy rails were made from tinplate, such as the big, durable, stylized locomotive toys in the U.S., which were painted gold and red and decorated with hearts and flowers. model trains new jersey
Around 1875, technological advancements in materials and manufacturing enabled tin to be stamped, cut, rolled, and lithographed faster than previously.
Toy trains were revolutionized when Märklina German company that specialized in doll house accessories, sought to create an equivalent toy for boys in which a constant revenue stream could be guaranteed by selling add-on accessories for years after the first purchase. Along with boxed sets comprising a train and monitor, Märklin offered additional track, rolling stock, and buildings sold separately, creating the predecessor to the modern model train layout featuring buildings and scenery along with an operating train.
Electric trains followed, with the first appearing in 1897, made by the U.S. firm Carlisle & Finch. As home use of power became more prevalent in the early 20th century, electrical trains gained popularity and as time moved on, these electric trains grew in sophistication, gaining light, the ability to change direction, to emit a whistling sound, to smoke, to remotely couple and uncouple cars as well as load and unload cargo. Toy trains by the first half of the 20th century were often made of lithographed tin; afterwards trains were often made mainly of plastic.
Prior to the 1950s, there was little differentiation between toy trains and model railroads–model railroads were toys by definition. Pull toys and wind-up trains were marketed by children, while electrical trains were marketed towards teenagers, particularly teenaged boys. It was during the 1950s that the modern emphasis on realism in model railroading began to catch on.
Now, S gauge and O gauge railroads are still considered toy trains even by their adherents and are often accessorized with semi-scale model buildings by Plasticville or K-Line (who owns the rights to the Plasticville-like buildings created by Marx in the 1950s to the 1970s). However, as a result of their high price, one is more likely to locate an HO scale or N scale train set in a toy shop than a O scale collection.
Many modern electric toy trains contain sophisticated electronic equipment which emit digitized sound effects and permit the operator to safely and easily run several remote controller trains on a single loop of course. In the last few years, many toy train operators may operate a train with a TV camera at the front of the motor and hooked up to a screen, such as pc monitor. This will show a picture, similar to that of a real (smaller size) railroad.
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Subject: Yellen Addresses Rate Hikes Ahead of DJIA Index Close
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Yellen Addresses Rate Hikes Ahead of DJIA Index Close
March 27, 2015 by Garrett Baldwin Leave a Comment
The DJIA Index added 33 points Friday to end a four-day losing streak. The cause? Biotech and healthcare stocks rebounded to pull markets upward as investors search for value after this week's sell-offs.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen gave a speech on monetary policy in San Francisco 15 minutes before the closing bell. Yellen indicated that rate increases this year are likely, but the pace will be gradual.
Here are the other top stories from today, plus our new profit tip...
Sell-Off in Biotech Stocks Making for Attractive Entry Points
March 27, 2015 by Jim Bach Leave a Comment
Last week on our roundup of the 2015 top stocks to invest in, we highlighted biotech stocks for their explosive growth in 2015 and their continued potential.
And while biotech stocks got creamed this past week. They're still among the best investments for 2015.
Just look at our top stocks to invest in for 2015, which still features a few biotech stocks as our best performers...
How Well Do You Know the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
March 27, 2015 by David Zeiler 2 Comments
Most investors check on the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of every trading day, if not more frequently.
Over its 119-year history, the DJIA has become synonymous with the markets. But while investors big and small rely on the Dow Jones to measure how well or how poorly stocks are doing, how much do most people really know about it?
Check out these five key facts that show how the Dow came to be what it is now...
The Five Best Oil Stocks to Buy Now
March 27, 2015 by Alex McGuire 1 Comment
Best Oil Stocks to Buy Now: For the past three months, oil prices have hovered at their lowest levels since the financial crisis.
But they're are headed higher this year – and there are still plenty of profitable gems in the oil sector.
Here's a roundup of the best oil stocks to buy now as the market stabilizes throughout the year...
The Current Price of Silver Is Climbing but Still Highly Volatile
March 27, 2015 by Jim Bach 1 Comment
The current price of silver is very volatile, but it is currently on the upswing.
At $17.145 an ounce – the current price of silver as of 8:45 a.m. EDT – the white metal is up 9.3% on the year and 3.5% on the month. But it is volatile.
Here's what to make of the current price of silver...
Is This a Biotech Bubble?
March 27, 2015 by Kyle Anderson Leave a Comment
Wall Street pundits are claiming we are on the precipice of a biotech bubble because biotechnology stocks have been soaring. The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index has climbed 44% in the last year. The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 have climbed just 9% and 11% in the same time.
But it's the last week that has traders panicked about "bubble" territory.
From March 20 through March 26, the Nasdaq biotech index dipped 7%. The S&P biotech index dropped almost 11%.
These tremors could signify a correction in the coming months - but make no mistake - the "bubble" is not about to burst on biotech stocks...
Here's How Powerful Dividend Reinvestment Is to Your Portfolio
March 27, 2015 by Money Morning Staff Reports 1 Comment
At Money Morning, we're big proponents of dividend reinvestment. It's a strategy that will help you amass tremendous wealth over time.
Reinvesting dividends is the practice of buying additional shares of a stock using the dividends themselves to pay for your purchase. It results in long-term compounding, and that's key to building a fortune.
Here's a look at just how valuable dividend reinvestment is to your portfolio...
Price of Gold and Silver Climbs as Safe Haven Trade Is Back On
March 27, 2015 by Diane Alter Leave a Comment
The price of gold – and silver – rallied Thursday as investors piled into "risk off" trades.
They're both up on the day and the week, where the Dow has been slipping for four sessions.
Find out why and what is next - just continue reading here.
Stock Futures Today Edging Lower
Good morning! Stock futures today (Friday, March 27) forecasted a 10-point retreat from yesterday's close. On Thursday, The DJIA managed to bounce back from early triple-digit losses but still closed down 39 points, notching its fourth consecutive drop.
This morning, it's all about fourth-quarter GDP. The U.S. Commerce Department will release its final estimate on GDP for the last quarter of 2014. Economists expect the final level to tick up to 2.4% growth over the quarter.
Here's what else you should know about the stock market today - including your "Money Morning Tip of the Day" - to make it a profitable Friday...
A Major Solar ETF "Buy" Signal Is Here
The potential of solar power has been touted for years, yet it has always come with major limitations. The costs of producing solar power have outweighed the benefits for many power companies.
But that's changing. Solar power has reached a tipping point, and it's creating a massive profit opportunity for one solar ETF.
"Despite the odds, alternative energy - led by solar power - is rapidly approaching what the industry has always considered to be the "Holy Grail,'" Money Morning's Global Energy Strategist Dr. Kent Moors said.
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ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705UD-EH76 Laptop Review
Last Updated September 17, 2019 by Lisa Nelson
When you have your priorities in life streamlined, it becomes a good deal easier to achieve your goals. The ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705UD-EH76 laptop has certainly spent time on prioritization, zeroing down on performance and durability as its main areas of focus.
This 17.3” laptop with a price tag of $1,099.00 delivers a stunning performance both in terms of speed and quality. It also succeeds in being stylish, lightweight and resilient while doing so. Let’s analyze the various features of this laptop and figure out its fitment to the modern-day, high-power lifestyle.
The Performance Report-Card
Display, Graphics & Sound
Design & Portability
Accessibility & Connectivity
In one word, the grade is excellent! At the core of this laptop is an eighth Generation Intel Core i7-8550U processor running at 1.8GHz. It can be Turbo boosted to 4.0GHz.This VivoBook has 16GB RAM (DDR4 at 5400 RPM, maximum 32GB support) and a truly expansive memory—256GB (SSD) and 1TB (HDD). The SSD is brilliant: the read/write speeds that you get are almost ten times faster than their mechanical counterparts. The processing power you experience is immense and the response smooth, making this laptop a great ally for your personal and professional needs. It also performs well when you are multitasking or playing back high-resolution video.
The operating system on this laptop is Windows 10, and it comes packed with several tools to enhance your productivity while you work. It is comfortable to use and fairly intuitive in navigation and operational efficiency.
The battery backup is quite competent; the 42WHr, Lithium-Ion battery lasts for up to 8 hours, which covers most of your work-day. If you do run out of juice, there’s no sweat. The battery has a fast-charge technology which lets you charge to 60 percent in only 49 minutes. What a thoughtful feature for people living life on-the-go!
The focus on high performance continues in this territory and how. The new VivoBook has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics coprocessor—renowned for superior graphics quality and brilliant crispness in images. Indeed, it is called gaming-grade graphics for a reason! The coprocessor is discrete and has dedicated 4GB RAM.
On this ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705UD-EH76, you will find a wide and fully High-Definition display, with 72 percent NTSC color gamut and 100 percent sRGB support. The maximum screen resolution supported is 1920 x 1080. As you conduct multiple pursuits like watching movies or playing games, you experience imagery that is accurate, beautiful and clear, elevating your viewing experience by
several pegs. Also notable here is the ASUS Splendid technology; it plays an essential role in advancing the graphics quality to genuinely exemplary.
How’s the sound quality? Well, the audio has been developed in consultation with Harman Kardon, so superiority is guaranteed. The ASUS SonicMaster software works on the stereo speakers to amplify the sound and retain clarity even when there are environmental interruptions (read: noisy public transport). Plus, the speakers are dual-coil and mounted on the front; this too helps amplify the sound. All in all, the auditory experience is pleasant and free of distortion whether you’re viewing multimedia content or placing calls via the VGA-Camera webcam (included).
High-performance laptops often have to make a few sacrifices when it comes to style; greater power often demands greater bulk. However, the ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705UD-EH76 manages quite a
decent deal that doesn’t kill style on account of strength.
This VivoBook is constructed from aluminum—a high-strength and intensively tested grade—and uses topnotch manufacturing processes for the construction. This is reassuring indeed, for the last thing you’d want in a “portable” laptop is a flimsy shell prone to scratches.
Available in an attractive star-gray, this laptop weighs only 4.6 lbs and measures 16.2 x 10.6 x 0.8”. This thickness of 0.8” is a real winner—the sleek profile helps improve the portability of the laptop, helping it easily fit inside a rucksack or backpack.
The VivoBook has always done a good job at being easy to use and straightforward to access. Here again, the keyboard is completely backlit, making it smooth to work irrespective of the lighting conditions. The keyboard is ergonomically designed with a key distance of 1.4mm; this helps reduce strain on your shoulders and fingers as you type.
Regarding device support, the USB 3.1 port (Gen 1, reversible Type-C) is at the center stage, enabling data transfer speeds as incredible as 5Gbps. This port lets you collaborate with peers and colleagues at the speed of lightning, sharing data in a blink. It enables you to connect to external displays too—yes, 4K UHD output! Additionally, the laptop has two USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 port, an HDMI, and an SD card reader. The provisions are fantastic for connecting to all kinds of peripheral devices, even converting to a full-purpose desktop.
The laptop has ample provisions for wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi standards of 802.11AC (dual-band) and Bluetooth 4.1. The Wi-Fi works speedily—almost six times faster than older generations—and proves to be effective in connecting even amidst congestion. There is also an RJ45 for LAN connections.
Keep reading: ASUS VivoBook Pro 15 N580GD-DB74 Laptop Review
The VivoBook has carved a unique reputation for itself in the laptop marketplace. It is a reliable and stylish range, suitable for an array of needs from home-companion to office-partner, and keeps performance higher in priority than anything else. It is heartening to see that the ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705UD-EH76 laptop remains true to the promise of its ancestry.
Delivering a processing performance to be proud of and graphics that win hearts, this laptop has many victories to boot. The expansive memory combo (SSD and HDD) ensures you have adequate space for all your needs, while the wireless and device support keeps you well-connected. The sound system is premium.
Specs of ASUS VivoBook Pro 17 N705UD-EH76
Processor Intel Core i7-8550U (up to 4 GHz)
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB
Storage 256GB PCIe SSD + 1TB HDD
Display 17.3″ Full-HD matte
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Effective immediately, Venezuelan nationals in Colombia holding a Special Stay Permit (PEP) can apply online to renew their PEP for a further two years.
COLOMBIA: Venezuelan Nationals Can Enter with Expired Passports
Effective immediately, the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will allow entry, transit and departure of Venezuelan nationals holding expired or soon-to-expire passports.
COLOMBIA: Mercosur Visa No Longer Open to Chilean Nationals
Effective immediately, the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will no longer grant migrant visas to Chilean nationals on the basis of the Mercosur Agreement, although no changes to the immigration regulations have been made to this effect.
COLOMBIA: New Labour Ministry Registration Required for all Foreign Workers [UPDATED]
Resolution 4388 created and implemented the Single Registry of Foreign Workers in Colombia (“RUTEC”). The 120 days in which companies must register foreign national employees hired by 9 Oct 2018 should be counted from 8 Nov 2018, so the deadline for companies to register these workers is 9 Mar 2019.
COLOMBIA: Longer Processing Times as All In-Country Visa Applications Must be Submitted Online
Effective 28 January 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombia has announced that all in-country visa procedures must now be completed online. In-person visa applications at the Ministry will no longer be accepted.
COLOMBIA: New Labour Ministry Registration Required for all Foreign Workers
The Ministry of Labour has issued Resolution 4388, implementing the Single Registry of Foreign Workers in Colombia (“RUTEC”). The Ministry aims to collect and control information about foreign workers, allowing it to monitor their current status and avoid abusive and illegal contracting practices.
COLOMBIA: New Immigration Compliance Rules and Penalties
COLOMBIA has implemented new immigration compliance rules and penalties. Effective 16 May 2018, Resolution 1238 establishes stricter criteria for compliance with immigration obligations, and bigger penalties for non-compliance.
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Microsoft Announces the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows CE
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 1997 — Microsoft Corp. today provided attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a demonstration of the Microsoft ® Entertainment Pack for the Windows® CE operating system, the first game product to be released for the
Windows CE-based handheld PC platform. Introduced in November, the handheld PC with Windows CE is designed to provide the millions of mobile professionals using Windows-based personal computers an affordable, easy-to-use mobile PC companion to keep their most important information up-to-date and close at hand.
Developed exclusively for the handheld PC, the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for
Windows CE lets users of the handheld PC put the challenge and fun of classic electronic games in the palm of their hand. Like other Windows CE-based applications, the Entertainment Pack is easy to set up, learn and use. Flexible installation allows users to install as many of the games as they want and save the others for later. If users need to remove any of the games from their handheld PC, their high scores and preferences will be saved for later reinstallation.
“The mobile professionals who use their handheld PC to take control of their busy lives and manage their schedules, contacts and run their business applications can now afford to take a break with the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows CE,”
said Jon Magill, director of marketing of the consumer appliance group at Microsoft.
“With 10 classic games, the handheld PC can now help them unwind and relax wherever they go.”
All Work and No Play …
Whether in the waiting room, the boardroom or in a taxi, users are ready to challenge the handheld PC to a showdown of the high-energy action game Space Defense or a more cerebral match of chess. They can take on a friend in a classic match of Sink the Ships using the handheld PC infrared port. Such a wealth of classic games is included with the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows CE that it may be the only game package for the handheld PC that users will ever need.
These timeless standards are available:
Sink the Ships. Track down and sink the enemy fleet.
Space Defense. Protect star bases from incoming missiles.
Blackjack. Beat the dealer in this popular casino card game.
Chess. Use strategy and skill in this well-known favorite.
Codebreaker. Break the secret code in this brainteaser.
FreeCell. All the cards are showing, and it’s still difficult.
Hearts. The challenging card game classic for one or two.
Minesweeper. Clear the minefield using skill and speed.
Reversi. Victory is uncertain until the last piece is flipped.
Taipei. Match the tiles in this Far East favorite.
Pricing, Availability and System Requirements
Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows CE is scheduled to be available in stores by March 1997 for approximately $34.95. System requirements for the desktop computer are as follows: a PC with a 486/33DX or higher microprocessor (Pentium P90 recommended); 8 MB of RAM (12 MB recommended); CD-ROM drive; VGA or higher resolution card;1.8 MB of available hard disk space for installation; Microsoft Windows 95 with the HPC Explorer installed; Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device. Minimum requirements for the handheld PC are as follows: a handheld PC running Windows CE; complete installation requires 614 KB of available RAM on MIPS-based handheld PC (124 KB of RAM minimum required), 512 KB of available RAM on SH3-based handheld PC (108 KB minimum required).
About the Handheld PC with Windows CE
The handheld PC is the inaugural product category based on Windows CE, the new open, scalable Microsoft Windows operating system platform designed for a broad range of communications, entertainment and mobile computing devices. The first handheld PCs are available today in leading consumer-electronics and computer stores nationwide. Handheld PC devices from additional manufacturers are expected to roll out over the coming months, with international versions expected before the second half of 1997.
Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.
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Microsoft Office XP Licenses In Asia Pacific Exceed 12 Million
HONG KONG, May 14, 2002 — Microsoft Asia Pacific today announced that more than 12 million customers have been licensed for Microsoft Office XP in the Asia Pacific region (including Japan, Australia and New Zealand) since the product was launched in May 2001. This figure represents a threefold increase in customer licenses compared with the number of Office 2000 licenses sold in the Asia Pacific during a comparable time frame. Overall, Asia Pacific Office XP licenses made up 20% of the 60 million licenses issued worldwide for the latest version of Microsofts productivity suite in the same period.
“In this era of intense IT budget scrutiny, companies in the Asia Pacific are seeing value in Office XP as a critical part of their business strategy, said Michael Rawding, President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Microsoft Corporation. The level of investment we are seeing validates our conviction that Office XP increases business productivity, delivers business value and new solutions opportunities for businesses, like no other desktop software.”
Why Organizations Are Adopting Office XP
Organizations throughout the Asia Pacific region are choosing to deploy Office XP to enable more efficient content creation and collaboration, and to take advantage of customized business applications developed on the Office XP platform by solutions partners and other independent software vendors.
For instance, JR East Japan Information Systems Company (JEIS) has been deploying Office XP together with Windows XP Professional since November 2001. They have seen the advantages from implementing the XP desktop simultaneously. Adopting Office XP on the Windows XP Pro operating system has enabled JEIS to significantly improve user support efficiency through remote assistance, system recovery and SharePoint Team Services for their internal Helpdesk systems. JEIS has also customized the Smart Tag feature and integrated it into the companys business applications and cooperative systems, on an XML base, from each of the Office XP applications.
Sonata Software Ltd. is a solutions partner based in Bangalore, India. The company has developed a comprehensive portal solution called WorXPace based on Office XP and SharePoint technologies. WorXPace provides a single point of access to information, collaboration, business process automation and business intelligence to organizations with large sales forces and integrated sales and marketing processes. WorXPace, which is currently being implemented by Sonatas sister company, Sonata Info Tech Ltd., is capable of increasing sales force productivity by 25% and is estimated to generate up to 200% return on investment after the first year of full deployment.
“With Office XP, our experience is that the development time for collaborative productivity solutions has been reduced by 30% to 40%,” said R. Balasubramanian, Vice-President, Sonata Software Limited.
“We have taken advantage of all Microsoft Office XP features in the solution we developed, making it both rich and easy to use. The Indian language capability and Smart Tag feature are extremely powerful and useful. The training requirements for the end users who are going to use WorXPace are almost negligible, as most of them are familiar with the Microsoft Office User Interface.”
Sonatas WorXPace solution was awarded first place during the Microsoft Asia Productivity eXPerience Solutions Challenge partner event organized last month.
BSME Holborn Computer Resources, Ltd., another solutions partner based in Hong Kong, has developed the BSME Holborn Financial Management System (FMS) solution, leveraging the unique features of Office XP, including Smart Tag, web components and real-time data. This solution has enabled their customer – the Martally Group – flexible access to financial documents on or off-line and has accelerated the companys month-end accounting process.
“Using Office XPs highly extensible architecture as our platform shortened our development of BSME Holborn Financial Management System by at least 40%,” said Patrick Lee, Director, BSME Holborn Computer Resources, Ltd.
Knowledge eXPerience Portal has been developed by Malaysian solutions partner Computer Systems Advisers (CSA) . The solution is a comprehensive knowledge management portal that centralizes information and streamlines automated approval workflow with ISO 9001 compliance forms on-line. By implementing and deploying this solution to manage internal administrative processes, Elken Sdn Bhd, a leading direct selling company in Malaysia, can now increase staff productivity, saving over US$50,000 a year in manpower costs.
About Office XP
Office XP provides a much smarter work experience for individuals, teams and organizations. It makes productivity simple for individuals by helping them get the most out of Office and giving them tools they can rely on. Office XP enables collaboration for everyone by revolutionizing the way people work with others on documents and introducing SharePoint Team Services to manage projects and activities via the Web. Office XP also provides a flexible way to solve business needs by delivering rich business solutions and improved security and reliability tools businesses need to deploy and manage Office.
Microsoft, SharePoint and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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First Floor, Huxley House, 26 Huxley Close, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 4JN
Ref: A0865
Available as a whole or in smaller suites
Competitive rentals
8 car spaces total
The property comprises a two storey, purpose built office building of brick construction under a part pitched interlocking concrete tile and part flat roof.Internally the building is sub-divided into a number of rooms which lends itself to letting as a whole or in smaller suites as detailed below.
The property is situated in the Huxley Close cul-de-sac on the Newnham Industrial Estate at Plympton with good access to the A38 Devon Expressway and Plymouth City Centre to the west.
(All dimensions and areas are approximate)
The building provides a total floor area of approximately 223.01 sq m (2400 sq ft) and could provide the flooring suite arrangements:
Suite One: 60.1 sq m (647 sq ft) – UNDER OFFER
Suite Two: 41.8 sq m (450 sq ft)
Suite Three: 54.65 sq m (588 sq ft)
Suite Four: 23.92 sq m (257 sq ft)
Suite Five: 37.28 sq m (401 sq ft)
Any permutation of the above could be available as an alternative. Internal partition walls could be removed to create alternative office layouts or open plan office space to suit occupier requirements.
There are up to eight car spaces available with the whole of the accommodation.
We understand that all mains services are either connected or available to the premises.
Due to the potential sub-division of the space the rates are yet to be assessed.
The premises are available on new leases for flexible terms of years and drawn on a full repairing and insuring term via a service charge.
Rentals and terms are available upon request from the agents.
Each party will be responsible for their own legal costs incurred in the transaction.
We understand the property has an Energy Performance Rating of D76 although this may change with the sub-division.
We understand the property is not currently elected for VAT.
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How the ‘Fatima’ Designer Found Portuguese Towns to Recreate Historical Miracle
Director Marco Pontecorvo shot his film “Fátima” entirely on location in Portugal, not just for authenticity, but because the Portuguese government also created a special film incentive package, giving the production a tax credit.The movie, released via PVOD and in theaters on Aug.
28, is based on historical events in 1917 when three young children reported seeing the Virgin Mary in the rural village of Fatima, Portugal while in the fields.
The apparitions caused believers to flock to the site.Set against a backdrop of World War I, Pontecorvo makes his English feature film debut in the retelling of the story.
The former “Game of Thrones” cinematographer sought to find the right towns to film in.
He relied on production designer Cristina Onori to transport viewers and the production to 1917.
Together, they scouted around, settling on the towns of Tapada de Mafra, Coimbra, Tomar, Lisbon and Cidadelhe to serve as a backdrop.
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2019 sees 250 journalists in jail worldwide
Sarah Borg
For the fourth consecutive year, not less than 250 journalists across the world were arrested for investigative journalism and a further 50 journalists were killed. This was revealed in a report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
In 2018, the committee had found that there were around 255 journalists who had been put to jail. China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt hold the topmost place in the hierarchy, with the journalists in these countries having the strongest threats to their freedom.
Ever since CPJ started recording imprisoned journalists at the beginning of the nineties, this year was the very first year that Turkey did not top the list.
Whereas the majority of international arrests face anti-statal accusations, the number of accused fake news went up to 30 cases when compared with the 28 cases found last year.
IGM calls for protection for Maltese journalists
50 killed in 2019
The committee also found that a staggering total of 50 journalists were killed this year.
Furthermore, between 1992 and 2019, 1906 journalists were killed due to the nature of their work. In all of the assassinations, the motive of only 71.51% was confirmed.
Thanks to continuous monitoring, the CPJ has contributed to the early release of at least 80 journalists in jail from numerous countries around the world.
As can be seen from the full report here, the only documented journalist murdering in Malta was that of Daphne Caruana Galizia which took place on the 16th October 2017.
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Winning S.F. Plaza Design Creates a Public Space for Protest
Rachel Dovey November 1, 2017
(Credit: Perkins Eastman)
A new design for San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Plaza could transform the corner of Castro and Market streets with marches and community rallies in mind.
A team led by San Francisco-based firm Perkins Eastman, Hoodline reports, had their work chosen from a group of 33 entries and three finalists. The project team includes engineering firm Arup, graphic design firm Propp + Guerin, visual design firm Lightswitch SF, and artist Cybele Lyle. (I occasionally write for Arup.) The winning design features an amphitheater made up of stages, ramps and benches rising from the plaza — intended as a place for people to sit, but doubling as a space for gatherings and community activism. A timeline of the life of Milk, who was a San Francisco city supervisor and the first openly gay politician to be elected in California, has milestones of the LGBTQ civil rights movement. A field of LED candles to be activated at sunset would be featured throughout the plaza — acknowledging the many candlelight vigils that have been held at the intersection.
“While each of the three finalists delivered wonderful concepts for the future plaza, what set the submission from Perkins Eastman apart was their bold, immersive idea; passion for Harvey’s message; and willingness to iterate the design based on feedback during the competition process,” Andrea Aiello, president of Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza and executive director of the Castro Community Benefits District, said in a press release.
Because the plaza sits over Castro Station, Perkins Eastman has proposed changing the transit entrance to face west, thus creating a larger plaza at street level. At the station level, a meeting room would provide space for community activities.
According to SF Gate, that change could potentially add to the walking distance of commuters rushing to catch their train, but it may not be set in stone. And while the design has been chosen, its execution isn’t a sure thing. Millions in funds need to be raised, and signoffs are required by more than one agency.
However, the design is nothing if not an expression of the city’s zeitgeist — and the increasingly movement-based politics of 2017. As Jeff Risom, managing director of Gehl in the U.S., wrote in a Next City op-ed in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 election, “This last year has exemplified how people use the streetscape as a space for expression, revolt and protest, from Black Lives Matter to Trump rallies and the current post-election protests in urban areas. … Today, it is even more important that our streets and public spaces be used for dialogue, and exposure to other points of view, which promotes empathy and a greater ability to coexist in our physical surroundings and institutions.”
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Representative Rugby
Mike Blair retires from international rugby
Mike Blair has announced his international retirements, stepping away from the fray ahead of this years Six Nations at the age of 31.
Blair was Scotland’s most capped scrum half with 85 appearances; the Brive number nine captained the national side 14 times.
His international career began in 2002 against Canada, spanning 10 seasons. He scored seven tries for his country and was nominated for the IRB Players of the Year award in 2008 before touring South Africa with the British and Irish Lions a year later.
His career in a Scotland shirt will perhaps be remembered best for the long running, and high quality, duel for the number 9 shirt that he had with Chris Cusiter, a Lion in 2005.
That he generally has edged that particular battle speaks volumes for the talent of Blair, whose ability to under the high ball when sweeping behind his defence will be particularly missed.
Blair moved to Brive this summer having spent the rest of his career with Edinburgh, and cited the move as a partial reason for his international retirement:
“There’s no doubt that moving our family to France has played a part in my decision. Our son Rory is now at school here and we have an 11-week-old daughter, Lucy, who was born in Brive.â€
“However, it’s a combination of reasons that’s led to my standing down from international rugby, not just one factor.
Even in retirement Blair showed his familiar sense of duty to the team rather than himself that impressed so many Scotland coaches:
“I’m in the very fortunate position of being able to decide myself when my international career ends, for me, that time is now. A place in the squad at the World Cup in 2015 is not a realistic personal target and, with that in mind, it’s right for Scottish rugby and the Scotland team, that other players gain experience in a pivotal position.â€
The former Edinburgh man was a part of some of Scotland’s most famous victories in recent times and reflected on one of those, his captaincy debut:
“I have enjoyed immensely representing my country for more than 10 years and will miss that exhilarating feeling of running out to a capacity crowd with the whole country behind you. The noise when leading the team out for the first time as captain at Murrayfield against England in 2008, when we won 15-9, still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I think about it.â€
He finished his statement by saying: “I want to thank everyone – my family, the Scotland management teams past and present, my team mates and our supporters – for their enormous contribution to my international career. I have been very fortunate to have these people around me.”
His retirement leaves interim Head Coach, Scott Johnson, shorn of one of his leadership group but perhaps not as weakened as he might have been had it been a player in a different position retiring.
Scrum half is one of the real strengths of Scottish rugby; indeed it is the only position wear the second choice player is a Lion, Chris Cusiter. With Rory Lawson and Henry Pyrgos in reserve, even without Blair it is still a position of real strength for Scotland.
They can even call on the talents of the man who has been charged with igniting the backline from fly half in recent times, Greig Laidlaw, a man who is by trade a scrum half himself.
Scotland’s first game of the Six Nations is against England on the 2nd February.
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Stillwater Runs Deep
Boston Chef Sarah Wade chopped restaurant stillwater
Nickerson proudly promotes Chef Sarah Wade’s effort to provide take-out during the Covid-19 crisis
As restaurants across the country closed their doors, Rina Peselman, Director of Media and Social experience worked to secure key media placements to promote Chef Sarah and Stillwater as THE place to go for take out!
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We love Chef Sarah’s hustle and determination to keep her restaurant open during challenging times, and our team is committed to keeping Stillwater top of mind for anyone craving a little bit of comfort food! Read more about Chef Sarah and the story behind Stillwater below.
When Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced on Sunday, March 15 (Beware the Ides of March) that all state restaurants and bars needed to stop dine-in operations by Tuesday, March 17, Chef Sarah Wade — owner of downtown Boston restaurant Stillwater and 2018 top honor and gold medal winner in the Food Network’s Chopped Gold Medal Games — “jumped in. I said ‘We’re going to stay open, and we’re going to do what we can.’” It’s this type of tenacity and dedication that characterizes Nickerson’s clients, and the Boston spirit in general. Wade may be originally from Oklahoma, but she represents Beantown in the best and brightest way possible.
Wade beat out 16 competitors and won the Chopped competition twice in 2018 — the preliminary round and the finals — and it’s easy to see why. The 37-year-old chef’s tenacity, determination and dedication are hallmarks of her career. “I’ve been working my entire career to open a restaurant, and Stillwater is that flagship,” she said. The female entrepreneur is determined to stay open and serve the people of Boston comfort food in a time of crisis.
Mac & Cheese. Photography by Nickerson
“I’ve found Mac and Cheese can cure quite a bit,” said Wade. (It does, Chef Sarah. It does. We in Boston thank you for the creative variations.) “A lot of people are eating their feelings right now and I’m happy to help with that.”
Most of the 2018 Chopped competitors already had their own restaurants. Wade didn’t. She took the $50,000 she won from the competition and opened Stillwater in the Downtown Boston just seven months ago, following an impressive run as a chef in the hotel industry as well as executive chef at Lulu’s Allston. Wade has been showing up in the Boston area for a long time.
Governor Baker has said that until April 6, only takeout and delivery options would be allowed “unless further extended”, and Wade took Stillwater’s regular menu to task. In addition to her regular menus available for takeout, Wade has introduced a “Simple Supper” for two with a rotating daily menu. The dinnertime “Simple Supper” specials feed two people generously for $39. All “Simple Suppers” have a protein, starch, vegetable, and side salad. For example: grilled chicken and veggie skewers with tzatziki sauce, warm pita, a garden salad to share, spinach rice, and roasted brussel sprouts, packaged and ready for pickup. Simple Suppah? Sign us up! Three cheers for simplicity and Wade’s dedication.
Boston Herald – Top spots in Boston for top-notch takeout
Wade named Stillwater after the mid-sized Oklahoma city she’s from. Situated between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Stillwater — and Sarah Wade — runs deep.
Initially, Wade’s reaction to Baker’s announcement went as follows: “Oh my gosh, I have a new restaurant. How am I going to pay my employees? It was very daunting. We’re a new business. But we jumped in and said ‘we’re going to stay open, and we’re going to do what we can. A lot of places shut down, but we’re not there yet.’ We’re grateful the federal government is allowing people to file for unemployment, because we’ve had to trim down to bare bones staff and we want our staff to come back when this is over. We’re confident that things are going to be fine.”
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Wade is a chef in Boston for several reasons. “I love it here,” is the first and most simple reason. “I’ve lived in multiple states, being in the industry. Boston has a good vibe — a neighborhood vibe in a large city. The food scene is amazing, as is the female chef scene. I love that there’s a heavy concentration of female chefs.”
Wade has made it her personal mission to reinvent comfort food. We all have a sense of what “comfort food” is — but how are they defined? Wikipedia says “comfort” food “provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to someone, and may be characterized by its high caloric nature, high carbohydrate level, or simple preparation. The nostalgia may be specific to an individual, or it may apply to a specific culture.” For example: Mac and Cheese, with variations. Chicken, in generous portions. Burgers, cooked with love. Sweets, to complete the meal.
Boston Magazine – Here’s Your First Look at the “Redefined Comfort Food” Menu at Stillwater
Stillwater’s regular menu is indeed comforting, and states it’s been serving “warm and fuzzies” since 2019, not limited to the following: “Sexy Snacks”, including an “ever-changing” New England board of cheese and meats, biscuits and butter, deviled eggs, and crispy smoked chicken wings; “Sandos” (sandwiches – available at lunch only), all served with chips and salad and including the flat patty burger with fries, the Creole veggie burger, and the smoked pulled pork sandwich; “Greens and Soups” like the Smoked Chicken Chili and the Kingston Bowl; “Meals” such as the Ritz Chicken and the Smoked Pork Mac and Cheese; and “Sweets” such as Vanilla Ricotta Donut Holes and Dark Chocolate Ganache. (Heads up: Wade won Chopped with a deconstructed ice cream sandwich with almond cookie and strawberry sauce. You may want to leave room for dessert.)
“My restaurant is in a residential building, so I feel responsible to feed the residents,” Wade said. “Recently, someone came in to pick up a ‘Simple Supper’ and said ‘thank god you’re here. I don’t know if I’d be surviving right now without you.’ That made it all worth it.”
Wade graduated from the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Oklahoma State University in 2005. She started her career with Renaissance hotels and held positions ranging from banquet chef to executive chef in North Carolina and Texas. She then became executive chef at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Connecticut. After eight years in the hotel business, Wade helped open Lulu’s Allston in the Boston area as executive chef. Her work at Lulu’s was featured on Phantom Gourmet, the Chronicle, Boston Magazine, Zagat and Buzzfeed.
The Boston Globe – Getting Salty with Sarah Wade of Stillwater
Stillwater is located at 120 Kingston Street, Boston.
Phone: 617-936-3079. Website: https://www.stillwaterboston.com/
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. All food available for online ordering as well as “The Simple Supper.”
The lunch menu with sandwiches is available from 11 a.m. to 3:59 p.m., and the “Simple Supper” and other regular menu options are available for dinner, or, in New England, “Suppah.” After dinnah.
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