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Recent Articles about Indonesia / Philippines / Australia Anarchist movement
Celebration of Jack Grancharoff's life Jun 20 16 by Dmitri (republishing)
MAY DAY 2016 May 01 16 by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
Anarchism in Indonesia Jan 29 15 by Sean Matthews
Formation of Anarchist Communists Meanjin
indonesia / philippines / australia | anarchist movement | press release Wednesday January 06, 2021 19:10 by Anarchist Communists Meanjin
In Brisbane, Australia
The struggle for a new world has been a long one and has been contributed to by countless individuals and organisations in that time. While the path often seems long and sometimes hopeless we believe that a new world is not just possible, but necessary for our survival. We hope that with this new organisation we like so many before us can play a part in making this vision become reality.
We are excited to officially announce the formation of Anarchist Communists Meanjin!
We are an organisation of revolutionaries who share a common vision of a new world – an anarchist communist world - where people collectively control their workplaces, communities and land, where all needs are met and all people are able to flourish. A world where power and decision making flow from the bottom up and society is organised for peoples’ aspirations, passions, and needs rather than profit, where we can live sustainability with the planet and where oppressive social structures based on racism, imperialism, patriarchy and heteronormativity are a thing of the past.
We believe that this vision can only be brought about through the revolutionary power of the working class organised in the workplaces, communities, schools, and streets in order to overthrow the state and capitalism, thereby enacting a social revolution and building a new world from below.
As those actively seeking to construct this vision we are inspired by the traditions of anarchist-communism, Marxism, especifismo, platformism, women’s liberation, queer liberation, decolonisation, abolitionism, anti-racism and the history of global struggle for liberation. We are inspired by a long tradition of struggle and by all the revolutionaries before us, whose tireless work and commitment have laid the path we follow today. Most importantly we acknowledge that First Nations Peoples fight against invasion and colonisation is the longest ongoing struggle within So-Called Australia and is central to any possibility of social change on this continent today.
We believe in the need for a political home from which to organise ourselves and put forward our vision. We believe in the need to create spaces for the development of new revolutionaries that allow the grouping together of similarly minded militants in order to facilitate the development of all.
We see the need to build a specifically anarchist communist organisation united around a common set of ideas, strategy, and practice. We believe that political organisations should speak to the needs of our time, and act as a catalyst in struggles to expand their revolutionary potential. Revolutionary organisation should be a vehicle to build, contribute to, and learn from social struggles and eventually act as a motor for social revolution.
While we have formed out of Unite, Anarchist Communists Meanjin is a new and completely separate organisation based upon a greater unity of theory and action. Unite will continue on in its amazing work, particularly the running of Common House, one of the most vibrant centres of radical organising in Meanjin, and one they hope to open up even more like minded groups in the future. You can follow their amazing work and get in touch here - https://www.facebook.com/UniteCommonHouseBNE
We would like to make clear that the formation of Anarchist Communists Meanjin is not a split from Unite but rather the result of a group of comrades developing and expanding their politics in new ways, which eventually required the formation of an entirely new organisation.
For those interested in getting involved with Anarchist Communists Meanjin we can be reached either through our facebook or our website https://acmeanjin.org
You can also find out more information about our politics & strategy on our website, as well as ongoing streams of propaganda and education.
Watch this space for events in the future, we plan to hold regular public reading groups & discussion nights starting on the 19th where we will be reading and discussing a range of articles on ‘Especifismo’, a variant of anarchist communist organising birthed in Latin America, from which we are heavily influenced.
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Report from the Academy: Q&A about Curatorial Power with Lisa Myers
by Sally McKay on June 8, 2011 · 1 comment Interview
KC Adams, The Gift That Keeps on Giving (2011). Clay pots, river rocks, white flour, white sugar, salt, milk and lard. Photo: KC Adams.
Artists and theorists often formulate opinions of art world hierarchies according to Jenny Holzer's common sense maxim, THE ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. Every curator, even the most community-minded, has to figure out how to manage power dynamics in relationship to artists and artworks. Specifically, I am thinking about the common complaint artists have that curators manipulate and re-contextualize their work in order to illustrate a curatorial agenda. In the worst case scenarios, artists are positioned as inarticulate makers and curators as the ones who illuminate the meanings of the works in cultural context. But there are many curators for whom the politics of representation are deeply embedded in their practice. In order to take a closer look at the processes of curation, I will present discussions with two curators who have inspired me with their approach to power. Next month I will talk with Patrick Macaulay, Head of Visual Art at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. This month, I talk with the Toronto based emerging curator Lisa Myers.
Having just finished her Masters of Fine Art in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCADU, Lisa Myers is already garnering quite a bit of attention in the Canadian art world. In 2010 she collaborated with fellow student and curator Suzanne Morrissette on the exhibition past now, a show with two emerging Aboriginal artists—Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell. Each artist embodies past historical motifs in living contemporary forms. The exhibition was first mounted at the OCADU Graduate Gallery in March of 2010, and then expanded into a large-scale installation at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie that ran from November 2010 into February 2011.
Best Before at Graduate Gallery, OCAD University (2011). View of entrance. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
Lisa's very recent thesis exhibition, Best Before, was an ambitious project featuring funny and poignant installations about the encoding of food from Aboriginal perspectives. The artists — KC Adams, Keesic Douglas, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Peter Morin and Suzanne Morrissette — have diverse practices, and come from very different points in their careers, some just now emerging and some with international profiles already established. The works resonated very well in dialogue with one another, creating a reflective aesthetic space with a strong emotional charge.
Sally: You've mentioned that collaboration is a big part of your process. Can you talk about some of the specific ways that collaboration has manifested in your practice?
Lisa: I can relate collaboration to my experience as a chef running kitchens where everyone has something to contribute and even though I was running the show I couldn't do it without the team. Similarly, to me curators and artists have an interdependent relationship that calls for careful consideration.
I use the term collaborate to describe my approach to my thesis exhibition Best Before mostly to explain that the artists and I examined the curatorial thesis together. Especially with this project, collaboration made sense since I invited the artists to make work that responded to a recipe of their choice (in some cases the recipe emerged after the work). The responsibility of representing artists through curatorial writing and exhibitions is daunting and I negotiate it carefully and with respect. I check in with the artists and consider their input integral. My collaborative practice includes talking through ideas with the artists, whether they concern the developing of artworks or the exhibition design and use of space. I also share my writing with the artists during the early stages of developing the exhibition which gives us a chance to respond to one another, and builds trust.
Keesic Douglas, 4 Reservation Food Groups (2010). Four chromagenic prints, Cheez Whiz, Kam, Wonderbread, Kool-Aid, water, audio file of Mark Douglas telling his Kam story. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
S: I want to ask about how you deal with power. Issues of representation are particularly charged when working with Aboriginal artists. As a curator, how do you come to terms with your own role as a gatekeeper?
L: I don't think of what I do as gate keeping but yes I have the power to choose artists for the exhibitions that I curate. At the same time I'm also cognizant of the fact that the aritsts have power too, without artists and artworks there's no show.
Gate keeping makes me think of the way historically Indigenous people were represented in museums as “primitive,” extinct and “people of the past”. In my opinion, works like James Luna's Artifact Piece marked an important flash point in 1987, as he laid in a vitrine at the Museum of Man in San Diego. As a living and breathing person, Luna took up the position of the artifact and in doing so, his performance raised questions about power. Specifically, I think Luna's work prodded at the power of museums to display and portray indigenous cultures as static and only existing in the past. This performance underlined the power of the art world. Work by Indigenous artists pushed boundaries between what was deemed suitable to be displayed in museums as cultural artifacts and what was to be exhibited in museums or galleries as Art. I also consider the curatorial projects by Lee Ann Martin, Gerald McMaster and Richard William Hill, just to name a few of the significant number of Indigenous curators who have worked for decades to tease out artworld hierarchies.
Despite my internal conflict about power and the responsibility of representation, I still have to own some authority and part of the responsibility of representing involves acknowledging and owning the authority or power.
S: I'm wondering if you feel like you have been taking curatorial risks. In my interpretation, past now was a very edgy show. Both Luke Parnell and Meryl McMaster put very finely nuanced spins on imagery that could be described as “traditional” in the historical context of Aboriginal art and craft. Some really high profile Aboriginal artists — I'm thinking specifically of Kent Monkman, Brian Jungen and Terrance Houle — make overt, ironic use of traditional tropes in order to subvert them through inversion. Parnell and McMaster are critically astute artists, but they both go for a high impact, visual aesthetic that seems to fall on the side of embracing traditional practices rather than poking fun at them. I'm wondering if you agree with this interpretation, and whether or not putting these works together felt at all risky for you and Suzanne in the context of contemporary Aboriginal art practice?
L: Monkman, Jungen and Houle in some cases use parody and I think that their work also investigates sophisticated visual languages that haven't been included in the critical art discourse. For example, in one of Jungen's works where he creates customary beading designs by drilling holes into jerry gas cans, the result is often seen as a post modern mash up of sorts. But I'm also interested in the potential for critical art writing from an Indigenous perspective to address the specific symbolism encoded in such beading designs. In a lot of cases, the best writing about Aboriginal or Indigenous art is happening now in our exhibition catalogues. This speaks to the importance of contemporary art and curatorial practice as informing written art history.
As for past now the biggest risk was that people wouldn't get it and they'd see it as fulfilling preconceived notions of what Native art looks like. But I think that the work successfully disrupted that and it's interesting to think about how, for example, Luke Parnell's carving evokes certain romantic ideas and iconography of the past and then slaps down some issues with big stakes. His installation 48 — comprised of 48 basswood carvings individually encased in acrylic boxes — responds to the repatriation by the Haida of human remains of their ancestors.
When I first saw Luke and Meryl's artwork I knew they would work in dialogue together and something really great would happen. Putting together past now was an intuitive moment. Luke's work takes customary design and images into a realm of examination of history and at the same time responds to pop culture and serious issues like repatriation of human remains. Meryl appropriates old Edward S. Curtis and Will Soule photographs to reflect on her own identity and ancestral connections. She expressed that it was important to her that everyone could relate to her photos and consider their own ancestors. The artwork really led the exhibition premise.
Cheryl L'Hirondelle, NDNSPAM Cookbook (2011). Detail of NDNSPAM iMac cozy. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
S: Following on from the last question, I know from previous discussions that you received some strong emotional feedback from audiences at your thesis exhibition Best Before. On one hand, many of the works could be interpreted as light and playful, but it seems as if, for some people, a quite tragic and painful subtext was also emerging through the humour. Do you embrace the dark side, or are some issues just too sensitive to take on directly?
L: The artists were responding to recipes of their choice and the emotional response was a result of the exhibition's premise. Colonization involved displacement from land and shifts in food sources, commodity foods were introduced in manners that some would consider acts of violence, so it wasn't unexpected that the work would deal with difficult subject matter. One of the long-term effects of this colonial history involves the rates of type two diabetes being three to five times higher in Aboriginal communities than those of the rest of the population across Canada. I wasn't doing the show to be merely provocative, it was inspired by performance work by James Luna and Lori Blondeau, which I linked to my experience as a cook and the health issues in my own community and family around diabetes and cancer. These difficult topics are as important as the humour that some of the work evokes. I think the playfulness comes hand in hand with what you call the dark side. For some the show was about the deleterious effect of processed food, for others it was the potential of any food to be incorporated as a family food tradition and many other ideas were all at play.
Peter Morin, Salmon and Bannock (2005/2010). Letter envelopes, hand-printed lino prints and video documentation of Team Diversity: World's Largest Bannock Attempt (2005) Photo: Keesic Douglas
S: I really appreciate the fact that all of the artists in Best Before are given equal weight in the exhibition, despite the fact that some have a really high profile while others do not. Was this an accident of how this particular show came together, or is it indicative of a curatorial agenda to work against the grain of hierarchical artworld structures?
L: Giving each artist equal weight in the exhibition seemed the most respectful way to work with the artists, and visually it gave the exhibition a certain balance in the space. It wasn't entirely conscious but in the end I learned a lot and I would attribute it to working with artists at different stages in their career. This was the range of artists I found that incorporated food in their practice.
I think this relates to the audience too, this show was successful in engaging a non-art audience just because the ubiquitous nature of food engages people without being intimidating. I think the subject of food as an art medium, or a researchable topic with the discourse of art history, itself challenges the hierarchical structures of the art world.
Suzanne Morrissette, solve for spur to bum area, for some (2011). Paper, pencil, pen, ink, metal screen, electric stove elements, camping stove, stock pot, and Labrador Tea. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
S: You are an artist as well as a curator. I'm wondering if you feel like having an art practice impacts your curatorial process in negative and/or positive ways. It is important to listen to the artworks first and foremost and respect the artists, as it is sometimes difficult not to get carried away and deploy artworks as points of argument toward a curatorial proposition. How do you negotiate these kinds of tensions in your practice?
L: You raise some important points here. As an artist I know how art drives ideas, in terms of curatorial work I see it as another creative process that puts works into conversation together — in this conversation something new happens and it's the art together that makes it happen. I don't want to force that, and I like how sometimes unexpected things happen once the show is installed. I'm sure that work gets recontextualized all the time. I may do that too, but not because I think it lacks some articulation on the artist's part. I think that a perceived manipulation takes place because there's a lack of communication and dialogue between the artist and curator. I also think that it's nearly impossible to represent an artwork like the artist would. I appreciate when artists and artists' collectives put together shows without curators.
Lisa Myers is a curator, artist and musician. Her MFA research in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University investigated cultural agency and the encoding of food from diverse Indigenous perspectives, and resulted in the exhibition titled Best Before. This summer Myers will be working on numerous projects including artwork for a forthcoming exhibition, a series of performances with the band Adaptor 45, and planning a curatorial collaboration with artist Rebecca Diederichs. This August, Myers will present at the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography in Frankfurt, Germany. Lisa Myers lives and works between Toronto and Port Severn, Ontario.
Tagged as: Adaptor 45, Best Before, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Gerald McMaster, James Luna, KC Adams, Keesic Douglas, Lee Ann Martin, Lisa Myers, MacLaren Art Centre, OCADU Graduate Gallery, Peter Morin, Richard William Hill, Suzanne Morrissette
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David L. Lawrence Convention Center
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The suspension roof of this 1.45 million-square-foot convention center integrates into a single sweeping gesture the contextual, environmental, structural, and programmatic requirements of the project. Its iconic design takes inspiration from the historic suspension bridges that span the Allegheny River adjacent to the riverfront site and provides the latest chapter in Pittsburgh’s long history of engineering and technological innovations. This unique steel cable structure made possible a naturally-lit and column-free, 250,000-square-foot exhibition hall.
Extending downtown Pittsburgh’s civic realm above and through the building, the new center provides both a public roof terrace with panoramic views of downtown and the Allegheny River as well as a ground level pedestrian connection under the building and through a 500-foot water feature that leads to the riverfront park.
This competition-won design was executed largely from a site office in Pittsburgh, which in collaboration with the owner, consultant engineers, non-profit environmental agencies provided an extensive team effort to maximize integration of viable sustainable features into the design of the facility, including natural day-lighting, low-temperature air distribution, natural ventilation, and gray water reclamation. The first and largest certified sustainable convention center in the world, the center is also the only meeting venue to be awarded the Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Selection:
Cinéma en développement 9 / 2014
Natalia Smirnoff
More informations about director
Director's main filmography:
Lock Charmer, 2014,
Viviendo Positivamente, 2012,
Puzzle, 2010.
Director’s statement:
When we arrive to all what we had dreamt about, Where we arrive? Hardly anything that what we have dreamt about in the past, will look alike now. Along the way of life certain parts become lost. There are unavoidable resignations, changes in the sense of way, unexpected discoveries, developments that transform us. And maybe something essential has been left behind during the voyage. To meet someone else, somebody who has been close to us, may move us to look back. Watching at all that someone isn’t, the mirror-like vision becomes evident. The shock forces us, at least, to rethink the situation. And maybe it gives us a chance to incorporate that very important thing we had forgotten about.
Clara (39) is a well-known illustrator that less than a year ago won a very important prize that changed her economic status and found herself on the public eye, so she moved with her family to a suburb to be more focused on her work. Her husband, Francisco, is her pleader and defender, sometimes over-protective. Also Sammie, her agent. Between both of them, kind of handle Clara´s life. Among this adaptation and discovery, she goes to the town to buy something, and finds Ariel, the butcher, her old boyfriend, with whom 20 years ago, dreamed of living in that place. The impact is mutual. Ariel doesn’t know anything about the public life of Clara and she enjoys this on top of everything. They start a series of random encounters, continued by some programmed ones, doing things that they used to do and are no longer part of her current life. Ariel lives one day at a time, without thinking or expecting too much. Something that contrasts a lot with Clara’s family and working life, full of important and exposed events, as well as tidy up and tight orders. Clara goes into crisis with what she has to draw next, finding herself in an unknown place, where she finds out from Ariel who she was and who is she now. What changed, what is her essence, what she lost? Who she wants to be from now?
Visual concept:
Starting the play about a leading female character, an illustrator, I’m interested in exploring the gaze of somebody who draws, who imagines, and the interplay between the movie image’s internal reality and its possible proximity to her imagination. Since everything happens against a placid suburb resembling a village, there is a chance for beauty, a green landscape with fruit tress as contrast, of natural color spots that may be close to or a counterpoint to the drawings. The village where she meets her former boyfriend has to be something stopped in time; this can make more sense with the feelings she is reliving and a contrast to her house, more refined in terms of aesthetic beauty.
Goals at Cinéma en Développement:
Looking for producters for the film.
Shooting Date:
Preview locations of shooting:
Ingeniero Maschwitz, Provincia of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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Hubert Bals Fund,
Cinema du Monde,
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Ibermedia,
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In development.
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Up Front: Why a Woman is Like a Bicycle
Grant McDougall, in reply to Moz, 14:14 Feb 1, 2018
Some time ago I suggested to Andrew Geddis on PA that he might like to try cycling for this exact reason and his response was "no, not convenient".
Given that he lives way the hell out at Purakanui, from a purely practical view, it actually isn't for him.
I expect he sympathises a) with the gist of this column and, b) cycling in general, but it's "not convenient" for him because Purakanui is a good 30min drive to his work along very narrow, twisting countries roads for the first half, then a road with heavy trucks zipping along continuously on it for the second.
Also, he's an academic - bit hard to carry a couple of hundred assignments on a bike, eh ?
Dunedin • Since Dec 2006 • 760 posts Report Reply
Paul Campbell, 14:42 Feb 1, 2018
I lived at Purakanui for a year - ever since they got rid of the morning rail-car to Osbourne, and then later the bus, it stopped being practical without a car.
It would be a horrible slog up that hill either way
Riding across the top of the hill on a motor-bike in the winter fog (I still have the scars it's why I have a beard) in the dark (after 5pm, maybe 30% of the year), with no white lines at the edges of road, and barely able to see the faint fading dashed line in the middle ... you have to drive slowly down the middle ... is not for the faint of heart - I can't possibly imagine doing it on a bike, even an electric one, and even with the nice white lines they have now
Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2622 posts Report Reply
SHG, 09:06 Feb 2, 2018
I delete all my social media channels over xmas and haven't regretted it once. every day is better without socmed in my life.
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Aotearoan, 15:01 Feb 3, 2018
This debate takes me back to 1981 & the Springbok tour. I, female, was active on the front line as were other men & women. I was surprised and gratified to hear one burly hard-man, scars on scars, say he'd never faced such fear, violence & hatred in his life...and this was the closest he'd ever got to realising what women faced, often on a daily basis.
Northland • Since Jan 2011 • 14 posts Report Reply
steven crawford, 13:28 Feb 9, 2018
So I went and hung out in Twitter, trying to figure out why it’s now more popular than the traditional comment threads at blog community’s such as public address system.
Its obviously a big research job, that’s going to require plenty of coffee. It’s hard to work out what’s going on. Twitter thru my eyes, looks a bit like crowds of people wondering around in something like a shopping mall, all muttering random sentences to them selves.
Or it’s a bit like listening to a marine radio conversation when one half of the conversation is just static noise.
The traditional blog looks more conversational. It’s more like going to an independent locally operated cafe to sit down for a coffee and hang out, than getting a takeaway from BP. Something I’ve sunk to as a habit!
I’m addicted to paying five dollars something for a cup of coffee in a paper cup, handing over my loyalty card and feeling like a lab rat when the beep beep machine rings the free coffee bell. Something deep down inside me actually believes the big petroleum chain likes me, and wants to buy me a coffee on the house.
This Tweet, seems to be trending on intelligent people’s what-it’s. But I haven’t found any counter argument on twitter. But it’s most likely there, who knows where?
The people might not have sailed to South America (I think they probably did) the potatoes could have made there own way to Polynesia. It’s possible!
James Wong
@Botanygeek
Studying the genes of sweet potatoes shows Pacific Islanders visited The Americas at least 500 years before Columbus.
What is even cooler? You can also show this voyage across the Pacific just by plotting local names of the crop on a map.
Sacha, in reply to steven crawford, 19:12 Feb 9, 2018
That's a great example of what Twitter does well.
steven crawford, in reply to Sacha, 19:14 Feb 9, 2018
Does what well?
Jameswong, aka botanygeek from twitter. He's a TV celebrity ethnobotanist. So when he tweets about the great migration, it's going to trend. Even if it's garbage. ( which it might not be ).
What I think twitter is really good at, is generating massive amounts of trivia. Which isn't a bad thing per say. But there's just so bloody much of it.
Steven crawford
@whythefuckdrinkoutofpapercups
Polynesian travellers reached South America hundreds of years before Europeans explorers arrived, new genetic analysis has proven once and for all.
News hub 2014.
And bingo, after a lot of cups of coffee (in real pottery cups) I cracked it. The tweet about the potatoes, is something interesting from a research document that the TV personality scientist has happened upon. That’s cool. And now it’s on here.
It’s like twitter is a potato planted on a small Island.
steven crawford, 07:26 Feb 10, 2018
Pdf formatted easy reading that’s aimed at a broad social media useing demographic. Can to much society make you sick?
Anyone using twitter will probably know, but just in case, I can conclude my monologue with one word.
Algorithm.
Twitter is an artificial intelligence community. Conventional blog community's such as public address system are not.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter is still too hard to figure out for users and advertisers.
Thats true, it’s hard to know which button to press.
In other news,
Twitter shares are up 24 percent since last Thursday, when Twitter reported its first quarterly profit as part of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.
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Addiction is now defined as a brain disorder, not a behavior issue, by the American Society of Addiction Medicine
Addiction now defined as brain disorder, not behavior issue
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8:51 AM · Jun 8, 2017
This cut and paste is like drinking out of a brown paper bag.
A little bit off topic, but Gerry Fialka appears to have a Facebook page!
For those who don’t know about Gerry Fialka, he was an archivist for Frank Zapper. Then he went on to do really interesting technology awareness things. I can’t see his Facebook page due to my philosophical abhorrence to playing with addictive fire. But I’m pretty sure it’s disruptive. If it isn’t, then civilisation is well and truly fucked up beyond repair. And that’s before we lose any intellectual capital to flue.
Center for Humane Technology
You can read about it in this You York times artical. It’s a coalition of former Google and Facebook employees who have a few clues about digital technology.
PS: They are on twitter for your convenience:-)
GIOVANNI TISO has just posted a good essay on what if the internet blows a fuse.
linger, in reply to steven crawford, 17:25 Feb 28, 2018
… ending with a plea for
recovery of that too-quickly-forgotten past of daily practices and long-term thinking: how we used to communicate, research, write and work. It wasn’t that long ago.
Even so, it may already be too late for intergenerational propagation of pre-internet information-processing systems. My current students have never known anything else, and seem genuinely puzzled by tasks requiring them to remember or combine information using wetware, or to skim text (or look through an index or catalogue) in order to find something out. And increasingly, information is only made available online.
(BTW, Hal Draper came very close to predicting this type of knowledge failure in his 1961 short story “MS Fnd in a Lbry”, though couched in pre-internet terms as a reference library in which indices of indices led back eventually to the information content … until the actual information records got lost in the mass of index files, rendering the entire system useless. Here it is.)
Tokyo • Since Apr 2007 • 1931 posts Report Reply
linger, 17:51 Feb 28, 2018
Draper's story was intended as satire, but it's more than a little chilling to read:
The process of education consisted solely in learning how to tap the Rx for knowledge when needed. The position was well put indeed in a famous speech by Jzbl to the graduates of the Central Saturnian University, when he said that it was a source of great pride to him that although hardly anybody knew anything any longer, everybody knew how to find out everything.
... necessitating ...
a whole new branch of knowledge known as Ariadnology
(literally, web-study!)
steven crawford, in reply to linger, 06:44 Mar 1, 2018
CERN is where the World Wide Web was born. But the United States military often gets the credit.
This Ariadnology nerd friendly news, is interesting to me and's reminiscent of when I was enrolled in correspondence school.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to steven crawford, 11:21 Mar 1, 2018
I guess it is the confusion between the networking structure which arguably ARPANET set up, but it was Berners-Lee who opened it up with the protocols and interface free to all...
(I know that is a skimpy overview, leaving a lot of other stuff aside)
steven crawford, in reply to Ian Dalziel, 12:39 Mar 1, 2018
Yes the Americans did invent some of it. But look! The Americans got very excited when they learned about the word wide web. So they installed the first server - outside of Europe - at one of there universities. The American military did have lots of communication infrastructure, but it wasn’t really the backbone of the internet.
I think it’s the big American telcos that give us the impression that it was all American military. My idea of the world wide webs backbone isn’t military hardware it’s the massive server farms that started in California.
Ps: The American military and MIT could rightfully take a lot of credit for the internet. The internet wouldn’t be very awesome if we didn’t all use it but. So the World Wide Web (build built Europe) is why we not have a dickhead for an American president.
Ps,ps disregard that last part:-)
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Putting the ACT amongst the pig ions…
Little Davey Seymour (using his Trumpian nom de politics) really takes the cake with the risible ‘defence’ of his, ‘#meattoo’ stance on the radio recently – and his tweet calling Susie Ferguson an ‘amateur’ shows how little he understands the nuances of civil behaviour.
His ham-fisted conflation of ‘the right to like meat’ with ‘a right to objectify human bodies’ – and in his case modelling a bull-headed female. (and not just any female but the classic redneck truck flap ‘seated nude silhouette’.)
The Meat Society has apologised but Seymour is bullishly holding his own. Apparently they were modelling their slogan on the ‘Got Milk’ campaign – which ultimately did nothing to improve the sale of milk in America, not sure how the silhouetted ‘minotaur’ and ‘womanotaur’ entered the equation.
He really is a self absorbed and odious oik.
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[[File:Indians Attacking a Stage-Coach BAH-p243.png|thumb|right|200px|Riding shotgun. The driver is holding the whip with the shotgun messenger on his left.]]▼
▲[[File:Indians Attacking a Stage-Coach BAH-p243.png|thumb|right|200px|Riding shotgun. The driver is holding the whip with the shotgun messenger on his left.]]
'''Riding shotgun''' was used to describe the guard who rode alongside a [[stagecoach]] driver, ready to use his [[shotgun]] to ward off bandits or hostile [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the [[driver (person)|driver]] in a moving [[vehicle]]. The phrase has been used to mean giving actual or figurative support or aid to someone in a situation.<ref>{{cite web|work=dictionary.reference.com|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shotgun|title= Define Shotgun at Dictionary.com|publisher =Dictionary.com|accessdate=February 11, 2013}}</ref> The coining of this phrase dates to 1905 at latest.<ref name=phrases/>
== Etymology ==
The expression "riding shotgun" is derived from "[[shotgun messenger]]", a colloquial term for "express messenger", when [[stagecoach]] travel was popular during the American [[American frontier|Wild West]] and the [[Colonialism|Colonial]] period in [[Australia]]. The person rode alongside the driver. The first known use of the phrase "riding shotgun" was in the 1905 novel ''The Sunset Trail'' by Alfred Henry Lewis.
It was later used in print and especially film depiction of stagecoaches and wagons in the [[Old West]] in danger of being robbed or attacked by [[bandit]]s. A special armed employee of the express service using the stage for transportation of bullion or cash would sit beside the driver, carrying a short [[shotgun]] (or alternatively a [[rifle]]),[https://books.google.com/books?id=QILdMe7lYXgC&lpg=PP1&dq=.gov%3Ariding%20shotgun%20wild%20west%20stagecoach&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=shotgun&f=false] to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo, which was usually a strongbox.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Old West in Fact and Film: History Versus Hollywood|last=Agnew|first=Jeremy|publisher=McFarland|year=2012|isbn=0786468882|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|pages=17}}</ref> Absence of an armed person in that position often signaled that the stage was not carrying a strongbox, but only passengers.<ref name=phrases>{{cite web|url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/riding-shotgun.html|title=Riding shotgun|work=phrases.org.uk|accessdate=May 1, 2010}}</ref>
== Historical examples ==
=== Tombstone, Arizona Territory ===
On the evening of March 15, 1881, a Kinnear & Company [[stagecoach]] carrying US$26,000 in [[silver bullion]] ({{inflation|US|26000|1881|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) was en route from the boom town of [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]], [[Arizona Territory]] to [[Benson, Arizona]], the nearest freight terminal.<ref>{{Cite book | last1=O'Neal | first1=Bill | title=Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters | year=1979 | publisher=University of Oklahoma Press | location=Norman, OK | isbn=978-0-8061-2335-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KLrfdOrI78C&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180 |accessdate=April 14, 2011}}</ref>{{rp|180|date=November 2012}} [[Robert H. Paul|Bob Paul]], who had run for [[Pima County, Arizona|Pima County]] Sheriff and was contesting the election he lost due to [[ballot-stuffing]], was temporarily working once again as the Wells Fargo shotgun messenger. He had taken the reins and driver's seat in Contention City because the usual driver, a well-known and popular man named Eli "Budd" Philpot, was ill. Philpot was riding shotgun.
Near [[Edward Landers Drew#Biography|Drew's Station]], just outside [[Contention City, Arizona|Contention City]], a man stepped into the road and commanded them to "Hold!" Three Cowboys attempted to rob the stage. Paul, in the driver's seat, fired his [[shotgun]] and emptied his [[revolver]] at the robbers, wounding a Cowboy later identified as Bill Leonard in the groin. Philpot, riding shotgun, and passenger Peter Roerig, riding in the rear [[rumble seat|dickey seat]], were both shot and killed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tombstone, AZ|url=http://silverstateghosttowns.com/tombstone-az.html|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> The horses spooked and Paul wasn't able to bring the stage under control for almost a mile, leaving the robbers with nothing. Paul, who normally rode shotgun, later said he thought the first shot killing Philpot had been meant for him.<ref name="robbery">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/2653/Wyatt-Earp-Trial-1881-Mysterious-Stage-Coach-Robbery.html|title= Wyatt Earp Trial: 1881—A Mysterious Stage Coach Robbery—Clanton, Holliday, Told, Leonard, Doc, and Ike| accessdate=February 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://historyraider.com/ |title=History Raiders |accessdate=February 11, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208143417/http://historyraider.com/ |archivedate=February 8, 2011 }}</ref>
When [[Wyatt Earp]] first arrived in Tombstone in December 1879, he initially took a job as a stagecoach [[shotgun messenger]] for [[Wells Fargo]], guarding shipments of silver bullion. When Wyatt Earp was appointed Pima County Deputy Sheriff on July 27, 1881, his brother [[Morgan Earp]] took over his job.<ref name=wgbh>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/wyatt-transcript/ |title=WGBH American Experience: Wyatt Earp, Complete Program Transcript |date = January 25, 2010 |season=22 |number=2}}</ref>
=== Historical weapon ===
When [[Wells, Fargo & Co.]] began regular stagecoach service from [[Tipton, Missouri]] to [[San Francisco]], [[California]] in 1858, they issued shotguns to its drivers and guards for defense along the perilous 2,800 mile route.<ref name="pmo">{{cite magazine | last = Jones | first = Spencer | title = Revival Of The Coach Gun | magazine = Popular Mechanics | date = June 1, 2004 | url = http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | accessdate = March 18, 2007 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024328/http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | archivedate = September 30, 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The guard was called a [[shotgun messenger]] and they were issued a [[Coach gun]], typically a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun.<ref name="Peacemakers">{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=RL | title=The Peacemakers: Arms and Adventure in the American West |year= 1992|publisher= NAL|location=New York |isbn=978-0-7858-1892-2 |pages=121, 197, 244}}</ref>▼
▲When [[Wells, Fargo & Co.]] began regular stagecoach service from [[Tipton, Missouri]] to [[San Francisco]], [[California]] in 1858, they issued shotguns to its drivers and guards for defense along the perilous 2,800 mile route.<ref name="pmo">{{cite magazine | last = Jones | first = Spencer | title = Revival Of The Coach Gun | magazine = Popular Mechanics | date = June 1, 2004 | url = http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | accessdate = March 18, 2007 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024328/http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | archivedate = September 30, 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The guard was called a [[shotgun messenger]] and they were issued a [[Coach gun]], typically a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun.<ref name="Peacemakers">{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=RL | title=The Peacemakers: Arms and Adventure in the American West |year= 1992|publisher= NAL|location=New York |isbn=978-0-7858-1892-2 |pages=121, 197, 244}}</ref>
== Modern usage ==▼
▲== Modern usage ==
More recently, the term has been applied to a [[game]], usually played by groups of friends to determine who rides beside the driver in a car. Typically, this involves claiming the right to ride shotgun by being the first person to call out "shotgun". The [[game]] creates an environment that is fair by forgetting and leaving out most [[seniority]] except for that moms and significant others automatically get shotgun, and this meanwhile leaves out any conflicts that may have previously occurred when deciding who gets to ride shotgun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shotgunrules.com/|title=Official Rules for Calling Shotgun {{!}} Riding Shotgun {{!}} Shotgun Rules|website=www.shotgunrules.com|language=en-US|access-date=October 25, 2017}}</ref> Therefore, it is best played and seen mainly within friend groups because of the lack of seniority, and it is when most people enjoy participating in games. Also, the front passenger seat is typically most wanted because of the small perks it contains like more leg room and easier access to the radio and air controls of the car. Calling shotgun does not apply to bi-directional trips; shotgun must be called before each journey when within sight of the vehicle.
*[[Coach gun]]
*[[Shotgun messenger]]
== References ==
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== Further reading ==▼
{{Wiktionary|ride shotgun}}
▲== Further reading ==
*[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2158/whats-the-origin-of-riding-shotgun What's the origin of "riding shotgun"?]
*[http://www.shotgunrules.com/ Rules of shotgun], Shotgunrules.com, Retrieved March 27, 2015.
*[http://www.aewa.org/Library/shotgun.html The Shotgun Rules, version 1.1] by the Airborne Early Warning Association, Retrieved March 27, 2015.
*[http://www.thebestschools.org/features/rules-of-shotgun/ Rules of shotgun]'': The 25 Universal Rules of Order for Riding Shotgun'' By David A. Tomar, Retrieved March 27, 2015.
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Commander Charles Gordon Norrie Graham (6 September, 1893 – ) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
1 Life & Career
3 World War II
Life & Career
The son of Major C. L. Graham, IV Hussars.
Graham was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 May, 1916.
On 14 October, 1919, Graham was placed in charge of a C. & M. Party overseeing interned German submarines at Harwich. He quit this work when he was appointed in command of the submarine H 52 on 8 September, 1920.[1]
Graham was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 15 May, 1924.
Placed on the Retired List due to age on 6 September 1938.
Graham was promoted to the rank of Commander (retired) on 1 September, 1939.
Graham was appointed in command of the sloop Mallard on 2 October, 1939. vice Clift, who had been appointed on 20 May, 1938. He remained there until 13 March, 1940.
Reverted to the Retired List on 19 September 1945.
Naval Appointments
Arthur W. Forbes Captain of H.M.S. C 7
27 Jun, 1917 – 3 Aug, 1918 Succeeded by
Kenneth Michell Captain of H.M.S. C 28
3 Aug, 1918 – 25 Sep, 1918 Succeeded by
Edward M. C. Barraclough
Charles M. S. Chapman Captain of H.M.S. G 11
25 Sep, 1918 – 16 Oct, 1918 Succeeded by
Richard D. Sandford
? Captain of S.M.S. UB 132
15 Dec, 1918 – 4 Jan, 1919 Succeeded by
Paul L. Eddis Captain of H.M.S. E 38
4 Jan, 1919 – 14 Oct, 1919 Succeeded by
Victor C. Dorman-Smith
John G. Sutton Captain of H.M.S. H 52
8 Sep, 1920[2] – 15 Jul, 1921 Succeeded by
Morice Blood
John G. Aitchison Captain of H.M.S. PC 73
28 Apr, 1923 – 1 Sep, 1923 Succeeded by
Patrick F. Cooper
Maurice A. Brind Captain of H.M.S. P40
1 Sep, 1923[3] – 1924 Succeeded by
Richard E. Hyde-Smith
Patrick B. Crohan Captain of H.M.S. Raider
c. Sep, 1924 – 12 Aug, 1925 Succeeded by
Roland F. B. Swinley
William S. Moor Captain of H.M.S. Sirdar
14 Aug, 1925[4] – May, 1929 Succeeded by
Richard C. V. Ross
New Command Captain of H.M.S. Anthony
18 Nov, 1929 – 5 Feb, 1930 Succeeded by
Thomas A. Hussey
New Command Captain of H.M.S. Blanche
18 Nov, 1930 – 30 Apr, 1931 Succeeded by
Ion B. B. Tower
Reginald V. Barton Captain of H.M.S. Colombo
13 Jan, 1936 – 29 Apr, 1936 Succeeded by
William S. Bardwell
Charles A. de W. Kitcat Captain of H.M.S. Torrid
27 May, 1936 – c. 11 Jun, 1936 Succeeded by
Vessel Retired
Alfred C. Behague Captain of H.M.S. Wolfhound
31 Jul, 1939 – 4 Sep, 1939 Succeeded by
John W. McCoy
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782a.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 257.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 269.
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Have you tried the three dimensional thesaurus? You probably have been using it for years, but I just recently discovered it. To find a synonym, you type in the word you need some others for, press “enter” and faster than even Google can congratulate itself, a very space age, beautiful floating word map appears like an answer in an upended eight ball.
The 3-D thesaurus looks like a word tinker toy with the key word on the center sprocket with spokes to other words. But I think there might be lead paint on it. I already had to ditch my Lead Barbie by Mattel. That kind of word-centric architectural construct is what it would take to diagram the recent events of the summer. I’ve tried a linear description to make sense of it, but it looks like one of my grade school sentence diagrams with adverbs dangling off adverbs like some mutant creeping vine.
The word at the center of the construct you’d need to Venn this late August is “dog”. As in dog days of summer. Off that would be the Michael Vick dogfighting/gambling spoke. Barry Bonds must be relieved to have the spotlight off him. Vick admitted running dogfights and inhumane treatment of dogs in his care. In a dyslexic moment of atonement, he said he’d found god. He could go to jail and his days of dogleg right quarterbacking for the Atlanta Falcons seem to be numbered. He would have received no time if he had just modeled himself after another football player and killed his ex-wife. He might even have gotten a book deal.
The understandable revulsion over the canine mistreatment suggests that news coverage of the war, floods, scandals should focus on dogs to get people riled up. Dogs are dying in Darfur! Dogs don’t have basic healthcare! Dogs were disenfranchised in Florida! The dogs of war are fighting a losing cause in Iraq! It seems to get people’s attention. Mitt Romney’s family vacation saga and mistreatment of the family’s beloved Irish setter would be a way into the story of his former Idaho campaign manager, the foot-tapping, non-gay Republican senator, Larry Craig.
Just as the Dick Cheney Buckshot Lunch incident had lost its absolute last shred of funny, along came Craig’s list of hilarious hypocrisy. During June, AKA Gay Pride Month, Senator Craig was picked up for lewd behavior in a bathroom at the airport in Minneapolis, the site of next year’s Republican Convention, if they have one. In our house, we think Dick Cheney is just going to declare himself the candidate. Larry Craig’s version of Dick’s Cheney’s famous line, “I just had a beer at lunch,” is “I’ve got a wide stance in a bathroom and my foot might have grazed the officer in the stall next to mine.” Ooftah! P.S. Larry’s drag name is “Miss Construe”.
Another spoke off “dog” would be the Alberto Gonzalez resignation. Although he submitted his resignation on a Friday, the story was released during Vick’s Monday press conference. Gonzalez, described as “the dogged defender of Bush”, wrote the rules of torture, some involving dogs on leashes, and was Bush’s lapdog at the Justice Department. Gonzalez’s hangdog announcement was in contrast to Karl Rove’s. With his master smiling his unconditional love behind him Rove, top dog, announced he was leaving to spend more time with his family. Which was last seen running from the house. Chinese Dog Food inspectors at least have the decency to kill themselves when things go wrong. Rove took a victory lap on the Sunday morning Kennel Club shows. He said he was like Moby Dick. The Moby is silent.
Your president George Bush once said that his is a lonely job, that at the end of the day, all that’s left is him and his little black dog Barney. Where is Laura? Has she left the family to spend more time in politics?
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Just saw your show in P-Town and thought it was great as usual. I’m confused about your take on the Logo debate cause in the debate I saw 2 of the candidates that are 100% for all gay issues including gay marriage. Also I was stunned not to hear one clap for Obama and one person other than you for Clinton. You should read other blogs and forums on line and find that many gays aren’t voting (at least in the primary) for either of them. We want all our due gay rights. Also no one applauded Nancy Pelosi who has failed all the gay voters of San Francisco that helped get her where she is today.
I did remember going with my mom to the fabric store to get the latest McCall patterns that she used to make my sister her back to school outfits. I also tell my friends that as a Native American we had the worst immigration policy.
Loved ya!
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Ariel Lin Accepted C-drama King of Lan Ling Because of Star Crush on Daniel Chan
Posted on April 11, 2012 by ockoala
This story gets cuter every time Ariel is asked about it, and the TW-media is all over it right now. Ariel Lin has been even more of a media darling since her hit drama In Time With You really connected with viewers and critics alike. Folks were sad when she announced she would not do any more dramas due to the hectic shooting schedule and personal health reasons, so it was a happy surprise when she suddenly announced that she was accepting the lead in the C-period drama King of Lan Ling.
Despite her leading man being Feng Shao Feng, Ariel has confessed that she accepted the project solely because of the other lead Daniel Chan. Apparently Daniel was her first ever star crush, and when she was in 9th grade, she owned many laminated pictures of him (over 200 so she admits) and he was plastered all over her bedroom wall. Tee hee, the chemistry in this drama is going to be so fascinating since in the drama, it’s Daniel’s character that is rabidly in love with Ariel, while she falls for Feng Shao Feng’s character.
It’s okay, Ariel, don’t be embarrassed. Go ahead and fulfill your star struck fantasy and oogle Daniel all you want for the next few months on the set of King of Lan Ling. We totally understand why. It’s not every day a girl gets to act opposite her idol. Every time Ariel is asked about Daniel, she starts giggling and blushing in interviews, it is so darn cute. King of Lan Ling starts filming shortly, and I’ll bring the stills from the set when its unveiled. Ariel has also revealed that her elder family members love seeing her in period dramas, so here’s to hoping she’ll do more period roles after this. I also love seeing her in period pieces. But as a period project, Ariel probably won’t see her crush Daniel in his more natural state. Boo for her (and us). Let’s let this picture tide Ariel over.
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Ariel Lin Accepted C-drama King of Lan Ling Because of Star Crush on Daniel Chan — 18 Comments
Laica on April 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM said:
That is so cute! Ariel is still my favourite TW actress. I don’t usually watch Cdramas, but I might watch this just for her.
Wow, I don’t blame her for having a crush. *fans self*
chancy426 on April 11, 2012 at 7:39 PM said:
Ariel’s so cute. I miss seeing her in period too.
Lovedramas on April 11, 2012 at 7:51 PM said:
I wonder if she loved his duet with Gigi as much as I did back then. Lol the man has aged well… He feel off my radar back in 2001 or something. But I remember seeing him on 100 entertainment singing his old songs and I swooned. Hehe. Brings back good memories.
Excited to see them act together
D on April 11, 2012 at 8:49 PM said:
That is adorable!!!!….we all have our crazy star crushes when we are young but she is actually getting to play a love interest to her’s!!!…200 laminated pics??…LOL…I love her…reminds me of a friend of mine who had a similar obsession with Leo DiCaprio when we were teens..good times
estel on April 11, 2012 at 8:57 PM said:
I’ve been rewatching They Kiss Again recently, and it’s only confirming my girl-crush on Ariel. It doesn’t hurt that she majored in Korean in college. I would be so epicly happy if she ever agreed to star in a Korean drama.
Laica on April 11, 2012 at 11:35 PM said:
I LOVED her in TKA. XQ is honestly not such a likeable character, but she played her with such charisma and vulnerability, I was totally on her side even while rolling my eyes at her idiocy.
And she speaks Korean?! I would love to see her in a kdrama too! That would be so awesome.
sakura kiss on April 11, 2012 at 9:07 PM said:
yeahhhhh(drools) he;s my first crush too….heheheheh:)
MJP on April 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM said:
I’m glad she decided to keep acting. I have seen too many times peoples health deteriorate more when they quit working. I sure hope she has an alternative to acting before she does stop altogether.
mary on April 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM said:
*looks at last pic*
What was the news again? Something… about periods. And a girl called April… Avril. Something. Yeah, and a cdrama… I think.
Denali on April 12, 2012 at 2:30 AM said:
You cracked me up. And I concur. ^^
Angskeet on April 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM said:
leonardswench on April 11, 2012 at 10:19 PM said:
Hmm … she got sucked back in by an old teen crush, and wouldn’t we all??? (Okay, NOT, for me, my Tom Cruise crush days are LONG over, thank you, Jesus.)
rubics on April 12, 2012 at 12:07 AM said:
I’m happy that ariel is starring in this drama for many reasons: the unique cast of Daniel Chen and Feng Shao Feng, a period drama after the condor heroes almost 5 yrs ago, this drama will tide us over during ariel’s year long stint studying in London, her second more matured image away from youngish roles.. I simply cannot wait!
Ockoala, can u post link to the video where ariel blushes when asked about Daniel? Thanks. Much appreciated.
lalalychee on April 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM said:
That is totally adorable. 🙂
luraaa on April 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM said:
Aww, Ariel. That’s alright. I don’t blame you having a crush on him. I’ve only seen her in “In Time With You” and the more I read news reports about her, the more I like her. I have to watch that film of hers with Bolin Chen.
cv on April 12, 2012 at 1:34 PM said:
Nice! Can’t wait. Ariel is a good actress. How old is Daniel Chen? Can’t be too much older than her right?
violet on April 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM said:
Aww, I remember reading about Ariel’s crush on Daniel. It’s awesome that they finally get to do a drama together, although I hope Ariel picked the drama for the script, too, haha ;D
lynndelas on June 2, 2012 at 11:56 PM said:
so please..
i hope this will be seen also in the philippine tv..
i love ariel lin so much…:)
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15% OF DUT POPULATION USES DRUGS
By: Zinhle Mngadi
Fifteen percent of the Durban University of Technology’s campus population use drugs and two percent of that population are students that live as sex workers for the means of survival. These are the statistics released at the 45th AnnualReport of the United Nations (UN) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) was held at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) on Wednesday.
The university’s Senior Director of the Corporate Affairs, Alan Khan, released these statistics when he welcomed the launch of the INCB repot as it was the first time it was launched in eThekwini.
Khan’s opening remarks expressed the university’s pride to be associated with the UN and that DUT does not undermine the impact drug abuse has on its students and staff.
“15 % of our campus population uses drugs and 2 % of that population are students who work as sex workers who rely on these means to put bread on the table. Female students use drugs more than the male students,” said Khan.
He further said that the university wants to educate students on drug and alcohol abuse.
Senior Director of Corporate Affairs at DUT Alan Khan and International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Vice President Dr Naidoo at the launch of the 45th Annual Report in eThekwini. Pictures by: Zinlhe Mngadi
The report was delivered by the first vice president of the INCB, Dr Lochan Naidoo, at the Ritson Campus. He told delegates that drugs need to be used for medication and treatment in the world and it is their duty as the INCB to make sure that there are drugs provided to government facilities for treatment purposes only.
He further said that the board believes that government should re-structure punishment of criminals found in possession of any drug to rehabilitation and treatment rather than jail convictions because this route does not eradicate the drug abuse in the country.
“Our focal point is prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programmes which are most costly. We believe that the government should re-structure punishment of criminals found in possession of any drug to rehabilitation and treatment rather than jail sentencing,” said Naidoo.
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IJSF 15:3
Abstract:International Journal of Sport Finance, Volume 15, No.3, August 2020.
Transfer Policy and Football Club Performance: Evidence from Network Analysis
Authors: Dennis Coates
Abstract:This study considers the football transfer market as a network and analyzes how characteristics of a football club’s player transfer network activities influence club performance. We use data on 23,220 unique football clubs from 189countries from 1996 through 2016. Our results show that for sport performance the best strategy is to have well-established relations with a limited number of partner clubs, especially in the domestic league. However, transfer policy focused on international deals improves financial performance of football clubs. These findings provide club management with insights on optimal transfer policy with regard to the balance between sport and financial performance.
FIFA World Cup: A Case of (In)efficiency of the Betting Market
Authors: Ricardo Manuel Santos
Abstract:Using data from all FIFA World Cup competitions that took place between 1994 and 2014, a step logit model is estimated to forecast the likelihood of success of each team in each tournament. The model correctly identifies the winner in five out of the six tournaments, and among many variables considered, key contributors to the model’s forecasting performance are identified. Using only the information available by the date preceding each of the last two in-sample World Cups, we can perform a more ambitious test of the model’s ability to forecast the winner at future tournaments. Our results indicated that Spain would win in 2010 and Germany in 2014, as they did. Our results have strong implications about which information a sophisticated bettor should process when participating in the betting market. We show that, using bookmaker odds and model probabilities, a bettor could (consistently) make a profit. Therefore, our results hint at the possibility of deviations from efficiency in the large World Cup betting market.
Las Vegas Point Spread Values and Quantifying the Value of an NBA Player
Authors: Adam Hoffer and Jared A. Pincin
Abstract:This paper uses Las Vegas Sportsbooks individual point spread values (PSVs) to estimate the first marginal product estimates of NBA players. Starting with the individual PSVs, we predict PSVs from performance statistics and use the predicted values to estimate a player’s marginal product. We then compare the NBA estimations with existing, better-established measures of player performance, including player efficiency rating, win shares, and value over replacement player. The results show that the estimates using statistical performance to predict PSVs are in-line with other estimates of player performance. We conclude that PSVs are a comparable measure of marginal product to existing NBA performance composites.
Strongest Team Favoritism in European National Football: Myth or Reality?
Authors: Francesco Audrino
Abstract:Are the financially and institutionally strongest clubs capable of systematically reaching the top positions in the European national football leagues treated differently in terms of awarded sanctions because of the external off-the-pitch pressure they can put on match officials? This study helps shed some light on this controversial question fiercely debated among fans and sports journalists and extends our knowledge of how football match officials may be un-consciously influenced by external (social) forces. Except for France where the evidence is weak, data analysis of the top five European leagues for the seasons from 2011-2012 to 2017-2018 provides empirical evidence supporting the existence of referees’ off-the-pitch strongest team bias. In fact, in England, referees award significantly more yellow cards and total booking points (an aggregate measure of yellow and red cards) to the opponents’ players, and in Italy, Germany, and Spain, significantly fewer yellow cards and total booking points are given to the top teams’ players. The referees’ strongest team bias comes on top of the referees’ home bias, as discussed in the previous literature, and displays a non- eligible size that can reach approximately the same size of the referees’ home bias in some cases.
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B.J. Daniels
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The Lovebirds - B.J. Daniels
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Old rivalries and long-buried passions are reignited by a Valentine's Day murder in this classic mystery by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels.Jack McAllister is pulled right back to his past when he returns to his hometown. As the sheriff of River's Edge, Montana, he is called on to solve the gruesome murder of former classmate Peggy Kane, secretary to the resort community's most prominent citizen—and Jack's high school rival—Oliver Sanders. The case is further complicated by the presence of Jack's former sweetheart, Detective Tempest Bailey. Jack and Tempest will have to reconcile old feelings and untangle a complicated web of deceit to catch the killer and get justice for the past.
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Rugged Defender - B.J. Daniels
The nightmare before Christmas…Justin Calhoun is certain that Chloe Clementine is the one who got away. Now she's home for the holidays, Justin's ready to make his move. But Chloe has a Secret Santa who's been sending scary gifts, and Josh must stop her stalker before Christmas becomes a nightmare.
Mountain Sheriff - B.J. Daniels
Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner–the most eligible bachelor in the county–would have his hands full for sure. Bigfoot sightings and sundry strange happenings he could handle…but he wasn't prepared for murder. With a killer on the loose, he'd have to keep a tight grip on the investigation and a close eye on the mounting list of suspects. Unfortunately, the person causing the most trouble to his male senses was none other than the town's biggest gossip and the one woman he'd do anything to avoid: Charity Jenkins. Sure enough, she'd whittled away at his confirmed-single status with her annoying questions and all-American-girl good looks and had him thinking about something more permanent. Except a killer had other plans for Charity.
Redemption - B.J. Daniels
The hunt for justice … and love … begins Jack French has had two long years of prison-ranch labor to focus on starting over, cleaning up his act and making things right. When he comes home to close-knit Beartooth, Montana, he’s bent on leveling the score with the men who set him up. The one thing he doesn’t factor into his plans is spitfire beauty Kate LaFord.With treasure-seeking in her blood, Kate’s got big dreams to chase, and a troubled past to put to rest. And even though a red-hot connection to a woman with her own set of secrets isn’t part of Jack’s plans, he just can't resist Kate and the gold cache she’s after…even if it is cursed.But when Kate is accused of murder, he realizes she's not only a suspect, but a target. In the Montana wilds, he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe from a killer on a quest to rob them of their chance of a new, passionate life with each other.
Steel Resolve - B.J. Daniels
Sometimes you can go home again It's just not always safe…Mary Cardwell Savage’s ex, Chase Steele is back in Big Sky, Montana—with an unstable and dangerous stalker following close behind! Now Chase wants to prove that their love deserves a second chance. And this time, nothing will keep him from his heart's desire… not even a killer.
Cowboy's Reckoning - B.J. Daniels
The Montana Cahills
Nothing will stop a Cahill cowboy from protecting what's hisAfter a rocky marriage and even rockier divorce, Sheriff Flint Cahill finally has something good in his life again. Maggie Thompson's down-to-earth charm and beautiful smile hooked him from the start. When she disappears on the day they plan to start their lives together, all signs point to abduction—and his ex-wife.Functioning on adrenaline and instinct, Flint must call on his every resource to bring Maggie home before it's too late. His past and future are blurred. Maggie's only chance at surviving her abductor and a raging winter storm depends on an old vendetta that could destroy it all. But the Cahills don't give up easily, and Flint's love will have to be strong enough to conquer anything, including the unimaginable.
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Rough Rider - B.J. Daniels
He was sure he could handle one petite PI with an attitude – but he'll need her help to solve the secret of his missing sister and outwit a ruthless killer! Boone McGraw is in Butte on the hunt for his kidnapped baby sister. What he wasn't expecting to find was feisty private investigator CJ Knight. Desperate to solve her partner's murder, CJ doesn't believe her case could possibly be connected to the sexy horse breeder's investigation…until they find themselves running for their lives – together!
Dead Ringer - B.J. Daniels
Can a stubborn cowboy recapture the one who got away?Ledger McGraw may know all about horses, but he doesn’t know anything about the lie that broke up his first romance with waitress Abby Pierce. Abby, tricked into marrying the wrong man, is at the end of her tether in her abusive relationship. When she learns the truth about her terrible marriage, she becomes desperate to escape it—before her jealous husband kills her.Though Ledger's heart was wounded by Abby, he'll still do anything to protect her and free her from her violent spouse. He's determined to win her back and reignite their passion…
Fallen - B.J. Daniels
USA TODAY bestselling author B.J. Daniels welcomes you to the town of Beartooth, Montana, for a new series set under Montana's big sky. Since teenager Bethany Gates was a girl, Clete Reynolds had been hers–in her heart, at least. She was devastated when he left their small ranching town of Beartooth, Montana, on a football scholarship, but then an injury brought him back. Now she's determined to get him to notice her–if her rival Ginny West doesn't get in the way.But Bethany doesn't know Ginny has a secret of her own–one that could turn out to be deadlyReturn to Beartooth in UNFORGIVEN by B.J. Daniels, available from Mills & Boon.
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Keeping Christmas - B.J. Daniels
CHRISTMAS NEVER MEANT MUCH AT THE BONNER ESTATE…BUT COULD IT BECOME A HOLIDAY TO REMEMBER AT CHANCE WALKER'S MONTANA CABIN?Ten years ago Dixie Bonner was the favorite wild child of a powerful Texas oilman. But after uncovering a dark family secret that cast suspicion on everyone close to her, she took off for a new life and never looked back.Chance Walker was the cool-eyed cowboy hired to bring her home by Christmas. But after catching her, he couldn't decide if she was a blackmailer or a victim. Was he tempted to protect her because she told the truth–or was he falling for her? Holed up in a remote Montana cabin with the bad guys closing in, two stubborn souls needed to trust each other if they hoped to survive the season.
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Little Sisters of the Poor Dedicated to Care and Protection of the Elderly Following Death of First Resident from Coronavirus
Washington, D.C. (March 27, 2020) – As reported by the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) on March 26, 2020, one Resident has died and six others have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Jeanne Jugan Residence in Newark, Delaware.
The Little Sisters of the Poor have been caring for needy elderly persons in the United States for 150 years. We currently own and operate 25 homes for the elderly across the country and 167 worldwide.
The following is attributable to Mother Margaret Regina Halloran, superior for the Residence in Newark:
“We are devastated at the loss of our dear Resident and the positive test results of six others. In all our Homes the Residents truly become our family. We Little Sisters will continue to do all in our strength to meet this challenge, keep our beloved Residents safe and comfortable and provide them with spiritual accompaniment, while also assuring the safety of our staff.”
A DHSS team was onsite at the Jeanne Jugan Residence March 26. Our Residence is following all DHSS directives relative to this urgent situation. The Residents who tested positive for the coronavirus are being quarantined in the facility with dedicated caregivers.
Jeanne Jugan Residence serves 66 low-income elderly residents in three levels of care, including intermediate care/skilled, residential rest and independent apartments. There are 11 Little Sisters of the Poor and 123 staff members at the Residence.
We appreciate your prayers and support during this difficult time for our Residents, our Homes and our Nation.
For more information contact Sister Constance Veit, l.s.p., Communications Director, serenity@LittleSistersofthePoor.org
The following statement was offered by the DHSS: “The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) took immediate action to assess the situation around coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at Little Sisters of the Poor at the Jeanne Jugan Residence in Newark. DHSS is actively working with the facility to ensure resident and staff safety.”
For more information on the DHSS response contact Jill Fredel with the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services by email at Jill.Fredel@delaware.gov or by cell at (302) 357-7498.
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CREATION OF A COPING, SUPPORTIVE AND CARING ETHOS
This can be done in the following ways, and to a great extent already exists within our school;
Creating a physically and psychologically safe school through the development of areas such as an anti-bullying policy, peer support programmes, suicide awareness programmes, fire drills, and equipment and building checks. (Principal and Kim are responsible for fire drills within the school, and one will be held per term.)
Inclusion of SPHE and Learn Together programmes in the curriculum, covering such areas as communication skills, self-esteem, decision making, bereavement, stress management, and coping skills
Creating pastoral care structures and reviewing their effectiveness
Accessing training, if available, for staff to deal with critical incidents
Developing links with outside agencies and procedures for referral.
Supporting Staff: e.g. through the Employee Assistance Scheme.
WHAT IS A CRITICAL INCIDENT
“A critical incident is any incident or sequence of events which overwhelms the normal coping mechanism of the school and disrupts the running of the school”.
Death of a member of the school community through sudden death, accident, terminal illness or suicide
Criminal incidents (e.g. Dunblane shooting, Shooting at first communion in Ballymun)
A physical attack on staff member(s) or student(s) or intrusion into the school
Major accidents or serious injury involving pupils or staff on or off the school premises (e.g. ‘Navan bus crash’)
Civil unrest, war (refugees may be traumatised by events that happened elsewhere)
Fire, natural and technological disaster (e.g. school ceiling collapsing in Cork)
Disappearance of student from home or school (e.g. Midleton incident in Cork)
Unauthorised removal of student from school or home, or the disappearance of a member of the school community.
In the event of an incident on a school tour, the teacher on tour will contact the Principal. The Principal and Deputy Principal will then decide if it is a critical incident, and whether or not to contact CIT members.
Should a critical incident occur during school holidays, efforts will be made to contact all CIT members. A judgement will then be made if all staff are to be informed, and a meeting will be called if necessary. A judgement will then be made as to how to proceed.
WHAT IS A CRITICAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM
“It is a group of individuals from the school community who know the community, the students and each other well enough to make the necessary decisions called for when an incident occurs.”
The team has been created from the staff, and includes members of the Board of Management and Parent-Teacher Association.
Critical Incident Management Team
Chairperson BOM: Paul Corry
Team Leader: Fiona Rock / Rosemary Mc Gonagle
Staff Liaison: Monica Mc Keever, Anne Killeen, David Brennan
Student Liaison / Counsellor: Class Teacher
Parent / Community Liaison: Cara Driscoll, Vincent Moore
NEPS representative: Siobhan Gahan
The first named person has the responsibility as defined. The second named person assists and only assumes responsibility on the absence of the first named.
Wallet sized emergency contact cards are issued to all members, and should be kept with the member at all times.
Alerts team members of a crisis
Convenes meeting
Coordinates tasks for team
Keeps in touch with all members
Communicates with BoM, DES, NEPS, Gardaí, Emergency Services and Hospitals etc.
Liaises with bereaved family
STAFF LIAISON
Information meeting for staff – facts, vulnerable students, expression of feelings, routine for day
Is alert to vulnerable staff members and circulates building
Distributes “Ready to Go” information packs
Induction for new staff on Critical Incident Policy.
STUDENT LIAISON / COUNSELLOR
Identification and monitoring of vulnerable students
Alerts staff to vulnerable students
“Ready to Go” – support pack for teachers
Questions and Answers meeting (with outside assistance if needed)
Meet individual parents
Liaise with parent of the deceased
“Ready to Go” pack
Network with community agencies (NEPS/ HSE/religious/voluntary groups/library/Gardaí)
Coordinate community involvement in school
Keep records of involvement
Update team members
Keep up-to-date lists of contact details.
The Principal and Deputy Principal (or Senior Post-Holder) in conjunction with the BoM are responsible for any Press Release which is to be prepared in advance of any interview.
It is advisable not to rush any such statement, and it must be declined if the statement is not ready.
Staff are not to give information to the media
Staff will be directed by the Critical Incident Team
Children will not be interviewed on the way home from school etc.
Camera / Media exclusion from school grounds.
Board members are to be directed not to make their own statement to the press. Likewise, PTA members are to be directed not to make a statement unless it is a prepared statement from the CIT chairperson
An official written record will be kept of any press release and all press contacts
“READY TO GO” PACKS
Sample letter to school community in the event of a tragedy
Sample letter requesting opt-out of involvement of outside professional(s)
Helping Children Understand – Barnardos booklet
Critical Incident Resource Pack – available from N.E.P.S.
What to expect after Trauma : Possible Reactions in Primary School Students
Pastoral contacts
KEY ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS
Maintaining an up to date list of contact numbers. Numbers should be available for
Pupils, parents, guardians
Emergency Support Services (see list attached, to be displayed in the Principal’s office, the Secretary’s office and the Staff Room)
Compiling emergency information for school trips to include
List of all pupils/staff involved and the teacher in charge
Parental permission slips must be signed with contact numbers.
List of mobile phone numbers for accompanying teacher(s)
Up to date medical information on pupils with allergies, epilepsy etc (the school policy on treating anaphylaxis should be distributed on each trip)
Identifying roles to be fulfilled at the time of a critical incident
External liaison with
Outside support agencies i.e. emergency service, DES,NEPS, HSE etc
Distressed visitors
Internal care and communication with
Students in general
Students more immediately involved or affected
Maintaining administration and services such as
Telephone (e.g. keeping a line free for outgoing and important incoming calls)
Rooms for debriefing, parents, quiet room, counselling etc
Log of events, letters to parents, telephone calls made and received
Dealing with normal school business
AIM OF PLAN
The aim of the Critical Incident Plan is that in the event of such an incident as outlined above, the plan will help staff and management to react quickly and effectively and to maintain control of the situation. The plan will also help the school to return to normality as soon as possible and limit the effects of the incident on staff and students.
The plan is an extension to the existing Health and Safety policy, and is linked to the Stay Safe policy, the RSE and SPHE programs. It is also being developed in recognition of the school’s duty of child protection in all its forms.
SHORT-TERM ACTIONS (DAY ONE)
Contact Appropriate Agencies
S.E. Psychology Departments/Community Care Services
NEPS
DES/Schools Inspector.
Gather accurate information
What happened, where and when?
What is the extent of the injuries?
How many are involved and what are their names?
Is there a risk of further injury?
What agencies have been contacted already
Having determined that a Critical Incident has occurred (defined by Principal / Chairperson), the Chairperson/Principal will call a CIT meeting of all members and a staff meeting if appropriate.
CIT Meeting
Agree a statement of facts
Delegate responsibilities
Keep phone line open
Organise the timetable/routine for the day
Decide on involvement of outside professionals
Give an account of the facts as known
Opportunity for staff to express their views and feelings
Discussion with staff regarding the sharing of facts with students with a view to agreed approach
Outline daily routine
Information regarding the supports to be put in place for students and staff
A procedure for identifying vulnerable students
Distribute supporting materials (Section 4 – NEPS pack)
Class teachers to take note of any absentees who might need to be contacted, list of friends etc, or any other relevant information and give to the Staff Liaison person
End of school day meeting.
Inform parents & guardians
Parents of children directly involved
Contact parents systematically
Give relevant and factual information
Make a room available for parents / students
Support parents as they arrive at the school
Parents of children not directly involved
Inform parents of the incident and outline that their child may be upset
A letter to parents stating the facts and brief details of the incident is a good way
Inform students
Careful preparation is recommended
Consider age of pupils / optimum group sizes
Suitability of messenger is important
Give facts and avoid speculation. This helps to dispel rumours.
Allow pupils to ask questions, tell their story and express feelings
Help students realize that overwhelming emotions are natural and normal
Recognize that students will react in a variety of ways
Make contact with the bereaved family
Deal with the Media
The Principal is designated as spokesperson (see notes above)
The Team will prepare a brief statement.
Protect the family’s privacy.
Organise the reunion of students with their parents if necessary.
MEDIUM-TERM ACTIONS (24-72 HOURS)
Reconvene CIT members
Check how well members are coping
Update all staff on factual developments
Be sensitive to how staff are coping personally and professionally
Update staff on arrangements for supporting students / parents / staff
Consider need for media update
Arrange support for individual students, groups of students, and parents, if necessary.
Provide a suitable room
Hold support/information meeting for parents/students, if necessary, in order to clarify what has happened.
Give any teacher who feels uncomfortable with involvement in support meetings the choice of opting out.
Arrange, in consultation, with outside agencies, individual or group debriefings or support meetings with parental permission
Plan for the re-integration of students and staff e.g. absentees, injured, siblings, close relative etc. Student Liaison person to liaise with above on their return to school.
Plan visits to injured
Attendance and participation at funeral/memorial service. Decide this in accordance with parents’ wishes and school management decisions and in consultation with close school friends.
School closure – request a decision on this from school management and inspector.
LONGER TERM ACTIONS
Monitor students for signs of continuing distress. If, over a prolonged period of time, a student continues to display the following, he/she may need assistance from the H.S.E.
Uncharacteristic behaviour
Deterioration in academic performance
Physical symptoms — e.g. weight loss/gain, lack of attention to appearance, tiredness, restlessness
Inappropriate emotional reactions
Increased absenteeism.
Evaluate response to incident and amend Critical lncident Management Plan appropriately.
What went well?
Where were the gaps?
What was most/least helpful?
Have all necessary onward referrals to support services been made?
Is there any unfinished business?
Amend the Critical Incident Plan for the future if necessary.
Consult with NEPS Psychologist
Inform new staff/new school pupils affected by Critical Incidents where appropriate
Ensure that new staff is aware of the school policy and procedures in this area.
Ensure they are aware of which pupils were affected in any recent incident and in what way.
When individual pupils or a class of pupils affected by an incident are transferring to a new school, it would be useful to brief the Principal of the new school.
Decide on appropriate ways to deal with anniversaries (Be sensitive to special days and events)
Anniversaries may trigger emotional responses in students/staff and they may need additional support at this time.
Acknowledge the anniversary with the family
Be sensitive to significant days like Birthdays, Christmas, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.
Plan a school memorial service.
Care of deceased person’s possessions. What are the parent’s wishes?
Update and amend school records.
DEALING WITH THE AFTERMATH OF A SUSPECTED SUICIDE
When a person dies through suicide, those who know the person experience a deep sense of shock. The unexpectedness of the death and the taboo associated with suicide can leave a school community feeling unsure of how to proceed.
The term ‘suicide’ should not be used if at all possible, even if it has been established categorically that the student’s or teacher’s death was as a result of suicide. The phrase ‘sudden death’ should be used instead.
A staff member should contact the family to establish the exact facts and the family’s wishes about how the death should be described
Acknowledge their grief and loss
Organise a home visit by two staff members
Consult with the family regarding the appropriate support from the school e.g. at the funeral service.
Convene a staff meeting to brief staff on the above details. It may be necessary to do this in shifts therefore ensuring staff are available for support to students and for cover at all times. Remember to include auxiliary staff.
Students need to be with people they know and trust. If possible, it is better if the teachers provide support for the students. The external “expert” visitor should therefore be primarily used to brief the teachers.
Help teachers to prepare for breaking the news to students. Close friends and relatives of the deceased in the school need to be told first. This needs to be done in a private location.
Outline the possible reactions.
Give them information from the schools pack on dealing with the students in the classroom and on reactions to grief
Identify high-risk students and what supports are available
Remind them of the school’s critical incident plan
Decide on the strategy to deal with queries from parents & guardians. Prepare a letter setting out the facts, how the school is dealing with the events, and how parents or guardians can support their child
Ensure that a quiet place can be made available for students & staff
Hold further staff briefings during the day to update information, to offer support and to further identify high-risk students.
EMERGENCY CONTACT LIST
Gardaí (Drogheda) +353 (0)41 987 4211
Hospital (Our Lady of Lourdes) +353 (0)41 983 7601
Poisons Unit – Beaumont Hospital +353 (0)1 8092566
Children’s Services, Navan +353 (0)46 909 7802
HSE Info line 1850 241850
HSE Head Office +353 (0)1 45880400
HSE Health Centre, Ballsgrove +353 (0)41 9838574
Community Care Services (Louth-Dundalk) +353 (0)42 9332287
Dept. of Social & Family Affairs (Drogheda) +353 (0)41 9871130
Duty Social Worker Drogheda – Ballsgrove +353 (0)41 9838574
Duty Social Worker Navan +353 (0)46 9874200
NEPS (Pól Bond) +353 (0)41 9876940
NEPS – Frederick Court (all hours) +353 (0)1 8892700
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A commentary on Livy : books 31 - 33, John Briscoe
A history of modern Greek literature
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An introduction to Roman legal and constitutional history., Translated by J.M. Kelly
Biometrical interpretation, Neil Gilbert, Institute of Animal Ecology, University of British Columbia
Browning's major poetry,, by Ian Jack
Capital and time : a neo-Austrian theory, by John Hicks, (electronic resource)
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Democracy and disobedience
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Duricrusts in tropical and subtropical landscapes
Earldom of Gloucester charters; : the charters and scribes of the Earls and Countesses of Gloucester to A.D. 1217
Ecclesiazusae;, edited with introduction and commentary by R.G. Ussher
Electromagnetism, [by] F.N.H. Robinson
English poetry and the English language,, by F.W. Bateson
English tin production and trade before 1550
Enthusiasm; : a chapter in the history of religion, with special reference to the XVII and XVIII centuries
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Khirret (cattail/Typha pollen) خرّيط:
Gift of the Marshes in Southern Iraq,
and the Joyous Festival of Baghdadi Jews
The Iraqi scholar Abbas Baghdadi wrote a very interesting book, titled بغداد في العشرينات (Baghdad in the 1920's, published 1999). It is a rare memoir packed with vivid vignettes of Baghdad during that period. One thing caught my attention in particular: In his description of street foods, he mentions in passing that among the foods that Baghdadi Jewish vendors used to sell was khirret (خرّيط). He describes it as dried yellow clay with no distinctive taste or smell. He says it is extracted from roots of reeds, and it is an exclusively Jewish food. In his chapter on feasts, he further mentions that one of the sweets Baghdadi Jews used to eat on the joyous festival of Purim in March was khirret. He says they called this festival عيد المجلي ('Id il-Mjalli 'Megillah'), which they rhymed with طاب القعود بالمحلّي (tab il-qu'ud bilimhalli), that is, it is so pleasant to sit outside the house -- now that winter has ended.
Now, I come from a Muslim family, originally from Basra, and I remember having crunched on chalky clumps of khirret several times as a snack food. It was light-mustard in color and faintly sweet, but addictive. None of my school friends in Baghdad knew of it, and when I told them about it, they got a kick out of its name. They though it was funny. Besides, I was never aware of this Jewish connection. In fact, until I came across this mention of khirret in Abbas al-Baghdadi's book, I used to think it was another name for carob (kharnoub خرنوب/ kharroub خرّوب).
Khirret vendor in Basra, southern Iraq
Intrigued, I launched a search, which led me to Dr. Suzie Alwash, director of 'Eden Again Project', who helped me identify this mystery food. It turns out that khirret is none other than the yellow pollen of the famous wild aquatic plant bardi بردي (Typha spp), which has been growing in the southern marshes of Iraq (al-Ahwar) ever since time immemorial. It is said that in ancient Sumerian it was known as ariptu (اربتو) [I have not been able to verify this].
Marshland in southern Iraq
Bardi (Typha, also known as cattail, and reedmace) is a tall erect plant with lance-shaped leaves. The male and female flowers grow on the same stalk. The tiny fluffy male flowers are clustered in narrow cylindrical-shaped spike. They develop right above the female densely clustered spike, which looks like a hot dog.
During the pollinating season in early summer, the male spikes look golden yellow and are loaded with pollen. After they have given off their pollen, the flowers fall off, leaving behind a bare spike.
Typha/cattail male flowers with pollen
When the female spike ripens, it breaks apart and bursts releasing a fuzzy whitish substance, which marsh people of Iraq call niffash نفّاش (fluffy).
Cattail/ typha
To the marsh people of Iraq, this plant is God-sent. The rhizomes make a source of nutritious starch; the bases of the leaves are eaten raw or cooked, the young flower spikes are cut off and eaten, and in springtime (April/May), the yellow pollen is collected and made into khirret. And it is the way this pollen is harvested that initially gave it the name khirret (the stripped): The male spike is grasped firmly between the thumb and the forefinger, and it is firmly stripped into collecting sacks.
Harvesting khirret
In the southern marshes, this job of collecting pollen is usually allotted to women and kids. The harvested stuff is spread on a mat in a sunny place to allow it to dry out. After that, they sift it to get rid of all non-pollen material. The resulting yellow powder is mixed with sugar and then steam-cooked: A big pot is half-filled with water, and when it boils, a large piece of cloth is spread on the top of the pot, the pollen with the sugar is spread on this cloth. To prevent steam from escaping, the entire rim of the pot is sealed with mud. The pollen is covered with another piece of cloth, and left to steam-cook until it clumps into a cake-like mass. This mass is usually broken into pieces, and stored or sold in the market places of the neighboring towns and cities.
Here is a You Tube link, in which a marsh kid demonstrates how to steam khirret.
Sometimes, date syrup is added to replace sugar, which gives it a darker hue, and this must have been the sweetener originally used ever since ancient times before the advent of sugar.
Khirret, candy of the marshes
Khirret sold in the marketplaces looks like irregular pieces of yellow brick or rocks, but brittle to the bite. The marsh people like to call it chuklet il-ahwar جكليت الاهوار (marsh taffy).
Khirret candy, brick-like, but sweet and brittle
Khirret is a nutritious food high in protein, and its medicinal benefits are believed to be many. People eat it to relieve indigestion. It is said to be good for the colon and respiratory tract. It is used to cleanse the urinary system and stop diarrhea. The raw pollen is put on wounds to heal them. It is also popular among women during the early stages of pregnancy. Moreover, it come in very handy for bee-keepers, who use it to feed their bees.
To be sure, typha grows in other wetlands and marshes of the world, such as in China, where it is medicinally used more or less the same way the Iraqi marsh people use it, or in the United States, where eating Typha was part of the native American culture. However, I believe that the sweetened khirret candy, as described above, is the specialty of the marsh people of southern Iraq.
Now as to why this khirret candy was especially valued by Jewish Iraqis, as noted by Abbas al-Baghdadi above, here is what I think happened:
Pharaoh's daughter looking at baby Moses © Darrel Tank/Licensed from GoodSalt.com
Interestingly, the image shows cattail/Typha, indigenous to the southern marshes of Iraq
instead of the more typically Egyptian Papyrus plant
Baby Moses was found in a basket among the Egyptian Papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus), and like the Typha in southern Iraq, they were called bardi in Arabic. The bardi in a sense was Moses’ savior. When the captive Jews settled in ancient Babylon, they eyed the region’s bardi with the same reverence, and the pollen candy khirret must have developed a religious significance in Judaism in Iraq ever since ancient times, especially during the happy spring festivals of life and salvation; that is up until the mid-20th century when there still was a thriving community in Iraq. Yellow in Judaism was a symbol of ripeness, freshness, happiness, gold and royalty, and the yellow khirret surely matched the fun spirit of the Purim holiday.
Through correspondence with the Israeli scholar Dr. Susan Weingarten, I learnt that Jewish Iraqis never took the khirret tradition with them to Israel. The new generation growing up there never had the chance to experience it first hand. To them it is just a faint memory. They told her that their parents talk about it, and they describe it as looking like a stone when held in hand, and that they used to eat it around springtime. She speculates that it is quite likely that the yellow coconut sweets they make for Purim in Israel must have been a substitute for the hard-to-find original yellow khirret.
Sifted raw Khirret
Here is a link for an interesting article on Typha pollen:
Plants Portraits: Pollen Cakes of Typha spp. [Typhaceae]-- 'Lost' and Living Food. Al Prendergast. Economic Botany 54(3), 2000 (254-255). Online PDF available here.
Indian khirret experience: very interesting post "Bhuri - Bhurrani Mitti" by blogger Alka Keswani.
See also this Khirret article on Gastro Obscura.
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Background Eyesight infections can be vision-threatening and must be treated effectively by appropriate and safe use of topical ophthalmic anti-infectives. infections. A comprehensive search of the recent published literature including topical ophthalmic anti-infectives effective in bacterial ocular infections was performed. Clinical studies provide relevant data concerning the characteristics and clinical efficacy of antibacterial vision drops in ocular anterior segment infections or for perioperative prophylaxis. Publications were included to protect the current options of antibacterial vision drops available in Europe. Results Several recent publications recognized effective topical ocular antibacterials requiring a reduced dose regimen and a short treatment course. Additional literature examined included data on novel perioperative prophylaxis indications for topical fortified antibiotics and innovative research including the risk of resistance. Conclusions Safe and effective topical antibiotic BMS-265246 vision drops for the treatment and prevention of ocular infections must be adapted to the type of bacteria suspected. Usual topical antimicrobials should be replaced by more recent and more effective treatments. The use of highly effective fluoroquinolones should be reserved for the most severe cases to avoid resistance. Short treatment courses such as azithromycin can be very easily used in children therefore improving quality of life. (39% BMS-265246 of instances) (22% of instances) and (6% of instances).4 The BMS-265246 most common Gram-negative microorganism found in acute conjunctivitis is (9% of instances).4 In contact lens wearers the pattern is definitely reversed and more Gram-negative strains are found. However additional bacterial strains can less IL9 antibody regularly cause bacterial purulent conjunctivitis. Although bacterial conjunctivitis can occur at any age it regularly happens in preschool- and school-age children. In these age groups pathogens are frequently associated with epidemic occurrences of bacterial conjunctivitis. In newborns teens and kids the most frequent ocular pathogens are types.5-7 Most cases of severe bacterial conjunctivitis resolve spontaneously within 7-10 times but a broad-spectrum antibiotic can decrease disease severity transmission and in BMS-265246 addition minimize the complication and reinfection rates.8 Practice patterns for prescribing topical antibiotics vary. Many practitioners recommend a broad-spectrum agent with an empirical basis without lifestyle for a regular mild-to-moderate case of bacterial conjunctivitis and instruct sufferers to get follow-up care and attention if the expected improvement does not happen or if vision becomes affected. Sodium sulfacetamide chloramphenicol gentamicin tobramycin azithromycin neomycin trimethoprim and polymyxin B combination ciprofloxacin ofloxacin gatifloxacin and erythromycin are associates of popular first-line agents. The respective advantages of attention drops and ointments include maintained visual acuity and long term contact and a calming effect. Blepharitis is definitely a chronic disorder generating inflammation of the eyelid margin. Blepharitis can be classified relating to anatomic location: anterior blepharitis affects the base of the eyelashes and the eyelash follicles and posterior blepharitis affects the Meibomian glands and gland orifices. Blepharitis offers traditionally been clinically subcategorized as staphylococcal seborrheic Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) or a combination thereof.9 10 Staphylococcal and seborrheic blepharitis mainly involve the anterior eyelid and both can be described as anterior blepharitis.10 Meibomian gland dysfunction involves the posterior eyelid margin. The organisms most commonly isolated in chronic blepharitis include: spp. spp. and and may produce lipolytic exoenzymes and endotoxins.12 16 Lipolytic enzymes hydrolyze wax and sterol esters in Meibomian gland secretions with the launch of highly irritating fatty acids and BMS-265246 additional products resulting in disruption of tear film integrity.17 18 These endotoxins can induce the production of proinflammatory cytokines thus initiating inflammatory series.19 Reducing the bacterial fill is therefore part of the treatment of blepharitis. Furthermore in addition to their antibacterial activities macrolides such as azithromycin exhibit potent anti-inflammatory activities.20 They decrease the production of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages and epithelial cells and inhibit the activation and migration of neutrophils in vitro and in vivo.21-23 At a gene manifestation level macrolides have.
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The inflammatory mediator high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). investigate whether SIRT1-mediated HMGB1 deacetylation can modulate the discharge of HMGB1 through the development of NAFLD also to explore whether SalB can drive back NAFLD via the SIRT1/HMGB1 pathway. Outcomes SalB diminishes HFD-induced liver organ injury and liver organ steatosis We initial motivated whether SalB has a protective function in HFD-induced NAFLD. As proven in Fig. 1A serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) amounts in the HFD group had been clearly increased weighed against those BMS-265246 in the control group as well as the SalB control group. SalB treatment extremely inhibited ALT and AST actions within a dose-dependent way (and data the translocation of HMGB1 in the nucleus towards the cytoplasm in HepG2 cells as well as the discharge of HMGB1 in to the supernatants of HepG2 cells had been dramatically raised after 24?h of PA treatment. SalB considerably inhibited this translocation and discharge of HMGB1 while SalB-mediated inhibition was considerably obstructed by Former mate527 (Fig. 6C D). Used jointly our results indicate that SalB inhibits the nuclear discharge and translocation of HMGB1 via up-regulation of SIRT1. Body 6 SalB inhibits HMGB1 nuclear discharge and translocation through up-regulation of SIRT1. SalB-mediated protection depends upon SIRT1 concentrating on HMGB1 for deacetylation Prior findings demonstrated the fact that hyperacetylation of HMGB1 impacts its translocation and extracellular secretion19 20 We hence examined if the procedure for HMGB1 translocation and discharge is controlled by SIRT1-mediated deacetylation. Specifically to assess whether SalB-induced security is certainly mediated by SIRT1 through concentrating on HMGB1 for deacetylation we analyzed the result of SalB in the position of HMGB1 acetylation pursuing SIRT1 siRNA treatment of HepG2 cells. As proven in Fig. 7A the knockdown of SIRT1 elevated the acetylation of HMGB1 in comparison to that of control siRNA while SalB decreased the degrees of acetylated HMGB1 in the cells and SalB-mediated down-regulation of acetylated HMGB1 was abolished by SIRT1 siRNA. As opposed to the control siRNA treatment SIRT1 knockdown markedly raised the discharge of HMGB1 and acetylated HMGB1 in to the lifestyle medium and there is an obvious modification in the percentage of acetylated HMGB1. Nevertheless SalB counteracted the discharge of HMGB1 and considerably decreased the percentage of acetylated HMGB1 in the lifestyle medium as well as the SalB-mediated down-regulation of acetylated HMGB1 was obstructed by SIRT1 siRNA (Fig. 7B). These data demonstrate the fact that SalB-mediated inhibition of HMGB1 release and acetylation is partly achieved through up-regulation of SIRT1. Body 7 SalB-mediated security would depend on SIRT1 concentrating on HMGB1 for deacetylation. SalB suppresses hepatic irritation through the SIRT1/HMGB1 pathway It’s been recommended that inflammation-related elements such as for example Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) nuclear aspect-κB (NF-κB) and IL-1β Rabbit Polyclonal to QSK. play essential jobs in the development of HFD-induced NAFLD9 36 37 As a result we investigated adjustments in these protein to determine whether SalB treatment alleviated the irritation in the HFD-fed rats. As proven in Fig. BMS-265246 8A the HFD-induced increase of liver TLR4 NF-κB IL-1β and pro-IL-1β proteins was inhibited by SalB treatment. We further looked into the molecular system where SalB defends hepatocytes BMS-265246 from PA-induced hepatic irritation and uncovered that markedly decreased nuclear HDAC1 and HDAC4 actions in hepatocytes pursuing liver organ I/R promote BMS-265246 the hyperacetylation and following discharge of HMGB122. Furthermore PARP-1 regulates the translocation of HMGB1 towards the cytoplasm by up-regulating the acetylation of HMGB1 in macrophages52. Recently we observed the fact that resveratrol-mediated inhibition of HMGB1 nucleo-cytoplasmic translation in sepsis-induced liver organ injury depends upon SIRT1-mediated deacetylation27. Equivalent to our results tests by Rabadi possess demonstrated the fact that inflammation-induced repression of SIRT1 disables the deacetylation of HMGB1 and facilitates its nuclear-to-cytoplasmic translocation and systemic discharge thus maintaining irritation53. In keeping with these observations we.
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When the Europeans came into contact with the Pocomoke Nation, its people included today’s Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester Counties, in Maryland, southern Sussex County, Delaware and northern Accomac County, Virginia. The Pocomoke Paramountcy included those villages along the Annemessex, Manoakin and Pocomoke Rivers and the bays of Pocomoke and Chincoteague. Today the Pocomoke Indian Nation publicly interprets the history, culture and life ways of the Pocomoke Paramountcy through oral presentations, live demonstrations and educational classes on native skills, arts and customs. To the right, Pocomoke ladies are greeting boaters and tourists on the Pocomoke River at Shelltown.
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As a kid and a teenager I was an incorrigible Doctor Who fan. I enjoyed watching John Pertwee and Tom Baker rescue pretty young assistants from the clutches of cheap monsters, and I was fascinated when they repaired spaceships with their sonic screwdrivers, but what I liked most about the show was the Tardis, the old British phonebox in which the Doctor hurtled through space and time. As every Doctor Who fan knows, the Tardis is a magical and mysterious object: it looks small and rather dull from the outside, but actually consists of numerous large rooms full of strange gadgets and exotic furniture.
I think that my early fascination with the Tardis has left me with a taste for modestly sized, functional buildings over architectural extravaganzas. I can't stand showy architects like Gaudi and Carey Davies' hero Hundertwasser, and I find the simple but comfortable state houses which John A Lee and his successors gave to suburbs like Point Chevalier and Te Atatu and hydro towns like Mangakino in the '40s and '50s more exciting than the frilly art deco buildings that have made Napier famous, or the pretentious Georgian mansions of Auckland's leafier suburbs. I always have the sense that a relatively simple building might disguise something elaborate and mysterious.
The small, rather plain church which stands a little unsteadily amidst totara trees and cows beside the road that connects the Kaipara hamlets of Matakohe and Ruawai offers an object lesson in how an austere facade can hide a rich and strange interior. From the outside, the building resembles one of the Anglican or Methodist chapels which were distributed over wide areas of the Northland countryside in the nineteenth century, as Protestant missionaries competed with Papists, Maori prophets and each other in their attempts to acquire and retain souls. On the inside, though, the little building is filled with brightly-painted depictions of the cosmos of the Ratana Church, that semi-heretical faith founded in the Whanganui district in the early '20s by a Maori farmer whose coastal property received a series of visits from whales and angels. The flowering suns and curved horizons give the interior of the little building a peculiar spaciousness, and in the right weather the blue and purple brushstrokes of Ratana's devotees seem to flow directly into the pieces of sky which the windows display. Ratana temples are famous for their Romanesque architecture and for the stars cupped in crescent moons which are normally attached to their pillars, but the little building on the road to Ruawai has no such features, and thus gives no clue about what it contains.
I first visited the church on the way to Ruawai after seeing it in the collection of photos the dying Robin Morrison produced during his last road trip through Nortland. Nearly a decade after Morrison's death, Jack Ross published an image of the outside of the building on the cover of an issue of the literary journal brief dedicated to the life and work of a certain Kendrick Smithyman.
Inspired perhaps by the connection to one of his favourite poets, Hamish Dewe produced a laconic and yet mysterious poem about the building. In 'Arepa. Omega', a piece which I discussed here last year, Hamish depicts the rather dilapidated Ratana temple as a portal which can transport him from the backblocks of Northland to the very different environment of a twenty-first century Chinese city. Perhaps Hamish was thinking of Doctor Who's Tardis when he wrote his poem.
After I discussed Hamish's poem and the building which inspired it on this blog, a number of commenters provided information about the mysterious structure on the road to Ruawai, and about the coming of the Ratana faith to the Kaipara. I learned about the long reign of William Gittos, an Anglophile and fervent opponent of Maori nationalism, over the Methodist church in the south Kaipara in the late nineteenth century, and about the role Gittos played in stopping the Uri o Hau people in the area from throwing in their lot with the Maori King Movement during the Waikato War and its smouldering aftermath. Gittos' bigoted brand of religion was eventually cast off by Te Uri o Hau in favour of the Maori nationalist faith which Wiremu Ratana brought with him on a journey to the Kaipara in 1921.
The new converts needed places to worship, and the Methodist chapel near Ruawai was therefore converted to a Ratana temple sometime in the early '20s. That was the view I put forward in my blog post about Gittos, anyway.
It now seems, though, that the history of the building that became a Ratana temple is more complicated than I had reckoned. In a comment he left a few days ago under my post on Gittos, someone named Sebastian offers a quite different version of the history of the structure:
[T]his church...started life as a place of Anglican worship for a group of Te Rarawa, who had migrated to Parirau to find work in the nearby gumfields and forests.
Known as Zion Church, it was the second Anglican church built on this site on Otuhianga Road and its dedication in April 1889 is well documented in the Anglican Church Gazette for May 1889:
'Parirau, Kaipara. – New Maori Church. –It is several years ago that the Maories of Parirauewha, Kaipara, commenced collecting funds wherewith to build a new church, their old one having become dilapidated. They are a colony of the Rarawa tribe from Whangape, Herekino, and Ahipara, and as they had to purchase the land they occupy from the European settlers, they have had a hard struggle to acquire the means for attaining their object. By steady exertion they have succeeded, and are now in possession of a house of prayer of which no English community need be ashamed. The building will accommodate 130 worshippers, and is complete in every detail. The cost, with furniture, was £198, and on the evening of the opening day, not only were all the liabilities defrayed, but there was a small balance to credit...'
The church served the Anglican congregation at Parirau until the 1930s when it was transferred to the Ratana congregation.
It is currently closed for restoration and the local restoration committee is seeking funds for this work. Donations would be gratefully received by:
The Treasurer,
Zion Church Restoration Committee
110 Tana Rd
RD 2 Matakohe 0594
I apologise to the Zion Church Restoration Committee for getting the history of their building wrong. I'm delighted to hear that they are working to restore the little church, which seemed, when I visited it last year, to be in very poor condition. I hope, though, that the committee's workers won't efface the Ratana symbolism in the interior of the building. Can any of this blog's Kaipara readers report on the progress of the restoration work?
posted by maps at 12/03/2010 11:11:00 pm
Nice post.... thanks for that :-)
to clarify, since such flippant references can be deceiving:
hundertwasser is not my 'hero' - thanks - but i like his playfulness. give me that over austere, goebbels-esque monstrosities like park hill flats any day.
maps said...
Ah, sorry for the ovestatement Carey. People can follow your link and take a look at your piece. I have a very poor understanding of architecture, but I think perhaps Louis Kahn is my favorite modern pactitioner of the art.
Hundertwasser is to me an outsider imposing a sentimental European romanticism on the New Zealand landscape, instead of trying to engage with it and respond to it in the way our great modernist artists did (McCahon, Woolaston, etc) It's as though he wants to colonise this country and turn it into some fantasy of a South Seas utopia dreamed up in landlocked Austria.
you've inferred that from a block of toilets?
And his flag! And a book he brought out which Skyler had...
my blog isn't really meant to be taken seriously, it's not rigorous or intellectual so i'm vaguely embarassed by a link from this blog. i never really figured out what it was for and i don't update it often enough for it to be worthwhile anyway. i might scrap it to be honest.
anyway regarding hundertwasser, i know absolutely nothing about architecture and my opinions about it are limited to the odd visceral reaction to something i do or don't like. your criticisms aside for now from what i can tell hundertwasser was essentially anti-rationalist. the best sorts of modernism seek to build on the most positive and progressive aspects of industrial capitalist society but hundertwasser seemed to reject them altogether in favour of a utopian 'return to nature' idea, which i find naive at best and downright reactionary at worst. he also seem think that the enforced misery of industrial society could be overcome with a splash of paint and a bit of nude frolicking. very 1960s.
however i do think cities of the hypothetical liberated future will be much more open, nature-filled spaces. dense urban sprawl can extremely traumatic and anti-human. that's not to say we should all live in hobbit-like fantasy villages powered by turnip juice but it's a fact that we are part of nature and that lifelong seperation from it - as is the case for many people in the world's cities - is an supremely alienating thing. you could argue that's a product of the rampant imbalances of capitalism that will be remedied when the socialist revolution comes around but i'm coming increasingly round to the view that re-connection with nature may form an important part of the struggle against capitalism itself. why not bring some aspect of this into the cities?
so somewhere in there i find myself agreeing with hundertwasser.
Fair enough Carey. Even if you don't update the blog, you ought to use some of the photos you took here in NZ somewhere: some of them are very good (I found a few on the hard drive of this computer).
You said recently you'd written a reply to something that appeared on this blog: if it's not on your blog (I had a look but couldn't find it), where is it? Maybe you put it on facebook?
This is brilliant now it gives me something to follow up and has cleared up a lot of the mystery. I'll keep tabs on how progress is going and I'll also check with Stuart Park of HPT if any funding or support will be forthcoming for this project. I for one would like to see the church fully restored
I am a trustee to the restoration commitee of the Parirau Church, Ruawai, Matakohe. I will keep you posted as to how things are going.
We are process of building our website and more information pertaining to the Church and the Cemetary nearby.
c.thompson(at)live.com
Thanks for that. I'll email you because I'm wondering if the trustees and members of the church would be agreeable to me putting the Parirau Church forward to be listed on the Kaipara District Plan Heritage schedule.
I'll catch up with you on that.
PS Scott thanks for doing the update on the Parirau Church.
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Move Over Spin, Rowing Classes Are Going To Be Huge In 2017
Sunday, 22nd January 2017
Rowing machines work the legs, upper body and core. When was the last time you used the rowing machine at the gym?
When was the last time you used the rowing machine at the gym? You know the one -- there's usually two or three of them next to the ellipticals and they often go untouched, or used briefly to belt out a fast and furious few minutes (or play the Fish Game).
While the use of bikes in group fitness has long been popular, we're seeing the rise of the use of rowers in a similar manner. And there's good reason why.
"I have always had a passion for rowing from my time spent rowing at school," Mike Aldridge, ex rugby player and now Head Coach at Crew, told The Huffington Post Australia. Crew is all about harnessing the power of rowing for all over fitness.
"As a trainer I have always had a large rowing machine influence in my clients programs with some amazing results over the years. Rowing works 86 percent of the body's muscles in every stroke. It really elevates the heart rate and is a low impact exercise that does not place stress on the body like running and other activities."
Aldridge visits the U.S each year to observe what they're doing within the health and fitness industry and takes cue from there.
"On my most recent trip I discovered the new cult following that is rowing studios. In New York alone there are over six boutique rowing studios. I tried all the classes and was immediately hooked. The low impact nature of the rower was perfect for my old Rugby injuries, mixed with the high intensity, the atmosphere and the team environment. I had not had a hard session like it in years. I literally had my notepad out on my way back home to Sydney planning out the first boutique rowing studio for Australia."
Aldridge has set out to change people's perception of the rowing machine.
"For many years the rower has been the old dusty machine in the back corner of the gym, that people may have occasionally used for a minute or two max to warm up. People are now starting to realise just how effective the rower can be when used correctly," Aldridge said.
We know what you're thinking. You row for a good two minutes, maybe five if you're fit, and you're buggered. So what does a rowing class involve, and how are you going to get through it alive?
"The most important thing about rowing is maintaining a good tempo. Generally people will jump on a rower and go like a bat out of hell, but you need to ensure you use the stroke forward, which is the recovery, to take a breath and really drive the legs on the way back on the slide.
"With correct form and technique rowing becomes sustainable for long periods of time. Most people think rowing is an upper body workout, but each stroke is actually broken up into 60 percent legs, 20 percent core and 20 percent arms. So each stroke should feel like a squat and within minutes you will get a deep burn in the legs and butt," Aldridge said.
Classes go for 45 minutes, with express 30-minute classes offered at lunchtime, and you can burn between 300 and 400 calories in a half-hour class.
"We always start with a warm up and stretch, as most of our members have been sitting down at a desk for hours on end, so we like to spend time on movement and flexibility. Adjacent to your rower will be your workstation with mat and sweat towel, and we select the correct weights and equipment for you.
"Classes mix in body weight exercises, dumbbells, resistance bands, movement, flexibility and stability. You are never on the rowing machine for too long -- we keep it fast-paced and interesting with quick transitions from the rower to your mat where you will complete toning and strengthening exercises with various equipment. The lights are dimmed, music is cranking and the trainers will motivate you," Aldridge said.
Expect to see a lot more rowing based classes roll out across the country this year.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/
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Journalist and former teacher Amber C. Walker is leaving her position at The Capital Times to earn her Masters of Arts Degree in Digital Journalism at New York University.
Amber Walker worked for The Capital Times beginning in 2016. Her focus was the education beat and she published several long-form, investigative pieces on local education issues. Walker previously worked at Epic Systems before deciding to pursue journalism full-time.
Walker is a first-generation college student from the south side of Chicago. She attended Oberlin College in Ohio before becoming a K-12 English teacher in Florida. Even though Walker is no longer in the classroom, her ongoing passion for education is prevalent in her work.
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Education is one of the primary means of social mobility, and ensuring that all children and young-adults have access to a quality education is imperative to sustainability. Education indicators likely have a direct impact upon economic indicators and other equity metrics. Economic indicators also influence education-related metrics because public school systems are funded through state and local tax revenue sources. The following metrics capture information about the state of education and its accessibility. These metrics are based on metrics used in prominent social equity indices from Australia, the United Nations, Sustainable Seattle, the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, and the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
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Pre-School Program Enrollment The percentage of children age 3 and age 4 that are enrolled in a public or private pre-school program U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates (2005-2013)
Educational Attainment The percentage of the population age 25 and older that holds a Bachelor’s degree U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey Microdata Sample (2008-2010)
Adult Literacy The percentage of the adult population lacking basic prose skills National Center for Education Statistics’ National Assessment for Adult Literacy (1992, 2003)
Linguistic Isolation The percentage of households that experience linguistic isolation, a household in which no person 14 years old and over speaks only English, and no person 14 years old and over who speaks a language other than English speaks English “very well” U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates (2005-2009)
Metric Findings:
Indiana’s pre-school program enrollment rate has remained flat during the previous decade, hovering around 40 percent which is around 10 percent lower than the national average.
Only 22.8 percent of persons in Indiana hold at least a Bachelor’s Degree, making it the third worst ranking state for this metric among those analyzed.
Eight percent of Indiana’s adult population has low literacy skills.
Levels of linguistic isolation are low (2 percent or lower) for all of the states except Illinois and Washington.
Policy Considerations:
Low scores in the Education metrics may indicate inadequate access to education and programs that defray the cost of pre-school and post-secondary education. States should consider the implications that would arise if certain groups are effectively priced out of postsecondary education.
Lack of access to literacy programs and English-language programs may lead to isolation of certain ethnic or low-income communities. States should allocate or continue to allocate funds to these programs.
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Post by alb » Wed May 29, 2013 10:00 pm
Kyle Kirkpatrick: Shark bites 11-year-old off Ormond Beach
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - 11-year-old Kyle Kirkpatrick says he feels lucky he was able to survive a shark bite with just three stitches.
"I was trying to catch a wave and, all of a sudden, I felt something on my foot and it started hurting. I turned behind me and I'm like what happened and then I see blood everywhere and my dad picks me up and brings me to shore," Kirkpatrick said.
Hid dad Todd quickly saw the pain in his son's face and scooped him up while holding his leg to stop the bleeding. "It's terrifying. You don't know what's out there. He says a shark bit him, he got blood everywhere, you don't know if the shark's still there, you don't ask questions."
But, Kyle was positive about what he saw. "A dark shadow of a shark and it scared me."
Todd says an off-duty paramedic in the area helped put gauze on the wound and called 911. Kyle was taken to a nearby local hospital. "He still has his foot, still has full function of it, it could have been a lot worse."
As for Kyle, he says the shark bite won't keep him on the shore. "I will go swimming again, but it'll be kind of scary."
Doctors believe the shark that bit Kyle was likely a baby.
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English to Samoan Meaning :: suborn
Suborn :
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Suborn - suborn Suborned :: suborned Suborning :: suborning Suborns :: suborns
← Subordinative
subornation →
Verb(1) incite to commit a crime or an evil deed(2) procure (false testimony or perjury(3) induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
(1) Irrespective of the dimensions of the crime or the difficulty in obtaining justice, the role of the journalist is to assist the judicial process not to suborn it.(2) International ventures abounded even at a time when the British government tried desperately to contain efforts to suborn workers.(3) There was no reason to believe Wu would destroy evidence in the case or suborn perjury, the court said.(4) He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority.(5) Physicians known to be guilty of gross negligence are allowed to continue to practice. Lawyers who obviously suborn perjury are not disbarred.(6) And I said, the congressman himself who knows this thing is false, is asking you to suborn perjury?(7) Small groups of Canadian Fenians would cut the telegraph lines, destroy the railway bridge that connected Canada West and Canada East, infiltrate the Canadian militia, and suborn British soldiers.(8) he was accused of conspiring to suborn witnesses(9) A lawyer must help his client to put on as strong a case as possible, but a lawyer may not suborn perjury.(10) The more time one spends with Armstrong, however, the more one suspects that the focus of his fury is not the implication that he tried to suborn Cogut's perjury.(11) Among other things, they were to suborn Irish soldiers in the British army, spike the weapons and artillery of those troops who remained loyal, and seize or destroy military installations.(12) Could evidence have been led of what the prosecution alleged was an attempt to suborn the witness?(13) Not realizing that their resident translator had been suborned by the invader, the villagers, with no other form of communication, decided to wait for the weekly boat from the larger nearby island of Kaui.(14) We can live with a perjurer in the White House, and a suborner of perjury, and an obstructor of justice.(15) Don't kid yourself: Human life is full of artificiality, perversion, and misery, much of which is caused by the most sniffish suborners of perjury you'll ever see.(16) He symbolizes the new political aristocracy that includes corporate suborners and media patronizers.
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Inviolable (mautu) :: To achieve that end we all need to tell each other and indeed to convince our own selves that the Quran is the inviolable and unalterable word of Allah
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**BLOG TOUR** The Space Between by Nikki Mathis Thompson
The Space Between by Nikki Mathis Thompson Publication Date: March 17, 2015 Genres: Chick Lit, Romance, Women's Fiction
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Synopsis: Georgia Bristol’s life hasn’t turned out the way she’d imagined…but it’s a good life. Despite that fact, she finds herself yearning for something she can’t define. Haunted by the choices of her youth. Regrets. Everyone has them. What if? Everyone wonders at times. Lost in town a few heartbeats shy of deserted, Georgia encounters a mysterious woman who gives her a second chance to regain the life she thought she missed out on. Some say getting lost is the best way to find where you’re going. And sometimes everything must be stripped away before you realize that what you have, is what you wanted all along. The Space Between is one woman’s unconventional journey to regain what she holds dear, filled with heartbreak, friendship, and love. A thought provoking tale that will have you relating to her struggles and celebrating her triumphs.
Georgia sank into the soft ground, crossing her bare legs. The bark of the large oak she was leaning against felt rough through the thin cotton material of her tank top. On the left, the lake glistened like ink in the darkness, and to the right, bright yellow flames sputtered and cracked. Her curtain of light brown curls shielded her from curious glances—some filled with pity and others, contempt. She hoped folding herself over her drink and keeping to herself would keep anyone from approaching her.
The dirt covered ground surrounding the bonfire was full of bodies—mingling, flirting, and drinking. She heard a shrill squeal and splash behind her. Why was she here again? Why wasn’t she under her covers reading, where she could be living Elizabeth Bennet’s life? In theory, she should be enjoying herself. She was college bound after all, leaving the dregs of this podunk town far behind. But recent events had shaken her confidence. Recent events had made her question whether she had the strength to make it on her own, in college and a new city. A city that had more than a Shell station and a Dairy Queen.
This new self doubt was grating on her nerves. She’d been dreaming of going to college since she was five. She’d walk around with the toy medical kit her aunt had given her for her birthday. Braids down her back, she’d wrap her stuffed animals in toilet paper and take their temperatures, a badge reading “doktr gorja” pinned to her favorite horse pajamas. When she turned thirteen, she begged the town’s only pediatrician to let her help him after school. He turned her down at first, but when she returned the next day with a chart proving how hiring her would improve his efficiency, he relented.
Her recent jilted status was the the talk of the town, much to her utter humiliation. Brady Carmichael was her boyfriend. Was, as in past tense. Everyone admired him. He was an above average athlete, kind to old people and dogs. A regular boy scout—a very tall and good looking boy scout. He also made excellent grades. In fact, he’d missed Valedictorian by only half a point. Georgia knew that because she’d been the one to beat him by that half point. They’d always had a friendly rivalry when it came to grades. It started when they met sophomore year in honors Chemistry. It was as if the sea of mediocre minds had parted, and there he was.
Yep, Brady was going places…She’d thought those places included her. In fact, they were accepted into the same University eight hours away from their small town. She didn’t apply because of him. The school had the best pre-med program in the state, her boyfriend attending was just a comforting bonus. So, why was she second guessing everything, simply because the love of her young life had broken up with her? She’d hoped she would have been above such feelings. Turned out she was as shallow a teenage girl as the rest. He’d been kind when he told her. That was one consolation, if one could be found.
It was a Friday evening. They were lying in the bed of his truck watching the sunset. It was the cusp of spring and summer, so the air was just on the side of hot. Brady’s long muscular legs were hanging off the tail gate and Georgia was curled into his side—content. Her life was just how she wanted it, the love she’d always wanted. Everything was going according to plan. That should have been her first sign that the other shoe was about to drop.
She was kissing his neck below his ear as her leg inched over his thigh. She brushed her hand below his shirt. His warm skin felt good against palm.
“G…”Brady grabbed her hand and squeezed her fingers. She paused her kissing and lifted her head, marveling at the sparkle of gold in his brown eyes and the full plump of his lower lip. The breeze ruffled his dark hair and her thin cotton dress.“I’ve been thinking about college next year. About you and me.” He paused, looking grim. “I just…I just think it would be best if I had a fresh start, you know? No distractions…I plan to double major, maybe join a fraternity.”
“Distractions? What are you trying to say, Brady?” She sat up and frowned.
“I’m afraid…ugh, I don’t know how to say this…I just don’t think I’ll be able to give you the time and attention you deserve.” He kissed her on the head, breathing in the scent of her curls. Then whispered, “I love you, Georgia. Please don’t hate me.”
It took her a moment to realize she was getting dumped.
She was stunned into silence—the seemingly romantic moment crushed under his out of the blue confession. She rested her chin on her knees, looking away from him. She found herself unable to speak, the lump in her throat was so thick she could barely swallow. The only movement was the tremble of her lips.
The tears and pleading came seconds later, but to no avail. He’d stood firm in his decision and once that happened there was no going back. She humiliated herself for weeks; sending texts, baking him three dozen oatmeal chocolate chip cookies—his favorite, leaving a Hallmark store worth of mushy cards under his windshield wiper.
The peak of her groveling happened just three nights before. She’d snuck over to his house in the middle of the night. Her outfit, minimal, her plan, devirginization. She cringed at the thought now. How low could one person go? Trying to sex your ex into taking you back. What was she thinking? He politely turned her down, saying it wouldn’t be right. Damn him and his chivalrous gentleman tendencies.
That was the moment she’d officially hit rock bottom. She decided she’d done enough begging and hadn’t contacted him since. And shocker, no incoming calls or texts from him either. Maybe he lost his phone, or maybe he was out of the country and had no signal…or maybe, and more likely, he was done with her.
Well, maybe she was done with him, too. She took a long drink, cringing as she choked it down.
Getting drunk in a dark corner, way to stick it to him.
She rolled her eyes at her idiocy.
The party was starting to get rowdy. There’d already been one fight—testosterone and alcohol driven. One break up—cheating asshole driven. Apparently Aiden Hayes was caught making out with Jen Roberts. His girlfriend Sarah didn’t appreciate that, of course, especially since Jen was supposed to be her best friend. Sarah would’ve garnered more sympathy if it wasn’t a well known fact that she’d been messing around with Anthony Davis since the day he’d arrived home for summer break.
Georgia thought it was all ridiculous. The most ridiculous was her hiding in the shadows like a bridge troll—legs covered in dust and a large stick threatening to impale her backside. She grabbed said stick and threw it into the water just as her prayer for invisibility was at last thwarted.
“Hey, Georgie Porgie. I thought you looked lonely over here all by yourself.”
She tried not to roll her eyes at the nickname she’d been saddled with since the second grade, nor the invasion of her private self-loathing session.
“Hey, Nate,” Georgia replied without turning her head. Nate Bristol. Nice guy, handsome too, if you liked blue eyes and sandy blond hair, most girls did. But she preferred dark hair, brown eyes, no, not brown, that would be a paltry description. More like melted caramel…Holy hell, she needed a twelve step program.
She knew she wasn’t being very friendly, but she was is no mood to be cheered up. She wanted to wallow in her self doubt and pity. Talking would only cut into the nice buzz she’d been working on for the past two hours. Oh, yes, that’s why she was here—to get blissfully inebriated. Everyone else seemed to enjoy getting wrecked with alarming frequency, so she thought she’d give it a whirl. If she could only get past the horrid taste. But interestingly enough, with each cup, she minded it less than the one before. And when ‘The Reason’ started playing from someone’s stereo speakers she didn’t have the urge to cry like she usually did.
Yay, alcohol.
“You need a refill?” Nate asked. That got her attention. It was time to have some fun.
She vowed that Brady would play no part in tonight’s festivities, imaginary or otherwise. She gave herself a mental high five and took another swig.
“Now that you mention it, I would love a refill, Nate. Thanks.”
“Why don’t you come with me? I heard Bingham’s scored a bottle of tequila…If you think you can handle it.”
Georgia looked at him for a moment. He had a really nice smile and intense blue eyes. There was a swirl of green in there too—almost like the Caribbean Ocean she’d seen on the Travel Channel. She’d been mesmerized by the patchwork of blues and warring shades of aqua…That was it, Nate had Caribbean blue eyes.
Drunk.
“What?” he asked, amused. “Do I have a hanger?” His soft twang was adorable.
She laughed. “No, you’re all clear. I was just thinking how pretty your eyes are. I’m sorry to say I’ve never noticed before.”
“Uh, that’s okay. You only had eyes for another guy’s eyes…Shit, you know what I mean.” She liked that he could laugh at himself. Brady took himself and life very seriously, that’s not to say he didn’t have a sense of humor per se. He was intelligent and that’s all that’d mattered to Georgia. He was the only boy she knew who could quote Lord Byron, hell, the only one who even knew he was.
He would wrap her in his arms and whisper, “She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
Then…swoon. Now…spew.
The thought of Brady and his poetry regurgitating handsomeness made her jab her nails into her thighs. She was trying aversion therapy. So far, it hadn’t really worked.
She stood up, brushed off her backside, and with a smile, offered him her hand.
Revenge was looking pretty hot at that moment. Really hot.
“Come on, Nathaniel. Let’s go do some shots.”
“Uh, it’s Nathan, actually.”
She waved her hand in the air. “Tonight you shall be Nathaniel.” Her voice taking on a slight accent.
He laughed. “Darlin, I’ll be whoever you want.”
Alcohol and a broken heart proved to be a toxic combination. In the months and years that followed she’d often wonder how her life would’ve been different if she’d stayed home or turned Nate down and kept to the shadows of the oak tree that night. But pondering the events that had already come to pass was an act of futility and never offered her anything other than frustration.
Playlist / Soundtrack
1.The Reason- Hoobastank (Bonfire)
2.Three Libras- A Perfect Circle
3. No Surprises- Radiohead
4. Why Georgia- John Mayer (On the road)
5. Sleeping Lessons- Shins
6. Save Me- Muse
7. Sheep in Wolves Clothing- Little Hurricane
8. Bad Dream- Keane
9. Side- Travis
10. Meant to Live- Switch Foot
11. Shake it Out- Florence + The Machine
*Bonus Track*
The Space Between- Dave Mathews Band
Nikki Mathis Thompson spent her formative years singing, dancing and creating her own world of make-believe. From an early age she developed a love of reading that has grown exponentially to near addiction. She has a business degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her degree looks great in the frame, but hasn't been utilized in years. She gladly left the cubicle life behind to raise her daughter and a son was added to the mix some years later. You can find her devouring a book while drinking a glass of wine, doing her part to save the planet or lip-synching to her favorite songs while running through her suburb. She lives outside of Dallas with her family.
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Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York Two Suffolk County Corrections Officers were indicted last month on charges of allegedly assaulting an inmate at the county jail in Riverhead three years ago, prosecutors said.From left: Vincent Cennamo and Mark Nicol.Vincent Cennamo, 53, of Moriches, and his co-defendant, 46-year-old Mark Nicol of Ronkonkoma, were charged with assault. Cennamo was also charged with falsifying business records, offering a false instrument for filing and official misconduct. Both men pleaded not guilty Thursday at Suffolk County court.Prosecutors alleged the two officers assaulted 32-year-old Joshua Durkel, who was serving a sentence for a probation violation after a drug conviction, in the jail’s kitchen on Nov. 27, 2013.Cennamo then allegedly made false entries in an incident report claiming Durkel, who now lives in Florida, slipped and suffered a cut above his right eyebrow when he hit his head on a stove, according to investigators.Judge Timothy Mazzei released both men without bail. They are due back in court on March 29. Both officers were suspended without pay. read more
Disrupt yourself?
Have you been challenged to be disruptive? Have you been told you will be disrupted? Tired of the “disruptive” rhetoric? We sure are … but disruption is nonetheless an important topic of conversation. There is, however, a critical understanding of disruption necessary in order to truly define and embrace disruptive influences and actions. Curious? Read on.Disruption vs IterationWhen it comes to disruption, the first thing to understand is the difference between disruption and iteration. In Clayton M. Christensen’s 1997 book “The Innovator’s Solution,” a disruptive innovation is an “innovation that creates a new market and value network that will eventually disrupt an already existing market and replace an existing product.” In contrast, an iteration is an improvement in an existing product that seeks to maintain the existing market and value network. Take a look at industry dialogue on “disruption.” What passes for “disruptive” dialogue in today’s credit union community is not really about disruption, but about making iterative – preservative – improvements.The Credit Union Industry ChallengeIf we are really talking disruption, then what we seek are products and services that do away with those we currently offer consumers. Given the intent of disruption, however, perhaps iteration is a safer strategy. After all, who in their right mind would want to create something that kills existing business? The challenge credit unions face, of course, is that if credit unions themselves aren’t disrupting the business, someone else will.For an example we can turn to Christensen’s first book “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.” His main source of research is the hard drive industry, whose entrenched firms were “attacked from below” by firms offering smaller, cheaper drives that were slower and offered less capacity. For the entrenched firms, their strategy was not to develop products that customers didn’t want, which described the smaller drives. Rather, their strategy was to continue to make improvements to the existing drives customers loved. In other words, they made slight iterative changes to their products.This strategy worked … until those disruptive products replaced the business all together. In Christensen’s retelling, firm after firm faltered as drives that no one wanted all of a sudden became what everyone wanted.When we think of “disruption” in banking we again say that most “disruptive activity” focuses on subtle, iterative changes to the status quo. As a credit union consulting firm, we’ve also noticed something else quite interesting: credit unions are hardly iterating, let alone disrupting, the products that serve as the highest, most prevalent source of revenue – loans. Why? It’s safer not to (though we’d guess that most people would blame regulators for stymying change).Let’s take a look at lending specifically. If we really want to be disruptive, perhaps we should think about what firms we’re on record as despising are doing in the world – payday lenders, check cashers, etc. The ethics of these businesses aside, they are filling a consumer need for special purpose loans and services at amounts that most credit unions and banks shy away from. In the context of the hard drive industry, these firms offer the smaller, less profitable hard drives. Regulations are certainly pressuring the nation’s payday lenders and check cashers, but other resources are popping up to handle demand (consumer and small business) for short-term, small-dollar loans that are easy to obtain.Most credit unions and banks don’t like these kids of loans because, under existing policies, procedures, customer/member relationships, and balance sheet strategy, they don’t make financial sense. In addition, existing products can do what those smaller loan types can do and more. Why add something with such limited functionality and at such low margins?You will find the same defensive viewpoint uttered by those failed hard drive firms mentioned in “The Innovator’s Dilemma.” That viewpoint, however, is powerful and it easily overwhelms an institution to the point that it makes it extremely easy to dismiss such competitors and their simple products.Disruption Doesn’t Make Sense – But Is It Necessary?When it comes to whether you want to be disruptive as a credit union or simply iterative in your thinking, the first step is to make a decision about what you’re after. Do you want to disrupt your existing market and/or replace your existing products? Or, would you rather improve existing products to support and satisfy existing members? The difference between the two questions is important because, upon making a decision, the response to each question will take you distinctly different places.When making the initial decision of whether to be disruptive or iterative in your strategic efforts, or to decide whether disruption is even necessary, you will need to broadly explore your competitive environment. Such exploration should include the products and services that members and potential members are actually using – at your credit union and elsewhere. You may find you have no choice but to be disruptive, in which case you will need to begin the hard work of retooling your credit union to respond to the emerging threat posed by disruptive competitors.What About Innovation?Often within the same exploration of disruption you will hear of the need to innovate. The question is, “innovate what?” Your research into disruption vs. iteration will help you better understand innovation. If you face little threat of disruption and you possess a demanding, growing, thriving member base, then innovative research and effort should be directed at finding ways to improve products/services and delivery methods. If, on the other hand, disruption is necessary, then innovation must be focused on successful disruption. To put it bluntly, innovating to innovate is a worthless endeavor. There should be a context for innovation.Disruption vs. iteration offers such a framework.For a more lengthy, detailed, exploration of ideas regarding disruptive strategy we’d recommend picking up one of Christensen’s Innovators Dilemma books.The Importance of Board and Senior Management EngagementWho bears responsibility for sparking and/or supporting dialogue about disruption? The board and senior management. Christensen notes that disruptive ideas are most often the inspiration of rank-and-file employees, but as the ideas move up the chain of command they are killed because they “don’t make sense” and therefore lack support for continued exploration. That this is the common response to disruptive challenges suggests senior management and board must go out of their way to nurture staff-inspired ideas and also develop their own ideas about disruption.At the end of the day, success – if not survival – requires constant change. Sometimes drastic, disruptive change is necessary, and sometimes iterative, subtle change is necessary. The question is knowing what type of change your credit union needs, and whether you’re ready for it. 15SHARESShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr,Tom Glatt Jr Tom Glatt, Jr. is founder of Glatt Consulting, a credit union consulting firm specializing in strategy consulting for credit union leaders. 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Blood test for prion diseases reported
Aug 29, 2005 (CIDRAP News) Scientists in Texas report they have found a way to detect abnormal prion protein in blood, an achievement that could lead to the first practical blood test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and similar diseases in living animals. At present, BSE and related prion diseases, called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), can be definitively diagnosed only by examination of brain tissue after death. In the United Kingdom, BSE spread through cattle herds in the 1980s and early 1990s and led to more than 150 cases of vCJD in people, presumably as a result of eating beef from infected animals. The United States has had two BSE cases so far. In its current form, PMCA testing takes several days to yield a highly sensitive result, the report says. The authors say they expect to further increase the speed of the test. The method is called protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA). It involves separating the “buffy coat” portion of a blood sample, adding a dose of normal prion protein from brain tissue to it, incubating the preparation at 37˚C, exposing it to sound waves, and repeating the process many times. If abnormal prion protein is present, it causes the normal prions to convert to the abnormal, misfolded form, forming small clumps, the report says. The sonic treatment breaks up the clumps into smaller bits, stimulating further conversion as the cycle is repeated. After a number of rounds of PMCA, the abnormal protein can be detected by an existing test, such as the Western blot. According to an Associated Press report, Soto also said he hopes to evaluate the test in animals that have been naturally infected with a TSE and in animals that have asymptomatic infections. The test was used successfully to detect a prion disease in hamsters. If it proves effective in cattle and humans, it could help protect the blood supply from BSE, help determine the prevalence of the disease in US cattle, and assist researchers trying to assess how many people are unwittingly infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human equivalent of BSE. In a UTMB news release, Soto commented, “The next step, which we’re currently working on, will be detecting prions in the blood of animals before they develop clinical symptoms and applying the technology to human blood samples.” The authors described the basic process in previous reports, and in the new article they write that they found a way to automate the process to speed it up and increase the number of cycles. The researchers predict that the development of a similar blood test for humans will have a “tremendous impact” on the beef industry, the safety of blood and blood products, and estimation of the number of vCJD cases. They suggest that the test could permit the diagnosis and treatment of vCJD early in its course, before the appearance of clinical signs and permanent brain damage. The disease is currently untreatable and always fatal. To evaluate the test, they used 12 healthy hamsters and 18 hamsters that had clinical signs of scrapie (the sheep form of TSE) after being inoculated with infected brain tissue. After six rounds of PMCA, abnormal prion protein was detected in blood samples from 16 of the 18 sick hamsters, but not in any of the samples from healthy hamsters. The findings signify 89% sensitivity and 100% specificity for the test. “Our findings represent the first time that prions have been biochemically detected in blood,” the authors state. Because the test appears to be highly accurate, it “offers promise for the design of a sensitive biochemical test for blood diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.” Castilla J, Saa P, Soto C. Detection of prions in blood. Nature Medicine 2005; early online release [Abstract]http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v11/n9/abs/nm1286.html The new blood test was developed by Claudio Soto and two colleagues at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB). Writing in Nature Medicne, they report that they devised a way to stimulate a tiny, undetectable amount of abnormal prion protein in a blood sample to multiply so that it reaches detectable levels. Because TSEs take years to produce symptoms, it is feared that many more Britons were infected unknowingly and will fall ill in the years ahead. The discovery in Britain of a few possible cases of transmission of vCJD through blood transfusions has fueled more concern. read more
First human trial of Oxford coronavirus vaccine shows promise
Topics : The vaccine from AstraZeneca and Britain’s University of Oxford prompted no serious side effects and elicited antibody and T-cell immune responses, according to trial results published in The Lancet medical journal, with the strongest response seen in people who received two doses.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose government has helped fund the project, hailed the results as “very positive news” though the researchers cautioned the project was still at an early stage.”There is still much work to be done before we can confirm if our vaccine will help manage the COVID-19 pandemic,” vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert said. “We still do not know how strong an immune response we need to provoke to effectively protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection.”AstraZeneca shares surged 10%, but then gave up most of those gains, to close up 1.45% on the day. An experimental vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University against the new coronavirus produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials, data showed on Monday, preserving hopes it could be in use by the end of the year.The vaccine, called AZD1222, has been described by the World Health Organization’s chief scientist as the leading candidate in a global race to halt a pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 people.More than 150 possible vaccines are in various stages of development, and US drugmaker Pfizer and China’s CanSino Biologics also reported positive responses for their candidates on Monday. AstraZeneca has signed agreements with governments around the world to supply the vaccine should it prove effective and gain regulatory approval. It has said it will not seek to profit from the vaccine during the pandemic.AZD1222 was developed by Oxford and licensed to AstraZeneca, which has put it into large-scale, late-stage trials to test its efficacy. It has signed deals to produce and supply over 2 billion doses of the shot, with 300 million doses earmarked for the United States.Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive of AstraZeneca, said the company was on track to be producing doses by September, but that hopes that it will be available this year hinged on how quickly late-stage trials could be completed, given the dwindling prevalence of the virus in Britain.Late-stage trials are under way in Brazil and South Africa and are due to start in the United States, where prevalence is higher.Targeting two dosesThe trial results showed a stronger immune response in 10 people given an extra dose of the vaccine after 28 days, echoing a trial in pigs.Oxford’s Gilbert said the early-stage trial could not determine whether one or two doses would be needed to provide immunity.”It may be that we don’t need two doses, but we want to know what we can achieve,” she told reporters.AstraZeneca’s biopharma chief, Mene Pangalos, said the firm was leaning towards a two-dose strategy for later-stage trials, and did not want to risk a single or lower dose that might not work. The antibody levels generated were “in the region” of those seen in convalescent patients, he said.The trial included 1,077 healthy adults aged 18-55 years with no history of COVID-19. Researchers said the vaccine caused minor side effects more frequently than a control group, but some of these could be reduced by taking the painkiller paracetamol, which is also known as acetaminophen. read more
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Who Should Make the First Move?.
LifestyleRelationships Who Should Make the First Move?. by: – June 28, 2011 33 Views no discussions Share Sharing is caring! Share Tweet Share by Rich Santos, Marie ClairePhoto Credit: Neil KirkHe Said…The other day my friend asked me how I’d react if a girl asked me out. I told her I’d be ecstatic, because it would take away all of the work I had to do: the waiting 2.038 days to call her, the wondering, the worrying, figuring out what to say on the phone. But then I took a step back and realized that every girl who has asked me out, I’ve said yes to regardless of whether I was interested or not. I like to give everyone a shot, and I totally respect a girl who finds me attractive enough to ask out. So, yes, guys love it when a girl takes the initiative. But just remember that the same problem exists for you if you ask us out: We might just say yes and unintentionally give you the wrong idea. Bottom line, it is fair game for either gender to make the move, and it’s always good to shake things up! So, go ahead — keep us on our toes.She Said…Anyone should be able to make the first move. There is only one first move that is the grandest of them all — the very first initial interaction that signals interest between couples. That can come with a handshake, a flirty smile, the passing of a business card, or the inquiry for a phone number. A woman might make a perceivably smaller first move than a man might. She’ll engage more in conversation with him but may not ask for the phone number. Her first subtle move, however, signals him to make the bolder second move. That same scenario can work in the reverse way as well. As long as men and women stay within their comfort zones when plotting a first move, there isn’t much chance for it to go wrong. As long as we read the signals correctly, the eventual first move should end up in our favor, no matter who is taking the initial step. read more
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Goalkeeper Emma Byrne was the hero as the Republic of Ireland’s women kept their faint hopes of World Cup qualification alive. Press Association Ireland skipper Byrne produced important saves at the end of either half as the Republic battled their way to a 0-0 draw with Russia in Krasnoarmeysk to remain five points adrift of their second-placed opponents in Group 1 with three games each to play. The visitors’ best chance fell to Fiona O’Sullivan on the stroke of half-time, but she was denied by Russia ‘keeper Elvira Todua, and the Republic had to defend resiliently all the way to the whistle to claim a well-earned point. read more
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The evening game ended with the men’s doubles and it came as a little surprise to many that the duo of Godwin Kienka and Adino Tochukwu got the better of Chinedu Idike and Akeem Mustafa.An elated Nwankwo said after the encounter after, he would not relent in his sponsorship of the competition, promising to make the next edition bigger.“We are now partners,†he said. Member of the tennis section danced to live band to bring the competition to a thrilling end.Share this:FacebookRedditTwitterPrintPinterestEmailWhatsAppSkypeLinkedInTumblrPocketTelegram The fourth edition of the Wichtech Tennis Tournament ended last Saturday at the Tennis Section of the Ikoyi Club 1938 with lots of funfair.The tournament which was modeled alongside tennis Grand Slam saw participants carting away various prizes and trophies to the delight of the sponsors, Chinedu Nwankwo, Chairman Wichtech Industries limited. In the Men’s Singles A, Captain of the tennis section, Akeem Mustafa defeated Ezomo Imoukwede, 6-0, 6-4, while Chido Nwankwo got the better of Labisi Aboyomi in the Men’s Singles B.In the veterans’ finals, Charles Attah defeated Olowe Olaleye 6-3, 6-4 and in the super veteran singles, Chris Akpunonu out served Walter Jibunoh 6-2, 6-2, while in the ladies single Julie Allagonyi outplayed Clara Falase in two straight sets. read more
Mid Tipp Senior Hurling semi-final draw
Mid champions Drom Inch will face near neIghbours and county champions Thurles Sarsfields.In the other semi final 2013 county champions Loughmore Castleiney will take on the winners of the clash between JK Brackens and Moycarkey.Meanwhile the quarter-final draw has been made in North Tipp. Lorrha face Kildangan, Ballina come up against Templederry, Roscrea meet Silvermines and Portroe await either Kilruane or Toomevara.
Essien and 11 others arrive for Zambia match
Ghana’s preparations for Friday’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying against Zambia will commence this afternoon after players arrived over the weekend.Kwesi Appiah’s team will hold their first training session at the Accra Sports Stadium, Monday afternoon.Twelve players – captain Asamoah Gyan, Albert Adomah, Rashid Sumaila, Mahatma Otoo, Kwadwo Asamoah, Jonathan Mensah, Razak Braimah, Awal Mohammed, Fatau Dauda, Chrsitian Atsu, Michael Essien and Mubarak Wakaso – have arrived in the Black Stars team hotel.There will be more player arrivals later in the evening.The Black Stars are in first place and one point better than Zambia on the Group D table ahead of their final meeting at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.Winners of the second round stage will advance to the final round where ten sides will be paired off for the final stage during October and November with the winners of the five home-and-away ties qualifying for Brazil 2014. read more
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Synthetic Vitamin E Acetate Linked With Vaping Lung Injuries in CDC Report
Wednesday, February 19th 2020 at 4:45 pm
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To date, the U.S. has experienced unprecedented outbreaks of e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury and new research has linked synthetic vitamin E, a thickening agent added to vaping products, to lung injuries
Cases of e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury, also known as EVALI, are on the rise in the U.S., leading the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommend that all persons refrain from the use of e-cigarettes or vaping products until the exact cause of the outbreaks can be ascertained.
Research published by the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that vitamin E acetate, a synthetic form of naturally occurring vitamin E, is closely associated with vaping lung injuries.[i]
Vitamin E Acetate Linked to Vaping Lung Injuries
When discussing vaping injuries, it's important to note the differences between vitamin E acetate, a synthetic form of vitamin E also known as tocopheryl acetate, and natural vitamin E. While vitamin E acetate is extremely dangerous and has been linked to adverse effects on infant neurodevelopment, gene expression and immune function, naturally occurring forms of vitamin E are safe and necessary nutrients found in many fruits and vegetables, olive oil and almonds.
Vitamin E acetate is produced via a process known as esterification from vegetable oils or petroleum products. It's used as a thickening agent in illicit vapes and is often found in cosmetic products, where it is assumed to be safe when used topically.
However, reports of this petrochemical derivative's adverse effects on normal lung function when inhaled are concerning, and heating the acetate can potentially cause it to break down into a substance called ketene, which irritates the lungs.[ii],[iii]
As reports have linked vitamin E acetate to vaping lung injuries, health officials have launched multiple investigations to determine the correlation between vaping injuries and vitamin E acetate, issuing statements cautioning against the usage of e-cigarette or vaping products containing synthetic vitamin E.[iv]
In a November 2019 telebriefing, CDC officials noted that in an investigation of 29 individuals who had used e-cigarette or vaping products, all 29 participants had vitamin E acetate in their lungs, a result reported in similar studies.[v],[vi],[vii] Furthermore, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC and the lead investigator in the report, stated:
"These findings are significant because, for the first time, we have detected a potential toxin of concern -- Vitamin E acetate -- in biologic samples from patients with lung injuries associated with the use of e-cigarette or vaping products. These findings provide direct evidence of Vitamin E acetate at the primary site of injury within the lungs."[viii]
Yet vape and e-cigarette use is on the rise, despite the staggering number of vaping individuals affected by lung injuries. As of January 7, 2020, the CDC reported 2,602 hospitalizations related to e-cigarette or vaping lung injuries, up by 551 cases since November 2019.[ix] To date, at least 57 people have died from vaping-related lung injuries.[x]
Rising Popularity of E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products
Despite the evidence mounting against synthetic vitamin E and increased reports of the dangers of vaping or using e-cigarettes, EVALI cases continue to rise, especially among youth where the majority of EVALI cases are males in their early 20s.[xi],[xii]
Part of the problem may lie in the name vitamin E acetate, as most people associate "vitamin E" with positive correlations and don't understand the differences between the two substances. For this reason, it may be best if the term "vitamin" or "vitamin E" is not used to describe synthetic forms of vitamin E without some kind of qualification to differentiate between the two very different substances.
Other factors impacting the increased popularity of vaping include peer pressure, social media images of youth and celebrities vaping, a misunderstanding of the addictive nature of e-cigarettes, and the pervasive belief that vaping is harmless -- or, at least, less dangerous than smoking regular cigarettes.
In fact, "[kids] really think that [vaping devices] are mostly flavors and that they are inhaling a pleasant gas," says Dr. Sarper Taskiran, a childhood psychiatrist at Child Mind Institute, in a news release.[xiii]
Vaping companies use marketing campaigns to target youth and imply that vaping is a way to look cool without all of the harmful side effects that accompany "real" cigarette usage.
While it's promising that vitamin E acetate has been linked to these health issues, officials continue to warn that the exact cause of EVALI injuries has not been pinpointed, and urge youth and adults to abstain from using vaping and e-cigarette products (including legal products) until the exact cause of the injuries is understood.
Other Instances of Vitamin E Acetate Adverse Effects
In addition to its association with EVALI, synthetic forms of vitamin E have been linked to the following conditions and adverse effects:
Increased mortality in pancreatic cancer patients[xiv]
Enhances the development of UV-B radiation-induced skin cancer[xv]
Contributes to liver damage through increased alkaline elution rate[xvi]
Increases incidence of hemorrhagic stroke[xvii]
Interrupts normal gene transcription, especially in infants[xviii]
Negatively impacts immune function[xix]
For more information on synthetic vitamin E and its harmful effects, view the GreenMedInfo.com database on the subject:
[i] N Engl J Med. 2019 Dec 20.
[ii] Wu, Dan & O'Shea, Donal. (2019). Potential for Release of Pulmonary Toxic Ketene from Vaping Pyrolysis of Vitamin E Acetate.
[iii] Toxics. 2018 Aug 7;6(3). pii: E46. doi: 10.3390/toxics6030046.
[iv] U.S. CDC, Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products
[v] U.S. CDC November 8, 2019
[vi] MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2019 Oct 25;68(42):953-956. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6842e1.
[vii] N Engl J Med. 2019 Dec 20.
[viii] U.S. CDC November 8, 2019
[ix] Mo Med. 2019 Nov-Dec; 116(6): 492–496.
[x] U.S. CDC, Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products
[xi] Lancet Respir Med. 2019 Dec;7(12):1017-1026. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30415-1. Epub 2019 Nov 8.
[xii] N Engl J Med. 2019 Dec 20. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1916433.
[xiii] Child Mind Institute, Teen Vaping: What You Need to Know
[xiv] Cancer. 1999 Jul 1;86(1):37-42.
[xv] Nutr Cancer. 1996;26(2):183-91.
[xvi] Cancer Lett. 1984 Dec;25(2):163-70.
[xvii] N Engl J Med. 1994 Apr 14;330(15):1029-35.
[xviii] Arch Biochem Biophys. 2010 Mar 1;495(1):49-55. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2009.12.015. Epub 2009 Dec 21.
[xix] Arch Biochem Biophys. 2010 Mar 1;495(1):49-55. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2009.12.015. Epub 2009 Dec 21.
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Meet Mike McKenna of TEAM Solutions in Hurst
Today we’d like to introduce you to Mike McKenna.
Mike, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
My story involves a collision of several different paths converging into one.
When I was a kid in the early 1970’s, sporting events like the professional Dallas Tornados soccer matches would give out free game programs to all attendees, who almost always left them at their seats at the end of the game. As a fervent soccer fan who was fortunate to be able to attend many games, I would collect all the non-beer soaked programs and take them home. I would then stack them in my little red wagon and go door to door in my neighborhood selling the previous week’s programs to neighbors that ‘wanted to feel the excitement of the game but couldn’t attend the match.’ At least that’s what I told myself. Nonetheless, the entrepreneurial bug bit me early.
In the late 1980’s, I was living on my own, working full-time at a small health club chain while also putting myself through college. At work I found myself surrounded by innovative managers, including “Tom” who used to play the costumed role of Spider-Man in the old TV show. Tom took me under his wing and mentored me in business, management and how to recognize real superheroes. During that time, I also remember watching my life slip away in my “Theory of Accounting” class watching the cars whiz by outside, taunting me.
At that moment, I made a deal with myself to trade the rest of my formal schooling for a lifetime commitment to learning and education, wherever it may appear and however it may look when it shows up. We can learn something from everything and everyone and that pledge to myself to improve my knowledge I’ve vigilantly kept to this day.
With my brain now free to be more imaginative, I pursued new and different opportunities with great zeal but little else: a mining business in New Mexico, a commercial cleaning business, a cloth diaper delivery business and a limousine company to name a few. Inspiration and determination are certainly key ingredients to the success recipe, but in my early 20’s I didn’t always have the savvy, patience, or grit to stick with it when things got tough.
In the early 1990’s, I started working as a private investigator for a highly reputable firm in downtown Dallas. I got involved in a variety of cases that helped shape Dallas’s image at that time. Smarmy topics involving the Catholic Church, mafia strongholds, mass fatality accidents, high-profile disputes, multi-million-dollar lawsuits and hordes of white collar crimes, like theft of trade secrets, espionage and product counterfeiting (Mickey Mouse, Nike, Rolex, etc.).
I grew increasingly perplexed why so many white-collar criminal counterfeiters – which my clients sued in civil court to win a judgment – would just write a check, smile and be back to their evil ways the next day. If it was really a crime, I thought, they should go to jail not back to stealing from my clients.
Tapping into my entrepreneurial mindset, I sought out to learn the differences between misdemeanors and felonies, what ‘probable cause’ was, how to write a search warrant, and how to testify as an expert witness. My law enforcement mentor was “Jimmy”, an experienced and patient detective the bad guys called “Mr. Big.” I figured that to be effective for my clients; I had to do more than just take their money. I also had to actually solve their problem. That effort led to the very first arrest and conviction for criminal counterfeiting in Texas history. Mr. Big and I showed that our private/public partnership could achieve much more together than separately.
That success opened up new and exciting doors as I became a sought-after facilitator of criminal enforcement and ‘translator’ between corporate victims and law enforcement in Dallas and eventually around the USA.
One of my roles was to train law enforcement how best to investigate these often complex white collar crime syndicates. That put me in front of hundreds of hard-boiled police officers each year who often had an understandable, baked-in suspicion for a wet-behind-the-ears civilian like me telling them how to do their job.
I quickly learned that for me to be successful, they also had to be successful. I figured out that, among other things, success was often defined much differently to them, so I had to adjust my strategies before we could share in a fruitful relationship. Once I unlocked the secrets to translating the disparate needs of both law enforcement AND my corporate clients, over 60% of all my new cases were generated by law enforcement, who frequently called and asked for my help. And my clients would happily pay me to help them solve their problem. Everybody won and my understanding of the importance of always promoting a “win-win-win solution” became solidified.
Dallas provided me great opportunity and success, so I decided to give back. For several years I was a volunteer, then president, and then a board member of a non-profit that provided volunteers to projects that needed some sweat equity … tutoring kids, tearing down condemned garages, cleaning up parks, etc. Being primed to learn from that experience (a/k/a, my ‘lifelong education deal with myself’), I witnessed people that had the heart to build up their community and fellow citizens along with other people that only had the heart to build up their resumes.
The former are willing to do the hard work for no fame while the latter usually give up when it gets too challenging or wasn’t ‘notable’ enough.
Yet another gift to learn what kind of people solve real problems versus the kind of people that tend just to stir the pot.
To help address this, in 2003, I started TEAM Solutions, initially as just a ‘side-hustle.’ The original intent was to provide my best clients my best service, no selfish scrubs allowed. I delivered premier service to premier customers, which was a great slogan for bumper stickers but it was hard to spread the message beyond a small group of dedicated clients that already knew me.
By the way, the word “TEAM” is significant for all of the obvious reasons in addition to being inspired by my “why”, my family: Tonya, Emily/Ethan, And Mike. More about my business in a moment, as the paths are still colliding.
Another milestone was discovering one of the great ironies of being good at solving your client’s problems: you work yourself out of a job. The moral victory was high, but the bank balance was getting low. I needed to find another door.
In the late 1990’s, before starting TEAM Solutions, I had already diverted some of my volunteer attention to giving my very enthusiastic dog and me a job in Search & Rescue (SAR). As an Eagle Scout, an avid outdoorsman and determined volunteer, “Boomer” and I joined an active, respected SAR team in DFW and eventually earned our spot to deploy on actual missions.
Turns out that training a dog to perform at such a reliably high level had many similarities to my success in training cops: have a plan, be consistent, reinforce the desired behavior, extinguish the undesired behavior, etc. Who knew?
Approaching training and education with an entrepreneur’s mindset again allowed me to see some new opportunities that might exist for my company. So, I started delivering training, speaking and consulting services based on my skill in translating and training complex or abstract topics into simple topics.
In the meantime, Boomer and I took to search & rescue like flies to a corpse, literally, and enjoyed many satisfying results. We were honored to respond together to the Space Shuttle disaster and on numerous recoveries of people’s loved ones (Boomer was a cadaver dog).
An important note about how this particular collision of paths was so significant. I can trace the origins of all my current personal and professional successes back to my partnership with Boomer. The experiences I had because of him played a huge part in each of my decisions that led me to where I am today. I will forever be grateful to him.
Case in point: That success and exposure on my DFW-based search & rescue team led to a role with our state’s premier Urban Search & Rescue team that deploys to state and national level crises like terror attacks, hurricanes, tornados, and floods. Being a part of that team exposed me to the best of the best. The grit and savvy that I was missing earlier in my career were on display en masse. No resume-builder-types allowed. Fortunately, I also found a few unselfish mentors like “Dave”, “O.B.M.” and a dude we all just call “Country.” I adapted to the level required from me and earned a spot at the ‘tip of the sword.’ These were my people.
Despite the horrors we sometimes had to deal with on those disaster deployments, there was no greater feeling than helping someone that’s in a bad place get to a better place while also enduring the worst day of their life. Back in college, Spider-Man Tom introduced to me what a true hero looked like and they now surrounded me.
The natural progression from having so much field experience was to transition to a role instructing other responders (firemen, etc.) how to improve their leadership and decision-making during a disaster. Like cops, firemen are also known to ‘eat their young’ so I had to figure out quickly how to bring out the best of me so that I could help bring out the best in them.
TEAM Solutions was also gaining traction. Inertia was pulling me towards working with other committed adults wanting to improve their leadership … and I discovered that they exist in both the public AND the private sectors. There were now many doors from which to choose.
As my crawling-through-tunnels and wading-through-toxic-soup days were winding down, new doors were appearing. The opportunities to coach and mentor folks responsible for planning, processing, and decision-making during a crisis had increased ten-fold.
With so many different angles to ponder, I learned to sketch these new and potential paths all out on multiple whiteboards I have hanging around my home and office. Whiteboards allow for creativity, flexibility, ease of corrections, and simple, clear visual references. They’re one of the best tools in an entrepreneur’s toolbox!
So far, these paths have enabled me the honor to travel to over 40 states and territories plus two countries to facilitate my customer’s transformation from being a good leader to being a GREAT leader.
Another convergence is also happening. Informed leaders are in greater demand than ever before. Yet costs to receive skilled guidance in person has never been higher. Fortunately, online delivery of targeted, competent instruction has never been more available.
Therefore, a new door has swung wide open: online education for committed leaders of all types and experience levels.
My current life has truly been the result of lots of paths converging into one.
2017 has been my most productive and successful year yet. By the end of this year, in addition to my various consulting projects, I will surpass 12,000 adult students and 8,000 hours of in-person, adult instruction plus several hundred more via my online courses. And still counting.
Gratefully, I still have a long way to go, lots left to learn and lots of doors to still try.
My son has now been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, too. It’s appreciably harder to find soccer game programs that people leave behind these days, but I still expect his path will be as scenic as mine has been.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Thankfully, no.
For example, I’ve worked with some dog handlers that breezed through their testing to earn a coveted spot on a disaster team with no appreciable challenges. However, if ever they had to confront a complex problem, they had no reservoir of knowledge or experience in problem-solving to tap into, and they quickly become overwhelmed. That’s a tough place to be when lives are on the line so I’d prefer to have the experience and knowledge rather than just the certificate.
As a hell-bent, lifelong learner and educator, struggles are simply learning opportunities in disguise. Really.
Or as my mother always put it: an AFGO or “Another F* Growth Opportunity.”
A couple of my notable AFGO’s:
The cold beans and rice I ate for every meal for every day in my dark (couldn’t pay the electric bill) apartment was an opportunity to embrace frugality and a focus on what’s important.
The $357 remaining balance in my family’s checking account while thousands of dollars in bills stacked up provided ample incentive to try a little harder, a little smarter, for a little longer.
Not having a formal degree limited many of my options, such as a career in local or federal law enforcement, law school or having an alumni building named after me somewhere.
In almost all of my professional circles so far, I have usually been the one civilian among a sea of highly decorated soldiers, fireman and cops.
For example, after we deployed for 35 days to Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita, many of my fire department-based colleagues came home to a hero’s welcome complete with a parade, front page cover stories, and gifts. I came home to a family hug and a new can of Lysol to help get rid of the seared-in stink that had been living in my nose.
However, if I tried to live their life, I’d fail spectacularly. When I remember to embrace who I am and what I do, I always seem to do just fine.
Being an outlier is seen as a disadvantage for some brought on by a conformist mindset. If I had chosen to adopt a conformist mindset instead, I certainly wouldn’t have much of a diverse history to share.
As an uninjured, non-veteran, white, male, small business owner it’s challenging at best to bid successfully on any government work.
But just like selling old soccer programs door to door, when one door closes, it can be seen as a fatal defeat, or it can be a ‘clue’ that it’s time to find another door to knock on.
When I’ve been successful, a critical success factor has been that I’m always primed to consider ‘different doors.’ So that’s what I do: keep moving until I find an open door.
My biggest struggle, however, happens to also be my most consistent struggle: periodic moments of self-doubt.
I believe most other entrepreneurs can relate. We live and work on the tattered edge of progress, and that can be a desolate place that can drain our confidence and courage.
However, without the invigorating feeling of knowing that every day is mine to fight for, my life would just be a path to nowhere.
I accept the occasional hardship and never-ending challenges because I know that there’s always another door at the end of another path that promises yet another awesome opportunity.
Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about TEAM Solutions – what should we know?
I help people become better leaders of themselves and others, particularly during a crisis or a planned event.
My clients are the ones expected to stay and lead while others run and hide after plans go sideways.
I do that by delivering in-person and online advice, expert instruction, and self-paced learning at TEAM-Solutions.US. Almost 12,000 adults so far have benefited.
My newest training program for new and experienced leaders will be delivered all online. People registered here will get the scoop first: https://team-solutions.us/response-leadership-training-program-lp/
I have free email courses and topic-specific newsletters for people interested in Response, Leadership, Instruction and Evacuation available at TEAM-Solutions.US (https://team-solutions.us/)
Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
My wife, Tonya. She’s a stalwart, patient, and consistent supporter. Without judgment or ridicule, she’s supported me while I pursued things that made sense to her and also a whole bunch of things that didn’t make any sense. I married up!
We’re a sum of all of the people we know. So it may seem like a cop-out, but I truly benefit (as in, learn something good, bad or indifferent) from virtually everyone I hang around. From the passionate teenager that bagged my groceries to the CEO and Fire Chief that told me that I was on the right path, I’m grateful. Those that have gone the extra mile for me with their gentle counsel and have expected nothing in return are my personal heroes.
I’ll add that I’m grateful for the truly lousy colleagues I’ve had to endure, too. From their incompetence, toxicity, and arrogance, I’ve found a steady source of fuel to create a better way.
Do you feel like our city is a good place for businesses like yours?
DFW is an awesome place to do business. Good climate, diverse collection of people and businesses, and access to every service a person or business needs. No matter your thing, there’s something for everybody. Texans for the most part also have unparalleled pride in our state. In my experience, the most resilient and thriving organizations, teams and civilizations are full of folks that believe in something bigger than themselves. When that shines through here, DFW proves that it’s an unbeatable place to live, work and flourish.
Website: https://TEAM-Solutions.US
Email: Mike@TEAM-Solutions.US
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Amazing journey for an amazing man. Thank you for your service Mike!
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1. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 1
Charles Hartshorne The Rights of the Subhuman World
Eugene C. Hargrove How, When, Where, and Why
Daniel Lehocky The Limits of Altruism: An Ecologist’s View of Survival
Mark Sagoff Private Property and the Constitution
J. Baird Callicott Elements of an Environmental Ethic: Moral Considerability and the Biotic Community
Walter H. O'Briant William T. Blackstone
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John N. Martin The Concept of the Irreplaceable
An analysis is proposed for the common argument that something should be preserved because it is irreplaceable. The argument is shown to depend on modal elements in irreplaceable, existence assumptions of preserve, and the logic of obligation. In terms of this theory it is argued that utilitarianism can account for most, but not all instances of persuasive appeals to irreplaceability. Beingessentially backwards looking, utilitarianism cannot in principle justify preservation of objects irreplaceable because of their history or genesis.
10. Environmental Ethics: Volume > 1 > Issue: 1
Holmes Rolston, III Can and Ought We to Follow Nature?
“Nature knows best” is reconsidered from an ecological perspective which suggests that we ought to follow nature. The phrase “follow nature” has many meanings. In an absolute law-of-nature sense, persons invariably and necessarily act in accordance with natural laws, and thus cannot but follow nature. In an artifactual sense, all deliberate human conduct is viewed as unnatural, and thus it is impossible to follow nature. As a result, the answer to the question, whether we can and ought to follow nature, must be sought in a relative sense according to which human conduct is sometimes more and sometimes less natural. Four specific relative senses are examined: a homeostatic sense, an imitative ethical sense, an axiological sense, and a tutorial sense. Nature can be followed in a homeostatic sense in which human conduct utilizes naturallaws for our well-being in a stable environment, but this following is nonmoral since the moral elements can be separated from it. Nature cannot be followed in an imitative ethical sense because nature itself is either amoral or, by some accounts, immoral. Guidance for inter-human ethical conduct, therefore, must be sought not in nature, but in human culture. Nevertheless, in an axiological sense, persons can and ought to follow nature by viewing it as an object of orienting interest and value. In this connection, three environments are distinguished for human well-being in whichwe can and ought to participate-the urban, the rural, and the wild. Finally, in a tutorial sense, persons can and ought to follow nature by letting it teach us son1ething of our human role, our place, and our appropriate character in the natural system as a whole. In this last sense, "following nature" is commended to anyone who seeks in his human conduct to maintain a good fit with the natural environment-a sense of following nature involving both efficiency and wisdom.
Donald C. Lee Some Ethical Decision Criteria with Regard to Procreation
Susan L. Flader Leopold’s Some Fundamentals of Conservation: A Commentary
Michael Ruse Sociobiology and Behavior
Paul F. Schmidt Wilderness as Sacred Space
Aldo Leopold Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest
Leopold first discusses the conservation of natural resources in the southwestern United States in economic tenns, stressing, in particular, erosion and aridity. He then concludes his analysis with a discussion of the moral issues involved, developing his general position within the context of P. D. Ouspenky’s early philosophy of organism.
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Don Howard Commoner on Reductionism
Barry Commoner has argued that the environmental failure of modern technology is due in large part to the reductionistic character ofmodern science, especially its biological component where the reductionist approach has triumphed in molecular biology. I claim, first, that Commoner has confused reduction in the sense of the reduction of one theory to another with what is better called analysis, or the strategy of breaking a whoie into its parts in order to understand the properties of the whole, this latter being the actual target of his attack. I then argue that his criticisms of molecular biology fail since each of the properties of the cell which he claims cannot be understood in an analytic fashion, such as reproduction, development and inheritance, can be so understood, and that, in fact, each of his putatively nonanalytic accounts of these properties is the result of analysis. Similarly, Commoner’s claim that ecosystenls possess properties that cannot be understood analytically is refuted by comparing ecosystems with automobiles, which Commoner acknowledges are susceptible to analysis, and by showing that there are no essential differences between the two. FinaIly, l observe that while it is false that ecosystems canna! be understood in analytic terms, it is true that they are not usually thus understood, and that the explanation for this is not that scientists subscribe to amistaken philosophy, but that our social institutions for the teaching and application of science do not adequately stress the importance of exploring the connections between the parts of such complex wholes.
Eugene C. Hargrove Nature’s Economy: The Roots of Ecology
Gary Weatherford The Evolution of National Wildlife Law
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Burnaby Munson Memorialized at Mitchell Hall
Friends, loved ones, former students and faculty gathered for a memorial service that venerated Munson’s dedication to excellence in education and research.
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Friends, loved ones, former students and faculty gathered in Mitchell Hall for a memorial service that venerated Munson’s 50 years of dedication to excellence in education and research.
BY KEVIN TRAVERS
Staff Reporter
“Above all, service to students was at the very core of his being,’ John Burmeister, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the university, said of the late chemistry professor Burnaby Munson. “The university and our department is blessed to have shared his wonderful life. Our department will never be the same.”
Friends, loved ones, former students and faculty gathered in Mitchell Hall for a memorial service that venerated Munson’s 50 years of dedication to excellence in education and research. Tears were shed by a room full of Munson’s loved ones.
Though the professor never had children of his own, he had done more than his part to raise generations of students at the university.
“Munson wasn’t afraid to die,” Melissa Bowers, a close family friend who was with him when he passed, said. “His only regret was never having children, but he had thousands of children right here.”
Munson led a life of involvement on campus. He was an old-guard professor who lived nearby, regularly inviting students to his house for parties and cookouts. He even once loaned out his car to students to ensure they could commute to internships and research opportunities across the country.
It was revealed during the memorial service that Munson had even created a fund for undergraduate research, under a different name than his own. He had supported this out of his own pocket for decades.
Munson’s financial stake in supporting education demonstrated his remarkable energy for teaching. Multiple members of the audience and alumni who spoke at the service had unknowingly received direct funding from a mentor that had already contributed his attention, time and energy to ensuring their success.
“He backed that commitment to research with funds, not wanting recognition back due to his modesty,” Katherine Kerrane, a retired honors professor, said. “For years he anonymously funded students to research during winter session.”
Kerrane, a close friend of Munson, chiefly characterized him by his modesty at the memorial. She said that he was like “Mr. Chips,” the titular character from the 1969 film “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” about a beloved and retiring school teacher. Kerrane noted that Munson lacked Mr. Chips’ traditional warm and fuzzy attitude, and likened him to a “lovable curmudgeon.”
Munson wanted students to be challenged in and out of the classroom, intentionally scaring freshmen students while simultaneously ensuring they could always go to him for help.
Kevin Travers/THE REVIEW
University President Dennis Assanis took the podium to offer words of condolence and celebration.
Alumna Lauren Genova, a current graduate student at Cornell, said she was close friends with Munson, who had encouraged her to conduct research while she was an undergraduate. Genova learned at the ceremony that Munson had also directly funded her work had landed her a Ph.D. program at Cornell.
Genova wrote and sang a song in dedication to Munson’s impact on her life, titled “Unintended.” As she sang, a slideshow of photos from Munson’s cookouts, Halloween parties and smiling students working with Munson captured the portrait of a man who lived through his dedication to inspiring others.
Christopher Hadad, an alumnus and former teaching assistant (TA) of Munson, shared his stories working with the professor. He said Munson would bring in food to encourage his students to keep going during especially long or arduous exam periods.
“After a while, Munson would say he would become a ‘rabid rabbit,’” Hadad said. “He would say, ‘I have no idea how you’re all still alive. The answer was food, he would use it to bring people together.”
Hadad also believed Munson knew he would only go to the front of the classroom to eat after he was finished, so Munson would therefore grab a handful of M&Ms and stand in front of Hadad, taunting him.
Munson had sold a condo to be closer to campus, where Hadad and his fellow TAs were tasked with renovating Munson’s new house. Hadad said the house was completely changed with student engagement and parties in mind. Munson paid Hadad and the others in food.
Hadad was convinced by Munson to take part in a research program that would end up changing his life. When Hadad had given an excuse that the program was too far away, Munson threw Hadad his car keys and told him he was going.
“Even if you had no interest in doing things, Munson would make you do them,” Hadad said. “One of his greatest gifts was looking toward what someone was capable of doing.”
During an interlude, a video compilation of Munson’s famous experiments played, in which the professor continuously blew things to demonstrate chemical reactions for his classes.
“There was a special place in his heart for explosions,” Alumnus and science radio show host Charles Berquist said. “Munson told me he regretted he wouldn’t be around to see the Towers demolition and implosion.”
University President Dennis Assanis, who could see Munson’s outdoor firework shows at times from across The Green in his office, took the podium to offer words of condolence and celebration.
“Fortunately for us, Dr. Munson found his true calling as a teacher and he came to UD in 1967 as a chemistry professor,” Assanis said. “Over the course of the next five decades, more than 46,000 students would benefit from his passion as a teacher. I am leaving you with this: We should work together to build the Munson Honors College.”
Honors Program Director Michael Chajes opened and closed the event.
“This amazing crowd is an estimate to how meaningful Burnaby was to so many people,” Chajes said. “I know everyone in this room has cherished memories of Burnaby and I hope today’s events will bring these events back to you. And not only bring a tear to your eyes, but a giant smile to your face. I know a smile is what Burnaby would have wanted.”
Kevin Travers/THE REVIEW
After the event, members of the crowd crossed the street to enjoy a cookout reception in front of the Honors Program building.
Following the service, the congregation crossed the street for an outdoor cookout reception on the front lawn of the Honors Program building, reminiscent of a Munson event.
Be a generous, hardworking individual who inspires others with your energy, and above all else love what you do. These were among the character traits given to describe the late chemistry professor who inspired countless students and faculty members to find what they love and excel at it.
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Rochester wins primary
Lisa Blunt Rochester, the state’s former Secretary of Labor, won the primary with 44 percent of the vote, amassing 27,919 total ballots.
> Courtesy of Misha Popovikj
BY JACOB ORLEDGE
On Tuesday, voters across the state of Delaware traveled to their local polls to vote in the primary races. The race to be the democratic nominee to be the next US Congressman from Delaware was especially brutal.
Six candidates ran in the Democratic primary. They were Lisa Blunt Rochester, Bryan Townsend, Sean Barney, Michael Miller, Scott Walker and Elias Weir. Bryan Townsend, a sitting state senator, was the only candidate ever to hold elected office in Delaware.
Lisa Blunt Rochester, the state’s former Secretary of Labor, won the primary with 44 percent of the vote, amassing 27,919 total ballots. Bryan Townsend, current state senator for the 11th district, ended the night with 15,847 votes, or 25 percent. Sean Barney, Iraq War veteran, came in third with 20 percent of the vote, totalling 12,891 ballots.
Michael Miller and Scott Walker received approximately 5 percent of the vote apiece, while Elias Weir garnered fewer than 1 percent of the total votes cast. All vote totals were reported by The News Journal.
Bryan Townsend lost the election but remained excited for Delaware’s future.
“I’m excited for Lisa, for her supporters and for Delaware, a state that has embraced the kind of diversity that is important in politics,” Townsend told The News Journal.
In the wake of his primary loss, Sean Barney announced that he would assist in electing his former rival.
“I am confident that Lisa will represent Delaware well in Congress and I look forward to helping elect her this fall,” he announced in a statement, as reported by The News Journal.
As of this month, the Department of Elections reports that there are 318,991 registered Democrats, 188,491 registered Republicans and 153,611 unaffiliated voters in the state. Fifteen other parties have several hundred registered voters each.
The totals skew in favor of the Democratic party, meaning Democratic nominees such as Lisa Blunt Rochester are the heavy favorite in statewide races. She faces Republican nominee Hans Reigle, Libertarian nominee Scott Gesty and Green Party nominee Mark Joseph Perri in the general election.
Delaware has never before elected an African-American congressman before, nor has the state ever elected a woman to Congress. Should Rochester proceed to win the general election on Nov. 8, she will make history not once, but twice as the first African-American woman from the first state.
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Masters snooker 2021: Ronnie O'Sullivan beaten by John Higgins
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Every fucking night
family dinner winners
jams marmalades relishes and chutneys
Kitchen staples
Recipes – savoury
Recipes – sweet
rice and lentils
sauces marinades and dressings
stuffings and assortments
We have not had to go to hospital!
It appears Oscar was reacting to the antibiotic. I spoke at length with the GP on the phone this morning (she was so good) and we’ve started him on one which is gentler on the stomach but bloody hell, that kid has dealt with enough this year.
Felix’s throat swab results are back and yes, it’s official, he has whooping cough.
Felix’s coughing fits last night were not a patch on Monday night’s.
The boys spent today watching The Last Airbender and The Karate Kid – the new one with Will Smith’s son in it, which I actually thoroughly enjoyed and think is so.much.better. than the original.
There was also an attempt at making slime, which resulted in bowls of what look suspiciously like half set green jelly.
Jasper accidentally whacked me across the face with his Poppity – the stinky bunny rabbit he takes everywhere. still. – which gave me a shock and made me cry.
Which made him cry.
But for me, the shock of that thwack kinda opened the floodgates and I just sobbed and sobbed on and off for about two hours.
Then fell asleep for an hour.
Then went and did the grocery shopping.
Then bumped into a mum from school who told me virtually the WHOLE of Years 5 and 6 and been felled with The Cough.
That’s roughly 60 kids.
So thank you school secretary for saying to me yesterday we were the first ones she’s heard of to have it.
Then I came home and cracked the shits about the state of the house – lunch plates still everywhere etc and everyone knew I meant business.
Dinner however was not until 8pm.
Do you know what kids are like when they don’t eat dinner until 8pm?
Ughgly.
The bigger boys are now in bed.
The little boys are in the bath blowing bubbles at each other.
It will end in tears shortly no doubt.
So you see, the sun did rise, another day did dawn and we have lived to tell the tale.
Onward!
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5 October 2017 (Springsteen on Broadway Starts)
17 January 2016 (The River Tour 2016 Starts)
27 January 2014 (High Hopes Tour Starts)
45 March 2012 (Wrecking Ball Tour Starts)
TOUR DEBUTS ARE IN ORANGE!
Significant Events are in BLUE
01/18/2020: Asbury Park, NJ (Light of Day)
Soundcheck: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Because The Night, Savin' Up, Pink Cadillac, Never Be Enough Time, Atlantic City, The Promised Land
Broken Radio (w/ Jesse Milan)
Meet Me At The End Of The World
One Guitar (w/ Willie Nile)
Talking To The King (W/ Joe Grushecky)
Never Be Enough Time
Savin' Up
Light Of Day (w/ all LOD musicians)
Thunder Road (w/ all LOD musicians)
07/10/2018: New York, NY
Soundcheck: No Reports (Change of Setlist due to Patti Scialfa not present. Regular setlist resumes 07/11/18)
Growin' Up
My Father's House
Born In The U.S.A.
Long Time Comin'
Dancing In The Dark
This Hard Land
Soundcheck: No Reports (Change of setlist. The Ghost Of Tom Joad makes return, Long Walk Home Out)
Tougher Than The Rest (w/ Patti)
Brilliant Disguise (w/ Patti)
12/26/2017 through 12/27/2018: New York, NY
Soundcheck: No Reports (Change of Setlist due to Patti Scialfa being home sick. Regular setlist resumes 01/09/18)
Growin’ Up
My Father’s House
Long Time Comin’
October 2017 (Springsteen on Broadway Starts)
NOTE: Springsteen on Broadway performance is likely to remain the same setlist night after night. If there is any changes to the set below, we will update this page.
Soundcheck: No Reports
02/25/17: Auckland, New Zealand
Working On The Highway
My Love Will Not Let You Down
My City Of Ruins
American Skin (41 Shots)
Candy's Room
Because The Night
Bobby Jean
Thunder Road (Solo, Guitar)
02/21/17: Christchurch, New Zealand
Jole Blon
02/18/17: Hunter Valley, Australia
Waiting On A Sunny Day
I'm Goin' Down
None But The Brave
You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
Death To My Hometown
02/16/17: Brisbane, Australia
Soundcheck: Long Time Comin, Follow That Dream, Radio Nowhere
New York City Serenade (w/ Strings)
Roll Of The Dice
Downbound Train
I'm On Fire
Soundcheck: Janey Don't You Lose Heart
Lucky Town
Janey Don't You Lose Heart
Back In Your Arms
02/11/17: Hanging Rock, Australia
The Promised Land (Solo, Guitar)
American Land
02/09/17: Sydney, Australia
Lonesome Day
Adam Raised A Cain
02/04/17: Melbourne, Australia
Prove It All Night (1978 Intro)
Seven Nights To Rock
Don't Hang Up (Solo, Guitar)
Murder INC
Long Walk Home (Solo, Guitar)
01/30/17: Adelaide, Australia
Soundcheck: New York City Serenade, American Land, Long Walk Home, Rocky Ground
Racing In The Street
If I Should Fall Behind (Solo, Guitar)
01/27/17: Perth, Australia
Drive All Night
I'm Going Down
Soundcheck: New York City Serenade, Atlantic City, The Promised Land, Land Of Hope And Dreams
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
Lost In The Flood
KItty's Back
Incident On 57th Street
Blood Brothers (Solo, Guitar)
11/01/16: New York, NY (Stand Up For Heroes Benefit Show)
Working On The Highway (Solo, Guitar)
I'll Work For Your Love (Solo, Guitar)
Dancing In The Dark (Solo, Guitar)
09/14/16: Foxborough, MA
Soundcheck: New York City Serenade
4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (Solo, Electric)
Shout (w/ Peter Wolf)
Rocking All Over The World
09/11/16: Pittsburgh, PA
Soundcheck: New York City Serenade, Nothing Man, Into The Fire
You're Missing
Light Of Day (w/ Joe Grushecky)
I'm A Rocker
09/09/16: Philadelphia, PA
From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
I'm Goin Down
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City (w/ Vinny Lopez)
Streets Of Philadelphia
09/07/16: Philadelphia, PA (Longest U.S. Show Ever)
Soundcheck: New York City Serenade, Jack Of All Trades
The E Street Shuffle
The Fever
Thundercrack
Jack Of All Trades (w/ Strings)
09/05/16: Virginia Beach, VA
Soundcheck: For You (Solo), Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street, Factory, Mary Queen Of Arkansas
For You (Solo, Piano)
Save My Love
This Hard Land (Solo, Guitar)
09/01/16: Washington, DC
Soundcheck: Lost In The Flood, New York City Serenade,
08/30/16: East Rutherford, NJ
Soundcheck: Incident On 57th Street, Kitty's Back, Secret Garden, Better Days, Pretty Flamingo, Living Proof, Blinded By The Light, Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street
4th Of July (Asbury Park, Sandy)
08/28/16: Chicago, IL
Soundcheck: The Ties That Bind, Jack Of All Trades, New York City Serenade
Soundcheck: The Ghost Of Tom Joad, No Surrender, Jack Of All Trades
Death To My Hometown (w/ Tom Morello)
American Skin (w/ Tom Morello)
Tougher Than The Rest
The Ghost Of Tom Joad (w/ Tom Morello)
Dancing In The Dak
Soundcheck: New York City Serenade, My Lucky Day, None But The Brave, Back In The USA, Wrecking Ball, Jack Of All Trades, Mansion On The Hill, I'm On Fire
Santa Clause Is Comin To Town
Mansion On The Hill (Solo, Guitar)
Jack Of All Trades (Solo, Guitar w/ Strings)
07/31/16: Zurich, Switzerland
American Skin
07/28/16: Oslo, Norway
Pre-Show (Solo): Working On The Highway
Meet Me In The City
Jackson Cage
I Wanna Marry You
Stolen Car
The Price You Pay
Wreck On The Highway
07/26/16: Trondheim, Norway
07/23/16: Gothenburg, Sweden
07/20/16: Horsens, Denmark
Soundcheck: Dream Baby Dream, The Promised Land
Dream Baby Dream
You Never Can Tell
07/16/16: Rome, Italy
The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Solo, Guitar)
07/13/16 Paris, France
07/11/16: Paris, France
Incident On 57th Street (Solo, Piano)
Reason To Believe
Nebraska (Solo, Guitar)
07/09/16: Werchter, Belgium
Soundcheck: Festival...No Soundcheck
07/05/16: Milan, Italy
Pre-Show (Solo): Growin' Up
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, Roulette, Prove It All Night
For You (Solo, Guitar)
Soundcheck: Mary's Place, Who'll Stop The Rain, Into The Fire
Soundcheck: Seeds, Shackled And Drawn, Tunnel Of Love
The Promise (Solo, Piano)
Shackled And Drawn
06/22/16: Copenhagen, Denmark
Soundcheck: We Take Care Of Our Own, Rendezvous, Shackled And Drawn, Boom Boom
We Take Care Of Our Own
06/19/16: Berlin, Germany
Soundcheck: Tunnel Of Love, Shackled And Drawn
06/17/16: Munich, Germany
Soundcheck: None
06/14/16: Hauge, Netherlands
06/05/16: London, UK
Soundcheck: Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street, My City of Ruins, Seeds, Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street (Solo), Be True, Badlands
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? (Solo, Piano)
06/03/16: Coventry, UK
Soundcheck: Something In The Night, Dream Baby Dream
Travelin' Band
06/01/16: Glasgow, UK
Soundcheck: American Skin (41 Shots), Roll Of The Dice, Waiting On A Sunny Day, Lucky Town, Girls In Their Summer Clothes
05/29/16: Dublin, Ireland
Soundcheck: Streets of Fire, Growin Up, Youngstown, Incident on 57th Street (Solo), Spirit In The Night
Because The Night (w/ Bono)
Soundcheck: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Back in your arms, Here comes the night, Lost in the flood, Roulette
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
05/25/16: Manchester, UK
Santa Clause Is Comin' To Town
05/21/16: Madrid, Spain
Soundcheck: Land of Hope and Dreams, My City of Ruins, Radio Nowhere, No Surrender
05/19/16: Lisbon, Portugal (Rock In Rio Festival)
05/17/16: San Sebastian, Spain
Soundcheck: Spirit In The Night, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Atlantic City, Murder INC, Youngstown, Working On The Highway, Waiting On A Sunny Day, Death To My Hometown, Land Of Hope And Dreams, Johnny 99
05/14/16: Barcelona, Spain
Soundcheck: None Day Of Show
I Wanna Be With You
04/25/16: Brooklyn, NY
Soundcheck: Purple Rain, Meet Me In The City
Blinded By The Light (Little Girl Singing Half Of Song)
Soundcheck: Purple Rain, Atlantic City, The Ties That Bind
04/20/16: Baltimore, MD
04/18/16: State College, PA
04/14/16: Auburn Hills, MI
04/12/16: Columbus, OH
04/07/16: Kansas City, MO
04/05/16: Dallas, TX
04/03/16: Oklahoma City, OK
03/31/16: Denver, CO
03/28/16: New York, NY
Meeting Across The River
03/24/16: Seattle, WA
Bobby Jean (w/ Eddie Vedder)
03/22/16: Portland, OR
03/19/16: Los Angeles, CA
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, Tougher Than The Rest, Born In The USA
Soundcheck: American Land, Death To My Hometown
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, Human Touch, Death To My Hometown
03/13/16: Oakland, CA
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, The Ties That Bind
03/10/16: Phoenix, AZ
03/06/16: St. Louis, MO
03/03/16: Milwaukee, WI
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City
02/29/16: St. Paul, MN
Soundcheck: Atlantic City, Radio Nowhere, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
02/27/16: Rochester, NY
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, Night, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
02/25/16: Buffalo, NY
Soundcheck: I Wanna Be With You, Take 'Em As They Come, We Take Care Of Our Own
02/23/16: Cleveland, OH
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, The Ties That Bind, We Take Care Of Our Own, Youngstown
Born To Run (w/ Joe Grushecky)
02/21/16: Louisville, KY
02/18/16: Atlanta, GA
Soundcheck: The Ties That Bind, Point Blank, Lonesome Day, Trapped, Waiting On A Sunny Day
02/16/16: Sunrise, FL
Soundcheck: Atlantic City
Soundcheck: Trapped, My Love Will Not Let You Down, Jungleland, Radio Nowhere
02/10/16: Hartford, CT
Soundcheck: Bobby Jean, Murder Inc
02/08/16: Albany, NY
Soundcheck: Be True, Loose Ends, Murder Inc
02/04/16: Boston, MA
Soundcheck: Roulette
02/02/16: Toronto, Canada
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, The Ties That Bind, Spirit In The Night
January 2016 (The River Tour 2016 Starts)
01/31/16: Newark, NJ
Soundcheck: Lonesome Day, Atlantic City, Human Touch, Seven Nights To Rock
Soundcheck: Meet Me In The City, The Ties That Bind, Backstreets, Prove It All Night, The Promised Land, Tougher Than The Rest
Soundcheck: -
Soundcheck: Take It Easy, Human Touch, Meet Me In The City, The Ties That Bind
Take It Easy (Solo, Guitar)
Soundcheck: Suffragette City (01/15), Changes (01/15), Rebel Rebel, Because The Night, Human Touch, The Price You Pay, Brilliant Disguise
Rebel Rebel (David Bowie Cover)
11/10/15: New York, NY (Stand Up For Heroes)
Soundcheck: Born In The USA, I'm On Fire, Dancing In The Dark
07/18/15: Asbury Park, NJ (Joe Grushecky Show)
Soundcheck: Murder Inc (Without Bruce), Because the Night (without Bruce)
Everything's Going to Work Out Right
Racing in the Street (1978)
Talking to The King
Frankie Fell in Love
Code of Silence
05/16/15: New York, NY (Kristen Ann Carr Fund Fundraiser)
Pay Me My Money Down (w/ Seeger Sessions Band)
O Mary Don't You Weep (w/ Seeger Sessions Band)
Jesse James (w/ Seeger Sessions Band)
My Oklahoma Home (w/ Seeger Sessions Band)
01/17/15: Asbury Park, NJ (Paramount Theater, Main Set Played with Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers)
Soundcheck: Human Touch, Savin' Up, Racing in the Street (78), Frankie Fell in Love, Leaving' Train, From Small Things, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Because the Night, Janey Don't You Lose Heart (Solo)
The Letter (w/ Southside Johnny and La Bamba)
This Little Girl Is Mine
I Don't Wanna Go Home
Janey Don't You Lose Heart (Solo)
Adam Raised a Cain (w/ Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers)
From Small Things
I Still Look Good For 60
Light of Day (w/ all musicians)
Thunder Road (Acoustic, w/ all musicians)
The Promised Land (w/ all musicians)
11/11/14: Washington, DC (The Convert For Valor)
Fortunate Son (w/ Dave Grohl and The Zac Brown Band)
The Promised Land (Solo)
Born in the USA (Solo)
Dancing in the Dark (Solo)
11/05/14: New York, NY (Stand Up For Heroes Fundraiser)
Working on the Highway (Solo)
Growin' Up (Solo)
If I Should Fall Behind (Solo w/ Patti)
Born in the U.S.A. (Solo)
05/18/14: Uncasville, CT
Soundcheck: Frankie, I Wish I Were Blind, Leap of Faith, Roll of the Dice, Jump
Santa Calus is Comin' to Town
Seven Angels (First Time Ever Played)
Dream Baby Dream (Solo, Pump Organ)
Soundcheck: Racing in the Street (1978), Seven Angels, The Price You Pay, Gave it a Name
Satyin' Alive
Growin' Up (Solo, Guitar)
05/14/14: Hershey, PA
Soundcheck: Clampdown, Just Like Fire Would, Lucky Town, Be True, Hunter of Invisible Game, Jump
Candys Room
Death to My Hometowm
Prove it all Night (w/ 1978 Intro)
Surprise, Surprise (Solo, Guitar)
Soundcheck: Don't Change, Treat Her Right, All or Nothin' At All, This is Your Sword
This is Your Sword
Save The Last Dance For Me
Seaside Bar Song
Kingdom of Days (Solo, Guitar)
05/05/14: Houston, TX
Soundcheck: This is Your Sword, Hunter of Invisible Game, All Just to Get to You, Human Touch
One Step Up
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
Backstreets (w/ Drive all Night and Sad Eyes Interlude)
All or Nothin' At All
Great Balls of Fire (w/ Joe Ely)
Lucille (w/ Joe Ely)
05/03/14: New Orleans, LA (JazzFest)
Jesse James (w/ Rickie Lee Jones)
O Mary Don't You Weep (w/ Rickie Lee Jones)
Green River (w/ John Fogerty)
Proud Mary (w/ John Fogerty)
Pay Me My Money Down
05/01/14: Tampa, FL
Soundcheck: Jesse James, O Mary Don't You Weep, My Oklahoma Home, When The Saints Go Marching In
Brothers Under The Bridge
O Mary Don't You Weep
Soundcheck: Hearts of Stone, Linda Let Me Be The One, Clampdown, Brothers Under the Bridge
I Wanna Marry You (Solo, Guitar)
Linda Let Me Be The One (First Time Ever Played)
Soundcheck: Clampdown, All or Nothin' At All
She's the One (w/ Mona Intro)
Independence Day (Solo, Piano)
Just Like Fire Would
Heaven's Wall
04/24/14: Raleigh, NC
Soundcheck: Human Touch
Soundcheck: I Wanna Be With You, Clampdown, Light of Day
Stand on It
Frankie Fell in Love (w/ Joe Grushecky)
04/19/14: Charlotte, NC
Soundcheck: American Beauty, Carolina In My Mind, Frankie Fell in Love, We Take Care of Our Own
Iceman (First Time Ever with E Street Band, Second Time Ever)
Mustang Sally
04/17/14: Nashville, TN
Soundcheck: Does this Bus Stop at 82nd Street, Stayin' Alive, The Wall, Harry's Place
Backstreets (w/ Sad Eyes Interlude)
Soundcheck: May I, Mary's Place, The Wall, Talk to Me
May I
She's the One (Mona Intro)
04/10/14: Brooklyn, NY (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony)
The River (Dedicated to Clarence as one of his favorite songs)
04/08/14: Cincinnati, OH
04/06/14: Dallas, TX (Final Four Free Concert)
Royals (Solo, Guitar)
Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce and Band Play "Born in the U.S.A. from Start to Finish)
Soundcheck: Stayin' Alive, 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy), New York City Serenade
The E Street Shuffle (Bruce and Band Play "The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle" album)
Wild Billy's Circus Story
Highway to Hell (w/ Eddie Vedder)
Spill the Wine
Rockin' All Over the World
I Wish I Were Blind (Solo, Guitar)
Drinkin' Wine
Just Like Fire Wiuld
American Skin (41Shots)
The Wish (Solo, Guitar)
Soundcheck: Friday on my Mind
Badlands (Bruce and Band Play "Darkness on the Edge of Town" From Start to Finish)
Dream Baby Dream (Solo)
Thunder Road (Bruce and Band Play "Born to Run" From Start to Finish)
Soundcheck: Spirit in the Night, Just Like Fire Would, High Hopes
Darkness on the Edge of Town (w/ Eddie Vedder)
Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce and Band Play "Born in the U.S.A." From Start to Finish)
Soundcheck: (Love is Like A) Heat Wave, You Shook Me All Night Long
(Love is Like A) Heat Wave
Hunter of Invisible Game
Darkness on the Edge o Town
Terry's Song (Solo, Guitar)
Soundcheck: This is Your Sword
Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Solo, Guitar)
The Ghost of Tom Joadd
Soundcheck: Frankie Fell in Love, This is Your Sword, Dream Baby Dream
Just Like Fiure Would
She's the One/Not Fade Away
02/01/14: Johannesburg, South Africa
Pre-Show: Working on the Highway, I'll Work for Your Love, Growin' Up
Free Nelson Mandela
Who'll Stop the Rain?
January 2014 (High Hopes Tour Starts)
01/29/14: Cape Town, South Africa
Rocky Ground
Soundcheck: High Hopes, Dream Baby Dream, Heaven's Wall, Free Nelson Mandela, Shackled and Drawn
If I Should Fall Behind (Solo, Guitar) w/Patti Scalfia
Dream Baby Dream (Pump Organ)
09/21: Rio de Janerio, Brazil
09/18/13: Sao Paulo, Brazil
09/14/13: Buenos Aires, Argentina
09/12/13: Santiago, Chile
07/28/13: Kilkenny, Ireland
Man at the Top
When You Walk in the Room
Thunder Road (Bruce plays Born to Run from Start to Finish)
Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce and Band Plays Born in the USA from Start to Finish)
07/24/13: Leeds, England
Gotta Get That Feeling
This Depression
07/23/13: Cardiff, Wales
TV Movie (First Time Ever Played)
We've Gotta Get Out of This Place (w/ Eric Burdon)
Boom, Boom, Boom
Janey Don't You Lose Heart (Solo, Guitar)
07/20/13: Belfast, Northen Ireland
Pre-Show: Surprise Surprise, Maria's Bed, Growin' Up, In Dreams, This Hard Land
07/18/13: Cork, Ireland
Pre-Show (Solo): I'll Work For Your Love, Girls in Their Summer Clothes, Real World
Real World (Solo, Piano)
07/16/13: Limerick, Ireland
Pre-Show (Solo): Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street, For You, Hearts of Stone
This Little Light of Mine (First Time Played with E Street Band)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg (First time Since 1975)
Thunder Road (Bruce and Band Play 'Born to Run' from Start to Finish)
Man's Job
Atlantic City (w/ Ben Harper)
New York City Serenade (First Time Ever Played in Europe) (With Stings from Symphony Orchestra of Rome)
07/07/13: Leipzig, Germany
Soundcheck: Roulette, Lucky Town, Local Hero
07/05/13: Mochengladbach, Germany
Soundcheck: Man's Job, Local Hero
Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Radio Nowhere (w/ Jay Weinberg on Drums)
07/03/13: Geneva, Switzerland
06/30/13: London, England (Hard Rock Calling)
Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce and Band Play Born in the U.S.A. from Start to Finish)
My Lucky Day (Solo, Guitar)
Pre-Show Setlist: This Hard Land, Burning Love, Growin' Up
06/26/13: Gijon, Spain
Ain't Good Enough For You
06/22/13: Nijmegen, Netherlands
So Young and in Love
Badlands (Bruce and Band play Darkness on the Edge of Town from start to finish)
06/20/13: Coventry, England
Long Time Comin' (First Time E Street Band has ever played it)
Thunder Road (Bruce and Band play Born to Run From Start to Finish)
06/18/13: Glasgow, Scotland
Soundcheck: The E Street Shuffle, We Take Care of Our Own, Long Time Comin'
06/15/13: London, England
Soundcheck: Spirit in the Night, Jackson Cage, Radio Nowhere, Long Time Comin'
Soundcheck: Spirit in the Night, Atlantic City, Boom Boom
We Are Alive (This Land is Your Land Intro)
05/31/13: Padova,Italy
Pre-Show Set: The Promised Land, Growin' Up
05/28/13: Hannover, Germany
Drift Away
Roll of the Dice (Solo, Guitar)
Born in the USA (Bruce and Band play Born in the USA from Start to Finish)
05/23/13: Naples, Italy
Pre-Show Solo Setlist: This Hard Land, Growin' Up
Prove it all Night (1978)
05/16/13: Herning, Denmark
Soundcheck: Wreck on the Highway, Stolen Car
Soundcheck: Highway Patrolman, Light of Day, We Take Care of Our Own
05/11/13: Stockholm, Sweden
Soundcheck: We Take Care of Our Own, My Hometown
05/08/13: Turku, Finland
Soundcheck: Souls of the Departed, Ain't Good Enough For You
Wages of Sin (First time ever played Live)
Soundcheck: Long Walk Home, Reason to Believe, Souls of the Departed
Queen of the Supermarket (Solo, Guitar)
Soundcheck: Factory, My Love Will Not Let You Down, Leap of Faith, Streets of Fire
Badlands (Bruce and Band Play Darkness on the Edge of Town from Start to Finish!)
Soundcheck: We Take Care of Our Own, The E Street Shuffle
Thunder Road (Bruce and Band Play Born to Run from Start to Finish!)
Backstreets (w/Sad Eyes Interlude)
Mountain of Love (Solo, Guitar)
Glory Days (w/ Elliot Murphy)
Soundcheck: Leap of Faith, Shout
Saving Up
Soundcheck: We Take Care of Our Own, Better Days, Two Hearts, Follow That Dream
My Kind of Town (Little Steven on Vocals)
03/31/13: Macedon, Australia
Tougher Than the Rest (w/ Jimmy Barnes)
Red Headed Woman
Devils and Dust (Solo, Guitar)
High Hopes (First Time Ever Performed Live)
Blinded By the Light (Solo, Guitar)
03/14/13: Brisbane. Australia
Apollo Medley
02/18/13: Los Angeles, CA (MusiCares Event)
Adam Raised a Cain (Alabama Shakes)
Because the Night (Patti Smith)
Atlantic City (Ben Harper, Natalie Maines, Charlie Musselwhite)
American Land (Ken Casey)
My City of Ruins (Zac Brown, Mavis Staples)
I'm on Fire (Mumford & Sons)
American Skin [41 Shots] (Jackson Browne, Tom Morello)
My Hometown (Emmylou Harris)
One Step Up (Kenny Chesney)
Streets of Philadelphia (Elton John)
Hungry Heart (Juanes)
Tougher Than the Rest (Faith Hill, Tim McGraw)
The Ghost of Tom Joad (Tom Morello, Jim James)
Dancing in the Dark (John Legend)
Lonesome Day (Sting)
Born in the U.S.A. (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
We Take Care of Our Own (Springsteen, Jake Clemons, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa)
Death to My Hometown (Springsteen, Tom Morello, Jake Clemons, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa)
Thunder Road (Springsteen, Roy Bittan, Tom Morello, Gary Tallent, Max Weinberg, Jake Clemons, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa)
Born to Run (Springsteen, Roy Bittan, Tom Morello, Gary Tallent, Max Weinberg, Jake Clemons, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa)
Glory Days (Everybody)
12/12/12: New York, NY (Hurricane Sandy Benefit Show)
My City of Ruins ("Jersey Girl" snippet at end)
Born to Run (w/ Bon Jovi)
12/10/12: Mexico City, Mexico
12/06/12: Glendale, AZ
No Surreneder
12/04/12: Anaheim, CA
Land of Hope and Dreams (w/ Tom Morello)
Long Time Comin' (Solo, Guitar)
This Depression (w/ Tom Morello)
Bad Luck (w/ Mike Ness)
Santa Claus is Comin to Town
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (w/ Tom Morello)
Devils and Dust
If I Should Fall Behind
11/26/12: Vancouver, British Columbia
Get Out of Denver
Bishop Danced
Across the Borderline
My Beautiful Reward
11/15/12: Omaha, Nebraska
Reason to Belive
Atlantic Cuty
State Trooper
Highway Partolman
Savin' Up (E Street Band World Debut)
We Take Care of Our Own (Solo, Guitar)
Tougher Than the Rest (Solo, Guitar w/ Patti Scalfia)
Land of Hope and Dreams (Solo, Guitar)
A Night With the New Jersey Devil (World Debut)
Glory Days (w/ Joe and Johnny Gruschecky)
Light of Day (w/ Joe and Johnny Gruschecky)
Held Up Without a Gun
10/23/12: Charlottesville, VA
Give the Girl a Kiss
10/21/12: Hamilton, Ontario
10/19/12: Ottawa, Ontario
Jole Blon (w/ Gary U.S. Bonds)
This Little Girl (w/ Gary U.S. Bonds)
Living on the Edge of the World (World Debut)
The E Street Shuffle (w/ "Mad Dog" Vinni Lopez)
Mansion on the Hill (Solo, Guitar w/ Patti)
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (w/ Vinni Lopez)
My Hometown (w/ Eddie Vedder)
Who'll Stop the Rain (Solo, Guitar)
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (w/ Tom Morello and Eddie Vedder)
Jack of all Trades (w/ Tom Morello)
Atlantic City (w/ Eddie Vedder)
Factory (Solo, Guitar)
Good Rocking Tonight
You Can't Sit Down
08/29/12: Vernon Downs, NY
08/26/12: Moncton, NB
If I Should Fall Behind (Solo, Piano)
Twist and Shout (w/ Red Rider)
08/24/12: Toronto, Ontario
08/16/12: Foxboro, MA (Boston, MA)
Thunder Road (w/ Roy, No Band)
Knock on Wood (First time since 1976)
Backstreets (w/ Partial 1978 interlude "Dream Baby Dream")
Who'll Stop the Rain? (Solo, Guitar)
American Land (w/ Dropkick Murphy Ken Casey)
Dirty Water
07/31/12: Helsinki, Finland (LONGEST SHOW EVER: 4 hours 6 Minutes)
Pre-Show Solo Setlist (1-5)
Leap of Faith (Solo, Guitar)
No Surrender (Solo, Guitar)
I Don't Want to Go Home
Where the Bands Are
07/24/12: Bergen, Norway
You've Got It
Who'll Stop the Rain (w/ just Roy on Piano, no band)
Seaside Bar Song (First time in Europe)
This Depression (Solo, Guitar)
07/22/12: Oslo, Norway (Shooting Memorial, NOT TOUR DATE)
We Shall Overcome (Acoustic, with Little Steve)
Thunder Road (w/ just Roy on Piano, no band)
The Promised Land (w/ John Fogerty)
Take 'Em as they Come
Empty Sky (Solo, Guitar)
I saw Her Standing There (w/ Paul McCartney)
Twist and Shout (w/ Paul McCartney
07/12/12: Vienna, Austria
Empty Sky
Tougher Than the Rest (Solo, Piano)
07/11/12: Prague, Czech Republic
07/07/12: Roskilde, Denmark
The E Street Shuffle (w/ The Roots)
Darlington County (w/ Honky Tonk Woman Intro)
06/24/12: Isle of Wight, England
06/22/12: Manchester, England
Prove it all Night (with 1978 Intro!)
06/21/12: Sunderland, England
Murder Incorporated
Waitin' On A Sunny Day
06/19/12: Montpellier, France
Talk to Me (w/ Southside Johhny)
Spanish Eyes (First Time with E Street Band)
Seven Nights to Rock (Cover)
Twist and Shout (Cover)
06/11/12: Trieste, Italy
Born to Run (w/ Eliot Murphy)
06/10/12: Florence, Italy
Burning Love (Cover)
Who'll Stop the Rain (Cover)
06/03/12: Lisbola, Portugal
When I Leave Berlin (Cover)
05/28/12: Landgraf, Netherlands
96 Tears (Cover w/ Garland Jeffreys)
Hungry Heart (w/ Mumford and Sons)
05/27/12: Cologne, Germany
The E Strreet Shuffle
Darlington County (w/ "Honky Tonk Woman" Intro)
05/25/12: Frankfurt, Germany
05/15/12: Las Palmas, Spain
05/13/12: Sevilla, Spain
Rocky Ground (w/ Michelle Moore)
05/12/12: Sevilla, Spain (Press Rehearsal Show, NOT PART OF TOUR)
Bishop Danced (1st time since 1973, First ever Full E Street)
The Weight (Cover)
04/29/12: New Orleans, LA
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? (First ever E Street Version)
Something You Got (Cover w/ Dr. John)
Oh Mary Don't You Weep (First ever E Street Version)
Pay Me My Money Down (First ever E Street Version)
When the Saints Go Marching In (First ever E Street Version)
California Sun (Cover)
04/24/12: San Jose, CA
Mountain of Love
04/12/12: Detroit, MI
E Street Shuffle
Racing in the Streets
Does this Bust Stop at 82nd Street?
March 2012 (Wrecking Ball Tour Starts)
Rocky Ground (with Michelle Moore)
Wating on a Sunny Day
Apollo Medely
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (Clarence's son on stage)
03/19/12: Greensboro, NC
The Way You Do The Things You D0/634-5789 (Covers: "Apollo Medely")
The Way You Do The Things You Do/634-5789 (Covers)
03/15/12: Austin, TX (SXSW)
I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie Cover)
The Harder They Come (Cover w/ Jimmy Cliff)
Time Will Tell (Cover w/ Jimmy Cliff)
Many Rivers to Cross (Cover w/ Jimmy Cliff)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Cover w/ Eric Burdon)
This Land is Your Land (w/ Arcade Fire, Garland Jeffreys, Joe Ely, Tom Morello, and Alejandro Escovedo)
03/09/12: New York, NY (Sirius XM Show)
Mansion on the Hill (Solo w/Patti and Soozie)
The Way You Do The Thing You Do (Smokey Robinson Cover)
Hold on I'm Comin' (Cover)
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Lead Like a Woman: An Interview with Entrepreneur Jamey Elrod
By Jessica York
Startup Week Chattanooga always brings a spritz of energy and color to downtown. This year was no different, with over 100 panels and events celebrating entrepreneurship.
One panel in particular, Lead like a Woman, hosted by Jamey Elrod and her team at Text Request, drew a crowd of community leaders and creatives. Even after the Q&A officially ended, the speakers, including Elrod, had a long line of people eager to discuss the challenges and excitements of being a female entrepreneur.
With this in mind, I asked Elrod a few more questions to keep the conversation going. Elrod is the co-founder of texting software company Text Request, and a private school outfitter called Educational Outfitters. She's also the mother of three boys and a Shar-Pei named Tank.
Entrepreneurship takes a lot of work. How much do you work in a single day?
Elrod: Most of the time, I feel like I wake up working, go to bed working and wake up in the middle of the night thinking about working. That sounds quite treacherous, but really, it's not.
And with my amazing team, I have just enough flexibility to go to my youngest son's games, move my oldest son to Tampa, have an occasional lunch with my middle son in college or even take my parents to their doctors' appointments. I love it.
In what ways do you manage your team differently from other leaders? Do you think there's a distinctive way entrepreneurs can lead that's most effective?
Elrod: I'm not a micromanager. I try to lead by example, and listen to our staff so we can best use their expertise and opinions for the greater good of our company, customers and team. Bottom line - I do what's comfortable for me and our team, and I think we all respect each other for it.
I believe in hiring quality people who have amazing potential and allowing them the freedom to grow, learn and lead in their department. Creating a truly supportive environment comes first, because it takes the entire team to make the company thrive.
When you first started your companies, did you ever feel a sense of imposter syndrome? (If so, how did you combat it? If not, where did you draw your confidence from?)
Elrod: I did lack self-confidence in the beginning of my career as an entrepreneur. Since I didn't major in business, I wasn't initially comfortable being in a room full of like-minded business folks.
From time to time, I have had feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy, but my husband and business partner, Brian, always pushes me to step out of my comfort zone and just go for it. His unconditional love and support are why I'm where I am today.
What's the biggest risk you've ever taken as an entrepreneur? How did you find the courage to take it, and was it worth it?
Elrod: Brian and I sold our car to pay for our initial inventory when we started Educational Outfitters. We also put our home on the line, took out personal lines of credit and spent much of our retirement and savings to start Text Request.
As a mom-a-preneur, I've also risked something even more valuable than dollars. Time with my kids. But I believe almost all working moms feel the same way, and I'm hopeful our children have learned with us through the journey.
Whenever I have doubts, I always try to picture myself in a rocking chair when I'm 75 saying, "I wonder what would have happened if I'd just gone for it?" I don't want that. I want to live life with no regrets.
What's something you wish more women in general knew about female entrepreneurs?
Elrod: I wish more women realized success is truly in their hands. Don't categorize or squeeze yourself into a box. Avoid limiting your beliefs. One of the best things a woman (or man for that matter) can do is know that every successful person is a regular ol' person. We all eat, put on clothes and face the daily challenges of life.
I think most female entrepreneurs are willing to sacrifice much and don't allow fear of failure to hold them back. Does the fear ever creep into my head? Absolutely. But I quickly get back to the task at hand and focus on our goals at work.
With a great product, awesome people and a solid plan - if you dream it, you can do it. Stick to a goal, dedicate yourself to working hard and don't allow anything to stand in your way.
Visit the official Text Request website here and read more about Elrod's story here.
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Application to reopen the appeal of C.Z., on behalf of his son, A.Z., from action of the Board of Education of the New Paltz Central School District regarding student discipline.
Kossover Law Offices, LLP, attorneys for petitioner, Andrew Kossover, Esq., of counsel
Shaw & Perelson, LLP, attorneys for respondent, David S. Shaw, Esq., of counsel
Petitioner seeks to reopen Appeal of C.Z. (40 Ed Dept Rep ____, Decision No. 14,585), concerning the suspension of his son. The application must be denied.
Section 276.8 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education governs applications to reopen. It provides that such applications are addressed solely to the discretion of the Commissioner and will not be granted in the absence of a showing that the original decision was rendered under a misapprehension of fact or that there is new and material evidence that was not available at the time the decision was made.
In the underlying appeal, conflicting testimony at the superintendent"s hearing raised issues of witness credibility. After hearing the testimony and observing the demeanor of the witnesses, the superintendent determined that petitioner"s son had engaged in the charged conduct. I refused to substitute my judgment for that of the superintendent on witness credibility and dismissed the appeal.
Petitioner"s application to reopen is based upon the contention that his attorney never stipulated to the transcript of the superintendent"s hearing. Petitioner"s attorney asserts that the tape recording of the hearing was inaudible. At the direction of my Office of Counsel, respondent"s attorney prepared a transcript of the tape. The transcription included the hand-written corrections of respondent"s attorney. Respondent"s attorney sent a copy of the tape and transcript to petitioner"s attorney, offering him the opportunity to listen to the tape, review the transcript and make any changes. Petitioner"s attorney declined to do so, returning the tape and transcript to respondent"s attorney.
Petitioner"s attorney claims he heard nothing further from respondent or my office until June 25, 2001, when he received a copy of the decision dismissing the appeal. Respondent claims that by letter dated April 4, 2001, its attorney sent a copy of the transcript, with the hand-written corrections, to my office. Petitioner"s attorney was copied on the letter, but claims he never received it.
Regardless of whether petitioner"s attorney received the April 4 letter, or agreed to stipulate to the submitted transcript, I must deny this application. In the underlying appeal, petitioner"s attorney was provided with an opportunity to review the transcript but declined to do so. Furthermore, petitioner"s attorney has had ample opportunity to review the transcript following my decision. Despite this opportunity, he fails to cite even one example of how the transcript is in any way inaccurate or misleading. Absent such evidence, I cannot find that the original decision was rendered under a misapprehension of fact.
THE APPLICATION IS DENIED.
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Let Me Introduce You To…
September 14, 2010 at 10:04 pm · Filed under Content / Architecture, Copy / Writing, Interactive / Web
No matter how long it lasts and what happens along the way, the most fascinating aspect of any relationship is almost always the beginning. When was the last time you met someone new? When was the last time you met someone that made you feel new? How did it go down? Can you believe it happened? A proper introduction isn’t just an exchange of information; it’s a chemically transformative event that forever changes the course of your life. In 2003, the heads of state at the University of Washington engaged our team at the Design+Innovation Lab to help them properly introduce the school to the world wide web.
As a great ad man (or woman—I’m not sure) once warned on behalf of a deodorant: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” Well, leading up to our project, more and more people were getting their first impression of the University of Washington from its web site and, frankly, it stank. The UW is an expansive, influential institution of over 50,000 students, faculty and staff that has been an established leader in many academic and athletic programs for well over a century, and it’s Seattle setting is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It had the brains, the brawn, the experience and a pretty sweet place. But then was a transitional era in the understanding of communication and media, and web site design was oft-still an afterthought doled out to reluctant comp-sci geeks. As such, the UW’s site betrayed a persona that was uncharacteristically inscrutable, unsightly and unwelcoming; you probably would want to steer clear of interacting with this one.
By the end of this summer-long project, our team—comprising myself, then fellow Visual Communication Design (VCD) undergrad student Jim Nesbitt and then VCD grad student Jason Tselentis, and directed by Doug Wadden, then Chair of the UW Division of Design and now Executive Vice Provost of the entire University—had redesigned the UW web site; a not-inconsiderable feat. However, we initially were not charged with doing anything with the actual site; we were only supposed to design an introduction to it…
Flash intros may be terribly passé now, but the project seemed perfectly viable at the time. More importantly, it was a great exercise for us to think about what it was about the school that made it interesting, and how to articulate that compellingly.
Was it in the volumes of prestigious opportunities, accomplishments and awards of this “public ivy” weaving together a dynamic equation that resulted in one amazing experience?
University of Washington web site Flash intro sketch (animated storyboard) / 2003
Maybe, but nobody wants to get stuck with a braggart. It’s always best to keep some levity in an introduction, even if the recipient is deep as the Pacific. In another approach, the school is referred to in a dry, almost self-deprecatory manner, but just enough is revealed to let you know it’s serious—and it has the student body to back it up. The yellow square slides left and right to reveal a selection of word-image juxtapositions that hinted at some of the more compelling aspects of the University: A top-ranked medical school, connections to study-abroad programs in some of the world’s most exotic locations, a critically-acclaimed performing arts program, and, of course, a location that no comparable university could match.
University of Washington Flash intro mockup; 800 x 600px.+ / 2003
But some thought this tact too passive and preferred to show and tell. In a variation on the above introduction, the following uses more conventional but all-too-generic language to describe the institution. With no twist of tongue, the introduction became little more than a simplistic shell game. (Below is an actual Flash movie variation of the above pulled out of the background and shrunk to fit here.)
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Of course, if you haven’t much original to say, you should at least have some nice moves.
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(There were other interesting options, as well, but I didn’t work on them directly and I unfortunately don’t have files.)
But it really didn’t matter. Even in the early 2000s, the UW site got thousands of unique hits every day and could not support the server load of any sort of Flash intro. Not to mention the contingencies that would have been necessary for those who couldn’t support, had disabled, or just could not stand any sort of Flashiness.
The important outcome of this was that our introductions had made quite the impression and our clients wanted to get to know our work a little better. We got to skip to the home page. Once we got there, it was easy to understand the want for an endearing intro, as the site, itself, was basically hiding itself in a corner.
before: The University of Washington web site before our project began / 2001-2003
In terms of logical hierarchy, established usability conventions and pleasing aesthetic composition, almost everything on the old site was in the wrong place. The most prominent element was a spatially and contextually degaged photograph of the campus. The primary navigation—pushed over to the right for some reason—had too many nonequivalent items, listed in order of monetary potential instead of by actual usage (e.g., students, faculty and staff needed the site most but were last on the list because they were already on the books). Secondary elements included a tiny non-sequitur news story, a seemingly random litany of “quick links,” and an unexplained image from one of the museums that resided on campus. Hidden in there somewhere were links to “Search,” “Directories” and “Reference Tools” (such as a dictionary). Elements were literally scattered up, down, left, right and center with nary a single alignment among them, type treatment varied unnecessarily and link cues were inconsistent. For what seemed at first blush to be pretty simple, the UW home page interface was actually a bit of a mess. We took no choice but to strip the existing site down to it’s tags and redress it completely.
The first order of business was to fix the scurvy architecture, beginning with the primary navigation. We debated huge sheets of paper on a wall with markers until we had culled the seven existing links down to just four real and equivalent areas of interest: “About the UW,” “Academic Programs,” “Students, Faculty and Staff” and “News and Events.” (We were later implored to add “UW Medicine” to the list, which is not exactly equivalent to the others, but, as one of the foremost such programs/hospitals in the world, it was a great source of funding and prestige). We then devised a list of just four relevant quick links in “Admissions,” “Directories,” “Libraries” and “Employment,” as well anticipating a single additional rotating link that could capture a temporary item of interest about the University (such as their search for a new president at the time). From here, we just needed to stand the site up straight and dress it appropriately.
We started very simply and, though we went through a few iterations, the layout actually didn’t change much from the first sketches.
draft: an early coded mockup of the UW home page, featuring an introductory statement of the site in the central “hero” space; 800 x 600px.+ / 2004
Putting the page on white enlightened and visually broadened its presence, while a receding image of the campus’s iconic Suzallo Library lent visual depth and academic gravitas. (The original plan was for this background image to be drawn randomly from a bank of similarly iconic campus highlights on refresh, though this was never realized. Looking back on it now, some color could have been added into this element, as well.) The University logo (featuring “the Tooth” as we liked to call it, which had recently been done by an outside design firm and has since been dismissed) was put in the upper left, where logos generally should go on web sites. In this initial sketch/mockup, a small strip for quick links and search were put into a footer band. Directly below the logo were the five primary navigation bands. In the above sketch, a brief introductory note was put in directly to the right of these, giving visitors an idea of what the UW was about, with a small photo of George, himself (an iconic campus sculpture); Rolling over a primary nav item exposed a related list of sub-links and image over these.
The best sites in the web offer an experience that modulates seamlessly from the home page on in; interior pages should not only look related to the home page and each other, they should support the overall identity of the entity. But this was an especially difficult task for this project, as the University had literally hundreds if not thousands of pages that spanned an incredible array of different types of content and represented any of hundreds of sub-entities within the university. Despite their incredible variety, pages were all created with a single aging template that was nothing more than header and footer bands and white space in between. Sometimes, they didn’t even use the template. Compounding this was the fact that most of the pages were created by professors and students that didn’t necessarily know anything about web design or care about consistency with other areas of the site.
before: old interior page / 2003
We had neither the time nor resources to audit the entire landscape of washington.edu and figure out a template system that was streamlined in variations, comprehensive in ability to show different types of content and still was easy to create and edit by the technology-lay scholar. Aside from the aforementioned extensive research to determine what types of content would need to be accommodated, doing this properly would involve creating a flexible skin options based on a consistent gridded structure, an extended color palette, style specifications around type at different points of hierarchy, imagery and charts and graphs, an automated page generation tool and guidelines that made the implementation of all of these things simple. So, we did the next best thing: We updated the header and footer bands so they at least had some relationship to the new home page. A space In the header allowed sub-entities to be identified consistency. We also created a very rudimentary grid and type specifications to at least hint at consistency in the open space betwixt.
after: University of Washington web site basic interior page design; 800 x 600px.+ / 2004
Even this compromise was unfortunately but understandably never implemented. (Since this transition could not be automated, doing just this would have taken a monumental collective effort from the myriad professor and student authors of the original pages—who were afforded neither time nor money to do so.)
At the same time, though, the home page had progressed nicely, and was soon launched. In the actual site, the quick links and search were brought up from a footer into a dynamic header band and the space initially given to a short description of the school was given over to an image that linked to a rotating feature in “DiscoverUW,” an online magazine covering some of the more interesting happenings of the University.
after: the actual launched site, featuring “discoverUW” article links; 800 x 600px.+ / 2004
Though never completely resolved or fully implemented, this site design was a huge icebreaker for the University. The new home page served as the digital face of the UW for quite some time before being struck by a rather unfortunate jaundice rash, which thankfully has broken to reveal the current, much more palatable—if still not completely put together—site experience.
I would like to think that, at the very least, we helped the UW come out of a dim corner and gave it the strength to join the conversation befitting its stature. Of course, it would be uncouth to brag about numbers, but I’m pretty sure some we helped the UW get a lot of interesting people to come over.
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posted Mar 14, 2016, 2:19 AM by Fair Schools Now! [ updated Mar 21, 2016, 9:11 PM ]
originally posted on Nov 12, 2010, 2:21 PM
Top Ed: Thoughts on Public Education - John Fensterwald - November 4, 2010
Finish CALPADS; appoint accountability-savvy members to the state board; focus on assessments; listen more to teachers; reform the finance system. That was yesterday’s advice (not to be confused with “so yesterday”) to Jerry Brown on this page from nine leaders in education. Today, an additional dozen voices in education, some of them familiar to readers of this blog, offer advice to the governor-elect. At the end, summarizing their collective wisdom, I offer my own Grand Unified Theory for how Gov.-elect Brown can fix the mess we’re in...
California’s budget woes hit neediest students the hardest
originally posted on Aug 08, 2011, 3:55 PM
Top-Ed: Thoughts On Public Education - John Affeldt - August 8, 2011
Californians have been hit with so much bad budget news these past three years it’s easy to assume that we’re all suffering more or less equally. Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to our schools. Essentially every fiscal maneuver our policymakers have undertaken to respond to the budget crisis has delivered more pain to the neediest schools and students.
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Education Lawsuit
originally posted on Jul 20, 2010, 3:45 PM
KTVU- Paul Chambers- July, 12,2010
Oakland: Group Sues State over Education Funding….
Lawsuit Seeks Changes in California School Funding
KCBS- George Harris- July 12, 2010
OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS) The state of California has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed on behalf of parents and students which claims that education funding violates the state constitution. The complaint was filed Monday in Alameda County Superior Court by a coalition of students, parents and nonprofit advocacy groups representing low-income families.
Lawsuit seeks change in how California schools are Funded
Associated Press – Terence Chea – July 12, 2010 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The state of California is being hit by another lawsuit that alleges the government is failing to adequately fund public education. The complaint was filed Monday in Alameda County Superior Court by a coalition of students, parents and nonprofit advocacy groups representing low-income families…
Second School Finance Lawsuit Hits California
Education Week News- Leslie Maxwell- July, 12, 2010
California's school finance system came under a new legal challenge today, as advocates for low-income families and minority students filed a lawsuit in Alameda County that seeks to scrap the current method of funding public schools. The current system is unconstitutional, they …
Suit accuses state of unequal school funding
SF Gate- Jill Tucker- July, 13, 2010
A coalition of grassroots groups and families filed a lawsuit against the state Monday seeking to have California's educational system declared unconstitutional for failing to adequately and equally fund schools.
California Sued Again Over Public Education Funding
Care2.com- Anne Bibby- July 13, 2010
California is facing its second lawsuit over the funding of public schools. Advocates for low-income families and minority students filed suit in Alameda County in an attempt to force the state to throw out its current financing formula and start over
Education Activists Sue state over public funding
Taraii- July 13th
“Just as you tremble at the steer of millions of gallons of oil purgation from a good at the bottom of the sea, you should boomerang at the steer of millions of lives compelled to a inferior learning condition and the solid empty of mislaid opportunities,” mentioned John Affeldt, profession…
Low Income Groups file funding suit
Educated Guess- John Fensterwald - July 13, 2010
Adding counterpoint to a growing chorus, four groups representing low-income parents and students filed suit in Superior Court on Monday, charging California’s inadequate and inequitable school funding violates for all children an equal opportunity to a “meaningful…
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Teddy and Topsy (Edinburgh 2010)
Isadora Duncan’s love letters to Gordon Craig
By Robert Shaw
C Venues, Edinburgh, 4-30 August 2010
Anna-Marie Paraskeva as Isadora Duncan
Ben Warwick as the voice of Edward Gordon Craig
Directed by Robert Shaw
Design by Edward Gordon Craig, realised by Jessica Wiesner
Lighting by Jack Knowles
Stage Manager – Kalia Maliali
Photos by Jane Barlow of the Scotsman
She was the greatest dancer in the world. He revolutionised the theatre. In dance and in her own words, Isadora Duncan tells how two great artists loved each other eternally but were destined never to be together.
Robert Shaw creates a play fused with dance that follows their passionate, tempestuous love affair, adapted from her letters and other writings.
Writer / director Robert Shaw’s grandfather Martin Shaw worked extensively with Craig and conducted orchestras for Isadora on two tours of Europe, in 1906 and 1907.
Inside Intelligence has obtained special permission to use a never-before-seen original stage design by Craig, made for Isadora in 1906 while she was carrying his child, Deirdre.
★★★★ CRITICS’ CHOICE – THE SCOTSMAN
★★★★ EDINBURGH GUIDE
★★★★ EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT
“Stunning portrayal of ISADORA DUNCAN” – THE STAGE
“ISADORA DUNCAN was, and remains, one of the dance world’s most fascinating figures. ANNA-MARIE PARASKEVA’s passionate delivery… has enough star quality to carry this hour-long show and beyond. Perfectly capturing Duncan’s excitement at performing, her deep love for Craig and heartbreak at the tragic deaths of her young children, she turns in a first-rate performance worthy of a far bigger audience.” – SCOTSMAN
© Inside Intelligence. All rights reserved.
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Category: Portugal
SC Braga – Estádio 1º de Maio
28th February 2020 Lucas Portugal
Estádio 1º de Maio, Portugal, SC Braga, SC Braga B, Special
Boavista FC – Estádio do Bessa
2019-2020, Boavista FC, Estádio do Bessa, Portugal
FC Porto – Bayer Leverkusen 27-02-2020
2019-2020, Bayer Leverkusen, Estádio Do Dragão, Europa League, FC Porto, Portugal, Special
SC Braga – Rangers FC 26-02-2020
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SL Benfica – Estádio da Luz
20th January 2016 Lucas Portugal
Last day in Portugal and we still had some time left to visit a last ground in Portugal: Estádio da Luz from SL Benfica. We went to the ground by metro which gives you an impressive view to the stadium when you exit the metro. SL Benfica was founded in 1904 as Sport Lisboa and already managed to win 35 (2016/17) league titles,
2015-2016, Béla Guttmann, Estadio da Luz, EURO 2004, European Championship 2004, Portugal, SL Benfica
Sporting CP – Estádio José Alvalade
Normally I should could have visited the Estádio José Alvalade on a matchday but the Portuguese FA decided to schedule it on Friday, making it impossible for me to watch it. Anyway, I got the chance to visit the ground with a stadium tour on Sunday. The ground was opened in 2003 and built for the 2004 European Championship where
2015-2016, Estadio José Alvalade, Portugal, Sporting CP
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Those Devious Fiends at Memories Pizza
April 3, 2015 by V the K
The left wing hate groups have seen through the devious scheme launched by Memories Pizza in order to con generous conservatives out of over $600,000 in donations so far.
Their brilliantly devious plot began over ten years ago, when the owners of Memories Pizza opened a small pizza shop in Walkerton, IN and began selling pizza. Behind the scenes, the owners used their political connections, dark magic, and ties to the Illuminati to create a national gay marriage movement. Then, they got the Indiana Legislature to pass a Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Then, they got the national media and left wing hate groups to lie about the law’s content and foment a massive social backlash. Then, they waited for some dingbat reporter from a UHF station to walk into their store, take a quote from them out of context, and thus get the gay left hate groups to issue threats of violence against them. And then, at the culmination of their brilliant ten year confidence scheme… a conservative radio host starts a GoFundMe account so they can reap the proceeds.
Not since Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace has there been such a devious, well thought out, perfectly executed conspiracy.
This what hate-filled left-wing nutjobs actually believe.
Meanwhile, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones just called and said they found the theory “a little far-fetched.”
Filed Under: Legal Issues, War on Christians
Zoe M says
The Left has overplayed their hand. They’ve lost both the sympathy and anti-extremist positions — all we need are some speakers to get that across to people.
Just a question of prudence here. Is this site collecting donations for the pizzaria veted? I’d hate to be kicking in some money to a fraud, or worse, the enemy.
Sean L says
I was shocked when one of the liberal Fox commentators (the lady with the long hair brown hair and slightly sour expression) said last night, “I think the pizza shop owners are wrong in their position, but what is happening to them is totally unacceptable!”
David: It’s what the Religious Right loves to do. They love to play the martyr so they can cash in on pseudo-sympathy. They think they’re being persecuted here in America. Perhaps they should go to North Africa or the Middle East, where Christians are being beheaded or burned alive by ISIS or Boko Haram. Perhaps they should go to China where Christians are thrown in jail merely for their beliefs and where women of ALL faiths, including Christians, have to undergo forced abortions if they have more than 1 or 2 children. Christians should be GRATEFUL for the privileges afforded here.
runningrn says
Well, let’s face it! These evil Christianists have the ultimate unfair advantage. They have an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God on their side. So that’s just not fair to begin with. Of course they pre-planned this all along–with God’s help!
Hey Paul: Take out “Christian” and sub in “Gay people” and what do you get?
A complete rebuttal of your argument is what. “Gay people should be grateful for the privileges afforded them here.”
Any argument that applies literally identically to your own side ain’t an argument at all.
Clarice Feldman says
Brilliant! Bravo!
Kudos to common sense! I love this site and not because it’s a gay guy, but because of common sense and the humor. My sister is a lesbian, has been as long as I can remember. After two marriages and two kids she finally said, ok. Many partners later she’s been together for what seems like forever now. Many partners isn’t a gay thing, it’s a dating thing. I really liked two pervious people but she didn’t. I didn’t have to spend my life with them so ok, so just liked them as great people and friends.
Anyway. Equal doesn’t mean better than. And these leftie gays and lefties in General don’t care about the harm they’re causing to anyone, even to the gay community that they claim to support. My sister thinks for example, gay pride parades everywhere that are full of nudity and sexual acts are an explotation by freaks. She said she’s never felt bias at all until these protests standing up for her.
@ Paul:
It’s what the Religious Right Gay Left loves to do. They love to play the martyr so they can cash in on pseudo-sympathy. They think they’re being persecuted here in America. Perhaps they should go to North Africa or the Middle East, where Christians are being beheaded or burned alive by ISIS or Boko Haram gays are being jailed or executed by the authorities. Perhaps they should go to China, where Christians are thrown in jail merely for their beliefs gays receive no legal recognition of their relationships at all and where women of ALL faiths, including Christians, have to undergo forced abortions if they have more than 1 or 2 children. Christians Gays should be GRATEFUL for the privileges afforded here.
Fixed it for you.
I frequently here Christians admonish each other that the problems they face here in America do not rise to the level of a formal persecution, or of martyrdom. I do, however, hear the Gay Left screech that every baker who refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding is a harbinger of the Gay Holocaust.
@ Zoe M: Darn, you beat me to the punch!
Christians should be GRATEFUL for the privileges afforded here.
So, being able to practice our faith… so long as it doesn’t upset gay people… is a privilege? Being forced to participate in gay weddings is a privilege? Being subject to death threats of violence and legal harassment by gay hate groups is a privilege?
The thing thing that has me screamimg, they don’t want any different opinion AT ALL! Then I suggest move to Cuba, Iran, or N. Korea where it’s not allowed.
V the K:
Considering we’re one of the very few countries with one of the most socially advanced legal documents that protects people of ALL colors, faiths, genders, social backgrounds, etc. from their basic rights and freedoms being violated, I would DEFINITELY say that not only are Christians privileged…all AMERICANS are privileged.
Does Mexico have a Constitution like ours? Sweden? Russia? China? Saudi Arabia? I’d say our country is not just privileged but BLESSED.
The Constitution doesn’t mean jack without a Government that follows it. We are rapidly descending into an age of “Democracy,” where 51% of the population can simply vote to take away the rights of 49% of the population. And as we have seen lately, it doesn’t even take an election, just threats of mob violence, an activist judiciary, even a corrupt and out-of-control bureaucracy like the EPA, DHS, or the IRS, to take away the Constitutional rights of people who are politically disfavored.
And you are apparently quite comfortable with this as long as it’s happening to people you don’t like.
Dear V the K,
I understand what youre saying, to me it’s even worse, it’s not all Christians, it’s a small segment that is being targeted and a witch hunt. Sadly there are Christians joining in.
I’m not a Christian myself, however I do believe that as long as it doesn’t call for harm to others, ie radical Islam, then live and let live. I have brown hair and eyes, maybe someone would turn me down for wedding photos because of it. Why on earth would I want to sue them and force them to do something they don’t want to do?
If I was a baker, to me, making a wedding cake including set up isn’t really involved in the ceremony, but that’s MY feeling, not someone else. And isn’t that supposed to be what illegals come to America for? Freedom?
You do realize that gay marriage bans are voted upon by the result of 51% wanting to take away the rights of 49%, right?
Marriage isn’t a right. It’s a social construct. Lefties always bleat that whatever they want…”gay marriage”… “free health care”… “free college tuition”… “free internet” is a “right.” But that doesn’t make it so.
Dear Paul, who are you responding to? I think anyone should be allowed to marry whoever legally and the government has no say in it. If a pastor or church doesn’t believe in whatever, that’s a whole different thing. It’s a religious ceremony, vs a legal one. Ceremony vs legal document.
They want the government to stay out when they they want to marry then want the government to step in. Wtf.
OK, fine. Back religious freedom laws.
But when Muslims start demanding sharia courts like the one in Texas, I think you guys will be singing a different tune.
Paul, ‘gay’ people have the same right to marry as do ‘straight’ people: They may marry an eligible (living, unmarried, of age) member of the OPPOSITE sex. They are not forced to do that if it is not to their liking. Stop perverting the meaning of the word ‘marriage’.
And my question, above, remains. Are we sure this money will get to the pizzaria?
We agree and disagree. ” free health insurance, college, Internet” isn’t a right. It might be free for some, but at a large cost to others. I do understand your frustration, I’m middle class myself. I live pay to pay check. Mainly because of taxes. My neighbor, that has always lived on welfare, has three kids in college now, “free”. I have one child that didn’t even qualify for a loan because of family income. We can’t pay our mortage and college, and really why should we? But he doesn’t qualify for what we have to pay for.
With gay marriage, any marriage, belief in God or not is ordained by a higher power, something you feel in your heart. The government has no place in that to say or no. It doesn’t cost anything. It’s not the job of the government. Their job is national security. Their job is not to tell religions what to belive or do.
A religious ceremony is just that, religious, ceremony, it’s not a legal document.
Ideally, I would have preferred to see Government entirely out of the marriage business. There are many other things I would like to see Government out of as well.
If Government were merely constrained to those activities for which there was no viable non-Government alternative, our debt would vanish and the discontent sown by Government favoring one group over another would also go away.
I’m really confused here. The gay and lefties attacking ARE the equivalent of Shira law that you claim you are against. I agree about sharia law, it’s a religious law, not a government civil society law.
Yes government should go back and live by the original signing documents, it was what was meant. No interence everywhere, no foreign aid, no open borders. It was a government with one job, for the country and security.
Some things change and evolve just like people or we’d still all be neandrathals. But as we grow, the constant should always be government, sadly not so.
Tilly:
In Texas, there’s an Islamic tribunal that recently opened that helps Muslims resolve their disputes in areas such as family law, small business matters, and employment disputes. Many conservative blogs have stated their opposition to it because it could lead down the slippery slope of establishing a particular religion in America.
Well, if a bunch of Muslims decided to start one of those things in Indianapolis, there wouldn’t be anything to stop them with this new RFRA.
Same-sex marriage has a very well-established place in history.
What is obvious here is that the bigot Paul is just going to randomly spew and spin and filibuster and do everything in his power to ignore the obvious fact that he is an antireligous bigot who WISHES he had the right to kill Christians.
There is no reason to listen to someone like Paul. He is not rational. He is flipping out and screaming persecution over someone turning down his order for a wedding cake, then rationalizing firebombing attacks, murder, driving Christians out of business and out of the workplace, and setting himself up as the arbitrary dictator of Purity of Thought.
What I hear happening around the country is the scales falling from a lot of peoples’ eyes about the motivation of gay bigots like Paul. And as Ace also just put it today, we might as well make the national divorce happen right now, because people like Paul are no longer what I would consider American or even worth defending as Americans.
I understand and there would, however that’s another discussion for another day. This doesn’t give a right for anything, it doesn’t give A right to say you can’t come in and eat pizza, it doesn’t even give the right to refuse to cater, it gives the right to be heard.
I honestly don’t know how anyone could equate that to sharia law that doesn’t give any rights at all, and promotes violence and horrific.
Dear north Dallas,
I understand your frusteration as well. Normal people have been under attack for so long, enough is enough! Believe me I’m locked and loaded and often say six six six. No not 666, but shot gun shovel, six acres.
Paul I think is equally as frustrated. I Think, and I may be wrong, he’s thinking about some thing else. This law does not give freedom to Shira law, that’s a whole nother thing and sadly what our government is saying okie dokie to. Funny thing under sharia law they’d be executed.
@ Paul: If you are referring to male couples in a unique form of union, yes, you are correct. If you are referring to male-male unions being blessed and ratified using the same ceremonies as female-male unions, I must inform you that those have been quite rare in history. They generally involved the castration and feminization of one luckless fellow.
You know more than I do about history and I don’t even want to go there. But it’s history, past. No one can move forward when the past is constant brought up as present..
Through all of this, and hands up black lives matter bs, is what Obama wants lost and achieveiced. We’re the UNITED States, not the divided states. I have never seen a country turn on itself for lawlessness, name one. I have never seen a country that started as United being so divided. And I’ve never seen a country being so distracted that they don’t pay attention.
Just Me says
Paul pretty much ignored the point that everything he said about Christians also applies to gays.
Gays have it great in the US compared to Saudi Arabia, Iran and Africa. Maybe gays should do more about gay me. Truly being persecuted in other parts of the world than demanding Christiand bake cakes and photograph their weddings or risk losing their livelihoods.
Dear just me,
I agree gays sure have it good in a country, that fought for their rights including conservatives and “bible thumpers. The military wasn’t involed, LE wasn’t involved. It was old time, by the people for the people.
This gay shit and black lives shit is been there done that. Battles eons ago. You say you want to
Move on, then for Ffs MOVE ON. It’s old, been my whole life.
I’m old enough and young enough to remeber the tween times. That sweet spot when there was freedom. After bigotry and before bigotry, does anyone remeber that short time of bliss?
The_Livewire says
It is amusing seeing Paul schooled in so many threads at once.
I’m a new poster and don’t know paul. I can only go beplies here. To me, well he’s confusing, a lot. for, against. Just really confusing. Make it clear.
Since I’m new and don’t know or have a history with Paul, I’m willing to give him debate, not benefit of doubt as the popular pc, because why should I really?
April 3, 2015 at 10:20 pm - April 3, 2015
I’m giving you a chance Paul to expain and clear up some really nasty posts. Maybe you didn’t explain well?
Or maybe you posted and blathered and puked and never expected someone to challenge you and ask for conversation. I’ve seen many ask and you ignore, why?
Daddio says
Hey All ! First time posting on this site and I just have to tell you all how refreshing it is to hear voices of sanity.
As a straight male who participates in political forums, I get bombarded with ‘ You Hate Gays ‘ simply because I think the 1st amendment means something and that it applies to everyone. Freedom, the Good, Bad & Ugly, should never be sacrificed.
This blog, and those who post here, make me realize that the militant Left isn’t the only voice of the Gay community.
Thanks for what you do and keep up the good work !
Meanwhile, the psychological damage done to the people who are Memories Pizza are real. They seem to be plain folk with an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed in a business niche. That is to say, make a living selling pizza in a quiet way. They got busted for having deeply held religious beliefs by the Tolerance Now crowd that is dedicated to wiping out the stuff the Tolerance Now crowd will not tolerate.
Co-owner Crystal O’Connor talked with TheBlaze Wednesday evening.
“I don’t know if we will re-open,” she said when asked about the backlash the business has received. She also said her family is considering leaving town. “We’re in hiding, basically.”
“We’re very hurt and confused,” she added. “We stood up for what we believe. We said we would serve anyone who walked in the door — even gays — but we would not condone a wedding, we would not cater for it because that’s against our religious beliefs.”
So far, GoFundMe has collected nearly $800,000 (after fees) for the co-owners. That is a lot of charity that will help them leave town and hide out somewhere else. They are now officially sadder but wiser. Never piss off the Gaystapo.
An old Greek adage I favor fits the bill here: The boys throw stones at the frogs in sport, but the frogs die in earnest.
How delightful that the gay vigilantes have crushed Memories Pizza. A big notch on the gun of righteousness and plenty of daylight left to get another Christian committing hate crimes and hiding in the briars and brambles of the homophobic world. Maybe Alix Bryan of Richmond can motorcycle in and do triumphant wheelies.
HEY!!!!! James Edward …. I found a gay hater preacher for your rolodex.
April 5, 2015 at 10:38 am - April 5, 2015
I was delighted to see Clarice Feldman had commented @ #7.
She posted her thinking today at American Thinker under her “must be read” Clarice’s Pieces. These are her concluding remarks:
Anti-discrimination laws should be applied only in those few cases where everyone needs reasonable access. Why should the government be involved at all in the business of florists, bakers, photographers, and catering services, including those by pizza parlors? Is the right to be free from offense not trumped by more significant constitutional rights, which would not be subject to shifting tides of either judicial or legislative fashions? In two days, thousands of Americans kicked in almost a million dollars to protest such intrusions on freedom. It’s time to listen to them. It’s certainly easier to pander to special interests and cover them with protective legislation, but it does seem that with good reason the public is not happy with that direction.
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HERMAN CAIN FOR PRESIDENT
September 29, 2011 by Bruce Carroll
I am proud this morning to announce my support for Herman Cain for President.
This is a personal decision by me and does not reflect the views of my co-bloggers nor should be construed as an official endorsement by GOPROUD of which I am a board member.
Now that I’m done with that disclaimer….let me shout this from sea to shining sea — AMERICA NEEDS HERMAN CAIN!!!! I have been flirting with the Cain candidacy for over a year now. I had the pleasure to meet him at CPAC and I have been closely following his campaign long before most people knew his name.
I felt it was important to declare my preference publicly today as I have decided to become actively involved in Team Cain to assist in the South Carolina primary and beyond. I owe my readers the transparency of knowing why I am writing about certain things and not to be confused by my intent.
Why Herman Cain? Well, haven’t been this excited about a Presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984 (the first year I was old enough to truly know anything and make a difference).
Some will now say, “now Bruce….there will never be another Ronald Reagan!” And that is true. And I am NOT equating Mr. Cain to Mr. Reagan. What I am saying is that Mr. Cain excites me with his common sense ideas, love of country, and ability to connect to the American psyche. Choosing a President has always been a “gut feeling” thing for America. I have a great feeling about Herman Cain.
Herman Cain has been plucked by destiny to arrive at America’s electoral doorstep at just the right time. He has a solid business background, is an inspirational leader of people, and understands the complexities of the world economy. He wasn’t a community organizer, he is a jobs and growth creator. He wasn’t a concocted creation of America’s radical left and academic centers of power, he is a true child of the American Experience. He has never scoffed at American values, he embraces our nation’s special place in the history of mankind and knows we are teetering on the edge.
Mr. Cain is familiar with rescuing failing enterprises, which to me is his most important qualification. In a sheer coincidence to the timing of my announcement, Daniel Henninger wrote this yesterday in the Wall Street Journal:
Does a résumé like Herman Cain’s add up to an American presidency? I used to think not. But after watching the American Idol system we’ve fallen into for discovering a president—with opinion polls, tongue slips and media caprice deciding front-runners and even presidents—I’m rewriting my presidential-selection software. [Emphasis added.]
Conventional wisdom holds that this week’s Chris Christie boomlet means the GOP is desperate for a savior. The reality is that, at some point, Republicans will have to start drilling deeper on their own into the candidates they’ve got.
Put it this way: The GOP nominee is running against the incumbent president. Unlike the incumbent, Herman Cain has at least twice identified the causes of a large failing enterprise, designed goals, achieved them, and by all accounts inspired the people he was supposed to lead. Not least, Mr. Cain’s life experience suggests that, unlike the incumbent, he will adjust his ideas to reality.
No other GOP candidate can bring the fight to Obama over the sorry state of the American economy than Herman Cain. Our other choices are, I’m sad to say, more of the same old thing — career professional politicians. Yes, even Ron Paul, folks.
So there you have it. My big announcement. Herman Cain is the first Presidential candidate I will actively and ENTHUSIASTICALLY campaign for through blood, sweat, money & tears since Ronald Reagan in 1984. That’s a long time of being unmoved by GOP nominees, don’t you think?
There will be more to say about Herman Cain and the issues. But I wanted to stand up today and proudly declare my support for the 45th President of the United States of America and the next true heir of the American Experience — Mr. Herman Cain.
Filed Under: 2012 Presidential Election, A New Independence Movement, American Exceptionalism, Arrogance of the Liberal Elites, Big Government Follies, Conservative Ideas, Conservative Movement, Conservative Positivity, Debt Crisis, Depression 2.0, Freedom, Great Americans, Herman Cain, Leadership, Liberalism Run Amok, National Politics, Obama Incompetence, Post 9-11 America, Ronald Reagan, We The People Tagged With: 2012, Cain, Obama, politics
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Kathy Griffin fired, but is that enough?
June 1, 2017 by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism)
CNN has fired Kathy Griffin from their next New Year’s Eve program. As V noted earlier, she posed for a so-called ‘artist’ with herself holding a blood-drenched, beheaded effigy of President Trump. In a single image, she managed to align herself with Islam (or ISIS imagery), Satanism (or satanic imagery), and assassination of the President of the United States.
To his minor credit, Anderson “Vanderbilt” Cooper tweeted “For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate.” (Minor because it’s something he should have done hours faster, and perhaps an understatement.)
It remains to be seen whether Hollywood and the Left will actually shun Griffin, or rehabilitate her once the dust settles? After all, the first reaction of a CNN panel (led by Jake Tapper) was a dismissive “We’ve got much bigger issues to focus on.”
And indeed, they do. After all, CNN is the Home of Fake News, such as:
proclaiming that Hillary is somehow healthy and a lock to win the election;
pushing the fake/scripted views of a seven year old as a serious reason for the U.S. to make war in Syria; and
pushing evidence-free, anonymously-sourced innuendo against Trump.
But maybe CNN’s dismissive, first reaction didn’t focus-group very well?
The whole thing got me thinking about denunciations in general. After all, conservatives and libertarians are supposed to denounce every little thing done by every little kook – or else we somehow are that thing. Recently,
Jacob Schwartz was arrested for child pornography. He isn’t a nobody. He is a longtime Democrat activist and staffer. His father is a huge Democrat donor and insider, having served as an Obama delegate and a lawyer for Bernie Sanders, the SEIU and ACORN (remember them?).
Young-ish Jacob allegedly possessed graphic images of a 6-month old baby being raped. He was a top staffer to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. Schwartz also appeared on Chris Cuomo’s program on CNN (them again!). Hillary’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, can be seen standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Schwartz – or at least he could, before Schwartz’s arrest triggered Democrats into disappearing the inconvenient photo.
My question is, has Robby Mook denounced Schwartz, in no uncertain terms? Has Hillary Clinton? Or the DNC? Or CNN? Has Chris Cuomo indicated his regret at having Schwartz as a guest? I couldn’t find any such statements.
Each of them, who has not yet done such a statement, therefore supports pedophiles and pedophilic rape – if we apply the Left’s usual logic about these things.
Marina Abramović is another left-wing “artist” who promotes imagery and practices that are awfully reminiscent of Satanism, with that Spirit Cooking thing she’s into.
John Podesta is, of course, one of THE top Clintonites, as he was Hillary’s campaign chair and her preference for Secretary of State.
It’s known that Podesta was invited, on warmly intimate terms, to a private Spirit Cooking “dinner” that his brother Tony probably attended, and which Podesta himself may have attended.
Has either of the Podestas denounced Satanism, or at least Abramović? Has Hillary Clinton denounced either of the Podestas? I don’t think so.
Again, apply the Left’s typical logic of you-are-clearly-for-that-bad-thing-if-we-don’t-agree-that-you-have-denounced-it-enough, and see where it would go, here.
And don’t get me started about Antifa – and the failure of many lefties to denounce their violence.
So, firing Kathy Griffin from a New Year’s Eve program that was going to happen in 7 more months: is that enough? Or should we call for more? If yes, what?
UPDATE: She says “I went too far, and I was wrong.”
Umm, “too far” in what? When I go too far, it’s because I love something. I ate too much chocolate or lemon pie. I tried to power clean too much weight. So, if Kathy “went too far” in making visible her fantasy of beheading the President and soaking his head in the blood, then deep in her soul, she loves…??? Something about this is still “off”.
Filed Under: Annoying Celebrities, Big Hollywood, Civil Discourse, Democratic Scandals, Leftist Nutjobs, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Intolerance, Mean-spirited leftists, Media Bias, Progressive immorality, Religion Of Peace, Trump-hatred, Unhinged Liberals Tagged With: anderson cooper, Annoying Celebrities, Big Hollywood, chris cuomo, civil discourse, cnn, Democratic scandals, Hillary Clinton, isis, Islamic terrorism, jacob schwartz, john podesta, kathy griffin, Leftist Nutjobs, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Intolerance, Marina Abramović, Mean-spirited leftists, media bias, Progressive immorality, Religion Of Peace, robby mook, satanism, spirit cooking, Trump-hatred, Unhinged Liberals
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Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx launches new music blog
Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx has launched a blog in support of new music.
#SupportNewMusic with Nikki Sixx sees the rocker shining a spotlight on up and coming talent in tandem with his syndicated Sixx Sense radio show.
“My mission with the Sixx Sense platform is to reenergize and revitalize music by giving new artists a chance,” says the bassist. “To not only keep rock and alternative music relevant, but also to help it secure its well-deserved place in history.
“I can’t remember a time in life when a new song came on the radio and I didn’t feel like I was experiencing something special and important – when a good song hits, whether it soothes the romantic soul or ignites the fire of ten thousand fists, it’s real. I guess you can say that’s why music and radio are so important to me.”
“I am proud to support and believe in all styles of rock music,” adds Sixx. “Rock has withstood every climate change, naysayer and new trend that has ever come along. It is an exciting time for music and having the ability to share new artists and songs on the radio is something that never grows old.”
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March 24, 2014 by henrydampier 2 Comments
The Public Policy Challenge of Male Motivation
Faced with the unprecedented drop in male labor force participation and a simultaneous rise in the female labor force participation rate, the American policy establishment has chosen to notice the problem and double down on the evident and widely agreed upon causes. In the Atlantic, Derek Thompson writes (in a single draft, because he is not paid enough to think) that this is because of the “rise of women and the growth of the safety net.”
Men have become less motivated to work as women have arisen in legal and social status. Thompson has no recommendations, which is just as well.
According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, for the first time ever, the male labor force participation rate has now dropped below 70%, to 69.2%. In 2007, before the bailouts, it was 73.3%.
The female labor force participation rate has also dropped since 2007 from 58.9% to 57.2%. That’s not as much of a drop as with the men, but still significant.
This has also lead to pseudo-philosophizing about how men are not as useful to modern work as women are, that manufacturing is less important (which is false), and that muscles are not as important as brains and communication and connection and feelings. None of these things are true and many are not empirically verifiable claims.
Women and the children that they bear are the motivation for men to yoke themselves to serious careers. As fewer women of all classes have been willing to subordinate themselves to the traditional marital arrangement (propagandized to reject it in the school system and by corporate propaganda), men instead elect to become lotus eaters.
If you are discriminated against in the work place, if your wife can cheat with impunity and then loot family assets, and if your social position is permanently at risk due to being labeled an ‘abuser,’ a ‘racist,’ or a ‘sexist,’ it is much safer for a white man to skate under the radar, not be too ambitious, and avoid risky relationships.
‘PUA’ has become a recognizable acronym even in mainstream outlets because this male adaptive strategy has become so popular.
This even has an impact on inheritance, as parents know that passing assets down to male heirs is far riskier than giving assets to female ones. Any man’s assets can be seized by his wife at any time and for almost any reason. If you pass funds and property down to women, you can be reasonably assured that she will keep it for herself.
Moral Distraction is Easier Than Addressing the Issues
As men become more aware that their assets can be seized by their wives on a whim, fewer are willing to enter heterosexual marriages. It is a psychological curiosity that gay marriage has become such a progressive fixation as this far more important trend is occurring. The legal situation of heterosexual marriage and child-rearing is a free-fire zone of misery, but the chattering classes fixate instead on giving sodomites rights that they do not even show much interest in making use of.
There is an appetite for moral self-flattery in the American middle class that only becomes more pronounced as you look further up the ladder. Because the lower class in America is so disgusting and reprehensible to their betters, the middles and better are always looking abroad or to palatable substitutes for opportunities for moral uplift.
It is odd that an upper middle class woman will see better opportunities in moral self-flattery through adopting a negro babe from Haiti than through adopting a home-grown negro.
It is odd that performing community service in Kenya will help you get into Yale, but that performing community service in Newark, Camden, Oakland, or Chicago’s South Side would be unthinkable to any private school student or their ambitious parents in America. It would never even be suggested by an admissions consultant.
The standard excuse is that the American ‘safety net’ provides for these unloved domestic negroes, whereas foreign aid never does enough for the more exotic varieties on other continents.
The Inversions of America’s Last Days
When Europeans settled America, most settlements only provided property rights to white men. Throughout the continent, but in the south most of all, status could be enhanced by purchasing negroes from African slave traders, and then setting them to work on the farm. Only the wealthy could afford slaves.
Today, status can still be enhanced by purchasing black babies, although they are no longer given useful jobs or social roles in large numbers. It’s called adoption. Urban politicians compete for status by unveiling new grand plans to bring black people up to the same levels as whites — by taking over their lives at every stage through educational, correctional, and make-work institutions.
This process is popular for the better-off whites to root for, because it makes them feel like morally superior people. Good folks are perpetually concerned about improving the lot of the ‘oppressed,’ even if all of the programs designed to help those people tends to make them far worse off than they would be left alone or segregated.
Instead, most are dumped into prison-like public schools. The men inevitably wind up in prisons. Even the best among them must deal with the gravitational pull of a culture that has abandoned even the pretense of Christian social norms.
The minor artistic achievements of the Harlem Renaissance or of the great jazz musicians are forgotten (except by white NPR listeners): instead, the press glorifies rappers.
Whites enhance their status relative to one another in part by pretending to do wonderful things for black people without doing anything that’s terribly good for those same black people. In their finishing schools, Americans learn to morally flagellate themselves for the ideology of ‘white supremacy’ held by their ancestors. This self-mortification has an obvious pleasurable aspect, so much so that college graduates practice it in a ritual fashion even after they have graduated.
A social structure that used to be dedicated to motivating European men to civilize a continent has been inverted, in spirit if not yet in form. The males are no longer motivated to be men, and the women are dizzy, with their superiors commanding them to behave like men because the males refuse to be men in increasing numbers, yet the advice is rarely followed.
The solution is to invert the inversion, and then to fix it in place using political and social systems that are less prone to leftward drift.
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Hey Rockefeller, there's a new sheriff in town
NJ.com reported today intent by the Rockefeller Group to build a 40 story building in the northwest section of Hoboken claiming the group had been working with city officials over the last two years. Buried within the story was a dissenting opinion contrary to that development view from Mayor Dawn Zimmer.
Review of the two years of "discussions" reveals more from the Rockefeller Group's thinking, - they did invest two years of discussions with city officials, in addition to the mounds of money buying up property in that area. The only problem would be it's past officials in the Mayor Roberts and Mayor Cammarano Administrations. Discussions came to a sudden halt with ex-Mayor Peter Cammarano's resignation.
Last August, Councilwoman Beth Mason put forward a comprehensive commercial development covering a large section of the northwest of Hoboken including a minor league ballpark. Skepticism arose from some members of the community about the prospect for any of that happening with low scale development when large parcels had changed hands in the neighborhood of $40 million. A rough analysis showed development in scale with most of Hoboken was not financially tenable with those land costs. Now the Rockefeller Group is showing their hand on the designs they have for Hoboken.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer has a different idea about any planned announcement this fall from the Rockefeller Group on a 40 story building going up as a centerpiece of their plans.
Here's the full context of the mayor's remarks originally from a June 24th exchange with Josh Marshall of NJ.com:
There have been no negotiations with the Rockefeller Group regarding their project by my Administration. There will be no negotiations until a study has been completed, and a public process including all stakeholders has been completed in order to determine what kind of development our City would like to have in that area.
Once the City has completed this process and determined how it would like that area developed there is no doubt in my mind that we will have any problems finding a developer willing to build what the City and it residents envision for that area. Given that the Rockefeller Group is a major land owner in the area, we would certainly consider them as a potential redeveloper with respect to whatever project the city determines is appropriate and in the best interests of its residents.
...That the Rockefeller Group had received buy-in from the Roberts and Cammarano Administrations – if that is the case, those individuals are no longer part of Hoboken’s government, and the promises they may have made will have no influence whatsoever on the decisions made by my Administration.
..., Hoboken is blessed with choices.
We are an amazing mile square city with views of Manhattan and easy access to the City; fabulous restaurants, bars, a thriving arts and music scene, diversity, and a small-town feel that makes our city very, very special. For all these reasons, many developers such as the Rockefeller Group are interested in joining our City.
We as a community are going to decide on the direction for our city that respects our past, present and future. Rockefeller is a stakeholder, and they will be a part of the process, right along side all of the other stakeholders that include the residents of Hoboken.
Photo: A Rockefeller Group development depiction. Will that be Hoboken?
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City of Hoboken announces:
HEAT ADVISORY/COOLING CENTER INFORMATION
The National Weather Service has extended a heat advisory for Hudson County through 7 pm, July 6, 2010. Temperatures are predicted to reach up to 100 degrees.
To help residents cope with the extreme heat, the City of Hoboken is opening a cooling center at the Wallace School gymnasium at 1100 Willow Avenue. The cooling center will open at noon on Tuesday, July 6 and will remain open for at least 24 hours.
Update: A second center added - HHA Senior Building at 220 Adams Street.
UPDATE ON COOLING CENTERS
Due to the lack of response and use of the two cooling centers opened at the Wallace School and at the HHA Senior Building at 220 Adams Street, the City may close the cooling centers tonight. City officials will monitor the situation until 10pm on July 6th. If there is no need for the cooling centers, they will close for the night and reopen at 9am. Emergency services and EMS will be available throughout the night. Residents needing assistance are urged to contact the police department by calling 201-420-2100.
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There are several theories on the establishment of Dubrovnik (Latin Ragusa), a widely accepted is that the city is founded in the 7th century, when the Latins from the city Epidaurus (today's Cavtat), sheltered before the invasion of Avars and Slavs in the rock Laus, which means rock. Establishment of Dubrovnik
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When in 1815 the Dubrovnik Republic officially stopped existing, its territory was annexed Dalmatia, where it is culturally and historically have always belonged. It, together with the Croatian and did the Triple Kingdom of Slavonia Croatian, Dalmatia and Slavonia, which was until 1918 was part of Austro-Hungary. History of Dubrovnik from the end of the Dubrovnik Republic to the present
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Ruma National Park
“Dramatic Valley of the Roan Antelope and Oribi”
A mosaic of landscapes, ranging from riverine woodland and rolling savannah to magnificent escarpments and towering cliffs, Ruma National Park promises undiscovered wildlife treasures and undisturbed peace. It is also Kenya’s last remaining sanctuary for the endangered roan antelope. Ruma lies on the flat floor of the seasonally watered Lambwe River Valley bordered by the Kanyamwa Escarpment to the South-East, and by the volcanic plugs of the Ruri Hills to the north. Ruma’s birdlife is exceptional. The park is also the only protected area in Kenya where the globally threatened blue swallow, a scarce intra-African migrant, is regularly recorded. Blue swallows, which depend upon moist grassland for both feeding and roosting, arrive in Kenya from their breeding grounds in Southern Tanzania around April and depart again in September.
Ruma National Park lies in Western Kenya, close to the shores of Lake Victoria. An island of wilderness in a sea of intense cultivation, the Park is situated in one of the most productive and populous regions in Kenya, and is one of the country’s more rewarding but less well known Parks.
A mosaic of landscapes, ranging from riverine woodland and rolling savannah to magnificent escarpments and towering cliffs, Ruma National Park promises undiscovered wildlife treasures and undisturbed peace. It is also Kenya’s last remaining sanctuary for the endangered roan antelope.
A vivid and Varied Landscape
Ruma lies on the flat floor of the seasonally watered Lambwe River Valley. Bordered by the Kanyamwa Escarpment to the South-East, and by the Volcanic plugs of the Ruri Hills, to the North, the Park is a long, narrow corridor of land contained on a fist-shaped peninsular extending into Lake Victoria. The terrain is mainly rolling grassland, with tracts of open woodland thickets. The soils are largely “black cotton” clay (Oxisols).
120 sq. Km
The Park has a humid climate, the long rains falling April-June and the short rains falling October-December
1,200-1,600 meters a.s.l.
All year round,Daily 6.00 am - 7.00 pm including public holidays. No entry is allowed on foot and visitors will not be allowed entry after 6.15pm
Your food stuffs, drinking water and picnic items (and camping equipment if you intend to stay overnight).
Also useful are: camera, binoculars, hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, insect repellent and guidebooks.
The main gate is 42km from Homa Bay. From Homa Bay take the main C20 tarmac road in the direction of Rongo. After 10km branch off to the right at Rodi Kopany and proceed 20km to Mirogi. At Mirogi follow the signs to the Park, entering at Kamato Main gate, a distance of 12km on a murram road from Mirogi
The Last Refuge of the Roan Antelope
One of Africas’ rarest antelopes and the third largest of Kenya’s antelopes, the roan (or Korongo as it is known in Swahili) is a large, grey to rufous antelope with a distinctive black and white face, not unlike a tribal mask. Roans live in herds of upto 20 members, led by a bull.
The Oribi Antelope
The small and graceful oribi antelope (known as Taya in Swahili) has a conspicuous bare black glandular patch below the ears, a short black-tipped tail and black knee tufts. Living in strongly bonded pairs or small groups, oribi inhabit grassland and dense undergrowth.
Realm of rare birds
Ruma’s birdlife is exceptional. The park is also the only protected area in Kenya where the globally threatened blue swallow, a scarce intra-African migrant, is regularly recorded. Blue swallows, which depend upon moist grassland for both feeding and roosting, arrive in Kenya from their breeding grounds in Southern Tanzania around April and depart again in September.
Flourishing Wildlife
Ruma offers visitors an opportunity to see various wildlife species including the Rothschild’s giraffe, serval cat, hyena, impala, vervet monkey, roan antelope, oribi, bohor reedbuck, leopard, buffalo, and Jackson’s hartebeest. Recently introduced and re-introduced species are Black rhino,White rhino, Burchell′s zebra whose populations have adapted quite well. The roan antelope, Oribi and Jackson’s hartebeest are easily spotted in Ruma than anywhere else in Kenya.
Rich in Reptiles
Ruma has an exceptional snake population. Easily spotted species include: The African spitting cobra, forest cobra, python, eastern green mamba, black-mouthed mamba and puff adder. The park also abounds in lizard, skink and gecko.
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* Kindly refer to the document KWS Conservation Fees below for other services and charges
Email: rumastn@kws.go.ke
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MP accuses councillors over backing for grant
September 26, 2016 Liz Bell News
TWO Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors have been accused of misleading the state government which gave $588,000 towards extending the Rye boat ramp.
Nepean MP and Rye resident Martin Dixon, who has announced his intention not to run at the next election, told parliament that It was “misleading of the council” to advise the Andrews Labor government that there was community support in Rye to add a fourth lane to the three-lane ramp.
The Liberal MP said the grant was based on the council’s assurance to the government that the project had broad community support.
But the community was, in fact, “vehement” in its opposition to the plan, he said.
“They have been consistent in this view for years and have made this known to council officers and to me on numerous occasions,” he said.
Mr Dixon has called for the money to be spent on the boat ramp at Rosebud, which he described as “the main town of the Mornington Peninsula”.
His allegations come as 50 candidates line up for the 11 seats on the council in next month’s elections.
But Nepean Ward councillors Tim Rodgers and Hugh Fraser have hit back, accusing Mr Dixon of “playing politics”.
“It is unfortunate that Martin Dixon is playing politics to put at risk state government and council funding for much needed capital improvements to Rye and its foreshore,” Cr Fraser, who is seeking re-election, said.
“As Nepean ward councillor I have been closely working with the community of Rye, council officers and VicRoads to better connect the Rye township with and improve the foreshore with the Rye Place and Movement project.
“This project is on public exhibition and council welcomes all community comment on this vital project for the revitalisation of Rye.”
Mr Dixon, who linked the Rye boat ramp upgrade plans to opposition to the Sorrento boat ramp upgrade, told parliament the councillors had “ignored” the pleas of the Rye community.
“It is a pity that the two Nepean ward councillors have ignored the pleas of the Rye community, listening instead to those opposed to any upgrade of the Sorrento boat ramp,” he said.
First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 27 September 2016
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Murdering martyrs: This too shall pass
“On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126…”
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By James A. Haught and Tom H. Hastings
On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126. Undoubtedly, the volunteer “martyrs” thought they were on a mission so holy they were willing to sacrifice their own lives.
Each time this happens, we’re engulfed by a sense of lunacy. What kind of misguided fanatics think God wants massacres of defenseless strangers?
Yet it occurs thousands of times—now and in the deep history of humankind. A couple of months earlier, suicide bombers struck a Sufi temple in Pakistan, killing 90 and wounding 300. Evidently the death volunteers think God wants slaughter of dancing Sufis as well as Christians.
Christians are of course famous for such unholy campaigns—in 1209 at Beziers, France, the papal legate, when asked by the military leaders how to distinguish the Cathars (the “heretics”) from the Catholics, replied, “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius – Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His.” The Catholic forces took the lives of a reported 20,000 civilians that day, the equivalent to seven 9.11.01 attacks.
Not to mention Hitler’s theft of life from 12 million Jews, communists, disabled, LGBTQ, and other innocents. Or the Allied bombing of civilians from Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfort and many more residential areas. How about the US annihilation of nearly three million Vietnamese, approximately 90 percent of them civilians, often poor unarmed peasants? From the Spanish Inquisition to the Salem witch trials, we humans burn, bomb, stick, shoot and kill so many who have no weapons.
And now jihadis kill civilian Christians, Jews and fellow Muslims. Many radical Islam attacks hit Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. The Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University says 800 suicide bombers killed 5,560 people in 28 nations in 2016 — an all-time-high death toll. In 2015, some 735 martyrs killed 4,370. In 2014, the toll was 937 death volunteers and 4,400 victims, scarcely more than four casualties per martyr.
The so-called “cult of death” has become the driving force of radical Islam. Without self-chosen martyrs, the religio-political movement would have little impetus. With them, it has become the world’s chief cause of bloodshed after the Cold War ended except the underreported wars in portions of Africa that have seen many more civilians attacked than anywhere.
But what of those who intentionally include themselves in the casualty count? In the final months of World War II, of course, Japanese kamikaze and shimpu attackers were on suicide missions, although one might argue they were in some ways morally superior since they only targeted military in a desperate act of “legitimate” war. Similarly, Vietnamese sappers sacrificed themselves carrying bombs to kill invading American soldiers.
Holy suicide was little known until 1983, when a volunteer truck bomber killed 240 U.S. Marines at a barracks in Lebanon, and another killed 60 at the U.S. Embassy there. Ever since, it has surged into a global curse.
The most maddening aspect is the righteousness felt by the killers, who think they’re serving God, who will reward them with virgin nymphs in heaven. When 19 devout young men committed the historic U.S. attack on Sept. 11, 2001, they left behind a written testimonial saying the “women of paradise” awaited them.
Columnist David Brooks calls suicide martyrdom “the crack cocaine of warfare…. It unleashes the deepest and most addictive human passions — the thirst for vengeance, the desire for religious purity, the longing for earthly glory and eternal salvation.” He said volunteers are promised “dark-eyed virgins in paradise” who will greet them the instant they depart this life.
In some Islamic societies, families express joy when their sons or daughters sacrifice themselves in massacres. Announcements in newspapers, almost like wedding notices, tell of sons happily united with virgins in heaven. The BBC filmed a “paradise camp” where children as young as eight are taught jihad (holy war) and martyrdom.
Columnist Brooks hopes that changing conditions may “allow the frenzy of suicide bombings to burn itself out.” But, so far, the phenomenon isn’t fading.
Ironically, religion is dwindling rapidly in Europe, America, Canada, Japan, Australia and other western democracies, especially among the young. Yet it spurs many young Muslims to kill themselves to kill others. It’s a strange contrast of faith, a gulf between the two civilizations.
Germans have gone to great lengths to face their history, as have Rwandans. American history that includes wiping out Native villages full of noncombatants has never been properly faced. Perhaps the dominant cultures are poor at self-assessment; one hopes we can all learn about our failures as humans and educate for love and friendship, values that are nominally core to all decent beliefs, religious or humanist.
James Haught, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is editor emeritus of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail. Tom H. Hastings directs PeaceVoice.
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Nearly a hundred dead, thousands evacuate after earthquake on Lombok in eastern Indonesia – Los Angeles Times/RTÉ
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View of Banda Aceh from tsunami evacuation tower, built on the coast after the 2004 earthquake off Sumatra (Photo: Simon Roughneen)
JAKARTA — Medical equipment, tents and other supplies Monday were being rushed to the Indonesian island of Lombok after a devastating earthquake killed at least 98 people and left about 20,000 people homeless, disaster relief officials said.
The earthquake Sunday evening, coming only a week after another deadly earthquake in Lombok, knocked down bridges, left roads blocked and damaged communications infrastructure, making it difficult for emergency crews to reach some hard-hit areas.
Arifin Hadi, spokesman for the Indonesian Red Cross, said that “the disaster on Lombok is big, there are many houses down, there needs to be roads cleared.” Hadi said the Red Cross has sent nurses, doctors and drinking water to Lombok. “We have 11 water trucks there now, we will send 10 more from Surabaya” (Indonesia’s second biggest city, in the east of the island of Java).
Many Lombok buildings were damaged or destroyed by the latest quake, which Indonesian officials measured at magnitude 7.0 and the U.S. Geological Survey reported at magnitude 6.9.
Hospitals in Mataram, Lombok’s main town, also were damaged, making treatment more difficult.
“It is estimated that the number of victims and damage due to earthquake impacts will continue to increase,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the Indonesian Disaster Management Agency, said Monday evening local time, posting on Twitter.
The total confirmed death toll by Monday evening was 98, including two people on the nearby resort island of Bali. About 13,000 houses are estimated to have been destroyed or damaged on Lombok, an island of almost 3.5 million people.
Sunday evening’s earthquake prompted a tsunami warning that was lifted before 10 p.m. local time. Indonesian officials reported a magnitude 5.4 aftershock shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, which will likely further hamper efforts to reach some areas Tuesday. Sunday’s temblor came a week after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake killed 16 people on Lombok and left hundreds of hikers stranded for up to two days on Mount Rinjani, a 12,224-foot-high volcano.
About a thousand people, mostly tourists, were being evacuated by boat from the Gili Islands, an archipelago of smaller islands off Lombok also popular with surfers and beachgoers.
Ersha Apriolla, who works in the e-commerce section at the Lombok Astoria hotel in Mataram said ” in Mataram itself the damage is not too bad but all over Lombok a lot of people afraid to stay indoors, they sleep in the tent.”
She said “the hotel did not sustain much damage, just several cracks in the wall” but had laid out beds and blankets in the lobby for guests who prefer not to sleep in their rooms since the earthquake. “Ee accommodate the guests who don’t want to stay in their rooms to stay in the lobby, as many are afraid of more earthquakes.”
The earthquake was felt on nearby Bali, which received nearly 5.7 million foreign visitors in 2017. Many of Lombok’s visitors typically arrive by boat from Bali, a 3.5-hour trip.
Those who experienced the earthquake included government ministers from Australia and Singapore who were visiting for a regional government conference.
Model Chrissy Teigen was holidaying in Bali when Sunday’s earthquake hit and subsequently tweeted, “Oh man. We are on stilts. It felt like a ride.”
Made up of an estimated 17,000 islands, Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The 3,000-mile-long archipelago frequently experiences earthquakes and is home to around 120 active volcanoes, including Mount Agung on Bali, which has been erupting on and off for almost a year, prompting sporadic evacuations and airport closures.
In 2004, a 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia’s western-most island, caused a massive tsunami that killed 226,000 people in 13 countries, including about 120,000 in Indonesia, mostly in the north Sumatra region of Aceh
Muhammad Dirhamsyah of Aceh’s disaster management agency said that Indonesia has “become more resilient” after frequent natural disasters in recent years.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Aceh in December 2016 left 104 people dead and prompted people to flee immediately to high ground due to fears of another huge wave.
“There is so much information now about what to do — we have WhatsApp groups, people are aware of the dangers,” Dirhamsyah said.
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Indonesian passenger jet crashes with 189 people onboard - RTÉ/BBC(Foyle)/Radio France Internationale
Indonesian search for earthquake and tsunami victims to end Friday; death toll at 2,073 - Los Angeles Times
A week on from Indonesian disaster, mass prayers for the dead - Los Angeles Times
Survivors leaving quake-stricken town in Indonesia as frustration grows over relief effort - Los Angeles Times/RTÉ
Dozens of bodies pulled from mud as relief effort in Indonesia slowly expands - Los Angeles Times/Sydney Morning HeraldRTÉ
Indonesia's quake-tsunami death toll tops 800, with several coastal towns still to be heard from - Los Angeles Times/RTÉ
Earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Sulawesi, Indonesia - Los Angeles Times/CBC
Indonesia set for rematch of 2014 presidential election - Los Angeles Times
Magnitude 6.2 aftershock hits Lombok, 4 days after deadly earthquake - RTÉ Morning Ireland
Power and water outages on Indonesian island as 'quake death toll rises to 131 - Los Angeles Times
Man pulled alive from flattened mosque on earthquake-hit island - Los Angeles Times
Tech and social media help in disaster-prone Asia - Nikkei Asian Review
At least 54 dead after earthquake rocks Indonesia - Los Angeles Times
Indonesia: dealing with a divide - Nikkei Asian Review
Blood on their minds - The Edge Review
A decade on, Aceh looks forward, not back - Nikkei Asian Review
In Aceh, hope that election can boost economy - RTÉ World Report
Mixed results in Indonesia’s legislative election - The Edge Review
Four years after deadly earthquake, L'Aquila struggles - The Edge Review
Japan disaster not thwarting nuclear plans - Sunday Business Post
Lessons From Disasters - The Irrawaddy
Guns in the time of cholera – The Irrawaddy
Pakistan floods: “We’ve been set back 30 years” – The Diplomat
Southern Pakistan hit hard by widespread flooding – The Sunday Tribune/Today’s Zaman/Evening Herald
Differences between disasters in Haiti and Burma – The Irrawaddy
Quake victims dying from treatable wounds as aid trickles through – Voice of America/Today FM/The Irrawaddy
Drought, disaster loom – ISN
In Pakistan, an aftershock we can prevent – Evening Herald
Christmas shopping in Kashmir - Irish Examiner
This Christmas, a second wave of death in Pakistan? – The Belfast Telegraph
Afghan quake sparks fears in Pakistan – ISN
Pakistan to get over US$5bn in quake aid - ISN
Quake-hit Pakistan faces disease outbreak – ISN
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Mirae Asset’s ETF listed on Vietnamese stock market
An exchange-traded fund operated by the Vietnam branch of South Korea‘s leading asset management firm Mirae Asset Global made a market debut in the Southeast Asian country‘s stock market, the company said on Dec. 9.
The so-called Mirae Asset VN30 Exchange Traded Fund is designed to invest in 30 blue-chip Vietnamese companies, including Vingroup Joint Stock Company, Vietcombank and Vinamilk. Its shares account 76 percent of the total market capitalization of the nation’s publicly traded companies, as of November, officials said.
(From left) Kang Moon-Kyung, general director of Mirae Asset Daewoo‘s Vietnam branch, Seol Kyung-suk, representative of Mirae Asset financial group Vietnam, Soh Jin-wook, CEO of Mirae Asset (Vietnam) Fund Management Co., Nguyen Vu Quang Trung, head of Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, Shin Dong-min, head of Shinhan Vietnam Bank -- a Vietnam-based Korean trust bank for ETF investments -- and Khamsaya Soukhavong, CEO of Mirae Asset Prevoir Life Insurance Company pose for a photo during an event to celebrate the launch of Mirae Asset VN30 Exchange Traded Fund on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange. (Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange)
South Korean retail investors are also able to invest in the Vietnam-based ETF through domestic brokerage firms operating foreign stock trading services, such as Mirae Asset Daewoo.
“Mirae Asset Global Investments (Vietnam) will expand its foothold in the Vietnam market by securing stable track records and raising brand awareness. Meanwhile, the company is planning to offer investment advisory service to Korean investors seeking opportunities in the stock market in Vietnam,” said Soh Jin-wook, CEO of Mirae Asset (Vietnam) Fund Management Co.
Mirae Asset Global Investments established an asset management firm in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2018, becoming the nation’s first asset manager to set up a legal foreign entity in the Southeast Asian country. Currently, it is managing more than 390 ETFs worth almost 54 trillion won ($49.7 billion) across 10 major economies, including the US, Canada and Hong Kong, the company said.
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Surgical Art | Innovations
Digital Microsurgical Laboratory (DML)
Microsurgery has traditionally been taught using table mounted microscopes with teaching arms. Instruction is provided by a pre-recorded video presentation. Practice is supervised by instructors standing over trainees’ using the teaching arm. The aim was to improve this limiting teaching model by applying digital technologies to create a novel Digital Microsurgery Laboratory(DML). Standard training stereo microscopes with extra trinocular simultaneous lenses are mounted with high resolution digital video cameras providing digital live feed for stills/video recordings. These are linked to laptop displays for every trainee microscope and to a projector for the trainer microscope. Instruction is provided by live demonstration of the operation, with concurrent discussion between trainers and trainees. All aspects of microsurgical practice are covered – set-up, basic/advanced surgical techniques and managing complications. Trainee displays are arranged in a design so that all displays can be viewed simultaneously by the trainer. Trainees practice under active supervision by the trainer who can use the training microscope/projector to demonstrate corrections and tips/tricks. Videos can be recorded as by trainee or trainer for assessment and audit.
Microsurgical Flow System
The Microsurgical Flow System was developed to enable the success of repairs in microsurgical training. The repaired vessel is attached to the system, the valve is released and fluid is pushed through the vessel. The system allows both end-to-end and end-to-side anastomoses to be tested.
Hand Fracture Model
The Hand Fracture Model is an avian based model, that uses humerus and femurs from chickens to mirror the bone structure of the hand, moving away from the more traditionally used saw bones. This model has been used in numerous training settings and is well received for its real bone feel, enabling a more realistic simulation of both fracture and repair.
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Microsurgical Training - (Inside Out)
A critical part of microsurgery is ensuring a successful anastomosis of both the intravascular and extravascular elements of a vessel. However traditionally in training both trainee and trainer only have an extravascular view. Using an endoscope, and the digital training model (see other innovations), Surgical-Art has developed a model to allow the intravascular repair to be viewed.
The Surgical-Art Face
The cadaveric model remains the Holy Grail for Local Flap training. Overcoming this expensive and resource limiting model, whilst still providing the key elements of the face, was the aim of this project. To develop this complex face model the authors studied movements of different facial sub-units that influence local flap design. A variety of different silicone grades and fabric with multiple properties were tested in an attempt to mirror the anisotropic qualities of the face. A number of prototypes were developed, each selectively simulating a component of the desired face. Following this the multiple components were then hybridised. The end product was a tri-laminar mask mounted on a base unit that can be used to design,elevate and suture local flaps for training. This model was tested in both a training and OSCE setting with overwhelmingly successful feedback from trainees and trainers. The face provided a realistic and tactile experience that is required to gauge the unique movement of the different facial sub-units. The Surgical-Art Face is a unique innovation that simulates facial contours, movement and material handling to provide a sophisticated and accessible training, assessment and research tool for facial reconstruction. It can also be used for patient education.
Performing for the FRCS
Enhancing verbal and non-verbal proficiency using a multi-disciplinary approach.
Presenting the examiners with the confidence of a day 1 Consultant is not easy, knowledge alone will not demonstrate experience and capability. Presentation and strategy is paramount. The aim of the programme was to assess and improve the candidates demeanour and delivery, critical to success. The authors partnered with communication experts to design a course that addresses the different verbal and non-verbal components of the examination. The parameters of this extensive field were distilled and a structured approach with the mnemonic ‘BLISS ‘ (Body Language, Listening, Introspection(Stress), Speech and Strategy) developed. The course was run as a series of ‘mock exam’ and ‘drama teaching exercises. The mock exams i.e. clinical (with simulated patients) and viva were run by Consultant Plastic Surgeons with communications input. The assessment and feedback in these stations was solely to address the components of BLISS and not clinical knowledge. The theatre training exercises were physical and vocal along with bespoke communications sessions on presentation and delivery. The course, run over 2 days a month apart, is designed to provide bespoke feedback and targeted exercises at multiple stages. Feedback from delegates and faculty was overwhelmingly positive. There was an overall improvement in one or more aspects on the BLISS score for every candidate. 7 out of 9 delegates from the pilot programme who took the FRCS(Plast) exam passed. We believe that Performing for the FRCS, a previously unexplored programme, is crucial not only for the exam but in all clinical interactions.
Porcine Forequarter as a single training model
Porcine Forequarter as a single training model for neurovascular pedicle dissection and perforator based flap elevation.
For perforator flap training, the use of fresh soft pliable tissues as well as predictable vascular pedicles comparable to human vascular anatomy is mandatory. We evaluated the porcine forequarter as a single model to provide material for different perforator based fasciocutaneous flaps and brachial plexus dissection for trainees of all grades. Porcine forequarter was identified as a potential model based on historic studies by Taylor et al. as a training model for neurovascular dissection and fasciocutaneous flap elevation. The forequarter was obtained with the ribs already sectioned allowing access to the brachial plexus and major vessels. The first exercise was brachial plexus and vessel dissection. This taught tissue handling skills and pedicle dissection. The second exercise was designing and elevating fasciocutaneous flaps. After injection of dye into source vessels, intramuscular and septal perforating vessels could be used as the basis of multiple perforator flaps. Chimeric flaps were also raised where two tissue types were identified on a single branching pedicle. Once raised, the flaps could be detached and anastomosed to recipient vessels in a parallel microsurgical workshop. Feedback from both faculty and delegates indicates that the porcine model is sophisticated and covers the training requirements from basic to advanced levels very well. The location and quality of the perforators was fairly predictable but at times a free style approach had to be adopted as in real clinical scenarios. This novel use of the porcine forequarter provides varied models for nerve and vessel dissection and raising a number of perforator based flaps in a training environment.
The Surgical-Art Z-Plasty Model
The Z-Plasty is often a difficult concept for the trainee to design and execute. Simulating a scar that needs either re-orientation or lengthening has not been previously explored. Our aim was to create an effective model that incorporates the key elements of Z-Plasty training and assessment. The authors researched a variety of fabrics with different properties (strength, elasticity and anisotropy) along with mechanisms to simulate tension in a scar. A number of fabric prototypes were evaluated and one with high elasticity and anisotropy was identified. Multi-lamina models were then produced using carefully selected adhesives and silicones to provide a realistic simulation that allowed design and suture placement. This composite structure was then mounted on a tensioning device. This allowed for the creation of a tactile scar with a visual aid that is measurable, to calculate the distance between two points on the scar before and after “surgery”. Different types of scarring (thick/thin bands and high/low tension) and variations of Z-Plasty were trialled in a laboratory setting. This model has been evaluated and used successfully in Surgical-Art’s laboratory and training environment. The haptic and visual feedback from the model has been found to be an exceptional simulation of a scar for training. When released with a Z-Plasty the scar can be visually and objectively assessed, and has received excellent feedback. The Surgical-Art Z-Plasty Model is an intuitive innovation to simulate a scar, advancing training and assessment for Z-Plasty and scar release. The model can also be used for patient education.
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Posted on January 26, 2014 January 27, 2014 by danny_g
Danny G Writes Plays: The Course of True Love and the Curse of the Jade Monkey
Been a couple of months since I last did one of these. I could say that I was enjoying the spike in comments following my post office blogs, and tried to shift to topics of more general interest. Might even be true. But there’s another reason. Deep down, I was avoiding returning to this topic because I knew that it would mean talking about how a script managed to go from “this is the best thing I’ve done” to “this is too embarrassing to show people.”
So buckle up for the rise and fall of the Jade Monkey.
Jordan Bleachley, a shy, awkward graphic designer for a local newspaper, is living a quiet life, typically alone in his office, until the night Maya Tarlington crashes into him. Maya’s a globe-trotting woman of mystery, roaming the world having adventures, and decides that as long as she’s here, she may as well insert herself into Jordan’s life. Soon he and his two closest friends, investigative reporter Travis Thompson and travel columnist Saisha Porter (also Jordan’s ex), are pulled into Maya’s latest adventure: finding both halves of the legendary Jade Monkey, said to make whoever wields it unstoppable, before would-be supervillain Helena von Drax beats them to it.
Oh god damn it.
Yup. Soon the whole gang is tracking the second half of the monkey to Indonesia while Jordan and Maya try to figure out if a timid shut-in and a globe-trotting madwoman can make it work.
So why’d that happen?
I had a dream. A dream involving a… mildly sexual encounter with an exotic woman of mystery who my dream-friends immediately distrusted. Despite their misgivings, I decided to help her on her quest, attempting to find a better reason for this choice than “I saw her breasts the night we met and if I help her I might get to see them again or maybe even touch them.”
Now, I’d recently joined a writers’ circle led by the playwright-in-residence of one of the big professional theatre companies in town, and in this group I confirmed something I’d been afraid of: as of Knoll, I’d grown stagnant, leaning on dialogue riffs and wacky premises instead of properly developed characters and emotion. I decided that this dream, whose details stuck with me throughout my shift at whatever movie theatre I was working at that week (odds favour Westhills), would be the script where I started to push myself to inject some real passion into the love story.
The love story that still involved a wacky premise. And a meet-cute. And an intrepid reporter. And like four comic-relief characters written to be played by one actor.
I’d have probably been shocked, maybe a touch offended, if someone back then had implied that Jordan was based on me and Maya was the personification of my secret desire to be a) swept away and b) found interesting by an international woman of mystery. I know this because people implied characters were based on me all the time and I at least acted shocked and offended each instance, even when it was blatantly true. And in this case, I didn’t think Jordan was secretly me at all.
And yet it is demonstrably the case. Right as my marriage was beginning to crumble I suddenly write a script in which the lead character is a quiet, shy, shut-in who runs across a bold, inhumanly friendly woman of adventure, who sees how deep and creative he is behind his awkward exterior and decides that not only is he worth knowing but she’s also going to bang him? Merciful Zeus, the wish fulfillment is just dripping off this thing.
But maybe I missed it because I was so enamoured with Travis Thompson, a character I’d experimented with in writing classes because Trasmetropolitan’s Spider Jerusalem made Gonzo journalists on a crusade for the Truth look so damned cool, and I wanted to write one. And including Saisha gave Travis a romance plot of his own, because why wouldn’t the crusading journalist be just as useless as me at telling girls he likes them?
I included a role I called the Titanically Talented Bit-Player, who would play Helena’s faithful Manservant, Jordan’s editor, an informant named Jerry the Snitch, and Jacques the pilot, who flies the gang to Indonesia at the top of act two. This was inspired by the extras from Supervillain. I decided this play needed some minor, often single scene characters, so why not have them all played by one person, and why not make all of them just as entertaining as Supervillain’s delightfully bitter cocktail waiter?
As for Helena, and her trusty Manservant, this was my first attempt to write villains who were both funny and menacing. Because any villain out to reunite the halves of the Jade Monkey has to be a little silly, right?
How’d it turn out?
Oh man. Where to start.
In 2002, when it was first staged, I thought it was great. I’d pushed myself to add more depth and passion to the love story than I ever had before (not hard, I think my only successful romantic pairing by that point was Illuminati, and we all know what I think of that one), and I was proud of that. Thus, I thought it was good enough to take to the 2003 Edmonton Fringe Festival, despite the fact that most Fringe shows are 60-75 minutes and this one came in at two hours including intermission. But during the not very successful Fringe run, one of the cast put the idea of filming it as a movie in my head, and I started thinking of what I’d change to adapt it for film. And I began to see problems. So many problems. Because I had pushed myself into new territory… and the first time we try something, there are usually some kinks to be worked out. On that note.
The meet-cute is terrible, even for a meet-cute, and what’s worse it’s excruciatingly unmotivated. Second worst I’ve ever done, possibly, after Illuminati in Love. At the time of writing, I suspect I’d been influenced by a Kevin Smith blog from a series about the casting process on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. In said entry, Kevin Smith talked about how the studio had put pressure on him to cast Heather Graham in the female lead, but she’d balked at the role because she didn’t understand why the character falls in love with Jay. Smith had trouble answering, because, as he put it, who knows why anyone falls in love with anyone? The only answer he could think of was “Why does her character fall in love with Austin fucking Powers?”
And thus did I decide I could use the same logic to skate by the question of why, exactly, a world-travelling treasure hunter could possibly decide to hook up with a graphic designer who barely leaves the office. But I couldn’t. Because, 11 years later, it stinks of the aforementioned wish fulfillment and I want to punch their flirty scenes in the face.
Flirty scenes which, by the way, are nowhere near as engaging as they needed to be. It takes this thing until the end of act one to get out of first gear. Right before the act break, everyone escapes a trap laid by Helena and leaps onto a plane to chase down the remaining half on the Jade Monkey. Right after the act break, Jordan and Maya sit on the the plane and exchange backstories for at least ten minutes. Once we had to cut the intermission for time at the Fringe, it became all too clear that this little narrative choice killed the show’s pace like an overly wordy pause button. Any momentum we’d gained was brutally murdered by exposition and monologues.
Wow. Four paragraphs and I’ve barely scratched the surface here… time for an “everything wrong with this script” speed round.
1) Nearly every scene that the villains appear in features Travis complaining about how stupid the plot is. Admitting the plot is lame doesn’t make it not that.
2) Speaking of Travis, I thought his angry-ranting-but-he-really-cares shtick was pretty good… until I saw Dr. Cox from Scrubs do it about 50 times better. I thought “Oh, that’s what I was going for,” and was sad.
3) Half of the Titanically Talented Bit Player characters serve no real purpose. Mitchell the editor provides details that get repeated, and Jacques is only necessary for the plane scene, which the play would be better off without.
4) The Titanically Talented Bit Player also breaks the fourth wall at least once, which is not something the rest of the play does, so it kind of sticks out.
5) “Travis most of the time” and “Travis crushing on Saisha” are like two different people. A switch flicks and he goes from bargain-basement Spider Jerusalem to stammering mess on a freaking dime.
6) I’ve written my share of quiet saps who end up in shenanigans, but Jordan has to be worst of them. And by worst, I mean least interesting to watch.
7) But at least I made sure to have a conversation between Saisha and Maya establish that Jordan’s great at sex. Because that was necessary, apparently.
8) “Tarlington” would be my least favourite last name I came up with for a character if I hadn’t also come up with “Bleachley.”
9) I wrote this thing and I have a hard time getting invested in anything that happens. What chance does anyone else have?
I will say this. I do kind of like the resolution of the jade monkey nonsense. In front of everybody, Helena reunites both halves of the monkey… and nothing happens. Because, as Jordan puts it, “It’s not modular. It’s broken.”
Because fuck every movie in which some ancient artifact was broken into pieces but can be magically reunited every five thousand years or when the planets align or whatever. Because really, honestly, who thinks like that. If you’re going to break something because it’s too dangerous, YOU LEAVE IT BROKEN.
Would you stage it again?
We staged this one twice. We went through no less than five Mayas over the two productions. The two people who directed it left theatre entirely afterwards. I used to think it was because the show was cursed. Now it’s because I think the script is shit.
Trying to think of how to rewrite the script into “Jade Monkey: the Movie,” I came up with so many flaws (as you’ve seen) that I decided there was only one solution: burn it to the ground and start over on a white piece of paper. Because I still liked the concept, just not the execution. Watch the skies… we’ll get to how that turned out.
But as for re-staging Jade Monkey, in short, no. No a thousand times over.
Repeated theme alert
This was my first attempt at funny-yet-menacing villains. But not the last.
“Man and woman cannot be friends.” Travis and Saisha spend the whole show crushing on each other, and Manservant’s got it bad for Helena. Which makes even less sense than Maya liking Jordan.
Pop culture references: Why a Jade Monkey? Homer the Astronaut. The whole B-plot is born of a Simpsons reference, and its resolution is a near-verbatim recreation of my reaction to the climax of the first Tomb Raider movie.
“Let’s swap backstories for fifteen minutes like that’s not pacing Kryptonite!” I was still doing that last year.
The Quiet, Shy Protagonist The Ladies Still Unaccountably Love. Somebody shoot me.
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THE PROFESSIONAL ADMIRER
The girls stood about the door that night to bid Ione good-bye. They were genuinely sorry now that she was going, but half consoled when they heard that they would be able to hear of her from Jane Allen, The dark girl Cissy came last.
"Don't you give in or take a penny-piece from one of them!" she said, and pressed Ione's hand.
"She thinks it's your people who have been horrid to you," Jane Allen explained. "I let it go at that — I thought you would not care to have me say anything about him"
Jane Allen and Ione took the Underground Railway at the Mansion House for the station which was nearest to Audley Street, Battersea, where they were to "room" together. At the pigeon-hole they obtained third-class tickets, and went tripping and chattering down the dark steps. Ione had never been on the Underground in her life, but her heart was jubilant within her. On former visits to London she had often seen, from carriage or hansom, white wreaths of spume slowly sifting through occasional blow-holes, or belching suddenly upwards through blackened gratings, mixed with soot-flakes and jets of steam. On these occasions she had been informed by her father that an engine on the Underground was coaling up, and that the Elevated system of passenger carriage used in New York was infinitely to be preferred, being at once healthier, more accessible, cheaper to build, and infinitely more lucrative to those who controlled the stock.
On the platform one or two young men were waiting for west-bound trains. Most of them turned sharply to watch Ione's tall lithe figure and quick grace of movement. But the girl never so much as saw them. She was not even conscious of their presence, still less of their very evident admiration. Her mind was busy with what she would attempt on the morrow, where she would apply for work, and what future amends she would make to Jane Allen for her kindness.
But not a look or a whisper was lost upon Ione's companion. When the train slid alongside the platform, with that purposeful growling rush which characterises all underground trains, one of these young men, dressed in faultless frock-coat and tall glossy hat, followed Jane into the third-class compartment. He sat down opposite Ione, keeping his eyes all the time steadily fixed on her face, even when he pulled on his gloves and crossed his hands on the knob of his umbrella.
Ready anger kindled in the heart of Jane Allen, who in her turn watched him as a dour-hearted bull terrier may watch a bigger dog in order to select the exact spot on the neck for a first hold. A middle-aged, comfortable-looking woman was broadly occupying much of the middle of the opposite seat.
"Ione," said Jane Allen sharply, "you had better sit over there. This side is draughty. Perhaps the lady would be good enough to make room for you beside her."
"Aye, that I will," said the woman, with a broad country accent, "and bless yo' bonny face. I've been at t' market to buy a bit o' fish for my man's breakfast. Eh, but my William's main fond o' flounder — nobbut he can ate cod — aye, or salmon either, when he can get it."
Ione went contentedly over to the corner indicated, where, under cover of William's missus and the basket of flounders, she presently found herself deep in conversation upon the merits of fish as a regular diet for husbands. But Jane Allen moved directly in front of the young man, and stared fiercely and disdainfully back at him.
"There, mister," she seemed to say, "you can't see her you want to see. But you are welcome to stare at me, Jane Allen, as much as ever you like. I know your sort. All the same" (she meditated), "that tailor-made tweed suit of Ione's won't do. We must get her a nice black merino before she is a day older."
"Ah, lady," William's missus was saying meanwhile, all unconscious of Jane's angry by-play, "there's them that likes 'em fresh at nine for a shillin' — and they're welcome to spend 'stravagant if they can afford to fling good money in the fire, as it were. And there's them that likes 'em salted, and I winnot deny but they're tasty so, and go a long way in a family. But then, bein' briny by natur', they stimillates a thirst and sends men to the beer-shop. Not but what my William — bless him! — would scorn to do such a thing, for a more sober man - But, as I was saying, for a downright tasty dish that's as good as any Lord Mayor's banquet, give me a couple o' nice full-flaviered red herrings, with a gloss on them like a peacockses' neck, and done on the tongs over a clear fire. Why, the very smell o' them alone brings William hoppin' up them stairs three at a time as soon as ever it ketches his nose half-way down our street."
When they reached the station at which they were to get out, Ione remained obdurately interested in the merits of red herrings, as expounded by William's missus, and profoundly unconscious of the attractions of the young man who was still sitting opposite to Jane Allen. He had been trying to fascinate Ione, by circumventing with looks of admiration the voluptuous outlines of the lady of the market-basket.
William's missus was still busy at her explanation when it was time for Ione to get out. "And you see, my dear, says I to him, 'Weelum,' says I, 'I ha' been a long-sufferin' woman and a hard-workin' all my days, and I haven't come to this at my time o' life that a cherry-faced traipsin' hussy like Marthy Burton can reproach me for wearin' yellow gum-flowers in my bonnet.’ Ah, good-day to you, lady, and blessings on the sweet young face o' ye!"
For the smile had done its appointed work, and William's missus would have fought a pitched battle with Marthy Burton or any other for Ione March before she had been five minutes beside her. Yet Ione had scarcely spoken twenty words to her.
The young man in the tight frock-coat got out and walked along the platform and up the stairs immediately behind Ione and Jane. The latter kept her eyes straight before her, but, as she said afterwards, her ears were laid back till they grew perfectly stiff with listening for his footsteps. And all the while the unconscious Ione chatted gaily on, her hand on her companion's arm, for the excitement of a new life was upon her. The sounds and scents of this world of hard-working millions were like notes in a song to her. Each little gate and brass plate — they were passing the Battersea model cottages — waked a very pӕan of gladness in her heart. She was in the midst of a fresh burst of wonder and admiration at the flowers and plants which she had seen at one of the windows, when a shadow seemed to fall across them both. The frock-coated young man was at their side with his hat off, and, though his words did not reach Ione, he was apparently inquiring whether he might be permitted to "see the ladies home."
Ione looked him over with a certain cold, disapproving inspection, but she was wholly unprepared for Jane Allen's burst of passion. Left to herself, she would probably have dismissed the youth as she might an intrusive dog, and passed on her serene maiden way without a thought or a tremor. But Jane (as she herself put it) had been saving it up for this young man.
She turned upon him with her hands clenched, and a deep glow of suppressed anger in her eyes.
"You cur!" she almost hissed. "If you dare to utter another word or persist in following us another step, I’ll put this into you."
And she opened a little knife with which she did her pencil-sharpening and erasures in the office. The young man appeared half amused and half intimidated. But apparently he was used to such adventures. For he made the girls a still more profound bow, and, speaking clearly for the first time, began to assure them that, though only his sincere admiration could justify his intrusion, he could not think of their going alone through so dangerous a district, and that he was resolved to see them both safely home.
Jane Allen's teeth glittered and her lip curled with contempt in a way which might have warned any less self-satisfied wooer.
"Oh, you will — will you?" she said. "We will see about that as soon as we meet a policeman. Stand back, I say!" and she poised her arm like a black-skirted St. George getting ready to spit the dragon on a broken-bladed pen-knife.
The young man continued to smile, but now somewhat less assuredly.
"I did not mean to offend you, young lady," he said; "besides, if I may say so without offence, it was your friend's acquaintance I particularly wished to make."
"I dare say," retorted Jane shortly, "Stand out of the way!"
But the young man did not leave them.
Walking abreast, with Jane Allen in the middle, the three now arrived at a lonely, unfrequented place between the bounding walls of a large engineering works. Here the young man thought he saw his chance. Ione's air of having heard nothing alarming deceived him. He came round and walked beside her, trying to look back into her face with his most fascinating smile.
Thus, while Jane became every moment more and more speechless with indignation, they arrived opposite a gate, one half of which stood open. They saw a long array of machinery in all stages of repair and resolution into component parts, whilst a pulsing recurrent throb from somewhere unseen told of a prisoned heart of steam. Jane Allen looked through the gate with anxious eyes. Her face suddenly brightened. A figure in a dingy blue jacket was walking away from them with slow steps.
"Tom!" she cried eagerly — "Tom Adair!"
The figure in dingy blue turned, and seeing the girls, came towards them with ever-quickening steps as he caught the anxiety on Jane's face.
"Tom," she cried, "don't let this fellow follow us. He says he will go home with us, and he won't leave us - All we can do we can't stop him - Oh, I hate him!"
And Jane Allen stamped her foot, and if looks could have killed, the young man in the tall hat would have fallen dead at her feet.
Meanwhile the blue-jerkined figure which had answered to the name of Tom Adair continued to advance rapidly, yet with the same deceitful appearance of leisure. He was grimy and shiny from head to foot. His cap fairly glistened with oil and engine-black. But his eyes were blue, and shone strangely pleasant out of his streaked face. And as he took off his cap with a quick movement of respect, Ione saw that his head was covered with a crisp crop of yellow curls.
"Oh, this kind young gentleman won't let you alone, will he not? — says he is bound to see you home, does he?" said Tom Adair, with his hands in the pockets of his light loose working jacket. "Well, we will see about that."
Tom had by this time insinuated himself between Ione and her too intrusive admirer, and stood close by the gatepost. He touched a knob with his finger. An electric bell rang somewhere in the rear, and a man promptly appeared out of a little cabin like a couple of sentry-boxes placed side by side, with a turnstile in front. There was another turnstile, and a corresponding double sentry-box on the other side. But between them the high gate stood half open. The man who came out of the cabin to the left, in answer to Tom Adair's summons, had also his hands in his side pockets; but he was neatly dressed in brown tweed, and wore a hard round hat upon his head.
"Peter," said Tom Adair, "just walk with these ladies as far as the corner of Ely Street, will you? They will be all right after that. And I'll look after your gate till you get back. The night draft won't be tumbling in for an hour yet, and you’ll be back, and I'll have finished all I have to say to this gentleman, long before that."
The Professional Admirer no doubt wished by this time that he had not come, but he put a bold face on the matter and disclaimed any intention of insulting the ladies. He only wished to see them past a dangerous part of the town.
Tom Adair, standing between Ione and the young man, still kept his hands in his pockets.
"Yes," he agreed, "this part of the town is a little dangerous — for cads like you. Go on, Peter. Goodnight to you, ladies. No, you don't, sir; I have something to say to you first."
"Don't hurt him, Tom. Don't get into trouble yourself, mind!" cried Jane Allen. "He isn't worth it."
The two girls, with the friendly time-keeper of the Riverside Engineering Works in attendance, walking silent and embarrassed by their side as if he were counting their steps and checking their progress by the lampposts, turned the corner and were out of sight in a moment. Then Tom Adair's attitude underwent a sudden alteration. He was probably younger by ten years than his antagonist. Indeed, his whole appearance, in spite of the deforming grime and oil, was singularly boyish.
"Well," he said, coming nearer to the gentleman in the top hat, who stood his ground with a certain sneering confidence which betokened the professional bully, "you would not leave these ladies alone when asked."
"It is no business of yours, young fellow, whether I would or whether I would not," replied the other, putting himself into a posture of defence. "But anyway, I'll teach you to interfere where I am concerned. It will be better for you in future to keep to your smithy, and leave gentlemen alone."
"Oh, don't be in too great a hurry; I'll oblige you in a moment when the ladies are out of hearing!" said Tom Adair composedly.
"Oh—ladies," sneered the other; "that one in the check suit was a lady, was she? And your friend the little milliner was another? Ladies — ha! ha!"
Tom Adair did not answer in words. His chin sank an inch or two, and his elbows took a somewhat sharper angle where they pressed against his sides. But his hands remained easily in the pockets of his working slop. He walked quietly closer to the bully. He glanced keenly up and down the road which passed in front of the engine-shop.
There was no policeman in sight. A stray cur, with his ribs showing outside like hoops on a decrepit barrel, and his tail tucked in between his legs as though kept in place by a strong spring, slunk along the opposite side of the way. It seemed a misnomer to call Tom Adair's adversary a cur. He was well nourished, tall, and a little puffed under the eyes. His arms were in the correct posture, and his hands were clenched. Tom's hands were still in his pockets. Then something happened.
"Thud! thud!"
There came a couple of dull, crushing sounds, quite peculiar and indescribable, but not to be forgotten or mistaken when once heard — the impact of knuckles upon bare flesh. Tom's hands were out of his pockets now for the first time since he had lifted his cap to Ione and Jane Allen. Yet they had come so quickly that his adversary had never seen them move, till the tall hat flew one way, the rose in his button-hole went another. He himself sat down in the midst, while Tom Adair stood over him, and with his hands once more in his side pockets, besought him to get up and have some more.
But very naturally and with excellent judgment, the young man declined. Instead, with his elbow raised defensively above his head, he began to cry somewhat half-heartedly for the police.
Tom Adair stepped a little back and contemplated the bloated face, one side of which was now swelling so rapidly that the left eye was almost closed already, while a thin stream of blood and a thickening lip informed Tom where he had got in his left.
"Help! Murder! Police!" shouted the bully, but with somewhat unequal vigour.
Tom drew a whistle from his pocket.
"All right," he said cheerily; "if that is what you want, I can accommodate you in five minutes. We have an officer on the premises, and as I am foreman of the yard I can give you in charge for creating a disturbance. Don't apologise — no trouble at all; it is as easy as hammering in a tintack!"
The rascal rose quickly enough now, and without a single word he went down the road towards the river, holding a handkerchief to his face. Tom Adair looked after him. His muscles twitched with desire to take a running kick at the brute. But he only shrugged his shoulders instead, and muttered, "As Jane said, he ain't worth it! Hillo! here's Peter got back."
Peter nodded without speaking, and would have gone off at once to his sentry-box.
"Well, how did you get on with the girls, Peter?" he asked.
"Oh, so-so," he answered. Then appearing to recollect, he chuckled and said, "We had such a talk."
"Talk, Peter? I didn't know you could talk. What in the world did you talk about?"
Peter appeared to consider deeply. Then he said, "Well, I don't know as I talked much, but I listened like all afire."
Whereat he whistled melodiously and brushed the crown of his round hat with his sleeve with an ostentation of exceeding ease.
"I say, Tom, ain't she a beauty — what?" and Peter winked at his friend meaningly.
"Which?" said Tom stolidly, with a perfectly expressionless face.
Peter looked at him with contempt and incredulity.
"Which!—he asks me which. Garn, don't kid me; you don't know which is the good-looking one! I suppose you wouldn't call the - "
"Shut up, Peter," said Tom Adair suddenly, "if you don't want your nose flattened!"
"No," answered Peter, meditatively feeling that organ, "I dunno as I do, exactly. But what's happened to the fellow I left with you? Had he been up to any monkey tricks with the young ladies?"
"There's all that's left of him," said Tom loftily, pointing to a slight depression on the skirting cinder path, which ran towards the engineering shop, on which lay a desolate rose.
Then without another word he stalked haughtily within and shut the great gates.
"'Ere, Tom," cried Peter; "don't get the hump on you for nothing. I was doing for the best! 'Ow on earth was I to know that the little 'un — I mean the pretty little 'un — was your mash?"
But Tom Adair was too much offended to answer.
Peter winked at the cur dog, which had come back and was apparently on the point of shaking itself to pieces in an attempt to attract his attention. Then quite suddenly he slapped his thigh, whereat the dog, whose nerves were set on hairsprings of well-grounded distrust of all such movements, bounded away and vanished round the corner.
"What a game!" said Peter.
The abandoned rose took the time-keeper's eye. He picked it up, dusted it, and stuck it in his own button-hole. Then he turned his head to this side and that, contemplating with approval the effect upon the brown tweed. This being completed to his satisfaction, he unlocked the turnstile and took down his check-list to be ready for the night shift, whistling softly the while, “'Tis but a little faded flower!"
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VOK: IN THE DARK
(NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP; 2019)
There was a time about 15 or 16 years ago when everything coming out of Iceland or Scandinavia would excite the hell out of me. Bands were being written about like crazy by lovestruck American scribes including yours truly, and in those post-Bjork days groups like Sigur Ros, GusGus, the divine Mum, Ampop, Trabant, Mugison and many others had me at “Halló, þetta er okkur!” I craved hearing DIFFERENT sounds, DIFFERENT voices, anything that wasn’t predictable American formulaic stuff. And I falsely concluded that anything coming outta the Arctic Circle or thereabouts was gonna be thrill-tronica.
VOK (Einar Hrafin, Andri Mar, Margret Ran) (publicity photo)
Not quite, it turned out. Just ‘cause you have weirdness in your country with midnight suns or a month or two of darkness or the like, doesn’t mean you’re driven to make potently original music. Bland pop can come from anywhere. However, it wouldn’t be fair to call Iceland’s Vok bland. Take the fact they’re from Iceland, with the exceedingly high expectations I’m guilty of, out of the picture and you have an accomplished band with a good strong singer (Margrét Rán), a vibrant enough arsenal of peppy keyboard sounds and tons of production finesse, and you got yourself a more than listenable pop/rock platter. IN THE DARK won’t annoy you or your friends, not at all. But neither is it likely to make you scramble to the web to look up everything you can find about the band. They’re from Rekjavik. They started in 2013. Besides the serious-of-intent Ms Ran, the group sports saxophonist Andri Mar and the multi-instrumentalist Einar Hrafn. This is their second major release, and it’s a decent listen. I looked for details that stood out, and on the title track, onesuch is the tart way Ran sings the refrain “I better toughen up!” That last word comes out at a higher pitch than the previous words, and it gets you. So does this interesting, clearly sung verse: “A creature in the making/Is taking a shape/It’s a form that I’ve seen before/It feels so familiar/But still so rare/Wanna see it but it shakes me to the core.” That’s pretty evocative, and when you consider she’s likely singing about love, you know you got someone with some real artistry here. Guitars are muted, there’s a slow build going on that is refreshing… but it does feel like the sound itself is rather familiar. That impression is reinforced with tracks like “Night and Day” (marked by clean, cool ‘80s-retro keys) and the mid-tempo “Scarcity,” which sounds like, well, “Night and Day.” The first clutch of songs really have a sameness about them which, if you like female fronted synth-pop, you’ll probably enjoy. By the time you get to “Spend the Love,” a bit of ennui may be setting in, although I was grateful the chorus was “spend the love” instead of “spend the night.” Anything for a difference.
VOK (Einar Hrafin, Margret Ran, Andri Mar) (photo credit: SIGGA ELLA)
Fortunately, there are three stellar tracks on tap. “Round Two” begins with a bit of ominous keyboard, almost alien, then a lovelorn sonic dreamscape unfolds, with Ran’s voice mixed to maximize an edge of heart-piercing vulnerability. “Would you step away with me/And give me everything I wanted,” she sings, with just a hint of Bjorkian eccentricity. Her lyrics here actually remind me of Taylor Swift, but the murky “otherness” of the production kills that impression pretty quickly. The underlying shadows in this song make it a winner; so does Ran’s vocal. “No Direction” is the other mixtape-worthy number, starting with wordless singing and a handclap-emulating rhythmic element before one of the standout verses emerges: “The highway’s leading me the wrong direction/The silhouettes are dragging me down the road/The question is, where am I going?/Better find out than not knowing.” At least that’s what I think I heard, and it sounds an awful lot like my own life. So yeah, this is a nice, showy number. Some film director may get ahold of this one for a deeper than you expect romantic melodrama down the road. “I can wait another day for love” is the chorus line that’ll lodge in your memory, possibly. The surprise but short instrumental “Rooftop Views” is a bit of welcome respite, then we get another standout: “Fantasia.” This is probably the best song on the album, actually. It’s cool, classy melancholy all the way, with Ran’s voice in your face and bigger than life, yet intimate in that chilly Icelandic manner. There’s a minor-key beauty here, coupled with a true sense of purpose at painting a mood of romantic anguish. And this verse is killer: “It coulda been love from the start/We could have been home/Words are a game to you/The only thing you can control/I felt so lonely falling/We had put on a bad show/Too proud to let you know/Too proud to let it go.” Although one more step into production busy-ness could have deflated this one, they kinda get it just right… it’s angsty and musically captivating in about the right blend. If someone is gonna shed tears during Vok’s new release, it’ll be to this song.
VOK (Margret Ran, Einar Hrafin, Andri Mar) (publicity photo)
So it’s like this: IN THE DARK is a perfectly competent, listenable album with a way better than average chanteuse in charge of things. But in a country known for original sounds, it doesn’t break much ground. Ran was asked by an interviewer where their name “Vok” came from. Her response was, “It’s one of those words used to describe something, and it has no equivalent in English.” Most of the sounds on this record have PLENTY of equivalents in the English-speaking world. That doesn’t make it bad, not at all. Just not truly intoxicating except for a song or two.
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Jaw Bone Thicker On One Side
My teeth are not alligned. The last Up4 design feature of note is the clasp. Jawbone is an audio technology company developing and selling wearable technology and portable audio devices. When the jawbone becomes less dense, tooth loss can occur, a common occurrence in older adults. More specifically, they are the joints that slide and rotate in front of each ear. TMJ is a common cause of a stiff or locked jaw. T-bone Steak is one of the best steak cuts and includes a T-shaped bone with meat on each side. Bone Issues. Each fluke ha\൳ black and white markings on the ventral, or bottom, side of the tail. The "sinus lift" is a bone-grafting procedure that's required when the volume of bone found in a patient's upper jaw (in the region originally occupied by their bicuspid or molar teeth) is inadequate to accommodate the physical dimensions of a planned dental implant (length is usually the concern). 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The lump is hard and may grow quickly. Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande. One Sided Love extra1. Disorders and diseases. daily news for a professional and creative audience. I have a full list of jaw surgery tips, plus a FAQ, blog and before and after pictures. Insert an anti-inflammatory medicine. I had two double jaw surgeries, the first in January 2014 and the second in April 2015. There are eight premolars in the permanent dentition, two on either side (left and right) in the upper and lower jaw. For instance one can have a lump on jawline near or under your ear, on the left or right jaw line (i. to attempt to influence or pressure by persuasion rather than by the exertion of force or one's authority, as in urging voluntary compliance with economic guidelines: The. Bone Repair: Step 2. Yuri JawBonE is on Mixcloud. The mouth cannot be closed, and the jaw may be twisted to one side. In comparing the Jawbone Up and Fitbit One, I definitely settled on a favorite. the lump is hard not movable. Here are the causes and relief treatment, remedies for sharp shooting pain behind ears. Pain in Neck and Jaw one year after thyroidectomy deleted_user 03/25/2011 Everything has gone quite smoothly except for the fact that I've had pretty significant pain in my neck and jaw (near my ears) sporadically over the past year. Etta James - Two Sides (To Every Story). For over 50 years, Glidewell Dental has aimed to increase patient access to quality dentistry by enhancing the capabilities of the clinicians who serve them. Another two parts of fossilized bones of men there were found too. So first of all, I want to assure you that wearing a bonded (or "fixed") retainer is nothing like wearing braces. The callus is slowly broken down by osteoclasts until the bone is returned to its original shape. I’m currently one week post op and have been experiencing this metallic taste in my mouth that I can’t get rid of. Vaxee is a new peripheral/esports company that has a couple of industry veterans working for them, so when they first revealed their plans to make a new gaming mouse there was quite a bit of interest from all ends of the peripheral world. Despite the massive teeth and jaw and the gorilla-like sagittal crest, evolutionary anthropologists believe this fossil came from a side-branch of the human evolutionary line. Bone marrow is sort of like a thick jelly, and its job is to make blood cells. Experience the full view seamless front and side tempered glasses like a show room. Massage Therapy for Shin Splints. If we have the same problem, one jaw bigger and lower on one side causing maxilla and the teeth to 'slide down' towards the problematic side causing TMD- its probably hemimandibular hyperplasia. Temporomandibular joint disorder is a cluster of conditions that affect the. Hence the phrase “bone on bone. Matrix size: 6. With the explosion of the bone broth craze in recent years millions of people have learned about their health benefits. They often get better on their own, especially in children and teenagers. Jaw shape: oval, tapered, angled, flat, relieved (some can be for more than one of these) Cut quality: normal, flush Most cutting pliers feature a rubber-coated grip and spring tension for comfort and ease of use to enable long or repetitive cutting sessions. They need no treatment unless they are large and interfering with the placement of a denture. One of the most common observations is when one shoulder looks higher than the other. Anyone can experience this symptom, but it does occur more. the hard, rigid form of connective tissue constituting most of the skeleton of vertebrates, composed chiefly of calcium salts. Can antimicrobial fashion protect you from the coronavirus? First 'murder hornet' nest found in the US removed. I’m wiped out tho – I think being 53 makes a difference. Kredit umožní i stahování neomezenou rychlostí. A scope is used to look at your joint and remove scar tissue, smooth the bone, or reposition the disc. Find recipes, search our encyclopedia of cooking tips and ingredients, watch food videos, and more. The first and most common sign of this is pain and tenderness in the head, which usually occurs in both temples. The female jaw, without exogenous testosterone influence, subtly curves (a very subtle curve, not “rounded”) directly from the earlobe to the chin, with a shorter overhang over the front neck, with connective tissue joining the neck to the underside of the lower jaw, with a pointy-rounded and longer chin, the frontal view being that the lower face is visibly tapered from the temporal lobes. Neck swelling on one side causes. The first heart sound is followed after a short pause by the second. "The abuse, both mentally and physically, I endured during my teenage years far away from. These growths are usually noncancerous (benign), but they can be aggressive and invade the surrounding bone and tissue and may displace teeth. any distinct piece of the. Some people have a low hanging hyoid bone, which can be hereditary. On a side note it was a very strange experience because it was on my top of jaw when he cut out the existing bone and pushed it up making room for the bone pulse I thought his finger had gone through the whole into my nasal cavity because that’s what it felt like to me it felt like something had gone through my jaw bone and into my nose but. Picking the right beard for your face shape is one of the most important grooming decisions a man can make. If radiation is used after surgery the required dose is much less. The first metatarsal bone is shorter and thicker than the others. It is the only movable bone of the skull (discounting the ossicles of the middle ear). One of the most common observations is when one shoulder looks higher than the other. A dislocated jaw means the lower part of the jaw has moved out of its normal position at one or both joints where the jaw bone connects to the skull (temporomandibular joints). Shedding the pounds and cutting down on your calorie intake doesn’t just have an impact on the. Rephrase the following sentences using the words in bold. Weight loss, even if your kitty seems to be eating the same amount as ever. Severe complications would occur if the bone of the skull received the large dose of radiation needed to destroy the cancer. The jaw may not open at all or it may slide from side to side when an attempt is made to open it. Organizers can achieve the same goals of their offline events by customizing their Hopin events to fit the Teach a lesson and breakout into groups. 5-8" long, professionally cleaned, #1 except very slightly damaged $30. Already mentioned this above, the one that keeps the cheeks flat and keeps the food between the teeth. In our model, such bone loss is normal in the early stages of a bowhead’s life as baleen and skull grow in order to increase feeding efficiency. It opens and closes to let you talk and chew. Otherwise the teeth will be tilted to one side and not level with facial features. $79!!! For some. Tittle: Glory Kill Entry #10 from Golden Darknezz Mod: Nokk Armor, Nomad Armor, CSO2 Emma, Cod Jawbone, and Sparks outfit. The mandible (lower jawbone). But I also learned that these devices are extremely personal — what works best for me may not end up working for you. Geographical tongue, Leukoplakia, Prolonged use of antibiotic medicines, mouthwash and creams, etc. Severe jaw bone problems (osteonecrosis) 5. PissedConsumer. The bony bump is always painless and benign. They need no treatment unless they are large and interfering with the placement of a denture. It is connected to the temporal bone by the temporomandibular joint. Online courses. We observe a. In open-joint surgery, the doctor makes a large cut or incision that exposes the. Sequestrum of jaw bone ICD-10-CM M27. There's a right angle between the top of the zygomatic bone and the eyeball, so keep that in mind when changing the pose. Follow the San Luis Obispo Tribune newspaper for the latest headlines on Central Coast news. Whereas the upper jaw of a human is fused to the skull and therefore unable to move, a snake's upper jaw is attached to its braincase by muscles, ligaments and tendons, allowing it some front-to-back and side-to-side mobility. If the side buttons (power and Bluetooth pairing) are jammed up, use the cleaning guide here. My left jaw sticks out and one side of my chin is not alligned. If teeth have been missing for a long time, there often is not enough bone left to place implants. Bone is deposited on the alveolar wall on the tension side of the tooth with both heavy and light forces, and newly formed bone spicules follow the orientation of the periodontal fiber bundles. Remedy for painful jaw disease. Top/Bottom/Side can be mounted for up to three 360 Radiators without interference. Pain in the lower jaw can occur due to many reasons and can be mild or severe. Preopercular-mandibular (POM) canal - Pores found on the ventral anterior margin of the mandible (chin). Submandibular glands -- These two glands are located just under both sides of the jaw and carry saliva up to the floor of mouth under the tongue. Instead, they maintain internal temperatures with a thick layer of blubber (vascularized fat). Sign up for Staples Offers. ) you lack enough back jawbone to support teeth implants. Learn more about jaw-related treatments. Another two parts of fossilized bones of men there were found too. After the donor bone is placed in the jaw bone it will eventually be converted into natural bone and the jaw bone will be rebuilt. The second metatarsal is the longest. There is actually one on the right side now and one on the left side (of the upper gum). Thank you for signing up! You will receive an email shortly at: Here at Walmart. Side Effects of Jawline Botox. Double side by side case*. Keep the lower leg slightly bent. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. Lips may look thinner than they are, nasolabial folds may look deeper, the face may look more round. And I did some extensive research and I don't think mewing would solve it. Some of the best dietary supplement manufacturers keep up with these discoveries by improving their products that are made according to the latest scientific research. Also, the side of the face (i. temporalis: A broad muscle that fans out to cover much of the temporal bone on the side of the skull. Bone is deposited on the alveolar wall on the tension side of the tooth with both heavy and light forces, and newly formed bone spicules follow the orientation of the periodontal fiber bundles. The tooth had to come out as it had one side missing to it. (A 2014 study found that repeated injections of Botox into the muscle near the jaw may cause bone loss and related problems. One study from 2010 claimed that awake bruxism is more common in females, while another, from 2006. Jawbone Mini Jambox. Status: Active. The premolars are the fourth and fifth teeth from the midline. First Place. Status Quo - Shy Fly 4. Just speak in the direction Hold the TA L K B U T T O N until you hear a Jawbone ® JAMBOX ™ is resting on its base information like remaining battery life and of the front grill. Mew: According to Dr. Complete first phone booth challenge. The bone behind your ear and the jaw may also be affected. No grinding that I can tell. inferior maxillary or lower. the upper jaw has less bone than the lower jaw. The Jawbone Mini Jambox shrinks the Jambox form factor, but you wouldn't know it from the impressive sound it can produce. VAXEE ZYGEN NP-01 Review. I click my jaw out of the socket all of the time and it sounds exactly like what you're going through. Aging also affected the bones of the middle part of the face. Longer side bangs will help widen out a narrow chin while highlighting your cheekbones and jawline. One such symptom associated with anxiety causes jaw pain. Jawbone MINI JAMBOX Troubleshooting. This complex joint is a series of muscles, ligaments, discs, and bones that move your jaw forward, backward, and side to side. It develops and sells wearable technology such as the Jawbone UP2, UP3 and UP4 wristbands and portable audio devices. Cysts are cavities in the jaw bone with a thin lining and fluid inside. In addition there is the numbness of the face due to the compression branch of the trigeminal nerve, there is weakness of the muscles on the affected side, pain in region. It is the only movable bone of the skull (discounting the ossicles of the middle ear). get("title") + " " + error). But in rare cases, it can be an early sign of a heart attack. As a single mother I must have this corrected for her. Yuri JawBonE is on Mixcloud. Buccinator. Official UP API: jawbone. The mandible (inferior maxillary bone) (together with the maxilla) is the largest and strongest bone of the face. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Jawbone Jungle Archive on your desktop or mobile device. The kidney has several functions. Etta James - Two Sides (To Every Story). Internally, replacement pod holds a 1. "At first I thought and believed I was the luckiest girl in the world to be living such a life, and not long after that, the darker side of the surfing industry soon revealed itself to me, and it was terrifying," Coffey said. [ jaw-bohn ]. Once adequate bone healing has occurred, weightbearing (such as standing or walking) encourages bone remodeling. Tittle: Glory Kill Entry #10 from Golden Darknezz Mod: Nokk Armor, Nomad Armor, CSO2 Emma, Cod Jawbone, and Sparks outfit. 75 " long, 5. 42: One side only, complete except no incisors, nature cleaned, 14-18" long, #1 quality. It reminded you to move and tracked your heart rate, workouts and sleep automatically. Jawbone's latest fitness trackers have landed - the $50 UP Move is aimed primarily at curious beginners keen to see what health-focused wearables are all about, while the $180 UP3 is going for serious fitness fanatics looking for in-depth data 24/7. Undesirable side effects and complications that can result from the bone graft harvesting procedure include early post-operative pain, chronic pain, scarring, bleeding, infection, and more. We are proud to be one of the head sponsors of the 2020 summer tour. Gerrard says wife wants him to quit as 'Don't give a sod' gran Maureen, 83, on how to beat the virus crisis. It is most often red in color and asymetrical, meaning it grows on one side of the mouth. Jaw-closing muscles/adductors The masseter is the strongest muscle of mastication and has two parts that blend together anteriorly. on the jaw; לֶ֑חִי (le·ḥî) Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 3895: The cheek, the jaw-bone break שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃ (šib·bar·tā) Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7665: To break, break in pieces the teeth שִׁנֵּ֖י (šin·nê) Noun - cdc Strong's Hebrew 8127: A tooth. Tomogram of the right hip showing a segmental zone of sclerosis (arrows) in the superior portion of the femoral head, consistent with osteonecrosis (O). Okay this question is a little weird but my jaw has been hurting a lot on both sides and when i feel it it feels like the right side is a bit thicker than the left I know that a swollen jaw is a symptom of oral cancer but it feels like its the bone itself that is thicker. This could be due to various reasons, such as posturing the tongue a certain improper way or chewing predominately on one side. Overall, Jawbone found city dwellers got less sleep in general; not one major city got more than the usually recommended seven hours a night, while Another interesting finding: After mapping the sleep data across counties, Jawbone found that daylight has a huge effect on how much sleep people get. ” Based on the fossils analyzed, Borths and Stevens estimated that Simbakubwa was around 1. It occurs when bones in the jaw begin to break down and die. Your temporomandibular joint is the joint that attaches your lower jaw to the side of your skull. Researchers report a breakthrough to prevent osteonecrosis of the jaw, a side effect suffered by some people undergoing treatment for cancer or osteoporosis. Preopercular-mandibular (POM) canal - Pores found on the ventral anterior margin of the mandible (chin). These nodes are located just under the jaw bone and drain the back of pharynx as well as the tonsils. ulna - bone extending from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb. "There's also favoring one side while chewing (as it can lead to teeth ware and an unbalanced bite)," she adds. An access_token attribute is required in the options object!. First bring all corner pieces to the corresponding layer: Hold the cube with the red side facing you and the green on the right. Tittle: Glory Kill Entry #10 from Golden Darknezz Mod: Nokk Armor, Nomad Armor, CSO2 Emma, Cod Jawbone, and Sparks outfit. It is the only movable bone of the skull (discounting the ossicles of the middle ear). The masseter is the thick muscle that connects your jawbone and your cheekbone and plays a major role in chewing. Jawbone's Amazon, Facebook and Twitter pages appear as though the company still has its doors open. The skull of a female is rounded and less protruded mandible. Swollen lymph nodes in neck on one side are most likely to be caused by pathogenic infections or inflammatory medical conditions. , supply of 1st class picked bricks including loading unloading. I had two teeth removed and not replaced yet on the left side which I thought was the problem and I also have TMJ, but then I really have REALLY noticed a big difference in photos the last six months and I saw online articles. Mandible (lower jaw). Your maximum muscular body-weight depends mostly on your height and bone-structure. The Jawbone UP24's design will be instantly familiar to fans of the original UP: it retains the same distinctive "functional jewellery" aesthetic as before, albeit with a lightly thicker (On the plus side, it's now possible to manually key in an approximation of the data yourself, which is better than nothing. Usually this is purely a tooth alignment fault rather than an overshot or undershot jaw fault which is dependent on the length of the jaws relative to one another. It is connected to the temporal bone by the temporomandibular joint. First, you will want to select Free Ride from the Title Screen (becomes available after first story chapter). Sometimes I would still move onto my side during night, and wake up with pain. Some of the best dietary supplement manufacturers keep up with these discoveries by improving their products that are made according to the latest scientific research. Typically, two will be located towards the front of the jaw where the bone is naturally thicker, and another two will be placed at an angle towards the back on either side. All Movies. Unusual lumps or swellings anywhere on your cat's body, especially if they're getting larger or changing shape. Bone loss for denture wearers is a normal process. Your pain may be due to a combination of factors, such as genetics, arthritis or. We’ll explain the causes of an uneven. We have studied mutants and morpholino-injected larvae to examine the role of the Edn1 signal in patterning anterior pharyngeal arch bone development during the first week after fertilization. In this situation, since the jaw is still intact, the hole in the jaw can be repaired by either a thick skin graft or with a piece of skin that is transferred from. Traditional dentures are usually made with relatively weak material, too. If you lose your teeth, your jaw bone will start to shrink from disuse. Here are the causes and relief treatment, remedies for sharp shooting pain behind ears. the horseshoe-shaped bone forming the lower jaw. The alveolar process (/ æ l ˈ v iː ə l ər /) (also called the alveolar bone) is the thickened ridge of bone that contains the tooth sockets (dental alveoli) on the jaw bones that hold teeth. These articulate with the cuboid or cuneiform bones. An asymmetrical jaw is due to the individual skeletal/bone development, and it is usually a result of the bone being off to one side that then causes the bite to be less balanced. Or, your pillow may push your jaw toward the ceiling which also strains jaw muscles. In weight-bearing bones with little cortical bone, such as the vertebral bodies, which are composed of only about 5% cortical bone and 95% trabecular bone, the vertical weight-bearing trabeculae are thicker, and the horizontal trabeculae are thinner and are preferentially lost early in the disease. Mandibular central incisor is situated in the jaw adjacent to the midline of the face. Jaw bone thicker on one side Jaw bone thicker on one side. Jaw pain can develop for multiple reasons related to oral cancer, but it is one of the main symptoms associated with metastatic growths in the oral cavity, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Can the jaw bone grow back once it has been cut or shaved down? No, the bone cannot grow back. I asked my doctor if it was a common side effect and she said she hasn’t had somebody tell her that before. com) It is "low" due to a combination of legislative & regulatory pressure, and executive jawboning. In addition to differences in openings on the side of the skull and in general shape and size, the most significant variations in reptilian skulls are those affecting movements within the skull. TMJ disorders affect over 10 million Americans. Please take a minute to review our Privacy Policy. the upper jaw has less bone than the lower jaw. A malignant tumor on his cheek, the first symptom is the appearance of bumps on the inner side of cheeks, under the jaw, near the ear, is called cancer of the salivary gland. Hello, I am a 37 yr. Rare side effects, such as severe bone, muscle or joint pain and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), are not any different from those of the other bisphosphonate medicines. The single was first teased on May 11, 2019, when flyers were thrown out to attendees of Thug's set at Miami's Rolling Loud Festival. Usually this is purely a tooth alignment fault rather than an overshot or undershot jaw fault which is dependent on the length of the jaws relative to one another. I’m a mom of a 5 1/2 month old baby. Reptile - Reptile - Skull and dentition: The skulls of the several subclasses and orders vary in the ways mentioned below. There is no visible display because Jawbone wants to encourage you to use your large smartphone display to view all of the captured data. 1999 designboom is the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture & design culture. This doesn't mean a liquid jaw it just mean the slippage you showed. Pain behind the ear can be described as sharp, throbbing or dull. It consists of cervical vertebra number one (CI) and the condyles of the occipital bone on either side of the foramen magnum. I’m currently one week post op and have been experiencing this metallic taste in my mouth that I can’t get rid of. Bone pain can occur as a side effect of some of the biologic response modifiers (e. The more horizontal posterior fibers are what help retract the jaw. Obviously, jaw discomfort can be caused by any number of head/neck or dental issues as well. See full list on mayoclinic. The treatment of patients with atrophic ridge who need prosthetic rehabilitation is a common problem in oral and maxillofacial surgery. The first metatarsal bone is shorter and thicker than the others. Jawbone's latest fitness trackers have landed - the $50 UP Move is aimed primarily at curious beginners keen to see what health-focused wearables are all about, while the $180 UP3 is going for serious fitness fanatics looking for in-depth data 24/7. In addition, most cancers of the jawbegin in the mouth and then extend into the jaw bone. As our joint cushions break down (cartilage and meniscus), friction, inflammation, and pain can occur as the bones rub together. • Tooth loss may have led to a loss of bone as well. After Bone Grafting. Zygomas (cheekbones). See a doctor, do TMD relief exercises. The Jawbone UP24 is still made of the same material as its predecessor; hypoallergic, medical grade TPU rubber. #6: Thick Side Swept. Supply of materials, 1st class bricks including loading unloading & stacking at different sites. Cotton On Gray Thick Socks. Песни в альбоме Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). One possibility relates to the fact that many bones in the human body grow thicker with use, even after they have matured. The front four of them (one at each quadrant) are called first premolars, while the other four on the back are called second premolars. Unnecessary pain and the complications of infection and swelling can be minimized if the instructions are followed carefully. Another two parts of fossilized bones of men there were found too. Learn about preventing and managing mouth and throat problems like dryness, taste changes, pain, and infection in this expert-reviewed summary. Keep your data private and secure. The biggest complaint that I have is that the earloops are flimsy and cannot. Learn more ->. All rights reserved. The "gherkin" falls on the shorter and narrower side of average , but don't let its smaller stature fool you. com) It is "low" due to a combination of legislative & regulatory pressure, and executive jawboning. Bone pain can occur as a side effect of some of the biologic response modifiers (e. Also, my jaw clicks when I open my mouth wide. The serve to drain the cheeks, side of the nose, upper lip, lower lip, gums, and the corners of the eyes (also known as the madera palpebral commissure). It usually is limited to one side of the face. Osteomyelitis affects about two out of every 10,000 people. There is a flat bone known as torus, which is a benign bony growth that is found on the tongue side of the lower jaw, or even on the hard palate. 50 /ea Bkskn Room More about this lot > Bones - Buffalo Lower Jaws. The size of the thoracic cavity is constantly varying with the movement of ribs and the Man has two kidneys, one at each side of the backbone between the thick muscles of the back and the abdomen. A bone graft is a procedure that replaces and regenerates lost bone, and can also restore proper facial contour. The affected bone becomes enlarged, brittle and warped. Be part of the world's largest community of book lovers on Goodreads. Submandibular glands -- These two glands are located just under both sides of the jaw and carry saliva up to the floor of mouth under the tongue. The spin attack blocks projectiles. Line contact faces include one smooth jaw face and an opposite face that is rounded, helping distribute the clamping force along one single line perpendicular to the crosshead’s movement. Often, one side of the jaw is more affected by bone changes and inflammation than the other side, and over time, the jaw may start to look crooked. The two most important lifelong bone health habits to encourage now are proper nutrition and plenty of physical activity. Cancer is usually found in soft tissues such as the tongue or cheek. In anatomy, the mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human facial skeleton. In all snakes, each jaw on either side is not jointed with a bone, and they are separated allowing the snake to swallow prey much larger than its head. The most critical aspect of gripping is to avoid slippage when testing, as well as maintain an even stress distribution throughout each specimen while testing. Look at Appendix 1 on page 206 and in the correct preposition. Orbital bones (eye sockets). The first permanent jaw (M1) erupts when the horse is one year old. Side-Note: this is also a great feedback mechanism to help you determine which pieces of swag people really want based on how many times they are traded. Complete first phone booth challenge. Traditional dentures are usually made with relatively weak material, too. Try FREE online classifieds Jiji. A facial fracture is a broken bone in the face. In anatomy, the mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human facial skeleton. is this normal? Dr. My airway was restricted in a big way and the breathing improvement I have experienced is a miracle. Exercise your jaw. Facial Growth Orthodontics with AGGA can correct underbites, overbites, and crossbites without expensive and risky jaw surgery. parola: plural jawbones. Alternatively, you could ask for an undercut or a fade to make the Next, comb or brush your hair to one side, away from your part. Find and read more books you'll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. 3, in the tibialis anterior muscle of the shin. Instead, they maintain internal temperatures with a thick layer of blubber (vascularized fat). Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and her research team have been able to grow bone grafts that will match a patient’s original jaw bone for facial reconstruction surgery to repair injuries, disease, or birth defects. The nodes located under the jaw are classified as cervical lymph nodes (lymph nodes in the neck) and are specifically known as submandibular lymph nodes. Other teeth are still being formed and may present as bulges of the gums. This is done when the back part of the upper jaw does not have enough bone to allow implants to be placed. How Nike Became Successful and the Leader in the Sports Product Market. I believe there had been some whale’s jaw-bones at the entrance of the yard at one time but that was before my time. Up to then all portable speakers were either small and sounded tinny. It may be felt behind both ears or on the right or left ear, down the neck and in the skull. You wouldn't say, for example, "I wore a glove on the one hand and nothing on the other. The Masseter muscle is a very thick muscle made up in two parts the Outer Masseter muscle and the Inner Masseter muscle. front projection forms the it then backward on either side of the mouth chin; passes then bends upwards ending in a. Jaw Bone Thicker On One Side. If you study faces in motion there is an incredible amount of play in the jaw and when slightly exaggerated can really bring the animation to life, so I'm careful to pay attention to how. If a tooth is knocked out or broken, bone stimulation to the jaw stops, leading to tissue deterioration. With the explosion of the bone broth craze in recent years millions of people have learned about their health benefits. If you smoke and drink alcohol excessively, you are at even greater risk of developing head or neck cancer, especially cancer of the throat, mouth or voice. Latest Jawbone coupons and promo codes for September 2020 are updated and verified. Chapters(85). See a doctor, do TMD relief exercises. 5″ thick steak: Grill 4-5 minutes per side over direct heat, then 4-10 minutes longer over indirect heat. These symptoms may indicate a case of tonsillitis or its closely related cousin, strep throat. The facial skeleton consists of the: Frontal bone (forehead). [1] They occur most often in long bones, including the fibula, tibia, ulna, radius, humerus, and clavicle. 23, 2017 — Mammal teeth, jaw bones and muscles evolved to produce side-to-side motions of the jaw, or yaw, that allowed our earliest ancestors to grind food with their molars and eat a more. Shop boohoo's range of womens and mens clothing for the latest fashion trends you can totally do your thing in, with 100s of new styles landing every day!. For a natural shine and textured finish, apply From thick straight locks to wavy or curly hair, long middle parted men's hairstyles exude sex appeal and style perfectly with the right product. An asymmetrical jaw is due to the individual skeletal/bone development, and it is usually a result of the bone being off to one side that then causes the bite to be less balanced. I was referred to a surgeon to discuss options. One is likely to see a bump on the neck, shoulders or on the back. It is the only movable bone of the skull (discounting the ossicles of the middle ear). The surgeon might need to remove bone from the hard palate, the upper teeth on one side of the mouth, part or all of the orbit (eye socket), part of the cheekbone, and/or the bony part of the upper nose. With this case, the joints of the jaw do not close or open properly. 00 /ea F-30 More about this lot > Black Bear Lower Jaw Bones, Mandibles 5313-1124. First there was no pain but since October I've started having the jaw pain. This is when a substance called collagen moves in and slowly replaces the blood clot. First Place. Compare the size of up to three phones side-by-side or on top of each other. Thick long straight hair is perfect for a middle part, but men with wavy and curly hair can achieve the style as well. An abscess is a pus-filled sore, usually caused by a bacterial infection. Abnormalities of the mouth and jaw may be present including an abnormally small mouth, a short, thin upper lip, a highly arched roof of the mouth (palate), an underdeveloped upper jaw bone (maxilla), and an abnormally small lower jaw (micrognathia) that is displaced farther back than otherwise expected (retrognathia). But in order to avoid breaking with these weaker materials, the dentures need to be thicker, which, again, makes them bigger. Matrix size: 6. The condition is called Actinomycosis. Also, my jaw clicks when I open my mouth wide. Regarding jawbone cavitations, in addition to physical trauma such as falling on your chin or receiving a blow to your jaw, root canal[4] and orthodontic treatment[5] can also start a cavitation infection in your jaw. An osteophyte is a bone growth on a bone. In general, many of us are asymmetrical, and many of us favour chewing on one side more than the other. dr said i have mono. These facial bones form the face by completing the orbits, leaving room for the nose and creating the jaw and mouth. Generally, osteosarcomas in the bone have better prognosis than other forms of malignancies especially when the cancer cells are still confined inside the jaw bone. The temporomandibular joint is one of the most important structures of the jaw, made from hard and soft tissues that connect the lower jaw bone to the cranial bone in the skull. RIDGE EXPANSION. Prolia® is a prescription medicine used to treat osteoporosis in men and women who will be taking corticosteroid medicines (such as prednisone) for at least six months and are at high risk for fracture. Jawbone Blue Tooth Tried a couple times, did not like it, I prefer the iphone ear buds. Women have TMJ more often than men. My airway was restricted in a big way and the breathing improvement I have experienced is a miracle. Steaks less than 1 inch thick should only be seared 1 minute per side before transferring to the oven. Any recommendations? At he age of 13 yrs old my daughter brought to my attention that her chin was uneven and one side of her jaw bone was larger than the other. The Jawbone Mini Jambox shrinks the Jambox form factor, but you wouldn't know it from the impressive sound it can produce. Jawbone definition is - jaw; especially : mandible. Kundel the appliance "reshapes" the mandible by depositing bone at the back of the mandible and triggering bone resorption at its bottom. Sometimes the lymph nodes may get infected due to some disorder in the body, which can lead to jaw pain under the jaw line, or on one side of the jaw line or both. It occurs when bones in the jaw begin to break down and die. Find and read more books you'll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. 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The role of social attention in older adults’ ability to interpret naturalistic social scenes
Sarah A Grainger (Corresponding Author), Henriette R Steinvik, Julie D Henry, Louise H Phillips
Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Age-related differences on theory of mind (ToM) tasks are well established. However, the literature has been criticised for predominantly relying on tasks with poor ecological validity, and consequently it remains unclear whether these age differences extend to tasks with greater realism. In addition, we currently have a limited understanding of the factors that may contribute to age-related declines in ToM. To address these issues, we conducted two studies that assessed age differences in ToM using multimodal social scene stimuli. Study 1 also examined eye movements to assess whether biases in visual attention may be related to age-related difficulties in ToM, and Study 2 included an assessment of social attention (as indexed by biological motion perception) and working memory to assess whether these capacities may explain age difficulties in ToM. In both studies, the results showed that older adults performed worse than their younger counterparts on the ToM tasks, indicating that age-related difficulties in ToM extend to measures that more closely represent everyday social interactions. The eye-tracking data in Study 1 showed that older adults gazed less at the faces of protagonists in the social scenes compared with younger adults; however, these visual biases were not associated with ToM ability. Study 2 showed that older age was associated with a reduced ability to detect biological motion cues, and this mediated age-related variance in ToM ability. These findings are discussed in relation to competing theoretical frameworks of ageing that predict either improvements or declines in ToM with age.
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This manuscript has been accepted for publication in the journal Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Grainger, SA, Steinvik, HR, Henry, JD & Phillips, LH., 'The role of social attention in older adults’ ability to interpret naturalistic social scenes' Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology., Volume: 72 issue: 6, page(s): 1328-1343. © Experimental Psychology Society 2018. DOI: 10.1177/1747021818791774
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Grainger, S. A., Steinvik, H. R., Henry, J. D., & Phillips, L. H. (2019). The role of social attention in older adults’ ability to interpret naturalistic social scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(6), 1328-1343. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818791774
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Grainger, SA, Steinvik, HR, Henry, JD & Phillips, LH 2019, 'The role of social attention in older adults’ ability to interpret naturalistic social scenes', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 1328-1343. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818791774
Grainger SA, Steinvik HR, Henry JD, Phillips LH. The role of social attention in older adults’ ability to interpret naturalistic social scenes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2019 Jun 1;72(6):1328-1343. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818791774
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Posted on April 20, 2018 April 19, 2018 by ancarroll
The #METOO movement in making waves throughout our social landscape. In the media, #METOO seems, by and large, focused on business industries, particularly the movie and broadcasting industries, which have quite publically taken action against high power men who abused their position. The ME TOO website shows that the movement encompasses far more than that, and I want to remind you that #METOO is relevant to colleges, universities, and secondary schools across the country.
The media hasn’t spent much time discussing how #METOO appears in higher education, at colleges and universities where powerful people have near 24/7 contact with young men and women who are often away from home for the first time. The Atlantic magazine published an article called “How Colleges Foretold the #METOO Movement” that discusses the relationship between college culture and #METOO.
High-profile college rape cases have made the news over the decades, mostly involving school athletes (sometimes teams) and fraternities accused of assault. In many of these situations, the alleged assaulters receive leniency, while the alleged victims are subject to character assassinations. These are the cases we know about. There are many that we don’t. The culture of rape and how administrations go to great lengths to hide them from public view was highlighted poignantly in the 2015 CNN documentary The Hunting Ground.
Sexual harassment at the hands of peers, professors, and administrators seems to have become par for the college student course, almost like a rite of passage. Perhaps it is, as it initiates students into a world that sees them as prey. The stereotype of the Dirty Old Professor lingers; the old, male professor who takes young ladies under his wing and promises guidance and safety. These days the professor is not always so old and can be male or female, while the victim pool includes young men and women.
I dealt with harassment as a grad student at all the schools I attended, and as a professor. Male students (colleagues really) questioned the legitimacy of my seeking advanced degrees, claiming I was just there to find a husband. My clothing was commented on, my intellect was put down, my ambitions were laughed at, and I was groped by classmates who were supposed to be my equals.
I remember one particularly aggressive male student during my Ph.D. study who took every opportunity to attack me: among other things, he critiqued my clothing in provocative ways, questioned my purpose in school, put me down publically, accused me of sleeping with professors, and once, in a meeting, he announced that he wanted to hear from everyone else in the room except me, as my opinion was not welcome. I told a group of female friends and classmates about the five-year-long harassment and how I dreaded being in the same room as him. They didn’t believe me because he had been nice to them. “He doesn’t do that to me,” one woman told me and suggested that I was making it up or had misread the situation. That’s like saying a man accused of murder can’t be guilty because he didn’t murder everyone he met.
I reported him to a female dean, who promptly ignored me and never responded to my statement. She literally looked away from we, took a breath, and changed the subject. I ended up having to forcefully tell the guy off: first to his face, and then in an email in which I detailed every instance of harassment over the five-year period. I had written everything down as it happened.
Another professor at our school regularly hit on the female grad students and we complained about him several times. Eventually, they did not renew his contract (he didn’t have tenure) because they found examples of financial fraud he had committed over the two years he was there. Either our harassment complaints were noted but not deemed sufficient evidence for firing, or the powers that be didn’t care and found his financial misconduct more egregious.
In this era of #METOO, I can only hope that colleges and universities take the complaints of their students seriously and that they begin to use these examples of misconducts as the reason to terminate professors. I hope, too, that tenure will be granted with the understanding that the commission of sexual violence and harassment by the tenured professor is grounds for immediate termination. Tenure helps keep predators in a habitat that constantly refreshes itself with a new, vulnerable stock on a yearly basis.
If you find yourself as part of the #METOO experience, you are not alone. Study.com has an informative article (Sexual Harassment on Campus) that offers advice on how to handle harassment. Their steps are:
Tell the person to stop.
Document the encounters. (I suggest using a voice recorder on your phone or send yourself an email right away.)
Confront the harasser in a letter (something to keep a paper trail if you end up reporting).
Report the events.
Tell others.
Don’t blame yourself. (This is incredibly important. You didn’t ask for such treatment.)
You can report the incidents to your school’s Title IX office and file a formal complaint against the individual(s) involved. Title IX (a 1972 Education Amendment) prohibits sex discrimination at any college or university that receives federal funding (which includes the majority of institutions).
If your institution is not taking your complaints seriously and all attempts to report the incident(s) go nowhere, and you feel that you have reached the top of the hierarchical pyramid, you can file a complaint directly with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
If you haven’t been subject to assault or harassment, but you know someone who has (and you all do, whether you realize it or not): support that person and be there for them. Don’t dismiss their story because it didn’t happen to you or you didn’t see it happen. Predators count on disbelief to help them hide in plain sight.
If you have been subjected to assault or maltreatment, tell someone and try to remain confident in knowing that you did the right thing.
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Terzic CM, Preston C, Faustino R, Qu W. Terzic C.M., & Preston C, & Faustino R, & Qu W Terzic, Carmen M., et al. (2019). Stem cell research and regenerative medicine. Mitra R. Mitra R(Ed.),Ed. Raj Mitra. Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine. McGraw-Hill. https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2550§ionid=206768191
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Regenerative medicine encompasses all therapeutic approaches to enhance repair processes by replacing or regenerating cells, tissues, or organs to restore health. At its core, outcomes in regenerative medicine are influenced by the genome, the patient, and the cell (Fig. 95–1). Although diverse strategies have been examined, (e.g., stem cells from diverse sources, biomaterials, tissue engineering products, and neo-organogenesis), regenerative medicine is driven by the capacity of stem cells to acquire multiple and discrete fates, a property that can be exploited to repair and/or replace damaged tissue for improved therapeutic and functional outcome.
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Factors of regenerative medicine: The three-body problem of regenerative medicine. The three factors—cell, genome, and patient—influence each other in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. These three separate scientific foci of regenerative medicine must be developed in the context of one another to have meaningful impact. (Reproduced with permission from Tolar J, Osborn M, Daughters R, Banga A, Wagner J. Regenerative Medicine: Multipotential Cell Therapy for Tissue Repair. In: Kaushansky K, Lichtman MA, Prchal JT, Levi MM, Press OW, Burns LJ, Caligiuri M, eds. Williams Hematology, 9e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill;2016.)
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The discovery of cells that exhibited self-renewal and potency was the first identification of a new type of cells: embryonic stem cells.1 However, the earliest conceptual understanding of the “epigenetic landscape” that is the basis for current understanding of stem cell plasticity was suggested in 1957 by CH Waddington.2 Conceptually, Waddington likened embryonic stem cells to a marble sitting at the top of a hill poised to roll down and end up in any number of valleys. From this, it was understood that multiple paths could be taken by an embryonic stem cell to acquire its final phenotype. Although some tissues retain a pool of resident, semi-differentiated stem cells for limited repair and renewal, once an embryonic stem cell is committed to a specific cellular fate, it is considered terminally differentiated and the energy required to push it back up the hill to effect a “reset” is insurmountable (Fig. 95–2).
Classic model of differentiation: Development of various formed elements of the blood from bone marrow cells. Cells below the horizontal line are found in normal peripheral blood. The principal sites of action of erythropoietin (erythro) and the various colony-stimulating factors (CSF) that stimulate the differentiation of the components are indicated. Erythro, erythropoietin; G, granulocyte; IL, interleukin; M, macrophage; SCF, stem cell factor; thrombo, thrombopoietin. (Reproduced with permission from Blood as a Circulatory Fluid & the Dynamics of Blood & Lymph Flow. In: Barrett KE, Barman SM, Boitano S, Brooks HL, eds. Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 25e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill;2017.)
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Phuket, Thailand: Friendship will take a back seat when British International School Phuket (BISP) students Mark Vanchai Luangnitikul and Napat ‘Toy’ Paramacharoenroj face-off in the third edition of the Faldo Series Thailand Championship – South.
Having suffered the disappointment of narrowly missing out on claiming a medal at last month’s Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, Thai national squad member Vanchai will be keen to retain his title in the eighth leg of the 2018-19 Faldo Series Asia season (November 12-13).
For his part, Napat, winner of the 11th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final, is aiming for a second Faldo Series title having triumphed in the inaugural event in 2016 at Laguna Golf Phuket, a Golf Course Facility Member of the Asian Golf Industry Federation.
Although the main attention in the 36-hole event that is being held in conjunction with the Laguna Junior Open and staged in partnership with the BISP will be focused on Vanchai and Napat, Sebastian Sawtell, Conor Kelly and a five-strong Myanmar contingent all have visions of springing an upset.
Sawtell, another talented teenager who attends the BISP, emerged victorious in this year’s Laguna Golf Phuket Club Championship. That success came on the heels of him becoming the youngest winner of the Men’s Championship at Phuket’s Blue Canyon Country Club in 2017.
Bangkok-based Kelly will also be filled with confidence. Third behind Vanchai and Napat in the 2017 Faldo Series Thailand Championship – South, Kelly made global headlines in July when making a hole-in-one and an albatross on consecutive holes in the final round of an American Junior Golf Association tournament.
Last month he was awarded a golfing scholarship at Seattle University, where he will begin next August.
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“With so many outstanding young players in the field next week, it promises to be a thrilling tournament, once more emphasising the tremendous strength in depth that there is in junior golf across Thailand.
“Furthermore, we’re pleased this year to be introducing a grassroots category for children under the age of 12, enabling them to gain valuable golf and life experiences which will benefit them in the future. We again hope to create opportunities for young golfers in Southern Thailand.”
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Baird's Tapir
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As with other tapirs, the short trunk of the Baird's tapir is composed of nose and upper lip. The tapir uses its trunk to pick up grasses, leaves, and fruit and carry them to the mouth.
This elusive creature is an important seed disseminator because it prefers to spit out fruit seeds rather than eat them along with the flesh.
Although it spends most of its time in the water or lying in the mud, the tapir can move quickly and is an excellent swimmer.
The Baird's tapir is easy to track because it often follows previously used paths and it leaves distinctive three-toed tracks (each toe has a broad hoof).
The species was heavily hunted for sport, its meat, and its hide; today it is also threatened by deforestation for agriculture and logging.
Name: Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii)
Family: Tapiridae (Tapirs)
Range: Southern Mexico to northern Colombia
Habitat: Tropical forests, often near streams
Diet: Aquatic vegetation, buds, leaves, shoots and fallen fruit
Head and Body Length: 6.5 to 8 feet (2 to 2.4 m)
Tail Length: 3 to 5 inches (7 to 13 cm)
Shoulder Height: 36 to 47 inches (91 to 120 cm)
Weight: 551 to 661 pounds (250 to 300 kg)
Life Cycle: Mating year-round; gestation 390 to 405 days, one calf (rarely two) born
Description: Dark brown, short, bristly hair; gray-yellow cheeks and throat; white-edged, oval ears; long, narrow mane; small, muscular trunk; short, powerful legs; short, thick tail
Conservation Status: Endangered
Major Threat(s): Habitat loss and degradation; hunting
What Can I Do?: Visit the Tapir Preservation Fund for information on how you can help.
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Media Hogg-tied by a child demogogue
The profane egomaniac whom the left-media are worshiping at the moment, David Hogg, is the poster boy for the ungracious monsters who characterize a portion of Generation Z, those youngsters born from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.
This is the generation that has been the most seriously indoctrinated with leftist ideology rather than actual education. Given that fact, it follows that they are the least knowledgeable about the Constitution, let alone the rest of American history: the Revolutionary War, the Founding, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They do not remember 9/11; they know only its aftermath. They have no memory of what life was like before that day of infamy. An awareness of terrorism is a sad fact of their lives – if not personally, then on the nightly news from around the world. At the same time, we are all instructed to respect Islam and are condemned if we utter the truth that terrorism is an Islamic problem. Young people today are taught to hate Jews and Israel but to love and venerate Muslims. They are taught to hate men, especially white men, and to revere a host of new gender identifications. Like the majority of teachers and professors who have indoctrinated Hogg's generation, Hogg feels justified maligning anyone who disagrees with him. The kid is such a jerk, such a despicable role model, and yet the left media cannot get enough of him.
Who among the Baby Boom generation ever gave a thought to suicide bombers or terrorist plots? Cold War-era air raid drills and earthquake protocols were the only orders of the day. Hogg is a depressing example of what too many of his generation's parents have engendered.
This young man is arrogant, rude, profane, and disrespectful to anyone who takes issue with his anti-gun, anti-NRA point of view. It is of no concern to him that if the armed guard on site had entered the building in which kids were being shot, he might have saved lives. The deputies who arrived within minutes never entered the building, either. They were either cowards or ordered to stand down – probably both. No toxic masculinity on display that day. Sheriff Scott Israel is the Andrew McCabe of Broward County: a political animal interested only in protecting his job. That he is still in office is a travesty. Consider Superintendent Robert Runcie and the ridiculous-on-its-face PROMISE Program, an Obama-prescribed policy responsible for those seventeen deaths. But David Hogg, a mindless tool if there ever was one, blames only the NRA, the pre-eminent gun safety organization in the country.
Despite all this, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS have put him up front as a voice of reason to which the rest of us should pay attention. Meanwhile, contributions to the NRA have spiked. Hogg is the best public relations voice for the NRA to come along in years. But he knows nothing about the Constitution, the Second Amendment, or why the latter is so crucial to the American idea. The kid is like an adolescent Obama: all hat, no cattle. He is full of bluster and fake rage, a self-promoter on steroids. Given his new celebrity, he probably has armed security everywhere he goes to shout at the rest of us about gun control. If it is true that his dad is ex-FBI, you can be sure he grew up with guns in his home and a father trained in the safe use of firearms.
Where are his parents now? Is there no adult in his life who will tell him to stop shrieking like a benighted banshee? Apparently not. Most parents would and should be horrified by a child who is so publicly full of himself, so ungracious, so crude. But he is the person the left loves at the moment. It explains why leftists love Stormy Daniels so much. They have no standards. Hogg is the Adam Schiff of faux outrage. At his core, he is just another shameless self-promoter.
Most parents of a certain age would be paralyzed with humiliation by a child such as David Hogg.
Our culture needs to be fixed. David Hogg is the poster boy for everything wrong with the leftist indoctrination that has characterized parenting and education for the last forty-plus years.
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A Boeing 737 MAX simulator. Credit: Michael Coghlan via Flickr
In wake of MAX, U.S. investigators warn of faulty assumptions in safety assessment process
By Cat Hofacker|September 26, 2019
Testing must gauge pilot responses to flight deck alerts
The barrage of warning lights and tactile feedback in the cockpit of a modern airliner have one purpose: to prompt the pilot to take the correct action to save the plane and its passengers.
That did not happen in the case of the October 2018 Lion Air crash and a similar Ethiopian Airlines accident that followed in March. The two crashes killed 346 people and prompted a worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX. Today, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board published a report recommending that Boeing reassess how it predicts pilot responses to such emergencies, a lesson that might be applied to all U.S. passenger aircraft.
In each crash, the plane’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, anti-stall software pushed the nose of the plane down repeatedly after faulty readings from angle-of-attack sensors on the fuselage incorrectly reported the position of the plane’s wings relative to the air flow, local investigators have said. Along with activating MCAS, the AoA sensors set off a deluge of alerts in the cockpit, including a flashing AoA disagree light and a vibrating stick shaker, the mechanical device inside an aircraft’s control column that warns of an imminent stall.
“Multiple alerts and indications can increase pilots’ workload, and the combination of the alerts and indications did not trigger the accident pilots to immediately perform” the correct procedure for overriding MCAS, according to the report.
In the report, titled “Assumptions Used in the Safety Assessment Process and the Effects of Multiple Alerts and Indications on Pilot Performance,” the NTSB made seven recommendations for revising aircraft system testing to consider how the average pilot might react when software like MCAS puts a plane in danger. These tests, which would “consider the effect of all possible flight deck alerts and indications on pilot recognition and response,” should be conducted on the MAX before it returns to service — something Boeing didn’t do the first time around.
In 2016 simulator tests that emulated an erroneous MCAS activation, Boeing test pilots practiced overriding MCAS, which pushes the nose of the aircraft down by commanding the horizontal stabilizer on the aircraft’s tail to swivel upward. According to the NTSB report, Boeing assumed that “the pilot will take immediate action” to override MCAS by flipping the thumb switches on the control column to pull the nose back up. But in the Lion Air and Ethiopian crashes, “the crews did not react in the ways Boeing and the FAA assumed they would,” said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt in a press release accompanying the report.
In another stark difference to the crashes, the simulator tests did not include flight deck alerts like the vibrating stick shaker and AoA disagree light because the tests focused on “pilot response to uncommanded MCAS operation, regardless of underlying cause,” the report reads.
Expressing concern that “similar assumptions and procedures for their validation” may have been used in certifying software in other passenger aircraft, the NTSB report recommends that the FAA require all aircraft manufacturers to redo all “system safety assessments for which they assumed immediate and appropriate pilot corrective actions.”
As for conflicting cockpit alerts that may distract pilots from taking the correct course of action, the NTSB recommended that the FAA create design standards for “aircraft systems that can more clearly and concisely inform pilots of the highest priority actions” when they receive multiple alerts in the cockpit.
An FAA spokesman said the agency welcomes the NTSB recommendations and will “review these and all other recommendations as we continue our review of the proposed changes to the Boeing 737 MAX.”
As investigations into the crashes continue by the Indonesian and Ethiopian civil aviation authorities, the FAA is conducting its own review of the certification of the MAX. The aircraft will not return to service until the FAA recertifies MCAS, for which Boeing will submit a software update.
But as the grounding continues, pressure is growing on the FAA and Boeing to recertify the entire 737 MAX design, which would trigger a more extensive review process that includes examining the plane’s entire design and conducting additional ground and flight tests. The MAX’s original certification in 2017 took about five years.
While U.S. lawmakers have stopped short of advocating for a total recertification, members of the House Transportation Committee’s aviation subcommittee have held a series of hearings on the MAX to examine the original certification process.
“The process that was used to certify this aircraft will not in any way be used to unground this aircraft,” said the top Republican on the panel, Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, during a July hearing.
For now, hundreds of MAX jets around the world remain grounded, with no firm date for return to service.
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Bob Lamb Will Staff Popular Quick Collection Evaluation Program At Suburban Chicago Show In August
There will be an edition of the "Stamp In The Attic" program at AMERICOVER 2010, the American First Day Cover Society's annual show and convention, held this year in Oak Brook, Ill., August 6-8.
Bob Lamb, former executive director of the American Philatelic Society, will staff the booth, where people who have inherited or found collections can bring them for a quick evaluation, and possible referral to one of the dealers at the show. The booth will be sponsored by the National Stamp Dealers Association. There is no charge for the service, and both stamps and covers, as well as first day covers, will be evaluated.
"Every time I've been at a show that has a Stamps In The Attic booth, it's been very popular," said Lloyd A. de Vries, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AFDCS. "It's really a service to the community, and it’s good for the dealers at the show, too."
Lamb, who evaluates hundreds of collections a year, said that "most of the collections I see were put together by beginners. But at every show someone will bring in a collection which will knock your socks off."
Sometimes the owners have no idea what they have. Lamb estimates that over half of the collections he sees have commercial value and often can be sold to dealers at the show. "Chicago is a good collecting area and I expect to see some very good material there," Lamb added.
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Mary Aldridge is New Lifeboat Operations Manager at Wicklow RNLI
Wicklow RNLI lifeboat Station is pleased to announce that Mary Aldridge has taken on the volunteer role of Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM) following the recent retirement of Des Davitt.
As Lifeboat Operations Manager Mary will now be responsible for managing all operational activities at the RNLI station, as well as authorising the launch of the lifeboats.
Mary Aldridge joined Wicklow lifeboat Station as a volunteer Deputy Launching Authority four years ago. With a keen interest in aquatic sports and surf lifesaving, Mary was always interested in volunteering with the Lifeboat over the years.
As a member of An Garda Siochana for over 30 years, Mary was transferred to Wicklow from Dublin in 2007, and was the Inspector in Wicklow District until she retired in 2014.
During that time, as part of her garda role and responsibilities, she worked as Liaison Inspector for County Wicklow for Major Emergency Management. It was in this capacity that she got to know many of the crew at Wicklow Lifeboat Station and the other Emergency “Blue Light” Services.
Mary also has International experience as she served with the United Nations Civilian Police with the United Nations in Former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) for 12 months during the Balkan conflict in 1993/1994.
Mary is living in Wicklow for the past 20 years and is an avid sea swimmer. She regularly competes in Open Water competitions in the Leinster Open Sea Series and with Wicklow SC. She is a former Secretary and Vice Chairperson of Wicklow Swimming Club.
Speaking about her new volunteer appointment, Mary said: “I am really looking forward to my new role as Lifeboat Operations Manager at Wicklow Lifeboat Station. I have big shoes to fill in replacing Des Davitt. I wish Des and Angela all the best and an enjoyable retirement.
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‘Angelus’ Trawler Also Appears On Pierside Gallery
As reported previously on Afloat.ie the Bridget Carmel (WD-39) which was in a collision with the tanker Ocean Lady off Anglesey on Monday, not only appears occasionally in RTE's Angelus but also as a mural in Wicklow Port, writes Jehan Ashmore.
The 24m long green-hulled Wexford registered trawler, with a crew of three was escorted by the Wicklow lifeboat and safely secured alongside the ports East pier where she is superbly depicted at the same location. She is one of over a dozen vessels painted in great skill across an uneven surface along the pier's promenade wall and the work of local postman and shipping enthusiast Pat Davis.
Apart from the mural of the trawler (click HERE) there are a wide variety of vessels represented from general cargo-ships and the inclusion of STV Asgard II and the World's last ocean-going paddle-steamer P.S. Waverley. These vessels have too berthed alongside the adorned eastern breakwater where spectators flock to see the start of the biennial Round Ireland Yacht Race which was held last year.
The photo of the trawler was taken on a previous call at the Packet Quay, Wicklow and not Arklow as stated. The Packet Pier is the most used commercial quay in the Co. Wicklow port, where timber and scrap-metal cargoes are relatively common. For example the Arklow Rebel which loaded scrap-metal bound for Liverpool, to read more click HERE.
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Marine Wildlife Around Ireland One of the greatest memories of any day spent boating around the Irish coast is an encounter with marine wildlife. It's a thrill for young and old to witness seabirds, seals, dolphins and whales right there in their own habitat. As boaters fortunate enough to have experienced it will testify even spotting a distant dorsal fin can be the highlight of any day afloat. Was that a porpoise? Was it a whale? No matter how brief the glimpse it's a privilege to share the seas with Irish marine wildlife.
Thanks to the location of our beautiful little island, perched in the North Atlantic Ocean there appears to be no shortage of marine life to observe.
From whales to dolphins, seals, sharks and other ocean animals this page documents the most interesting accounts of marine wildlife around our shores. We're keen to receive your observations, your photos, links and youtube clips.
Boaters have a unique perspective and all those who go afloat, from inshore kayaking to offshore yacht racing that what they encounter can be of real value to specialist organisations such as the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) who compile a list of sightings and strandings. The IWDG knowledge base has increased over the past 21 years thanks in part at least to the observations of sailors, anglers, kayakers and boaters.
Thanks to the IWDG work we now know we share the seas with dozens of species who also call Ireland home. Here's the current list: Atlantic white-sided dolphin, beluga whale, blue whale, bottlenose dolphin, common dolphin, Cuvier's beaked whale, false killer whale, fin whale, Gervais' beaked whale, harbour porpoise, humpback whale, killer whale, minke whale, northern bottlenose whale, northern right whale, pilot whale, pygmy sperm whale, Risso's dolphin, sei whale, Sowerby's beaked whale, sperm whale, striped dolphin, True's beaked whale and white-beaked dolphin.
But as impressive as the species list is the IWDG believe there are still gaps in our knowledge. Next time you are out on the ocean waves keep a sharp look out!
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YPSILANTI, Mich. -- — Lew Nichols III had two fourth-quarter touchdown runs and finished with a career-high 196 yards rushing, and Central Michigan scored 25 points in the final quarter to beat Eastern Michigan 31-23 on Friday night.
Nichols scored from the 9 and 1 to cap long drives, and Marshall Meeder made a 21-yard field goal with 2:31 to play to give Central Michigan (3-1, 3-1 Mid-American Conference) a 24-23 lead.
Devonni Reed intercepted a Preston Hutchinson tipped pass on Eastern Michigan's (0-4, 0-4) next possession. Kobe Lewis scored on a 9-yard touchdown run three plays later for the Chippewas with 1:43 remaining.
Nichols had 29 carries and Lewis added 106 yards rushing on 18 carries. Meeder kicked field goals from the 51 and 29 in the first quarter.
Hutchinson was 23 of 37 for 365 yards passing, threw three interceptions and added 57 yards on the ground. Hutchinson had a 3-yard touchdown run in the first quarter and broke loose for a 20-yard TD run midway through the second.
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Duke athletic director Kevin White is stepping down in August. The current longest-serving AD in the ACC will leave after 13 years at the school.
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The Trump administration is poised to roll back rules on release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas estimated to be 25 more potent than carbon dioxide and which accounts for about 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
The weaker Trump rule, expected no later than Friday, would replace a tougher standard set by his predecessor’s EPA, according to the New York Times.
The new rules would eliminate requirements that oil and gas producers have systems and procedures to detect methane leaks in their systems, according to the WSJ:
The rule changes will apply to wells drilled since 2016 and going forward, and remove the largest pipelines, storage sites and other parts of the transmission system from EPA oversight of smog and greenhouse-gas emissions. The changes also ease reporting requirements for the industry and, for some facilities, how often a plant must check for leaks of other pollutants, the officials said.
The new rules, expected to be signed and issued this week, adopt most of the core elements of two proposals from 2018 and 2019. Agency officials are fulfilling a directive by President Trump to ease regulations on U.S. energy producers, and have said the rules being eliminated are duplicative of other federal and state rules.
They were adopted in 2016 under former President Obama amid concerns about methane-gas leaks contributing to climate change.
Most of US emissions arise from the oil and gas industry, a situation that predates the shale oil boom (and now, subsequent bust).
The 2016 rule was in part a response to the surge in natural gas production, according to the WSJ:
As the drilling boom sent natural-gas production surging, the EPA responded in 2016 with requirements for companies to make plans for reducing emissions at new wells and the pipelines they feed. That included regular checks to close leaky valves, pipelines and tanks in the sprawling network covering millions of miles that supplies home furnaces, power plants, industrial sites and other consumers.
The Trump administration never seems to have met a fossil fuel regulation it didn’t try to circumvent, eliminate, or weaken. And Trump seeks to roll back every element that he can of his predecessor’s climate change policy – weak and over-rated as it may be – and of course, in many instances goaded, aided, and abetted by at least some of the producers in the fossil fuel industry.
Status Under the Congressional Review Act (CRA)
First up, a short aside on abbreviations: the earlier and still-valid use of CRA is as an abbreviation for the Community Reinvestment Act (1977 ), but the same three letters also stand for the Congressional Review Act (1996). I will use CRA in this post only to refer to the 1996 statute, the Congressional Review Act.
The question then arises: what would be its status under the CRA? Readers might recall that the Trump administration used this statute aggressively and effectively during the initial days of his administration this statute multiple times to roll back “midnight rules” enacted by his predecessor that had not met the deadline for being invulnerable to CRA review. The statue allows for a simple majority vote, in both houses of Congress, not subject to normal Senate procedures such as the filibuster, and a Presidential signature, to overturn any rule passed within 60 session days of the seating of a new Congress (see Trump and Congress Use Congressional Review Act to Roll Back 14 ‘Midnight’ Rules; More to Follow?).
The CRA was invoked in many areas, as I wrote at the time. most significantly, to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Board’s (CFPB) mandatory arbitration ban, and rules on abortion, environmental protection, government procurement, gun control, and land use.
CRA is a one-way deregulatory ratchet, and rules overturned under its auspices may not be easily revisited by the incoming administration. Many legal issues related to the CRA scope of the are unresolved, however. Although the statute dates to 1996, and was part of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, it had only been used once before Trump, by the George W. Bush administration to rescind a workplace ergonomics rule promulgated during the Clinton administration.
The Congressional Research Service determines what date the CRA deadline kicks in. It can move to later in the year Congress add is more days to its legislative session.
What is now certain is that the 60-session days deadline has already passed, regardless of what day the actual deadline attached.
Now, just as with its overhaul a few weeks ago of the Nixon-era National Environmental Policy Act, applying to highway, pipeline, and power plant construction, among other issues, rescinded a requirement that policymakers consider climate change when making a decision, this latest Trump methane action is not insulated from CRA review.
Confusion arises, however, as to whether an incoming non-Trump administration, even if supported by Congressional majorities, would choose to use the CRA -as it might limit further freedom of action to institute rules in the same policy area.
Given that the Trump administration was the first to use the statute aggressively, the limitts of its preclusive effect are not yet defined by judicial decisions.
Big Producers Favour the Tighter Rule?
This change would occur despite the backing by the largest oil and gas industry for the tighter Obama-era methane rule. Small and medium producers argue that production is uneconomic, with the rule in place, but larger producers actually supported retaining the tougher rule, according to the WSJ:
Rescinding these requirements was a priority for small-and midsized oil-and-gas producers, which say the requirements were so costly to meet that it would be unprofitable to drill in some places.
But larger producers, including international giants Exxon MobilCorp., Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BP PLC, favored retaining the rules, saying a lack of climate regulation undermines their promise that the U.S. natural gas they sell is a cleaner source of energy.
The NYT makes a similar point:
Oil and gas companies have had mixed responses to the rollback. Some major companies have spoken out against the weakening of methane regulations — joining some automakers, electric utilitiesand other industrial giants that have opposed other administration initiatives to dismantle climate change and environmental rules.
But smaller, independent oil companies are expected to applaud the rule as a welcome measure of relief when many are struggling to stay afloat.
Yet the Times goes further and suggests that the largest oil and gas producers would opt to strengthen rather than weaken the methane rule:
Several of the biggest oil and gas companies have called on the Trump administration to tighten restrictions on methane, not loosen them. Larger energy companies have invested millions of dollars to promote natural gas as a cleaner option than coal in the nation’s power plants, because natural gas produces about half as much carbon dioxide when burned. They fear that unrestricted leaks of methane could undermine that marketing message and hurt demand.
In a 2019 public comment on a draft of the rule, Joe Ellis, a vice president at BP, urged the E.P.A. “to continue to regulate methane emissions from new sources and to adopt a rule for existing sources. E.P.A. regulation of methane across the value chain is the right thing to do for the environment, will support consistent regulation across the U.S. and can be cost-effectively achieved with new technology.”
Exxon urged the E.P.A. in 2018 to maintain core elements of the Obama administration’s policy. Gretchen Watkins, the United States chairwoman for Shell, which has urged the Trump administration to regulate methane emissions, said, “The negative impacts of methane have been widely acknowledged for years, so it’s frustrating and disappointing to see the administration go in a different direction.”
This situation reminds me of the Trump machinations over fuel economy standards, where the new administration weakened the standards, and then initially pursued some auto manufacturers on antitrust grounds for “voluntarily” negotiating with California to back the higher standard. California enjoys a special role under the Clean Air Act for setting emissions standards, and auto manufacturers have accepted California’s role in de facto setting the floor for national emissions standards, as they don’t want to produce two product lines: a tougher one that meets California standards, and another for at least some of the rest of the country.
Moreover, as many of these producers had long ago started to take steps to comply with the tighter standards, they did not want to see Trump subsequently weaken them, as now that they had made substantial nvestments to comply, they wanted the tougher standards to stand as a potential barrier to entry to other automakers (see Trump Drops Antitrust Probe of Four Automakers Which Adopted Tougher Cal Tailpipe Emissions Standards).
I should also mention it’s not just some of the largest oil and gas companies, but some of the environmental groups they have converted also emphasize the industry benefits that would follow a tougher methane standard; again, according to the NYT::
The Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit that has often collaborated with major oil companies on reducing methane emissions, warned that the rule changes would create a risk for U.S. gas sales into Europe, which is moving to tighten laws on greenhouse-gas emissions.
“The Trump EPA’s methane rollbacks aren’t just bad climate policy, they’re a competitive disadvantage for American gas in a world demanding cleaner energy,” said Ben Ratner, a senior director at the fund who works with companies on methane reduction. “For EPA to wipe out methane regulation makes a risky situation even worse for U.S. companies counting on exports.”
The methane rule is only the latest gift the Trump administration is attempting to bestow on some oil and gas producers. It joins a long litany of environmental deregulation, which continues apace despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Just some recent examples, according to the NYT:
In April, the E.P.A. weakened rules on the release of toxic chemicals from coal-fired power plants, loosened curbs on climate-warming tailpipe pollution and opted not to strengthen a regulation on industrial soot emissions that have been linked to respiratory diseases, including Covid-19.
The methane rule would likely be the subject of a successful CRA challenge, if Democrats can sweep both the White House and both houses of Congress in November. Yet exactly how successful CRA action might constrain their own subsequent climate change policymaking, particularly with respect to methane, might raise some novel legal issues, however, as the legal limits of the CRA’s preclusive effect have yet to be plumbed.
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How far is the road to Rome, or even Virunum?
Roman horseman (Author photo of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline)
Travelling in the ancient world was different, fundamentally different. Young (and not so young) men were by far the most mobile in the Ancient Rome over the whole period whether you count it to AD 476 (west) or 1453 (east) because they fought in armies. Next came the administrators, posted in a similar way to the military, to freeze their extremities off in Germania or Britannia for boil their brains in the provinces of Syria or Egypt. Both would be served by official couriers, messengers and supply chains speeding along the famous Roman roads serviced by way stations with basic personal resupply and accommodation facilities (mansiones).
Merchants, of course, were very familiar with trade routes; the same ones were used for hundreds of years. Wealthier individuals made journeys for education and recreation and their households (free or slave) went with them.
Roman travelling coach carpentum (reconstruction), in the Römsich-Germanischen Museum in Cologne, Germany
Travel could be on horseback, ox cart, litters, travelling coaches, ship, barge, mules or Shanks’s pony (on foot). Soldiers just yomped with baggage trains trailing behind them, although to keep these baggage trains from becoming too large, in 107 BC General Gaius Marius made each man carry his own armour, weapons, personal equipment and 15 days’ rations, about 50–60 pounds (22.5–27 kg) in total.
Legionaries were issued with a forked stick to carry their load on their shoulders and were nicknamed Marius’ Mules (muli mariani in Latin) due to the amount of gear they had to carry themselves.
Officers like my tribune Lucius Apulius in ‘The Girl from the Market’ would have ridden a horse, had a servant riding a mule and made use of the mansiones if travelling away from his unit or between postings. At a fort, they would be lodged with other officers and even dine with the commander. Which is what happens to Apulius on his long journey from Britannia to Virunum in Roman Noricum (approximately modern Austria). But he was rained on and hated sleet and snow like any other serving soldier and was pleased to be wearing his paenula scortea, leather poncho as he rode along.
So what route did Apulius take in AD 370?
Firstly, he took a ship (military transport) across the Oeanus Britannicus from Dubris to Bononia (called Gesoriacum until the end of the third century), then on to Durocortorum (Rheims) and Vesontio (Besançon) on horseback. Apart from his own horse and the mule his servant rode, Apulius hired a travelling cart with driver and relief driver for his belongings and equipment.
Then it started to get sticky…
Apulius’s journey (Original map www.euratlas.com)
The Roman Empire’s effective northern border (limes) in AD 370 ran along the line of the the Rhine and Danube rivers. Today, the passage along the upper Rhine valley via Basel is an important transalpine route with a multi-lane motorway and railway line; in Apulius’s time it was a vital axis between Gaul and the East. If control of that passage was lost, the empire would be split in two.
The city of Augusta Raurica to the east of today’s Basel was a prosperous trading town whose innkeepers and traders probably made a tidy profit from passing trade. However, about AD 300, following the loss of the right bank of the Rhine, the Roman army built a fort nearby called Castrum Rauracense. During the 4th century, it grew in strategic importance; emperors Constantius II and Julian assembled their armies at the Castrum Rauracense before marching to battle against the Alemanni, the ‘barbarians’ to the north. Given its physical vulnerability after its sacking by the Alemanni in 260 AD, Augusta Raurica was resettled on a much smaller scale on the site of the castrum (modern Kaiseraugst).
Augusta Raurica (Kaiseraugst, Google Maps extract)
Here, Apulius was forced to change to mule trains and military escort. By 370 AD, slow moving carts and sole travellers (servants not counted) would have been easy pickings for any raiding parties. But the route was still relatively safe to Brigantium (Bregenz) where a Roman fleet was based to patrol Lake Constance. Not the easiest command with the ferocious Alemanni across the water, just waiting…
For the next stage, he needed a larger escort as he was crossing an open frontier zone where the risk of conflict with Alemanni war parties was almost inevitable, but once in Cambodumum (Kempten), he was back in Roman territory and relative safety on his way to Iuvavum (Salzburg) and Virunum, his posting in Noricum.
Conveying belongings is easy for us today; we chuck them in the car, or a strong suitcase, a high tech backpack with Wi-Fi connectivity and take a plane or train. Luggage in Apulius’s time was roped packs, panniers on mules, wooden chests on carriages or wagons, none of which was guaranteed waterproof unless covered by leather. (My sincere thanks to fellow scribe Ruth Downie for sending me copies from Lionel Casson’s ‘Travel in the Ancient World’ and Ann Hyland’s ‘Equus: the Horse in the Roman World’ to clarify this.)
And time, it took time. Using Stanford University’s ORBIS and the Italian https://omnesviae.org, I calculated the journey time by each form of transport, double checking distances and physical landscape. And the more obvious routes in the area were starting to be inaccessible, not only from the weather, but as the empire literally lost ground. Apulius took about six weeks altogether.
Virunum today (Photo: Wikipedia)
Today, to get to Maria Saal (nearest place to the site of Virunum), you can hop on a plane to Vienna, then one to Klagenfurt, hire a car and be there the same day seeing the same mountains Apulius would have seen. He may even have watched games in the amphitheatre being excavated in the photo above.
You can read about more Apulius’s journey and what happened to him in this backwater posting in ‘The Girl from the Market’ in ROMA NOVA EXTRA.
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4 comments to How far is the road to Rome, or even Virunum?
Pamela Allegretto
21 October 2018 at 18:52 · Reply
Fascinating information. Thank you!
My pleasure, Pamela. A very interesting one to research and one involving a whole mind-shift from the 21st century.
Really interesting. It’s mind boggling to think of lugging all that stuff on long marches – gosh, those Ancient Romans were tough!
Weren’t they just! Mind you, a modern infantry soldier carries a fairly hefty load. In Aghanistan, a load over 100lbs was not uncommon.
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I got an unexpected email a couple of weeks from an artist who wanted her new project covered. The EP is called 22, and just a short few months I covered a short film, that she was a part of “The Word of The Day: TRIANGULATE A Short Film by Pattern Nation”. All the way from Johannesburg, Lex LaFoy, a female emcee who has been doing it for 15 years and counting, gave me a taste of what’s going on South of the African Continent. Boy, were we glad she reach out to us, as I explored her new project, 6 tracks produced by the Congolese/Joburg producer and artist Marco Benz, I got a sense of a voice that leaned towards empowerment and I wanted to learn more.
1)Tell us who Lex LaFoy is?
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Born Ash-Leigh La Foy, I started freestyling songs as a child. The moment I became literate I started writing songs, poems and stories. In school I had a singing group I’d write songs for and arrange performances we’d do in assembly and at functions. In 2004 while doing my final year at high school, I discovered the wider Hip Hop community in my beautiful coastal city, Durban. This opened an entire new world to me. Finding other creatives who rap, breakdance, spray-paint and beatbox. From 2005-2013, I performed under the moniker Lexikon. After high school I studied at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal doing a Social Degree majoring in Psychology and Philosophy. It was in this environment my love for learning and language expanded. A lot of the content I wrote on reflected my immersement in academics, consciousness and spirituality. In 2012 I relocated to Johannesburg, known as the New York of South Africa. Creatively I yearned for newness and growth, so I changed my name to Lex LaFoy. Having shortened Lexikon, and added my surname. Lex LaFoy is a true South African, reflective of our rich diversity. My father is of Xhosa and Dutch heritage, while my mom is of Cantonese and St Helenian heritage.
2) You’ve mentioned you started becoming known as a rapper and slam poetry artist in 2004. What made you start your career in Hip Hop? Is there a big Hip Hop/Poetry scene in Durban?
LaFoy: I’m a born writer with a love for music and performance. I respect my craft as a gift, knowing I wasn’t taught this gift but am born with it. Having written from the moment I became literate, I had no idea there was an entire industry and culture called Hip Hop. It was only when I grew older and fell in love with rappers like Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Goddessa and others that I began to see a place for this craft I love so much. Durban is one of three major cities in South Africa. We’re on the East Coast. Although our industry isn’t as developed as cosmopolitan Johannesburg, my city is known for giving the world some of the best talent. Artists like Nasty C, Babes Wodumo, Busiswa and OkMalumKoolKat are proof of the creative genius my coastal city represents.
Photo by Sea Green Photography
3) With your music and sound, there is a strong and empowered voice. How do you think it serves in your community and you as an artist?
LaFoy: As a young South African woman, I stand to empower my people through representing a freedom of Self. Although Apartheid technically ended in 1994, we South Africans are left to resolve and heal from the psychological trauma the previous regime was designed to create. As people of colour, our parents and grandparents were raised in an oppressive system that not only made it illegal to flourish and go where they want, do what they want and be who they want. The system instilled a mental form of oppression, that left us feeling inferior according to our skin colour. I want people to see me and know that we are great beyond our skin colour. That race doesn’t predetermine intelligence. That background doesn’t predetermine ability. I stand to empower the dreamers, the Indigo kids, the lovers and the spiritual. I want people to see me and know it’s ok to be a combination of elements and still feel whole. To be enlightened and light. To be informed and happy. Consciousness doesn’t necessarily equate to heaviness. I want to encourage people to break free from meaningless culture and false beliefs. I want people to be free to be themselves. To love themselves. To take charge of their minds and thoughts and only give their energy to that which serves them along their journey to Self-Actualization.
4) Amazing you got to travel with the All-Female Purple Velvet Tour, and performed in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. What is the one thing you got from that experience and brought back home with you to South Africa?
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LaFoy: I came back mad inspired to do the same in my country. To push for females in music in South Africa too. Having been independent for so long, being on tour with a team gave me a sense of what having a team feels like. I’ve since started working more with my closest artist friends, who are sisters to me, not just colleagues. I like having a tight circle of people who share the same values. People I can grow with.
5) Your project “22” has a great mix of melodies and has a nice touch of RnB. What was your focus creating it and what would you like your listeners to get from it?
LaFoy: Honestly, I had just released my debut album “Honey Bass” a few months before, and wasn’t even looking to start something new. I had moved back home for the release, to spend time re-centering myself. Grounding myself. Remembering my intention in music and learning focus. I had formed a DJ collective and was working on a men’s health project with the NGO I work with called Show Me Your Number. Having started learning how to DJ, I began listening to more music, looking for stuff to play I came across some new wave RnB Soul. Artists like Myles Cameron helped me enter a space where I received music as a listener again and not just a creator. In the music I started enjoying and playing, it was a certain feeling I was chasing. I started understanding what Kanye meant by “I want all the rain, I want all the pain”. As an emotional being, I realized that I love to feel and I love music that makes me feel. Almost Emo. But not. I discovered a love for emotion itself and wanted to make music that moved me. I was up
in Joburg for a meeting when in a divinely aligned moment, I met Marco Benz – a young Congolese graphic design student, model and producer. The day I met him and walked into the studio, he was playing the exact sound I wanted. We created the song Trust (Track 1 on 22) and I asked if I could do an entire EP. He sent me links to his beat drive and we spent the rest of the time working correspondence between Durban and Joburg. If anything, I want my listeners to simply feel when listening to 22. We’ve got so much reprogramming to do regarding the value of emotions. I created a project that healed me amidst all the challenges I was facing at the time. So I hope it can heal others. Knowing it’s ok to be vulnerable. It’s ok to know your
needs and voice them. It’s ok to let go. It’s ok to change your mind and it’s ok to be true to one’s Self.
Me: Amen to that! Yes we are so mislead by our view of our emotions and we have to relearn what they mean more so for ourselves!
6) What is next on the horizon for Lex LaFoy?
LaFoy: We’re halfway on a collab project with three other amazing South African artists- Otarel, InspektahGadget and Reverb360. The project is called The In Laws and it’s just got hit after hit. I’m releasing a video for “Good Good” as well as a couple of other really dope singles and collabs this year. I’ve started focusing more on my company Heartistree Productions too. It’s the entity through which I release my music. I’m also working on attracting my first manager. Having been independent for 15 years (doing the work of an entire team), I need someone to help promote me while I get to practice a healthy work-life balance. Being a mom to my 11 year old daughter is beautiful. I just want to be able to spend more time with her.
Yes! We wish you the best on your endeavors, and what you are asking for. Support to our independent artists is so essential.
Take a listen to the new project, 22 here on Spotify. Feel free to listen to Lex LaFoy’s discography. You won’t be disappointed!
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Increase in Retirement age to 65 for Doctors of OFB
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Enhance the retirement age of OFB Doctors to 65 yrs with effect from 31.05.2016 – BPMS
Enhancement in the age of superannuation of Doctors of Ordnance Factory Board (Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence)
Dated: 18.09.2016
Dr. Jitendra Singh,
Minister of State, Government of India,
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension,
North Block, New Delhi – 110001
Subject: Enhancement in the age of superannuation of Doctors of Ord Fy Board (Department of Defence Production, Min of Def).
With due regards, your attention is invited to the speech of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Sri Narendra Modi which he delivered on 26th May, 2016 in Saharanpur (U.P.) in a rally to observe the second anniversary of his Government, which was as under:
“There is a shortage of doctors. In government hospitals, their retirement is 60 years in some states, 62 in some others.
If adequate number of medical institutes were there, then we would have more doctors and would not feel the shortage.
It is difficult to make doctors in two years but poor families cannot be forced to live without doctors.
“Therefore from Uttar Pradesh, I want to announce this to my countrymen that this week our government’s Cabinet will take a decision within a week and the retirement age of our doctors, whether in states or Government of India, would be made 65 years instead of 60 or 62.”
Honouring the promise of Prime Minister, the Department of Personnel & Training, MoP, PG & P, GOI issued Notification (GSR No. 567-E, Dated 31.05.2016) for amendment in FR 56 (bb) whereby the age of superannuation in respect of General Duty Medical Officers and Specialists included in Teaching, Non-Teaching and Public Health Sub-cadres of Centre Health Service has been enhanced to 65 yrs.
Considering the huge shortage of Specialists (75%) & GDMOs (25%) in Indian Ordnance & Ordnance Equipment Factories (Department of Defence Production, Min of Defence) this issue was brought to notice of Hon’ble Defence Minister, Shri Manohar Parrikar by this federation and requested him to take appropriate action to enhance the retirement age of IOFHS Cadre.
In turn Hon’ble Defence Minister assured for extension of coverage of FR 56(bb) in favour of IOFHS Cadre forthwith. Thereafter, in the month of August, 2016 MoD has sent a proposal to DoP&T for necessary approval / action and to expedite that the Secretary, Department of Defence Production also wrote a ‘DO Letter’ to Secretary, DoP&T to expedite the matter but the file is moving from one Ministry / Department to another.
It is worth to mention here that Min of Railways, Home Affairs, Municipality Corporation of Delhi etc. have already enhanced the superannuation age of their Doctors and meanwhile Min of Health & Family Welfare has clarified vide F.No. Z.16024/11/2016-CHS.V Dated 30.08.2016 that Departments / Ministries may take decision, with the approval of their respective competent authorities on the enhancement of the age of superannuation of doctors.
Now the time has come for Bureaucratic System to respect, accept & adopt the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s ‘3 S’ – Speed, Skill & Scale to resolve the issues of Government Employees.
Therefore, you are requested to issue necessary directives to the concerned authorities to extend the provisions of FR 56(bb) in respect of all the doctors of OFB so that the organization as well as the incumbents may also be benefitted with enhanced age of superannuation of 65 yrs with effect from 31.05.2016.
(M P SINGH)
Shri Manohar Parrikar ji,
Union Minister for Defence,
Government of India,
South Block, DHQ PO,
With due regards, your attention is invited to this federation’s letter of even no. dated 30.07.2016 whereby it has been requested to your good self to enhance the age of superannuation of Doctors of Ordnance Factories and during your visit at the residence of Sri Rakesh Singh, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Jabalpur (M.P.) you have kindly assured this Federation BPMS to resolve the issue without further delay.
Thereupon, for extension of coverage of FR 56(bb) in favour of IOFHS Cadre, in the month of August, 2016 MoD has sent a proposal to DoP&T for necessary approval / action and to expedite it, the Secretary, Department of Defence Production also wrote a ‘DO Letter’ to Secretary, DoP&T to expedite the matter but the file is moving from one Ministry / Department to another.
Meanwhile Min of Health & Family Welfare has clarified vide F.No. Z.16024/11/2016- CHS.V Dated 30.08.2016 that Departments / Ministries may take decision, with the approval of their respective competent authorities on the enhancement of the age of superannuation of doctors.
In such circumstances, being the competent authority of Min of Defence, you are requested to approve the proposal of enhancement of superannuation of doctors of OFB without obtaining the permission of DoP&T as the other Ministries like MHA, Railways etc. have already done.
Source: BPMS
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3. What is the difference between electrical and electronic engineers?
Electrical engineering is comparatively one of the newer branches of engineering, and dates back to the late 19th century. It is that branch of engineering that deals with the technology of electricity, electronic components and electromagnetism. Electrical engineers work on a wide range of components, devices and systems, from tiny microchips to huge power station generators.
The interest in this branch usually develops from an interest of dealing with different electric circuits and components. From resistors to transformers, this branch of engineering is the root to most of the electric appliances at home and the many complicated components at an electric power station!
Early experiments with electricity included primitive batteries and static charges. However, the actual design, construction and manufacturing of useful devices and systems started with the implementation of Michael Faraday?s Law of Induction, which essentially states that the voltage in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change in the magnetic field through the circuit.
Some of the most famous personalities in electrical engineering include Thomas Edison known for the invention of the electric light bulb, George Westinghouse known for the invention of alternating current, Nikola Tesla known for the invention for a simple induction motor, Guglielmo Marconi kwon for the invention of radio and Philo T. Farnsworth known for the invention of a television. These devices, which are so common in the daily usage of a human being were initially developed with one itself.
2.What does an electrical engineer do?
Merging with the beautiful concepts of physics, mathematics and electronics theory, an electrical engineer is usually the one who develops, designs, and manages the simple electronic appliances and circuits.
?Electronics engineers design and develop electronic equipment, such as broadcast and communications systems ? from portable music players to global positioning systems (GPS).? states the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The world?s first heat driven transistor ? A logic circuit that is controlled by heat signal instead of an electrical signal.
Electrical engineering is the branch of engineering which gives a full fledged overview of everything which involves the concept of electricity. This branch is spread over topics like
Voltage and Current
High frequency circuits
Digital and Analog Circuits
Medicated technology
Measurement and control
Power and Energy Systems
Control Systems and many more?.
Electronic engineering is the branch which conceptualizes the working of these circuits. In simple words, one can say that Electronics is a subset of the Electrical part.
Electronics basically is more or less about transistors, diodes and similar components, arranged or kept in miniaturized integrated circuits and alike. Electronics is boxed till the applications of simple devices on a circuit board. Anything and everything you find in a computer, some component of a car and even a smartphone! Here, the voltage in most cases is limited to the extent of 5V, with low current.
4. Career Options
Broadcast Engineer ? Broadcast engineers, also known as broadcast engineering technicians, are the individuals responsible for setting up and operating video and audio equipment for television or radio broadcasts.
Circuit designer ? Mainly does the job of working out the physical form that an electronic circuit will take. Gives an leveled view of the electrical design of the construction of physical circuit.
Communications engineer ? A communications engineer is responsible for the research, design, development and production of communications equipment/systems. Communications engineering encompasses modes of communication such as satellites, radio, internet and broadband technologies and wireless telephone services.
Consumer Advocate ? a person whose job is to protect the rights of customers, for example by giving advice, testing products, or trying to improve laws relating to the sale of goods
Design Engineer ? A design engineer is a general term that covers multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical etc. Basically works on the designing end in any given discipline from the overview layout till the complete product.
Distribution Planning engineer ? The job here mainly is about the electrical planning and layout of the distribution of power to any given centre or commanding location.
Drafting technician ? Although it is known to be a field in civil engineering, electrical engineers too are into this while drafting the electrical side of any thing, Yes, any appliance.
Hardware Engineer ? Hardware engineers research, design, develop, and test electrical systems and components such as processors, circuit boards, memory devices, networks, and routers.
Helicopter Pilot ? The name says it all. Electrical Engineers can become helicopter pilots!
Military engineer ? The job description here involves the electrical communication part in the military services.
Network Engineer ? A network engineer, also known as network architect, designs and implements electrical networks. Unlike network administrators, the network engineer focuses on high-level design and planning.
Nuclear Engineer ? Nuclear engineers design the equipment and create the operating procedures used in nuclear power plants. Many also operate the machinery that monitors nuclear power and find methods to safely handle and dispose of nuclear waste.
Patent Agent ? A person who is qualified to prosecute patents (i.e. drafting and filing a patent application) is known as a patent agent. Given the fact the drafting a patent requires specific technical as well as legal knowledge, only a person qualified in both domains will be able to fulfill the obligations of patent prosecution.
Product Development Engineer ? The primary responsibility of development engineers is to create a product design that fulfills a company?s or client?s strategic goals while integrating the needs of marketing, sales and manufacturing departments. They oversee research and design teams, lead testing procedures and draft specifications for manufacturing.
Product Manager ? The product manager is often considered the CEO of the product and is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for that product or product line. The position may also include marketing, forecasting, and profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities.
Project Engineer ? The project engineer is also often the primary technical point of contact for the consumer. A project engineer?s responsibilities include schedule preparation, pre-planning and resource forecasting for engineering and other technical activities relating to the project.
Public Utility consultant ? As the name suggests, this career option is all about giving consultancy to either firms or some entity, in regard to the required info required.
Research Engineer ? Research Engineers apply their expertise and knowledge to technical projects, finding innovative, cost-effective means to improve research, techniques, procedures, and/or products and technologies.
Robotics Technologist ? Robotic technologists use their knowledge of electrical, electronic, and mechanical systems to assist engineers in the development and production of automated equipment.
Sales Representative ? Sales representatives sell retail products, goods and services to customers. They work with customers to find what they want, create solutions and ensure a smooth sales process. Sales representatives will work to find new sales leads, through business directories, client referrals, etc.
System Support Analyst ? A system support analyst is an electrical specialist who analyzes and optimizes these processes for their company. These analysts may work with many forms of technology, from inventory systems and cost and variance vectors to more concrete electrical concerns such as communication, power saving and payroll.
Technical sales Engineer ? Also sometimes called ?systems engineers,? ?pre-sales support,? or ?field consultants,? SEs act as the sales team?s technical encyclopedia during the sale, representing the technical aspects of how the product solves specific customer problems. They perform technical presentations for the product.
Technical writer ? Like a Content writer or a developer, a technical writer focuses on generating and writing content with its primary focus on the technical aspects.
Telecommunications technician ? A telecommunications Technician basically has to maintain and repair networks by testing circuits, isolating malfunctions, and repairing equipment. Demonstrate proper equipment usage to customers. Establish and remove wiring, hardware, and equipment used in communication systems and networks.
Test Technician ? Their primary duty is to ensure that products perform their proposed functions in a satisfactory manner. For complex products, such as automobiles or computers, test technicians may specialize in monitoring a specific part or set of components.
Toy Designer ? Designing electrical toys like a car or a robot or even a gun comes in the primary duties of this career option.
University Professor ? No Description required.
Aeronautical Engineer ? Aeronautical engineers work to make sure propulsion systems operate efficiently and that an aircraft?s aerodynamic performance is sufficient.
Aerospace Engineer ? Aerospace engineers design primarily aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and missiles. In addition, they test prototypes to make sure that they function according to design.
Aircraft Performance Engineer ? As an aircraft performance engineer, you would be responsible for applying advanced engineering principles to the design and development of aircraft, in order to ensure that they operate at optimal levels, as safely and efficiently as possible.
Astronautical Engineer ? This comes under Aerospace engineering category and is a sub category.
Avionics Engineer ? Avionics engineering is a sub field of Aeronautical engineering and deals with electronic systems that are used on aircraft, artificial satellites and spacecrafts. Basically it deals with the systems that are required in order for the plane to work seamlessly.
Electrical Engineer ? The main job duties are :- Evaluates electrical systems, products, components, and applications by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of electricity and materials. Confirms system?s and components? capabilities by designing testing methods; testing properties.
Electrical Systems Engineer ? Research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use.
Electrician ? They typically do the following: Read blueprints or technical diagrams. Install and maintain wiring, control, and lighting systems. Inspect electrical components, such as transformers and circuit breakers.
Electronics Engineer ? Electronics engineers design and develop electronic equipment, such as broadcast and communications systems, from portable music players to global positioning systems (GPS). Many also work in areas closely related to computer hardware.
Energy Efficiency Engineer ? They usually, Design, develop, or evaluate energy-related projects or programs to reduce energy costs or improve energy efficiency during the designing, building, or remodeling stages of construction.
Entrepreneur ? Businessmen! The type of business is of choice.
Instrument and Control Engineer ? A control and instrumentation engineer (C&I engineer) is responsible for designing, developing, installing, managing and/or maintaining equipment which is used to monitor and control engineering systems, machinery and processes.
5. Companies offering jobs to electrical engineers in various sectors
Following are some of the companies in private sector that hire various skilled electrical engineers:
Larsen & Toubro (L&T)
Crompton Greaves Limited
Bajaj Electricals Ltd
Siemens India
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
Spectrum Power Generation Limited
HBL Power Systems Limited
There are a lot of other companies which hire electrical engineers. Public & Government Sector Electrical
Following are some the PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings) that recruit electrical engineers:
National Thermal Power Corporation Limited
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Gas Authority of India Limited
Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd
National Fertilizers Limited
National Aluminium Company Limited
Container Corporation of India Ltd.
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
Following are some of the Government Organizations that recruit electrical graduates:
Bharat Dynamics Limited
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
NMDC Limited
Engineers India Ltd
6. Schools offering specialization in Electrical Engineering for MSc
For Information on these Universities, simply click the link below.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
ETH Zurich ? Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne
The University of Tokyo
7. Top 10 Schools offering specialization in Electrical Engineering for PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
University of California ? Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
University of Illinois ? Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
8. Online courses offered by Coursera
Please add more online resources other than coursera.
Introduction to programming the IOT
Introduction to Electronics
The Arduino platform and C programming
Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing
Interfacing with Raspberry Pi
Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering
Introduction to systems Engineering
Introduction to Satellite Communications
MOS Transistors
Setting up your Dragon Board
Quantitative formal modelling and Worst-case Performance Analysis
Wireless Communications for everybody
Smartphone emerging technologies
Bioelectricity
Action Planning
Interfacing with the Arduino
Converter Circuits
Converter Control
Capstone Design Project
Emerging technologies Capstone
Secure Wireless Chargers ? A a chip that blocks attempts to wirelessly charge a device?s battery unless the charger first provides cryptographic authentication. Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Other online courses offered:-
Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control
Dynamic Systems and Control
Feedback Systems
Discrete-Time Signal Processing
Principles of Digital Communication I
Principles of Digital Communication II
Submicrometer and Nanometer Technology
Microelectronic Devices and Circuits
Electromagnetics and Applications
Making 5G a reality ? Learn about world?s first reported Si-based 5G mmWave phased array antenna module operating at 28GHz. Close up of the silicon-based millimeterWave phased array antenna module mounted on a test board.
9. Books and Material
You can directly download these free online books using the given links
Engineering Mathematics : Youtube Workbook
Essential Engineering Mathematics
Introduction to Electronic Engineering
Concepts in Electric circuits
Introduction to Complex numbers
Control Engineering Problems
Introduction to Vectors
Introduction to Power Electronics
Introduction to Digital Signal and Systems Analysis
Electromagnetism for Engineers
Electric drive system and operation
Study and Implementation of Image and Video Matting Techniques
Digital Systems Design
Development and Implementation of RFID Technology
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
A Pragmatic Introduction to the Art of Electrical Engineering
Automated Manufacturing Systems with PLCs
10. Blogs to follow
electrical-engineering-portal.com ? This website is very good for the recent advancements in electrical engineering and also improve some of the tricky concepts
http://www.electrical4u.com/ This website is very good as a resource in learning and upgrading your skills.
ETRICAL ? This blog includes all the concepts and many interview questions dealing with the different aspects of electrical engineering.
IEEE Spectrum ? This website includes all the papers and recent popular projects happening around the world in the field.
Engineering Expert Witness Blog ? Philip J. O?Keefe is the author of the Engineering Expert Witness Blog, which is one of the longest running engineering blogs on the internet; it also commonly is used as a resource by college students.
Electrical Engineering Tour ? This website is a complete package of electrical engineering tours, wherein you will find tutorials and everything you want to know about the branch.
EE Times ? EE Times is a magazine providing engineers with up-to-date, relevant news, analysis and opinion. Covering topics such as power management, programmable logic, test & measure and more, EE Times is a trusted resource for engineering information.
ElectricNet ? From trading to regulatory news, ElectricNet is a digital publication with an abundance of news and information for electrical engineers. It also includes various other platforms of learning and also offers weekly based newsletter.
IEEE Xplore ? IEEE strives to reach the community of engineers at large through its publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, and its IEEE Xplore Digital Library contains more than 3,775,000 items to further advance the association?s mission.
12. Podcasts you must follow being an electrical engineer
The Engineering guy: Available as both Video and Audio, Bill Hammock is one of the most wanted presenters. His style is a polished explanation on whatever the subject is at hand.
Embedded.fm: From conductive textiles to wearable technology, Elicia White has the best interviews and thorough observations of her hands-on topic.
The Spark Gap Podcast: Karl and Corey are embedded engineers covering a variety of embedding engineering topics. They make their podcasts fun and have easy to grab concepts.
AddOhms Video Tutorials: This website basically gives an end to end tutorials on most of the viable topics on most of the tough and commonly confused topics
Engineering Update: This is again a very popular podcast which talks about all the recent adventures taking place in the industry with the recent advances taking place.
Talking Machines: This is basically your gateway into the world of machine learning. Another great platform to know about the blank window
The Discovery Files: Another great forum where all the exciting and mind blowing electrical techniques are shown with their simple scientific explanation.
The Engineering Commons Podcast: With virtual reality to sunken cruises, these podcasts will give you a deep griid learning experience on the latest technology.
MakingChips >> Equipping Manufacturing Leaders (Making Chips): Lying beside the most important part of electrical engineering, these podcasts will grind your brain into the art of chip making!
13. Bootcamp
Power Electronics Design ? 6?8 weeks
14. Interview with Experts
Nitin Shivaraman
Here are a few excerpts from Apoorva?s conversation with Nitin Shivaraman an Embedded Software Engineer at HP Singapore, who have found their passion in the field of Computer Vision. He did his Master?s from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
? My motivation behind studying Electronics as a major field of study during my undergrad is that I was highly fascinated by circuits and the whole idea behind how things could work by connecting one component to another. As every undergrad student, I also studied a variety of subjects from Digital Signal Processing to Communication, Networking to Embedded Systems and explored as many as possible doing internships and working on projects. It was working at the intersection of both hardware (circuitry) and software (building logic and programming it) that eventually got me interested in the field of Embedded Systems. I decided to work as a R&D Engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks in order to know more about the field and get hands on experience in the same. Later, after reaching a saturation level, I planned to do a Master?s in Embedded Systems. There are a lot of factors that needs to be considered while choosing which schools to apply to such as personal interest, academic coursework, internship and jobs scenario, financing the studies, student?s profile, etc. I shortlisted two programs offered by University of Stuttgart, Germany and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as both focused on hardware as well as software aspects of the field which others did not. An important point that every undergrad student should note here is to try to maintain a good academic profile as it is often considered as an important criteria to shortlist students for their master?s programs. NTU has been the best decision of my life as not only it gave me a world-class exposure to the field of Embedded Systems by being advised by great professors and mentors but also opened doors to get experience in academia and industry. I have had the opportunity to work in industry after graduation as a Embedded System Engineer but as I realized my learning curve becoming flat, I switched back to research in order to work on something new daily. In research, one is expected to do something that no one has done before and you got to make things work instead of making them perfect. This experience of working as a Research Associate has made me brave enough to try different things in my current job at HP. I can now venture into new projects and work on innovative ideas using my skill set without a hunch of getting it wrong.
Advice that I?d like to give undergraduate students is to work for at least 1 or 2 years before venturing into any plans of Master?s or a PhD. Try to get to know your actual interests by doing internships in research or industry and have defined goals. ?
Beginner?s Guide to Data Science ? P R E V I O U S
N E X T ? Shit You Should Know If You Are New in UX Business!
Authors: Apoorva Bhalla, Fellow at Connectedreams.com | Ankit Malhotra, Intern at Connectedreams.com
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An Open Letter to People Who Don’t Approve of “Shitposting”
Allow me, if you will, to open with a quote: ?I will face God and walk backwards into Hell.? In past years, people all over the Internet have wondered where this quote originated. Is it some forgotten piece of text from a Shakespearean play? Perhaps it is a quote from a philosopher of old, or a notorious criminal on death row? Simply put, it is from none of those sources. Instead it is from a tweet made by the account @dril on May 22, 2012. And the full text of the quote, ?If the zoo bans me for hollering at the animals I will face God and walk backwards into Hell.?
This sums up the style of humor on the Internet known as shitposting.
Shitposting has no real emphasis on subtlety or intelligence in the punch line. Jokes made in this style usually deal with situations that cannot be deemed logical or rational. It is funny for the sake of funny. So, seeing how it is just simpleminded Internet humor, one would think that there is no real problem with it.
Someone not getting the joke
However, much like with anything to do with comedy, there are the critics. You have the oh-so brilliant idea that this particular style of humor is somehow inferior to others because of its nonsensical topics and situations. Graphs made by Reddit user u/godlikesme, and posted to the Subreddit r/DataisBeautiful shows the percentage of users who downvoted content posted to the top 50 default and non-default Subreddits from November 11, 2015 to June 12, 2015. This data collected users downvoting submitted threads that were considered shitposts. Others believe that it is a pathetic cry for attention from the comics who post in this style, for jokes will often be written with the poster involved in the situation in some way. You have even gone as far as telling others that it should not be laughed at or enjoyed.
Obviously fun is not in your vocabularies.
r/Dataisbeautiful?s user u/godlikesme shows the amount of hate towards shitposts in the top fifty default subreddits
One of the first retorts I can think to give, especially the extreme ones who want to control what people find funny, is that humor is strictly subjective. People have varying opinions as to what they find funny or not. Just as you may find shitposting not funny, they could find whatever you laugh at just as unfunny. Todd Philips, director of movies like ?The Hangover?, says ?comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it?s funny. You?re just sitting there like, ?Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?? It?s such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.? Really, you have no firm ground to stand on when you tell someone that they cannot like or enjoy a certain style of comedy.
Another reason I believe that you are wrong is that shitposting is not some new type of humor that just popped up within the last four or five years. Nonsensical humor has been around for as long as humans could speak. Non-sequiturs are essentially the literary equivalent of shitposting online. Even William Shakespeare used them in his plays. This scene from Hamlet, while possibly not funny from our modern point of view, describes a nonsensical exchange between Polonius and Hamlet:
?POLONIUS: If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passingwell.
HAMLET: Nay, that follows not.? (Act 2, scene 2, lines )
Believe it or not, nonsensical humor is also proven to have some positive benefits for the brain. According to ?Neural substrates of incongruity-resolution and nonsense humor?, written by a team in Switzerland nonsensical humor is helpful to a person?s incongruity-solving abilities. While the team used comics and cartoons as their basis for testing, the same idea applies to content found on the internet. All humor revolves around a punch line, which we know is an unexpected resolution to the joke. The authors tell us that if the joke itself does not make sense to its audience at first glance, it will force them to decipher it before coming back to the punch line. In fact, the authors even argue that this can convince people to perceive the joke as funnier.
As evidence of this, I would like return to @dril once more:
?20 treats = 1 snack
3 snacks = 1 meal
3 meals = Boys Daily Intake
180 Treats = Boys Daily Intake
1 Treat = 1 Goody
60 Goody?s = 1 meal?
Not only does this post perfectly fit the idea of a ?shitpost,? meaning that it revolves an absurd situation or idea, but it is also actually mathematically sound when the reader looks at again to analyze it. This creates another layer of humor to the post, and thus makes it funnier to the audience. According to the research found by this Swiss team, nonsensical humor also helps to bolster a person?s ability to think creatively as the situations and ideas presented to the reader most likely could not be found in some sort of normal writing prompt.
The real purpose of humor is to entertain and amuse people. Despite the fact that on the surface ?shitposting? just seems like someone smashed on the keyboard and didn?t think about what they posted, it has multiple layers of humor to it that run much deeper than the surface. Most importantly of all, it?s just someone posting something on the Internet. If you do not like it there are a million different places you could go to find something that you do like. Go enjoy something that you do like instead of ruining the fun of other people please.
Book Summary: BEHAVE by Robert Sapolsky
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Carrie Underwood Is a Pro at Laundry, According to Her 4-Year-Old Son
Can we hire Carrie Underwood to do our laundry? According to her son Isaiah, she's a pro!
Underwood recently shared a pre-school project 4-year-old Isaiah brought home, which asked him all about his mom and her favorite things. He got her name, eye color and hair color just right, but his guess at her age is a little high.
According to Isaiah, his singer mom likes to eat salad (she's vegan, after all) and loves to ride horses in her spare time (Underwood and her husband, Mike Fisher, own several of them). She and Isaiah like to watch TV together, he reports, and she always says, "I love you," to him (aww!).
Chalk Isaiah's other answers up as proof that even though Underwood's a country superstar to us, she's just mom to him: Isaiah says her job is to "wash the laundry," and that she's really good at folding it, too.
"Soooo ... apparently I’m 70 and I’m really good at doing the laundry," Underwood captions a photo of Isaiah's school project, adding a shrugging emoji and a laughing one, too. After reading her son's funny answers, we hope Underwood gets that cake he said he'd like to buy her!
Isaiah is Underwood's older son with husband Mike Fisher. In 2019, the couple welcomed their second son, Jacob, though the process wasn't without heartache: In 2018, Underwood revealed that she suffered "multiple" miscarriages before the healthy pregnancy.
Carrie Underwood's Post-'American Idol' House Is So Modest!
Source: Carrie Underwood Is a Pro at Laundry, According to Her 4-Year-Old Son
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Apple announces watchOS 4 Apple Watch update
- Jun. 5th 2017 10:19 am PT
Apple has announced watchOS 4 for Apple Watch at WWDC 2017. First up is a new Siri-based watch face… Details below.
The new Siri watch face is a dynamic, intelligent option that changes what information is presented based on what’s on your calendar and in other apps. There’s also a new kaleidoscope watch face. There are also new character watch faces joining Mickey and Minnie: Toy Story characters.
Apple Watch is also gaining new monthly challenges in the Activity app with new, personalized monthly challenges and new flair on achievements. The Workout app gains an updated user interface as well with improvements to swimming workouts.
High intensity interval training is a new workout added, and new workouts can be added during a current workout with a new plus button added in ongoing workouts for multiple workouts in a single session.
Apple Watch will also work with NFC-enabled gym equipment for sharing stats from the Apple Watch and gym equipment to share heart rate, incline, and more specs. Apple Watch-enabled gym equipment will start rolling out this fall.
watchOS 4 also includes a new Music app meant to improve the AirPods experience. Multiple playlists can now be synced including Apple Music-recommended playlists. Music also has a new look.
The Dock on watchOS 4 gains a new look with a vertically scrolling interface. watchOS 4 can also automatically start when workouts are started, and music playback controls are integrated with the Workout app.
Control Center gains a new flashlight function using the display which also works during outdoor, night workouts as a safety feature. watchOS 4 also includes new Bluetooth-pairing features with smart devices including glucose monitors and smart tennis rackets.
A developer preview of watchOS 4 will be available for all Apple Watches starting today and all customers later this fall.
watchOS 4 Brings More Intelligence & Fitness Features to Apple Watch Siri Watch Face, Smart Activity Coaching & New Music Experience Coming This Fall June 05, 2017 03:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple® today previewed watchOS® 4, featuring a proactive Siri® watch face that displays the information users need most throughout the day, personalized Activity coaching and an entirely new music experience. The update features an enhanced Workout app and introduces GymKit, a groundbreaking technology platform that will offer customers connected workouts with cardio equipment.
“Apple Watch is the ultimate device for a healthy life and is now more intelligent than ever with watchOS 4,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “We’ve created a truly individualized experience with the smartest Activity and Workout apps, the Siri watch face that shows you the information you need when you need it and we’re seamlessly bringing users their favorite music right on the wrist.”
Siri intelligence extends further into Apple Watch® with the new Siri watch face. With each raise of the wrist, the information on the display dynamically updates based on the time of day, daily routines and pertinent data from apps such as Activity, Alarms, Breathe, Calendar, Maps, Reminders and Wallet, as well as headlines from the new Apple News™ app for Apple Watch.
With watchOS 4, the Activity app delivers intelligent coaching and tailored encouragement to help close Activity Rings more often and achieve longer success streaks. Every morning, users will receive a personalized notification if they’re close to earning an Achievement, or suggest what they can do to match yesterday’s activity levels. If needed, toward the end of the day, they’ll be told exactly how long they should walk to close their Activity Rings before the day is over. Users will also receive unique Monthly Challenges designed just for them.
Listening to music is more personal than ever with a redesigned Music app that automatically syncs your New Music Mix, Favorites Mix and most listened to music. With even more songs on the wrist, the effortless combination of Apple Watch paired with AirPods™ makes listening to music ideal for workouts or on the go.
The updated Workout app now includes auto-sets for pool swim workouts and new motion and heart rate algorithms for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts. With watchOS 4, customers doing back-to-back workouts or training for a triathlon can combine multiple workouts to capture overall calorie and time measurements.
With GymKit, customers using their favorite cardio equipment will soon be able to pair their Apple Watch directly to treadmills, ellipticals, indoor bikes or stair steppers from global manufacturers such as Life Fitness and Technogym with a simple tap. In an industry first, data not previously communicated between smartwatch and fitness machine will sync seamlessly — including calories, distance, speed, floors climbed, incline and pace — resulting in the most accurate measurements possible with less device management.
Watch Faces & Bands
In addition to the Siri watch face, new Toy Story watch faces bring to life favorite Pixar characters including Woody, Jessie and Buzz Lightyear, while the Kaleidoscope watch face turns static images into mesmerizing patterns. New complications include Now Playing and Apple News.
Today, Apple also introduced new summer band colors, giving customers more options than ever to express their personal style. This season’s offering includes vibrant Sports Bands, a bright yellow Classic Buckle and Nike Sport Band options that color-match with the Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Day to Night Collection. As a celebration of diversity and inclusion, Apple is also offering a Pride Edition Woven Nylon in rainbow stripe.
Person to Person Payments with Apple Pay
With watchOS 4, Apple Watch users can make and receive person to person payments quickly, easily and securely with friends and family with Apple Pay®, within Messages or using Siri. When users get paid, they receive the money in their new Apple Pay Cash™ account and can use it instantly to send to someone, make purchases using Apple Pay in stores and apps, or transfer it to their bank account.
watchOS 4 will be available this fall as a free update to Apple Watch paired with iPhone® 5s and later on iOS 11. WatchKit® for watchOS 4 is available immediately for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. For more information, visit apple.com/watchos-preview. Features are subject to change. Some features may not be available in all regions. My Favorites Mix and My New Music Mix require an Apple Music® subscription. Person to person payments and Apple Pay Cash will be available in the US on iPhone SE, iPhone 6 and later, iPad Pro®, iPad® 5th generation, iPad Air® 2, iPad mini™ 3 and later and Apple Watch.
• Apple Watch is available in two different case sizes, 38mm and 42mm. Apple Watch Series 1 is available in gold, rose gold, silver or space gray aluminum cases paired with a Sport Band and starts at just $269 (US); Apple Watch Series 2 is available in gold, rose gold, silver or space gray aluminum, or silver or space black stainless steel cases paired with a wide variety of bands starting at $369 (US); and the ceramic Apple Watch Edition starts at $1,249 (US) from Apple.com, Apple Stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers and carriers. For local availability, visit locate.apple.com. Apple Watch Nike+ starts at $369 (US).
• New Apple Watch Sport and Classic Buckle bands are available today on Apple.com and will be available later this week at Apple Stores, select Apple Authorized Resellers and carriers in the US and over 35 countries and regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE and the UK. The Sport Band is $49 (US) and the Classic Buckle is $149 (US).
• The new Pride Edition Woven Nylon band is available today on Apple.com and will be available later this week at Apple Stores in the US and over 35 countries and regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE and the UK. The Woven Nylon bands are $49 (US).
• New colors of the Nike Sport Band are available today on Apple.com, Nike.com and at select Nike retail stores, and will be available later this week at Apple Stores, select Apple Authorized Resellers and select speciality stores and department stores in the US and over 35 countries and regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE and the UK. The Nike Sport Band is $49 (US).
• Customers who buy Apple Watch from Apple will be offered free Personal Setup, in-store or online,* to help set up and personalize their new Apple Watch with calendars, notifications, apps and more.
• Anyone who wants to learn the basics or go further with their new Apple Watch can sign up for free sessions at apple.com/today.
* In most countries.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.
NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information visit Apple Newsroom (www.apple.com/newsroom), or call Apple’s Media Helpline at (408) 974-2042.
© 2017 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, watchOS, Siri, Apple Watch, Apple News, AirPods, Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, iPhone, WatchKit, Apple Music, iPad Pro, iPad, iPad Air, iPad mini and Apple Store are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Zac covers Apple news for 9to5Mac and hosts the 9to5Mac Happy Hour and 9to5Mac Watch Time podcasts.
Zac Hall's favorite gear
Sony RX100 VI
Beats Powerbeats Pro
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Hylodes charadranaetes Heyer and Cocroft, 1986
Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylodidae > Genus: Hylodes > Species: Hylodes charadranaetes
Hylodes charadranaetes Heyer and Cocroft, 1986, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 99: 106. Holotype: MZUSP 60648, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil: Rio de Janeiro; Alto do Soberbo, near Teresópolis, 22° 26′ S, 42° 59′ W."
Rio Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Known from the municipality of Teresópolis in the vicinity type locality (Alto do Soberbo) and the municipalities of Cachoeiras de Macacu and Casimiro de Abreu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In the Hylodes lateristrigatus group according to the original publication. Weber, Bilate, Procaci, and Silva, 2007, Check List, 3: 305-307, provided a record for the Municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vrcibradic, Almeida-Gomes, Van Sluys, and Rocha, 2008, Check List, 4: 103-106, provided a record for Morro São João, a mountain in the municipality of Casimiro de Abreu, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.
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Steve Silvestri
This blog was co-authored by Matt Hellhake and Steve Silvestri.
In today’s data-dominant culture, information is among a company’s most significant assets. So it’s critical to ensure all this data (employee, finance, customer, etc) is simultaneously protected and available when needed.
What is Data Loss Prevention?
Data loss prevention (DLP) is a proactive strategy to ensure sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users. DLP software classifies and protects confidential and critical information to prevent end-users from maliciously (or accidently) sharing sensitive data that could put the organization at risk or damage its reputation. DLP software and tools monitors and controls endpoint activities, filters corporate data streams, and protects data in transit.
Controlling where data is available
Data can be stored on networks, in applications, or physically (on USB drives, printers, and other removable media). DLP monitors and protects data at rest, in transmission, and in use. “At rest” data is archived data: stored on databases, mail servers, file servers, or backup drives. DLP tools enable companies to encrypt this resting database data using Field Encryption, Table Encryption, and/or Database Encryption. Data in transmission refers to data moving through a network to an endpoint destination. DLP tools encrypt this data through an Encrypted Transport Protocol. Lastly, data in use refers to data a user is interacting with. This can include passwords, social security numbers, etc. This data is encrypted by being marked with an asterisk or dot. A decent DLP solution monitors and protects data across all three situations.
How DLP solutions work?
DLP Solutions monitor and act on data at rest, in transmission, and in use in accordance with custom and established policies. These policies are put in place to control and secure sensitive information both on and off the corporate network. Policies and rules detect data using content classifiers, which exist as patterns & phrases, file properties, file fingerprints, database fingerprints, or with machine learning. During an initial testing and development period, the DLP Architect constructs policies to determine the effectiveness of the Classifiers and the precision of the data extracted.
What can policies and rules do with data?
Depending on the policies and rules in place, DLP software can also act against the data it detects. What is most important though, is working with the business to understand which activities are business processes, versus which are threats (internal or external). After doing so, the software deployed on all endpoints can permit, block, confirm, or even force encryption, depending on the incident channel. Confirming an incident would enable a pop-up notifying the user of the violation and forcing them to explain why they need to continue. This information helps the DLP Architect and Engineer further improve the application to eliminate any additional lag in business productivity.
What to look for in a DLP Solution?
When deciding which DLP product to go with, many questions should be asked around the capabilities, user interface, and performance. Every business wants to first make sure the product supports content detection on all levels, including network, email, web, endpoint, and removable media. The product should then let architects and engineers customize the rules and policies around these levels to protect sensitive business data from all angles.
As complex as DLP configuration may be, it’s extremely important that it present a simple, intuitive user interface. Most businesses will need several people to run the application, requiring that each team member master at least a portion of the program. Customizable incidents let administrators view reports by specified parameters, providing an easy way to manage a large number of incidents.
Cool Fact!!
Some DLP solutions provide Optical Character Recognition, which enables the scanning of content in images and PDF files. This software is still far from perfect, however, so sloppy or illegible handwriting is still difficult to detect and translate to the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
So hopefully from this blog post you have learned a little bit more about Data Loss Prevention, but this is just scratching the surface. For more information on DLP please reach out to us. We’d love to help you out.
Which Office 365 License Do I Need?
Microsoft’s Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
data leak prevention
extrusion prevention
information loss
information loss prevention
by Steve Silvestri
Cloud Security Architect
Steve Silvestri is a proud member of Anexinet’s ISG team, focusing on Cyber Security issues, including Data Loss Prevention, Digital Forensics, Penetration Testing, and Incident Response.
What are SharePoint Hub Sites and What Do They Do?
Wait... Where does my data go??
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Dying for Amusement
Authors: Meg Burd
CSU is definitely a school tied in many ways to animals. With
some of our professors internationally recognized as developers of
systems to promote more humane ways to work with livestock,
renowned vet and equine programs and deep agricultural roots, we
students at CSU cannot ignore the important tie to animals that is
an undercurrent in the history and current situation of our school.
In that case, if not for personal moral reasons, at least we, as a
school known for educating the future maintainers of animal welfare
(veterinarians and others), should, as a community, be deeply
disturbed by cases of animals being used, abused and killed for the
purpose of entertainment.
Two potent examples of deaths of animals used for human
amusement can be found in two recent news articles. David Gonzales,
in an Oct. 2 New York Times article, discusses the death of two
dolphins at a swim-with-the-dolphins amusement park for tourists in
Mexico. Yolanda Alaniz, head of a conservation groups, says that
over 200 dolphins have been captured either locally or illegally
imported from other areas to the parks. Many of these dolphins are
trafficked in violation of international codes. In the Parque Nizuc
Wet’n’Wild Park, officials say that over 60,000 people swam with
dolphins in the last year. These dolphins, estimates Alaniz, can
bring in $7,500 a day each. With tourists clamoring jump in, the
dolphins are a highly profitable form of entertainment in the
parks.
Gonzales quotes park operators as saying that they continue
these programs in order to promote “knowledge and respect for
wildlife.” Opponents, however, say that these programs are often
inefficiently run and cruel to the illegally captured dolphins. Ric
O’Berry, former “Flipper” trainer, says in the article that “The
reality is they are all going to die if you stick around long
enough.” The death of the two dolphins, one from a stress-related
ulcer and the other from a blocked esophagus, suggests that this
dire prediction is true.
Another case of animal abuse and murder came to light at the
beginning of last summer. According to a Reuters article, the
bodies of 3,000 racing greyhounds were uncovered from a rural
gravesite, each with bullet wounds to the head or neck. Robert
Rhodes of Alabama, arrested in conjunction with these deaths,
admitted to killing thousands of dogs for profit. The reason they
were murdered? Because they had become too old to run the track and
entertain sufficiently. Dog tracks, it appears, would send out
these older dogs to be cheaply shot and buried by Rhodes. As the
district attorney of the area, David Whetstone, says “These dogs
are killed because they are slow. When you are no longer of value,
you are executed.” These dogs, like the dolphins, are animals used
and abused for entertainment value, and are being killed in the
name of amusement.
For those of us who agree with Mahatma Gandhi’s statement that
“the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being”
or those who simply value animals in general, these cases should
horrify us. There are many ways we can voice our disapproval.
Voicing our disapproval through letters and joining campaigns
against animal cruelty is one way, but we can also vote with our
dollars. While on vacation or spring break, avoiding parks or
activities such as these can at least ensure that we don’t
contribute to the continued suffering of “entertainment animals.”
Instead of allowing these animals to continue being viewed as
simple amusements, we can help promote their value as living beings
instead, and also uphold the reputation of CSU as a place that is
linked to animal welfare.
Is she affiliated with any animal welfare groups?
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archr
Simple yet powerful Archery Records Management
Did you know, archr can automatically calculate and keep track of the handicaps of all your scores for you, for just £5 a year for individuals (or £35 for an entire club)?
Sign up for a free 14-day trial of the system using the buttons on the right!
Individual Club
Handicap / Classification Calculator
To calculate a handicap and classification, simply choose the desired category, bowstyle, and round, and then start to type a score! The calculated handicap will appear below...
Category: Senior Gents Senior Ladies Under 18 Gents Under 18 Ladies Under 16 Gents Under 16 Ladies Under 14 Gents Under 14 Ladies Under 12 Gents Under 12 Ladies
Bowstyle: Recurve Compound Barebow Longbow
Round: ---------
If you come across any errors, missing rounds, or think something isn't quite right, please click the 'Report an Issue' button at the side of the page and we'll get it sorted out as soon as possible!
Want to support this site but don't want to use archr for score-keeping? Consider buying me a coffee!
Did you know, archr can automatically calculate and keep track of the handicaps of all your scores for you (or even for your entire club)?
Brief Explanation of Handicaps
In the UK system, each score is assigned a handicap value between 0 and 100 (which you can find by using the calculator on this page), with better scores having lower handicap values. The category and age group you compete in do not have an effect on what the handicap for a particular score is (although the same is not true for classifications).
Handicaps allow archers to compare their performance between different rounds, and track their improvement over a season. There are also some competitions which use a handicap-adjusted score, which allow archers with a wide range of ability to compete against each other.
Your club's records officer will keep track of the handicaps of all of the rounds you shoot throughout a year, and maintain what is called your continuous assessment handicap.
Handicaps for indoor and outdoor rounds, and handicaps for each bowstyle are kept separate.
To first obtain a handicap, an archer must shoot three rounds which are recognised for handicap purposes during a season. Their initial handicap is then calculated as the average of the handicaps for each of the three rounds, rounding up if the result is not a whole number.
For any further rounds shot, an archer's handicap is adjusted as follows:
If the handicap of the score shot is greater than or equal to the archer's current handicap, do nothing.
If the handicap of the score shot is less than the archer's current handicap, then their new handicap becomes the average of their old handicap and the handicap of the score shot, rounding up if the result is not a whole number.
An archer's handicap can never increase during a season, but may do at the end of a season when their end of season assessment is calculated.
End of Season Assessment
At the end of each indoor/outdoor season, an archer's handicap is reassessed to be the average (rounded up) of the best three handicaps they had shot in the previous season.
This is the only time a handicap can increase, and is also the only time an archer can obtain a handicap of 0.
This end of season assessment handicap becomes your starting handicap for the next season (you do not have to start again by shooting three scores first).
There are other rules to follow in the case of an archer shooting fewer than three scores (or none at all) during a season, and if you're interested in learning more about the system your club's records officer should be able to help you!
archr is built and maintained by Alexander Logan (e-mail).
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Horace Tapscott with the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra Live at I.U.C.C. [Viny]
Horace Tapscott, Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra
Label: Soul Jazz
Availability: Backorder
Soul Jazz Records are releasing this groundbreaking album by the legendary jazz artist Horace Tapscott & the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Tapscott is the key figure in the LA political & underground jazz scene of the late 20th century with his stridently independent & radical music. This superb rare, deep & spiritual jazz opus album has been unavailable on vinyl for over 40 years. The music is part Sun Ra Arkestra, part John Coltrane, part Art Ensemble of Chicago & explores the multi-faceted deep & spiritual jazz of Tapscott. The Arkestra was set up as a musicians collective in the early 60s, part of a radical jazz scene on the west coast that included Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman & Eric Dolphy. After his debut in 1969 followed 2 albums with Elaine Brown, the only woman to lead the Black Panther party; Tapscott was a community organiser closely aligned to it's LA chapter. In the 90s he inspired a new generation; The West Coast Get Down collective, incl. Kamasi Washington & Thundercat.
1. Macrame
2. Future Sally's Time
3. Noissessprahs
4. McKowsky's First Fifth
5. Village Dance
6. L.T.T.
7. Desert Fairy Princess
8. Lift Every Voice
Disc Count: 3
Total Length: 119:14
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