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Biden swearing-in: Inauguration planners rethink how to party in age of virus
Joe Biden's swearing-in itself will not be virtual. But guests should be prepared to socially distance and wear a mask. Lawmakers are also considering requiring a COVID-19 test for anyone on the platform near the president-elect, said Paige Waltz, a spokesperson for the joint congressional committee.
By: AP | Washington | Updated: December 6, 2020 9:59:30 pm
In this photo, inaugural preparations continue on the West Front of Capitol Hill in Washington, looking at the National Mall and Washington Monument. Health care officials have been warning people for months to avoid parties. But what happens when it's one of America's biggest celebrations of them all - the swearing in of a new president? (AP Photo)
Public health guidance to avoid big parties in the age of coronavirus is about to collide with what is typically one of America’s biggest celebrations of all: the swearing-in of a new president.
While lots of details are still to be worked out, this Jan. 20 is sure to be more subdued than prior inauguration days.
A giant parade down Pennsylvania Avenue? Not likely.
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Fancy balls? They may morph into virtual events.
The traditional luncheon where lawmakers offer best wishes to the new president? It might not include food this year.
What about the swearing-in itself? The inaugural platform on the Capitol”s West Front is going up just like always, but it probably won”t be as crowded.
“I think you”re going to see something that”s closer to what the convention was like than a typical inauguration,” President-elect Joe Biden said Friday, referring to the all-virtual event that marked his nomination last summer. “First and foremost, in my objective, is to keep America safe but still allow people to celebrate — to celebrate and see one another celebrate.”
For their convention, Democrats pulled together a made-for-TV mashup of homemade videos, speeches from classrooms and living rooms, and music played from afar, narrated by celebrity hosts.
Biden’s swearing-in itself will not be virtual. But guests should be prepared to socially distance and wear a mask. Lawmakers are also considering requiring a COVID-19 test for anyone on the platform near the president-elect, said Paige Waltz, a spokesperson for the joint congressional committee charged with overseeing the event.
The VIP platform can hold 1,600 people. Lawmakers also generally distribute tickets for positions nearby. While no hard decisions have been made, the committee is looking at cutting the numbers on both accounts.
“My guess is there will still be a platform ceremony,” Biden said. “But I don”t know exactly how it”s all going to work out. The key is keeping people safe. I can”t do a super version of the president”s announcement in the Rose Garden.”
That was an apparent reference to President Donald Trump”s Rose Garden introduction of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, where hundreds of people crammed together, many without masks. It turned out to be a superspreader of the virus.
Biden”s play-it-safe approach to the coronavirus during his campaign offers clues about what to expect in terms of inaugural modifications.
He said Friday that a “gigantic inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue” was unlikely, although a big reviewing stand is being constructed in front of the White House.
No decisions have been made on whether the official inaugural balls should go forward. Some advocacy groups already are going virtual with their galas, including the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization.
“Our goal is to democratize the inauguration party experience by holding a virtual event integrating our 3 million-plus members and supporters into the day”s events and breaking the traditional bubble of a Washington insider experience,” said Lucas Acosta, a spokesperson for the group.
The celebrity component of this year”s celebration has yet to be determined, but one source close to the inauguration suggested looking for hints in the lineup of celebrities who campaigned for Biden, including Lady Gaga, John Legend and Jon Bon Jovi.
Work to build the inaugural platform at the Capitol and the White House reviewing stand began before the Nov. 3 election, as is traditional. New this year: Congressional planners have invited lawmakers to record video messages for the president-elect and vice president-elect that can be played on Jumbotrons before the swearing-in.
After the ceremony, the president and vice president have traditionally attended a luncheon in National Statuary Hall that includes speeches, gifts and toasts. The event began in 1953, when President Dwight Eisenhower, his wife, Mamie, and 50 guests dined on creamed chicken, baked ham and potato puffs in the Old Senate Chamber.
This year”s format and venue are up in the air. One congressional aide familiar with the planning said it”s likely that food will be out altogether. Rather, the event would revolve around the speeches lawmakers make wishing the new administration well.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who heads the congressional inaugural committee, has been careful not to refute Trump”s baseless claims that he won the election. But Waltz said the congressional inaugural committee staff nonetheless is ready to work with Biden”s Presidential Inaugural Committee.
That committee oversees inaugural events held away from the Capitol, including the parade and balls. Tony Allen, president of Delaware State University, serves as CEO.
“This year”s inauguration will look different amid the pandemic, but we will honor the American inaugural traditions and engage Americans across the country while keeping everybody healthy and safe,” Allen said.
Plans for protests are underway, too.
A few groups have submitted requests for protest permits with the National Park Service. The Answer Coalition, made up of antiwar and civil rights organizations, plans a demonstration demanding “urgent action to save the environment, end war and prioritize money to meet people”s needs.” (AP)
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Premise: After the tragic death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter attempt to rebuild their lives and their relationship in Venice. However, when Laura runs into a blind woman who sees the dead and claims their daughter is attempting to warn John from a great danger, strange things start to happen…
Fun Fact: This movie was actually Entry No 1 when I created my horror list for this month. As in the first movie that came to mind when I was thinking of famous horror movies that I’d not seen before that I wanted to see. So needless to say, I had pretty high expectations for it. And did it live up to those expectations?
Well… it may not be Eraserhead good, but it’s still a pretty dang interesting watch..
A lot of what really works about this movie are the visuals. Not like the usual thing you think of when you hear ‘visuals’, like practical effects or CG or that sort of thing, but stuff like the cinematography and the set design instantly helps created this strange mood and tone for the movie that really helps sustain it throughout. Most of the movie is set in Venice and the city’s high buildings and narrow streets manages to create almost a sense of low-key claustrophobia and mystery, like the city itself is some kind of eerie giant urban maze that our characters are lost in. Often time, you don’t know what’s supposed to be paranormal and what’s supposed to be normal (which, to avoid spoilers, really compliments certain plot twists in the movie a lot).
I’ll also compliment the movie on setting a strong tone and sense of grief very early on, which drove a lot of the mood and atmosphere of the film. Seeing these characters attempting to move on after a genuinely tragic event, really adds a lot to their motivations and personalities, while also adding that particular ‘something’ to the horror proceedings yet to come. I’m not entirely sure how to describe it, but it reminded me a lot of what they did in The Changeling, one of my favourite horror movies of all time and needless to say they worked it in well here.
If I had to pick any reason though that I came out a little bit underwhelmed, it would be that, in spite of a strong beginning and very strong ending, it really feels like it needed a few more bigger moments in the middle of the film to fill the gap. The occasional spotting of a figure in a red coat and Donald Sutherland dangling from a platform are all well and good, but the second act felt like it could’ve used something a bit… more, if that makes sense.
Still, this really was a good film. I’ll admit I initially came away from it feeling slightly underwhelmed, in large part down to the sky-high expectations I had for the film, but having had time to think of it, I honestly really did enjoy it and it certainly kept my attention for a lot of its bigger scenes. Especially that ending which, in spite of having known how it ended beforehand I’m afraid, still really impressed me. It was kind of like the ending to the Usual Suspects for me where, even thought I knew what was coming, the excellent editing and combined with the use of foreshadowing that even I hadn’t properly noticed, still made it gripping and affecting to watch.
So yeah, good movie.
Was is Scary?: More tense and gripping than outright terrifying. Although that final scene…
Was it Silly?: Donald Sutherland’s acting in the opening scene was a little much.
Overall Grade: B+
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2 edition of Jewish cookery found in the catalog.
Jewish cookery
Leah Wolff Leonard
in accordance with Jewish dietary laws.
by Leah Wolff Leonard
Published 1951 by Crown in New York .
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4 edition of Studies in an inflationary economy found in the catalog.
Studies in an inflationary economy
Frank Walter Paish
the United Kingdom, 1948-1961.
by Frank Walter Paish
Published 1966 by Macmillan in London .
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This book sets forth both a theory and a comparative empirical analysis of stagflation, that peculiar combination of high unemployment, slow growth, and spurts of high inflation bedeviling the advanced industrial nations during the past fifteen years. How do interest rates influence the rate of inflation. are two main causes of inflation. The first is excessive growth in aggregate demand, leading to an inflationary gap (when the total demand for goods and services exceeds the total supply). This has t health care and other public goods would suffer a budget cut whenever the government wished to curb inflationary policy.
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Get this from a library. Studies in an inflationary economy: the United Kingdom. [F W Paish]. Studies in an Inflationary Economy Paperback – January 1, by F. W Paish (Author) See all 3 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions.
Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" — Author: F. W Paish. Get this from a library. Studies in an inflationary economy: the United Kingdom, [F W Paish].
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Product Information. This book challenges the conventional view that monetarism is a necessary part of classical economics and shows, in an historical account of monetary controversy, that the framework upon which classical analysis is based suggests an alternative account of the inflationary process.
The book presents some features of the modern inflationary process and makes sense of some still accepted elements in the postclassical macroeconomics of Keynes and Phillips. The papers in this volume are grouped into seven sections. Part I describes disequilibrium models of employment. The Inflationary Process of the Iranian Economy, – - Volume 17 Issue 3 - Kamran M.
Dadkhah Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our by: In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money – a loss of real value in the medium of exchange and unit of account within the economy.
However, inflationary pressures and a below par savings rate, among other economic factors, would make it difficult to sustain a high growth rate.
The growth of non-agricultural sectors has changed the structure of the economy, and agriculture now only accounts for roughly 20% of the GDP. The inflation of the s represented the greatest peacetime disruption of the Western economies since the Depression.
Even as inflation receded, the recession in its wake brought more joblessness. This book challenges the conventional view that monetarism is a necessary part of classical economics and shows, in an historical account of monetary controversy, that the framework upon which classical analysis is based suggests an alternative account of the inflationary : Hardcover.
As the nature of inflation is not uniform in an economy for all the time, it is wise to distinguish between different types of inflation. Such analysis is useful to study the distributional and other effects of inflation as well as to recommend anti-inflationary policies. Inflation may be caused by a variety of factors.
Studies in an Inflationary Economy, F. PAISH 6 Important not only because Professor Paish is an extremely able economist, but because in the last year he has been the most important outside influence on Treasury thinking.
9 William Rees-Mogg, SUNDAY TIMES. 45s. MACMILLAN * SAINT MARTIN'S STREET * LONDON - W.C.2 British Economic Growth, i In Panel (a), the economy faces a recessionary gap (Y P − Y 1). An expansionary fiscal policy seeks to shift aggregate demand to AD 2 to close the gap.
In Panel (b), the economy faces an inflationary gap (Y 1 − Y P). A contractionary fiscal policy seeks to reduce aggregate demand to AD 2 to close the gap. Keynes expressed his view on inflation in his book, How to Pay for the War (), wherein he gave the concept of inflationary gap.
Inflationary gap is defined as the planned expenditure in excess of output available at full employment. The British Chancellor of Exchequer defined the inflationary gap in budget speech of asFile Size: KB. Abstract: This research investigates the role of financial statement data in valuing the firm in an inflationary economy.
Specifically, the study investigates the relation between general price level-adjusted and current cost accounting disclosures in Mexican financial statements and the Cited by: 2.
Policymaking in the open economy: concepts and case studies in economic performance (English) Abstract. The Economic Development Institute (EDI) was established by the World Bank in to help mobilize the Bank's knowledge and experience for the purpose of strengthening development decisionmaking in its member by: Economics is a social science concerned with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
It studies how individuals, businesses, governments and nations make choices on. Before this new printing, this book has been virtually impossible to locate and acquire. The Mises Institute waited years for a copy to prepare this edition.
It is now available to be appreciated anew by a new generation. His thesis and argument hold up in every way. Michael Angelo Heilperin was born May 6, in Warsaw, Poland. BIS surprised many, when they back in concluded that ageing is actually inflationary.
New research from Oxford Economics have come to precisely the opposite conclusion, which is why I have decided to do a deeper dive on the topic this month. Conclusion. BIS may have been correct in the past but, more recently, my vote would definitely go to the dis-inflationary camp.
Inflation definition, a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation). See more. few sectors of the economy may soon lead to inflationary rise in prices in the entire economy.
Further, an increase in the price of imported raw materials may lead to cost-push inflation. Another cause of Cost-Push inflation is profit-push inflation. Oligopolist and monopolist firms raise the price ofCited by: the economy as the key feature of an economy with stable prices.
Robert E. Hall pursues this idea, presenting an example of a monetary standard which borrows from the gold standard yet tries to avoid some of its pitfalls.
Seven of the remaining papers deal with one or another way that inflation has changed the economy or how the economy has Author: Robert E Hall.
InPhillip Cagan wrote The Monetary Dynamics of Hyperinflation, the book often regarded as the first serious study of hyperinflation and its effects (though The Economics of Inflation by C.
Bresciani-Turroni on the German hyperinflation was published in Italian in ).In his book, Cagan defined a hyperinflationary episode as starting in the month that the monthly inflation rate exceeds. The Liberian economy has been struggling due to poverty, corruption, and mismanagement.
It has been running fiscal revenue deficits for at least three consecutive years. The country recorded % inflation in April Liberians fear that if the economy worsens, it could lead to a civil war. Liberia has already seen a year-long civil war.
Online First Articles. ISSN: Articles not assigned to an issue (2 articles) Special Feature: Research Article. New normal and new economy: a new growth engine for China causes and anti-inflationary policy perception.
Biswajit Maitra, Tafajul Hossain. Continue reading To view the rest of this content please follow the. 2) Three Iconic Case Studies examined in detail (the US in –, which includes the Great Recession, the US in –, which covers a deflationary depression, and Germany in –, which examines an inflationary depression).
This is “Measuring the Health of the Economy”, section from the book An Introduction to Business (v. For more information on the source of this book, or why it is available for free, –" shows inflationary trends in the U.S.
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Business Inflation Expectations. The BIE was created to measure the year-ahead inflationary sentiments of businesses in the Sixth District. It also helps inform our view of the sources of cost changes and provides insight into the factors driving business' pricing decisions. Very high inflation adversely impacts economic performance, as evidence from cross-country studies shows.
Likewise, moderate levels of inflation can distort investment and consumption decisions. Recent U.S. experience with low, stable levels of inflation, in the range of 2 to 3 percent, has spurred policy makers to consider the possibility of.
Inflation can arise from internal and external events; Some inflationary pressures direct from the domestic economy, for example the decisions of utility businesses providing electricity or gas or water on their tariffs for the year ahead, or the pricing strategies of the food retailers based on the strength of demand and competitive pressure in their markets.
Money, Banking, and the Economy: A Monetarist View presents a systematic "monetarist" approach to money, banking, and the economy. The monetarist approach is a blend of the pre-Keynesian quantity theory, the tradition represented by D.
Robertson, and the modern monetarist school, represented by Milton Friedman and his followers. The characteristics, which will be explored in subsequent discussion, are the monetary areas, the stages, the dual economy, the question of demand-pull vs.
cost-push, the effects of monetary factors on inflation, and the social implications of the inflation. Download with Google.
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Plessner examines events of the past two decades and advances the hypothesis that problems within the Israeli economy can be explained by the extent of its departure from the institutions and rules that govern predominantly market.Michael C.
Webb explores a central question about postwar economic history: how has the growth of international markets affected the coordination of economic policy among nations? His analysis overturns the popular assumption that policy coordination has eroded as American hegemony has receded.
Instead, he argues that the growing mobility of capital forced governments to abandon the strategies.
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Endorsed by WVOX Radio!
We are very excited that our re-election campaign was endorsed yesterday by WVOX Radio, 1460 AM. The owner of the station, William O’Shaughnessy, said in the endorsement:
“Finally, there are three very superior, very worthy candidates for the County Board of Legislators who deserve more than a brief shout-out. Jim Maisano, the dynamic, indefatigable Minority Leader is everywhere apparent in our district. He’s been a very skillful consensus builder and a shrewd strategist and parliamentarian who merits your enthusiastic support.”
Mr. O’Shaughnessy also endorsed Sheila Marcotte in District 10 and John Verni in District 7.
I greatly enjoyed having a radio show on WVOX for many years, am a big fan of this terrific community radio station and am so thankful for Mr. O’Shaughnessy’s endorsement and kind words.
Tags: county legislator, endorsement, Jim Maisano, New Rochelle, Pelham, re-election
GOTV – We Need You!
224 Democrats Endorse Jim Maisano
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Fruits of the earth: plants in the service of mankind
Special Collections Exhibitions
Home|Special Collections Exhibitions|Fruits of the earth: plants in the service of mankind|The herbal|Otto Brunfels
Otto Brunfels
A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of herbs or of plants in general, with their properties and uses - medicinal, culinary, aromatic and magical - enumerated. Herbals, which are often illustrated, were popular in medieval Europe, and many survive in manuscript form.
Hand-coloured woodcut showing the mint plantThey owed their popularity partly to their perceived practical use - such medical remedies as then existed usually included botanical ingredients - and partly to the way in which they reflected the medieval Christian view of the natural world. To the medieval Christian mind mankind lived in a transcendental universe, where every plant, animal or mineral had its special significance in God’s scheme, a significance often suggested by its physical qualities and their symbolic echoing of a Christian virtue or Biblical event.
The advent of the printed book in the second half of the 15th century saw no diminution in the herbal’s popularity. Herbals of the 15th and 16th centuries are generally illustrated with woodcuts, designs cut in relief on a block of wood, the block then being placed in a press for printing. Blocks could have a long life and were often passed from printer to printer, leading to a considerable standardisation of style in the depiction of individual plant species.
Born in Germany - his surname is derived from the name of his birthplace, Braunfels, near Mainz - Otto Brunfels (1488-1534) was a Carthusian monk who later embraced Lutheranism and moved to Strasbourg. There he worked as a school teacher, before taking up medicine; he was appointed town physician of Bern, Switzerland, shortly before his death.
Brunfels’ Herbarum, published in three parts between 1530 and 1536, owes its significance less to its text, which is largely a compilation of earlier sources, than to its woodcut illustrations, the work of Hans Weiditz. Unlike many botanical illustrators of the day, Weiditz (ca 1495-ca 1536) eschewed imitation and drew his plants from nature, seeking to record accurately what he saw. His illustration of mint, shown here, exemplifies his careful technique and in our copy it has been hand-coloured by an early owner.
Brunfels quotes Pliny’s Naturalis historia on the culinary and medicinal uses of mint, the latter including the treatment of fevers, lung infections and ulcers. Many herbs were used as ‘simples’ in ancient and medieval times, a ‘simple’ being a medicine concocted of one ingredient, usually a herb or other plant, and mint is still used today as an ingredient in decongestive cough remedies. Its use in medicine was later made more effective by the isolation in 1771 of menthol, an organic compound made synthetically from peppermint oil, by the German chemist Hierionymus Gaubius.
In this exhibition
The herbal
A physician's notebook
From herbal to botany
John Parkinson
Culpeper's Pharmacopoiea
The fruit-garden illustrated
The construction of sailing ships
The palmyra palm
The insatiable demand for sugar
The colourful history of nutmeg
Peppers and spice
Alcoholic infusions
Stimulants and opiates
The consumption of stimulants
Cocoa and chocolate
The journey of coffee
Against the effects of opium
Medical and other uses of opium
The versatility of hemp
The effects of the cotton industry
Regaling humankind
The quest for quinine
Cultivating cinchona trees
Withering and digitalis
The St Vincent botanical garden
Newman and Mauritius
The garden at Saharanpur
Tea and the British Empire
A globalised economy of plants
Para rubber production
Early stress balls
The Colonial Development Corporation
Select bibliography
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After 126 Years, Coca Cola Says Okay To Booze (About Time)
With the incredible sales of hard seltzer in the United States Coca Cola has decided it’s time to jump in the alcohol market. Coca Cola had been testing their hard seltzer in Japan and in now getting to roll out a global product under the name EH Canning Co. Their hard Seltzer is a mixture of water, fermentation alcohol and natural flavors. The alcohol content is between four and six percent. The trendy drink is particularly popular with 20- to 35-year-olds as an alternative to higher-calorie products such as wine and beer.
The flavors of the new Coca Cola American Seltzers are a dark hidden secret, and the company is expected to announce a national roll out early this fall in North America.
In Japan the lemon-flavored drink debuted in May 2018 in Kyushu, Japan's southernmost island, in three varieties ranging from 3% to 7% alcohol. It's modeled after Japanese "chu-hi," a popular canned drink made with a distilled alcohol called shochu, carbonated water and flavoring, Coca-Cola Japan business unit president Jorge Garduno said in February 2018 in a Coca Cola press release
Filed Under: Coca Cola Alcohol, Coca Cola Alcoholic Beverage, Coke Makes Alcohol, New Coca Cola Hard Seltzer
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tynet/#stevenchan - IRC Chatlog
Search Saturday, 21st of November 2020, 15:44:54 UTC
16:07:30 anon back
16:07:34 anon what is movie
16:12:20 PincerAttack Naqoyqatsi
16:26:12 anon had a good stream
16:26:21 anon Didn't you guys watch that already?
16:27:54 PincerAttack It's the third one in the series
16:59:13 anon I'll have to nap then
17:02:01 anon these fucking Trump supporters are so fucking dumb
17:05:31 anon going Golfing again
17:05:42 anon can't wait for him to get the boot
17:34:45 anon I started reading my book on Socialism and why it was great
17:54:11 gingerale Bird. https://twitter.com/CarlBovisNature/status/1329511926871830529?s=20
17:54:28 Shinmera gingerale: minecraft or rims?
17:54:54 gingerale Is Pincers going to join for MineCraft?
17:57:46 Shinmera Pincers: are you?
17:58:01 Pincers No, sorry
17:58:29 Shinmera lame
17:58:44 Pincers I know
17:58:57 Pincers I'll join next time
18:01:03 gingerale Let's do Rimworld then.
18:01:09 Shinmera you eaten yet?
18:01:21 gingerale Just did. And I've one more a cup of cold tea.
18:01:39 Shinmera aight, gimme a minute then
19:27:55 gingerale Shinmera: https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Hydroponics_basin
20:26:40 minty ::fortune
20:26:40 Colleen Your fortune for today is: great fortune ahead.
20:26:43 minty cool
20:26:44 Colleen minty: Shinmera said 13 hours, 22 minutes ago: that's a hearty lol, thanks.
20:47:45 minty dat shared bond over human suffering
20:49:59 minty rittenhouse is out on bail
20:59:05 Pincers Got movie downloaded just in time
21:00:47 minty gg pincers
21:01:00 Mithent Evening!
21:01:03 minty hi mith
21:01:05 Pincers Hello
21:05:35 Shinmera yo
21:09:55 Mithent I started the torrent a bit late for it being 9.65GB, but I also found it on Dailymotion, so that will do while it finishes
21:10:43 Shinmera how long's the torrent still?
21:11:28 minty inorite? huge ass file size
21:11:43 gingerale Oh, I had downloaded last week's movie. Looks like there's no torrent for today's so that might explain why.
21:11:58 minty ...i torrented naqoyqatsi?
21:12:04 minty that's the qatsi for the day
21:12:07 minty gingy... it's there
21:12:10 minty it was right there
21:12:18 gingerale It's not showing up for me in the torrents folder
21:12:21 Shinmera gingerale: the hell you on about mate
21:12:58 Shinmera looks like someone deleted both torrents
21:13:00 Shinmera super cool
21:13:06 minty ...wat?
21:13:09 Mithent Like, 1.5 hours. Probably because I can't leech off gingy, hah
21:13:10 minty you can do that?
21:13:21 Shinmera yes
21:13:25 minty why would somebody go in and delete the movies?
21:13:34 minty it didn't even occur to me that's a thing you could do
21:13:36 Shinmera idunno, accidentally used cut and paste rather than copy paste?
21:14:09 Shinmera sigh
21:14:31 minty ...i wanna do a trial to root out the saboteur
21:14:41 gingerale rsyncing the movie file itself seems to take an hour for me, dang.
21:15:03 Shinmera we can just move this to next week
21:15:06 minty yeh
21:15:15 Shinmera so what are we gonna do instead tehn?
21:15:22 minty although... let the record show that i actually was here on time with the movie ready this week
21:15:37 Shinmera thank you
21:15:43 Pincers Gonna put that somewhere safe
21:16:45 gingerale I wish I had thought to download it on time. I'm sorry.
21:16:52 minty gingy it's fine...
21:17:10 minty i started the download thursday night... which, for the size it is, it's a miracle it was done on time today
21:17:14 minty especially with my shitternet
21:18:09 Mithent I was a bit overconfident, usually I can torrent super quick. I did have the files from before
21:18:32 Shinmera Mithent: for some reason thunderbird thought your latest mail reply was spam. Naughty naughty.
21:18:45 minty last night it was downloading from 1 peer n at 0 kb saying it'd be 21 thousand days to finish the download so i mean...
21:18:51 minty that was p hilarious
21:19:06 Mithent And I didn't even talk about Viagra
21:19:31 Mithent 57.5 years, ouch
21:20:47 Shinmera so anyway
21:20:49 Shinmera what we doin'
21:21:02 minty well...
21:22:21 minty ...how's everyone doin' today?
21:22:30 Shinmera doin' ok I guess
21:22:34 Pincers Doing crap
21:22:41 Shinmera didn't get as much work done as I shoulda
21:23:12 minty that's nice. i was 10 minutes late to work and the dog, finn, who usually lets me pet him didn't today n shied away like a bitch
21:23:24 minty but i did get to pet a new dog, and his name is cooper
21:23:25 gingerale I ran a good D&D game. They spent an hour looking for a key that was on the person they decided to avoid as much as possible.
21:23:25 Colleen 64 gamer girls in this channel
21:24:05 minty why did they want to avoid this person?
21:24:21 Mithent Doing ok, not up to much of great interest though
21:24:30 minty shin: that's fine. some days are like that. looking forward to tomorrow's gamemail
21:24:58 minty pincers: but at least you already have the movie downloaded for next week so you can say you're ahead of the game
21:25:00 Shinmera Mithent: what of not great interest are you up to then
21:26:08 Mithent Did some cleaning around the house and went for a walk... not as cold as it was yesterday
21:26:20 Shinmera ::weather
21:26:21 Colleen Weather for Shinmera in Zürich: Partly Cloudy at -2°C, 83% humidity, 0km/h wind, 1034hPa pressure.
21:26:26 Shinmera hell yeah negatives
21:26:33 minty mmmm, cold
21:26:42 minty mith: is it overcast there?
21:27:00 gingerale minty: Because she was a scary captain of the continent's most famous military with huge necromantic powers
21:27:34 Mithent -2, ouch
21:27:36 gingerale But they needed to see her pass the key to someone from her ranks she picked to be a custodian
21:27:39 minty mmmmmm, scary necromancer woman
21:28:09 Mithent minty: It usually is to some extent, but not too much today... and looks sunny tomorrow, 10C/50F
21:28:30 minty -2 is how cold it is here in the morning., and then 20c in the afternoon
21:29:15 minty so if i dress for work like it's gonna be cold how it is in the morning it's then warm in the afternoon and the clothes are too hot and it sucks
21:29:37 Mithent It gets up to 20C at the end of November? Wow
21:29:40 Shinmera the good thing about clothes is youc an take em off
21:29:47 Shinmera Mithent: deserts be like that
21:31:17 minty well, yeah shin... but not on the route... i wear joggers n then they're too warm by the afternoon so i have the heat on in the car in the morning and then the ac on in the afternoon
21:31:24 minty Mithent: there is no winter here...
21:31:50 minty there's fall, and "fuck you sunshine"
21:34:56 Mithent On the one hand, I'd like it to be warmer in winter, but yeah, it's pretty difficult to find anywhere that has decent winter weather and not crazy summer weather
21:35:02 Mithent Unsurprisingly, I guess
21:36:27 anon ugh
21:36:34 minty oh hey kyle rittenhouse who killed two people and got released on bail is now being sponsored by black rifle coffee company... or at least they're cool with him wearing their shirt
21:36:46 anon I slept through the alarm again
21:38:49 minty that's fine it's just casual chats
21:38:56 Shinmera anon: I knew that was gonna happen
21:39:05 Shinmera Mithent: But winter being cold is the great part!
21:39:09 minty #casualchaturday
21:39:20 minty shin: agreed! you're SUPPOSED to be cold in winter
21:41:03 Mithent I'd say only if you're doing something specifically wintery
21:41:15 gingerale I've been enjoying my new air filters so much. I'm getting all that fresh air in.
21:41:30 minty hell yeh gingy that shit must be so refreshing
21:42:15 gingerale It's been causing trouble sleeping because it gets cooler and noisier than what I'm now used to. I should learn to close them for the night.
21:42:23 Shinmera lol at having any kind of ventilation system
21:42:49 gingerale Stale air bad, Shin
21:42:52 anon https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1330209363550728192?s=20
21:43:42 Mithent ~~I have the windows open in summer~~
21:44:28 Shinmera gingerale: we just open our windows
21:44:52 minty cold air is so refreshing
21:44:54 minty i love it
21:45:10 minty anon: yeh... he sucks... and running the country and golf
21:45:37 minty *at running the country and golf
21:46:36 minty i'm going to have so many knitted goats arrive when they finally ship
21:46:55 Mithent You're getting lots of knitted goats?
21:46:56 anon https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-fox-news-cut-head-off-democrats-trump-biden-2020-11
21:47:19 minty Mithent: yes... https://www.grimgrinninggoats.com/
21:47:24 minty she knits goats
21:48:19 minty i have a smores goat, a poisoned apple goat, a coraline goat, a cheshire goat, a black and white goat, and a butterbeer goat waiting to ship
21:48:19 Colleen 30 butts have been spotted.
21:48:35 Mithent Oh, nice! They are pretty cute
21:49:04 minty i have one that comes to work with me n i schnuggle it while i sleep
21:49:23 minty is v small though so i can't wait for the larger ones to arrive
21:49:46 minty is black n red goat
21:50:57 Mithent Not currently on the site I guess?
21:51:13 minty anon: "hannity ended the segment as giuliani was trying to make another point" like... when sean fuckin' hannity is like "well let's move on now" that's p bad
21:51:50 minty Mithent: they sell out very quick yes. she does a drop on the site once every other week or so n they sell out really fast
21:52:12 minty she can only knit so many goats a day, y'know
21:53:04 Pincers I got nothing interesting to say so I suppose I'll just do other things
21:53:37 Shinmera Today in Space Finland the four pet polar bears decided to become strays again because the local animal tamer didn't have enough skill to keep them tame. Unfortunately they did so within the mountain base. The first thing they did was eat their only young. The Finns then carefully lured the bears out into the open by shooting at them. Outside is where the firing squad waited in
21:53:39 Shinmera line to gun them down. RIP bears.
21:53:46 Shinmera They did make for some delicious steaks though
21:54:18 Mithent minty: Mmhm, I meant the design more than being availale to buy (actually all of the goats are out of stock right now, looks like)
21:54:52 Mithent Pincers: Hope the rest of your evening goes ok then!
21:54:58 Mithent Shin: I think I lack context on Space Finland
21:55:00 Pincers Yeah
21:56:35 Shinmera Mithent: Space Finland is a colony of Finns that crashlanded on a foreign planet in spaaaaace. They landed, as appropriate for Finns, in the far north and are trying to survive the harsh, cold climate. So far they're doing pretty good, got a cozy mountain base dug out for themselves. Only problem is the local animals that keep going insane due to the lack of food.
21:57:59 anon I'm getting lots and lots of lols from the thread
21:58:27 anon especially from the affidavits that people gave
21:58:29 minty the only thing freezing in arkansas is my computer, it seems
21:58:31 Mithent I see... well, that does internally make sense
21:59:11 gingerale When the bears abandoned the colony while well inside it the experience became about survival horror
22:00:01 Shinmera Yeah, that happened late in the evening too. Fortunately after devouring their offspring the bears went to sleep so the finns could catch some Zs before setting up the firing squad.
22:01:02 Shinmera All in all they got really lucky I'd say
22:01:23 minty Mithent: ah yes. she makes many different goat designs. there are a lot of different ones on her instagram page
22:03:16 minty after checking what i missed while my computer was having a seizure i can conclude that the great polar bear tragedy of 2020 is a product of space finnish imperialism and that the finns must be stopped
22:04:30 gingerale Some days after the bear incident a trio of sheep wandered in and self-tamed themselves for the colony.
22:05:06 Shinmera And then one of the Finns played fetch with a sheep, and the sheep actually did fetch the ball, which, I gotta say, is an astounding feat
22:05:28 Mithent Self-taming seems convenient
22:05:38 minty they are sheep after all
22:06:02 minty the bible says to embrace sheep as they are obedient, while goats are shunned for their obstinance
22:09:58 gingerale That sounds like something Romans would've edited in.
22:11:12 gingerale Probably not though. Sheep herding has always been huge.
22:14:39 Shinmera ech
22:15:06 anon hce
22:16:14 minty che
22:16:35 Mithent hec
22:16:54 minty gingerale: it's matthew 25:33
22:19:37 minty sheep on the right hand, goats on the left. which is why satanism's called the left hand path, lefthandedness is considered a sin (in some of the more insanely devout groups), and why the devil is shown to be part goat
22:20:36 Pincers Poor goats
22:21:03 Mithent Did people not keep goats in biblical times?
22:21:16 gingerale I still blame romans whenever there's something just not right about Europe
22:21:40 minty ...just googled "is lefthandedness a sin" and just... here https://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=49703
22:22:51 minty a quote from the thread *clears throat* "Remember the good old days when teachers would beat the lefthandedness out of a child? With my brother they went as far as tying his left hand to his desk so that he couldn't use it."
22:23:24 gingerale I wonder how history would've turned if Egypt had agreed to support Carthage in the final years of the Punic Wars when they and Rome both were facing economic collapse.
22:23:24 Shinmera nothing like literally forcing homogenity
22:23:32 minty gingerale: romans were suspicious about left handed people. a lot of stuff in the bible does have previous religions/societies shunning it n such
22:23:51 Pincers Silly people
22:24:55 Mithent 'Sinister' being the Latin for 'left'
22:26:31 gingerale Carthage likely would've not bothered with conquering the celtic lands, they were so much more about trade. So would Northern Europe kept the pagan cultures?
22:26:39 minty this website feels like satire
22:26:46 minty but it probably isn't
22:26:51 minty because it's america
22:27:58 minty "Of course normal people like us take for granted that our families and friends all use their right hand, but we forget that there is an underbelly to society, a dismal moral abyss of deviants who choose to defy nature and GOD and do everything with their LEFT"
22:29:19 Pincers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church
22:29:27 Pincers Says it's parody
22:29:38 minty "I am so glad my husband forced me to use my right hand when we met." "Your are as blessed as you can be, having a gentle and understanding husband like this. As a husband my self, I know what kind of hard work it is, to disciplin your wife, but True Christian™ husbands are so full of love, that we will always take the time needed for a good beating."
22:30:03 minty good
22:30:19 Shinmera I'm beginning to think that people with BDSM fetishes are A Problem
22:30:37 Pincers Would be scary if somebody actually thought that
22:30:53 minty although i have read christian spanking websites and other christian websites that aren't too far off from this one and they are real
22:31:15 Mithent "Christian spanking websites" wasn't a phrase I expected to see
22:31:18 Pincers How does someone combine spanking with christianity
22:31:33 Pincers Doesn't God frown upon that
22:31:42 Shinmera lol no
22:31:42 minty beating your teenage daughter's bare ass is american, sir
22:31:52 anon so God was an American
22:31:58 Shinmera Pincers: plus it's not like these people actually care what's in the bible
22:32:11 minty there are families here that have specific belts or wooden paddles for hitting
22:32:27 minty there are fucking gift shops that sell shit like "grandma's spankin' paddle"
22:32:40 minty hitting your kids here is as divisive as voting
22:33:28 Pincers Seems perverse
22:33:38 minty anon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU
22:33:55 Shinmera Pincers: lol have you seen religions?
22:34:18 anon oh I haven't heard this song in a while
22:34:40 Shinmera Religions are just ancient cultures that people still cling to because if they weren't right the first time it would all fall apart
22:35:36 minty i've seen christian mothers post on the forums that video chats with their sons were off-limits until the girls in their pajamas could wear longer sleeves because they were harlots tempting their sons.
22:35:48 Pincers I don't think every religion is weird like that, at least
22:35:57 Shinmera Pincers: name one
22:35:57 Colleen swab yer own poop deck pincers.
22:36:07 minty fukken hell colleen
22:36:12 Shinmera also that
22:36:15 Pincers Buddhism
22:36:40 minty agree with shin tho, there's fundamental devoutness and twisting in every religion to some degree
22:37:03 Pincers Fanaticism applies to everything
22:37:15 minty Buddhism has sects that state women can't make it to nirvana because they didn't evolve enough to become men in their latest reincarnation or some shit...
22:37:25 minty try again
22:38:07 Shinmera Pincers: buddhism has plenty of weird sexual shit
22:38:13 Mithent It might be a good thing that we have the Church of England as a fairly inoffensive default option, idk
22:38:17 minty but yes, back to a while back up there, shin bdsm is fuckin' weird
22:38:18 Pincers Well every religion has dubious fringe beliefs
22:39:14 Shinmera Pincers: my point is universal. All of these religions are either: 1) old as fuck and were thus written during a time that is incredibly skeevy by modern standards almost by necessity or 2) new as hell and thus weird by necessity of having to stand out against the competition
22:39:42 Pincers Yeah alright
22:39:49 anon how is everyone's present status
22:40:04 minty doesn't help that bdsm is seen the way it is in mainstream as well... there's the whole 50 shades of grey thing that made it more visible to the public but isn't bdsm either because it's just straight up abusive and stalking and not actual bdsm
22:40:15 Shinmera anon: At this present moment in time my status can be ascertained to be of normal disposition, fellow human.
22:40:18 minty anon: talk about gimp suits and god with us
22:40:45 anon I'm still doing reviews
22:40:52 minty i just consider religion as a buffet where i pick n choose what i like from where n say fuck it to the rest
22:40:53 Shinmera minty: I mostly mean the weird dishonest variant that's so often found in these religious cultists.
22:41:07 Shinmera people that obviously want to be dominated but need some dumbass excuse for it
22:41:29 Mithent I've never read the 50 Shades books or watched the movies, but somehow ended up watching a whole YouTube series about how they tried to improve the problematic elements of the first movie with the adaptation, then the author forced them to stop
22:41:29 anon I'm also 5 hours into making a pot roast so my brother can eat that when he gets home
22:41:30 minty Shinmera: aaahhh, just plain up patriarchal domination then...
22:41:43 Shinmera minty: 's why I made the comment after you posted those quotes yanno
22:42:12 Shinmera Mithent: lol
22:42:13 minty Shinmera: that pseudo-bdsm n not actual perverts in dimly lit basements... shame
22:42:32 anon also the other community night is going to begin a while
22:42:38 anon I don't know what we're watching
22:42:38 minty Mithent: that's disappointing...
22:42:53 minty but also not surprising
22:42:59 Mithent https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRo3mRAtA0hwWpBDJCA9pKAmed88bvou9
22:43:12 minty bookmarking for later
22:43:30 minty oh god that's really long
22:43:36 minty for some stuff i never read or watched
22:43:44 Mithent Yeah, I'm surprised I watched it
22:43:48 Shinmera perfect to play while on a drive
22:43:54 minty all i know of 50 shades was this page i used to follow on facebook
22:43:54 Pincers Why bother
22:44:12 minty which was a few quotes from the book but with the main girl character switched to a goat
22:44:17 Shinmera Pincers: because we have so much time to fill
22:44:33 Pincers I don't think so
22:44:39 minty "he stuck his thumb in my butt. 'Meh eh eh eh' i replied."
22:44:45 minty some shit like that... but way funnier
22:44:45 Colleen hk's computer industry still uses gfwl and the dollar.
22:44:49 Mithent I'd previously watched his video on flat earth/QAnon
22:44:50 Colleen buck to school and i giggled again.
22:45:09 minty buck to school is a goat simulator add-on for mobile
22:45:16 minty v on topic, colleen
22:48:10 Pincers Why does my head hurt so much today
22:48:23 Shinmera not hydrated enough
22:48:25 Shinmera weather changes
22:48:32 Shinmera too much coolness
22:48:48 minty yeh pincers... you're too cool to not have a headache
22:48:51 Pincers I bet it's the third one
22:48:54 minty put on sunglasses
22:49:02 minty embrace it
22:49:04 Shinmera no it means you need to let out that excess cool
22:49:12 Shinmera do some sick stunts
22:49:15 Shinmera like slam dunking to bed
22:49:46 Pincers We should all try that one
22:49:58 minty the fuck you mean "we"?
22:50:08 Pincers We cool people
22:50:55 minty ima be a loser n stay my ass awake then
22:52:21 anon I just took a nap. I can't go back to sleep!
22:52:22 gingerale I'm tired.
22:53:59 minty then go to bed gingy
22:55:34 anon I ordered a thanksgiving dinner for that day
22:55:46 anon working the overtime help pay for it
22:57:09 gingerale I'm trying to think how sociopolitical scene would've changed the future if Carthage had become the dominant force on western side of the Mediterranean. They were big on seafaring. Would they have focused their efforts on Africa instead of Europe like Romans did? Would Celtic and Germanic people united up north to do their own thing as Carthage set trade outpost along their coasts?
22:57:27 Shinmera nobody could possibly ever know
22:57:29 Shinmera go to bed.
22:57:48 Pincers Carthage must be destroyed
22:57:56 minty gingerale: i get it...
22:57:58 gingerale Dido deserved better.
22:58:18 minty gingerale: there's a lot of frustrating things about history and "what if" situations that could have played out
22:58:31 gingerale It's also fun to theorise.
22:58:54 Pincers Some conqueror would probably come along
22:59:07 minty gingerale: what if the soviets had won the cold war? what if hitler were a better strategist and won? what if the socialists had won instead of the fascists in spain? don't think about it too long
22:59:16 Pincers What is important is that we are here now
22:59:33 anon I wanted the plot to destroy the rest of the Nazi's that retreated to Antarctica to be real
22:59:47 anon or the other theory that they went to destroy the Aliens
23:03:35 Pincers I'll be going then. Goodnight.
23:03:42 gingerale Sleep well.
23:03:43 minty night pincers
23:04:03 minty gingy be like "i'm tired" and then stay awake on the computer for 4 more hrs
23:04:25 gingerale I really should go to the pharmacy and get that refill of evening meds.
23:04:42 minty ...yes? why is that a thing you haven't done yet?
23:05:15 gingerale Last time I went I remembered to do everything I needed to do except go to the pharmacy.
23:07:35 anon gingy has a memory like an Elephant. Except when it comes to his health
23:08:17 minty i imagine gingy going out to do errands like baby's day out where he's just absentmindedly crossing the street as cars swerve to avoid him and slam into each other or some shit...
23:09:19 gingerale The last time I almost stepped on the road absentmindedly like that I almost got run over by a speeding taxi. I usually notice and stop these days after the first step onto a road and back away.
23:09:40 minty fuck sake...
23:10:03 anon Don't worry gingy we've all been there
23:10:39 anon I almost got hit with a forklift in my 3rd week because I thought people around here knew how to drive
23:10:41 gingerale I don't worry. It's quite fine.
23:11:12 minty i somehow manage to avoid death daily while switching the music on my phone while driving
23:12:40 anon I'd listen to some podcasts instead of music if I could
23:12:59 anon it's always SWEET CHILD OF MIIIIIIIIIIIIINE
23:13:29 minty that doesn't sound too bad cuz people change music all the time while driving but i do it while driving on my center console swerving on a one lane road with no seatbelt on... it really is the dumbest game of russian roulette possible
23:14:04 minty anon: the mail clerk listens to the same contemporary christian radio station every. fucking. day.
23:14:04 Colleen 1950 sharks are swimming in the sea.
23:14:49 anon minty: it's better than country musics
23:15:13 minty no it isn't. but also i had to listen to country music every day in welding class so that's also suffering
23:15:46 gingerale I don't remember the last time I would've been out anywhere for an extended period of time without headphones with my own music.
23:17:23 minty well, the welding thing... you can't wear headphones n weld... and it's in the south, so i'm overwhelmingly outnumbered n they all listened to that shit.
23:18:14 minty as for the post office, the clerk sings along with that shit. and again, if i was like "well, actually i'm not a fan of god could you turn that shit off?" i'd be the weird one. for not liking god. in the south.
23:18:23 minty anon probably gets it.
23:18:43 minty sounds like his workplace is just as hostile emotionally, tbh
23:19:04 anon I wouldn't know mints
23:19:21 minty not for the religious thing but your co-workers sound pretty fuckin' conservative to me
23:20:08 anon They are alright but they say some pretty wild things sometimes
23:20:24 anon and like talking about guns
23:20:31 gingerale That reminds me. I haven't been bothered by Jehovah's Witnesses for all year. Heck yes.
23:20:39 minty the route carrier's wife is a secretary at one church n the clerk is a secretary for another church
23:21:01 minty i got bothered by a jehovah's witness...
23:21:35 minty sometimes people come out to the car to get their mail n see the bindrune and baphomet pendant hanging from my rear view window n leave bible quotes n church fliers in their mailbox with the flag up for me
23:22:15 minty i was wearing my futhark rune rings n someone with a trump flag on their house was like "oh that's cute" which is southern for "you're going to hell but don't worry i'll pray for you"
23:23:00 minty likewise, if a southerner ever says "bless your heart" what they really mean is "fuck you" and "you're a retard" simultaneously
23:23:16 anon I'm shocked they haven't thrown a bible through your window
23:23:55 minty when i'm wearing a tank top in summer you can see the black goat head with red eyes on my right shoulder... i've got asked about that one a few times...
23:24:47 anon I would have asked "Which character are you cosplaying?"
23:25:04 minty it's a tattoo... not a cosplay
23:25:52 minty my back is about half-covered in solid black ink. i love it
23:25:57 anon most people here cover up their tattoos
23:26:10 anon usually with a jacket
23:26:14 minty i only do that when it's super sunny out cuz it fades the ink
23:26:25 minty i don't care if people see my tattoos otherwise
23:26:29 anon The only way I can see it is when we all shower out at the end of the day
23:26:41 anon and even then, I can't see anything without my glasses
23:28:14 minty i have a celtic raven, an aztecan quetzalcoatl ouroboros, a demon sigil, a wunjo rune, solve et coagula on my arms, a scarab, a bear paw, a thunderbird, the goat head, and skoll and hati
23:28:39 minty oh wait... forgot my biggest tattoo
23:28:46 minty a large black tree with black birds in it
23:28:50 anon neat
23:28:51 minty covers about half my back
23:29:02 minty ...i'm covered in birds
23:29:02 Colleen unjustified with the subjects we've covered in clouds.
23:30:06 anon my cat is currently using the computer
23:30:19 minty i've been wanting to get lucifer's sigil on me but covid was like "fuck yer plans, hoe"
23:31:04 minty tell yer cat i said hi
23:31:54 gingerale I think I should actually really try to sleep.
23:32:07 minty do that...
23:32:10 anon then sleep gingy, it can't be that hard when you're tired
23:32:11 gingerale The movie has long finished downloading.
23:32:13 minty why are you still here not sleeping?
23:32:14 anon unless you are minty
23:32:14 Colleen likely to fix it unless you're doing.
23:32:40 gingerale Hmm.. I'll take a painkiller though. Headaches.
23:32:48 gingerale Goodnight, you two.
23:32:51 minty yeh... i'll be tired just layin' there n still not fall asleep for 3 or 4 hrs it's bullshit
23:32:53 gingerale And anyone else still awake.
23:32:56 gingerale ::weather
23:32:57 Colleen Weather for gingerale in Vantaa: Possible Light Rain at 6°C (feels like 2°C), 90% humidity, 6km/h wind, 998hPa pressure.
23:32:57 minty sweet dreams gingy
23:34:33 minty it's hard to find a tattoo parlor that doesn't suck
23:35:22 minty the dude that did my alchemy tattoo was super white nationalist heathen... i dunno what the fuck it is about nordic mythology that attracts white nationalist mindsets but it's embarrassing
23:35:22 Colleen RADICAL! 295 people are still experiencing the 80s!
23:35:39 minty nowhere was odin like "and also, btw, fuck non-whites" it's not in the poetic edda
23:36:48 minty i miss the socal tattoo artists. it was a husband n wife. the wife would tattoo me n the husband was a libertarian but he wasn't stupid n even though we disagreed on some shit it wasn't bad
23:37:09 minty bonus: his dad was a commie n he'd come in while dude was tattooing from time to time
23:37:13 minty i adored them
23:39:53 anon you meet the quirkiest at a tattoo parlor
23:40:16 minty i have the urge to get a tattoo about once a year or so...
23:40:33 anon I'm skipping community night
23:40:53 anon I don't have any plans to get a tattoo anytime soon
23:41:20 minty the dull grinding of the needle in my skin is borderline cathartic
23:41:26 anon or travel :(
23:41:54 anon hmm
23:41:54 Colleen hmmmmmm what to draw a drawer.
23:42:00 anon I feel like splooting
23:45:00 minty okay that tattoo parlor supports "adopt a cop" so...
23:46:21 anon wha
23:48:25 minty i dunno... some blue lives matter bs
23:50:43 anon There is one house I pass by on the road that says the number of people died from Covid under Trump
23:50:55 anon over 250,000+ deaths
23:51:04 minty yep
23:51:20 minty we'll be at 300k before the end of the year
23:51:31 minty cuz these assholes don't want gramma to be alone for the holidays n shit
23:51:44 anon Trump is not the blame for those peoples death
23:51:55 anon or
23:52:06 anon how is he responsible for those deaths
23:53:05 minty he is to start off with... he never took it seriously and didn't close the country down quickly or efficiently. he supported those protesting against lockdown efforts n only started wearing a mask super late in the game and only for show n had himself n his shit family not wearing masks in public, on tv, and hosted a fucking super spreader event
23:53:22 minty he undermines fauci at all turns
23:53:27 minty lies saying we're doing well
23:53:43 anon Trump is a smart man
23:53:46 minty this shit could've been handled LOOOOOONG before now
23:53:58 anon I could not believe my coworker told that to me
23:54:02 minty n we could've been heading into the holidays with 0 infections
23:56:22 minty fuckkkkkk i think ima get this tattoo done soon
23:56:49 anon hm
23:57:02 anon I'm afraid to ask why they think Socialism is so bad
23:57:22 minty cuz the red scare was successful
23:57:22 Colleen scarecrows don't even lie.
23:57:27 minty they don't, colleen
23:58:01 minty ppl in the u.s. don't even know what socialism is
23:58:14 minty n they'll be pro-union while anti-socialism too
23:58:23 minty like... unions n socialism go hand in hand, son
23:58:47 anon I don't know much about it either other than the handful of vids I watched on it
23:58:47 minty ooohhh
23:58:59 minty you're reading a book on socialism? which one? tell me tell me
23:59:15 anon All I know is that McCarthyism was successful in believing socialism is the death of America
23:59:34 minty well, socialism, sir... is an economic system based on social needs.
23:59:37 anon minty: It was from one of the reccommendations on that guy I follow
23:59:56 minty differs from capitalism in that capitalism is an economic system based on capital's needs
0:00:09 minty socialism is worker ownership of the means of production
0:00:32 minty so, your workplace, with no boss or management. just you n your co-workers deciding how much to make of what and when
0:01:10 minty there are many who think socialism is government ownership over the means of production, but that's a false statement.
0:01:12 anon Socialism Betrayed: Behind the collapse of the Soviet Union
0:01:18 anon I only started reading it though
0:02:04 anon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N9dgX5Ivxo
0:02:05 minty i, personally, would say that socialism can be accomplished with or without government assistance. much like how capitalism can assisted or restrained by the government.
0:04:06 anon hm
0:04:19 anon I never thought about it that way
0:04:28 minty matter of fact, socialists are why we have a lot of regulations in place today
0:04:52 minty for example, upton sinclair
0:05:19 minty upton sinclair was a socialist who wrote "the jungle"
0:05:47 minty the jungle is about chicago's slaughterhouses and meatpacking industry
0:05:56 minty at the time of its writing, there was no FDA
0:06:02 anon oh I've heard of that book
0:06:06 minty yes
0:06:30 anon that would be an interesting read
0:06:34 minty indeed
0:06:36 anon better than Salt
0:06:39 minty i've been meaning to find it myself
0:06:43 minty salt?
0:06:56 minty salt, sugar, fat is a good book detailing the shittiness of today's food industry
0:06:59 minty i've read that
0:07:31 minty hall of mirrors by barry eichengreen is a frustrating, good read too
0:08:32 minty it's about how the 2008 housing crisis mirrors the great depression
0:08:48 anon every review I found on Amazon has a 1-star
0:09:13 minty and how it was caused by undoing all the safety measures (such as the glass-steagall act) that were put in place after the great depression
0:09:20 minty reviews on amazon? for what?
0:09:31 anon The Jungle
0:09:56 anon I can probably find it online to read
0:10:39 minty one of those 1 star reviews is about how their daughter had to read it in high school and it gave her nightmares
0:10:45 minty too fucking bad, asshole...
0:11:17 minty anon: found a pdf
0:11:31 minty http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/The_Jungle_Upton_Sinclair.pdf
0:11:53 anon oh neat we got the same result
0:11:53 Colleen 1951 sharks are swimming in the sea.
0:12:16 minty i thoroughly encourage all socialist reading and learning
0:15:10 anon that vid I linked earlier has some pretty interesting books I'd like to read
0:16:19 anon although Human Rights in the Soviet Union can't be found on Amazon
0:17:09 minty well... equality was legally enforced in the soviet union
0:17:30 minty there were black americans here who moved to the soviet union
0:17:39 minty keep in mind we had jim crow laws here
0:18:11 minty gender equality was legally enforced as well
0:18:18 minty https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-a-better-record-of-training-women-in-stem-than-america-does-today-180948141/
0:21:01 minty howard zinn is good to read as well
0:21:24 anon women can't be better than men
0:21:27 minty i've been meaning to read his "a people's history of the united states" for years
0:21:37 minty we're not better. we're equal. you fuck
0:21:53 anon k
0:22:02 anon I was thinking of that episode of king of the hill
0:22:13 anon where cotton objects to have a female minister
0:22:17 minty the dad who got his kneecaps shot off
0:22:19 minty yeh
0:22:24 minty there's a reason why he's so short
0:22:32 minty and it's cuz he justly got his kneecaps shot off
0:22:38 minty by some brave hero
0:22:41 minty who shot them
0:25:30 anon have people clapped for your service as a mail carrier
0:26:16 minty eww no
0:26:28 minty i hate that shit
0:26:40 anon minty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1Fb9G4XOI
0:26:52 anon I watch this guy a lot
0:27:35 minty ooohhh murder!
0:27:54 minty wait, you can't access the fukken uhhhh drive thing can you?
0:27:56 minty at all?
0:28:11 anon on shin's secret server?
0:28:13 anon nah
0:28:24 minty i uploaded a lot of forensic and crime scene books in there
0:28:33 minty over 200 books and school articles
0:28:41 minty lame
0:29:03 anon because I can't figure out why I can't access the folder normally instead of doing some heard hack by mounting the drive to my /usr folder
0:29:13 anon and it times out from that sometimes
0:29:48 minty oh, so theoretically you COULD do that but it's time-consuming n hard?
0:31:17 minty cuz i've uploaded some marx, lenin, stirner, labour history books... a book on violence in porn
0:32:08 minty for me, if i'm not actively uploading something, it'll time out n go to my main desktop folder
0:33:43 anon violence in pron?
0:34:15 minty yes. it's called "getting off" by robert jensen
0:34:25 minty it's a quick read. over in an afternoon
0:35:34 anon https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Off-Pornography-End-Masculinity/dp/089608776X
0:36:01 minty yeh that's it
0:36:09 minty you don't have to buy it though
0:36:14 anon I didn't expect The End of Masculinity
0:36:15 Colleen gayms sounds good but so are long.
0:37:08 minty well, the analysis of it is how it's considered manly to bang as much as possible in porn n such. sexual domination of women n shit
0:37:10 anon yeah he has it on his site to read
0:38:23 minty it's a good read
0:38:32 minty well, frustrating read
0:38:39 minty most of what i read is frustrating
0:40:38 minty but still p easy to figure out. most people watching porn aren't doing so for deep and meaningful romantic connections with anyone. they wanna see degrading filth
0:41:40 anon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENEedWy_kU
0:43:15 anon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYTx2NACGjM
0:43:21 anon another loony case
0:43:37 anon involving the "cia"
0:43:39 minty i love sideshow bob
0:44:08 minty oooohhhh... i'll watch that in a bit.
0:50:14 minty i'm not seeing my favorite serial killer on that channel
0:52:16 anon which one?
0:52:22 anon there are too many
0:52:33 minty he was an english serial killer i believe... hol up
0:52:50 anon the one with the stupid hat?
0:52:56 minty no
0:53:11 minty bundy has a special place in my heart for being from tacoma n shit
0:53:12 minty but
0:53:27 minty my favorite serial killer is https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nilsen-dennis.htm
0:53:34 minty dennis nilsen
0:53:53 minty he lived on the top floor of this apartment building
0:54:01 minty and he was a lonely gay
0:54:21 anon https://youtu.be/VRYSQfT9ZOA here is one that I was really frustrated with
0:54:36 minty and so he would bring home a guy and fuck them... n then when they were like "y'know i think we should see other people" he would kill them
0:54:41 minty and keep them around for a while
0:54:45 minty in the cupboards
0:55:23 minty and bathe them n such... n fuck the body... n then after a few weeks when they got TOO gross, he would cut them up n flush pieces of them down the toilet
0:55:30 minty to dispose of the body
0:55:37 minty he was caught when a hand blocked the plumbing
0:56:13 anon wicked gross
0:56:29 minty bundy was on a sports team in my high school school district
0:56:44 minty and his name is still on one of the trophies
0:57:02 minty i've been to the lake where he picked someone up at...
0:57:20 minty it's weird
0:57:45 minty i've also watched the yearly "town that dreaded sundown" viewing in spring lake park in texarkana
0:57:48 anon wasn't there a doc on him on netflix
0:58:01 minty i dunno...
0:58:29 minty there's bundy n green river gary up from washington
0:58:36 minty two "famous" serial killers
0:58:47 minty grunge n murder n starbucks are from seattle
0:58:57 minty muh ppl
1:04:06 anon oof
1:07:15 anon my cat won't stop bugging me
1:07:18 minty oh wow that's weird... i was alive when bundy was killed
1:07:19 Colleen 7ghz dualcore and nothing's open.
1:08:49 minty here's one i do remember. so, my birthday's june 11th, yeah?
1:09:12 minty timothy mcveigh, who did the oklahoma city bombing, was executed on my 16th birthday
1:09:52 minty lethal injection on june 11, 2001
1:10:23 anon I forget
1:10:30 anon was the Unibomber
1:10:34 anon or whatever
1:10:49 minty unabomber was kazynski (that's probably not spelled correctly)
1:13:43 anon reading some of the book
1:13:56 minty which one?
1:14:13 anon The intro for is already if security wasn't there, the men would gangrape her
1:14:24 anon Getting Off
1:16:15 minty oh yeah
1:17:06 minty absolutely nothing creepy about a whole slew of dudes standing around a woman with hard ons n shit... he's assuming there, but the mindset behind a bunch of dudes is that the women in porn enjoy that shit n whatnot
1:17:06 Colleen RADICAL! 297 people are still experiencing the 80s!
1:17:17 minty when, statistically speaking, they don't.
1:17:55 minty it's customer service as a porn star to be like "oh yes i totally enjoy my job"
1:18:48 minty i can't remember the name of this one, but once she got famous enough she backed out n set up her own site where she masturbates n does less hardcore shit n she's like "i hate myself less now that i'm not doing hardcore porn" and she's more content
1:19:45 minty there's also the job cycle of it all where, if you did porn, it's reeeeeaaaaalllllly hard to get into any other line of "respectable" work after
1:21:04 minty so it's like, you do porn cuz nobody else will hire you, n then nobody else will hire you because you did porn
1:22:31 minty some of what i was just saying isn't in the book... but just shit i had bookmarked somewhere at some point
1:24:43 minty okay i tried to find the porn star i was just talking about n i already don't like where the internet has taken me
1:27:07 anon top lel
1:27:25 minty LEXI BELLE
1:27:53 minty she had put on clown paint for one of the porns, so i googled "clown face porn" n somehow got results for "armpit worship" and
1:27:55 minty just
1:27:58 minty ...no
1:28:44 minty but yeah she used to do hardcore n now she just has an only fans n hates life less... wholesome life turn
1:30:21 anon that is pretty bizarre
1:31:44 minty she had been slapped n was crying in one... now she only films solo shit or with other women, from what i'm seeing scrolling through her twitter, and from what i saw last time i scrolled through her twitter
1:32:59 anon sick
1:33:26 minty yeh... your gender kinda sucks
1:33:41 anon oh hey
1:34:17 anon they don't want to get sued so they changed the name of the website
1:34:34 minty what site?
1:34:42 anon the one with the van
1:34:43 minty oh, in the book?
1:36:01 minty e'erybody knows what the hell he's talkin' about tho
1:36:40 anon oh wait reading more this a different site
1:37:01 anon though I would be foolish to believe that there aren't variant sites like it
1:37:07 minty imitations is a symbol of success
1:37:30 anon sounds like something you get from a fortune cookie
1:37:34 minty "do you like _____? well, wait til you try ____!"
1:37:34 anon speaking of which
1:37:47 anon I haven't eaten any Chinese food since sucky was last here
1:41:04 minty you just made me hungry for potstickers... thanks jerk
1:41:04 Colleen ... Therk.
1:41:07 minty ya jerk
1:42:17 anon ugh my brain hurts
1:42:45 anon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpn1tGa9zE now for something else
1:43:13 minty yay bunnies!
1:46:23 minty okay ima dip n watch the house that dripped blood on shudder. cuz peter cushing is a good actor
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4 edition of The journey of Columbus found in the catalog.
Lilly, Melinda.
by Lilly, Melinda.
Published 2003 by Rourke Pub. in Vero Beach, Fla .
Columbus, Christopher -- Juvenile literature,
Columbus, Christopher -- Travel -- Juvenile literature,
Columbus, Christopher,
Explorers -- America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature,
Explorers -- Spain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature,
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Juvenile literature,
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
About the Edition
Briefly presents Christopher Columbus"s 1492 journey from Spain into the unknown.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.
Statement written by Melinda Lilly ; illustrated by Raquel Díaz ; educational consultants, Kimberly Weiner, Betty Carter.
Genre Juvenile literature., Biography
Series Rourke discovery library, Reading American history. Level 1
Contributions Díaz, Raquel, ill.
LC Classifications E111 .L7675 2003
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How was the first voyage of Columbus to the New World undertaken, and what was its legacy. Having convinced the King and Queen of Spain to finance his voyage, Christopher Columbus departed mainland Spain on August 3, He quickly made port in the Canary Islands for a final restocking and left there on September 6.
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The journey of Columbus. [Melinda Lilly; Raquel Díaz] -- Briefly presents Christopher Columbus's journey from Spain into the unknown. Christopher Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; before 31 October – 20 May ) was an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central Children: Diego, Fernando.
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The German command post inside Mussolini’s bunker. The Germans took it over after Mussolini ran out of power.
Lovely Sant’Oreste — and not so lovely me — located just north of Rome.
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SANT’ORESTE, Italy — Romance pours from every corner of Italy like honey from a punctured bottle. Piazzas. Opera music. Wine. Mussolini …
… OK, so Italy has a dark side. I visited it yesterday. And that dark side is as black as a fascist’s heart — or the inside of the tunnels that Mussolini hid in during World War II.
I’ve had a weird fascination with Benito Mussolini ever since I read about him during my first stint here from 2001-03. He was a fierce nationalist who tried to make his country a player on the world stage. He had some leadership qualities that any general in the U.S. could admire. The son of a socialist blacksmith in the small Emilia-Romagna town of Dovia di Predappio, Mussolini got booted from the socialist party and founded Italy’s first fascist party. In his early years, he did a lot of good. He helped nationalize a language in a country fractured by dialects and millenium-long regional rivalries. He turned the swamps outside of Rome into commerce centers and charming, livable villages. And, as his legacy still states, he got the trains to run on time. He did nothing with the bus system, which still sucks, but that’s Rome’s problem now. His problem was he had this weird crush on Adolph Hitler, which, obviously, became the ultimate fatal attraction. Mussolini also ill equipped his military to the point where it couldn’t compete in a world war. What was left after the war was Mussolini hanging from his toes in a Milan piazza and Italy falling into an economic mess from which it took decades to recover.
(I had a first-hand encounter with Italy’s post-war troubles when I moved here in 2001. My then-girlfriend and I stayed in a small, family run pensione for a week while looking for an apartment. The owner’s mother was a young girl in Rome after the war. Today she still can’t eat tomatoes because as a girl, that’s all she had to eat.)
The trains aren’t the most obvious leftover from Mussolini’s footprint. He built a massive bunker in a mountain north of Rome. He said it was a weapons factory. In actuality, it was a hideout. Dark, eerie and cold, it exists today with just enough of his fingerprints to give you a feel of fascist Italy in World War II.
I toured one of Rome’s most off-the-beaten-path sites with good ol’ Rome Explorers, the terrific meetup group that brings Rome’s fascinating history to you up close and personal. Fourteen of us took a little regional train an hour north of Rome to the charming hill town of Sant’Oreste. It was another varied group. I was joined by a bunch of young Scandinavian women working for World Food Program, an Aussie and his Swedish girlfriend with WFP (WFP employs 1,000 people and seemingly every expat in Rome except for me and the Africans selling knock-off Gucci bags by the Vatican.), a Bolivian dental hygienist, an English journalist and some Italian history/hiking buffs.
Mussolini had the good sense of building his hideout in a spectacular setting. Sant’Oreste is at the foot of Mont Soratte, a forest-covered, multi-peaked mountain of modest dimensions but awesome views of the entire Lazio region. We all gathered outside a tiny caffe where gray clouds put the entire area in a cloak of mist, giving this region with the dark past an even more foreboding present. We walked a well-marked dirt trail that looked like a narrow service road. We soon came upon a red arrow pointing up — straight up — and made about a 20-minute steep ascent through thick forest. The cool 45-degree air was perfect for a strenuous stretch and reaching above the tree line made it all worth it. Below was all of north Lazio. We were only about 30 miles north of Rome yet all we saw was green farmland dotted with oak trees, small farm dwellings and rolling hills beyond.
Rainfall made negotiating the narrow, rocky trail a challenge as we traversed a saddle between peaks. We wound up at a small concrete church dating back to the early 4th century. It’s dedicated to Pope Sylvester, the Vatican’s first Christian pope who helped pave the way for Christian acceptance after centuries of bloody persecution under Roman rule. The Romans built this church in 300 AD as a temple to Apollo, not to mention as a lookout for invading armies that were attacking Rome in an increasing fashion. Pope Constantine persecuted Sylvester for his bombastic religious ways but when Constantine fell ill, Sylvester cured him in this church. After that, Constantine legalized the Christian religion and San Silvestro became its first pope.
Here, not far from where Sylvester slept, we had lunch.
Mussolini obviously never found inspiration in Sylvester’s kindness. While Hitler was toying with his obtuse affections (Mussolini built the Pyramide Metro stop near my new apartment strictly to impress Hitler on his first visit.) and the Americans were bombing at his heels, Mussolini went just outside Sant’Oreste and went to work. He built 2.4 miles of tunnels inside the mountain. Doors are two feet thick. Walls are eight meters of concrete. Started in 1937, it took him six years — not coincidentally until the time the U.S. ran Mussolini out of power. In 1943, with the big fat fuck gone, the Italian workers dropped their shovels and stopped digging. The Germans took it over which is why when we entered, we saw on one door, “ACHTUNG! ZSTRITT VERBOTEN” (ATTENTION! STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.) The first room isn’t terribly impressive. It’s a big open space with a white, rounded ceiling and scruffy floor. It’s very well lit. It could pass for an abandoned VFW post.
But then the pretty blonde guide (Wearing camouflage battle fatigues was a nice touch. Her cell phone’s dial tone taken from the theme song from “Psycho” seemed particularly appropriate here, too), took us out the back of the room, it got weird. The network of tunnels makes Mussolini’s bunker look like an ant hill. We walked along deep, pitch-black corridors with our flashlights skipping over a beat-up concrete floor. The hallways connected massive rooms with piles of broken-down equipment. Mussolini did use these rooms to build weapons. Shifts of 30-40 workers worked around the clock in rooms where you can still see the giant holes where ventilator pipes fit. The air in this cave while building weapons must’ve been absolutely toxic.
But it worked. The U.S. military had no idea this existed. It wasn’t discovered until the Germans ran it and a U.S. reconnaissance plane took photos of what looked like a structure sticking out of a mountain outside Rome. On Sept. 19, 1944, the U.S. peppered it with bombs. They destroyed the outside but the inside remained intact. So did the Germans inside.
The Germans turned this place into a living hell. Not only were working conditions apparently awful, but we saw the remains of a bed, in the bottom of a hole about 20 feet deep. Discoveries of another bed not far away brought the conclusion that the Germans also used this place as a prison, too. For its workers, it eventually became a cemetery. In 1944, the SS, the German secret service, took gold from the Bank of Italy and gave it to its soldiers to bury in the bunker. As payment for the soldiers’ hard work, the SS killed them. You know, just in case they talked. One German survived. Wally Vogt returned to Germany and after the war he tried to return to the bunker to, what he told the locals, “just to have a look around.” They probably wondered why he had a huge satchel looped over his shoulder. Wally Vogt was found burned to death in his home. No gold has been found since.
The bunker was used in the 1970s to store weapons but today it’s a fascinating slice of life during World War II. We’d walk around a corner and flash our lights on a tank pointing an anti-aircraft gun at our faces. We saw a dormitory with beds still lined up in neat rows, oddly making the room look like a mental ward. We saw the recreation of a German military command post, complete with circa 1940s radio equipment and typewriters the size and general weight of television sets.
I talked to the guide about what Italians are taught in school about Mussolini. “We read that he did some good things,” she said. “But he did some bad things, too.”
Deep in the misty hills of rural Lazio, proof will always remain.
Great story. I was just watched the movie “Tea with Mussolini”. I am sure you probably saw it once. Anyway, glad you are doing well.
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April 13, 2008: A dark day in schnitzeldom
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“Where are we going?”asked Fondy, this despite the fact that she was the one driving and we were already halfway down 16th Avenue.
“I don’t care,”I truthfully replied. “Wherever you want to go.” The fact is, while my wife was out of town for a month and a half, I enjoyed most of my dinners at home alone, watching Food Network and eating off the marble kitchen island. So when I said “I don’t care” I really meant it. After forty days of tuna sandwiches and corn on the cob, I was just happy to be out.
“I feel like paprikash,”she informed me. And I immediately knew where we were headed: The Budapest. That family-run little establishment at the corner of Main and 16th, with its golden schnitzel, down home desserts, and frustratingly inconsistent hours. Sometimes it would be open Tuesdays to Fridays; sometimes Wednesdays to Saturdays. On occasions it would be open late. Other times, it would be shut down for weeks on end.
We rounded the corner and made our approach. “Take a look and tell me if they’re open,”Fondy instructed.
I peeked out the window as we rolled by and was greeted by a dispiriting sight. “They’re closed!”
Fondy was already considering alternatives: “We could go for Vietnamese instead.”
“No, it’s closed!”I emphasized. “Closed CLOSED!” The restaurant was dark. The tables and chairs were gone. The Budapest was no more!
This was a place that served the best chicken paprikash in the city. The best schnitzel in town (Carl and I would order the Transylvania Wooden Platter for 3, a veritable feast comprised of three kinds of schnitzel, cabbage rolls, home made sausages, fried potatoes, spaetzle, and sauerkraut). The best langos (deep-fried bread) in Vancouver. Okay, granted, I’d never tried langos anywhere else, but the cold truth remained: from this day forth, it looked like I would never get to try langos anywhere.
I’ll miss their walnut torte and their poppy seed strudel and their various kremes and their samloi galuska and their occasionally indifferent service and that pork tenderloin dish I discovered on one of my last visits that I absolutely adored and vowed I’d order again the next time I was in which will be never again.
Sniff.
From the culinary to the literary – I finished up The Keep last night and spent the morning composing my thoughts for tomorrow’s book discussion. Again, a reminder to get your questions and comments for author F. Paul Wilson in early as I’ll be collecting them over the next couple of days and then sending them his way mid-week.
Prep begins tomorrow on Whispers. Looks like it’s going to be a full day: 8:30 (Concept meeting), 12:00 (Art Department meeting), 13:30 (Prosthetics meeting), 14:00 (Costumes meeting), 15:30 (Props meeting). The second Fog Test has been moved to later in the week.
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83 thoughts on “April 13, 2008: A dark day in schnitzeldom”
Isn’t that an awful feeling when you find a favorite restaurant is gone for good? The same thing happened to me on a trip to Memphis a year or so ago. I’d been eager to eat at a favorite old haunt of mine only to arrive and find it was something else. I was oddly crushed. And I feel sort of bad that this happened to you on my birthday… 😉
Glad to hear things are moving along with Whispers. I’m really psyched about this episode.
tm says:
I’m sorry for your restaurant loss. I have a hot dog place near my house that is really good that closed for the winter and has yet to reopen or show signs of reopening any time soon. why is it these places close without warning??
Tim Gaffney says:
I saw some footage from Continuum today at a Creation SciFi Convention in Burbank. They showed some footage from the Arctic shoot with Amanda, Ben, RDA, and Martin Wood the actor. The scene with the sub coming up through the ice was awesome. Then there was some footage of Ben and Amanda in fighter jets with their squadron facing off with what looked like gliders. It was hard to tell because they were only on screen for a couple seconds. Thanks to Brad Wright and MGM for sending the footage!!!
SheppardsOnlyPie says:
Awwwwwwww Joe hun i’m so sorry!!! I hate it when my favorite Restraurants close or when I get attached to a certain product they take it off the shelves. It’s a universal conspiracy I tell you!!!
Will we ever get to see an evil Rodney McKay? Maybe an evil twin or something?
Deep-fried bread? I’m not sure I understand the point of that, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Anything deep-fried can’t be bad. So sorry about The Budapest, though.
Who is that blurry person running by in the video?
I’m not allowing myself any wine until I finish my trainee evaluations (which seems like a reasonable thing to do), so I want to get busy, because I want that wine!
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Nolamom says:
I feel your pain. I love spaetzle with pork tenderloin and all the other things you mentioned. It was devastating years ago when Old Krakow closed. Now I have to travel to the nearest German heritage town around San Antonio (New Braunfels) to get that kind of food.
ytimynona says:
We thought that our favorite restaurant had closed down a few years ago, and it popped up, bigger and better than ever, in a nicer section of town a few months later. We saw it and said “Oooooh!!!”
So perhaps there is hope?
Alas, it seems every time I love a restaurant, it closes. French/Caribbean I drove 40 mins for, gone. Our only nearby Arabic/Indian cuisine, GONE just when I was craving it, the last one I jinxed. I am afraid to say how much I love the Rice Thai restaurant.
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susiekew says:
Poor Joe … It’s hard when a favorite restaurant disappears. Just as hard as when they change hands without warning, as happened to our favorite Thai restaurant several years ago. New owner, new menu, but they kept the same name so Hubs and I walked in all unsuspecting. We thought, ‘OK, we’ll give it a try anyway…’ Big, BIG mistake. Never went back.
Hope you and Fondy find another place with good chicken paprikash!
Elizabeth S says:
I’m sorry to hear about your restaurant. The same thing happened to me one time, except it was a Chinese restaurant, the best one ever. None of the other Chinese restaurants within two hundred miles are half as good. Oh well.
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Charles Schneider says:
Awesome video. I know what you mean about eating alone and falling into the habit of eating the same thing. Even if it’s a great meal, after a while you really get bored.
This has been especially true since I went back to school and started working for my production network. I did just move across the city, and let’s say the deli’s on broadway are a lot better than the deli’s in Spanish Harlem (they’re also a lot cleaner too).
Well, that sucks.
I don’t go to restaurants so I’ve had to experience them vicariously through this blog of yours; and I’ll admit, those pics of the food from The Budapest did look yummy. I am sorry for your (and Carl’s) loss. Who knows, maybe you’ll find something else, or maybe they might even revamp the restaurant into something better? It can happen, perhaps.
Thornyrose says:
No mention of what Fondy had to settle for. Were you that deep in mourning, or was the food that forgettable? And the story is depressingly familiar. I almost fear trying a new place and liking it. The prospect of returning, only to find it closed feels like an exercise in masochism. Stupid question time. If you’re reached the prep stage for Whispers, does that mean filming starts next week? I believe you’ve discussed the topic before, and I plead combined laziness and lack of sleep for attempting a search. I’ve put off my note-taking on the Keep till tomorrow. As always, thanks for the blog and photos/video.
Ohhhh, mannnnn….what a teaser vid.
But, thanks for sharing it. Yes, it works; yes, can see it; yes, can hear audio…now a few more seconds would be oh so cool. Not clear if the individuals are prepping for a scene or if this is a scene. Too short to really grasp.
Feeling your pain regarding the closed restaurant.
In another lifetime, a bunch of us piled into a car to go to a rather good seafood restaurant that none of us had been to in months. and Eeekkk. closed.
Only a few months to July. Saw a note somewhere that Continuum would become available July twenty something. So that is good. And, waiting on SGA-S5 and we’re waiting……
I was not hungry until I read how you and Fondy were deprived. Hope you guys had a nice and enjoyable dinner. Of course, any shared details will be appreciated. We love to follow your dining trail; your pictures always capture the moment.
hint hint…but the vid was a wee bit short.
dasNdanger says:
This was a place that served the best chicken paprikash in the city.
My husband mourns with you…this is his favorite dish, ever! A real bummer when a favorite restaurant goes away (I had this experience with a great Middle Eastern restaurant I just loved – still miss it 3 years later).
On a brighter note…I make a killer chicken paprikash, with some of the best paprika ever, brought straight from Hungary. I *COULD* arrange to send you some…IF we come to some agreement that the Wraith are not inherently evil (or ‘unnatural’ as Carson put it), but simply a species with a special dietary need who have every right to exist as humans do, especially considering that even humans have no qualms over killing their own, and often for far lesser reasons than to quell a burning hunger. Hey, add Todd to three more episodes, and I’ll even send you the recipe. Make him a regular, and I’ll come cook it for you, personally! 😀
drldeboer says:
Oh my I feel your loss. Perhaps they will open somewhere else under the same or a different name, if I liked a place that much I’d be persistently inquiring til I got a definitive answer. I learned to cook awesome spicy Hungarian & Germanic foods from my grandmother & my companion’s mother, but I don’t think paprikash will ship too well…
Some compassion for my fellow Joe F.-loving friends, here is my fave pic of him so far this year, from the Visual Effects Society Awards 2008 Feb 2008, which will be shown on HDNet on Tues Apr 15 at 10pmEDT if you also want to hear him talk (he was a presenter)
http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/awards/2008/optimized/78265995mw025.jpg
Perhaps this week he will let Mr. M, who loves him so, take & post some more nice pix for us!
🙂 DD
smiley_face06 says:
Sorry to hear about The Budapest closing down! Is there any possibility that they just rudely relocated without informing you?
Sorry about your fav restaunt Joe! Hey, what happened to you sending me an autograped pic? No, I’m not your mom.
labellementeuse says:
Sorry to hear about your restaurant, Joe.
So… I am SO EXCITED to be seeing an all-woman gate team! But I’m starting to get a bit confused. I’ve heard rumblings that the all-woman gate team will first be met on a survey on a planet accompanied by John (even though there’s already military on the team) and Carson (even though there’s already a doctor on the team.) This can’t be right! Surely John and Carson show up after something particularly in Carson’s field was found, and John tagged along because he was bored? I know you wouldn’t want to imply that the all-girl team needs male supervision, as the rumours I’ve heard imply.
Equally, I’m sure you didn’t consider introducing the all-female team in one episode, only to kill a bunch of them (here, have an all girl team – haha, sorry, we killed them!) Or in a horror episode so that you can have lots of screaming women running around to conform to the genre’s worst stereotypes. Right? Right? You guys are more introspective than that, right?
libkat says:
Well, darn. I hoping to hit Budapest before I leave Vancouver on Wed. Guess I’ll have to brave the wait at Vij’s instead.
Have you eaten at CinCin? Best pasta ever!
Masterchief says:
aww that sucks! so what did you do then? according to David Hewlett you’ll start filming The Shrine tomorrow and from the episode list and your comments I’m assuming Whispers is next. good luck with those! and yes I’m hoping for some pics LOL 😉
I’ll just post my questions from yesterday: does season 5 have less Shep centred episodes than previous seasons? also it seems that Ronon still has the dreads, can you confirm this?
Deep fried bread?….straight to the ARTERIES!!!!
dyginc says:
My early thoughts on THE KEEP…Spoiler alert (somewhat)
First thing I have to mention is that before this book I never really saw a difference between the German Army and the SS. I never let the possibility of a separation, sense of duty, or purpose, cross my mind when it came to viewing them as separate entities. It was an eye opener but more importantly a lesson to look with new eyes; thank you Mr. Wilson.
I have been to Dachau and I know what it is like to have your life sucked out of you by just by stepping over the threshold. That has only happened to me one other time in my life. I could feel that when reading this story. I could feel the chaotic eerie rhythm from the first page that faithfully flowed through out the entire story pushing me to reach the end so that maybe I could breathe again. The horror was not found in the thought of the SS or the fear of death but for me it was found in the images that Mr. Wilson used to illustrate Woermann’s and Magda’s points of view. I found the imagery profound and sometimes horribly relatable.
I instantly disliked Kaempffer. I don’t know if it was from my image of what someone who loved being a part of one of the worst groups in history was actually like or the fact that his arrogance and ego were so vividly relatable to people I have known that turned me into a unwearied spectator waiting to witness and revel in his humiliating demise.
I loved Woermann! I see him as an anti-hero who is proud of his service, loves his country or what used to be his country, and now finds himself entwined with the arm of evil. As the book progresses, I found myself sending a wish out into verse hoping that he would be spared.
The relationship between Woermann and Kaempffer was very well constructed. I imagine everyone who served the SS as cowardly and in this story it was quite amusing to see Woermann, who is trapped in more ways than one, find some sense of power, usefulness in demoralizing the impotent Kaempffer. I found it sad and unfair how Woermann was “wrapped” up but I understand the reason.
As for Cuza and Magda, all I can say is wow. I was instantly drawn to Magda. There was something in the under current of the story that lead me to believe that she was meant for greater things, that her father was a tether to the evil that seethed in Europe, the evil of selfishness, and the weakness in doubt. She was not allowed to follow her dreams because of her “responsibility” to take care of her father and men like Hitler that saw her as unworthy. The struggle of a woman to find her place and find herself is a long hard road. Thanks to Mr. Wilson, Magda’s journey was mesmerizing and had me rooting for her and Glenn. Cuza on the other hand was someone whom I did not feel anything but sympathy for…not for his illness but his capacity to be so misled. Fear of death, pain, and hunger drove this man to expel his daughter, his morals, and ultimately his life.
Glenn/Glaeken was by far my favorite. I feel like his story was not complete; not enough questions were answered for me. I feel the same about Molasar/Rasalom. I wish the resolution lasted longer…I would have loved to experience a knock down drawn out fight.
The Keep itself was the most intriguing character. It breathed trepidation and magnified everyone’s anxiety of being trapped. From the crosses to the tower, the nightmare remained truly unseen. The setting for this battle was strong and maintained. I loved the mystery behind every stone. Mr. Wilson has a beautiful way of painting a picture.
Mr. Wilson did a great job misdirecting the reader.
I imagined being in Cuza’s place when the possibility of having everything I believe be terrifically wrong and I did shiver. The scariest place for me was “He was trying to make light of it for her sake, but Magda knew he was being flayed alive in his mind.” There is something about that line, that image that thrust me into a place where I knew how that felt, feels and that is what is scary about this book.
I have a couple of question for Mr. Wilson.
What was the spark that made you set Woermann as the “good” side of the war?
Were you listening to any music while you wrote this book? If so, what kind?
What is it about the horror genre that drives you to write?
Arctic Goddess says:
Joe:
I have a couple of questions.
1) When the 20 lucky fans(one of them was moi) were hustled back out to the bus after the amazing screening of Continuum, is that when you brought out the dancing gnomes and serving monkeys?
2) My dumb husband made the mistake of giving money to an unemployed young fellow a few weeks ago. Now he drops by the front door semi regularly looking for more handouts. He said he needed to buy bread and milk for his kids. When I offered him bread and milk, he declined. I know I could have said something that would deter him from pan handling at our door. Any ideas? I mean, polite ideas?
Cathie says:
How come when you find a nice restaurant with great meals they end up closing! i know how that feels I used to have this favourite restaurant just down the road but it closed down recently & I didn’t even hear anything about it closing down I went there quite a bit too! Joe! At least you still have your favourite meals at “Fuel”!
Oh! A dark episode of SGA? A all women gate team?
I am happy you are working on whispers & sounds very intriguing!
Take Care & happiness always!
kanadra says:
those hole in the wall family places are the best. sory you lost yours. in levenworth ks. i have two hole in the wall the queens tea room, and maid rites. I would cry for days if they closed. good luck finding a new place. connie
shiningwit says:
Its always a bugger when that happens, makes you want what you can’t have even more dontcha think?
I’ve got the flags out because the kids are back to school today after a two week (that felt like a life sentence) end of term holiday in which I got very little quality reading in whatsoever.
I tend to completely lose myself in a really good book to the extent that all around me fades into insignificance as I soak up everything bookwise and HATE being distracted by oh, lets say anything at all, do you know what I mean? I seem to be able to make reading a whole body experience and get my mind locked in and then tend to live the book for a couple of days after, which can be a bit embarrassing in the middle of Tesco.
How do you find yourself reacting to a really good read?
Had to add to the food section:
Deep fried bread – think doughnuts, malasadas (Portuguese doughnuts), funnel cake, churros, corn dogs, and, some people are battering and deep frying twinkies, Ding Dong (chocolate covered and filled cake treats.
dyginc’s questions – that’s a good one regard music.
Wonder if JoeM listens to anything in particular while writing our precious SGA scripts and then how bout the blog?
On April 13, 2008 at 9:02 pm Luis Said:
:O Woah now I know it’s time for bed when I read that as Atredies!!!
One should not confuse ateries with dune no matter how tired one is…..lol.
Platschu says:
Hello Joe!
I am so proud that you like the Hungarian foods. You should visit Hungary. Budapest is a beautiful city and you can taste here everything. 🙂
Hungary has some new film studio and lot of good shooting locations. Have you ever spoken about the shot an episode or a DVD film abroad? I would be happy, but I think you will lose more money with the traveling, what you could earn with the cheaper production costs here.
I always wanted to ask, if you will ever make a such competition, where fans could send you story or scene ideas. I know you can’t accept scripts, but if you collect some information what they really want to see on the screen, than it can help to spin a better season with fresher ideas. I hope this statement didn’t hurt you or the other writers. Sorry.
I tried to imagine the future of the franchise here:
http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=44750&page=21
I know I am bit naive, but do the producers have such plans for years for the SG franchise? If the budget of the newest Atlantis season could get more money from the DVD film’s income, than how could you use it wisely?
Is there any chance that one of the newest character will cross-over to the Universe series? You’ve spoken positively about Alicia Vega (Leela Savasta), so can it happen?
chev says:
Just saw this and thought I’d share I’d share it with the Joe Flanigan fans (in case anyone hasn’t seen it yet). Check out the beautiful black & white portrait photo of Joe for the About Face Project taken by John Russo (Portfolio 3 pic 1).
The photographer says of the series, he wanted to “capture their raw beauty, essence, diversity and the qualities that made each subject unique”.
About Face Info
A percentage of the profits will be donated to The Smile Train, a charity assisting children with facial deformities.
In a sea of beautiful faces, Joe really stands out – very intense and strong and don’t get me started on the “designer stubble” :-D. Great cause too.
Cheers, Chev
tiger's eyes says:
Always sorry to hear when another good restaurant bites the dust. In my town there was a gelato place that had a zabaglione gelato that was to die for. If I’d known they were going to go under, I would’ve bought every single bit of the stuff I could get from them, and would’ve gotten a mini-deep freezer to go in the basement to hold what the upstairs fridge/freezer couldn’t. And now I’m just left with the memories. – Pass the tissues, please. . .
You sound a little depressed and irritable today. Sure it’s just The Budapest closure? Perhaps they were drifting in and out of alternate realities. That might account for the inconsistent opening hours.
But I do empathise. My fave Indian restaurant was closed for months after a guy smashed his car through the window. I couldn’t feel bad though because the guy didn’t make it.
CheekyPeggy says:
I felt compelled to speak up with regards to your blog today, as I to can empathise with the situation that you’ve unfortunately found yourself in, and can relate to those overwhelming feelings of disappointment.
My situation is very similar in that I often frequented this establishment; the proprietors provided an array of samplings for their clientele. I particularly enjoyed their desserts; my favourite was of course ‘The Flan’. However, although I was a regular customer, and bantered with the owners on occasions, which I enjoyed immensely, I found that the owner appeared reticent to provide my favourite dessert. ‘The Flan’ used to be a regular item on the menu, and obviously as I experienced the delights of ‘The Flan’, I remarked to the owners how enjoyable that particular dessert was.
However, for reasons unknown to me, ‘The Flan’ was taken off the menu. I wasn’t sure if it was something I had said or done, or if the owners were just unhappy with ‘The Flan’. But even though my favourite desert was no longer, I found myself hopeful and continued to visit in the hopes that one day ‘The Flan’ would return in some capacity, even if it was only recurring. As the days passed though, and my favourite dessert was no longer to be seen, I felt disheartened. I observed through looking at the wonderful pictures on the menu that ‘The Flan’ was being replaced by other deserts. I’d see those pictures on the owner’s website, and once more wait in hope to one day see a picture of my favourite dessert again. As a businessman I’m sure you can understand the power of communication, as I find it is an important part of clearing the air. I tried to discuss my concerns with the owners as to why the ‘Flan’ was off the menu, yet to date my pleas for clarity continue to fall on deaf ears as to the reasons why. It must be said that on occasions I have felt like I was being brushed aside, or been ‘teased’ by the proprietor with samplings of other deserts. I’m sure that wasn’t their intention, but sometimes actions speak louder than words. Through conversing with other I customers, I found that they to experienced that same feeling, and even discussed whether we should start a campaign! Ultimately though we realised that it did not matter what we said, our fates lay in the hands of the restaurant owner, something I’m sure you can understand given your current plight. As I’m sure you can appreciate all of the other desserts are wonderful and special, but I miss my favourite. I’m sure that given your current situation, and the fact that you to are concerned that you may never have your favourite food again, this post just may stir some empathy for my situation, and others who miss their favourite foods.
This brings me on to why I am here. I require your guidance. Can you advise how I can proceed? Do I continue to remain a loyal customer in the hopes that one day ‘The Flan’ will make an appearance or do I move my custom elsewhere? Is there some way that I can explain to the owners of said restaurant that by simply having ‘The Flan’ on the menu occasionally, it will settle some of the unrest I have witnessed at the restaurant.
Your time is appreciated and I look forward to your advice.
Annie from Fremantle says:
I recall that wonderful pic of the plate of all those schnitzels. Dang!!! What a shame! Can you find out if they’re just moving???
I love paprikash.. hope it’s the same kind of dish I knew of. Chicken in a paprika/tomato-ish sauce with big chunks of potato you mash when you get it on your plate.
anikacsa says:
Well, it’s bad, that your favorite restaurant is closed, but I know a solution: visit Hungary, and you can eat as much of these foods as you want!
Greetings from the city Budapest!:)
Awww. I remember the pictures of your happier times at the Budapest. The happy, slightly overwhelmed look of Carl as he tried to digest ungodly amounts of schnitzel.
You will mourn, yes, but you will move on.
iamza says:
Comment on Timescape: Now that I’ve finally finished it, I agree with all the people saying that the timelines did not diverge immediately when the messages back in time were received. The discovery of messages from the future may have created the potential for a paradox to occur, but the paradox was not that Gordon placed the note in safety deposit box — it was that the high-school kid interrupted Lee Harvey Oswald before he fired the fatal shot. Until the paradox occurred, there was no need for a new universe to branch off.
I liked the way things wrapped up, that Gordon and Markham had a chance at a new future, one not devastated by ecological catastrophe. I liked that Renfrew recieved a message from 2349 — it makes me hope that maybe, just maybe, the bloom doesn’t kill everything and everyone. But how much hope is it really? If messages from the future to the past set up the potential for a paradox, then Renfrew, just by stint of having recieved that message from 2349, may cause his own universe to branch off and become something separate.
There is no way to know what actions will cause a paradox. Gordon putting the note for 1998 in a safety box did not. Gordon’s discovery of the messages from the future, and their subsequent write-up, resulted in a kid visiting the book depository to find them — a kid who otherwise would not have been there and who ultimately saved the life of a man who should have died…at least, according to the 1998 timeline. So a completely random side effect of sending a message back to the past, and one that could not have been predicted, causes the paradox. And when Renfrew recieves the message from 2349, the potential for another paradox is created…
Comments on The Keep: I will admit upfront that I tend to be ambivalent towards stories set in WWII, because all too often they paint the Germans as nasty pieces of work, too evil to let live. I understand why — what the Nazi party stood for, and the inhuman atrocities they were responsible for should not be overlooked or forgotten.
But taken as individual people, I refuse to think of every German soldier as a generic moustache-twirling evil villain. They were people fighting for their country every bit as much as the British airmen who firebombed Dresden. Heroism and human decency are not traits that are defined on the basis of a person’s nationality. I think it is possible to disagree vehemently with the ideology set forward by one’s government or leaders…and subsequently to find oneself fighting in a war for the wrong side.
The Keep has German soldiers of both kind: the German Captain doing his best to fight for the Fatherland, a country he was once proud of, and looking forward to the end of hostilities so that he can return to live out the rest of his days with his wife and children, and try to forget what he has seen in this new war; and the SS Major, who is pretty much a generic moustache-twirling evil villain out to gather for himself as much personal glory and wealth as he can.
Kaempffer and Woermann themselves seem almost the personification of different eras/different wars: Woermann a decorated WWI hero, ready to lay down his life for his men and his country; and Kaempffer the face of the new German order, thuggish and cowardly and just generally despicable. And the two have such different personal beliefs that they are immediately antagonistic. Kaempffer thinks Woermann is old-fashioned and out-of-date, and Woermann witnessed Kaempffer’s cowardice and thinks of him as little more than a bully and a thug.
It is easy to sympathize with Woermann, who is a man just trying to his duty as best he can, and still stay true to his own beliefs. Woermann still looks at his fellow man and sees a man, not a label. Kaempffer looks at his fellow man and sees a Jew or a Gypsy — a thing less human than himself.
The Germans take over the Romanian Dinu Pass, and old-fashioned greed to the release an ancient evil. Drawn into the intrigue are Magda Cuzo and her father, Romanian Jews who have been studying the Keep for years. The war has not been kind to the Cuzos. Magda is a musician whose latest book detailing her work on Gypsy music has recently been refused publication. Professor Cuzo, who is crippled by sclerodermia (sp?), lost his job at the university, and he and Magda have been forced to give up their house.
I was not terribly thrilled with the portrayal of Magda, who struck me as a kind of ideal fantasy heroine. She’s your typical innocent maiden, full of saintly charity and good-heartedness and with a handy helping of feisty gumption. No sooner does she meet the real hero of the piece — the mysterious high-handed arrogant Glenn — than she falls in love with the thrills and tingles and prickly heat he engenders in her maidenly bosom. Her good sense and innocence mean she is better able to resist the darkness that gains a foothold in other characters in the Keep.
As for Glen/Glaecken, well, to be honest, he didn’t seem to do a lot in the course of the novel except step in at the very last minute to save the world. He struck me as a standard knight in shining armour, complete with magical blade — a loner with a quest that must be discharged: Rasalom must not be allowed to escape again into the world. And, of course, no sooner does he meet Magda than he falls in love blah blah blah.
Honestly, I think I would have liked the story better had Magda and Glen been left out of it. Woermann struck me as a far more interesting character. There’s the conflict between his duty to his country and his need to remain true to himself. The desperation to find a way to keep his men safe and prevent Kaempffer from committing too many atrocities. Woermann is a human hero where Glen is a mythical one, and for me, human trumps mythical every time. *shrug*
(1) Did you have Woermann’s fate already in mind when you started writing the novel?
(2) How did Glaerken know that Rasalom was breaking free? Did he have some kind of mystical tie to the keep? Would Rasalom not know of this connection, and, if so, why was Rasalom so surprised to learn of Glaerken’s appearance outside the keep?
Sigh. I wrote: The Germans take over the Romanian Dinu Pass, and old-fashioned greed to the release an ancient evil.
It should read: The Germans take over the Romanian Dinu Pass, and old-fashioned greed results in the release of an ancient evil.
I love Think Geek. Now I love them more. They’re selling a Stargate mirror.
Wouldn’t like the bad luck though if it got broken in transit.
Luis Said:
Ah, but then you use micro robots to clear the arteries!
Tiny robots!
Nika says:
On April 13, 2008 at 6:09 pm Zona Said:
I just realized that in your shots from ‘Ghost in the Machine’ Ronon still has his signature dreadlocks.
Zona, I thought of that when I first saw the picture… Good eyes! Maybe Satedan hair grows really fast?
— As for the restaurant – sorry to hear about that Joe. It’s always a pain to find out only AFTER you’ve made the conscious decision to drive there and eat. At least it wasn’t after you’d already fought someone for a parking space.
Montybird says:
Hi, Joe-
This is my first time leaving a comment. I love reading your blog. I have one quick question. I am having problems viewing your remixes under your BaronDestructo account at Photobucket. I can view the regular videos just fine. What am I doing wrong?!
Cherish4 says:
Awwww poor Joe, I’m so sorry for your Restaurant loss. *huge hugs*
An amusing diversion for your busy day…
http://www.macleans.ca/columnists/article.jsp?content=20080409_83337_83337&id=2
vinsfins says:
Ohhh poor Joe, speaking as a Langos lover, I feel your pain!!! While at that restaurant, have you ever tried Lechos, a stew made with peppers and sausage???
Trish (aka whovian) says:
I do feel your pain. Jeremy and I had our first date at a lovely little place that made the best burgers and shakes. Then it closed. Our first fancy night out was at a place that served a mean pineapple pizza. Then it closed. However, we did find that our favorite pizza place has a sister restaurant and is up and running in San Diego. Maybe you will run into your favorite schnitzel place or a sister place somewhere in the future. Who knows? Maybe they’ve moved to Tampa. I’ll keep an eye out for you.
Neb says:
Hey, how about this for that parallel-realities, what-if, time-travel discussion? http://xkcd.com/248/ (the tool tip for the comic would make for an interesting episode) 😛
Coolbreeze says:
Just finished The Keep this morning. I actually hadn’t planned to read this book until I read the back cover description, and the idea of having something supernatural killing Nazis, and them having to turn to a Jewish expert for help absolutely hooked me.
The most intriguing aspect of this novel was the blurring of the line between who was good and who was evil. I had never really thought about there being a difference between the German Army and the SS units, so when the novel began with a German officer in World War II as a very sympathetic and likeable character, I immediately wondered what was going on. I expected Woermann (at the very beginning of the novel) to be the bad guy, but then as the distinction between the regular German Army and the Nazis was made clear, he was clearly not bad. Molasar/Rasalom was clearly evil, but then he would do something that was clearly good, like rescue Magda from the rapists. Glenn was set up as the hero coming to fight Molasar/Rasalom, but then he would kill the people that got in his way on his journey to the keep without a second thought. Cuza was old and sick and trying to save his daughter, but then he gets corrupted by Molasar/Rasalom. Even the description by Glenn/Glaeken of the power of light was ambiguous. Magda was one of the few characters that I could pinpoint early on as a good character. I tried to use her as an anchor to measure the rest of the characters, but her confusion about what was going on kept me guessing as to who was really good and really bad beneath all the plotting and deception.
By the end of the novel, people’s motivations and actions throughout the story were made clear, so I could say at that point, “This character was good, this one was bad, this one was misguided, this one was confused, this one did good things for bad reasons, etc.” As I was reading the story, though, trying to figure out what the characters were doing and why and who I should be rooting for really threw me. In retrospect, even though Magda was confused, her instincts were right. The people she pegged as good turned out to be good; the ones she thought were bad turned out to be bad.
The twist toward the end, where we find out that Molasar/Rasalom was not a vampire but something much older, and that he started and used the vampire myth for his purposes was cool, but I wished more time had been spent on it. We get this brief glimpse at this conflict between the power of chaos and the power of light that has been going on for millennia, and is really the crux of the conflict in the novel, and then the books over. I believe there are subsequent novels that use these same characters and maybe go into that a little more, but I really wanted to hear more about it in this novel.
What do the names Rasalom and Glaeken mean? What was the significance of reversing Rasalom’s name at the beginning to Molasar? I got the impression that there was a significance to the name Rasalom that was initially disguised when he is identified as Molasar, but I can’t figure out what it is.
Anais33 says:
Salut Joseph =(
…Pas d’email de vous ..snif…je commence vraiment a me demander si vous ne m’aimez pas =(
Bon bah juste pour vous dire que je ne serais pas là jusqu’a Vendredi car j’ai éxamin..mais vous ne l’aurez même pas remarquer =(
Bisou , aplus
hi joe i was just up in Leavenworth and found out my little whole in the wall has closed the only good news it the tea shop is still open. They said too costly. It was always full. I guess folks just stayed too long and tables did not turn over. I will miss the tea room very much.
Ademaro says:
Oh my, I wish I could get some Hungarian culture back to Vancouver!
Let’s hope ‘Budapest’ opens somewhere else. But if you miss lángos or any other Hungarian dishes, we’ll gladly provide you the original recipes. Just ask. (:
Joseph,
I wanted to thank you for getting me hooked on yet another series (The Advesary Cycle). And now I am in the middle of the Blade Itself wondering how I can get the third book from the UK so that I can finish that series in one fatal swoop. (I haven’t bought the second one yet…just bought four other books this weekend)
14 Apr 2008 at 11:14 am
Hey Mr. Mallozzi,
I have been reading your blog for a while and just figured out how to post a comment to your blog, how sad is that. Anyway just wanted to say i enjoyed read it and your dogs are so cute i have a Jack russel terrier my self.
chev Said:
geez, ya think if you break a quantum mirror every aspect of you in every other dimension would get lousy karma? I wonder which dimension I broke one in then PMSL;P
I’ve found a nice website with Hungarian food recipes:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,hungarian_food,FF.html
Ok, I know it won’t be the same, but you should try it. The other option is to visit us in Hungary. 🙂
Platschu
I’ve found some Hungarian food recipes for you:
Ty Chev for the JoeF piccie link and the Stargate mirror link!! I have in the span of twenty minutes been reduced to a squeeing puddle of goo and i’m out so many dollars for buying that mirror.
GOD BLESS YOU!!! 😀
Jarnin says:
Joe, I was hoping you could clear something up for me.
The Official Stargate Magazine recently put out specs on the Daedalus class ships, and some of the information looks off, or in some cases totally wrong. I’m curious if the Official StarGate Magazine gets its information from you guys and MGM, or if they make it up, and if it can be considered “canon” at all.
MrsB108 says:
1)Will anyone undergo extraordinary trauma this season, something that changes them forever?
2)Will jealousy be a theme in any of the upcoming episodes?
GoSpikey says:
Awe, Joe! *Hug* Sorry to hear!
I have a question for you:
A couple of weeks ago, I rewatched ‘The Gift’. We’ve since then evolved very much in episode numbers, so I thought it was safe to ask, now.
The scientist who performed those experiments, is that someone we’ve met in the past, or are we ever going to meet him (or her!) in season 5 or beyond? Anything planned?
Spikey
Evil Carbon says:
I just cried a single tear.
Global Warming Alarmists Beware… http://www.EvilCarbon.com
Clark'sGirl says:
Ah Joe, I feel for you.
Now, as a supervillian, what is your position on high school reunion’s?
I’ve been invited to mine, 10 years, god help me.
Personally, i’m thinking it sounds like a new level of hell but there are others who seem to want to go.
Narelle from Aus says:
Ah Joe and the crew’s fun times at The Budapest. Raises hand to chin as the world goes all fuzzy and reminiscing begins (insert sound of harp strings).
We expect to see a collection of your favourite Budapest pics set to a moving Celine Dion song such as “Because You Loved Me” post here within the next few days.
It’s the respectful thing to do at a time like this.
Thank goodness for volume control.
PS: (Looks at time, minuses a day adds six hours) Hope the costumes meeting is going well.
Do you guys ever get tempted to dress up as the local peasant lady, System Lord or just plain old Commando?
And if you do, pictures please.
Since Christina Cox (spelling?) is now been cast…does that mean no more Blood Ties? My sister loves that show.
moms2398 says:
Thanks for the glimpse of behind the scenes. Sorry to hear about the restaurant. Nothing can be more tragic for a foodie like yourself. I hope, as has been suggested, that they are in the process of relocating and not gone forever.
Any word on when R.C. will be guest blogging? I finally got my copy of “Stargate: The Ark of Truth” and loved every minute of it.
Thanks again for the blog,
PS Thanks to Chev for the link to “About Face”. Absolutely gorgeous pic of J.F. as well as many more fantastic shots.
Shadow Step Said:
Ah, but then you use micro robots to clear the arteries! Tiny robots!
Now those are very nifty. But then, once the patient is back at home feeling very pleased with him/herself after having escaped a coronoary from having the ol’ arteries reamed out (“I’m so glad I never let those tasty globs of deep-fried bacon fat go to waste”), he opens a notice from his private insurance company saying they’ve decided not to cover the cost of said procedure, and keels over from a stroke. (Which is just as well, given that his bankrupted family would have torn him limb from limb upong getting the news that their Kensington townhouse has just been accepted in payment by the surgeon, who was looking for a new pied-à-terre in the city.)
And that’s why the primary-care docs always say that prevention is better than cure. 😉
Patricia Lee says:
On April 14, 2008 at 5:43 am Jean Said:
OMG- SCOTT FESCHUK’s article is funny and informative!! Thanks Jean… it was worth the read…
hachi says:
Narelle “Do you guys ever get tempted to dress up as the local peasant lady, System Lord or just plain old Commando?
And if you do, pictures please”
Pictures of JM going Commando? Whoohoooooooo1
dyginc said:
Now I am in the middle of the Blade Itself wondering how I can get the third book from the UK so that I can finish that series in one fatal swoop.
Amazon.co.uk ships to locations outside the UK. Though perhaps someone has a better alternative, given Amazon’s unethical new policy in regard to publish-on-demand books.
Morgia says:
Allo Joseph,
Juste un petit coucou !! (Ben quoi, ça fait toujours plaisir d’être salué !) 😉
Morgia
Incroyable mais vrai: la neige fond !!!!
trekkiegirlt says:
Joe, I’m looking forward to participating in my first book discussion when “The Empire of Ice Cream” makes its appearance. That said I’m not really sure what to do. Is that stupid or what!?! Anyway do I submit comments the day before the discussion? Please let me know what to do and no laughing please! 😛
Thanks tiger’s eyes…I really just don’t want to pay double for the book…not to say it won’t be worth it but the exchange rate sucks…though I like the UK versions of UK authors better than US translations. I tend to buy as many books when I am there as I can.
Any chance we’ll see Aiden Ford in any Season 5 episodes?
wolfenm says:
My condolences. 🙁 There was a place in Chicago I always went to on new comic book day, until one day I discovered that it had burned down. 🙁 The place I ended up going to that day was a total let-down, and I was resigned thereafter to taking my comics straight home to read them ….
Maybe this place you like will pop up again elsewhere?
MizMoose says:
I’m sorry to hear a favorite restaurant closed. I hate when that happens! But — I gotta ask — shouldn’t a Transylvania Wooden Platter come with a steak?
(please don’t hurt me :-P)
On a less painful note — I read The Keep when it first came out, I think. At the time, it didn’t seem to be “my speed”. However I just put 2+2 together and got 4 (an amazing feat for me, a math idiot) and realized that F Paul Wilson writes the Repairman Jack stories.
Dang you, Master Mallozzi. Now I’m gonna have to reread The Keep. [and also the SF books you recommended. They’re on my plate, really.]
Lawren says:
OMG!!! This is how I learn about Budapest’s demise! Never again will I be able to properly satiate the desire to eat my arms weight in Schnitzel. Sure there are other places but not like Budapest. I will long remember barely being able to finish my pork or chicken schnitzel only to have Carl say “are you gonna finish that?”
A dark day indeed.
ltcoljsheppard says:
Thanks for the video link, Joe. I clicked on it and it brought me to the photobucket album. I was checking out a dozen or so of the vids you have there. LOLOL!! Lulu is a card! First she’s harrassing the pug, then she’s going after Boney Barney. She’s a spitfire. She looks quite young in both of those too.
Sorry to hear about your favorite restaurant. That totally sucks.
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Screening: Ammonite
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A fictionalised account of the life of the 19th century palaeontologist Mary Anning, Kate Winslet plays the pioneering scientist with Saoirse Ronan as the gentlewoman who falls in love with her while staying in Mary’s beloved Lyme Regis. Francis Lee once again displays his ability to convey vivid textures and a strong sense of place – from the salty seaside cottage and the weight of a fossil or tool, to the roar of the sea – and is aided by Stéphane Fontaine’s (A Prophet, Jackie) first rate cinematography.
Deftly taking in the erasure of women from the history of science, the film is also woven through with an unusually subtle take on class difference in small town 19th-century Britain and its subversion within the exclusive company of women. Yet at its heart, Ammonite is a love story – one of great intimacy and candour – with Winslet and Ronan excelling in movingly unguarded performances.
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Langoustine after lacrosse? How post-match teas got posh
Madeleine Silver
After a prep school hockey match last winter, my eight-year-old niece had no recollection of the score at all. But her blow-by-blow account of the tea that followed was forensic in detail.
She’s not alone. Even at sporting powerhouse Millfield Prep, headmistress Shirley Shayler says it’s a common story; food reigns supreme. Sausages and chips revive aching muscles and grazed knees, just as they did when Mrs Shayler started coaching hockey at Millfield 31 years ago. Now, however, social distancing has added a touch of uncertainty as the new term dawns. ‘It is likely most independent schools will not present matches for at least the first half of this coming term,’ says Kevin Doble, headmaster of Shrewsbury House School and chair of the cross association sports committee for the Independent Schools Council. Matches and tea, it seems, are on hold.
Alastair Speers, headmaster at Sandroyd, talks about the great match tea ‘knees-under’ with the same enthusiasm as an Enid Blyton bestseller. In normal times, the fires inside Rushmore House at the Wiltshire prep school are lit, and children nestle alongside the opposition and test their small talk. It’s the kind of set-up where the post-lacrosse jammy buns of In the Fifth at Malory Towers wouldn’t be out of place. ‘We probably view the tea as being as important as the match itself,’ says Mr Speers. ‘What we’re trying to do with competitive fixtures is expose children to the experience of failure as well as success. If you’ve been thrashed by a team 8-0 and then you have to sit next to them and host them in your school, it’s a great opportunity to get children to realise that the reason we play sport is because it’s fun. And so, we are itching to start our inter-school matches when safe to do so.’
One Downe House old girl, now working in insurance in Hong Kong, is still nostalgic for her prep school match teas at the Dragon School. ‘You got sausages, chips and beans and you could still have dinner two hours later,’ she says. ‘Post-match chat was a good ice breaker for awkward preadolescents — and a chance to show off how many colours badges you had on your skirt.’ For many looking back at their school days, there is a rose-tinted wholesomeness to those post-match teas. Whether you were a sporting hero or a shivering wreck on the subs bench for the under-9 Cs was largely irrelevant in comparison to the calibre of the food.
When it comes to the parents’ tea, something of an arms race was under way before Covid disrupted proceedings. Bryanston headmaster Mark Mortimer says: ‘Schools are much better at engaging parents, seeing how important it is to look after them when they’re there and making them feel part of the school. It’s not just about parking, standing on the touchline and going home.’ The result? A slither of stale fruit cake no longer cuts it. ‘Schools do get quite competitive with one another about how well they host,’ says Mr Mortimer. As a marketing tool, these affairs are far more subtle than any open day and perfect for giving parents an informal glimpse into the running of the school. ‘The match tea provision for spectators is a hugely important feature of the independent schools’ offering,’ says Kevin Doble of Shrewsbury House. ‘Without spectators, there would be no spectators’ match tea; some schools are even discussing whether future fixtures should be held behind closed doors.’
The disappointment of a poor match tea is a familiar hazard. But before the pandemic hit, spreads were emerging that wouldn’t have been out of place at a wedding reception. ‘When I was at school you could prop your teaspoon up in your tea,’ says Mr Speers. Chefs at Sandroyd now ‘pull out all the stops’ with an array of teas, salmon or beef and horseradish sandwiches, scones and brownies. Savvy Bradfield College parents time their arrival to coincide with the petits fours and at Marlborough langoustine have been spotted on the salad bar. Those brave enough to endure the touchline winds at Fettes College in Edinburgh are rewarded with the ‘cake cart’ delivering coffee, soup and cakes to frost-bitten parents — as well as the welcome addition of Scottish tablet. And at Hazlegrove prep school in Somerset, head chef Simon Van Loo is accompanied by a pastry chef and a sandwich artist, sourcing ingredients from local farms.
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1929 (July) - Hints on Girl Guide Badges 12th edition - Life Saver Badge
1) Must swim 50 yards in clothes. (Any stroke. "Clothes" should consist of blouse, skirt, knickers, stockings and rubber shoes.)
2) Must perform in the water two methods of life saving with release. (These may be chosen by the candidate).
3) Must be able to float motionless (in any horizontal position) for 30 seconds.
4) Must swim 50 yards showing a good breast stroke, and two strokes to be chosen by the candidate. (If side stroke is chosen, the top arm must be brought out of the water.)
5) Must pick up a brick from the bottom of the bath at a depth of not less than five feet. (The brick may be wrapped in cloth.)
6) Must have one accepted method of resuscitation, and the treatment of the apparently drowned.
1930 POR - Lifesaver Badge
1) Must swim 50 yards in clothes. (Any stroke, "Clothes" should consist of blouse, skirt, knickers, stockings and rubber shoes.)
3) Must be able to float motionlessly (in any horizontal position) for 30 seconds.
4) Must swim 50 yards showing a good breast stroke, and two strokes to be chosen by the candidate. (If side stroke is chosen, the op arm must be brought out of the water.)
7) Must be able to throw a life-line. (This may be done on shore.)
1932 POR - Life Saver Badge
1) Show Schafer method of artificial respiration and resuscitation, and treatment of the apparently drowned.
2) Swim at least 50 yards in clothes, blouse and skirt or dress, knickers, stockings and rubber shoes.
3) Perform in the water three methods of rescue and release (combined), as approved by the R. L. S. S., one to be done in clothes.
4) Pick up a brick from the bottom of the bath, at a depth of not less than five feet.
5) Be able to put on a lifebuoy in the water and throw a life-line.
6) Swim at least 50 yards in good style, stroke to be chosen by candidate.
Note - Holders of the Bronze Medallion of the Royal Life Saving Society may be granted the Life Saver badge without further test.
1933 Hints on Girl Guide Badges - 15th Edition - Life Saver Badge
2) Swim at least fifty yards in clothes, blouse and skirt or dress, knickers, stockings and rubber shoes.
3) Perform in the water three methods of rescue and release (combined), as approved by the R.L.S.S., one to be done in clothes.
6) Swim at least fifty yards in good style, stroke to be chosen by candidate.
3) Perform in the water three methods of rescue and release (combined), as approved by the R. L. S. S., one to be done in clothes. In each of the three methods the subject should be carried twenty yards.
4) Pick up a brick from the bottom of the bath, at a depth of not less than five feet and carry it to the side, swimming on the back, a distance not less than ten yards.
5) Be able to put on a lifebuoy in the water (an inflated inner tube may be used).
6) Swim at least 50 yards in good style, stroke to be chosen by the candidate.
The test to be carried out in the following order:
1) Be able to throw a life line.
2) Show Schafer method of resuscitation, and the treatment of the apparently drowned.
3) Perform the land drill for the four methods of rescue and the three methods of release, as set out in the Handbook of the Royal Life Saving Society. (Complete words of command may be used, as for the Intermediate Certificate of the R.L.S.S.).
4) Swim 50 yards in clothes (consisting of the following, worn over a swimming costume: blouse and skirt, or dress; knickers, stockings, rubber shoes. The clothing should be of a normal nature, and be properly fastened.) At the end of this swim the candidate may leave the water for the purpose of removing these clothes.
5) Perform in the water, in clothes, any one method of release and rescue (combined), towing the subject 20 yards as approved by the R.L.S.S.
6) Perform in the water the second and third methods of release and rescue (combined), towing the subject 20 yards.
7) Pick up a brick from the bottom of the bath, at a depth of not less than 5 feet, and carry it to the side, holding it with both hands, and swimming on the back, a distance of not less than 10 yards. The brick to be picked up by means of a proper surface dive, with both hands. Diving off the side of the bath not allowed. Should the candidate fail at the first attempt she should do it successfully upon the next two attempts.
8) Put on a lifebuoy in the water (an inflated inner tube may be used if a lifebuoy is not available).
9) Swim at least 50 yards in good style by one of the following strokes: a) breast stroke, b) side stroke, c) overarm side stroke, d) back stroke, using arms and legs, e)back stroke without use of arms, which should be folded, f) trudgeon, g) crawl.
N.B. Guiders being tested for the Life Saver Badge and intending to use it for life-saving qualifications must go through the entire test in a limited time. Holders of the bronze Medallion of the Royal Life Saving Society (renewed within 5 years) may be granted the Life Saver badge, providing they can swim in clothes and put on a lifebuoy in accordance with paras. 4. 5 and 8 above.
1938 Edition - Sea Sense (Sea Ranger Handbook) - this badge is available embroidered in blue, for Sea Rangers.
1) Throw a life line to reach a person 20 yards away
9) Swim at least 50 yards in good style by one of the following strokes: a) breast stroke, b) side stroke, c) overarm side stroke, d) back stroke, using arms and legs, e) back stroke without use of arms, which should be folded, f) trudgeon, g) crawl.
1) Throw a life line to reach a person 15 yards away.
3) Perform the land drill for the four methods of rescue and the three methods of release, as set out in the Handbook of the Royal Life Saving Society. (Complete words of command may be used, as for the Intermediate Certificate of the R.L.S.S.)
6) Perform in the water the second and third methods of release and rescue (combined) towing the subject 20 yards.
9) Swim at least 50 yards in good style by one of the following strokes: a) breast stroke, b) side stroke, c) overarm side stroke, d) back stroke, using arms and legs, e) back stroke, with folded arms, f) trudgeon, g) crawl.
Holders of the Bronze Medallion of the Royal Life Saving Society (renewed within 5 years) may be granted the Life Saver badge, providing they can swim in clothes and put on a lifebuoy in accordance with paras 4, 5 and 8 above.
5) Perform in the water, in clothes, any one method of release and rescue (combined), towing the subject 20 yards.
1) Throw a life line to reach a person at least 12 yards away.
2) Show the Holger Nielsen method of resuscitation, and the treatment of the apparently drowned.
Holders of the Bronze Medallion of the Royal Life Saving Society (renewed within 5 years) may be granted the Life Saver badge, providing they can throw a lifeline, swim in clothes and put on a lifebuoy, in accordance with paras 1, 4, 5 and 8 above.
1) Throw a life line to a person at least 12 yds. away.
2) Demonstrate the Holger Nielsen method of resuscitation, and the treatment of the apparently drowned.
3) Perform the land drill for the four methods of rescue and the three methods of release, as set out in the Handbook of the Royal Life Saving Society.
Note: Complete words of command may be used, as for the Intermediate Certificate of the R.L.S.S.
4) Swim 50 yards in clothes
Note: The clothing must be similar to that normally worn, must be properly fastened, and consist of: blouse and skirt, or dress; knickers; stockings; and rubber shoes. It may be worn over a bathing dress.
After this clause the candidate may leave the water to remove the clothes.
7) By means of a surface dive, and using both hands, pick up a brick from a depth of at least 5 ft.; swimming on the back and holding it with both hands carry it ashore a distance of not less than 10 yds. If the candidate fails to retrieve the brick the first time, she must do so twice consecutively.
9) Swim at least 50 yards in good style by one of the following strokes: a) breast stroke, b) side stroke, c) overarm side stroke, d) back stroke, e) back stroke, with folded arms, f) trudgeon, g) crawl.
Note: A holder of the R.L.S.S. Bronze Medal (renewed within five years) is exempt from clauses 2, 3, 6, 7, and 9.
6) Perform in the water the second and third methods of release and rescue, towing the subject 20 yards.
1961 (July) POR - Life Saver Badge
9) Swim at least 50 yards in good style by one of the following strokes: breast stroke; side stroke; overarm side stroke; back stroke; back stroke with folded arms; trudgeon; crawl.
1963 (February) POR Amendments - Life Saver Badge
2) Demonstrate the Holger Nielsen method of resuscitation, and the treatment of the apparently drowned. Have attended a demonstration of the expired air method of artificial respiration performed on film or film strip, or live by a qualified demonstrator.
1964 (March) POR - Life Saver Badge
The test is to be carried out in the following order:
2) Demonstrate the Holger Nielsen method of resuscitation, and the treatment of the apparently drowned. Have attended a demonstration of the expired air method of artificial respiration on film or film strip, or performed live by a qualified demonstrator.
Note: A holder of the R.L.S.S. Bronze Medal (renewed within five years) is exempt form clauses 2, 3, 6, 7, and 9.
1) Throw a life-line to a person at least 12 yds. away.
2) For at least two minutes:
a) Using a manikin or mask, demonstrate artificial respiration by the expired air mouth-to-nose method, and mouth-to-mouth method. Demonstrate the action to be taken in case of vomiting by the patient, and if air enters the patient's stomach.
b) Demonstrate one other method of artificial respiration on a patient. Treat for shock.
3) Demonstrate in the water:
a) One method of release from each of the following clutches: wrist, neck, body, and from behind.
b) Tow subject 20 yds. by:
i) single-handed method.
ii) double-handed method.
iii) 'tired swimmer' method.
4) From the surface of the water recover from the bottom in a depth of 7 ft. (or the nearest available depth available below that figure bt not less than 5 ft.) an object 5-10 lb. and bring it to land. If the candidate fails at her first attempt, the test must be repeated three times and must be successfully completed on each occasion.
5) Enter water feet first from at least 5 ft., making shallowest possible entry, swim 200 yds. in six minutes, last 20 yds. to be made with head up approach, submerge to pass and approach subject from behind, support for 30 seconds, and two 20 yds. using any method other than those used in clause 3. Land subject correctly.
Note: A holder of the R.L.S.S. Bronze Medallion (renewed within five years) is exempt from clauses 2, 4 and 5.
1968 Guide Handbook - Life Saver Badge
1) Throw a lifeline to a person at least 12 yards away.
2) For at least 2 minutes:
Using a manikin or mask, demonstrate artificial respiration by the mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose method. Show how to place the patient on his side in the recovery position in case he should vomit.
Realise the importance of preventing the development of shock.
a) One method of release from each of the following clutches: wrist, neck, or body, and from behind.
b) Tow the subject 20 yards by:
4) From the surface of the water recover from the bottom in a depth of 7 feet (or the nearest depth available but not less than 5 feet) an object 5-10 lb and bring it to land. If you fail at your first attempt the test must be repeated three times and must be successfully completed on each occasion.
5) Enter the water feet first from at least 5 feet, making shallowest possible entry, swim 200 yards in 6 minutes, last 20 yards to be made with head up approach; submerge to pass and approach the subject from behind, support for 30 seconds and two 20 yards using any method other than those used in clause 3. Land subject correctly.
Note: i) If you hold the Royal Life Saving Society Bronze Medallion (renewed within 2 years) you are exempt from clauses 2, 3, 4, and 5.
1) Throw a lifeline to a person at least 12 metres away.
b) Using the current methods in the Royal Life Saving Society Handbook (Life Saving and Water Safety) to the patient 60 yds (55m) using three different tows (20 yds (18 m) each).
4) From the surface of the water recover from the bottom in a depth of 7 ft (2 m) (or the nearest depth available but not less than 5 ft (1.5 m)) an object 5-10 lb and bring it to land. If you fail at your first attempt the test must be repeated three times and must be successfully completed on each occasion.
5) Enter the water feet first, making shallowest possible entry, swim 200 yds (180 m) in 6 minutes, last 20 yds (18m) to be made with head up approach; approach the subject from behind, two 20 ds (18 m) using any method other than those used in clause 3. Land subject correctly.
ii) The tester should hold the Bronze Medallion of the Royal Life Saving Society, or the Bronze Medallion of the surf Life Saving society of Great Britain, or the Life Saver Certificate of the Girl Guides Association, or a higher qualification.
1978 Guide Interest Badge Amendments - Life Saver Badge
1) Throw a lifeline to a person 10 metres away.
3) Using the current methods in the Royal Life Saving Society Handbook (Life Saving and Water Safety) tow the patient 60 yards (55 metres) using three different towing aids (20 yards/18 metres each).
5) Enter the water feet first, making shallowest possible entry, swim 200 yards (180 metres) in 6 minutes, the last 20 yards (18 metres) to be made with the head up approach. Approach the subject from behind, tow 20 yards (18 metres) using methods suitable for an unconscious person. On reaching the bank the subject will be considered to have recovered consciousness. Assist him to land.
2) For at least 2 minutes using a manikin or mask, demonstrate artificial respiration by the mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose method. Show how to place the patient on his side in the recovery position in case he should vomit.
3) Using the current methods in the Royal Life Saving Society Handbook (Life Saving and Water Safety) to the patient 60 yards (55 metres) using three different tows (20 yards (18 metres) each).
4) From the surface of the water recover from the bottom in a depth of 7 feet (2 metres) (or the nearest depth available but not less than 5 feet (1.5 metres)) an object 5-10 lb and bring it to land. If you fail at your first attempt the test must be repeated three times and must be successfully completed on each occasion.
5) Enter the water feet first, making shallowest possible entry, swim 200 yards (180 metres) in 6 minutes, last 20 yards (18metres) to be made with head up approach; approach the subject from behind, tow 20 yards (18 metres) using methods suitable for an unconscious person. On reaching the bank the subject will be considered to have recovered consciousness. Assist him to land.
1989 Guide Badge Book - Lifesaver Badge
1) Hold the Guide Swimmer Badge
2) a) Using a manikin or mask, demonstrate artificial ventilation by the mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose method. Show how to place the patient in the recovery position in case he should vomit.
b) Know when and how to use artificial ventilation and external chest compression, e.g. drowning, electrical accidents and smoke filled rooms.
3) demonstrate in the water the actions of a person who is:
a) A non-swimmer
b) A weak swimmer
c) An injured swimmer
4) Enter shallow water with a suitable aid and perform a wading rescue of a casualty 10-12 metres away. Encourage the casualty to use the aid and return to safety. Assist the casualty from the water and then climb out.
5) With a suitable buoyant aid, enter the shallow water and approach a casualty in deep water 25 metres away and bring to safety. Assist the casualty from the water and then climb out.
6) With a suitable towing aid, enter shallow water and approach a casualty 20-25 metres away in deep water. Encourage the casualty to use the aid and tow the same distance to safety. Assist the casualty to land, then climb out and demonstrate the treatment of the casualty for shock.
7) With a towing aid, enter shallow water and approach a casualty 20-25 metres away in deep water. Show the action to be taken in response to an uncooperative casualty by performing the reverse and taking up the stand-off position. Realising you are in danger, return to safety keeping observation of the casualty. Explain what you would do next.
8) Rescue a casualty in an emergency situation, the nature of which is not previously known to you, using the appropriate skills from the above clauses. Explain what you would do next.
9) Answer five questions on the principle of water rescue, seeking help, dangers of open water and cold water.
N.B. if you have passed the RLSS Lifesaving 1 and 2 and clause 2 above, you may be awarded this badge.
The tester for this badge should be an RLSS teacher or examiner or an adult with a current RLSS Bronze Medallion or higher qualification
1991 Guide Badge Book - Life Saver Badge
2) a) Using a manikin or mask, demonstrate artificial ventilation by the mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose method. Show how to place the patient in the recovery position in case he or she should vomit.
b) Know when and how to use artificial ventilation and external chest compression, and in what circumstances, e.g. drowning, electrical accidents and smoke filled rooms.
c) Know the signs and symptoms you would look for in the case of a fractures spine. Understand the danger of moving or handling a patient when the extent of the injury is not known.
1995 - Lifesaver becomes a Staged Badge.
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Reasons for council decisions matter
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on May 6, 2020.
Brett Babki
CHAIRMAN, LETHBRIDGE TRANSPARENCY COUNCIL
Do not the reasons for a decision matter as much as the decision itself? Perhaps not for Lethbridge’s city council.
On April 20 the council withdrew two contracts from the ARCHES organization together worth as much as $885,000 over the next nine months, awarding them to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) instead. ARCHES was not named in the council’s agenda. The City’s Community and Social Development manager made a written request for the change, which offered this cryptic rationale: “In light of additional information provided to the City of Lethbridge we are recommending a change in service providers.”
Coun. Crowson introduced the motion to make the change. Unusually, she read not one word of the written request into the record of the day. Instead, the councillor spoke to the motion in these words: “This is really an administrative correction.” I leave it to the reader to determine the rate of spin in that statement, given the written request for decision.
One does not “administratively correct” a party out of a contract, not without either their consent or a reason for terminating it. Contrast this proceeding to that of Dec. 11, 2017 – the day ARCHES first won the agreement (it was a single contract then). The service had been provided by CMHA, but they had taken to subcontracting the work to ARCHES. CMHA agreed to the change (in fact they were said to have sought it), and all of this rationale was put openly and transparently before the council before they approved it.
In the one minute and 50 seconds it took the council to transact the “administrative correction,” only Coun. Mauro asked any questions, inquiring why this change was being made and the identity of the current service provider. He received no answer at all to the former question; once he heard “ARCHES” was the answer to the latter, he seemed disinclined to press the matter. I’ve asked for the reason (and the unspecified information). The official response has been dead silence.
Let us be blunt. The most recent extension of this contract was approved by council on March 23. Anyone with an attention span knows that a team of Alberta Health Services auditors descended upon ARCHES on March 4. If something out of the audit has caused this change, a reasonable inference in the circumstances, then that should be said. And the council ought to disabuse anyone of that notion if there is a completely different explanation. The reasons matter.
Reasons should be kept secret only where there is a compelling public-interest reason for secrecy. Just by way of example, and to be helpful, avoiding embarrassment is never a compelling public-interest reason for secrecy.
The people of Lethbridge deserve some truth and transparency here. They’re entitled to it; they can handle it. In this, and in all things touching on local government, it is the mandate of the Lethbridge Transparency Council to seek it.
thank you for taking time to enter a thought provoking letter. just another significant example of the concerning relationship between council and city admin. always seems council are a limp limb of city admin. the way they operate, they are even more redundant than are subservient mps/mlas to their respective party’s power center, such as the pmo. a complete and utter waste of our money and space.
Dennis Bremner
Mishandled from the getgo. A Council that is clueless, leading Lethbridge to the toilet hole of drug cities.
Brett : Your group should look into the wipe out of City Business unit Recycle Services and the Recycle Fund which covered $600,000. for recycle Blue Carts. Also sales from recyclables from
the 3 Recycle depot’s ( now called Waste reduction)which were previously deposited in Recycle fund.
The mysterious $7.00. enhancement or as the Mayor says increment merged with waste collection fee and deposited in waste collection fund not recycle fund. It would be interesting. How the Supreme Court decisions on user fees would apply on this.
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No change for Somerset
The Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock addressed the House of Commons this lunchtime. In a keenly anticipated speech he outlined changes to the COVID 19 tier system. These changes will not effect the period between 23 and 27 December, when special Christmas arrangements apply.
There was no change for Somerset which remains in tier 2. This might have been disappointing for some. Herefordshire was moved back to tier 1, the level with fewest restrictions. Tthe level of infection in Somerset remains relatively low. However we have seen regular levels of new infections at a rate of around 500 a week. So in the end it was considered too early to move Somerset out of tier 2.
However there was better news for both North Somerset and Bristol. They have been moved from down from tier 3 to tier 2. To reiterate, as Somerset is in tier 2 this is what you can do:
Meeting indoors
You can only meet socially with friends and family indoors who you either:
live with
have formed a support bubble with
Unless a legal exemption applies.
‘Indoors’ means any indoor setting, including:
other indoor venues such as pubs and restaurants
Meeting outdoors
You can see friends and family you do not live with (or do not have a support bubble with) outdoors, in a group of no more than 6. This limit of 6 includes children of any age.
‘Outdoors’ means in a private garden or other outdoor space.
You can continue to meet in a group larger than 6 if you are all from the same household or support bubble or another legal exemption applies.
Other activities, such as hobby groups, organised indoor sport, physical activity and exercise classes can continue to take place, provided that different households or support bubbles do not mix. Where it is likely that groups will mix, these activities should not go ahead. There are exceptions for indoor disability sport, and supervised sport and physical activity for under-18s, which can take place with larger groups mixing.
Visiting venues, such as restaurants, pubs, cinemas and museums
Venues can host multiple groups and should follow COVID-secure guidance but you must not mix with anyone who is not part of your household or support bubble when you are indoors.
This includes in:
leisure and entertainment venues
personal care/close contact services
public buildings, such as libraries, community centres and halls
At least one person in your group should give their contact details to the venue, or each individual should check in using the official NHS COVID-19 app so NHS Test and Trace can contact you if needed.
Businesses and venues
All businesses and venues should follow COVID-secure guidance to protect customers, visitors and workers.
Business restrictions in Tier 2 areas include:
nightclubs and adult entertainment venues must remain closed
pubs and bars may not provide alcohol for consumption on the premises, unless with a substantial meal, so they are operating as a restaurant. They may remain open for take-away services
other hospitality businesses – including cafes, restaurants and social clubs – can only serve alcohol with substantial meals. If they are a business which serves alcohol for consumption on the premises, they must be table service only. In cinemas, theatres, concert halls and sports stadia, alcohol can be ordered at a bar to be consumed when seated in the auditorium or area where the screening/performance is taking place. This should be limited to only those with tickets. When it is to be consumed in the bar area itself, it must be part of a substantial meal and full table service must be provided
hospitality venues that do not serve alcohol may allow someone to order from the counter, but they must still consume their meal from a seat if eating in
hospitality venues must stop taking orders after 10pm and must close between 11pm and 5am (with exceptions for airports, ports, the Folkestone international rail terminal, on public transport services and in motorway service areas, although these places cannot sell alcohol after 11pm)
hospitality businesses and venues selling food and drink for consumption off the premises can continue to do so after 10pm, such as by take-away. After 11pm, this must only be through delivery service or click-and-collect or drive-through.
businesses must not provide shared smoking equipment for use on the premises.
visitor attractions, entertainment businesses and venues may open but early closure (11pm) applies to the following:
adult gaming centres and amusement arcades
funfairs, theme parks and adventure parks and activities
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Bizarre scenes on iconic Aussie beach
11th Oct 2019 2:26 PM
It didn't cause disruptions to our major cities, but the climate change protesters turned their attention to Manly Beach for a bizarre protest on Friday.
Protesters buried their heads in the sand for one minute as part of the week-long events being staged as part of the Extinction Rebellion protests.
"As we face into the Climate Emergency, it seems many around us have their heads in the sand, afraid to face the reality of what is coming," it said on the Facebook page for the event.
"Taking action to bring about change is the only way forward for the future of our planet.
To highlight the futility of the heads in sand approach, we will gather with as many people as possible on Manly beach."
People were just asked to bring a shovel and towel. And a message to write on their behind.
"Please please please EVERYONE COME to this. It's going to look so great if hundreds come! Think about the message to have on you butt too," the Facebook event stated.
"This will be a family friendly, non-disruptive event where we will have a bit of fun whilst getting our point across."
Lots of heads in the sand.
And some more.
The event was staged as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton slammed the protesters.
Climate change protesters who've disrupted major capital cities this week are thumbing their noses at working people, the federal government says.
Mr Dutton on Friday resumed his attack on activists protesting under the Extinction Rebellion banner, branding them "radicals" and "outliers".
"They do their cause more harm than good," he told Nine Network on Friday.
"They are, frankly, just thumbing their nose at Australians who want to two to work, run their businesses, [and] don't want to be disrupted by these people."
Extinction Rebellion has been leading a week-long series of protests in major cities to raise awareness about climate change as part of a campaign to force Australian governments to declare a "climate emergency'.
Some of their activities, which has included locking themselves to concrete objects and fences and glueing themselves to roads, have been criticised for disrupting commuters and businesses and for taking up police time. Mr Dutton again raised the prospect of charging protesters acting without permits for the cost of the police response.
"When you are acting outside of the law, which these people are doing, you are diverting valuable police resources. I think there should be a price to pay for that," he said.
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Looking for girlfriend or boyfriend > Looking for a boyfriend > What guys look for in girls
What guys look for in girls
While all guys are different, what guys look for in girls is universal. It is the small and subtle characteristics that charm a guy. If you check Instagram right now, every girl is posing with either a duck face or some with some serious squinting action going on. Sure, you look good, but men love a girl with bright eyes and a beautiful smile.
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You've probably heard it before—boys love to complain about how confusing girls can be. But us girls know firsthand that understanding guys can be just as complicated. In hopes of helping girls better understand the guy's point of view, we surveyed guys about a way-worthy topic: you! What do guys wish you knew? Blunt, but we like blunt. Mikey is in the majority when it comes to flirting. Nearly every guy we talked to says when he texts, he's really just trying to get you know you better.
A text is just a text, not a confession of love. I hate it because the next day the girl acts like she owns me. Basically, a text or a snap from a guy isn't some hidden signal to decode. Just be yourself, take it slow and feel out the situation. Sure, a text could lead to something more, but for now, it's just a text, so there's no need to stress or DTR right away.
And if you're feeling nervous? Keep your cool. Texting your crush can be just as easy as talking to your BFF. Judging from our survey, boys just don't get makeup. In fact, a lot of guys even complain about it.
Sure, they all like pretty girls, but they also have a problem with a face that looks full-on painted. Do they really think that will get them a guy? Still, guys' hatred for cosmetics is no joke. But remember, boys are not the authority on fashion and beauty.
You may be a girl who prefers to go au naturel every day, or you may love using every shade of eyeshadow in your Naked palette on any given Tuesday at school. Either way, you do you, girl! Go for it. No way! But really, what Pete's saying is something a lot of surveyed guys struggled with: unpacking how girls are feeling, and why.
While Colin the amature psychologist has certainly thought a lot about the topic, we're not sure he's cracked the case yet. It's true that because girls are viewed as more emotional, our emotions are seen as more acceptable to express in public, while phrases like, "Man up! Here's the deal: boys are just as emotional as girls, but a lot of times, they don't show it.
That may explain why our guys are so confused about girls' displays of emotions. Hang in there girl, and remember, there are some things guys just don't get. Rude is the word, actually, Joey. Whispering and gossip can seem pretty immature, especially when you're spreading rumors or being mean to another girl.
So don't trash talk or put down other girls to seem cool. Guys certainly aren't impressed, but more importantly, you don't want to hurt others. Sure, people talk about other people. But there is a big difference between gossip and character assassinations. You wouldn't like it if the gossip was about you. If you absolutely must exchange information, be discreet. I just feel like I have a spare tire all the time. But here he is worrying about looking like a model. Moral of the story?
Boys have body image issues, too. So, yeah, we feel your pain—and we really mean feel it. Let's face it—the hormones that come with menstruation affect moods and being cranky around your time of the month is beyond understandable. But that doesn't mean you should take our your pain on anyone, much less a guy who doesn't get it. The best thing you can do is take care of yourself. Just deal the best you can by taking care of yourself. Avoid things that aggravate physical and emotional symptoms like caffeine, sugar and greasy foods.
Ever wondered what your cravings mean? But seriously, get plenty of sleep, drink loads of water, get some exercise and take lots of warm baths—yes, even in the afternoon when you get home from school.
No lengthy, drawn-out explanations necessary. The truth is, you're a way harsher critic of yourself than a guy will ever be. Guys can't tell slight differences between sizes, and honestly, they don't really care. All guys have different tastes when it comes to the feminine physique. Some guys like booties. Other guys like their girls thin as a fence post. Who cares? You are what you are. Worry more about your own health and happiness and less of guys' opinions on your looks. Need some self-image pick-me-ups?
Check out some of our recommendations here. And, guess what—if a boy likes you, he likes you for the way you are right now, this second.
Don't feel pressure to wear revealing or tight clothes just for guys' attention. Matthew's not wrong, fashion on TV is all about skimpy looks and attention-grabbers. But remember, the fashion you see on TV are really just costumes designed for performing. The point is, girls should wear what they feel comfortable in, not what TV or movies tells them to wear and definitely not what they think guys are looking for. If you're still wondering what guys look for in a wardrobe, the truth is, it depends.
Sometimes she wore baggy pants and just a little of her belly showed. Or sometimes, if she wore those tight jeans girls always wear, she wouldn't have her boobs all out.
In other words, for a lot of guys, less is more. You don't have to look like a pop star or a character from Riverdale , you just need to wear clothes that make you comfy and happy. And if you're feeling yourself, the right guy will too! It's good to know that guys aren't looking for runway models, but some guys just don't get fashion altogether. I mean, you wouldn't let your brother pick out your outfit, would you? So who needs them to tell you what to wear? Ugh, Chad, girls' fashion choices aren't an invitation to stare.
The truth is, a lot of guys are not fashion experts, and they won't be impressed just because your outfit shows a ton of skin. Bottom line? You do you girl, and the rest will fall into place. Whatever he means, Daniel is not the only boy looking for a girl to like! The truth is, a lot of guys are just as interested in finding the right person as girls.
That doesn't mean all guys are as mature as D. His friend Raymond, for example, gives another, ummm, interesting perspective. We just have to wait and see. Seems like Ray might not be ready for a relationship. A lot of surveyed boys agree with Ray on one count, though: some girls may put too much emphasis on finding a boyfriend. Do you and your squad constantly discuss guys? If so, maybe scale it back a bit, and not just because of what boys think. Remember, you have so much more interesting things to explore than "who-likes-who," as fun as that can be sometimes.
Plus, it wouldn't hurt to show guys like Ray what's really on girls' minds. We get that. Sadly, guys are obviously confused, and sometimes take your friendliness as flirting. Can we trust guys to know the difference? You may be feeling confused if he likes you, and chances are, he's in the exact same boat. So what do you do when you want to make friends with a boy, but you're worried that striking up a random convo could be misinterpreted as major flirting?
Just be honest. It may seem tough to tell a guy you're just not into him like that, but in the long run, he'll appreciate knowing the truth instead of feeling led on. But all the guys agreed on this one, which means it should work.
Right wish list. So we asked 12 guys what they really look for in a woman or, for the ones who are already paired up, what about their S. She doesn't stand out from a crowd, but her humor, smile, and interests separate her from everyone else. She enjoys being sociable, while still staying in sometimes. A woman who is straightforward and honest is a definite because we have to be able to communicate with each other.
You've probably heard it before—boys love to complain about how confusing girls can be. But us girls know firsthand that understanding guys can be just as complicated. In hopes of helping girls better understand the guy's point of view, we surveyed guys about a way-worthy topic: you!
Before you roll your eyes and sigh because I sound just like that stereotypical looks-are-the-only-thing-that-matter kind of guy, hear me out. Attraction is physical, emotional, relational, intellectual, and maybe even spiritual for some. Sure, a man wants to be with someone he finds physically attractive, but I think we all do. The problem comes when we feel that someone values our looks more than our personality or intellect or any other more substantial characteristic. Now I will concede that the first level of attraction that most guys recognize is physical beauty.
Before learning about this, men would always seem to lose interest in me relatively quickly. Yet, once you understand how this part of the male brain works, it can make all the difference to how they feel about you read my personal story to learn how it works. By adding this skill on top of the five personality traits listed below, you can expect plenty of men to obsess over you. From a huge zest for life and a sense of adventure to a certain confidence that just oozes sex appeal, the following traits are what drive men absolutely when it comes to women and make him one step closer to falling in love. Similarly to how many women are attracted to big, manly men, many men are attracted to more soft, feminine women. But why exactly does a feminine woman drive men crazy? If you ask any man what they find most attractive in a woman, many of them will tell you that they value a good sense of humour above all else.
You have a career. The days when guys want to outearn a girl are, for the most part, over. Even a part time job can make a big difference in how he views you. You know how to stand up for yourself.
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Building a Continuous Integration Pipeline: Decisions and Considerations
#CI/CD
Roi Ravhon
Back in the day, software releases were very special events. It was not uncommon for a release to combine the efforts of several people and multiple machines just to make the binaries. When there is one person responsible for the backend, one for the UI, one for the installer, and one for putting the data together, you can imagine the process taking several days.
When a bug is discovered, at least some steps of the process will need to be performed again. Depending on the size of the project, it can take anywhere from days to weeks of concentrated effort just to push the next version of the software to customers.
Continuous integration (CI) cures us of at least some of the headaches that this scenario causes. The main purpose of CI is to merge and integrate all code of all developers several times per day. This is achieved using unit tests (for checking each component individually) and integration tests (to test the whole — or subsets — of the product together).
There are multiple ways of ensuring that components integrate well — some examples are smoke tests and end-to-end tests. The basic premise is first to test the components on a unit level. This helps to isolate problems that would be difficult to debug if they were discovered at a later stage.
Release Early, Release Often
In the scenario above, each release cycle would have combined multiple changes to multiple components. Afterward, they would be tested. When a bug is discovered, it is difficult not only to track down which component is behaving incorrectly but also to find which change caused the malfunction.
By modularization and keeping focused on the unit and integration testing, CI makes small releases possible. Debugging is far easier this way, and an automated gating solution may discard such changes until they pass all required quality checks. This way, the code always complies and is always ready to be shipped right away.
An interesting byproduct of a good CI workflow is that the build process itself gets documented in the code. All CI tools require a description of steps necessary to build a component and test it. As I will show you in the next section, even planning for CI can lead to better quality of your code and processes.
What Tools Are Out There?
We are accustomed to perpetual software wars. Operating systems, web browsers, and editors are aplenty, and they all have their loyal supporters and fierce opponents. CI is no different. There are some strong names in the market, but it seems that we have one that is everywhere: Jenkins.
A short history lesson. Jenkins started as Hudson, which was developed on Sun. After Oracle acquired Sun, Oracle claimed Hudson’s trademark name — an action that obviously pissed off the open source community, which voted to rename of the project. And Jenkins was born.
Both projects are being actively developed (although Jenkins has been accepted more widely within the community). Which one is the fork is still an arguable question.
Whether you love it or hate it, chances are you will or have used Jenkins if you require an on-premise CI system. Some other competitors worth mentioning in the on-premise court are Teamcity, Bamboo, GitLab, Buildbot, and GoCD. Of course, there are some really good SaaS alternatives that usually pretty fast for relatively simple build process such as TravisCI, CircleCI, and GitLab (again using its SaaS offering).
For the sake of simplicity, we will illustrate our examples with the Jenkins way of thinking. The implementation may differ, but the architecture mostly stays the same with CI systems that consist of:
A master server or other central location where all the information is stored
Build slaves (also called build agents) that do the actual work and may be configured for different needs (such as a Ruby slave, Java slave, or Nvidia GPU slave)
Prepare Your CI Process
Previously, we mentioned that just planning for CI can be beneficial to the quality of your project. This is because you first need to answer some questions that can give you better insights into the actual state of the project. Here are some examples:
Does a build require specialized hardware?
If you are using one dedicated build machine, ask yourself, ”Why?” Is it because the configuration is really hard? If so, you should make all the effort to document the configuration before your dedicated machine stops functioning properly.
Maybe it is because your build process requires some specialized hardware? At this point, it is worth asking whether such hardware is needed in build-time as well or maybe only at run-time. Maybe its use could be split to a separate component that would be tied to a build agent on such a dedicated machine?
Does it require a specific system configuration?
The necessary configuration to perform a build should be documented — or better yet, automated — so that you can apply it to build agents. What is stopping you from making configuration automation part of a build?
Does a build require access to external services or credentials?
The master server needs to store at least SCM credentials to check out the source code. Other kinds of secrets may, for example, be access and secret keys for any third-party integrations that you need to test. Most CI tools come with a secret store so that you can configure it once and have Jenkins, for example, manage the encryption when you need it.
Can a build be achieved without resorting to GUI?
As long as your project build uses command line tools, all automation should be easy. The trouble starts when GUI tools are needed as build-slaves have to be provisioned accordingly. In some cases, resources for such builds may be higher and automation will not be as easy. Consider again whether GUI tools are really needed. Perhaps there is an alternative?
Do you have automated tests?
What we mentioned so far covers the build part, but continuous integration brings the greatest number of benefits when automated testing is used. Unit tests for components along with functional tests for integration are probably the best combination. One without the other may not give a full picture. When in doubt, consult the Test Pyramid.
The final part of a CI journey is to make sure that the tests are relevant and passing. Make sure that they don’t fall below a set threshold, and try to add more cases if you feel the need for them. Remember: Continuous integration is a process and a state of mind, not a feature.
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Gugak FM in live Liverpool concert: There and Now
by Events Editor posted 2 Nov 2010 8 Dec 2017 updated 8 Dec 2017
in Events | Music. 2 minute read
Three years ago Kayageum player Choi Jin give a well-received concert at SOAS. She returns to these shores on 11 November to participate in a concert and workshop in Liverpool, courtesy of Gugak FM. She is joined by the duo Su: m, who played at the British Museum this time last year.
The 21st Century Korean Music Series
There & Now
▶ Venue: Concert Room, St George’s Hall, Liverpool
▶ Time: Thursday 11 November, 8:00pm
▶ Ticket prices: Tickets £10 (Concession £7)
▶ Booking Info: www.ticketline.co.uk, 0844 888 9991
▶ www.therenowconcert.co.uk
Gugak FM is the Korean national radio channel for traditional Korean music. Since 2009, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Gugak FM has presented the 21st century Korean music series to nurture the future creators of traditional Korean music by offering them the opportunity to perform with Korean music masters across the globe. This year, the tour concerts are held in St George’s Hall ( Liverpool), RASA(Utrecht), Zuiderpershuis (Antwerp) and Maison des cultures du monde (Paris). (www.gugakfm.com)
There & Now is an exquisite evening of concerts providing a journey through the past and present of Korean music with four extraordinary Korean musicians: CHOI Jin and KIM Woong-sik with a traditional repertoire for string and percussion; and a young female duo, Su:m’s PARK Ji-ha and SEO Jung-min with new compositions for string and wind. CHOI, a master soloist on the ancient string instrument the gayageum, provides a timeless quality of Korean sound, tender and soulful, accompanied by KIM’s dynamic percussion on the Janggu. PARK and SEO of Su:m won Gugak FM’s 21st Korean Music Award in 2009 for their experimental new compositions that bring traditional and contemporary expression and aesthetics together.
CHOI Jin (Gayageum, 12-stringed zither): Trained with the master artists of Korean traditional music, who are also known as ‘Human Treasures’, CHOI is specializing in sanjo (a solo instrumental genre) and gayageum byeongchang (voice with zither accompaniment). As a soloist she won numerous awards in various Korean music competitions including the President Award (Gran Prix) at Kimhae National Gugak Competition and the Best Instrumental Artist Award at the 3rd Korean National Gugak Competition.
KIM, Woong-Sik (Janggu, hourglass drum): Woong-Sik is considered to be the most versatile drummer and accompanist in Korea. He was a percussionist in the KBS Tradition Music Orchestra and is also a founding member of the Korean contemporary percussion ensemble Puri formed in 1993.
Su:m (piri, bamboo oboe; saenghwang, mouth organ; yanggeum, dulcimer; 25-stringed gayageum zither; metal-stringed gayageum zither):This young female duo, Park Ji-Ha and Seo Jung-Min, is the winner of the ‘Experimental Award’ at the 21st Century Korean Music Project Competition in 2009 for their groundbreaking new composition, ‘Mirror Ego II’, the mesmerizing instrumental piece for wind and string.
The concert is followed by a workshop, ‘Exploring Korean Musicality’ at The University of Liverpool on 12 November and a workshop and performance, ‘Korean Music in the 21st Century: In Search of Its Future’ at The Bluecoat on 14 November.
Filed in: Event Notices | Korean traditional music
Musicians: Choi Jin | Park Jiha | Su:m (숨)
Places: Liverpool
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December 3, 2018 Duke Energy, Electrical Generation, Energy Services, Industrywide Issues
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Duke Energy issued a press release on Friday to announce that its massive 1,640 megawatt natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Crystal River, Florida (Tampa area) is now “fired up” and operating, churning out enough electricity to power 1.8 million homes in the Sunshine State. The new gas-fired plant replaces several 52-year-old coal-fired units. The super cool news is that some of the gas powering the plant comes from the Marcellus/Utica. Really?! How? First the gas goes south from our region by hitching a ride through the mighty Williams Transcontinental Gas Pipeline (Transco)–all the way to Alabama. Then, the Sabal Trail Pipeline, a 1.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) pipeline, runs more than 500 miles from an interconnect with Transco in west-central Alabama to the Orlando, FL-area.
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Basement of a Bull: Small Town Cop, Big City Problems
By: Davis Duvay
I grew up in a small town down in southern Illinois. I’d share the name but I don’t think it even registers on Google maps. Our town didn’t even have a barbershop.
When you grow up in a town that small, everything is the next town over. Bank. Movie theater. Restaurants. You just kind of get used to that lifestyle; everything is the next town over. Everything is a drive away. Home ends up being where you wake up and go to bed. There’s a creek for fishing, really not much else.
The way we all viewed Chicago was the way I assume people in Chicago view Mars; it’s not just a big city to us, it’s a totally different planet, one that maybe we could inhabit sometime in the way distant future.
So, needless to say, people were shocked when they found out I passed the test, that I was heading to the big city to start with the Chicago Police Department.
Here’s another thing, our town viewed Chicago as a war zone. Becoming a police officer–in their minds–was equivalent to joining the Marines, heading over to the Middle East. I’d like to say people were proud of me, but I think the general reaction was more confusion. I think they even felt sorry for my parents. Your son just signed his death notice.
What they didn’t know is just how far away I was from any sort of “action.”
I worked in the traffic violation department. The mayor installed these red light cameras all around the city. They take photos of the car and license plate, then I go in, print those out, look up who the license plate belongs to, then send that out in the mail with a fine.
Like I said, I’m pretty far away from the action. Still the next town over.
Proximity-wise, I sit near a couple of our detectives. They’re kind of like me, the bottom of the totem pole, but at least they are in the game. Handed cases. Solving some of them. A lot of times I’ll pretend to be deeply focused on the red light camera stuff (doesn’t require a ton of deep thought on my part) and just be eavesdropping on their conversations.
It was Wednesday morning, sometime around 9 a.m. Detective McDonald and Detective Barboza were coming back to their desks with their styrofoam cups of black coffee.
“You think the Bulls can make it seven in a row?” McDonald said. I could hear him shuffling the pages of the Chicago Tribune.
“The hell’s gotten into that team?” Barboza said. “Couple weeks ago, I thought we’d never win again, now it doesn’t seem like we’ll ever lose. All I can say, they better not screw this season up and get a bad draft pick. All that blowing up the roster for nothing.”
Their boss (Lieutenant Zahn) came marching down the hall. Always marching. Never in a good mood. Buttons on his shirt looked like they were about to go flying. He was a heavy guy, but it was weird, it was like his gut was solidly in place. No flab. Just a bowling ball. I would always sit straighter in my chair, look extra focused when he walked through the halls; as if he’d somehow see that extra effort in my posture and say, “Hey, kid, let’s get you out of red light violations.”
“Alright you lazy bums, I got some real good ones in here, some real headline cases, the kind that’ll launch your sorry careers,” Lieutenant Zahn said. “Get ready to cancel those Christmas plans.”
“Let me guess, a couple missing laptops up in Lakeview?” McDonald said. “Stolen bicycle in Lincoln Park?”
“I can barely trust you clowns with a missing hat,” Zahn said. “You know the drill, pick three, get on ’em, I want one of ’em solved by end of day Friday.”
“When you taking off for the holidays there Big Z?” Barboza asked.
Didn’t hear a response, just heard him marching away.
“Only guy I’ve ever known who can literally just walk away from a question he’s not interested in answering,” Barboza said.
“So much for an easy week before Christmas,” McDonald said with a sigh. “Missing kayak? Who steals a kayak in December?”
“Hey, all I know, I’m out of here on Friday, no way in hell I’m coming in,” Barboza said.
“Oh yeah, even if they’re not solved?” McDonald said.
“I’ll get done what I can, but I’ve got priorities,” Barboza said.
“Good luck with that excuse,” McDonald replied.
“And that coffee’s already run through me,” Barboza said. “I’m gonna go register the morning bowel movement, give me one of those stacks.”
Barboza passed by my cubicle carrying the file. He stopped. Turned around.
“Yo, red light,” he said.
I pointed at my chest. Who me?
“I’m gonna take a dump,” Barboza said. “Why don’t you go ahead and pick out two cases from this pile, find me the easiest ones.”
I nodded. Tried to play it cool.
Because to me, these files seemed like a really big deal. To everyone else, it didn’t seem like it mattered.
I flipped through page after page of the reports. Mostly missing or potentially stolen things. I wanted to take on all of these cases. Everything seemed worthy of our attention. But I tried to raise my bar, or I guess lower my bar. Just find the easiest one.
Flip. Flip. Flip.
I stopped. Read the headline over and over.
Break-In United Center: Missing Photo of the 1993 Championship team. Missing Dennis Rodman jersey. Missing signed pair of shoes by Steve Kerr.
This seemed like a way bigger deal than anything that ever showed up on Barboza and McDonald’s desk. Maybe it was a mistake? Or maybe those two were moving up the ladder. Or maybe I just truly have no gauge for what constitutes as big city crime.
“Alright, so what’d you pick?” Barboza asked.
I jumped a little in my seat. My knee hit the desk.
“Woah, easy there killer,” Barboza said.
I randomly grabbed two from the stack.
“Ah, you gave me the kayak,” Barboza said. “And a missing Bernese Mountain Dog? Well, yeah, probably the easiest dog to find. I like it. Good work there Red Light.”
When Barboza was back at his desk, I carefully slid the United Center page out, put it on my legs, kept part of it under the desk.
The red lights could wait. I had my first big city case.
Basement of a Bull is a work of fiction. All characters, all events, everything is not real. New posts go up Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you’re wondering where this is all going, hey, so are the writers. The goal here is to essentially create a Chicago improv show, just written out.
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Who doesn’t love a Rom-Com? Of all the movie genres to watch, there’s possibly nothing better than chilling with some popcorn and your favourite romantic comedy! (For those wondering, mine is My Best Friend’s Wedding). From the retro classics to the 00s gems, there’s no shortage of brilliant films to fall in love with.
So, what makes a great rom-com? Super-quotable lines. A ‘Glow Up’ montage. And, of course, an iconic love-overcomes-all scene at the end, we still get that fuzzy feeling when Richard Gere climbs up to Julia Roberts in Pretty Women! Sure, the endings are often predictable but that’s the way we like it. To make it easier to pick from the tons of classics, here is our list of the best rom-com’s out there. Prepare to laugh and cry in equal measure.
Legally Blonde, 2001
What: After getting dumped (We’re still not over this), pink-obsessed sorority girl Elle Woods follows her ex-boyfriend to Harvard law school to try and win him back. But after winning an internship with a respected lawyer, it turns out she’s not as ditzy as everyone thinks she is, que the ‘Glow Up’. Plus, her lecturer’s assistant Emmett is a much hotter prospect.
Defining moment: Elle educating her friend on how to woo a man, using the trusty ‘bend and snap’ technique. Plus, her dog, Bruiser Woods, is an icon himself, call us when he gets his own movie or at least a mini-series!
13 Going on 30, 2004
What: Jenna gets mean-girled by the popular clique at her 13th birthday party and wishes she could escape high school and be ‘thirty and flirty’ (Why she wished her youth away is beyond us). The next day she wakes up aged 29, with an amazing apartment and a job at her favourite magazine, but with no idea how she got there. When she tracks down her 13-year-old self’s BFF Matty, who’s grown into a total ten, it turns out they haven’t spoken to each other in years. She ditched him after her 13th birthday party to become the queen bee of the mean girls. You get the gist, we recommend watching this as soon as possible!
Defining moment: The 80s soundtrack is everything, and the dance routine to Thriller tops the lot. We’re currently attempting to learn this, anyone got any tips?
Grease, 1978
What: Like we mean, does it really require an explanation? If you have not watched Grease, then we suggest you fix this as soon as possible.
Defining Moment: The final scene at the carnival. It’s a no brainer. Wop ba-ba lu-mop and wop bam boom!
Notting Hill, 1999
What: A chance encounter in West London between the most famous movie star on the planet, Anna, and indie bookshop owner William leads to a romance that must bear the scrutiny of the world’s media. And his eccentric friends.
Defining moment: One of the most famous love conquers all scenes in rom-com history. Having messed up with Will, Anna asks for a second chance with the ultimate line “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her”. Couple Goals!
Love Actually, 2003
What: You either love this movie or hate it, but either way, it’s a classic. There are nine-story threads, all relationship-based, that evolve over the festive season. The Prime Minister is falling for his tea girl, Mark is in love with his best friend’s wife, Juliet, and Harry is cheating on his wife Karen with a younger woman.
Defining moment: Mark’s notecard love messages for Juliet. You’ll either find it desperately romantic or think ‘wait, she’s your best friend’s wife’
So that’s our top must-watch rom-coms but these are just the classics! Having sadly fallen out of fashion in 2010, we feared we’d never see another tear-jerker again. Enter Netflix. Since the launch of Netflix, we’ve seen a revival with films like ‘Always Be My Maybe’ and ‘Kissing Booth’ now inspiring Hollywood to start making rom-com again! Fingers crossed that Legally Blonde 3 finally drops this year!
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March 24, 2020 5:13 pm Comments Off on Expanded Metal vs. Perforated Metal
Both expanded metal and perforated metal are suitable for use in ventilation or drainage applications.
Additionally, their integration of geometric patterns, makes both a popular aesthetic element added to various fixtures and structures.
Despite their similarities in function, these two metals are distinct; they require the use of different manufacturing methods, exhibit different characteristics, and have different best use cases. Understanding the differences between them is critical when selecting one or the other for an application.
In the following blog post, we provide an overview of how perforated and expanded metal differ, outlining how they’re manufactured, key characteristics, and ideal applications.
All About Expanded Metal
For ventilation and drainage products, expanded metal is a strong and cost-effective option.
Manufacturing Method for Expanded Metal
The key to expanded metal’s strength is in its manufacturing process. The first step is to perforate the sheet with a series of regular slits. Stretching the sheet after adding these openings creates the distinctive, repeating diamond pattern that distinguishes expanded metal from other material options. After the stretching process, some strands of metal may protrude slightly, but it’s possible to flatten these later on if necessary or desired.
There are two key advantages to this technique:
It decreases the amount of material waste produced—therefore increasing material utilization—which translates to lower production costs.
It creates materials with greater structural strength than that of materials with holes punched directly into them (i.e., perforated metal).
Key Characteristics of Expanded Metal
As indicated above, expanded metal retains its structural integrity better than perforated metal. In addition to this property, other key characteristics include low risk of unraveling (compared to woven mesh) and excellent conductivity.
Ideal Applications for Expanded Metal
When choosing to use expanded metal for an application, some of the key considerations include thickness and strand dimension, both of which depend on the structure’s requirements. It is available in a wide range of materials, mesh sizes (including near-transparent thickness), and pattern designs to suit different use cases.
Some of the most common applications for which expanded metal is ideal include:
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All About Perforated Metal
Perforated metal is the preferred choice for use in certain applications such as filtration equipment.
Manufacturing Method for Perforated Metal
Like expanded metal, perforated metal begins as a steel sheet. However, rather than slicing and stretching the sheet, a technician feeds the base material into a specialized machine that punches holes in a pre-defined pattern (typically either straight or staggered lines of holes). The machine usually leaves a thin section of metal around the perimeter unpunched to avoid compromising the material’s stability.
The perforation process does, by necessity, generate waste. While the excess metal can be recycled, doing so may increase the overall project cost. Manufacturing sheets with larger holes produces more material waste—resulting in higher production costs—so customers with such requirements should consider if expanded metal is a better fit for their budget.
Key Characteristics of Perforated Metal
Compared to expanded metal, perforated metal’s main advantage is its versatility. It is available in a broad selection of variations, with different material, hole gauge, hole size, and hole shape options.
Ideal Applications for Perforated Metal
As perforated metal is available in many different variants, it lends itself to use in a wide range of applications. Some examples include the following, although perforated metal applications are by no means limited to this list:
Pharmaceutical systems
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As market fear and uncertainty continues to escalate, normal transaction assumptions come into question. We want to highlight how UPG and its family of companies can help get your business through this temporary moment in time. First, the world has not stopped functioning. We are committed to maintaining our business operations and ensuring the upmost safety for our employees, customers, vendors and partners.
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Researchers ask why some Canadian health workers are more likely to get COVID-19 than others
Daniel J. Rowe CTV News Montreal Digital Reporter
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Published Thursday, November 26, 2020 9:38AM EST Last Updated Thursday, November 26, 2020 7:10PM EST
MONTREAL -- Why are so many health-care workers contracting COVID-19, what protective measures work and how can stress, anxiety and infections be reduced as the second wave of the pandemic continues?
They are questions a second multi-provincial study hopes to answer, as researchers try to limit the devastating toll on the health-care industry across Canada.
The national COVID-19 Immunity Task Force has already completed a first study, which included doctors from BC, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.
It found rates of infection were higher among physicians than other health-care workers, and that all health-care workers reported high levels of anxiety with physicians the group most often reporting anxiety.
Quebec physicians, the results suggest, had a higher rate of infection than their Albertan counterparts. However, the second study is showing that three times more Albertan health-care workers are testing positive for COVID-19.
The task force is currently looking for volunteers for a second study that will look at how many health-care workers have been infected, what protective measures have worked, and what can be done to reduce stress for health-care workers.
"Are they adequate? Is it enough?" said task force communications officer Rebecca Burns.
"Our aim is to identify work practices and exposures that could be improved and made safer," said Dr. Nicola Cherry, Tripartite Chair of Occupational Health, Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alberta, who led the first study.
"Second, we want to examine health care workers and the state of their mental health with the goal to identify workplace practices and supports that could be improved to reduce stress.”
Recruitment is underway at the MUHC (McGill University Health Centre) and Sherbrooke Hospital for the second study, which is led by doctors Brenda Coleman and Allison McGeer out of Toronto.
It will look at whether health-care workers who work directly with patients at their bedside are at a higher risk of contracting the virus than personnel who do not (housekeeping, lab, and administrative staff).
“We want to find out what proportion of infections are associated with work-related exposures as opposed to being acquired in the community," said Coleman.
"So, we’ll be asking questions such as how they get to work and whether they’ve been seeing family, friends, or colleagues outside of work."
Researchers will also determine what protective equipment staff is using at work and home to try and shine a light on why workers are being infected.
“If the current measures of protection in the workplace, such as personal protective equipment (PPE), physical distancing and limited social contact are not adequate, this study will be able to help improve practices,” said McGeer.
The study hopes to enrol 2,000 participants. The Canadian government shelled out $2.7 million for the research.
Task force executive director Dr. Tim Evans said that though it's clear health-care workers are at high risk of being exposed to the novel coronavirus, data is lacking and sometimes contradictory on the extent of the infection among health-care workers.
“It is crucial that we look at infection rates and what can be done to reduce these infections, to protect not only health care workers, but their patients, families, and their community,” he said.
Respirologist Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil was photographed telling a patient's family they died from COVID-19. The photo was taken by Leah Hennel, a senior advisor within the Community Engagement and Communications team at AHS. (Courtesy: Twitter / Alberta Health Services)
When a COVID-19 patient dies, this is what the doctor's phone call to family looks like
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Home Events Rethinking Evangelism
Rethinking Evangelism
October 12–14, 2020 AdultContinuing EducationVirtualWorship
Program in partnership with Theology, Formation & Evangelism ministries in the Presbyterian Mission Agency
Montreat Conference Center is partnering with Theology, Formation & Evangelism in the Presbyterian Mission Agency to offer an opportunity to Rethink Evangelism in October of 2020.
This three-day virtual event will be designed for church leaders and congregational members to reconsider what effective evangelism might look like in their particular neighborhoods and communities. We will intentionally seek the wisdom of 1,001 New Worshiping Communities as well as congregations working in the Vital Congregations initiative as we create an interactive platform for sharing the practices and lifestyles, individual and corporate, that allow people to effectively share the good news.
Ray Jones– Key Leader
Ray Jones is the director of Theology, Formation & Evangelism in the Presbyterian Mission Agency. He has served the church as a pastor in congregations in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. For the past ten years he has served the denomination through the Presbyterian Mission Agency. Ray has a heart for helping people come to know and grow in their love of God in Jesus Christ. Through Ray’s guidance, the Presbyterian Mission Agency is producing resources to encourage and equip churches to help people live into their stories of faith, grow as followers of Christ, and see themselves as part of God’s mission. Ray believes that renewal in the church begins with God’s radical, unconditional love revealed in Jesus.
Jerry Cannon– Key Leader
Rev. Dr. Jerry L. Cannon serves as senior pastor of C.N. Jenkins Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC. He earned his MDiv specializing in the Bible from the Interdenominational Theological Center at Johnson C. Smith University Seminary in Atlanta, GA, and his DMin from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. Dr. Cannon’s involvement with the church is long-standing, and he is especially committed to evangelism and community service. In addition to his many and varied outreach ministries through C.N. Jenkins, Dr. Cannon has completed service as board member to Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary and Goodwill Industries of Central Carolina, and has served as a faculty member of Project Burning Bush through Union Theological Seminary and the Love of Learning Program of Davidson College. Dr. Cannon is the former president of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus and past Chair of the Presbyterian Cross Caucus Committee.
Ralph Watkins– Biblical and Theological Grounding
Dr. Watkins is the Peachtree Associate Professor of Evangelism and Church Growthwork at Columbia Theological Seminary. His research centers around building 21st-century churches. His writing and research is done with congregations as they partner to be faithful to the call of being the Body of Christ. He is presently working on ways the Church can use multi-media approaches and web 2.0 strategies to be effective at evangelism and discipleship.
Sara Hayden– 1001 New Worshiping Communities Live Podcast
The Rev. Sara Hayden is the director of Apprenticeships, Residencies and Leadership Cohorts for the 1001 New Worshiping Communities movement and the host of 1001’s podcast New Way. Sara has been instrumental in the development of 1001’s national apprenticeship and residency programs and cohort network, to which more than 100 new worshiping community leaders turn for mutual support and continued training. Sara is also a 1001 network coach. She uses her experience as a regional and local new worshiping community leader to inform that work. As director of the 1001 Apprenticeship and Residency Program, Sara teaches apprentices about church-planting via weekly video seminars.
Mark Ramsey– Panel Facilitator
The Rev. Mark Ramsey is the executive director of Macedonian Ministry in Decatur, GA. Prior to that, he served as the senior pastor of Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX, and has served churches in the Chicago area, Denver, Michigan, North Carolina, and the Washington D.C. area. Rev. Ramsey has served as an adjunct instructor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and has been a leader and speaker at the NEXT Church conference and at retreats in Montana and Iowa on behalf of Macedonian Ministry. He is an associate editor and frequent contributor to Journal for Preachers and has written selections for Feasting on the Gospels.
Rev. Jennifer Watley Maxell– Panelist
Co-founder of The Breakthrough Fellowship in Smyrna, GA, and program curator for for Macedonian Ministry (The Ministry Collaborative) based in Atlanta, GA
Rev. Ben Johnston-Krase– Panelist
Co-planter of Farm Church located in Durham, NC.
Amina McIntyre– Panelist
Writer, playwright, preacher, and currently teaching in Vanderbilt University's Graduate Department of Religion.
Rev. Amy Starr Redwine– Panelist
Pastor and head of staff at First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA.
Rev. Kevin Haah– Panelist
Lead pastor of New City Church in Los Angeles, CA.
Rev. Katie Nakamura Rengers– Panelist
Staff officer for church planting in the Presiding Bishop's Office of the Episcopal Church in Birmingham, AL.
Rev. Adam Mixson– Panelist
Pastor of Zion Spring Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, and content curator & mentor/facilitator for Macedonian Ministry (The Ministry Collaborative) based in Atlanta, GA.
Rev. Dr. Denise Thorpe– Panelist
Interim director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA.
Wil McCall– Panelist
President and CEO of Leadership Foundation in Dallas, TX.
Rev. Jessica R. Patchett– Panelist
Pastor and head of staff at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA.
Rev. Adam Borneman– Panelist
Program director for Macedonian Ministry (The Ministry Collaborative) based in Atlanta, GA.
Rev. Kristy Farber– Panelist
Senior pastor at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church in the Seattle, WA, area.
Full Conference Rate
Subsidized Fee Unsubsidized Fee
Individual Registration $70 per person $100 per person
Two or More Registrations per Group $60 per person $100 per person
There are a limited number of subsidized registrations (made possible by the Presbyterian Mission Agency) of $70 for individual registrations, and $60 per person for each subsequent registration for groups of two or more. Participants who register after the subsidized threshold will pay the full rate of $100 per person.
Note: The resource portal for this conference will be be emailed to all registered participants approximately one week before the conference.
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Monday, October 12th
5:45pm – Welcome & Introductions
6:00pm – Opening Worship & Plenary with Ray Jones & Jerry Cannon
11:00am – Ralph Watkins – Biblical and Theological components to re-thinking evangelism
12:00pm – Break
1:00pm – Local Panel #1 “The Antidote to Exhaustion is Not Rest. The Antidote to Exhaustion is Whole-Heartedness.”
2:00pm – Break
2:15pm – Local Panel #2 "Accelerated Trends: Competing Narratives Between the Empire and the Gospel. Knowing the Narrative Story of the Gospel."
3:15pm – Day Two Concludes
Wednesday, October 14th
11:00am – Panel #3 "Re-conviction: Re-introducing Church to Culture Today"
1:00pm – Wrap up with Ray Jones & Jerry Cannon & Closing Worship/Prayer
3:00pm – Conference Concludes
For questions or concerns, or to register a group of more than two participants, please contact Barry Ecker at BarryE@montreat.org or call 828.419.9815.
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15th January 2021 A vision of unity
Covid-19 vaccine could come within 1 year: WHO chief
Brussels, June 26 (IANS) Scientists predict the world may have a Covid-19 vaccine within one year or even a few months earlier, said the Director-General of the World Health Organisation even as he underlined the importance of global cooperation to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines.
However, making the vaccine available and distributing it to all will be a challenge and requires political will, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday during a meeting with the European Parliament's Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
One option would be to give the vaccine only to those that are most vulnerable to the virus.
There are currently over 100 Covid-19 vaccine candidates in various stages of development.
Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic has highlighted the importance of global solidarity and that health should not be seen as a cost but an investment.
He added that all countries in the world must strengthen primary health care and crisis preparedness and stressed the need for EU leadership globally.
While the Director-General said the situation in the EU has improved significantly, he underlined that Covid-19 is very much still circulating globally, with more than four million new cases in the last month.
Many Members of European Parliament said that the global community must cooperate including in developing, manufacturing and distributing vaccines against COVID-19 and asked when a safe vaccine could be available.
Several Members of European Parliament underlined the importance of the WHO but also said it has made mistakes in its response to the pandemic.
The Director-General admitted everyone makes mistakes and informed the members that an independent panel will evaluate the WHO response to the pandemic to learn from any mistakes made.
It will start its work soon, he said.
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Elimination of philosophical exemption survives challenge
By Morgan True, VTDigger.org
The House vote to eliminate a philosophical exemption to childhood vaccines at the time of school entry left a bad taste in the mouths of some lawmakers, but efforts to reconsider that decision failed Wednesday, May 13. The legislation passed by the House on Tuesday would eliminate the philosophical exemption on July 1, 2016. The Senate is expected to concur with the House-passed legislation removing the philosophical exemption before it goes to the governor’s desk. Gov. Peter Shumlin said Wednesday that he’s “inclined” to sign the bill, but will review it once it’s sent to his office before making a final decision.
Rep. Anne Donahue, who offered a proposal Tuesday, May 12, that many viewed as a compromise— but which failed by just two votes—made the motion for reconsideration.
There are 3,479 children in Vermont covered by philosophical exemptions, which represents 3.8 percent of all students in the state, according to the most recent Department of Health figures.
“As you know, there are strongly held and strongly expressed feelings on both sides of this issue, and as you know, I’ve been sympathetic to both. I think Vermonters should vaccinate their kids,” Shumlin told reporters.
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The Invisible Female Workforce Behind the Social CEO
"Thought leadership" involves a far vaster and more complex labor system than first appears.
by Alina Heim on September 8th, 2016
CEOs with great online presences have quietly become the new rockstars of the meme-flooded Internet age. At the time of publication, T-Mobile CEO John Legere has 2.9 million followers on his personal Twitter account — more than three times that of the official T-Mobile account. He’s loose, he’s likable, and he ends his Twitter bio with #IAmBatman. There’s Sophia Amoruso, Nasty Girl CEO and self-proclaimed #GIRLBOSS, boasting an impressive 390K following on Instagram alone — a modern feminist icon for myself and many in my demographic. And we can’t forget Mark Zuckerberg, whose Facebook following currently stands at a cool 37.2 million. But last week I came across an interesting article that changed my perception on how critically I should be reading the social feeds of my favorite CEOs.
Recently, data scientist David Robinson analyzed the entirety of Donald Trump’s official Twitter account, distinguishing between content written by the candidate himself and that written by his staff. Robinson found that tweets coming from Trump’s phone used “about 40-80% more words related to disgust, sadness, fear, anger, and other ‘negative’ sentiments”, while his younger staffers stuck to more positive campaign hashtags. Of course, he isn’t the only politician who uses millennial workers to help craft his brand. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aren’t strangers to the practice, though they definitely go the more transparent route, signing their personal tweets by a simple initial at the end.
So, where is the rest of the content coming from? It’s being outsourced. Just like the career of ghostwriting has never been secret, neither is social media work. Far from it, actually. From 2010 to 2013 alone, the number of social media jobs increased by a whopping 1137%. And if you Google “ghostwriter social media”, seven results on just the first page are ads for agencies who can set you up. A search on LinkedIn brings up 6,491 results — and those are only the people who publicize it. Most don’t. In fact, the majority of ghostwriters I know personally declined to be quoted for this article. It’s a strange kind of invisible work force, and not one people know much about.
Photo CC-BY hobvias sudoneighm.
What we do know about this workforce is that most of them are women, and they predominantly run the social media accounts of public figures, brands and newsrooms. In fact, the majority of professionals in the public relations sector are women: a study by the Colorado Women’s College at the University of Denver found that women account for 55% of leadership roles in social media, but only 23.3% in media at large. Yet the heavy majority of CEOs are men. White men. It’s easy to see that an imbalance this vast in the creation and maintenance of personal brands isn’t just significant — it reeks of inequality. And the persistent gender wage gap tells me they’re probably not being paid the same as their male counterparts, either.
There are a lot of issues with this.
The first is the loss of work credit, of women failing to get the recognition they deserve for their contributions to social media brands, cultures, figures and phenomena. The silence of ghostwriters is secured by one paradox: the nature of the work forbids you from revealing yourself. What exacerbates the problem is that you can’t count on others (like your boss) to give credit where it’s due, either. Will Kelly, a technical writer and analyst, writes that while “the manager or executive may acknowledge the role of the ghostwriter in team meetings,” “the exact contributions of the ghostwriter go unmentioned when that person is talking to their manager or even getting together their list of accomplishments come annual review time.” I have read stories of ghostwriters out there who do their job so well, their boss claims to have written those thoughts themselves. The intellectual anonymity of the space (what’s considered “the norm”) thus ends up perpetuating a vicious cycle of sexism. A space where women aren’t heard, where they stay stuck in certain roles against the top of their glass ceiling, left to be the anonymous voice of another who receives the vast majority of the credit, benefits and compensation.
Photo CC-BY judy dean.
My personal favorite irony? Social media, thought leadership, and online identity are all the components of CEOs’ directly outward-facing presence, meaning they’re the first thing anyone on the Internet sees about them or their company. That’s a huge responsibility. And yet, social media work — particularly that done by women — is still seen as frivolous, unimportant, even trivial. Andrea Garcia-Vargas, a Social Media Manager based in Silicon Valley, explains the real value of those in this workforce:
“People hugely underestimate the importance of digital amplifiers who know how to use these tech platforms to distribute content, to come up with the perfect text that will get users clicking “share” instead of exiting the page, to rack up millions of views and curate online communities drawing from fields as varied as data analysis and crowd psychology.”
An online being must be nurtured, and social media workers are at the wheel.
So, how do we start to unmask the “social CEO”, and the truth and politics of the workforce behind it? Should CEOs simply be more transparent about the fact that they aren’t writing their posts themselves? Would it affect the way readers consume their content? Absolutely. Would readers still follow those CEOs? It’s likely. After all, everyone knows you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. What’s new and what’s changing is the expectation of transparency, especially as people become increasingly aware of the ways information is easily manipulated on the Web. Social media has, for that reason, long been hailed for its intimate, unfiltered look into people’s lives. And that’s the thing: it shouldn’t be. Stephanie St. Martin, a Brand Awareness Manager, gave me some insight on how she handles some of her clients’ brands: “I think their voice is there but, just like all social media, it’s portraying the ‘best self’ and not the ‘real self’,” she wrote me in an email. “No one goes on Facebook to talk about their worst day or show off a terrible haircut.”
So, CEOs — just like us? Not exactly. Their thought leadership is a part of a larger, professional strategy, and involves a far vaster and more complex labor system than first appears.
Either way, there’s no indication that social media ghostwriting will cease anytime soon. In fact, the opposite is likely true. A Forbes article I found titled “The Entrepreneur’s Field Guide To Using Social Media Channels” recommends “Hir[ing] a college intern to run Snapchat for you. They’ll figure it out much better than you ever will.” It’s currently at 34,000 views. But who knows? The next time you tap “Retweet” on a good piece of content, you might consider the name on the handle isn’t the one we should pay tribute to.
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Join us on January 26, 2021 for Advancing Workforce Equity
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The Job Opportunity Investment Network is a public-private partnership between philanthropy, government, community organizations and employers. JOIN seeks to increase the number of Greater Philadelphia workers earning family-sustaining wages. To realize this vision, the collaborative supports industry-led partnerships that train low-wage workers for high-demand, mid-skilled positions. JOIN invests in, evaluates and advocates for best practice efforts that narrow the gap between the region’s low-skilled workforce and the needs of the region’s employers.
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In 2010, the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative was launched to provide an innovative solution to a complex economic challenge: too many unfilled or high turnover jobs at some of Philadelphia’s largest employers and too many unemployed West Philadelphians. WPSI works in partnership with major employers to design recruitment, selection and assessment strategies and training solutions. By identifying real jobs with real vacancies and then preparing unemployed West Philadelphians to excel in these jobs, WPSI mitigates the skills gap and puts people to work in their own community.
Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Partnership
In an effort to address the need for a skilled health care workforce as well as improve career opportunities for incumbent workers and community members, the partnership offers training at a heavily discounted rate to employer members for their incumbent workers. They sponsor large grants that help the long-term unemployed and others to get jobs in health care.
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Green City Works (GCW) builds upon the collective experience of the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative and the purchasing power of West Philadelphia’s anchor institutions to create a social enterprise and workforce partnership that simultaneously moves low-skill, low-wage jobseekers into entry level positions and advances incumbent workers along career pathways in the landscaping, property management, and construction trades sectors. Specifically, GCW will lower barriers to employment, imparting a portable skill to participants and connecting them to permanent work. The partnership’s institutional partners will benefit by having skilled landscapers who are local residents with an investment in the community.
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Share this Story: The Hundred-Foot Journey, reviewed: In the age of foodies, cinematic culinary fare should give its audience more credit
The Hundred-Foot Journey, reviewed: In the age of foodies, cinematic culinary fare should give its audience more credit
Could I please have one of the ignored tangents that might explain the feuding restauranteurs’ rapprochement, with a side about the way many cultures express themselves in interpretations on same basic dishes?
Nathalie Atkinson
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writing Credit: Steven Knight
Cast: Helen Mirren
Synopsis: A stuffy chef confronts a group of modern culinary geniuses in rural France.
As surely as there are 50 ways to leave your lover, there must be at least that many to tie a scarf. For the French, certainly, and also for Helen Mirren. The Hundred-Foot Journey finds Ms. Mirren back in knotted Hermès scarves and cardigan jackets, not as a humourless, stoic but secretly long-suffering English monarch this time, but as a humourless, stoic but secretly long-suffering chef. Her kingdom is Le Saule Pleureur, your everyday Michelin-starred, classical French middle-of-nowhere destination restaurant.
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Elegant but frosty, Madame Mallory rules the culinary domain with a cast iron fist, permitting no deviation from the tried-and-true sauces and preparations of French gastronomy. Meanwhile the Kadams, a family of Indian restauranteurs, has fled the unrest in Mumbai that destroyed their business and was responsible for the death of the matriarch, a famously talented cook.
The Kadams are peripatetic, until their van breaks down in the South of France on a road overlooking a picturesque village. Guided by fate, Papa (Om Puri) discovers an abandoned restaurant and sees it as a fixer-upper for their future (one thing’s for sure: the quaint town cannot be in Peter Mayle’s Provence; if it were, the renovations would still be in progress). Location, location, location, as they say. As the coincidence of this tale (based on the novel by Richard Morais) would have it, the pair of restaurants face off a scant hundred feet from one another.
Son Hassan (Manish Dayal) has inherited his mother’s gifts and is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch, infusing his tandoori goat with irresistible flavours. Instinctual and impassioned, Hassan is curious and open to new recipes and techniques. The same cannot be said for most of the French in the village, chiefly including Madame Mallory, but pretty sous-chef Marguerite (Canadian actor Charlotte Le Bon) befriends Hassam, taking him on foraging expeditions and lending him cookbooks. Soon, he takes on the challenge and discipline of the French haute cuisine.
This, of course, means war. A culinary and, more disconcertingly, cultural one, for they are one and the same. A series of setbacks and escalating come-uppances follow, punctuated by sizzling, stirring and half-baked dish preparation scenes. Overall the movie serves up its predictable plot twists on a plate, while leaving the more flavourful pieces of the narrative undercooked. There’s no punishment for the town’s criminally violent xenophobes, nor correction of the lazy, crowd-pleasing but racist Slumdog Millionairebackstory the Paris food media gives Hassan, who as eventual star chef and gastro-ponce at a black-lit temple to molecular gastronomy, gets ever farther away from the soul and meaning of cooking.
Besides, all the broad strokes are now so familiar as to be trite. Such an over-simplified tale might have worked in a simpler time, when people knew less about international food, chef temper tantrums and the inner workings of restaurants. Say a decade, before reality television and specialty cable channel sprouted and fusion cooking hit even the local fast-food counter. Or fifteen years ago, before Nigella ever licked her first spoon. Or fifty, before Julia Child mastered the French cooking art.
This is also a feel-good foodie film that require a tolerance for watching actors chewing mouthfuls then going into ecstasies, usually without describing much more detail about flavours or how it tastes besides ‘mmmm, it’s delicious.’ (Except: when in doubt, the secret ingredient is always cardamon.) That’s not to say the movie is without charme. The two main charmers are Mirren and Puri, whose reluctant romance is more credible and has far more spicy nuance than the younger pair.
It’s also lushly filmed and something of an armchair vacation to France, but while director Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) plays up the obvious animosities — Le Creuset versus tandoori oven, béchamel versus curry — frustratingly, he neglects the story’s many obvious opportunities to explore the cult of the chef, even look at the deeper meaning of why a French basement kitchen and its requisite Robot-Coupe are tucked out of sight to perpetuate the culinary mystique, versus the Indian open kitchen visible to patrons.
At least Hassan seems to notice that besides the five mother sauces of Escoffier, his Cordon Bleu includes a recipe for what is, essentially, Indian rice pudding, even if the film itself doesn’t. After watching yet another slow motion of eggs cracking (I think it was to classical music, and to make a clafouti), I wanted to order off on the menu. Could I please have one of the ignored tangents that might explain the feuding restauranteurs’ rapprochement, with a side about the way many cultures express themselves in interpretations on same basic dishes?
It also perpetuates the idea that cooking is some sort of magic, with capital c Chefs as some sort of wizards. A more relevant creative tension was right there in one of Hassam’s throwaway protests: “I’m not a chef, just a cook.” Instead, it’s a strange, cautionary tale of assimilation in which (spoiler) the protagonist basically assimilates. Guess there’s one imprimatur more important than a Michelin star and that’s being a movie that despite its trite contrivances, is Oprah™-approved.
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond (review)
Mike Schroer
10.1353/mis.2001.0164
When Kate begins disappearing for whole nights, arriving home exhausted and filthy at sunrise, when WUTs subsidies fail to increase production at the plant and his report on oil production elicits an angry visit from the home office, the world WiU has constructed, in which he is the noble bureaucrat and the Africans are passive and complacent, is exposed as myth. EventuaUy the locals discover WiU and Kate's connection to Pers (who local lore remembers as the Road Builder); then the truth about Pers arrives in the person of a mysterious American named Boris. As soldiers approach from the cast, WUTs friends in the Kivila vaUey show him in dramatic fashion that they're not passive; they're survivors. "Epic" is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, but rarely do the works purported to be epics fulfill the promise of the genre: to portray great human themes through the lives of individual characters . The Road Builder, finally, is a book about WiU, Kate and Pers, Placide, the Chef de Poste, the Nurse and Ndosi. Themes emerge effortlessly from a well-crafted, wellwritten story. If Hershenow's prose occasionaUy turns purple, his descriptions create a pulsating portrait of central Africa's climate, landscape and beauty while giving vivid insight into the dignity and desperation of the people who live there. (WJ) Seek: Reportsfrom the Edges of America and Beyond by Denis Johnson Harper Collins, 2001, 238 pp., $24 Seek is poet and noveUst Denis Johnson's latest addition to his already formidable list of pubUcations , a list that includes the critically praised novels Already Dead and Jesus' Son. The volume is a collection of journalistic essays concerning, as the title suggests, people and ideologies on the periphery of the collective American consciousness. AU of the pieces, which have appeared over the past decade in various magazines and journals, among them Esquire and The Paris Review, are factually responsible yet highly evocative treatments of their subjects. Johnson begins and ends his volume with two essays that address the complex and violent struggle for poUtical control in Liberia: "The CivU War in HeU" and "The SmaU Boys Unit"; the latter is probably the best piece in the book. "CivU War" deals mostly with Prince Johnson, leader of one of several competing factions for control of Liberia, and gives a lively account of his headquarters, which, as the author describes it, is more Uke a nightclub where Prince Johnson plays and sings the blues for his carousing troops than like a mUitary command outpost. A sense of forthcoming defeat for Johnson resonates through the inappropriately jovial atmosphere of his headquarters, a defeat confirmed in "Small Boys," in which the author describes his own difficult journey through the Ivory Coast and Liberia to write a profile on Charles Taylor, whose revolutionary faction seems to be emerging to dominate Liberia. On the way to meet Taylor, the author struggles to adapt his Western attitudes to the slower pace ofAfrican culture and witnesses the brutal torture of a young and 208 · The Missouri Review apparently innocent man by Taylor's adolescent soldiers. "An Anarchist's Guide to SomaUa" examines simUarly violent SomaU poUtical unrest and describes the rural SomaU people as they trek across the desert in smaU, armed groups doing what they can to avoid each other. The war-torn capital city of Mogadishu is controUed by General Aidid, who promises "security, rehabiUtation, resettlement of displaced people, development and elections," celebrated Western ideals that Johnson suggests wiU not materialize in a land where people "got along for centuries on their own" without Western intervention. Johnson's most impressive achievement in Seek is his demonstration that the sort of otherworldliness characteristic of the civil wars of Third World countries is present to different degrees and in different forms in the United States. "Run, Rudolph, Run" concerns the federal government 's fruitless search for Eric Robert Rudolph, who has been accused of the bombing at the '96 Olympics in Atlanta as well as the bombings of a famUy planning clinic and a gay nightclub. Like the Liberian and Somali warlords, Rudolph, who has disappeared into the forests of western North Carolina, is either...
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In Valve many different larp techniques were tested, with varying degrees of success. There were for instance live sound design, scuba diving, theatrical experiments, modern dance, fireworks and van kidnappings. The campaign was played in various surroundings at Helsinki, including museums, galleries, streets, parks, private apartments and office buildings. The 10-meter dragon built in an abandoned railway tunnel was noted by the street art community The Wooster Collective, which included it to its blog (http://www.woostercollective.com/post/the-dragon-in-the-helsinki-railway-tunnel). The campaign was documented extensively with video and photography and so far one short film has been completed from the material.
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Van kidnapping: characters are followed by other characters in van and taken in for scenes Rotating leading roles player group in the lead role in each of the events Groups of supporting characters for the certain player characters (thinking they are actual player characters) Table top games combined to larp Retros after games to gather the feedback and develop the storylines accordingly Scene in darkness designed and executed by the visually impaired players of the campaign
2011 (2011)2013 (2013)
Katri Lassila
Antti Kanner
Tuomas Hakkarainen
Petri Leinonen
Valve (Awake) was a larp campaign played in three consecutive summers, comprising of altogether nine events in 2011-2013. The first year of Valve received support from the Alvar Aalto Foundation. The basic idea was to study whether immersion to a character would alter the way the players perceived their everyday surroundings. The main subtext for the campaign came from Pedro Calderón de la Barca's play, Life is a Dream (16??). The campaign was designed to combine three separate storylines with each utilising their distinct but intertwined fantastic settings.
The first of the storylines was science fiction, summoning inspiration from such sources as classical Greek tragedies and albums of the prog rock band Coheed and Cambria. The world and people in it were salvaged from a wrecked starship by that ships AIs, whose original purpose was to perform a prophetic algorithmic drama on the ship. After the wreckage these special AIs, now freed from ships bounds, began to bend the whole planet to their cryptic dramatic whims. The other two storylines were more mythical in nature, drawing inspiration from world creation myths and gnosticism.
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Weekly Legislative Roundup 5/10/19
by Carly Wolf, NORML State Policies Coordinator
Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup!
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries announced their intentions to introduce legislation known as the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act, to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), thus ending the nearly century-long federal policy of criminalization and prohibition.
Governor Doug Bergum (R) of North Dakota signed a bill into law that will remove the threat of jail time for the possession of up to a half ounce of marijuana.
Governor Kevin Stitt (R) of Oklahoma signed legislation into law to permit osteopaths to recommend medical cannabis to their patients.
Governor Eric Holcomb (R) of Indiana and Governor Ned Lamont (D) of Connecticut signed industrial hemp legislation into law.
A campaign committee called Smart and Safe Arizona is preparing to launch a campaign to qualify a 2020 adult use marijuana legalization ballot initiative in the state.
Members of an Ohio medical board committee recommended that autism and anxiety be added to the state’s medical cannabis qualifying conditions list, but rejected petitions to add depression, insomnia, and opioid addiction.
Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state.
Don’t forget to sign up for our email list, and we will keep you posted as these bills and more move through your home state legislature and U.S. Congress. Another great way to stay up to date is Marijuana Moment’s daily newsletter, which you can subscribe to HERE.
Your Highness,
Actions to Take
End Prohibition: The Marijuana Justice Act would (1) remove marijuana from the US Controlled Substances Act, thereby ending the federal criminalization of cannabis; (2) incentivize states to mitigate existing and ongoing racial disparities in state-level marijuana arrests; (3) expunge federal convictions specific to marijuana possession; (4) allow individuals currently serving time in federal prison for marijuana-related violations to petition the court for resentencing; (5) and create a community reinvestment fund to invest in communities most impacted by the failed War on Drugs.
Send a message to your federal lawmakers in support of this important legislation
Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 236, to allow qualifying patients with certain debilitating conditions to use and safely access medical cannabis.
Update: SB 236 was approved by the Senate on 5/9/19, and now heads to the House.
AL resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access
Legislation is pending, House Bill 96 / Senate Bill 98, to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
The measure would reduce the penalty for the possession of one ounce of marijuana from a criminal misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison and a maximum fine of $6,000, to a non-criminal violation punishable by a maximum fine of $250.
Update: HB 96 was defeated in the House Committee on Judiciary on 5/8/19 by a 6-5 vote.
AL resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of decriminalization
Legislation is pending, AB 1465, that would allow licensing of cannabis consumption cafés and lounges in California.
Update: AB 1465 is scheduled for a hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on 5/16/19.
CA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of cannabis consumption lounges
Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 51, to assist financial institutions in safely conducting transactions with licensed cannabis businesses.
Update: SB 51 is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee on 5/13/19 at 10am in the John L. Burton Hearing Room.
CA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access
Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 19-220, to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations.
Separately, SB 19-240 would create a working group to study industrial hemp and also allow localities within the state to adopt ordinances to regulate hemp products.
Update: Both SB 220 and SB 240 were approved by the House of Representatives on 4/30/19, and will now be delivered to the governor.
CO resident? Click here to email your governor in support of industrial hemp production
A package of bills, soon to be combined into one omnibus bill, to permit the use, possession, cultivation, and retail sale of marijuana for adults 21 and over is pending.
Update: Lawmakers in the state’s legislature are confident that the ‘yes’ votes are there to pass the legislation through the House of Representatives, but remain unsure about the bill’s future in the Senate.
CT resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of legalization
Bipartisan legislation is pending, SB 37, that would reform the expungement processes for individuals convicted of non-violent marijuana-related offenses.
If enacted, the bill would expand the pool of those eligible to seek expungement to include those convicted of a single misdemeanor or felony charge related to marijuana.
Update: SB 37 was approved by the House Judiciary Committee on 5/8/19.
DE resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of expungement expansion
Legislation is pending, HF 754 and SF 599, to establish an industrial hemp program to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations.
Update: SF 599 was delivered to the Governor’s desk on 5/6/19.
IA resident? Click here to email your governor in support of this effort
Legislation is pending, The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (an amendment to SB 7), to regulate the use, possession, cultivation, and retail sale of adult use marijuana.
The measure would allow adults 21 and over to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to 5 marijuana plants in the home.
The proposal also includes provisions facilitating the automatic expungement of certain prior convictions as well as equity within the industry.
IL resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of efforts to regulate adult use marijuana and level the playing field for social equity applicants to receive a fair opportunity to compete in the legal market
Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 455, to allow medical cannabis to be administered to patients at school.
Update: SB 455 was approved by the Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee on 5/8/19.
IL resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access in schools
House Bill 509 would allow adults to possess up to one ounce of cannabis, and permit the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the state Board of Pharmacy to issue the licenses for production and sale, respectively.
House Bill 462 would amend the Louisiana constitution to allow municipalities within the state to hold referendums on whether or not to allow the use, possession, and retail sale of adult use cannabis in their jurisdictions.
House Bill 564 seeks to regulate adult use cannabis. The bill would allow the Department of Agriculture and Forestry to issue up to 15 cannabis production licenses. Retailer licenses would be issued by the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control to sell up to one ounce per customer per day. This measure would also allow adults to obtain a permit to grow personal use quantities of cannabis at home.
Update: Both HB 509 and HB 462 are scheduled for a hearing in the House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice on 5/14/19 at 9am in room 6. HB 564 was heard in the House Committee on Agriculture on 5/8/2019, and the committee reported the bill without action. The bill will be recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary.
LA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of legalization
Legislation is pending, House Bill 59, to reduce marijuana possession penalties for first time offenders.
The measure removes the threat of jail time for first-time offenders who possess no more than 14 grams of marijuana (about half an ounce).
Update: HB 59 is scheduled for a hearing in the House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice on 5/14/19 at 9am in room 6.
LA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of decriminalization
Legislation is pending, House Bill 358, to give qualified patients the option to inhale cannabis for medical purposes through vaporization.
The measure would also allow doctors to recommend medical cannabis to any patient whom they believe will benefit from its therapeutic use.
Update: HB 358 is scheduled to be considered on the House floor on 5/14/9.
LA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis inhalation rights
House Bill 491 would regulate industrial hemp production in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations.
Update: HB 491 was unanimously approved by the House of Representatives on 5/7/19. The bill was amended to include provisions regulating the production and retail sale of hemp-derived CBD products.
LA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of industrial hemp production
LB 110 is pending to allow qualifying patients with certain debilitating conditions to use and safely access medical cannabis via licensed providers.
Update: LB 110 was approved by the Judiciary Committee on 5/10/19, and is set to be considered on the floor of the unicameral legislature next week.
NE resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access
Legislation is pending, LB 657, to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations.
Update: LB 657 was approved by the legislature on 5/2/19, and now awaits action from the governor.
NE resident? Click here to email your governor in support of industrial hemp production
Legislation is pending, Assembly Bill 192, to allow individuals to get their records vacated for offenses that are no longer a crime in Nevada.
Update: AB 192 was heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee on 5/6/19 and again on 5/10.
NV resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of expungement
Legislation is pending, HB 350, to expand medical cannabis access.
The measure expands the pool of medical professionals who are eligible to recommend medical cannabis by permitting physician assistants to issue recommendations to their patients.
Update: The House concurred with Senate amendments on 5/3/19, and the bill now heads to the governor’s desk.
NH resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical expansion
Legislation is pending, House Bill 2614, to amend the possession penalties for individuals who use cannabis for a qualifying condition, but are not in possession of a medical marijuana identification card.
The measure would reduce the penalty for this offense from a criminal misdemeanor to a citation, punishable by a maximum fine of $400.
Update: The House disagreed with the Senate’s amendments to HB 2614, so the bill will now go to a conference committee for reconciliation.
OK resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of penalty reductions
Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 970, to protect state-sanctioned medical cannabis patients, as well as those with prior or pending cannabis convictions, from housing discrimination.
Update: The House Human Services and Housing Committee held a work session on SB 970 on 5/6/19.
OR resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of housing protections
Legislation is pending, HB 1365, to expand medical cannabis access in Texas by allowing doctors to recommend it to those with several additional conditions.
Update: HB 1365 was approved by the House of Representatives on 5/6/19, and now heads to the Senate.
TX resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access
Legislation is pending, HB 1325, to regulate the production of industrial hemp in Texas.
Update: HB 1325 was approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee on 5/7/19.
TX resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of industrial hemp production
S. 54 is pending to establish a regulatory framework for the regulation of a commercial, adult use marijuana market.
Update: S. 54 was heard by the House Committees on Ways and Means and Appropriations this week.
VT resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of regulation
Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 58, to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations.
Update: S. 58 was heard by the House Committee on Appropriations on 5/7/19.
VT resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of industrial hemp production
Senate Bill 5605, to allow individuals with prior misdemeanor cannabis convictions to apply to the sentencing court to have their record vacated, is awaiting action from Governor Inslee.
Update: Gov. Inslee stated that he intends to sign the bill into law.
WA resident? Click here to email your governor in support of expungement
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Minnesota at Maryland Preview | 2020 NCAA Expert Analysis
Written by Jordan Walters on October 29, 2020
NCAA Football Betting News
There are three college football games around the country on Friday – the only sport going that night – and the lone one from a Power 5 Conference is Minnesota visiting Maryland in the Big Ten. The Gophers are heavy favorites on the NCAAF odds.
How to Bet Minnesota at Maryland NCAA Football Odds & TV Info
When: Friday, 7:30 PM ET
Where: Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium
Stream: ESPN app
Radio:com
Opening NCAAF Lines: Minnesota -19.5 (total 61)
The teams are in different divisions so they don’t play every year. They did in 2019, though, in the Twin Cities and the Gophers rolled 52-10. Seth Green had two touchdown runs and Tanner Morgan was 12-of-21 passing for 138 yards and two touchdowns. The Gophers held a 42:53-17:07 advantage in time of possession. Then-Maryland starting QB Tyrrell Pigrome was injured late in the first half. He was helped off the field favoring his left leg. Javon Leake had a team-high 44 rushing yards and Maryland was held to 79 yards rushing as a team.
Maryland has faced Minnesota the most of any Big Ten West opponent since joining the Big Ten in 2014, playing the Gophers in each of the past five seasons. The Terps lead 3-2. The Gophers are 1-1 all-time at Maryland, having won there in 2016.
Why Bet on Minnesota? | 2020 NCAA Expert Analysis
The Gophers were ranked 21st in the AP Top 25 but fell out after being dominated at home by then-No. 18 Michigan last week 49-24. The Wolverines rushed for 258 yards. Zach Charbonnet had a 70-yard scoring run in the first quarter to set the tone for Michigan’s dominance on offense, one of five rushing touchdowns. Minnesota’s Tanner Morgan passed for 188 yards and a touchdown, with two turnovers and was sacked five times.
Morgan dropped to 15-5 as a starting QB. Since 1975, no Minnesota QB has begun his career with a better record as a starter. Morgan’s career winning percentage (.750) is the highest for any Gophers QB with 10 or more starts. His 4,851 career passing yards now rank eighth all-time at Minnesota, and his 40 career passing TDs is tied for fourth all-time.
Rashod Bateman had a team-leading nine catches for 101 yards, becoming the eighth Minnesota receiver to reach 2,000 career receiving yards. Bateman has 120 catches for 2,024 yards and 17 TDs in 27 games. Bateman has at least one reception in all 27 career games, and has now recorded eight career 100-yard games, which ties for fifth all-time with Ron Johnson (1998-2001).
Mohamed Ibrahim led the Gophers with 26 carries for 140 yards and a pair of touchdowns, while also catching a career-high four passes for 17 yards. It was Ibrahim’s seventh career 100-yard game, and his second game in a row with 140 yards. The Gophers led in time of possession, 35:09 to 24:51.
Ibrahim is 96 yards shy of becoming the 17th Gopher all-time to reach 2,000 career rushing yards. He also needs two more rushing touchdowns to rank tied for 12th in school history with 20 rushing touchdowns (Shannon Brooks, David Cobb, Jim Carter, Paul Giel, Billy Bye and Shorty Almquist all ended their careers with 20 rushing touchdowns).
Bateman has 10 catches for 107 yards and two touchdowns in two career games against Maryland (first career TD came at Maryland in 2018). He is 31 receiving yards shy of moving into seventh place in school history all-time in yardage. Bateman now has 120 career receptions for 2,024 yards.
Why Bet on Maryland? | 2020 NCAA Expert Analysis
The Terps were crushed 43-3 at Northwestern last week. The Terps scored on their first drive of the game off a Joseph Petrino 33-yard field goal after a 12 play, 56-yard drive that saw Alabama transfer Taulia Tagovailoa go 6-for-7 for 36 yards. That would be it, though. In his first game back after missing the 2019 season due to an ACL injury, Jeshaun Jones tallied five receptions for 41 yards.
Tagovailoa completed 14-of-25 passes for 94 yards with three interceptions in the loss. Tagovailoa was named the starter ahead of Lance LeGendre for Saturday’s opener, and it was a disaster. He was pulled for LeGendre late but Tagovailoa will start here.
“He had opportunities to execute and I thought the first drive, he did a good job,” coach Mike Locksley said. “Obviously, this is still his first career start in college, and so he made some mistakes. He threw the ball into double coverage, maybe threw the ball down the field on a short situation where we’d like him to take a higher-percentage throw and make a better decision there. But, you know, for the most part, I thought that he didn’t show signs of being uncomfortable.”
Maryland is one of only seven teams in the FBS (Colorado State, Houston, Iowa, Navy, North Carolina, Troy) that returns its top five pass catchers by yards to its roster from last season.
This will be Maryland’s homecoming game and the first time in program history that the Terps will host their homecoming game on the first home game of the season. Maryland has won 62-percent of its homecoming games all-time, a 58-35-4 record. The Terps have won in three of the past four years on homecoming, defeating Purdue in 2016, Indiana in 2017 and Rutgers in 2018 before falling to Michigan last season. Minnesota will be the 29th different opponent Maryland will welcome on its homecoming.
Maryland has won 19 of its past 21 home openers, only dropping the game in 2006 and 2018. Over that span, the Terps have opened up the home slate against a conference foe two times, defeating Miami in 2011 and North Carolina in 2001. This is the first time that Maryland will ever open up its home schedule against a Big Ten opponent.
Game Trends
Golden Gophers are 6-1-1 ATS in their last 8 road games.
Golden Gophers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games in October.
Golden Gophers are 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 games as a road favorite.
Terrapins are 8-20 ATS in their last 28 games as an underdog.
Terrapins are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 conference games.
Expert Prediction
Minnesota 34, Maryland 19
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Pastor John Gray Tries To Defend His Meeting With Trump: ‘You Don’t Have The Heart Of Christ’
Deplorable.
Parker Riley
The pastors who met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday for a bizarre photo-op, where nothing was accomplished other than babbling rhetoric, are being slammed on social media. This is nothing new for Dr. King‘s sunken place niece Alveda King and the buffooning Pastor Darrell Scott, who defend their racist president wherever a camera is in their face — but Pastor John Gray, who has a show on Oprah’s OWN network and led Trump in prayer at the “press conference,” is trying to do damage control.
See Also: Ben Carson Tells A Black Woman To Escape Poverty She Needs To Get Married
At Gray’s megachurch in Greenville, South Carolina, the pastor said to an audience, “I went as a man of God and I wanted to be heard, that if there’s anybody who thinks they’re above praying for people they don’t agree with, then you don’t have the heart of Christ.” He also said, “As a kingdom church, we have people from every walk of life and political persuasion and while we may not agree on everything, we agree on the blood.”
About Pastor Darrell Scott saying Trump is the “most pro-Black president,” he wrote, “OH YEAH, the pastor who said the current president was the most pro-Black president ever WAS NOT ME-so get that STRAIGHT.” He didn’t allow comments in the Instagram post. See below:
Optics. It’s never about what it is. It’s about what it looks like. My wife @grayceeme told me “If you go, no one will hear what you say. They won’t understand why you’re there. And any good that could come out of it will get lost in translation.” Wise words from a loving, discerning wife. I had not one thing to gain by being there. Not. One. But I asked the Lord when I was asked to be present in this initial meeting about potential prison reform-that could greatly end up benefitting many people who look just like me-Lord, Do you want me in that room? My first mind was no. The pain of so many is too real. The hurt. The isolation. The sense of disenfranchisement. The real hate that has bubbled to the surface of the national discourse. I myself have been vocal about my personal disagreements with key policy decisions of this administration. I have everything to lose. Credibility. Reputation. Every natural inclination says stay home. Don’t get played. It’s gonna be a photo op with no substance. But I did the one thing I can’t shake: I prayed again and asked God. Do you want me in that room? My attendance gives the answer. My heart was pure as was my motive and intention. But the pain of those who have been hurt is real. And I would be a dishonorable man not to acknowledge that. But I will honor what I believe was the mandate on my life to be there and available to God should He choose to give me voice. This post is in no way attempting to invalidate the visceral reaction of those who can’t imagine why I would be in the room. The question becomes who did Jesus turn away from? This said, I went to this meeting to listen. And I do pray for comprehensive prison reform so people can have the second chance they need. And I also understand the pain and questions. May my heart translate beyond the optics. (OH YEAH, the pastor who said the current president was the most pro-Black president ever WAS NOT ME-so get that STRAIGHT) love y’all. This post is closed to comments. This my heart. It needs no commentary. #swipeleft
A post shared by John Gray (@realjohngray) on Aug 1, 2018 at 11:44pm PDT
How disgusting that Gray would say people do not have the “heart of Christ” because he is bring critiqued for meeting with an open racist. See the backlash below:
John Gray says prison reform is near and dear to his heart. He's also says he has a soft spot for children. I wonder why he didn't ask Trump about the children who are being sexually abused in his immigration detention centers. That's the real tea. pic.twitter.com/ECq7GaRf78
— GirlTyler (@sheistyler) August 2, 2018
Positioning John Gray right next to Trump was intentional and it's a sad day to realize that Gray didn't know better.
— Neisee Peezy (@NeiseePeezy) August 2, 2018
The silence in that room says it all. Y'all keep following pastors like John Gray.
— Ernesia Cribb (@ecteacher944) August 1, 2018
Looking at John Gray after that Trump meeting like… pic.twitter.com/5MbGzz6Ol5
— Bryan Lawson (@310BMan) August 1, 2018
Adding John Gray to the list of slick ass, opportunist, using the Lord to enhance his bank account type dudes. Only good thing about Trump is how he exposes all these grifters.
— EMcD (@EMcDSports) August 2, 2018
These phonies, including John Gray, who's in that pic, gave their "I'm just going to promote issue [x], not because I agree with trump" line and then said NOTHING when Darrell Scott started spewing his foolishness.
THEY SAID NOTHING. Shameful, megachurch grifters.
— Michelle Hylton (@chelliehylton) August 2, 2018
After Zacchaeus encountered Jesus Christ he became a changed man. Several pastors have counselled trump but he still remains hateful & divisive. I love Pastor John Gray, but with people like trump you love & pray for them from afar. He will take Gray's presence as an endorsement.
— Allafricangirl🇬🇭 (@animwaa_osei) August 2, 2018
I am deeply upset that I see John Gray sitting right next to him…I'm completely stunned!
— Miss T (@MISST4LYFE) August 2, 2018
In case you missed the round table with “20 inner city pastors and faith leaders,” see Gray’s prayer with Trump below:
SEE: Pastor John Gray pray a wonderful prayer for President Donald Trump.
Dr. King said, "We cannot influence a table we are not seated at. And so we pray this conversation will be fruitful and productive and honoring of the best traditions of this nation. — John Gray pic.twitter.com/6gV1yzCVoQ
— Shamel Lakins (@ShamelLakins) August 2, 2018
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Manhunt in Paris following Gare du Nord evacuation
The station was evacuated after a tip-off that a would-be attacker was arriving on a high-speed train.
By Bethany Minelle, News Reporter
Tuesday 9 May 2017 17:00, UK
Image: The Gare du Nord was evacuated following a tip-off
French police are hunting three men suspected of planning an Islamic State militant attack.
The search follows a large-scale investigation at the Gare du Nord, one of the main railway stations in Paris, on Monday night, when a high-speed train was evacuated and the station temporarily closed.
Image: Police set up a security perimeter around the station
The evacuation took place after a tip-off from a ticket vendor in Valenciennes, near the Belgian border, who thought they recognised a man they had seen on a police wanted notice.
Between 20 and 30 police vans were sent to the station with officers wearing balaclavas and carrying assault weapons.
Passengers were taken to a nearby brasserie where they were searched, but the alert was called off after nothing was found.
A police spokesman said: "Unfortunately it was determined that the person was not in the train".
#GareduNord Fin des vérifications, retour progressif à la normale.
— Préfecture de police (@prefpolice) May 8, 2017
Police tweeted early on Tuesday morning, confirming that the station, which is the terminus for Eurostar trains from London, had re-opened.
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The three suspects have been identified by police as Belgian citizens Bilal Al Marchohi and Tarik Jadaoun, and Afghan national Zabihullah Sarwari.
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Over the past two years, France has been hit by a series of Islamist militant attacks in which more than 230 people have been killed.
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REACHing 2013
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Guido Sacconi, former Italian MEP, has resigned from the ECHA Management Board. ECHA Newsletter talks to him about his experience as the Parliament's lead Rapporteur on the REACH proposal.
I would agree with Martin Schultz, the newly-appointed President of the EU parliament when he says that Guido Sacconi "has a great sense of humour, determination and a deep respect for the European institutions". On the verge of his resignation as an ECHA Management Board member, he talks humorously about his work on REACH as the "great adventure of his political life and a titanic effort." He explains that he is resigning because he is "fed up of being an icon as the REACH rapporteur" and then starts laughing in the interview at his own words.
But then his tone becomes more serious and he adds: "It has been interesting to be a member of the ECHA board, but I am a politician and the management of an agency is not really my thing." He still asks himself why he was chosen as the REACH rapporteur by Dagmar Roth-Berendt, German MEP and head of the PSE group at the ENVI committee, but he thinks it was because of his work concerning Environmental and Public Health politics but he adds "or probably my well known negotiation skills might have influenced her decision".
He takes me back to the end of March 2002, when there wasn't much support in favour of a new chemicals policy. At the time, the REACH proposal was not only opposed by EU lobbyists but also faced resistance from the opposite side of the Atlantic from Washington. "This is something I became aware of only later", he recalls, but "the American Secretary of State at the time, Colin Powell, sent 36 members of the US diplomatic corps in a dispatch to tackle this issue with the European Economic Community as he believed that this policy would have ended in a regulatory system which was expensive, complicated and practically impossible to implement."
In the complicated puzzle of consensus building around one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation voted for by the EU parliament, the REACH saga developed around battles and swift changes of perception.
In October 2003, he explains that "a full frontal attack was launched against the main principle behind the REACH Regulation: the reversal of the burden of proof. Whereas in the past it was the responsibility of public administrations, it was now the responsibility of industry to manage the risks from chemicals and to provide safety information on substances. Industry simply didn't agree with this innovative principle. We won this battle at the end of the first reading when the parliamentary term ended and we had to start working again on the dossier in June 2004."
During the second reading, the perception of REACH's impact on industry started changing when it began to be understood that this regulation could become a tool for growth and innovation for the chemicals industry as well as for increasing its competitiveness. Another positive shift of perception occurred when German workers within the chemicals industry started to understand that this regulation would make their workplace safer, which led to German MEPs with strong links to trade unions becoming advocates for REACH. Finally, "REACH was voted on in December 2006 in a final rush. Today, I feel like a very lucky person because I witnessed the implementation of the legislation I contributed to and the establishment of ECHA."
To conclude the interview, Guido Sacconi added: "I would like to say that something could still be done concerning the protection of the health of workers for the downstream users of chemicals. The trade union leader that is in me thinks that we can still work on improving awareness of chemical hazards especially outside of the chemicals industry sector."
Guido Sacconi has written an interesting book about his experience as Parliament's lead Rapporteur on the REACH proposal. If you want to know more, you can read the full story in "Reachstory: il racconto di un successo della buona politica" published by Edizioni Angelo Guerini e Associati, Milano, Italy, 2008.
Interview by Lisa Locchi
Back to February 2012 - Issue 1
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Mr Juster said, "From the success of the US-India defense partnership, as exemplified by a decade of cooperation between Lockheed Martin and Tata, to the restoration of the historic tombs of Taramati and Premamati, US-India ties are clearly thriving in Hyderabad."
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NAACP Monitoring Black Biker Discrimination In Wake Of Waco
Written By D.L. Chandler
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The Atlantic Beach Bikefest, otherwise known as Black Bike Week, is the largest African-American motorcycle rally event in the nation and one of the largest such events overall. Thousands of Black motorcycle enthusiasts flock to Myrtle Beach, S.C. yearly, turning the beach town into an epicenter of fashion and entertainment for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
However, many attendees of Black Bike Week have alleged mistreatment from local businesses and authorities, citing that a predominately-White biker event, the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Rally, treats its revelers with a differing layer of regard.
This large racial divide between two of the largest bike rallies in the nation has prompted the NAACP to monitor occurrences of discrimination and related allegations via its “Operation Bike Week Justice” event. For its ninth year, the Operation, led by the NAACP South Carolina State Conference and local branch leaders, are taking notice of police activity and how Black visitors to Myrtle Beach are treated. Along with that expanded level of scrutiny, the Operation will also tally how local businesses treat Black patrons and monitor traffic patterns.
The Operation has an especially arduous task, as Myrtle Beach officials have announced plans to create a 23-mile traffic loop with just four exits, along with increased police presence, the hiring of 190 private security officers and establishing metal pedestrian barricades. Myrtle Beach officials passed what’s been called an “extraordinary events ordinance,” naming Black Bike Week an event worthy of that designation.
Adding to this level of preparedness, the City Council originally added in this ordinance that it would be unlawful for attendees to carry aerosol containers, backpacks, coolers, duffel bags, backpacks and other such items. The Council, perhaps realizing its folly, removed those limiting restrictions. It is not known what Myrtle Beach authorities issued in the case of the Harley-Davidson Rally, which began on May 8 and ended on the 17th.
According to a press statement from the NAACP’s South Carolina State Conference, the organization is only expecting fairness in regards to the Black attendees of the weekend event.
“The NAACP supports reasonable law enforcement tactics designed to promote public safety and peace,” said South Carolina State Conference NAACP President Dr. Lonnie Randolph. “However, the Association will vehemently oppose any tactics that unfairly target African Americans.”
“The overwhelming majority of Black Bike attendees are law abiding citizens,” said Myrtle Beach Branch NAACP President Mickey James. “They should be treated with the same courtesy and respect as all other tourists regardless of race.”
Operation Bike Week Justice’s inception is meritorious, considering that for the past decade the NAACP and Black plaintiffs have settled several lawsuits over discrimination allegations against the city. The NAACP and plaintiff cases pointed to the way Black and White bikers were treated at the respective events.
The perception that Black Bike Week is a cauldron of lawlessness is without a solid foundation, a fact which the NAACP says it supports. Given the events of the biker gang shootout in Waco, Texas which left nine dead and over 190 arrested, one would expect that a gathering of potential rivals would require the same level of well-placed security. Yet many observers feel that the police response in Waco to the mostly-White biker melee was unusually soft, thus heightening concerns that police would turn an even higher level of scrutiny on Black bikers this coming weekend.
The NAACP held a press conference Thursday at Sandy Grove Baptist Church to kick off the Operation. Like previous operations, a complaint hotline has been activated for anyone who wants to report of discrimination or misconduct of any sort. The toll-free number is: (888) 362-8683. Additionally, attendees can file complaints in person at Sandy Grove Baptist, which is located at 1008 Carver Street in Myrtle Beach.
SOURCE: NAACP | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
9 Dead After Texas Biker Gang Mass Shootout, But This Picture Is Raising Questions About Police Response
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Veterans Rock Out to '80s Classics with Wounded Warrior Project
The creativity and playfulness of art can be vital in a warrior’s recovery; so is the opportunity for self-discovery.
JENSEN BEACH, Fla. (March 27, 2017) – Trying not to get paint everywhere while belting out Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” or Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know?” would have been a challenge even for Bob Ross. Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) invited a group of warriors and their guests to face this very predicament when they connected at a recent couples painting date night – with ’80s classics.
These WWP connection events give wounded warriors an opportunity to experience firsthand what is possible at social gatherings that get them connected with fellow service members.
“Wounded Warrior Project empowers us to be more than just wounded vets, and we can reach new heights we may not have seen on our own,” said Marine veteran Mike Larson. “People were singing along to the songs and having fun painting a beautiful beach sunset scene.”
Mike’s personal favorite of the ’80s classics? “Joan Jett’s ‘I Love Rock N Roll,’” he said.
Only one thing rivaled Mike’s enthusiasm about painting with acrylic for the first time: turning the activity into a competition with his wife. “I usually do sketching, so I liked the challenge of painting something that looked easy at first.”
A highlight of these connection events is when warriors make new friends out of kindred veterans who they didn’t know lived nearby. It was the same for Mike and his wife.
“We met several other couples at the event. Most were in Port St. Lucie where we live,” Mike said. “We were surprised because we have lived here for eight years and didn’t know any other wounded warriors. The event helped introduce us to the local community of warriors and their family members.”
Mike has benefited from his long-time involvement with WWP. His journey started in December 2005 when a little black bag – nondescript, except for the logo on the front – set him on a new course.
“I was at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. I was in and out of surgeries, and one day a backpack was there with the white Wounded Warrior Project logo on it.”
Mike began a deep dive into WWP programs: He has participated in mental health workshops for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Soldier Ride®, and physical health and wellness programs. Like many warriors, Mike finds fulfillment in helping fellow veterans.
“I really like the Peer Support program because it afforded me the opportunity to pass on knowledge of Wounded Warrior Project programs to my fellow vets and offer them the same help it has given me over the years,” Mike said.
WWP’s multi-day mental health workshops have proven especially impactful in Mike’s life.
“The workshop helped me find different PTSD coping mechanisms outside those offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs,” Mike said. “It also helped me introduce myself to fellow veterans from Florida who are all in different stages of recovery.”
For Mike, the best part of the workshop was the personal clarity it offered: “It allowed me to put my own path into perspective. I was able to see how far I have come in my recovery,” he said.
The 2016 WWP Annual Warrior Survey highlights the importance of connection at WWP outreach events. These settings support the long-term recoveries of warriors by accommodating physical injuries and social anxieties.
To learn and see more about how WWP’s programs and services connect, serve, and empower wounded warriors, visit http://newsroom.woundedwarriorproject.org/, and click on multimedia.
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on May 8, 2009 at 9:38 am Comments (31)
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On May 8, 2009 at 9:39 am King Willy said:
Ah I see good and ready for your next spanking!!
ps. I hope your King Willy Doll gives you endless enjoyment…
On May 9, 2009 at 12:10 am nursemyra said:
Can your lovely wife send me a photo of the bits I haven’t seen? I want to make it as accurate as possible
On May 8, 2009 at 10:45 am Nessa said:
On May 8, 2009 at 11:11 am thegnukid said:
“The hills are alive…with the sound of music…”
very scrumptious
On May 8, 2009 at 11:24 am daisyfae said:
very cute – is that a slipdress, or strappy corset? ou could almost wear that out under a long black jacket…
I’m not sure…. It ends at the hips but it doesn’t cinch the waist like a boned corset. I did wear it to work today, but under a cardigan that had the top couple of buttons done up.
Didn’t want any patients falling into my cleavage…..
On May 8, 2009 at 12:16 pm kono said:
On May 8, 2009 at 12:41 pm Gorilla Bananas said:
Boobilicious, Nursie! Geometric perfection.
On May 8, 2009 at 1:10 pm The Unbearable Banishment said:
No matter how murderous my week has been, I always have these to look forward to on Friday. Thanks, tons.
On May 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm twin said:
the raw edge/frill makes for nice detail
On May 8, 2009 at 2:59 pm tom said:
oh my this one is ever so sexy!
On May 8, 2009 at 3:56 pm notkeith said:
I do come here on other days of the week, not just Fridays. Honestly.
On May 9, 2009 at 9:38 am nursemyra said:
I’d like to believe you…..
On May 8, 2009 at 4:30 pm sledpress said:
So proverbial; black and white works anywhere.
On May 8, 2009 at 4:56 pm Thomas said:
That is so hot!
(My wife is older than me. I love older women. Women who are older than me are more attractive than their younger counterparts. They’re more experienced and much more attractive.)
Thomas 🙂
On May 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm Daddy Papersurfer said:
I thought that spring was meant to bust out all over – it’s autumn over your way isn’t it?
On May 8, 2009 at 5:34 pm VE said:
It’s free samples Friday, right?
On May 8, 2009 at 8:03 pm renalfailure said:
Always the perfect end to the work week… spectacular.
On May 8, 2009 at 8:34 pm Abigail said:
I prefer these colour combinations to the hot pinks!
On May 8, 2009 at 9:29 pm 70steen said:
Glorious hun 🙂
On May 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm Ricardo said:
No words needed. Lovely as usual. Bring that for the massage. LOL!
On May 9, 2009 at 3:53 am duncanr said:
Tease !!! 😉
On May 9, 2009 at 4:40 am Alex L. said:
As wholseome and as gratifying as ever nurse.
Thanks Alex, I think this one is pretty wholesome too 😉
On May 9, 2009 at 4:57 am archiearchive FCD said:
Delightful. What a wonderful way to begin the weekend.
On May 9, 2009 at 3:31 pm travelerga said:
may come live under your bed? lol mike
On May 10, 2009 at 8:13 am fundamentaljelly said:
How many corsets do you own…or do you rent them? Still, you look great in them.
On May 10, 2009 at 12:39 pm nursemyra said:
I own about fifty. Some were gifts, some are vintage.
On May 13, 2009 at 5:43 am azahar said:
Very elegant.
On May 13, 2009 at 9:03 am nursemyra said:
thanks Azahar. Did you get the other photos I sent you?
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The Effects of Monitoring Expression and Outgroup Familiarity on Judgments of Other-Race Interaction Partners
Katlin Bentley, Washington University in St. LouisFollow
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Spring 5-15-2020
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Research on emotion communication demonstrates that people are more accurate at recognizing emotion when evaluating members of one’s racial ingroup compared to assessments made for outgroups. It is unclear what leads us to make erroneous outgroup judgments. Two factors may play a central role in this process: judges’ attentiveness to and knowledge about partners’ group-specific expressive behaviors. In this project, I tested moderators of people’s ability to accurately detect emotions during an in-person interaction when paired with a same- or other-race partner. Findings indicate that when playing a cooperative game, people are surprisingly adept at accurately judging outgroup emotions, but these assessments were susceptible to bias. Judges were generally highly attentive to outgroup partners’ expressivity, and this monitoring did not benefit judgment accuracy. Outgroup exposure predicted somewhat improved assessments, but the effects were inconsistent. Finally, people liked partners who they were able to judge more accurately, regardless of the racial makeup of the dyad. This research builds on prior work documenting miscommunication between racial groups by demonstrating that accurately judging others’ emotional experiences can be a complex process and being less attentive to or familiar with outgroup expressivity cues does not necessarily interfere with judges’ ability to form accurate assessments.
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Tammy L. English
Hillary A. Elfenbein, Calvin K. Lai, Randy J. Larsen, Clara L. Wilkins,
Bentley, Katlin, "The Effects of Monitoring Expression and Outgroup Familiarity on Judgments of Other-Race Interaction Partners" (2020). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2165.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/2165
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12.7 Prosocial Behavior
Psychology12.7 Prosocial Behavior
1 Introduction to Psychology
1.1 What Is Psychology?
1.2 History of Psychology
1.3 Contemporary Psychology
1.4 Careers in Psychology
Critical Thinking Questions
Personal Application Questions
2 Psychological Research
2.1 Why Is Research Important?
2.2 Approaches to Research
2.3 Analyzing Findings
2.4 Ethics
3 Biopsychology
3.1 Human Genetics
3.2 Cells of the Nervous System
3.3 Parts of the Nervous System
3.4 The Brain and Spinal Cord
3.5 The Endocrine System
4 States of Consciousness
4.1 What Is Consciousness?
4.2 Sleep and Why We Sleep
4.3 Stages of Sleep
4.4 Sleep Problems and Disorders
4.5 Substance Use and Abuse
4.6 Other States of Consciousness
5 Sensation and Perception
5.1 Sensation versus Perception
5.2 Waves and Wavelengths
5.3 Vision
5.4 Hearing
5.5 The Other Senses
5.6 Gestalt Principles of Perception
6.1 What Is Learning?
6.2 Classical Conditioning
6.3 Operant Conditioning
6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)
7 Thinking and Intelligence
7.1 What Is Cognition?
7.3 Problem Solving
7.4 What Are Intelligence and Creativity?
7.5 Measures of Intelligence
7.6 The Source of Intelligence
8 Memory
8.1 How Memory Functions
8.2 Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory
8.3 Problems with Memory
8.4 Ways to Enhance Memory
9 Lifespan Development
9.1 What Is Lifespan Development?
9.2 Lifespan Theories
9.3 Stages of Development
9.4 Death and Dying
10 Emotion and Motivation
10.1 Motivation
10.2 Hunger and Eating
10.3 Sexual Behavior
10.4 Emotion
11 Personality
11.1 What Is Personality?
11.2 Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
11.3 Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
11.4 Learning Approaches
11.5 Humanistic Approaches
11.6 Biological Approaches
11.7 Trait Theorists
11.8 Cultural Understandings of Personality
11.9 Personality Assessment
12 Social Psychology
12.1 What Is Social Psychology?
12.2 Self-presentation
12.3 Attitudes and Persuasion
12.4 Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
12.5 Prejudice and Discrimination
12.6 Aggression
13 Industrial-Organizational Psychology
13.1 What Is Industrial and Organizational Psychology?
13.2 Industrial Psychology: Selecting and Evaluating Employees
13.3 Organizational Psychology: The Social Dimension of Work
13.4 Human Factors Psychology and Workplace Design
14 Stress, Lifestyle, and Health
14.1 What Is Stress?
14.2 Stressors
14.3 Stress and Illness
14.4 Regulation of Stress
14.5 The Pursuit of Happiness
15 Psychological Disorders
15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?
15.2 Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
15.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
15.4 Anxiety Disorders
15.5 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
15.6 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15.7 Mood Disorders
15.8 Schizophrenia
15.9 Dissociative Disorders
15.10 Personality Disorders
15.11 Disorders in Childhood
16 Therapy and Treatment
16.1 Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
16.2 Types of Treatment
16.3 Treatment Modalities
16.4 Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
16.5 The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
Describe altruism
Describe conditions that influence the formation of relationships
Identify what attracts people to each other
Describe the triangular theory of love
Explain social exchange theory in relationships
You’ve learned about many of the negative behaviors of social psychology, but the field also studies many positive social interactions and behaviors. What makes people like each other? With whom are we friends? Whom do we date? Researchers have documented several features of the situation that influence whether we form relationships with others. There are also universal traits that humans find attractive in others. In this section we discuss conditions that make forming relationships more likely, what we look for in friendships and romantic relationships, the different types of love, and a theory explaining how our relationships are formed, maintained, and terminated.
Prosocial Behavior and Altruism
Do you voluntarily help others? Voluntary behavior with the intent to help other people is called prosocial behavior. Why do people help other people? Is personal benefit such as feeling good about oneself the only reason people help one another? Research suggests there are many other reasons. Altruism is people’s desire to help others even if the costs outweigh the benefits of helping. In fact, people acting in altruistic ways may disregard the personal costs associated with helping (Figure 12.27). For example, news accounts of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York reported an employee in the first tower helped his co-workers make it to the exit stairwell. After helping a co-worker to safety he went back in the burning building to help additional co-workers. In this case the costs of helping were great, and the hero lost his life in the destruction (Stewart, 2002).
Figure 12.27 The events of 9/11 unleashed an enormous show of altruism and heroism on the parts of first responders and many ordinary people. (credit: Don Halasy)
Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he or she feels. An empathetic person makes an emotional connection with others and feels compelled to help (Batson, 1991). Other researchers argue that altruism is a form of selfless helping that is not motivated by benefits or feeling good about oneself. Certainly, after helping, people feel good about themselves, but some researchers argue that this is a consequence of altruism, not a cause. Other researchers argue that helping is always self-serving because our egos are involved, and we receive benefits from helping (Cialdini, Brown, Lewis, Luce, & Neuberg 1997). It is challenging to determine experimentally the true motivation for helping, whether is it largely self-serving (egoism) or selfless (altruism). Thus, a debate on whether pure altruism exists continues.
Link to Learning
See this excerpt from the popular TV series Friends episode for a discussion of the egoism versus altruism debate.
Forming Relationships
What do you think is the single most influential factor in determining with whom you become friends and whom you form romantic relationships? You might be surprised to learn that the answer is simple: the people with whom you have the most contact. This most important factor is proximity. You are more likely to be friends with people you have regular contact with. For example, there are decades of research that shows that you are more likely to become friends with people who live in your dorm, your apartment building, or your immediate neighborhood than with people who live farther away (Festinger, Schachler, & Back, 1950). It is simply easier to form relationships with people you see often because you have the opportunity to get to know them.
Similarity is another factor that influences who we form relationships with. We are more likely to become friends or lovers with someone who is similar to us in background, attitudes, and lifestyle. In fact, there is no evidence that opposites attract. Rather, we are attracted to people who are most like us (Figure 12.28) (McPherson, Smith-Lovin, & Cook, 2001). Why do you think we are attracted to people who are similar to us? Sharing things in common will certainly make it easy to get along with others and form connections. When you and another person share similar music taste, hobbies, food preferences, and so on, deciding what to do with your time together might be easy. Homophily is the tendency for people to form social networks, including friendships, marriage, business relationships, and many other types of relationships, with others who are similar (McPherson et al., 2001).
Figure 12.28 People tend to be attracted to similar people. Many couples share a cultural background. This can be quite obvious in a ceremony such as a wedding, and more subtle (but no less significant) in the day-to-day workings of a relationship. (credit: modification of work by Shiraz Chanawala)
But, homophily limits our exposure to diversity (McPherson et al., 2001). By forming relationships only with people who are similar to us, we will have homogenous groups and will not be exposed to different points of view. In other words, because we are likely to spend time with those who are most like ourselves, we will have limited exposure to those who are different than ourselves, including people of different races, ethnicities, social-economic status, and life situations.
Once we form relationships with people, we desire reciprocity. Reciprocity is the give and take in relationships. We contribute to relationships, but we expect to receive benefits as well. That is, we want our relationships to be a two way street. We are more likely to like and engage with people who like us back. Self-disclosure is part of the two way street. Self-disclosure is the sharing of personal information (Laurenceau, Barrett, & Pietromonaco, 1998). We form more intimate connections with people with whom we disclose important information about ourselves. Indeed, self-disclosure is a characteristic of healthy intimate relationships, as long as the information disclosed is consistent with our own views (Cozby, 1973).
We have discussed how proximity and similarity lead to the formation of relationships, and that reciprocity and self-disclosure are important for relationship maintenance. But, what features of a person do we find attractive? We don’t form relationships with everyone that lives or works near us, so how is it that we decide which specific individuals we will select as friends and lovers?
Researchers have documented several characteristics in men and women that humans find attractive. First we look for friends and lovers who are physically attractive. People differ in what they consider attractive, and attractiveness is culturally influenced. Research, however, suggests that some universally attractive features in women include large eyes, high cheekbones, a narrow jaw line, a slender build (Buss, 1989), and a lower waist-to-hip ratio (Singh, 1993). For men, attractive traits include being tall, having broad shoulders, and a narrow waist (Buss, 1989). Both men and women with high levels of facial and body symmetry are generally considered more attractive than asymmetric individuals (Fink, Neave, Manning, & Grammer, 2006; Penton-Voak et al., 2001; Rikowski & Grammer, 1999). Social traits that people find attractive in potential female mates include warmth, affection, and social skills; in males, the attractive traits include achievement, leadership qualities, and job skills (Regan & Berscheid, 1997). Although humans want mates who are physically attractive, this does not mean that we look for the most attractive person possible. In fact, this observation has led some to propose what is known as the matching hypothesis which asserts that people tend to pick someone they view as their equal in physical attractiveness and social desirability (Taylor, Fiore, Mendelsohn, & Cheshire, 2011). For example, you and most people you know likely would say that a very attractive movie star is out of your league. So, even if you had proximity to that person, you likely would not ask them out on a date because you believe you likely would be rejected. People weigh a potential partner’s attractiveness against the likelihood of success with that person. If you think you are particularly unattractive (even if you are not), you likely will seek partners that are fairly unattractive (that is, unattractive in physical appearance or in behavior).
Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
We typically love the people with whom we form relationships, but the type of love we have for our family, friends, and lovers differs. Robert Sternberg (1986) proposed that there are three components of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment. These three components form a triangle that defines multiple types of love: this is known as Sternberg’s triangular theory of love (Figure 12.29). Intimacy is the sharing of details and intimate thoughts and emotions. Passion is the physical attraction—the flame in the fire. Commitment is standing by the person—the “in sickness and health” part of the relationship.
Figure 12.29 According to Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, seven types of love can be described from combinations of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. (credit: modification of work by “Lnesa”/Wikimedia Commons)
Sternberg (1986) states that a healthy relationship will have all three components of love—intimacy, passion, and commitment—which is described as consummate love (Figure 12.30). However, different aspects of love might be more prevalent at different life stages. Other forms of love include liking, which is defined as having intimacy but no passion or commitment. Infatuation is the presence of passion without intimacy or commitment. Empty love is having commitment without intimacy or passion. Companionate love, which is characteristic of close friendships and family relationships, consists of intimacy and commitment but no passion. Romantic love is defined by having passion and intimacy, but no commitment. Finally, fatuous love is defined by having passion and commitment, but no intimacy, such as a long term sexual love affair. Can you describe other examples of relationships that fit these different types of love?
Figure 12.30 According to Sternberg, consummate love describes a healthy relationship containing intimacy, passion, and commitment. (credit: Kerry Ceszyk)
Social Exchange Theory
We have discussed why we form relationships, what attracts us to others, and different types of love. But what determines whether we are satisfied with and stay in a relationship? One theory that provides an explanation is social exchange theory. According to social exchange theory, we act as naïve economists in keeping a tally of the ratio of costs and benefits of forming and maintaining a relationship with others (Figure 12.31) (Rusbult & Van Lange, 2003).
Figure 12.31 Acting like naïve economists, people may keep track of the costs and benefits of maintaining a relationship. Typically, only those relationships in which the benefits outweigh the costs will be maintained.
People are motivated to maximize the benefits of social exchanges, or relationships, and minimize the costs. People prefer to have more benefits than costs, or to have nearly equal costs and benefits, but most people are dissatisfied if their social exchanges create more costs than benefits. Let’s discuss an example. If you have ever decided to commit to a romantic relationship, you probably considered the advantages and disadvantages of your decision. What are the benefits of being in a committed romantic relationship? You may have considered having companionship, intimacy, and passion, but also being comfortable with a person you know well. What are the costs of being in a committed romantic relationship? You may think that over time boredom from being with only one person may set in; moreover, it may be expensive to share activities such as attending movies and going to dinner. However, the benefits of dating your romantic partner presumably outweigh the costs, or you wouldn’t continue the relationship.
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ORLANDO–U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park, Fla., announced the winner of the 2020 Congressional App Challenge for Florida’s Seventh Congressional District. Dylan Harte, a senior at Lake Mark Preparatory School in Seminole County, created the winning app, Pre-Calculus Buddy, to help students study the various topics covered in their pre-calculus curriculum. The Congressional App Challenge is part of a national effort to support and encourage education in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math).
Dylan’s app uses formulas to help students calculate solutions or check answers on a given problem. Dylan will now have the opportunity to attend a virtual coding academy, referred to as #HouseofCode, this spring to connect with other app challenge winners and the broader tech community.
“I am so excited that I am able to blend my love of math and programming in the 2020 Congressional App Challenge with Pre-Calculus Buddy,” Dylan said. “My app brings innovation in the precalculus learning process that will help students learn from their errors and offer them a better overall learning experience.”
“I am very proud of Dylan for creating an app that is focused on helping his peers. As Chair Emeritus of Future Forum, I’m excited to see young people utilizing their talents to improve the lives of others,” said Murphy. “I also want to thank all the parents, teachers, and mentors who encourage students like Dylan to use their skills to make a difference. I will continue to support STEAM development in our schools so that more students have the opportunity to contribute to their communities.”
Since it launched in 2015, nearly 9,000 high school students have participated in the Congressional App Challenge. Through this nationwide competition, the Internet Education Foundation seeks to foster a youth appreciation for computer science and STEAM-based education.
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1. Goodrow, Jessica Ann Marie. Program evaluation: Fatherhood is Sacred?? and Motherhood is Sacred???.
Degree: 2015, Humboldt State University
► The Fatherhood Is Sacred?? and Motherhood Is Sacred Program??? is a program that has reached many Tribal communities across the Nation. The student researcher will… (more)
▼ The Fatherhood Is Sacred?? and Motherhood Is Sacred Program??? is a program that has reached many Tribal communities across the Nation. The student researcher will conduct a program evaluation to measure the effectiveness of the program and capture the voices of past and current participants and facilitators with experience of how this program effects: individuals, families and communities. As part of the requirements of the evaluation, the student researcher of the evaluation will compose data that will establish the value and or outcome of The Fatherhood Is Sacred?? and Motherhood Is Sacred??? Advisors/Committee Members: Abarca, Cesar.
Subjects/Keywords: Historical trauma; Decolonize; Colonization; Re-tradionalization
Goodrow, J. A. M. (2015). Program evaluation: Fatherhood is Sacred?? and Motherhood is Sacred??? . (Thesis). Humboldt State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/149918
Goodrow, Jessica Ann Marie. “Program evaluation: Fatherhood is Sacred?? and Motherhood is Sacred???.” 2015. Thesis, Humboldt State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/149918.
Goodrow, Jessica Ann Marie. “Program evaluation: Fatherhood is Sacred?? and Motherhood is Sacred???.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Goodrow JAM. Program evaluation: Fatherhood is Sacred?? and Motherhood is Sacred???. [Internet] [Thesis]. Humboldt State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/149918.
Goodrow JAM. Program evaluation: Fatherhood is Sacred?? and Motherhood is Sacred???. [Thesis]. Humboldt State University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/149918
2. Pahl, Jennifer Plourde. Effects of flow alteration on the aquatic macrophyte Podostemum ceratophyllum (riverweed).
Degree: 2014, University of Georgia
► A survey of Podostemum ceratophyllum Michx. biomass and recovery rates was conducted in the Middle Oconee River, Athens, GA over a one-year time period under… (more)
▼ A survey of Podostemum ceratophyllum Michx. biomass and recovery rates was conducted in the Middle Oconee River, Athens, GA over a one-year time period under altered hydrology and severe drought. Biomass was found to be an order of magnitude lower than reported by previous studies conducted in non-drought years. An information-theoretic (AIC) modeling approach found variation in biomass within the study site to be related in part to variation in duration of low flow events. Recovery rates in the Middle Oconee River as well as Hunnicutt Creek, a tributary, were similar among sites and under varying hydrologic regimes. Re-colonization from vegetative growth seemed most prominent, and little support was found for seed dispersal as a major mechanism or recovery. Regionally, P. ceratophyllum range is likely expansive, and the impact of hydrologic alteration may be equally as widespread. Future monitoring could be accomplished through existing programs, focusing in basins where P. ceratophyllum is present and flow modification is prevalent.
Subjects/Keywords: Podostemum ceratophyllum; hydrologic alteration; drought; Middle Oconee River; re-colonization; monitoring
Pahl, J. P. (2014). Effects of flow alteration on the aquatic macrophyte Podostemum ceratophyllum (riverweed) . (Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25599
Pahl, Jennifer Plourde. “Effects of flow alteration on the aquatic macrophyte Podostemum ceratophyllum (riverweed).” 2014. Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25599.
Pahl, Jennifer Plourde. “Effects of flow alteration on the aquatic macrophyte Podostemum ceratophyllum (riverweed).” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Pahl JP. Effects of flow alteration on the aquatic macrophyte Podostemum ceratophyllum (riverweed). [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25599.
Pahl JP. Effects of flow alteration on the aquatic macrophyte Podostemum ceratophyllum (riverweed). [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/25599
3. Miyazaki, Shunsuke. Development of Commercial Cis-Lunar Space Station.
Degree: MS, Mechanical Engineering, 2018, University of Houston
► The current space program enables at most six astronauts to live and work on the International Space Station (ISS) at Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The… (more)
▼ The current space program enables at most six astronauts to live and work on the International Space Station (ISS) at Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The growth of private space sector, however, becomes more and more realistic and affordable to access to LEO and cis-lunar space. Cis-lunar 1000 concept proposed by United Launch Alliance (ULA) aims to establish self-sustaining economy, which enables 1000 people to live and work in space between the Earth and the Moon within 30 years (2046). This project objective is to design commercial Cis-Lunar space station, named AXIS Space Station, to support space exploration beyond 2040, where is expected the growing period of economy in Cis-Lunar space. The Design process approached same manner as system engineering. The concept design of AXIS space station was developed considering based on the system requirements, technical/ environmental constraints, and safety criteria. The conceptual design finalized through evaluation process, and trade study for its safety provision, emergency response strategies, and future growth potentials. Advisors/Committee Members: Bell, Larry S. (advisor), Bannova, Olga (advisor), Kennedy, Kriss J. (committee member), Toups, Larry (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Cis-Lunar Space Station; Ixion; Re utilizaed habitation; Lunar Colonization
…moon surface is assumed 168, and 140 crew member work for lunar colonization and 28 14…
Miyazaki, S. (2018). Development of Commercial Cis-Lunar Space Station . (Masters Thesis). University of Houston. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10657/3238
Miyazaki, Shunsuke. “Development of Commercial Cis-Lunar Space Station.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Houston. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10657/3238.
Miyazaki, Shunsuke. “Development of Commercial Cis-Lunar Space Station.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Miyazaki S. Development of Commercial Cis-Lunar Space Station. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Houston; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10657/3238.
Miyazaki S. Development of Commercial Cis-Lunar Space Station. [Masters Thesis]. University of Houston; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10657/3238
4. Mason, Katie Lynn. Modulation of bacterial re-colonization and host mucosal response during broad spectrum antibiotic recovery by the yeast Candida albicans.
Degree: PhD, Microbiology, 2010, University of Michigan
► Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that remains a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. This ubiquitous yeast is able to colonize diverse… (more)
▼ Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that remains a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. This ubiquitous yeast is able to colonize diverse mucosal surfaces, including the oral cavity, gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and vaginal tract, but is considered to be a commensal in healthy individuals. Recent research has implicated alterations in the microbiota in initiating or exacerbating multiple mucosal diseases, and may increase the risk of systemic Candida infections. While Candida species are normal members of the human GI microbiota, little is known about its ability to modify the bacterial community structure. Previous studies have shown a number of culturable bacteria demonstrate antagonism towards C. albicans morphogenesis in vitro , however the unculturable nature of the microbiota has prevented further studies. We hypothesized that the effect of C. albicans colonization in the murine GI tract, during re-colonization dynamics following broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment, would result in alterations in the bacterial microbiota and host mucosal response. To investigate this, we utilized Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) and clone libraries to study the unculturable GI bacteria following dysbiosis (C. albicans CHN1 and SC5314 colonization during cefoperazone treatment). Following dysbiosis, CHN1 is able to stably colonize the GI tract of mice long-term. This colonization resulted in ulcerations at the limiting ridge, but no other overt inflammation. Despite this lack of apparent histological inflammation, there was significantly elevated IL-17a and IL-13 expression in the mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN). The long-term presence of CHN1, following dysbiosis, resulted in an altered Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) population: from predominantly Lactobacillus to Enterococcus. To investigate the role of C. albicans in the absence of the indigenous microbiota, germfree mice were mono-associated with C. albicans. Colonized germfree mice had elevated C. albicans colonization, elevated ulcer occurrence, and elevated IL-4 and IL-13 expression in the MLN. These findings point towards a vital interaction between the microbiota and CHN1 in shaping the microbial composition and inflammatory response in the GI tract. Advisors/Committee Members: Huffnagle, Gary B. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Antibiotic; Antibiotics; Bacterial Recolonization; Broad; Candida Albicans; Colonization; Gastrointestinal Tract; Host; Modulation; Mucosal Response; Re; Recovery; Spectrum; Yeast
Mason, K. L. (2010). Modulation of bacterial re-colonization and host mucosal response during broad spectrum antibiotic recovery by the yeast Candida albicans. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127150
Mason, Katie Lynn. “Modulation of bacterial re-colonization and host mucosal response during broad spectrum antibiotic recovery by the yeast Candida albicans.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127150.
Mason, Katie Lynn. “Modulation of bacterial re-colonization and host mucosal response during broad spectrum antibiotic recovery by the yeast Candida albicans.” 2010. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Mason KL. Modulation of bacterial re-colonization and host mucosal response during broad spectrum antibiotic recovery by the yeast Candida albicans. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127150.
Mason KL. Modulation of bacterial re-colonization and host mucosal response during broad spectrum antibiotic recovery by the yeast Candida albicans. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127150
5. Wikenros, Camilla. The return of the wolf.
Degree: 2011, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
URL: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8372/
► Apex predators may have both direct and indirect effects on other species through predation and competition. I investigated the effects of wolves (Canis lupus) on… (more)
▼ Apex predators may have both direct and indirect effects on other species through predation and competition. I investigated the effects of wolves (Canis lupus) on prey species, competitors (including humans) and the scavenging guild after the re-colonization by wolves of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Field methods included telemetry, snow-tracking, age determination, and camera monitoring. Human extermination of wolves at the end of the 19th century in combination with the extent and mode of hunter harvest has caused moose (Alces alces) to become predator-naïve. This has resulted in high hunting success rates and short chase distances by wolves hunting moose, compared to areas in North America where moose have been continuously exposed to wolf predation. The high kill rate by wolves on moose, in combination with mainly additive wolf predation resulted in exploitation competition between wolves and hunters, leading to reduced hunter harvest of moose within wolf territories. In contrast, neither exploitation competition nor interference competition were evident between wolves and Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), which was most likely a result of wolves and lynx having different main prey species, a high density of the shared prey species and low densities of both predator species. The largest food source for scavenging species regarding the annual amount of available biomass was remains after hunter harvest of moose in autumn. Presence of wolves slightly reduced available biomass to scavenging species, but more important, wolves reduced the high seasonal variation of available biomass by providing carcasses all year round. The red fox (Vulpes vulpes), common raven (Corvus corax), European pine marten (Martes martes), and northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) may benefit from the return of wolves, due to their high utilization of wolf-killed moose in spring when the presence of wolves increased the availability of carcasses. In summary, apex predators will have relatively little influence on other species in areas where human activities have a large impact on animal densities, such as in the wolf and moose system on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Subjects/Keywords: wolves; lynxes; elks; roe deer; predation; animal competition; predator prey relations; animal ecology; population dynamics; habitats; behaviour; scandinavia; apex predator; re-colonization; behaviour change; competition; scavenging; wolf; moose; lynx; hunter harvest; Scandinavian Peninsula
Wikenros, C. (2011). The return of the wolf . (Doctoral Dissertation). Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved from https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8372/
Wikenros, Camilla. “The return of the wolf.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8372/.
Wikenros, Camilla. “The return of the wolf.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Wikenros C. The return of the wolf. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8372/.
Wikenros C. The return of the wolf. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; 2011. Available from: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8372/
6. McKenzie, Jane. Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri).
Degree: 2006, La Trobe University
URL: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080509.121141
► Assessment of trophic interactions between increasing populations of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) and fisheries in southern Australia is limited due to a lack… (more)
▼ Assessment of trophic interactions between increasing populations of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) and fisheries in southern Australia is limited due to a lack of species specific demographic data and an understanding of the factors influencing population growth. To establish species specific demographic parameters a cross-sectional sample of New Zealand fur seal females (330) and males (100) were caught and individually-marked on Kangaroo Island, South Australia between 2000 and 2003. The seals were aged through examination of a postcanine tooth, which was removed from each animal to investigate age-specific life-history parameters. Annual formation of cementum layers was confirmed and accuracy in age estimation was determined by examination of teeth removed from individuals of known-age. Indirect methods of assessing reproductive maturity based on mammary teat characteristics indicated that females first gave birth between 4-8 years of age, with an average age at reproductive maturity of 5 years. Among reproductively mature females, age-specific reproductive rates increased rapidly between 4-7 years of age, reaching maximum rates of 70-81% between 8-13 years, and gradually decreased in older females. No females older than 22 years were recorded to pup. Age of first territory tenure in males ranged from 8-10 years. The oldest female and male were 25 and 19 years old, respectively. Post-weaning growth in females was monophasic, characterised by high growth rates in length and mass during the juvenile growth stage, followed by a gradual decline in growth rates after reproductive maturity. In contrast, growth in males was biphasic and displayed a secondary growth spurt in both length and mass, which coincided with sexual and social maturation, followed by a rapid decline in growth rates. Age-specific survival rates were high (0.823-0.953) among prime-age females (8-13 yrs of age) and declined in older females. Relative change in annual pup production was strongly correlated with reproductive rates of prime-age females and adult female survival between breeding seasons.
Subjects/Keywords: New Zealand fur seal; Kangaroo Island - South Australia; New Zealand fur seal - Population viability analysis; New Zealand fur seal - Breeding; Fisheries - South Australia - Environmental variability; Marine mammal populations; Pinniped; otarid; remote chemical immobilization; darting; anaesthesia; isoflurane; midazolam; zoletil; tiletamine-zolazepam; restraint; behavioral response; fecundity; pregnancy rates; progesterone; reproduction; reproductive failure; site fidelity; mortality; territorial; size dimorphism; life table; ageing; growth layer groups; re-colonization
McKenzie, J. (2006). Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) . (Thesis). La Trobe University. Retrieved from http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080509.121141
McKenzie, Jane. “Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri).” 2006. Thesis, La Trobe University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080509.121141.
McKenzie, Jane. “Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri).” 2006. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
McKenzie J. Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri). [Internet] [Thesis]. La Trobe University; 2006. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080509.121141.
McKenzie J. Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri). [Thesis]. La Trobe University; 2006. Available from: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080509.121141
Latrobe University
Degree: 2006, Latrobe University
▼ Assessment of trophic interactions between increasing populations of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) and fisheries in southern Australia is limited due to a lack of species specific demographic data and an understanding of the factors influencing population growth. To establish species specific demographic parameters a cross-sectional sample of New Zealand fur seal females (330) and males (100) were caught and individually-marked on Kangaroo Island, South Australia between 2000 and 2003. The seals were aged through examination of a postcanine tooth, which was removed from each animal to investigate age-specific life-history parameters. Annual formation of cementum layers was confirmed and accuracy in age estimation was determined by examination of teeth removed from individuals of known-age.Indirect methods of assessing reproductive maturity based on mammary teat characteristics indicated that females first gave birth between 4-8 years of age, with an average age at reproductive maturity of 5 years. Among reproductively mature females, age-specific reproductive rates increased rapidly between 4-7 years of age, reaching maximum rates of 70-81% between 8-13 years, and gradually decreased in older females. No females older than 22 years were recorded to pup. Age of first territory tenure in males ranged from 8-10 years. The oldest female and male were 25 and 19 years old, respectively. Post-weaning growth in females was monophasic, characterised by high growth rates in length and mass during the juvenile growth stage, followed by a gradual decline in growth rates after reproductive maturity.In contrast, growth in males was biphasic and displayed a secondary growth spurt in both length and mass, which coincided with sexual and social maturation, followed by a rapid decline in growth rates. Age-specific survival rates were high (0.823-0.953) among prime-age females (8-13yrs of age) and declined in older females. Relative change in annual pup production was strongly correlated with reproductive rates of prime-age females and adult female survival between breeding seasons.
Subjects/Keywords: Pinniped; otarid; remote chemical immobilization; darting; anaesthesia; isoflurane; midazolam; zoletil; tiletamine-zolazepam; restraint; behavioral response; fecundity; pregnancy rates; progesterone; reproduction; reproductive failure; site fidelity; mortality; territorial; size dimorphism; life table; ageing; growth layer groups; re-colonization; New Zealand fur seal – South Australia – Kangaroo Island; New Zealand fur seal – Population viability analysis – South Australia – Kangaroo Island; New Zealand fur seal – Breeding – South Australia – Kangaroo Island; Fisheries – South Australia – Environmental aspects; Marine mammal populations – South Australia – Kangaroo Island
McKenzie, J. (2006). Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) . (Thesis). Latrobe University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/468696
McKenzie, Jane. “Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri).” 2006. Thesis, Latrobe University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/468696.
McKenzie J. Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri). [Internet] [Thesis]. Latrobe University; 2006. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/468696.
McKenzie J. Population demographics of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri). [Thesis]. Latrobe University; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/468696
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Ellie Goulding gets lost in “Delirium”
In “Delirium,” Ellie Goulding’s third album, Goulding follows the pop formula very well: catchy vocals + emotional lyrics + heavy beat with dance breaks. But no one who hears any song from this album...
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One of the first things I discovered about food and drink form bygone days was how much tastes have changed. I’ve often said that what passed for “tolerable ale” back then would probably be spat out and labeled “bad homebrew” by today’s discerning palate. Most recently, I made a maple spruce beer (without boiling it) by diluting some maple syrup and throwing a couple of spruce twigs into a flask with bakers yeast just to have an example of something fermenting for one of my colonial brewing demonstrations. There is no polite way to describe how that tasted! The story of how porter began as “three threads;” a mixture of “stale ale, brown ale and two-penny ale” gives us a clue as to how our forebears stretched the lifespan of commodities to avoid wasting anything.
Before the days of soda Innkeepers were not hampered by an dearth of mixers, they just mixed things together that we might find incongruous. I’m not a big fan of heated beer and wine, but colonists seem to have enjoyed such drinks, especially with spices added. I’ve never seen the fascination with “boiler-makers” but apparently ale was commonly spiked with gin and rum before the days of tonic and seltzer water.
Recently I stocked up on some distilled spirits and tried a few of the recipes listed below. You may want to improvise your own version of some of these drinks by substituting seltzer for “the beaten white of an egg,” and let me warn you that a little nutmeg goes a long; repeat a very long way!
One of the most popular drinks was the “ale flip” made with a quart of ale heated almost to boiling. While the ale is heating, beat four eggs (some recipes specify egg whites), add a half cup of sugar and four ounces of rum. Beat until frothy, place in a pitcher and pour back and forth with the heated ale until it’s “smooth as cream.” To prepare an “American flip” also known as “One Yard of Flannel,” add crush grated ginger, nutmeg and dried lemon peel to the egg and sugar mixture. As a variation you can substitute brandy for the rum. Molasses and dried pumpkin were the usual substitutes for sugar in New England. For dramatic effect and burnt flavor, plunge a red-hot poker from the fire into your tankard of flip!
A “Rumfustian” is similar to the flip but eight ounces of sherry and four ounces of gin is mixed with the quart of ale. Another variation involves a quart of strong beer, a bottle of white wine or sherry and a half pint of gin.
To make a “Bellows” Mix one pint of heavy cream with four eggs and a quarter pound of sugar, blend till smooth. To a quart tankard add one jigger of rum and two thirds of a quart of beer or cider and add 6 tablespoons of the cream mixture, then stir with a red hot poker until it foams.
“Syllibubs” were mixtures of milk or cream whipped into a froth with wine, beer or cider and flavored with spices. One recipe calls for a quart of beer or ale and an equal amount of cider mixed together in a large bowl with a little grated nutmeg, sweetened with sugar. The original recipe finished off with “now milk a cow rapidly into the ale and against the side of the bowl in order to raise a froth and let stand for one hour.”
Punch was a favorite and is the focus of Peter Thompson’s book Rum Punch and Revolution which illustrates the pivotal role played by taverns in the founding of our country. To make a “Bishop” grill three oranges to a pale brown color and add them to a punch bowl. Pour in half pint from a bottle of “old” Bordeaux wine and dissolve a quarter pound of sugar. Cover with a plate and let stand for two days. When ready to serve, cut and squeeze the oranges through a sieve into the remainder of the wine which has been heated. A “Cardinal” is made by substituting “old” Rhenish wine for Bordeaux. Lisbon wine can be substituted, raisins, mace, cloves and nutmeg can be added, but the The Practical Housewife (1860) says this is not the proper way!
Here’s a pretty standard recipe for making punch: “take two or three bottle of water – according to whether the drink is desired strong or weak – a bottle of brandy, the juice of six to twelve lemons, strained through a clean cloth, or a piece of linen, and a pound more or less of sugar – according to the sweetness desired. All this is mixed together. Finally a little nutmeg is scraped into it, after which one has a very pleasant drink.”
Cider was very popular. I’ve seen various descriptions of “Cider Royal” which can be cider and mead fermented together; new cider fermented with applejack (distilled cider); or cider that has been reduced by boiling, then fortified with brandy and sugar. A “Bang” starts with a pint of cider, a pint of warm ale; sweetened to taste with grated nutmeg and ginger, along with a wineglass full of gin or whisky. To make a “Stewed Quaker” take a pint of hot cider and add apple brandy to taste. A “Stonewall” is hard cider and rum.
“Ebulum” is elder and juniper berry juice mixed with ale and spices. To make a “Calibogus” mix two ounces of rum with a bottle of spruce beer. “Hotch Pot” is warmed beer, with rum in it. “Rattle-skull” is made by combining one ounce rum, one ounce brandy, four ounces sherry and a pint of porter. And to make a “Splitting Headache,” just take two quarts of beer, add eight ounces of rum, six cloves, half teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, a cup of lime juice and serve.
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Does the electromagnetic field “spin”?
Due to electron "spin", a small magnetic field is produced. Maxwell's equations imply that magnetic fields are due to changes in electric fields. Is the magnetic field produced then because the electric field is "spinning" with the "spinning" electron, in the quantum sense of "spinning" and this change in electric field is generating the magnetic field?
Can one generalize to say that the magnetic field thus would spin when a magnet is spun?
electromagnetism photons quantum-spin electrons
KenshinKenshin
$\begingroup$ Maxwell equations state that a varying electric field produces a magnetic field, but not necessarily every magnetic field is produced by a varying electric field. The spin of a particle produces (for not straightforward reasons) a magnetic dipole, which produces a magnetic field independent on charge motions. $\endgroup$ – Bzazz Jan 31 '13 at 16:01
$\begingroup$ Thanks. Do you know how to calculate the magnetic field produced then without Maxwell's equations. $\endgroup$ – Kenshin Jan 31 '13 at 23:14
$\begingroup$ Thinking about "spin" always leaves me dizzy. $\endgroup$ – Hot Licks Dec 28 '17 at 19:38
If by "spin", you mean rotate around its axis, like the earth does every 24h, then it is incorrect that the electric field of a point particle spins. A point particle doesn't have dimensions so it doesn't have an axis to rotate around and thus no magnetic field is produced.
The property of "spin" of elementary particles is not caused because of their rotation.
Now, the magnetic fields are different because there are no magnetic monopoles, so a magnetic field does rotate when the magnet is spun.
PrasttPrastt
$\begingroup$ How do you explain the magnetic field produced by "electron spin" if not by a change in electric field? $\endgroup$ – Kenshin Jan 31 '13 at 14:59
$\begingroup$ Spin is an intrinsic property, as far as we know, just as it's mass. It is associated with an angular momentum, but it is quantized, and the group of symmetries is not the same as the group of symmetries of spinning macroscopic objects. The latter is SO(3) and the former SU(2). The difference,roughly, is that in the second one, after a rotation of 360 degrees, you get to the initial state with a minus sign. $\endgroup$ – Prastt Jan 31 '13 at 15:06
$\begingroup$ I understand that. I am wondering how the magnetic field results from this "spin". $\endgroup$ – Kenshin Jan 31 '13 at 15:06
$\begingroup$ You cannot obtain the magnetic field as you would in the classical case. Because charge zero particle also have spin so you cannot suppose that the charge is distributed in a tiny sphere and work out the magnetic field. $\endgroup$ – Prastt Jan 31 '13 at 15:46
$\begingroup$ Well, the quantum dynamical description of the electron (spin 1/2 particles) is given by Dirac's equation. When you couple this with an external electromagnetic field (vector potential) you get a gauge theory. The equations of motion in that theory include a term which is the interaction energy of the magnetic field with the intrinsic magnetic moment of the particle. That therm predicts the correct magnetic moment of an electron. I'm not going to repeat the calculation here because is rather lengthy, but you can check a quantum mechanics book I guess. $\endgroup$ – Prastt Feb 1 '13 at 5:34
It is certainly possible for an electromagnetic field to spin and this can be demonstrated by producing such a field in a cavity resonator. The electromagnetic field in a resonant cavity is normally stationary but varying in amplitude so that the changing magnitude of the electric field produces a varying amplitude magnetic field which in turn produces the varying electric field. When a spinning mode is produced the amplitude of the electric and magnetic fields are constant but it is their rotation about the axis of the cavity which produces the time variation required to sustain the fields.
The field equations for the spinning electromagnetic field can be derived from those of the conventional stationary field. They satisfy Maxwell's Equations and the Poynting vector can be shown to point in the direction of field spin. Computer modelling of the propagation of the fields using the FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) technique clearly show them to spinning. Also a practical experiment has been done to confirm that measurements of the spinning electromagnetic fields are as predicted.
Further details are available at http://mike2017.000webhostapp.com/ which includes field plots of the spinning fields.
Mike AllanMike Allan
Spin corresponds to quantized angular momentum. However a substantial fraction of the spin angular momentum of an electron is included in its surrounding electromagnetic field where a nonzero Poynting vector does exist everywhere outside of its spin axis. This electron-bound Poynting vector corresponds to electromagnetic energy-momentum density circulating around the electron. The local magnetic field at a given point is given by the electron’s dipole field while the electrostatic field results from the Coulomb-field of a point-like charge [1].
Please also note that neither an electrostatic field nor a magnetostatic field can rotate like a rigid body. This misconception would contradict Maxwell's and relativistic electrodynamics. See Spinning magnets and Jehle’s model of the electron.
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Realist753Realist753
Your statement "Maxwell's equations imply that magnetic fields are due to changes in electric fields." is not complete.
A corrected statement is that Maxwell's equations imply that magnetic fields are due to changes in electric fields AND due to currents (which can be stationary):
$$ \nabla\times\mathbf{H} = \mathbf{J}+\partial\mathbf{D}/\partial t $$
As you can see, the magnetic field $\mathbf{H}$ has two "sources": the $\partial\mathbf{D}/\partial t$ part is due to varying electric fields as you said (where $\mathbf{D}$ is the electric displacement), but the $\mathbf{J}$ is the part due to the free currents. This is why a coiled wire with a constant current running through it creates a magnetic field (without need of changing electric fields).
In the case of the electron spin, this goes beyond my areas of knowledge, but according to my limited understanding of quantum mechanics, the magnetic field comes from the stationary particle current associated with the wave-function of the electron. So it is similar to the magnetic field arising from a coil of wire with a current.
As a further related note: interestingly, Maxwell's equations apply to any inertial frame, so you could argue that an observer moving with respect to the electron will see a changing electric field (because the electron is moving), and this will create a magnetic field which apparently does not exist for a stationary observer. This is because different observers will not agree on the electric and magnetic fields separately, however they will agree on the existence of an electromagnetic tensor (which includes the electric and magnetic fields as its "parts"), and they will agree on the physical effects produced by it.
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Gallo Goes There: Don’t Like New York? Why You Need Their Teams To Be Great
Filed Under:Devils, DJ Gallo, giants, Islanders, Jets, Knicks, Mets, Nets, New York Sports, Rangers, Times Square, Yankees
By DJ Gallo
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These are heady times to be a New York sports hater.
Every team in the New York metro area is a complete wreck or, at the very best, is currently spinning wildly out of control while heading off a high mountain road with no guardrail.
The failures are well-known, thanks to the vast New York media detailing and cataloguing each new humiliation for the whole world to enjoy. Yet it’s simply too enjoyable to not briefly run through them all again.
The Yankees are $200 million of big-name mediocrity and have the continued stink of Alex Rodriguez steam-pressed into their pinstripes. The Giants went 7-9 and played worse than their record, as Eli Manning seemed to complete seven of every nine pass attempts to the opposing team. The Knicks and Nets both entered this season with title hopes (stupidly, but still, they did) and are now reduced to battling it out for the final playoff seed in the pitiful Eastern Conference – the sports equivalent of a diseased street rat fighting to get the last bite of flesh from the carcass of an already dead, poisoned rat. The Rangers, Islanders and Devils are essentially a presentation of “The Knicks and Nets: On Ice!” as they trip and fall through the Metropolitan Division, the NHL’s version of the NBA Eastern Conference. And then there are the Mets and Jets, who remain very much the Mets and Jets.
Ahhhhh. It’s all so wonderful. We may very well be in the Golden Age of New York sports failure. Is it not an amazing time to be alive?! Breathe it in, New York sports hater. Cherish it. Imprint this time in your memory so you can revisit it and feel this same joy even years from now.
And now stop.
I have some terrible news: We need New York sports teams to be good. We all need to consider even [chokes back bile] … rooting for New York teams.
Okay, whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Where are you going? Don’t leave. Not rooting for them more than your own favorite teams. That’s not what I mean. Not even rooting for them to win championships. But rooting for them to be good. Rooting for them to be legitimate contenders.
Here’s the terrible truth: sports are better off when New York teams are good. They don’t all have to be good. But a Big Apple full of Mets and Jets is not only bad for New York, it’s bad for your favorite teams, too.
Deep-down, sports fans already know this.
It’s why so many fans think David Stern may have rigged the 1985 NBA Draft lottery so the Knicks would get Georgetown star Patrick Ewing. It’s why so many fans think New York teams get preferential treatment from refs and the league offices – all of which, not coincidentally, are found in New York.
No one would suspect the NBA of rigging a draft in favor of Charlotte. There’s a reason there are no leagues headquartered in Kansas City. And it’s no accident that Pittsburgh didn’t get the first cold weather Super Bowl.
New York matters. New York is important. Accepting what your obnoxious New York sports fan friend has always said is unsettling, but he’s right.
This is not an opinion. This is elementary mathematics. Approximately 23 million people live in the New York metro region. That’s 20-percent more than Los Angeles and more than double Chicago, the U.S.’s third-largest metro region. Pittsburgh has 2.6 million. Charlotte has 2.4. Kansas City has 2.3. You could combine those three cities into one, double that city in size and it still wouldn’t equal New York in pure numbers.
Numbers are what league commissioners care about. Those numbers, converted into dollars, are what make sports leagues successful. They help make your favorite teams successful, too.
The highest-rated World Series of the last nine years was the 2009 Series. Guess who played in that? Yep. The New York Yankees. Super Bowl XLVI in 2012 had the most viewers in the history of the game. Guess who played in that game? Yep. The New York Giants. Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals was the most-watched NHL game of the 1990s. Guess who played in that game? Yep. The New York Rangers.
Good New York teams, thanks to that 23 million in population, and a few million more in bandwagon fans, deliver huge ratings. Huge ratings deliver bigger TV deals — and every team gets a cut of that cash. With more money, your favorite team can get better by bringing in free agents or re-signing its own players. It can invest in scouting, build a new stadium, or install cup holders in front of every seat so you don’t spill half your $9 beer on your lap. Whatever.
But the point is this: good New York teams are good for your team. You don’t have to be a New York fan, just maybe don’t enjoy kicking all of them when they’re down so much. It’s only hurting you.
TV revenue is only part of it, too. New York stars sell more jerseys, which in turn makes every team more money in licensing deals. No New York stars, fewer sales.
The huge New York fanbase puts fans in the seats on the road. When New York teams are winning, more fans fill your team’s stadium. In 2009, when the Yankees had a 103-win team that went on to win the World Series, they averaged 34,482 fans per game on the road. In 2013, with a sad collection of aging, overpriced players who were never in contention, they averaged 33,632 fans per game on the road. Take that 850 fans per game, multiply it by the $27.73 average MLB ticket price, add in some more for food, merchandise and parking, multiply all that by a three-game series and you’re looking at significant money every team lost simply because the Yankees were a non-factor.
Still not convinced? Okay, then try this: It’s simply more fun to see your team beat a good New York team than a bad one.
What made the Marlins’ upsetting the Yankees in the 2003 World Series so memorable was that it was the Yankees. If that same team produced a World Series win over the A’s or Rays? Eh. Just not as fun. Last year Indiana Pacers fans no doubt enjoyed knocking the New York Knicks out of the playoffs far more than they did defeating the Atlanta Hawks one round earlier.
No one is saying you need to root for New York teams to win championships. Feel free to pull for them to go down in flames when the stakes are highest. Sell it to yourself as an even crueler form of rooting against them.
But realize the sports world is a better place for everyone when New York teams are winning.
DJ Gallo is the founder of SportsPickle.com and has written for ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, The Onion and Comedy Central. He has appeared on SportsCenter, ESPNews, and G4 and is a frequent radio guest and published author. Follow him on Twitter at @DJGalloEtc, @sportspickle and @thatdjgallo.
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The year has started splendidly with the launch of Jean Kent’s new collection The Hour of Silvered Mullet at the Newcastle Writers Festival. The weekend had a strong poetry component, kicking off with a lively panel of Jean, Melinda Smith and Jenny Blackford discussing their own and each others’ work, and then the seven-poet ‘big read’ on the Sunday afternoon in the main hall, with over 100 in attendance.
We enjoyed launching the book so much that we did it all over again a week or so later, at the new Cardiff library. Christopher Pollnitz, editor of DH Lawrence’s Collected Poems, provided the necessary obsequies, now published on line at the Rochford Street Review.
Next up is Tim Cumming’s latest full-length collection Rebel Angels in the Mind Shop, his first with Pitt Street Poetry, following up on the chapbook Etruscan Miniatures. Tim is based in London and published previously with Salt, until they decided to restrict their list to deceased poets, a career move which has its shortcomings. His new book will be launched on June 2nd at a jolly PSP evening at our London outlet, the London Review Bookshop, just a Rosetta Stone’s throw from the British Museum as their web site so lamely boasts. Jakob Ziguras will fly in from Poland to join us, and as Benedict Andrews is in town shooting his first movie Blackbird. we will have three fine bearded Pitt Street Poets on the one platform for the night.
The rest of the year is shaping up strongly. John Foulcher’s 101 Poems is a survey of the best of his work over nine collections and thirty years. Geoff Page follows the success of 1953 and Improving the News with a lively new volume called Gods and Uncles. Then a couple of new poets – new for us, anyway. Lorne Johnson’s illustrated chapbook Morton explores aspects of that celebrated national park, and Peter Goldsworthy makes a welcome return to poetry (he never really went away) with Rise of the Machines, his first outing since New Selected Poems in 2001. We round out the year with the third volume in our Mark Tredinnick trilogy – his legion of fans will find Body Copy a worthy successor to Bluewren Cantos and our reprint of Fire Diary.
And finally, our first book of prose – but it’s ok, the prose is all about poetry. Ron Pretty’s vade mecum for the budding poet Creating Poetry was first published in 1987 by his own Five Islands Press and has been in demand ever since. We’re proud to be publishing a revised edition, with new selections and examples, of this perennially popular textbook.
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Tiger Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Lily Ronoh-Waweru
A tiger at a New York zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Samples from the four-year-old Malayan tiger were taken and tested after the tiger, five other tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo developed a dry cough and showed signs of respiratory illnesses.
The COVID-19 test for the tiger was confirmed by USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory, based in Ames, Iowa.
“Though they have experienced some decrease in appetite, the cats at the Bronx Zoo are otherwise doing well under veterinary care and are bright, alert, and interactive with their keepers,” the zoo said.
According to a news release from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo, the tiger and the zoo’s other cats are doing well.
It is believed that the animals were infected by a zoo employee who was “asymptomatically infected with the virus” while caring for them.
This latest development on the pandemic will shine the spotlight on human-animal transmission of the disease. According to earlier reports from the World Organisation for Animal Health, there’s no evidence that dogs can spread the disease or that the disease can cause an animal to fall ill though further studies may bring new findings.
More information regarding pet health amid the pandemic can be found on their website.
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Impact of Gender on Chemotherapeutic Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Shoji Kimura, Takehiro Iwata, Mohammad Abufaraj, Florian Janisch, David D'Andrea, Marco Moschini, Baeth Al-Rawashdeh, Harun Fajkovic, Veronika Seebacher, Shin Egawa, Shahrokh F. Shariat
Female patients with bladder cancer (BCa) have had more advanced disease than their male counterparts at diagnosis and have experienced worse oncologic outcomes. However, the effect of gender on the chemotherapeutic response and oncologic outcomes after radical cystectomy (RC) and perioperative chemotherapy remains to be elucidated. We performed a systematic literature search to identify eligible studies that had investigated the effect of gender on the chemotherapeutic response and oncologic outcomes after RC and perioperative chemotherapy. We identified 15 studies reported from 2008 to 2019. For the patients who had received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), female gender was not associated with a complete response (pooled odds ratio [OR], 0.94; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.69-1.26) nor a complete or partial response (pooled OR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.73-1.27). In addition, women experienced had less upstaging (pooled OR, 0.3; 95% CI, 0.14-0.68) at RC compared with their male counterparts. Moreover, female patients who had undergone RC and NAC were likely to have better disease recurrence and cancer-specific mortality rates than were the male patients (pooled hazard ratio [HR], 0.66 and 95% CI, 0.44-0.98; and pooled HR, 0.49 and 95% CI, 0.29-0.81, respectively). For the patients who had undergone adjuvant chemotherapy, female gender was not associated with overall mortality (pooled HR, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.7-1.89), disease recurrence (pooled HR, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.74-1.23), or cancer-specific mortality (pooled HR, 1.07; 95% CI, 0.81-1.43). Female patients with BCa seem to benefit more from NAC than do their male counterparts. This potential differential sensitivity of female BCa to cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy might help close the gender gap in BCa, suggesting that gender could be a biomarker to help select the best systemic therapy for patients with advanced BCa.
Clinical Genitourinary Cancer
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clgc.2019.11.007
10.1016/j.clgc.2019.11.007
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Cystectomy Medicine & Life Sciences
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences
Meta-Analysis Medicine & Life Sciences
Drug Therapy Medicine & Life Sciences
Kimura, S., Iwata, T., Abufaraj, M., Janisch, F., D'Andrea, D., Moschini, M., Al-Rawashdeh, B., Fajkovic, H., Seebacher, V., Egawa, S., & Shariat, S. F. (2020). Impact of Gender on Chemotherapeutic Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, 18(2), 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clgc.2019.11.007
Impact of Gender on Chemotherapeutic Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. / Kimura, Shoji; Iwata, Takehiro; Abufaraj, Mohammad; Janisch, Florian; D'Andrea, David; Moschini, Marco; Al-Rawashdeh, Baeth; Fajkovic, Harun; Seebacher, Veronika; Egawa, Shin; Shariat, Shahrokh F.
In: Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, Vol. 18, No. 2, 04.2020, p. 78-87.
Kimura, S, Iwata, T, Abufaraj, M, Janisch, F, D'Andrea, D, Moschini, M, Al-Rawashdeh, B, Fajkovic, H, Seebacher, V, Egawa, S & Shariat, SF 2020, 'Impact of Gender on Chemotherapeutic Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clgc.2019.11.007
Kimura S, Iwata T, Abufaraj M, Janisch F, D'Andrea D, Moschini M et al. Impact of Gender on Chemotherapeutic Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 2020 Apr;18(2):78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clgc.2019.11.007
Kimura, Shoji ; Iwata, Takehiro ; Abufaraj, Mohammad ; Janisch, Florian ; D'Andrea, David ; Moschini, Marco ; Al-Rawashdeh, Baeth ; Fajkovic, Harun ; Seebacher, Veronika ; Egawa, Shin ; Shariat, Shahrokh F. / Impact of Gender on Chemotherapeutic Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Perioperative Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. In: Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 2020 ; Vol. 18, No. 2. pp. 78-87.
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Interaction of Water with the Surface of SrF2. 1. Strongly Adsorbed Water on SrF2
Yasushige Kuroda, Tetsuo Morimoto
Infrared absorption spectra were measured to make clear the adsorbed state of strongly adsorbed H2O on SrF2. The IR spectra of the strongly adsorbed H2O involve three absorption peaks at 2561, 1947, and 1000 cm-1, which did not appear on metal oxides, besides the peaks characteristic of H2O adsorbed on the latter substances. These three peaks can be elucidated to originate from molecularly adsorbed H2O on the (100) plane of SrF2, the molecule being located at the F- ion-vacant site and hydrogen-bonded to the neighboring F- ion. A model for the H2O molecule adsorbed at the special site on SrF2 is postulated.
Langmuir
https://doi.org/10.1021/la00080a029
Published - Mar 1 1988
10.1021/la00080a029
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Kuroda, Y., & Morimoto, T. (1988). Interaction of Water with the Surface of SrF2. 1. Strongly Adsorbed Water on SrF2. Langmuir, 4(2), 425-429. https://doi.org/10.1021/la00080a029
Interaction of Water with the Surface of SrF2. 1. Strongly Adsorbed Water on SrF2. / Kuroda, Yasushige; Morimoto, Tetsuo.
In: Langmuir, Vol. 4, No. 2, 01.03.1988, p. 425-429.
Kuroda, Y & Morimoto, T 1988, 'Interaction of Water with the Surface of SrF2. 1. Strongly Adsorbed Water on SrF2', Langmuir, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 425-429. https://doi.org/10.1021/la00080a029
Kuroda Y, Morimoto T. Interaction of Water with the Surface of SrF2. 1. Strongly Adsorbed Water on SrF2. Langmuir. 1988 Mar 1;4(2):425-429. https://doi.org/10.1021/la00080a029
Kuroda, Yasushige ; Morimoto, Tetsuo. / Interaction of Water with the Surface of SrF2. 1. Strongly Adsorbed Water on SrF2. In: Langmuir. 1988 ; Vol. 4, No. 2. pp. 425-429.
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Transition Metals in Periodic Table
The transition elements form three series of metals that progress from elements that give up or lose electrons to elements that gain or accept electrons. The elements that are in transition from metals to nonmetals are located in the center of the periodic table in periods 4, 5 and 6 and are found in groups 3 through 12. The transition metals are also unique in that their outermost valence shell is not the main energy level being completed by sharing electrons.
Generally, the shell next to the outermost shell provides the electrons that make the atoms of the transition elements less electronegative. These elements are the only ones that use electrons in the next to the outermost shell in bonding with nonmetals. The transition metals are unique in that they represent a gradual shift in electronegativity. Electronegativity is characterized by the neutral atom’s ability to acquire electrons from outside itself and thus neutral atoms have a tendency to become negatively charged.
Owing to its attractive appearance, excellent workability, high thermal and electrical conductivity, resistance to corrosion and its readiness to form alloys with other metals, copper is a metal of multifarious uses. Copper atomic number is 29. Copper important uses are listed below.
For making electrical wiring and other electronic equipment. Approximately 55 percent of copper produced is used for electrical purposes. However, even small amounts of impurities in copper cut down its electrical conductivity quite noticeably. The metal must be 99×99% pure for putting to use for conducting electricity.
For the manufacture of steam pipes, chemical plants, vacuum pans, calorimeters, condenser tubes, automobile radiators, boilers and condensers in locomotives and ships.
As a roofing material for covering bottoms of wooden ships and for roofing gutters, conductor pipes etc.
In copper plating and electrotyping.
For the manufacture of copper compounds which find use as catalysts as fungicides in printing and dyeing and as pigments in paints.
Early Transition Metals
The first known transition metals include gold, silver and copper. These three elements occur in pure form in nature, so they were easy to find and use. Most of the other transition metals exist only combined with other elements or substances. They have to be separated before they can be used. Ancient people also discovered iron and mercury.
Fire played a key role in discovering new transition metals. That’s because most metals are found in ores. Ores are minerals or groups of minerals that contain concentrated deposits of desired elements, particularly metals. The heat helped separate the desired metal from the other substances. Fire also let metallurgists mix metals together. Metallurgists work to purify metals and find uses for them.
This is why transition elements have more than one oxidation state. All other metals and non metals in the major groups use their outermost shells as their valence shell in bonding. The transition metals are malleable and ductile and they conduct electricity and heat. The three transition elements that exhibit the unique property of magnetism are iron, cobalt and nickel.
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In India, pseudo-nationalism trumps science in vaccine clearance
The recent regulatory clearance given to an indigenous developed vaccine candidate in India is an example of vaccine nationalism at its worst and jettisoning of all the principles of an evidence-based, scientific approach
January 09, 2021 by Prabir Purkayastha
It is disturbing the way the Indian government and the regulatory authorities have handled the emergency use of vaccines for COVID-19. It began with emergency use being granted to Oxford-AstraZeneca-Serum Institute’s (Oxford-SII) Covidshield vaccine, and the furor in the BJP’s [India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party] social media-troll army for not granting similar approval for the indigenous National Institute of Virology-ICMR-Bharat Biotech’s (NIV-BB) Covaxin, framing it as an angrezi [foreigner] versus Indian vaccine issue. It was a display of vaccine nationalism at its worst and jettisoning of all the principles of an evidence-based, scientific approach in favor of the supposed nationality of the vaccine. Any criticism of such a demand was vilified as pro-foreigner, forgetting the same troll army’s “nationalist” fervor to acquire defense equipment from abroad.
The Central Drug Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) caved in under the ruling party’s social media pressure, granting emergency use for Covaxin as well. Though the CDSCO has hedged clearance with certain extra riders, the fact is that Covaxin has yet to submit any efficacy data from its phase 3 trials and is a clear violation of CDSCO’s earlier position requiring efficacy data from phase 3 trials. This is what the scientific community, including the people’s science movement – the All India Peoples Science Network – were critical of.
The uproar in the Indian science community has been on two counts. One is the lack of transparency— the complete absence of any public information based on CDSCO’s decisions, even on the clearance accorded to the Oxford-SII vaccine. The second is not disclosing the basis of clearing the NIV-BB’s vaccine. Further, the rider of allowing mass vaccination “in a clinical trial mode” has not been clarified by CDSCO, nor was its statement that this decision was based on phase1 and 2 trial data and safety data from phase 3 trials. Safety and immune response is a part of phase 1 and 2 trials; phase 3 trials are primarily for judging efficacy. CDSCO’s statement makes it clear that crucial efficacy data from the phase 3 trials have yet to be submitted.
Though India’s COVID-19 cases are coming down, we are by no means out of the woods. We are still among the top ten countries in the number of new cases. With more infectious COVID-19 strains emerging in the UK and South Africa, there is a possibility of another wave if such strains take hold in the country.
We do need vaccines for a mass vaccination program, starting with the front-line health workers, followed by workers in essential services, and older people. This is a formidable task in itself as the slow and botched examples of vaccine rollouts come in from the US and other countries. We also have anti-vaxxers, whose scientific understanding is on par with those peddling cow science. The last thing we need is a non-science based effort to promote a vaccine or vaccines, that are based not on science and evidence but mass hysteria in social media.
Certain caveats are in order here. Will Bharat Biotech vaccines be safe and produce a reasonably good immune response? Most probably yes. Phase 1 and 2 trials are for determining immune response and safety, though in smaller numbers than in phase 3 trials. However, an immune response is not enough, as we need to know whether such an immune response can reduce the chances of infection. That is why the two-arm phase 3 trial: it is to see significant differences in infections between those receiving the vaccine arm and the other arm, who have received the placebo. This is the meaning of the 50% level of efficacy as a minimum bar imposed by most regulators: the number of infected in the vaccine arm should be at least half of those in the placebo arm. The recent figures of five vaccines that have shown efficacies well above 50% are the ones by BioNtech-Pfizer, Moderna and Gamaleya – which show an above 90% efficacy – China’s Sinopharm at 79% and Oxford-Astra-Zeneca’s at 70%.
Is it likely that Bharat Biotech’s vaccine will have the desired efficacy level – better than 50% as set by most regulators? Probably yes. It is an inactivated virus vaccine, one of the oldest vaccine technologies. Adding adjuvants, adding chemical agents to boost the immune response of the body is also not new, though one of the adjuvants in the Bharat Biotech vaccine is a new one from a US company. Yes, the adjuvant is foreign, the virus is international, only its inactivated form is Indian! Is it safe? Again yes, though a larger phase 3 trials can sometimes uncover safety issues not seen during the more limited phase 1 and 2 trials.
Then why the hue and cry among the scientific community? It is the damage to the scientific institutions that we have built in this country, when a regulator, under pressure, clears a vaccine violating its guidelines and follows completely different criteria simply because the vaccine is indigenous. For the record, Gamaleya with Dr. Reddy’s Lab and Pfizer have both made applications to CDSCO and are awaiting clearance with relatively much stronger cases.
The other problem with CDSCO’s clearance of the vaccines is that no details of either the data or the regime of vaccination to be followed have been provided. “Sources” within the ministry have said that India will follow the UK regulator’s approach in spacing the two shots. The UK regulator has stated that in the two-shot vaccines, the second shot will be given within 12 weeks of the first, though the phase 3 efficacy trials were conducted in much narrower gaps between the two. The argument is that the first shot itself provides significant immunity and protection against serious illnesses. The UK authorities are in emergency mode with their numbers shooting up rapidly with the new variant of the virus and an impending collapse of the hospitals. The FDA – the US regulator – is also under pressure with the US facing ongoing spikes in various states, and still leading the world in the number of new cases. The FDA, however, has said that it will stay with the same regime as phase 3 trials in terms of the gap between the first and second shots.
Again, the opaqueness of India’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is visible here as well. There is no transparency on the spacing between the two shots, how the vaccine will be rolled out, who are the groups who will be vaccinated first, how the priorities are being decided, the role of the state governments, and so on. On view is the government’s understanding that the pandemic is only an administrative challenge, not a public health one. Again, a completely top-down approach which led to the fiasco of a draconian lockdown with a four-hour notice appears to be in the offing. The CDSCO’s opaque clearances are very much a part of this top-down, secretive approach of the Modi government. And just for the record, we are still under two emergency laws – the Epidemic Prevention Act and the Disaster Management Act.
For those who believed that COVID-19 was just another flu, or that we would get herd immunity if we let the epidemic rip through our population, have been proven woefully wrong. Sweden, the poster child of the herd immunity policy, is now discovering the cost of such an approach. Neither does the data support those who suggested that the choice was between epidemic and economic. Countries that have controlled the epidemic like China, Korea and Vietnam have suffered the least economic losses. Those who thought that keeping the economy open at the cost of the infected and the dead will help have seen their economy sink with rising numbers as people have imposed their own voluntary lockdowns.
This is why vaccines are our one chance to return to normalcy; or at least near normalcy. That is why the importance of getting the vaccine decisions right, as well as the vaccine roll-out and implementation.
Shining torches, banging thalis [plates] and chanting ‘go corona, corona go’ [some forms of ‘prevention’ seen during the early stages of the virus], did not help us. A botched vaccine campaign is the last thing this country needs. But with a regime focused in its a headlong rush towards the middle ages, targeting food, women’s right to love and marry and promoting “cow science”, actual science is clearly at a discount. CDSCO’s capitulation to BJP’s social media demand for a “nationalist” vaccine does not augur well for us. Neither does the opaque, top-down, authoritarian approach of the Modi government to essentially a public health challenge
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Hailed by many as a savior for the PC industry, Windows 10 will actually trigger a steeper reduction of PC sales this year because Microsoft is giving it away for free to existing customers. That was always obvious. The bigger question is what impact Windows 10 will have in the long haul.
Microsoft announced today that it will deliver Windows 10 to upgraders and via new PCs beginning July 29, 2015. For the first year, customers with Windows 7 or 8.1 PCs can upgrade for free.
Predictions of Windows 10’s impact on PC sales in 2015 comes courtesy of IDC, but you don’t need a crystal ball to know that giving away a software upgrade that normally costs $100 to $200 is going to trigger more than a few reassessments about the need to replace PCs.
Of course, PC sales have been on a downward trend for four years, if you include this year. The sole exception was last year when PC sales flattened—i.e. didn’t grow or fall—because of last-minute Windows XP PC replacements leading up to Microsoft’s end of support. With that artificial bump over, IDC now expects PC sales to fall another 6.2 percent this year, to 289 million units.
The kicker, I guess, is that Windows 10 will make things worse than would normally be the case this year.
“The consumer transition to Windows 10 should happen quickly, but the free upgrade reduces the need for a new PC,” IDC notes. “Many consumers will continue to prioritize spending on phones, tablets, and wearable devices like the Apple Watch during the holiday season.” Businesses, of course, will do what they always do: drag their heels by “evaluating” Windows 10 now for an upgrade sometime in the years ahead.
So what about the future?
“We see PC shipments stabilizing in 2016, followed by limited growth for the next few years,” IDC notes. And its current prediction pegs total PC sales in 2019 to be just 290 million units, still below the 300+ million sales the PC industry experienced in its heyday. Not bad, but not great.
I look at Windows 10 as a long-term investment, and of course it cuts beyond the traditional PC market to include phones, phablets, mini-tablets, video game consoles, embedded devices, and other unique new hardware form factors. But for the PC industry in general—traditional desktop and mobile form factors, with and without touch—I’ve long argued that success for Windows 10 simply means stopping the sales hemorrhage triggered by Windows 8. And on that note, I agree with IDC: Windows 10 will do just great, and help stabilize and even slowly grow this market.
The key to this success is that Windows 10 will provide a reasonable upgrade path for Windows 7, which today accounts for fully 45 percent of all PCs out in the world, according to NetMarketShare. Indeed, when you combine those users with those still on Windows XP—37 percent of usage—you arrive at 82 percent of all PCs used in the world. That alone is 1.2 billion PCs, well above Microsoft’s 2-3 year goal of getting over 1 billion Windows 10 devices out in the world.
So, yes, Windows 10 will do just fine. And so, too, will the PC industry.
Paul Thurrott
Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with over 20 years of industry experience and the author of over 25 books. He is the News Director for the Petri IT Knowledgebase, the major domo at Thurrott.com, and the co-host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Mary Jo Foley, What the Tech with Andrew Zarian, and First Ring Daily with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows.
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Wear24 is the Verizon Exclusive Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatch
AT&T and Verizon are the only carriers who will be selling the LG Watch Sport in the U.S. It will be on sale starting from February 10th, and the Google is selling it via Google Store for $349. Verizon will be selling this new Android Wear 2.0 powered smartwatch for an outright price of $380. With the 2-year contract agreement, the price comes down to $330. Apart from the LG Watch Sport, Verizon has its own Android Wear 2.0 powered smartwatch called Wear24. However, more information will be known next month when it will be on sale for $299 under two years contract. It is slightly cheaper than the $330 price tag of LG Watch Sport.
The lack of the big brand certainly makes the Wear24 to cost less than the Watch Sport. Just like Watch Sport, the Wear24 also supports 4G LTE connectivity. Just like any other modern smartwatch, it also includes several watch faces. To differentiate it from other smartwatches, the watch faces on the Wear24 automatically changes the information shown on display according to the location. With the latest Android Wear 2.0 OS, the Wear24 comes with Google Assistant and also the Play Store. The user can make calls and send text messages directly from the smartwatch.
The 1.39-inch AMOLED display is fitted into the metal casing. The processor, RAM, and storage are not yet available. While the LG Watch Sport comes with IP68 certification, the Wear24 has IP67 certification, same as the LG Watch Style, it can stay upto 3.3 feet under water for 30 minutes. The Wear24 is backed by a 450mAh battery and might support wireless charging as well. The LG Watch Sport came with connectivity options like 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, and NFC. While the Wear24 is confirmed to come with 4G LTE, it also include NFC for enabling the Android Pay payments.
It comes with the circular display sporting a power button on that might be rotatable. Unlike the LG Watch Sport, the Wear24 might come with user replaceable watch straps. The circular dial comes with 42mm diameter and measures 13.5mm thickness. Since Verizon handles the software support for both the LG Watch Sport and Wear24, we don’t think there will be much difference. As the Wear24 will be announced next month in the U.S, we will be updating with the complete details. stay tuned on Phoneradar for more details!
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Boris Johnson spends £2.7 million on payouts to sacked advisors in a year
Boris Johnson’s Government spent £2.7 million of taxpayers’ cash sacking people last year, the Cabinet Office has confirmed.
Some £2.7 million was paid out in severance payouts to departing advisors between April 2019 and March 2020, a new Government report shows.
The annual report on Special Advisors notes the turnover of staff in 2019 was unusually high, due to the December 2019 election and the change of administrations when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.
The payments are made to advisors who are terminated by their department, or whose employment comes to an end when an election is called.
Special advisors effectively lose their jobs when an election is called – but are expected to repay any severance handed to them if they resume their jobs under the new administration.
But the Cabinet Office confirmed to the Mirror that the £2.7 million figure quoted in the report is ‘net’ – meaning any payouts repaid by advisors who resumed their jobs has been taken off the amount.
Dominic Cummings was reportedly behind a SpAD ‘cull’ in August last year
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In 2018-2019, the Cabinet Office reported a figure of just £208,000 paid in severance to departing advisors, after repayments were taken into account.
In the same report it was revealed the Prime Minister handed Dominic Cummings a 40% pay rise during his final months as a senior advisor in Number 10.
In August it was reported that Cummings had been behind the sacking of up to 20 out of around 90 special advisers employed across Whitehall in a “cull” of political staff.
The PM’s outgoing top aide, portrayed by many as being in touch with the fears and concerns of working-class voters, has seen his salary rise to an eye-watering £140,000 of taxpayers’ cash since December 2019 – a rise of £40,000.
Mr Cummings’ inflation-busting pay increase was revealed just weeks after Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak told around 2 million teachers, police officers, firefighters, social workers and other public sector staff who have kept the country running through the pandemic their pay would be frozen.
And the news has reportedly angered fellow special advisors, who had been told their salaries also had to be frozen.
Mr Cummings is due to leave his job at Number 10 this Friday, after quitting last month.
Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner said: “Boris Johnson defended Dominic Cummings when he broke lockdown rules – then awarded him a £50,000 pay rise.
“Yet he’s freezing pay for key workers and refusing to give our care workers a pay rise to the living wage.”
She added: “Cummings’ bumper bonus is an insult to key workers denied the pay rise they deserve.
“It’s another example of how under this government it is one rule for the Tory Party and their friends and another for the rest of us.”
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Leader of Hezollah Terrorist group, Hasan Nasrallah, has warned Lebanese officials not to hold the Shiite militia responsible for the massive blast at Beirut’s port on Tuesday August 4.
The huge explosion that wrecked large swaths of the city occurred on Tuesday after fire broke out from a stockpile of flammable ammonium nitrate that was left unattended to at Beirut’s port for more than six years.
Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan on Friday August 7, said that 154 people were killed in the explosions while than 5,000 residents were injured.
According to the minister, almost a quarter of those wounded required hospitalization.
Some Lebanese politicians believe Hezbollah was responsible for the blast as they believe Hezbollah’s presence in the country helped bring about the tragedy.
Hezbollah has a powerful place in Lebanon’s government and is widely believed to use the port facility for its own smuggling operations and more generally because it operates a parallel state outside official structures.
Nasrallah, in a televised address on Friday August 7, responded to growing calls that Hezbollah be held at least partly accountable.
According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah is strong enough to counter challenges from any faction, and shouldn’t be blamed.
“If you want to start a battle against the resistance over this incident, you will get no results,” Nasrallah said, referring to Hezbollah in an address televised live by the movement’s Al-Manar TV station.
“The resistance, with its strength and patriotism, is greater and bigger and stronger than to be hit by those liars who want to push and provoke for civil war,” he added. “They will fail and they will always fail.”
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”The country needs time to heal. Afterward, we will discuss politics,” he said.
His comments come amidst mounting anger by Lebanese citizens at the negligence and corruption of Lebanese governments, which have included Hezbollah.
Lebanese Activists have called for demonstrations on Saturday August 8, to protest the government’s dysfunction widely blamed for the blast.
The slogan for the march would be: “They are the murderers,” referring to politicians.
Investigations are still underway into the cause of the blast, including what caused the fire that spread to the warehouse housing the ammonium nitrate.
Some Lebanese officials believe that Israel may have sought to target Hezbollah weapons at the port.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah ally, fueled those suspicions after telling local journalists at a briefing on Friday that the government has not ruled out an attack.
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Lyricist and poet Rahat Indori dies at the age of 70. Rahat Indori ji surrendered to cardiorespiratory arrest at 4:40 pm on August 11, 2020. He tested positive COVID-19 in ARDS, Renal Failure, T22 Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, old cad, left eye glaucoma. The well known Lyricit and poet was on ventilator support, medical authorities at the Indore hospital confirmed to indianexpress.com.
News portal ANI tweeted that the poet suffered from two heart attacks today and had 60 per cent pneumonia. “Urdu poet Rahat Indori died at the hospital. He suffered two heart attacks today and could not be saved. He was admitted to hospital on Sunday, after testing positive for COVID-19. He had 60% pneumonia” reads the tweet. He had taken to Twitter Tuesday morning to share the news of being Covid-19 positive.
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He had further added that he was admitted in the hospital and concluded with a request to not speculate and wait for him to provide update regarding his health. Earlier this year, the poet’s words had transformed into a rallying cry as anti-CAA protests erupted across the country. The line, “Kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai”, taken from ghazal ‘Agar khilaaf hain hone do” gave a voice and purpose to dissent.
“I wrote this ghazal some 30-35 years ago, though I don’t remember the precise year or the context during which it had been written.I have recited this ghazal at many mushaiaras and had even forgotten about it, but I don’t know what’s happened within the last three to four years that like a crop spring up again, these very words have spring up again.Now, wherever I go , people ask me to recite this however it’s unfortunate that it’s often taken as a sher by a Muslim. Yeh kisi ek mazhab ka sher nahi hai (these lines aren’t for any particular religion). They are for everyone,”
he had said while speaking to The Indian Express last year.
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US President Donald Trump’s children, Donald Trump Jr, his sister, Tiffany Trump and Trump Jnr’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle flouted Covid-19 guidelines as they participated in a ‘Trumpilla’ on Friday evening, August 7, an event where boat riders show their support for Trump’s re-election.
Tiffany, Trump Jr, Kimberly and all the participants didn’t wear any mask during the event, despite the high risk of COVID-19 which has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US.
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The event which happened in the Hamptons, comes ahead of a potentially lucrative weekend of fundraising for Trump who is set to rake in $15 million in campaign cash on Saturday August 8, in a series of fundraisers.
Trump Jr Seen wearing a blue swimsuit and white loose-fitting pants, Tiffany waved from the deck at the other participants in the ‘Trumpilla’.
After the gathering, the First Family were whisked away by a waiting fleet of SUVs, ahead of Saturday’s campaign.
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The southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has banned the sale of sugary drinks and high-calorie snack foods to children in a bid to curb obesity in Mexico.
Oaxaca’s Congress recently approved the measure, which aims to improve child health due to the high rates of diabetes and obesity in Mexico.
“It is extremely important to finally put the brakes on this industry, which has already sickened our country and our children,” said Magaly López Domínguez, the Oaxaca lawmaker who presented the bill more than a year ago.
“The manufacturing contracts into the most isolated crooks of the state” – known for its mountainous topography – “where there’s often not even medicines, but there’s Coca-Cola.”
She added: “This health emergency makes it even more evident the damage caused by the consumption of these sugary drinks,” López Dominguez said. “Its approval was timely.”
Mexicans have long struggled with high rates of obesity and diabetes, which, for children, are among the highest in the world.
See Also: Donald Trump Threatens To Ban Tik-Tok Come Saturday.
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In November 2016 the UK Information Commissioner's Office issued an enforcement notice against London's Metropolitan Police, finding that there had been multiple and serious breaches of data protection law in the organisation's use of the Gangs Violence Matrix, which it had operated since 2012. The ICO documented failures of oversight and coherent guidance, and an absence of basic data protection practices such as encryption and agreements covering data sharing. Individuals whose details are…
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Stimulus Kudos.
by Paul Waldman
It may not be the kind of thing that gets people joyously running to the polls, but the administration deserves some credit for this:
The massive economic stimulus package President Obama pushed through Congress last year is coming in on time and under budget - and with strikingly few claims of fraud or abuse - according to a White House report to be released Friday...Even some former skeptics who predicted that the money would lead to rampant abuse now acknowledge that the program could serve as a model for improving efficiency in government...Meanwhile, lower-than-anticipated costs for some projects have permitted the administration to stretch stimulus money further than expected, financing an additional 3,000 projects, according to the report..."Certainly, the fraud and waste element has been smaller than I think anything anybody anticipated," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group. "You can certainly challenge some projects as questionable economically. But there haven't been the examples of outright fraud where the money is essentially lining somebody's pocket."
This kind of thing - the implementation of policies - is not the sexiest part of government. But after eight years of the Bush administration, one of the things many of us were looking forward to when Obama took office was a government populated by people who actually cared whether government did what it's supposed to do in a reasonably competent way. And given how much opportunity there is for mismanagement and outright graft when you're handing out $800 billion in a relatively short amount of time, the fact that there have been no major scandals associated with the stimulus is pretty remarkable. -- Paul Waldman
Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect.
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Grading Raiders’ Week 16 Last-Second Loss to Dolphins
It seems as though the Las Vegas Raiders’ 2020 season has had a string of terrible losses, each more gut-wrenching than the last.
The worst one of all took place on Saturday night, with the Raiders taking an incredibly unlikely home loss to the Miami Dolphins. In case you aren’t sure, it’s ok to blame head coach Jon Gruden. The Dolphins were inside their own 25-yard line with less than 20 seconds to go. Teams that were one to three points down since the year 2000 were 0-120 before the ‘Phins’ won that game. It took some very bad luck, the sort of luck Raider Nation has become accustomed to witnessing.
Despite the results of the game, this was a very different Las Vegas team. It was one that actually looked prepared and competent on defense at least in the early going. Rod Marinelli’s influence and preparation were noticeable, but the offense fell flat. Let’s take a look at how each positional group performed in this game.
The Raiders Offense
It’s clear that Derek Carr still felt the effects of his groin injury. Looking at his performance, he was not his usual self in this game. Also, he was limited in the pocket and took three costly sacks. He did score a rushing touchdown and unleash an 85-yard bomb to Nelson Agholor.
On the other hand, the Raiders were 0-10 on third down. Much of that was because of the excellent Dolphins defense, but a quarterback as good as Carr simply can’t allow that to happen. Drives stalled and points came off the board.
Carr was also dreadful in the red zone. This Las Vegas team should have won this game by double digits, but it was close because the offense didn’t execute. Perhaps Marcus Mariota would have done better, but if ‘4’ can play, he needs to play.
The Raiders’ use of the running game against Miami was puzzling. Josh Jacobs was averaging over five yards per carry, and yet they only ran the ball 24 times as opposed to 34 pass attempts. Jacobs and Jalen Richard had some nice runs and they rushed for over 100 yards as a team. However, they didn’t get the backs involved in the passing game as much as they usually do.
The Raider receiving corps had a pretty solid game. They had two 100-yard receivers in the game as Agholor caught five balls for 155 yards and Darren Waller caught five for 112 yards. Henry Ruggs III was targeted twice, but had no catches, as Mami’s secondary did everything they could to slow him down.
One wonders why the Raiders bothered drafting Ruggs if they aren’t going to use him, and one also wonders what on Earth happened to Foster Moreau. Jason Witten was targeted five times, hauling in two receptions for 12 yards.
The Raiders’ line had a pretty good day, even giving up three sacks. Perhaps a fully healthy Carr wouldn’t have taken those sacks, but the Dolphins did an incredible job covering the Raiders’ wideouts in crucial situations. The line could have done a better job opening holes in the run game, but injuries to Denzelle Good and Trent Brown left them thin.
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The Raiders Defense
This was actually one of the better games we’ve seen from the front four this year. The Raiders’ three sacks were all from defensive linemen, with one sack each from Kendal Vickers, Carl Nassib, and Johnathan Hankins. The unit pressured Tua Tagovailoa all day and helped keep him under 100 yards passing in total.
It’s just a shame they didn’t have similar success against the much more decisive Ryan Fitzpatrick. The biggest problem was the Miami running game. They ran for 130 yards, with 22 of those coming on a fake punt run. Clelin Ferrell was out, which certainly contributed to their struggles against the run.
What a difference a defensive coordinator makes. Cory Littleton finally resembled the player the Raiders paid out the nose for, leading the team with nine total tackles. Without Paul Guenther mucking things up, the defense looked legitimate, and the linebacking corps was at the heart of this newfound competence.
Raekwon McMillan made his presence felt filling in for Nick Kwiatkoski, with nine tackles including one for a loss. Javin White made an impact as well with two tackles, one for a loss. The talent is clearly there for the Raiders, and good coaching made the linebackers look like a strong group, something we haven’t seen in ages.
Prior to Fitzpatrick entering the game, the Raider secondary had done an outstanding job. ‘Tua’ found nothing open down the field, and hit check-down after check-down. Everything was working to perfection until Miami coach Brian Flores brought in his own personal Mariano Rivera.
‘Fitzmagic’ came in and immediately began clowning the Raiders secondary with intermediate and deep throws, culminating in a desperation heave with under 20 seconds left with Arden Key yanking his head back that resulted in a Dolphins field goal to win.
The quarterback also hit Myles Gaskin with a short pass that resulted in a long touchdown when the Raiders missed several tackles and couldn’t shed their blocks. It was an embarrassing end to an otherwise admirable performance.
Raiders special teams
Typically, Daniel Carlson is as reliable as it gets. In this game, however, he missed an extra point in a game the Raiders lost by one point. He did make a field goal to put the Raiders ahead, so ultimately it’s not his fault they lost, but that extra point could have made this a very different game and outcome. Hunter Renfrow returned five punts for 61 yards, and the coverage units were solid.
Overall, the Raiders played pretty well, unlike in their other recent losses. That’s what makes this loss so much worse as the team fell apart at the end and also had some rotten luck to boot. Nevertheless, not every team has a backup signal-caller on the level of Fitzpatrick, and if the defense were to play like this from week to week, the team will win more often than not.
Overall Grade: C+
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*Top Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Bottari
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I’m glad someone else seeing the problem with the Offense. Stalled drives, and too many field goals. But, I disagree that Carr should start the final game. Gruden owes it to the team to get the best players on the field. The organization needs to see if Mariota is an upgrade to the QB position, period.
Your question, What happened to Foster Moreau? The answer is, the same thing keeping the team from getting a good look at Mariota. A massively egotistical HC who is without accountability with in this organization. It’s obvious that he is too late to make changes for the betterment of the team.
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Marnta Sandalwood Essential Oil is a strongly scented, woody oil harvested in Western Australia. This aromatic pulse point oil is believed to have calming properties, when inhaling its rich, earthy scent. Unlike traditional Indian sandalwood which has a lighter, more buttery aroma, Australian Sandalwood is a potent fragrance, and a small amount offers an intense scent.
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Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Farnesol, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate, Citric Acid, Triethanolamine.
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Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Boronia Megastigma Flower Extract, Farnesol, Linalool, Geraniol, Benzyl Benzoate.
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Alcohol Denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Limonene, Linalool, Hydroxycitronellal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Citronellol, Evernia Prunastri Extract, Geraniol, Eugenol, Citral, Isoeugenol, Citric Acid, Triethanolamine
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Kyle Busch has 2 NASCAR titles and an eye on at least 5 more
JENNA FRYER - Jan. 21, 2020 04:09 PM EST
FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, file photo, Kyle Busch climbs in his car for a turn to drive during testing for the upcoming Rolex 24 hour auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Although his bid for a third championship doesn’t begin until the Daytona 500 on Feb. 16, his racing season starts this weekend with a cameo appearance in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The way Kyle Busch sees it, there is a flaw in the championship ring NASCAR awarded him last month.
It lacks any indication that the 2019 title was actually his second championship. Busch wants it fixed so it displays exactly what he's earned. He has studied the issue and knows the New England Patriots created a ring that showcases their six Super Bowl victories.
When his career is over, Busch wants just one ring to encapsulate his accomplishments. He insists he will close his career alongside greats Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson.
But he doesn't have seven Cup Series titles.
“Not yet I don't," Busch said with a wink.
Busch's bid for a third championship doesn't begin until Feb. 16 at the Daytona 500, a race he desperately wants to win. Busch is 0 for 14 in “The Great American Race” with a bitter runner-up finish to Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin in last year's 1-2-3 Gibbs sweep.
He has won at every active NASCAR track except The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway yet his 56 career Cup victories do not include the Daytona 500. His warm-up begins this weekend at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, a twice-round-the-clock endurance race featuring champions from series all over the world.
The event is packed with Indianapolis 500 winners, Le Mans winners and some of the most skilled drivers from global series. Busch is on hand to steal the show.
His longtime partnership with Toyota got him the gig to drive a Lexus for the AIM Vasser Sullivan team, and Busch is the star attraction. He loves it, too, and at a January team dinner he wore that ring. For one night, he seemed as if he was that once-upon-a-time fun Kyle Busch.
He was just 16 when he first came into NASCAR in 2001, right as the series was passing a rule that sidelined him until his 18th birthday. He was brash even then — it's some chip he and older brother Kurt have just always seemed to have, though he was tame compared with Kurt, the 2004 champion.
Kyle Busch has always done his best to speak the truth as he sees it, one sarcastic eye roll, thumbs-up or one-word answer at a time.
His opinions have not always been popular with NASCAR and it makes no difference whether he was right. The series' “Car of Tomorrow” was terrible, he was just the first to say so and his outspokenness was often blamed for fans hating the car. Many fans found him arrogant, entitled or whiny or a mix of all three.
His career has been golden: high-profile rides first at Hendrick Motorsports, then JGR, where he has been since 2008. Busch has 208 victories across NASCAR's three national series, and some argue his tally equals Petty's record 200 Cup wins. He would undoubtedly have dozens more if NASCAR had not set limits on how much he can compete in the lower series.
The dominating way he wins, his brash celebrations, his disregard for those who boo him and all those wins have made Busch something of a villain, and that doesn't always put him in the best of moods. Toss in a bad day at the track, plus idle time each weekend because NASCAR only allows him a maximum of five Truck Series races (he went 5 for 5 last season) and seven in the Xfinity Series (4 for 7), and Busch can be a real bear.
So it was a very long summer, and a 21-race losing streak didn't help. He lashed out in the opening race of the playoffs last September when he ran into the back of a lapped car and accused some in the field of not being qualified to race at NASCAR's top level.
Busch says that incident is one of the reasons he is running the Rolex this weekend. His Vasser Sullivan entry is in the GT Daytona class, where Busch will be mired in traffic with slower cars and inexperienced drivers with the faster classes closing in on him. It will be chaotic.
“Cody Ware says he can't drive and watch his mirrors?” Busch said referring to the lapped-car flap in September. “Watch this.”
Busch then flipped his middle finger.
Although Busch ran into the lapped car of Garrett Smithley at Las Vegas, he was targeting Ware, who wasn't in that playoff race. The entire flap led to a heated discussion about on-track etiquette, talent discrepancies and drivers who purchase their seats in the big leagues. Ware was scheduled to compete in the Rolex 24 this weekend but his team pulled out late Monday.
In the Nov. 17 season finale, Busch beat Gibbs teammates Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr., as well as Kevin Harvick, to join Johnson as the only active drivers with multiple titles. Of course, Johnson is tied with Hall of Famers Petty and Earnhardt for the record, but Johnson is retiring at the end of the year. Busch turns just 35 and has twice proven he can rise through adversity to finish the job and doesn't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.
He won his 2015 championship in a season where he missed 11 races because he broke both his legs in a crash the day before the Daytona 500. His 2019 season had its share of personal struggles as Busch and his wife, Samantha, have been very public in their battles with infertility.
Their only child, son Brexton, was conceived through IVF treatments and their quest to give him a sister suffered a heartbreaking setback when Samantha miscarried the day of the 2018 awards ceremony in Las Vegas. The couple tried unsuccessfully again during last season, and Busch used a portion of his championship speech to address their struggles.
“I'm right here with you knowing how hard its been to go through multiple, yes multiple, failed attempts of IVF this year, to walk around and try to face people week to week, always knowing in the back of my mind how helpless I feel in life knowing how much I wanted to answer your prayers in giving you the gift of our baby girl,” Busch told her.
Busch is typically able to separate his personal and professional lives, but when things aren't going well in either area, his temper can be short and his sarcasm biting.
“Think about his whole life. He's got Sam and Brexton, but other than that, it's racing,” said Joe Gibbs. “And when something goes bad in racing for him, think about how important that is, and it upsets him. Normally, the next day he's a lot better.”
Busch has a legion of fan support from “Rowdy Nation," the group he bows to with the checkered flag after every victory. Busch appreciates their backing beyond words, especially when he gets exhausted by the politics of a new NASCAR rules package and the grind of the 38-race schedule. Busch has other things to worry about, too: He owns the best truck team in the sport, and this year he will launch “Rowdy Energy” an energy drink Busch says he helped develop.
“Mine's going to be better, better for you and better tasting,” Busch insisted.
Busch has not been this outwardly happy in ages. Perhaps it comes with being the champion again, and the absolute belief that he can be the best NASCAR has ever seen.
The Daytona 500 is right around the corner, and a poor showing there could just as quickly send Busch scowling through the garage. He is always just one win away from feeling invincible.
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Eshal Fayyaz Criticized For Her Pictures In Mosque
Eshal Fayyaz is a model and actress of the entertainment industry who stepped into the field as a model in 2011.
She made her small screen debut in drama series Abro alongside Noor Hassan and she played the role of Abro.
She has walked the ramp for many renowned designers and walked the runway in Bridal Couture Week and Showcase in 2012.
She has done many fashion shows and has worked with all the top brands.
Eshal Fayyaz also starred in film Kaaf Kangna however the film was a massive disappointment for the masses.
Eshal Fayyaz has come under fire for her recent pictures which were captured in Faisal mosque.
People are bashing her for inappropriate dressing in the mosque and hence she has been criticized for getting her pictures clicked in the mosque.
Here is the public reaction on Eshal Fayyaz’s pictures:
Latest Pictures Of Actor Wahaj Ali With His Daughter Amirah
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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Hope? Thoughts Before Entering the Bunker.
Old Bathos
Is there any reason to hope? Many conservatives openly feared that Trump would be merely a blessed delay, a brief reprieve from the inevitable rise of the brain-washed totalitarians among us. Après Trump, le deluge. The destructive leftist fantasies that have been a staple of intellectuals since Rousseau invented the role of the parasitical, selfish, self-promoting but verbally adroit intellectual selling political fantasy are now in full flower. (Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot would have set records for numbers of followers if Twitter were around then.)
It is never rational argument that defeats the fantasists. With the conspicuous exception of Ronald Reagan, conservatives generally don’t seem to know that if listeners think the choice is between the drab reality they know versus a glowing possible future, they will trade the cow for a handful of magic beans every time. The fantasists are often only stopped cold by reality when people are dumb enough to give a fantasy regime a try–often at horrific cost.
The fantasists will likely get their turn in our nation. Maybe now. Almost everybody under 50 has been subjected to intense anti-American and anti-western propagandizing at every level of education. All of our major news organizations are either expressly captive to an inimical ideology or (as in the case of Fox News) muzzled by increasingly woke corporate sponsors. We can no longer watch sports events without propaganda. We are gaslighted daily about race, sex, economics, and our physical environment.
Maybe even scarier, the COVID policy disaster demonstrated that a hell of a lot of Americans seem to like the idea of obedience to strictures provided by nominal experts. And the willingness to find new ways to enforce the new order is also chilling. Gauführer, come quick! My neighbors are harboring an unvaccinated family in their attic.
The legacies of the Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan, and even Martin Luther King are being systematically erased in schools, entertainment, and governance. The mindless mobs in our city streets are evidence of that rot.
Can we hope?
Recall H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic War of the Worlds, in which the invading Martians defeated us at every level. It was the earth’s bacterial and viral life forms that finally stopped them. The clever Martians were unable to function in our real world. Similarly, the Russian Communist Party controlled every aspect of life for several generations. It was not possible to openly express or easily find opinions contrary to the party line. What brought it down was the unconcealable fact that its dogma and methods don’t work. Reality cannot be denied indefinitely.
What is noteworthy about the unfolding Biden Administration is its complete lack of originality in any way, shape, or form. Democrats invariably market themselves as the party of novelty, progress, and a bright (government-led) march into the future. In contrast, the Biden vision is to reheat leftover policies that did not work when they were implemented before. In addition, they will likely smuggle in a few of the worst ideas of the Leninist Youth wing of the party just to make sure failure is guaranteed.
If mediocrity can be said to have heights, a Biden Administration will indeed reach new ones. For the moment at least, Biden is excluding the hard left in favor of a set of retreads who did a lousy job the last time they were in power combined with alumni of the tech companies that delivered his electoral “victory.” Soon, Jimmy Carter will seem like a combination of Pericles and Bismark by comparison.
I think my biggest regret of the coming Biden economic and diplomatic failure may be that the hard left will not get the blame so the requisite periodic cure of the fantasy diseases will be incomplete.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party has quietly become vastly more diverse than it was a generation ago when Lee Atwater was crafting a southern strategy. The hopes and successes of new Americans brushing aside the ashes of identity politics is likely going to be at the core of the party in its emerging incarnation. Let’s hope so. Making reality great again is never a bad way to go.
Be sure to use the secret knock when you visit the bunker. I hate to waste ammo and lose friends.
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OldB,
We see the same extreme danger from the left-wing fantasy party coming to power again. Reagan said it best.
They know all about science or they “believe in science”. These false fantasy beliefs alone will destroy the economy and severely damage the quality & freedom of life. They know all about social justice. These false fantasy beliefs will destroy what’s left of our merit-based institutions and cripple the next generations. They know all about America’s role in the world. These false fantasy beliefs will lead to a foreign policy of appeasement that will subject the world to the worst tyrannical blackmail and may end in war.
“It isn’t that they are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Gd help us.
https://ricochet.com/837515/hope-thoughts-before-entering-the-bunker/#comment-5031504
December 3, 2020, at 8:00 AM PST
Old Bathos: Can we hope?
Can we not?
(But remind me which knock we’re using.)
Old Bathos: Recall H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic War of the Worlds, in which the invading Martians defeated us at every level. It was the earth’s bacterial and viral life forms that finally stopped them. The clever Martians were unable to function in our real world.
One of my favorites. When all hope is lost there is still hope.
JamesSalerno
I think all you can do at this stage is invest in real skills, control your microenvironment by eliminating all parasites (physical and emotional) from your life, sit back, take a sip and enjoy the decline.
JamesSalerno (View Comment):
Just avoid the nicks as you slide down the ole razor blade of life as Tom Lehr advised.
Susan Quinn
I know once all of this is over, a new kind of disruption will appear to frustrate us. Still, I hope that there will be a coming-together, at least among Conservatives and Republicans, to find a way forward. I simply can’t live indefinitely in this kind of confusion and disorder.
DonG (2+2=5. Say it!)
Old Bathos: I think my biggest regret of the coming Biden economic and diplomatic failure may be that the hard left will not get the blame so the requisite periodic cure of the fantasy diseases will be incomplete.
My biggest regret is that the GOP organization will not blame itself, but blame Trump or the voting. The GOP has been directionless since 2010 (quick name the top 3 GOP priorities). The GOP has done a poor job of protecting the vote and getting out the vote. It is a wonder that GOP candidates do as well as they do. Perhaps they are all riding on Trump’s coattails (he is the MOST popular Republican ever!)
Dr. Bastiat
Outstanding essay. Really well done.
Old Bathos: Soon, Jimmy Carter will seem like a combination of Pericles and Bismark by comparison.
Great line! And very true.
I received some criticism (fair criticism, I thought) for expressing similar sentiments in my Land of Confusion podcast interview (that discussion starts just before the 30 minute mark, and lasts about 9 minutes). Although I tried to emphasize that what comes next may be much better. The question is, what comes next, and when, and how smooth will the transition be?
So I think there is hope for a great outcome to all this. But I share your pessimistic view of our current situation.
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DonG (Biden is compromised) (View Comment):
1. Bankrupt the federal government.
2. The military occupation of as much of the Middle East as possible.
3. Open borders.
December 3, 2020, at 10:11 AM PST
Sisyphus (View Comment):
And that’s the upside. Brush up on your Mandarin.
I’m in sync with your post. What has really sealed this with me in recent weeks is the blackout imposed on the public dissemination of witness testimony of wrongdoing in the election. This has included blackouts of various state legislative meetings to hear many of these witnesses and finally a blackout of the President’s message that he characterized as the most important message of his tenure as POTUS. That blackout has been implemented here at Ricochet as well by not moving posts to the main feed.
Susan Quinn (View Comment):
If we get a 50/50 Senate, that will be a battleground, I expect. Let’s hope and pray that does not happen.
Bob Thompson (View Comment):
Your closing sentence is interesting. I hope it’s incorrect. I would be interested in seeing evidence to support it.
Henry Racette (View Comment):
It’s possible I overstated since I don’t read every post. Here’s what @blueyeti had to say on another post:
“We have heard from many members in the past few weeks that these discussions have been very difficult to participate in if you are not Team Fraud. As someone who has participated, I have seen this myself as I have been called everything from a NeverTrumper (not an NT, more of a Trump Neutral), a Biden flak, a Socialist, an idiot, AOC hugger, and several things I cannot repeat here or I’d have to ban myself. That’s fine — I can take it, and in some respects it’s part of my job. But that’s not true of your fellow members. They’re paying for civil conversation too. And too many of the thread on these topics have turned into swamps.
I get asked a lot why we aren’t promoting more of these threads to the Main Feed. That’s why. We use the Main Feed as our primary marketing platform to sell memberships. If we promote a post full of name calling, vitriol, and wildly speculative theories, that’s bad for the business. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is.”
So, I’m guessing they would not promote posts that might later include comments as described and they could apply that to any post that would support Trump. I don’t know this as a fact somewhat like there are many things I surmise about this election that I don’t know to be fact.
I think he means selective promotion to main feed. We rarely see any filtering of member section content. Ricochet is marketed as mostly being about civil conversation. Things perceived to have too much edge often don’t go public. I get that. I once had a post with 49 likes that did not make it and I think I know why.
Got it. And thanks. That sounds plausible enough. I agree that things sometimes get out of hand, though I’ve rarely seen it turn really ugly. But I can imagine a certain reticence on the part of management to showcasing the worst of our squabbles.
David March
I am currently listening to George Freidman’s book the Storm before the Calm. Its a fascinating piece.
He actually believes were in the early stages of the 70s, and that whoever comes after Biden/Harris, will like Reagan reform the USA and lead us into the next era.
I am going to be doing a full break down on the book when done for my own channel. But I am much more hopeful about things than I was a few weeks ago.
However it is going to get worse before it gets better.
I am looking forward to 2022, when the Proud Boys and other groups go to Detroit and Philadelphia and Atlanta as ‘poll watchers’. That will be intense.
ToryWarWriter (View Comment):
I agree that the likelihood of a malignant buffoon like Joe Biden transforming American politics leftward is low. And I think people will sort themselves more reasonably after the Biden Administration mandates schools that receive federal funding break out students not just by race and ethnicity but by all 57.5 sexual identities. Similarly, climate change continues to be a nothing burger not worth costs the loonies will propose. The opportunity for a newer, better, freer vision has never been better.
Vince Guerra
All I have to say:
December 3, 2020, at 12:16 PM PST
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I think Florida, should make its new motto thank god for Georgia.
Video from GA shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table. Overnight vote counting happened without observers. https://t.co/CBy9EqzWuI
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 3, 2020
December 3, 2020, at 1:02 PM PST
The blackouts covering any news about election fraud and anything actually newsworthy resulting from Giuliani’s efforts is pretty universal in public and social media. The social media is locked to the tech giants and the public media is locked to the Democrats and the swamp. I can see a major reason the public media does not want to touch anything relating to election fraud. The biggest fraud opportunity comes with the mail in balloting. The weakness is in identifying who is casting a vote. Republicans support only legal votes by registered American citizen residents of a state and Democrats support mail in voting and maintain opposition to that is voter suppression and racist. Media will be racist if they support enforcing the law. We have a big task ahead to get this right.
Ekosj
Old Bathos: if listeners think the choice is between the drab reality they know versus a glowing possible future, they will trade the cow for a handful of magic beans every time. The fantasists are often only stopped cold by reality when people are dumb enough to give a fantasy regime a try–often at horrific cost.
Unfortunately, the horrific costs will be shared out among us all, not just paid by the foolish who opted for the magic beans.
What’s worse, the magic bean salesmen have been identifying capitalism and white racism as the source of all evil. When the magic beans fail to work…and make things worse…how long before the disappointed buyers lash out at those they’ve been told are at fault?
Randy Webster
I simply can’t live indefinitely in this kind of confusion and disorder.
Sure you can. And you will.
Take a breath. Sing a Psalm. In the Hebrew, if that suits you. This, too, shall pass.
Suspira
Old Bathos: Reality cannot be denied indefinitely.
Bingo. There is hope because there is an unyielding reality. Also, as a lifelong pessimist, I know that, tempting as catastrophism may be, it rarely comes to pass.
Old Bathos (View Comment):
I agree that the likelihood of a malignant buffoon like Joe Biden transforming American politics leftward is low.
I wish I could be as sanguine. He is a malignant buffoon. But as such he’ll be easily led… assuming that he lasts long in office. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if by Autumn 2021 his lack of mental acuity is suddenly discovered by the Leftists in the party and he’s found to be unfit to serve. (You really think the intersectionalists can stand to have the first black female be THAT close to the Presidency and not achieve it?). Say hello to President Harris. But that’s a separate post,
Biden has no natural base. The centrist part of the Democrat party he thinks he represents no longer exists. They have moved left and farther left and left again. To get where he is, Biden owes everybody. And in Dem-world that means the Progressives. And they will collect.
Even if the Georgia Senate runoff’s go our way, Biden isn’t the only malignant buffoon. We have ours too. We have to worry about Mitt and Collins and Murkowski in general. And on immigration issues Mike Lee and Rubio and some others. Obama sent the message yesterday or the day before – stop talking about Defund the Police. You are scaring the tourists. Not stop pushing for it mind you … just stop talking about it. Biden will keep making conciliatory centrist noises all the while his administration moves steadily leftward.
Even RINOs will balk at SC packing, open borders, and DC and PR statehood. Kinda letting liberals do what they want but slowly and without the extreme buis is where RINOs live.
Two losses in GA Next month and who the hell knows. The looonie left will reasonably conclude that this is the best chance ever of Sovietizing the system and reach for it.
Jeff Hawkins
I’m going to be more pessimistic.
We didn’t get Reagan until we went hard into Carter.
The problem isn’t just that leftists dominate culture, they dominate what is truth and what isn’t. the problem is far more difficult than “making a good case for conservatism”
The Left has used the culture to boil down politics to its simplest essence: White hats and Black hats, Smart and Stupid. They’ve expanded the argument from just the people to the institutions the people they formerly vilified are trying to conserve.
The whole point of Deconstruction, from which Critical Theory of all types come, was to illustrate weaknesses through which to attack.
-The Constitution, the Electoral College, The Senate, are all de facto racist institutions.
-The Church, which is declining in membership, is an establishment of judgment, homophobia and non-inclusion. As a result many churches have gone from teaching Christianity to serving the self-esteem of its members.
-Opposing taxes is racist. Opposing open borders is racist.
-Plenty of pundits who were said to represent us have shifted towards being liked than being unpopular people of principle, even going further to undermine people who persist in wanting to maintain conservatism.
If feels in a way those of us who are non-elites are now non-people. Be happy with what you’re given and that we’re allowed to exist in “decent” society as they have judged us to be indecent.
Bill Berg
Top three GOP priorities: Life (as in pro), Liberty (rejection of “ideas so good they must be mandatory”), Pursuit of “happiness” (our founders greatest mistake, it ought to be MEANING … “the thing” that Nietzsche got right: “He who has a why can bear almost any how”.
I add a 4th … following the Constitution is the greatest “how” in history.
Love the post @old bathos.
My biggest concern is Fascism, where I see us already … massive bureaucracy, increasingly oppressive Deep State (see Russiagate / last 4 years), global corporations closely aligned with government, media, education, and single “party/ideology” rule,
https://beingbeliefbehavior.blogspot.com/2020/10/modern-fascism-liquidating-judeo.html
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Entrepreneurs’ Summit 2013 live: What can government really do?
Vanessa Zainzinger -
June 7, 2013 October 8, 2018
12:25pm: Lord Bilimoria CBE, chairman, Cobra Beer on “Is parliament fir for purpose in a new, entrepreneurial economy?”
The world is becoming more interconnected and integrated. And yet, how many of us really take part in public life? “People lead one-dimensional lives.”
But how do you have time to engage in anything else when you’re running a business?
Lord Bilimoria was contacted by Peter Davies, chairman of the New Deal Taskforce, saying: “We want some input from business.”
Lord Bilimoria: “Took me one year to get used to this new life in government. They lived in a different world! They had no appreciation of business! But then I started to appreciate that they’re actually bright people. But they didn’t have an understanding of business, and I had no experience of government.”
Should the House of Lords be elected? But most people don’t know who is in the House of Lords – or what they do. “People do not appreciate what the House of Lords does. I challenge people: name me one world expert in any field in the House of Commons! House of Lords? I can name you hundreds. Scientists, journalists, business people…” This is compared to career politicians in the House of Commons.
He says there is a lack of experienced businesspeople in parliament.
On business: Revenue over cost and selling on value – “better before price” – rather than price are the most successful businesses in the world, according to a study by Harvard Business Review, says Lord Bilimoria. Could these principles be applied to a country? “It’s ‘better before price’ that’s important. Are we as a government investing in the right things? We spend less on higher education than the EU average, and way below America, and even South Korea.
“And taxes: Does government really get the relationship between taxes and competitive growth? And quite frankly, the public don’t understand it either.”
Only 17 per cent of the public trust government; only 16 per cent trust business. Only four per cent of the British public say they are proud of British business.
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—–> OMG! NO! GOV’T SHUTDOWN?
Is it okay if we don’t get real, real excited over the prospect of federal workers being forced to take time off? It has happened before and the Republic has survived. The “news” about this has the stench of a Dog & Pony Show.
Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
(The Atlantic) The White House again wants to expel certain groups of protected immigrants, a reversal after backing away from the policy months ago.
— In essence, the administration has now decided that Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the country before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation.
— The new stance mirrors White House efforts to clamp down on immigration writ large, a frequent complaint of the president’s on the campaign trail and one he links to a litany of ills in the United States.
15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters Prisons
———-> Dear NPR: If you can’t leave, it’s a prison.
… “Detention is never in the best interest of a child, especially when it’s extended,” said Jennifer Podkul, senior director for policy and advocacy at Kids In Need of Defense. “It’s bad for the child’s mental and physical health.”
Teen suspect shot dead at Indiana school
— A teenage suspect is dead after a shooting outside an Indiana middle school Thursday morning, police said. The single shooter exchanged gunfire with police before killing himself, according to Indiana State Police Sgt. John Bowling. No other students were injured in the incident at Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond, police said.
Parents wait to pick up their children after students were bused from Dennis Intermediate School in Indiana.
Russkie spy suspected in NRA, election intrigue pleads guilty
— A woman accused of acting as a Russian agent to infiltrate a powerful gun lobby group and influence U.S. policy toward Moscow pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy in federal court on Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that could give them insight into Russian meddling in American politics.
— Maria Butina, a Russian former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, entered the plea at a court hearing in Washington before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. She also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Oklahoma Senator pumped Pentagon spending, then bought defense stock
— Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, purchased thousands of dollars in defense stock after successfully pushing the Trump administration for more Defense Department spending.
— According to his Senate financial disclosure report, Inhofe listed a purchase of $50,000-$100,000 in stock in US defense contractor Raytheon. Inhofe’s communications director said he canceled the transaction when he became aware of it.
— The purchase will raise conflict of interest questions because Inhofe is now the leader of the Senate committee that approves the Pentagon’s budget.
They broke into a coal mine to steal copper —
— it took four days to rescue their sorry asses
Thousands of Asian girls vanishing into sex slavery
Many leave their villages only to return in coffins
— In deeply Christian East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, the church has become one of the few advocates for the dead and disappeared. With the impoverished province home to the highest number of trafficking cases in the country, nuns and priests have transformed themselves into counter-trafficking crusaders.
Employees at Amazon’s New NYC Warehouse Launch Union Push
— A committee of employees at Amazon’s recently opened Staten Island fulfillment center is going public with a unionization campaign, a fresh challenge to the e-commerce giant in a city where it plans to build a major new campus.
The Guardian: FBI spies on peaceful climate change protesters
1,000 groups have yanked cash from fossil fuels
Earther
A coalition of environmental groups who monitor divestment released a report at the Poland climate talks showing that the number of groups pulling their money out of fossil fuels had reached 1,000. Together, these groups manage nearly $8 trillion worth of funds.
PRI: Judge halts Keystone XL pipeline,
citing ‘complete disregard’ for climate
Cash-grab frenzy on NJ highway as armored car spills its load
‘They don’t care’: Facebook fact-checking sucks, journalists flee
> Journalists paid to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform
— “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes, a fact-checking site that has partnered with Facebook for two years. “They’re not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck … They clearly don’t care.”
Hmmm. Turns out, it’s in the interest of dating apps not to find you a mate, but to keep you single and searching. Whoda thought?
LMT Online hop over WaPost paywall
‘Lesbian’ most searched term on big porn sites
— Women were 151 percent more likely than men to watch “lesbian” videos, according to Pornhub, which boasts 92 million daily visitors.
Apple announces new $1 billion Austin campus ….
…. Without resorting to a theatrical, year-long city auditioning process
‘Idiot’ trends on Google after CEO explains why Trump’s photo appears in searches
Taylor Swift used facial recognition software to detect stalkers at LA concert
— Taylor Swift fans mesmerized by rehearsal clips on a kiosk at her May 18th Rose Bowl show were unaware of one crucial detail: A facial-recognition camera inside the display was taking their photos. The images were being transferred to a Nashville “command post,” where they were cross-referenced with a database of hundreds of the pop star’s known stalkers, according to Mike Downing, chief security officer of Oak View Group, an advisory board for concert venues including Madison Square Garden and the Forum in L.A.
Environmental changes wrecking the livelihoods of Great Lakes fishers
… By this summer, Akiwenzie had had enough. Fishing was becoming difficult, unprofitable and unsafe. There was little reason to go out anymore. When his boat’s motor broke, it was going to cost him at least $12,000 to replace it. Instead, he packed up his nets.
… “For the past two months, I’ve spent a lot of time grieving,” said Akiwenzie. “For 15 years, I’ve fed 150 families, and I got to know people and faces. All of a sudden, to not do that anymore is like losing 150 people in your family all at once.”
Tax cuts putting US in a hole
Yahoo/Moody’s Investors Service
— The deficit rose from $666 billion in 2017, before the tax cuts, to $779 billion in 2018, when the tax cuts had been in effect for eight months. The deficit is likely to approach $1 trillion this year, an unprecedented gap for an economy that’s supposedly booming. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, unemployment was roughly as low as it is now, but the government ran a budget surplus for four years in a row.
Mutiny fails … Captain May steers SS Brittania toward the rocks of Brexit
US says China behind Marriott mega-hack
US keeps drifting toward a cashless society
National Enquirer takes federal immunity deal
— More trouble for Trumpty Dumpty
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REMOTE HEART MONITORING VIA MEDICAL TELEMETRY
Lee, Hua; Radzicki, Vincent R.; Rajagopal, Abhejit; Univ California Santa Barbara, Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Today, a wide range of heart conditions can be monitored remotely with relatively inexpensive passive sensing technologies, enabling the potential for long-term monitoring and prognosis of patient state under representative environmental stimuli. A medical telemetry system that can incorporate such passive measurements and provide key diagnostic information to medical professionals would provide tremendous value to patients via quantitative and personalized healthcare. This paper presents an overview of passive sensing methods that could be utilized in a medical telemetry system for remote heart monitoring of patients. While active systems are another attractive option, they impose additional constraints on the system that require careful calibration, expert control, and more complex instrumentation. The methods presented here are based on low-cost, sensor technology with the potential to greatly improve long-term non-invasive, heart-health monitoring.
DECORRELATION DEEP LEARNING FOR FINGERPRINT-BASED INDOOR LOCALIZATION
Kim, Taejoon; Perrins, Erik; Xiong, Guojun; Univ Kansas, Dept Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Indoor localization is of particular interest due to its immense practical applications. However, the rich multipath and high penetration loss of indoor wireless signal propagation make this task arduous. Though recently studied fingerprint-based techniques can handle the multipath effects, the sensitivity of the localization performance to channel fluctuation is a drawback. To address the latter challenge, we adopt an artificial multi-layer neural network (MNN) to learn the complex channel impulse responses (CIRs) as fingerprint measurements. However, the performance of the location classification using MNN critically depends on the correlation among the training data. Therefore, we design two different decorrelation filters that preprocess the training data for discriminative learning. The first one is a linear whitening filter combined with the principal component analysis (PCA), which forces the covariance matrix of different feature dimensions to be identity. The other filter is a nonlinear quantizer that is optimized to minimize the distortion incurred by the quantization. Numerical results using indoor channel models illustrate the significant improvement of the proposed decorrelation MNN (DMNN) compared to other benchmarks.
LIDAR COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM WITH AUDIO FEEDBACK FOR VISUALLY IMPARIED INDIVIDUALS
Lee, Hua; Maravilla, Julian; Shimada, Haruka; Univ California Santa Barbara, Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
In this paper, we present the 4th-generation, light-weight low-power collision avoidance system. For this new version, the ultrasound transmitter of the data-acquisition component is replaced by a Lidar to avoid multi-paths in complex environments. The estimate of the target range is quantized into a frequency bin and represented by acoustic waveforms within the human hearing range. The bearing angle of the target is utilized to produce the temporal offset between the twin channels of the corresponding acoustic waveforms. This wearable and hearable device is designed for real-time navigation for the blind.
AN ENGINEER’S GUIDE TO CHAPTER 7 PACKET TELEMETRY TRANSPORT
Hoffman, Richard W.; GDP Space Systems (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Chapter 7 of IRIG106-17 defines the means of encapsulating packetized data within a PCM telemetry stream, ostensibly for transport from a platform to a processing location, via that platform’s conventional means of PCM transmission. While providing a mechanism for bridging platforms via the telemetry stream, a myriad of use-cases evolve, adding varying degrees of complexity to an implementation. Understanding these use-cases, their challenges, and some of the potential solution methodologies helps to determine the best implementation for a given mission. This paper seeks to present some of these aforementioned points, some obvious, and others uncovered over the course of working with solutions-seekers, in an effort to help cultivate and shape the growing demand for packet telemetry transport bridging.
TELEMETRY ON WILDCAT FORMULA RACING VEHICLE
Marcellin, Michael; Tan, Nicolas; Univ Arizona, Wildcat Formula Racing (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
The Wildcat Formula Racing Team of the University of Arizona participates in an annual engineering design competition where students compete with small formula-style racing cars. One of the challenges we face is to provide justification of our design choices to the judges. To establish means of collecting data used as evidence and analysis, we use a mixture of automotive sensors and electronic sensors to be transmitted onto an external microcontroller, an Arduino. The data will then be stored locally and broadcasted from the vehicle to the pit with a transceiver module for post-race data analysis, as well as feedback for the team.
ANALYSIS OF INERTIAL MEASUREMENT DATA FROM A MODEL ROCKET PAYLOAD
Long, David G.; Francis, Benjamin; Brigham Young University, Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
As part of a student-educational experience in telemetry, beginning undergraduates build, program, and test small payloads flown in model rockets. These payloads, nicknamed “femtosats,” collect and transmit real time telemetry on the rocket’s performance. The femtosats measure the inertial motions of the model rocket, providing info to extract the flight path. The individually student-designed femtosat circuit board includes a simple inertial measurement sensor that collects acceleration data in the form of x, y, z acceleration vectors which are transmitted in real-time to a radio ground station. The focus of this paper is the collection and analysis of the data from the telemetered inertial measurement sensor and how it can be interpreted and applied in simple model rocket motion analysis.
AN INTRODUCTION TO IRIG-106-17 FEATURES AND ASSOCIATED COMMAND STRUCTURES
Cook, Paul; Curtiss-Wright, Aerospace Instrumentation (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
The RCC Telemetry group publishes various documents and IRIG-106 aims to standardize telemetry solutions. Such efforts help to ensure that ranges - and other flight test users - have access to a range of interoperable equipment. The standard is updated every two years with the latest version being IRIG-106-17. The release of IRIG-106-17 means flight test engineers now have a new list of transmitter performance features to understand and to track during the daily operations. This paper provides an overview of these new features as well as the associated command structure as published in the standard.
DESIGN AND RESEARCH OF REAL-TIME MONITORING PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR CIVIL AIRCRAFT FLIGHT TEST DATA BASED ON WPF
Mao, Wei; Feng, Can; Liu, Tao; Wang, Feng; Liang, Jiayi; Flight Test Center of the COMAC, Instrumentation Dept (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
The real-time monitoring program offlight test data is an indispensable and important supporting tool in the flight test of large civil aircraft. With the continuous deepening of the networked test system, a large number of complex flight test parameters pose a huge challenge for the development of monitoring programs. Based on the WPF platform, this paper uses XAML files, reflection and DataBinding to design a system for developing real-time monitoring programs for flight test data. The system realizes the rapid integration and management of the monitoring program by dragging and displaying the control, shortening the preparation cycle in the past few weeks to several hours; when the system is running, the three-layer architecture can drive hundreds of monitoring terminals in real time, which is the domestic large-scale passenger aircraft C919 aircraft. The first flight and forensic flight test provided technical support.
Design of Airborne Real-time Monitoring System for Vibration Signal of Large Civil Aircraft
Jiayi, Liang; COMAC Flight Test Center, Instrumentation Dept (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
The high frequency vibration signal can effectively reflect the structural strength of aircraft during flight test. In order to meet the need of real-time monitoring of vibration parameters of a large civil airliner, an airborne real-time monitoring system for vibration signals is designed and developed. Development of airborne real-time monitoring software for high-frequency signals was based on C#. The software received and analyzed the network data of the airborne acquisition system, processed the time domain signals by FFT and power spectrum transformation, and realized the graphical display. The software can provide a strong support for the monitoring person to know the status of the aircraft in time.
Latest Development Status on the Commercial derivative aircraft Based Instrumentation Telemetry System (CBITS) Program
Roudebush, J. Kyle; Hernandez, Jose; Kujiraoka, Scott; NAVAIR-Point Mugu; GBL Systems (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
The Commercial derivative aircraft Based Instrumentation Telemetry System (CBITS) project will provide an advanced airborne telemetry system and capability to support the test and evaluation (T&E) of current and future military weapons and defensive systems. In conjunction with the Range Support Aircraft (RSA) contracts, the CBITS project will provide an autonomous airborne T&E asset capable of supporting Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) government ranges and open-ocean testing worldwide. The project will develop an improved S-Band airborne telemetry (TM) capability and a new L- and C-Band telemetry capability as a result of frequency spectrum selloff issues. These improved telemetry capabilities, along with the existing airborne Flight Termination System/Command Destruct (FTS/CD) capability, existing radar for Range Surveillance (RS) and Range Clearance (RC), and range unique augmenting communication systems will be integrated into a Gulfstream G550 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) RSA which will be replacing the current NP-3D Remote Area Safety Aircraft (RASA). This paper will discuss the latest developmental status of the CBITS project.
WHY ARE WE HATIN’ ON ARTM CPM?
Temple, Kip; Air Force Test Center, Edwards AFB (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Why hasn’t the Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry community adopted IRIG 106 compliant ARTM CPM as their preferred waveform for the transmission of telemetry data? Telemetry receivers in the market place today exhibit gains in detection efficiency and resynchronization speed that far exceed products of just a few years ago. Past papers have shown the link performance comparison between the new waveform standard SOQPSK-TG and ARTM CPM has narrowed since ARTM CPM was first standardized. This paper will present the latest performance comparison between these two waveforms during a controlled test throughout various flight conditions. The testing is presented and performance comparisons are made between the waveforms. This comparison will use traditional methods combined with several new performance metrics presented in this paper. To conclude, Link Availability, the measure of overall link performance is presented illustrating how closely these waveforms perform.
CHANNEL ESTIMATION USING GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION
Kim, Taejoon; Perrins, Erik; Simeon, Richard; Univ Kansas, Dept Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Gaussian process (GP) regression can be used in the interpolation of observed periodic channel estimates in OFDM transmission systems over both time and frequency in small-scale fading environments. Previous GP regression studies used the popular radial basis function as the GP kernel. In this study, we examine the performance of GP regression using a Bessel kernel with a semi-static hyperparameter vector. Results show that GP regression using the Bessel kernel outperforms the radial basis kernel, as well as traditional interpolation methods such as cubic spline and FIR interpolation, especially when training symbols are spaced far apart in time with respect to the channel coherence time.
LTE-BASED AERONAUTICAL MOBILE TELEMETRY - LAB AND FIELD TEST EXPERIMENTS
Beck, Eric; Erramilli, Shobha; Habiby, Sarry; Johnson, William; Kogiantis, Achilles; Maung, Nan; Rege, Kiran; Sayeed, Zulfiquar; Triolo, Anthony; Young, Jeffrey; et al. (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Aeronautical mobile telemetry (AMT) based on 3GPP’s LTE standard is implemented in a proof-of-concept system. The solution tackles the very high Doppler shifts expected in flight tests using an appliqué that can be inserted between the transmit/receive ports of the Test Article (TA) and the antennas. This appliqué estimates the Doppler shift and proactively compensates for it on the uplink signal being transmitted by the TA. The overall system has been tested under different operational conditions in a laboratory setup as well as in the field. In the laboratory setup, the desired operating conditions are created with a set of Software-Defined-Radio-based channel emulators coupled with a computer to control their behavior. In order to carry out field tests, an operational LTE network has been created at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) with two base stations, backhaul links, and a core network. In this paper, we provide descriptions of both laboratory and field test setups as well as the results of several tests that have been carried out to date. The results of lab and field tests lend strong support to the viability of this AMT solution.
CONTROL FAILURES IN AN UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM AND THE POTENTIAL FOR STATELESS CONTROL
Marcellin, Michael; Norland, Kyle; Univ Arizona, Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
To participate in the 2019 SUAS competition, an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), was built. Unfortunately, several critical failures occurred, including an unwanted circling behavior, and an unnecessary self-crash. The analysis of both behaviors revealed surface level errors in the scripts and devices that were used, but also a deeper flaw in the architecture of state based behaviors and conditional state transitions. To address these failures, an alternative architecture based around stateless controls was designed and tested. It successfully resolved the issues, and seems to hold promise as an alternative control system architecture, especially in non-linear environments.
A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH TO MASTER MEASURAND LISTS AND THEIR METADATA
Wells, Billy W., Jr.; Northrop Grumman, Corp. (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
A systems engineering approach to master measurand lists allows the use of metadata to improve data organization and management. As data acquisition systems become more complex, the management of sensors and their measurands must also advance. Traditional tabulated measurand lists of several hundred measurands are typically generated from email or verbal requests. Modern data acquisition systems with thousands of measurands are more complex than ever, causing these tabulated spreadsheets to become unwieldy and unmanageable. Modern data structures can easily organize and archive these lists through measurand metadata. By aligning the requirements of the measurand database with data acquisition system requirements, designers can ensure their data acquisition system is within constraints such as bandwidth, storage capacity, power consumption, size, and weight.
APPLICATIONS OF AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION IN NEXT-GENERATION MARS ROVERS
Kosbar, Kurt; Dlouhy, Sarah; Arneson, Ethan; Missouri University of Science and Technology (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
This paper describes a module used to provide autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance to a teleoperated prototype Mars rover designed to compete in the 2019 University Rover Challenge. For the competition’s Autonomous Traversal task, the rover must be capable of traversing difficult desert terrain in search of visual waypoints. Our design uses a custom Navigation Board (NavBoard), a mobile robotics computer, and a sensor capable of producing a dense point cloud. NavBoard provides quaternion-based orientation data, distance measurements from a 1D LiDAR system, and GPS data over ethernet to a mobile robotics computer. This computer derives a 3D point cloud from a three-headed collinear stereoscopic camera then processes that data along with the data from NavBoard to determine the correct action to navigate through sparsely mapped terrain.
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR SOLAR CAR TELEMETRY DATA
Rouse, Michael; Sauer, Miranda; Kosbar, Kurt; Missouri University of Science and Technology, Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Data collected from a solar car is monitored in real-time, which allows for intelligent decision making, efficient debugging, and high-quality testing for solar car teams. This paper compares three databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB) to determine the optimal database system that should be used at solar car competitions. Each database system was tested using simulated solar car data to measure read and write speeds, and quality of performance on a low-power computer. Data were analyzed and displayed with custom interfaces to improve the user experience at solar car competitions.
Intelligent Monitoring Technology of Flight Test Based on Automatic Identification of Test Points
Shenghu, Liu; Zhe, Yang; Bing, Ye; Chinese Flight Test Establishment (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
As the smallest component unit of the flight test task, test point defines the tasks and requirements to be completed by the test aircraft, which is the main basis for the flight effect evaluation. This article through in-depth analysis parameters variation characteristics of the testing aircraft in different test points, combined with the prior knowledge that the domain experts artificial recognize test points, extraction the key parameters of influencing test point identification, and their change rule. We constructed the knowledge base for test point identification, designed test point automatic identification algorithm. Combined with the flight test real-time task evaluation technology, we developed the real-time monitoring system for flight test based on the test point automatic identification and intelligent evaluation. It realized the change from the "intelligent security monitoring" to "intelligent task monitoring", and effectively improve the flight efficiency of the test aircraft.
VALIDATION PROTOCOL - THE MISSING PUZZLE PIECE
Moskal, Jakub; Whittington, Austin; Morgan, Jon; Kokar, Mitch; Abbott, Ben; VIStology Inc; Southwest Research Institute; Edwards AFB (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
In multi-vendor T&E systems, a single hardware vendor cannot anticipate the dependencies on the settings from hardware manufactured by other vendors, or the systemic constraints that are specific to a particular customer. The T&E community has recognized the fact that MDL and TMATS XML are not sufficient to addresst his problem alone, and that there is a need for a separate, constraints language. Constraints written in such a language can be validated by a third party validation engine, without relying on any particular vendor’s software. To this end, we developed the concept of TACL, a candidate for the standard constraint language, and demonstrated it with a reference implementation of a TACL engine integrated with the iNET System Manager. In this paper, we argue that this integration should be standardized in the form of a Validation Protocol in order to turn the existing system into a loosely-coupled, standards-based architecture.
The Good, The Bad, and The Non-Circular Signals
Bose, Tamal; Tsang, Stephanie D.; Samuel, Al; Univ Arizona, Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering (International Foundation for Telemetering, 2019-10)
Second-order (SO) non-circularity is a statistical property that is used to classify signals. Signals with SO non-circularity are extensively used in communication and radar systems. The SO non-circularity property is generally useful in the application of array processing techniques for extending antenna apertures. Exploiting this non-circularity property for a multi-faceted set of communication-type and radar-type signals is the objective of this study. For a given type of signal, the circularity quotient and its properties are tested and evaluated in terms of parameters such as the modulus of its phase, complex covariance, pseudo-variance, the angle orientation of the ellipse, its eccentricity, and other relevant properties are calculated. A geometrical interpretation for the circularity quotient and the correlation coeficient is used to derive the bounds for circularity.
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Advanced Novel Jet Engines Emission Modelling to Predict NOX & CO2 by Physics Based Model
Atma Prakash
SCEDT Engineering
Last century has been the most revolutionary in the aviation sector. But the environment is badly affected due to emissions from the gas turbine engines. In addition to the CO2 released by most jet engines in flight through the burning of fuels, the aviation industry also contributes greenhouse gas emissions from ground airport vehicles and those used by passengers and staff to access airports. While the principal greenhouse gas emission from powered aircraft in flight is CO2, other emissions may include nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, water vapor and particulates (soot and sulphate particles), sulphur oxides, carbon monoxide, (UHC)
unburned hydrocarbons. Furthermore, several researchers are investigating novel combustor designs to cut down the emissions from the gas turbine.
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2013-3690
49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference - San Jose, United States
Duration: 14 Jul 2013 → 17 Jul 2013
49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
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Prakash, A. (2013). Advanced Novel Jet Engines Emission Modelling to Predict NOX & CO2 by Physics Based Model. Paper presented at 49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, San Jose, United States. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2013-3690
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Identification of host-specific effectors mediating pathogenicity of the vascular wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae
Jinling Li
Laboratory of Phytopathology
Research output: Thesis › internal PhD, WU
In order to establish disease, many plant pathogens secrete so-called effector molecules to support host colonization, frequently through the modulation of host physiology. Accordingly, many effector molecules have been shown to be pivotal for microbial pathogenesis. Upon infection of its hosts, vascular wilt fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae secretes effectors to enable host colonization. The aim of the research described in this thesis is to gain more insight into molecular mechanisms of V. dahliae pathogenesis, with a specific focus on the discovery of novel effectors that contribute to the establishment of V. dahliae infections on diverse host plants. Interestingly, we found that pathogenicity of V. dahliae on various plant hosts depends on relatively few effectors, and for some host species even on a single one. Such knowledge is essential for designing and developing novel and effective Verticillium wilt disease management strategies.
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Thomma, Bart, Promotor
Faino, Luigi, Co-promotor, External person
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Functional analysis of virulence effectors from the vascular wilt fungus Verticillium dahliae identified through comparative population genomics
Li, J., Faino, L. & Thomma, B.
Li, J. (2019). Identification of host-specific effectors mediating pathogenicity of the vascular wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae. Wageningen University. https://doi.org/10.18174/464935
Li, Jinling. / Identification of host-specific effectors mediating pathogenicity of the vascular wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae. Wageningen : Wageningen University, 2019. 179 p.
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How Justin Bieber Got a Heavy-Metal Makeover
A behind-the-scenes look at singer’s thrashy ‘Purpose’ tour merch
Kory Grow Mar 25, 2016
The creators of Justin Bieber’s heavy-metal merch explain why it rocks so hard. Photo courtesy of Mark Riddick/Facebook.
Can Justin Bieber throw the horns alongside the metalheads? When the pop star kicked off a lengthy North American tour supporting his Purpose album earlier this month, headbangers began noticing pop fans sporting black T-shirts with the singer’s name written in jagged lettering in the vein of speed-metal bands. The rendering of the word “purpose” even summoned comparisons to the logo on the cover of skate mag Thrasher.
The merch, which Bieber has personally tweeted that he loves, is more authentic than fans of Slayer and Carcass might think. It was designed by artist Mark Riddick, a staple of extreme-metal art whose illustrations have also graced the merch of Autopsy, Dying Fetus, Exodus, Suffocation, Morbid Angel and others. He’s also conceived art for the heavy-metal cartoon Metalocalypse. The Northern Virginia resident has published several books of his art, including 2012’s Compendium of Death and 2008’s Logos From Hell, the latter of which inspired the collaboration.
Rolling Stone spoke with Riddick and Jerry Lorenzo ”” designer of the Fear of God clothing line ”” about how the collaboration came about and what it means for fans of metal and pop.
How did the idea for a heavy-metal Bieber logo treatment come together?
Jerry Lorenzo: In creating Justin’s wardrobe, his stylist, Karla Welch, and I wanted to come up with a fresh way to incorporate vintage Eighties and Nineties band tees into his onstage wardrobe. We borrowed the idea from Fear of God, of printing rock-inspired logos on super-rare vintage tees. We wanted to print “Purpose Tour” and “Bieber,” but we needed metal-like logos for the exercise to make sense.
Karla and I knew we wanted Justin’s onstage vibe to transcend to his merchandise so we created logos that could speak on many platforms for the tour: wardrobe, signage, merchandise, etc. I knew Mark was the man for the job, as his Logos From Hell book is one of my all-time favorites.
Mark, you’re well known for your work with metal bands. What went through your mind when you got the Bieber offer?
Mark Riddick: My initial reaction was, “Why would Justin Bieber need my style and approach to art?” I draw for underground death metal bands ”” a far cry from pop music.
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Jerry, what did you ask Mark for?
Lorenzo: I just sent him tons of metal references from Motörhead to Testament. I wanted him to focus on “Bieber,” as we thought at this maturation stage in Justin Bieber’s career, it was crucial to focus on his last name. For the Purpose logo, we wanted something fun and skate-inspired, which speaks to Justin’s interests and younger fans.
Fear of God’s Jerry Lorenzo (left) and Bieber logo designer Mark Riddick Courtesy of Mark Riddick and Jerry Lorenzo.
Mark, how did you workshop the logos?
Riddick: Working with Jerry has been an atypical experience for me. My background is in dealing with metal bands and independent record labels. The underground metal scene functions in a vastly different way from popular music, so it took a while for me to wrap my head around the entire process.
In addition, Jerry has been a tough client to work for, and I mean that in the best way possible. Jerry has a distinct vision in his mind, and he pushed me hard to get what he felt suited the tour package. I’m not used to doing so many rounds of sketches for a client, but his work is different from typical metal merchandising. Jerry is an artist in his own right ”” he is a designer and stylist, and above all a complete professional. His success as a brand, under the Fear of God moniker, is a testament to this.
How did you decide on the final logo?
Lorenzo: It was just the best logo for what we wanted. You can feel the metal roots, but it was soft enough for his audience to digest.
Courtesy of Mark Riddick and Jerry Lorenzo.
Mark, you posted several options you considered to your Facebook page. Do you have a favorite alternate?
Riddick: I’m content with what ultimately ended up being used, however it wasn’t my personal favorite of the sketches I provided. I was more into the very sharp and pointed traditional thrash metal”“inspired logo concepts, though I realize with a robust female audience, this sort of thing could be a hard sell. As most are aware, metal music is a predominantly male fan base, hence I’m familiar with catering to this audience type. One of the reasons I accepted this assignment was to challenge myself as an artist by doing something I was completely uncomfortable with.
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Have either of you gotten feedback from Justin on the art?
Lorenzo: Justin loves his merchandise. That’s actually a real tweet that he put out [laughs]. He’s stoked on it, as it’s more in line with the stuff he likes and wears, which is important.
“I’d rather see Justin utilizing a metal-inspired logo made by a real professional from the industry rather than a haphazard interpretation of one.” ””Mark Riddick
Mark, has the metal community been supportive of you working with Bieber?
Riddick: I knew I was taking a chance by accepting this assignment. The heavy-metal community is notorious for elitism and often frowns upon pop culture’s misguided use of heavy metal aesthetics. I knew I would lose fans and followers who weren’t mature enough to understand my reasoning for working for such a popular client. In all, the response has been both positive and negative. I’ve been called a poser and a sellout, which I knew was coming.
Are you a sellout? Did you get an absurd paycheck for this?
Riddick: I charged Justin Bieber the same I charge any other client I work with. Some might think this is foolish, since Justin is well off, however, I’m a fair person. I believe in treating others fairly. There is no denying that Justin is a hard worker; his success makes this clear. He has an unimaginable amount of demand on his time; I can’t even fathom being in his shoes. Just because he’s rich doesn’t mean I should take advantage of his wealth. He earned his status and place in society just as I have. He should be treated with the same respect I treat my other clients.
It sounds like this was a positive relationship.
Riddick: The real benefit I gathered from this entire experience is that I developed some insight into the inner-workings of the pop music industry, which functions in a much different way than the metal music industry. In addition, I’d rather see Justin utilizing a metal-inspired logo made by a real professional from the industry rather than a haphazard interpretation of one. There is a sincere authenticity to the logo, and I hope it somehow resonates with the way Justin is reinventing himself and his brand.
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The Feeding Value of Toasted Mucuna Seed Meal Diets for Growing Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)
C.D. Tuleun, S.Y. Igyem and A.Y. Adenkola
A feeding trial was conducted with two hundred and twenty four one week old quail chicks to study the optimum inclusion level of toasted mucuna seed meal in a practical quail diet. Four isonitrogenous (24% crude protein) diets incorporating graded levels (0, 5, 10 and 15) of toasted mucuna seed meal were formulated and fed for 42 days in a completely randomized design. The chicks were divided into four treatment groups, each group replicated two times with 28 chicks per replicate. A group each was allotted to one of the four isonitrogenous diets. The performance, nutrient digestibility, carcass quality and visceral organs and haematological parameters were evaluated. Feed intake, weight gain, feed/gain ratio and nutrient digestibility did not differ significantly (P>0.05) across the treatments. The haematological parameters of quails fed the mucuna diets were not significantly different (P>0.05) compared to those on control diet. Likewise the inclusion of toasted mucuna seed meal in the diets did not cause significant disproportionate growth in carcass quality and visceral organs. It was concluded that toasted mucuna seed meal can be included up to 15% level in practical diets of growing Japanese quail.
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C.D. Tuleun, S.Y. Igyem and A.Y. Adenkola, 2009. The Feeding Value of Toasted Mucuna Seed Meal Diets for Growing Japanese Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). International Journal of Poultry Science, 8: 1042-1046.
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2009.1042.1046
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijps.2009.1042.1046
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It’s Global Warming, Stupid: telling it like it is in post-Sandy USA
By Gareth Renowden • 02/11/2012 This post was syndicated from Hot Topic » Gareth - View original source
Sandy was an astonishing storm1. Bloomberg Businessweek has taken the opportunity to state the obvious and create one of the great magazine covers to sell the story2. It’s worth reading the magazine’s coverage3 because the usual suspects are out there trying to deny the undeniable. Sandy was a storm made worse by the fact of climate change. We all have to live with that.
While the US mops up, and reinsurers check their cash reserves, we can be sure of one thing. The worst is yet to come — and that’s not being alarmist, just pointing out the consequences of unavoidable future warming. That’s truly alarming.
See Jeff Masters for some of the reasons why.
The ageing magazine editor in me doffs his hat.
Or the parsing of it at Climate Progress.
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Hot Topic is the blog of Gareth Renowden, the journalist, author and truffle grower who devotes much of his time to researching and writing about the science of climate change.
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Senioritis strikes again
Tara Roshan, a sophomore, works on a project during AP Euro class despite senioritis “symptoms.”
Auva Soheili, Staff Writer
Senioritis whips through the school hallways and crawls under classroom doors, infecting students and impacting their performance in school.
In other words, with summer around the corner, student motivation has begun to melt away. Although the condition’s name implies that only seniors are affected, all students are susceptible. For seniors, the focus shifts to college or post-high school plans.
“I’m always thinking about the decisions I need to make about college and my future, and it makes it a little difficult to stay engaged in my classes,” said Brooke Seim, a senior. “High school already feels kind of distant even though it’s hasn’t ended yet.”
Although the degree of senioritis varies, it has become a typical circumstance for high schoolers nationwide. With the prospect of summer vacation or beginning a new chapter in life as independent adults, schoolwork slips into the background.
“I would say I have senioritis, for example, I haven’t been putting in as much effort that I would have in years prior,” said Ashley Ritchie, a senior. “The most stressful part of this year has either been dealing with all the little things with college, such as financial aid or housing or trying to finish all of my school work with maximum effort.”
In an attempt to lessen this burden, the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) advises students on how to combat senioritis. In addition, seniors have picked up tricks of their own on how to remain focused in class.
“What’s motivated me the most is my genuine interest in some of my classes. It’s difficult to stay focused in the classes that I don’t really take an interest in, but I have a few classes where the content is so engaging that I don’t need to force myself to focus,” Seim said. “If you completely check out your senior year, you will get very bored in your classes. If you stay engaged and sign up for some classes that really interest you, you can avoid this boredom.”
To stay motivated and avoid becoming overwhelmed with impending deadlines, students take different approaches to counter their stress.
Kaitlyn Jones, a sophomore, focuses on Spanish homework to keep her grades up.
“To combat stress I like to listen to music or drive around with my friends,” Ritchie said.
Meanwhile, other students find stress relief in other common practices.
Ahmad Fallaha, a sophomore, said, “I do multiple things to combat stress, like playing video games, watching TV, and going outdoors. I find it important to destress through each day, to stay healthy mentally and physically.”
While the difficulty to stay engaged in school continues, senioritis is just a mere reminder of how near the end of high school is.
“I try to live in the moment and not worry about things that I can’t control or that haven’t happened yet. I want to enjoy my last high school experiences,” Seim said. “Nevertheless, senioritis has not been this incapacitating lack of focus that I don’t have control over; it’s an excuse to slack off that is really tempting to use.”
Senioritis is REAL
Let’s face it. At this time during the school year, many of us have hit a brick wall and simply don’t care about being diligent in our work anymor...
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Auva Soheili is a senior and a Highlander Managing Editor at Carlmont. She enjoys travel, specifically experiencing other cultures. She began her nonprofit, Bold Apparel, over a year ago whose profits are donated to various causes to help vulnerable groups in the community. She has been an advocate for women's rights, gun control, and the fair treatment of migrants in movements like "March for Our Lives," "Black Lives Matter," and "Keep Families Together." In the future, she's interested in having a career involving social justice.
Twitter: @AuvaSoheili
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The San Diego City College Bookstore became the first in the district to offer a book rental program this fall when it began renting one title.
The book that was chosen to start the program is “Insel-Core Concepts in Health; Brief,” used in Health 101, in part because every student must take the course to graduate, according to Dee Dee Porter, City College’s bookstore supervisor.
The rental fee is $21 compared to nearly $70 that students would pay to buy the book new.
When starting the program, the first of two requirements Porter wanted to meet was to find a faculty member who would commit to using the same text book for three years, according to district bookstore supervisor, Nancy Wichmann.
The faculty member who agreed, Kathy McGinnis, assistant athletic director and professor of Health, Exercise Science and Athletics, said she first became interested in the idea of book rental when she heard about a similar program that was started at Southwestern College in Chula Vista.
McGinnis said she usually plans to use a book for three years when she chooses one, so the commitment was not a big deal.
The second requirement of starting a program was a funding source to buy the initial 140 books the bookstore needed to start the rental program. Porter contacted associated students president Francisco Fabian to see if the Associated Student Government would be interested in funding the program, and he agreed.
Although Porter said she is hopeful that this new program will be successful and can be expanded, she knows that it wouldn’t be practical to do for every book.
Books used in English courses wouldn’t be an option because all of the sections use different books, and text books that only come packaged with workbooks or CD’s won’t be available to rent either.
When students rent their book, they must sign a contract promising to return the book or pay the replacement price of $72.80 plus tax. Because of the contract, renting books will not be available online and students will have to go into the bookstore.
The $21 rental fee the bookstore takes in will go towards replacing damaged books or ones that are not returned. It will also be used to track down students who don’t pay for the books they rent and then keep.
All 140 of the available books were eventually rented, but even after all of the books for sale were sold out and only books for rent were available, Porter had to order more books for the students who wanted to buy and keep their books.
Porter said some students want to keep their book as a reference because they are going into that particular field, or because they are going into education.
Before the program is expanded to other courses and books, and though it “would have been wonderful to do 10,” Porter said she is waiting to see how many copies of the first book come back at the end of the semester.
“This is a win-win for students,” Porter said. “We’re not touching a lot of students right out of the box, but it’s the best we could do.”
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Final Punch
I wrote this one for a college creative writing class and strangely enough it’s semi-autobiographical. The first five or so pages are actually true (though pieced together through multiple different experiences). There is a video out there somewhere of me boxing one of my buddies in the street and he hit me so goddamned hard I flew out of the camera shot and into the bushes. He would always get me with that punch. Cocking that right arm back while jabbing with his insanely long left. I remember one time we boxed and he hit me so hard I just sat on the ground, dazed. And yes he did, in fact, box prison guards. The institution is also true, though it was really just an abandoned building that was rumored to be haunted. A couple of friends and I went to check it out one day, but there were crazy markings on the walls (looked like blood) and a strange string on the ground. We took a step in, heard a rustling noise (which in retrospect was probably just a rat), turned tail and ran.
The first version of this story was much longer and much more supernatural. There were ghosts hiding around every corner, but when I brought it to class the TA (who I thought was a pretentious pompous ass at the time, but have since changed my opinion) said it was disjointed, there was too much going on and the ghosts took away from the point of the story. I whittled it down, using his recommendations and when I turned it back in it looked somewhat like the story below and he gave me an A+. He also hated the title I had for it at the time which was “Teenage Wasteland” which for him didn’t match up with the story. I still think it does, but the new title gives the reader a warning for what is to come. This also has one of the themes of all my earlier writing. It’s ultimately a coming of age story, just told in a little more brutal light.
The four boys sat on the side of the river quickly downing their Jack Daniels and Coke. They came to this spot often because it was really the only place they’d found where they could be free to drink and smoke as they pleased.
“Hey Tick, send over some more Jack man.” Colin said. “We ain’t got all night man, come on.” Colin often made fun of Pete, calling him the Tick and demeaning him, Colin’s favorite past time was giving the Tick noogies.
“All right, its coming over, hold on, I’m a little buzzing here. I don’t want to drop it.” Pete was more of the loser of their clique. He was often taking orders and requests from the other three, trying to stay in their good graces.
Both Colin and Tom were typical jocks. They spent their time talking about pussy, how to get it and where and Pete always sat by intently listening. Matt was the only one of them that had carnally knew a woman, but Pete was the only one that admitted to never losing his virginity and he loved to hear Colin and Tom talk about it, rampant adulation in his eyes.
Pete slowly made his way to Colin, trying to hold his balance, but not succeeding very well. He saw the rock sticking out of the ground, but it failed to register in his alcohol-ridden brain. Pete took a staggering step into the rock and all his weight shifted forward over his wavering legs making him fall forward towards Colin.
None of them saw Matt reach out and grab him. They rarely saw Matt under the bridge. He always seemed too contemplative to approach. He rarely said anything, mostly sticking to his drink, downing one after another, and looking off into the distance. He almost always drank more than the others and never seemed to show any effects of the alcohol. This night was no exception; he quickly sat up and reached out snagging Pete from mid-air.
“You better watch yourself, my man. Them snipers’re gonna kill ya.” Matt said trying to sound like John Wayne immediately and completely exiting his introspection.
“Thanks Matt, I was just trying to get the JD over to Colin.” Pete said looking up with a guilty smile at Matt’s six-two stature.
“I know, pilgrim, you best run ‘long.”
As soon as Pete tore his gaze away from Matt, Matt grabbed the Jack Daniels bottle from his hands, quickly spun the cap off and took a deep swig from the bottle, wiping his mouth with his sleeve afterward.
“Any a ya care to take me on?” Matt tossed the bottle over to Colin who jumbled it and screamed as the bottle shattered on the hard pan under his feet.
“Relax the bottle was empty.” Matt said smiling over at Colin who was still looking wild eyed at the ground where the bottle had broken.
“You drank the rest of it? There was still a quarter bottle left!” The boys, as most boys, were prone to hyperbole.
“Relax Colin, you dad’ll give us more later. Now, who’s on for a little one on one?” Matt held up his fists for emphasis. Matt loved to box. After school he would get any match he could. There was a rumor going around school that he fought a prison guard…and won. Behind his back the others called him psycho.
Tom was the only one that would ever fight Matt. It wasn’t that he was the only one that was big enough; it was that the other two were too scared. Colin fought Matt once and after some big talk was knocked flat on the first punch. Pete tried to fight Matt once, but Matt punched him in the stomach and Pete ran away screaming. That was where Colin got the nickname from; he said Pete looked like a tick running away from a flame. That and that he was small and annoying.
“Sure, I’ll take you. You’ve drunk enough I ought to be able to take you down.” Tom said shrugging.
“It’s on. Hey Pete, you wanna get the gloves?” Matt was the only one who called him Pete. The rest of them called him Tick.
“Yeah, hold on, I’ll get ‘em.”
“You ready to go down big man.” Matt said taking his boxer’s stance and dancing around Tom.
“Oh, the little man scared he gonna get hurt, he’s gotta pump up his ego.” Tom spouted, flexing his arms and taunting Matt.
Pete came running back with the boxing gloves in his hands, trying to keep his balance but failing and crashed down to the ground once again.
“Hey Tick he told you to watch out for the snipers.” Colin laughed.
Matt, ignoring Colin’s banter, picked up the gloves and put one on. “Minute rounds? That to long for you?” Matt gave Tom a sly smile.
“Anything you can handle bean pole. Bring it on.” Tom reached down and took up his gloves.
“So what do you want to do after Matt beats you Tom? Run off to be consoled by Palmela Handerson?” Colin made a masturbation motion as he said it.
“Best sex I ever had.” Tom said getting the second glove on.
“Alright, you gonna time us Pete?” Matt asked punching his gloves together.
“Sure, how long you guys gonna go for?”
Tom stopped dead in his tracks and looked over at Carl.
“Dumbass, didn’t you just hear him say minute a round.”
“Well, yeah, but I wasn’t sure if that’s what you guys were going for or…”
“Minute is good Pete, just time us.” Matt said.
“Ding, ding.” Tom said pulling his fists up.
The fight was short. Matt kept his right arm back, slowly cocking it as he jabbed Tom with his left. Tom kept his arms up, determined to win the fight and only jabbed when he got the chance. Then Matt made his move. He dropped his left hand to his side, as if tired and Tom, seeing his opening, swung his right fist wildly trying to gain momentum in a roundhouse aimed at Matt’s head. He never got there, Matt’s cocked right hand descended and smashed Tom right above his nose, knocking him backward into the slow moving creek.
When Matt finally pulled Tom out of the river, Colin was still laughing and Pete was still gaping in awe.
“Jesus, man. That was strong. Fuck.” Tom shook his head briefly. “Fuck!”
“You always fall for my tricks. I figure one of these days you’ll figure it out.” Matt said smiling down at Tom.
“So you gonna go wack off then?” Colin wheezed struggling for breath through his laughing.
Tom didn’t respond, just took off a dripping glove, and flipped him off.
“Hey you guys want to go do something?” Pete said abruptly and surprised them all. He’d dropped his gaze and was looking at his shoes, perturbed. “I know this place.” He slowly looked up with a worried look on his face.
They pulled up to the building at about a quarter after two in the morning. It was an old mission hospital, previously used as a mental ward for the State. The building was now condemned and awaiting demolition crews to arrive. Tom drove up in his truck and parked three blocks away.
“So this is it Tick?” Tom asked looking back to the crumpled figure shoved behind the seats. Pete cocked his head so he could see around the seats and above the dashboard. He slowly nodded his head.
“Yeah, that’s it. Hey listen; maybe this is a bad idea. I mean what if the thing falls down when we’re in there?”
“Don’t be such a pussy Tick.” Colin said shaking his head.
Tom opened the door and stepped out of the truck, turning to see Matt jump out of the bed.
“You cats ready to go?” Tom said smiling, his eyes floating from the alcohol.
Matt and Colin answered by walking toward the building; Pete was still trying to climb out of the back.
“Hey guys wait up! Hold on, don’t leave me back here, come on.”
Matt turned around and grabbed Pete’s arms pulled him out of the truck and threw him over his right shoulder. “You ready to go? This ain’t gonna be a walk in the park.” He said it with jest in his voice; as if he was expecting trouble.
“I guess, I just…” Pete drifted off.
“Hey, if you wanna stay back and take watch duty, that’s fine Pete.”
“No, I have to go in. We better get going; they’re going to get there before us.” Pete said motioning to Tom and Colin.
Matt put Pete down and watched him run to the other two, shaking his head he sauntered after them.
As Matt approached he could see fear in the other’s eyes, and knew he’d have to walk them in or they would never actually go. They would talk about how they thought the place was lame and how they didn’t really need to go in there, that the place was deserted anyway. Matt knew the truth…it was a terrifying edifice. It didn’t matter that no one thought of the place as haunted, when he stood there and saw it in person at almost three in the morning, he knew the truth.
The building was menacing.
He knew what the others were feeling, because he felt a little of that fear himself – though he was loath to mention it. He knew the other three looked up to him. He knew they would follow him and despite the fact that he really didn’t care about going in, he knew it would be a story that would impress on Monday during free period.
“Well then, did we come here to wait outside?” Matt questioned the building and let the question hang in the air. They all turned and looked at him wide eyed. This was one of the biggest reasons why they loved Matt; he took them beyond their means. He brought excitement into their lives.
He was taking them in.
Matt walked forward, grabbed the handle on the door and quickly pulled it open.
“Shall we?” Matt said walking in, never looking back.
“So why did you bring us here Tick?” Colin asked his voice shaking with fear as he looked straight ahead and slowly walked into the entryway. “I mean was there a specific reason you wanted to come here, or was this just some place you jack off.” It was supposed to be funny, but Colin’s voice wavered.
“I just thought it might be cool to come in here, you know, hang out? It might be cool. Might be better than under the bridge smelling the crap float by us.”
“Say it man,” Tom said looking ahead the same way Colin was, trying to include some humor into his inflection but failing. “Shit, just say it man. Watching the shit float by us. Shit! It’s easy see? You need to get over your goddamned swearing fear.”
Matt continued up ahead, walking down the dimly lit hallway slowly looking back and forth between the walls, inspecting them. He knew Pete’s reason for coming in here was to show he wasn’t afraid. He wanted to show his friends that nothing could scare him, maybe get a little respect. Matt thought it commendable, but there was something about this place and he knew Pete wouldn’t be able to handle it. There was just something in there, something that compelled Matt to keep moving forward, as if he were meant to go in there.
The other three followed leaving the door open as they entered, relishing the extra light flowing in from the streetlamps. They saw Matt walk in and turn the corner. They heard the empty echo of his footsteps and for a second, nothing, but then, just when the boys were wondering what Matt was up to a bloodcurdling scream permeated the air. Tom gave Colin a worried look then looked back at Pete.
“You think he was serious?” Tom could barely get the words out of his throat, it came out as a squeak.
The answer came from down the hall. Matt screamed again, but this time angrily. Tom broke into a run, tearing down the hall, dreading the corner just yards in front of him, knowing he was going to see something that he didn’t want. Knowing Matt was in trouble.
He looked back right before the corner and saw Colin and Pete waiting back at the door. He couldn’t believe they would just stand back there and wait to see what happened to their friend. Tom gave a wave, indicating them to follow him, then plunged around the corner.
At first he didn’t see anything, only dark, but he could tell in the dim light that there were dark stains on the walls. Ahead of him was another hallway with numerous doors on either side spanning what seemed like hundred of yards, to a window. The only illumination seemed to come from the blue moonlight flooding in that window.
“Matt? Hey man, you down here?” The statement floated out before him in the murky blue light, with only silence as an answer.
“Tom you see him?” Colin called from behind him.
“You want to come down here and check fag?” Tom spat back under his breath as he tried to stem his anger toward the loneliness of that dark hallway.
Tom took a few more steps into the hallway, trying to focus his eyes in the dim light. He squinted and felt a shudder run through his body. The dark splotches on the walls. He understood what they were…blood. They were everywhere. That can’t be from the hospital, Tom thought, but he didn’t want to imagine what that thought really meant.
There was an open door halfway down the hall.
“Matt! Matt, you down there?” He understood the absurdity of the statement, but he couldn’t give up the hope that Matt would jump out and let the joke end. He got no answer.
Tom moved to the open door and leaned up against the wall and craning his neck to see into the room straining to bring the room into focus. Then he heard shuffling from the other side of the hallway. He snapped his head around and saw a figure walking slowly towards him. It was a small figure but in the shadows he couldn’t see any features, but then it raised a hand and beckoned for him to approach. Tom shut his eyes and leaned up against the door jam of the room, terror freezing him in place. He stood there willing the figure away when a hand wrapped around his mouth and another wrapped around his stomach and before he could fight against it he was dragged into the room.
Pete slowly moved into the hallway. He thought the figure down the hallway was Tom, but he couldn’t really tell, the light was just too dim. He tried to wave to him, hoping that Tom would recognize that it was Pete coming to help. It was Pete and not Colin. Colin had turned around and ran when they were standing outside. Without a word; he just turned and ran the other direction. Pete knew the only thing that he could do was to go into the hallway and see what was wrong. He couldn’t just stand outside and wait to see could he? His bladder pressed against him as he walked further into the hallway, freezing him in place. He took a deep breath and tired to forget his fear. Colin was the one who ran. Colin was the one who was scared. Besides they were probably just trying to scare him. Somehow they came up with a plan on the way here and were tricking him. The figure quickly turned and disappeared into the room and Pete’s bladder released.
Matt lay on the ground next to the girl. The knife wound in his side burned him ferociously. He could see the little girl was still alive and that was a good sign, but he didn’t know what to do. He had screamed as soon as he saw the man on top of the girl. The man got up and zipped up his pants as he did so. Matt screamed the second time. He had never known himself to be so angry with anyone. Especially because he didn’t know exactly what was going on. He just saw the girl lying still and the man grunting and moving. Only one thought came to mind. Matt raged and charged the man. He knew it was a mistake, he couldn’t even see his adversary very well and he knew to never let his anger take control, but it had. He charged at the man and threw a punch, not seeing the blade in the other’s hand. The blade flashed a dull blue light and in an instant it was hilt deep in Matt’s side. Instantly he fell. He heard the man cough slightly and suck saliva back into his mouth. Matt looked at the girl, trying to gather his thoughts, knowing that his friends were in trouble, knowing that this girl was hurt. This small, innocent girl.
Tom was twirled around by the strong hands and felt something very hot thrust into his stomach making his legs go weak. He looked up into the man’s face and saw dark eyes, unshaven face and rotten teeth. His breath smelled like a sewer.
“You here to join yo’ frien, ma’ facka” The man hissed into Toms face with a heavy drawl.
Tom could do nothing but groan. His legs started to give out and his stomach blossomed in pain. He felt the blade inside of him, wiggling around, sending searing pain every time it moved.
Tom looked away from the man and saw Matt lying on the floor next to a girl on the ground and his legs finally gave out. He felt himself falling to the floor. He felt the knife slide out of his body, slowly expanding the wound with its serrated edge.
Tom’s knees hit the floor and the man cackled from above him, then turned back to the girl lying on the ground.
Tom let out a wheeze and raised his arm, unsure of his own intentions, just hoping help would come from somewhere. The man noticed Tom raising his arm and without turning he mule kicked him Tom the face. Tom fell backward watching the room spin, wondering why he agreed to come here.
Matt watched as the man pulled Tom into the room and fresh anger flushed back into his veins making his blood flow faster and making his wound ooze with renewed vigor, but despite the free flow of blood he felt his mind clear. He watched the man stab Tom then turn and kick him. The man turned to look at Matt then he unzipped his fly and took his pants back down, looking straight at Matt while he slowly masturbated and got down on his knees in front of the girl.
Matt fought back the anger and waited for the man to stop looking at him.
“Tom? Matt? Are you guys down here?” Pete said in a meek voice from down the hall.
The man turned around and bared his teeth like a feral animal letting out a grunt of disgust at the voice. Matt took his opportunity. He quickly rolled to his back, and kicked both legs out putting all the force he could behind them, trying to make contact with the man’s testicles.
Matt extended his legs with as much force as he could muster ignoring the flaring pain that blossomed in his side. Unfortunately the man moved at exactly the right moment. Instead of connecting with the man’s disfigured testicles, Matt hit his right thigh sending the man off balance and making him fall backwards onto Tom.
Matt staggered to his feet as quickly as he could, trying to beat the man to his feet, but when Matt finally got standing he noticed that the man was already up, ready, with knife in hand.
“We got’s a fighta, huh?” The man hissed.
“Bring it on fucker.”
Matt took his boxing stance, with his left arm forward, throwing a few exploratory jabs at the man. With every jab the man attempted to slash Matt’s wrist. Pete entered the doorway and squealed when he saw what was happening in the room; a stranger with no pants on, holding a knife, fighting with Matt.
Matt kept jabbing at the man taking the slashes to his arm, ignoring the flashing pain, but with each jab his raised right fist cocked back even further.
“You likin this, pretty?” The man said smiling showing his rotten teeth.
Pete stood in the doorway amazed at the sight when he felt something pull on his pissed soaked pants. Carl looked down at Tom, blood running from his nose and a glazed look in his eyes.
“Get help.” Tom whispered before he fell back down to the ground.
Matt jabbed the man one last time, comfortable with the power he’d generated with his right arm, and then dropped his left arm letting the man into his open chest. The man lunged with the knife at the same time Matt his sledgehammer of a right arm. They made contact at the same time, the knife gently sliding into Matt’s chest, while Matt crushed the man’s nose spraying a fine mist of blood in a halo around the man’s head. The man fell backward in conjunction with Matt.
Pete watched the two fighters fall then he ran off, terrified of the knife sticking out of Matt’s chest and the glazed look in his eyes.
Matt lurched on the ground, listening to the rapist’s growls of anger. Pain flared in his lungs, and when he looked down he saw the cause. The six inch Gerber blade was still sticking out of his chest. Matt slowly reached for the knife, while turning his head towards Tom.
Tom reacted to the man falling by trying to roll on top of him, laying the rapist out with punches. Matt watching in pride as Tom valiantly pinned the man down and raised his fists in fury.
“You’re gonna die, fucker!” Matt could see the fire blazing in Tom’s eyes and realized they weren’t going to make it. The rapist, somehow, already had another knife in his hand.
Tom swung his right fist down and the knife came up to meet his neck. Surprise blossomed in Tom’s eyes and his limbs went limp. The rapist threw him off, ripping the knife out in the process, a fountain of blood pouring from his neck.
“Na, pretty, time fur you. Not niiice to enteerupt whilst one’s fuckin.’”
The rapist began to rub his penis, his hands wet with blood. Then he got down on his knees and crawled toward Matt, the knife clutched in his free hand.
Matt said nothing waiting for his opportunity. He knew he would only get one. He closed his eyes and waited.
A hand on his foot. Knife slowly scraping the skin.
Up to his thigh. Matt twitches his arm.
The hand grabs his belt and Matt erupts into a flurry. He whips his hand to his chest and rips the knife out, screaming and coughing blood while doing so. The rapist smiled, relishing in witness to Matt’s pain, until Matt kicks hard and upward into the rapists genitals.
“Fookin’ Aghhh, Fook!” He grabs his testicals and falls to his side, while Matt swings the knife up hard straight to his temple. A wet scraping sound echoes in the room, to Matt it sounded like a butcher preparing a steak, and immediately Matt felt sick.
The only sound the man made was a clicking in his throat. Then he fell, the death rattle continuing as he hit the ground.
Matt looked at the fading light in Tom’s eyes and smiled, intently listening for the wail of sirens.
Tom smiled back and in the hazy malaise of his memory he thought of all the times he had spent with Matt and Pete and Colin. All the time they joked about sex and girls and fighting. All the boasts and lies about their prowess. None of it was wasted. It was all meant for here and now. They had done something grand together, the four of them. The ones who got into trouble for being drunk at school. The ones who snuck liquor and pills from their parents. They stopped this man. They were heroes.
In his last moment Tom felt pride in being Matt’s friend and pride in his actions. Pride in wandering through the teenage wasteland and coming out a man on the other side.
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New Multiple Image upload
The multi-image upload page was developed for editors and journalists to be able to upload multiple images in a single batch with a drag and drop or by browsing files on their computer. This guide will describe the new image upload process in detail.
In order to get to the new image upload page, click on New > Multimedia > Image (please note that this feature is available in the new version of the CMS only).
You can also access it from the Article Edit page using the button Upload Image. In this case, new upload page will be opened in the new tab and once the images are uploaded, they will immediately become available for further use and can be embedded in the article.
Either you choose the first or the second way of accessing the upload page, you will get to the following screen.
File selection and metadata editing
Select files and drop them in the designated area or click on Browse in order to choose the files from your computer.
Supported formats for image upload are: .gif, .jpeg, .tif, .png. Max size of one image is 50 MB.
New upload page allows to upload multiple images, to review and edit them on a single page, to apply bulk action for selected images; and then save all images at once when you are done. Please note, that we don't recommend to upload more than 30 images in one batch.
As soon as the images are processed by the system, a preview for each image will appear. Next step is to fill in all mandatory fields for each image (either using bulk editing or filling in the fields one by one for every image):
Title/Caption in English – main information about the image (Country – WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN);
Service Department – in the dropdown menu select the Service that uploaded the image;
Image Taken – date, when the image(s) were taken. If you don't have information about the exact date, mark Unknown;
Source – owner of the image (will be displayed in the bottom right corner of the image, for example Reuters, AFP etc.).
Description in English field (as well as other fields mentioned below) is not a mandatory field and is used to provide more detailed information about the image.
In the field Contributor select photographer's name from the dropdown menu. Remember that in order for the Contributor's name to appear on the list, it has to be created in Pangea CMS first. The name of contributor is shared with finance department allowing for the proper calculation of payroll for that person.
Based on the feedback provided to us by Photo Desk regarding Courtesy Images, an option to add information about the ownership of a courtesy image (Courtesy Photographer) has been added. This will allow, if necessary, to obtain more information about the rights to the image.
If you wish for the image to be distributed to the USAGM Direct site and to be available for the affiliates, mark Share on USAGM Direct.
Also, new upload function has a built-in meta-data reader. This means that if the uploaded image(s) contains meta-data from the device or from the image editor, they will show up on the Image Editor page. Click on More Metadata to see the additional information about the image.
If the wrong image for upload was selected and you wish to delete it, click on the red button Remove Image.
It is possible to apply bulk action for all (or some) selected images of the batch. In order to do so, please select the images you want to edit using bulk action and click Edit.
Use Collapse tabs switcher for faster overview of the images which were selected to be bulk-edited.
Collapse tabs switcher
In the appeared popup modal fill in all mandatory fields (Title, Service Department, Source, Image Taken) and hit Next.
Image bulk edit
In the next window there will be an overview of all metadata that will be applied to selected images. If all metadata are correct, click Apply (to go back and make changes hit Previous).
Image bulk edit confirmation
You will be returned to the image list with newly added metadata. Continue reviewing and, if necessary, editing the metadata for individual images.
When all metadata for every single image are added, click on Save and Close. The images will be processed in Pangea CMS and will become available for further use immediately. However, if for some reason the image is not successfully uploaded and processed, it can be found by searching Pangea CMS in the Draft status, but without the possibility of using this image.
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He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother… and My Business Partner
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This article was originally posted by a media partner at https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331216.
One of the most important decisions an entrepreneur can make is choosing a co-founder. Many seek out partners who are just like them, because “Great minds think alike,” right? Or, “Two is better than one to get the job done” — or any other maxim you’d care to conjure.
But, is a mirror image of yourself really best for your business?
Instead, why not seek out someone who can complement your skill set and knows you inside and out? Someone who understands your strengths and weaknesses, and how to work with both. For me, that was my brother James, and we’ve been founding partners for almost 20 years, including the last five with our company Shufflrr.
While our partnership hasn’t always been easy, here’s why starting a company with my brother was exactly what I needed to succeed.
We value our complementary skills.
Research from the University of Birmingham has shown that last-born children are the most likely to be entrepreneurs. Does that mean I was born for this? Maybe. But no one excels at everything. The best management teams, whether at a startup or a Fortune 500, are made of people with different skill sets.
One reason James and I work so well together is that we have very different strengths. James is a visionary who can see puzzle pieces and how they fit together. I’m the one who can put the puzzle together. James is better at product, vision, finance and numbers. I’m better at client relations and writing.
This balance has been instrumental to our success, particularly in business development meetings. Just recently, a prospective client came to us asking for a replica of an outdated system that she had used because she was nervous about change.
James was able to explain why the replica idea would actually be a poor decision from a technical and productivity standpoint, while I spoke directly to the client’s fears of process change and highlighted how, while different, the new platform would be more efficient and easy to learn. The balancing act illustrated by that meeting has been a part of every client win we’ve ever had.
Alli Webb, who co-founded Drybar with her brother Michael Landau, shared similar insights with Fast Company when she said, “It was great coming together — being very respectful of the other’s strengths.”
If James and I had the same skills, our efforts would overlap and duplicate, which is not productive at all. We would just get in each other’s way, which is never a good thing for siblings.
It certainly wasn’t at age 5, and it’s still not, at age 50! More important, that would leave gaping holes in our operation that would hinder our success. The reason we work so well as co-founders is because we were able to recognize what each of us does really well, and then stay out of each other’s way. No one likes to be micro-managed — especially not by your brother.
Siblings don’t pull punches.
No one will tell you like it is better than a sibling. I once flew out to meet a client in person for a meeting, and James dialed in by phone. As I was sitting with several senior members of the client team, waiting for everyone to arrive, James let out a huge yawn over the phone. I instantly said, “Are we boring you?” at which the client laughed and remarked, “You two must be related!”
This incident became a joke throughout our client relationship, but also a lesson: No one can talk to the CEO of a company the way a sibling can.
Another advantage of working with a sibling: When we disagree, we don’t make it personal. Rather, the disagreement is always focused on a particular business issue and how best to solve it.
Sometimes, our disagreements get so heated we have to step into a conference room, out of earshot. There, we’ll hash things out until we come to a productive solution. We may annoy each other, even fight, but our ultimate goal, without a doubt, is figuring out the most productive solution to our business problem.
Family (and business) comes first.
As entrepreneurs, we are certainly motivated by the financial rewards we realize from running a successful business. But with a family business, it’s bigger than just our own bank accounts.
When we do well, our entire family benefits. Our children, our parents, our brother, etc., all reap the benefits of our success. So, on bad days, when we feel like giving up, we don’t, because that decision won’t affect just us, but everyone we love and hold dear.
Nadine Abramcyk and Jaclyn Feber, sister co-founders of Tenoverten, told Forbes that their bond was forged early by their mother’s pre-bedtime mantra: “Always together, never apart. Maybe in distance but never at heart.”
A family obligation can be a big, even burdensome, weight to carry. But it’s also the most rewarding. What good is success if you have no one to share it with?
That said, it’s important to remember that at the end of the day, you’re still running a business together. Abramcyk and Feber both mentioned how important it is to ensure that formalities like operating agreements and securities still be executed properly, and that you should still be having the tough discussions needed in decision-making, each person’s role in the business and ultimately what will happen should something with the business go wrong.
Norm Brodsky once wrote for Inc. that, “Splitting up with a family partner isn’t like splitting up with another who you’ll never have to see again.” Having these conversations up-front will ensure that everyone is comfortable with their role and that your shared expectations — and that family bond — won’t get in the way of good business.
Family bonds can also help prepare you for the tough times that may await you as an entrepreneur. When we were kids, our family filed for bankruptcy, and for a period of time, we relied on the generosity of friends and other family to get by.
But that tough experience drove my brother and me to want to ensure the security of our families moving forward, through our own entrepreneurial endeavors. Whenever we had a tough time, we remembered those days as kids and knew we could persevere.
No childhood fight was ever going to get in the way. Not then. Not now.
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The real impact of Tory benefit sanctions
The government’s attacks on benefits include cutting off people’s money often for the pettiest of reasons. Dave Sewell looks at the reality of sanctions
Published Tue 11 Feb 2014
A job centre in Edinburgh. The Tories have shut down job centres - pushing more people out of work and needing help to find jobs (Pic: andy a/flickr)
Supporters of the government’s attacks on benefits regularly accuse unemployed and disabled people of living in a “culture of entitlement” or wanting “something for nothing”.
But the truth is that even claiming the benefits you are entitled to can be an uphill struggle—one that’s driving people into absolute poverty.
The government introduced a new system of “sanctions” in 2012. The bland name covers the blunt cutting off of people’s benefits, which can leave them with no money at all (see story below).
Sanctions can stop money for weeks or months for what are often the most arbitrary of reasons. These include turning up five minutes late to a job centre appointment and not applying to jobs that are further away than you can afford to travel.
It is part of a long term attempt to stop working class people feeling they have a right to benefits. It aims to convince them that any money from the welfare state is effectively charity.
But what gets people really angry is when they are sanctioned for the mistakes of the very system that is punishing them.
People forced onto Work Programme placements can find their interviews are scheduled at the same time as their job centre appointments—and that a sanction is inevitable. Others are penalised for missing appointments they weren’t told about, or for being sent contradictory information.
The current sanctions regime was introduced in October 2012. The number of people being sanctioned immediately rose by 11 percent.
Almost 600,000 people had been sanctioned in the first eight months—including more than 11,000 disabled people on Employment Support Allowance (ESA).
The sanctions can last from a few weeks to as long as three years.
Even the Citizens Advice Bureau has argued, “It cannot be right that we have a system of support for jobseekers which actually docks their support for attending a job interview.”
Part of proving that you are trying hard enough to find a job means using the Universal Jobmatch website, run by private recruitment firm Monster.
That’s the firm that at least twice accidentally let the data of millions of its customers get into the hands of identity hackers.
It supposedly matches unemployed people up with jobs.
But these can include everything from dubious matches—such as IT jobs for people with no IT training, and jobs in the wrong region—to unpaid work, jokes, and scams.
And the way the site is set up is designed to make people believe that they have to let the Department for Work and Pensions monitor their use of the site.
This information can then be used to find grounds to sanction them.
When you are forced to sign up you can and should deny them access to your account.
It all smacks of a system that isn’t there to help people into work, but to catch them out in the hope of creating a scapegoat that can draw the blame away from the government.
A month with no money
Val from Southwark, south London, was sanctioned for four weeks last year.
Her employers had terminated her zero hours contract. The job centre assigned her to Work Programme activities run by scandal-hit private firm A4e.
“I got a letter about a placement the day after it happened,” she told Socialist Worker.
“I phoned up to tell them. As soon as I hung up I got a text saying I had another appointment on that very day. But they then said that was a mistake.
“Their reception told me my advisor would get in touch, but he never did.”
Despite submitting proof of her correspondence with A4e, Val was told that her reasons for missing the placement were unsatisfactory—and she would be sanctioned.
“I was furious—I didn’t see how it was my fault,” she said. “I keep every piece of paper I get, and I’d had nothing about that appointment. It was A4e’s fault, and they took no responsibility.”
Val tried to appeal, but was rejected twice. She contacted the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for a crisis loan—but the DWP said she wasn’t eligible.
Next came a six week wait to hear how long she would be sanctioned for.
“You’re sitting on tenterhooks the whole time, not knowing what’s going to happen, whether they’re going to take your appeal or not,” she said.
When the sanctions did kick in, “It crippled us. We had nothing to live on but my mum’s state pension. The cupboards and freezer were empty.”
Help with appeals blocked
The government wants to make it harder to appeal when people’s benefits change.
Appeals for Work Capability Assessments (WCA) can no longer be done through the job centre.
Memos seen by Socialist Worker forbid workers from even printing out the forms. It’s left to claimants to puzzle them out for themselves.
Appealing against sanctions can be just as hard.
One job centre worker said, “They see job centre staff as part of the problem for helping claimants stand up for their rights. They are trying to curtail that.”
Of course, an easier way to reduce the number of appeals would be to scrap the unfair system.
The government denies there are any targets.
But the PCS union says workers are put on an effective “league table” and face disciplinary Personal Improvement Plans if they do not give out enough sanctions.
Hiding food bank figures?
Other than low pay, benefit cuts, delays and sanctions drive the growth of food banks, according to a Scottish government report.
A similar review for all of Britain, completed for government department Defra, has mysteriously never been released.
In Sheffield it takes claimants an average of nine weeks from first contact with the job centre to get benefits they are entitled to.
A bureaucratic and costly nightmare
Trying to drive people off benefits doesn’t save money. It creates an expensive and complicated bureaucracy.
That’s true of sanctions, capability assessments and means-testing—and it’s certainly true of Iain Duncan Smith’s beleaguered Universal Credit masterplan.
He faced a grilling from select committee MPs last week.
This followed revelations that fewer than 3,000 people were claiming it—a cost of £225,000 per claimant.
Inquiry into hated Atos tests
A House of Commons select committee is to begin a new inquiry into the hated capability assessments tests for disabled people.
Thousands have died after being found “fit for work”. One person was found “fit for work” while in a coma, another lost their benefits for interrupting a test with a heart attack.
Atos Healthcare has carried out the tests since 2011. The committee is “particularly interested” in Atos’ performance.
Tue 11 Feb 2014, 16:32 GMT
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May 21, 2020 May 20, 2020 Lyra Selenecharacters, fantasy writing, lyra selene, objects4 Comments
Oh, naming. You fickle beast. I want to cuddle you close yet curse you to the ends of time. For you have caused me many a sleepless night.
Naming people, places, and things in my writing is an interesting element of my work, in that it’s really important to me. Now, I happen to know this isn’t the case for all authors. Some writers name their main character Emma, name the love interest Jack, have them go to Ridgeview High, and get on with it. (There is, of course, nothing wrong with any of these names–they’re solid, straightforward names and I respect and envy them.) I know other authors who don’t bother naming their characters or places anything at all in their first drafts, simply using X, Y and Z and filling everything in later. (This is some chaotic evil energy, if you ask me, which no one did.)
Neither of these methods work for me. In my writing, a character’s name is integral to who they are–how they grew up, how they see themselves, how others see them, where they’re from, what they believe in, et cetera. To name them something offhand would be to deprive me of insight into their character, and to name them nothing at all would be chaotic evil. (I’m a true neutral, okay?) And although not quite as important as character names, naming places and things is also really important to me. As a fantasy author, I believe place names should evoke the story’s aesthetic, world-building, and possibly even give hints about the history and purpose of a place. Objects should be named in a similar vein. (For example, Excalibur has a real ring to it. That Sword Over There really doesn’t.)
The problem is, I’m kind of terrible at naming, well, anything. With character names, I usually have a sense of what kind of sound or feeling I’m trying to evoke–for a healer, I’d want something soft and lyrical, while for a warrior, I’d go for something stronger and sharper. But that’s usually all I have to go on. And not just any name will do–I need the right name. A name I’ll only know is right when I hear it. A name I need to know before I can even start writing.
Place and object names are even worse. For some reason, my creative brain leaves me totally in the lurch when it comes to these, and I go wayyyy too literal. If there’s a place where people gather, you know I want to call it the Gathering Place. A sword with a destiny? Sword of Destiny it is.
So, I’ve developed a process. Since character names are most important to me, I usually start with online baby name lists. (Nameberry is my go to, although it’s only one of many.) You can usually sort these lists by gender, style, popularity, and sometimes geography. This helps me narrow down what I’m looking for, and what I’m definitely not looking for. Sometimes I even find a few unicorn names here!
Then, I move on to random name generators. I quite like this Character Name Generator, which allows you to sort by Language, Gods, Archetype, et cetera. As a fantasy author, this really starts to get my gears turning, and even if I don’t find the exact name I’m looking for, it often inspires me.
But my favorite all-time naming tool is Fantasy Name Generators. Seriously, this site has everything! No matter what you’re trying to name–Dwarf, Motel, Motorcycle Gang–this site probably has a generator for that category. My only caveat for using this site, is that sometimes the names generated are quite silly! I’ve had more than a few good laughs while playing around here (no, I’m not going to name my fantasy character’s horse Malibu.) But that said, I’ve found it’s the absolute best at getting my own naming gears turning in the right direction. Even if I don’t use the precise suggestions from the generator, variations and similar names have definitely wound up in both my published and unpublished works!
In my opinion, that which we call a rose by any other name would not smell so sweet. So if anyone needs me, I’ll be over here naming the leaders of my Barbarian Horde Ulskath and Hirtmaurbes. Or, y’know, something along those lines.
Do you have trouble naming character, places, or things? What tools do you use for inspo? Share your thoughts below!
Writing outside my lane
February 13, 2020 February 13, 2020 LivRancourtdiversity, K. Tempeste Bradford, Liv Rancourt, Nisi Shawl, Piper J. Drake, Writing, writing craft, Writing the Other2 Comments
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So I did something sneaky. In this year’s New Years Resolution post, I only listed ONE action item:
I hereby resolve to use my planner.
When it comes to the planner, so far so good. The “sneaky” part comes from what I didn’t say, the one or two other ideas I didn’t share.
For instance, I vowed to take a writing class, something I’d have to commit to and that I’d learn from. I kept that resolution secret, a little something just between me and my laptop because I didn’t have a firm plan at New Years. In early January, however, I stumbled over something good.
I found Writing the Other: Deep Dive into Diverse Characters, which is a month-long class given by Nisi Shawl, Tempest Bradford, and Piper J. Drake.
The foundation for this course is the book Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl. (I’ve linked to Amazon but it’s available from B&N and the publisher as well.) The course teaches character development through a framework that strives to avoid stereotypes and offensive characterizations when working with characters of different gender, race, &/or orientation.
Here’s a bit from the course description:
Representation is fundamental to writing great fiction. Creating characters that reflect of the diversity of the world we all live in is important for all writers and creators of fictional narratives. But writers often find it difficult to represent people whose gender, sexual orientation, racial heritage, or other aspect of identity is very different from their own. This can lead to fear of getting it wrong–horribly, offensively wrong–and, in the face of that, some think it’s better to not even try.
But representation is too important to ignore. And it is possible to write characters who represent the “Other” sensitively and convincingly. This four week course will provide authors with a solid foundation in how to craft characters from any background, no matter how different they are from you.
I’m sharing all of this both because I’ve learned a lot so far and because growing my skill at writing outside my own experience is a crucial part of my development. I’ve published nine novels/novellas with gay or queer protagonists, so I’m working outside my lane all the damned time. I need to make sure I’m not stepping on people’s toes – or damaging their sense of self – when I do.
We’re only halfway through the class, and so far I have a couple of take-homes. First, I think some – possibly younger – people are a lot more comfortable with labels than I am. In the course introduction, we were asked to share how we fit the dominant paradigm and where we differed from it.
All my intro said was “I am the dominant paradigm.”
I’m a cis-het white woman with no chronic health or emotional issues. I’m neurotypical and I’ve never I experimented with alternative lifestyles or genders. Compared with most of the other intros, mine was SHORT.
Having the language to identify yourself as queer or neurodivergent and the comfort level to share ongoing mental health challenges is a truly beautiful change in our culture. I grew up with a much more limited vocabulary:
You were straight or (whispers) gay, a boy or a girl, and if you felt bad you went to a therapist but you damned well didn’t talk about it.
My theory – based on observation alone – is that it’s a generational thing, but I could be wrong. Either way, I count it as progress.
The other take-home from the course has to do with the how of it. How does an author avoid creating hurtful characters?
Ask yourself honestly if you’re the best person to write this story.
Diversity is important, but I’d be very careful of writing a PoC character where the story was about their experience as a PoC. You’re not here to save anyone.
Get to know people who belong to the group you’re drawing from.
Read and research, looking specifically for works created by group members, not by others writing “authoritatively” about them.
Hire a sensitivity reader.
Although it’s not one person’s job to speak for the many, a good sensitivity reader can help you avoid the most obvious pitfalls.
Respond to feedback with an apology and a promise to change.
Because you’ll make mistakes. I sure as hell have. In one of her comments, Tempest said their goal is harm reduction, and that’s about all I can hope for.
Taking this course has slowed down my word-count, but it’s time well spent. I choose to write outside my lane for a complex mix of reasons, but since I’ve made this choice, I want to do the very best job I can.
I don’t want people hurt by the stories that come from my heart.
Here’s another link to the Writing the Other website. In addition to the Deep Dive course, they have a number of different offerings that I encourage you to check out.
Best Hate-to-Love Romances
February 6, 2020 February 9, 2020 Lyra Seleneenemies to lovers, hate to love, lyra selene, romance, valentine's dayLeave a comment
I’m a sucker for romance. There’s nothing I love more than a good love story, where a swoon-worthy gentleman does everything he can to win the hand of his special lady/gentleman. And the only thing that makes all that better is when the two love interests start out as bitter, bitter enemies. It’s a trope, but I love it–especially when it includes banter, misunderstood intentions, and loads of sexual tension.
So, this is my paean to all the handsome fictional boyfriends out there who also start out the protagonist’s antagonist. We love to hate to love you!
Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, from Pride & Prejudice
I think I am safe in saying Darcy and Elizabeth epitomize the hate-to-love romance genre. I mean, it’s in the title! Elizabeth can’t stand Darcy from the get-go, and with pretty good reason–or so we think. It’s not long before their opinions of each other begin to shift, but not before we’re treated to some really delightful shade on Elizabeth’s part.
Rating: From “not handsome enough to tempt me” to “you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you” in only 33 chapters.
Damianos and Laurent, from the Captive Prince Trilogy
When Prince Damianos of Akielos has his throne usurped, he’s sold into slavery to the crown prince of Vere, his sworn enemy. Fortunately (and occasionally unfortunately) for everyone concerned, Laurent is beautiful, cruel, and fiendishly intelligent. And he’s not about to let Damen forget where he came from–or what they both stand for.
Rating: three books’ worth of devious, delicious mind games and beautiful boys
Vikram and Gauri, from A Crown of Wishes
Exiled princess Gauri and foundling prince Vikram team up reluctantly to win a supernatural contest and unite their kingdoms. But they really can’t stand each other. Until an ordeal including magic apples, serpent kings, and poisoned courtesans forces them to stop arguing for like two seconds and work together…
Rating: “You spend an awful amount of time looking at my
“That’s only because I’m horrified at the sheer idiocy of the words
leaping out of them.”
Alex and Henry, from Red, White, and Royal Blue
Alex is the first son of the United States. Henry is an English prince. Really, need I say more?
Rating: tack room assignations and late-night ice-cream
Jude and Cardan, The Cruel Prince
Wow, I’m only just realizing how many princes are making it onto this list. Sorry not sorry.
Jude is a mortal girl living in Faerie after her parents were brutally murdered. Cardan is the wicked, handsome, wastrel prince who’s like 6th in line to the throne. He torments her endlessly. She plots her revenge. And revenge is best served…hot and bloody?
Rating: she’ll only kiss him with a knife held to her throat…or is it his throat?
Sunder and Mirage, from Amber & Dusk
Shameless plug! When Mirage arrives at the Amber Court, she doesn’t know who to trust, but she has a pretty good idea who not to trust–the haughty lord with knives in his fingertips and deceit in his soul. But it’s not long before their fates are hopelessly entangled…
Rating: I’m biased because I wrote it to be everything I wanted in an enemies-to-lovers romance!
Do you have a favorite hate-to-love romance? Let me know in the comment section below!
Of Vampires and Other Things
October 24, 2019 LivRancourtgay paranormal romance, gay vampires, Irene Preston, Liv Rancourt, Sarasija Mishra, Thaddeus Dupont, The Hours of the Night, vampiresLeave a comment
Back in 2015 – yikes! I’ve been blogging here for along time – I made a post called Ten Good Vampire Books. At some point along the way, that post got caught up in Google’s SEO magic algorithms and it’s had more views in 2019 than it had the year it was published.
Go me?
At any rate, when I sat down to write this post, I planned to make an updated version of the old post, except almost immediately I ran into a problem. I haven’t been keeping up on the vampire literature.
In part, that’s because I have a vampire of my own. Thaddeus Dupont is 100 years old, and he was a monk before he was turned back in 1925. He and his boyfriend Sarasija Mishra appear in the Hours of the Night series I co-write with Irene Preston. (Jump HERE to learn more about Vespers, book 1 in the series.)
Some of you have seen me post about the Hours of the Night and Thaddeus Dupont before, so maybe this won’t be news, but bear with me for a bit. There were a couple compelling reasons I chose to write a vampire character – above and beyond Irene telling me I needed to write another vampire. (She can be very persistent.)
First off, I’ve always loved stories about vampires. Whether it’s trad vamps like Dracula or naughty vamps like Bill & Eric from the Southern Vampire Mysteries (the books that inspired True Blood), I’m a fan. For a while, I made something of a study of vampire fiction, reading as much as I could get my hands on.
Did you know George RR Martin wrote a vampire novel? I couldn’t finish it.
When Irene and I first started working on Vespers, I had a good knowledge of what was out there in the world of vampire literature and some ideas about the kind of character I wanted to create. The popularity of vampire fiction rises and falls, following some unspoken cultural zeitgeist.
Victorian vampires addressed the cultural fear of death. Later in the ’80s and early ’90s, the themes were blood and infection, likely a response to the AIDS crisis. Then in the ’90s to early ’00s, vampires explored our ideas about eternal youth and sexiness.
At the risk of taking myself too seriously, when I write Thaddeus, there’s a similar theme at play. See, I’m the elderScribe, a good 10-20 years older than the rest of the gang who blogs here, and Thaddeus Dupont is my attempt to express my sometimes bewildering experience dealing with the modern world.
Thaddeus was born in 1900 and grew up in the bayou, speaking a patios of English and French, in a time and place before most of the modern accouterments we take for granted. His mildly confused response to his 21st century boyfriend is an echo of my own feelings. I try to keep up, but kids these days….damn….
There’s another, more personal reason for Thaddeus Dupont’s creation, specifically, why I gave him a strong Catholic orientation. I’m a cradle Catholic, and while my relationship to the Church has waxed and waned over the last 50-odd years, it’s currently on indefinite hiatus. The dissonance between Thaddeus’s relationship to the church and the love he has for Sara give me a place to work out my own feelings – in a hopefully-entertaining way.
Irene and I are currently working on Spooked, book 2 in our spin-off Haunts & Hoaxes series. The first book, Haunted, was written for a freebie giveaway, but readers liked the characters so we turned it into a series. I made the first cover (b/c freebie), but we recently unveiled a much-improved version that brands the series.
Isn’t it pretty?!
Haunts & Hoaxes is a mash-up of Supernatural + The X Files with naughty bits thrown in, and we’re hoping to release Spooked sometime in early 2020. Keep your eye out for it!
This post turned into kind of a ramble, but in summary, I probably know more about vampires than is good for me, I hadn’t kept up with vampire fiction b/c I don’t want it to color my own vampire, I have several reasons for how Thaddeus Dupont took shape, Irene and I are headed in a slightly different direction but will come back to HotN soon, and this is one of the longest sentences I’ve ever written.
Oh, and…uh… I have a couple gift codes for a free copy of Vespers. Leave me a comment and I’ll hook you up. (In the off chance that I get more comments than I have codes, I’ll draw names or something.)
October 10, 2019 October 9, 2019 Lyra Selenehalloween, lyra selene, vampires4 Comments
Black clouds scud across the moon, nearly full. The chill breeze has a little…bite to it. A tap-tapping on the window startles you out of your slumber. Perhaps it is only a tree branch, shaking in the wind. Or perhaps it is something else? Someone else? What are they saying, as they lurk outside?
“Let…me…in.”
Although pop culture seems to have something of an on-again, off-again relationship with vampires, I’m a steadfast fan. If there’s a vampire movie, I’ve probably seen it, and I’ve definitely made a dent in the books about them. Some authors *ahemStephenieMeyerahem* tried to make vampires into sexy, brooding vegetarians, but that trend can’t last forever. From the reported reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to Renee Ahdieh’s new The Beautiful, to Jay Kristoff’s forthcoming Empire of the Vampire, I predict pop culture is swinging back toward our long-time fascination and obsession with the dark, immortal creatures of the night.
Halloween reminds us that while vampires might be fangtastic, and know how to have a bloody good time, they are ultimately denizens of the night who enjoy violence and murder. So let’s sink out teeth into some of my favorite creepy vampires…
That’s what friends are for!
Carmilla, Carmilla
Beautiful, languid, and mysterious, Carmilla insinuates herself into the lives of innocent young women, one at a time. Her mercurial moods and unsettling sexual advances distract her prey from her exotic tastes: the catlike monster that visits them in their nightmares and drinks of their blood is really her. Eventually, each girl wastes away and dies, leaving Carmilla free to find a new female companion. Best friends forever…or until you die.
Edward Cullen, Twilight
One of the most insidious vampires in literature, Edward lures Bella–his teenaged prey–with his brooding demeanor and ascetic lifestyle, then utilizes psychological tactics such as stalking, threat of violence, and abandonment to confuse her and alienate her from her species. Finally, Bella succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome and marries Edward, who is then able to complete his goal: impregnate his human wife with his unnatural half-vampire spawn.
Claudia, Interview with a Vampire
After being sired as a child by her adoptive fathers, Louis and Lestat, Claudia matures into a ruthless, murderous vampire with the face of a doll, who “appears to her victims as a little angel” before luring them to their bloody deaths. In cold blood, Claudia attempts to destroy Lestat by feeding him the poisoned blood of a young boy, and she manipulates Louis into doing various dastardly deeds, including siring an innocent woman so Claudia could have a “mother.” Sugar and spice and everything nice…
80’s vamps slay
Miriam Blaylock, The Hunger
Once every few hundred years Miriam, a vampire whose life began in ancient Egypt, assuages her loneliness by siring a human to be her half-vampire companion and lover. (This century, it’s David Bowie. Swoon.) Together they hunt, feed, and slaughter. But eventually these companions wither away into dusty, bloodless corpses, unable to die yet still conscious and aware. Unable to put her lovers out of their misery, Miriam instead encases the half-living corpses in coffins and keeps them with her for eternity. Talk about skeletons in the closet!
Kurt Barlow, Salem’s Lot
In Stephen King’s classic novel, Barlow is an ancient, master vampire who terrorizes the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot when he invades and quickly begins slaughtering and turning the citizenry. He causes some bad blood by performing human sacrifice before moving on to blood-letting, hostage-taking, murder of the elderly, and finally subversion of religious figures. This vampire really goes for the throat.
“I don’t drink…vine.”
Count Dracula, Dracula
Ah yes, Dracula–a vampire who really sucks. After luring Jonathan Harker to his decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains and subjecting the young man to unnatural penetration by his three vampiric brides, Dracula infiltrates London and begins menacing the beautiful Lucy Westenra and her companion, Mina Murray. He feasts upon Lucy’s blood until she dies and resurrects as a violent vampire herself; then, with so much at stake, Mina falls under the Count’s thrall, betraying her fiance and friends for Dracula’s sake. With his potent combination of sexuality, violence, and aristocratic charm, Dracula rains a dark terror upon London, and imparts a lasting and toothsome legacy to Western Literature.
Do you have any favorite vamps? Take a bite out of our comment section, fang you!
Building Characters, One Verb at a Time
July 25, 2019 July 25, 2019 LivRancourtcharacter development, characters, Damon Suede, Liv Rancourt, Writing, writing craft7 Comments
Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees…
Last October I heard Damon Suede speak at the Emerald City Writers Conference. He’s a terrific speaker who wraps a lifetime of knowledge and experience in an entertaining – like, LOL funny – presentation.
Damon could explain this a lot better than I will, but the basic premise to his master class was this: a reader gets to know a character by the character’s actions. Period. And those actions make it on the page in the form of verbs. So, rather than spend hours developing a detailed character biography, pick a handful of verbs and a few adjectives and make that the template your character grows from.
(If you’re curious, you can read about his approach in Verbalize: Bring stories to life and life to stories.)
And you know what? It works!
I recently wrote a holiday novella, the first piece I’d started from scratch since hearing Damon’s presentation. Over the years I’ve done my share of character biography worksheets – the more detailed, the better – but this time I came up with names, chose half a dozen verbs and the same number of adjectives, and wrote simple goal-motivation-conflict statements for each of the two main characters.
Here’s the beginning of my character worksheets for Bo and Jon, the heroes in my holiday novella:
Bo Barone – the crafty one: Adjectives & verbs: bright, shiny, quick, glittering, smiling, laughing, glowing, self-assured, patient, detail-oriented, crafting, inspiring, protecting, intimacy issues, performing, caring
Background: big family, Italian, local Seattle, Midnight Mass at St. James
Jon Cunningham – the artist: Adjectives and Verbs: dark, deep, methodical, dedicated, passionate, reserved, commanding, distancing, consider, create, observe, listen, measure, perform, practice, reflect, teach
Background: Seattle family, missed out on much of high school, studied at Juilliard, Dad had a stroke
Can’t you just picture them? Instead of pages of detail, I had a few lines, yet I felt it took me less time to get a handle on Bo & Jon than just about any of my other characters. I’ll admit things morphed a little during the writing process, particularly in terms of their goals/ motivations/ conflicts, but the characters’ essence, who they were, was pretty solid.
That essence was captured in the verbs and adjectives I chose for them.
Happy Hydrangeas!
Whenever I wasn’t quite sure how a character would respond or what they’d do next, I had my list of verbs and adjectives to guide me. Even though both my heroes changed over the course of the novella – because that’s what the plot is for – still, their core remained constant.
You’ll have a chance to see how well I did, because Dreamspinner offered me a contract for the novella, so A Holiday Homecoming will be released ~ 12/1/19. If you have the change to hear Damon speak, do it. You’ll learn a lot. And the next time you’re stuck with on a character, focus on their verbs and see if it helps.
Hybrid Tea Rose Tequila Sunrise. Cheers, mate!
Summer Reads: What’s on YOUR list?
June 27, 2019 June 27, 2019 LivRancourtAlexis Hall, Casey McQuiston, Cat Sebastian, cozy mystery, lesbian romance, Liv Rancourt, m/m romance, Olivia Waite, queer fantasyLeave a comment
We’re having Juneuary, that stretch of time between the end of May and the Fourth of July when the temperature sits in the 50s and 60s (that’s 10-15 degrees C) and it rains and everybody whines about how summer’s never coming. It’s a Seattle thing. We always act like rain in June is a huge surprise.
Every year.
At least I haven’t turned the heater back on. (Yet.)
To remind myself that it is summer – on the calendar, at least – I thought it would be fun to make a list of the books I’m most looking forward to reading once beach weather starts for real. Lately my kindle has been heavy with non-fiction – cool stuff, but not light and fluffy beach reading material.
For example, I’m in the middle of “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World” by Melinda Gates. She uses personal glimpses into the lives of women world-wide to illustrate the appalling way women are treated, and while I have no doubts about her commitment to her foundation’s causes, I wish she’d taken a more academic, less-Hallmark tone. She’s walking the walk when she really doesn’t have to, and I respect that. That said, when I finish, I’m definitely going to be ready for something lighter.
With that in mind, here’s a handful of books I can’t wait to dive into!
Caveate: I’ll have to start a couple of these in the next week or so – before Seattle’s summer meanders in – because the Seattle Public Library has a way of dumping *all* my hold requests on me at once.
Who needs to clean house? Not me…sigh…
First up is “The Affair of the Mysterious Letter” by Alexis Hall. It’s a Sherlock-adjacent fantasy novel, and I cannot wait! Here’s the blurb:
Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms. Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation.
When Ms. Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham is drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark.
But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive blackmailer, the more impossible the case appears. Then again, in Khelathra-Ven reality is flexible, and the impossible is Ms. Haas’ stock-in-trade.
This book has had such amazing reviews! I’ve never read anything by Casey McQuiston before, but a number of my reading buddies have been singing the praises of “Red, White & Royal Blue”, and I can’t wait to dive in. Here’s the blurb:
What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn’t always diplomatic.
And finally, I’m dying to read Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian. It’s a cozy mystery set in post-war England and it has LIV’S CATNIP written all over it. Here’s the blurb:
A jaded spy and a shell shocked country doctor team up to solve a murder in postwar England.
James Sommers returned from the war with his nerves in tatters. All he wants is to retreat to the quiet village of his childhood and enjoy the boring, predictable life of a country doctor. The last thing in the world he needs is a handsome stranger who seems to be mixed up with the first violent death the village has seen in years. It certainly doesn’t help that this stranger is the first person James has wanted to touch since before the war.
The war may be over for the rest of the world, but Leo Page is still busy doing the dirty work for one of the more disreputable branches of the intelligence service. When his boss orders him to cover up a murder, Leo isn’t expecting to be sent to a sleepy village. After a week of helping old ladies wind balls of yarn and flirting with a handsome doctor, Leo is in danger of forgetting what he really is and why he’s there. He’s in danger of feeling things he has no business feeling. A person who burns his identity after every job can’t set down roots.
As he starts to untangle the mess of secrets and lies that lurk behind the lace curtains of even the most peaceful-seeming of villages, Leo realizes that the truths he’s about to uncover will affect his future and those of the man he’s growing to care about.
“A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics” by Olivia Waite is another book that’s had great buzz. It just came out this week, and I can’t wait to dive in! Here’s the blurb:
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away.
Catherine St Day looks forward to a quiet widowhood once her late husband’s scientific legacy is fulfilled. She expected to hand off the translation and wash her hands of the project—instead, she is intrigued by the young woman who turns up at her door, begging to be allowed to do the work, and she agrees to let Lucy stay. But as Catherine finds herself longing for Lucy, everything she believes about herself and her life is tested.
While Lucy spends her days interpreting the complicated French text, she spends her nights falling in love with the alluring Catherine. But sabotage and old wounds threaten to sever the threads that bind them. Can Lucy and Catherine find the strength to stay together or are they doomed to be star-crossed lovers?
So yeah, this is shorter than my usual to-read posts, and it also seems to be very white. Hmm…I need to make diversity more of a goal. Is that something you think about? What’s on your reading list for the summer? If you have any suggestions – diverse or otherwise (as long as it’s not some heavy non-fic tomb) I’d love to hear them.
Heroic Sacrifice
May 23, 2019 Lyra SeleneBuffy, charles dickens, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, heroic, iron giant, lyra selene, sacrifice, Star WarsLeave a comment
This weekend, here in the U.S., we celebrate Memorial Day. It is a day of remembrance, when we honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country; when we pay tribute to all the brave men and women who have lost their lives in armed conflicts over the years. Most of us know someone (or many someones) who we thank and honor for their service on this holiday, whether we spend the day itself visiting national monuments, leaving flags and flowers at cemeteries, or just spending time with those closest to us.
It may seem strange to honor fictional characters as well as real-life heroes, but I often think about the fact that literature and pop culture act as both mirror and tribute to the real world. Books, movies, and TV give us access to stories we might not otherwise be exposed to, and teach us lessons about ourselves and the world we live in. Through stories, we learn to be brave, to be selfless, to fight for the things we hold most dear, and to always stand up to injustice. We spend this weekend honoring and remembering real-life heroes, but here are a few of the most poignant and selfless fictional sacrifices in literature and pop culture that have inspired me also.
(No big spoilers for anything released in the last 3 years.)
Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities
Sydney Carton is a brilliant but depressed drunkard, full of cynicism and self-loathing for his wasted life. He falls deeply in love for Lucie Manette, but she marries Charles Darnay, Carton’s client and eventual friend who bears an uncanny likeness to Carton. When Darnay is imprisoned and set to be executed in Paris during the French Revolution, Carton smuggles himself into Darnay’s cell and swaps himself for Darnay, ensuring he will be executed in his place. I was always deeply touched by this dissipated character who trades his own life for the happiness of a woman who could never love him.
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
There were many sacrifices on this series *coughSPIKEcough* but none which brought on the waterworks like Buffy’s death in Season 5. In order to prevent the hell-god Glory from murdering her younger sister in ritual sacrifice, Buffy realizes her greatest gift is her ability to die for her friends, her family, and ultimately the world.
“She saved the world. A lot.”
Hodor, Game of Thrones
In one of the most affecting episodes of Season 6, we finally learn the background and history of Bran’s sweet but simple-minded ally, Hodor. When wights led by the Night King attack Bran’s hiding place, Hodor bravely holds the door to save Bran, losing his life in the process. But his heroic gesture ripples through time and space, and we discover it was this harrowing event that broke his mind many years ago.
Donna Noble, Doctor Who
Donna had one of the most inspirational character arcs as the Doctor’s companion, going from a spoiled and self-centered woman to a compassionate and empathetic time traveler. But when she develops near-godlike powers, she poses a threat to herself, the Doctor, and the world. Her mind must be wiped of all her memories with the Doctor, and all the growth and learning she did on her journeys. While Donna doesn’t technically die, her mind, personality, and growth are all erased, returning her to the person she was before she met the Doctor.
Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars
Star Wars has a number of heroic sacrifices to choose from, but Obi’s always struck me the hardest. In order to give his protégé Luke time to escape, Obi-Wan faces off against Darth Vader, ultimately letting Vader kill him. Obi willingly gives his life for the greater good, but Luke has to lose his friend, guide, and surrogate father in order to achieve his destiny, which is always a heartbreaking moment.
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
Lily Evans, Harry Potter
Another series with so many sacrifices to choose from! Yet the selfless sacrifice at the heart of these books is the one made by Lily Potter on the night Voldemort came to murder her infant son. Her willingness to die in Harry’s place works such powerful magic that Voldemort cannot harm him. She saves her son’s life, nearly kills He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, and sets off one of the most iconic stories of our time, all with the power of a mother’s love.
*deep breath* I’m getting a little weepy just thinking about this one.
A lonely boy meets an enormous robot who is being pursued by the military. As their friendship unfolds, Hogarth explains to the metal behemoth that he doesn’t have to be the villain the army paints him as–he can choose to be a hero instead. So when a nuclear missile inadvertently hurtles toward their small town, the Giant says a heartfelt goodbye to his young friend before flying into the sky to intercept the bomb. He forces the missile out into space, and it begins to detonate, smiles and whispers:
Who are the heroes you honor on this Memorial Day? Real or fictional, let me know in the comment section below!
GRRM and the Three Bears…
May 16, 2019 May 15, 2019 LivRancourtChuck Wendig, Game of Thrones, GRRM, Liv Rancourt, Tom & Lorenzo, Writing, writing craft, writing process6 Comments
…or, the virtue of leaving clues that are visible to the average reader but not ham-handed, neon-bright arrows.
I’m going to start with a small qualifier: I have neither read A Game of Thrones/A Song of Fire & Ice, nor have I watched the HBO series. I am, however, a sentient human being with access to the internet, so I know the last episode – in which the Mother of Dragons went postal – created something of a stir. Or a shitstorm. Or therabouts.
I know this in part because Chuck Wendig made a tweet thread in which he argues that character should come before plot – accusing implying that GRRM &/or the series creators may have overlooked this small detail.
You can read his thread HERE, and you should. He knows his stuff. Also, he deconstructs the episode – and the series – HERE. (And if you’re really into it, fashion bloggers Tom & Lorenzo also have a detailed review you can find HERE.)
The big concern with the Game of Thrones episode seemed to be that Daenerys Targaryen behaved in a way that was inconsistent with her character. Maybe or maybe not – I did see at least one tweet prior to the episode suggesting that the Mother of Dragons might end up being the Big Bad, which tells me there must have been at least a couple hints along the way.
Hints that the vast majority of the television-watching public apparently didn’t notice.
Sunday night, while the rest of humanity was glued to HBO, I started a mystery by a new-to-me author. It was a pretty standard trope: Big City Woman is dragged back to her small-town home for Reasons, where she Learns Things, Figures Out Whodunnit, possibly Falls In Love, and then decides to Stay Forevermore.
Sadly, I bailed on it by about 30 pages in, because:
I didn’t connect with the main character. At all.
Which turned on my editing brain, so that every time her eyes wandered around the room, I lost a little more patience. (Her gaze wandered. Her eyes stayed in her head. Thanks.)
As a result of my lack of connection and super-editor, the clues to the character’s arc were glaringly obvious.
The main character was the only one in the family who had the time to take care of the problem in the Small Town, even though it meant leaving her job in the middle of a project and pissing off her boss. Because apparently a woman’s work is never too important to interrupt.
Whoops. That’s another blog post.
Anywhoodle, her stated goal was to return to her uber-exciting life in the Big City, but from just about the moment she arrived, she had Feelings. Right there in her internal dialogue, she noticed a strange connection to the place, one she could not understand. “Why do I feel this way?” she’d ask herself.
Because it says in the blurb that you’re going to have a change of heart, sweetie, and you’ll want to stick around.
*ahem*
Leaving aside the (potentially sexist) set-up, to me these “what an odd emotion” moments were clunky, too-obvious road signs to her character’s development. I think it would have worked better if she’d had a chance to earn that sense of connection rather than just stumbling into it like a slap-happy princess in some insta-love romance.
And honestly, maybe she did. I mean, I did quit at only 30 pages. But hey, I’m over 50 and there are too many books left for me to read to waste time getting annoyed.
Although the stories are very different, I think the essential problem is the same. Daenerys’s behavior took a wild left turn from her established character, and the mystery character’s “odd feelings” didn’t relate to anything intrinsic to her personality. In the one case, the clues were too subtle, and the other, too blatant.
Seems like we should be able to split the difference somehow.
I wish I could say I knew how to avoid either mama bear or papa bear details. I’m researching Victorian London with an eye to writing a mystery, so I’ve done a lot of thinking about how to leave baby-bear style clues – hints that give readers just enough to keep going, but don’t beat them over the head.
The best advice I can come up with is that character trumps plot, and to be ready for a shitty first draft and lots of editing. To that end, I’m brainstorming characters’ goals and motivations and secrets and wounds and all the good stuff that will (hopefully) help me construct a story that’s character driven, and not the other way around.
With a plot Chuck Wendig would love.
How to Write Like A Doctor
January 31, 2019 January 31, 2019 LivRancourtdoctors, fictional medicine, hospitals, Liv Rancourt, nurses4 Comments
It happened again.
A book came highly recommended – a lovely romance, with intelligent characters and a grown-up perspective. The set-up was fantastic; the dialogue was hysterical. The hero, however, wasn’t a surgeon. I mean, the author said he was a surgeon, but he had two weekends off in a row.
Not a surgeon.
I almost bailed on the book at 50%, because I had such since problems with the way the author messed around with the rules of healthcare, both clinical (nope, kids don’t get to eat if their surgery is delayed) and social/cultural (don’t get me started). Despite that, I stuck with the book, and by the time the couple found their happily-ever-after, I sincerely had a tear in my eye…
…in part because in the scenes right before they kissed and made up, the “surgeon” was so unhappy he acted like a jerk to his patients and coworkers. That part was believable.
Seriously though, not all surgeons are jerks, but when they’re not in the OR, they generally spend most of their life with their nose in a book….or, more accurately, a medical journal or a laptop. If you’re going to convince me that they’re also charming and funny and have great social skills, you better get every other detail right: things like their training, hospital culture, and the reality of working only 60 hours on a good week.
And that’s where I want to help! My perspective may be somewhat skewed – I’ve worked primarily in academic medical centers where the physicians rotate between clinical work, research, and teaching – but for a long time now, I’ve wanted to pull together a talk to help authors navigate the world of medicine. Which is a LOT to cover, so let’s get started.
First stop: hospitals. So, you want to have your mind blown? Think about this: people get admitted to hospitals because they need nursing care, not medical care. If all you need is a doctor, you can be seen in a clinic. (More about nurses later.)
The other thing to know? Hospitals are incredibly expensive. They can’t afford to admit someone “to run a few tests”, and they’ll discharge you as soon as possible. Like, when my 80-some year old mother-in-law fractured her hip, she was sent back to her adult family home two days (TWO DAYS) post-op. (I was horrified, but everything went okay.)
Obviously I don’t have space to list every diagnosis that’ll get your character a hospital bed, but if your plot goes there, make sure the patient has something they couldn’t take care of at home, and expect them to be discharged before anyone is really ready for it. (WebMD is a good reference for clinical questions and concerns.)
Also, leaving hospitals AMA – against medical advice – is a thing, and can be a dramatic plot device. Just know that in the real world, insurance companies generally won’t cover a stay when the patient leaves AMA, so if your police detective or otherwise employed and insured main character is contemplating that move, there are real-world consequences.
As I implied earlier, hospitals are run by nurses, and nurses come in a variety of types. Nurse techs or nurse assistants have completed a certificate program and can assist with basic patient care tasks. They’re often nursing students trying to get some real-world experience before they take their boards.
Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) have completed a one-year program and passed a certification test. They function in much the same way registered nurses do, with some minor variations in the tasks they’re allowed to perform.
Registered nurses (RNs) are the backbone of the place. They’ve completed either a two or four-year program and passed their State Board exam. They also often have additional training &/or certification in a specialty area, and they are required to keep current on their continuing education credits to maintain their licenses.
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses who have completed either a masters degree program or a doctor of nursing practice degree. An NP is a specialist – I’m licensed as an NNP, or neonatal nurse practitioner, which means I take care of preterm or sick infants. We work from a medical model, which means we do many of the things physicians do. Generally NPs have a couple years clinical experience in their specialty area, so we bring bedside nursing assessment skills to our medical decision-making.
Word to the wise: don’t confuse nurse practitioners and licensed practical nurses. I read a book where the NP was passing out patient meds, which…no. NPs write the orders, LPNs pass out the meds. Got it? Good.
There are a number of other people who are directly involved in patient care. Respiratory therapists (RTs) focus on the patient’s cardiopulmonary health by directly assessing the patient’s breathing and by managing the medication and equipment required to support them. Like with nursing, RTs complete a two- or four-year program and must pass a certification test.
Social workers provide invaluable support for patients and their families, connecting them with necessary resources while they’re in the hospital and after discharge. (So no, your surgeon hero doesn’t need to drag his new girlfriend into a patient’s room where she can instantly connect with the family and identify their needs. Find another way to prove she’s a decent human being. Ahem.)
Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists all provide key support to a patient’s recovery, as do nutritionists and pharmacists. In the interest of space, I’m not going to specify the range of academic preparation and certification required to function in these roles, but every professional involved in patient care contributes a unique and valuable perspective.
Other random thoughts...
Not all hospitals have residents. Most academic or teaching centers (the ones with interns and residents) are associated with universities, though some private hospitals run selected residency programs.
Most (all?) hospitals have adopted computer based charting. THERE ARE NO PAPER CHARTS AT THE PATIENTS’ BEDSIDE. Also, HIPAA – the national law around patient privacy – is a thing. It affects who can be at the patient’s bedside, and how patient information can be communicated.
So if your characters want to brainstorm in the elevator, make sure they don’t drop names or other identifying patient information.
Hospital administrators exist in their own world – and it’s usually pretty classy. Most, but not all, have been involved in patient care in one way or another, but the higher they get on the ladder, the less clinical work they’re responsible for. In addition to the RN or MD on their resume, they’ll usually have an MBA or MHA (master of hospital administration).
Since I started by bitching about doctors, I’ll close the circle with them. To become a doctor, a person must complete a bachelors degree (4 years), score well on the MCAT (sort of like the SAT but HARDER), and complete three years of medical school. By the end of their second year of medical school, most have decided on which area they want for residency.
First year residents are called interns, and residency programs are usually three or four years long. After residency, some will continue their training by applying to a fellowship program. These are in specialty areas; for example, pediatricians have completed a 3-year pediatric residency program, but pediatric cardiologists did a 3(?) year fellowship in cardiology after residency.
Do the math. Four years of undergrad + three years of medical school + ~ three years of residency, at a minimum. That means most new physicians are around 30 years old, older if they did a fellowship. Some programs – surgery or neurosurgery, for example – take substantially longer.
I do love my day job, and I could probably keep going, but I’m going to stop here. If you have questions, leave them in the comments, and thank you for reading along. There’s no reason for fictional malpractice!!
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By: Monica Young November 19, 2014 8
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A bizarre set of galaxies in the Coma Cluster have lost most of their stars (or star-making material), making them especially rich in dark matter.
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The Coma Cluster, visible in the evening skies of spring and summer, reveals its jewel box to large backyard telescopes: several thousand galaxies sardine-packed into a space only 20 million light-years across.
But there’s more to the Coma Cluster than meets the eye — or the backyard telescope.
Pieter van Dokkum (Yale University) and colleagues took a unique look at Coma through the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, eight Canon telephoto lenses coupled to CCD cameras. The Dragonfly is designed to find faint, fuzzy blobs, but what its images revealed surprised the team.
On Coma’s outskirts lurk 47 galaxies similar in size to the Milky Way — but with 1,000 times fewer stars. To survive in crowded Coma, these dark galaxies must contain 98% dark matter to hold themselves together, much higher than the fraction in the universe at large (83%).
Near or Far?
Hubble imaging picked up one of the dark galaxies serendipitously. The galaxy's smattering of red stars is barely visible against the backdrop. Click the image for a size comparison to several well known galaxies, if they were at the same distance in the Coma Cluster.
Pieter van Dokkum & others
The galaxies' size depends on their distance, so to make sure this result wasn’t just a trick of perspective, van Dokkum and colleagues had to make sure these galaxies really belonged to the Coma cluster, more than 300 million light-years away. If they turned out to live nearby, the galaxies' size would be akin to regular ol' dwarf galaxies.
Determining cluster membership was a challenge because the objects are far too faint to study in the usual ways, such as taking a spectrum to determine their distance. Nonetheless, “van Dokkum and his co-authors make quite a convincing case,” says Mark den Brok (University of Utah).
The authors initially expected the galaxies to be distributed randomly, as they would be if they lay in the foreground near the Milky Way. Instead, the galaxies cluster around the center of the image in the cluster’s periphery. The discovery of a serendipitous Hubble image of one of the galaxies strengthened the team’s case, den Brok says, definitively showing that it doesn’t have the traits of a nearby dwarf galaxy.
Starless Galaxies
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array currently consists of ten Canon telephoto lenses coupled to CCD cameras. (The paper used eight lens/CCD pairings.) The array is designed to image low surface brightness objects.
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Somehow these weirdly faint galaxies have lost their stars — or they never had many stars in the first place. Van Dokkum and colleagues suggest that these may be “failed” galaxies, having forfeited most of their star-building gas after hosting a first generation of stars.
Simulations that track the evolution of large-scale structure suggest that even normal galaxies start out with three times more star-building material than they develop into stars. So whatever process works to limit star formation in normal galaxies is working particularly well in these dark matter-rich galaxies.
“Our simulations have shown that one way to limit star formation so drastically is to use the energy stars produce when they blow up as supernovae,” says Greg Stinson (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany). “It turns out that this disruption leads directly to galaxies that look like the ones van Dokkum is seeing.”
“I was actually very much relieved to see Prof. van Dokkum’s paper,” Stinson adds. Dark matter simulations have been producing galaxies with exactly the size and matter distribution that van Dokkum’s team observed, but such galaxies are naturally difficult to observe.
It’s ironic that dark matter-rich galaxies were discovered in Coma, the birthplace of dark matter theory. Observations of the same cluster in 1933 helped Fritz Zwicky (Caltech) first conceive of the invisible matter that shapes the large-scale structure of the universe. Now ever-deeper observations continue to help astronomers understand dark matter’s role in galaxy evolution.
Pieter van Dokkum et al. "Forty-Seven Milky Way-Sized, Extremely Diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster." Astrophysical Journal Letters, submitted.
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Duczmal
Nice article, but the Dragonfly Telephoto Array consists of eight Canon 400mm f/2.8 telephoto lenses coupled to eight science-grade commercial CCD cameras, not "eight Canon cameras".
See http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5473
Monica YoungPost Author
Luiz, you're absolutely right. I've made the corrections to the article.
...and now is using ten lenses.
Only in astronomy could you say "only" 20 million light years. Astronomers have to use the term "light year" because of the enormous distances involved in that field of study. With some truly long distances even "AU" falls short.
To convert 20,000,000 light years into miles, simply multiply 20,000,000 x 5,700,000,000,000 (approximately one light year in miles) to get your answer. If I did my math correctly (caveat: I'm not great at math) that ends up being 114,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles!
Bob Perrin
I'm curious. Why are there 10 lenses in the picture when the article says ther are only 8 cameras.
Jim-Baughman
I think there is a confusion in this article about "dark matter". These dark galaxies are dark because they seem to be long past the era of star making, and thus they contain no glowing gas and all their one-time stars have grown dim. This has nothing to do with "dark matter", the mysterious whatzit postulated by science to explain gravity anomalies.
Nope, no confusion. As mentioned in the article, the authors calculated the total mass these galaxies would have to have to survive the cluster environment. Then they can measure the stellar mass by the light the galaxies emit. The end result is that 98% of these galaxies' mass is dark matter, much higher than the fraction in the universe at large.
Alson Wong
Jim, you're confusing dark matter with dark energy.
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Mesut Ozil in talks with Arsenal to rip up contract with Fenerbahce ‘ready to wait until end of window’ for transfer
by Philippa Kaur 15 January 2021, 09:34
ARSENAL are reportedly ready to terminate Mesut Ozil’s contract with the club.
The midfielder remains well out of the first-team picture, with boss Mikel Arteta unlikely to add him to his squad list for the second half of the season.
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Mesut Ozil could see his contract at Arsenal ripped upCredit: AFP – Getty
Now, according to Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, the Gunners are ready to cut their losses six months early.
Romano posted on Twitter that ‘negotiations are still on’ but that there has been no agreement to rip up his contract yet.
Turkish giants Fenerbahce are the favourites to sign the 32-year-old, and they are prepared to wait until the end of the transfer window to get him.
SunSport exclusively revealed how Ozil is prepared to leave Arsenal this month.
And he is ready to accept the club spreading payment of the rest of his contract over the next three years.
His £350,000-a-week deal doesn’t expire until the summer.
The World Cup winner is in no mood to sacrifice the remaining £8.75million of the wages due to him just so Arsenal can get him off their wage bill with Fenerbahce and DC United both interested in his signature.
But SunSport understands he would be prepared to help the club out.
That would be by reaching a deal which would see them reduce their weekly payments to him to £68,000 until the summer of 2023.
Though that would see Arsenal having to keep Ozil on their wage bill for another two-and-a-half years, it would reduce their immediate wage commitment to the midfielder by £1.2m-A-MONTH.
With Premier League clubs being bitten hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, that long-term payment plan might be attractive to the bean counters at the Emirates.
The other option would be to come up with a cash offer covering the vast majority of the six months left on the former Real Madrid star’s contract, otherwise he is likely to stay put until the summer.
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Arsenal’s drab Crystal Palace draw brilliantly summed up by Jamie Redknapp to the tune of Bad Boys
JAMIE REDKNAPP was left singing the tune of Bad Boys to cap off his analysis of Arsenal’s bore draw with Crystal Palace.
Thursday night’s mid-table stalemate saw neither side able to snatch a winner at a freezing Emirates Stadium.
And, as Sky Sports’ coverage signed off, former midfielder Redknapp produced a hilarious summary.
Host Kelly Cates reminded viewers that the film Bad Boys For Life was available, prompting her colleague to make up his own spin on the iconic theme song.
Redknapp – who was married to pop star Louise for 19 years – sang out: “Bad game, bad game. Whatcha gonna do when it’s not 3-2!?”
Redknapp and Cates, along with fellow pundit Alex Scott, burst into laughter in the studio.
Cates jokingly told the ex-Tottenham man to ‘just stop’ before promising him ‘a cup of tea and a sit down’.
Scott remarked that Redknapp had been reduced to the tune by the drab draw, telling him: “That’s what that game has done to you.”
But Redknapp doubled down, telling Cates: “C’mon Kel that was meant to be your line.
“That was a poor game, I’m sorry.”
Jamie Redknapp produced a hilarious ditty to round off Sky’s showCredit: PA:Press Association
Arsenal and Crystal Palace failed to set pulses racing on Thursday nightCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Palace travelled back across the capital unbeaten in their last five encounters with Arsenal.
James Tomkins hit the bar before Bernd Leno athletically denied Christian Benteke’s header.
Roy Hodgson’s side remained in 13th, two places and a point behind Arsenal.
The Gunners stretched their undefeated run to five games, with four clean sheets in a row.
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Arsenal star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang reveals he’s ‘struggling a lot’ after goal-shy season and worst form in ten-years
ARSENAL captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has struggled to keep smiling during his worst form in ten years.
The superstar striker has managed just three Premier League goals all season and admits that his performances so far have left a lot to be desired.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang admits he is ‘strugging a lot’ with his formCredit: Reuters
And he reveals that it has been difficult for him to lift flagging spirits in the dressing room when he has not exactly been leading by example.
He told Sky Sports: “I have struggled a lot since the start of the season and sometimes it’s difficult to be as positive as you can be.
“I try to be a cool and calm leader in the dressing room but maybe there are times when you are not in the right mood.
“But you have to find a way to change that so you can give the right vibes for the rest of the guys.
“In football you have ups and downs so you try your best to manage it as well as you can.
“My performances until now have not been the best but I still think I can turn this around and that is what I am trying to do with the team.”
Aubameyang, 31, has scored 76 goals in just 126 appearances for Arsenal since his £56million move from Borussia Dortmund three years ago.
Now he is hoping that his extra-time strike in Saturday’s FA Cup win against Newcastle will prove a turning point against Crystal Palace on Thursday.
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Aubameyang has failed to find the net regularly since signing his new dealCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
The Gunners are looking to make it five wins in a row and Aubameyang says: “We are playing well at the moment and we have to keep on this way.
“If we win the next couple of games that are coming up we can turn the situation around.
“We are not so far from the top six so this is the moment to get back into the competition.”
Arsenal could be boosted by the return of Thomas Partey, who has managed just 279 minutes of Premier League football since his £45m summer move from Atletico Madrid.
The Ghanaian international has finally recovered from a persistent thigh strain and manager Mikel Arteta can’t wait to unleash his midfield powerhouse.
He says: “It’s incredible that we are in January and Thomas has played so few games for us so we haven’t really seen the impact that he can have on our team.
“Obviously we’ve missed him because his presence brings something different to the side.
“It’s just not about his talent or his physicality, it’s who he is a person. He makes the players around him better and that’s a big quality.
“It’s been a difficult few months for him because he knows how much he can help the team and feels a big responsibility that he hasn’t been able to do that yet.
“He’s so willing and keen to be part of things but he’s had to deal with the injuries, with the lockdown and moving to a new country.
“He wanted to do everything straight away and maybe he was rushing too much because he didn’t want to be alone at home.
“But now he’s in a really good place, he’s settled in with the dressing room and the staff and hopefully now we can see his special character on the pitch.”
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How Arsenal could line-up against Crystal Palace with Martinelli, Thomas Partey and Gabriel ALL pushing to start
MIKEL ARTETA could be handed a triple fitness boost for Arsenal’s clash with Crystal Palace on Thursday.
The Gunners hope to have Gabriel Magalhaes, Thomas Partey and Gabriel Martinelli back for the Emirates Stadium clash.
How we expect Arsenal to line up against Crystal Palace
Gabriel Magalhaes is fit to start after overcoming coronavirusCredit: PA:Press Association
Palace are unbeaten in the last four meetings between the sides but Arteta’s team enter the game on fine form.
With four wins in a row, Arsenal also have three consecutive clean sheets following an extra-time victory over Newcastle in the FA Cup.
Pablo Mari has played every minute of the purple patch and yet faces a nervous wait before Arteta names his team, with Gabriel Magalhaes’ availability confirmed by the club.
The Brazilian may return at centre-back, having overcome a bout of coronavirus.
In midfield, Partey is back in full training after recovering from a thigh problem.
Arteta is set to make a late call on the Ghanaian’s involvement, given he has only managed one appearance since November 8.
An alternative setup if Gabriel Martinelli is fit but Thomas Partey misses the match
Dani Ceballos and Mohamed Elneny will compete for the central midfield spot alongside Granit Xhaka if Partey does not make the line-up.
Emile Smith Rowe should stay in the XI amid a hugely impressive spell in the side, featuring the winner past Newcastle on Saturday.
Bukayo Saka and Alexandre Lacazette are two other forwards in fine form and Arteta will likely deploy both men alongside Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on Thursday.
Arsenal are monitoring Martinelli’s fitness following an ankle injury that the striker sustained in the warm-up last time out.
The setback was particularly galling for a player who had only just returned from a long-term knee injury.
The Gunners state that he has ‘progressed very well’ during the week but is yet to return to full training, making an appearance versus Palace unlikely.
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Arsenal and Spurs boost in transfer hunt for Leipzig star Marcel Sabitzer after playmaker ‘rejects new contract offer’
MARCEL SABITZER has reportedly turned down RB Leipzig’s latest contract offer – alerting Tottenham and Arsenal.
The North London rivals have both been linked with the Austrian midfielder following his stellar form in the Bundesliga.
Marcel Sabitzer has been a key player for RB Leipzig since joining in 2015Credit: PA:Press Association
Jose Mourinho in particular is a fan of Sabitzer’s, following his two-goal demolition of Spurs in last season’s Champions League.
And Arsenal are thought to be chasing a creative midfielder in the January transfer window.
A fee of around £30million has been touted with the Leipzig captain’s contract expiring in 18 months’ time.
But the German club may be tempted to cash in soon if Sabitzer refuses to agree a new contract.
According to Sky Germany, via Fussball Transfers, the 26-year-old has turned down an extension.
It is said that Sabitzer would prefer leaving in the summer of 2022, when his deal expires, with the club considering a sale at the end of this season.
Leipzig sporting director Markus Krösche told Bild recently that talks are more likely to progress in a couple of months’ time.
He said: “We wanted to end the year first. Both sides will deal with the issue more intensively in the spring.”
Likewise, Sabitzer has previously insisted that his contract situation will not be discussed until later in the year.
The player stated last month: “If I read my contract correctly, it expires in June 2022, which means it runs for another 18 months.
The club have said that there would be no contract talks during the season.
Marcel SabitzerDecember 2020
“We’ll have to see about everything else. I’m just doing my job. We have a game every three days, that’s exhausting enough.
“So I’m fully focused on playing a successful season and don’t think about what will happen later on at all.”
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Arsenal signing Omar Rekik is blessed with model good looks, and has female admirers swooning over him on Instagram
IF a career in football for Omar Rekik fails, perhaps the model pro will succeed on the catwalk.
The 19-year-old Dutch defender was signed by Arsenal for £600,000 from Hertha Berlin during the January transfer window.
Arsenal new boy Omar Rekik is blessed with model good looksCredit: Instagram / @omarrekik
Handsome Rekik has plenty of female admirers on InstagramCredit: Instagram / @omarrekik
And immediately the handsome teenager’s Instagram was flooded with good-luck messages.
But what might have struck many Gunners supporters was the messages were mostly from female fans.
The former Manchester City youth star is blessed with model good looks and has become a hit with women, who regularly swoon over Rekik on his social media.
Here’s one for the ladies…
‘YOU’RE AMAZING’
Rekik has yet to make his debut at senior level.
But already he has over 53,000 followers on Instagram, who are fascinated with his lifestyle.
Alongside training snaps, Rekik happily poses in streetwear and fashionable clobber in photos he shares that generate plenty of reaction.
From comments including, “OMG, you’re amazing” to regular heart emoji posts, his female admirers are completely enamoured.
Many have even told him he looks like a male model.
Many of Rekik’s Instagram followers have told him he looks like a male modelCredit: Instagram / @omarrekik
Women regularly comment on Rekik’s posts onlineCredit: Instagram / @omarrekik
Rekik loves sharing pictures wearing streetwearCredit: Instagram / @omarrekik
Football is Rekik’s dream profession though, clearly.
And with Arsenal he has an opportunity of a second chance on our shores to prove himself.
In 2012, when he was 11 he joined Manchester City’s academy, where his older brother Karim was already playing.
But, given his young age, it was no surprise that he struggled to settle.
After two years at City, he returned to Holland and joined PSV.
Karim, now 26, also left for PSV and has since enjoyed spells at Marseille, Hertha Berlin and was signed by Sevilla last summer.
Rekik playing for Hertha Berlin’s youth sideCredit: Getty Images – Getty
At 6ft 1in, Rekik is a tall, commanding defenderCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Karim Rekik, Omar’s elder brother, now plays for SevillaCredit: Rex Features
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Rekik is a tall, right-footed centre-half but he won’t walk into Arsenal’s first team straight away.
“He’s a young talent that we’ve been following for a while that we believe has a really bright future,” Gunners boss Mikel Arteta revealed before his unveiling.
Initially, he has been earmarked for a role in the Under-23s, as he settles into London life.
But, should he progress and become a first team star, there will likely be a clamour for his services internationally.
Rekik, who is of Tunisian heritage, has played for Holland’s U18 team, as well as Tunisia’s U21s.
Whoever he chooses, you can bet he will always have a female following.
Rekik has played for Holland’s U18Credit: Getty Images – Getty
Rekik will train with Arsenal’s U23s for the time beingCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Arsenal set to welcome back Matteo Guendouzi as Hertha Berlin ‘unable to afford £29m star’ after impressing in Germany
HERTHA BERLIN have accepted that Matteo Guendouzi will return to Arsenal in the summer, according to reports.
The Frenchman has impressed in the Bundesliga with the capital club losing just two of their last nine as they push away from the relegation zone.
Matteo Guendouzi is set to head back to Arsenal after enjoying a solid spell in GermanyCredit: AFP
Under manager Bruno Labbadia, Guendouzi has even scored twice including the opener in a recent 3-0 demolition of Schalke 04.
According to German outlet Bild, Hertha are putting together a plan to replace the midfielder in the summer.
Wolfsburg star Yannick Gerhardt is said to be the name of the top of their shortlist.
While there is no sense that Arsenal will recall the player this month, Berlin do not have a purchase option to make his loan stay permanent.
Therefore, the club reportedly see it as a fact that Guendouzi will leave at the end of the season, unless they can find around £29million to secure his signature.
The 21-year-old has been widely praised since heading to Germany, and Labbadia has been delighted with his impact.
The coach said last month: “[Matteo] is very, very valuable to us. We are happy that we were able to sign him.
“He’s a very, very good footballer, who has a good sense of space and is technically very strong.
“Even though he’s young, he gives instructions. He is not at all interested in whether he speaks the language.”
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta fell out with Guendouzi last year, before sending him out on loan.
And the Gunners are planning a mass clear out to trim down their large squad and wage bill, which may or may not include the youngster.
Mesut Ozil is out of contract in June and expected to leave North London, along with Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
The exits have already begun with Sead Kolasinac loaned to Schalke at the start of January.
Mesut Ozil happy to leave Arsenal this transfer window… if Gunners still pay him £68K A WEEK until summer 2023
by Philippa Kaur 9 January 2021, 21:30
MESUT OZIL will offer Arsenal the chance to get him out of the club this month – by spreading payment of the rest of his contract over the next three years.
Ozil has options to leave the Emirates during the transfer window but the Gunners would need to cough up the remainder of his £350,000-a-week deal which still has six months to run.
Mesut Ozil could be prepared to settle a long-term payment plan to stretch out his huge salaryCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Though that would see Arsenal having to keep Ozil, 32, on their wage bill for another two-and-a-half years, it would reduce their immediate wage commitment to the midfielder by £1.2m-A-MONTH.
Turkish club Fenerbahce are working hard to try to sign Ozil but an agreement is far from in place.
That is despite Ozil falling victim to an online hoax which purported to be one of his charities seemingly announcing a deal had been done with Fenerbahce.
The MLS is a possible next destination, with Wayne Rooney’s former club DC United making their interest known and opening talks over securing a deal to take him Stateside.
Gabriel Martinelli ‘in tears and a lot of pain’ as Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta confirms ankle injury in Newcastle warm-up
ARSENAL star Gabriel Martinelli was left ‘in tears’ after getting injured in the warm-up of the 2-0 FA Cup win over Newcastle.
The Brazilian striker, 19, went down as he was going through pre-match drills, before being replaced by Reiss Nelson for the FA Cup third round clash against Newcastle.
This was the horror moment Gabriel Martinelli injured himself in the warm-up
Martinelli had just made a successful interception when he collapsed to the floor in obvious agony.
His team-mates, including Mo Elneny, appeared mystified as to how the 19-year-old had injured himself.
But it was serious enough for Gunners boss Arteta to be forced to make a last-minute change to his line-up.
After the game, Arteta said: “I am gutted.
“I was in my office before the game and one of the medical staff came in and said he twisted his ankle.
“He was in tears and in a lot of pain.”
Martinelli is only just returning to the first-team fold after months out with a serious knee injury.
Coincidently, he picked up that in training too.
The young Brazilian collapsed to the floor in pain – with Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta later revealing he was ‘in tears’ after missing out
Although it appeared that the striker turned his ankle, the strain it might have put on his knee will leave the Gunners sweating that it could be another serious injury.
The teenager has helped turn Arsenal’s season around from what looked like it could turn into a relegation battle.
And while Martinelli won’t be going anywhere, there are likely to be a few outgoings this month at the Emirates.
Arsenal have a hefty wage bill with Mesut Ozil, whose deal expires in the summer, sitting on a huge contract after not being selected in their Premier League and Europa League squads this season.
Arteta is determined to reduce the size of his squad by moving on players that are not involved in the first team.
Defender Sead Kolasinac has rejoined Schalke on loan while Shkodran Mustafi is another player likely to head for the exit door.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta confirmed Martinelli is in ‘a lot of pain’Credit: EPA
Arteta told the Arsenal website: “We’ve had some conversations around a few players and whether we can find some loans because the numbers we have in the squad at the moment are really big. Again, we cannot confirm anything yet.
“We have a large squad, we knew that and a lot of things we wanted to do in the summer, we couldn’t accomplish for different reasons.
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“We are looking to do that and then we will see if we have the right opportunities in the positions that we need some more help. We are working with the club to find that.”
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Mountain Mike’s Pizza Opens First Fountain Valley Location
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Orange County’s Newest Family Pizza Spot Features Brand’s Most Updated Store Design
November 17, 2020 // Franchising.com // NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Mountain Mike’s Pizza, a leading family-style pizza chain known for its legendary crispy, curly pepperoni, Mountain-sized pizzas and dough made fresh daily for over 40 years, is excited to announce the opening of its new Fountain Valley location, the brand’s third restaurant in Orange County. The new Mountain Mike’s is located on the border of Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach in the Grocery Outlet-anchored Fountain Valley Square at Brookhurst St. and Garfield Ave. It is the latest restaurant to feature the company’s most updated design and makes the brand’s signature experience of enjoying “Pizza the Way it Oughta Be®” even more accessible to SoCal pizza lovers. The new Fountain Valley location is owned and operated by franchise partner Yvette Pettit, who owns three Mountain Mike’s restaurants throughout California including the recently opened Costa Mesa 17th Street location.
“We’re excited to officially open our doors in this completely fresh and remodeled shopping center and looking forward to introducing Mountain Mike’s Pizza to our new guests and their families throughout Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach,” said Pettit. “The area is hungry for a family-friendly concept like ours and we’re confident our new SoCal communities will quickly understand why Mountain Mike’s has been a household name in Northern California for more than 40 years.”
Now that Orange County dining rooms are permitted to operate at limited capacity, the nearly 3,000-sq. ft. restaurant showcases the brand’s completely renovated design that is inspired by the great outdoors and caters to the adventurous spirit. This newest Mountain Mike’s Pizza location features a seated bar with 10 beers on tap, arcade games and nine 75” big screens throughout. Contemporary design elements include exposed wood and shiplap, modern light fixtures, picturesque mountainscape murals and local community accents. With the Mountain Mike’s Franchise Support Center headquartered just a few miles away in Newport Beach, the much-anticipated Fountain Valley location will serve as an innovation kitchen for R&D, along with a test and training center to continually share best practices with franchisees systemwide.
Serving up mouth-watering pizzas, including the fan favorite pepperoni pizza covered from edge to edge with mini crispy, curly pepperonis, Mountain Mike’s is the ideal dining destination for families, sports teams, group fundraising events and celebrations. All signature pizzas are made with high-quality ingredients like real whole milk mozzarella cheese and dough that’s made fresh in-house daily. While the brand continues to innovate the dine-in experience, guests can count on Mountain Mike’s to delivery on safety, freshness, quality and value when it comes to carry out and contactless delivery as well. Orders may also be placed through any of Mountain Mike’s third-party delivery partners, DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats and Postmates.
Pettit continued, “I just love our Fountain Valley Square location as it reflects how far the Mountain Mike’s brand has come, and we’re eager to continue expansion throughout Southern California because everyone should have the chance to experience what Mountain Mike’s Pizza is all about!”
The new Mountain Mike’s restaurant is located at 18886 Brookhurst St., Fountain Valley, CA 92807. Hours of operation are Sunday through Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
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Mountain Mikes Pizza
Since 1978, Mountain Mike's Pizza has been serving "Pizza the Way it Oughta Be!®" up and down the West Coast.
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