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a window into the artist
Influence Is Everything.
by American French Fries
My name is Kaine Harington, and I am the sole instrumentalist of the post-rock band American French Fries based in Dunedin, New Zealand. My latest album Bigger Things To Worry About wears its influences on its sleeves. Quite literally, the major influencing factors behind the album and its long-winded production is displayed clearly on the record sleeve. The image is of myself and my daughter (3 weeks old at the time) cuddled together and falling asleep. The longer I sit with the album as a finished product, the more I realize her influence is far greater than just a cutesy cover image. Every single track was shaped by the huge impact she has made on my life.
Listen to the album while reading the text.
Looking back.
My first record (made under the American French Fries moniker), 2014’s Don’t Make Plans or Plan To Break Them was made after my first experience of traveling as an adult – driving from Vancouver to San Francisco with three friends. It was also made when I was newly falling in love and between leaving one city and arriving in a new one. It was recorded in a sleepy New Zealand beach town while living in solitude.
Listening back, this all seemed to have an incredible influence on the music. The songs all have driving rhythms (built for road trips), the songs begin and end as they please, much like the landscape changes as you driving and I think the summer and hope for the future leaves as a mostly positive impact on the music. The solitude added the wistful, nostalgic tone.
My second record Somehow Belong sounds very different, because it was born from such different circumstances. I was living and working in a small rural town in the central North Island of New Zealand – Living in a cottage on the corner of a working farm, looking out over kilometers of rural land out towards the mountains. This record took on a real western (at least in the Ennio Morricone sense) music sound as my drive to work each day was through this picturesque rolling country. That, and you can hear the electric fence clicking in some of the guitar parts.
Bigger Things To Worry About.
My latest record Bigger Things To Worry About shows its influences in some very practical ways. It is my first musical release since becoming a father, which explains why it’s the first record to break from my previously well-established one-release-per-year schedule. It is also heavily colored by parenthood and my newly obtained worries; Am I doing this right? How can I balance everything? What happens if something happens to me? Can I support my family financially? Am I setting a good example?…
The more I explore it now, the more I see the role parenthood played in making this record what it is.
The opening track of the record begins (and continues) with a sample of my daughter’s heartbeat, recorded on my phone at her 12-week midwife visit. This was obviously one of the most important and special moments of my life. I wanted to capture the nervous, excited, wonderous energy I felt in that moment and what better way to try and capture those feelings than to play along to a section of that sample with a toy Casio keyboard.
Leaving Things Behind
This track was first concocted on a laptop with headphones while my daughter and fiancé slept upstairs. This explains why there are no guitars on this song; I didn’t want to wake anybody; sleep was particularly precious at this time. The huge distorted bass and drums were added months later, but either way, this song sounds like nighttime to me.
Entrance Way
This song is a tribute to my late gran. She passed away a couple of months before my daughter was born and I played a solo guitar arrangement of this track at her funeral. I did a lot of reflecting around this time, and it’s still a bit hard to process, but I’m glad that that small chapter of my life is captured for the record. Whenever I would stay with my Gran and Grandpa growing up, I would sleep on a fold-out bed in the entranceway.
Apologies In Advance
The title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to this being the first track in my discography to feature vocals, but the entire concept is parenthood. I wanted to write an anthem for battling through a day at work while being completely exhausted from not sleeping. The vocals sound sleepy and distant; the guitars sound like a headache, and the bass and drums feel like the adrenalin pushing you through the day.
This was the last track to get finished because it took me months to find time to be able to record loud guitars. This is a song I developed over months and months of stolen little moments, fleshed out 30 seconds at a time.
Regions and Colours
Made under very similar circumstances to Leaving things Behind. This track was a late-night headphone jammer while the girls were asleep — serious lonely night time vibes.
Wet Wool
Tired. Sleepy. Winter. Late nights. Cold. Rain. That is all I hear in this track. This was one of the last tracks I wrote in my “studio” before we turned it into a nursery to welcome our daughter home to.
Learning To Sleep
Our daughter struggled with sleep for a long time. It was especially hard on my fiancé who spent many a sleepless night with our daughter comforting her to sleep. A nurse or some other advisor once mentioned the fact that babies are still learning how to sleep, and my mind was completely blown. It was one of the hundreds of times that my assumptions and thinking have been completely shattered by becoming a parent. This track is as gentle as the footsteps I would make around the house while my daughter slept.
It’s Not Nothing
I wanted to end the record on a big major chord because the journey has been monumental and ultimately positive. This track started as software instruments, but I replaced them with the Casio, again, I wanted it to be childlike.
The recording of the album itself took place in tiny fragments, months apart, as the realities of the Bigger Things (parenthood, moving city, changing job) took over my life. My silly little hobby of pumping music out into obscurity took its new place at the bottom of my priority list. While it took a lot longer, I persisted because being an active musician defines me as a human, and who I want my daughter to see. Will I ever tour this record? I’m sure I’ve got bigger things to worry about.
Bigger Things To Worry About is available at americanfrenchfries.bandcamp.com as a pay-what-you-wish download. It can also be streamed on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, etc.
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American French Fries, Category: Artist, Albums: Bigger Things To Worry About, Somehow Belong, Don’t Make Plans or Plan to Break Them, Singles: Escape to This, Off the Map, Super Cuter, Top Tracks: Apologies In Advance, Heart Beat, Leaving Things Behind, Entrance Way, Dirge, Biography: American French Fries is a (pretty much) instrumental band from Dunedin, New Zealand., Monthly Listeners: 113, Where People Listen: Christchurch, Auckland, Tauranga, Dunedin, London
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Vermont’s archery deer season begins Oct. 3
Hunters are enthusiastic about Vermont’s upcoming Oct. 3-25 and Dec. 5-13 split archery deer hunting season, according to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
A hunter may take up to three deer in Vermont’s two-part archery season with three archery licenses. No more than one of the deer taken during archery season may be a legal buck. No antlerless deer may be taken in Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) E1 or E2, where antlerless deer hunting is prohibited in 2015.
In Vermont a hunter may take up to three deer in a calendar year in any combination of seasons (Archery, Youth Weekend, November Rifle Season, December Muzzleloader). Of these, only two may be legal bucks, and only one buck may be taken in each season. A “legal buck” is a deer with at least one antler having two or more points one inch or longer. All three deer in the annual bag limit may be antlerless deer.
In order to purchase an archery license, the hunter must show a certificate of satisfactorily completing a bow hunter education course, or show a previous or current bow hunting license from any state or Canadian province, or sign an affidavit that they have previously held an archery license. Hunters are reminded that affidavits will be cross-referenced by wardens against existing databases for accuracy.
Hunters must have a standard hunting license in order to purchase an add-on archery deer hunting license, except that nonresidents may purchase an “archery only deer license” costing just $75. Licenses may be on Fish & Wildlife’s website, www.vtfishandwildlife.com.
Hunters planning their first Vermont archery deer hunting trip or looking for new hunting areas should get a copy of the 2014 White-tailed Deer Harvest Report, which gives the number of deer taken in each town in last year’s deer hunting seasons. It’s also available on Fish & Wildlife’s website.
Archery season regulation changes
Several regulation changes are effective beginning in 2016, including lengthening the October portion of the archery season five days, lowering the number of deer that may be taken in archery season to two (only one of those may be a buck), allowing crossbow use by hunters age 50 and older, and prohibiting the use of urine lures.
Hunting is one way Vermont keeps the deer herd in balance with available habitat. “We continually work to conserve deer wintering areas and young forested areas that provide excellent habitat for deer and grassland birds,” said Mark Scott, Fish & Wildlife’s director of wildlife. “Deer hunting ensures the deer population does not overwhelm the landscape or impact other animal populations. It also provides healthy food for many local families.”
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Plasma jet wands could rapidly decontaminate hospital rooms
Kate McAlpine • April 20, 2020
Room-temperature plasma beams could essentially dissolve away bacteria and viruses.
Our campus, like the global community, is contending with COVID-19 and working to adapt to a new normal. Many are rapidly working on solutions. See all COVID-19 developments from University of Michigan Engineering.
Loosely resembling the Ghostbusters’ “proton packs,” an ion-emitting wand under development at the University of Michigan has the potential to enable quick decontamination of surfaces in hospitals and public places.
The project has been funded with a rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation.
Liquid sanitizers like alcohol and bleach solutions can decontaminate hard surfaces, but these wet methods aren’t useful for fabrics unless a full wash and dry is in the cards. Because plasma is a dry method that leaves no residue, it could be used on soft materials as well, such as bus and airplane seats.
“A detergent has to sit on the surface for five to ten minutes before it destroys the pathogens,” said John Foster, a professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences. “With a plasma, the gas is so highly reactive that you only need seconds of contact between the plasma and the surface in order to decontaminate.”
When hospitals need to decontaminate soft materials, they typically lock them in specialized cabinets that feed in poisonous gasses, such ethylene oxide or hydrogen peroxide.
“Instead, we propose a handheld device that the user could shine over the surface,” said Mirko Gamba, a professor of aerospace engineering.
Plasma is produced by running a gas, such as air, through a high electric field. That field rips electrons off atoms and tears molecules apart, creating a soup of charged atoms and molecule fragments that, in this case, come barreling out the end of the wand.
NERS Professor John Foster demonstrates usage of plasma to heal human body cells. Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering
The plasma then destroys bacteria and viruses through a process similar to combustion, with oxygen-based ions pulling carbon out of their cell walls or protein casings. Even so, if someone stuck a hand into the plasma plume, they’d have to leave it there for tens of seconds before it would kill healthy cells.
A plasma plume can be made from plain old air, with a little water vapor in it. Water makes an efficient killer when electricity breaks down the H2O into hydrogen (H) and hydroxyl (OH) radicals, or molecular fragments with a strong incentive to bond.
“The hydroxyl radicals attack organic molecules, decomposing them into carbon dioxide and water,” said Foster.
But the gas could also be seeded with other chemicals that react with the plasma and transform into efficient killers of particular target viruses or bacteria.
Foster, Gamba and Mark Kushner, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will use the grant to test the portable plasma decontamination concept and accelerate it towards a prototype. One of the first orders of business is to explore the reactive molecular fragments in the plasma and discover how effective they are at killing pathogens. The plasma can then be adjusted to contain more of the most effective fragments. They also want to characterize the UV light generated in the plasma, which can also kill pathogens and break down their genetic codes.
Once they know the important levers for tuning the plasma to kill different kinds of pathogens, they hope the concept can be licensed to industry. Companies already have experience designing the power system that would go in the backpack.
Though the product may not be ready for a year, the goal is to deploy it toward the end of the current pandemic and have it at the ready when we face our next epidemic. Some prognosticators are already arguing that COVID-19 could continue to be a threat into 2022.
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A welcoming and affirming environment feels safe. It is a space where people can find themselves represented and reflected, and where they understand that all people are treated with respect and dignity. The environment ensures all cultural identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, language, religion, socioeconomic background) are affirmed, valued, and used as vehicles for teaching and learning.
The MTSS framework supports the creation of a welcoming and affirming educational environment. In a multi-tiered system of supports, school improvement efforts should focus not just on academic outcomes, but on behavior and social-emotional components as well to ensure a positive school climate and attention to students’ mental health and well-being.
A shared goal of MTSS and Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Education is to increase students’ connectedness with their school communities. Students who feel connected to their school are more likely to attend school regularly, stay in school longer, and have higher grades and test scores (Fostering School Connectedness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009).
How does a MTSS framework support increasing feelings of belonging and the creation of a welcoming, affirming environment?
The implementation and ongoing maintenance of a Tier 1 Behavioral Core. In this behavioral core, “mutually agreed upon norms…encourage students to act out of a sense of personal responsibility to follow those norms” (p. 26) and adults work with students to create “explicit classroom expectations that meet the needs of all students” (p. 27).
Interventions shown to increase student feelings of connectedness and belonging in their community, such as Check-In Check-Out and Check and Connect.
The use of Restorative Practices to establish strong relationships between individuals and social connections within the community. Creating these connections and building community “allows different groups and ideas to become part of the fabric of the school community” (p. 26). Additionally, a restorative approach is utilized to repair harm and “welcome students back into learning when harm has occurred” (p. 26).
The active evaluation of data to examine to what extent the school environment is welcoming and affirming for all students, including subgroups. The ongoing review of data includes subgroup analysis to ensure that the experience of subgroup members is not markedly different from other students’ experiences. In other words, an adverse outcome should not be predicted by one’s membership in a subgroup. Data analysis should include sources such as school climate data (SurveyWorks), Early Warning System data, and SEL screening measures.
Periodic review and revision of school and district policies to ensure that policies are grounded in research-based best practices and that instances of misbehavior are considered learning opportunities.
1 From the New York State Education Department. Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework. Internet. Available from http://www.nysed.gov/crs/framework; accessed 1 February 2020
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HomeNewsProclamation and Award Honoring Fallen Larimer County Ranger, Brendan Unitt
Proclamation and Award Honoring Fallen Larimer County Ranger, Brendan Unitt
October 25, 2020 Steven Bonifazi News Comments Off on Proclamation and Award Honoring Fallen Larimer County Ranger, Brendan Unitt
Family, friends, fellow Rangers, and Larimer County Commissioners gather for the Proclamation honoring Ranger Brendan Unitt and declaring October 20, 2020 as Brendan Unitt Day in Larimer County. Photo courtesy of Larimer County.
The Larimer County Board of County Commissioners has proclaimed Tuesday, October 20, 2020, as ‘Brendan Unitt Day’ and accepted the announcement of the Brendan Unitt Community Service Award to honor his sacrifice and dedication.
Brendan graduated from Windsor High School in 2011 and served his country in the United States Marine Corps. He was also a graduate of Colorado State University and dedicated his life to helping others within Larimer County.
Brendan started serving as a Larimer County Natural Resources Boat Ranger at Horsetooth Reservoir this year. He committed wholeheartedly to providing safety assistance and emergency response to visitors at Horsetooth Reservoir. He selflessly responded to an emergency call for help from a distressed boater on Thursday, August 20, when he risked and lost his life to save another. Brendan was 27 years old.
“Brendan Unitt’s exemplary life of service and dedication to the people of Larimer County is typical of our entire team of Park Rangers,” said Larimer County Commissioner Steve Johnson. “We can all learn a valuable lesson from the incredible life that Brendan lived,” Steve said.
The Brendan Unitt, Community Service Award, was announced in honor of his ultimate sacrifice and will be issued annually to one outstanding Larimer County employee who demonstrates in action the values of selflessness, honor, and dedication to community service just as Brendan did. Brendan Unitt was honored posthumously as the first recipient of the award, which his mother accepted, Katherine McAneny.
Details regarding the Brendan Unitt Community Service Award will be announced in 2021.
“We are fortunate and blessed to have had him among us,” said Steve.
To learn more About Larimer County Department of Natural Resources, visit: www.larimer.org/naturalresources
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By Allison Fortner for CAES News
Professional and home gardeners alike can grow landscapes sustainably with the help of biodegradable plant containers, but gardeners may wonder whether these containers decompose quickly enough to avoid hindering plant growth.
A study conducted by University of Georgia researchers determined that, under standard cultivation practices, certain types of biodegradable containers will decompose within a single growing season.
In a recently published article in the Water, Air and Soil Pollution, UGA scientists determined how industry-standard growing practices affected the decomposition of widely available biodegradable — or alternative — growing containers. This study was led by Bethany Harris while she earned her doctorate in horticulture under the guidance of Professor Bodie Pennisi and soil microbiologist Mussie Habteselassie in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the UGA Griffin campus.
“Under standard cultural and environmental conditions (fertilization, organic soil amendment, irrigation), alternative containers made of recycled paper, coconut fiber and wood pulp fiber will degrade in the soil within a single season,” said Pennisi.
Pennisi, a horticulture specialist with UGA Cooperative Extension, said that although alternative containers made of animal- and plant-based byproducts have been available for more than 10 years, consumers and industry professionals have been slow to adopt these environmentally friendly options.
“One of the reasons is the perception that, when annual bedding flowers are installed in plantable containers in the landscape, the container does not degrade rapidly enough by the end of the growing season and thus necessitates manual removal of remnants,” Pennisi said.
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The study focused on three factors involved in decomposition — moisture, fertilization and organic soil amendment — and their effects on alternative containers. Researchers examined three container types and measured the response of each to these factors.
“In our study, we chose three types of biodegradable containers — recycled paper, wood pulp fiber and coconut coir containers — due to their market availability and their varying levels of cellulose and lignin content,” said Harris, who also earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental resource science and a master’s degree in entomology from CAES.
Harris reviewed the literature of previous studies on biodegradable containers and how they were used in the horticulture and nursery industry. Then she worked with Pennisi and Habteselassie to determine the best way to conduct laboratory trials for results that could educate that industry.
Over the course of the project, the team examined soil samples with specific combinations of water content, organic soil amendments and fertilizer. They conducted three separate studies to evaluate the decomposition of each type of alternative container. Each study took 182 days, representing the length of a typical growing season for annual bedding flowers.
Researchers used control groups for each study in which soil samples without a biodegradable container received the same treatment of water content, organic amendment and fertilizer. They distinguished this study from past research by conducting the trials in a controlled lab setting rather than in the field, where other environmental factors could influence the findings. Harris said multiple factors like soil pH, container thickness and density of soil microorganisms can also contribute to container decomposition.
At set intervals throughout each experiment, researchers measured each sample’s decomposition rate using carbon dioxide traps. The more carbon dioxide released in the soil, the higher the rate of decomposition. This method offered precision and a novel approach from past studies, which assessed remaining container weight rather than amount of carbon dioxide released.
Pennisi said that her lab will expand on this research to examine container decomposition over longer periods of time. Further study of this subject in the field will enable researchers to develop best practice recommendations. Pennisi’s team plans to extend outreach about the benefits of alternative containers to increase their overall use among the public, green industry producers and landscapers.
Harris and Pennisi conducted a study in 2017 that found that both consumers and industry professionals may be unaware of the benefits of plants grown in alternative containers. They hope this new knowledge will inspire consumers to request plants grown in sustainably produced containers rather than plastic.
“Product development and research have spoken. It falls on us as consumers to actively seek plant material that has been produced in alternative containers, thereby creating the demand that will encourage the green industry to widen its use of environmentally friendly pots,” Pennisi said.
Now the director of education at Callaway Resort and Gardens, Harris directly interacts with the public and industry on a daily basis and educates them about topics of sustainability through strategic programming. She says her research and time working with Extension prepared her well for this role.
“I really learned the importance of the land-grant mission, which encompasses research, teaching and extending research-based knowledge to those in the community in which you serve,” Harris said. “At Callaway Gardens, I have had the opportunity to extend this research-based knowledge and educate the public, including visiting guests, about the use and adoption of biodegradable containers as well as other research-based topics.”
For more information on the UGA Department of Horticulture, visit hort.uga.edu.
Allison Fortner is a master's degree student and a graduate research assistant in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication.
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Battersea Power Station opens a design store in celebration of the iconic building
Battersea Power Station has opened a new store paying homage to the iconic Power Station building through a curated selection of products that celebrate its history and heritage.
Open in time for Christmas, the Battersea Power Station Design Store stocks a range of products including homeware, fashion, stationery, jewellery, artwork, gifts and souvenirs, all inspired by the Grade II* Listed icon and its riverside location. Products have been created by local artisans and designer-makers as well as more established brands.
Visitors will be able to shop for unique gifts as well as sample the new restaurants that have opened at this riverside location including Francesco Mazzei’s Fiume, Mother for pizza and great food and drink at No. 29 Power Station West.
Products sold in the Battersea Power Station Design Store include:
A Power Station-inspired range of sportswear from up-and-coming London brand, Laurie Nouchka, which has risen to fame for its use of iconic buildings from around the world translated into geometric prints on lycra garments (top, £65, leggings, £100)
An exclusive Battersea scent – a collection of Battersea-infused soap products from London-based brand Soapsmith (Bath bombs, £5, Soap, £7)
Industrial style handmade homeware accessories from Nick Fraser including coat racks and candelabras fashioned out of steel piping inspired by the Power Station (triple candelabra, £65)
Hand-made jewellery from British designer I Am Acrylic (necklace, £28)
Crockery from Snowden Flood featuring the Power Station and the London skyline (side plate, £25)
Rob Tincknell, CEO of Battersea Power Station Development Company, said:
“Battersea Power Station has inspired artists, designers, musicians and textile makers for generations. We are delighted to be able to bring the best of the best under one roof and celebrate the history and heritage of this wonderful building.”
The Battersea Power Station Design Store has been curated in partnership with We Built This City, a London-based business which brings together goods from artists, designers and makers which celebrate the capital city whilst supporting its creative community.
Alice Mayor, Founder of We Built This City, said:
“We’re thrilled to have been able to offer our curation and commissioning services to Battersea Power Station on this exciting new retail destination, whilst also opening up a unique opportunity to our network of talented artists, designers and makers. We watch with excitement as this new permanent home for art and design plays host to a hotbed of creative talent and ideas celebrating what is undoubtedly one of London’s most inspirational and best-loved landmarks.”
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon to beat PS5 Mar. 2021
Sega Games Co., Ltd. this week said it will release Yakuza: Like a Dragon to Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 5 Mar. 2, 2021.
The publisher said customers who purchase the PS4 physical or digital SKU can upgrade to the PS5 version at no cost.
The PS4 SKU will be sold Nov. 10.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a new chapter in the Yakuza series that includes a new protagonist and a turn-based RPG battle system.
The English voice cast will include George Takei as Masumi Arakawa, a powerful patriarch.
The final game includes a large-scale setting of Ijincho in Yokohama.
It has sold more than 400,000 units in Japan and Asia.
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Astrobotic’s CubeRover En Route To Kennedy Space Center
Model of Astrobotic’s CubeRover.
After three years of intensive engineering work, Astrobotic’s CubeRover is on its way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The CubeRover is designed to provide an affordable mobile outlet for scientific instruments and other payloads to operate on the surface of the Moon. This occasion marks the first time Astrobotic’s Planetary Mobility department has delivered rover hardware to an outside entity.
Named for its modular, scalable design, the CubeRover was co-developed with Carnegie Mellon University, with input from a NASA team at Kennedy, and marks the completion of work on NASA’s $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract to develop a lightweight rover with flight characteristics.
Astrobotic has since refined and commercialized the CubeRover product line with the goal of supporting mobility as a service with a variety of diverse payloads, making lunar access easier for smaller tech demonstrations and scientific investigations. The rover is also designed to be integrated onto multiple lunar landers for voyages to the Moon, facilitating its inclusion on a wide variety of future space missions.
Astrobotic’s 2U CubeRover navigates ground testing before being sent to
Kennedy Space Center.
Designing the compact CubeRover presented an array of engineering challenges for the Astrobotic and Carnegie Mellon teams. Among many concerns, the teams were tasked with regulating the rover’s temperature in extreme climate fluctuations, keeping its mass minimal, and ensuring the rover maintained optimum mobility for instruments operating on the rover.
The teams created a robust thermal design able to endure temperatures ranging from space (-455ºF) to the lunar surface (260ºF). The result is the lightest commercial planetary rover ever created. The CubeRover was also outfitted with a calibrated camera used to orient itself relative to known objects on the lunar surface, such as Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander.
The ability for the rover’s operation team to recognize its position on the Moon augments the value of the data, allowing payload customers to make informed decisions about where to travel next.
Astrobotic’s work on CubeRover will continue through its $2M Tipping Point contract with NASA, concluding in February 2022. This program funds the flight qualification of the 2U CubeRover product line, and also outfits the rover with a set of advanced features including a lighter all-wheel-drive system, a solar array for recharging, adaptive image compression, and additional interfaces to support a wider variety of landers and payloads.
Mike Provenzano, Astrobotic’s Director of Planetary Mobility,
poses with CubeRover.
“Because our CubeRover is so light — in the four kilogram range — it dramatically reduces flight cost, making the Moon more accessible to more customers,“ said Mike Provenzano, Astrobotic’s Director of Planetary Mobility. “We’re also including industry standard interfaces throughout the rover to simplify the payload integration process.”
Filed Under: Agencies, Space
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AAC Clyde Space Adds a New Member to Their Family … Hyperion Technologies
There’s a Dutch company that will be joining the Swedish-Scottish Group at AAC Clyde Space, subject to approval by an AAC Clyde Space Extraordinary General Meeting.
Based on a cash and shares deal, Hyperion Technologies has agreed to be acquired by AAC Clyde Space. The acquisition is subject to approval by an AAC Clyde Space Extraordinary General Meeting.
The Dutch space company will join the Swedish-Scottish Group to strengthen the offering to the global space market. The CEO of Hyperion Technologies is enthusiastic about this step, “We have always strived to grow and to expand. Our success in the market has shown that we need to up our game in order to respond appropriately to our clients. As part of AAC Clyde, we can address these needs by offering a more integrated one-stop-shop, increased service levels and more robustness as a business.
The smallsat market is a fast-paced and competitive industry. New business models and actors make it necessary to adapt. Many of them shake up the way we deliver satellites or components, the speed in which they are delivered, and the ease of purchase. For Hyperion, it was a logical step to seek an internationally renowned partner with a similar mindset and complimentary product portfolio to achieve just that. As a larger group, we will be able to respond better to procurement needs, small series production for constellations and integrated service offerings.”
Steven Engelen, CTO of Hyperion, ensures, “We will continue supporting our clients in their mission. Our technical team is available as usual. It is in our joint interest with AAC Clyde to maintain clients’ satisfaction. We are also looking forward to joining forces with teams from the group, sharing our knowledge and providing a new generation of integrated solutions.”
Current contracts and agreements will continue to be executed normally.
Hyperion continues to be open for inquiries and orders for Hyperion products. Alexandra Sokolowski, Business Development Manager stated, “We would like to invite our current clients to explore the AAC Clyde offering. Together, we will create a new integrated offering. Our clients’ feedback is going to play a key role in shaping it.”
Hyprion Technologies is an independent Dutch space company located in Delft, Netherlands. Active since 2013, it specializes in the development of miniaturized, high-performance and smart components for small satellites as well as satellite platforms for complete missions including both hardware and software.
The company was founded by CEO Bert Monna, CTO Steven Engelen and Cor in ‘t Veld.
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Chibba Lotte Marines win Japan Series crown
By Drew SilvaNov 7, 2010, 1:23 PM EST
Bailey Stephens of MLB.com has an update from our baseball friends overseas.
The Chibba Lotte Marines defeated the Chunichi Dragons 8-7 on Sunday to win the Japan Series — a series that featured the longest game in the league’s history.
The Marines and Dragons battled to a 2-2 tie* after six hours and 43 minutes in Game 6 Saturday.
That led to Sunday’s decisive Game 7, whenYoshifumi Okada knocked in the go-ahead run with an RBI triple in the top of the 12th to lead the Marines to the club’s first Japan Series title since 2005. Current ESPN analyst and active managerial candidate Bobby Valentine was that 2005 team’s manager.
The Marines finished third place in the Pacific League regular season standings, but had a Giants-like run through the playoffs.
*Bud Selig was not spotted in the stands. No word yet on whether he called for the cease in action from another locale.
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UFC Fight Night 91 results: Cortney Casey blasts Cristina Stanciu with elbows for first-round TKO
By Brent Brookhouse July 13, 2016 7:45 pm
By Brent Brookhouse | July 13, 2016 7:45 pm
Jul 13, 2016; Sioux Falls, SD, USA; Cortney Casey (red gloves) fights against Cristina Stanciu (blue gloves) during UFC Fight Night at Denny Sanford Premier Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 13, 2016; Sioux Falls, SD, USA; Cortney Casey (top) fights against Cristina Stanciu (blue gloves) during UFC Fight Night at Denny Sanford Premier Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 13, 2016; Sioux Falls, SD, USA; Cortney Casey (right) fights against Cristina Stanciu (blue gloves) during UFC Fight Night at Denny Sanford Premier Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 13, 2016; Sioux Falls, SD, USA; Cortney Casey reacts after defeating Cristina Stanciu (not pictured) during UFC Fight Night at Denny Sanford Premier Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Once Cortney Casey found a hole in the takedown and grappling defense of Cristina Stanciu, she was happy to exploit it until the referee was forced to raise her hand.
The women’s strawweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC Fight Night 91 event at Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. It aired on FS1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on FS1.
UFC Fight Night 91 play-by-play and live results
Casey (5-3 MMA, 1-2 UFC) clubbed with a pair of right hands in Round 1, moving Stanciu (5-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) backward briefly. The two clinched in the center of the cage and it was Casey who took top position, landing directly in mount and landing heavy elbows. Stanciu regained half guard and Casey backed off, allowing the fight to move back to standing with three minutes left in the opening frame.
Casey again scored with a takedown and moved directly into mount. This time, she smelled blood and unloaded with a series of hard elbows as Stanciu covered up and turned to her side. After several unanswered shots, the referee was forced to jump in and call a halt to the action at the 2:36 mark of Round 1.
“I’m just happy it was a first-rounder and not a three-round war,” Casey said. “She’s a younger fighter and sometimes you have to let them know that experience is about to take over. She has a couple pro fights, but I’m well-rounded. I’m not afraid to throw elbows, I’m not afraid to throw knees, and they were open, so I threw them.
“Carla Esparza has two of the most boring fights in UFC history. All of her fights, other than the title fight with Joanna (Jedrzejczyk) are incredibly boring. I want to go put on a show with her.”
Casey snapped a two-fight losing skid with the TKO victory. It is her first victory since March 2015 and first in the UFC. Stanciu is now on a two-fight losing skid and has yet to find success in the octagon.
Up-to-the-minute UFC Fight Night 91 results include:
Cortney Casey def. Cristina Stanciu via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 2:36
Scott Holtzman def. Cody Pfister via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Rani Yahya def. Matthew Lopez via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 3, 4:19
Alex Nicholson def. Devin Clark via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 4:57
For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 91, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
(MMAjunkie’s John Morgan and Fernanda Prates contributed to this report on site in Sioux Falls.)
Cortney Casey, Cristina Stanciu, UFC Fight Night 91, News, UFC
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IAQ powers and funding for Local Authorities
Health experts call for LAs to gain more powers and funding to address poor indoor air quality.
A group of health experts has called for local authorities to be given more powers and funding to address the poor state of indoor air quality (IAQ) in homes, schools and public buildings.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the Royal College of Physicians carried out a wide-ranging survey of buildings that revealed how poor IAQ was directly damaging the health of children. Their report captured the findings of 221 studies and found evidence linking indoor air pollution to a range of childhood health problems including asthma, wheezing, conjunctivitis, dermatitis and eczema.
Sources include smoking, damp, the burning of fossil fuels and wood, dust, chemicals from building materials and furnishings, aerosol sprays and cleaning products, the researchers said.
“Too many of our homes and schools are damp and poorly ventilated – this is adversely affecting the health of children,” said RCPCH paediatric respiratory consultant Jonathan Grigg.
The report also pointed out that IAQ tends to be worse in low-quality housing and older buildings due to inadequate or poorly maintained ventilation – and that indoor air can be between 5 and 13 times more polluted than what is outside due to contaminants including damp, traffic fumes and particulates from wood burning.
“More than three million families live in poor quality housing in the UK,” said Royal College of Physicians special advisor Stephen Holgate. “Most will not have enough money to make improvements and have no option but to make do with damp, under-ventilated environments.”
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Name: Lindsey Schuberth
Hometown: Blue Springs, MO
Current Location: Los Angeles
TrunkSpace: When did you know that you wanted to act for a living?
Schuberth: You know, the first time I can remember telling someone I was going to be an actress was my sophomore high school biology instructor. She was asking me what science class I wanted to take next, and I told her that I wouldn’t need to take anymore as I was going to be an actress. If I only knew that I would go on to major in both Biology and Theatre in just two short years! (Laughter) I did always love to perform though and was involved in all the talent shows and plays in school and church.
TrunkSpace: Was there a particular performance or actor/actress from your childhood that you remember being drawn to and inspired by?
Schuberth: Honestly, I have two moments that I distinctly remember inspiring me towards a career in acting. The first was watching my sister, Lauren Schuberth, in a community theater show when I was five. It was the first time I had seen live theater, and I’ll never forget how this enchanted world of knights, princesses, and castles came to life right in front of me. I was hooked. The second, was watching a movie called “A Walk To Remember” at the age of 12. I was so moved by Mandy Moore’s performance that I knew I wanted to also inspire people the way she inspired me in that film. To inspire, encourage, make people have emotion and really feel life, that was thrilling to me. I knew through acting I would have the opportunity to help people, and that still gets me so excited!
TrunkSpace: How did you decide to approach your career as an actor? Did you formulate a plan of how you wanted to attack what is known for being a hard industry to crack?
Schuberth: In my mind, as a 16 year old, growing up in the heartland of the US, my plan was to go to college, get a degree in Theatre, and then move to New York or Los Angeles. I didn’t know what it actually took to approach this kind of career. As I studied at Greenville College (University) in IL, I found out they had a study “domestically” abroad program called the LA Film Studies Center in Los Angeles. So, I quickly signed up for that to get to LA to see if I even liked on-camera acting, or maybe God would show me another route he wanted for my life. This program was fundamental in teaching me about living in LA as an artist. It solidified that LA was the place for me!
TrunkSpace: When did you decide to move away from your home and pursue acting as a career? How old were you at the time?
Schuberth: After attending the LAFSC program in LA, I knew that I was going to move back, but I had one semester left of school, so I returned to finish. Once graduated, I saved enough money in one month to get me to LA, so in July of 2012, at the age of 22, I made the big move. It was a scary and thrilling time in life.
TrunkSpace: Was that move an easy transition for you initially? How long did it take you to feel at home and find a good support group of friends and peers?
Schuberth: The transition for me was pretty smooth as I had just gone to school in LA and formed friendships and now had a network of people from that program to connect to as well. I also moved back out with a friend I had made through that program, so I was already living with a close friend. I also found a church community quickly after moving to LA, which was so helpful in making LA feel like home. I’m so grateful as I know many people come out without knowing anyone. Joining acting classes right away also gave me another network of people to connect with. When one chooses to move out here and he or she asks me for advice, the first thing I tell them is to make LA your home. Get a place to live, find community in whatever form you like best because you can’t pursue a dream without a support system. LA can be a very lonely place, but if you put yourself out there and start joining sports teams, acting classes, church groups, whatever that might be for you, it makes the pursuit that much better and more fulfilling.
TrunkSpace: What has been been your biggest break in terms of a particular role or project thus far?
Schuberth: My biggest break was in 2017 when I booked my first TV co-star for the online platform YouTube Red. The show is called “Rhett & Link’s Buddy System.” Season 2. I played a fun, hipster barista! It was an incredible experience to work alongside the YouTube titans Rhett & Link, known for their show “Good Mythical Morning,” as well as the director, Steve Pink, who has directed comedies like “Hot Tub Time Machine.” I couldn’t be more excited to see what happens next!
TrunkSpace: Is there a specific type of role you’d like to take on or a specific genre that you feel more at home in?
Schuberth: Yes, actually I was just offered a role in the Shakespeare play “Romeo & Juliet!” I’ve always wanted to do a full Shakespeare play, so I couldn’t be more thrilled! Ovation Arts is taking a modern twist with the show and having me play the male role of Tybalt!
Along with period pieces, I also want to work on romantic comedies, musicals, and dramas that deal with family dynamics. These are all among the genres I’d love to play both on screen and on Broadway! Ideally, I’d love to look back and see my career be shaped in both the stage and camera worlds.
TrunkSpace: What would you say is the greatest strength an actor/actress can have outside of acting ability itself?
Schuberth: Perseverance. This job is all about moving forward no matter the setbacks or “nos.” The people who don’t give up are usually the ones you see 20 years down the line with a career and a powerful story.
TrunkSpace: What is your ultimate dream when it comes to your acting career? Where would you like your path to lead?
Schuberth: The biggest dream I have when it comes to my acting career is that I might have a voice to create change in the world. I want people to know they have value, they are loved, and we all bring something unique to the table. If I can even make one person feel seen and worthy, then my career in acting has been worth it. I know God has created me to bring light and hope to those around me.
TrunkSpace: What advice would you give another young aspiring actor/actress who is considering moving away from home to pursue their dream?
Schuberth: I would say, if there is nothing else you can even consider doing, then come. Join the tribe, be ready to be challenged, to never give up chasing what you want, to live a journey that is only yours. It isn’t an easy one, but if you have the passion, it will be worth it.
TrunkSpace: Where can people (and casting directors) learn more about you?
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Wingspan (Game Review by Brandon Kempf)
Posted on January 27, 2019 by Brandon Kempf
Designer: Elizabeth Hargrave
Publisher: Stonemaier Games
Artists: Anna Maria Martinez Jaramillo, Natalia Rojas, Beth Sobel
Players: 1-5 (While Wingspan does have a solo mode, as most Stonemaier games do, I will be focusing on the multi-player experience)
Every day, more and more games are released into the wild, both in idea and physical form. In order for one to stand out from the rest of the pack, more and more publishers are leaning on fantastic production and special values to their devoted fans for that bump, for that something extra to stand out from the rest.
One publisher that does this better than most is Stonemaier Games. Jamey Stegmaier has built a devoted following from his days of running Kickstarters to now selling via his own website directly. He even has a “Champion Program” that grants those who pay the yearly $12 fee, early free delivery of the newest Stonemaier titles as they become available. He produces beautiful games and supports his community of fans. So everytime there is a Stonemaier release, it will be the topic du jour for the weeks leading up to and after release. This cycle’s topic du jour is Wingspan, a competitive engine building, card game of bird watching and collecting.
Wingspan comes to us from designer Elizabeth Hargrave, whose only other design credit is for a small PnP game which won the 2018 Button Shy “Gen Can’t” design contest, Tussie-Mussie. Whereas that title was minimalist with only 18 cards, Wingspan is a lot more than that. It’s over 170 unique cards full of birds, the box is full of some cardboard, and then even more cardboard and even some wooden bird eggs to top it all off. Wingspan is definitely a big box production. If you want, you can even turn some of that cardboard into wood via a Meeple Source upgrade pack.
In the game, every player has a player board, and that player board has three rows for cards that are five columns wide, meaning each row can house five cards. These rows represent different habitats for your birds — forest, grassland and wetlands. Each of those habitats will hold birds, but they also will work as your action spaces as well. There are four actions that you can take in the game (the first action plays a bit differently than the second to fourth actions):
Play a bird card from your hand: It’s as simple as it sounds. If you have bird in hand that you would like to play out to your player board, you pay the food required to attract that bird and place it in the appropriate habitat. The spots furthest to the left are of no extra cost, but as you work your way to the right, there is an Egg cost to playing bird cards as well.
Gain food: Food is represented by dice, there are five of them in the game that are rolled to start and will be re-rolled when the food supply runs out. To gain food, you place one of your action cubes on the left-most empty space on your player board and you do what it tells you. Far left you take one die worth of food from the supply and remove that die from the pool, the further right, your options increase.
Lay eggs: Same as above, you place your action cube on the left most available space and gain that many eggs to place on birds on your player board. Two eggs at the far left, up to four at the far right.
Draw bird cards: Also surprisingly the same as above, place your action cube on the left most available space and gain as many cards as shown, increasing in number the further right the space is.
The catch of this game is when doing actions 2-4, you also move your action cube left one space at a time after completing an action, you stop at any birds that are already on your board in the row you have chosen and you may activate any special actions on the cards that are in brown. Some birds don’t have any, they are usually high value cards points wise, some have pink actions, those are triggered when others take a specific action and some actions are taken when the bird is played and have no actions thereafter.
After everyone has completed all of their actions in a round, eight in that first round, there is a quick reset and a scoring. Each game has four random scoring opportunities that are revealed at the beginning of the game, one is scored at the end of each round. One side of the round scoring board allows for competitive scoring, where first is going to get more than second and on down the line. The other side of the board is for less competitive games, where how you do is in your control. To score these, each round you place an action cube where you score that round. This means that the next round, you will have fewer actions to take. The first round the players will have eight actions, second round seven, and then six in the third and five in the final round.
At the end of the game you are going to score several things — first off, the birds on your player board, then any bonus scoring cards you have (everyone gets one to keep at the beginning of the game) are scored, along with points for your end-of-round bonuses. After those, the players will gain one point each for any eggs still on their player board, any birds tucked under other birds on their player board, and any food that is stored on a bird card on their player board. Surprise! The player with the most points wins!
Wingspan is a game that does everything that it purports to do, it works smoothly and apart from about a dozen or so errors on the cards it’s a well put together production. The rulebook, while it seems to be organized to not be user friendly, has all the information present and it is spelled out clearly, I really don’t recall anything we questioned that wasn’t answered in the rule book or the Appendix. It even comes complete with a Quick Reference Guide to get you into the game and running even faster, but do yourself a favor and read the rule book as well, it will all make more sense.
The art is subjectively beautiful, if maybe a bit disjointed, as the cards don’t really match the player boards and it can be someone jarring to cover up part of your player board with a card that stands out quite a bit, but maybe that’s the point, you don’t want the cards to blend in with the player board environment, since in theory you are going to want to remember the cards are there when you activate a row, but aesthetically it can be a bit jarring. The production throughout is fantastic, the rule books are linen finish, the cards surprisingly aren’t though. The dice are nice wooden dice with distinctive graphic design on them to easily tell what they grant. The extras are nice as well, some custom Stonemaier bit trays, only four when five would have been nice, but I get it. There is a nice plastic tray for all of the cards to rest safely in while being stored and that tray also doubles as a display for the cards during the game, There is a nice cardboard dice tower that looks like a bird feeder. All of this really makes the game stand out on the table.
So why is it that gameplay doesn’t stand out as much as physical production? Most of the actions of the birds are going to just be different variations of other cards, so while there are 170 distinct and unique cards, after a bit they will seem only unique in art and bird type. Sure they grant different things, one may grant seeds or one may grant rodents, but they start to feel a bit same-y after a couple plays. There is very little interaction here among the players. The pink powers that can be activated once in between your turns are about the only things that can affect anyone else, other than possibly hate drafting a bird or two if you figure out a goal card or what a player is trying to do, or taking the food dice that are either/or options to leave fewer choices. Everything seems to be a positive reinforcement here, who knew competitive bird collectors were so friendly. The rule book even tells you that “Players should help each other notice when a bird with a pink power should be activated”. So really, there is no sense of urgency, no way to thwart your opponents whose Chickadees and Nuthatches are gathering four seed each time they take the gather food action. So while Wingspan is indeed a “competitive” game, it’s strictly you, maximizing your score on your player board. This will definitely appeal to some people in the gaming sphere, but for me in a game like this, it’s a negative. I want to be able to force you to adapt and change your plans through actions I take.
Those pink action birds are also kind of a gamble, your opponents don’t have to trigger any cards, it’s optional to do so, so there have been games where we’ve played a couple of those birds and then no one triggers them. Now, most of the time it would give a benefit to both players to trigger, but they don’t have to, so you’ve played what is usually a low scoring bird that offers very little benefit to you in hopes of certain cards coming out, or your opponents even triggering them. 170 cards may not seem like a lot, but you only see a fraction of them each game, even with 4-5 players.
Speaking of player counts, Wingspan plays and feels exactly the same at two player, as it does at three, four or five. There is nothing different about how they play other than in the higher player counts, you are going to have more downtime between your turns. Your Pink Bird actions will still only activate one time in between your turns, no matter how many players may trigger them in between.
Wingspan can really suffer from “card digging”. You have certain goals to attain, both public and private, but with only three cards showing in the offer, you more than likely will have to top deck, or keep drawing cards until you find ones that work for what you are going for. There are reasons to have a lot of cards in hand, and there is no hand limit, but still, card digging is one of my biggest pet peeves in these types of games. The wetlands are made for this action and lots of Water type birds will grant you more cards as you go. But if you are looking for that specific type to fulfill something and they never come out for you, it can be awfully frustrating. I understand that’s the nature of these engine building games that use cards, you can’t just always get what you want and you have to adapt at times, but when a game has specific goals for scoring at the end of each round and points are always tight, it can make for very unsatisfying situations in game.
In our game group, we throw the word “fine” out to describe a lot of games, sometimes in jest and other times as kind of one of those damning words. Wingspan is really just “fine,” there is nothing inherently wrong with it. I almost wish there was some kind of glaring mistake in design, that would at least give it some uniqueness. But what you end up getting from Wingspan in that hour or so of playing is a lighter “engine-builder” than Terraforming Mars and a heavier “engine-builder” than Gizmos, but that’s where the comparisons stop as those two games have managed to make themselves stand out in their weight class. Wingspan almost seems to revel in its middle of the roadness, its lack of anything that makes it distinct from anything else, other than the fact that it’s a grand production for a game about collecting birds.
Alan H: I have played about 6 times now with different groups, as it is the game in demand. Part of this the publisher – it’s the new Stonemaier- while the gameplay is easy to teach and pickup, so new players absorb the rules and options quickly. Finally, there’s the bird and the images, which are a great selling point for the game. It’s not the best game of 2019, even published to date, but it is an easy game to introduce and people who like lightweight games will enjoy it.
In my groups in England, the birdie puns have been flying (oops, another one) around. This enlivens the interaction and so far the game has been enjoyed but not loved in my groups. Even better would be a British birds set, but perhaps there are other areas of the world that may be explored next.
I Like it. Alan H
Neutral. Brandon K
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9 Responses to Wingspan (Game Review by Brandon Kempf)
@mangozoid says:
That mechanism of having to carry out the special abilities of each card as you move across them sounds similar to a reversal of the Raxxon ‘push-your-luck’ mechanic whereby players have to undergo the consequences of their previous actions in a turn before they can perform a new action… I can see how it could be frustrating if other players have a better engine than you if there’s no way to influence or close that engine down, but arguably that’s a pretty standard thing in many other games, I believe…? Probably more importantly, “Was it fun?” is probably the key question.
The first play at two players was fairly fun, in fact we set it up and played it again immediately after. In theory you can have more of an impact with what to do at two player, do you activate pink abilities or no, but ultimately after a couple more plays you see that things are going the same way they went before because everything is kind of the same, and it loses a lot of luster. All I wanted was a way to slow down certain things that others are doing, throw a monkey wrench into their plans and make them think on their feet, but that doesn’t exist here. So if someone built a better “engine”, you just hope that you build a better one, but you can’t rely on your own wits here as you can be very reliant on a blind card draw.
Charlie Theel says:
A quality measured review as always Brandon. Good work!
Thank you Charlie! You had something pop up in my feed today that I need to read as well, I believe. :)
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For our group of gaming veterans (take that in more ways than one), Wingspan is THE game. We love it’s weight (not too involved, not too simple), it’s length of play, the puzzle-like feel (struggle to build the best scoring engine), its bits and overall appearance, its ratio of luck-to-strategy, and its intuitive & simple flow of game-play. While we love Scythe, Istanbul, Terraforming Mars, Root, Brass:Birmingham, Terra Mystica, war-games of all types, Great Western Trail, and other heavy-weight strategy games, Wingspan has ‘flown’ (couldn’t resist) to the top of our gaming cache. This, after some 7-12 games by our group members. Verdict: Love it.
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1. Laskey, Alexander. Horizontal Transfer of β-Lactam Resistance in the Mouse Gut Microbiota Under Antibiotic Treatment.
Degree: MSc, Médecine / Medicine, 2020, University of Ottawa
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25628
► The rise of β-lactam-resistant bacteria from agricultural settings, including food-producing animals and their related food products has become a significant public health concern. Consumption of… (more)
▼ The rise of β-lactam-resistant bacteria from agricultural settings, including food-producing animals and their related food products has become a significant public health concern. Consumption of food contaminated by such bacteria may cause infection as well as the transmission of resistance genes. Here we used a mouse model to assess the impact of different antibiotic treatments on the composition of the gut microbiota and any impact on the transfer of β-lactam resistance genes between donor and recipient bacteria. Mice were inoculated with β-lactam resistant Escherichia coli and an antibiotic-susceptible Salmonella Heidelberg strain. The mice were treated with either streptomycin, ampicillin or both antibiotics. Mouse feces were collected at regular intervals and processed using selective culture techniques to capture potential transfer of resistance genes. Gene transfer was confirmed by whole genome sequencing. DNA extracted from the feces was used for monitoring changes in microbial profiles by 16S rDNA sequencing. In the absence of antibiotic treatment, the inoculated bacteria were only transiently detected and no transconjugants were recovered from the mouse feces. In comparison, antibiotic treatment changed microbial profiles in the mouse gut, enhanced colonization of the bacterial isolates, and facilitated the transfer of the resistance genes into both S. Heidelberg and commensal E. coli recipient strains. The results of this study indicated that the use of multiple antibiotics may enhance infection of opportunistic β-lactam resistant bacterial pathogens relative to single antibiotics and pose a greater risk in terms of antibiotic resistance gene transfer. Such process might occur in clinical settings where patients are under prolonged antibiotic treatments. Information gained through this study together with future work will inform the development of new policies guiding the prudent use of antibiotics. Advisors/Committee Members: Lin, Min (supervisor), Wang, Lisheng (supervisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance
Laskey, A. (2020). Horizontal Transfer of β-Lactam Resistance in the Mouse Gut Microbiota Under Antibiotic Treatment . (Masters Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25628
Laskey, Alexander. “Horizontal Transfer of β-Lactam Resistance in the Mouse Gut Microbiota Under Antibiotic Treatment.” 2020. Masters Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25628.
Laskey, Alexander. “Horizontal Transfer of β-Lactam Resistance in the Mouse Gut Microbiota Under Antibiotic Treatment.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Laskey A. Horizontal Transfer of β-Lactam Resistance in the Mouse Gut Microbiota Under Antibiotic Treatment. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25628.
Laskey A. Horizontal Transfer of β-Lactam Resistance in the Mouse Gut Microbiota Under Antibiotic Treatment. [Masters Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2020. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-25628
2. Hardefeldt, Laura Yvonne. Antimicrobial stewardship in Australian veterinary practices.
Degree: 2017, University of Melbourne
► Antimicrobial use by the veterinary profession has been coming under increasing scrutiny by medical, public health and government officials as the threat of antimicrobial resistance… (more)
▼ Antimicrobial use by the veterinary profession has been coming under increasing scrutiny by medical, public health and government officials as the threat of antimicrobial resistance becomes increasingly clear. The World Health Organisation has described antimicrobial resistance as one of the major public health challenges of our time. It is clear that at least some drug-resistant pathogens have evolved under selective pressure from antimicrobial use in agriculture and may be contributing significantly to resistance in clinical setting. Antimicrobial stewardship is the selection of the most appropriate antimicrobial for a given disease in a given animal, with the aim of reducing the risk of adverse effects in that animal, and reducing the likelihood of developing resistance on an individual level, on a farm level and on a national level. Currently none of the core elements of antimicrobial stewardship are widely available for veterinarians in Australia, and there is very sparse data available on which to base an antimicrobial stewardship program. This research project aims to address this paucity of data. A range of research methods were used to assess detailed antimicrobial use by veterinarians in Australia and the enablers and barriers to antimicrobial stewardship. These included quantitative methods such as surveys and analysis of pet insurance data, and qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups. While antimicrobials with low importance rating were predominately used in all species, under-dosing and inappropriate timing of antimicrobial therapy were common particularly in horses and cattle. Few veterinary practices in Australia had antimicrobial stewardship policies in place, or were using antimicrobial use guidelines. The key barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs were a lack of antimicrobial stewardship governance structures, client expectations and competition between practices, the cost of microbiological testing, and a lack of access to education, training and antimicrobial stewardship resources. The enablers were, firstly, concern for the role of veterinary antimicrobial use in development of antimicrobial resistance in humans, secondly , a sense of pride in the service provided, and thirdly , preparedness to change prescribing practices. This research culminated in the development of a proposed antimicrobial stewardship policy and procedure documents, to enable veterinarians to institute antimicrobial stewardship programs that suit their individual practice requirements. However, it is likely that governance changes will be necessary to compel veterinary practice owners to implement antimicrobial stewardship on a large scale.
Subjects/Keywords: antibiotic; antimicrobial resistance
Hardefeldt, L. Y. (2017). Antimicrobial stewardship in Australian veterinary practices . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/198446
Hardefeldt, Laura Yvonne. “Antimicrobial stewardship in Australian veterinary practices.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/198446.
Hardefeldt, Laura Yvonne. “Antimicrobial stewardship in Australian veterinary practices.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Hardefeldt LY. Antimicrobial stewardship in Australian veterinary practices. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/198446.
Hardefeldt LY. Antimicrobial stewardship in Australian veterinary practices. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/198446
3. Primeau, Courtney. Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada.
Degree: PhD, Department of Population Medicine, 2020, University of Guelph
URL: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17935
► Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant global threat to human and veterinary medicine. AMR is a complex health issue, with factors across human and veterinary… (more)
▼ Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant global threat to human and veterinary medicine. AMR is a complex health issue, with factors across human and veterinary medicine, plant and animal production, and the economy driving the emergence and persistence of resistance. This thesis sought to incorporate diverse methodological approaches, including data sources, methods of analyses, and types of data, and explore how these data could improve our understanding of AMR and its drivers. The primary objectives were to a) evaluate the use of different data sources to improve understanding of AMR, the drivers of AMR, and the interactions between drivers in the overall system, and b) explore perceptions about AMR, key messages to be communicated, and preferred methods of communication about AMR with future antimicrobial prescribers. The methods used included analysis of surveillance data for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria, synthesis of literature-derived risk factor data for ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in select food-producing animals, analysis of the AMR system using social network analysis, and qualitative exploration of AMR perceptions among future antimicrobial prescribers. The results suggested that overall prevalence of ESBL-producing E. coli and Salmonella in humans and agrifood samples is low, but that ESBLs are widely distributed in agrifood and human sources. There were few studies examining factors associated with ESBL-producing organisms in food-producing animals, highlighting an important research gap. Analysis of the overall AMR system identified key leverage points, including on-farm antimicrobial use and consumer demand for product, that should be explored as targets for future interventions to reduce AMR. Finally, future antimicrobial prescribers felt that AMR is a very important global issue, and that collaboration between sectors is needed to mitigate AMR successfully. These findings highlight the need for ongoing, integrated surveillance and research efforts across food-producing animals, food products, and humans in Canada, including the drivers of use and resistance, to identify emerging trends and assess the relative contribution of different transmission pathways to resistant human infections. Furthermore, the results have important implications for future knowledge translation and communication materials, and can be used to support the development of communication tools that are tailored to the needs of different stakeholders. Advisors/Committee Members: Parmley, Jane (advisor), McEwen, Scott (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: epidemiology; antimicrobial resistance
Primeau, C. (2020). Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17935
Primeau, Courtney. “Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Guelph. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17935.
Primeau, Courtney. “Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Primeau C. Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Guelph; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17935.
Primeau C. Exploring the contributions of genotypic, phenotypic, social and qualitative data sources to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance in Canada. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Guelph; 2020. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17935
University of Tennessee – Knoxville
4. Samuels, Ronita. An Epidemiologic Study of Antimicrobial Resistance.
Degree: 2019, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
URL: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5703
► The emergence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria has become a serious public health concern. The use of antimicrobials for prophylaxis make it important to estimate the… (more)
▼ The emergence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria has become a serious public health concern. The use of antimicrobials for prophylaxis make it important to estimate the magnitude of the problem in the animal population. The aim of the second chapter in this study is to investigate the burden and patterns of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among equine Staphylococcus samples submitted to the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UKVDL) from 1993 to 2009. The proportion of resistant isolates by animal breed, species of organism, sample source, and time period were computed. Chi-square and Cochran-Armitage trend tests were used to identify significant associations and temporal trends, respectively. Logistic regression models were used to investigate predictors of AMR and multidrug resistance (MDR).In addition to the problem of antimicrobial resistant bacteria, appropriate usage of antimicrobials is also a global public health concern where opinions regarding appropriate use vary greatly amongst veterinarians. Therefore, the objectives of the third chapter of this study are to investigate the opinions, knowledge and perceptions of veterinarians in Kentucky regarding AMR and antimicrobial prescription practices as well as to identify predictors of their knowledge and opinions. This cross-sectional study uses a 30-question survey questionnaire administered to members of the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association (KVMA). The proportion of responses to survey questions and 95% confidence intervals were computed. Predictors of improper use of antimicrobials and antimicrobial prescription practices of the respondents as well as their colleagues were investigated using multinomial logistic regression models.The appropriate usage of antimicrobials is also an important topic in developing countries such as South Africa. Thus, the fourth chapter in this study investigates the knowledge, prescription practices and attitudes towards AMR among veterinarians in the City of Tshwane, Metropolitan Municipality. A 30-question survey was administered and the percentages of responses to survey questions and their 95% confidence intervals will be computed. Ordinary logistic models are used to investigate predictors of knowledge of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial prescription practices of respondents. Predictors of antimicrobial prescription practices of respondents’ colleagues are identified using multinomial logistic models.
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; multidrug resistance; Staphylococcus
Samuels, R. (2019). An Epidemiologic Study of Antimicrobial Resistance . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Retrieved from https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5703
Samuels, Ronita. “An Epidemiologic Study of Antimicrobial Resistance.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5703.
Samuels, Ronita. “An Epidemiologic Study of Antimicrobial Resistance.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Samuels R. An Epidemiologic Study of Antimicrobial Resistance. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Tennessee – Knoxville; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5703.
Samuels R. An Epidemiologic Study of Antimicrobial Resistance. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Tennessee – Knoxville; 2019. Available from: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5703
5. Moffat, Jonathan. Frequency and characterization of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and gentamicin-resistant Enterobacterales from Canadian turkeys and distribution of associated resistance determinants.
Degree: MS, Department of Pathobiology, 2019, University of Guelph
► Frequency of gentamicin- and extended-spectrum cephalosporin (ESC)-resistant Enterobacterales in turkey fecal samples following enrichment or direct plating, and from diagnostic isolates, were determined. Gentamicin- and… (more)
▼ Frequency of gentamicin- and extended-spectrum cephalosporin (ESC)-resistant Enterobacterales in turkey fecal samples following enrichment or direct plating, and from diagnostic isolates, were determined. Gentamicin- and ESC-resistant Enterobacteriales were recovered from 100% and 81% of farms sampled using selective enrichments, respectively. Seventy-one percent of ESC resistant E. coli were blaCMY-2-positive. Whole genome sequencing of blaCTX-M isolates showed multiple variants of this gene present in a diversity of Achtman sequence types, with blaCTX-M-1 and blaCTX-M-55 being the most common. The most frequent gentamicin resistance gene was aac(3)-VI and was often found in isolates with genes encoding resistance to sulphonamides and tetracyclines, which are antimicrobials commonly used in the treatment of turkey diseases. ESC- and gentamicin-resistant strains are widespread and are often multi-drug resistant, but make up the minority of the E. coli population. Therefore, careful selection of substitute antimicrobials or alternatives to antimicrobials are needed to avoid spread of these resistant strains. Advisors/Committee Members: Boerlin, Patrick (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: turkeys; E. coli; antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial stewardship
Moffat, J. (2019). Frequency and characterization of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and gentamicin-resistant Enterobacterales from Canadian turkeys and distribution of associated resistance determinants . (Masters Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17465
Moffat, Jonathan. “Frequency and characterization of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and gentamicin-resistant Enterobacterales from Canadian turkeys and distribution of associated resistance determinants.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Guelph. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17465.
Moffat, Jonathan. “Frequency and characterization of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and gentamicin-resistant Enterobacterales from Canadian turkeys and distribution of associated resistance determinants.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Moffat J. Frequency and characterization of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and gentamicin-resistant Enterobacterales from Canadian turkeys and distribution of associated resistance determinants. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Guelph; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17465.
Moffat J. Frequency and characterization of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and gentamicin-resistant Enterobacterales from Canadian turkeys and distribution of associated resistance determinants. [Masters Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2019. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/17465
University of Namibia
6. Shilangale, Renatus P. Prevalence, Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance os Salmonella isolated from beef and small animal feed in Namibia.
Degree: 2014, University of Namibia
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/807
► The occurrence of Salmonella is a global challenge in the public health and food production sectors. Contaminated beef and animal feed with Salmonella may lead… (more)
▼ The occurrence of Salmonella is a global challenge in the public health and food production sectors. Contaminated beef and animal feed with Salmonella may lead to infections of humans through food chain. The present study investigated the prevalence, serovar and antimicrobial resistance of strains of Salmonella serovars isolated from beef (meat cuts, meat fluid and carcass swabs) and animal feed (meat-and-bone, and blood meal) samples from the abattoirs in Namibia. Beef (9508) and animal feed (827) samples were examined for the presence of Salmonella. The data showed that 0.85 % (n= 81) of beef were positive for Salmonella. In animal feed, 11.73 % (n = 97) were positive for Salmonella. The prevalence was higher in carcass swab samples than meat cuts and meat fluid but did not differ significantly (p > 0.05) between the products. However, there was a significant difference (p < 0.05) on the prevalence of Salmonella in blood meal as compared to meat-and-bone meal. Forty-four different types of Salmonella serovars were isolated and identified in this study. However, 23 isolated Salmonella serovars could not be identified conclusively. Of the Salmonella serovars isolated, S.Chester was the most common isolated serovar (18.54 %) followed by S. Schwarzengrund (7.30 %), S. Anatum (5.06 %), S. Typhimurium (4.49 %), S. Braenderup (4.49 %) and S. Reading (4.49 %). From 19 Salmonella serovars which exhibited resistance to one or more types of antimicrobials, 15 different Salmonella serovars exhibited resistance to at least two antimicrobials. Most Salmonella were resistant to sulfisoxazole followed by trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline whereas, 80.3% (n= 57) were susceptible to all 16 antimicrobials tested. Resistance to sulfisoxazole and the trimethroprim-suflamethoxazole combination were the most common. Of all Salmonella isolated, 29.21 % (n = 178) exhibited resistance to the antimicrobials used. The resistant isolates belonged to 19 different Salmonella serovars of which 15 different types of serovars showed multidrug resistance (MDR). From the study it was found that the prevalence of Salmonella in Namibia is comparable to some studies in other countries. Few or no similar studies are available in the Southern African region for comparison. The susceptibility of Salmonella to the antimicrobials tested indicated that antimicrobial resistance is not as common and extensive in Namibia as has been reported in many other countries. It also appears that there is a range of antimicrobials available that are effective in managing Salmonella infections in Namibia. However, there is some evidence that resistance is developing and this will need further monitoring to ensure it does not escalate to a problem. This study has helped to understand the prevalence of Salmonella serovars in Namibia and how their antimicrobial resistance pattern may influence on the selection of drugs and the treatment of salmonellosis in humans and animals. It is recommended that continuous studies to be done to monitor the link between the…
Subjects/Keywords: Serotypes ; Antimicrobial resistance ; Salmonella ; Salmonella
Shilangale, R. P. (2014). Prevalence, Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance os Salmonella isolated from beef and small animal feed in Namibia. (Thesis). University of Namibia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11070/807
Shilangale, Renatus P. “Prevalence, Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance os Salmonella isolated from beef and small animal feed in Namibia. ” 2014. Thesis, University of Namibia. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11070/807.
Shilangale, Renatus P. “Prevalence, Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance os Salmonella isolated from beef and small animal feed in Namibia. ” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Shilangale RP. Prevalence, Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance os Salmonella isolated from beef and small animal feed in Namibia. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Namibia; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/807.
Shilangale RP. Prevalence, Serotypes and antimicrobial resistance os Salmonella isolated from beef and small animal feed in Namibia. [Thesis]. University of Namibia; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11070/807
7. Pereira, Richard. The Epidemiology Of Antimicrobial Resistant Enteric Bacteria Of Public Health Significance In Dairy Cattle.
Degree: PhD, Veterinary Medicine, 2015, Cornell University
► Multidrug resistant bacterial strains are a current challenge to modern medicine, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are responsible for 20… (more)
▼ Multidrug resistant bacterial strains are a current challenge to modern medicine, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are responsible for 20 billion in excess healthcare costs, 35 billion in societal costs, and 8 million additional hospital days in the United States. As occurs for clinical use, the administration of antimicrobial drugs in cattle creates selective pressure shown to result, in many cases, in resistance to antimicrobial drugs critically important to human medicine. Furthermore, the use of antimicrobial drugs in food animals, specifically drugs in classes that are also used in human medicine, remains a contentious public health issue. Studies that identify risk factors that increase the rate of selection, amplification and spread of resistance on dairy farms, and generate information to propose intervention to prevent or reduce such undesired outcomes are of vital importance. The studies in this dissertation focused on this knowledge gap and used epidemiology, microbiology and genomic approaches to generated novel data in many priority areas, including (1) prevalence and concentration of drug residues present in the milk commonly fed to dairy calves; (2) impacts of feeding milk with drug residues on selection of resistant bacteria and on the composition of the fecal microbiota of preweaned calves; (3) effect of preweaned dairy calf housing systems on prevalence of antimicrobial resistance; (4) prevalence of resistant E. coli and Salmonella in cattle under different heifer-raising practices; and (5) efficacy of using ultraviolet light as an intervention to reduce pathogens in the milk and colostrum fed to calves. This dissertation supports the view that intended or unintended exposure of cattle to therapeutic and sub-therapeutic concentrations of antimicrobial drugs can select for resistance to antimicrobials of critical importance to veterinary and human medicine. Moreover it encourages the implementation of management practices that improve the health of cattle without the use of antimicrobials, and endorses the judicious use of antimicrobial drugs concomitant with improvement of animal production and wellbeing. Advisors/Committee Members: Warnick,Lorin D (chair), Grohn,Yrjo Tapio (committee member), Stanhope,Michael J (committee member), Altier,Craig (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; Public Health; Cattle
Pereira, R. (2015). The Epidemiology Of Antimicrobial Resistant Enteric Bacteria Of Public Health Significance In Dairy Cattle . (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40710
Pereira, Richard. “The Epidemiology Of Antimicrobial Resistant Enteric Bacteria Of Public Health Significance In Dairy Cattle.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40710.
Pereira, Richard. “The Epidemiology Of Antimicrobial Resistant Enteric Bacteria Of Public Health Significance In Dairy Cattle.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Pereira R. The Epidemiology Of Antimicrobial Resistant Enteric Bacteria Of Public Health Significance In Dairy Cattle. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40710.
Pereira R. The Epidemiology Of Antimicrobial Resistant Enteric Bacteria Of Public Health Significance In Dairy Cattle. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40710
8. Thomas, Kevin. Characterization of the resistome and microbiome of retail meats processed from carcasses of conventionally and naturally raised cattle.
Degree: MS(M.S.), Animal Sciences, 2019, Colorado State University
► Concern over human exposure to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) via consumption of meat products has raised questions about use of antimicrobial drugs in food-animal production. This… (more)
▼ Concern over human exposure to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) via consumption of meat products has raised questions about use of antimicrobial drugs in food-animal production. This concern has led to an increase in consumer demand for meat products from naturally-raised cattle, or those raised without use of antimicrobials. While previous studies have assessed AMR gene presence in cattle and throughout the beef supply chain, very little work has surveyed the resistome on retail meats available for consumer purchase. The objective of this study was to determine the extent of antimicrobial resistance and characterize the microbiome in retail ground beef products from naturally-raised (raised without antibiotics) and conventionally-raised cattle utilizing 16S rRNA and targeted shotgun metagenomic, high-throughput sequencing techniques. Differing in packaging types and lean points, samples of ground beef derived from carcasses of cattle that were conventionally-raised (n = 50) or naturally-raised cattle (n = 50) were purchased from retail outlets in six major metropolitan cities throughout the United States. Samples were shipped to Colorado State University and processed following 48 hours of refrigeration at 4°C. Thirty-gram portions of each sample were removed and subjected to DNA extraction procedures via DNeasy PowerFecal Microbial Kit. Cell lysates were composited by production system and city before being subjected to paired-end 16S rRNA gene sequencing and targeted shotgun metagenomic sequencing using an enrichment system developed in our laboratory. Microbiome analysis was performed from 16S data with QIIME2 v.2018.4 by utilizing many of the available plugins. Resistome analysis of enriched metagenomic data was performed using a modified AMRPlusPlus pipeline. Microbiome alpha diversity analysis indicated that ground beef processed from conventionally-raised animals had a greater (P < 0.05) species richness than natural ground beef products. Microbiome composition differed (P < 0.05) between samples of differing production systems based on abundance weighted UniFrac distances. Additionally, when analyzed using unweighted UniFrac distances, microbial composition differed (P < 0.05) between samples from different cities. Differences in product packaging availability between cities may have caused these differences detected in microbiome composition, as well as environmental contamination or product handling in distribution. Targeted shotgun sequencing yielded a total of 4.6 trillion reads across all 60 composite samples, with only 58 samples containing hits to AMR. Of these 58 samples, 10.1 million reads were assigned to: 520 groups, 101 mechanisms of resistance, and 22 classes of antibiotics. The three most abundant classes of resistance detected included tetracyclines (56% of assigned reads), multi-drug resistance (21% of reads), and beta-lactams (7% of reads). An analysis of similarity on samples ordinated using Euclidian distances suggested that the overall resistome differed (P < 0.05) by production system,… Advisors/Committee Members: Belk, Keith (advisor), Morley, Paul (committee member), Metcalf, Jessica (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: meatagenomics; resistome; microbiome; antimicrobial resistance
Thomas, K. (2019). Characterization of the resistome and microbiome of retail meats processed from carcasses of conventionally and naturally raised cattle . (Masters Thesis). Colorado State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10217/195254
Thomas, Kevin. “Characterization of the resistome and microbiome of retail meats processed from carcasses of conventionally and naturally raised cattle.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Colorado State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/195254.
Thomas, Kevin. “Characterization of the resistome and microbiome of retail meats processed from carcasses of conventionally and naturally raised cattle.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Thomas K. Characterization of the resistome and microbiome of retail meats processed from carcasses of conventionally and naturally raised cattle. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Colorado State University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/195254.
Thomas K. Characterization of the resistome and microbiome of retail meats processed from carcasses of conventionally and naturally raised cattle. [Masters Thesis]. Colorado State University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/195254
9. Stalteri, Rosa. ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ADAPTABILITY.
Degree: MPH, 2020, McMaster University
BACKGROUND: Antibiotics are essential medicines and their effectiveness is under threat due to antimicrobial resistance. Guidelines are one way to conserve antibiotic effectiveness given that… (more)
BACKGROUND: Antibiotics are essential medicines and their effectiveness is under threat due to antimicrobial resistance. Guidelines are one way to conserve antibiotic effectiveness given that they are intended to modify clinician prescribing. Guidelines that provide antibiotic recommendations should make explicit contextual considerations that influence antimicrobial resistance and their downstream effects on resistance emergence. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and respiratory tract infection guidelines and recommendations to examine how and to what extent they are considering contextual factors that influence antimicrobial resistance. We also investigated whether there are guidelines and recommendations that can be adopted or adapted to local contexts. RESULTS: We found that within 74 included guidelines, two thirds of recommendations considered antimicrobial resistance. Of which only five guidelines considered all factors required to consider local aspects such as values, resource use, acceptability, feasibility, and equity. As such, these five guidelines can be either adopted or adapted to Canadian and other contexts. We also found that 39% of guidelines met credibility scores of 60% or greater in AGREE II domains: scope and purpose, rigor of development, and editorial independence. CLINCAL IMPLICATIONS: There are very few Infectious disease guidelines for highly prevalent diseases that do not consider all important contextual factors may influence antimicrobial resistance. Our findings can support societies and organizations, public health policy, and health care stakeholders to develop and implement guidelines that are applicable to local contexts efficiently and resourcefully. Our antimicrobial resistance recommendation framework, used in addition to GRADE Evidence to Decision frameworks, is a start to having this come to fruition.
Master of Public Health (MPH)
Advisors/Committee Members: Schünemann, Holger, Health Research Methodology.
Subjects/Keywords: Guidelines; Recommendations; Antimicrobial resistance; Contextual
Stalteri, R. (2020). ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ADAPTABILITY . (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25524
Stalteri, Rosa. “ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ADAPTABILITY.” 2020. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25524.
Stalteri, Rosa. “ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ADAPTABILITY.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Stalteri R. ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ADAPTABILITY. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25524.
Stalteri R. ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: CONTEXTUALIZATION AND ADAPTABILITY. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25524
10. Jung, Dongyun 1990-. Antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported vegetables and spices purchased from niche markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
► The role of imported vegetables and spices in the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in Canada has been inadequately studied. In this investigation, resistant organisms from… (more)
▼ The role of imported vegetables and spices in the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in Canada has been inadequately studied. In this investigation, resistant organisms from imported vegetables and spices in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan were investigated. A total of 147 vegetable and spice products imported from primarily Asian and African countries, were purchased from international markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Samples were selectively cultured for a panel of bacteria where resistance is known to be emerging. The proportion of samples positive for each organism were as follows: E. coli (n=15, 10.2%), Salmonella spp. (n=2, 1.4%), Enterobacter spp. (n=12, 8.2%), K. pneumoniae (n=2, 1.4%), Acinetobacter spp. (n=12, 8.2%), Pseudomonas spp. (n=10, 6.8%), S. aureus (n=7, 4.8%) and Enterococcus spp. (n=69, 46.9%). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of isolates was conducted by broth micro dilution and agar dilution. Based on the susceptibility of each organism, isolates were then screened for resistance genes (β-lactamases and plasmid mediated quinolones resistance determinants) by PCR. Multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae were identified. Among other organisms, methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) were identified. Resistance to the penicillins, cephalosporins, quinolones and aminoglycosides mediated by broad spectrum β-lactamases and plasmid mediated quinolone resistance determinants (PMQR) were identified. Broad spectrum β-lactamase producers were cultured from 6/147 (4.1%) of samples tested. The most common enzymes found were CTX-M-15 (n=4), TEM-4 (n=1) and SHV-142 (n=1). The PMQRs (QnrB1, QnrB2, QnrS1 and AAC(6’)-Ib-cr) containing isolates were cultured from 2/147 (1.4%) of the samples. While all multi-drug resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates were susceptible to meropenem and colistin, several non-fermenters were resistant to these drugs. However, none of these organisms produced carbapenemases or possessed mobilized colistin resistance determinants (MCR-1, MCR-2, MCR-3, MCR-4). Salmonella spp. were susceptible to the most of tested drugs. With the exception of two MRSA, the S. aureus isolates were susceptible to other non-beta lactam drugs. Enterococcus spp. isolates were resistant to various drugs but susceptible to ampicillin, penicillin and vancomycin. It was interesting to observe that all of the multi-drug resistant organisms originated from countries which are recognized to have a high prevalence of resistance. Therefore, further study is required to understand the extent of antimicrobial resistance transmission by imported vegetables and spices from these countries to Canada. Advisors/Committee Members: Gow, Sheryl, Gerdts, Volker, Blondeau, Joseph.
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance; Imported foods
Jung, D. 1. (2019). Antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported vegetables and spices purchased from niche markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan . (Thesis). University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10388/11862
Jung, Dongyun 1990-. “Antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported vegetables and spices purchased from niche markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.” 2019. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/11862.
Jung, Dongyun 1990-. “Antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported vegetables and spices purchased from niche markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Jung D1. Antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported vegetables and spices purchased from niche markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Saskatchewan; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/11862.
Jung D1. Antimicrobial resistant bacteria from imported vegetables and spices purchased from niche markets in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. [Thesis]. University of Saskatchewan; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/11862
11. Le, Nhi Thi Quynh. Diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age in an urban community in Viet Nam.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:438b4e93-1c55-4e1d-acc2-b425ff7402ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780685
► Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in infectious disease is a major global health issue. AMR is a particular problem in low to middle-income countries (LMICs), where infectious… (more)
▼ Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in infectious disease is a major global health issue. AMR is a particular problem in low to middle-income countries (LMICs), where infectious diseases, such as diarrhoea, remain common and are commonly treated haphazardly with antimicrobials. The aim of my thesis was to provide a comprehensive study of diarrhoeal disease in children under the age of five years in the community in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Viet Nam. Additionally, I aimed to fill in a knowledge gap regarding antimicrobial usage for diarrhoea, the extent of AMR organisms in healthy children within the population, and investigate a potential solution for limiting AMR in the community. Active surveillance for diarrhoea in a prospective longitudinal cohort of 748 children followed for 24 months found a high incidence of diarrhoeal disease in the urban community (71.87/100 child-years of observation [95%CI: 65.68 -78.44]). Faecal samples were screened using conventional microbiology and multiplex molecular methods and found that the aetiology of this disease is highly variable. Pathogenic bacteria and viruses were detected at a high prevalence, but the most common were Salmonella and norovirus, respectively. Antimicrobials were commonly used for diarrhoeal treatment in hospital. Additionally, a mixed-methods approach in the community found an ease of access to antimicrobials for diarrhoeal management in the community through local pharmacies. However, despite antimicrobials being widely available in the community, antimicrobial usage was almost 10 times greater in the hospitals. Widespread antimicrobial access may induce the selection of antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs) and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs). An assessment of the prevalence of and risk factors for carrying AROs and ARGs demonstrated a high prevalence of carriage antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli (E. coli) and associated resistance genes to fluoroquinolones and third generation cephalosporins. Both these groups are commonly used to treat diarrhoea in this setting. Children of higher body weight and height z-score were more likely to carry fluoroquinolones resistance genes and younger children were more likely to carry either third generation cephalosporin resistance genes individually or in combination with fluoroquinolones resistance genes. Lastly, hypothesising that improved breastfeeding practices may reduce diarrhoeal disease and impact antimicrobial usage and consequently AMR, I investigated risk factors for suboptimal breastfeeding using data from a birth cohort conducted in both an urban and a semi-rural area. The study indicated that having a Caesarean section and neonatal complications prevented mothers from breastfeeding their infants during the hospital stay. Work from this thesis will contribute to the efforts of tackling AMR in a LMIC, specifically in Viet Nam where there is extensive exposure to antimicrobials and sustained exposure to enteric pathogens.
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance; Diarrhoea in children
Le, N. T. Q. (2018). Diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age in an urban community in Viet Nam . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:438b4e93-1c55-4e1d-acc2-b425ff7402ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780685
Le, Nhi Thi Quynh. “Diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age in an urban community in Viet Nam.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:438b4e93-1c55-4e1d-acc2-b425ff7402ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780685.
Le, Nhi Thi Quynh. “Diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age in an urban community in Viet Nam.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Le NTQ. Diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age in an urban community in Viet Nam. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:438b4e93-1c55-4e1d-acc2-b425ff7402ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780685.
Le NTQ. Diarrhoeal disease in children under five years of age in an urban community in Viet Nam. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2018. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:438b4e93-1c55-4e1d-acc2-b425ff7402ef ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780685
12. Hau, Samantha Jean. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 5 in comparison with clinical ST5 isolates from humans.
Degree: 2017, Iowa State University
URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16143
► Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal and pathogen of humans and other animals. Disease with S. aureus is complicated by dissemination of antimicrobial resistance, including methicillin… (more)
▼ Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal and pathogen of humans and other animals. Disease with S. aureus is complicated by dissemination of antimicrobial resistance, including methicillin resistance. Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is a significant burden on the health care industry (HA-MRSA); however, in recent years, public health concern has arisen from isolates harbored in the community (CA-MRSA) and livestock species (LA-MRSA). Concerns with LA-MRSA isolates are the direct impact of infection with livestock isolates and indirect impacts of genetic transfer of virulence or antimicrobial resistance genes from LA-MRSA isolates. The prototypical LA-MRSA strain, sequence type (ST) 398, is considered less virulent than HA- and CA-MRSA isolates. Reduced virulence of LA-MRSA ST398 isolates is attributed to loss of human specific virulence factors and reduced colonization and transmission in humans. While LA-MRSA ST398 isolates are common in European swine, LA-MRSA isolates in the United States are diverse including ST398, ST9, and ST5. LA-MRSA ST5 elevated public health concerns, because, unlike MRSA ST398 and ST9, MRSA ST5 is a globally disseminated and highly pathogenic lineage. To better understand direct and indirect impact of swine associated LA-MRSA ST5, this thesis investigated the genetics of swine associated and clinical MRSA ST5 isolates. Phylogenetic analysis revealed LA-MRSA ST5 isolates are genetically distinct from clinical MRSA ST5 isolates, which was confirmed by differences in virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes harbored on mobile genetic elements. LA-MRSA ST5 isolates lacked immune evasion genes harbored by the β-hemolysin converting bacteriophage and resistance genes differed between swine associated and clinical MRSA ST5 isolates, which indicated genetic exchange was unlikely between the screened populations. Resistance genes were consistent with selective pressures from antimicrobial use in the swine industry and hospital environment. Finally, swine associated and clinical MRSA ST5 isolates adhered equivalently to human keratinocytes, although LA-MRSA ST5 isolates lacked virulence factors contributing to colonization. These results indicate the isolates screened were distinct with no evidence of mobile genetic element transfer between subsets. The virulence of LA-MRSA ST5 isolates is expected to be reduced as compared to clinical MRSA ST5 isolates due to the absence of genes that contribute to disease in humans.
Subjects/Keywords: antimicrobial resistance; MRSA; swine; Microbiology
Hau, S. J. (2017). Genetic and phenotypic characterization of livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 5 in comparison with clinical ST5 isolates from humans . (Thesis). Iowa State University. Retrieved from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16143
Hau, Samantha Jean. “Genetic and phenotypic characterization of livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 5 in comparison with clinical ST5 isolates from humans.” 2017. Thesis, Iowa State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16143.
Hau, Samantha Jean. “Genetic and phenotypic characterization of livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 5 in comparison with clinical ST5 isolates from humans.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Hau SJ. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 5 in comparison with clinical ST5 isolates from humans. [Internet] [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16143.
Hau SJ. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 5 in comparison with clinical ST5 isolates from humans. [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2017. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16143
13. Davedow, Taylor. Investigation of an in-feed reduction of tylosin on the prevalence and severity of liver abscesses, antimicrobial resistant enterococci and productivity in feedlot cattle.
Degree: Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, 2019, University of Manitoba
► The primary objective of this work was to assess alternative feeding strategies on liver abscesses, growth performance, carcass traits, and immune responses in beef cattle… (more)
▼ The primary objective of this work was to assess alternative feeding strategies on liver abscesses, growth performance, carcass traits, and immune responses in beef cattle as well as to characterize antimicrobial resistance in enterococci isolated from cattle feces. In the first study, cattle (n = 90) were randomly assigned to 6 treatments (n = 15/treatment): 1) control, 2) low (12 g Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product (SCFP) •steer-1•d-1), 3) medium (15 g SCFP•steer-1•d-1), 4) high SCFP (18 g SCFP•steer-1•d-1), 5) encapsulated SCFP (eXPC; 7 g XPC•steer-1•d-1), and 6) antibiotics (ANT; 330 mg monensin + 110 mg tylosin•steer-1•d-1). In the second study, cattle (n = 7576; ~ 253 animals/pen, 10 replicate pens per treatment) were randomized to 3 treatments: tylosin phosphate (11 ppm) in-feed 1) for the first 125 days on feed (DOF) (FIRST-78%), 2) for DOF 41 to 161 (LAST-75%), or 3) the entire feeding period (CON; day 0 to 161). Increasing SCFP tended (P < 0.09) to linearly increase feed efficiency. Average daily gain (ADG) tended (P < 0.10) to be greater in steers supplemented with eXPC than control. The percentage of erythromycin resistant (EryR) and erythromycin + tetracycline resistant enterococci was greater (P < 0.05) with ANT than control, SCFP and eXPC, while tetracycline resistant enterococci was not affected. Isolates were most frequently resistant to tylosin (86%), erythromycin (84%) and doxycycline (31%). Macrolide resistant isolates harbored primarily erm(B), msrC and tetracycline resistant isolates tet(L), tet(M), tet(O) genes. Cattle administered tylosin for a shorter duration had a greater risk of severe liver abscesses compared to controls; but there was no difference in risk of total liver abscesses, growth performance, carcass traits, morbidity or mortality. The proportion of EryR enterococci increased in all treatments over the feeding period. These studies support the potential to feed SCFP, eXPC or tylosin for a reduced duration as an alternative to the continuous administration of tylosin. This study emphasizes the importance of continued research into feeding regimens that promote antimicrobial stewardship, while maintaining the productivity and health of feedlot cattle. Advisors/Committee Members: Narvaez-Bravo, Claudia (Food and Human Nutritional Sciences), House, James (Food and Human Nutritional Sciences) (examiningcommittee), Yang, Chengbo (Animal Science) (examiningcommittee).
Subjects/Keywords: Tylosin; Antimicrobial; Cattle; Resistance; Beef
Davedow, T. (2019). Investigation of an in-feed reduction of tylosin on the prevalence and severity of liver abscesses, antimicrobial resistant enterococci and productivity in feedlot cattle . (Masters Thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34486
Davedow, Taylor. “Investigation of an in-feed reduction of tylosin on the prevalence and severity of liver abscesses, antimicrobial resistant enterococci and productivity in feedlot cattle.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Manitoba. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34486.
Davedow, Taylor. “Investigation of an in-feed reduction of tylosin on the prevalence and severity of liver abscesses, antimicrobial resistant enterococci and productivity in feedlot cattle.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Davedow T. Investigation of an in-feed reduction of tylosin on the prevalence and severity of liver abscesses, antimicrobial resistant enterococci and productivity in feedlot cattle. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34486.
Davedow T. Investigation of an in-feed reduction of tylosin on the prevalence and severity of liver abscesses, antimicrobial resistant enterococci and productivity in feedlot cattle. [Masters Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34486
14. Cartwright, Nicola Helen. Examination of cationic antimicrobial tolerance in Escherichia coli to identify phenotypic and genotypic adaptations.
Degree: Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2019, University of Manitoba
► Cationic antimicrobial (CA) agents describe a variety of positively charged antimicrobials that are widely used in many clinical, agricultural and industrial facilities to disinfect and… (more)
▼ Cationic antimicrobial (CA) agents describe a variety of positively charged antimicrobials that are widely used in many clinical, agricultural and industrial facilities to disinfect and prevent microbial growth. Increased tolerance to CAs by Gram-negative bacteria is a growing problem because CA tolerant bacteria frequently confer therapeutic antimicrobial cross-resistance. Previous studies have shown that CA tolerant bacteria frequently exhibit alterations in lipid modification pathways, up-regulation of efflux pumps and porins as a mechanism of tolerance but these changes have yet to be consistently identified in experiments containing the same species or strain exposed to different CAs. In this thesis, E. coli K12 was adapted to increasing concentrations of CAs, specifically, benzalkonium chloride, cetrimide bromide, chlorhexidine hydrochloride and colistin sulphate that belong to different antimicrobial classes to determine phenotypic and genotypic changes over 20-40 sub-cultures. It was revealed that CAs belonging to similar classes had similar growth phenotypes, antimicrobial cross-resistance and genotypic alterations. Experiments exploring the stability of CA-tolerant phenotypes when CA selection is removed over a 10-day period among revealed a dependence on previous CA exposure. Genotypic analysis involved identification of repeatedly identified single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis pathways, antimicrobial transcriptional regulators, transposable elements, and to a lesser extent in efflux pump genes. This study suggests that CA adaptation may be dependent upon how each CA specifically disrupts the cell membrane, since each CA disrupts the membrane at potentially different outer membrane targets. It also reveals new insights and genetic markers associated with CA tolerance. Advisors/Committee Members: Bay, Denice (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), McClarty, Grant (Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases).
Subjects/Keywords: Cationic; Antimicrobial resistance; Escherichia coli
Cartwright, N. H. (2019). Examination of cationic antimicrobial tolerance in Escherichia coli to identify phenotypic and genotypic adaptations . (Masters Thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34414
Cartwright, Nicola Helen. “Examination of cationic antimicrobial tolerance in Escherichia coli to identify phenotypic and genotypic adaptations.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Manitoba. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34414.
Cartwright, Nicola Helen. “Examination of cationic antimicrobial tolerance in Escherichia coli to identify phenotypic and genotypic adaptations.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Cartwright NH. Examination of cationic antimicrobial tolerance in Escherichia coli to identify phenotypic and genotypic adaptations. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34414.
Cartwright NH. Examination of cationic antimicrobial tolerance in Escherichia coli to identify phenotypic and genotypic adaptations. [Masters Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34414
15. Trombley, Michael Patrick. Phosphoethanolamine transferases in Haemophilus ducreyi modify lipid A and contribute to human defensin resistance.
Degree: 2015, IUPUI
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Haemophilus ducreyi resists the cytotoxic effects of human antimicrobial peptides (APs), including α-defensins, β-defensins, and the cathelicidin LL-37. Resistance to… (more)
Haemophilus ducreyi resists the cytotoxic effects of human antimicrobial peptides (APs), including α-defensins, β-defensins, and the cathelicidin LL-37. Resistance to LL-37, mediated by the sensitive to antimicrobial peptide (Sap) transporter, is required for H. ducreyi virulence in humans. Cationic APs are attracted to the negatively charged bacterial cell surface. In other gram-negative bacteria, modification of lipopolysaccharide or lipooligosaccharide (LOS) by the addition of positively charged moieties, such as phosphoethanolamine (PEA), confers AP resistance by means of electrostatic repulsion. H. ducreyi LOS has PEA modifications at two sites, and we identified three genes (lptA, ptdA, and ptdB) in H. ducreyi with homology to a family of bacterial PEA transferases. We generated non-polar, unmarked mutants with deletions in one, two, or all three putative PEA transferase genes. Mutants with deletions in two PEA transferase genes were significantly more susceptible to β-defensins, and the triple mutant was significantly more susceptible to both α- and β-defensins, but not LL-37; complementation of all three genes restored parental levels of AP resistance. Deletion of all three PEA transferase genes also resulted in a significant increase in the negativity of the mutant cell surface, suggesting these three genes contribute to the addition of positively charged moieties on the cell surface. Mass spectrometric analysis revealed that LptA was required for PEA modification of lipid A; PtdtA and PtdB did not affect PEA modification of LOS. In human inoculation experiments, the triple mutant was as virulent as its parent strain. While this is the first identified mechanism of resistance to α-defensins in H. ducreyi, our in vivo data suggest that resistance to cathelicidin may be more important than defensin resistance to H. ducreyi pathogenesis.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bauer, Margaret E..
Subjects/Keywords: Phosphoethanolamine Transferase; Antimicrobial Peptide Resistance
Trombley, M. P. (2015). Phosphoethanolamine transferases in Haemophilus ducreyi modify lipid A and contribute to human defensin resistance . (Thesis). IUPUI. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7915
Trombley, Michael Patrick. “Phosphoethanolamine transferases in Haemophilus ducreyi modify lipid A and contribute to human defensin resistance.” 2015. Thesis, IUPUI. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7915.
Trombley, Michael Patrick. “Phosphoethanolamine transferases in Haemophilus ducreyi modify lipid A and contribute to human defensin resistance.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Trombley MP. Phosphoethanolamine transferases in Haemophilus ducreyi modify lipid A and contribute to human defensin resistance. [Internet] [Thesis]. IUPUI; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7915.
Trombley MP. Phosphoethanolamine transferases in Haemophilus ducreyi modify lipid A and contribute to human defensin resistance. [Thesis]. IUPUI; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7915
16. Muligisa-Muonga, Elizabeth. Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella and Escherichia Coli in retail Broiler Chickens in Lusaka province of Zambia.
Degree: 2019, University of Zimbabwe
URL: http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/6531
► The steady increase in the demand for poultry in Zambia and the world over has put a strain on poultry producers leading to the introduction… (more)
▼ The steady increase in the demand for poultry in Zambia and the world over has put a strain on poultry producers leading to the introduction of new practices such as the use of antibiotics in order to boost production. However, in many resource poor countries, the use of these antibiotics is often not monitored. When antibiotics are misused it can result in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in organisms that could find their way into poultry meat such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli (E. coli). These organisms, as well as others, that could be found in poultry meat, form a reservoir of Antimicrobial Resistant Genes that can be spread from one bacterium to another through horizontal gene transfer, whether pathogenic, commensal or environmental in nature. This spread is facilitated by cross-contamination of the poultry meat when in contact with other surfaces or products. A cross-sectional study was undertaken at the retail level in four districts of Lusaka province (Lusaka, Chilanga, Chongwe and Kafue) in order to determine the proportion of antimicrobial resistant Salmonella and E. coli from retail broiler chickens and to determine the genes that confer the resistance. Sampling was done between January and May 2018. A total of 250 whole broiler carcasses were purchased from 26 open markets (n=134) and 37 supermarkets (n=116). An open market was defined as an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate, while a supermarket was defined as a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products organized into aisles. Upon purchase, all samples were transported in a cooler box containing ice packs to the UNZA Veterinary Public Health Laboratory. Laboratory isolation included a whole carcass rinse in buffered peptone water (Oxoid), pre-enrichment and subsequent incubation at 37OC overnight. Ten microliter (10µL) of the incubated broth was then transferred to MacConkey agar (Oxoid UK) for E. coli isolation while 1ml was also transferred to Rappaport Vassiliadis (Oxoid UK) and later subcultured on Xylose-Lysine Deoxycholate agar (Oxoid UK) for isolation of Salmonella. Biochemical tests were performed on all suspected isolates using Analytical Profile Index (API 20E) (Biomerieux®). Further identification of the isolates was done using 16S rRNA sequencing for bacteria and Antimicrobial susceptibility tests were performed using the Kirby Bauer disk diffusion technique using a panel of 10 different antibiotics. The panel of antibiotics comprised of Ampicillin (10µg), Amoxicillin/Clavulanic acid (30µg), Imipenem (10µg), Nalidixic acid (30µg), Ciprofloxacin (5µg), Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole (25µg), Colistin (10µg), Chloramphenicol (30µg), Tetracycline (30µg) and Cefotaxime (30µg). Analysis of the disk diffusion results was done using WHONET 2018 software. A total of 148 E. coli isolates were identified and subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Fifty three percent (53%) (n=79) of the isolates were from Open markets while 47% (n=69) were from…
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance; Poultry, Zambia
Muligisa-Muonga, E. (2019). Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella and Escherichia Coli in retail Broiler Chickens in Lusaka province of Zambia . (Thesis). University of Zimbabwe. Retrieved from http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/6531
Muligisa-Muonga, Elizabeth. “Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella and Escherichia Coli in retail Broiler Chickens in Lusaka province of Zambia.” 2019. Thesis, University of Zimbabwe. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/6531.
Muligisa-Muonga, Elizabeth. “Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella and Escherichia Coli in retail Broiler Chickens in Lusaka province of Zambia.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Muligisa-Muonga E. Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella and Escherichia Coli in retail Broiler Chickens in Lusaka province of Zambia. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Zimbabwe; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/6531.
Muligisa-Muonga E. Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella and Escherichia Coli in retail Broiler Chickens in Lusaka province of Zambia. [Thesis]. University of Zimbabwe; 2019. Available from: http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/6531
17. Couperus, Nathanael. Estimation and Occurrence of Select Antimicrobials in the Grand River Watershed.
Degree: 2015, University of Waterloo
► Antimicrobials are pharmaceutically active compounds that destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, or viruses. This diverse group of compounds, used in both… (more)
▼ Antimicrobials are pharmaceutically active compounds that destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, or viruses. This diverse group of compounds, used in both humans and livestock, are increasingly being detected in the environment, especially in soil and aquatic ecosystems. Their widespread environmental occurrence is being linked to the potential development of resistance traits in microorganisms, which is a serious threat to global health. Quantifying this health risk is difficult due to the lack of available data on the consumption of antimicrobials, as well as the varying regulations on their use and distribution. Further, the environmental fate and occurrence of these chemicals in watersheds is complex and poorly understood. The current research aims to address this knowledge gap by examining the occurrence and distribution of select antimicrobials in a watershed through modeling and empirical data collection (survey). It achieves this goal by addressing the following objectives: (1) to develop a mass load model for estimating the residual concentrations of veterinary antimicrobials; and (2) evaluate the occurrence and sources of select antimicrobials in surface waters. The Grand River Watershed, a mixed-use watershed in Southern Ontario, Canada, was selected as the study site. The mass load model was used to estimate the residual concentrations of four veterinary antimicrobials (lincomycin, monensin, oxytetracycline, and sulfamethazine) in the soil and water matrices. Predicted antimicrobial concentrations ranged from 0.1 μg/kg (monensin and oxytetracycline) to 60 μg/kg in soil (sulfamethazine) and 37 pg/L (oxytetracycline) to 18 μg/L (sulfamethazine) in surface water. Estimated antimicrobial concentrations were highest in sub-basins with high livestock densities, with the highest predicted levels found in the Nith sub-basin where there is intensive livestock production. For the occurrence survey in the Grand River Watershed, triplicate water samples were collected from 27 sites in the main channel, one location each in five tributaries, and seven wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents. Temporal sampling was also performed in six additional sites (four in an agricultural tributary and two in the main channel). The water samples were analyzed for five antimicrobials (sulfamethazine, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, lincomycin, and monensin), and three chemical indicators (venlafaxine, ibuprofen, and atrazine). In the main channel, measured concentrations of target analytes exhibited an increasing trend from the headwaters to downstream towards the discharge point to Lake Erie. Peak concentrations measured in the river water were 98 ± 8.8 ng/L for antimicrobials (sulfamethazine) and 146 ± 67 ng/L for the indicators (ibuprofen). In the effluents, the highest measured concentrations were 355 ± 126 ng/L for sulfamethoxazole and 349 ± 11 ng/L for ibuprofen. Atrazine was found at low concentrations throughout the river samples but was not found in the wastewater effluents. Lincomycin was…
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial; Antibiotic Resistance; Estimation Model
Couperus, N. (2015). Estimation and Occurrence of Select Antimicrobials in the Grand River Watershed . (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9051
Couperus, Nathanael. “Estimation and Occurrence of Select Antimicrobials in the Grand River Watershed.” 2015. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9051.
Couperus, Nathanael. “Estimation and Occurrence of Select Antimicrobials in the Grand River Watershed.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Couperus N. Estimation and Occurrence of Select Antimicrobials in the Grand River Watershed. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9051.
Couperus N. Estimation and Occurrence of Select Antimicrobials in the Grand River Watershed. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9051
18. Giok, Felicia Xiaofei. Antimicrobial resistance in direct-fed microbial preparations used in cattle.
Degree: MS, Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, 2016, Kansas State University
► The use of antimicrobials in animal feed has come under increasing scrutiny from the public and regulatory agencies. Direct-fed microbials (DFM) are considered valuable alternatives… (more)
▼ The use of antimicrobials in animal feed has come under increasing scrutiny from the public and regulatory agencies. Direct-fed microbials (DFM) are considered valuable alternatives to antimicrobials in food animal nutrition. DFM are products containing live (viable microorganisms). Studies in Europe have reported antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in organisms used in DFM. This is of serious concern because of the potential for transferring resistance to pathogenic bacteria in the gut. The aim of the present study is to characterize phenotypic and genotypic AMR profiles for 20 different antimicrobials in bacterial strains isolated from 10 commercially available DFM used in. Two antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods, disc diffusion and broth micro-dilution based assay were performed. Enterococcus faecium isolates showed resistance towards metronidazole (n=9/9) with a MIC of > 32 μg/mL, erythromycin (n=5/9) with a MIC of ≥ 8 μg/mL, ciprofloxacin (n=2/9) with a MIC ≥ 4 μg/mL, ceftriaxone (n=6/9) with a MIC ≥ 0.25 μg/mL, rifampin (n=8/9) with a MIC of > 4 μg/mL, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (n=4/9) with a MIC ≥ 1 μg/mL and clindamycin (n=5/9) with a MIC of > 0.5 μg/mL. A Propionibacterium freudenreichii isolate showed resistance towards kanamycin with a MIC of > 64 μg/mL. The same strain also had a MIC of 16 μg/mL for levofloxacin. Two Lactobacillus acidophilus were resistant to vancomycin (n=2/6) with a MIC ≥ 32 μg/mL. All the Lactobacillus species including L. acidophilus (n=6), L. casei (n=4) and L. plantarum (n=2) were resistant to metronidazole, MIC > 32 μg/mL. Two strains of Bacillus subtilis showed resistance to clindamycin, with an MIC of 4 μg/mL and erythromycin with an MIC of > 8 μg/mL, and one strain had no zone of inhibition for metronidazole (MIC > 32 μg/mL). Microarray analysis revealed resistance genes in E. faecium strains of 3 different DFM, including aminoglycoside resistance genes, ant(4’)-Ia, erythromycin resistance genes, ere(A2) and ermB, tetracycline resistance genes, tet39, tet31, tetK and tetC, and beta-lactam resistance gene, pbp5. Conjugation with filter mating showed erythromycin resistance gene transfer, msrC gene, from donor strains to a recipient strain (E. faecium 45-24). These studies show that AMR is prevalent among bacterial strains used as DFM in the cattle industry in the U.S., justifying further characterization, detection and observation of transferable antibiotic resistance between the same genus. . Advisors/Committee Members: Sanjeev Narayanan.
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; Direct-Fed Microbial
Giok, F. X. (2016). Antimicrobial resistance in direct-fed microbial preparations used in cattle . (Masters Thesis). Kansas State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32859
Giok, Felicia Xiaofei. “Antimicrobial resistance in direct-fed microbial preparations used in cattle.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Kansas State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32859.
Giok, Felicia Xiaofei. “Antimicrobial resistance in direct-fed microbial preparations used in cattle.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Giok FX. Antimicrobial resistance in direct-fed microbial preparations used in cattle. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Kansas State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32859.
Giok FX. Antimicrobial resistance in direct-fed microbial preparations used in cattle. [Masters Thesis]. Kansas State University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32859
19. Arndt, Emily Rose. An investigation into distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus suis isolates from clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs.
Degree: MS, Department of Population Medicine, 2017, University of Guelph
► The distribution of Streptococcus suis serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns in clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs was investigated. Isolates were confirmed as S. suis… (more)
▼ The distribution of Streptococcus suis serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns in clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs was investigated. Isolates were confirmed as S. suis by various biochemical techniques and serotyped using multiplex PCR amplification. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using the disk diffusion method. Recovery of S. suis was more likely in samples from suckling and nursery piglets than from sows and finishers (P <0.001), and more commonly recovered from healthy pigs as opposed to sick pigs (P <0.01). Samples from pigs in a continuous flow system were more likely to be found to be S. suis positive than those from pigs in an all-in/all-out system (P <0.01). Twenty-two different serotypes were identified, with types 5, 9, and 31 being the most common types isolated. Most isolates (94.5%) were resistant to at least one antimicrobial agent. A low prevalence of resistance was seen against ampicillin, ceftiofur, and florfenicol (<1.0%), while a high prevalence of resistance against tetracycline (84.2%), tiamulin (65.2%), and spectinomycin (40.4%) and an intermediate level of resistance to trimethoprim/sulfa (13.2%) was identified. Advisors/Committee Members: Friendship, Robert (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Streptococcus suis; pigs; antimicrobial resistance
Arndt, E. R. (2017). An investigation into distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus suis isolates from clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs . (Masters Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/10309
Arndt, Emily Rose. “An investigation into distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus suis isolates from clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs.” 2017. Masters Thesis, University of Guelph. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/10309.
Arndt, Emily Rose. “An investigation into distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus suis isolates from clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Arndt ER. An investigation into distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus suis isolates from clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Guelph; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/10309.
Arndt ER. An investigation into distribution of serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus suis isolates from clinical cases and healthy carrier pigs. [Masters Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2017. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/10309
20. Kuppusamy, Rajesh. Design, synthesis and mode of action of short biphenyl and anthranilamide cationic peptidomimetics.
Degree: Chemistry, 2019, University of New South Wales
URL: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/66866
► Antimicrobial resistance is a major worldwide threat to public health and there is an urgent need for the development of novel antibacterial agents. This research… (more)
▼ Antimicrobial resistance is a major worldwide threat to public health and there is an urgent need for the development of novel antibacterial agents. This research project focused on the development of short cationic peptidomimetics that employ 3'-amino-[1, 1 '-biphenyl)-3-carboxylic acid and anthranilic acidbackbones segregated by hydrophobic and cationic groups. The biphenyl peptidomimetic compounds showed that simple diaminoethanes and their respective guanidine cationic groups were sufficient to mimic lysine and arginine amino acids of natural antimicrobial peptides. The biphenyl backbone was important for antibacterial activity and tryptophan was important for bacterial cell membrane permeability. The most active compound showed good minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) against S. aureus (15.6 μM) and E.coli (7.8 μM) but was inactive against P. aeruginosa strain PA01. Based on these results, anthranilamide derivatives with tryptophan and simple amine cationic groups were developed. The anthranilamide peptidomimetic compounds showed that the guanidine group was important for good antibacterial activity against S. aureus (3.9 μM), E.coli (15.6 μM), and these compounds had low cytotoxicity (>100 μM). Active compounds disrupted 75% of established S. aureus biofilms. Biphenyl could be used as an alternative to naphthoyl groups to give hydrophobic groups to the mimetics. Increasing the net charge by adding lysine decreased antibacterial activity compared to compounds containing simple amine groups but improved the compound's cytotoxicity.Various alkyl-substituted guanidine compounds were investigated. Increasing the lipophilicity (adding alkyl groups) at the guanidine residues decreased antibacterial activity. Increasing the cationicity increased antibacterial activity against P. aeruginosa. The most active compound showed broad-spectrumantibacterial activity of against S. aureus (2.0 μM), E.coli (7.8 μM), and P. aeruginosa (32.0 μM). The active compounds at 4.0-8.0 μM showed significant disruption (55-77%) of preformed S. aureus biofilms and one compound at 15.6 μM disrupted 45% of E.coli biofilms. Peptidomimetics are promising future antibiotics. These compounds can potentially circumvent current antimicrobial resistance that is generated when bacteria produce biofilms. Advisors/Committee Members: Kumar, Naresh, Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UNSW, StC Black, David, Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UNSW.
Subjects/Keywords: Biofilms; Cationic peptidomimetics; Antimicrobial resistance
Kuppusamy, R. (2019). Design, synthesis and mode of action of short biphenyl and anthranilamide cationic peptidomimetics . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New South Wales. Retrieved from http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/66866
Kuppusamy, Rajesh. “Design, synthesis and mode of action of short biphenyl and anthranilamide cationic peptidomimetics.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New South Wales. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/66866.
Kuppusamy, Rajesh. “Design, synthesis and mode of action of short biphenyl and anthranilamide cationic peptidomimetics.” 2019. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Kuppusamy R. Design, synthesis and mode of action of short biphenyl and anthranilamide cationic peptidomimetics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New South Wales; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/66866.
Kuppusamy R. Design, synthesis and mode of action of short biphenyl and anthranilamide cationic peptidomimetics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New South Wales; 2019. Available from: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/66866
21. Mollenkopf, Dixie Francis. Epidemiology of ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Humans and Livestock.
Degree: PhD, Comparative and Veterinary Medicine, 2017, The Ohio State University
► Carbapenems have the broadest spectrum of the large ß-lactam antimicrobials and have been reserved as a “drug of last resort” against invasive Gram-positive and Gram-negative… (more)
▼ Carbapenems have the broadest spectrum of the large ß-lactam antimicrobials and have been reserved as a “drug of last resort” against invasive Gram-positive and Gram-negative human infections. The increasing prevalence of complicated MDR infections involving extended spectrum (ESßL) and AmpC ß-lactamases has triggered the increasing need for carbapenem use. The emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobactericeae was described as “the end of the antibiotic era” as these potential pathogens harbor highly-mobile genetic elements that confer resistance to our most critically important drugs.In the US, nontyphoidal Salmonella are a common foodborne zoonotic pathogen causing gastroenteritis. MDR invasive Salmonella infections mediated by ESßL or AmpC genotypes are more likely to require carbapenem therapy compared to susceptible infections. Of 571 isolates, we characterized 44 blaCMY-2-bearing Salmonella that resulted from 5,050 individual cattle fecal samples from 68 large (1,000+ head capacity) US feedlots participating in the NAHMS Beef Feedlot 2011 study, and assessed risk factors for blaCMY-2 carriage. Cultured without antimicrobial selection, the isolates represented eight serotypes and carried the blaCMY-2/IncA/C gene/plasmid combination with most expressing the penta-resistance (ACSSuT) phenotype. Cattle fed chlortetracycline in their diet and heavier weight cattle were less likely to carry Salmonella with blaCMY-2. In contrast, cattle fed the macrolide feed additive tylosin and cattle in pens with increasing numbers of dairy cattle were more likely to harbor blaCMY-bearing Salmonella. To determine the prevalence of foodborne resistance mechanisms, we screened human diarrheic stool samples submitted for Clostridium difficle culture from patients of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) to estimate the frequency of carriage of ESßL- and AmpC- as well as carbapenemase-producing enteric bacteria. The 692 deidentified samples received between July and December 2013 were cultured using selective media to detect the resistant phenotypes. Our selective culture yielded 184 isolates (26.6 %) with reduced susceptibility to cefotaxime. Of these, 46 (6.7%) samples harbored commensal isolates carrying the AmpC blaCMY. Another 21 (3.0%) samples produced isolates harboring the ESBL blaCTX-M: 19 carrying CTX-M-15 and 2 with CTX-M-27. Additionally, 13 samples (1.9 %) produced Enterobacteriaceae or Pseudomonas spp. resistant to carbapenems. Of these, whole genome sequencing identified a prominent CRE strain, sequence type ST258, K. pneumoniae harboring blaKPC-3 and a second K. pneumoniae carrying blaNDM-1 ST1602 which had not been previously reported. Reporting the first mobile carbapenemase, blaIMP-64 on an IncQ1 plasmid, in US livestock, we followed a cohort of 350+ pigs from late sow gestation to the final finishing phase in order to better understand the maintenance of this rare resistance genotype in a large farrow-to-finish swine operation. Environmental and fecal samples were collected during 8 visits… Advisors/Committee Members: Wittum, Thomas (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Epidemiology; Antimicrobial resistance, Enterobacteriaceae, Carbapenemase
Mollenkopf, D. F. (2017). Epidemiology of ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Humans and Livestock . (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1505147339870873
Mollenkopf, Dixie Francis. “Epidemiology of ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Humans and Livestock.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1505147339870873.
Mollenkopf, Dixie Francis. “Epidemiology of ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Humans and Livestock.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Mollenkopf DF. Epidemiology of ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Humans and Livestock. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1505147339870873.
Mollenkopf DF. Epidemiology of ß-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Humans and Livestock. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2017. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1505147339870873
22. Oppedijk, S.F. Identification, purification and elucidation of the mode of action of (novel) antimicrobial substances.
Degree: 2017, University Utrecht
URL: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; 1874/356787 ; urn:isbn:9789039368589 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787
► Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications in current medicine, however there is an increasing resistance emerging against our current arsenal of antibiotics. Therefore,… (more)
▼ Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications in current medicine, however there is an increasing resistance emerging against our current arsenal of antibiotics. Therefore, it is important that we do research into antimicrobial substances that uniquely work on essential pathways to make it difficult for bacteria to develop resistance. One such specific targets is the peptidoglycan precursor lipid II. In Gram-positive bacteria, the peptidoglycan is readily available from the outside and this structure is essential for bacteria to withstand the pressure from their interior (sacculus). One novel antimicrobial compounds we study in this manuscript is derived from an extract from the fungus Talaromyces atroroseus that seems to specifically interact with lipid II. We furthermore showed that Laspartomycin C inhibits peptidoglycan biosynthesis by sequestering the bactoprenol lipid carrier of this same essential peptidoglycan component, showing that inhibition of this pathway does not only happen at the level of lipid II. Further studies described in this dissertation focus on a unique peptide called Pep5 of which up to now the exact mode of action is unknown. The high activity towards pathogens such as MRSA in nanomolar concentrations suggest that it works via an interaction with a similar specific target and makes to mode of action of this peptide highly interesting. We studied the effects of this peptide on the energy metabolism in susceptible bacteria with a metabolomics approach and used genetic sequencing on resistant bacteria to elucidate what changes in the genetic code resulted in resistance development to be able to better understand what pathway this peptide interferes in. The exact mode of action remains unknown, however the characteristics of the mode of action of this peptide are distinctly different compared to known antibiotic and might entail a novel way of developing novel antibiotics to combat resistant bacteria. Advisors/Committee Members: Killian, Antoinette, den Hertog, J., Breukink, Eefjan, Martin, Nathaniel.
Oppedijk, S. F. (2017). Identification, purification and elucidation of the mode of action of (novel) antimicrobial substances . (Doctoral Dissertation). University Utrecht. Retrieved from https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; 1874/356787 ; urn:isbn:9789039368589 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787
Oppedijk, S F. “Identification, purification and elucidation of the mode of action of (novel) antimicrobial substances.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University Utrecht. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; 1874/356787 ; urn:isbn:9789039368589 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787.
Oppedijk, S F. “Identification, purification and elucidation of the mode of action of (novel) antimicrobial substances.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Oppedijk SF. Identification, purification and elucidation of the mode of action of (novel) antimicrobial substances. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University Utrecht; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; 1874/356787 ; urn:isbn:9789039368589 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787.
Oppedijk SF. Identification, purification and elucidation of the mode of action of (novel) antimicrobial substances. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University Utrecht; 2017. Available from: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; 1874/356787 ; urn:isbn:9789039368589 ; URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1874-356787 ; https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/356787
23. Rovira Sanz, Pablo. Impact of antibiotic use on resistance in beef feedlot and dairy cattle.
Degree: PhD, Animal Sciences, 2017, Colorado State University
► In recent years, consumer demand for natural and organic foods has increased, partly due to concerns about the use of antimicrobials in food producing animals.… (more)
▼ In recent years, consumer demand for natural and organic foods has increased, partly due to concerns about the use of antimicrobials in food producing animals. The aim of this study was to evaluate antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in beef feedlot and dairy cattle raised without use of antibiotics compared to cattle raised in conventional (CONV) production. Three research projects were conducted to accomplish that general goal. In the first study, a conventional feedlot, natural feedlot, conventional dairy and organic dairy were visited to collect cattle feces, wastewater from lagoons and soil where the wastewater was applied. After DNA extraction, sequencing, and processing, metagenomic reads were aligned to reference databases for identification of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs; i.e. the resistome) and bacteria (microbiome). Resistome composition was influenced by rearing method, cattle type, and type of sample. Most mechanisms of resistance affected by rearing method were enriched (P < 0.05) in conventional samples. Resistome differences were greatest for wastewater samples by rearing method but with contradictory results that suggested an impact of effluent management on wastewater resistome. Resistance to tetracycline and macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin classes were more abundant in feces of feedlot cattle than in dairy cattle (P < 0.05); whereas resistance to beta-lactams was greatest in feces of dairy cattle (P < 0.05). Resistome and microbiome of feces differed (P < 0.05) between wastewater and soil samples. Results indicated that ARGs are widespread in beef feedlot and dairy cattle farms even in those with restricted antibiotic use. In the second study, feces from RWA (n=36) and CONV (n=36) cattle lots were recovered from colons at a commercial beef processing plant. Samples were equally distributed by month and production protocol over one year (3 samples/production protocol/month). After extracting DNA from individual samples, composite samples were prepared by mixing DNA from each lot into a single composite sample (N = 72) and sequencing the composites on an Illumina platform. Metagenomic reads were processed similarly to those in experiment 1for identification of ARGs and bacteria. Resistomes of CONV and RWA cattle were significantly different by season. In general, mechanisms conferring resistance to beta-lactams, tetracyclines, multi-drug and macrolides were more prevalent (P < 0.05) in feces from CONV colons than in RWA colons. In the third study, a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to assess the relationship between antimicrobial use (AMU) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in feedlot cattle. After conducting a literature search and screening reported studies, 32 studies were selected for use that addressed AMR in Escherichia coli, Enterococcus, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Mannheimia haemolytica. Overall, 60% (95% CI: 26% to 88%) of the observational studies and 50% (95% CI: 30% to 70%) of the controlled trials reported a positive association between AMU and AMR.… Advisors/Committee Members: Belk, Keith (advisor), Morley, Paul (committee member), Schmidt, John (committee member), Yang, Hua (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: bacteria; metagenomics; antimicrobial resistance; resistance genes; cattle
Rovira Sanz, P. (2017). Impact of antibiotic use on resistance in beef feedlot and dairy cattle . (Doctoral Dissertation). Colorado State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10217/183928
Rovira Sanz, Pablo. “Impact of antibiotic use on resistance in beef feedlot and dairy cattle.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Colorado State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/183928.
Rovira Sanz, Pablo. “Impact of antibiotic use on resistance in beef feedlot and dairy cattle.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Rovira Sanz P. Impact of antibiotic use on resistance in beef feedlot and dairy cattle. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Colorado State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/183928.
Rovira Sanz P. Impact of antibiotic use on resistance in beef feedlot and dairy cattle. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Colorado State University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/183928
24. Rowe, Will. Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253755https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/2/license.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/3/license_rdf ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/4/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/5/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.jpg
► This dissertation documents the development of an environmental framework for monitoring antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) dissemination in the aquatic environment. The work opens with a… (more)
▼ This dissertation documents the development of an environmental framework for monitoring antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) dissemination in the aquatic environment. The work opens with a review of the relevant literature and outlines the importance of an environmental framework for monitoring ARG dissemination as part of antimicrobial resistance risk assessments. The ability to interrogate sequencing data quickly and easily for the presence of ARGs is crucial in order to facilitate their monitoring in the environment. As current laboratory methods for the detection and surveillance of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in the environment were limited in their effectiveness and scope, the dissertation begins by describing the design and implementation of a Search Engine for Antimicrobial Resistance (SEAR), a pipeline and web interface for detection of horizontally-acquired ARGs in raw sequencing data. The suitability of metagenomic methods for monitoring the ARG content of effluents from faecal sources was then assessed via a pilot study of a river catchment. Novel metagenomes generated from effluents entering the catchment were interrogated for ARGs. The relative abundance of ARGs in effluents were determined to be higher relative to the background environment, as were sequences relating to human and animal pathogens and mobile genetic elements. Thus, effluents were implicated in the dissemination of ARGs throughout the aquatic environment. To determine if ARGs were potentially in use in the environment, the expression of ARGs within effluents was then evaluated across a series of longitudinal samples through the use of metatranscriptomics, and the presence of potential environmental antimicrobial selection pressures was examined. This demonstrated that the abundance of ARGs, as well as antimicrobial usage at the effluent source, was correlated with the transcription of ARGs in aquatic environments. The work described in this dissertation has also found that horizontally transmitted ARGs were present in pathogenic endospore-forming bacteria commonly found across the aquatic environment, potentially providing a mechanism for ARG persistence in the environment. Finally, these findings were integrated into a universal framework for monitoring ARG dissemination in aquatic environments and used to highlight the developments required to incorporate this framework into future environmental ARG research and to facilitate antimicrobial resistance risk assessments.
Subjects/Keywords: Metagenomics; Antimicrobial resistance; Antibiotic resistance; Wastewater
Rowe, W. (2016). Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253755https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/2/license.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/3/license_rdf ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/4/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/5/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.jpg
Rowe, Will. “Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253755https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/2/license.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/3/license_rdf ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/4/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/5/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.jpg.
Rowe, Will. “Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Rowe W. Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253755https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/2/license.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/3/license_rdf ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/4/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/5/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.jpg.
Rowe W. Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2016. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253755https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/2/license.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/3/license_rdf ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/4/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.txt ; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/253755/5/DISSERTATION.corrected.pdf.jpg
URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.16362 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683707
Subjects/Keywords: 579; Metagenomics; Antimicrobial resistance; Antibiotic resistance; Wastewater
Rowe, W. (2016). Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.16362 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683707
Rowe, Will. “Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.16362 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683707.
Rowe W. Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.16362 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683707.
Rowe W. Antimicrobial resistance gene monitoring in aquatic environments. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2016. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.16362 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683707
26. Berge, Simon Nicholas. Production and characterisation of analogues of the antimicrobial tyrocidine peptides with modified aromatic amino acid residues.
Degree: MSc, Biochemistry, 2018, Stellenbosch University
► ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the approach of a post-antibiotic era in which the current arsenal of antibiotic compounds can no longer combat common bacterial infections, the… (more)
▼ ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the approach of a post-antibiotic era in which the current arsenal of antibiotic compounds can no longer combat common bacterial infections, the search for novel compounds to fight against antimicrobial resistance is more important than ever. A group of forgotten antimicrobial peptides, termed the tyrocidines, have re-emerged as promising candidates for further development in clinical and industrial settings. These are basic, cyclic decapeptides, with the sequence cyclo(D-Phe1-L-Pro2-L-(Phe3/Trp3)-D-(Phe4/Trp4)-L-Asn5- L-Gln6-L-(Tyr7/Phe7/Trp7)-L-Val8-L-Orn9-L-Leu10), and are naturally synthesized, together with the neutral, linear pentadecapeptides, the gramicidins, by the soil bacterium Brevibacillus parabrevis. A multitude of structurally similar tyrocidines has been found in extracts of this organism. This arises due to the non-ribosomal, enzymatic, synthesis of these peptides in which certain domains within this multi-domain enzyme system have the ability to incorporate more than one kind of aromatic amino acid. The specific structural variations are at residue positions 3, 4 and 7 in the cyclic decapeptide. These structural variations produce tyrocidines with unique structure-activity relationships, imbuing them with activity against a wide variety of Grampositive bacteria and fungi. Activity against the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, has also been observed. This study aims to make use of the variability seen for incorporation of different aromatic amino acid residues, specifically of phenylalanine and tryptophan, to determine if non-natural derivatives of these amino acids can be incorporated, to biosynthesize novel tyrocidine, tryptocidine and phenycidine analogues (collectively termed the Trcs), with unique structureactivity relationships. The initial objective of this study was to characterise different available strains of the producer organism, to determine if there was a difference in the production profiles of Trcs by the producer organism. A clear difference was found between the Br. parabrevis 5618, 362, 10068 and 8185 strains in terms of their production profiles, with the 5618 showing a marked improvement in Trc analogues rich in tryptophan. In addition to strain-determined differences in production profiles, differences in production as a result of altered nutrient conditions, in the form of nitrogen, sulphate and carbon sources, added on top of a base media, were also investigated. This was initially done by growth rate analysis of the producer organisms under different conditions, and then followed up by small scale culture to determine the effect on production of Trcs. Altered productions in terms of biomass and extract mass were found, and to a lesser degree the Trc production profile. Urea appeared to have the most marked effect on Trc production, particularly for the 5618 strain. The next objective was to determine if the selected phenylalanine analogues 4-methylphenylalanine (4-MeF), 2-flouro-phenylalanine (2-FF) and… Advisors/Committee Members: Rautenbach, Marina, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Science. Dept. of Biochemistry..
Subjects/Keywords: Antimicrobial peptides; Tyrocidines; Aromatic amino acids residues; UCTD; Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Berge, S. N. (2018). Production and characterisation of analogues of the antimicrobial tyrocidine peptides with modified aromatic amino acid residues . (Masters Thesis). Stellenbosch University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103710
Berge, Simon Nicholas. “Production and characterisation of analogues of the antimicrobial tyrocidine peptides with modified aromatic amino acid residues.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Stellenbosch University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103710.
Berge, Simon Nicholas. “Production and characterisation of analogues of the antimicrobial tyrocidine peptides with modified aromatic amino acid residues.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Berge SN. Production and characterisation of analogues of the antimicrobial tyrocidine peptides with modified aromatic amino acid residues. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103710.
Berge SN. Production and characterisation of analogues of the antimicrobial tyrocidine peptides with modified aromatic amino acid residues. [Masters Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103710
27. Noyes, Noelle Robertson. Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial use and resistance in North American beef production systems, The.
Degree: PhD, Clinical Sciences, 2016, Colorado State University
► Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical public health issue (1), and analysis of historical Escherichia coli isolates reveals that AMR has been increasing steadily since… (more)
▼ Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical public health issue (1), and analysis of historical Escherichia coli isolates reveals that AMR has been increasing steadily since the introduction of antimicrobial drugs (AMDs) (2). Meat production systems are thought to contribute to the problem by harboring a reservoir of AMR that interfaces with humans either through persistence in the food chain or dissemination of wastes into the environment (3–6). Antimicrobial use (AMU) in food producing animals is often cited as a driver of AMR in humans, but it is extremely challenging to design and execute studies that can be used to infer causality between the two. As a result, producers and policy makers alike have relatively little high-quality evidence on which to base informed and rational decisions with regard to AMU and other production management practices. The four studies presented in this doctoral thesis attempt to overcome some of the obstacles that currently impede inferential analysis regarding AMU practices and AMR. The first two studies stem from a project in which detailed AMU and AMR data were collected throughout the feeding period for over 5,000 individual cattle across 300 pens. The unprecedented collection of prospective data from such a large number of uniquely identified commercial cattle enabled us to achieve a much more robust level of causal inference compared to many previous studies. The last two studies employed shotgun metagenomics to interrogate the entire AMR potential (the “resistome”) of a given sample, enabling novel insight into the longitudinal, microbe-level genetic ecology of AMR within beef production systems. Because AMR develops and is maintained within the genetic context a microbial population, the resistome-microbiome approach contributes a critical and long-lacking piece to the overall puzzle of AMR within beef production. Thus, while each study in this dissertation approaches the research question of AMR from a slightly different angle, all of them provide crucial and novel information to our scientific understanding of AMU and AMR in beef production. The 4 studies also complement one another through investigation of different aspects of AMU and AMR across nearly the entire beef production system. The first study not only investigates AMU-AMR associations within Mannheimia haemolytica, but also examines how these associations affect respiratory-related morbidity and mortality outcomes in commercial cattle. As such, this study is focused on the animal health and economic dimensions of AMU and AMR in a critically important respiratory pathogen. The second study investigates within-feedlot AMU-AMR associations in non-type-specific Escherichia coli, a widely used “indicator” species for AMR, and compares different analytical methods for analyzing the types of data collected as part of ongoing surveillance of AMR in livestock production. Therefore, this study focuses on the public health and regulatory dimension of AMU-AMR in feedlot beef production. The third study… Advisors/Committee Members: Morley, Paul S. (advisor), Belk, Keith E. (committee member), Boucher, Christina (committee member), Gow, Sheryl P. (committee member), McAllister, Timothy A. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: antimicrobial use; feedlot; resistome; cattle; antimicrobial resistance; microbiome
Noyes, N. R. (2016). Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial use and resistance in North American beef production systems, The . (Doctoral Dissertation). Colorado State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173328
Noyes, Noelle Robertson. “Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial use and resistance in North American beef production systems, The.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Colorado State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173328.
Noyes, Noelle Robertson. “Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial use and resistance in North American beef production systems, The.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Noyes NR. Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial use and resistance in North American beef production systems, The. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Colorado State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173328.
Noyes NR. Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial use and resistance in North American beef production systems, The. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Colorado State University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173328
Queen Mary, University of London
28. Phee, Lynette. Unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections.
Degree: PhD, 2018, Queen Mary, University of London
URL: http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/44695 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766221
► The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has culminated in the most pressing problem in modern medicine. The situation is most acute with regards to the… (more)
▼ The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has culminated in the most pressing problem in modern medicine. The situation is most acute with regards to the management of multi- drug resistant Gram-negative infections (MDRGNB) with common infections increasingly untreatable due to rapidly dwindling therapeutic options. A solution to the problem of AMR is unlikely to be easily found, but revisiting and re-purposing existing antimicrobials is a viable approach in the medium term. This study investigated the use of unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of MDRGNB, with particular focus on agents of last resort. A systematic review of clinical studies highlighted the potential for polymyxin (colistin) combination therapies (e.g. colistin-rifampicin, colistin-carbapenems), although this could not be supported in a formal meta-analysis. A systematic approach for screening MDRAB for susceptibility to novel colistin combinations using multiple methods was employed and uncovered a number that were more potent than those previously identfied. The most potent combination that was consistently identified was colistin when combined with fusidic acid, despite this drug having no useful activity against MDRGNB on its own. The combination was further evaluated in static time-kill assays against a range of Gram-negative pathogens with defined resistance mechanisms, including to polymyxins and using invertebrate (Galleria mellonella) and murine models of MDRGNB infection. Colistin and fusidic acid combination therapy was subsequently used to successfully treat a case of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to MDR A. baumannii. This work highlights how older drugs can be re-purposed to tackle the problem of AMR using a precision medicine approach. Further studies to elucidate the mechanism of action of the colistin- fusidic acid combination and a formal clinical trial are warranted to investigate the potential utility of this combination in the treatment of MDRGNB with the expressed goal of bridging the current antimicrobial development gap.
Subjects/Keywords: Immunobiology; Antimicrobial Combination Therapies; antimicrobial resistance; gram-negative infections
Phee, L. (2018). Unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections . (Doctoral Dissertation). Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved from http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/44695 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766221
Phee, Lynette. “Unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Queen Mary, University of London. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/44695 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766221.
Phee, Lynette. “Unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Phee L. Unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Queen Mary, University of London; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/44695 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766221.
Phee L. Unorthodox antimicrobial combination therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative infections. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Queen Mary, University of London; 2018. Available from: http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/44695 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766221
29. Haymond, Amanda Nicole. Novel Antimicrobial Development by Targeting the First Two Committed Enzymes in the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway, DXP Reductoisomerase and MEP Cytidylyltransferase .
Degree: 2017, George Mason University
► The threat of both natural and engineered acquisition of antibiotic resistance by microbes necessitates development of novel antimicrobial compounds. The methyl erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway… (more)
▼ The threat of both natural and engineered acquisition of antibiotic resistance by microbes necessitates development of novel antimicrobial compounds. The methyl erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway presents a unique opportunity for such development, as it is both essential in bacteria in which it is found, as well as absent in mammalian cells. The MEP pathway produces two five-carbon lipid precursors isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP), essential cellular building blocks that condense to produce a host of vital downstream isoprenoids. The first two committed enzymes in the pathway, DXP reductoisomerase (IspC) and MEP cytidylyltransferase (IspD), are both promising targets for antimicrobial development. Herein we describe three approaches to identifying and developing novel inhibitors (rational, structure-based drug design; high-throughput screening of a commercial compound library; and high-throughput screening of a natural product library) conducted with both IspC and IspD in order to explore the chemical space for inhibition of these enzymes. To aid in screening a large commercially purchased compound library, we also describe the validation of a high-throughput screening protocol with respect to both IspC and IspD, with appropriate control assays to identify false positive compounds. Based on these library screens, we report promising lead compounds with respect to both enzymes, and propose models for their mechanism of action. Advisors/Committee Members: Couch, Robin D (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Biochemistry; antibiotics; antimicrobial development; antimicrobial resistance; enzymology; MEP pathway
Haymond, A. N. (2017). Novel Antimicrobial Development by Targeting the First Two Committed Enzymes in the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway, DXP Reductoisomerase and MEP Cytidylyltransferase . (Thesis). George Mason University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1920/11249
Haymond, Amanda Nicole. “Novel Antimicrobial Development by Targeting the First Two Committed Enzymes in the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway, DXP Reductoisomerase and MEP Cytidylyltransferase .” 2017. Thesis, George Mason University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/11249.
Haymond, Amanda Nicole. “Novel Antimicrobial Development by Targeting the First Two Committed Enzymes in the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway, DXP Reductoisomerase and MEP Cytidylyltransferase .” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Haymond AN. Novel Antimicrobial Development by Targeting the First Two Committed Enzymes in the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway, DXP Reductoisomerase and MEP Cytidylyltransferase . [Internet] [Thesis]. George Mason University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/11249.
Haymond AN. Novel Antimicrobial Development by Targeting the First Two Committed Enzymes in the Methyl Erythritol Phosphate Pathway, DXP Reductoisomerase and MEP Cytidylyltransferase . [Thesis]. George Mason University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/11249
30. Lam, Shu Jie. Structurally nanoengineered peptide polymers for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria.
► Antimicrobial resistance has been named as one of the clinical ‘super-challenges’ of the 21st century. With the rise and prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) ‘superbugs’,… (more)
▼ Antimicrobial resistance has been named as one of the clinical ‘super-challenges’ of the 21st century. With the rise and prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) ‘superbugs’, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), and more recently, the ‘ESKAPE’ pathogens, a return to the pre-antibiotic era is rapidly becoming a reality in many parts of the world. Infections caused by MDR pathogens are a major burden to modern healthcare, as the available treatment options are drastically reduced, leading to increased treatment costs, and high morbidity and mortality rates. However, this growing epidemic of infections caused by MDR pathogens has not been accompanied by an increase in the discovery of novel antimicrobials. In fact, it has been reported that aside from a few narrow spectrum drugs and teixobactin, no new chemical class of antibiotics has appeared in the last 40 years. The challenge remains to develop antimicrobial agents with new mechanisms of action that can overcome acquired resistance without contributing to resistance development. Over the past few years, our work in drug and gene delivery has demonstrated the potential of star peptide polymers as therapeutic agents, with significant advantages over linear peptides. Building on our prior knowledge, this thesis explores the possibility of using macromolecular engineering techniques to design and develop star peptide polymers that could function as novel antimicrobial agents capable of combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Inspired by antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that form part of the innate immune response in multicellular organisms, 16-and 32-arm star peptide polymers were synthesized, with arms composed of cationic and hydrophobic amino acid moieties co-polymerized in a random fashion. The star polymers were found to demonstrate superior efficacy against clinically-relevant Gram-negative bacteria, including MDR species, compared to their linear ‘one arm’ equivalent and several well-known AMPs, while possessing high therapeutic indices. The lack of any observable bacterial resistance development against the star peptide polymers was attributed to their unique, multi-modal antimicrobial mechanism, which differs from that of antibiotics and AMPs. Based on these attributes, the star peptide polymers were classified as a new class of antimicrobial agents, referred to as ‘Structurally Nanoengineered Antimicrobial Peptide Polymers’ (SNAPPs). The subsequent part of this thesis focused on developing further understanding on the structural design and bio-nano interactions of SNAPPs. Through a structure-activity relationship study, the effects of the star arm (co)polymer structure and overall macromolecular architecture on antimicrobial activity and biocompatibility were investigated. Further, the behavior of SNAPPs in physiologically-relevant settings, such as in a bloodstream-mimicking environment, was probed in terms of their antimicrobial efficacy and mode of action. Lastly, this thesis also…
Subjects/Keywords: peptide; antimicrobial; star polymer; bacteria; antimicrobial resistance; polymerization
Lam, S. J. (2016). Structurally nanoengineered peptide polymers for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/128246
Lam, Shu Jie. “Structurally nanoengineered peptide polymers for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/128246.
Lam, Shu Jie. “Structurally nanoengineered peptide polymers for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.
Lam SJ. Structurally nanoengineered peptide polymers for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/128246.
Lam SJ. Structurally nanoengineered peptide polymers for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/128246
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by allison September 6, 201911:24 am September 23, 2019
MAKING MEANING: Special Descendants of Crom III Edition!
You may or may not know: Pittsburgh, PA has a thriving heavy music scene. Bands that live in the Metal, or Doom, or Stoner, or Psych, or Experimental realms – or bands that wander through them all and skirt the fringes – find refuge here. If it’s heavy, it’s home.
And what is heavy music, anyway?
There are lots of ways to describe it – what it sounds like, how it makes you feel. Definitions range from the simplistic to the arcane.
I asked the question, What is heavy music, anyway? and got some interesting and wide-ranging answers.
For some, heavy music has a clear formula.
Musically, anything involving a double bass pedal…lyrically, anything written by Roger Waters. – Jebbh Mixus of Pittsburgh’s Americana, Psych-Folk, Alt-Country band The Mixus Brothers
For others, it’s more about composition.
Plenty of low-end — not every instrument in the arrangement has to carry low frequencies, but they must leave plenty of space for it. Much of the best heavy music is also built on a swinging rhythmic foundation, regardless of tempo. But in music, rules are meant to be broken, which is why I think Bert Jansch’s “Jack Orion” album – traditional Scottish and English folk music on two acoustic guitars – is as heavy in its own way as the best doom. – Joe Tarowsky of Pittsburgh’s Doom Pop, Art Rock, Post Punk band Action Camp
Action Camp. Photo by Trevor Richards.
The story – more so than the sound – is how others define it.
A few things come to mind right away. First, one may think of the tonal qualities of the song such as Sunn O))) or Boris for example. Personally I think it better relates to the depth of the story being told within the song. I think everyone loves a good story and one that touches on a subject matter that is engaging, it draws the listener in. If you find yourself exhaling at the end of the song, then you’ve probably experienced it’s heaviness on an emotional level. – Randy Branch, Pittsburgh Guitarist
Randy Branch. Photo by Trevor Richards.
And there are practical applications, according to some.
Heavy music is extremely therapeutic to play, and to listen to. Otherwise, “heavy” has always been subjective and keeps (thankfully) changing and evolving as time goes on. – Matt Rappa of Pittsburgh’s Noise Rock/Experimental Jazz band Skeletonized
It’s a feeling of power but also very grounding. – Emilio Rizzo of Pittsburgh, PA’s solo Instrumental Doom project Fuzznaut
Where anger is cathartic. – Sarah Lorraine, journalist, designer, and Heavy Metal lover from Youngstown, Ohio to Austin, Texas (and beyond)
Skeletonized. Photo by Trevor Richards.
For most, it defies language and is all about feeling.
Heavy music is a feeling. It’s something you put out there into the universe. It doesn’t depend on volume or dirt. It is beyond language and will exist after we die. – James Clarke of Austin, Texas’ Sludge band Monte Luna
Heavy music to me is music that is deep in emotion that can be felt between the artist and the listener. – Kasey Grogg of North Central West Virginia Melodic Hardcore band Halyein
When the emotion and soul takes hold, and gives the song an atmosphere. A new depth that gets the hairs rising and the blood pumping. An orchestra can be heavy. Johnny Cash was heavy. Black Sabbath was heavy. It’s a mood and it’s an attitude. – Rick Polo of Youngstown, Ohio’s Alternative Rock band Baroque Monody
If you really want to know if something is heavy just ask yourself how weightless it makes you feel. – John Roman of Pittsburgh, PA’s heavy and experimental bands Night Vapor, Microwaves, and Brown Angel
Brown Angel. Photo by Trevor Richards.
And you can define it by its essence – what it is (and isn’t) at its core.
Heavy music is any music that takes the dark, destructive, or chaotic aspects of the universe and puts them in a song. Heavy isn’t a tuning, a tempo, or a setting on an amplifier. – Trevor Richards of Pittsburgh, PA’s Doom, Drone, Heavy Psych band The Long Hunt (and co-creator for Of Music and Mind).
The Long Hunt. Photo by Craig Ferry Photography.
Descendants of Crom: A Gathering of the Heavy Underground
If you love heavy music – however you define it – you need to know about Descendants of Crom. Descendants of Crom was founded by Shy Kennedy, vocalist of Pittsburgh, PA’s Doom Metal band Horehound and vocal Soundscape project o Heidrun. She is also the founder of Blackseed Records which focuses on music publication, event booking, and artistic design for heavy and underground music.
The First Annual Descendants of Crom was held in Pittsburgh, PA in September 2017 featuring primarily local and regional acts. Each year, the event grows – more bands from more areas performing to more people. The Third Annual Descendants of Crom features 30+ heavy local, regional, and national bands performing across three days. The Pre-Gala takes place at Howlers on Friday September 20th and the main event is at Cattivo on Saturday September 21st and Sunday September 22nd. Heavy music lovers come from all over – and often stay the whole weekend here in Pittsburgh – to take part in the excellent performances and rich heavy music community. Find all the details and purchase tickets on the Descendants of Crom website.
Get psyched for the event by checking out this DOC III Promo Video created by Trevor Richards and featuring music by ASG!
https://youtu.be/GKgugDGR530
MAKING MEANING: Special DOC III Edition
In our Making Meaning series, artists share a song of theirs and then provide some insight into the meaning of the song. The way artists decide to talk about their song is up to them. They may share minute details about why and how they wrote it, or they may be rather vague about what it means to them. They may share something about the meaning of the lyrics, the instrumentation, the recording process, or even the artwork. Songs mean something to the artists that create them, and we want to know what – in whatever way the artist finds it to be most meaningful to share.
For this Special DOC III Edition, we’re featuring the artists performing at Descendants of Crom III! Starting tomorrow – and every day up until the event – we’ll be sharing 1-2 Making Meaning articles from DOC III artists!
Subscribe to Of Music and Mind to get these articles right in your inbox as soon as they’re published!
Hear the song they chose to discuss, learn what they have to say about its meaning, and find out what excites them most about playing at DOC III! We’re very excited about this Special DOC III Edition of Making Meaning and very excited to celebrate these heavy music bands in our heavy music city!
Post-DOC III Update
Twenty DOC III bands were interviewed for this Special Edition of Making Meaning! You can find all of the interviews on the Making Meaning page and a Making Meaning DOC III playlist on the Music for You page.
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Paint by Pursuit
Traveling True in the Developing World
July 13, 2014 August 21, 2017 / uncharted586 / 3 Comments
Explaining a developing country to someone who has never seen one is like teaching a blind man to paint. He can hold the brush and imagine the colors, but the abstraction can never be actualized to intent.
It takes a certain level of visionary consciousness to confront the honesty that oozes from every cobble and crack. Quantifying impoverished localities means awareness—open eyes, open ears, and open heart. Awareness is not pity, sorrow, or sympathy. It’s an agreement to see and appreciate the world around you from outside the comparative lens. It’s quiet observation, nurtured by a respectful curiosity. It’s sharing in the enthusiasm, friendliness, and sociability expressed by those struggling under the poorest circumstances. Most of all, it’s feeling awed by a cultural community where poverty, trust, and goodwill thrive in tandem.
Unfortunately, this state of mind is not fundamental or inherent. It takes commitment and reflection, as well as a passionate respect for what lays beyond one’s understanding. It’s been my experience that most travelers remain disengaged, despite total immersion in a developing culture. They flit from one visceral encounter to the next with hasty unaccountability. Their days are scaffolded to fulfill one self-gratifying agenda or another; they do not hear, think, or see beyond the tragedy of foregoing first-world conveniences. Every exposure and observation, for them,is colored by their own perception of what’s right and normal.
Embracing twilight from a terrace in rural Guatemala, I witnessed one of the worst examples of the disenfranchised perspective. It was close to 9pm and most shopkeepers were rolling down their gates after a hard day of work. One booth remained open, manned by a girl about 12 or 13. Her frock, sandals, and emotive gaze were as downcast as they were colorful. As I studied her, a group of American tourists surged up the lane—three teenage boys ducked inside her booth and peevishly rummaged through her goods. They snickered, playing with their smartphones and shoving each other into her carefully arranged wares. None of the boys offered a glance her way, as her mouth sank into an expression of gritty fatigue.
Laughing, one of the boys stepped backward and tripped over a vase. The group turned to stare as hand-painted shards splintered across the pavement. For a moment, the boys just gaped in silence at the wasted terracotta. They looked at each other, then the girl. She didn’t make a movement. Her jaw quivered. Suddenly, one of the boys shrieked and took off down the street. The other two followed—they broke into peals of giggles, their voices echoing through the night air as they caught up with their group.
I dropped money on the table, grabbed the basket of rolls, and ran out of the restaurant. She was in the street, sweeping up the shards with tears rolling down her cheeks.
“Let me pay,”I said, shoving a wad of bills into her tiny hands.
She tried not to accept it, but after a few moments she gave in and took the bills from me. I offered her the rolls from the restaurant and she gingerly accepted those as well. We sat in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the moonlit tranquility. Her native language was Kaqchikel, a spoken language indigenous to the Mayan people, but eventually we were able to exchange a few ephemeral pleasantries in Spanish. I learned that she works every day from sunrise to sunset, earning money to care for seven younger siblings. Her one wish was to go to school, but for the time being her family needed her income to subsist. Despite it all, she was optimistic. Happiness isn’t conditional, it just is. In just a few minutes, she demonstrated more courage and heart than anyone I’ve ever met.
In this moment, all the tyrannical urgencies of life were extinguished and I could see things exactly as they were. For every act of blind disrespect, I hope that as we evolve as a people and a species, there is always someone watching. Someone who cares.
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When the primer is dry, caulk all small joints (less than ¼-inch-wide) in the siding and trim. Most pros use siliconized acrylics—paint won't stick to straight silicones—but Guertin and O'Neil like the new, more expensive urethane acrylics for their greater flexibility and longevity. O'Neil stresses that it's shortsighted to skimp on caulk. "If the joint fails, you're back to square one." Guertin uses the lifetime rating as his quality guide. "I don't expect 35-year caulk will last 35 years, but it should last longer than a 15-year caulk." Westminster House Painters CO
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Painters often tint primer close to the color of the top coat, but Wallis thinks that's a recipe for "holidays," or missed spots. Instead, he tints his primer a contrasting color. "If I can see the color coming through, I know I need to apply more paint," he says. On the cottage shown in this story, he chose a gray-blue primer to go under a peach top coat. House Painting Westminster
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Pol Antras
Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Elhanan Helpman
Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 May 2003
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2010
Posted: 03 May 2004
Date Written: May 2003
We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the production of intermediate inputs or outsource them. In either case they have to decide from which country to source the inputs. Final-good producers and their suppliers must make relationship-specific investments, both in an integrated firm and in an arm's-length relationship. We describe an equilibrium in which firms with different ownership structures and supplier locations, i.e., they choose different organization forms. We then study the effects of within-sectoral heterogeneity and variations in industry characteristics on the relative prevalence of these organizational forms. The analysis sheds light on the structure of foreign trade within and across industries.
Keywords: Trade in Intermediate Inputs, Imperfect Contracting, Property Rights, Multinational Firms
JEL Classification: D23, F12, F14, F23, L11, L22
Antras, Pol and Helpman, Elhanan, Global Sourcing (May 2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=412800 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.412800
Harvard University - Department of Economics ( email )
Littauer Center
Elhanan Helpman (Contact Author)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
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Here's the Fear for Osborne
Back in July the government won a vote to send £9 billion to the IMF by just 28 votes, the tightest margin yet for the Coalition government. Despite the best efforts of the whips some thirty-two Tory MPs rebelled against the government. With Osborne’s pledge today to increase British contributions to the IMF before the cash is sent on its way to Greece, an even trickier vote lies ahead:
Labour voted against the government last time and Guido can see no reason why they would change their vote next time. If you add the 81 EU rebels on the Tory benches to Labour’s vote the government will be defeated. There is some obvious panic in the Treasury as the realisation has dawned that if Ed Balls marches Labour through the no-bailout door followed by the Tory rebels, the government will lose. Excluding minor parties it will be 339 votes to 282 against more bailout cash.
There are more Tory €uro-rebels than LibDem MPs, yet it’s Clegg and the swivel-eyed Europhiles with their hands on the tiller…
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Marc Saltzman on your best tech buys this Black Friday & Cyber Monday
Leanne Cusack CTV News Ottawa Host, News at Noon
@LeanneCusackCTV Contact
Published Monday, November 23, 2020 4:37PM EST
OTTAWA -- If you feel like you need Google Translate to understand the jargon in the tech world, you need time with Marc Saltzman.
Saltzman says it’s his job is “to turn geek-speak into street-speak.”
He’s been demystifying tech since 1994.
A generation knows him as ‘the guy from the theatre’ as his tech tips or “Gear Guide” were featured along with the previews.
Saltzman’s now sharing his industry know-how on Newstalk 580 CFRA. He hosts a new radio show called “Tech Talk” and you don’t need to be a techie to enjoy it.
“Each week I cover the latest tech trends – but in a language you can understand,” he says.
Saltzman wants to take the intimidation out of technology, for those who are new to it, and to delve deeper for the true techies out there too.
Essentially, his goal is to open everyone up to technology, especially during this time when we count on our devices to keep us informed, safe, and connected.
On the CTV News at Noon, Saltzman shared his top picks for Black Friday 2020 & Cyber Monday too.
“It’s been a tough year and so many Canadians understandably want a discount on devices this year, whether it’s for gift-gifting or to treat themselves to something fun to play, while socially distanced at home, over the coming months.”
Saltzman thought an affordable laptop was the place to start for his Black Friday and Cyber Monday picks, realizing shopping this year will look different, with more people doing their buying online.
In his list he also has a suggestion to upgrade your wireless router and some ideas for the gamer in your home, from a guy whose moniker has long been “Game Guy”, including creating a virtual concert with you as DJ. (A way to get that live concert feeling, safely, in 2020).
For those who wish to get a little more fit, Salzman has a FitBit recommendation. And, if connecting with your heritage and long-lost relatives appeals to you, he has an Ancestry deal to share.
Top picks for Black Friday & Cyber Monday from Tech Expert Marc Salzman:
1. Surface Laptop Go ($759): “Millions of Canadians are now working, schooling and playing at home. This super thin and stylish laptop is perfect for all three. It features a 12.4-inch touchscreen and long battery life – and it won’t break the bank at about half the cost of many other laptops.”
2. D-Link AX1800 Mesh Wi-Fi 6 Router ($119): “Now that we have several devices online at home, and often used at the same time, it might be time to upgrade your router. Usually $150, but $40 off this weekend, this router has the latest standard, Wi-Fi 6, for up to 90% faster than the last generation of Wi-Fi.”
3. PS5 Accessories ($13 to $90): “Sony’s new console is the hot ticket in 2020, and if you’re lucky enough to find one, there are accessories for it on sale, ranging from wireless controllers and charging stations to HD cameras (for broadcasting videos of your gaming) to a wireless remote for accessing TV shows, movies and music.”
4. Fuser ($79): “This brand-new DJ game—for computers and consoles—challenges gamers to create (and if you like, share) custom mixes from more than 100 songs, while onstage at a virtual music festival. It’s a family-friendly game that’s more constructive than destructive!”
5. Fitbit Sense (on sale at BestBuy.ca for $359 instead of $429): “This is a versatile smartwatch designed primarily for fitness and health. Use the built-in GPS to track routes and distance for runs, hikes, walks and rides. Plus, it has a built-in electrocardiogram (ECG) and skin temperature sensor, sleep monitoring, and more. You can use your voice (Alexa or Google) to access everything, too.”
6. AncestryDNA (usually $129 but now $89. Will also be on sale for $69 over Black Friday/Cyber Monday): “More science than tech, this DNA kit is a more meaningful gift as it helps Canadians discover more about their heritage and family connections. Get an ethnicity report, with interactive maps that go back hundreds of years, built out your family tree, and more.”
PSA - RecycleMyElectronics
“With all this new tech we may be gifting or receiving this time of year, don’t forget about properly recycling your old tech," Saltzman says. "Simply visit recyclemyelectronics.ca and type in your postal code or address to find a drop-off bin near you.”
Tech Talk airs on Saturdays from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Newstalk 580 CFRA.
You can reach Marc on your tech this way:
Friend me: http://facebook.com/marc.saltzman
Follow me: http://twitter.com/marc_saltzman
See me: http://instagram.com/marcsaltzman
Watch me: http://youtube.com/c/MarcSaltzman
Hire me: http://linkedin.com/in/marcsaltzman
Tech expert Marc Saltzman.
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New releases: April 2018 – fantasy
Hi guys! It’s another Fantasy Wednesday today! I’ve scrounged up the top 5 of new releases to be expected this month – at least according to Goodreads. Other new releases of April 2018 can be found by genre right here on Goodreads. So the first cover seems to be something Greek? Isn’t Circe a sorceress from Greek mythology? The second book seems to me to be part of a series, about a man fighting against magical bad guys, involving some kind of prophecy? Don’t really know what the third book is about, something water-related? The fourth seems to be part of the horror genre – so I’ll take a pass on that! And the final book seems like a medieval story, something about kings and queens of yore, fighting for their kingdom. Since it’s fantasy, there will probably be some magical elements as well.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
Scourged by Kevin Hearne (The Iron Druid Chronicles #9)
Publication date: April 3rd, 2018
Unchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth. They’ve made allies on the darker side of many pantheons, and there’s a globe-spanning battle brewing that ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan will be hard-pressed to survive, much less win. Granuaile MacTiernan must join immortals Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen in a fight against the Yama Kings in Taiwan, but she discovers that the stakes are much higher than she thought. Meanwhile, Archdruid Owen Kennedy must put out both literal and metaphorical fires from Bavaria to Peru to keep the world safe for his apprentices and the future of Druidry. And Atticus recruits the aid of a tyromancer, an Indian witch, and a trickster god in hopes that they’ll give him just enough leverage to both save Gaia and see another sunrise. There is a hound named Oberon who deserves a snack, after all.
The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan (Gracekeepers)
Mara’s island is one of stories and magic. She knows she’ll eventually end her days atop the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the villagers that went before her, drawn by the otherworldly call of the sea. Her whole family will be there too, even her brother Bee and her sister Islay. But the island and the sea do what they want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara’s world changes forever. As years pass and Mara grows into herself and her scars, a chance meeting with the magnetic Pearl brings magic to life once more in ways that Mara never thought possible, in a story that she never would have dreamed for herself before. The enchanting spiritual prequel to The Gracekeepers, Kirsty Logan’s The Gloaming is a present-day fable that brims over with dazzling imagination and captivating language.
Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times… but her many deaths are not final: they are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and—when she lapses into another coma—plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her… alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol’s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave. And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her—summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself.
The Wolf of Oren-yaro by K.S. Villoso (Annals of the Bitch Queen #1)
Born under the crumbling towers of Oren-yaro, Talyien aren dar Orenar’s life unfolded like a storybook. The shining jewel and legacy of the War of the Wolves that nearly tore her nation apart, her marriage to the Ikessar heir, Rayyel, spoke of peaceful days to come. But all storybooks must end. Rayyel suddenly left the night before they were to be crowned, leaving the land as divided as before. Years later, in the midst of the warlords’ rising tensions, Talyien receives a message from Rayyel, urging her to meet with him in the Empire of Ziri-nar-Orxiaro. An assassination attempt interrupts Talyien’s quest for reconciliation, sending the queen struggling in a strange and dangerous land. With betrayals in every twist and turn, she is forced to enlist the help of a con-artist to survive and save her husband from the clutches of those who would seek to use him for their gain… if he would let her.
Hmm, I was close with most of my predictions. And the sense I had that none of these books would appeal to me, has also been proven correct. Not a good month for fantasy!
K.S. Villoso
Kirsty Logan
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STATE OF THE ART: An Exhibition and Celebration
Opening Reception: First Friday, November 2, 5:00 to 8:00 pm
In November, CPA expands its reach beyond Carmel with an exhibition and related events in Santa Cruz, CA, at that city’s premier art space, the R.Blitzer Gallery. A broad-ranging and exciting invitational exhibition, STATE OF THE ART (SOTA) features fifteen Northern California photographers who have embraced traditional and contemporary processes that reflect a powerful personal esthetic and vision.
Participating Artists: Brigitte Carnochan, Linda Connor, Binh Danh, Janet Fine, Sara Friedlander, Shelby Graham, Chris Johnson, Karolina Karlic, Bob Kolbrener, Robin Lasser & Adrienne Pao, Kathryn Mayo, Ryuijie, Jerry Takigawa, Lewis Watts, and Huntington Witherill.
SOTA events run throughout the month of November. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
A Freestyle Photographic Supplies digital printing workshop is set for Saturday, Nov. 3, from noon to 4:00 pm
Following the digital printing workshop, a panel discussion, “Breaking Boundaries,” moderated by Wallace Baine and Brian Taylor, with exhibiting photographers Binh Danh, Sara Friedlander, Karolina Karlic, and Robin Lasser will take place at 6:00 pm and conclude with a reception until 8:30 pm.
On Wednesday, November 14, an evening lecture and recognition award with photographer and retired Congressman Sam Farr. Free, open to the public. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
SOTA Online Juried Competition: The Human Spirit.
Schedule of Events at R. Blitzer Gallery:
Digital Printing Workshop with Freestyle Photographic Supplies
Saturday, Nov. 3, Noon to 4:00 pm
Saturday Nov. 3, 6:00 to 7:30 pm, reception 7:30 to 8:30 pm
Panelists, exhibiting artists: Binh Danh, Sara Friedlander, Karolina Karlic, and Robin Lasser. Moderators: Wallace Baine, veteran arts & culture journalist, Santa Cruz, and Brian Taylor, Executive Director of CPA
General admission: $75 for both events (includes one year CPA membership).
CPA Members: $35 for both events.
Students (with ID): $45 for both events (includes one year CPA membership).
Panel discussion only: $10 General, CPA members free.
Enroll early, space is limited! Tickets for both events via Eventbrite, https://bit.ly/2DnMoeY
Reception and achievement award with retired Congressman Sam Farr
Wednesday, November 14, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Free to the public. Free tickets are available via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2O2YwWJ
State of the Art (SOTA) Online Competition
Entry period: September 26 – November 10
Jurors: Ann Hazels, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz; Rick Murai, Assistant Director, CPA
The online contest has concluded.
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Should Labor Be Induced at 39 Weeks?
New ARRIVE trial findings challenge current guidelines
For nulliparous women with low-risk pregnancies, labor induction at 39 weeks does not increase the risk for adverse perinatal outcome and reduces the chance of cesarean delivery (CD). The findings, which are the result of the large, multisite ARRIVE (A Randomized Trial of Induction Versus Expectant Management) trial, were published in August 2018 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The results challenge current guidelines from various medical organizations including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Family Physicians, which recommend against inducing labor before 41 weeks in the absence of a medical issue.
“There has been a long-standing teaching that if we try to induce labor when it’s not necessary, we increase the risk of CD because the woman isn’t ready to deliver and hasn’t shown any signs that she’s going to go into labor,” says Geeta Swamy, MD, a co-author of the study and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Duke.
However, these recommendations are based primarily on retrospective studies, which compared labor induction with spontaneous labor, Swamy explains. The ARRIVE trial, by contrast, used the clinically relevant comparator of expectant management, randomizing study participants at 38 weeks.
The trial is also the largest prospective cohort study to assess elective induction at 39 weeks. With 6,106 participants, the study was large enough to be able to detect differences in uncommon outcomes that previous, smaller trials could not.
Data from the trial suggest that induction at 39 weeks is safe for the infant. The overall composite incidence of perinatal adverse events was similar in the two groups (4.3 percent in the induction group versus 5.4 percent in the expectant management group). When looking at more specific outcomes, infants in the labor induction group had shorter durations of respiratory support and total hospital stay.
The CD rate was significantly lower in the induction group—18.6 percent versus 22.2 percent in the expectant management group. This difference, although small, is notable, Swamy says, because a CD during a first pregnancy is predictive of CD in later pregnancies. Preventing CD during a patient’s first pregnancy therefore has implications for subsequent delivery. Women in the induction group were also less likely to experience preeclampsia.
Taken together, the results suggest that labor induction at 39 weeks is safer than current guidelines would suggest. Still, Swamy cautions against generalizing the study’s results: By design, the study included only nulliparous women with low-risk pregnancies.
For clinicians discussing options with women who fit these criteria, the new findings will be a valuable addition to the conversation, Swamy concludes: “The way I see these data being implemented in the clinic is, if a woman fits the eligibility criteria and I see her at 37 weeks, I would say, ‘Here are the data from the ARRIVE study. Based on that, you fit the criteria and we can offer you an induction at 39 weeks.’ But there were clearly women in both groups of the study who had a good outcome, so it’s really about a woman’s personal preference.”
New Statement from ACOG
Check out ACOG's clinical guidance for integration of ARRIVE trial findings.
Practice Advisory
Cesarean Delivery Crisis: How We Got Here and How to Address
Gynecology CMEs
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Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist
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5 Celebrities That Play Table Tennis
Last Updated on May 20, 2020 by Roland Campbell Leave a Comment
While playing ping pong is a solid way to while away time during recess, you’d be surprised at the kind of people who have expressed profound love and respect for the game.
If you’re still not clear on how cool ping pong is, this post contains a list of five celebrities, living and dead who play(ed) ping pong so much that it became public record.
1 5 Well-Known Celebrities That Play Table Tennis
1.1 1). Susan Abigail Sarandon :
1.2 2). Barack Obama and David Cameron :
1.3 3). Justin Bieber :
1.4 4). Pearl Jam :
1.5 5). Andrea Pirlo :
5 Well-Known Celebrities That Play Table Tennis
1). Susan Abigail Sarandon :
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Susan is an American actress, Academy award and BAFTA award winner known for her political and social activism for various causes. But when she’s not all that, there’s a huge chance she’s getting sweat off an unfortunate tennis opponent in one of her tennis clubs.
Yeah! Tennis clubs. See, you probably didn’t listen when Christopher Walken from “Balls of Fury” said “less talkie-talkie, more ping pong”, but Sarah got the message quite clear. She recently opened SPiN, a ping pong social club for ping pong junkies such as herself with branches spread across major cities such as New York, San Francisco, Chicago, among others.
A more interesting part of this news is that other celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson and Axl Rose are recognized as players in this club.
2). Barack Obama and David Cameron :
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These two are paired together because they were both caught on camera at a school visit showing off their ping pong skills. And this happened while Obama was in office. Seeing American’s former president, Barack Obama and Britain’s former prime minister, David Cameron brag about their love for ping pong is so nice.
Funny story, Cameron claimed to have learnt the game from the former chancellor Normal Lamont. Ping pong is really a game for champions and this should be enough motivation to hone your tennis skills.
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3). Justin Bieber :
The Canadian pop singer and song writer is known to love a good game of ping pong. Beliebers must be really wowed right now. He’s such a devoted fan of this sport, so much that he is known to have with him a special rider in his concert contracts that requires a ping pong table.
Apparently, when he’s touring, he carries a ping pong table along with him and plays it incessantly. This is an extra ordinary example of making time for your other passions. If you were to run into him during one of his concerts and he happened to invite you to chill, I bet being a ping pong master would give you a bigger chance of being his tennis buddy, if you’re into that kinda thing.
4). Pearl Jam :
Pearl Jam is a Seattle based, American Rock Band formed in 1990. Their consistent line up, since their inception includes Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament. Since we have them mentioned on this celebrity list, you wouldn’t need to be hard pressed that as ping pong lovers, they probably practiced songs over in house tournaments of ping pong at least once.
One of this most memorable scenes that makes this less of a conspiracy theory was during their encore break, when the crew pulled out a ping pong table while the Star Wars theme song played over a loudspeaker. Right there and then, they had a ping pong music challenge sponsored by the Pearl Jam road crew, and it was just amazing. Ping pong really does transcend all ages and genders.
5). Andrea Pirlo :
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Ping pong helps a lot with hand and eye coordination, with an inclusion of foot work. This might be the major reason he adopted it; we might never know for sure. However, it’s quite impressive how a renowned football player has taken up another sport as a hobby, so well that the public knows about it.
Apparently, most celebrities see it as a secondary sport but nonetheless, they remain devoted to it and that’s awesome.
In addition to this list is the Jamaica’s very own Bob Marley. The more interesting thing about this compilation is that it cuts across all fields, from highest ranking politicians, to star pop artists, living and legends, as well as football stars. That’s the fun thing about ping pong.
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The #DreamBigPrincess global video series empowers the next generation of leaders by spotlighting female trailblazers as they share their stories and advice. 21 talented young women from 13 countries captured the stories of these leaders in digital shorts that will be shared across Disney’s global social media.
Plus, from October 10–November 20, 2018, for each like or share of a public video or photo with #DreamBigPrincess on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, Disney will donate $1 to Girl Up, the United Nations Foundation’s initiative supporting girls’ leadership and empowerment (minimum donation: $500,000/maximum donation: $1 million). For more information about Girl Up, go to girlup.org.
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“You have to have important dreams, distant dreams.If you have a dream that is very easy to achieve, once you get it you are left with no path to follow. Modest dreams don’t work. Big dreams are those that ultimately give meaning to life.”–María Teresa Ruiz
“Follow your passion. Not what you think you should do or ought to do, but what you love to do. Give yourself a little flexibility. It’s okay if you think something is your passion and there’s things you love about it, but maybe it’s not what you thought and you want to go off and do something different.”–Susan Prescott
“When you’re doubting, when you’re starting to shrink your dreams, just look up and keep dreaming bigger. All you need is one person to believe and sometimes, that person is you.”” – Victoria Arlen
“Where you are now is nothing compared to where you will go, and you have to trust that. You have a right to create. You have a right to have a voice. And know that just because you have that right doesn’t mean you have all the answers.”–Jennifer Lee
“A word I use over and over again is tenacity. I think it’s important to remember that it’s never going to be easy the first time out, so you just have to keep going at it again and again especially if you firmly believe in what you do.”–Kathleen Kennedy
“The most difficult challenge I had was to find myself and what I want to do in life. I always struggled between science and art, and then I understood that you can be both rational and creative. That is research. Questions come with rational, and answers with your imagination.”–Dr. Asmaa Boujibar
“The sky is not the limit. Go for the heavens. Go for gold. Work hard for your goals and don’t limit yourself. You can become anybody in the world if you work hard, if you have the passion for it, and if you love what you do.”–Dr. Ndifanji Namacha
“I think realizing dreams is very important, but the journey to realize those dreams is also worth remembering. So often, people doubt the ability of a young woman like me. I use those challenges as motivation. I never back off. Instead, I encourage myself to become stronger.”–Leia Mi
“In my career, there were more no’s than yes’s. But still, I kept fighting and fighting and fighting and I kept trying until one day I finally made it.” – Martina Stoessel
“There’s a line in Mary Poppins where she says anything is possible, even the impossible. I think that really symbolizes what dreaming big is all about, the idea if you want something big enough that the universe is going to conspire to give it to you.” – Emily Blunt
"From a young child, I was diagnosed with dyslexia. People look at it as a disability. It’s not. It’s the ability to think differently. What life takes away with one hand will give you always back with another. You just have to recognize what it is.” – Jo Malone CBE
“Only do it if you love it. That’s what I’ve lived by since day one.” – Karen Walker
“When you establish what you want, dreaming big means getting what you want. And it doesn’t have to be the same thing as someone else or what’s established, but it has to be exactly what you want.” – Mónica López Hidalgo
“The important thing is that there’s talent. And talent has no gender, and talent has no nationality, and talent has no age.” – Blanca Treviño
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“During my personal journey, I realized that when we stop seeing the limiting aspect of disability, we discover what we can develop because of the disability. Finally, we understand that it is an immense strength.” – Virginie Delalande
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“Dreaming big is the only thing to do, it is the best thing to do. Dreaming big allows you to look at the world through the lense of great opportunities and abilities. By doing that, you open yourself up to every possibility that’s available. So that when doors open for you, you can walk into those with confidence.” – Celina Caesar-Chavannes
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Funds generated through this campaign will help support Girl Up’s leadership development programs. These programs engage girls to take action and advocate for themselves and girls globally, giving them empowering tools to help transform the world. Funds from this collaboration will help more girls start Girl Up Clubs in the US and around the world, and build a new program for Girl Up members to help them grow their skills and increase their leadership potential.
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Hublot Announces Partnership with Beard Season at Private View of Beard by Mr Elbank at Somerset House
Brand proves once again “Hublot Loves Art” by celebrating the cultural rise of the beard and its ability to save lives
6th March 2015, London. Luxury Swiss watchmaker Hublot announced its partnership with Beard Season last night as Principal Sponsor of the private view to open the photography exhibition Beard by Mr Elbank at Somerset House.
Hublot’s brand philosophy of “The Art of Fusion” and “Hublot Loves Art” platform was once again brought to life with the support of the exhibition’s private view, merging the creativity at the heart of the brand with that of the art world. As well as officially opening the hotly-anticipated Somerset House exhibition, the event also marked the brand’s global partnership with Beard Season, the viral movement which inspired many of the exhibition’s most celebrated images.
In 2010, after losing one of his best friends to melanoma at the age of 26, Jimmy Niggles created Beard Season. Long before the hipster and even more recent “lumbersexual” movements, Jimmy and his friends all grew beards as conversation starters, so that every time someone asked about their facial follicles, they could share their friend’s story. The campaign went viral and is now an Instagram sensation, with a simple message: Commit to getting a skin check, grow a beard and become a Beard Season Ambassador.
On the Beard Season and Hublot partnership, Jimmy Niggles commented, “Everybody knows growing a beard takes time and dedication. But a beard can actually give time, by carrying a message which can lead to the early detection of one of the world’s deadliest cancers. To have Hublot recognise this power and help share it with the world is a truly inspiring relationship, which Mr Elbank and I thoroughly look forward to building. »
Ricardo Guadalupe, Hublot CEO, said of the collaboration, “Hublot are honoured to support Beard’s private view and officially announce our partnership with Beard Season. Much like those who adorn their wrists with a Hublot, Mr Elbank’s magnificent images celebrate people who defy convention and face the world with blazing attitude. We look forward to continuing to work with Beard Season and helping Jimmy and all Beard Season Ambassadors save lives, beard by beard.”
Beard is a celebration of the enduring international beard trend and of individuals who wear their facial hair with uncompromising style. International photographer Mr Elbank began documenting beards as a personal project, drawn to the beauty in an unconventional face. After meeting Jimmy Niggles, his work gained a new purpose. Mr Elbank began a sequence of portraits tagged #Project60, a mission to find and photograph the world’s most sensational beards, bringing global awareness to the Beard Season movement.
The exhibition encompasses Mr Elbank’s early work, the Beard Season #Project60 sequence, as well as new, unseen photographs shot especially for the Somerset House exhibition. His work is masculine but beautiful, with the portraits revealing the power of the personality behind the beard. His subjects come from all walks of life and include American footballer Tim Howard, British actor Sir John Hurt, and fashion savant Nick Wooster. There’s also a striking Sikh woman, Harnaam Kaur, whose medical condition gives her a beard she wears with confident elan.
About Hublot
“A different way to progress » say those who know this unique Swiss luxury watch company, where each and every moment moves forward to create the future at breathtaking speed. A dream, initiated and developed by Hublot’s Chairman Jean-Claude Biver with CEO, Ricardo Guadalupe, these two men are responsible for turning the Hublot brand into a genuine success story in which the Big Bang, King Power and Classic Fusion represent the symbols of a constantly evolving tradition. From watch complications and revolutionary materials to world-class collaborations such as FIFA World Cup™ and Ferrari, Hublot characterizes itself through the « Art of Fusion » philosophy, bringing tradition into the future. On a commercial level, the network of approved retailers has grown rapidly and currently stands at 750 points of sale and more than 70 exclusive boutiques around the world (Geneva, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York, Miami, Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, Ginza…).
About Beard Season
Beard Season is a global movement turning beards into life saving conversation starters; challenging you, your friends and family to book a skin check for melanoma – one of the world’s deadliest cancers.
About Somerset House
Somerset House is a unique part of the London cultural scene, Somerset House is an historic building where surprising and original work comes to life. From its 18th century origins, it has been a centre for debate and discussion – an intellectual powerhouse for the nation. Today, Somerset House is a key cultural destination in London in which to experience a broad range of artistic activity, engage with artists, designers and makers and be a part of a major creative forum – an environment that is relaxed, welcoming to all and inspirational to visit while providing a stimulating workplace for the cultural and creative industries. Since its opening in 2000, Somerset House has built up a distinctive outdoor public programme including Skate, concerts, an open-air film season and a diverse range of temporary exhibitions throughout the site focusing on contemporary culture including photography, fashion, architecture and design, with an extensive integrated learning programme. We currently attract well over 2 million visitors every year. It is now the home of London Fashion Week in February and September each year and probably the biggest community of creative organisations in London including The Courtauld Gallery and Institute of Art, King’s College London Cultural Institute and over 100 other creative businesses.
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Medical Marijuana, Inc. Subsidiary Kannaway® Unveils New Single Serving Size Sample Packs
Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC:MJNA), the first-ever publicly traded cannabis company in the United States, today announced that its subsidiary Kannaway®, the first hemp lifestyle network to offer cannabidiol (CBD) hemp botanical products, has released a new line of Sample Packs.
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Kannaway® Sample Packs serve as an incredible new tool for sharing the company’s CBD products. Each Sample Pack includes five 50 mg samples and a single travel salve. The samples available in these packs are Kannaway® Pure CBD and Kannaway® Pure Gold.
“We are thrilled to release our new line of easy-to-use Sample Packs,” said Kannaway® Chief Executive Officer Blake Schroeder. “This new product is perfect for those who want to try CBD for the first time, or those who are looking for a portable product to match their active lifestyle.”
According to a report by Brightfield Group, the hemp-derived CBD market will dominate the cannabis industry within four years. The report found that the hemp-derived CBD market is expected to hit $591 million this year alone, with the potential to grow 40 times to $22 billion by 2022.
“We are excited to announce the release of this incredible introductory tool that will allow prospective customers to experience the many benefits of CBD for themselves,” said Medical Marijuana, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dr. Stuart Titus. “We’re always finding new ways to innovate our product offerings and expand global access to CBD.”
Shop the entire line of Kannaway® Sample Packs in the Kannaway® online store.
About Kannaway®Kannaway® is a network sales and marketing company specializing in the sales and marketing of hemp-based botanical products. Kannaway® currently hosts weekly online sales meetings and conferences across the United States, offering unique insight and opportunity to sales professionals who are desirous of becoming successful leaders in the sale and marketing of hemp-based botanical products.
About Medical Marijuana, Inc.We are a company of firsts®. Our mission is to be the premier cannabis and hemp industry innovators, leveraging our team of professionals to source, evaluate and purchase value-added companies and products, while allowing them to keep their integrity and entrepreneurial spirit. We strive to create awareness within our industry, develop environmentally-friendly, economically sustainable businesses, while increasing shareholder value. For details on Medical Marijuana, Inc.’s portfolio and investment companies, visit www.medicalmarijuanainc.com.
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With 2016 now in full swing, the time has come for convention season to get underway and first out of the gate is the trip down to Cheltenham Racecourse as neither the heavy winds or torrential rain seemed enough to dampen the spirits of the fans, creators or agents alike making their pilgrimage to the new con on the block, True Believers Comic Festival 2016.
Event: True Believers Comic Festival
Date: February 5th 2016
Location: Cheltenham Race Course
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After the success of its freshman year, The True Believers Comic Festival 2016 returned bigger, better and more popular than ever with the line to get in snaking around the building’s atrium and out of the door into the elements. However, this risk of a soaking didn’t seem to deter anyone, as fans, families and cosplayers alike turned out in their droves to attend the event.
Once through the doors to the main hall, True Believers was once again a sight to behold, with the sizeable hall packed with, what seemed like more tables than ever before, but without reducing the space for foot traffic. These additional tables allowed for more apparel sellers to display their wares, such as t-shirt seller Genki Gear and jewellery designer Hand Made By Me, as well a gaming area where, among others, indie comics powerhouse Big Punch Studios displayed their new card game, Sandwich Masters.
However, much like last year, this con was all about the comics and True Believers didn’t disappoint with an abundance small press comic creators ranging from circuit mainstays like Mike (Kill Screen) Garley, Vince (Red Mask From Mars) Hunt, Joe (Pride/Stiffs) Glass and Andy (Midnight Man) Bloor; to relative newcomers like the Swansea Comic Collective. They all displayed the same friendliness and enthusiasm as the con’s ‘name’ guests, which included big Doctor Who connected names like Mike Collins, Paul Cornell and Emma Vieceli as well as Marvel artist Lee Townsend and 2000 AD stalwart Rob Williams. Of course, the creators weren’t the only source of comic books with a large number of traders, including local comic shop Proud Lion and back issue trader comic connections, on hand to help fans find those missing floppies in their collections.
Finally, True Believers put on a wonderful array of that convention staple, the panels, with a streamlined programme of highly varied subjects, from Doctor Who to new comics, inspiring creativity to celebrating cosplay, which seemed to have exploded in popularity between years with a massive number of well made and intricate costumes.
Of course, this con is a giant machine to run and like other cons did have a couple of problems. These were the long queues to enter the main hall, which may be a testament to them underestimating their own popularity, as well as the con announcer having been in need of a megaphone. We also found a lack of adequate signage, both outside the venue and inside, which meant we sometimes struggled to find our way around. That said, these are only minor problems and we hope are just growing pains for a Con destined to only grow. Besides which they did nothing to take away from overall enjoyment of the event.
“Building on its success from 2015, True Believers Comic Festival 2016 has built upon foundations laid in its opening year to have produced an event which has truly bettered itself. Inevitably for an event this size, there was some minor negatives, but if every year does what it has done here, it’s safe to say this will become a con which could be considered among the best in the UK. “
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“2020 Marketing is all about authenticity.”
Digital Marketing Stats to Shape our 2020 Online Strategy
According to the founder and CEO of digitalmarketer.com, 9% of sales are concluded online, but 96% of sales begin with an online search. Ryan Deiss also confirmed that digital ad spend had outdone traditional ad spend for the first time in history in 2019! What do these and other statistics purport for 2020 marketing trends, and how can you leverage off these trends to bolster your digital marketing results?
To put it simply, your digital advertising efforts are more important than ever. Consumers need to be able to find you online, and your online presence should boost your brand image and increase your sales. The challenge is that hitting the sweet spot when it comes to digital marketing can be tricky.
You want the ideal balance between exertion, spend, and reward. In other words, to spend as little time and money as possible to get the most results possible. Understanding the current digital trends in marketing in 2020 can help you achieve better results without overspending. Here are five trends to take note of and use in your 2020 marketing efforts:
#1 Visual and Purposeful Content is on the Rise
People are reading less and watching more. Audiences are skimming large amounts of text. This means using more visual content like videos, dynamic imagery, animation, graphics, and even infographics. When writing short-form written content, this means including lots of popping visuals.
The most popular and consumed version of visual content is video. Take advantage of this trend by creating more video in the formats that are most successful on your platforms of choice.
Purposeful and high-quality content matters more to consumers. This means less fluff. A report by B2B states that 90% of the most successful content marketers put their audience's info needs above their promotional message. Our focus should be providing high-value thought-provoking content that looks great and meets the audience's informational needs.
#2 Voice Search is on the Rise
This year, about half of queries will be voice-based! You can turn this into an opportunity by using long-tail keywords and content in more natural language to reach the voice-searchers. The rise of voice search makes it clear that our content needs to be extremely relevant, informative, and authoritative, giving searchers the answers they want in a format Google can find and offer up when they search with voice.
In the context of content creation for search engine optimisation, this means that repetitions of a keyword matter less. Claiming a Google Snippet for the keyword will give you exponentially more results. For example, instead of aiming to repeat "cats" as many times as possible in a 1,000-word blog, aim to make each paragraph an answer to a query. "What is a cat?" for example. The snippet should be highlighted on the page.
According to Ryan Deiss, nobody is reading your blog. We write blogs for Google. This means we produce content not because we have a loyal fanbase reading the blog posts, but so that Google can use the content we produce to provide answers to questions people are asking. Take advantage of the voice search trend by optimising your content for voice search; Target long-tail keywords and use language that is more natural.
The Social Media Detox Trend
Gen Z-ers are "detoxing" by removing themselves the internet. This trend isn't to say that social media users are becoming fewer, because many of the detox-ers remain on social media but may jump to different platforms or be absent for longer stretches of time.
The key factor marketers should pay attention to with this trend is that users feel more disconnected with their world. Some feel that their online presence can be a waste of their time or distract them from real life issues. Simply pushing the brand message can drive users away from your content instead of leading them to purchase.
To take advantage of this trend, bands can focus on meeting consumers where they're at, answering their needs, and speaking to their desire for more authenticity and a greater connection to "real life". This can be considered when strategising.
#4 Influencer Marketing is on the Rise
Because consumers are tired of insincere adverts in their feeds, more authentic, real content is important. Brand adverts must, therefore, take a decided turn towards influencer-based reach instead of only boosting posts as adverts. The best way to make use of influencers in your campaign is to build more long-term relationships with influencers who can represent your brand over a longer period.
Micro influencers are of more value than influencers with gigantic audiences because of the trust everyday people build with their smaller audiences. To take advantage of this trend, begin discussions with multiple smaller-scale (micro) influencers for future collaboration.
#5 TikTok is on the Rise
Tiktok’s rise to popularity ties into the consumer's desire for more authentic content. Known as a place where content is more real, raw, and authentic than on other top social media platforms, TikTok is a trending platform. The algorithm is more merciful than Instagram or Facebook’s when it comes to organic reach, making it easier to create a presence on the app. That's because other algorithms are designed to cut your traffic unless you're paying for advertising.
In fact, Nielsen’s Agora Pulse said Facebook showed organic content to 26% of a user’s followers in 2011, but nowadays that number has dropped to a mere 0.05%! The drop comes as Facebook’s advertising rises. Creating a presence on TikTok now, while more and more users download the app, can bring a company extensive reach in the future, and companies can capitalise on virality more easily.
Marketing on TikTok cannot happen in the way it does on other platforms. Content needs to be entertaining, funny, engaging, and unique. Brands can advertise on this platform by:
creating a presence on TikTok that is personal (in other words, an individual representing the company)
starting a "challenge" that can go viral. The same goes for soundtracks, duets, hashtags, and effects.
building ties with micro and macro influencers on TikTok who can include your brand into their authentic, real-life content.
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1. Governing Principles
Piute School District (referred to as the LEA throughout) takes its responsibility toward student data seriously. This governance plan incorporates the following Generally Accepted Information Principles (GAIP):
● Risk: There is a risk associated with data and content. The risk must be formally recognized, either as a liability or through incurring costs to manage and reduce the inherent risk.
● Due Diligence: If a risk is known, it must be reported. If a risk is possible, it must be confirmed.
● Audit: The accuracy of data and content is subject to periodic audits by an independent body.
● Accountability: An organization must identify parties that are ultimately responsible for data and content assets.
● Liability: The risks in information means there is a financial liability inherent in all data or content that is based on regulatory and ethical misuse or mismanagement.
2. Data Maintenance and Protection Policy
The LEA recognizes that there is risk and liability in maintaining student data and other education-related data and will incorporate reasonable data industry best practices to mitigate this risk.
2.1 Process
In accordance with R277-487, the LEA shall do the following:
● Designate an individual as an Information Security Officer
● Adopt the CIS Controls or comparable
● Report to the USBE by October 1 each year regarding the status of the adoption of the
CIS controls or comparable and future plans for improvement.
3. Roles and Responsibilities Policy
The LEA acknowledges the need to identify parties who are ultimately responsible and accountable for data and content assets. These individuals and their responsibilities are as follows:
3.1 Data Manager roles and responsibilities
● authorize and manage the sharing, outside of the student data manager's education entity, of personally identifiable student data for the education entity as described in this section
● provide for necessary technical assistance, training, and support
● act as the primary local point of contact for the state student data officer
● ensure that the following notices are available to parents:
● annual FERPA notice (see 34 CFR 99.7),
● directory information policy (see 34 CFR 99.37),
● survey policy and notice (see 20 USC 1232h and 53E-9-203),
● data collection notice (see 53E-9-305)
3.2 Information Security Officer
● Oversee adoption of the CIS controls
● Provide for necessary technical assistance, training, and support as it relates to IT
4. Training and Support Policy
The LEA recognizes that training and supporting educators and staff regarding federal and state data privacy laws is a necessary control to ensure legal compliance.
4.1 Procedure
The data manager will ensure that educators who have access to student records will receive annual training on the confidentiality of student data to all employees with access to student data. The content of this training will be based on the Data Sharing Policy.
By October 1 each year, the data manager will report to USBE the completion status of the annual confidentiality training and provide a copy of the training materials used.
The data manager shall keep a list of all employees who are authorized to access student education records after having completed training that meets the requirements of 53E-9-204.
5. Audit Policy
In accordance with the risk management priorities of the LEA, the LEA will conduct an audit of:
● The effectiveness of the controls used to follow this data governance plan; and
● Third-party contractors, as permitted by the contract described in 53E-9-309(2).
6. Data Sharing Policy
There is a risk of redisclosure whenever student data are shared. The LEA shall follow appropriate controls to mitigate the risk of redisclosure and to ensure compliance with federal and state law.
The data manager shall approve all data sharing or designate other individuals who have been trained on compliance requirements with FERPA.
For external research, the data manager shall ensure that the study follows the requirements of FERPA’s study exception described in 34 CFR 99.31(a)(6).
After sharing from student records, the data manager shall ensure that an entry is made in the LEA Metadata Dictionary to record that the exchange happened.
4. After sharing from student records, the data manager shall make a note in the student record of the exchange in accordance with 34 CFR 99.32.
7. Expungement Request Policy
The LEA recognizes the risk associated with data following a student year after year that could be used to mistreat the student. The LEA shall review all requests for records expungement from parents and make a determination based on the following procedure.
The following records may not be expunged: grades, transcripts, a record of the student’s enrollment, assessment information.
The procedure for expungement shall match the record amendment procedure found in 34 CFR 99, Subpart C of FERPA.
If a parent believes that a record is misleading, inaccurate, or in violation of the student’s privacy, they may request that the record be expunged.
The LEA shall decide whether to expunge the data within a reasonable time after the request.
If the LEA decides not to expunge the record, they will inform the parent of their decision as well as the right to an appeal hearing.
The LEA shall hold the hearing within a reasonable time after receiving the request for a hearing.
The LEA shall provide the parent notice of the date, time, and place in advance of the hearing.
The hearing shall be conducted by any individual that does not have a direct interest in the outcome of the hearing.
The LEA shall give the parent a full and fair opportunity to present relevant evidence. At the parents’ expense and choice, they may be represented by an individual of their choice, including an attorney.
The LEA shall make its decision in writing within a reasonable time following the hearing.
The decision must be based exclusively on the evidence presented at the hearing and include a summary of the evidence and reasons for the decision.
If the decision is to expunge the record, the LEA will seal it or make it otherwise unavailable to other staff and educators.
8. Data Breach Response Policy
The LEA shall follow industry best practices to protect information and data. In the event of a data breach or inadvertent disclosure of personally identifiable information, the LEA staff shall follow industry best practices for responding to the breach.
8.1 Procedures
1. The Superintendent will work with the information security officer to designate individuals to be members of the cyber incident response team (CIRT)
At the beginning of an investigation, the information security officer will begin tracking the incident and log all information and evidence related to the investigation.
The information security officer will call the CIRT into action once there is reasonable evidence that an incident or breach has occurred.
The information security officer will coordinate with other IT staff to determine the root cause of the breach and close the breach.
The CIRT will coordinate with legal counsel to determine if the incident meets the legal definition of a significant breach as defined in R277-487 and determine which entities and individuals need to be notified.
If law enforcement is notified and begins an investigation, the CIRT will consult with them before notifying parents or the public to not interfere with the law enforcement investigation.
9. Publication Policy
The LEA recognizes the importance of transparency and will post this policy on the LEA website.
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2 minutes to read Posted on Wednesday April 3, 2019
Updated on Monday June 1, 2020
Data publication Data standards Academic Research Cultural Heritage Institutions data-quality europeanatech research
Antoine Isaac
R&D Manager , Europeana Foundation
Nuno Freire
Former Senior Data Specialist , None
Europeana and the FAIR principles for research data
What are the ‘FAIR’ principles used by the research community? Why do they matter for Europeana? And how do our data and services comply with them?
Title: Dieppe, église Saint-Jacques-PM 07142
Institution: PMR Maeyaert
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship are intended to improve the infrastructure for and services around scholarly data. These principles, as presented on the GO FAIR website that hosts them, are intended as ‘guidelines to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of digital assets’. They now guide the design and implementation of major initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as illustrated by the recently launched FAIRsFAIR project.
Europeana Collections and its APIs make digitised cultural heritage from over 3,700 providers (galleries, libraries, museums and archives) available in all European languages. Europeana Research wants more people to make use of this material in academic research, especially in the humanities.
We are exploring possibilities to liaise with the EOSC, which also caters to research needs in the social sciences and humanities. In this context, how do Europeana services comply with the FAIR principles and how can we play a role in the wider adoption of these principles in the cultural heritage sector?
How do the FAIR principles align with Europeana's?
There is much resonance between the FAIR principles and Europeana's values and objectives, as embodied in its strategy. Our principles ‘Usable, Mutual, Reliable’ and the way we have implemented them in the past ten years align with FAIR's own 'Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable’ principles. We have been involved in the development of technology that has great potential for enhancing the FAIRness of data, such as open web APIs, Linked Data and the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), implementing it for ourselves as well as encouraging everyone in our sector to adopt it.
Europeana and its wide network of partners have developed a Licensing Framework enabling fully open metadata and the mandatory labelling of content with standardised and interoperable rights statements which make the reuse possibilities for each item clear. We have also been advocating for the adoption of better copyright policies that make it easier to openly share cultural data across the board. Finally, the large network of Europeana’s data partners has worked on improving the quality of the data provided in an effort to make our vastly diverse data more usable across domains and languages.
[Ontwerp:] S[ocié]té A[nony]me de l'Exposition universelle et internationale de Gand 1913. Entrée principale. Coupe A-B, Oscar Henricus Van de Voorde, 1913, Ghent University Library, CC BY-SA
How do Europeana's data and services meet the FAIR requirements?
Europeana aggregates metadata records about cultural heritage objects. These records provide links to digitised content that is accessible on the websites of Europeana's partners and fuels a search service that facilitates the discovery of cultural material for a wide variety of audiences. Both data and services are presented via a web platform and a series of APIs. There are, therefore, several levels to consider when assessing the FAIRness of Europeana's offer.
F- To be Findable
The digitised content that Europeana provides access to is described by metadata, the aggregation of which constitutes the backbone of Europeana's services. The scale and diversity of Europeana's metadata sets imply that their richness varies greatly. But Europeana has equipped itself with a data model (see below) that follows the linked data principles which give, besides flexibility, the possibility for our partners - or Europeana itself - to enrich metadata with links to (multilingual) semantic resources that also describe the ’context’ of cultural objects, making them easier to find.
As mentioned earlier, we index the Europeana dataset and make it searchable online ourselves. In addition, the dataset is findable through the European research infrastructures CLARIN and EUDAT.
Europeana and our partners promote the persistent identification of both cultural heritage objects’ metadata and digital versions. A persistent identifier is added to every record. Europeana identifiers are URIs and are included in the data records in all formats in which the dataset is available. In a context of aggregation where data is passed and processed across different partners, we cannot (and for provenance concerns do not want to) enforce global uniqueness, i.e. there can be several identifiers for several versions of a resource. But we do try to maintain links across all these versions so that consumers of our services can always find what they search for.
A - To be Accessible
Europeana identifiers are resolvable (HTTP) URIs, which orient users and data-consuming services towards pages on our website or data from our APIs. Europeana also tries to resolve URIs that are obsolete and have been updated for technical reasons, by using HTTP redirection.
Europeana’s dataset is accessible through Web APIs that implement open, standard protocols, such as the Linked Data protocols and practices (including SPARQL), OpenSearch, OAI-PMH.
Access to the dataset’s records via their URIs is free and no authentication is required. Some APIs (such as the Annotations API) and parts of our platform (such as Europeana 1914-1918) require authentication, as they allow the modification of our data.
I - To be Interoperable
Europeana uses the Europeana Data Model (EDM) for data exchange with data providers, for its internal information system, and also for third-party use. EDM is a collaborative, community-based model, developed in consultation with representatives from all the domains represented in Europeana. It is under continuous improvement. EDM is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which allows us to create a model for our metadata that mostly reuses existing (Linked Data) standard vocabularies, such as Dublin Core, SKOS, and FOAF.
Europeana supports its data partners to use vocabularies for referring to concepts, places, persons and organisations. The most prominent vocabularies in use within the dataset are DBpedia and Geonames. Our use of external vocabularies for enrichment always follows the standard practices of Linked Open Data and concerns such as quality and access.
Note that in a couple of cases that are crucial for Europeana, we have embarked on making our own vocabularies, such as the one at RightsStatements.org (see below) to complement existing standards. Again, this is community-driven and follows existing best practices (such as providing URIs).
R - To be Reusable
Facilitating the reuse of cultural heritage data is a key Europeana objective.
Any metadata provided to Europeana needs to be licensed under CC0, and Europeana makes the complete aggregated metadata set (including the outcomes of its own data improvements) openly available under CC0 as well.
The rights for using the content are stated in every record, using rights statements from either Creative Commons or RightsStatements.org, the latter being a vocabulary developed as a community initiative to improve the communication of the copyright and reuse status of digital objects by cultural heritage institutions, making it easier for users to ‘see if and how online cultural heritage works can be reused’.
Provenance of the data is always stated, acknowledging the original data provider (e.g. a museum or library) and all intermediaries in the aggregation workflow in the metadata.
Finally, our metadata is made available with the use of data standards commonly used in the cultural heritage, education and research domains, such as Schema.org, Dublin Core, SKOS and others (thanks partly to EDM following best practices for data modelling and being already based on these standards).
What will Europeana do in the near future?
To further encourage partners to provide richer data that makes digital cultural heritage more findable and more reusable, Europeana has ongoing data quality efforts to share best practices and report on the quality of content and metadata in a way that is helpful and motivating both for providers and users.
We have recently defined measures for metadata quality, identifying key data elements and values that enable rich user interfaces and better user experience. In the coming months, we are going to make these measurements accessible to our data reusers so that they can identify the material that is most useful to them.
With respect to accessibility of digitised content, Europeana is a founding member of the new International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF is a set of open APIs designed to help people publish digital content on the web in a way that is more interoperable, allows richer interaction with content across any repositories and keeps better track of provenance of content. Europeana recognises and exploits IIIF content that is provided to us and works hard on encouraging our data partners to adopt it.
Other developments that are relevant to FAIR metrics include the upcoming implementation of a ’single sign-on’ authorisation mechanism across all our products, and the continuous effort to adapt our data model to new application and data-sharing needs, in a community-driven way (a recent example being an extension to represent and publish the full-text content of newspapers).
Stay informed and join us
To stay informed about developments like those outlined in this post, join the Europeana Research and/or the EuropeanaTech communities of the Europeana Network Association, and follow us on Twitter (@eurresearch and @europeanatech)
Contact Alba Irollo
Research Coordinator, Europeana Foundation
Alba is in charge of Europeana Research, the bridge between the Europeana Foundation and researchers, research institutions and infrastructures. She coordinates the Research Advisory Board's activities and is the Europeana Research Community manager. Besides being responsible for the Research …
alba.irollo@europeana.eu +31 (0)70 314 0972
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Creator: George Moutard Woodward
Issue 9: SWIB
In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we share highlights from the EuropeanaTech community presented at the 2017 SWIB Conference
Title: Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: a woman inspecting a microscope in a tank. Photograph, c. 1933, Wellcome Collection, CC BY.
Keeping digitised heritage accessible: the case of broken links
Ever find yourself frustrated by a link that doesn’t take you to where you want to go? Is there anything worse than a 404 message that the page doesn’t exist? Find out what we are doing at Europeana to combat this and boost SEO.
And the quest for better metadata quality goes on: an update from the DQC
In March 2016 we announced the creation of a Europeana Data Quality Committee (DQC) to work on the various facets of data quality. The Data Quality subject is a Hydra …
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The incidence and severity of adverse events affecting patients after discharge from the hospital
Ann Intern Med. 2003 Feb 4;138(3):161-7. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-3-200302040-00007.
Alan J Forster 1 , Harvey J Murff, Josh F Peterson, Tejal K Gandhi, David W Bates
1 University of Ottawa, F654-1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E9, Canada.
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-3-200302040-00007
Background: Studies of hospitalized patients identify safety as a significant problem, but few data are available regarding injuries occurring after discharge. Patients may be vulnerable during this transition period.
Objective: To describe the incidence, severity, preventability, and "ameliorability" of adverse events affecting patients after discharge from the hospital and to develop strategies for improving patient safety during this interval.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: A tertiary care academic hospital.
Patients: 400 consecutive patients discharged home from the general medical service.
Measurements: The three main outcomes were adverse events, defined as injuries occurring as a result of medical management; preventable adverse events, defined as adverse events judged to have been caused by an error; and ameliorable adverse events, defined as adverse events whose severity could have been decreased. Posthospital course was determined by performing a medical record review and a structured telephone interview approximately 3 weeks after each patient's discharge. Outcomes were determined by independent physician reviews.
Results: Seventy-six patients had adverse events after discharge (19% [95% CI, 15% to 23%]). Of these, 23 had preventable adverse events (6% [CI, 4% to 9%]) and 24 had ameliorable adverse events (6% [CI, 4% to 9%]). Three percent of injuries were serious laboratory abnormalities, 65% were symptoms, 30% were symptoms associated with a nonpermanent disability, and 3% were permanent disabilities. Adverse drug events were the most common type of adverse event (66% [CI, 55% to 76%]), followed by procedure-related injuries (17% [CI, 8% to 26%]). Of the 25 adverse events resulting in at least a nonpermanent disability, 12 were preventable (48% [CI, 28% to 68%]) and 6 were ameliorable (24% [CI, 7% to 41%]).
Conclusion: Adverse events occurred frequently in the peridischarge period, and many could potentially have been prevented or ameliorated with simple strategies.
Iatrogenic Disease*
Laboratories, Hospital / standards
Medical Audit
Medical Errors*
Outcome Assessment, Health Care*
Patient Discharge*
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Siti Rahman
Sponsors: Storm
Birthdate: Nov. 14, 1990
Standard (1): 2017 - PWBA Wichita Open, Wichita, Kan.
- Three silver medals (mixed doubles, team, Masters) at 2019 SEA Games
- One gold medal (trios) at 2018 Asian Games
- Runner-up at 2017 QubicaAMF World Cup
- One gold medal (team) and one silver medal (all-events) at 2017 World Bowling Women's Championships
- One gold medal (team) and one bronze medal (trios) at 2017 SEA Games
- One gold medal (team) at 2015 SEA Games
- Won a bronze (team) medal at the 2013 WTBA World Championships
- 2019 Thailand Open champion
- 2009 World Ranking Masters women's champion
- 2005 Malaysian International Open champion (at age 15)
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Dear Poetry Editor
24th Mar 2016 In Interviews
Tags: Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bloombars, Busboys and Poets, Dear Poetry Editor, editor, Gowri Koneswaran, Jaggery
by Ruben Quesada
Gowri Koneswaran
On perspectives about poetry
A misconception some people outside of the literary community have about poetry is that it is a clearly defined genre—that there is a way to do poetry. One misconception some people in the literary community also have about poetry is that there is a way to do poetry. I’m a writer, performing artist, poetry editor for two arts journals, and open mic and poetry slam host. I have heard the descriptor “spoken word” intoned in both aspirational and condescending ways. I’ve heard the same of “page poetry.”
On poetry
Some of the folks with whom I most enjoy discussing poetry are elementary school students. I like to start our conversations by asking “what makes something poetry?” The list of characteristics they brainstorm together typically includes a range of ingredients, like feelings, pictures, and imagination. We talk about being “allowed” to break all the usual rules of writing.
My friends are used to me interrupting them mid-phrase in casual conversation to opine, “that comment right there was a poem.” So I’m with the elementary school students on this one. For me, poetry is feelings, images, imagination, a cascade of syllables and sensations that holds me or throws me for a moment.
On publishing
Some people may think that Beltway Poetry Quarterly focuses on previously published writers rather than those whose work has not appeared in print before—either because they’ve not publicized their work or because they’ve primarily done it through performance. Actually, five years before the journal’s founder, Kim Roberts, invited me to join as co-editor, it was one of the first to publish my work. Among Kim’s many book credits is also one entitled Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC.
In my first two issues as co-editor, we’ve included several previously unpublished writers and I look forward to continuing that effort. Some of them appear in our next issue, featuring poets who identify under the LGBTQ umbrella (with guest co-editor Venus Thrash) and I anticipate we’ll have others in the fall issue (with guest co-editor Elizabeth Acevedo), devoted to writers who have represented “the DMV” (DC, MD, VA) at regional and national poetry slams.
Turning to Jaggery, many people believe that we only publish writers who identify as “South Asian.” We’re on Issue 7 now and have published writers of various backgrounds. As our poetry guidelines say, “Poets submitting pieces for consideration need not identify as South Asian or South Asian hyphenates; however, the poems submitted should.”
On regret
I’ve been with Jaggery since its inception and Beltway Poetry Quarterly since May (fifteen years into the journal’s life). Thankfully, there isn’t (yet) anything I’ve published that I wish I hadn’t. As for my own poetry, I absolutely wish that some of my older pieces were no longer available online. That said, I am resigned to the fact that I’m living in the 21st century.
Gowri Koneswaran is a Tamil American poet, performing artist, teaching artist, and lawyer in Washington, DC. She serves as co-editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, a poetry events host at Busboys and Poets, poetry coordinator at BloomBars, and senior poetry editor at Jaggery. Gowri has performed her poetry and devised theater productions at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Capital Fringe Festival, and universities in the U.S. and Canada. She shares haiku on Twitter and Instagram at @gowricurry.
In Two Weeks: Lisa Grove of The California Journal of Poetics
Introducing Jasminne Mendez: Senior Contributing Editor
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Argumentation in Students' Academic Discourse
Kara Mariann Gilbert
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
A variety of theoretical and epistemological perspectives on the notion of argument has contributed towards the development of numerous text analysis systems in contemporary argumentation research, making the selection of an analytic model for the description and evaluation of arguments in natural language contexts a cmoplex task for researchers. Not surprisingly, Western scholars have overwhelmingly relied on Anglo- and Euro-centric modesl of argumentation as normative references of argument structure and quality in a variety of research contexts, disregarding plurality of prctice within socio-cultural contexts. I will discuss how the findings of my own research, in which I examine the rhetorical styles of Australian and Japanese students academic writing in English, have led me to suggest an approach towards argument analysis that accommodates the variety of rhetorical styles found in my studies of academic writing and contributes towards a useful account of the functions and structures of academic argument in contemporary tertiary texts.
The Uses of Argument
David Hitchcock
Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
The Uses of Argument - Hamilton Ontario Canada, Ontario Canada
Gilbert, K. M. (2005). Argumentation in Students' Academic Discourse. In D. Hitchcock (Ed.), The Uses of Argument (First ed., pp. 129 - 138). Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation.
Gilbert, Kara Mariann. / Argumentation in Students' Academic Discourse. The Uses of Argument. editor / David Hitchcock. First. ed. Ontario Canada : Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2005. pp. 129 - 138
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Fabrication of strongly fluorescent quantum dot-polymer composite in aqueous solution
Xiaodong Cao, Chang Ming Li, Haifeng Bao, Qiaoliang Bao, Hua Dong
Materials Science & Engineering
For the first time, we report a simple method to fabricate a quantum dot (QD)-polymer composite completely via aqueous media from synthesis of QDs to formation of composite. A series of L-cysteine-capped CdTe QDs with tunable emission from green to red were prepared by using hydrothermal techniques, and the corresponding average particle sizes were estimated to be from 2.5 to 4.1 nm. After incorporating these CdTe QDs into the waterborne polyurethane (WPU) prepolymer aqueous suspension, we obtained a transparent nanocomposite film by casting and evaporating. The optical properties of the aqueous CdTe QDs solution and CdTe-WPU composites were investigated by UV-vis absorption and photoluminescence (PL). The results indicate that the quantum yield (QY) and the photochemical stability of the CdTe QDs in both CdTe-WPU aqueous complex and solid composite are enhanced significantly, because of a thicker and more compact passivating layer formed on the surface of CdTe QDs via the reaction between the groups of -NCO and -NH2. In addition, the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy (LSCFM) images show that the CdTe QDs with excellent crystalline structure and strong florescence emission are well-dispersed in the WPU matrix without obvious aggregation or agglomeration. On the basis of the versatile properties of WPU and the photoluminescence originating from the CdTe QDs, these new fluorescent composite materials could have great potential applications. This approach provides a simple route for preparation of various fluorescent QD-polymer composite materials from aqueous QD solutions with neither ligand exchange nor phase transfer.
Chemistry of Materials
https://doi.org/10.1021/cm070898s
10.1021/cm070898s
Cao, X., Li, C. M., Bao, H., Bao, Q., & Dong, H. (2007). Fabrication of strongly fluorescent quantum dot-polymer composite in aqueous solution. Chemistry of Materials, 19(15), 3773-3779. https://doi.org/10.1021/cm070898s
Cao, Xiaodong ; Li, Chang Ming ; Bao, Haifeng ; Bao, Qiaoliang ; Dong, Hua. / Fabrication of strongly fluorescent quantum dot-polymer composite in aqueous solution. In: Chemistry of Materials. 2007 ; Vol. 19, No. 15. pp. 3773-3779.
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Fabrication of strongly fluorescent quantum dot-polymer composite in aqueous solution. / Cao, Xiaodong; Li, Chang Ming; Bao, Haifeng; Bao, Qiaoliang; Dong, Hua.
In: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 19, No. 15, 24.07.2007, p. 3773-3779.
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America’s Music School, Bach to Rock – 2020 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)
Franchise Document | April 2020 | Downloadable PDF | 294 Pages
This is the 2020 America’s Music School, Bach to Rock Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). It is a PDF document available for immediate download upon purchase.
“America’s Music School LLC offers franchises for the establishment and operation of “Bach to Rock” music education centers that utilize a distinctive teaching method based on the principle that music instruction is most effective when conducted in a socially interactive environment. The Bach to Rock music education centers, or schools, offer a diverse variety of classes and programs for children and adults, including group classes, private lessons, band sessions, early childhood classes, and special …”
-America’s Music School, Bach to Rock FDD, Apr 2020
What is in the America’s Music School, Bach to Rock 2020 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)?
The United States Federal Trade Commission requires all franchisors who sell franchises in the USA to compile an FDD each year which covers 23 key items of disclosure about the franchise opportunity. The FDD is written in a federally mandated format that is standardized for all franchises, must be presented in easily understood language, and typically is 100+ pages in length. This document is required to be given to a prospective franchisee before the franchise agreement is signed or any money changes hands. This document is extremely useful to anyone who is researching the history, inner workings, and other critical information and disclosures about the franchise system.
Table of Contents - America's Music School, Bach to Rock – 2020 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)
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Item 1: The Franchisor, Its Predecessors, and Affiliates
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Runs of homozygosity and a cluster of vulvar cancer in young Australian Aboriginal women
Rebekah McWhirter, Russell Thomson, James Marthick, Alice Rumbold, Matthew Brown, Debbie Taylor-Thomson, Elaine Maypilama, John Condon, Joanne Dickinson
Objective A cluster of vulvar cancer exists in young Aboriginal women living in remote communities in Arnhem Land, Australia. A genetic case-control study was undertaken involving 30 cases of invasive vulvar cancer and its precursor lesion, high-grade vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN), and 61 controls, matched for age and community of residence. It was hypothesized that this small, isolated population may exhibit increased autozygosity, implicating recessive effects as a possible mechanism for increased susceptibility to vulvar cancer. Methods Genotyping data from saliva samples were used to identify runs of homozygosity (ROH) in order to calculate estimates of genome-wide homozygosity. Results No evidence of an effect of genome-wide homozygosity on vulvar cancer and VIN in East Arnhem women was found, nor was any individual ROH found to be significantly associated with case status. This study found further evidence supporting an association between previous diagnosis of CIN and diagnosis of vulvar cancer or VIN, but found no association with any other medical history variable. Conclusions These findings do not eliminate the possibility of genetic risk factors being involved in this cancer cluster, but rather suggest that alternative analytical strategies and genetic models should be explored.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.03.566
10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.03.566
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Runs of homozygosity and a cluster of vulvar cancer in young Australian Aboriginal women'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Vulvar Neoplasms Medicine & Life Sciences
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McWhirter, R., Thomson, R., Marthick, J., Rumbold, A., Brown, M., Taylor-Thomson, D., Maypilama, E., Condon, J., & Dickinson, J. (2014). Runs of homozygosity and a cluster of vulvar cancer in young Australian Aboriginal women. Gynecologic Oncology, 133(3), 421-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.03.566
McWhirter, Rebekah ; Thomson, Russell ; Marthick, James ; Rumbold, Alice ; Brown, Matthew ; Taylor-Thomson, Debbie ; Maypilama, Elaine ; Condon, John ; Dickinson, Joanne. / Runs of homozygosity and a cluster of vulvar cancer in young Australian Aboriginal women. In: Gynecologic Oncology. 2014 ; Vol. 133, No. 3. pp. 421-426.
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AB - Objective A cluster of vulvar cancer exists in young Aboriginal women living in remote communities in Arnhem Land, Australia. A genetic case-control study was undertaken involving 30 cases of invasive vulvar cancer and its precursor lesion, high-grade vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN), and 61 controls, matched for age and community of residence. It was hypothesized that this small, isolated population may exhibit increased autozygosity, implicating recessive effects as a possible mechanism for increased susceptibility to vulvar cancer. Methods Genotyping data from saliva samples were used to identify runs of homozygosity (ROH) in order to calculate estimates of genome-wide homozygosity. Results No evidence of an effect of genome-wide homozygosity on vulvar cancer and VIN in East Arnhem women was found, nor was any individual ROH found to be significantly associated with case status. This study found further evidence supporting an association between previous diagnosis of CIN and diagnosis of vulvar cancer or VIN, but found no association with any other medical history variable. Conclusions These findings do not eliminate the possibility of genetic risk factors being involved in this cancer cluster, but rather suggest that alternative analytical strategies and genetic models should be explored.
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Cars That Would Have Saved Pontiac If They Still Built Them
July 23, 2009 July 23, 2009 Retroguy Leave a comment
With the recent collapse of the North American auto industry, there have been more than one casualty and the jury is still out on if there are any more to come. One of the biggest brands to bite the dust was one of the former pearls on GM’s crown – Pontiac.
Although it can be argued that the Pontiac laid many a turd in recent years like the much hated Aztek which although was much more feature rich than many other SUVs in it’s price range, was just plain ugly. Other cars in recent years that brought on universal yawns from Pontiac included the Bonneville, the G3 (they build excitement?!?!) and the Montana. All had promise but all had severe short comings that made the Pontiac one of the brands to hit the chopping block.
Even great new cars like the G8 GXP, the 2010 G8 ST which would have heralded the return of the El Camino type car/truck hybrid, and the Solstice GXP Coupe all had the earmarks of what once made Pontiac great but it was too little too late.
While many car companies were taking their cues from their vintage models, Pontiac never really took advantage of their rich heritage to really “Build Excitement”. Let’s take a look at some of the models that could have likely jump started Pontiac’s sales if they followed the lead of companies like Ford, Dodge, Volkswagen, and Chrysler to come up with new cars with that retro look.
With the success of the first generation, the second generation GTO picked up right were it left off with a much more robust and modern fastback styling and massive 400ci V8’s rated all the way up to 370 HP. The Judge package offered wild color options with matching decals, a Ram Air hood, spoilers and a T-handle Hurst shifter. There was nothing you could tell this judge.
1978 Pontiac Trans AM
Ahhh the flaming chicken. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, you wanted a ’78 Pontiac Trans AM. Not just any Trans AM, you wanted the black and gold “Bandit” color scheme Trans AM with a T-roof. This model year had a few tweaks that brought the top-line V8 to 220 HP. Not bad for those days. You wanted one. You also wanted to grow a mustache like Burt Reynolds and find a woman like Sally Field.
1988 Pontiac Fiero GT
Admit it, you made fun of the Fiero when it was around. The obvious play on the name which labelled it the poor man’s Ferrari was the butt of many a joke. For the most part though, it was a joke initially. It was strapped to a sluggish 2.5-liter “Iron Duke” four-cylinder engine and the suspension was based on a Citation for Pete’s sake. The Fiero was easy pickings for the haters. By 1988 however, GM snapped out of it and gave the car a proper suspension, head turning styling and considerable improvements to both the four-cylinder and V6 engines. Once it became respectable and sought after, it was scrapped.
1967 Pontiac Firebird
The battle of the pony cars was in full effect between Ford and Chevy and the engineers at Pontiac were paying attention. The 1967 Firebird debuted with more even weight distribution for better handling, and traction bars to offset the infamous single-leaf rear springs. This move prevented spring twist under hard acceleration. Five models were offered in both convertible and hard tops with engine sizes ranging from 230ci to a whopping 400ci V-8 that produced 325 hp.
The 1964 Pontiac GTO was the car that sparked the original muscle car wars. Though it can be argued that this was just a supped up LeMans, but the 325 HP, 389 cubic inch V8 with Carter four-barrel carbs, a dual exhaust and a three-speed Hurst manual transmission made you king of the hill (or street) pretty easily. It sold three times the projected annual sales showing yet again that marketers really didn’t know how to read a demographic and plan accordingly and also that this car was destined to be a classic.
So there you have it. This list is by no means complete. Great cars like the Grand Prix, Bonneville and even the Grand AM helped to keep the brand going all these years but it would have been great to see an effort or Pontiac’s part to bring some of the retro lines back in to their late model cars a bit sooner. Who knows, it may have made a difference. Bottom line is classic Pontiac car owners are enjoying a bittersweet moment. The brand is gone but that just makes the machine in their garage a bit more valuable.
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McConnell targeting the title as he returns to RX2 with OMSE
By admin 21/01/2020 March 28th, 2020 No Comments
Rookie revelation returns to RX2 grid with Olsbergs MSE
Jamaican ace aiming to build upon impressive 2019 results
21-year-old’s achievements recognised by brace of awards
Fraser McConnell is set to return to the RX2 International Series presented by Cooper Tires with Olsbergs MSE in 2020, and with a successful maiden campaign now under his belt, the popular Jamaican says he will be all guns blazing in pursuit of title glory.
Despite 2019 marking only McConnell’s second season in rallycross and first competing in Europe, he immediately made his mark, with a spectacular round-the-outside pass on OMSE team-mate Jesse Kallio in the Barcelona curtain-raiser resulting in a podium finish on his debut in the official FIA World Rallycross Championship feeder series.
The 21-year-old reached the final on all but one occasion and laid down a marker for 2020 with a battling run to second place in Cape Town in November, posting the final fastest lap of the season as he delighted the South African fans with his trademark swashbuckling style behind the wheel. He concluded the campaign fourth in the overall standings, just seven points shy of the runner-up spoils.
The accolades have kept on coming for McConnell over the winter, too. In addition to meeting Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness – with whom he discussed his international rallycross experience and efforts to continue putting the island nation on the global motorsport map – he was celebrated as Senior Sportsman of the Year at the star-studded FIA Americas Awards and Sportsman of the Year for Motorsports by RJR, the largest media house in Jamaica.
Describing 2019 as ‘a life-changing season’, the reigning ARX2 Champion has even loftier ambitions for 2020, when – funding permitting – he hopes to dovetail his RX2 bid with a complementary campaign at Supercar level in Scandinavia’s RallyX Nordic series, to further hone his driving skills and career development.
“I didn’t have any expectations last year,” reflected McConnell. “I didn’t know any of the tracks – the only prior information I had was either from YouTube or video games – so it inevitably took me a little while to get fully up-to-speed, and if you’re playing catch-up in rallycross, you’re not going to be able to fight for the win.
“My team-mates Oliver [Eriksson] and Jesse [Kallio] played a huge part in helping me to get to grips with it all. Their experience was genuinely invaluable, and let’s face it, nobody knows the Supercar Lites car better than Oliver – I learned so much from him.
“OMSE is the undisputed benchmark team in the discipline so I never even considered going anywhere else, and I really want to capitalise upon every opportunity they give me. Plus, there are only two new tracks I need to learn this year, but that will be the same for everybody. That’s the biggest thing for me, I think.
“One of my major personal focuses this season is to make sure I’m more mentally ready for the challenge. Coming from Jamaica, there’s obviously a lot of travel involved, adjusting to different time zones and dealing with the associated jetlag – plus juggling my racing commitments with my college studies. It’s a pretty intense schedule and a big commitment to make, but I’ve devoted a lot of time over the winter to preparing myself.
“It’s shaping up to be another tough season in RX2, with a very high calibre of competition. The level seemed to increase with each round last year, and every indication suggests it will step up again in 2020. Everybody is fast. Everybody is capable of putting down quick lap times. The difference is in the finer details – the hundredths if not thousandths-of-a-second that separate the field. That means it will all come down to consistency and not making mistakes, but I’m confident we have everything we need to fight for the title.
“I’m working hard to maintain the momentum from my podium in South Africa and my ARX2 title win – I’m feeling excited and really looking forward to it all. Not only that, but the level of respect between the drivers in RX2 is pretty remarkable, so I can’t wait to get out there and race with those guys again. It’s going to be a fun year!”
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There is not much else to say other than Netflix’s newest original movie, Calibre is genuinely fantastic. It gave me a feeling that most films rarely do; full body tension from which I was not released until the end credits began to roll. That’s because the movie grips you. It hooks you right into its contained story and characters. It’s a rare kind of movie in that way where nothing feels out of place, it is difficult to fault in it and you just become totally and utterly engrossed for the full 90 minutes.
Matt Palmer writes and directs his first feature in which two lads on a sort-of stag holiday to a remote Scottish village. They get involved in a hunting accident that kills a child and father from said village. Most of the movie then follows them as they become swamped with guilt, paranoia and regret as they dispose of the body and try to play it cool for the rest of the weekend. Someone could tell you that they’ve seen it all before, but they’d then be missing out on the tightest script and execution of a movie from the festival so far. It’s stripped away to focus on only what is completely necessary to these guys and their stories. It is a movie packed full of tension and continuous building as they believe the villagers are beginning to slowly realise what is happening. So much can be happening to these characters with this one singular strand of the story, no subplots that distract you or take you away, a constant climb in tension.
You feel the sympathy but also anger in the way they deal with the situation they are presented with. The characters are complex and nuanced, not only due to a great script but to a barrage of strong performances from the cast. The two main characters Vaughn (Jack Lowden) and Marcus (Martin McCann) are exceptional like the dynamic between them. Vaughn is much more sympathetic with a baby on the way and Marcus is the loyal best friend trying to help them get out of the situation unscathed. They are very different characters with much more complexity in actions and behaviour than can be said without spoiling the movie completely.
The town plays a part in the movie; a stunning setting in the highlands that, as revealed by Matt Palmer in a Q&A after the movie, was filmed 20 minutes off the motorway to Edinburgh. It is on its way down from a once prosperous place. In need of investment and a good image. Tony Curran has starred in a variety of TV shows but I fondly remember him for his portrayal Vincent Van Gogh from Matt Smith era Doctor Who. In this, he plays the character of Logan, a leader of sorts for this place, and is desperate to get the village back on track. It’s more of a large family that live there, which is why the disappearance of the father and son affects them so much. Curran is fantastic: terrifying one minute, sympathetic the next. A special mention should also be given to Ian Pirle, who is excellent as the pure evil and bitter Brian, one of the seven or so brothers of Logan.
It must be rewarded for the way it continuous builds and builds a scene full of tension. A particularly good example of this is a dinner scene very soon after the accident has happened in which Vaughn and Marcus are somewhat forced into having dinner with Logan and another one of his brothers. It is the kind of scene that will have you gripping whatever is closest to you and forcing you to the edge of your seat. Palmer creates something fantastic with his crew.
Calibre is a dark and intense thriller that is full of scenes that will leave you clenched beyond belief. Hats off to Matt Palmer for having such a stunning directorial debut that is beautifully shot and directed with a parade of strong performances and a tight script cut of all the fat, for a nice and clean story. Well, as nice as you can get when it involves the shooting of a child and the guilt surrounding it.
Calibre is currently screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival but will be released onto Netflix as an original on 29th June.
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15 July 2019 / SF Restaurants, Food & Drink / Jay Barmann
Brewcade Morphs Into The Detour, Softly Reopens In Expanded Digs With Food, Roving Bar Cart
Following a remodel that more than doubles its footprint, Castro arcade bar Brewcade is reopening tonight with a lot more space, food and cocktails, and a new name pulled from the neighborhood's recent history: The Detour.
It's round three for the triangular space on the northwest corner of Market and Sanchez, and the rebranding of Brewcade comes as owners Shawn Vergara and Tiffny Vergara Chung take over the next-door space that was formerly home to Hecho and Botellon — both concepts having had a full bar and food menu, and both being fairly short-lived. Vergara and Vergara Chung, who also own Blackbird down the street, found a second success in their craft beer-focused arcade bar, which opened at 2200 Market Street (Suite B) in 2015. And after Botellon closed late last year, they saw an opportunity to expand their footprint into the larger space next door, adding a full kitchen and full bar for a combined 5,000 square feet.
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The former Brewcade space now connects to the larger space, and the newly named Detour offers a full menu of pizzas, cocktails, and more, along with the craft beer list it was known for. The reason for the rebranding, the owners say, is that they didn't just want to be associated with "brews" now that they have a full bar — and an initial plan to call the place District 8, a play on both the Hunger Games and the actual supervisory district where the Castro sits, fell through after a legal challenge from SoMa wine bar District. Longtime Castro denizens, though, will remember the often highly sexual bar known as The Detour a block and a half up, where Beaux now resides — The Detour occupied the left half of that space, before it was expanded to its current form under the name Trigger.
"When we were just beer and games, the name Brewcade totally made sense to me," owner Shawn Vergara tells SFist. "We don't want people just to see us as an arcade. We want people to see us as a restaurant now, too."
The switch means that the business in the larger space is once again LGBT owned, following the closure of the also LGBT-owned Hecho in 2017 — the Andalé Management Group tried and failed to make a go of it in the space with Botellon, which barely lasted a year. And Vergara is hoping that the local community embraces the space the way they did Blackbird — and to a lesser extent, Brewcade.
Some of that comes with reviving the name Detour.
"I used to hang out at the Detour every Monday playing The Addams Family arcade game with my crew and listening to the best house music in the city," Vergara says. "As a gay man who came of age living and playing in this neighborhood, I wanted to honor the history and the culture of this place." To that end, the new space features art that stresses the fact that the new Detour is a gay-inclusive environment. "It's of course nothing like the old Detour, but I want the LGBT community to know that this is a space for them to come to eat and drink and play games and feel safe," he says.
The food menu, which you can see below, features three pizzas, two salads, small bites like wings and hummus, a grilled cheese, and a lemongrass beef sandwich with cabbage slaw, chili mayo, and pickles. Coming soon will also be a burger and a veggie burger.
The cocktail list was designed by Blackbird bar manager Matt Gripp, and primarily features riffs on classics, with the whole menu designed with speed in mind. That focus means there are five pre-made cocktails on draft, as well as a sangria and a frozen pina colada, all of which are pour-and-go. At the bar there are also three handmade drinks, five beers on draft, and 15 more in bottles and cans. Serving active game players will be a roving bar cart serving highballs and bottled draft cocktails, which replaces a traditional cocktail server.
Added to the mix of over a dozen video games at Brewcade will now be 16 more, for a total of 30, as well as Skee-ball, and 10 pinball machines.
Total capacity in the space is now 194, with 65 seats plus patio seating.
The hours, following the official opening on Friday, July 19, will be as follows: Monday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to midnight; Friday and Saturday, noon to 2 a.m.; and Sunday, noon to midnight.
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Batian House is 175km from Nairobi and is located on the north-eastern part of Nairobi. It can be unnerving having a troop of lascivious baboons cavort on the roof of your room at dawn. Nor does the site of an unmistakably buffalo shaped hole in the garden fence inspire confidence. It may also seem unconventional to find 50 lilies white, lean, mean, magnificently muscled British Army recruits walking across your back lawn at breakfast.
All these things are part for the course while staying at the Batian House, the KWS self- catering option on Mount Kenya. The house is named after Batian, a legendary Maasai Laibon or medicine man who was known for his wisdom and bravery.
The Batian was a house that was occupied by a Senior Warden of Mount Kenya National Park. The KWS decided to give him alternative accommodation and market the warden’s house as a self-catering option for visitors to the Park.
Magnificently located at the foot of the broad avenue that leads from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) headquarters at Naro Moru Gate to the Road Head and the Meteorological Station, the house enjoys an uninterrupted view of the mountain’s snowcapped peaks. These views are best seen early in the morning and just before dusk when they are not covered in cloud.
Immediately in front of the house is a salt-lick water hole, the favourite haunt of the local buffalo. To the rear of the house is a wide sweep of lawn leading up to its imposing entrance gates, several meters beyond them lie the workshops, offices and housing of KWS.
You would hardly know that you have neighbours, however, but for the occasional passage of a busy tractor loaded with a crew of community workers who are off to grade the road or lop bamboo.
The house itself is long, single roofed and stone-built with a broad stone-flagged terrace facing the mountain. There is a long dining table that seats eight people. Inside it offers a generous living room equipped with sofas and armchairs, hung with local oil paintings and black and white photographic prints of the mountain.
The living room has a television, rugs, and a baronial sized fireplace. KWS policy dictates that you bring your firewood, kindling and newspapers. There is also an open plan dining area incorporated into a living room which offers an elegant dining table and chairs that seats eight people. French doors lead off the living room and onto a verandah.
Also off the living room is a spacious kitchen with extensive modern cupboards (containing a complete set of crockery, serving dishes, pans, cooking utensils, cutlery and glasses, a gas cooker with four rings and an oven and a large refrigerator.
Hot water for the kitchen and bathrooms is provided for by a traditional means of lighting firewood at the rear of the house. This firewood here is supplied by the KWS.
There are four spacious and well-presented bedrooms, two at either end of the house. All offer fitted cupboards, mirrors and a complete set of beddings and towels. Two of these bedrooms have large double beds and one has two single bunk-beds, the other two have ordinary single beds. There are two bathrooms, one on either end of the house.
The house used to stand at the beginning of the main dirt track that leads to the peaks, but nowadays this branches off to the left just after the main gate. You can, however, still start the 5, 100-meter climb from the privacy of your verandah and there is a feeling of great privilege to drive or walk straight down the mountain into your backyard.
A five-minute walk from Batian house is a spacious public campsite which is charmingly located in a forest clearing. There are picnic tables, water and pit latrines. Campfires are permitted but you must bring your firewood.
The Batian House can be hired in its entirety. It sleeps a maximum of eight people. As a guest KWS will provide you with a caretaker, kerosene lamps, blankets, pillows, bed linen, towels, soap and toilet paper. Generator electricity is only available at night.
Here are the current rates of Batian Guest House
From Nairobi, travel north-east on the A2 Thika, Karatina and Nyeri. 13km before Nyeri the road divides. Turn right with the A2 towards Kiganjo and Naro Moru which is about 25km. At Naro Moru, turn right and travel 17 km to Naro Moru Gate.
You can arrive here using the Nanyuki airstrip.
During the dry season, access to Naro Moru gate and the cottage is possible by a 2WD although 4WD is recommended. The 4 WD is essential during the rainy season.
Mount Kenya’s weather is very volatile and varies with altitude. At points, over 4,000 meters the mountain is usually cold and can be both misty and windy. During sunshine hours, daytime temperatures may rise to over 15 degrees centigrade and during periods of cloud cover, they may drop to nearly 0 degrees. Nocturnal temperatures habitually drop to around 10 degrees centigrade.
This is one of the world’s highest National Parks. Straddling the equator, the mountain offers a unique mosaic of forest, mood land, rock and ice and is crowned by the glittering twin peaks of Batian at 5,199 m and Nelion at 5,188. The sacred home of Ngai the God of the Kikuyu people. Mountain Kenya is Kenya’s highest mountain, a national icon, a climber’s mecca, the nation’s namesake, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site and a wildlife stronghold.
The most popular route, the Naro Moru route enjoys easy access, good bunkhouses and provides the quickest route to Point Lenana. Generally easy underfoot, it can become steep and boggy and although most stages are the only strenuous, the day the summit.
The overall altitude gain is 2985m, the distance is 38 km. climbing takes 3 days. The starting point is at Naro Moru Gate and the finish point, the metrological station with the highest point being point Lenana. It takes 3 to 4 hours. The Met station to Mackinder’s camp is about 5 to 6 hours. Mackinder’s camp to point Lenana plus it’s decent enough and it takes about 5 to 6 hours.
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Recent Sky Blue additions Evelyne Viens and Jennifer Cudjoe both played in their first career National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) game Tuesday night against OL Reign.
In the 60th minute, midfielder Jennifer Cudjoe entered the match for Domi Richardson. Cudjoe helped shut down the Reign’s attack, as she gained five possessions and won 62.5% of her duels, the second-highest percentage on the team. On the other side of the ball, Cudjoe completed all 13 of her passes, helping the team maintain possession in what was a very tight match. The Sky Blue newcomer signed with the team after impressing the coaches in open tryouts. After a solid performance Tuesday night, Cudjoe will likely be impressing many more people in the league throughout the tournament.
“I feel extremely amazing to be able to play my first ever professional game and also getting the minutes and playing with my teammates,” said Cudjoe following Tuesday’s match. “It’s been an incredible journey for me and it was really, really special. The NWSL has been one of the top leagues in the world and also the toughest league to play in. It’s a learning process and there is still more room for me to grow and adapt to the play.”
Sky Blue forward Evelyne Viens entered the match in the 77th minute, replacing Ifeoma Onumonu. She immediately brought energy to the attack, as she made a few darting runs into the final third. Sky Blue picked Viens fifth overall in the 2020 NWSL Draft because of her ability to create offensive opportunities, which is something fans can look forward to seeing on display throughout the rest of the tournament.
“I think it was great to just get in and get a chance to help the team get a tie,” said Viens following the match. “We had a good amount of preseason and just being able to step on the field and get those first minutes of professional was a great experience and I’m so happy I got to do it with Sky Blue.”
“You need to do everything a second faster, so that’s a major difference,” said Viens of the speed of play difference between the college game and the pros. “Of course everyone is a great athlete here, so you need to be strong and just be able to compete.”
The journey continues for Cudjoe, Viens, and the rest of Sky Blue later today at 12:30 p.m. ET as the team faces off against the Utah Royals. Fans in the U.S. and Canada can watch the match on CBS All Access while international fans can see the action live on Twitch.
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Carfraemill in the Scottish Borders has been under the same ownership for the past 23 years
A HOTEL in the Scottish Borders is up for sale for the first time in over two decades.
Carfraemill near Lauder has been owned and run for the past 23 years by Jo and Jim Sutherland, who are said to have grown it into “one of the Scottish Borders’ most iconic hospitality businesses”.
After buying the hotel in 1997, the Sutherlands opened it the following year after a six-month refurbishment and went on to develop a “thriving” restaurant business alongside a strong weddings and functions business; they then added a marquee which allowed them to expand the weddings and events business. Carfraemill also attracts trade from outdoor enthusiasts and those visiting the area for its golf courses and fishing.
Now the ten-bedroom hotel is on the market as the Sutherlands seek to retire.
Jo said they have enjoyed “23 wonderful years” at Carfraemill.
“Jim and I are both much nearer to 70 than 60 and it’s time to live our lives as most of our friends now do – in retirement,” she said.
“We had always planned to retire later this year, though there is no doubt that COVID-19 has made it more complicated than it might have been. The dedication and enthusiasm of a new owner is exactly what’s needed at this time.
“We have a fantastic and experienced team of staff here and a future owner will be incredibly lucky to have them on board.
“Carfraemill is a beautiful building with a rich history and it has played an important role in the big moments of so many people’s lives. It’s a business which has long been important, also, to the local economy. We are sure there is a bright future ahead and know Carfraemill will always be a place for creating memories.”
Brian Sheldon, regional director for Scotland at Christie & Co, which is marketing Carfraemill with an asking price of £795,000, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for prospective purchasers to acquire a first class business and property in a great location and to further grow the business.”
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Just as a confluence of geographic factors create the mild microclimate that makes the Niagara region ideal for growing wine grapes, a number of qualities combine to make St. Catharines, ON, a great fit for many retirees.
The city is minutes from the countryside, yet not far from airports and the US border. It’s relatively small and yet offers plenty of amenities, including a thriving arts and culture scene. And it’s set amid the attractions, natural and otherwise, of one of Canada’s top tourist destinations, yet away from the crush of sightseers and day-trippers.
Located on the northern edge of the Niagara peninsula, across Lake Ontario from Toronto, the Garden City—so nicknamed for its abundance of luxuriant greenery, verdant parks, and trails—has the unhurried atmosphere one might expect from a city of 133,000, along with a selection of services and perks broad enough to satisfy former big-city dwellers like Mary Viola.
“It has everything you could need and all kinds of things to keep you busy in retirement,” says Viola, who moved to St. Catharines from Toronto after retiring, in part for the slower pace. “Plus, it’s a lovely area. I thought it was an ideal place to retire—and I still do.”
For example, devotees of entertainment, culture, and the arts could attend a different event every night of the week at the state-of-the art, four-venue FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre alone, from movies, plays, and dance performances to concerts by well-known artists and recitals by students from Brock University’s school of fine and performing arts. The centre, which together with the school forms a lively cultural and academic hub, is also home to the Niagara Symphony Orchestra.
And then there are the stadium acts that appear at the 5,300-seat Meridian Centre, numerous festivals (Readers, Jazz, and Bravo Niagara!, to name just three), and concerts, tastings, and culinary experiences hosted by local and area wineries. St. Catharines also offers a cornucopia of gastronomic delights, including its farmers’ market and the Niagara Homegrown Wine Festival, where a “discovery” pass allows you to sample food-and-wine pairings at eight of 30 participating wineries.
Opportunities for other leisure pastimes are similarly plentiful. For starters, the city’s three centres for older adults offer classes in skills such as painting, woodcarving, and quilting; drop-in activities including model-flying, chess, and euchre; groups and leagues for fitness, pickleball, line dancing, and Nordic walking; and dinners and social get-togethers. “Dunlop Centre [for older adults] is marvellous,” says Diane DeWitt, a transplant from Saskatchewan.
Myriad other sports and activities are available through municipal facilities (which include an aquatic centre, three arenas, and tennis courts), clubs, the YMCA, and the university. “We’ve got a great library system, great pools…lots of access to a lot of things,” DeWitt says.
If you enjoy spending some of your free time helping others, you’ll find many opportunities. “I do a lot of volunteer work,” says Lilla Channer, a former Toronto resident who retired to St. Catharines in 1999. And amateur historians could spend decades delving into the city’s past, many reminders of which have been preserved as historic sites and heritage districts; for example, Salem Chapel was a hub of abolitionist activity even before the city’s days as the terminus of the Underground Railroad, and it was the church Harriet Tubman attended when she lived in the city from 1851 to 1858.
For fans of fresh-air recreation, St. Catharines is a virtual playground. You can windsurf, kite board, and sail on Lake Ontario; canoe and kayak on the Welland recreational canal; play volleyball on the sandy beach in picturesque Port Dalhousie; and fish, camp, and birdwatch in Short Hills Provincial Park. And with 90 kilometres (56 miles) of trails criss-crossing the city—including a stretch of the celebrated Bruce Trail—and more than 400 hectares (988 acres) of municipal parkland, there are any number of places to walk, hike, cycle, and cross-country ski. In fact, thanks to a network of trails and quiet roads connecting St. Catharines and surrounding cities including Niagara-on-the-Lake and Niagara Falls, the area has become a premiere cycling destination, with routes appealing to wine lovers, historians, and sightseers. “I like the physical layout of the place—the trees and the green space,” DeWitt says. “You can walk to the bridge, cross the canal, and you’re in farmland.”
Other points in the city’s favour as a retirement destination include a large community hospital, a cancer centre, and a continuing care/rehabilitation centre. “I’ve had three surgeries since I’ve been here, with no problems and no long wait times,” Mary Viola says. What’s more, the local Family Health Team is a teaching site for McMaster University’s medical school, which also has a campus in the city. And while the area reportedly needs more doctors, gains are being made due to active recruitment efforts.
For travellers, St. Catharines’s location is a boon; airports in Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo, NY, lie within roughly an hour’s drive. (While the latter two offer a more limited selection of destinations—daily flights to Dublin and a number of Canadian and US cities, as well as seasonal service to a handful of vacation spots in the Caribbean—they’re less congested than Toronto. Flights from Buffalo are often cheaper than those departing from this side of the border, as well.)
And while they’re higher than in some centres, real estate prices in St. Catharines could allow someone who sells a house in Toronto to either upsize or bank a healthy sum. In October of 2018, the average selling price for a detached home in the GTA was $914,179, versus a 2018 average of $414,293 in St. Catharines.
“Overall, it’s a great place,” DeWitt says. “I’d definitely recommend it: four or five stars out of five.” Lilla Channer concurs: “I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.”
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The month of February was a rollercoaster for Pakistan’s security, as peace talks with the TTP and the government, through their negotiating committees, had started – but broke down again; bringing back memories of when the hopes for the talks died down after Hakeemullah Mehsud’s death). But this time, it was the government of Pakistan itching to retaliate because of major terror attacks as well as the news that the TTP’s Mohmand Agency chapter slaughtered 27 FC personnel that it had held for over 2 years. As the Air Force commenced bombing sorties, and the PM allows the military to conduct operations so that the TTP learns “to behave”, secret talks continue under the supervision of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. The policy of “respond in kind” will have to be supplemented with a tactical and strategic shift that keeps on enhancing the government’s (and the state’s) position of strength against this sub-national terrorist franchise: whether it is on the negotiating table or on the field of war.
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Mindful Living LLC: A Home All Their Om
By Lisa M. Gerry on August 1, 2011
Last year's Mindful Living LLC participants on a retreat at The Edge.
While my dorm experience was less of the yoga mat and meditation variety (and more carryout and cramming), there is a whole new generation of students who are looking to enhance their college experience.
As Mason’s campus community continues to grow with more than 5,400 on-campus residents, so too do its offerings for Living Learning Communities (LLC).
The Mindful Living LLC, which is in its second year, is one such example. “Living Learning Communities are really important for students that need that extra bit of structure, and who need a smaller community within the huge Mason community,” says Mindful Living LLC director Stacey Guenther.
“The Mindful Living LLC really concentrates on helping students figure out what they’re good at, what makes their heart sing, and what feeds their soul,” she says.
By delving into these topics, Guenther says students are better equipped to make life decisions like choosing a major and picking a career path. “[This LLC] is about exploring different ways of figuring out what’s important to you, and who you really are, so that you can make those decisions easily when the time comes.”
Members of the LLC participate in regular group activities, which last year included classes on meditation, tai chi, aikido, laughter yoga, and chakras. They also take a one-credit course each semester, for which class projects have included a one-week technology detox and daily journaling.
The course work and programming has an added emphasis on stress reduction, something that sophomore, and second-year Mindful Living LLC member, Marriah Humphrey appreciates. “The practice of mindful living has made me more conscious of the choices I make—from what I eat to the classes I take,” she says. “And focusing on the present moment has helped me through some tough situations.”
This year, 40 students have signed up to participate in the Mindful Living LLC, filling an entire floor of Piedmont Residence Hall. “There’s a good number of students who are not only open to this—but who crave it and embrace it,” says Guenther.
I want to know more about laughter yoga! It sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing this story, Lisa. It makes me want to go back to college.
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Two stations have re-branded on DAB and FM in the Portsmouth area. Sam FM has rebranded as Greatest Hits Radio and The Breeze has rebranded as Hits Radio.
The biggest songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s played by presenters you know and love, like Mark Goodier, Paul Gambaccini, Janice Long, Pat Sharp and Simon Mayo on Greatest Hits Radio, the new name for Sam FM.
The biggest hits and the biggest throwbacks can be found on Hits Radio, the new name for The Breeze, featuring Fleur East at Breakfast.
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Today is the 5th anniversary of the Portsmouth DAB multiplex. We’ve put a series of posts on this website today where we and our supporters reflect on the last five years. Here we reflect on our own progress.
Ash Elford, Digital Development Manager, Angel Radio
“I just wanted to write a short note to say thank you. Thank you to everyone that has supported Angel Radio and our Solent Wireless Portsmouth DAB multiplex over the last five years, and a thank you to everyone that has supported our stations along the way.
Without the hard work of the CRC and the ODR community, I probably wouldn’t be writing to you today to celebrate such a momentous location. So thank you to the CRC and ODR community as well as Rash Mustapha (Ofcom) and Peter Davis (formerly Ofcom) for pushing through the regulatory steps to make our trial licences possible.
I don’t want this to sound like an award acceptance speech, so I will wrap up by saying thank you to Tony Smith and Alan Beech for supporting me with this project, along with our service providers, Ofcom and Factum Radioscape.
If you want to learn more about our journey, please join me on Facebook this evening at 20:00 for our live stream.”
Tony Smith, Station Manager, Angel Radio
“I’m immensely proud of what Ash Elford and Angel Radio have achieved over the past 5 years of our Portsmouth small scale DAB multiplex.
Leading the UK radio industry by introducing DAB+ and slideshow, and proving its commercial value, has been an exhilarating experience. Seeing well established companies like Radio Caroline, Starpoint and The Breeze using our service alongside community stations, Express FM and BFBS Portsmouth, and new broadcasters, Little Radio, Cosoro Radio and Atmosphere Radio is proof that Portsmouth’s small scale DAB service has been able to bring large and small, old and new radio stations to a whole new audience.
We have been able to help radio stations like The Flash to fulfil their potential by providing them with the ability to make the transition from internet only, to DAB, to full-time FM Community Radio.
As with most innovative projects there have been both technical and financial problems, but each of these have been successfully and quickly solved along along the way and they’ve helped our Portsmouth small scale DAB multiplex to become stronger and more resilient.
Bringing 28 radio stations onto digital radios through a multiplex for Portsmouth and the surrounding areas is something that could only have been dreamed of a few years ago. To have been at the forefront of, not only making that dream come true, but also making it affordable to even the newest, smallest radio stations is something we are immensely proud of.”
Alan Beech, Managing Director, Commtronix (our engineering contractor)
“It hardly seems like over 5 years ago when I took that phone call from Ash, asking if I knew about DAB, and could I install a transmitter for him? It was to be a baptism of fire.
Everything I thought I knew about DAB and the conventional way of producing and transmitting was turned on its head when I saw the open source low cost implementation and I knew right away this was a game changer. Much midnight oil was burned getting to grips with the technology, and it is hard to believe the initial 9 months trial has now been 5 years!
Working until the early hours on many occasions, loading new configurations onto the multiplex or adding (and debugging!) new features in conjunction with the software developers became the norm. But when those features were added there was a sense of satisfaction knowing that we were among the first in the world to do so.
Behind Brighton we were the second small scale DAB service to launch in the UK, and it has been my pleasure to be part of it, to push the technology (quite literally) beyond breaking point, and see the service flourish. I look forward to the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years and what may be achieved.“
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We asked the services on our multiplex and radio industry figureheads for their thoughts about the Portsmouth DAB multiplex celebrating it’s 5th anniversary. This is what radio industry figureheads had to say…
Graham Dixon, Head of Radio, European Broadcasting Union
“When DAB was introduced, it massively enlivened the European radio scene with the launch of imaginative services in the newly available spectrum. With the extension into small-scale DAB radio, this went a step further, as different interest groups and communities were able to find a voice in broadcast radio, one which would have never been open to them before.
Celebrating your fifth birthday, you are rightly recognized among the pioneers, but it is really encouraging to report, that our latest EBU research shows 624 small-scale services in six European countries, including the impressive 221 in the UK. We have Denmark, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland all active in this area, with creative people – such as yourselves – finding new ways of engaging and delighting audiences in ways which this technology has uniquely facilitated. Happy birthday!”
Bernie O’Neill, Project Director, WorldDAB
“Congratulations to everyone at Angel Radio for 5 years of DAB! Angel Radio has been an early pioneer of small scale DAB, with an inspirational story that has been a joy to witness.
The UK leads the way when it comes to community radio stations powered by small scale DAB and Angel Radio’s story on how small-scale DAB offers smaller local and community radio stations an affordable and achievable route to go on air is of great interest to broadcasters far beyond the UK. For this reason four years ago WorldDAB invited Ash Elford to share the Angel Radio story with the international broadcast radio community at our annual conference in Vienna, Austria. Small scale DAB services are also on air in Switzerland, France, and with several other countries actively planning to follow.
Angel Radio has won several awards over the years, testimony to the value you bring to your community of listeners. Congratulations, and best wishes to you and your volunteers for a long and successful future at Angel Radio!”
William Rogers, former Chairman, UKRD Group
“As consolidation within the commercial radio sector proceeds apace, and, the consequences for local communities, local news, local engagement and proper local radio become ever more clear, the focus on alternative methods and platforms to bring back proper local radio to local communities suffering its removal, or loss, becomes ever more important.
Whilst there’s no question that the launch of DAB more generally has been a costly and appallingly badly handled initiative for the best part of two decades, ironically, it’s now small scale DAB that may yet present the opportunity to local communities and operators to deliver those broadcasting component parts of what has been taken from them.
Assuming it’s given the underlying infrastructural strength and resource so readily denied to smaller scale FM stations, when they were launched all those years ago, there’s no reason why it can’t ultimately compete for a share of local “ears” in many parts of the UK. We must all keep our fingers crossed that this opportunity is not as equally as badly served and squandered as all too many other commercial radio initiatives have been by both those in power and those who regulate.
Get it right and get on with it!”
James Cridland, Radio Futurologist
“The small scale DAB trial in the UK has been something that has been a real success, and has meant a lot of new stations on the air that otherwise would never have been heard.
Great to hear about the Portsmouth DAB multiplex celebrating its fifth birthday; and for your success in being possibly the most innovative DAB multiplex out there. Here’s to many more!”
John Bibby, Managing Director, Bitstream Broadcast
“For many years we were convinced that DAB could be done much more efficiently for smaller groups who were prepared to take some risk and not requiring a 24/7 gold standard high cost service, they could maintain the systems themselves (with a little expert help of course).
Sensing it was time for the little guys to have their day we threw ourselves into development of a DAB compatible RF amplifier and an on channel repeater (OCR). In a very short period of time we had what became the standard offering by OFCOM, still in use today and having proved very reliable it became the basis for a more refined, updated and robust version that we hope will form the RF backbone for future small scale DAB licensees.
With the excellent steerage and support by Rash, David and other OFCOM engineers the future for small scale DAB seems bright, even despite recent events. In particular the recent loss of so much “proper local radio” to us seems a real opportunity to provide a new, genuinely local radio service to the good people of the UK, something which we know there is a real demand for.
To Portsmouth DAB and indeed to all small scale DAB players “Happy 5th Birthday” and we hope to partner and support you all in the future.”
Daniel Nathan, Director, Brighton & Hove Broadcasting (operators of the Brighton small scale DAB multiplex) and Director, Opendab.org
“Since launching the first recognised UK trial multiplex in Brighton in July 2015 we’ve seen clear demand across the country for DAB as an incremental platform for new entry level broadcasters but also as an add on for FM broadcasters at a proportionate price point.
The trial multiplexes have blazed a trail with distinctive programming, new formats, DAB+, slideshow as well as improved stereo sound quality and reception when compared with the legacy multiplexes and the technology is on the whole reliable considering the modest cost.
Contrary to the expectations of legacy providers, the trial has not caused any issue with adjacent channel interference to their services – it seems perverse that established interests wield so much influence over our development. All roads lead to Arqiva and we have no access to the tools they use to pass judgement. The trial has been liberating and allows us to throw off the monopolist’s yoke. It would be a shame if the market abused turned market abuser.”
Bill Best,Operations Director, Community Media Association
“Well done to Ash and the Solent Wireless team on five years of small-scale DAB. The Portsmouth multiplex has shown the way with pushing the boundaries of the technology and introducing a fantastic range of new programme formats. All of us at the Community Media Association wish Ash and his colleagues every success for the future as we shortly enter a new phase of radio broadcasting in the UK”.
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We asked the services on our multiplex and radio industry figureheads for their thoughts about the Portsmouth DAB multiplex celebrating it’s 5th anniversary. This is what our service providers had to say…
Steve Simms, Programme Director, Atmosphere Radio (launched on our multiplex on day one as Mango Vibe)
“Happy 5th Birthday to Solent Wireless from Atmosphere Radio! We’ve loved broadcasting to Portsmouth for the last 5 years.
In that time, we’ve gone through a full rebrand (from Mango Vibe to Atmosphere) and from non-stop music, to a full schedule of some of the best and most experienced presenters in radio together with BIG name DJs every Friday and Saturday night.
We’ve also co-promoted club nights at Gunwharf Quays and featured local DJs such as Young Rebel.
We look forward to the Portsmouth club scene re-opening as we plan to do even more! Here’s to the next 5 years from Team Atmosphere!”
Tony Prince, Director, United DJs (launched on our multiplex on 7th July 2018)
“Congratulations on Portsmouth’s fifth birthday from one of your younger participants.
So happy to connect with our many fans in the area.”
Kevin Scott from Hot Radio (launched on our multiplex on 16th July 2020)
I would like to say happy 5th birthday to Angel Radio’s Solent Wireless Portsmouth DAB multiplex from all at Hot Radio.
Although we have only recently joined the multiplex, we found the whole joining process flawless. Small scale DAB is an affordable way to keep different local radio services local and relevant in today’s crazy world.
Small scale DAB and local broadcasting has never been so important for our country. The public are looking at local services for local information and wellbeing through music and local programming.
Its just a shame that small scale DAB has not yet been rolled out across the whole of the UK as it is desperately needed as a vital service, especially during the current pandemic.
Well done again for a great operation. We hope to keep our positive music based service with you as one of the many choices of programming well into the future.”
Ryan Davis from Like Radio (launched on our multiplex 16th July 2020)
“It’s always been a pleasure dealing with Solent Wireless for the Portsmouth DAB multiplex. They are professional, upfront and have been very reliable in terms of transmission, despite being a trial. We hope they obtain the licence full time and are able to continue what they have started – Providing the diverse choice of stations that is not available on other DAB multiplexes within the area”.
Ian Wallace from Gaydio (launched on our multiplex 24th September 2015)
“It’s been great for Gaydio to be on DAB in cities where LGBT+ communities are underrepresented. Small scale DAB has allowed us to do this and reach many more people. Thanks to the team in Portsmouth for a great 5 years!!”
Chris Jarvis from Little Radio (launched on our multiplex 28th September 2019)
“Little Radio is delighted to be on DAB in Portsmouth. We have a growing community of young listeners and it has been great being able to share our children’s radio station with them in this way. Thank you to Ash and everyone on the team for being so helpful and supportive since our launch last year. We wish them every success in the future and look forward to more young families from Portsmouth joining in with Little Radio.”
Martin Kirby from The Flash (launched on our multiplex on day one)
“I am extremely proud of Tony Smith and his team for working so hard to keep this innovative radio service on the air. I am even more proud of the fact that Angel Radio has led the way in using digital technology to open up the airwaves in the Portsmouth area, thus allowing so many different tastes to be catered for on DAB.
Back in my pirate days of the Eighties, I dreamed that one day each area would have dozens of 24 hour radio stations, each specializing in a specific music or speach format, from Classical, Easy listening, Oldies, Jazz, Soul, Dance, Pop, Rock, Rolling News, and more besides. The launch of the Portsmouth DAB multiplex five years ago this week made that dream come true, and I must thank Angel Radio, Alan Beech, and especially Ash Elford for making it a reality.
Back in 2012 I launched The Flash as an internet radio station with the intention of eventually gaining a full time FM Community licence. We achieved that in July of last year, and this development would not have been possible without first having the affordable opportunity to operate locally on DAB full time. It allowed us to gain a regular and concentrated local audience, plus many of the presenters you hear on The Flash today joined after discovering us on Portsmouth DAB.
The whole Flash team would like to wish Portsmouth DAB a very Happy 5th Birthday.”
Nicky Ness, Director of Broadcasting & Entertainment, BFBS (BFBS Portsmouth launched on our multiplex on 22nd March 2016 and BFBS Beats launched on 3rd August 2020)
“Working with the Angel Radio team has been a game changer for BFBS – the Forces station, in Portsmouth. Their work has allowed us to tailor content for our specific Royal Navy audience in the area and gives us a platform to demonstrate the value of bespoke audio services to our community.
We’ve recently added a second station – BFBS Beats – allowing more music choice and broadening the scope of our service in the area. Without the small scale DAB initiatives and the hard work of the Angel Radio team in the professional operation of the platform, this just would not have been possible from an economic or technical perspective and we’re just delighted to be continuing this relationship. Congratulations on the 5-year anniversary and best of luck for the future of the multiplex.”
Jason Bryant, Chairman, Nation Broadcasting (The Breeze and Sam FM launched on our multiplex on 15th May 2016)
“We’ve loved being on the South Coast with Solent Wireless over the years. They’ve shown how to innovate and have made DAB accessible to so many different operators. We look forwards to continuing our relationship with Solent Wireless in a number of areas across the south as we start the exciting journey to full time small scale DAB licences.”
Simon Hardwick, Managing Director, Southdown Media (80s Rhythm launched on our multiplex on 27th March 2019 and Passion Radio launched on 20th June 2019)
“Congratulations to Angel Radio and Solent Wireless on the 5th Anniversary of the Portsmouth DAB multiplex. The Portsmouth SSDAB trial has provided an unique opportunity for new entrants like Southdown Media to enter the radio market with experimental formats to research audience interest.
We launched our first service on the Portsmouth DAB multiplex and the Solent Wireless team were supportive and flexible, exactly the approach needed to foster and develop the future of radio broadcasting. This agility gave us the opportunity to react quickly to the Covid-19 outbreak to launch our pop-up station Health Info Radio within four days of the initial idea.
I’m excited for the future – if other multiplexes follow the Solent Wireless ethos and operational model the future of DAB in the UK will be bright”
Chris Stevens, Station Manager, Chris Country (launched on our multiplex on 25th September 2015)
“Chris Country has been on the Portsmouth multiplex since the early days, and it’s always been a pleasure hearing from listeners in the area. Ash and the team have done such a great job, bringing community broadcasters and specialist formats together, to give genuine choice to listeners. Long may it continue!”
Mason Jordan, Station Producer, Express FM (launched on our multiplex on day one)
“We are very proud to have been one of the first stations on the multiplex which is now bursting with a huge variety of stations. As the radio world is constantly adapting it’s a no brainer to be on DAB across our amazing city. Ash from the multiplex has been amazing helping us stay on air throughout a station relocation, tech changes our end, the pandemic, and has always been there to help.”
Paul Teague, Station Director, Skylab Radio (launched on our multiplex 10th August 2018)
“Ash and the guys at Angel Radio have been very supportive of us, since Skylab popped up on the multiplex two years ago. They have been there if we’ve needed a bit of support and have offered loads of advice. Plus they’ve always kept us abreast with developments, technical issues and changes. Which has been more than useful. So Happy 5th Birthday to Solent Wireless and all the best for the future!”
Angel Radio celebrates the 5th anniversary of the Portsmouth DAB multiplex
Today, Wednesday 19th August 2020, marks the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Portsmouth DAB multiplex. Operated by Angel Radio under the Solent Wireless brand, the multiplex launched as part of a nine month Ofcom trial to examine the practical aspects of DAB multiplexes being operated by smaller broadcasters at a lower cost than traditional DAB multiplexes, using open source software. The trial has subsequently been extended numerous times resulting in the Portsmouth licence being extended to the end of 2021, while other small scale multiplexes will have the opportunity to apply for long term licences later this year.
Launching initially with 6 local services, the line-up has evolved. Today there are 26 services broadcasting on the Portsmouth DAB multiplex, comprising a mixture of community, small and established commercial broadcasters.
2 more services have been announced as joining the Portsmouth DAB multiplex line-up today.
Aspen Waite Radio will be a service launching soon from accountancy firm Aspen Waite featuring a daring mix of indie, rock and business related speech.
Launching on 1st October, Christmas Radio will play festive Christmas hits all day every day until the end of the year.
To celebrate the occasion, Angel Radio’s Digital Development Manager, Ash Elford, will lead a live stream on Facebook at 20:00 taking a look at the progress of the Portsmouth DAB multiplex from the original licence application up to the current day, plus a look ahead to the future.
Anyone interested in watching the live stream can view it at https://www.facebook.com/solentwireless/live
The Solent Wireless website features contributions from those involved in Portsmouth DAB multiplex as well as other notable figures within the industry celebrating the progress made over the last five years.
Singer Kelli-Leigh inspires Portsmouth radio station to re-write music history
Kelli-Leigh. Never heard of her? With three UK top 10 singles, two number 1’s, a Billboard dance chart 1 and 2 and a Grammy nomination under her belt you should have. But she is rarely credited for her work, as she used to be hired for a nominal fee as a session musician. She is not alone.
For decades session musicians have been making a gigantic contribution to worldwide hit records but they haven’t been given the recognition they deserve. Now a Portsmouth radio station has set out to change that.
Atmosphere Radio has pledged to start re-writing music history by launching Be Vocal and becoming the first radio station in the world to give featured singers the credit that they deserve.
Programme Director Steve Simms said “As part of our Be Vocal campaign, all of our presenters will now mention all featured singers when they introduce a song.
“We’ve also adapted the artist names on our website and mobile app so that the names of the guest singers will appear on the Now Playing information.
“As a radio business, we provide financial support to the artists we play in the form of royalties via PRS and PPL, but we’ve decided to lead the way in the radio industry and support the artists morally too.”
Speaking to the station’s breakfast presenter Suzi Martin, Kelli-Leigh said “You don’t really think about it when you’ve got nobody looking out for your best interests, but suddenly from 2014, my voice was everywhere and you go ‘oh, that’s not cool, I should probably have my name on this’.
“And if my name was on the record then, maybe I’d have a different path now. I didn’t get given the choice, or the opportunity and just got paid my session fee”
Not only that, but breakfast presenter Suzi Martin plans on literally rewriting the records: “I’ve persuaded the bosses to let our listeners show their support for Kelli-Leigh and send in their singles to Atmosphere Radio. We’ll then send them all onto Kelli-Leigh for her to sign her name on – and then send them back to our listeners with the correctly worded sleeves!”
If you wish to show your support to Kelli-Leigh and send your CD or vinyl single into Atmosphere Radio for Kelli-Leigh to autograph, post them with your full name and address to:
Atmosphere Radio, 65 Brighton Road, Worthing BN11 3EE
Singles that feature Kelli-Leigh, but don’t credit her on the sleeve include: Duke Dumont
featuring Jax Jones – I Got U
Ferreck Dawn & Redondo – Love Too Deep
Second City – I Wanna Feel
New stations
We’ve recently added two new stations to our Portsmouth DAB+ multiplex.
Hot Radio play upbeat RnB, soul and dance music from the 1990s to the present day. Like Radio play current chart hits.
We’ve got even more stations launching in the next couple of months, stay tuned for updates.
In other news, Awaaz FM Radio have ceased broadcasting on our DAB+ multiplex.
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Station update
Health Info Radio has ceased broadcasting. We hope to have news about a new station launch soon.
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Health Info Radio
We’re now broadcasting a very special station on our Portsmouth DAB+ digital radio multiplex, Health Info Radio. No hype, no opinions, no fuss – just important information about COVID-19. Learn more on their website at www.healthinforadio.co.uk
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Cassini survives closest brush with Saturn’s inner ring
May 30, 2017 Stephen Clark
This unprocessed image from Cassini’s camera taken Sunday shows Saturn (upper right) and a portion of the planet’s rings refracted through Saturn’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Barreling through space near the inner edge of Saturn’s wispy D ring, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shielded itself from bits of ice and dust Sunday as the probe made its most dangerous plunge close to the planet, collecting spectacular edge-on views of Saturn’s rings with an on-board camera.
The raw images returned during Sunday’s encounter show new close-up angles of the structure of Saturn’s rings, and Cassini also turned its radar instrument to scan the rings in a first-of-its-kind experiment.
Cassini’s closest approach to Saturn occurred at 1422 GMT (10:22 a.m. EDT) Sunday, but the spacecraft was out of radio contact with Earth at the time. Engineers uplinked commands for Cassini to turn its high-gain communications antenna to point in its direction of travel, protecting the probe from any incoming microscopic ice particles.
Officials confirmed a few hours later that Cassini re-established contact with controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Images from the flyby began arriving on Earth on Monday.
Cassini captured this image of Saturn’s rings Sunday. The unprocessed image has been rotated to view on this page. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Sunday’s flyby was the closest Cassini will come to Saturn’s D ring, the innermost of the planet’s rings. It was the sixth time Cassini has sailed through the gap between Saturn and its rings after the spacecraft reshaped its orbit in April with the mission’s final close-range flyby the Saturn’s largest moon Titan.
Running low on fuel, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is in its final months, with its orbit around Saturn now taking it on weekly plunges through the ring gap. Cassini will fall into Saturn’s atmosphere and be crushed Sept. 15.
Cautious managers directed the antenna to point forward — in its so-called “ram” position — during Cassini’s first flight through the ring gap last month. But scientists detected fewer impacts from ice particles than predicted, allowing later flybys to forego the safeguard.
Artist’s concept of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The passage Sunday, along with three more in June and July, will place Cassini much closer to the D ring, and controllers will again turn the craft’s antenna into a shield for those encounters. Cassini’s next visit to the ring gap on June 3, U.S. time, will be its second-closest brush with the D ring, again requiring the use of the antenna for protection.
Scientists say Cassini’s “grand finale” will help them learn about Saturn’s atmosphere, interior and magnetic field. Another prime objective of the flybys is to measure the mass and estimate the age of Saturn’s rings, which will tell scientists about their origin.
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US Blocks Russia-Sponsored UNSC Statement on Incursion in Venezuela
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The United States blocked a Russia-proposed UN Security Council draft press statement on the recent incursion into Venezuela, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Polyanskiy said during a UN Security Council meeting that Russia had disseminated a press element on the situation in Venezuela.
"This is the draft proposed by Russia to be adopted after UN Security Council VTC [video teleconference] today. No accusations, only support of basic common things," Polyanskiy said on Wednesday. "It was killed by the US mission to the United Nations within 9 minutes from the start of the silence procedure."
The draft statement rejected the use of force as stipulated by the UN Charter and reaffirmed relevant resolutions on Venezuela. It also called for the situation to be resolved without interference, by Venezuelans, within the framework of the UN Charter and the country’s constitution with full respect for its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Earlier in the day, the Russian envoy said during the UNSC meeting that Moscow does not believe that the Washington had no involvement in the recent attempted incursion into Venezuela.
"The US authorities claimed that they have nothing to do with this. We would be glad to believe them, but failed to explain that, according to the contract, two American citizens were planning to take hostage of the legitimate Venezuelan President and bring him to the United States," Polyanskiy said. "For what purpose, may I ask?"
On 3 May, Venezuelan authorities said an attempted maritime invasion by militants from Colombia had been prevented as eight militants were killed and several others detained.
One of the detained individuals, US citizen Luke Denman who works for the security firm Silvercorp USA, said during an interrogation that the group's aim was to seize the Caracas airport and bring Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to the United States.
Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez later unveiled a 41-page contract worth $213 million between the Venezuelan opposition and private military firm Silvercorp USA to "capture/detain/remove" Maduro. The paper is believed to have signatures of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido himself; Sergio Vergara, a member of the opposition-controlled parliament; and Miami-based political consultant Juan Jose Rendon.
"How does it correlate with constant ‘all options are on the table’ type messages by US authorities to Caracas, including a recent announcement of a 15 million US dollars bounty for President Maduro," the diplomat also questioned.
In March, Washington indicted Venezuelan Maduro on charges of "narco-terrorism," as announced by US Attorney General William Barr, and pledged a $15 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s capture.
In January, the US has recognized opposition figure Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela. He heads a self-proclaimed government in exile based in Bogota.
Maduro has repeatedly accused the United States and Guaido of collaborating to overthrow his government to seize the country's natural resources.
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Millions of Taxpayers Face Refund Delays in 2017
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New tax law requires the IRS to hold some refunds until
KANSAS CITY, MO - (Marketwired) - November 15, 2016 - As many as 15 million taxpayers could have their refunds delayed until at least February 15 next year, according to an analysis by H&R Block (NYSE: HRB), a leading consumer tax preparation company. The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act now requires the IRS to hold refunds for returns claiming the earned income tax credit (EITC) and additional child tax credit (ACTC) until February 15. Approximately 30 million taxpayers claim the EITC or ACTC, with half filing early.
"Taxpayers should file as they normally would, even if they expect their refund will be delayed," said Kathy Pickering, executive director of The Tax Institute at H&R Block. "The IRS still expects to issue most refunds in less than 21 days, although the IRS will hold refunds for EITC and ACTC-related tax returns filed early in 2017 until February 15 and then begin issuing them."
While the IRS will release those refunds on February15 many taxpayers may not see the funds deposit into their banking accounts for a few days afterward. This additional delay could be for many reasons and it is best for taxpayers to check the IRS's Where's My Refund website for any funding updates.
Delay helps IRS combat tax identity fraud
The EITC received nationwide averaged approximately $2,500 per eligible taxpayer last year. While $65.6 billionwas paid out last year, the IRS indicates that approximately one in five payments are made in error, either through fraudulent filing or confusion due to complexity in claiming the benefit. These credits are target rich for tax identity thieves and fraudsters. In fact, the EITC has one of the highest improper payment rates of the 16 "high-error" programs identified by the government.
Holding taxpayer refunds until February 15, along with the mandate that employers send employee W-2s to the IRS by January 31, allows the IRS additional time to help prevent revenue lost due to identity theft and refund fraud related to fabricated wages and withholdings.
"It is important for taxpayers who claim these benefits to plan now for the delay," Pickering said. "Visiting with a tax professional now can help them better understand the overall impact."
Delays just one part of tax law changes
The PATH Act made dozens of changes to the tax code, including permanently extending many tax benefits, implementing renewal requirements for Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), changing eligibility requirements for certain tax credits, expanding other tax benefits, increasing the cost of making mistakes and altering small business tax benefits. But its delay of millions of refunds until at least February 15 will be widely felt by early filers who in the past could expect a refund which averaged more than $3,500 in 2015 by late January.
To learn more about tax law changes and refund delays due to the PATH Act, taxpayers can visit www.hrblock.com/path. They can also make an appointment with a tax professional online or call 1-800-HRBLOCK.
About H&R Block
H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE: HRB) is a global consumer tax services provider. Tax return preparation services are provided by professional tax preparers in approximately 12,000 company-owned and franchise retail tax offices worldwide, and through H&R Block tax software products for the DIY consumer. H&R Block also offers adjacent Tax Plus products and services. In fiscal 2016, H&R Block had annual revenues of over $3 billion with 23.2 million tax returns prepared worldwide. For more information, visit the H&R Block Newsroom at http://newsroom.hrblock.com/.
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Blake Lively Trolls Ryan With Her ‘Favorite Things’ From His Hometown
Sweet and savage! Blake Lively trolled her husband, Ryan Reynolds, while paying tribute to the things she loves most from Canada.
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The Gossip Girl alum, 33, revealed on Thursday, December 10, that four of her “favorite things in the world” come from Vancouver, Canada, which is Reynold’s hometown. She proceeded to post two photos to her Instagram Story, the first of which showed three desserts.
Lively identified ice cream from Rain or Shine Ice Cream shop, doughnuts from Cartems and pie from the A la Mode Pie Café as her go-to treats. The second photo revealed that she also loves … a variety of desserts from Ask for Luigi.
“And the 4th of course is @askforluigi,” she wrote alongside the photo of cake, cookies and more from the restaurant. “…Who did you think I was gonna say??”
The Age of Adaline actress did, however, give her Canadian husband, 44, a shout-out by adding a Deadpool gif in the corner of the photo.
The couple, who have been married since 2012, have a history of poking fun at one another. Two months prior, the Shallows actress trolled her husband while celebrating his birthday.
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“1) Who is the lost soul that selects birthday PIE,” she captioned a series of photos of Reynolds blowing out candles on a pie in October. “2) What ANIMAL eats their cake (pie) without first blowing out the candles. @vancityreynolds that’s who.”
Lively, who shares three daughters, James, 5, Inez, 2, and Betty, 13 months, with the Proposal star, added: “Happy Birthday. I honestly can’t believe we’re still married.”
Reynolds shared a series of unflattering photos of Lively on her birthday in August 2019. All of the pictures he included showed the birthday girl with her eyes closed or partially cropped out of the frame.
After eight years of marriage — and many jokes at each other’s expense — a source told Us Weekly that the couple are “more committed to their marriage” than ever before.
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“Blake and Ryan have had their ups and downs like any couple, but overall, they’re very solid,” the insider said earlier this month. “Blake and Ryan are two extremely proud and private people and keeping their relationship low-key and off radar is what’s worked so well for them over the years.”
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YouTubers like Mixed Media Girl create instructional videos to help their audience express themselves through art. (Image via Instagram)
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5 YouTubers With Unique Arts and Crafts Videos To Explore
These creators will guide you through everything from junk journaling to the art of the 3D pen.
By Janani Mangai Srinivasan, Wake Forest University
Anyone with basic knowledge of YouTube will be able to find crafts videos in under a minute. DIY hacks and so-called “easy” crafts videos are all over the place. Their videos guide you through their creative journey in different ways — through time-lapse, before and after videos or even by detailing their artistic experiments.
There are challenge videos and how-to videos for anything you could think to make, and all of that is amazing in itself. But sometimes, you just want to watch such videos to see some beautiful art in the making. However, there are some arts and crafts channels out there whose crafts videos are fun to watch because they add something special into their work. And so, here is a list of some of these artists whom you definitely will want to check out.
1. Paper Outpost
This YouTube creator takes junk journaling to whole new levels. For those who don’t know what a junk journal is, it’s a kind of crafting notebook where you can stick odds and ends made of paper. These bits and pieces can be photos, random drawings from your childhood, candy wrappers, lace and so much more — really, anything that is thin enough to fit between the spaces of the book pages.
And this channel is full of junk journal creativity. From teaching how to make your own junk journal to inspiring different paper crafts, the videos show how each creative masterpiece is created. Pam — the lovely person behind the videos — does a lot of crafting that those new to the craft world may not fully understand how to do. But that makes watching the videos all the more fun. Pam is friendly and slowly demonstrates how she creates her junk journals. She shows how to repurpose old books to make artistic wonders and makes pretty journals from scratch. Even if you are there just to see how it’s made, you can certainly pick up some crafting ideas to try out when you are bored.
Check out the Paper Outpost and the world of junk journaling here.
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2. 3D SANAGO
The 3D pen is an art tool that can literally allow you to draw in air. It’s a new form of art that connects to your senses in a whole new way. Playing around with a 3D pen seems really fun, and Sanago, the man behind this channel, shows his viewers just how much of a pro he is at this entertaining art form. In each video, he makes something out of his 3D pen, showcasing his expertise by teaching his viewers how to make each piece. It feels like he is teaching something as simple as drawing a circle on paper, but it is far from that. The funny statements he throws in while he narrates each step is made even more amusing by his dull tone of voice. Sometimes, the humor is elevated by the presence of his cat, Nago, who tries to get in his way as much as possible.
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To check out 3D Sanago, follow this link here.
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You can also watch her paint vases and tumblers using beautiful resin painting techniques. Check out Mixed Media Girl’s channel here.
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Check out Shibasaki and his wonderful world of watercolors here.
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The Alpha-Hole Hero. Hot or Not?
August 8, 2013 by Mandi 28 Comments
A few weeks ago I reviewed Sweetened with a Kiss by Lexxie Callahan and in the review I referred to the hero as an ‘alpha-hole.’ To me, an alpha-hole hero is one that is very alpha and also an asshole. It’s his way or no way (of course the heroine always gets her way at the end) This hero goes above and beyond being arrogant and possessive. I feel an alpha-hole hero can be a believable romantic hero as long as there is proper redemption on his part. To me, an alpha-hole is not necessary a negative thing. The ultimate alpha-hole hero in my eyes is Barrons, and he just happens to be my favorite hero ever.
Penny Watson, a good online friend of mine disagreed with me. After we went back and forth a bit in the comments, she posted this:
I actually think this brings up a more important topic in the romance genre, which is what constitutes a “hero”…I think an asshole is an asshole, not a hero. A real asshole may not have redeeming qualities, and may not be heroic in any way. I also don’t think Barrons is an alphahole. He is alpha. Plenty of heroes are “possessive, cranky, controlling”…they can be jerks. Alpha all the way. Not necessarily alphaholes.
I think the we disagree on the term. I don’t see it as benign, or as the equivalent of alpha. I think some folks see jerk=alphahole, which could probably apply to most romance heroes.
For me, one huge difference is motivation. An asshole’s motivation is always about HIM. Not anyone else, and certainly not the heroine. An alpha may act controlling and overbearing, but he is thinking about others’ safety and well-being, even if it’s misguided.
So I asked some authors and bloggers for their opinions on the subject. Here is what I received:
Tori: An alpha hero is dominant, demanding, and overly protective. As is the alpha hole hero. The similarities end there because often the alpha hero will acknowledge the heroine’s ability to live her own life and make her own choices while an alpha hole hero will bowl right over her, often using anger and or sex to make his point and get her to bend to his will and admit that he knows best. An alpha hole hero has a bad habit of underestimating his heroine and treating her like a child. An alpha hero wants to protect his lover but knows trying to control her will often cause her to leave him. An alpha hole hero wants to make the heroine completely dependent on him. Her submission to his authority is his ultimate goal. His need for complete control makes her less human and more a possession. An alpha hero is proud that his heroine is strong and independent (even if he complains about it.) He doesn’t want to raise a child…he wants a woman. Virtue becomes a holy grail an alpha hole hero. His woman should be a nun in public and a whore in bed. Any deviation can bring a heap of slut shaming on the heroine. An alpha hero is often proud that this lovely sexy lady is on his arm and while all men may want her, he is the one taking her home to bed. Can an alpha hole hero become an alpha hero? Sure he can, but it requires some heavy duty compromise, groveling, and usually the heroine has to leave the hero to get him to realize that if he doesn’t change, she may never come back.
Author Stephanie Julian: An alpha hero’s most important quality is confidence. He believes he knows exactly what he’s doing and if you don’t agree with him, well, you’re wrong. The difference between an alpha-hole and a regular ole alpha is their temperament. An alpha-hole is a prick and he doesn’t care what others think about him. An alpha knows what he wants and goes after it but he knows the limits. Alpha holes have no limits. But that’s also what makes their eventual downfall to love so much sweeter. They fall so hard and when they grovel, you totally believe they would only do it for this one woman. The best alpha-hole heroes I have ever read have been in Jane Porter’s Harlequin Presents. They could be such huge dicks and sometimes you wanted to throw the book at the wall but when they fall, you can’t wait for them to get the girl. I tend to write a lot of alphas because I think they just have so much farther to fall and their journeys are so much more interesting. Also, the women they choose have to be that much stronger to handle them. Their heroines are no meek mice. Since I write a lot of alphas, the one I’m writing at the moment is always my favorite. In NO RESERVATIONS (releasing Sept. 3), Tyler is a quiet alpha and those are always the ones you have to watch. When they start to lose it, they tend to implode. At this very moment, though, I’m writing Greg’s story. You’ll meet Greg in NO RESERVATIONS and he’s one of the best alphas to write: a verbal one. He tells it like it is, doesn’t care if you’re offended or scandalized and laughs off any attempt to shut him up.
Marquetta from Love to Read For Fun: I am a huge fan of the alpha-hole and one of the biggest alpha-hole heroes out there is Jericho Barrons from KMM’s Fever series and I absolutely love him. Jericho is unapologetic. He does what he wants. And he’s sexy as hell. He doesn’t let Mac wallow in grief or stay the pampered pink princess. In his alpha-holish ways, he gives Mac the power to find her sister’s killer and become a stronger person.
I think many women like bossy, kinda douchey guys because we feel like we can tame them. Boys behaving badly has a certain appeal. I loved Tangled by Emma Chase because the hero in the story was an unapologetic asshole. He slept around, didn’t treat women that well — they were just notches on his bedpost. He called his sister "Bitch" but absolutely loved his niece. He was a contradiction. He was brought to his knees when he fell in love and became a simpering, whiny idiot. I think there needs to be a balance where the alpha-hole hero isn’t a jerk who is a misogynist. There has to be some depth to him.
An alpha hero is a strong man who is somewhat bossy and take charge but knows his limit. The alpha-hole hero takes it all another level. The alpha-hole hero is the boy at the playground who pushes you off the swing, laughs at you but then gives you his popsicle later.
Jess from Happily Ever After-Reads: For me, an alpha-hero is that man I love from page 1 until the end. He’s take-charge, charming, sweet, lovable, just that guy that makes me sigh with his actions and words. Whereas an alpha-hole hero is that man I want to knee in the balls at the start of the book but end up wanting to have his babies by the end. But, there needs to be so much more to an alpha-hole hero than him just acting like an ass, whether it’s to the heroine, or other supporting characters, I need to at some point see the man behind the actions. For example, “Charming” Mickey O’Connor (I’ve been on a Maiden Lane series kick, so he instantly came to mind) acts like an alpha-hole early on because he makes the heroine do things that he didn’t need to, but he did simply because he had the power over her and could. He has moments where I wanted to smack him for the things he said and did to the heroine, but his true self is not the alpha-hole he projects and that’s what makes him and his relationship with the heroine believable. I have to see another side to an alpha-hole to make it work for me. He doesn’t need to do a complete 180 turn by books end, but he needs to have more layers to him than just being a jerk and it definitely doesn’t hurt to have a strong heroine to help balance out the story.
One alpha-hole that I couldn’t stand was Aubry from As You Wish. He was ass to everyone, not only the heroine but the kicker was how he acted towards his daughter. He came off so badly early in the story, it ended up being such a turn off I stopped reading and didn’t want to see this alpha-hole get an HEA.
I love a great alpha-hole but for it to work for me, I need to see some other sides to the hero and he needs to have a strong heroine to play off of to make their HEA work.
Amy from Fiction Vixen: I fell in love with the alpha-hole hero from the queen who writes them, Kristen Ashley. She really coined the term alpha-hole in my opinion with the majority of her heroes exhibiting the dominant, sexy, stubborn, crass caveman type qualities.
A lot of alpha-holes have unique idiosyncrasies, how they walk, what they wear, a certain routine, how they act and react. They tend to be more observant to their women with regard to their clothing or lack of, sexuality and overall demeanor. They are possessive but not in a creepy, crazy way. They also exhibit unexpected moments of sweetness when you least expect it. The alpha-hole is known to verbally screw up at any given moment because they have no filter. Many times what spews from their mouth causes a major catastrophe and results in a hurtful, emotional blow to their woman that takes a ton of groveling and apologizing to ever hope of making it out of the dog house. The best quality an author can establish for an alpha-hole is a balance of the alpha demeanor and the raw emotion. The best alpha-holes live hard and feel deep. They expose raw emotion, demonstrating love and loyalty to their women and that’s what makes their characters desirable, especially when they are acting like a total ass.
Some of my least favorite alpha-holes are those that exhibit the cold, impassive demeanor and are usually paired with doormat or to stupid to live heroines. These alpha-holes tend to only want ownership and possession with their women and lack emotion or intimacy. No compromise, it’s their way or the highway. As a result, there is no balance and no emotional growth from either character which makes for a disappointing story.
Jennifer from Romance Novel News: To me, an alpha hero is a take charge man, someone who knows exactly what he wants and goes after it. He is unapologetic about his life, his life choices and the way he conducts himself. I believe that such a hero crosses the line into alphahole territory when he can’t compromise and pushes his own agenda without regard to how it affects others, especially his heroine. When an alpha overlooks a heroine’s opinion and does something that he believes is for the best, he becomes alpaholic. Both types of heroes are overprotective and both will have trouble allowing a heroine to make her own choices. The alphahole, however, will try and impose his will on the heroine. Said alphahole has to have a moment where he understands how his behavior hurts his lady love for me to find him romantic. Granted, I have a high threshhold for alphaholes, and it doesn’t always take much for me to believe that he loves his heroine more than he loves himself.
My favorite alphahole hero has to be Knight from Kristen Ashley’s Knight.This guy is an alphahole extraordinaire, a man who knows what he wants, does exactly what he wants when he wants and demands that Anya fit into his life – and well, he’s unsavory. However, Anya is the most important thing to him. He doesn’t expect to fall in love, in fact probably has no desire to do so, but even his alphaholishness is no match for the woman who captures him body and soul. On the other hand, I found Deuce from Madeline Sheehan’s Undeniable to be a douchebag hero who wanted Eva more as a trophy than as a woman he loved. I found his behavior repugnant and felt that the way the humiliated the heroine made him unredeemable.
Author Jennifer Lyon: I see alpha men as figuring out how to gain the power they need to achieve the goals they’ve set out. I also love it if they are very protective of those they care about.
Alpha holes are a little too focused on their own goals, and don’t understand the true meaning of negotiation or compromise. It’s a really fine line that’s different for each reader.
To make any hero come to life on the pages and hook me, it’s all about showing readers what drives him. Usually his deepest fear is the most powerful influence on his decisions. In my latest trilogy, The Plus One Chronicles, Sloane Michaels is extremely goal driven. He doesn’t have relationships with women, he has plus-one deals. That makes him seem emotionally cold, goal driven and a bit of an alpha hole. Then Sloane comes across Kat Thayne, a beautiful baker with physical and emotional scars, and suddenly we’re seeing that Sloane has a deep protective streak. So how is it that a man who structures his world to avoid getting emotionally involved with a woman has this extreme protective streak? That’s what makes a hero interesting—and uncovering the answer to that question creates a bond between Sloane and reader (as well as Kat). As Sloane’s darkest secrets and fears are revealed, readers are draw into his emotional journey, rooting for him and Kat to get their happy ending.
The alpha holes that can’t be redeemed for me are the ones that cross the emotionally or physically abusive line. There was an author I loved who wrote a paranormal book where the hero tortured the heroine for answers. The motivation was there but I didn’t care. That hero could never be redeemed in my eyes.
Do you believe an alpha-hole hero can work as a romantic interest, or are they just plain asses?
Who are some of your favorite and least favorite?
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Nicola O. says
I don’t tend to use the term alpha-hole much, but I generally reserve it for a hero or protagonist that ultimately didn’t work for me; one that starts out unlikeable and doesn’t turn the corner. However, I love an alpha hero –see also, my blog title :-) — and I think I have a higher tolerance than many readers for a high-handed, pushy hero.
There are lines though. Sometimes they get crossed, and then I don’t like the book. A jackass protagonist can be redeemed, but a poorly done character arc where the jerk just turns around and whips off his rubber jackass mask like a Scooby-Doo villain is not going to get a good reaction from me. If that’s the story — the redemption of a jackass hero – then I want to see the progression and I want to feel the pain and joy along the way and believe it when he comes through the other side. THAT’s a story.
Sometimes I *think* the line has been crossed, and then the author still turns it around. I’m terrible at retrieving such things out of my memory, but Claiming the Courtesan by Anna Campbell comes to mind. I really thought I wasn’t going to be able to like that hero at all, but she redeemed him in my eyes.
Mandi says
Interesting – so you name the truly asshole hero that isn’t redeemed the alphahole, and the others alphas.
In the romance genre we always try to label things. New Adult, Young Adult, Erotic vs Erotica, Alphahole vs alpha. But everyone varies so much with their definitions and limits…
“so you name the truly asshole hero that isn’t redeemed the alphahole, and the others alphas.”
In a nutshell, yes. :)
Fran S. says
This was a great post! After reading everyone’s thoughts it seems like Alphas are the good boys and Alpha-holes are the bad boys? KA got mentioned a few times, so I’ll use her example I guess. It seems like Hank Nightengale would be a Alpha, while Tack from Motorcycle Man would be an Alpha-hole, maybe? I tend to reserve alpha-hole for the unforgivables, and Barrons and Tack are totally fine in my mind. I mark the line between the alpha and alpha-hole at the point where the “hero” in question doesn’t listen to the heroine at all, or attempts to change something integral to her sense of self (without a really good reason—Barrons has that), or generally makes her absolutely miserable in such a way that I can’t forgive even if she does. I tend to put those really up-tight heroes who shame the heroine in this category, unless they change their behavior FAST—which is why I really liked what Tori had to say. It immediately brought to mind The Wolf and the Dove which I read after someone online recced it for those wanting Medieval historicals. I mean, Wulfgar is probably the the biggest asshole I’ve ever read, if my memory serves correctly. I might have blocked out a significant portion of it.
Yes, I agree with the Hank/Tack separation. Tack steamrolls Red…and whoa. She stands up to him, but she is his possession. 100%. But the way he becomes devoted to her as well…brings him around to a romantic hero
I love the Alpha heroes and I can handle Alpha-hole heroes if they to show redemption and don’t cross certain lines. I can’t really say what those lines are, they are different in each book, but if a hero does something that I can’t forgive or get past than that guy is no longer the romantic hero I wanted him to be. Also if the heroine continues to consistently forgive the seemingly unforgivable she becomes a victim. Basically to pull an Alpha-hole off there needs to be balance
Those lines vary with each reader (and with each author). KMM can drag me through an entire series with an alpha hole hero, and I’ll still stick with it because I KNOW she will make it worth it in the end. Other authors- Not so much trust
KT Grant says
I’m over alpha hole heroes. They all need therapy.
LOL. They actually do!
If written well, I love me some alpha-hole!
I do need some insight in the alpha-hole’s psyche but I don’t nescasarily have to agree with his motivations.
To quote Jennifer:
“Granted, I have a high threshhold for alphaholes, and it doesn’t always take much for me to believe that he loves his heroine more than he loves himself.”
Maybe one of the reasons I like an alpha-hole is because I enjoy being indignant on the heroines behalf?
Plus it’s fiction yall. In real life I would scream for a restraining order ;-)
In my opinion Kresley Cole writes some great alpha-holes. Lachlain MacRieve comes to mind.
“I do need some insight in the alpha-hole’s psyche but I don’t necessarily have to agree with his motivations”
I like that. And yes, it’s fun to be indignant on the heroine’s behalf. LOL
Cole DOES write some good alphaholes. And they have always come around for me.
Spaz says
ooooooh, fantastic discussion!! I enjoy the alpha-hole, in very specific cases. Kresley Cole can write them superbly, as can Karen Moning, and Kristen Ashley. I like their brand of alpha-hole, and it definitely feels taboo to be so enamored by these guys with behaviors that there’s no way in hell I’d actually tolerate in real life. But it IS a fine line — that review you mentioned above, when you mentioned specific cases of the guy controlling her finances, I can’t be down with that. I think some authors can do it, and do it well.
mmm…Cole, KA and KMM. I need them to keep writing lots and lots of alphaholes. :)
blodeuedd says
There is a fine line between Alpha and I wanna kick you in the balls Alpha. And I do not like the latter ones
hahaha…I like this line.
Tina B says
I like that term! And, yes, I am a fan of the alpha-hole. ;)
I agree with you, Mandi. As long as they redeem themselves, I am okay with it.
Some of my favorites are Deuce from Madeline Sheehan’s Undeniable series and Caleb from CJ Roberts’ The Dark Duet series. I am sure if I think about it, I can come up with more of them. Lol.
ooh..I haven’t read either of those yet….
They are both dark and gritty. I love them! :)
Kate L says
Though there are variations among this group’s definitions of alpha versus alpha-hole heroes, I’m feeling in agreement with much of what’s been said. The line I can’t cross with heroes is one others have mentioned: verbal/physically abusive, slut-shaming, and outright narcissism where the universe must bend to his will and people–the heroine in particular–are less indept beings in his mind and more possessions or tools to help him achieve his goals.
Maya Banks is an iffy read for me for this reason. Also, I admit to only managing to finish one Cole book b/c her men are too much for me. And then there’s Christine Feehan. I started reading vampires and PNR because of her. Some of her Carpathian heroes are perfect examples of the alpha-hole who is redeemed, but others are just…not.
But this begs a question: how does our acceptance of alphaholic behavior shift depending on the genre? What we accept in fantasy or PNR (where there are soulmates or lifemates and instanta-bonding) we would label creepy stalker in a contemporary.
And speaking of contemporaries. I was up until 2 am last night reading Kate Hewitt’s An Inheritance of Shame (harlequin presents), and okay first love to her people’s reactions/reviews of this. It’s angsty and intense, second chances, kind of story. But really it’s a treatise on the nature of love. Angelo could be labeled an alpha-hole at the beginning, but maybe he falls more under the “damaged” hero category. I felt shades of Jennifer Lyon’s hero Shane–who I love–in this guy.
Maya Banks’s heroes rarely work for me (at least in her erotics..historicals I can do). They cross a line and it is too much for me. When I read Rush, I DNF’d after the hero did some terrible things.
I think I would let more go in a PNR. Not just insta-bonding but the immortals who have lived for thousands of years…they get a pass from me on their cavemen behavior.
Will def check out Inheritance of Shame – I like those type of HP. And Shane is my fav Lyons hero :)
Lexxi says
Can I just be happy you mentioned Barrons and Stefan in the same paragraph? You know cause neither one of them likes Cake.
I love this. LOL
Glittergirl says
I really didn’t think about alpha-holes as a term until I read Maya Banks Fever. I won the book and was thrilled. I ALWAYS finish a book. I almost didn’t finish that book. I thought boy she’s going to have to work hard to get me to like Jace. She didn’t. The end of the book didn’t change my opinion of Jace one bit. He was an ass-hole in the beginning of the book and still was at the end. His feelings for Ash didn’t change him one whit. That’s my definition of of Alpha-hole. I didn’t pay for or read the rest of the series. I don’t want to read about a-holes, there’s too many awesome real heroes to read about to waste my time on the nonredeemable cast as a “good-guy”.
Tori says
That’s a great attitude to have, Glittergirl. :)
I DNF’d Rush by Maya Banks for similar reasons. She just doesn’t work for me. Too cold and not enough romance.
PCc says
I love alpha- holes in paranormal romance but can’t deal with them in contemporary romance. I adore Jericho barons, he is the Best hero ever. I think because paranormal romance is not set in the real world I can give some bad behaviours more leeway. The one hero I cannot understand peeps loving is Caleb from Captive. Yes he changes and yes he had a bad past but the things he does are too too horrifying for me to do anything other than hate him.
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“This mechanism involves repeated film deposition and etching for each exposure, therefore demand for film deposition and etch systems is growing.”
Mr. Kamiuttanai, responsible for Asia, discusses the importance of focusing on the etching field.
“High-performance semiconductors can be produced using a conventional exposure machine if etching and film deposition are performed properly. This is why semiconductor manufacturers are accelerating investment in etch systems.”
There is another reason for the focus on the etch systems. According to Higuchi, as data traffic grows, development of three-dimensional semiconductor devices is advancing to handle the greater amount of data saved.
“The spread of smartphones and PCs is resulting in more data being stored in the cloud. Stacking is developing three dimensionally: vertically rather than horizontally, to facilitate further integration.”
In the past 2 years, stacks numbers have almost doubled, advancing to around 90 layers. As the number of layers increases, the number of film depositions, etching time and the number of etchings also increase, requiring more equipment.
“Not only has the market expanded, but the technology is also more sophisticated. Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) is becoming increasingly necessary, in particular for logic devices used in arithmetic processing, to slowly etch multiple atomic layers.” (Kamiuttanai)
Once 5G is introduced, demand will grow to handle even greater communication amounts and speeds. This includes server-side storage to store data, and devices that facilitate on-time processing. Both are certain to require greater memory, and therefore semiconductor arithmetic processing functions will become more and more necessary.
This will result in even greater demand for etch systems.
What strategy is TEL adopting towards the growing needs in the etch systems market?
“Making the same product as rivals is not in TEL’s DNA,” asserts Kamiuttanai. “We believe in differentiating our products by performance and creating products that are seen as necessary, even at a higher cost. We do not engage in price wars.”
For this reason, TEL always opts for the most difficult process.
“This is because difficult or problematic processes produce the most outstanding technology. This is our tactic to deliver the greatest added value, to be aggressive in the market, and gain profit as an appraisal of legitimacy. ”
TEL develops leading-edge technology faster than anyone else. Consequently, the sales division must determine the gravity of an issue for the customer, the development time required, and its priority for the business.
“Semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturers hold the key to semiconductor technological innovation. Many companies ask to work with us, but it is meaningless if it will only produce results similar to our rivals, as it leads to discussions to lower the price. Because of the number of processes even in etching, TEL can identify those processes which its technology is suited to.
It is not uncommon for us to decline a proposal if we decide that differentiation in performance cannot be achieved.”’
TEL’s strength lies in its involvement in almost all of the semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Higuchi explains that “There is an increase in process integration that resolves issues by combining multiple processes, such as etching and film deposition to produce a set pattern.
The idea of combining technologies handled by separate division is also advancing. Leveraging technology developed in other business units will improve development speed.”
In dealing with customers, Kamiuttanai always considers whether the relationship is win-win. “TEL believes in customer first, but this cannot continue without profit for TEL. Also, customers will not choose TEL unless it is a win for them too. This also applies to suppliers. I believe that win-win is a prerequisite for maintaining a good relationship.”
One reason for the success of the strategy of producing the highest value-added faster than anywhere else lies in TEL's corporate culture of prioritizing the judgment of its most knowledgeable people, regardless of their authority or position.
“It is better for a knowledgeable person to make decisions, regardless of their level of authority, than a person who has authority but little knowledge. That is more correct. In this regard, TEL applies commonsense,” says Higuchi.
For example, Kamiuttanai, who is the equivalent of a section manager in any other company, controls an annual budget worth roughly 30 billion yen. He believes that the most interesting aspect of working at TEL is the sense of scale in the monetary values handled.
Unlike other companies, employees in their 6th or 7th year are entrusted with development lines expected to produce an investment effect of 20 billion yen or more.
However, Higuchi adds that “There is a difference between leaving it up to someone and handing them responsibility.”
“We allow the front-line to make decisions, but placing too much stress on them will not result in good work. The manager must check for mistakes and take the final responsibility.”
Creating an atmosphere where everybody feels free to talk also supports the achievement of our strategies.
It is normal to discuss matters with executives by email or telephone, even asking for help according to the circumstances. Direct access to the necessary people is faster and more certain. We are not expected to only speak to our immediate superiors.
TEL offers many opportunities for employees to go abroad and gain experiences from an early stage. Kamiuttanai recently returned to Japan after working at 3 Asian sites for about 10 years. Many sales agents are stationed in China, Taiwan, South Korea, and the U.S., and it is even possible to be sent abroad from the first year of employment.
TEL’s Corporate Philosophy states “We strive to contribute to the development of a dream-inspiring society through our leading-edge technologies and reliable service and support.” “Semiconductors are related in controlling all kinds of devices in the world. The development of IoT will allow data transmission functionality to be added to each machine in any factory, which can enhance productivity and help conserve energy. People around the world can access information via smartphones, and when communication speed increases with 5G, it can even contribute to remote medical services. The scenes where semiconductors can be used in solving problems around the world is limitless. I believe that TEL's business will continue to expand for as long as we can make a contribution.” (Higuchi)
Tokyo Electron works to develop and manufacture semiconductor production equipment, boasting a significant global market share. Experience working with us, operating real equipment and working in a cleanroom, learning management decision-making processes, with opportunities for involvement in programming.
ENTRY 2021
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This continues the strand of R&B and country collections associated with Acrobat's highly popular "America's Greatest Hits" series, this one focusing on the top R&B records in the US Billboard charts during 1960. This great value 115-track 4-CD anthology includes, with the exception of certain records which are unavailable for inclusion due to copyright restrictions, just about every record which peaked in the Billboard R&B Top 15 during that year. By this time, the R&B scene had evolved considerably as the rock 'n roll scene had matured and Tin Pan Alley had marketed it's teen-oriented offshoots, and there was an exciting feel to the charts, with substantial crossover of pop artists into the R&B chart and vice versa, with artists like Jackie Wilson, The Drifters, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke. The big chart winner of the year was Brook Benton, with three No. 1s and 23 weeks at the top, fourteen of those with Dinah Washington. With the blurring of the boundaries between the genres, the more traditional blues and R&B artists whose music had helped lay the groundwork for rock found it harder to reach the top positions. However, there was still a solid representation of old school blues artists like B.B. King and Jimmy Reed, and top class R&B singers like Etta James, Bobby Bland and James Brown formed the core of the chart, as well as the first chart incursions from the Motown stable by Barrett Strong and Marv Johnson. As with all these collections, it provides a window onto a dynamic and exciting musical environment, and includes a number of unfamiliar names and recordings of which even enthusiasts of the genre may not be too aware, and which will be welcome additions to their collections. It contains a 12,000+ word booklet featuring background notes on every record.
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1960 R&B Hits Collection / Various
Artist: 1960 R&B Hits Collection / Various
1. Lloyd Price - Won'tcha Come Home
2. Bill Black's Combo - Smokie (Part 2)
3. Clyde McPhatter - Let's Try Again
4. Freddy Cannon - Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
5. Frankie Avalon - Why
6. Dee Clark - How About That
7. Connie Francis - Among My Souvenirs
8. Paul Anka - It's Time to Cry
9. Della Reese - Not One Minute More 1
10. Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) 1
11. Lloyd Price - Lady Luck 1
12. Dinah Washington ; Brook Benton - Baby (You've Got What It Takes) 1
13. Bobby "Blue" Bland - I'll Take Care of You 1
14. Johnny Preston - Running Bear 1
15. Rosco Gordon - Just a Little Bit 1
16. B. B. King - Sweet Sixteen (Part I) 1
17. Mark Dinning - Teen Angel 1
18. Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea 1
19. Little Anthony ; the Imperials - Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko Ko Bop 2
20. Jack Scott - What in the World's Come Over You 2
21. James Brown - I'll Go Crazy 2
22. Jimmy Jones - Handy Man 2
23. Bobby Rydell - Wild One 2
24. Lavern Baker - Shake a Hand 2
25. Nat "King" Cole - Whatcha' Gonna Do 2
26. Percy Faith - Theme from "A Summer Place" 2
27. Ray Bryant Combo - Little Susie (Part 4) 2
28. Sammy Turner - Paradise 2
29. Drifters - This Magic Moment 3
30. Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me to Do: 3
31. Marv Johnson - I Love the Way You Love 3
32. Ruth Brown - Don't Deceive Me 3
33. Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothin's 3
34. Platters - Harbor Lights 3
35. Buster Brown - Fannie Mae 3
36. James Brown (Aka Nat Kendrick ; the Swans) - (Do the) Mashed Potatoes (Part 1) 3
37. Billy Bland - Let the Little Girl Dance 3
38. Bill Black's Combo - White Silver Sands 3
39. Bobby "Blue" Bland - Lead Me on 4
40. Brook Benton - the Ties That Bind 4
41. Debbie Reynolds - Am I That Easy to Forget' 4
42. Wade Flemons - Easy Lovin' 4
43. Al Brown's Tunetoppers - the Madison 4
44. Elmo James and His Broomdusters - the Sky Is Crying 4
45. Jackie Wilson - Night 4
46. Harold Dorman - Mountain of Love 4
47. Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons 4
48. Jackie Wilson - Doggin' Around 4
49. Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Part II) 5
50. Elvis Presley - Stuck on You 5
51. Jimmy Jones - Good Timin' 5
52. Jim Reeves - He'll Have to Go 5
53. Johnny Preston - Cradle of Love 5
54. Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife 5
55. Jeanne Black - He'll Have to Stay 5
56. Ray Bryant Combo - the Madison Time (Part I) 5
57. B. B. King - (I've) Got a Right to Love My Baby 5
58. Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown 5
59. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 6
60. Jack Scott - Burning Bridges 6
61. James Brown and the Famous Flames - Think 6
62. Ron Holden with the Thunderbirds - Love You So 6
63. Dinah Washington ; Brook Benton - a Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around ; Fall in Love) 6
64. Connie Francis - Everybody's Somebody's Fool 6
65. Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop 6
66. Drifters - Lonely Winds 6
67. Etta James - All I Could Do Was Cry 6
68. Bobby Marchan - There's Something on Your Mind (Part 2) 6
69. James Brown (And the Famous Flames) - You've Got the Power 7
70. Dinah Washington - This Bitter Earth 7
71. Ray Charles - Sticks and Stones 7
72. Jon Thomas - Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) 7
73. Olympics - Big Boy Pete 7
74. Coasters - Wake Me, Shake Me 7
75. Jackie Wilson - a Woman, a Lover, a Friend 7
76. Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans 7
77. Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry 7
78. Lloyd Price - Question 7
79. Ike ; Tina Turner - a Fool in Love 8
80. Elvis Presley with the Jordanaires - It's Now or Never 8
81. Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 8
82. Ray Charles - Tell the Truth 8
83. Chubby Checker - the Twist 8
84. Nat "King" Cole ; Stan Kenton - My Love 8
85. Brook Benton - Kiddio 8
86. Bobby Rydell - Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu) 8
87. Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel 8
88. B. B. King - Partin' Time 8
89. Sugarpie Desanto - I Want to Know 9
90. Etta James ; Harvey Fuqua - If I Can't Have You 9
91. Clyde McPhatter - Ta Ta 9
92. Sam Cooke - Chain Gang 9
93. Etta James - My Dearest Darling 9
94. Ventures - Walk - Don't Run 9
95. Marv Johnson - (You've Got to) Move Two Mountains 9
96. Bobby Peterson - Irresistible You 9
97. Jimmy Charles - a Million to One 9
98. Larry Verne - Mr. Custer 9
99. Connie Francis - My Heart Has a Mind of It's Own 10
100. Fats Domino - Three Nights a Week 10
101. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind 10
102. Bill Black's Combo - Don't Be Cruel 10
103. Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me 10
104. Bob Luman - Let's Think About Livin' 10
105. Brenda Lee - I Want to Be Wanted 10
106. Jackie Wilson - Am I the Man 10
107. Chubby Checker - the Hucklebuck 10
108. Fats Domino - My Girl Josephine 10
109. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight' 11
110. Joe Jones - You Talk Too Much 11
111. Maurice Williams ; Zodiacs - Stay 11
112. Gary "U. S." Bonds - New Orleans 11
113. Joe ; Ann - Gee Baby 11
114. Etta Jones - Don't Go to Strangers 11
115. Aretha Franklin - Today I Sing the Blues
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Audition Notice: Split in Three
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AUDITION NOTICE
THE RITZ THEATRE PRESENTS:
Split in Three
Written by Daryl Lisa Fazio | Directed by Stephanie Vickers
SHOW DATES: MARCH 18-21
AN OUTDOOR THEATRE PRODUCTION
ON THE COMMONS @ the Tennessee Valley Art Association
*RAIN DATES March 26-27
AUDITION DATES: On Zoom
Friday, January 22, 2021, 2:00-6:00 pm
Saturday, January 23, 10:00 am-5:00 pm
CALLBACKS: On Zoom
Sunday, January 24, 2021, 1:00-5:00pm
Time slots must be booked in advance by emailing stephanie.vickers@tennesseevalleyarts.org. Attach a headshot and resume to your email. Please prepare a dramatic monologue no longer than 2 minutes.
Rehearsals begin Tuesday, February 2, 2021 on Zoom. All Covid-19 precautions will be strictly adhered to for the safety of our cast, crew, and audiences.
The Mississippi Delta. 1969. The Supreme Court has put its foot down and in this last county, segregation must dissolve. Poor, white sisters, Nola and Nell, one grounded by cynicism and the other by faith, live day-to-day. Until they discover a mixed-race, highly-educated sister they never knew they had. And in a place where separation begets isolation, difference turns out to be a saving grace.
ROLES (3 Women, 2 Men)
Nola Parsons– (F) mid-to-late 40’s; white, the older sister; impatient, smart, wise-cracking, secretly overwhelmed by shame; uses her sexuality as a tool and is fiercely protective of the underdog.
Nell Parsons Cobb– (F) mid 30’s to early 40’s, white, the middle sister; deeply religious and maternal, gentle and soft-spoken unless she’s cornered; an innocent who absorbs the beliefs of others.
Penny Thompkins– (F) 30-early 30’s, mixed race (African-American/White), their half-sister; raised in the Chicago projects, bright, stubborn, a reserved intellectual who has never found her place or herself.
Clifford Barnhill– (M) 18, white, student and neighbor; polite, wounded and soulful with a searing intelligence and awareness of his surroundings.
Tucker “Tuck” Tackett– (M) 30-35, white, sheriff’s deputy; a teddy bear in uniform, close-minded only because he knows nothing else; lonely because no one knows him.
SAFETY AND OUTDOOR VENUE
Eager to be back in production, but still prioritizing Covid-19 concerns, the Tennessee Valley Art Association and Ritz Theatre announce a production first: we are performing our 2021 spring play outside!
Theatres across the globe are energizing their communities by putting on plays in the open air and our creative team decided we were up for the challenge. Using the museum’s entrance as a backdrop defines this particular production as “found theatre”, in which staging is improvised into a non-traditional space.
The expanse of green lawn in front of the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art called “the Commons” is a perfect place to produce Split in Three, a play that confronts and examines identity, family, race, and faith in the Deep South of the late 1960’s.
To read more about the playwright, Daryl Lisa Fazio, click here:
http://www.darylsplays.com/
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Important Current Affairs Quiz 28th February 2020
Shilpa Singh | Updated: Feb 28, 2020 15:23 IST
Many of you have been practicing a lot for your upcoming exams. Thus, to give you a head start we thought of helping you by bringing out daily current affairs quiz on Banking, Insurance and various other exams, that will help you boost up your preparation a lot more. Moreover, this quiz contains expected questions that match the Exam Pattern of most of the Government Job Exams and Banking Exams. Make sure to attempt this Important Current Affairs Quiz 28th February 2020 and check your preparation level.
Important Current Affairs Quiz – 27th February 2020
Along with this Current Affairs Quiz 28th February 2020, also check out this week’s important Current Affairs in English and Hindi of 28th February 2020. Also, take yesterday’s Current Affairs Quiz and check to see if you can attempt 20 questions correctly!
Important Current Affairs Quiz 28th February
With which country did India exchange 10 MoUs in February 2020 in various fields including energy, infrastructure, health, and transport?
India and Myanmar exchanged 10 MoUs in various fields including energy, infrastructure, health, and transport.
The MoUs were exchanged following detailed talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Myanmar President U Win Myint in New Delhi.
The Myanmar President arrived in New Delhi for a four-day visit along with First Lady Daw Cho Cho on February 26, 2020.
Myanmar: Capital – Naypyitaw
Currency – Burmese Kyat
The Indian Railways has planned to source around 1000 MW solar power and around 200 MW of wind power progressively by the year ________ across all zones and production units of Indian Railways.
The Indian Railways has planned to source around 1000 MW solar power and around 200 MW of wind power progressively by the year 2021-22 across all zones and production units of Indian Railways.
Out of this, solar plants of 500 MW are to be installed on the railway buildings’ rooftops to meet non-traction loads at railway stations, etc.
To boost the usage of solar power, Indian Railways with Indian Railway Organisation for Alternate Fuels (IROAF) is installing flexible solar panels on coaches.
In February 2020, which country has formally notified the UN Human Right Council that is withdrawing from the UN resolution on post-war accountability and reconciliation?
Sri Lanka has formally notified the UN Human Right Council that is withdrawing from the UN resolution on post-war accountability and reconciliation.
In 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored a UNHRC resolution, 30/1, making commitments to promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.
It renewed these commitments in two further UNHRC resolutions in 2017 and 2019.
Sri Lanka: Capital – Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Administrative capital), Colombo (Commercial capital)
Currency – Sri Lankan rupee
When was the ‘Protein Day’ observed in India in 2020?
Right To Protein, a national-level public health initiative, has launched India’s first ‘Protein Day’ to raise awareness about the health benefits of protein.
Many countries recognize 27 February as the Protein Day and from 2020, India has also joined this movement.
The theme of India Protein Day 2020 was #ProteinMeinKyaHai.
Where did Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurate the new Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Production Hangar in February 2020?
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the new Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Production Hangar on 27 Feb 2020.
It was inaugurated at the Helicopter Division in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Complex at Bengaluru, Karnataka.
LCH is a 5.5-tonne class combat helicopter designed and developed by HAL.
It is powered by two Shakti engines.
Karnataka: State Animal – Indian elephant
State Bird – Indian roller
National Parks – Anshi National Park, Bandipur National Park, Bannerghatta National Park, Kudremukh National Park, Rajiv Gandhi (Nagarahole) National Park.
Dams – Alamatti Dam (Krishna River), Krishna Raja Sagara Dam (Kaveri River), Tungabhadra Dam (Tungabhadra River), Vani Vilasa Sagara Dam (Vedavathi River), Supa Dam (Kali river)
In February 2020, Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar inaugurated Baroda Startup Banking. The initiative was launched simultaneously across how many cities in the country?
Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar on 26 Feb 2020, inaugurated Baroda Startup Banking.
It is an initiative aimed at making the bank a preferred banking partner for the start-up community and establishing a connection with at least 2,000 startups over the next two years.
The initiative was launched simultaneously across 15 cities in the country.
In February 2020, which of the following has started delivering policies and renewal premium to its customers through messaging platform WhatsApp?
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Bharti AXA General Insurance
Royal Sundaram General Insurance
Life Insurance Corporation
Bharti AXA General Insurance has started delivering policies and renewal premium to its customers through messaging platform WhatsApp.
It plans to sell private car, two-wheeler and travel insurance through a WhatsApp chatbot soon.
WhatsApp chatbot is an intuitive and user-friendly chat structure where the customers can raise requests simply through numeric inputs.
Which of the following announced signing an agreement with CPCB to provide financial support for installation and commissioning of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS)?
IOCL
NTPC Ltd announced signing an agreement with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
It would be signed to provide financial support for installation and commissioning of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS).
NTPC will provide financial support of Rs 80 crore for installation of 25 CAAQMS across six states and three Union Territories.
Which state is planning to undertake a project under which the genetic traits of Osmanabadi goat, Red Kandhari cow, Deoni bull, Caravan or Pashmi dogs will be studied?
With an aim to conserve the native species of cattle and domesticated animals in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, the state govt is planning to undertake their genetic study.
Under this project, the genetic traits of Osmanabadi goat, Red Kandhari cow, Deoni bull, Caravan or Pashmi dogs will be studied.
Their abilities and adaptation capabilities will also be analysed.
Maharashtra: State Animal – Indian giant squirrel
State Bird – Yellow-footed green pigeon
National Parks – Chandoli National Park, Gugamal National Park, Nawegaon National Park, Pench National Park, Sanjay Gandhi (Borivilli) National Park, Tadoba National Park
Dams – Koyna Dam (Koyna River), Jayakwadi Dam (Godavari River), Wilson Dam (Pravara River), Vaitarna Dam (Vaitarna River), Mula Dam (Mula River)
Where was the 8-day cultural fair called Vasantotsav inaugurated in February 2020?
The 8-day cultural fair called Vasantotsav was inaugurated on 25 Feb 2020 at Sanskruti Kunj in Gandhinagar.
The annual festival is organised by the Department of Youth and Cultural Affairs, Government of India, to celebrate the rich diverse heritage of the country.
The theme of the festival for 2020 is Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat.
Chhattisgarh is the pair state of Gujarat
Gujarat: State Animal – Asiatic lion
State Bird – Greater flamingo
National Parks – Vansda National Park, Blackbuck National Park, Gir Forest National Park, Marine National Parks
Dams – Sardar Sarovar Dam(Narmada River), Ukai Dam (Tapti River), Dantiwada Dam (Banas River), Kadana dam (Mahi River), Kamleshwar Dam(Hiran River)
Where PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Bundelkhand Expressway in February 2020?
PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Bundelkhand Expressway at Chitrakoot on 29 Feb 2020.
It will pass through the districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur and Jalaun.
This expressway will link the Bundelkhand area to Delhi through Agra-Lucknow expressway and Yamuna expressway as well as play a vital role in the development of Bundelkhand region.
Who among the following won gold in weightlifting competition at the Khelo India University Games in Odisha in February 2020?
Mahesh Datta Asawale
Prajkta Ravindra Khalkar
All are correct
Mahesh Datta Asawale and Prajkta Ravindra Khalkar won gold in weightlifting competition at the Khelo India University Games.
The first edition of the Khelo India University Games is being held at the KIIT University Campus in Bhubaneswar from February 22 to March 1.
More than 4000 athletes have participated from 176 institutes.
The athletes are competing in 17 disciplines namely archery, athletics, boxing, fencing, judo, swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, badminton, basketball, football, hockey, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, rugby and kabaddi.
In February 2020, a meeting of a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by ________ has decided to lift the nearly 6-month-old ban on export of onions.
Government has decided to lift the nearly 6-month-old ban on export of onions.
This would be done in a bid to protect the interests of farmers as prices are likely to fall sharply due to bumper rabi crop.
The decision was taken at a meeting of a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on 26 Feb 2020.
In February 2020, which of the following has released an app giving information about the examination center for the convenience of the students?
Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education
Bihar School Examination Board
Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
The Central Board of Secondary Education has released an app giving information about the examination center for the convenience of the students.
Exam center locator app-CBSE ECL is an android based mobile app which can be used by students to locate their examination center and see the distance between current location and examination center.
Where will PM Narendra Modi distribute Assistive Aids and Devices to Senior Citizens under the Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana and Divyangjans in February 2020?
PM Narendra Modi will distribute Assistive Aids and Devices to Senior Citizens under the Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana and Divyangjans.
This would be done under the scheme of Assistance to Disabled Persons for aids and appliances (ADIP) at a mega camp at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh on 29 Feb 2020
This is the biggest ever distribution camp being conducted in the country.
Uttar Pradesh: State Animal – Barasingha
State Bird – Sarus crane
National Park – Dudhwa National Park
Dams – Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar Dam (Rihand River)
In February 2020, Gandhian Sudhakar Chaturvedi passed away. He was a renowned ________.
Vedic Scholar
Renowned Vedic Scholar and Gandhian Sudhakar Chaturvedi passed away in Bengaluru in February 2020.
The centenarian was given the title Chaturvedi for his mastery over the four vedas.
Deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and Arya Samaj movement, he had authored over 50 spiritual books in four languages.
He had spent his last few years in the teaching of Vedas to young enthusiasts.
What is the theme of National Science Day 2020?
Science for the People and the People for Science
Science and Technology for a sustainable future
Science and Technology for Specially Abled Persons
National Science Day is celebrated every year on 28 February to commemorate the discovery of the Raman Effect.
On this day, Sir CV Raman had announced the discovery of the Raman Effect for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.
'Women in Science' is the theme of National Science Day for the year 2020.
President Ram Nath Kovind will present several awards for science communication and popularization as well as for women scientists.
In February 2020, an Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee sanctioned 32 projects in the food processing sector under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY). Who among the following chaired the committee?
Thawar Chand Gehlot
Government has sanctioned 32 projects in the food processing sector under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY).
The projects are spread across around 17 states leveraging an investment worth 406 Crore rupees.
They were cleared by the Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee chaired by Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal in New New Delhi on 27 Feb 2020.
Where was the 24th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council comprising of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal held in February 2020?
The 24th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council comprising of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal was held in Bhubaneswar on 28 Feb 2020.
Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the meeting.
The meeting deliberated upon several issues which included inter-state water issues, power transmission lines, royalty and operationalization of coal mines, land and forest clearance of rail projects, etc.
Odisha: State Animal – Sambar deer
National Parks – Bhitarkanika National Park, Simlipal National Park
Dams – Indravati Dam (Indravati River), Hirakud Dam (Mahanadi River)
Which of the following Offshore Patrol Vessels of the Indian Coast Guard has been commissioned in February 2020?
CGS Amrit Kaur
ICGS Kamla Devi
ICGS Varad
ICGS Viraat
ICGS Shakti
The Indian Coast Guard's Offshore Patrol Vessel ICGS Varad has been commissioned on 28 Feb 2020.
It was inducted into service by Union Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya at a function held in the Chennai Port.
The ship Varad will be based at Paradip in Odisha, under the operational control of the Coast Guard North Eastern Region.
Important Current Affairs 28th February 2020 in Hindi with PDF
Important Current Affairs 28th February 2020 with PDF
SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis 3rd Shift 29th February 2020 – Check Detailed Analysis Here!
SBI Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis 2nd Shift 29th February 2020 – Check Detailed Analysis Here!
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VP Joe Biden’s devout ‘faith’ is as phony as his hair plugs
Posted on October 16, 2012 by justturnright | 5 comments
We’ve already done our breakdown on last week’s VP debate; 2 posts, in fact. However, there is still one aspect of that evening which bothered me greatly but I didn’t get into, since (A) I knew it would take way too long to address properly, and (B) the subject makes my skull hurt.
The part to which I refer is in the following clip. Jump to the 2:53 mark to hear Biden’s remark (text is below):
“My religion defines who I am, and I have been a practicing Catholic my whole life,” Biden said. “And it has particularly informed my social doctrine. Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who can’t take care of themselves, people who need help.
“With regard to abortion,” he said, “I accept my church’s position on abortion as a, what we call de fide doctrine. Life begins at conception. That’s the church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal life. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christian and Muslims and Jews, and I just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, the congressman.
“I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people that, women, that they can’t control their body,” said Biden. “It is a decision between them and their doctor, in my view, and the Supreme Court. I am not going to interfere with that.”
Oy, vey….
To use Biden’s favorite phrase from the other night (he said it twice): that’s a bunch of malarkey.
First of all, Twitter went insane about 5 seconds later:
Biden: my Catholic faith defines who i am. Wow.
— Thomas Peters (@AmericanPapist) October 12, 2012
@GMFuller1971 @adamsbaldwin Biden a practicing Catholic his whole life??? PRACTICE HARDER!
— Michael Dahmke (@michaeldahmke) October 12, 2012
@FatherJimChern @AmericanPapist When Biden says that he is Catholic, What Catholic Church is he referring too? Not Roman, Eastern or Coptic
— John Sheil (@nifty_john) October 12, 2012
Can’t argue with any of those sentiments.
Be real: if your faith “defines” who you are, then how exactly does it not color how you go about your day-to-day activities? I’m well aware that the act of deliberately failing to live one’s faith is popularly described in society today as being able to ‘compartmentalize’ your religious values.
Yeah, I’m calling ‘malarkey’ on that one, too.
If your faith, your belief system, defines who you are, then it necessarily defines what you do & how you do it. Otherwise, your alleged faith is nothing more than a hobby, like model building. Or, in Joe’s case, having his fake teeth whitened.
After forcing myself to watch the debate a second time, I observed that Biden chose his words just a tad too carefully. Listen to his verbiage: his answer doesn’t include the word “belief”, nor does he state that he agrees with the Catholic Church’s view. He simply says he “accepts” it, which is barely more than a grudging acknowledgment.
Someone can accept any number of things:
Convicts accept that they’re in prison; I’m guessing very few of them feel they should be.
I accept that the speed limit on the Interstate near my home is 55 mph, rather than the 70+ at which most people regularly drive. That doesn’t mean that I agree with the posted speed limit, and I certainly wouldn’t advocate to keep it that way.
In my opinion, Biden is an example of the classic ‘cafeteria’ Catholic: “I’m cool with some of the stuff the Church says, but not real hip with some other stuff, so I’ll just order from the doctrinal à la carte menu, and take only what I want“. Sorry, kids, Catholicism doesn’t work that way.
This isn’t some minor, inconsequential church belief, either: this is one of the big ones, falling under that “Thou shall not Kill” suggestion commandment. Even Joe may have heard mention of it over the years, …assuming he wasn’t too busy smirking, laughing, and interrupting the priest.
Biden also must have been too occupied with Catholicism defining his life to have heard this statement from Pope John Paul II:
“Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good,” the pope said. “Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.
“Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize,” said the pope. “There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection.”
“In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it,'” declared the pope.
–from Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical letter, Evangelium Vitae.
Pope Benedict XVI, back in 2002 when he was still a Cardinal, also wrote of this, saying:
“Catholics, (…) have the right and the duty to recall society to a deeper understanding of human life and to the responsibility of everyone in this regard,” Cardinal Ratzinger wrote. “John Paul II, continuing the constant teaching of the Church, has reiterated many times that those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a “grave and clear obligation to oppose“ any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them.”
I know Biden doesn’t exactly light up the heavens with his intellect, but that seems fairly clear, even to a simpleton like me.
The other big Catholic whopper that St. Biden The Pious was selling last week was regarding the HHS mandate. We’ve covered (along with a host of other folks) the Obamacare contraception vs. religious freedom law ad nauseam, but Biden lied about it anyway.
From HotAir.com:
“With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution—Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital—none has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide.
That is a fact. That, is a fact.”
Actually, Joe, it’s kinda the opposite of a fact. In reality it’s a non-fact, or what I like to call: a lie. Honestly, I do love it when Biden speaks that way to make an I’m-really-serious rhetorical point. His voice slows…down…and he repeats things….twice….for …effect.
It tells me when he’s lying.
It tells me…..when…. he’s….. lying.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) came out with a statement last week to refute this “fact” in no uncertain terms, part of which is below:
The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain “religious employers.” That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to “Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital,” or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served.
HHS has proposed an additional “accommodation” for religious organizations like these, which HHS itself describes as “non-exempt.” That proposal does not even potentially relieve these organizations from the obligation “to pay for contraception” and “to be a vehicle to get contraception.” They will have to serve as a vehicle, because they will still be forced to provide their employees with health coverage, and that coverage will still have to include sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients. They will have to pay for these things, because the premiums that the organizations (and their employees) are required to pay will still be applied, along with other funds, to cover the cost of these drugs and surgeries.
USCCB continues to urge HHS, in the strongest possible terms, actually to eliminate the various infringements on religious freedom imposed by the mandate.
Again, that seems to be pretty easy to understand. Maybe we need to translate it into a picture book for Vice President My-Faith-Defines-Me.
I’ll give Biden this much: he’s in good company, as a plethora of Democrat politicians use the same convoluted, rationalized logic, including John Kerry and Nancy “I haven’t blinked in 20 years” Pelosi:
Honestly, I couldn’t begin to care if Biden is Catholic, atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Wiccan, or if he pays homage to snails. I do, however, care a great deal when the Vice President in effect slanders my faith, repeatedly trying to pass off his idiotic blather as “fact”.
More to the point, if someone believes that abortion is fine-&-dandy, let’s have that discussion. Within my close circle of family/friends are people who disagree with me wholeheartedly on this subject. None of them, however, have the chutzpah to try passing themselves off as devout followers of any faith where they are 100% opposed to a belief so integral to that same church’s teachings.
Believe what you want; it’s a free country…for now. But for it to remain so, this pathetic excuse for a VP, along with his equally truth-challenged sidekick, need to be gone next month.
ADDENDUM from Godsbooklover for our non-Catholic readers: Of course you already know this, but it bears pointing out that the issue of abortion is NOT merely a “Catholic” issue, but one which should matter to all Christians, and all Jews. JTR mentioned that’s it’s a “Big One”…as in, one of the Big Ten, which are most certainly not suggestions.
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Tagged abortion, Biden, Catholic, debate, faith, vice-president
Joe Biden: ‘Laughing At The Issues’ (video)
Gotta love the PR team over at the RNC this year. The Repubs may make me mad sometimes (ok, they make me mad a lot), but whomever they have doing these videos needs a raise.
Be sure to check out our breakdown of the VP debate HERE. It was ugly, but only because of Biden’s astonishing rudeness & immaturity throughout the evening.
Biden laughing at the serious issues facing America is a slap in the face to all Americans no matter what your political leanings are #tcot
— S 1 (@1Sheyanne) October 12, 2012
“@GaryLBauer: Still astonished at Biden laughing and smiling during questions about the military. Incredibly disrespectful. #BidenUnhinged”
— Charles Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 12, 2012
And as I said in the previous post, it didn’t play well on TV.
UPDATE: There’s a complete rundown of all Vice President Guffaw’s fibs/lies/mistakes/whatever from Thursday night over at Predictable History, Unpredictable Past blog. This blogger also comments as “Resist We Much” on HotAir.com.
Give it a look-see; there’s plenty there that (surprise, surprise) Joe got wrong….
Posted in election, politics
Tagged debate, election, Issues, Joe Biden, Laughing, rude, vice-president, VP
VP Debate: Ryan holds the fort, while Biden is buffoonish
Posted on October 12, 2012 by justturnright | 24 comments
Last week in the initial presidential debate, Romney’s win over Obama more closely resembled a 90-minute video game, with Obama having been stuck with the broken controller. It became a rout almost immediately, and you stuck around only to see how bad the final tally would be.
In contrast, this week’s Vice-Presidential debate was more closely contested, but was still memorable for two big reasons: demeanor and facts.
First, the facts. Biden started the evening off by pulling a Bart Simpson (“it wasn’t me!!”), essentially blaming our Intelligence Community for the Administration’s repeated lies about Benghazi.
From Commentary Magazine:
The vice president claimed that the story the administration put out about the terrorist attack on the consulate and the murder of the U.S. ambassador being part of the fallout from a controversial anti-Muslim video was the fault of the intelligence they were given. But rather than put the issue to bed, it raises even more troubling questions about not only about the security disaster but also about the lack of leadership shown by senior administration officials including the president. It also contradicts State Department testimony and other comments from intelligence officials that they knew it was a terror attack within 24 hours of it happening.
For Biden to put all of the blame for the lies about the video and the denial of terrorism on intelligence officials says a lot about the complete breakdown of administration counter-terror policy. His denial that anyone in Washington knew that the story put forward Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations wasn’t true seems implausible. Even if true, it speaks to administration incompetence.
“Smart Power“. It’s worked just awesome so far.
Joe being Joe, he was just getting warmed up. This from the Washington Free Beacon:
Vice President Joe Biden accused Rep. Paul Ryan of putting two wars on the “credit card,” and then suggested he voted against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“By the way, they talk about this great recession like it fell out of the sky–like, ‘Oh my goodness, where did it come from?’” Biden said. “It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card, at the same time, put a prescription drug plan on the credit card, a trillion-dollar tax cut for the very wealthy.”
“I was there, I voted against them,” Biden continued. “I said, no, we can’t afford that.”
[Actually], Sen. Biden voted for the Afghanistan resolution on Sept. 14, 2001 which authorized “the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.”
And on Oct. 11, 2002, Biden voted for a resolution authorizing unilateral military action in Iraq, according to the Washington Post.
Further, if you re-read that quote, what the Beacon doesn’t single out is the “put a prescription drug plan on the credit card” part of Biden’s quote. His finding fault with that is curious, since he voted for it, too, along with many of its expansions.
Hey, maybe he forgot?
And now, and perhaps most importantly in the long run, the demeanor.
I have to assume that it was drilled into Biden’s semi-porous cranium that he had to attack, attack, attack the entire night. Well, if that was his goal, he succeeded. However, he also succeeded in portraying himself as an overbearing, contemptuous, insufferable creep.
I promise you: that is a charitable description.
Biden's got the "arrogant know-nothing hard of hearing mathematically ignorant jerk" vote locked up.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) October 12, 2012
Poor Joe, he's been talking to himself for 4 years, he doesn't know how to hold a conversation. #VPDebate
— Craig (@craigcarroll) October 12, 2012
I listen to Wallace every week, and he’s no partisan. He is, in fact, often much tougher on Republicans than anyone this side of MSNBC. His portrayal of Biden is accurate to a fault: Biden exhibited the manners of the drunk guy at your last office party, hectoring the bartender for “one more for the road”. I haven’t seen as epic an interruption (or in this case, a blizzard of them) since Kanye West and Taylor Swift. Virtually ever time Ryan spoke, Biden would begin yammering. The most recent tally that I’ve seen so far is Biden=82 interruptions, Ryan=6. If that’s even close to the official total (and I think it may be too low), that tells you all you need to know.
Biden wasn’t done. As Wallace intimated, even during the times that Ryan could string three sentences together without Joe “My turn! My turn!” Biden butting in, he amused himself by laughing. Snickering. Smirking. Openly guffawing. Rolling his eyes. And generally behaving like your 9-year-old when they argue with a sibling.
It was pathetic.
Feel free to watch all or part of it below. I’m warning you, though: within the first 30 minutes, you will have lost whatever remaining respect you had for our current VP. And the next 30 minutes is worse.
Ryan was solid throughout, and presented himself as smart (we knew that), and in control of the facts (knew that, too). Ryan didn’t outright win the evening so much as Biden discredited himself from consideration with his churlish, clownish behavior. Among Independents especially, I think that will count against Biden far more than any policy points he may have scored.
Before the debate, I had initially decided against including this cartoon. Now it’s more than appropriate.
UPDATE: Ed over at HotAir.com has video of Biden claiming to have voted against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, citing them both as the reason for the massive deficits we now face. As I mentioned, this is a complete and total lie.
Check out his post, and you won’t have to sift through the entire debate video (above) to see it.
Posted in election, Paul Ryan, politics
Tagged Benghazi, debate, disrespectful, economy, foreign policy, Joe Biden, Paul Ryan, vice-president
Vice-Presidential Debate Preview: PAUL RYAN
Posted on October 10, 2012 by justturnright in Paul Ryan, politics
Tagged Biden, debate, vice-president
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Hañwakañ Blaikie Whitecloud with his wife, Tessa Blaikie Whitecloud, and musician Daniel Jordan at the cable Ferry to Matheson Island
Filmmaker and skateboarder, Hañwakañ Blaikie Whitecloud, is one of the talented artists who is working with TPM to explore and connect with the Interlake region. Last week he and his wife Tessa travelled through the Interlake visiting Winnipeg Beach, Arborg, Matheson Island, Gimli, Selkirk, and various sites in between.
Here’s what Hañwakañ had to say about his most recent travels…
What was your main intention during this trip through the Interlake and where is the project leading?
“Research, interviews and collecting stories while also exploring the land and being curious about the history of the space. Ultimately I wanted to know how people maintain their health through fun activities including skateboarding, hootenannies (an informal gathering with folk music and sometimes dancing) which we were invited to participate in at a local farm. What an amazing way to pass the time.”
You are a documentary filmmaker. How does this play into the project?
“I have the equipment! But also am patient with interviewing and have experience with asking the right questions. I am excited to use my favourite filmmaking tools which are the drone and a newly acquired Osmo Pocket. The Osmo is the size of big lipstick and has its own gimbal so I don’t have to carry around my old heavy equipment, it has really changed the game.”
“The drone shot is of Riverton, MB. A beached ship to the bottom right, to the bottom left is an old historic cemetery site which had been unmarked for some time. This is also just before the Icelandic river flows into Lake Winnipeg” – Hanwakan
And you’re also a skateboarder and planning to skate the Interlake skate parks along the way. Can you tell us a bit about that?
Originally I was hoping to grab a number of talented skateboarders to provide skateboarding demonstrations across the Interlake, however the ‘rona has put the halt on that plan. So now it’s discovering what our wonderful interviewees have provided as information for a story to latch on to. I am hoping to head back up and skate the parks, we were too busy this time to make it happen but I want to. I am definitely going to be touching base with the Selkirk skatepark community and am itching to tell that story since I had a small hand in designing the skatepark and was there for the grand opening.
“This is the Selkirk skatepark, located in Selkirk Park close to the Red River, this park features an artificial beach with pool, dog park, skate park, fair grounds, and a horse stable. The Selkirk skatepark is my favourite skatepark in Manitoba.”
Anything you’d really like to touch on about the project?
I was interested in learning and that’s what the project is about to me, learning, appreciating, respecting, and having fun along the way. Our trip to Matheson Island was a highlight that was eye-opening because I cannot believe people still live up there, and are able to make a decent living, while also have a cable ferry that is free! We were joking as the ferry operator looked like he was about to hit us up for cash and we started guessing how much it would be but then he waved us on haha.
“This is the Arnheiðarstaðir ‘Eagle Heath Stead’ historic site which was the original homestead of Icelandic settler Johann Magnus Bjarnason. On the back of the monument is a map showing the locations of other homesteads in the Geysir district.”
Hañwakañ (Hañwakañ = ‘Northern Lights’ in Dakhóta) Blaikie Whitecloud is a mixed media storyteller who has called Winnipeg home since the age of five. Active in the business and skateboarding community as a mentor and leader, Hanwakan even has some skate-sons, as he’s stepped in to be a father figure for youth in need.
As a filmmaker, his work focuses on building identity for urban Indigenous youth. His latest documentary series is about Pow Wows across Canada (Living by the Drum: Canadian Pow Wows), and his current project explores celestial creation stories of Indigenous nations. As a skateboarder Hanwakan supports Indigenous youth to strive for their best selves by shirking the stereotypes and prejudices attributed to Indigenous and skateboarding identities. His most recent creation is an instagram guide to all the skateboard parks in Winnipeg (@wpgskateparks), a resource for skaters he always wished he had access to and has now created for the next generation. Hañwakañ is also an active volunteer, especially with 1JustCity, at their overnight emergency warming center. Hañwakañ and his wife co-facilitate workshops on reconciliation, systems change, and generally just have tons of fun together trying to make the world a little bit better.
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Up until a few weeks ago, an online campus at Bates was an unheard of prospect. Now, with the outbreak of COVID-19, faculty and students are left with the difficult challenge of finding a virtual alternative to face-to-face interaction.
Obviously, with online learning comes the added challenge of accommodating students living in widely different circumstances, like different time-zones and situations at home. These issues have raised many equity concerns, causing some professors at Bates to have students submit assignments for the rest of this school year. In a Bates Student Instagram poll, 66% of 150 students claimed that classes have chosen to continue in this fashion. However, a smaller percentage of professors have stuck with holding regularly scheduled classes via video chat in addition to submitting assignments remotely.
Over the past few weeks, The Bates Student team has experimented with some of the major online-communications platforms in an effort to find the best mode of interaction for classes and student-run organizations. Although there are many options to choose from, we have stuck with well-known and established platforms such as Google Hangouts, Zoom, and Slack. Overall, we have found that while none of the platforms are perfect, if combined they can prove very effective for carrying out group projects.
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For Bates faculty and students, Google Hangouts can be a no-brainer. It is included with the G Suite and is an all-in-one platform with built-in video conferencing and online messaging. In addition to video and messaging, it has all G Suite apps like Gmail and Google Drive already integrated—making group collaboration particularly convenient. Out of the other options in this list, Google Hangouts exceeds in simplicity and convenience marks.
Free to use, no limit to storage while on a Bates G Suite account
Best option for informal, smaller groups under 5 people.
This platform is already integrated with other Google products. This means that you can schedule a video conference as a Google Calendar event, and invite guests through creating an event.
To start a call, many options are available. You can invite guests by sending an online link through desktop or mobile app, manually adding email addresses, and/or providing a dial-in number.
Google Hangouts also offers a live caption option during video calls.
Unlike Slack or Zoom, messaging and video chatting are built into the same platform by default. There is no need to add extensions.
You can use Google Hangouts in a browser without downloading an app
Has a “presentation mode” which allows teachers to share their screen with students during a video call.
Host can both mute individuals’ microphones and remove people from the conversation.
There is also a chat available for everyone in the meeting. After the call has ended, you can still access the Hangout group’s message history.
You can record meeting, and when finished, it will automatically be sent to your Google Drive
You have to manually send email invitations for a group chat
It’s pretty easy to miss a video call. You do not get a notification on your browser when a call starts unless you have Hangouts open. Otherwise, the only way to get notified is via an invitation link sent through email or text.
The default video and audio quality is the worst on this list, however you can alter video resolution in settings.
There is no option for the host to end the meeting for everyone. This means that people can stay on the video even after the host leaves.
For the free version, 25 is the max amount of people that can join a call with up to 10 visible at once. However with the paid version of Google Hangouts Meet for enterprises up to 100 people can be in a video call.
Slightly more limited than Zoom when it comes to customizability.
Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing, online meeting, and group messaging platform launched in 2011. Even though it is a newer video conferencing application, it sits at or near the top of most lists of video conferencing applications. It can be accessed in desktop and mobile versions, and allows users to share video, audio, and screens across Windows, Mac, IOS devices and Androids, among others.
Most user friendly option on this list.
More professional and business oriented than Skype or Google Hangouts.
Up to 100 people can be in a call in the free version, with up to 49 people available to be seen at once.
Better for video calls over 10. It offers a free basic tier that allows you to host up to 100 participants and have unlimited one-to-one meetings. After that, there are paid tier options that allow you to increase participants.
The leader of the team makes a zoom meeting and they can set the time for the zoom meeting whenever they want. The link can be edited in which people can either have access to microphone or video depending on what the leader does.
The host can mute and unmute certain people and can remove people from the conversation.
You also have options on what part of the screen to share with others. For instance, you can share just a browser window or your entire desktop screen.
The audio and visual quality in Zoom video chats outperforms competitors like Google Hangouts.
Compared to other video conferencing applications, there does not seem to be many glitches when it comes to Zoom technology.
You have the option to call in instead of using wifi.
Unlike Google Hangouts, there is a waiting room option for people to wait in before the meeting starts.
You can add polls as well as Q&A features to your Zoom meetings.
There’s an annotation feature that you can use to highlight or markup your screen
You can record webinars for students who are in different time zones. In paid versions, you have the added option of uploading automatically to the cloud.
You can change the background of a Zoom call, which can prove to be entertaining.
The major downside of Zoom is that all meetings with over 3 people cannot be over 40 minutes under the free plan. To have meetings over 40 minutes, you must have a paid plan. In the free version, meetings will shut down with no advanced warning if you go over the time limit.
You cannot start or join a conversation from a browser like Google Hangouts, instead you have to download a Desktop or Mobile Zoom app.
Zoom does not offer toll-free dial-in numbers for the US or the UK.
Unlike Zoom or Google Hangouts, Slack is not a video conferencing software. However, out of the options on this list, it is the best option for courses that have forgone video classes in favor of submitting assignments. It is also a great option for clubs and student organizations, as it is much more efficient and customizable than emails and other forms messaging.
You can be a part of multiple workspaces at once, meaning that a teacher or club member could have a different workspaces for different classes or groups.
There are channels within workspaces that can either be public for members in the workspace or private/ invite-only.
You can also have direct messages with workspace members.
Many integrations are available for Slack, including G Suite apps, Microsoft Office tools, and Zoom.
It is easier to look up message history in Slack than it is in email or text messaging.
You can share images and other files in channels that can either be previewed or downloaded.
If you go over 10,000 messages in the free version, you no longer have access to search older data.
Important and longer information can get buried in channels, which means that some messages should go through
Although there is no default/ built-in video call option, you can add Zoom as an extension for everyone in the workspace and invite people to join calls in your channels.
The COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably changed the way we live and interact with each other on a global level. Now more than ever, workers and students have been forced to be flexible in order to get work done. For Bates students in particular, many of the things taken for granted, like walking to class or meeting friends in Commons, seem like distant luxuries. Unfortunately there is no one-fits-all solution to learning and getting work done remotely. For us at The Bates Student, we have used each of the options on the list to meet our varying needs of communication. Hopefully this guide can prove useful to meet others’ needs in the Bates Community.
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Let's stop people scamming billions from the carbon market
Fionnuala Walravens
It was a loophole that most of us thought had been sewn up. But new research shows that companies are continuing to cash in on the 'super' greenhouse gas HFC-23
A few years back, widespread media and political scandal surrounded a particular type of carbon offsetting. At issue were the billions being spent to destroy HFC-23, a 'super' greenhouse gas over 14,000 times more potent than CO2, emitted as an unwanted by-product during the manufacture of the popular refrigerant, HCFC-22.
The controversy arose when it was revealed that profits being made by companies involved in eradicating HFC-23 through the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) were so vast that factories were producing excess HCFC-22 just to generate CDM revenues.
The figures help explain why. HFC-23 destruction costs as little as $0.20 per CO2 equivalent tonne, whilst the average price of a Certified Emissions Reductions (CER) for one tonne of CO2 between 2005-2008 was about $16. The CDM was paying such princely sums to companies to destroy HFC-23 that it created an incentive for the companies to manufacture more just to destroy it. Between 2003-2008 the total value of HFC-23 CERs issued amounted to over $2 billion, entirely dominating the CDM budget.
Scandal, then silence
Following the media scandal, the CDM’s executive board changed the rules so that only companies which had operated for at least three years before 2005 could be eligible. The media swarm subsided and most assumed that the problem had been resolved. Sadly not.
A recent study in Geophysical Research Letters examining atmospheric concentrations of HFC-23 concludes that emissions from developing countries are enormous and growing. Annual HFC-23 emissions, between 2006-2008, were equivalent to about 160 million tonnes of CO2, and there is more HFC-23 in the atmosphere now than before the CDM started spending billions to prevent its release. With HCFC production in industrialising countries growing at an average rate of 17.5 per cent each year since 2000, it’s no surprise that the byproduct HFC-23 emissions are set to keep on rising.
The reason behind this shocking revelation is that over half of HCFC-22/HFC-23 production in developing countries is not covered under the CDM’s new rules. However what is truly scandalous is that the real cost of destroying HFC-23 in developing countries amounts to only $60 million per year, in order to destroy an estimated 300 million tonnes CO2 equivalent per year. A snitch when you contemplate the billions it would take through carbon markets.
Time to clamp down
There is a strong case to be made for removing HFC-23 from carbon markets altogether. The CDM, as its very name indicates, was set up to promote sustainable development in developing countries. Certainly HFC-23 abatement offers little meaningful technology transfer and few sustainable development benefits. And in fact its very inclusion in carbon markets has reduced the overall sustainable development impact of the CDM by flooding markets and effectively sidelining all other projects. To date over half of all CERs issued by the CDM have been from HFC-23 projects.
A major concern shared by many poorer countries is the lack of CDM projects in least developed countries. Keeping HFC-23 out of carbon markets would help address this as most HFC-23 credits have been issued to a handful of manufacturing plants in China and India.
And despite the dubious nature of these CERs, European companies have been keen to lap up the credits. According to campaign group Sandbag, UK companies alone bought 2.3 million HFC-23 CERs to offset their emissions in 2008 alone. While there is a need for carbon market offsets, clearly all credits are not created equal, and an excellent case can be made for eliminating some of them altogether in favour of economically rational and environmental responsible alternatives.
Back to ozone?
What can be done to resolve this problem? Policy makers should examine the role of private and public finance in meeting the climate change challenge. Many climate policymakers agree that low cost mitigation should use public funds, with more expensive options being driven by private sector finance and carbon markets.
A promising solution would be to simply pay for the costs of HFC-23 incineration in all HCFC-22 production plants in developing countries. It’s that simple, and far cheaper than playing with the CDM. The ideal mechanism for implementing this action would be via the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which currently regulates the production of HCFCs. Its long history of successful technology transfer within this field means that it could simply use its existing compliance network to make this happen. Interestingly this idea has had support from both industrialised and less industrialised countries. Chinese UN climate delegate, Zhang Mengheng, is reported to have described it as a ‘win-win’ situation at the 2007 round of climate talks.
A proposal sponsored by a group of island nations at last year’s Montreal Protocol meeting opened the door to achieving this very goal. Led by Micronesia, these nations offered an amendment for the Montreal Protocol to regulate all HFCs, not just HFC-23, as almost all HFCs are used to replace ozone depleting substances. And like HFC-23, these other HFCs also qualify as ‘super greenhouse gases’, with global warming potentials thousands of times that of CO2. The proposal stipulated mandatory HFC-23 destruction by all countries, with the necessary funding to be made available to developing countries.
The proposal didn’t fly as some countries felt uncomfortable with the idea of regulating greenhouse gases under an ozone treaty. While HFC emissions continue to rapidly increase, it seems that policy makers around the globe need more time to be convinced of the benefits of using the Montreal Protocol to address HFC-23 and all other HFC emissions. Sadly, time is a luxury we cannot afford.
Fionnuala Walravens is a campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency
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Edwalton Primary School seek support for farm as coronavirus puts a stop to traditional fundraising events
“Please help us save our farm because some of the animals have been with us a long time. It would worry me if they had to go, because I don’t know if they would be OK.” Gwendoline Bates (Yr4)
Edwalton Primary School children are asking for the community to help to keep their farm running as their traditional fundraising events have been cancelled due to the response to Covid-19.
Established in 1972, it is now England’s only school with both a working farm and a 3 acre woodland.
Katy Howard is the Secretary of Edwalton Primary School Parents’ Association and explains why the coronavirus pandemic has impacted on the farm. “The Parents’ Association is a registered charity and 100% of the money raised by the parent and staff volunteers supports the school and its fantastic farm. Covid-19 has led to the cancellation of all our current fundraising events including school discos and the Summer Fayre. In response we have now moved online to fundraise through a Just Giving page to support the farm’s ongoing costs of around £3000 annually for feed, bedding, medication, and vet bills. We even pay for a professional shearer to give our three alpacas their summer haircuts!”
Running the farm is Site Manager, Rebecca Russell, who said, “We are incredibly lucky to have these facilities and the children benefit hugely through a greater understanding of the outdoors and from time spent caring for the animals, -all well documented to improve physical and mental health.
“The farm also has vegetable patches and polytunnels where children grow vegetables, we donate to a local charity to support the homeless. This gives children an understanding of where their food comes from and how they can use it to benefit their community. We also have large garden areas allocated to individual family groups, further developing the atmosphere of community in the school.
“The animals are a great inspiration to children,” said Rebecca, “featuring heavily in learning topics in KS1 and as the children progress to KS2 they are more and more involved in the care of the animals. They relish the opportunity to learn about the unique needs of each animal and to get more hands on – whatever the weather! We are able to demonstrate how farming can be included in a modern-day curriculum, giving children opportunities and points of view they would not have been exposed to otherwise.
“The farm is so important to the school and the effect of Covid-19 has been devastating to our fundraising opportunities. We hope that our community will continue to support us in our efforts to keep the farm running.”
Stefan Beck is a former pupil who loved the farm so much, he now works there as a groundskeeper! He said, “When I was at the school, I loved the farm because it was a great way for someone like me who struggled with learning difficulties to get out and relax myself for a moment. It taught me so much about the different farm animals, and as I progressed through the school, I saw just how important the farm was. I’m very proud to work here and hope to keep the farm going for many more years.”
The farm takes in many rescued animals and has an impressive variety including pygmy goats, alpacas, pigs , rabbits, chickens, guinea pigs and mice, a whopping 200,000 bees, tropical fish and a recent winner with the children, Alex the axolotl!
Siblings Noah (Yr5) and Isla Lazarus (Yr2) said they could not imagine school without the animals. Noah said, “We love our school farm and feeding and looking after the animals. We especially love washing and moisturising the pigs!” Isla, who is hoping to be a vet one day agrees. “The eggs we get are delicious and we like cuddling the chickens, guinea pigs and bunnies.”
“Our farm makes our school unique and great fun,” said Edith Morrison (Yr6) and fellow pupil Jess Harding (Yr6) said “It teaches us about responsibility and how to care for animals. I love getting close to the animals and looking after them, especially on Rabbit Island!”
Harry Morrison (Yr6) said he hopes the community can help. “Feeding the animals makes me feel privileged and proud. I love being able to help and think it’s important for the children that the farm gets support.”
But perhaps summing up the feeling of all the staff and children is Gwendoline Bates (Yr4) who said, “Children learn how to be kind to animals and hold and care for them. We love our school. Please help us save our farm because some of the animals have been with us a long time. It would worry me if they had to go, because I don’t know if they would be OK.”
Edwalton Primary School Parents’ Association has set up a Just Giving page for anyone who wishes to support the charity: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/epspa
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Feed Outlook - March 2011
Nutrition Post-harvest Economics
12 March 2011, at 12:00am
World coarse grain production and beginning stocks forecast for 2010/11 are reduced this month, lowering supply 2.5 million tons, according to the latest report from the USDA Economic Research Service.
However, projected global use is 3.3 million tons lower this month, allowing for a 0.8-million-ton increase in ending stocks to 154.9 million tons. The global stocks-to-use ratio is projected at 13.8 per cent, slightly lower than in 2006/07 when stocks were 9 per cent lower but use was smaller. US 2010/11 supply and use forecasts for feed grains are unchanged this month except for a small reduction in barley exports and an offsetting increase in ending stocks. Price projections are adjusted, but the midpoint of the forecast corn farm price range is unchanged.
DOMESTIC OUTLOOK
2010/11 Feed Grain Supplies and Use Essentially Unchanged This Month
US feed grain supplies for 2010/11 remain at 380.3 million metric tons this month, unchanged from last month’s projection but down 4.4 per cent from last year. Total use of the four feed grains is nearly unchanged this month at 359.5 million metric tons. With demand exceeding supply, ending stocks are expected to be drawn down to 20.8 million metric tons, the lowest level since the end of the 1995/96 marketing year.The midpoint of the projected range for the 2010/11 corn price received by farmers remains at $5.40 a bushel this month, but both the lower and upper end of the range are reduced by 10 cents, to $5.15-$5.65 a bushel. With the exception of last month, corn prices at the farm gate have been below $5.00 a bushel so far this year. If the preliminary February price of $5.66 a bushel is confirmed, this will be the first time since September 2008 that prices at the farm gate have exceeded $5.00.
Feed and residual use for the four feed grains plus wheat on a September-August marketing year basis is unchanged this month, remaining at 142.7 million metric tons. Grain-consuming animal units (GCAU’s) are projected at 93.3 million this month, up slightly from last month's 93.1 million due to an increase in broiler production. The broiler production increase largely reflects relatively heavy bird weights, but the increase in forecast turkey production reflects higher poult placements as well as increased bird weights. Feed and residual use per animal unit is unchanged this month at 1.53 tons, which is down from 1.54 tons in 2009/10.
Minor Changes Made to Feed Grain Price Projections
The midpoint of the projected range for the 2010/11 corn price received by farmers remains at $5.40 a bushel this month, but both the lower and upper end of the range are reduced by 10 cents, to $5.15-$5.65 a bushel. With the exception of last month, corn prices at the farm gate have been below $5.00 a bushel so far this year. If the preliminary February price of $5.66 a bushel is confirmed, this will be the first time since September 2008 that prices at the farm gate have exceeded $5.00.
The farm price has been below prevailing cash market bids due to farmers forward contracting when prices were lower. Farm gate prices are expected to well exceed $6.00 per bushel in the coming months to reach the $5.40 midpoint of the projected season average price range.
The projected sorghum price received by farmers is lowered by 20 cents at the top end of the range, to $5.15-$5.65 a bushel. This lowered the midpoint by 10 cents to $5.40 per bushel, reflecting year-to-date price data. The barley and oat price estimates were also changed slightly this month, reflecting year-to-date data. The barley farm price projection is reduced by 10 cents and now stands at $3.70-$3.90 per bushel. The oat farm price projection is increased by 5 cents, to $2.35-$2.55 per bushel.
US barley exports for the 2010/11 crop year are lowered from 10 million bushels to 8 million bushels, reflecting shipments to date and minimal outstanding sales.
Ethanol Projection Unchanged
Corn used for fuel is unchanged. Recent lower weekly ethanol production and higher stock levels, according to Energy Information Administration data, are consistent with last month’s projection. Current ethanol production has returned to levels close to those prier to last December's increase. High petroleum and gasoline prices have reduced gasoline demand, lowering gasoline production. As ethanol blending nears practical limits, demand has deepened.
March Planting Intentions and Stocks Report are Keys to Price Prospects
Grain Stocks and Prospective Plantings are the key reports that will be released by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service on March 31, 2011. The stocks report will show grain stocks as of 1 March 2011. Stocks that are lower-thanexpected will imply greater feeding in the quarter ending 1 March and would be bullish for prices. A higher-than-expected stock level may moderate price increases somewhat.
At the 25 February 2011, USDA Outlook Conference, corn plantings this spring were projected at 92 million acres. Prices will likely respond if planted acreage is much different than this projection. In the past 20 years, the March projection was below the final acreage number 8 times and above it 12 times.
World Coarse Grain Production Prospects for 2010/11 Reduced
Global coarse grain production for 2010/11 is projected down 1.8 million tons this month to 1,079.7 million. Reductions for Mexico, India, and Australia more than offset improved expectations for Brazil. World corn, barley, and sorghum production are each reduced 0.5 million tons, while global oats production is trimmed 0.3 million.
Mexico’s corn production for 2010/11 is cut 2.0 million tons to 22.0 million as an early February freeze devastated the crop in Sinaloa. The corn marketing year for Mexico is October-September, with about 75 per cent of the crop being produced in the main season (harvested in the fall). However, most of the winter-crop corn is grown in Sinaloa with irrigation. An exceptional freeze hit in the first week of February, with about 80 per cent of the corn planted. Satellite imagery verifies that much of the corn crop was killed. Some replanting will limit losses, but high temperatures later in the season will limit the window for replanting. Most of the Sinaloa corn is white corn destined for products for human consumption, such as tortillas.
India’s coarse grain production is cut 1.3 million tons to 40.4 million based on more complete harvest reports covering the last monsoon season. Sorghum area harvested came in 4 per cent below previous expectations, with average yields trimmed slightly more, cutting production 0.7 million tons to 6.8 million. Corn area was reported higher than expected, but yields were lower leaving production reduced 0.5 million tons to 20.5 million. Millet production is trimmed 0.1 million tons, but barley is increased 0.05 million.
Australia’s coarse grain production is reduced 0.5 million tons this month to 13.4 million. More complete harvest reports indicate lower barley yields, cutting production 0.5 million tons to 9.3 million. Oats area and yields are reduced, cutting production 0.25 million tons to 1.5 million, but excellent sorghum yield prospects boost projected production 0.25 million tons to 2.2 million. Ukraine oats production is trimmed as lower area more than offset good reported yields. Also, Moldova’s 2010/11 coarse grain production is reduced slightly with a decline in barley more than offsetting a small increase in corn.
Brazil’s corn production prospects are increased 2.0 million tons this month to 53.0 million. Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture reported excellent yields for the mainseason corn crop now being harvested. While the second-crop corn planted following short-season soybeans has been delayed by slow soybean harvesting, especially in Mato Grosso, the Government has extended the permitted planting window, supporting area prospects. However, late planted second-crop corn in Mato Grosso is more susceptible to an early end of the wet season, potentially limiting production prospects.
World coarse grain beginning stocks for 2010/11 are reduced this month by 0.7 million tons to 195.1 million. The largest reduction is for Brazil, with corn beginning stocks cut 0.4 million tons to 10.1 million due to stronger-than-expected exports during the March-February 2009/10 local marketing year (just ending). India’s coarse grain beginning stocks are down 0.1 million tons, mostly because of strong corn feed use and exports in 2009/10, partly offset by increased millet stocks. Saudi Arabia’s beginning stocks for 2010/11 are down 0.1 million this month as 2009/10 trade data show barley imports fell short of previous expectations. There are also small reductions in corn beginning stocks this month for Kenya and Taiwan.
Global Use of Coarse Grains Reduced for 2010/11
Total world coarse grain use in 2010/11 is projected down 3.3 million tons this month to 1,119.9 million. Feed use is forecast up 0.3 million tons, but food, seed, and industrial use is down. Trade changes contribute heavily to the projected decline in global use.
Projected EU coarse grain total use is up 1.2 million tons this month with increases of 1.0 million tons for corn and 0.2 million for sorghum. Import licenses are up as prices in the EU encourage imports. Ukraine’s total coarse grain use is up 0.5 million tons, with feed use up 0.4 million as the slow pace of barley exports and uncertainty about export licenses is expected to encourage domestic use. Corn feed use prospects are increased slightly for Moldova.
Coarse grain feed use prospects are cut 0.9 million tons for Russia as the grain export ban has kept internal prices low, especially for low-quality wheat, discouraging imports and feeding of corn (down 0.5 million tons) and barley (down 0.4 million). Australia’s feed use is trimmed 0.4 million tons, with lower barley and oats production more than offsetting increased sorghum. There is also a small reduction in corn feed use prospects this month for Taiwan.
India’s coarse grain total use is down 1.3 million tons this month to 37.6 million. Lower production of sorghum, corn, and millet is expected to cut human consumption, with a reduction in projected sorghum feed use of 0.2 million tons. Food use is also cut this month for Mexican corn (down 0.3 million tons), Kenyan corn (down 0.1 million), and Chinese barley (trimmed 0.1 million).
Local marketing year trade changes can alter global use (see last month’s write up). With the sum of local marketing year coarse grain exports reduced 1.1 million tons this month, while the sum of imports are increased 0.9 million tons, the trade changes combine to reduce global coarse grain use by 2.0 million tons.
World Ending Stocks Projected Higher
Projected 2010/11 coarse grain use is cut more this month than supply, boosting forecast global ending stocks 0.8 million tons to 154.9 million. World corn ending stocks are up 0.6 million tons to 123.1 million. Global barley and millet stocks are up slightly while sorghum and oats prospects are trimmed.
The largest increase in projected 2010/11 ending stocks is a 1.6-million ton-increase for corn in Brazil to 8.8 million tons. Increased production is only partly offset by reduced beginning stocks, and forecast use (on a local marketing year) is unchanged. Brazil’s 2010/11 ending stocks are still projected lower than beginning stocks, but the tightening of stocks is not as great as projected a month ago. Other increases in projected ending stocks include a 0.3-million-ton increase in barley for both the EU and Ukraine, as well as small increases for US barley and Taiwan corn.
Partly offsetting the 2010/11 increased ending stocks expected for Brazil and others this month are several countries with reduced expected ending stocks. Mexico’s corn stocks are reduced 0.4 million tons to 1.5 million due to the cut in production. Australia’s coarse grain ending stocks are reduced 0.4 million tons this month, with reductions for barley and sorghum. Saudi Arabia’s coarse grain ending stock prospects are down 0.3 million tons with a decline for barley more than offsetting a small increase for corn. Ending stocks for corn in Kenya are down 0.2 million tons due to reduced imports. There are also small reductions this month for barley in China, corn in Moldova, and coarse grains in India, where a reduction for corn is almost offset by increases for millet, sorghum, and barley.
World Corn Trade Boosted Slightly, US Export Prospects Unchanged
Global corn trade for 2010/11 is forecast up 0.8 million tons this month to 92.1 million. Imports for Mexico are up 1.1 million tons to 9.0 million due to the production shortfall. EU imports are boosted 1.0 million tons to 6.5 million as import licenses are large and domestic prices encourage imports. Saudi Arabia’s corn import prospects are increased 0.1 million tons to 1.9 million, reflecting higher imports and feed use revealed by the latest estimates for 2009/10. However, corn imports for Russia are cut 0.5 million tons to 0.5 million as grain prices in Russia have not been high enough to encourage imports and no significant corn imports have occurred yet. Kenya’s corn imports are trimmed 0.25 million tons due to sufficient domestic supplies and lower estimated 2009/10 corn imports than previously forecast.
Brazil’s 2010/11 October-September corn exports are increased 1.0 million tons to a record 10.0 million. The shipment pace from October 2010 to February 2011 has been very rapid, at about 7.5 million tons, but is expected to slow dramatically as port capacity is switched to exporting soybeans, a more valuable crop. The availability or lack of government transport subsidies to move corn from the interior to the coast tends to accentuate the “lumpiness” of Brazilian corn exports.
Mexico, with reduced corn production, is expected to export 0.2 million tons less corn, leaving projected 2010/11 exports at only 0.1 million. Kenya’s corn exports are also reduced slightly.
US corn exports for 2010/11 are unchanged this month at 50.0 million tons (1.95 billion bushels for the September-August local marketing year). The forecast is nearly the same as the 49.9 million tons shipped the previous year. Census data for October-January indicate shipments of 14.0 million tons, virtually the same as a year earlier. However, grain inspections for February were 0.5 million tons less than those reported a year ago. The recent slow shipment pace is expected to increase as outstanding sales as of March 3, 2011, reached 12.8 million tons, up 2.3 million from a year earlier and the third highest for early March in the last 20 years.
World barley trade projected for 2010/11 is reduced 1.1 million tons this month to 16.0 million. Saudi Arabia’s barley imports are cut 0.6 million tons to 6.7 million on the slow pace of purchases and the Government’s goal of reducing subsidies.
Imports by Russia and China are also reduced due to the slower-than-expected pace of purchases. The slow pace of sales and shipments supports a reduction in barley exports of 0.8 million tons for Ukraine, and 0.3 million for the EU. US barley exports are reduced for the local June-May marketing year but unchanged for the October-September trade year.
Global sorghum trade for 2010/11 is increased slightly with 0.2-million-ton increases for Australia’s exports and EU imports. US sorghum export prospects are unchanged this month at 3.8 million tons. The pace of exports for the first 5 months of the trade year has been sluggish, but at the beginning of March 2011, outstanding export sales are up 21 per cent from a year ago.
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Interior Designer Gives Young Patients A Healthier Environment
by astoundz | Apr 15, 2020 | Press | 0 comments
Bryan Kotrla got a text one day in December 2017: “Call me.” It was from his longtime friend Rainey Richardson, who had a question that wasn’t really a question at all.
A teacher-turned-interior designer and home-furnishings-showroom owner, Richardson had decided it was time to launch her own philanthropic effort, and she wanted to start with the Kotrla family.
“I am lucky enough to have my career and my passion line up perfectly,” said Richardson, who has three grown children. “One of the things I truly believe is that your space affects your mental health and your physical health.”
Richardson took on design jobs while a teacher and eventually left that profession to launch Rainey Richardson Interiors. She and her husband, Tom Richardson, also own the Off White showroom at the Houston Design Center, where her interior design business is located.
She’s setting up her Room to Dream effort as a 501c3 nonprofit and her focus is clear: creating healthy spaces for ill, homebound school-age children. She finished a dramatic room makeover for Kotrla’s daughter, Brooke — a brain cancer patient — and next year will do two room makeovers, increasing it each year until she does one quarterly.
Richardson doesn’t hold fundraisers, instead paying for nearly everything out of her own pocket. Each project will have a budget of $10,000 to $12,000, and medical professionals at Texas Children’s Hospital will help identify future patient-recipients.
For now 22-year-old Brooke, the project was a bright spot in a tough period in her young life. It gave her a healthier place to live and something beautiful to take her mind off of difficult medical treatments.
As a freshman at Texas Tech University, Brooke was living her dream: a dance major, she was also on the university’s nationally competitive pom squad. Her busy schedule included morning dance classes, afternoon core courses and pom practices into the early evening, but she was unusually tired and couldn’t explain why.
She quit the pom squad when she just couldn’t keep up and transferred to Texas State University in San Marcos for her sophomore year because it was closer to home. But life there only got worse: Once an honor roll student, she was on the verge of failing.
“I never felt good. I don’t even know how to explain it. I couldn’t stay awake,” Brooke said, noting frequent headaches, seeing weird lights and sometimes feeling like she was floating.
She returned home at the end of her sophomore year in May 2017, and her parents realized how bad it had gotten.
Deanna Kotrla took her daughter to the emergency room, where an MRI showed a big white spot on her brain: a grade 2 diffuse astrocytoma, a slow-growing tumor that she might have had for a decade.
Deanna went into full mama-bear mode, calling a friend who’d started the Broach Foundation for Brain Cancer Research after her own husband died from glioblastoma. She got the name of Dr. Fred Lang, chief of neurosurgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center, who, coincidentally was the keynote speaker at the Broach Foundation annual gala that Deanna had just attended.
When they shaved her head for surgery and radiation made the rest of her hair patchy and thin, Brooke put on a hat and a big smile and kept moving forward. Now a junior, Brooke is back at Texas Tech as a part-time online student.
Before her room makeover, she had fairly plain walls and white IKEA furniture. Carpet that can harbor dust and bacteria has been replaced by tile flooring and walls were painted with healthier, zero-VOC paint. There’s a glamorous accent wall with Ellie Cashman’s large-scale floral wallpaper. New nightstands are covered in mirrors, and a big armoire holds all of the things that used to fill her dresser.
Dangling from the ceiling is a sparkling “fandelier” made of chrome and crystal with an ionizing fan hidden in the center. Even her bathroom was remodeled, adding a high-tech mirror over her sink and gorgeous mother-of-pearl tile around the shower.
For a while the installation date was uncertain, and when Richardson finally settled on a day in late May to set up the new room, she had no idea of its significance. Exactly one year earlier, Brooke was given her diagnosis.
“That’s when you know there’s something bigger than you at play. They were not looking forward to that day. You have no idea how many times I’ve choked up over this,” Richardson said. “I feel so lucky to be able to impact someone’s life. It is the greatest gift that you can have in this life.”
By Diane Cowen
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Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine (1)
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Neurovascular structures adjacent to the lumbar intervertebral discs: an anatomical study of their morphometry and relationships
Laboratory investigation
Mehmet Arslan, Ayhan Cömert, Halil İbrahim Açar, Mevci Özdemir, Alaittin Elhan, İbrahim Tekdemir, R. Shane Tubbs, Ayhan Attar, and Hasan Çağlar Uğur
Although infrequent, injury to adjacent neurovascular structures during posterior approaches to lumbar intervertebral discs can occur. A detailed anatomical knowledge of relationships may decrease surgical complications.
Ten formalin-fixed male cadavers were used for this study. Posterior exposure of the lumbar thecal sac, nerve roots, pedicles, and intervertebral discs was performed. To identify retroperitoneal structures at risk during posterior lumbar discectomy, a transabdominal retroperitoneal approach was performed, and observations were made. The distances between the posterior and anterior edges of the lumbar intervertebral discs were measured, and the relationships between the disc space, pedicle, and nerve root were evaluated.
For right and left sides, the mean distance from the inferior pedicle to the disc gradually increased from L1–2 to L4–5 (range 2.7–3.8 mm and 2.9–4.5 mm for right and left side, respectively) and slightly decreased at L5–S1. For right and left sides, the mean distance from the superior pedicle to the disc was more or less the same for all disc spaces (range 9.3–11.6 mm and 8.2–10.5 mm for right and left, respectively). The right and left mean disc-to-root distance for the L3–4 to L5–S1 levels ranged from 8.3 to 22.1 mm and 7.2 to 20.6 mm, respectively. The root origin gradually increased from L-1 to L-5. The right and left nerve root–to-disc angle gradually decreased from L-3 to S-1 (range 105°–110.6° and 99°–108°). Disc heights gradually increased from L1–2 to L5–S1 (range 11.3–17.4 mm). The mean distance between the anterior and posterior borders of the intervertebral discs ranged from 39 to 46 mm for all levels.
To avoid neighboring neurovascular structures, instrumentation should not be inserted into the lumbar disc spaces more than 3 cm from their posterior edge. Accurate anatomical knowledge of the relationships of intervertebral discs to nerve roots is needed for spine surgeons.
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The Football Shirt – A Cultural Phenomenon From the Obscure to the Vintage
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We’re elbow deep into one of the most compelling World Cup’s in recent memory, partly thanks to the introduction of VAR and also the sheer unpredictability of it all.
Another reason to keep eyes glued to the tournament, especially for the fashionistas, is the dazzling array of brilliant football shirts on display.
One man with a serious passion in this area is Neal Heard, author of The Football Shirts Book and curator of the current exhibition.
At The Art of The Football Shirt, he gets to show off his spectacular collection of jerseys from around the globe. We caught up with Neal recently to talk all things footy kits.
The MALESTROM: Where did your passion for the football shirt begin?
Neal Heard: I can trace it right back and remember the first kits I had, I didn’t really sort of realise how important they were until people asked me.
To be honest with you I think most of us football fans are the same and that’s why this whole exhibition and the book resonates, I’m just tapping into something a hell of a lot of us love. I can remember my first kit as I’m sure we all can, I got a Wales one, the old Admiral one, in ’77, so I’m showing my age.
I also had the Scotland one as I liked Liverpool at the time, I was a young kid who liked the most successful team and I loved Kenny Dalglish. I remember looking at the kit, they used to come in something called an Umbro box set with a little see-through window, I used to look through and see the kit underneath and just loved them you know.
I was really into fashion as I was into football, I was like an 80s casual who liked my clothing, and also you never saw these kits unless you saw someone win the World Club Cup. I remember Liverpool playing Peñarol in the competition and it all seemed so glamorous, so exotic, the shirts were so foreign and different colours from our shirts, I think that’s where it all came to the surface and it went from there.
TM: These shirts are deeply rooted in history and tribalism, what’s the significance of the shirts and their emblems?
NH: I think that’s a really good point. There’s a great book called The Soccer Tribe, it’s football from a sociologist’s point of view about how it’s all about tribes, I think it’s totally right. I think that’s why football is so important.
This World Cup shows you that, you’ve got the Panama commentators crying and all the Iranians in tears because they knew they were going out, it means so much more even than club football. It actually represents who you are and where you’re from, your nation, it’s massive.
TM: How important is shirt colour to fans? Obviously, it’s set in stone that you shouldn’t change the clubs colours …
NH: I think lately there’s been a bit of a battle going on for football’s soul and I don’t just mean in the monetary terms. But in that clash against us lot who’ve always supported football from its traditional aspect and then you’ve got this commercial aspect with the new fans.
And I’m not doing all of them down, but it’s the new owners as well, coming into it from a franchise system point of view, like many of the Americans who think they can move the team and call it another name.
Look at Cardiff when their owner tried to turn their colours to red, you know. In my opinion, they should be banned from ever owning any club, because if you don’t realise that the clubs badge and the clubs colours are the identity to the City then you’re missing the whole point of football.
TM: Who actually comes up with these era-defining shirts? What’s the design process behind them?
NH: You know what, unfortunately, I think the people who do it are too far removed, especially at the moment, from that feeling toward the team and there are too many graphic artist kids that just because they’ve drawn kits in your bedroom all of your life and have photoshop, that means you can make a kit.
There are basically design teams behind it with little input from the fans or even the owners. The owners are usually quite traditional and don’t want anyone to play with the designs and the designers then have to have that battle to work it out when they do want to do something different. Like everything, it moves in trends. I mean the Nigeria jersey at this World Cup is a sign they’re moving back to the graphic type kits.
TM: What do you think is the best kit at this World Cup?
NH: I have to say I think it’s the best World Cup for jerseys for ages. I really like the Nigeria shirt, I think it’s brilliant. I really like lots of the Adidas ones, so the reinterpretation of the Germany ’90 kit and the Belgium one that’s a reinterpretation of the 1984/86 kit, and there’s the re-work of Colombia ’90.
I love them, but I don’t like things when you look back and it’s just a re-do of the past, as much as I really like the new wave of shirts Adidas has done, I think it’s semi lazy to go back to a past classic. So for me, the top two would be Nigeria as it’s so different and hits the nail on the head and then Japan.
It’s graphic but they’ve actually thought about it, using the traditional Japanese style of stitching that’s used on a kimono and that’s what we should be doing, making the country proud with the design, not just going retro.
TM: What would you consider the greatest kit all time? Not an easy one for you we’re sure…
NH: Yeah, it’s a tough one isn’t it. There are so many reasons, you can love them just because they’re associated with something. Aesthetically I always loved Sampdoria jerseys, for me, that’s probably the best design of any football shirt in the world, for a team.
They redo it every couple of years and it’s always a brilliant football shirt to look at. I do love the original Belgium ’84, the classic France Platini shirt, the St Etienne 1981 kit. I love seeing Juventus come on the pitch, especially that early 80s era. There are loads of iconic ones, I probably change each day, but those would always come up in a conversation.
TM: What’s the rarest shirt in your collection?
NH: I’ve got loads of really rare ones, I guess the rarest one is the Corinthians 1983 ‘Democracia’ jersey, which is the shirt that Socrates wore.
He was a real lefty on and off the pitch, he started this movement to get the public engaged with Democracy as Brazil had a despotic regime at the time and also the players didn’t have any rights so he started players unions. He started what was known as the ‘Democracia’ movement and they wore it on the back of their shirts.
I managed to get hold of one of them and they’re supersonic rare as they weren’t replicas, they were players shirts. It’s probably the one I’m most proud to own as I was after that for so long and I love Socrates and love that, football is more important than just football kind of thing.
TM: Why do you think football shirts are so popular right now?
NH: I would say this year is year zero for football shirts almost. As in they’re only going to get bigger. Now they’re not just for football fans, they’ve moved over, they’re streetwear, they’re fashion, they’ve crossed over a boundary now where they won’t just stay under the banner of football and sport.
You find them in fashion shops, skate shops and that’s the thing I think is a massive game changer. It’s because they’ve become appropriated by streetwear and not just fans.
The Football Shirts Book by Neal Heard is out to buy now. Get your copy HERE.
There’s still time to catch Neal’s brilliant Art of the Football Shirt exhibition organised by @culture_liverpool at Camp and Furnace in Liverpool. The perfect pre-amble to watching England v Belgium there tomorrow with a pint of local brew.
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Home Entertaiment Arjun Kapoor’s food venture feeding 1,000 children every month
Arjun Kapoor’s food venture feeding 1,000 children every month
NEW DELHI: Actor Arjun Kapoor whose venture provides nutritious food to many underprivileged children on Monday opened up about his endeavour.
“The pandemic has thrown numerous challenges at our society and children have been deeply affected. The sudden loss of income for families, especially in the ones where men are the only bread earners, has put a lot of children in harm’s way,” he said.
Kapoor has ensured that the venture–FoodCloud–can do its bit regularly to protect as many kids. “Through my venture FoodCloud, we have tried to take care of children and provide them with nutritious meals. I’m proud of the work that the team has done to take care of children every month,” the ‘Ishaqzaade’ actor said.
The 35-year-old actor, who has always stood up to do the right thing, further said that the platform will keep helping children in need till the pandemic subsides.
“Children should never go without adequate food or suffer from malnutrition and our endeavour has been to help as many children we can and do our bit as responsible citizens of this nation,” Kapoor said.
Kapoor’s venture aims at improving gender parity and foster the spirit of self-reliance. During the coronavirus pandemic, his business platform has also lent a helping hand to about 1,000 children by providing them with nutritious food every month.
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A bot that follows some high-frequency accounts and RTs one tweet from the previous 24 hours from each account. The interval would be fuzzy, that is, 24 hours give or take. The Twitter account associated with it would be private and only followed by you. The bio would be up-front about what it's doing and whom it's doing it for, in case the person feels uncomfortable about it and decides to block it.
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Delta Will Resume Minneapolis Flights to Amsterdam Next Month
Kyle Potter - September 22, 2020 September 22, 2020
Delta plans to resume flights between Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) and Amsterdam (AMS) in late October, marking the first longhaul international route to operate out of Delta’s Midwestern hub in more than seven months.
Flights between Minneapolis to Amsterdam and other international hubs like London-Heathrow (LHR), Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG), Tokyo-Haneda (HND), and Seoul-Incheon (ICN) have been on pause since mid-March, when the COVID-19 and international travel bans brought air travel to a screeching halt.
And while Americans are still barred from entering most of Europe, the U.S. recently scrapped health screening requirements on many arriving international flights. That decision opened the door for Minneapolis’ long-haul routes to resume.
Delta is scheduled to restart service between Minneapolis and Amsterdam on Oct. 25, airport officials confirmed Monday. The airline is scheduled to operate four flights weekly on an Airbus A330.
It’s the latest sign in travel’s slow, tortured rebound amid the pandemic – and an early surprise. Minneapolis airport officials and consultants suggested just last month that none of the city’s nonstop longhaul flights to Europe or Asia would return until spring 2021 at the absolute earliest.
Still, it’s a long road to the return to normal. Air travel in the U.S. remains down by roughly 60%, and international travel is even lower. And even with flights resuming, most travelers won’t be able to take advantage. There’s no sign of when the European Union may lift its ban on Americans traveling there, though some essential travel continues between the two countries.
Restoring service to Amsterdam is a natural first step. Delta relies on partner airline KLM to funnel travelers from Amsterdam onward throughout Europe.
Delta has not said when it may resume its previous flights between Minneapolis and other international destinations like London, Paris, Tokyo, and more will resume. Aer Lingus has scrapped its new service to Dublin entirely, with no certainty that will return. Icelandair’s nonstop flight between Minneapolis and Reykjavik (KEF) is up in the air as well.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for more updates.
Kyle Potter
Kyle Potter is the executive editor of Thrifty Traveler. He joined the company in 2018 after spending years covering state and national politics for The Associated Press. He loves to help others understand the confusing world of travel, airlines, and points and miles.
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PTI government sets highest ever revenue target of history for FY 2019-2020
*ISLAMABAD - ** PTI government sets highest ever revenue target of history for FY 2019-2020.*
*FBR chief Shabbar Zaidi has been given a Rs5,550 billion tax collection target for the next fiscal year, said Finance Adviser Dr Hafeez Shaikh.*
He was speaking at a press conference held in Islamabad. FBR chief Shabbar Zaidi, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan, Federal Minister for Power Omar Ayub, Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar and Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar were also present on the occasion
He explained the situation of the economy after the previous government’s tenure ended, highlighting that the foreign loans Pakistan took had amounted to around $100 billion. In the previous government’s last two years, our reserves fell from $18 billion to less than $10 billion, he said.
The performance of exports in the last five years has been 0% and our deficit was $20 billion, said Shaikh, adding that the devaluation of the dollar had started by December, 2017 and the momentum of growth had broken while inflation was rising.
The immediate responsibility given to the [new] government was not to let things slip away, he said, adding that a basic structure needed to be made to better the situation.
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WWE NXT TakeOver WarGames Results: Gargano’s Ghostfaces End Fairy Tale (www.cagesideseats.com)
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Leon Ruff wanted a chance to prove he wasn’t a joke, and that his North American title win wasn’t a fluke. He got it with a Triple Threat title defense against former champs Johnny Gargano and Damian Priest at TakeOver: WarGames.
Working in his favor was the fact Gargano and Priest really, really don’t like each other. The Archer of Infamy was focused on Johnny from the moment he locked eyes with him. He dispatched Ruff at times so he could get his hands on Gargano. Johnny, on the other hand, sought to take Priest out just long enough to target what he saw as the weak link – the champ.
Throughout this program, Priest has presented himself as having Ruff’s best interests at heart – or at least saying there were no hard feelings behind his actions. It was only business, after all. He even apologized as he took the champ out of the match with this move.
Gargano & Priest had plenty of time to take advantage of the no countout, no disqualification nature of the Triple Threat after that. But they couldn’t put their rival away, and that set the stage for a big comeback from the underdog titleholder.
Taking advantage of the two rings set-up, Johnny tied Priest up in the ring ropes and tried to get Ruff to tap to Garga-No Escape. But the Archer got free and looked poised to pin Gargano when the Ghostface masked lackeys who’ve been haunting this feud got involved.
Priest fought them all off, and it even looked like Leon might be able to pull a win out amidst the chaos.
It was Ghostface with a lead pipe that finally took out Priest as he was setting up to hit Johnny with a Reckoning, and distracted Ruff until he walked into a high knee. One Final Beat ended the match, and the reveal of Austin Theory ended the mystery of Johnny’s Ghostface.
For a complete rundown of everything that happened during TakeOver: WarGames on Dec. 6, head to our live blog here.
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Conway Machine Announces Australia Distribution Agreement with SEAGA Group
Jul 27, 2017 | Business
Conway Machine is a leading supplier of aftermarket parts for die cutters and offset printers
CONWAY, AR, July 27, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Conway Machine, Inc. announced on Friday that they had reached an agreement with Australia-based SEAGA Group for exclusive distribution of Conway Machine products. Conway manufactures aftermarket spare parts for flatbed die cutters and offset printing presses, specializing in delivery gripper bars. They have been in business since 1972 and have built a world-renowned reputation for high quality parts at competitive prices.
SEAGA Group is based in West Heidelberg, Victoria with another location in New South Wales. SEAGA CEO Tony Foley, along with his son Anthony Foley, has built a strong reputation for quality spare parts and service in the die cutting and printing industry.
“Anthony initially approached me about working together,” Rachael Cox of Conway Machine said. “We were looking to expand our market reach in Australia. When the opportunity arose with SEAGA, we Conway Machine Announces Australia Distribution Agreement with SEAGA Group began to do our research. SEAGA turned out to be a great fit. They are partnered with some high-caliber companies like Heidelberg, CITO and Perivo. So, offering Conway products is a natural addition for their current customer base.”
“The agreement, which grants exclusive distribution rights to SEAGA Group for all of Australia, was signed in May and took immediate effect. Conway customers in Australia will not see any increased pricing but they may see shorter lead times and better shipping rates,” Cox said.
“Conway customers are industry-savvy and like to work with industry professionals who understand that quality of product and customer service is more important than branding. SEAGA Group is a family business like Conway. A lot of people in the Print & Packaging Industry get into the business through familial ties, so I like that we have the camaraderie of the family business dynamic,” Cox said.
“When you grow up in the business, you have a long-term view of the industry. You’re familiar with the players, and a lot of key persons know you and lead you in your career. It’s very valuable,” Cox said. “We expect great things from our partnership with SEAGA.”
Conway Machine is based in Conway, Arkansas, USA. Conway Machine is a recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Global Trade. SEAGA Group can be contacted via email at [email protected].
Conway Machine, Inc. was formed in 1972 as a tool and die shop. We eventually began to produce replacement gripper bars for Bobst die cuttersin the late 1970s. By 1980, the tool and die division had been eliminated, and Conway Machine had begun its rise to be one of the leading worldwide manufacturers of aftermarket parts for the folding carton industry.
Conway Machine, Inc. provides gripper bars, sprockets, strip pins, KBA Planeta gripper barsand all related component parts of each item. All parts are manufactured on-site at Conway Machine’s USA facility, in adherence to strict OEM specifications.
In 2001, the Conway Manufacturing Group (dba Conway Machine) added a precision turning division through acquisition. Jet Machine is a high-tech precision component manufacturer and is a direct supplier to Original Equipment Manufacturers worldwide. Jet Machine serves several industries, most notably Defense & Aerospace and Medical Device Manufacturing.
Conway Machine added validity to our excellent quality reputation by becoming ISO 9001 series CERTIFIED in 2004. By adhering to the tenements of ISO 9001:2008, we expect to meet customer expectations and needs through continual improvement of the quality management system resulting in improved quality, cost, and delivery.
Conway Machine has been a proud member of the IADD since 2001 and has been a Conway Chamber member and an Arkansas State Chamber member since 2012.
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Meghan McCain Says She 'Wont Be Quiet' as She Hits Back on Twitter After Whoopi Goldberg Dustup
Television By TooFab Staff | 12/17/2019 7:10 AM PT
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"Americans who aren't part of the overwhelmingly anti-conservative media deserve to have their views represented."
UPDATE at 7:00am PT on Tuesday, December 17: In another tweet, McCain used a gif of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) from "Game of Thrones" to reiterate the fact she won't be silenced.
Good morning - to all the fellow conservative “girls” who won't be quiet. pic.twitter.com/958DzFDAEp
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Original story below.
Meghan McCain is speaking up for herself after Whoopi Goldberg told her to "please be quiet" during a heated moment on "The View" Monday morning.
"Dems and Rs alike need to confront the ugly truth: both parties are failing to be impartial jurors," McCain tweeted shortly after the show wrapped. "I won't be quiet, even if the reality reflects poorly on the entire political establishment. I have a responsibility to speak for the 50% that feels media doesn't represent them."
"Pretending half the country doesn't exist won't make them disappear," she continued. "The culture war is real, and Americans who aren't part of the overwhelmingly anti-conservative media deserve to have their views represented."
She then shared new polling data on support for impeachment and removal -- which has been fairly static of late -- adding, "Pointing out things that are true is part of my job even if it angers people and even if it's politically inconvenient."
Pointing out things that are true is part of my job even if it angers people and even if it's politically inconvenient. https://t.co/HbHRQdATJ3
During Monday's episode, McCain pointed out conservatives do not support the proceedings against President Donald Trump -- and said a long process isn't doing anything to help Democrats. After Joy Behar criticized Trump for refusing to testify, Sunny Hostin called out the hypocrisy of Senators who voted to impeach President Bill Clinton, but wouldn't do the same this time around.
"My job here is not to litigate the ethics of it. I'm an ABC political analyst along with being a 'View' cohost," McCain began. "My job is to analyze the politics of it and ..."
As Hostin interrupted, McCain asked her to "Let me finish, I let you talk." At this point, it seemed like Goldberg was trying to toss to a commercial, but McCain asked, "Do you want to hear a conservative perspective on the show ever?"
"Girl, please stop talking," Whoopi then shot at Meghan, "Please stop talking right now."
"No problem. I won't talk for the rest of the show," she responded. Whoopi's reply: "I'm okay with that, if you're going to behave like this."
"I'm not behaving like anything," said Meghan, defending herself. "I'm trying to show conservative perspective."
As Goldberg criticized her for talking over other panelists, she added, "What you're doing is ... we're not doing anything, how bout this, we'll be right back!"
She didn't speak until later in the show, when Robert De Niro joined the table and brought up her father. McCain also told him "Casino" was one of her all time favorite movies, before asking him about his longtime partnership with Martin Scorsese.
You can watch the beginning of the impeachment conversation below. Click here to see how Meghan reacted to the fight on Twitter after the show.
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Home » Celebrities » Hilaria Baldwin’s former neighbours say she grew up in Boston and was 'Hillary'
Hilaria Baldwin’s former neighbours say she grew up in Boston and was 'Hillary'
Photos of the house Hilaria Baldwin grew up in have been revealed and her former neighbours from the posh Boston suburb have claimed she used to be known as ‘Hillary’.
Hilaria, 36, is claimed to have grown up in Beacon Hill in Boston in a $4million (£2.9million) home which her parents bought when she was three years old.
Despite Alec Baldwin’s wife spending the last 10 years claiming she was born in Spain and speaking with a Spanish accent, her former neighbours say she never used to have an accent before.
One told the Daily Mail: ‘I don’t know what she is talking about. She lived here since she was a child.
‘She didn’t call herself Hilaria then – just Hillary. And she certainly didn’t speak with a Spanish accent.’
The neighbour also claimed she was ‘a very entitled young lady’ after Hilaria stormed off when she was asked to shut the gate to stop the dog getting out.
Hilaria – who was born Hilary Hayward-Thomas – grew up in the sought-after neighbourhood which is praised as the best area to live in Boston.
Her parents, who have since retired to Spain, sold the house in 2012 for around half of its current value.
Hilaria’s apparent impersonation of being Spanish came to light after comedian Amy Schumer mocked a photo Hilaria had posted of her holding her youngest son Eduardo while wearing black lingerie.
In a response video to Amy, Hilaria seemed to forget her Spanish accent and spoke with an American accent instead, which soon went viral.
One of her former classmates from Cambridge School of Weston, Leni Briscoe, then tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade-long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.’
Hilaria has previously told Vanity Fair: ‘Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl. Let’s be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white.
‘Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally, I grew up with two cultures so it’s really as simple as that.’
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Tottenham team news: Toby Alderweireld out for ‘two to four weeks’ with injury not as bad as feared
Dan Kilpatrick
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Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld has been sidelined for "two or four weeks", according to Jose Mourinho.
Alderweireld pulled up during Spurs’ 2-0 win over Manchester City on Saturday.
As reported by Standard Sport earlier on Wednesday, scans on the muscle injury were inconclusive but there were hopes that the damage was not as bad as initially feared.
“He has a muscular injury but not as big as we initially thought," said Mourinho ahead of Thursday’s Europa League visit of Ludogorets.
“He will have time to be out but not like a month which is what we immediately thought. So I would say between two and four weeks. But of course he is not playing tomorrow.
"Of course [it’s] bad news as he was playing his best football. He is an important player that we miss.
“But we have Davinson Sanchez and not for tomorrow, as he is not in the list, we have Joe Rodon. We fight with what we have.”
Rodon, who replaced Alderweireld for the final ten minutes against City, is ineligible in Europe, while Mourinho said he considers fit-again Japhet Tanganga “more as a full-back" than a centre-half at present.
Alderweireld will now sit out as many as 10 games, with Spurs travelling to Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday, and facing Arsenal, Liverpool and Leicester City before a Boxing Day trip to Wolves.
A best-case scenario appears to be Alderweireld returning for the final Europa League group game on December 10 as Antwerp visit north London.
Matt Doherty missed the win over City after contracting coronavirus on Republic of Ireland duty but the right-back has returned to training following a negative test, although Mourinho said he did not know if he was ready to start on Thursday.
“It's good because in the Europa League we can have 12 players on the bench so 12 plus 11 makes 23 and it's good to have him in the 23-man squad,” the Spurs manager said of Doherty.
Erik Lamela is continuing to recovery from an achilles problem and is not expected to be available for Ludogorets or Chelsea.
Mourinho said Ben Davies would play against the Bulgarian side and promised to make changes from the win over City.
“I will not play the same team I played against Manchester City,” he said.
"Of course I'm not going to. There are different reasons for that. Of course the accumulation of matches is a problem. The Toby injury has a relation with an accumulation of minutes.
“It's also about players that work a lot. They're not starting matches and they deserve to start. Ben Davies has to start. He didn't play Sunday, he plays tomorrow.”
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MERCEDES BENZ COLLABORATES WITH GEELY TO BUILD SMART CARS
Mercedes-Benz will build smart-branded electric cars with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in the Chinese city of Xian from a base with an annual capacity of around 150,000 vehicles, a senior official from its German parent Daimler AG said.
Daimler’s Executive Vice President in China, Leng Yan, made the comments to Reuters on the sidelines of China’s EV100 forum in Beijing, an annual event where senior auto industry executives meet to discuss policies and the market.
Geely and Mercedes-Benz said that they would each invest 2.7 billion yuan ($388.8 million) in a China-based venture to build “premium and intelligent electrified” vehicles under the Smart brand.
Daimler-owned Smart delivered about 116,800 electric vehicles worldwide in 2019 Photo Source: here
Like Mercedes-Benz, Smart is a Daimler marque. The firms said at the time that the venture, which will be based in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, will have manufacturing capacity in China and sales operations in China and Germany.
Geely, which holds a 9.7% stake in Stuttgart-based Daimler, is building car plants in Xian, according to construction bidding documents on its website. Daimler, which partners with BAIC Group to make luxury Mercedes-Benz cars in Beijing, also builds trucks with BAIC’s unit Beiqi Foton Motor.
Smart delivered about 116,800 vehicles worldwide in 2019, Daimler said in a statement.
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Another Victory on the DISCLOSE Act
by Lisa Rosenberg Jun 25, 2010 11:32 am
Despite pressure from a number of powerful corporate interests, the House passed the DISCLOSE Act yesterday in a vote of 219 to 206. The success in the House was a huge step towards ensuring transparency around the corporations, unions and shadow groups who choose to spend big money on election ads. Also important was a Sunlight amendment included in the bill that would ensure that any required disclosures are online, in real time, in a single searchable sortable database. We hope that amendment serves as a precedent for future legislation and that next time a bill requires public disclosure of government information, the drafters will not need to amend the legislation and instead will automatically include a provision providing for searchable, sortable, online public access to the data. After all, it’s not “public” if it’s not online.
The narrow victory in the House indicates just how controversial the DISCLOSE Act is. In our view, arguments that the bill will chill free speech are red herrings, designed obscure the real effort by some organizations to ensure that political spending remains hidden from public scrutiny. After all, many groups and individuals involved in the political process—from campaign contributors to lobbyists—must already disclose their activities and there is no shortage of speech on the airwaves or in the halls of Congress. The more money that finds its way into the political system, the more critical the disinfecting power of sunlight becomes in order to prevent corruption and ensure openness that leads to greater trust in government.
But there are those who will use their financial and political power to try to stop the forward progress of this bill, and while we believe a majority of Senators will support the bill—49 Senators have joined Sen. Schumer as cosponsors—getting to a filibuster-proof sixty votes in the Senate may be even more challenging than getting to a passing vote in the House. It seems that any Senator who voted in favor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002—also known as the McCain/Feingold bill—should support this campaign finance disclosure bill. The Senate DISCLOSE Act does not yet have any Republican supporters, and we would hope to see former champions of campaign reform, including and perhaps especially Senator McCain, but also Senators Snowe, Collins, Cochran and Lugar, join the effort for greater transparency.
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NBA draft profiles: Zach Collins could be a steal
Post-NCAA Tournament 2017 NBA Mock Draft | Def Pen - defpen.com
The Gonzaga PF Zach Collins is heading to the draft with an interesting build. He's got NBA talent and a team that gets him could be getting a steal.
by Mitchell Evans (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
May 13, 2017 at 4:33 AM May 13, 2017 at 4:33 AM
While playing the backup role for Gonzaga, Zach Collins turned some heads. The freshman power forward showed some dominant skills in his limited time in Spokane, Washington. Gonzaga had a dominant run in the Ncaa Tournament, getting to the championship but ultimately losing to North Carolina. Gonzaga didn't get a chance to show off Collins' strengths as much as they needed to, partly because Collins was young and inexperienced, and they already had a quality big starting.
College averages: 10.0 ppg, 5.9 rpg
Zach Collins showed off a lot of skill while being a secondary option at Gonzaga.
There's a reason why Collins is being mock drafted in the top 10 while he only played 17 minutes per game in college.
Collins' strengths start with his abilities on offense. Collins has a wide variety of offensive skills to use on any team. He has good post moves, the ability to stretch out a mid-range shot or bring it out as far as the three-point line.
Collins has a very explosive first step and can take contact just as well as any big in the draft. In their game against South Carolina, Collins dominated against the tough contact given by the Carolina defense.
Collins only took 21 three point shots through the course of the season, but he hit 47 percent of those. He is an effective player, and his numbers don't say enough about how good he is and how good he can be.
Defensively, Collins can come out and defend around the perimeter. He's got a great timing for shot-blocking, and he can keep up with guards on a switch on the perimeter.
The biggest weakness for Collins is his inexperience. Most thought he'd stay another year in college, where he could really show off his skills. This is working to his advantage, though, as most teams saw a glimpse of a really good player.
With just his 17 minutes a game, that lack of experience is a bit of a worry for any NBA team. Collins is a project if you draft him, but he shows a lot of promise.
The other big weakness for him is the competition Gonzaga played. Other than in the NCAA tournament, Gonzaga only played one tournament team in their conference, and this brings some worry to how good he'd be against real basketball players.
Collins has a lot to prove and needs a lot of exposure to see where he's at in his basketball skills.
Collins is no doubt a project but based off the glimpses that you see in his game, he can really be a difference maker in the NBA.
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Tuart Hill Primary School was opened on the 25th of April 1910 in the suburb of Tuart Hill, 5 kilometres north west of the Perth CBD. The main school buildings were constructed in the late 1940s.
Our most recent building was provided by the federal government through the Building the Education Revolution. It was opened in 2010 and consists of two classrooms and a purpose built music and art room. This building is used to provide specialist instruction as well as accommodates an after school care program and early learning program.
The school also has a purpose built kindergarten/pre-primary and library. The school has three large play areas including an oval and playground equipment. A dental clinic is located on the school grounds and a Community Kindergarten which is linked to the school is located approximately 800metres off site. Specialist programs provided to students include LOTE, Physical Education as well support being provided for environmental programs and ICT. The school has commenced placing interactive whiteboards in each classroom and renewing its existing ICT resources.
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Does Pakistan Need a “New” Policy on Kashmir?
A new “thought” in Islamabad is gaining momentum. This thought from within the military circles certainly reflects a new pragmatism. The thought asks: Why not develop a new strategy that is economic, and not “praetorian”, in its focus?
By Imtiaz Gul | Via crssblog.com
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The Kashmir Solidarity Day is being celebrated today, amid massive worldwide and local protests and strikes, with the day also coinciding with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Srinagar. The Kashmir valley is going through an unprecedented unrest, which is also a major indication and disapproval of New Delhi’s rule in the occupied territory.
In Pakistan, a number of meetings are being organized to mark the day of solidarity. Banners, flyers and billboards, all over, also remind us of the “unfinished agenda” of the 1947 partition. But this is also a day of reflection for all of us.
What has all this “symbolic” support for Kashmiris in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir, under the Indian control, brought Pakistan so far?
Pakistan has tried to get Kashmiris their freedom from Indian control, however, all these efforts have so far achieved limited results. In fact, all these protests here and abroad, including emphatic support at the United Nations, have hardly helped in convincing India that Kashmiris under its control want freedom.
Why is that so?
That is because of the monetary and financial interests, with the Western corporations heavily investing in India. Most Western nations are also major trading partners of India, where bilateral trade includes arms, technology and customer services.
These interests muzzle these governments’ voices as far as the grave humanitarian situation in Kashmir is concerned. Often, their diplomats privately concede that they do not want to jeopardize their commercial interests in India.
This is the bitter reality facing us all. Economic interests trump political interests. China is the best example of it; it has uneasy political relations with the US, Germany, and India, however, it still remains the biggest trading partner of these countries.
This reality seems to have triggered a definite thinking within Pakistan’s ruling circles. They seem to be listening to the advice out of Beijing; “we waited for Hong Kong and Macao for a century. Why can’t you change your strategy and wait for Kashmir”, the Chinese top leadership has been asking the Pakistani top brass.
One can discern from discussions, with people who matter, that the strategy on Kashmir has been a “failure” so far. It has only earned Pakistan a bad name, left it bruised and under-developed. India, on the other hand, has successfully projected Pakistan’s persistent support for the Kashmir cause as “support for terrorism in India”.
Hence, a new “thought” in Islamabad is gaining momentum. This thought from within the military circles certainly reflects a new pragmatism. The thought asks:
Why not develop a new strategy that is economic, and not “praetorian”, in its focus?
“Economic development could make the country globally relevant again”, is the advice that Chinese leadership has given to their Pakistani counterparts. Once the country is economically strong, it may prompt many leading nations to themselves step forward and work for an end to the miseries of Kashmiris under the Indian rule.
This is what Beijing desires and, after several decades, this Chinese advice seems to have found receptive ears in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Regardless who eventually forms the government in New Delhi in May, it is clear that it will be dealing with a “new” thinking in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
It will find in Imran Khan and General Bajwa two prominent “policy makers”, who are determined to turn the state’s focus entirely on geo-economics. They believe that only in prioritizing geo-economics lies Pakistan’s mid and long term salvation.
Should we hope for a new south Asia, free of brutal geo-political games, after the general elections in India?
The write is Executive Director of CRSS, an Islamabad-based think tank.
This article was first published in crssblog.com. Click here to go to the original.
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Adams’ crucial coded warnings to Robinson
by Frank Connolly 31 December, 2015, 10:51 am 1 Comment
In late September, loyalist blogger, James Bryson, told a public session of the Stormont finance committee that Frank Cushnahan along with solicitor Ian Coulter formerly of Belfast firm Tughans, prominent accountant David Watters, developer Andrew Creighton and DUP leader Peter Robinson were to receive substantial sums from the sale of Project Eagle.
Cushnahan was involved in the preparation of the Eagle portfolio in his capacity as a member of the NIAC of NAMA while Watters had intimate knowledge of the individual properties and their potential values and his firm McClure Watters provided advisory services to the agency.
While each of the five has denied the extraordinary claims about alleged kickbacks there is a view that the announcement last month by Robinson of his retirement from politics next year was influenced in no small part by the Project Eagle affair.
Robinson’s withdrawal in September from the power-sharing government threatened to bring down the political institutions in the wake of various crises including alleged IRA involvement in the killing of Belfast man, Kevin McGuigan, the earlier killing of Sinn Fein member Jock Davison and an ongoing battle with Sinn Fein over welfare cuts. By November, these and other issues were resolved after intensive discussions involving the Northern parties and the Irish and British governments and during which the “fee payments” allegations hung like a dark cloud over the first minister.
In a mid-September statement after Robinson was named as the intended recipient of a £7.5 million sum lodged by Coulter in an Isle of Man account in connection with the Project Eagle sale, Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams made it clear that his party had serious questions for the DUP leader that would not go away anytime soon.
Speaking at a public meeting in Drogheda in response to the initial reluctance of unionists to participate in all-party talks, Adams remarked: “if Sinn Féin adopted the same approach as the unionist parties then there would not be a political process or political institutions in the north. The unionist parties’ attitude to the two murders in Belfast and to the recent revelations about the sell-off of NAMA’s northern loan book shows their ad hoc attitude to the political institutions.
In July, serious concerns arose around the sell-off by NAMA of its northern loan book – valued at £4.5 billion – for a third of that amount, amid allegations that a senior politician in the north was to benefit from this.
Sinn Féin could have decided at that point to walk away from the Executive. We didn’t. We asserted the primacy of due process and the need for these very serious allegations of political corruption to be fully investigated properly by the relevant Assembly and policing agencies”.
In a comment that went largely unmentioned in the Dublin media he continued: “The sell-off of NAMAs northern loan book involves both the Minister for Finance in Dublin as well as senior ministers in the north. The allegations of wrong doing are very serious”.
The talks ended six weeks later with a deal on welfare and spending as well as policing issues and the unexpected announcement by Robinson that he is to leave the stage in May before the assembly elections.
In late September, Adams also met with the Office of the New York State Comptroller which has $50m invested in Cerberus to brief them on the controversy surrounding Project Eagle. It is understood that the Comptroller then raised the issue with senior executives of Cerberus who were apparently not impressed by the Sinn Fein leader’s intervention. Neither was Peter Robinson by all accounts.
Sources told Village that these two events were intended to telegraph to Robinson that Sinn Féin would not look kindly on any Robinson NAMA delinquencies, if he did not move expeditiously to get the Executive back on track.
Questions for NAMA
What has NAMA done to verify that Ronnie Hanna did not have meetings with Cushnahan, Watters and the financial institutions involved in Project Eagle?
Has NAMA asked the financial institutions involved to verify this?
Has NAMA asked Hanna and Cushnahan to verify this. There is no indication as yet that he has even responded to far less detailed queries from NAMA sent to him by letter on November 19 2015?
More generally:
Why are so many properties contained in NAMA’s typical project portfolios, militating against purchased by the public who funded the bailout?
Why are so many of the projects sold at egregious discounts in a market that is among the most bullish in Europe?
What tax right-offs to developers benefit from when they resell former NAMA properties?
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The Mathematics all Around Us
Tiv as a Language for Mathematics Instruction
by Dr. P. I. Anyagh · June 11, 2019
Some theorists (example, Whorf, 1956) have suggested that language determines and defines thought. Linguists use the term language register to refer to the meanings that serve a particular function in the language, as well as the words and structures that convey those meanings. A mathematics register, therefore, can be defined as the meanings belonging to the natural language used in mathematics. A mathematics register is more precise than the natural language itself because the meanings of the terms are much narrower in scope. Mathematical terms give rise to an almost totally none redundant and relatively unambiguous language. Holliday in Gilberto (2008) has suggested that a mathematics register has the following components:
Natural language words reinterpreted in the context of mathematics, such as set, point, field, column, sum, difference, even (number), random, product.
Locations such as square, on the hypotenuse and least common multiple
Terms created from combinations of natural language words, such as feedback and output and input
Terms formed from combining elements of Greek and Latin words, such as parabola, denominator, coefficient and asymptotic.
In addition to vocabulary, a mathematics register also includes styles of meaning and ways of presenting arguments within the context of mathematics. These processes required new structures, which are most often borrowed from specialized forms in the natural language. Example of expressions adopted from English includes the area under the curve and the sum of the first nth terms of the sequence.
The term Tiv assumes three different meanings at different places. In some quarters, Tiv refers to the ancestral father of the Tiv race of Central Nigeria. To others, Tiv refers to the ethnic group which is a descendant of Tiv. Lastly, it refers to the language spoken by the Tiv race. Tiv belongs to the Niger-Congo language family and can be further classified as Benue – Congo language (Udu, 2009)
The Tiv people are predominantly found in Central Nigeria and a significant number in the Republic of Cameron. Udu (2009) reports that the Tiv occupy over thirty three local government areas across Benue, Nassarawa, Taraba, Cross-River and Plateau states. Tiv language is today spoken by well over 3 million people. Considering the geographical spread and the large number of speakers, Tiv language is indeed a very important language and the Tiv people are the 4th largest tribe in Nigeria.
Tiv language is used for interpersonal communication, trade and religious worship. It can also be said to be a language of the media, since it is broadcast on five different radio states across the country. However, the Tiv language despite its inclusion by government to be used for academic purpose has not enjoyed the prestige, yet. This may be as a result of no empirical evidence of its effects on students when used for academic purpose.
Traditionally, the Tiv people have their own form of Mathematics which is as old as the language itself. Tiv people are predominantly farmers and counting of their farm products shows the introduction of the concept of numbers and numeration. For example if a Tiv man asks his son (“Ve kaha sule la ager a me?”) meaning how may lines of heaps did he make? This question introduces the child to the concept of numbers and numerators by counting the lines. It also introduces the child to the geometrical concept of lines. Other geometrical concepts such as circle, radius, perimeter etc. are thought to children through the construction of huts (round or rectangular). The size of the hut constructed depends on the purpose for which it is made. This type of construction introduces the child to mathematic concepts like area, volume and proportion. Mathematical concepts like statistics, set, etc. are introduced by grouping of farm products like crops and animals by their species and type. It is, therefore, clear that all aspects of Mathematics; from numbers and numeration to geometry, algebra up to statistics all exist in Tiv traditional Mathematics. However they are all in an informal way and the method of teaching is practical, with the mother-tongue as a language of instruction. This exists in Tiv land till now.
It is true that most mathematical concept have not been translated in Tiv language. However, lexical borrowing and coinage which have found their way and are often used in the speech behavior of the people can be adopted. Names, words and expressions are often created or coined for objects and concepts in various languages.
It is true that Mathematics has its own diction, but Tiv language can also be used if efforts are made to translate the English words or mathematic concepts with all its attendant meaning to ensure that valuable aspects of the meanings are not lost. English language is replete with borrowed words from Latin, and as such, Tiv language, if used will not be the only language borrowing from other languages-especially where it is inadequate for Mathematics teaching.
The use of mother-tongue in the teaching of Mathematics will bring about familiarity in the learners. It is obvious that Tiv language can conveniently accommodate Mathematics and technical ideals. A non-literate Tiv man for instance, has already reduced such technical words like: Mato (Motor), Semetu (cement), Sukuderaba (Screwdriver), waya (wire), hama (hammer), and many others, to Tiv vocabulary. In the same manner it is logical and educationally not out of place that mathematical terms and concepts can be reduced to the phonological structure of Tiv language, based on verbal association learning conning as follows.
English Tiv
Symbols Akav
Shape Mlu Ukwagh
Word Problems Ayenge A Lyam
Coefficient Codfishen
Alegbra Ajebela
Expression Espleshen
Radius Ledusu
Equation Ikueshen
Perimeter Ikyaren I Sha Akpekpe
Regular Kpiikiki
Sqare Sikweya
Rectangle Letago
Trapezium Tlapezum
Arithmetic Ayenge Ataverga
Mathematics Ayenge (Matimatiki)
Parallelogram Palalologlam
This can be followed by adequate explanation of the concepts and mathematical procedures in Tiv language.
Although critics of the mother tongue as a language of instruction in mathematics claim that Mathematical terms and concepts cannot be explained in mother-tongue. However, the argument has been proven wrong. The Ife six-year primary project as reported by Babalola (1991) and the Igbo and Edo study by Ali (2006) have proved that mother-tongue can be used to teach Mathematics. These studies have shown that the use of foreign mediums of instruction generally constitutes a linguistic barrier to the learner in the learning of Mathematics.
It is, therefore, more justifying if the language of instruction in a formal education at the basic level be mother-tongue. This is because psychologically, the proper development of the children is closely bound with the continued use of the language of their parents, and relations, which forms their socio-linguistic background. It is the language in which they have acquired their first experiences of life; the one in which they dream, think and easily express their feelings and emotions. To separate them from their familiar language as soon as they come to school is like taking them away from their home and putting them among strangers. They could neither understand much of what is taught, nor express themselves at this stage as desired; hence they become tongue tied and the mathematics thought is devoid of meaning nothing than jargon and symbol manipulation. There is widespread mathematics underachievement, anxiety and aversion. This explains why the achievement of Tiv students in Mathematics has continued to decline despite the number of teaching methods adopted. Given this situation there is the need for relevant stakeholders to come to the aid of the Tiv child by implementing the language policy as stated in the NPE if he is to find education meaningful.
Ali, A. (2006), Conducting Research in Education and the Social Sciences, Enugu, Tashiwa Network Ltd.
Babalola, A. (1991). Keynote address delivered at the 32nd annual conference of STAN. Science Teachers Association of Nigeria 32nd Proceedings, pp.xix-xxvii
Gilberto, J. C. (2008). Mathematics learning in English as a second language. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 15(2), 134-144. retrieved on 18th February 2010 from www.jstor.org
Udu, T. T. (2009). Tiv language: A reference book. Labara communication and Publisher Kaduna, Nigeria.
Whorf, B. L. (1956). Language, thought and reality. Cambridge, MA: MIT press
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Efficacy of three disinfectant formulations and a hydrogen peroxide/silver fogging system on surfaces experimentally inoculated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius
Soohoo J, Daniels JB, Brault SA, Rosychuk RAW, Schissler JR. | Veterinary Dermatology
Three disinfectants were tested against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP), a leading cause of nosocomial infections in companion animals. AHP® achieved the greatest reduction in bacteria of the products tested. The HaloFogger fogging unit, using HaloMist disinfectant, was evaluated against the same bacteria, but produced significantly lower reductions.
Burden of Clostridium difficile infection on hospital readmissions and its potential impact under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
Virox Technologies Inc. | Chopra T. et al.
Although improved infection control efforts have been successful in decreasing the rates of many hospital-associated infections, Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) still remain a problem. Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide® (AHP®) is a patented disinfectant technology that is known for its effective cleaning properties as well as fast acting bactericidal and virucidal efficacy. AHP® surface disinfectants have been proven to reduce bacterial spore load on hard-non-porous surfaces .
Infection Prevention and Control Best Practices for Small Animal Veterinary Clinics
Virox Technologies Inc. | Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance, 2008
This document was developed by the Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance and is intended to guide clinical practice and provide assistance for decision-making on infection prevention and control issues. Furthermore, this document is designed to provide a complete and readily accessible summary of infection prevention and control best practices for small animal veterinary clinics, and is intended to be understandable to all members of the veterinary practice team.
Effects of contact time and concentration on bactericidal efficacy of 3 disinfectants on hard nonporous surfaces
Hong Y, Teska PJ, Oliver HF.
This study evaluated three disinfectants, including AHP®, against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a variety of off-label contact times and concentration. Invariably, reduced contact times and concentrations resulted in reduced efficacy in all disinfectants, highlighting the importance of adhering to label directions.
Effects of disinfection on the molecular detection of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
Bowman A, Nolting J, Nelson S, Bliss N, Stull J, Wang Q, Premanandan C.
Routine detection of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PEDv) is currently limited to RT-PCR testing, as it is the only test method that can directly detect PEDv. Because RT-PCR only detects the viral RNA, a positive RT-PCR result only indicates the presence of PEDv viral RNA, but does not mean viable and infectious virus is present. Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide®(AHP®) is a relatively new yet proven technology that is capable of disinfecting PEDv but may still leave inactivated RNA strands on surfaces, and therefore has a history of producing RT-PCR positive test results. In this study AHP was tested along with a number of other disinfectant actives as agents against PEDv using RT-PCR. Positive RT-PCR results were tested to show how AHP was able to fully inactivate any remaining RNA on the surface. Therefore, AHP can be used as an alternative disinfectant that is effective against PEDv without the negative toxicity, environmental, safety and compatibility profiles.
Evaluation of disinfectants and wiping substrates combinations to inactivate Staphylococcus aureus on Formica coupons
Brown, E., Dhanireddy, K., Waldron, C., Teska, P., Eifert, J. and Boyer, R.
Three disinfectants were each paired with three wiping substrates to compare their relative efficacies against S. aureus on Formica surfaces such as those common in hospitals. Sodium hypochlorite and accelerated hydrogen peroxide (AHP®)-based products applied with the cotton or microfiber cloths, respectively, demonstrated the greatest antimicrobial efficacy overall.
Best Practices Document for the Management of Clostridium difficile "C. diff" in all Health Care Settings
Virox Technologies Inc. | Ontario Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee
This document was developed by the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC). PIDAC is a multidisciplinary scientific advisory body who provide to the Chief Medical Officer of Health in Ontario evidence-based advice regarding multiple aspects of infectious disease identification, prevention and control. PIDAC’s work is guided by the best available evidence and updated as required. Best Practice documents and tools produced by PIDAC reflect consensus positions on what the committee deems prudent practice and are made available as a resource to the public health and health care providers.
UV-visible marker confirms that environmental persistence of Clostridium difficile spores in toilets of patients with C. difficile-associated diarrhea is associated with lack of compliance with cleaning protocol
Alfa M.J., Dueck C., Olson N., DeGagne P., Papetti S., Wald A., Lo E. and Harding G.
Environmental survival of antibiotic resistant organisms has been suspected to play a role in nosocomial transmission of pathogens. When patients are diagnosed with infections, they are put on isolation precautions and for pathogens such as C. difficile, the housekeeping cleaning protocols are enhanced to reduce the environmental load and potential for cross contamination and as a result the risk of acquiring nosocomial infections. In this study an ultraviolet visible marker (UVM) was used to assess the cleaning compliance of housekeeping staff for toilets in a healthcare setting. The aim of this project was to determine if a UVM could be used to determine the compliance of housekeeping staff with the twice daily cleaning protocols for patients who have been placed on isolation precautions because of CDAD (C. difficile associated diarrhea).
Stewart P, Stoodley P, Gilbert P, McBain A, Bierman S, Dreeszen P, Thompson B, Budgell S, Ceri H.
Biofilms are nothing new to our world. They can be found in any environment that has a flow of water and a contact surface. Biofilms can be deleterious or beneficial depending on where they are found and which organisms they are comprised of. As a society, however, we most commonly associate the issue of biofilms with their related infections. Examples of these are otitis media and bacterial endocarditis, which are caused by bacteria entering a fluid filled part of the body. Accelerated Hydrogen Peroxide® (AHP®) is relatively new yet proven technology that has gained a reputation as being one of the most effective yet safe technologies on the market. In fact, two studies have been conducted using AHP highlighting its ability to kill and remove biofilms. This document will help you and decision makers to better understand what Biofilms are and the relevance of using a disinfectant capable of killing and removing them.
How Reliable are ATP Bioluminescence Meters in Assessing Decontamination of Environmental Surfaces in Healthcare Settings?
Navid Omidbakhsh, Faraz Ahmadpour, Nicole Kenny
This study evaluated the ability of four ATP bioluminescence meters to accurately determine the efficacy of disinfectants in healthcare settings. By comparing ATP bioluminescence meter results to actual cell culture tests, the researchers determined that these widely-used meters may not always provide accurate results, and that their activity may be affected by various disinfectant ingredients.
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