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Home Private Equity News & Analysis Private Equity Deals & Transactions Segulah buys 50 percent of car care products company
Segulah buys 50 percent of car care products company
Nordic private equity firm Segulah has bought a 50 percent stake in a car care products company for an undisclosed amount, in its second acquisition in a month.
Segulah, a Nordic mid-market private equity firm, has bought 50 percent of Kemetyl, a pan-European supplier of car care products to gasoline stations, from Pemco, a Norwegian oil and chemicals group, for an undisclosed amount. Pemco continues to hold an equal stake in the business.
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Anders Claesson, a partner at Segulah, said: “We would have loved 100 percent but Pemco wanted to keep 50 percent because they believe in the growth of the company.”
Christian Sievert, managing partner of Segulah, said: “Kemetyl has a good historic track record of growth. It has grown 10-fold in the last five years.”
Sievert said Segulah would grow the company organically as well as by making bolt-on acquisitions in wider Europe.
Cederquist, a Stockholm-base firm, gave legal advice to Segulah while Pricewaterhouse Coopers provided financial services.
The deal is subject to regulatory approval.
The acquisition is Segulah’s second in a month. In mid-December the firm bought Isaberg Rapid, a European staple and stapler manufacturer, from Industrivärden, a Nordic mid-market holding company, for an undisclosed amount.
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OMRON displays prowess at automation show
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OMRON’s stall at the SPS Automation India – 2015.
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OMRON Automation India displayed its prowess in the industrial automation technology domain at the exhibition, SPS Automation India – 2015, at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
The exhibition, in its first edition, focused on all key innovative technologies across the realm of industry automation solutions that have the ability to reshape the manufacturing sector envisioned on the basis of the government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign.
Commenting on the participation, Sameer Gandhi, Managing Director, OMRON Automation India, said, “Shows like SPS Automation India 2015 allow us to portray our strengths as complete automation partners and help in strengthening our reach and connect with key audiences, both industry and region specific. This participation is also a part of our efforts to accentuate OMRON’s presence in the Gujarat market.”
OMRON, a pioneer in various industrial automation products, said it was well-positioned in assisting the Indian manufacturing sector with its ‘total solutions’ approach. Themed ‘We Automate!’, the OMRON booth exhibited the utility of all of its key offerings such as automation solutions for bottling machines, vision and safety solutions, and the Sysmac integrated automation solutions that help crucial operations in manufacturing organisations especially in the packaging domain.
Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, OMRON Corporation is a multi-billion dollar diversified company operating in industrial automation, electronic components, social systems, healthcare, and environment fields. Incepted in 1993, OMRON Automation India caters to over eight industrial segments, namely packaging, automotive, material handling, solar, food and beverages, textile and panel handling applications.
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Osmotic stress-induced increase of phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate requires Vac14p, an activator of the lipid kinase Fab1p.
Cecilia J Bonangelino Johnathan J Nau Jason E Duex Mikala Brinkman Andrew E Wurmser Jonathan D Gary Scott D Emr Lois S Weisman
J Cell Biol 2002 Mar 11;156(6):1015-28. Epub 2002 Mar 11.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns[3,5]P(2)) was first identified as a non-abundant phospholipid whose levels increase in response to osmotic stress. In yeast, Fab1p catalyzes formation of PtdIns(3,5)P(2) via phosphorylation of PtdIns(3)P. We have identified Vac14p, a novel vacuolar protein that regulates PtdIns(3,5)P(2) synthesis by modulating Fab1p activity in both the absence and presence of osmotic stress. We find that PtdIns(3)P levels are also elevated in response to osmotic stress, yet, only the elevation of PtdIns(3,5)P(2) levels are regulated by Vac14p. Under basal conditions the levels of PtdIns(3,5)P(2) are 18-28-fold lower than the levels of PtdIns(3)P, PtdIns(4)P, and PtdIns(4,5)P(2). After a 10 min exposure to hyperosmotic stress the levels of PtdIns(3,5)P(2) rise 20-fold, bringing it to a cellular concentration that is similar to the other phosphoinositides. This suggests that PtdIns(3,5)P(2) plays a major role in osmotic stress, perhaps via regulation of vacuolar volume. In fact, during hyperosmotic stress the vacuole morphology of wild-type cells changes dramatically, to smaller, more highly fragmented vacuoles, whereas mutants unable to synthesize PtdIns(3,5)P(2) continue to maintain a single large vacuole. These findings demonstrate that Vac14p regulates the levels of PtdIns(3,5)P(2) and provide insight into why PtdIns(3,5)P(2) levels rise in response to osmotic stress.
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de Moulin, the Younger. Two Devotional Works in 1680 early Dutch reprint.
de Moulin, the Younger, Pierre. Verhandeling Van den Vrede der Ziele en de Vergenoeginge des Geestes. Mitsgaders Overdenkingen en Gebeden op elken Dag van de Weke: Neffens een Voorbereiding tot het H. Avontmaal. Pieter de Frans, Bookseller, Amsterdam, 1680. Early Dutch reprint.
Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather). Book Condition: Good+ Condition. Size: 5"-6" - Vigesimo-quarto (24mo). 733 pages. [1]-608, [1]-125, 7 blank p. (verso of p. 125 and 2 leaves). Item Type: Book.
The first title page lists the two works (in translation to English) as "Discourse of the Peace of the Soul and the Contentment of the Spirit" (originally published in English in 1657) and "Reflections and Prayers on Every Day of the Week : In Preparation for Holy Communion." The separate title page for "Reflections" adds "En een Verhandeling van de wezentlijke vorm ofte nature van het recht-veerdigmaaken de Geloof," which translates to "And a Treatise of the essential form or nature of justifying the Faith." The "Treatise is on pp. 118b-125 at the end of the text. du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French Huguenot minister and writer who emigrated to England, where he became an Anglican and sided with the Royalists during the English Civil War.
The text block is holding well, though there is some separation through the text at the signatures, exposing the cords, especially at the front title page and rear hinge. Overall the pages are toned. The title page shows some dirt from handling (particularly at the outside margin). The last 30 pages of the second work (pp. 95-125) are creased in the upper corner with some loss at the corner without loss of text on pp. 127.134. The very last page has a 1.5" diagonal tear from the gutter to the top of the page with a chip that affects the top two lines of text.
Polished calf over boards. Front corners are bent; rear bottom board is peeking through. Small hole (about 1/4") through the leather on the front cover. Hinges show some wear with a 3/8" separation at the top of the rear hinge. However, the binding is holding well, in spite of the thickness of the book (2"). No title on the spine, but there are five double lines indicating the bands of the binding. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean.
There is an inscription by a previous owner on the front free end paper and a bookplate of another, but more recent, owner pasted to the inside front cover. Because of the small format of the book, only one-quarter of the plate is glued in and the rest of plate is folded down to fit the space. Marbled edges, faded. Two separate works bound as one (as given on the main title page), with a separate title and pagination for the second work.
Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 0 lbs 10 oz. Category: Religion & Theology; Devotional; ISBN: No ISBN. Inventory No: 1157.
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Parashat Bechuchotai 5774, 2014: "The Eternality of the Torah and Shavuot"
Parashat Bechukotai 5774, 2014:
The Eternality of the Torah and Shavuot
Dedicated to the sacred memories of my mother, Miriam Tovah bat Aharon Hakohen, father-in-law, Levi ben Yitzhak, sister-in-law, Ruchama Rivka Sondra bat Yechiel, sister, Shulamit bat Menachem, Chaim Mordechai Hakohen ben Natan Yitzchak, Yehonatan Binyamin ben Mordechai Meir Halevi, Shmuel David ben Moshe Halevy, and the refuah shlaimah of Yosef Shmuel ben Miriam, Devorah bat Chana, and Yitzhak Akiva ben Malka.
The phrase, “aleh hamitzvot asher tzivah Hashem et Moshe,” (“these are the commandments that Hashem commanded Moshe”) begins the closing verse of both our parasha and Sefer Vayikra. Contextually, it references the complete and final body of law that G-d revealed to Moshe on Mount Sinai. The Talmud Yerushalmi, Megillah 1:5 notes the use of “aleh” in our verse, and concludes that it connotes the following crucial idea:
“These (aleh) are the commandments that Hashem commanded Moshe.” Consequently Moshe taught us: “There will never be a future prophet who will have the power to create something new [i.e. laws in the Torah] from this point and henceforth.”
This concept is stated even more explicitly in Midrash Rabbah Rut 4:5:
“These are the commandments that Hashem commanded Moshe” – “These” (“aleh”) teaches us that one is not allowed to add or to detract [from this corpus of law]. Moreover, no prophet will ever be allowed to promulgate a new matter [i.e. a Torah law] from this point onward.
Maimonides (Rambam, 1135-1204) articulated this notion as the Ninth Principle of Faith in his Commentary on the Mishnah, Introduction to the 10th Chapter of Tractate Sanhedrin:
The Ninth Principle of Faith is that of [non-] nullification. This means that the Torah of Moshe will neither be nullified nor will there ever be another Torah in addition to it from G-d. It [i.e. the Torah] will never be added thereto nor be detracted therefrom, neither in writing nor via explanation. As is stated in the Torah: “You shall neither add to it, nor subtract from it.” (Sefer Devarim 13:1)
In addition to the earlier mentioned sources, the Rambam based his formulation of this principle of faith on the following famous Talmudic passage that concerns itself with a highly technical machloket (dispute) regarding ritual purity and impurity:
On that day R. Eliezer brought forward every imaginable argument, but they did not accept them. Said he to them: “If the halachah agrees with me, let this carob-tree prove it!” Thereupon the carob-tree was torn a hundred cubits out of its place — others affirm, four hundred cubits. “No proof can be brought from a carob-tree,” they retorted. Again he said to them: “If the halachah agrees with me, let the stream of water prove it!” Whereupon the stream of water flowed backwards — “No proof can be brought from a stream of water,” they rejoined. Again he urged: “If the halachah agrees with me, let the walls of the schoolhouse prove it,” whereupon the walls inclined to fall. But R. Joshua rebuked them, saying: “When scholars are engaged in a halachic dispute, what have you to interfere?” Hence they did not fall, in honor of R. Joshua, nor did they resume the upright position, in honor of R. Eliezer; and they are still standing thus inclined. Again he said to them: “If the halachah agrees with me, let it be proved from Heaven!” Whereupon a Heavenly Voice cried out: “Why do you dispute with R. Eliezer, seeing that in all matters the halachah agrees with him!” But R. Joshua arose and exclaimed: “It is not in heaven.” (“Lo bashamayim he,” Sefer Devarim 30:12) What did he mean by this? — Said R. Jeremiah: That the Torah had already been given at Mount Sinai; we pay no attention to a Heavenly Voice, because You have long since written in the Torah at Mount Sinai (Sefer Shemot 23:2), “After the majority must one incline.” (Talmud Bavli, Baba Metziah 59b, translation, The Soncino Talmud with my emendations)
The above-cited Talmudic passage is amazing, to say the least. In one fell swoop, it repudiates any possibility of a post-Sinaitic Revelation. Moreover, it demonstrates that definitionally imperfect human reason, in conjunction with the accepted principles of Torah exegesis and majority rule, is the determinant in any halachic dispute – even when one of the disputants is “a Heavenly Voice” (“bat kol”)!
HaRav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik zatzal (1820-1892) is the famous author of the Beit Halevi, one of the most prominent Torah analyses within the Lithuanian tradition. In his comments to Sefer Shemot 19:5, Rav Soloveitchik builds upon the previously cited Talmudic passage in his explication of the Torah’s role in our lives. He explains that the Torah was given to our people so that we would analyze it in accordance with the rules established by our Sages. He further notes that the conclusions that are reached according to this manner of exposition are the “Truth,” since our Sages were tasked with both the interpretation and application of the Torah. In addition, he maintains, in the light of Rabbi Yehoshua’s statement in the above-cited passage from Baba Metzia, that since the Torah is “no longer in Heaven” (“lo bashamayim he,” Sefer Devarim 30:12), its truth can only be apprehended via the intense study and analysis of the earthly beit din (Court of Law) – who then, perforce, become its arbiters. After all, lo nitnah haTorah l'malachei hashareit (the Torah was not given to the Ministering Angels) but rather, to us.
After concluding his argument, Rav Soloveitchik asks a fascinating question: “Why did our Sages call Shavuot ‘zeman matan Toratainu’ (‘the time of the Giving of our Torah’) instead of ‘zeman matan Torah’ (‘the time of the Giving of the Torah’)?" His answer is mesmerizing: “The reason why Shavuot is called ‘zeman matan Toratainu’ and not ‘zeman matan Torah’ is because the explanation of ‘Toratainu’ is that the Torah became our own. [How did it become our own? This happened] via the Oral Law (Torah She’ba’al Peh) and the explanations of the [Torah] that are the product of our people.” In other words, while the Torah is the surely greatest gift from G-d to man besides life itself; what made and makes this gift ours forevermore is the Oral Law.
As we continue on our journey toward Mount Sinai and Shavuot, may we always focus upon the eternality of our holy Torah and the great gift it represents to our people. In addition, may we ever remember that we are charged with the noble task of bringing G-d’s Torah into practical realization through authentic and heartfelt mitzvah observance. Truly, “ashreinu mah tov chelkeinu u'mah na'im goraleinu"” (“we are joyous in our portion [possession from G-d] and the pleasantness of our lot [as His chosen people]”). May this thought serve as our watchword as we strive to serve Hashem. V’chane yihi ratzon.
*** I have posted 164 of Rabbi Soloveitchik’s English language audio shiurim (MP3 format) spanning the years 1958-1984. They are available here: http://tinyurl.com/82pgvfn.
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Fed policymakers broadly see eye to eye on 2020 outlook
By Howard Schneider, Ann Saphir, Jonnelle Marte
SAN DIEGO/BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers who last year were frequently at odds over where to set U.S. borrowing costs opened 2020 telegraphing confidence in the state of the economy and signaling broad agreement that monetary policy is right where it should be.
FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin poses during a break at a Dallas Fed conference on technology in Dallas, Texas, U.S., May 23, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Saphir
In their first remarks in the new year, heads of several regional Fed banks noted a strong job market, robust consumer spending and a rising optimism for a resolution to the trade tensions that had nicked growth in the second half of 2019.
And after cutting interest rates three times last year to bring the Fed’s target to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% and ensure global headwinds didn’t short-circuit the longest U.S. economic expansion in history, “I think most of us think that we are well-calibrated now,” Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester said in an interview on the sidelines of an economics conference in San Diego.
Based on forecasts of her fellow policymakers on the Fed’s rate-setting committee, she said, “the committee thinks a flat path (for interest rates)... is appropriate.”
Mester had been among a handful of Fed policymakers who argued last year that the U.S. economy did not need lower rates to continue to grow.
And while she and others noted the outlook could change if an outside shock like this week’s dramatic escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran knocks the U.S. economy off its current trajectory, most appear happy to leave rates where they are.
“The economy is still healthy,” Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said earlier Friday in Baltimore. Like Mester, Barkin had been skeptical of last year’s rate cuts. “I’m encouraged by recent jobs reports and the pace of holiday spending,” with last year’s round of three Fed rate cuts helping prop up demand for homes, cars and other big-ticket consumer items, Barkin added.
Fed's Mester, who warned of inflation risks, says current policy 'well calibrated'
Fed may need new approach to boost inflation, Daly says
It was an assessment also shared by Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans who unlike Barkin and Mester supported last year’s interest-rate cuts. In a CNBC interview, Evans predicted U.S. economic growth this year would chug along at a rate of 2% to 2.25%, roughly the pace of expansion in the second half of last year.
The clutch of comments on Friday shows how comfortable most Fed policymakers are that the 2019 rate cuts will prove a sufficient buffer against the risks that spurred them into providing the stimulus, including slowing global growth and escalating trade tensions.
Indeed, after a fractious year for the Fed, which saw split votes on each of the rate cuts, officials agreed unanimously in their final policy meeting of 2019 to leave rates unchanged. Moreover, they agreed rates were likely to stay on hold for “a time” as long as the economy remains on track, minutes of the Dec. 10-11 meeting released on Friday showed.
“Participants judged that it would be appropriate to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate,” according to the minutes.
STILL SOME SIMMERING DIVISIONS
Even with their newfound consensus over the outlook for rates and the economy, there were some signs of tensions that could divide Fed policymakers as the year progresses.
Inflation has been running below the Fed’s 2% target, and that is worrying some policymakers including San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly.
“We are seeing some early evidence that long run inflation expectations are slipping,” Daly said at the annual American Economics Association meeting in San Diego. “We don’t have a really good understanding of why it’s been so difficult to get inflation back up.
Speaking at the same panel, Dallas Fed bank chief Robert Kaplan downplayed the danger of low inflation, noting that it is only a few tenths of a percentage point below the Fed’s target. At the same time he noted his worry that low rates could feed excesses in the financial system.
Mester, in her interview, took a similar stance. “I don’t see anything right now that suggests to me inflation is going to run away on the top side,” she said. “I don’t see it running too low either.”
(This story was refiled to add missing name in eighth paragraph.)
Additional reporting by Jason Lange in Washington; Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider in San Diego, and Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Writing by Dan Burns, Howard Schneider, Ann Saphir; Editing by Andrea Ricci, Paul Simao and Sandra Maler
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The following topics will be considered for the main systems of livestock production available to UK farmers:
The structure and importance of the industry in the UK, EU and world, with reference to key constraints on production, efficiency of resource use and product quality.
Applied practical management of reproduction, lactation, nutrition and growth and development within a commercial production system.
Breeding techniques and improvements and selection programmes.
Maintenance of high animal health and welfare status and disease with preventative control practices.
Analysis of livestock performance records to identify, select and target sub-optimal and optimal performance indices.
Module outcomes
To achieve credit for this module, students must be able to:
State the comparative importance of the UK industry and recognise the constraints on production and position within the global market.
Apply relevant research into one of the following: animal growth, reproduction, lactation management, genetics, nutrition and health and welfare, and the synthesis of the production system.
Evaluate biological and economic constraints on production and systems.
Develop skills to identify, target, manipulate and correct sub-optimal physical and financial performance indices.
Identify and research the characteristics of a market and evaluate the factors which need to be considered, in relation to the design and management of the production system with regard to the desired quality and performance of the livestock.
Select, design and plan an appropriate production system for the production of a desired product for a specific market.
Identify and discuss the scientific and financial management considerations required within the ruminant and non-ruminant systems, to achieve a profitable and efficient enterprise.
Coursework Synthesis paper - select, design and plan a fully referenced evaluation and critical analysis of an appropriate production system for a desired product and market. 60%
Examination Unseen exam (2 hours) 40%
Assessments may differ in 2020/21 due to adjustments for Covid-19. Please check Gateway for the latest regulations.
Students should be familiar with the content of the following:
Allen, D. (1990). Planned Beef Production and Marketing. Blackwell Scientific.
Akers, R.M. and Denbow, D.M. (2008). Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals. Blackwell Publishing.
Aitken, I.D. (2007). Diseases of Sheep. (4th edition). Blackwell Publishing.
Appleby, M.C. (1992). Poultry Production Systems. Cab International.
Croston, D. and Pollott, G.E. (1994). Planned Sheep Production. (2nd edition). Blackwell Scientific.
English, P.R., Fowler, V.R., Baxter, S. and Smith, W. (1996). The Growing and Finishing Pig: Improving Efficiency. (Revised edition). Farming Press.
Field, T.G. (2007). Beef Production and Management Decisions. (5th edition). Pearson Education.
Field, T.G., Taylor, R.E. (2008). Scientific Farm Animal Production: An Introduction to Animal Science. (9th edition). Pearson Education.
Frandson, R.D., Wilke, W.L. and Fails, A.D. (2009) Anatomy and physiology of farm animals 7th edn. Wiley-Blackwell Garnsworthy, P.C. (2005). Calf and Heifer Rearing. (Nottingham U Easter School In Agricultural Science; 60). Nottingham University Press.
Leaver, J.D. (1990). Milk Production Science and Practice. (3rd edition). Longmans Scientific and Technical.
Webster, J. (1993). Understanding The Dairy Cow. (2nd edition). Blackwell Scientific.
Whittemore, C.T. (2006). Whittemore's Science and Practice of Pig Production. (3rd edition). I. Kyriazakis and C.T. Whittemore Eds. Blackwell Publishing
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Video available for VC all-staff briefing session, 18 November 2020
Over 1200 colleagues joined Vice-Chancellor Robert Van de Noort in his latest all-staff briefing session, which took place on Wednesday 18 November.
The session focused on the ongoing work to deliver the University Strategy, which we have previously referred to as the Phase-2 of our Post-COVID-19 Response Programme.
Opening the session, Robert said that creating a strong institution required us all to work together and be respectful of each other. "Whether you are a professional services colleague or an academic, your contribution to our University and its future is important".
He reminded colleagues about the plans to end face-to-face teaching for this term on 9 December and thanked them for all the work during this term.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Academic Planning & Resources, Mark Fellowes, led the briefing on delivering the University Strategy - sharing the feedback from School and Function engagement sessions. He said the feedback was rich and offered insights, challenges and suggested mitigations - and could be broadly categorised in the following four broad areas:
Culture change, how we work together, governance, capacity for change
Financial – financial models, investment in change
Need for targets, clarity, data
Staff/student well-being and productivity
Mark was joined at the session by Elizabeth McCrum (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Education and Student Experience), Dominik Zaum (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation) and Richard Messer (University Secretary and Chief Strategy Officer) - who answered questions from the participants.
If you were unable to attend the session, or wish to view it again, please see the video below:
Click here for direct link to Microsoft Streams
The next two all-staff briefings sessions will take place as follows:
Tuesday 1 December, 11:00-12:00
Our international strategy and plans
Thursday 17 December, 14:00-15:00
Conversation with the Vice-Chancellor
All colleagues will be sent an Outlook calendar invite prior to each session, so there will be no need to book a place in advance.
If you have any queries, please contact communications@reading.ac.uk.
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“Voting For Buhari Will Make Yorubas Produce President In 2023” – Osinbajo
Professor Yemi Osinbajo who spoke at the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, stated that voting for Buhari will make Yorubas produce President in 2023.
Osinbajo who disclosed that Buhari is no doubt a man who stands by his words, pleaded that Yorubas should work for the success of President Buhari in 2019, as it will take a very long time for any Yoruba man to get the Presidency if Buhari failed to return in 2019.
The Vice President who maintained that Buhari has performed well and deserved another term in the office, added that Buhari had proved to be a man who has zero tolerance for corruption since he came to power in 2015.
Osinbajo who described corruption as one of the major problems in Nigeria, told those present that he was in the palace to pay homage to the monarch and drink from his wealth of his experience and knowledge.
“It is good to pay homage to the palace. I greet you the king, I greet the Alaafin of Oyo and other traditional rulers here present. Anytime I come to the Kabiesi either here in Abuja, I say it is home coming.
“The 2019 general elections is our own. We are not looking at the 2019 but 2023. If we get it in 2019, Yoruba will get it in 2023. Because if we don’t get it in 2019, we may not get it in 2023 and it may take a very long time to get it. We need to look at tomorrow and not because of today. What we are doing now is for tomorrow and not for today”.
“What I know about Buhari is that he is an honest man. What he say he will do, he will do it”.
“Now, they are regrouping. These are the people that have ruled for 16 years and they say they want to come back again. They are corrupt. Though, it is still difficult because no man or woman can build a house without a foundation”.
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15 facts about Swakopmund’s dunes and desert creatures
Think the sand dunes outside Swakopmund in Namibia are barren? Join Tommy Collard on a Living Desert Tour and he’ll prove that every patch of sand is a gold mine of fascinating creatures for those who know how to look. Read about our adventure with Tommy or discover 15 facts about Swakopmund’s dunes and desert creatures.
1. The highest dune between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund is 115m and dunes can move up to 2m a year.
2. The toes of the shovel-snouted lizard are serrated and males will bite another’s toes off in a fight. Although they re-grow, that male won’t be interested in chasing any females, so competition to breed is eliminated. They’re also feisty creatures that will latch on and dangle from your ears like earrings.
Shovel-snouted lizard
3. The shovel-snouted lizard does a ‘thermal dance’ on the hot sand to stop its feet from burning on the hot sand, lifting one front leg and the opposite back leg in rotation.
4. Peringuey’s adder has eyes on top of its head so it can hide in the sand and still watch for something to catch and eat. It’s also called a sidewinder because of the way it moves, with only half of its body touching the hot sand at any time.
5. A sidewider’s mouth opens to 180 degrees and it has a heart with three chambers. It reproduces by live birth and the babies are just as dangerous as a full-grown adult.
Peringuey's adder, or sidewinder
6. Birds like trac trac chats and Gray’s larks don’t eat dune ants because they contain formic acid.
7. The endemic golden mole is blind but it can ‘swim’ through the sand, covering some 4-6km a night.
8. The Palmato gecko can’t blink so it wipes sand from its eyes with its tongue.
Palmato gecko
9. Fitzsimmons burrowing skink is a legless lizard that smells with its tongue. Its scales are super-smooth, enabling it to ‘swim’ below the surface of loose sand on the dunes with ease.
10. A Namaqua chameleon is the fastest chameleon in the world, moving at speeds of up to 3km/h.
11. If a Namaqua chameleon’s tongue was a car it could accelerate from 0 to 100km/h in 1/100th of a second, according to a study at Brown University.
Namaqua chameleon
12. Scorpions in the Namib can be up to 18cm long. One of the species is active only during the day and there’s no anti-venom for it.
13. Scorpions are among very few creatures of the Namib dunes that provide care to their offspring; they carry their babies on their backs.
Scorpion - don't handle them unless you know really what you're doing
14. There are thousands of beetle species in the Namib. Some of them stand on the dunes in fog, bums in the air. Moisture condenses on their bodies and runs down into their mouths, and they can drink 40% of their body weight in a single morning.
Beetle dune-basking in the fog
15. Black layers of magnetite occur in the dunes. It’s magnetic so you can get it to stick to a magnet you pass over the sand; it’s surprisingly soft and furry to the touch.
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I always thought a desert was virtually sterile. Amazing the amount of life there is. Thank you for an interesting article.
I think that's a common misconception about desert areas, Phillip. And it's certainly not true of the desert around Swakopmund, that's for sure.
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Asthma was always believed to be a hereditary disorder. Researchers now believe that
Asthma can be avoided through careful control
of the home environment.
If the development of allergies can be prevented in the first year of life, an infant's immune system will be given time to mature. Eighty-five percent of the three million Canadian children under the age of 18, who have asthma, have an allergic component to their illness. Two million of these children experience serious limitations, and combined, they miss 10 million school days each year.
ALLERGIES:
HEREDITARY OR ENVIRONMENTAL?
Most infants born to parents with a history of an allergic disorder (including asthma) also go on to develop symptoms. If written in the genes is this condition inevitable ? Maybe not.
Experts believe that sensitivity to allergens and the symptoms of asthma in later childhood are directly related to allergen exposure in infancy. For example, children exposed to second hand smoke while in their mother's womb are more likely to develop asthma.
Researchers studied 120 prenatal infants, who were at high risk of developing one or more allergic disorders. When the babies were born researchers drew blood samples from the umbilical cords to check for high levels of IgE, an indicator of the potential to develop allergies.
Those babies who had both risk factors were then randomly divided into two groups. Parents of infants in the prevention group were instructed to treat the infant's bedroom and other living areas of their home to control house dust mites. They also treated these areas with a powder and foam every three months. The living environments of the other (control) group of infants were unrestricted.
Both groups of babies were monitored by a pediatrician at regular intervals. At the end of their first year of life, the babies were examined by a pediatric allergist who was completely unaware which group each was assigned to.
The results? At the end of the first year, the control group had an 40% incidence of overall allergic disorders compared with 13% for the prevention group.
Parents of infants who are at risk (that is, whose families have a history of asthma or other allergic disorders) should consider trying some preventative environmental measures.
"This is the first decent study that tried to see if asthma or eczema could be prevented by using environmental controls," says Gary Rachelefsky, M.D., director of the Allergy Research Foundation. "Viral illness has always been considered the most important triggering factor in episodes of infant asthma. But this study showed us something different. Avoidance of the allergens also resulted in fewer viral induced episodes of asthma. That's what makes this study very interesting."
Even the most immaculate home is a haven for biological pollutants, dust mites, insect parts, pet dander, fungi, molds and bacteria. These powerful allergens can trigger symptoms that are often ascribed to other health problems like colds, flu's and hayfever.
COMMON HOUSEHOLD ALLERGENS:
According to the National Publication of the Allergy/Asthma Information Association, five indoor allergens are common in even the most immaculate homes:
HOUSE DUST MITES are very tiny and live in pillows, mattresses, bedding, carpets and upholstered furniture. It is chiefly their fecal material which is allergenic, causing wheezing attacks in asthmatics.
COCKROACHES' fecal material and discarded skin has been discovered to be highly allergenic.
ANIMALS such as cats, dogs and rodents have highly allergenic saliva and urine.
MOLD is quite common in homes, but wet carpeting seems to be the biggest producer of mold.
SMOKE from cigarettes or fires is not an allergen, but is extremely irritating for an allergic individual.
Allergens are usually thought of as being suspended in the air. However, the amount of allergens in the air is tiny compared to the amount in carpets and other fabrics in the home, such as bedding and upholstery.
The Environmental Protection Agency informs us that the worst air pollution in North America is found right inside our homes, apartment complexes, office buildings, hotels and even day-care centers.
YOUR CHILD'S FIRST YEAR:
To prevent allergies, begin with these steps in your child's first year of life:
Wash all bedding in hot water. Allergen researchers have found that all mites are killed when bedding is washed at 131 degrees Fahrenheit or greater.
Encase mattress and pillows in mite/allergen resistant dust covers.
All baby furniture should have a wipeable surface that mite allergens can not adhere to.
Choose allergen resistant washable teddy bears and stuffed toys.
Avoid carpet shampooing. Soap residue from shampooing can produce an irritating dust, and the wetness can encourage mite growth and mold.
Remove or treat carpets and upholstery with a mite spray, foam or powder.
Choose vinyl covered baby bumpers as opposed to textured ones to protect and line your child's crib.
"As it (the infant's immune system) matures, the system will do a better job of defending the child's body against inhaled allergens, and the likelihood of becoming sensitive later in life may go down." says Robert Dockhorn, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine.
THE REST OF YOUR HOME:
To minimize allergens in other areas of the home:
Install a central vacuum.
To keep dust mites and molds from multiplying, keep your house temperature between 20 degrees and 21 degrees Centigrade and the humidity between 25-40%.
Remove allergens such as animals from the house.
If flooded, clean and dry water damaged carpets within 48 hours.
Do not allow anyone to smoke in the house.
Install wipeable blinds instead of curtains.
Avoid textured wall hangings that mite allergens can adhere to.
Remove dust collectors such as chalk boards, cork boards, pennants, mobiles, hanging plants and open shelves.
Keep toys and books in a closed box, drawer or cabinet.
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MODEL Railways in Film and Television
By Ben B,
April 19, 2020 in DVD/Video/TV
RichardT 398
RichardT
15 hours ago, steve1 said:
Sadly, such stereotypes about the hobby are still prevalent in the mass media, despite the efforts of programmes like TGMRC
Ha ha! I seem to recollect an editorial in MRJ (or possibly the late lamented MORILL) many years ago lamenting television drama’s habit of using possession of a model railway as shorthand for “there’s something funny about him.”
And in that context: Track 29: Nicolas Roeg’s film adaptation of Dennis Potter’s Schmoedipus, starring Gary Oldman.
More positively: the classic Yellow Pages Signal Box advert!
Steamport Southport 11,119
Steamport Southport
Location: 27C
And of course, Emmett Brown’s model railway in “Back to the Future 3” (testing the feasibility of a steam loco pushing the DeLorean to 88mph).
Can’t find a film clip but here’s one modeller’s attempt to recreate it.
Edited June 17, 2020 by RichardT
Here's a mention about Roy's model railway. ISTR something at the time that it was a specially prepared layout by the MMRS as a prop but never really paid much attention.
https://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2015/11/roy-croppers-model-railway-goes-on.html
sandwich station 3,535
sandwich station
On 04/06/2020 at 22:52, steve1 said:
I'm sure I remember a railway modeller being the murderer in an episode of Morse. Or am I confusing it with some other show?
On 04/06/2020 at 23:58, TJ52 said:
I think it was Frost.
It was in Morse. It was a guy in his early 20's that lived with his grandmother, had a massive model railway and I remember he got annoyed with his grandmother because she didn't pick his new GWR brake van up from the model shop.
Edited June 18, 2020 by sandwich station
Pteremy 280
Pteremy
5 hours ago, sandwich station said:
The Sins of The Fathers.
Apparently there was also a layout featured in an episode of Frost. https://railwaypages.com/trains-on-tv-and-screen
Ian Morgan 3,155
Ian Morgan
In the american TV series NCIS, the pathologist Dr Mallard (David McCallum) had a OO model A4 in a case on the wall of the lab. I assume it was 'Mallard'.
As an aside, in one episode a female doctor takes an interest in Dr Mallard, and asks his friend, special agent Gibbs, what did he look like when he was younger. After careful consideration he replied, "Illya Kuryakin". (youngsters, look it up)
Not The Invisible Man then?
RJS1977 3,992
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On 17/06/2020 at 23:22, RichardT said:
The loco driven off the bridge having pushed the De Lorean up to 88mph was a 7 1/4" gauge model IIRC.
Another train wreck sequence involving a model, which I'm surprised nobody has already mentioned, was the derailment scene in The Titfield Thunderbolt.
An episode of Father Brown featured a model railway enthusiast - although his layout looked much better than what could have been assembled using 1950s equipment!
IIRC there was also a model railway enthusiast in Coronation Street - who was murdered by his wife connecting his layout to the mains!
IIRC a
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50 minutes ago, RJS1977 said:
Some interesting photos of them filming BTTF with the model here: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/interestingas/comments/aapz0b/filming_the_train_scene_in_back_to_the_future_iii/
Presumably not live steam? I find it slightly surprising that they would bother to build the track for the model yet not have a rail-based tracking camera.
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Hi. another late entry here as I rarely browse this area of the forums.
But, to the point, a memorable model layout sequence occurs in Trier's "Europa" -- itself full of notable railway stuff including an awesome tunnel sequence -- when the main protagonists share a tender moment on the tracks resulting in the inevitable derailments...
A teaser for this occurs about halfway through the following trailer. A wonderful movie on many levels.
-- Mike
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On 18/06/2020 at 03:05, sandwich station said:
There was one in the prequel series, Endeavour, as well,IIRC.
PatB 4,858
A couple of minor appearances of US 3-rail 0 gauge.
Not live action, but early in The Triplets of Belville (well worth a watch as it's hilarious, especially the slow motion chase at the climax), one of the main characters has a loop of track with what looks suspiciously like a Marx or Lionel F-unit diesel. Given that mechanical/technical objects in the movie appear well researched and accurately drawn, I suspect it is based on an actual example.
In a Christmas episode of The Murdoch Mysteries, Inspector Shouty-Yorkshireman's son is seen playing with a Lionel(?) train set that is only about 50 years out of period.
And, of course, there is Lionel's rather prominent product placement in numerous episodes of Young Sheldon.
And moving on to 00, An early episode of Ripper Street, a murder victim is a toymaker (IIRC) who has made a box which automatically unfolds and reveals a gold painted Triang(?) Jinty on a foot or so of track.
I think it's been mentioned on RMWeb previously (possibly by me), but an episode of Midsomer Murders (John Nettles era), had some shots of what appeared to be a fairly extensive and quite nicely done 00 layout, complete with narrow gauge feeder (I seem to remember a Jouef/Playcraft Decauville and hoppers being seen running).
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Michael Delamar
I always remember a childrens programme in the early 90s were it was set in the past and with giants.
The giant lifts up a coach with people in it, when it cut from the set inside the coach with the actors inside the giant was holding a Hornby LNER celestory coach.
Does anyone recall this?
I'm not certain. But could it have been The Borrowers. The BBC TV series rather than the film.
I have very vague recollection that the tiny people went on to a model railway and the "normal sized" person was wondering what was wrong with his "toy train".
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In the 4th book of the series "The Borrowers Aloft", they live in a model village for a while, so that would make sense.
steve (Who will happily admit to have read all of them several times)
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Location: Co Durham
In the deepest recesses of early childhood memory lurks an American film occasionally shown on British TV during the Christmas season circa late 1950s early 1960s. I can't recall the film title at all, but the scenario was of a family falling on hard times at Christmas. The young son of the family has just woken up on Christmas Day to find the Model Railway of his dreams assembled and running. I can recall only that the loco was of the classic 1950s U.S. Diesel type and I think it may have been 'O' Gauge (possibly Lionel ?). If I remember correctly, the train set was a gift from an Aunt or other close relative sharing the family residence.
On first viewing at about age five, I recall being deeply upset for the boy, when his Mother appears and declares that the train will have to go back to the store, because it can't be afforded in the family's newly impoverished circumstances. I couldn't watch the rest of the film after that.
Can anyone identify the film from these scant details or recall the conclusion? I'm sure there must have been a happy ending, wasn't there always?
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Location: Suffolk or Lancashire (depends what I am doing)
The latest Uswitch advert on TV has a number of suggestions as what you can do with the money you save after switching your energy supplier, one of which is starting your niche hobby which shows a couple with a model railway running around their living room. Looks like they have the Hornby Flying Scotsman set running as it shows the loco with 3 teak coaches.
Goldhawk 8
52 minutes ago, Brit70053 said:
I am going to make a huge guess here! The film is Queen for a Day which was based on a American TV quiz show of the same name. The show had contestants who were down on their luck compete to win prizes. The ultimate winner was the contestant whose story was voted as most deserving by the TV audience.
My memory of the story is very very hazy but one scene that is stuck in my mind is where the boy is lying seriously ill in hospital with the locomotive tucked into the bed with him.
Hopefully this is the film that you are thinking of.
Hi Goldhawk, thanks for your reply. I'm not saying you are incorrect with your guess and I appreciate you say that's what it is, but I don't recognise the scenario you describe from the film I'm very vaguely recalling. There again, you'll recognise that my very incomplete recollection is from over 60 years ago and it seems the only scene I can pinpoint with any clarity is the mother announcing the train set will have to go back to the store as it can't be afforded. ( Perhaps ingrained as a shock to the mind of a five year old viewer with a firm belief in the magic of Christmas?)
Perhaps someone else will recall further details for a positive id on the film.
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Steven Spielberg's 'Super 8' leads me to think the great man might be a modeller, though the train crash itself is a computer generated job. The movie includes some railway modelling content and the leading young hero even, at one point, explains to his girlfriend the technique of dry-brushing! (CJL)
Bob Rowlands from Liverpool model railway club had his OO scottish layout Kinmore used several times in the filming of Brookside circa 95-96. The character Ollie Simpson had it in his garage. I remember when Bob was approached by Channel 4 at the Liverpool model railway show in the Albert dock for this.
H2O 56
3 model railways in film and tv that I don't think have been mentioned (appologies if they have). They are from 30+ ish years ago so hopefully my memory is still serving me ok!
A Goodies episode where a full scale, but only 2D, model of a train goes over a level crossing where I think it cut their lorry in two?
A special effects program that showed how a scene in the 60's film 'Doctor Zhivago' was made with a model train in a landscape of 'snow' made of salt.
An 80's 'science' show where they took a scene from a film to explore if it was better for a train to go slowly or rapidly across a rickety wooden trestle bridge. They demonstrated it was better to go slowly by running a model train across a deliberately badly made bridge a different speeds.
Im trying to recall something which I am reminded of every time I see those videos filmed from the front of a Lego train going around a garden or floor.
1980s.
Had that similar fast sharp curves feel to it.
may have been a sort of ghost train but more akin to a sort of indoor rollercoaster.
I can't recall if it was a music video, intro to a kids tv show or what but its something I can remember from childhood and its bugged me for a long time.
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RTE presenter Evanne Ni Chuillin discusses her adoption story ahead of new documentary
"The word 'illegitimate' is written on my paperwork. The name Fiona was given to me."
RTE presenter Evanne Ní Chuillin has candidly discussed her adoption story ahead of her brand new documentary for TG4.
Evanne was adopted as baby, and said that having completely different interests and not looking like the rest of her family had an impact on her during her teenage years.
The broadcaster was passionate about sports, but her family were artistic and intellectual.
"When I was 16, you have the general insecurity of being a teenager, especially in an all-girls' school, which is when I became really self-conscious about being tall, curious to know more about who I am," Evanne told the Irish Independent.
RTE presenter Evanne Ni Chuilinn refused entry to Dublin club for not having ID
"I had friends who hated looking like their siblings, but if you grow up in your family of origin or birth, you don't realise what you would be missing."
When Evanne met her birth mother Mary for the first time, she said she felt content but "less other" - like the fellow 60,000 people in Ireland who have been stopped from tracing their past by current legislation.
In her TG4 documentary 'Uchtú: Evanne Ni Chuillin', the presenter takes a look at the current adoption system in Ireland, interviews other adopted people about their experiences and calls for change.
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Women & unborn kids victimized as Dems and Reps weaponize abortion
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It’s a recipe for social disaster. Democrats push for late-term abortions as Republicans move to ban abortions, even in cases of rape and incest. The victims of this political circus are women and unborn babies.
Rekindled interest in abortion legislation is a clear reminder that the 2020 presidential elections are bearing down on the United States like a veritable tornado, with all of the expected fallout and damage.
On one side of the ramparts we have liberals, fervent believers in the idea that nobody – least of all members of the hirsute patriarchal tribe – should have the right to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies. That argument is defensible, but only up to a point.
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After all, a defenseless baby in the mother’s womb is also, arguably, blessed with certain unalienable rights. But who will speak for it? The fact that it is unable to vote in elections and recite the constitution are poor excuses for denying the fetus representation, not to mention life. In other words, a legal line must be drawn between the rights of the woman and the rights of the unborn human being she is carrying.
It should come as no surprise that many liberals passionately disagree with that argument. That much was made obvious by pro-abortion legislation recently passed by the state of New York that allows abortions within 24 weeks from the start of pregnancy, or at any time when it is deemed necessary to protect the expectant mother’s life or health.
At this point, it would be idle not to ask whether these women took advantage of the many inexpensive contraceptives now readily available over the counter, and why they decided to wait until the third trimester of their pregnancy to terminate the life inside of them. But I digress.
Today New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act which redefines person as“a human being who has been born and is alive” and which permits abortion in some cases to birth!This was their reaction after passing the bill#WickednessInHighPlacespic.twitter.com/OKYW4kspG6
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) January 22, 2019
For many US conservatives, the idea of administering abortions in the third trimester would be tantamount to committing first-degree premeditated murder. That’s because the heartbeat of the fetus becomes audible around the sixth week of pregnancy, a time when not only conservatives but doctors say that life has truly begun.
“A heartbeat is a universal, scientific, non-controversial sign of life,” noted Susan Michelle-Hanson, a pro-life activist and journalist.
All things considered, it seems like an inopportune time for Democrats to be agitating Republicans, who are in a strong political position to roll back the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, which granted women the right to abortions in the first place. Now, the sleeping giant of conservative America is wide awake, the Republican backlash against abortions has all the ability to do untold harm to many women – and in much the same way that the Democrats’ initiatives can harm the unborn.
Last week, for example, the state of Alabama passed the most shockingly stringent pro-life laws of the last 40 years. Incredibly, the law denies most abortions without exception – even for pregnancies that were conceived as a result of rape and incest.
Much like the Democrats on the other side of the trenches, the Republicans risk triggering a backlash with the imposition of abortion restrictions so dreadfully draconian they sound like they were crafted in the European Dark Ages. In fact, denying an abortion to a woman who has undergone the unspoken mental and physical ordeal of rape or incest could result in unintended consequences, like many conservatives abandoning the Republican Party out of sheer disgust, for example.
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Furthermore, as history has taught us on numerous occasions, slapping a ban on something rarely eliminates the problem. In fact, it usually has exactly the opposite effect. As was the case with the illegal production and sale of alcohol during the early Prohibition years, the banned product or service just moves underground to the black market, beyond the prying eyes of the authorities and regulators. Meanwhile, bootleggers got rich, while many consumers of the ‘moonshine’ died.
Abortions have a similarly tragic history. In the not-so-distant past, hundreds of women were victims each year in the US from unsafe abortions, many of which were self-induced with the use of crude instruments or toxic chemicals. In fact, unsafe abortions became such a rampant problem that many hospitals had a special ‘septic abortion ward’ that was used for dealing with the consequences of an incomplete abortion.
Perhaps one way of putting the brakes on abortions would be for the US to create a nationwide system of government-run orphanages where women can take their unwanted children to be cared for. In 1994, Senator Newt Gingrich floated that very idea in his so-called ‘Contract with America’ plan. But the money to fund the program came from a regrettable source: Gingrich wanted to disqualify all unwed women under the age of 18 from receiving welfare payments for life if they gave birth, which would probably increase abortions in this particular demographic. The savings from that and other initiatives would be used to fund the orphanages and greatly reduce the need for abortions. But the idea never caught on. It seemed the US government was more content to hand out monthly welfare checks to mothers, many of whom were wholly unqualified to raise their children, than to pay the exorbitant price of caring for all those needy kids. After all, there were expensive wars to fight in foreign lands.
The bottom line is that the Democrats and Republicans are giving undue attention to their narrow political agendas at great risk to unborn babies and expectant mothers. Thus, the Democrats are being branded as cold-blooded ‘baby killers’ while the conservatives are stereotyped as unresponsive to the plight of pregnant women – even those who have endured the gravest violations.
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It is trying times like these when cool heads must prevail in order to stake out the reasonable middle ground where the protection of women and unborn babies is the top priority, a goal that everyone can cheer for. After all, nobody deserves to be sacrificed for cheap political gamesmanship, even in a mean-spirited presidential election season.
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Del Mar Horsepark advocates release water test results
A horse exercises at the Del Mar Horsepark east of the fairgrounds.
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Equestrian activities suspended because of water quality issues
By Phil Diehl
Advocates working to keep the Del Mar Horsepark open for equestrian shows, a riding school and other activities released a report Friday that indicates the park’s water issues originate outside the property.
Testing lab ALS Group USA Corp. of Irvine examined water samples taken during seasonal rains Dec. 28 upstream and downstream from the horse park. The upstream samples showed significantly higher amounts of coliforms, pollutants that come from human and animal waste.
“The results indicate that the horse park is not the source of any additional contaminants to the San Dieguito River Valley waterways,” said Carla Echols-Hayes, a Solana Beach resident and horse park advocate. “It may also indicate that the marsh is cleaning the water that flows past the horse park.”
The 22nd District Agricultural Association, which runs the horse park and the Del Mar Fairgrounds, announced in December it was cancelling all 2021 contracts for equestrian shows, animal boarding and other activities because of groundwater issues on the 64-acre horse-park property.
“Continuing with an equestrian presence at the horse-park property would require a significant and immediate investment of funds to address water quality requirements, which is simply not possible given the dire effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the fairgrounds’ revenues,” said 22nd DAA board President Richard Valdez in an email last month.
A recently completed two-year, $15 million construction project added a water treatment plant, a holding pond and wetlands restoration at the 340-acre Del Mar Fairgrounds. But fairgrounds officials say that with the economic crisis they face there’s simply no money to make those changes at the horse park, a separate piece of property the 22nd DAA bought in the 1990s two miles east of the fairgrounds.
A group of residents called The Friends of Del Mar Horsepark sponsored the water tests as part of their efforts to see equestrian activities continued there.
The samples were taken by Duncan Mcintosh, a rider and horse trainer who works with equestrian facilities across Southern California.
Test results showed the highest total coliform bacteria counts at a third site, a storm drain along Via de la Valle southwest of the horse park on a slope below a residential neighborhood.
“If there’s a pollution source, it’s not the horses, it’s the people,” Echols-Hayes said.
An online petition to keep the horse park has more than 9,000 signatures so far.
A news release from The Friends of Del Mar states that, instead of being shut down, the horse park could be leased to an operator who could afford to make the water-quality upgrades needed and retain the riding school and other activities there.
The horse park has two grass jumping stadiums with seating for 1,320 people, a covered, lighted arena, four show rings, four training rings, a dressage ring and 400 training stalls, along with permanent stalls for year-round boarding.
Officials at the Regional Water Quality Control Board and at the fairgrounds did not respond to questions Friday about the water tests.
Fairgrounds officials have scheduled a discussion of the horse park for their meeting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Because of COVID-19 restrictions the meeting will be held online and can be seen live at www.delmarfairgrounds.com.
The 22nd DAA has been especially hard hit by the pandemic, which forced the cancellation of the 2020 San Diego County Fair and all other mass gatherings at the fairgrounds. Revenue for the year was down almost 90 percent, and the fairgrounds laid off almost two-thirds of its full-time employees in October.
In December, the fair board voted to cancel all 2021 entertainment contracts, though staffers said they are still considering ways they might hold a scaled-back version of the county fair.
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Sands film - David's story
David Haig, Sands Ambassador | 15 June 2015
Our new film highlights the work Sands does supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby, improving bereavement care and pioneering new research to save more babies’ lives; and what you can do to help.
Each day this week we will introduce all the people in the film who will share their stories in their own words. Today, David Haig, who presents the film and is a Sands Ambassador, writes about his experience.
Mine and my wife Julia’s daughter Grace was stillborn at full term on 20th September 1996.
And that’s a date I would remember anyway but it had an extra irony and resonance because that’s my birthday.
A few days beforehand my wife Julia sensed that the heart had stopped beating, she sensed there was no movement and as an experienced Mother suspected Grace had died. This was confirmed.
So we went to the hospital and were in the maternity ward on the top floor with a deceptively beautiful view of London. We were in a room on our own and Julia prepared to give birth to Grace.
Two extraordinary things happened during this labour.
The first was that when Julia was on the point of giving birth there was nobody there, no doctor, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that I ran down the corridor of the maternity wing, shouting for a midwife or a doctor, to come and help Julia give birth to her dead baby.
The second thing that happened in the hospital was we were put in a room which was next to a conventional standard maternity ward. The wall was paper thin, so that as Julia went into labour we heard the joyous, triumphant sounds of natural childbirth going on next door. There was champagne popping, shouting, singing and un-channelled joy.
That never should have happened and one of the many things Sands has done since our acquaintance with the charity is develop specialised bereavement suites.
So after the birth we spent some time with Grace. Julia held her. I didn’t which is a choice I regret. She was perfect. Except that her colour was grey, her skin had started to go grey and had started to flake.
We went home and the next stage was the funeral which was an appallingly tragic occasion, centred around a tiny white coffin.
And it was after the funeral that Sands came into our life. Julia attended a local Sands Group meeting in South East London and met other parents, mainly mothers, who had gone through the same appalling tragedy.
I’ve now been involved with Sands for 18 years and I still believe that the most central, important facet of Sands’ work are the small local Groups.
Of course research is important, but these Groups of parents who can listen and empathise after this sort of tragedy are crucial and vital. And it was that local Group in South East London that saved Julia and me after the death of Grace.
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Searching for People — and Memories — in Vietnam
In modern Vietnam, memories of the war still linger.
Jill K. Robinson
Sustained traditions: Immediately outside Hôi Am, rice paddies abound in various states of growth and harvest.
Photo by Jill K. Robinson
Motorbikes stacked with baskets of produce and crates of chickens cross in front of the car, causing me to hold my breath as we navigate the route.
My driver doesn’t seem concerned.
“Now in Vietnam,” he says, “everything under construction.” His arm sweeps the horizon as we drive through Da Nang, 40 years since the end of the American War, as it’s called here. It seems every other building is a casino-cum-resort in the country’s desire to turn the beachside town into a Las Vegas rival. We weave through slow “sticky rice traffic” and are soon zipping along the road to Hôi An, where he assures me things will be different.
Soon, the presence of vehicles on the road is the only clue that we haven’t transported back to another time. On either side, emerald rice paddies stretch into the distance, tended by chunky water buffalo with crescent-shaped horns and people wearing the conical hats called non la.
This day trip is a solo journey for me. All my other excursions in Vietnam have been organized by the small luxury cruise ship on which I’m traveling — along with 115 other passengers. Each morning in another port, we meet in the ship’s lounge, form groups based on pre-determined tour interests, and board buses that take us deeper into the country.
Among the passengers are a handful of men who have visited Vietnam previously, during the war — although “visit” isn’t exactly the description they use. From Marine to Army pilot, all are here to see the country anew, some more enthusiastically than others.
“I think the only reason I’m here,” says Chuck Molenda, a former Army captain pilot stationed in Hue Phu Bai who flew an OV-1 Mohawk over Laos and North Vietnam, “is to see if I can find Tia.”
He shows me a black-and-white photo he’d taken of a 14-year-old Vietnamese girl and explains that she was the “hooch girl,” who cleaned the tent and Marine jungle hut — the “hooch” — that he and three other pilots called home for a year.
“Tin roofs, screened sides, and plywood floors,” Chuck says. “Pure luxury.”
In the photo, Tia has a shy smile and isn’t looking directly at the camera. It’s as if she was intrigued and yet cautious all at once.
“I know the odds aren’t good, and I’m almost sure I won’t find her, but if I don’t try, I’ll be thinking about it for the rest of my life.”
It seems a far distance to travel for someone who might not be the closest of friends. But the war, for many, changed the personal borders they had with others — making them thinner, or even far thicker, than one might have at home. Was Chuck motivated to make the trip because he was always worried for Tia, or did his experiences with the war and their aftermath push his thoughts of Tia’s whereabouts to a more uncomfortable place — until it couldn’t stay quiet any longer?
While I’m spending the day in Hôi An, Chuck has hired a driver to take him to a village about a half mile off the end of the runway they used during the war, where he plans to ask residents if they recognize the girl and perhaps know what has become of her. “I’m prepared to be disappointed,” he says. “I know the odds aren’t good, and I’m almost sure I won’t find her, but if I don’t try, I’ll be thinking about it for the rest of my life.”
Leaning on the railing of a bridge that spans Hôi An’s Thu Bôn River, I watch fishermen setting their nets while wooden tour boats sit empty along the banks. The boats’ painted eyes silently gaze at the Japanese merchant houses, Chinese temples, and souvenir shops with Viet Cong pith helmets and T-shirts exclaiming “Buddha is my Omboy.” During the American War, Hôi An, with the cooperation of both sides, remained almost completely undamaged.
The Ancient Town is small — one street running along the Thu Bôn with three more streets parallel to the river. They’re intersected by smaller streets and alleys, and in a few hours, visitors can cover it all. Detours into the alleys reward me with glimpses of Buddhist altars, scrolled lampposts, families eating breakfast, and women loading baskets of goods for market.
Ancient ties: The covered bridge was built to link Japanese and Chinese communities in Hôi An.
Near one end of the Ancient Town, a Japanese covered bridge emerges from rose-colored walls, linking previous Japanese and Chinese communities. I walk past stone monkey guardians at one end before entering a tiny temple built into the bridge. The deep red wood glows under silk lanterns, and smoke curling up from a forest of incense sticks never quite reaches the ceiling before an oscillating fan blows it gently away.
Looking out from the covered bridge, I spy Vietnamese teens in suits and ao dai tunics posing for photos near the river. Tourists emerge from shops with new treasures, and backpackers perch on tiny plastic chairs to sample street food prepared in front of their ankles. The fisherman hauls in his net, arranges fish in his boat, and casts the net again.
It’s still morning as I walk along the river toward Hôi An’s Central Market. My eyes are focused on the ground to avoid stepping on the buckets of fish on one side and the baskets of peppers on the other. I don’t see her coming. The light punch on my shoulder, delivered with a closed fist, is her only communication. I turn quickly to see a tiny older woman, with salt-and-pepper hair pulled into a bun underneath a conical hat, scurry away through the market crowd.
Resisting the urge to run after her and ask her motive, I scan the faces of the market vendors around me. They’d been quietly observing, and now with my gaze on them, turn back to their tasks — whether selling cucumbers, lychees, shrimp, dragonfruit, or the hundreds of other types of merchandise at the Central Market.
Their disinterest makes it seem as if a tiny elderly woman is regularly scheduled to punch someone every day at around this time, like the clock parade at It’s a Small World in Disneyland, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, or even the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas. I must have missed important advice if the Hôi An Central Market’s punching lady is merely part of the entertainment.
Basket goods: Bananas, lychees, and other fesh produce are available from mobile street merchants in the old town.
My growling stomach lures me to a stall with a sign that advertises “Pho’, Cao Lâu, Hu Tiêu, Kinh Mo’i,” and I grab a seat as I wait for the rich pork broth with light yellow noodles, slabs of tender pork, bean sprouts, and fresh herbs to be ladled into a bowl.
“She’s still mad about the war,” the vendor says, handing me the bowl of cao lâu, a local specialty. “She lost many people in her family.”
“She knows I wasn’t here in the war, right?” I ask, wondering just how old I look.
The woman smiles and nods, and as I pull some money out of my pocket to pay, she waves her hand to communicate that this bowl of cao lâu is her treat. A minor bruise for a bowl of porky goodness is a fair trade.
“She’s still mad about the war,” the vendor says, handing me the bowl of cao lâu. “She lost many people in her family.”
I wonder how Chuck is doing with his search, and recall a conversation I had the day before with Geoff, the ship’s travel anthropologist, about the likelihood of finding Tia.
“If she made it through the war and is still in the area, which for a number of reasons is unlikely,” Geoff said, “the North Vietnamese would have identified her as a sympathizer or even considered her a combatant, and life for her would have been very difficult, to say the least.”
He added that for many men who supported the South Vietnamese campaigns (or worked with the U.S. directly), “re-education camps” were the norm. Higher-ranking people may have faced forced labor or even execution.
“For women, it’s highly possible they may have been abused at the discretion of the men who found them, in ways unthinkable,” Geoff said.
I find myself slowing down as I walk through Hôi An, watching women tend to their daily lives. How many of them had been lucky enough to escape torture and death? How many others had been from the other side? How large would today’s population of Hôi An be if there had been no war?
Hôi An extends far beyond the old architecture and shops of the Ancient Town. Eager to get a longer look at life outside old Hôi An, I walk past the boundaries to see what most of the tourists are missing.
Hôi An Central Market: Vendors sell seafood, silk, produce, and prepared meals.
I find a vendor who sells me a glass of bia ho’i (fresh beer brewed only in northern Vietnam) and sip it while watching residents and visitors pass by. The rain falls lightly at first and then begins to pour. I stand under the vendor’s umbrella, and the woman lifts a stack of T-shirts from a chair, motions for me to sit, and then plunks a non la on my head.
“Wait for rain,” she insists, sitting in a chair under the umbrella and miming drinking a beer, so I’ll understand. Traffic stops, and for a moment, it seems that we’re in our own timeless cocoon. We take turns offering simply worded observations about passers-by as we wait out the rain.
She shows me a stack of old photos — dog-eared, sepia-toned remnants of the American War. I flip through the stack to see images of soldiers, villages, beach activities during down time, even simple portraits of Vietnamese people. Every once in a while, I linger on a photo, and she leans over and touches it. Both our hands hold it together as we gaze into the past.
The vendor appears to be in her mid-50s, around the same age Tia would be today. I wonder how long she’s had the photos, and if now they were such a part of her memories that, despite the prices she’d penciled on the back, she might have a hard time letting go of them.
We finish looking through the images, and I hand them back to her. She tucks them inside a silk scarf, and then behind the last pile of T‑shirts. The pictures are decidedly not on display, or for sale, like many things that challenge us, causing both pleasure and pain, placed just out of reach.
When the rain stops, I finish my glass of beer and hand it to her, along with the loaner hat. In return, she tucks a small pink flower behind my ear. Our goodbyes are nearly drowned out by the sound of motorbike traffic, but our smiles are enough to convey the sentiment. I skirt the puddles as I head deeper into modern Vietnam, and eventually to the car that will take me past casinos and resorts. Back to where everything is under construction.
On the ship, I find Chuck sitting in our regular spot — on the deck near the bar. I ask the question that’s been on my mind all day.
“No, I didn’t find her,” he answers. “I didn’t think I would, but I’m glad I came.”
He looks disappointed, but claims not to be. Once they return to the ship, the other vets check in with Chuck — all with the same question. Some of them ask silently, with raised brows. Others out loud.
They linger over memories with their drinks, and I give them some time alone together. I wasn’t part of their experiences, and to listen in would be trespassing on their memories. The ship’s engines growl, and we slowly pull away from the dock in Da Nang. I pick the pink flower from behind my ear and turn it over in my fingers for a few minutes before letting it flutter down into the East Vietnam Sea. For Tia, wherever she may be.
Jill K. Robinson writes about travel, adventure, food, and drink for the San Francisco Chronicle, AFAR, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, and more. Her essays have been published in Travelers’ Tales: The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women’s Travel Writing. Her last feature for the Post was “Little Free Libraries” in the May/June 2014 issue.
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Kathleen Prince says:
Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing this experience with readers.
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The Short-Is-Swell Movement in Digital Communication
Most of us lead busy lives. Errands to run, people to see, messages to send. i mean tiny msgs without commas & forget periods cuz no time 4 that
This inexorable trend toward ever briefer-faster everything (snip, cut, snip snip) is both a national embarrassment and a disgrace. Period.
Unfortunately, we are in the thrall of digital media, which almost always favors speed over depth. Morning till night we bow low before the prodigious (quasi-religious?) powers of our smarty-pants devices, so glowy and touch-sensitive.
The result is plain to see. We’re losing our ability to reflect. The operative command today is “Give it to me short, condensed, or fast.”
Hardly any segment of our popular culture has been spared. Books, magazine articles, TV shows, even advertising copy and instructional manuals — all are shorter these days. Six-second videos playing in a continuous loop are hugely popular on smartphones. TV news reports are supplemented by scrolling tickers. Amazon.com has an entire section devoted to “Best Sellers in 15-Minute Short Reads.” In live theater, a new genre has emerged: 10-minute plays and musicals. I’m only mildly surprised that no one is insisting Twitter reduce its 140-character limit.
It would be hilarious were it not true, but some youngsters evidently find even texting too arduous. They choose instead to share thoughts in the language of sequential emoji. Ah, the young! So … visual. So … utterly defeated by the tyranny of Silicon Valley.
But so what? Why not cut to the chase? Well, no matter the prevailing sentiment, sometimes less is not more; sometimes it’s just less. If we were to adopt a national tool, I submit it would likely be the scissors.
If we were to adopt a national tool, I submit it would likely be the scissors.
When shrinkage becomes strategy, as it has in these matters, the underlying message to consumers is unequivocal: Deeper, nuanced content is essentially a waste of your time, so don’t even bother.
Am I being unnecessarily grouchy about the drift toward less? On the contrary. I contend a high degree of grouch is required.
The other day, while ruminating about all this, I reached out to Richard Watson, author of Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years. “Any chance that our aversion to, say, immersive reading is just a temporary cultural blip?” I asked.
I could almost hear him sigh. “I fear the further erosion of sustained, focused thought,” Watson answered.
Improbably, the short-is-swell movement recently gained an unofficial mascot — none other than novelist James Patterson. Yep, that Jim Patterson, best known for producing blockbusters that are ground out, nonstop, as if manufactured in a frankfurter factory. He has launched BookShots, a publishing imprint devoted to novels that can be read in two hours or less.
Patterson says the conceit behind BookShots is that they will skip “the boring parts.” He has got an ally in fellow writer Jesse Kornbluth, whose novel, Married Sex: A Love Story, came out last year. “Publishing has been trying to commit suicide for all the decades I’ve been writing, and it’s finally making progress,” Kornbluth told me (appropriately, in a text message). “One good reason is the belief that the public wants novels thick as doorstops, but they don’t. My ideal reader for Married Sex would open the novel as the plane lifts off from New York and finish as it lands in Los Angeles.”
If all this wanton pruning troubles you, I’m sorry to report that the situation may grow gloomier still. A Facebook executive recently predicted that, in five years, the site’s newsfeeds will be almost entirely filled with videos — because users vastly prefer video to actual, you know, words.
It’s not easy, but I’m resisting the temptation to conclude this column with a sad-face emoji.
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ShopHQ Homepage > Watches > Invicta > 653-153
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Movement Country of Origin: Japan
Thickness: 12-1/2mm
Bezel: Unidirectional rotating
Dial Material: Metal
Crown: Push/pull with function pushers
Complications: 3:00 - 24-hour, 6:00 - Perpetual seconds and 9:00 - 60-minute
Strap: Polyurethane and stainless steel
Strap Measurements: 8" L x 26mm W
Clasp: Deployant
Watch Country of Origin: Japan
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Model Number 17566
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Watch Glossary:
ATM: Measures water resistance; Stands for "atmospheres" or the amount of pressure a watch can withstand before leaking; One atmosphere is equal to 10 meters of water pressure.
Bezel: Retaining ring topping the case and securing the crystal; Sometimes incorporates unidirectional or ratcheting movements, engraved or printed chapter markers, or complications such as a tachymeter.
Chronograph: Functioning similarly to a stopwatch, a chronograph is a unique and valued complication due to its ability to measure increments of elapsed time while the watch still maintains traditional timekeeping abilities. The crown controls the analog watch while function pushers allow you to start, stop and reset the chronograph subdials.
Chronometer: High-precision timepiece that has been tested and is certified to meet precision standards; Chronometer watches often come with certificates indicating their certified status.
Complication: Any feature added to the timepiece that does not indicate hours, minutes or seconds.
COSC Certified Chronometer: Refers to timepieces that have been christened with the title of chronometer. To become a chronometer, timepieces have to pass a test conducted by the Controle Officiel Suisse des Chronometers (COSC), roughly translating to Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute. COSC is a prestigious Swiss government agency that certifies the accuracy and precision of timepieces in Switzerland.
Crown: Part that allows you to manipulate the watch movement for a variety of purposes such as setting the hands, changing the date, winding the mainspring, etc.
Crystal: Transparent cover on a watch face that gives view of the dial.
Deployant: Type of clasp that keeps the closing mechanism hidden, creating an uninterrupted look for your bracelet or strap.
Dual Time Zone: Timepiece that simultaneously gives time in two time zones. GMT function serves the same purpose and is used interchangeably, as it can be set to any time zone you wish.
Exhibition Case or Back: Unique complication wherein a crystal window is implemented into the back of a watch case, allowing view of the timepiece's movement.
Function Pushers: Manual controls on a case for when a movement features complications that require increased manipulation.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): Also referred to as Greenwich Meridian Time, the Greenwich Meridian Line is located at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. It is the place from where all time zones are measured. Greenwich Mean Time is the average time that Earth takes to rotate from noon to noon. In this regard, GMT is thought of as "the world's time" and was once the basis with which every other zone set time.
Guilloche: Style of engraving that features wavy or straight lines, giving a unique effect when the timepiece is moved or shifted.
Ionic Plating: Process that produces a hardened surface that is durable and scratch-resistant; Has a black flat "stealth" finish.
Jewels: Within a movement, metal on metal contact creates wear and tear. Watchmakers use jewel bearings to reduce friction and help the delicate parts of the movement work smoothly and with great precision. Jewels help extend the movement's life. Diamonds, sapphires, rubies and garnets are the preferred materials. As a general rule, a higher number of jewels suggests a more prestigious movement.
Lugs: North and south ends of the case that attach to the strap or bracelet and often extend out from the dominant lines of the case.
Moon Phase: The lunar cycle has been a cornerstone of horology, the study of measuring time, since ancient days. Moon Phase is a complication on a timepiece that displays the various stages of the moon cycles from waxing to waning. It appears as a dial visible through an aperture which reveals the current moon phase.
Movement: Assembly making up the principal elements and mechanisms of a watch or clock; Includes the winding and setting mechanism, the mainspring, the train, the escapement and the regulating elements.
Power Reserve: Time a watch will continue running based on the movement's residual winding of its mainspring; In quartz and digital watches, this can also refer to the amount of energy left in the battery.
Push Button Dual Deployant: Similar to deployant and considered one of the most desirable and easy-to-use clasps, the push button dual deployant employs two small hidden push buttons that release the bracelet. This clasp keeps the closing mechanism hidden for an uninterrupted, seamless finish.
Repeater: Complex watch mechanism that sounds hours, quarters or minutes, or repeats them on request; Originally designed to help the wearer to tell the time in the dark.
Retrograde: Hour, minute, second or calendar hand that moves across a scale and resets to zero at the end of its cycle.
Skeletonization: Reveals the intricate symphony of moving rotors, gears and springs which power a timepiece; The open design offers an insider's view, as unnecessary metal is cut away to allow the wearer to actually see the movement's skeleton.
Swiss Made: Since the 16th century, Switzerland has been the epicenter of watch making, producing some of the industry's greatest technological advances. The Swiss put a law into effect for all timepieces baring the words "Swiss Made": First, the movement must be assembled in Switzerland. Secondly, the movement must be cased up in Switzerland. Finally, the manufacturer must carry out the timepiece's final inspection in Switzerland.
Tachymeter: Scale on a watch used to determine units per hour, such as average speed over a fixed distance, or distance based on speed; Typically located along the outer rim of a dial.
Tritium: Miniature tubes containing gaseous Tritium and layered with phosphor to power the luminous accents which can be seen for several meters in darkness. Tritium illumination requires no electrical power but must be "charged" by holding your watch close to any light source. The longer you hold it there, the longer and brighter you'll see the Tritnite.
Unidirectional Rotating Bezel: Used for tracking elapsed time. A ratchet mechanism prevents the bezel from rotating backwards. This feature is popular with divers, who rely on the elapsed time feature to prevent the diver from running out of air. The fact that the bezel cannot rotate backwards prevents the wearer from underestimating the elapsed time.About Stainless Steel:
Also called corrosion resistant steel, stainless steel is a steel alloy with added iron and chromium. The metal is rust-resistant, durable and highly lustrous. It has a similar appearance to platinum and polishes to a glistening sheen. Any scratches that may occur from day to day wear can be easily buffed away without endangering the piece. Please note, however, if the stainless steel is plated with another metal, the plating can wear off if rubbed excessively against hard surfaces.
Stainless steel was first recognized in France in 1821 by metallurgist Pierre Berthier. After several corrosion-resistance related discoveries and patents in Europe and the United States, Harry Brearley in England discovered a modern blend of stainless steel alloy. When it was announced by The New York Times in January of 1915, he was officially credited with the invention of this impressive modern metal.
Chronograph: Functioning similarly to a stopwatch, a chronograph is a unique and valued complication due to its ability to measure increments of elapsed time while the watch still maintains traditional timekeeping abilities. The crown controls the analog watch while function pushers allow you to start, stop and reset the chronograph subdials. Variations of chronographs include the double chronograph with two separate stopwatch mechanisms and the flyback chronograph which allows the user to stop, reset and start the chronograph with a single depression of the function pusher.
Quartz: Although not as mechanically complex as other engines, the quartz movement provides the most accurate and reliable time-keeping. This type of movement typically draws power from a battery and centers around a small vibrating chip of quartz crystal. When an electrical current, supplied from a battery, is applied to a quartz crystal, the current is distorted and creates a precise resonating frequency. Watchmakers employ the subsequent frequency to measure time. Some adaptations to the traditional quartz movement include introducing rotors and power cells in an effort to maintain the accuracy of quartz while eliminating the need for a battery. Quartz movements have been used in timepieces since the 1970s and are highly accurate, dependable and affordable.
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Noninvasive monitoring intracranial pressure – A review of available modalities
Author(s): Marium Naveed Khan , Hussain Shallwani 1 , Muhammad Ulusyar Khan 2 , Muhammad Shahzad Shamim 3 , *
Publication date (Electronic): 05 April 2017
Journal: Surgical Neurology International
Publisher: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
Keywords: Intracranial pressure, intracranial pressure monitoring, noninvasive
Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is important in many neurosurgical and neurological patients. The gold standard for monitoring ICP, however, is via an invasive procedure resulting in the placement of an intraventricular catheter, which is associated with many risks. Several noninvasive ICP monitoring techniques have been examined with the hope to replace the invasive techniques. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of all modalities that have been used for noninvasive ICP monitoring to date.
A thorough literature search was conducted on PubMed, selected articles were reviewed in completion, and pertinent data was included in the review.
A total of 94 publications were reviewed, and we found that over the past few decades clinicians have attempted to use a number of modalities to monitor ICP noninvasively.
Although the intraventricular catheter remains the gold standard for monitoring ICP, several noninvasive modalities that can be used in settings when invasive monitoring is not possible are also available. In our opinion, measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter and pupillometry are the two modalities which may prove to be valid options for centers not performing invasive ICP monitoring.
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
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In this report the authors describe a noninvasive transcranial method of determining the flow velocities in the basal cerebral arteries. Placement of the probe of a range-gated ultrasound Doppler instrument in the temporal area just above the zygomatic arch allowed the velocities in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) to be determined from the Doppler signals. The flow velocities in the proximal anterior (ACA) and posterior (PCA) cerebral arteries were also recorded at steady state and during test compression of the common carotid arteries. An investigation of 50 healthy subjects by this transcranial Doppler method revealed that the velocity in the MCA, ACA, and PCA was 62 +/- 12, 51 +/0 12, and 44 +/- 11 cm/sec, respectively. This method is of particular value for the detection of vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage and for evaluating the cerebral circulation in occlusive disease of the carotid and vertebral arteries.
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More than two centuries ago, Alexander Monro applied some of the principles of physics to the intracranial contents and for the first time hypothesized that the blood circulating in the cranium was of constant volume at all times. This hypothesis was supported by experiments by Kellie. In its original form, the hypothesis had shortcomings that prompted modification by others. What finally came to be known as the Monro-Kellie doctrine, or hypothesis, is that the sum of volumes of brain, CSF, and intracranial blood is constant. An increase in one should cause a decrease in one or both of the remaining two. This hypothesis has substantial theoretical implications in increased intracranial pressure and in decreased CSF volume. Many of the MRI abnormalities seen in intracranial hypotension or CSF volume depletion can be explained by the Monro-Kellie hypothesis. These abnormalities include meningeal enhancement, subdural fluid collections, engorgement of cerebral venous sinuses, prominence of the spinal epidural venous plexus, and enlargement of the pituitary gland.
Emergency department sonographic measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter to detect findings of increased intracranial pressure in adult head injury patients.
Philippa Saunders, Vivek S Tayal, Matthew Neulander … (2007)
Our objective is to determine whether a bedside ultrasonographic measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter can accurately predict the computed tomographic (CT) findings of elevated intracranial pressure in adult head injury patients in the emergency department (ED). We conducted a prospective, blinded observational study on adult ED patients with suspected intracranial injury with possible elevated intracranial pressure. Exclusion criteria were age younger than 18 years or obvious ocular trauma. Using a 7.5-MHz ultrasonographic probe on the closed eyelids, a single optic nerve sheath diameter was measured 3 mm behind the globe in each eye. A mean binocular optic nerve sheath diameter greater than 5.00 mm was considered abnormal. Cranial CT findings of shift, edema, or effacement suggestive of elevated intracranial pressure were used to evaluate optic nerve sheath diameter accuracy. Fifty-nine patients were enrolled in the study. Average age was 38 years, and median Glasgow Coma Scale score was 15 (interquartile 6 to 15). Eight patients with an optic nerve sheath diameter of 5.00 mm or more had CT findings that correlated with elevated intracranial pressure. The sensitivity for the ultrasonography in detecting elevated intracranial pressure was 100% (95% confidence interval [CI] 68% to 100%) and specificity was 63% (95% CI 50% to 76%). The sensitivity of ultrasonography for detection of any traumatic intracranial injury found by CT was 84% (95% CI 60% to 97%) and specificity was 73% (95% CI 59% to 86%). Bedside ED optic nerve sheath diameter ultrasonography has potential as a sensitive screening test for elevated intracranial pressure in adult head injury.
Marium Naveed Khan
Hussain Shallwani
Muhammad Ulusyar Khan
Muhammad Shahzad Shamim
Journal ID (nlm-ta): Surg Neurol Int
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Surg Neurol Int
Journal ID (publisher-id): SNI
Title: Surgical Neurology International
Publisher: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd (India )
Publication date Collection: 2017
Aga Khan University, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
[1 ]Endovascular Research Fellow, University of Buffalo Neurosurgery, Buffalo, New York, USA
[2 ]Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
[3 ]Division of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
[* ]Corresponding author
Publisher ID: SNI-8-51
DOI: 10.4103/sni.sni_403_16
Copyright statement: Copyright: © 2017 Surgical Neurology International
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Subject: General Neurosurgery: Review Article
ScienceOpen disciplines: Surgery
Keywords: noninvasive, intracranial pressure monitoring, intracranial pressure
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The host’s angiotensin-converting enzyme polymorphism may explain epidemiological findings in COVID-19 infections
Author(s): Joris R Delanghe a , * , Marijn M Speeckaert b , Marc L De Buyzere b
Publication date (Electronic): 24 March 2020
Journal: Clinica Chimica Acta; International Journal of Clinical Chemistry
Keywords: COVID-19, angiotensin-converting enzyme, polymorphism
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemia in 2019/2020 has stimulated research on clinical laboratory findings in this condition, as evidenced by two recent papers in this journal [1], [2]. We know that angiotensin converting enzyme is involved in corona virus infection. Pathogenic coronaviruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus [SARS-CoV] and SARS-CoV-2) bind to their target cells through angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), [3], [4]. Not only has ACE2 facilitated the invasion of SARS virus for rapid replication, but also ACE2 is depleted from the cell membrane and therefore the damaging effects of Ang II are enhanced, resulting in acute deterioration of lung tissues [5]. The angiotensin-converting 1 (ACE1) enzyme is characterized by a genetic deletion/insertion (D/I) polymorphism in intron 16, which is associated with alterations in circulating and tissue concentrations of ACE. The D allele is associated with a reduced expression of ACE2. Although ACE2 and ACE share only 42% of amino acid identity, they both act as carboxypeptidases to cleave amino acids from the peptides’ carboxyl terminal [6]. As this D/I polymorphism shows an important geographical variation [7], we postulated that the variability in D/I genotype distribution might partly explain the variable prevalence of the COVID-19 infection amongst continental European countries. Therefore, we compared the D-allele frequency of the ACE1 gene as obtained in 25 different European countries with the prevalence and mortality of COVID-19, as calculated on March 20 2020 by Johns Hopkins [8]. Figure 1 shows the regression data. Data from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey were included in the analysis. The log transformed prevalence of COVID-19 infections inversely correlates with the ACE D allele frequency: log (prevalence; number of cases/106 inhabitants) = 6.358 – 0.079 (D-allele frequency, %), r2= 0.378; p = 0.001. About 38% of the variability of the prevalence can be explained by the relative frequency of the ACE1 D-allele. Similarly, a significant correlation could be noted between COVID-19 caused mortality (Spearman r = -0.510, p=0.01) and the prevalence of the ACE1 D-allele. It should also be noted that the two Asian countries which were initially severely hit by the virus, China and Korea, are also characterized by low D allele frequencies. Fig. 1 Prevalence of COVID 19 in 25 European countries (on March 19 2020 vs. ACE1 D-allele frequency (%): log (prevalence; no. of cases/106 inhabitants) = 6.358 - 0.079 (D-allele frequency, %), r2= 0.378; p = 0.001. These data suggest that ACE1 D/I polymorphism may be regarded as a confounder in the spread of COVID-19 and the outcome of the infection in various European populations. These findings are in agreement with the role of ACE in pulmonary infections caused by coronaviruses [4]. The ACE D/I genotype may affect the clinical course of the infection.
Novel Coronavirus Disease COVID-19
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The geographic distribution of the ACE II genotype: a novel finding
Y. B. Saab, P. R. Gard, A. D. J. Overall (2007)
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism insertion (I) or deletion (D) has been widely studied in different populations, and linked to various functional effects and associated with common diseases. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the ACE I/D frequency in different populations and geographic location; ACE I/D allele frequency in the Lebanese population and ACE II genotype contribution to the geographic trend were also identified. Five hundred and seventy healthy volunteers were recruited from the Lebanese population. Genomic DNA was extracted from buccal cells, and amplified by polymerase chain reaction; products were then identified by gel electrophoresis. The frequencies of the different ACE I/D genotypes were determined and tested for Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE). To assess the relationship between ACE I/D frequency and geographic location, and to identify how the Lebanese population contributes to the geographic trend in ACE I/D frequencies, Eurasian population samples and Asians were incorporated in the analyses from the literature. The frequency of the I allele in the Lebanese population was 27% and the corresponding II genotype was at a frequency of 7·37% (in HWE; P =0·979). The ACE I allele and genotype frequencies show an association with longitude, with frequencies increasing eastwards and westwards from the Middle East.
Joris R Delanghe
Journal ID (nlm-ta): Clin Chim Acta
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Clin. Chim. Acta
Title: Clinica Chimica Acta; International Journal of Clinical Chemistry
Publication date PMC-release: 24 March 2020
[a ]Dept. of Clinical Chemistry, Ghent University, Belgium
[b ]Dept. of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium
[* ]Corresponding author at: Dept. of Clinical Chemistry, Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. joris.delanghe@ 123456ugent.be
Publisher ID: S0009-8981(20)30133-9
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2020.03.031
Copyright statement: © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
Subject: Article
ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical chemistry
Keywords: polymorphism, covid-19, angiotensin-converting enzyme
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Open Discussion - Program
Failure to Pick up scouts after events.
By Basementdweller,
December 15, 2014 in Open Discussion - Program
wdfa89 72
wdfa89
12 hours. wow. I got steamed the last time when the parents were 20 min late because they waited until we called we when we returned and then hit traffic. I would probably demand the next activity his parent has to come along or he cant come. But as said before I would hate to hose the kid because his parents are doofuses (understanding stuff happens, but 12 hours?)
Rick_in_CA 400
Rick_in_CA
Unless they had a real good excuse (sudden death' date=' hospitalization, etc) That kid would not go camping with me again. The risk of being accused of something, or ending up in a bad situation is too great. You have to protect yourself. Plus, you are being used as a babysitter.[/quote']
I agree. Life happens and emergencies occur. But Basement says this is an "On going problem" which implies (to me at least) that this kind of thing happens more than once. Unless there is a really good story on why this happened, jr56 is right, you shouldn't allow that kid to go camping unless some sort of alternate arrangement can be made if it happens again (like another parent volunteering in advance to take the kid home or a latch-key drop off agreement).
koolaidman 107
koolaidman
BD: I think it would be a nice gesture for the Scoutmaster to pay for a babysitter for 12 hours while the parents are away...
#TooSoon?
Seriously though BD, it sounds like you get plenty of crap piled on you. I hope you can find a good and decent ASM, or more committee members with shovels to help get it off.
If this happened more than once in my troop, the scout would have to miss campouts unless the parent attended as a volunteer.
Assign the parent with the responsibility of med forms and emergency contacts and hopefully the parent would realize the burden he/she placed on you and the troop. (assuming this parent would pass background check and take YPT of course). I think it is sad, because the end game is this scout wouldn't be able to campout anymore because the parent doesn't care enough to pick him up on time.
I feel your pain, but I feel much worse for the scout.
mattman578 117
mattman578
Man do not scare me I am taking my Webelos on a non parent camping trip in a few weeks my god I hope they pick them up on time.
fred johnson 934
fred johnson
My Troop, too, has Scouts whose parents work double shifts or don't have cars. So the way we have avoided experiences like the one described above is to provide home drop-offs. I can't speak for Basement's situation, obviously, but I know that making it known that we want the Scouts to come camping and that we will return the kids to their homes has made a huge difference in attendance.
Our drivers agree to taking a few extra minutes to drop the Scouts off at home, many of them being "latch-key kids".
That's what we do too. Once we leave the camp ground, scouts are dropped off at their house. From my personal experience, it saves alot of time, energy, coordination and it's just alot easier. But we are a suburb troop and we can usually find a driving pattern to drop kids off fairly efficiently. I think parents appreciate it. As a leader now for 10 years, I greatly appreciate it.
If we have to do cleanup or unpacking of the trailer, we do it on the following troop meeting. If there is too much gear for cars (rarely ever happens), it gets returned at the troop meeting or can be picked up at the house of the person who has the trailer. If they don't pick it up that day or before the trailer goes back in storage, it can be picked up at the next troop meeting.
SMMatthew 70
SMMatthew
12 hours! Did you specify AM or PM when you told them the pick-up time? Maybe they just misunderstood.
My troop generally provides home drop-offs after outings. It takes the stress off us on the event to try to be back at a specific time (either we'd be a few minutes late and the parents would be sitting there waiting around for us; or we'd be a few minutes early and we'd be stuck waiting around for the parents) and it takes the stress off the parents having to come pick up their kids after they've spent the weekend in the woods.
Given the area that the Scouts in my troop are from, the most "out of the way" drop off would only add an extra 5-10 minutes to any driver's time getting home (which is much better than an added 10-15+ minutes stuck waiting at the pick-up place). One or two cars usually go back to our charter organization to unload any troop gear and then the drivers drop the Scouts off on their way home. We try to coordinate the cars on the way home based on where people live to avoid a single driver having to drive all over town.
My troop generally provides home drop-offs after outings. ....
A lot less stress. More flexibility.
packsaddle 745
packsaddle
SMMathhew, I thought about that. The boy had been left and I had waited with him and my son for about half an hour before I decided to drop him off at home. No response on the phone so off we went. Got there and the place was locked and dark. There's no way I'm going to drop that kid off under those circumstances. Either his single mom had to work late or she had car trouble somewhere or, or....didn't matter. The kid was 'mine' until I could hand him off to the responsible adult. So I took him and my son to a movie (Stargate, good movie by the way), they had a great time and when it was all over I had watched a decent SciFi flic, was out about $20 for everything and a few hours of my time. Mom was home when we got there. Didn't even say thanks. I really felt bad for the boy.
What you suggest is a good idea if the responsible adults are actually responsible. Of course if that were the case...this thread wouldn't exist.
chrisking0997 35
chrisking0997
this. BD, you seem to have some problem parents in your troop, not sure if its the usual suspects for all these issues. Regardless, Id say its time for a come-to-Jesus meeting with those parents, the CC, COR and you.
Basementdweller 607
Basementdweller
So drop them off you say?
14 boys in the old church van at 15 minutes per drop and unload is how much again.
I do not have active and involved parents, and the troop is being used as a babysitting program. The familys involved are not going to participate in the next couple of outings.
The mom with the dump and run has been asked to take her scout to another unit to continue his scouting career. I have received an email threat of being sued if he is kicked out. Well I didn't kick him out, troop committee did and he tried to steal an activity. His scouting career is over in our troop. Sue away, ya can't get blood from a turnip.
... 14 boys in the old church van at 15 minutes per drop and unload is how much again. ...
​Only if you drive a bus and everyone lives miles apart. Usually, kids are clumped in neighborhoods.
Our troop doesn't have a bus. Most adults drive back their own son plus two or three extra. Some with minivans or suburbans drive more. For myself, the kids live within blocks of our house or we plan driving routes to optimize drop offs. For myself who drops off the most, it adds maybe 10 minutes total. ... Unless one is way out of the way. Then, plans adjust for that.
The mom with the dump and run has been asked to take her scout to another unit to continue his scouting career. I have received an email threat of being sued if he is kicked out. Well I didn't kick him out' date=' troop committee did and he tried to steal an activity. His scouting career is over in our troop. Sue away, ya can't get blood from a turnip. [/quote']
If that's the parent's reaction, then the parent doesn't understand the nature of a "volunteer" organization.
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yeah dropping off at homes wouldn't work with us either. 10 boys currently active in the troop. 5 live in town of CO. 3 live in school district 15 mins away but 2 in 1 town and 1 in another. 1 boy lives in big city near us 30 mins from CO and final boy lives in even another town also 30 mins from CO but in different direction. I'm not spending hours driving around dropping off boys when each parent can just drive to the church and pick up their child. And considering I live where the 3 go to school I often drive past my place to get to the church but that's ok others do it when we camp on other side of state.
but I would never put up with a 12 hour without it being a medical/death emergency and if that were the case their should be a text or voicemail sitting on my phone telling me what to do with their child.
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Parents are expected to retrieve their son from the CO parking lot. All the drivers have cell phones. We have the scouts call their parents when they are 30 minutes from the CO. The SM calls a designated parent who sends an email to all parents with the ETA at the parking lot. Most adults have email forwarded to their smart phones so double notification. No scouts are released until the troop trailer is unpacked, gear stowed in the shed or assigned to patrol members to clean and return at the next troop meeting. Only then does the SPL release scouts. Parents might have to wait a few minutes but that is one more incentive for the scouts to complete their tasks in a timely manner because Mom is standing there watching and waiting. Adults volunteered to drive and chaperone all weekend. We are not a shuttle service. If the driver does not have their son in the car, then it becomes a YP issue when the driver only has 1 scout in the car.
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Precisely how we handle things, resqman.
It is a rare occasion that anyone is excused from returning to the Scout house.to help with the unloading. The year my younger son was SPL he had the entire troop stand down and stop unloading for about a half-hour until two guys who left early were called and returned to the scout house. The troop then resumed unpacking. The parents who were forced to wait were P***ED OFF until I explained what was going on. Then they got behind the SPL, giving him attaboys and high-fives. They appreciated the lesson. When the two arrived. one's mom was very apologetic. The other's dad was P.O.'d he had to drive back but the other parents got hold of him and handled the situation. It was a good lesson for both the Scouts and parents.
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Moscow market to showcase Igor Voloshin, Darya Zhuk, Zaza Urushadze
By Martin Blaney2016-10-14T12:54:00+01:00
Close to 40 films will be presented at the inaugural edition of the Russian event.
New films by filmmakers Igor Voloshin, Darya Zhuk and Zaza Urushadze are among the near 40 projects to be presented at the first edition of the KinoPoisk FilmMarket (KFM) in Moscow next week (Oct 20-23).
Voloshin, whose previous films included Nirvana and I Am, will be pitching his Russian-Slovak thriller The Basement to potential co-producers on KFM’s first day on October 20.
The line-up of 18 fiction feature projects will also include Crystal by the New York-based Belorussian-born filmmaker Darya Zhuk, currently structured as a co-production between Vice Films (US), Funky Ferret Films (Germany) and Demarsh Films (Belarus), and Russian writer-director Michael Ides’ Humorist about the “first Soviet stand-up comedian” Boris Arkadiev, to be produced by Metrafilms with Hype Film and Latvia’s Tasse Film.
Other projects include two films developed as part of the B’Est workshops in Tallinn and St Petersburg – Elisabeth Tishova’s Sulayman Mountain and Konstantin Charmadov’s Sanaton – and a previous Moscow Business Square project, Ivan Bolotnikov’s feature debut Kharms, which is being handled internationally by Antipode Sales and Distribution and was one of the first Russian projects to be backed by Eurimages.
This will be followed the next day (Oct 21) by the CentEast Warsaw-Moscow showcase of 13 Eastern European works-in-progress, which are being presented for the first time in Warsaw today (Oct 14) as part of the Warsaw Filmfest’s CentEast Market.
The 2016 line-up ranges from Polish director Maria Sadowska’s The Art Of Loving through Ukrainian Max Ksjonda’s Bobot (first presented to international profssionals at Odessa’s Film Industry Office in July) to Serge Ioan Celebidachi’s Romanian-UK co-production Octave.
The Warsaw and Moscow events will also be an opportunity to catch the first footage from Monk (pictured), the new feature film by the Georgian director Zaza Urushadze after his Oscar-nominated Tangerines, which sees him collaborating once again with Estonian producer Ivo Felt of Allfilm. Picture Tree has taken international rights.
CentEast showcase
The CentEast showcase will be followed by a pitching forum dedicated to documentaries with eight projects selected, including Berlinale Talents alumnus Alexander Markov’s Our Africa about how Soviet filmmakers created socialism in Africa on celluloid, French-born Louis Beaudemont’s exploration of musical trends from the 1960s to 1980s in the former Soviet Union in Soviet Groove (also presented at a previous edition of Moscow Business Square), and Gayane Petrosyan and Martin Herring’s Natalie, Queen of the Seas, to be produced by Mike Lerner of the UK’s Roast Beef Productions.
KFM will feature roundtables and panel discussions on such subjects as 50 years’ collaboration between Russia and France, the prospects for closer cooperation with India, a stocktaking of Russia’s first five years as a member of Eurimages, as well as a one-day Digital Summit.
The event will also provide a link between the industry and its audience with the “October Screenings” of new Russian and international films being open to the interested cinema-going public.
The S creenings programme will open on October 19 with Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World and close on October 24 with Russian actor Gosha Kutsenko’s directorial debut Doctor which premiered at the Kinotavr – Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi last June.
Other titles lined up include the restored version of Andrey Tarkovsky’s classic Stalker, Ali Abbas Zafar’s Indian romantic action drama Sultan, the French biopic The Odyssey, starring Lambert Wilson as Jacques Cousteau, and the Rachel Weisz drama Complete Unknown.
In addition, the KFM Special strand will present films currently without Russian distribution to test the general public’s reaction along with the attending professionals.
KFM, which is being held at the Russian capital’s October multiplex cinema, is being organised by Russia’s leading online film database KinoPoisk with Tvindie Film Production and Reflexion Films, and with support from the Russian cinema circuit Karo.
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Zodiac called a 'clumsy criminal'
Paul Avery
This article, excerpted here, originally was published in The Chronicle on Oct. 18, 1969.
The killer of five who calls himself "Zodiac" is a clumsy criminal, a liar and possibly a latent homosexual.
That's the opinion of homicide detectives assigned to bring in the boastful mass murderer.
"He has made some mistakes," Chief of Inspectors Marvin Lee said of Zodiac. Mistakes such as:
-- Possibly leaving his fingerprints in the Yellow Cab in which he shot taxi driver Paul Stine last Saturday night.
-- Allowing himself to be seen by three witnesses as he fled from the Presidio Heights murder scene.
-- Leaving alive two of his intended victims in the deranged attacks he made on couples in the North Bay region -- two young men who may one day pick him out of a lineup.
These mistakes, as well as others police won't elaborate on, show Zodiac not to be the master criminal he apparently considers himself.
And, says Lee, he is a liar.
"His boast of being in the area we were searching while we were searching it is a lie," Lee said. "We had the whole area flooded with lights. We had seven police dogs and a large number of patrolmen searching the area tree by tree and bush by bush. The dogs are the best in the country.
"A mouse couldn't have escaped our attention."
In a letter to The Chronicle, Zodiac chided police for not finding him during their search of Julius Kahn Park and a nearby wooded portion of the Presidio.
"The S.F. police could have caught me last night if they had searched the park properly instead of holding road race with their motorcycles, seeing who could make the most noise," he wrote. "The car drivers should have just parked their cars and sat there quietly waiting for me to come out of cover."
Lee said the fact that Zodiac failed to mention the dogs and floodlights proves "he wasn't anywhere in the vicinity."
Boasts made by Zodiac in connection with the three other cases in Napa and Solano counties have also turned out to be lies, investigators say.
But clumsy or a liar, Zodiac is still considered the most dangerous killer that Bay Area authorities can recall.
His threat to "wipe out" a school bus full of children is not being taken lightly. Yesterday, armed lawmen rode shotgun on school buses in Napa County. In Sausalito, police cars followed school buses. Elsewhere, buses traveled to and from schools as on any other day, but drivers had been drilled on procedures to follow should Zodiac attempt to make good his chilling threat.
Zodiac's last attack before the San Francisco slaying was at Lake Berryessa. There he tied up and then viciously stabbed a young couple picnicking on the shore. The girl died of the more than 20 wounds inflicted. Her companion, critically wounded, somehow survived.
It is the knife attack that leads investigators to consider that Zodiac may be a latent homosexual. His cryptic writings and hand- lettered boasts don't indicate this -- but the way in which he wielded the knife does hint of it.
The knife fell again and again and formed the mysterious symbol -- like the crosshairs of a gun sight -- that has come to be Zodiac's hallmark.
Psychiatrists and criminologists have told investigators that such a modus operandi could mean Zodiac is unsure of his manhood.
Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch has issued an appeal to Zodiac to turn himself in.
"We will see that he gets help and that all his rights are protected," Lynch said. "He is obviously an intelligent individual. He knows that eventually he will be taken into custody. So it would be best that he give himself up before tragedy is written in blood."
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Email Marketing is a central part of your inbound marketing strategy, but it can be an intimidating tactic to tackle if you’re a newbie. Heck, even seasoned email marketers are continually learning new terms (we learned some new ones for this post!) and must keep up to date with ever-changing laws that affect how you do your job. So we put together this glossary of email marketing terms that you can refer back to anytime.
So what is Email Marketing You should first Know:
Email marketing is directly marketing a commercial message to a group of people using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send ads, request business, or solicit sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness. Email marketing can be done to either sold lists or a current customer database.
Email Marketing Glossary: Terms to Know every email marketer.
Acceptable Spam Report Rate – The rate at which you can be reported as SPAM without harming your sender reputation. Anything over 0.1% (1 report per 1000 emails) will get a warning.
Acceptance Rate – The percentage of email messages that are accepted by the mail server. Just because an email is accepted by the mail server does not mean it will get to an inbox.
Blacklist – A list that denotes IP addresses as spammer IPs, impeding email deliverability.
Bounce Rate – The rate at which your emails are not delivered. There are two types of bounces, hard and soft, both of which are defined later in this glossary. An acceptable bounce rate is less than 5%.
Bulk Mail – Large scale email marketing sends in which the same content goes to a large group of people.
CAN-SPAM – Short for ‘Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003,’ it’s a law that outlines rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, provides email recipients with the right to make you stop emailing them, and lays out consequences for violations of the Act.
Clicks Per Delivered – A percentage measure of the number of clicks divided by the number of emails delivered to the intended inbox.
Clicks Per Open – A percentage measure of the number of clicks divided by the number of opens.
CPM (Cost Per Thousand) – In email marketing, CPM commonly refers to the cost per 1000 names on a given rental list. For example, a rental list priced at $250 CPM would mean that the list owner charges $.25 per email address. We’ll get into buying lists later in this post.
CTR (Click-Through Rate) – The percentage (the number of unique clicks divided by the number that was opened) of recipients that click on a given URL in your email.
Conversion Rate – The percentage of recipients who respond to your call-to-action in an email marketing campaign or promotion. This is one measure of your email campaign’s success.
Dedicated IP – In email marketing, it refers to an IP address from which only you send an email.
Double Opt-In – The recommended method of building an email list, it requires subscribers to confirm they’re opt in by clicking a link in a confirmation email or responding to the confirmation email in some other way.
Email Campaign – An email or series of lead nurturing emails designed to accomplish an overall marketing goal.
Email Filter – A technique used to block email based on the sender, subject line, or content of an email.
Email Sponsorships – Buying ad space in an email newsletter or sponsoring a specific article or series of articles. Advertisers pay to have their ad inserted into the body of the email.
False positive – A false positive occurs when a legitimate permission-based email is incorrectly filtered or blocked as spam.
Hard Bounce – A hard bounce is the failed delivery of an email due to a permanent reason like a non-existent, invalid, or blocked email address.
Honey Pot – A planted email address by organizations trying to combat spam that, when a spammer harvests and emails, identifies that sender as a spammer.
House List (or Retention List) – One of your most valuable marketing assets, it’s a permission-based list that you built yourself with opt-in subscribers.
HTML Email – Sending HTML email makes it possible to get creative with the design of your emails.
IP Warmup – Sending a progressively increasing number of emails out of an IP address in order to build the IP’s reputation.
Landing Page – A lead capture page on your website that is linked to from an email to provide additional information directly related to products or services promoted in the email’s call-to-action.
Levels of Authentication – A way of establishing a sender’s identity, and ensure the sender is allowed to send from a given domain.
List Segmentation – Selecting a target audience or group of individuals for whom your email message is relevant. A segmented list means a more targeted and relevant email campaign, thus a higher response rate and less unsubscribes and spam reports.
Open Rate – The percentage of emails opened in an email marketing campaign, or the percentage opened of the total number of emails sent.
Opt-In (or Subscribe) – To opt-in or subscribe to an email list is to choose to receive email communications by supplying your email address to a particular company, website or individual thereby giving them permission to email you. The subscriber can often indicate areas of personal interest (e.g. mountain biking) and/or indicate what types of emails they wish to receive from the sender (e.g. newsletters).
Opt-Out (or Unsubscribe) – When a subscriber chooses not to receive email communications from the sender anymore, and requests removal from your email list. It is legally required that you provide a clear way to opt-out in every email you send.
Personalization – Adding elements to your email that are personalized based on information you already know about them. It could refer to addressing the recipient by name, referencing past purchases, or other content unique to each recipient.
Physical Address – The physical, street address of the company sending the email, usually found in the footer of an email. Its inclusion is a legal requirement for all email marketing.
Plain Text Email – An email sent without HTML. You should always give your recipients the option to read emails in either HTML or plain text for better readability.
Privacy Policy – A clear description of a website or company’s policy on the use of information collected from and about website visitors and what they do, and do not do, with the data.
Read or Open Length – A measure of the length of time a person opens the email until they close it.
Rental List (or Acquisition List) – Not a recommended email marketing technique, it is a list of prospects or a targeted group of recipients who have opted-in to receive information about certain subjects, usually targeted by something like interest, profession, or demographic information.
Sender Score – A free service of Return Path, it’s a reputation rating from 0-100 for every outgoing mail server IP address. Mail servers will check your Sender Score before deciding what to do with your emails. A score of over 90 is good.
Shared IP – A less costly option than a dedicated IP address, it is an IP address from which many people send emails.
Signature File – A tagline or short block of text at the end of an email message that identifies the sender and provides additional information such as company name, physical address, and contact information.
Single Opt-In – A single opt-in list is created when users sign up for email communications but don’t confirm the action. This means they can be signed up for a list by someone else, and as such is not a recommended way to build a healthy email marketing list.
Soft Bounce – A soft bounce is the failed delivery of an email due to a temporary issue, like a full mailbox or an unavailable server.
Spam or UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) – Email sent to someone who has not opted-in or given permission to email to the sender. Over 90% of email sent is classified as spam.
Spam Cop – A paid spam service that plants their own emails and monitors who harvest the address and spams it.
Spam Trap – An email address that was once valid, but no longer is. If you email this address, you’ll receive a hard bounce notice. When the mail server sees consistent traffic going to the dead email, however, they can turn the email into a spam trap. It will stop returning a hard bounce for the known bad address, and instead, accept the message and report the sender as a spammer.
SPF – Short for ‘Sender Policy Framework’, it’s a DNS record that says on whose behalf an IP or domain sends an email.
Whitelist – Instead of listing IP addresses to block, a whitelist includes IP addresses that have been approved to deliver email to a recipient.
There is a lot of marketers need to know about email marketing, and this glossary only scratches the surface. What other terms would you add to this list?
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Meet Squid: Key West’s Solar-Powered Boat For Dolphin Tours
Visitors who want to see the 200 wild bottlenose dolphins that live around the lower Florida Keys now have a more eco-friendly option. Squid, the first lithium ion battery-powered hybrid charter boat with electric motors, takes visitors on four-hour dolphin watching and snorkeling tours. The solar-powered boat’s electricity stores can be recharged at shore, via solar panels or, when necessary, with a diesel generator.
The amount of energy Squid consumes varies day to day, depending on the location of the dolphins. Sometimes the bottlenoses are close to shore and easy to find. Other days, they’re farther away. Even on the longest journey, when Squid enlists its generator, the boat only burns 3 gallons of diesel fuel per trip, or about one quarter gallon of fossil fuel per guest. The previous dolphin watching boat consumed about 2.3 gallons per person.
Sunflare solar panels are the secret to the Squid’s success. Because the boat carries 1200 pounds of lithium battery, the panels themselves had to be lightweight. Sunflare’s 12 modules on the Squid produce 2000 watts of power and weigh about 120 pounds combined, which is a quarter of the weight of traditional solar panels. Sunflare’s carbon footprint is 80 percent less than traditional solar panels, based on heat generated in the manufacturing process. Because the panels are lightweight, they also require less fuel to transport.
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“Investment costs need to be brought down through national grants”
Submitted by Baerbel Epp on December 22, 2018
India is the world´s largest milk producer, followed by the United States and China. To support and fund producer-owned dairies, the country set up the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965. NDDB is planning to replace 5 % to 15 % of all heat generation devices by concentrating solar systems, but this will require financial support from the government. Solarthermalworld.org spoke to NDDB Chairman Dilip Rath about using solar heat in the Indian dairy industry. Rath served as NDDB’s Managing Director between 2011 and 2016 before he became chairman of the board.
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Solarthermalworld.org: Broadly speaking, what are the typical dairy applications for which solar heating could be used?
Rath: Applications such as pasteurising milk, cleaning equipment, melting butter and so on require low-temperature heat in dairies. Based on our experience of using concentrated solar thermal (CST) systems, including CPC vacuum tube collectors, solar energy is ideally suited to low-heat applications, which usually need hot water between 80 and 90 °C and account for more than 50 % of a dairy’s thermal energy requirements.
Solarthermalworld.org: How much does fuel oil contribute to the cost along the entire value chain?
Rath: Typically, a dairy uses heating oil as the boiler fuel. Recently, many dairies have switched to other cheaper fuels such as coal, biomass briquettes, natural gas and so on, in order to bring down operating costs. The fuel price can be between 10 % and 20 % of milk processing costs.
Solarthermalworld.org: How many NDDB-supported dairies are using solar heat?
Rath: NDDB has provided dairies with technical and project advice on establishing CST systems in four states: Punjab, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. To date, NDDB has counted 15 CST installations in these four states (see the attached flyer). The total collector area at the locations is around 8,000 m² of aperture area.
Solarthermalworld.org: What has been your experience so far regarding the commissioned systems?
Rath: The implementation of solar systems reduces the processing costs of milk and milk products in collectively owned dairies, which ultimately benefits the farmers involved. Our experience in CST is limited to hot water generation up to 90 °C. We have tested tracking and non-tracking technologies at these locations and only non-tracking systems met heat requirements. We would like to establish solar heating technologies at smaller and medium-size dairies at a reduced cost and look for better-performing systems.
“A 60 % investment subsidy is essential to making solar heat technologies viable at dairy cooperatives”
Solarthermalworld.org: What are the real constraints/challenges faced by dairies using solar heat?
Rath: There are a limited number of market players with the required technical expertise to guarantee heat output. Locally made tracking systems are not fully seasoned to consistently deliver heat output. Most technology, equipment and components are imported, making them less feasible for large-scale implementation. An increase in subsidies to cover 60 % of the total costs and interest-free financial assistance are essential to making the technology viable at dairy cooperatives. Lastly, tried-and-tested local solar technologies are needed to ensure consistent performance.
Solarthermalworld.org: Besides the capital subsidy from MNRE, are there any other incentives that dairies can apply for?
Rath: Besides the MNRE capital subsidy for concentrating solar technologies, implemented projects received financial support from the UNDP. As the UNDP scheme ended in March 2017, there is no additional support for solar process heat at present. A GEF-UNIDO programme provides project funds via loans. However, financial viability depends on the net investment of the project and this needs to be brought down through national grants.
“Replication of solar-heated dairies should become mandatory in the future”
Solarthermalworld.org: Would you support in the dairy industry a solar heat requirement which stipulates a percentage to offset fuel oil or coal?
Rath: There is an urgent need for all stakeholders to understand that choosing renewable sources of energy is the only way to make industries sustainable in the long run and address climate change. Hence, industries should be committed to curtailing fossil fuels for heating and to replacing conventional heating systems with renewable sources of energy. Until there is a clear government directive that is also backed by the dairy industry, the dependence on fossil fuels cannot be brought down. The government and the industries need to work out a mechanism. NDDB also intends to use solar energy to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel in dairies currently operating on the market by between 5 % and 15 %. However, this will require large investment and commitment from dairy cooperatives, legislation from state governments and, above all, a 60 % investment subsidy as well as interest-free loans. In future, the replication of solar thermal projects to provide heat at dairies should become mandatory.
Solarthermalworld.org: Has NDDB set any target to reduce fuel oil consumption by using sustainable technologies?
Rath: NDDB has set a target of meeting 5 to 15 % of annual heat demand by CST. If a solar system is installed on the terrace, there is obviously limited available area. Ground-based solar systems can be an option to explore if unused land is available. Additional financial support from the government can help developers implement solar systems at dairies across India, and realistic targets can be set based on discussions with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and all stakeholders.
NDDB has taken the initiative by making CST part of all future dairy projects. Likewise, we are ready to explore the possibility of receiving financial support from other funding partners regarding CST implementation.
To find out more about NDDB, go to https://www.nddb.coop
This text was written by Jaideep Malaviya, an expert in solar thermal based in India (malaviya@solrico.com).
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How Virginia’s monopoly utilities rig the game and what you can do to change it
By Zach Schalk on May 17, 2018
We’ve previously posted about why Virginia’s monopoly utilities fight against your solar rights and what the policy outcome looks like when they do. Now it’s time to focus on how they do it.
State laws restrict your solar rights
While policy decisions made in Washington, D.C. can affect your right to go solar—by changing federal tax incentives or imposing new import tariffs on equipment and materials, for instance—most important rules impacting your solar rights are made at the state level. In Virginia, new solar laws are made in Richmond, and originate in one of the two houses that make up the Virginia General Assembly: The House of Delegates and the Senate. Bills must pass both houses before they can be signed into law by the Governor.
Commerce and Labor Committee: The solar legislation gatekeepers
Each legislative house has a series of committees that oversee proposed laws on different subject areas. Committees are controlled by a Chairperson from the majority party, who can largely set the agenda for the session—which bills are considered by the committee, which bills get hearings, and which bills are voted on before being considered by the full legislative body. In both houses of the General Assembly, all energy related laws—including solar policy—must go through the Commerce and Labor Committee.
That means that a handful of legislators—22 Delegates in the House and 15 Senators—can act as solar legislation gatekeepers, wielding immense power over all solar bills introduced. And the Chair—Del. Terry Kilgore (R – 1st District) in the House and Sen. Frank Wagner (R – 7th District) in the Senate—can single handedly control the fate of solar bills in the General Assembly.
Monopoly utilities use their influence
If we can figure out who has the power make or break energy legislation in the General Assembly, so too can the monopoly utilities.
In particular, Dominion Virginia Power has a well-documented history of spreading around political and charitable contributions with the goal of influencing policy outcomes. Unsurprisingly, many of these donations wind up in the pockets of the most powerful legislators—including Del. Terry Kilgore and Sen. Frank Wagner, those key committee chairs we mentioned earlier. In other words, monopoly utility interests can target their donations around key committee members and chairs to block your solar rights. For a more in-depth breakdown about campaign contributions from Dominion and other electric utilities to key legislators, check out this post from Power for the People VA.
The result is predictable: The Commerce and Labor Committees disproportionately represent monopoly utility interests over the interests of their constituents—including current and future solar homeowners. That’s how sessions end with sensible solar bills killed without ever receiving a hearing while the bills favored by monopoly utilities sail through the process and become law.
Working together, solar supporters can fight back
While it can seem intimidating to stand up to powerful groups like monopoly utilities, it’s important to remember that we’re all in this together. We must join together to hold the utilities and politicians who put profits over people accountable. Here’s what you can do.
First, sign our “Represent Us, Not Utilities” petition to let your elected officials know that you won’t stand for monopoly utilities continuing to rig the system in their favor. We can no longer accept an energy system that puts shareholder interests over the interests of the public.
Second, use this tool to find out who your representatives are in the Virginia Legislature. You can click on “more info” to see which committees they’re on to see if they are one of the “solar legislation gatekeepers” in the Commerce and Labor Committee of each house. Then send them our Virginia Declaration of Solar Rights to let them know that you’re a solar voter who expects them to represent the interests of current and future solar homeowners in Richmond!
Finally, help us grow our solar movement. By taking action with Solar United Neighbors of Virginia, you’ll be notified about future opportunities to fight for your solar rights. But, in order to be successful, we need to make sure our solar movement continues to grow. Tell your friends, family, and colleagues about the fight for energy freedom and solar rights and share this article so they can join us in taking action today!
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Board index The Films Silents & PreCodes
WHAT SILENTS & PRE-CODES HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
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Re: WHAT SILENTS & PRE-CODES HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Post by drednm » August 29th, 2010, 8:23 am
Apparently there was a Technicolor sequence in The Call of the Flesh with Novarro singing "Vesti la Giubba" from Pagliacci which Novarro referred to severasl times but we never get to see it. The sequence is lost.
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Post by charliechaplinfan » August 29th, 2010, 2:25 pm
I watched Ladies of Leisure one of Frank Capra's first forays into directing. A good movie, a brilliant showcase for Barbara Stanwyck as a paid party girl who inspires a rich artist and makes him fall in love with her. Ralph Graves is the artist, Lowell Sherman his drunken friend and Marie Prevost, Barbara's friend. I completely enjoyed the movie apart from the ongoing joke about Marie Prevost's weight. One of the better early talkies.
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Post by MichiganJ » August 29th, 2010, 4:15 pm
charliechaplinfan wrote: I watched Ladies of Leisure one of Frank Capra's first forays into directing.
I like this film but it really is a shame about what they did to poor Marie Prevost. It seem in almost all of her talkies she's either required to make fun of her weight or be eating, usually both.
Capra had been directing since the silents days, pretty much getting his big break when Harry Langdon gave him the job to direct Langdon in The Strong Man. Later Capra would re-imagine (aka: lie) about discovering Langdon, but that's another matter. Capra would also director the fun Power of the Press (1928) with Doug Fairbanks, Jr and Jobyna as well as one of my favorites, The Matinee Idol (1928), with Bessie Love, as well as others.
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I've seen The Matinee Idol and The Strong Man, the later being my favorite of all the Langdon films I've seen. The credit he claimed for Langdon's career didn't put him in a good light, which s a pity.
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Post by silentscreen » August 29th, 2010, 8:48 pm
I could never really get into Langdon's character. There are so many others who were better IMO, including Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Chase. My personal favorite of his was also "The Strong Man", which I thought was brilliant.
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Post by MichiganJ » August 30th, 2010, 9:48 am
I really like Langdon's minimalistic approach to comedy and think The Strong Man rates as high as any of the big three's best features. Chapin even borrowed the blind girl for City Lights.
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Post by feaito » August 30th, 2010, 2:28 pm
I saw these films over the weekend:
“A Cottage on Dartmoor” (1929) This wonderfully atmospheric, beautiful and strangely poetic film, must be one of the very best Silents I’ve seen lately. I found it a true work of art and very closely related to the German Expressionistic films. One of the aspects I liked most about this Silent directed by Anthony Asquith, was the scarce use of intertitles. A Silent director who does not need many intertitles to tell a story is a masterful craftsman. Impressive cinematography and performances. 10/10. Thanks Alison for sharing this one.
“City Streets” (1931) A feast for the eyes; what else can one expect if the cinematographer is Lee Garmes? Beautifully filmed in B&W and thanks to Christine I got to watch a pristine, sharp print aired by TCM France. Mamoulian’s way of shooting scenes from different perspectives, with imaginative and elegant camera movements makes this Gangster-Crime melodrama, quite different from anything one has seen from the Gangster studio supreme Warner Brothers. Gary Cooper plays the good natured boyfriend of Sylvia Sidney, who –influenced by her in the first place- ends working for a Gang who’s on the Beer racket. Paul Lukas plays the rather nasty “Big Boss”, Guy Kibbe’s Sidney’s Step-Pop and Wynne Gibson Lukas’ moll. A visually stunning, very good Pre-Code. If only we could have pristine transfers of all the Paramounts from the 1930s…
Post by drednm » August 30th, 2010, 3:14 pm
I watched The Last Command. On a movie set in 1927 there is a call for an extra to play a Russian general in a war scene. The director (William Powell) calls in an old man (Emil Jannings) who receives the call at his boarding house. The old and confused man arrived at the studio amid a crowd of extras. As he pins a medal on his costume, he tells the story of how the Czar had given it to him and we flash back to 1917.
Jannings is a general in the Russian army and a cousin to the czar, He recalls dealing with two revolutionaries: a theatre director (Powell) and a beautiful actress (Evelyn Brent). While Powell is sent off to prison (from which he escapes) he takes Brent along with him as a consort. She eventually learns that his love for Russia is true and deep and she falls for him.
But while on a train to Petrograd, revolutionaries overtake the train and kill most of the military men. As they beat and harangue the general, Brent jumps to the front (in a remarkable sequence) and demands that they take him to Petrograd to hang him in public. Brandishing her revolutionary flag in the wintry wind while she screams to the crowds, Brent is just superb.
As the train proceeds with its prized prisoner, Brent helps Jannings jump off the train to safety as she explains this was the only way she could save him. From a snowbank, the general watches as the train speeds away across a bridge over an icy river.
Back in Hollywood, the old man is stirred by his memories of old Russia and as the movie scene is set he blinks and stares at the familiar images of war. As the director yells "lights, camera, action" the old man, who has now totally lost his hold on reality, engages in a ferocious scene of war action, raising the flag of old Russia in one last burst of glory, his last command.
Emil Jannings is nothing short of superb in this film and won the first Best Actor Oscar for it; the finale is an emotional tour de force. Evelyn Brent gives perhaps her finest performance. This was an important film role for William Powell as well.
This is a beautifully done film and is not to be missed. But be warned: this is an emotional roller coaster.
Post by feaito » September 7th, 2010, 10:38 am
Thanks to Christine I watched "Romance" (1930), which from what I saw was filmed in sepia-tone. It's an interesting film and besides the interest of seeing Garbo (Rita Cavallini, a renowned Italian Opera singer) at the peak of her beauty and beautifully dressed in period costumes, Lewis Stone's very good performance as her rich lover is another point of interest; a truly noteworthy performance. Garbo is Garbo, either you love her or not....her eyes and movements are quite enthralling and she looks gorgeous in this particular film. I still think that her magic was better captured and displayed in Silents, but I enjoyed this photoplay. Gavin Gordon had a very masculine, deep-toned voice, ideally suited for those early microphones of the early talkies and he's fine as the young clergyman in love with "La Cavallini".
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Post by Ann Harding » September 8th, 2010, 7:44 am
Recently, I have been watching quite a few silents. First some Asta Nielsen silents thanks to the excellent DVD published by the Danish Film Institute.
Afgrunden (The Abyss, 1910) by Urban Gad (soon to be Nielsen's husband) is really a ground breaking picture, first for its length: 37 min and for its sensual and highly censorable content. Asta pays Madga a young woman who has fallen in love with a Vicar's son. While spending a holiday with him and his parents, she meets a very alluring circus cowboy. Spellbound, she escapes with him. Later, while performing a very erotic dance with him, she realises he is unfaithful. This is then a slow decent towards 'the abyss' for her... Asta Nielsen was highly charismatic and unusual for her time. She was tall, slim and slightly androgynous years before Dietrich and Garbo ever appeared on screen. In Afrungen, she dances an incredibly sensual dance, moving her hips in a very suggestive manner. It's not surprising that she was so successful, the early movie stars of the screen in 1910 in France, like Mistinguett or Suzanne Grandais, were playing far tamer parts. Even if they display some real talent, they were not allowed to play such 'liberated women' as the ones of Danish cinema.
In Mod Lyset (Towards The Light, 1919) directed by Holger-Madsen, she plays a rich and frivolous countess who likes to drive men mad. Her very attitude will be her downfall. She marries an Italian aristocrat who turns out to be a fake and a crook. He is arrested just after the wedding. She becomes a recluse with her sick mother until one day she meets a charismatic preacher who helps the poor. She falls madly in love with him. In this later production, which shows how much the grammar of cinema had moved on in a space of 9 years, Nielsen is the sinner who repents and becomes a woman of good preaching to the poor and needy. If the story sounds a little ridiculous, her acting is totally convincing. The film is shot in beautiful locations and the acting is overall extremely good.
A Gentleman of Paris (1927, H. d'Abbadie d'Arrast) with Adolphe Menjou is a brilliant comedy. Menjou leads a particularly complex life with many mistresses, until his fiancee arrives in Paris with his future father-in-law. Thankfully, his perfect valet (hints of Jeeves there!) always manages to help him out of the worst situation. He is ready to reform quietly, but he commits the most stupid blunder: his valet discovers he has an affair with his own wife. From that point, he is in hot water. The valet prepares a very sophisticated revenge... D'Abbadie d'Arrast is almost forgotten nowadays, but he was a very good director of comedies. This very sophisticated little jewel is a delight thanks to the performance and the subtle narrative. D'Arrast moves his camera with great ease as well. Delightful!
Nemye svideteli (Silent Witnesses, 1914) is another brilliant picture by the fabulous Russian director Evgeni Bauer. It explores the upstairs/downstairs in a rich Russian family. Nastia is employed as a servant. The son becomes her lover. And while she is genuily in love with him, he turns out to be just a pleasure seaker, abandoning her quickly for a rich wife (also unfaithful). Amazingly, the film boasts a porter, large, bearded and portly, which looks like E. Jannings in The Last Laugh (1924, FW Murnau). But this film was made a full 10 years before the Murnau. As usual with Bauer, the sets, the lighting, the composition and the acting are incredible. I consider Bauer one of the best directors of the teens. He is a very important figure in the history of cinema.
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Post by charliechaplinfan » September 8th, 2010, 4:36 pm
Thank you Nancy, for He Who Gets Slapped, one of MGM's first films and one in which Leo the lion gets to play a key role. Lon Chaney plays a scientist cum clown in an unprobable plot but it being Chaney he elevates it beyond the realms of the usual. He's superb as HE, somber and slightly frightening and unhinged in turns. He loves Consuelo played by Norma Shearer who is loved in turn by John Gilbert, looking very lithe and handsome. Seeing him here, he looks the physically fitnest of all his silent contemproraries and although he hasn't a huge part he makes an impact.
Post by charliechaplinfan » September 10th, 2010, 3:50 pm
I watched a naughty little precode called Strangers May Kiss starring Norma Shearer and costarring Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton. Norma plays Lizbeth, she doesn't believe in marriage and loves a man who doesn't want to marry her, the man, Alan is played by Neil Hamilton, Robert Montgomery plays a man who does want to marry her and asks her continually despite her behaviour which gets more and more risque throughout the film. First she travels and lives with her lover and then, discovering he's married and abandoned in Mexico, she takes off for Europe and gets a reputation as a good time girl. Alan return to Paris after 2 years and sends her a telegram asking her to marry him. He soon discovers once in Paris that she has a reputation, 'shadows on the wall' that come between them. He cannot forgive her her behaviour, even though he gave her up for his career and never asked her to wait for him. Disguarded she returns to New York, Robert Montgomery despite all the rejections is still anxious to marry her but once again she rejects him. In New York Alan turns up again, this time more forgiving, they eventually reconcile. Although there is a bit of a confused narrative ie Lizbeth rejects Robert Montgomery because he can accept her past believing that he can't truly love her if he can forgive her whereas once Alan becomes more forgiving she accepts that he does love her. The book on which this movie was based has Lizbeth ending up as a suicide, in this version she ends up with Alan.
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Post by knitwit45 » September 10th, 2010, 4:59 pm
sounds like the book has a happier ending! Alan sounds like a total jerk....
Neither of the guys inspired me much but Norma was worth watching.
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Post by Birdy » September 10th, 2010, 9:09 pm
Ooh, I love that one. Doesn't it have one little suicide, in the beginning?
All good precodes need one little suicide.
Of course, Norma's dresses are stunning as usual, her hair frightening as usual.
I do love RM's character.
I'm editing because I may have this one in a blur with the Divorce. I'll have to think on it. Love them both.
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Cyber attacks are growing in both frequency and severity, particularly against small businesses. Industry experts estimate that cybersecurity incidents will costs businesses over $5 trillion within the next five years alone.
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Smaller companies must implement a robust security strategy to defend sensitive information against ever-present cyber threats. In the past year alone, 47 percent of small businesses experienced a cyber attack—and out of those, 44 percent experienced more than one.
The average cost of a cyber attack has exploded from $34,000 to just under $200,000 per single incident, according to Hiscox’s 2019 Cyber Readiness Report. This is a setback that many small businesses can’t recover from.
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Small businesses across all types of industries are vulnerable to security breaches. As IT infrastructures become more complex to support the growing digital demands of today’s companies, security measures need to evolve to support these sophisticated setups.
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'Murder confession' letter was 'therapy', court hears
Michael Martin Jnr has been accused of murdering his father, Michael Martin Snr. Photo: contributed Liana Turner
by Hamish Broome
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11th Oct 2017 5:00 AM | Updated: 6:45 AM
HE WROTE a letter to his beloved wife Candace about feeling terrible guilt over letting his "animal side" take over and committing the "unthinkable".
On the face of it, it was a clear cut confession to the violent bashing and murder of his father. But Michael Phillip Martin has told a court the letter was written as "therapy" to confront nightmares over his father's untimely death.
The 28-year-old is on trial in the Supreme Court in Lismore for the attempted murder and subsequent murder of his father, Michael Anthony Martin, in South Murwillumbah in April and June 2014.
In the letter, Martin wrote: "I feel so guilty... for the way I let myself lose control.... the animal side got the better of me." He later wrote that he "had a choice that night" and "I carried through with my plan".
Martin yesterday told the court his counsellor asked him to write such letters and "sometimes I would burn the letters (to) release the emotions".
Wearing a black suit, white shirt and black rimmed glasses, the softly spoken Martin said he still blamed himself for his father's death.
He said by the time he wrote the letter more than six months after the death of his father "I was completely blaming myself for the crime".
"I'd done nothing in reality but in my mind I felt I'd done every little bit of suffering that (occurred to) my dad."
But the Crown alleged the letter was a cut and dry admission of guilt.
"The letter on its face is a confession... I suggest it's a confession to your wife Candace because it's the truth," Crown Prosecutor Brendan Campbell told Martin.
Martin took out $2.5 million in life insurance policies in his father's name before his father's death. Under the Crown's cross examination he admitted he had lied several times over the insurance policies, including pretending to be his father.
"That was your bright idea, to profit from your father's death and to make that come to fruition you tried to kill him," Mr Campbell alleged.
Mr Campbell asked Martin why he didn't tell police about the insurance policies he had taken out after the April home invasion.
"Did you think it might be important for the people investigating that your father was in fear of his life and got you to take out $2.5 million in life insurance policies?" he asked.
The court heard that Martin later tried to make a claim on one of the insurance policies for which he was the sole beneficiary in July 2014 and discovered he would have to provide a police report and a coroners report in order to make a successful claim.
It was only then that he mentioned to police about a "little" accidental death policy.
The trial, before Justice Peter Hamill, continues.
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Quarter of youth at risk of violence against women: research
25% of 12-24 year-olds think being 'masculine' means having power and control over your partner John Gomez
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Although born and bred in Rockhampton, I’m still learning more and more about the people and community every day. We have a community filled with both inspirational locals and people who have been hard done by. I enjoy telling their tales and hopefully using my position to right the wrongs.
29th Sep 2015 5:00 AM
RESEARCH has found one in four youths tolerate or are at risk of committing violence against women.
Independent research commissioned by Our Watch found 25% of 2000 people aged 12-24 believed being masculine meant exerting power and control over their partner.
Our Watch chief Paul Linossier said those young people were comfortable with coercive and disrespectful behaviours and more likely to justify violence.
Our Watch aims to prevent violence against women and children and has launched a national advertising campaign through Australian Community Media to challenge young people's attitudes.
The campaign, You Can't Undo Violence, aims to send the message that there is no excuse for violence and there are lasting consequences if you hurt someone.
The group said it defines which actions are inappropriate, such as physical and sexual violence, emotional abuse, shaming, bullying, and controlling behaviour.
The campaign is part of the federally funded initiative The Line, intended to encourage young people to reject violence and develop healthy, respectful and equal relationships.
The Line ambassador and former Sydney Swans player Luke Ablett said too many people thought being manly meant being violent.
"Young people's attitudes reflect the messages they get from family, peers, popular culture and society more broadly," he said.
"To stop girls and women being hurt and killed, we must challenge and change the attitudes that excuse, condone or trivialise violence towards women."
The 2014 survey for The Line campaign also interviewed 1000 parents and family members of those in the 12-24 age group.
Almost half the 12-24 group said they had or might have "crossed the line" with someone else.
Mr Linossier encouraged people who had "crossed the line" to get support to not to do it again by going to website theline.org.au.
If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, phone 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit 1800RESPECT.org.au.
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DISTURBING BEHAVIOUR
Of 2000 12-24 year olds surveyed:
1 in 3 don't think exerting control over someone else is a form of violence.
1 in 4 don't think it's serious when guys insult or verbally harass girls in the street.
1 in 4 think it's pretty normal for guys to pressure girls into sex.
1 in 4 don't think it's serious if a guy, who's normally gentle, sometimes slaps his girlfriend when he's drunk and they're arguing.
More than one quarter of young people think it's important for men to be tough and strong.
16% of young people think that women should know their place.
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‘Selfish’ wedding act causes rage
People are furious about this photo of what should be a happy moment. Picture: Reddit
A wedding is the ultimate party.
It's a night of fun, where the newlyweds would have forked out tens of thousands of dollars to ensure their guests have unlimited access to food, alcohol and entertainment.
So when you're at a wedding, and you suddenly feel the urge to make a very public gesture, perhaps take yourself to the bar, have a champagne and rethink your plan.
Why? Because it's their night, not yours.
Drink up everyone, it's free! Except for the newlyweds, who are now in debt.
According to a Reddit thread, a guest at a US wedding decided to ignore this sage advice and ploughed on with a clumsy plan to propose to the love of his life in front of a crowd of strangers.
The original post, uploaded by a user called Sam, features a photo at a wedding, understood to have taken place last year.
Sam ironically captioned the post: "A perfect time to propose. (bridesmaid's friend's wedding)"
People are furious about this photo of what should have been a happy moment. Picture: Reddit
The wedding is understood to have taken place last year,
The photo shows a man in a grey suit and perfectly matching patent leather shoes on bended knee holding a ring box. His lapel corsage suggests he is part of the bridal party and is the same shade as the dress worn by the object of his affections, who happens to be a bridesmaid. She appears totally taken aback, clasping her mouth in shock.
Comment from discussion A perfect time to propose. ( bridesmaids friends wedding).
But according to Sam, the newlyweds had absolutely no idea the best day of their lives was about to be ambushed by some other couple - one they had entrusted to be by their sides throughout the big day.
"The guy didn't even ask the married couple," he wrote.
"So I would argue this is a bit past rude."
The photo sparked more than 1400 comments from people who called it a "d*ck move" and "completely selfish", saying the proposal was a cheap, tacky way to steal attention away from the actual newlyweds.
People have been making threats to their friends that if this was to happen to them, they would return the favour in kind.
There's a few things about this photo that are off.
Firstly, the wedding reception appears to be in a high school gymnasium, as many eagle-eyed Reddit users pointed out.
Secondly, while some of the wedding guests are smiling as the proposal takes place before them, others don't seem so impressed.
This woman isn't having a bar of it. No, sir.
And this guy can barely contain his laughter, knowing exactly the sort of storm that awaits the proposal when the bride finds out what has just gone down.
Ooooh, you guys are so screwed!
Many people were furious with the newly engaged couple, claiming "people like that are the worst".
"This is probably the most low and deceitful thing you can do at one of your friends weddings," one user wrote.
"Stealing somebody else's thunder that they spent years planning is nothing short of a d*ck move."
Another user told the group they had been to a wedding where a similar proposal had occurred.
"It was the most awkward thing I've ever seen," they wrote.
"After 2 minutes, everyone totally ignored the engagement and went back to the wedding and the new fiances left soon after, because no one was giving them attention."
It's about them, guys, not you …
Others claimed the proposal came off as "really, really cheap".
"Whether or not it's the intention, everyone there just sees it as piggybacking off an occasion that's already happening, for free, for you," one person reasoned.
If this Reddit thread has taught us anything, it's probably to let the bridal couple - the ones paying for your unlimited fun times - enjoy their night, interruption free.
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Shopping complex sells for $17.5 million
A HERVEY Bay shopping complex has been snapped up by a Melbourne based for $17.5 million.
The Victorian investor, who requested to remain anonymous, bought the Bay Central Shopping Centre at 135 Boat Harbour Drive, directly opposite Stockland Hervey Bay.
The firm also aquired adjoining parcel of vacant land for $1.7 million on a 12 month deferred settlement, which could be used for any future expansions.
The three plazas have six major banking institutions: Westpac, NAB, Suncorp, Commonwealth Bank, Bank of Queensland and ANZ, contributing to more than 50% of gross rental income for the centre.
Stewart Gilchrist of Colliers International and Linda Bland of Century 21 Hervey Bay jointly marketed the shopping centre for sale via expressions of interest campaign.
Mr Gilchrist said Bay Central contains all the ingredients of a quality property investment.
He said that while it didn't contain a supermarket it does contain an above average component of quality national retailers.
"That coupled up with population growth dynamics of Hervey Bay, which is well above the Queensland average, are great components of a long term stable investment," Mr Gilchrist said.
"Regional shopping centres remain very tightly held, with the demand from the investment community far outweighing the number of assets available on the market. Interest is coming from all sectors of the market institutions, syndicates, property trusts and private individuals," said Mr Gilchrist.
Bay Central was originally owned by CRI Bay Central Project Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Melbourne based Hostplus. Spiros Deftereos of Hostplus said the property was not core to their property portfolio so the decision was made to sell it.
Whilst the purchaser wished to remain anonymous, it is believed they have a long history in Hervey Bay and the acquisition of Bay Central complemented the other properties they already own in the immediate vicinity.
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Paul: A professional display
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Blues boss full of praise for front pair
Paul Sturrock was full of praise for his front pair after Blues won 3-0 at Dagenham and Redbridge to move to 14 games without defeat.
Gavin Tomlin scored twice in the opening 15 minutes but Paul was also delighted with the showing of Gavin's strike partner, Britt Assombalonga.
Sturrock said: "Gavin scored two excellent goal and was a real handful all afternoon, he was unlucky not to get the hat-trick.
"Britt is a young man who wants to be scoring goals but his all-round play this afternoon was sensational.
"His first touch for the second goal where he set up Gavin was excellent and he and Gav linked up well all afternoon.
"I had a little word with him when he came off because he wants goals, but I was absolutely delighted with his performance.
"Unfortunately he picked up a little injury which is a shame and we will have to assess him before Saturday."
Paul was pleased with the professional display of his side, having taken the lead so early in the game.
"Sometimes when you score so early you worry a little bit about the way the side keep playing," he added.
"But it was extremely professional from the lads. We didn't pass the ball as well as we probably can but it's a very good win.
"It will put pressure on other sides around us again because points on the board is the most important thing.
"We will rest up as much as possible ahead of the trip to Burton on Saturday.
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By: Laura Poff
The first main session of the 2017 Commissioning weekend featured the premiere of the choreodrama and immersion experience, “Godspeaks.” Attendees packed the sanctuary of the Atlanta Temple Corps, standing against walls and hovering in hallways to witness the live event.
Written by Commissioner Debi Bell and directed by Bethany Farrell, territorial creative arts director, the Friday, June 2 performance starred Salvationists from every division of the Southern Territory, hand-selected by Farrell for their passion and commitment to the project.
Godspeaks related Biblical stories from Creation to Pentecost that demonstrated how God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have spoken to us, in us and through us. All dialogue and narration were lifted directly from the Voice translation of Scripture; the only words spoken were those spoken by God.
“I wanted people to consider how God has spoken to us in the past, how he is speaking to us now, and what we should do about it,” Commissioner Bell said.
Commissioner Bell, Farrell and assistant director Amber Hood, former creative arts director from the Greater New York Division, assembled a crew that supported that goal and a cast that beautifully executed that vision – with only four days together before the big show.
From the outset, the directors were intentional about selecting people of different ages, genders, races and abilities, including officers, soldiers and employees. The youngest cast member was 15-year-old Luis Vijil, and the oldest, 55-year-old Captain Mike Michels, a member of the Southern Territorial Songsters but not an experienced actor.
“I wanted to pull together people with a passion for the arts who don’t often get to participate – not necessarily the best, but those who care the most,” Farrell said. “Everyone has something beautiful to offer. It doesn’t end when we become adults, get a job or because someone else can do it better.”
Hood added that she wanted “to start a grassroots movement of bringing people back into the arts who have been estranged, reminding people that the arts are accessible to all ages.”
Several divisional creative arts directors also performed, including the Arkansas-Oklahoma Division’s Kaitlyn Hardiman, a dancer who embodied the Holy Spirit and dominated every scene she was in with graceful movements and a commanding presence on stage.
The 21-member cast arrived the evening of Sunday, May 28, and began learning the choreography for the 90-minute show the following morning. They had two days to learn and two to rehearse before performing Friday evening.
Despite the pressure, Farrell said the week went by seamlessly. She seemed calm as she arrived at the show with her husband and young daughter. They sat in the balcony to watch the months of hard work unfold.
“This show is so powerful. It’s art in its richest sense, all for the glory of God,” she said, just before it began.
When the sanctuary lights grew dim at the 7 p.m. show time, the cast entered, softly singing “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord,” and hundreds of people fell silent to hear the Word of the Lord.
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Two Swords: Politics Part 2
In response to my last post, Politics and Longing, a friend asked me this in a text:
“Wondering — you seem (correct me) to be saying attachment to politics is about projection and reductive in contrast to the complexity of ‘real life.’ But isn’t to ‘sit out’ politics also to leave the shape and tenor of our society to others? To not only not watch from afar but to allow your fortunes to be dictated by someone far from yourself?”
His questions poked at the embers of that post and caused a few more sparks to flare. I’ll attempt to capture them below. (This piece stands on its own, but I think it’s best read after the post my friend was referring to.)
"Politics & Longing" wasn’t meant to discount political engagement wholesale. My point was that a certain way of engaging in politics is largely hysterical and counterproductive (hysterical in the crazed sense of that word). Or, as The English Beat put it, “two swords slashing at each other only sharpen one another.” But that slashing is what generally passes for politics in our culture, or at least that’s the kind of politics we hear about.
That English Beat song goes on:
“Are you fighting the front or just fronting a fight.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the left from the right.
Are we angry, are we looking for peace?
Or just trying to win the war.”
I’ll chime in with some lines of my own, in the form of a haiku:
Recipe for Harm:
What you hate in you, call bad.
Project it. Attack.
Some causes are clearly more noble than others. Fair and equal treatment of all races, for example, is a worthy cause. White supremacy is not.
The English Beat song, though, investigates matters further. Even the best-intentioned people can be more fundamentally motivated by anger than by the desire to accomplish their officially stated goals. When that happens, they become secretly happy when they’ve made things worse. That creates more fuel for the anger.
People love to say that it's each person’s responsibility in a democratic society to vote and be actively engaged in politics. I say it's each person’s responsibility—no matter what idiocies the other side is spewing—to reflect on what’s really motivating them.
That individual clarification of our own tangled psyches allows a person to truly be a force for good in the world, because that person then has the capacity to act “cleanly.” No longer thrashing around with a club, but striking precisely with a sword.
That individual reflection also may or may not result in direct political action.
Some of us are called to politics. And thank god, for many are quietly doing great things in that arena. You just won’t hear much about them on the news because their work doesn’t involve things like lighting buildings on fire or screaming till their heads explode. They are instead accomplishing things.
Some of us are called elsewhere. But any authentic engagement with a calling does good in the world. And even the ones that don’t look political may end up having immense political consequences. It could be that Chuck Berry had as much impact on racial equality as Martin Luther King, Jr. MLK did his thing. Chuck did his.
The way we conventionally think of politics doesn’t just overlook rock stars. It overlooks the profound effect of the millions of small kindnesses that happen in corner stores and on sidewalks. It’s in these day-to-day interactions that hearts open and minds change.
Our everyday contact with people is visceral and immediate. It’s real. But conventional politics plays out in the abstract. It’s an unreal world that doesn’t challenge our simplistic ideas. No side in that world is willing to actually hear and discuss the points the other is trying to make, or get at what might be the real and complex underlying issues.
Elsewhere in “Two Swords,” the English Beat sings, “And in the long run even he's your brother/ Said, even though that kid's a Nazi.”
To which I’ll add another haiku imposter of mine:
The only humans
you can hate are those you’ve made
into abstractions.
It is not wrong to be furious at hatred and violence. But to lash back out in that same state is to perpetuate the cycle. Responsible people who know right from wrong have a duty to reflect on themselves when they speak or act.
It may be more politically helpful to meditate than to vote.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to share. I also welcome comments and appreciate little red hearts in the lower right corner.
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Survey of needle exchange users shows meth usage up across Washington
A client drops off a bag at the syringe exchange at the Spokane Regional Health District, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
By Rachel Alexander rachela@spokesman.com(509) 459-5406
Methamphetamine use is on the rise among Washingtonians using needle exchange programs, a statewide survey released Thursday says.
Some 82 percent of the 1,079 injection drug users surveyed across the state had used methamphetamine over the past three months, compared with 69 percent in 2015.
The survey, conducted by the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, surveyed drug users at 25 needle exchanges around the state in the fall of 2017, including 48 people in Spokane County.
There’s significant overlap between heroin and methamphetamine users, something that’s reflected both in needle exchange user data and drug overdose deaths, where the two are often mixed.
Eight-nine percent of heroin users said they’d also used another drug in the past three months. Meth was the most common of those, followed by a mix of the two drugs. The survey didn’t ask about marijuana or alcohol use.
“Most heroin users use a lot of stuff, and many of them use meth,” said Caleb Banta-Green, the main researcher at ADAI. Many comments in the survey echoed that, with respondents saying the two basically go together, especially on the street.
Lynn Everson, who runs the Spokane Regional Health District’s needle exchange program, said the group surveyed is a small proportion of the people they serve. A slow day at the exchange might see 35 or 40 people exchange about 3,000 needles in two hours, while a busier day can be about 60 people and closer to 5,000 needles.
But she said the rise in methamphetamine use is happening in Spokane as well. She estimates about 60 percent of her clients chiefly use meth. A few years ago, it was closer to 40 percent.
The shift is partially because more heroin users have gotten into the health district’s methadone treatment program, which has expanded significantly in recent years.
“A lot of the folks who are coming here and had been coming here for a long time…are no longer using our services because they’re using the methadone clinic,” Everson said.
The increase in meth usage correlates with a rise in homelessness both in Spokane County and statewide. About a third of people who took the survey were homeless, and another third had temporary or unstable housing.
Neither Banta-Green or Everson said they could be sure the two were linked. But meth use is common among homeless people because of its functional effects, Banta-Green said.
“Methamphetamine is an appetite suppressant and it keeps you awake,” he said. “If you’re homeless and poor, that’s a good reason to use methamphetamine.”
That observation is mirrored by some comments in the survey. One user said, “Being homeless, meth means I can walk around all night and not need to sleep.”
The number of drug users who have access to naloxone, an opioid overdose-reversal drug, has more than doubled since 2015. Outside King County, 59 percent of opioid users surveyed had a naloxone kit, up from 24 percent.
A significant majority, 89 percent, had health insurance, mostly through Medicaid. But 59 percent reported they didn’t access needed health care in the past year, mostly because they didn’t like doctors or feared they would be lectured or judged about drug use. Cost was cited by only 12 percent of people who didn’t seek care.
Many users, especially those chiefly using heroin, were interested in treatment to stop or reduce their drug use. A majority said they wanted access to medication-assisted treatment using suboxone or methadone to help them stop illicit drug use.
But most listed their chief health concern as something other than drug use, including mental health, pain, respiratory illness or chronic illnesses.
Banta-Green said he hopes the survey will help public health and treatment programs reach drug addicts where they are, and show what options people might want. For many people, chronic illnesses or homelessness are more acute crises than their drug use, he said.
“These are complex people and they’ve got a lot of stuff going on,” he said.
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London’s most vulnerable supported through lockdown thanks to £15,000 Pears Foundation donation
Some of London’s most vulnerable young people and their families are set to receive additional support through the coronavirus crisis thanks to a coordinated crisis response from Pears Foundation and StreetGames.
The funds will be used to support frontline work being undertaken by 10 local community projects across the capital providing food, mentoring and other support for children and young people in disadvantaged communities.
These projects have been responding quickly to address some of the issues their local communities face as a result of the coronavirus crisis including food poverty, isolation and inactivity. These small grants will to help them to continue this work at a time when funding for small charities and community organisations is increasingly under threat.
In response to the current lockdown, local community organisations have been moving quickly to support vulnerable young people. Those projects receiving funds from the Pears Foundation have committed to a range of activities to help their communities, including:
- Provide food collections and deliveries at least once per week
- Delivering weekly remote physical activity sessions and delivering sport equipment to use at home
- Creating activity plans for all participants with ideas and challenges for the week ahead
- Providing personalised mentoring sessions offering advice on everything from healthy eating to emotional support
Sir Trevor Pears CMG, Executive Chair, Pears Foundation said:
“Pears Foundation has committed to increasing its expenditure this year by 50%, up to c£30m. This funding will be allocated to work with our existing partners to help them navigate and respond to the current crisis.
This new grant to StreetGames is in addition to our existing support for their holiday programme Fit and Fed, and one of a number we have made this month to frontline organisations facing unprecedented demand. We know that StreetGames, through their network of local organisations, are well placed to quickly respond to the needs of some of the most vulnerable in our society.“
Mark Lawrie, Acting CEO of StreetGames said:
“We’re hugely grateful for the continued support of Pears Foundation, which has been invaluable for many of the projects within the StreetGames network.
This funding is allowing those on the frontline to respond to the needs of some of the most vulnerable young people and families in London, providing food, supplies, and practical and emotional support through this crisis.
We are committed to standing shoulder to shoulder with these organisations, supporting our most vulnerable communities. The support of fantastic partners like Pears Foundation is crucial to continuing to deliver that support where it is most needed.”
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According to the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute, factories shipped over 3 million central air conditioners and heat pumps during the first five months of 2002, an increase of 6% over the same period last year. At this rate, the industry should eclipse last year's total units sold of almost 6.3 million, including a record 1.4 million heat pumps.
The upturn in shipments comes as a report by the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies projects strong growth in immigrant and minority households, resulting in 22 million more homeowners in the next 20 years.
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Entertainment industry especially the music industry is ever dynamic. One of the main reasons is the ever-changing preferences of the audiences. There was a time when amplifiers, DJs and remixes what all dancing and partying was about (well you can still find them in clubs). But with the ever-increasing complexities of modern lifestyle and its high demands, people no longer have the energy to keep up with the loud music and yes, with amplified music you get headaches for free. Besides, there is no real connection with the songs on DJ or for that matter on any music systems.
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Check out the trailer and interviews with Nichelle Nichols and Neal Adams in From the Bridge doc
James Comtois
Jul 25, 2018, 5:04 PM EDT (Updated)
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A new documentary chronicling the evolution of sci-fi, horror, and comic book fandom as recounted by some of the biggest names in these genres will be teased and discussed at San Diego Comic-Con on July 19.
The documentary, From the Bridge, explores how "geek" culture went from being a fringe community into being the force behind multibillion-dollar industries, and how fanzines, magazines, and genre films inspired a new generation of storytellers to make the films, comics, and video games that currently dominate modern pop culture. From the Bridge features interviews with Stan Lee, Nichelle Nichols, Gene Simmons, Joe Dante, Tom DeSanto, Adam Nimoy, Bryan Fuller, Neal Adams, Doug Jones, Rod Roddenberry, and Howard Roffman.
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Hosted by George Takei, From the Bridge also shows archival footage featuring George Lucas and never-before-aired interviews with Gene Roddenberry and Leonard Nimoy.
Check out the trailer, as well as clips featuring interviews with Nichelle Nichols and Neal Adams, below:
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Comic-Con attendees will get a first look at this documentary in the San Diego Convention Center's 4,000-seat Ballroom 20 on Thursday, July 19, beginning at 10 a.m.
Following the clips that will screen at the start of the Thursday, July 19, 10 a.m. panel, Greg Grunberg (Star Trek: Beyond) will moderate a panel featuring writer-director Spencer F. Lee, Nichelle Nichols, Rod Roddenberry, Kerry O’Quinn, Tom DeSanto, Cecil Grimes, and Douglas Tate on the evolution of science fiction, fantasy, comic book, and horror fandom and the positive impact each has had on popular culture.
From the Bridge, distributed by Gravitas Ventures, is set for a theatrical run later this summer and will be released on VOD, DVD, and Blu-ray in November.
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Marvel unleashes a five page preview for the first issue of Doctor Strange: Prelude
Apr 29, 2019, 6:19 AM EDT (Updated)
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Did you know that Marvel will release an official comics prequel for their upcoming Doctor Strange movie? Yep. The first issue of the official mini-series titled Doctor Strange: Prelude, set to hit comic book stores tomorrow, will feature Benedict Wong’s version of Wong, Stephen Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) faithful servant and teacher who was the subject of a major overhaul for the Marvel Studios film. It looks like the second issue will center around the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton).
The cool preview (four pages plus cover art) in the gallery below features a mysterious woman -- clearly the acolyte of Mads Mikkelsen’s villain of the Marvel film, who's rumored to be Kaecilius. The female character is probably Zealot, played by British martial artist Zara Phythian. We also have a look at Wong, who arrives a bit late on the scene, and there’s also a nifty direct reference to the events of Thor: The Dark World with the mention of the Dark Elves.
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MARVEL’S OFFICIAL PREQUEL! A powerful, ancient relic has been stolen from the British Museum – a relic that could do significant damage in the wrong hands… Enter the MASTERS OF THE MYSTIC ARTS! The team is on a mission to find the relic and the mysterious mystic who stole it – but will they be able to track her down before it’s too late?!
Marvel’s Doctor Strange: Prelude is a two-issue mini-series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and written by Will Pilgrim with art by Jorge Fornes & Jesus Aburtov. The comic book will also give readers a look at Kama-Taj before the movie opens on Nov. 4. Will you pick this one up?
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Network Support Solutions celebrates 18 years in business
Editorial Team Posted On July 5, 2016
Paul and Katy Jones (centre) and the team at Network Support Solutions
In the computer world it was the year Apple first launched its iconic iMac and apparently the year Bill Gates was hit in the face with a cream pie but for one Shropshire businesswoman 1998 marked the beginning of her IT company.
But fast forward a few years and Katy Jones and her business partner Paul Coulthard-Jones are now celebrating 18 successful years of Network Support Solutions.
Based at Shrewsbury Business Park, the company offers a range of IT services, products and support services and since its inception has supported the growth of hundreds of Shropshire businesses.
Katy has also seen a significant number of technological advancements along the way too.
She said: “I think it’s fair to say that IT and technology is one of the most fast-paced industries to be in.
“You only have to look at the progression of computer technology to see what I’m talking about.
“Just a month after launching our business in July 1998 Apple introduced its iMac to the world.
“It was labelled as easy to use and brought Apple into the homes of consumers. Now of course we have iMacs, MacBooks, iPads, iPhones and even Apple Watches.
“And it’s not just technology which has changed.
“Since launching our business we have seen an IT revolution with the emergence and dominance of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to name but a few connecting local businesses in global networks and we have seen major changes in the way people use IT in business to market their products.
“We have witnessed a rise in remote office working, a surge in information sharing and of course the darker side of IT with the proliferation of cyber-crime and computer viruses.
“It’s certainly been an interesting and challenging few years and I don’t think the technological journey is due to end here.
“With things advancing at such a pace who knows where we will be by our 20th anniversary let alone in another 10 years time.
“Our roles and business will have no doubt changed even more significantly but it’s exciting times and a revolution I’m proud to be so heavily immersed in on a day to day basis.”
Network Support Solutions employs six members of staff and works with clients across Shropshire.
Katy, who before setting up the business worked within the council’s library service, thanked clients for their continued support over the last 18 years.
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Pascal Pessier and Hendrik Böhnke receive Otto Diels and Evonik Prizes for best Master and best PhD Theses 2019
Kiel, 12 December 2019:
Congratulations to Pascal Pessier, M.Sc., and to Dr. Hendrik Böhnke! Pascal received the Otto Diels-Prize of the Chemistry Department of CAU Kiel for one of the two best Master Theses. Hendrik received the Evonik Prize for the best Ph.D. Thesis in the Academic Year 2018/19.
Prof. Dr. Huayna Terraschke with Pascal Pessier (left) and Hendrik Böhnke (right). Photos: L. Fitschen
Pascal completed his Master of Science in Chemistry with a Thesis entitled "Non-adiabatic alignment of polyatomic molecules in a molecular beam", with which he started a new research direction in our group. Hendrik built a femtosecond time-resolved transient vibrational absorption spectrometer, and applied his new instrument to investigations of important excited-state intramolecular and intermolecular proton transfer reactions, a central task in the Kiel CRC 677 "Function by Switching". His Ph.D. Thesis has the title "Electronic deactivation and reaction dynamics of H-bonded molecular systems studied by femtosecond time-resolved vibrational absorption spectroscopy".
The prizes were presented during the annual Christmas Colloquium of the Kiel Chapter of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) by Prof. Dr. Huayna Terraschke, Chair of the Kiel GDCh Chapter.
Temps group students win prizes for best Bachelor and Master theses in 2018
Congratulations to Amke Nimmrich, who won the Otto Diels-Prize of the Chemistry Department of CAU Kiel for her outstanding Master Thesis, and to Jan Degenhardt, who received a prize for his Bachelor Degree!
Prof. Dr. Swetlana Schauermann with Amke Nimmrich (left) and Jan Degenhardt. Photos: F. Temps
Amke and Jan both carried out their thesis works in our group. Amke wrote her Master's Thesis on the "Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Nucleic Acid Chromophore Purine in Excited Singlet and Triplet States". Jan investigated the femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence decay profiles of potential ESIPT switches, a central project in the Kiel CRC "Function by Switching". Both projects provided highly valuable new insight into the photophysical and photochemical dynamics of two important classes of molecules in their electronically excited states after photoexcitation.
The two prizes for the Academic Year 2017/18 were awarded to Amke and Jan at the Christmas Colloquium of the Kiel Chapter of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) by Prof. Dr. Swetlana Schauermann, Chair of the Kiel GDCh Chapter.
XMP paper selected as Editor's Research Highlight in Focus on Chemistry
Kiel, 30 January 2017:
We happily report that the chief editor of MDPI has selected our recent paper in Molecules, vol. 22, p. 160 (2017) by Katharina Röttger, Rebecca Stellmacher, Mayra C. Stuhldreier and Friedrich Temps on the
Ultrafast Electronic Deactivation Dynamics of Xanthosine Monophosphate
as Research Highlight in the January 30 edition of Focus on Chemistry.
Abstract: Ultrafast energy dissipation is a crucial factor for the photostability of DNA and RNA, but even some of the key electronic deactivation pathways in monomeric nucleic acid building stones are still controversial. Here, we report on the excited-state dynamics of the rare nucleotide xanthosine monophosphate as a function of deprotonation state (XMP vs. XMP− ) and excitation wavelength ( λpump = 278–243 nm) by femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy. We show that the predominating relaxation channel leads to a return of the photo-excited molecules to the electronic ground state in τ ∼ 1 ps. The mechanism likely involves an out-of-plane deformation of the five-membered ring, different from the main electronic deactivation pathways in the canonical purine bases adenine and guanine. The results are discussed in terms of the structural and electronic differences of XMP compared to the canonical nucleotides.
To read the full article see: DOI 10.3390/molecules22010160
Congratulations to Pascal Pessier for his Bachelor Prize
Kiel, 8 December 2016:
Congratulations to Felix Hartmann, Tim Christopher Haas, Pascal Pessier und Jennifer Müller, who won this year's prizes for the best Bachelor Degrees in the Kiel Chemistry Department of the Academic Year 2015/16. Of the four, Pascal wrote his thesis in our group on the "Synthesis and Characterization of Azobenzene-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles." He his now continuing in the Master's programme at Kiel with focus on Physical Chemistry. We wish him success and good luck for the future!
Physical Chemistry at the 18th JCF Spring Symposium 2016 in Kiel
Kiel, 16 - 19 March 2016:
The 18th JCF Spring Symposium is taking place at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel from 16 - 19 March 2016. The Symposium is organized by the Kiel Group of the Young Chemist's Section (JCF) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) by Ph.D. student Uta C. Stange of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and her team.
This year's Symposium features three Invited Talks in Physical Chemistry: Prof. Dr. Claire Vallance, Oxford University, UK, presents "An Ultra-Fast Camera for Chemical Imaging", former Kiel Ph.D. student Dr. Nina K. Schwalb, Bayer Technology Services, Germany, talks about her views on "A Physical Chemist’s Journey through Time – Insights into the Professional Career Paths in a Global Enterprise", and Prof. Dr. Jessica M. Anna, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., reports on Tracking Ultrafast Photoinitiated Processes of Multichromophoric Assemblies Via Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy".
To view the complete programme, click the following link to the homepage of the 18th JCF Spring Symposium 2016.
New SFB 677 video podcast online: "Ultrafast Molecular Switches Caught in the Act"
Photochemically driven molecular switches are extremely fast: Typically, the switching process takes just 1 picosecond (10‑12 s). To understand the underlying molecular mechanisms, it is necessary therefore to investigate them on the time scale of femtoseconds (10‑15 s). Experimentally, this can be done with modern methods of ultrafast spectroscopy, as applied in our work group. In complementary work, the molecular switching dynamics is simulated theoretically in the group of Professor Bernd Hartke. A new video podcast by the Kiel CRC 677 "Function by Switching" illustrates our approach:
Click on image to start the video in a new page.
In combined studies of this kind within CRC 677, the photochemical mechanisms of basic switches like azobenzenes and furylfulgides have been analyzed in high details. This, in turn, allows us to systematically improve these molecules, i.e. to develop molecular systems that can be switched from one state to the other more selectively, more rapidly, more efficiently and more robustly. These achievements directly translate to improved applications of the switches, for example in functional materials or as tiny actuators and motors in molecular machines. The video podcast illustrates one of our improvements: An additional bridge between the two phenyl rings of azobenzene improves its switching properties dramatically, by shortening the molecular pathways from one state to the other, and by eliminating other molecular movements that would reduce the switching efficiency. Additionally, the bridge separates the excitation light wavelengths for the forward and backward switching directions.
Friedrich Temps receives Wilhelm Jost Medal
Göttingen, 10 December 2015:
F. Wilhelm Jost
Friedrich Temps received the Wilhelm Jost Medal of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen for the 2015 Wilhelm Jost Memorial Lecture
"Ultrafast Light-Induced Transformations in Molecular Switches and DNA Building Blocks"
The Wilhelm Jost Memorial Lecture and Medal is awarded by the Academy of Sciences Göttingen and jointly by the Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie to commemorate the many scientific achievements and merits of F. Wilhelm Jost (1903 - 1968). The Lecture is traditionally given at the former work places of W. Jost, in Halle, Berlin, Hannover, Leipzig, Marburg, Darmstadt and Göttingen. The medal is presented after the last lecture in Göttingen.
Links to lecture schedule, Academy of Sciences Göttingen, list of previous Jost lecturers, larger photo of Jost Medal.
Congratulations to Carsten Schröder and Niklas Helle for their Bachelor Prizes
Niklas Helle
Carsten Schröder
Congratulations to Carsten Schröder, Niklas Helle and Michael Alexander Braun, who won this year's prizes for the best Bachelor Degrees in the Kiel Chemistry Department of the Academic Year 2014/15.
Carsten and Niklas both carried out their thesis works in our group. Carsten wrote his Thesis on the "Investigation of the Ultrafast Dynamics of Cinnamic Acid Derivatives by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy". Niklas worked on "Femtosecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry and Photoelectron Imaging of Cyclohexanone". Both papers provided highly valuable new insight into the photophysical and photochemical dynamics of important classes of electronically excited molecules.
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Tiffany’s Hired a Guard to Trail Carey Mulligan
By Julie Ma
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According to Carey Mulligan’s chat with Vogue U.K., her time playing the wide-eyed Daisy Buchanan dripping in Tiffany & Co. jewels (while frolicking around town with Leo) was not nearly as carefree as the film’s bass-heavy soundtrack seems to suggest. Because Mulligan was walking around set covered in specially made diamond baubles, headpieces, rings, and more created for her character, not herself, Tiffany’s sent over a guard to keep a watchful eye on the actress.
“I would be doing a scene, wearing these fabulous jewels from Tiffany’s worth many, many millions … And I could see this guy in the corner watching me intently, in case I ran off with anything,” she said. “There was a lot of emphasis on appearance. Not from Baz, but from my own reading of the novel. She has to be an object of desire. She’s the golden girl — the ‘king’s daughter.’” Which maybe explains why Mulligan compared Daisy to a Kardashian.
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Witney Carson’s Planning “Rustic, Woodsy” Winter Wedding in January
Witney Carson and fiance Carson Mcallister are planning a "woodsy" winter wedding in January. Credit: India Earl Photography
By: The Knot 12/18/2015 at 10:44 AM
For Witney Carson, it’s all about a cozy, rustic and romantic feel for her upcoming winter wedding. Carson’s fiance and love of four years, Carson Mcallister, proposed in October with the cutest seaside engagement. Now the couple is wasting no time getting started on planning their January 2016 nuptials. Carson, a professional dancer and winner of Dancing With the Stars season 19, met Mcallister in their hometown, American Forks, Utah, and they both knew the mountains in mid-winter would be the perfect snowy setting. And if we learned anything from their dreamy winter wonderland engagement shoot, their wedding is going to be just magical. We have the exclusive scoop from Carson on her wedding details as the planning unfolds. We’re expecting big things for the couple’s first dance, of course, plus a solid turnout from the DWTS cast!
“The inspiration for the wedding came from my hometown in Utah,” Carson tells The Knot. “It’s so beautiful here and I’ve always loved it! I wanted the wedding to be cozy and warm, romantic, and embody the essence of Utah in winter. I’ve always wanted my wedding to be simple yet romantic, but can still give people an impression of who Carson and I are together.”
Witney Carson and fiance Carson Mcallister took engagement photos in a beautiful forest. Credit: India Earl Photography
Carson achieved a similar look with her winter engagement photos. India Earl of India Earl Photographer shared the stunning snowy photos with The Knot on December 2.
“There will definitely be elements of the winter wonderland shoot in our wedding,” Carson shares with The Knot. “We want it to be rustic, woodsy and romantic and I think when it all comes together it’ll be magical!”
“The wedding will be this January, and yes it’s quick!” the Dancing With the Stars pro adds. “We don’t like to waste any time.”
Carson Mcallister wraps his arms around fiancee Witney Carson in front of a beautiful pine tree. Credit: India Earl Photography
With little time to shop, the professional dancer fortunately already had a good idea of the type of wedding dress she wanted. “I’ve always wanted my dress to be extravagant with lots of glitz and glam, but I think now I’m into the simpler, classy look,” Carson says. “I love old vogue with the high neck and long train—something timeless and classy that I can love forever.”
Witney Carson and fiance Carson Mcallister hold hands in front of a snow-covered forest. Credit: India Earl Photography
Carson also has big plans for her first dance with her husband. “Obviously dance has been a big part of my life and now Carson’s life. We’re definitely dancing to our song from high school and it’s ‘Must Be Doin’ Somethin Right’ by Billy Currington,” she shares. “We’re country folk at heart—then we might have a little surprise for everyone if Carson can buckle down and learn some choreography. But, we’ll see!”
We’ll also see if Carson’s Dancing With the Stars costars will be part of the surprise. “A lot of my bridesmaids are actually from the show. They’re flying from tour straight to the wedding—they’re such great friends!” Carson shares. “I’m expecting all my old partners, Alfonso Ribeiro and his family, Chris Soules, and Carlos Penavega and his wife, Alexa Penavega. Should be an amazing night; I can’t wait to share it with the ones I love the most!”
Witney Carson and fiance Carson Mcallister share a kiss while wrapped up in a winter blanket. Credit: India Earl Photography
Even though Carson hasn’t had much time to plan her wedding, she’s been enjoying the process.
“I thought wedding planning would be super stressful, but I’ve come to find it’s actually been so fun!” she tells The Knot. “I’m able to create this vision with so many people helping me. I have a great wedding planner (Michael Russo), two moms who’ve been to every meeting and many friends that are more than willing to help! The best part has been picking out the decorations and the flowers. In my opinion, that’s what makes the wedding beautiful. I’m able to still use my creative side and come up arrangements and looks I love. It’s been so fun!”
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Zahara: Ma Winnie asked Yvonne Chaka Chaka to mentor & help me
10 April 2018 - 10:07 By Kyle Zeeman
Zahara says that Ma Yvonne Chaka Chaka will now mentor her like Winnie did.
Image: Via Zahara's Instagram
As Zahara dealt with the tragic death of her brother in 2014 and the media scrutiny into her personal life Winnie Madikizela-Mandela called veteran musician, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and asked her to mentor the young muso.
Zahara told TshisaLIVE that she was in a dark space when Ma Winnie called and told her that she wanted Ma Yvonne to mentor and help her.
"It was a very hard time for me. I went to Ma Winnie's house and just cried and cried about my brother. A lot was happening at once and she said that she would help me by getting me a mentor. I think she asked Ma Yvonne Chaka Chaka because she is not just a musician but an amazing person. She is so powerful. She is an icon. She is a queen of Africa and Ma Winnie saw that same spirit in me, that is why she asked her to lead me."
Zahara said that while Ma Winnie was still alive, she acted as her mentor and often supported her and advised when she felt lost. She said that now in the wake of Ma Winnie's death, the stalwart would have wanted her to lean on Ma Yvonne in the same way.
"Ma Winnie was more than just a hero. She paved the way for so many women. We were like mother and daughter. It was not just about the politics; it was about her as a woman. We would sit together for hours and just talk. I will miss that but I guess she made a way for me to still have that guidance through Ma Yvonne."
Zahara revealed that she had been planning to help launch the Mandela blanket initiative, set for release in May, before Winnie's death and said she felt like part of the Mandela family.
"Ma Winnie once told me that she wanted to introduce me to her daughter and family. She said she saw her spirit in me. Losing her and Tata (Nelson Mandela) was like losing my parents."
The Loliwe star said she was determined to be responsible and careful with her life and career because she didn't want to disappoint Ma Winnie.
"Ma Winnie was always there for me and I don’t want to disappoint her."
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On Point: Rebuilding UP Women’s Fencing Team Wins Amid the Climb
byAndrew Mencias
Photo by Andrew Mencias
The University of the Philippines (UP) Fencing Team ended the UAAP Season 82 Fencing Tournament with three bronze medals, and an overflow of relief and surprise for a team still finding its footing, yesterday at Paco Arena.
The expected scene for a team dealing with a loss is that of athletes huddled, flushing out tears of anger, sadness, humiliation, and disappointment. But there was none of that for the UP Women’s Sabre Team, after the final match of the day where they lost, 10-45, to the dominant University of the East (UE).
Instead, the sight following the loss was a calm, collected quartet of Alyssa Dueñas, Joj Gonzales, Reb Reyno, and Poala Andres, grateful to pick up the bronze. Nowhere was the predictable outcome of tears a telling sight from a UP Fencing Team that was anything but predictable.
“Unexpected, honestly. Kasi parang our first prediction ng mga magiging sa Finals, nag-iba talaga siya,” said Andres who, along with the rest of the Women’s Sabre Team, expected the Men’s Team to be UP’s best bet for success this year.
“Sobrang turning point siya for the Women’s Team,” Gonzales said. “It shows kaya naman pala bumawi yung Women’s Team.”
Their 45-41 win against De La Salle University (DLSU) that sealed their podium finish was especially sweet. Andres noted how the win felt like vindication, as it came at the expense of DLSU, which knocked them out from the tournament in Season 81.
But amid all the joy of winning, the biggest victory for the Women’s Sabre Team was seeing all the support they received from everyone who watched the four-day tournament.
“Honestly, on my part, I really didn’t expect how my game went,” said Dueñas, “there were so many people screaming my name. There were so much people cheering for me. It was unexpected.”
The foursome hope that their wins set the tone for an even brighter future and inspire more young girls to try out for the Fencing Team. They said that regardless of the level of training, anyone can come into the sport and learn it.
The victory of the Women’s Sabre Team wasn’t the only victory of the UP Women’s Fencing Team. Also winning bronze were the Women’s Foil Team and the Women’s Epee Team, something that Women’s Captain Austine Cui couldn’t be more proud of.
“I feel accomplished with the women’s team performance. This year, we have a lot of fresh faces joining the UAAP tournament,” Cui said. “This proves a lot on where we can be in the coming seasons.”
Despite the rebuild and influx of rookies, Cui believes that the success of the Maroon Fencers this season showed that the team is gaining more experience and awareness.
This, she believes, was also true for her, as Cui herself was the x-factor that secured the Women’s Epee Team’s bronze. Cui scored a comeback victory with the final eight points against the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU).
On the victory, Cui said “the only thing that was running on my mind was scoring one point at a time and putting all the fear away. This helped me focus in our bout as Coach Allan guides me all throughout.”
Like the Women’s Sabre Team, Cui believes that the wins of the Women’s Teams can further inspire people to support and even join the Fencing Team that is slowly proving its capability against the best in the country.
“At the pace of our progress, the future of the UP Fencing Team is bright, everyone has something to prove for themselves and collectively as a team. This is because I can see that anyone can really go head to head against our national players with the proper mindset and preparation,” she said.
Larger Plans
Amid UP’s success, Coach Allan Dator believes the team should still focus on its goal– rebuilding a better program.
“We’re rebuilding,” admitted Dator, whose strategy over the year was to develop the rookies and younger players to prepare for future seasons. “This gives them exposure, and strengthens their core in competitions.”
More than half of the Maroon Fencers are rookies. And under the assumption that they all return for next season, the team only has less than a year to prepare as Fencing will likely be moved back to being a first semester sport once Season 83 rolls around.
Dator, however, isn’t worried about this.
“The rookies will have more experience under their belt to handle the competition. Kasi personally, nakita ko nabigla talaga. So minsan nalilito kasi pag rookie ka lang, nao-overwhelm ka sa atmosphere. Pero hopefully next year, magiging stable sila,” he said.
The NowhereToGoButUP Foundation, Dator says, has been a massive help. According to him, it’s the Foundation’s effort that has allowed the Fencing Team to buy competition-level equipment–lighter blades with better flexibility and point control, and for the first time, the team’s very own fencing scoreboard.
It’s these things that Dator believes contributed greatly to the wins of the Women’s Team, and even the losses of the Men’s Team that often ended by single-digit deficits. To him, all the team needs to further the rebuilding is just a little push.
“With the right amount of support and preparation, aangat kami. Sigurado ako diyan,” Dator said. “Ngayon pa lang, rookies and sophomores lang, by one or two points lang natatalo. So with the right amount of exposure, mananalo ulit kami.”
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Redruth’s pre-match promoting of this latest Cornish derby centred around the deck of playing cards, but it was the Cornish All Blacks who ended up trumps with Tony Yapp playing a last gasp joker with an ungainly drop-goal, which broke Redruth hearts and gave the Launceston club the league double over their Cornish rivals. More importantly for the East Cornwall side it was a fifth consecutive victory moving them up to third in the table as they go into next weekends vital clash with second placed London Scottish at Polson Bridge.
Despite the overnight freezing conditions the Redruth pitch was in fine fettle as kick-off approached. With the mid-winter sunshine conditions seemed ideal for a running game. However the occasion got to both sides and what ensued for the next eighty minutes was a tight cagey affair in which defences dominated, laced with plenty of passion and commitment, naturally in such a game boiling over from time to time, with thankfully nothing too distasteful.
The Cornish All Blacks kicked off playing down the slope with early pressure bringing the visitors a penalty chance as Redruth were penalised for not rolling away. Up stepped Yapp who coolly slotted his penalty, Redruth had been warned.
From the re-start Redruth earned a penalty chance as Launceston went over the top, but unfortunately Reds’ fly-half Brett Rule was unable to tie the scores as his effort went wide of the uprights.
Stung by this set-back Redruth threw everything at the Launceston defence with winger Lewis Vinnicombe making a dangerous run into the visitors 22 down in the Strawberry Lance corner.
Back came the visitors as play ebbed, with Yapp getting a second penalty chance as Redruth were penalised once more by referee Mr.Tutty at the breakdown, surprisingly the normally reliable All Black fly-half fired his effort wide.
Redruth found them selves under further pressure as lock Nathan Pascoe was yellow carded for a professional foul picked up by touch judge Lloyd Jackson on 14 minutes. Despite the numerical disadvantage it was Redruth who were next to score. Launceston’s scrum-half Ed Lewsey’s clearance kick from a scrum in his own 22 was charged down by his opposite number Mark Richards, the Redruth man gathered and scampered in to a huge cheer from the Redruth crowd, Rule added the conversion for a 7-3 lead.
Launceston powered back at the Reds putting the home side under torrid pressure until half-time, Yapp was again unsuccessful with another penalty attempt, whilst a powerful drive from Launceston’s No.8 Sam Hocking set up a great position for the visitors but once again the Redruth defence held with Rule’s tackle on Mal Roberts inspirational for his side, also in the line outs some fine work from Damien Cook and Matt Evans denied the Cornish All Blacks possession at vital moments. Despite the pressure Launceston couldn’t add to their score and turned around 7-3 down.
Redruth looked to take advantage of the slope second half putting Launceston under pressure but they couldn’t get the breakthrough, and were handicapped when losing through injury their influential full-back Paul Thirlby. Instead it was Launceston who got the next score as Yapp kicked a second penalty on 56 minutes.
It set the match up for a pulsating final quarter and you felt that the next score to either side would prove to be the match winner in such a tight contest. Both sides brought on their bench replacements as they seeked an edge. Yapp gave notice of intent as he miscued a drop-goal attempt, whilst another thumping Rule tackle this time on Cornwall captain Ryan Westren exemplified Redruth’s iron resolve. But it was Launceston who were on the attack, Steve Perry who had come on for Jon Fabian probed with his darting runs stretching time and again the Redruth defence, eventually Launceston drove deep enough into the Redruth 22 to set up Yapp for another drop-goal attempt, this time the fly-half’s effort staggered it’s way over the bar to take the spoils and silence the Redruth crowd.
After a difficult week struggling with a bout of swine-flu, this wasn’t the tonic that Redruth’s head coach was looking for, but he was quick to praise his opponents win “It’s hard to take but I feel that Launceston just about deserved the win today.
“I think the score was a fair reflection of the game. If you look at territory and possession they had large chunks of it . That’s not a slight on our boys we defended heroically, good on them, but the telling thing was that Launceston kept their nerve and for the last 15 minutes or so we were holding on.
“We decided to try and win by defending, they decided to try and win by attacking. We kicked poorly at the end. It didn’t help losing Paul Thirlby with an injury, Paul’s kicking game was a crucial loss at that time of the game
On the manner of the loss to a late strike from Tony Yapp, Hambly continued “If you pay that sort of money you get that sort of player. We’ve got a guy who has come through our colts, they have got a guy who is a former England A international, that’s the haves and have-nots of modern day rugby. Fair game to them but Brett Rule can hold his head up against Tony Yapp today that’s for sure. It would be wrong to single anyone out all the guys worked so hard. You can never be too upset if everyone gives 100 per cent. No one can say today that he hasn’t played well or that he hasn’t tried.
Despite leading 7-3 at the break Hambly knew his side needed an early score in the second half to have a chance of winning “I just wanted to get a score, I said at half-time I didn’t want to win by defending, I wanted to win by attacking. I thought we started the first fifteen minutes of the second half on top but we just couldn’t break their line, a couple of bad choices by our guys in crucial areas probably cost us. A little bit more nerve a little bit more sense we probably could have just nicked it, difficult to criticise anyone but Launceston just about shaded it.
“We will look at next Saturday’s trip to Esher we are disappointed but we will re-group, that’s the half-way mark for us in the season, I hope we can go on and win the rest of our home games this season and pick up one or two wins on the road and finish in a respectable place in the league table.”
Jon Hill Launceston’s head coach was understandably delighted with his side’s final flourish to pinch the win “What a way to win a derby game, you couldn’t have scripted it better, that’s what Tony Yapp is there to do. He had a bit of an off day with the boot in the first half but completely made up for it during the second period.
“He took those opportunities, I think that’s our first drop-goal of the season as well. There are people at our club harping on about drop-goals winning games for quite sometime so perhaps that might quieten them a bit for now.
On his side’s overall performance Hill was a little less happy “I don’t think it was a great performance from us we made a lot of errors, we had a lot of opportunities towards the end of the first half when we were camped in their 22 for about 15 minutes Redruth’s tight defence was phenomenal, it was really good, very hard to break down hence they have nilled us in terms of scoring tries today. That for me was disappointing because I felt at the end of the first half had we taken those opportunities we could have been points up, but we weren’t.
“The first 15 minutes of the second half were pretty dead we struggled to get any form of pace into the game, I thought the arrival of Steve Perry totally changed the perspective of the game, he put the ball into the wide channel, we started to play with a little bit more freedom and in the end reaped the rewards because of that.
“We’ve been so focused on this one game that I haven’t yet set any goals for the New Year, this one game has certainly ruined my Christmas and New Year I haven’t been able to get this fixture out of mind for weeks, that’s what Redruth v Launceston games are all about it’s such a huge occasion and it means so much to Cornish people and it means so much to us as a rugby club to come through this with a victory is fantastic.
Hill however has to set his sights now on the visit of second place London Scottish to Polson on Saturday “It’s going to be a huge test for us against a side riding high, but we have to remind ourselves that we’ve won the last five games on the bounce, it’s a while since we lost at home (Esher) and we must go into that game full of confidence.”
Redruth 7 pts
Try – Richards, Conversion – Rule
Yellow Card – Pascoe
Cornish All Blacks 9 pts
Penalties – Yapp (2), Drop-goal – Yapp
Redruth: P Thirlby (N Simmons 43), L Vinnicombe, C Bonds (M Gidlow 68), S Evans, C Morris, B Rule, M Richards; D Jacques (Cap’t), O Hambly, S Heard (P Joyce 64), D Cook, N Pascoe (R Carroll 54), M Evans (H Stupple 68), C Fuca, M Bright.
Cornish All Blacks: J Fabian (S Perry 55), J Luff, R Westren, M Roberts (Cap’t), K Lewitt, T Yapp, E Lewsey; T Mathias, D Semmens (J Salter 66), B Pow (N Bayliss 66), D Kimberley (B Hilton 51), B Jenkins, J Lord, T Rawlings (M Rawlings 71), S Hocking.
Referee: Mr. M Tutty (RFU)
Crowd: 2,010
Redruth man-of-the-match: Brett Rule
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Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program
December 3, 2015 by tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment
Here is a necessary addition to the literature on FBI harassment of Americans and on U.S. social movements over the last century.
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Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program By Douglas M. Charles University of Kansas Press ISBN: 9780700621194
I confess to a degree of skepticism when I began reading Douglas M. Charles’s new tome, Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program. The activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and J. Edgar Hoover, its insufferable longtime director, would seem by this point to be well-worn scholarly territory.
The field is both broad and deep. To name just a relevant few, FBI historian Athan Theoharis (a mentor to Charles) has written extensively about the FBI’s role in civil liberties abuses, Cold War-era red-baiting, and failed counterintelligence, and even addressed the longstanding rumors about Hoover’s own sexuality in J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime. Betty Medsger’s recent The Burglary detailed the rise and fall of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program that illegally surveilled and attacked a variety of civil rights, New Left, and countercultural groups. Meanwhile, Douglas Charles himself has surveyed the FBI’s role in “the rise of the domestic security state.” In his brief and brilliant exposé, The FBI’s Obscene File, he also described the bureau’s classification of alleged obscene materials, including how it used such classification to attempt to destroy the organized gay and lesbian movement.
But as is often the case, a thorough scholarly explication of the role and importance of gays and lesbians to any particular historical moment has been the last to arrive. Fortunately, though, Hoover’s War on Gays is that necessary book. It takes its place beside such works as Kenneth O’Reilly’s Racial Matters, about the FBI’s attack on black civil rights organizations, in exhaustively detailing the effects of Hoover’s policies on specific social movements.
Charles dates Hoover and the FBI’s obsession with gays and lesbians to the 1930s, particularly the 1937 kidnapping and murder of a young boy named Charles Mattson. This particular case previewed features of decades of Hoover’s future actions: attacking marginalized groups for political gain and currying favor with the politically powerful. Despite there being no evidence that Mattson was sexually assaulted, the press reported that the FBI was seeking “sexual pervert[s]” in the case, and the public made mental associations between homosexuality and sexual degeneracy. Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt also made public statements regarding the case; this forced Hoover, a Republican appointee who was obsessed with maintaining his job and the FBI’s status, into prioritizing solving Mattson’s murder.
Although the Mattson case was never solved, it was one prominent piece in a late 1930s sex crimes panic that played a role in Hoover’s beginning to collect information about gays as part of a larger drive against “sex offenders.” The FBI’s collecting of such information was intensive, building up to a formal Sex Deviates Program and File beginning in 1950. Although it was not confined to federal government employees, this program frequently used information gathered about such employees to have them fired. For Hoover, information collecting was in no way a passive activity; what he learned was used to destroy lives and to solidify his own power and influence.
The creation of the Sex Deviates File in 1950 displays links to what historian David K. Johnson has dubbed “the Lavender Scare”–the long-term attack on federal employees that had its roots in the same era as McCarthyism. What Johnson showed and Charles more extensively documents here, though, is that the attack on gays in government predates the McCarthy era. The FBI had its hand in helping to oust Sumner Welles, FDR’s undersecretary of state, when Republicans receive evidence of Welles’ repeated drunken solicitations of African American train employees. This was just one of repeated FBI investigations into rumors surrounding the sexual lives of the prominent, among them Senator David I. Walsh, General Philip Faymonville, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas, and Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson (whose index card from the Sex Deviates File is the only one to escape the file’s late 1970s destruction by the FBI). Some of these rumors were true, some not. What Charles makes clear is that Hoover ultimately did not care. These rumors’ truth or falsity was secondary to how useful they might be to Hoover in his relationships with the presidents and lawmakers whose favor he sought.
Of course, as time went on, there were increasing numbers of openly gay men and women for Hoover to harass and attack. The FBI’s investigations into, and surveillance and harassment of, among many others, Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay; Mattachine member and ONE, Inc. founder W. Dorr Legg; original Mattachine Society-DC leader Buell Dwight Huggins; the Daughters of Bilitis; Mattachine Society of Washington co-founder Jack Nichols (whose father, an FBI agent, was demoted and cut off all contact with his son after the FBI uncovered the connection), and, later, the Gay Liberation Front, show Hoover’s desire to crush subversion. That these men and women, who could easily have submitted to fear of the FBI’s power, continued to fight for social and legal changes forms an inspiring counter-narrative in what could have been (and sometimes is) a litany of sad tales. Although Hoover won many battles, the war continued well beyond his death in 1972, and the forces he supported are losing.
And what of Hoover’s own sexuality? His relationship with right-hand man Clyde Tolson has certainly been cause for speculation, and that speculation was firmly in place during Hoover’s lifetime. But as Charles points out at the very beginning of Hoover’s War on Gays, comment on Hoover’s personal sexuality remains speculative. (Certainly anyone who believes the accounts of Hoover appearing in public in drag or at orgies — even without knowing the dubious sources of those claims–has very little understanding of the era in which Hoover lived or the social and political position he was attempting to maintain.) Still, Charles’s further assertion, that Hoover’s sexuality simply does not matter, may be surprising to many. He makes a compelling case, though: Hoover’s relentless assault on gays makes perfect sense even if he were straight. Gays and lesbians were an easy target in the culture wars, and rumors of the prominent’s homosexuality were politically advantageous to Hoover’s continued reign. While it may be psychologically satisfying to assume Hoover acted out of self-hatred, that prism is unnecessary; as Charles says, even if Hoover “was, as they say, straight as an arrow…[his] treatment and targeting of gays would still make sense to us given the era and the larger historical, political, social, and cultural forces at play.” For a thorough treatment of those forces, Hoover’s War on Gays will likely remain unsurpassed.
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of Woman and Wolf
by Susan Imhoff Bird
October 2015 | Nonfiction | 978-1-937226-47-3 | 300 pp | $15.95
SUSAN IMHOFF BIRD finds inspiration in Utah’s stunning canyons, valleys and water-sculpted rock. Traveling in Asia, South America and Europe has exposed her to varied cultures and societies, resulting in an award-winning short story, a book about humanitarian work in Nepal, and Faith Greater Than Pain, a story of tenacity and determination in the pioneers who walked to Zion. A mom of three and owner of a gratitude-based business, she is fascinated by human interactions. When not writing, reading, trying to meditate, or attempting yoga asanas, she can be found on her bicycle or snowshoes, absorbing the wisdom of the natural world. And occasionally howling.
Commemorating twenty years since the wolf’s return to the American West, Howl explores passions and controversies surrounding nature’s most fascinating predator. At a crossroads in her own life, Bird travels the West uncovering both a common love for the land and conflicting beliefs about wildlife among people who work with, for, or near wolves. Unleashed herself, she learns to howl.
PRAISE FOR HOWL
“Enormously personal and perceptive…a compelling wildlife study that extends beyond familiar settings. Bird couples an investigation of America’s complicated relationship with wolves with enormously personal and perceptive reflections on her life as wife and mother.”
“Howl has all the depth, complexity, and moving power of that most haunting of sounds: the howl of a wild wolf. Bird shows us that the gap between tameness and wildness…is not so far as it might seem, and we ought to venture across to find out how wild feels. [Howl is] an education on a singular animal and an identification with a singular storyteller.”
“An accessible, quick-paced read, [Howl] extends the reader’s imagination to see wolves and many other issues in perspectives he or she might not have ever anticipated…Bird’s book demonstrates what creative nonfiction can accomplish in motivating a disconnected citizenry to rediscover and rejuvenate its relationship with nature and the non-human world.”
—THE UTAH REVIEW
“Howl: of Woman and Wolf is an emotional, spiritual and educational literary journey…with fascinating information about wolves, it makes for a soulful, intriguing story.”
—THE DESERET NEWS
“With humor, sensitivity, and probing intelligence, Bird weaves an outer journey with inner way-finding…an inspiring book about being more than human—it’s about being alive.”
—MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL, author of The Spine of the Continent: The Race to Save America’s Last, Best Wilderness
“A well–rounded wolf tale told by a writer who is comfortable both inside and outside her human skin. It speaks with an unsheltered heart reaching beyond loss for a wilder tether, that ancient yet enduring story of (wo)man and beast.”
—DOUG PEACOCK, author of Grizzly Years
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Chris Brown & Tyga Respond to Chvrches' Disapproval of Their Marshmello Collaboration
Earlier this week, Chvrches took to social media to share their disapproval of Marshmello working with Chris Brown and Tyga on their new single “Light It Up." Brown and Tyga responded back in the group's Instagram post.
"We are really upset, confused and disappointed by Marshmello's choice to work with Tyga and Chris Brown," the band wrote in a statement Thursday (April 25). "We like and respect Mello as a person but working with people who are predators and abusers enables, excuses and ultimately tacitly endorses that behaviour. That is not something we can or will stand behind."
On Saturday, Brown fired back in the comments section of a Chvrches' IG account.
“BUNCH OF LOSERS. these are the type of people I wish walked in front of a speeding bus full of mental patients," Brown wrote. "Keep groveling over you own insecurities and hatred. IM BLACK AND PROUD. AND I KNOW ITS HURTS THAT U GUYS ARE STRUGGLING WIT LIFE OR PEACE SO U ARE FORCED TO SEE MY SUCCESS. You aren't even #2 (REMEMBER 2nd place only means YOU LOST FIRST! TA-TA. GOODDAY PEASANTSâ€.
Tyga also commented in the original post, writing, "Where all God’s children. Everyone makes mistakes no ones perfect. Let’s Keep the energy positive."
Chvrches hasn't officially responded to Tyga and Brown's, but frontman Lauren Mayberry has received abusive direct messages on social media since their posts. She posted some of them on her personal IG account.
Chvrches' concerns arise from Brown pleading guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna back in 2009. For his part, Tyga settled a sexual assault lawsuit against him following a 2011 video shoot, and the rapper was also accused of having a sexual relationship with then-girlfriend Kyle Jenner when she was as young as 16, though the age of consent in California is 18; no legal action was ever taken over their relationship.
Chvrches are featured on Marshmello’s 2019 single “Here With Me,†earning them their first Billboard Hot 100 hit, and they made a surprise appearance during the helmeted DJ’s headlining set at weekend one of Coachella.
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Xenophobic Attack: Returnee Nigerians Offered N40,000 Value Of Air Time, 9GB of data valid for 2 months, Other Promises
About 187 Nigerians affected by the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa have arrived Nigeria on-board an Air Peace flight.
They were promised N40,000 Naira worth of air time, 9GB of data valid for 2 months as well as a soft loan from the Bank of Industry by the Federal government.
Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM Abike Dabiri-Erewa led a team of government officials to receive the returnees while commending the management of Air Peace for the kind gesture.
Dabiri-Erewa said a “total of 187 Nigerians were evacuated, amongst whom over 30 were children.” About 317 were initially billed to return on the flight which experienced over 15 hours delay by the South African authorities.
The development follows a directive from President Muhammadu Buhari to evacuate Nigerians in South Africa willing to return home due to renewed xenophobic uprisings.
President Muhammadu Buhari gave the order after receiving the report of the special envoy whom he dispatched to South Africa over the xenophobic attacks.
Hon Dabiri-Erewa told the returnees that “apart from transport stipend to convey them to their various destinations, for ease of communication, they are to receive SIM cards with N40,000 Naira worth of air time, plus 9GB of data valid for 2 months as well as a soft loan from the Bank of Industry to support those interested in small trade and businesses.”
She said a programme of reintegration will also be put in place subsequently.
The returnees were thankful to President Buhari, the Chairman and management of Air Peace as well as the Consul-General in South Africa and the High Commission in Pretoria for their efforts in ensuring their successful return to Nigeria.
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"Legacies" / "Epilog"
The X-Men battle the Acolytes in France
Writer: Scott Lobdell
Penciler: John Romita Jr., Brandon Petersen (2nd Story)
Inker: Dan Green, Dan Panosian & Al Milgrom (2nd Story)
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos, Richard Starkings (2nd Story)
Colorist: Steve Buccellato, Glynis Oliver (2nd Story)
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Nightcrawler arrives in France at Professor Xavier's request, and receives a Cerebro booster from Forge, who leaves before the X-Men arrive. Elsewhere, the Acolytes, who have captured Moira MacTaggert, probe her memory for details about the process with which she briefly brainwashed Magneto and the X-Men. As the X-Men rendezvous with Nightcrawler, Moira tells one of the Acolytes, the young Neophyte, how Cortez actually killed Magneto, a truth later confirmed when Neophyte overhears Cortez talking with Gamesmaster, prompting him to flee the Acolytes castle. Using Forge's device, the X-Men locate the Acolytes, just as Neophyte is found by a young human girl who is slain by Cortez' guard, sent to retrieve Neophyte. The X-Men defeat the guard and Neophyte agrees to help them infiltrate the castle. They arrive just as Cortez is about to kill Moira, and a battle ensues. Cortez attempts to abandon the Acolytes and escape, but he is delayed by Neophyte long enough for Wolverine to gut him. Xavier offers Neophyte a place with him, but Neophyte declines, saying he must find his own way in the world, but that Xavier and Magneto's dreams are more similar than either realizes.
Cortez is retrieved from the hospital where he was recovering from Wolverine's attack by one of the Acolytes, after which he learns from Gamesmaster that the points he was awarded for killing Magneto have been taken away, which Cortez realizes can only mean one thing. Meanwhile, at the X-Mansion, Xavier & Moira discuss the recent virus which seems to be targeting mutants. Moira's words spark a recollection in Xavier of Stryfe's files, and he asks her what treatment there is. She replies there is none; in all cases she's studied, once contracted, the virus is terminal.
Firsts and Other Notables
Though his "official" return is held for issue #304 (and the intervening months will be filled with additional teases to that effect), this issue more or less confirms that Magneto is still alive when, in the issue's second story, the Gamesmaster strips Cortez of all the points he was given for killing Magneto, which Cortez realizes can only mean one thing (but he doesn't go so far as to say it: that Magneto is alive).
In addition to teasing the return of Magneto, the epilogue also continues to tease Illyana's fate and the larger Legacy Virus storyline, with Illyana's excerpt from Stryfe's Strike File reprinted as Xavier begins to realize that Illyana is suffering from no mere bout of the flu.
After filling in on issue #287 and drawing the Cable limited series, John Romita Jr. returns to the series as the book's new regular artist (along with his longtime inker Dan Green), bringing along his new (relative to his first run) blocker style. This second run will be significantly shorter than his first, cut short by the ascent of Joe Madureira and feature two fill-ins (along with one jam issue). This is also Brandon Petersen's last issue on the series, as he draws the epilogue following the main story.
This issue introduces a slew of new Acolytes, most of whom will stick around as stalwart members of this iteration of the group: Milan (who has an arrow on his forehead for some reason and possesses the dubious ability to transform thoughts into electro-magnetic images ie he can put your memories on TV), Javitz (a big guy with an eye-patch made out of a headband), the oddly named Seamus Mellencamp (who is a big lizard person), Scanner (who can detect other mutants), Neophyte (who has a phasing power not unlike Shadowcat's and clearly isn't meant to be named Neophyte - it's implied to be his rank here, something later writers will miss and continue to call him Neophyte), and Amelia Voght, another teleporter who is the arguable standout of this group, as she will turn out to have a pre-X-Men past with Xavier and star in one of Lobdell's best issues.
Additionally, we see the members of Cortez's personal guard, all of whom wear individual attire rather than the now-standard Acolyte uniform: Senyaka (who has a psionic whip and will get his own action figure because the 90s) is arguably the standout of this group, but Katu (the one-armed guy) will feature in some Cable issues while Spoor (the Beast Man guy) will end up doing some stuff in Excalibur.
Iceman debuts his new spiky look in this issue, the next step in the "Iceman isn't using his powers to their full potential" plotline. Motivated by Mikhail's taunting him as such in issue #291-293, his new appearance is also motivated by Romita wanting to punch up his look.
Nightcrawler guest stars in this issue, helping the X-Men as a favor to Xavier, but really, so that the core "All New, All Different" team can reunite for issue #300. He describes himself as the leader of the Excalibur, which while true, is putting it a bit more bluntly than that series ever has. His presence leads to Storm and Nightcrawler interacting directly, on panel, for the first time since issue #211.
Forge also returns, appearing in person to hand off a Cerebro booster to Nightcrawler before leaving in order to avoid any awkwardness with Storm. This begins a string of Forge appearances in the series over the next few months, before he transfers over to X-Factor.
There's a pair of flashback pages in this issue, set just before X-Men #1, showing Xavier and Moira discussing Xavier's proposed first class of X-Men and Magneto's imminent attack on Cape Citadel. We also see that Xavier was aware of the "All New" X-Men prior to the creation of the team, but chose to go with the original five as they were younger and thus less set in their ways. He also reiterates the notion that the "X" in X-Men doesn't stand for "Xavier".
It's also revealed that Xavier has some kind of past with Acolyte Amelia Voght; their past together will be explored in issue #309, though it doesn't quite fit with what's teased here (this seems to suggest she is a failed student; we'll eventually learn she and Xavier were lovers and she objected to the concept of the X-Men as an unnecessary escalation).
This issue features a "Prismatic Foil-Enhanced" cardstock cover with holographic "X" logos on the background, the first time the series has featured what we traditionally think of as a gimmick cover.
In the "things that could have been" department, it's worth noting that issue #300 is about as far into the future as any of Claremont's various "if I hadn't left the series" plans went, as he intended the issue to be a more direct sequel of sorts to issue #200 as well as the true culmination of his Shadow King storyline, with Xavier dying to defeat the Shadow King and Magneto replacing him with the X-Men once and for all.
The Chronology Corner
Nightcrawler appears here between issues #60 and #61 of Excalibur, prior to the concurrent RCX storyline (which explains why he's still wearing his old/original costume and not the Warpie-created one).
Moira appears here after X-Factor #90, with her appearance here setup in that issue (and her experiences in Genosha informing her conversation with Xavier in the epilogue).
Nightcrawler talks about going into battle with Forge like it's something they did often; aside from fighting the Direwraiths shortly after Forge's first appearance (when he wasn't yet a member of the team), was there any other time the pair would have fought together (or really, even interacted at all)?
In the wake of breaking up with Storm and leaving the X-Men, Forge has grown bitter about the X-Men in general.
Nightcrawler suggests that being a mutant might be synonymous with change, a sentiment that gets brought up a lot during Lobdell's run.
The X-Men's last trip to France, in issue #200, is referenced by an angry mob.
En route to the Acolytes base, Colossus calls Stevie Hunter to check in on Illyana, who continues to run a fever. Colossus is also noticeably short-tempered with Iceman.
Neophyte learns this issue that Cortez actually killed Magneto, and it's also suggested that Voght knows this too.
He learns this thanks to Gamesmaster, who tricks Cortez into admitting it and being overheard in order to keep the Upstarts' game interesting.
Archangel points out to Bishop the impact Bishop's presence has had on Xavier.
With both in the field together, Storm and Cyclops briefly argue over leadership responsibilities, with Storm failing to defer to Cyclop's clear superiority as a leader.
In a declaration/explanation of her lack of a codename, Jean name drops Madelyne Pryor, which is always nice to see (great depiction of Jean's power, too).
Bishop notes that in his future, no one has ever heard of Cortez (which actually kinds of fits, since he mostly disappears from the franchise after "Bloodties").
Seemingly left for dead at the end of the main story, the epilogue shows that Voght retrieved Cortez from an Italian hospital where he was recovering from Wolverine's attack after being turned over to authorities.
In a rant/monologue, Cortez says that he was born royalty.
It turns out that Xavier's Ready Room, first seen in issue #298, is a surprise to Moira as well, despite her brief stint as Xavier's housekeeper (and points for name-checking Moira's housekeeper days).
Artistic Achievements
Forge is wielding some top-notch JRjr guns in the opening pages. Seriously, I love that stuff; it just screams "comic book!" to me in the same way Kirby Tech and the Kirby Crackle does.
"Professor Xavier is a jerk!"
Xavier responds to the mobs' request that the X-Men leave by using his telepathy to make them think the X-Men have left.
Human/Mutant Relations
Cyclops tells one of the Acolytes he's the X-Men fight to protect everyone, friend or foe, and that anyone is welcome to whatever life they want, up to the point they start threatening someone else's.
Austin's Analysis
Reading this issue when I was younger, having already been fully trained by Wizard magazine and the speculator market of the early 90s to expect every issue with a number divisible by twenty-five, especially a double-sized one with a fancy cover celebrating an anniversary, to be a BIG DEAL, I was consistently underwhelmed by it in terms of how big a deal it was. It doesn't serve as a culmination to a long-running storyline and/or significant character developments (as Claremont initially intended for his planned #300 issue); in fact, though it builds on events from the previous two issues, it's mostly standalone (as they were as well). And while it more or less comes right up to the line of saying "Magneto is alive!", it doesn't actually cross that line, saving the full reveal of his resurrection for issue #304 (which always seemed to overshadow this issue in terms of significance and anniversary-ness), which made what should have been a BIG DEAL issue read instead like an appetizer for the main course of issue #304.
But reading it now, this actually does serve as a rather fitting celebration of the history of the X-Men as they reach a milestone issue of some significance, albeit in more subtle ways than just featuring the return of their historically chief antagonist or making it so things "will never be the same again!". Whether a happy coincidence of timing or the result of a planned effort, having John Romita Jr.'s second artistic stint begin with issue #300 is a nice touch, giving this issue some added symmetry with issue #200, the last centenary issue of the series, which JRjr also drew. That issue was also centered on the question of Magneto's fate (albeit more directly, with Magneto actually appearing in the issue and shaking up the status quo by replacing Xavier) and found the X-Men in France, parallels Lobdell makes explicit here.
As a kid, the inclusion of Nightcrawler was just a fun guest appearance by a former member of the team; now, I recognize the importance, in terms of celebrating the X-Men's history, of reuniting the core of the "All New, All Different" team for the first time since "Mutant Massacre". The two flashbacks, via Moira's memories and Milan's oddly-specific power, hearken back to the series' earliest days. And while this issue doesn't feature a status quo change on par with Magneto taking over the school or the events to come shortly in "Fatal Attractions", there is a subtle sense of "look how things have changed" throughout the issue, via discussions of Professor Xavier's recent methods and actions post-"X-Cutioner's Song": his mind-wiping of the crowd in France, Archangel's acknowledgement of how Bishop's presence has contributed to his more proactive approach, and the reveal of a shared past with one of the new Acolytes.
Issue #200 was all about setting up Magneto to be the new Xavier. This issue flips that, and asks the question: how much of Magneto is in the new Xavier? It's a question that will run through much of the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the X-Men, and beyond (along with the Legacy Virus plotline, also kicked into high gear here, which will impact the series significantly, soon, then linger...quite a bit longer). And thus, just as with issue #200, which put the series on a path it followed, at least in part, for seventy-five issues, issue #300 is as much about pointing the way forward as it is celebrating what's come before, making it a pivot point between the past and the future. All of which seems more than enough to justify the fancy cover and to qualify this issue as the "BIG DEAL" my younger self failed to see it as.
Tomorrow, things get sick in X-Factor #90. Friday. Wolverine goes to the Savage Land in Wolverine #69. Next week, Cable returns in Cable #1.
Labels: "Fatal Attractions", Comic Book reviews, comics, Lobdell/Peterson, Lobdell/Romita Jr., Uncanny X-Men, X-aminations, X-Men
Licínio Miranda June 28, 2017 at 7:32 PM
I'm a big fan of JRJR, and I was especially glad he returned to X-Men. This issue is of particular significance for me because it was around this time I stopped caring about the X-Men. Everyone has "beginning" and "ending" moments of reading comics. This was my ending. For me, X-Men will always be Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Wolverine. Today, aged 32, with no connection to present-day comics (and all I hear is that they are awful), I can say that the X-Men had a role in the formation of the person I am. They were (and here I'm talking about Byrne/Cockrum/Smith X-Men) fundamentally good people trying to do good and not getting much in return, but who counted on each other as one family. I felt part of that family. It broke my heart when Cyclops dumped Maddy (who was a nice person) and seeing how nasty the X-Men became after Mutant Massacre turned me away, but I kept reading it out of loyalty. This is why X-Men #1 by Jim Lee was so important for me. Seeing them all together again (well, except for the much missed Nightcrawler and Shadow Cat) felt just right. That stories became overly complicated, with too many mysteries and too much focus on Wolverine again turned me away. This time for good. I appreciate your reviews. I was glad to remember my childhood and my old mutant friends.
John F July 5, 2017 at 12:14 PM
Funny, this was pretty much my "end" as well. I'd dropped the title a few issues prior, but was prompted to pick this one up with the anniversary issue number and foil cover--I'm not even sure I was aware it was JR Jr.'s return issue. I would pick up the next gimmick cover, #304, and then wouldn't touch them again for years.
Ian Miller June 28, 2017 at 8:25 PM
Two bits of nostalgia in one day! It's funny, the X-Men have been such a big part of my life, but I don't remember how and when I actually discovered them. It was more than likely through the cartoon (I was 6 when it debuted), and I know I had a copy of X-Men Classic #54 my dad gave me.
But I'm pretty sure this was one of the first issues of the book, if not the absolute first, I bought the month it came out. I haven't picked up this issue in easily 20 years, but I still remember so many of these panels vividly. And believe it or not, because I saw the word "Neophyte" here for the first time I always assumed it was in reference to a superpowered being or an alien/monster race or something (It sounded like that to me). I believed this until my mid-20s when I found out what neophyte actually meant!
And from here on is *MY* X-Men. This is the team and the adventures I picked up every month with my allowance money. It's funny, time went by so slowly as a kid that I assumed JR Jr.'s second run lasted for years. Turns out it was only a handful of issues before Joe Mad took over.
Austin Gorton July 3, 2017 at 6:10 PM
Yeah, I remember reading this stuff in real time, it felt like everything took FOREVER. Like Magneto had been dead for EONS (it was really just about 18 months), that JRjr's run was lengthy, that Illyana had been sick forever when it was really for just a handful of issues.
Just a combination of reading the issues a month-at-a-time, and the relativity of time.
I'm curious as to this bit, too:
"We also see that Xavier was aware of the "All New" X-Men prior to the creation of the team, but chose to go with the original five as they were younger and thus less set in their ways."
I always assumed the All-new team was younger than the original 5, if not the same age. Colossus should be an adolescent in that photo, given that he was the youngest of that team. I guess that was a slip-up, given that the original 5 never interacted with the All-new team until they were young adults.
Colossus should be younger, but Storm, as well as Banshee and Wolverine (of course) are considered older than the original five. Nightcrawler is probably roughly their same age - he turned 21 in Annual #4 (of course, specific years/ages are always dicey with Marvel's Sliding Timeline, but the general idea of Colossus being the youngest of the new X-Men with Storm, Banshee and Wolverine all older than the original five is pretty consistent).
Well Storm's age is a bit weird- the first telling of her origin made her 5 at the time of the 1956 Suez War, so she'd be 25 in 1976, but the writers keep moving the war around so her age changes. (And at this point we've run into the problem that Egypt's been at peace with it's neighbors since 1979, so Storm would have to be over 40.) I assume Storm is roughly the same age as Jean and Scott. Banshee and Wolverine are much older- Wolverine of course and Banshee because he has a daughter that's at least in her late teens.
"Scanner (who can detect other mutants)"
This might not be Scanner's first appearance- an Acolyte called SCREENER appears in Avengers 357- that might be meant to be Scanner.
Yeah, I see that Wikipedia splits the difference and lists both AVENGERS #357 and this as her first appearance.
Jason June 29, 2017 at 3:11 AM
I confess even though I had washed my hands of the X-Men titles by this point, the shiny cover and JRJr. drawing the return of Nightcrawler were enough to make me pick this one up.
I liked that it was so self-contained and enjoyable on its own terms (good for me, since I hadn't read the four issues before it, and wasn't planning to read any after). I probably only read the issue once, maybe twice, so I barely remember it. But it does hold a place in my heart, as my "last" X-Men comic for about six years (and those were high-school/college years, so six felt like 20 ...).
Jeff June 29, 2017 at 12:09 PM
This issue always seemed like the best work JRjr did on this run on UXM. I don't know if it was ever as good again. I agree with you a that at the time this seemed a little underwhelming for an issue 300 and in a way it still does, but it's a good issue. It's mostly self-contained and has a lot of good character beats. You can't ask for much more than that from this era.
Teemu June 29, 2017 at 4:54 PM
It's also revealed that Xavier has some kind of past with Acolyte Amelia Voght; -klip- this seems to suggest she is a failed student; we'll eventually learn she and Xavier were lovers
Xavier in love with a redhead student, well I never!
I don't know; the issue's always been somehow off for me. The comparison to #200 doesn't help at all me here, but underlines the differences in the eras to this one's detriment. Funny though that the villains of #200 were Upstarts. Not the bookend Claremont probably was looking for.
The nice French girl went the way of Nicholas Damiano. That's just wrong.
But maybe there is thematic continuum #161-#200-#300.
Matt June 30, 2017 at 2:47 PM
Teemu -- "The comparison to #200 doesn't help at all me here, but underlines the differences in the eras to this one's detriment."
Funny; I like this issue so much more than #200, they can't even compare. This feels like an X-Men comic to me; the other feels like a story about a bunch of imposters.
Teemu July 1, 2017 at 5:38 PM
I obviously carry the bias of the first third of #200 being published in my very first X-book issue and all the references to everything around Marvel Universe that you don't know anything about and are intriqued as hell.
But, the beauty of the Claremontian UNCANNY was the continuous zip-zapping between various members of the very large cast, and the "meanwhiles" that hint of stuff happening three issues forward. Here are no cast members who are not connected to the immediate story. That's not how you do UNCANNY. Plus, the prominence of female characters was just out of the world and it was in great show in #200. That I feel was magnificently ruined in the re-"boot" where the original X-Men assumed their old marguee roles and the men of All-New were pushed to the forefront to the detriment of woman characters. The X-Men of UNCANNY #200 onwards was very much a female team, and Claremont totally sold it to a pre-teen boy which is a feat, and it was great, and then it was gone and I can't unmarry this issue in my mind from that premise.
And I liked the pre-Berlin Wall breaking zeitgeist being on the show.
Teemu July 2, 2017 at 8:01 AM
And the villains. Fenris, what ever one thinks of them, at least have certain legitimate Marvel pedigree as the kids of the Silver Age villain Wolfgang von S (admittedly a recent addition to the X-Men mythos, but with a good Marvel rep). Acolutes on the whole are an epitome of horrible unhistoric* 90's foe group with "a what?" codenames and "okay them..." powers, and the one with supposed history with Xavier is quite an egregious retcon implant from the get-go. Back in the day in #193 the Hellions were great "something old, something new" antagonists for the 100th issue of the All-New, All-Different; now this is what they try sell me right in the heels of the recent and very pointed Hellion slaughterfest.
(* Unuscione's cool, though)
In Star Wars comparison, it's like I hadn't seen the Episode IV, but liked tremendously of The Empire Stikes Back, and now fifteen-twenty minutes in The Return of Jedi I learn they are going to heavy-handedly ignore if not downright retcon away the Episode V. Well, maybe Star Wars is a bad comparison, but it's pretty much like they were to now make a third Snake Plissken film, that retcons away most of the beautifully slightly over the top Escape From L.A, because they got the *tone turns to underline mockery* "creative vision" that they want to re-do more of a modern day adaptation of Escape From New York, and I'm sitting here with my Deluxe DVD package "Map To The Stars" and slight crush on A.J. Langer asking: "Dafuq you think you're doing?"
I will take the Acolytes, in all their 90s-ness, over Day-Glo 80s Fenris any day of the week and twice on Sundays. "Followers of Magneto fight students of Xavier's" just has so much more thematic resonance than "Kids of otherwise unrelated Marvel bad guy who fought Xavier in one flashback issue fight the students of Xavier".
Well actually Magneto was the actual villain in #200, but a multifaceted one and, obviously, facing a trial for his villainous acts. The Fenris twins were more of one dimensional bad guys merely juxtaposed with that. And Sir James Jaspers in his way yet another. Cackling Fabian Cortez leaves something to be wished for compared to that.
And obviously Xavier and Gabrielle Haller joining to defend Magneto on the eve of Magneto assuming the mantle of the principal of Xavier's school beautifully bookends the developments that had started back in the day with the events depicted in #161. Despite the thematic resonance #300 is essentially the X-Men going to some guys' lair to hand them their asses.
(Obviously one can justifiedly apply the same criticism to the #161 retcon as I did to Amelia Voght retcon. I'm not one to defend it by the fact that the movies grabbed at it, bait hook and sink.)
And the Fenris Day-Glo is at least some vintage JRjr, and they're Europeans anyway. Compared to whoever the hack put the head arrow on Milan the Mindbender...
Oh, and. An off-putting element to me in this set of "followers of Magneto" is that they're specifically worshippers of Magneto. Though, the religious following can of course be seen as a new angle to an old thing that was the preceding polito-ideological approach of the both iterations of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and the pragmatism-inspired "selling out" by Mystique in #199 and the "Freedom Force" then becoming the Judas that sells Magneto to the authorities. The context for "the Acolytes'" emergence possibly is their condemnation of the previous generation which allowed themselves to be waylaid by logical argument from their non-religious commitment to the Magnetoan ideology of mutant supremacy.
But, the early 90's also saw the other great 80's thing the Hobgoblin too to take a turn to religious extremism, and the thing with religious extremism is that you're not bound to sensibly cut your losses and bail out in middle of a battle that's taken bad turnvfor you, so the heroes only have the boring (story-telling) out of beating the foes into submission. It's also gone back to very Silver Age black and white all of the sudden, compared to the #200 era status quo of X-Men the mutant outlaws vs. the government-sponsored former Evil Mutants.
I don't know what to make of the the fact that in the Acolute point-of-view Magnus probably pretty much was tempted by Satan-Xavier in the desert, died, got resurrected, and is soon to step up to his personal heaven in the geo-syncronic orbit to where he delivers his people and has an angel dude going around as his harbinger. Idk, it's not the greatest story ever told.
Austin Gorton July 12, 2017 at 8:58 AM
I don't know what to make of the the fact that in the Acolute point-of-view Magnus probably pretty much was tempted by Satan-Xavier in the desert, died, got resurrected, and is soon to step up to his personal heaven in the geo-syncronic orbit to where he delivers his people and has an angel dude going around as his harbinger.
Wow. That's a pretty fantastic reading of the Acolytes' perspective on Magneto that I've never really considered before. Seriously, I love that.
Teemu July 12, 2017 at 4:05 PM
It's actually difficult, if you adopt that reading, to not think UNCANNY #150 and the sinking of nuclear submarine Leningrad and the Varykino volcano as the throwing the moneylenders out of the temple (of Chtulhu on the Caribbean island, as it may be) incident that gives the pretext for the subsequent trial in #200 where it's more the ideology that the act that's on trial. It's also very difficult to not find appreciation to the fact that in X-MEN #3 it's a Soviet "nuclear plasma cannon" and the missiles raised from the submarine that serve as the fitting means of Magneto's death. It's almost said in the text that USA washes its hands from the happenings as Soviet Union acts.
Actually #300 starring Magneto's disciples suddenly sees very appropriate. Also, if the editorial had these similar parallels coming up around these times, the retcon of Erik Lensherr the Sinte gipsy starts to look like a panicky move to insist that Magneto is not Jewish... like that other guy was.
The re-retcon of Magneto's real name to the very Jewish and near-ridiculous "Max Steelhard" suddenly also seems very pointed meta to the Erik angle.
Funny coincidence that his two on-panel loves are named Magda and Lee.
Jon Dubya June 29, 2017 at 6:24 PM
Part of the problem that makes this issue underwhelming is that there are too damn many "celebratory" issues around this period. I mean in a few issues we'll be celebrating the X-Men's 30th anniversary, and then a joint anniversary crossover with the Avengers just a few issues after that (adding to the chaos, nany Avengers books were also celebrating their "multiple of 25" milestones at the same time as well. The main Avengers book had four "special event" foil covers around this time.) All this "specialness" gets a bit diluted when done in such short sucession. Like the equivalent of every issue of a series being a #1 (aka Marvel's current strategy.)
Yeah, with so much happening in issue #304, and then X-MEN #25, and then WOLVERINE #75, this one kind of gets overshadowed in the celebratory hubbub.
I really like this issue, though it was my final UNCANNY for over a year (aside from the "Fatal Attractions" installment) since I was not a fan of JR jr. As a kid I didn't read EXCALIBUR, so for many years I thought this was the first time Nightcrawler had seen the X-Men since "Mutant Massacre" (though it turns out I wasn't really that far off). I love the characterizations, the fight in the monastary (particularly Bishop dropping through the ceiling), the battered Magneto helmet the Acolytes worship, and that final page super obvius hint that Magneto is still alive. And, as JR jr.'s art has grown on me considerable, I believe no one can draw rain quite as well as he does. In all, this is easily one of my favorite issues from the Lobdell run.
"Neophyte (who has a phasing power not unlike Shadowcat's and clearly isn't meant to be named Neophyte - it's implied to be his rank here, something later writers will miss and continue to call him Neophyte)
Thank you for pointing that out! It's always driven me nuts that this kid's codename is Neophyte. That'd be like the X-Men codnaming Kitty "Rookie" instead of Sprite or Ariel.
"...reuniting the core of the "All New, All Different" team..."
Maybe, but I really wish Lobdell had found a way to work Banshee into this story too. He's just as integral to that group in my opinion.
Jason July 1, 2017 at 7:17 PM
"I believe no one can draw rain quite as well as he does."
Good one. I think I might agree.
Acolytes are not the loving family that is the X-Men, but an extreme ideologist terrorist group bent on pushing any kid happening to hover into their fatal attraction further away from the normal notions of the society. Destroying any individuality of his own it right up that alley.
And obviously, Fabian Cortez is a jerk.
I too wish Banshee had made an appearance. Especially since Claremont managed to work the retired version into #193's anniversary celebration.
And thirded on the power of John Romita Jr.'s rain.
Max July 3, 2017 at 9:50 PM
I have been reading these reviews for about a year now and have been waiting for this one in particular. This issue was not the first X-Men comic I read (I think that was X-Men #1, which my brother bought), nor the first one I bought (I remember buying two non-continuous chapters of the X-Cutioner's Song storyline). However, Uncanny X-Men #300 was the first issue I bought in my first run of X-Men comics. I went on to buy more or less every issue of UXM and X-Men for the next three years, taking a brief break leading up the Age of Apocalypse, before getting hooked back in around the time that storyline ended and staying with X-Men through Operation: Zero Tolerance. With a few scattered hiatuses, I've now been following X-Men comics for roughly 24 years, well over half of my 34-year-old life. With Marvel Unlimited, I've now also gone back and read pretty much everything from Uncanny X-Men #100 through to this issue. So, it is with a great deal of fondness that I remember this particular issue. I think I even remember at which local newsstand I bought it.
Re: UXM 300. I thought the storyline was quite epic (even though I can see now that it wasn't). I LOVED Nightcrawler being a guest star. (I already knew something of the X-Men's back stories through Marvel Universe and X-Men trading cards.) At the time, I didn't think anything of JRjr's pencils, but they shaped how I thought the X-Men looked in my head for years. Also, even though there is a fair amount of continuity in this issue, I didn't feel lost or bogged down by it when I read it as a child. As others have written, I was intrigued by the hint that the story I had read was only one chapter in the larger epic of the adventures of the X-Men. So glad to see this one finally reviewed, and now I cannot wait for my personal favorite Lobdell issue (UXM #308, of course).
Blam July 7, 2017 at 11:48 PM
// Nightcrawler arrives in France at Professor Xavier's request //
I found it weird that the captions strongly suggest Nightcrawler (a) bamfed himself to Forge’s location (b) merely from coordinates. He can’t teleport anywhere near the distance the north coast of France is from Excalibur’s lighthouse — either in a single hop or several in rapid succession — and he needs either line of sight or familiarity with a destination to get there without extreme risk. Unless I’ve forgotten some power boost that’s come along since he recovered from what a strain teleportation had become for him, which is possible.
Xavier could’ve telepathically given him a visual of the location, sure, and he might’ve already been nearby for some reason, or he could’ve simply flown to the area in Excalibur’s jet before jumping the last bit of distance to Forge’s makeshift tech camp himself, but you have to actively read any of that into what’s presented.
// as Xavier begins to realize //
Stryfe is referred to in a caption on that page as a “timelust villain” (emphasis mine) rather than the presumably intended “timelost”.
// John Romita Jr. returns to the series //
I really like some isolated bits here in particular and the angular three-dimensionality he’s developing in general, but still have my old JRJr./DG complaints on several fronts.
// clearly isn't meant to be named Neophyte //
Thank you! I didn’t think that was a codename, just his status among the Acolytes — neophyte Acolyte (annnnnddd now I have “We Didn’t Start the Fire” stuck in my head) — but after you kept using it in your plot summary I went to Google and learned that it became one because, I guess, as the ’90s go it makes no less sense than Cable’s and so there’s no reason later hands wouldn’t have assumed it was a proper noun. Kee-ripes…
Which brings me to the fact that it’s kind-of interesting how most of the Acolytes don’t seem to have or use codenames, but they still wear if perhaps not quite costumes then fairly individualized variations on a common outfit — more so than the Hellfire Club goons, or Starfleet personnel, or even the X-Men training uniform — that appear more (questionably) ornamental than utilitarian. Cortez’s personal guard, as you note, is an exception.
Unless I’ve forgotten some power boost that’s come along since he recovered from what a strain teleportation had become for him, which is possible.
Stay tuned to an upcoming review of EXCALIBUR, True Believer! :)
// Forge also returns //
Does anything come of his having left the X-Men to support Mystique (at least nominally, following his perceived rejection by and psychoanalysis of Storm)? I’ll get there eventually if it does, reading along, but it’s odd that here his reason for heading out again is a disagreement with Xavier’s and the team’s supposedly pollyanna ideology.
// [W]as there any other time [Nightcrawler and Forge] would have fought together (or really, even interacted at all)? //
Thank you again. I’m often afraid I’ve forgotten something when I have a reaction like that, so it’s nice to know it’s shared.
// Storm and Cyclops briefly argue over leadership responsibilities, with Storm failing to defer to [Cyclops'] clear superiority as a leader. //
Ha! You’d think they could bond over frustration with Xavier shot-calling when joining a mission.
The page from which those panels are taken, by the way, shows Wolverine… um… flying. My conjecture is that the intention was for him to be riding a wave of wind generated by Storm, who’s right above him, but it sure looks strange and I was already tired from the inferential gymnastics required to get Nightcrawler to France safely at the start of the issue.
// Xavier responds to the mobs' request that the X-Men leave by using his telepathy to make them think the X-Men have left. //
Quite a number of minds to dupe at once — dozens, it seems to be.
Also, I know he wasn’t all that visible in the rain at a distance — and he could presumably blur the locals’ mental impression of him, and they’d mostly remember little more than a bald dude in a hoverchair — but having Xavier out in the field (literally) with the X-Men is really a questionable move right on the heels of reminding us the general public isn’t supposed to know he’s a mutant.
Does anything come of his having left the X-Men to support Mystique (at least nominally, following his perceived rejection by and psychoanalysis of Storm)?
Kind of. Mystique will appear alongside Forge in the next issue, and eventually (post-"Age of Apocalypse") they'll both end up as members of X-Factor together, but there's never really a big "Forge & Mystique" story to suggest his leaving the team ostensibly to take care of Mystique was ever anything more than a deck-clearing exercise.
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Home / Clinical Evidence / Treatment of discogenic back pain with autologous bone marrow concentrate injection with minimum two year follow-up
Treatment of discogenic back pain with autologous bone marrow concentrate injection with minimum two year follow-up
Author: Pettine et al
Mr Ali Noorani “There have been three studies published for the use of bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) for discogenic back pain in the lumbar area. The three papers were published by the same group in 2014, 2016, 2017. They interestingly show the results of the same group of patients followed up at 12 months, 2 year and 3 year follow up. The paper published 2017 had a total number of 26 patients, all of which were surgical consults. These are all surgical candidates and the injections were put forward as an alternative to surgery with a 3 year follow up with the same patients. They found out that over 2000 CFU/ml (i.e. cell number) had faster and better clinical outcomes. The average pain reduction was 70% and approximately 80% have still not had surgery at 3 years, therefore they were successful in avoiding this. The study also concluded there were no adverse events related to bone marrow aspiration or injection and the study provides evidence of safety as well as good feasibility of intradiscal BMAC therapy.”
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to assess safety and feasibility of intradiscal bone marrow concentrate (BMC) injections to treat discogenic pain as an alternative to surgery.
METHODS: A total of 26 patients (11 male, 15 female, aged 18-61 years, 13 single level, 13 two level) that met inclusion criteria of chronic (> 6 months) discogenic low back pain, degenerative disc pathology assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with modified Pfirrmann grade of IV-VII at one or two levels, candidate for surgical intervention (failed conservative treatment and radiologic findings) and a visual analogue scale (VAS) pain score of 40 mm or more at initial visit. Initial Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and VAS pain score average was 56.5 % and 80.1 mm (0-100), respectively. Adverse event reporting, ODI score, VAS pain score, MRI radiographic changes, progression to surgery and cellular analysis of BMC were noted. Retrospective cell analysis by flow cytometry and colony forming unit-fibroblast (CFU-F) assays were performed to characterise each patient’s BMC and compare with clinical outcomes. The BMC was injected into the nucleus pulposus of the symptomatic disc(s) under fluoroscopic guidance. Patients were evaluated clinically prior to treatment and at three, six, 12 and 24 months and radiographically prior to treatment and at 12 months.
RESULTS: There were no complications from the percutaneous bone marrow aspiration or disc injection. Of 26 patients, 24 (92 %) avoided surgery through 12 months, while 21 (81 %) avoided surgery through two years. Of the 21 surviving patients, the average ODI and VAS scores were reduced to 19.9 and 27.0 at three months and sustained to 18.3 and 22.9 at 24 months, respectively (p ≤ 0.001). Twenty patients had follow-up MRI at 12 months, of whom eight had improved by at least one Pfirrmann grade, while none of the discs worsened. Total and rate of pain reduction were linked to mesenchymal stem cell concentration through 12 months. Only five of the 26 patients elected to undergo surgical intervention (fusion or artificial disc replacement) by the two year milestone.
CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence of safety and feasibility in the non-surgical treatment of discogenic pain with autologous BMC, with durable pain relief (71 % VAS reduction) and ODI improvements (> 64 %) through two years.
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thyssenkrupp Schulte secures route to the Zugspitze
Material installed in new bridge at 1,000 meters above sea level
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The hiking route through the Höllentalklamm gorge offers summiteers an extraordinary experience on the way to the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain. In a unique landscape, numerous waterfalls are passed along huge rock and stone formations that open up views of gorges up to 150 metres deep. The materials experts from thyssenkrupp Schulte supplied almost seven tons of steel for this very special scenery as part of a sponsorship. The material was used in the construction of the new arched bridge, which crosses the one kilometer long gorge at an altitude of around 1,000 meters. The Garmisch-Partenkirchen section of the German Alpine Association (DAV Garmisch) was responsible for initiating the joint project. The implementation and completion was carried out in cooperation with the construction company ZÜBLIN, which completed the bridge recently.
Material in more than 20 different versions
For the materials usage in mountainous terrain, special requirements on the material quality of the components applied. These included, in particular, maximum weather resistance as well as highest structural and strain safety. On the basis of these requirements, thyssenkrupp Schulte drew up a precisely tailored parts list and provided customized steel sheets, bars and tubes. The delivery included materials in a total of more than 20 different designs – up to 12,000 millimeters long and 20 millimeters thick.
For optimum corrosion protection, the materials were further processed by project partner ZÜBLIN. The finished parts were eventually flown by helicopter from the foot of the Zugspitze in Grainau, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, to one of the highest construction sites in Germany. At its destination at an altitude of about 1,000 metres, each of the steel parts is now successfully used in the arch bridge and serves as a girder, web plate, pillar or handrail. With the material used, up to 100,000 hikers will be able to cross the unique Höllentalklamm safely from the start of the season.
Detlef Schotten, Managing Director of thyssenkrupp Schulte, is glad about the good cooperation with all project partners and the successful completion: "When the DAV Garmisch approached us, we did not hesitate to get involved with a sponsorship and to contribute our material know-how to the joint success of all service providers involved in the project.”
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Historical bridge as a symbol of engineering art and pioneering spirit
The old arched bridge already had a long history. It was inaugurated more than 115 years ago and has since been a symbol of engineering and pioneering spirit. Every year it prepared the way to the Zugspitze for tens of thousands of hikers and offered spectacular views of the Höllentalklamm gorge. The new bridge, which has a span of 7 metres and two adjoining footbridges, is to follow this example and become a new landmark on the way to Zugspitze.
With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The broad service spectrum offered by the materials experts enables customers to concentrate more on their individual core businesses and spans two strategic areas: global materials distribution as a one-stop shop - from steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals and specialty materials to plastics and raw materials - and tailored services in the areas of materials management and supply chain management. An extensive omnichannel architecture offers 250,000 customers worldwide cross-channel, round-the-clock access to more than 150,000 products and services. A highly efficient logistics system ensures that all requested services are smoothly integrated into customer production processes "just-in-time" or "just-insequence".
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Rumor: Sarah Palin Pics In Playboy Cause Of Retirement
Saturday, 4 July 2009
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin abruptly announced this Friday that she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.
"If the Republican party is rattled now, wait a couple of months,' stated one staff member who threw back her head and laughed.
Palin, 45, and her staff are keeping her future plans shrouded in mystery, and it was unclear if the controversial hockey mom would quietly return to private life or begin laying the foundation for a presidential bid or even for state Senator.
"I doubt if it's a presidential bid", stated the same lady who wouldn't give her name.
After questioning several people, one guy asked, "What would happen if Sarah wanted her own story of what she went through from the democrats last year would be completely published-nothing left out-say for some centerfold pix that were tastefully done? Plus a wad of cash?"
But that's all that he would say.
Palin's spokesman, David Murrow, said the governor didn't say anything to him about this magazine story but he hopes that if it's true, people will understand what lowlifes there are in that party (Democrat) and the extent they will go to publish lies.
"She did say that she is looking forward to serving the public outside the governor's chair and then laughed," he said.
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It's Complic8ed Says Avril Lavigne As She Divorces Hubby
Funny story written by Dingwall Johnson
AVRIL Lavigne has admitted her divorce from her rock musician husband Deryck Whibley was inev8ble.
The singer, 24, wrote on her website blog that she and Whibley, 29, lead singer of Sum 41, were "separ8ing and moving forward on a positive note".
"I am gr8ful for our time together and I am gr8ful and blessed for our remaining friendship," she added.
The couple, who both grew up in Ontario, Canada, started dating in early 2004 and married in July 2006.
The singer, whose hits include Sk8er Boi and Complicated, wrote on her website: "I admire Deryck and have a gr8 amount of respect for him."
But Whibley didn't mince words over his reasons for the divorce.
He said, "Her use of the number 8 started to gr8 on me."
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Hobbies Model Trains
Compatibility of Different Model Train Brands
Ryan Kunkle
Ryan is a national expert on model trains who has contributed 132 articles for The Spruce. He served as president of the Conrail Historical Society.
In most cases, you can mix products from different manufactures without problem - sometimes even trains from different scales can be combined creatively!
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"Can I use model trains from different brands or do I have to stick with one?" It's a very common question for those starting out in the hobby. Fortunately, thanks to common standards used by most manufacturers the answer is usually, yes you can. But there are some proprietary patents out there that will limit compatibility.
Any train that uses the same gauge should be able to use any manufacturer's track in that gauge. When operating trains from different companies on the same track, the gauge is more important than the scale. For example, G Gauge trains are built to several different proportions, but all share the same wheelbase.
But while any G gauge train can ride on any G gauge track, not all G gauge track pieces can be connected to each other. That is because only the distance between the rails is the same between them. Each manufacturers' tracks have their shape to the rails and their method of joining the sections together.
This same situation is very common in O Gauge 3-rail track systems as well. With some work, these systems can be made interchangeable, but it will take some work.
In smaller scales, things are more standardized, except for track systems with an integrated roadbed base. Fortunately, while the locking systems on the track bed are normally proprietary, the metal joining clips on the rails themselves are not. You can easily mix standard and integrated roadbed tracks of different makes on a layout by using those joiners.
Another good example of trains of different scales using the same track would be the case of a larger scale using a smaller scale's track to represent a narrow gauge railroad. On30 trains are probably the most common example. These 1:48 scale (O scale) trains run on HO gauge track, representing a track gauge of 30 inches instead of the normal 56.5".
Locomotives and Rolling Stock
Trains from various manufacturers are very interchangeable between brands. In fact, every car in a train could be made by somebody different. There are a few things you need to know, however.
Couplers: Over the years, many different types of couplers have been used on model trains. While things have become more standard in recent decades, there are still lots of older couplers out there. The good news is that in most cases, you can convert to the couplers you use without much difficulty.
Command Control: Command control systems have become increasingly popular since the early 1990s. In N, HO and S scales, DCC is the common standard between brands. In almost every case where DCC comes installed on a locomotive, these trains will run on conventional DC controlled layouts as well. In cases where the locomotives also have sound, the extra voltage draw can cause these engines to run at different speeds than non-equipped units on conventional layouts.
In O Gauge, Lionel's TMCC and LEGACY command systems and MTH's DCS system are both popular but proprietary command systems designed by the respective companies. Lionel released the coding to its TMCC system early, allowing other manufacturers to use it in their locomotives. MTH has not done the same with DCS. Therefore, MTH's DCS controller can run MTH and Lionel trains, but Lionel's controller cannot operate a locomotive with DCS. Atlas and some other manufacturers' trains also use Lionel TMCC control. Both can run a non-command locomotive.
Non-command control locomotives can usually be converted to operate with DCC by adding a decoder. Older locomotives may be more challenging than new ones designed for a quick plug-in installation. TMCC conversion kits are also available in O gauge, although DCC is an option for the larger scales as well.
For the most part, power is power. It doesn't matter which brand of transformer you choose for your trains, but there are differences between the requirements of the different gauges. When choosing the right transformer, AC vs. DC, voltage and amperage output and whether you need a fixed or variable voltage will all need to be considered based on your scale and whether or not you run a command control system.
So while you have multiple choices for the power for the trains in your scale, it is not a good idea to mix them for different scales. For example, using a power supply designed for O Gauge 3-rail trains is not a good idea for an HO starter set.
Structures and Scenery
The only limits on what you can mix when it comes to finishing the scenery features, on your layout, is your imagination. Here even products of a different scale can often be used to create a forced perspective of distance.
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“People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story.”
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“You don’t want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?”
“For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.”
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.”
“Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.”
“I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous.”
“It’s a sad world, though, when you can’t get love right even after trying it as many times as I have.”
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Jessica Szohr gives birth to first child with partner Brad Richardson
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Jessica Szohr has given birth to her first child with partner Brad Richardson.
The former 'Gossip Girl' star announced the arrival of the couple's daughter, Bowie Ella Richardson, on January 11, on Instagram.
Jessica gushed that their little girl is "really something special" and that their journey to parenthood has been "one of the most beautiful experiences" of her life.
She captioned a black and white photograph of the tot's teeny hands: "Added a little special sweetness to our family and some new directions to our journey on 1-11-21.
"Bowie Ella Richardson.
"This journey with Brad and Lexi has been one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.
"To then create a human that is absolutely perfect in our eyes and put a feeling in my heart I didn’t know existed is beyond words. I have all the feels and she is really something special."
The 35-year-old actress - who played Vanessa Abrams in hit teen drama series 'Gossip Girl' - is excited as she and her professional hockey player boyfriend embark on the next chapter in their life.
On her Instagram Story, she added: "I realize that nothing worth having comes easily, neither in life nor in travel, but you will enjoy the rewards if you dare to go off the beaten path.
"Can't wait for our new path as a family and as a new mommy... LFG. (sic)"
Jessica shared their baby news on Instagram in September with a black and white snap of Brad looking down at her baby bump, and she captioned the image: "Full of joy!"
Beforehand, the 'Orville' star had teased a photoshoot on her Instagram Stories, complete with the caption: "Let life surprise you."
She then posted the baby bump picture, and wrote: "Surprise."
The couple went public with their relationship in March 2019.
Brad also has a young daughter, Lexi, with his ex Lauren Hunt.
This article originally ran on celebretainment.com.
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There is over £130 off this essential OnePlus 7T bundle deal
Alice Marshall Contact via Twitter | March 4, 2020 3:59 pm GMT
You can get a load of accessories free when buying the OnePlus 7T for the same price as buying the handset alone.
Named the ‘BOOM Bundle’, this OnePlus 7T is sure to excite some with a ton of accessories that make for one explosive deal.
Benefit from a car charger, protective case, Warp Charge power adaptor, Type-C 3.5mm adaptor and more alongside your sparkly new OnePlus 7T handset. All for the value of £549, this is the RRP of the OnePlus 7T itself, slashing the price of the bundle by £133.70.
The latest smartphone from the Chinese brand, the OnePlus 7T is a fantastic handset that offers a load of interesting and exciting upgrades from its predecessor, one of the most exciting of which is its 6.55-inch Fluid AMOLED display. What makes a fluid display, exactly? A leap to a 90Hz refresh rate from the more standardised 60Hz, offering smoother, more responsive interactions, from scrolling to gaming with more frames per second.
Alongside this, the screen also offers an in-display fingerprint sensor for unlocking, on top of face unlock capabilities, too. Here, then, you’ll be spoilt for choice, the tech for this packed into the dewdrop housing for the OnePlus 7T’s front-facing camera. Sadly you won’t be able to enjoy the novelty of the pop-up mechanics of the OnePlus 7T Pro.
In terms of its rear camera package, you’ll find a triple threat deal with a 48MP main sensor, as well as a 12MP ultra-wide and 12MP telephoto sensor.
One of the areas we felt the OnePlus 7T performed best was its low light shooting with Nightscape mode able to capture clearer images with far less noise.
Loaded with a 3800mAh battery cell, you can expect a fairly solid battery life, able to stretch into a second day of usage when we trialled it out. Complete with 30T Warp charging, another of those key differences from its predecessor, 30 minutes on charge promises a charge of up to 70%.
Down from £682.70 to £549, then, this is an excellent deal, getting you a little more for your money when picking up your own OnePlus 7T.
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A rising middle class, investment friendly policies, forward-thinking reforms and a country that is rich with minerals and agricultural resources have proven to be some of India’s major strengths that has successfully pulled international investors to its shores for several years and more.
Why are entrepreneurs eager to setup a business in India? Because of the huge untapped market potential that lies within the country, and for the following reasons listed below:
Fast Growing Economy
Being the 3rd largest economy in Asia based on GDP and the world’s 2nd largest country by population, India is home to a massive consumer market, and its economy and GDP is only expected to keep growing and progressing moving forward. India’s growth rate today remains as one of the highest in the world, and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
The government of India too allows foreign direct investments in various sectors which include retail, finance, railway, telecom, airline and insurance, which is beneficial for investors and entrepreneurs who are looking to setup a business here, especially if it is within these sectors.
Double Tax Avoidance Agreements
India has signed 90 double tax avoidance agreements and 28 free trade agreements, which allows investors to not only reduce their withholding taxes, but also market their products to other nearby major markets, which include China and Australia.
Diversity is Welcomed
India is open and welcoming towards diversity, with several international brands and companies already making a home for their company on the shores of the country. The entrepreneurial spirit is evident with the influx of new businesses that have come into the country in recent years, with several international organizations setting up businesses in urban centres including Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
English Is Widely Used
Thanks to the country’s historical relationship with the UK, investors won’t be hard pressed to find highly skilled graduates who are fluent and well-versed in English. Relatively few language barriers make it easy for investors to conduct business in India. India’s extensive pool of experienced people and the high value placed on education certainly puts India on top of the competitive market.
The locals have a strong work ethic and take pride in the work that they do, often working long hours and showing commitment to working their way towards better positions within the company. Employees in India are willing to work as hard as needed, and this proves to be a huge advantage for international organizations who want committed employees joining their ranks.
Advanced Infrastructure and Technology
India has always been among those at the forefront of the latest technology. With its excellent infrastructure system and the latest technologies in place, doing business in India for international investors will prove to be a breeze.
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Northern Lights was a highly requested novel for discussion, so come see why people want to discuss Pullman’s engrossing yet complex fantasy novel!
Dr Janine Hatter (University of Hull) explains some of the more complicated themes from the later books in the series in the second half of the session, but in the first session will focus on the first book.
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DSV Partners With Universities To Address BIG Questions About The Future Of Global Supply Chains.
DSV has strengthened its partnerships with a number of leading universities to help its customers transition to the smart, connected and sustainable supply chains of the future.
Supply chains are more complex, more interconnected and more important than ever before, with millions of individuals and thousands of companies working together to manufacture and deliver products to billions of consumers all over the globe. In recent weeks, the impact of the coronavirus has highlighted the critical role that a robust supply chain plays in delivering the products we all rely on in our daily lives.
But global supply chains are under scrutiny as the market and consumers realise that traditional supply chains have fundamental flaws that impacts continuity of supply. The coronavirus is accelerating the changes behind the supply chain transformations of the post-coronavirus. According to Erik Van Wunnik who runs the DSV exploration lab, “It has never been a more important and exciting time to work in supply chains. Important, because the coronavirus has shown how key our supply chain workers are in ensuring that medical equipment, food and other essential products reach consumers across the world. And exciting, as new technologies such as additive manufacturing (3D printing), drones, 5G, autonomous vehicles and cobotics are allowing us to completely rethink how to design and operate global supply chains”.
The changes occurring in global supply chains go beyond just new technologies, as explained by Lindsay Zingg, Senior Director of Sustainability at DSV, “Every company is increasingly faced with the challenge of making their supply chains not just more customer centric, faster, more resilient and more efficient, but also making fundamental changes to make their supply chains environmentally sustainable and socially responsible.”
The university partnerships allow DSV and its customers to tap into the latest research and knowledge about the future of global supply chains. As Professor Mike Wilson, EVP of Latin America and Logistics Manufacturing Services (LMS) at DSV explains, “DSV are experts in the operational demands of running supply chains, but when you are working in the fast and demanding operational side of the business, it can be difficult to find the time to fully research and deeply investigate the fundamental and long-term changes that are occurring in supply chains, that’s why partnering with universities, who have the focus, expertise and time to explore the bigger questions in global supply chains, are so important for our business and our customers’ businesses”.
Cobotics in logistics – with Eindhoven Technical University
DSV has already established a strong partnership with Eindhoven Technical University (TU/e), where together DSV and TU/e have secured a research grant to investigate how cobotics can be used within logistics operations (you can read more here). The project is just one part of the wider programme of work being explored at the DSV exploration lab, with other projects investigating the implications of 3D Printing, Robotics and VR/AR on future global supply chains.
Additive manufacturing in logistics – with Cardiff Business School
DSV also has a long-standing partnership with Cardiff University, the PARC Institute of Manufacturing, Logistics and Inventory was founded in 2014 by DSV’s Mike Wilson and Professor Aris Syntetos of Cardiff Business School. Together, DSV and the PARC Institute recently secured a significant grant to create a new additive manufacturing Re-Makerspace Centre (more info here). Hrishikesh Pawar who leads the Re-Makerspace project explains, “Additive Manufacturing (3DP) opens up new possibilities for companies to move towards the circular sustainable supply chains of the future, and the technology is proving key to rapidly design and locally manufacture the new products needed in the fight against the coronavirus.
Looking beyond the coronavirus, our new Remakerspace centre will allow our customers to access the latest 3DP design and manufacturing equipment to allow us to work together with our customers to design products for supply chains with repair, remanufacturing and re-use in mind. Circularity is the future of supply chains, and our new DSV Remakerspace centre will help us and our customers lead the transition from the old elongated, linear supply chains of the past, to the new circular sustainable supply chains of the future.”
Executive in Residence – with Copenhagen Business School
And for DSV, the commitment to university and industry collaboration to address the big questions about the future of supply chains starts at the top, with DSV CEO Jens Bjørn Andersen being part of the Executive in Residence programme at Copenhagen Business School (more here). The aim of the programme is to develop leading edge research and education in close collaboration with industrial partners.
Combining the operational knowhow and expertise of our DSV team with the academic rigour and knowledge from our university partners allows DSV to help our customers address the big questions about the future of global supply chains, and more importantly, our DSV teams from around the world can use the knowledge to make the changes happen.
If you would like to learn more about how DSV can help your business transition to the smart, connected, sustainable supply chains of the future, contact us here and we are ready to help.
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What You Need to Know About DC Inauguration Day Threats and Other Capitol Insurrection Fallout
A look at the state of play for the security of our city.
Written by Luke Mullins
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In the days after the deadly, pro-Trump insurrection attempt at the US Capitol, we continue to learn alarming new details about the January 6 attack as well as the potential for additional violence tied to next week’s inauguration of Joe Biden. Here’s what you need to know about the January 6 insurrection, the security threats related to Inauguration Day, and what federal and local leaders are doing to keep the city safe.
Missed warning
Though a senior FBI official has claimed earlier that the bureau had no prior knowledge that Pro-Trump extremists might seek to harm anyone at last week’s protests, The Washington Post reported Tuesday that FBI officials in Virginia issued an internal report on January 5 warning that extremists were planning to go to the nation’s capital in order to to carry out a “war.” According to The Post, the FBI document reads, “as of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C…An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and [Antifa] slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
Armed protests planned for DC and elsewhere around Inauguration
The FBI is warning that armed protests are being planned in Washington and the capitals of all 50 states on and around Inauguration Day, according to the AP. “An internal FBI bulletin warned, as of Sunday, that the nationwide protests may start later this week and extend through Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration, according to two law enforcement officials who read details of the memo to The Associated Press.”
Washington Monument closed as precaution
The Washington Monument was temporarily shut down Monday on account of “credible threats to visitors and park resources,” according to the National Park Service, which said it order more closures of roads, parking lots, and restrooms as required. The monument is scheduled to reopen on January 24.
As many as 15,000 National Guard members may come in for Inauguration
In an effort to prevent another deadly attack in the nation’s capital, as many as 15,000 National Guard members may be stationed in Washington for Joe Biden’s Inauguration next week, The Post reported. “Defense officials have since activated thousands of National Guard members, with 6,000 in the city as of Monday, said Army Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau,” The Post reported. “Up to 10,000 are expected to be deployed by Saturday, with the possibility for even more on the streets by the inauguration on Jan. 20, he said.”
Bowser, Hogan, Northam: Stay Home for Inauguration
Amid concerns over additional violence, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam are urging resident and would-be visitors to steer clear of Washington, DC, on Inauguration Day. “Due to the unique circumstances surrounding the 59th Presidential Inauguration, including last week’s violent insurrection as well as the ongoing and deadly COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking the extraordinary step of encouraging Americans not to come to Washington, D.C. and to instead participate virtually,” the three leaders said in a joint statement issued Monday. “In this very trying time, January 6 was a dark moment for our nation. But we know that we will get through this period because American ideals are stronger than one extreme ideology. Together, we will overcome extremism and get back to the work of our residents.”
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Popeye the Sailor was based on a real person – and this is what he looked like
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Cartoonist E.C. Segar created Popeye the Sailor in 1919 after taking a correspondence course on drawing from a guy in Cleveland. Segar’s hometown of Chester, Ill. was chock full of characters that Segar easily adapted to print. Dora Paskel, the owner of a local general store, was unusually tall and thin, wearing her hair in a loose bun at the nape of her neck. J. William Schuchert was the local theater owner who had a voracious appetite for hamburgers.
And Frank Fiegel was a one-eyed, pipe-smoking brawler who never turned down a fight.
Frank Fiegel died in 1947 and was originally buried in an unmarked grave. Popeye fans rectified this in 1996.
Fiegel was more likely to down a few bourbons instead of a can of spinach to get his super fighting prowess, but the rest of his caricature fit the Sailor Man to a T. He had the same jutting chin, built frame, and trademark pipe as his cartoon counterpart. But kids were rather scared of Olive Oyl’s real-world inspiration, as she was more apt to stay inside her store. Wimpy’s rotund figure was based on Popeye creator E.C. Segar’s old boss at the local theater. When Segar wasn’t lighting lamps, he was sent out to pick up burgers for the owner.
Popeye’s real-life inspiration is sometimes attributed to a photo of an old sailor who really does resemble Popeye the Sailor Man, but this is just internet folklore.
The sailor in the above photo is really a sailor, but he’s a British sailor. His name is lost to history, but the Imperial War Museum lists him as “A Leading Stoker nicknamed ‘Popeye,'” with 21 years in service and fighting aboard the HMS Rodney in 1940. Fiegel would have been at least 70 years old when this photo of the battleship sailor was taken.
Frank “Rocky” Fiegel was actually a bartender and not any kind of sailor, but he did love the kids around Chester, and they used to love to play pranks on the old barfly. Fiegel would impress them with his feats of strength as well as his telltale corncob pipe – something young Segar would never forget. “Popeye” was an homage to an unforgettable man who lived to know his image was soon in 500 newspapers nationwide, the symbol of sticking up for the little guy.
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The Iron Soldiers just named a tank after ‘The Rock’
The Iron Soldiers assigned to the 1st Squadron 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division named one of their tanks after Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and to be honest, we don’t blame them.
Johnson’s response was exactly what you’d expect from the proven supporter of the troops:
[instagram https://www.instagram.com/therock/p/BvDYWe5hkIN/ expand=1]@therock on Instagram: “I’m sending a salute of respect & gratitude to the Blackhawk Squadron ?? 1st Armored Division for the honor of naming their tank (the most…”
“I’m sending a salute of respect gratitude to the Blackhawk Squadron 1st Armored Division for the honor of naming their tank (the most advanced in the world) Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. Heavy duty, bad ass, sexy AF, and built to take care of business.”
Johnson comes from a military family and has made it a habit to give back to the military community, including hosting the inaugural “Rock the Troops” event at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in 2016, partnering with under Armour’s Freedom initiative, and donating a car to a combat vet.
“But most importantly, thank you all for your service. Grateful to the bone,” he shared on Instagram.
The post received more than 2 million likes in the first few days.
The 1st Armored Division tweeted a picture of the tank, complete with Johnson’s famous moniker stamped in black along the gun, which is currently at Fort Bliss, Texas.
"If you smell what America's Tank Division is cooking!"
Shoutout to the #IronSoldiers assigned to the @Blackhawk_SQDN for naming one of their tanks in homage to the @TheRock.
Hopefully the "People's Champ" will see it and give you guys a shoutout and a retweet!#TuesdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/xMm2aKBArS
— 1st Armored Division (@1stArmoredDiv) March 12, 2019
“If you smell what America’s Tank Division is cooking!” Shoutout to the #IronSoldiers assigned to the @Blackhawk_SQDN for naming one of their tanks in homage to the @TheRock. Hopefully the “People’s Champ” will see it and give you guys a shoutout and a retweet! #TuesdayThoughtspic.twitter.com/xMm2aKBArS
According to Stripes, naming tanks is a “heated process.” The crews offer suggestions but the leadership has to approve. Some units have traditions around the namings (Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment chooses names that begin with the letter “B”).
Kudos to the Iron Soldiers. If I were going into battle, I’d want those guns riding with me, too.
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The military community is rallying around this immunocompromised Marine
The military community is rallying around LeahAnn Sweeney, United States Marine Corps veteran and Pin-Ups for Vets Ambassador, as she battles breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sweeney was a Motor Transport Operator in the Marines and served with the San Diego County Sheriff Department before volunteering at veterans’ bedsides with her fellow pin-ups; now, the single mother of three could use a little help of her own.
Her family has created a Meal Train, where people can make a monetary donation or sign up to bring a meal to LeahAnn and her family.
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Sweeney served four years of active duty in the United States Marine Corps, operating motor transport tactical wheeled vehicles and equipment that transported passengers and cargo in support of combat and garrison operations. As a 3531, she also performed crew/operator level maintenance on all tools and equipment for assigned vehicles. Throw in her career as a Deputy Sheriff and I think it’s safe to say we’ve got a certifiable badass on our hands.
Spotting an active member of the local Southern California community, Pin-Ups for Vets (an organization dedicated to helping hospitalized and deployed service members and their families) invited Sweeney to become part of its 2020 fundraising calendar.
“It brings a sense of gratitude and joy to be able to bring a smile to those who have proudly served our country. I am especially fond of visiting the few remaining World War II veterans and hearing their stories, as I have a personal family history of those who served and sacrificed during that wartime era,” Sweeney has said of the non-profit organization.
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LeahAnn Sweeney in the 2020 Pin-Ups for Vets fundraising calendar.
“LeahAnn has led a life of service, from doing four years in the Marine Corps as a Motor Transport Operator, to getting out and working for the San Diego Sheriff’s Department as a Deputy Sheriff, to doing ‘service after service’ as a volunteer with our non-profit organization,” remarked Gina Elise, the founder of Pin-Ups for Vets. “As long as I have known LeahAnn, I have had so much respect and admiration for her. When she says she is going to be there, she is there, always willing to lend a hand where it is needed. She has been incredible with the patients at the VA Hospital, providing her beautiful smile to brighten their day and an ear to listen to their stories. My heart goes out to her and her family. As they say, ‘Once a Marine, always a Marine’ so I know she will be able to fight this. She knows that her fellow Pin-Ups For Vets Ambassadors will be there as her support network.”
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Deputy Sheriff Sweeney and a future law enforcement officer, clearly!
(Courtesy photo)
Her spirit of service and generosity have spurred a movement of those willing to show their support.
“As a single mother of three children, the need to feed her family doesn’t stop, but she’ll only be able to leave her home for mandatory tests and treatments during this quarantine. Providing basic groceries and meals are a vital part of her family’s care and her personal recovery,” said the Meal Train organizer, Lindsay Hassebrock.
Anyone who wants to mobilize and show support can share this article or links to the Meal Train, donate right here to help, or even sign up to cover a dinner for the Sweeney family.
And LeahAnn, if you’re reading this, just know that your military family has your back. Semper Fi.
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Your heart matters: Why every service member should get an EKG
Holly Vega
Every 80 seconds, an American woman dies of cardiovascular disease. That’s more than every type of cancer combined. We live in a society that has put a great amount of emphasis on educating the masses to identify a heart attack in men, but women present differently. Often the symptoms are misdiagnosed as panic attacks.
The documentary Ms. Diagnosed, sheds light on the problem that women’s symptoms are often not recognized because diagnostic testing has been developed to detect how the disease manifests in men. The documentary highlights a large health disparity between men and women in terms of the care they receive in the United States. Cardiologist Sharonne Hayes, M.D. stresses the importance of women advocating for themselves because, unfortunately, no one else is. This disparity of care translates into even further divisions in professions, like the military, whose statistics are male-dominated.
For one female veteran featured in the documentary, Kelsey Gumm, it took ten years of fainting spells and misdiagnoses to discover her heart condition. Her first fainting spell occurred in boot camp. Prior to that, she had been a healthy, active teenager involved in dance and athletics throughout high school. At the age of 17, when medical professionals told her she was experiencing anxiety and dehydration, she defaulted to trust. After all, she was in the middle of boot camp, anxiety and dehydration came with the territory. It would take ten years of fainting spells and misdiagnoses before she was sent to a cardiologist.
At the age of 27 Gumm’s military career, the only path she had ever wanted, was over. She was fitted with a defibrillator and pacemaker and began her new civilian life feeling defeated, angry, and scared. All of this could have been avoided. Had Gumm received an EKG prior to enlisting the heart defect would have been discovered, and she would never have gone into cardiac arrest. True, she also wouldn’t have been allowed into the Navy, but she would have been equipped with the knowledge to pursue a healthy life with the heart she had. Knowledge and prevention make for good bedfellows. Today she is living a strong healthier life equipped with a viable plan forward based on facts, a passion for bike riding, and a desire for heart advocacy.
Kelsey Gumm
The military does not give the proper test for detecting heart disease when potential cadets go through the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS). Physical deformities are screened but not the heart. A simple EKG takes only a few minutes. Those few minutes could save countless lives of men and women.
Gumm’s story is one of survival. Kelsey Nobles of Mobile, Alabama, did not have the same good fortune. In 2019, at the age of 18, she died of cardiac arrest during boot camp. Her’s is not the only story. There are other names, other lives cut short. In 2006 a study published by the American Journal of Cardiology found that between 1977 and 2001, the sudden deaths of women recruits, within 25 days of arriving for training, 81% were due to “reasons that may have been cardiac in origin.”
When Gumm was asked why military hearts matter she responded by saying, “Our heroes, our warriors, people serving our country deserve the best health care provided to them. They deserve to have their hearts checked. We are in a stressful job and stress is a leading factor in heart disease. In the military stress is so increased yet we default to thinking these men and women are young and healthy so they can’t be at risk. It simply isn’t true. Anyone can experience this. For something that is so easily tested it is inexcusable for heart health to not be provided for all military—for those in processing, for those serving, and for all veterans.”
The solution is simple. MEPS and yearly physicals should include EKGs.
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This was the Hershey bar custom-built for World War II
As the tensions in Europe rose ahead of World War II, the U.S. Army was worried about the next global conflict, so they commissioned one surprising bit of materiel for the war: a life-sustaining chocolate bar from Hershey that was intentionally made less tasty and more calorie-dense than other options.
The Army Field Ration D was a chocolate bar meant to act as a snack between meals. It was known for being extremely bitter and hard to chew.
(U.S. Army Center of Military History)
It all started in 1937 when Army Capt. Paul Logan went to Hershey with a request for a pocket-sized bar that would survive high heat while providing lots of nutrients, all so paratroopers would have an emergency meal when jumping into combat.
Logan, a member of the Quartermaster Corps, met with two Hershey representatives who briefed their own superior, Milton Hershey himself. The senior brass were all in agreement that it was a good idea, so development went ahead.
The final product they came up with was the Field Ration D. It was 1-2 ounces, could survive high temperatures, and was rich in calories and some nutrients. Unfortunately, it had relatively little sweetener and a lot of cacao, giving it a bitter taste, and it was known for causing constipation. This was because the Army demanded that it “taste a little better than a boiled potato.”
The initial bar was enormously successful as a weapon of war, and the War Department and Navy Department ordered millions — but Hershey didn’t love the complaints about taste.
The Hershey’s Factory Towers
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So, when the Army needed a new formulation for the tropics in 1943, the company opted to improve the taste, bringing it back up to actual candy status. The Hershey’s Tropical Bar was even more heat resistant, surviving for up to an hour at 120 degrees, and was a hit with the troops. Almost 380 million of these bad boys left the Hershey factory, bound for the military.
The tropical bar contained more calories and some nutrients, especially B-1, and were made from chocolate liquor, skim milk powder, cocoa butter, powdered sugar, vanillin, and oat flour.
Vitamin B-1, Thiamin, was present in both bars because it prevented beriberi, a condition directly resulting from a B-1 deficiency that can cause nerve, heart, and muscle damage and weakness. In extreme cases, it can cause heart attacks. Troops in the tropics were at real risk of developing the disorder without supplements like the Field D Ration and the Tropical Bar.
A World War I Hershey’s ad with a complimentary war bond ad on the same page.
At peak production, the factory had three floors dedicated to war production and churned out 500,000 bars per shift with three shifts per day. The high production rates earned the company a wartime production award known as the Army-Navy “E” Production Award. While that might sound like the most boring and boringly named of all military awards, it was actually a big deal.
The award came with a flag to fly over the factory and lapel pins for all employees. It was one of the best ways for a company to prove its concrete contributions to the war. A major general was sent to present the first E award to the company. Hershey received the award five times during World War II. They re-started production for the Apollo 15 astronauts and for Desert Storm.
Now, the heat-resistant chocolate is making a comeback as candy companies keep fighting for market share in hot markets like India, the Middle East, South America, and Africa.
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Watch Jimmy Fallon and Adam Sandler do a hilarious version of a country fave for troops at Fleet Week NYC
There are lots of Fleet Weeks held around the country every year, but there’s only one New York City Fleet Week. And as Bill Murray’s character said in “Ghostbusters,” right before they flame-sprayed the Sta-Puff Marshmellow Man: “New York City knows how to take care of a sailor.”
Last night Jimmy Fallon filled his Late Night audience seats with troops from all branches, and then Adam Sandler and he serenaded them with this hilarious (and too true) version of “I’ve Got Friends in Low Places.”
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America’s ‘concrete battleship’ defended Manila Bay until the very end
James Elphick
Before the advent of maneuver warfare, nations defended their territory with massive fortifications. This was particularly true of coasts and harbors, especially if a nation owned the finest harbor in the Orient. This was the case for the American port at Manila Bay.
After the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain during the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Board of Fortifications recommended that important harbors be fortified. This led to the development of defenses on several islands at the mouth of Manila and Subic Bays. One of these was El Fraile Island which would later become Fort Drum, America’s concrete battleship.
While other islands were fortified by more conventional means, the plans for El Fraile were much more extensive. Construction began in 1909 and completed by 1916. What was originally a rocky outcropping of an island was excavated down to the waterline. From there, the concrete battleship began to take shape.
The new structure was 350 feet long and 144 feet at the widest point. The exterior walls of the fortification were constructed of reinforced concrete 25 to 36 feet thick and rising 40 feet above the water. The top deck of the structure was reinforced concrete 20 feet thick that mounted two turrets containing twin fourteen inch guns and a 60 foot fire control tower to complete the battleship look.
The fort’s armament was rounded out by dual six-inch guns in armored casemates on each side as well as three-inch anti-aircraft guns mounted on the top deck. The fort’s 240 officers and enlisted lived deep inside the impregnable walls of the concrete ship along with all the stores they would need to hold out against a siege.
That siege came after the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December 1941. In January 1942, the Japanese began to target Fort Drum and the rest of the harbor defenses from the air and by February the concrete battleship was in range of Japanese artillery on shore. The fort endured bombing and shelling, destroying the anti-aircraft batteries, temporarily disabling a six-inch gun, damaging its casemate and searchlight, chipping away large chunks of concrete.
The whole time Fort Drum was under attack, it returned fire against the Japanese. The fort’s resistance continued even after the fall of Bataan on April 10, 1942 left Fort Drum and the other islands of the harbor defense as the last American forces in the Philippines. The guns of the concrete battleship dealt serious blows to Japanese forces assaulting the island of Corregidor, inflicting heavy casualties.
Unfortunately for the men of E battery, 59th Coastal Artillery, their efforts were not enough to halt the Japanese onslaught as General Wainwright made the decision to surrender the remaining U.S. forces in the Philippines. However, the fort was never taken and its main guns were still firing five minutes before the surrender was announced.
After capturing the Philippines, the Japanese manned all former American positions, including the concrete battleship. Eventually, American forces recaptured Manila and a daring assault by the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment U.S. forces recaptured Corregidor as well. That left Fort Drum once again as the last bastion of resistance. However, unlike the Americans some three years earlier, the Japanese had no intention of surrendering. This combined with the fact that the Americans had designed the fort to resist all manner of bombings and gunfire meant they would have to find another way to remove the defenders.
Unfortunately for the Japanese manning the concrete battleship, the idea the Americans came up with was rather grisly. The troops poured a mixture of two parts diesel oil and one part gasoline into the fort, lit it, and burned the defenders alive. The fire burned for several days afterwards but all the defenses of the harbor had been cleared of Japanese. The fort has never been reoccupied and still stands like a ghost ship in Manila Bay to this day.
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Truman, Lincoln strike groups practice warfighting as a pair
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) began dual-carrier sustainment and qualification operations Aug. 29, 2018 in the western Atlantic Ocean.
“By training and operating together, the USS Harry S. Truman and USS Abraham Lincoln strike groups enhance combat readiness and interoperability, and also demonstrate the inherent flexibility and scalability of carrier strike groups,” said Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group Commander Rear Adm. Gene Black. “The opportunity to conduct complex, multi-unit training better prepares us to answer our nation’s call to carry out a full range of missions, at anytime, anywhere around the globe.”
The operations include a war-at-sea exercise (WASEX), with scenarios testing the readiness of involved units to carry out strike and air operations as well as formation steaming. These evolutions provide both carriers, with embarked air wings and accompanying surface ships, the opportunity to operate in close proximity and coordinate maneuvers cooperatively.
“We are the best Navy in the world, and given the complex and competitive environment we are in, we can’t take anything for granted or settle for the status quo,” said Abraham Lincoln Strike Group Commander Rear Adm. John Wade. “Therefore, we have to work hard, train hard and uphold the highest standards and commit ourselves to excellence each and every day. The training conducted with Harry S. Truman Strike Group enabled us to increase our lethality and tactical proficiency. It also demonstrated our Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain sea control.”
USS Harry S. Truman.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kristina Young)
Participating in the exercise are the embarked air wings of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 and CVW-1, as well as select surface assets from CSG-8 and CSG-12.
Harry S. Truman deployed on April 11, 2018, and is currently deployed conducting operations in the Atlantic Ocean.
Abraham Lincoln is underway in the Atlantic Ocean with Carrier Strike Group 12 conducting Operational Test-1 (OT1) for the F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
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Marines may get new tropical uniform in time for summer heat
An infantry Marine from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment conducts patrols wearing a prototype tropical utility uniform Oct. 5, 2017, during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation exercise at Kahuku’s Training Area, Hawaii.
The Marine Corps is preparing to select a maker for the service’s new tropical uniform for hot and humid climates.
The Marine Corps Tropical Combat Uniform is a rapid-dry, breathable uniform to be worn for prolonged periods in wet, jungle environments as an alternative to the current Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform and the Marine Corps Combat Boot. This month, Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC), published a request for proposals to industry to manufacture the uniforms, with plans to get them into troops’ hands by the final quarter of this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
“This new tropical uniform allows Marines to be more comfortable and less fatigued while focusing on the mission at hand,” Lou Curcio, MCSC’s tropical uniform project officer, said in the release.
The tropical uniform effort is a result of the U.S. military’s increased emphasis on the Pacific region in an effort to prepare for a potential war with China. The Army finalized the design for its Improved Hot Weather Combat Uniform last year.
The trousers and blouse of the new uniform will be made of the same 50/50 cotton-nylon blend as the Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform and features the same camouflage pattern, the release states. The fabric will also be treated with permethrin to provide protection from insects.
The difference is in the weave and weight, resulting in a lighter material that dries more quickly, according to the release.
Hundreds of Marines participated in various user evaluations from June to September 2017 to assess the fit and durability of a prototype tropical uniform that’s designed to dry faster and keep Marines cooler in warm climates, the release adds.
“Many Marines said the [uniform] feels like pajamas, appreciating how lightweight it is,” Curcio in the release. “They also noted how quickly the uniform dries upon getting wet.”
The boots, awarded on a separate contract, are also lightweight, with self-cleaning soles to improve mobility in a tropical environment, the release states. They are more than a pound lighter than the current Marine Corps boot.
Marine Corps Systems Command awarded two contracts in August for up to 140,000 total pairs of tropical boots, according to Monique Randolph, spokeswoman for MCSC.
One contract worth up to .1 million went to Atlantic Diving Supply Inc., for up to 70,000 pairs of Rocky brand tropical boots, and a contract worth up to .7 million went to Provengo LLC for up to 70,000 pairs of Danner brand tropical boots, Randolph said.
The Corps plans to purchase 70,000 sets of the new tropical uniforms to support the fleet training or operating in tropical climates, the release states, adding that the MCSC procured more than 10,000 sets of blouses and trousers under a manufacturing and development effort.
Based on January 2020 market research and responses to a November 2019 request for information, the Marine Corps estimates it should see a potential cost reduction of up to 60% per uniform, the release adds.
“[The tropical uniform] will bring many advantages during training and combat in tropical environments,” Curcio said in the release. “For all the sacrifices and challenges they endure, Marines deserve a uniform like this one.”
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This is how some tanks, APCs, and IFVs get upgraded on the cheap
Imagine you’re in a country that tends to pinch pennies when it comes to the defense budget. Now imagine that you’re looking to upgrade your armored fighting vehicles (tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers), but you’ve just been told you can’t buy new ones — even second-hand vehicles aren’t an option. Sounds like you’re stuck with obsolete vehicles, right?
Not necessarily. Believe it or not, those old tanks can be given new life, and the process is actually very simple and relatively cheap. More often than not, your real problem isn’t the armored fighting vehicle itself, it’s what goes on top: the turret.
This is where the firepower of your typical armored fighting vehicle resides. Thankfully, the great thing about turrets is that they can be replaced quite easily if you have the proper facilities and trained maintenance personnel. If you have a perfectly good hull, swapping out the turret is a great way to buy time and extend the service life of an otherwise-outdated and outmatched system.
The baseline BTR-80 has a KPV 14.5mm machine gun, but a new turret can make this a BTR-80A with a 30mm auto-cannon.
(DOD)
Russia is doing just this with their BTR-80 and BTR-82 armored personnel carriers. The baseline versions had a manned turret with a KPV 14.5mm heavy machine gun. However, the Russians replaced the initial turret with one that houses a 2A72 30mm auto-cannon — similar to the 2A42 auto-cannon used on the BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle and the Mi-28 Havoc attack helicopter — thus creating the BTR-80A and the BTR-82A. According to some reports, Russia may make another turret switch for the latter vehicle, giving the BTR-82A a 57mm gun.
During Reforger 82, when this photo was taken, the M60A1 tank was still in widespread service, even as the M1 Abrams was starting to replace it.
Tanks also benefit from this upgrade treatment. For example, Turkey was able to extend the life of 170 M60 Patton tanks by going with the Israeli Sabra upgrade, which essentially puts a Merkava III turret on the Patton’s hull (a few other upgrades were made while they were at it). Egypt is also looking to do this with its fleet of M60 main battle tanks.
The centerpiece of the M60T in Turkish Army service is a new turret like that on Israeli Merkava tanks.
(Photo by Natan Flayer)
The fact is, if you have an older armored vehicle, just junking it or passing it on may not be the best option. You might find that the better bargain is in getting a new turret instead.
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6 military movies you need to watch in 2018
Tim Kirkpatrick
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In this episode of the Mandatory Fun podcast, the crew discusses what military movies veterans need to see in 2018.
Since all veterans have their own idea of what makes a good military movie, Blake, Tim, and even the new WATM contributor, Sean chime in what they think makes a solid war film.
Is having a war film based on a true story more important than having epic explosions? Or a movie where the real heroes of the day play themselves make for a better cinematic experience?
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1. 12 Strong
Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, the film chronicles one of the first Special Forces teams to deploy to Afghanistan after the attacks on 9/11. The SF team joins forces with the Afghan Northern Alliance and rides into battle against the Taliban on horseback.
12 Strong brilliantly captures how difficult it is for ground troops to work and fight alongside Afghan freedom fighters against the insurgents due to the language and cultural barrier.
The film stars WATM friend Rob Riggle, Chris Hemsworth, Michael Pena, and Michael Shannon.
A partner has formed. (Screenshot from Warner Brother’s 12 Strong)
2. The 15:17 to Paris
Directed by Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, the film focuses on the American soldiers who discover a terrorist plot on a train headed to Paris.
Interesting enough, the three Americans who thwarted a terrorist attack play themselves in the film alongside actress Jenna Fischer — and we like Jenna Fischer.
3. Tough As They Come
Starring and directed by Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone, the film tracks Travis Mills (played by Marine veteran Adam Driver), a quadriplegic soldier returning from Afghanistan after his horrific injury.
Back in the U.S., Mills has to reconcile with his stepfather while coping with his new life using prosthetic legs and arms.
You may recall that Mills’ book was a New York Times bestseller.
4. The Last Full Measure
Directed by Todd Robinson, the film showcases a Pentagon investigator who teams up with a few veterans of “Operation Abilene” to persuade Congress to award deceased Air Force medic, William Pitsenbarger, the Medal of Honor 35 years later.
Pitsenbarger is accredited with saving over 60 ambushed service members in one of the bloodiest campaigns of the Vietnam War.
The film stars Sebastian Stan, William Hurt, and Samual L. Jackson.
Scott Huffman (Sebastian Stan) speaks with Tulley (William Hurt) Airman William H. Pitsenbarger Jr. heroics. (Screenshot from Warner’s Brothers The Last Full Measure).
5. Ruin
Directed by Justin Kurzel, the film chronicles a nameless ex-Nazi captain who navigates the ruins of post-WWII Germany to atone for the crimes he committed during the war by hunting the surviving members of his former SS Death Squad.
Gal Gadot is rumored to have a role, but additional information hasn’t been released.
6. The 34th Battalion
Directed and produced by Luke Sparke, the film follows four friends from Maitland, New South Wales who join the 34th Battalion to serve on the Western Front. The film depicts the experiences of the unit, which was recruited in 1916.
The first teaser poster The 34th Battalion. (IMDB)
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Sandrin TCK 416 makes a sharp and slim addition
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Even before the millions of everyday carry (EDC) pocket dump photos started popping up on social media, knives have been a common everyday tool. Young boys receive their first knife as a rite of passage, and more women are becoming acclimated to carrying knives everyday for protection and necessity.
In my line of work, I’ve handled a variety of knives from many companies. Ranging from truly impressive to mediocre, I’ve gained the hands-on experience to know a good knife when I see one. However, it doesn’t take years of blade enthusiasm or expertise to understand if the knife you’re holding is good enough to “make the cut.” It’s either sharp and durable or it’s just metal taking up space in your pocket.
The Sandrin TCK 416 is made of tungsten carbide and will retain its sharp edge indefinitely.
(Photo by Karen Hunter/Coffee or Die)
When I receive a new knife, the first thing I do is test for sharpness. A simple paper-cutting test will tell you more than you’d think. Simply take a piece of loose-leaf paper in one hand and cut down the center in one smooth, continuous motion. A sharp knife should cut from top to bottom without catching. If a knife catches or leaves snags/jagged edges, this is an issue.
I recently discovered a knife that not only cut clean through the paper test, it also holds its own among EDC knives: the TCK (Tungsten Carbide Knife) 416 by Sandrin. Sandrin is a division of Cabot Guns and brings innovations to the knife realm just as Cabot does with 1911s. The TCK 416 is incredibly thin (4.5mm) and lightweight (2.18 ounces). Although an ultra-slim gentleman folder is nice, the “cool” factor of the TCK is all in the blade. The blade is perfectly, measurably parallel. The circles on the blade are measured in the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8) in both diameter and from the center of one circle to the next. If you’re not a math person, just know that’s actually pretty incredible.
The TCK 416.
(Photo courtesy of Sandrin Knives)
The TCK is not made of steel or ceramic. Instead, it’s made from a completely new blade material that is superior to both. This is where the fascination lies. You have to wrap your brain around the science — or “magic” — of it all, which began in Italy.
Sandrin is the brand name for knives manufactured by its parent company, Turmond. Turmond is a second generation family business that has been working with tungsten carbide for more than 40 years. They dominate the global cutting blade market and have intensely studied the science of cutting in controlled applications that other knife makers cannot. Allessandro Colombatto, the creator and director of Sandrin Knives, started grinding carbide at the age of 12. By age 24, he started crafting tungsten carbide blades for industrial high-speed cutting applications. Behind the TCK is measurable, proven science.
Tungsten carbide has been used for industrial wear purposes — such as the hulls of ice breakers and seals for oil pipes that sit miles below the ocean — but traditional grades of tungsten carbide will shatter like ceramic. Sandrin uses a patented method of sintering a proprietary grade of polyhedral tungsten carbide from particles of tungsten, carbide, and cobalt, making their blades hard and not brittle. Most steel knives have a hardness from 52 to 57 on the Rockwell scale, which is considered high. The TCK has a hardness of HRC 71.
The Longest Lasting Knife Edge – Sandrin Tungsten on a TCK
In addition to superior hardness, polyhedral tungsten carbide doesn’t rust and allows the TCK to retain an edge unlike any other blade — it will never require sharpening. You can, however, sharpen a steel knife with the top edge of a Sandrin blade. Tungsten carbide is the hardest metal on Earth — the only thing harder is the mineral diamond.
I’ve been carrying the TCK 416 for approximately six months, and it lives up to its reputation. This isn’t merely hype, it’s literal science, which is what makes the TCK so fascinating. Rob Bianchin, president and founder of Cabot Guns, echoed the sentiment: “I have been using my TCK for a year, opening boxes on a daily basis, and I can still shave with it. It remains razor sharp!”
Razor sharp is not an exaggeration. Regardless of experience level, handle the TCK 416 with care. This is a seriously sharp knife in a slim, lightweight package. If you remain mindful of its capabilities and level of sharpness, this could be a great EDC — especially with a reasonable MSRP of 9 and a lifetime guarantee.
(Graphic by Erik Campbell/Coffee or Die. Photo courtesy of Sandrin Knives.)
This article originally appeared on Coffee or Die. Follow @CoffeeOrDieMag on Twitter.
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Ruddy Cano
When I was a young, motivated recruit at Parris Island, my drill instructor stood behind a stack of foot lockers assembled into a podium. “This is the most important period of instruction of your life,” he said with a thousand-yard stare. What were we talking about?
For an unknown amount of time, we sat there, listening to passionate warnings from our most-feared mentor. He recited romantic tragedies that gave Greek myths a run for their money. Afterwards, he gave the obligatory lesson on the administrative process of enrolling your new family for benefits.
Today, I pass those words of traumatic wisdom onto you, the young, love-struck recruit.
Happens in every branch.
(Mark Baker)
Deployments don’t get easier, you get tougher
Marines are tough — and they need an equally tough spouse to weather the storm of deployments. We’re the tip of the spear, and you need to make sure that’s what your spouse bargained for.
Some deployments are shorter than others and they involve varying degrees of danger — but they don’t easier. You need someone that, when the going gets tough, they get tougher. But it’ll always suck.
“But you said you wanted to travel, babe!”
(Julie L. Negron)
You’re not getting out of work, you’re doing different work
Some troops use their marriage as way to get out of work, and there’s nothing single troops can do but watch them put on those already-sharp skates and get out of dodge — but it’s not all free time and rainbows on the other side.
I had a master gunnery sergeant who referred to his wife as the ‘sergeant major’ of the house. When you’re single, can you just pack your stuff in your car and hit the road. Married Marines, however, have much more red tape to navigate.
At least you don’t have to police call at 0530 now.
(Terminal Lance)
You’ll miss being a degenerate
Gone are the days of actionable intel from the Lance Corporal Underground, last-minute trips to a bar crawl, and the spontaneous brawls between Alpha company and Charlie company.
Sure, you might not miss the part where the Big Green Weenie conducts acts of terror. You won’t miss random formations, the duty needing something, or drunk people breaking your stuff, but you will miss time with the boys.
Everyone knows your secrets
Your spouse needs friends. Naturally, the spouses of your friends are the first round draft picks. They can keep each other informed on what your unit is doing, important dates, and if you’re being delayed.
In a way, it’s convenient. Even if you haven’t had the opportunity to speak with your loved one, he or she knows why, and won’t worry. However, that’s not the only thing they’ll talk about. Assume nothing is sacred. Susie and Kelly know your secrets in and out of the bedroom. OPSEC or the whole unit will know your search history, too.
Contract marriages are, uh… flimsy
A contract marriage is when two people fall in love — for money. The Big Green Weenie and the law’s blue version will hold hands while they unceremoniously wreck your life. Not only is it illegal to marry someone for the increased pay and benefits, but your spouse will inevitably betray you.
Before your first deployment is over, your house will be sold, your truck will be gone, and they’ll upload a video wearing your favorite shirt that can’t be shown on YouTube.
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CNN coverage of Democratic debate seen by 8.7 million
From left, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg talk after the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Posted: Jul 31, 2019 / 03:26 PM EST / Updated: Jul 31, 2019 / 03:26 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — The Nielsen company says that just under 8.7 million people watched opening night of the second Democratic presidential debate on CNN, a sharp drop from the first debate last month.
Nielsen says 15.3 million people watched the first night on NBC News last month. It was considered likely that the numbers would go down for CNN, considering the NBC debate was shown on both broadcast and cable networks and took place at a time that fewer people were on vacation.
The second night of the NBC debate was seen by 18.1 million people. CNN’s second night debate Wednesday from Detroit features former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been leading in most polls.
CNN said an additional 516,000 people watched the debate via digital stream.
President Donald Trump was apparently one of the viewers Tuesday. He used Twitter to attack CNN’s Don Lemon, one of the moderators with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. After insulting Lemon’s intelligence, the president said the CNN anchor insinuated that he was a racist, “when in fact I am ‘the least racist person in the world,’” Trump wrote, apparently quoting himself.
“Perhaps someone should explain to Don that he is supposed to be neutral, unbiased and fair,” Trump tweeted.
In a question posed to former Rep. Beto O’Rourke on Tuesday night about healing the nation’s racial divide, Lemon said that Trump “is pursuing an election strategy based in part on racial division.” In a later question to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Lemon said, “what do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president’s bigotry?”
A spokeswoman said CNN would not comment on Trump’s tweet.
LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD defended Lemon, who is gay, in a tweet that said Trump’s “continued attacks on the intelligence of prominent black Americans are abhorrent and telling.”
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From nowhere to Indy: Colts defense continues small school gold mine
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Posted: Aug 1, 2019 / 09:33 PM EST / Updated: Aug 1, 2019 / 09:33 PM EST
WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — From Robert Mathis to Darius Leonard, Antoine Bethea to Pierre Desir and Kenny Moore, small schools continue to create big results on the Colts defense and this August you may be looking at the next pair — from nowhere.
“It makes us feel at home, I came from Presbyterian, which was not the traditional D-1 level,” Colts rookie cornerback Rock Ya-Sin said. “And you have guys from smaller schools here that are making a lot of plays.”
“You look in the (college) stands and there are not many in the stands as it is here or anything like that,” Colts rookie linebacker E.J. Speed said. “It will hit me on Thursday, our first preseason game against the Bills.”
Rock Ya-Sin ended up at Temple after three seasons at tiny Presbyterian College in South Carolina. E.J. Speed was even more of a hail mary. The 24-year-old rookie spent six seasons at Division 2 Tarleton State in Texas. The two rookies played well again Thursday.
“The common phrase is ‘hey, nothing is too big for this guy.’ So even though he’s out of a small school, you just have a feel he’s not going to have a problem stepping in under the big lights,” Colts Head Coach Frank Reich said. “You like seeing that step.”
Some crews make their own luck. And the Colts have a knack for putting them to work.
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Jackson Browne tests positive for coronavirus
The 71-year-old musician and Rock Hall of Famer described his symptoms as "really pretty mild"
Jackson Browne performs onstage at 2019 SeaChange Summer Party benefitting Oceana in Laguna Beach, California. (Photo by Michael Tran/Getty Images)
(NEXSTAR MEDIA WIRE) — Jackson Browne says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-quarantining, according to Rolling Stone.
The 71-year-old musician and Rock Hall of Famer described his symptoms as “really pretty mild.” He said he got tested after he started feeling ill and developed a cough and a temperature.
He stressed the importance of staying away from other people since so many could have the virus without showing symptoms, according to the magazine.
“So many people that have it aren’t going to be tested,” he says. “They don’t have symptoms, but they might have it and might be able to pass it on. That’s what younger readers need to understand: They need to take part in the global response to stop the spread. That means not going anywhere, not getting into contact with anybody, not seeing anybody.”
Browne says he’s uncertain when he contracted the virus but thinks it may have been during a recent visit to New York for the annual Love Rocks NYC benefit.
by Chelsea Simeon / Jan 16, 2021
(WKBN) - The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported an additional 7,166 positive cases of COVID-19 and 231 new deaths since Friday's report, when 6,047 new cases and 215 more deaths were reported.
That brings the statewide total to 761,777 cases and 19,188 deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Governors complain over pace of COVID-19 vaccine shipments
by LAURAN NEERGAARD, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DAVID CRARY Associated Press / Jan 16, 2021
(AP) - Governors bitterly accused the Trump administration Friday of deceiving the states about the amount of COVID-19 vaccine they can expect to receive as they ramp up vaccinations for senior citizens and others. But the government attributed the anger to confusion and misguided expectations on the part of the states.
Meanwhile, the race between the vaccine and the virus may be about to heat up: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the new, more infectious variant first seen in Britain will probably become the dominant version in the U.S. by March.
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Emily Gutierrez
Kristin Blagg
Senior Research Associate
Declining School Enrollment Spells Trouble for Education Funding
Across the country, school districts—particularly large, urban districts—are reporting drops in enrollment, as families opt for alternatives like homeschooling, choose to delay the start of kindergarten, or struggle to access or navigate virtual learning. These enrollment declines have raised important concerns about how and whether the students missing from school rolls are learning, but they could also have implications for school funding.
Most of the money for K–12 education comes from state and local sources. Though local funding is based primarily on property taxes, state funding is typically allocated through a formula that considers, among other factors, the number of students enrolled in each district (and the education needs of those students). States often use a district’s prior-year enrollment to allocate funding, which means allocations for the 2021–22 school year, when enrollment patterns might be closer to a typical year, will be based on the numbers districts record this fall.
The consequences of declining enrollment for district funding levels will depend on which students are not in class. It’s possible, for example, that low-income students who have left school to work or care for a younger sibling, don’t have access to the technology needed to enroll in and attend virtual school or that their families fear the health effects (PDF) of attending school in person. It’s also possible that some higher-income students are not enrolled this year because their families are opting for homeschooling, “learning pods,” or private school. What’s not clear yet is whether the majority of unenrolled students are low-income or high-income and how this varies by district.
Whether unenrolled students are low or high income matters for two reasons. First, larger enrollment or attendance declines in high-poverty districts means that aggregate funding could decline more for these districts. Second, many states allocate additional funding per student to districts based on district shares of low-income students. If mostly low-income students have not enrolled, the poverty rates in those districts may be artificially low, and districts could receive less per student funding. Should unenrolled students return for the 2021–22 school year, districts could find they lack the resources to adequately serve their populations of students. This pattern could exacerbate inequities between low-income and high-income districts and thwart states’ attempts to make school funding progressive.
If higher-income students are more likely to disenroll this year, the effect may be more muddled. Higher-income districts will have lower fall 2020 enrollment but might also appear to have higher poverty rates.
For some states, such as California, New York, and Texas, district funding allocations will be even more complex because these states rely on a measure of average daily attendance in their formulas. Attendance has become difficult to accurately and equitably measure, as students return to school virtually or in hybrid models. If states that rely on attendance measures for funding don’t adjust their metrics, they’re likely to undercount students—particularly low-income students and students of color, who are less likely to have access to computers and stable or consistent internet and who are more likely to face barriers to virtual learning.
All this comes at a time when state budgets are tightening and broad cuts to K–12 education funding are on the table. In a previous post, we suggested that states looking to maintain funding progressivity consider targeted budget changes that prioritize high-poverty districts. But as enrollment and attendance fluctuate, accurately targeting those cuts may prove difficult.
State policymakers will need to consider different ways of assessing enrollment and attendance levels this year to equitably distribute school funding next year. In upcoming research, we will model how different potential policies could mitigate the effects of temporary changes in enrollment, attendance, and poverty rates. To help close the gaps the pandemic has exacerbated, it will be critical that policymakers have the tools to equitably distribute funding.
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Multiple Veterans Say Hero Dog Injured in Al-Baghdadi Raid Should Get a Purple Heart
Published November 3, 2019 at 11:42am
An American hero deserves to be decorated for his service, some veterans say, even though he is not human.
The issue of awarding a Purple Heart to a dog has surfaced after the heroics of Conan, a Belgian Malinois who chased Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in last weekend’s raid that led to al-Baghdadi’s death. Conan was wounded when al-Baghdadi blew himself up with a suicide vest.
“Do I believe Conan should receive a Purple Heart for actions on target? Absolutely,” said Michael Bollinger, a former Army Ranger now studying computer science at Columbia University, according to the New York Post. “They’re out there with us every step of the way.”
Bollinger, 26, was awarded a Purple Heart in 2017 after suffering leg injuries caused by a grenade dropped on his unit by Islamic State fighters.
“I am still trying to recover from that,” he said. “Learning to run again has been a challenge.”
The official official policy on dogs and the medal awarded service members who are wounded in action was quoted to the Post by Department of Defense spokeswoman Jessica Maxwell.
“Military working dogs are not eligible for the Purple Heart,” she said.
But others think times have changed since the era when the military — which once did honor dogs — phased out those honors amid concern that honoring animals devalued Purple Hearts awarded to humans.
“I think that a lot of things have changed. Animals have come into human’s lives a lot differently than they did 20 years ago,” said James Knuppenburg, 33, who was shot in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, and later awarded the Purple Heart.
Should Conan the dog be awarded a Purple Heart for his role in the attack that led to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
“They have become a companion, not just for the battlefield, but also to reverse PTSD and to help men and women with battlefield injuries that are not visible,” he told the Post.
“I would love to see Conan presented a Purple Heart with a live ceremony.
“I think that the K9 is the most valuable asset on the ground. I don’t think that you can replicate through technology or any sort of weaponry what the K9 is capable of … Without a doubt I think that any award — including the medal of honor — should be able to be received by a K9.”
Many on Twitter agreed.
Good Doggie!!
Hero dog ‘Conan’ injured during Baghdadi raid deserves purple heart https://t.co/ync8thdvVH pic.twitter.com/j5g6yoW9iV
— It’s_Carol (@JustCarol___) November 2, 2019
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I think Conan deserves a Purple Heart for the heroic actions during the mission on al-Baghdadi’s compound. I hope we can find a way to make that happen. #HeroDog #PurpleHeart #fearless pic.twitter.com/Z2DF9VT2vs
— Rep Rick Crawford (@RepRickCrawford) November 2, 2019
Kit Sawyer, a dog handler in the Army’s 75th Ranger regiment who saw service in Afghanistan, told the Post his Dutch shepherd, Roy, “definitely saved lives.”
Roy ended up dying after being shot by a terrorist. At the end, the troops who served with him created a paper Purple Heart they put on Roy’s collar.
“Me and one of my old commanders said if I could, I would submit him for a Bronze Star for valor and definitely a Purple Heart,” Sawyer told the Post.
An image of what it might look like if a dog were honored appeared on social media last week, courtesy of The Daily Wire, and drew a response from President Donald Trump.
“Thank you Daily Wire. Very cute recreation, but the ‘live’ version of Conan will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week!” Trump tweeted.
Thank you Daily Wire. Very cute recreation, but the “live” version of Conan will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week! https://t.co/Z1UfhxsSpT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2019
Conan is not the only dog to have entered the limelight in a high-profile attack. A military working dog named Cairo participated in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The Washington Post reported.
Although the U.S. does not currently give dogs medals, other nations, such as Great Britain, still award medals to heroic canines.
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In Defense of Bitch Slapping
Michael Roberts | January 28, 2008 | 6:57am
ProgressNow has successfully embarrassed KOA talk-show hosts for unwise statements in the past. Remember that in May 2007, the left-leaning organization made headlines for whipping up an advertiser boycott aimed at rabble-rouser Bob Newman, who'd declared, "I want every Muslim immigrant to America who holds a green card, a visa, or who is a naturalized citizen to be required by law to wear a GPS tracking bracelet at all times." (See this More Messages blog for details.) But its latest attempt to raise a ruckus over a KOA yakker -- in this case, gleeful loudmouth Jon Caldara -- seems to have boomeranged, and rightly so.
Granted, I don't come to this controversy with a clean slate. Googling the search terms "bitch-slapped" and "Westword" promptly brings up a 2006 review I wrote about Colorado hip-hop artist Black Pegasus; I referenced "Club Killah," which I described as "a song that bitch-slapped DJs for turning a deaf ear to his rhymes." But if that makes me a brother in blather with Big Jon, so be it, because ProgressNow is clearly overreaching. In this case, its slap leaves no sting.
At present, ProgressNow is incensed over a statement made by Caldara during a January 21 conversation with guest Ann Coulter; after citing a snappy remark made by Barack Obama about Hillary Clinton during a debate, he asked, "Was it fair to say this woman got bitch-slapped tonight?" After another liberal group, Colorado Media Matters, posted an item about this query on January 22, ProgressNow sprang into life, asking the folks on its extensive mailing list to take action, and many did so. In a January 25 Rocky Mountain News article, the group's frontman, Michael Huttner, boasted that approximately 300 people had complained to KOA advertisers. Moreover, a Rocky piece published the next day noted that one firm, Dun-Rite Kitchens and Baths Inc., had asked the station not to schedule its spots during Caldara's program as a result of the gripes.
Problem is, this last offering also identified some major inconsistencies in ProgressNow's platform. Blogger Ari Armstrong pointed out that three alternative papers in the area -- the Boulder Weekly, the Colorado Springs Independent and Westword -- had used variations on "bitch-slap" a collective twenty times. (The only surprise in this revelation? That the number wasn't higher.) In addition, Westword editor Patricia Calhoun told the Rocky that she had just edited the phrase into a piece due to appear in the January 31 issue, thereby turning the edition into the equivalent of Where's Waldo? for bitch-slapping aficionados. Finally, Armstrong wrote in a January 27 post on one of his websites, FreeColorado.com, that ProgressNow's own scribblers tossed a "bitch slap" into a September 2007 rip on George W. Bush.
Forget bitch slap. That's a bitch snap!
Clearly, Caldara's decision to lob "bitch-slapped" at Hillary Clinton was a loaded one, since so many right-wingers call her the b-word in the privacy of their own words and thoughts. Then again, the term is in extremely common usage society-wide and has ceased to offend the vast majority of the populace. The Rocky is so cautious about using profanity that in a Mark Brown feature about Caribou Ranch that ran on January 26, "pissed" was changed to "(urinated)" in a quote by bassist/producer Kenny Passarelli -- yet the paper printed "bitch-slapped" that same day, as well as the previous one, without causing incensed subscribers to descend on its offices with pitchforks and flaming torches.
For better or worse, Caldara's comments reflect the way a lot of Americans speak -- and if we're going to excoriate him, then we'd better censor every person who calls someone a "pussy" or a "prick" as a virulent sexist or attack sports fans who talk about games in which one team got "killed" or "slaughtered" for advocating violence.
And wouldn't that be a bitch? -- Michael Roberts
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Virgin Media rolls out TiVo update for Spotify and BBC iPlayer
Rollout of major upgrade will integrate BBC iPlayer with catch-up TV guide, and add Spotify Premium and YouTube HD
We had a letter in the post this morning from Virgin Media, announcing a glut of new features for TiVo customers in the UK, set to roll out over the next few days.
Some of TiVo's major draws are apps like BBC iPlayer and YouTube, but these were due an overhaul. iPlayer is now better integrated so that you can browse on-demand catch-up content in the same TV Guide, menus and search functions as regular TV.
And along with a makeover for the YouTube app, there's also HD video support.
Other new features include text entry via your remote's numberpad, as on mobiles, skippable playlists in Music on Demand and the promise of Spotify Premium on Virgin Media by the end of this month.
For now, the system upgrade will be rolled out across the country from today until 24 November – the advice is to keep your TiVo box switched on or on standby at 2am for the next few nights just in case, as the upgrade takes about 60 minutes.
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Did your child get the Thurrock school they wanted?
By peterg on March 1, 2016 No Comment
BY NOW, parents and students will have found out if they got the secondary school of their choice.
With Thurrock having a 243 place shortfall, there is bound to be heartache for sen families.
There may be families who got Hassenbrook Academy and in the light of the recent Ofsted report, are now regretting that decision.
Pleased or otherwise, let us know on news desk@yourthurrock.com
According to figures obtained by specialist education law firm Simpson Millar under a
Freedom of Information request, numerous councils have received far more secondary school applications than they have spaces for this coming September, with the worst being Hounslow London (2,244), Buckinghamshire (1,983), and Trafford Metropolitan (1,213).
The findings reflect an ongoing issue, with appeals made by parents against their child’s school allocation increasing by 10% between 2014 and 2015. However, only one fifth of those appeals are likely to be successful with parents unable to navigate a complex process.
In certain councils, the appeals success figure is just 3% and a leading education lawyer has urged parents to get their arguments straight, if they are to have any chance of getting the school place they want.
Imogen Jolley, head of Education Law at law firm Simpson Millar has also criticised admissions authorities for “camouflaging” requirements for crucial social and medical information which could help parents secure the right place for their child.
“Nationally, 78% of parents had their secondary school appeal rejected last year, according to official figures,” says Imogen. “In 2015, a record 22,440 parents appealed against the local authority’s decision not to award their child a place at their preferred secondary school – up from 20,237 in 2014.
“We’ve carried out a further review and found staggeringly low appeal success rates in a number of districts including Portsmouth, Westminster, Newham and Kensington, while parents in the Isle of Wight, North Somerset and Barnsley enjoyed some of the country’s highest success rates. This indicates something of a regional lottery when it comes to secondary school appeals.”
Appeals decided in parent’s favour in state funded secondary schools
Giving priority on social and medical grounds
Although there is no obligation for schools to include social, emotional and medical criteria in their admissions process, a number of them do. Yet local authority schools can been criticised for offering up complex forms which fail to clearly request the necessary information regarding special circumstances.
Imogen Jolley explains: “In case of oversubscription, a significant number of admission authorities now give priority to children that have additional social, emotional or medical needs. But to be successful in securing a place or winning an appeal on those grounds, parents must be able to demonstrate that the child or the family would suffer genuine detriment if their first choice of school is not granted.
There are numerous and complex reasons why a child could be at a real disadvantage if they are not awarded their first choice of secondary school. A child that has been the subject of extensive bullying, for example, could benefit hugely from attending a secondary school with ‘new’ friends.
“90% of the cases we run, where there is genuine evidence of social, emotional or medical circumstances, are successful. In most cases, parents had all the necessary information to hand when they filled in the application, but it was not clear how and where to include it. In some cases, local authorities have made no effort to help parents in this regard – details of how to provide this information is somewhat hidden or ‘camouflaged’ inside glossy brochures.
“The Independent Appeal Panel often upholds appeals where it is clear that the admissions authority buried guidance on how to provide further social or medical information, or where space on a form for additional information was quite clearly too small to provide a thorough explanation of circumstances. Sadly, many parents cannot face going through the appeals process and simply accept defeat, even though they have a strong case to make on behalf of their child.”
Emma Pearmaine, Director of Family Services at Simpson Millar says the consequences of missing out on a preferred school place can be detrimental for children of divorced parents: “For parents who are separated, sharing care when a child is rejected from a school local to one or both of them can become extremely difficult. It is the modern principle that children should spend as much time as possible with both parents. In some cases, having an application for a preferred school rejected means a child will spend significantly less time with one parent. This could have a lifetime effect on the child to the detriment of the whole family. Such social considerations should weigh heavily in the decision making of admission authorities but, in many cases, parents are not given the opportunity to explain their circumstances and rationale behind their selection.”
Winning appeals
Although a child or family might meet the relevant social or medical criteria, appeals fail because parents misunderstand what is required to be successful.
Imogen explains: “Parents tend to launch appeals based on their child’s academic strengths rather than focusing what is required under the School Admission Appeal Code.
The Independent Appeal Panel is not concerned with which school is the best academically for your child, but whether missing out on their first choice will be of genuine detriment. A well evidenced case of harm to the social, emotional or medical needs of the child or a close family member, if the child does not attend that school, is likely to be successful.”
Example social scenario that might meet the admissions criteria
· Request for conflicting step-children not to attend the same school
· Children with low level Special Educational Needs (i.e. those without a statement of SEN or an EHCP) who may need the support offered at particular school
· A need for a child who has suffered extensive bullying to attend a school in a new area
· The ability of a disabled parent to take their child to school
· A particular area/surrounding causing seasonal problems for a child with pollen allergies
Simpson Millar offers parents a free information pack for making a successful appeal.
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“Grass Tax”: Labour not ruling out joining Ukip’s vote of no confidence
By Staff Reporter on September 19, 2017 1 Comment
THE LEADER of the Thurrock Labour group has refuse to rule out joining Ukip’s threat of a vote of no confidence in the Conservative leader of Thurrock Council over a controversial ‘Grass Tax”.
Leader of the Thurrock Labour Group, cllr Oliver Gerrish said: “We oppose the so-called ‘Grass Tax’ fully and it is important to repeat that it would not have happened under a Labour administration. We are fighting these new service charges alongside local residents and have been out campaigning to try and stop them, as we have done since the start of the year.
“There are some very serious questions to answer about how this policy was brought forward and taken through the council’s democratic processes – not least that the very clear opposition of the majority of councillors has been ignored. I believe the issue transcends party politics and so we will work with anyone opposed to these damaging charges.
“The Thurrock Labour Group hopes that a motion of no confidence is not necessary and that the Tory administration will make a U-turn, but we will not flinch from doing everything in our power using council procedure to support our residents and fight for a fairer Thurrock.
“I am calling once again on the Tories to abandon this unfair tax on council tenants.”
There are 49 councillors in Thurrock. 18 Conservatives, 17 Ukip and 14 Labour.
Th next council meeting is on September 27th.
YT contacted the leader of Thurrock Council, cllr Rob Geldhill on Monday but have not had a response.
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Britain may outsource huge surveillance database
Britain is moving forward with plans for a huge database tracking phone calls and emails and may even outsource it to private companies.
By Richard Koman for ZDNet Government | December 31, 2008 -- 03:35 GMT (19:35 PST) | Topic: Hardware
I guess Britain's Home Office didn't get the memo about abusive surveillance programs being scaled back in the waning days of the war on terror. Britain is moving forward with a £12 billion plan for a massive database to track every phone call, email and chat conversation in the country. And not only that – the database project would likely be outsourced to private firms, The Telegraph reports.
Sir Ken MacDonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, calls the database a "hellhouse" of personal private information. And despite the government's assurances that the content of emails would not be stored and that the data would be strongly protected ("We have been very clear that there are no plans for a database containing any content of emails, texts of conversations," a Home Office spokesman said), the fact remains that the British government is leaky as a colander when it comes to personal information.
Last year they lost 25 million child benefit records by the HM Revenue and Customs.
Sir Ken simply doesn't believe the government would be able to prevent improper exposure of the data.
Authorisations for access might be written into statute. The most senior ministers and officials might be designated as scrutineers. But none of this means anything. All history tells us that reassurances like these are worthless in the long run. In the first security crisis the locks would loosen.
The tendency of the state to seek ever more powers of surveillance over its citizens may be driven by protective zeal. But the notion of total security is a paranoid fantasy which would destroy everything that makes living worthwhile. This database would be an unimaginable hellhouse of personal private information. It would be a complete readout of every citizen's life in the most intimate and demeaning detail. No government of any colour is to be trusted with such a roadmap to our souls.
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Are You Overmilking?
Ron Erskine, DVM, Ph.D, Michigan State University
In Part 1 of this series (Manage Milking Efficiency), we discussed milking efficiency, defined as the percent of unit on-time (cluster attached) that milk is flowing near maximum. For example, if a milking unit is attached for five minutes to a cow during milking, and strong milk flow occurs for four minutes and 45 seconds, her milking efficiency is 95% (285/300 seconds). When milk isn’t flowing while the unit is attached, it is not only ineffi-cient but, more importantly, can damage teat tissue and thus could increase the risk of mastitis and decrease milk yield.
As stated in Part 1, most dairy farms evaluate and maintain milking equipment on a routine basis. Although proper equipment function is necessary for milking efficiency, it does not necessarily guarantee it. Two management areas that lead to poor milking efficiency are milking routines that don’t achieve consistent milk letdown and overmilking. Either one of these problems can leave cows “high and dry” for a period of time, and expose teats to high vacuum levels. In this article, we’ll discuss overmilking, which is a problem that occurs at the end of milking.
MORE THAN 30 SECONDS
After a milking is completed, the vacuum should be turned off and cluster removed from the cow as soon as possible. Generally, it is undesirable to have units attached for more than 15 seconds after milking completion, and units that are attached for more than 30 seconds after milking are considered to be overmilking.
How do you recognize overmilking? A simple way is to hand strip the udder after the unit is detached. A cup of milk should be easily attained without overworking the teats. As mentioned in Part 1, milk flow can also be estimated with digital vacuum recorders (VaDia, Biocontrol NA). A simple rule for interpreting VaDia results relative to milk flow is:
VaDia units can measure vacuum levels at four different places on the cluster simultaneously. We often measure vacuum in the mouthpiece of a front and rear liner, near the cluster and in a short pulsation tube.
In Figure 1, Cow 1 was ready to milk; the vacuum in the liner mouthpiece near the teat (red and blue lines) dropped quickly (less than 10 seconds after the unit was attached) and remained low until each teat was finished milking (the front quarter [blue line], finished before the rear quarter [red line]). At the end of milking, although the front quarter was done milking for nearly two minutes before unit take-off, the rear quarter continued to milk until about 15 seconds before unit take-off and thus was not overmilked. Cluster vacuum (green line) continued to fluctuate in a range of about 2" of mercury (inHg) during this milking time, suggesting milk flow for the cow was continuous.
What about Cow 2, Figure 2? Milk flow started soon after cluster attachment, but vacuum in the front and rear quarters increased to near maximum and plateaued two minutes before unit take-off. Also, the cluster vacuum (green line) increased to maximum vacuum during this time with little variation, which suggests little or no milk flow. This cow was overmilked.
BAD FOR TEAT HEALTH
So how does overmilking milking affect milking efficiency? For Cow 1, milk was flowing for about four minutes and 30 seconds of the total unit on time of four minutes and 45 seconds, or a milking efficiency of about 95%. For Cow 2, milk was flowing for about four minutes and 30 seconds of the total milking time of seven minutes and 30 seconds, or a milking efficiency of about 60%. Why does this matter?
Unnecessary high vacuum is never good for teat health. Additionally, it’s common for overmilked cows to have extended unit on-times. This reduces cow throughput in the parlor and extends the length of time that is needed to milk a herd. Also, slower parlor efficiency requires cows to stand in the holding pen and parlor for longer periods of time, reducing the time they spend resting and eating. Anecdotally, by reducing overmilking and decreasing unit on-time by just a couple minutes per cow, some herds have reported decreasing the duration of a milking shift by at least 45 minutes, or decreasing the total milking time by about two hours per day for a three-time-per-day milking herd.
The most common causes of overmilking are lack of automatic detachers, automatic detachers that are not operating properly, or the tendency to have milking operators place the detach mode to manual. This often occurs when operators are frustrated with detachers that aren’t functioning well or the mistaken belief that cows need to be milked out dry. Cow 3 Figure 3, is a VaDia plot of overmilking that occurred from reattaching the cluster after the cow was done milking, note the drop in all vacuum lines while the unit was off the cow.
Herds with shorter duration of milking shifts are more likely to have increased overmilking as opposed to herds that use their facilities for the maximum hours each day.
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Yavin Base
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Yavin Base Team League Rules
The Yavin Base Team League (YBTL) is a swiss team tournament for Star Wars: Legion on Tabletop Simulator.
A ‘team’ is a group of three players with a unique team name. Once a team has registered, and the tournament begins, it is locked and may not change. However, if a team member needs to drop for unforeseen reasons, a substitute may be recruited. Please inform the TO (Endless) if this happens.
Each three player team will nominate a Captain. The role of the Captain is to end disputes, liaison with the organizers, and facilitate pairings for each match. The Captain has final say on all team decisions.
The number of tournament rounds will depend on total number of teams registered. Swiss rounds will be played until a clear undefeated team emerges.
All players will join The Legion Discord to receive relevant information and communicate with other tournament participants and staff.
All players will make an account on Challonge.com and join a team there.
The creator of each team will register for the YBTL at the following link:
https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/42d6IohKpm
Registration must be completed before 11:59pm on December 3rd.
Tournament Scoring and Tie Breaks
A match win is worth 1 point. Match wins are used to determine overall ranking. The team with the highest number of match wins and the best overall win/loss record will be the team league champion.
A team’s win/loss record is used to break ties between matches. If two teams are exactly tied on points and win/loss record, their win/loss record versus the team that tied with them is used as a second tie breaker (aka “wins versus tied”)
Teams that place first, second, and third will receive the following prizes:
First Place Team: 150 dollars (50/player) and 3 Legion Discord shirts
Second Place Team: 75 dollars (25/player) and 3 sets of Q3 Alt Arts
Third Place Team: 75 dollars (25/player) and 3 sets of Q2 Aurebesh Command Cards
Army Lists
A ‘list’ includes its faction, units, upgrades, command hand and battle deck. Each team member will build a legal 800 point list in accordance with the force organization chart in the most recent edition of the Star Wars: Legion rules.
Players must submit their lists, with all relevant data, to the team captain before the pairing sequence (defined below) for their next match begins.
Lists are not required to be unique to each match, nor are they required to change between matches. You may play the same list for all your games, or change as you wish.
Unit Legality
All current offline releases for Star Wars: Legion are legal for this tournament.
Unreleased units legal for this tournament:
Rebels:
Rebel Officer (Commander and Unit Upgrade)
Sabotaged Communications (Command Card)
Common Cause (Command Card)
Brains and Brawn (Command Card)
Notorious Scoundrels (Command Card)
Wookiee Warriors
Bowcaster Wookiee
Imperial Officer (Commander and Unit Upgrade)
Covert Observation (Command Card)
Players are encouraged to save their list before their matches by loading the SW:Legion mod in TTS and saving a data disk, though this is not required.
Matchmaking and Pairing
Teams are matched according to the Challonge.com Swiss format, with a random seed during round 1.
A ‘match’ is a set of three games, played between the members of each team.
A ‘pairing’ consists of two players scheduled to play one game for the match.
Captains are responsible for creating pairings. Captains must begin the pairing sequence having all three of their team’s complete army lists. Captains should submit all list data to Orkimedes, with one exception: If they are matched against Notorious Scoundrels, list data should be submitted to TalkPolite.
Captains do not reveal their team’s lists to the opponent until each list is chosen and revealed during the pairing sequence.
Once the pairing sequence begins, their team’s army lists are locked and may not be changed. The captain of each team meets with the captain of the opposing team and follows the pairing sequence to generate pairings.
Pairing Sequence
The two captains will flip a coin (or roll a red defense die with no surge).
The captain who lost the toss (or roll) picks an army for the first pairing and reveals it to their opponent. The winning captain then picks an army to pair against it and reveals it to their opponent.
Next, the winning captain picks an army for the second pairing and reveals it to their opponent. The captain who lost the toss picks an army to pair against it and reveals it to their opponent.
The remaining armies from each team are paired together to create the third pairing, and both are revealed.
Once the pairings have been made, the captains will inform their players which member of the opposing team they are paired against. The players in each pairing must contact one another and schedule their game. This game must be played before the round ending date for it to count. If players have scheduling difficulties, please contact the TO to remedy the situation.
Once all three games in a match have been completed and the results tallied, the team with more victories wins the match.
Round Length and Time Limits
A tournament round ends when either all games have been played in the current round, OR 2 weeks have passed since the round start date. If a team is not able to complete any of their games for their match, the unplayed games will count as a loss for both teams. In the event that the match score is tied, the match will count as a tie (neither a win, nor a loss). Thus, it is very important to complete matches within the time allotted. Please contact the TO if there are any scheduling difficulties so they can be remedied.
Each game will be constrained by a 2 hour and 30 minute time limit.
The game timer will begin immediately prior to the command phase of Round 1. It is suggested that players use the clock object inside the mod to keep track of time.
When the time limit expires, players finish the current round and conclude the game.
If a player must step away from the keyboard, players will pause the timer until that player returns.
If a player must step away from a match for an extended period of time, players may agree to continue at a later time.
If a player cannot conclude a match before the round deadline, they forfeit that match for their team.
Map Pool
Each game in the Yavin Base Team League will be played on one of seven maps available in the TTS Legion mod. These maps are:
Vader’s Landing
Kashyyyk Jungle
Jedha Town Square
Bespin Plaza
Endor Forest Bunker
Hoth Perimeter Camp
Tarkin Town
No other maps may be used for the purposes of a league game.
Consent to Streaming
By participating in the YBTL, you agree that your game may be selected for streaming on Twitch.tv and will appear on one of YBTL’s approved streams.
You may also be interviewed prior to and after your match has been completed if you are one of the featured games.
Team captains may also be interviewed in like manner.
Rules for the YBTL may be subject to change to ensure the smooth running and timely execution of all tournament procedures. All players must be notified in a timely manner if any such change occurs.
Tournament Staff and Sponsors
TO, Judge: Endless
Head Judge: Orkimedes
Judges: Dashz, TalkPolite
Dan Wulf Games
The Fifth Trooper Podcast
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Huge update to Microsoft OneDrive. Files up to 250 GB
Microsoft has announced a big update to its OneDrive cloud storage, which will appeal to those who store large, more precisely, very large files.
Back in July last year, Microsoft increased the maximum upload file size from 15 GB to 100 GB, and now OneDrive and SharePoint users will be able to upload files up to 250 GB.
This innovation will be appreciated by users who need cloud storage for long 8K video files, large datasets and other information. Microsoft cites an ultra-high-definition family video album or an archive with a large computer game as examples.
Differential synchronization should make it relatively easy to manage these files. Without it, you would have to download the full file size every time you edit it. Microsoft claims that these large files are “split into pieces” and encrypted with a unique key. Support for larger files will begin later this month and will be generally available by the end of the quarter.
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Alleged Plot To Kidnap Michigan Governor Continues To Roil State
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When the FBI foiled alleged plans to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, most residents there condemned the plot and embraced calls for unity. Now, just two weeks later, there is renewed division. Some Republicans are once again harshly criticizing the governor, and some Democrats claim she's been unfairly targeted because of her gender. Abigail Censky of member station WKAR reports.
ABIGAIL CENSKY, BYLINE: Protesters called her a tyrant. Some Republicans called her a dictator. Then it was revealed some of the heavily armed men who stood above lawmakers at protest had allegedly planned to storm the Capitol, take hostages and try the governor for treason. Democrats blamed Republicans for endangering Whitmer, and they started with the president. At a rally in Michigan a week later, Trump supporters again attacked Whitmer.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Lock them all up.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Chanting) Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.
CENSKY: Far away from campaign stops, in the shadow of the state Capitol, Keith Clark says he doesn't back the men who allegedly conspired to kidnap the governor, but he does think she went overboard responding to the coronavirus.
KEITH CLARK: I'm a Republican, but I don't think that she did anything to be locked up for. I think - you know, I think she took some of the restrictions a little too far, and she choked and pretty much hurt our economy.
CENSKY: Further down Washington Street, Sandra Lamarche says Gretchen Whitmer had it tougher because she's a woman governing a swing state.
SANDRA LAMARCHE: I thought it was absurd. At first, I couldn't believe it. But then I stopped myself and thought about everything that's going on politically and just the reaction of our president and how he's basically attacked our governor.
CENSKY: Whitmer wasn't the only governor with a tough coronavirus response. California's Gavin Newsom and New York's Andrew Cuomo also drew attacks from the president. In downtown Lansing, Cyndy Wetzel says all of the pushback Whitmer has received could be somewhat related to the fact that she's a woman in power.
CYNDY WETZEL: A lot of people didn't like what she did. But I really believe, deep down, if it was a male governor doing exactly what she had done, there wouldn't have been nearly the amount of pushback.
CENSKY: But some say it's not about misogyny; it's about the state's economy. In an American government class at Northern Michigan University this week, students are also grappling with the aftermath of the arrests.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: We're going to allow another person online, and then we have a couple of people in class...
CENSKY: Here's Jake Allard-Soucy raising a question in class.
JAKE ALLARD-SOUCY: If it's not Whitmer's fault, then, like, whose fault specifically is it?
CENSKY: Student Janae Peterson responds, saying the governor was demonized from the very beginning.
JANAE PETERSON: Whitmer was immediately labeled as an overemotional woman who is a tyrant and is trying to take too much power than she deserves and all of this stuff.
CENSKY: After months of dealing with disruptions to daily life brought by the pandemic, some Michiganders are just looking for a face to blame, says Livingston County resident Lucca Green.
LUCCA GREEN: It's a virus, but you can't castigate a virus, right? So it's like, you've got to have someone to blame.
CENSKY: Despite some bitter criticism, Whitmer's approval rating still hovers around 60%. Michigan is at a critical point again. Hospitalization rates have tripled in the past four weeks, and strong divisions are evident again. But this time, Whitmer alone can't be blamed for the response. A recent state Supreme Court decision gutted her executive powers, and now she'll have to work with Republicans in the state Legislature who have very different ideas about coronavirus response.
For NPR News, I'm Abigail Censky in Lansing.
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Max Zorin
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Movies 1980s movies Specific movie universes James Bond
A view to a kill was a 1985 James Bond movie – the last one with Roger Moore. Reviews were mixed, but heh:
Duran Duran theme song .
Grace Jones.
Christopher Walken as super-baddie Max Zorin.
Zorin is a successful Nazi genetic experiment, a psychotic genius villain, a perfect Bond opponent… and well, Christopher Walken.
Real Name: Maximillian “Max” Zorin.
Known Relatives: Dr. Carl Mortner (creator).
Group Affiliation: CEO of Zorin Industries.
Base Of Operations: France, mobile.
Height: 6’ Weight: Average.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond
Max Zorin is a genius and wealthy businessman possessing a wealth of many millions. He is unusually multi-talented, with a background working with the KGB, the high-tech industry, horse breeding and other matters.
Zorin’s stud farm is an expansive and ornate estate in France where he and Dr. Carl Mortner breed their elegant race horses.
Below the fancy façade are production lines, manufacturing millions of microchips. And of course, there are genetic labs, where Mortner experiments with steroid implants driven by Zorin’s microchips. This is how Zorin’s steeds keep winning
Beyond the château, Zorin travels in style, aboard attention grabbing zeppelins. The largest of these is fitted out with a very expansive boardroom, and sleeping quarters for all. Plus a nasty staircase that sees disagreeable business associates slide to their death.
Zorin usually packs a small firearm or a melee weapon. He will arrange for more powerful weapons if he intends to perform some mass slaughter. Everywhere he goes his henchmen Mayday and Scarpine follow, along his aging mentor, Dr. Mortner.
The trailer for the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63XGBqRsmw
Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: A View to a Kill Trailer HD (1985) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63XGBqRsmw)
Well spoken and extraordinarily intelligent, but with a sharp temper and a clinical background. Zorin has risen to become a powerful businessman bent on crippling his competition and forming a monopoly. Manic mood swings and a blood-lust psychopathic tendency leave this villain one of the most dangerously unpredictable Bond has crossed paths with.
Dr. Mortner, his creator, is like a father figure. Although Mayday was an excellently loyal and competent henchwoman, Zorin had no qualms whatsoever to sacrifice her for his plans. He would likely do the same against Scarpine, his Head of Security. Even though Scarpine was also completely loyal and nothing more than his unthinking right-hand-man.
Clearly, Zorin is vindictive and can change his allegiance at the drop of a hat if it fit his grander scheme.
Always looking out for number one, nobody is beyond being sacrificed. Although he is prone to design death-trap like endings to the opposition, he is very fond of ending the threat personally by the use of firearms or melee weapons. He will like a lunatic while doing so.
Although by his public persona he is a distinguished and sharp businessman, his business dealings are shady, to say the least. This villain will brutally close a business deal if negotiations do not go his way.
His wealth is undisputable. He associates with a range of businessmen from a variety of countries to gamble on the most unlikely investments – often with outstandingly lucrative consequences.
Despite his massive entourage, Zorin harbors a compromising secret. Max has been providing intelligence about the UK and American governments. He passes information to the KGB in exchange for a silent helping hand in business. This is a large chink in his pride if his associates found out.
“For centuries alchemists tried to make gold from base metals. Today, we make microchips from silicon, which is common sand, but far better than gold.”
“Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius.”
Dex: 04 Str: 03 Bod: 04 Motivation: Power Lust / Psychopath
Int: 09 Wil: 08 Min: 07 Occupation: CEO of Zorin Industries
Animal Handling: 07, Martial Artist: 05, Military Science: 06, Scientist: 06, Weaponry: 05, Vehicles (Air): 04
Connoisseur, Expertise (Horse Breeding), Henchmen (Mayday, Scarpine), Language (French, German, Russian and one more unidentified), Scholar (Business).
Dr. Carl Mortner (High), the KGB (Low), Zorin Industries (High).
Dark Secret (Spy dealings with the KGB), Overconfidence.
By Dr. Peter S Piispanen.
Source of Character: A View to a Kill, character played by Christopher Walken.
Helper(s): mi6.co.uk .
Writeup completed on the 27th of November, 2010.
The movie poster (Grace Jones version)
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Graduates Complete First WSET Diploma Course in Brazil
The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) has named Ana Borges, Fabio Lobosco and Jose Pinheiro, as the first graduates to successfully complete an online WSET Diploma course in Brazil.
Demand for wine and spirits education in Brazil is rising, with the last academic year showing an +18% increase in the number of candidates undertaking a WSET qualification.
WSET qualifications up to the Level 3 Award in Wines are available in Brazil to professionals and enthusiasts through WSET Approved Programme Providers Enocultura and The Wine School Brasil. Following significant interest from successful Level 3 students to progress their knowledge, WSET launched an online programme in 2015 to enable a group of students to undertake the Level 4 Diploma in Wines and Spirits. Managed by International Development Manager Rachel Brown DipWSET and WSET Online Education Programme Manager Janette Devlin, students were supported through a two year online course, finishing with exams in Sao Paulo.
Rachel Brown comments, “During our visits to Expovinis we spoke to many enthusiastic WSET Level 3 students who were keen to take their knowledge to the next level. WSET launched the online Diploma programme in Brazil to offer the opportunity to these aspiring experts. We are thrilled with the success of the students so far and look forward to congratulating more graduates as they achieve this esteemed qualification.”
About the Graduates
Clockwise from top: Ana Borges, Fabio Lobosco, Jose Pinheiro
Ana Borges is a Brazilian wine consultant and educator, working with the on-trade market and promoting Brazilian wineries. Originally working in restaurants, both kitchen and service, as she became more involved with wine she decided to redirect her career. After getting her Master’s Degree in Oenology she undertook WSET qualifications to get more in depth information on wine.
She says, “After Level 3 Award in Wines, I was just craving more knowledge, so the Diploma was the natural path. People around me said I was crazy, that it was too hard, but here I am! I think the business side of the Diploma is unique, as you don’t get to see this side of the market in other courses. The array of wines tasted is amazing, and being able to understand what makes each one unique is the best part! I got rid of a lot of the prejudice and preconceptions I had before, such as not liking specific regions or grapes, especially Argentinian Malbec.”
Fabio Lobosco was a lawyer in 2013 who had just achieved a master’s degree in Political and Economic Law whilst also finishing his first sommelier course and completing WSET Level 3 Award in Wine. In 2014 he was teaching at the Law College and running his own law firm, when he decided to start a PhD in Politic and Economy Law, and one year later, the WSET Diploma.
He says, “Wine was always a hobby to relax, but I also loved to study it deeper. Everybody talked about the Diploma so I felt challenged to face it. I learnt a lot of information about viticulture and vinification, different wines of unusual countries, like China, Mexico etc. Studying for both courses while running my classes and firm was kind of insane, but in the end I achieved success in both, and also completed WSET Level 1 Award in Spirits.”
After 12 years working in multinational companies in the Financial Market, Jose Pinheiro decided to open a restaurant in 2008, Hakone Japanese n’Fusion, and started studying wine. Always looking for courses to develop his knowledge, in 2013 he discovered WSET. He has completed Level 2 Award in Spirits, Level 3 Award in Sake and worked his way up from Level 1 Award in Wines before completing his Diploma.
He says, “I decided to study for the WSET Diploma because it is the most acknowledged wine certification in the world. The highlights of the program for me were the knowledge I’ve acquired as well as broadening my wine and beverages network and, in my case, having to restart studying English was also a plus. It’s been a great journey in the wine and beverage world.”
When asked what advice they would give to anyone embarking on the WSET Diploma the graduates said:
“Enjoy yourself! The Diploma is quite difficult, and you can get carried away with the obligations and forget that you are studying one of the most passionate subjects out there!” – Ana Borges
“Manage your time, don´t listen to other students complaining about the difficulty, keep calm and before going deeper and deeper in the themes, learn the basics really well.” – Fabio Lobosco
WSET will be continuing to support students of the programme through their final exams over the next year, whilst strengthening its engagement with the Brazilian wine and spirits scene through attendance at Expovinis for the sixth year running.
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Toledo mask mandate passes; 3 council members accused of bribery vote
Gary Johnson, Larry Sykes and Tyrone Riley voted on multiple issues Monday. Yvonne Harper, who is also accused in the scheme, was not present in the meeting.
Author: Renata Cló
Published: 4:36 PM EDT July 13, 2020
Updated: 11:14 PM EDT July 13, 2020
TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo City Council unanimously passed the mask mandate Monday and is effective immediately.
Now, members of the public are required to wear masks, covering their mouth and nose, when entering any place of business. In addition, businesses shall not allow patrons to enter or remain in their establishments without a mask.
There are exceptions to the mandate. Those who have a medical condition that prevents them from wearing maks and children younger than 6 years old are exempt.
Depending on the setting, you can also be exempt from wearing a mask. That includes:
- Restaurant and bar patrons while eating or drinking. However, if you leave your table, you are required to wear a mask.
- In settings where it is not practicable or feasible to wear a face-covering, such as when at the dentist or doctor's office and while swimming.
- While exercising in a gym or other similar indoor facility so long as physical separation of not less than 6 feet is maintained and the individual wears a face covering while not exercising.
- When an individual is in his or her work office, conference room, or other workspaces not intended for use by the general public.
The Toledo Police Department and the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department are the agencies in charge for enforcing the mandate, according to the ordinance text.
Three council members accused in the bribes-for-votes scandal not only participated in Monday's meeting but also voted on all issues, including the mask mandate.
Larry Sykes, Gary Johnson and Tyrone Riley were present while Yvonne Harper was absent.
This comes days after Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz asked them to resign by Sunday night or he would send an official letter to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, asking him to use his powers to suspend the members.
The letter was sent Monday morning.
Yost released a statement after receiving the letter, saying the "matter is under evaluation, taking into consideration the rights of the accused to a presumption of innocence - and the rights and interests of the public."
RELATED: Toledo City Council meeting abruptly ends as members charged with bribery refuse to resign and leave
RELATED: Kapzukiewicz letter to Ohio AG requests suspension of council members accused of bribery
Toledo City Council President Matt Cherry has also asked for the members' resignation and ended last week's meeting abruptly after Johnson, Sykes and Riley refused to leave.
The members voted on various ordinances that passed, including expanding the designated outdoor refreshment area in downtown Toledo, establishing an ethics review committee, requiring members to go through ethics training every year, and the mask mandate.
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WVDII at UC Announces Program to Celebrate Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren
Nominations are now being accepted for a program designed to celebrate grandmothers raising grandchildren. The West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute at UC is seeking nominations for deserving grandmothers who are raising grandchildren who deserve a day of pampering. Four grandmothers will be chosen for a day of celebration on December 9, 2019. The day will begin with a “spa day” and appetizers (courtesy of La Famiglia and Salon Fresh in Barboursville) followed by dinner at local restaurant to-be-determined and tickets to Cirque Musica Holiday Dreams at the Keith Albee Theatre.
The program, called “Glam-Maws” is supported by one of the Institute’s collaborative partners Murphy Media, LLC (located in Huntington, WV). The WV DII intends to expand the program in February 2020.
West Virginia is second in the nation in regard to the number of grandparents raising grandchildren and first in the nation in regard to children in state’s custody due to parental substance use. “Grandparents are often working multiple jobs to support grandchildren children, playing chauffeur to sports practices and school events, and navigating many programs and services simultaneously,” said Dr. Susan Bissett, president of the WV DII. “We want to find small ways to celebrate these unsung heroes of the opioid epidemic.”
If you know of a deserving grandmother raising grandchildren and would like to nominate her to be pampered for a day, please email the WV DII attention: meaghangoffreda@dii.ucwv.edu with the your nominees name, address and phone number along with a brief description of why your nominee deserves to be a “Glam-Maw.” Winners will be announced on December 2, 2019 via Facebook Live, so be sure to like and follow the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute’s Facebook page!
About the WV DII The West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute (WV DII) at the University of Charleston is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The mission of the WV DII is to reduce deaths in West Virginia from opioid and drug abuse by being (a) an independent advocate for life-enhancing drug policies, and practices, (b) a hub for coordinating drug response activities, and (c) an educational center to address the prevalence of drug abuse and the stigma of drug addiction. The Institute is housed at the University of Charleston in West Virginia’s state capital and is designed to: identify and assess best practices through research and data analysis, provide education programs on prescription drug safety, collaborate with municipalities and agencies to promote best practices to prevent overdose deaths, advocate for policies that promote educational and employment opportunities for those in recovery, and identify and implement prevention strategies.
ABOUT WVDII
West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, Inc. is an independent 501(C)(3) entity with a primary focus of reducing drug deaths in West Virginia through charitable, educational, and service activities.
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Email: susan@wvdii.org
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Leroy & Stitch (2006) 1080p
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Cast: David Ogden Stiers , Chris Sanders , Daveigh Chase , Kevin McDonald ,
Movie Description:
Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo. But Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong, and it's finally time to say "aloha." Meanwhile, Gantu has left Earth and broken Doctor Jacques Von Hamsterviel out of prison, who's planning to create and clone a new experiment named "Leroy," one that will allow him take over the galaxy.
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The Cantonese hero Fong Sai Yuk becomes involved in the secret brotherhood "The Red Flower", who are trying to overthrow the Manchurian emperor and re-establishing the Ming dynasty. The social upheaval is combined with Sai Yuk's personal moral conflict about how to conform to the rigid regime of the brotherhood and on top of that sort out his difficult love life, saddled with two presumptive wives.
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When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.
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On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an iceberg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.
IMDB: 5 By: r96sk
A pointless fourth film from the 'Lilo & Stitch' franchise.
While still not absolutely terrible, 'Leroy & Stitch' isn't one that's worth watching. Not helped by a plot that is all over the place, the new characters also fail to bring any intrigue with them. I do appreciate a follow-up on the ending of 'Stitch! The Movie', at least.
Cast-wise, it's decent to hear Daveigh Chase back as Lilo while Jeff Bennett and Rob Paulsen do fine jobs as Dr. H?msterviel and Reuben. The rest, e.g. Tia Carrere (Nani), all take a backseat.
I guess they were due a wholly bad film eventually, still pleasing that none of them are truly horrific though.
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Very entertaining
IMDB: 7 By: TheLittleSongbird
Leroy and Stitch was a film I found very entertaining. I don't think it is as good as the original, which is wonderful and one of Disney's better movies of the 2000s, but I would put it on par with Lilo and Stitch 2:Stitch Has a Glitch, and a notch above the TV series. All of these though are better than Stitch the Movie, while not absolutely terrible, I did find it disappointing and mediocre to say the least.
I did think Leroy and Stitch was a little too short, and a little rushed at times. Also while the story was fast-paced and fun to watch, more could have been done with it, namely Nani and David's relationship and the platonic friendship between Lilo and Myrtle.
This aside, the animation is still lively and colourful, and the soundtrack is bright and breezy. The writing is witty, funny and warm, and the characters still have their infectious personalities, Lilo and Stitch are still cute, Jumba and Pleakley are still funny and Nani's personality thankfully is less distorted than it is in the series. Leroy is a worthy character too, and the voice work is also top notch. All in all, very entertaining. 7/10 Bethany Cox
IMDB: 7 By: barrys82
It was good, trying to follow the same formula as the previous movies, but I feel they didn't get it completely.
The story is decent and with some funny moments but also I feel that they were just recycling and repeating the previous movies stories. The plot was decent and convincing with a very good rhythm.
I like the music very much and the animation was great as it is always on Disney's movies.
The cast of voices was very decent and good.
In conclusion, this wasn't the best movie of the series by far, but I think its pretty enjoyable and entertaining to spend a good Sunday afternoon with the family.
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