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Midwest Represented at Club Community Level
October 14, 2020 Announcements, Front Page News
CHICAGO, IL – As previously reported, Midwest President Al Lucas is currently serving as the Senior Club Community interim-Director on the USA Rugby Board of Directors and the Midwest Vice President of Compliance and Discipline Megan Braun, was selected to serve as the chairperson of the Senior Club Council Discipline Committee and also on the Council’s Executive Committee. Joining them at the Senior Club Community Level will be several members of the Midwest chosen to serve on several of the Senior Club Councils standing committees.
The Midwest has two representatives serving, but still waiting to be confirmed, on the Audit & Risk Committee chaired by Senior Club Council Treasurer Jill Williamson. Midwest Administrator Bill Marnell and Michigan RFU Treasurer Tim Crowley will bring their accounting, auditing, and risk management skills to ensure that both USA Rugby and the Senior Club Council are operating in a fiscally responsible manner for the membership.
Midwest Vice President of Competition, Gary Lobaugh, has been selected to serve on the Senior Club Council’s Competition Committee chaired by former USA Rugby Club Manager Eric Geib. This will be a familiar role for Gary, who served for a number of years on USA Rugby’s National Competitions Committee which also managed club competitions for the entire country. This group will similarly manage Senior Club Competitions between Competitive Regions including potentially All-Star events and National or Regional Championship Events.
Milwaukee native Margaret Nedow will join Megan Braun on the Senior Club Council’s Discipline Committee who will focus on implementing national discipline codes and enforcing cross-competitive region disciplinary issues and appeals. Darryl Sanders from Minneapolis will bring his skillset to the Club Council’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee chaired by Nichole Reiske. Dawn McKenzie, the Midwest’s Women’s 7’s coordinator will serve under chair Tammy Breckenridge on the Club Council’s Eligibility Committee. Dawn is a Chicago native, who assists the Union as a referee education and has played for the Women’s Premier League.
The Midwest does not have representation on the Club Council’s Governance or Training & Education Committees, however, former Midwest Congress Representative Matthew Doss is serving on the USA Rugby Nominations Committee which is responsible for vetting and recommending external directors to serve on the USA Rugby Board of Directors.
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MWRFU Competitions COVID-19 Update
May 12, 2020 Announcements, Front Page News
The Midwest Rugby Football Union (MWRFU) offers its deepest sympathies to all who have been impacted by COVID-19 throughout the world. We thank our membership for your patience, understanding, and support as we navigate through these challenging times.
The health and safety of our players, coaches, referees, and supporters are paramount to everything we do. It remains our hope that state and local health officials, USA Rugby (USAR), and World Rugby grant permission, we’ll return to our pitches and play as much rugby as we can for the remainder of the 2020 year.
We recognize that elected officials are beginning to announce timelines for relaxing their strict measures taken to mitigate the coronavirus. In some areas, stay-at-home orders are being eased, while many regions have not yet announced an end to their restrictions. Therefore, our ability to provide a target date for the resumption of regular play is not possible.
USAR suspended “all sanctioned competition and rugby activities are suspended for the foreseeable future,” on March 20, 2020. It requested that members and clubs “refrain from match play, training or team gatherings during this period,” and highlighted that accident and liability claims will not be accepted during the above window of time.”
USA Rugby will communicate information on when rugby activities will potentially be able to resume before June 1. In the meantime, the MWRFU will provide notifications as they become available. Listed below are frequently asked questions (FAQs) for your reference:
My region/city/state has relaxed regulations regarding social distancing and shelter in place orders. Can my club resume regular operation?
No. USAR suspended “all sanctioned competition and rugby activities for the foreseeable future,” on March 20, 2020. Members and clubs should “refrain from match play, training or team gatherings during this period,” and accident and liability claims are not being accepted.
Clubs will be permitted to resume regular operation after USAR has restored sanctioning, and the accident and liability insurance has been reinstated and permissions granted by state and local health officials.
When USAR lifts the suspension, can we play straight away?
It will depend on where you live. This epidemic is impacting each state/region/city differently. While USAR may lift the suspension of rugby activities, we will still abide by state and local health agency directives to keep the Midwest Rugby Community safe.
Matches won’t be scheduled until teams have had enough time to complete suitable training, including scrummaging, for a reasonable amount of time, expect a minimum of three weeks before playing sanctioned matches. Also, we anticipate that clubs will be required to learn and adopt best practices for mitigating coronavirus risks from USAR and World Rugby.
How will MWRFU handle scheduling matches for some portions of the Union if others are still under restrictions?
The competitions committee is working through all possible scenarios, including abbreviated 7s championships, 15s, and select side play.
Localized, LAU-focused, friendlies also are a possibility for the foreseeable future if USAR resumes sanctioning and insurance coverage, while regions/cities/states are still easing coronavirus-related restrictions.
Timelines for these scenarios will be presented to the membership seven days after USAR resumes sanctioning.
Will the MWRFU 7s Championship series take place?
Not as planned, no. USAR is tentatively scheduled to provide an update regarding National 7s Championships in early June. The MWRFU will develop a series based on that announcement, which could include a reduced number of qualifying matches and a championship series that would begin in July and conclude in August.
What is the status of the 15s season?
We are moving forward with regular planning of 15s in the Fall until otherwise notified. Contingency planning 15s includes an abbreviated fall season with championships in November, a split season (fall/spring) with championships in the spring, and playing an abbreviated league season during the spring of 2021.
Will there be a select side program this year?
An abbreviated select side program is under consideration. A program-related announcement will be contingent on USAR sanctioning and the interest of other programs from around the country to compete.
How can I prepare my club for reemerging after all restrictions are lifted?
COVID is impacting the health and finances of people everywhere. Its impacts on respective clubs are to be determined.
We encourage local area union and club administrators to begin conversations with their memberships about COVID’s impacts and if they will be able to participate in a regular league season when restrictions are eased.
The collection of this information will enable clubs and unions to respond to requests for information from the competitions committee that will assist in expediting the scheduling process.
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Final Mosaic Primary Graduation of the Academic Year takes place at the House of Lords, London
News · 17 July 2018
Students from St Paul’s Church of England Whitechapel School, Harry Gosling Primary School and Arnhem Wharf Primary School, all from central London graduated from the Mosaic Primary School Programme, in a special ceremony hosted at the House of Lords by Baroness Manzoor CBE.
Marking the end of the academic year, the students were joined by their family, friends, mentors and teachers for an afternoon marking their successful completion of the Primary School programme.
Keynote speaker on the day was Baroness Manzoor CBE, Government Whip and Conservative Member of the House of Lords, with Co Vice-Chairman of the Mosaic Advisory Board Saker Nusseibeh providing closing remarks on the day.
Baroness Manzoor CBE said: “It’s always so rewarding to see how the programme continues to have an amazing impact not only on the children but on their families too. The beauty of the programme has always been how mutually beneficial the outcomes are for both the children and their parents- building their confidence, helping parents better understand education and the importance of empowering children to raise their aspirations to really be the best they can.”
The Prince’s Trust Education Manager for South England and compere on the day Imran Choudhury said of the event:
“The biggest thrill for me as is with a lot of us here are these ceremony days! Getting to hear from them directly about just what the programme has meant and done for them during their presentations is a testament to the programme and the incredible hard work of all the mentors involved.”
Mosaic extends a particularly special thanks to the mentors, without whom our work would not be possible: Graham Butcher, Raymond McGlynn, Timothy Powell and Wai Chan – for Arnhem Wharf Primary School. Alison Ure, Fortune Chigwende, Jennie Lyne, Natasha Frost, Navepreet Rai, Rinki Choudhury, Susan Cane – for St Pauls CoE Whitechapel School. Alexander Hayman, Greg Bookman, Oliver Gent, Thomas Hill and Vincent Baughan – for Harry Gosling Primary School.
The Mosaic Primary School Programme will next be running from January 2019. The programme aims to raise aspirations of young girls and boys, and to help empower their parents so that they are better able to support their children fulfil their potential.
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Nevada County. Connected.
Update on Spiral’s Gigabit Fiber Optic Project
02.08.18 | Category: CASF, CPUC, Fiber Optic, Grants, Internet Service Providers, Milestones, News, Spiral Internet | One comment
I know that we’ve been a bit quiet here at Spiral, as we complete the steps to begin construction of our gigabit fiber optic internet project. Even though there is little to report, I wanted to share with you what’s been happening.
The process over the past five years involved attorneys, investors, banks, challengers, regulatory agencies … all entities that move at their own pace with their own agendas. What should take weeks often takes months, and sometimes years to complete.
If I have erred in any way in communicating to our community, it has been due to my inherent positivity. Announced dates and benchmarks have passed unfulfilled. In that, I apologize.
Yeah, crappy outdated internet access makes us all angry. I get it, as I have DSL at home. And I’m lucky, as I know many households have nothing. Especially in the outlying areas covered by our first phase.
In February 2013, when we submitted our grant application, we expected it to be approved within 9 months. That didn’t happen because SmarterBroadband, a local fixed wireless provider, incorrectly claimed 100% coverage throughout western Nevada County with a federally funded project that had yet to be built at that time.
So, our grant application — although essentially approved — was put on hold by the CPUC for two more years. It was finally approved for funding in December 2015 after the CPUC determined that, at best, SmarterBroadband had 20% coverage in our phase one project area.
Once the grant was approved, our environmental report took another year and a half to compile, submit, and then be voted on by the CPUC. During that period investors and banks signed on and left, frustrated by the timeline. We are currently reviewing multiple investment offers for the private matching funds. The $16.7M CASF funding remains ready for our use.
Also numerous people have come and gone at Spiral. None of this is news. It is just what happens in business.
Building a brand new underground network is an amazingly complex enterprise. If I had known at the start how long it was going to take and how much it would cost because of the delays, I actually might not have taken it on. But both I and Spiral are staying the course. Nine years of my life so far have been dedicated to its completion. I am personally committed to getting it built and operating.
We are actually getting close to the place where we can break ground. How close you ask? When will I have service? I truly don’t know an exact date, but we do plan to break ground this year and have the first phase completed within two years.
That I can promise. And you will be the first to know just before the shovels hit the ground.
Thanks for your support and patience over the years.
Spiral Internet
The Union: Internet for All bill, funding broadband projects like Spiral, signed into law
10.24.17 | Category: CASF, CPUC, Fiber Optic, Grants, Internet Service Providers, Legislation, Spiral Internet | 2 comments
Re-posted from TheUnion.com
Internet for All bill, funding broadband projects like Spiral, signed into law
by Liz Kellar, October 17, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law AB 1665, also known as Internet for All, allocating $330 million to expand broadband internet infrastructure into rural communities.
Internet for All became controversial, however, because the California Advanced Services Fund provides financial assistance to large telecommunications companies like as Frontier and AT&T, as well as independent broadband projects such as Spiral Internet’s high-speed fiber optic network project here in Nevada County.
Critics of the bill charged that it will make it virtually impossible for independent projects to be funded, in part because AT&T and Frontier pushed to make changes to the bill to lower the required broadband speed levels.
The change allows those companies to do minimal upgrades in rural areas to meet their obligations, critics alleged. And that will make it difficult, if not impossible, for independent projects to receive funding.
But John Paul, Spiral’s CEO, isn’t worried.
Spiral’s funding for its first phase has already been awarded, $17 million granted in late 2015.
“That money is ours,” Paul said.
The Internet for All bill collects more money to put into the California Advanced Services Fund, “so we can in fact apply for Phase 2 and 3, which we plan to do imminently,” he said. “That money will be available Jan. 1.”
The issue that caused concern, Paul explained, was that AT&T and Frontier — which owns a network that extends into the Highway 174 corridor — are “incumbent companies” in the area that were awarded funds through the Federal Communications Commission to serve rural areas.
There is language in AB 1665 that mandates against double finding, and AT&T does have some project areas in western Nevada County, Paul said.
But because Spiral had to jump through years of hoops to get its initial grant — including having to defend the project against legal appeals — Paul is confident that his company will sail through the funding request for the next two stages.
Spiral first applied to the California Public Utilities Commission for the California Advanced Services Fund money in 2013. But the process ended up taking more than two years, because SmarterBroadband, a local fixed wireless provider, had federal funding and asked for an extension to complete its project.
“They were claiming 100 percent coverage,” Paul said, even though the area was densely forested and geographically diverse.
SmarterBroadband’s project was “speculative,” he said; Paul estimated that its fixed wireless system could not realistically achieve full coverage, saying, “There’s just way too many hills.”
During the funding battle, the public utilities commission eventually determined, based on the data provided, that SmarterBroadband could only provide 20 percent coverage. And that meant that Spiral’s project could be funded, Paul said.
Both SmarterBroadband and ColfaxNet filed legal challenges; the commission eventually found no merit in their claims, Paul said.
“We won, we proved we were accurate in our assessment,” he said. “Their technology can’t serve (this) rural area.”
So the three long years that went into winning that first round of funding should make for smooth sailing in the next funding round, Paul said.
“I have a pretty good case,” he said. “I feel really solid about that.”
To contact Staff Writer Liz Kellar, email lkellar@theunion.com or call 530-477-4236.
The Battle is On for Better Internet Access in California
09.07.17 | Category: CASF, CPUC, Fiber Optic, Internet Service Providers, Legislation, Milestones, News, Regulations, Spiral Internet | 2 comments
We’re deep in the midst of the Spiral gigabit project network design in Service Area A; all in preparation for permitting and then construction. We have also been actively working to make sure that people and state legislators know how desperately our rural areas need faster reliable internet access.
In Sacramento, AB1665 is the bill that will continue funding the California Advanced Services Fund, the source of Spiral’s $16.2M grant. Last year, the telco and cable lobbyists stopped a similar bill dead in its tracks. This year, they are outright lying to the legislators; making sure money doesn’t go to smaller providers that have more incentive to build fiber optic network in communities. We have been actively lobbying with the facts, hoping to result in legislation that will enable internet for all.
Michael Anderson, Spiral’s CIO, was recently interviewed by Christopher Mitchell of MuniNetworks.org in Minnesota. Listen to the podcast. He provides an excellent overview of the problems we are facing in California.
John Paul, Spiral’s CEO, was also recently interviewed for an article on rural broadband and agriculture that appears in the September issue of Comstock’s magazine. You’ll want to read The Long Reach: As smart technology grows more essential to modern ag, farmers languish in dead zones.
As a web-teaser for the article, he was asked to answer a few question about changes in the internet industry in rural California. His apparently controversial (although accurate) answers prompted the Comstock’s editor to request a statement from AT&T. Read Back and Forward: John Paul on the Future of Rural-Access Internet to see AT&T’s regional spokesman’s confusing non-response. Sigh. The telco and cable companies continue to spread misinformation in order to maintain their aging monopolies.
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Two US cabinet members quit over Trump mob attack
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Two members of Donald Trump’s cabinet resigned Thursday with days left in the administration in protest over the storming of the Capitol by a mob...
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Guwahati, Dec 14: The Assam Cabinet has approved the proposal to shut down government-run madrassas and Sanskrit tols. In October, Assam’s education minister, Himanta Biswa...
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The cabinet committee on national purchase at a meeting on Wednesday approved the construction of a 55 megawatt capacity wind power plant at Mongla in...
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The cabinet committee on public purchase has approved 12 procurement proposals including the import of rice, fertiliser and petroleum. Law minister Anisul Haque presided over...
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Winter weather, discounts hamper Chico's
Tim Engstrom
Lingering winter weather up north and deep discounts offered to attract customers cut profits for Fort Myers-based Chico's FAS early this year, but company executives on Wednesday said prospects have brightened with spring.
Chico's FAS on Wednesday reported net income of $39.9 million, or 26 cents a share, in the quarter ended May 3, compared to $51.1 million, or 31 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago.
Chico's operates 1,496 stores, and associated websites, under the brands Chico's, White House/Black Market, Soma Intimates and Boston Proper.
For the first quarter, net sales across all brands were $681.6 million, an increase of 1.6 percent compared to $670.7 million in the comparable period a year ago, primarily due to 99 net new stores. Those gains were offset by a decrease in sales at stores open at least one year, which decreased 2.6 percent following flat comparable sales in last year's first quarter.
CEO David Dyer said harsh weather through March kept shoppers away and forced the company to offer discounts on fashions.
"The promotional environment, as well as other brand-specific issues, led to results that did not meet our expectations," Dyer said.
Shares of Chico's closed at $15.14 on the New York Stock Exchange after the earnings were released Wednesday, down 3 percent from Tuesday's close.
Dyer said sales began to improve in April and have been stronger in May.
"At Chico's FAS, we play to win," Dyer said. "We have the right formula to win, we have the right people to win, and where we see opportunities for improvement, we have the flexibility and nimbleness to course correct."
As a result of sales lagging so far this year, the company decided to push some planned new store openings for late in the year off to 2015, chief financial officer Pam Knous said. The company plans 107 net new stores, down from a previous target of 120 to 130. That includes 35 Soma stores and one outlet, 15 Boston Proper stores, 15 Chico's stores and nine outlets and 18 White House/Black Market stores and nine outlets.
The Soma Intimates brand was a sales bright spot for the company, posting year-over-year same-store sales gains.
"We feel good about our trends going forward in the second quarter," brand president Laurie Van Brunt said. "We've had great success with our sleepwear assortments and our lounge assortments. Our goal is to be a bra destination, and we feel we're progressing in that path."
Lorraine Hutchinson, an analyst with Bank of America, said other retailers have seen sales hurt by weather and the need to discount.
"It's clearly a very promotional environment out there, and I know some of this was driven by weather," Hutchinson said. "But what if this is the new state of affairs?"
While the company is watching trends, Dyer said he is confident that shoppers will return and be willing to spend. He said the company won't chase lower prices with cheaper goods.
"We have a quality expectation and certainly on my watch, we will continue to ensure that our quality is where it needs to be for our brands," Dyer said. "I think that's the best long-term strategy."
In a research note to investors, analyst Jennifer Black of Jennifer Black & Associates said the company's fashions and financials show promise.
"We believe that Chico's FAS, Inc. has long-term upside potential especially in light of its solid financial position," Black wrote. "We believe this is a new round for the company as it approaches the second half aiming to be in a much better position with its sales and earnings along with expenses."
Chico's FAS
Founded with a single store on Sanibel in 1982. Today the company operates 1,496 stores. About 1,500 people work at Chico's National Store Support Center on Metro Parkway in Fort Myers.
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(Newser) – Harvard evaluates prospective students based on a number of criteria, including academic achievement, outside activities, and personality characteristics, such as likeability and kindness. But according to an affirmative action lawsuit filed by a group representing Asian-American students, the school consistently scored Asian-American applicants lower than other groups on personal qualities, which affected their admission chances, reports the New York Times. The suit cites an analysis of 160,000 student records, which found that although Asian-American students scored higher than other groups on academic and extra-curricular measures, their personal ratings lagged and lowered their overall rating. The group accuses Harvard of increasing admissions of white, black, and Hispanic applicants at the expense of Asian-American students, reports CNN.
The suit has forced Harvard to disclose its admissions process, which has been a closely held secret. Harvard strongly defends its admissions practices, and accuses the group of using misleading data. Harvard’s own research office found that if admission were based purely on academic achievement, 43% of an admitted class would be Asian-American, notes the Boston Globe. Last spring, 23% of the students admitted were Asian-American. Harvard has countered with an updated review that contradicts the group’s finding and concludes that in the last decade, admissions of Asian-Americans grew by 29%. Harvard is calling the suit, “the latest salvo by ideological opponents of the consideration of race in university admissions." (Read more Harvard stories.)
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Hawke's Bay woman's $1M taste buds
Ryan Bridge
The celebrities won't admit it but we've all heard the stories -- Heidi Klum has her legs insured for $2 million, Cristiano Ronaldo for $144 million and Julia Roberts' smile for $30 million.
But one Hawke's Bay woman is in the process of insuring her taste buds for NZ$1 million.
It would make Yvonne Lorkin the first person in New Zealand to do so and turns out some of us are better than others when it comes to tasting.
The secret to tasting is actually your nose, not your mouth, because most of what we sense when something is tasty, is aroma.
Ms Lorkin is regarded as a master taster and she's the chief tasting officer at wine subscription firm Winefriend.
She's been reviewing wine for more than a decade so Story followed our nose to the vineyard to meet the woman who's turned her taste buds into business.
Watch the video for the full Story report.
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What’s In Our Water
Dozens of people have spoken out at meetings against Pinellas County adding fluoride to the water supply, an outcry that helped trigger the county’s attention-grabbing decision to stop fluoridating Dec. 31.
But on any day, small levels of other contaminants, such as radium, arsenic and copper, turn up in the same water. None of them came up in hours of debate this month.
Just as the vast majority of health officials say the fluoride in water is safe, so have federal and state regulators found nothing harmful in the testing for other substances by county utilities. But those contaminants can be dangerous at much higher amounts.
“If we tried to remove everything from drinking water — I mean everything — it would be horrendously expensive and the health effects would be negligible,” said county water and sewer director Bob Powell, who has been a chemist and lab director for more than 30 years with Pinellas.
For example, radium is radioactive and exists in tiny levels in the county’s water. The amount found in a county analysis of its drinking water was below federal limits, but above the goal of zero in 2010.
“You wearing a watch that glows? That’s like thousands of times stronger than the level in drinking water,” Powell said.
But no one in the commission meetings mentioned radium. Why the worry about fluoride but not about other substances?
Bill Thomas of Palm Harbor said he wasn’t aware of radium or other substances in the water, but test results didn’t worry him.
The biggest factor to him is that adding fluoride goes beyond government’s role of providing clean, safe water.
“Nobody hired our county commissioners to add any chemical or agent to the water after it is as clean as humanly possible,” said Thomas, who was among tea party activists and fluoride opponents pressing for the change.
“I’d love for the government to do what it’s supposed to do and quit trying to help us,” Thomas said. “If diabetes gets bad, are they going to start throwing diabetes medicine in the water?”
Fluoride turns up naturally in water, but Pinellas adds fluorosilicic acid produced from phosphate mining. Critics seized on it as “industrial waste,” but Powell and environmental agencies say the heavily diluted level poses no risk under environmental rules.
Fluoride aside, federal standards overall are not protecting public health enough, said Linda Young, director of the Clean Water Network of Florida. Many people don’t pay close enough attention to the risks in the state, including its penchant for taking inexpensive, lesser routes to treating drinking water, Young said.
While there are good arguments pro and con, Young said she avoids fluoridated water because of concerns about the risks outweighed worries about cavities to her. She uses filters to rid her taps of chlorine, too.
“Just because water is coming out your tap doesn’t mean it’s clean and safe,” she said.
Federal law requires the county and other utilities to disinfect water for bacteria and to test for 91 contaminants — tests that measure for a lifetime’s effects, said Dale Froneberger, an environmental scientist at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But adding fluoride to what health agencies deem optimal levels is optional.
That helps make it much more of a “hot button issue” than other substances that turn up in water supplies, said Alan Roberson, who works on EPA regulations as federal relations director for the American Water Works Association. Most utilities have 10 to 20 contaminants in their water, he said.
Pinellas has no drinking water violations within the past five years, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
“The bottom line is they’re meeting all the Safe Drinking Water Act requirements, and in many cases they’re exceeding them (for the good),” said Jeff Greenwell, regional water facilities program director for the DEP.
Besides what turns up in small quantities in water, Pinellas adds disinfectants — chlorine, for example — to clean the water. A liquid disinfectant, sodium hypochlorite, produces vomiting and tissue damage if too much is ingested.
Copper and lead are found in tap water, but again, in levels below what regulators deem a health hazard.
In fact, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say copper is essential in small quantities for something else: good health.
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Final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$: Final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Final consumption expenditure (formerly total consumption) is the sum of household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) and general government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption). Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars.
Final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita: Final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Final consumption expenditure (formerly total consumption) is the sum of household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) and general government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption). Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Final consumption expenditure > Current US$: Final consumption expenditure (current US$). Final consumption expenditure (formerly total consumption) is the sum of household final consumption expenditure (private consumption) and general government final consumption expenditure (general government consumption). Data are in current U.S. dollars.
General government final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita: General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Agriculture value added per worker is a measure of agricultural productivity. Value added in agriculture measures the output of the agricultural sector (ISIC divisions 1-5) less the value of intermediate inputs. Agriculture comprises value added from forestry, hunting, and fishing as well as cultivation of crops and livestock production. Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
General government final consumption expenditure > Constant LCU per capita: General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU). General government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption) includes all government current expenditures for purchases of goods and services (including compensation of employees). It also includes most expenditures on national defense and security, but excludes government military expenditures that are part of government capital formation. Data are in constant local currency. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Gross national expenditure > Constant 2000 US$: Gross national expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Gross national expenditure (formerly domestic absorption) is the sum of household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption), general government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption), and gross capital formation (formerly gross domestic investment). Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars.
Gross national expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita: Gross national expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Gross national expenditure (formerly domestic absorption) is the sum of household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption), general government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption), and gross capital formation (formerly gross domestic investment). Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Gross national expenditure > Current US$, % of GDP: Gross national expenditure (current US$). Gross national expenditure (formerly domestic absorption) is the sum of household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption), general government final consumption expenditure (formerly general government consumption), and gross capital formation (formerly gross domestic investment). Data are in current U.S. dollars. Figures expressed as a proportion of GDP for the same year
Household final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$: Household final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars.
Household final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita: Household final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$). Household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Household final consumption expenditure > Current US$ per capita: Household final consumption expenditure (current US$). Household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Household final consumption expenditure per capita > Constant 2000 US$: Household final consumption expenditure per capita (constant 2000 US$). Household final consumption expenditure per capita (private consumption per capita) is calculated using private consumption in constant 2005 prices and World Bank population estimates. Household final consumption expenditure is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars.
Household final consumption expenditure, PPP > Current international $ per capita: Household final consumption expenditure, PPP (current international $). Household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. Data are converted to current international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
Household final consumption expenditure, etc. > Current US$: Household final consumption expenditure, etc. (current US$). Household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. This item also includes any statistical discrepancy in the use of resources relative to the supply of resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Household final consumption expenditure, etc. > Current US$ per capita: Household final consumption expenditure, etc. (current US$). Household final consumption expenditure (formerly private consumption) is the market value of all goods and services, including durable products (such as cars, washing machines, and home computers), purchased by households. It excludes purchases of dwellings but includes imputed rent for owner-occupied dwellings. It also includes payments and fees to governments to obtain permits and licenses. Here, household consumption expenditure includes the expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households, even when reported separately by the country. This item also includes any statistical discrepancy in the use of resources relative to the supply of resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.
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Final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ $69.57 billion 2012 50th out of 99
Final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita $449.69 2012 90th out of 99
Final consumption expenditure > Current US$ $93.94 billion 2012 52nd out of 122
General government final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita $32.77 2012 99th out of 103
General government final consumption expenditure > Constant LCU per capita 1,434.43 2012 82nd out of 105
Gross national expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ $96.34 billion 2012 50th out of 110
Gross national expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita $622.77 2012 99th out of 110
Gross national expenditure > Current US$, % of GDP 109.65% 2012 59th out of 138
Household final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ $64.48 billion 2012 49th out of 102
Household final consumption expenditure > Constant 2000 US$ per capita $416.80 2012 93th out of 102
Household final consumption expenditure > Current US$ per capita $565.26 2012 114th out of 125
Household final consumption expenditure per capita > Constant 2000 US$ $416.80 2012 93th out of 102
Household final consumption expenditure, PPP > Current international $ per capita $1,209.64 2012 107th out of 119
Household final consumption expenditure, etc. > Current US$ $89.39 billion 2012 52nd out of 128
Household final consumption expenditure, etc. > Current US$ per capita $577.82 2012 117th out of 128
SOURCES: World Bank national accounts data; World Bank national accounts data. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Bank national accounts data. GDP figures sourced from World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.; World Bank, International Comparison Program database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.
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Weeks In
Title / Artist
1 1 6 F**k It (Don't Want You Back)
Eamon
2 2 9 Superstar
3 3 7 Toxic
4 4 11 Dreaming
5 6 8 Glow
6 10 10 The Way You Move
7 7 14 Suga Suga
Baby Bash
8 - 3 Hey Mamma
9 5 3 All I Need Is You
Guy Sebastian
10 11 13 My Immortal
11 33 3 Not Me, Not I
12 8 4 Back In The Mud
Bubba Sparxxx
13 25 3 Stand Up
14 12 14 Behind Blue Eyes
15 17 19 Hey Ya!
16 9 14 Angels Brought Me Here
17 14 11 Perfect
18 NEW! 1 Slow Jamz
19 18 22 Here Without You
20 13 9 Milkshake
21 16 17 A Life With You
Adeaze
22 21 11 Life For Rent
23 24 4 Fell In Love With A Boy
24 15 18 Shut Up
25 20 16 The First Cut Is The Deepest
26 48 2 Walked Outta Heaven
27 34 2 Red Blooded Woman
28 23 17 Lifeline
Brooke Fraser
29 22 6 What About Me
Shannon Noll
30 36 3 I Miss You
31 28 9 Don't Worry Baby
32 46 2 Amazing
33 19 11 Holidae In
Chingy feat. Ludacris & Snoop Dogg
34 27 4 If I Can't
35 38 7 Me, Myself And I
36 39 3 Sunrise
37 26 11 The Voice Within
38 43 2 She's So High
Kurt Nilsen
39 50 9 Megalomaniac
40 37 4 When I Look To The Sky
This is the Official New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart. The chart is compiled based on a 75:25 split between physical / digital singles sales figures and radio play information gathered by radio data collection agency Radioscope. The chart is supplied by RIANZ. For more information please see the RIANZ website.
Full List Of Charts: Official New Zealand Top 40 Singles
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Home » 25 years of Wiscombe 5-Clubs
25 years of Wiscombe 5-Clubs
The first event took place on 8th May 1976.
It came about as the result of an invitation from ASWMC’s then Championship Secretary, Frank McKenna, to Charles Lambton to come to ASWMC’s AGM on 12th October 1975. Charles, with his great friend Richard Chichester the owner of Wiscombe Park, had been responsible for the introduction of hillclimbing there in 1950.
Charles Lambton explained that the future of the venue was uncertain as, of the various clubs who had run events there over the years, only AMOC and MGCC were committed for 1976. Unless other clubs came forward to take up the additional two or three weekends on offer, it was likely the venue would close. Just two events per year could not generate sufficient income to cover the costs of preparation and upkeep to the necessary standard.
By the time the AGM had closed there were two proposals on the table, both from consortia of clubs. One was from a group originally comprising Bristol, Plymouth & Taunton. The other from what was then the Bournemouth Sub Centre of ASWMC.
Chris Bigwood and yours truly were the permanent Bristol delegates to ASWMC at the time and we seized the opportunity of a possible return to hillclimbing, which we had been out of since the demise of Dyrham Park some years previously, so we put the Bristol name forward. Neither Plymouth nor ourselves however were in a position to ‘go it alone’, because of the distances involved between the venue and our respective areas of operation. Taunton were close enough, but had irons in other fires at the time, principally Cricket St Thomas. A consortium therefore looked the most viable proposition.
We stayed behind after the meeting to discuss the idea further and were joined by delegates from Burnham and Haldon. Within another half an hour we had agreed to endeavour to set up a consortium of five clubs to run in 1976.
Meanwhile, in the other grouping, Woolbridge were very keen, but the anticipated support from other clubs in the Bournemouth Sub Centre failed to materialise and so Woolbridge elected, bravely, to go it alone and have never looked back. Neither have the Five Clubs for that matter.
Before leaving Ilminster we all agreed to lobby our respective clubs to back the idea, and set a date for a proper meeting the following month. That meeting duly took place and responsibility for the various aspects of the organisation was divided up between the five.
Association of Classic Trials Clubs
Association of SW Motor Clubs – Fixtures
British Trials & Rally Drivers Club
British Motor Sprint Association
Bristol Pegasus Motor Club
Classical Gas
Cotswold Motor Sports Group
Five-Clubs Hillclimb
Hillclimb & Sprint Association
Merlin Motorsport
Volunteers in Motorsport
Wiscombe Park Hillclimb
Arthur Mallock 1918-1993
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Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia (#3)
Recap - Mets 7, Phillies 4
Game 3 of the journey was actually a Mother’s day gift to my friend Diane from her son Luke. Luke’s ‘gift’ was to have me buy tickets for us all to see the game!
It was actually a picture perfect Sunday afternoon for baseball and I was happy to buy the tickets and take the 2 hour drive down the NJ turnpike into the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ to see the Phils take on my beloved Mets. For the game, we all donned our Met gear. Given the ‘unpredictable’ nature of Phillies fans, that was a risky thing to do. But this was a Sunday afternoon Mother’s day crowd, so there were no issues. If it were a Saturday night game however, who knows?
Opened in 2004, Citizens Bank Park (CBP) is located right off I-95 and the AC expressway in part of a sports complex that includes the Eagles home stadium , Lincoln Financial Field and Wachovia Center, home of the 76ers and Flyers. It's all a pretty far hike from downtown Philly surrounded by a sea of concrete and asphalt. The trend of downtown ballparks (Progressive, Comerica, Camden Yards, etc.) has been met with great fan acceptance and neighborhood revitalization, so the fact that they build CBP where they did was a bit surprising and disappointing for many fans.
The park is aesthetically pleasing in and out. There are many statues of former great players outside the park including Mike Schmidt , Steve Carlton and Robin Roberts by the main gates.The flow of fan traffic into the stadium was really easy and the presence of stadium attendants inside the concourse was great. It was nice to see that there were plenty of others wearing Mets colors at the park.
The CBP bullpens are stacked on each other (similar to Baltimore’s Camden Yards). The visitors pen borders along the concourse allowing close interaction with the (not always so friendly or censored) Philly fans.
A feature that I really love in the park is the 40 foot neon Liberty Bell in right field above Ashburn Alley that lights up , ‘swings’ back and forth and rings (pretty loudly) every time a Phillies player hits one out.
The most popular and notable feature of the park is Ashburn Alley, a 600+ foot run from beyond right field to left-center field with an impressive assortment of attractions and eateries. The alley, named after one of the great figures in Phillies history, former great player and broadcaster Richie Ashburn is typically packed with enthused and imbibed fans before and after games. A statue of Ashburn can be found in the alley. Granite markers featuring Phillies All-Stars since the first All-Star Game in 1933 are on display along the alley.
One of the more popular eateries is Bull’s BBQ, named after and often manned by former Phillies slugger Greg “The Bull” Luzinski. While this is a nice addition to the park, it is pretty much a clean rip-off of Boog Powell’s BBQ at Camden Yards. Two other Philadelphia staples have food stands in the alley - Tony Luke’s, home of those legendary roast-pork sandwiches and Geno’s Cheesesteaks. One of the most popular sandwiches in the park is The Schmitter (which you can get at Harry the K’s. Harry the K’s, named after legendary Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas, is a two-tier, full service sit down restaurant where you can enjoy your meal while watching the game. The wait to get a table is typically over an hour for most games though. McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon is accessible from outside the park and is open year round (including well after the end of the game) and usually attracts a good crowd. One of my favorite treats at CBP is Turkey Hill Graham Slam Ice Cream.
The Phils jumped out to a 2-1 lead but the Mets scored 2 runs in the 5th, 6th and 8th including a Curtis Granderson 2 run shot which was more than enough to get the 40 year old Bartolo Colon his league leading 6th win of the season.
There are so many fun things to do in Philly - Museum Row, The Rocky Steps, Reading Terminal, South Street, the Historic District, The Zoo, etc. - but this was just a day trip for us. We wanted to beat the crowd out the gate and head back up I-76 East over the Ben Franklin Bridge to NJ before it got too crowded.
My first road trip of the year is coming up at the end of the month and I'm really looking forward to it.
Fans - B - Philly fans are not known for their warmth and hospitality (The Eagle fans actually booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs in a game in 1968) but they were actually behaving better than usual. Maybe because of the Sunday matinee and Mother’s Day
Features - B+ - Ashburn Alley, The ‘Liberty Bell’, The Statues, A great team store and of course, The Phanatic
Location – C - Close proximity to town, but not close enough! Skyline is only visible from the upper deck. Stadium, is surrounded by a sea of concrete and asphalt.
Food – B+ - Tony Luke's, Harry The K’s, The Schmiddter and Turkey Hill Graham Slam!
Game - B - Gorgeous weather. The teams all decked out in pink trim for Mother's Day. The ageless Bartolo Colon wins his league leading 6th game for my beloved Mets
Overall Experience – B
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Those Who Sidelined Our Commonwealth Shouldn’t Talk Of Restructuring – Falana
Faderera Falade
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says those who have shown lack of interest in the country’s commonwealth should not be allowed to talk of restructuring.
This he said today when he delivered a paper at the Mike Okonkwo annual lecture in Lagos.
According to the lawyer, restructuring would not guarantee unity or political stability without the “democratisation of powers.”
He said former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who is a leading advocate of restructuring has not addressed the issue of wealth redistribution.
“The country has always been restructured by the ruling class and that the current structure was imposed by the fiat of military dictators. No doubt, the country is ripe for restructuring or power devolution but it cannot guarantee unity and political stability without the democratisation of powers and equitable redistribution of the commonwealth along egalitarian lines,” Falana said.
“Restructuring without the equitable redistribution of the commonwealth will not promote unity or political stability.
“A leading PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has become one of the leading proponents of restructuring. But his support for restructuring has not addressed the crucial issue of the redistribution of the national wealth.
“After all, in his capacity as the nation’s vice-president and chairman of the National Council on Privatisation, alhaji Abubakar presided over the restructuring of the nation’s economy through the liquidation of public assets and the privatization of the commanding height of the economy.
“The nation cannot be seriously restructured without equitable redistribution of wealth. Therefore, those who have cornered our commonwealth should not be allowed to talk of restructuring in vacuo. In other words, the campaign for restructuring should encompass the decentralization and democratization of political and economic powers which have been privatised by all factions of the ruling class.”
He said Nigerians must demand an end to a policy that allows political office holders and civil servants who constitute less than one percent of the population to continue to allocate 70 percent of the country’s resources to themselves.
“If the federal government could withdraw $12.4 billion from the foreign reserves to pay questionable external debts and subsidize the local bourgeoisie with intervention funds running to trillions of naira it cannot turn round to complain of lack of fund to fix collapsed social infrastructures, education, health transportation and agriculture and create jobs for our army of unemployed youths,” Falana said.
“The recovery of the stolen wealth of the nation from foreign and local thieves should be a collective battle while the fund recovered from corrupt public officers and their privies is spent on job creation and fixing of hospitals and schools as well as the provision of other social services.
“Out of despondency and disenchantment with the political system some groups of young men and women have demanded for the balkanization of the country. However, the majority of members of the ruling class have insisted on restructuring as a basis for the corporate existence of the country. Religious groups have recommended prayers as the panacea to the myriad of problems plaguing the nation.”
Related Topics:Atiku AbubakarFemi Falana
Why Amotekun Operatives Are Killing Innocent Nigerians – Falana
Obiozor: Igbo Is Now Ready To Play Frontline Role In Nigeria – Atiku
Why Buhari Must Resign – Femi Falana’s Wife
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Of Allies - Night Sky | Album Review
UK rockers Of Allies have released their stunning debut LP, Night Sky. This 4-piece have already been gaining attention from the likes of Kerrang! as well as BBC Introducing. The quartet have also notched up some impressive live bookings under their belt - such as playing alongside Tesseract and a performance at the Humber Street Sesh Festival. Add to this the fact that this record was entirely crowd funded (and hit its target with a few months to spare) and we're looking at a band here who demand the attention they're getting
With varied influences and sounds already being compared to Twin Atlantic, Breaking Benjamin, and Deftones, Of Allies are clearly a band that will appeal to all. Title track, ‘Night Sky’ introduces the album with stunning vocals and ambient guitars; it gives the impression that you’ve heard this somewhere before. With the use of harsh rock, and contrasting quiet that creates atmosphere, it’s a nod to bands such as Biffy Clyro, yet it still stands out with a defined style and honest lyrics.
Rich Nichols’ characteristic vocals can be clearly heard in ‘Run’, one of the more reserved tracks on the LP. The soft guitars by Tom Hewson and modest drums really take this track into a league of its own; it stands out against the heavier songs on the album.
Night Sky is a beautiful creation punctuated by ambience that can be heard in interludes ‘Apparition’, ‘Drifting’, and ‘Solace’. Each song flows perfectly into the next, highlighting varying influences and experiments with sound.
‘CMD-Q’ is one of these songs, despite being only two minutes in length, it packs a punch, with crunchy guitars and forceful drums. It’s dynamic, and shows the song-writing ability of the four. Following this track is ‘Glass House’, with poignant lyrics and a big chorus that is sure to have crowds singing along.
Despite being such a young band, Of Allies have released a stunning album; not only in its excellent production levels, but in its almost obnoxious clarity that a lot of time and effort has gone into making sure each song is as close to perfect as possible. Fans of Twin Atlantic, Framing Hanley, and Arcane Roots will feel at home here - and it's pretty much a certainty that this band have a sizeable future ahead of them.
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North Pacific Skies
People and Machines
PV-1s in the USSR
Quotes are from Otis Hays' and Ralph Wetterhahn's books
3/25/44 34641/33V, Lt. Walt Whitman, crashed on Mutnovsky Volcano, USSR in an attempt to divert to Petropavlovsk after being attacked by Japanese fighters over Shimushu. Reconstruction of the events of that mission was vividly written by Ralph Wetterhahn in his book "The Last flight of Bomber 31".
Crew: Lt (jg) John W. Hanlon, Donald G. Lewallen, AM2c, Clarence C. Fridley, AMM2c, Samuel L. Crown, ARM3c, James S. Palko, AOM3c, Jack J. Parlier, AerM2c
25 March 1944. PV-1 BuNo 34641, piloted by Lt. Walt S. Whitman of VB-139, with crew of seven, sustained engine damage from the enemy fire over Shimushu. The pilot attempted diversion to Petropavlovsk, but crash-landed on the slope of Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka. The crash site was first discovered by Russian geologists in 1962. Back then the KGB vetoed any information about the aircraft, and even attempted to disperse the wrecks to, perhaps, make it less visible from the space. Only in 2000, the initial evaluation was performed by the U.S. team of experts. Ralph Wetterhahn, former military pilot and aircraft crash investigator was part of that team. He wrote a great book, that sparked my initial interest to the aerial war in the north pacific region. Unique pictures from the crash site were kindly provided by Mr. Wetterhahn.
Curiously enough, after familiarization with original Squadron documents I learned that Whitman's Ventura had Squadron Code 33V, not the 31! Please refer to the comments to the photos in the gallery below, and resolve this puzzle for yourself.
VB/VPB-135
6/15/44 48910/9V(R), Lt Russel P. Bone reached the target (Miyoshino airfield in central Shimushu) before the other planes. Was seen by Lt. Vivian flying low south across Paramushiro Strait under intensive AA fire, making erratic maneuvers, and "was obviously in difficulty". Last seen turning toward Kataoka naval base.
OH: "Separated from the other bombers in his flight, Russel Bone's aircraft lost an engine to gunfire during the strike, and was forced to make a decision. As a result, he and his crew became the first navy airmen to crash-land in "neutral country" and to be interned by the Soviet Union."
Crew: Ens Ralph W. Stevens, Ens Glenn W. Mantle, Laurence E. Sommers, AMM1c, Sam Gelber, ARM2c, Frank L. Crow, Jr., AMM3c, John P. Horvath, AOM3c
6/15/44 48930/11V, Lt. Howard B. Schuette: went under heavy AA fire during the bomb run over Miyoshino airfield.
Byron Morgan: " We made a high speed bombing run... over the airfield at Shimushu. The fighters picked us up after we left the target.... One fighter chased and fired at us for 150 miles before turning back." OH: "None of the crew had been scratched during the fight. One of the main fuel tanks, however, had been punctured, and Schuette knew it was impossible to reach Attu on the remaining gasoline." Schuette landed in Petropavlovsk smoothly, escorted by I-16.
RW: "Near Schuette's plane, a group of Soviets was having a raucous chuckle over the tail art painted on the side of fuselage aft of the door." A cartoon of fat Japanese general in elegant attire, getting a report from a battered Japanese pilot whose bullet-riddled plane was resting beside a palm tree ..."broke the ice with the Soviets. Soon Soviet navy and air force officers came over and began animated exchanges, bridging the language barrier with laughter and pantomimes."
Crew: Lt (jg) John E. Brassil, Ens Byron A. Morgan, Willie A. Donaway, AMM1c, John F. Beggin, AMM2c, Walter H. Morris, AOM2c, John E. Jage, ARM3c
6/19/44 48938/12V, George A. Mahrt: accidentally siphoned about 500 gallons of fuel overboard during the mission to Paramushiro. Urgent message stated: "Out of gas, Russia".
RW: "Still in the dark as he crossed into Soviet territory, Mahrt found the area fogbound. He orbited above the clouds until dawn, when he spotted a hole in the weather. Mahrt slid the bomber through the gap in the clouds, then saw rising terrain ahead. Too late to react, the Ventura plowed through a stand of trees. One wing slammed into solid lumber. The nose was ripped off forward off the cockpit as the plane plowed through the forest. Fortunately, the crew escaped without serious injury and there was no fire".
The plane landed on the beach by Anglichanka Bay near Petropavlovsk.
Crew: Ens Richard M. Johnson, Ens William A. King, Clifford C. Patzke, ARM3c, William E. Dickson, AMM2c, Richard T. Everad, AOM2c, William D. Storm, AMM2c
An article about Mahrt's and other crew experiences was published in the Naval History magazine in February 2017.
7/22/44 48928/7V: After the bomb run on Shimushu, Lt. (jg) Jackson W. “Little” Clark was attacked and chased by four Japanese fighters. RW: "For a hundred miles the fighters poured fire into the PV-1 before turning away. The starboard engine was steadily losing oil, and remaining fuel was too low to recover in the Aleutians."They turned northwest, and landed in Petropavlovsk without difficulty.
Crew: Ens John F. Mathers, Ens Berwyn J. Miller, Hoyle A. Simes, AMM1c, John Brennan, ARM2c (Milwaukee, WI), Herbert C. Rowe.
Apparently, the Soviets repaired the Ventura, and continued using it for over a year. 11 October 1945 аt 16:58 it took off from (now Soviet) Kataoka airfield with the crew of six and four passengers on board, including a wife of one of the officers. After the take-off, the plane started a steep climb, then stalled, rolled over the left wing, and fell from the altitude of 40-50 meters. The plane burned, everybody on board died. The cause of the crash was the aircraft overload. Besides the four passengers, the plane carried 1 ton of ammunition and 400 army blankets. The scheme of the crash was found in the Central Archive in Moscow in 2016. In the summer of 2017, a search group from Paramushiro explored the site and installed the memorial sign.
The inscription says: At this site on October 11, 1945, a B-34 (Ventura)- type plane No 48923 crashed. The plane belonged to the 2nd Squadron of the 903rd Long Range Bombing Regiment, 83rd Aviation Division, 18th Aviation Corps, 10th Air Army.
Pilot Captain Arseniy Kopylets, born 1915 (according to the archival note, he was a CO of the 2nd Squadron)
Co-pilot Sub Lt (Ensign) Belousov
Navigator Sr Lt Selivanov
Flight Engineer Lt Stepan Rikichinsky, born 1918
Radioman/Gunner Sr Sgt Sirimov
Mechanic Starshina (Corp) Himochka
Army Medic Sr Lt Ponomarev
Pvt Kudryavcev
Pvt Osipov
Citizen Trofimova (an officer’s wife)
Apparently, there is a mistake with the BuNo in the archival note, from where it migrated to the sign (they put 48923 instead of 48928). The 48923 (6V) piloted by the same Lt (jg) J.W. Clark, water-landed near Agattu 11 June 1944, on return from the Kurile mission, after all fuel was exhausted. He was unable to land in Attu and Shemya because of the fog. "Pat" Patteson was part of the same mission, and landed in Shemya just on time!
Pat: "I can add a side note to the crash of 48928. It was caused by a combination of overload and weight and balance. These factors were very critical for the Ventura and became worse with the increased gross weight. On the takeoff roll our crews in the cabin were instructed to take their position in the navigators compartment. They looked like a sports huddle. We were nearly 3000 lbs over gross and the CG had to be kept inches from the wing's spar distance.
I can also add some background to Lt.(jg) J. W. Clark as we were both from Texas and knew each other before the hostilities. We first met when we both took our Navy physical exams the same time at Dallas. We received the same training and graduated from flight school in the same class. Ultimately we tracked each others flying experiences with squadron VPB-135 until he made the emergency landing at Petro. I lost track of him after the war when he and the other internees were brought back after VJ- day. I recall Jack was offered a cushy desk job at the Pentagon when he returned to the USA and I heard he stayed in the reserves for some time--but I never have picked up his trail since then. Like many of us we became occupied with trying to get back into the mainstream of life, work, and where we left off before the war."
7/23/44 48909/2V(R), Lt. John P. Vivian attacked and sunk Jap picket boat, but suffered right engine damage. " I nursed the engine along as we set course for home", he recalled, "but it just wasn't going to run".
RW: "As Vivian crossed the beach near Petropavlovsk, coastal batteries opened up. By now the Soviet antiaircraft gunners on Kamchatka had been ordered to fire behind American aircraft to ward off any Japanese fighters that might be following. Vivian looked aft: "The bursts were behind us but correct on altitude". Vivian's landing went badly. He overshot the concrete runway and came to a stop in the sod overrun. He glanced across the field and spotted three disabled Venturas lined up and weathering in open".
Crew: Ens David R. Wilson, Ens Thomas H. Edwards, Kenneth G. Anderson, AMM2c, Emil I. Nommenison, Jr., AOM2c, Paul J. Schasney, AMM2c, F. A. Vibrant, ARM2c
9/11/44 33278/11V(R) Lt (jg) Darryl F. McDonald attacked a beached ship suspected of bing an observation point and radar station. OH: "Following the attack, McDonald climbed through a thin cloud layer and found five Japanese fighters waiting to pounce. McDonald tried to outrun them until enemy bullets sprayed the bomber and found the right engine. Barely remaining aloft on the one remaining engine and pursued by persistent fighters, McDonald's bomber approached Petropavlovsk. After the Japanese fighters finally ended their chase, McDonald managed to fly his mangled airplane to the landing field through a ring of Soviet antiaircraft fire. When he touched down, the bomber's right landing gear collapsed and the bomber ground- looped. John Rosa (plane captain) injured his shoulder but not seriously."
Crew: Ens Kenneth G. Miles, Ens Donnie L. Broadwell, John W. Rosa, AMM1c, Jack G. Ross, AOM3c, W.F. Nicodemus, ARM2c
8/12/44 49525/81V Three PV-1s experienced difficulties with navigation due to unsatisfactory Loran reception and unexpected wind. They made a landfall about 150 miles south of the target. The bombers eventually returned to the target area (Matsuwa Island) but, faced with the prospect of a fuel shortage, jettisoned their bombs and set a returned course for Attu.
Lt. Carl W. Lindell encountered enemy antiaircraft fire and was attacked by two fighters. OH: "According to Russell Manthie (Lindell's gunner), " The bomber received several hits, and the starboard engine was running rough." The propeller was feathered. Radioman C. J. ("Pat") Brown recalled that the crew had been briefed on what to do if a crash landing on Kamchatka became necessary. On Lindell's order, he radioed a terse message to Attu: " Starboard engine trouble, 500 gallons of gas, proceeding to Petro." Using his emergency checklist, Brown then switched to the Petropavlovsk tower frequency and notified the Soviets by a prearranged code-Wave signal, "American bomber forced down".
"As we approached Soviet air space, antiaircraft fire erupted, and several Soviet fighters aimed shots in our direction," Brown said. "The pilots then warned us by rocking their fighter' wings. Those actions were orders, we thought, that we should land. Fearing that the Soviets had not heard our first transmission, I got on the radio and repeated the message to Petropavlovsk tower."
Lindell: "We had been briefed to lower our landing gear and circle the Petropavlovsk airfield three times. I tried to comply, but the antiaircraft fire boxed us in, and I landed as fast as possible." The bomber touched down and went off the end of the field and into the trees. After the aircraft came to rest and the crew spilled out, some of the men could see several other damaged navy bombers parked at the edge of the field.
Ens James S. Head, Ens Murlin K. Richardson, Henry H. Williamson, AMM1c, Cyril J. Brown, ARM3c, Russel L. Manthie, AOM3c.
It is known that the Soviets repaired some of crash-landed PV-1s, and used them with the 128th SAD (Смешанная Авиационная Дивизия, Composite Air Division) under designation "B-34". One of the planes became the favorite mount of the Division CO Lt. Colonel M. A. Yeremin. Note the top turret and frontal MG fairings are "patched"- perhaps, this aircraft remained in service for some time after the war. Part of the 128 SAD was transferred to Kataoka airfield on Shimushu immediately upon the completion of the island's occupation in August 1945. The rest of the prop inventory of the 128th SAD (mostly Lend-Lease P-63s) was flown from Kamchatka to Shimushu later, with the arrival of MiG-15s. The graveyard of the planes in different stages of decaying is still there, perhaps, due to the logistical difficulties of the scrap metal removal.
8/19/44 49507/75V Lt. Jack R. Cowles: during the bomb run on Kakumabetsu airfield (Paramushirio) the bombs failed to release.
RW, Cowles: "On the second run we saw the prettiest line of ships lined right up in the harbor that you ever saw in your life. And it looked like easy pickings". A "perfect drop" was made in the midst of heavy AA fire. A cannon round exploded in right engine and another one plowed through the port wing. 25-mm exploded in the empty ventral gunner position, cockpit gunsight had been knocked out, the radio was hit, the navigator's sextant disintegrated, and gasoline was spurting onto fuselage floor. Cowles was able to climb to 2000 feet on one engine, but could not get any higher. Immediately he was attacked by three "Oscars" one of which was shot down from a damaged single-barrel top turret. Cowles crash-landed on Lopatka with both engines stalled. The crew escaped through the flames. Seconds later the plane was destroyed by explosion. They were met by the Soviet soldiers, who according to Cowles, treated them very well cosidering the Soviets "extreme poverty". After six days they were taken to Petropavlovsk.
Crew: Ens Leonard Panella, Jr., Ens Millard B. Parker, Harold R. Toney, ARM1c, John R. McDonald, AOM3c.
8/27/44 49508/82V Lt. (jg) John A. Dingle: made a bombing attack on picket boat 3 to 4 miles off Suribachi. Shortly thereafter was seen to be attacked by 3 Oscars. The message received at the base was "Attacking ship port fuel shot out fighting plane proceed Petro battle damage heavy." Last observed heading northward toward Kamchatka. Last msg "landing at 2300Z". RW: "On touchdown his brakes locked, and the Ventura went careening off the pavement. The crew exited the plane with cuts and bruises and were immediately interned".
"As late as late autumn 1947 NII VVS performed full State Acceptance Tests on this "B-34" (PV-1 "Ventura", Bu 49508, photo dated 27 October 1947)"- C.F. Geust, G.Petrov "Red Stars, vol.4), see the photos below.
Crew: Ens. Emil M. Petterborg, Ens. Eugene F. Dulan, Harvey H. Pollard AOM2c, Charles D. Henry AMM3c, Daniel Leintz ARM3c.
9/17/44 49472/73V Lt. Cmdr. C. Wayne (VB-136 Commanding Officer) went under fighter attack over Paramushiro. RW: "One engine was hit, and the plane suffered additional damage. During the escape, Wayne spent nearly an hour with the engines on full supercharger, and the damged engine failed just moments after the Japanese turned for home. Wayne reversed course for Kamchatka, but the aircraft started losing altitude and airspeed." OH: "Even surviving the shorter flight to Petropavlovsk seemed questionable until the estuary swamps near the town were sighted. Here Wayne crash-landed his bomber, fortunately without injury to the crew." With the loss of their commander, further daylight raids by VPB-136 were put on hold. (Of note: to the best of my knowlege, the wrecks were never found).
Crew: Lt. John W. Murph, Ens. John E. Ehret, Robert P. Baxter ACRM, Earl A. Mulford AOM2c.
2/20/45 49654/96V, Lt John W Powers- port engine damaged by debris from his own rockets over Minami Zaki, attempted to land PK, escorted by 3 other PVs. Lt Dawson in one of the escorting planes was probing the weather and could not break the fog at 200 feet. OH: "Powers turned back toward Cape Lopatka. Meanwhile, the fuel limitations of the three escorts forced them to abandon Powers and fly back toward their Attu base. Powers sighted the lighthouse at Cape Lopatka, but the terrain was not suitable for an attempted landing. His final message stated: "Bailing out over Lopatka." All six men landed safely in deep snow. The plane continued north on automatic pilot." (Of note: to the best of my knowlege, the wrecks were never found).
Any additional photos or suggestions are welcome!.
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Soviet War Diary
A page from the War Diary of 945 artillery battery (Cape Lopatka), dated 2/21/45. It reads: "The paradrop. After circling over Lopatka several times, the B-25 dropped six men with parachutes and flew away in the direction of Petropavlovsk."
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5V 5-19-44 Vivian
Top row, L-R: Ens. D.R. Wilson, Lt. J.P. Vivian, Ens. T.H. Edwards. Bottom row L-R: F. A. Virant, ARM2c, E. A. Nommenison, Jr., AMM3c, K. G. Anderson, AMM2c, P.J. Shsney, AMM2c.
This photo was taken less than a month before Lt. Vivian landed this Ventura in Yelizovo. Standing second from left is flight surgeon from Attu.
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6V 5-19-44 J.W. Clark
Lt. (jg) J. W. Clark and his crew in front of 6V, BuNo 48923. On a Kurile mission 6/12/44, Clark was unable to orient himself in the fog over the area for 45 min, jettisoned bombs and turned to the base. After exhausting all fuel, Lt. (jg) Clark had to ditch his plane north of Agattu because all bases were covered with the fog. Everybody was rescued by VP-400 Army boat.
48928 Kataoka Crash
The 48928 was put in service by the VVS. 11 October 1945 it crashed on the take-off from Kataoka airfield. The plane was destroyed, eight people on board perished. The sign was installed during the summer 2017.
Photo: Vladimir Isaev
7V 48928 5-19-44 Stahl
Cmdr. Stahl and crew in front of the Ventura 7V BuNo 48928, which crash-landed in Yelizovo 7/22/1944 piloted by Jackson W. Clark
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VPB-136, 81V, BuNo 49525
VB-136:75 Cowles wrecks
The photo was kindly provided by Alexey Baskov
The photo was kindly provided by Irina Viter
Cowles Props
The photo was kindly provided by Ralph Wetterhahn
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It is possible that the aircraft on the photo is a replacement of Wayne's one.
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By now this is the only known photo of identified PV-1 in Soviet service. Image is photocopied from the book "Red Stars" (vol. 4) by C.-F. Geust and G. Petrov. Authors could not be reached for additional information.
Red Stars
Page is photocopied from the book "Red Stars" (vol. 4) by C.-F. Geust and G. Petrov. Authors could not be reached for additional information.
Col. Ralph Wetterhahn's book cover
VB-139 officers
Tambs, Dexter, Birdsall, Daniel, Booksach, Jimmy Moore, Leo Meniwether, McKinney, Roy Hastings, Walt Whitman.
Photo courtesy of Thomas "Bob" McKelvey, VB-139
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After losing his mother at age five and surviving a brain tumor at age thirteen, junior Jeremiah Johnson shares what he says to be “the best his life has ever been.”
NE: What sets you apart from other kids at Northwest?
JJ: I had a brain tumor from ages 9 to 13, I can still feel it sometimes. I have a mini heart attack almost everyday because it feels like I have a nose bleed and I think the tumor is back.
NE: Do you remember anything from when you had cancer?
JJ: Um…I remember waking up in a lot of pain, and finding out my dad was coming to see me after I hadn’t seen him in a year and a half, and I started talking cause my mouth was sewn shut and my grandma comes over and slaps me across the face because my face had newly been sewn on, and she wanted me to stop talking so I could heal. I remember that one. I was on some hard core pain killers and it still hurt. I think there was a like a single tear.
NE: You said you can still feel the tumor sometimes, what do you mean?
JJ: Sometimes I lose vision in my right eye if I get too cold, and like I said it feels like sometimes I will get nosebleeds and I will think the tumor is back.
NE: So how much did you miss out on because of the tumor?
JJ: About 75 percent of the first semester of my junior year, I attended 44 days of my freshmen year, and only missed two days my sophomore year.
NE: Who do you live with?
JJ: My grandma. I got all my morals from her. When my mom was in the hospital she told my grandma “please take care of my son.” I have no blood relation to my grandma but she still took care of me. She always used to buy me clothes and send me food and stuff. She saved my life.
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The One v2.0
After the successful attempt on The One v1.0, the route was revisited and taken to the next level. We've given it more mileage, more hills which means more elevation. This is the story of The One v2.0.
Backed by @UKCycleChat and @DirtyWknd with the local expertise of @thechrisgregory a new version of this now infamous ride was put into place. Version 1.0 had 13 hills beginning and ending at the beautiful viewpoint of Newlands Corner. Following feedback, a new rollout point was researched as the a25 road leading up Newlands was deemed a bit too traffic heavy even though the lure of the cafe and free parking (which is due to change!) made it a sacrifice we had to make to make sure everyone had a safe start and end to their day. There are plenty of car parks dotted around the hills but knowing @AllezNutrition is usually pitched up at the top of Staple Lane nicely nestled in between 2 climbs, this was a good spot for the main rendezvous. With Clandon train station nearby, The Queens Head at the bottom of Staple Lane turned out to be a good neutral spot for us all to aim for. So out went Newlands Corner (x2) and promoted from the bleechers was Sheephouse Lane, Beech Avenue and Pitch Hill. The order of the climbs was also altered to prevent crossing back onto the same roads and a late change to the order meant Beech Avenue would be the climb after Whitedown which I thought was a thoughtful gesture from me to those who would find the gradient of Whitedown hard going and in need of some respite. There was to be 3 main refreshment stops; Box Hill National Trust Cafe, Allez Nutrition and Peaslake Village Store (although this kinda went out the window for some!!!). So if v1.0 was Batman Begins, this definitely turned out to be the epic The Dark Knight!
Saturday October 8th, alarm lets itself known at 6.30am (I am unfamiliar with this time as my work as a teacher lets me have at least another half hour!). The Autumn mornings are still hiding and the dawn light was struggling to make itself visible. Maybe its me but getting ready for a group ride turns me into an OCD type of cyclist, double checking every item. Riding on my Jack Jones (on my own, not an old school friend!), I'm out without checking the TV still isn't on! Its probably trying to prevent the embarrassment of turning up and realising you've forgotten your bike or something! So I made my way to meet Nick from UKCycleChat (who wasn't in best shape due to a cold/flu/ebola/the plague but still someone who makes a hill look like a speedbump!), our local backup guide Chris (he saved 2 children by sacrificing himself and his bike once! I'll let him tell you the story but just remember not all heroes wear capes!) and Richard (who could possibly own the brightest bike in South England, we've christened his bike with the appropriately named 'The Beacon', I'll let you work out why!). Now at WLC, we like to think of ways to make our routes a little special whether it be a view point, a bit of history thrown in at some point or in this case, a laminated hill breakdown for riders to tape onto their bars. We haven't taken ours off yet, we might keep it on their for a while and revel in the glory (did I just give away the ending?!).
Whilst rolling down Staple, I had thanked my experience as a cub scout back in my youthful days by being prepared as the lovely and warm neckie I was wearing supplied by le col kept my airways cosy (the thermal inner lining felt like having a water bottle around your neck!). It was a fresh morning and the descent down made me realise each downhill section would replicate the frozen food section at the supermarket so the neckie would stay on for the whole ride. We were aware there would be a bigger group this time round but a small nation of cyclists had turned out for this challenge! The group had a wide range of abilities and happy to report both genders were represented! It was a shame that a few of the 'originals' couldn't make it (looking at you Dr!) but the increase in intrigue and interest meant there would be new graduates this time round. After everyone was handed out their hill chart for the day, it was decided even though it was a large group (an unofficial count of 24 was made), the group would eventually fracture and people would find their own pace groups. A last minute to call to Ali (@RouteSurreyUK) who gave up a 'full' night of drinking to attend, letting us know he was just rolling down Staple to meet us. We would pick him up on the way out. There was a lovely selection of bikes on show which gave me bike porn envy especially as my Tarmac is starting to feel dated even though it does the job. Cycling can be a very expensive hobby and we are not blessed with the funds of others (each to their own, we all work hard and deserve what we get) so I do appreciate how far the red steed has got me. I've achieved so much during my time with 'her' but I'm getting that rash again (no, not that one you dirty minded people!), the rash that comes with the itch for an upgrade.
So GoPro rolling, the constant sound of clicks from the 24 pairs of cleats accompanied us as we hunted down our first ascent of the day (albeit it being a 50m ride to the bottom of the hill!). I tried to meet and greet as many as I could:
Steven with the BMC rocket and a fan of tequila (he mentioned his prep' for the Legs of Steel the week before!)
Patrick the avid hill lover and his excellent sock game
Papiya one of the originals and known as 'Polly Pocket'
David creator of Dirty Wknd and a lover of cycling caps
Howard also from UKCycleChat with all the matching gear too!
Jamie with the gillet and Giro shorts, a past contributor to the site
Nick creator and designer of Blackmore apparel with the cute duck logo
(And to everyone else, I sincerely apologise that I can not remember your names but as this blog will show, not totally my fault! But your support and attendance on the day was very appreciated and I hope you had as much fun despite all the climbing as I did!).
Fate had it that day that I wouldn't see the majority of them again during this ride (have I given away the ending again?!) so I tried to get in as much small talk as I could. For Staple Lane (no.1), I joined up with Sam who I only started to get in contact with via Instagram a couple weeks prior and he seemed keen for a ride. With a small but athletic frame, you could see he was built for speed. His climbing technique mirrored the sprinting position of a certain Mark Cavendish and having his FTP thresholds taped on his top tube, I had to make sure I didn't get into a race with this guy! And how weird that we converse on Insta' but he lives literally a few streets down from me?! As the bunch strolled up Staple (with fresh legs, it's nothing!) an unsurprisingly late Ali flew down. As I'm such a good friend to him (the start of a very long guilt trip, be warned Ali, this is a long haul flight and you havn't even got an economy seat, you're in with the luggage and the livestock my friend!), I decided to pull out of the group and slow up for him knowing it would be at least a 5 minute wait for Ali to claw his way back up. The rest of the group sailed on towards Crocknorth (no.2) and Box Hill (no.3) for refreshment stop number one but as I empathise and wouldn't want to leave my friends on their own (this guilt trip hasn't even taken off yet mate!), I thought of Ali and him being alone and not knowing anyone when we eventually rejoin the group.
Crocknorth was again nothing much even with its 20% section. The descent down Ranmore was a bit wet made my the morning dew so the brakes were applied for a few times, no point even risking coming off here so early into the ride! Whilst climbing Box, we came across a woman who was stuck in a big gear. It seemed there was something wrong with her electronic shifters so she looked like she was struggling although after we gave her the encouragement and advice of pulling into Destination Bike who are a store as well as a cafe, she zoomed off and left myself and Ali to it. That was good deed number two after my patient rendezvous with Ali! As we rolled into the cafe, the group had probably enough time to finish up a full English and were keen to get going. So I munched down a flapjack that Ali had kindly provided and was introduced to a new addition to the bunch. Allyson, Sam's club companion, had joined us and I had hoped Sam gave her the lowdown and made her aware this was no flat ride but it turned out that Allyson was a better climber than most!
With the group back together, a fast descent down Box was followed by a roll under the a24 via the underpass and Ranmore Common Rd aka Westhumble (no.4) was next on the agenda. I decided to hold back and join the backmarkers (anyone who wanted to cruise up rather than TT their way up the climbs!). At this point I thought myself and Sam were the last ones but after climbing out of the hill's notorious hairpin, we accidentally rode past Jeimy, our international rider for the day thanks to her Columbian background, who had found herself following a different group all together up the hill! Another but more drier descent down Ranmore again to Dorking, round its one way system and into Coldharbour Lane (no.5) brought us into 'Octopus' territory (no not the aqua based animal, the infamous cycling challenge found in these parts!). From v1.0, I knew the importance of pacing so again let others go up further if they wanted to so I partnered 'Polly' up the climb. Again, I found this hill very doable when often it can be a grind to get up. I was impressed with my own breathing, never felt out of breath or even pushing the heart rate up so this filled me with confidence for the rest of the route. Last time I descended Broomehall it was in version 1.0 and we were in small group which meant being on the brakes so not to smash into someone's back wheel. This time round, all of the riders were further up the road so this descent was just Papiyas and mine to play with. Starting off as a snakey and technical descent turns out to be a fast open plain scramble with a fantastic view into the southern parts of Surrey and beyond. When the fields open up, its quite easy to hit 40mph if you're confident enough although the odd bump here and there might give you a fright.
It was after this fun section that Papiya had realised we were a rider down. Jeimy our Columbian rider (she was to be known as Mrs Quintana!) was not with the group. As we were the last of the bunch which was now split all over the place because of the different pace settings, we realised we had somehow misplaced her after Box. So after we grinded our way up Leith Hill Road (no.6) the Ride100 way, a quick phone call to David was made which thankfully resulted in knowing Jeimy was safe but a hill behind. Another bit of bad news drifted our way as Papiya's knee was playing up which was a massive shame as her effort on the hills was inspiring. Her light frame and effortless spinning style was a great combination for a climber but unfortunately and it sounded like an overuse injury from her running, this would be the last time I had the pleasure of her riding company for the day. A small group waited at the junction of a25 for us and it claimed another victim. Our BMC ambassador Steven had also picked up an injury but was also keen to get to the pub so he had also called it a day. It could of also been at this point Howard's shoulder injury made its impact too which again was unfortunate as it would of been good to find out the history and the plans of UKCycleChat now a dominant but friendly force in the cycling community. I started to wonder if this route I had created was the injury devil in disguise?!!!
'Where, where, where's Ali?!' If found please contact wlondoncycling on 01234 567 8910 (calls cost £1.50 per minute and will be charged to Ali who will happily to cover the cost and treat everyone to a brand new Garmin as a little token of his appreciation for even being invited on this ride!). Whilst I lead the way for the my little band of riders, Ali was busy mixing it up with the big boys which by the sound of it, was getting competitive. I knew Ali was decent on the steeper climbs but he was in some strong company so I understood why he wanted to keep with them. Too good for me now mate?! That's fine, I'll remember today vividly! This was also the last time I saw Sam and Allyson as I kept pace with Richard who's knee started to give him a bit of grief too. His personal target was Whitedown because its a hill he hasn't conquered yet. I admired his commitment but didn't want him to anymore damage to an injury which has hindered him before. Overall Sheephouse (no.7) is not really a tough climb but it's middle section rises out of the ground like some huge spot on your face which has been growing for weeks (can't think of any other adjectives to describe it!). Richard and I found ourselves very alone at this point (not like that, we are both married and I don't play that way!) so I think Richard appreciated the lowdown of Whitedown (no.8) as we descended down to it. Notorious in these parts but I had a different feeling towards it this time. It didn't feel as a challenge to get up it anymore and although at times you're grinding the pedals, I never felt beaten or out of control. Whereas I was actually enjoying this climb, the agonising sounds from Richard meant that his knee started to give way. It also didn't helped by having a stalemate with traffic coming from both directions along the single track road. I luckily had a window to get round them but think Richard had to wait for the stand off to resolve itself.
At the junction where our next climb meets Whitedown, Richard decided to call it a day and I'm glad because I didn't want him to do anymore damage to his knee but I'm there for ya buddy when you finally want to crack Whitedown! So this was a weird period I happen to experience. I was now the rear of the bunch and assumed everyone had climbed Beech Avenue (no.9) and gone on to refreshment stop number 2 and enjoyed a cake or two thanks to Allez Nutrition. Hodgen Lane is pretty much an unused lane in these parts, not many take the detour off Ranmore but its home to a gorgeous dip down into a small valley where you can reach a bit of speed (be cautious as its a single lane track but with a decent surface). Just before the dip down though, I was greeted by a blockage in the road. No it wasn't roadworks, no it wasn't Ali on his knees begging for forgiveness for leaving his closest cycling companion and offering his new Pinarello as a peace offering. A herd of sheep had broken loose out of their field and prevented me from going any further. A Mexican stand off had begun. Me v the sheep. Eyes were locked. They were drooling blood from their lips, I was drooling the essence of a gel I had just consumed. The wind had stopped. Even the birds went quiet as the tension in the air built up like fight night. I was determined to be Anthony Joshua and in my mind these sheep were the offspring of Tyson Fury. These sheep had smelt it too (no, no one had farted!). The fear. The leader of their pack had enough. He didn't like what he saw (could of been the kit I was wearing but I quite liked my Pearl Izumi outfit!). He bolted and just as sheep do, they all bolted! But I think I have a new found respect for sheep in general as they were hitting speed I could only dream about. Although laughable, my humane nature took over and if I had kept rolling down, one of them was bound to trip up and I didn't fancy trying to right one up (sheep can die on their backs, my wife has the farmers background so there's my source!). Turning around though and one of them must of phoned 'Leroy' for backup because his crew turned up and trotted past me. I honestly swear one of them kissed their lips at me and said 'Do you know what ends you're in boy?!'. Who knew Surrey sheep could be so street and hostile?! My third good deed for the day was that I let the next house know of the incident and to call the police immediately!
The gorgeous leafy smooth climb of Beech Avenue was followed by another gentle but long climb up Green Dene (no.10). A not particularly exciting climb compared to the others but at this stage of the ride, my legs were beginning to run on empty and I needed a carb' top up. Expecting a large group at the mobile cafe stop, it was just David and Jeimy. Had I missed something?! Had someone missed me?! Had everyone gone home?!! So it turned out that someone (can't even point fingers because apparently no one did any direction pointing anyway!) took a left instead of a right after Whitedown which meant Beech Avenue was missed out. No wonder why I was so behind! David and Jeimy had skipped Sheephouse so Jeimy had a chance to catch up with the rest of the group. So not wanting them to wait forever for me, I quickly scoffed down a bacon butty and topped up the fluids. Richard was packing his bike away too and treated himself to a salted caramel chocolate brownie which after his efforts today, was well deserved. Two thirds of the ride left and it was just us three. A good catch up with David about his site and his plans for Dirty Wknd made the drag up Houndhouse (no.11) a bit easier than it should of been but I started to feel that 'hit the wall' emotion especially in the legs. I was worried I hadn't rested up enough during my short break but couldn't do nothing about it now. Mrs Quintana on the other hand could give our very own Polly Pocket a run for her money up these climbs. At not one point, did Jeimy moan or grumble, she stuck through the whole ride but then again, she is Columbian which means she has pedigree on this terrain!
I included the reverse way up Houndhouse in the form of Pitch Hill (no.12) to increase the number of hills for v2.0 and it nearly defeated me. The legs felt like they were spinning in thick porridge. I knuckled down so hard mentally because at the end of the day, if the creator can't even complete the route, what does that say about his reputation?! I don't claim to be a great cyclist, I can hold my own at times but from where I've come from, a lap around Richmond Park used to be enough for me, this route was another step up in achievements. As I was climbing up Pitch, I noticed a flash of light every few seconds from the rear of my bike. I thought it was an impatient driver but spinning up beside me, it was a great pleasure to see a familiar face in Chris. I hope Chris doesn't mind me saying this but he's a veteran when it comes to the bike but he can conquer pretty much any ascent whilst keeping a high pace on the flats. So it was a nice addition to our now elite club battling out these final climbs.
We didn't bother stopping at the store in Peaslake as the neutral feeling was to get this ride out of the way now! Chris by this time had informed me that the breakaway group he had joined with Nick, Ali, Patrick and co. had made another unscheduled detour which meant they had missed out Pitch Hill. They had also missed out on Holmbury St.Mary so their hill count for the day was actually 12 not 15! Sorry guys, this means I can't send out your graduate t-shirts saying 'I became The One'! The week before I had climbed Radnor Rd (no.13) and the weather at the time made it full of grit and gravel but the weather had been kind of us with just a few spots of rain occasionally. It's quite a pretty climb up high in the woods but you do feel at times you're intruding on MTB land as its full of the off-roaders! Holmbury St.Mary (no.14) was the penultimate climb, short but with a steep section just before you hit the school. I had overtaken a couple of cyclists I had passed earlier by Whitedown and seeing one of them struggle, I gave him the encouragement of letting him know where the top was. I was a cycling good deed machine today!
It could of been that we were nearing the end but I started to get a second wind (or it could of been the bacon butty but something smelt funny!). A quick cut back into Shere to get off the a25 before our final climb of Combe Lane (no.15). Ironically, this was our first climb of v1.0 but now our last ascent of the day. David went ahead (technically his legs were fresher as he missed out 2 climbs) and Chris followed. I followed Jeimy up and pushed on a little in the final section which included its horrible hairpin. I got out of the seat for a few revolutions but felt the onset of cramp and there was no way I wanted to finish the ride that way! Sat back in the seat and squeezed every ounce of effort I had left. The top beckoned and as I crested it, I let out a roar (could of been a meow in reality). In your face v2.0!
I came, I saw, I conquered! In a group, on my own, sometimes with Ali (ok once with Ali!), it's now on my palmares. But we havn't finished with 'The One', theres plenty room to step it up another level so whilst you're either waiting for your graduate t-shirt (I've ordered 2 for me and Chris!!!) or wishing to be part of this project, we will be researching the hills, the mileage, the dips, the sheep to avoid all for the glory, the glory of 'The One v3.0'.
'The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it'.
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In the evening of 15 November 1850, a mild Friday night, Isabella Robinson set out for a party near her house in Edinburgh. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled avenues of the Georgian New Town and drew up in a circle of grand sandstone houses lit by street lamps. She descended from the cab and mounted the steps to 8 Royal Circus, its huge door glowing with brass and topped with a bright rectangle of glass. This was the residence of Lady Drysdale, a rich and well connected widow to whom Isabella and her husband had been commended when they moved to Edinburgh that autumn. Elizabeth Drysdale was a renowned hostess, vivacious, generous and strong-willed, and her soirees attracted inventive, progressive types: novelists such as Charles Dickens, who had attended one of the Drysdales' parties in 1841; physicians such as the obstetrician and pioneer anaesthetist James Young Simpson; publishers such as Robert Chambers, the founder of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal; and a crowd of artists, essayists, naturalists, antiquaries and actresses. Though Edinburgh was past its glory days as the hub of the Scottish Enlightenment, it still boasted an energetic intellectual and social scene.
A servant let Isabella in to the building. Within the hallway, gas flamed in a chandelier, throwing its light on to the stone floor and the polished iron and wood of the banister bending up the staircase. The guests took off their outdoor clothes — bonnets, muffs and mantles, top hats and coats — and proceeded up the stairs. The ladies wore low-cut dresses of glinting silk and satin, with smooth bodices pulled tight over lined, boned corsets. Their skirts were lifted on petticoats, layered with flounces, trimmed with ribbons and ruffles and braid. Their hair was parted in the centre and drawn back over the ears into coiled buns sprigged with feathers or lace. They wore jewels at their throats and wrists, silk boots or satin slippers on their feet. The gentlemen followed them in tailcoats, waistcoats, neckties and pleated shirt fronts, narrow trousers and shining shoes. Isabella came to the party eager for company. Her husband, Henry, was often away on business, and even when he was home she felt lonely. He was an 'uncongenial partner,' she wrote in her diary: 'uneducated, narrow-minded, harsh tempered, selfish, proud.' While she yearned to talk about literature and politics, to write poetry, learn languages and read the latest essays on science and philosophy, he was 'a man who had only a commercial life.' In the high, airy reception rooms on the first floor, Isabella was introduced to Lady Drysdale and to the young couple who shared her house: her daughter Mary and her son-in-law Edward Lane. The twenty-seven-year-old Mr Lane was a lawyer, born in Canada and educated in Edinburgh, who was now training for a new career in medicine. Isabella was enchanted by him. He was 'handsome, lively and good humoured,' she told her diary; he was 'fascinating.' She chastised herself later, as she had done many times before, for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake.
In the same month that she met Edward Lane, Isabella took a trip to the North Sea coast and sat on the beach meditating on her many flaws. A well-born Englishwoman of thirty-seven, she had, by her own account, already failed in every role that a Victorian lady was expected to fulfil. She listed her deficiencies in her diary: 'my errors of youth, my provocations to my brothers and my sisters, my headstrong conduct to my governess, my disobedience and want of duty to my parents, my want of steady principle in life, the mode of my marriage and my conduct during that marriage, my partial and often violent conduct to my children, my giddy behaviour as a widow, my second marriage and all that had followed it.' She had been guilty, she said, of 'impatience under trials, wandering affections, want of self-denial and resolute persistence in well-doing; as a parent, as a daughter, as a sister, as a wife, as a pupil, as a friend, as a mistress.' She then quoted a verse by Robert Burns:
Thou know 'st that thou has made me
With passions wild and strong;
And listening to their witching voice
Has often led me wrong.
Some of Isabella's ruthless catalogue of her faults can be mapped on to the recorded facts of her life. She was born in Bloomsbury, London, on 27 February 1813, and christened Isabella Hamilton Walker at St Pancras Church that May. Her father, Charles, was the second son of a former Accountant General to George III; her mother, Bridget, was the eldest daughter of a Cumbrian coal-mining heiress and a Whig MP. When Isabella was a baby her father bought an estate in the Shropshire village of Ashford Carbonel, near the English border with Wales. It was there, in a red-brick manor house by the River Teme, that she grew up, defying her elders and annoying her siblings.
Excerpted from Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale. Copyright 2012 by Kate Summerscale. Excerpted by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has initiated a Feasibility Study focusing on Flood Risk Management of the Portland Metro Levee System in partnership with the Columbia Corridor Drainage Districts (CCDD) Joint Contracting Authority. CCDD consists of four drainage districts: Peninsula Drainage District #1, Peninsula Drainage District #2, Multnomah County Drainage District and the Sandy Drainage Improvement Company. The study area includes 27 miles of levees along the lower Columbia River within the Portland Metropolitan Area, running from Sauvie Island to the Sandy River.
The levee system is experiencing significant signs of structural vulnerabilities during high water, including sloughing, boils, and seepage. The three-year federal feasibility study process will lead to a recommendation to Congress for federal investment in addressing the problem areas in the Portland metropolitan area levee and drainage system.
The study will focus on developing an integrated plan to address potential system failures, meeting current levee safety standards, and identifying potential impacts from future changes including system consolidation, changing water flow conditions and potential operational changes to the Columbia River System.
The Non-Federal Sponsor on the project is the Multnomah County Drainage District (MCDD), which has been granted decision authority to act on behalf of the four drainage districts. The feasibility study is authorized in Section 216 of the Flood Control Act of 1970.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with Levee Ready Columbia, has been hosting ongoing informational meetings on the Portland Metro Levee System feasibility study. The events are open to the public and provide updates on the feasibility study including refinement of alternatives, technical information and analysis conducted to date, and the next steps in the feasibility study process. Past public meetings occurred in August, October and December of 2019. The presentations shown at those meetings are posted below in the Related Documents and Resources section.
NEIGHBORHOOD ALIGNMENT WALKS
Bridgeton Road Map (2.3MB pdf)
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Time: 8 a.m.
Meeting Location: Western end of Bridgeton Road at Blue Frogs Landing (Marina)
Video: Corps and MCDD discuss alignment options (Youtube)
East Columbia Neighborhood & Yacht Club Map (1.4MB pdf)
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Meeting Location: Portland Yacht Club
Heron Lakes Golf Course
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Meeting Location: Virtual
Peninsula Terminal Co.
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Riverside Golf Course
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2020
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Public input is critical to the development of this feasibility plan. The Corps wants to hear the concerns and ideas of community members regarding the Columbia River corridor levee system and managed floodplain. The draft report is posted below in the Related Documents and Resources section.
Past public engagement: The Corps and MCDD held two scoping meetings in December 2018 to engage community members in discussing the study process, study milestones, and the development of preliminary alternative strategies for the reduction of flood risk in the Portland metropolitan area. Discussion also focused on modernization of the levees, flows and flood risk, geotechnical studies of the levees, and the economic risk and consequences posed by various flooding scenarios, as well as the effects on natural and cultural resources of alternatives considered.
In addition, The Corps and MCDD held informational public meetings in January 2020 in the Oregon cities of Fairview and Portland.
Reduce flood damages, in particular critical infrastructure, in the Portland Metro Levee system over the period of analysis
Reduce threats to life safety from flooding and increase awareness of flood risk in the Portland Metro Levee system over the period of analysis
Increase resiliency of the flood management system over the planning period of analysis
Increase reliability of the flood management system over the planning period of analysis
To the extent practicable, provide opportunities for recreation, natural resources, and cultural resources
Improve operability of the flood management system and decrease flood response and recovery time
Understanding flood risk
The primary goal of the feasibility study is to reduce the risk of flood damages to the Portland metropolitan area, thereby reducing threats to life and safety.
Flood risk is made up of a variety of factors, beyond exclusively the condition of the levees themselves. These factors include: the hazard, system performance, exposure, vulnerability, and consequences.
The essential questions in determining flood risk are:
What possible loading events could occur?
How well will the levee system perform when the event occurs?
What are the consequences if the levee does not perform as expected? What loss of life could occur?
In even simpler terms, flood risk is the probability of a flood multiplied by the consequences of that flood.
Clarification of concerns we have heard
On October 28, 2020 the four drainage districts hosted a virtual community update meeting. Approximately 77 people joined the meeting. MCDD presented information on “why the study matters” and the role of the Drainage Boards in the decision-making process for the study. The Corps presented updates on refinements since the Tentatively Selected Plan. Participants’ questions were captured through a chat. Several questions were addressed during the allotted meeting time, all the questions with responses are displayed below.
Q: Which of the original options meet the new FEMA standards for flood insurance certification?
A: This Corps Feasibility Study is focused on a complete assessment of flood risks to the entire levee system versus FEMA’s approach of focusing on a single design flood event Any improvements to the levee system that are constructed by the Corps will meet FEMA standards, but the drainage districts will need to take some actions outside of this study to meet all of FEMA’s certification standards. For instance, the gate tower drainage connection between MCDD and SDIC will likely need to be addressed to obtain FEMA certification. The Corps determined this is an operations and maintenance issue that needs to be addressed by the non-federal sponsor. FEMA certification and accreditation is not within the Corps’ primary mission thus obtaining certification of the levee systems to maintain FEMA accreditation is not a study objective.
Local sponsor perspective:
The US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have different yet complementary missions. FEMA administers the National Flood Insurance Program and evaluates flood risk in order to set flood insurance rates throughout the country. The Corps takes a more holistic view of flood risk when evaluating levees, including evaluating life safety and a wider range of potential flood scenarios. The drainage districts must pay attention to the requirements of both agencies. The four drainage districts are technically responsible for maintaining the levees to the Corps’ standards, while the cities and county within the managed floodplain are the FEMA-designated floodplain “mapholders“ and share responsibility with the drainage districts to ensure the levee system can be certified. Losing FEMA accreditation and having the area behind the levees designated as a Special Flood Hazard Area under the National Flood Insurance Program, would have profound impacts on landowners and the region. There are eight projects that need to be addressed to meet certification standards. The preferred plan in the Feasibility Study addresses four of them. Levee Ready Columbia, a collaborative partnership of the local cities, drainage districts, Port of Portland, Metro, Multnomah County, and others, is focused on addressing the remaining projects.
Q: How much community support do you need to move forward?
A: Community involvement and input is critical in helping to identify areas of concern related to various proposals and to evaluate tradeoffs. Overall, reducing flood risk in the region is important to the community, local landowners, and the private and public sector. With this support, the study has progressed to the final phase of completion and making a recommendation for Congressional Authorization. The opinions and support of the community are very important to your Drainage District Board Members. The Drainage District Board Members will need to make the decisions about endorsing the preferred plan in the Feasibility Study and ultimately committing to the cost sharing requirements.
The Drainage District boards will evaluate numerous issues before determining endorsement of the final Feasibility Study, including community input and support. The Drainage Districts have worked hard to maintain the local flood safety infrastructure system while the land use around us has continued to change. This is no longer an agricultural area. The levee system now reduces the risk of flooding for nearly 8,000 residents, 60,000 jobs, the Portland International Airport, and so much more. This Feasibility Study represents the potential to secure federal support for the work needed to bolster the levee system. As we look out at the future, one thing remains clear: these levees are going to continue to protect vital assets for our region, state, and nation. As the districts continue to operate and maintain the systems, it is also important to consider how to modernize it into the future. Your feedback is important as we face these important decisions. If you wish to share any comments on the Feasibility Study with the Drainage District Boards, please use the form on MCDD’s website.
Q: What level of protection (e.g., 500-yr) is currently and planned to be provided?
A: The final estimates of flooding probability will be included in the feasibility report. After improvements are made, the probability of flooding is projected to be about five times less likely than the existing condition. Currently, the system has greater than a 1% (1 in 100) chance of failing in any given year. The proposed improvements reduce the chance of flooding to less than 1 in 500.
Q: What role did the recent Amazon warehouse construction have on this process?
A: The increased impervious area resulting from the Amazon warehouse development was included in the pump station assessment. The addition of paved areas increases demand on the pump station, since less rainwater is able to infiltrate into the ground and instead moves downstream to the pump station. The Amazon warehouse is also accounted for in the inventory of buildings and structures in the system, which affects the economic benefits of the project.
Q: Can you specify details regarding the remaining HTRW site? location? type of contamination?
A: Details on the remaining hazardous, toxic, and radioactive waste (HTRW) site will be included in the final feasibility study report. A more detailed investigation, including soil samples, will be conducted in a later phase, subject to federal authorization. This information will be given to the local sponsors for their use. As stated during the presentation, the alignment has been refined to avoid known or potential areas of contamination and this sampling will reduce uncertainty at this site.
Q: How about green infrastructure approaches?
A: The focus of this study is on the existing flood risk system and infrastructure already in place to reduce risks to lives and properties protected by the levee system. Non-structural measures were considered throughout the alternatives development process and are included in the preferred Alternative 5.
The drainage districts recognize that interior drainage and stormwater attenuation can greatly benefit from green infrastructure, including on-site swales, meandering stream channels, and similar designs. This infrastructure improvements may be incorporated as a part of the capital program of the Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District (UFSWQD). Improvements to return the watershed to a more natural hydrology (slowing the speed at which water reaches our pumps) is important to the function of the internal conveyance system, but such changes require a comprehensive watershed plan and are out of the scope of the Feasibility Study.
Q: How does 38' downstream at Pen1 mean to Pen2? is that 38' as well?
A: The design levee height tracks the elevation of the Columbia River as it moves upstream. The top of levee at the upstream end of PEN 2 (perpendicular to the Peninsula Drainage Canal) is about a half-foot higher than the downstream elevation of PEN 1. In the Bridgeton Road area, the top of the proposed levee is a few inches higher than 38’, as shown in the PowerPoint presentation. The slope of the levee in this area can also be seen in the PowerPoint presentation.
Q: Remind us how does the 38 feet height compare to Vanport flood? 1996 flood?
A: At the I-5 bridge, the 1996 flood reached an elevation of approximately 32.5 feet NAVD88*, and the 1948 Vanport flood reached an elevation of approximately 36.3 feet NAVD88*. While it would take a large flood to generate river levels higher than 38 feet, the consequences of levee failure are very high and justify the levee improvement. For context, the 1894 flood crested at 39.7 feet NAVD88, though this was before upstream reservoirs had been constructed. *NAVD88 is a vertical datum that provides a common reference point for height measurements. Elevations in NAVD88 are 5.3 ft higher than elevations in the Vancouver Gauge datum, which is the datum that the average river user commonly references.
Q: Potential flooding in this micro-region will be a result of the greater Columbia River flooding - what has the Army Corp of Engineers learned from the results of their previous flood outcomes in New Orleans, etc. and have they consulted with the unique approaches Netherlands are taking in water infringement and flooding?
A: Flooding from Hurricane Katrina caused the Corps to re-evaluate the levee safety program. There have been multiple revisions to the engineering design requirements since Hurricane Katrina, which are accounted for in this study. For instance, one of the issues during Hurricane Katrina was the failure of I-Walls. An I-Wall is a series of steel-reinforced concrete panels shaped like an “I”. These floodwalls keep floodwaters from entering interior areas. As a direct response to the findings from Hurricane Katrina, Portland District performed detailed inspections and analysis of the local I-walls that run along the Columbia River and Marine Drive from N Portland Road to just west of N Force Avenue in PEN 1. This investigation found that the I-Walls in PEN 1 are in suitable condition to withstand modeled flood scenarios, which are most often generated from high flows on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. This is one of many examples of how the Corps has applied lessons learned from Katrina. Enhancements to the Corps levee safety program have also included collaboration with approaches taken in the Netherlands.
Q: We have a longitudinal section of elevations along Bridgeton Road but no idea of the current height on the unpaved levee west of the road - in the NW corner of Pen2 in front of condos and apartments. What is current height along that section?
A: Existing top of levee elevations in the northwest corner of PEN 2 near the condos, apartments, and hotels range from around 37 feet NAVD88 to 38.5 feet NAVD88. As noted in the PowerPoint presentation, the levee would be raised up to a foot in this area. The elevations in this area do not reflect the elevation of the levee for the remainder of PEN 2. In order to provide a consistent height, the levee will need to be raised by different amounts in other locations.
Q: How many trees are scheduled for removal at the railroad embankment?
A: The exact tree count has not yet been surveyed but the impact will be considerably less than previously anticipated based on the concept in the Draft Feasibility Report (Jan 2020) due to reduction in the levee footprint. Vegetation, including trees, removed during construction will be replaced. Additional information on vegetation will be included in the Final Report.
Q: Is the Pen 1 railroad embankment where the Vanport flood breached?
A: Yes, the PEN 1 railroad embankment is where the 1948 Vanport floodwaters first breached. The railroad embankment was never designed to perform as a levee, and there is low confidence it would withstand another flood as large as Vanport. During the Vanport flood, subsequent breaches occurred at the southern section of the Denver Avenue cross-levee between PEN 1 and PEN 2 and the MCDD levee near the MCDD Headquarters.
Q: Are the closure structures hydraulic or manual?
A: The closure structures in the Portland Metro Levee System are manual, and no automated equipment is proposed. High water conditions can be forecasted well in advance of a flood, so there is adequate time to dispatch crews to erect the closure structures.
Q: Will you be working with property owners on size of closure structures to access their property?
A: Yes, the Corps and the Drainage Districts will reach out to property owners affected by new closure structures when more detailed designs of the closure structures are available, which will occur in a later phase of design.
Q: Will the road drop back down at those two floodwall sections?
A: The concept shared at the community meeting included raising the levee under Marine Drive and Bridgeton Road and placing the road back on top. In several places, however, the use of a floodwall is recommended because there is not enough horizontal space to raise the levee. That is the case for the two short segments of floodwall proposed along Bridgeton Road. So, in those two locations, the road will stay at its existing height. As this project moves forward, Bridgeton Road will be designed and constructed to smoothly transition from the higher to the lower roadway elevations.
Q: Which alternative north-to-south (1-6) will you propose for the floodwalls?
A: The two short sections of floodwalls are proposed to be on the north shoulder of Bridgeton Road. As mentioned above, the floodwalls are proposed in these two short sections because there is not enough horizontal space to raise the levee. The addition of a short floodwall should not impact visibility for the homes across the street. To get a rough idea of how high the floodwall would be, consider the grasses that often grow on the north side of the levee, which are often at the height of the proposed floodwalls or higher. Refer to the PowerPoint presentation for pictures of these areas.
Q: Why is the road-raise indicated as approx. one foot, but the flood wall indicated 2 feet?
A: The existing road elevations where the floodwall is proposed are currently lower than the road elevations to the east and west. Since the existing ground is lower, the floodwall must be slightly higher than the increase in height of the levee embankment.
Q: Is it possible to design it so that trees can be planted on the levee?
A: In general, it is not within Corps guidance to plant trees on levees. But as described in Chapter 4 of Engineer Pamphlet 1110-2-18 (current Corps vegetation guidance), planting berms are allowed next to a levee (Figure A-13) and planters (concrete plant containers) can be used in some areas. There is also possibility to use different types of plantings on a levee, including native grasses. Click here to access Corps policy on vegetation.
This Feasibility Study was funded by Congress through the 2018 storm supplemental appropriations package in response to Hurricanes, Harvey, Marie and Irma (HIM). It has been authorized to evaluate flood safety improvements. The Levee Ready Columbia partnership and the Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District (UFSWQD), however, may make investments in increased vegetation and other improvements, where the four remaining certification projects are located, and in other potential locations within the managed floodplain. The UFSWQD’s mission includes making contributions to water quality, habitat, landscape resilience, and floodplain restoration based upon available resources so they will be able to consider opportunities for habitat investments.
Q: Given the amount of excavation for the sheet wall foundation to support a flood wall, how does cost compare between raising the road and the floodwall?
A: Elevating the levee and putting the road on top is projected to cost less than installing floodwall. While pavement will need to be removed and replaced, it is expected to be less costly than installing floodwalls, sheet piles, and re-routing utility connections in this area.
Q: There is significantly less work in the refined plan. How much less will it cost?
A: The cost estimate is still under development and will be included in the final report. The cost of this alternative will be lower in the final report than the draft report due to the revisions and refinements to the designs.
Q: Lowering level of protection from 40 to 38 feet hints at a strong emphasis on reducing cost. How much will safety be compromised by reliance on early warning and non-structural alternatives?
A: Life safety is paramount to the Corps flood risk management studies. The analysis of life safety for this study shows a minimal difference between a levee elevation of 38 and 40 feet. Higher levees can provide a longer warning time for people to evacuate, but in the case of the Portland Metro Levee System, evacuation is triggered at river levels long before the levee is close to having water come over the top. For instance, for the neighborhoods along the Columbia River in Portland, the City’s current plan calls for issuing evacuation notices at 28.3 ft in PEN 1 and 30.9 in PEN 2 with MCDD to follow shortly thereafter. At a minimum, evacuation warnings are expected to be issued at least a day before floodwaters reach the top of the levee. If residents heed the warning and evacuate when directed, this should be enough time for residents to evacuate to safety.
Q: The closure structures will require additional easements. Does the USACE pay for this or are these negotiations the responsibility of the Drainage Districts?
A: The roles and obligations of the Corps and the Drainage Districts will be defined in the Project Partnership Agreement (PPA), which is signed before the end of the Pre-Engineering & Design Phase (PED). Upon authorization of the project, it is the responsibility of the Non-Federal Sponsor (NFS) – PEN 1, PEN 2, MCDD, and SDIC – to acquire the lands, easements, rights of way, relocations and disposal sites (LERRDS) necessary for the project. The Corps provides guidance and oversight to the drainage districts throughout the process.
The Drainage Districts are working in coordination with the Corps on the real estate requirements, which includes the lands, easements, rights of way, relocations, and disposal sites (LERRDS) that need to be acquired to complete the project. As the Non-Federal Sponsors, the Districts are responsible for negotiating and acquiring all properties needed to initiate construction. The costs incurred by the districts for LERRDS are credited toward the 35% local cost-share requirement as long as the expenditures are made after the Project Partnership Agreement has been signed following the Pre-Engineering & Design (PED) phase. The real estate requirements are an important issue that the Drainage Districts will continue to evaluate carefully.
Q: What about the size of the structures (measured in linear feet)? Will you be working with property owners to ensure that the closure structures between floodwalls are wide enough to allow access for current industrial use?
A: Closure structures will be wide enough to allow access for current industrial use. The Corps and the Drainage Districts will reach out to property owners affected by new closure structures. Currently, the study is at a feasibility-level of design, meaning only a general location of closure structures are included in the feasibility report. More detailed designs of closure structures and associated coordination will occur in a later phase of design.
Q: Will the raised road also raise the parking in the overbuild?
A: Yes, the parking in the overbuild along Bridgeton Road will be elevated when the levee is raised. Parking areas will be restored in the condition they were prior to construction (either re-paved or re-graded with gravel).
Q: Will the design include sidewalks on the south side?
A: Yes, where existing sidewalks are impacted by construction, they will be replaced. The designs have not progressed far enough to determine whether sidewalks can be placed in areas where they do not currently exist.
Q: When you move into the pre-engineering and design phase, would you anticipate all the projects going out to bid for engineering services at the same time? And would the Corps manage these as a single project or as multiple projects?
A: The Corps views this as one project spanning four Drainage Districts. During the Pre-construction Engineering and Design (PED) phase, it is envisioned that most of the work would be performed by the Corps, however, if additional engineering services are needed, the scope of the need will be decided and contracted for. Any engineering contracts would be managed by the Corps. The number of construction contracts to implement the project will depend upon when and how Federal appropriations are received. The Corps will administer and oversee the construction contracts.
Q: Would this project be part of a WRDA appropriation? Or separate funding?
A: For the project to move into construction, the Corps needs two Acts of Congress, first an authorization and secondly, construction appropriations. Congressional authorizations typically come in the Water Resource Development Act (WRDA). The Federal appropriations come through the annual federal budget passed by Congress.
Q: A statement was made requesting information on natural resources and environmental justice.
A: A full evaluation of natural resources can be found in the Draft Feasibility Report/Environmental Assessment (January 2020) and will be revised to reflect changes as a result of refining the various measures in the preferred alternative. In general, from project initiation and throughout alternatives development and refinement, the team has sought to avoid impacts to natural resources, particularly sensitive habitats and endangered species. For example, impacts to Endangered Species Act-listed salmon and their critical habitat were avoided by focusing improvements to the landward side of the levee system. The Corps continues to work with resource agencies, including formal consultation with National Marine Fisheries Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act process as well as the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. Results of these consultations will be included in the final Feasibility Study Report. As was explained in the meeting, the overall footprint for levee improvements has been reduced. In PEN 1, at the railroad embankment area, the levee no longer extends into the environmentally sensitive/forested area in the NW corner, so natural resource impacts have been reduced, including keeping the work farther away from a known great blue heron rookery. A discussion of environmental justice communities was included in the January 2020 Draft Feasibility Report. Certain populations in the districts fall within this category and stand to directly benefit from the system improvements. One of the key strategies for Alternative 5 was to provide a more equitable level of protection throughout the system; currently flood risks are higher in the lowest areas of PEN 1 and PEN 2 where environmental justice communities live and work. The proposed improvements reduce the impacts from flood risk on these community members.
Q: With the significant investment in the stability and height of the levee, will FEMA insurance costs go down?
A: It is beyond the scope of this study to project how FEMA insurance costs will change. While flood insurance is an important item from a local perspective, FEMA would be a more appropriate party to respond to this question.
As previously stated, USACE and FEMA have different yet complementary missions. There are currently eight projects that require completion to meet certification standards for FEMA. The preferred plan in the USACE Feasibility Study addresses four of those projects and Levee Ready Columbia is focused on how best to address the other four. As long as the system remains uncertified, FEMA could revoke accreditation of the levee system and remap the area as a Special Flood Hazard Area at any time. This would result in landowners behind the levees no longer being eligible for flood insurance through FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and mortgage holders would be required to purchase flood insurance at higher rates through the private market. The drainage districts continue to keep FEMA apprised of the efforts to reduce the risk. For questions about flood insurance, please contact your insurance broker.
Q: How are they addressing issues related to the FEMA Floodplain Biological Opinion in terms of mitigating for impacts to listed salmonids?
A: The Corps is currently in consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service regarding effects to endangered fish species under their jurisdiction, including salmonids, and has made efforts to avoid and minimize the footprint of the system improvements to salmonid habitat. This means that all work on the levees and pump stations has been sited on the landward side of the levees to avoid impacts below the ordinary high-water mark.
Q: I’m concerned that my property value has been been impacted by the PMLS feasibility study and will be impacted more in the future. What are you doing about this issue?
A: We are actively engaging community members to listen to their concerns. In the Spring of 2020, we walked the proposed floodwall alignments with some communities to capture site-based concerns, questions. . We have not made a decision on the final alignment of any floodwall evaluated in the draft integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment (FR/EA), nor have we confirmed our decision to construct a floodwall at this point. We had to layout conceptual floodwall alignments to evenly evaluate the cost and benefits of the different alternatives in the draft EA/FR.
The earliest construction would occur is 2025, pending approval and funding. We will spend the next year refining the recommended plan prior releasing the final FR/EA and final agency decision. We would then spend another 2-3 years further refining the design during Pre-construction Engineering and Design (PED). Thus, the final alignment of the floodwall will continue to evolve as the study and design of the plan progresses.
Q: If a 3-foot floodwall is built, would pilings need to be raised so floating homes stay attached during a flood? Aren’t floating home pilings required to be at least as high as the top of levee?
A: The proposed floodwall does not trigger any actions for floating homeowners under City of Portland code Section 28.06.040.D.1, which requires pilings be two feet above FEMA’s 100-year flood elevation, not the top of the levee.
For example, in the Bridgeton area, the FEMA 100-year flood is approximately 32 feet in the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), therefore, the minimum piling height is approximately 34 feet NAVD88.
Even during an extreme flood larger than the FEMA 100-year event, the construction of the floodwall would have minimal effect on floating homes. An analysis of a 1000-year flood event, which has a 0.1% chance of occurring, as shown in Section 7.5 of Appendix A of the Draft Feasibility Report, was simulated with and without the floodwall. With the floodwall, water levels on the Columbia River were only about an inch higher. The floodwall has very little impact to water levels because the interior area is a relatively small volume compared to the volume of water in the Columbia River during an extreme flood. When the interior area fills with floodwaters, it produces very little change to water levels on the Columbia River.
While it may be prudent to extend the height of the pilings beyond minimum requirements to reduce risk, it is not required beyond two feet above the FEMA 100-year flood water level.
Q: The Tentatively Selected Plan does not adequately account for costs of cleaning up sites contaminated with hazardous wastes. This would be an additional burden on taxpayers.
A: Ideally, we could avoid areas contaminated by hazardous waste, but this isn’t always possible, especially in an urban environment. If we can’t avoid using a site that is contaminated, the non-federal sponsor is responsible for resolving the contamination issue in a manner that meets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Oregon State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) standards. However, this does not mean that the non-federal sponsor must bear all the costs of cleanup activities, which are usually borne by the Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) responsible for creating the contamination. The non-federal sponsor may be able to recover clean-up costs or compel the PRP (or responsible third parties), to clean-up the site prior to the acquisition of the land. Before the final feasibility report is released, the local non-federal sponsor must commit either to accepting responsibility for the required response, or initiating procedures requiring the responsible parties to respond.
The draft feasibility report identified 25 potential sites with contamination concerns, but further investigation since the draft report was released shows three potential sites remain. It is anticipated that the number of sites with concerns will continue to decrease.
For the sites that cannot be avoided, an approximate preliminary cost estimate for Hazardous, Toxic, And Radioactive Waste (HTRW) response actions will be included in the final feasibility report. This estimate will be refined with more detail during Preconstruction Engineering and Design (PED).
Learn more about Hazardous, Toxic, And Radioactive Waste (HTRW) policies in Engineer Regulation 1165-2-132
Q: Is the Army Corps of Engineers complying with local and state regulations?
A: Compliance with state and local requirements is not a requirement for federal projects. However, state and local agencies are encouraged to provide their feedback to inform the Corps on the project’s conformance with state and local requirements. In addition, Federal projects require environmental coordination, evaluation and compliance with the appropriate federal agencies or state agencies administering federal laws (Water Quality Certification).
Related Documents and Resources
Draft MOA: Corps & OR Historic Preservation Office
PMLS: Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment
Appendix A - Hydrology & Hydraulics
Appendix B - Economics
Appendix C - Levees
Appendix D - Civil Design
Appendix E - Pump Station Risk Assessment
Appendix F - Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (HTRW)
Appendix G - Additional Affected Environment Data
Appendix H- Cultural Resources
Appendix H - Cultural Resources > Attachment 1 - Columbia Slough NHRP Form
Appendix I - Federal and State Agency, and Public Involvement
Appendix J - Section 404(b)(1) Evaluation
Appendix K - Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) DRAFT
August 2019 Public Meeting Presentation
October 2019 Public Meeting Presentation
December 2019 Public Meeting Presentation
January 2020 Public Meeting Presentation
April 2020 Bridgeton Neighborhood Board Meeting Presentation
October 2020 Community Update Meeting Presentation
Multnomah County Drainage District Alternative Maps
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Told the message was still present on Instagram at 1.26pm today, Ardern said: "That's something I will have to put to them, they were advised some hours ago."
She said there was only so much she could do, and as soon as she was "released" from the media conference podium, she could check back.
The "important message" was posted on the Government's Unite Against Covid-19 Facebook page about 5pm on Saturday. It was titled: "If you're in South or West Auckland, please have a test".
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"If you're in South or West Auckland, or if you have a greater risk of poor health outcomes if you were to get Covid-19, even if you don't have symptoms, please have a test," it said in the post.
For people outside South and West Auckland, it was still recommended that they only get tested if they "develop symptoms consistent with Covid-19".
The combined population of West and South Auckland is about 700,000 and the wrong advice for those regions led to some perplexion.
"I'm so confused?!" said one commenter. "Why would someone get a test if they have no symptoms!? Two weeks ago we were all told to not get a test if you do not have symptoms! Honestly this is an absolute joke."
Another replied: "It gets updated according to new tests and data given to the Ministry of Health on a regular basis. Having a test is just to keep this virus at bay and put a lid on it and keep it under control. People could have it and show no symptoms due to having a strong immune system."
"Widespread testing remains a critical part of eliminating Covid-19 in our communities," said an administrator on the Unite Against Covid-19 website.
The post linked to lists of testing stations for Auckland and the rest of New Zealand.
The message on the Government Facebook page came as the Auckland region gets set to come out of level 3 lockdown at 11.59pm tonight.
There are two new cases of Covid-19 today, both linked to the Auckland cluster.
Yesterday there were 13 cases - 11 of them in the community.
Ten are clearly epidemiologically linked to the Auckland cluster, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday.
It means there are now 133 cases linked to Auckland cluster and 18 to Mt Roskill "mini-cluster". New Zealand's previous biggest cluster, a Bluff wedding, stood at 98.
Finance Minister Grant Robertson made a extra push on Friday, asking as many people as possible to get a test if they had any cold or flu like symptoms.
"Or if you are in any way connected to the Mount Roskill Evangelical Church or Mount Albert Grammar School we need you to get tested today or this weekend," Robertson said.
On Friday, laboratories processed 9991 tests as the Government works to test 70,000 people over a week at a rate of 10,000 a day.
• The full, up-to-date list of testing sites in Auckland is at www.arphs.health.nz/covid19test
• If you have any Covid-19 symptoms you can call Healthline (0800 358 5453) to discuss the steps to getting tested.
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Prime Minister Bill English invited to eight-year-old Te Puke boy's birthday
20 Sep, 2017 10:42 PM 3 minutes to read
Eight-year-old Corin Jack handed a personal birthday invitation to Prime Minister and National party leader Bill English when he visited Te Puke at the weekend.
By: Stuart Whitaker
Stuart Whitaker is editor of the Te Puke Times
stuart.whitaker@nzme.co.nz
Eight-year-old Corin Jack can't vote in this weekend's general election.
But if he could, he's in no doubt about who he'd vote for, even if it meant his invited guest of honour couldn't attend his 9th birthday party next year.
Te Ranga School pupil Corin was disappointed when National Party leader Bill English had to turn down the invitation to his 8th birthday last May, but understood the PM's trip to Japan was more important.
When English was in Te Puke on Saturday, Corin gave him another invitation - for his next birthday party.
Corin's mum Jen says she initially thought Corin might be happy if English was no longer Prime Minister after Saturday's election, as it might mean he was less busy and therefore able to get to the May 18 birthday party.
Corin Jack.
"But then he said he wanted him to win because he thinks he'll do a good job. Although, I think he'll still want him to come even if he doesn't win," says Jen.
A fellow member of Orchard Church who is a friend of Corin and his family is a distant cousin of English.
"When Corin found out about this, he said 'Bill's almost family', so that's how it came about - there was no fascination with John Key at all," says Jen. "It's all about Bill."
Corin's birthday party invitation was created as a homework assignment and was ready to send when Jen discovered on Saturday morning that English would be in Te Puke that afternoon.
An opportunity too good to pass up, Corin took the invitation along to deliver personally.
The homework assignment required him to make a card for someone special.
"I got double points for choosing Bill English and giving it to him got bonus points," says Corin.
As the candidate entered the room on Saturday, young Corin handed him the handmade invitation and told him he wanted the Prime Minister at his birthday - in May next year.
Prime Minister Bill English with a Corin Jack's birthday party invitation. Photo/Samantha Motion
English was in Te Puke for a public meeting at the Citizens RSA and told the packed house it was the first birthday invitation he had received for after the election.
He was joined on stage by wife Mary, Rotorua MP Todd McClay, Tauranga MP Simon Bridges, Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller and Conservation Minister Maggie Barry and told the crowd there was "a lot to fight for" this election.
In a 25-minute speech he talked about the economy, roading, housing, jobs, trade and tax.
Corin decided not to stay for the speeches on Saturday, as it would have meant not getting home "until nearly bedtime".
Asked if he would go to Corin's birthday party, English told the Bay of Plenty Times he would have to be re-elected Prime Minister first.
"He won't want me to turn up if I lose the election so I'll have to have a look next week.
"I'd love to go."
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America's Cup 2021: American Magic's spectacular near capsize on the Waitemata Harbour
American Magic's AC75 sailing on the Waitemata Harbour. Photo / Richard Gladwell
American Magic's Defiant appeared to come close to joining the AC75 High Jump Club around mid-day Monday.
The New York Yacht Club's challenger has been sailing in New Zealand since July 28, and are now into just their fourth week of sailing at the venue for the 2021 America's Cup.
After sailing from the team's base to the city side of Motuihe Island, the team had a couple of timeouts after some early test runs, before heading off for a spell of race practice around marks laid by a team chase boat.
As Defiant exited a high-speed gybe, aiming to pass close to a race mark the AC75 appeared to be very powered up, with a rain squall approaching.
Previously this combination of circumstances has triggered one of the spectacular "Sky Jumps" that have been performed, and caught on camera, by Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa. Indeed, in February American Magic, representing the New York Yacht Club released a video of their 12 metre long test boat doing a spectacular nosedive and capsize during a training session off the team's principal base off Newport, Rhode Island.
Helmed by Dean Barker, Defiant heeled to leeward at what looked to be quite an alarming angle, as the rudder pushed out a solid rooster-tail of spray, indicative of cavitation.
With the leeward foil/wing starting to load up, Defiant rounded up slightly, going into a bow up stern down trim, as the rudder wing lost grip on the water probably due to cavitation.
In past incidents, this has been the point of no return, but Defiant's crew had the presence of mind to ease the jib sheet slightly, releasing some of the load, getting their charge back under control. After sailing for a few hundred metres to collect their wits, the US team once again hit race pace and continued their training session.
American Magic's Executive Director Terry Hutchinson, who is also a member of the sailing crew, dismissed the incident, saying the "boat heeled overall bit but did not feel risky".
Although it was all over in 10 seconds, the incident gave an insight into the spectacular, anything can happen, AC75 racing that will be getting underway in mid-December, just four months away.
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Incident aside American Magic had a long and apparently productive day's sailing.
"We had a big productive day on the water, but were a bit tired at the end," Hutchinson said.
"We had a glamour day on the water."
After the rain squall passed through the training area bringing several squalls well in excess of the agreed limits for Prada and America's Cup racing, American Magic stayed out sailing.
By the end of the session, Defiant's crew and design team looked to have rectified some of their gremlins.
They appeared to be much closer to the benchmark of Team New Zealand's Te Aihe – which is sailing very impressively after a three week long upgrade, which had resuming sailing a week ago.
The forecast for the rest of the week is not promising with strong winds predicted, and both crews can look forward to some extended simulator sessions.
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Chibsah: I’ll like to venture into coaching
Ex-Asante Kotoko player, Yusif Chibsah, says adding a coaching badge to his CV sometime in future is an option he would consider pursuing.
According to him, taking up coaching as a career is something he has never considered to do but he would want to improve his CV with the badge someday.
Speaking to the Graphic Online in an interview, he said although he had no plans of going into active coaching, his love for the sport is so deep that he can not foretell what would happen in future.
“You can never say never, he responded to a question as to whether he would love to venture into coaching someday.
The player licensing intermediary admitted that he had not commenced with studying for the coaching badge because if he becomes a coach, it would conflict with his role as an agent and stated that he preferred to work with players as an agent for now until fate one day drags him to study for the badge.
“I am a licensed player intermediary I can’t be management of a club, the interest will conflict. I am not taking any coaching course now, I prefer to be with the administrative side.
“I cannot rule out coaching completely but I have not done any coaching course. I won’t rule it out just to add to my CV”, he said.
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Labour delays transgender policy until after local elections after ‘mass resignation’ threats
Nick Duffy March 18, 2018
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Labour has pushed back a planned statement on the status of transgender people in the party until after May’s local elections – after threats of mass resignations from anti-transgender campaigners.
The UK’s Labour Party has faced a vicious battle over the past few months over the status of transgender women in the party.
After a surge in anti-trans rhetoric, a fringe group of women’s rights campaigners within the party led calls for transgender women to be banned from standing on Labour’s women-only shortlists for Parliament, which are used in a bid to boost the number of female MPs.
There has never been an openly trans MP, but vocal activists complain that women they refer to as “male-bodied transgenders” are taking away women’s places in politics.
The row was set to come to a head this month, as the party’s ruling National Executive Committee prepared to issue a policy statement rebuffing the activists’ demands and vowing to keep the party trans-inclusive.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
However, after PinkNews reported that a group of ‘radical feminist’ campaigners were planning a mass resignation, the decision appears to have been pushed back.
A Labour spokesperson told the BBC today that the issue would not now be discussed by the NEC until June at the earliest – which is after the upcoming local elections.
A number of campaigners threatening resignation have already been suspended from the Labour Party over abusive conduct towards trans people.
The group claims that more than 200 women are prepared to resign from the party if it affirms trans women’s rights – a number that Jeremy Corbyn ally Matt Zarb-Cousin dismissed as a “rounding error” given the party’s 650,000 members.
Mr Zarb-Cousin, the Labour leader’s former spokesman, told the BBC’s Sunday Politics: “A self-identifying trans woman has never been disbarred from being on an All Women Shortlist, and I think that the consultation was about coming up with a form of words to clarify it.”
Of the people threatening to quit, he added: “It’s a rounding error. It’s not going to split the party. It’s a small minority of women who don’t believe in trans rights.”
Asked if Labour was “ducking” a decision, Mr Zarb-Cousin said: “The conversations I’ve had with the Leader’s Office suggests that’s not the case.
“They’re still consulting on it and consulting on what the form of words will be. There’s no actual plan, as far as I’m aware, to stop trans women self-identifying and being on an all-women shortlist.”
However, a seemingly-complete version of the statement was previously leaked ahead of being greenlit by the NEC’s equalities subcomittee.
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The leaked copy makes clear that “the Labour Party continues to have an inclusive definition of women”, and explicitly affirms that “All Women Shortlists and women’s reserved places are open to self-defining women”.
It also warns that “transphobia and the abuse of members based on their trans identity will not be tolerated in the Labour Party”.
It is unclear if this will now be re-drafted.
Jennifer James, the activist who fronted a crowdfunder to sue the Labour Party over the policy, previously lashed out at “secret squirrel beardy bro Momentum careerists” when the draft leaked.
In a public post on Mumsnet she again vowed legal action, saying: “The secret squirrel beardy bro Momentum careerists [have] been showing true colours. Bros don’t care about trans rights… they just want to use trans ppl as a human shield for sexism and abuse cos we won’t do as they say.”
A formal statement on behalf of her crowdfunding campaign later added: “Our solicitors have, today, sent our pre-action protocol and submissions letter to the Labour Party in respect of the definition of ‘woman’ for protected positions and all-women shortlists.
“Our solicitors are Bhogal Partners, and through them we have instructed Amanda Jones of Counsel, who is a tenant at Great James Street Chambers in London. The letter was drafted by Miss Jones after consultation with the solicitors and on instructions.
“We hope that the Labour Party will take our letter and concerns seriously, and consider the points raised in it carefully.”
James is currently suspended from the Labour Party over allegations of transphobic and abusive conduct.
Meanwhile, the group ‘Mayday4Women’, which openly refers to transgender women as men, is planning a mass resignation of Labour members from the party to protest the decision.
The group claims that “over 200 women” inside Labour are now planning to resign.
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Size and speed of the working stroke of cardiac myosin in situ
Marco Caremani, Francesca Pinzauti, Massimo Reconditi, Gabriella Piazzesi, Ger J. M. Stienen, Vincenzo Lombardi, and Marco Linari
PNAS March 29, 2016 113 (13) 3675-3680; first published March 16, 2016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1525057113
Marco Caremani
aLaboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy;
Francesca Pinzauti
Massimo Reconditi
Gabriella Piazzesi
Ger J. M. Stienen
bDepartment of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research, VU University Medical Center, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
cDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, VU University, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vincenzo Lombardi
For correspondence: vincenzo.lombardi@unifi.it
Marco Linari
Edited by James A. Spudich, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, and approved February 19, 2016 (received for review December 18, 2015)
To our knowledge, this paper represents a major advancement in the physiology and pathophysiology of the heart as it gives the first quantitative description of the working stroke of the motor protein cardiac myosin II. The experiments demonstrate that our sarcomere-level mechanical methods on trabeculae have the full potential for the in situ investigation of cardiomyopathy-causing mutations in cardiac myosin and tests on specific therapeutic interventions.
The power in the myocardium sarcomere is generated by two bipolar arrays of the motor protein cardiac myosin II extending from the thick filament and pulling the thin, actin-containing filaments from the opposite sides of the sarcomere. Despite the interest in the definition of myosin-based cardiomyopathies, no study has yet been able to determine the mechanokinetic properties of this motor protein in situ. Sarcomere-level mechanics recorded by a striation follower is used in electrically stimulated intact ventricular trabeculae from the rat heart to determine the isotonic velocity transient following a stepwise reduction in force from the isometric peak force TP to a value T (0.8–0.2 TP). The size and the speed of the early rapid shortening (the isotonic working stroke) increase by reducing T from ∼3 nm per half-sarcomere (hs) and 1,000 s−1 at high load to ∼8 nm⋅hs−1 and 6,000 s−1 at low load. Increases in sarcomere length (1.9–2.2 μm) and external [Ca2+]o (1–2.5 mM), which produce an increase of TP, do not affect the dependence on T, normalized for TP, of the size and speed of the working stroke. Thus, length- and Ca2+-dependent increase of TP and power in the heart can solely be explained by modulation of the number of myosin motors, an emergent property of their array arrangement. The motor working stroke is similar to that of skeletal muscle myosin, whereas its speed is about three times slower. A new powerful tool for investigations and therapies of myosin-based cardiomyopathies is now within our reach.
cardiac myosin
myosin working stroke
heart mechanics
The performance of heart depends on the power developed by the myocardium, which in turn is strongly dependent on the end-diastolic volume modulating the systolic pressure development (Frank–Starling law of the heart). At the level of the sarcomere, the structural unit of striated muscle, the Frank–Starling law originates from the increase in the force of contraction with an increase in sarcomere length (length-dependent activation). Mutations of sarcomere proteins affect power output and are considered responsible for various forms of cardiomyopathy (1, 2). Over 250 mutations in cardiac myosin II have been reported as the cause of cardiomyopathies (1, 3, 4). Defining the mechanokinetic properties of the cardiac myosin in situ is therefore fundamental to understand the pathomechanisms of these cardiomyopathies and to provide previously unidentified therapeutic opportunities.
In the sarcomere, the myosin motors are organized in two bipolar arrays extending from the thick filament and pulling the thin actin-containing filaments from the opposite sides of the sarcomere toward its center. In each array, the myosin motors are connected in parallel via their attachments to the thick filament and the resulting collective motor provides steady force and shortening by cyclic asynchronous ATP-driven actin–myosin interactions. Thus, the performance of the heart relies on the integration of the mechanokinetic properties of the myosin motor and the properties emerging from its array arrangement in the half-sarcomere (hs). Using sarcomere-level mechanics in intact cells from the skeletal muscle, it has been shown that the isotonic velocity transient following stepwise changes in force imposed on the otherwise isometric contraction contains information on both the working stroke of the myosin motor and the steady-state force–velocity (T–V) relation resulting from the cyclic actin–myosin interactions and accounting for the power output (5⇓⇓⇓–9).
Here, this approach is applied for the first time (to our knowledge) to a multicellular cardiac preparation like the intact trabecula dissected from the right ventricle of the rat heart. A striation follower (10) proved to be a reliable tool for measurement of sarcomere length changes with nanometer–microsecond resolution owing to optical averaging of the image of the sarcomeres that reduces the background noise originating from intracellular and intercellular components of the trabecula. Following the original idea by ter Keurs et al. (11), the sarcomere shortening recorded during the force development in a fixed-end twitch is used as a feedforward signal to maintain sarcomere length constant during the next twitch. By switching from length control to force control, a stepwise drop in force was imposed at the peak of force (TP) to record the isotonic velocity transient. In this way, the amplitude and speed of the rapid phase of the transient (phase 2), which is the mechanical manifestation of the myosin working stroke, could be determined. Increases in sarcomere length (SL) from 1.9 to 2.2 μm and in the external Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o) from 1 to 2.5 mM, which produce an increase in TP, do not affect the myosin working stroke. This indicates that length-dependent potentiation of cardiac contractility is fully accounted for by an increase in the number of attached myosin motors. These experiments demonstrate that our sarcomere-level mechanical methods have the full potential for the in situ investigation of cardiomyopathy-causing mutations in cardiac myosin.
Force–SL Relation.
The twitch in response to an electrical stimulus at the steady state of 0.5-Hz electrical pacing with 1 mM [Ca2+]o in fixed-end conditions is shown in Fig. 1A (black trace). During force development (Upper), sarcomeres shorten against the compliant end regions by 80 nm per hs (Lower), corresponding to 7.3% L0. This internal shortening was prevented in the next twitch (gray trace) by feeding the summing point of the motor servo-system with an equivalent inverted signal (Middle). The peak force (TP) attained in these sarcomere-isometric conditions was considerably larger (30%) than that attained under fixed-end conditions, while the sarcomere shortening was completely prevented (Lower). The relation between TP and SL (range, 1.9–2.4 μm) obtained in 1 mM [Ca2+]o is shown in Fig. 1B (circles). The plotted data indicate TP after subtraction of the passive force (squares) that starts to rise at SL >2.15 µm (see also Fig. S1). It can be seen that data from fixed-end conditions (filled circles) lie on the same relation as those in sarcomere-isometric conditions (open circles). Thus, there is a unique relation between peak force and SL, independently of the shortening undergone during force rise. At SL of 2.3 μm, TP reaches a value of 87 ± 6 kPa (mean ± SEM), almost twice the value at SL of 2.0 μm. These results agree with the original study by ter Keurs et al. (11), who used laser diffraction to record and clamp SL.
Force developed in a twitch and its relation with SL. (A) Force development upon electrical stimulation at 0.5 Hz and 1.0 mM [Ca2+]o, during fixed-end (black trace) and isometric-sarcomere conditions (gray trace) at an initial SL of 2.2 μm.Upper trace, force; middle trace, motor position; lower trace, hs length change. The isometric-sarcomere force development is obtained by the feedforward lengthening imposed on the trabecula as detailed in the text and prevents sarcomere shortening during force development. The bar on the force trace marks the stimulus start. Length of the trabecula, 3.35 mm; segment length under the striation follower, 1.28 mm; average SL, 2.18 μm; cross-sectional area, 26,700 μm2; temperature, 27.2 °C. (B) Relations between peak force (TP) and SL at 1 mM [Ca2+]o (active force, circles; passive force, squares) and 2.5 mM (active force, triangles). The lines are polynomial fits to data. The relation between active force and SL obtained in fixed-end conditions (filled circles) does not differ from that under sarcomere-isometric conditions (open circles) in which the initial SL shortening was prevented by the feedforward method. Mean values ± SEM from eight trabeculae for 1 mM [Ca2+]o and four trabeculae for 2.5 mM [Ca2+]o. Each point is the average of three to eight data points from different trabeculae.
Fig. S1.
Relation between SL and trabecula length (relative to L0) in a quiescent trabecula. Points are the mean ± SD (two trabeculae with L0 of 1.1 and 2.5 mm). A progressive deviation of SL from the value expected from the linear relation (dashed line) appears with the rise of passive force, as part of the imposed lengthening is taken by the compliant ends of the trabecula. The continuous line is a parabolic fit to data.
The rise in [Ca2+]o to 2.5 mM increases TP at any SL, so that the relation is shifted upward (triangles). Actually, the two curves do not run parallel, because with [Ca2+]o of 2.5 mM the relation is more concave, apparently reaching a force maximum at SL of 2.3 μm (see also ref. 11).
Isotonic Velocity Transients.
The isotonic velocity transient was elicited by superimposing, on the peak force of an otherwise isometric contraction at 1 mM [Ca2+]o, a stepwise drop in force from TP to a value in the range of 0.2–0.8 TP. Fig. 2 A and B show the isotonic velocity transient in response to a drop in force to 0.5 TP from a typical experiment at SL of 2.2 µm. Several phases could be distinguished, named after those first described in single fibers from frog skeletal muscle (8, 12): phase 1, a shortening simultaneous with the drop in force, due to the hs elasticity; phase 2, the early rapid shortening, which is attributed to the synchronous execution of the working stroke in the attached myosin motors; phase 4, the late steady shortening at constant velocity due to cyclic detachment-reattachment of motors. Apparently, in contrast to skeletal muscle, there is not a pause (phase 3) in shortening between the end of phase 2 and beginning of phase 4.
Isotonic velocity transients following a stepwise drop in force. (A) Shortening of the hs (lower trace) in response to a step to 0.5 TP superimposed on the force at a time just before the attainment of the peak force developed under sarcomere-isometric conditions (upper trace); middle trace, motor position. (B) Same shortening response as in A on a faster timescale. Numbers close to the shortening record identify the phases of the transient named after those first described in skeletal muscle (8). (C and D) Early components of the isotonic velocity transient to show the methods for estimating L1 and L2 (C in response to a step to 0.75 TP, and D for the same record as in A). L1 is measured by extrapolating the tangent to the initial part of phase 2 (magenta line) back to the half-time of the force step (t1/2, indicated by the vertical dashed line). L2 is measured by extrapolating the ordinate intercept of the straight line fitted to phase 4 shortening (green line in C and D, the slope of which measures the steady shortening velocity) back to t1/2. (E) Time course of phase 2 shortening calculated by subtracting the green line fitted to phase 4 shortening from the overall shortening transient. LT, the size of the isotonic working stroke, is obtained by subtracting the elastic response L1 from L2. The green dashed line is the exponential fit to the trace starting from the end of the force step (Fig. S2). (F) Superimposed SL signal (black) and motor lever signal (red dashed) after subtraction of phases 1 and 4. Length of the trabecula, 2.5 mm; segment length under the striation follower, 1.4 mm; average SL, 2.19 μm; cross-sectional area, 14,100 μm2; temperature, 27.1 °C.
The merging between the end of the elastic shortening (phase 1) and the early rapid shortening (phase 2) might result in an overestimation of the elastic response at the expenses of the working stroke response (8). Therefore—as illustrated in Fig. 2C (for a force drop to 0.75 TP) and Fig. 2D (same record as Fig. 2A)—to estimate the size of phase 1 (L1), the contribution of phase 2 to phase 1 is subtracted by back-extrapolating, to the force step half-time (t1/2, vertical dashed line), the tangent to the initial part of phase 2 (magenta line). Phase 2 following the elastic response has a nearly exponential time course and its size can be estimated by subtracting, from the length trace, the linear back extrapolation of the phase 4 shortening trace to t1/2 (green line in Fig. 2 C and D). The distance between the horizontal trace obtained with the subtraction procedure and the length before the step (Fig. 2E, from the same record as in Fig. 2A) estimates the total amount of shortening at the end of phase 2 (L2). The difference (L2 − L1) estimates LT, the amount of shortening accounted for by the working stroke of the myosin motors at the force T. Assuming an exponential time course of phase 2 shortening, the time elapsed between t1/2 and the abscissa intercept of the tangent to the initial part of the trace (magenta line) is an estimate of the time constant of phase 2 shortening and its reciprocal is an estimate of the rate constant of the process (r2). r2 can be estimated also by fitting the shortening trace with an exponential starting from the end of the imposed force step (green dashed line in Fig. 2E, and Fig. S2). As shown in the table in Fig. S2, the two methods gave similar results and the value of r2 obtained with the exponential fit has been used throughout the paper.
Estimate of the rate of phase 2 velocity transient. Shortening transient elicited by a force step to ∼0.5 TP (Upper) and to ∼0.75 TP (Lower) after subtraction of phase 4 shortening. r2 is estimated either as the reciprocal of the time between t1/2 (vertical dashed line as in Fig. 2C) and the abscissa intercept of the tangent to the initial part of phase 2 shortening (magenta line as in Fig. 2C), r2,tg, or from the exponential fit (green dashed line) of the trace starting from the end of the force step (dotted vertical line), r2,exp. As shown in the table, the two methods gave similar results (mean ± SEM from four trabeculae).
After the elastic phase 1 response occurring during force drop, the rest of shortening transient occurs at constant force and thus is independent of the amount of series compliance. In fact, as shown in Fig. 2F (from the same record as Fig. 2A), the phase 2 shortening obtained as described above from the position of the motor hook (motor lever position, red dashed trace) perfectly superimposes on that obtained from the SL signal (L, black trace).
L1 (triangles) and L2 (circles) dependence on T is shown in Fig. 3A. LT calculated from these data (open circles in Fig. 3B) and LT estimated from the motor lever position signal show the same dependence on T.
Force dependence of the parameters of phase 2 velocity transient and effect of changes in SL and Ca2+ concentration. (A) L1 relation (triangles) and L2 relation (circles) at SL of 2.2 µm and 1 mM [Ca2+]o (pooled data from three trabeculae). Lines are the linear regression fit to data. (B) LT–T relation for the same experiments as in A, open circles from the striation follower signal, filled circles from the motor position signal. The line is the linear regression fit. (C) LT–T relations at different SL and Ca2+ concentration. Circles refer to the SL experiments with [Ca2+]o of 1 mM (open circles, 2.2 µm; filled circles, 1.9 µm), and squares refer to the Ca2+ experiments at SL of 2.2 µm (open squares, 1 mM [Ca2+]o; filled squares, 2.5 mM [Ca2+]o). Lines are the linear regression fits to data: continuous, SL of 2.2 µm and 1 mM; dashed, 1.9 µm and 1 mM; dot-dashed, 2.2 µm and 2.5 mM. (D) Rate of the isotonic working stroke (r2) in relation to T. Lines are the parabolic fit to data. Symbol and line codes are as in C. In all plots, T is relative TP in each condition. Data are mean values ± SEM from eight trabeculae.
The results pooled from the eight trabeculae analyzed at SL of 2.2 µm and 1 mM Ca2+ are shown by the open symbols in Fig. 3C. LT increases with the reduction of T from 3 nm⋅hs−1 at 0.8 TP to 8 nm⋅hs−1 at 0.2 TP. The intercept on the ordinate of the linear fit (continuous line) to the LT data (the size of the working stroke at zero load) is 9.7 ± 0.3 nm. r2 increases with the reduction of the load (open symbols in Fig. 3D) from ∼1,000 s−1 at 0.8 TP to ∼6,000 s−1 at 0.2 TP.
Phase 2 evolves directly into the final steady shortening characteristic of the force–velocity relation (phase 4, open symbols in Fig. 4 A and B). The curvature (a/TP= 0.33 ± 0.03) and the ordinate intercept (the unloaded shortening velocity, V0 = 8.40 ± 0.25 μm/s per hs) of the relation are estimated by fitting the hyperbolic Hill equation to data.
Force dependence of the parameters of phase 4 of the velocity transient and effect of changes in SL and Ca2+ concentration. Symbol and line codes are as in Fig. 3C. (A) Relation between steady shortening in phase 4 (V) and force. (B) Same relations as in A after normalization of the abscissa for the peak force (TP) in each condition. (C) Comparison between shortening velocity in phase 2 (V2 = LT·r2, blue symbols) and in phase 4 (V, black symbols) in relation to T relative to TP in each condition. (D) Power–force relations calculated from the data in C. The lower abscissa is the force in units relative to TP at SL of 2.2 µm and 1 mM [Ca2+]o (TP, 2.2, 1mM). Lines in A–C are the fits to the data using the hyperbolic Hill equation (Methods). Lines in D are calculated from the lines in A. Data are mean values ± SEM from eight trabeculae (the same as in Fig. 3 C and D).
The sliding velocity in phase 2 (V2), estimated as the product of LT times r2, has also a hyperbolic dependence on T (Fig. 4C, blue open symbols). V2 increases from ∼3,000 nm/s per hs at 0.8 TP to 50,000 nm/s per hs at 0.2 TP. Thus, as in frog muscle fibers (6, 8), the sliding velocity accounted for by the execution of the working stroke is one order of magnitude higher than that accounted for by cyclic ATP-driven actin–myosin interactions during steady shortening (Fig. 4C, black open symbols).
The Size and Speed of the Working Stroke Do Not Depend on SL and External Ca2+ Concentration.
The reduction in SL from 2.2 to 1.9 μm, which reduces TP from 70 to 30 kPa (circles in Fig. 1B), does not affect the size and the rate of the working stroke nor its dependence on T relative to TP at the corresponding SL. LT– and r2–T relations at SL of 1.9 μm (filled circles in Fig. 3 C and D, respectively) superimpose on those at SL of 2.2 μm (open circles). The relation between steady shortening velocity and force at SL of 1.9 μm (filled circles in Fig. 4A) is shifted below with respect to that determined at 2.2 μm (open symbols), as expected from the effect of SL on TP. In fact, the parameters of the Hill equation a/TP (0.39 ± 0.13) and V0 (8.02 ± 0.76 μm/s per hs) are not significantly different (P > 0.6) from those estimated from the data obtained at SL of 2.2 μm and the two relations superimpose when force is plotted relative to TP at the corresponding SL (Fig. 4B). The finding that V0 is similar at 1.9- and 2.2-μm SL is in agreement with previous work on intact rat trabeculae (13).
The effect of [Ca2+]o on the isotonic velocity transient was determined in another series of experiments at SL of 2.2 μm. As shown in Fig. 3 C and D, the increase in [Ca2+]o from 1 mM (open squares) to 2.5 mM (filled squares), which increases TP from 66 ± 6 to 99 ± 10 kPa, does not affect the dependence on T of either the size (Fig. 3C) or the speed (Fig. 3D) of the working stroke. The force–velocity relation is shifted above by the increase in [Ca2+]o (filled squares in Fig. 4A), as expected from the effect of [Ca2+]o on TP. In fact, when the force is normalized for the corresponding value of TP, the relations at the two [Ca2+]o superimpose (Fig. 4B). The parameters of the Hill equation a/TP (0.39 ± 0.06) and V0 (8.74 ± 0.31 μm/s per hs) are not significantly different (P > 0.3) from those estimated with [Ca2+]o of 1 mM at either 2.2- or 1.9-μm SL. Thus, in agreement with the original work of ter Keurs and collaborators (11, 13, 14), the potentiating effects of the increases of [Ca2+]o and SL on force appear to act through the same mechanism.
The power at each T can be calculated as the product V⋅T. The power–T relation with [Ca2+]o of 1 mM and SL of 2.2 µm (Fig. 4D, open symbols, used as the control for the normalization of all T values for a unique value of TP, defined as TP, 2.2, 1mM) shows a maximum at 0.3 peak force. Decrease of SL to 1.9 µm, which reduces the peak force to 0.3 TP, 2.2, 1mM, reduces the maximum power (filled circles), which is still attained at force 0.3 its peak value, to ∼0.3 the maximum power in control, an effect that is fully accounted for by the effect on TP. Increase of [Ca2+]o at SL of 2.2 µm from 1 to 2.5 mM, which increases the force peak to 1.5 TP, 2.2, 1mM, increases the maximum power (filled squares), attained again at force 0.3 its peak value, to 1.5 the maximum power in control.
In conclusion, all of the data reported in Figs. 3 and 4, either transient or steady state, converge to the conclusion that increase of [Ca2+]o and increase of SL in the range considered increase the isometric force through a common underlying mechanism, which is not related to modulation of the motor mechanokinetic properties but rather to change in the number of active force-generating motors, which is an emergent property of the array arrangement of the motors in the hs.
The Working Stroke of Cardiac Myosin in Situ in Relation to Previous Work.
Literature concerning the in situ measurement of the mechanical manifestation of the working stroke of cardiac myosin is scarce (e.g., refs. 15 and 16). In myocytes extracted from the atrium of frog heart, Colomo et al. found that the maximum size of the working stroke, measured by the abscissa intercept of the relation between the force attained during the quick phase of force recovery and the amplitude of the length step (5), is ∼15 nm, a value similar to that estimated here from the ordinate intercept of the L2 curve in Fig. 3A. They determined also the dependence on the size of the length step of the rate of the quick force recovery, which at 10 °C varied with the increase in size of the step release (range, 2–8 nm⋅hs−1) from ∼500 to ∼2,000 s−1. In this respect, it must be considered that the rate of the working stroke estimated from the early phase of the force recovery following a step is underestimated by any compliance in series with the myosin motors (17, 18). Instead, in the complementary approach of the isotonic velocity transient used in this work, the effect of the series compliance is eliminated and the speed of the early shortening is the direct expression of the rate of the structural change in the myosin motor (7, 8, 18).
We find that, at 27 °C, the size (LT) and the speed (r2) of the isotonic working stroke vary from ∼3 nm and 1,000 s−1 at high load to ∼8 nm and 6,000 s−1 at low load. Comparison of the kinetic values with those obtained for skeletal muscle myosin is not straightforward, due to the much lower temperature used in experiments on skeletal muscle fibers, either intact [frog tibialis anterior, 2–17 °C (8, 9)] or demembranated [rabbit psoas, 12 °C (19)]. Moreover, possible differences in temperature sensitivity between poikilotherms (frog) and homeotherms (mammals) must be taken into account. Therefore, the comparison here is limited to mammalian data. r2 in the rabbit psoas at 12 °C varies from 1,000 to 8,000 s−1 at high and low load, respectively (19). Assuming a Q10 of 2.5, r2 in trabeculae at 12 °C should be at least three times lower than at 27 °C, that is 300 and 2,000 s−1 at high and low load, respectively. Thus, the rate of the working stroke estimated from r2 appears three to four times higher in the fast skeletal myosin from the rabbit than in the cardiac myosin from the rat. This indicates that the cardiac myosin of the rat, even if it is predominantly composed of the fast α-isoform of the myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform, is slower than the myosin isoform of fast skeletal muscle of the rabbit (MHC 2X). The difference is even more marked considering that the increase in size across species (rabbit versus rat) is in general expected to be accompanied by slower kinetics (20, 21). This may also provide an explanation for the absence of the phase 3 pause in the isotonic velocity transient of rat trabecula: if the execution of the working stroke at a given load is slower, the subsequent steps consisting of motor detachment, accelerated by the execution of the working stroke, and reattachment further along the actin filament (7) will no longer appear rate limiting for the transition to steady shortening.
As regards the size of the working stroke and its load dependence, comparison of the relations in Fig. 3 A–C with the corresponding relations determined in the rabbit psoas (figure 2 E–G in ref. 19) makes it evident that the working stroke size is a conserved characteristic across the different myosin isoforms, in agreement with the conclusion of previous in vitro experiments (22, 23).
Perspectives.
The application of fast sarcomere-level mechanics to intact trabeculae from rat heart enabled the mechanical and kinetic description of the working stroke of the cardiac myosin in situ, showing that, although the size of the working stroke and its load dependence are quite similar to those of fast skeletal muscle myosin, the working stroke kinetics is slower. Mutations of cardiac myosin have been proposed to be responsible for dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (1, 2). Studies using in vitro kinetics and mechanics (23, 24) can only define the size of the working stroke and the time the motor remains attached (that is, the reciprocal of the detachment rate) under almost unloaded conditions. The results of our in situ study demonstrate that this approach is the only one able to quantitatively describe the mechanokinetic properties of the motor, providing a powerful new tool for defining the mechanism of the cardiomyopathy-causing mutations in cardiac myosin and for testing specific therapeutic interventions.
Sample Preparation and Mechanical Setup.
Thin, unbranched uniform cardiac trabeculae were dissected from the right ventricle from male Wistar rats (weighing 230–280 g) in agreement with the Italian regulation on animal experimentation (Authorization 956/2015-PR in compliance with Decreto legislativo 26/2014) and transferred into a thermoregulated trough perfused with a modified Krebs–Henseleit solution equilibrated with carbogen (95% O2, 5% CO2) for attachment via titanium double hooks to the lever arms of a capacitance gauge force transducer and a motor servosystem. The temperature of the solution was maintained at 27 °C. The SL was set at 2.2 μm at rest, and the length of the trabecula (L0) was measured. A striation follower was used to record SL changes in a 0.7- to 1.5-mm segment across the central region of the preparation (10). Force, motor lever position, SL, and stimulus signals were recorded with a multifunction I/O board (National Instruments; PCI-6110E).
Experimental Protocol and Data Analysis.
Trabeculae were electrically stimulated at 0.5 Hz to produce twitches. An iterative feedforward method was used to keep SL constant during systole until the final part of force relaxation (Fig. 1A). When the force had attained 95% of the peak (TP), the control was switched from fixed-end mode to force-clamp mode and 1 ms later a step in force (rise time ∼200 μs) to a fraction of TP (range 0.2–0.9 TP) was imposed to elicit the isotonic velocity transient, until a preset shortening level was reached (Fig. 2 A and B). The protocol was repeated at two SLs (1.9 and 2.2 μm) and at two [Ca2+]o (1.0 and 2.5 mM). Force is expressed as force per cross-sectional area of the preparation (in kilopascals). A dedicated program written in LabVIEW (National Instruments) and Origin 2015 (OriginLab Corporation) was used for analysis.
The force–velocity data are fitted with the hyperbolic Hill equation (25):(T+a)(V+b)=(V0+b)a,
where a and b are the distances between the asymptotes and the ordinate and abscissa axes, and V0 (the ordinate intercept) estimates the unloaded shortening velocity. The power output (W) at any force is calculated by the product between force and velocity. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM unless differently specified. An expanded version of Methods is given in SI Methods. Source mechanical data can be found in Dataset S1.
SI Methods
Sample Preparation.
Male rats (Wistar, 230–280 g) were anesthetized with isoflurane [5% (vol/vol)]. The heart was rapidly excised, placed in a dissection dish, and retrogradely perfused with a modified Krebs–Henseleit solution (composition, in mM: NaCl, 115; KCl, 4.7; MgSO4, 1.2; KH2PO4, 1.2; NaHCO3, 25; CaCl2, 0.5; glucose, 10), containing 20 mM 2,3-butanedione monoxime [which has been shown to protect the myocardium during dissection (26)], and oxygenated with 95% O2 and 5% CO2 (pH 7.4). A thin, unbranched, and uniform trabecula was dissected from the right ventricle using a stereomicroscope. The axial orientation of the trabecula was determined by means of the attachment of the two extremities using a double titanium hook. The width (w) and the height (h) of the trabecula were measured by an eyepiece with a graduate scale (10 μm per division) with the trabecula stretched to be just taught. The trabecula was mounted horizontally in a temperature-controlled trough (1.2-mL volume) attaching the triangular vertex of the double hook to the lever arms of a capacitance gauge force transducer (valve side) and a loudspeaker motor servosystem (wall side). In this way, the trabecula was aligned with the transducer levers, and, during contraction, the transversal movements were minimized. The characteristics of the force and length transducers have been already reported (ref. 27 and reference therein). The through was perfused at 1.2 mL/min, and the temperature of the solution was maintained at 27 °C. The sarcomere length (SL) was set at 2.2 μm at rest by using a 40× objective, and L0, the trabecula length at SL of 2.2 µm, was estimated as the distance between the double-hook attachment at the wall side and the attachment of the trabecula to the valve, at the valve side. The cross-sectional area was calculated by assuming an elliptical cross-section. The dimensions of the preparations were as follows (mean ± SD, n = 10): w, 83–350 μm (211 ± 97 μm); h, 63–200 µm (97 ± 37 µm); cross-sectional area, 4,800–47,100 μm2 (17,660 ± 13,300 μm2); L0, 1.0–4.2 mm (2.7 ± 0.7 mm).
Experimental Protocol.
Trabeculae were electrically stimulated by means of two platinum plate electrodes, 4 mm apart, with bipolar pulses of 0.5-ms duration and amplitude 1.5× the threshold voltage. Measurements with specific mechanical protocols were made at the steady state of the contraction–relaxation cycle during electrical pacing at 0.5 Hz. A striation follower was used to record SL changes in a segment of 0.7–1.5 mm selected along the central region of the preparation (10). The relation between the force peak (TP) and the SL was determined by changing the length of the trabecula with the micromanipulator carrying the loudspeaker motor and measuring the SL with the outputs of either spot delimiting the segment selected for the striation follower signal (10). The relation between SL and trabecula length was linear up to SL of 2.2 µm and then deviated downward (Fig. S1).
To determine the isotonic velocity transient, the control was switched from length to force feedback at 95% of the peak of the isometric contraction, and 1 ms later a stepwise reduction in force, rise time of ∼200 μs, was imposed by using as a command signal the output of an integrated circuit that generated steps to preset fractions of TP (8, 19). When the isotonic shortening attained ∼60 nm⋅hs−1, the control was shifted back to length feedback to terminate the twitch in fixed-end mode at the new length. In force-clamp mode, the direct signal of force was used in the feedback, and the velocity signal was taken from the motor position signal. At any clamped force, several trials were necessary to adjust the gains of direct, velocity and integrative amplifiers and minimize the duration to optimize the shape of the step. The isotonic velocity transient (range, 0.2–0.8 TP) was elicited at different SLs (1.9 and 2.2 μm) and at different extracellular Ca2+ concentrations (1 and 2.5 mM).
We thank Mario Dolfi for skilled technical assistance. This work was supported by MIUR-PRIN Project 2010R8JK2X (Italy), Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Project 2012.0611 (Italy), and Telethon Project GGP12282 (Italy).
↵1Present address: Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università di Firenze, 50134 Florence, Italy.
↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: vincenzo.lombardi{at}unifi.it.
Author contributions: M.C., F.P., M.R., G.P., G.J.M.S., V.L., and M.L. designed research; M.C., F.P., M.R., G.P., G.J.M.S., and M.L. performed research; M.C., F.P., and M.R. analyzed data; and G.P., G.J.M.S., V.L., and M.L. wrote the paper.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1525057113/-/DCSupplemental.
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Working stroke in cardiac myosin
Marco Caremani, Francesca Pinzauti, Massimo Reconditi, Gabriella Piazzesi, Ger J. M. Stienen, Vincenzo Lombardi, Marco Linari
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2016, 113 (13) 3675-3680; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525057113
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Olympic Committee sets up career programme for ex-athletes
By Mike Berry on 16 Feb 2005 in Economics, government & business, Latest News, Global HR, Labour market
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched the Athletes’ Career Programme, designed to facilitate the integration of athletes into the labour market at the end of their sporting careers.
Sports competition requires such a huge personal investment from athletes that it leaves them very little time to prepare for their professional future.
Many finish their sporting careers and find it difficult to move on with their professional lives.
To address the issue, the programme will provide professional career development services worldwide, during and after athletes sporting careers.
Thirteen National Olympic Committees have been selected to participate in the programme in 2005.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said: “[Athletes] dedicate their lives to sports and it is only right that sports should give them something back at the end of their sporting careers.”
The IOC has chosen recruitment consultancy Adecco to implement the programme.
Dedicated teams and a tailored methodology, which includes professional assessment, career planning, training, coaching and placement, will help 2,000 athletes back into the labour market, the IOC said.
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A coyote was photographed near High Street, located beside Centennial Park, just before Easter. Photographer Mandy Johnston, who was walking with her two-year-old son, said she was not overly worried about the canine’s presence. (Mandy Johnston photo)
3-year-old girl attacked by coyote in White Rock
Conservation officers located and killed the coyote Monday
May. 8, 2019 12:02 p.m.
A three-year-old girl was attacked by a coyote in White Rock Monday night.
BC Conservation Service officer Sgt. Todd Hunter told Peace Arch News Wednesday that the toddler sustained “superficial” injuries to the back of her leg after she was bitten by a coyote in the Centennial Park parking lot area.
The girl was examined, and later released by health care professionals, Hunter said.
The Centennial Park parking lot, located off 16 Avenue near 148 Street, is connected to Ruth Johnson Park, which features the newly-constructed Generations Playground. The park is also connected to Duprez Ravine, a forested area that connects 16 Avenue to the White Rock beach.
Hunter said conservation officers located and killed the coyote responsible for the attack Monday evening.
“The area is currently safe to enjoy,” Hunter said. “But the conservation service recommends that people have their dogs on a leash, keep children in close accompaniment and to hike in groups.”
SEE ALSO: Coyote put down after four-year-old boy attacked
SEE ALSO: Cat survives coyote attack in Chilliwack
Hunter said that coyotes generally shy away from people, and that an attack on a human is “rare.”
“It has happened before in the Metro Vancouver area. Generally, the best thing to do to prevent these type of things is to definitely not feed wildlife,” Hunter said.
Hunter said that the ravine is a suitable habitat for “numerous” coyotes.
“Generally, if there’s one there’s likely more. Are we going to be going and looking for more to remove? No,” Hunter said.
Hunter described coyotes as opportunistic animals. One of the most important things people can do to limit interactions with coyotes, is to not feed wildlife and control vermin.
“If you have vermin coming around, you’re going to have all sorts of wildlife coming around. It’s a predator/prey relationship. An inspection of (the ravine area) revealed that there’s likely a number of areas that this would be a perfect habitat for coyotes.
Hunter said that members of the public that witnesses any unusual coyote behaviour are asked to call the BC Conservation Service 24-hour call centre at 1-877-952-7277.
aaron.hinks@peacearchnews.com
Centennial Park parking lot, located in White Rock. (Google image)
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Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 Picks to Win – Phoenix Predictions
Race: Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500
Date: Sunday November 15, 2015
Track: Phoenix International Raceway
TV: NBC
by Virginia Vroom, NASCAR Handicapper, Predictem.com
So, I found it pretty amusing after Jimmie Johnson took his 5th win of the season that the NASCAR reporters felt the need to emphasize it’s been a 20-race losing streak broken for him! Let me think about this: This is still Johnson’s FIFTH win of the season. We’d think that he hadn’t won in years the way the announcers were playing it. I suppose when you are comparing relative to Johnson’s typical domination, this year has been an anomaly at best, with his already being eliminated for any sort of championship hopes. Regardless, Johnson pulled off a late-race pass to Brad Keselowski who did nothing short of dominate the race in order to win. Keselowski, noticeably frustrated, still provided a very solid interview, admitting that Johnson’s car was just that much better than his at the end of the race.
Of course, Keselowski is going to be frustrated. He had an opportunity to almost certainly punch his ticket to Homestead and was unable to do it. Much like Logano, who suffered a catastrophic loss at Martinsville due to Matt Kenseth’s temper-tantrum, Keselowski will almost definitely need a win to make it to Homestead. These guys have this weekend at Phoenix to make it happen. Unfortunately, Kevin Harvick is known to pretty much dominate this track. With the foolishness that’s already been pulled so far during the Chase, I would dare to say that something will go awry this weekend as the drivers race their last races to secure a spot at Homestead.
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Phoenix is notorious for its blue walls. The one mile track is home to two Sprint Cup races each year. The track itself has quite a variation in banking throughout. Turns 1 and 2 have 10-11 degree banking. Turns 3 and 4 have 8-9 degree banking. The backstretch varies between 8 and 10 degrees. There’s also a portion of the track known as the dogleg. This portion is designed much like 1 and 2 with 10-11 degree banking. Finally, the frontstretch has the most minimal banking here at only 3 degrees. Last weekend’s race at Texas saw quite the battle against tires, to the point where there was a Goodyear official being interviewed early in the race to explain the potential reasons Goodyear was not at fault for all of the blowouts. Perhaps drivers learned something and set their cars up to handle the tires better this weekend. This track is much smaller, though, with much lower speeds than we saw at Texas. Drivers top out around 130-140 here on a good day while racing. Qualifying speeds are clearly much higher, but the racing speeds aren’t nearly the 200mph+ that we saw at Texas. Track position is everything here. It’s a difficult track to pass on and we also see traffic becoming a problem here as well seeing as it’s only a 1 mile track.
Overall, you’d honestly be pretty brazen to go against Kevin Harvick this weekend. As the winner of the last 4 consecutive races here and 5 races altogether, he’s absolutely the driver to beat. Unfortunately for the rest of the championship contenders, Harvick will likely punch his ticket to Homestead this weekend, leaving everyone else in the dust. Most of the drivers left in the Chase need to win. There’s going to be a lot of tempers flowing and some pretty crazy driving and strategies from the teams if I had to guess. This is the last shot to get into the last segment, which is Homestead. Not that Harvick can’t win his way in, but even if he has troubles, he’s proven that he’s smart enough to move on by other means. Sorry, NASCAR. Not sorry. Harvick pulled a quick one and maintained his position in the Chase by some rather shady circumstances. NASCAR may not call him out, but I sure will. Regardless, here’s the rundown of your potential winners this weekend as we head to Phoenix:
My Pick to Win: Kevin Harvick
Middle of the Road Pick: Jamie McMurray
Dark Horse Prediction: Erik Jones
Although I’m disappointed that the 20 team is even allowed on the track after the stunt that Kenseth pulled, I’m glad that Erik Jones is getting an opportunity to race. This kid has talent. He’s run against and beaten Kyle Busch in the lower series. Overall, he’s definitely stronger than any of the veteran dark horse contenders. Jamie McMurray finished 2nd in his last race here and is, overall, very strong at these shorter flat tracks. Look for this team to really step up this weekend and potentially contend for a win. These non-Chase drivers are making it difficult for the Chasers to punch their tickets. Let’s see where the points stand after Jimmie Johnson’s win at Texas.
Here are your current top 8 after last week’s race:
1. Kevin Harvick
4. Martin Truex Jr.
6. Brad Keselowski
This Chase has really been a surprise, from Jimmie Johnson being knocked out early to Joey Logano on his way to 4 straight wins and now really being all but forgotten going into the last 2 races of the season. The top 4 drivers are within 6 points of each other. Edwards is 13 points behind and Logano is 69 points behind. The guys from 5th on back really have a lot of driving to do. They also need to hope for some issues for those top 4 contenders because there’s not a lot out there stopping those guys. Stay tuned for the last race to lock up our final Chase grid before heading into Homestead! Bet the Quicken Loans 500 for FREE by taking advantage of a giant 50% bonus up to $1000 FREE at MyBookie!
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Raiders to suspend Brown: report
Raiders will suspend Antonio Brown after argument with GM Mayock: report
Antonio Brown, Mike Mayock have butted heads as Raiders season approaches
Oakland Raiders’ Antonio Brown (84) wipes down his helmet during practice at the team’s facility in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders’ Antonio Brown (84) drills during practice at team’s facility in Alameda, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown (84) takes part in a practice session on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, in Alameda, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown shows up at the De La Salle versus St. Thomas game at De La Salle High School in Concord, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders Antonio Brown walks along the sidelines during the De La Salle vs. St. Thomas Aquinas game at De La Salle High School in Concord, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown takes a selfie with students during the De La Salle versus St. Thomas game at De La Salle High School in Concord, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown, right, leaves training camp with his agent Drew Rosenhaus, center, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Napa, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders’ Antonio Brown (84) laughs while attending the Oakland Raiders training camp in Napa, Calif. on Saturday, July 27, 2019. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown, left, talks with quarter back Derek Carr, right, after a practice session on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in Alameda, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
By Michael Nowels | mnowels@bayareanewsgroup.com and Jerry McDonald | jmcdonald@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 5, 2019 at 10:41 a.m. | UPDATED: September 5, 2019 at 10:42 a.m.
Raiders star receiver Antonio Brown is facing a suspension from the team after a tumultuous preseason that came to a head with an argument with general manager Mike Mayock Wednesday.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Brown and Mayock got into an argument Wednesday, resulting in the team’s decision to suspend Brown.
The Next Chapter: Antonio Brown and GM Mike Mayock got into it Wednesday, and the team is now planning to suspend its star wide receiver, league sources tell ESPN.
The argument stemmed from Brown posting on his Instagram account a letter the Raiders sent him to notify him that they were fining him more than $53,000 for missing practices and walkthroughs during the preseason.
Schefter’s report did not say how long the team would suspend Brown, but it appears likely he’ll miss at least the season-opening game Monday night against the division rival Denver Broncos.
According to an NFL Network report, the exchange between Brown and Mayock was not “physical” but included a “screaming match.”
More on #Raiders WR Antonio Brown and Mike Mayock yesterday: It did not get physical, sources say. But after a screaming match, Brown told Mayock that he would hit him in the face and then punted the ball… and said, Fine me for that. 💸💸💸
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 5, 2019
Brown’s rocky start with the Raiders has been well documented, from head to toe.
Antonio Brown posted the fine letter on social media that Raiders’ GM Mike Mayock sent him. It led to an exchange, which is now leading to further discipline. This is not going away anytime soon.
He missed significant parts of training camp with frostbite-like injuries on his feet after a cryotherapy incident in France, and twice filed grievances against the NFL to allow him to wear his preferred helmet, which he says allowed him to see better, but which was too old to be certified as safe by the league.
The NFL denied both of Brown’s grievances.
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The Raiders traded third- and fifth-round picks to the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for Brown in the offseason, then signed him to a 3-year, $50 million extension, according to salary tracking site Spotrac.
They knew they were receiving a talented, hard-working player who had been involved in some locker room disputes, notably with Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. So far, the Raiders have only seen the negative side of that equation as Brown hasn’t played a snap for the team, even in preseason.
This is a developing story. We will update as more information becomes available.
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Angry GOP donors close their wallets
'I’m sick and tired of nothing happening,' one contributor says of the party's legislative failures.
By ALEX ISENSTADT and GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
Some exasperated givers are turning to Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s hard-charging former chief strategist and a Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (pictured) nemesis, to vent. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Republicans are confronting a growing revolt from their top donors, who are cutting off the party in protest over its inability to get anything done.
Tensions reached a boiling point at a recent dinner at the home of Los Angeles billionaire Robert Day. In full view of around two dozen guests, Thomas Wachtell, a retired oil and gas investor and party contributor, delivered an urgent message to the night’s headliner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Just do something.
Wachtell, who has given tens of thousands of dollars over the years to Senate Republicans, recalled that McConnell responded defensively. Passing legislation takes time, the Republican leader responded, and President Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand how long it required.
“Anybody who was there knew that I was not happy. And I don’t think anybody was happy. How could you be?” said Wachtell, who has previously given over $2,000 to McConnell but recently stopped donating to Senate GOP causes. “You’re never going to get a more sympathetic Republican than I am. But I’m sick and tired of nothing happening.”
With the GOP’s agenda at a virtual standstill on Capitol Hill, the party is contending with a hard reality. Some of the party's most elite and influential donors, who spent the past eight years plowing cash into the party’s coffers in hopes of accomplishing a sweeping conservative agenda and undoing Barack Obama’s legislative accomplishments, are closing their wallets.
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The backlash is threatening to deprive Republicans of resources just as they're gearing up for the 2018 midterms. Party officials are so alarmed that North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, who oversees fundraising for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told his colleagues at a recent conference meeting that donations had fallen off a cliff after the Obamacare flop. The committee’s haul plummeted to just $2 million in July and August, less than half of what it raised in June.
"When you’re in a business and you tell your stakeholders you’re going to build a building or something, you have to follow through," said Houston-based energy executive Dan Eberhart. "I can’t borrow money to build a building and then not follow through, which is what these guys are doing.” He said he's spoken to four Republican senators over the past month to express his displeasure, mostly over the party's failure to repeal Obamacare.
Behind the scenes, the GOP has begun to try to smooth things over with its most important givers. On Monday, Trump met with the party’s most prominent donor, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who has privately expressed frustration that the president hasn't moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And in the wake of an establishment-backed candidate’s loss in Alabama, a top McConnell political lieutenant, Steven Law, held a series of frank discussions with key benefactors.
Some of the donors are giving lawmakers an earful. Bruce Rastetter, an Iowa agribusiness mogul who has funded a long list of Republican elected officials, said he had informed his state’s two GOP senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, that he would not donate to Republican senators “unless they pass new legislation or get new leadership.”
In the world of campaign politics, big donors have long been known as gripers — an exclusive group accustomed to stroking and attention. But this year is different. Veteran fundraisers say they’re having an unusually hard time setting up meetings with major contributors, lining up checks and organizing events.
One seasoned GOP fundraiser forwarded along a curt email from a sought-after donor. “The GOP leaders should know, no movement on remaining agenda: tax reform, infrastructure, deregulation, etc. means no funding from supporters like me,” it read. “No meetings, calls, contributions until we see progress.”
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The figures turning off the cash spigot range from mid-level donors to some of the most generous contributors whom the party has long relied upon. Among those who’ve been cool to outreach are venture capitalist John Childs, real estate developer Harlan Crow, and retail executive Les Wexner, according to fundraisers.
All have funneled millions of dollars to the party over the years.
Al Hoffman, a former Republican National Committee finance chair who played a key role raising money for George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, said he had no plans to help in 2018 other than to work on a few races in his home state of Florida.
“It’s a real mess, no?” said Hoffman, a real estate developer, referring to the GOP's predicament.
The resentment over the state of the party has infiltrated Republican fundraising capitals like Dallas.
“I think major donors are tired of writing checks to a do-nothing Congress,” said Roy Bailey, an influential, Dallas-based GOP bundler.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, who oversees fundraising for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told his colleagues at a recent conference meeting that donations had fallen off a cliff after the Obamacare flop. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Last week’s GOP runoff for an Alabama Senate seat only heightened the sense of frustration. A McConnell-aligned super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund, dropped more than $8 million in a failed effort to prop up incumbent Sen. Luther Strange over flame-throwing jurist Roy Moore. The outcome has some party donors questioning the group’s spending decisions.
“They blew all of their resources in Alabama for basically nothing,” said Eberhart, who has donated to the NRSC, which also backed Strange.
Law, a former chief of staff to McConnell who oversees the Senate Leadership Fund, said none of his donors have threatened to stop giving. But he conceded there is wide-ranging unhappiness over the failed legislative efforts, and he described the looming tax reform battle as a make-or-break moment for the party.
“Our donors are expressing the same frustration with the lack of progress in Washington that Republican primary voters are,” he said.
Some exasperated givers are turning to Steve Bannon, Trump’s hard-charging former chief strategist and a McConnell nemesis, to vent. Bannon met with several contributors who were in Washington this week for an RNC gala and has eagerly stepped into the role of donor-whisperer. He is looking to establish his own finance network to fund an effort to unseat Senate Republican incumbents in 2018.
The White House has been closely monitoring the donor unease, concerned that it could derail the party’s 2018 efforts. Last week, Marc Short, Trump’s director of legislative affairs who previously served as an operative for the Koch financial network, delivered a presentation for a group of influential conservative financiers that included Frayda Levin and Art Pope.
Some in the administration, however, view a donor revolt as a useful way to motivate lawmakers. On Tuesday, Nick Ayers, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, told a group of RNC donors that if Congress failed to enact the president’s agenda they should withhold their financial support and instead give to primary challengers.
Not all donors are joining the protest. Pope, for one, blamed the GOP’s legislative struggles on its slim Senate majority. If anything, he said, it's reason to continue donating, in order to elect more Republicans.
"It's very difficult when you have a razor thin majority and united opposition from the other party," he said.
To others, though, the disappointment over having so little to show for their investments is profound.
Michael Salzhauer, a New York real estate investor, said he had begun informing lawmakers that he’s done giving until they address health care and taxes.
“To miss that opportunity,” he said, “is totally irresponsible.”
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Home / coronavirus / France / Malta / Netherlands / News / quarantine / France, the Netherlands and Malta added to the UK's coronavirus travel quarantine list
France, the Netherlands and Malta added to the UK's coronavirus travel quarantine list
August 16, 2020 coronavirus, France, Malta, Netherlands, News, quarantine
The UK government is to add France, the Netherlands and Malta to the list of countries from which passengers must quarantine for 14 days upon their arrival.
All three countries have seen a surge in virus cases in recent days.
"If you arrive in the UK after 0400 Saturday from these destinations, you will need to self-isolate for 14 days," Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, said in a tweet.
He added the move was to "keep infection rates DOWN".
It came amid concerns over the rising number of COVID-19 cases in France, which is the second-most popular holiday destination for UK tourists after Spain.
The country on Thursday added 2,524 new coronavirus cases to its tally in 24 hours — the highest daily increase since May when lockdown measures were lifted.
From 3-9 August, France recorded a weekly rate of 15 cases per 100,000, with the Netherlands and Malta reporting rates of 19 and 35 respectively.
Monaco, Turks and Caicos, as well as Aruba were also taken off the UK's list of so-called "coronavirus travel corridors".
The British government in July imposed a quarantine on all travellers arriving from Spain and Belgium.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the decision saying in an interview with local broadcaster Telecinco that the ruling is "inappropriate" and doesn't fit with Spain's current epidemiological situation.
He argued that places heavily dependent on British tourists, like the Balearics and the Canary Islands, as well as Valencia and Andalusia, were safe destinations, as most of the new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the north-eastern regions of Catalonia and Aragon.
France initially recorded lower cases when considering a seven days average per 100,000 than the UK but saw a peak in the last week meaning its total crept above Britain's.
The continental European country's increase was much lower than Spain or Belgium's, however.
Infection levels are highest in Paris and the areas surrounding it as well as on France's south coast.
French health authorities said at the end of July: “We have cancelled much of the progress that we’d achieved in the first weeks of lockdown-easing.”
It also warned that French citizens appeared to be letting their guard down during their summer vacations and that those who test positive are not self-isolating enough.
Source: Euronews
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Shatnerlink
In these tough financial times, we can’t expect our public services to run the way they always used to. The days of government subsidy are over. Hospitals, schools, old people, making George Osborne’s hair look like the plastic helmet hair of a Lego man: all these things cost money. There isn’t enough to go round.
That’s why, increasingly, public services are being run as public-private partnerships, where stakeholders outside the public sector are brought in to invest and improve our services. One of the latest examples of this, and the most innovative, has been the pairing of Manchester’s tram network with celebrity spaceman William Shatner.
Shatner has pledged to invest £2.3 billion in Manchester’s trams over the next fifteen years, renewing the vehicle fleet and upgrading passenger information services. In return, he gets a major boost to his profile, with his face adorning the new tram livery and his voice used for automated announcements. To complete the effect, his unique style of speech has also been replicated in writing.
The dawn of the Shatnerlink era is just the latest step in the long-running association between trams and space travel, and looks set to ensure that Manchester continues to have a world-class transport network and that William Shatner remains reasonably famous.
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That’s such a great idea, and much more marketable *pose* than the time George Takei signed that lucrative deal with Baco Foil.
Yeah, Takeifoil was doomed from the start.
Apparently Birmingham International Airport is on the brink of signing a deal with Kris Akabusi.
Is that the Birmingham International Air-kabusi project?
That’s right. It’s being modelled on the London Lisa Stansfieldsted Airport deal.
I hear rumours of naturists planning to take residence in the North East and rename our air service to Nude-Castle Airport, not to mention Mr Owen and Mrs Diamond providing funding to a castle in the area resulting in a minor name change to Alnick Castle…
I came to work on the Pringles Tube today and it made me wonder whether things have gone too far.
I think it was when I saw Morrissey swirling some gladioli on top of the Smithsonian that I think we may have jumped the shark.
Do you mean Eddie Van Halen’s Jump the Shark? I think he sponsors that saying now.
Apologies, I rarely keep up to date with up to date events. The last thing I attended was a village fete in 1976. And this Edward Van Holy is a popular thing, right?
Yeah, he’s a pop star. He did that song, you know the one? It went do doo do do do, da da doo doo, dum doo doo, yeah, jump.
Ah yes, he was in that popular band with that blonde haired chap and the other blonde haired chap. I always thought he was called Stink though? He sung that De Doo Doo De Doo Da De Day Doh song, and that one about the lady who had a fascination about lights.
That’s him. I’ve got all his albums.
What a guy. I’m going to download Edward Van Holy’s entire catalogue right now.
You can find his whole catalogue listed in the Edward Van Holy Catalogue which is available for free at Argos.
That’s a big catalogue though. There’s over one thousand pages. Do you know which page it is I’m looking for?
I think it’s pages 1-1000, but check the index to be sure.
I’m gonna have a nap in a stationary cupboard and hope by the time I wake up I’ll have them all.
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Crime & Justice, Welfare, Scotland, Education, Local government
Audit Scotland flags £53bn pension shortfall
The public sector in Scotland is facing an increasing pension fund shortfall, which now stands at more than £53bn, a study by Audit Scotland has found.
Its report this week said greater life expectancy was increasing liabilities as pensions will need to be paid for a longer time.
Auditor general Bob Black warned: 'The contributions from both employees and employers will almost certainly increase and there are likely to be demands on future public spending to meet these costs.'
However, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said the report should not be used to create panic over a so-called black hole in pension schemes. Cosla president Pat Watters said the report provided an actuarial valuation of a situation that would never play out in reality.
He said: 'It is totally unrealistic that everyone in these schemes will retire on the same day, live to the same age and die on the same day.'
The study showed that the local government pension scheme has a relatively low unfunded liability of £5.9bn. However, the NHS scheme for Scotland has unfunded liabilities of £15.5bn; the teachers' pension scheme, £14.2bn; the civil service scheme (which has 77,400 deferred or current pensioners and just 57,900 active members), £10bn.
For firefighters and police, the pension fund liability totals £7.8bn.
Black said the ways in which liabilities were calculated were not consistent across all schemes and this made it harder to report on the overall situation.
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Posted on August 7, 2007 August 7, 2007 by Jim
Homesick for Crozet
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I wonder if anyone else who grew up in Crozet ever feels this way when they drive through Crozet today. I read that some feel the old Crozet was an eye sore, the old buildings and store fronts, etc. Maybe you need to go to Charlottesville to live. Crozet was a village.
The old bank is gone. Crozet Superette, run by Mr. Moses Sandridge and his wife is gone. The Crozet Shoe Shop is gone. The old Crozet Drug store, where Jimmy Robinson use to dip out the biggest ice cream cones for 10 cents, is gone. Old Seals’ gas station is gone. I remember Mrs. Seal well, sitting out in the front, helping out. Tomlin Grocery – long gone. Sandridge Gas Station where the road to IGA begins. Morton’s Frozen Food, with the TV dinners, Ice box pies, etc – gone. Acme Visible records where my mother worked, closed. The Red Front Super Market and Nannie Wagner’s 5 and dime, just a sweet faded memory. Coffee Jackson selling Christmas trees in the parking lot beside the old bank, I just smile to think, “how did he make anything for his efforts?”
Crozet had a theater at one time. Crozet had a drive-in too. Crozet Pool was where most all of us kids stayed from sun up to sun down and then rode our bikes home, or walked. We all had swimming lessons too. Vacation Bible School at the old Crozet Methodist Church, and oh! the popsicles handed out at the end. All the fun sleigh rides down the hill in Orchard Acres. Christmas time was something else.
Fourth of July at Crozet Park was beyond excitment for us kids. We could barely sleep the night before it started. Starting first grade and Mrs. Sara Wyant. I loved her and she loved me. The train ride from Crozet Station to Charlottesville and then to McIntyre Park to play. Trick or Treating and our home-made costumes.
I rode through Crozet recently; it’s not the Crozet I remember.
Nothing like it. It has a feeling of not being sure who or where it belongs. I felt sad when I rode to old Crozet Elementary School, I got out and walked around and went to the back of the school where I started first grade so many years ago. I walked through the play ground. I looked over and I spotted something that I knew could not possibly be the same sliding board that I nervously slid down in 1962.
It sure looked the same. I went over and stood beside it. It still seemed larger than life to me. I looked underneath the sliding board and was so surprised to see stamped just under the steps it read, “Property of Crozet High School”. For all of you former Crozet residents you will know what that means. I had found one thing they had not taken away from us. You know what I mean. I left with a feeling you have when you go back to a place you haven’t been for many many years and you find something that holds so much memory for you.
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CategoriesCrozet, Crozet Park
8 Replies to “Homesick for Crozet”
Crisanne says:
I am new to Crozet. I’ve lived here just over a year. I’m sorry all those wonderful places aren’t still here. I would love to take my kids to get ice cream at the old Drug Store or buy their shoes from a small business who really takes the time to help their customers.
If you think about the vision that those people had back then, I’m willing to bet there was some opposition to them at first. Maybe if more people thought of the future happenings in Crozet as a restoration of that sort of community feeling, rather than focusing soley on the “changes”, they would be able to embrace it rather than resist it.
Jim Duncan says:
Crisanne –
Thank you for commenting. I think that there is great value on reflecting on the past – not necessarily lamenting, but seeing where we “used to be.” Those were simpler times, but it’s refreshing to see the comment in this month’s Crozet Gazette by the developer of the Gateway Gas location that he is open to any business that “won’t put a Crozet business out” of business.
We have a long way to go and so long as we communicate and work together we should be able to achieve a lot of those goals.
Thank you again for reading.
Edward Strauss says:
Just curious, where is this developer now?
I, too, feel a deep sadness as I drive through Crozet. Then again, I feel the same sadness when I drive through areas of Charlottesville. I simply prefer a small town, and the changes in Crozet are not something that I value. Though some will see that as an attempt to block “community efforts” or tamp down enthusiastic community spirit, sadness is an instinctive emotion. The way you feel cannot be wished away by hopeful or patriotic thinking.
Even the language of Crozet has become strange. Efforts to rezone are never called “rezonings”. They are referred to as “community plans”, “master plans”, “new models” “input sessions”, or “making sure we have a plan the community can agree on”. I always smile when I see these gently-assuring phrases, knowing there is so much more behind them.
A downtown rezoning will be passed soon that will intensity what is happening in Crozet from even existing levels. It would not surprise me if very few have the courage to speak out against it, but many will complain about the effect it will create long after the fact.
Perhaps I would be classified as one of the “opposition”. I felt that there were far more environmentally-sensitive options to rezonings in Crozet never considered, debated, or aired — not for a lack of trying. I went to meetings and stated how I felt about the approaching changes, their impact, and their cost — environmentally and fiscally. I am glad I did, even if the outcome was far different than what I wanted.
As long as I can remember, we have had very passionate and motivated advocacy group in Crozet that has focused on rallying residents behind shifting the way Crozet looks and feels, increasing profitability for property owners downtown, and funding growth infrastructure. Also, the efforts of residents and environmental groups outside Crozet who desperately want to protect their rural areas by intensifying development in Western Albemarle has had an even great impact — well-funded external forces contributing to the change in Crozet.
Residents in Crozet have since said the plan was misrepresented to them by county officials — something I agree with. Now, these residents say they no longer support it. That said, who are these residents going to vote for. Both parties in Albemarle — Democrat and Republican — have felt strongly that sending more people to Crozet is a powerful environmental and economic tool. We don’t have one candidate — at least not yet — who could cite some environmental problems with sending commuters into Western Albemarle. There really has been no difference between the two parties.
One thing I would encourage Chrisanne to think about is that there is nothing wrong with any new resident choosing to be a voice to protect a small community. It has been inferred by some that it is hypocritical for any new resident to be against “community efforts”. After all, you moved here, so you need to think of yourself as “part of the problem” and get with the program.
But all residents, whether new or long-time, DO have a choice. If you don’t want a rezoning, super-road, or intense development, it is your right as a citizen, whether new or long-time, to say so. Residents do not have to spend money at businesses that support advocacy that they feel changes their community in a negative manner. If you value trees, clean air, and less development; then you have a right to say it. Even though I probably fought against the rezoning that created your house, there is no reason why new and long-time residents cannot see eye to eye on rezonings in the future and be good neighbors to boot. 🙂
Some things, however, never change — memories. I enjoyed the memories that were so passionately written by the poster above, so I will finish with one of my most pleasant memories of Crozet. I remember the Peachtree Little League. It was a league where girls were allowed to play and hit home runs, chewing tobacco was snuck in between innings, and parents of both teams socialized in the outfield. Occasionally, we cleared the benches for a scuffle over pitching philosophies. Kids picked up stones from the infield every game, but this still didn’t prevent ground balls from hopping erratically at the last moment, giving us infielders a wonderful excuse for missed grounders. The baseball diamond (at Crozet elementary) had an unique indentation that we called “home plate”. This indentation would fill with water after a short rain, making batting a rather muddy experience. I still recall closing my eyes and swinging like Reggie Jackson (or was I swingning like Evil Knievel), desperately hoping to get a piece of a Scott Abell fastball — never easy. Our coaches purchased free hotdogs and sodas for us, whether win or lose. And after each game, we went strolled out to the parking area with the friends we knew from the other team, chattering about the close call at second base, the new umpire with the funny voice and potbelly, or our plans for the afternoon.
Everyone knew everyone, and though Crozet may be soon engulfed by an approaching urban storm, those memories need not fade. Memories cannot be paved over, rezoned, or swept away by development of political advocacy. Developers, profits, and politics may destroy but so much. But, they cannot reach memories. Memories truly do last a lifetime.
This weekend, I had a wonderful community experience, and it leads me to say this: community is where you find it. At the C-ville Women’s 4-Miler, there were 2700 female runners and walkers, and at least that many friends, family, and fans gathered to support them. I, who don’t consider myself to know that many people, saw people I knew everywhere I turned. And, because of the event, people I didn’t know soon were greeted like friends, and soon became friends, as we completed a challenge together. Community can be a small town, but community can also be a race against cancer. Community can be your child’s soccer or t-ball team–I still know and socialize with the other parents at practices and after games, as Craig reminisces about in his comment. Community can be an evening seminar you attend, as I do in C-ville, where bonds are formed over ideas and aspirations. Community can be a chorus you sing in, the neighbors you live with, something you do once a year or every afternoon. Community can be Cub Scouts walking in the 4th of July parade, as we did this year, tossing candy to the kids on the side of the road. Rather than assuming that the new way is bankrupt of community, let’s keep looking for those moments when community can be formed. Just today at the wonderful Crozet pool, I was told , when I had forgotten my season pass, not to worry because they knew we were members. They know me there. They know me at the library. They know us at La Cucina. And, in each of these moments, community is built. It might not look like yesteryear, but, as Madonna says, Beauty’s where you find it. I love my Crozet community, as I build it for myself, piece by piece.
Sara G says:
Katrien – that’s a beautiful description of community! So true!
Paulwseal says:
I miss the old Crozet too! My mom and dad run the Seals service station. I worked there after walking from crozet school every evening. wishing I could go back to those days. hope the new people dont change it too much
liz bond barnes says:
I remember your parents station well. I also remember your beautiful mother, with that golden tan. I sure wish we could go back for one more July 4th , say 1962?
Liz Bond
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Abiyoyo
This route is located in the Muir Valley at Solarium
Air-Ride Equipped Manifest Destiny So Long Mr. Petey Magnum Opus Urban Voodoo Delicatessen Super Best Friends Summer Sunshine Galunlati Mirage Bundle of Joy Abiyoyo Banshee Helios
Muir Valley Nature Preserve and Climbing Arena
Muir Valley, LLC is a nature preserve and rock climbing area owned and maintained by Rick and Liz Weber. The Valley is approximately 400 acres in size and walled in by over seven miles of majestic cliffs of hard Corbin Sandstone that range in height from 20 feet to over 200 feet. Waterfalls cascading off the cliffs abound, as do caves and stone bottom creeks. Mountain laurel, rhododendron, and many other species of wildflowers and plants grace the valley floor and hillsides. Muir Valley is indeed one of the prettiest little places of natural beauty to be found anywhere.
Although privately owned, Muir Valley may be freely enjoyed by all.hikers, climbers, and folks just sauntering through taking in the spectacular beauty of the valley. No admission fees are charged. As such, the Valley falls under the provisions of Kentucky.s Recreational Use Laws.
Because there is no outside funding or revenue stream, we appreciate your time and efforts in helping us maintain the land and its trails. You may climb, hike, and enjoy the natural beauty as our guests, but at your own risk.
Rules for Visitors to Muir Valley
You must fill out a waiver on muirvalley.org before climbing in this region.
1. You must read and understand the documents .Warnings to Visitors to Muir Valley. and the Kentucky Recreational Use Statute. Your presence in Muir Valley signifies that you agree that you have been adequately warned by Muir Valley Nature Preserve, LLC (MVNP) of hazards that may exist in Muir Valley and that you consider MVNP in full compliance with the provisions of this statute.
2. You must notify MVNP as soon as reasonably possible of any unusual dangerous condition or hazard in the Valley,of which you may become aware.
3. To rock climb in Muir Valley, you must first submit and have accepted the Muir Valley Release Form. You must either fill out and submit this form on line at www.muirvalley.com or do so on a temporary paper form, good for three days, available at the kiosk at the main Muir Valley parking lot.
4. You must be eighteen years of age or older or be accompanied by your parent, your legal guardian, or responsible adult to enter this property. Those minors climbing with a responsible adult, such as a professional rock climbing guide, must have had the Muir Valley Release Form completed and submitted on-line on their behalf by their parent or legal guardian before entering Muir Valley. Climbers under age 18, who can demonstrate a proficiency in rock climbing, will be permitted to climb in Muir Valley on a case-by-case basis and only with special permission of the MVNP.
5. Persons under the age of eighteen years (minors) must be supervised by their parent, legal guardian, or responsible adult and remain in the presence of that parent or guardian 100% of the time that the minor spends in Muir Valley.
6. These activities are permitted in Muir Valley: rock climbing, hiking, trail running, and enjoying nature.
7. These activities are NOT permitted in Muir Valley: sport rappelling, bungee jumping, rope jumping, taking long intentional falls (sometimes referred to as .victory whippers.), mountain biking, shooting firearms, hunting, trapping, camping, campfires, or operating motorized vehicles.
8. Climbing of a type known as free soloing or highballing, which is done without proper and adequate protection in the form of rope belaying, spotting, or using bouldering pads, is unnecessarily dangerous and not permitted in Muir Valley. The only three forms of rock climbing permitted in Muir Valley are sport climbing, wherein the climber utilizes hanger brackets bolted to the rock faces, for protection, trad climbing, wherein the climber provides and temporarily affixes his/her own passive and active gear to the rock faces for protection, and bouldering, wherein the climber, sans rope, climbs routes that remain close to the ground and uses bouldering pads to provide a safer landing. Aid climbing is not permitted in Muir Valley.
9. Do not climb above the anchors or top out on any climb in Muir Valley.
10. Do not toprope through the anchor chains (or rings). This means do not run your rope from the belayer up and through the anchor hardware and back down to the climber. This produces unnecessary wear on the anchor hardware and may increase risk to you or climbers who use this hardware subsequent to your use of it. Instead, attach quickdraws or carabiners and slings to the anchor system and run your toprope through them.
11. Unintentional falling is part of responsible rock climbing. Rock climbers are expected to be experienced and skilled in the technique of taking falls, and belayers are expected to be experienced and skilled in safely arresting the falls of the climbers they are belaying.
12. No rock climbing routes of any kind may be put up in MVNP without the written permission of MVNP. If you wish to put up a climbing route, FIRST contact the owners with your ideas PRIOR to starting the project and they can help you get started. We are keeping a database of route setting projects in the valley. All new routes must have a database ID and be approved buy the owners (or their representatives). This is necessary to prevent overbolting and inappropriate setting of routes. No hardware of any kind may be permanently affixed to any rock in Muir Valley without the written permission of the MVNP.
13. Please pack out all trash, especially non-biodegradable trash and toilet paper. Please do not throw cigarette butts on the ground. And, thank you for carrying out trash left by others!
14. Dogs are not allowed in Muir Valley. This includes the parking lot. Leaving your dog tied to your car or, worse yet, shut in your car puts you dog at unreasonable risk of injury or death by overheating.
15. Harvesting of plants or plant specimens is to be done only with the expressed specific permission of MVNP owners.
16. Please do not damage trees and vegetation. Stay on existing trails. The Valley has been recently lightly logged. In time, the land cut by the more severe logging trails will be restored to its natural state. New footpaths may be established only with prior approval of the Muir Valley Owners.
17. Absolutely no digging for and/or removal of relics will be permitted in caves, rock shelters, or anywhere else in Muir Valley.
18. Please respect our neighbors' property and privacy. Drive slowly on the approach road. Children are often present. Park only on Muir Valley land in areas designated for parking.
19. Illegal drugs and alcoholic beverages are NOT permitted anywhere in Muir Valley. Period.
Banshee 5.11c (Sport) *****
First Ascent: Eric Anderson in 2005
Length: 100ft
Bolts: 11 (report bad bolts/anchors)
Same start as "Abiyoyo", but head up and right from the first hueco rest. (Head up 4 bolts, then branch right). A tricky crux move leads to a 2nd sit-down rest in a large hueco. Follow large jugs to the top. 60 m rope recommended.
Moves: Crimps or Edges
Descent: Fixe Anchors
Owner: Muir Valley
dihedral (1)
4.63 stars (138 votes)
5.11c (108 votes)
Submitted by: Raiden
Date: Apr 9th, 2015
Submitted by: Anonymous
Submitted by: dustonian
Submitted by: MikeWilkinson
Submitted by: Willy
Submitted by: krabikrabi
What is up with all that freakin glue?
ray said on May 22nd, 2005
Beautiful line!
Anonymous said on May 22nd, 2005
I reinforced a clip hold with 1/2 cup of fiberglass resin. It felt really loose and creaky, and pretty large, so I glued it. I think it's what you use to clip the 4th bolt. No flex now.
Gaar said on May 31st, 2005
One of the best looking lines i have ever climbed! It looks even better when your up there!!!
haas said on June 3rd, 2005
The reinforced hold down low is still creaking and probably going to still blow eventually. I also exploded the clipping jug on the 7th or 8th bolt
Anonymous said on June 17th, 2005
Exploded? Like with DYNOMIGHT!?!
Astroman said on September 19th, 2005
Unbelievable route. The upper bit is second to none.
merrick said on November 21st, 2005
This is the best route I did on the wall. tricky start, awesome rests, a well defined cool crux and the top was so good i flipped out like a ninja.
pigsteak said on March 18th, 2006
top half makes it all worth it....
endercore said on May 13th, 2007
this route is so sweet.
bcombs said on August 1st, 2007
Serious wasps after the second hueco. It's X'd, so be careful. I tried to climb past with no luck.
512OW said on August 1st, 2007
Exploded the clipping jug? Aren't all the holds on the top half of this enormous jugs? I'd guess there are more to clip from...
clausti said on March 9th, 2009
The 4th bolt, the last one you clip before you go directly right, is a really long clip. Specifically, so long that, at 5'2", if I had managed to get it hung, it would have been the hardest move on the route by at least two letter grades. Kind of a bummer to blow the onsight on not being ale to clip, since you can't fix the problem by climbing closer to the bolt. Got it on my next go when the draws were hung.
512OW said on March 9th, 2009
I've seen several 5'short climbers hang the draws with no problem. Maybe your feet could have been better or you could have climbed above it to clip? I watched a woman today who "couldn't" reach a hold, at her full extension, that my 11 year old daughter has no problem with, even though she's a foot shorter...
Kris- perhaps eventually I'll be strong enough to hang that draw. But, as I said in my earlier comment, at my height it seems like doing so would very much be the hardest move on the route. Considering that I got all the moves on the route the first time I tried them, but couldn't hang the draw, my conclusion seems to me to be correct. There *are* higher feet than the ones I was using, but to use them, I'd have to bring the clipping hold- downward sloping already- well past lockoff at my shoulder. And the route goes directly, 90-degrees to the right after the clip. So short of skipping it, no, you can't really climb higher to fix the problem. A Kong Frog *might* be long enough to make up the difference; maybe I'll try that if I get on Banshee again. A final point- I don't know you, so I don't really know if this applies to you personally, but it seems to me that average-to-tall men sometimes-to-often sometimes don't distinguish between their 5'6ish female friend (who is short to them) being able to reach a clip and a 5'0 (one my my main climbing partners) or 5'2 (me) person being able to reach a clip.
Oh, and just to be clear- I don't doubt that you've seen 5'short climbers hang those draws. But my guess would be that .11c isn't gonna be one of the harder routes on their ticklist.
SCIN said on March 10th, 2009
My buddy is about 2 1/2 feet tall and managed to get the draw hung. It was his first 5.11c line. He was pretty psyched. He had trouble getting out of the hueco though since he had to jump out and up to reach the holds.
512OW said on March 10th, 2009
My main partner is 5'1". When she did this route, she hadn't yet done a 12, so it was near her limit. All I'm saying is that just because you had a hard time, doesn't mean there isn't a better way that you didn't see. Especially when climbing near your limit, there are lots of new moves to learn. Maybe it wasn't a higher foot, but an opposing one, or a toe hook to keep you in. Frankly, I don't even remember going straight to the right on the route...
clausti said on March 10th, 2009
I'm not saying it was impossible, just that I found hanging the draw to be harder than any move on the route. And it was kind of a bummer.
Better get used to it... as the grades get higher it becomes WAY more prevalent. Just part of the game...
Lil Josh said on April 16th, 2009
Holy rests!
pkananen said on May 26th, 2009
super fun. I didn't find anything that I imagined to be reachy.
der uber said on June 18th, 2009
I don't understand why that hold was glued - it's choss, and there's a nice hold a few inches right of it. Fantastic line! Solid for the grade I thought.
SeanStone said on November 17th, 2009
This is line is gorgeous! Cool movement too...
jlu said on April 27th, 2010
beautiful long exposed line. there is no 11c move on this climb, and turns into 10b after the 2nd hueco. go for the onsight!
whatahutch said on October 15th, 2010
Before I put a plea out in the forum I wanted to ask here first. I want to flash this (and a few other things) because I only have one day to climb at the Red this fall. Would some loving soul share some key beta for this before I get there. PM me please.
dustonian said on October 15th, 2010
Don't pump out getting to the hueco rest and it's stupid easy from there... staying right helps. Also you may want to clean this on rappel or via toprope... the anchor is a heinous rope-twisting shitshow on this one (been meaning to get out there and add a little chain & quicklinks to it this season but haven't yet... this would be a wonderful donation if you're in the mood!)
pawilkes said on October 15th, 2010
It's been years since I was on this last, but I recall that you want to jog right just before the second hueco and then to into it instead of climbing to the left side of it and then stepping over into it. that part was key for me.
I can add a little chain and quick links. No problem. (I will be down on the 30th). How much chain should I bring? How far apart are the anchors?
4-5 chain links should be fine + 2 quicklinks... bring a crescent wrench or borrow one from Rick to tighten them down a quarter turn. Thanks!!
whatahutch said on October 31st, 2010
I belayed my buddy up this and he added giant quicklinks to it. (It was my hardware). I brought chain too, but I brought two little links that I use as bail links and two giants. I felt more comfortable just having the big bombers on it sans chains and little ones. The next time I am down there and I have more endurance then I will add two or four more big giants to this route.
Dman said on November 9th, 2010
great route loved the two sit down rests
dustonian said on April 16th, 2011
Big thanks for the hardware whatahutch, this classic is a lot more rope-friendly now.
climb2core said on September 7th, 2011
Awesome line. I am curious why everyone thinks the top 1/2 makes the climb? Just a pretty routine jug haul at that point... Albeit on awesome rock with a great view. To me the fun of the climb was the movements from the ground to the second hueco. Felt soft for 11c as I was on Bandolier the day before which seemed harder IMO.
Willy said on April 8th, 2012
Felt soft for me as well. Super fun climb on gorgeous rock though!
Rollo said on April 16th, 2012
Well Bandolier was harder than Centerfire for me but I don't think those grades will be reversed any time soon.
taurusclimber said on May 29th, 2012
My friend was attacked by 2 or 3 yellow jackets last weekend midway up the top half of the route, where the jugs are. Watch out for the nest. .
taurusclimber said on July 1st, 2012
Yea. Now it's a wasp nest. Stung on the ear yesterday. Not a summer route apparently.
Cromper said on September 24th, 2012
New belay anchors on this guy.
eduard said on May 18th, 2015
Second hueco is made for sitting, taking off shoes and enjoying the view. It's also very relaxing to know that you'll send the route if you've gotten that far.
lil_reggie said on November 20th, 2016
use the gimpcrimp undercling chossblock to avoid the crux all together.
Anonymous said on September 19th, 2019
The cable on the perma draw just below the first hueco is dangerously worn. The cable looks to be more than 50% frayed. As of 9/18/19
iclimegud said on September 30th, 2019
Worn perma replaced on 2019-09-28
Did you report it to badbolts?
anon did not report it to bad bolts. i heard about it through word of mouth, replaced and logged it.
climb2core said on September 30th, 2019
badbolts does not document bad permas in its database. It is intended for bolts only.
i misread. thanks for replacing.
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▸ “The History of Lutherans Singing Psalms, with Special Reference to the New WELS Psalter”
A presentation by Pr. Paul Prange, chairman of the Psalmody Committee for the new WELS hymnal.
▸ "All their works and all their ways: Angels and Archangels, and All the Company of Heaven VS. The devil, demons, powers and principalities"
A presentation by Pr. David Emmons.
▸ < "Angels and Demons: Spiritual Forces on the Church in Crisis"
A presentation by Pr. Seth Georgson.
▸ "Build a House Big Enough for an Altar"
A presentation by Pr. Johann Cauwee.
▸ The Rev. Paul Prange
The Rev. Paul Prange has been a parish pastor, a home missionary, a world missionary, and tutor, professor, and president at Michigan Lutheran Seminary in Saginaw. At present he is the WELS Administrator for Ministerial Education and the chairman of the WELS Joint Mission Council. He lives with his wife, Leanne, in Burlington, WI, where Leanne teachers kindergarten at St. John’s Lutheran Elementary School. They have three adult children. Paul was chairman of the psalmody committee for the recent WELS hymnal project, and will be presenting on that topic.
▸ The Rev. David Emmons
Pastor David Emmons has been the pastor at the Five Point Parish since July of 2015. Prior to his service to these five congregations he served as pastor of several congregations in Wisconsin. Born in 1966 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Pastor Emmons received he pre-ministerial training at Central New England College, and worked for many years as a business systems analyst, before entering the seminary. Pastor Emmons took his Biblical languages (Greek and Hebrew) at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato MN, in 1992, but then did not go to the seminary until 2002. He earned His M.Div. at Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in 2006, and went on to complete his course-work for a Doctor of Ministry degree from this same institution. He has yet to complete his dissertation. Pastor Emmons is married to Lisa (Bond) who is also a native of Massachusetts. They have four daughters (Gabrielle, Arianna, Natania, and Annaliese) and one son, Micah. As of 2016, Gabrielle (History/English), Arianna (Exercise Science/Nursing), and Natania (Theater/Music) are enrolled at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato. Annaliese and Micah (as was Natania) are heavily involved at the Stebens Children’s Theater in Mason City.
▸ The Rev. Johann Caauwe
Pastor Johann Caauwe is a frequent presenter at R2W. He has served St. John’s in Wood Lake since October 2017. He previously served congregations in Modesto, CA and El Paso, TX. After growing up in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, he received his undergraduate pre-seminary studies at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN before attending Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, MN. He was ordained into the Holy Ministry in 2005. He and his wife Sara have been blessed with nine children, whom they homeschool using a classical education model.
▸ The Rev. Seth Georgson
Pastor Seth Georgson has served as a parish pastor of six congregations in four states since his ordination in 2012. Currently he pastors the congregation of Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. Louis, MO, and the preaching station of Christ Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church in Collinsville, IL, having previously served congregations in Arizona and South Dakota. He is also on the technology and communications committee for the Wartburg Project which has produced the Holy Bible: Evangelical Heritage Version. He and his wife Linden have two daughters, ages 7 and 4. is
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Kides v. South Cambridgeshire District Council
Permission to appeal
Sedley LJ
Neutral Citation Number: [2002] EWCA Civ 926
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE C/2001/2382
(Mr Justice Ouseley)
B e f o r e:
LORD JUSTICE SEDLEY
on the application of
ERINE KIDES
Applicant/Claimant
Respondent/Defendant
(Computer Aided Transcription by
Smith Bernal, 190 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2HD
THE APPLICANT was not represented and did not attend
THE RESPONDENT was not represented and did not attend
(As Approved by the Court)
1. LORD JUSTICE SEDLEY:On 10 January 2002 I refused permission to appeal on the papers. In the reasons which I gave in writing I indicated that I would have given permission but for the then extant decision of this court in Burkett, which had the effect of shutting out the claimant for delay.
2. I also said, however, that if the application were to be renewed, it would be important to know what had happened to Burkett in the House of Lords. Their Lordships' decision was given on 23 May and reported in the WLR on 7 June. Its effect seems to be to open a new chapter on time bars in public law. It appears to conclude the present time issue in the claimant's favour, the grant of planning permission having crystallised only on 16 October 2000 and the application for judicial review having been lodged on 27 November 2000. It is clear from paragraphs 53 and 59 60 of the report of their Lordships' decision that promptness within the three month period is now an instrument to be handled with great circumspection.
3. In the light of the decision in Burkett both parties have invited me to reconsider my decision on permission to appeal without the need for further submissions. As I read CPR 52.3(4) my written decision cannot be reopened except by renewal, and I have accordingly directed that the application be listed in open court with notice to the parties that they are not expected to attend, so that I can formally revisit my decision.
4. In the light of the reasons given by me in writing and the further development which I have now outlined, this is in my judgment a proper case for the grant of permission to appeal. As I have previously indicated, the admirable judgment of Ouseley J, given after hearing full argument on both sides, makes it inappropriate to remit this case to the High Court. I will accordingly grant permission to apply for judicial review under CPR 52.15(3), and direct under 52.15(4) that the application remain in this court for determination.
5. There will be liberty to apply for any directions which cannot be agreed. The costs of this application will be costs in the case, with liberty to apply on the hearing of the appeal to vary this limb of my order if so advised.
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Online Physio / Telehealth now available
Feel Better.
Move Better.
Move Forward.
Masters of Physiotherapy (University of Canberra)
Bachelor of Nursing (University of Canberra)
My career as a physiotherapist began in 2011, having graduated from the University of Canberra. Since then my experience has been gained working locally in the private practice setting and as an aquatic physiotherapist (hydrotherapy). Prior to my life as a physio, I worked as a Registered Nurse for 9 years, where my interest and passion for health care began, working locally in Canberra, the UK and the Middle East.
My interests lie in treating a wide range of conditions, both acute and chronic, utilising a wide array of manual therapy techniques and exercise prescription. I have a particular interest in treating tendon injuries, acute knee injuries and osteoarthritis. I am passionate about helping people to achieve their goals and improving their quality of life, whether it’s an early return to work, sport or general activity. I also feel that it’s very important to provide clients with the knowledge and education so that they feel more empowered to manage their condition more effectively and independently.
Outside work I enjoy spending time with my wife and our two young kids. We love being outdoors, playing sports, travelling, and listening to music.
Services & Conditions Treated
Anything from a sprained ankle, ACL rupture, hamstring tear or shoulder strain and everything in-between.
Acute, chronic and whiplash related
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I have a keen interest in managing tendinopathies (tendon pain) particularly in the lower limb, e.g. patella, achilles, gluteal.
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Exercise with confidence in a heated pool, where buoyancy and reduced joint loading can help improve pain, stiffness and swelling. Great for any musculoskeletal injury, post-operative orthopaedic rehab, arthritis and balance problems.
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Initial Appointment (60 minutes) - $120
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Welcome to Richard Costin Physiotherapy. You can make a booking online by using the green link, or by calling Fisher Allied Health 02 5135 9999. You can find me at Fisher Shops, in Weston Creek ACT. You can also head over to my Facebook page using the link below to keep up to date with announcements and handy tips. Don't forget to Like my page while you are there!
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Katie Allbee
Katie began working at Progress Coaching as an administrative assistant, developing the the role of Coaching Strategist. Thinking she'd leave after she graduated from her graduate program in counseling, she began to see the parallels between counseling and coaching and couldn't leave. Katie holds a bachelor's degree in Education and Psychology, and has a Masters in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Solve the Number One Coaching Problem
By Katie Allbee on Thu,Aug 01,2019 @ 03:18 PM
The number one problem in coaching and corporate America today- managers are not engaging in critical conversations. What’s keeping managers from having this dialogue? It’s not lack of time, even though that’s usually the first block that comes up. It’s not that they are unqualified to be partaking in crucial conversations. What is the issue? Managers don’t know what to do and what to say when having crucial conversations that tie training objectives and coaching together. So, how do you provide managers with the skills and practice needed to become agile when it comes to having these conversations?
Topics: coaching relationships
How To Infuse Positivity Into Your Workplace
By Katie Allbee on Wed,Jul 03,2019 @ 10:53 AM
I'm going to say something that's controversial- asking your employees to be positive can be condescending. With outside stressors influencing our lives on a consistent basis, when a manager or boss says to me, "Hey, let's put on our happy face and be excited to be here today!", my immediate reaction is, "Yeah, ok," followed by me falling back into my daily negative thoughts. Let's face it, we all have things that make focusing on our work and being mindful of our impact on the work and our workplace extremely difficult- student loans, emergency bills, that one family member who constantly causes stress, endlessly comparing ourselves to everyone else on social media... the list can go on and on. So, instead of continuing to fall into the trap of cyclical self-pity, what can I do to combat these stressors in a meaningful and lasting way? Here's how you can infuse positivity into your workplace in a way that impacts each of your unique employees:
Topics: General Coaching
Why Assessments Work
By Katie Allbee on Wed,Oct 17,2018 @ 11:00 AM
We invest a lot of time and energy into figuring out how to best operate our businesses. From lean consulting down to employee performance improvement plans, we seek to figure out the best solutions to our most common workplace problems. We're able to spend millions of dollars a year on these practices, but we're omitting something vital when it comes to getting at the heart of what's going on at our companies- we're forgetting the "why".
Topics: career development Assessment Strategy
Constant Communication and Its Conundrums
By Katie Allbee on Fri,Oct 12,2018 @ 11:45 AM
Communication is key, right? It's often the answer to relationship problems with a partner, the issue that comes up when we use emails too frequently, and it's the tool we use in the corporate world to stay in touch with our fellow employees, managers, and teams. But what's the difference between quality and quantity when it comes to communication? Is it really the be-all-end-all that brings a manager and employee together, or is constant communication more aptly named "conflicting"? Here are some common themes we see with communication at Progress Coaching that get in the way of successful employee and manager relationships:
Topics: change communication relationships
Set Up Your Day for Coaching Success
By Katie Allbee on Wed,Sep 19,2018 @ 08:00 AM
As I was scrolling through my phone this morning, I came across a recent article on Forbes, "Doing This for 5 Minutes Every Morning Can Make You Nearly Twice as Productive". Turns out my daily ritual of scrolling my phone before I even consume coffee isn't setting me up for success. Luckily, I'm not alone. More than 7,000 people have taken the free online test “How Do Your Time Management Skills Stack Up?” 66% of people check their email, while only about 34% make a plan for the day. How does this translate to your day? Check out the article above for some really interesting data analysis.
Topics: coaching conversation career development
How Coaching Can Make a Not-So-Magical-Experience Magical
By Katie Allbee on Fri,Sep 14,2018 @ 08:30 AM
Throughout my daily life, I try to illustrate connections between great customer service and coaching. It's apparent when a company truly embraces what it means to have a great culture when you experience it consistently across an organization. I welcome the millennial stereotype of brand loyalty when it comes to working with or spending money with companies that move beyond simply "talking the talk" and wholeheartedly take on the "walking the walk" piece. It's easy today to fall into a trap of simply believing a company's promise, whether it's a proclamation that their green initiatives go above and beyond their competition, or that their attention to detail and lack of frivolity is why you should purchase their product. The way I sort through this over-saturation of abundant promises is through speaking with a customer service representative.
Topics: feedback workplace culture emotional intelligence
The Coach That Needs Self-Coaching
By Katie Allbee on Tue,Sep 04,2018 @ 07:45 AM
I'm going to say it- it's easier to coach someone else than it is to coach yourself. Just think about it, how often do we latch on to giving our two cents when it comes to anything? From giving our friends some advice on a new diet, telling someone how to optimize their workflow, to relationship advice and how to handle conflict at work. All of these things require little or no acceptance or awareness of how we execute any of those things. This distancing is why we prefer to focus on others rather than ourselves- it just feels better. You feel like you're being helpful, you're accomplishing something by giving someone advice or coaching someone, you're fostering a relationship, be it at work or in your personal life. But, when's the last time you asked yourself this question: Did this person really need to hear what I just told them, and why did I feel it was necessary to share that with them?
Topics: self-development Executive Management
The Importance of Expressing Empathy Through Coaching Questions
By Katie Allbee on Thu,Mar 08,2018 @ 09:00 AM
As someone with a background in counseling, and as a citizen who pays attention to the world around them, the world can be a tough place. Instead of avoiding difficult subjects, we know that genuine human connection can help ease some of the burden. Some of these difficult subjects like workplace culture, engagement studies, and emotional intelligence are trending for a great reason- companies are owning the fact that embracing each of these areas is key towards their overall success as a company. So, you know you need to focus on these things because they keep popping up everywhere- the news, social media, word-of-mouth around the office, mandates from upper management. Great! You've embraced the first step of the process, which is gaining an understanding. Then that begs the question- now what?
Topics: Coaching questions
Confidence - It's a personal thing
By Katie Allbee on Fri,May 06,2016 @ 09:35 AM
Have you ever had a friend or coworker that seemed to have it all, the great job, loving family, nice car, you name it? Has that same person still, despite all of their assets, lacked confidence? You can try telling that person that they have every reason to be confident in their life, many times having things that others only dream of having. It comes down to one simple fact: Confidence can’t be bestowed on someone; they have to foster it themselves. Just like Maria, from the Sound of Music, motivation comes from within. We all understand that confidence in your job leads to many successes, from pay to simply job satisfaction.
Topics: coach confidence
The Other "Verts"- Introverts in the Workplace
By Katie Allbee on Mon,Dec 21,2015 @ 10:00 AM
"In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated."
Topics: coaching introverts extroverts
The Age of INTER-CONNECTIVITY: What is Genuine Anymore?
By Katie Allbee on Mon,Oct 19,2015 @ 12:41 PM
It's Coaching, I Mean Football, Season!
Topics: coach employee engagement teamwork
“I Don’t Need a Therapist”: Differences Between Coaching and Therapy
There’s a certain stigma surrounding the field of therapy, negative connotations arise when someone mentions the word, and begins to wonder the mental stability of the person in question. However, while it still maintains this stigma, the results of therapy have produced wondrous outcomes for the people who have taken advantage of it. The same can be said for a business that takes advantage of a coach. If you, like myself, have trouble distinguishing between the two, here’s a couple of key differences between coaching and therapy.
Topics: engage coaching Progress
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Nitish dismisses RJD leader’s claim on 17 JD(U) legislators – The Indian Express
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday dismissed an RJD leader’s claim of 17 JD(U) MLAs being in touch with them.
The JD (U) has 43 MLAs in the 243-member Assembly. The NDA currently holds 125 seats in the Assembly, while the RJD, the Congress and the Left parties hold 75 and 19 seats and 16 seats, respectively.
Taking questions from the media during the inspection of a park here, the Bihar Chief Minister said, “What the Opposition is saying is baseless. There is no such thing.”
On Wednesday, senior RJD leader and former minister Shyam Rajak had claimed, “Seventeen JD (U) MLAs have been in touch with us. Once it comes to the two-thirds number of 28, they can defect.”
Following the JD (U)’s criticism of its ally after six out of its seven MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh joined the BJP, the RJD has been looking to exploit the growing differences within the NDA.
Another RJD leader Uday Narayan Choudhary has said Nitish Kumar should help Tejashwi Prasad Yadav become the Chief Minister and the Opposition could project Nitish as the Prime Minister candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
BJP spokesperson Nikhil Anand said, “We do not need to reiterate that our alliance is unbreakable… RJD has been day-dreaming about coming to power. Statements of RJD leaders are baseless and ludicrous.”
A JD (U) leader said they had succeeded in sending across a clear message to BJP about adhering to the “coalition dharma” in view of the Arunachal Pradesh development.
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Eric Metaxas Says Black Lives Matter Is an ‘Evil Enemy’ Run by ‘Mad Marxist Anarchists’
By Kyle Mantyla | June 24, 2020 2:57 pm
Right-wing author and radio host Eric Metaxas used his broadcast yesterday to attack Black Lives Matter as “an evil enemy” that wants to destroy the country and to claim that white Christians deserve credit for ending slavery in the United States.
“Black Lives Matter does not care about Black lives,” Metaxas said, marveling at the level of “cynicism” and “deception” that he claimed was at work behind the movement.
“The fact of the matter is if they get to do everything they want to do, they will harm Blacks,” he said. “If you actually care about Blacks—which I assume most people do, whether you’re white or not—you must oppose Black Lives Matter, the movement. You must oppose the organization because this organization, they are mad. They are mad Marxist anarchists. They want to do everything they can to destroy the country in which Blacks have been given such an opportunity to flourish.”
Ignoring the fact that Christianity was long used to justify and defend the practice of slavery in America, Metaxas insisted that “the only reason that we know racism is wrong is because of the Bible” and that “all of the people who opposed racism, who opposed slavery, who opposed Jim Crow … got their ideas from the Bible.”
“The only reason we abolished slavery, the only reason we had a civil rights movement is because of the Bible,” he claimed. “It was because of Jesus and because of a lot of white people, especially in the abolitionist movement, that we had the end of slavery, that we had a war to end slavery.”
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John Guandolo Wants Black Lives Matter and Antifa Leaders Rounded Up and Executed
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Home|Prints|Surrealist Prints|Lebohang Kganye|Ke ile ka tswela pele ka ho tereka a ntse a bua
Ke ile ka tswela pele ka ho tereka a ntse a bua
Lebohang Kganye
Medium | Prints > Digital
Style | Surrealist
Signed | Yes, Certificate
Materials | Inkjet print on cotton rag paper
Shipping | ships from South Africa by Thursday, 28 January 2021
South African artist Lebohang Kganye works across sculpture, installation, performance and film, with a particular interest in photography. Lebohang uses her art to explore fictional history and her own imagined past. By merging real elements with themes of fantasy, Lebohang uses her photomontage and print technique to insert the familiar into the unknown, and in doing so she weaves her own history. Characterised by a black and white digital style, Lebohang’s layering of images pushes the… boundaries of memories, nostalgia and history.
Lebohang Kganye’s Inspiration
Lebohang’s process is driven by personal and historical events that have shaped her own life. So much of Lebohang’s work focuses on the loss of her mother, and she uses her work to reintroduce her mother into her own narrative and vice versa. Marrying the two memories, Lebohang produces surrealist works, with an element of portraiture about them. The rich contrast of the monochrome tones in Lebohang’s work makes for powerful and intimate narratives.
Career and Success
Born in 1990, Lebohang currently lives and works in Johannesburg. For the last ten years, she has shown in group and solo shows throughout the world. She has recently participated in exhibitions including Give Me Yesterday at The Prada Foundation in Milan, Africa No Island at MACAAL in Marrakesh and Alpha Crucis- Contemporary African Art at Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo. Lebohang’s work has earned her a host of awards, and in the last year she has been recognised by the Camera Austria Award and the Rolex Mentor & Protege Arts Initiative, both in 2019.
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Paclii gets lifeline through PNG funding
1:18 pm on 6 September 2017
Papua New Guinea has agreed to provide funds to allow an online Pacific legal service to continue operations.
The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court. Photo: RNZ / Johnny Blades
The Pacific legal website, or Paclii, is operated by the University of the South Pacific out of Vanuatu, collecting and publishing legal material from 20 Pacific countries.
The open-access website's future was in doubt since last year when an Australian government funding agreement expired.
Now PNG's judiciary has signed an agreement with the USP for financial assistance to maintain Paclii.
According to The National, PNG's chief justice Sir Salamo Injia signed on behalf of the Department of Justice to provide 150-thousand US dollars for the USP to continue Paclii.
Sir Salamo said the website had become a vital tool for the work of lawyers and judges in PNG.
He described the database as very important to the law and justice sector across the region.
The PNG government is also to provide US$30,000 annually from next year.
Sir Salamo recalled how PNG played a major role in the establishment of the website during the mid 1990s.
The Director of Paclii, Dr Anita Jowitt, said free access to legal information was critical to the rule of law and Paclii provided that in its publications.
Pacific law database may face cuts
The Pacific Institute at the Australian National University says the Australian government should find a way to continue support its work.
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TAMRON 18-200 Di III VC SONY E
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A brilliant match for today's mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras, the pleasingly small, lightweight B011 provides all the advanced technologies you need to take your photography to the next level. Its impressive 18-200mm, high-power zoom range can take in everything from casual close-ups to telephoto action images. Tamron's proprietary VC (Vibration Compensation) image stabilization lets you capture sharper photos handheld in practically any light. The more you use this lens, the more you'll want it by your side while you're strolling around town or heading out on longer journeys. Get closer to your world and capture it in vibrant images with the extraordinary B011.
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The B011 gives you sharp, clear images no matter what you're shooting. Over 20 years of high-power zoom technology developments by Tamron have been distilled into this innovative long-range compact lens. The optical design includes an array of specialized glass elements that overcome aberrations, resulting in crisp, flawless images.* You can capture all the beauty of every moment you encounter with this superlative lens.
* The B011's optics include two LD elements, three Glass Molded Aspherical Lenses, one XR (Extra Refractive Index) glass, and one Hybrid Aspherical Lens.
Precise, quiet autofocus that allows for fine adjustments.
The B011's autofocus mechanism uses a stepping motor that's an ideal match for the contrast detection autofocus system used in mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. The stepping motor's actuator allows finely tuned control of angular rotation, and since it drives the focusing mechanism directly without an intermediate reduction gear, it also provides superbly quiet performance.
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Review - Helldivers
Spreading Managed Democracy
Credit: IGN
Enhancing its twin-stick shooter gameplay with deep tactical options and varied sandbox missions Helldivers trusts its players enough to let them figure the best way to murder everything with your comrades and ill-timed supply drops. When your team’s firing on all cylinders against hordes of enemies there’s simply nothing more exhilarating.
In the dystopian future, the citizens and nations of the world have come together to form one all-encompassing force – Super Earth. Super Earth is besieged on all sides by three enemy races; bugs, cyborgs and the illuminate. Luckily for Super Earth, there is a spearhead force for humanity’s defence against the perpetual alien threat – the Helldivers. The Starship Troopers influences are front and centre, with the tongue in cheek tone set from the opening cinematic and continued with every jingoistic one-liner your marines shout while on their missions.
You and up to three mates are Helldivers, dropping onto a foreign planet of your choosing to begin spreading ‘managed democracy’ - one squishy enemy at a time. Straight away, the gameplay controls exceptionally well. The controls are responsive and fluid with no input lag. The controls are pretty standard for a top-down shooter – left stick to move, right stick to aim, face buttons to take cover and melee. However, the real ingenious controls come in the form of the stratagems system. These stratagems come in a wide variety of explosive ordinances and war supplies that are called in by entering sequences of directional buttons. It seems tedious now but in the middle of a pitched firefight when you’re the last man standing, needing to enter the sequence instead of just pressing a button ratchets the tension up another notch.
Playing with your mates online or in couch co-op is recommended over playing by yourself or with strangers online as there is no type of system to discourage griefing. You will need mates because even though you can get through some of the easier missions by yourself, eventually they become insurmountable playing solo. Playing in a team also gives you more flexibility with your loadouts, which is a must when playing as each race throwing their own unique and deadly units. The Bugs swarm in large numbers with shotguns being a must to keep the herd at bay. The Cyborgs carry small calibre arms that necessitate heavy armour and weapons with high penetration. The Illuminate uses a mix of psychic powers and energy weapons requiring exceptional teamwork to manage.
Each online mission you successfully complete feeds directly into the three different war fronts with the end goal being invading the enemy homeworld and claiming the planet for Super Earth. Of course, if the tide of the war is against you then you’ll be fighting a desperate last stand to protect Super Earth. These are both timed events so even if you lose the war, it resets giving you another chance to take up the fight. It’s an awesome system that lends every single mission a sense of purpose and urgency that keeps you wanting to come back every day to contribute to the war effort. The highest contributors for each conflict are immortalised in the leader board cleverly positioned as ‘The Heroes of The Front’.
The game isn’t the prettiest to look at but that hardly matters when you’re looking at the action through God Vision. While the graphics aren’t much to write home about, the sound design is decidedly top notch. The simple yet motivating theme injects the game with an undertone of subtle humour that keeps the tone light-hearted despite the swathes of enemies you murder for your questionable war that was most likely started by Super Earth in the name of “Democracy”.
The sound effects pack so much punch, from the rounds of a heavy machine gun to the hiss of enemies spotting you as the alarm goes up to the thunderous roar of an artillery strike as it obliterates a screen full of enemies. This is easily my favourite part of the game, with the sound effect that plays when you’re out of ammo being a standout.
With no option to turn off friendly fire, each and every weapon is deadly to friend and foe alike. In roughly three hours of gameplay here are the different ways I’ve died for the glory of Super Earth.
- Downed by enemy: 150 times
- Shot in the back by a teammate: 80 times
- Killed by friendly ordinance: 25 times
- Killed by drop pod: 15 times
- Killed by end of level dropship: 5 times
- Killed by own grenade 3 times
- Killed by friendly turret 2 times
That’s Helldivers, a frantic, tense, hardcore co-op shooter that’s best played within punching distance of your friends.
Helldivers is available for PS4, PS3 and PC.
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Former Justice Officials Press ACORN Investigation
By Matthew Murray
Posted October 31, 2008 at 3:01pm
Five former high-ranking Justice Department lawyers urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday to continue vigorously looking into whether ACORN and other liberal groups committed fraud when registering hundreds of thousands of new voters ahead of Tuesdays election.
We hope that you will assure the American people that your Department intends to investigate and prosecute any and all instances of voter registration and other fraud occurring in the days leading up to the election, and that you will enforce all of the federal voting rights laws that are important to preserving the fairness and security of the election process, former elections regulator and Justice Department lawyer Hans von Spakovsky wrote on Friday.
Former Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds and former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General Roger Clegg, Michael Carvin and Robert Driscoll also signed the letter.
Fridays letter comes amid an ongoing FBI investigation into ACORN and a week after six former Justice Department lawyers pleaded in a letter to Mukasey to make sure voter registration investigations dont keep eligible minority voters from the polls on Election Day, according to an Associated Press report.
Initiating federal criminal investigations into allegations of election fraud in the immediate pre-election period can have a serious chilling effect on voters, especially minority voters who have experienced a long history of discrimination and intimidation at elections, the six attorneys wrote in their Oct. 24 letter.
Von Spakovsky and other former Justice Department lawyers, however, are now disputing their former colleagues claims, arguing that failing to turn over every rock would actually dampen voter participation.
Precisely the opposite is true, they wrote. It is the protection of legitimate voting activities that demands immediate and uncompromising pursuit of voter registration fraud by the Department especially during election cycles.
Otherwise, the legitimate votes of both minority and non-minority voters will be threatened with vote dilution by those who fraudulently register and cast a fraudulent ballot, they continued. In truth, the only voters intimidated by strong enforcement of our election laws are those behaving fraudulently.
Von Spakovsky, who abandoned his bid for a full term on the Federal Election Commission earlier this year amid criticisms by Democrats and civil rights groups, is now a visiting legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation.
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Academician Pokhilenko: The situation with rough diamonds in the Russian Federation will start changing for the worse as early as 2025
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De Beers ends 2019 sight sales as ‘signs of steady demand continue’
De Beers concluded its 2019 rough diamond sales on a seemingly recovery path as the industry spent the better part of the year stuck in murky waters.
The Anglo American 85%-owned diamond company raked in $425 million from the tenth sales cycle of 2019 compared with $400 million realised during the ninth sales cycle.
“Following continued polished diamond price stability in the lead up to the final sales cycle of the year, we saw further signs of steady demand for rough diamonds during Sight 10,” said De Beers chief executive Bruce Cleaver.
The situation was, however, not that rosy when compared with $544 million that De Beers accrued during the same period last year.
Although still provisional, the group stated that it earned $4.04 billion this year from its diamond sales compared with $5.39 billion, a year earlier.
The diamond industry had been experiencing an oversupply of polished diamonds that have led to sharp price drops than for rough stones.
De Beers lowered prices across the board by about 5%.
It had been offering flexibility to its diamond buyers as midstream trading conditions are still in the process of rebalancing.
Image credit: De Beers
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Jobs Data Slaps Dow Jones Industrial Average
GoPro's Glimmer of Hope
Josh Selway
Disappointing jobs data has sent the DJIA lower once again
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is following global stocks lower, even as oil prices swing higher -- with June-dated crude futures last seen up 2.1% at $44.56 per barrel, despite a rise in domestic crude inventories. Sparking the sour mood was ADP's disappointing report on private-sector payrolls, which is often seen as a precursor to the Labor Department's jobs report. And while upbeat readings on the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) non-manufacturing index and factory orders has stocks off their session lows, the Dow and its index peers are staring at a second straight day of heavy losses.
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Among the stocks with unusual put volume at midday is Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA). The options are trading at four times the average intraday pace, as the company prepares to report earnings tomorrow morning. The most popular option by far is the June 80 put -- where more than 10,000 contracts have traded -- where it looks as if one trader may be rolling her long May 85 puts down and out to the back-month puts. The stock was last seen 0.5% lower at $75.50.
Data storage specialist Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ:STX) is among the best performers on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today. The stock has gained 2.8% at $19.98, as it tries to fight back from its post-earnings slide. Sparking the upside price action is news CEO Stephan Luczo recently purchased over $4 million worth of shares, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. Unfortunately, STX is still down over 65% in the past 12 months.
Among the top losers on the Nasdaq is mobile game maker Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:GLUU), after the company's lackluster first-quarter revenue was met with a round of bearish analyst attention. The stock was last seen 16.5% lower at $2.23, though it remains above the $2 level that's acted as support since early 2011.
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is up 0.8 point, or 4.9%.
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Support pledged for Southern genomics research
By: T.V. Padma
[HYDERABAD] The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) has pledged support for developing countries’ efforts in genomics research and its use in treating disease.
Genomics — the study of the entire set of genes in an organism — has the potential to treat complex diseases like diabetes and heart disease that are controlled by multiple sets of genes and influenced by environmental factors such as diet and lifestyle.
Research in the field may also lead to ‘personalised medicine’ — choosing drugs and dosages according to an individual’s responses to them.
"The social landscape of science is changing … Developing countries across Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa are now entering the field of genomics research," said HUGO president Edison Liu, addressing delegates at the 13th Human Genome Meeting last week (26 September) in Hyderabad, India.
HUGO will assist developing countries by helping them develop research infrastructure and technical expertise, said Liu, who is also executive director of the Genome Institute of Singapore.
He added that HUGO is becoming more inclusive as an organisation, with representatives from countries "who are new entrants in genomics research".
Some developing countries already have their own genome initiatives to analyse genetic variations within their populations and its links to key diseases.
The Indian Genome Variation (IGV) initiative — a government-funded collaboration of several institutes in the country — released the first large-scale database of genomic diversity in the Indian population in 2008.
The database is being used to detect genes that pre-dispose individuals to specific disorders and adverse drug reactions, and gain insights into population migration.
South African scientists have submitted a proposal to the country’s department of science and technology for a national genomic medicine research programme to study the richness of human diversity in Africa, and its links with disease susceptibility and treatment. The Africa Genome Education Institute is actively engaging the public in discussions on genomic issues.
"Africa is the origin of humankind, yet very little research is reported from this continent on genomic diversity," says Raj Ramesar of the MRC Human Genetics Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
Ramesar’s team plans to build on initial studies on five indigenous southern African populations, which offer evidence for human origins south of the Sahara, and shed light on population migration to the southern tip of Africa.
Similarly, scientists in Mexico embarked on the Mexican Genome Diversity Project (MGDP) in 2000 to analyse the genetic basis of complex diseases in the Mexican population and improve healthcare.
The international genome diversity project HapMap does not include Latin American populations, says Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda, a scientist from Mexico’s National Institute of Genomic Medicine.
Mexico, for example, has 62 indigenous groups. Most of its people are Mestizos, a population group that is a mix of American Indian, Spanish and African races. Initial studies under MGDP show genomic diversity in the Mestizos that is not represented in HapMap.
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Hampden Park joins European elite on the big screens
Celtic and Aberdeen will be in even greater focus for this weekend’s William Hill Scottish Cup Final after the largest in-stadia screens in the country were installed at Hampden Park.
The massive LED screen installation in the East and West Stands is part of the first phase of stadium development work – undertaken on time and on budget – as the national stadium undergoes a makeover as one of 13 host city venues for UEFA EURO 2020.
The state-of-the-art screens are designed to enhance the match day experience for supporters and the Daktronics Outdoor Video Display system is currently operational in only two European stadia: the Santiago Bernabeu, home of reigning European champions Real Madrid, and Twickenham, home of the Rugby Football Union.
Each screen is 5.49 metres high and 19.75 metres wide, covers 108 metres², weighs in at almost six tonnes and is capable of providing live video, social media feed, live scoring technology and animation to maximise supporter, sponsor and partner interaction.
In addition, 26 new skyboxes have been constructed across the South Stand and two skylounges fitted-out in the North Stand to increase the hospitality experience in line with UEFA EURO 2020 Tournament Requirements.
Peter Dallas, HPL Managing Director: “Showcasing a minimalist modern contemporary look and feel, and incorporating the very latest smart audio-visual technology, the new corporate facilities at Hampden were designed and developed following review of the concepts used at UEFA EURO 2016 and other prevailing trends within the major events marketplace.”
The giant video screens, skyboxes and skylounges will all be operational for this weekend’s William Hill Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Aberdeen. A capacity crowd will see for the first time the unsurpassed scale and resolution of the new giant screens and be encouraged to interact with the state-of-the-art technology.
More than £2m has been invested so far in the redevelopment work by the Local Organising Structure partners (Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council, EventScotland, Hampden Park Ltd.) involved in the project, headed by the Scottish FA’s UEFA EURO 2020 Project Leader, Andrew Niven.
Stewart Regan, Scottish FA Chief Executive: “The work undertaken so far in preparation for Hampden’s status as a host city venue for UEFA EURO 2020 has already revitalised the national stadium. The screens are simply awesome but also an integral part of making the Hampden match day a more interactive experience for fans.
“They also create new advertisement and engagement opportunities for participating clubs, the Scottish FA itself and our sponsors and partners.
“The refurbished skylounges also provide an enhanced experience for hospitality guests, with completely modernised facilities indoor but also new seating configuration in the main deck.
“The excellent work undertaken as part of the Commonwealth Games event hosting in 2014 has also been added to, with new skylounges that again enable spectators to enjoy pre-match entertainment in first-class surroundings.
“We had a visit from a delegation of UEFA’s EURO 2020 Venue Operations Unit during March and they were impressed by Hampden Park and the current improvements we are making to the stadium.
“We are pleased to be able to offer these new services for the William Hill Scottish Cup Final, adding further sheen to what already will be the season’s showpiece event.”
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Under-strength Scotland fall to Belgium
International Challenge Match
Belgium 5-0 Scotland
Tuesday, 11 March 2017, kick-off 7.45pm (UK time)
Stadion Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium
Coutereels 35, Mermans 46, Wullaert 58, Blom 84, 90.
An under-strength Scotland side struggled to find their rhythm against an impressive Belgian team, ultimately falling to a 5-0 defeat at the Stadion Den Dreef in Leuven in an International Challenge Match.
Though Scotland only trailed by a goal at half-time, the Belgian Red Flames proved too hot to handle in the second half, scoring four unanswered goals as they cantered to victory.
Scotland began the game brightly, Lisa Evans cutting in from the right wing and testing the keeper from 20 yards with a well-struck left-footed shot.
Scotland had Shannon Lynn to thank for keeping the score level on the 12th minute when a ricochet in the box saw the ball land at the feet Belgian forward Daniels. Her curling shot from within the box was well saved by Lynn’s outstretched foot.
Fiona Brown caused the Belgian defence problems in the 24th minute, showing a deft touch and a burst of pace as she cut in from the left wing, only to have her shot from the edge of the box blocked and rebound off her for a goal kick.
Lynn was being kept busy in the Scotland goal and again came to her side’s rescue on the half hour mark, pushing a fierce header from a deep cross out for a corner.
Scotland had both the woodwork and a touch of good fortune to thank for not finding themselves trailing on the 34th minute. After winning possession in midfield the Belgians attempted an audacious lob from 35 yards out that Lynn tipped onto the bar, with the rebound bouncing off her and fortuitously rolling out of play for a corner.
Scotland’s luck did not last, however, with Belgian midfielder Coutereels powering a header from the resulting corner low past Lynn for the opener.
Coutereels was at the heart of the play minutes later, bending a powerful free kick from 25 yards over the wall that Lynn could only turn away for a corner.
Scotland were struggling to impose themselves on the game, but a Fiona Brown strike stung the palms of Evrard in the Belgian goal on the 38th minute following a high ball forward from Leanne Ross.
Kirsty Smith replaced Nicola Docherty at left back at half time but within a minute of the restart Scotland had fallen further behind.
After Dieke lost possession deep in her own half the ball worked its way through to Mermans, who found herself in acres of space in the box. Though Lynn got fingertips to the Belgian’s first time shot she was unable to prevent it from finding the back of the net.
Scotland’s night failed to improve, and a stunning strike from Wullaert extended the lead on the 58th minute. Though Lynn’s punch from a high corner cleared the box it landed at the feet of the forward who powered a tremendous left footed shot on the turn into the top corner.
Anna Signeul made a further change on the 64th minute, replacing one debutant with another, as the impressive Vaila Barsley made way for Sophie Howard.
Scotland almost gave themselves a lifeline on the 75th minute as Jane Ross curled a free kick on goal from 25 yards, but her effort was pushed wide.
Scotland made their final changes on the 83rd minute with Christie Murray and Lana Clelland replacing Leanne Ross and Lisa Evans respectively. The substitutions failed to spark a revival though, and Scotland’s misery was compounded less than a minute later as substitute Blom pounced to net Belgium’s fourth of the night.
With the match in the dying embers there was still time for Belgium to add to Scotland’s misery as Blom latched onto a clever through ball, running in on goal from thirty yards out and slotting past a helpless Lynn for her second.
Despite the comprehensive nature of the defeat Scotland head coach Anna Signeul will have learned much from the game. Both Barsley and Howard making their Scotland debuts, the former putting in a notably impressive performance at the heart of the defence.
“We were disappointed with the result tonight, but it’s better to get this kind of game out of the way now rather than at the Euros this summer,” said Barsley.
“Now we can reflect on it, see what went wrong and what went right and work to never make these kind of mistakes again.
“Making my debut for Scotland was a huge honour. It takes away from it a little that we lost, but I am delighted to have got my first cap and hopefully it is the first of many.”
SCOTLAND | Lynn (GK), Docherty (Smith 45), Barsley (Howard 64), Dieke, Frankie Brown, Crichton, Leanne Ross (Murray 83), Arnot, Evans (Clelland 83), Jane Ross, Fiona Brown.
Unused Substitutes: Fay (GK), Clark, Emslie, Graham, Alexander (GK)
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Karen meme being considered as anti-feminist hate speech by the ADL
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What started as a meme about angry feminists who complain too much might be added to the Anti-Defamation League hate speech list.
Pepe the Frog and the ‘OK’ hand gesture memes have already been annexed by the Anti-Defamation League and are now officially considered symbols of hate. It seems as the “Karen” meme might be added to the list for hate speech against feminists.
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When it comes memes it seems that the right-wing have the upper hand. Unfortunately, a lot of their memes have been banned on social media or, even worse, added to the list of hate speech which, in some cases, makes their use a criminal act. But are they really that bad?
The most recent memes to receive 1984 style censored ship on social media are the NPC and Learn To Code Memes.
The NPC meme — which was really just a counter-response to the Russian bot meme — called out certain people for being predictable by replying with generic responses like Non-Playable Characters in videogames. The meme was super effective, and the left retaliated by saying it was dehumanising and Twitter responded by banning anyone that used the meme on their platform. Oddly enough, you are still allowed to call right-wingers ‘Russian bots’ without consequence.
Some memes, however, transcended social media and made international headlines. A group of trolls gathered on the popular, yet controversial, image messaging board 4chan and orchestrated a campaign to fool democratic politicians and liberal media into thinking that a common hand gesture is actually a symbol of white supremacy.
‘OK’ hand gesture officially considered symbol of hate after 4chan meme campaign.
Several photos went viral of conservatives holding up the ‘OK’ hand sign and that was enough to convince liberal media that it was, in fact, a symbol of white supremacy (because all conservatives are white supremacists, right?).
After the meme went viral the ADL officially recognised the ‘OK’ hand gesture as a symbol of hate.
Now the ADL is at it again and this time they are targeting the “Karen” meme.
What is “Karen”? Meme explained!
Karen began as an all encompassing meme that simply meant ‘annoying woman’. It was essential the ‘Jane Dough’ of bad mother jokes. It then evolved into exclusively being about the never satisfied soccer-mum who would always complain and demand to see the manager.
But now the meme is specifically about radical feminist with coloured hair who pretty much make up cancel culture; i.e. want to ruin careers, cancels shows, etc.
Original Karen only wanted to speak to your manager. The new Karen wants you banned of Twitter and hopefully die from coronavirus. Karen to be added ADL censorship list?
And, in marvellously ironic fashion, the people who are usually considered to be a bit like “Karen” are now outraged at the term and are trying to cancel it by appealing to the Anti-Defamation League and want it officially to be considered hate speech.
Feminists agree that Karen meme should be considered hate speech
Does anyone else think the ‘Karen’ slur is woman hating and based on class prejudice?
— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) April 5, 2020
Feminist blogger and self-published author, Julie Bindel, took to Twitter to express why she believes that Karen should be considered hate speech against women, especially feminists.
“When I was in my 20s, the slur against younger working-class women was ‘Sharon and Tracy’. I honestly cannot think of any equivalent for men. But I am so sick of women, including those of us that have devoted our lives to women’s liberation, being spoken about so disrespectfully.”
Her friend, and fellow feminist blogger and self-published author, Hadley Freeman chimed in, expressing that it’s far more than just sexist, but one of the worst things a man could say to a woman.
Yes – it’s sexist, classist and ageist, in that order
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) April 5, 2020
When challenged, Hadley Freeman stood her ground and adamantly stated that only ‘old women’ are named Karen.
“Really? What do you think of when you hear “Karen”? Is it a cultured, cool, upper middle class young woman? No, that’s a Sophie, Isabel, Alice. Karen = late 40 something suburban comedy housewife. It is deliberately and entirely specific and reductive – ageist, sexist and classist”
However, Dana Wefer, free speech attorney and self declared ‘gender critical womanist’, turned the argument on its head when she explained the the name “Karen” was originally used by woman of colour as a racist slur against white women in the work place.
Apparently I’m right!https://t.co/zDFYSvNJLJ
— Seed Of Fire (@DanaWefer) April 6, 2020
Whether or not the “Karen” meme will be officially recognised by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as hate speech remains to be seen, but it is very likely seeing as they’ve added Pepe the Frog, bowl cuts, and the ‘OK’ hand gesture to that list.
What’s your take on the “Karen” meme? Is it sexist, ageist and classist? Should the “Karen” meme be considered hate speech by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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SNOW from Poppermost Productions get snowboards and snowmobiles today
SNOW goes into free-to-play Open Beta today, here’s a launch trailer to prove it
Poppermost Productions will be having an Open Beta of SNOW in late January
SNOW from Poppermost Productions having a Closed Beta in March
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SNOW gets Oculus Rift DK2 Support in M4 Update
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SNOW M3 update hits Steam, uses CryEngine 3.6 now
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SNOW from Poppermost Productions hits Steam Early Access
Poppermost Productions today announced thelaunch of SNOW, the first truly authentic winter sports game, on Steam Early Access. The 3-man team at Poppermost created SNOW to offer the most realistic skiing experience ever.
“With SNOW we wanted to provide players and winter sports enthusiasts with an authentic experience. Skiing is all about freedom, creativity and exploration, and SNOW delivers exactly that! We’ve removed all of the restrictions and clutter that we traditionally see in action sports games and with SNOW; allow players to approach the game the way they want”, said Alexander Bergendahl, CEO and Game Director at Poppermost Productions.
SNOW’s first mountain, Sialia, is a massive 8km2 of open-world, mountain terrain that has been entirely hand-crafted by the studio. Sialia is an ideal playground to explore and compete in thanks to its epic lines, massive cliffs and carefully designed terrain parks. Players can freely explore this vast and varied terrain or attempt to prove themselves by setting high scores on SNOW’s leaderboards.
Poppermost has collaborated closely with freeskiing icons Tanner Hall, Tom Wallisch, and Russ Henshaw to ensure that the authenticity of the sport was fully recreated in every aspect of the game.
“I am really excited to be part of building the first realistic ski game. From what I have seen already it’s the only game built by skiers for skiers!” said Russ Henshaw, Gold Medalist at the 2012 Winter Dew Tour Slopestyle Competition.
SNOW also offers a deep character customization system where players can equip their rider’s eleven different body areas with over 140 products from real life brands. Poppermost has also partnered with over a dozen of the biggest brands in winter sports to offer players the most popular products available from the most recent season. The team will update the contents of the catalogue continuously.
SNOW is powered by CryENGINE, which is known for its high production values and breathtaking graphics. “CryENGINE was a natural choice for us. We wanted to deliver a game with stunning visuals that would support our vision of an open-world. Crytek’s game technology is extremely powerful and really helps us create the world of our dreams”, said Alexander Bergendahl.
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Cutting Through the "On Demand" Hype
With ongoing economic uncertainty putting a premium on business agility, technology companies are offering up visions for new computing and business process models. Here's a primer on the new models and their potential implications for the supply and demand chain.
[From Supply & Demand Chain Executive, December2003/January 2004] Grid computing. Utility computing. Organic IT. e-Business on demand. Adaptive enterprise. Seems like with every passing week some new catchphrase pops up to seize the attention and imagination of the information technology (IT) marketplace.
It would be easy particularly for those outside the IT function to write off these buzz phrases as so much marketing noise. But the concepts behind all the sloganeering are forming the foundation for new supply and demand chain models that some analysts believe could give early adopters a significant competitive advantage in the years ahead.
A Matter of Definitions
Of course, given the proliferation of these catchphrases, it's hardly surprising that not even all IT specialists have a clear understanding of what the terms mean. For example, a study by Westport, Conn.-based consultancy Saugatuck Technology found that just 19 percent of IT managers in a survey understood what "grid computing" meant. And while 48 percent of the managers in the survey were familiar with the phrase "utility computing," just 2 percent said they had a firm understanding of this model.
With that in mind, let's start with some definitions.
In its recent report "How to Differentiate Grid Computing and Utility Computing," technology research firm Clabby Analytics described grid computing as "a network architecture that finds and exploits computing resources and storage." A grid, Clabby writes, is all about sharing unused computing power within a set pool of available resources. Using this model, companies potentially can ensure that their computing resources are more optimally utilized, and they can also attack large computational problems without necessarily having to invest in new, high-power computers. This is because a grid system could break one huge number-crunching assignment into smaller sub-assignments that low-power desktop machines could solve and send back to a central computer for aggregation.
In contrast to a grid, Clabby continues, "utility computing" refers not to a specific IT architecture but rather to an approach to computing that "is predicated on the idea that computing power and resources should be available like electricity" thus the name "utility." The idea is for a computer, or a company, to acquire computing power or storage space on an "as-needed" and "pay-as-you-go" basis, just as a consumer would "acquire" water on those same bases by turning on the tap. The advantages for a company adopting this model are fairly straightforward: utility computing shifts the requirement to invest in capital equipment from the user company to the service provider, and the user company pays only for the computing resources it actually uses. Fixed costs become variable costs, and the user company avoids the expense of maintaining and upgrading the equipment.
Moving beyond grid and utility computing, we encounter a host of trademarks and catchphrases that analyst firms and technology providers have created to describe their own visions for the future of IT. These include Forrester Research's Organic IT and what has become known as on-demand computing models, including IBM's e-Business on Demand, HP's Adaptive Enterprise and others. But while these models may draw on the elements of grid and utility computing, they go beyond a focus purely on IT to incorporate aspects of business transformation and process re-engineering.
From Organic to On Demand
Forrester Research debuted its vision for the future of IT in its April 2002 report "Organic IT." In the report, primary author Frank Gillett defines Organic IT as "computing infrastructure built on cheap, redundant components that automatically shares and manages enterprise computing resources software, processors, storage and networks across all applications within a datacenter." Rather than running siloed applications on isolated servers, the Organic IT model calls for shared computing resources and applications that can be linked across business functions and reconfigured using technologies like Web services.
Ignoring (for our purposes) the technical implications of this model, the business impact, according to Forrester, would be to free companies from "rigid technologies" that prevent them from quickly adapting their processes, allowing enterprises to more quickly compensate for, or take advantage of, changing business conditions. Explains Navi Radjou, a principal analyst with Forrester: "Organic IT means that process owners can focus on designing, deploying and optimizing their processes and look to applications that fit into their processes rather than trying to make their processes fit to the alphabet soup of different applications available, such as SCM (supply chain management), WMS (warehouse management systems), ERP (enterprise resource planning) and so on. Organic IT holds the promise of the software adapting to the process rather than the other way around."
In using Organic IT to break the chain binding processes to specific applications, enterprises would have the capacity, Radjou argues in his June 2003 report "Helping Supply Chain Cope with Demand," to better orchestrate sell- and buy-side activities into what he calls "composite processes," or "technology-enabled, cross-organizational process flows designed to share and act on changes in demand." In other words, companies adopting the Organic IT model would become more agile and better able to detect and respond to demand signals.
Meanwhile, late last year IBM rolled out its own grid and utility computing-based vision called as anyone who has been exposed to IBM's marketing machine over the past year knows "e-Business on Demand." IBM is casting on demand as a way to enable enterprises to break down functional barriers and to integrate business processes both internally and with customers and suppliers in a way that lets an entire supply chain respond more rapidly to changes in demand or the competitive landscape.
In practice, the on demand vision provides a platform for IBM and other solution providers pursuing similar visions to offer services in three different markets, as Forrester Research Principal Analyst Ted Schadler describes in his November 13, 2003, report "IBM's On Demand Strategy Goes Beyond IT." Those markets, Schadler writes, comprise business transformation projects (which could lead to business process outsourcing deals), business process integration projects (both within the four walls of a single enterprise and between the enterprise and its trading partners), and standards-based infrastructure projects (which could lead to data center automation or IT outsourcing deals).
Outsourcing of Sorts
The business process outsourcing aspect of on demand could be of particular interest to executives looking to hand over some part of their supply and demand chain to an external service provider. Interestingly, IBM already undertook an initiative of this nature internally in January 2002, creating an Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) group headed by Robert Moffat, the company's senior vice president for supply chain. Under Moffat, this 19,000-employee group consolidated some 30 different supply chains, supporting about 50 divisions within IBM, into a half-dozen supply chains, all but one of which Moffat operates on behalf of the company's divisions, essentially acting as an outside service provider. IBM has reported first-year cost savings from the initiative of $5.6 billion, and Moffat has said that the company also took its inventories to the lowest levels in history, drove on-time deliveries to the highest levels and took nine days out of the cash collection cycle. Those results came both from the consolidation of the supply chains and the company's ability to use the ISC as a channel for disseminating best practices from one group to others within IBM, according to Moffat, who spoke about the ISC at AMR Research's spring executive conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., this past June.
William Schaefer, vice president for procurement services with IBM Global Services, argues that just as IBM's internal divisions achieved significant saving by handing control over their supply chains to the ISC group, so, too, could other companies drive both greater savings and responsiveness by turning over responsibility for their procurement functions to a service provider like IBM on an on-demand, pay-as-you-go basis. "The beauty of on demand is that it's the perfect theme for a procurement person," Schaefer says. "It's saying, 'I pay for what I need, just what I need and when I need it.'" That pay-for-what-you-use model distinguishes on demand from a traditional outsourcing arrangement, under which a company might pay a flat fee for a fixed set and quantity of services.
Scott Lundstrom, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMR Research, points out another way in which on demand is not just "business process outsourcing to IBM" by another name. "When you start to look at what the difference is between on demand and outsourcing, certainly there is an implied ongoing improvement that IBM wants its customers to see," Lundstrom says. "That [improvement] comes in two ways: one is IBM's ability to support quick transformation of business process, and the other is their ability to find ongoing efficiencies in a business process. Those two elements ultimately are going to be pretty important in this market, and they're not really a focus of what we might traditionally think of as outsourcing companies."
Lundstrom and other analysts seem to agree that the range of technology and services encompassed by "e-Business on Demand" distinguishes IBM's vision from those of other IT providers that are proffering their own version of on demand. The analyst community most frequently cites HP, promoting "Adaptive Enterprise," and Sun, with its cryptically named "N1" strategy, as the other major contenders in this market, although both these providers would rely more on external partners to deliver certain software components of their visions, as well as business transformation and process integration services, according to the analysts. Separately, Oracle is going after the market for grid software, and some analysts see Microsoft, Computer Associates and Veritas competing on the software side, and Dell competing on the hardware side, of utility computing. EDS has scored client wins with its utility computing offering, too.
The Adoption Curve
For all the chatter in vendor and analyst circles about the potential for grid computing and utility computing, and for all the advertising muscle that IBM and others have put behind their on demand messages, broad adoption of these models has been modest to date. For example, interest in grid computing has centered primarily among users of scientific, engineering and mathematical applications. Case in point: United Technologies' aircraft engines division Pratt & Whitney is using a grid-enabled solution called LSF from Markham, Ontario-based Platform Computing to accelerate its turnaround time for computer-aided simulations, reducing engineering time and cutting development costs.
By contrast, broader business solutions have yet to be re-written to take advantage of the kinds of bump up in efficiency that grid models promise, and companies have yet to tackle the potential political issues that could arise when one business unit seeks to lower its own costs by tapping into the computing power "owned" by another division within the company. In addition, solution providers and enterprises also will have to tackle the issue of priority: Providers must incorporate the ability to assign precedence to certain users or groups of users when they must compete for computing power across a grid; and enterprises will have to address the same issue on the political level within their organizations. In general, Boston-based IT research firm Summit Strategies, in its October 2003 report "Grid Goes to Market," predicts that it will be another three to five years before grid computing emerges as "a core element of many enterprise IT architectures."
Summit Strategies sees a somewhat shorter timeline for the broader adoption of utility computing models. In its August 2003 report "Under New Management: Five-step Strategy for Enabling Utility Computing Operations," the firm predicts that "enterprise management architectures will be transformed during the next two years as ... management strategies for utility computing take hold." The driver? "The promises of dramatic cost savings and business agility benefits from utility-based architectures are too compelling to ignore," Summit writes. Alternatively, Andy Efstathiou and Jamie Gruener, analysts with Boston-based technology consultancy Yankee Group, writing in their August 2003 report "Utility Computing in Next-Gen IT Architectures," see a "deafening" hype around utility computing over the next year, but real-world products incorporating utility computing arriving in volume only in another 18 to 24 months.
One possible barrier to broad adoption of utility computing could be enterprise's reluctance to give over control of critical data or processes to external service providers. However, solution providers like IBM (with customers like Deutsche Bank) and EDS (with customers like Coors Brewing) already have been addressing these issues in their utility-based IT outsourcing deals. And the success of such Web-hosted solutions as salesforce.com (for customer relationship management) and Arena Solutions (for product lifecycle management) seems to indicate that enterprises are increasingly comfortable with outside services handling their data and processes.
As for the on demand models that IBM, HP and Sun are promoting, AMR's Lundstrom sees building awareness but slow adoption at this point. "While the vision seems pretty sound, there's a lot of maturity that has to happen," the analyst says. Specifically, he believes that commercial application vendors will have to move further along in their adoption of Web services and UDDI, the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration standard for identifying goods and services online. Not that early adopters aren't already moving toward on demand. Schaefer notes, for example, that IBM has had a long-standing on-demand relationship with United Technologies for procurement services. In general, Lundstrom views the on-demand offerings that are available now as being geared toward the higher end of the market. Large enterprises may consider this type of model, for instance, in order to leverage the global resources of a provider such as IBM to manage very large, very complex projects across geographies, or to facilitate a significant ongoing change within a business process, such as during a merger or acquisition.
In addition, Forrester's Radjou sees potential application of an on-demand model for addressing major, immediate technological challenges, such as Wal-Mart's requirement that its top suppliers adopt radio frequency identification (RFID) over the next year. By handing over the technical aspects of RFID to an outside service provider, a company would be able to ensure compliance with a minimal investment while also allowing the company's supply chain leaders to focus on more strategic aspects of RFID, such as how they could leverage the new visibility that RFID will provide into their goods in motion.
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San Francisco Events Add your event
Sunday July 01, 2018
1PM and 7PM
Soft Power - A Play And A Musical
at Curran Theater https://www.sfstation.com/curran-theater-b839 (1PM and 7PM) 445 Geary Street
A Walk On The Moon - A New Musical
at American Conservatory Theater (ACT) - Geary Theater https://www.sfstation.com/american-conservatory-theater-act-geary-theater-b835 (2PM) 415 Geary Street
High on the Hog 2018
at EPIC Steak https://www.sfstation.com/epic-steak-b24369632 (01:00 PM) 369 The Embarcadero
noon - 4:30pm
Japan Day Festival
at Japantown Peace Plaza https://www.sfstation.com/japantown-peace-plaza-b10211 (noon - 4:30pm) Post Street at Buchanan Street
THE BROOKLYN CIRCUS BLOCK-PARTY AFTER-PARTY
at Mezzanine https://www.sfstation.com/mezzanine-b2335 (08:00 PM) 444 Jessie Street
Cafe Claude Music Nights w/Adam Gay Trio
at Cafe Claude https://www.sfstation.com/cafe-claude-b1489 (7pm - 10pm) 7 Claude Lane
Clutch the Pearls - "Step Right Up" Drag Show
at Make-Out Room https://www.sfstation.com/make-out-room-b548 (07:00 PM) 3225 22nd Street
Claim to Fame Fridays - Famous Social Mixer
at Fame https://www.sfstation.com/fame-b38990190 (06:00 PM) 443 Broadway
101 Intro to Ableton Live -- All are Welcome! Bring Questions or Just Show Up.
at Noisebridge https://www.sfstation.com/noisebridge-b38445512 (1:00pm) 2169 Mission Street
7:00 PM - 11:30
Sax Powerhouse Irwin Hall Ft. The Neo Soul Vocals of Jackie Gage
at Black Cat https://www.sfstation.com/black-cat-b38989058 (7:00 PM - 11:30) 400 Eddy Street
09:00PM-02:00am
WERD. Woozy + Zoz
at Monarch https://www.sfstation.com/monarch-b38362712 (09:00PM-02:00am) 101 6th Street
Summer Jam Workshop
at Lower Haight https://www.sfstation.com/lower-haight-b38949272 (01:00 PM) Haight at Fillmore Street
Sing-A-Long Sound of Music
at Castro Theatre https://www.sfstation.com/castro-theatre-b776 (01:00 PM) 429 Castro Street
Sleeptalk, DBMK, Jet Black Alley Cat
Northern California Book Awards 2018
at San Francisco Main Public Library https://www.sfstation.com/san-francisco-main-public-library-b2811 (1pm - 3:30pm) 100 Larkin Street
Allison Smith and Christina Zetterlund in Conversation
at Contemporary Jewish Museum https://www.sfstation.com/contemporary-jewish-museum-b341 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) 736 Mission St
July 1 and 8, 11am to 3pm
Drop-In Art-Making: Crazy Contraption Maker Studio
at Contemporary Jewish Museum https://www.sfstation.com/contemporary-jewish-museum-b341 (July 1 and 8, 11am to 3pm) 736 Mission St
PAGODE DA COPA" - WORLD CUP PARTY FEAT. XANNDY
at Temple SF https://www.sfstation.com/temple-sf-b24313691 (4:00 PM to 10:00 PM) 540 Howard Street
Sunday Night Boogie featuring The Originator of House Music JESSE SAUNDERS
at The EndUp https://www.sfstation.com/the-endup-b2101 (11:00 PM) 401 Sixth Street
CSM Concerts | Karen Beaumont, organ
at Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (St. Mary's) https://www.sfstation.com/cathedral-of-saint-mary-of-the-assumption-st-marys-b6859 (04:00 PM) 1111 Gough Street
awarenow experience Siberia
at The Center SF https://www.sfstation.com/the-center-sf-b38723602 (06:00 PM) 548 Fillmore Street
at Phoenix Theatre https://www.sfstation.com/phoenix-theatre-b821 (2pm) 414 Mason Street
School Of Rock - The Musical
at Orpheum Theatre https://www.sfstation.com/orpheum-theatre-b845 (19:00) 1192 Market Street
at Noisebridge https://www.sfstation.com/noisebridge-b38445512 (01:00 PM) 2169 Mission Street
Sweat Your Prayers San Francisco
at Abada-Capoeira San Francisco https://www.sfstation.com/abada-capoeira-san-francisco-b898 (09:00 AM) 3221 22nd Street
Sunday Outdoor Vinyasa Flow @ Crissy Field
at Crissy Field https://www.sfstation.com/crissy-field-b6980 (11:00 AM) Crissy Field in the Presidio
Stamina Sundays - No Cover
at F8 | 1192 Folsom https://www.sfstation.com/f8-1192-folsom-b38553182 (10:00 PM) 1192 Folsom Street
Mic At Maggie's
at Maggie McGarry's https://www.sfstation.com/maggie-mcgarrys-b24308431 (09:00 PM) 1353 Grant Ave
SF Comedy Showcase
at Punch Line Comedy Club https://www.sfstation.com/punch-line-comedy-club-b873 (08:00 PM) 444 Battery Street
After Dawn: SF's Premiere Sunday Morning Party
at Monroe https://www.sfstation.com/monroe-b24898361 (06:00 AM) 473 Broadway
Learn to Wield a Lightsaber + Watch our Annual Tournament
at Studiomix https://www.sfstation.com/studiomix-b38988647 (3:00pm) 1000 Van Ness Avenue
at Black Cat https://www.sfstation.com/black-cat-b38989058 (07:00 PM) 400 Eddy Street
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Frankenstein's Birthday Party
at Hosfelt Gallery https://www.sfstation.com/hosfelt-gallery-b601 (June 23 - August 11, 2018, Tu, W, F)... 260 Utah Street
at Royce Gallery https://www.sfstation.com/royce-gallery-b24171791 (1:00 pm) 2901 Mariposa Street
Sunday Ritual Silent Disco Beach Yoga With Melissa Mae
at Baker Beach https://www.sfstation.com/baker-beach-b38987509 (11:30 AM) 1504 Pershing Drive
Bill Kane: Emanations
at Foreign Cinema https://www.sfstation.com/foreign-cinema-b1341 (11am - 10pm) 2534 Mission Street
Opening reception Sat, June 23, 5-7pm; exhibition open now through August 24th
Opening Reception: Illumination | The Poetics of Light
at Avenue 12 Gallery https://www.sfstation.com/avenue-12-gallery-b38990951 (Opening reception Sat, June 23, 5-7)... 1101 Lake Street
Hotel VIA White Day Rooftop Party
at Hotel VIA https://www.sfstation.com/hotel-via-b4146 (1pm - 8pm) 138 King Street
SF Improv Meetup - Intro to Improv Games!
at Sports Basement - Potrero Hill https://www.sfstation.com/sports-basement-potrero-hill-b20325801 (04:30 PM) 1590 Bryant Street
Bridge Piano Quartet
at Old First Concerts https://www.sfstation.com/old-first-concerts-b35372812 (4:00PM-6:00PM) 1751 Sacramento Street
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The Wiffle Ball logo on the company’s Bridgeport Avenue factory.
Craig Kimball was a little disappointed when his teenage son told him the highlight of a recent summer trip the two took to Maine was a cousin’s Wiffle ball tournament.
Kimball said he thought the outings he carefully planned to Bar Harbor and other sites in Maine should have made at least as great an impression.
But then he got an idea.
When Kimball and his son, Keith, returned home to Fairfield, they did a little research and discovered the Wiffle ball was invented in Fairfield in 1953.
“Once I decided to register a tournament with the Wiffle company, I corresponded through emails with David J. Mullany, owner of Wiffle Ball Inc. in Shelton,” Kimball said.
A kitchen table invention
“David told me his father and grandfather designed the Wiffle ball at the kitchen table of their home on Edge Hill Road here in Fairfield,” Kimball said.
“That’s when the bulb went off — what would be better than to bring Wiffle Ball back home where it all started, especially on [the town of Fairfield’s] 375th anniversary?” he said.
The Wiffle Ball Inc. is located at 275 Bridgeport Ave. in Shelton.
“We have always tried to produce the highest quality product at an affordable price, all right here in the USA,” David J. and Stephen A. Mullany write on the company’s website, www.wiffle.com.
How the Wiffle ball was invented
According to the company’s website, David and Stephen’s grandfather was watching his 12-year-old son (who is David and Stephen’s father) play a game in their backyard using a perforated plastic golf ball and a broomstick handle.
The son’s arm felt “like jelly” from trying to throw curveballs with the golf ball, so “Gramp” picked up some ball-shaped plastic parts from a nearby factory, cut various designs into them, and had his son test them.
“They both agreed that the ball with eight oblong perforations worked best,” says the website. “That's how the Wiffle perforated plastic ball was invented. To this day, we don't know exactly why it works… it just does!”
The brand name was based on the expression of calling a strike-out a "wiff.” Learn more about the company and its beginnings at www.wiffle.com.
Charity game in Fairfield
In Fairfield, Kimball quickly organized a preliminary Wiffle ball tournament to take place Sept. 27 at the Roger Ludlowe Middle School field. He was assisted by Fairfield First Selectman Michael Tetreau and Sue Kiraly from that town’s Parks and Recreation Department.
Competing were teams made up of Fairfield police officers, firefighters, and Town Hall and public works employees, all playing to benefit the Fairfield fire and police benevolent funds. To learn more about the event, go to fairfieldwiffle.com.
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Decent home record in Europe
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It may have been a tricky season for Leicester so far, but their home record got them into the knockout stages of the Champions League, and is indeed keeping them out of the bottom three in the Premier League.
The Foxes won all three of their group stage games in the competition earlier in the season, beating FC Porto and FC Copenhagen 1-0 and then Club Brugge 2-1, while they have also won seven of their 14 league games at the King Power Stadium this term, losing just four.
With back-to-back home league wins, as well as good memories of earlier in the Champions League, Leicester will fancy themselves at home, and that should set them in good stead against Sevilla this evening.
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Graphic Idea Notebook
A Treasury of Solutions to Visual Problems
By Jan V. White
This updated edition of the much-heralded classic of page design offers surefire ideas and inspiration to anyone stuck with the task of designing cutting-edge printed material. This book is a collection of more than 2,000 visual "idea generators"-illustrations and line art-that visualize the various abstract problems that page editors encounter. Previous editions of this book (0-8230-2149-1 and 0-9356-0364-6) have sold more than 57,000 copies "Jan White's are the very best working and how-to and why-to volumes available on the use of graphics in books and publications."--Publishers Weekly
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
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As a city of many thrills and even more spills, Las Vegas has established itself as a go-to location on this planet that more people than ever before are beginning to get involved with.
This package, part of the excellent US Cities X selection, ensures that you will have no problem whatsoever in creating an easy and effective route to enjoying this city more and more in the long-term. It’s one of the strangest cities around in terms of layout and design, not to mention its location, but this package does everything it can to sell the wonderful story of Las Vegas in the best way that it can.
The city itself is one of the most peculiar due to the fact that it’s more or less located in the middle of a desert! The range of small houses with high rise buildings thrown in between looks mental and uncluttered from above, but this is exactly what Vegas is; it’s crazy, it’s manic and it’s almost certainly a city that you need to visit. With this package, now you can have no problem in coming here and getting to enjoy yourself as much as you can with stunning new features being included throughout.
Obviously, this package includes the amazing Vegas Strip which is so incredibly important and popular to the city; it’s where all the cash comes in from, and it’s where the “fun” is stored – the hotels, casinos and entertainment venues are all here for you to specifically enjoy.
This makes the city of Las Vegas come to life, with the really unique nature of the location fully caught and included in here. It make use of the scenery quality that you would expect, but also does a wonderful job of capturing the little parts of Vegas many might not consider to be so important.
With an aerial image coverage that provides excellent detail per pixel, this ensures that you are left with thorough scope and depth that is more than the smudged “photorealistic” scenery that you see elsewhere – this really does capture the essence of Vegas with crisp, sharp textures that look wonderful.
A whole new range of features attributed to making sure that this can come together in the best way possible, with close to 4,000 new scenery additions and major buildings included in there to ensure that this lovely part of Nevada can feel as realistic as it really should.
Full night-time textures are included – Vegas looks better than ever when you fly over here at night so it can make a he difference to come here and see its wonderful beauty light up and be caught in a whole new way when you are flying above in this manner.
High resolution mesh textures are now being used across the city, ensuring that the main area as well as local celebrity locations such as “Area 51” and the Grand Canyon have been improved, changed and updated to look the best that they can regardless of what you intend to use.
Billboards and other attractions and advertising across this wonderful city are changed and edited to make sure that they fit along with the theme and style of “The Strip”. This looks truly awesome and does a great job of promoting and selling the image and the view of this wonderful city unlike it’s ever been seen before.
These airports are dealt with as well, ensuring that you can fly across Las Vegas and enjoy the depth and beauty of more airports than ever before. The airports added in here will include;
McCarran International
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Yucca Airstrip near the runway on a salt lake
A massive range of new terrain has been included across the length and breadth of the city, ensuring that it has the depth and precision in detail that you need. Away from the buildings and from the floor, this new terrain also affects the wonderful Yucca Valley as well as key surrounding lakes and areas – this is built around using specific Landsat imagery so does an absolutely wonderful job of selling the aircraft and making it look as authentic as it possibly can, bringing the whole thing together and looking absolutely spectacular.
The Las Vegas Speedway Heliport has been included for good effect, too. This looks magical and does just a spectacular job of making the city of Las Vegas burst into life and look the very best that it can. It even comes with specific new changes to the layout, making it look more authentic than it ever has in the past.
Sound effects are include such as the noise blaring from Downtown as you fly over right down to the Highway traffic shooting down below you. This ambient noise is more than just a cosmetic – it actually helps to accurately portray this city and the incredible noise that it can generate when you are here.
These new sounds are matched by the effects that are carried out across the board. Sound effects work perfectly in tandem with the traffic which now inhabits the vast majority of the roads within the city. This traffic on most major roads looks excellent, and does a great job of helping you propel yourself forward to truly enjoy the scenery. The addition of these nice little extras does a great part of the whole selling aspect of the city itself, bringing it all together perfectly.
In short, this is a mod that is great value for your money and will be sure to be a much loved and valued addition to your flight simulation experience. Everything is accurately portrayed to ensure fans of this wonderful city can enjoy themselves as soon as they arrive here to have some fun!
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Mike Phillips Gets Stevie Wonder, PJ Morton, Eric Roberson & More To Kick Some Quarantine ‘Flava In Ya Ear’
Ken Hamm
June 5, 2020 | 4:00 pm
Craig Mack’s “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)" is one of the all-time greatest posse cuts ever. Produced by Easy Mo Bee, the track featured a who’s who of '90s rap royalty. Saxophonist Mike Phillips recreates this magic with his own version of the “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)" featuring a who’s who of indie soul artists. And just like that remix, you know they had to do a video right? Following in the footsteps of other music videos pulled together during the coronavirus pandemic, Mike and guests make the most out of their quarantined quarters.
For the visual, Phillips and friends make magic in a group video chat, which actually works out in his favor considering he has 50-11 artists joining him on the track. But thanks to social distancing and conservative budgets, he was able to get footage from Stevie Wonder, PJ Morton, Eric Roberson, Avery*Sunshine, Raheem DeVaughn, Leela James, Angie Fisher, Erik “Blu2th” Griggs, Naturally 7, Tyrone Hendrix, Ashley Jayy, Jarrod Lawson, DJ Mal-Ski, Darien Dean, The Phillips Kids, Sanura and a few others and make it work. All artists take turns singing the lyrics from the classic rap from the comfort and safety of their own homes.
Mike Phillips and friends' “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)” comes from his most recent album, Pulling Off The Covers. While The 'Rona has shut down most of the music industry, he's not letting any grass grow under his feet during this downtime, recently taking over DJ D-Nice's IG Live for a couple of live shows with his band kicking some jazzy flava to Club Quarantine.
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I am really proud of this achievement, for the school, the children and for my staff. The hard work from all, has ensured our status as one of two Suffolk schools in the top 500. We continue on our mission to ensure all children at St John's achieve their potential.
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Sullivan’s life has been filled with one wrong move after another. First, he tried to prove himself to his bastard father by joining a professional baseball team, a choice Sullivan still regrets. Then he bailed on Clara, the only woman he’s ever loved. Seeing her again makes Sullivan determined to right his wrongs. Unfortunately, he wasn’t counting on one of those wrongs being a six-year-old son he never knew about…
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Nairobi, Kiambu, Nakuru get more lawmakers in BBI plan
By Allan Mungai | November 3rd 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
President Uhuru Kenyatta (C) with Baringo senator Gideon Moi (right) and Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip during the BBI Consultative meeting at Great Rift Lodge in Naivasha on November 2, 2020.[Kipsang Joseph,Standard]
The number of MPs representing Nairobi at the National Assembly will almost double if proposals contained in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report are implemented.
Pro-BBI senators and members of the National Assembly yesterday approved a formula to allocate 70 additional seats that are proposed by the BBI document.
In the formula, which was agreed on the basis of a population quota of 132,138 people per MP, Nairobi County will get an additional 16 MPs, raising the city’s representation at the National Assembly to 33. That means that close to 10 per cent of the legislators in the expanded National Assembly that BBI proposes will be representing the city.
Nairobi is currently represented by 17 MPs, excluding the Woman Representative.
The BBI document was released on October 26 at Bomas of Kenya. It proposes, among others, the expansion of the National Assembly from the current 290 members to 360 elected from single and multiple-member constituencies.
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The 70 MPs will come from constituencies with large populations and will be the solution for meeting the gender quota and the representation of youth and people with disabilities. After a meeting held for two days starting Sunday in Naivasha, and attended yesterday by President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, MPs who support the law change initiative announced the new plan that will see counties whose ratio of population to elected leaders exceeds 132,138 people per MP receive additional representatives.
The counties that will get more representatives are Nairobi (16), Kiambu (6), Nakuru (5), Kilifi (4), Mombasa (3), Machakos (3), Narok (3), Kajiado (3), Bungoma (3), Kwale (2), Meru (2), Trans Nzoia (2), and Uasin Gishu (2). Others are Kakamega (2), Kisumu (2), while Mandera, Embu, Makueni, Kirinyaga, Murang’a, Turkana, Laikipia, Kericho, Bomet, Siaya, Homa Bay and Nyamira will get a single addition each.
Some of the biggest beneficiaries will be the Rift Valley region with 19 new seats, Mt Kenya region, which gets 12 new MPs, and Coast (9). Western and Nyanza are added five seats and lower Eastern four. Aside from Mandera, no other county in North Eastern region will get new representation.
Nairobi (33), Kiambu (18) and Nakuru (16) are going to be the counties with the highest number of representatives in Parliament.
“This is great news for Kenyans who have long suffered from under-representation and a number of whom had made submissions to the BBI steering committee on the need for additional representation,” a statement released after the meeting said.
Using the new formula, the county with the lowest ratio of population to a representative will be Lamu with 71,960 people while the highest will be West Pokot where each MP will be serving 155,310 people.
The BBI proposes an amendment to Chapter Seven of the Constitution to provide for the members of the National Assembly to be drawn from both single-member and multiple-member constituencies.
The introduction of multiple-member constituencies will replace the current nomination system. The task force argued that it was best that every member in the National Assembly is attached to a specific region.
Implementing multi-member constituencies, the document said, allows the country to retain constituencies which they are attached to, and a direct link to their representatives.
“It is noteworthy that elected officials with a geographic base retain greater influence than their nominated counterparts,” the document stated.
Constituencies that have larger populations than the set quota will be served by more than one MP with the new representatives chosen from women and people living with disabilities.
On sidelines
In an interview on the sidelines of the meeting in Naivasha that ratified that formula, Nyeri Senator Ephraim Maina said one of the crucial issues that BBI addressed was providing social justice through equal representation.
The formula is, however, being criticised for discrepancies.
Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen, who was part of a group of MPs who were not invited for the meeting, faulted it.
“So the reason why Uasin Gishu and Nandi counties MPs were not invited to Naivasha was to defraud them by taking away one constituency from each of the counties? TERRIBLE,” he tweeted.
Economist Wehliye Mohamed pointed out the irregularities in the application of the formula, noting that some counties had higher populations yet fewer MPs than others.
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Damien Schoop remembers his first Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. He was with his sister in Chicago, meeting her boyfriend. He downed it as quickly as a soda, unfazed by the hoppy, slightly bitter taste hitting his tongue. Then he opened the next one.
He was just 10 years old.
It took about an hour and a half of walking alongside his sister before he was sober enough for her to bring him back home. He was so tired she put him right to bed.
"I woke up in the middle of the night and I threw up," Schoop said.
He and his sister never talked about that night again. But Schoop kept drinking on and off for 35 more years.
Today, 51-year-old Schoop is rebuilding his relationship with his two sons and his father. He has completed his general educational development test (GED) and received job training. And although he still lives at the Union Gospel Mission Twin Cities in downtown St. Paul, he works there, too, as a call center financial counselor for a national company. Due to COVID-19 restrictions at his job, Schoop is the only person living at Union Gospel Mission and working from home.
Schoop hopes to eventually move into his own place and set down roots.
"This place has just literally revolutionized and changed my whole attitude on life," he said.
Chris Suerig, who directs the mission's Christ-centered addiction treatment center, called Christ Recovery Center (CRC), said Schoop "is an inspiring example of moving out of homelessness when you are only given the basic supports of shelter and food but an overflowing amount of love and accountability to rebuild your life."
Schoop was born in Washington, D.C. At 17, he took a job at a call center. Drinking got him through the day.
"[I thought] the only way that I … can ever do this job was to be somebody else," Schoop said. Every time he drank, he was able to mimic a British accent that made him one of the top salesmen.
"But it came at a cost," Schoop said. "I was never sober. I was always drinking. Before the shift started, when the shift ended and when I got home. I would pass out, get up and I would do it over."
Three years later, he met face-to-face with his father for the holidays, whom he hadn't seen in a decade. His father was now sober himself. Seeing the state of his son, he took him to his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting the next morning.
"I had no clue where we were going," Schoop said. They walked in and he noticed the sterling silver coffee pots laid out next to doughnuts. His father hugged strangers in the room.
"There was a woman that started sharing her story … she says she goes to bars and does a British accent to have guys buy her drinks," Schoop said.
That caught his attention. After a few meetings, Schoop stayed sober for 17 years. He got another telemarketing job, became a manager and started a new life in California.
A trip to Tijuana with his co-workers — and a shot of tequila — changed that. His older sister eventually persuaded him to return to Minnesota to get sober.
After Schoop's landlord changed the locks on him due to late payments, Schoop called up an old AA sponsor. The sponsor took him to United Gospel Mission and to CRC.
"He drove me to my first meal that I had had in probably three weeks," Schoop said.
The no-insurance requirement helped Schoop complete the 12-step AA program while discovering his spirituality and connection to God.
Schoop is now sober and "putting in the work," he said. He thanks CRC for helping to get him there.
"It's not about me, it's about the people who I can possibly help," said Schoop, who hopes to lead Bible studies for future CRC students.
"I can't help everybody, but at least my testimony can be something inspiring."
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Tag Archives: Himalayas
Northern glowlights
My kitchen window
Winter in Sweden, and that means darkness, cold, and snow covering all and everything. No wonder every window is lit, day and night, with glowing stars, moons, snowflakes, menorahs, or the new fashion little reindeer or bears lit by led from inside. Without all those warming winter lights darkness would bend our backs, and we would get swept away by depression. Or maybe not.
Nevertheless, I would like to take this window view to remind myself of another northern glowlight, recently named Dano flagrans. It is a little fish from warmer waters. From where it hails, however, you can actually view the snow of the eastern outcrops of the Himalayas. It is certainly the most septentrional of the Myanmar Danio, but rivalled, apparently defeated in northerliness by Danio dangila which occurs in the Brahmaputra basin in India up to the Dibru River. No other species of Danio reaches so far north.
Looking norwest from Putao
The scientific history of Danio flagrans begins in 1988, when I, in the company of Ralf Britz and our guide Thein Win arrived in Putao, the northernmost major city in Myanmar. Putao is close to the Chinese and Indian borders, on hills forming the headwaters of the Mali Hka, major tributary of the Ayeyarwaddy River which then runs through Myanmar as one big muddy aorta. Up in the Mali Hka, however, the water is clear, at least in the dry season, not very deep, and the river beds paved with stones and rocks. The fish fauna of northern Myanmar mountain streams is little known. Transportation in the area is relatively complicated, and a lot remains to be done up there in terms of ichthyological exploration.
Mali Hka in Putao
Back to our story, our little team was quartered in the military camp and we immediately set out to fish, having only two full days at disposal. The Mali Hka itself was too big for fishing, although alright for sightseeing, but around the regiment there were several small streams with low water and convenient for seine and handnets. The streams were shallow, the water was clear, rather cool, and fish were plenty. Here we found Badis pyema which was promptly described already in 2002, and Puntius tiantian in 2005, but other fish have lasted longer to be worked up. Walking along one of the streams, we switched direction to follow a tickle of water, almost no water, coming down the left bank hill, and in there were little skittish fish, almost invisible against the beige earth and seen only as moving shadows. A number of them, certainly Danio choprae – such was the field identification – came into formalin and one made it to a tube of alcohol. Neither Ralf nor I was into danios at the time, so the fish we just hoped would be useful for Fang, and we went on happily, catching Badis pyema and similar fish that had more of our attention those days.
Fresh collected northern glowlight danio, Putao 1998
One of the Putao danios was photographed but this was in times of film photography, with no immediate quality check, and much is to be regretted by the quality of the shot. Publishable it is not, but here it can be showed off as the first image ever taken of a Danio flagrans. The alcohol specimen was sequenced and appeared in a phylogenetic tree as Danio choprae (Fang et al., 2009), and by that time noone had looked at it closely (we had other specimens, true D. choprae for the morphological data). Time passed on. This was one species that Fang never worked on, but which obviously was somewhat different from the other samples of D. choprae, and I decided to give it a go in the Spring of 2012. The manuscript was already in hand as I again met Ralf in Belgium and we spoke about past achievements and plans for the future. As he had more of the danios from Putao from a later trip, and more D. choprae, he insisted that I include this material, and so it was. The paper had to be done from almost scratch but Ralf’s material certainly improved a lot on the description and conclusions. The description of Danio flagrans, the northern glowlight danio, eventually appeared in late 2012, 14 years after its discovery (Kullander, 2012). Incidentally, it is my first own danio paper, and it was fun to do. It was enjoyable in particular, because Danio flagrans and its sister species Danio choprae do not differ only in colour (in fact they are very similar in colours), but also present some very solid morphometric and meristic differences. I am otherwise much too used to cichlid species that differ by just some pigment spot. Danio flagrans has a shorter anal fin, with less fin-rays, and longer caudal peduncle compared to Danio choprae. Perhaps this relates to their environment. Danio choprae lives more to the south, near Myitkyina, and in warmer habitats; Danio flagrans in cool hillstreams. Beware that these species may not be correctly identified in the shops. Danio choprae, the glowlight danio may appear in the market as northern glowlights, a more expensive fish. I know, three of the false northerns are swimming in a tank in my garage. These changelings are beautiful fish decorated with orange stripes. Unfortunately, they never stay still, but are constantly on the move, and they move fast, so a good view of them remains an illusion of expectation. This brings me, by association, to the conclusion of this post: Besides lights in the windows, there is one more resource to overcome winter gloom. An aquarium with beautiful fishes (all fish are beautiful). Always something to see, to learn, to enjoy.
Fang, F., M. Norén, T.Y. Liao, M. Källersjö & S.O. Kullander. 2009. Molecular phylogenetic interrelationships of the South Asian cyprinid genera Danio, Devario and Microrasbora (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Danioninae). Zoologica Scripta, 38: 237-256.
Kullander, S.O. 2012. Description of Danio flagrans, and redescription of D. choprae, two closely related species from the Ayeyarwaddy River drainage in northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23: 245-262. Open Access PDF from Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil.
Kullander, S.O. & R. Britz. 2002. Revision of the family Badidae (Teleostei: Perciformes), with description of a new genus and ten new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 13: 295-372.
Kullander, S.O. & F. Fang. 2005. Two new species of Puntius from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia, 2005: 290-302. Open Access PDF.
Photos: Sven O Kullander, CC-BY-NC
Posted in Aquarium fish, Danios, Fish, Ichthyology, taxonomy, Travel and tagged Himalayas, Mali Hka, Putao on 24 December 2012 by Sven Kullander.
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For cord cutters, 2017 will be the year of the antenna
01/12/2017 - by Jared Newman
The timing seemed appropriate last Sunday when NBC blocked all online streaming services from showing the Golden Globe Awards (the broadcaster failed to secure those rights from the producer). Unless you had cable, the only way to watch the broadcast was through an antenna.
Just a few days earlier, the over-the-air antenna had become the unsung hero of CES, the tech industry’s annual mega trade show in Las Vegas. Tech companies large and small are now integrating antenna support into their products in fascinating new ways, having realized that even in the age of streaming video, this free source of broadcast TV should not be ignored.
Most of the antenna tech on display at CES fell into one of three categories.
First, there’s the networked antenna tuner. Instead of plugging an antenna directly into your television, products like the Mohu AirWave (above) and Tablo Live (below) let you set up the antenna wherever reception is best, and then stream the signal over Wi-Fi to apps on your phones, tablets, PCs, and streaming boxes. (The $150 Mohu AirWave includes the antenna and tuner in a single unit, while the $100 Tablo Live is just a tuner that connects with any antenna.)
Aside from improving reception, a networked tuner can de-clutter your living room, and it spares you from setting up a separate antenna for each television. It also lets you stream on screens that don’t accept antenna input directly, such as phones and tablets.
CES also brought some new broadcast DVR products. With Tablo’s upcoming Droid app and USB tuner, Android TV devices such as Nvidia Shield will be able to store and play recordings from over-the-air channels. Think of it as a simple do-it-yourself DVR and streaming solution, with more apps and cheaper service ($4 per month, or $40 per year) than a TiVo.
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LG announces G Flex with curved 6-inch display and 'self-healing' back cover
By Tim Schiesser on October 27, 2013, 21:18 19 comments
Several weeks ago we got the first glance at LG's first curved-screen device, and today the company made it official. The LG G Flex includes most of the specifications we were expecting, such as a vertically-curved six-inch 720p OLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC with a 2.26 GHz quad-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel camera.
The entire design of the phone is impressively curved, with the signature rear buttons from the LG G2 seen just below the camera module. At its thickest point, the G Flex is 8.7mm thick, hiding a 3,500 mAh battery; necessary for powering such a large display.
One of the most interesting features of the G Flex is a "self-healing" back cover, which LG likens to the healing capabilities of Wolverine from X-Men. The technology sees the back cover coated with a special protective film, which is apparently able to remove minor scratches within minutes. Unfortunately, LG refrained from mentioning exactly what the protective film is made from, or how it works.
Also like the G2, the G Flex will come with a software suite that includes windowed applications, high-fidelity audio playback, tap-to-wake and a new set of lockscreen animations.
If you're interested in picking up the ergonomically-curved smartphone, you'll be disappointed to hear that LG will only be releasing the device in South Korea (on all three major carriers) at this stage. Similar to Samsung with their curved-screen Galaxy Round, it appears LG is testing the new form factor in its home country before embarking on an international launch.
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Crash Course: Recent poetry books for younger readers
November 21, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor Leave a Comment
This post wraps up my crash course series in books for younger readers. Hop back to Tuesday/Thursday posts from this month to see my previous posts in this series.
Summaries of these books are from WorldCat/the publisher. All titles are from the past couple of years.
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator), Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth (2017)
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree’s New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.
Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
Hypnotize a Tiger: Poems About Just About Everything by Calef Brown (2015)
This is the first longer-format, middle-grade collection from #1 New York Times–bestselling author-illustrator Calef Brown. Moving away from the picture book format offers Calef the opportunity to tackle a variety of themes and poetry styles as well as reach a slightly older audience. Hypnotize a Tiger is chock-full of Calef’s zany black-and-white artwork and features his wonderfully inventive characters and worlds—from the “completely nonviolent and silent” Lou Gnome to Percival, the impetuous (and none-too-sensible) lad who believes he is invincible, to Hugh Jarm (who has a huge arm, natch!). It’s a whimsical world: creative, fun, and inspiring!
Underneath My Bed: List Poems by Brian P. Cleary (2016)
When is a list also a poem? When it’s a list poem! List poems can be funny or serious, rhymed or unrhymed. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how these types of poems work—and shows some of the many ways they can be written.
Underneath My Bed is packed with goofy poems on subjects ranging from summer camp to dinosaurs to messy bedrooms. And when you’ve finished reading, you can try writing your very own list poem!
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! by J. Patrick Lewis (2015)
When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens! Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover majestic photography perfectly paired with contemporary (such as Billy Collins), classics (such as Robert Frost), and never-before-published work.
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano, Julie Morstad (Illustrator) (2016)
Flowers blooming in sheets of snow make way for happy frogs dancing in the rain. Summer swims move over for autumn sweaters until the snow comes back again. In Julie Fogliano’s skilled hand and illustrated by Julie Morstad’s charming pictures, the seasons come to life in this gorgeous and comprehensive book of poetry.
Wake Up! by Helen Frost, Rick Lieder (Illustrator) (2017)
The world is wide awake — are you? Stunning photos and poetic text usher readers into the early moments of life all around them.
Wake up! Come out and explore all the new creatures being born — just-hatched birds in the trees, tadpoles in the pond, a baby fawn in the woods. In their latest collaboration, poet Helen Frost and photographer Rick Lieder, the creators of Step Gently Out, Sweep Up the Sun, and Among a Thousand Fireflies, invite readers to wake up, open their eyes, and see the awe-inspiring array of new life just outside their door.
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (2017)
Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses “The Golden Shovel” poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of master poets like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, and others who enriched history during this era.
Each poem is paired with one-of-a-kind art from today’s most exciting African American illustrators—including Pat Cummings, Brian Pinkney, Sean Qualls, James Ransome, Javaka Steptoe, and many more—to create an emotional and thought-provoking book with timely themes for today’s readers.
A foreword, an introduction to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, author’s note, poet biographies, and index makes this not only a book to cherish, but a wonderful resource and reference as well.
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls (Illustrator), Selina Alko (Illustrator) (2018)
How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don’t know each other… and they’re not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners.
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies by J. Patrick Lewis, Johanna Wright (Illustrator) (2017)
Thirteen classic poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and David McCord are paired with parodies written by J. Patrick Lewis that honor and play off of the original poems in a range of ways. For example, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is paired with “Stopping by Fridge on a Hungry Evening” to hilarious effect, whereas the combination of Emily Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” with Lewis’s “‘Grief’ is the thing with tissues” is profound, and both David McCord’s “This Is My Rock” and Lewis’s “This Is My Tree” hum with a sense of wonder. This playful introduction to classics will inspire imagination and wonder even as it tickles funny bones.
Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob Raczka (2016)
Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways.
Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes another clever collection that shows kids how to look at words and poetry in a whole new way.
Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths by Marilyn Singer, Josee Masse (Illustrator) (2016)
What happens when you hold up a mirror to poems about Greek myths? You get a brand-new perspective on the classics! And that is just what happens in Echo Echo, the newest collection of reverso poems from Marilyn Singer. Read one way, each poem tells the story of a familiar myth; but when read in reverse, the poems reveal a new point of view! Readers will delight in uncovering the dual points of view in well-known legends, including the stories of Pandora’s box, King Midas and his golden touch, Perseus and Medusa, Pygmalion, Icarus and Daedalus, Demeter and Persephone, and Echo and Narcissus.
These cunning verses combine with beautiful illustrations to create a collection of fourteen reverso poems to treasure.
My Daddy Rules the World: Poems about Dads by Hope Anita Smith (2017)
Who is your hero? Who’s your best friend?
Who says he loves you again and again?
Daddy!
Told through the voice of a child, Anita Hope Smith’s My Daddy Rules the World collection of poems celebrates everyday displays of fatherly love, from guitar lessons and wrestling matches to bedtime stories, haircuts in the kitchen, and cuddling in bed. These heartwarming poems, together with bold folk-art-inspired images, capture the strength and beauty of the relationship between father and child.
Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Books for younger readers, Elementary books, Poetry
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Memorial Day Reflections: Corporal Joe Griffin
A WWII veteran and resident of Buckner Villas in Austin recalls the letter he received before he headed to Pearl Harbor, and the beauty of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
By Haley Howle & Hannah McBrideMay 21, 2015 8:04 amDog Tags: Veteran Stories
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The Texas Standard collected the memories of veterans across the state for Memorial Day 2015.
Austinite Joe Griffin was born in Hooks, Texas.
“I got a real important letter from Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” he says. “Lady by the name of Pearl Harbor causing some trouble, let me go check on her. Before sundown that day, I found out Pearl Harbor was not a lady – it was a place.”
Five months after joining the Marine Corps, he found himself in Japan. He served two years before getting a medical discharge from being wounded. He was at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Memorial Day in the mid-1940s.
“It’s the most moving experience to which any of us ever have the privilege of going,” he says. “And I didn’t know anything about it – did not plan it, didn’t know it was Memorial Day.”
He witnessed the Memorial Day service at the Tomb. “I saw the whole beautiful ceremony as it unfolded,” he says. “‘Here lies in honored glory, an American soldier known but to God.’ … It’s just an experience of a lifetime that you will never, never forget.”
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Hike, bike, or four-wheel to canyonlands dinosaur tracks
Ted Alan Stedman – September 14, 2004
This time of year, it seems spring will never come to the high country. Restless Coloradans can, however, escape the tedium of mud season with a long day trip to Picketwire Canyonlands, 142 miles southeast of Colorado Springs. Spring has already arrived here, and you can hike, mountain bike, or take your four-wheel-drive vehicle on a guided tour―all to see North America’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks.
You can access the Picketwire from an 8 3/4-mile trail following the Purgatoire River, which, over the eons, has carved the canyon from the surrounding high, arid rolling plains. Even if you don’t own a four-wheel-drive for the Saturday tours, the 10 1/2-mile round trip to the dinosaur trackway is a good outing for hikers and bikers.
The trail starts in an area dotted with juniper trees and sagebrush, then plunges 500 feet through rocky bluffs to a wide river bottom festooned with spring wildflowers. After 3 3/4 miles, you’ll spot ruins of a Spanish mission―a settlement built in the 1870s where 11 families lived―with an adobe chapel surrounded by headstones. Near the mission, delve deeper into the canyon’s human history by searching for 5,000-year-old Native American rock art on cliffs.
It’s another 1 1/2 miles to the tracks where, 150 million years ago, predatory Allosaurus and herds of Apatosaurus lumbered beside what was then an immense inland sea. The creatures left more than 1,300 footprints―a record of passage fossilized in broad slabs of limestone. Some tracks are more than 2 feet long, and the best preserved are across a shallow river section, a perfect spot to spread a picnic and contemplate the drama that played out here. For ambitious bikers, the trail continues another 3 1/2 miles to historic Rourke Ranch, established in 1871.
Break up the long drive home with a stop at Taqueria Mexico ($; 1720 Elm Ave.; 719/254-7319), off U.S. 50 in Rocky Ford. Owned and operated by the Estrade family, the restaurant serves slow-roasted rotisserie pork dishes that will satisfy even dinosaur-size appetites.
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Bite of Courage
Chicago Nurse, Alicia Bean, Isolates Fear to Find Joy | Ep #18
Alicia Bean is one of our country’s frontline nurses putting her life at risk in an effort to save lives during the coronavirus pandemic. She is generously blessed with humility, compassion, and determination to care for others and is deferential to courage. Instead of ascribing it to herself, she attributes it to her colleagues, essential workers and volunteers alike. Alicia, who says fear lives in the lizard brain — the part of the brain that triggers our fight or flight response (like the rush to buy toilet paper during a pandemic) — tells us how she isolates fear to find joy. Thank you to Alicia, her colleagues, and all of the selfless people who are risking their lives to make other lives better. You are inspiring hope and spreading joy. Let’s make that contagious. Visit BiteOfCourage.com for show notes and available downloads. © 2020 Mo Vear
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Judi Langley - Life, Love, Marriage: One Woman’s Journey | Ep #17
My initial intention for today’s episode was to talk to my guest, Judi Langley, about her twenty-five year marriage to her husband, Gotham. I quickly realized, however, that Judi is one of those people who has as much knowledge as she does depth, on a variety of topics. From her bi-racial, bi-cultural marriage and an illustrious thirty-five year career that she recently left behind, we talk husbands, kids, careers, family, and friends and the gifts that come to our communities when women have the courage to lift up and support each other. Visit BiteOfCourage.com for show notes and available downloads. © 2020 Mo Vear
Can a Relationship Survive After Deportation? | Ep #16
Have you ever had to leave someone you love behind? My guest today is Ray. Over 8 years ago, Ray’s partner, who was an illegal immigrant, was deported. Separated now longer than they were together, Ray travels back and forth to see him, but every time he’s getting ready to go, he needs all the courage he can muster to go through with it. He knows the possibility of them ever returning to the U.S. together, and the place they once called home, is undetermined. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” Ray says. “Each time I leave, I also have to leave behind the person I love most in life. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
Laura Alberts — The Courage of a Breast Cancer Survivor | Ep #15
Can a positive attitude help us heal? My guest today is Laura Alberts. While Laura is a breast cancer survivor, she isn't defined by it. In fact, after undergoing chemo and radiation treatments, Laura claimed to have her "breast year ever" in real estate. One of Coldwell Banker's top realtors in Orland Park, Illinois, Laura is also a musician, dancer, and vocalist and the winner of both Senior American Idol and Seniors Dancing with Seniors Dance Competition. "Things happen in life, but I've developed a skill set to deal with them. I have faith. I have courage. I have my music, and I have a sense of humor so I forge ahead and enjoy each day as it appears," she says. "Like the Cowardly Lion in the The Wizard of Oz, we all have the courage inside of us to forge ahead, and if we do things that bring us joy, we don't have time to think about fear. That's the key.” © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
Dawan Warren - From Ex-Felon to Returning Citizen | Ep #14
Are you free, really? My guest, 41 year old Dawan Warren, has had a lot of time to think about this question. He's spent half of his life in prison. Indicted at the age of 18 for a series of robberies, Dawan was facing 40 years. Charged with 16 years at the age of 20, he had served 8 by the time he was released. 11 months later, he proceeded to commit bank robbery for which he was given a 34 year sentence. Dawan had no way of knowing that he'd be released twenty years early for good behavior, yet he found the courage to change his thoughts and behaviors and turn his life around. "A person can be free and still be incarcerated in their mind; a person can be incarcerated and still be free in their mind, too," he says. “I was looking for peace. That's what freedom is--peace. It's not about the physical world; it's about what's going on inside of you. Clean yourself up on the inside, and it does't matter what your circumstances are. You'll have joy.” © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#13: Dr. Charles Vear - Catching Your Dreams and Changing Careers… Mid-Life
How do you hang on to your dreams when you have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay? My guest today is Dr. Charles Vear. Ninety-three years young, he is a retired medical doctor, a navy veteran and an author who, along with his wife Gloria, wrote their memoir called Love, Laughter & Dreams: We Prayed for Twelve Children. But at the age of 34, with his wife and 8 children, he received, perhaps, his greatest call to courage. “I didn’t want to die with my dream still inside of me,” he says. So, with Gloria’s support, he embarked on a journey that would change the course of his and his family’s life forever. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#12: Elaine Gabalac - Living With Epilepsy
Can accepting and embracing your adversities be the key to living out your wildest dreams? My guest, Elaine Gabalac, opens up for the first time about living with epilepsy. Diagnosed at fourteen, she was angry, sad and scared. But things had to get a lot worse before she realized that the very thing destroying her life was also the very thing she needed to embrace — and that thing was fear. “Fear is useless,” she says. “You can't summon courage to meet fear from a place of emptiness.” Grateful now for having epilepsy, it's taught Elaine how to accept and embrace adversity and how to overcome fear. “Now I can catch all that is good and within my reach. I can enjoy the little things in life. That's the art of living,” she says. “But it's a choice. Healing is a choice; faith is a choice; courage is a choice." Life is a choice. Give yourself the chance to live the life you're dreaming about. In the words of Mark Nepo: “One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we're on fire towards our wildest dreams?" © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#11: Christine & Jean Bosco Rutagengwa - Hotel Rwanda: Love Prevails Over The Rwandan Genocide
Is love stronger than death? My guests, Christine and Jean Bosco Rutagengwa, talk about surviving the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Inspired by his love for Christine, Jean Bosco recounts what happened and why, and how he found the courage to leave Hotel Rwanda to get Christine—hopefully, alive, and return with her to the hotel. An unplanned refuge with only a thin layer of protection, Hotel Rwanda was the only place to get away from the killers. “Love gives us courage," he says. “I accepted death, instead of failing to go get Christine.” This isn't just a story about surviving the Rwandan genocide or a love story between a man and a woman, though. This is a love story between human beings trying to help each other through the worst of times—an ethnic cleansing. On the top floor of Hotel Rwanda, people from all denominations gathered to pray and to help each other: Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists, Jehovah Witnesses, Muslims, even non-believers, and they had one thing in common. They were scared and in need of protection and comfort. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#10: Livia Gazzolo - Musician; Jazz Vocalist; Music Producer
Livia Gazzolo is a musician and jazz vocalist with a residency at the Atwood Cafe in downtown Chicago, Illinois. She also produces a monthly cabaret variety show at The Mouse House called “When the Cat’s Away." © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#9: Albert Ancel - We’re All Recovering From Something
Celebrate your powerlessness? That’s just crazy talk. I thought. I’d have to relinquish control! Can giving up control and embracing my pain and feelings of powerlessness really be the key to healing? It's hard to imagine, but that's how it began for my guest today. Albert Ancel, a grateful recovering alcoholic, says that once he embraced his pain and his fears of feeling powerless, he could celebrate. His whole attitude, outlook and perception changed, and life got better. That was over nineteen years ago. Devoted to the practice of the twelve step principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al spends much of his free time being of service. Volunteering several evenings a week at Hinsdale Hospital in Illinois, he facilitates recovery with men and women who've relapsed from drugs and alcohol and also volunteers an afternoon a week facilitating healing for inmates who are awaiting trial and sentencing at Illinois' Cook County Jail. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#8: Vince Auricchio - Husband, Dad, Friend, Attorney
Can an act of defiance help to cultivate courage? My guest thinks so. An attorney by trade, Vince Auricchio is used to having the odds stacked against him, but this was personal. His daughter was about to undergo brain surgery and the reality of losing her was more than his heart could bare. But in a moment of defiance, Vince, a Christ follower, found the courage to win the fight of his life by relying on his faith and surrendering to the outcome. In this heart-felt episode, Vince gives us a behind the scenes look at what it’s like to balance being an attorney and taking care of his family emotionally, through his personal relationship with Christ. With unwavering integrity, both personally and professionally, his faith has made him a better man, husband, dad and friend, and given him an incredible capacity for listening and accepting others who have different points of view. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#7: Skyla Stillo - High School Senior, Writer/Blogger, Free Spirit
High school senior, Skyla Stillo, talks about finding her courage after an attempted suicide and how it led her to start her blog: Unlabeled.blog about self-love, mental health, and fashion. “It's not who you wear, it's who you are.” © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#6: Lesia Cartelli - Speaker, Author, Founder & CEO of Angel Faces
After suffering from traumatic burns over 50% of her body, Lesia decided she didn’t want to be known as the “burn girl.” Determined to be known as an ordinary girl who endured an extraordinary experience, Lesia learned how to face rejection, conquer her fears and live in the moment by unlocking her courage with vulnerability and turning her pain into purpose. Now, the founder & CEO of Angel Faces, a nonprofit organization for other burn and trauma patients, Lesia is teaching them how to not be defined by their circumstances and to heal from the inside out. “What happens to you is not who you are.” © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#5: Dr. Allison Kessler Vear - The Good Doctor
Dr. Kessler Vear, who is currently the inpatient attending physician at Chicago’s Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, specializes in physical medicine, neurological rehabilitation, and spinal cord injuries. Paralyzed in a skiing accident at sixteen, she shares her story of courage, recovery and ultimately, her desire to live her best life, despite her physical limitations! © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#4: Kirsten Alberts - Stand Up Comic, Writer, Podcast Producer, Social Media Professional
Kirsten Alberts is a stand-up comedian, writer, podcast producer, and social media professional who can be seen at comedy clubs across the country. On this episode of Bite of Courage, she shares openly about finding the courage to overcome an eating disorder and her journey to manage it. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Trio Productions. All Rights Reserved. In Association with Podcast Prowess.
#3: Marzie Ghasempour - Iranian Playwright, We Have To Stop Meeting Like This
A chance meeting in Chicago, Marzie Ghasempour and I met because we happened to be sitting next to each other at the musical Hamiliton and we couldn’t contain our excitement that night. During intermission, we picked up our pre-show conversation. Born in Iran, Marzie feels privileged and proud to be living and working in the United States where using her critical thinking skills is celebrated. Reluctant to speak about her own courage, she opens her heart on BOC and shares things about her day-to-day struggles that we all deal with. Marzie is many things: a woman, daughter, fiction writer and playwright, translator, teacher and now my very dear friend. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Produced by Podcast Prowess
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#2: Stephanie Erin Brill - Musician
Singer, songwriter, Stephanie Erin Brill, whose music Save the Day is the title track for Bite of Courage, shares her incredible story of strength. As she takes us on her journey and tells us about her love for music, family and friends, she talks candidly about how she overcame a tragic event in her early childhood. From Cedarburg, Wisconsin, Stephanie’s been singing and composing music since the age of five and recorded her first album when she was thirteen. Her triumphant story lends itself seamlessly to her soulful, indie tone, and her captivating personality. She is wise beyond her years. You can find out more about her and her touring schedule at www.stephanieerinbrill.com. You can also download some of her music from Bite of Courage at www.humormewithmo.com © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Produced by Podcast Prowess
#1: Jim Gaffigan - Stand Up Comic, Actor, Writer, Author
Jim Gaffigan doesn’t need a lot of introduction. He’s one of America’s funniest and most well-recognized comedians. He’s also been a friend of mine since high school so I have lots of dirt on this clean comic. From high school to show business, Jim talks honestly about life’s ups and downs and the courage it takes to be true to yourself. © 2019 Mo Vear Visit: HumorMeWithMo.com Email: humormewithmo@gmail.com Facebook page HumorMeWithMo @BiteOfCourage on Twitter Mo on LinkedIn Bite of Courage on Instagram Produced by Podcast Prowess
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Newton and Curie: The Science Squirrels (Hardcover)
By Daniel Kirk
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Daniel Kirk introduced kids to writing in his bestselling Library Mouse series—now he tackles STEAM!
When an apple falls on his head, Newton the squirrel begins to wonder how the world works. Listening in on a lesson about the force of gravity, he decides to try his own experiments with the help of his sister, Curie. Learning to make simple machines, they discover that science is for everyone—even squirrels. And when a birds’ nest falls out of a nearby tree, only Newton and Curie, using their inventions and quick scientific thinking, can save the day! This always inquisitive and resourceful pair solves real-life problems and has fun along the way. This latest from bestselling author Daniel Kirk is a light introduction to the principles of STEAM, which is taught in schools.
Daniel Kirk is the bestselling author and illustrator of the beloved Library Mouse series as well as a number of picture books and novels for young readers. He lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
"A positive and fun-filled challenge to recognize and apply the underlying principles of science in everyday life."
— Kirkus Review
"Budding scientists will be delighted by the squirrel's-eye view of the physical world."
"The story frames plainspoken, relatable explanations of core physics concepts and the scientific method."
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: August 11th, 2020
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Squirrels
Juvenile Fiction / Technology
Juvenile Fiction / Animals
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Persistance pays off
The band got a break as Sahra and I went in to record an intimate duo. Having recently rehearsed the song, with great results and nominal effort, we felt confident this would be the easy one, The red light was on.
2 or 3 takes later however, after making an official rule in my head that after 3 takes we would move on, we both realised that something just wasn't sitting right between us, although we couldn't pin point or verbalise what it was. The more we forced it and analysed it however, the more contrived it was becoming and the more self-conscious we became - the recipe for disaster! Something I have realised over time: sometimes ironically the hardest performances are those when something has previously been going so right - perhaps taking for granted that it is going to be a doddle, and the other trap (even if subconscious) of striving to re-create that perfect past performance, rather than letting it be what it will be. In turn loosing the element of improvisation, and embracing the here and now.
Despite all this, we managed to get 2 complete takes. And to add to it everyone ooh-ed in the control room, as Moses, Ruth, Nick and Stephen listened avidly and assured us it was killer!!...
However, although the notes were right and the performance as such sounded good....we both just inherently knew that the energy of the song and the interaction between us wasn't what it could be.
Photo credits - Stephen Cropper
I made the unusual decision to leave it and move on. I cracked on with the band, deliberately shifting the energy and mindset, choosing a relaxing tune where I could creatively unwind. Sahra disappeared into the corridors, to "Oh- ah" and thoroughly relax and lubricate her vocal chords.
20 minutes later, we decided to try again. Relaxed, with a new state of mind and attitude that we would just see what happened and resign ourself to the story of the song.... out of nowhere the magic unfolded.
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Posted by Larry Stendebach | Jul 26, 2012 | Blog, News, Statewide | 0 |
‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’” – Mark Twain.
We know Missouri’s own Samuel Clemens was never shy about sharing his views on politics and politicians. It’s a fact that has often made me wonder why he left out political campaigns from his definition of lies. Perhaps if he were around today he might indeed define four kinds of lies.
Seems everyone is running commercials today as the primary date approaches. Even candidates with no primary opposition are running commercials to get their licks in early. United for Missouri’s Future andUnited for Missouri DO NOT endorse candidates but we do take note of how candidates stand on various issues important to our 65,000+ members statewide.
One of the issues that our organizations have supported is tax reform. Specifically we have supported eliminating the income tax and replacing it with a consumer driven consumption tax. The states that do this kick our economic tail. You can get more information from some of our previous blogs by clicking here.
One of the places where Twain’s definition of “lies” could be applied is in the race for the 31st Senatorial District in western Missouri. This race pits Ed Emery against Scott Largent. I know both men and like them both. That’s why I was disappointed to see the false mailer that was sent out against Ed Emery regarding his support of tax reform.
The mailer falsely accuses Emery of supporting a tax hike and that “it could be as high as 20%”. As with any “good” political mailer, it contains enough “truth” to make you believe it is credible. However, the majority of the ad is false and misleading.
The “20%’ tax rate is an obvious scare tactic. The fact is no credible source supports that rate. It has been thrown about by the big government spending opponents of tax reform. It’s not factual and cannot be sustained without using significant stretches of the truth.
The mailer interestingly uses “national averages” for things that would be taxed. Fact is the mailer is wrong about many of the things they say would be taxed. But even if you don’t know that, why would you use “national averages” for these items? Again the answer is pretty simple – the “national averages” are generally higher than the “real” Missouri averages. If you use the lower, more accurate numbers it won’t scare people as badly as writer of the false ad attempts to do.
The ad uses a ploy used by national democrats in the 2010 election cycle against any republican that supported the National Fair Tax and even against some that didn’t. In most cases the false information didn’t work on the national level and hopefully Missourians won’t let this false attack be their determining factor in this race.
Races should be determined on the merits of the candidates positions and accurate portrayals of their records. This ad does not do any of that and Mr. Largent should apologize to Mr. Emery for his campaign’s false attack.
Unfortunately, ’tis the season for such tactics. Voters beware!
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Winter Olympics: Shaun White says he has plenty more to show in halfpipe
Rachel Axon
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Shaun White already won one of the most progressive halfpipe competitions when he watched his competitors push the level of riding further.
Now as he heads into his fourth Olympics, White says he has more to show in a run.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist scored a perfect 100 at the U.S. Grand Prix at Snowmass last month to lock up his spot on the team. Fighting a cold, he had to pull out of the last qualifier the following week and X Games the week after that.
Japanese rider Ayumu Hirano narrowly beat Australian Scotty James in a competition filled with big, technical tricks. American Ben Ferguson, one of the most stylish riders competing, was close behind in third.
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“It was really great for me to watch every single competition that’s gone down, but especially X was cool just because people we’re this close to the Olympics, so close to the Olympics and everybody’s trying their hardest runs,” White said. “To see Ayumu really put it down and what his scores were compared with Scotty’s scores and what everybody was doing.
“It was inspiring to watch and get motivated.”
White punched his ticket to Korea in January with a perfect 100 on a run that included a massive 1440 double cork on the first hit and two more 1260 double corks. In the same contest, James became the first rider to land a switch backside double cork 1260, a highly technical trick that requires him to ride in his unnatural stance and do two off-axis flips and 3.5 spins.
He landed it again at the X Games, where Hirano became the first rider to do back-to-back double cork 1440s.
White said Thursday that he’s working on back-to-back 14s.
“I don’t think we’ve seen my best run,” he said. “It’s not just about one big trick. It’s about the whole run. I definitely have a couple things in mind that I’ve been working on that I’d like to iron out and here’s the time to basically do it and try to put it in my run. I’m excited.”
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WhatsApp features that could launch in 2020 – including self-destructing texts and anti-catfishing tool
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
Sep 5 2020, 3:09 ET
WHATSAPP always seems to be working on new features but not all of the exciting ones make it to the app.
We've rounded up some of the rumoured WhatsApp features that could be coming to your phone this year and most are far more exciting than Dark Mode.
If these features materialise they could greatly improve your WhatsApp experienceCredit: Getty - Contributor
WhatsApp Vacation Mode
This will be useful for people who have archived chats but haven't deleted them.
Archiving people can make your chat list look more organised but as soon as they message again they will appear back in your chats section.
According to Gadgets360: "Currently, WhatsApp offers users the ability to archive chats, but when a new message arrives, a notification does pop up for users.
"Vacation Mode looks to disable this ability and work on this feature was reported a year ago, but WhatsApp seem to have abandoned it later."
The vacation mode is coming back from the dead: WhatsApp is finally developing it again, and it will be available in a future update. 🏖 💤 https://t.co/PnDOe0PfNO pic.twitter.com/7LctU8qIXY
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) September 3, 2020
WhatsApp appears to be working on this again in the beta version of its app, much to relief of users who don't want to delete a chat but don't want to be in it either.
This is different from muting a chat because a muted chat can still appear visible in your chats section and remind you of the people you'd rather not talk to.
Different chat designs
If you've ever sent a message to the wrong person then this could be a good feature for you.
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a feature for iPhone users that would allow them to have different backgrounds for different chats.
Currently, if you change the WhatsApp background all of your chats will change to the same one.
WABetaInfo said: "This is a big move from WhatsApp, that never allowed to customise specific chats.
"We hope to see more similar features in future, for example the possibility to choose different auto-download settings in different chats."
WhatsApp self-destructing messages
WhatsApp has apparently built a feature that seedy cheating lovers are sure to enjoy – self-destructing messages.
The app is testing a new type of message that automatically deletes itself to stop prying eyes from snooping on your chats.
This screengrab captured in a beta version of WhatsApp shows the new self-destructing messages feature in actionCredit: WABetaInfo / WhatsApp
First cooked up by Snapchat and later "nicked" by Instagram, the auto-deleting post allows users to set a time limit for how long their messages show.
It helps keep chats truly private, as your conversations are hidden even if someone knows the passcode to your phone.
WhatsApp is now trialling its own version on Android, according to WAbetaInfo.
The site trawls the code of early versions of WhatsApp to find upcoming features ahead of time.
While it's not currently available to everyone, WhatsApp is testing the feature on a small group of users. It will likely roll it out to everyone at a later date.
The feature will work in both group chats and one-on-one conversations.
You'll reportedly be able to switch it on or off or change the time limit before a deletion in your settings.
Anti-catfishing tool
Reverse image searching can take you to the original source of the contentCredit: WABetaInfo
Catfishing could become a thing of the past as WhatsApp is reportedly creating a reverse image searching ability for the app.
The new 'Search by Image' feature is not available yet as it is still being tested but people who sign up to be a WhatsApp beta tester may eventually get access to it.
The feature will allow users to click on images they are sent over WhatsApp and search them in Google to verify their source.
This could help to reduce the spread of fake news as well as making it harder for people to catfish others by using images that are not of them.
WhatsApp beta for Android 2.19.73 is said to be the version of the messaging tool being tested for its ability to carry out reverse Google image searches directly from the app.
The app uses Google Custom Search to give it search engine capabilities.
Mute forever feature
With this feature you can stop talking to someone without the need to block themCredit: Getty - Contributor
Whatsapp is said to be working on a new feature that could stop you receiving annoying notifications.
The feature will be useful for people who are stuck in WhatsApp groups they know they can't leave.
The chat platform currently gives users the option to mute groups or individuals for eight hours, one week, or a year.
Your phone will still ring if you receive a call from your muted contact but it won't alert you to notifications.
However, @WABetaInfo is claiming that WhatsApp is planning to have a "mute always" option.
It means you could remain blissfully unaware of your muted chats forever.
Just because a feature is tested in the beta version of WhatsApp, doesn't mean it will definitely be rolled out to the mainstream.
If you can't wait for the feature then you can always keep muting a chat every year.
To do this, go into the WhatsApp chat you don't want notifications from.
Click the name at the top and the Contact Info should appear.
Then find "Mute" and select "1 year".
You can use the same process to unmute at any time.
How to get WhatsApp beta
To download WhatsApp beta for your smartphone you need to go to Google Play on your Android and search for WhatsApp.
Scroll down the page until you see "Become a Beta Tester".
Tap the "I'm In" button and then click "Join" to confirm.
Now all you have to do is wait for the update to the beta version of the app.
Downloading WhatsApp beta on iOS is a much trickier and riskier process so this is not recommended.
However, WhatsApp beta can be downloaded on a computer via the Google Play site.
WhatsApp – a quick history
Here's what you need to know...
WhatsApp was created in 2009 by computer programmers Brian Acton and Jan Koum - former employees of Yahoo
It's one of the most popular messaging services in the world
Koum came up with the name WhatsApp because it sounded like "what's up"
After a number of tweaks the app was released with a messaging component in June 2009, with 250,000 active users
It was originally free but switched to a paid service to avoid growing too fast. Then in 2016, it became free again for all users
Facebook bought WhatsApp Inc in February 2014 for $19.3billion (£14.64bn)
The app is particularly popular because all messages are encrypted during transit, shutting out snoopers
WhatsApp has over 2billion users globally
New WhatsApp features that could come out in 2020
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What Paul and Silas might have said about George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and and and …
For many of us, anger, sadness, frustration, and fatigue are not episodic responses but chronic conditions. In recent days we’ve all seen, heard, and read of the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery, the shooting of Breonna Taylor, the use of the police by a white woman to threaten Christian Cooper, Minneapolis police officers executing George Floyd, and of the fact that COVID-19 disproportionately harms black and brown people. I have been a pastor in Minneapolis, and my heart is heavy as people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against injustice. The videos have helped some white people to see a bit of what many black and brown people know: White America has long had its knee on our necks. I am sure that some who just read that sentence are saying, “Not all of white America.” But that’s the problem. It’s hard for people of color to feel that white America is with us and not against us. White America has not demonstrated the collective resolve to repent, rebuke, and reorient itself against racial injustice. That includes Christians. White Christians can opt out of outrage over racial injustice. The status quo works for them.
Consider, for example, the tenacious support many evangelicals give to President Donald Trump, who told police on Long Island, New York, in 2017 to “not be too nice” with suspects. He appeared to encourage heavy-handedness, if not outright brutality. His then press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, had to walk back the president’s comments, saying he was joking. Police brutality is not a laughing matter. White Christians are watching the screens, maybe shaking their heads, but largely immobile. Rather than justice overflowing (Amos 5:24), it trickles down, …
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Pineapple Power lists clean energy cash shell on London Stock Exchange
Stuart Fieldhouse
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green investing, energy, technology, Pineapple Power Corp, Pineapple Power
Alternative energy venture Pineapple Power [LSE:PNPL] has listed its cash shell on the London Stock Exchange.
The cash shell went live for investors on 24 December, just before the Christmas break. Since then the share price has moved from its listing price of 3p to trade at 5.64p at time of writing on 8 January. This represents an already spectacular gain for the cash shell, one of only four to list on the LSE in 2020.
Interest in Pineapple Power is already picking up and the cash shell’s objective is to invest in one or more privately held companies in the clean energy sector, a hot market in 2020 and likely to be even hotter in 2021.
While we have been witness to a flurry of cash shell listings in the US – where they are referred to as SPACs, special purpose acquisition companies – the London market has thus far been much quieter in this respect. An estimated $63bn was raised by 190 SPAC listings in the US in 2020, according to data from Refinitiv.
Targeting acquisitions in clean energy sector
Pineapple Power is seeking to make acquisitions specifically in the emerging clean energy technology sector. It is a market poised for exciting growth, according to the IEA (International Energy Agency), which in its 2021 forecast anticipates that clean energy growth globally will revert to trend this year after the disruptions of 2020.
According to the IEA, 167 GW of renewable capacity is forecast to have become operational in 2020 with much more to come online this year. New PV installations are expected to see a partial rebound in 2021, owing to utility-scale projects that return to 2019 additional levels.
In most countries, the energy sector counts among the essential services. Therefore, lockdown measures do not necessarily imply that construction activity on energy projects, including renewables, has fully stopped.
“Pineapple Power is one of only a handful of cash shells to make it onto the London market in 2020,” said Clive de Larrabeiti, founder of Pineapple Power Corporation. “We’ve been very pleased with the response from investors so far, and this in part reflects growing interest in the potential of technology in the renewable energy sector. Pineapple Power is now ideally positioned as a reverse takeover candidate for a privately held energy company seeking to fund their clean energy growth.”
Increasing political support for clean energy tech
We are now seeing increasing political support for the clean energy market. Existing incentives to builders of renewable energy infrastructure are also being extended deep into 2021 to compensate for delays incurred due to COVID.
The advent of the Biden administration in the US is also likely to provide a further shot in the arm for renewables investment on a macro scale.
“People want their energy sources to be clean and cheap,” says Abel Gustafson, of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. “They want to avoid pollution and environmental harms, and they want to keep the cost low….Democrats, more than Republicans, support renewable energy out of the desire to reduce global warming.”
We anticipate considerable investor interest in this space in 2021 as larger energy companies start to cast around for the infrastructure solutions that will help them to realise the shift from fossil fuels.
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Money Heist is another most popular Spanish TV series broadcasted through Network Antenna 3 and its real name is “La casa de Papel”. This is one of the best crime drama series across the online platform. The La Casa de Papel’s translation is referred to as “The House of Paper”. Alex Pina, the creator of this web series will plan to create in two different parts.
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They broadcast around 15 episodes through the Spanish TV channel “Network Antenna 3” starting from 2nd May 2017 to 23rd November 2017.
Putlocker Money Heist Season 4 – Release Date
It is expected that the Money Heist Season 4 TV series will be released on 3rd April 2020. With a similar pattern for previous seasons, the release dates are followed the same: 9th May 2017: Money Heist Season 1 released or launched and 16th October 2017: Season 2 released quickly. However, on 19th July 2019, the Money Heist Season 3 was dropped (which is less than a year) before working on the new season episodes.
Most of them are anxiously waiting for the Money Heist Season 4 release date. As per the report, Netflix has planned to broadcast a new documentary (similar to the earlier seasons) on behalf of the new series. It should become the most popular and international phenomenon across fan followers. As per the Fotogramas (the Spanish Film magazine), this season will also include some documentaries from Alex Pina (Creator & Partner) within the cast members.
Money Heist Season 4 – Cast
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The new teaser trailer of the Money Heist Season 4 will confirm or reveal the list of cast members. This short clip confirmed the following members: Luke Peros (Marsella), Hovik Keuchkerian (Bogota), Darko Peric (Helsinki), Rodrigo De La Serna (Palermo), Esther Acebo (Stockholm), Jaime Lorente (Denver), Miguel Herran (Rio), Itziar Ituno (Lisbon), Alvaro Morte (Professor), and Ursula Corbero (Tokyo).
You can also experience some surprises during the end of the third season (Money Heist Season 3) and making special appearances by Alba Flores as Nairobi and also Pedro Alonso as Berlin (currently dead). The new series will include other returning cast members like Arturo Roman (Enrique Arce) and Alicia Sierra (Najwa Nimri). As of now, there is no update or announcement to include any new additions or cast members to Season 4.
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Jaguar’s I-Pace EV to arrive during second half of 2018
By: Trevor Hofmann
The all-electric Jaguar I-Pace Concept, introduced at the LA auto show in 2016, will arrive in production trim during the second half of 2018. (Photo: Jaguar)
It’s official: The innovative Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicle will arrive in production trim during the second half of 2018, ushering in an entirely new era for the iconic British luxury brand.
The I-Pace Concept wowed onlookers to such a degree when unveiled at auto shows across North America, including Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto and New York, that it received the rarified honour of being named Most Significant Concept Vehicle of 2017 at the 16th North American Concept Vehicle Awards.
Most expect the production I-Pace to look very close to this concept. (Photo: Jaguar)
Additionally, the I-Pace won the Production Preview Concept of the Year category at the annual Concours d’Elegance of America, where it was also on display.
Uniquely designed as an “all-electric performance SUV,” the I-Pace will expand on a burgeoning Jaguar sport utility lineup that already offers the brand’s bestselling F-Pace compact SUV and will soon include the smaller entry-level E-Pace subcompact SUV. The I-Pace, however, rides on a totally unique EV architecture that slots in between Jaguar’s two conventionally powered SUVs in outward dimensions, yet is altogether different in approach.
The concept’s interior looks ultra-plush, which is right on the mark for a production Jaguar. (Photo: Jaguar)
Unlike most EVs currently available, including those made by Tesla that purposely look like conventional cars, the I-Pace takes complete advantage of an electric vehicle’s nonconventional packaging requirements. For instance, instead of building an EV on the back of a vehicle initially designed to house the motor and transmission up front with a driveshaft down the middle, the I-Pace places a Jaguar-designed electric motor at each axle for all-wheel drive traction and a 90-kWh liquid-cooled battery within an aluminum housing as part of the floor’s structure in between. This allows for a cab-forward design featuring a windshield that reaches far over the front wheels, as well as a shorter more steeply raked hood, plus shorter front and rear overhangs, with each wheel pushed out as far to its corner as possible, resulting in much greater interior volume.
Pedestal style seats may not make the final build, but many of the concept’s interior design cues will remain intact. (Photo: Jaguar)
Overall the I-Pace is approximately 50 mm (2.0 inches) shorter than the F-Pace, which is already a large compact SUV, but its wheelbase is 117 mm (4.6 inches) longer for much greater legroom front and rear. What’s more, the I-Pace Concept’s roof is nearly 100 mm (4.0 inches) lower than the F-Pace’s, for sleeker, sportier lines.
While the I-Pace shown here is a conceptual design and not production ready, the finished model to arrive in showrooms next year is expected to be sized similarly and look much the same, which follows Jaguar’s recent concept to production protocol. Of course, the prototype’s 23-inch alloys will be downsized somewhat, but generally what you see is what you’ll get.
The I-Pace EV’s rear quarters look to be roomy and comfortable. (Photo: Jaguar)
Production I-Pace performance should be similar to the concept’s claimed capability, with the sprint from standstill to 100km/h taking about four seconds thanks to 200 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque from each of its two engines and a lightweight aluminum-intensive monocoque body shell, while its projected EV range should be greater than 355 km (220 miles) from a single charge.
Cargo capacity should be good for a sport coupe style compact SUV. (Photo: Jaguar)
Having much of its weight down low, thus reducing its centre of gravity, handling should be an I-Pace strongpoint too. The suspension will be comprised of unequal-length control arms up front and a multilink setup in the rear, which should also result in excellent ride quality.
We won’t know exact pricing until closer to launch, but Jaguar’s U.S. division says it’s targeting an MSRP below $100,000 USD. It will be built by Magna Steyr in Austria, at least until Jaguar adds more EV models to the lineup. To that end Jaguar has promised that half of its vehicles will incorporate some sort of electrified drivetrain by 2025, so it appears the impressive new I-Pace is just the beginning.
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Punch and squat while gripping the Joy-Con controllers to get your whole body moving—no additional gym equipment required.
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Unleash an arsenal of shots and strategies in all-out tennis battles with friends, family, and fan-favorite Mushroom Kingdom characters. Whether you play locally,* online,** or using simple motion controls, intense rallies await! In Adventure mode, experience a new favor of tennis gameplay, with a variety of missions, boss battles and more.
Arms is a 3D fighting sports game in which up to four players can control one of a variety of fighters, with the player able to perform basic fighting actions using extendable arms such as punching, throwing, blocking, and dodging. Arms features fifteen playable fighters, with five of them being released as downloadable content.Each fighter starts with three unique Arms that can be selected in battle, but the use of all other fighters' Arms can be unlocked in the Get Arms mode. All fighters also have unique attributes in combat.
Super Mario Party is a party video game, the traditional gameplay of the older Mario Party games returns in Super Mario Party, after the previous two games' departure from the established form. The standard game mode, Party Mode, features up to four players taking turns and navigating the board in search of stars while competing against one another in a variety of minigames.
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Get your fix of the Zumba® program anytime, anywhere with high-energy routines and hip-shaking jams including chart-topping hits and Zumba originals. Use the Joy-Con™ controllers to track your movements and get rewarded for dancing with energy and flair.
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Morning Start: Santa Claus has an official pilot’s license
Your morning start for Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
Good morning and happy hump day!
Fun Fact of the day: Santa Claus has an official pilot’s license
He’s not just flying around without any authority! In 1927, Saint Nick got a pilot’s license from the assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics, William P. MacCracken.
According to the Library of Congress, Santa had his picture taken as he was given his license, airway maps, “and the assurance that the lights would be burning on the airways on Christmas Eve.”
In case you missed it:Canadian actor Elliot Page announces he is transgender
anadian actor Elliot Page has announced he is transgender.
Page, who identifies with he/him or they/them pronouns, first shot to fame as the titular character in Juno in 2007. Currently, he plays Vanya Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy and made his directorial debut with the documentary There’s Something in the Water in 2019.
In a post on Twitter Tuesday (Dec. 1), Page shared his name as Elliot and said he felt “lucky to be writing this,” acknowledging that many transgender people do not have the same level of support.
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The arts aren't a luxurious hobby, Rishi Sunak. They're a lifeline for millions
Tim Burgess
Find another job, says the chancellor. But our sector provides hope – and billions for his own exchequer
Tim Burgess is lead singer of the Charlatans
Tim Burgess onstage with the Charlatans in Oslo, 2019. Photograph: PYMCA/Avalon/Gonzales Photo/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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When ITV News tweeted on Tuesday that Rishi Sunak had said that “musicians and others in [the] arts should retrain and find other jobs”, the arts world figuratively saddled up its steeds and prepared to descend on 11 Downing Street with flaming torches. But then came what is known in the music world as a big “rewind in the house”.
After much uproar, ITV deleted the tweet and said it had been misleading – but thespians were already orating, and Liam Gallagher was already halfway out of his jacket, looking for a scrap. What had Sunak actually said, then?
“It’s a very sad time … I can’t pretend that everyone can do exactly the same job that they were doing at the beginning of this crisis. And that’s why we’ve put a lot of our extra resource into trying to create new opportunities for people.” Asked whether he was really telling people from the arts and music world to simply go and get a new job in a different sector, he said: “That is fresh and new opportunity for people. That’s exactly what we should be doing.” No further questions your honour. He didn’t say it as bluntly as some soundbites put it. But yeah, it’s in there, isn’t it? He didn’t not say it.
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We totally understand that everyone is facing hardship at the moment, but there was something offhand in Sunak’s words – people felt dismissed and undervalued. What Sunak didn’t seem to take into account was that musicians and actors have been working other jobs for years – as baristas, chefs, roadies, graphic designers or bartenders, and in so many roles in the ironically named “gig” economy – to fill the time between, well, gigs. When I tweeted that many musicians and artists already had second jobs, the writer and journalist Ravi Somaiya nailed it with his reply: “Nobody remembers Renaissance accountants.”
It’s said that in certain parts of Shoreditch, in London, or Manchester’s Northern Quarter, you’re never more than 12 feet from a singer in a band. But it’s a long time since the heady days when you could write a song, release an album and live off the income from royalties and record sales – nowadays you’d need well over a thousand streams just to be able to buy a coffee (unless of course you’re working as a barista, in which case you can probably just make yourself one); and increasingly music is being offered for free to an audience who get their music from streaming platforms. Even before the pandemic, it wasn’t looking good for any artists who were just starting out.
Live music was the final place where most bands could still earn enough to follow their dream. And six months ago that disappeared, with no return in sight. An entire summer of music festivals cancelled, along with the worlds of standup comedy, West End theatres and touring shows – all gone.
Tim Burgess’s ID card when he worked at ICI Runcorn. Photograph: PR
The worry is that the next generation of performers will come only from certain sections of society. It felt as if the chancellor was rebranding the arts sector as some sort of luxurious, decadent hobby, and now it was time for everyone to get their hands dirty – perhaps literally, as we are very short of people to pick fruit. Is that part of his masterplan: to plug the gaps left by the exodus of migrant workers with people from bands? We could divide them according to skillsets – drummers keeping a steady beat as they scoop up armfuls of berries, bass players keeping locked in with them and working to a rhythm, while the singers wander around randomly picking selective items of fruit when the mood takes them.
Acting, creating art and playing music have buoyed up the UK’s economy for decades. In 2018 alone, the music industry contributed more than £5bn to the UK economy, and the Conservative’s own figures show that in the same year 296,000 people were working in music, performing and the visual arts. The government has even been happy to persuade tourists to head to our shores via pictures of the Beatles, Florence Welch, Shakespeare, Stormzy, beautiful theatres and aerial photos of fun being had on an industrial scale at Glastonbury. Has all this been forgotten?
I’m guessing Sunak wasn’t suggesting Ed Sheeran should become a plumber’s mate. But what happens when the Ed Sheerans or Adeles of the future abandon their dreams, and we’re left without artists bringing in those billions and inspiring others in the future?
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Other countries have found a way to protect their citizens who work in the arts world – and when we somehow get back to a version of normal, won’t it be the bands, the musicals and the plays that provide an escape? Just as books and music have been a beacon of light in the darkness of lockdown.
Perhaps it’s harder for us to question the order that we should get second jobs when so many MPs already lead by example. Last year the public standards committee found that 119 MPs declared an annual total of £3.35m from second jobs, and there have been calls to tighten the code of conduct around payments from organisations that might hold “undue influence” over our elected representatives. So, yeah, no coffee shops or delivery-driver jobs for them. Maybe members of disbanded bands could be given MPs’ extracurricular occupations.
Just in case you think I am retraining as a journalist, that’s not the case. When I left ICI Runcorn in 1989, I was called into the office on my last day and told, that if things didn’t work out “with the music thing”, my job would be kept open. That was over 30 years ago, but it looks like I may be making that call. I even kept my ID card, just in case.
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SUMMERTIME STAND-IN for [cref 7225 SONGS OF PRAISE], hosted by THORA HIRD from an oversized armchair in her “home” surrounded by numerous religious trinkets, baubles, bangles and beads. Basically a clip show of ver Praise with the Dame cueing in “requests” from viewers. “A lot of you wrote in asking to see again that wonderfully inspiring performance of Sing Hosannah To The King from that delightfully kept church of St Peter-in-the-Midden in Wessexshire.” Our host would drop in a few gossipy asides, pick her own faves from the archives, tearfully clutch real “letters” from fans, and introduce classic interviews between ROGER ROYLE and (usually) CLIFF RICHARD. Running order would be printed in Radio Times, thereby removing – for those who cared – all element of surprise (“Oh no, and I was hoping for Abide With Me this week!”)
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FSU Seminole Productions Adds Panasonic VariCam LT 4K
By Michael Balderston 18 October 2016
NEWARK, N.J.—Florida State University is adding to its arsenal of cameras available to Seminole Productions, the video production unit for the school’s College of Communications and Athletic program, with the addition of Panasonic’s VariCam LT 4K camcorder. The University is expected to use the cameras to shoot features to display on the LED video boards in Doak Campbell Stadium.
Offering capture rates of up to 240 fps, the VariCam LT is a complementary addition to Seminole Production’s stock of Panasonic cameras, which include eight AK-HC5000 4X high-speed cameras, as well as AG-DVX200 4K handheld camcorders and an AW-HE130 PTZ camera. The VariCam cameras also feature dual native 800/5000 ISOs.
Seminole Production will use the VariCam LT for the university’s 17 athletic programs. It will also be used to shoot segments of weekly television shows “The Jimbo Fisher Show” and “Seminole Sports Magazine,” which air on Fox Sports Sun Network.
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How to translate Assamese using Microsoft translate?
On September 30, 2020 Microsoft India announced the addition of Assamese as the newest addition to Indian language in Microsoft Translator. Microsoft will now provide real-time translation for the language. As an Assamese myself I feel proud of this recognition and this will usher in a new era for Assamese Businesses. Users will now be able to translate speech into Assamese text or to translate Assamese text into another language via speech output.
Including Assamese, Microsoft now supports translation for 12 Indian languages. The other 11 languages that they support are- Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. This service is part of Microsoft Cognitive Services. Microsoft is currently the only company to provide Assamese translation. Strengthening their position in democratizing the access of the information in the native tongue. Microsoft has taken the lead in providing communication support for Assamese, overcoming the complexities used to develop the communication infrastructure.
Assamese is the official language of the state of Assam and more than 10 million people speak this language. In other words, using Microsoft Translator, users can translate Assamese text in their apps, websites with Microsoft Cognitive Services Translator. Businesses can also avail of multi-language support such as translation for e-content, e-commerce product catalogues, product documentation among others. Above all, this service will allow over 90% of Indians to access information in their preferred languages. Companies can leverage this service to globalize their business and strengthen customer outreach. Microsoft Translator is available on Windows, iOS, Android, and the web.
Our View:
Although Assamese is a great language to communicate with people it is not feasible to do business in today’s globalization age. Almost every business today has to communicate in English in one way or the other. As a fellow Assamese myself I feel like this will give our community a great push. As this will bring more eyes to the untapped potential of the Assamese market.
Microsoft’s Statement:
Sundar Srinivasan, the general manager of AI & Search, Microsoft India, said, “At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. Microsoft has a responsible approach to AI, a key principle of which is inclusiveness. Breaking language barriers is a key step in enabling the inclusion of more people and organizations to utilize technology to achieve more. As part of our mission to remove language barriers, particularly in India, we are happy to announce the release of translation for Assamese to add to the set of 11 Indian languages already supported.”
How to use Microsoft Translator in your device?
So, to use this service in your computer, head over to the Microsoft Store on your Windows Computer. You can also use the web version of the translator if you’re using Bing as their search engine. Mac users can also use this on their device if they are using Microsoft Office 365. To use it on your Android device head to Play Store and download the “Microsoft Translator” app. If you’re an iPhone user go to the App Store and download the “Microsoft Translator” app. Note that the Microsoft Translator Services is offered free of charge. However, if you are interested in using the Microsoft Translator API for business, kindly visit their business solution page for more guidance and pricing.
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Commentary: Frank asks bishops ‘to stop the trials’
Editor’s note: The Rev. Thomas E. Frank, an expert on United Methodist polity, is urging the Council of Bishops for the sake of church unity to stop church trials of elders accused of violating the denomination’s stance on homosexuality. Frank is a historian of Methodism and professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is the author of the frequently used textbook Polity, Practice, and the Mission of The United Methodist Church. He is also the son of the late Bishop Eugene Frank. His letter is below:
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED METHODIST COUNCIL OF BISHOPS
To our episcopal leaders:
I ask you, for the sake of the unity of the church, to stop the trials. We need to engage our differences through “Christian conversation” within our conferences and particularly within our orders of elders. Church trials are “an expedient of last resort” and are not the way forward.
The constitution of our church charges you as a Council with “general oversight and promotion of the temporal and spiritual interests of the entire Church.” The church over which you preside is deeply divided and these “interests” are now at stake. While you are also charged as a Council with “carrying into effect the rules, regulations, and responsibilities prescribed and enjoined by the General Conference,” clearly our church lacks consensus on our pastoral duties with gay and lesbian church members. This is no time to continue with church trials that only exacerbate our differences. If we are to find unity in our diversity, we must do so in conference and in our orders.
Your servant leadership of the church does not and cannot mean that you are simply servile to the actions of General Conference. The 2012 session in Tampa failed to acknowledge our lack of consensus and refused a legislative path forward. The Council of Bishops now must act, and can do so under its constitutional powers. The episcopacy is established in our constitution as a constitutive body alongside the General Conference and the Judicial Council. When you as a Council see the unity of the church at risk, you have a constitutional duty to act.
I am not asking you to change the church’s statements on homosexuality. Clearly that is not within the powers of the Council. I am asking you to acknowledge that a large number of faithful United Methodist ministers in good standing cannot in conscience restrict their pastoral duties to accord with these statements.
Nothing in the Book of Discipline requires that you refer complaints to counsel for the church and subsequent trial. You have discretion as the chief pastors of the church over the manner, purpose and conduct of any supervisory response and just resolution under “fair process.” You also have discretion to assemble the pastors under your appointment to address issues that divide us. A church trial court is only a miniature annual conference of thirteen peers in any case. The church is better served by bringing the whole conference and order into conversation.
Many pastors across our church view the performance of same-sex wedding ceremonies as a pastoral duty, particularly with longtime church members. Far from “flaunting” church law, as a recent press headline put it, they are being pastors to their members. At the moment we have the prospect of church trials for at least two different ordained elders who performed such ceremonies for their own beloved children. Really? We have come to the point of trying our pastors for acts, even within their own families, that exemplify the love and ministries of the church?
The continuation of church trials is a disgrace to our heritage. It is divisive, bringing interference from interest groups outside the annual conference and introducing the language of “prosecution,” “defense team,” “conviction,” “judge,” and “jury” to our church as if we were all players in “Law and Order.” We are not considering criminal acts; we are deliberating about pastoral judgment. Trials are an exorbitant expense for a process that does no good for our church. Of course, any member of our church has the constitutional right to request a trial. But at this moment, I do not see other circumstances under which our church should be conducting them.
Our church is desperately in need of open conversation on these pastoral issues. We are retreating into our various camps and avoiding the hard work of engaging each other’s views. You as a Council and as individual bishops can set a new tone in which we can speak together openly and honestly, without fear of retribution. As Wesley’s Large Minutes began, “It is desired, that all things be considered as in the immediate presence of God; that every person speak freely whatever is in his heart.” This is the collective spirit in which the Holy Spirit is welcomed, and the conversation flourishes. Please lead us in that spirit.
Thank you for your consideration and for your faithful leadership of our church.
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A birthday letter to Martin Luther King Jr.
On the occasion of the 92nd birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Reginald Lee, pastor of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, penned a birthday letter to the civil rights icon.
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My pursuit and dreams of Korean peace
More than 70 years since Korea split into North and South, Bishop Hee-Soo Jung still dreams of reunification for his homeland.
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Naila Scargill| 13/12/2019| News
Jake Wood-Evans New Solo Exhibition
Recalling Baroque masterpieces, Wood-Evans’ paintings fuse the great Romantic tradition of painting with the modernist sensibility of abstract artists such as Rothko and Motherwell.
Hampshire Cultural Trust in collaboration with Unit London announce an exhibition of specially created new works by the leading British artist, Jake Wood-Evans. Titled Relic, the exhibition features more than 20 new works, including 16 large-scale paintings which explore Wood-Evans’ enduring themes of mortality and history, re-appropriating classical subjects for the digital age.
Recalling the great masterpieces of Baroque art, from Rubens to Van Dyke, Wood-Evans’ paintings fuse the great Romantic tradition of painting with the modernist sensibility of abstract artists such as Rothko and Motherwell. He brings to his art a subtle understanding of the passage of time, expressed in his appropriation of existing historic portraits which he re-works through a process including cropping, erasure and over-painting. Whilst this implies a deliberate and formal approach, the ‘accidental’ and the importance of surface and texture are equally important for the artist. Scenes are washed with a depth of colour, as if clouded by smoke or the eroded surface of a discarded film, creating a quality of living dialogue between artist and subject which might in turn be continued by the viewer.
Relic follows Wood-Evans’ recent critically acclaimed solo show at Unit London, Legacy & Disorder, and is a move away from full-length portraiture. There is also the addition for the first time of large-scale curved canvases for his Assumption series, based on the commission for the Cathedral of Our Lady Antwerp by Rubens, The Assumption of The Virgin Mary.
Relic runs at The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre, from 10 January – 29 March
Naila Scargill
Naila Scargill is the publisher and editor of horror journal Exquisite Terror. Holding a broad editorial background, she has worked with an eclectic variety of content, ranging from film and the counterculture, to political news and finance.
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Canada's First 'Library of Things' Opens in Toronto
©. The Sharing Depot
The Sharing Depot is a place where you can borrow everything from camping gear, tools, and board games, to children's toys, playpens, and sporting goods.
When my husband and I purchased our first house, we quickly realized how few tools we owned. Need to hang a painting? We had to go buy a hammer and some nails. Dirty kitchen floor? Time to buy a broom, a vacuum cleaner, a mop, and a pail. It made me realize how many little things I took for granted, first while living with my parents, and then while renting furnished apartments.
During that period of adjustment to homeownership, I kept saying to my husband, “If only there were a place to borrow these things.” A lawnmower, snowblower, whipper snipper, lawn seeder, hedge trimmer – it seemed ridiculous that most people on the block owned expensive specialty items, and yet only used them for a fraction of the time.
So you can imagine my delight when I learned about a new ‘Library of Things’ that opened this year in Toronto. Called The Sharing Depot, it’s the first of its kind in Canada. While I live too far away to take advantage of it, I am pleased that many others in the city will be able to use it, and hopefully, the concept will catch on in nearby cities. The idea makes so much sense.
© The Sharing Depot
The Sharing Depot embraces the notion that, when resources are shared, everyone becomes a bit richer, not least of all the Earth. The Depot’s mission is to challenge a culture that would have people identify with the process of ownership and define themselves by the objects they own. Why? Because, as Sharing Depot co-founder Lawrence Alvarez writes, “The Earth cannot afford for all of us to own it all.” We cannot continue to purchase tools and other occasionally-used household products at the rate we do; it’s completely unsustainable.
The Depot has the added benefit of saving a lot of money. It allows people who may not be able to afford all those costly extras to maintain a beautiful home and do repairs at will, instead of being restricted by finances.
The Sharing Depot builds on the idea of the tool library, which has caught on in many places around the world, including Toronto, but takes it further. There you can borrow anything from tools, camping gear, and garden furniture, to children’s toys, kitchen supplies, board games, and party supplies (even cotton candy machines and disco balls!).
“People should stop buying things they don’t always need,” said co-founder Ryan Dyment, adding the long-term strategy is to partner with manufacturers and make sure products are designed to be durable, reused and shared. “The idea of a circular economy is for more people to lease things rather than own them. That’s the future that I think is practical.” (via Metro News)
Memberships range in price from $25 to $100 CAD for one year, and the type of membership you choose allows longer borrowing periods and access to swapping events.
If you love this idea but don’t live in Toronto, check out these great instructions for creating a Library of Things in your own community.
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Resist the Diderot Effect!
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90007 heads 1H16 1620 London Euston-Manchester Piccadilly at Cathiron on 19/04/2002.
90011 works a Virgin West Coast service northwards at Cathiron on 13/07/2002.
90029 speeds northwards at Cathiron on 24/09/2002 whilst in charge of 1S96 1600 Willesden PRDC-Shieldmuir RMT.
90013 'The Law Society' is dead on the rear of a 1A43 1219 Wolverhampton-London Euston dragged by 47733 at Whitacre Junction on 05/01/2003.
90006 'Modern Railways Magazine/Roger Ford' works a short formed London Euston bound service at Cathiron on 04/02/2003. On the date this photograph was taken, Scotland was experiencing severe adverse snowy weather and locomotives were required to haul, rather than propel trains. This resulted in a number of sets either having the locomotive hauling the DVT or the set facing the wrong way if it had been turned, resulting in the locomotive being on the London end of the train, rather than the usual country end.
90013 'The Law Society' works a London Euston bound service at Cathiron on 04/02/2003. Due to the adverse snowy weather being experienced in Scotland, locomotives were hauling, rather than propelling trains, resulting in a large number of sets either facing the wrong way or having the locomotive hauling the DVT on the date this photograph was taken.
90012 'British Transport Police' heads for London Euston at Cathiron on 04/02/2003. On the date this photograph was taken, Scotland was experiencing severe adverse snowy weather and locomotives were required to haul, rather than propel trains. This resulted in a number of sets either having the locomotive hauling the DVT or the set facing the wrong way if it had been turned, resulting in the locomotive being on the London end of the train, rather than the usual country end.
90023 heads 1S96 Willesden PRDC-Shieldmuir RMT at Cathiron on 08/04/2003.
90013 works 1F21 1700 London Euston-Liverpool Lime Street at Cathiron on 08/04/2003.
On hire 90018 passes Cathiron on 08/04/2003 whilst working 1H25 1725 London Euston-Manchester Piccadilly.
90017 speeds past Cathiron on 13/06/2003 whilst in charge of 1A90 1532 Warrington RMT-Willesden PRDC.
Watched over by 'The Angel of the North', 90029 is pictured at Tyne Yard on the stock of 1V28 2024 Low Fell RMT-Bristol Parkway on 14/7/2003.
90033 is dead on the rear of 1A59 1519 Wolverhampton-Northampton pictured at Daw Mill as it is dragged by 47810 on 30/08/2003.
90021 was on hire to Virgin West Coast on 4/9/2003 and it is pictured at Weedon whilst working 1H22 1555 London Euston-Manchester Piccadilly.
90023 speeds northwards on 4/9/2003 with 1S96 1600 Willesden PRDC-Shieldmuir RMT mail train. It is seen here at Weedon soon after emerging from Stowe tunnel with its 12 van train.
90034 propels 1P08 0830 London Liverpool Street-Norwich at Dagworth on 25/10/2003.
90037 'Spirit of Dagenham' arrives at Ipswich whilst in charge of 1P35 1200 Norwich-London Liverpool Street on 25/10/2003.
90019 propels 1P08 0830 London Liverpool Street-Norwich at Brantham on 06/07/2004.
90006 propels 1P10 1000 London Liverpool Street-Norwich at Brantham on 06/07/2004. The loco would fail on its next journey south and spend the rest of the day in the sidings at Ipswich, with all of its remaining booked workings for the day being cancelled.
90007 devoid of its Virgin decals propels 1P12 0930 London Liverpool Street-Norwich at Brantham on 06/07/2004.
90045 passes Brantham on 06/07/2004 whilst working 4M87 1249 Ipswich Yard-Trafford Park.
90020 propels 1P24 1230 London Liverpool Street-Norwich across Manningtree Viaduct on 06/07/2004.
Almost certainly the shabbiest of all the locos working the London-Norwich services, 90012 clearly shows its former Virgin branding scars as it crosses Manningtree Viaduct with 1P41 1340 Norwich-London Liverpool Street on 06/07/2004.
90019 works 1P28 1330 London Liverpool Street-Norwich across Manningtree Viaduct on 06/07/2004.
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